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" mate of the Materials of Brewing ;" and in 

 1786, his " Remarks on Baverstock's Hydro- 

 " metrical Observations and Experiments." 

 Many important improvements, suggested by 

 long experience, were embodied by him in a re- 

 publication of the two former of these works, in 

 one volume, under the title of " Philosophical 

 " Principles of the Science of Brewing, with 

 " Tables and Directions for the use of the Sac* 

 " charometer : of this work a third edition was 

 published at York) in 1805* Mr. Richardson's 

 last literary labour was the editing, anonymously, 

 of a second edition of " Gibbon's Account of 

 " Christianity considered/' by the Rev* Joseph 

 Milner, which was printed at Lincoln, in 1808, 

 and dedicated by the Editor to the Rev. Thomas 

 Dikes. 



The Rev. THOMAS BROWNE was born in 1771 ; 

 he was the son of a Clergyman of that name, who 

 lived at Lestringham, near Kirbymoorside, in 

 Yorkshire, and was the nephew of the late Mr. 

 Thomas Browne, a bookseller, in Hull, and the 

 first Librarian of the Subscription Library, in this 

 town. Mr. Browne was, for a short time, under 

 the tuition of the late Rev, Joseph Milner, and, 

 in 1797, he came to reside here, having under- 

 taken the Editorship of the Hull Advertiser, in 

 which Journal appeared many of his prose essays, 

 and his poetical pieces under the signature of 



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