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Notes: — 



Henry More.by Rev. J. E.B. Mayor - - - - zw 



Common-place Book of the Seventeenth Century - - 250 



Confessor to the Royal Household - - - - - 252 



Musical Notes by Dr. Gauntlett - - - - - 252 



Acting in Edinburgh, July, 1733: Stirling Theatricals - - 253 



On Encaustic Painting, by James Elmes - - - - 254 



MiNon NoTFs : — Change in the Dedication of Churches — Pope -^ 

 Link between remote Periods — Piedmont not a Part of Italy — 

 Lighting of the First Slate Quarry with Gas— EtociBtum - 255 



Minor Qijeribs ; — Old Maps of Ireland — " Ye Diners-out, from 

 whom we guard our Spoons " — Dr. Johnson's MS. Collections for 

 his Dictionary — Family of Lizars, Scotland — Climate of Enz- 

 land — Heraldic Query — Art of Memory — By-names of English 

 Counties— Quotation Wanted, &c. ----- 256 



5IiN0R QcEHiEs WITH ANSWERS:- Dr. John Burton, &c. — Carn- 

 bridge University MSS Thomas Atkinson's "Homo" — Ro- 

 bert the Bruce— Walter Frost — Burial of a Clergyman, &c. - 258 



Rrplies ; - 



Daille 2G0 



Modern Purim: Children Crucified by Jews ... 261 



Elephants, by T. J. Buckton - - - - - - 261 



Hymns, by W. Stones - - 262 



Gipsy Language, by J. H. van Lennep - - - - 262 



BEri-iEs TO Minor Queries: — A Transcriber's Orthography — The 

 Ascension —Molluscous Animal — Hundredschot, &c. —The 

 BuUandBearof the Stock Exchange, &c. - - - - 263 



Notes on Books. &c. ------- 267 



Jlotr^. 



HENRY MORE. 



Every reader of More's life and writings must 

 regret that so little justice has been done to his 

 memory. Coleridge's notes and Worthington's 

 Diary only sharpen our appetite for the second 

 and most valuable portion of Ward's Memoir, 

 " which considers More as an author and in con- 

 nexion with his Works," and. of which Mr. Cross- 

 ley (Worthington's Diary, vol. i. p. 55. n.) seems 

 almost to promise the publication, when he speaks 

 of it as " having never yet been published." 

 Meanwhile, until some ecclesiastical or philoso- 

 phical historian shall make the " Cambridge Pla- 

 tonists" the subject of a monograph, it may be 

 of service to collect a few references to authentic 

 sources of information. 



See the indexes to Worthington's Diary, Ken- 

 net's Register and Chronicle, and Wood's Aihence 

 (add to Bliss's Index, vol. iii. pp. 1252, 1253) ; and 

 for his works the Bodleian Catalogue. He has 

 verses in the Cambridge collections ; e. g. Antho- 

 logia in regis exanthemata (1632), p. 20.; SwoS^a 

 (1637), fol. D 4. verso; Carmen Natalitium (1635), 

 fol. D 3. verso, D 4. recto ; he has also Greek ele- 

 giacs before John Hall's Horce Vacivce (1646), see 

 Brydges' Restituta, iii. 309. 



Five of his sermons are printed in Wesley's 

 Christian Library (1827), vol. xxiii. p. 103.; his 

 letters to Cudworth in Birch's Life of Cudworth, 

 pp. xi. xii. ; a long epitaph composed by him in 

 Ward's Gresham Professors, p. 230. ■ve^'.; his cab- 

 balistic writings in Knorr's Cabbala denudata, vol. 

 i. ; compare Dr. Mill's Christian Advocate's Pub- 

 lication for 1840, Appendix B. ; his letter on 



witches at the end of Glanville's Sadducismus 

 triumphatus (1726) ; other letters in John Norris' 

 treatise. On the Theory and Regulation of Love 

 (1688) ; see also Norris' Several Treatises (1730), 

 p. 192., and Miscellanies (ed. 2 ), p. 60., where he 

 is called " that Oracle of profound Wisdom and 

 Learning, the excellent Dr. More." Norris also 

 dedicated to him a Sermon preached before the 

 University of Oxford, March 29, 1685. 



On Dr. Jos. Beaumont's reply to him, see 

 Sherman's Histoi'ia Collegii Jesu, p. 41., and Isaac 

 Milles' Life, p. 118.; on Stubbe's attack on him, 

 see Glanville's Further Discovery, Sec. pp. 2. 33. 

 He was an eminent tutor, and numbered among 

 his pupils Rob. Gouge (Calamy's Account, SfC, 2nd 

 ed. p. 645.), Dr. Clark (Tumor's Gixmtham, p. 

 176.), and Owen Stockton (Sam. Clarke's Lives of 

 Divines, 1683, p. 186.) His kindness to Arch- 

 bishop Sharp is mentioned in Sharp's Life, vol. i. 

 p. 15. ; cf. Todd's Deans of Canterbury, p. 150. 

 Among his friends may be named Aubrey (Au- 

 brey's Lives, p. 270.), Borage (Milks' Life, p. 

 56.), the Earl of Conway, with whom he read 

 Des Cartes, and in whose house he lived at Rag- 

 ley (Dedication to Immortality of the Soid), Cud- 

 worth, who took part with him in the examination 

 of some stories of witchcraft (Antidote against 

 Atheism, lib. iii. c. 7. p. 128., seq., ed. 1653;, and 

 Glanville, who, in an unpublished continuation of 

 Bacon's Neio Atlantis, has drawn the characters of 

 Cudworth, More, Rust, Smith, Whichcot, and 

 other divines (Worthington's Diary, vol. i. p. 

 214. n.). 



Calamy {Continuation, 8^c., p. 158. ; cf. Account, 

 Sfc, 679.), bears witness to the generosity with 

 which he relieved the wants of the Nonconformists. 

 In a like spirit his nephew and legatee, Gabriel 

 More, bequeathed 2000Z. to French refugees (Tur- 

 nor's Grantham). From a story given in Isaac 

 Milles' Life, pp. 56 — 58., we learn that he was 

 charged with making Quakers by his writings. 

 He called himself Franciscus Palaeopolitanus. 

 (Cotton Mather's New England, Introd., fol. C A. 

 recto.) 



His first common-place in the college chapel 

 (Philos. Works, p. xii.). Letter of resolution 

 falsely ascribed to him (ibid. p. xxiii.). 



In Samuel Johnson's Explanation of Scripture 

 Prophecies (Reading, 1742, vol. i. pp. 1 — 18.), is 

 " a letter to Dr. Berriman, containing some re- 

 marks on Dr. Henry More's exposition of the 

 seven epistles to the seven churches." 



In the Cambridge University MS. Gg. vi. 11. 

 art. 1., pp.2 — 33. is " a transcript of the letters that 

 passed between Dr. H. More and Mr. H. H. 

 about the Encheiridion Metaphysicum of the for- 

 mer." In the Catalogue (vol. iii. p. 219.) it is 

 said that these letters are dated between Aug. 

 1671 and March 167^, and chiefly contain correc- 

 tions of Dr. More's Latinity. 



