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The Pearsalls also have portraits of Newton 

 Woodward and his wife Frances, and also a por- 

 trait of Sir John Newton, the 2nd baronet, four 

 shovel- shaped salt-spoons with Newton's crest, 

 and a silver snuff-box adorned with agate, once 

 Sir John's. 



The tradition in the family was, that while Sir 

 Isaac was an unimportant person, he was ignored 

 by Newtons of Barr's Court ; but when he be- 

 came so celebrated, then they acknowledged him 

 as a kinsman, and tried to establish a friendly in- 

 tercourse ; and that the miniature and other pre- 

 sents passed from one family to the other. 



The third Sir John Newton only occasionally 

 visited Barr's Court : his usual residence Avas " at 

 his house in Soho Square," " a corner house," 

 "near St. Ann's," from 169f to his death 1734. 



I have many letters addressed to him there, 

 nearly through all these years.* 



The second Sir John was " thrice burgess in 

 Parliament." 



In the first volume of the Topographer and 

 Genealogist (p. 339.), in a paper on the family of 

 Babiiigton, Sir John Newton, Bart., who married 

 Marrj Eyre, is styled " co-heir to Sir Isaac New- 

 ton, Knt.," by adoption Newton- Cradock of Barr's 

 Court, Gloucester. 



In the 42nd volume of the Gents. Mag., year 

 1772, (p. 520.) is given a pedigree of Sir Isaac 

 Newton, from a copy supplied by Mr. Le Neve, 

 Norroy, from a copy in Sir Isaac's own hand- 

 writing. The contributor to t'ne Gents., "D. H.," 

 says that the particulars he sends (which are 

 many and interesting) were collected by Dr. 

 Stukeley. The descent of Sir Isaac and Sir John 

 (the 2nd bart.) from a common parent is clearly 

 set forth. Though full of interest, the article 

 seems to be too long to copy into the pages of 

 " N. & Q.," and is scarcely necessary, it being of 

 such easy reference. 



Query, Professor Db Morgan, in his com- 

 munication referred to above, speaks of a collec- 

 tion of Newton Papers bought by the late Mr. 

 Rodd, 1847. Many of those papers have passed 

 into my hands; but there were very many more : 

 and it would be well to ascertain, through " N. & 

 Q.," the whereabouts or habitat of any others of 

 that immense collection : they related to Lincoln- 

 shire, Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, &c. 



I recognised some of them in a recent sale 

 Catalogue. Surely there can be no objection to 

 its being known in whose safe keeping they are 

 likely to be preserved. H. T. Ellacombe. 



Clyst St. George. 



* It was probably the present No. 26. 



JOURNAL OF A WILTSHIRE CURATE. 



(2°^ S. iii. 109.) 



Having, when the statement that Goldsmith's 

 Vicar of Wakefield was founded on the " Journal 

 of a Wiltshire Curate " appeared in Chambers, 

 taken some little trouble to look into the case, I 

 am enabled to reply to Jarltzberg's Query. 

 The Vicar of Wakefield was published March 27, 

 1766, in 2 vols. 12ino., price 5s. (See Cunning- 

 ham's edition of Goldsmith, i. 292.) A long pas- 

 sage from it, entitled "A Family Picture," is 

 quoted in the London Magazine for April, 1766 

 (p. 196 ). The title appears in the Monthly 

 Catalogue of Books in the same magazine for 

 October, 1766 (p. 552.), and "The Journal of a 

 Wiltshire Curate " will be found in the December 

 (1766) No. of the same magazine. How the date 

 1764 came to be added I know not, but as there 

 can be little doubt, I think, that Dec. 1766 was 

 the date of its publication, it is obvious that the 

 "Wiltshire Curate" was an imitation of the Vicar 

 of Wakefield, and cannot claim the credit of 

 having furnished Goldsmith with a hint for his 

 world-renowned story. 



" The Journal of a Wiltshire Curate. 



"Monday — Received ten pounds from my rector, Dr. 

 Snarl, being one half j-ear's salary, — obliged to wait a 

 long time before my admittance to the doctor, and even 

 when admitted, was never once asked to sit down or re- 

 fresh myself, though I had walked eleven miles — Item, 

 the Dr. hinted that he could have the curacy filled up for 

 fifteen pounds a year. 



" Tuesday, — Paid nine pounds to seven different people, 

 but could not buy the second-hand pair of black breeches 

 offered me as a great bargain by Cabbage the taylor, my 

 wife wanting a petticoat above all things, and neither 

 Betsey nor Polly having a shoe to go to church. 



" Wednesday, — My wife bought a petticoat for her- 

 self, and shoes for her two daughters, but unluckily in 

 coming home, dropped half a guinea through a hole, 

 which she had ne%'er before perceived in her pocket, and 

 reduced all our cash in the world to half a crown. — Item, 

 chid my poor woman for being afflicted at the misfortune, 

 and tenderly advised her to depend upon the goodness of 

 God. 



"Thursday — Received a note from the alehouse at" 

 the top of the hill, informing me that a gentleman begged 

 to speak to me on pressing business ; went and found it 

 was an unfortunate member of a strolling company of 

 players, who was pledged for seven-pence halfpenny; in a 

 struggle what to do — the baker, though we had paid him 

 but on Tuesday, quarrelled with us, to avoid giving any 

 credit in future, and George Greasy the butcher sent us 

 word that he heard it whispered how the rector intended 

 to take a curate, who would do the parish duty at an in- 

 ferior price, and therefore, though he would do any thing 

 to serve me, advised me to deal with Peter Paunch, at 

 the upper end of the town ; mortifying reflections these ! 

 — But a want of humanity is in my opinion a want of 

 justice — the Father of the universe lends his blessings to 

 us, with a view that we should relieve a brother in dis- 

 tress, and we consequently do no more than pay a debt, 

 when we perform an act of benevolence ; paid the stranger's 

 reckoning out of the shilling in my pocket, and gave him 

 the remainder of the money, to prosecute his journey. 



