2"d S. N" 78., June 2?. '67.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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whose house he died of the small-pox. Pope says, Curll 

 literally starved him to death ; though it is no more than 

 common justice to declare he gave him all that liis con- 

 .dition required in his illness, even to sending for a phy- 

 siciiin." 



While in the Memoir prefixed to Pattison's 

 Poetical Works, we have clear and distinct evi- 

 dence that his death was the result of an attack 

 of small-pox. 



" It gave me [saj'S the writer] a great pleasure I must 

 own (on the day of their present Majesties' Accession), to 

 meet rattison at Mr. Curll's, the Bookseller in the Strand, 

 in whose Family, he then told me, he had been for about 

 a month ; and added, that his daily employ was tran- 

 scribing his papers for the press in order to do justice to 

 those gentlemen who were his subscribers, by a speedy 

 delivery of their books, through whose generosity he had 

 wholly subsisted ever since he left Cambridge, having had 

 no remittance from his father. Shortly after, calling at 

 Mr. Curll's to buj' Mr. Pope's Letters*, I found Mr. Pat- 

 tisoH being put into a chair. Upon Enquiry, Mr. CurlVs 

 servant (his master being gone to pay a visit at llford in 

 Essex) told me, that the small-pox having appeared upon 

 Mr. Pattison, he had wrote to Dr. Pellet, who imme- 

 diately came to him, and was then in the parlour with a 

 gentleman. The chair was ordered to convex' him to a 

 nurse, (recommended by the Apothecary Dr. Pellet sent 

 for,) eminent for her Skill and Care in that distemper, in 

 St. Clement's parish. The Doctor, out of that Humanity 

 peculiar to his Character, visited him every daj'. The 

 Gentleman before mentioned made Mr. Pattison a present, 

 and desired all possible care might be taken of him. This 

 Eequest was in every Particular fulfilled by Mr. Curll (who 

 came to Town two days after he was gone to the Nurse's 

 House). The Distemper was looked upon to be of the 

 most kindly Sort, and had been a Day or Two upon the 

 Turn, tho' it proved a very unhappy one ; for on Sunday, 

 July 10, about five in the evening, he was taken with a 

 very violent delirious Fit, in which he expired about the 

 same hour the next Morning." 



Pope's name appears in the names of " the Sub- 

 scribers to these Miscellanies," and in poetical 

 company, for he is preceded and succeeded by a 

 Poet : — 



Mr. Eusden, Poet LaureaJt. 



Mr. Pope. 



Mr. Harte. 

 While in the Memoir from which we have already 

 quoted, allusion is made to Pattison's endeavours 

 to be on intimate terms with him : — 



" He earnestly sollicited a Friendship with Mr. Pope, 

 of the Success of which I cannot say any thing ; but I 

 have often heard him acknowledge, with the greatest 

 Satisfaction, the Happiness of the Acquaintance he had 

 cultivated with that sincere Young Gentleman Mr. Wal- 

 ter Harte, of St. Mary Hall, Oxon., with whom he not 

 only held a ver}' amiable Correspondence, but was also 

 obliged to him for many kind Offices of Relief under his 

 Misfortunes." 



In this same year 1728 we find Curll again in 

 communication with the Government. We sub- 



join Curll's Letter to Lord Townshend, and his 

 Lordship's reply, but must leave to others the 

 task of explaining them : we cannot. 



" To Lord Townshend at Windsor. 



" Strand, Sept. 29, 1728. 

 " My Lord, 

 " Notwithstanding the severe usage I have met with, 

 nothing shall ever alter mj' principles. I hope still to be 

 made amends for all I have suffered. And this very day 

 puts it in my power to do the Government more service 

 than can be here expressed. There is a conspiracy now 

 forming, which may be nipt in the bud, by a letter which I 

 have intercepted, I may say, as miraculously as that was 

 which related to the Gunpowder Plot. I am willing to 

 make Your Lordship the instrument of this eminent ser- 

 vice ; but I will deliver the copy of this original letter 

 into no custody but your own. I beg Your Lordship's 

 immediate answer. I am, Your Lordship's ever devoted 

 Servant, " E. Curll." 



" Sir, 



" Windsor, Oct. 2, 1728. 



* These, of course, were Pope's Letters to Cromwell, and 

 this is an additional proof that these Letters were pub- 

 lished separately; although we believe uo copy of such 

 edition is now known. 



" I have received your letter, and, if you have any thing 

 to offer for the service of the Government, I shall be very 

 glad to see you here as soon as possible. 



" I am. Sir, your most humble Servant, 

 " ." [Townshend?] 



In 1730 we find Curll very usefully employed 

 in the publication of a collection of topographical 

 works, such as Ashmole's Berkshire ; Papers, 

 Wills, and Pedigrees, connected with that county ; 

 Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, as well as the an- 

 tiquities of other counties, which elicited from 

 Browne Willis the following commendatory no- 

 tice of them : 



" Mr. Curll having been at great expense in publishing 

 these books (now comprised under the title of Anglia II- 

 lustrata, in twenty volumes), and adorning them with 

 draughts of monuments, maps, &c., deserves to be en- 

 couraged by us all, who are well wishers to this study; 

 no bookseller in town having been so curious as he." — 

 Browne Willis. 



This notice of his labours appeared in The Daily 

 Postboy, Feb. 7, 1729-30, with the following post- 

 script : 



" This kind recommendation of that learned antiquary, 

 Browne Willis, Esq., of Whaddon Hall in Buckingham- 

 shire, was given upon a journey to Oxford, and has been 

 greatly serviceable to me." — Edmund Curll. 



S. N. M. 



FOKGEBJES OF ROMAN COINS. 



The following is my contribution to the lists of 

 false Roman coins I had hoped to have seen trans- 

 ferred for reference to the pages of " N. & Q.," 

 and I have not given up the hope that others will 

 be forthcoming. Without recapitulating what I 

 said in my former communication (2""* S. ii. 406.), 

 I may add that the practical advantage I hojjcd 

 to secure will be confined to notices of specimens 

 of the two former of those classes into which I 

 divided them, viz. I. Paduan or Dutch imitations; 

 II. Cast coins. 



