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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



tSnd S. VIII. Nov. 12. '5&' 



graphers of that period. The catalogue had been 

 printed after the sale, and likely intended as a re- 

 cord of this splendid and valuable collection. 



G.N. 



[This is the Sale Catalogue of the library of the Rev. 

 Dr. Benjamin Heath, son of Benjamin Heath, Esq., Town 

 Clerk of Exeter, and Commentator on the Greek Trage- 

 dians, and on Shakspeare, who was the principal collector 

 of the Heath library. He died Sept. 13, 1766. Benja- 

 min Heath, Jun., his eldest son, was born Sept. 29, 1739, 

 O. S., educated at Eton, admitted into King's College, 

 Cambridge, in 1758; became A.B. 1763; A.M. 1766; 

 D.D. 1783. After residing at King's College, three years, 

 on his taking a fellowship, he was appointed an assistant 

 master at Eton. In 1771 he succeeded Dr. Sumner as 

 Head Master of Harrow School. In 1781 he was pre- 

 sented by King's College to the rectory of Walkerne in 

 Hertfordshire. In 1784 he was elected Fellow of Eton 

 College ; on which event, in Easter, 1785, he vacated 

 Harrow, having been Head Master fourteen years. He 

 then retired to Walkerne, where he built a library', like 

 Sir Thomas Bodley, in the shape of a T ; the length of 

 it was 71 feet, the transverse part 50 feet, the width 15, 

 and the height about 12^, forming a very handsome gal- 

 lery, as full of books as it could hold. About the j'ear 

 1807, he was presented to the valuable rectory of Farn- 

 ham Royal, Bucks. As old age and infirmities came on, 

 he became comparative!}- indifferent to his library, in 

 which formerly his pleasure consisted, and he thought it 

 best to anticipate all trouble upon his decease, respecting 

 the disposition of his books, by sending the greater part 

 of them up to town for sale ; and the produce of 9000Z. 

 for the sale of 4809 articles, is alone a demonstration of 

 the richerchS character of the collection. " Never," says Dr. 

 Dibdin, " did the bibliomaniac's eye alight upon ' sweeter 

 copies,' as the phrase is ; and never did the bibliomania- 

 cal barometer rise higher than at this sale ! The most 

 marked phrenzj' characterised it. A copy of the editio 

 princeps of Homer (by no means a first-rate one) brought 

 92Z. ; and all the Aldine Classics produced such an elec- 

 tricity of sensation, that buyers stuck at nothing to em- 

 brace them ! " Dr. Benjamin Heath died at his rectory 

 at Walkerne, May 31, 1837, and was buried in the family 

 vault at St. Leonard's, Exeter.. An excellent portrait of 

 him will be found in Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron, 

 iii. 368., whence these particulars are mostly selected. 

 The first edition of Heath's Catalogue (without the prices) 

 contains a curious advertisement by Edward JefFery, re- 

 specting " a most delicate application by a Reverend 

 Gentleman," made through a bookseller, to obtain from 

 it previous to the sale, Clarke's Homer, 4to., the finest 

 possible copy on large paper ; Barnes's Euripides, a 

 charming copy, on large paper; and Mattaire's Corpus 

 Poetarum, a fine tall copy, on large paper. " The request 

 was complied with, no money passed, but 60Z., or guineas, 

 was most liberally allowed by the purchaser in modern 

 books"!] 



Richard Bernard was tector of Batcombe in 

 Somersetshire, and author of Thesaurus Biblicus, 

 sive Promptuarium Sacrum. He died 1641. Is 

 anything farther known of him, his parentage, 

 education, &c. ? C. J. Robikson. 



[Richard Bernard was born in 1566 or 1567, and was 

 probably a native of Lincolnshire, as his first patrons 

 were two ladies of the family of Wray of that county, both 

 afterwards peeresses, namely, the Countess of Warwick, 

 and Lady Darcy. They sent him to Cambridge, where 

 he was of Christ College. In 1598, when he published 

 bis Terence in English, he was living at Epworth in the 



isle of Axholm. On June 19, 1601, he was instituted to 

 the vicarage of Worksop in Nottinghamshire, which he 

 held twelve years. In 1612 or 1613 he was presented to 

 the rectory of Batcombe, ■where he died in 1641, aged 

 seventy-four. Although a Puritan he adhered to the 

 unity of the church, as appears by his Dissuasion from the 

 Way of Separation, 1605. He was the author of several 

 works, but the one most frequently reprinted is The Isle 

 of Man, or, the Legal Proceedings in 3Ian-shire against 

 Sin, first published in 1627. " Ihis work," says the Kev. 

 A. Toplady, "in all probability suggested to John Bun- 

 yan the first idea of his Pilgrim's Progress and of his 

 Holy War." Mr. Offbr, however, in his Introduction to 

 the Pilgrim's Progress, will not allow that Bunyan made 

 any use of this work. Vide Brooke's Lives of the Puri- 

 tans, i. 462, ed. 1813. Bernard's portrait by Hollar is 

 prefixed to his Thesaurus JSiblicus.l 



LAST WOLF IN SCOTLAND. 



(2°" S. viii. 169. 296.) 



If Mr. Lloyd has as yet failed to obtain an 

 answer to his Query, as to what became of the 

 animal sold at Mr. Dunovan's sale in 1818, as 

 " the last wolf killed in Scotland, by Sir C. [E.] 

 Cameron," he has at least elicited the information 

 communicated by Mr. Maclean respecting an- 

 other claimant for the honour of having finally 

 rid this island of that ferocious animal. Almost 

 all our writers on the natural history of the wolf, 

 following Pennant, state that the species became 

 extinct in Scotland in 1680 ; the last having fallen 

 in that year in the wilds of Lochaber by the hand 

 of Sir Ewen (Evan) Cameron of Lochiel. Those 

 who saw the portrait of that renowned chieftain 

 and devoted partisan of the House of Stuart in 

 the collection lately brought together at Aber- 

 deen, on the occasion of the meeting of the British 

 Association in that city, will readily believe that 

 he would shrink from no encounter, be it with 

 man or with beast. The evidence, however, is 

 pretty strong in favour of the opinion that the 

 real ultimus luporum Scoticorum was that killed 

 by Mac Queen of " Pall-a'Chrocain," as narrated 

 in the extract from The Lays of the Deer Forest. 

 The late Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, in his Account 

 of the Moray Floods of August, 1829, — a work 

 now become rather scarce — tells the same story; 

 and as it may be interesting to some of the readers 

 of " N. & Q." to have his version of it, I shall sub- 

 join it. The scene of the exploit, it may be re- 

 marked, is in the parish of Moy and county of 

 Inverness ; and, though within the bounds of the 

 ancient province of Moray, far beyond the present 

 limits of the Forest of Tarnaway. The spelling 

 of the proper names differs somewhat in the two 

 extracts, but this is by no means difficult to ac- 

 count for. Sir Thomas writes : — 



" Immediately within the pass (of Eanack), and on 

 the right bank (of the Findhorn) stand the ruins of the 

 interesting little mansion-house of PoUochock. Mac- 



