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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 246* 



corresponding with his brother prelate Warbur- 

 ton could thus refer to and speak of one of the 

 wisest and best men of the eighteenth century, — 

 " Of THIS Johnson you and I, I believe, think 

 alike." Again, we have a passage from the same 

 letter : " Had not Johnson's remarks on the Com- 

 mentaries as much folly as malignity in them, I 

 should have reason to be offended." (1765.) 



Dr. Parr, in his Warburtonian Tracts, has, in a 

 passage of much feeling and eloquence, rendered 

 ample justice to Johnson with especial reference 

 to his conduct] towards Warburton, with an ex- 

 tract from which I shall close this too lengthened 

 article : 



"J. spoke well of Warburton, without insulting 

 those whom W. despised. He suppressed not the 

 imperfections of this extraordinary man, while he en- 

 deavoured to do justice to his numerous and transcen- 

 dental excellences. He defended him when living, 

 amidst the clamours of his enemies, and praised him 

 when dead, amidst the silence of his friends." — P. 184. 



J. H. Markland. 



A LETTER OF LE NEVE TO BAKER : EXTRACT FROM 



BISHOP Bancroft's will. 



The following letter is copied from the original, 

 inserted at the beginning of vol. xxxii. of Baker's 

 MSS. in the University Library. The subsequent 

 fortunes of Bancroft's library are recorded in the 



he is not malevolent, but mad!" (^Letters, p. 98.) 

 When referring to these letters, I may notice that 

 the offensive passage regarding the Ark may have 

 been borrowed from Rabelais; but Og, the King of 

 Basan, not Gog or Magog, according to the Rabbins, 

 takes the benefit of the Ark in the Flood. {Letters, 

 p. 119.) My friend, the Rev. F. Kilvert, has, in his 

 valuable volume A Selection from Warhurton's unpub- 

 lished Papers, 1 841, exhibited the character of the pre- 

 late in a far more amiable light than that in which it 

 has elsewhere appeared. We cannot agree with Hurd, 

 that "playfulness of wit" is a distinguished feature of 

 the correspondence which he published. The letter to 

 Mr. Jane, to which Hurd refers, but which was not 

 amongst his papers, has fortunately been recovered, 

 and given by Mr. Kilvert, and is, as he justly ob- 

 serves, written in the spirit of a Christian and a gentle- 

 man. 



I may here state, for the information of the readers 

 of " N. & Q,.," that a portion of Byrom's interesting 

 Journal and Remains, edited by the Principal of St. 

 Bee's College, has, through the liberality of his excel- 

 lent descendant, been just issued by the Chetham 

 Society. The Catalogue of the poet's curious library, 

 prepared under the superintendence of Mr, Rodd, was 

 printed in 1848 for private distribution at the instance 

 of the same individual — the possessor of her ancestor's 

 lands, his books, and his talents. 



BiograpMa Britannica, and in Cooper's Annals of 

 Cambridge. 



" Ric. Bancroft, Archiep. Cantuar, 



" In Cur, Praerog. Wingfield, 96. 



" Item. I give all the Bookes in my Studdy over 

 the Cloysters imto my Successor and to the Arch- 

 bushoppes of Canterbury successively for ever, yf he 

 my nexte Successor will yealde to such assuraunces as 

 shalbe devised by such learned counsell as my Super- 

 visor and Executor shall make choyce of, for the con- 

 tinuance of all the saide bookes unto the saide Arch- 

 bushoppes successively accordinge to my true meaninge ; 

 otherwise I bequeath them all unto his Ma"" CoUedge 

 to be erected in Chelsey, if it be erected within theis 

 six yeares ; or otherwise I give and bequeath them all 

 to the Publicke Librarie of the Universitie of Cam- 

 bridge. Touchinge this my bequest and Legacie there 

 may be some defecte in the same, which I desire may 

 be so supplyed as that all my saide bookes may re- 

 mayne to my Successors, for that is my cheifeste 

 desire, and if it mighte please his moste excellente 

 Ma"* and his most royall Successors, when they receive 

 the homage of anie Archbushopp of Canterbury, first 

 to procure him to enter bondes to leave all the saide 

 bookes to his Successor, my desire herein woulde be 

 greately strengthened. 



« Dat. Oct. 28, 1610. 



"Probat. Nov. 12, 1610." 



" Reverend S', 

 " I beg you will attribute the delay in sending what 

 is abovewritten partly to the Easter Holydays, when 

 the Office was not open, and partly to a slight return 

 of my Ague. 



" The Bp. of Peterb. never heard of that Apology 

 you mention of Bp. Horn, printed A" 1553. 



" You dont inform me where that MS. Life of Bp. 

 Patrick [is], nor can either the Bp. of Ely or of 

 Peterb. tell me. 



" I much wonder I cant hear from Mr. Atwood : I 

 hope I have not disobliged him. 



" I am with all possible respect, 

 " Your most humble Serv', 



" Jo. Le Neve. 

 «' Apr. 14, 1719. 

 " For, 

 " The Reverend Mr. Tho. Baker, 

 at S' John's College in 



Cambridge." 



J. E. B. Match. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



sepulchral monuments. 



(^Concluded from Vol. ix., p. 586.) 



It was not my intention to have extended this 

 dissertation to a fourth section, but several pieces 

 of evidence bearing on the subject having come 

 to notice, I am induced to bring them forward. 

 The following curious extract from an old 



