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municated"An Inventory and Apjiralfement Newington nnd Albury, both In the county of 

 of the Plate in the Lower Jewel Houfe in the Surrey ; and in the courfe ai the fame ye^t 

 Tower, Anno 1G49," from the original MS. he married a Mifs Botham. In 1776, he 

 in his pofl'effion. His pcrfonal friends have publi(h»d propofals for a complete and elc- 

 loft a cheerful, pleafant companion, ever wil- gant edition of the works of the iminortal 

 linij to communicate information, and ta alfift Newton, which appeared in 1779, in five vo- 

 their refearches after fcavce and valuable lumes fjuarto, with an excellent dedication 

 books and |)rints, of which he had a thorough to the King, in Latin. In 1778, when the 

 knowledjje. His colledlion of both is of great controverfy was on foot between Drs. Prieft. 

 value. In it are fome copies of rare por- ley. Price, and others, refpedVing materialifm 

 traits, drawn by himfelf, in a manner that and philofophical nc;cenitY,Dr. Horfley prea'ch- 

 perhaps renders them little lefs valuable than ed a fermon, on Good Friday, at St, Paul's 

 tlie originals ; and never was lie happier than cathedral, which lie afterwards publilhed, 

 w hen he had an opportunity of making a pre- In this ingenious difcourfe he reconciles, with 

 lent either of a fcarce pamphlet or print to much foi-ce of argument, the doftrine of di- 

 any intimate friend to whom he knew it vine providence with the free agency of man, 

 would be particularly acceptable. A fmall and combats the necefl'arian hypothecs witii 

 filhouctte likencfs of him is in. the frontif- great, and, in the opinion of his friends, 

 piece to his Hiftory of Kewcaflle. " complete fuccefs. About this lime he was 



At Brigiiton, Dr. Samuel Horjley, bifhop appointed Archdeacon of St. Albans, by 

 of St. Afaph. He was fuddenly leized with Bilhop Lowth ; who, in 1782, prefented hinx 

 a bowel complaint, which baffled all medical to the valuable living of South Weald, in 

 Ikill, and carried him oft" in a few days. This EHex. In 178.'5, Dr. PrielHey publiihed his 

 prelate, the elded: of the three fons of the celebrated work, the '>' Hiltory of the Cor- 

 Rev Mr. Kordey, formerly minifter of St. ruptions of Cluiftianity :" the principal de- 

 Martin's in the Fields, was born about the year fign of this was to overthrow the catholic 

 17o7, and received the ground-work of his dodlrine refpefting Chrift's divinity. Great 

 education at Weftminfter fcliool, whence he was the triumph mani'"e''ed by the unitarian 

 was removed to the univerfity of Cambridge, p.irly on the publication of fo elaborate an 

 He applied himfelf, while there, chiefly to liiftory, The outcry made by them on the 

 tiie ftudy of mathematics ; and not content occafion, naturally roufed the attention of 

 w ith carefully reading the writings of the thofe who adhered to the orthodox cnnfellion, 

 acuteft of the moderus in that line, he went and Dr. Horfley fcized this opportunity of 

 back to the profoundeft of the ancients, and Ihev/ing not only thefoundnefs of his faith, but 

 made liimfelf thoroughly mafter of their moft his abilities for t!ic .molt intricate branches of 

 intricate reafonings. Having taken his de- theological controverfy. In the fummer of 

 grce of Mafter of Arts, he accepted an in- this year, he delivered to the clergy of the 

 vitation to go to Oxford, as |)rivate tutor to Archdeaconry of St. Albans a charge, in 

 the prefent Earl of Aylesford. From that which he exprefsly controverted the Socinian 

 univerfity he received a decree of doftor of pofition— that the dodrine of the Trinity was 

 laws, and in l/Gi' printed, at the Clarendon not maintained by the Chtiftian church in the 

 prefs, his edition of the Inclinations of Apol- firlt tiiree centuries; and he not only javt a 

 lonius, a geometrical work of cunfiderable flat conrradifllon to Dr. PrielUey's a/lertion 

 Value, though exceedingly abftrufe. Previ- on this point, but charged him with having 

 oufly to his time, mathematical learning had taken, without acknowledgment, the whole 

 been in little repute at Oxford, but fince of his argument from Zwicker, and other 

 that jieriod it has grown into faihion there, fo eminent focinians of the laft century. This 

 thi't this univerfity can hardly be faid to fall difcourfe, at the requefl: of his reverend au- 

 ftiort of her filler, in that great branch of ditcry, was printed, with an appendix, ex- 

 human knowledge. Here he lirft conceived plaining and coii.irming the pofitions which 

 the defi:;n of publiiliing a complete edition it contained. Dr Prieftley, with the impe- 

 pf tlie works of Sir ifaac Newtcn ; to which tuofity of a man who fseired to place all his 

 fnd he began to coUedt the neceflary mate- reputation as a combatant upon the event of 

 rials. On leaving the ui^ivcrfity. Dr. Hor- this contort, inftantly replied to the Arch- 

 licy came to J.ondoi!, where he wa: elected deacon, in a fcries of letters, which con- 

 Jtllow of the Royal Society, of which he was tained all his former aflcrtions, exj^reflej in 

 «lfo chofen fecrctary in 177.). He continued a more confident tone than before. Dr. Kor- 

 ty fcrve that ollice with the grciteft credit to Hey was aware of the advantage which the 

 liimfelf, as well as benefit to the fcientific precipitancy of his opponent had given, a»d. 

 World, till the refign::tion of the late prefi- therefore, in his anfwer, whiiih was alfo in 

 dent, Sir John Prinyle, when finding that the cpiflokiry form, he noticed the frequent 

 the connoiiieurs and virtuofi weie gaining Hips in Creek quotation and reference which 

 jroiind, he retired. Soon after his fettling the Dotlor had made ; and, h ith gre.itadroit- 

 in the metropolis. Dr. Horfley was noticed by ncfs, left it to tlie reader to judge, whether fo 

 Biftiop Lovvth, wlio invited hiin to become hally and incautious an hiftorian was to be 

 hi? domeftic chaplain, In 1774, that prelate depended upon in a matter of luch irviport- 

 prcfented him to the rrttorics of St. Mary ance. But he did not itiarcly cxpofc the 

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