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‘who were then making the tour of 
Europe. He was at Rome in the 
jubilee year, 1750, and gained a 
prize medal, given by Benedict the 
XIVth, being said to be the first 
Englishman that hadever obtained one 
for sculpture. He returned home 
in the year 1755, after an absence 
of 16 years, in the company of those 
eminent artists in their different 
lines, the late sir Wm. Chambers 
and Mr. Cipriani, with whom, and 
sir Joshua Reynolds, he continued 
on the most cordial terms of friend- 
ship during the remainder of their 
lives. 
At Losely-hall, co. Leicester, 
after a few days illness, lady Fowke, 
widow of the late sir Thomas F. 
knt. and one of the co-heiresses and 
enly surviving daughter of the late 
sir Isaac Woollaston, of the same 
- his seventh wife. 
place, bart. 
27th. In Lancashire, the lady of 
the hon. capt. Jones, brother of lord 
viscount Ranelagh. 
28th. Ofaconsumption, at her 
father’s seat, at Wingerworth-hall, 
near Chesterfield, co. Derby, Anne, 
fourth daughter of sir Henry Hun- 
loke, bart. 
Dec. ist. In the commune of 
Boeschepe, in the department of 
North France, aged 85, Bonaven- 
ture Lebayne. He had been mar- 
ried seven times, and was father of 
35 children, 17 of whom he had by 
He had had a 
wooden leg, ever since he was 28 
years old. 
At his house, at Battersea-rise, 
Surry, in his 69th year, of a drop- 
sical complaint, to which he had been 
for some -time subject, Thomas 
Astle, esq. F.. A. S: 1763, F. R.S. 
1766, a gentleman well known for 
his extensive and accurate acquaint- 
auce with the history and antiquities 
of his country ; keeper of the re- 
cords in the ‘Tower, and late one of 
the keepers of the Paper-office ; 
trustee of the British Museum, 
where, when a young man, he was 
employed to make an index to the 
Harleian catalogue of MSS.; F. R. 
S. Edinb. Reg. Scient. Soc. Island. 
Soc. Antig. Cassel. & Soc. Volsco- 
rum Velitris sod. honorar. He was 
son of Mr. Daniel Astle, keeper of 
Needwood forest, co. Stafford, who 
died 1774, and was buried in Yoxak 
church, where a neat mural monu- 
ment is erected to his memory (see 
it in Shaw’s History of Staffordshire, 
1. 101); and who appears to have 
been descended from a family of that 
name, resident at, and lords of, the 
manor of Fauld, in Hanbury pas 
rish, adjoining, the seat of Burton, 
the Leicestershire antiquary. Mr. 
Shaw had access to Mr. Astle’s li- 
brary, and the use of several ma- 
nuscripts, &c. for both volumes of 
his Staffordshire; his MS. library 
being accounted to exceed that of 
any private gentleman in England, 
and his liberal utility to men of sci- 
ence their acknowledgments abuns 
dantly testify. Mr. A. about 1763, 
obtained the patronage of Mr. Gren- 
ville, then first lord of the treasury, 
and chancellor of the exchequer, 
who employed him as well in his 
public as private affairs, and joined 
him in a commission with the late sir 
Joseph Aylofie, bart. and Dr. Du- 
carel, for superintending the regula- 
tion of the public records at West- 
minster. On the death of his col- 
leagues, Mr. Topham was substi- 
tuted, and both were removed by 
Mr. Pitt during his administra- 
tion. In 1765 he was appointed 
receiver-general of six-pence in the 
pound on the civil list. In 1766 he 
was consulted by the committee of 
the 
