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Notes : — 



Dr. Whichcote and Lord Shaftesbury, by S. W. Singer - 33 



The Rebel 34 



Notes on the Hippopotamus - - - - 35 



Fnllt Lore : Northamptonshire Charms for Wens, 



Cramp, Toi>th.aihe. West or Sty, \c. . - .36 



Brasichellen and Serpilius, by J. Sansom - . - 37 



Queries : — 



Sir George Buc, by Rev. T. Corser - - - 3S 



Cosas de Espana - - - - - - 39 



Carter's Drawings of York Citheral, by J. Britton - 40 



Minor Queries :— "Imprest" and " Debenture "—Cosen's 

 MSS. — Barclay's Argenis— Clergy sold for Sl.ives — 

 Meaning of Pallet — Tobacco in the East — Stephauus 

 Brulifer ...... 



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Replies: — 



Asinorum Sepultura --•-"- 

 Pope Felix --,..-- 

 Replies to Numismatic Queries . - - - 

 " As Lajy as Liidlum's Dog" . . . . 

 Replies to Minor Queries : — Lord John Townshend — 

 When Easter ends — Holdsworth and Fuller— Gonkiu 

 "Brozier"— Symbols of Four Evangelists— Cata- 

 combs and Bone-hnuses — Tace Latin for Candle — 

 Members for Durham — " A Frog he would," &c — 

 Cavell — To endeavour ourselves — Three Dukes — 

 Christabel — Derivation of " Trianon " - 



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Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 

 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted - 

 Notices to Correspondents - 

 Advertisements ... 



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|20tC£!. 



DE. WHICHCOTE, MICHAEL ATN9W0ETH, AND LOED 

 SHAFTESBUEY. 



Not less remarkable and interesting than the 

 publication of Dr. Whichcote's Sermons by the 

 noble author of the Characteristics, is a posthu- 

 mous volume (though never designed for the press) 

 under tlie following title : — 



" Several Letters written by a Noble Lord to a 

 Young Man at the University. 



" Quo semel est iinbuta rccens servabit odorem 

 Testa diu. — Ilor. Epist. ii. 1. 



" Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms, in 

 Warwick Lane, 1716. 8vo." 



The young man was Michael Aynsworth, of 

 University College, Oxford, afterwards vicar of 

 Cornhampton, in Ilauipshire, and master of the 



Free School there. He was a native of Dorset- 

 shire; his father, who was in narrow circumstances, 

 living near Wiiuborne St. Giles's, the seat of Lord 

 Shaftesbury, by whom the son seeras*o have been 

 nobly patronised, on account of his inclination to 

 learning and virt\ious disposition. 



The published letters are only ten in number ; 

 but I have an accurate manuscript transcript of 

 ^fifteen, made from the originals by R. Flexman 

 (who had been a pupil of Aynsworth) in 1768. 

 The transcriber's account is as follows : — 



" After Mr. Aynsworth's death, these letters re- 

 mained in the possession of his daughter, and at her 

 decease passed into the hands of the Rev. Mr. Upton, 

 the then vicar of Cornhampton ; by him they were lent 

 to my brother John Baker, of Grove Place, in Hamp- 

 shire, who lent them to me. It will be perceived that 

 the ten printed letters are not given as they were written, 

 every thing of a private nature being omitted, and pas- 

 sages only given of other letters, just as the editor 

 judged proper." 



K. Flexman has made some remarks illustrative 

 of the letters at the end of his transcript, and 

 added some particulars relating to Lord Shaftes- 

 bury. He justly says, — 



" I think these letters will show his lordship in a 

 more favourable light with respect to the Christian re- 

 ligion than his Characteristics, which, though they may 

 be condemned on that account, will ever remain a 

 lasting monument of the genius of the noble writer. 

 It is certain, too, the friends of Christianity are obliged 

 to him for the publication of one of the best volumes 

 of sermons that ever appeared in the English language. 

 They are twelve in number, by Dr. Benjamin Which- 

 cote. These sermons (as well as the preface, which 

 is admirable) breathe such a noble spirit of Christi- 

 anity, as 1 think will etface every notion that his lord- 

 shij) was an enemy to the Christian religion. In this 

 preface he calls Dr. Whichcote (from his pleading in 

 defence of natural goodness) the ' preacher of good 

 nature.' " 



What follows will, I think, be acceptable to your 

 correspondents C. H. and C. 11. S. 



" I have heard that the way in which Lord Shaftes- 

 bury got possession of the inaiuiscri])t sermons was 

 this ; — Going one day to visit his grandmother, the 

 Countess Dowager, widow of the first Earl, he found 



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