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It has “ flowers” for “buds” in the sixth stanza; 
in the place of the eighth stanza, an entirely new 
one ; and considerable variations in the ninth and 
last stanzas. 
Having thus answered H. A. T.’s Query as to 
this exquisite Ode, and established the authen- 
ticity of these corrections, let me conclude with 
one more bibliographical note on the subject of 
Dodsley’s Collections. Ihave a memorandum of 
an edition published at Dublin (in two volumes 
only) in 1751, and which is stated on the title- 
page to be the ¢hird [? Dublin] edition. The 
first piece in the volume is that On the Prospects of 
Peace, by Mr.-Lyttelton ; and the second volume 
concludes with A Solemn Dirge. 
Wurm J. Tuoms. 
The Ode to Evening is to be found in vol. i. 
p. 331. of the second edition of Dodsley’s Col- 
lection, printed in 1748. Not having at hand the 
number of The Atheneum referred to by H. A. T., 
I have collated the copy in Dodsley with that in 
Gilfillan, and find the following variations : 
Dodsley. 
Stanza 6.: 
“Who slept in flow’s the day.” 
Stanza 8.: 
“Then lead, calm Vot’ress, where some sheety lake 
Cheers the lone heath, or some time-hallow’d pile, 
Or up-land fallows grey, 
Reflect its last cool gleam.” 
Stanza 9: 
“ But when ; 5 5 é 5 
: Forbid . : . : cial 
Stanza 13. : 
.“So long, sure-found beneath the Sylvan shed, 
Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, rose-lip’d Health.” 
Gilfillan. 
Stanza 6.:; 
“ Who slept in buds the day.” 
Stanza 8.: 
“Then let me rove some wild and heathy scene; 
Or find some ruin ’midst its dreary dells, 
Whose walls more awful nod, 
By thy religious gleams.” 
Stanza 9.: 
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Stanza 13.: 
“So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, : 
Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace.” 
‘AAtevs. 
Dublin. 
Your correspondent H. A. T. inquires if this 
ode is inserted in the earlier editions of Dodsley’s 
collection of poems. It will be found at p. 331. 
of the third and last volume of the second edition 
(1748). Before me is the editio princeps of “ Odes 
on several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects, by 
William Collins: London, printed for A. Millar, 
in the Strand, 1747 (not 1746), price one shilling.” 
This is considered rare, as the following MS. note 
on the back of the title-page records that the 
talented author “ at length, in 1746, had spirit 
enough to exert himself so far as to publish his 
odes; the sale was by no means equal to his ex- 
pectations: with indignation for a tasteless age, 
he therefore burnt all the remaining copies.” 
E. D. 
SIR GILBERT HEATHCOTE, AND EQUESTRIAN 
LORD MAYORS, 
(1* S. xii. 363. 459. 501.) 
As the elevation of Sir Gilbert Heathcote to 
the peerage attracts attention, at this present time, 
to his family, I may perhaps be excused for again 
referring to his ancestor of the same name, whom 
I designated — by a title disagreeable to the feel- 
ings of your correspondent D.S.— “the last of 
the equestrian lord mayors ” — meaning thereby, 
that he was the last lord mayor to ride on horse- 
back in the procession on Lord Mayor’s Day. 
But this Sir Gilbert Heathcote has other claims 
upon our notice. He was the Sir Andrew Free- 
port of The Spectator; he is mentioned by Pope 
(Imitations of Horace, book 1, epist. ii. p. 240.) : 
“ Heathcote himself, and such large-acred men.” 
And appears in Bramble’s Letter, and Dyer’s 
Fleece : 
“ And such the grassy slopes, and verdant lawns 
Of beauteous Normanton, health’s pleasing haunts, 
And the beloy’d retreat of Heathcote’s leisure.” 
Dyer had reason to speak well of Sir Gilbert, 
having been presented by him to the rectory of 
Coningsby, which is still in the gift of a Sir Gil- 
bert — that is to say, Lord Aveland —and is in the 
county of Lincoln, and not Huntingdon, as stated 
by Chambers and others. Sir Gilbert Heathcote 
was one of the founders of the Bank of England. 
He was the son of Gilbert Heathcote, Alderman 
of Chesterfield, who died 1690. He was created 
a baronet in 1733 (v. Lysons’s Magna Britannia). 
He married Bridget White, and in 1753 purchased 
Conington Castle and Manor, for 2500/., of the 
heirs and assigns of Sir John Cotton. Conington 
Castle had been built by Sir John Cotton’s great- 
grandfather, the celebrated Sir Robert Bruce 
Cotton (the compiler of the Cottonian MSS.), 
who, being of kin* to Mary, Queen of Scots, 
would naturally feel desirous to preserve relics 
and memorials of his ill-starred relative; and, 
therefore, on the demolition of Fotheringay Castle, 
removed its more ornamental portions to the new 
house he was building for himself at Conington. 
* When Sir Robert went to court, King James was 
wont to address him as “cousin.” 
