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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«<» S. IX. June 2. '60. 



A. Young. See some MS. notes to my edition, in 

 1G9G, wrote by the Earl of Oxford. Some odd things 

 in the book. In 1703 comes forth the same book with 

 another title, i. e. Animadversions on Mr.Baxter's History 

 of his Life and Times. This book is word for word the 

 same as the edition in H',96. This is a common trick 

 with the booksellers to give a new title-page to the same 

 book, and give it the name of a new edition. This sort of 

 trade has been many a guinea in Edmund Curll's way : 

 he has carried this sort of trade to a high degree of im- 

 pudence. 



Mr. Baxter's Funeral Sermon is preached by William 

 Bates, D.D., with some Short Account of Mr. Baxter's 

 Life, 12mo. 1692, dedicated to that worthy knight, Sir 

 Henry Ashurst. All these books should be read; you 

 see the nature of those people. 



Boyle (Charles), Earl of Orrery. His Life, published 

 by that mad fellow, Eustace Budgell, Esq., 8vo. 1732; 

 dedicated to the present Lord John. An impertinent 

 silly performance. 



Browne (Sir Thomas), M.D. His Life prefixed be- 

 fore an edition of his Posthumous Works, printed for 

 Ourll, 8vo. 1712. This is a very poor performance, and 

 very little in it, except an account of his Works. 



Buknteat (John) of Cumberland. An Account of 

 him, an enthusiast or madman : a Quaker -I suppose. The 

 book is called Truth Exalted, 4to. 1691. 



Burridge (Richard). An Account of him : it is called 

 Beligio Libirtini, or the Faith of a Converted Atheist. He 

 was convicted of blasphemy. There is a narration of his 

 Life drawn up by himself: it is printed in a thin 8vo. 

 1712. It is a very odd story, and worth reading. 



Camden (William). Camdeni Vita, Scriptore Thoma 

 Smitho Ecclesije Anglicana) Presbytero. This is put 

 before a Collection of Letters of Mr. Camden, published 

 bv the same Dr. Smith, 4to. 1691. 



In a Collection of Lives, published by William Bates 

 {D.D. as he is called), the Presbyterian parson, in 4to. 

 1681, there is a piece called Commemoratio Vitse Guil. 

 Camdeni, per Degor. Whear, p. 587. 



There is an account of Mr. Camden's Life put before 

 Edmund Gibson's edition of the Britannia, fol. 1695, in 

 English, dedicated to Lord Sommers, Lord Chancellor. 

 This same life of Mr. Camden, with some alterations, is 

 added to the new edition of the Britannia, 1722, by the 

 same Edmund Gibson, now become Bishop of Lincoln, 

 dedicated to King George I., and subscribes himself 

 Edmund Lincoln, and became Bishop of London in 1723. 

 I will only take notice of the great partiality of thisworth}' 

 author. In the Preface to the first edition he men- 

 tions Dr. Charlett, Master of University College, with 

 great respect, as he had many obligations to him, and 

 being then at the same university, Fellow of Queen's 

 College; but this is all let out [in the second edition]. 

 Gibson wanted not Charlett : he was Bishop of Lincoln, in 

 the high road to preferment, as he is now Bishop of Lon- 

 don, where he hopes not to stop. Poor honest Charlett 

 died Master of University College, no preferment, for he 

 kept to the honest principles he set out into the world 

 with ; and Gibson, for being a turncoat rascal, is Bishop 

 of London.* 



Carew (Richard) of Anthonie, in Cornwall, Esq. His 

 Life is prefixed to a new edition of his Survey of Corn- 

 wall, 4to. 1723. This Life is said to be wrote by II. C, 

 Esq., but indeed wrote by Peter Des Maizeaux, then wri- 



[* Sir Robert Walpole used to call Bishop Gibson his 

 Pope, adding, "and a very good Pope too." — Coxe. For 

 an interesting notice of Dr. Charlett, by Dr. Bliss, see 

 Relinuiai Heaniiana:, i. 219.] 



ter for Woodman and Lyon, the two booksellers famous 

 for selling books at a great rate. 



Carleton (Mary), alias Mary Moders, alias Mary 

 Stedman, called the German Princess. Memoirs of her 

 Life, by J. G., 12mo. 1673. 



The Case of Madam Mary Carleton, styled the German 

 Princess. By the said Mary Carleton, 12mo. 1663. She 

 was executed at Tyburn, Jan. 22, 1672-3. At the end of 

 the year 1732 comes out the Life of Mary Moders, alias, 

 alias, said to be the second edition. The meaning of print- 

 ing this was upon a story that John Barber, Mayor of 

 London that year, was her natural son, got upon her in 

 Newgate, and bred up a devil to a printing-house ; but 

 as to his birth it is not so : the other I believe is true, 

 that he was born in Wales. 



Carter (John), Pastor of Bramford in Suffolk. His 

 Life, by his son John Carter, 12mo. 1653, called The 

 Tombstone, or a Broken Imperfect Monumettt. To this 

 is added, A Sermon preached at Norwich, June 18, 1650, 

 by John Carter, called A Rare Sight, or the Lyon. Old 

 Carter's head before, and some odd woodcuts in the 

 work: pp. 185. 



Cecil (William), Lord Burleigh. His Life, published 

 from a manuscript in the Earl of Exeter's library. By 

 Arthur Collins, Esq., a broken bookseller.* Dedicated to 

 the Earl of Exeter, by the said Collins. 8vo. 1732. 



Clarke (Samuel), D.D. Rector of St. James's church, 

 Westminster. An account of his Life and Writings by 

 Benjamin [Hoadly] Bishop of Sarum. This is prefixed 

 by way of Preface to an edition of his Sermons, published 

 by his brother, John Clarke, D.D., Dean of Sarum, from 

 the author's own manuscripts. It makes 10 vols. 8vo. 

 1730. At the end of the first volume is a catalogue of 

 his works in the order of time that they were published. 



On Aug. 18, 1730, comes out a book called Historical 

 Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Samuel Clarke, being a Supple- 

 ment to Dr. Sy lies' s and Bishop Hoadly' s Accounts. By 

 William Whiston, M.A. 8vo. This is worth reading, as 

 it gives a true history of that set of men. 



Ciiillingworth (William). An Account of his Life 

 and Writings, 8vo. 1725. This is wrote and published hy 

 P. Des Maizeaux, and dedicated to Peter King, when 

 Lord King and Lord High Chancellor. This Des Mai- 

 zeaux is a great man with those that are pleased to be 

 called Free-thinkers, particularly with Mr. Anthony 

 Collins, who collects passages out of books for their writ- 

 ings. This Life is wrote to please that set of men. 



Congreve (William), Esq. Memoirs of his Life and 

 Writings, 8vo. published Aug. 1729, said to be wrote by 

 one Charles Wilson, Esq. ; but this is a feigned name ; 

 it is wrote by one of Curll's scribblers. His Will is put 

 to it. He is" buried in Westminster Abbey, at the west 

 end. 



Dunton (John), late Citizen of London. His Life and 

 Errors,Txriilznhy Himself in Solitude. He has added several 

 lives or accounts of people toit,8vo. 1705. This John Dun- 

 ton writes An Essay proving we shall know our Friends in 

 Heaven. This is to the memory of his wife, 8vo. 1698. This 

 Dunton is the author of many libels. He was the author of 

 that libel published in Queen Anne's time called Neck or 

 Nothing: the materials of which he had, as he has since 

 owned,' from Thomas Earl Wharton and Gilbert Burnet, 

 that lying Scot, Bishop of Salisbuo'. This poor wretch 

 Dunton had a gold medal given him of about the value 

 of-30/., which he used to wear about his neck; but neces- 



[* This " broken bookseller " is no other than Arthur 

 Collins the genealogist, who has written the best account 

 of the Harley family in his Historical Collections of Noble 

 Families, 1752, fob] 



