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sity obliged him for bread to pawn it now and then. 

 He died, as I have been informed, the beginning of 

 1733. 



Evans (Arise). A Narration of his Life, by Himself, 

 12mo. 1C52. An enthusiastical fellow. There are several 

 of his pieces: some very odd things in his Works. 



Firmin (Thomas). His Life wrote by John Toland, 

 8vo. 1698. The Life is but short: there is a Sermon oc- 

 casioned by his Death also ; an Account of Mr. Firmin's 

 religion, and of the present State of the Unitarian Con- 

 troversy. This fellow was a very proper man to give an 

 account of religion who had none himself. In 161*9 came 

 out a Vindication of the Memory of the excellent and 

 charitable Mr. Thomas Firmin against Mr. Luke Mil- 

 bourn, 8vo. 



Fletcher (Sir Robert) of Saltoun. A Discourse on 

 the memory of that truly virtuous person, written by a 

 Gentleman of his acquaintance, that is, that vile Scots 

 lying rascal, Gilbert Burnet, then minister of Saltoun in 

 Scotland, after that the most unworthy Bishop of Salis- 

 bury. Edinb. 12mo. 1665. 



Fox (Sir Stephen). Bit Life is wrote by one of the 

 tribe of the booksellers' scribblers, printed in 8vo. 1717. 

 See the Preface. He says he is the same author that 

 ■wrote the Lives of Lord Halifax, Dr. Ratcliff, and Dr. 

 South. He is in wrath to be reckoned one of Curll's 

 hacks, though he certainly is one, though perhaps not 

 to Curll. Curll printed Dr. South's Life. 



Frith (Mary), commonly called Mol Cutpurse. Her 

 Life, 12mo. 1662. This is but a poor performance, and 

 little truth, and less wit : a meer invention. 



Fuller (Francis). His Funeral Sermon preached by 

 Jeremiah White, 8vo. 1702. This Jeremiah White was 

 a famous rascal : he was Oliver Cromwell's chaplain, a 

 notorious hypocrite and epicure. 



Fuller (Thomas). Abel Redivivus, or the Dead yet 

 Speaking : the Lives and Deaths of Modern Divines, 4to. 

 1651. This is a Collection from several Authors by that 

 wretched and unfair historian Thomas Fuller. The col- 

 lection is chiefly of Englishmen, some few foreigners. 

 Few wrote by Fuller : the fewer the better. 



Fuller (William), the famous impostor. His Life, 

 8vo. 1703. Said to be wrote by himself in prison, and 

 also impartially. The most notorious rascal of his time.* 



Harrington (James), Esq. His Life, wrote by that 

 infamous rascal, John Toland, prefixed to an edition of 

 Mr. Harrington's Oceana, and his other works, published 

 in a large folio by the said J. Toland, printed 1700, 

 with a fulsome Dedication to my Lord Mayor, an im- 

 pudent Preface, a vain silly frontispiece, all by the same 

 Toland. 



HicvLiN'(Peter),D.D. His Life wrote by GeorgeVernon, 

 Rector of Bourton-on-the-Water, in Gloucestershire, 8 vo. 

 1682. This is dedicated by Mr. Vernon to Henry Hey- 

 lin, Esq. of Minster-Lovel, nephew, and Henry Heylin, 

 Gentleman, son to Dr. Heylin. In the Preface to this 

 Life he falls upon the Life of Dr. Heylin, prefixed to a 

 Collection of Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts of Dr. 

 Heylin, folio 1631. This occasioned the following book to 

 come out, for in 1083 comes out the book with this title, 

 Theohgo- Historicus, or the True Life of Peter Heylyn, 

 D.D., by his son-in-law, John Barnard, D.D., Rector of 



[* Fuller's Life was written during his confinement in 

 the Queen's Bench, being an impartial account of his 

 birth, education, relations, and introductions to the ser- 

 vice of King James and his Queen: he was the rival of 

 Titus Oates. Fuller was led to the pillory with unblush- 

 ing effrontery, from which he hardly escaped with his 

 life.] 



Waddington, near Lincoln, dedicated to Nathaniel (Crewe) 

 Lord Bishop of Durham. And here he falls upon Vernon 

 for his Life of his father-in-law. This Life differs from 

 that prefixed to the Works wrote by Barnard, 8vo. 1683. 

 He has prefixed before this what he calls A Necessary 

 Vindication of Dr. Heylin, and the Author of the Life. 

 To this he was provoked by Vernon's Life of Heylin. 



Horneck (Anthony), D.D. His Life, wrote by 

 Richard (Kidder), Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, 8vo. 

 1698. This Horneck had a son a special rascal. See 

 notes on the Dunciad. 



Jones (Inigo). Some Memoirs of his Life, prefixed 

 to his account of Stone-Heng, published with Dr. Char- 

 leton's and Mr. Webb's pieces in large folio, 1725. This 

 Life is but a very poor performance by one of Wood- 

 man the bookseller's scribblers. The book is printed by 

 Woodman. 



Knox (John), a very famous man, or more truly to be 

 said, a notorious infamous man. His character is well 

 known, and not to be taken from an Account of his Life, 

 prefixed to an edition of his History of the Reformation 

 of Religioun within the Realm of Scotland, fol. Edinb. 

 1733. A print of him, round which is Joannes Cnoxus 

 Scotus. Who the author of his Life is, is not mentioned: 

 in the Preface it is said Mr. Robert Wodrow assisted the 

 author with many materials. 



Laud (Abp. William). The History of his Troubles and 

 Trial, wrote by Himself during his Imprisonment; to 

 which is added, The Diary of his own Life. Published 

 by Henry Wharton, folio, 1695. In the Preface, which 

 should be read, there is an account of what that rascal 

 Prynne published. A second volume, which contains a 

 History of his Chancellorship of Oxford, was collected by 

 Mr. Henry Wharton, but he died before it was put to 

 the press. It was published at his request, by the Rev. 

 Edmund Wharton his father, 1700. Mr. Henry Wharton 

 died in March, 1695 : see his epitaph in Westminster 

 Abbey. I have a copy of the first volume, much noted 

 by the pencil of Dr. Robert South, out of whose library I 

 bought it. 



Laud (Abp. William). A Complete History of the 

 Commitment, Charge, and Trial of Archbiihop Laud. 

 This is put out by thct impudent rascal and scribbler 

 William Prynne, under the title of Canterburies Doom, 

 deputed to this public service by the House of Commons, 

 1644. A proper tool to be employed by such a set of vil- 

 lains.* 



Maynyvaring (Arthur), Esq. His Life wroto by 

 John Oldmixon, a great scoundrel : the performance ac- 

 cordingly, 8vo. 1715: dedicated to Robert Walpole, Esq. 



Mede (Joseph), B.D. His Life, prefixed to an edition 

 of his Works in folio : mine is said to be the fourth edi- 

 tion, 1678 ; the Editor Dr. John Worthiugton. It is not 

 said by whom the Life was wrote. There is an Appendix 

 to the Life by a different hand, as I suppose. 



[ * When the Earl made this note, he was probably 

 thinking of John Audland's [Sam. Butler's] letter to 

 William Prynne: — "William Prynne, thou perpetual 

 scribe, pbarisee, and hypocrite, born to the destruc-. 

 tion of paper, and most unchristian effusion of ink; 

 thou Egyptian taskmaster of the press, and unmerciful 

 destroyer of goose-quills, thou dost plunder and strip 

 thy poor kindred naked to the skin, to maintain thyself 

 in a tyrannical and arbitrary way of scribbling against 

 thy brethren, even the Independents and Quakers, over 

 whom thou settest up thyself as an unrighteous judge ; 

 for a righteous judge hath an ear for both parties, and 

 thou hast none for either." — Butler's Posthumous Works, 

 1732, 12mo. p. 91.] 



