in life, a man in this whole island, nor on the continents be- 

 yond the seas, that could be made more universally useful t<> 

 do good to all." And Mr. Gough, in his Topography, re- 

 cords the benefits he conferred on that county. Such a 

 testimony as the above, from such a man as Mr. Boyle, is, 

 indeed, honourable. The learned Boerhaave tells us who 

 Mr. Boyle was: " Boyle, the ornament of his age and coun- 

 try, succeeded to the genius and enquiries of the great 

 \ erulam. Which of all Boyle's writings shall I recommend? 

 All of them. To him we owe the secrets of fire, air, water, 

 animals, vegetables, fossils, so that from his works may lie 

 reduced the whole system of natural knowledge.*' His cha- 

 rities amounted to £1000. annually. Dr. Beale resided 

 chiefly at Hereford, (1660) when he was made Rector of 

 Yeovil, Somersetshire, where he died in 168,3, at the age of 

 eighty. His other works are enumerated in Mr. Loudon's 

 Encyclopaedia of Gardening. Mr. Evelyn, in the greatest 

 of his works, (his Sylva,) adds to it Dr. Beale's advertise- 

 ment concerning Cyder. 



William Brome, a principal ornament of Christ Church, 

 a native of Herefordshire, and who afterwards lived in retire- 

 ment at Ewithington, in that county, " formed the plan (s t\ s 

 the late Mr. Dunster in his edition of Phillips's Cyder) of 

 writing the Provincial History of his native county, a work 

 for which he tvas eminently qualified, not only by his great 

 and general learning, but as being particularly an excellent 

 naturalist and antiquary. After having made a considerable 

 progress, he abandoned his design, and, which is still more 

 to be lamented, destroyed the valuable materials which he 

 had collected." I merely introduce this to state, that from 

 Mr. Brome, much information, in all likelihood, might have 

 been gathered respecting Dr. Beale. We have to regret, 

 that time and mortality, have now obliterated every Riding 



