IGO APPENDIX. 



Dr. Diicarel* gives the following description 

 of Mr. Wharton. *' He was a man of great 

 natural endowments, a quick apprehension, 

 solid judgment, and faithful memory. As to 

 person, he was of middle stature, brown com- 

 plexion, grave and comely countenance. His 

 constitution was vigorous; but immoderate ap- 

 plication weakened his stomach, so that medi- 

 cine could not restore his health." 



Perhaps no person ever exceeded him in the 

 indefatigable ardour of his literary pursuits, 

 and in the rapidity with which he brought 

 his talents into action. He frequently, as ap- 

 pears from the foregoing diary, completed in 

 a few days, works which would have occupied 

 any other person for at least as many weeks. 



Amongst his other laborious works, was the 

 the account which he drew up of the MSS. in 

 Lambeth library, in which the writer of his 

 life says, that he has, beside giving a most 

 exact catalogue, transcribed, under every book, 

 all the unpublished treatises contained in it, 

 and has collated with great exactness those 

 which were published.! The Rev. H. Todd, in 



* See history of Lambeth Palace^ p. 66. 



t This catalogue of the Lambeth MSS. by Mr. Wharton was 

 purchased amongst other of his MS. remains by Archbishop 

 Tenison, and is now preserved in the Lambeth library. Dr. 

 Ducarel states that it had been in the library of " the late 

 John Loveday, Esq. of Caversham." 



