LIFE OF WHARTON. 165 



D)\ Caves Letter* to Archbishop Tenison, 

 Inspecting H. Wharton. 



Dated October, 1697. 



My Lord, 



I should not presume to give your 

 Grace this trouble, but that lately I met with 

 an accident that gave me some disturbance. 

 At Mr. Geary's I chanced to see Mr. Wharton's 

 book of the Historia Literaria, wherein I found 

 several notes blotted out, and two or three 

 added since I saw the book last, which was 

 about a year before he died. The notes that 

 are added are highly injurious to me, and afford 

 one of the most unaccountable instances of un- 

 fair and disingenuous dealing that perhaps ever 

 passed amongst men of letters. I hope there- 

 fore that your Grace will not be offended, if, in 

 as few words as the thing is capable of, I set 

 things in their true light. 



P. 282. there is this note: — Ab hoc loco 

 omnia nigro plumbo non notata ejusdem sunt 

 autoris (sc. H. W.) cujus ilia quae hucusque 

 notata sunt : et vicissim quae linea decussata 

 notantur, juncta utriusque nostrum opera sunt 

 conscripta. This note, if taken in its latitude, 



*See Lambeth MSS. v. 930, 14. 

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