THE BIRTHPLACE OF MATTHEW PRIOR. 83 



Austin Dobson's Introduction and Notes, prefaced to the 

 " Selections from Prior," published in the Parchment Library, 

 1889. 



" Matthew Prior," in Austin Dobson's Eighteenth Century 

 Vignettes, Third series : Chatto & Windus, 1907 



" Dictionary of National Biography," Austin Dobson. 



Thackeray's " English Humourists," Oxford Thackeray, 

 Vol. XIII., pp. 579 to 586. 



Weld Taylor's article, entitled " Was Matthew Prior a 

 Dorsetshire Man ? " in " Longman's Magazine," October, 

 1884. 



Bell's Aldine Edition of Prior (2 vols.), with Mitford's 

 introduction. 



" Encyclopaedia Britannica." 



Seward's " Anecdotes," II., 285-7. 



Bos well's " Life of Johnson." 



" North British Review," November, 1857. 



Grosse's " English Literature," Vol. III., pp. 208-212 (with 

 portrait after Sir Godfrey Kneller's, and facsimile of his hand- 

 writing, extract from a letter to Secretary Blaythwayt). 



Courthope's " A History of English Poetry " (Macmillan, 

 1905), Vol. V., pp. 26-30, 108-121. 



" Cowper's Letters to Unwin," Jan. 5 and 17, 1782, and 

 March 21, 1784. 



Calendar of MSS. of the Marquis of Bath at Longleat 

 (Historical MSS. Commission), especially Vol. III. (Prior 

 Papers) . 



" Cont. Review," July, 1872. 



" Poems, &c., by Matthew Prior, to which are added 

 memories of his life, his last will and testament," &c. 

 Dublin, Grierson, 1723. 



" Gentleman's Magazine " especially Vol. XLIX. (A.D. 

 1779). 



The later edition of Hutchins gives the following list of 

 engraved portraits : 



Painting by Richardson, given by him to St. John's College, Cambridge, 

 Engraved by G. Vertue. 



