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martyrdom in 1536 ; Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, in 1555 ; 

 and Thomas Cranmer, in 1556. John Knox, the Scotch reformer, 

 died in 1572. Richard Hooker, died in 1600 ; James Usher, arch- 

 bishop of Armagh, the chronologist, died in 1656 ; and Jeremy Taylor, 

 died in 1667. Richard Baxter, the non-conformer, died in 1691. 

 John Tillotson, archbishop of Canterbury, died in 1694 ; and Gilbert 

 Burnet, bishop of Sarum, died in 1715. Dr. Isaac Watts, died in 

 1748 ; and Dr. Philip Doddridge, in 1751. Joseph Butler, bishop 

 of Durham, died in 1752 ; and William Warburton, bishop of 

 Gloucester, in 1779. John Wesley, died in 1791 ; Dr. William 

 Paley, in 1805; and Robert Hall, in 1831. Reginald Hebcr, the 

 poet, bishop of Calcutta, died in India, in 1826. Of mental philoso- 

 phers, John Locke died in 1704; Thomas Reid, in 1796; Tho- 

 mas Brown, in 1820; and Dugald Stewart, in 1828. 



Of British voyagers and travellers, Sebastian Cabot died about 

 1557; Sir Thomas Cavendish, in 1592; Sir Francis Drake, in 

 1595 ; Capt. John Davis, in 1605; Capt. Henry Hudson, in 1611 ; 

 Capt. William Baffin, in 1616; Capt. Jo hn Smith, in 1631 ; Capt. 

 William Dampier, probably about 1715; Capt. Woods Rogers, in 

 1732 ; Com. George Anson, in 1762 ; Com. John Byron, in 1786 ; 

 Capt. James Cook, in 1779 ; and Capt. George Vancouver, in 1798. 

 Of British historians, besides Walsingham, Raleigh, the earl of 

 Clarendon, Bishop Burnet, and Archbishop Usher, already named, 

 George Buchanan, of Scotland, died in 1582 ; Tobias Smollett, in 

 1771; David Hume, in 1776; Dr. William Robertson, in 1793; 

 Edward Gibbon, in 1794; William Mitford, in 1827; and Sir 

 James Mackintosh, in 1832. Dr. John Lingard, Lord John Russell, 

 Sharon Turner, Henry Hallam, and James Grahame, Esqrs., are, 

 we believe, still living. 



Of the British poets, Geoffrey Chaucer died in 1400; and John 

 Gower, who wrote in Latin, died in 1402. Gascoigne died in 1577; 

 Tusser, about 1580 ; and Edmund Spenser, in 1599. William 

 Shakspeare, the dramatist, died in 1616; John Fletcher, in 1625; 

 and Ben Jonson, in 1637. Davies died in 1626 ; Greville, (Lord 

 Brooke), in 1628; Drayton, in 1631; Donne, in 1631 ; Carew,in 1639; 

 Giles Fletcher, in 1623; and Phineas Fletcher, about 1650. John 

 Milton died in 1674; Cowley, in 1667; Butler, in 1680 ; Waller, 

 in 1687 ; and John Dry den, in 1700. Prior died in 1721 ; Gay, in 

 1732 ; Swift, in 1744 ; and Alexander Pope, in the same year. 

 Thomson died in 1748; Collins, in 1756; Shenstone, in 1763; Dr. 

 Young, in 1765; Akenside, in 1770; Falconer, in the same year; 

 Gray, in 1771 ; Goldsmith, in 1774 ; and Dr. Armstrong, in 1779. 

 Robert Burns, the Scotch poet, died in 1796 ; William Cowper, in 

 1800 ; James Beattie, in 1803 ; Grahame, in 1811 ; and Shelley, in 

 1822. Lord Byron, (George Gordon), died in 1824 ; Mrs. Bar- 

 bauld, in 1825 ; Crabbe, in 1832 ; Sir Walter Scott, in the same 

 year; Miss Hannah More, in 1833; Coleridge, in 1834; Mrs. 

 Hemans, in 1835; and Miss Landon, (Mrs. Maclean), in 1838. 

 Miss Baillie, Campbell, Rogers, Wordsworth, Bowles, Montgomery, 

 Moore, Southey, and Prof. Wilson, are, we believe, still living. Of 

 novelists and essayists, not already named, dddison died in 1719 ; 



