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entertaining essay of Dr. Farmer on Shakespeare's 

 amount of learning which will not bear examina- 

 tion. 



In connection with the name of Hales might have 

 been introduced his contemporary, Dr. Humphrey 

 Chambers, who, according to Wood, was born in So- 

 mersetshire, but of whom I have somewhere read that 

 he was son of the worthy citizen of Bath who preserved 

 the two sepulchral remains which were found at 

 Walcot ; so that, probably, he was a native of Bath. 

 He had the living of Claverton. Like Hales, he was 

 a learned theological writer, but very different from 

 him in many respects, being an eminent Puritan and 

 Parliamentarian. 



[24] Dr. Chandler was the son of Henry Chandler, 

 pastor of the Nonconformists of Bath at the beginning 

 of the last century. He was himself a Nonconformist 

 divine, and a man whose writings had no small influ- 

 ence on the age in which he lived. There is a volume 

 of verse by a sister of his who spent her life in Bath, 

 of which much cannot be said in praise. 



[25] Of the Hartleys, who so peculiarly belong to 

 Bath, there is much pleasing information in Mr. War- 

 ner's Literary Recollections. He has not omitted to 

 notice Mrs. Mary Hartley, the daughter of Dr. Hartley, 



