7 8 MEMOIR OF THOMAS BEWICK. 



seemed to me to be of a grave or shy deportment. 

 He lived in habits of intimacy with my master, 

 and used to write pieces for him to engrave from, 

 particularly for the heads of invoices or bills of 

 parcels ; and I remember that he wrote them w r ith 

 an ink, or preparation, which was easily transferred 

 to the copper. This was before his appointment 

 in the royal military academy of Woolwich, in 

 1773, and long before he had the well-merited 

 title of LL.D. added to his respected name. 

 Dr. Hutton was that kind of man, who never 

 forget old friends ; and, some years after, when 

 I was in partnership with my old master, he 

 recommended us to the notice of Dr. Horsley,* 

 who was commencing his publication of Sir Isaac 

 Newton's works, the execution of the whole of 

 the cuts for w T hich devolved upon me. This 

 transaction took place in 1778. 



I continued to take up my abode with . Ned 

 Hatfield, and, the spirits being buoyant, every- 

 thing pleased me. I cannot help noticing the 

 happy time I spent there. I was also entertained 

 with the curious characters who resorted to his 

 house. These were mostly bird-catchers and 

 bird-dealers, to whose narratives respecting their 

 pursuits I listened with some interest while they 

 were enjoying themselves over a tankard of beer. 

 Ned was almost constantly busied in rearing a 

 numerous brood of canaries, which he sold to a 

 bird merchant, who travelled with them at set 

 times to Edinburgh, Glasgow, &c., for sale. 



* Afterwards Bishop of St. Asaph. [He died in 1806. His 

 edition of Newton's Philosophical Works was completed in 1784. 

 See note on page 57.] 



