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witK an autograph relic. I now subjoin another of the same memor- 

 able person. It is a letter addressed by him in 1819 to Mr. Charles 

 Grant, at a later period Colonial Minister, well-known to Canadians 

 as Lord Glenelg. In it he speaks of the new College in Bengal, i.e., 

 Bishop's College, Calcutta, and he says that if a Head for it is 

 Wanted, he has in his pocket one that would exactly suit — Mr. James 

 Scholefield, his assistant in Trinity Church, Cambridge ; he is sure 

 that he would prove a second Dealtry, i.e., equal to the Thomas 

 Dealtry, whom he (Mr. Simeon) had been instrumental in sending 

 out to be Bishop of Madras. Mr. Scholefield became afterwards 

 Regius Professor of Greek in the University, and never went out to 

 India. Mr. Simeon's letter reads as follows ; " K. C. Camb., Aug. 

 20th, 1819.— My Dear Sir: The new College in Bengal is of great 

 moment, and the Bishop's letter about it is a good letter. If you 

 have the means of recommending a Head, I have a Dealtry in my 

 pocket for you — -a man every way qualified by piety, diligence, and 

 the highest attainments, quite laden with University honours, and. 

 not obnoxioiis on account of his Religion either. It is no other than 

 my Assistant, Mr. Scholefield. I have sent them a Martyn and a 

 Thomason, and I will now give them precisely what you will under- 

 stand, in all its bearings, a Dealtry. Are you likely to want more 

 than one Chaj^lain 1 Most aflTectionately yours, C. Simeon." Ad- 

 dressed outside to " Charles Gi-ant, Esq., India House, London." 



I close this appendix by briefly describing two manuscript copies 

 of the Four Gospels, of an early date, which I class among my 

 " Leaves they have Touched," because, although they are neither of 

 them to be identified as the production or former property of any 

 personage of note, the imagination can legitimately conceive that 

 they have each of them come under the eye and been turned over by 

 the hand of many an eminent man, during the four hundred and six 

 hundred years of their respective existences. Both are manuscripts 

 on vellum. (1.) The first is a manuscript of the Fourteenth Century, 

 of the Four Gospels in Latin. Out of reverence, doubtless, some 

 former possessor has Lad it bound in costly olive-coloured morocco, 

 whereby its margins have been somewhat curtailed — the edges having 

 been cut for the purpose of being gilt. I should have preferred seeing 

 it in its original cover of oak board, limp parchment, or whatever 

 else it may have been. It is written in double columns in the usual 

 black letter. There is no distinction of chapter and verse ; but 

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