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of the Englifli Biblical Tranflations; the Expediency of 
reviling by Authority our prelent Tranflation; and the 
Means of executing fuch a Revilion ;” oftavo. The firft 
chapter into which this work is divided, contains a hiftory 
of the Englifli verfions of the Bible from Wickliff to 
James I. which is chiefly an abridgment of Lewis’s Com¬ 
plete Hiftory of the feveral Tranflations of the Holy 
Bible and New Teftament into. Englifli, &c. but more 
diftinft and judicious than that work, and abounding in 
more ufeful information. The fecond chapter preterits 
us with a methodical and entertaining view of “ fuch 
authorities as have occurred on the fubjeft of our au- 
thorifed verfion ; whether they confider its merit or de¬ 
merit, the propriety or impropriety of recommitting it to 
the anvil.” The third chapter confifts of fatisfaftory 
anfwers to the ordinary objections to an improved verfion 
of the Bible, which the biftiop has delivered partly in his 
own words, and partly in the words of the authorities 
before introduced by him. In the fourth chapter, Dr. 
Newcome brings forward his arguments to fliow the ex¬ 
pediency of an improved verfion ; of which the principal 
are, the flux nature of living languages, and the vaft 
accelfion to the biblical apparatus which has been fur- 
nilhed lince the period when the prefent verfion was 
executed. The laft chapter contains rules for conducting 
an improved verfion of the Bible, which he prefixed to 
liis verfion of the minor prophets, with confiderable en¬ 
largements, and additional illuftrations from later critics. 
To the whole is added a lilt of the various editions of 
the Bible, and parts of the Bible, in Englifli, from 157.6 
to 1776. 
On the 25th of January, 1795, under the.adminiftration 
of earl Fitzwilliam, our prelate was railed to the higheft 
dignity in the Irifli church, by being tranflated from 
Waterford to the archiepifcopal fee of Armagh, vacant 
by the death of Dr. Richard Robinfon, lord Rokeby, pri¬ 
mate of all Ireland. On this occafion he had to advance 
to the heirs of his predecefior the large fum of fifteen or 
fixteen thoufand pounds, under a parliamentary arrange¬ 
ment which took place during the life-time of Dr. Robin¬ 
fon. So confiderable was the expenditure of that prelate 
for the improvement of his diocefe, as well as of the 
cathedral and palace at Armagh, exclulive of very muni¬ 
ficent donations from his own private purle, that an aft 
of parliament was palled empowering him to eltablilh a 
fpecies of mortgage on his fee, by which his heirs fliould 
receive a fine of fifteen or fixteen thoufand pounds from 
his immediate'fuccefibr, and the heirs of fucceeding pre¬ 
lates fmaller fines, decreafingin a fixed ratio, till the whole 
mortgage fliould be difeharged. The large fum which 
archbilliop Newcome had to advance, he was enabled to 
pay without any inconvenience out of his private fortune, 
which he had managed with prudential economy, while 
in his various fituations he had upheld the dignity of the 
epifcopal charafter, by a liberal attention to the demands 
of benevolence and hofpitality. In his new fituation he 
maintained the fame charafter which had rendered him 
the objeft of univerfal refpeft and elleem at Dromore, 
Oflory, and Waterford. It is true, that the rank to which 
he was elevated obliged him to aflume greater ftate in his 
manner of living and appearance, and to mix more in 
public life, than was perfeftly agreeable to his withes; 
but lie condufted liimfelf through tliofe feenes with the 
fame propriety which governed him in all his intercourfe 
with the world, rejoicing when he was enabled to with¬ 
draw from them to the enjoyment of domellic felicity, 
and the purfuit of his beloved ftudies. In the year 1795, 
the archbiftiop published his “ Primary Charge,” in quarto, 
which calls the attention of the clergy to a very important 
and much neglefted part of the paftoral care, that of 
occafional and private inftruftion. With equal good 
fenfe, knowledge of the world, and zeal for the interefts 
of practical religion, the author points out in it the quali¬ 
fications for the duty which he recomtuends; the op¬ 
portunities for private inftruftion which 'ante from the 
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ordinary courfe of the clerical duty, and thofe which 
accidentally offer themfelves; and the manner of commu¬ 
nicating inftruftion to different descriptions of perfons. 
This charge was the laft publication of the worthy prelate 
during his lifetime, who, to the deep regret of all good 
men, died at Dublin on the nth of January, 1S00, in the 
feventy-firft year of his age. 
Soon after the archbifliop’s death, the ftores of biblical 
literature were enriched by the publication of his “At¬ 
tempt towards reviling our Englifli Tranflation of the 
Greek Scriptures, or the new Covenant of Jefus Chrift, 
and towards illuftrating the Senfe by philological and ex¬ 
planatory Notes;” in two volumes, large oftavo. This 
work was printed fo long ago as the year 1796, but was 
relerved for publication till after the author’s death, be- 
caufe he was unwilling, at his advanced period of life, 
to engage in the coutroverfies to which his alterations of 
the commonly-received verfion might give rife. This 
work has been made the bafis of an “ Improved Verfion 
of the New Teftament, publifhed by a Society for the 
Promotion of Chriftian Knowledge, &c.” much to the 
mortification, as we have heard, of fome of the arch¬ 
bifliop’s relatives. The archbiftiop had employed a con¬ 
fiderable portion of his time on an “ Attempt towards 
reviling our Englifli Tranflation of the Hebrew Scriptures;” 
and he bequeathed his interleaved Bible, in four volumes 
folio, containing the refult of his labours, to the library 
at Lambeth-palace. We underftand, from the article in 
the General Biography to which we have been greatly in¬ 
debted for the foregoing fafts, that there exifts fomewhere 
in MS. a memoir of the archbiftiop drawn up by himfelf, 
and in his own hand-writing, in which he gives an intereft- 
ing account of the progrefs of his ftudies, and the fenti- 
ments relative to the charafters and opinions which have 
occafioned much difeufiion in the theological world. 
NEW'COMEN (Matthew), a nonconformift divine, 
who was ejefted from the living of Dedham in Eflex in 
166a, was of St. John’s college, Cambridge, where lie 
took his degree of M. A. He was likewife a member of 
the Weftminfter aftembly of divines, and had fome con¬ 
cern in drawing up their Catechifm. Mr. Newcomen was 
one of the five perfons who wrote “ Smeftymnuus,” which 
was a treatife againll Bilhop Hall’s Vindication of Epif- 
copacy. The title of the work was made up of the initials 
chriftian and furnames of the feveral authors, viz. Stephen 
Marftial, Edmund Calaniy, Thomas Young, Matthew 
Newcomen, and William Spurftow. After Newcomen 
was ejefted for his adherence to confidence, he went to 
Leyden, where he died in 1666. 
NEW'DIGATE, a village in Surrey, five miles foutli- 
eaft. of Dorking. In the eaft part of this parifii there is a 
medicinal fpring of the fame nature as that of Epfom. 
The Wyld hereabouts is obferved to bear excellent oats, 
but its foil does not agree well with barley. The inha¬ 
bitants of thefe parts do not yoke their pigs, to prevent 
them from breaking through the hedges, but run lkewers 
of two or three inches long through their nofes. Here 
is a hamlet of the fame name, on the north-eaft fide of this 
pari fli. 
Okeley, near the head of the Mole, on the weft fide of 
Newdigate, is a village fo called from its plenty of oaks : 
in its church-yard there grow rofe-bulhes at the head of 
feveral of the graves, according to a cuftom time out of 
mind ; viz. That, if a young man, or maid, lofe their lovers 
by death, before marriage, the furvivor plants a rofe-tree 
at the head of the deceafed’s grave; which fome fondly 
keep up many years at their own colt. Near the church 
is the moat and" mole of the keep, being all that remains 
of a cattle, laid to have been deftroyed by the Danes. 
The poor people hereabouts draw rufhes through melted 
greafe, to lave the expenfe of candles. The famous old 
Roman military way, called Stone-ftreet, may be plainly 
traced through this place in Monk’s Farm, two miles to 
the foutli. The common people fay the devil made it, 
and brought the flints and pebbles of it from the beaches 
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