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We bought it for fix guineas. But in 
fad, thee two, with my marriages of 
Henry 6th and 7th compofe fuch a fuite 
of the Houfe of Lancafter, and enrich 
my Gothic Houfe fo compleatly, that t 
would not deny myfelf. The Henry the 
7th coft me as much and is lefs curious: 
the price of antiquities is fo exceedingly 
rifen too at prefent, that I expected to 
have paid more. I have bought much 
cheaper at the fame fale, a pifture of 
Henry 8th and Charles sth in one piece ; 
both much younger than ever I faw any 
portrait of either.”’ 
Mr. Horace Walpole to Mr. Cele, 
Apr. 7, 1775. 
ROWLEIAN CONTROVERSYS 
«¢ Mr. Walpole is, like the reft of the 
world, beftowing much attention on the 
Rowleian Controverfy, and furnifhed me 
with many hints that will be ufeful here- 
after on. that popular fubjeét. You 
know, I imagine that Mr. Tyrwhit, 
Tom, Warton, Mr. Malone, and others 
have taken up their pens in oppoiition to 
the books of Bryant and Mills. My 
friend Dr. Johnfon fays, he is forry for 
the former, who poffefles a very great 
and deferved reputation ; as to the Dean’s 
performance it is every where treated as 
it deferves, and to its fate he refigns it 
withont concern.” 
Mr. G. Steevens to Mr. Cole, 
= Qe 
jaa 235 17c2. 
JANE. SHORE, 
<¢ Michael Drayton mentions a picture 
ef Jane Shore: by his defcription of it, 
it fhould feem that the very origial pic~ 
ture of her in the Provoft of Eton Col- 
lege’s Lodge had been feen by him.® 
There is alfo another naked picture of 
her in the Lodge of the Provoft of King’s 
College, in Cambridge: to both which 
foundations fhe is fuppofed to have done 
friendly offices with king Edward the 
Fourth. I havea Mezzotinto print of 
her taken from one, of thee paint- 
ines. 
Mr. Cole to Dr. Percy, (fince, Bithop of 
Dromore) ‘Feb. 23, 1757. 
THE MONUMENT: 
- «Tam fo much of Mr. Pope’s opinion 
about the tall bully. that it is probable 
¥ might have been mortified by Mr. 
Tutet’s Account of thé fire of London: 
for it has always been a part of my 
political creed, that a fet of people, dia- 
metrically oppofite: to the papifts, were 
the incendiaries: but this is a fecret I 
rarely truft, even in this land of felf- 
Goliana. 
[Feb. 1, 
calling toleration, with any but my real! 
friends.” 
Mr. Cole to Dr. Lort, Apr. 29. 1777+ 
MR. RAY, THE NATURALIST. 
‘€ Tam very glad to find that my let- 
ter afforded you any amufement: one 
partof my ramble I had not room to 
mention: a vifit to the laf retreat of that 
pious philofopher, Mr. Ray, at Black. 
Notley: co amore, I made a drawing 
of the church, and his monument in the 
church yard. The parifh-clerk had fuch 
remembtance of him, from others, that 
he faid, he kept in his hovfe fmall ani- 
mals, no larger than fleas, which died 
_ foon after him, as no-one knew how to 
feed them. ‘Thefe were infects, prepara- 
tory to his Hiftory of thofe animals, which 
he never lived to compleat. The clerk 
pointed out to me the farm-houfe which 
was once his dwelling. I there faw his 
librarys i.e. the room which once con- 
tained his books; and his garden before 
it, about an acre of ground. Here the 
father of Englifh Naturalifts lived em- 
ployed and happy.” : 
Leiter from Mr, Tyfon to Mr. 
Cale, Now. 22, 1779+ 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magaxine. | 
SiR 
| | AVING Jately-perufed, with much, 
entertainment, four elegant little 
volumes, publifhed under the titles of 
Addifoniana and Swiftiana, I fhould with, 
by your favour, to point out to the par~' . 
ticular notice of the readers of the 
Monthly Magazine two or three curious 
pieces of original information, in which 
thofe volumes appear, to me to throw new" 
light on, fome important paflages in the 
lives of Addifon, Swift, and feveral of 
their great contemporaries. 
It is told in the common Accounts of 
the Life of Addifon,. that, his penfion of © 
z06l. a-year not being duly paid during 
fame part of the time of his travels, neceflity 
forced him to become tutor to a travelling 
"Squire. In the Addifoniana appear a feries 
of original I<tters between Addifon and 
Edward Wortley Montagu, Efq. hufband 
to the celebrated Lady Mary; from which 
it fhould feem that the only young Eng- 
lifhman with whom Addifon had much 
intimacy or connection abroad, was this 
very gentleman.—Addifon’ went abroad 
in 1699. In France he paffed almoft 
a year; for a great part of. which his re- 
fidence was at the city of Blois: but the 
ya  folloyying 
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