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[Tbe late Mr. Apple, whofe death we ane 
adunced in, our laff Nuntoer, was employed, 
when a young man, to make an index to the 
Harleian Catalogue of MSS, ; F.R.S. Edinb. 
Reg. Scient. Soc. Ifland. Soc. Antiq- Caffel- 
& Soc, Volftorum Velitris fod. Honorar. He 
was fon of Mr. D. Aftle, keeper of Needwood 
foreft, Staffordfhire, who appears to have been 
defeended from a family of that name refident 
at, and lords of, the manner of Favld, in Han- 
bury parith, adjoining the feat of Burton the 
Leicefterfhire antiqgary. Ot his fou Thomas, 
a particular account has been given. Mr. Shaw, 
author of the Hiftory of Staffordfhire, had ac- 
eefs to Mr. Aftie’s library, and the ufe of fe- 
veral manufcripts, &c. for both. volumes of that 
work ; his manuicript library being reckoned 
to exceed that of any private gentleman in Eng- 
land; and his liberal utility to men of {cience 
has been abundantly teitined. Ma. A. about 
the year 1763, obtained the patronage of Mr. , 
Grenville, then firtt lord nf the treafury and 
chancellor of the exchequer, who employed — 
him as well in his public as private affairs; 
and joined him in a commiffion with thé late 
Sir Jofeph Aylofte, bart. and Dr. Ducarel, for” 
fuperingending the regulation of the public re- 
cords at Weftminfter. On the death of his 
colleague, Mr. Topham was fubftituted; and 
both thefe gontlemen were removed by Mr. 
Pitt during his adminiltration, In 176°, Mr. 
A. was appointed receiver-general of fixpence 
in the pound on the civil lift, In 1766, he 
was confulted by the Committee of the Houfe 
of Lords concerning the printing of the ancient 
records of Parliament. ‘To the fuperintend- 
ance of this work, Mr.-A.-introduced his fas 
ther in-law Mr. Morant; aud, on his death, 
in 1770, was himlelf appointed by the Houfe 
of Lords to carry on the work; a fervice in 
which he was employed till its comeletion, 
abuut five years afterwards. He was ihen ap- 
pointed, on) the death of H. Rooker, 2). chief 
clerk in the Record Office in the “Vawt:; and, 
on the deceate of Sir John Shell,” h© tireceed- 
ed to the office of keeper of th- bo Mrs. 
A. was feveral times on th2 co st, chiefly 
engaged on literary puroiits. fis wirbications 
were as follows: Im the Arch:2oleg, vol. iv. 
p» 195; On the Events po tvcotin En fand by 
the Grant of the Kingder.: ¢f Sii’y io Prince 
Edmond, with Remarks. of the Seti of that 
Prince, of Gold, Weight <:2%¢ \cunyweignts, 
formerly in the Earl of Ox'crd’s Collection, 
_then of James Weft, efq. whence it paffed into 
that of Guftavus Brander, efq. and was bought 
in at/38}, 2s. at the fale of his collection, by 
Mr. Gerrard, February, 1790,— Vol- vii. 348, 
On the Radical Letters of the Pelafgiaus, and 
their Derivatives-—Vol. x. 226, Obfervations 
on a’Charter in his Library, indorfed, in a 
hand coeval with it, “*Hec eit carta regis Ead- 
gari de inftitutione abbatis Elienfis et duplica- 
tus ;”? which he fhews.not to be fo old as King’ 
Edgar-—Voj. xii, On the Tenures, Cuftoms, 
&c. of his Manor of Great Tey, Fifex, by o7- 
xiell, i.e. ungeld, an arbitrary tallagey— Vol.’ 
xiii, 208, Oblfervations on Stone Pillars, Crof- 
fes, and Crucifixes, from Mr. Anftis’s MS. in 
id his librarye—Ibid. 313,, Copy of a curious 
Account of the late Mr. Afile 
’ Printing, 1784, 4to. 
[ F efi; 1; 
Record of Pardon in the Tower of Londors 
1357, of a Woman indicted for murdering her 
Hufband, and remaining, without pleading, in 
Prifon forty Days without Suftenance. The 
Will of King Henry VII, 1775, 4to. A Cata- 
logue of the MSS. in the Cottonian Library ;. _ 
to which are added, many Emendations and 
Additions: with an Appendix, containing an 
Account of the Damage fnftained by the Fire 
in 17313 and alfo a Catalogue of the Charters: 
preferved in the fame Library, was communi- 
cated by him to S. Hooper, who publifhed them 
in 1777, 8vo. The Origin and Progrefs of- 
Wiiting, as well hleroglyphic as elementary ;. 
illuftrated by Engravings taken from Marbles, 
MSS. and Charers, ancient and modern: alfoy. 
fome Account of the Origin and Progrefs of 
See our vol. liv. p. 440: 
A new edition was publifhed this year, with one 
additional plate from a mannfeript in the Bri- | 
tih Mufeum, merked Nero, D. 1V.; and @ - 
portrait of Mr. A. painted by Howard, and en~_ 
graved. by Shelton, in which the accidental lofs_ 
of an eye when at fchool isconcealede The 
will of King Alfred, found in a regifter of 
Newminfter, Winchefter, in the pofMfeffion of » 
the Rev. George North, and given by Dr. 
Lort, his executor, to Mr. Aftle, 1769, was 
printed at Oxtord, with the illuftrations of Mr. 
Manning, under the fuperintendance of Sir By 
Croft, 1738, ato. (vol. lviii. 1089:) An Ac 
count of the Seals of the King’s Royal Burghs 
and Magnates of Scotland, with five platesy: — 
r793, fol. (vol. Ixiii. 148.) The Calendar to 
the Patent Rolls in the Tower of Londony. 
reaching from 3 John to 23. Edward 1V. con-, 
taining grants of offices and. Jands, re({titutions 
of temporalities to bifhops, abbots, and other 
ecclefiaftical perfons; confirmations of grants- 
made'to bodies corporate, as well ecclefiaftical 
as civil; grants. in fee farm; fpecial licences ;; 
grants of offices; fpecial and general patents of 
creations of peers; and licences of all kinds 
which pafs the great feal: and-on the backs of 
thefe rolls are commiffions to juftices of the 
peace, of fewers, and all commiifions which. 
pafs the great feal. The Calendar of thefe 
Rolls, publifthed by his Maiefty’s command, in 
purfuanse of an addrefs to the Houfe of Com-: 
mons, on the Report of the Commiffioners for. 
enguiring into the State of the Public Records,. 
is printed from four manufcript volumes pro- 
cured, in 1775, by Mr. Attley for public ufe,, 
from the executors of Henry Rooke, ef. his 
predeceffor in the office of keeper of the Tower 
records, collated with two manufcrip s in the - 
Cottonian Library, marked Titus C. H. and. 
II}. which feem to have been commit in the 
reign of James: 1. by fome experienced clerk, 
who feems to have felected from the F*cords. 
themfelves what appeared to him p oit ufetul 
and ‘interefting, ‘They fupply many omiffions: 
and deficiencies in the Tower copy ; 2-4, after’ 
all, this Calendar, thouwzh entitled to great me- 
rit, is only a felection, various entries appearing 
on the Patent Rolls not entered here; and 
therefore, though this work will be found to- 
yield abundant information, no one i8*to be! 
deterred from an examination of any tecords 
mentioned elfewhere as being oa the Patent: 
, Roll, . 
