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edition of “ Camden’s Britannia.” For 
twenty summers be had argused himself 
with taking notésin various parts of Eng- 
land, and at last of Scotland, at first with 
no higher view than private information, 
or perhaps of communicating them to the 
public in some such formas Dr. Stukeley’s 
Itinerary, or that of the local antiquities of 
particular towns or districts ; but the mis- 
takes and conciseness of preceding editors 
at last encouraged him toa new edition of 
the Britannia; the translation ayid enlarge- 
ment of which occupied seven years, and 
Mr. Gough was nine more attending it 
through the press. It appeared in three 
volumes folio, 1789: and has been since 
republished by Mr. Stockdale in four vo- 
lumes. 
About the same time the design was for- 
med for Camden, while on a visitat Poole, 
Mr. Gough heard of the ditfeulties under 
which Mr, Hutchins laboured in respect to 
his Historyof Dorsetshire, He set.on foot 
& subscripiien, and was the means. of 
bringing ito hght one of the most valuable 
of our county histortes. Mr Hutchins was 
then combating the infirmities of age and 
gout, and Mr. Guagh supermtended the 
work through the press, wheuce it issued 
in two volumestolio, 1774. Its author, 
however, did uotlive to see it completed, 
dying June 21, 1773. But bis daughter 
was enabled to proceed to Bombay, and 
forma happy connexion with a gentleman 
to whom-she had been longengaged, Ma- 
jor Bellasis, who im grateful return to the 
memory of bis father-in-law, in 1795, at 
his own exvence, se! on foot a new edi- 
tion, towhich Mr.Gough cheerfully contri- 
buted his assistance. The two first vo- 
lames are alreadvin the possession of the 
world: the greater part of the third was 
destroyed, we believe, at Mr. Nichols’s 
fire. Except Thomas’s re-publication of 
Dugdale’s Warwickshire, and two or three 
others of a paltry kind, thisis the only m- 
stance of a county history attaining a se- 
cond edition. 
In 1774 he entered into a matrimonial 
eennection with a lady whose maiden 
name was Hall; and retired prinetoally to 
Enfield, the property at which his father 
purchased in 41723. Here he added to the 
family mansion an extensive library, which 
contains at the presentmoment the richest 
miaseum of topography in the kingdom. 
Tn 1777, be published “ A Dissertation 
en the Coins of King Canute.” 
In the snowy season of 1778, Mr. 
Gough, accompanied by the late Captain 
4ssose, made an excursion inte Nortolk, 
Memoirs of the late Richard Gough, Esq. 
where, having already purchased the 
collections of Mr. ‘Thomas Martin, wnh 
the assistance of the captam’s pencil, he 
made preparations. for an improved 
“‘ History of Thetford,” which appeared 
the following year in quarto. Having 
also purchased Vertue’s plates of the 
medals, coins, and great seals, executed 
by the celebrated Simon, and first pub- 
lished in 1752, he gave a uew and en- 
larged edition of them in .41780, 4te. 
The same year he not only assisted Mr. 
Nichols in bis. “ Collection of ancient 
Royal and Noble Willis,” but wrote the 
preface; and soon after superintended 
the printing of Dr. Nash’s “ Collections 
for a History of Worcestershire,” in two 
volumes, folio, 1781. About this time, 
too, Mr. Nichols published his  Biéli- 
alheca Sopographica Britannica,” the 
design of which was both suggested and 
forwarded by Mr. Gough; and several 
essays bear his name, particularly the 
‘“¢ Memoirs of Mr. Edward Rowe Mores; 
the Keliquie Galeane ; the History of the 
Society of Antiquaries of Spalding; the 
Life of Sir Jobn Hawkwoed; a Genealo-~ 
gical View of the Family of Cromwell; 
and the “ History of Croyland-Abbey.” 
In 1785 Mr. Gough published “A 
comparative View of the ancient Monu- 
ments of India, jmrticularly those on the 
Island of Salset, near Bombay ;” in 
which, with considerable industry, he 
threw together the narratives of travel- 
lers of different natrons. ; 
The next year appeared the first vo- 
lune of his grand work, (collecting the 
materials for which had occupied a large 
portion of his life) entitled. “ Sepulchral 
Monuments of Great Britain.” The se- 
cond volume, in distinct parts, appeared 
in 4796 and 1799. In the introduction 
to the first volume, he enters ona larce 
field uf enquiry; the mode of interment, 
and construction of monuments, from the 
earliest ages to that which is now prac- 
tised in Europe: somewhat of this ground 
he again gves over in the introduction to 
the second; and throughout the work 
produces ample reason for inveighing 
against the ravages of couquerors; the 
devastation of false zeal anc fanaticism ; 
the depredations of ignorance, ipterest, 
and false taste; the defacements of the 
white-washer’s brush, and a variety of 
other circumstances, which, besides. the 
ever wasting hand of time, have all cons 
tributed to destroy the sepulghral mo- 
Duments of our ancestors. In this work 
he professes to have neither the object, 
the 
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