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14. Tne Introduction and Notes, to 
Capt. Cook’s Third Voyage. 
15. The Anniversary Sermon on the 
Martyrdom of King Charles, preached 
before the House of Lords, 1788. 
16. The Anniversary Sermon before 
the Society for the Propagation of the 
Gospel, 1793, &c. 
In addition to these, in 1763, he 
Superintended the publication of the 
Diary and Letters of Henry Earl of 
Clarendon, for which he composed the 
preface; he also wrote several political 
papers in the Public Advertiser, in 1768, 
1769, &c. In 1770 and 1771, his com- 
munications bore the signatures of Taci- 
tus and Manlius. His countryman, Sir 
John Dalrymple was assisted by him in 
thearrangement of his manuscripts. Lord 
Hardwicke also profited by his labours, 
mm respect to the publication of his Mis- 
cellaneous Papers. His lordship was 
particularly conversant 12 modern geo- 
graphy, and it was he who drew up Mir. 
Herne’s Narrative, and finished the In- 
troduction. 
The Bishop of Salisbury was twice mar- 
ried; first in September 1752, to Miss 
Dorothy Pershouse, of Reynold’s Uall, 
near Walsall in Staffordshire, who survi- 
ved that event only three months. He 
remained a widower during fifteen years, 
so it was not until April 1765, that he 
became united to Miss Elizabeth Rooke, 
daughter of Henry Brudenell Rooke, esq. 
ES 
EDWARD KING, Esa. 
F.R.S. F.S. A. Caper sop. &c. &c. 
HIS learned and venerable gentle- 
man was descended froma Nor- 
folk family of high respectability. His 
father, who lived to the advanced age of 
ninety and odd years, married Sarah, the 
eldest daughter of Thomas Cater, esq. a 
gentleman of fortune in the before men- 
tioned county, who haying no male heir, 
his name became extinct. Mr. King 
was the only issue of this marriage. He 
received the first rudiments of education 
from Drs. Rullock and Clark, succes- 
sively deans of Norwich; and, in 1748, 
was sent tothe University of Cambridge, 
as a fellow-commoner of Clare Hail; 
where he resided several years, most se- 
dulousl, prosecuting bis academical 
course, and alike distinguishing himseif 
by the correctness of his moral conduct. 
He afterwards entered himself of Lin- 
coln’s Inn, by which society he was called 
to the bar, and practised at it, with con~ 
siderable success, and the promise of fu- 
Memoirs of Edward King, Esq. 
[July 1, 
ture eminence in the profession, until the 
decease of his father, when, coming into 
the possession of a handsome fortune, he 
took his leave of Westminster-hall, and 
devoted himself to the quiet pursuits of 
learning, which, during the remainder of 
his days, he cultivated with such order 
and perseverance. : 
His first literary performance was, “ an 
Essay on the English Constitution and 
Government,” octavo: published in 
1767. 
{n 1773, he published “ A Letter ad- 
dressed to Dr. Hawkesworth, and hum- 
bly recommended to the Perusal of the 
very Learned Deists.” 
_In 1777, he communicated to the So- 
ciety of Antiquaries an ingenious and 
very mteresting Memoir, on the Castel~ 
lated Remains of past Ages; which was 
followed by a fuller memoir in 1782. 
They are both printed in the Archxologia, 
and seventy copies of these memoirs were 
printed in one quarto volume, under the 
title of “ Observations an Ancient Cas- 
tles,” for the use of his private friends. 
In 1780 he published his much ad- 
mired “ Hymns to the Supreme Being, 
in imitation of the Eastern Songs,” 12mo, 
In 1783, Proposals. for restablishing at 
Sea a marine School, or Seminary for 
Seamen,” octavo, 
In 1788, he presented to the religious 
world his curious and learned “ Morsels 
of Criticism, tending to illustrate some 
few Passages in the Holy Scriptures, 
upon Philosophical Principles, and an 
enlarged View of Things,” quarto; to 
which a Supplement was added in 1800, 
The pvblic attention was in a very partie 
cular manner called to the contents of 
the former of these volumes, by the au- 
thor of the Pursuits of Literature on ac- 
count of some striking interpretations of 
Prophecy which they exhibited, and 
which were, several years after the ap~ 
pearance of the Morsels, in a remarkable 
degree confirmed, by the great events 
which took placein Europe. In 1791, he 
published “ An Imitation of the Prayer 
of Abel,” in the Style of Eastern Poetry; 
and in 1793, his ‘* Considerations on the 
Duility of the National Debt,” octavo. In 
1796, the lovers of antiquarian research 
were gratified with his elegant “ Ves- 
tiges of Oxford Castle,” folio; and in the 
same year he presented to the philosophi- 
cal world his “ Remarks concerning 
Stones said to have fallen from the Clouds, 
bothin these Days and in Ancient Times,” 
Ato. Two years afterwards, he sent forth 
his ‘‘ Remarks on the Signs of the Times,” 
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