RICHARD WARNER (I7II-1775). 217 
“ by the late Bonnell Thornton esquire is inscribed as an instance 
“of his sense of the uninterrupted friendship with which he 
“has long favoured him as well as in particular of his kind 
“advice in the prosecution of it by his much obliged humble 
“servant Richard Warner.” The fourteen plays translated 
by Warner are the Captives, the Twin Brothers, the Discovery, 
the Apparition, the Cheat, Conjugal Fidelity, the Casket, the 
Parasite, the Churl, the Carthaginian, the Courtezans, the 
Persian, the Ass-Dealer and the Lots. There is at Idsworth 
a copy of the complete work presented by Warner to Anne Clarke, 
sister of Jervoise Clarke Jervoise. She lived at Belmont and 
bequeathed all her private property to her favourite nephew, 
the Rev. Sir Samuel Clarke Jervoise, the father of the present 
baronet. 
It was before the issue of his continuation of Thornton’s 
Plautus that our Author printed the work with which we are 
mainly concerned, the Plante Woodfordienses, the preface 
to which bears date July Ist, 1771. 
It is worthy of note that the book was never published, 
but only “ Printed for the Author”; and from its scarcity we 
may infer that the impression was but a small one. 
On the 11th of April, 1775, this kindly and industrious 
scholar and gentleman died, and on the 20th he was buried in 
‘Woodford churchyard under an altar-tomb, covered with a grey- 
marble slab, on the north side of the chancel. The inscription 
on the tomb was :— 
“ Here lieth interred 
the body of 
Richard Warner, Esquire, 
of Woodford Row, 
in this county, 
son of John Warner, Esquire, 
of the City of London, 
banker, 
who departed this life 
April the XIth, MDCCLXXV, aged LXIV years.” 
Nevertheless, the Woodford register contains the entry 
“Richard Warner, aged 62, buried April 20,1775.” 
(To be continued). 
