of a great number of years) as a College Curacy, without présentation, &c. and by nomination only; and between five and six years ago it was a Licensed (by the Bishop) Curacy, augmented with 2001. of the Queen's Bounty, by lot. And, with regard to Wolford, the College, by indenture, bearing date March 10, 1628-9, 4 Car. I. demise to John Wilton, Clerk, the now Vicar of the Church of Great Wolford, in the county of Warwick, in augmentation of the said Vicarage, and for the better maintenance of the said John Wilton during his incumbency in the said Vicarage, all that their one yard of glebe land, arable, meadow, and pasture, with the appurtenances, lying and being in the Little Wolford, in the said county of Warwick (being parcel of the Parsonage or Rectory of Great Wolford aforesaid), together with all the tithes of corn, grain, hay, lambs, and all other tithes and tenths, increasing, happening, arising, or coming of or in the said yard of glebe land, meadow, and pasture, with all manner of commons, profits, or commodities thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining, in Little Wolford aforesaid, to have and to hold the yard land, tithes, tenths, and all other the premises hereby demised, and all and singular their appurtenances, unto the said John Wilton (if he so long continue Vicar of the Church of Great Wolford aforesaid), yielding and paying therefore yearly during the said term, &c. as at this present time. The same grant has been made in the same terms to all his successors ever since, of which I find no less than ten instances." Mr. KILNER to Mr. NICHOLS. 6 "SIR, Cirencester, Saturday March 2, 1793. "Understanding you to have the Plate of Walter de Merton's Monument, as published in Custumale Roffense,' 1788, I wrote to you early in the last month for 175 Prints to be, if you see fit, taken off from it*. My desire of having them proceeds from a desire of annexing them to something which I have of the old and present Monuments of this Founder of Merton College, and presenting it so embellished to his College, who through me, and at my motion, gave the Plate. The Prints are to unite with half-sheets of the best writing paper of the foolscap size. As I wish much to have them, I do not in the least apprehend any scrupling of your demand for them; and requesting therefore the favour of your answer in respect to that, and time I may expect them, I am, Sir, your very punctual, and most humble servant, JOSEPH KILNER." The requisite number of impressions was taken off; and the Monument forms part of the many embellishments of a curious little work, compiled by Mr. Kilner, and printed, but not regularly published, under the title of "An Account of Pythagoras' School in Cambridge, as in Mr. Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales, and other Notices."— An Account of Merton College, Oxford, is appended, by Mr.Kilner, under the title of "Something Supplementary." Sir THOMAS HANMER to..... (Direction lost). "SIR, Mildenhall, October 11, 1708. "I have received your Letter relating to Watergall estate, with the mention of a purchaser for it. If you would have a particular of the estate, I am at this present unfortunately incapable of sending one, being just come from Euston to another house of mine, and having sent all my papers before me to London. I imagine indeed this will be no great want to you, who live so near the estate, nor perhaps to the other Gentleman you mention, who probably may know it too. The rents amount to four hundred and sixty odd pounds a year, if I remember right, which, according to the value of lands in that country, and going along with a moderate consideration for the house, do amount in the purchase to a much greater sum than we are contented to take for it. As you have applied to me myself, I will cut off all the introductory arts and demands that agents and attorneys would use in the like case, and tell you ingenuously, that we who are concerned in it have agreed to take at the lowest rate 12,000l. for the estate, which we know too cheap for any one to sell it at but such as are in our case under a partnership of three, and all living at a distance from it. There are a great many advantages belonging to that estate, not common to others; as, that it is free from the burthen of tithes and parish duties, and free from tenants' houses and the expence of those repairs. It is all old pasture land, well fenced, and entire to itself; but I need not recount the circumstances to you, who, I am sure, are well acquainted with them, and will, I dare say, be just enough to consider them with all the real advantages belonging to them, and to represent them so to the Gentleman you are concerned for. I go to London the first or second week in November, and there shall be glad to meet you; or, if you come into this country, I am to be found at Mildenhall, near Newmarket; and so I desire you would direct your Letter to me, if you find occasion to send any more. Any farther satisfaction you want upon this subject I shall be ready, and very glad to give. THO. HANMER." Dr. MICHAEL WOODWARD to PETER LE NEVE, Esq. "GOOD SIR, London, April 30, 1714. "I beg the favour of a line from you, whether the County Books of King Henry VIII, which I am informed were put into your hands for the use of Mr. Willis, are in his keeping, or returned to you; and, if the latter, whether you can order any way whereby recourse may be had to them, on an occasion which cannot well admit of so long delay as your return into these parts is, as I am told, likely to be. If Mr. Willis still has them, I hope, by favour of a line from you I may be permitted to peruse them. Be pleased to direct to me at Guildford in Surrey. "Your very humble servant, MICH. WOODWARD." Bishop Bishop BURNET to...... (Direction lost). "REVEREND SIR, London, Jan. 29, 1714-5. According to your directions I sent a book to Mr. Wyat, where your order will find it; and when you have found the leisure to get through it, I am in hope that your zeal for truth, and your goodness for myself, will prevail over that modest aversion that you express to the censuring of what you may find amiss in it. I do not deny that I thought a late volume was written by some in St. John's College, since some there, as they had much leisure, so were very capable of composing that work, that was written with a great deal of gravity and decency. I never think the worse of men for their different sentiments in such matters. I am sure I am bound to think much the better of them, for adhering firmly to the dictates of their conscience, when it is so much to their loss, and when so sacred a thing as an oath is in the case. I wish all who had the same persuasions had acted with the same strictness and tenderness. But I have such regard both for yourself and your friends, that, as I am extreme sorry that the Church has so long lost the service of such worthy men, so I am very glad to have it in my power, from what you are pleased to write to me, to vindicate both you and them in that particular; for I am, with a true and high esteem, Reverend Sir, "Your most obedient, and most humble servant, "G. SARUM." Mr. ARTHUR KYNNESMAN * to Dr. ZACHARY GREY. “DEAR DOCTOR, Bury St. Edmund's, Feb. 17, 1748. "Your readiness to oblige your friends makes me, amongst many others, often troublesome to you. The widow of a poor Clergyman in our neighbourhood (Mr. Sparrow, of Wesley, lately deceased) wants to dispose of the inclosed Catalogue of Books. Be so good as to cast your eye over them, and acquaint me what you think a Bookseller would give for them, and what may be fairly expected from any private purchaser. I know you willing to help the fatherless and widow, and therefore shall make no farther apology upon the occasion, only beg your answer may be as soon as suits your convenience, and that you would send the Catalogue back again, because we have not another. When any opportunity offers where I can serve you, I shall be desirous of shewing how sincerely I am, dear Sir, Your obedient humble servant, ART. KYNNESMAN." * Of this learned Schoolmaster, see the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. VIII. p. 433; vol. IX. p. 554. "MY "MY DEAR DOCTOR, Bury St. Edmund's, Aug. 10, 1749, six in the morning. "It is abundant good-nature in you, considering what a troublesome fellow I have been to you, and may probably be again another time, to rejoice in my late providential escape; for which, as usual, I can only love you and thank you. I have inclosed an answer to your Queries as sent me by a friend employed upon the occasion. Pray send me back the Catalogue by Smyth the carrier, who brings you this; there being several persons with seeming impatience enquiring after it; amongst which we may possibly find some one who will give a more considerable price for the books than what Mr. Thurlbourn offers. This finished, I am setting out for Ely, to dine with the Bishop thereof; wherefore, not forgetting my best respects to your good lady and the nymphs, I am, dear Doctor, "Your most obliged humble servant, ART. KYNNESMAN." Mr. ARTHUR BEDFORD* to the Rev. Dr. SHIPPEN†. "HONOURED SIR, Newton St. Loe, near "Some time since I wrote my sentiments to Dr. Charlett, when in Bath, concerning a Syriac Lecture ‡, which was reported to be * Of whom see some Memoirs in "Literary Anecdotes," vol. I. pp. 171, 704.—This Letter is printed from the Original, presented to me by Mr. Combe of Leicester. + Robert Shippen, of Brazenose College, Oxford, M. A. 1699; B. and D. D. 1710; was elected Gresham Professor of Music in London 1705; and F. R. S. in 1706. In 1714 he was elected Principal of Brazenose College; and resigned his Gresham Professorship. He was instituted Rector of Whitechapel in 1716. He was Vice-chancellor five successive years, 1715-1722; and in 1737. He presented to Worcester College a small picture in enamel of Dr. George Clarke. He died in 1745; and a tomb in the Chapel of Brazenose College is thus inscribed: Sedulus, gnarus, et indefessus : Amicis, Collegio, et Academiæ, GULIELMUS LEYBORNE Armiger Avunculo suo plurimum colendo Quo vivum mortuumque Prosecutus est, Monumentum posuit." See the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. VII. p. 728; where (and in vol. VII. p. 26.) for "Saxon" read "Syriac." U 2 settled settled in the University; but, hearing that it did not come to your hands, I crave leave to mention the contents thereof, as far as I can remember. "I should have given you an account of the excellency and use of the Oriental studies and languages; but, since all which I can say, and more than can be comprehended in a Letter, is contained in the Appendix to the Polyglott Bible, in Ockley's Introduction to the Oriental Languages, and in Bp. Beveridge's Syriac Grammar, I hold myself excused, and refer you thither. "I entirely approve of endowing a Syriac Lecture in the University, it being the language of the Land of Canaan, in the beginning of the Gospel; and heartily pray, that such a pious benefactor, who promotes the study of the language which our Blessed Saviour spoke on earth, will hear him saying, 'Come. ye blessed,' when he returns in the clouds of Heaven. "But I must confess, that I think it more adviseable to found a Professorship for the Chaldee and Syriac together, than for the Syriac alone; and my reasons are these: "First. In the Council of Vienna, under Pope Clement the Fifth, it is appointed, that in all the Universities of Europe there should be three Professors, viz. of Hebrew, Chaldee, and Arabic. This then would be exactly according to that canon, whereas the Syriac is not there mentioned. 66 Secondly, Part of Daniel, and Ezra, and a verse in Jeremiah, being originally written in Chaldee, the Old Testament cannot be read over in the Bible without it. For this reason the Chaldee is always studied first; and, I doubt, a Professor of Syriac reading to such as never learned the Chaldee would not be of much consequence. "Thirdly, As the Chaldee and Syriac differ little more than the dialects among the Greeks; so they might well be united in one Professor. "Fourthly, There being no books (which I ever heard of) written in Syriac, except the ancient version of the Old and New Testament, and some Liturgies (of no use except to prove the lawfulness of a Public Form of Prayer) the study of this alone is not sufficient for a Professor. But the three Chaldee Paraphrases on the Old Testament, and the Talmudick Writings, being twenty volumes in folio, added to it, will be business enough. Fifthly, As the most learned of the Jewish Commentators on the Bible refer to the Chaldee Paraphrase, and Solomon Jarhi quotes it often at large; so their writings cannot be understood without it; but every Jewish Writer may be understood without the Syriac. "Lastly, The Scriptures plainly tell us, that a time will come when the Jews shall be converted to the Christian Faith, which we all hope to be nigh at hand. Now they are all skilled in the Chaldee; but they totally neglect the Syriac. As therefore God is pleased to direct to means, when he brings about his great ends, so we may hope that the establishing such a Lecture may be |