Book, which he gave me leave to copy for myself as well as for Dr. Burton, which I finished in six months, and returned him his copy. Soon after he fell into a melancholy disorder, which continued about three years; afterwards he sent a person to ask me if I returned his MS. which obliged me to send to him the very person I returned it by, viz. Mr. Lee, a Painter, then painting for him when I returned it, who, I presume, gave him satisfaction, for I have heard from him since. Such vexatious misfortunes as these cause me to lay aside all acquisitions that way; I am not so much the Antiquary as to borrow, and not to return. There are two persons in York, and one at Pontfrete, of considerable figure in the Antiquarian way (nameless) not to be confided in, which I know by experience." "DEAR DOCTOR, Leeds, Nov. 26, 1753. "I hope you will be so good as to transmit the enclosed to your worthy Brother the Rector, for I do not know where to direct to him with safety; I have sent it open, and design you to seal it, and insert the place of his abode, and shall be glad to see you with him at Leeds at Christmas, or at any other time when you have an opportunity. "The enclosed Print is the last published by the Society. I hear Mr. Vertue is now engraving Sandal Castle, in this County, from a painting in the Dutchy-chamber of Lancaster. I wish they would employ Vivares in perspective and landscape. "I believe Dr. Rawlinson is buried alive in the Bodleian Library, in placing his Marbles, and forty presses of MSS. The last Letter I had from him was about five weeks ago, dated from London House, just setting out for Oxford, from whence he promised to send me a long letter,—but hear nothing yet. "I have just now turned over a new piece of Antiquity, published by Mr. Warburton, Somerset Herald, entitled, Vallum Romanum: or, the History and Antiquities of the Roman Wall, commonly called the Picts' Wall, in Cumberland and Northumberland: with two Letters from Roger Gale, Esq. to the Compiler,' 4to. London, 1753; the Preface dated Jan. 1, 1754; the which, and the Letters, are curiosities;—the book itself is chiefly extracted from Horsley's 'Britannia Romana.' "I am, most worthy Sir, yours ever, "DEAR DOCTOR, T. WILSON." Leeds, Jan. 1, 1754. "Yesterday I made a great mistake in forgetting to put up Mr. Gale's translation of Joubert's 'Science de Medailles,' which mistake put me in mind of sending with it the best edition of the Chronicon Preciosum,' a neat copy, and worthy a place in your valuable Library; we shall not differ about the price. When any safe hand comes to Leeds, you may send the MS. of the West Riding and Lancashire Gentry that I wrote, and shall return it with such additions as are in the power of, honoured Sir, your most obedient servant, T. WILSON. "Wishing you and yours a happy year, and many more." 2 B2 "DEAR "DEAR DOCTOR, Leeds, Feb. 25, 1754. "When your Brother the Rector was here, I sent you word I had got for you a Print of the old Gold Coin, which I have herein rolled up, with Sandal and Clitherow Castles, and the Savoy, three Antiquarian Society's Prints. Mr. Vertue has just finished a volume of Prints of Coins, Medals, Seals, &c. done from the ingenious Mr. Simon's, who was Engraver of the Mint to Charles I. Oliver Cromwell, and Charles II. I expect a copy down in a very little time, which you may see, I hope, the next time you come to Leeds. Mr. Samuel Gale's Library was sold this month; there was a complete set of Mr. Hearne's Works; -Dr. Rawlinson bought the MSS. I hear the Library of Roger Gale, his brother, at Scruton in this County, is upon sale. - "Please to remit the inclosed specimen of a Register to your Brother at Thornton, with mine and my son's compliments, from "Your sincere friend and servant, in haste, T. WILSON." "DEAR DOCTOR, Leeds, Aug. 11, 1758. "I have sent you the books, viz. Casley's Report of the Cottonian Library, &c. with the Act for establishing the British Museum; also Sir Hans's Will, and a curious piece relating to the Dutchy of Lorraine; which, I presume, you have not seen, and heartily wish you as much pleasure as I have had in perusing them. You need not be in haste in returning them.-If your Brother at Ripon have a desire to peruse them, or any other lover of such amusements, oblige whom you please; but I would not willingly part with them, because they were given me by my deceased dear Friend. My best respects and services are now justly due to you, your Lady, your good Mother, and all your Friends. I shall be glad to see you at Leeds at all opportunities. "Yours ever, THO. WILSON." Dr. RICHARD FREWEN (vol. I. p. 239). This eminent Physician was admitted a King's Scholar at Westminster in 1693; and elected thence to Christ Church in 1698: M.A.1704; M.B. 1707; M. D. 1711. He settled as a Physician at Oxford; where he was appointed Professor of Chemistry; and Camden Professor of History; and died May 29, 1761, æt. 84. He was a munificent Benefactor to Christ Church; where, in the Library, is his Bust, with the following inscription: "Ricardo Frewen, dis Christi Alumno et Patrono, Amicitiæ ergo P. L. F. Roubiliac sc. ad vivum MDCCLVII." In the Hall also is his Portrait, by Dahl, inscribed: Rev. MARMADUKE FOTHERGILL (vol. I. p. 412) was born in the City of York in 1652, in the great house antiently called Percy's Inn, opposite the parish church of St. Dyonis, Walmgate, his Father, an able citizen, having acquired a very considerable fortune there by trade. The family is very ancient in that County. Thomas Fothergill, his brother, and George Fothergill, were Sheriffs of the City in 1688 and 1693, his Father having fined for that and other offices some years before. Marmaduke, the eldest son, had his first rudiments of learning in York, which he afterwards perfected in Magdalen College in Cambridge; B. A. there 1673; M. A. 1677. Before the Revolution, he was possessed of the Living of Skipwith, in the county of York, which at that grand criterion he quitted, as well as his pretensions to the Rectory of the town of Lancaster, of which he had a promise for the next presentation from the then Patron of it, Tolson, esq. of Skipwith aforesaid. Being a great admirer of learning and learned men, he frequently visited his mother-university, always travelling on foot; and when he became of proper standing there, he performed all the exercises, and gave the usual treat for the degree of Doctor in Divinity: but, by his not complying with the Government oaths, as the Statute directs, he never assumed the title, though, perhaps, no Divine of that age was better qualified for it. His learning and piety were remarkable; and in Ecclesiastical Antiquity, especially in the Liturgies of the Christian Church, no man had more skill or knowledge. He had made great collections of Manuscripts, &c. in this way, and had a design of publishing somewhat on this head, but his great modesty forbade it; by which means the learned world is prevented from seeing as extraordinary a performance on that divine subject as perhaps ever was exhibited to the public view; the marginal notes which he has left on all his Missals, Rituals, and Liturgies, shewing plainly that he was a master of it. The middle part of his life he usually spent at one gentleman's house in the country or at another's; where his learning and parts gained him admittance and a welcome entertainment in their families; but the place of his own home he made for seve ral years at Pontfrete, co. York. Here it was that, when he was a good way past the meridian of life, he thought fit to take to wife Dorothy, the daughter of John Dickson, an honest and an eminent practitioner of the law in that town. And being now entered into a new scene of life, his great œconomy in it enabled him to be a cheerful alms-giver; for he set apart a tenth of his small annual income for charity, and disposed of it, as he received it, to the most worthy objects. But his greatest donation of that kind was to the town of Pontfrete, where he resided some years after his marriage, in a quiet and submissive manner to to the times, until he was driven from thence, to seek a sanctuary in Westminster, by a furious prosecution raised against him by a hot-headed neighbouring Justice of the Peace. Before this happened, he had settled on the town of Pontfrete fifty pounds per annum, arising from a fine piece of ground contiguous to it, and clear of all taxes and deductions, for the maintenance of a Catechist in that parish. This donation he some time after confirmed, notwithstanding the unexpected births of two children, which his wife afterwards bore him, might reasonably have prevented it. At last, this venerable old man, being arrived at great maturity in years, died at his house in Massam-street, Westminster, Sept. 7, 1731; and was buried, according to his own direction, in a corner of the church-yard belonging to the parish of St. John the Evangelist in that city. By his last will he left a fine collection of books, as a standing library to the parish of Skipwith, of which he had been Minister; but the Parishioners being enjoined to build a proper room for them, at their own cost, the bequest was not accepted, and the books are now deposited in the Library of the Cathedral of York. The epitaph on his tomb-stone being concise, according to his own desire, and no way answerable to so diffusive a character, as may be observed by the transcript of it below, I shall give a description of his person, and subjoin a short but handsome and real account of his manner of living and dying, said to be done by a neighbouring Clergyman in Westminster, and published in the news-papers of that time. "In stature he was of a middle size, somewhat corpulent, but of so robust a constitution that no cold could affect; having used himself so much to harden it, that in the depth of winter he has frequently jumped out of bed and rolled in the snow without danger. His deportment was grave and majestic, his hair as white as wool, with a clear sanguine complexion and man-like features, and had altogether the air and reverence of a Primitive Father. Though he had no church, he read the Common Prayer daily and constantly at home to his family only, and his life was a continual sermon to all who enjoyed the happiness of his conversation. His death was suitable to such a life; remarkably easy, resigned, and cheerful, and supported by a firm hope of a glorious immortality." The arms and epitaph on his tomb-stone are these: 1. A stag's head erased, Fothergill. Impaling, 2. A cross charged with five egresses between four eagles displayed, Dickson. "H. S. E. MARMADUCUS FOTHERGILL, S. T. P. Qui obiit 70 die Septembris, anno Dom. 1731, ætatis 78 *. • History of York, 8vo. 1788, vol. II. p. 159. JOHN JOHN BURTON, M. D. F. R. S. and F. S. A. This eminent Antiquary, of whom our accounts are very scanty, was born at Rippon in Yorkshire in 1697, and educated in Christ Church College, Oxford, but took his degree of M. B. at Cambridge in 1733; and, on his settling at York, became very eminent in his profession. In 1745 it is said that he proposed joining himself to the Pretender, then at Manchester; but that his friends had interest sufficient to dissuade him from a measure which must have terminated in his ruin. His conduct, therefore, appears to have unjustly exposed him to censure, if his own account may be relied on, to this purpose, that "going out of York, with leave of the Mayor, &c. to take care of his estates, on the approach of the Rebels, he was taken by them, and in consequence of that was apprehended Dec. 3, 1745, and detained till March 25, 1746-7." This is explained in "British Liberty endangered, demonstrated by the following Narrative, wherein is proved from Facts, that J. B. has hitherto been a better Friend to the English Constitution, in Church and State, than his Persecutors. Humbly dedicated to the most Reverend and Worthy the Archbishop of Canterbury, late of York (Herring). With a proper Preface, by John Burton, of York, M. D. London, 1749.' There was afterwards published, "An Account of what passed between Mr. George Thomson, of York, and Doctor John Burton, of that City, Physician and Man-midwife, at Mr. Sheriff Jubb's Entertainment, and the Consequences thereon, by Mr. George Thomson, London, 1756," 8vo, a narrative, in the lowest and most abusive language, says Mr. Gough, of a quarrel and assault, for the |