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An Historical Account of the Origin and Establishment of the Society of Antiquaries

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The History and Antiquities of Nations and Societies have been objects of inquiry to curious persons in all ages, either to separate falshood from truth, and tradition from evidence, to establish what had probability for its bails, or to explode what rested only on the vanity of the inventors and propagators. The first traces of every history were rude and imperfect: better methods of preserving facts succeeded. The unchizeled stone or rudest hieroglyphic accompanied the songs of the bards, to perpetuate the atchievements of a whole nation, or a few individuals; till the life of letters, and the complicated transactions, claims, and interests of men, taught them to multiply memorials, and to draw them up with more skill and accuracy.

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Archaeologia , Volume 1 , Volume 1, Original Edition, 1770 1 , 1770 , pp. i - xxxix
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page ii note [a] The Academie des Inscriptions et des Belles lettres, instituted in the, middle of the last century to record the progress of Louis XIVth's ambition, when these subjects ceased, extended its plan in 1718 to inquiries after the Antiquities of France and other kingdoms in general; and, agreeably to its name, connected Philology with Antiquity.—There, was a college of Antiquaries at Upsal in the middle of the last century.

page iii note [b] In the sense here given to it. The word Antiquarius appears from Isidore (Orig. vi. 14.) to be synonymous with transcribers of old MSS. “qui tantummodo “vetera scribunt.” The old Glossaries render it , and sometimes simply : and the Domus Antiquariorum in monasteries seems to have been the apartment appointed to such purposes. Vit. Abb. S. Albani, p. 41. where the author celebrates Radulph de Gubiun, 17th Abbot, and an Englishman, t. Steph. for his care of this apartment and library. See more instances of this original sense in Du Cange, Gloss. in voce. Juvenal indeed, sat. vi. l. 453, calls a female pedant, Antiquaria. Whether Leland had the title of Antiquarius by any royal investiture or not, he takes it at the end of his Newe-year's gift to King Henry.

page iii note [c] “About 42 years since, divers gentlemen in London, studious in Antiquities, “framed themselves into a College or Society of Antiquaries.” Preface to Spelman's Discourse on Law terms, written 1614.

page iii note [d] Life of Mr. Carew, prefixed to his Cornwall, 1723, p. 12.

page iv note [e] This is appointed by the present charter.

page iv note [f] Tit. B. v. f. 184.

page v note [g] Page 13.

page v note [h] In the dedication to Sir Thomas Heneage, he gives this reason for dedicating it to him,— “The rather for that I have known you in manner from your infancy, “and now, to be a mere Antiquarian, the skill whereof at this day. is “become very great, so that of that science there is a great Society sprung up, “the President and Patron of which Society is the most Hon. and Rev. Pastor “John (Whitgift) by the grace of God now Archbishop of Canterbury, successor “unto M. Parker, D. D. late his predecessor, who was the first founder of the “same Society.” Append, to Masters's Hist. of Benet Coll. N° xxix. p.51. communicated to him by Mr. North.

page v note [i] Smith, vit. Cottoni.

page vi note [k] Faust. E. v.

page vi note [l] Hearne, Pref. to Cur. Disc. p. cxx. Smith, V. Cotton.

page vi note [m] Printed by Hearne, ubi sup. p. xxxix.

page vi note [n] These heads are ranged under the years 1591 to 1595 inclusive, 1598 to 1601, and prove their meetings to have been not confined to the same day of the week.

page vii note [o] A Derbyshire gentleman, bred to the law, Deputy Chamberlain of the Exchequer 45 years, during which he imbibed his Antiquarian knowledge from Sir R. Cotton, to whom he left 20 of his leiger books and MSS. with a Latin treatise of the abbreviations in Domesday, now in the Cotton library. Vit. IX. Eleven more, with a table of records, treaties, &c, he left to the Exchequer. Five of his dissertations, on shires, measures of land, heralds, inns of court, and names of England, are printed by Hearne, p. 29, 70, 100, 105, 157. The heads of four others are in the Cotton MS. He died August 22, 1615, and was buried in the cloysters at Westminster Abbey, where part of his epitaph remains. Camden (Ann. Jac. I. 1615) calls him Antiquarius insignis. Ath. Ox. I. 1520. Antiquities of Westminster Abbey, 1722. His explanation of obsolete words in Domesday is printed in the appendix to Gale's Registrum de Richmond. His opinion concerning Parliaments, with those of other persons, in 1658, 12°.

page vii note [p] Elected a member of this Society in 1604; being then Dean of Westminster, afterwards Bishop of Chichester, Ely, and Winchester. “The most eminent “divine of our nation in his time.” He was employed in the new translation of the Bible, just begun. See his letter to Mr. Hartwell, and Ath. Ox. Fasti, I. 122. He died September 22, 1626.

page vii note [q] An eminent civilian. Secretary to Sir Francis Walsingham during his embassy in France, 1671. Diggs, Compl. Embass. p. 31, &c. Ambassador at the Hague, 1676. Clerk of the council, and Secretary to the council of York. He wrote a defence of the validity of the marriage of the Earl of Hertford with the Lady Catharine Grey, in opposition to the sentence of the court of Delegates, and a discourse on the Parisian-Massacre, in a letter to Lord Burleigh. He died in London, anno 1601, and was buried at Alhallows on the Wall. Tate's MS. Stow's London, p. 183 Fuller's Ch. Hist. IX. p. 145, &c. Rerum Hispanicarum scriptores, printed at Francfort, 1679, were transcribed from MSS. in his library. Tanner's Bibl. Brit. Hib. p. 82.

page vii note [r] Or Burchyer. Mentioned in Tate's MS. and by Dr. Smith, appears to have been one of the Fellows so early as 33 Eliz. and is probably the same learned Knight, many of whose letters are printed among Abp. Usher's.

page vii note [s] Hearne's Pref. p. 112. Query, if not Keeper of the Tower Records? or Robert Bowyer, sworn Clerk of the Parliament in 1609, whose journal of their transactions from 1 H. VIII. to 7 E. VI. is in the Cotton library, Tib. D. I. Nich. Eng. Hist. Lib. p. 192.

page viii note [t] In Tate's MS. he is stiled of the Inner Temple, and named in another page Hugh. His opinion of sterling money, signed by himself, is in the Cotton MS. Hearne takes him for the author of the Eccles. Hist. of England, printed at Douay in 1633, fol. Monasticon Brit. 1650, 8°, &c. born and buried at Great Stukely, Huntingdonshire, and stiled in his epitaph, Antiquariorum sui sœculi exquisitissimus. He died 18 January 1634, Fasti Ox. I. 233.—One Richard Broughton, Esq; Justice of North Wales, is said, in p. 18. of Sir John Wynne's History of the Gwedir family, written about the end of James I. or Charles I. to be the chief Antiquary of England.

page viii note [u] Too well known to be further mentioned here, except as author of a paper of Heralds, printed by Hearne, p. 85, and others in the Cotton MS. on the names of Britain, coats of arms, castles, epitaphs, and mottoes.

page viii note [w] The Cornish Antiquary, whose memoir on the Measures of Land in Cornwall is in the Cotton MS. He died November 6, 1620.

page viii note [x] Or Clifte Barely mentioned as a Member in the Cotton MS. and by Hearne, p. 112, as is the next but one.

page viii note [y] Afterwards Earl of Northampton, Tate's MS. Summoned to Parliament, 35 Eliz; made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Duke of York; advanced to the title of Earl of Northampton, 2 August, 16 Jac. and Knight of the Garter. Dyed 24 June, 1630, buried at Compton. See Dugdale's Baronage, II. 403, and Edmondson's Baronagium Genealogicum.

page viii note [z] A Knight, Stowe's worshipful friend: (Survey of London, 1603, p. 445), His name is written in the margin of the Cotton MS. by another hand.

page viii note [a] Hearne has printed three of his Discourses, p. 167, 178, 182, on towns, measures of land, and mottoes; not in the Cotton MS. where are two more on castles and towns. He died May 6, 1631. See his Life by Doctor Smith.

page viii note [b] Sir John, the Poet and Lawyer, Attorney-general of Ireland, died in 1606. Ath. Ox. I. 506. The Cotton MS. has a paper of his, on epitaphs, dated 1600.

page ix note [c] Succeeded his father Sir Gilbert as Garter King at Arms, 21 April, 1586; and in October, 1605, surrendered that office in favour of Sir William Segar. The Society of Antiquaries usually met at his apartments in the Heralds Office. He survived the surrender of his office about eight years; and dying 1612, aged 70, was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. Life of him, MS. in the hands of Sir Jos. Ayloffe, Bart. Dugdale's History of St. Paul's; Stow's London, p. 371. Camden stiles him, “Omnium quæ ad honorem et nobilitatis rationem spectant studi “osissimus,” Brit. p. 298.

page ix note [d] A native of Devonshire, educated at Exeter Coll. Ox. Serjeant to prince Henry, Sollicitor General and King's Serjeant, knighted by James I. 1607, one of the Judges of the King's-bench. Hearne printed his paper “on the Measure of “Land, p. 66. and “a consideration of the office and dutie of Herauldes in “England, drawn out of sundrye observations,” p. 269. He wrote likewife a discourse concerning the earldom of Cheshire, the history of the duchy of Cornwall, and of the ancient and modern estate of the principality of Wales, printed in 1630, 4to, and 1714, 8vo. Opinion concerning Parliament, published with those of others by his nephew, John Doderidge, 1658, 8°. He died September 13, 1638.

page ix note [e] This Master Doctor Doyley, as he is stiled in the Cotton MS. was probably the Physician of Magdalen College, Oxford, who took his degree at Basil in 1592; practised in London, and died 1603. He printed a Spanish Dictionary and Grammar, 1591. Quere, If the same with Archbishop Parker's Steward, Thomas Doyley? Ath. Ox. I. 320. Tate's MS. calls him Doctor of Laws.

page ix note [f] Author of the Antiquities of Staffordshire, printed 1717, and 1723, 8°. Prince's Worthies, p. 248. He died April 11, 1603.

page ix note [g] Was born at Penworth, in the county of Lancaster, and educated in Brasen Nose Coll. Oxon, from whence he removed to the Middle Temple and became Serjeant at Law, Recorder of London, an active Magistrate (Seymour's Survey of London, II, 235.); died 1604, and was buried at Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire. Ath. Ox. I. 219. Fast. 173. Cotton MS, See books of his writing in Ames's History of Printing, Nich. Eng. Hist. Lib. p. 83, and Tanner's Biblioth. Britan. p. 286.

page ix note [h] Of Lincoln's Inn, Esq; Solicitor to the Queen, brother to Dr. George Hakewill, and a near relation and executor to Sir T. Bodley: “out of his grave “and long conversation with Antiquity, he extracted several curious observations “concerning the liberty of the subject, and the manner of holding Parliaments,” says Wood, Ath. Ox. II. 112. Prince's Worthies. He was Register to the Society, and his Discourse on our Laws is printed by Hearne, p. 1.

page x note [i] His family and profession appear from the following epigram, among Newton's Encomia iilustrium virorum.

“Ad Abrahamum Hartwellum D. A.p˜i, Durovernensis amanuensem.

“Nuper Apolloniœ florebat fama cohortis

“Hartwellus; notum nomen Abramus erat.

“Occidit is, nobis fatis ereptus iniquis:

“Tu suffectus ei, vive, Abrahame, diu.”

His paper on Epitaphs in the Cotton MS. begins, “Because I am in tyme the “last that was admitted into this Society, and in habilitie the least” — and ranks in 1600.

page x note [k] Tate's MS. Keeper of the Tower Records. See Petition to King James. His Remarks on Sterling money are in the Cotton MS.

page x note [l] Of the Inner Temple, Tate's MS. A native of Devon, and an excellent Antiquary. His opinion about Parliaments was printed with others in 1658. Several of his MS. collections, relating to his own and the neighbouring counties of Cornwall and Somerset, are in the Heralds Office. Ath. Ox. I. 521. Five papers by him, on Law Terms, Cities, Heralds, Inns of Court, and the names of Britain, are printed by Hearne, p. 52. 62. 97. 127. 154. Four or five more are in the Cotton MS.

page x note [m] Or Lambarde; Tate's MS. Author of the Perambulation of Kent, which had three editions, 1576, 1596, 1640; and a fourth undated. He was son of an Alderman and Sheriff of London, eminently versed in the Armenian language, and admitted of Lincoln's Inn, where he made a considerable progress in the law. Tanner has enumerated several tracts of his, on this and other subjects. His principal work is the collection of Saxon laws, first made by Laurence Noel, Dean of Lichfield; who, going abroad, left them to him to translate and publish, which he did under the title of Αρχαιονομια, &c. Lond. 1568,4°; revised by Wheeloc, Cant. 1644. His posthumous Alphabetical Description of England, printed 1730, 4°, has a good head of him by Vertue. His account of a Maundy celebrated at Greenwich, 1572, is printed in p. 7. of this volume. He died 1601, aged 75.

page x note [n] Amanuensis to Sir Francis Walsingham, French and Latin Reader to Queen Elizabeth, Clerk of the Signet, knighted by James I. and made one of his principal Secretaries of State. Ath. Ox. I. 250. Fasti 145. His paper on Sterling money was printed by Hearne, p. 15.

page xi note [o] Attorney General of the Court of Wards, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland and England, and Lord Treasurer; afterwards Earl of Maryborough. He was author of some Law Tracts and Reports, printed in 1659, and a Treatise of Wards and Liveries, He intended to publish some of the Annals of Religious houses in Ireland, He was famous for his excellent learning and great integrity, and died March 14, 1628. Ath. Ox. I. 526. Dugd. Baron. I. 451. Hearne printed eight of his papers, on Sterling Money, Shires, Heralds, Arms, Forests, Chancellor's Office, Epitaphs, and Mottoes, p. 24. 46. 81. 186. 193. 198. 201. 204. In the Cotton MS. he is called also Leye and Lea.

page xi note [p] Knight of the Bath, one of Camden's legatees, and assisted at his funeral. Smith's Vita Camdeni, p. 65, 67. A paper of his on Knights made by Abbots, is printed by Hearne, p. 135.

page xi note [q] Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; Secretary to Philip Earl of Pembroke, and many times Member for Sarum. Fast. Ox. I. 196. Hearne printed a paper of his, on the names of Britain, p. 162, and re-printed a letter of Degory Wheare's to him, Appendix, N° III.

page ix note [r] The same, undoubtedly, who wrote a Diary of the Duke of Somerset's Expedition into Scotland, where he was present, and styles himself William Patten, of London; printed by R. Grafton, 1548, 12° and a Kalender of Scripture Names, 1575, 4°. As the first is dated from the Parsonage of St. Mary Hill, Bishop Tanner (Bibl. Brit. p. 581.) supposes he was Rector there; but he is not in Newcourt. Thynne, in the Catalogue of English Historians in the last edition of Hollinshed, says he was living in 1586. His name is spelt Paton, in Hearne's List, Preface, p. x.

page ix note [s] Of the Middle Temple, mentioned by Hearne, p. cxii. Quere, if the person commonly called Long Harry Savile, Kinsman to Sir Henry Savile; eminent in Heraldry and Antiquities, and an intimate friend of Camden; charged with forging the passages favouring the University of Oxford, in Asser and Ingulfus, having communicated the best MSS. of the former to Camden. He died April 29, 1617. Ath. Ox. I. 419. It does not appear by Wood, that either of these Henry's were of the Temple. Or this might be Thomas Savile, younger brother of Sir Henry Savile, born at Over Bradley in Yorkshire, and Fellow of Merton College, Oxon, and the writer of fifteen letters to Camden, on his Britannia, published in his Epistles, London, 1691, 4°. He died 12 January, 1592, and was buried at Merton College, Oxford. See Tanner's Bibl. Brit. p. 654.

page xii note [t] We have nothing of this indefatigable collector, relative to the present subject, except some short notes in his own hand, about Parishes, in answer to a question proposed at one of the meetings, 1598, printed by Hearne, p. xxxix.

page xii note [u] Stands in Tate's MS, only Mr. without a Christian name; but, from the Petition following, appears to have been Sir Henry.

page xii note [w] Probably James, whose “name ought to be ever in esteem for his judicious “collections, greatly useful in the History of Essex.” Salmon, Hist. of Essex, p. 146. A MS. of his writing, chiefly relating to Monasteries, is in the Cotton Library. Morant's Essex, I. 280.

page xii note [x] A Lancashire gentleman; Clerk of the Tower Records, commonly called Limping Tom, assisted Camden in the account of the Earls of each county; and Abington, in the early Bishops of Worcester. The latter calls him, “an excellent “Antiquary.” A volume of his collections is in the Cotton Library. Vesp. D. XVII.; also, “Escaetorum Inquisitiones de tempore R. Edwardi IV.” now in the Heralds Office. He was alive in 1580. Ath. Ox. I. 108. His paper on Shires is printed by Hearne, p. 43. See Preface to Philpot's Catalogue of Lord Chancellors, and Camden's Discourse on Law Courts.

page xii note [y] A Northamptonshire gentleman, fome time Secretary to the Society, and one of the Welsh Judges, t. J. I. multijugæ eruditionis et vetustatis peritissimus, says Selden, Preface to Hengham, A great Lawyer, as well as Antiquary, and of exquisite skill in the Saxon Tongue, Hearne's Preface, p. cxxi. where see the subjects beforementioned, on which he supposes he designed to treat for the use of the Society; and his Explanation of Abbreviations in Domesday Book. His opinion about Parliaments was printed with those of others in 1658. His Discourse on Knights made by Abbots, by Hearne, p. 138. and some Queries and Answers about the Ancient Britons, p. 209. He died November 15, 1616. Ath. Ox. I. 409. Camd. An. J. I. 1616.

page xii note [z] Or Boteville; son and heir of William Thynne, Esq; Master of the Household to King Henry the VIIIth; educated at Tunbridge school, under the celebrated Historian, Mr. Procter, mentioned by Hollingshed, in his History, p. 1591; from whence he went to Oxford, and soon after removed to Lincoln's Inn. Camden calls him an excellent Antiquary, Brit. in Pref. p. clxix. and in Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire, On the 22d of April, 1602,he was created Lancaster Herald, being then 57 years of age. In 1651, he published certain histories concerning Ambassadors and their functions, dedicated to his good Lord William Lord Cobham, though printed long after his death; and was the continuer of Hollingshed's Chronicle, in which four of his Discourses, on the Earl of Leicester, the Archbishops of Canterbury and the Lords Cobham, and the Catalogue of the Wardens of the Cinque Ports, were supprest. Hearne's Contents of the Curious Discourses. Several of his Collections are preserved in the Cotton Library, Julius, c. VIII. Vitellius, E. v. Cleopatra, c. III. Faustina, D. VIII. He likewise wrote the History of Dover Castle and the Cinque Ports, the Genealogical History of Cobham, Discourses of Arms, concerning the Bath and Batchelor Knights, the History and Lives of the Lord Treasurers, mentioned in a manuscript life of him, now in the collection of Sir Joseph Ayloffe, Bart. besides which, he left large Heraldic collections to the Heralds Office, and Ashmol, Mus. 835, 836. He assisted Speght in his edition of Chaucer with his own notes and those of his father, who published the first edition of that poet, after Caxton, in 1542; as himself intended a subsequent one with a comment. See Speght's Preface, and Ath. Ox. I. 375, compared with p. 61, where Wood blunders strangely about William Thyrnne. He died in 1608, and not 1611 as mentioned by Wood. Some verses by him on Speght's edition are prefixed to it.

page xiii note [a] Afterwards knighted. One of the Justices of the Common Pleas, and father of Sir Bulstrode; died June 21, 1632. Wood saw a MS. of his “on the “Antiquity, Use, and Ceremony, of lawful Combats in England.” Ath. Ox. I. 572. Hearne printed two of his Discourses, on Heralds and Inns of Court, p. 90 and 129, and his Epitaph in Fawley Church, Bucks. Appendix, N°. I.

page xiii note [b] Of this gentleman we find no particulars, except that his family, very considerable in Essex, had inter-married with that of Strangeman. Query, if he was Thomas (Son of John), who died 1585, and whose mother Joan married Strangeman? Morant, II. 559. Salmon, 156.

page xiii note [c] Of the Middle Temple, Tate's MS.

page xiii note [d] Hearne, p. XLII.

page xiv note [e] Spelman, Loc. cit.

page xiv note [f] Cotton, MS.

page xiv note [g] See his life, prefixed to the second edition of his Cornwall, p. 12.

page xiv note [h] Hearne, p. xxxvi.

page xiv note [i] Loc. cit.

page xiv note [k] The first: mention of this Society in print.

page xv note [l] “To the right worshipful my very good friend, Mr. Hartwell, at his “House at Lambeth.

“SIR,

“I have received the inclosed (as it was sayd) by direction from you: but the “partie I know not: it was not your hand: it had no mention of my name; “and I talkt with Mr. Clarentieux, and he would not certify me that I was “made of your number, and yet he was at your last meeting, wher such things “(as he sayd) used to be agreed on before any came in, wherby I thought it “likely the partie might be mistaken that brought your note. But if I may have “notice from yourself or Mr. Clarentieux, that you have vouchsafed me the favor, “then you shall perceive well that I will not fail in obedyence, though unless it “be that I dare not promise, because I cannot perform ought ells, for I learn every “day more and more gladly. But that this afternoon is our Translation * time, “and most of our company are negligent, I would have been you; but no “Translation shall hinder me, if once I may understand I shall committ no error “in coming. And so, commending me to you in myn ambition, and every way “besyde, I take my leave, this last of November, 1604, your verie assured poor “friend,

“L. Andrewes.”

* The new Translation of the Bible, in which he was concerned, begun that year by the King's command.

page xv note [m] Life of Carew. Spelman, ubi supra.

page xvi note [n] The words where the inverted commas, are omitted are taken from another copy of the same MS.

page xvi note [o] Probably Edward Talbot, third son of George; who, on the death of his brother Gilbert, on the eighth of May, 1616, succeeded to the titles of Earl of Shrewsbury, &c. He, being a younger son, might probably have studied the Law at one of the Temples, and been more likely to have associated himself with the then Antiquary Students. See Dugdale's Bar. I. 334, and Edmundson's Baronagium Genealogicum, vol. II. p. 84.

page xvi note [p] Nobilium doctissimus et doctorum nobilissimus, second son of Henry Earl of Surry, died in 1614, buried in the Church at Dover Castle. Camd. Brit. p. 221. Dugdale's Baronage, vol. II. p. 275.

page xvi note [q] An Officer of arms when a young man, being appointed Hammes Pursuivant, 28 H. VIII. and gradually rose, through the offices of Rouge Croix and Richmond Herald, till he was appointed Garter by Pat. 29 April, 1 E. VI. He was esteemed a learned Antiquary. We do not find that he wrote any books except a Treatise on the Justs of some Spaniards, which he published on the 25th of November, 1564. He died on the third of October, 1584, aged 84 years; not 48 years, as by mistake is mentioned in the inscription on his son William's monument, whereon the figures are transposed. He lies buried in the church of St. Bennet, Paul's Wharf, London. Lives of the Heralds, a Manuscript in the possession of Sir Joseph Ayloffe, Bart.

page xvii note [r] Quere, of Ware Park, Hertsordshire, Knight, Remembrancer of the Exchequer, died in the reign of James I. Chauncey's Hertf. 208. His tenth son, Richard, translated Camoen's Lusiad. Fast. Ox. II.

page xvii note [s] Third son of Thomas Duke of Norfolk, who was beheaded by Queen Elizabeth, ancestor to the Earl of Carlisle, and the associate of Sir R. Cotton and Camden, in their Antiquarian pursuits. He died in 1640. His second daughter married Sir Thomas Cotton, eldest son and heir of Sir Robert Cotton, Bart. Dugdale's Baronage, vol. II. p. 281.

page xvii note [t] George Lord Carew, of Clopton, who, being “more delighted in martial “affairs than in the solitary delights of a study, left Oxford for Ireland,” and was created by King Charles I. Earl of Totness. A lover of Antiquities, and a great patron of learning. The history of the wars in Ireland, especially in the province of Munster whereof he was President, was wrote by himself, and published by Sir Thomas Stafford, under the title of Pacata Hibernia, 1633, fol. His head by Voerst is prefixed to it. Four volumes of his collections relating to Ireland are in the Bodleian Library, and others in the Library of the Earl of Ferrers at Stanton Harold in Leicesteshie. He died in 1629.

page xvii note [u] Probably the first Earl of Cardigan, so created 13 C. I. having been created a Baronet by J. I. 1611, and knighted 1612. A person generally learned, who made large extracts from the Tower Records, during his confinement in the civil wars; now in the Library at Deene, Northamptonshire. He died 1st April, 1664. Dugd. Bar. II. 455.

page xviii note [w] Quere, eldest son of Lady Elizabeth Sedley, to whom the second edition of Weldon's Court of James I. 1651, is dedicated. Ath. Ox. I. 729; and founder of the Natural Philosophy Lecture at Oxford. Fast. I. 189.

page xviii note [x] Sir William Segar was appointed Garter in January 1606; ten years after which, he was imprisoned by James I. for having, by the treacherous contrivance of his and Mr. Camden's great, though unprovoked, enemy, Ralph Brook, York Herald, hastily set his hand to a grant of the arms of Arragon, with a canton of Brabant, to Gregory Brandon, who afterwards appeared to be the common hangman. The said Brook, York Herald, was also imprisoned for his knavery and treachery; but Sir William was, upon the fourth of January following, honourably discharged, upon the Officers of Arms exhibiting to the King a testimonial of his honesty, integrity, and good carriage. He published Honor Civil and Military, 1602; and from his MSS. have lately been published five splendid vols. in folio, continued to the present time by Joseph Edmondson, Esq; Mowbray Herald extraordinary, containing the Genealogies of the English Peers engraven on copper plates, under the title of Baronagium Genealogicum. Sir William died in December 1633, and was buried at Richmond in Surry. MS. Lives of the Heralds, ut supra.

page xviii note [y] Sir Richard St. George, second son of Francis St. George, in the county of Cambridge; who, having served the offices of Berwick Poursuivant, Windsor, and Norroy, was appointed Clarencieux. He was father of Sir Thomas and Sir Henry St. George, both Garters; and of Richard, Ulster King at Arms, and deemed an able and inquisitive officer. He died on the 17th of May, 1635, and was buried In the chancel of St. Andrew's church, Holborn. MS. Lives of the Heralds, ut supra.

page xviii note [z] “Servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counsellor to King James, and friend to “Sir Philip Sidney.” Epitaph. He died 1620. Dugd. Baronage, II, 445, and Warwickshire.

page xviii note [a] Stiled by Camden (Brit. p. 212) “a man well learned and well descended;” author of the Life of Richard III. and the Third University of England.

page xviii note [b] “A faire and learned historian,” MS.—Historiographer at Chelsea College; knighted 1619, author of the Lives of the three Norman Kings, of Henry IV, and Edward VI. Elizabeth's lawyers labouring to find treason in that of Henry VI. he suffered a long imprisonment.

page xix note [c] Of Badsley-Clinton, “for his eminent knowledge in Antiquities, gave a fair “lustre to his ancient and noble family, whereof he was no small ornament; “and his memory is yet of high esteem in these parts.” Dugd. Warw. 711. He died in 1611. His collections were of great use to Dugdale, and are among his papers in Ashmole's Museum, and a volume of Pedigrees in the Heralds Office. Ath. Ox. I. 589.

page xix note [d] Author of the Errors in Camden's Britannia, a List of the Nobility, &c. He died October 15, 1625; and was buried at Reculver, in Kent. MS. Lives of (he Heralds, ut supra.

page xix note [e] Probably Edmund, author of Nero Cæsar, History of Henry II. in Speed, and other pieces.

page xix note [f] One of the most eminent lawyers this kingdom has produced, Chief Justice of the King's Bench 1615, disgraced 1616, and died 1634.

page xix note [g] First professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, where he died November 4, 1613. He wrote, De ponderibus veterum nummorum, printed 1614, 4to. Enquiries touching the diversity of languages and religion, 1614, 4to. and other critical tracts

page xix note [h] Henry, Knight of the Garter, Privy Counsellor to Henry VIII. and his three successors, Governour of Calais, Lord Chamberlain, Earl Marshal, Lord High Steward at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth; died 25 February 1579, buried at Arundel, Dugdale's Baronage, I. 325.

page xix note [i] “Excellently bred in all learning;” author of some Tragedies, and of Sackville's Induction (which is only part of what he intended for the Mirror of Magistrates); Lord Treasurer 15 May, 1599; Chancellor of Oxford, 1604. He shewed great concern for preserving our public Records, and died suddenly at Council, April 19, 1608. Edmondson's Baronagium Genealogicum, vol. I. p. 71.

page xx note [k] Lord Treasurer, patron of Camden, and a skilful Genealogist. Life of him, published by Collins, p. 27. He died 1598.

page xx note [l] Henry, who married Sir Philip Sidney's sister, and died January 19, 1601; and his son William, Chancellor of Oxford, 1616, who died April 10, 1630. Dugdale's Baronage, II. 260. The MS. calls him chief countenancer and patron of Sir J. Prise's works.

page xx note [m] John, who married the eldest daughter of the Earl of Arundel above-mentioned, and died 1609. He collected all the monuments of his ancestors, and placed them in the church of Chester le Street, near Lumley Castle. Camd. Brit. II. 950. The MSS. of these two Peers, and of Henry Lluyd, who married Lord Lumley's sister, were added by James I. to the Royal Library.

page xx note [n] Lord Mayor of London in 1596, a great Mathematician. He published a translation of Euclid, in fol. 1570, and died in 1606. Ath. Ox. I. 331.

page xx note [o] Succeeded his father as Garter, died 1612, aged 70; and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. Stowe's London, p. 371.

page xx note [p] Of King's College, Cambridge, 1554; Dean of the Arches, patronized by Thomas Earl of Dorset, and author of an Answer to Saunders the Jesuit, printed in 1573, 4to. and a defence of the power of the Court of Arches, among Bishop Tanner's MSS. He likewise translated Castiglioni's Courtier into Latin. He was living in 1593. Fasti Ox. I. 109. Tanner's Bibl. Brit. 185.

page xx note [q] An eminent Civilian, Dean of the Arches, and author of several books, of which fee Tanner, ib. p. 201.

page xx note [r] Educated at St. Alban's Hall, Oxford. Ath. Ox. I. 331. Father of Eliz. wife of the infamous Mervin Earl of Castlehaven, and of Alice Viscountess St. Alban's, afterwards married to Sir John Underhill.

page xx note [s] Author of the “Interpreter of Law Words,” 1607, fol. to which his life is prefixed, and which has gone through several editions with considerable improvements. He died October 11, 1611. Prince's Worthies, p. 194.

page xx note [t] Somerset, esteemed a most skilful Herald and Antiquary; Camden, in his Apology, calls him “virum maximum et nunquam satis laudatum Heraldum.” See also Dr. Smith's Life of Camden. Mills, p. 28. Camd. Brit. English edition, 13. 147. and 634. He was looked upon as the great oracle in Genealogical Antiquities. He wrote two tracts, one De Nobilitate Politica et Civili, and the other intitled, A catalogue of Honour; both of which were after his death published by his nephew, Mr. Milles; the former in 1608, and the other in 1610. He likewise lived to finish, his Alphabet of Arms, and several other curious pieces, which still remain in manuscript. He died 10 April, 1588.

page xxi note [u] Son of Sir Roger Manwood, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, eminently learned, and a patron of literary men; mentioned with great respect by Camden, in Kent, where his seat was, at Hackington. Brit. p. 239. Ed. 1607.

page xxi note [w] In a note wrote by Mr. Oldys in the aforementioned copy of this MS. formerly in the hands of Mr. Vertue, he had first ascribed it to Sir George Buck; but afterwards, without determining the author, he supposes it a transcript of Mr. West's, made 1619, between St. George's day, (then April 23, Camden's Annals, Jac. I.) and the time of Dr. Hayward's being knighted. Which, according to Wood, was some time the same year. This copy, now in the Archives of the Society, is addressed to the King himself.

page xxiii note [x] This excellent Antiquary, the only one of the persons here, enumerated that was a Member of the Society of Antiquaries, was born 1674, chosen Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, 1697; Chancellor of Norwich, 1701; Prebendary of Ely, 1713; Archdeacon of Norwich, 1722; Canon of Christ Church, 1723; Bishop of Saint Asaph, 1731; died 1735; having published before he was twenty-two years old, Notitia Monastica, 1695, 8vo, republished in folio, 1751, with great additions, (which he began to collect in 1715,) by his brother Dr. John Tanner, Precentor of St. Asaph, and Rector of Hadley, Suffolk. His Bibliotheca Britannico- Hibernica, which employed him forty years, was published by Dr. D. Wilkins, 1748, folio. He left large collections for the County of Wilts, and large notes on Richard Hegge's Legend of St. Cuthbert, 1663. His immense and valuable collections are now in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. His portrait was engraved at the expence of the Society.

page xxiv note [y] The History of the Gwedir family p. 93. mentions “Robin Jachwr, as “the greatest Antiquary of the Principality.” Contemporary with those above mentioned, probably lived John Williams the Antiquarian Goldsmith, who furnished Drayton with so many particulars relative to Welsh history. Note on the above book, p. 159.

page xxiv note [z] The works of this learned Antiquary, who justly boasts that he first broke the ice in writing the Antiquities of his country, are now grown scarce, and are, Introductio ad historiam rerum a Romanis gestarum, in Britannia Boreali, Edinb. 1706, f. Historical Enquiries concerning Roman Monuments, &c. in Scotland, Ed. 1707, f. Miscellanea eruditæ Antiquitatis quæ ad Borealem Britanniae partem spectant, with an Appendix about the sriths Bodotria and Tay, Ed. 1710. f. Commentarius in Agricolæ expeditiones, Ed. 1711, f. Portus, Coloniæ, et Castella Romana ad Bodotriam et Taum, Ed. 1711, f. The Introductio, Miscellanea and Commentarius, with their appendages, and the Vindiciæ, are printed, Ed. 1711, f. under the common title of Tractatus varii, Auctarium Musæi Balfouriani, Ed. 1697, 8°. Scotia illustrata, five Prodromus Historiæ Naturalis, Ed. 1684, f. Nuncius Scoto-Britannus, 1683, f. Vindiciæ Scotiæ illustratæ 1710, f. Phalainologia nova, 1692, 4°, besides several pieces on Natural History in the Philosophical Transactions History of the Sheriffdoms of Fife and Kinross, 1710, f. and of those of Linlithgow and Stirling, 1710, f. A Description of the Isles of Shetland. But of these, with his additions to Camden, and his MSS. collections, see Anecdotes of British Topography in Scotland, particularly p. 620, 621. 625. 655.

page xxv note [z] Historiographer Royal, who published Formulare Anglicanum, 1702, f. Firma Burgi, 1726, f. Baronia Anglicana, 1741, f. and the History of the Exchequer, 1711, f. reprinted 1769, 2 vol. 4°. and left 40 Volumes of Collections for a History of the Feudal Law, now in the Harleian Library, to which they were presented by his widow.

page xxv note [a] Probably Dr. John Batteley, native of St. Edmunds Bury, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Chaplain to Archbishop Sancroft, Rector of Adisham, near Canterbury, Archdeacon of Canterbury; died October 10, 1718, aged 61. His Antiquitates Rutupinæ were published 1711, 8°. and again with his Antiquitates S. Edmundi Burgi, by his Nephew, Oliver, Ox. 1745, 4°.

page xxv note [b] Mr. Elstob, son of Ralph Elstob, Merchant at Newcastle, was born in 1673, educated at Eton, admitted at Catherine Hall, Cambridge; but the air of that county not agreeing with him, he removed to Queen's College, Oxford, and was afterwards chosen Fellow of University College, where he was joint Tutor with Dr. Clavering, afterwards Bishop of Peterborough. He was Rector of the united parishes of St. Swithin, and St. Mary Bothaw, London, 1702, where he died, 1714. He translated into Latin the Saxon Homily of Lupus, dated 1701, with notes for Dr. Hickes; and into English Sir J. Cheke's Latin translation of Plutarch De superstitione, printed at the end of Strype's life of Cheke, out of the MS. of which Ob. Walker, when Master of University College, had cut several leaves containing Cheke's remarks against popery. He was author of an Essay on the great affinity and mutual agreement of the two professions of Law and Divinity, London, - - - -, 8°, with a preface by Dr. Hickes, and of two sermons on public occasions, 1704. He published Ascham's Latin Letters, Oxford, 1703, 8°; compiled an Essay on the Latin Tongue, its history and use, in which he was a very great proficient; collected for a History of Newcastle; also the various proper names formerly used in the North; but what is become of these MSS. is not known. His most considerable design was an edition of the Saxon Laws, with great additions, and a new Latin Version by Somner, notes of various learned men, and a prefatory history of the origin and progress of the English Laws to the Conqueror, and to Magna Charta. He intended also a translation with notes, of Alfred's paraphrastic version of Orosius, of which his transcript with collations is in Mr. Pegge's hands, and another by Mr. George Ballard, with the the latter's large preface on the use of Anglo-Saxon literature, was left by the late Bishop of Carlisle to the Antiquarian Society's library. A specimen of Mr. Elstob's design was actually printed at Oxford, MDCIO. His learned sister Elizabeth was born in 1683: Her mother, to whom she owed the first rudiments of her extraordinary education, dying when she was but eight years old, her guardians discouraged her progress in literature, as improper for a person of her sex; and after her brother's death she met with so little patronage, and so many disappointments, that she retired to Evesham; where, having with difficulty subsisted some time by a small school, she was at last countenanced by Mr. George Ballard, and the wife of the Reverend Mr. Capon, who kept a boarding school at Stanton, in Glocestershire: and raised for her, among her friends, an annuity of 21 l. which the late Queen Caroline was pleased to continue to her own death: after which this lady, mistress of eight languages besides her own, was taken into the family of the duchess dowager of Portland, as governess to her children, 1739, in which she died, May 30, 1756, and was buried at St. Margaret's Westminster, having published a translation of Madame Scudery's Essay on Glory; and a Saxon Grammar, in 1715, 4°. The Homily on St. Gregory's day, published by her brother, in the Saxon language, 1709, 8°, has her English translation besides his Latin one. She assisted him in an edition of Gregory's Pastoral, intended probably to have included both the original and the Saxon version, and had transcribed all the Hymns from an antient MS. in Salisbury Cathedral. She had undertaken, by the encouragement of Dr. Hickes, a Saxon Homilarium, with an English translation, notes, and various readings; and five or more of the Homilies were actually printed off at Oxford in folio. Memoirs of Mr. Elstob and his sister, communicated to the Society by the Reverend Mr. Pegge, 1768. Two of her letters to the Earl of Oxford, dated 1713 and 1713-14, and one of her brother's, are among the Harleian MSS.N°.7254. The Saxon types, which were used in printing St. Gregory's Homily, having been burnt in the fire which consumed Mr. Bowyer's house and all his printing materials, Lord Chief Justice Parker was so munificently indulgent as to be at the expence of cutting a new Saxon type for Mrs. Elstob's Saxon Grammar, the punches and matrices of which Mr. Bowyer's fon presented, by the hands of Edward Rowe Mores 3 Esq; to the University of Oxford, with the following letter:

“To Edward Rowe Mores, Esq; at Low-Layton.

“Sir,

“I make bold to transmit to Oxford, through your hands, the Saxon punches and “matrices, which you was pleased to intimate would not be unacceptable to “that learned body. It would be a great satisfaction to me, if I could by this “means perpetuate the munificence of the noble Donor, to whom I am originally “indebted for them, the late Lord Chief Justice Parker, afterwards Earl of Macclesfield, “who, among the numerous benefactors which my father met with, after “his house was burnt in 1712-13, was so good as to procure those types to be “cut, to enable him to print Mrs. Elstob's Saxon Grammar. England had not “then the advantage of such an artist in letter-cutting as has since arisen: and it “is to be lamented that the execution of these is not equal to the intention of the “Donor; I now add, of the place in which they are to be reposited. However, “I esteem it a peculiar happiness, that, as my father received them from a great “patron of learning, his son consigns them to the greatest seminary of it, and “is,

“Sir,

“Your most obliged friend,

“and humble servant,

“W. Bowyer.”

Dec. 4, 1753.

page xxvii note [c] Samuel Stebbing published, in 1707, a new edition of Sandford's Genealogical History of the Kings and Queens of England, continued to that time, with other improvements.

page xxvii note [d] Quære, if not Dr. Richard Bowchier, Archdeacon of Lewes, from 1693 to 1702, who assisted Le Neye in his Fasti of that church.

page xxviii note [e] Who published the Fœdera in 18 volumes folio; continued after his death by Mr. Sanderson.

page xxviii note [f] Native of St. Neots in Cornwall, born September 28, 1669, admitted at Exeter College, Oxford, 1685, and three years after at the Middle Temple; represented the borough of St. Germans, 1702, 1703, 1704, in parliament, where he distinguished himself against the bill for occasional conformity, for which he got ranked in the list of the Tackers, printed about that time. He was appointed Deputy general to the Auditors of the Imprest, 1703, which office he never executed; one of the principal Commissioners of Prizes, 2 Ann. Garter King at Arms 13 Ann. in which place he died 1734, and was succeeded by his son, of both his names, who died 1754. Mr. Anstis the father published, in 1724, “The Black Book of the Order of the Garter, with a Specimen of the Lives of “the Knights,” folio; and in 1725, “Observations introductory to an historical “Essay on the Knighthood of the Bath,” 4°. intended as an Introduction to the History of that Order, for which this Society had began, to collect materials. His Aspilogia, a discourse on Seals in England, with beautiful draughts, almost fit for publication; of which Mr. Drake read an abstract to the Society, in 1735-6, and two folio volumes of Drawings of Sepulchral Monuments, Stone Circles, Crosses, and Castles in the three kingdoms, were purchased, with many other curious papers, at the sale of Mr. Ansti's. Library of MSS. by Thomas Astle, Esq; F. A. S. to whom we are obliged for the former half of this note, from some Latin memoranda of Mr. Anstis's life in his own hand. Besides these, he left in MS. two large folio volumes on the Office, &c. of Garter King at Arms, and of Heralds in general; memoirs of the Talbot, Carew, Granville, and Courtney families; the Antiquities of Cornwall and of Culliton: and large collections relative to All-Souls College, Oxford, by whom they were bought.

page xxxi note [g] Since the incorporation of the Society, the admission fee is fixed at five guineas, and the annual payment at one; or ten guineas over and above the admission fee, in lieu of annual contribution, for ever

page xxxii note [h[ The election of Officers is now fixed to St. George's day, April 23.

page xxxii note [i] Now six nights, except Noblemen.

page xxxii note [k] Now two years, and two months notice.

page xxxiii note [l] Dr. Stukeley's MS. in the Archives of the Society.

page xxxiii note [m] Norroy, one of the most eminent preservers of our Antiquities in this century. Dr. Smith (Synops. Bibl. Cotton, p. 42) mentions a copious and accurate History of Norfolk, preparing for the press by him. He died 1730, and was succeeded as President by the Earl of Hertford, afterwards Duke of Somerset; who dying in 1749, the Duke of Richmond was elected; and, on his death, in the following year, Martin Folkes, Esq.; succeeded. The Society, on the demise of this learned Antiquary 1754, elected Hugh Lord Willoughby of Parham, and on his death, 1765, the late Dr. Lyttelton, Bishop of Carlisle, whole zeal for these studies will render his memory ever dear to all Antiquaries, and especially to this Society, to whom he was a considerable benefactor. He was succeeded 1768, by the Reverend Dr. Milles, Dean of Exeter.

page xxxiii note [n] This indefatigable searcher after British Antiquities in the earliest periods, died 1765, aged 78; having published the first volume of Itinerarium Curiosum; 1724, fol. and elaborate descriptions of Stonehenge and Abury, 1723 and 1740, fol. An Account of Richard of Cirencester, with his Map of Roman Britain and the Itinerary thereof, 1757, 4°. Palæographia Britannica, 3 Nos. 1743, 1746, and 1752. Palæographia Sacra, 3 Nos. 3 Nos. 1736, 1752, 1760; and some lesser tracts. History of Carausius, 1757-9, 4°. His library, and other curiosities, were sold by auction at Essex-house, 1766. He was succeeded as Secretary by Mr. Alexander Gordon; and he, in 1741, by Mr. Joseph Ames; to whom was associated, in 1754, the Reverend Mr. William Norris; now, by the death of Mr. Ames, sole Secretary.

page xxxiii note [o] A Yorkshire gentleman, an elegant delineator of Architecture and Monuments, died 1726; succeeded in this office of Director to the Society, by Sin Charles Frederick, Dr. Birch, Dr. Ward, Dr. Taylor, and the present Master of the Temple, Dr. Gregory Sharpe. A considerable number of his drawings are in the possession of the Society. Mr. West has another collection of them.

page xxxiv note [p] Admitted Proctor in Doctors Commons 1695; some years Register to the Commissary of London Diocese, died October 27, 1751, aged 80. See Morant's Essex, under Ongar, I. 129.

page xxxiv note [q] Son of that eminent critic and antiquary Dr. Thomas Gale, Dean of York; Commissioner of Excise, Treasurer of the Royal Society, and one of the Vice-presidents of this; published the Registrum Honoris de Richmond, 1722, fol. and his father's Comment on Antoninus's Itinerary, 1709, 4°. His Discourse on the four Roman Ways in Britain is printed in the 6th volume of Leland's Itinerary, and Remarks on a Roman Inscription found at Lanchester, in the Philosophical Transactions, N°. 357. He died 1744; and his collection was sold by auction.

page xxxiv note [r] Brother to Roger; Commissioner of the Customs; published the Antiquities of Winchester Cathedral, 1715, 8°, and died 1754: having been Treasurer to this Society 21 years; in which office he was succeeded by Mr. Compton; and he, 1762, by Mr. Colebrooke, the present Treasurer.

page xxxiv note [s] Late Earl of Coleraine; descended, by the younger branch, from Sir Nicholas Hare, Baronet, Master of the Rolls, and Privy Counsellor to King Henry VIII. (the elder branch being seated at Stow Hall, in Norfolk) was born at Blechingley, in Surrey, May 10, 1693; educated at Enfield, under Dr. Uvedale. After the death of his grandfather, Hugh Earl of Coleraine, 1708, by which he succeeded to the title, he was admitted at Corpus Christi College, Oxford; the President of which, Dr. Turner, married one of his sisters; and Dr. Basil Kennet, who succeeded to the Presidency, 1712, inscribed an epistolary poem on his predecessor's death to his Lordship. He was a great proficient in the learned languages, particularly the Greek; and eminently versed in History, both Civil and Ecclesiastical; had made the tour of Italy three times; the second time with Dr. Conyers Middleton, about 1723, in which he made a noble collection of Prints and Drawings of all the Antiquities, Buildings, and Pictures in Italy; given after his decease to Corpus Christi College. The esteem in which he was held by the Literati procured him admittance into the Litteraria Republica di Arcadia; and the particular intimacy of the Marquis Scipio Maffei; who afterwards visited him at his ancient manor and seat at Tottenham, in Middlesex. His Lordship died at Bath, August 10, 1749; and was buried in the family vault at Tottenham, built, with the vestry, by his grandfather. His very valuable collection of Prints and Drawings, relative to English Antiquities, was procured after his death for this Society, by Mr. Henry Baker, to whom we are obliged for this account of his Lordship.

page xxxv note [t] Richmond Herald; died 1720.

page xxxv note [u] Many years Clerk to Mr. Petit in the Tower; after whose death he was appointed, by Lord Halifax (then President of a Committee of the House of Lords), to methodize and digest the Tower Records, at a yearly salary of twelve hundred pounds, continued to his death, in 1748, in the 87th year of his age.

page xxxv note [x] Of Grays Inn, Esq; inherited many valuable collections relative to the city of Durham, made by his grandfather, who held a public office there. Quere, if the epitaph in the Minster yard there, printed by Le Neve (Mon. Ang. III. 138) on Christopher Mickleton, of Mickleton, in Yorkshire, and student of Clifford's Inn, who died 1669, belongs to this collector. Davis's Rites of Durham, 1671, are dedicated to James Mickleton, who came to an untimely end, about 1719; Letter from Mr. Sare to H. Wanley, Harl. MS. 3782. where, it is said, Mr. Spearman, Under-sheriff, and Deputy-register in Chancery at Durham, would endeavour to purchase his collections.

page xxxv note [y] Surgeon, author of an Essay on the Antiquity of touching for the King's Evil, - - - -, 8vo. on the Venereal Disease in England; and other subjects in the Philosophical Transactions, Nos. 357, 365, 366, 383. He died November 25, 1738.

page xxxv note [z] An eminent adept in the Saxon Antiquities, and the science of distinguishing the different sorts of writing, of which last he intended to publish specimens. He drew up a Supplement to Hyde's Catalogue of the Bodleian MSS. which Mr. Hearne published. He travelled over England, at the desire of Dr. Hickes, in quest of Saxon MSS. of which he gave the account in the Doctor's Thesaurus; and intended an edition of the Bible in Saxon. He was Librarian to Lord Oxford until his death, 1726. In the Society's room is an original, picture of him by Mr. Thomas Hill, 1711.

page xxxv note [a] Usher of the Court of Chancery, Clerk, of the Rolls; assisted Mr. Rymer in publishing the Fœdera, which he continued after Mr. Rymer's death, beginning with the 16th volume; and died Dec. 25, 1741.

page xxxvi note [b] Store-keeper in the Tower, died at Shaftesbury, Dec. 27, 1749, aged 81; the last of the family of Sir Edward Nicholas, who was Secretary of State to Charles I. and II.

page xxxvi note [c] Native of Spalding in Lincolnshire, and Steward of that manor, where he founded an Antiquarian Society as a Cell to this of London, to which he from time to time communicated their minutes. Dr. Stukeley (Itin. Cur. p. 22.) insinuates, that a particular account of Spalding was expected from this eminent Antiquary, who died Feb. 1, 1755.

page xxxvi note [d] LL.D. Archdeacon of Berks, Prebendary of Ely, Rector of Bluntsham in Huntingdonshire; published Lives of Erasmus and Dean Collet, 1724, 1726, 8vo. and died 1748.

page xxxvi note [e] Distinguished by his warm pursuit of our Antiquities, and accurate delineation of every curious Monument that came within his notice. He died July 24, 1756; and a considerable part of his collections, notes, and drawings, are now in the hands of the Hon. Horace Walpole. The Engravings published by the Society during a course of 50 years were executed by him.

page xxxvi note [f] Esq; LL.D. of Whaddon-hall, Bucks, grandson of the famous physician. Dr. Thomas Willis. He was admitted at Christ Church, Oxford, 1699; represented the town of Buckingham, 1705; and died 1760, aged 78; leaving to the University of Oxford his valuable cabinet of English Coins, and some MSS. He published Notitia Parliamentaria, 3 vol. 8vo. 1715, 1716, 1730. History of the Mitred Abbies, 2 vol. 8vo, 1718, 1719. Surveys of the Welsh Cathedrals, 4 vol. 8vo, 1715 — 1721. and of many of those in England; with a Parochiale Anglicanum, 1727, 2 vol. 4to. A new edition of Ecton's Thesaurus, 1754, 4to. and the History and Antiquities of the Town and Hundred of Buckingham, 1755, 4to.

page xxxvi note [g] Succeeded Mr. Madox as Historiographer Royal; died 1732; published Lives of North, &c.

page xxxvi note [h] LL.D. Of Queen's Coll. Camb. F. R. S. Commissary to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's; admitted Advocate in the Commons, Oct. 24, 1689; died about 1740.

page xxxvii note [i] St. James's Font, Ulfus' Horn, and Rich. II.

page xxxvii note [k] Author of the Latin Dictionary, of the Monumenta Vetustatis Kempiana, 1720, 8vo. de Clypeo Camilli antiquo Dissertatio, 1734, 4to. Ισειον, five, ex veteris monumenti Isiaci descriptione, Isidis delubrum reseratum, 1729, 4to.

page xxxvii note [l] Chaplain and Executor to Heneage Earl of Winchelsea.

page xxxviii note [m] Vertue's MS. in the Archives of the Society.

page xxxviii note [n] Vertue's MS. ubi supra.

page xxxix note [o] This seal is Arg. a cross of St. George, G. charged in the centre with a royal crown of England, Or. Crest, an antique lamp, Or, burning. Motto, NON EXTINGVETVR.