may be found, which our great Lexicographer has either not recorded in his Dictionary, or given a confined sense to. As far as Plato's Institutes of Education served his purpose, he was careful to adhere to them; though he seems totally to have neglected the science of arithmetic, which, in Plato's Academy, was a requisite elementary. In 1601, he sent forth his "Catechismus Paulinus, in Vsum Schola Paulinæ conscriptus, ad Formam parvi illius Anglici Catechismi qui Pueris in communi Precum Anglicarum Libro ediscendus proponitur," in octavo. It is in long and short verse, sometimes closely, and, at others diffusely, translated; and, though now forgotten, was once in high esteem. IN a Magazine like the Gentleman's, so many of whose pages are devoted to Antiquarian research, the life of an Antiquary may have its interest. The only apology I can make for the paucity of materials is, that they are entirely new. ANTHONY HALL was the son of the Rev. Henry Hall, of Kirkbridge, in the county of Cumberland, where he was born in 1679. He received the rudiments of learning at Carlisle; whence he was removed to Queen's college, Oxford, and admitted battiler, July 7, 1696. Why he was not matriculated till Nov. 18, 1698, does not appear. On Dec. 15, 1701, he became B.A.; and M.A. in 1704: having just entered into holy orders; and was elected fellow of his college, April 18, 1706. In 1719, upon the death of Dr. Hudson, keeper of the Bodley library, he became a candidate for that office. One circumstance was probably to his advantage. Dr. Hudson (who was much re spected, and ever active in the promotion of learning), a little while before his death, expressed a wish that Mr. Hall should be his successor. Still, his endeavours failed. Dr. Hudson, at the time of his death, had nearly finished his Ballard's MS. letters (in the Bodleian,) vol. VI. p. 50. Letter from Bishop Tanner to Dr. Arthur Charlet, master of University college. edition of Josephus; by Mr. Hall's exertions it soon issued from the press; and he shortly after married Dr. Hudson's widow. On April 8, 1720, he was instituted to the rectory of Hampton Poyle, in Oxfordshire, at the presentation of his college; and in the following year took the degrees in divinity. He died at Garford, in Berkshire, and was buried at Kingston, in that county, April 6, 1723. Dr. Hall, by his literary labours, deserved far more attention than he acquired. He had a quick apprehension, and his judgment was clear and penetrating; but it was his misfortune never to compare or revise the manuscripts he had once transcribed. Leland de Scriptoribus Britannicis was very erroneously printed; and in some parts were great omissions, from his negligence. Hearne, before his ejectment from the Bodleian library (as a Non-juror), collated one hundred and thirty-five pages of the printed copy, which I have now before me. But, as he continued a Non-juror to the last (and that much at the expence of his worldly interest), he was never again admitted to the original. Dr. Hall published, 1. "Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis, Auctore Joanne Lelando Londinate. Ex Autographio Lelandino nunc primum edidit Antonius Hall, A.M. Coll. Reg. Oxon, Socius, 2 Tom. 1709, 8vo*. 2. "Nicolai Triveti Dominicani Annales Sex Regum Angliæ, e præstantissimo Codice nunc primum emendate edidit, &c. Oxon. 1718, 8vo. *From the Collection of Letters already quoted, vol. IV. p. 38, &c. 1 have selected an anecdote or two, which throw some light on the history of this publication. From a letter of Bishop Tanner's to Dr. Arthur Charlet, it appears the bishop originally designed an edition of Leland's work only, and not what he afterwards completed in the Bibliotheca Britannica Hibernica. MS. Ball. IV. 38. "Honored Master, your letter of the 15th instant missed me at London, and did not come to my hands till Saturday morning last. I take the opportunity of this first post to thank you for your intelligence about a new editor of Leland, which I am not a little concerned to hear. The gentleman (Mr. Hall) named, is a person of good industry and abilities, and much fitter, perhaps, for that work than I am; however, I must crave leave to say, that he may oblige the world with many things out of the Bodleian library which may be as much to his credit and advantage, without injuring or slurring a brother drudge." In another letter, dated Norwich, June 25, 1707 (Ball, MSS. IV. 45.), Dr. Tanner says, he had " at first proposed the bare printing Leland and Boston of Bury, and supplying what was wanting by wholesale out of Bale and Pitts, within a twelvemonth, as our agreement was; and this, perhaps, might have answered the booksellers' end, and have been satisfactory enough to many other people, But when I enlarged the design, and could not bring myself to take cha 3. "Flavii Josephi Opera, Gr. et Lat. cum MSS. Collat. nova Versione et Notis J. Hudsoni." 2 Tom. Oxon. 1720. 4." Nicolai Triveti Annalium Continuatio; ut et Adami Munmuthensis Chronicon cum ejusdem Continuatione ; quibus accedit Joannis Bostoni speculum Coenobitanum, e præstantissimo Codice Reginensi nunc primo edita. Oxon. 1722. 8vo. He likewise drew up the account of Berkshire for the booksellers in Magna Britannia Nova et Antiqua, vol. I. 4to. Lond. 1720, &c.; and it having been affirmed that he was the Author of a description of Cumberland in the same work, he took an opportunity of denying it at the end of Trivet's Annals, 1719. In the proposals for the publication of Mr. Urry's Chaucer, 1716, the addition of a useful and copious glossary was promised by Anthony Hall; but from the title of the work when published, and from a paragraph at the close of the Preface, it appears to have been afterwards undertaken and completed by a student of Christ-church. Yours, &c. Nov. 1800. H. E. racters of men and notices of books upon trust, there was a necessity of longer time; and you can witness as well as any body, how closely I followed it at the libraries of Oxford, London, and Cambridge, and thereupon spent the prime of my youth, and more money than I ever shall receive for the copy, and endangered my life, when I had the small-pox, in that service." In a third letter, the bishop complains of it as hard usage from his college, and as unexpected from an old acquaintance, whose friendship he was in no wise sensible of having forfeited. And toward the middle of the letter he makes still farther complaints, when he finds the book was printed at the expence of the University. NOTICES OF THE DEATHS OF PERSONS EMINENT FOR THEIR SKILL IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES, 1733. MAY 4. Mr. John Underwood, of Whittlesea, in Cambridgeshire. At his burial, when the service was over, an arch was turned over the coffin, in which was placed a small piece of white marble, with this inscription, NON OMNIS MORIAR, 1733. Then the six gentlemen who followed him to the grave sang the last stanza of the 20th Ode of the second book of Horace. No bell was tolled, no one invited but the six gentlemen, and no relation followed his corpse; the coffin was painted green, and he laid in it with all his clothes on. Under his head was placed Sanadon's Horace, at his feet Bentley's Milton'; in his right hand a small Greek Testament, with this inscription in gold letters, EIMI EN TO ETAYPO, J. U.; in his left hand a little edition of Horace, with this inscription, MVSIS AMICVS, J. U. names. [*The articles under this head, till the year 1783, when the size of the Magazine was enlarged, were very short; indeed, till within two or three years preceding that period, the OBITUARY was little more than a list of It is proper to observe, that as our limits are confined, we have more particularly selected notices of such persons, as have hitherto been very briefly, if at all, mentioned in the Biographical Dictionaries, and in publications of a similar nature. Many notices merely enumerate the works of an author, and are therefore omitted; as are a few others, which appear, from subsequent and other accounts, to be founded on misrepresentation, or to be deficient in the great points of impartiality, judgment, or discrimination of character. E.] and Bentley's Horace, sub podice. After the ceremony was over, they went back to his house, where his sister had provided a cold supper; the cloth being taken away, the gentlemen sang the 31st Ode of the first book of Horace, drank a chearful glass, and went home about eight. He left near 6000l. to his sister, on condition of her observing this his will, ordered her to give each of the gentlemen ten guineas, and desired they would not come in black clothes. The Will ends thus :-" Which done I would have them take a chearful glass, and think no more of John Underwood." May 10. Barton Booth, Esq. the celebrated Tragedian, one of the Patentees of Drury-lane play-house. He was esteemed the greatest scholar and actor the British Theatre could ever boast. What he wrote himself concerning another person was very applicable to him, viz.-" Haud ignobili stirpe oriundus, nec literarum rudis humaniorum, rem scenicam per multos feliciter annos administravit ; justoque moderamine et morum suavitate, omnium, infra theatrum, observantiam, extra theatrum, laudem, ubique benevolentiam et amorem, sibi conciliavit." 1734. Dec. 14. John Barrington Shute, Lord Viscount Barrington, of the kingdom of Ireland; so created June 11, 1720. In,1714, he was elected member for Berwick, but expelled the House, for promoting the Harburgh Lottery, in 1720. About twenty-five years ago, John Wildman, of Becket, Berkshire, Esq. settled his large estate on him, though no relation; having always resolved, as is expressed on his monument, "to adopt some person his heir, according to the method of the Romans." Some years after, another considerable estate was left him by Mr. Barrington, of Essex; whereupon he took that name, his former being Shute. He was author of "Miscellanea Sacra," in two vols. 8vo. and of "An Essay on the several Dispensations of God to Mankind;" and was one of the committee for petitioning to take off the Test; on which occasion he wrote several pamphlets. He married the daughter, and sole heiress of Sir William Daines, of Bristol, by whom he has left nine children. [* From his Inscription to the memory of William Smith, another celebrated actor. See Biogr. Brit. vol. 2. p. 866. E.] |