Sibbes's Soul's Conflict, noticed in Restituta, iii. 498, was bequeathed by Isaac Walton to his Son, and the Bruised Reed to his daughter, with a desire for both to read them, so as to be well acquainted with them. See Walton's Will, in his Life by Sir John Hawkins.

Of HERBERT PALMER a memoir may be found in many old Collections of the Biography of our Divines. He was a younger son of the ancient family of Palmer, Baronets of Wingham, near Canterbury; of which the head branch ended in coheiresses about eighty years ago, when the title devolved on a branch settled near Windsor, who now enjoy it. The old mansion at Wingham, formed out of the College, at the Reformation, lately inhabited by Mrs. Hey, widow of the Rev. Dr. Hey, to whom it was bequeathed by his halfsister, Mrs. Palmer, daughter of Sir Thomas Palmer, the last Baronet of the elder line, still remains, though dismantled, within the last twelve months, of furniture and inhabitation. The Editor, perhaps with a foolish enthusiasm, loves to throw the consecration of genius or learning over spots in the neighbourhood of which he passes so much of his time.

March 18, 1816.

Biographiana.

Collectanea for Athena Cantabrigienses.

27. Rev. James Granger.

Hor. Walpole to W. Cole. Apr. 16, 1776.

OU will be concerned, my good Sir, for what I have this minute heard from his nephew, that poor Mr. Granger was seized at the communion table on Sunday with an apoplexy, and died yesterday morning at five. I have answered the letter with a word of advice about his MSS. that they may not fall into the hands of booksellers. He had been told by idle people so many gossiping stories, that it would hurt him and living persons, if all his collections were to be printed; for as he was incapable of telling an untruth himself, he suspected nobody else. Too great goodness in a biographer! Yours ever,

HOR. WALPOLE."

"P.S. The whole world is occupied with the Duchess of Kingston's trial. I don't tell you a word of it, for you will not care about it these two hundred years."

28. Lord Hardwicke.

Dr. Lort to Wm. Cole. Feb. 17, 1781.

"Lord Hardwicke has printed what he calls WALPOLIANA; or a few Anecdotes of Sir Robert Walpole. Not many copies are printed; and these distributed only to particular people. I really do not know whether he has sent Mr. W. a copy; but I believe not. However, you may take an opportunity of asking this question of that gentleman when you shall next write to him, without mentioning to him from whence you have your intelligence; and if he should make any particular reply, and you be under no injunction of secrecy, I shall be glad to know what it is.

"Your old friend Harvest was struck with a paralytic or apoplectic stroke one day, and died the next with little or no pain. Lord Onslow went from London to attend his funeral, which was handsomely performed at his expense: and this is all, I think, I can tell you of Mr. Harvest."

Dr. Lort to W. Cole. Mar. 6, 1773.

"Lord Hardwicke's two vols. of miscellaneous State Papers will be published in about a fortnight. I think they will afford both entertainment and instruction."

W. Cole to Dr. Lort. Mar. 29, 1778.

"I long to see Lord Hardwicke's volumes; for though his Lordship selects what I am not generally fond of, yet, as an inge nious man, I shall be curious to see what he publishes."

W. Cole to Dr. Lort. May 1, 1778..

"Mr. H. W. is not pleased with finding a curious paper given by Lord Hardwicke in his State Papers as an original never before exhibited, which Mr. W. had printed in his Rich. III. It is an order of the King's relative to one of the Sheriffs of London purposing to marry Jane Shore. However, there are many other equally curious papers in that collection which are undoubted originals."

29. Scudamore Library.

Dr. Lort to W. Cole. June 11, 1778.

"Lord Surrey, who married the heiress of the Scudamores in Herefordshire, is now in possession of the library of that family, which I am told contains many valuable curiosities. Know you any thing of it?"

30. Joseph Ritson.

W. Cole to Dr. Lort. Oct. 30, 1782.

"Have you seen a 4to. pamphlet, just published by one Mr. Ritson of Gray's Inn, against Mr. Warton's History of English Poetry? It is a most cruel and bitter attack upon him and the Bishop of Dromore: and though he seems generally to deserve it for some notorious blunders, yet the whole is written with so much spleen, illnature, and irreligion, that though they may not excuse Mr. Warton, yet few people of decency will be pleased with this gross behaviour."

31. Miles Davies,

Tho. Pennant to W. Cole. Sept. 21, 1781.

"Miles Davies was great-uncle to the present race of the family of Tre'r' Abbot, and was a Roman catholic priest. His great niece thinks he came over to us, before he died."

32. Horace Walpole,

"Third and youngest son of the Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Orford. He was of Eton school, and for three or four years a Fellow Commoner in King's College, whence he went into France, made some stay at Rheims, then at Paris, went from thence to Rome and Naples, and afterwards resided two or three years at Florence. He was at College a very polite and wellbred gentleman; which, by the advantage of good parts, great learning, and an universal education, rendered him a most accomplished and genteel young nobleman, and every way deserving of so great a progenitor. He has written some pieces of poetry, and other things.

"Edes Walpolianæ, or a Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the seat of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford. Lond. 4to. 1747, but not published till 1748. A beautiful print of the Earl before it, from a picture of F. Zinke, in 1744, engraved by G. Vertue, 1748, with very elegant ornaments and decorations. It is dedicated to my Lord Orford his father, whom he tells, that "however the sense of the world may differ from me, I own, I had rather be the first Peer of my race than the hundredth." Dated from Houghton, August 24, 1743. At the end is a Sermon on Painting, preached before the Earl of Orford at Honghton, 1742, on Psalm cxv. 5. This was written by Mr. Walpole, and given the Curate to preach. At the end is Mr. Whaley's journey to Houghton, in verse; and before it an elegant print of his mother, the Lady Catherine Walpole, by F. Zinke, 1735, and engraved by Mr. Vertue, 1748, with genteel decorations.

"V. Dr. Middleton's Germana quædam Antiquitatis cruditæ Monumenta. In the Preface, p. viii.

"Ex his autem agri divitiis, neminem profecto de peregrinatoribus nostris, Thesaurum inde deportasse credo, et rerum delectu et pretio magis æstimabilem, ac quem amicus meus nobilis, Horatius Walpole in Angliam nuper advexit: Juvenis, non tam generis nobilitate, ac paterni nominis gloria, quam ingenio, doctrina et virtute propria illustris." At his return from abroad he