Some charm must in this infant lie, My partial eyes with pleasure trace 46. John Whalley, Master of Peter House. "A Sermon preached before the House of Commons at St. Margaret's, Westminster, on Wednesday, January 30, 1739-40. By J. W. D. D. M of St. P. C. in C. and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty. L. 4to. 1740. Heb. xi. 4. By it, he being dead, yet speaketh. Pages 22. "Mr. since Bishop, Warburton, in his Preface to Shakespeare, p. 26, thus alludes to Dr. Whalley: I remember to have heard of a very learned man, who had long since formed a design of giving a more correct edition of Spenser; and without doubt would have performed it well, but :he was persuaded from his purpose by his friends, as beneath the dignity of a Professor of the occult sciences. Yet these friends, I suppose, would have thought it would have added a lustre to his high station to have furnished out some dull northern chronicle, or dark Sibilline enigma.' "D:. Whalley died at his lodge, Monday, Dec. 12, 1748. He married a niece of Mrs. Newcome, wife of Dr. Newcome, Master of St. John's, and daughter of Archdeacon Squire of Wells; but had been engaged before to a person, with whom he broke off after he was made Mr of P. H. He was born at BarnVOL. IV. 3 E well near Cambridge, in his mother's way into Norfolk; by which means he became a Cambridgeshire man, and entitled to his Fellowship: but his father lived and had a small estate at Cosgrove in Northamptonshire, which his son now enjoys; as had Dr. Rye, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, of much the same value, and which his son now occupies there as a farmer. Dr. Whalley died much in debt, though he had an income of 1000l. per annum. They blamed his wife, who scraped up all she could, and paid no body." 47. Abraham Wheelock, Clare Hall, "Arabic Professor and Librarian of the University of Cambridge, has a copy of Latin verses before James Duport's Liber Job. Printed 1637.. "Dr. Brian Walton, in his preface to his Polyglot Bible, says that he was much assisted by him; but was taken away by death just as he began his work. The Dr. begun it in 1653. "In a letter, original, from him to one whom he styles his patron, and to whom he was Chaplain, calling him his Worship, dated from Cambridge, Dec. 9, 1638, he tells him that Mrs. Huscroft offered him five pounds for dilapidations for the repairs of his house, which he was going to repair, and where he was desirous to be about midsummer, more to do the duty than to gain any profits; and that he was to come to London to compound for the first fruits, or lapse his living. "See Original Letters Miscellan. in an unbound volume belonging to the late Bishop More, now in the royal public library at Cambridge; in an octavo portfolio of vellum, marked on the back -B." 48. Philip Williams, D. D. Fellow of St. John's College and Public Orator of the University. "He was presented by his College to the Rectory of Barrow in Suffolk; and about 1747 to that of Long Sutton in Lincolnshire by Sir Thomas Peyton. He died Sunday morning, May 21, 1749, and was buried in the church at Barrow on Tuesday following, aged 56. He married a daughter of Dr. Diton of Newmarket, by whom he left three children. He married when 48 to a young girl of about 18. He laid out near a thousand pounds on his house at Barrow. His widow married Dr. Gordon, Archdeacon of Lincoln, and has two sons by her: they live altogether at Cambridge. Dr. Williams's son was sent to Winchester school, was elected off to New College, and became Fellow there, and about 1770 was elected Fellow of Winchester College. "In 1746 he solicited Henry Howard, Earl of Suffolk, for the Mastership of Magdalen, at which time I had also a prospect of it from Colonel Vachell's alliance to Lady Portsmouth, of the Griffin family." 49. Edmund Castell, S. T. B. Emanuel College. "Dr. Brian Walton, in his preface to his Polyglot Bible, says he assisted him much in correcting the press, and helping forward that great, work in 1657. He speaks thus of him: Virum in quo eruditio summa magnaque animi modestia convenere; qui in Samaritanis, Syriacis, Arabicis, et Æthiopicis, nullam non abhibuit diligentiam; Cantici Canticorum Æthiopici versionem Latinam produxit, nec non annotationes doctissimas in earundem linguarum versiones elaboravit.' He also assisted in the Latin version of the Æthiopic Testament in 1669, being then D. D. King's Chaplain, Professor of Arabic in Cambridge, founded by Sir Thos. Adams, Bart. and his father, he being the first Professor, and Canon of Canterbury. Dedicated to King Charles 2d, in which he tells him that it was now the seventeenth year since he left his native country by his Majesty's leave, by reason of the civil wars; Qu? that his papers were burnt of many years by the fire of London; and that he had suffered much many ways; and when he was at the height of his miseries his Majesty had recommended his work to all the clergy and laity of rank, by which means he had 7001. and that of that sum Seth Ward, Bishop of Sarum, got 400 within 14 days' time. By means of his Chaplainship to his Majesty several privileges towards forwarding his work were acquired: his Canonry of Canterbury, given by his Majesty, and a dispensation for absence; partly on occasion of his charge at Cambridge, in which he says, there was much labour and little profit; and partly for his many infirmities; for all which he thanks the King. Lond. fol. 1669. "Lexicon Heptaglotton, in two folio volumes. "In a letter from Dr. Worthington to Mr. Hartlib, about 1660, says, p. 232, I am heartily sorry for Mr. Castell's difficulties: I hear that, for the carrying on of his great work, he has been forced to sell part of his estate, viz. 201. per annum; and he writes that he shall be constrained to dispossess his family of the whole estate, which his ancestors left him, except the work be encouraged with more subscriptions, or by the generous beneficence of some great persons. And is there no Mecenas in this part of the world? None that has any sense and relish of what is of more universal influence for the increase of knowledge and deriving it to those of different tongues and nations? None that considers the universal pains and inconquerable industry of such laborious persons who waste their health, their estate, their all, for the good of others? I have written and spoken to some of my acquaintance concerning this particular, desiring them to recom mend it as they have interest."" 50. Charles Yorke, Esq. "Second son of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, educated at Hackney under Dr. Newcome, Fellow Commoner of C. C. C. C. Member for Ryegate, and since for the University of Cambridge: one of the clerks of the crown in chancery: Solicitor and Attor ney General. In autumn, 1755, he married the only daughter and heiress of the late William Freeman of Hamels in Hertfordshire, Esq. brother to the Rev. Dr. Ralph Freeman, now in possession of the estate for failure of male issue by his brother: but which it is supposed, as the Dr.'has no children by his wife, sister to my friend, Dr. Puller Forester, will fall into Mr. Yorke's family, as he has several children by his wife; who dying some five or six years ago, (I write this Dec. 20, 1768) he is since remarried. "From the London Gazette. At the Court at the Queen's House, Jan. 17, present the King's most excellent Majesty in Council. His Majesty in Council was this day pleased to deliver the Great Seal to the Right Hon. Charles Yorke, Esq. who was thereupon, by his Majesty's command, sworn of his Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, and likewise Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and accordingly took his place at the board. St. James's, Jan. 18. The King has been pleased to grant unto the Right Hon. Charles Yorke, Esq. Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and the heirs male of his body, lawfully begottén, the dignity of a Baron of Great Britain, by the name, stile, and title of Lord Morden, Baron of Morden, in the county of Cambridge.' On Saturday evening, Jan. 20, 1770, died at his house in Bloomsbury Square, after a very short illness, and supposed bursting of a vessel within, the Right Hon. Charles Yorke, Esq. Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. He died in the 48th year of his age. His great uncle, the Lord Somers, and his father, the first Earl of Hardwicke, had both filled that important office with the highest reputation, abilities, and lustre. His Lordship was second son of the late Earl of Hardwicke, and had, with his brother John, the office of Clerk of the Crown in the Court of Chancery, a place for life, conferred on them, June 27, 20 Geo. II. He was chosen Member for Ryegate in Surrey, in the 10th, 11th, |