brings it to the beginning of the letter S, and makes about a fourth part of the book. There was lately a very noble collection of coins presented to the Bodley Library by one Mr. Ray, formerly Consul of Smyrna, which I am told had been collected in those parts by his cook. I have not yet seen them, but am told they are in number about 2000. I am,

Worthy Sir,

Your most obliged humble Servant,

E. LHWYD.'

*Edward Lhwyd, son of Charles Lhwyd of Llanvorda, Salop, was born about 1670, educated at Jesus College, Oxford, where he took his degrees, and afterwards became Keeper of Ashmole's Museum. He was a most industrious antiquary, and an excellent scholar. In search of the early history and languages of Great Britain, he travelled several times through England, Scotland, Ireland, and France, and published the fruit of his labours in 1707, under the title of Archæologia Britannica. He only lived to finish the first volume, but this sufficiently evinces the wonderful application and accurate knowledge of the author. In March, 1709, he was elected esquire-bedell of divinity to the University, and died in June, the same year. He was the intimate friend of Hearne who has left a character of him, in the preface to the second volume of Leland's Itinerary. Dr. Rawlinson, in his MS. additions to Athene Oxonienses says "the untimely death of this most excellent, and I may say without vanity, best antiquary of his age, prevented the completing of many noble designs. His MSS. which were very curious and valuable, are sold to Sir Thomas Sebright, of Beachwood, in Herefordshire." Several of Lhwyd's

LETTER LI.

Dr. SIMON PATRICK,* Bishop of Ely, to Dr. TURNER,†

President of C. C. C.

Residence.

SIK,

I AM very unwilling to press you into residence beyond your inclinations; but I hoped what I last proposed by Mr. Dean would have been very acceptable to you. Which was, that you would come once in two or three years, when it would be most convenient to you, and the season most inviting. For to be wholly absent, when you are in health, I doubt will not hear well, and both you and I shall be censured as negligent in our duty. Yet I have such a

'papers will be found in the Philosophical Transactions, and some of his letters are inserted in Derham's Collection of Ray's Correspondence. 8vo. Lond. 1718. Besides these, one hundred and twenty copies only of his Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia were printed at the expence of Lord Somers, the Earl of Dorset, Sir Isaac Newton, &c. a work of equal rarity and value to mineralogists.

*Of Simon Patrick, the celebrated commentator on the Scriptures, an ample account will be found in the Biographia Britannica.

Dr. Thomas Turner was a younger son of the Dean of Canterbury, born at Bristol, educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he became President, March 13, 1687. He died April 29, 1714.

respect to you, and am so tender of doing any thing, that will make you uneasy, that I leave you to follow your own prudence and conscience in this matter. I mention that last word, because I think beneficium and officium cannot be separated. But I look upon you as so good a man, that I may safely leave you to your own judgment, and not interpose mine further in this affair.

repeated favours, as well in what relates to my house, wherein I must esteem you my greatest benefactor, as for your kind endeavours to give reputation and value to my small performance about Comets, which no ways deserves a place in your catalogue, or to bear the badge of the Theatre. I purpose to be in Oxford about the time you mention, but hope to see you in London

before then. As for Dr. Gregory with whom I this day dined at Sir Is. Newton's, I cannot find that he has any thoughts of seeing Oxford this summer. I see you have put my Apollonius among the books preparing for the press; I wish when done it may answer expectation. If it pleases the Dean and some few Mathematical Judges I have all I hope from it. I could be glad of a few more of my papers, for most of the ten you were pleased to send me, were soiled so as not to be fit to be presented to Quality. Burgers* did not take care to wipe his fingers as he ought.

Your most obedt. servt.

EDM. HALLEY.+

LETTER LIII.

Dr. SMITH to Mr. HEARNE.

Latin Translation of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity.

*** Bp. Earle's Latin Translation of Hooker's Books of Ecclesiastical Polity, which was his entertainment during part of his exile at

*The Oxford engraver, he engraved the first and several succeeding University Almanacks.

For a very ample account of Halley, see the Biogra phia Britannica.

Cologne, is utterly destroyed by prodigious heedlessness and carelessness; for it being written in loose papers, only pinned together, and put into a trunk unlocked after his death, and being looked upon as refuse and waste paper, the servants lighted their fire with them, or else put them under their bread and their pies, as often as they had occasion; as the present Earl of Clarendon has more than once told me, who was ordered by lord his father, about a year after the Bishop's death, to attend upon the widow, at her house near Salisbury, and to receive them from her hands, from whom he received this deplorable account of their loss; himself seeing several scattered pieces, not following in order, the number of pages being greatly interrupted, that had not then undergone the same fate with the rest. This good Bishop* translated the Martyred

my

* Of this excellent man it is unnecessary to say more than that he was born about the year 1601, educated at Christ Church and Merton Colleges, Oxford, and became chaplain to Lord Pembroke, from whom he obtained the rectory of Bishopstone, Wiltshire. He was appointed chaplain and tutor to Prince Charles, by King James, who was much pleased with him, and this led to his being afterwards Chancellor of the Cathedral of Salisbury. When Charles the Second left England, Dr. Earle tendered his personal and pecuniary assistance to that Monarch, and at the Restoration was rewarded first by the Deanery of Westminster, then by the See of Worcester, and lastly by that of Salisbury. He died at Oxford, Nov. 17, 1665, and was buried in Merton