to offer my best thanks. Mr. Ingram himself, and Mr. Granville Wheler, have similar claims upon my gratitude.

The very incomplete state of the Attica Eboracensis, or Yorkshire Biography,' after all my pains would demand an apology, did I not feel that, defective as it is, it may in some degree prove serviceable to future antiquaries. The author had merely collected a few materials: and it appeared to me desirable that these rudiments, the fruits of an industry springing out of grateful attachment to his native county, should not be thrown away. I have ventured to make some slight additions to it, not worth specifying; and many a splendid and venerable name, as the reader will perceive, might have been farther added, if it had been deemed proper, proving still more decisively that

-Souls are nurtured by our northern sky.

The Life of Elijah' presents a plain practical paraphrase upon that portion of the Old Testament (1 Kings xvii. 1.-2 Kings ii. 11.) in which the Prophet's history is contained.

In the Attempt to illustrate some of the Prophecies of the Old and New Testament,' Dr. Zouch has justly censured the

God alone knows what will be the fruit of it." That this fruit, however, proved to be of the flavour so much distasted by her Majesty, there is good evidence:

"In the house of pure Emanuel

I had my education;

Where some surmise

I dazzled my eyes

With the light of revelation,'

says the distracted Puritan, in a song composed under King James I. by the witty Bishop Corbet. It was in consequence of this character, that it received large additions to it's endowment by the will of Henry Hastings, third Earl of Huntingdon, who is stated to have lavished a great part of his fortune on the more zealous of the Puritan preachers. Amongst it's more dignified and orthodox sons (to spare living names of the highest distinction) may be enumerated Archbishop Sancroft, and Bishops Hall, Bedell, Kidder, Gardiner, Chandler, Jackson (of Kildare), and Hurd.

precipitation, which many of the Commentators upon the Apocalypse have shown in applying it's predictions to existing events; events which, though to the contemporary spectator they appear of considerable magnitude, will probably seem comparatively trifling when contemplated at a due distance by the dispassionate observer. His picture of the effects of bigotry and secularity, exhibited by the Court of Rome during the dark ages, displays in various parts his accustomed mildness and benevolence. The theological student will easily divine, to what particular authority he refers in his concluding remark:"When the establishment of that Church is pronounced to be ' venerable;' when it is declared, that Protestants and Catholies are divided by thin partitions;' when the fabric of her idolatry is dignified with the appellation of the majesty of religion;' when it is asserted, that the Son of Perdition is yet future, and that he shall be neither a Protestant nor a Papist, Jew nor Heathen,' &c. do not all these things argue a diminution of attachment to the real interests of the Church of England? Do they not imply sentiments not very unfavourable to a system of religion, which every genuine Protestant must acknowledge to be truly antichristian? *" Perhaps, after all, Dr. Henry More has suggested the most correct canon for computing the approaching ruin of Antichrist; viz. the actual advances made in the spirit and practice of Christianity.

As Dr. Zouch had previously published a Work of similar character, entitled 'An Inquiry into the Prophetic Character of

* Dr. Horsley, clarum et venerabile nomen, it must be owned, has not been the only modern holding this language. Mr. Wix has lately published Reflexions concerning the Expediency of a Council of the Church of England, and the Church of Rome being holden, with a View to accommodate Religious Differences, &c, &c.'

That the often-adduced testimony couched in the enigmatical 666 is applicable, not specifically or personally to any of the various names of the Pope in Hebrew, Greek, or Latin, but to the generical designation of Añо5αтns (as I have ventured, in opposition to the authority of Irenæus, to conjecture) will, I think, on some future day be admitted not to be wholly improbable.

the Romans, described in Dan. viii. 23-25.' and including several learned statements, which were again introduced in a more popular shape, by abstracts or extracts, in his subsequent Attempt'-it became necessary, with a view of preventing repetitions, to distribute between the two productions the paragraphs common to both: and this, it is trusted, has been accomplished in such a manner, as to preserve to each it's continuity of argument. To some, indeed, it may appear that he has pressed the point too far, or used language too decided; when it is recollected that even the perspicacious Paley, in his inestimable Hora Paulina, characterising one of the passages referred to in those disquisitions, admits it to be "involved in great obscurity." But it was a favourite subject with Dr. Zouch, as may be concluded from his having composed a third Treatise upon it in Latin, which is now given to the public in the Appendix, No. IV.

Of Wickliffe, the illustrious fore-runner of our English Reformers (see the Appendix, No. I.) and of his singularlyrare work, Dialogorum Libri IV. &c., the curious reader will meet with some account in Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books,' I. 130., and in Lewis' valuable History of the English Versions of the Bible, pp. 17, &c. The latter work, I will here add, in it's fifth chapter exhibits such a list of translators employed by King James I. in completing the Version at present in use (Bishops Andrews, Overal, Barlow, Ravis, Abbot, Montagu, Thomson, &c. &c.) and such a view of their separate and united exertions, that it appears a degree of presumption to which language can hardly assign a name, for an unassisted individual to profess to supersede their labours.

With respect to the Memoir of Sir George Wheler, it was once my hope to have been able to add to it some specimens of

* 2 Thess. ii. 6, 7.

his composition in the learned tongues; as I can scarcely conceive that one so loyal would allow to pass over, "without the meed of a melodious tear," the deaths of the Queen Dowager Henrietta Maria, her daughter Henrietta Duchess of Orange, and Anne Duchess of York, which in the three successive years 1669, 1670, and 1671 produced the Threni, the Lacrymæ, and the Epicedia of Cambridge, and called forth upon each occasion the ever-ready muse of Duport. But I have no access to the corresponding Oxford volumes, and I might perhaps explore them in vain.

*

Upon the subject of the early academical compositions of Dr. Zouch, it may be lamented that the niceties of the ancient metres were comparatively little studied, or emulated, even by the most respectable scholars who flourished sixty years since.' It was reserved for the literati of the intervening period, particularly the par nobile PORSON and BURNEY, whose loss has saddened the opening of the nineteenth century, to construct canons to which little can be added upon that arduous topic.

In the preparing of these volumes for publication, I have un

* To this rapid recurrence of royal funerals the learned Grecian thus alludes, in 1671:

Τρις τρισι Πιερίδεσσι πονον και πενθος έθηκαν
Τρεις Θεαι ειν ολιγῳ ἡμετέρησι χρόνῳ
Κλαυσαμεν εν το πριν αι αι ΚΑΡΟΛΟΙΟ ανακτος
Μητερ, Αδελφείην, νυν δε και Εινατερα.

Ταις τρισιν, ει και εσαν τρισι περ Χαρίτεσσιν όμοια,
Ου χραίσμησ' αρετη, 8 δέμας, ετε φυλα

Ου γενος, ούτε τι είδος επήρκεσε κήρα μέλαιναν

Τρεις Μοίραι Χαριτων κρείσσονες εισι τριων.

An interesting duodecimo might, with some trouble, be selected from the many scores of folios and quartos printed by the two Universities upon these and similar public occurrences.

consciously been betrayed into the surrender of more time, than I had originally purposed to devote to it. Those, who have occasionally occupied themselves in disentangling the relics of learned men, or anticipated the perplexity in which some surviving friend might find their own (if left in their ordinary state of intermingled reference, annotation, and parenthesis) will alone be able to estimate the extent of the toil incurred. But the sacrifice has been accompanied by it's abundant compensations. I have been led to contemplate more closely the self-rewarding virtues of an unambitious good man, doing justly, and loving mercy, and walking humbly with his God: I have made my offering at the shrine of departed virtue and knowledge; and whatever fruit may be derived to others from my labours, it will be my own fault if I have not found in them materials for my individual edification.

After all, it is not intended to hold out Dr. Zouch as one of those brilliant luminaries, whose career at once dazzles and disheartens. But it will gratify, I may trust, the large circle of his personal friends to have it recorded, that his talents were such as to have acquired for him perhaps nearly every thing really valuable in elegant and useful literature, while his benevolence and his integrity conciliated universal esteem and respect. And if I might adopt the feelings of those, whose regard for his memory has furnished the substance of the present Memoir, I would add in the words also of Tacitus, Hic liber professione pietatis aut laudatus erit, aut excusatus.

6

FRANCIS WRANGHAM.

P. S.-In a note, I. 369, upon the subject of Spartam quam nactus es, orna, I have been guilty of a slight inaccuracy. Having cast a hasty glance over the ill-arranged index of two folio editions of Erasmus' Adages,' without discovering the reference which I expected, I too hastily despaired of learning from others what that admirable scholar appeared not to have known. A letter recently received from the Rev. James Tate,