2. The second daughter, Henrietta, married on the same day as her elder sister, was wedded to the Rev. Francis Minshull, Rector of Nunney in Somersetshire. She died early, April 4, 1802; and Mr. Minshull survived only to 1817, when his decease occurred at Nunney, June 28, in his 48th year. He was of Jesus-college, Oxford, M. A. 1793.

3. The third daughter was married in January 1805 to the Rev. James Lynn. He was of Wadham-college, Oxford, M. A. 1803; and is now Minor Canon of Rochester and Rector of Stroud, to which living he was presented by the Dean and Chapter of that Cathedral.

4. Maria, the Bishop's fourth daughter, died unmarried, Feb. 12, 1813.

In the third and fourth generation, the Bishop had also, at the time of his death, forty grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

1. Dr. GOODENOUGH to Mr. NICHOLS.

"Ealing, June 9, 1794.

"Dr. Goodenough presents his best compliments to Mr. Deputy Nichols, and takes the liberty of sending him a hasty sketch of something which ought to be said of his most worthy friend the Duchess of Portland *. Having had the honour of her acquaintance for more than twenty years, he can vouch for the truth of what he has written."

2. "DEAR SIR,

Ealing, Dec. 6, 1796.

"I am much obliged to you for sending me the papers of your excellent Natural History of Leicestershire, containing the lists of plants, &c. &c. I wish I may be able to make any corrections or additions. Master Shallow † and I drank your health in the hospitable Vicarage of Melton. May I beg you to insert the inclosed. I am, dear Sir,

"Your obliged and obedient servant, SAM. GOODENOUGH."

* Printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LXIV. p. 579.
+ Dr. Ford; see vol. V. of this Work, p. 221.

3. DEAR SIR, Windsor, Aug. 11, 1799. "I send you herewith a sketch of the life of a very valuable man*; which you would oblige me much by inserting in your next Magazine.

"If you ever come to Windsor, you will find Dr. Goodenough, Canon of Windsor, will be as glad to take you by the hand as he was when he was plain Dr. Goodenough, of Ealing.

"I have been writing to Master Shallow; and telling him that there is no necessity for his total silence. I am, dear Sir, your much obliged and most obedient servant, SAM. GOODENOUGH."

GERRARD ANDREWES, D. D.

DEAN OF CANTERBURY.

This distinguished divine was the male representative of a family, whose pedigree will be found under the parish of Syston in the History of Leicestershire. At the head of that pedigree stands the name of Thomas Andrewes, of Weston Baggard in Herefordshire, who died in 1615, at the age of 114; and had, only six years before, appeared at some races at Hereford, and officiated as one of the four "Marshalls of the Field," who were all upwards of 100 years old, whilst six couple, who also averaged nearly a century, performed a morris-dance for the entertainment of the gentry assembled +. Of his father, a clergyman and schoolmaster at Leicester, the Dean communicated to the same work the following brief memoir:

"Gerrard Andrewes, born June 27, 1704, son of John Andrewes, Esq. a solicitor in London, was admitted in 1719 a King's Scholar at Westminsterschool, which he left in 1725; and, though elected from the foundation there to Trinity-college, Cambridge, he entered of Baliol-college, Oxford, where

* An interesting memoir of Mr. William Curtis, Editor of the Botanical Magazine. It is the first article in the Magazine for August 1799 in the form of a letter, and is signed KEWENSIS. It was erroneously supposed, from the authority of Fuller's Worthies and the Baronetages, that this morris-dance took place before the King; but see this explained in the "Progresses of James the First," vol. I. p. xx.

he became M. A. Dec. 5, 1738; was presented in 1744, by the University of Oxford, to the Vicarage of Syston; and by the Lord Chancellor to the Vicarage of St. Nicholas, Leicester, in 1757. He died Feb. 29, 1764, in his 60th year, and was buried in the Church of St. Nicholas. As a divine he alike captivated in the desk and pulpit. Possessing a very harmonious voice, he read with an energy just and influencing; taught with conciseness pertinently persuasive, and intelligible to a general auditory; and was long considered as one of the brightest ornaments of the clerical profession. He also filled, with distinguished credit, the office of the master of the free-school of the town of Leicester; which, under his superintendance, was a seminary of great repute; not only the sons of the first families in those parts were placed under his care, but numbers from much greater distances also received the rudiments of education."

Mr. Andrewes married Isabella, daughter of John Ludlam, Esq. of Leicester, niece to Sir George Ludlam, Chamberlain of London from 1718 to 1727, and sister to the Rev. Peter and Rev. Thomas Ludlam. She died in her 70th year, March 10, 1788.

The Dean of Canterbury was their only surviving child. He was born at Leicester, April 3, 1750; and was educated, as his father had been, at Westminster-school, where he was elected a scholar

* In the Literary Memoirs of Joseph Cradock, Esq. M. A. F. S. A. vol. I. p. 3, is the following passage: "At the age of nine I was sent to the endowed school at Leicester, and was placed under the care of the Rev. Gerrard Andrewes. There were about thirty boarders; the Earl of Stamford's three sons adding no small celebrity. Under that most excellent preceptor I remained till about the age of seventeen."-" Mr. Andrewes was an elegant classic; and, by constantly attending Garrick, read better than almost any man. He was the supposed heir to a great fortune; the matter was litigated; he was tendered half, and he lost all." Ibid. vol. IV. p. 90. This latter anecdote must apply to the period when the male line of an elder branch of the family expired, as is shown in the pedigree.

in 1764, and whence he was elected a fellow of Tri

nity-college, Cambridge, in 1769. He proceeded B. A. 1773, being the ninth Junior Optime of that year; M. A. 1779; S. T. P. 1807. In 1772 he returned to Westminster as an assistant-master, and such he continued till 1784. One of his first clerical duties was that of an occasional Assistant Preacher at St. Bride's, Fleet-street; he was afterwards engaged at St. James's Chapel in the Hampstead-road. In 1780, when his friend Sir Edmund Cradock Hartopp served High Sheriff of Leicestershire, Mr. Andrewes acted as his Chaplain. In 1788 he was presented by Lord Borringdon, whose tutor he had been, to the Rectory of Zeal Monachorum in Devonshire. On the 1st of December in the same year, he was united to Elizabeth Maria, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Ball, Rector of Wymondham in Leicestershire, and Curate of Bloomsbury; by

* He was son of the Rev. Thomas Ball, of Kingsclere, Hants, at which place he was born, May 25, 1721; being descended from the ancient family of the Balls, originally of Axminster, and afterwards of Mamhead in Devonshire; one of whom, Sir Peter Ball, was Recorder of Exeter before the Usurpation. He received his education on the foundation at Winchester, and in the year 1740 proceeded thence to New-college, Oxford. He married a daughter of Richard Palfreyman, of Boston, co. Lincoln, by whom he had a daughter, who was married to Dean Andrewes, as above stated. In 1751 he went to reside at Oakham, in Rutlandshire, as assistant to Mr. Adcock, then master of the school there; in November 1752 was chosen warden of the hospital in that place; and on the death of Mr. Adcock in 1753, was a candidate for the mastership of the school, which was obtained by Mr. Powell. In March 1753 he was presented by Sir John Danvers, Bart. and Thomas Noel, Esq. trustees named in the will of Bennett Earl of Harborough, to the living of Whissendine in the same county. In 1756 he was master of the free-school at Melton Mowbray, which he resigned in 1757. In July 1761 he was presented to the living of Burley-on-the-Hill; and in the October following to the Rectory of Wymondham in Leicestershire; where, having done much for himself and successors, by setting aside a pretended modus, and raising the value of the living by no means beyond what was just and equitable, he could scarcely ever appear without receiving those insults which the clergy too often experience on similar occasions. (See the History of Leicestershire, vol. II.

this marriage he had three daughters, the eldest of whom, Mary-Anne, was married May 12, 1812, to G. Baker, Esq. son of John Baker, Esq. formerly M. P. for Canterbury; the second, Elizabeth, died an infant; and the third died unmarried; his youngest child and only son is the Rev. GerrardThomas Andrewes. He was of Trinity-college, Cambridge, B.A. 1817, M. A. 1820; and was presented to the Rectory of Allhallows, Bread-street, by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury in 1819. He married June 10 that year, Elizabeth Catherine, only daughter of William Heberden, M. D. F. R. S,

In 1791 he was chosen alternate Evening Preacher at the Magdalen; and in 1799 at the Foundling Hospital. In the latter year he preached in St. Paul's, at the anniversary meeting of the Sons of the Clergy, a Sermon which he afterwards published*. His efforts in the pulpit having excited the admiration of Lady Talbot, and obtained her pp. 258, 405, 406). In 1766 he was installed a Prebendary in the Collegiate Church of Brecon. This preferment is in the gift of the Bishop of St. David's, but by lapse then fell to the Lord Chancellor Northington. Mr. Ball made application for it through the Earl of Winchelsea, who (on Mr. Ball's waiting on him to know the success of his visit to the Chancellor) told him that he had done all in his power for him, but had received a denial, thè Prebend being engaged. About two months after, when the Earl of Northington was about to be succeeded by Earl Camden, and the Prebend was still undisposed of, Mr. Ball waited in person on Lord Northington, and expressed his hope that it might still be his; adding that, he trusted the recommendation of Lord Winchelsea would entitle bim to notice. "His recommendation!" said Lord Northington," he has never said a syllable to me either about you or the Prebend, but, as I cannot now give it you myself, I will hand you over to Pratt; apply to him, and I will lend you my assistance." He did so; and Mr. Ball succeeded. Soon after, Lord Winchelsea met him, and, expressing his surprise at his appointment, asked him, in a tone not very expressive of friendship, how he could possibly have obtained it? "I got it," replied Mr. Ball, "by really asking, and not receiving a denial." In 1771 he was chosen Lecturer of St. George's, Bloomsbury, which, with the Curacy, he held to the day of his death, which occurred in Great Russell-street, May 18, 1796.

* See the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LXXIII. p. 255.