school in which he himself had first been taught the use of vulgar and decimal fractions. In 1793 he relinquished his school at Nacton, and removed to Witnesham, a village situate a few miles on the other side of Ipswich, where he again commenced the drudgery of tuition. In 1809 he published in octavo, A Treatise on Algebra for Schools." In 1811 he quitted Witnesham, and returned to his former residence, where he remained in the exercise of his profession until his decease, which occurred on the 20th of September 1827, in the 85th year of his age.

Mr. Mole was a contributor to the pages of the "Ipswich Magazine," the first number of which appeared in February 1799, and which was continued until that month in the following year. The following is a list of these contributions: "An Elegy on the death of Charity Kent, who died of the Small Pox at Nacton, in the 17th year of her age. "Thoughts on whether the Discovery of America has added to the sum of happiness or not." Four Essays "On the Vanity of Human Wishes;" "On Emulation;""On Justice;" and "On Dissimulation;" and "A Description of the Consternation of a simple and inoffensive people, on descrying a formidable Fleet approaching their Coast with hostile intention, their imprecations for the confusion of the insulting Foe, &c." in verse; all of which have considerable merit.

Mr. Mole, like every other man, had his virtues, his failings, and his defects. He was, in the strictest sense of the term, a self-taught genius; and, in the study and pursuit of his favourite science, had deservedly attained considerable celebrity. At the commencement of the French Revolution he became an ardent admirer of its principles, and was by no means over-sedulous in concealing his opinions. To the exercise of free inquiry he was strongly addicted; and, as it has been well observed and

lamented that minds merely mathematical are apt to tend to scepticism and infidelity, because, always accustomed to demonstrate proofs, and wholly engaged in a science which admits of them at every step, they will not readily acquiesce in a series of probabilities where investigations of another kind are presented, and perhaps will not have patience to examine circumstances deeply enough to ascertain on which side there is a preponderancy of evidence amounting to demonstration,-in religious belief Mr. Mole was far from orthodox. The writings of Woolston, Hobbes, and others of that school, he had perused with deep attention; and, while narrating their heterodox opinions, would chuckle over them with much seeming delight; but at the same time he frankly admitted that Pope, Johnson, and more especially Montaigne, whose writings he delighted in, were his favourite authors; and these he would occasionally quote with much effect. Throughout a long life his conduct was strictly moral, virtuous, and correct; his manners mild and unassuming, and his habits frugal, temperate, and plain; like Emerson, indeed, for whose memory he entertained the highest veneration, he was fond of a jug of ale, but in the occasional indulgence of this, their favourite beverage, he seldom exceeded the bounds of sobriety. He possessed a firm independence of mind, and a genuine, nay, an ardent love of truth. His honesty and integrity were unimpeached; and it afforded him the greatest pleasure to promote, as far as his slender means would allow, the welfare and happiness of those around him.

Mr. Mole was twice married, but left no issue. His second wife, who survived him, was a person whom he, from motives of charity, had brought up and educated.

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P. 116, line 11, the punctuation should be, "My sarvis to your cousin of Londonderry; as he was so civil to request it [that is, Lord Camelford's acquiescence in Mr. Stewart taking his title from Londonderry], I could not," &c.

P. 137, line 3 from bottom, read, "It is not a lion in the toils; but," &c.

P. 146. In the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LXX. p. 436, are anecdotes of Robert Forster, the Flying Barber of Cambridge, by the Rev. B. N. Turner.

P. 154, line 5. The reference in the 2d volume of the New Monthly Magazine, p. 525, is to the Gentleman's Magazine for March 1785, vol. LV. p. 178—the same letter of Dr. Sharp as is referred to in the present Volume, p. 147 and p. 806.

P. 191, line 22, read viduata est.

P. 248, line 18, for Antiquarian read Linnæan.

P. 249, note, 8 from bottom, for 17.. read 1790.

P. 253. Ewan Law, Esq. died at Horsted Place, Sussex, April 24, 1829, aged 82. He was M. P. for Westbury from 1790 until Jan. 1795; and one of the Commissioners of Naval Inquiry appointed in 1802.

The following epitaph to the Rev. Henry Forster Mills is placed on a tablet on the south wall of Brancepeth church, Durham: "To the memory of the Rev. Henry Forster Mills, A. M. Chancellor of the Cathedral of York and Rector of Elmley in that diocese. He was the eldest son of Henry Mills, Esq. of Willington in this parish, and after an illness of above twenty years, which he bore with exemplary patience and pious resig nation, died at Bath April 27, 1827, in the 58th year of his age. In te, Domine, speravit."― Lieut.-Colonel Robert William Mills, brother to the Chancellor of York, was returned M. P. for Bletchingly at the general election in 1830.-In Brancepeth church is also another tablet: "To the memory of William Forster, Esq. of the City of Durham, who died January 6, 1766, aged 50, and lies interred in the yard near the south wall of the church, Henry Mills, Esq. his affectionate nephew, erected this monument."

P. 267. A monument to the memory of Mr. Wilmot, by Richard Westmacott, is erected in Berkswell church, Warwickshire. It bears the following inscription: "Sacred to the memory of John Eardley Wilmot, Esq. (second son of the Right Hon. Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Knt.) Master in Chancery, Member of Parliament, Commissioner for granting relief to the American Loyalists and to the French Refugees. He died June 23, 1815, aged 66 years. He was a father to the poor; and the cause which he knew not he searched out. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon him, and he caused the widow's heart to sing with joy.' Job, c. xxix.”

Other epitaphs to the Wilmot family in the same church will be found in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. XCVII, i. 577.

P. 309. Miss Essex was the first wife of John Hammond, Esq. M. A. who resigned a Fellowship of Queen's for her hand; but she did not live long after marriage. Mr. Hammond survived till June 7, 1830; and has a memoir in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. C. pt. ii. p. 88.

P. 373, first line of note, read, "met his."

P. 455. The Rev. James Douglas, F. S. A. succeeded the celebrated clerical artist the Rev. William Peters, R. A., in the rectory of Litchborough, Northamptonshire; to which he was instituted Nov. 17, 1787, on the presentation of Sir William Addington, Knt. He was appointed one of the Prince of Wales's Chaplains towards the end of 1787 (together with the Rev. Robert Lewis, who is noticed in vol. V. of this Work, p. 848.) Mr. Douglas resigned Litchborough in 1799, when presented by the Lord Chancellor, through the recommendation of the Earl of Egremont, to the Rectory of Middleton in Sussex. Mrs. Douglas was sister to James Oldershaw, M.D. of Stamford, and to the Rev. John Oldershaw, B. D. Archdeacon of Norfolk, and F.R. S.; and twin sister of Martha, wife of Sir Richard Glode, of Mayfield-place, Kent, who was knighted when Sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1793. Their daughter Margaret was married in 1811 to M. Tucker, Esq. The relics found by Mr. Douglas in his excavations, and engraved in the Nænia Britannica, were sold by his widow to Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. F. R. S. and S. A. who in 1829, with his wonted munificence, presented them to the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, where they are now arranged for public inspection.

P. 492. "In the Museum of Marischal college, Aberdeen, is preserved the elegant gold box presented by the Earl of Buchan to the college, in the year 1769, inclosing a silver pen, for which an annual competition takes place among the students of the Greek class. The successful candidate is rewarded by a donation of a book; and a small silver medal, with his name inscribed upon it, is appended to the pen." Kennedy's Annals of Aberdeen, vol. II. p. 110.

P. 494. The Earl of Buchan, among his other tributes to the memory of Thomson, placed the brass tablet in Richmond Church, Surrey, which bears the following inscription:

"In the earth below this tablet are the remains of James Thomson, author of the beautiful poems, intituled, The Seasons, The Castle of Indolence, &c. who died at Richmond, Aug. 22, 1748, and was buried here the 29th, 1748, O. S. The Earl of Buchan, unwilling that so good a man and sweet a poet should be without a memorial, has denoted the place of his interment for the satisfaction of his admirers, in the year of our Lord 1792 Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good, teach me thyself; Save me from folly, vanity, and woe, From every low pursuit, and feed my soul

With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure,

Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!"

P. 597. Mr. Turnor's pamphlet on Wool was first printed in 1782, and was extracted from the Pamphleteer, no. XLVI.— Mr. Turnor is thanked in the preface to Bromley's Catalogue of Portraits.

P. 605, penultimate line of text, for "Sir Frederick,” &c. read "Sir Ludovick Grant, of Grant, Bart. by Lady Margaret Ogilvy, daughter of James Earl of Findlater and Seafield; and aunt to Sir Lewis-Alexander Grant, who succeeded his maternal uncle in the latter Earldom in 1811, and is the present Peer."There is a large 4to portrait of Dean Waddilove, engraved in mezzotinto by W. Ward, from a painting by George Marshall, of York.

P. 666. Archdeacon Pett died at Oxford, Feb. 4, 1830. The family of Pett was, for several generations, engaged in the superintendance of the royal dock-yards, having been raised to eminence in that employment by Phineas Pett, who was shipwright to King James the First, and from whose diary some interesting extracts were communicated by Mr. Denne to the Archæologia, vol. XII. and several others are interspersed in Nichols's "Progresses of King James I." Dr. Pett's father resided at Maidstone. He was educated at Westminster, where he was admitted King's scholar in 1770, and elected to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1774*. He proceeded M. A. 1781, B. D. 1791, D. D. 1797; and served the University office of Proctor, together with Dr. Routh, now President of Magdalen college, in 1785. At the close of 1788 he was appointed one of the Whitehall preachers. In 1789, being then Chaplain to Dr. Smallwell, Bishop of Oxford, he was collated by that prelate to the vicarage of Orton on the Hill, in Leicestershire; but exchanged in the same year for that of Cropredy in Oxfordshire, which is in the same patronage. In 1795 he was presented by his college to the rectory of Wentnor in Shropshire; and in the same year was collated by the Hon. Dr. North, Bishop of Winchester, to the rectory of Chilbolton in Hampshire, which he retained until his death. In 1796 Bishop Smallwell appointed him Chancellor of the diocese of Oxford, and in the following year Archdeacon. In 1801 he was collated by Bishop Fisher to the prebend of Grimston and Yetminster in the church of Salisbury; and in 1802, by Archbishop Moore, to the rectory of Newington in Oxfordshire. In 1801 Dr. Pett was elected Master of St. Mary hall, which office he resigned in 1815, when he was appointed a

The scholars elected to Christ Church in 1774 were five: the Hon. Percy Charles Wyndham; Multon Lumbarde (of Sevenoaks, Esq.); Thomas Andrew Strange (sometime Chief Justice of Madras, and knighted); Phineas Pett; and William Frederick Browne (now D. D. and Prebendary of Wells). All these, after the lapse of fifty-five years, were living until the death of Archdeacon Pett.