at your leisure. I have received upwards of 401. besides a good many second payments that are to come in, and expect about 15 or 201. more of first payments; but still am afraid our sum will be too small to have any large deduction. The poor woman, however, does meet with friends. Mr. Belgrave will give you some account of the beauties of Oxford, I am, &c. TREVOR." "DEAR SIR, Bromham, Dec. 2, 1749. "I find every body is consenting to the not printing, I am entirely of opinion to stop the press altogether; and so I beg of you to take care of the Manuscript Sermons. ་་ "DEAR SIR, TREVOR." Bromham, Dec. 9, 1749. "It was a pleasure to me to hear of your welfare; and I thank God I had a safe and pleasant journey across the country some little time since, and arrived safe and sound at the old mansion, where I despair of seeing you at this bad season of the year; so that I have taken the liberty to send you the Printer's bill at Cambridge, and beg you will please to order the payment, as also to let me know what I am indebted to you for books, &c.; and if there is any money like to come in to Mrs. King, or not, as the affair is now quite at an end, and very little or no money has been demanded back again. I will send my servant over in a few days to know your pleasure. I hope yourself and family enjoy pretty good health this trying season of the year. TREVOR." "DEAR SIR, Bromham, Jan. 2, 1749-50. "I hope this will find you all well at Houghton, and I heartily wish you a happy new year. The weather is now too bad to think of visits, so have sent by my servant some money, out of which I beg the favour of you to take what is due to Mr. Bentham, the Printer, at Cambridge. I think you have his note; and also for Mr. Rutherforth's books, &c. 1 must desire you to keep back one guinea more for a poor old nurse of mine at Cambridge. Her name is Brown, and she lives, I think, near the Printinghouse. I hope all your good neighbours are well, &c. TREVOR. Bromham, Jan. 27, 1749-50. "I received the balance of the account between us very safe by my servant; and Mrs. King, who is at present with me, returns you many thanks for all the kind pains you have taken in her behalf. I am myself too very sensible of your many favours. As to the Sermons that are printed off, I do not see we need do any thing about them. I mentioned it to her, and she seems desirous to have them to dispose of to some of her acquaintance. I hope you have remembered to send to the poor old woman, for I believe she has no time to lose. "DEAR SIR, "I shall be glad to hear that the present flames* at poor old Cambridge are happily extinguished, before they do farther mischief. "The book you mention I shall very readily subscribe to, as it is a friend of yours that undertakes it, so pray put my name down in your list, and I will be answerable when it comes out. I * Alluding to "The Cupitade," and other pamphlets, occasioned by certain Orders and Regulations then recently passed in the Senate. believe believe I might venture to take a trip to London first, and then be back time enough to receive you at Bromham. TREVOR." "DEAR SIR, Bromham, Monday night, Jan..., 1749-50. "I ask pardon for my long silence, and return thanks for your last kind letter and treatise, which I think very suitable to the person intended for. I shall be glad to have the new additional notes to Hudibras, and remember the author of Cambridge. I shall be glad to know whether Mr. Hedges of Peter-house went abroad last Summer or not. Poor Mrs. King will be glad to receive the printed Sermons when you have them. You will please not to drop the franks*, or dispose of them to unknown hands. I very heartily return yourself and family the usual compliments of the season; and am, Sir, &c. TREVOR." Bromham, March 29, 1750. "DEAR SIR, "I thank you for your last kind letter, and am very well satisfied with Mr. Bentham's account, and will take some opportunity of returning him the money, and beg you will let all your subscribers know that we do not print at last, and, if they please, to take back their money of you, or in a month or two month's time, or else it will be paid into the widow's hand. This way, I think, will be better than advertising in the papers. "The reckoning between us may be settled when you come into the country, which I hope will be soon, for surely this year Easter will be quite Summer. You will please to take care to put by all the Sermons in your hands, that they may be returned to Mrs. Favell. I am now reading Mr. Brooke's † late performance with great pleasure, and am much obliged to him for his present; and I dare say my Brother‡ will take a book very kindly. "You were so happy as well as we, I hope, not to be alarmed at the late terrible shock § they had in and about London. I pray God keep us from it, and that it may have the good effect of making many persons think more seriously, and be a means to infuse into them better resolutions for the future. The Bishop of London's Letter]] is excellent. "Pray be so good, Sir, when you can send to, or see Mr. Hedges of Peter-house, as to tell him my gardens will smile in a fortnight's time, and I wish he would be a spectator. TREVOR." This caution arose from a forgery practised on Bp. Hoadly, by one Bernard Fournier, a Popish convert, who had the audacity to write a promissory note for £.8000 on a frank of that worthy prelate. See the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. II. p. 192; vol. III. p. 139. In his Treatise "De Miraculis." Dr. Z. Brooke, Mr. Cole says, “distinguished himself by writing against Dr. Middleton, but in a language that made it less taken notice of than if it had been in English.” See the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. I. p. 564; vol. VII p. 51. Dr. Richard Trevor, Bishop of Durham. See ibid. vol. III. p. 125. § Some severe shocks of an Earthquake were felt in London, and many miles round it, Feb. 3, 1749-50. See Gent. Mag. vol. XX. p. 89. "A Letter from the Bishop of London [Dr. Sherlock] to the Clergy and Inhabitants of London and Westminster, &c. onccasion of the late Earthquake." See Gent. Mag, vol. XX. p. 98. From the Rev. Dr. JAMES TUNSTALL*. "DEAR SIR, London, May 19, 1736. "Osbornt is not disposed to accept either of your proposals, to give the large paper of Selden for the Byzantines with Du Fresne's Historia, &c. or the small paper without it; and, indeed, he undervalues the Byzantines so much, that he will not be brought to any reasonable conditions. As to Dr. Moss's last volume, he is not willing to meddle, telling me that the fifth volume has not sold, and that he has now many upon his hands. "I waited upon Mr. Bettenham on Monday with the Sermons, and gave him directions about the printing them, and desired him to send to the White Horse as they were printed, but have not received them. I intend to wait upon him again before I set out, which will be on Saturday morning, and carefully observe your commands. I am, with much esteem, Sir, "Your most humble servant, "Dear Sir, J. TUNSTALL." London, Feb 22, 1742-3. "I was last night with Mr. Bathurst, and we alone continued the conversation till twelve on the subject of Hudibras. He peremptorily rejected your proposals in every form. Your first proposal insists on 600 copies certain, and half the number of copies subscribed for that exceed 1000, with the General Historical Dictionary,' neatly bound, gilt and lettered; and 13 copies in large paper, bound in red morocco leather, gilt and lettered; and 12 copies in calf-skin, gilt and lettered. You had said, that Mr. Bathurst offered you 600 copies, provided there were 1000 subscriptions. You do not express in the said proposal whether you intend absolutely to part with the property of the Notes; but I must acquaint you that Mr. Bathurst is utterly against any agreement whereby you shall retain any property in any future impression, either of the notes separately, or together with the text of Hudibras. Understanding then that you intended to part with the notes absolutely, and thinking that your subscrip tion might amount to 1500, I put this supposition-that you would ensure to the Proprietors 650 subscriptions, and asked whether they would allow you 850 copies, free of all charge, out of an impression of 2000, which were all to be sold off before any new impression was made; and allow you farther the 25 copies, and the General Historical Dictionary,' bound as atoresaid. I did not pretend to make this proposal, because you had given me no commission for it; but said I would communicaté their answer upon this head to you. Mr. Bathurst excepted against giving in the Historical Dictionary;' and said, that, if you would ensure him 650 subscriptions, he would give his consent, and endeavour to prevail upon the rest to do the same-that you should have the 850 copies and the 25 copies bound, &c. as above, free of all charge, out of the impression of 2000, under the circumstances mentioned: but, as he obliges himself to have no second im* Of whom see the “Literary Anecdotes," vol. VII. pp. 429, 695. + Mr. Thomas Osborn, the famous Bookseller to Gray's Inn. pression pression till the first is sold off, so he would have you obliged to sell none of your 850 copies under the market price, if any should chance to continue in your hands by your not having the complete number of 1500 subscribers, or by their not paying in their second payments. I have laid before you the most advantageous agreement that Mr. Bathurst will enter into, as far as I can make any judgment of his real intentions; but assure you that you are entirely at your liberty as ever, since I did not engage any thing whatever, but to write to you to the effect I have. One proposal I mentioned more, that they should print the text in conjunction with your notes, and divide both the expence of the impression and the number of copies between you, each party retaining your respective properties in the text and notes in future impressions; but this, though apparently very fair, Mr. Bathurst would not hear of. In short, I believe your number of subscriptions may make your bargain worse with Booksellers, if after all you think it expedient to make any bargain. "I am at the chambers of Fletcher Norton*, Esq. of the Middle Temple, and continue here till Monday next; and if you think that any good may arise from the proposed state of our negotiation no one would take greater pleasure in serving you than, dear Sir, "Your most affectionate humble servant, J. TUNSTALL." "DEAR SIR, Cambridge, Aug. 23, 1743. "Mr. Bentham would not let me send those specimens to Dr. Taylor, being himself taking a journey to London, where he would talk with Bathurst, and bring other specimens more satisfactory. He went about ten days ago. I will dispatch the specimens as soon as they come to my hands. I thankfully accept your kind offer of Miss Molly's horse, and now entertain thoughts of a Northern expedition; but, if I change my mind, I shall make it into Essex for about three weeks. I believe this young man who has lately come to me will take sufficient care in bringing the horse. I shall not deliver your instrument out of my hands till you give express order for it. I am, dear Sir, "Your obliged and obedient humble servant, J. TUNSTALL." "DEAR SIR, Cambridge, Aug. 29, 1743. "The horse arrived safe, and I am exceedingly obliged to you for him. I have enclosed a letter from Mr. Bathurst, and received two more specimens of small paper to-day; but neither of them, in my opinion, will do. Mr. Bentham will write to-day, that you expect such paper as mine is printed upon; and as you had before pitched upon the same, Bathurst is to send a specimen of it without farther loss of time. Dr. Taylor is expected next week, and therefore I have referred the specimen to him. "As I go out to-morrow, I leave your writings with Mr. Powellt, and an order not to part with them till he hears you are perfectly satisfied in the article of paper. I am, dear Sir, your very obliged and affectionate friend and servant, J. TUNSTALL." * Afterwards Speaker of the House of Commons, and Lord Grantley. + Afterwards Dr. William Samuel Powell, and Master of St. John's College. See the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. VII. p. 332. "DEAR "DEAR SIR, Lambeth. "I cannot convey his Grace's* commands to you, without expressing my hearty wishes of all happiness to yourself and your good family, and without testifying what satisfaction I should receive from the continuance of your friendship, in which I have been long happy. I hoped for the pleasure of doing this in person; but Mr. Hatton acquaints me that you do not return till the middle of next month, when I shall be settled at Lambeth. Mr. Buckle† tells me, that the six books of Hudibras, for which he and his friends were subscribers, were not inserted. in the parcel which you sent to Mr. Routh, as I told him they would. He therefore desires me to take them here, and send them by the next return of Mr. Terry. I shall therefore supply myself from Mr. Bentham, and pay the whole prices to him. I have received money from Chancellor Reynolds for your use, which will be paid you by Mr. Powell upon your return. I beg leave to acquaint you that Mr. Powell is my successor in pupils, and all concerns here, and that he will be assisted in Lectures by Mr. Balguy § and Mr. Barnard ||. These gentlemen are all very well known to you, and have all assisted me in the care and instruction of pupils, with so much satisfaction to myself and benefit to those committed to them, that I am justly desirous of promoting their success. I desire my particular respects to Mrs. and Miss Grey; and remain with the greatest affection and esteem, dear Sir, "Your very obliged friend and humble servant, J. TUNSTALL." From the Rev. LEONARD TWELLS T. "REV, SIR, March 13, 1741-2. "I had a sight of yours to Mr. Crofts, for which I heartily thank you. By the advice of our friends, I have published Proposals for printing by subscription my Father's Boyle's and Lady Moyer's Sermons **; and hope from your kind sentiments in your letter to Mr. Crofts towards the children of your old friend, that you will favour me with a letter, and let me know what number I shall send you; and what other advice you think proper to an heavily afflicted family from "Your most obedient humble servant, L. TWELLS." * Archbishop Potter; to whom Dr. Tunstall had then recently been appointed Domestic Chaplain. Samuel Buckle, Esq. of Burton, Yorkshire. Of whom see before, p, 328. Dr. Thomas Balguy; of whom see "Literary Anecdotes," vol. VII. p.19. Rev. Thomas Barnard, of St. John's College; B. A. 1740; M. A. 1744; B. D. 1752. See the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. II. p. 552; vol. IV. p. 406. ¶ Son of the Rev. Dr. Leonard Twells; of whom see the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. VII. p. 430. ** They were published in two volumes, 8vo, 1743. From |