[Footnote 1:]

Just published, 1712, by Dr. Samuel Clarke, then 37 years old. He had been for 12 years chaplain to the Bishop of Norwich, and Boyle Lecturer in 1704-5, when he took for his subject the

Being and Attributes of God and the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion

. He had also translated Newton's

Optics

, and was become chaplain to the Queen, Rector of St. Jamess, Westminster, and D. D. of Cambridge. The accusations of heterodoxy that followed him through his after life date from this year, 1712, in which, besides the edition of

Cæsar

, he published a book on the

Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity