I shall publish both the Taylor’s works, with the score of Michael’s
Ode, some short time hence, in as thin a quarto as my Handel’s
Commemoration, price one guinea in boards, with a view of John’s
house in Phœnix-alley, and Sir Robert’s carriage, as Sheriff of
London and Middlesex.
[1] This anecdote was majestically inserted in my manuscript copy of Handel’s Commemoration, by that Great Personage to whose judgment I submitted it. (I take every occasion of shewing the insertion as a good puff.—I wish, however, the same hand had subscribed for the book..) I did not publish any of the said alterations in that work, reserving some of them for my edition of The Tayloria.
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Testimony for PEPPER ARDEN, Esq.—In Answer to a Case for the Opinion of GEORGE HARDINGE, Esq. Attorney General to her Majesty.
I have perused this Ode, and find it containeth eight hundred and forty-seven WORDS—two thousand one hundred and four SYLLABLES—four thousand three hundred and forty-four LETTERS[1].—It is, therefore, my opinion, that said Ode is a good and complete title to all those fees, honours, perquisites, emoluments, and gratuities, usually annexed, adjunct to, and dependant on, the office of Poet Laureat, late in the occupation of William Whitehead, Esq. defunct.
G. HARDINGE.
[1] See the learned Gentleman’s arithmetical Speech on the Westminster Scrutiny.
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Testimony in Favour of Sir RICHARD HILL, Bart.