[376] Mores’ Dissert., p. 46.

[377] Ibid., p. 67.

[378] This distinguished ambassador belonged to an honourable family, of whom by no means the least worthy member was Miss Elizabeth Rowe, who in 1785 married Henry Caslon, and subsequently—first with her mother-in-law, and afterwards by her own exertions—ably conducted the affairs of the Chiswell Street foundry. See post, chap. xi.

[379] See ante, p. [144].

[380] Gent. Magaz., vol. 56, p. 497. Nichols’ Lit. Anec., ix, 9.

[381] Proposuit quidem D. Junius multis antehac annis MS. hoc typis evulgare, cujus etiam specimen impressum vidi; sed consilium illius, multis viris doctis merito improbatum, ejus progressum retardavit; dum multa pro arbitrio ex MS. detruncaret et mutaret, idque cùm nulla premebat necessitas, prout ex Catalogo satis magno vocabulorum per pauca Geneseos capita, quæ ipse mutaverat et expunxerat (quem mihi ostendit Typographus) constat (Proleg., sec. ix, § 34).

[382] Vitæ quorundam eruditissimorum et illustrium Virorum.—Patricii Junii. Lond., 1707. 4to. “Utcunque futuri operis specimen, quod jam præ oculis meis habeo, primum nimirum caput libri Geneseos, una cum doctissimis Scholiis, edere placuit. Omnes illud certamen arripiunt, avidisque oculis legunt perleguntque, ac optimâ spe de promissâ editione, quam cum maximo et vix continendo affectu exspectant efflagitantque, conceptâ, quasi moram pertæsi, Orbem Christianum hoc eximio thesauro, quod dudum fuisset locupletandus, nimium diu hactenus caruisse amicè queruntur” (p. 32).

[383] Parr’s Life of Usher, 1686, p. 621. Usher to Boate, June 1651: “ . . . the Alexandrian copy (in the Library of St. James) which he intendeth shortly to make publick, Mr. Selden and myself every day pressing him to the work.”

[384] Wood, Athen. Ox., 1691, i, 796; also Edwards, Libraries and Founders of Libraries, Lond., 1865, 8vo, p. 168.

[385] Lansd. MSS., No. 231, fo. 169.