[576] Biographical History of England, ii, 362.
- “Stranger,
- beneath this cone, in unconsecrated ground,
- a friend to the liberties of mankind directed his
- body to be inurn’d.
- May the example contribute to emancipate thy mind
- from the idle fears of Superstition,
- and the wicked arts of Priesthood.”
- “Stranger,
- beneath this cone, in unconsecrated ground,
- a friend to the liberties of mankind directed his
- body to be inurn’d.
- May the example contribute to emancipate thy mind
- from the idle fears of Superstition,
- and the wicked arts of Priesthood.”
Touching this epitaph Archdeacon Nares has the following note:—“I heard John Wilkes, after praising Baskerville, add, “But he was a terrible infidel; he used to shock me !”
[578] “On Friday last, Mr. Baskerville, of this town, was married to Mrs. Eaves, widow of the late Richard Eaves, Esq., deceased” (Birmingham Register, June 7, 1765). Mrs. Baskerville d. 1788. Two works exist, printed at Birmingham, with the imprint, Sarah Baskerville.
[579] In 1776, Chapman used Baskerville’s type for Dr. W. Sherlock’s Discourses concerning Death. 8vo.
[580] This preference was so marked, that about this time the proprietors of Fry and Pine’s foundry, who had begun with an avowed imitation of the Baskerville models, were constrained to admit their mistake, and discard that fashion for new founts cut on the model of Caslon.
[581] As early as 1775, Dr. Harwood, in the preface to his View of the Editions of the Classics, had pleaded urgently for the purchase of Baskerville’s types, and Wilson’s famous Greek, as the nucleus of a Royal Typography in England.
[582] Lit. Anec., iii, 460.