In honour of our author, Mr. Oldmixon observes, that he had an abhorrence of those that swore, or talked profanely in conversation. He looked upon it as a poor pretence to wit, and never excused it in himself or others.—I have already observed, that our author had a share in the Medley, a paper then set up in favour of the Hanoverian succession, in which he combats the Examiner, who wrote on the opposite, or, at least, the High-Church Interest.
He also wrote the following pieces.
1. Remarks on a late Romance, intitled the Memorial of the Church of England, or the History of the Ten Champions.
2. A Translation of the second Ode, of the first book of Horace.
3. A Translation of the fifth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
4. A Character of the new Ministers, 1710.
5. Several Songs, Poems, Prologues and Epilogues.
6. There was a Manuscript given him to peruse, which contained Memoirs of the duke of Marlborough's famous march to Blenheim: It was written by a chaplain of the duke's, with great exactness as to the incidents, but was defective in form. Mr. Maynwaring was desired to alter and improve it, which he found too difficult a task; but being greatly pleased with the particular account of all that pass'd in that surprizing march, he resolved that it should not be lost, and to give it a new and more perfect form himself, by reducing a kind of diary into a regular history. These papers fell into the hands of Sir Richard Steel.
7. A Translation of part of Tully's Offices.
8. Four Letters to a Friend in North-Britain, written upon the publishing Dr. Sacheveral's Trial.