Lay Fellow and Tutor of Jes. Coll.; used to read Theocritus Græcè in the stage-coach.
Author of History of London, or some topographical quarto. The next may be guessed.
R. S. Townshend of Manchester.—I know that you have several intelligent correspondents in the neighbourhood of Manchester, and it is probable that they may be able to give me some information respecting a Mr. R. S. Townshend, a person of literary taste and pursuits, who resided in that town about the year 1730. His Common-place Book, or Diary, which has fallen into my hands, contains numerous allusions to the leading gentry and clergy of the neighbourhood; and more than once it mentions the well-known Dr. Byrom, under the title of "Il Gran Maestro de Tachigraphia." Dr. Deacon, a distinguished person among the Nonjurors, is also mentioned. The acting of Cato by the scholars of the grammar-school on Dec. 20, 1732, is also mentioned, with some critiques upon the performers. The elections at the collegiate church are constantly referred to as subjects of all-absorbing interest; there being a strong party,
as well in the town as in the church, of Jacobites, and these elections being regarded as a trial of party strength.
O. G.
"Mala malæ malo."—Will any of your correspondents be good enough to complete the distich of which the following is the first line?—
"Mala malæ malo mala pertulit omnia in orbem,"
or something like it. And, as a further favour, finish the hexameter in this epigram?
"Roma amor è retro perlecto nomine....
Tendit enim retro Roma in amore Dei."