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Cramp, Tooth-ache, West or Sty, &c.] 36 [Brasichellen and Serpilius, by J. Sansom] 37 [Queries:—] [Sir George Buc, by Rev. T. Corser] 38 [Cosas de España] 39 [Carter's Drawings of York Cathedral, by J. Britton] 40 [Minor Queries:—] "Imprest" and "Debenture"—Cosen's MSS.—Barclay's Argenis—Clergy sold for Slaves— Meaning of Pallet—Tobacco in the East—Stephanus Brulifer 40 [Replies:—] [Asinorum Sepultura] 41 [Pope Felix] 42 [Replies to Numismatic Queries] 42 ["As Lazy as Ludlum's Dog"] 42 [Replies to Minor Queries:—]Lord John Townshend— When Easter ends—Holdsworth and Fuller—Gookin —"Brozier"—Symbols of Four Evangelists—Catacombs and Bone-houses—Tace Latin for Candle— Members for Durham—"A Frog he would," &c.— Cavell—To endeavour ourselves—Three Dukes— Christabel—Derivation of "Trianon" 43 [Miscellaneous:—] [Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c.] 47 [Books and Odd Volumes Wanted] 47 [Notices to Correspondents] 47 [Advertisements] 48
Notes.
DR. WHICHCOTE, MICHAEL AYNSWORTH, AND LORD SHAFTESBURY.
Not less remarkable and interesting than the publication of Dr. Whichcote's Sermons by the noble author of the Characteristics, is a posthumous volume (though never designed for the press) under the following title:—
"Several Letters written by a Noble Lord to a Young Man at the University.
"Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem Testa diu.—Hor. Epist. ii. 1.
"Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms, in Warwick Lane, 1716. 8vo."
The young man was Michael Aynsworth, of University College, Oxford, afterwards vicar of Cornhampton, in Hampshire, and master of the Free School there. He was a native of Dorsetshire; his father, who was in narrow circumstances, living near Wimborne St. Giles's, the seat of Lord Shaftesbury, by whom the son seems to have been nobly patronised, on account of his inclination to learning and virtuous disposition.
The published letters are only ten in number; but I have an accurate manuscript transcript of fifteen, made from the originals by R. Flexman (who had been a pupil of Aynsworth) in 1768. The transcriber's account is as follows:—