"Secundæ Cogitutiones meliores.
"A pamphlet was of proverbs penned by Polton,
Wherein he thought all sorts included were;
Untill one told him Bate m' an ace quoth Bolton,
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Hopkins the Witchfinder (Vol. ii., p. 392.).—If the inquiry of CLERICUS relates to Mathew Hopkins the witchfinder general, my friend W.S. Fitch of Ipswich has some manuscript account of his residence in that town, as a lawyer of but little
note, and his removal to Manningtree, in Essex; but whether it gives any further particulars of him I am unable to state, as I have not seen the manuscript.
J. CLARKE.
Sir Richard Steel (Vol. ii., p.375.).—The death and burial-place of Sir Richard Steel is thus noticed in Cibber's Lives of the Poets, vol. iv. p.120.:—
"Some years before his death he grew paralytic, and retired to his seat at Langunnor, near Caermarthen, in Wales, where he died, September 1st, 1729, and was privately interred, according to his own desire, in the church of Caermarthen."