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 verses, lists of inscriptions, prospectuses, squibs, and other trifles.

Among the more important of Phillipps's private issues are: 1. ‘Institutiones Clericorum in Comitatu Wiltoniæ, 1297–1810,’ 2 vols. fol. vol. i. Salisbury, 1822; vol. ii. Middle Hill, 1825. 2. ‘Monumental Inscriptions in the County of Wilton,’ 1822. 3. ‘Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Antonii a Wood’ (in the Ashmolean Library) [by William Huddesford, Oxford, 1761], 1824, fol. 4. ‘Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Phillippica,’ 1824–[1867?] fol.; the second sheet describes the manuscripts of Dr. Van Ess, and the fifth the Meerman MSS. Succeeding supplements describe a total of 17,872 manuscripts, and other manuscripts were roughly catalogued up to 34,316 (Notes and Queries, 4th ser. ix. 201). 5. ‘Itinerarium ad Terram Sanctam: per Petrum de Suchen A.D. 1336, scriptum A.D. 1350,’ 1825, 12mo, pp. 5–78 (incomplete). 6. ‘Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials in Somerset House Chapel,’ 1831, 8vo. 7. ‘Catalogus Manuscriptorum in Bibliothecis Angliæ,’ pts. i. and ii. 1833–9, fol. 8. ‘Index to Cartularies, now or formerly existing since the Dissolution of the Monasteries,’ 1839, 12mo. 9. ‘Aubrey's Collections for Wiltshire, printed from the original Manuscript under the Inspection of Sir T. P.,’ London, 1839, 4to. 10. ‘Sir Dudley Carleton's State Letters during his Embassy to The Hague, 1627, now first edited by Sir T. P.,’ 1841, 4to.

[Times, 8 Feb. 1872; Athenæum, February 1872; Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes, 1889, pp. 68, 180; Book Lore, iv. 141; private information.] 

PHILLIPS. [See also, , , and .]

PHILLIPS, ARTHUR (1605–1695), musician, son of William Phillips of Winchester, was born in 1605, and matriculated from New College, Oxford, on 15 Nov. 1622. In 1638 he was organist at Bristol; in 1639 organist of Magdalen College, Oxford; in 1640 he graduated Mus. Bac., and from 1639 to 1656 was choragus or professor of music at Oxford. He became a Roman catholic, resigned his post at the university, and served Queen Henrietta Maria as organist in France. On his return to England he became before 1670 steward of John Caryll the elder of Harting in Sussex. He died on 27 March 1695. His will was proved by his nephew, Hugh Phillips, who succeeded to the stewardship, and died in 1696.

Phillips composed music in several parts to poems and hymns by Dr. Thomas Pierce [q. v.], including ‘The Resurrection,’ 1649, and ‘The Requiem, or Liberty of an imprisoned Royalist,’ 1641. A fancy, upon a ground, by him, is in British Museum Addit. MS. 29996, fol. 193 b.

[Wood's Fasti, p. 283; Bloxam's Registers of Magdalen College, ii. 191, 283; Hawkins's Hist. ii. 584; Grove's Dict. ii. 705; Caryll Papers, Brit. Mus.; Addit. MSS. 28240–28253, passim; Brit. Mus. Charters, 19024, 19027.] 

PHILLIPS, CATHERINE (1727–1794), quakeress, daughter of Henry Payton of Dudley, Worcestershire, by his wife Ann, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Fowler of Evesham, in the same county, was born at Dudley on 16 Jan. 1726–7. Her parents were devout quakers, and, her gift of pious oratory becoming conspicuous at an early age, she entered the ministry in 1748. Thenceforth she went on annual preaching tours among the Friends, visiting Wales, Cornwall, Ireland in 1751, and Scotland in 1752. In 1753 she sailed from London to Charlestown, traversed the whole of Carolina, and prolonged her stay in the New England colonies until 1756. In the following year she sailed from Harwich on a missionary tour in Holland, preaching to the natives by means of an interpreter. Her marriage at Bewdley, on 15 July 1772, to William Phillips, a widower, in the copper-mining business, proved no impediment to her itinerant preaching. After her husband's death, however, in 1785, her health declined, and her faculties seem to have decayed. She died at Redruth in Cornwall on 16 Aug. 1794, and was buried at Kea. Her son James was father of Richard Phillipps (1778–1851) [q. v.], and of William Phillipps (1775–1828) [q. v.]

Two years after her death appeared the autobiographical ‘Memoirs of the Life of Catherine Phillips, to which are added some of her Epistles,’ London, 1797, 8vo, a strictly edifying work, testifying to the writer's conviction of divine guidance in every circumstance of life. These ‘Memoirs’ were reprinted in the ‘Friends' Library,’ edited by William and Thomas Evans of Philadelphia (1847, vol. xi. pp. 188–287), and abridged by the Religious Tract Society in 1835. Minor works, in addition to printed addresses and letters, are: ‘Considerations on the Causes of the High Price of Grain … with occasional remarks,’ 1792, 8vo; ‘Reasons why the People called Quakers cannot so fully unite with the Methodists in their Missions to the Negroes in the West India Islands and Africa as freely to contribute thereto,’ London, 1792, 8vo; 2nd edit. 1793; and ‘The Happy King, a Sacred Poem, with