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 in scholarship and knowledge of antiquity, and having^ access to official documents, was necessarily unequal, and its production met with severe criticism. One critic spoke of it as "progenitor of those tomes of ponderous verbosity &hellip; palmed upon the public as 'Standard authorities' in naval history," and another spoke of the author as a landed gentleman of England "very much at sea upon maritime matters." Nevertheless, the work is a monument of industry, sufficient to earn for its author a place of honour in his county. He represented Sandwich in Parliament in 1705, and again in 1721. He died 20th October, 1746.

[See "Pepys's Diary," and "Life and Correspondence," by Rev. John Smith; "Allibone's Dictionary of Authors."]

SIR JOHN BURROUGHS.

HERALD,

Or Boroughs, was born at Sandwich, the son, it is said, of a gardener or brewer; who, however, gave his son a liberal education, He studied law in Gray's Inn, and, in 1623, was appointed, on account of his antiquarian knowledge, keeper of the records in the Tower. He was made Mowbray Herald by Queen Elizabeth, and knighted by James I. He attended Charles I, when he went to Scotland to be crowned, and in 1633 he was made Garterking-at-Arms. During the Civil War he accompanied the king on his campaigns, and died October 21st, 1643, at Oxford, where he lies buried in Christ Church Cathedral. He was the author of the following works (1) "Impetus