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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL APRIL 13, 1907.

.altered in her edition of her poems. Francis Walwyn was " canon in the seventh pre-

bend " in Canterbury Cathedral from 1744 to
 * i770. He died on 19 May, 1770 (Le Neve,

'Fasti,' i. 55).

215-26. The estimate of life, in three parts. By

John Gilbert Cooper (' D.N.B.'). .Appeared in the ' Museum,' i. 372-9.

226-31. The pleasure of poetry, an ode. By Mr. Vansittart.

(Robert Vansittart, Fellow of All Souls College, and Regius Professor of Civil Law .at the Univ. of Oxford (' D.N.B.'). He was a friend of Thomas Warton, and they were vthe joint authors of a prose essay on * Snug- ness ' which appeared in Dodsley's ' Museum', .(Chalmers, ' Poets,' xviii. 76). Vansittart wrote English verses in the Oxford set on tthe birth of Prince George, afterwards < George IV.

.231-3. The power of poetry. [By Mr. Rolle.] 233-5. To a young lady with Foiitenelle's plurality

of worlds.

Also by Rolle, and in the ' Museum,' ii. 56-7.

235-41. Some small poems. By D. G. [David ''Garrick, 'D.N.B.'].

" Nobilissimse Lucise " (p. 240) and Lucy

W. 241) are the Countess of Rochford. ill (p. 241) was her husband, and Dick i(p. 241) his brother. These pieces are also .in the ' Museum,' iii. 97-8.

242-54. The trial of Selim the Persian for divers .High Crimes and Misdemeanors. By Edward Moore ('D.N.B.').

.It was published Anonymously in 1748 in defence of Lord Lyttelton, who wrote some Persian letters.

255-65. The Trophy, being six cantatas to the .honour of his royal highness, William, Duke of Cumberland ; set to music by Dr. Greene, 1746. By Chancellor Hoadly, says Walpole ; by Dr. Benjamin Hoadly, says the edition of

265-8. The marriage of the Myrtle and the Yew, -a table, lo Delia, about to marry beneath herself, 1/44.

268-9. On a bay leaf, plucked from Virgil's tomb near Naples, 1736.

270-71. To Chloe, written on my birthday, 1734.

2/1-3. A song, set to music by Dr. Greene. The last four pieces are also by Ben. Hoadly.

^f"^*^ ashion ' a satire - By Dr. Joseph Warton. 281-2 Nature and fortune, to the Earl of Chester-

t-ii' B 7^ the ^ ery Rev ' Phili P Fletcher, Dean of Kildare (Gent. Mag., 1780, p. 123).

He is said in Gent. Mag., 1780, p. 123, to have written also ' Truth at Court,' a little piece much read and liked " soon after the acces- sion of George III. It will be found in ' The Annual Register ' for 1761, p. 217. Fletcher

was installed Treasurer of Dromore Cathedral on 9 Feb., 1744/5, and on 8 Dec., 1746, was installed as third Canon of Kildare Cathedral. Next day he resigned the canonry, and was on the same day elected Dean of Kildare. He died in 1765, and was succeeded in the deanery by his younger brother, William Fletcher.

283. The exception [another compliment to the Earl of Chester-held].

284. To the Earl of Chesterfield.

285-97. Honour, a poem [first pub. in 1743], By the Rev. John Brown, D.D. ('D.N.B.'). Inscribed to Viscount Lonsdale.

297-300. Ode to a water-nymph. By Mr. Mason ('D.N.B.').

Gray (' Letters,' ed. Tovey, i. 178) says :

"Mr. Mason is my acquaintance; I liked that ode very much, but have found no one else that did."

303-14. Musgeus, a monody to the memory of Mr. Pope, in imitation of Milton's 'Lycidas.' Also by Mason. Gray (' Letters,' i. 187) says :

" ' Musasus,' too, seems to carry with it a promise at least of something good to come."

315-39. Essay on satire, occasioned by the death of Mr. Pope, inscribed to Dr. Warburton. By the Rev. John Brown, D.D.

Warburton saw this piece by accident, and asked Dodsley for the author's name. It was then published in the collected edition of Pope's works before the ' Essay on Man.' Sir Leslie Stephen says that one line of it survives : " And coxcombs vanquish Ber- keley by a grin."

339-45. A character of Mr. Pope's writings being an episode from the poem call'd Sickness, Book II. By the Rev. Mr. [William] Thompson ('D.N.B.').

346-7- The cave of Pope, a prophecy. By R. D. [Robert Dodsley, the editor and publisher

Vol. iii. (fourth ed.) also contains (pp. 93-6) ' The Resolution : an Elegy,' written in the year 1742.

The 1748 ed. of vol. iii. contains (pp. 260- 70) " The Wrongheads, a poem inscrib'd to Mr. Pope. By a person of quality," and (pp. 321-2) ' The Happy Man,' which are not in the 1766 ed. The following pieces in the 1766 ed. of vol. iii. are not in the 1748 ed., viz., 'On a Grotto near the Thames,' pp. 1-2 ; ' Ode on ^Bolus's Harp,' pp. 4-5 ; ' On the Report of a Wooden Bridge to be built at Westminster,' p. 6 ; ' Life Burden- some,' pp. 61-3; 'Contentment,' pp. 119-

Trial The of the

Myrtle,' pp. 265-8 ; ' On a Bay Leaf,' pp. 268-9; 'To Chloe,' pp. 270-71; 'A