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river Itchen, at the bottom of sloping fields, where they meet a sharp, steep declivity rising from the stream about haff a mile in length, and on the way between Ovmgton and Alresford. It would command a very pretty view down the Itchen valley, westwards over water-meadows. It was only from the poem that I learned that this brow or brae had been called Ovington Link. I have never heard the name in use."

117-50. The squire of Dames, a poem in Spenser's stile. By Moses Mendez (' D.N B ')

151-2. On the death of a lady's owl, and epitaph tor it. By the same.

152-66. Vanity of human wishes, the tenth satire "P itap i h [on Poeta J b y Dr - John Jortm ('D.N.B.'), and translation by Merrick.

The history of this epitaph is printed in Gent. Mag., 1776, p. 495, and in Disney's memoirs of Jortin (1792), pp. 13-14. "It is perhaps the happiest imitation extant of an ancient inscription " (H. P. Dodd, ' Epigrammatists,' 2nd ed., p. 361, where Merrick's translation is reprinted.)

189-91. Verses sent to Dean Swift on his birth- day, with Pine's Horace, finely bound. By Dr. J. hican.

These verses are printed in Scott's ed. of Swift's works, xiv. 369-71. Some of the lines were possibly suggested by Boileau's " epigram to Perrault on his books against the ancients" (Dodd, 'Epigrammatists,' 2nd ed., p. 273). A letter from Sican to Swift, dated Paris, 20 Oct., 1735, is in Swift's works, xviii. 391-4. Sican was a scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1731, and graduated B.A. at the spring Commence- ment 1733 ; M.B. at the spring Commence- ment 1743. He was murdered " as he was travelling in Italy in a postchaise, by a person who fired his pistol at him from another postchaise, upon some dispute between the drivers contending for the way " (ib. xviii. 430). This occurred near Naples in 1753 (Gent. Mag., 1753, p. 297).

A/r 19 >Xr S r writte, n in a garden. By Lady | M. W. M. [Montagu].

193-4. Answer to a love letter. By the same.

195. Answer to a lady who advised retirement- By the same.

196-7. Address of the statues at Stowe to Lord Lobham, on his return to his gardens

198-202. Ode on the death of Mr. Pelham. By Mr. Garrick.

Two passages in this ode have passed into- the world of perennial quotations :

and

Let others hail the rising sun ;

I bow to that whose course is run ;

The same sad morn to Church and State- (So for our sins 'twas fix'd by fate) A double stroke was giv'n : Black as the whirlwinds of the north, St. John's fell Genius issu'd forth, And Pelham fled to heav'n !

203-4. Verses written at Montauban in France,. 1750. By the Rev. Joseph Warton (' D.N.B.').

204-5. Revenge of America.

205-6. The dying Indian.

207-9. Ode occasion'd by reading Mr. West's translation of Pindar.

The last three pieces are also by Joseph Warton.

210-21. Pleasures of Melancholy, written in 1745. By Mr. Thomas Warton ('D.N.B.'). It was published anonymously in 1747.

221-2. Sonnet, written at W de [Winslade] in the absence of [his brother Joseph].

222-3. On bathing, a sonnet. The last two pieces are also by Thomas Warton. They are much altered in his works. W. P. COURTNEY.

(To be contimied.)

PRINCE " BOOTHBY. (See 9 S. v. 127. 236). At the first of these references H. T. B, nquires as to the identity of " Prince " Boothby, referred to in the letters of Horace alpole and George Selwyn, asking (1) why was called " Prince " ; (2) whether he Belonged to the Ashbourne family ; (3) ,vhom he married : and (4) when he died. As no one seems to have answered these questions, it may be as well to put the desired information on record in ' N. & Q.'

Thomas Boothby (1677-1752), of Tooley Park, Leicestershire, one of the fathers of 'oxhunting, married for his first wife Elizabeth, eldest daughter and coheir of Sir Charles Skrymsher, of Norbury, Staffs,. and had by her an eldest son, Thomas Boothby (1699-1751), who assumed the additional name of Skrymsher under his randfather's will. Thomas Boothby Skrymsher, who was M.P. for Leicester 1726-7, and "register general of all trading ships belonging to Great Britain," married in January, 17'20/21, Anne, eldest daughter of Sir Hugh Clopton, of New Place ,' Stratford- upon-Avon, Bt. The fourth, "youngest,