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1730. By the Rev. Mr. S of Magdalen College Oxford.

By the Rev. John Straight. Hoadly wa then studying for the law, but soon quittec it, being admitted at Corpus Christi Colle: Cambridge, in June, 1730, and ordained his father in 1735. " To be dispatched

you and " [Ben] alludes to his eldes

brother, Benjamin Hoadly.

248-51. To the Rev. Mr. J. S. [John Straight"

1731. By J. H. [John Hoadly]. The poem begins :

'Promises are different cases

At various times in various places

In crowded street of Arlington.

Horace Walpole in his copy puts the note :

"S r Robert Walpole, Earl Granville, Mr. Pel ham, Aug. Duke of Grafton, all lived in Arlingtor Street. The First only is here meant."

251-3. Answer to the foregoing, 1731. By J. S [John Straight].

253-4. [Lines on Adam and Eve.] These lines, with several other epigrams on marriage, are reprinted in H. P. Dodd, '' Epigrammatists,' 2nd ed., pp. 609-11.

254-6. Cupid and Chloe.

256-7- The poet to his false mistress.

257. On Mr. ****, schoolmaster at ***

The last four pieces are also by Straight. The last of them is also reproduced in Dodd's '' Epigrammatists,' pp. 381-2.

258-68. The mousetrap, a translation of Mr. Holdsworth's ' Muscipula,' 1737. By**** [Chan- cellor Dr. J. Hoadly].

' This translation of the ' Muscipula ' of Edward Holdsworth (' D.N.B.') first ap- peared with Holdsworth's ' Dissertations ' (1749). Of the many English versions of the piece, this was Holdsworth's favourite j he pronounced it " exceedingly well done."

269-74. Verses under the prints of Mr. Hogarth's ' Rake's Progress,' 1735.

275. On the friendship of two young ladies, 1730.

276. Chloe's unknown likeness, 1738. 277-8. The bird of passage, 1749.

279 Verses [French, English, Latin] said to be fixed on the gate of the Louvre, 1751.

280-81. Chloe resolved, a ballad, set to music by Dr. Green, 1743.

281-3. Epilogue to Shakespear's 'First Part of King Henry IV.,' acted by young gentlemen at Mr. Newcome's school at Hackney, 1748 ; spoken by Mr. J. Y. [James Yorke, afterwards Bishop of Gloucester and Ely] as Falstaff.

283-5. Prologue to 'Comus,' performed for the benefit of the general hospital at Bath, 1756 ; spoken by Miss Morrison as a lady of fashion.

285-8. Epigrams from Martial; to James Harris, Esq. ('D.N.B.').

The last nine pieces are also by Hoadly. Several of these translations from Martial are given in Dodd's ' Epigrammatists,' 2nd ed., pp. 74-8. A very full account of

Hoadly is given in Gent. Mag. for 1776, pp. 164-6 ; and there are many interesting letters from him to Garrick in the latter's ' Private Correspondence,' 1835, 2 vols. A communication from him to Dodsley on his and his friends' contributions to this collec- tion is in Addit. MS. B.M. 30262, f. 70, and will be printed in a later number of ' N. & Q.'

288. A very gallant copy of verses (but somewhat silly) upon the ladies and their fine cloaths at a ball. By Mr. W. Taylor.

He was vainly inquired after in Gent. Mag., 1796, p. 479. Some more verses by him are printed in vol. vi. p. 125 of this collection, and an account of him will be given there.

289-90. Another on the same subject, written with more judgment, but fewer good manners.

290-91. The brewer's coachman.

291-2. Female caution.

292-3. Grace and nature [in 1758 ed. called ' Orthodox Advice '].

293-4. Hull ale.

294. Absolution [in 1758 ed. called ' Epigram '].

295. Penance [in 1758 ed. "another" epigram].

295. The mistake.

The last eight pieces are by Taylor.

296. A fragment of Chaucer. By J. H., Esq. James Harris, ' D.N.B.'J.

Reproduced in second ed. of Dodd's ' Epi- grammatists,' p. 609.

296-7. i Upon an alcove, now at Parson's Green [in rounds of Saml. Richardson].

By Mrs. Bennet, sister of Edw. Bridgen, merchant in Paternoster Row, F.R.S., F.S.A., Treasurer of the Antiq. Soc. (d. 28 July, 1787), who married Martha, Richardson's second daughter, in 1762. The poem is reprinted in C. J. Feret's ' Fulham,' ii. 127-8. Mrs. Bennet died suddenly at Worcester, Sept., 1792, aged seventy- three. She wrote

erses (Anna Seward, ' Letters,' iii. 237-8), and was friendly with Richardson (id.,

Poems,' ii. 187-8).

298-301. The country parson. [Authorship not iven.]

302-5. Plain Truth. By Henry Fielding ('D.N.B.').

305-6. Ode to Venus, from her votaries of the treet. By *****

306-7. An epigram. By the same.

307-8. The poet's importance. By Dr. H***

308. To Polly Laurence, quitting the pump, Bath, any., 1756. By William Hall, Esq.

309-10. Ode to a lady in London. By Miss C***

!arter]..

luch altered in her ' Poems.'

311-12. Ode to spring. By Miss F. lartha Ferrar, eldest dau. of Edward

errar, attorney of Huntingdon (d. 17 Aug., 769, aged seventy-four), who married Love Jeverley. She d. 10 Oct., 1759, in the year f her age sixty-two, of her marriage thirty-