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Florah, daughter of Edward Hyde, Lord Vis- count Cornbury, buried 6 Feb., 1700/1.

\darn Wright, gardiner to the Princess Ann, buried 18 April, 1701.

James Cadona, servant of the Venetian Ambas- sador, buried 10 July, 1702.

Mary King, widow, 600 Zt value, from Mincen lane, London, buried 25 Nov., 1703.

Lewes Hencort, a French Marquis, buried

Philip Nevell, gentleman, buried 30 June, 1705.

Sir Edward Nevell, buried 11 Aug., 1705.

Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Tolmaish, Gent., buried 25 Sept., 1705.

Thomas, the son of Henry Box, Esq., buried 12 Feb., 1705/6.

Anne, the wife of the Right Reverend William Loyd, buried 19 June, 1708.

Margaret Driden, buried 10 Sept., 1711.

The I,ady Frances Nevill, buried 18 Oct., 1714.

Sir Timothy Lennoy, Kt., buried 30 Sept., 1718.

The wife of John Downs, carried away,* buried 5 April, 1719.

Dame Elizabeth, wife of Sir Edward Chisenhall, buried 25 April, 1720.

Mary, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Tichbourn, buried 5 July, 1726.

PERCY D. MTTNDY.

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS

HOLCROPT. (See ante, pp. 1, 43, 83.)

1784 " The Wit's Magazine ; or Library of Momus. Being a Compleat Repository of Mirth, Humour, and Entertainment. Mirth ! With thee I mean to live. Milton. Vol. I. London : Printed for Harrison and Co. No. 18, Paternoster- Row. MDCCLXXXIV." Octavo.

The first four numbers were edited by Thomas Holcroft, January-April (cf. Pref. to ' Tales in Verse,' 1806).

Several verses with the title of ' Epitaph ' (Feb., March, and April, 1: 76, 116, 156), Epigram IV. (April, 1: 156), 'The Abode of the Graces ' (January, 1: 35), ' The Decline of Wit' (February, 1: 71), and 'The Beg- gar's Hats' (April, 1: 151) were written by Thomas Holcroft. In the March number of the magazine for the same year (1: 116) we find verses " To Mr. Holcroft, on reading 'The Decline of Wit.' By Mrs. S. E. Spencer," as follows :

You picture the Decline of Wit

In flowing numbers, easy lays ; And while you sing so wondrous sweet,

Its consequence again you raise. Wit was neglected, (happy bard !)

Because a rarity it grew ; But now once more it claims regard, Since it appears so bright in you.

'Politeness' (March, 1784, 1: 111-12), written by Mr. John Martin, a butcher at

refers to a parishioner buried outside the parish.
 * This form frequently occurs. It

Mitcham, in Surrey, was entirely rewritten by Holcroft, " except two lines." Holcroft says : " Mr. Martin. . . .sent me a letter of thanks, acknowledging that he no longer knew the poem as his own " (Preface to ' Tales in Verse ').

In the first number, January, 1784 (1: 21), is a translation from Lope de Vega, ' The Father Outwitted,' accompanied by the note : " We have not always been literal ; and those who shall compare the transla- tion," &c. The same translation was re- printed in The Theatrical Recorder for July, 1805 (2: 27-36), a work of which Hol- croft was avowedly " author," with the note :

" The foregoing Interlude was translated, in 1784, not from the Spanish, as far as the trans- lator recollects, but from a French version."

The case is fairly obvious. I note that the texts are identical, save for the song of the second musician, which had been changed in 1805 to read with the polite, or poetic, " thou " and " thy," instead of " you " and " your " as in 1784. I also note that here the translation is signed " E."

It was, of course, natural that as editor, particularly in those times, Holcroft should have written much and rewritten more himself. But, beyond what I have above, there is little direct evidence for identifica- tion.

I find in the February number (1: 52) the following note :

" S3T The Editor advises this Correspondent to leam by rote the following Epigram, which was suggested by the vision he himself mentions to have had.

He who to get too much aspires,

May get much more than he desires :

May get in prison ; and, no doubt,

May get, when sheriffs take him out,

A cart, a parson, and a psalter,

An exhortation and a halter. E."

The fact that this is signed " E.," signifying " Editor," and that the initial was used else- where (1:61) with that meaning, and that Hol- croft was the editor of the magazine January- April, leads me to place the above in this Bibliography. But then the question arises if " E." all through the four numbers of The Wit's Magazine refers to Holcroft. I should say that it does, because Holcroft signs it to'' The Father Outwitted ' (1: 17-21, see above), and because I find no references to correspondents or contributors by that initial ; though I see no reason why, save to give a semblance of many contributors, Holcroft should sign some of his work with E., some with his name, and leave some