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of that work the signature is so written. The British Museum at present allows him only one.

Following the preface of ' Stenography ' there is a list of 105 subscribers, and nine of these are Chichester people.

( 1 ) The first edition of ' Stenography ' (B.M. press-mark 1043. 1. 8), issued in 1758 (see Critical Review for October, 1758), was 41 printed for the Author " and sold by several booksellers. The second edition <{B.M. press-mark 7942. e. 21), "printed for

& sold by M. Angell in Lincoln's Inn Pas- sage " and others, was probably issued in 1765 about a year after the author's death. In later editions the name of John Angell of Fownes Street, Dublin, also appeared as a seller of the work he edited.

An adventitious value is sought to be given to this work because Boswell recol- lected Dr. Johnson saying in 1773 some fifteen years after the event that he re- membered an Angell coming to him to write "" a preface or dedication" to a book upon shorthand. Whether Johnson in fact wrote either is not stated ; probably he did not. The preface was certainly Angell' s work, and no special sanctity was attributed to the short dedication to the Duke of Richmond : it was from time to time altered and im- proved.

(2) " An Essay on Prayer ' was published anonymously in 1760 ; but it contains several specimens of prayers " taken in short-hand by the editor," and on p. 304 there is an announcement of ' Stenography ' lately published by John Angell (press-mark 4404. d. 37).

(3) * The History of Religion,' published in 1764 as the work of " An Impartial Hand," is apparently not known in con- nexion with Angell. There is, however, a copy in the British Museum Library, which was issued in forty numbers bound in four ten-part volumes, sold by C. Henderson, Royal Exchange ; W. Nicoll, St. Paul's Churchyard ; and J. Johnson, opposite the Monument. This is catalogued under ' History,' with a doubtful attribution of authorship to James Murray (press-mark 4520. dd. 11). The words " Second Edition "

^ln the first volume probably indicate nothing more than that in the process of weekly publication a second impression of the whole or part of the volume became necessary.

It has been stated of John Angell junior,

who claimed to be the only son of the John

Angell of Chichester who died in 1764, that

"he was born in 1742-3, and was buried on

4 April, 1827, in Dublin. On the title-page

of 'A General History of Ireland,' 1781, which he edited, and for a short time in a local directory, his name appeared with one I, probably per incuriam in both cases. In the directory the error was soon corrected.

A. T. W.

INSCRIPTIONS IN THE CHURCHYARD OF ST. MARY'S, LAMBETH.

THOMAS ALLEN in his ' History and Anti- quities of Lambeth' (1827) gives a full account of the monuments in the church ; but of those in the churchyard he mentions only nineteen, of which ten are not now existing. These ten are placed at the end of this list, Nos. 214-23; and a few particulars gained from him concerning stones still in existence, but partly defaced, are added between square brackets. John Tanswell also, in his ' History and Antiquities of Lambeth ' (1858), has much to say about the monu- ments within the church, but his account of those outside is very meagre. There is also a useful little book (price 6d.), entitled 4 Lambeth Parish Church ' (1904), by Mr. G. Masters, a churchwarden, which gives many particulars, but no complete list of the inscriptions in the churchyard. All the above writers give biographical notes con- cerning certain of the inscriptions. On the south side of the church a footpath runs east and west, " Southern Path," crossed at right angles by the " Eastern Path " at the east end of the church.

These abstracts were made in September, 1911.

SOUTH OF THE SOUTHERN PATH.

1. Henry Cowper Rochfort, Esq., d. 24 Oct., 1848, a. 50.

2. Wm. Perry, d. 21 March, 1811, a. 50. He lived and died a good father and an honest man.

3. Samuel Swabey, Esq., of this p., d. 23 Oct., 1790, a. 68. Mary, his wife, d. 24 Jan., 1815, a. 83. Mary Birchfield Morgan, dau. of the above, wid. of John Morgan, Esq., d. 6 Dec., 1828, a. 74. Stephen Swabey, M.A., of Pem- broke College, Oxford, son of the above, formerly curate of this p., d. July, 1849, a. 91. Frances, dau. of Mary B. Morgan, d. 7 Feb., 1851, and her husband, Ethelbert Bigland Rose, d. 7 Feb., 1853.

4. Mr. Henry Sprague, of Bridge Street, West- minster, d. 7 Feb., 1827, a. 66.

5. Mary, w. of Edward Shewell, Esq., of Stock- well Common, d. 14 Nov., 1821, a. 55. The above E. Shewell d. at Lewes, Sussex, 3 March, 1838, a. 72. Elizabeth, wid. of Edward Shewell, Esq., d. at Lewes, 22 March, 18(83). Julia, dau. of Edward Squire, d. at Lewes, 8 Sept., 1847, a. 20. Amy, his second dau., d. at Lewes, 9 June, 1849, a. 19.