Case, Dr., account of, 347.

Cato, character of the tragedy of, 364.
Charles the first, anecdotes of, 28, 147.

the second, anecdotes of, 223, 239, 291.
Church, on reformation of the, 34.
Churches, on burying in, 173.

Chevreau, anecdotes by, 313.
Cicero, his education, 2.

Clarendon, lord, anecdotes of, 238, 270.
Clement VIII. his opinion of Hooker, $5.
Clarke, Dr. S., anecdote of, 411.
COKE, Sir Edward, memoirs of, 125.

anecdotes of, 32, 34.

Collier, Jeremy, his attack on the immorality of the stage, 303.
Combe, John, Shakspeare's epitaph on, 97.
CONGREVE, William, memoirs of, 420.

his pun on Rowe, 353.

Coram, Thomas, humility of, 189.

Covenant, account of the solemn league and, 255.

Crashaw, the poet, a latin verse by, 293.
Cromwell, Oliver, anedotes of, 151, 237.

Eachard, Dr., character of, 271.

Egerton, chancellor, remarkable origin of, 29.

Elizabeth, queen, anecdotes of, 44, 50, 74, 95.

Elliot, Sir Gilbert, patronizes Thomson, 496.

Elwares, Sir Gervas, his remarkable vow and end, 130.
Engagement, a fanatical oath, account of, 256.

Epitaph, origin of Prior's, 397.

paraphrase on, 485.

Erasmus, anecdotes of, 12.

Eugene, prince, entertained by Dr. Radcliffe, 347.

Examiner, account of the paper called, 390.
Extemporaneous preaching, observations on, 155.

Falstaff, origin of the character of, 96.
Farquhar, his account of Dryden's funeral, 306.
Faulkner, George, anecdote of, 490.

Fenton, his connection with Pope, 448.
Fisher, bishop, his treatment, 17.

Fitzsymonds, the jesuit, his conference with Usher, 141.
Fluxions, history of the invention of, 403.

Fuller, the historian, character of, 64.

Galileo, imprisoned for asserting the earth's motion, 204,
Garat, M., his character of Bacon, 41.
GARRICK, David, Anecdotes of, 529.

Garth, Dr., his oration at Dryden's funeral, 306.
Gibbons, Dr., nicknamed by Radcliffe, 323, 332.

Gip-room, meaning of, 386.

Glanville, serjeant, his generosity to his brother, 231.

Glasgow, remarkable preservation of the cathedral of, 171.
George of Denmark, prince, account of the death of, 337.
Godwin, bishop, remarkable letter of, 122.
GOLDSMITH, memoirs and anecdotes of, 513.
Gondamor, count, anecdote of, 33.

Grevil, Fulke, account of the death of, 72.
Guardian, account of the publication of the, 263.
Guinea, alteration in the value of the, 409.

rise of, 389.

HALL, bishop, memoirs of, 161.

character of his satires, 177.

Halley, Dr. anecdote of, 415.

Hannes, Sir Edward, stratagem of, 329.

Handel, anecdote of, 476.

HARRINGTON, Sir John, anecdotes of, 73.

Harvey, Gabriel, letter of, 58.

Hayward's Henry the fourth, anecdote concerning, 31.

Henry VIII., anecdotes of, 5, 16.

Henry, prince of Wales, a saying of, 51.

Hoadley, bishop, his political connexions, 431,

HOBBES, Thomas, his opinion of Milton, 214,

memoirs of, 269.

Holland, Dr., anecdote of, 115.

Holt, chief justice, remarkable anecdote concerning, 337.

HOOKER, Richard, his character, 80.

Hopital, M. de, his opinion of Newton, 408.

Horne, bishop, anecdote by, 417.

Hour glasses in churches, account of, 158.
Howell's Letters, character of, 39.

202

Hudibras,

Hudibras, character of, 283.

Hutchinson, his opposition to the Newtonian system, 417.

Indians, simplicity of the, 49.

Irish rebellion, prophecy concerning the, 143.
James I. anecdotes of, 32, 40, 76, 128, 145.
his antipathy to tobacco, 49.

.... II. anecdotes of, 224, 291.

Jenkin, Dr., anecdote of, 396.
JENKINS, David, his character, 192,
capt. imposture of, 196.

Jewell, bishop, anecdote of, 82.

JOHNSON, Dr., memoir of, 538.

on the fortune of physicians, 322.
his opinion of Swift, 472.

his character of Foote, 545.

Jonson, Ben. his illiberality to Shakspeare, 96.
account of his club, 138.

Jortin, Dr., his connection with Pope, 447.

Kilcolman, the seat of Spenser in Ireland described, 60.
Kit-Kat, club, account of the, 357.

Kneller, Sir Godfrey, his reply to Radcliffe, 346.

Laud, archbishop, anecdote of, 184.

Leibnitz, his dispute with Newton, 412.

Leyden, university of, correspondence with Pitcairne, 320..
Liverpool, earl of, on the coins of the realm, 408.

Lucy, Sir T., Shakspeare's ballads on, 89, 91.

Mandeville, Bernard, account of, 375.

Manso, his distich on Milton, 204.

Marlborough, duchess of, the original of Pope's Atossa, 454.

Marsiluis, his appearance after death, 319.

MARVELL, Andrew, character of, 247.

Mallett, David, anecdote of, 463.

MILTON, John, memoirs of, 197.

Dryden's conversation with, 296.

Addison's generosity to his daughter, 382.

Montaigue, lady M. W. Pope's ill-treatment of, 453.
Montagn's Essays, Addison's character of, 381.
MORE, Sir Thomas, memoirs of, 1.

Sir John, anecdote of, 6.

MORLEY, bishop, anecdote of, 285.
Morris, an obscene poet, anecdote of, 455.
Mulberry-gardens, situation of the, 315.

NEWTON, Sir Isaac, memoirs of, 400.

remarks on Pope's epitaph on, 455.

Narwich

Norwich cathedral, devastation of, 170.
Noy, attorney-general, account of, 232.

Overbury, Sir Thomas, murder of, 127.
Oxford, earl of, his treatment of Rowe, 351.
anecdote of him and Swift, 484.

Patriotism, observations on, 108.

Paul's St., cathedral, defaced in the rebellion, 171.
Perjury, a remarkable instance of, 131.

Physicians, on the fortune of, 322.

Pitcairne, Dr. A. account of, 317.
Poets-laureat, account of, 62.

POPE, Alexander, memoir of, 441.
Preaching, observations on, 155.

PRIDEAUX, Dr. John, account of, 178.

PRIOR, Matthew, memoir of, 385.

------, on the epitaph of, 397.

Puritans, intolerant spirit of the, 171, 187.

Quin, James, anecdotes of,

RADCLIFFE, Dr., memoir and anecdotes of, 322.
RALEIGH, Sir Walter, memoir of, 43.

bis friendship for Spenser, 61.

RANDOLPH, Thomas, account of, 136.
Reed, Isaac, character of, 37.

Rock, Dr., anecdote of, 348.

RowE, Nicholas, account of, 350.

Rupert, prince, anecdote of, 251.

Salmasius, his defence of Charles I., 213.
anecdote of, 215.

Savage, Richard, anecdote of, 433.
Savile, Sir H. his letter to Cotton, 182.
Saunderson, professor, anecdote of, 227.
SELDEN, John, character of, 108.

anecdote of his death, 273.

Sermons, account of long, 157, 263.

Shaftesbury, prosecution of the earl of, 297.

SHAKSPEARE, memoir and anecdotes of, $7.

Sheridan, Dr., account of, 486.

SIDNEY, Sir Philip, character of, 68.

Smectymnuus, account of, 169, 198.

Smith, Ray, anecdote of, 382.

Smoking, anecdotes concerning, 48, 228, 267, 275.

Spectator, account of the publication of the, 362.
Spenser, Edmund, account of, 58.

Stair, anecdotes of the earl of, 393.

9

Stanyan,

Stanyan, Temple, anecdote of, 378.
STEELE, his friendship for Addison, 377.
memoirs of, 426.

Stukeley, Dr., anecdote of, 416.

SWIFT, Jonathan, memoirs of, 464.

Tatler, account of the publication' of the, 361.
THOMSON, James, memoir of, 495.
Tobacco, introduction of, into England, 48.
antipathy of James the first to, 49.

Tonson, Jacob, epigram on, 302.

Tucker, dean, anècdote of, 82.

Turner, Mrs., execution of, for murder, 131.
Tyson, the usurer, remarkable death of, 339.

USHER, archbishop, memoirs of, 140.

Utopia, character of Sir T. More's, 22.

Voltaire, his character of Hudibras, 284.
anecdotes of, 422, 461.

..., Dr. Young's epigram on,

Walker, Obadiah, Dr. Radcliffe's letter to, 326
WALLER, Edmund, memoir of, 285.

Wallis, Dr., his character of Hobbes, 273.

Walpole, Sir Robert, his reply to Swift, 476.

Warburton, character of bishop, 457.

Warner, Dr., anecdote of, 115.

Whiston, account of, 440.

Whitbread, Mr., erects a monument to Milton, 226.

William III. anecdote of, 333.

epigrams on, 302, 485.

Wood, Anthony, his libel on Clarendon, 195.

Wrenn, Matthew, account of, 270.