25. On the first edition of Fox's Martyrs.-Some account of Mr. Madox the historian of the Exchequer. -That Mr. Parne,. Fellow of Trin. Coll. Cambridge, is writing the history of that College. Febr. 19, 1726. fo. 29.
27. More on the first edition of Fox, of which he does not remember to have seen a perfect copy.-On the Historia Britannica, printed at Amberg; 1603, the name of the author of which he thinks may be learned from Richard Smith's own MS. catalogue of his books, in the hands of the late Dr. Fleetwo...
28. That he had copied Mr. Selden's corrections in Lord Surrey's poems for Mr. Serjeant of the Towers who never made him the least acknowledgment.-Desires Mr. West to buy the copy so corrected, at Serjeant's auction. March 7, 1726. fo. 32. Mr. West writes at the bottom of this letter "James Joy,...
29. That he loves to look over catalogues when he knows that they contain all and nothing more thanwhat the collectors made; and for this reason he was pleased with the book-catalogue of Mr. John Laughton of Cambridge, of whom and of his collection he gives some account.-He fears the New edition...
30. On the edition of Surrey's poems printed 1717, in which he doubts whether Mr. Serjeant had any concern.-Some remarks on the history of the English Franciscans; and on Sir Isaac Newton, whose knowledge of chronology was, like Dr. Wallis's, but mean. -Some account of Mr. Francis Thompson, Fell...