3. Mr. Gibbons the Herald's discourse on Stonehenge. -On a printed brief of King Hen. VIII.-Mr. Tanner the surgeon a curios man.-Budæs learned Greek at an advanced age. March 2, 1724. fo. 6.
13. That he had just run over Dr. Thomas Barlowe's coll. about mortuaries, and returns the MS. without extracting a single word, &c. March 7, 1726. fo. 17.
17. Thanks Mr. West for conveying to him Mr. Lang's present of Coryat's Crudities, which he says is a most rare book.-Gives some account of Coryat, and of a diary which he kept before he travelled abroad.- Supposes that his mother Gertrude, who long survived him, destroyed it, to prevent further...
19. That although he had printed the old table hanging in the hospital at Abbington, he should be glad to see Mr. West's extracts from the Leiger-book, lest any thing remarkable in them may have escaped him.-Wonders that so little is left on record about Michelney Abbey.-Suspects that Sir J. Seb...
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.
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,...
31. The printed catalogue of Dr. Laughton's books censured.-He is glad of Sir Hans Sloane being elected President of the Royal Society.-No authority that Inigo Jones built Saint Mark's church at Florence.- Moyle's defence not worth his notice, and the extract from what he observed very faultily ...
48. Thanks Mr. West for an epitaph on Dufresne. -Supposes the design for a new edition of his Glossary dropped.-Great works not carried on in France, as they were in a late reign, and that learning dwindles there "as it does every day among us." Nov. 16, 1727. fo. 62,
49. That Lord Oxford had bought all the three copies of the London edition of Antiq. Eccl. Brit. in Rawlinson's auction, and that he engrosses all the pieces printed by Caxton, W. de Wordie, &c. in that collection.-Supposes a seal of Mr. West's to belong to Ottersey in Somersetshire.-Reminds...
56. Desires Mr. West to send him the inscription on the fine monument in the church of Saint Andrew of Scotland, where the brain of a certain Prince is interred whom he afterwards calls "that most horribly abused and most unjustly abdicated King." Jan. 31, 1727. fo. 77.