Add MS 6226

One of two quarto volumes; [with 6227], 166 pages. Intitled: “English letters written to his friends by J.W” being fair copies of Professor Ward’s English correspondence on literary and Antiquarian subjects. viz.

Vol. I

1. To Dr. Cary; Concerning the modern Greek version of the New Testament. Dated Gresham College, 1722. Folio 1.

2. To Mr. Samuel Rolleston; relative to Diomedes, the grammarian. Dated Gresham College, 28 February, 1723. Folio 2.

3. To Mr James Peirce. Remarks on his three Dissertations printed at the end of his Paraphrase of the Epistle to the Philippians and Epistle to the Hebrews. Dated Gresham College, 6 March, 1724. Page.4.

4. To Mr John Lewis; respecting an iron instrument supposed to be a Roman chisel, and some Roman brass coins; found at Reculuer, in December, 1727. Dated Gresham College, 9 June, 1729. Page.9.

5. To Roger Gale, Esquire; concerning the Roman inscriptions dug up at Chichester (see Horesley’s Britannia Romana, page 337). Dated Gresham College, 19 August, 1731. Page. 13.

6. To the Reverend John Birch. Reply to some remarks made by him on the edition of Lily’s Latin Grammar edited by Ward. Dated Gresham College, 21 October, 1721. Page.14.

7. To Dr. Cary, Bishop of Clonfert; congratulations on his promotion. Dated Gresham College, 24 April, 1732. Page.16.

8. To Dr. John Mitchel; concerning a MS. of Oribœsius, lent by Dr Mead to Professor Boerhaave, for the purpose of a new edition. Dated Gresham College, 24 November, 1733. Page.17.

9. To Sir Richard Ellys, Bart.; relative to some collations of Hermogenes made by the Abbe Sallier for Professor Ward. Dated Gresham College, 25 January, 1734. Page.18.See MS. Add. 6224, pages, 122, 125.

10. To Mr Evan Davis; remarks on the subject of the instruction of youth. Dated Gresham College, 5 August, 1735. Page.19.

11. To Mr Evan Davis, on the same subject of [the instruction of youth]. Dated Gresham College, April, 1736. Page.23.

12. To Smart Lethieullier, Esquire. Observations on a Roman inscription found at Bath; with a sketch of the stone. Dated Gresham College, 4 October, 1736. Page.26.

13. To Mr Leeson. Thoughts on instructing young persons in the Greek language. Dated Gresham College, 11 December, 1739. Page.29.

14. To William Benson, Esquire; sending him a Latin translation of the life of Dr. Arthur Johnston, with remarks. Dated Gresham College, 24 July, 1740. Page.35.This translation was afterwards printed, & prefixed to a Latin version of the Psalms published by Mr Benson, 4to[quarto], London, 1741.

15. To Martin Folkes, Esquire; on the Chichester inscription, with a copy of it. Dated Gresham College, 9 October, 1740. Page.36.

16. To Mr R[ichard] Biscoe; observartion on the Roman government. Dated Gresham College, 21 December, 1741. Page.40.

17. To Mr A. B ---n.; concerning a Roman Altar found at Castle Steeds in Cumberland, of which some account had been sent by Professor Ward to Gents. Mag. Dated Gresham College, 13 February, 1741. Page.41.

18. To Mr William Asplin. Remarks on a MS. sent to Professor Ward for his opinion. Dated 16. To Mr R[ichard] Biscoe; observartion on the Roman government. Dated Gresham College, 21 December, 1741. Page.40. 1 March, 1741. Page.42.See MS. Add. 6210. Folios 6, 11.

19. To Dr. Daniel Scott; on the classical use of the word Appendix, in reference to Dr. Scott’s projected supplement to Stephans’s Thesaurus. Dated Gresham College, 15 March, 1741. Page.45.

20. To Dr. Daniel Scott; on the same subject of [the classical use of the word Appendix, in reference to Dr. Scott’s projected supplement to Stephans’s Thesaurus]. Dated Gresham College, 27 March, 1742. Page.46.

21. To Mr Rolleston; on a Roman tessellated pavement, found at West Dene, near Salisbury, and on Dr Middleton’s Life of Cicero. Dated Gresham College, 6 April, 1742. Page.48.

22. To Smart Lethieullier, Esquire; on a Roman inscription found at Carseoli, a city of the Marsi, in Italy. Dated Gresham College, 20 April, 1742. Page.51.

23. To Philip Henry Warburton, Esquire; respecting a Dissertation written by a Mr John Grenchalgh, Master of the Public School at Chester, on a Roman inscription to Jupiter Tanarius, dug up at Chester, and afterwards removed to Oxford. Dated Gresham College, 30 June, 1742. Page 51.

24. To Mr A. B---n. ; concerning some antient Maps of London; and inclosing the copy of a letter from Mr Vertue to Professor Ward, on the same subject. Dated Gresham College, 10 July, 1742. Page.53.

25. To Dr. John Mitchell. In reply to some observations made by him on Professor Ward’s treatise de Asse, inserted in the Monumenta Kempiana. Dated Gresham College, 9 October, 1742. Page 56.

26. To P[hilip] H[enry] Warburton, Esquire’ more respecting the inscription to Jupiter Tanarius. Dated Gresham College, 9 October, 1724. Page.59.

27. To Mr James Merrick; relative to the collations made by Dr. Grabe and others; of the Cottonian MS. of Genesis. Dated Gresham College, 9 December, 1742. Page.61.

28. To Mr James Merrick; on the same subject of [the collations made by Dr. Grabe and others; if the Cottonian MS. of Genesis]. Dated Gresham College, 24 January, 1742. Page.63.

29. To Mr Mapletoft; concerning the Latin translation of Dr. Sydenham’s works by Mr Mapletoft’s father and Mr Havens. Dated Gresham College, 29 January, 1742. Page.64.See Gent[elman]s. Mag[azine]. For October, 1740 and “Lives of the Gresham Professors” page 275. See also MS. Add. 6209. Folio 242.

30. To Mr A. B---n; Respecting some extracts from the churchwardens Accompts of the parish of St. Helen in Abingdon. Dated Gresham College, 1 February, 1742. Page.66.See Archaeologia, vol.1.

31. To Dr. Mead; on the explication of two monuments relating to Demosthenes and Cicero. Dated Gresham College, 2 May, 1743. Page.67.See the Oxford edition of Plutarch’s Lives, Gr. Latin. 8o[Octavo], 1744. Pref.

32. To Smart Lethieullier, Esquire; Interpretation of a Greek inscription on a cup. Dated Gresham College, 31 May, 1743. Page.68.See Pocoke’s Description of the East, pt.ii. page.207.

33. To Mr. A. B---n. Relative to a Roman monument dug up at Chester, on which was the figure of a Retiarius. Dated Gresham College, 25 October, 1743. Page.71.

34. To Mr James Merrick, Account of some MSS. of [grammarian: John] Tzetzes in the King’s Library. Dated Gresham College, 4 August, 1743. Page.72.

35. To the Reverend N. Lardner. Respecting the English translation of a Greek word. Dated Gresham College, 9 September, 1743. Page.77.

36. To Mr James Merrick; relative to Dr. Bentley’s copy of the N.J. he was preparing for the press, and the adversaria of Isaac Casaubon. Dated Gresham College, 15 December, 1743. Page.78.

37. To Mr Prebendary Prescot; concerning Bishop Pearson’s notes upon Hesychius. Dated Gresham College, 22 December, 1743. Page.80.

38. To Mr James Merrick; respecting Isaac Casaubon’s MSS. at Oxford, Chishull’s MS. inscriptions, and Sir Christopher Wren’s benefaction to the Mathmatical library at Oxford. Dated Gresham College, 5 April, 1744. Annexed is the copy of a Latin letter from Berard Montfaucon to Mr Merrick , concerning a MS. of Typhiodorus, and his projected Greek Lexicon. Dated Lutet, 13 December, 1740. Page.82.

39. To Mr James Merrick; remarks on Mr Merrick’s Dissertation on Proverbs, IX 1-6 and Montfaucon’s Lexicon. Dated Gresham College, 21 August, 1744. Page.84.

40. To Dr. William Richardson; concerning his subscription to the Society for Encouragement of Learning. Dated 23 April, 1745. Page.87.

41. To Mr John Mapletoft; more respecting the Latin translation of Dr Sydenham’s work by Mr Havers. Dated Gresham College, 8 May, 1745. Page.88.

42. To John Loveday, Esquire; relative to Henry Jenkes or Jenkins, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric. Dated Gresham College, March, 1745. Page.91.

43. To Dr Collet. Concerning a plan of Silchester made u Mr Stair. Dated Gresham College, 25 June, 1745. Page.93.

44. To Mr James Merrick. Query addressed to Dr Hunt, respecting the accuracy of an Arabic term in Arisena. Notce of a MS. intitled “L’Egypte de Murtadi, fils du Gaphaphe”. Dated Gresham College, 29 June, 1745.

45. To Mr Lardner; on a passage in Tertullian, ad Scapulam C.41. Dated Gresham College, 12 August, 1745. Page.96.

46. To R. Reynolds, Esquire; describing his remarks on a Treatise by Professor Ward on English Orthography. Dated Gresham College, 29 June, 1745. Page.97.

47. To Mr P[eter]. Sainthill. Concerning coins of Allectus. Dated Gresham College, 15 Sugust, 1745. Page.99.

48., 49., 50. To Mr A. B---n. with copies of part of two letters written by Robert Clayton, Bishop of Corke, to John Earl of Egmont, relating to two antient dates in Arabian figures, which were found in Ireland, and communicated to the Royal Society, 10 November, 1743 and 6 December, 1744. (not dated) page.101.

51. To the Reverend Deodatus Bye; remarks on his MS. Fasti Cantabrigienses. Dated Gresham College, 25 February, 1745. Page.106.

52. To the Reverend William Barlow; concerning te supposed date in Arabic numerals on the north part of Rumsey Church, Hants. Dated Gresham College, 17 July, 1746. Page.108.

53. To the Reverend Deodatus Bye. Remarks touching the Academical year at Cambridge. Dated Gresham College, 14 July, 1746. Page. 112.

54. To Mr Johnson, Esquire; thanks for the minutes of the Society at Spalding. Dated Gresham College, 4 October, 1746. Page.114.

55. To Mr A.B---n. sending him the print of Sir Robert Cotton, and the remains of his MS. Genesis, published in the Velusta Monumenta. Dated Gresham College, 7 October, 1746. Page.115.

56. To George Smith, Esquire; Observations on three Roman inscriptions discovered at Burd. Oswald, County Cumbria. Dated Gresham College, 14 November, 1746. Ib.See Gents. Mag. For October, 1746. Page.537.

57. To H Knight, Esquire; on the study of the Civil Law, etc. dated Gresham College, 18 November, 1746, page.118.

58. Copy of a letter from J[ohn] Garnett, Rector of Lockington, Yorkshire, to the Reverend Mr Birch. On the subject of some Silver plates dug up at Barkway, County Herts. Dated 22 July 1746. Page.120.

59. To the Reverend Thomas Birch; remarks on the same antiquities. Dated Gresham College, 21 January, 1746. Page.121.

60. Original letter from the Reverend J. Swinton to the Reverend Dr. barton. Inquiry touching three Greek inscriptions published by Mr Tourmont in the Memoires de l’Academie, Paris, 1743. Dated Ch[rist] Ch[urch], 16 February, 1746/7. Page.126*.

61. To the Reverend Dr Barton. Remarks on the Greek inscriptions, published by Tourmont. Dated Gresham College, 10 August, 1747. Page.127.

62. To Dr Isaac Lawson; relative to Gronovius’s edition of Ælian, published by the Society for Encouragement of Learning. Dated Gresham College, June, 1746. Page.130.

63. To the Reverend John Nixon. Observations on his Dissertation upon a marble figure of a sleeping cupid. Dated Gresham College, 5 February, 1746. Page.131.This Dissertation was published in 4to[quarto], 1755.

64. To Mr Professor Stewart. Relative to his work published by the Society for Encouragement of Learning. Dated Gresham College, July, 1747. Page.135.

65. To the Reverend William Barlow; reply to his remarks on Lily’s Latin Grammar. Dated Gresham College, 8 October, 1747. Page.137.

66. To the Reverend Dr. Nathaniel Lardner. Critical observations on a passage in the Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians. Dated Gresham College, November, 1747. Page.140.See Dr. Benson’s History of the First Planting of the Christian Religion, iii. 55, and Lardner’s Credibility of the Gospel History. Pt.2. vol..ii. Page.157.

67. To Mr Professor Stewart. Concerning the affairs of the Society for Encouragement of Learning, and the copies of Professor Stewart’s work, published by them. Dated Gresham College, 5 December, 1747. Page.145.

68. To the Reverend Stennett. Remark on a passage in [John] Milton’s Paradise Lost. B.ii.v. 678. Dated 8 June, 1748. Page.146.

69. To the Reverend James Merrick. Inquiry relative to Moeris Atticista, Phrynichus, and Thomas Magista, in reference to a projected new edition, by Professor Stoeber of Strasburg. Dated Gresham College, 6 October, 1748. Page.150.

70. To Mr Edward Cave; concerning an Arabic date on St John’s Gate. Dated Gresham College, 29 March, 1748. Page.152.See Gents. Mag. For March, 1748. Page.122. November, 1749, page.508, December, 1749, page.536.

71. To Andrew Mitchell, Esquire. Remarks on a Latin inscription designed for Mr Duncan Forbes in Scotland. Dated Gresham College, 17 December, 1750. Page.156.See MS. Add. 6243. Page.42.

72. To the Reverend Dr John Wilson, Trinity College, Cambridge; remarks on a Roman inscription found at Silchester. Dated Gresham College, 5 January, 1750. Page.153.

73. To the Reverend John Swinton. Remarks on the Palmyrene inscriptions contained in Mr Dawkins’s plates. Dated December, 1754. Page.158.

74. To the Reverend John Swinton. On te Palmyrene Alphabet. Dated 8 February, 1755. Page.160.

75. To the Reverend John Swinton. On the Palmyrene numerals. Dated Gresham College, 1 May, 1755. Pages 162-164.

Att the end is annexed a list of the Persons to whom the letters were written, pages 165, 166.