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BERKELEY PAPERS. Vols. VIII, IX. Correspondence, including, besides letters addressed to Bishop Berkeley, a number addressed to Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury. The bulk of the correspondence, however, after Bishop Berkeley's death is that of his son George Berkeley, junior, LL.D., Vicar of Bray, Prebendary of Canterbury. etc. (d. 1795), his wife Eliza Berkeley (who has endorsed many of the letters) and their son George Monck Berkeley (d. 1793). Vol. VIII. 1710-1776. Vol. IX. 1777-1828 and undated. Included in vol. VIII are a list of subscriptions for the Bermuda scheme, 1724 (f. 63), a Latin epitaph in Berkeley's hand on Thomas Prior, 1751 (f. 64), and a petition by Sir Alexander Cuming, Chief of the Cherokees, 1764 (f. 158). In vol. IX (f. 181) is a draft of part, of Eliza Berkeley's preface to her son's poems (1797, see pp. cccxciii sqq., ccccxvii sqq.). Among the writers, whose names are given in the Index, are : -

Asplin (William), 1740 (to Bishop Benson). Aufrere (T. Anthony), 1747 (to Secker). Bennett (William), Bishop of Cork, 1794. Benson (Martin), Bishop of Gloucester, 1729-1752. Bentham (Edward), D.D., 1748 (to Seeker ?). Browne (Jemmett), Bishop of Cork and Ross, 1752-1768. Burnett (James), Lord Monboddo, 1784. Butler (Edward), President of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1729 (to Anne Cherry). Carr (William), Viscount Beresford, 1827. Carter (Elizabeth), 1787. Chambers (Sir Robert), 1789. Congreve (William), 1711 (to J- Kelly). Cuming (Sir Alexander), bart., 1764- 1768. Duncombe (Susanna), 1780-1788. Drummond (Hon. Robert), Archbishop of York, 1763 (to Secker). Forster (Nicholas), Bishop of Raphoe, 1738. Gibson (Edmund), Bishop of London, 1735-1736. Glasse (Samuel), D.D., 1755-1769 and n. d. Gleig (George), Bishop of Brechin, 1783- 1793. Hoadly (Benjamin), Bishop of Winchester, 1759. Horne (George), Dean of Canterbury, Bishop of Norwich, 1759-1791 and n. d. Horne (Samuel), 1761-1768 and n. d. Johnson (James), Bishop of Winchester, 1762 (to Secker). Johnson (Rev. Samuel), D.D., of Stratford, Connecticut, 1730. Johnson (William Samuel), D.C.L., 1769-1770. Jones (William), of Nayland, 1762- 1774 and n. d. Keith (Sir Robert Murray), Ambassador at Vienna, 1782 (to his sister ?). Keppel (Frederick), Bishop of Exeter, 1763 (to Secker). Legg (William), 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, 1761-1771 and n. d. Lyttelton (Thomas), 2nd Baron Lyttelton, 1769. Markham (William), Bishop of Chester, Archbishop of York, 1759-1772. Mein (Charles), 1710 (to J. Kelly). Montagu (Elizabeth), 1797 and n.d. Moore (John), Archbishop of Canterbury, 1792-1798. More (Hannah), 1810. Parker (Samuel), nonjuror, 1729-1730 (to Anne Cherry). Patten (Thomas), D.D., 1760-1766. Porteus (Beilby), Bishop of London, 1792. Potter (John), Dean of Canterbury, 1769. Reid (Thomas), 1790. Richardson (Samuel) , 1756 (to Catherine Talbot). Secker (Thomas), successively Bishop of Bristol and Oxford and Archbishop of Canterbury, 1735-1753. Sharp (Granville), 1787. Skinner (John), Bishop of Aberdeen, 1784-1789. Smalwell (Edward), Bishop of Oxford, 1793-1798. Smythe (Philip), 4th Viscount Strangford, 1744. Spencer (George), 4th Duke of Marlborough, 1791. Spencer (Lord Henry), 1787. Starke (Mariana), 1787-1789 and n. d. Stinton (George), D.D., 1763-1766. Stuart (John), 3rd Earl of Bute, 1776. Sumner (Robert Carey), Headmaster of Harrow School, 1770. Synge (Edward), Bishop of Elphin, 1753. Talbot (Catherine), 1756-1769 and n. d. Todd (Henry John), 1794. Warburton (William), Bishop of Gloucester, 1740 (to Secker). Warren (John), Bishop of Bangor, 1789. Wedderburn (Alexander), Baron Loughborough, Lord Chancellor, 1799. Wellesley (Richard), 1st Baron Mornington,1753. Whitaker (James), 1763. Whitaker (John), historian of anchester, 1752-1767 and n. d. Wilberforce (William), M.P., 1796-1802.

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