II
THE WARWICKSHIRE COTERIE
Many MSS of these writers still exist, the letters of Dodsley to Shenstone
in the British Museum, and much of the private correspondence of Shenstone,
Lady Luxborough, Somerville, and others, is preserved in private collections,
a great deal still unpublished.
THE WARWICKSHIRE COTERIE
Many MSS of these writers still exist, the letters of Dodsley to Shenstone
in the British Museum, and much of the private correspondence of Shenstone,
Lady Luxborough, Somerville, and others, is preserved in private collections,
a great deal still unpublished.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10
495 (#521) ############################################
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vol. II, Anecdotes of Painting; vol. iv, Catalogue of Engravers,
Miscellaneous; vol. v, Miscellaneous Letters.
Subsequently were added :
Vol. vi, 1818, Letters to George Montagu, 1736–76, to the Rev. William
Cole and others 1745 to 1782; vol. vii, 1822, Memoirs of the last ten
years of the reign of George II, vol. 1; vol. viii, Memoirs, vol. II; vol. ix,
1825, Letters to the Earl of Hertford and to the Rev. Henry Zouch.
Memoirs of the last ten years of the reign of George II. 2 vols. 1822.
Memoirs of the reign of King George II. Ed. Holland, Lord. 3 vols. 1846.
Memoirs of the reign of King George III. Ed. Le Marchant, Sir D. 2 vols.
1845. New edn by Barker, G. F. R. 4 vols. 1894.
Journal of the reign of George III from 1771-1783. Ed. Doran, J. 2 vols.
1859. New edn by Steuart, A. F. 2 vols. 1910.
B. Collected Editions of Correspondence
1820. Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole now first collected. 1820.
4 vols. 80.
First collected edition, arranged chronologically. It 'includes the
whole of (Walpole's] letters hitherto published,' and comprises a period
of above sixty years, 1735-1797. Rptd twice in 1837.
1840. Letters (ed. by Wright, John). 6 vols. 1840. kptd several times.
1857-9. Letters; ed. by Cunningham, Peter. 9 vols. Rptd.
1903. Letters, ed. by Toynbee, Mrs Paget. Oxford. 16 vols.
C. Separate Collections of Letters
1798. Letters to Conway, etc. See Works, vol. v.
1818. Letters to Montagu and Cole. See Works, vol. vi.
1825. Letters to the Earl of Hertford and the Rev. Henry Zouch. See Works,
vol. IX.
1833. Letters to Sir Horace Mann, 1741-60. Ed. by Dover, Lord. 1833. 3 vols.
1840. Letters to the Berrys, first published in Collected edition of Walpolo's
Letters. 1840. (See above. )
1843–4. Letters to Mann 1760-85. Concluding series. 1843-4. 4 vols.
Dr Doran edited a selection from Mann's Letters to Walpole under
the title of Mann and Manners at the Court of Florence, 1740-1786.
1786. 2 vols.
1848. Letters to the Countess of Ossory, 1769-97. Ed. by Smith, R. Vernon.
2 vols.
1851. Correspondence of Horace Walpole and the Rev. W. Mason. Ed. by
Mitford, J. 2 vols.
1902. Some unpublished Letters of Horace Walpole. Ed. by Walpole, Sir
Spencer. 1902.
Mostly written to the Hon. Thomas Walpole, second son of the first
Lord Walpole of Wolterton.
Walpole's Letters to Mme Du Deffand were destroyed by the writer's desire.
For her letters to him see Letters of the Marquise Du Deffand to the
Hon. Horace Walpole. . . . Published [by Miss Mary Berry) from the
Originals at Strawberry Hill. 4 vols. 1810. [Containing 353 letters
and fragments. ] These letters were rptd in Paris in 1811, 1812 and 1824.
Lettres de la Marquise Du Deffand à Horace Walpole, 1766-1780.
Ed. by Toynbee, Mrs Paget. 3 vols. 1912. This collection, published
from the Walpole Papers belonging to Jervis, W. R. Parker, consists of
838 letters, more than double the number in Miss Berry's edition.
## p. 496 (#522) ############################################
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London, 1893; new edn, London, 1910.
Eighteenth Century Vignettes. Series 1. A Day at Strawberry Hill.
1892. Series 3. The Officina Arbateana. 1896.
Greenwood, Alice D. Horace Walpole's World. 1913.
Havens, M. A. Horace Walpole and the Strawberry Hill Press. Canton,
Penn. , 1901.
Hayward, A. Strawberry Hill. Quarterly Review, October 1876. Rptd.
Macaulay, Lord. Edinburgh Review, October 1833. Rptd.
Seeley, L. B. Horace Walpole and his World. 1883.
Walpoliana. (By Pinkerton, John. ] 2 vols. 1799.
Warburton, Eliot. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his Contemporaries, in-
cluding numerous Original letters chiefly from Strawberry Hill. 2 vols.
1851.
Wheatley, H. B. The Strawberry Hill Press. Bibliographica, May 1896.
See, also, bibliography to chap. III, ante.
GILBERT WHITE
Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. 1789. 4º.
Repeatedly rptd, and successively edited by distinguished naturalists,
including Buckland, F. , 1875; Bell, T. , 2 vols. , 1877; Miall, L. C. and
Fowl W. W. , 1901; Allen, Grant, 1902; Kearton, R. , 1911.
II
THE WARWICKSHIRE COTERIE
Many MSS of these writers still exist, the letters of Dodsley to Shenstone
in the British Museum, and much of the private correspondence of Shenstone,
Lady Luxborough, Somerville, and others, is preserved in private collections,
a great deal still unpublished.
A. Collections of Letters and Verses
Letters written by the late Right Honourable Lady Luxborough to William
Shenstone, Esq. 1775.
Select Letters between the late Duchess of Somerset, Lady Luxborough,
Miss Dolman, Mr Whistler, Mr R. Dodsley, William Shenstone, Esq. ,
and others; including a sketch of the manners, laws, etc. of the republic
of Venice, and some poetical pieces. The whole now first published from
original copies by Mr Hull. 2 vols. 1778.
Correspondence between Frances, Countess of Hertford (afterwards Duchess
of Somerset), and Henrietta Louisa, Countess of Pomfret, between the
years 1738 and 1741, 3 vols. 1805.
Hecht, H. Thomas Percy and William Shenstone. 1909. [A Collection of
original letters between them. ]
## p. 497 (#523) ############################################
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497
B. Particular Authors
Robert Dodsley
See bibliography to vol. ix, chap. VI.
Richard Graves
The Festoon, a collection of Epigrams. 1766.
The Spiritual Quixote, or the Summer's Ramble of Mr Geoffry Wildgoose.
A comic romance. 3 vols. 1772. 2nd edition, 1774; 1792, 1808. Rptd
in the British Novelists. 2 vols. 1820.
Euphrosyne, or Amusements on the Road of Life. 1776. 2 vols. 1780.
Columella, or the Distressed Anchoret. A colloquial tale. 2 vols. 1779.
Eugenius, or Anecdotes of the Golden Vale. 2 vols. 1785.
Lucubrations. 1786.
Recollections of some particulars of the life of William Shenstone, Esq.
1788.
The Rout, or a sketch of modern life. 1789.
Plexippus, or the Aspiring Plebeian. 2 vols. 1790.
The Reveries of Solitude. Consisting of essays in prose, a new translation
of the Muscipula, and original pieces in verse. 1793.
Senilities, or solitary amusements in prose and verse. 1801.
The Invalid, with the obvious means of enjoying health and long life. 1804.
The Triflers, consisting of trifling essays, trifling anecdotes, and a few
poetical trifles. 1805, 1806.
And other works.
Richard Jago
See bibliography to chap. V, ante.
William Shenstone
See bibliography to chap. VII, ante.
William Somerville (or Somervile)
See bibliography to chap. v, ante.
A few letters of Somerville, in the possession of the last descendant of his
cousin and correspondent Lord Somerville, were published in The Monthly
Packet, November 1898.
C. Modern Books
Courtney, W. P. Dodsley's Collection of Poetry, its contents and contributors.
A chapter in the history of English literature in the eighteenth century.
(Privately printed. ) 1910.
Hutton, W. H. Burford Papers. 1905. [Accounts of the Warwickshire
coterie and of Richard Graves. ]
Kilvert, F. Remains in prose and verse. 1866.
[Includes an account of Richard Graves. ]
Sichel, W. Bolingbroke and his times. 2 vols. 1901 and 1902. [Memoirs of
Lady Luxborough, printing Bolingbroke's correspondence with her. ]
Straus, R. Robert Dodsley, poet, publisher, and playwright. 1910.
svim
E. L. X.
32
## p. 498 (#524) ############################################
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CHAPTER XII
HISTORIANS
I
HUME AND MODERN HISTORIANS
James Anderson (1662–1728)
An historical essay showing that the crown and kingdom of Scotland is
imperial and independent. 1705. [A reply to The Superiority and
Direct Dominion of the Imperial Crown and Kingdom of England
over the Crown and Kingdom of Scotland, 1704, by Atwood, William,
sometime chief justice of New York. Anderson criticised and condemned
as forgeries the documents relating to the homage of the Scottish kings
which John Hardyng supplied to the English treasury in 1457. Atwood
replied with The Scotch patriot unmasked. Anderson's book caused
great excitement in Scotland; and the Scottish parliament voted him
£4800 Scots and ordered Atwood's books to be burnt. ]
Collections relating to the History of Mary, Queen of Scots, etc. 4 vols. 4to.
1727-8. [Of great value. ]
Selectus diplomatum et numismatum Scotiae thesaurus, etc. 1739. (A
magnificent compilation finished shortly before Anderson's death, and
published by Ruddiman, Thomas, with an introduction, translated and
published independently, 1773. ]
Thomas Birch
As to his edition of the Thurloe Papers, see bibliography to vol. VII,
chaps. VIII and ix, p. 435, ante.
Lives and characters in Houbraken's Heads of illustrious persons of Great
Britain. 1743. With additions. 2 vols. 1747-51.
Life of the Hon. Robert Boyle, prefixed to Boyle's Works. 1744.
An Inquiry into the share which King Charles I had in the Transactions of
the earl of Glamorgan for bringing over a body of Irish rebels to assist
that King in which Mr Carte's imperfect account is impartially con-
sidered. (Anonymous. ) 1747. 2nd edn, with appendix containing letters
of the king to the earl of Glamorgan. 1756.
The case of the Royal Martyr considered with candour in Answer to
some libels, &c. , by John Boswell, vicar of Taunton. 1758. [Reply
to Inquiry. ]
An historical view of the negotiations between the courts of England, France,
and Brussels, 1592-1617, extracted chiefly from the State papers of
Sir T. Edmonds, and of A. Bacon. 1749.
Life of Dr John Tillotson, archbishop of Canterbury, compiled chiefly from
his original papers. 1752.
Remarks on the Life, etc. 1753. 3rd edn, with additions. 1755. [Reply
by Smith, George, editor of Bede, a nonjuring bishop. ]
Memoirs of the reign of Queen Elizabeth from 1581 to her death, from the
original papers of A. Bacon, and other manuscripts (at Lambeth). 2 vols.
1754.
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499
The Life of Henry, Prince of Wales, eldest son of James I, chiefly from his
own papers. 1760.
Letters between Colonel R. Hammond and the Committee of Lords and
Commons at Derby House relating to Charles I while confined in Caris-
brooke castle. 1764.
The Court and Times of James the First, illustrated by authentic and con-
fidential Letters, etc. 2 vols. 1848.
The Court and Times of Charles the First, illustrated, etc. , including memoir
of the mission in England of the Capuchin friars in the service of Queen
Henrietta Maria, etc. 2 vols. 1848.
Both these were transoribed by Birch, and ed. by the author of Memoirs
of Sophia Dorothea. (Williams, R. F. ]
Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780)
An Analysis of the Laws of England. 1754. 3rd edn. Oxford, 1758.
Commentaries on the Laws of England. 4 vols. 1765-9. For a list of the
subsequent edns and adaptations see bibliography appended to notice of
Blackstone in D. of N. B. vol. v. The work was translated into French,
German and Italian.
Tracts chiefly relating to the antiquities and laws of England. 2 vols. 1762.
3rd edn. Oxford, 1771.
Reports of cases determined in the several courts of Westminster Hall, from
1746 to 1779. 2 vols. 1781. (With a life by Clitherow, J. )
Archibald Bower
The History of the Popes from the foundation of the soe of Rome to the
present time. 7 vols. 1748-66. [Vol. v, 1761, contains A summary view
in 186 pp. , of the controversy between the papists and the author. ) An
edn with continuation by Cox, S. H. Philadelphia, 1844.
The more noteworthy pamphlets on Bower and his History are: A
dialogue between Archibald and Timothy, Douay, 1748; Remarks on the
first two volumes of the late Lives, etc. , Douay, 1754; Six Letters from
A-d B-r to Father Sheldon, 1756; Mr Bower's answer to a
scurrilous pamphlet, etc. , 1757; Bower and Tillemont compared, 1757
(Douglas); Mr Bower's answer to Bower and Tillemont compared, 1757;
A full confutation of Bower's three defences, 1757 (Douglas); A complete
and final detection, 1758 (Douglas). [A collection of the Bower pamphlets,
including most of above, with portrait of Bower, is in the Brit. Mus.
Library.
Chapter XI
495
vol. II, Anecdotes of Painting; vol. iv, Catalogue of Engravers,
Miscellaneous; vol. v, Miscellaneous Letters.
Subsequently were added :
Vol. vi, 1818, Letters to George Montagu, 1736–76, to the Rev. William
Cole and others 1745 to 1782; vol. vii, 1822, Memoirs of the last ten
years of the reign of George II, vol. 1; vol. viii, Memoirs, vol. II; vol. ix,
1825, Letters to the Earl of Hertford and to the Rev. Henry Zouch.
Memoirs of the last ten years of the reign of George II. 2 vols. 1822.
Memoirs of the reign of King George II. Ed. Holland, Lord. 3 vols. 1846.
Memoirs of the reign of King George III. Ed. Le Marchant, Sir D. 2 vols.
1845. New edn by Barker, G. F. R. 4 vols. 1894.
Journal of the reign of George III from 1771-1783. Ed. Doran, J. 2 vols.
1859. New edn by Steuart, A. F. 2 vols. 1910.
B. Collected Editions of Correspondence
1820. Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole now first collected. 1820.
4 vols. 80.
First collected edition, arranged chronologically. It 'includes the
whole of (Walpole's] letters hitherto published,' and comprises a period
of above sixty years, 1735-1797. Rptd twice in 1837.
1840. Letters (ed. by Wright, John). 6 vols. 1840. kptd several times.
1857-9. Letters; ed. by Cunningham, Peter. 9 vols. Rptd.
1903. Letters, ed. by Toynbee, Mrs Paget. Oxford. 16 vols.
C. Separate Collections of Letters
1798. Letters to Conway, etc. See Works, vol. v.
1818. Letters to Montagu and Cole. See Works, vol. vi.
1825. Letters to the Earl of Hertford and the Rev. Henry Zouch. See Works,
vol. IX.
1833. Letters to Sir Horace Mann, 1741-60. Ed. by Dover, Lord. 1833. 3 vols.
1840. Letters to the Berrys, first published in Collected edition of Walpolo's
Letters. 1840. (See above. )
1843–4. Letters to Mann 1760-85. Concluding series. 1843-4. 4 vols.
Dr Doran edited a selection from Mann's Letters to Walpole under
the title of Mann and Manners at the Court of Florence, 1740-1786.
1786. 2 vols.
1848. Letters to the Countess of Ossory, 1769-97. Ed. by Smith, R. Vernon.
2 vols.
1851. Correspondence of Horace Walpole and the Rev. W. Mason. Ed. by
Mitford, J. 2 vols.
1902. Some unpublished Letters of Horace Walpole. Ed. by Walpole, Sir
Spencer. 1902.
Mostly written to the Hon. Thomas Walpole, second son of the first
Lord Walpole of Wolterton.
Walpole's Letters to Mme Du Deffand were destroyed by the writer's desire.
For her letters to him see Letters of the Marquise Du Deffand to the
Hon. Horace Walpole. . . . Published [by Miss Mary Berry) from the
Originals at Strawberry Hill. 4 vols. 1810. [Containing 353 letters
and fragments. ] These letters were rptd in Paris in 1811, 1812 and 1824.
Lettres de la Marquise Du Deffand à Horace Walpole, 1766-1780.
Ed. by Toynbee, Mrs Paget. 3 vols. 1912. This collection, published
from the Walpole Papers belonging to Jervis, W. R. Parker, consists of
838 letters, more than double the number in Miss Berry's edition.
## p. 496 (#522) ############################################
496
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D. Biography and Criticism
Berry, Miss. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of. Ed. Lewis,
Lady T. 3 vols. 1865.
Dobson, Austin. Horace Walpole, a Memoir. New York, 1890. 2nd edn,
London, 1893; new edn, London, 1910.
Eighteenth Century Vignettes. Series 1. A Day at Strawberry Hill.
1892. Series 3. The Officina Arbateana. 1896.
Greenwood, Alice D. Horace Walpole's World. 1913.
Havens, M. A. Horace Walpole and the Strawberry Hill Press. Canton,
Penn. , 1901.
Hayward, A. Strawberry Hill. Quarterly Review, October 1876. Rptd.
Macaulay, Lord. Edinburgh Review, October 1833. Rptd.
Seeley, L. B. Horace Walpole and his World. 1883.
Walpoliana. (By Pinkerton, John. ] 2 vols. 1799.
Warburton, Eliot. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his Contemporaries, in-
cluding numerous Original letters chiefly from Strawberry Hill. 2 vols.
1851.
Wheatley, H. B. The Strawberry Hill Press. Bibliographica, May 1896.
See, also, bibliography to chap. III, ante.
GILBERT WHITE
Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. 1789. 4º.
Repeatedly rptd, and successively edited by distinguished naturalists,
including Buckland, F. , 1875; Bell, T. , 2 vols. , 1877; Miall, L. C. and
Fowl W. W. , 1901; Allen, Grant, 1902; Kearton, R. , 1911.
II
THE WARWICKSHIRE COTERIE
Many MSS of these writers still exist, the letters of Dodsley to Shenstone
in the British Museum, and much of the private correspondence of Shenstone,
Lady Luxborough, Somerville, and others, is preserved in private collections,
a great deal still unpublished.
A. Collections of Letters and Verses
Letters written by the late Right Honourable Lady Luxborough to William
Shenstone, Esq. 1775.
Select Letters between the late Duchess of Somerset, Lady Luxborough,
Miss Dolman, Mr Whistler, Mr R. Dodsley, William Shenstone, Esq. ,
and others; including a sketch of the manners, laws, etc. of the republic
of Venice, and some poetical pieces. The whole now first published from
original copies by Mr Hull. 2 vols. 1778.
Correspondence between Frances, Countess of Hertford (afterwards Duchess
of Somerset), and Henrietta Louisa, Countess of Pomfret, between the
years 1738 and 1741, 3 vols. 1805.
Hecht, H. Thomas Percy and William Shenstone. 1909. [A Collection of
original letters between them. ]
## p. 497 (#523) ############################################
Chapter XI
497
B. Particular Authors
Robert Dodsley
See bibliography to vol. ix, chap. VI.
Richard Graves
The Festoon, a collection of Epigrams. 1766.
The Spiritual Quixote, or the Summer's Ramble of Mr Geoffry Wildgoose.
A comic romance. 3 vols. 1772. 2nd edition, 1774; 1792, 1808. Rptd
in the British Novelists. 2 vols. 1820.
Euphrosyne, or Amusements on the Road of Life. 1776. 2 vols. 1780.
Columella, or the Distressed Anchoret. A colloquial tale. 2 vols. 1779.
Eugenius, or Anecdotes of the Golden Vale. 2 vols. 1785.
Lucubrations. 1786.
Recollections of some particulars of the life of William Shenstone, Esq.
1788.
The Rout, or a sketch of modern life. 1789.
Plexippus, or the Aspiring Plebeian. 2 vols. 1790.
The Reveries of Solitude. Consisting of essays in prose, a new translation
of the Muscipula, and original pieces in verse. 1793.
Senilities, or solitary amusements in prose and verse. 1801.
The Invalid, with the obvious means of enjoying health and long life. 1804.
The Triflers, consisting of trifling essays, trifling anecdotes, and a few
poetical trifles. 1805, 1806.
And other works.
Richard Jago
See bibliography to chap. V, ante.
William Shenstone
See bibliography to chap. VII, ante.
William Somerville (or Somervile)
See bibliography to chap. v, ante.
A few letters of Somerville, in the possession of the last descendant of his
cousin and correspondent Lord Somerville, were published in The Monthly
Packet, November 1898.
C. Modern Books
Courtney, W. P. Dodsley's Collection of Poetry, its contents and contributors.
A chapter in the history of English literature in the eighteenth century.
(Privately printed. ) 1910.
Hutton, W. H. Burford Papers. 1905. [Accounts of the Warwickshire
coterie and of Richard Graves. ]
Kilvert, F. Remains in prose and verse. 1866.
[Includes an account of Richard Graves. ]
Sichel, W. Bolingbroke and his times. 2 vols. 1901 and 1902. [Memoirs of
Lady Luxborough, printing Bolingbroke's correspondence with her. ]
Straus, R. Robert Dodsley, poet, publisher, and playwright. 1910.
svim
E. L. X.
32
## p. 498 (#524) ############################################
498
Bibliography
CHAPTER XII
HISTORIANS
I
HUME AND MODERN HISTORIANS
James Anderson (1662–1728)
An historical essay showing that the crown and kingdom of Scotland is
imperial and independent. 1705. [A reply to The Superiority and
Direct Dominion of the Imperial Crown and Kingdom of England
over the Crown and Kingdom of Scotland, 1704, by Atwood, William,
sometime chief justice of New York. Anderson criticised and condemned
as forgeries the documents relating to the homage of the Scottish kings
which John Hardyng supplied to the English treasury in 1457. Atwood
replied with The Scotch patriot unmasked. Anderson's book caused
great excitement in Scotland; and the Scottish parliament voted him
£4800 Scots and ordered Atwood's books to be burnt. ]
Collections relating to the History of Mary, Queen of Scots, etc. 4 vols. 4to.
1727-8. [Of great value. ]
Selectus diplomatum et numismatum Scotiae thesaurus, etc. 1739. (A
magnificent compilation finished shortly before Anderson's death, and
published by Ruddiman, Thomas, with an introduction, translated and
published independently, 1773. ]
Thomas Birch
As to his edition of the Thurloe Papers, see bibliography to vol. VII,
chaps. VIII and ix, p. 435, ante.
Lives and characters in Houbraken's Heads of illustrious persons of Great
Britain. 1743. With additions. 2 vols. 1747-51.
Life of the Hon. Robert Boyle, prefixed to Boyle's Works. 1744.
An Inquiry into the share which King Charles I had in the Transactions of
the earl of Glamorgan for bringing over a body of Irish rebels to assist
that King in which Mr Carte's imperfect account is impartially con-
sidered. (Anonymous. ) 1747. 2nd edn, with appendix containing letters
of the king to the earl of Glamorgan. 1756.
The case of the Royal Martyr considered with candour in Answer to
some libels, &c. , by John Boswell, vicar of Taunton. 1758. [Reply
to Inquiry. ]
An historical view of the negotiations between the courts of England, France,
and Brussels, 1592-1617, extracted chiefly from the State papers of
Sir T. Edmonds, and of A. Bacon. 1749.
Life of Dr John Tillotson, archbishop of Canterbury, compiled chiefly from
his original papers. 1752.
Remarks on the Life, etc. 1753. 3rd edn, with additions. 1755. [Reply
by Smith, George, editor of Bede, a nonjuring bishop. ]
Memoirs of the reign of Queen Elizabeth from 1581 to her death, from the
original papers of A. Bacon, and other manuscripts (at Lambeth). 2 vols.
1754.
## p. 499 (#525) ############################################
Chapter XII
499
The Life of Henry, Prince of Wales, eldest son of James I, chiefly from his
own papers. 1760.
Letters between Colonel R. Hammond and the Committee of Lords and
Commons at Derby House relating to Charles I while confined in Caris-
brooke castle. 1764.
The Court and Times of James the First, illustrated by authentic and con-
fidential Letters, etc. 2 vols. 1848.
The Court and Times of Charles the First, illustrated, etc. , including memoir
of the mission in England of the Capuchin friars in the service of Queen
Henrietta Maria, etc. 2 vols. 1848.
Both these were transoribed by Birch, and ed. by the author of Memoirs
of Sophia Dorothea. (Williams, R. F. ]
Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780)
An Analysis of the Laws of England. 1754. 3rd edn. Oxford, 1758.
Commentaries on the Laws of England. 4 vols. 1765-9. For a list of the
subsequent edns and adaptations see bibliography appended to notice of
Blackstone in D. of N. B. vol. v. The work was translated into French,
German and Italian.
Tracts chiefly relating to the antiquities and laws of England. 2 vols. 1762.
3rd edn. Oxford, 1771.
Reports of cases determined in the several courts of Westminster Hall, from
1746 to 1779. 2 vols. 1781. (With a life by Clitherow, J. )
Archibald Bower
The History of the Popes from the foundation of the soe of Rome to the
present time. 7 vols. 1748-66. [Vol. v, 1761, contains A summary view
in 186 pp. , of the controversy between the papists and the author. ) An
edn with continuation by Cox, S. H. Philadelphia, 1844.
The more noteworthy pamphlets on Bower and his History are: A
dialogue between Archibald and Timothy, Douay, 1748; Remarks on the
first two volumes of the late Lives, etc. , Douay, 1754; Six Letters from
A-d B-r to Father Sheldon, 1756; Mr Bower's answer to a
scurrilous pamphlet, etc. , 1757; Bower and Tillemont compared, 1757
(Douglas); Mr Bower's answer to Bower and Tillemont compared, 1757;
A full confutation of Bower's three defences, 1757 (Douglas); A complete
and final detection, 1758 (Douglas). [A collection of the Bower pamphlets,
including most of above, with portrait of Bower, is in the Brit. Mus.
Library.
