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Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts, relating to antiquity
Archaeologia or Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity Author:John Nichols Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Herald [c], Mr. Hare, Richmond Herald, Mr. Sanderfon, Clerk of died, 1714. He tranflated into Latin the Saxon Homily of Lupus, dated 1701, with notes for Dr. ... more »Hickes; and into Englifl) Sir J. Cheke's Latin tranflation of Plutarch Dc fuperflitione, printed at the end of Strype's life of Cheke, out of the MS. of which Ob. Walker, when Mafter of Univerfity College, had cut feveral leaves containing Cheke's remarks againft popery. He was author of an EiTay on the great affinity and mutual agreement of the two proférions of Law and Divinity, London, , 8, with a preface by Dr. Hickes, and of two fermons on public oceaüons, 1704. He publiihed Afcham's Latin Letters, Oxford, 1703, 8; compiled an Effay on the1 Latin Tongue, its hiftory and ufe, in which he was a very great proficient ; collected for a Hiftory of Newcaftle ; alfo the various proper Barnes formerly ufed in the North ; but what is become of thefe MSS. is not known. His moft confiderable defign was an edition of the Saxon Laws, with great additions, and a new Latin Verfion by Somner, notes of various learned men, and a prefatory hiftory of the origin and progrefs of the Englifh Laws to the Conqueror, and to Magna Charta. He intended alfo a tranflation with notes, of Alfred's paraphraftic verfion of Orofius, of which his tranfcript with collations is in Mr. pegge's hands, and another by Mr. George Ballard, with the the latter's large preface on the ufe of Anglo-Saxon literature, was left by the late ßifhop of Carlifle to the Antiquarian Society's library. A fpecimen of Mr. Elftob's defign was actually printed at Oxford, MDciD. His learned fifter Elizabeth was born in 1683 : Her mother, to whom ihe owed the firft rudiments of her extraordinary education, dying when ihe was but eight years old, her guardians difcouraged h...« less