on the most intimate terms of friendship. At the suggestion of the latter it was that Mr. Price removed from Jesus to Trinity-college, of which society he ever after continued a member, and to which, on various

phical Historian. I am, Reverend Sir, with great respect,

"Your obedient humble servant,

JANE COX. "P. S. The President and Mrs. Huddesford are as well as can be expected after so severe a shock." Letters to and from Granger, by Malcolm, p. 426.

Mr. Tyson, in a letter to Mr. Gough, thus mentions Mr. Huddesford's death: "Poor Huddesford! he is a loss indeed! with what accuracy has he made indexes to those four volumes of Original Correspondence of Lister, given to the Ashmolean Library in 1769 by Dr. Fothergill. He had many works in eye; a collection of curiosities from those 160 MS. Pocket-books of Tom Hearne in Bodley." Literary Anecdotes, vol. VIII. GOO.

Mr. Gough, in his "British Topography," observes that Mr. "William Huddesford, whose immature death every one who had the pleasure of his acquaintance must join with me in deploring, had collected materials for the Lives of Humphrey Lluyd, a Physician of Denbigh, and in Mr. Camden's opinion one of the best antiquaries of his time, and author of Commentarioli Britanniæ Descriptionis fragmentum, auctore Humfred Lloyd, Denbyghiense, Cambro-Britanno, 1572,' 12mo, and of Edward Llwyd, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum and Author of 'Archæologia Britannica. Oxon. 1707.' fol." British Topog. vol. II. p. 486.

Mr. Huddesford was the editor of the following works, viz. Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Viri clarissimi Antonii à Wood, being a minute Catalogue of each particular contained in the Manuscript Collections of Anthony a Wood, deposited in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, 1761," 8vo, a publication of very unfrequent occurrence; "Martini Lister, M. D. Historiæ, sive Synopsis Methodicæ Conchyliorum et Tabularum Anatomicarum, Editio altera, &c. 1770," folio; "The Lives of those eminent Antiquaries John Leland, Thomas Hearne, and Anthony à Wood, with an authentic Account of their respective Writings and Publications from Original Papers; in which are

* In a note from the family at Caversham to Mr. Granger, it is said, Mr. Byrne "is greatly distressed at the loss of that truly worthy and ever to be lamented man Mr. Huddesford, with whom he had been acquainted more than seven-and-twenty years; who knows, but that if he had been under the hands of the faculty at Oxford, he might still have continued here a blessing to mankind! From the scorbutic humour which Mr. Cox mentioned to Mr. Granger as having fallen upon his brain, it is much to be feared that unskilful management might be the occasion of this disaster." Letters to and from Granger, by Malcolm, p. 151.

occasions, he proved himself a liberal benefactor. To his assiduous applications and marked attention to Mr. Gough, with whom he was a frequent correspondent and by whom he was greatly respected, it is in a great measure owing that the Bodleian can boast of the most extensive and perfect collection of British Topography* that any library can produce. occasionally inserted memoirs relating to many eminent Persons and various Parts of Literature. Also several Engravings of Antiquity, never before published. In two volumes, 1772," 8vo. In the " Literary Anecdotes," vol. V. p. 291, is a letter to Mr. Huddesford from Dr. William Borlase, detailing many particulars of his life.

In 1764 Mr. Huddesford published anonymously, "An Address to the Fremen and other Inhabitants of the City of Oxford. Lucern, printed for Abraham Lightholder."

Mr. Malcolm, in "Letters to and from Granger," has inserted "A Parody on Cato's Soliloquy, occasioned by being sick with drinking Punch over-night at a Club in Oxford; and drinking a glass of water and reading Dr. Cheyne's Essay the next morning," p. 11, which he conceives to be Mr. Huddesford's production; as well as a whimsical effusion, which he considers to be from the same pen, p. 150. In the same work likewise are inserted nine letters from Mr. Huddesford to Mr. Granger, pp. 136-150.

His library was dispersed in a Sale Catalogue of Messrs. Fletchers, Oxford, 1771.

In Kett's "Flowers of Wit" vol. II. p. 180, is an anecdote relating to Mr. Huddesford.

In the Fourth Volume of this Work, pp. 456–476, are fourteen letters from Mr. Huddesford to Mr. Da Costa; p. 466 a letter to Dr. Wright; pp. 476–478 three letters to Mr. Gough; and p. 479 Memoirs of the Rev. Francis Wise, B. D. F.S. A. and a letter to Dr. Ducarel.

Mr. Huddesford contributed to the Gentleman's Magazine, in 1771, "A Description of Oseney Abbey," printed in vol. XLI. pp. 153, 204; and in a Description and History of the Nunnery at Godstow near Oxford, vol. LIII. pt. ii. p. 462. In Wood's "Athenæ Oxonienses," ed. Bliss, is a character of the author by the same pen. Life, vol. I. p. cxxxiv.

* Dr. Bandinel, the present Keeper of Bodley's Library, arranged this munificent bequest on the plan adopted by Mr. Gough himself in his British Topography, and edited it under the following title: "A Catalogue of the Books relating to British Topography and Saxon and Northern Literature, bequeathed to the Bodleian Library in the year MDCCXCIX, by Richard Gough, Esq. F.S.A. Oxford, MDCCCXIV." 4to.

With the ingenious Mr. Astle also, and many other gentlemen eminent for their talents and literary worth, Mr. Price was in habits of the strictest intimacy and regular correspondence.

A few years previous to his death, Mr. Price resided in a small house in St. Giles's, adjoining the back gate of the College, where he breathed his last on the 12th of August 1813, in the 79th year of his age.

"His saltem accumulem donis, et fungar inani

Munere."

His remains were conveyed to his favourite Wilcote; and, at his particular request, interred in the Church-yard of that parish. In the Chancel a mural-tablet is erected to his memory, on which is sculptured the following just and appropriate inscription:

Mr. Price + never, I believe, published anything of his own, with the exception of a communication

*This is an error. It should be Rector.

+ Mrs. Serres, in her "Life of Wilmot," p. 153, in enumerating her uncle's friends, thus characterises the subject of this

to the Society of Antiquaries, which was inserted in the Archæologia, under the following title: "Account of a Bronze Image of Roman Workmanship, and other Antiquities, discovered at Cirencester," vol. VII. pp. 405-407, with a plate.

He assisted in the publication of the "Lives of Leland, Wood, and Hearne, 1772;" and few works appeared during the long period in which he was the Bodleian Librarian, the nature of which required deep, extensive, and laborious research, in the prefaces to which his essential services were not gratefully acknowledged.

In "Letters to and from Granger," by Mr. Malcolm, pp. 312-315, are inserted three letters from Mr. Price to that gentleman.

In the present Work, vol. III. pp. 506,507, are two letters to Dr. Ducarel; and in vol. V. pp. 514-558, is a series of epistolary correspondence between Mr. Price and many of his intelligent friends on interesting subjects of literary inquiry.

In Mant's edition of "the Poetical Works of Warton" is the following acknowledgment: "To Mr. Price, of the Bodleian Library, I return my hearty thanks, not only for the zeal which he shewed in giving me such oral intelligence as might be serviceable, but also for favouring me with what he possessed of Mr. Warton's correspondence *." And in that gentleman's Life of the Laureate, prefixed to his works, are inserted four letters from Mr. Warton to Mr. Price †.

Memoir : "Mr. Price, usually called Honest Johnny Price,' Keeper of the Bodleian Library, who was patronised and respected by the late Duke of Beaufort, Dr. Wilmot was wont to describe as one of the worthiest characters he had ever known. At the house of Dr. Chapman, President of Trinity, the editor had the pleasure of being introduced to Mr. Price, and several other dignified members of the University, who were her uncle's friends."

* Preface, p. iv.

† L.e, pp.l xxiv—lxxix.

In that entertaining work the "Bibliomania," Dr. Dibdin, whilst expressing an earnest wish for the publication of a "Catalogue Raisonnè of the MSS. and printed Books in the Bodleian Library," thus notices Mr. Price; "I am aware that the aged hands of the present venerable Librarian of the Bodleian Library can do little more than lay the foundation-stone of such a massive superstructure; but even that would be sufficient to enrol his name with the Maglia beechis and Baillets of former times, to entitle him to be classed among the best bene factors to the Library, and to shake hands with its immortal Founder in that place were are

et amœna vireta

Fortunatorum nemorum, sedesque beatæ *."

JOHN DISNEY, D.D. F.S.A.

John Disney, D. D. F.S.A. was born at Lincoln, Sept. 17, 1746, the third and youngest surviving son of John Disney, Esq. of Swinderby (descended from a family of high antiquity + at Norton Disney)

* Bibliomania, p. 100.

+ See a particularly full pedigree of the family, compiled by John Charles Brooke, Somerset Herald, printed in the History of Dorsetshire, vol. IV. pp. 389-398. At Swinderby is the following epitaph to Dr. Disney's father: "In memory of John Disney, of Lincoln, Esq. High Sheriff of the County of Nottingham, (7th Geo. II. 1733) and in the Commission of the Peace for the Counties of Lincoln and Nottingham, who died Nov. 26, 1771, aged 71 years. He married, Dec. 29th, 1730, Frances, youngest daughter of George Cartwright, of Ossington, in the County of Nottingham, Esq. by whom he had three surviving sons: 1. Lewis Disney Ffytche, of Danbury-place, in the county of Essex, Esq. who married Elizabeth, only daughter of William Ffytche, Esq. Governor of Bengal in the East Indies, and heir of her uncle Thomas Ffytche, of Danbury-place, Esq.; 2.