yeares. Sayes the King: take it for ever: quoth the other, it is long
enough, for youle set them up againe in that time: but they not likely
to be set up againe, this Sir Tho. Curwen sent Mr. Preston, who had
married his daughter, to renew the lease for him; and he even rennewed
in his own name; which when his father-in-law questioned, quoth Mr.
Preston, you shall have it as long as you live; and I think I may as
well have it with your daughter as another."

After some descents, this family of Preston, of the manor of Furness,
terminated in a daughter, who married Sir William Lowther, whose grandson
left his estates in Furness and Cartmell to his cousin, Lord George
Cavendish, through whom they are inherited by the Earl of Burlington. As
Harry the Eighth's good intentions towards Sir Thomas Curwen have been
frustrated, his descendants must console themselves by knowing that the
glorious old ruin of Furness could not be in better hands than his
lordship's.

H. C.

Workington.

_Periodical Literature_, 1707.--

"The author of the _Observator_ is MR. RIDPATH, y^e author of the
_Flying Post_. The base author of the late paper, which has been some
time since dropp'd, viz. _The Observator Reviv'd_, was one PEARCE, an
exchange broker, some time since concerned in the paper called
_Legion's Address_, and forced to fly on that account into Holland. The
publisher of the _Phoenix_ is a Presbyterian bookseller, named J.
Darby, in Bartholomew Close, who has told me that he was chiefly
assisted therein by the famous MR. COLLINS, the supposed author of _The
Use of Reason in Propositions_, &c., and Dr. Tindal's familiar
acquaintance."--_Original Letter of the Rev. Robert Watts, M.A._, dated
London, Feb. 6. 1707-8.

P. B.

_Archbishop Sancroft._--It is well known that Dr. William Dillingham,
Master of Emanuel College, Cambridge, published, in 1678, a volume of Latin
poems, partly translations from George Herbert, partly pieces of his own,
with some few added from other sources. But it is not known that most of
the pieces in this volume were corrected by the hand of Archbishop
Sancroft, and that one certainly was from his own pen. It occurs at p. 155.
of the octavo volume alluded to, and is entitled "Hippodromus." This is a
translation from an epigram by Thomas Bastard, first printed in 1598, and
beginning:

"I mett a courtier riding on the plaine."

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