Valer.
Max. ix. 13. Sec. 3 Senec. _Epist_. 82.

J.E.B. MAYOR.

Marlborough College, May 13.

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UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

I am not aware that the following epigrams have ever been printed. I
transferred them to my note-book some time ago from the letters of Mr.
Martyn, a _litterateur_ of temporary fame in the first half of the
eighteenth century, addressed to Dr. Birch; which are among the Birch MSS.
in the British Museum. Mr. Martyn, if I remember right, gives them as not
his own. You may think them worth printing in your agreeable Miscellany:--

EPITAPH ON ARCHBISHOP POTTER.

"Alack and well-a-day
Potter himself is turned to clay."

Two epigrams on the coffins of Dr. Sacheverel and Sally Salisbury being
found together in the vault of St. Andrew's:--

"Lo! to one grave consigned, of rival fame,
A reverend Doctor and a wanton dame.
Well for the world both did to rest retire,
For each, while living, set mankind on fire."

"A fit companion for a high-church priest;
He non-resistance taught, and she profest."

CH.

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ON AUTHORS AND BOOKS, NO. 7.

The author of the volume of which I am about to give a character, from the
Ms. of sir William Musgrave, seems to be the person who is described by
Gough as "Arthur Dobbs, Esq. of Castle Dobbs, promoter of the discovery of
the N.W. passage." The note may interest both historians and collectors of
books.

AN ESSAY on the trade and improvement of
Ireland. By Arthur Dobbs, Esq. _Dublin_,
1729-31. 8vo.

"This volume contains both the parts of the work and is a most
curious collection of facts and accounts respecting the
population revenue and trade of Ireland; and I believe it is
scarce, as I have not often met with it, nor do I remember to
have heard it quoted on either side during the warm disputes
about the commercial intercourse between England and Ireland in
the year 1785." [W. Musgrave.]

I procured this volume from the collection of Mr. Heber, vii. 1682.--Sir
William Musgrave was a _Trustee_ of the British Museum, and bequeathed near
two thousand volumes to that incomparable establishment. He was partial to
biography, and gave much assistance to Granger. His _Adversaria_ and
_Obituary_, I often consult. The latter work is an excellent specimen of
well-applied assiduity. Ob. 1800.

BOLTON CORNEY