ce to his Kalendar, inserted at the
end of his fifth edition, assures the public, "that the book called the
Lady's Recreation could not be published by my approbation, because it
was never seen by me till it was in print; besides, I have reason to
think it was an artifice of the booksellers to impose upon the world,
under the borrowed name of Evelyn."

[51] This sermon was preached for several years by Dr. Colin Milne, by
whom it was published in 1799, and afterwards by the Rev. Mr. Ellis, of
Merchant Taylors' School. Mr. Ellis, in his History of Shoreditch, gives
us much information as to this bequest; in which the handsome conduct of
Mr. Denne, a former vicar, is not the least interesting. Mr. Nichols, in
vol. iii. of his Literary Anecdotes, bears testimony to Dr. Denne's
feeling towards the poor and distressed, and to his attachment to
literary pursuits. Three of these Sermons are in the second volume of
"Thirty Sermons on Moral and Religious Subjects, by the Rev. W. Jones;"
2 vols. 8vo. 1790, price 16s. There are other editions of Mr. Jones's
Sermons, viz. Rev. W. Jones, of Nayland, his Theological, Philosophical,
and Miscellaneous Works, with Life, 12 vols. 8vo. _neat_, 7_l._ 7_s._
6_d._ 1801. Sermons by the late Rev. William Jones, of Nayland, Suffolk:
Chaplain to the Right Rev. George Horne, Bishop of Norwich; 1 vol. 8vo.
with Portrait of the Author, price 12_s._ Dove, St. John's Square,
Printer, 1828. "Of this faithful servant of God, (the Rev. W. Jones) I
can speak both from personal knowledge and from his writings. He was a
man of quick penetration, of extensive learning, and the soundest piety;
and he had, beyond any other man I ever knew, the talent of writing upon
the deepest subjects to the plainest understandings."--_Bishop Horsley's
Charges._ The Rev. Samuel Ayscough, of the British Museum, began, in
1790, to preach this annual sermon, and, I believe, continued it for
fourteen years.

[52] Mr. Ellis, of _Little Gaddesden_, in his Practical Farmer, 8vo.
1732, thus speaks on this subject:--"What a charming sight is a large
tree in blossom, and after that, when loaden with fruit, enough perhaps
to make a hogshead of cyder or perry! A scene of beauty, hopes, and
profit, and all! It may be on less than two feet diameter of ground. And
above all, what matter of contemplation does it afford, when we let our
thoughts descend to a single kernel of an apple or pear? And again, how
heightened, on the beholding so