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>rdinaiy openness and justice in his dealings. He is Terr exact and punctual in trade. He is Dr. Sherlock's* bookseller, and printed abp. Tillotson's works, in conjunction with Mr. B. AUmer."f Mr. Goodwin was joint printer of the " votes of the house of commons, from 1794 till his death.
1720. Dean Swift published, in Dublin, a treatise, entitled, A Proposal for the universal Use of Irish Mamifaetures, &c., utterly reject- ing and renouncing evei^ thing wearable that comes from England. Mr. Waters, the printer, -was seized and forced to give great Imil ; but upon his trial, the jury, though some pains had been bestowed in selecting them, brought him in not guilty ; and it was not until they were worn out by the threats of the lord chief justice {Whitshed), who detained them eleven hours, and shut them up nine, to reconsider their verdict, that they at length, reluctantly, left the
there wu do tamtng the vital glass. He received the sa- crament a little before tie died ; expired with great serenity of mind } and I do not fear but my friend Harris is gone to heaven. At the same time Mr. Harris removed to Kings land, I was seized with a (It of the stone, so that 1 could neither visit him in his sickness, nor perform the last oifice of love to his dead body. However, to shew my respects for his memory, I have here given his true character, and, pr'ythee John
Take this short sanunon'd, loose, nnflnish'd verse.
Cold as thy tomb, and sudden as thy hearse ;
From my sick thoughts thou canst no better crave.
Who scarce drag life, and envy thee thy grave.
Ah ! happy friend, would I for thee had died.
Ah I would I had thy fatal place snppUed 1
Yes, dear John Hairls, my esteem for thee
Was equal to thy worth and love for me ;
Oh, dearer than my soul \ if I can call it mine.
For sure we had the same — 'twas very thine,
Twas thy dear friendship did my breast inspire,
And warm'd it Orst with a poetic tire.
Bat *tis a warmth that does with thee ezjiire ; [prove.
So pore, but not more great, most that blest friendship
(Could, ah I could I to that wish'd place and thee remove)
Which shall fbr ever Join our mingled souls above.
John Dnoton also characterizes Mrs. Elizabeth Harris. Be says ;— " Her most remarkable graces are beauty, wit, and modesty ; so pretty a fabric was never framed by an Almighty architect for a vulgar guest. He showed the value which be set upon her mind when he took care to have it so nobly and so beautifully lodged ; and to a grace- ful carriage and deportment of body there is joined a plea- sant conversation, a most exact picture, and a generous friendship, all which as myself and her she friend can testify, she possesses in the height of their perfection. She printed my Patugyrick on the Lorti Supper, the ^eat Huiorical Dictionary, the present State of Swropet and other copies that have sold well.'*
- William Sherlock, dean of St. Panl's. was born In
1041. He was chiefly distinguished in his life time for bis writings in coutrovenial theology, after which he wrote near lifty books and pamphlets. His Practical Treatiae on Death, published in lOgO, has been highly valued, and much read. He died at Hampstead, June ig, 1707, and was buried in St. Paul's. His son. Dr. Thomas Sherlock, bom in 10/8, liecame bishop of London, and was also dls- tingoisbed as a warm and spirited controversial writer. His works are very numerous, and his sermons particu- larly admired for their ingenuity and elegance. He died atFulham, July IS, 1781.
t Brabazon Allmer is a very Just and religious man ; I was partner with him in Keith's Narrative of the Proceed, ing* ei Tumer'M Halt ; and so had an opportunity to know hinu He is nicely exact in all his accompts, and is well acquainted with the mysteries of his trade. He printed bishop Tillotson's works, so many of them as came abroad in hlf life-time. He published Dr. Barrow's work, and has been ss often engaged in very honest and very useful de- signs a3 any other that can be named through the whole trade.— DttNfon.
matter in his hands, by a special verdict. But the measures of Whitshed were too violent to be of real service to the government. Men's minds revolted at his iniquitous conduct, and the trial of the verdict was deferred from term to term, until the arrival of the duke of Grafton, as lord lieutenant. A noli prosequi was then granted, which left the advantage, if not the honour of victory, with Swift and the patriots of Ireland. Swift persecuted lord chief justice Whitshed and Godfrey Boate, a judge of the king's bench, who had also distinguished himself on the trial of the printer, by such an unrelenting train of lampoons and epigrams, as at once made his satirical powers dreaded, and excited against the offenders and their memory, the odium which their con- duct had deservedly excited. — Sir Walter Scott's Life of Smft.
1720, Feb. 13. Nathaniel Mist was con- victed of printing in his Weekly Journal, some reflections on the king, for his interposing in be- half of the Protestants of the palatinate, and was adjudged to stand twice in the pillory, to pay a fine of £50, to be imprisoned for three months in the king's bench, and to give security for his good behaviour for seven years.
1720. At this time it became an established rule for dramatic authors to have the profits of the third, sixth, and ninth nights for their benefit.
1720: Jacob Tonson, probably bv the patro- nage of the duke of Newcastle an'd Mr. secretary Craggs, obtained a grant for himself and his nephew, Jacob Tonson, junior, (son of his elder brother Richard) for the supplying some of the public boards and great offices with stationery, bookbinding, book^lling, and printing, for the space of forty years ; and in 1722, the whole was assigned over to the nephew, who in 1733, ob- tained from sir Robert Walpole, a further grant of the same employments lor forty years more, to commence at the expiration of the former term. This very lucrative appointment was en- joyed by the Tonson family, or their assigns, till the month of January, 1800.
1720. A printing-press was established in Kingston, the capital of the island of Jamaica,
1720. A volume entitled, Antiquitis de la ville d'HarJlettr, 8vo. was the first specimen of typo- graphy known to have been executed there.
1720, Nor. 6. John Matthews, aged about eighteen years, an apprentice to his mother, who had a printing-office in Pelican-court, Little Britain, was executed at Tyburn, upon this day, for printing a libel, entitled, Ex ore tuo te judico. Vox populi Vox Dei, in which it was stated, that a majority of the people being for a 1 change of government upon whig principles, it I was lawful to attempt it. His trial bad taken place October 30, 1719. According to a note in the fifteenth volume of Howell's State Trials, p. 1327, this Matthews was a vain, weak, con- ceited young fellow, buoyed up by die Jacobites, and for small lucre printed their treasonable papers, and dispersed them among the ignorant common people — persons of sense despising their
- non.sensicaI doctrine of hereditary rignt, ^c.
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