The authenticity of all these notes is unquestionable; and it had been in contemplation to publish them entire, in an additional volume. But, upon further consideration, the intention was relinquished. Some of the notes, it is probable, have already, in substance, been introduced into the author's subsequent publications. Comparing the dates of those on Johnson, Whitby, Brett, Jackson, and Clarke, it may be reasonably supposed, that, in his -printed animadversions on those works, Dr. Waterland used them as materials for his purpose, as far as he was himself satisfied with them. The same may have been done with the notes on Sober and charitable Disquisitions, which gave occasion to his work on the Importance of the Doctrine of the Trinity, as he states in the introduction to that work. The notes on Wheatly were most probably turned to account by Wheatly himself, in the later editions of his work, which vary considerably from the folio edition in which these notes were written; and from a cursory inspection of the notes this conjecture is strongly confirmed. Again; with respect to such marginal observations in general, some of them might have been hasty effusions, which the author, upon reconsideration, would not have entirely apsecond son of Bishop Burnet, of Merton College, Oxford, and afterwards Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty. He is said to have been a contributor to Hibernicus's Letters, a periodical paper carried on at Dublin, and also to the Freethinker; and to have been considered by his father as one of his best assistants in the Bangorian Controversy. He wrote also two other tracts in that Controversy: 1. A letter to the Rev. Mr. Trapp; 2. An answer to Mr. Law's first Letter to the Bishop of Bangor. See Biographia Britannica, second edition, vol. iii. p. 39.

proved, or would, at least, have more carefully guarded against misconstruction, or the hazard of giving offence. Others could hardly have justice done to them, without large citations of the passages to which they relate. And after all, few readers, perhaps, would now be inclined to encounter the toil of going through so great a mass of desultory observations, impossible to be connected together in any regular series, and the spirit of which cannot be thoroughly felt or understood, without being well conversant with the writings which gave occasion to them.

There are also extant some valuable manuscript notes by Dr. Waterland, which confirm what has been already said respecting his skill in Anglo-Saxon literature. He laboured much in this way for the improvement of Hearne's edition of Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle; of which there is a copy preserved among Rawlinson's collections in the Bodleian library, full of his marginal corrections and illustrations. The following memorandum is prefixed to the title-page;-"This book was collated with some "MSS. by the Rev. Dr. Daniel Waterland, Rector of “Twickenham in Middlesex, Canon of Windsor, " and Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge; and "purchased in his auction by R. R. 24 Feb. 1741."

Besides the above-mentioned fruits of his almost incessant labours, Dr. Waterland had made several annotations upon the holy Scriptures; apparently not with any view to publication, but for his own private use. They are inserted in an interleaved quarto Bible, and are in his own handwriting; consisting chiefly of short, critical remarks, intended either to elucidate

the text, or to correct the translation of it; and not very numerous. They afford, however, a valuable accession of materials to a commentator; and, as such, have, most of them, if not all, been brought before the public in Dr. Dodd's Commentary on the Bible, published in 1765. The Bible which contains these manuscript notes found its way into Dr. Askew's library. At the sale of Dr. Askew's books, it was purchased by Dr. Gosset; at Dr. Gosset's sale, it was purchased by the late Dr. Combe, and is said to be now in his son's possession.

SECTION IX.

BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE RESUMED AND CONCLUDED.

THAT the account of Dr. Waterland's extensive and important labours as an author, might be carried on without interruption, the biographical part of these memoirs has been, for a while, suspended. His academical history has been pretty fully investigated. It remains now to take up the thread of the general narrative, at the period when he first came forward as the antagonist of Dr. Clarke.

This was in the year 1719, when Dr. Waterland was about thirty-six years of age. His services as Fellow and Tutor of a College, as Examiner and Moderator in the University, as a member of several Syndicates, frequently called upon to take an active part in concerns of considerable importance, had brought him rapidly into distinction. Attaining to the Headship of his College at the early age of thirty years, the chief magistracy of the University devolved upon him very soon afterwards, and at a crisis when more than ordinary judgment and discretion, as well as firmness, were requisite for the discharge of its duties. How satisfactorily he acquitted himself in all these stations, and with what respect and esteem he was, in consequence, regarded, it is unnecessary to repeat1.

* In addition to what has already been stated respecting Dr. Waterland's conduct in his academical station, the following note, drawn up by the present Master of Magdalene College, and communicated since the former part of these memoirs had gone VOL. I.

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It has already been mentioned, that the same patron who advanced him to the Mastership of Magdalene College, presented him to the Rectory of Ellingham in Norfolk. Whether these appointments originated in private friendship, or in public principle, it is fruitless now to inquire. In either case, the public interest was greatly benefited.

It has also been noticed, that, in the year 1717, Dr. Waterland was appointed a Chaplain to the King; and that they who were jealous of his increasing reputation made some unworthy attempts

through the press, will place in a striking point of view the benefit derived from his unwearied attention to the duties of the Headship, and to the interests of the society over which he so worthily presided.

"Dr. Waterland did not confine his attention at Magdalene College to the advancement of learning among his pupils, but "when he becane Master he greatly improved the College revenues by looking thoroughly into the wills and deeds of the dif-"ferent benefactors, and by regulating and sorting all the papers "in the College archives. The title-deeds are many of them still in the drawers in which Waterland placed them, and seve"ral of the compartments are yet docketed in the Doctor's own "hand-writing. He also compiled a history of the different be"nefactions to his College, and a list of all the Fellows and Scho"lars from the earliest period of the foundation to his own time. "There is much matter contained in this manuscript which is "highly interesting to the Society, and the information comprised "in it has always been considered as the best authority in all "College matters. The book is beautifully written in Water"land's own hand-writing, in a small quarto volume. It con"tains about two-hundred and fifty pages, and has a regular in"dex. It is much prized by the present Master, and must have "been selected with great labour and difficulty, many of the ori"ginal papers from which it was compiled being very voluminous and much injured by time."

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