Decanis Assavensibus, a prima sedis utriusque fundatione ad annum MDXL." Besides these works he left several pieces behind him, about which he had taken great pains: and two volumes of his "Sermons" have been printed in 8vo since his death. Among his MSS. are several English historians not yet published, which he had transcribed and collated with the originals, and prepared for the press; viz. 1. "Benedictus Abbas de Gestis Henrici secundi Regis Angliæ, A. D. 1170.” 2. "Chronicon Nicolai Tribetti (vulgo de Trebeth) Dominicani, ab ann. 1136 ad ann. 1307." 3. "Chronicon Petri Ickham, Compilatio de Gestis Britonum & Anglorum." 4. "Stephani Birchington Monachi Cantuariensis Historia de regibus Angliæ post conquestum." 5. "Liber nonus de miraculis Anglorum." In some of these are contained vast collections out of the ancient and modern records relating to church affairs. Among his manuscripts was likewise "An Account of the MSS. in Lambeth Library;" in which, besides giving a most exact catalogue of them, he had under every book transcribed all those treatises contained in them which were not yet published. Among the printed books, towards a new and more correct edition of which Wharton had considerably contributed, were the following: 1. "Historia Matt. Parkeri Archiepiscopi Cantuar. de antiquitate Britannicæ Ecclesiæ," &c. enlarged with notes, collections, and additions, partly made by Parker himself, and partly by others, and several by Wharton; together with the Life of the said Archbishop, as also that of St. Austin of Canterbury, written by George Acworth. 2. "Franciscus Godwinus de Præsulibus Angliæ," with some notes. 3. Florentius Wigorniensis and Matthew of Westminster, both with many notes, corrections, and additions. He had likewise made notes on several of his own books already published by him; which it is probable were designed for additions to those books whenever they should receive a new impression. All these, which were purchased by archbishop Tenison, are now in the Lambeth Library.

Wharton's biographer represents him as a man of great natural endowments, a quick apprehension, solid judgment, and faithful memory. As to his person, he was of a middle stature, of a brown complexion, and of a grave and comely countenance. His constitution was vigorous and healthful; but his immoderate application and labours, together with the too violent operation of a medicine which

weakened his stomach, so far broke it, that all the skill and art of the most experienced physicians could do nothing for him. The summer before he died he went to Bath, and found some benefit by the waters; but, falling immo. derately to his studies on his return to Canterbury, he was presently reduced to extreme weakness, under which he languished for some time, and at last died at Newton in Cambridgeshire, March 5, 1694-5, in his thirty-first year. He was greatly lamented, especially by the clergy, to whom his labours and publications had been very acceptable. As a testimony of their esteem for him, they attended in great numbers at his funeral, with many of the bishops; and, among the rest, archbishop Tenison, and Lloyd bishop of Lichfield, who both visited him in his last sickness. He was interred on the South side of Westminster abbey, towards the West end, where, on the wall, is fixed up a small tablet to his memory.

Having adverted to the assistance he gave to Cave in his "Historia Literaria," we may now throw some light on that matter from an authentic document preserved among the valuable MSS. in the Lambeth Library. This is a Letter from Cave to archbishop Tenison, in Oct. 1697.

"My Lord,

"I should not presume to give your grace this trouble but that lately I met with an accident that gave me some disturbance. At Mr. Gery's I chanced to see Mr. Wharton's book (copy) of the Historia Literaria, wherein I found several notes blotted out, and two or three added, since I saw the book last, which was about a year before he died. The notes that he added are highly injurious to me, and afford one of the most unaccountable instances of unfair and disingenuous dealing that perhaps ever passed among men of letters. I hope therefore that your grace will not be offended if, in as few words as the thing is capable of, I set things in their true light.

"Page 282, there is this note: Ab hoc loco omnia nigro plumbo non notata ejusdem sunta uthoris (sc. H. W.) cujus illa quæ huc usque notata sunt; et vicissim que linea decussata notantur, juncta utriusque nostrum opera sunt conscripta.This note, if taken in its latitude, as it is obvious to understand it, is so extravagantly untrue, that he might with equal justice challenge the entire work, as in effect he has done the greatest part. Mr. Wharton was with me but seven or eight months (and those winter months) after I had

resumed what I had long thrown aside; a time much too short for a work of that bigness, if he had claimed the whole. The four first sæcula I had drawn up, and still have by me under the hand of my then amanuensis some years before Mr. Wharton ever saw an university: to which I added several things afterwards, mostly extracted out of the English lives which I had published long before I ever heard of Mr. Wharton's name. Nay, there are some passages, and those pretty large, hookt by Mr. Wharton within the compasse of his note, which I particularly remember I drew up several months after he left me, having then got some books which I had not before. And for all the rest (more than in the sense wherein things are acknowledged in this paper) I am as sure they were of my own doing, as I am sure of my right hand.

"The whole foundation of any pretence at all was no more than this. Mr. Wharton lived with me as an amanuensis at that time I resumed my design of the Hist. Liter. Besides his writing, as I dictated to him, I employed him to transcribe several things, particularly the titles of the fathers' works, as they stand before their several editions, adding myself what short notes I thought fit to any of them and sometimes, though not very often, where the opinion of an author concerning an ecclesiastical writer was large, I set him down to draw it into a few lines, but still under my own direction and alteration. This, for instance, was the case of Origen's works, and of what he pleasantly calls, p. 81, Dissertationem de Origenis operibus proprio marte compositam, which was no more than thus. I sett him to collect the writings of Origen mentioned in Huetius's Origeniana adding, what I thought fitt to them, as also the heads of his Dogmata, as they stand in the several sections of Huet's book, and which accordingly, p. 82, I have acknowledged to have been extracted thence. Cyprian I set him to take out his works as they are placed according to order of time in the Oxford edition, and to reduce the titles of the last Paris edition to them. In St. Augustine, I sent him to look over three or four volumes, (which were all could then be had) of the New Benedictine edition, and observe what alterations they had made from former editions, and they are mentioned up and down in the account of St. Augustin's works. In St. Chrysostom, I employed him to transcribe the titles of his works as they -stand before the several volumes of sir H. Savil, and to re

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duce those of Fr. Ducæus to them, which accordingly are sett down column-wise, p. 255, &c. In reading to me out of bishop Usher's Bibliotheca Theologica, concerning Chrysostom, (and the like concerning some others), I ordered him to copy out several passages which you have in the bishop's own words from p. 270, and so on. In Theodoret, I directed him to collect his works as they are reckoned up in Garnerius's dissertation De Vit. et Libris Theodoriti, which I refer to p. 319. Thus I sent him to your grace's library, St. Martin's, to collate a new edition of Zonares with the former, and he brought me an account of what was in the new; as also to the library at Lambeth, to run over three or four volumes of Lambecius, His extracts I have still by me somewhere, but in my own words and way I made use of.

"These are the chief and most (if not all) that he did, and this he did as my amanuensis, as maintained, employed, and directed by me, and are no more than what (if I had kept no amanuensis) I could easily have had done by the hand of any friend: and shall this be thought sufficient to ground a claim to any part of an author's book? It would be a wofull case with writers, who are forced to make use of amanuenses, if the transcribing a few passages for the author's use, or the making a short abridgment of a passage or two, shall be foundation enough to set up a title for copartnership in the work. I hope after so many volumes of church antiquity, published by me long before I saw Mr. Wharton's face, the world will not have so mean an opinion of me, as to think that I needed either to be beholden to a young man of twenty-one years, and who by his own confession had never looked into the fathers till he came to me; or that I was so lazy as to sit still, and employ another to do my work; a thing as far from my temper, as light from darkness, and from which all that know my course of studying will sufficiently acquit me. I might add that there is so plain a difference between his style and mine (whether for good or bad it matters not) that it would not be hard for any that would attend to it, to make a near guess which is which, though indeed in the progress of the work he was ever and anon offering to thrust in his own words and phrases, so that I was forced very often to reprimand him, and sometimes positively to over-rule him, whereof I then once and again complained to several friends, some whereof are still alive to justify it.

This I then thought was only the effect of the heat and forwardness of his temper; and perhaps it was no more. Though, comparing it with what has happened since, it looks oddly. What Mr. Wharton did towards the real benefit of the works proprio marte, as he speaks, viz. transcribing Greek fragments out of MSS. translating them, and the like, is readily acknowledged in their places up and down the book, and more particularly in the Prolegomena, Sect. 3, p. 7, in expressions more comprehensive, than what he did really deserve. My lord, I am ashamed to mention these things, but that necessity enforces it.

"P. 743, ad ann. 1280, there is this note, Omnia de hinc ad finem usque a me scripta sunt, a Cavo postmodum concinnata. I believe nobody that reads this note but would make this conclusion, that from thence to the end of the sæculum, and the beginning of the appendix was written by Mr. Wharton, and afterwards only lickt over and revised by me. This obliges me to let your grace into the knowledge how Mr. Wharton came to be concerned in the appendix. When I was come to the year 1280, I fell sick at Windsor, and not knowing whether I might recover, and being unwilling that so much pains as I had taken should be wholly lost, I delivered my papers to Mr. Wharton, and what materials I had prepared for the two following sæcula, and desired him out of them, and the Chartophylax, to draw up some kind of continuation agreeable to the rest, adding to it what he could meet with in my books. This I did as a pro tempore provision in case of the worst, designing, if I recovered, to finish it afterwards. Accordingly he parted from me, and went to my house at Islington, where he was maintained for three months at my charge, and his salary duly paid him. At my return he shewed me what he had done, without taking any further notice. Six months after, when the book was in the press, and about twenty sheets printed, he came to me, and in a peremptory manner demanded that the latter part of the book might be published in his name. I was much surprised, and represented to him the unreasonableness of such a demand; that what was done, was done in my service, by my direction, at my cost, and upon my bottom; and that I had thought of taking it in pieces and doing it over again, with some other considerations which I have now forgot. However, because I did not much stand upon it, so the book might be useful to the ends designed, who