[50] First printed in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1742.

[51] A more full list is given in the last edition of the Biographical Dictionary, vol. vii.

[52] Originally prefixed to the new translation of Dr. Sydenham’s works, by John Swan, M.D. of Newcastle, in Staffordshire, 1742.

[53] Since the foregoing was written, we have seen Mr. Ward’s Lives of the Professors of Gresham college; who, in the life of Dr. Mapletoft, says, that, in 1676, Dr. Sydenham published his Observationes medicae circa morborum acutorum historiam et curationem, which he dedicated to Dr. Mapletoft, who, at the desire of the author, had translated them into Latin; and that the other pieces of that excellent physician were translated into that language by Mr. Gilbert Havers, of Trinity college, Cambridge, a student in physick, and friend of Dr. Mapletolt.  But, as Mr. Ward, like others, neglects to bring any proof of his assertion, the question cannot fairly be decided by his authority.—­ Orig.  Edit.

[54] First printed in The Student, 1751.

[55] Vide Wood’s Ath.  Ox.—­Orig.  Edit.

[56] Vide Wood’s Ath.  Ox.—­Orig.  Edit.

[57] Vide Wood’s Hist.  Univ.  Ox.—­Orig.  Edit.

[58] Vide Wood’s Hist.  Antiq.  Oxon.—­Orig.  Edit.

[59] This life first appeared in the Gentleman’s magazine for 1754, and is now printed from a copy revised by the author, at my request, in 1781.  N.—­It was, in the magazine, introduced by a general remark, which we have again prefixed.

[60] This was said in the beginning of the year 1781; and may with truth be now repeated.  N.

[61] The London Magazine ceased to exist in 1785.  N.

[62] Mr. Cave was buried in the church of St. James, Clerkenwell, without an epitaph; but the following inscription at Rugby, from the pen of Dr. Hawkesworth, is here transcribed from the Anecdotes of Mr. Bowyer, p. 88.

     Near this place lies
     The body of
     JOSEPH CAVE,
     Late of this parish: 
     Who departed this Life, Nov. 18, 1747,
     Aged 79 years. 
     Me was placed by Providence in a humble station;
     But
     Industry abundantly supplied the wants of Nature,
     And
     Temperance blest him with
     Content and Wealth. 
     As he was an affectionate Father,
     He was made happy in the decline of life
     By the deserved eminence of his eldest Son,
     EDWARD CAVE,
     Who, without interest, fortune, or connexion,
     By the native force of his own genius,

[63] First printed in the Literary Magazine for 1756.

[64] Christian Morals, first printed in 1756.

[65] Life of sir Thomas Browne, prefixed to the Antiquities of Norwich.

[66] Whitefoot’s character of sir Thomas Browne, in a marginal note.

[67] Life of sir Thomas Browne.