Among Dr. Charlett’s correspondence, preserved in the Bodleian Library, is a letter inquiring after a Mr. Bradshaw.  The writer says, “he was servitor or amanuensis to Dr. Allesbree, and proved very considerable afterwards, being the author of all the volumes of the ‘Turkish Spy’ but one; and that was the first, which, you remember, was printed a considerable time before the rest, and not much taken notice of till the second volume came out.  The first volume was originally wrote in Italian, translated into French, and made English; and all the rest after carried on by this Bradshaw, as I am undoubtedly informed:  so that I think him well worth inquiring after while in Oxford.  Dr. Midgely had only the name and conveyance to the press, beside what books he helped Bradshaw to, which, by his poverty, he could not procure himself.”  In the margin of this letter Ballard has added, “Sir Roger Manley, author of the ‘Turkish Spy.’” Baker, of St. John’s College, Cambridge, has written on the cover of the first volume of his copy of Athenae Oxoniensis (bequeathed to the Public Library at Cambridge), “‘Turkish Spy,’ begun by Mr. Manley, continued by Dr. Midgely with the assistance of others.”

Edward F. Rimbault.

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PHILALETHES CESTRIENSIS—­STEPHENS’ SERMONS.

I shall feel much obliged if any of your correspondents can inform me what is the real name of the author of the following work: 

“An Impartial enquiry into the true character of that Faith, which is required in the Gospel, as necessary to salvation; in which it is briefly shewn, upon how righteous terms unbelievers may become true Christians, &c., by Philalethes Cestriensis. 8’o.  Lond. 1746.  Dedicated to Philip earl of Chesterfield, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.”

In your 6th Number is an inquiry for a “tract or sermon” by the Rev. W. Stephens, which elicited a reply in No. 8. from “Mr. Denton,” who mentions four sermons by that author and inquires whether any other sermons or tracts of his were published, which are not included in the two posthumous volumes?

Now it has struck me that a volume of sermons in my possession may, from the nature of the subjects, be Stephens’s, but whether included in the volume alluded to I know not.  The volume contains six sermons, each with separate title and separate pagination.  A common preface is prefixed, and there has been a common title-page, which unfortunately is missing in my copy.

“Serm.  I. The Divinity of Christ argued, from his right to worship, on Rev. v. 13, 14., preached in 1720, at Great Torrington, at the Visitation of the Archdeacon of Barnstaple.”

    “II.  The necessity of believing the Divinity of the Son of
    God, John iii. 16., preached at Great Torrington on Christmas
    Day, 1721.”