A Poem on the Marriage of his grace the duke of Newcastle to the right honourable Henrietta Godolphin, which procured him, as we have observed already, the place of laureat.  The lord Roscommon’s Essay on translated verse, rendered into Latin.

An Epistle to Sir Robert Walpole.

Three Poems; I. On the death of the late king; ii.  On the Accession of his present majesty.  III.  On the Queen.

On the arrival of Prince Frederic.

The origin of the Knights of the Bath, inscribed to the Duke of
Cumberland.

An Ode for the Birth-Day, in Latin and English, printed at Cambridge.

He died at his rectory at Conesby in Lincolnshire, the 27th of
September, 1730.

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The Revd.  Mr. Lawrence Eachard,

This Gentleman, who has been more distinguished as an historian than a poet, was the son of a clergyman, who by the death of his elder brother, became master of a good estate in Suffolk.

He received his education at the university of Cambridge, entered into holy-orders, and was presented to the living of Welton and Elkington in Lincolnshire, where he spent above twenty years of his life; and acquired a name by his writings, especially the History of England.  This history was attacked by Dr. Edmund Calamy, in a letter to the author; in which, according to the Dr. the true principles of the Revolution, the Whigs and the Dissenters are vindicated; and many persons of distinction cleared from Mr. Eachard’s aspersions.

Mr. John Oldmixon, who was of very opposite principles to Eachard, severely animadverted upon him in his Critical History of England, during the reigns of the Stuarts; but as Oldmixon was a hireling, and a man strongly biassed by party prejudices, little credit is due to his testimony:  Which is moreover accompanied with a perpetual torrent of abuse.  Mr. Eachard’s general Ecclesiastical History, from the nativity of Christ to the first establishment of Christianity by human laws, under the emperor Constantine the Great, has been much esteemed.  Our author was in the year 1712 installed archdeacon of Stowe, and prebend of Lincoln.  He published a translation of Terence’s Comedies, translated by himself and others; but all revised and corrected by him and Sir Roger L’Estrange:  To which is prefixed the life of Terence.  Besides these, Mr. Eachard has translated three Comedies from Plautus, viz.

  Amphitryon,
   EPIDICUS. 
     RUDENS.

With critical remarks upon each play.  To which he has prefixed a judicious parallel between Terence and Plautus; and for a clearer decision of the point, that Terence was the more polite writer of Comedy, he produces the first act of Plautus’s Aulularia, and the first act of his Miles Gloriosus, against the third act of Terence’s Eunuch.  It ought to be observed (says Mr. Eachard) ’That Plautus