“Riches in effect,
No grace of Heaven, or token of th’ Elect;
Given to the fool, the mad, the vain, the evil,
To Ward, to Waters, Chartres, and the devil!”

He died in Scotland, in 1731, at the age of sixty-two.  The populace, at his funeral, raised a great riot, almost tore the body out of the coffin, and cast dead dogs, etc. into the grave along with it.-E.

(404) See the note to vol. i. p. 314, letter 101.-E.

(405) For a refutation of Walpole’s assertion, that Bishop Hayter was a natural son of bishop Blackbourn’s, see vol. ii. p. 100, letter 39.-E.

Letter 205 To The Rev. Mr. Cole.  Berkeley Square, Dec. 19, 1780. (page 263)

I cannot leave you for a moment in error, my good Sir, when you transfer a compliment to me, to which I have not the most slender claim, and defraud another of it to whom it is due.

The friend of Mr. Gray, in whom authorship caused no jealousy or variance, as Mr. Mainwaring says truly, is Mr. Mason.  I certainly never excelled in poetry, and never attempted the species of poetry alluded to, odes.  Dr. Lort, I suppose, is removing to a living or a prebend, at least; I hope so.  He may run a risk if he carries his book to Lambeth.  “Sono sonate venti tre ore e mezza,” as Alexander viii. said to his nephew, when he was chosen pope in extreme old age.  My Lord of Canterbury’s is not extreme, but very tottering.  I found in Mr. Gough’s new edition, that in the Pepysian library is a view of the theatre in Dorset Gardens, and views of four or five other ancient great mansions.  Do the folk of Magdalen ever suffer copies of such things to be taken?  If they would, is there any body at Cambridge that could execute them, and reasonably?  Answer me quite at your leisure; and, also, what and by whom is the altar-piece that Lord Carlisle has given to King’s.  I did not know he had been of our college.  I have two or three plates of Strawberry more than those you mention; but my collections are so numerous, and from various causes my prints have been in such confusion, that at present I neither know where the plates or proofs are.  I intend next summer to set about completing my plan of the Catalogue and its prints; and when I have found any of the plates or proofs, you shall certainly have those you want.  There are two large views of the house, one of the cottage, one of the library, one of the front to the road, and the chimney-piece in the Holbein room.  I think these are all that are finished—­oh! yes, I believe the prior’s garden; but I have not seen them these two years.  I was so ill the summer before last, that I attended to nothing; the little I thought of in that way last summer, was to get out my last volume of the Anecdotes; now I have nothing to trouble myself about as an editor, and that not publicly, but to finish my Catalogue—­and that will be awkwardly enough; for so many articles have been added to my collection since the description was made, that I must add them in the appendix or reprint it:  and, what is more inconvenient, the positions of many of the pictures have been changed; and so it will be a lame piece of work.  Adieu, my dear Sir!  Yours most cordially.