A

SELECTION

OF

CURIOUS ARTICLES

FROM THE

Gentleman's Magazine.

BY

JOHN WALKER, LL.B.

FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS, LITERARY ANECDOTES,

AND CHARACTERS,

TOPOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.

THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATER-
NOSTER-ROW; AND MUNDAY AND SLATTER, oxford.

Printed by Munday and Slatter, High-Street, Oxford.

TO.

JOHN NICHOLS, ESQ.

F. S. A. LOND. EDINB. AND PERTH,

CONTENTS

OF THE

FOURTH VOLUME.

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS, LITERARY ANECDOTES,

AND CHARACTERS.

I. ACCOUNT of the Life of EDWARD CAVE

II. Memoirs of Professor SAUNDERSON

III. Some Account of the Right Rev, Doctor THOMAS

SHERLOCK, who died July 18, 1761, aged 84.

Extracted from his Funeral Sermon, preached

by Doctor Nichols, Master of the Temple

IV. Some Account of Doctor STUKELEY, communicated

V. Anecdotes relative to Orway and LEE

VI. Particulars of the Life of Sir ISAAC NEWTON

VII. Anecdotes of Bishop SHERLOCK, Bishop MADOX, SIR

JOSEPH JEKYL, Archbishop POTTER, Doctor Con-

YERS Middleton, Doctor JOHN JORTIN, and Arch-

bishop GILBERT

VIII. Anecdotes of Atterbury, Bentley, POPE, and FENTON

IX. Anecdotes of Matthew Prior, and John, Duke of

MARLBOROUGH

X. Memoirs relative to CHARLES TARELKELD, M.D.