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IV. MEMOIRS AND ANA

A., N. [Amhurst, Nicholas]. Terrae Filius, or the Secret History of the University of Oxford, in several Essays, to which are added Remarks upon a late Book entitled University Education, by Newton, R., D.D., Principal of Hart Hall. 1726.

Aubrey, J. Letters written by eminent persons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 2 vols. (vol. II in 2 parts). 1813. Bourne, H. R. Fox. The Life of John Locke. 2 vols. 1876.

(Bristow, W.) The genuine account of the life and writings of Eugene Aram.... To which are added the remarkable defence he made on his trial... his Plan for a Lexicon, some pieces of poetry etc. [1759.] Calamy, Edmund. An Abridgment of Mr Baxter's History of his Life and Times. 1702.

An Historical Account of My own Life. Ed. Rutt, J. T. 2 vols. 1829. [Coventry, Francis.] The History of Pompey the Little: or the Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog. 1751.

Cumberland, Richard. Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, written by Himself. 1806-7.

Evelyn, John. Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S. Ed. Bray, W. 4 vols. 1902.

Gibbon, Edward. The Memoirs of the Life of Edward Gibbon with various observations and excursions by himself. Ed. Hill, G. Birkbeck. 1900. Hearne, Thomas. Reliquiae Hearnianae: The Remains of Thomas Hearne, M.A., of Edmund Hall. Being Extracts from his MS. Diaries, Collected with a Few Notes by Philip Bliss. 3 vols. 1869.

Jebb, Sir R. C. Richard Bentley. 1882.

Kettlewell, John. Compleat Works of. To which is prefix'd the Life of the Author, with an Appendix of several original papers. 2 vols. 1719.

Mason, William. Isis: an Elegy. 1749.

Mayor, J. E. B. (ed.). Life of Ambrose Bonwicke by his Father, 1729. Cambridge, 1870.

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Life of Ambrose Bonwicke (the Elder). Cambridge, 1870. - Cambridge under Queen Anne. Illustrated by Memoirs of Ambrose Bonwicke (1729) and Diaries of Francis Burman (1710) and Z. C. von Uffenbach (1712). Ed., with notes by Mayor, J. E. B., with preface by James, M. R. Cambridge, 1911.

Monk, James Henry. The Life of Richard Bentley. 2nd edn. 2 vols. 1833. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Letters and Works. Ed. Wharncliffe,

Lord, and Thomas, W. M. 2 vols. 1887.

Quiller Couch, L. M. (ed.). Reminiscences of Oxford by Oxford Men, 15591850. Oxford Hist. Soc. Oxford, 1892.

Shenstone, William. Poems. Vol. XIII in The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper. 1810.

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The School-Mistress; a poem in imitation of Spenser. 1742.
Tyerman, L. Life and Times of the Reverend Samuel Wesley, Μ.Α.,
Rector of Epworth. 2 vols. 1866.

Warton, Thomas. The Progress of Discontent. 1746. In Poetical Works
of Thos. Warton. Ed. Mant, Richard. 2 vols. Oxford, 1802.
The Triumph of Isis, a Poem occasioned by Isis, an Elegy. n.d. [1749].
Wordsworth, Christopher. Social Life at the English Universities in the

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Eighteenth Century. Cambridge, 1874.

Unpublished

Archbishop Secker's Diary.

In the MS Collections of the Archbishop's

Library, at Lambeth.

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1662 Richard Bentley born (d. 1742). 1686 William Law born (d. 1761). 1663-8 Butler's Hudibras.

1664 Matthew Prior born (d. 1721). 1664 Cotton's Scarronides. 1665 Burnet's Discourse on Sir Robert Fletcher of Saltoun. 1665 The Oxford Gazette (afterwards The London Gazette) established.

1667 John Arbuthnot born (d. 1735). 1667 George Granville, Lord Lansdowne, born (d. 1735).

1667 Jonathan Swift born (d. 1745). 1667 Sprat's History of the Royal

Society.

1668 Burnet's Thoughts on Education (ptd 1761).

1669 Chamberlayne's Angliae notitia.

1672 Joseph Addison born (d. 1719).

1686

1686

Thomas Tickell born (d. 1740). Dryden's The Hind and the Panther.

1687 Declaration of Indulgence. 1687 Montague and Prior's The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of the Country-Mouse and the City-Mouse.

1688 The Revolution. 1688 Alexander Pope born (d. 1744). 1689 Toleration Act. 1689-94 William and Mary. 1690 Temple's Essay on Ancient and Modern Learning. 1691 Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets. 1691-2 Wood's Athenae Oxonienses. 1692 John Byrom born (d. 1763). 1692 L'Estrange's edition of the Fables of Aesop (pt II in 1699).

1703 Death of Pepys.

1703 Defoe's Hymn to the Pillory. 1703 Steele's Lying Lover.

1703? Henry Brooke born (d. 1783). 1704 Death of Locke.

1704 Battle of Blenheim.

1704 1704

Addison's Campaign.

Dennis's Grounds of Criticism in Poetry.

1704 Swift's A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books (written about 1697).

1704 Defoe establishes The Review, which is carried on till 1713. 1704-5 Samuel Clarke's Boyle Lectures.

1704-35 Rymer's Foedera. 1706 Death of Evelyn. 1706 Act of Succession. 1706

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Union with Scotland. Echard's History of England, vol. 1.

1707 Prior's Poems on Several casions (unauthorised ed.).

1708 Collier's Ecclesiastical History, vol. I.

1708 Motteux's translation of Rabelais (begun by Urquhart). 1708 John Philips's Cyder.

1708

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Swift's Sentiments of Church of England man; Argument against abolishing Christianity; Predictions of Isaac Bickerstaff; and Account of Partridge's Death.

1709 Defoe's History of the Union of Great Britain.

1709 Berkeley's Essay towards a new theory of vision.

1709 Pope's Pastorals appear in Tonson's Miscellany.

1709 Prior's Poems on Several Occasions.

1709 Rowe's edition of Shakespeare.

1710 Trial of Sacheverell. Tory Ministry.

1710 Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge.

1710

1692 Rymer's Short View of Tra

gedy (dated 1693).

1692-3 Bentley's Boyle Lectures on The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism.

1693 Locke's Some Thoughts concerning Education.

1694 Bank of England established. 1694 Leslie's Short and easy method with the Deists.

1694 Strype's Memorials of Cran

mer.

1694 Wotton's Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning. 1694-1702 William III.

1695 Blackmore's Prince Arthur. 1695 Tanner's Notitia monastica. 1695 The Flying Post (Whig) begins to appear.

1695 The Post Boy (Tory) begins to appear.

1696 Aubrey's Miscellanies.

1696 Toland's Christianity not mys

terious.

1697 Peace of Ryswyk.

1697 Collier's Essays.

1697 Defoe's Essay upon Projects.
1698 Andrew Fletcher's Discourse
of Government with relation to
Militias.

1698 Granville's Heroick Love.
1698 Ward's London Spy begins to
appear.

1699 Society for Promoting Chris-
tian Knowledge founded.

1699 Bentley's Dissertation on the
Epistles of Phalaris.
1699 Garth's Dispensary.

1699 William King's Dialogues of

the Dead.

1700 Death of Dryden.

1700 Pomfret's Choice.

1700-31 Strype's Annals of the Re

formation.

1701 Act of Settlement.

1701 Defoe's The True-Born Eng- 1709 The Tatler begins to appear. lishman.

1701 John Philips's Splendid Shilling.

1701 Steele's Christian Hero.

1702 Defoe's Shortest Way with 1710 the Dissenters.

1702 The Daily Courant (first daily

paper) founded.

1702-14 Anne.

Ambrose Philips's Pastorals. Swift's City Shower and Baucis and Philemon.

1710-12 Hearne's edition of Leland's Itinerary.

1711 Bentley's edition of Horace. 1711 Pope's Essay on Criticism. 1711 Occasional Conformity Act. 1711 Shaftesbury's Characteristics. 1711 Swift's Conduct of the Allies.

1711 2 January. Last number of The Tatler.

1711 First number of The Spec

tator, March 1.

1716 Hearne begins publication of

a series of English chronicle histories.

1717 Sittings of Convention close. 1717 Hoadly's Preservative against the principles and practices of the non-jurors and Sermon on the nature of Christ's Kingdom.

1717 Pope's Works.

1712 Arbuthnot's Art of Political 1717-19 Law's Three Letters to the

Lying.

1712 Blackmore's Creation.

1712 Clarke's Scripture Doctrine

of the Trinity.

1712 Dennis's Essay on... Shake

speare.

1712 Ambrose Philips's Distressed Mother.

1712 Pope's The Rape of the Lock published in Lintot's Miscellany.

1712 Whiston's Primitive Christianity revived.

Bishop of Bangor.

1718 Society of Antiquaries insti

tuted.

1718 Prior's Poems on Several Oс-
casions.

1719 Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
1720 South Sea Bubble.
1720 Defoe's Memoirs of a Cavalier
and Captain Singleton.
1721-42 Sir Robert Walpole in
power.

1721 Parnell's Poems on Several
Occasions.

1712 Last number of The Spectator 1721 Death of Prior.

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Free-Thinking.

1723 Mallet's William and Mar

garet.

1723 Mandeville's Fable of the Bees and Law's Remarks upon it.

1713 Anthony Collins's Discourse of 1722 Steele's Conscious Lovers.

1713 Bentley's Remarks on a late Discourse of Free-Thinking. 1713 Berkeley's Three Dialogues. 1713 Arthur Collier's Clavis Uni

versalis.

1713 Gay's Rural Sports.
1713 Pope's Windsor Forest and
Ode on Saint Cecilia's Day.
1713 Swift's Cadenus and Vanessa.
1713 Lady Winchilsea's Poems.
1714 Gay's Shepherd's Week.
1714 Schism Act.

1714-27 George I.
1715 Jacobite rising.
1715 Gay's Trivia.

1715 Pope's edition of Homer's

Iliad, vol. 1, appears. (Vol. 11,
1716; vol. III, 1717; vol. IV, 1718;
vols. v, VI, 1720.)

1724 'Atterbury's plot.'
1724 Burnet's History of my own
time (vol. 11, 1734).
1724 Defoe's Roxana.
1724 Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscel-
lany; and The Evergreen.
1724 Swift's Drapier's Letters.
1725 Pope's edition of Shakespeare.
1725 Pope's translation of Homer's

Odyssey (Vols. I-III) appears.
1725 Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd.
1726 Bentley's edition of Terence.
1726 Butler's Sermons.
1726 Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
1726 First number of The Crafts-
man appears, 5 December.

1715 Tickell's translation of Ho- 1727 Death of Newton.

mer's Iliad, Book 1.

1727 Gay's Fables.

c. 1715 Carey's Sally in our Alley. 1727 The Occasional Writer (by 1716 Septennial Act.

Bolingbroke and others).

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1727-60 George II.

1728 Gay's Beggar's Opera.

1728 Pope's Dunciad.

1729 Death of Congreve.

1729 Gay's Polly.

1729 Law's Serious Call.

1729 Swift's Modest Proposal.

1740 North's Lives of the Norths.

1740 Prior's History of his own time.

1741 Memoirs of Scriblerus.

1741 Middleton's Life of Cicero.

1742 Pope's Dunciad (with the

addition of Book IV).

1730 Tindal's Christianity as old 1744 Dodsley's Old Plays.

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1744 Johnson's Life of Savage. 1744-6 The Harleian Miscellany. 1745 Jacobite Rebellion.

1748 Dodsley's Poems by Several Hands.

1748 Middleton's Free Inquiry into miraculous powers.

1748 Tanner's Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica.

1749 Bolingbroke's Idea of a
Patriot King and Letters on
Patriotism.

1749-50 Law's Spirit of Prayer.
1751 Death of Bolingbroke.
1752 Bolingbroke's Letters on the
Study and Use of History
published.

1753 Bolingbroke's Letter to Sir
William Wyndham published.
1760-1820 George III.
1762 Locke's Of the conduct of the
Understanding.

1763 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's
Letters published.

1766-8 Swift's Journal to Stella

published.

1766-70 Henry Brooke's Fool of

Quality.

1776 Herd's Ancient and Modern

Scottish Songs.

1784 George Bubb Dodington's

1738 Warburton's Divine Legation 1773 Fergusson's Poems. of Moses.

1739 Bentley's edition of Manilius.

1739 Blomefield's History of Nor

folk began to appear (completed 1775).

1740 Cibber's Apology.

Diary (1748/9-61) published. 1819-21 Hogg's Jacobite Relics of Scotland.

1740 Law's Appeal to all that 1848 Lord Hervey's Memoirs of the

doubt.

reign of George II published.

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