Goda Comitissa ? 46; reply, 69. Mobility ? 6. Scribe, dramatist, 83. Sentimental Magazine Medallets, 69. Shadoof, 30. Shakespeare, name orthography, 16. Shakespeare's Puck, 99. Shakespeare, Elegiac verses on, 79. Shakespearean emendations, 6, 79, 92, 100. Shove groat? 28; replies, *46, 52. Shuter at Bartholomew Fair, 57. Simon's Competition Crown, 3, 15, 22. Smith, Secondary Richard? 14. Spanish veneration for the dead, 70. Spence's birth-place ? 13; reply, 22. *Spurs of olden days, 21. Nine Men's Morris? 81; replies, 89. Star Chamber prosecutions, 4. Statutes of England, 92. Stonehenge oxcavation ? 89. Strafford's execution, 64. Obituary, Literary and Scientific, 8, Strawberry Hill press, 78. 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 91. Sullivan the whisperer, 53. Surrey Traditions, 33. Surtees, Richard, 4. *Swift's birthplace, 39. Taylor, George Watson ? 58. Temple dial motto, 96. Tempora Mutantur ? 24; reply, 31, Three black puddings, 98. Tilly of Pentilly ? 50; replies, 69, 77. Patrick's halfpenny? 3; reply, 16. Trelawny ballad? 68; reply, 78. Three halfpenny beer, 3. Trihapennina, 3. Troubadour bishop, 49. Trusler's autobiography, 41. Polish inscribed ring ? 22; reply, 48. | Tucker family ? 5. Pope, paintings by? 47; replies, 55, Turkish alliance, 80. 70. Tutchin, 11. Van Os ? 69; reply, 84. *Vas Panormitanum, 82. Waldegrave, Lady Maria, 43. Ward, John? 30. Prynne on Stage-plays ? 24. Webb's, Mrs. board and lodging, 58. Wedding ring poesy, 35. Putchesia ? 89; reply, 93. Weston's Three shillings, 58. White, Gilb. portrait ? 11. Question answered, 93. Whitehall Palace, 35, 36. Whiten'd Hair, verses, 83. Raleigh's execution, 35; burial place? Whiteway's diary, 35. 11; reply, 77. •Whittington's House, 53; club notice, 84. Rococo ? 27 ; replies, 38, 48. Wide wide World, 6. Wild's execution, 1. Briton, 59. Ruby coloured glass ? 87; reply, 87. Wits' Recreations, 54. adopted by Jacobites 1745, 46. Wohlgemuth ? 6; replies, 22, *29. Russell's, Lord William, execution, 71. Woodward's picture sale, 32. Sacrilege, 14. Worms simply acorns, 79. Scold ducking, 34. Wrath and Cabbage? 6; reply, 12. Scottish Song bibliography ? 22. Wycherley's Maxims, 47. Scott, Sir Walter, 4, 20, 76. | Xavier's Hymn, Pope's version ? 38. VALUABLE SECOND-HAND BOOKS, jurient and Modern, BOOKSELLERS Burnet's (Bp.) History of the Reforma. 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Thomas Gent, PRINTER OF York. | if I shall not be drove to Jerusalem before I get home Your correspondent, Eboracensis (Current Notes, again ; nay, I shall forget I ever did the job by to-morNov. p. 94) makes some enquiries relative to Thomas row, and consequently shall never answer any questions Gent. His name is well known to the collectors about it if demanded. Yet, sir, I shall secretly rememof English topography and of typographical curi-ber vour generosity, and drink to your health with this osities, as that of a printer who soinetimes employed brimful glass.' Thereupon this set them both a laughhis press upon productions of his own, and who in his ing, and truly I was got merrily tipsy-so merry that I character of author produced numerous volumes which hardly know how I was driven homewards." His unare far from being destitute of merit. To the col-known employer was the famous Atterbury, Bishop of lectors of portraits he is known by a fine mezzotinto | Rochester print after a painting by Nathan Drake. His autobio- ! In 1714, Gent tells us there were “ few printers in graphy is sufficiently amusing. He was a native of Ire- England except London; none, I am sure, at Chester, land, and was born, it appears, in 1691. He was brought Liverpool, Whitehaven, Preston, Manchester, Kendal up as a printer, but ran away from his parents with a and Leeds." penny loaf and a few pence in his pocket, and after sun- In 1719, he witnessed the execution of Matthews, a dry adventures found his way to that El Dorado of run- printer, who was convicted of high treason for printing a away youths and apprentices- London. We must pass work called, Vox Populi, Vox Dei. “I beheld him over the next portion of his career ; how he became drawn on a sledge as I stood near St. Sepulchre's church; initiated into all the mysteries of the fraternity, was his clothes were exceeding neat, the lining of his coat a duly “dubbed a cuz" in the chapel of the shop at Black-rich Persian silk, and every other thing as befitted a friars, or followed the more profitable calling of a gentleman. I was told he talked like a philosopher of * smouter.” He seems to have been a hard-working death to some young ladies who came to take their fareman, fond of pushing business, industrious and cheerful. well, and suffered with a perfect resignation. He was We one day meet him as a journeyman, tramping on the son of an eminent printer in Tower Ditch, and his the Great North Road, with a light heart and a guinea body, through favour of the government, his corpse unin his shoe lining ; next inditing ballads for the flying quartered, was laid in the church of St. Botolph near stationers, or when his master gets inmured in the Aldersgate.” One Vesey, a journeyman, who was prin g under a mean shed adjoining the prison cipal evidence against him, did not long survive the wall, when snow and rain have fallen alternately on the youth; at his burial in an obscure part of Islington cases," yet still keeping up his spirits with “ the nunber churchyard, many of the printer's devils formed a proof wide-mouthed stentorian hawkers, brisk trade and a cession, and with their ball stocks made such an uproar, glass of good ale.” Some of his anecdotes are curious.“ that the minister was much interrupted thereby in the On one occasion a clergyman was committed to the burial service, and shameful indignities were committed King's Bench for an action of scan. mag. and a reverend at the grave." Bishop took up the pen to vindicate his reputation. Gent | Gent relates some curious particulars of most of the was engaged to print the sheets, but was not permitted | individuals who crossed his path. November 3, 1725, to know his employer. When all was finished, the papers he duly records the execution of Jonathan Wild, and were packed up, and at night Gent and his master enter says he had seen that noted thief-taker several times ing a coach are driven to Westminster. “Soon were we about the Old Bailey, “and particularly took notice of ushered into a spacious hall, where we sat near a large him when he rode triumphantly with pistols before the table covered with an ancient carpet of curious work, and criminals he was conveying to the gallows." "I heard whereon was soon laid a bottle of wine for our entertain- he was pelted by the populace to the place of execution." ment. In a little time we were visited by a grave gen- So those “ fleaing rascals, the surgeons, stole his corpse tleman in a black lay habit, who entertained us with one from its grave in St. Pancras churchyard, in which pleasant discourse or other. He bid us be secret, for, sacred ground it seemed unfit he should be interred said he, the imprisoned divine does not know who is his among many noble and pious personages." defender ; if he did, I know his temper; in a sort of Amongst the common hack writers of the day was transport he would reveal it, and so I should be blamed Richard Burridge, who sold written pamphlets for about for my good office. You need not fear me, sir,' said | half-a-crown each to the printers. He was author of a my master; "and I, good sir,' added I, you may be less burlesque called the Dutch Catechism, and seems to have afraid of, for I protest I do not know where I am, much been a profligate wretch, fond of uttering blasphemy and less your person, nor heard where I should be driven, or drinking Geneva. At last he was imprisoned, and with VOL. III. another companion ordered to be pilloried without Temple, The Holy Life and Death of St. Robert, Hermit of Knares. Bar. Gent graphically describes the exaltation of this borough, 12mo. literary genius with his friend. “They had gotten skull Elegiac Pastoral on the death of the Earl of Carlisle, 12mo. caps made of printing balls stuffed with wool, which I The Pattern of Piety, or Tryals of Patience, being Spiritual was desired to carry to them ; but these proved but weak Songs of the Life and Death of the once afflicted Job, helmets to avoid the eggs and stones that were made to 12mo. Scarborough, 1734. fly at them by the furious mob, who had almost knocked i | Life of our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ, 12mo. Contingencies, &c. of this transitory life, set forth in a out one of Burridge's eyes, who was thought the greatest villain of the two. But with the other he deeply marked pathetic prologue, spoken at the tragedy of Jane Shore, 8vo. 1761. the person whom he thought had hit such an unlucky | Miscellanea Curiosa, or Entertainments for the Ingenious blow; so that when he came down he drew out his pen rew out his pen- / of both sexes, 8vo. 1734, 1735. knife, and I believe would have stabbed him to the heart, | The Circle squared by Thomas Baxter. were it not for the interposition of the attending officers Epistle to the Earl of Oxford on the usefulness of a suppleof justicc." Afterwards he wrote a book called Religio ment to Walton's Polyglott. Libertini, giving an account of his past life, humbly de Gent was also the author of Teague's Ramble, a satire siring pardon of God and man, and professing that from on the booksellers, and wrote accounts of trials at Asan atheist he was become a convert.” However, this sizes, besides translating into verse Dering's Reliquiæ worthy scribbler does not seem to have much amended, Eboracenses. He also printed songs for the Summer's as Gent, recording his afterwards stealing a book from Entertainment, Book of Emblems, Preparation for Death, him, pathetically exclaims, “Abluis Æthiopem quid frustra, ah ! desine; noctis Bishop of Rochester's Effigy, Ode to King George, two editions of Erasmus, a translation of Oppian's CyneIllustrare nigræ nemo potest tenebras. geticks, Clarke's Justin, and a Newspaper. In 1724, Gent set out by the stage coach to York, and arrived after four days' journey. Here he married, set up in business on his own account, and published most Lucky AND UNLUCKY DAYS. I wish some of your of the books by which he is now remembered. His en- correspondents would give me any information about terprise and spirit soon created rivals. In the latter J. Gibbon, the author of a whimsical piece called “ Day portion of his life, his affairs seemed on the decline, and Fatality, or some observations of Days lucky and un. though he continued to reside at his house in Petergate, lucky," folio, 1679, and which was“ reprinted in opposition had done its work, and Gent's press became Aubrey's still more whimsical miscellany, with additions in little request. Still he had friends who respected by himself.” -See Harl. Misc. The present age seems him, and who tried more given to scepticism than credulity. We pride To smooth the harsh severities of age; ourselves on being wiser than our old fashioned grandand at length this old veteran of the press, “ the oldest fathers, and no longer fee the astrologer to have our master printer in the kingdom," died on the 19th of nativity cast, or cross the “cunning man's" hand with May, 1778, in the eighty-seventh year of his age, and silver to hear our fortune told. We have lost all faith was interred in the church of St. Michael le Belfrey. in ghosts, and are no longer disturbed by the vagaries It would be impossible to give a complete catalogue of fairies, or the machinations of witches; we have of all the books produced by a man who was at once wiped all the red letter days out of the Almanack, and author, printer, and publisher. The following are the keep no holidays but those at the Bank. We are too most important. busy to be superstitious, and think the luckiest day is Divine Entertainments, or Sighs and Groans of the Wounded when we make a good bargain; the unluckiest, when Soul, in verse, with woodcuts, 1724. prices are down in the market, or a troublesome bill Ancient and Modern History of the famous City of York, falls due too soon. Do you remember Boz's story of with plan and view of the City, 8vo. 1730. the gentleman travelling by coach, and his remarkable Ancient and Modern History of the loyal town of Rippon, coincidences. Let us see if, in the book I have quoted, woodcuts, &c. 8vo. 1733. I cannot find a few historical facts, equally as remarkable History of Kingston upon Hull, adorned with cuts, 1735. for the amusement of your readers. British Piety displayed in the Glorious Life of St. Wine-1 The third of September was a remarkable day to the fred, 12mo. 1743. English Attila,' Oliver Cromwell. In 1650 he obtained Compendious History of England and Rome, 2 vols. 12mo. a memorable victory at Dunbar on that day; another at 1741. Worcester, 1651, and on that day he died 1658. History of the Antient Militia in Yorkshire under King Thursday was a fatal day to Henry VIII. and also to Venusius, 2 leaves, 1760. The most delectable, scriptural, and pious history of the his posterity. He died on Thursday, January 28. King Great Eastern Window in St. Peter's Cathedral, York, Edward VI. on Thursday, July 6. Queen Mary on woodcuts, 8vo. 1762. Thursday, November 17. Queen Elizabeth on Thursday, Divine Mercy and Justice displayed, set forth in unhappy March 24. birth, wicked life, and miserable end of Judas Iscariot, Elizabeth, the wife of Henry VII. was born and died 8vo. 1772. I on the 11th of February. |