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 RICHARD BENTLEY, D.D. 
 
 A BIBLIOGRAPHY
 
 Richard Bentley, D.D. 
 
 From the Painting by Sir J. Thornhill in the Master's Lodge, Trinity College, Cambridge.
 
 RICHARD BENTLEY, D.D. 
 
 A BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 OF HIS WORKS AND OF ALL THE LITERATURE 
 CALLED FORTH BY HIS ACTS OR HIS WRITINGS 
 
 AT Ti BARTHOLOMEW, M.A., 
 
 OF PETERHOUSE, CAMBRIDGE 
 
 WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND 
 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 
 
 BY 
 
 J. W. CLARK, M.A., Hon. Litt.D. (Oxford) . 
 
 REGISTRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, 
 FORMERLY FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE 
 
 BOWES AND BOWES 
 
 1908
 
 CambriBge : 
 
 PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. 
 AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Introduction ......... vii 
 
 Chronology of Bentley's Life ...... xiii 
 
 I. Sermons and Charges ........ i 
 
 II. Discourse of Free-Thinking 13 
 
 III. New Testament ......... 20 
 
 IV. Phalaris Controversy ........ 26 
 
 V. Classics .......... 42 
 
 VI. Trinity College and the University .... 60 
 
 VII. Miscellanea 75 
 
 VIII. Collected Works and Correspondence . . . . 81 
 IX. Biography and Criticism ....... 88 
 
 Appendix .......... 93 
 
 Portraits .......... 100 
 
 Index 103 
 
 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 Richard Bentley, D.D. 
 
 From the Painting by Sir J. Thornhill in the Master's 
 
 Lodge, Trinity College, Cambridge. Frontispiece 
 
 Facsimile Letter of Bentley on the Authenticity of 
 
 I John v. 7. To face p. 20 
 
 Charles Boyle, Fourth Earl of Orrery. 
 
 From the Painting by C. Jervas in the National Portrait 
 
 Gallery. >? n A 27 
 
 Caricature from W. King's Some Account of Horace at 
 
 Trinity-College^ 1 7 1 2. /•• ^4 
 
 Conyers Middleton, D.D. 
 
 From the Mezzotint by J. Faber junior of J. G. Eckhardt's 
 
 Painting in the National Portrait Gallery. To face p. 68
 
 INTRODUCTION 
 
 HISTORY 
 
 Soon after I had been elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College 
 my friend Dr Luard introduced me to the fascinating subject of 
 Dr Bentley ; and I began without delay to collect the tracts (as they 
 are usually called) relating to his controversy with his College. In 
 those days it was far easier to buy such things at a small price than it 
 is now ; and my collection soon became respectable. As time went 
 on I enlarged the field of my research, and determined to become the 
 possessor of all Bentley's editions and of his various other works, such 
 as his Sermons, Proposals for a new edition of the Greek Testament, 
 etc., which he issued from time to time. As long as Luard lived, 
 I used to discuss my collection with him, and urge him to prepare a 
 bibliography of Bentleiana, which, strange to say, has never been 
 given in full by any of Bentley's biographers. It has always appeared 
 to me specially strange that Bishop Monk should not have added this 
 to his other acts of pious care for Bentley's reputation : for he 
 unquestionably had access to several pieces which it is now difficult, 
 if not impossible, to trace. For such a work Luard was admirably 
 qualified. He had the requisite technical knowledge of books ; he 
 was well versed in the history of classical scholarship during the 
 seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ; and, for the events of Bentley's 
 Mastership, he knew as much about them and the Fellows of the
 
 viii INTRODUCTION 
 
 College of that day, as if he had himself been one of the Society. 
 But I could never persuade him to begin. Had he once begun he 
 would assuredly have also finished, for he had extraordinary per- 
 severance, and I do not think that he ever left a task half done. 
 When Luard died in 1891 I found that he had bequeathed to me 
 not only his University pamphlets, but also his Bentleiana. By this 
 generous gift I became the fortunate possessor of some of the rarest 
 in the series of Bentley tracts. 
 
 I now felt that a special obligation was laid upon me to draw up 
 the bibliography which I had once hoped that my friend would write, 
 or at least supervise. But how was I to proceed ? I had new and 
 pressing occupations to attend to, and besides. Bibliography had 
 become a science, and the novice who attempts to register books 
 without careful preliminary training, lays himself open to certain 
 condemnation. So I searched for a collaborator, or rather, for some 
 one who would undertake the really important part of the work, the 
 bibliography, leaving to me the introduction and the index. My 
 good fortune caused me to be introduced to Mr A. T. Bartholomew, 
 of Peterhouse. He was then, as now, an assistant in the University 
 Library, employed on the catalogue of Lord Acton's books ; and, 
 from information given to me by the Librarian and others capable of 
 forming an opinion, was just the man I wanted. Their recommenda- 
 tions have been fully justified by the result. We have worked 
 together for nearly three years, and I have every reason to be more 
 than satisfied with the skill, the diligence, and the historical acumen, 
 with which he has executed his task. As the whole of the bibliography 
 has been written by him, it is easy to see that he is not a mere 
 cataloguer. He has obtained a thorough grasp of the subject, and 
 has added notes, where needed, illustrating many points hitherto left 
 obscure in Bentley's life.
 
 INTRODUCTION ix 
 
 ARRANGEMENT 
 
 The arrangement of the long and varied series of publications with 
 which we have had to deal has given us much anxiety. Our first idea 
 was to arrange the publications, whether written by Bentley or by 
 others, in strict chronological order ; but we soon found that this 
 would lead to obscurity rather than to clearness, as Bentley was 
 frequently engaged at nearly the same time in studies of the most 
 diverse character. Our final arrangement is as follows : 
 
 I. Sermons and Charges 
 
 II. Discourse of Free-Thinking - Theological 
 
 III. New Testament 
 
 IV. Phalaris Controversy ) /-i • i 
 ,, ^, . V Classical 
 V. Classics J 
 
 VI. Trinity College and the University 
 
 VII. Miscellanea 
 
 VIII. Collected Works and Correspondence 
 IX. Biography and Criticism. 
 
 As far as possible chronological order has been observed in each 
 group ; but later editions and translations of any work are described 
 immediately after the first edition, and works immediately bearing on 
 any other work are described in connection with it. 
 
 We are aware that Bentley's first published work is the Epistola ad 
 Millium published in 1691 (no. 137); but after this an interval of 
 six years occurs before his first Dissertation upon the Epistles of 
 Phalaris (no. 94) was published. We therefore begin with Sermons, 
 because his Boyle Lectures occur in regular sequence in 1692 and 
 1693. And although there is an interval of more than twenty years 
 before Phileleutherus Lipsiensis published his Remarks upon a late 
 Discourse of Free-Thinking (no. 49) it appeared reasonable to place these
 
 X INTRODUCTION 
 
 two groups in juxta-position as they both deal with the confutation of 
 Atheism, and to join with them the group dealing with the proposed 
 edition of the New Testament. 
 
 The juxta-position of the Phalaris Controversy with Bentley's 
 editions and emendations of Greek and Latin authors is so obvious 
 as to need no explanation. It must, however, be distinctly understood 
 that no attempt has been made to notice all editions of Greek and 
 Latin authors published since Bentley's death with his notes or 
 em.endations, when those notes or emendations were originally pub- 
 lished during his life. But in the second division of this section we 
 have done our best to include all editions containing notes or 
 emendations left by him in ms. 
 
 Further we have regarded mss. and Adversaria as not within the 
 scope of the present work. A large body of Adversaria will be found 
 under Bentley in the Catalogue of Printed Books in the British 
 Museum. These include that portion of his library which his nephew 
 and executor gave to his grandson Richard Cumberland, by whom 
 they were sold to Lackington, the well-known bookseller, and by him 
 to the British Museum. A considerable body of Adversaria is also to 
 be found in Trinity College Library ; and Dr James's Catalogue of the 
 Western Manuscripts in 'Trinity Library may be consulted for a description 
 of some interesting mss. of Bentley preserved there. 
 
 We wish our work to be regarded as an Appendix to the elaborate 
 biographies of Bishop Monk and Sir R. C. Jebb. For this reason we 
 do not attempt any notice of Bentley's life, with the exception of a 
 full chronology based on the Annals of Bentley s Life given by 
 Sir R. C. Jebb. In this we have tried to arrange the facts in such 
 a manner as to furnish to those who do not know Bentley a clue to 
 guide them through the labyrinth of his controversies. 
 
 We have done our best to make this bibliography complete. 
 Beginning with my own collection, we have searched the University
 
 INTRODUCTION xi 
 
 Library and all the Collegiate Libraries in Cambridge, the Bodleian 
 Library, and that of the British Museum. Notwithstanding this care 
 on our own part, and the information we have gained from friends, we 
 cannot be sure that we have included all that appeared in controversies 
 separated from our own time by nearly two centuries. It is, therefore, 
 with considerable diffidence that we present our bibliography to the 
 public, and we shall be grateful for further information. 
 
 Our special thanks are due to the Master and Fellows of Trinity 
 College for their kindness in allowing us to reproduce the portrait of 
 Bentley, now in the dining-room of the Master's Lodge, painted by 
 Sir James Thornhill in 1710; to the Master and Fellows of Sidney 
 Sussex College for the loan of Bentley's Letter (p. 20), with leave to 
 reproduce it ; to Dr Sandys, Public Orator, for helpful criticism ; 
 to the Librarians of the different Colleges and to Dr Fortescue, 
 Keeper of the Printed Books in the British Museum, who all gave 
 us every facility for studying the collections of Bentley tracts under 
 their care ; to C. E. Sayle, M.A. of S. John's College, for help in 
 drawing up the list of Portraits ; and to E. J. Worman, M.A. of 
 Christ's College, for careful revision of the proofs of the Bibliography. 
 
 An asterisk (*) has been added to each item in my own collection : 
 in other cases the place where a book may be found has been indicated 
 only when the book in question is of some rarity. 
 
 The following abbreviations have been used : 
 
 B.M. = British Museum. 
 
 Dyce = Works of Richard Bentley^ D.D. collected and edited by the Rev. 
 Alexander Dyce. [Vols, i — 3. No more appeared.] London, 
 1836—8. 
 
 Jebb = Bentley by R. C. Jebb, M.A. London, 1882. 
 
 Monk = Life of Richard Bentley^ D.D. by J. H. Monk^ D.D. 2nd ed. 
 
 2 vols. London, 1833. 
 T.C.C. = Trinity College, Cambridge.
 
 xii INTRODUCTION 
 
 U.L.C. = University Library, Cambridge. 
 
 Wordsworth = Correspondence of Richard Bentley. [Ed. by Christopher 
 Wordsworth.] 2 vols. London, 1842. 
 
 We have reprinted in an Appendix {i) A Proposal for building a 
 Royal Library (no. 250) ; (2) the Latin verses which Bentley 
 contributed to two of those collections which it was the fashion to 
 publish when any public event was important enough to notice 
 (nos. 251, 252); (3) his English stanzas in imitation of Horace 
 (no. 253). 
 
 The first of these is a piece of which only one copy is known — 
 and though the ascription of it to Bentley has been called in question 
 — it seems to us to be sufficiently interesting in itself to warrant 
 reproduction ; the verses which form the second group are entombed 
 in folios not readily accessible in libraries ; while the third, though 
 printed in several places, and notably by Monk, obviously demands 
 the same recognition as the others. 
 
 At the end of the Appendix will be found a list of all the known 
 portraits of Bentley. We have been at some pains to make this as 
 complete as possible, as the subject has received little or no attention 
 from Bentley' s biographers. 
 
 J. W\ CLARK. 
 
 ScRooPE House, 
 Cambridge. 
 
 24 April^ 1908.
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BENTLEY'S LIFE 
 
 CHARLES THE SECOND 
 
 1662 Born at Oulton in the parish of Rothwell, near Wakefield, Yorks. 
 
 (27 Jan.). 
 1672 10 Is sent to the grammar-school, Wakefield. 
 1676 14 Entered at S. John's College, Cambridge, as a subsizar (24 May). 
 
 Matriculates (6 July). 
 1680 18 Proceeds to B.A. degree (23 Jan.). 
 
 1682 20 Appointed by S. John's College to the head-mastership of the 
 
 grammar-school, Spalding, Line. (March). 
 
 1683 21 Made tutor to the son of Edward Stillingfleet, D.D., Dean of 
 
 S. Paul's. Proceeds to M.A. degree (July). 
 
 JAMES THE SECOND 
 WILLIAM AND MARY 
 
 1689 27 Dr Stillingfleet consecrated Bp. of Worcester (13 Oct.). Bentley 
 
 accompanies his pupil, James Stillingfleet, to Oxford. 
 
 1690 28 Is ordained deacon by Bp. of London, and made chaplain to Bp. of 
 
 Worcester. 
 Sir William Temple's Essay Upon Jncient and Modern Learning. 
 
 1 69 1 29 Death of Hon. Robert Boyle (23 Dec). By his Will the Boyle 
 
 Lecture founded. 
 Epistola ad Millium [on Malelas]. 
 
 1692 30 Appointed first Boyle Lecturer (13 Feb.). 
 
 Ordained priest, and made prebendary of Worcester Cathedral 
 
 (8 Oct.). 
 Begins to correspond with J. G. Gr^vius of Utrecht.
 
 XIV 
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BENTLEY'S LIFE 
 
 JET. 
 
 1694 32 Receives patent as Keeper of the King's Library (6 April). 
 
 Second course of Boyle Lectures. Wotton's Re/lections. 
 
 1695 33 Made Chaplain to the King, and Rector of Hartlebury, Worcester- 
 
 shire. Elected F.R.S. Boyle edits Phalaris. 
 
 1696 34 Selected by University of Cambridge to renovate the Press (10 July). 
 
 Proceeds to D.D. degree (July). Keeps the Public Act, and 
 preaches before University on Commencement Sunday (5 July). 
 
 1697 35 A^^^nAs Fragments of Callimachus to eAxtxonhy Gr2tv\\xs. 
 
 Founds a Literary Club of which Sir I. Newton, Evelyn, Sir Chr. 
 
 Wren, and Locke were members. 
 Dissertations upon the Epistles of Phalaris [etc.] in Wotton's Reflections, 
 
 ed. 2. 
 
 1698 36 Bentley's Dissertation... examined by the Hon. Charles Boyle. 
 
 1699 37 Death of Bp. Stillingfleet (27 March), 
 
 Enlarged Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris. 
 A Short Account of Dr Bentlefs Humanity and Justice. 
 Garth's Dispensary., with verses on the controversy. 
 
 1700 38 Installed Master of Trinity College, Cambridge ( I Feb.). 
 
 Elected Vice Chancellor for the year 1700 — 1701. 
 
 1 70 1 39 Marries Miss Joanna Bernard (4 Jan.). 
 
 Elected Archdeacon of Ely. 
 
 ANNE 
 
 1704 42 Swift's Tale of a Tub, and Battle of the Books. 
 
 1705 43 Queen Anne, with her husband and suite, visits Cambridge 
 
 (16 April). 
 
 1708 46 An Observatory and a Chemical Laboratory constructed in Trinity 
 
 College. Chapel refitted. 
 Attempts to add the Bowling Green to the garden of the Lodge. 
 Letters to Kuster containing emendations on Aristophanes. 
 
 1709 47 Proposes to convert the Combination Room into chambers. 
 
 Emendations to the Quastiones Tusculante as edited by John Davies, 
 Fellow of Queens' College. 
 
 1 7 10 48 Petition against the Master handed to Bp. of Ely as visitor by 
 
 30 Fellows of Trinity College (6 Feb.).
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BENTLEY'S LIFE xv 
 
 ^T. 
 
 1 7 10 48 The Present State of Trinity College in Cambridge... 
 
 Miller's Remarks. 
 
 Blomer's Full f^iew. 
 
 True Copy of the Articles against Dr Bent ley. 
 
 Publishes Emendationes in Menandri et Philemonis Reliquias under 
 
 the pseudonym of Phileleutherus Lipsiensis. 
 Fall of the Godolphin ministry. A Tory ministry under Harley 
 
 and St John takes office. 
 Bentley tries to obtain a Royal Letter to settle the points in dispute 
 
 between him and the Fellows (Nov.). 
 Bp. Moore demands an immediate answer to the Articles (2 1 Nov.). 
 Portrait painted by Sir James Thornhill. 
 
 171 1 49 Bentley petitions the Queen to assert the right of the Crown as 
 
 Visitor. She commands Bp. Moore to stay proceedings till 
 
 Her Majesty's pleasure be known. 
 Bentley's diplomatic letter to Harley, Lord Oxford (12 July). 
 Publication of Horace^ with a dedication to Lord Oxford (8 Dec). 
 
 17 12 50 The Crown Lawyers report that the Bp. of Ely is Visitor so far as 
 
 the Master is concerned, the Crown being General Visitor 
 
 (9 Jan.)- 
 
 1 7 13 51 The Queen allows Bp. Moore to proceed; and a Rule is granted by 
 
 the Court of Queen's Bench for the Bp. to shew cause why a 
 mandamus should not issue to compel him to discharge his 
 judicial functions. 
 Discourse of Free-Thinkings by Anthony Collins ; Remarks^ by 
 Phileleutherus Lipsiensis (Bentley) ; and The Clergyman's 
 Thanks to Phileleutherus for his Remarks... hy Bp. Fr. Hare. 
 
 1 7 14 52 First Trial at Ely House (May — June). 
 
 Death of Bp. Moore (31 July). 
 Death of Queen Anne (i Aug.). 
 
 GEORGE THE FIRST 
 
 Bentley tries to force Miller to vacate his fellowship. Miller 
 petitions the Crown, and also Bp. Fleetwood of Ely. The 
 Bp. refuses to act.
 
 XVI 
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BENTLEY'S LIFE 
 
 17 1 5 53 Thanks of Senate for refutation of Free-Thinkers (4 Jan.). 
 
 Bp. Moore's Library given to the University by the King (20 Sept.). 
 Jacobite rising in the north. 
 Sermon upon Popery (5 Nov.). 
 
 Bentley appointed a Syndic to provide for the removal of Bp. Moore's 
 books from London, etc. (9 Nov.). 
 
 1 7 16 54 Dr Colbatch appeals to Bp. of Ely against Bentley's method of 
 
 granting College leases. 
 Bentley writes to the Abp. of Canterbury suggesting an edition of 
 
 the New Testament on a new plan (15 April). 
 Petition to the Crown, signed by 19 Fellows, praying that the 
 
 question of the Visitor may be settled (18 May). 
 Address to the King voted by the Senate, through Bentley's 
 
 diplomacy (16 Oct.). 
 
 17 1 7 55 Serjeant Miller publishes An Account of the University of Cambridge 
 
 [etc.]. 
 Bentley preaches before the King (3 Feb.). 
 Elected Regius Professor of Divinity (3 May). 
 Lays out and plants the College walks. 
 The King visits the University (6 Nov.). 
 At the adjourned Congregation (7 Nov.) Bentley demands four 
 
 guineas from each D.D., in addition to the usual fee. This 
 
 payment resisted by Conyers Middleton and others, but paid 
 
 under protest. 
 Dr Gooch, Master of Gonville and Caius College, elected V.C. 
 Letter on authenticity of i Epist. John v. 7. 
 
 17 1 8 56 Middleton sues Bentley for four guineas in the Vice Chancellor's 
 
 Court, as a debt. Unsuccessful attempt to arrest him. 
 The Court is held (3 Oct.), and decides that Bentley be 
 suspended from all his degrees. His degradation affirmed 
 by the Senate (17 Oct.). He petitions the King for 
 redress. 
 Dr Gooch elected Vice Chancellor for the second time. 
 
 17 1 9 57 Full and Impartial Account of all the late Proceedings ...against 
 
 Dr Bentley. [By Conyers Middleton.]
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BENTLEY'S LIFE xvii 
 
 j«T. 
 
 1 7 19 57 Second Part of the Full and Impartial Jaount.,.[By the same]. 
 
 Some Remarks upon a Pamphlet entituled The Case of Dr Bentley 
 
 farther stated... \^y the same]. 
 True Account of the Present State of Trinity College ...{By the 
 
 same]. 
 Bentley prosecutes Middleton for libel in Court of King's Bench. 
 Dr Gooch elected Vice Chancellor for the third time. 
 
 1720 58 Application to the Court of King's Bench to deprive Bentley of his 
 
 Professorship. Rule discharged. 
 Proposals for Printing a new edition of the New Testament (Oct.). 
 
 1 72 1 59 Bentley replies (Jan.). This reply, directed against Colbatch, 
 
 censured by the Heads. Colbatch prosecutes the printer in 
 Vice Chancellor's Court. This prosecution came to nothing. 
 
 Middleton publishes Remarks... upon the Proposals anonymously, and 
 subsequently Some further Remarks. He is found guilty of 
 libel by Court of King's Bench (see under 17 19). Is made 
 Proto-bihliothecarius of the University. 
 
 Colbatch prosecutes Bentley in Vice Chancellor's Court for libel 
 (24 Nov.). 
 
 1722 60 Vice Chancellor's Court fixed for 17 January. Bentley absent on 
 
 the King's service. Proceedings stopped by a Rule from the 
 Court of King's Bench on the motion of Bentley's counsel, 
 and proceedings ultimately dropped on the ground that the 
 offence of the libel complained of was included in the general 
 pardon. 
 
 Colbatch publishes Jus Academicum. Bentley moves the Court of 
 King's Bench to take cognizance of it as a contempt of their 
 jurisdiction. Rule granted for Wilkin the publisher to shew 
 cause why an attachment should not issue against him. Is 
 committed to prison. Reveals the author's name. Wilkin 
 fined, and Colbatch admitted to bail. 
 
 Bentley moves the Court for a Rule addressed to the University to 
 shew cause why a mandamus should not issue compelling them 
 to restore him to all his degrees. The mandamus is issued and 
 read to the Senate 10 October.
 
 XVlll 
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BENTLEY'S LIFE 
 
 .«T. 
 
 1723 61 Colbatch sentenced. 
 
 Middleton publishes Bibl'tothecte Cantabrigiensis Ordinandi Methodus. 
 Bentley prosecutes him in Court of King's Bench for a libel on 
 the judges (14 May). Is fined ^50. 
 
 1724 62 The Court of King's Bench issues a peremptory mandamus to the 
 
 University " to restore R. Bentley to all his degrees, and to 
 every other right and privilege of w^hich they had deprived him." 
 
 Bentley's degrees restored by Grace (26 March). 
 
 Middleton renews his suit in the Vice Chancellor's Court to recover 
 ^4. 4J. 
 
 Bishopric of Bristol offered to Bentley, and declined. 
 
 Affair of the Craven Scholarship. The Senate decides by Grace 
 that in cases of equality that candidate shall be elected for 
 whom the Vice Chancellor has voted (31 Oct.). ' 
 
 1725 63 Bentley pays Middleton the ^^4. 4;. in dispute (Feb.). 
 
 Latin speech at Commencement. 
 
 1726 64 Edition of TVr^wf^. 
 
 1727 65 Contested election for office of Public Orator (Feb. 1726 — 27), in 
 
 reference to which Bentley maintained that the Old Statutes of 
 the University were abrogated by those of Elizabeth. 
 Death of Sir I. Newton (20 March). 
 
 GEORGE THE SECOND 
 
 1728 66 The King visits Cambridge (24 Apr.). 
 
 Bentley dangerously ill of fever. 
 
 Colbatch and his party prepare for a fresh attack through the Bp. of 
 
 Ely. 
 Bentley anticipates them by obtaining the consent of the College to 
 
 a petition to the Crown to interfere (10 Aug.). 
 
 1729 67 Publishes The Case of Trinity College in Cambridge. Whether the 
 
 Crown or the Bp. of Ely he the General Visitor. 
 The Privy Council decides that the Crown cannot interfere (March). 
 Articles of accusation against the Master, drawn up by Colbatch, 
 
 presented to Bp. Greene. 
 Bentley cited to appear at Ely House on May 5.
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF BENTLEY'S LIFE xix 
 
 JET. 
 
 1729 67 He moves the Court of King's Bench to prohibit the Bp. from 
 
 proceeding against him (3 May). 
 Pope attacks Bentley in The Dunciad. 
 
 1730 68 Refuses Deanery of Lincoln. 
 
 1 73 1 69 Court of King's Bench prohibits Bp. of Ely from proceeding (Trinity 
 
 Term). 
 The case carried to the House of Lords. 
 Fire at the Cottonian Library (23 Oct.). Bentley saves the Codex 
 
 Alexandrinus. 
 
 1732 70 Bentley publishes his edition of Pflrrt^/;<? Z,05/ (Jan.). 
 
 Colbatch publishes A Defence of the Lord Bishop of Ely's Vhitatorial 
 
 Jurisdiction... 
 The House of Lords reverses the judgment of the Court of King's 
 
 Bench, and empowers the Bp. of Ely to try Dr Bentley on 
 
 certain specified counts (6 — 17 May). 
 
 1733 71 The House of Lords decrees "a writ of consultation" (15 Feb.). 
 
 This writ sent to the Bp. of Ely after long delay (31 May). 
 Bentley's Second Trial at Ely House (begins 13 June). 
 
 1734 72 Bp. Greene sentences Bentley to be deprived of the mastership of 
 
 Trinity College (27 Apr.). 
 
 1738 76 The Court of King's Bench rejects the last of a series of applications 
 
 for a writ to compel the Bp. to enforce the sentence against 
 Bentley (28 Apr.). 
 Death of Bp. Greene (18 May). 
 
 1739 77 Bentley publishes Manilius. 
 
 Is attacked by paralysis. 
 
 1740 78 Death of Mrs Bentley. 
 
 1742 80 Pope attacks Bentley in The Dunciad^ Book IV. 
 
 Bentley examines for the University Scholarships (10 June). 
 His death (14 July).
 
 1. SERMONS AND CHARGES 
 
 I. BOYLE LECTURES 
 
 2. OTHER SERMONS; AND CHARGES 
 
 I, Boyle Lectures. 
 The Folly of Atheism, and (what is now called) Deism ; even 
 with Respect to the Present Life. A Sermon preached in the 
 Church of S'- Martin in the Fields, March the vii. 169 J. 
 Being the First of the Lecture Founded by the Honourable 
 Robert Boyle, Esquire. By Richard Bentley, M.A. Chaplain 
 to the Right Reverend Father in God, Edward, Lord Bishop 
 of Worcester. London, Printed for Tho. Park:hurst...and 
 H. Mortlock...i692. 
 Collation : 4°. Title, pp. [ii] Dedication + 40. 
 Note : On Psalm xiv. i. Monk, i. 37 foil. 
 Copies : B.M. U.L.C. (Acton Collection). 
 
 The Second Edition. London, Printed for Tho. 
 
 Parkhurst...and H. Mortlock...i692. 
 
 Collation : 4°. Title, pp. [ii] + 36. 
 
 Note: P. 36 wrongly numbered 39. Erratum on p. '39.' 
 
 The Third Edition. London, Printed for Henry 
 
 Mortlock...i692. 
 
 Collation : Same as no. i. 
 
 Note : Error in paging corrected. No erratum. 
 
 Copy: U.L.C. 
 
 B.
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 ^4. The Folly of Atheism... The Fourth Edition. London, 
 Printed by J. H. for H. Mortlock... 1693. 
 Collation : Same as no. i . 
 
 Reprinted in Family Lectures : or, a copious collection 
 
 * 
 
 # 
 
 of Sermons. A New Volume, pp. i — 11. London, 1795. 8°. 
 
 6. Matter and Motion cannot Think : or, a Confutation of 
 Atheism from the Faculties of the Soul. A Sermon preached 
 at S'- Mary-le-Bow, April 4. 1692. Being the Second of the 
 Lecture Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire. 
 
 By Richard Bentley, M.A London, Printed for Tho. 
 
 Parkhurst...and Henry Mortlock... 1692. 
 
 Collation : 4°. pp. 39. 
 
 Note : On Acts xvii. 27. On p. [2] is an announcement of the 
 subsequent Sermons of the series ; on p. 39 an advertisement of the 
 first Sermon. 
 
 Copies : B.M. U.L.C. 
 
 7. The Second Edition. London, Printed for Tho. 
 
 Parkhurst...and Henry Mortlock... 1692. 
 
 Collation : 4°. pp. 40. 
 
 Note: On p. [2] is an announcement of the subsequent Sermons of 
 the series. Errata on p. 39. P. 40: 'Lately Printed for Henry 
 
 Mortlock. 
 
 [Another issue.] London, Printed for 
 
 Henry Mortlock... 1693. 
 Collation: 4°. pp. 36. 
 Copy: U.L.C. 
 
 9- The Third Edition. London, Printed by J. H. 
 
 for H. Mortlock... 1693. 
 Collation: Same as no. 8.
 
 BOYLE LECTURES 3 
 
 10. Matter and Motion cannot Think... The Third Edition. 
 [Another issue.] London, Printed by J. H. for Henry 
 Mortlock...i694. 
 
 Collation : 4°. pp. 33. 
 
 Copy: Emmanuel College, Cambridge. 
 
 11. Observations upon a Sermon intituled, A Confutation of 
 Atheism from the Faculties of the Soul, alias, Matter and 
 Motion cannot think : Preached April 4. 1692. By way of 
 Refutation. 
 
 Collation : 4°. pp. 1 9. 
 
 Note : Attributed to Henry Layton. Issued without a title-page. 
 Monk, I. 46. 
 
 Copies: B.M. Queens' College, Cambridge. 
 
 *I2. A Confutation of Atheism from the Structure and Origin of 
 Humane Bodies. Part L A Sermon preached at Saint Martin's 
 in the Fields, May 2. 1692. Being the Third of the Lecture 
 Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire. By 
 
 Richard Bentley, M.A London, Printed for Tho. Parkhurst 
 
 ...and H. Mortlock...i692. 
 
 Collation: 4°. pp. 33 + [i] 'Lately Printed for Henry Mortlock...' 
 Note: On Acts xvii. 27. 
 
 13. The Second Edition. London, Printed for H. 
 
 Mortlock... 1693. 
 
 Collation: 4°. pp. 32. 
 Copy: T.C.C. 
 
 ^14. The Third Edition. London, Printed by J. H. for 
 
 H. Mortlock... 1693. 
 
 Collation: Same as no. 13. 
 
 I — 2
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 * 
 
 15. A Confutation of Atheism from the Structure and Origin of 
 Humane Bodies. Part II. A Sermon preached at S' Mary- 
 le-Bow, June 6. 1692. Being the Fourth of the Lecture 
 Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire. By 
 Richard Bentley, M. A.... London, Printed for Tho. Parkhurst 
 ...and H. Mortlock...i692. 
 Collation: 4°. pp. 36. 
 Note: On Acts xvii. 27. 
 
 *i6. The Second Edition. London, Printed by 
 
 J. H. for H. Mortlock...i693. 
 Collation: Same as no. 15- 
 
 17. The Third Edition. London, Printed by 
 
 J. H. for Henry Mortlock... 1693. 
 
 Collation: Same as no. 15. 
 Copy: B.M. 
 
 18. The Third and Last Part. A Sermon preached at 
 
 Saint Martin's in the Fields, September the 5*''- 1692. Being 
 the Fifth of the Lecture Founded by the Honourable Robert 
 
 Boyle, Esquire. By Richard Bentley, M.A London, Printed 
 
 for Henry Mortlock... 1692. 
 
 Collation : 4°. pp. 36. 
 Note: On Acts xvii. 27. 
 Copy: U.L.C. 
 
 *i9. The Second Edition. London, Printed for 
 
 Henry Mortlock... 1692. 
 
 Collation: Same as no. 18. 
 
 *2o. The Third Edition. London, Printed for 
 
 Henry Mortlock... 1694. 
 
 Collation: 4°. pp. 35 4- [i] 'Lately Printed for Henry Mortlock...'
 
 BOYLE LECTURES 
 
 5 
 
 "^21. A Confutation of Atheism from the Origin and Frame of the 
 World. Part I. A Sermon preached at S'- Mary-le-Bow, 
 October the 3''- 1692. Being the Sixth of the Lecture 
 Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire. By 
 Richard Bentley, M. A.... London, Printed for Henry Mortlock 
 ...1692. 
 
 Collation: 4°. Title, pp. 34. 
 Note: On Acts xiv. 15, etc. Erratum on p. 34. 
 
 22. The Second Edition. London, Printed by J. H. for 
 
 Henry Mortlock... 1694. 
 
 Collation : Same as no. 2 1 . 
 
 Copies: B.M. Emmanuel College, Christ's College, Cambridge. 
 
 ^23. Part IL A Sermon preached at St. Martin's in the 
 
 Fields, November the 7'^- 1692. Being the Seventh of the 
 
 Lecture Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire. 
 
 By Richard Bentley, M.A.... London, Printed for H. Mortlock 
 
 ...1693. 
 
 Collation: 4°. pp. 40. 
 
 Note: On Acts xiv. 15, etc. 
 
 # 
 
 * 
 
 24. The Third and Last Part. A Sermon preached at 
 
 S' Mary-le-Bow, December the 5"'- 1692. Being the Eighth 
 of the Lecture Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, 
 Esquire. By Richard Bentley, M.A — London, Printed for 
 H. Mortlock... 1693. 
 
 Collation : 4°. pp. 42. 
 
 Note: On Acts xiv. 15, etc. Four errata pasted on to p. 42. 
 
 25. Four Letters from Sir Isaac Newton to Doctor Bentley. 
 Containing Some Arguments in Proof of a Deity. London : 
 for R. and J. Dodsley.-.MDCCLvi.
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 Collation : 8°. Half-title, Title, pp. 35. 
 
 Note : In reply to some queries sent by Bentley after he had preached 
 the two last Sermons of Boyle's Lecture. The first letter is dated 
 * Cambridge, Decemb. 10, 1692'; the second * Trinity College, 
 Jan. 17, 1692 — 3'; the third 'Cambridge, Feb. 25, 1692 — 3'; the 
 fourth 'Cambridge, Feb. 11, 1693.' After Bentley's death they 
 were given to Richard Cumberland, his grandson, (1732 — 181 1), who 
 caused this edition to be printed. The fourth letter is printed before 
 the third. They were reprinted by Dyce, iii. 201 foil., and by 
 Wordsworth, xxii, xxiv, xxv, xxvii. Monk, i. 43 — 44. 
 
 The following general title was issued in 1693 to cover the eight 
 Boyle Lectures in any editions : 
 
 The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism demonstrated 
 from the Advantage and Pleasure of a Religious Life, the 
 Faculties of Human Souls, the Structure of Animate Bodies, 
 & the Origin and Frame of the World : In Eight Sermons 
 preached at the Lecture Founded by the Honourable Robert 
 Boyle, Esquire ; in the First Year mdcxcii. By Richard 
 Bentley, M.A. Chaplain to the Right Reverend Father in 
 God, Edward, Lord Bishop of Worcester. London, Printed 
 by J. H. for H. Mortlock...i693. 
 
 26. The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism demonstrated 
 from the Advantage and Pleasure of a Religious Life, the 
 Faculties of Humane Souls, the Structure of Animate Bodies, 
 & the Origin and Frame of the World : In Eight Sermons 
 preached at the Lecture Founded by the Honourable Robert 
 Boyle, Esquire ; in the First Year, mdcxcii. By Richard 
 Bentley, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary, and Library-Keeper to 
 His Majesty. The Fourth Edition Corrected. London, 
 Printed by J. H. for H. Mortlock...i699. 
 
 Collation : 4°. Title, pp. [ii] Dedication + 280.
 
 # 
 
 BOYLE LECTURES 7 
 
 Note: The Dedication is dated * Mar. 17. 169^.' On p. 280 is an 
 Advertisement of 'Five Dissertations about Phalaris's Epistles, Aesop's 
 Fables, etc' For eds. i — 3 see the separately published Sermons 
 (nos. I — 24). 
 
 Copies: B.M. U.L.C. 
 
 27. Eight Sermons preach'd at the Honourable Robert Boyle's 
 Lecture, in the First Year, mdcxcii. By Richard Bentley 
 Master of Arts. The Fifth Edition. To which is now added 
 a Sermon preach'd at the Publick-Commencement at Cambridge 
 July V. MDCxcvi. when he proceded Doctor in Divinity, 
 Cambridge : Printed for Cornelius Crovvnfield, Printer to the 
 University... 1724. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Title, pp. [vi] Dedication and Contents + 384. 
 
 28. The Sixth Edition. To which are added Three 
 
 Sermons: One at the Public Commencement, July 5. 1696. 
 when he proceeded Doctor in Divinity ; another before the 
 University, Nov. 5. 17 15. and one before his late Majesty 
 King George L Feb. 3. 17)^. Cambridge, Printed by 
 M. Fenner, for W. Thurlbourn...MDCcxxxv. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. [vi] + 396. 
 
 Note: There is a vignette on the title showing one of the schemes for 
 building a new Senate House in conjunction with a new facade to the 
 Library — what was called at the time an " Attachment-Scheme." 
 See Willis and Clark's Architectural History of Cambridge^ Vol. in. 
 Schools, Library, Senate House, Chap. 3. 
 
 Copies: B.M. T.C.C. 
 
 29. Dr Bentley's Confutation of Atheism abridg'd. By Gilbert 
 Burnet, Vicar of Coggeshall, Essex. Included in ^ Defence 
 of Natural and Revealed Religion : being an Abridgment of the 
 Sermons preached at the Lecture founded by the Hon^^ Robert 
 Boyle^ Esq...yo\. i. pp. i — 68. London, mdccxxxvii. 8".
 
 # 
 
 I BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 30. Dr Bentley's Eight Sermons... reprinted in A Defence of Natural 
 and Revealed Religion : being a Collection of the Sermons -preached 
 at the Lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq.... 
 Vol. I. pp. [v — viii]+i — 87. London, mdccxxxix. F°. 
 
 This collection was edited by Sampson Letsome and John Nicholl. 
 
 31. Eight Sermons, preached at the Hon. Robert Boyle's Lecture, 
 in the Year mdcxcii. To which are added, Three Sermons 
 on different occasions. By Richard Bentley. A New Edition. 
 Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, mdcccix. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. xi Half-title, Title, Dedication, Contents + 383. 
 Note: The three Sermons on different occasions here reprinted are 
 nos. 34, 36, 43. 
 
 Copies: B.M. T.C.C. 
 
 32. Boyle Lectures i. vi. vii. viii. (nos. i, 21, 23, 24) and the 
 Sermon Of Revelation and the Messias (no. 34) reprinted in 
 Family Lectures... TpY>- i — 55- London, 1815. 8°. 
 
 33. Stultitia et Irrationabilitas Atheismi, Demonstrationibus, ab 
 Emolumento atque Voluptate Vitae religiosas, Facultatibus 
 Animae humanae, Structura Corporis animati, Origine £<? 
 Compage Mundi evicta, Octo Orationibus Sacris, habitis in 
 Praelectione instituta a Roberto Boyleo, Armigero, Anno ^ 
 fundatione primo, Christi mdcxcii. a Richardo Bentley, SS. Th. 
 D. Serenissimo Britannorum Regi a Sacris Aulicis & Biblio- 
 theca Regia, Canonico Worcestr. Subjungitur Oratio Exequialis, 
 dicta in Funere Illustris Viri, Dni. Roberti Boyle, ^c. k 
 Reverendissimo Patre Dno. Gilberto, Episcopo Sarum ^c. In 
 Latinum vertit Daniel Ernestus Jablonski, V.D.M. Sereniss. 
 Elect. Brandenb. a Sacris Aulicis. Berolini, sumptibus J. M. 
 Riidiger. Bibliopol. 1696.
 
 # 
 
 SERMONS AND CHARGES 9 
 
 Collation: 8°. Title, pp. [xiv] Dedications + 508. 
 
 Note: Bentley's Boyle Lectures were also translated into German by 
 C. M. Seidel (Hamburg, 17 15); and into French, See F. A, Wolfs 
 AnalectOy i. 7 note. Monk (i. 77) mentions a Dutch translation. 
 
 Copy: B.M. 
 
 In 1694 Bentley preached a series of eight sermons as the course of 
 Boyle Lectures for that year. They were never printed^ and all 
 trace of them has disappeared. See Monk, i. 56, 57. 
 
 2. Other Sermons ; and Charges. 
 
 34. Of Revelation and the Messias. A Sermon preached at the 
 Publick Commencement at Cambridge July 5'''' 1696. By 
 Richard Bentley, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary and Library 
 Keeper to His Majesty. London, Printed by J. H. for Henry 
 Mortlock...i696. 
 
 Collation: 4°. Title, pp. 34. 
 
 Note: On i Pet. iii. 15. See also nos. 27, 28, 31, 32. Monk, i. 75. 
 
 35. Articles to be enquired of, within the Archdeaconry of Ely, 
 in the Visitation of the Reverend Richard Bentley, D.D. 
 Archdeacon of Ely ; holden in St Michael's Church in 
 Cambridge, on day of a.d. 170 . Cambridge. 
 Anno Dom. 170 . 
 
 Collation : 4°. Title, pp. 6. 
 
 Note: The blanks in the copy in St John's College Library, Cambridge, 
 are filled in for Oct. 21. 1707. 
 
 Copy : St John's College, Cambridge. 
 
 36. A Sermon upon Popery : preach'd before the University of 
 Cambridge, November v'^' mdccxv. By Richard Bentley, 
 D.D. Master of Trinity College, and Chaplain to His Majesty. 
 Cambridge: Printed at the University-Press, for Cornelius
 
 lo BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 Crownfield Printer to the University... 17 15. Price Four 
 Pence. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 28. 
 
 Note: On 2 Corinthians ii. 17. Errata on p. 28. See also nos. 28, 31. 
 Sterne introduced a portion of this sermon into Tristram Shandy 
 almost verbatim, and without acknowledgment. Monk, i. 379 foil. 
 
 37. Reprinted in a condensed form as Anti-Popish Tracts 
 
 for the Multitude... iS§ J. No. IV. The Origin and Character 
 of Popery. By Richard Bentley^ D.D. [London, 1 8 5 1 .] 8°. 
 
 38. Remarks on Dr Bentley's Sermon upon Popery: preach'd 
 before the University of Cambridge, November the 5th, 171 5. 
 
 Quid dignum tanto feret hie Promissor Hiatu ? 
 Parturiunt Monies Hor. 
 
 London; Printed by J. D. for S. Cliff. ..m.dcc.xvi. Price 
 Four Pence. 
 
 Collation: 8°. pp. 24. 
 
 Note: By John Gumming, D.D. 
 
 Copies: B.M. U.L.C. 
 
 39. The Second Edition. London: Printed for S. Cliffe 
 
 and T. Cox... M.DCC.XVI. Price Four Pence. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 24. 
 
 Note: In this edition the author calls himself John Gumming, M.A. 
 Minister of the Gospel at Cambridge. 
 
 Copy: B.M. 
 
 40. The Third Edition. London : Printed by J. D. for 
 
 S. CHff and T. Cox... m.dcc.xvi. (Price Four Pence.) 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 24. 
 
 Note: In this edition the author calls himself John Commins, M.A. 
 Minister of the Gospel to the Scotch Congregation at Founders-Hall. 
 Copy: B.M.
 
 SERMONS AND CHARGES n 
 
 *4i. Reflections on the Scandalous Aspersions cast on the Clergy, 
 by the Author of the Remarks upon a Sermon on Popery, 
 preach'd by the Rev'^ Dr. Bentley, November the Fifth, 171 5. 
 With a particular Vindication of the Doctrine of Universal 
 Redemption. 
 
 Anseribus cibaria fublice locantur & canes aluntur in Capitolio ut significeni si fares 
 'venerint, at fures internoscere non possunt, significant tamen si qui noctu in 
 Capitolium 'venerint. — Quod si luce quoque canes latrent cum dfos salutatum 
 aliqui 'venerint, opinor iis crura suffringantur, quod acres sint turn cum susficio 
 nulla est. 
 
 TuU. Orat. pro Rose. Amerino. 
 
 Oi) fiev oiiv rfj a.\rf6(!.a bvvaaai avriKfyeiv, infi Soxcparfi yf ovbiv x^aKfnov. 
 
 Plat. Symp. [corrected]. 
 
 Printed for J. Morphew near Stationer's Hall... 17 17. Price 
 Six-pence. 
 
 Collation: 8°. pp. 43. 
 Note: Monk, i. 383. 
 
 42. A Speech by Dr. Bentley Archdeacon of Ely to the Clergy of 
 that Diocese at his Visitation held in Cambridge December 13 
 1716. 
 
 Printed in the St James's Evening Post (Numb. 246) From Thursday, 
 December 20, to Saturday, December 22, 17 16; and in The Political 
 State of Great Britain for December 17 16. Vol. xii. p. 628 foil. 
 See Dyce, iii. vi. and 279 — 285. Monk, i. 426 foil. 
 
 *43. A Sermon preach'd before His Majesty King George, at his 
 Royal Chapel of St James's on Sunday February 3. I7|-. By 
 Richard Bentley, D.D. Master of Trinity College in Cambridge, 
 Library-Keeper and Chaplain to His Majesty. Publish'd by 
 His Majesty's Special Command. London : Printed by 
 J. Heptinstall, for W. Innys...MDCcxvii. 
 Collation: 8°. pp. 27 + [i] 'Books lately Printed for W. Innys.' 
 Note: On Rom. xiv. 7. See also nos. 28, 31. Monk, 11. 7 foil.
 
 12 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 *44. A Sermon... before... King George... London : Printed by 
 J. Heptinstall, for W. Innys...MDCCXvii. 
 
 Collation: 4°. pp. 27 + [i]. 
 
 45. Reprinted in Illustrations of the Liturgy and Ritual of 
 
 the United Church of England and Ireland: being Sermons... 
 selected... by fames Brogden. Vol. 11. p. 295 foil. London, 1842. 
 8°. 
 
 On May i, 1717, T)r Bentley delivered his preelection as a candidate 
 
 for the Regius Professorship of Divinity. This work^ which was 
 
 never printed, has disappeared. The subject was the authenticity 
 
 of I Epist. John V. "-j. On May 2 he was duly elected. See 
 
 Monk, I. 8 foil.
 
 II. DISCOURSE OF FREE-THINKING 
 
 46. A Discourse of Free-Thinking, occasion'd by the Rise and 
 Growth of a Sect call'd Free-Thinkers. 
 
 Mundum tradidit hominum disputationi Deus. Eccl. 3. n, Vulg. 
 Unusquisque sua sensu abundet. Rom. 14. 5, lb. 
 
 Nil tarn temerarium, tamque indignum sapientis gravitate atque constantid, quam, quod 
 non satis explorati perceptum sit & cognitum sine ulla dubitatione defendere. 
 
 Cic. de Nat. Deor. 1. i. 
 
 'Tis a hard Matter for a Government to settle Wit. 
 
 Characteristicks, Vol. i. p. 19. 
 
 Fain nvould they confound Licentiousness in Morals ivith Liberty in Thought, and make 
 
 the Libertine resemble his direct Opposite. 
 
 lb. vol. 3. p. 306- 
 
 London, Printed in the Year m.dcc.xiii. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. iii— vi Contents + 3—178. 
 
 Note: By Anthony Collins (1676— 1729). Pp. iii— vi are inserted 
 
 between sig. A and A^ Errata on p. vi. Concerning the editions 
 
 of this book see Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, n. 673 foil. Dyce, iii. 
 
 290 foil. Monk, I. 341 foil. French translations appeared in 17 14 
 
 and 1766. 
 Copy: U.L.C. 
 
 # 
 
 ^y. London, Printed In the Year m.dcc.xiii. 
 
 Collation : Same as no. 46. 
 
 Note : Errata corrected. Probably printed in Holland. With modifica- 
 tions due to Bentley's Remarks (no. 49)- Dyce, in. 290 note.
 
 14 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 48. A Discourse of Free-Thinking... London, Printed in the 
 
 Year m.dcc.xiii. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Title, pp. iii — vi Contents + 3 — 140. 
 
 Note: P. vi wrongly numbered iv. A further modified and corrected 
 edition, probably printed in Holland. Dyce, iii. 291 note. 
 
 Copy: U.L.C. 
 
 *49. Remarks upon a late Discourse of Free-Thinking : In a Letter 
 to F. H. D. D. By Phileleutherus Lipsiensis. 
 
 Est genus hominum, qui esse primos se omnium rerum 
 
 •volunt. Nee sunt. 
 
 An audes 
 
 Personam formare novam ? Servetur ad imum 
 Qualis ab incepto processerit, & sibi constet. 
 
 (Remarks upon a late Discourse... Part the Second.) London : 
 Printed for John Morphew...(and E. Curl...) mdccxiii. 
 
 Collation : 8''. pp. 85 + [iv] Title to Part II. and introductory letter 
 + 82 4-[i] 'Books Printed for and Sold by Cornelius Crovi^nfield at 
 the University-Press in Cambridge.' 
 
 Note : By Richard Bentley. The initials F. H. stand for Francis Hare 
 (167 1 — 1740), Bp of Chichester. Part I. comprises Remarks i — 
 XXXIII. and is dated at the end ' Leipsic Jan. 26. Nevi^ Stile.' 
 Errata on p. 85. Part II. comprises Remarks xxxiv — liii. and 
 is dated at the beginning 'Leipsic, Sept. 18. 1713. Stilo novo.' 
 Errata on p. 82. Monk, i. 344 foil. 
 
 50. The Second Edition. London : Printed for John 
 
 Morphew... (and E. Curl..,) mdccxiii. 
 
 Collation : Same as no. 49. 
 
 Note : Errata on p. 85 corrected. Errata on p. 82 (Pt. 11.). 
 
 Copy: B.M. 
 
 51. The Third Edition. London : Printed for John 
 
 Morphew... and E. Curll... mdccxiii. 
 
 Collation : Same as no. 49. 
 Copy: U.L.C.
 
 # 
 
 # 
 
 DISCOURSE OF FREE-THINKING 15 
 
 52. Remarks upon a late Discourse of Free-Thinking... The 
 Fourth Edition. London : Printed for John Morphew, and 
 Cornelius Crownfield, in Cambridge, mdccxiv (mdccxv). 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 85 + [iv] + 82 + [2]. 
 Copy: U.L.C. 
 
 c^'T)- The Fifth Edition. London : Printed for John 
 
 Morphew, and Cornelius Crownfield, in Cambridge, mdccxvi 
 (mdccxvii). 
 
 Collation : Same as no. 52. 
 
 54. Remarks upon a late Discourse of Free-Thinking : in a Letter 
 to N. N. By Phileleutherus Lipsiensis. [Mottoes as in no. 49.] 
 The Sixth Edition. Cambridge. Printed for Cornelius Crown- 
 field, Printer to the University, 1725. 
 
 Collation: 8°. pp. 85 + [i]' Books Printed for, and Sold by Cornelius 
 Crownfield, at Cambridge ' 4- [iv] + 82 + [2]. 
 
 Note: After Bentley's quarrel with Bishop Hare the initials N. N. were 
 substituted for F. H. The latter were restored in the eighth edition 
 (1743) the combatants being then dead. Monk, 11. 234 note. 
 
 *^5. The Seventh Edition with large Additions. London: 
 
 Printed for W. Thurlbourn at Cambridge... m.dcc.xxxvii. 
 Price 25. 6d. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Title, pp. 294. 
 
 Note: P. [129]: 'Remarks upon a late Discourse... Part the Second.' 
 P. 270: 'Remark liv.' The Marge Additions' comprise Part iii. 
 (= ' Remark liv.') and the work breaks off in the middle of a 
 sentence. See no. 56 Note. Some copies of 'Remark liv' were 
 printed separately (pp. 16) presumably in order that those persons 
 who possessed the work in its earlier editions might thus complete 
 their copies. In the Library of Queens' College, Cambridge, is one of 
 these copies bound as a separate tract.
 
 1 6 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 ^56. Remarks upon a late Discourse of Free-Thinking : In a Letter 
 to F. H. D.D. By Phileleutherus Lipsiensis. [Mottoes as in 
 no. 49.] The Eighth Edition. With further Additions from 
 the Author's MS. Cambridge, Printed by J. Bentham...for 
 W. Thurlbourn...M.DCC.xLiii. 
 
 Collation: 8°. pp. 283 + [i] * Advertisement ' + [4]' Books printed for 
 W. Thurlbourn...and J. Beecroft...' 
 
 Note: P. [123]: 'Remarks upon a late Discourse... Part the Second.' 
 P, [253]: 'Remarks upon a late Discourse... Part the Third.' In 
 this edition Part i. is dated at the beginning ' Leipsic 17 13.' The 
 Advertisement at the end of the text is signed ' R.B. Mar. 25. 1743' 
 i.e. Richard Bentley, D.D. (1704— 1786), Dr Bentley's nephew 
 and sole executor. He states that ' tw^o half-sheets ' only of Part 11 1. of 
 the Remarks were printed for Dr Bentley, and that these half-sheets 
 were first issued in ed. 7 (1737)- On Bentley's death an examination 
 of his papers yielded * a few pages more ' of Part in. and these were 
 for the first time printed in this eighth edition. A second edition of 
 Part III. was printed in i743- 
 
 57. Reprinted in Enchiridion Theologicum^ or a Manual^ for 
 
 the use of Students in Divinity... Vol. v. pp. 69 — 349. Oxford, 
 MDccxcii. I2°.dind New Edition. Vol. 11. pp. 355 — 512. Oxford, 
 
 MDCCCXII. 8°. 
 
 This collection was edited by John Randolph, Bp of London, 
 (1749— 1 813). 
 
 58. La Friponnerie La'ique des pretendus Esprits-Forts d' Angleterre : 
 ou Remarques de Phileleuthere de Leipsick sur le Discours de 
 la Liberte de Penser, traduites de I'Anglois sur la septieme 
 edition. Par Mr N. N. A Amsterdam, Chez J. Wetstein & 
 G. Smith. MDCCxxxviii. 
 
 Collation : 12°. pp. xxvi + 581 +[i] Corrections a faire. 
 Note: The translator was A. Boisbeleau de la Chapelle. 
 Copy: B.M.
 
 DISCOURSE OF FREE-THINKING 17 
 
 59. Bentley's Remarks upon a late Discourse of Free-Thinking 
 iibersetzt und mit Anmerkungen begleitet von E. E. Rambach, 
 Halle, 1745. 
 
 *6o. Reflexions on an Anonymous Pamphlet, entituled, A Discourse 
 of Free Thinking. By William Whiston, M.A. 
 
 Pudet heec opprobria nobis 
 
 Et diet potuisse, & non potuisse refelli. 
 
 London : Printed for the Author... and Sold by A. Baldwin... 
 1713- 
 
 Collation: 8°. pp. 55+[l]*A Compleat Catalogue of the Writings of 
 the Author.' 
 
 Note: Dated at the end 'Jan. 29. 17 13.' Monk, i. 343. 
 
 61. An Account of a Discourse at the Graecian Coffee-House, on 
 
 February the 11'^ 17^^ Occasion'd by Dr B y's Answer 
 
 to the Discourse of Free-thinking. In a Letter from George 
 Paul, M.A. and Fellow of Jesus College in Cambridge, to 
 Francis Dickins, LL.B. and Fellow of Trinity-Hall in the 
 same University. 
 
 Jwvat htec opprobria nobis 
 
 Si did poterant, etiam potuisse refelli. 
 
 London : Printed for H. Clements... 1713. 
 
 Collation: 8°. pp. 48. 
 Copies: B.M. T.C.C. 
 
 *62. The Clergyman's Thanks to Phileleutherus for his Remarks 
 on the Late Discourse of Free-Thinking. In a Letter to 
 Dr Bentley. 
 
 — Fungor njice Cotis. — 
 
 London, Printed for A. Baldwin. ..m.dcc.xiii. (Price Six 
 Pence.) 
 B. a
 
 1 8 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 48. 
 
 Note : By Francis Hare. The Letter is signed ' Philo-Criticus ' and 
 dated ^ London^ Mar. 28. 17 13.' Errata on p. 48. Monk, I. 
 348 foil. 
 
 61^. An Answer to the Discourse on Free-Thinking : Wherein the 
 Absurdity and Infidelity of the Sect of Free-Thinkers is 
 undeniably Demonstrated. By a Gentleman of Cambridge. 
 
 And the Light shined in Darkness, and the Darkness comprehended it not. John 1.5. 
 
 London, Printed : And Sold by John Morphew...and A. Dodd 
 ...1713. Price Six Pence. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. [viii] Title, Preface, and Contents + 28. 
 Copies: B.M. U.L.C. 
 
 64. Free Thoughts upon the Discourse of Free-Thinking. 
 
 Mirabile 'videtur quod non rideat Haruspex, cum Haruspicem njtderit: Hoc mirabilius 
 quod 'vos inter ojos risum tenere possitis. 
 
 Cicero to Velleius the Free-Thinker. De Natura Deorum, Lib. i. 
 
 Certainly there be, that delight in Giddiness, and count it a Bondage to fix a Belief, 
 affecting Free-nvill in Thinking as ivell as in Acting. And, tho" the Sects of 
 Philosophers of that Kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing Wits, nvhich 
 are of the same Feins, tho' there be not so much Blood in Them as njoas in Those of 
 the Ancients. 
 
 The Free-Thinking Lord Bacon, Essay i. 
 
 London : Printed for John Pemberton...MDCcxiii. (Price 
 One Shilling.) 
 
 Collation : 8°. Half-title, Title, pp. 68. 
 Copies: B.M. U.L.C. 
 
 65. Mr. C ns's Discourse of Free-Thinking put into plain 
 
 English, by way of Abstract, for the Use of the Poor. By a 
 Friend of the Author. London, Printed for John Morphew... 
 1 7 13. Price 4^.
 
 DISCOURSE OF FREE-THINKING 19 
 
 Collation: 8°. pp. 31 +[i]' Books Sold by J. Morphew...' 
 Note: By J. Swift (?). Monk, i. 343. 
 Copy: Queens' College, Cambridge. 
 
 66. Free-Thinking rightly stated ; wherein a Discourse (falsly so 
 call'd) is fully consider'd. 
 
 A Scorner seeketh Wisdom, and findeth it not, but KnonvUdge is easy to him that 
 understandeth. Prov. xiv. 6. 
 
 London : Printed for George Strahan... 1713. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Half-tide, Title, pp. 131. 
 Copy: B.M. 
 
 67. A Letter to the Author of A Discourse of Free-Thinking. 
 Wherein the Christian Religion is vindicated, by detecting 
 several Abuses of Free-thinking. By Daniel Williams, D.D. 
 London : Printed for John Lawrence... 17 13. 
 
 Collation : S'*. Title, pp. [ii] Prefatory letter + 46. 
 Copy: B.M. 
 
 68. Queries recommended to the Authors of the late Discourse of 
 Free Thinking. By a Christian. London, Printed for James 
 Knapton...MDCcxiii. Price Four Pence. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 31 + [1] ' Books Printed for James Knapton...' 
 
 Note: By Benjamin Hoadly (1676 — 1761), Bp of Winchester. A 
 second ed. appeared in the same year. Monk, i. 342. 
 
 Copy : B.M. 
 
 69. Examen du Traite de la liberte de penser d'Antoine Collins. 
 Par Jean Pierre de Crousaz. Bruxelles, 17 15. 
 
 Collation: 8°. 
 
 Note: Other editions, Amsterdam, 1718; and, with a French translation 
 of Collins's Discourse J 1766. 
 
 2 — 2
 
 III. NEW TESTAMENT 
 
 *70. Two Letters to the Reverend Dr. Bentley, Master of Trinity- 
 College in Cambridge, concerning his Intended Edition of the 
 Greek Testament. Together with the Doctor's Answer, and 
 some Account of what may be expected from that Edition. 
 With a Particular Enquiry into Two Texts of St. Matth. 
 xix. 17. and xxvii. 9. And that Famous one of St. John, 
 I Epist. V. 7. There are Three that bear Record, &c. 
 London: Printed for John Morphew...i7i7. 
 Collation: 8°. Title, pp. 38. 
 
 Note: The original of Bentley's letter is preserved in the Library of 
 Sidney Sussex College, endorsed ' University. Dr Craven.' Joseph 
 Craven, D.D. was Master of Sidney Sussex College 1722 — 1728. 
 It seems probable that he was Bentley's correspondent on this occasion. 
 The original which we here reproduce shows some slight variations 
 from the printed version. Wordsworth, cc. Dyce, iii. 484 — 5, 
 Monk, II. 16 — 17. 
 
 71. London: Printed for John Wyat...i 721. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Title, pp. 38. 
 
 Copies: B.M. T.C.C. 
 
 72. Reprinted in Adnotationes Millii auct^e et corrects ex 
 
 Prolegomenis suis...ad I. Joann. v. '] ...collect<£ et edit^e a Thoma 
 Burgess, pp. 201 — 4. Mariduni, 1822. 8°. 
 
 73. Reprinted in A Selection of Tracts and Observations on 
 
 I John V. 7. Part the First, pp. 91 — 100. London, 1824. 8°. 
 
 This collection was edited by Thomas Burgess (1756 — 1837), succes- 
 sively Bishop of St David's and Salisbury.
 
 rt/ir wv- -vVT 
 
 ^u^i^h ^^-^ ^^^-^ -/ Pr^ ^>/^;. ^^ 5^ t.v >- 
 
 Facsimile of Bentley's Letter (no. 70) on the authenticity of I John v. 7.
 
 # 
 
 NEW TESTAMENT 21 
 
 74. H KaLvr) AtaOrjKT) Graece. Novum Testamentum Versionis 
 Vulgatae, per S'""" Hieronymum ad vetusta Exemplaria Groeca 
 castigatas et exactae. Utrumque ex antiqulssimis Codd. MSS. 
 cum Graecis tum Latinis, edidit Richardus Bentleius. Proposals 
 for Printing. 
 
 Collation: F°. 2 leaves. 
 
 Note: Two editions of the Proposals in this form seem to have been 
 printed late in 1720. The original draft is in Trinity Library. Cp. 
 Middleton's Some Farther Remarks, p. 23. Dyce, in. 480. Monk, 
 II. 127 foil. 
 
 75. Remarks, Paragraph by Paragraph, upon the Proposals lately 
 publish'd by Richard Bentley, for a New Edition of the Greek 
 Testament and Latin Version. 
 
 Doctus criticus & adsuetus urere, secure, indementer omnis generis libros tractare, apices, 
 syllabas, 'voces, dictiones confodere, & stilo exigere, continebittie ille ab integro & 
 intaminato Di'vino' Sapientia monumento crudeles ungues ? 
 
 Petri Burmanni Orat. Lugd. Bat. 1720. 
 
 By a Member of the University of Cambridge. London : 
 Printed and Sold by J. Roberts... m.dcc.xxi. Price 6d. 
 
 Collation: 4°. pp. 24. 
 
 Note: By Conyers Middleton, D.D. (1683 — 1750). Monk, 11. 130 foil. 
 
 ^76. The Second Edition. London : Printed and Sold by 
 
 J. Roberts... M.DCC.XXI. Price 6d. 
 
 Collation: Same as no. 75. 
 
 yy, The Third Edition. London : Printed and Sold by 
 
 J. Roberts... M.DCC.XXI. 
 
 Collation: Same as no. 75. 
 
 Note: Middleton's name occurs on the title. 
 
 Copy: B.M.
 
 22 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 *78. Dr. Bentley's Proposals for Printing a New Edition of the 
 Greek Testament, and St. Hierom's Latin Version. With a 
 full Answer to all the Remarks of a late Pamphleteer. By a 
 Member of Trinity College in Cambridge. 
 
 Cunarum labor est Angues superare mearum. Ovid. 
 
 Tollentetnque minas & sibila colla tumentem 
 Dejice Virgil. 
 
 London: Printed for J. Knapton...MDCcxxi. 
 Collation: 4°. pp. 44. 
 
 Note: Signed 'J. E.' i.e. Richard Bentley, and dated ^Trinity College, 
 Dec. XXXI. 1720.' Bentley here assumes Colbatch to be the author 
 of Remarksy Paragraph by Paragraph^ and attacks him accordingly. 
 Dyce, III. 481. Monk, 11. 134 foil. 
 
 79. Declaration of John Colbatch, D.D. Cambridge, Jan. 20. 
 1 72 1 disclaiming any connection with Remarks^ Paragraph by 
 Paragraph. 
 
 Collation: i leaf. 
 
 Note: Dyce, iii. 481 — 2. Monk, 11. 138 — 9. 
 
 *8o. Epistolae Duae ad Celeberrimum Doctissimumque Virum 
 
 F V Professorem Amstelodamensem scriptas. Quarum 
 
 in altera agitur de Editione Novi Testamenti a Clarissimo 
 Bentleio suscepta, omnesque ejus, adhuc in lucem emissae, 
 Conjecturae de sacro Textu examinantur. In altera vero 
 multae de corruptis (uti videntur) Epistolarum Novi Testamenti 
 locis conjecturae, jam primum editae, proponuntur. Londini : 
 Prostant venales apud Ffanciscum \jic\ Clay...MDCcxxi. 
 
 Collation : 4°. Title, pp. [ii] ' Lectori ' + 31. 
 
 Note: By Zachary Pearce (1690 — 1774), Bp of Rochester, who writes 
 under the pseudonym Phileleutherus Londinensis. At the end 
 *Dabam Londini Idibus Januarii.' The initials F. V. stand for 
 Franciscus Valckenaer. Monk, 11. 144 — 5.
 
 NEW TESTAMENT 23 
 
 ^81. A Letter to the Reverend Master of Trinity-College In 
 Cambridge, Editor of a New Greek and Latin Testament. 
 
 Tollent/mq; minas & sibila coUa tumentem 
 
 Dejice 
 
 Ah Timon, Timon, qua te dementia cepit? 
 
 Ah, qua te mala mem, miselle Timon? 
 
 Tune tuis telis moriere ! 
 
 Ne savi, magne sacerdos. 
 
 Nihil est, Zolle, quin mali edendo possit depra'varier. 
 
 "Os fiev inlaraTo TroXXa, (caicwy 5 TjirlaraTo iravTu. 
 
 Et si non aliqua nocuisset, mortuus esset. 
 
 astuat ingens 
 
 Uno in corde odium mixtdq; insania fastu, 
 Et Juriis agitatus amor sceleratus habendi. 
 
 Answer to the Remarks by J. E., p. i, 12, 16, 24, 26, 28, 39. 
 
 London: Printed for J. Roberts... 1721. (Price 6^.) 
 
 Collation: 4°. pp. 23. 
 
 Note: Signed 'Philalethes. London^ Jan. 25. 1720 — 2i.' Monk, 11. 144. 
 
 ^82. The Second Edition. London : Printed for J. Roberts 
 
 ...172 1. Price 6d. 
 
 Collation : Same as no. 8 1 . 
 
 83. Declaration of the Vice-Chancellor and Heads, Feb. 27. 17^, at 
 the instance of John Colbatch, D.D. pronouncing Bentley's 
 Proposals (172 1) to be 'a most virulent and scandalous Libel ; 
 highly injurious to...Dr Colbatch, contrary to good Manners, 
 and a notorious violation of the Statutes and Discipline of this 
 University.' 
 
 Collation: F°. i leaf. 
 
 Note: The original draft is in Trinity Library. Dyce, in. 482 — 3. 
 Monk, II. 139. 
 
 Copies: U.L.C. (Baker MSS. Vol. 27). T.C.C.
 
 24 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 ^84. Some Farther Remarks, Paragraph by Paragraph, upon Pro- 
 posals lately publish'd for a New Edition of a Greek and Latin 
 Testament, by Richard Bentley. Containing a full Answer to 
 the Editor's late Defence of his said Proposals, as well as to all 
 his Objections there made against my former Remarks. 
 
 Imperitiam tuam nemo potest fortius accusare, quam Tu ipse dum scribis. Hieron. 
 
 Occupatus ille eruditione secularium liter arum scripturas omninh sanctas ignora<verit ; 
 
 & nemo possit, quam'v'is eloquens, de eo beni disputare, quod nesciat. Ibid. 
 
 By Conyers Middleton, D.D. London : Printed for T. Bickerton 
 ...M.DCC.xxi. (Price 2i.) 
 
 Collation : 4°. Title, pp. [viii] Preface + 74. 
 Note: Monk, 11. 142 foil. 
 
 85. An Enquiry into the Authority of the Primitive Complutensian 
 Edition of the New Testament, as principally founded on the 
 most Ancient Vatican Manuscript ; together with some Research 
 after that Manuscript. In order to decide the Dispute about 
 I John V. 7. In a Letter to the Reverend Mr. Archdeacon 
 Bentley, Master of Trinity-College in Cambridge. London, 
 Printed for John Nicks... 1722. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 54. 
 
 Note: By R. Smalbroke (1672 — 1749), Bp of Coventry and Lichfield. 
 Errata on p. 54. Monk, 11. 145 — 6. 
 
 Copy: B.M. 
 
 86. Reprinted in ^ Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts. 
 
 Selected from. ..public as well as private Libraries. Vol. 11. 
 London, 1748; and, 2nd ed.. Vol. xiii. London, 1815. 4°. 
 
 87. Reprinted in A Selection of Tracts and Observations on 
 
 I John V. 7. Part the First, pp. 45 — 90. London, 1824.
 
 NEW TESTAMENT 25 
 
 Bentleii Critica Sacra. Notes on the Greek and Latin text of 
 the New Testament, extracted from the Bentley MSS. in 
 Trinity College Library. With the Abbe Rulotta's collation 
 of the Vatican Codex B. a Specimen of Bentley's intended 
 edition, and an account of his collations. Edited, with the 
 permission of the Master and Seniors, by Arthur Ayres Ellis, 
 M.A — With Appendix containing Six Letters of Bentley. 
 Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co.... 1862. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. xlv Half-title, Title, Contents, Introductory Preface + 
 Half-title +180.
 
 # 
 
 IV. PHALARIS CONTROVERSY 
 
 89. Miscellanea. The Second Part. In Four Essays. I. Upon 
 Ancient and Modern Learning. II. Upon the Gardens of 
 Epicurus. III. Upon Heroick Virtue. IV. Upon Poetry. 
 By Sir William Temple Baronet. 
 
 — Junjat antiquos accedere Pontes. 
 
 London, Printed by T. M. for Ri. and Ra. Simpson... 1690. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. [iv] Title and Dedication to the University of 
 Cambridge + 72 + 67 + 136 + 63. 
 
 Note : In the essay Upon Ancient and Modern Learning Sir William 
 bestows extravagant praise on the Ancients, and particularly extols 
 the w^orks of Phalaris and Aesop. Miscellanea Part i. appeared in 
 1680. Part III. appeared in 1701, and included A Defence of the Essay 
 upon Antient and Modern Learning. Monk, i. 59 foil., 91 foil. 
 
 Copy: U.L.C. 
 
 90. Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning. By William 
 Wotton, B.D. Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of 
 Nottingham. London, Printed by J. Leake, for Peter Buck... 
 
 MDCXCIV. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. [xxx] Dedication to the Earl of Nottingham, 
 Preface, Contents + 359. 
 
 Note: The Preface is dated ''June 11. 1694.' Advertisement and 
 Errata on p. [xxx]. Wotton here resists Temple's arguments put 
 forward in no. 89. Ed. 2 appeared in 1697 (no. 94); ed. 3 in 1705 
 (no. 133), Monk, i. 61 foil.
 
 1 
 
 Charles Boyle, Fourth Earl of Orrery. 
 
 From the Painting by C. Jervas in the National Portrait Gallery.
 
 PHALARIS CONTROVERSY 27 
 
 ^91. 4>aXaptSos AKpayavTLvojv Tvpavvov ETrtcrToXat. Phalaridis 
 Agrigentinorum Tyranni Epistolae. Ex MSS Recensuit, 
 Versione, Annotationibus, & Vita insuper Authoris Donavit 
 Car. Boyle ex JEdt Christi. E/c ©earpov eV Ofovta, Eret ax^^- 
 Excudebat Johannes Crooke. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Tide, pp. [xiv] Dedication to Aldrich, Preface, Life of 
 Phalaris + Half-title +156+ [7] Index, etc. 
 
 Note: Published January i. 1695. Engraved frontispiece (M. Burg, 
 calc. Uni. Ox. sculp.) with motto from Callimachus. Vignette of 
 the Sheldonian theatre on title. Some copies were printed on large 
 paper. In the Preface occurs the reflection on Bentley's conduct in 
 the affair of the MS. of Phalaris — ^...Collatas etiam curavi usque ad 
 Epist. 40 cum MS°. in Bibliothecd Regid^ cujus mihi copiam ulteriorem 
 Bibliothecarius pro singulari sua humanitate negavit.'' Monk, i. 63 foil. 
 
 *^2. Oxonii, E Typographeo Clarendoniano An. Dom. 
 
 MDCCxviii. Impensis Stephani Fletcher Bibliopolae. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. [xii] + 154 + [6]. 
 
 Note: Engr. front, as in no. 91. Vignette of the Clarendon Press on 
 title (M. B[urghers] d. et sculp.). Some copies were printed on large 
 paper. 
 
 93. 4>aXaptSo9 ETTtcrroXat. Phalaridis Epistolae. Quas Latinas 
 fecit, et, interpositis Caroli Boyle notis, commentario illustravit 
 Joannes Daniel a Lennep. Mortuo Lennepio, finem operi 
 imposuit, Praefationem, et adnotationes quasdam praefixit L. C. 
 Valckenaer. Groningae, apud Jacobum Bolt, cididcclxxvii. 
 
 Collation : 4°. pp. xxiv Preface, etc. + 381 + [41] Indexes. 
 
 Note: A second edition (ed. G. H. Schaefer) appeared at Leipzig in 
 1823. Monk, r. 126 — 7. 
 
 *94. Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning. By William 
 Wotton, B.D. Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of 
 Nottingham. The Second Edition, with Large Additions.
 
 2 8 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 With a Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Themis- 
 tocles, Socrates, Euripides ; &'c. and -^sop's Fables. By 
 Dr Bentley. London, Printed by J. Leake, for Peter Buck... 
 MDCxcvii. (A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris, 
 Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and Others ; and the Fables 
 of iEsop. By Richard Bentley, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary 
 and Library-keeper to His Majesty. London, Printed by 
 J. Leake, for Peter Buck...MDCxcvii.) 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. [vi] Dedication to the Earl of Nottingham + 
 xxxvii Preface and Postscript + [iii] Contents + 421 + 152 Bentley. 
 
 Note : The Postscript is dzxed^Jpril 30. 1697.' Corrigenda on reverse 
 of p. 421. Ed. I of Wotton's book appeared in 1694 (no. 90). 
 Bentley's Dissertation, and defence of himself in the affair of the MS. 
 first appeared with ed. 2. Errata on p. 152. For later editions see 
 nos. 109 — 114, 133. Monk, i. 78 foil. 
 
 95. Fabularum ^sopicarum Delectus. Oxoniae, E Theatro Shel- 
 doniano. An. Dom. mdcxcviii. Excudebat Johan. Croke. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Title, pp. [xiii] Dedication, Preface, 'Testimonia de vita 
 et fabulis i^sopi ' + 128 + [7] ' Index Fabularum.' 
 
 Note: Published January i, 1698. There is an engraved frontispiece, 
 and a vignette of the Sheldonian theatre on the title (M. Burg. del. et 
 sculp.). The editor vv^as Anthony Alsop, of Christ Church, who 
 signs the Dedication. No, 237, Canis in prcesepi, satirises Bentley's 
 conduct with regard to the MS. of Phalaris. Monk, i. 96 foil. 
 
 Copies : B.M. U.L.C. 
 
 96. Examen Poeticum Duplex : sive Musarum Anglicanarum 
 Delectus Alter ; Cui subjicitur Epigrammatum seu Poematum 
 Minorum Specimen Novum. Londini : Impensis Ric. Wel- 
 lington... mdcxcviii. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Half-title, Tide, pp. [ix] 'Praefatio ' and 'Index' + 219 
 + Half-title ' Epigrammatum... Specimen Novum ' + [i] 'Praefatio' 
 -f- iii 'Index Lemmatum ' + [i] ' Advertisement. These Plays lately 
 Printed for. ..Richard Wellington.,.' + 56.
 
 # 
 
 PHALARIS CONTROVERSY 29 
 
 Note: The Prefaces are dated 'Oxon. Jan. 28. 169^.' The following 
 pieces ridicule Bentley : [Part i.] pp. 149 — 157 Articuli Pads. (By Ed. 
 Ivy ex asde Christi Oxon.) [Part 11.] pp. 46 — 48 Intellectus agens 
 illuminat phantasmata. Ad R. B. hibliothecarium philocriticum. — Forma 
 ultima est specifica. Ad Eundem^ De convers'tone Malela seu Malala 
 nominis Syriaci in Malelas nomen Gr^cum. Monk, I. l 12. 
 
 Copy: U.L.C. 
 
 97. Dr Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris and the 
 Fables of ^sop examin'd by the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esq; 
 
 — Remember M'tlos End ; 
 Wedged in that Timber njjhich he strove to rend. 
 
 Roscom. Ess. of Trans). Vers. 
 
 London, Printed for Tho. Bennet... 1698. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Title, pp. [vi] 'Preface' 4- 290 + [4] 'A Short Account 
 of Dr Bentley, by way of Index.' 
 
 Note: Errata on p. 290. Some copies were printed on large paper. 
 This was a joint production emanating from Christ Church. Francis 
 Atterbury (1662 — 1732), afterwards Bp of Rochester, says in a letter 
 to Boyle ' In laying the design of the book, in writing above half of 
 it, in reviewing a good part of the rest, in transcribing the whole, and 
 attending the press, half a year of my life went away.' (Epistolary 
 Correspondence^ Vol. li. p. 21.) George Smalridge (1663 — ljig)y 
 afterwards Bp of Bristol, Robert Freind, John Freind, and Anthony 
 Alsop were his collaborators. Ed. 2 appeared in 1698 (no. 98); ed. 3 
 in 1699 (no. 107); and ed. 4 in 1745 (no. 108). Monk, i. 88 foil., 
 96 foil. 
 
 ^98. The Second Edition. London, Printed for Tho. 
 
 Bennet... 1698, 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. [viii] + 290 4- [4]. 
 
 Note: Monk (l. 107) speaks of the Short Account of Dr Bentley by way of 
 Index as first appearing in ed. 2. It is very frequently found in copies 
 of ed. I. 
 
 ^99. An Essay, concerning Critical and Curious Learning : In which 
 are contained some Short Reflections on the Controversie 
 betwixt Sir William Temple and Mr. Wotton ; And that
 
 30 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 betwixt Dr. Bentley and Mr. Boyl. By T. R. Esq ; London, 
 
 Printed for R. Cumberland... 1698. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. 77. 
 
 Note: by Thomas Rymer (1641 — 17 13). In the form of a Letter. 
 Erratum on p. 77. Monk, i. 112 foil. 
 
 *ioo. An Answer to a late Pamphlet, called An Essay concerning 
 
 Critical and Curious Learning ; In which are contained some 
 
 short Reflections on the Controversie betwixt Sir William 
 
 Temple, and Mr Wotton. And that betwixt Dr Bentley, 
 
 and Mr Boyle. London : Printed and Sold by E. Whitlock 
 
 ...1698. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Title, pp. 28. 
 
 Note : In the form of a Letter dated '■Oxon Aug dth 1698.' Monk, i. 
 114. 
 
 *ioi. A Vindication of An Essay concerning Critical and Curious 
 Learning : In which are contained some Short Reflections on 
 the Controversie betwixt Sir William Temple and Mr. Wotton ; 
 and that betwixt Dr. Bentley and Mr. Boyl. In Answer to an 
 Oxford Pamphlet. By the Author of that Essay. 
 
 — Pudet fuec opprobria Fobis, 
 Et did potuisse, & non potuisse refelli. 
 
 London, Printed for E. Whitlock... 1698. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Tide, pp. 54 + [5] * Books Printed for Richard Cum- 
 berland...' 
 
 Note: In the form of a Letter signed 'T. R.' i.e. Thomas Rymer, and 
 dated 'London, Aug. 23. 1698.' 
 
 ^102. A View of the Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris, 
 Themistocles, &c. lately Publish'd by the Reverend Dr. 
 Bentley. Also of the Examination of that Dissertation by 
 the Honourable Mr. Boyle. In order to the Manifesting the 
 Incertitude of Heathen Chronology.
 
 PHALARIS CONTROVERSY 31 
 
 ♦ 'Eyo) 8e Xoyoi' tvbo^ov ovTa>...ov fiot Soko) Trporjafcrdai ^poviKoit rtrrt Xtyofitvois 
 
 Kavocriv, ovs fivpioi 8iop6ovvTfs a)(pi arjuepov di ov8ev avro'ii, 6po\nyovp.(vop 
 SCvavrai Karaar^iaai rhs dvriXoyias. Plutarch in Vit. Solon, [corrected]. 
 
 London : Printed by H. C. for John Jones... 1698. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. [v] Preface + 78 + [2] * Books Printed for John 
 Jones...' 
 
 Note: By John Milner (1628 — 1702). Errata on p. 78. Monk, i. 
 Ill foil. 
 
 103. A Free but Modest Censure on the late Controversial Writings 
 and Debates of the Lord Bishop of Worcester and Mr Locke: 
 Mr Edwards and Mr Locke : the Hon^'"^ Charles Boyle, Esq ; 
 and Dr. Bently. Together with Brief Remarks on Monsieur 
 Le Clerc's Ars Critica. By F. B. M.A. of Cambridg. 
 London: Printed for A. Baldwin... 1698. 
 
 Collation: 4°. pp. 31. 
 Copy: U.L.C. 
 
 104. A Journey to London, in the Year, 1698. After the 
 
 Ingenuous Method of that made by Dr. Martin Lyster to 
 
 Paris, in the same Year, &c. Written Originally in French, 
 
 by Monsieur Sorbiere, and Newly Translated into English. 
 
 London, Printed, and sold by A. Baldwin... 1698. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. [iv] ' Monsieur Sorbeir to the Reader,' 
 ' Contents ' + 34 + [2] ' Upon reviewing my Notes. . .' 
 
 Note: By Dr William King (1663 — 17 12), who takes occasion to sneer 
 at Bentley — ' I had heard of his singular Humanity both in France, 
 and other places.' Monk, i. 130. 
 
 105. An Examination of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth. 
 Together with some Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New 
 Theory of the Earth. By Jo. Keill A.M. Coll. Ball. Ox. 
 Oxford, Printed at the Theater 1698. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. [vi] Dedication + 224. 
 
 Note: This work incidentally attacks Bentley. Ed. 2 appeared at 
 Oxford in 1734. Monk, i. no foil.
 
 32 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 1 06. Caricature of Bentley, 1698 — 9. 
 
 ' The Doctor had some Waggs, who were his Enemies even in 
 Cambridge: They drew his Picture in the Hands of Phalans's 
 Guards, who were putting him into their Master's Bull. And out 
 of the Doctor's Mouth came a Label with these Words: / had 
 rather he Roasted than Boyled.' 
 
 Eustace Budgell's Memoirs of the Earl of Orrery (1732), p. 193. 
 
 Monk, I. 112. 
 
 *I07. Dr Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and 
 the Fables of iEsop examin'd by the Honourable Charles 
 Boyle, Esq, 
 
 — Remember Mao's End; 
 Wedg'd in that Timber, nuhich he str(yve to rend. 
 
 Roscomm. Ess. of Transl. Vers. 
 
 The Third Edition With some Additions, occasioned by a 
 Book entituled A View of the Dissertation upon the Epistles 
 of Phalaris, &c. London, Printed for Tho. Bennet...i699. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. [vi] + 294 + [4]. 
 
 Note : Last six pp. wrongly numbered 261 — 266. Eds. i and 2 
 appeared in 1698 (nos. 97, 98). 
 
 *io8. The Fourth Edition... London : Printed for Thomas 
 
 Davies...MDCcxLv. 
 
 Collation ; 8°. pp. [x] + 294 + [4]. 
 
 Note: Last six pp. wrongly numbered 261 — 266. 
 
 *i09. A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris. With an 
 Answer to the Objections of the Honourable Charles Boyle, 
 Esquire. By Richard Bentley, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary 
 and Library-keeper to His Majesty. London, Printed by 
 J. H. for Henry Mortlock...and John Hartley... 1699. 
 
 Collation: 8°. pp. cxii Title and Preface + 549 4- [10] 'Index' and 
 ' Errata.'
 
 PHALARIS CONTROVERSY i^;^ 
 
 Note: This is a much enlarged edition of that portion of Bentlcy's 
 Dissertation (ibgy^ no. 94) which deals with Phalaris. On the 
 reverse of the title is : 
 
 Mordear Opprobriis Falsis, mutemque Colores ? 
 Falsus Honor ju'Vat, &. Meiidax Infamia terret 
 Quern, nisi Mendacem & Mendosum ? — 
 
 Horat. Epist. 1, 16. 
 Monk, I. 120 foil. 
 
 ^iio. To which are added, Dr. Bentley's Dissertations on 
 
 the Epistles of Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and others ; 
 and the Fables of -^sop ; as originally printed : With Occa- 
 sional Remarks on the Whole. London : Printed by and for 
 W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, mdcclxxvii. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. iii Title and Advertisement + Iviii 'The Author's 
 Preface ' + 456. 
 
 Note: A reprint of the enlarged Dissertation of 1699 (no. 109), together 
 with the Dissertation upon the Epistles of Thejnistocles^ etc., from the 
 edition of 1697 ('^'^* 94)* Edited by Dr S. Salter, who has reprinted 
 at the end Bentley's Letter to Dr Davies (Wordsworth, cxlvii.), 
 and his Letter to F. Gacon (Wordsworth, cli.). As to this edition 
 see Dyce, i. v. 
 
 III. A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris. With an 
 Answer to the Objections of the Honourable Charles Boyle, 
 Esq. By Richard Bentley, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary, and 
 Library-Keeper to His Majesty. 
 
 Mordear opprobriis falsis, mutemque colores ? 
 Falsus honor jwvat, et mendax infamia terret 
 Quem, nisi mendacem et mendosum ? 
 
 Horat. Epist. i, 16. 
 
 London: Printed and Published by W. M*=Dowall... 1816. 
 Collation : 8°. pp. Ixv Title and Preface 4- 399- 
 Note: Reprint of the Dissertation of 1699 (no. 109). 
 B- 3
 
 34 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 *ii2. A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris... To which 
 are added, Dr Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of 
 Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and others ; and the Fables 
 of ^sop, as originally printed ; with Occasional Remarks on 
 the Whole. A New Edition. London : Printed by G. Auld 
 ...1817. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. [iii] + Iviii + 456. 
 Note: Reprint of Salter's edition (no. no). 
 
 113. Dr. Richard Bentley's Dissertations upon the Epistles of 
 
 Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and upon the 
 
 Fables of ^sop. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, 
 
 by Wilhelm Wagner, Ph.D. Berlin. S. Calvary and Co. 
 
 1874. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, Contents, pp. xviii Introduction, Reprint of 
 Dyce's Chronological list of pieces connected with the Phalaris 
 Controversy + 624 + [i] Errata. 
 
 Note: Contains (i) the Dissertation of 1699, (2) discrepancies of the 
 first edition in Wotton's Reflections, 1697, (3) the Dissertation upon 
 the Epistles of Themistocles^ etc. from the first edition, 1697. Bentley's 
 Letters to Barnes and Davies (Wordsworth, xxvi, cxLVii) are reprinted 
 at the end. Constitutes Bd. 21 — 24 of Calvary's 'Philologische und 
 archaeologische Bibliothek.' 
 
 114. Dissertations upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, 
 
 Socrates, Euripides, and the Fables of ^sop. By Richard 
 
 Bentley, D.D. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by 
 
 the late Wilhelm Wagner, Ph.D. Professor at the Johanneum, 
 
 Hamburg. London: George Bell and Sons... 1883. 
 
 Collation: Same as no. 113. 
 
 Note: Duplicate of no. 113, with a new title-page. Part of Bohn's 
 ' Classical Library.' 
 
 115. Richardi Bentleii Dissertatio de Phalaridis, Themistoclis, 
 Socratis, Euripidis, aliorumque Epistolis, et de Fabulis 
 Aesopi. Nee non ejusdem Responsio qua Dissertationem de
 
 PHALARIS CONTROVERSY 35 
 
 Epistolis Phalaridis vindicat a censura Caroli Boyle. Omnia 
 ex Anglico in Latinam sermonem convertit Joannes Daniel a 
 Lennep. Groningae, apud Jacobum Bolt, cididcclxxvii. 
 
 Collation: 4°. Title, pp. 108 Dissertation ed. 1697 + Ixvi + 303 
 Dissertation ed. 1699 4- [6] Index. 
 
 Note: Latin versions of the first edition of the Dissertation (1697, 
 no. 94), and of the enlarged Dissertation (1699, "o- ^^9)- This 
 work is usually found appended to Lennep's edition of Phalaris 
 published in the same year (no. 93). Monk, i. 126 — 7. 
 
 116. Richardi Bentleii Opuscula Philologica. Lipsiae, 1781. 
 
 Collation: S°. 
 
 Note : Comprises a reprint of Lennep's Latin versions of Bentley's 
 Dissertations (no. 115), together with Bentley's Epistola ad Millium 
 (no. 137). 
 
 117. Richardi Bentleii Dissertatio de epistolis Socratis. 
 
 Latin version in J. C. Orelli's Collectio epistolarum Graecarum. Tom. i. 
 pp. 406 — 425. Lipsiae, 181 5. 
 
 118. Rich. Bentleii Dissertatio de fabulis Aesopi. 
 
 Latin version in Fabulae Aesopicae... Latino versione notisque exornatae 
 cura ac studio Francisci de Furia. pp. cxxxvii — clii. Lipsiae, i8io. 
 
 119. Richard Bentley's Abhandlungen iiber die Briefe des Phalaris, 
 Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, und iiber die Fabeln des 
 Aesop. Deutsch von Woldemar Ribbeck. Leipzig, Teubner, 
 1857. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. xxxii + 652. 
 
 120. Examen de la Dissertation de Richard Bentley sur I'authenticite 
 des Lettres de Themistocle, par M. de Koutorga, Professeur 
 d'Histoire a I'Universite de Saint-Petersbourg. Paris, Im- 
 primerie de Ad. R. Laine et J. Havard... 1861. 
 
 Collation: 4°. Half-title, Title, pp. 27. 
 Copy: B.M. 
 
 3—2
 
 36 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 *i2i. A Short Account of D' Bentley's Humanity and Justice, to 
 those Authors who have written before him : With an Honest 
 Vindication of Tho. Stanley, Esquire, and his Notes on 
 CaUimachus. To which are Added, Some other Observations 
 on that Poet. In a Letter to the Honourable Charles Boyle, 
 Esq;. With a Postscript, in Relation to Dr Bentley's late 
 Book against him. To which is added an Appendix, by the 
 Bookseller; wherein the Doctor's Mis-Representations of all 
 the Matters of Fact wherein he is concern'd, in his late Book 
 about Phalaris's Epistles, are modestly consider'd ; with a 
 Letter from the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esq ; , on that 
 Subject. 
 
 quum repetitum 'venerit una 
 
 Grex a'vium plumas, risum Cornicla mo'vebit, 
 
 Furtiojis nitdata Co/oribus 
 
 fVAen all the Birds shall claim their oivn. 
 
 And enjery borroiv'd Feather's flonun, 
 
 Honjo mean the Jackdanu looks, for all is gone i 
 
 London, Printed for Thomas Bennet... 1699. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Tide, pp. v 'The Preface to the Reader '+ 140 + [i] 
 
 'Errata.' 
 ^ote: This tract emanated from Christ Church as a counterblast to the 
 
 enlarged Dissertation (no. 109). Dr King is supposed to have written 
 
 Bennet's vindication. Monk, i. 127 foil. 
 
 122. The Epistles of Phalaris. Translated into English from the 
 Original Greek. By J. S. Together with an Appendix of 
 some other Epistles lately Discovered in a French MS. 
 London, Printed for Daniel Brown... James Knapton...and 
 Rich. Parker ...1699. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Title, pp. [iv] ' To the Reader' and ' Errata' + xiii 
 'An Harangue of Phalaris his Ambassadors to the Priests of 
 Delphos...' 'A Continuation of the former Discourse...' + 223. 
 
 Note: By Solomon Whately, of Magdalene College, Oxford. Monk, 
 I. 131. 
 
 Copies: B.M. U.L.C. 
 
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 PHALARIS CONTROVERSY 
 
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 123. The Epistles of Phalaris Translated into English from the 
 Original Greek. By S. Whately, late of Magdalen Colledge 
 in Oxford, M.A. To which is added Sir W. Temple's 
 Character of the Epistles of Phalaris. Together with an 
 Appendix of some other Epistles lately Discovered in a 
 French MS. London, 1699. 
 
 Collation: 8°. pp. 223. 
 
 Note: This edition has not been seen. The title and collation are 
 taken from Dyce, i. xv. 
 
 124. An Answer to a late Book written against the Learned and 
 Reverend Dr. Bentley, relating to some Manuscript Notes on 
 Callimachus. Together with an Examination of Mr. Bennet's 
 Appendix, to the said Book. London : Printed in the Year, 
 1699. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Title, pp. [xii] 'Preface to the Reader,' 'Advertisement' 
 + 209. 
 
 Note: An answer to no. I2I by S. Whately. The Advertisement 
 reads 'Lately publish'd The Epistles of Phalaris, translated into 
 English from the Original, by the Author of this Answer.' See 
 nos. 122, 123. Errata on p. 209. Monk, i. 131. 
 
 Copies: B.M. U.L.C. 
 
 125. A Chronological Account of the Life of Pythagoras, and of 
 other Famous Men his Contemporaries. With an Epistle to 
 the R'^ Dr. Bentley, about Porphyry's and Jamblichus's Lives 
 of Pythagoras. By the Right Reverend Father in God, 
 Wilham, L*^ B^ of Coventry and Lichfield. London, Printed 
 by J. H. for H. Mortlock...i699. 
 
 Collation: 8°. pp. Iviii Epistle + 18. 
 
 Note: By William Lloyd (1627 — 171 7), Bp of Worcester. The 
 preface is dated ''Mar. 30. 1699.' Errata on p. 18. Monk, 
 
 I- 132—3-
 
 38 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 "^"126. Dialogues of the Dead. Relating to the present Controversy- 
 concerning the Epistles of Phalaris. By the Author of the 
 Journey to London. London : Printed, and Sold by 
 A. Baldwin... 1 699. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Half-tide, Title, pp. [iv] ' To the Reader ' + 83 + [2] 
 'Index.' 
 
 Note: By Dr William King. Monk, i. 137 — 8. 
 
 127. A Letter to the Reverend Dr Bentley. Upon the Contro- 
 versie betwixt him and Mr. Boyle. London, Printed and 
 Sold by J. Nutt, near Stationers-Hall, mdcxcix. 
 
 Collation : 4°. Title, pp. 22. 
 Note: Monk, i. 131. 
 Copy: B.M. 
 
 128. The Dispensary; a Poem, London, Printed, and Sold by 
 John Nutt... 1699. 
 
 Collation: 4°. Half-title, Title, pp. 84. 
 
 Note: Ey Samuel Garth, M.D. (1661 — 1719). In this poem occurs 
 the famous couplet : 
 
 So diamonds take a lustre from their foil. 
 And to a Bentley 'tis we owe a Boyle. 
 Monk, I. 112. 
 Copy: B.M. 
 
 ^129. A short Review of the Controversy between Mr. Boyle, and 
 Dr. Bentley. With suitable Reflections upon it. And the 
 Dr's. Advantagious Character of himself at full length. 
 Recommended to the serious perusal of such as propose to 
 be Considered for their Fairness, Modesty, and good temper 
 in Writing. London, Printed for A. Baldwin... 170 1. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Half-title, Title, pp. [iii] Preface + 158. 
 
 Note: Attributed to Francis Atterbury. Pp. 154 — 155 are wrongly 
 numbered 138 — 139; p. 158 is wrongly numbered 144. Errata on 
 p. '144.' Monk, I. 178 — 9.
 
 PHALARIS CONTROVERSY 39 
 
 130. De Veteribus Graecorum Romanorumque Cyclis, obiterque de 
 Cyclo Judaeorum setate Christi, Dissertationes decern, cum 
 Tabulis necessanis...Ab Henrico Dodvvello A. M. Dubliniensi. 
 Oxonii, E Theatre Sheldoniano...MDCCi. 
 
 Collation: 4°. Title, pp. [xxii] Dedication, Contents, etc. + 919. 
 
 Note: Bentley saw this work in MS. and disputed Dodwell's opinion 
 on the age of Phalaris and Pythagoras in his Dissertation (1699). 
 Monk, I. 119 — 20. 
 
 Copies: B.M. U.L.C. 
 
 131. Exercitationes Duae : Prima, de ^tate Phalaridis ; Secunda, 
 de JEtRtc Pythagorae Philosophi. Ab Henrico Dodwell, A.M. 
 Dubliniensi. Londini, Impensis Richardi Smith... m dcc iv. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, Dedication, pp. xiii Preface + [vi] Index + 264 + [8] 
 'Books Printed, and Sold by Richard Smith...' 
 
 Note: Dodwell here replies to Bentley's criticism of his opinions 
 (expressed in De Feteribus Graecorum Komanorumque Cyclis) on the 
 age of Phalaris and Pythagoras. Monk, i. 179 — 80. 
 
 Copies : B.M. U.L.C. 
 
 132. A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement 
 of Mankind. 
 
 Diu multumque desideratum. 
 
 To which is added, An Account of a Battel between the 
 Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library. 
 
 Basima eacabasa eanaa irraurista, diarba da caeotaba fobor camelanth't. 
 
 lien. Lib. i. c. 18. 
 
 Jwvatque uo-vos decerpere flores, 
 
 Insignemque meo capiti petere inde coronam, 
 
 Fnde prius nulli njelarunt tempora Musa-. Lucret. 
 
 London: Printed for John Nutt...MDCCiv. 
 
 Collation: Title, pp. [viii] Dedication to John Lord Sommeis and 
 The Bookseller to the Reader +1 — 11 The Epistle Dedicatory to 
 Prince Posterity + 13 — 31 The Preface + 33 — 221 A Tale of a Tub 
 + 223 — 278 A Full and True Account of the Battel... bet ween the 
 Antient and the Modern Books + 279 — 322 A Discourse concerning 
 the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit...
 
 40 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 Note: By Jonathan Swift. The Dedication to Prince Posterity is 
 dated ' Decemb. 1697.' In The Tale of a Tub Section iii — *A 
 Digression concerning Critics' — satirises Bentley. He is further 
 ridiculed in ' The Dedication to Prince Posterity,' and in Sections v 
 and X, In The Battel of the Books 'The Episode of B-ntl-y and 
 W-tt-n' is devoted to the Phalaris Controversy. See also no. 134. 
 Monk, I. 92 foil., 180 foil. • 
 
 # 
 
 # 
 
 133. Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning. To which 
 is now added a Defense Thereof, in Answer to the Objections 
 of Sir W. Temple, and Others. With Observations upon 
 the Tale of a Tub. By William Wotton, B.D. Also, A 
 Dissertation upon the Epistles of Themistocles, Socrates, 
 Euripides, ^c. and the Fables of Aesop. By R. Bentley, 
 D.D. Third Edition Corrected. London : Printed for Tim. 
 Goodwin . . . M Dccv. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Title, pp. [iv] 'Epistle Dedicatory' + xxxii 'Preface' 
 and ' Postscript ' + [ii] ' Contents ' and ' Errata ' + 541 + [3] ^ Books 
 Printed for Tim. Goodwin.' 
 
 Note: The Defense is dated '•May 21. 1705.' Bentley's Dissertation 
 (p. 397) and Wotton 's Defense of the Reflections (p. 471) have special 
 title-pages. Ed. I of Wotton's work appeared in 1694 (no. 90); 
 ed. 2 in 1697 (no. 94). The appearance of Bentley's enlarged 
 Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris in 1699 (no. 109) made it 
 inopportune to reprint it in its original form of 1697: Wotton, 
 therefore, only reissued the Dissertation upon the Epistles of Themis- 
 tocles^ etc. omitted by Bentley in 1699. Monk, i. 181 — 2. 
 
 134. A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement 
 of Mankind. [Motto as in ed. i, no. 132.] To which is 
 added, An Account of a Battel between the Antient and 
 Modern Books in St. James's Library. [Mottoes as in ed. i]. 
 The Fifth Edition : With the Author's Apology and Explana- 
 tory Notes. By W. W--tt--n, B.D. and others. London: 
 Printed for John Nutt...MDCcx. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. [xxx] An Apology, Dedication to John Lord 
 Sommers, The Bookseller to the Reader + 344.
 
 PHALARIS CONTROVERSY 41 
 
 Note: See no. 132. Eds. 2 and 3 appeared in 1704; ed. 4 in 1705. 
 Wotton's Notes were extracted from ed. 3 of his Reflections (no. 133). 
 
 135. Memoirs of the Life and Character of the Late Earl of 
 Orrery, and of the Family of the Boyles. Containing several 
 Curious Facts, and Pieces of History, from the Reign of 
 Queen Elisabeth, to the present Times : Extracted from 
 Original Papers and Manuscripts never yet Printed. With 
 a Short Account of the Controversy between the late Earl of 
 Orrery and the Reverend Doctor Bentley ; and some Select 
 Letters of Phalaris, the famous Sicilian Tyrant : Translated 
 from the Greek. By Eustace Budgell Esq ; 
 
 Te, anlmo repetentem Exempla tuorum, 
 
 Et Pater JEneas, & A-vunculus excitet Hector. Virg. 
 
 London: Printed for W. Mears...M.DCcxxxii. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. xl Dedication to John, Earl of Orrery, Contents + 
 258 + [2] Advertisements. 
 
 Note: Pp. 156 — 195 are occupied with an account of the Controversy 
 on the Epistles of Phalaris. Mr Budgell sums up the case as follows: 
 'In short, the Doctor lost, and Mr. Boyle got a great deal of Credit 
 by this Controversy : The World was pleased to see a Toung Man 
 of Quality and Fortune get the better of an old Critick.^ With a 
 portrait of Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, engraved by Baron. 
 Ed. 2 appeared in 1732; ed. 3 in 1737. 
 
 136. The Epistles of Phalaris. Translated from the Greek. To 
 which are added, Some Select Epistles of the most eminent 
 Greek Writers. By Thomas Francklin, M.A. Fellow of 
 Trinity-College, Cambridge. London : Printed for R. Franck- 
 lin... mdccxlix. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Title, pp. [xii] Dedication to John, Earl of Orrery, and 
 List of Subscribers + xxiii Preface 4- 224. 
 
 Note: There is an account of the Controversy in the Preface. Francklin 
 believed the Epistles genuine. See Jebb's Bentley, pp. 81 — 2.
 
 V. CLASSICS 
 
 1. EDITIONS, EMENDATIONS, AND NOTES 
 
 PUBLISHED BY BENTLEY 
 
 2. EDITIONS, EMENDATIONS, AND NOTES 
 
 PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY 
 
 I. Editions, Emendations, and Notes published by Bentley. 
 
 137. Epistola ad CI. V. Joannem Millium S.T.P. [on Malelas]. 
 
 Published as an Appendix (98 pp.) to the Historia Chronica of Malelas 
 edited by J. Mill, Oxford, 1691, Reprinted as an Appendix (84 pp.) 
 to the second edition of Bentley's Emendationes in Menandri... 
 Reliquias^ Cambridge, 171 3 (no. 146); in Corpus Byzantines Historia^ 
 Venice, 1733 and Bonn, 1831; and in Opuscula philologica^ Leipzig, 
 1 78 1 (no. 1x6). Monk, i. 25 foil. ; 
 
 138. Bentley's Notes on Philostratus. 
 
 A specimen of Bentley's proposed edition of Philostratus was printed 
 at Leipzig in 1694, but the undertaking was abandoned. His notes 
 were subsequently published in G. Olearius's edition, Leipzig, 1709. 
 Reprinted in C. L. Kayser's edition, Heidelberg, 1838. Monk, i. 
 57 foil. 
 
 139. Callimachi Fragmenta a Richardo Bentleio collecta. — Richardi 
 
 Bentleii Animadversiones in nonnulla Hymnorum Callimachi 
 
 loca. 
 
 Published in J. G. Graevius's edition, pp. 179 — 438, 457 — 470, 
 Utrecht, MDCXCVii. Reprinted in Ernesti's edition. Vol, i, pp. 271 
 — 327, 413 — 586 ; Vol. II. pp. I — 16, Leyden, 1761 ; and in 
 Blomfield's edition, pp. 169 — 326, London, 181 5. Monk, i. 76 — 7.
 
 CLASSICS 43 
 
 140. Richardi Bentleii Emendationes ad Ciceronls Tusculanas. 
 
 Published as an Appendix (94 pp.) to Dr John Davies's edition, 
 Cambridge, 1709, and, fourth edition, Cambridge, 1738, Reprinted 
 by T. Gaisford in his edition, Oxford, 1805, pp. 397 — 497, together 
 with ' Notae ineditae ' (37 pp.). Davies's second and third editions 
 printed the text as emended by Bentley. Monk, i. 223 foil., 
 II. 116 — 7. 
 
 141. M. T. Ciceronis Eplstolarum Selectarum libri tres quos denuo 
 recensuit i^ Notis auxit J. C. Schroderus. Accedunt ejusdem 
 Animadversiones in Emendationes Viri CI. Richardi Bentleii, 
 ad Ciceronis Disputationes Tusculanas, a Joanne Davisio 
 illustratas, nee non Vita Ciceronis a Dionysio Lambino 
 coUecta. Delphis Batavorum Apud Regnerum Boitet. 
 
 CIDI3CCXXI. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Engraved title. Title, pp. [xlviii] Preface, etc. + 284 + 
 Index. 
 
 Copy: B.M. 
 
 142. Bentley's Emendations on Hierocles. 
 
 Published in P. Needham's edition, Cambridge, 1709. Monk, i. 
 226 foil. 
 
 143. Richardi Bentleji Emendationes in Plutum (...in Nubes). 
 Excerptse ex Epistolis, ad Ludolphum Kusterum scriptis. 
 
 Published in L. Kuster's edition, pp. 319 — 324, Amsterdam, 17 10. 
 For the original Letters see Wordsworth, cxxvii, cxxix. Monk, i. 
 192 foil. Further notes on Aristophanes were published posthumously, 
 see no. 188. 
 
 1 44. Menandri et Philemonis Reliquiae, quotquot reperiri potuerunt ; 
 
 Graece et Latine, cum Notis Hugonis Grotii et Joannis Clerici, 
 
 qui etiam novam omnium versionem adornavit, Indicesque ad- 
 
 jecit. Amstelodami, Apud Thomam Lombrail. cid id ccix. 
 
 Collation : Title, pp. [xiv] Dedication^ Preface, etc. + 375 + [23] 
 Index. 
 
 Note: With portrait-frontispiece. Monk, i. 267 — 9. 
 
 Copies: B.M. U.L.C.
 
 44 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 145. Emendationes in Menandri et Philemonis Reliquias, ex 
 nupera Editione Joannis Clerici : Ubi multa Grotii & aliorum, 
 plurima vero Clerici errata castigantur, auctore Phileleuthero 
 Lipsiensi. 
 
 Est genus hominum, qui esse primos se omnium rerum 'volunt, nee sunt. Ter. 
 
 Trajecti ad Rhenum, Ex Officina Gulielmi vande Water... 
 CI3 ID ccx. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Title, pp. [xxxviii] Preface by P. Burman, etc. + 136. 
 
 Note: By Richard Bentley. Errata on p. 136. Reprinted in A. 
 Meineice's edition of Menander, Berlin, 1823. Monk, I. 269 foil. 
 
 Copies: B.M. U.L.C. 
 
 ^146. Accedit Epistola Critica Richardi Bentleii de Johanne 
 
 Malela Antiocheno ; Scripta anno mdcxci. Editio altera emen- 
 datior. Cantabrigiae : Typis Academicis. Impensis Cornelii 
 Crownfield...MDCcxiii. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Tide, pp. [ii] * Index Auctorum ' + 160 -f Half-title to 
 Bentley's ' Epistola ' + 84 + [2] ' Index rerum memorabilium.* 
 
 Note : See no. 137. 
 
 147. Infamia Emendationum in Menandri Reliquias nuper editarum 
 Trajecti ad Rhenum auctore Phileleuthero Lipsiensi. Accedit 
 Responsio M. Lucilii Profuturi ad epistolam C. Veratii 
 Philellenis quae exstat in Bibliothecae Choirias parte ix. 
 Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Joh. Arnold. Langerack. 17 10. 
 
 Collation: 12°. Title, pp. [iv] ' Praefatio ' + 168 + [3] 'Addenda vel 
 Corrigenda.' 
 
 Note: By Jakob Gronovius (1645 — ^T^^)- Monk, i. 276 — 7. Le 
 Clerc, writing under the pseudonym of C. Veratius Philellen, had 
 published in his Bibliotheque Choisie an attack on Gronovius's Arrian. 
 
 Copies: B.M. U.L.C.
 
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 CLASSICS. HORACE 45 
 
 ^48. Philargyrii Cantabrigiensis Emendationes in Menandri et 
 Philemonis Reliquias, ex nupera Editione Joannis Clerici. 
 Ubi quaedam Grotii <y aliorum, plurima vero Phileleutheri 
 Lipsiensis Errata castigantur. Cum Praefatione Joan. Clerici. 
 
 Est genus hominum, qui esse primos se omnium rerum volunt. Nee sunt. Terentius. 
 
 Amstelodami, Apud Henricum Schelte. mdccxi. 
 
 Collation: 8°. pp. 48 + 174 + [2] ' Operum ab Auctore Praefationis 
 editorum Index,' 
 
 Note: By J. C. de Pauw (d. 1749). Monk, i. 277 foil. 
 
 149. Q. Horatius Flaccus, ex Recensione & cum Notis atque 
 Emendationibus Richardi Bentleii. (In Q. Horatium Flaccum 
 Notae & Emendationes Richardi Bentleii S.T.P. Regiae 
 Majestati a Sacris Domesticis, Bibliothecarum Regiarum 
 Custodis, Archidiaconi Eliensis, et Collegio S. Trinitatis apud 
 Cantabrigienses Praefecti.) Cantabrigiae, mdccxi. 
 
 Collation : 4°. Half-tide, Engraved Title, Title, pp. [xxiv] Dedication 
 to the Earl of Oxford, Life of Horace by Suetonius, Preface to the 
 Reader + 310 Text + Half-title and Title to Notes, etc. +460 Notes, 
 etc. 
 
 Note : Engraved Title (J. Goeree del. Bernards scul.). Vignette on 
 both titles. (See R. Bowes's Catalogue of Books... relating to... 
 Cambridge. Ornaments, no. 78.) Monk, I. 307 foil. 
 
 ^150. Q. Horatius Flaccus, ex Recensione & cum Notis atque 
 Emendationibus Richardi Bentleii. Editio Altera. Amstel- 
 aedami, Apud Rod. & Gerh. Wetstenios Hff. m.d.ccxiii. 
 
 Collation: 4°. Engraved Title, Title, pp. [xx] + 717 Text and Notes + 
 239 'Index in Q. Horatium Flaccum olim quidem collectus a Thoma 
 Tretero, deinde omnibus editionibus accomodatus a Daniele Aveman, 
 nunc vero, additis etiam V. CI. Richardi Bentleji variantibus lec- 
 tionibus, pluribus quam mille & quingentis locis auctus & emendatus 
 ab Isaaco Verburgio.' 
 
 Note: Engraved title as in no. 149 with ' Amstelaedami ex Officina 
 Wetsteniana' added. Different vignette on title. 'Emendanda' on 
 reverse of p. 717.
 
 46 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 "^151. Q. Horatius Flaccus, ex Recensione...Bentleii. Editio Tertia. 
 Amstelaedami, Apud Rod. & Jacob. Wetstenios & Guil. 
 Smith. M.D.ccxxviii. 
 
 Collation : 4°. Engraved Title, Title, pp. [xxii] + 717 + 239. 
 
 Note: Engraved title and Vignette as in no. 150. Bentley's Horace 
 was reprinted and revised, with a full Index by C. Zangemeister, in 
 1869. 
 
 *I52. Q. Horatius Flaccus ad nuperam Richardi Bentleii Editionem 
 accurate expressus. Notas addidit Thomas Bentleius, A.B. 
 CoUegii S. Trinitatis apud Cantabrigienses Alumnus. Canta- 
 brigiae : Typis Academicis. Impensis Cornelii Crownfield... 
 
 MDCCXIII. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Half-title, Title, pp. [xii] Dedication to Lord Harley, 
 Preface 4- 275. 
 
 Note : Errata on p. [xii]. Thomas Bentley was Dr Bentley's nephew. 
 Monk, I. 340 — I. 
 
 ^SZ- Q- Horatii Flacci Poemata, ex castigationibus observationibus- 
 que Bentleii, Cuningamii & Sanadonis emendata. Hamburg! ; 
 Typis A. Vandenhoeck. mdccxxxiii. 
 
 Collation: 12°. pp. viii Title, Dedication, Preface + 298. 
 Copy: B.M. 
 
 154. Londini : Impensis Joannis Nourse...MDCCXL. 
 
 Collation : 12°. pp. ix + 298 + [i]. 
 Copies: B.M. U.L.C. 
 
 155. Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera ad fidem Editionis alterius 
 Cantabrigiensis castigata. Londini : Typis Jacobi Watson. 
 
 MDCCXL. 
 
 Collation: 12°. Tide, pp. [ii]*Q. Horatii Flacci Vita ' + 236. 
 
 Copies: B.M. U.L.C.
 
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 *I56. Dr Bentley's Dedication of Horace, translated. To which is 
 added, A Poem in Latin and English, inscribed to the Right 
 Honourable the Lord Hallifax, written by the Reverend 
 Dr. Bentley. London: Printed for John Norphew [jzV]... 
 Price 6d. 
 
 Collation: 12°. Title, pp. 33. 
 
 Note : A copy in the Library of St John's College, Cambridge, contains 
 numerous MS. notes by 'Scriblerus. An Hole Picker.' Published 
 in 1 7 12. For the original issue of the Poem to Lord Halifax see 
 no. 252. Monk, i. 317. 
 
 *I57. The Third Edition. London: Printed for John 
 
 Morphew... Price 6tJ. 
 
 Collation: 12°. Title, pp. 33. 
 
 ^158. The Life of Horace, with Dr. Bentley's Preface, Latin and 
 English. 
 
 Persons profess no greater, or it may be they ivill say, less Feneration for the sacred 
 Hymns, than for the profane Songs ofJnacreon or Horace. 
 
 Bently's first Sermon at Boyle's Lecture, p. i. 
 
 London: Printed for John Morphew... Price 6^/. 
 
 Collation: 12°, pp. 35. 
 
 Note: Published in 17 12. Monk, i. 317. 
 
 # 
 
 159. The Odes of Horace in Latin and English ; With a Translation 
 of Dr. Bentley's Notes. To which are added Notes upon 
 Notes ; Done in the Bentleian Stile and Manner. 
 
 Happy that Author, nvhose correct Essay 
 
 Restores so miell the old Horatian ivay ! Roscommon. 
 
 {Humano capiti cervicem jungit equinam. Hor. 
 
 Stuidum [sic] sine Vena. Hor. 
 
 Rideat, & pulset lasci'va decentius atas. Hor.
 
 48 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 Si peccat idem Librarius usque, 
 
 Quam'vis est monitus, 'venid caret. Hor. 
 
 Molitur inepti. Hor. 
 
 Lusimus tecum — Hor. 
 
 Carmina non prius 
 
 Audita Musarum, Sacerdos 
 Firginibus puerisque cantat. Hor. 
 
 Me Truncus illapsus cerebro 
 Sustulerit. — — Hor. 
 
 Hie Niger est; hunc tu, Romane, ca'veto. Hor. 
 
 Tu lene tormentum ingenio admoves. Hor. 
 
 Utile Nugis, 
 
 Et tempestivum pueris concedere ludum. Hor. 
 Fisam Britannos Hospitibus feros. Hor. 
 
 Desine pernjicax 
 
 Referre Sermones Deorum, 
 Et magna modis tenuare parvis. Hor. 
 Monumentum ^ere perennius. Hor. 
 Cur me querelis exanimas tuis. Hor. 
 
 Ibimus, Ibimus, 
 
 Utcunque preecedas, supremum 
 Carpere iter comites parati. Hor. 
 
 Operosa Parvus 
 
 Carmina fingit. Hor. 
 
 Placet impares 
 
 Formas atque animos sub juga ahenea 
 Savo mittere cum joco. Hor. 
 At quis sciebat quee sibi Barbarus 
 Tor tor pararet ? Hor.) 
 
 Part I. ( — Part xx.) To be Continued. London : Printed for 
 Bernard Lintott...i7i2 (1713). (Price 6d.) 
 
 Collation: 12°. pp. 36; 35 + [i]; 36; 34; 3^ J 3^5 3^; 35 + [i]; 3^; 
 
 36; 33 + [3]; 36; 36; 31 + [5]; 34 + W; 36; 35 + [05 40; 36; 
 
 36. 
 Note: Parts i — xvii appeared in 17 12, Parts xviii — xx appeared in 
 
 1713. Monk, I. 318 — 19.
 
 I
 
 CLASSICS. HORACE 49 
 
 The Epodes of Horace in Latin and English ; With a 
 Translation of Dr. Bentley's Notes. To which are added 
 Notes upon Notes ; Done in the Bentleian Stile and Manner. 
 
 Seu tu Querelas, si've geris Jocos. Hor. 
 {Tandem nequiti^ fige modum tu^, 
 
 Famosisque laboribus. Hor. 
 
 Nihil allabores 
 
 Sedulus euro. Hor. 
 
 Tu, sitnul obligasti 
 
 Perfidum Musis caput, enitescis 
 Pulchrior tnulto, jwvenumque prodis 
 
 Publica cura. Hor.) 
 
 Part XXI. To be Continued. ( — Part xxiv.) London : Printed 
 for Bernard Lintott...i7i3. (Price 6^.) 
 
 Collation : 12°, pp. 40 ; 36; 36; 39 + [i]. 
 Note: Monk, i. 318 — 19. 
 
 On the completion of the work the following general title was 
 issued : 
 
 The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace, in Latin 
 and English; With a Translation of Dr. Ben-ley's Notes. 
 To which are added Notes upon Notes. In 24 Parts 
 complete. By several Hands. 
 
 Biformis Fates. Hor. 
 
 London: Printed for Bernard Lintott...MDccxiii. 
 
 A portrait of Horace, engraved by S. Gribelin, was prefixed. The 
 translation by William Oldisworth. 
 
 '160. The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace in 
 English Verse. To which is prefix'd the Life of Horace : 
 Written by Suetonius. Translated from Dr. Bentley's Latin 
 Edition, by Mr William Oldisworth. The Second Edition. 
 London: Printed for B. Lintot...i7i9. (Price is. 6d.) 
 B. 4
 
 so BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 Collation: 12°. Title, pp. [iv] ' Life of Horace written by Suetonius* 
 + 138 + [6] * Books printed for B. Lintot.' 
 
 Note: Gribelin's engraving prefixed; and a title-vignette reproducing 
 the caricature of Horace which first appeared in Dr William King's 
 Some Account of Horace... at Trinity-College (no. 217). 
 
 161. Horace. Bentley's Notes in French. 
 
 Included in (Euvres cP Horace en Latin et en Franfais avec remarques par 
 M. Dacier. Hambourg, 1733. 
 
 162. Horatius Reformatus : sive, Emendationes Omnes quibus 
 Editio Bentleiana a Vulgaribus Distinguitur summa fide in 
 Unum coUecte. In Usum Scholarum & Literatorum, quorum 
 ad Manus Sumptuosa Exemplaria non pervenient. Londini : 
 Impensis J. Bowyer... 1712. 
 
 Collation: 8°. pp. 24. 
 Note: Monk, i. 317. 
 Copy: B.M. 
 
 *i63. Editio altera emendatior. Londini: Impensis J. 
 
 Bowyer... 1712. 
 
 Collation : Same as no. 1 62. 
 
 *i64. Aristarchus Ampullans in Curis Horatianis ; sive Querimonia 
 Epistolaris de intempestiva ista corrigendi libidine, tum de ea 
 opportune cohibenda, ne indies pessime inquinati prodeant 
 optimi Auctores. 
 
 Corrigere at res est tanto magis ardua, quanta 
 Magnus Aristarcho major Homerus erat. 
 
 De Ponto L. 3. El. 9. 
 
 [Ovid : Ex Ponto, Lib. iii. Ep. 9.] 
 
 Londini, mdccxii. 
 
 Collation: 8°. pp. 23. 
 
 Note: Signed ' Philargyrius Cantab.' Monk, i. 317.
 
 CLASSICS. HORACE 51 
 
 ^165. Five Extraordinary Letters suppos'd to be Writ to Dr. B y, 
 
 upon his Edition of Horace, and some other Matters of great 
 Importance. 
 
 Ecce iterum Crispinus, & est mihi S/rpe ijocancius 
 Ad partes Juv. Sat. 4. 
 
 London, Printed for John Morphew... 1712. Price 3-^. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 22. 
 
 Note: Errata on p. 22. Monk, i. 318. 
 
 ■166. Vita et Colloquia Richardi Bentleii, ut plurimum ab Ipso 
 Conscripta. 
 
 Fix credider'tm Orbilium ilium tarn pra'vo & perversa fuisse judicio, ut opica ilia Li'vii 
 Nequinont, Dusmoso, Noegum, Topper, & cetera portenta, nobilibus pueris praelegeret. 
 
 Bentley Not. ad Hor. p. 388. 
 
 Londini: Prostant apud Johan. Morphew... mdccxii. 
 
 [Second Title] : 
 
 The Life and Conversation of Richard Bentley, delivered in 
 
 his own Words, for the most part from his own Writings. 
 
 Who 'Would think, that the Great Critick, Dr Bentley, the Scourge of ill Writers, shou'd, 
 by his Example, teach the Gentlemen of a Royal Foundation to use Recent, Defalck 
 Vernacular in their o'wn Idiom ? 
 
 London: Printed for John Morphew... 17 12. 
 Collation: 8°. pp. 5 +6 — 14 in duplicate + [i]. 
 Note: In Latin and English. Monk, i. 318. 
 
 '167. Mr. Le Clerc's Judgment and Censure of D'- Bentley's 
 
 Horace ; Aud \sic\ of the Amsterdam Edition, compar'd with 
 
 that of Cambridge. Translated from the French. London, 
 
 Printed for W. Taylor; And Sold by J. Baker... 17 13. 
 
 Price Three Pence. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 22 + [2] Advertisements. 
 
 Note: Originally published in the Bihliotheque Choisie, Vol. xxvi. 
 pp. 260 — 279. Amsterdam, 17 13. Monk, i, 322. 
 
 4—2
 
 52 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 1 68. Quaternae Epistolae. Prima & Secunda ad Richardum 
 Bentleium : Tertia ad Illustrissimum virum Ezekielem 
 Spanhemium : Quarta ad Ludovicum Fridericum Bonetum. 
 Londini. Impensis J. Churchill... m.dcc.xiii. 
 Collation : 8°. Tide, pp. 124 4-[i] Announcements and Errata. 
 Note: Signed at the end 'J. Ker.' The letters to Bentley occupy 
 115 pp. of the whole. 'Ad Lectorem' on reverse of Title. 
 Monk, I. 320 foil. 
 
 Copies: B.M. T.C.C. 
 
 *i69. Aristarchus Anti-Bentleianus quadraginta sex Bentleii Errores 
 super Q. Horatii Flacci Odarum libro primo spissos nonnullos, 
 et erubescendos : Item per Notas universas in Latinitate 
 Lapsus foedissimos Nonaginta ostendens. Autore Richardo 
 Johnson, Ludi-Magistro Nottinghamiensi. 
 
 Quid Ronue faciam mentiri nescio ; librutn 
 
 Si malus est nequeo laudare et poscere ? Juv. 
 
 Nee --veniam insuhis sed honorem et frtemia posci. Hor. 
 
 (Aristarchi Anti-Bentleiani Pars Secunda : Nonaginta Bentleii 
 per Notas universas in Latinitate Lapsus foedissimos ostendens. 
 
 Rideo hunc ; primum ait se scire ; Is solus nescit omnia. Ter. Ad. 4. 2. 
 
 Labi autem, errare, decipi, nescire, et malum, et turpe ducimus. Tul. Off. Lib. i.) 
 
 Nottinghamiae, Typis Gulielmi Ayscough, Impensis Autoris 
 
 apud Samuelem Keble...i7i7. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Title, pp. xviii ' Prasfatio ' + 1 12 + [i] ' Advertisement ' 
 + Title to Pars Secunda + 116. 
 
 Note: Errata on pp. xviii and 116. At p. 108 Part i. breaks off, and 
 pp. 109 — 112 are occupied with a parody, in English, of Bentley 's 
 critical manner. Monk, 11. i foil. 
 
 170. Alexandri Cuningamii Animadversiones in Richardi Bentleii 
 Notas et Emendationes ad Q. Horatium Flaccum. 
 
 Laudis amore tumes, sunt certa piacula, quae te 
 Ter pure lecto poterunt recreare libello. 
 
 Horat. Epist.
 
 CLASSICS. HORACE 53 
 
 Londini, Apud Fratres Vaillant, et N. Prevost. m.dcc.xxi. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Tide, pp. [iv] Dedication to Bentley + 393 + [3] 
 'Conspectus Capitum,' 'Addenda & Corrigenda.' 
 
 Note: A companion volume to Cuningham's edition of Horace. 
 Printed at the Hague. Monk, 11. 161 foil. 
 
 Copies: B.M. U.L.C. 
 lyi. Hagae Comitum, Apud Thomam Jonsonium. 
 
 M.DCC.XXI. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. [iv] + 393 + [3]. 
 
 Note: Duplicate of no. 170 with a new title-page. 
 
 Copy: U.L.C. 
 
 172. Horatlus denuo castigatus: sive loci cclxx. In Horatio ex 
 fidissimis Observationibus emendati, ab Alexandre Cuningamio. 
 
 In mum R — di B-ntl-ij, aliorunvve quibus — obstat 
 Res angusta domi 
 
 Londini: Impensis L. Stokoe...M.DCC.xxii. 
 Collation: 8°. Title, Dedication, pp. 15. 
 Copy: B.JVl. 
 
 173. 1st die Meynung des R. Bentley iiber die Zeit in welcher die 
 einzelnen Biicher der Gedichte des Horatius verfasst worden 
 sind, die richtige } Untersucht von dem Oberlehrer Dr. Leps. 
 Neu-Ruppin. 
 
 Collation: 4°. pp. 3 — 7 of 36. 
 
 Note: The main title reads: Zu der ofFentlichen Priifung der Scholaren 
 des hiesigen koniglichen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasii welche den 
 jgsten Marz i828...angestellt werden soll.,,ladet...ehrerbietigst ein... 
 Friedrich Thormeyer. 
 
 Copy: B.M. 
 
 174. De aetate poematum Horatianorum a Richardo Bentleio 
 inventa. Adiecto specimine Coniectaneorum in Horatii 
 Satiras. Scripsit loannes Apitzius, Ph. Dr. Berolini, mdcccliii. 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 28. 
 
 Copies: B.M. U.L.C.
 
 54 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 *iyS' Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae, Phaedri Fabulae Aesopiae, 
 Publii Syri et aliorum Veterum Sententiae, ex Recensione et 
 cum Notis Richardi Bentleii. Cantabrigiae Apud Cornelium 
 Crownfield. mdccxxvi. Veneunt & Londini apud Jacobum 
 Knapton, Robertum Knaplock, Paulum Vaillant Bibliopolas. 
 
 Collation: 4°. pp. [vii] Title, Dedication to Prince Frederick, Half- 
 title to Terence, Preface to the Reader + i — xix De Metris 
 Terentianis 2;Y^Sta(X/Lta + xx — xxv Richardi Bentleii, cum septem 
 inTheologia Doctores crearet, Oratiuncula; Cantabrigiae in Comitiis 
 habita, Julii vi, mdccxxv. +444 + [viii] Half-title to Phaedrus and 
 Publius Syrus, Dedication to Prince William Augustus, Preface to 
 the Reader, etc. + 87. 
 
 Note : Engraved portrait of Prince Frederick. Engraved frontispiece to 
 Phaedrus with portrait of Prince William Augustus inset. Monk, 
 II. 225 foil. 
 
 *i76. P. Terentii Afri Comoediae. Recensuit, notasque suas et 
 Gabrielis Faerni addidit Richardus Bentieius. Editio altera 
 denuo recensita, ac Indice amplissimo Rerum & Verborum, 
 tarn in Textum quam Notas, aucta. Amstelaedami, Apud 
 R. & J. Wetstenios, & G. Smith, mdccxxvii. 
 
 Collation : 4°. pp. [xxxii] + 444 + Indexes + [viii] + 87 + Indexes. 
 
 Note: The plates w^ere re-engraved for this edition, and an additional 
 engraved frontispiece was introduced. Indexes were added. 
 
 # 
 
 177. Epistola critica ad eruditissimum virum H. B. S. E. I. In 
 qua omnes doctissimi Bentleii in Phaedrum Notse atque 
 Emendationes expenduntur. Londini : Ex Officina Jacobi 
 Tonson & Johannis Watts, m.dcc.xxvi. 
 
 Collation: 4°. pp. 150+ [2] 'Addenda.' 
 
 Note: By Francis Hare, D.D. The initials indicate Henry Bland, 
 Head-Master of Eton College. At the end : 'Dabam Londini tertio 
 Kal. Febr.' Reprinted as an Appendix (93 pp.) to P. Burman's 
 edition of Phaedrus. Leyden, 1727. Monk, 11. 231 foil.
 
 CLASSICS. TERENCE, ETC. SS 
 
 178. De R. Bentleio eivsque editione Terentli Dissertatio. By 
 Johann Gottfried Jacob Hermann. 
 
 Published in 1819 and reprinted in Bentleii Epistolae, ed. Friedemann, 
 Lipsiae, 1825, again in G. Hermanni Opvscvla, Vol. 11. pp. 263 — 287, 
 Lipsiae, 1827, and in E. Vollbehr's edition of Bentley's Terence, 
 Kilis, 1846. 
 
 179. De Terentii libris mss. a Richardo Bentleio adhibitis. Gymn.- 
 Progr. By Julius Brix. Brieg, 1852. 
 
 Collation: 4°. pp. 16. 
 
 180. De Terentii Fabulis post Rich. Bentleium emendandis. 
 Gymn.-Progr. By Julius Brix. Liegnitz, 1857. 
 
 Collation: 4°. pp. 18. 
 
 Note : As to this and the preceding number (180) see Bursian's Biogr. 
 Jahrb., Jahrg. x. p. 63, Berlin, 1889 and J. E. Sandys's Hutory of 
 Classical Scholarship, Vol. iii. p. 143. Cambridge, 1908. 
 
 181. On Bentley's English mss. of Terence. By Minton Warren, 
 Johns Hopkins University. 
 
 Published in the American Journal of Philology, Vol. iii. pp. 59—71- 
 Baltimore, 1882. 
 
 182. Bentley's Notes on the Academica of Cicero. 
 
 Published in Dr John Davies's second edition, Cambridge, 1736; and, 
 in French, in the London edition of 1740. 
 
 ^183. M. Manilii Astronomicon ex recensione et cum notis Richardi 
 Bentleii. Londini, Typis Henrici Woodfall, Sumptibus Pauli 
 et Isaaci Vaillant. mdccxxxix. 
 
 Collation : 4°. pp. xvi Title, Dedication to the Duke of Newcastle, 
 
 Preface + 307 + [5] Index. 
 Note: Edited by Bendey's nephew, Richard Bentley (d. 1786). 
 
 Vertue's engraving of Thornhill's portrait of Bendey and a foldmg 
 
 plate: ' Orbis C^lestis Tabula ex marmore antiquo in ^dibus 
 
 Fames: Romte ' are prefixed. Monk, 11. 397.
 
 S6 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 184. De M. Manilio Poeta. Particula altera, qua de versibus a 
 
 Bentleio poetae abiudicatis tractatur. Liber primus (-quintus). 
 
 Einladungsschrift zu den...offentlichen Priifungen, Versetzun- 
 
 gen und Redeiibungen der Schiiler in der St. Katharinenschule 
 
 in Liibeck von Fr. Jacob, Direktor und Professor... Liibeck 
 
 1833 (—1836). 
 
 Collation : 4°. Title, pp. 28 ; Title, pp. 26 ; Title, pp. 32 ; Title, pp. 20. 
 
 Note : ' Particula prior, qua de eius nomine, aetate, patria et ingenio 
 
 agitur' appeared at Liibeck in 1832. Liber tertius et quartus 
 
 constitute one part. * Schulnachrichten ' appended to each part and 
 not collated. 
 
 Copies: B.M. U.L.C. 
 
 185. Alex. Theod. Sverdsioei...Vindiciae praecepti Bentleiani de 
 genitivo substantivorum in ius et ium desinentium. Rigae et 
 Dorpati apud Ed. Frantzenium. 1832. 
 
 Collation: 8°. Title, pp. [i] Dedication + 80. 
 Copy : U.L.C. 
 
 2. Editions, Emendations, and Notes published posthumously. 
 
 In alphabetical order. 
 
 186. Bentley's Notes on Antigonus Carystius. 
 Published in J. Beckmann's edition, Leipzig, 1791. 
 
 187. Bentleii Emendationes ineditae in Aristophanem. 
 
 Published by G. Burges in the Classical JournalyV ol.xi. pp. 131 — 143, 
 248 — 259; Vol. XII. pp. 104 — III, 352 — 366; Vol. XIII. pp. 132 — 
 144, 336 — 351 ; Vol. XIV. pp. 130 — 147. London, 1815 — 16. 
 A different collection was published by J. H. Monk in Museum 
 Criticum^ Vol. 11. (No. 5) pp. 126 — 138. Cambridge, 1815. 
 Bentley's emendations on the Birds, the Clouds and the Plutus were 
 reprinted in I. Bekker's editions, London, 1826 — 27.
 
 # 
 
 CLASSICS 57 
 
 1 88. Bentley's Conjectures on Catullus. 
 
 Published in the variae lectiones of L. Schwabe's edition, Berlin, 1886. 
 
 189. Bentley's Notes on Hephaestion. 
 Published in T. Gaisford's edition, Oxford, 18 10. 
 
 190. Bentley's Conjectures on Hesiod. 
 Published in C. Goettling's edition, Gotha, 183 1. 
 
 191. Bentley's Notes on Homer's Iliad. 
 
 Published in the variae lectiones of Heyne's edition, 8 vols, and Index. 
 Leipzig, 1802 — 1822. As to the d'lgamma see Vol. iii. pp. xciii — xcvi, 
 and Vol. vii. pp. 708 — 726, also J. W. Donaldson's New CratyluSy 
 pp. 138 — 144. Camb. 1839. Bentley's Notes on Iliad I., II. were 
 published by Maehly in his Richard Bentley^ pp. 161 — 179, Leipzig, 
 1868 ; they were reprinted, together with his Notes on Iliad III. — VI., 
 in the Journal of Philology^ xiii. pp. 122 — 163, Cambridge, 1885. 
 ' A few anecdota from Bentley's Notes ' were printed by R. C. Jebb 
 in his Bentley^ p. 153, London, 1882. Monk, 11. 360 foil., 398 — 9. 
 
 192. Ricardi Bentleii Curae novissimae ad Horatium nusquam alias 
 edit£e. (Descriptae e libro Bentleiano apud Musaeum Britanni- 
 cum.) 
 
 Published by Thomas Kidd in Museum Criticum^ Vol. I. (No. 2) 
 pp. 194 — 196. Cambridge, 1813. See also no. 174. 
 
 193. M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia cum Notis Hugonis Grotii et 
 Richard! Bentleii. 
 
 Multa sunt condonanda in opere postumo. 
 
 In Librum iv. Nota 641. 
 
 Strawberry-Hill, mdcclx. 
 
 Collation: 4°. Title, pp. [iv] Dedication and Prefatory Note + 525. 
 
 Note: Edited by Richard Cumberland. Reprinted Glasgow, 1816. 
 Monk, II. 236 foil.
 
 58 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 194. Annotationes Ricardi Bentleii in Lucretium. — Animadver- 
 siones Ricardi Bentleii in Emendationes et Notulas Tanaquilli 
 Fabri in Lucretium. 
 
 Printed in Gilbert Wakefield's edition, Vol. iv. pp. 406 — 468. Glasgow, 
 1813. Reprinted Oxford, 18 18, pp. 497 — 518. 
 
 195. Nicandri Theriaca cum emendationibus Bentleii hactenus 
 ineditis. 
 
 Published by J. H. Monk together with a Letter from Bentley to 
 Dr Mead (10 Aug. 1722. Wordsworth, ccxxvi.) in Museum 
 Criticum, Vol. I. (No. 3) pp. 370 — 388, and Vol. i. (No. 4) 
 pp. 445 — 460. Cambridge, 18 14. Reprinted in O. Schneider's 
 edition, Leipzig, 1856. Monk, 11. 170 foil. 
 
 196. Emendationes Bentleii in Ovidium. 
 
 Published by G. Burges in the Clasncal "Journal^ Vol. xix. pp. 168 — 177, 
 258 — 267. London, 18 19. Reprinted in the Oxford edition of 
 1825 — 6. Vol. I. pp. I — 43. See also E. Hedicke's Studia Bentleiana^ 
 y. Ovidius Bentleianus. Programm. Freienwalde a. O., 1905. 
 
 197. Richard Bentley's Emendationen zum Plautus, aus seinen 
 Handexemplaren der Ausgaben von Pareus {1623) und 
 Camerarius-Fabricius (1558) (im Britischen Museum...) aus- 
 gezogen und zum ersten Male herausgegeben von L. A. Paul 
 Schroeder. I. Lieferung, ausgegeben am 5. Januar (II. Lie- 
 ferung, vollendet am 18. Januar. III. Lieferung, vollendet 
 am 24. Januar). London: Gedruckt bei Aug. Siegle...i88o 
 (Birmingham: Gedruckt bei Frederick Grew... 1880. Heil- 
 bronn a. N. Commissionsverlag von Gebr. Henninger. 1880). 
 
 Collation: 8°. pp. 20 + [2] Anhangj 21 — 40 ; 41 — 59. 
 
 198. Bentley's Notes and Emendations on Plautus. 
 
 Published in E. A. Sonnenschein's edition of the Captiviypp. 135 — 165. 
 London, 1880.
 
 CLASSICS 59 
 
 199. Bentley's Plautine Emendations from his copy of Gronovius. 
 By E. A. Sonnenschein. Oxford. At the Clarendon Press, 
 1883. 
 
 Collation: 4°. Tides, pp. 181 — 227. 
 
 Note: Constitutes Fa.Tt 4. of Jnecdota Oxoniensia. Classical series. Fol.l. 
 In an Appendix is printed a letter of Bentley probably addressed to 
 T. Rudd, D.D. and not printed by Wordsworth. Bentley's copy of 
 Gronovius (Lugd. Bat. et Roterod., 1669) is preserved in the Bodleian 
 Library. 
 
 200. Bentley's Emendations on Plutarch Ilepi 'icrtSo? Kai 'OcrtptSo?. 
 Published in S. Squire's edition, Cambridge, 1744. 
 
 201. Ricardi Bentleii Emendationes ad L. Annai Seneca Opera. 
 3 torn. 8. Amstel. apud D. Elsevir. cIdIdclxxii. 
 
 Published by Thomas Kidd in the Classical Journal^ Vol. xxxvii. 
 pp. II — 20. London, 1828. 
 
 202. Ricardi Bentleii Emendationes ineditas ad Silium Italicum. 
 Descriptae ex exemplari edit. Drakenborchianae in Bibl. Publ. 
 Cantab. 
 
 Published in the Classical Journal^ Vol. iii. pp. 381 — 386. London, 
 1811. 
 
 203. R. Bentleii Emendatt. mss. in Sophoclem, Theocritum, Bionem, 
 Moschum [Nicandrum, et Callimachum]. 
 
 Published by E. Maltby in his edition of T. Morell's Lexicon Graco- 
 Prosodiacum^ pp. 1143 — 1 145- Cambridge, 1815. Reprinted in 
 the Classical Journal^ Vol. xiii. pp. 244 — 252. London, 1816. 
 
 204. E. Hedicke's Varia, I. Vergilius Bentleianus. Programm. 
 Quedlinburg, 1879. 
 
 Collation: 4°. pp. 18.
 
 VI. TRINITY COLLEGE AND 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 
 '^205. The Present State of Trinity College in Cambridg, in a Letter 
 from Dr. Bentley, Master of the said College, to the Right 
 Reverend John Lord Bishop of Ely. Publish'd for general 
 Information by a Gentleman of the Temple. 
 
 Indomitam audeat 
 
 Refranare I'tcentiam, 
 Clarus postgenitis ; quatenus (heu nefas!) 
 
 Firtutem incolumem odimus, 
 Sublatam ex oculis, quarimm, in'vidi. 
 
 London; Printed for A. Baldwin... m.dcc.x. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. [ii] 'The Publisher to the Reader' +87. 
 
 Note: Errata on reverse of p. 87. Dated at the beginning *At Her 
 Majesty's Library, Febr. 13, I7y§.' Not reprinted by Wordsworth. 
 Contains also the Petition of the Fellows of Trinity to the Bp of Ely. 
 Monk, I. 251 foil. 
 
 *2o6. The Second Edition, Corrected. London ; Printed 
 
 for A. Baldwin... M.DCC.X. 
 Collation : Same as no. 205. 
 
 *207. Some Remarks upon a Letter entituled. The Present State of 
 Trinity College in Cambridge : written by Richard Bentley, 
 D.D. now Master of the said College, to the Right Reverend 
 John Lord Bishop of Ely. With some Remarks also upon 
 the Preface pretended to be written, and publish'd together 
 with the Letter, by a Gentleman of the Temple. By 
 Mr. Miller Fellow of the College. 
 
 Nam dolt, non doll, sunt nisi Astu colas. Plaut.
 
 1
 
 # 
 
 TRINITY COLLEGE, ETC. 6i 
 
 London, Printed for John Morphew... 1710. 
 Collation : 8°. Tide, pp. [ii] Preface + 180. 
 
 Note : Edmund Miller (B.A. 1689; M.A. 1693) held one of the two 
 lay-fellowships allowed by the Statutes of Queen Elizabeth. Monk, 
 I. 241 foil., II. 87. 
 
 '208. The True State of Trinity College, in a Letter to a Residing 
 Fellow of that Society : Wherein the trifling Impertinencies, 
 malicious Aspersions, and bold Falshoods of Dr. Bentley, are 
 answer'd in such a Manner as they deserve. Publish'd for 
 the Information of the Students, Scholars and Fellows of both 
 Universities. 
 
 Nullius addictus jurare in <verba Magistri. 
 
 London : Printed for John Morphew...: 710. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 88. 
 
 Note: Edward Rud in the table of contents to a volume of Bentley tracts 
 formerly in his possession, and now in the Library of Trinity College, 
 says 'Y^ True State of Trinity Coll: by M"" Paris and M-" White.' 
 John Paris, Fellow of Trinity (B.A. 1704; M.A. 1708; D.D. 1728). 
 Samuel White, Fellow of Trinity (B.A. 1699; M.A. 1703; B.D. 
 1 7 10). Monk, I. 259 — 60. 
 
 209. The Second Edition. London : Printed for John 
 
 Morphew... 17 10. 
 Collation : Same as no. 209. 
 
 ^210. Some Considerations humbly offer'd in a Letter to John, 
 Lord Bishop of Ely ; on a Book, Entituled, The Present 
 State of Trinity-College in Cambridge. By Dr. Bentley. By 
 a Master of Arts, and Fellow of the said College. 
 
 Quo miser aufugiet, sua quern Festigia produnt. 
 
 London : Printed for J. Morphew... Price ^d. 
 
 Collation: 8°. pp. 31. 
 
 Note : Signed 'J. N.' and published in 1710. Monk, i. 260.
 
 62 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 *2ii. A Full View of Dr Bentley's Letter to the Lord Bishop of 
 Ely. In a Discourse to a Friend, Wherein the whole Strain 
 of that Celebrated Piece throughout, is Fairly, Familiarly, 
 and Largely Consider'd. By Tho. Blomer, M.A. Fellow of 
 Trinity College in Cambridge. 
 
 Quid me aha silentia cogis 
 
 Rumpere, & obductum ^verbis ojulgare dolorem ? 
 
 Virg. ^n. lo. 
 
 Longa est injuria, longa 
 
 Ambages; sed summa sequar fastigia rerum. 
 
 Ibid. ^n. I. 
 
 liec servire ulU possumus ; nee imperare desideramus. 
 
 Scyth. Leg. ap. Curt. L. 7. 
 Decimo demum pugnanjimus anno. 
 
 Ovid. Met. 
 
 London: Printed for R. Knaplock...and R. Wilkin... mdccx. 
 
 Collation: 8°. pp. xii Tide and Preface +174 +[6] Books Printed 
 for R. Knaplock and R. Wilkin. 
 
 Note: Errata on p. 174. Thomas Blomer, Fellow of Trinity (B.A. 
 1 700; M.A. 1704; D.D. 1728). Monk, i. 259. 
 
 *2i2. The Rights of the Scholars of Trinity-College asserted, and 
 several Abuses detected. In a Second Letter to the Reverend 
 John, Ld. Bp. of Ely. By a Master of Arts and Fellow of 
 the said College. 
 
 Delirant Reges, plectuntur Achi'vi. 
 Fideamus, uter plus scribere possit. 
 
 Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster. 
 Price IS. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. x * Preface' +67 +[1] 'Books ready for the 
 Press and written by the same Author.' 
 
 Note: Signed 'J. N.' and dated 'June the 21th 1710.' Errata on 
 reverse of p. 67. Of this and a preceding piece (no. 210) Rud 
 remarks in the volume referred to above (no. 208), 'Y^ 2 are 
 suppos'd to be written by one Partridge a Schollar.' Among
 
 TRINITY COLLEGE, ETC. 63 
 
 'Books ready for the Press and written by the same author' are 
 A Modest Defence of the Proceedings of the Master and Fellows of 
 Trinity College. A Key to the Statutes of Trinity College. Some 
 Remarks on Dr. B . . . . s Explanation of the Senior s Oath of Secrecy. 
 An Answer to all that may hereafter be said of the Author. Of these 
 pieces — if they ever appeared — no trace remains. Monk, 1. 260. 
 
 ^213. A true Copy of the Articles against Dr. Bentley, exhibited to 
 the Right Reverend Father in God, John, Lord Bishop of 
 Ely, by many of the Fellows of Trinity College in Cambridge. 
 Together with the College-Statute de Amotione Magistri, and 
 several other Clauses of the College-Statutes, with references 
 to the Articles. London, Printed, and Sold by John Morphew 
 ...1710. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 48. 
 Note: Monk, i. 285. 
 
 *2i4. The Second Edition. London, Printed and Sold 
 
 by John Morphew . . . 1 7 1 3 . 
 
 Collation : Same as no. 213. 
 
 ^215. The University of Cambridge vindicated from the Imputation 
 of Disloyalty it lies under on the account of not addressing : 
 
 as also, from the Malicious and foul Aspersions of Dr. B ly, 
 
 late Master of Trinity College ; and of a certain Officer, and 
 pretended Reformer in the said University. Written by the 
 Author. 
 
 Cur omnium fit culpa, paucorum scelus ? 
 
 London : Printed and Sold by A. Baldwin... 17 10. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. [viii] Prefatory note and introductory letter 
 'To Mr. George Sewell, of Peter-house College in Cambridge' +35 
 + [2] 'Books Written by the Author, some of which are now in the 
 Press' +[i] 'Books lately printed.' 
 
 Note : By Styan Thirlby of Jesus College, B.A. 1704 ; Fellow, 171 2; 
 d. 1753. Among 'Books Written by the Author' occurs An Account
 
 64 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 ■216. 
 
 '217. 
 
 of a very Ancient Manuscript lately found by Dr B ley in the B 
 
 of W 'j Library^ in which the whole stubborn I'T^th Chapter of the 
 
 Rom. is wanting. By the IVhiggSy Diu multumque Desideratum. 
 Monk, I. 289. 
 
 A True and Impartial Account of the present Differences 
 between the Master and Fellows, of Trinity College in 
 Cambridge consider'd. In a Letter to a Gentleman sometime 
 Member of that Society. 
 
 Non fumum ex fulgore, sed ex Jtimo dare lucent 
 
 Cogitat 
 
 Hor. 
 
 London : Printed for John Morphew... 171 1. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 36. 
 
 Note: 'Suppos'd to be written by M"" Paris' (Rud, in the volume 
 referred to above, no. 208). Monk, i. 260. 
 
 Some Account of Horace his Behaviour during his Stay at 
 
 Trinity-College, in Cambridge. With an Ode to Entreat his 
 
 Departure thence ; Together with a Copy of his Medal, taken 
 
 out of Trinity-College Buttery, by a Well-Wisher to that 
 
 Society. 
 
 Included in William King's Useful Miscellanies^ Ft. I. pp. 29 — 40. 
 London, 17 12. Reprinted in King's Works., Vol. iii. p. 24 foil. 
 London, 1776. See no. 160. Monk, i. 264 — 5. 
 
 From W. King's Some Account of Horace at Trinity-College., 1712.
 
 TRINITY COLLEGE, ETC. 65 
 
 *2i8. An Answer to some Objections that have been made to the 
 Conduct of Dr. B. Together with a Dialogue between a 
 Whigg and Tory concerning the present State of the Case of 
 Trinity College. 
 
 Felicia temper a, qu^ Te 
 
 Moribus opponunt 
 
 Prima est h/sc ultio quod se 
 
 Judice, nemo nocens absoi-vitur 
 
 London: Printed for John Morphew... 1713. Price Three 
 
 Pence. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. [iv] 'The Preface to the Reader' + 17. 
 
 Note : Monk, i. 356. 
 
 219. University-Loyalty consider'd ; In a Letter to a Gentleman 
 at Cambridge. 
 
 Pudet hac opprobria vobis 
 
 Et diet potuisse & non potuisse refelH. 
 
 London, Printed for J. Baker... 1715. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 36. 
 
 Note: Signed '-Philo-Georgius and Philo-Bentleius. London Aug. 31. 
 1715.' Monk, I. 378. 
 
 Copy : T.C.C. 
 
 *22o. An Humble and Serious Representation of the Present State 
 of Trinity-College in Cambridge. In a Letter to a Noble 
 Lord. London: Printed for Bernard Lintot... Price Four 
 Pence. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 28 + [4] 'Books Printed for Bernard Lintot.' 
 Note: Published December 1716. Monk, i. 416 — 17. 
 
 *22i. An Account of the University of Cambridge, and the Colleges 
 there. Being a Plain Relation of many of their Oaths, Statutes 
 and Charters. By which will appear. The Necessity the 
 present Members lie under, of endeavouring to obtain such 
 Alterations, as may render 'em practicable, and more suitable 
 B. 5
 
 66 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 to the present Times. Together with a Few Natural, and 
 Easie Methods, how the Legislature, may for the future fix 
 That, and the other great Nursery of Learning, in the true 
 Interest of the Nation, and Protestant Succession. Most 
 Humbly propos'd to both Houses of Parliament. By 
 Edmond Miller, Serjeant at Law. 
 
 Sincerum est nisi 'vas, quodcunque infundis, acescit. 
 
 London : Printed and Sold by J. Baker... mdccxvii. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 200. 
 Note : Monk, i. 414 foil. 
 
 222. The Second Edition. London : Printed and Sold 
 
 by J. Baker. ..MDCCXVII. 
 
 Collation : Same as no. 221. 
 Copies: B.M. U.L.C. 
 
 223. An Account of Mr Whiston's Prosecution at, and Banishment 
 from, the University of Cambridge. First Printed at the End 
 of the Historical Preface, a.d. mdccxi. And now Reprinted 
 on Occasion of Dr. Bentley's late Prosecution, Suspension, 
 and Deprivation from all his Degrees, Rights, and Titles in 
 the said University. With an Appendix : Containing Mr 
 Whiston's farther Account ; and particularly his Petition to 
 the Vice-Chancellor and Heads of Colleges, after they had 
 chosen a New Professor : Never before Printed. 
 
 Judge not according to the Appearance, but judge Righteous Judgment. Joh. vli. 24. 
 
 London : Printed for the Author... 17 18. Price 6^. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. 46. 
 Copy: U.L.C. 
 
 224. Two Letters by A. A. Sykes on Bentley's degradation. 
 October 12, 21. 17 18. 
 
 Published in the St James's Post. Monk, 11. 66.
 
 TRINITY COLLEGE, ETC. 67 
 
 ^225. The Proceedings of the Vice-Chancellor and University of 
 Cambridge against Dr. Bentley Stated and vindicated. In a 
 Letter to a Noble Peer. London, Printed for James Betten- 
 ham...i7i9. (Price Six Pence.) 
 
 Collation : F°. pp. 12. 
 
 Note : By W. Sherlock, D.D. Dated '■Cambridge^ October 27. 171 8.' 
 Monk, II. 66 foil. 
 
 *226. A Full and Impartial Account of all the late Proceedings in 
 the University of Cambridge against Dr. Bentley. 
 
 Nunc animh opus, JEnea, nunc pectore firtno. Virg. 
 
 Hee tibi erunt artes; 
 
 Parcere subjectis, & debellare superbos. Virg. 
 
 Qu^ bellua ruptis. 
 
 Cum semel effugtt, reddit se pra'va catenis? Hor. 
 
 By a Member of that University. London, Printed for 
 J. Bettenham...i7i9. (Price Six Pence.) 
 
 Collation : 8°. Half-title, Title, pp. 44. 
 
 Note: By Conyers Middleton, D.D. This piece, and Middleton's 
 other contributions to the controversy namely nos. 230, 232, and 
 234 were reprinted in his Works^ London, 1752 (Vol. in. pp. 265 — 
 378). Monk, II. 67 foil. 
 
 ^227. The Second Edition. London, Printed for J. Bet- 
 
 tenham...i7i9. (Price Six Pence.) 
 Collation : Same as no. 226. 
 
 228. Two Letters by A. A. Sykes in answer to Sherlock and 
 Middleton (nos. 225, 226). Nov. 20, 27. 1718. 
 Published in the St James's Post. Monk, 11. 70. 
 
 ^229. The Case of Dr. Bentley Regius Professor of Divinity truly 
 Stated. Wherein Two late Pamphlets, Entituled The Pro- 
 ceedings of the Vice-Chancellor and the University, &c. 
 And a Full and Impartial Account of the late Proceedings, 
 
 5—2
 
 68 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 &c. are Examined. London : Printed for James Roberts... 
 
 17 19. Price Six Pence. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 40. 
 
 Note: Reprints of A. A. Sykes's four Letters in the St Jameses Post (nos. 
 224, 228). Monk, II. 66, 70. 
 
 *230. A Second Part of the Full and Impartial Account of all the 
 late Proceedings in the University of Cambridge against 
 Dr. Bentley. 
 
 Iracundus, inexorabilis, acer 
 
 Jura neget sihi nata, nihil non arroget — Hor. 
 Ergb ignent, cujus scintillas ipse dedisti, 
 Flagrantem latl, & rapientem cuncta ^idebis, 
 Nee tibi parcetur tnisero, trepidumque Magistrum 
 In canjea magna fremitu Leo toilet alumnus. Juv. 
 
 By a Member of the University. London, Printed for 
 
 J. Bettenham... 1719. (Price Six Pence.) 
 
 Collation : 8°. Half-title, Title, pp. 43. 
 
 Note : By Conyers Middleton, D.D. Monk, 11. 70, 71. 
 
 *23i. The Case of Dr. Bentley Regius Professor of Divinity farther 
 Stated, and Vindicated. In Answer to A Second Part of the 
 Full and Impartial Account of the Proceedings, &c. London, 
 Printed for James Roberts... 1719. Price Four Pence. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 27 + [1] Advertisement of The Case of Dr. Bentley... 
 truly Stated. 
 
 Note: By A. A. Sykes. Dated ^ Cambridge^ January 28. 17 18 — 19.' 
 Monk, II. 71, 72. 
 
 *232. Some Remarks upon a Pamphlet entitled. The Case of 
 Dr. Bentley farther Stated and Vindicated, &c. Wherein 
 the Merit of the Author and his Performance, and the 
 Complaint of Proctor Laughton are briefly considered. 
 
 Qui magis hoc Lucilio licuerit assutnere libertatis, quam Nobis ? Cum etiam si odio par 
 fuerit in eos quos la-sit, tamen cert} non magis dignos habuerit in quos tantd 
 'verborum libertate incurreret. Cic. Epist.
 
 
 < Principal Libi\iriany^ /A- vL'liu\)cv(itv" y'^vTambnli^c. ) 
 
 \ '^r,.„. ,,„ On-ituil /////^ Collection ^i^.^z/f' HORACK WAI.I'OLE . 
 
 ' f"'-;" 
 
 ^'„--.^„
 
 TRINITY COLLEGE, ETC. 69 
 
 By the Author of the Full and Impartial Account, &c. 
 London, Printed for James Bettenham... 1719. (Price Four 
 Pence.) 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 24. 
 
 Note: By Conyers Middleton, D.D. Monk, 11. 72, 73. 
 
 733. A Review of the Proceedings against Dr. Bentley, in the 
 University of Cambridge : In Answer to a late pretended 
 Full and Impartial Account, ^c. With some Remarks upon 
 Serjeant Miller's Account of that University ; Wherein the 
 Egregious Blunders of that Gentleman are briefly set forth. 
 
 Solventur risu Tabula: Tu missus abibis. Hor. 
 
 "Avffii 'AvXjjr^pt Qeol voov (l(rev((f)v(rav, 
 'AXX' ajxa rw (pvcrav ;^<b voos ixiviraTo. 
 
 Anthol. Epig. 
 
 By N. O. M.A. of the same University. London : Printed 
 for E. Moor... 17 19. Price One Shilling, 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. 82. 
 
 Note : Called on p. I * An Account of Dr Bentley 's Case, In Answer 
 to a Pretended Full and Impartial Account, &c.' Errata on p. 82, 
 This piece, which Monk attributes to Bentley himself (ir, 75, 76), 
 was written by John Byrom of Manchester (1692 — 1763). He was 
 educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Trinity College, Cam- 
 bridge (B,A, 1711; Fellow, 1714; M,A, 1715), and became an 
 intimate friend of Bentley and of his family. He celebrated Bentley's 
 younger daughter, Joanna, in a Pastoral which appeared in the 
 Spectator^ No, 603, October 6, 17 14. (Reprinted in Byrom's Poems^ 
 ed. A. W. Ward, Vol, i, p, i foil. Cp, Monk, 11. 113—14,) His 
 authorship in the present instance is placed beyond doubt by a series 
 of letters addressed by him to a Mr Stansfield in London, to whom 
 the MS. of this tract had been transmitted for printing there. These 
 interesting letters are preserved in the Chetham Library at Manchester, 
 and will be printed in a supplementary volume of Dr Ward's edition 
 of Byrom's Poetns^ shortly to be published for the Chetham Society.
 
 70 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 *234. A True Account of the Present State of Trinity College in 
 Cambridge, under the Oppressive Government of their Master 
 Richard Bentley, late D.D. 
 
 Fratermittam minora omnia, quorum simile Jorsitan alius quoque aliquid aliquando 
 Jecerit: nihil dicam nisi singulare ; nisi quod, si in alium reum dicer etur, 
 incredibile 'videretur. Cic. in Verr. i. [corrected]. 
 
 London: Printed for T. Bickerton...i720. (Price Six Pence.) 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 43. 
 
 Note : By Conyers Middleton, D.D. Monk, 11. 92 foil. 
 
 235. Declaration by Conyers Middleton acknowledging himself the 
 author of J True Account of the Present State of Trinity College 
 in Cambridge... Y^h. 9. 1720. 
 
 Note : Monk, 11. 95. 
 
 236. An Account of Trinity College. 1720. 
 
 Attributed to Zachary Pearce in the list of his works printed in his 
 Autobiography, London 18 16 (p. 427). No copy is known. See 
 Diet. Nat. Biog. Vol. XLiv. p, 151. 
 
 ^23 7. Animadversions especially upon the University's Proceedings 
 against the most Learned Richard Bentley, D.D. With some 
 short Reflections upon Degrees, and Honours consequent 
 thereupon, as they are now conferr'd. In a Letter to a Noble 
 Lord. By Phileleutherus Cantabrigiensis. 
 
 Oi 8' ovT epvdpiav o'l8av ovre SeBuvai 
 At pater omnipotens densa inter nubila telum 
 Contorsit (non ille faces nee fumea taedis 
 Lumina) pracipitesque immani turbine adegis. 
 
 Frange miser calamos 
 
 Nulla emolumenta laborum. 
 
 London : Printed for J. Roberts... mdccxxii. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. viii Half-title, Title, Dedication + 28. 
 Note : Monk, 11. 1 79.
 
 # 
 
 TRINITY COLLEGE, ETC. 71 
 
 '238. A Vindication of the University of Cambridge. In Answer 
 to a Scurrilous Pamphlet, Intituled, Animadversions upon the 
 University's Proceedings against the most Learned Richard 
 Bentley, D.D. In which the Gross Falshoods, Inconsistences, 
 and Blunders of the Author of that Pamphlet are Consider'd, 
 and fully Exposed. By a Lover of Truth. London, Printed 
 for J. Robarts...i722. [Price 4^.] 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 23. 
 
 Note : A MS. note on the copy described states Zachary Grey to be 
 the author. Monk, 11. 179. 
 
 239. Jus Academicum : or, a Defence of the Peculiar Jurisdiction 
 which belongs of Common Right to Universities in general, 
 and hath been granted by Royal Charters, confirm'd in 
 Parliament, to those of England in particular. Shewing that 
 no Prohibition can lie against their Courts of Judicature, nor 
 Appeal from them, in any Cause like that which is now 
 depending before the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge. With 
 a Full Account and Vindication of the Proceedings in that 
 Cause. By a Person Concern'd. 
 
 Honv come our Unvversities and Colleges to be in a 'worse Condition than any Abroad ; 
 "when there are not greater Priuileges gi-ven to any, nor enjoy' d for a longer Time, 
 than ha've been by Ours ? Shall the Noble Endo^wments of Our Colleges, "which 
 are the Honour of Our Nation, the Nurseries of Our Church, the En'vy of 
 Foreigners, and the Eye-sore of none but such as hate Learning and ingenuous 
 Education, make them become an easier Prey to such Unquiet Spirits as by La-uu 
 Suits and Unstatutable Appeals n.vould Ouerthro^w that Poiuer "which preserues 
 them in a State of Tranquillity, "without "which they can ne-ver Attain the End of 
 their Institution ? Bp. Stillingfleet. 
 
 fura negat sibi nata, nihil non arrogat. Hor. 
 
 London : Printed for R. Wilkin... mdccxxii. 
 
 Collation : 4°, pp. 44. 
 
 Note : By John Colbatch, D.D. Monk, 11. 179 foil.
 
 72 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 *240. Bibliothecae Cantabrlgiensis Ordinandae Methodus Quaedam ; 
 quam Domino Procancellario Seiiatuique Academico Con- 
 siderandam & Perficiendam Officii et Pietatis erg6 Proponit 
 Conyers Middleton, S.T.P. Academiae Proto-Bibliothecarius. 
 Cantabrigiae : Typis Academicis. mdccxxiii. 
 Collation : 4°. Title, pp. [vi] Dedication to Dr Snape + 24. 
 
 Note : With a plan of the Library. Bentley prosecuted Middleton for 
 the reflections on the Judges of the King's Bench contained in the 
 Dedication of this piece. Monk, 11. 199 foil. 
 
 *24i. An Argument to Prove, That the xxxix'^ Section of the 
 
 l'^ Chapter of the Statutes given by Queen Elizabeth to the 
 
 University of Cambridge, includes the Old Statutes, of that 
 
 University : And, That all those Old Statutes are not Repealed 
 
 by the Statutes of Queen Elizabeth. Together with an 
 
 Answer to the Argument : And the Author's Reply to that 
 
 Answer. London : Printed in the Year m.dcc.xxvii. 
 
 Collation : 4°. pp. 88. 
 
 Note : By John Burford, Fellow of King's College (B.A. 1706; M.A. 
 1 7 10). The Answer by Bentley. According to Monk (11. 243 foil.) 
 each of the three parts was published separately. In this form no 
 trace of them is discoverable. 
 
 242. The Case of Trinity College in Cambridge. Whether the 
 Crown or the Bishop of Ely be the General Visitor. To be 
 heard before the Right Honourable the Committee of His 
 Majesty's Privy Council, on Thursday March 13, 1728 — 9. 
 London : Printed in the Year mdccxxix. 
 
 Collation : 4°. pp. 18. 
 
 Note : By Richard Bentley, D.D. The date on the title is altered in 
 ink to Saturday March 15. A similar alteration occurs in the copy 
 preserved in Trinity College Library. Monk, 11. 273 foil. 
 
 243. The Case of Trinity College in Relation to a Visitor. By 
 Dr Colbatch. 1729. 
 
 *
 
 TRINITY COLLEGE, ETC. 73 
 
 Note : Of this piece referred to by Monk (ii. 274) no copy has been 
 discovered. It seems probable that Monk confused it with one of 
 the editions of Colbatch's pamphlet on the same subject which 
 appeared in 1732. 
 
 244. The Trinity College Triumph. An Historical Ballad. Date 
 uncertain. [Now first published from the Original.] 
 
 Verses on Bentley's refusing the deanery of Lincoln in 1730. Printed 
 in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1779, p. 560. Monk, 11. 291 — 2. 
 
 *245. A Defence of the Lord Bishop of Ely's Visitatorial Jurisdiction 
 
 over Trinity-College in .General, and over the Master thereof 
 
 in Particular. Printed in the Year mdccxxxii. 
 
 Collation : 4°. pp. 59. 
 
 Note : By John Colbatch, D.D. On p. 56 he says ' Here I find it 
 convenient, for certain Reasons, to break off in the middle of what 
 was getting ready for the Press.' The completed work was published 
 in the same year (see no. 246). Monk, 11. 325. 
 
 *246. A Vindication of the Lord Bishop of Ely's Visitatorial Juris- 
 diction over Trinity-College in General, and over the Master 
 thereof in Particular. London : Printed for T. Cooper... 
 
 MDCCXXXII. 
 
 Collation : 4°. pp. 44. 
 
 Note : Another edition of no. 245, in which the text is somewhat 
 modified ; and with considerable additions. 
 
 247. Thomas Lord Bishop of Ely, Plaintiff in Error. Richard 
 Bentley, D.D. Master of Trinity-College, Cambridge, Defen- 
 dant in Error. (The Case of the Defendant in Error. To 
 be heard at the Bar of the House of Lords on 
 the Day of .) 
 
 Collation: F°. pp. 3 + [i]. 
 
 Note : In the copy preserved at Trinity College, Cambridge, the blanks 
 are filled in for Tuesday Second May 1732. 
 
 Copy: T.C.C.
 
 74 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 *248. The Right Reverend Thomas, Lord Bishop of Ely. Plaintiff 
 in Error. Richard Bentley, D.D. Master of Trinity-College 
 in Cambridge. Defendant in Error. The Case of the 
 Plaintiff in Error. (To be argued at the Bar of the House 
 of Lords; on Monday the Eighth of May, 1732.) 
 
 Collation : F°. pp. 4. 
 
 Note : There is also an edition in which blanks are left for the date, 
 and in which p. 4 is wrongly numbered 5. Monk, 11. 326 foil. 
 
 ^249. The Right Rev. Thomas Lord Bishop of Ely, Plaintiff in 
 Error ; Richard Bentley, D.D. Defendant. An Appendix to 
 the Case of the Plaintiff in Error. (Containing such of the 
 Statutes of Trinity-College, as are set forth by either Party, in 
 the Proceedings before the Court of King's Bench. And also 
 the Articles exhibited against Dr. Bentley, before the Bishop 
 of Ely.) 
 
 Collation : Y°. pp. 20.
 
 VII. MISCELLANEA 
 
 250. A Proposal for building a Royal Library, and establishing it 
 by Act of Parliament. 
 
 Collation : F°. i leaf. 
 
 Note: Issued by Bentley in 1697. See Edwards's J^/^wo/n of Libraries^ 
 I. 422 foil. Monk, I. 95, 96. Reprinted in the Appendix to the 
 present work. 
 
 Copy: B.M. 
 
 251. Latin Verses on the death of William, Duke of Gloucester, 
 Son of Queen Anne, f30 July 1700. 
 
 Included in Threnodia Academice Cantabr'igiensis in immaturum obitum... 
 Principis Gultelmi Ducis Glocestrensis. Cantabrigiae...MDCC. Re- 
 printed in the Appendix to the present work. Monk, i. 188. 
 
 252. Three Sets of Latin Verses on the death of Prince George of 
 Denmark, Consort of Queen Anne, -f-2 8 Nov. 1708. i. Ad 
 Reginam. 11. AUocutio ad Sepulchrum. iii. Ad Nobilis- 
 simum Carolum Halifaxiae Baronem. 
 
 Included in Epicedium Cantabrigiense in...Dania Principem Georgium... 
 Regina Annce Cow/'w^^ra... Cantabrigian... MDCCViii. Reprinted in 
 the Appendix to the present work. The verses to the Earl of 
 Halifax were afterwards reprinted with a burlesque translation, see 
 no. 156. Monk, i. 187 — 8, 317. 
 
 253. A Reply to a Copy of Verses made in Imitation of Book III. 
 Ode 2 of Horace. Angustam, amice, pauperiem pati, &c. And 
 sent by Mr. Titley to Dr. Bentley. By Dr. Bentley.
 
 76 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 Printed, together with Titley's verses, in The Grove : a Collection of 
 Original Poems and Translations^ London, 1 72 1. Reprinted in the 
 Gentleman's Magazine^ Vol. x. p. 616, London, 174O; in R. Dodsley's 
 Collection of Poems ^ Vol. vi. pp. 175 — 6, London, 1782; and by 
 Monk, II. 173 — 4. Bentley's verses alone are also reprinted in 
 Boswell's Life of Johnson (Ed. G. B. Hill, Vol. iv. pp. 23 — 4 and 
 Note) ; in Hearne's Remarks and Collections^ Vol. vii. pp. 322 — 3, 
 Oxford, 1906; and in the Appendix to the present w^ork. The 
 editions show some slight variants. 
 
 254. The Apothecary's Defence of Dr. Bentley, in Answer to the 
 Spy. Together with some Observations, Moral and Critical, 
 upon the Fable of the Jackdaw in Peacock's Feathers ; 
 particularly addressed to the Author of the Spy. 
 
 Si sp'tuvi, sportum ; si non spium, spocketum. 
 
 Maimon. ex Vers. D. Kimckeri. 
 
 London : Printed for J. Roberts... 172 1. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. 38. 
 
 Note : "The Spy," a short-lived weekly paper, had published an attack 
 on Bentley. Monk, ii. 171, 172. 
 
 Copy: B.M. 
 
 255. An Account of the State of Learning in the Empire of 
 Lilliput. Together with the History and Character of 
 Bullum the Emperor's Library-Keeper. Faithfully Tran- 
 scribed out of Captain Lemuel Gulliver's General Description 
 of the Empire of Lilliput, mention'd in the 69th Page of the 
 First Volume of his Travels. London : Printed for J. Roberts 
 
 ...MDCCXXVIII. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 37. 
 
 Note: A skit on Bentley attributed to John Arbuthnot, M.D. 
 (i 667-1 735) in whose Miscellaneous IVorks^ Vol. I. p. 141 foil., 
 Glasgow, 175 1, it is included. See Aitken's Life and Works of 
 Arbuthnot^ pp. 124, 483 foil, Oxford, 1892. Monk, 11. 374 foil. 
 
 Copy: B.M.

 
 # 
 
 MISCELLANEA. MILTON 77 
 
 256. Virgilius Restauratus : sen Martini Scribleri summi critici 
 Castigationum in T^neidem Specimen. 
 
 A parody of Bentley's critical manner attributed to John Arbuthnot, 
 M.D. and appended to The Dunciad^ Fariorum. . .hondon, 1729. See 
 Aitken's Life and Works of Arbuthnot^ pp. 121, 369 foil., and for 
 subsequent editions of this parody, the Bibliography in Aitken's Life. 
 Monk, II. 373 — 4. As to Pope's attacks on Bentley in the Dunciad 
 and other poems, see Monk, 11. 375 foil., 405 foil. 
 
 257. Milton's Paradise Lost. A New Edition, by Richard Bentley, 
 D.D. London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ; and for John 
 Poulson...MDCCxxxii. 
 
 Collation : 4°. Half-title, Title, pp. [xvi] The Argument. By Milton, 
 Preface, The Verse. By Milton + 399 + [16] Index. 
 
 Note : Prefixed are two Portraits of Milton. Monk, 11. 309 foil. 
 
 *258. Dr Bentley's Emendations on the Twelve Books of Milton's 
 Paradise Lost. London : Printed for J. and J. Knapton, 
 R. Knaplock... 1732. 
 
 Collation : 12°. Title, pp. 36. 
 
 ^259. A Friendly Letter to Dr. Bentley. Occasion'd by his New 
 Edition of Paradise Lost. By a Gentleman of Christ-Church 
 College, Oxon. 
 
 Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cut Lumen ademptum. Virgil. 
 
 London : Printed for J. Roberts... mdccxxxii. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 64. 
 
 Note : Signed 'Semicolon.' Price One Shilling. Monk, 11. 322. 
 
 260. The Second Edition. London : Printed for J. 
 
 Roberts... MDCCXXXII. 
 
 Collation : Same as no. 259. 
 Copy : B.M.
 
 78 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 261. Milton Restor'd, and Bentley Depos'd. Containing, i. Some 
 Observations on Dr. Bentley's Preface. 11. His various 
 Readings and notes on Paradise Lost, and Milton's Text, set 
 in opposite Columns, with Remarks thereon. in. Paradise 
 Lost, Attempted in Rime, Book I. Addressed to Dr Bentley, 
 From Dean Swift. 
 
 Sing Hea'v'n/j Muse, from Pedantry be free. 
 
 Numb. I. London: Printed for E. Curll... 1732. [Price 6^.] 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 29. 
 
 Note : The reverse of p. 29 bears the following advertisement : ' In 
 a few Days will be Published No. II. of Milton Restor'd, and 
 Bentley Depos'd. Containing The Various Readings in Book II. 
 Dr Bentley's Notes continued, With Remarks on them, And Several 
 other Particulars.' Monk, 11. 322. 
 
 Copies: B.M. T.C.C. 
 
 *262. A Review of the Text of Milton's Paradise Lost : In which 
 the Chief of Dr. Bentley's Emendations are Consider'd ; And 
 several other Emendations and Observations are offer'd to the 
 Public. Part i. Containing Remarks upon the first Four 
 Books. (Part 11. Containing Remarks on the v, vi, vii, 
 and viiith Books. Part in. Containing Remarks on the 
 IX, X, XI, and xiith Books. To which is added an Appendix 
 to the Whole.) London : Printed for John Shuckburgh... 
 
 M.DCC.XXXII. (m.DCC.XXXIII.) 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. viii Title to Part I., Preface + 152 + Title to Part II. 
 4. 1^3 — 28 7 + Title to Part III. + 289 — 400. 
 
 Note : By Zachary Pearce. On the reverse of the tide to Part III. 
 appeared a note to the effect that the Author had "caus'd the Preface 
 and a few pages of the Remarks to be reprinted with some Alterations 
 ...that those, who have bought the former Parts, may cancel the 
 others, and place These in the room of them," A general title to 
 cover the whole work was also issued as follows : —
 
 1
 
 MISCELLANEA. MILTON 79 
 
 A Review of the Text of the Twelve Books of Milton's Paradise 
 Lost : In which the Chief of Dr Bentley's Emendations are 
 Consider'd ; And several other Emendations and Observations 
 are ofFer'd to the Public. 
 
 The new Title and Preface occupy pp. vii. Errata on reverse of 
 p. vii. Monk, 11. 323. 
 
 263. Of Verbal Criticism : An Epistle to Mr. Pope. Occasioned 
 by Theobald's Shakespear, and Bentley's Milton. London : 
 Printed for Lawton Gilliver... 1733. (Price One Shilling.) 
 Collation : F°. Half-title, Title, pp. 14. 
 
 Note : By David Mallet (1705 ?-i765). Monk, 11. 376 foil. 
 Copy: B.M. 
 
 264. Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost. 
 By J. Richardson, Father and Son. With the Life of the 
 Author, and a Discourse on the Poem. By J. R. Sen. 
 London: Printed for James, John, and Paul Knapton... 
 
 M.DCC.XXXIV. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Title, pp. clxxxii + 546. 
 Note : Monk, 11. 322 — 3. 
 Copy: B.M. 
 
 '265. Critical Remarks on Capt. Gulliver's Travels. By Doctor 
 Bantley [sic'\. Published from the Author's Original mss. 
 
 Ythalonim Vualonyth si chorathinma Comsyth, 
 Chym Lachchunyth muntys Thyalmictibari bnyschi. 
 
 Plau. 
 
 Printed at Cambridge, and sold by L. G. in London, 
 
 MDCCXXXV. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Half-title, Title, pp. vi Dedication, etc. + 33. 
 
 Note: Dated 'Cambridge, Jan. 26, 1734-5.' Attributed to John 
 Arbuthnot, M.D. and printed in his Miscellaneous JVorks^ Vol. i. 
 p. 115 foil. Glasgow, 1 75 1. See Aitken's Life and IVorks of 
 Arbuthnot^ p. 145 note, 491 foil.
 
 8o BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 266. Critical Remarks upon Gulliver's Travels ; particularly his 
 Voyage to the Houyhnhms Country. Part I. By Doctor 
 Bentley. Published from the Author's original mss. 
 
 Ythalomm 'vualonuth si chora thisima Comsyth, 
 Chym Lachchunyth mumys Thyalmictibari Imischi. 
 
 Pla. 
 
 The Third Edition. Printed at Cambridge for the Benefit of 
 the Author, Reprinted in London, and now Reprinted in 
 Dublin, by Geo. Faulkner... 1735. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. 24. 
 
 Note : Dated 'Cambridge, April i. 1735.' See no. 265 Note. 
 
 Copy : T.C.C.
 
 VIII. COLLECTED WORKS AND 
 CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 Collected Works 
 
 467. Dissertations upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, 
 Socrates, Euripides, and upon the Fables of i^sop : also, 
 Epistola ad Joannem Millium. By Richard Bentley, D.D. 
 Edited, with Notes, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. (Sermons 
 preached at Boyle's Lecture ; Remarks upon a Discourse of 
 Free-Thinking ; Proposals for an edition of the Greek 
 Testament ; etc. etc. By Richard Bentley, D.D. Edited, 
 with Notes, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce.) London : Francis 
 Macpherson...i836 (1838). 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. xxii Half-title, Title, Editor's Preface, Addenda + 
 Half-tide to the Dissertation upon the Episdes of Phalaris + 430 ; 
 Half-title, Title + 402 ; xvi Half-title, Title, Preface, Contents, 
 Half-title to Sermons, Bentley 's Dedication + 546. 
 
 Note : The first three volumes of a projected edition of Bentley's 
 Works. The volume numbers w\\\ be found on the half-titles 
 which are frequently missing. Some copies were printed on large 
 paper. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 Vols. I, n. Dissertation upon the Episdes of Phalaris... From the 
 edition of 1699 (no. 109). 
 
 Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, 
 Euripides, and upon ^Esop's Fables. From the edition of 1697 
 (no. 94). 
 Epistola ad Joannem Millium. From the edition of 1691 (no. 137). 
 (Vol. II. begins with Section xiii of the 1699 Dissertation.) 
 
 6
 
 82 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 Vol. III. Eight Sermons at Boyle's Lecture. From the 6th edition, 
 1735 (no. 28). 
 Four Letters from Newton to Bentley. From the edition of 1756 
 
 (no. 25). 
 Sermon, 6 July, 1696. From the edition of 1735 (no. 28). 
 Sermon, 5 Nov. 171 5. From the edition of 1735 (no. 28). 
 Sermon, 3 Feb. ij^^. From the edition of 1735 (no. 28). 
 Visitation Speech, 13 Dec. 1716. From the St James's Evening 
 
 Post (no. 42). 
 Remarks upon a Discourse of Free-Thinking. From the 8th edition, 
 
 1743 (no. 56). 
 Proposals for printing the Greek Testament. From the edition 
 
 of 1721 (no. 78). 
 Oratiuncula, 6 July, 1725. From Bentley's Terence, 1726 (no. 
 
 175)- 
 
 Correspondence 
 
 268. Letter from F. Gacon (9 Nov. 171 1), with Bentley's answer 
 (20 Nov. 171 1). 
 
 Included in Les Odes d' Anacrion et de Sapho en vers fran^oh^ par le po'ete 
 sans fard (i.e. F. Gacon) p. ccvii. Rotterdam, 1 712. Another 
 edition appeared at Paris in 1754. Bentley's Letter is also appended 
 to Salter's editions of Bentley's Dissertation (nos. iio, 112) and to 
 Jnacreontis Carmina...Editio secunda (edited by R. F. P. Brunck), 
 p. 145 foil. Argentorati, mdcclxxxvi. Wordsworth, cl, cli. 
 
 269. Letter to G. Richter (14 Sept. 1708). 
 
 Included in G. Richteri... Specimen ohservationum criticarum in varios 
 auctores Graecos et Latinos^ p. 38 foil. lenae, MDCCXiii. Reprinted 
 in Analecta litter aria... collecta a F. A. Wolfio. Vol. i. p. 90 foil. 
 Berolini, 181 7. Wordsworth, cxxxi. Monk, i. 199. 
 
 270. Letter from Rev. John Laurence (Nov. 1724), with Bentley's 
 answer. 
 
 Printed in Laurence's New System of Agriculture, p. 384. London, 1 726. 
 Reprinted in Gaisford's Herodotus. Notes. Vol. i. p. 540 foil. 
 Oxonii, MDCCCXxiv. Wordsworth, ccxxxiv, ccxxxv.
 
 CORRESPONDENCE 83 
 
 271. Two Letters, generally attributed to Bentley, to unknown 
 correspondents (6'" Cal. Mail 1729 ; 1735). 
 
 Included in Comment arlvi ad L. Decemviralem de Inope Dehitore in partis 
 dissecando : qvem in Scholis luridicis Cantabrigiae Ivnii xxii. 1741. 
 recitavit... Joannes Taylor LL.D.^ pp. 23 — 27, 29 — 30. Cantabrigiae, 
 MDCCXLii. Wordsworth, ccLvm, cclxiii. and Note. Monk, 11. 
 411 — 12. 
 
 272. Portions of Letters to V. Thuillier ; and to P. Sabatier and 
 S. Mopinot [17 1 9 — 20]. 
 
 Included in Bibliorum Sacrorum Latince Versiones Antiques... opera et 
 studio D. Petri Sabatier. Vol. i. pp. xxxi — xxxii. Vol. ill. 
 pp. xvii — xviii. Remis, m.dcc.xliii. Wordsworth, ccxii, ccxviii. 
 Monk, II. 124 foil. 
 
 273. Letter to J. C. Biel (30 Aug. 17 14). 
 
 Printed in the prolegomena to Hesychii Lexicon... cd. "J. Alherti. Vol. i. 
 Lugd. Bat., 1746. Some of Bentley's emendations are included in 
 Kuster's notes in the same edition. Wordsworth, clxxxv. Monk, 
 I. 406. 
 
 274. i. Letter to J. J. Wetstein (10 July 17 18). ii. Three 
 Letters to J. J. Wetstein (29 Aug. 1716; Autumn 17 16; 
 14 April [17 1 7]). 
 
 i. Printed in Novum Testamentum Graecum... opera et studio jf, y. 
 Wetstenii. Tom. i. pp. 153 — 4. Amstelaedami, mdccli., and in 
 Editio Altera, ed. Lotze, pp. 185 — 6. Rotterodami, mdcccxxxi. 
 Wordsworth, ccvii. Monk, 11. 121. 
 
 ii. Printed in Memoria IVetsteniana vindicata ; seu "Jacobi Krighout 
 epistola responsoria ad stricturas...y. L. i^r^j>... Appendix, pp. 11 — 14. 
 Amstelaedami [1755]. Wordsworth, cxcv, cxcvii, ecu. Dyce, 
 III. 478. Monk, II. 120. 
 
 275. Letter to Dr J. Davies [probably 171 1]. 
 
 Printed in the Monthly Review^ Vol. xiv. p. 202 foil. London, 1756. 
 Reprinted in Salter's and Wagner's editions of Bentley's Dissertation 
 upon the Epistles of Phalaris (nos. IIO, 112, 113). Wordsworth, 
 CXLVii. Monk, I. 293. 
 
 6—2
 
 84 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 276. Letter from J. Le Cierc (25 June 17 10), with Bentley's 
 
 answer (Kal. Jul. 17 10). 
 
 Published by Person in Maty''s Review for April 1786 (Vol. ix. p. 254). 
 Wordsworth, cxliii, cxliv. and Note. 
 
 277. Epistolae Duae ad Ti. Hemsterhusium ([1705] ; 9 June 
 
 1708). 
 
 Included in Elogium T'lberii HemsterhusUy Auctore Davide Ruhnkenio. 
 Editio secunda...^. 79 foil. Lugduni Batavorum, mdcclxxxix. 
 Reprinted in Ruhnken's Vitae duumvirorum doctrina et mentis 
 excellentium. Leipzig, iSoi ; and in Lindemann's edition of the 
 same, Leipzig, 1822. Wordsworth, ci, cxxiii. Monk, i, 197 foil. 
 
 278. Letter to Dr S. Clarke (18 Nov. 17 16). 
 
 Printed in the European Maga'zine for Dec. 1801 (Vol. XL. p. 409 foil.). 
 London, 1801. Wordsworth, cxcix. 
 
 279. Richardi Bentleii et doctorum virorum Epistolae, partim 
 mutuae. Accedit Richardi Dawesii ad Joannem Taylorum 
 epistola singularis. Londini, Typis Bulmerianis. mdcccvii.' 
 
 Collation : 4°. Half-title, Title, pp. 330 + [i] ^ Nots ' [blank pp. foil.]. 
 
 Note : Edited by Charles Burney, D.D. (1757-18 17). 150 copies were 
 printed on large paper and 50 on small, all for presentation. There 
 are engraved portraits of Bentley (after Thornhill), and Graevius 
 and facsimile letters of Bentley and Graevius. Contains the bulk 
 of Bentley's correspondence with Graevius, Burman, and Bernard 
 together with some miscellaneous letters. Wordsworth, xx, xxi 
 
 XXIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXVII, XXXVIII, XXXIX 
 XLVII, XLVIII, XLIX, L, LI, LIV, LV, LIX, LX, LXI, LXII, LXIII, LXV, LXVI 
 LXXII, LXXIII, LXXIV, LXXVII, LXXVIII, LXXIX, LXXX, LXXXI, LXXXII 
 LXXXV, LXXXVI, XCI, XCII, XCIII, XCV, XCVI, XCVIII, CXXXVII, V, XIV 
 X, XII, VIII, XIX, III, XVIII, IV, II, XVII, VI, XIII, XV, XI, VII, IX, CXLIII 
 CXLIV, CXLVII, CLI, CLXXXV, CLXXXIX, CXC, CC, CCXXI, CCXXV, CCXXVI 
 
 Lxxxiii, CXCIX, ccvii, ccxLvii, ccLviii, ccLxiii, CI, CXXIII. Letter xi 
 in Wordsworth was wrongly printed by Burney as three separate 
 letters (4, 8, and 7 of Bernard's Letters). Letter xiii. in Wordsworth 
 was wrongly printed by Burney as two separate letters (2 and 9 of 
 Bernard's Letters). The letter from J. Capellus to Graevius dated 
 ' Londini, 4°. Cal. Augustas anno mdcc' and that from R. Dawes 
 to J. Taylor dated 'Newcastle, May 31st' were not reprinted by 
 Wordsworth.
 
 CORRESPONDENCE 85 
 
 280. Letter to Rev. P. Gordon (25 Sept. 1697), 
 
 Printed in the Classical fournal^ Vol. x. p. 171. London, 18 14. 
 Wordsworth, lxvii. 
 
 *'28i. Bentleii Epistolae. 
 
 Letter to Joshua Barnes (22 Feb. 169!), together with a portion of the 
 correspondence between Bentley and Kuster, (1708) included in 
 Museum Criticunij Vol. 11. (No. 7) p. 403 foil. Cambridge, 182 1. 
 Wordsworth, xxvi, cxxi, cxxiv, cxxvi, cxxvii, cxxix. 
 
 282. Richardi Bentleii et doctorum vlrorum Epistolae partim 
 mutuae. Ex Editione Londinensi Caroli Burneii repetiit 
 novisque additamentis et Godofredi Hermanni dissertatione 
 de Bentleio eiusque ed. Terentii auxit Frid. Traug. Friede- 
 mann. Accedunt effigies R. Bentleii et L G. Graevii. 
 Lipsiae, 1825. 
 
 Collation: 8°. pp. xvi Title, Dedication, Preface, Table + 302 + 112 
 Additamenta, Indices. 
 
 Note : This collection comprises Burney's edition of 1807 (no. 279), 
 together with the Letters printed in Museum Criticum^ Vol. ii. (No. 7) 
 (no. 281), and the letter from Bentley to G. Richter (no. 269). 
 Prefixed are lithographs by Fricke of the portraits inserted in 
 Burney's edition. 
 
 ^283. Letters of Mr. Richard Bentley and Dr. Edward Bernard 
 [1689 — 1692]. 
 
 Included in Museum Criticum^ Vol. 11. (No. 8) p. 533 foil. Cambridge, 
 1826. Wordsworth, v, xiv, x, xii, viii, xix, in, xviii, iv, 11, xvii, 
 VI, XIII, XV, XI, VII, IX. Burney's errors of arrangement are here 
 corrected (see no. 279 Note). 
 
 284. Epistolae Bentleii, Graevii, Ruhnkenii, Wyttenbachii selectae. 
 Annotatione instruxit Fridericus Carolus Kraft, Theolog. et 
 Philosoph. Doctor, Joannei Hamburgensis Director et Pro- 
 fessor. Altonae, Impensis Librariae Hammerichianae. 1831.
 
 86 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. xiv + 374 + [i] Errata. 
 
 Note : Pp. 3 — 56 contain the whole of Bentley's correspondence with 
 Graevius, together with a letter from Burman to Bentley (15 Jan. 
 1703). Printed from Friedemann's ed. of 1825 (no. 282). 
 
 "^285. The Correspondence of Richard Bentley, D.D. Master of 
 Trinity College, Cambridge. Vol. i. (Vol. 11.). London : 
 John Murray... 1 842. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. xxxii Half-title, Title, Dedication to J. H. Monk, 
 Preface, Literary Annals of Dr Bentley, Table of Letters + 432 ; 
 pp. viii Half-title, Title, Table of Letters +433 — 838. 
 
 Note: Edited, with Notes, by Christopher Wordsworth (1807 — 1885). 
 The arrangement is chronological, and the sources from which the 
 letters are printed are given in the Notes. 250 copies printed. 
 
 286. Richard Bentley's Briefwechsel. By J. Bernays. 
 
 Printed as a review of Wordsworth's edition of Bentley's Correspondence 
 in Rheinisches Museum fiir Philologie. Neue Folge. Jahrg. viii. pp. I — 
 24. Frankfurt am Main, 1853. Bernays reprints two letters of 
 Bentley to De Veil and P. Burman (Wordsworth, cxvi, ccxxix), 
 and gives a German translation of one to J. Walker (Wordsworth, 
 ccxiii). Part of the article was reprinted in Gesammelte Abhandlungen 
 von yacob Bernays. Hrsg. von H. Usener. Vol. 11. pp. 356 — 60. 
 Berlin, 1885. 
 
 287. Correspondence between Roger Cotes and Bentley (May 
 1709 ; March 17 13). 
 
 Four Letters included in Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor 
 Cotes including Letters of other efninent men,.. pp. I, 148 foil. London, 
 Cambridge, 1850. Wordsworth, cxxxvi, clxix — clxxi. 
 
 288. Six Letters to Pieter Burman dated *Londini, April. 5, 1703'; 
 ' Cantabrigiae, Octob. 25, St. Vet. mdccix'; * Cantabrigiae 
 a. d. 19 August! 1710'; * Cantabrigiae, Aug. 25, 1718 ' ; 
 * Cantabrigiae e collegio S. Trinitatis xiii. Aug. mdccxxii ' ; 
 ' Cantabrigiae, April. 22, 1724, stilo vetere.'
 
 i
 
 # 
 
 CORRESPONDENCE 87 
 
 Printed in Monatsberichte der k. preuss. Akad. der Whs. zu Berlin. 
 Aus dem Jahre i860, p. 544 foil. Reprinted in Bentleil Critica 
 Sacra, p. t6i foil. Cambridge, 1862, and again in Mavricii Havptii 
 Opvscvla. Vol. III. p. 89 foil, Lipsiae, 1876. 
 
 '289. Letters of Dr. Bentley and his Wife. 
 
 I. Dr Bentley to Mrs Johanna Bernard. Trin. Sept. 5, 1700. 
 
 II. Dr Bentley to Mrs Johanna Bernard. London, Nov^"'' lyh, 
 
 1700. 
 
 III. Dr Bentley to Mrs Johanna Bernard. London, Nov^"' 23, 
 
 1700. 
 
 IV. Dr Bentley to Mrs Johanna Bernard. Trin. Coll. Dec. 12, 
 
 1700. 
 
 V. Dr Bentley to Mrs Johanna Bernard. Saturday Night, [1700] 
 
 St. "James's. 
 VI. Dr Bentley to Mr Leeds. Jan. 29, i7o|. 
 VII. Dr Bentley to the Rev. Mr Posthlethwait. Trin. Coll. 
 Nov. 20, 1707. 
 
 VIII. Dr Bentley to Dr Stubbe. Jan. 2']th, 1708. 
 
 IX. Mrs Bentley to Mrs Cumberland. March the 2'jth [ly^'^]. 
 
 X. Mrs Bentley to Mrs Cumberland. Alay the nth [1732]. 
 
 Appended to The Diary (1709 — 1720) of Edward Rud... edited... by 
 H. R. Luard, M.J., p. 33 foil. (Camb. Antiquarian Soc. Octavo 
 Publications, v.) Cambridge, i860. 
 
 290. A Letter from Dr Bentley to Lord Chancellor King. Com- 
 municated by the Rev. H. R. Luard, M.A., University 
 Registrary (Dec. 2. 1867). 
 
 The Letter is dated *Trin. Coll. Apr. 28, 1728,' and was printed in 
 Cambridge Antiquarian Communications : being papers presented at the 
 meetings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Vol. ill. pp. 175 — 6. 
 Cambridge, 1879. 
 
 For other letters of Bentley see nos. 70, 113, 137, 195, 199, 205.
 
 IX. BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM 
 
 ^291. Advertisement. Just ready for the Press, and will speedily 
 be Publish'd. An Essay of an Athenae Cantabrigienses : Or, 
 an Account of the Learned Men that have Flourisht in that 
 Antient and Famous University, from its first Foundation, to 
 this present Time. Containing the Life of the Rev. Dr. 
 Rich. Bentley Master of Trinity Coll. Keeper of the Royal 
 Library at St. James's, and Late Vice-Chancellor : His 
 Extract, Education, Extraordinary progress in Universal 
 Litterature ; his Works, his generous Endeavours for the 
 promoting of Printing ; his Treatment of Printers, and what 
 Encouragement he hath given for the Printing some of the 
 Best of the Classics, and others of the most Celebrated 
 Antient Authors ; his Pompous Buildings, Erected by him ; 
 and his indefatigable Industry and liberal Contribution, 
 towards making the River Cham Navigable. Such Gentle- 
 men as have any Memoirs by them, relating to the Subject 
 aforesaid, and are willing to communicate them ; are desired 
 to send to Mr. John Inwood at Mr. Howard's in Warwick- 
 street near Chearing-cross, and they shall be impartially and 
 candidly inserted, and gratefully acknowledged, if desired. 
 
 Collation : 4°. i leaf. 
 
 Note: I joy. See Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne^ Vol. ii. 
 p. 74, Oxford, 1886; and Cambridge Antiquarian Communications^ 
 Vol. VI. pp. 362 — 367.
 
 BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM 89 
 
 292. Bentley (Richard). Article by Rev. — Hinton. 
 
 Included in Biographia Britannica...Vo\. ii. p. 734 foil. London, 
 MDCCXLViii. Monk, Preface, p. v, vi. Hinton's article, revised by 
 A. Kippis and Richard Cumberland, was included in Biographia 
 Britannica...The Second Edition... by Andrew Kippis... Vol. ii. p. 224 
 foil. London, mdcclxxx. Monk, i. i foil. 
 
 293. A Letter to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of O d. 
 
 Containing Some Animadversions upon a Character given of 
 the late Dr. Bentley, in a Letter, from a late Professor in the 
 University of Oxford, to the Right Rev. Author of the 
 Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated. 
 
 " Jam parce sepulto " 
 
 London : Printed for J. Wilkie...i767. 
 
 Collation : S°. pp. 46. 
 
 Note : Signed ' A Member of the University of Cambridge ' i.e. 
 Richard Cumberland, and addressed to Robert Lov^^th, successively 
 Bishop of St David's, Oxford, and London. The ' Character ' occurs 
 on p. 80 of Lowth's anonymously published 'Letter to the... Author 
 [W. Warburton] of The Divine Legation of Adoses Demonstrated...* 
 Oxford, 1765. See Nichols's Literary Anecdotes^ Vol. v. pp. 624 — 6. 
 
 Copy: B.M. 
 
 294. Hints towards a Life of Dr. Bentley. Nov. 18 [1779]. 
 
 Signed 'J. N.' i.e. John Nichols, and printed in the Gentleman's 
 Magazine for 1779, pp. 545 — 8. 
 
 ^295. Reminiscences of Bentley by Richard Cumberland, his 
 grandson. 
 
 Included in Memoirs of Richard Cumberland written by himself... 
 p. 7 foil. London, 1806, with an engraving by C. Picart of 
 Thornhill's portrait of Bentley. Another edition of the Memoirs 
 appeared in 1807 in two volumes. Monk, 11. 401 foil. 
 
 296. Richard Bentley. Biographical Sketch by F. A. Wolf. 
 
 Included in Analecta Utteraria. Vol. I. pp. i foil., 258, 493 foil. 
 Berolini, 18 17. Reprinted in Kleine Schriften...von Fr. Aug. Wolf 
 Hrsg. durch G. Bernhardy. Vol. 11. p. 1 030 foil. Halle, 1869.
 
 90 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 297. Bentley (Richard). Article by F. G. Hand. 
 
 Included in Allgemeine Encychpddie der Wmemchaften und Kunste... 
 herausgegehen von J. S. Ersch und "J. G. Gruber. Theil ix. p. 48 foil. 
 Leipzig, 1822. 
 
 *298. The Life of Richard Bentley, D.D. Master of Trinity College, 
 and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cam- 
 bridge : With an account of his writings, and anecdotes of 
 many distinguished characters during the period in which 
 he flourished. By James Henry Monk, D.D. Dean of 
 Peterborough. London : Printed for C. J. G. & F. Rivington 
 
 ...MDCCCXXX. 
 
 Collation : 4°. pp. xxiii Title, Dedication, Preface, Contents 
 + 668 + Ixxxiii Appendix, Index. 
 
 Note : Thornhill's portrait prefixed (E. F. Burney del. W. Sharp 
 sculp.). 
 
 * 
 
 299. Second Edition, revised & corrected. In Two 
 
 Volumes. London Printed for J. G. & F. Rivington... 
 
 MDCCCXXXIII. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. xix + 428 ; vii + 466. 
 
 Note : Thornhill's portrait prefixed (Dean sculp. Printed by Brain). 
 
 300. Essay on Bentley by Thomas De Quincey. 
 
 Printed as a review of the first edition of Monk's Life in Blackwood^s 
 Edinburgh Maga%ine^ Vol. xxviii. p. 437 foil., p. 644 foil. 
 Edinburgh, 1830. Re-issued, with alterations, in his Works (1854, 
 etc.). Vol. VII. p. 35 foil, and frequently since. 
 
 301. Richard Bentley, D.D. Biographical Sketch by Hartley 
 Coleridge. 
 
 Included in Biographia Borealis...^y Hartley Coleridge, p. 65 foil. 
 London, 1833. Biographia Borealis was re-issued in 1836 as The 
 Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire^ and a new edition appeared 
 in 1852 as Lives of Northern Worthies.
 
 BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM 91 
 
 *302. Particulars of Bentley's proceedings, 1 709 — i 718. 
 
 Included in The Diary (1709 — 1720) of Edward Rud... edited... by 
 H. R. Luard, M.A. (Camb. Antiquarian Soc. Octavo Publications, 
 v.). Cambridge, i860. 
 
 ^303. Richard Bentley. Eine Biographie von Jacob Maehly. Mit 
 einem Anhang Bentley'scher Anecdota zu Homer. Leipzig. 
 Verlag von B. G. Teubner. 1868. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. iv Title, Index + 179. 
 
 304. Bentley (Richard). Article by Mark Pattison. 
 
 Included in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Ninth Edition. Vol. ill. 
 p. 578 foil. London, 1875. 
 
 305. Great Scholars. Buchanan, Bentley, Porson, Parr, and Others. 
 By Henry James Nicoll. Edinburgh : Macniven and 
 Wallace... 1880. 
 
 Collation : 8°. Half-title, Title, pp. [iv] Preface, Contents + 251- 
 
 Note : The chapter dealing with Bentley occupies pp. 35 — 90. 
 Reprinted London, 1880. New edition London, 1884. 
 
 *3o6. Bentley. By R. C. Jebb, M.A., LL.D. Edin... London : 
 Macmillan and Co. 1882. 
 
 Collation : 8°. pp. xi Half-title, Title, Prefatory note. Annals of 
 Bentley's Life, Contents + 224. 
 
 Note : One of the 'English Men of Letters.' Reprinted in 1902. 
 
 307. Richard Bentley. Eine Biographie. Von R.C. Jebb. Autorisirte 
 Ubersetzung von E. Wohler. Berlin, Gaertner... 1885. 
 Collation : 8°. pp. xii + 244. 
 
 *3o8. Bentley (Richard). Article by R. C. Jebb, M.A. 
 
 Included in Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. iv. p. 306 foil. 
 London, 1885.
 
 92 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 309. Richard Bentley : seine Bemiihungen, Streitigkeiten, und 
 Verdienste. Von J. G. von Herder. 
 
 Printed in Herder's Sdmmtliche JVerke. Hrsg. von B. Suphan. Vol. xxiv. 
 pp. 183—188. Berlin, 1886. 
 
 # 
 
 3 10. Accounts, of Bentley's Life and Work by J. E. Sandys, Litt.D. 
 
 (i) In Social England... edited by H. D. Traill. Vol. v. p. 59 foil. 
 London, 1896 ; and in the Illustrated Edition, Vol. v. p. 80 foil. 
 London, 1904, with reproduction of Hudson's portrait of Bentley. 
 
 (ii) In his History of Classical Scholarship. Vol. 11. Chap. xxiv. 
 pp. 401 — 410, with reproduction of Dean's engraving of Thornhill's 
 portrait.
 
 APPENDIX 
 
 A Proposal for building 
 A Royal LIBRARY, 
 
 And establishing it by 
 
 ^rt of iarliament* 
 
 The Royal Library now at St. James s^ designed and founded for 
 publick use, was in the time of King James I. in a flourishing 
 condition, well stored with all sorts of good Books of That and the 
 preceding Age, from the beginning of Printing. 
 
 But in the succeeding Reigns it has gradually gone to Decay, to 
 the great dishonour of the Crown and the whole Nation. The Room 
 is miserably out of Repair ; and so little, that it will not contain the 
 Books that belong to it. A Collection of ancient Medals, once the 
 best in Europe^ is embezzled and quite lost. There has been no 
 supply of Books from abroad for the space of Sixty years last : nor 
 any allowance for Binding ; so that many valuable Manuscripts are 
 spoil'd for want of Covers : and above a Thousand Books printed in 
 England^ and brought in Quires to the Library, as due by the Act for 
 Printing, are all unbound and useless. 
 
 It is therefore humbly proposed, as a thing that will highly 
 conduce to the Publick good, the Glory of His Majesty's Reign, and 
 the Honour of the Parliament ; 
 
 * Reprinted from a copy in the British Museum. See Bibliography, no. 250.
 
 94 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 I. That His Majesty be graciously pleased to assign a Corner of 
 St. James's Park, on the South side, near the Garden of the late Sir 
 John Cutler^ for the building of a new Library, and in the Neighbour- 
 hood of it a competent Dwelling for the Library-Keeper. 
 
 IL This Situation will have all the advantages that can be wished. 
 'Tis an elevated Soil, and a dry sandy Ground ; the Air clear, and the 
 Light free ; the Building, not contiguous to any Houses, will be safer 
 from Fire ; a Coach-way will be made to it out of 'Tuttk-street, 
 Westminster ; the Front of it will be paralell to the Park-Walk ; and 
 the Park will receive no Injury, but a great Ornament by it. 
 
 III. That the said Library be built, and a perpetual yearly 
 Revenue for the Purchase of Books setled on it by Act of Parlia- 
 ment : Which Revenue may be under the Direction and Disposal of 
 Curators, who are from time to time to make report to His Majesty 
 of the State and Condition of the Library. The Curators to be 
 
 IV. The choice of a proper Fund, whence the said Revenue may 
 be raised, is left to the Wisdom of the Parliament. In the mean time, 
 This following is humbly offer'd to Consideration. 
 
 V. That, as soon as the present Tax of 40 per Cent., upon 
 Foreign Paper, and 20 per Cent upon English, shall either expire or 
 be taken off; there be laid a very small Tax of ...per Cent, (as it 
 shall be judged sufficient for the uses of such a Library) upon 
 Imported Paper only, leaving our own Manufacture free. Which 
 Tax may be collected by His Majesty's Officers of the Customs, and 
 paid to such Person or Persons, as shall be appointed by the Curators. 
 
 VI. This being so easie a Tax, and a Burthen scarce to be felt, 
 can create no Damp upon the Stationer's Trade. And whatsoever 
 shall be paid by them upon this foot, being to be laid out in the
 
 APPENDIX 95 
 
 Purchase of Books, will return among them again. So that 'tis but 
 giving with one hand, what they will receive with the other. 
 
 VII. And whereas our Own White-Paper Manufacture, that was 
 growing up so hopefully, and deserves the greatest Encouragement, 
 being all clear gains to the Kingdom, is now almost quite sunk under 
 the weight of the present tax ; this new one upon Imported Paper, 
 with an Exemption of our Own, will set Ours upon the higher 
 Ground, and give it a new Life. For whatsoever is taken from the 
 one, is as good as given to the other. So that even without regard to 
 this design of a Library, the Tax will be a publick Benefit. 
 
 VIII. A Library erected upon this certain and perpetual Fund, 
 may be so contriv'd for Capaciousness and Convenience, that every 
 one that comes there, may have 200,000 Volumes, ready for his use 
 and service. And Societies may be formed, that shall meet, and have 
 Conferences there about matters of Learning. The Royal Society is a 
 noble Instance in one Branch of Knowledge ; what Advantage and 
 Glory may accrue to the Nation, by such Assemblies not confined to 
 one Subject, but free to all parts of good Learning. 
 
 IX. The Wall that shall encompass the Library, may be cased on 
 the inside with Marbles of ancient Inscriptions, Basso Relievo's, ^fc. 
 either found in our own Kingdom, or easily and cheaply to be had 
 from the African Coast, and Greece, and Asia the Less. Those few 
 Antiquities procured from the Greek Islands by the Lord Arundel, and 
 since pubHshed both at home and abroad, are an evidence what great 
 advancement of Learning, and honour to the Nation may be acquired 
 by this means. 
 
 X. Upon this Parliamentary Fund, the Curators, if occasion be, 
 may take up Money at Interest, so as to lay out two or three years 
 Revenues to buy whole Libraries at once : As at this very time, the 
 incomparable Collections of Thuanus in France, and Marquardus Gudius 
 in Germany, might be purchas'd at a very low Value.
 
 96 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 XL And since the Writings of the English nation have at present 
 that great Reputation abroad, -that many Persons of all Countries 
 learn our Language, and several travel hither for the advantage of 
 Conversation : 'Tis easie to foresee, how much this Glory will be 
 advanced, by erecting a free Library of all sorts of Books, where every 
 Foreigner will have such convenience of studying. 
 
 XIL 'Tis our Publick Interest and Profit, to have the Gentry of 
 Foreign Nations acquainted with England, and have part of their 
 Education here. And more Money will be annually imported and 
 spent here by such Students from abroad, than the Whole Charge and 
 Revenue of the Library will amount to. 
 
 2 
 [Verses on the death of Prince William, 1700*.] 
 
 OUID querar ? An proprio sub pondere Magna fatiscunt, 
 Et Natura labat dotibus ipsa suis .'' 
 Sic moriens, Gulielme, & sceptra & vota tuorum 
 
 Destituens, brevis heu Spes, diuturnus Amor. 
 An potius, terras Deus indignatus inertes, 
 
 lUustres Animas ad supera alta vocat } 
 Nee moreris, Gulielme, volas sed vivus ad astra, • 
 
 i^theriis vectus qualis Enochus equis. 
 Et positis novus exuviis, roseo ore refulges 
 
 Inter caelicolas conspiciendus Avos. 
 Interea flendo nos frustra ducimus horas, 
 
 Viventi & cassas solvimus exsequias. 
 Scilicet : at sine Te tristi hie marcescere in aevo, 
 
 Illud erit nobis, bis, Gulielme, mori. 
 
 Rich. Bentley, S.T.P. Coll. Trin. Magister. 
 
 * Reprinted from Threnodia Academic Cantabrigiensis in... Obitum . . . Princip'ts Gulielmi 
 Dticis Glocestrensis. Cantabrigiae, mdcc. See Bibliography, no. 251.
 
 APPENDIX 
 
 [Verses on the death of Prince George, 1708*.] 
 
 I. Ad REGINAM. 
 ACCIPE communis solatia publica luctus, 
 ^ ^ Anna, nee alloquiis dulcibus obde fores. 
 Namque ut Marlburii percussit nuntius aures, 
 
 Dum tibi per Flandras fulminat ense plagas ; 
 Oppetiisse tuas, Regina, Animaeque Torique 
 
 Participem, ac morbo succubuisse gravi : 
 NoN, ait ardentem lacrimis restinguere curam 
 
 Nunc opus, aut querulis perdere verba modis. 
 Pro lacrimis, refluant hostili sanguine rivi : 
 
 Pro questu, reboent tympana mixta tubis. 
 Dixit : & attoniti dira formidine Galli 
 
 Bruxellis trepidae terga dedere fugae : 
 Objectoque alii tentantes flumine Martem 
 
 De Scaldi in Stygias praecipitantur aquas. 
 
 II. Allocutio ad Sepulchrum. 
 T~\ELUBRA Regum, prisca Manium domus, 
 ^^ Suprema Britonum Principum palatia, 
 Horrore dio plena, plena numine ; 
 Laxate claustra, ferreosque liminis 
 Reserate postes : Georgii Magni sacer 
 Portatur ad vos lugubri pompa Cinis, 
 Uxoris Ann^ atque Anglic lacrimis madens. 
 Eheu ! quis hostis Gallus, aut quis impiae 
 Roma tyrannus coccinatus, non tuo 
 Dolore doleat, Anna, non flenti affleat ? 
 Huic 6 quietas intimis Penetralibus 
 Parate sedes ; qua (nefas) tot Liberum 
 Jacent acerbo rapta fato corpora : 
 
 Reprinted from Epicedium Cantabrigiense in.. . Georgium . . . Regina Ann<e Conjugem . 
 Cantabrigia?, mdccviii. 
 
 «• 7 
 
 97
 
 98 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 Praesertim ubi usque vere perpetuo virens 
 Cari Gloverni floret urna. Hie ponite ; 
 Hie paene redeat vivus ossibus ealor, 
 Sensuque taeito pulvis ipse gaudeat. 
 
 III. Ad Nobilissimum Carolum Halifaxi<£ Baronem. 
 
 /'^AROLE, si tibi adhuc Collegi eura vetusti ; 
 ^-^ Quod tamen assidue nascitur, usque novum ; 
 Si placuit nostro nitidus jam pumice Flaccus ; 
 
 Quodque sibi vates dixerat, usque recens ; 
 Gratia si veteris tibi pectore vivit amici : 
 
 Unam fer multus officiosus opem. 
 Sume, precor, citharum nimium nimiumque tacentem ; 
 
 Verbaque cum plectro fortia junge gravi : 
 Efi^er, age, Heroem, stellantique insere Olympo : 
 
 Dircasusque iterum nubila tranet olor. 
 Nos etenim viles, corvi picaeque, poetae 
 
 Vix pennas madida (turpe) levamus humo. 
 
 Ru Bentley, S.T.P. Coll. Sanct. Trin. Magister. 
 
 3 
 
 A Reply to a Copy of Verses made in Imitation 
 
 of Book III. Ode 2. of Horace. 
 
 Angustam^ amice^ pauperiem pati^ &c. 
 
 And sent by Mr. Titley to Dr. Bentley. 
 
 By Dr. Bentley*. 
 
 HO strives to mount Parnassus' hill, 
 And thence poetic laurels bring. 
 Must first acquire due force, and skill. 
 Must fly with swan's, or eagle's wing. 
 
 * Reprinted from Dodsley's Collection of Poems .. .by se'veral kandi, Vol. vi. pp. 175 — 6. 
 London, 1782. See Bibliography, no. 253. 
 
 w
 
 APPENDIX 99 
 
 Who nature's treasures would explore, 
 
 Her mysteries and arcana know, 
 Must high as lofty Newton soar, 
 
 Must stoop as delving Woodward low. 
 
 Who studies ancient laws and rites. 
 
 Tongues, arts, and arms, and history. 
 Must drudge like Selden days and nights. 
 
 And in the endless labour die. 
 
 Who travels in religious jars 
 
 (Truth mixt with error, shade with rays,) 
 Like Whiston wanting pyx or stars. 
 
 In ocean wide or sinks or strays. 
 
 But grant our hero's hope long toil 
 
 And comprehensive genius crown, 
 All sciences, all arts his spoil. 
 
 Yet what reward, or what renown ? 
 
 Envy, innate in vulgar souls, 
 
 Envy steps in and stops his rise ; 
 Envy, with poison'd tarnish fouls 
 
 His lustre, and his worth decries. 
 
 He lives inglorious, or in want. 
 
 To college and old books confin'd ; 
 Instead of learn'd he's caU'd pedant. 
 
 Dunces advanc'd he's left behind : 
 Yet left content, a genuine stoic he. 
 Great without patron, rich without South-sea. 
 
 7—2
 
 PORTRAITS 
 
 Sculpture. 
 
 1. Bust in marble by Roubiliac. 1756. 
 
 Trinity College, Cambridge : Library. Presented by Bentley's children. 
 
 Oil Paintings. 
 
 2. Half-length to left in clerical dress, seated, right hand on a 
 book. In the left-hand upper corner the inscription bentley. 
 In the left-hand lower corner the inscription Richardus Bentleius. 
 jEt: 48. 17 10. By Sir James Thornhill. 
 
 Canvas: 4 ft. 2 in. x 3 ft. ^^ in. 
 
 Trinity College, Cambridge : Master's Lodge. Bequeathed to the College 
 
 by Bentley. 
 Reproduced as the frontispiece to the present work. 
 
 3. Replica of no. 2, with the second inscription only. By Sir James 
 Thornhill. 17 10. 
 
 Canvas : 4 ft. 3 in. x 3 ft. 4I in. 
 
 National Portrait Gallery. Purchased 1890. 
 
 Reproduced in Cust's National Portrait Gallery^ i. 231. London, 1901. 
 
 4. Reduced copy of no. 2, without inscriptions. 
 Canvas: 2 ft. 5 in. x 2 ft. 
 
 St John's College, Cambridge: Dining Hall. 
 
 5. Reduced copy of no. 2, without inscriptions. By R. W. Buss. 
 Canvas: 9I in. x 7^ in. 
 
 South Kensington Museum.
 
 PORTRAITS loi 
 
 Full-length to left in clerical dress, seated, right hand on a book. 
 In the left-hand upper corner the inscription bentley. By- 
 Thomas Hudson, probably after Sir J. Thornhill. 
 
 Trinity College, Cambridge: Dining Hall. 
 
 Reproduced in Traill's Social England. Illustrated edition, v. 8i. London. 
 1904. 
 
 Engravings. 
 
 'The size given is that of the portrait^ and not of the plate. 
 
 Bust within an oval frame resting upon a slab. Under : Richardus 
 
 Bentleius ^t: xlviii. mdccx. /. Thornhill pinxit. Geo: Vertue 
 
 Sculp: 
 
 Engraved from no. 2. Reversed. 7| in. x 6 in. 
 
 Prefixed to Bentley's Manilius^ ^739 (Bibliography, 183). Reproduced 
 
 in Seidlitz' Allgemeines historisches Portratwerk. Gelehrte u. Manner der 
 
 Kirche. Miinchen, 1889. See Monk, 11. 397. 
 
 {a) Bust within an oval. Under: Pub: March i. 1804 by 
 
 W. Sharp London. 
 
 Engraved from no. 2. 4|^ in. x 3f in. 
 
 Various other early states in the British Museum. 
 
 {b) As (a). Under : J. Thornhill pinxK mdccx. E. F. Burney 
 delK W. Sharp sculp. Ricardus Bentleius. Nat. Jan. xxvii. 
 
 MDCLXII. Mort. Jul. XIV. MDCCXLII. 
 
 Published in Bentleii EpistoU^ 1807 (Bibliography, 279); re-published 
 as the frontispiece to Monk's Life of Bentley^ 1830. (Bibliography, 
 298.) 
 
 Bust. Under: C. Picart sculp. Richard Bentley, D.D. Published 
 by Lackington, Allen & C". Nov. V'. 1805. 
 Engraved from no. 2. Reversed. 5I in. x 4| in. 
 
 Published in Cumberland's Memoirs^ 1806, 'To face Page 28.' (Biblio- 
 graphy, 295.)
 
 I02 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENTLEY 
 
 10. (^) Bust. VndGv: Richard Befitky,D.D. Published by Lackington, 
 Allen & C". Nov\ i. 1806. 
 
 No. 8 cut down and re-worked. Reversed. 5^ in. x 4 in. 
 Published in Cumberland's Memoirs, octavo edition, 1807, 'To front 
 Page 40. Vol. I.' (Bibliography, 295.) 
 
 (b) As {a) with C. Picart. sculp, added. 
 
 11. Bust. VwI&y: Thornhill pinx*. Dean sculp. Richard Bendey, I). D. 
 Aged ^'i. Printed by Brain. Published by J. G. &' F. Rivington, 
 London, Jan^. 1833. 
 
 Engraved from no. 2. Reversed. 4^ in. x 3^^ in. 
 
 Published as the frontispiece to Monk's Life of Bentley, ed. 2, 1833. 
 
 (Bibliography, 299.) Reproduced in Sandys' History of Classical 
 
 Scholarship, Vol. 11. Cambridge, 1908. 
 
 12. Bust within an oval. Anonymous. Under : Richard Ben dey D.D. 
 Engraved from no. 2. 4j^jt in. x 3^ in. 
 
 13. (a) Half-length. Under: Engraved by J. Posselwhite. Bentley. 
 From a Picture by Hudson^ in Trinity College, Cambridge. 
 
 Engraved from no. 6. 5^ in. x 4 in. 
 There is a copy in Trinity College Library. 
 
 {b) As [a) with the additional inscription : Under the Super- 
 intendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. 
 London, Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street^ &' Pall Mall 
 East. 
 Published in The Gallery of Portraits : with Memoirs, iii. 49. 1834. 
 
 14. Posselwhite's engraving of Hudson's portrait. 
 
 Published in Portrait Gallery of distinguished Poets, Philosophers, Statesmen... 
 II. 497. London, 1853. ^^^ ^- ^- ^" P^^^^^'^ Index. Washington, 
 1906.
 
 INDEX 
 
 [The numbers refer to the titles in the Bibliography and not to the page.] 
 
 Account of Mr fVhistons Prosecution at... Cambridge, 223 
 
 Account of the State of Learning in the Empire of Lilliput [by John Arbuthnot ?], 255 
 Account of Trinity College [by Zachary Pearce ?], 236 
 
 Aesopus : Fabulae .. .ed. F. de Furia [contains Latin version of Bentley's Dissertation on the 
 Fables of jEsop], 1 1 8 
 
 Fabularum ^sopicarum Delectus [contains an attack on Bentley], 95 
 
 Alsop, Anthony, edits Fabularum /Esopicarum Delectus, 95 ; collaborates in C. Boyle's 
 Dr Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris...examind, 97, 98, 107, 108 
 
 Ansnjjer to a late Book ... against .. .Dr Bentley relating to Callimachus [by S. Whately], 124 
 
 Ansijuer to... An Essay concerning Critical and Curious Learning, 100 
 
 Ansiver to some Objections. ..to the Conduct of Dr B., 218 
 
 Ansiver to the Discourse on Free-Thinking, 63 
 
 Anti-Popish Tracts [contain Bentley's Sermon upon Popery condensed], 37 
 
 Antigonus Carystius, ed. J. Beckmann, with notes by Bentley, 186 
 
 Apitz, John: De ^rtate poematum Horatianorum, 174 
 
 Apothecary's Defence of Dr Bentley, 254 
 
 Arbuthnot, John : An Account of the State of Learning in the Empire of Lilliput, 255 ; ^irgilius 
 Restauratus, 256 ; Critical Remarks upon Gulliuer's Travels, 265, 266 
 
 Argument to Prwe...\\i^ John Burford], 241 
 
 Aristophanes, ed. L. Kuster, with Bentley's emendations, 143 
 
 Emendationes ineditae Bentleii, 187 
 
 Athena' Cantabrigienses, advertisement, 291 
 
 Atterbury, Francis, writes 'above half C. Boyle's Dr Bentley's Dissertations on Phalaris... 
 examind, 97, 98, 107, 108 ; A Short Revienv of the Contro-uersy bet-ween Mr Boyle 
 and Dr Bentley (? by him), 129 
 
 B. F., M.A., A Free but Modest Censure..., 103 
 
 Barnes, Joshua, Bentley's letter to, 113, 281 
 
 Bentley, Richard (f 1742), Antigonus Carystius, notes on, 186
 
 I04 INDEX 
 
 Bentley, Richard (11742), Aristophanes, emendations on, 143, 187 
 
 Articles to be enquired of, within the Archdeaconry of Ely, in the Visitation of 
 
 Richard Bentley, 35 
 
 Callimachi Fragmenta, 139 
 
 Case of Trinity College in Cambridge, 242 
 
 Catullus, conjectures on, 188 
 
 Cicero, Academica, notes on, 182 
 
 Tusculans, emendations on, 140; criticised by J. C. SchrOder, 141 
 
 Critica Sacr^ 88 
 
 Hephaestion, notes on, 189 
 
 Hesiod, conjectures on, 190 
 
 Hesychius, emendations on, 273 
 
 Hierocles, emendations on, 142 
 
 Homer's Iliad, notes on, 1 9 1 
 
 Horace, see sub njerbo 
 
 Lucan, notes on, 193 
 
 Lucretius, annotations on, 194 
 
 Manilii Astronomicon, 183 
 
 Menandri et Philemonis Reliquiae, emendations on, 145 
 
 Milton's Paradise Lost, A New Edition, 257, 258 ; attacks on it, 259 — 264 
 
 Nicandri Theriaca, emendations on, 195 
 
 Novum Testamentum. Proposals for Printing, 74, 78 ; replies and comments, 
 
 75—77, 79—87 
 
 Opuscula philologica, 116 
 
 Oratiuncula Cantabrigise in Comitiis habita, Julii vi, 1725, 175 
 
 Ovidius, emendations on, 196 
 
 Phaedri Fabultr, 175, 176 
 
 Philostratus, notes on, 138 
 
 Plautus, emendations on, 197, 198, 199 
 
 Plutarch, emendations on, 200 
 
 Praelection for the Regius Professorship of Divinity, 45 
 
 Present State of Trinity College, 205, 206 
 
 Proposal for Building a Royal Library, 250; reprinted, pp. 93 — 96 
 
 Proposals for Printing a New Edition of the Greek Testament, 74, 78 ; replies and 
 
 comments, 75 — 77, 79 — 87 
 
 Remarks upon a late Discourse of Free-Thinking, 49 — 57; translations, 58 — 59; 
 
 replies, 61 — 62 
 
 Seneca; Opera, emendations on, 201 
 
 Sermons : The Folly of Atheism (Boyle Lectures, I), i — 5, 32 
 
 Matter and Motion cannot Think (Boyle Lectures, II), 6 — 10 ; Obsernjations 
 
 on it [by Henry Layton], 1 1
 
 INDEX 105 
 
 Bentley, Richard (f 1742), Sermons: A Confutation of Atheism from the Structure. ..of 
 Humane Bodies 
 
 Part I. (Boyle Lectures, III), 12 — 14 
 Part II. (Boyle Lectures, IV), 15 — 17 
 Part III. (Boyle Lectures, V), 18 — 20 
 
 A Confutation of Atheism from the Origin and Frame of the World 
 
 Part I. (Boyle Lectures, VI), 21 — 22, 32 
 Part II. (Boyle Lectures, VII), 23, 32 
 Part III. (Boyle Lectures, VIII), 24, 32 
 
 The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism demonstrated... in eight 
 
 sermons, 26 — 28, 30 — 31 ; selections and abridgments, 29, 32 ; translation, 33 
 
 Eight Sermons preach'd at. ..Boyle's Lecture, 26 — 28, 30 — 31, 33 ; selections 
 
 and abridgments, 29, 32 ; translation, 33 
 
 Sermons at Boyle's Lecture, 1694 (not printed), p. 9 
 
 Of Revelation and the Messias, 27, 28, 31, 32, 34 
 
 A Sermon upon Popery, 28, 31, 36, 37 ; Remarks on it [by J. Gumming], 
 
 38 — 40; Reflections on the Remarks, 41 
 
 A Sermon before. ..King George, 43 — 45 
 
 Sill us Italicus, emendations on, 202 
 
 Sophocles, Theocritus, Bion, Moschus, Nicander, Calllmachus, emendations on, 203 
 
 Speech by Dr Bentley Archdeacon of Ely to the Clergy of that Diocese, 42 
 
 Syri, Publli, Sententiae, 175, 176 
 
 Terence, see sub --verho 
 
 Verses.. .by Mr Titley, reply to, 253; reprinted, pp. 98 — 99 
 
 Verses (Latin), 251, 252; reprinted, pp. 96 — 98 
 
 Works, ed. Dyce, 267 
 
 Correspondence, ed. C. Burney, 279, 282 
 
 ed. C. Wordsworth, 285 : reviewed by J. Bernays, 286 
 
 Letters to J. Barnes, 113, 281 
 
 E. Bernard, 279, 282, 283 
 
 Mrs Johanna Bernard, 289 
 
 J. C. Biel, 273 
 
 P. Burman, 279, 282, 288 
 
 S. Clarke, 278 
 
 R. Cotes, 287 
 
 J. Davles, no, 113, 275 
 
 F. Gacon, no, 268 
 
 P. Gordon, 280 
 
 J. G. Grasvlus, 279, 282, 284 
 
 T. Hemsterhuis, 277 
 
 Peter King, Lord Chancellor, 290 
 
 7-5
 
 io6 INDEX 
 
 Bentley, Richard (f 1742), Letters to L. Kuster, 281, 282 
 
 J. Laurence, 270 
 
 J. Le Clerc, 276 
 
 E. Leeds, 289 
 
 Dr Mead, 195 
 
 J. Mill, 137, 146 
 
 S. Mopinot, 272 
 
 J. Posthlethwait, 289 
 
 G. Richter, 269, 282 
 
 T. Rudd (?), 199 
 
 P. Sabatier, 272 
 
 W. Stubbe, 289 
 
 V. Thuillier, 272 
 
 J. J. Wetstein, 274 
 
 unknown correspondents, 271 
 
 Two Letters to Dr Bentley. ..concerning the Greek Testament. Together with the 
 
 Doctor's Answer, 70 — 73 
 
 Memoir, H. Coleridge, 301 
 
 R. Cumberland, 295 
 
 T. de Quincey, 300 
 
 F. G. Hand, 297 
 
 J. G. von Herder, 309 
 
 — Hinton, 292 
 
 R. C. Jebb, 306, 307, 308 
 
 J. Maehly, 303 
 
 J. H. Monk, 298, 299 
 
 J. Nichols, 294 
 
 H. J. Nicoll, 305 
 
 M. Pattison, 304 
 
 E. Rud, 302 
 
 J. E. Sandys, 310 
 
 F. A. Wolf, 296 
 
 Advertisement of an Athena Cantahr'igienses, to contain Bentley's Life [a Satire], 291 
 
 Life and Conversation [Satire], 166 
 
 Portrait by T. Hudson, p. loi, no. 6 ; engravings from it, p. 102, nos. 13, 14 
 
 Portrait by Sir J. Thornhill, p. 100, nos. 2, 3 ; copies, p. loo, nos. 4, 5 ; engravings 
 
 from it, pp. 101, 102, nos. 7 — 12 
 
 Portrait engraved by Dean, p. 102, no. 11 
 
 C. Picart, pp. loi, 102, nos. 9, 10 
 
 — — J. Posselwhite, p. 102, nos. 13, 14 
 
 W. Sharp, p. 10 1, no. 8
 
 I
 
 INDEX 107 
 
 Bentley, Portrait engraved by G. Vertue, p. loi, no. 7 
 
 Bust by Roubillac, p. 100, no. i 
 
 Caricature in connection with the Phalaris Controversy, 106 
 
 Richard (ti786), publishes ed. 8 of his uncle's Remarks upon a late Discourse of Free- 
 
 Thinking, 5 6 
 
 edits Manilius, 183 
 
 Thomas: Q. Horatius Flaccus, 152 
 
 Bernard, E., his letters to Bentley, 279, 282, 283 
 
 Johanna, her letters, 289 
 
 Bernays, J., reviews Bentley 's Correspondence, ed. Wordsworth, 286 
 
 Biel, J. C, Bentley writes to, 273 
 
 Blomer, Thomas : A Full Fieiv of Dr Bentley' s Letter, 2 1 1 
 
 Boisbeleau de la Chapelle, A., translates Bentley's Remarks upon a late Discourse of Free-Thinking 
 
 into French, 58 
 Boyle, Hon. Charles: Phalaridis Epistol^, 91 — 93 ; Dr Bentley s Dissertations on the Epistles oj 
 
 Phalaris. ..examind, 97, 98, 107, 108; Bentley's Answer, 109 — 119; letter by 
 
 in A Short Account of Dr Bentley's Humanity and Justice, 121; Memoirs, by 
 
 E. Budgell, 135 
 Hon. Robert, Lectures founded by him, 1692, i — 33 ; 1694, p. 9 ; his funeral sermon, 
 
 by G. Burnet, 33 
 Brix, Julius: De Terentii libris MSS. 179; De Terentii Fabulis, 180 
 Brogden, James: Illustrations of the Liturgy... of the United Church of England and Ireland 
 
 [contains Bentley's Sermon before King George], 45 
 Budgell, Eustace : Memoirs of the Earl of Orrery [contains an account of the Phalaris 
 
 Controversy], 1 3 5 
 Burford, John : An Argument to Prove,.., 241 
 
 Burges, G., publishes Bentley's Emendationes in Aristophanem, 187 ; in O'vidium, 196 
 Burgess, Thomas, edits Adnotationes Millii...ad I. Joann. -u. 7 and A Selection of Tracts on 
 
 I. John nj. 7 [contain Tiuo Letters to Dr. Bentley ...concerning the Greek 
 
 Testament. Together 'with the Doctor's Ans-u/er], 72 — 73 
 Burghers, Michael, 91, 92, 95 
 Burman, P., his letters to Bentley, 279, 282, 284 
 Burnet, Gilbert, Bp of Salisbury .• Oratio exequialis in funere Roberti Boyle, 3 3 
 
 yicar of Coggeshall: A Defence of Natural and Re-vealed Religion [contains 
 
 Bentley's Sermons at Boyle's Lecture abridged], 29 
 
 Burney, Ch., edits Bentley's correspondence, 279, 282 
 
 E. F., copies Thornhill's portrait of Bentley, p. loi, no. 8 
 
 Buss, R. W., copies Thornhill's portrait of Bentley, p. 100, no. 5 
 Byrom, John : A Revietv oJ the Proceedings against Dr Bentley, 233 
 
 Callimachus, ed. J. G. Grsevius, with Bentley's collection of Fragments, 139 ; T. Stanley's 
 Notes on, 121
 
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 Case of Trinity College in Cambridge [by R. Bentley], 242 
 
 Catullus, ed. L. Schwabe, with Bentley's conjectures, 188 
 
 Christ Church publications, 95 — 97, 121 
 
 Cicero: Academica, ed. J. Davies, with Bentley's Notes, 182 
 Tusculan Disputations, ed. J. Davies, with Bentley's emendations, 140, 141 
 
 Clarke, S., Bentley writes to, 278 
 
 Clergyman's Thanks to Phileleutherus for his Remarks [by F. Hare], 62 
 
 Colbatch, John, considered by Bentley to be the author of Remarks upon the Proposals... for a 
 Neiu Edition of the Greek Testament, 78 ; his Declaration disclaiming any 
 connection with the Remarks, 79 ; Declaration by the Vice-Chancellor and 
 Heads at his instance, 83; writes Jus Academicum, 239; The Case of Trinity 
 College in Relation to a Visitor, 243 ; A Defence of the Bp. of Ely's Visitatorial 
 Jurisdiction, 245 ; A Vindication of the Bp. of Ely's Visitatorial Jurisdiction, 246 
 
 Coleridge, Hartley, his life of Bentley, 301 
 
 Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts [contains Smalbroke's Enquiry'], 86 
 
 Collins, Anthony : A Discourse of Free-Thinking, 46 — 48 ; translations, 46 ; replies, 49 — 60, 
 63 — 69 
 
 Commins, John, see Cumming, John 
 
 Cotes, R., his letters to Bentley, 287 
 
 Craven, Joseph: T'njoo letters to Dr Bentley \J by him], 70 — 73 
 
 Critical Remarks on Captain Gulli'ver's Tra'vels [by John Arbuthnot .?], 265, 266 
 
 Crousaz, Jean Pierre de : Examen du Traiti de la liberty de penser d'Antoine Collins, 69 
 
 Cumberland, Richard, publishes Newton's Four Letters to Dr Bentley, 25 ; edits Lucan with 
 notes by Bentley, 193; revises Hinton's Life of Bentley, 292; vindicates 
 Bentley in a Letter to the Bp of Oxford, 293 ; his reminiscences of Bentley, 295 
 
 Cumming, John : Remarks on Bentley's Sermon upon Popery, 38 — 40 ; Reflections on the 
 Remarks, 41 
 
 Cuningham, Alexander: Animadnjersiones in R. Bentleii Notas...ad Horatium. ..lyo, 171; 
 Horatio denuo castigatus, 172 
 
 Davies, John, edits Academica of Cicero, with Bentley's Notes, 182 ; Cicero's Tusculans, with 
 Bentley's emendations, 140 ; Bentley's letter to, no, 113, 275 
 
 Dawes, Ri., his letter to J. Taylor, 279 
 
 De Quincey, Tho., his essay on Bentley, 300 
 
 Dean, engraves Bentley's portrait, p. 102, no. 11 
 
 Defence of the...Bp. of Ely s Visitatorial Jurisdiction [by J. Colbatch], 245 
 
 Dialogues of the Dead [by W. King], 126 
 
 Dickins, Francis, Letter from G. Paul to, 6 1 
 
 Discourse of Free-Thinking [by Anthony Collins], 46 — 48 ; translations, 46 ; replies, 49 — 60, 
 63 — 69 
 
 Dodwell, Henry: De Veteribus...Cyclis, 130; Exercitationes Duee, 131 
 
 Dyce, Alex., edits Bentley's Works, 267
 
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 I
 
 INDEX 109 
 
 E. J., disguise adopted by Bentley in his Proposals for Printing a Nenjo Eiiition of the Greek 
 
 Testament (1721), 78 
 Ellis, Arthur Ayres, edits Bentleii Crilica Sacra, 88 
 Ely, Case of Lord Bp., Plaintiff in Error ; Richard Bentley, D.D., Defendant in Error, to be 
 
 heard at the Bar of the H. of Lords, 247, 248, 249 
 Enquiry into the Authority of the Primitive Complutensian Edition of the Ne-iv Testament [by 
 
 R. Smalbroke], 85 — 87 
 
 EpistoliT DuiP ad F F scripts [by Z. Pearce], 80 
 
 Essay concerning Critical and Curious Learning. By T. R[ymer], 99 ; Ans-xuer to it, 100 ; 
 
 Vindication of it by Rymer, loi 
 Examen Poeticum Duplex [ridicules Bentley], 96 
 
 Family Lectures [Bentley's Sermons reprinted in], 5, 32 
 
 Francklin, Tho., translates Phalaris, 136 
 
 Free but Modest Censure. .."Ry F. B. M.A., 103 
 
 Free-Thinking rightly stated, 66 
 
 Free Thoughts upon the Discourse of Free-Thinking, 64 
 
 Freind, John, collaborates in C. Boyle's Dr Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris... 
 
 examind, 97, 98, 107, 108 
 Robert, collaborates in C. Boyle's Dr Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris... 
 
 examind, 97, 98, 107, 108 
 Friedemann, F. T., edits Bentley's correspondence, 282, 284 
 Friendly Letter to Dr Bentley [on his edition of Paradise Lost], 259, 260 
 Full and Impartial Account of all the late Proceedings. ..against Dr Bentley [by C. Middleton], 
 
 226, 227 5 Second Part [of the above], 230 
 Furia, Franciscus de, 1 1 8 
 
 Gacon, F., Letter to Bentley and Bentley's reply, no, 268 
 
 Garth, Samuel : The Dispensary [satirises Bentley], 1 2 8 
 
 Gordon, P., Bentley writes to, 280 
 
 Graevius, J. G., edits Callimachus, 139 ; his letters to Bentley, 279, 282, 284 
 
 Grey, Zachary, supposed to have written A Vindication of the Uni-versity of Cambridge, 238 
 
 Gronovius, Jacob, attacks Bentley in reference to his emendations of Menander, 147 
 
 Hand, F. G., his life of Bentley, 297 
 
 Hare, Francis, Bentley's Remarks upon a Discourse of Free-Thinking addressed to, 49 ; writes 
 The Clergyman's Thanks to Phileleutherus, 62 ; Epistola critica...in Phardrum, 177 
 Hedicke, E. : Studia Bentleiana, 196 ; Faria I. Vergilius Bentleianus, 204 
 Hemsterhuis, T., Bentley writes to, 277 
 Hephaestion, ed. Gaisford, with Bentley's notes, 189 
 Herder, J. G. von, criticises Bentley, 309
 
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 Hermann, J. G. J., publishes a Dissertation on Bentley and his edition of Terence, 178, 282 
 
 Hesiod, ed. C. Goettling, with Bentley's conjectures, 190 
 
 Hesychius, ed. J. Alberti, with Bentley's emendations, 273 
 
 Hierocles, ed. P. Needham, with Bentley's emendations, 142 
 
 Hinton, his life of Bentley, 292 
 
 Hoadly, Benjamin : Queries recommended to the Authors of the late Discourse of Free Thinking, 68 
 
 Homer, ed. Heine, with Bentley's notes on the Iliad, 191 
 
 Horatius, ed. Bentley, 149 — 163 ; Bentleii Cura no-uissimte, 192 ; Animad--uersiones in 
 R. Bentleii Notas (A. Cuningham), 17c, 171 ; Aristarchus Ampullans in Curis 
 Horatianis, 164 ; Aristarchus Anti-Bentleianus (R. Johnson), 169 ; De atate 
 poematum Horatianorum (John Apitz), 174; Dedication of Horace translated, 
 
 156, 157 ; Fi've Extraordinary Letters supposed to be ^writ to Dr B -y, upon his 
 
 Edition of Horace, 165 ; Horatius denuo castigatus (A. Cuningham), 172 ; 
 Horatius Reformatus... 162, 163 ; 1st die Meynung des R. Rentley iXber die 
 Zeit. ..(Dr Leps), 173 ; Life and Conversation of Richard Bentley. ..166 ; Life of 
 Horace, nvith Bentley's Preface, 158 ; Mr Le Clerc's Judgment and Censure of 
 Dr Bentley's Horace, 167 ; Quaterno' Epistola- (J. Ker), 168 
 
 Hudson, T., paints Bentley's portrait, p. loi 
 
 Humble and Serious Representation of the Present State of Trinity College, 220 
 
 Ivy, Ed., Articuli Pads, in Examen Poeticum Duplex, 96 
 
 Jablonski, D. E., translates Bentley's Boyle Lectures into Latin, 33 
 
 Jacob, Fra., criticises Bentley's Manilius, 184 
 
 Jebb, R. C, writes Life of Bentley, 306, 307 ; article in D. N. B. 308 
 
 Johnson, Richard : Aristarchus Anti-Bentleianus, 169 
 
 Journey to London [by W. King], 104 
 
 Jus Academicum [by John Colbatch], 239 
 
 Keill, John, attacks Bentley in An Examination of Dr Burnet's Theory of the Earth, 105 
 
 Ker, J., Quaterna Epistola, 168 
 
 Kidd, Thomas, publishes Bentley's Cura no-vissima ad Horatium, 192 ; Emendationes ad Seneca 
 
 Opera, 201 
 King, Peter, Bentley writes to, 290 
 William, vindicates Bennet the bookseller in A short Account of Dr Bentley's Humanity 
 
 and Justice, 121 ; writes A Journey to London, 104 ; Dialogues of the Dead, 126 ; 
 
 Some Account of Horace, 217 
 Koutorga, S. de : Examen de la Dissertation de Richard Bentley, 120 
 Kraft, F. C, edits Bentley's correspondence, 284 
 Kuster, Ludolph, edits Aristophanes, with Bentley's emendations, 143 ; writes to Bentley, 
 
 281, 282
 
 INDEX III 
 
 La Chapelle, A. Boisbeleau de, see Boisbeleau de la Chapelle 
 
 Laurence, John, his letter to Bentley, with Bentley's answer, 270 
 
 Layton, Henry : Observations upon a Sermon, 1 1 
 
 Le Clerc, J. : Judgment and Censure of Bentley's Horace, 167 ; his letter to Bentley, with 
 
 Bentley's answer, 276 
 Leeds, Edw., Bentley writes to, 289 
 Lennep, Joannes Daniel a: Phalaridis Epistolae, 93 ; translates Bentley's Du;fr/^/;'o« into Latin, 
 
 115, 1 16 
 Leps, W., writes on Bentley's theory of the succession of Horace's Poems, 173 
 Letsome, Sampson : A Defence of Natural and Re-vealed Religion [contains Bentley's Sermons 
 
 at Boyle's Lecture], 30 
 Letter to the Master of Trinity College, signed Philalethes, 81, 82 
 
 Letter to the Re'verend Dr Bentley. Upon the Controversie bet^wixt him and Mr Boyle, 1 2 7 
 Lloyd, William: A Chronological Account of the Life of Pythagoras..., 125 
 Lowth, Robert, attacks Bentley in a letter to Warburton, 293 
 Lucanus, M. Annaeus : Pharsalia cum notis Grotii et Bentleii, 193 
 Lucretius, ed. G. Wakefield, with Bentley's notes, 194 
 
 Maehly, J., his life of Bentley, 303 
 
 Malelas, ed. J. Mill, with Bentley's Letter, 137 
 
 Mallet, Dav. : Of Verbal Criticism, 263 
 
 Manilius, Marcus, ex recensione R. Bentleii, 183 ; criticised by Fra. Jacob, 184 
 
 Menander, ed. J. le Clerc, 144 ; attacked by Bentley, 145, 146 
 
 Middleton, Conyers : Remarks upon the Proposals... for a New Edition of the Greek Testament, 
 
 75 — 77 ; Some Farther Retnarks, 84 ; A Full and Impartial Account of all the late 
 
 Proceedings. ..against Dr Bentley, 226, 227 ; A Second Part [of the above], 230 ; 
 
 Some Remarks upon. ..The Case ofDr Bentley farther Stated, 232 ; y? True Account 
 
 of the Present State of Trinity College, 234 ; publishes a Declaration admitting 
 
 the authorship of A True Account [etc.], 235 ; Bibliothec^ Cantabrigiensis 
 
 Ordinandi Methodus Qu^edam, 240 
 Mill, John : Adnotationes ad I. loann. V. 7 [contains Tnvo Letters to Dr Bentley. ..concerning the 
 
 Greek Testament. Together ^ivith the Doctor s Ans^xver], 72 ; Bentley's Letter to on 
 
 Malelas, 137, 146 
 Miller, E. : Some Remarks upon. ..The Present State of Trinity College, 207; An Account of the 
 
 University of Cambridge, 221, 222 
 Milner, John : A Fienjo of the Dissertation upon...Phalaris, etc. by Bentley, 102 
 Milton, John : Paradise Lost, ed. Bentley, 257, 258 ; attacks on it, 259 — 264 
 
 Mr C ns's Discourse.. .put into plain English [.''by J. Swift], 65 
 
 Monk, J. H., publishes Bentley's Emendationes in Aristophanem, 187 ; in Nicandri Theriaca, 
 
 195 ; Life oj Bentley, 298, 299 
 Mopinot, S., Bentley writes to, 272
 
 112 INDEX 
 
 Newton, Sir Isaac : Four Letters to Dr Bentley, 25 
 
 Nicander : Theriaca, cum emendationibus Bentleii, 195 
 
 Nicholl, John, edits A Defence of Natural and Revealed Religion [contains Bentley's Sermons 
 
 at Boyle's Lecture], 30 
 Nichols, John, writes a life of Bentley, 294 
 Nicoll, H. J., writes a life of Bentley, 305 
 
 O. N., M.A., see Byrom, John 
 
 Observations upon a Sermon (i.e. Boyle Lecture, H.) [by H. Layton], 1 1 
 
 Of Verbal Criticism [by D. Mallet], 263 
 
 Oldisworth, William: The Odes of Horace in Latin and English, 159, 160 
 
 Orelli, J. C. : Collectio epistolarum Graecarum [contains Latin version of Bentley's Dissertation 
 
 on the Epistles of Socrates'], 1 1 7 
 Ovidius, emendations on by Bentley, 196 
 
 Paris, John, supposed to have written The True State of Trinity College, 208, 209 ; A True and 
 
 Impartial Account, 216 
 Partridge, supposed to have written Some Considerations, and The Rights of the Scholars of Trinity 
 
 College asserted, 210, 212 
 Pattison, M., writes a life of Bentley, 304 
 
 Paul, Geoi-ge : An Account of a Discourse at the Gr^ecian CoJ^ee-House, 6 1 
 Pauw, J. C. de : Philargyrii Cantabrigiensis Emendationes in Menandri Reliquias [attacks 
 
 Bentley], 148 
 Pearce, Zachary : Epistola Dua, 80 ; supposed to have written An Account of Trinity College, 
 
 236 ; writes A Revievj of the Text of Milton s Paradise Lost, 262 
 Phaedrus : Eabula, ed. Bentley, 175, 176; attacked by Hare, 177 
 Phalaris : Epistola^. Recensuit C. Boyle, 91 — 93 ; translated by J. S. [i.e. S. Whately], 122, 
 
 123 ; by T. Francklin, 136 ; Dissertation upon the Epistles oj Phalaris, Themistocles, 
 
 etc., by Bentley, 94, 109 — 114 ; translations, 115 — 119 
 Philalethes : A Letter to the Master of Trinity-College, 81, 82 
 Philargyrlus Cantabrigiensis, see Pauw, J. C. de, 148 
 Phileleutherus Cantabrigiensis: Animadversions... upon the University s Proceedings against... 
 
 Richard Bentley, 237 
 
 Lipsiensis, pseudonym adopted by Bentley in his Remarks upon a late Discourse 
 
 of Free-Thinking, 49 ; and in his Emendationes in Menandri Reliquias, 145, 146 
 
 Londinensis, pseudonym adopted by Zachary Pearce in Epistola- Duo-, 80 
 
 Philo-Bentleius, 219 
 
 Philo-Criticus, pseudonym adopted by F. Hare in The Clergyman's Thanks to Phileleutherus, 62 
 
 Philo-Georgius, 219 
 
 Philostratus, ed. G. Olearius, with Bentley's notes, 138 
 
 Picart, C, engraves Bentley's portrait, pp. loi, 102, nos. 9, 10
 
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 INDEX 113 
 
 Plautus, emendations on by Bentley, 197, 198, 199 
 
 Plutarchus, ed. S. Squire, with Bentley 's emendations, 200 
 
 Political State of Great Britain [Bentley's Speech published in], 42 
 
 Pope, A., attacks Bentley in Dunciad, 256 
 
 Posselwhite, J., engraves Bentley 's portrait, p. 102, nos. 13, 14 
 
 Posthlethvvait, J., Bentley writes to, 289 
 
 Proceedings of the Vice-Chancellor... stated and -vindicated [by W. Sherlock], 225 
 
 Profuturus, M. Lucilius, pseudonym of J. Gronovius, 147 
 
 Queries recommended to the Authors of the late Discourse of Free Thinking [by B. Hoadly], 68 
 
 R. T., see Rymer, Thomas 
 
 Rambach, E. E., translates Bentley's Remarks upon a late Discourse of Free-Thinking into 
 
 German, 59 
 Randolph, John, edits Enchiridion Theologicum [contains Bentley's Remarks upon a late Discourse 
 
 of Free-Thinking'], 57 
 Reflections on the. ..Remarks upon a Sermon on Popery, 41 
 Remarks on Bentley's Sermon upon Popery [by J. Gumming], 38 — 40 ; Reflections on the 
 
 Remarks, 41 
 
 upon a late Discourse of Free-Thinking [by Richard Bentley], 49 — 57 ; translations, 
 
 58 — 59 ; replies, 61 — 62 
 
 upon the Proposals. ..for a Nenv Edition of the Greek Testament [by C. Middleton], 
 
 75—77 
 Renjte'w of the Proceedings against Dr Bentley [by John Byrom], 233 
 
 of the Text of Milton's Paradise Lost [by Zachary Pearce], 262 
 
 Ribbeck, Woldemar, translates Bentley's Dissertations into German, 1 1 9 
 Richardson, John : Explanatory notes on Milton's Paradise Lost, 264 
 Richter, G., Bentley writes to, 269, 282 
 
 Rights of the Scholars of Trinity College asserted [attributed to Partridge], 211 
 Roubiliac, L. F., his bust of Bentley, p. loo, no. i 
 Rud, E., his Diary with an account of Bentley's proceedings, 302 
 
 Rymer, Thomas, An Essay concerning Critical and Curious Learning. By T. R[ymer], 99 ; 
 Ansixier to it, 100 ; Vindication of it by Rymer, 101 
 
 S. J., see Whately, Solomon 
 
 Sabatier, P., Bentley writes to, 272 
 
 St Jatnes's Post, Bentley's Speech published in, 42 ; Sykes's Letter published in, 224, 228 
 
 Salter, S., edits Bentley's Dissertations, iio, 112 
 
 Sandys, J. E., writes accounts of Bentley's life and work, 310 
 
 Schroder, J. C, criticises Bentley on Cicero's Tusculans, 141 
 
 L. A. P., publishes Bentley's emendations on Plautus 197 
 
 Seidel, C. M., translates Bentley's Sermons at Boyle's Lecture into German, 33
 
 114 INDEX 
 
 Selection of Tracts on I John v. 7 [contains T-uoo Letters to Dr Bentley ...concerning the Greek 
 
 Testament. Together ivith the Doctor's Ansiver], 73 
 Seneca, L. Annseus, emendations on by Bentley, 201 
 Sharp, W., engraves Bentley's portrait, p. 10 1, no. 8 
 
 Sherlock, W. : The Proceedings of the l^ice-Chancellor... stated and vindicated, 225 
 Short Account of Dr Bentlefs Humanity and Justice, 121 
 
 Short Re-vie-M of the Contro-uersy bet-iveen Mr Boyle and Dr Bentley [? by Fra. Atterbury], 129 
 Silius Italicus, emendations on by Bentley, 202 
 Smalbroke, Richard : An Enquiry into the Authority of the Primitive Complutensian Edition of the 
 
 Ne-iv Testament, 85 — 87 
 Smalridge, George, collaborates in C. Boyle's Dr Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles ofPhalaris 
 
 ...examind, 97, 98, 107, 108 
 Some Account of Horace... at Trinity College [by W. King], 217 
 
 Some Considerations. ..on The Present State of Trinity College [attributed to Partridge], 210 
 Some Remarks upon... The Case of Dr Bentley farther Stated, 232 
 
 Sonnenschein, E. A., publishes some of Bentley's emendations on Plautus, 198, 199 
 Stanley, Thomas, 121 
 
 Sterne, Lawrence, plagiarises Bentley in Tristram Shandy, 36 
 Stubbe, Wolfran, Bentley writes to, 289 
 
 Sverdsioeus, Alex. Theod. : Findici^ pr^cepti Bentleiani de genitinjo substanti-vorum [^/c], 185 
 Swift, Jonathan : Mr C ns's Discourse. ..put into plain English [attributed to him], 65 ; 
 
 A Tale of a Tub [etc.], 132, 134 
 Sykes, A. A., publishes two Letters on Bentley's Degradation, 224 ; two Letters in answer to 
 
 Sherlock and Middleton, 228 ; writes The Case of Dr Bentley truly stated, 229 ; 
 
 The Case of Dr Bentley farther Stated, 231 
 Syrus, Publius: Sententia; ed. Bentley, 175, 176 
 
 Temple, Sir William, Miscellanea {I. Upon Ancient and Modern Learning), 89 
 
 Terentius : Comoediae, ed. Bentley, 175, 176; De Metris Terentianis (R. Bentley), 175; 
 
 De Terentii libris MSS. (J. Brix), 179; De Terentii Fabulis (J. Brix), 180 j 
 
 Dissertation on Bentley's edition (J. G. J. Hermann), 178, 282 ; On Bentley's 
 
 English MSS. of Terence (Minton Warren), 1 8 1 
 Thirlby, Styan : The University oj Cambridge 'vindicated, 215 
 Thornhill, Sir J., paints Bentley's portrait, p. 100 
 Thuillier, V., Bentley writes to, 272 
 Titley, Walt., writes Verses to Bentley, 253 
 Trinity College Triumph. An Historical Ballad, z^.^ 
 
 True Account of the Present State of Trinity College [by C. Middleton], 234 
 True and Impartial Account of the present Differences betiueen the Master and Felloivs of Trinity 
 
 College [attributed to J. Paris], 216 
 True Copy of the Articles against Dr Bentley, 213, 214
 
 INDEX 115 
 
 True State of Trinity College [attributed to J. Paris and S. White], 208, 209 
 
 TiJuo Letters to Dr Bentley... concerning... the Greek Testament [? by Joseph Craven], 70 — 73 
 
 University-loyalty consider' d, 2 1 9 
 
 Uni'uersity of Cambridge 'vindicated [by Styan Thirlby], 2 1 5 
 
 Valckenaer, L. C. : Phalaridis Epistolae, 93 
 
 Vertue, G., engraves Bentley's portrait, p. loi, no. 7 
 
 FietJo of the Dissertation upon...P/uilaris, etc. by Bentley [by J. Milner], 102 
 
 Vindication of the Essay concerning Critical and Curious Learning [by T. Rymer], i o i 
 
 Vindication of the.,.Bp of Ely's Visitatorial Jurisdiction [by J. Colbatch], 246 
 
 Vindication of the Uni-uersity of Cambridge. In Ans'wer to. ..Animadversions (No. 237), 238 
 
 Virgilius Restauratus [by John Arbuthnot ?], 256 
 
 Wagner, Wilhelm, edits Bentley's Dissertations, 113, 114 
 
 Warren, Minton : On Bentley's English MSS. of Terence, 181 
 
 Wetstein, J. J., Bentley writes to, 274 
 
 Whately, Solomon: The Epistles of Phalaris translated, 122, 123 ; An Ansiver to a late 
 
 Book..., 124 
 Whiston, William: Reflexions on. ..A Discourse of Free Thinking, 60 
 White, Samuel, supposed to have written The True State of Trinity College, 208, 209 
 W^illiams, Daniel: A Letter to the Author of A Discourse of Eree-Thinking, 67 
 Woehler, E., translates R. C. Jebb's Bentley, 307 
 Wolf, F. A., writes a life of Bentley, 296 
 
 Wordsworth, Chr., edits Bentley's Correspondence, 285; reviewed by J. Bernays, 286 
 Wotton, William: Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning, 90, 94, 133 
 
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