that he might be buried in Olney or his beloved Weston :

"So glide my life away! and so at last,
My share of duties decently performed,
May some disease, not tardy to perform
Its destined office, yet with gentle stroke,
Dismiss me weary to a safe retreat,

Beneath the turf that I have often trod."

It was decided, however, that he should be interred in East Dereham Church by the side of Mrs. Unwin. Over his remains is a monument erected to his memory by Lady Hesketh, the inscription of which was supplied by Hayley. It runs :

"IN MEMORY OF

WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ.,

BORN IN HERTFORDSHIRE, 1731,

BURIED IN THIS CHURCH, 1800.

Ye, who with warmth the public triumph feel
Of talents, dignified by sacred zeal,

Here, to devotion's bard devoutly just,

Pay your fond tribute due to Cowper's dust!
England, exulting in his spotless fame,

Ranks with her dearest sons his favourite name.
Sense, fancy, wit, suffice not all to raise
So clear a title to affection's praise;
His highest honours to the heart belong ;
His virtues form'd the magic of his song."

APPENDIX A.

A CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ., TAKEN BY WILLIAM BARKER, BOOKSELLER, EAST DEREHAM, NORFOLK, OCTOBER, 1800.

[From a copy in the handwriting of the late John Bruce, F.S.A. The numbers and words in brackets are added by the author. The words italicised are in the handwriting of Dr. J. Johnson.]

4. Chapman's Homer's Iliad. (Presented by Mr. Park in May, 1793.)

5. Villoison's Homer's Iliad. Venice, 1788. (Presented by Mr. Throckmorton in 1789.)

6. Pope's Homer, 3 vols., Subscription Copy. Lond., 1715. 7. Also the three volumes of Boydell's Milton, a present from Mr. Hayley, the editor. These volumes have not Mr. Cowper's name written in them, as almost all the others have.

QUARTOS.

8. Baxter's Saints' Everlasting Rest. Lond., 1654.

9. Flavel's Sermons. Lond., 1673.

10. Flavel's Method of Grace. Lond., 1699.

11. Holy Bible, large paper. Oxford, 1726. (This was the family Bible of Cowper's father, referred to on p. 41.)

12. Hayley's Life of Milton. Lond., 1796.

13. Beresford's Eneid of Virgil. Lond., 1794.

14. Antithelyphthora, with other Tracts.

15. Miller's Gardener's Dictionary. Lond., 1763. 16. Ainsworth's Lat. and Eng. Dictionary.

17. Wrongs of Almoova, &c.

1783.

Lond., 1798.

18. Hederici Lexicon. Lond., 1766. 19. Maurice's History of Hindostan, vol. ii. 20. Darwin's Botanic Garden, royal paper. 21. Hayley's Milton, 3 vols., Imperial paper. 22. Curious ornamented MS. of College Lectures. 1625. (See §6.) 23. Bentley's Milton's Paradise Lost. Lond., 1732.

Lond., 1791.
Lond., 1797.

24. Clarke's Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, 2 vols. Lond., 1754. 25. Dissertationes Homericæ, by Riccins. Florence, 1740. 26. Barnes' Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, 2 vols. Camb., 1711. 27. Twining's Aristotle. Lond., 1789. (Presented by General Cowper in 1789.)

28. Dalzell's Plains of Troy. Edinb., 1791.

Chevalier.)

29. Macpherson's Homer's Iliad. Lond., 1773.

(Translation of

30. Cowper's Homer, 2 vols., royal paper. Lond., 1791.

OCTAVOS.

31. Buxtorfii Lexicon. Lond., 1646.

32. Homer's Iliad, Gr. and Lat. Lond., 1728.

33. Devonshire and Cornwall Poems. Bath, 1792. (Presented by Rev. Richard Polwhele, June, 1792.)

35. Lyon's Hebrew Grammar. Camb., 1757.

36. Elegant Extracts, large paper. Lond. (By Vicesimus

Knox.)

37. Biographia Evangelica, 4 vols. Lond., 1779. (By the Rev. Erasmus Middleton, afterwards Rector of Turvey. Mr. Henry Gough writes: "This very copy was in the possession of a friend of mine, now deceased. It was purchased at Hayley's sale. In each volume was the poet's engraved bookplate (which I have never seen elsewhere), with the arms of Cowper and Stanbridge quarterly, and his autograph. Each volume had also his crest on the back in gold.")

38. Erskine's Sermons, 3 vols. Lond., 1763.

39. Berington's Rights of Dissenters, &c. (A Roman Catholic

work.)

40. Lawrence's Clergyman's Recreation. Lond., 1714.

41. Religious Tracts.

42. Newton's Ecclesiastical History. Lond., 1770.

43. Another copy, Lond., 1770.

44. Voyage to South America, 2 vols. Lond., 1758.

45. Boilieu's Works, 2 vols. Lond., 1712.

46. Juvenal's Satires. Lond., 1739.

47. Rutter and Carter's Modern Eden. Lond., 1767.

48. Newton's Sermons at Olney. Lond., 1767.

49. Green's (William) Translation of the Psalms. Camb., 1762.

50. Brown's Dictionary of the Bible, 2 vols. Edinb., 1789.

51. Hora Solitariæ. (By Ambrose Serle.) 2 vols. Lond., 1787. 52. Johnson's Lives of the Poets, 4 vols. Lond., 1790.

53. European Magazine, 1789.

54. Gentleman's Magazine, 1786. (See No. 82.)

55. Lunardi's Voyage and Expedition to Botany Bay.

56. Newton's Six Discourses. Liverpool, 1760.

57. Edwards's (Jonathan) History of Redemption. Edinb., 1774. 58. American Sermons, &c.

59. Analytical Review, 27 vols., complete.

60. Grace Triumphant and Redemption.

61. La Butte's and Du Fresnoy's French Grammar.

62. Letter to the Catholic Clergy. Lond., 1790.

63. Letter to Warton, &c.

64. Madan's Juvenal, 2 vols. Lond., 1789.

65. Monthly Review, 1769 to 1775 inclusive, 17 vols. (See

No. 86.)

66. Burn's Justice, 4 vols. Lond., 1776.

67. Burns's Scottish Poems. Edinb., 1787.

68. Virgilii Opera. Lond., 1687.

69. Cowper's Poems, 2 vols., large paper. Lond., 1788.

70. Miscellaneous Tracts.

71. Hitt on Fruit Trees. Lond., 1768.

72. Miller's Gardener's Kalendar. Lond., 1765.

73. Religious Tracts.

74. Review of Wesley. Lond., 1772.

75. Gillies' Memoirs of Whitfield, Lond., 1772.

76. Newton on the Prophecies, 3 vols. Lond., 1759.

77. Planting and Ornamental Gardening. Lond., 1785.

78. Beattie's Poems. Lond., 1784. (Bought by Cowper. See Letter, April 5, 1784.)

79. Volume of Tracts.

80. Wilberforce on Christianity. Lond., 1797.

81. Pope's Homer by Wakefield, II vols. Lond., 1796.

82. Gentleman's Magazine, 1787 to 1793 inclusive, 14 vols. (See

No. 54.)

83. More's (Hannah) Strictures on Education, 2 vols. Lond.,

1799.

84. Le Grand's Tales, Royal, large paper. Lond., 1796.

85. Vol. of Magazines and Reviews.

86. Monthly Review. 1777. (See No. 65.)
87. Newton's Milton, 6 vols.
88. Heyne's Virgil, 4 vols.
89. Newton's Milton, 4 vols.

Interleaved. Lond., 1790.
Lond., 1793.

Lond., 1770.

90. Clarke's Homer's Odyssey, 2 vols.

Lond., 1758.

91. Clarke's Homerica, for the Iliad. Lond., 1741.

92.

for the Odyssey, 4 vols. Turin, 1766.

93. Scott's (John Scott, D.D.) Christian Life, vol. v. Lond., 1699. 94. Pursuits of Literature. Lond., 1798. (By T. J. Mathias.)

SMALL OCTAVOS AND DUODECIMOS.

95. Pope's Homer's Odyssey, 5 vols. Lond., 1725.

96. Life of Janeway. Edinb., 1745.

97. Virgilii Opera. Edinb., 1743. 98. Novum Testamentum Græcum. 99. Dryden's Miscellany, 6 vols.

100. Life of Henry. Lond., 1716.

Oxon., 1742.
Lond., 1716.

101. Memoirs du Comte de Vordæ. Paris, 1703.

102. Voltaire's Louis XIV., in French, 2 tom. Hague, 1752.

103. Owen on Indwelling Sin.

104. Le Seau Enlevé, tom 2°.

1732.

Paris, 1758.

105. Swift's Miscellanies, II vols. Lond., 1731.

106. Abregé de L'Histoire Universale (sic), 3 tom, 12mo. Lond., 1758.

107. Fulfilling of the Scriptures. Glas., 1753.