121-122.

editorial note to Stanzas, i. 121.
the Stanzas first published in 1775,
i. 100.

assists in preparing the Chronologi-

cal table of ancient authors, ii. 158.
his designs for Gray's Elegy, ii. 234;
their publication, ii. 237; a second
edition, i. 227.

sale at London in 1882 of his draw-
ings for the six poems, ii. 237.
reference to, ii. 218.

Berger, a disciple of Linnæus, iii. 88.
Bernardi, Francesco, reference to, ii.65.
Bevis, Earl of Southampton, The Re-
portes of, i. 338.

his residence at Duncton, i. 338.

his sword one of the relics at Arun-
del Castle, i. 338.

Bibliographical statement of Gray's
writings, i. ix-xiii.

Bickham, James, Fellow of Emmanuel,
ii. 320.

Gray sends him a copy of The Odes,
ii. 320.

laments Mason's indolence, ii. 394.
reference to, iii. 98.

Bickham, Rev. Jeremy, obtains a liv-
ing, iii. 108.

Biographia, Dr. Nicholls wrote the
latter articles of, ii. 244.
Birch, Dr. Thomas, his State Papers, ii.

194.

his State Papers of Sir T. Edmondes,
ii. 281.

Birds, Couplet about, i. 139.
editorial note on, i. 139.
Birds in Norfolk, table of their noises
being first heard during 1755, iii.
95-96.

Birkett, Rev. George, asked by Gray
to pay his Italian master, ii. 3.
Blacowe, Rev. Mr., Canon of Windsor,
his death, iii. 40, 63.
Blue-Coat or Man-in-Blew, an attend-

ant on the Vice-Chancellor of
Cambridge University, ii. 117.
Boaden's Life of Kemble, extract rela-
tive to Mason, ii. 242.
Boadicea, Glover's play of, ii. 134.
Boar, the silver, badge of Richard III.,

i. 47.

Boccaccio, introduced the Ottava Rima

measure, i. 347.

his de Cassibus Illustrium Virorum,
i. 391.

Bolby, Mr., reference to, ii. 187.

Ripton, ii. 378.

his marriage and family, ii. 379.
visits Gray at Cambridge, ii. 320.
his belief that everything turns out
for the best, ii. 321.
dines with Gray, iii. 21.
Bonfoy, Mrs. Elizabeth, references to,
ii. 378; iii. 32.

who taught Gray to pray, is dead,
iii. 152.

her fortitude, iii. 152.

Bonfoy, Mr. and Mrs., Gray sends them
a copy of The Odes, ii. 320.
Bonstetten, Charles von, Baillie of
Nion, Switzerland, letter to Norton
Nicholls, with footnote of Gray's
opinion of the writer, iii. 355-356.
proceeds to London with Gray, iii.
357.

returned to France, iii. 358.

note on, iii. 360.

Gray laments the loss of his pres-
ence, iii. 360-362, 369.
Gray's expression of warm regard,
warns him against vice, iii. 371.
sends Gray views of Switzerland, iii.
389.

is disordered in his intellect, or has
exasperated his friends, iii. 401.
Borneil, Girard de, his invention of the
Canzone, i. 352.

Boscawen, Admiral, his victory over
the French, iii. 14.

Boswell, James, tells Mitford that
Gray received forty guineas for
The Odes, ii. 330.

his Account of Corsica and Memoir of
Paoli, iii. 310.

Gray's light estimate of his abilities,

iii. 310-311.

Botanical Calendar for 1755, iii. 92-94.
Bougeant, Guillaume Hyacinthe, ii. 27.
his Langage des Bêtes, ii. 27, 96.
Epistle to, by Gresset, ii. 184.
Bourbon, Duke of, Governor of Bur-
gundy, ii. 31.

Bourne, Mr., a friend of Mason's, ii.

349.

Bower, Archibald, his career and pro-
posals for a History of the Pope, ii.
180.

Bowes, George, of Streatham Castle,
his daughter married to the ninth
Earl of Strathmore, ii. 369; iii.
276.

Boycot, Mr., may be of assistance to
Rev. N. Nicholls, iii. 342.

Stuart, iii. 34.

of Grafton, ii. 241.

main or "policy," iii. 216.

Bramston, Rev. James, reference to

his poetry, ii. 220.

Brandenburg, Frederick the Great's
Memoirs of the House of, ii. 229.
reviewed in the Mercure Historique,
ii. 229.

Brawn, collars of, stuck with rosemary,
ii. 118.

Brian, King of Dublin, death of, i. 54.
Bridgewater, Duke of, accompanied by
P. Wood through Italy, ii. 328.
Bristol Cathedral, elegiac verses to
Mrs. Mason in, i. 141.

Bristol, Lord, Ambassador to Spain,
iii. 116.

Britannicus, tragedy by Racine, ii. 167.
performed in Paris, ii. 27.
British Museum, a treasure, ii. 396.

its excess of expenditure over in-
come, ii. 396; iii. 2.

Gray expects to see the collection
offered for sale, iii. 4.

very crowded, ii. 396.

Gray's chief amusement, iii. 1.
persons attending the reading-room,
iii. 2.

dissension of its officers, iii. 6.
Gray's researches in the Ledger-Book

of the Signet preserved in, iii. 11.
Gray's further researches, iii. 29.
Gray's MSS. in, i. xiv. 73, 113, 140.
Brivio, Signor, singing instructor, ii.
284.

Brockett, Lawrence, Professor

of

Modern History, iii. 136, 140.
tutor to Sir James Lowther, iii. 137.
agent for Earl of Sandwich at Cam-
bridge, iii. 168.

his death, and Gray's succession to
his Chair, iii. 318.

manner of his death, iii. 322.
Bromwick, dealer in wall-papers, iii.
83, 118, 120.

Brook, Dr. Zachary, of St. John's,
note on, iii. 189.

elected Margaret Professor, iii. 189.
candidate for the Mastership of St.
John's, iii. 190.
reference to, iii. 168.
Broschi, Carlos, sopranist, ii. 22, 57;
iii. 80.

Brown, Sir Anthony, supposed por-
trait in St. John's College, i. 311.
Brown, Mr. (one of the six clerks in
Chancery), his house on banks of
Eden, i. 250.

Brown, H., a contributor to Dodley's
Miscellaneous Poems, ii. 220.

College, note on, ii. 138.

his fortitude, ii. 138.

supports the case of Tuthill, ii. 161,
188.

interests himself on behalf of C.

Smart, ii. 178.

successful in his endeavour to elect

Tuthill and others Fellows of Pem-
broke, ii. 188.

presented to the living of Tilney, ii.

189.

contributes to Dodsley's Miscellane-

ous Poems, ii. 221.

visits Gray at Stoke, ii. 259.

Gray canvasses on his behalf for an
office in the University, ii. 287-

289.

asked to distribute copies of Gray's
Odes, ii. 320.

Gray enquires if the parcel of Odes
have reached him, and asks that
he will send any criticisms he may
hear, ii. 322.

if he has paid any of Gray's Cam-
bridge bills, Gray wishes to be
informed, ii. 384.

laments Mason's indolence, ii. 394.
invited to Gray's lodgings in South-
ampton Row, iii. 6.

requested to prepare Gray's Cam-
bridge apartments, iii. 61, 63.

his opinion requested of young Pon-
sonby, iii. 67.

favourable opinion of young Pon-
sonby, iii. 77.

his pictures of Ware Park, near Hert-
ford, iii. 69.

inclined to suffer from sciatica, iii.86.
proposition that he should visit Lady
Strathmore, iii. 86.

not at all well, iii. 125.

his evening prayer to the congrega.
tion, iii. 152.

called familiarly by Gray "Petit
Bon," iii. 164.

preparing some grafts for Dr.
Wharton, iii. 169.

invincibly attach'd to his duties, iii.
200.

deep in Quintilian and Livy, iii. 205.
visits his brother near Margate, iii.
245.

Gray has been nursing him, iii. 259,262.
will he accompany Gray to Mason's?
iii. 267-268.

visits Mason, iii. 272.

visits Lord Strathmore at Gibside,
and accompanies him to Scotland,
iii. 282.

accompanies Gray to York, iii. 347.
receives the Mastership of Pembroke
and the living of Streath-ham, Isle
of Ely, iii. 388.

joint executor with Mason of Gray's
will, ii. 138.

references to, ii. 155, 203, 230, 231,
287, 346; iii. 58.

Brown, Rev. John, his Estimate of the
Manners and Principles of the Times,
ii. 310.

his praise of Gray, ii. 328, 330.
reference to, iii. 42.

Brown, Dr., suicide of, iii. 250, 251.
Brydges, Sir Egerton, his account of

Gray's feelings on kissing hands
for the Professorship, iii. 323.
Buchanan, Mrs., Gray dines with her
at Penrith, i. 250.

Buffon, his Histoire du Cabinet du Roi,
commended by Gray, ii. 199.
discovers the Speculum of Archi-
medes, ii. 230.

arrival in England of the 9th and
10th volumes of his history, iii. 85;
11th and 12th volumes, iii. 172;
13th volume, iii. 235; 14th volume,
iii. 245.

Buller, Mr., of Cornwall, patron of Mr.
Bedford, ii. 289.
Buondelmonte,

Guiseppe Maria, a
littérateur of Tuscany, ii. 103.
Sonnet by, with Gray's imitation, ii.

103.

Burg, Elizabeth de, Countess Clare, i.

95.

Burgundy, Dukes of, tombs of, ii. 31.
Burke, Edmund, reference to, iii. 126.
Burleigh, Lord Treasurer, Chancellor
of Cambridge, i. 97.
Papers, reference to, ii. 128.

House, Lord Exeter refurnishing, iii.
11.

Burlesque account of Gray's travels in
France and Italy, ii. 55-61.
Burney, Dr., and The Installation Ode,

ii. 92.

his opinion of Il Ciro Riconosciuto, ii.
391.

Burnham Beeches, description of, ii. 9.
Burroughs, Vice-Chancellor and Master

of Caius College, i. 307.
Burton, Dr. John, M.D., author of
Monasticon Eboracense, iii. 2.
Business, the great art of life is to find
oneself, iii. 32.

Bussy, setting out for France, iii. 116.

Bussy, Pitt's contempt for his pro
posals on behalf of France, iii.
122.

Bute, Earl of, Groom of the Stole, ii.
290.

a botanist, iii. 89.

his new system of botany, iii. 89.
his favouritism, iii. 123.
refuses an application on behalf of
Gray for the Professorship of
Modern History, iii. 136-137.

ill of an ague in his eye, iii. 269.
Bute, Lady, bequests from her father,
Wortley Montagu, iii. 91.

her second son to take the name of
Wortley, iii. 91.

Butler, Dr. Joseph, Bishop of Durham,
ii. 241.

Butler, J., of Andover, criticises Gray's
Bard, ii. 344, 346.

description of his residence, ii. 349.
Byron, Lord, kills Mr. Chaworth in a
duel, iii. 203.

CADWALLADER, his device, i. 70.
Caius, Dr., an original portrait of, i.
306-307.

date of his death, i. 308.
his tomb, i. 309.

Caius College, old portrait in, believed
to be Theodore Haveus of Cleves,
i. 307-309.

Calas, Voltaire's good action on behalf
of the family of, iii. 173.
Calendar (Botanical), of Upsal (Sw.),
Stratton, and Cambridge, for 1755,
iii. 92-94.

Cambis, Marquis de, see Velleron, ii. 27.
Cambridge, Richard Owen, purchases
Mr. Zolman's library, ii. 373.
presented H. Walpole with Lord
Whitworth's MS. of Account of
Russia in 1710, ii. 373.

his powers of conversation, iii. 2.
his account of the Life of Edward,

Earl of Clarendon, prior to its pub-
lication, iii. 2-3.

Cambridge, Ode on the death of a
favourite Cat, written at, i. 10.
Progress of Poesy, written at, i. 28.
The Descent of Odin, written at, i. 60.
portion of the Elegy, written at, i. 72.
The Alliance of Education and Govern-
ment, written at, i. 113.

Couplet on Birds, composed near, i.139.
views of the colleges, by Loggan, i.
309.

Satire upon the heads (of colleges), i.

134.

Cephalo and Procri, opera of, ii. 133.
Chairs, Gray describes some to H.
Walpole, ii. 217.

Chaise, post-, description of a French,
prior to their introduction to Eng-
land, ii. 17.

Chalice of St. Remi, ii. 28.
Chalotais, Louis René de, Gray cannot

find the Mémoires of, iii. 258.
Chambers, Mr., reference to, iii. 70, 160.
Champneys, Mr. Basil, his remarks on

Gray's Norman Architecture, i. 301.
Chandos, Duke of, at Southampton,
iii. 179.

Chapel of St. George at Windsor, i. 315.
Chapman, Dr. Thomas, Master of Mag-
dalen, ii. 162.

his Essay on the Roman Senate, ii.
163.

his marriage to Miss Barnwell, ii. 193.
his reception of the Duke of New-
castle at Cambridge, ii. 196.
pamphlet by, ii. 204.

visits Gray at Studley, ii. 241.
his death, iii. 50.

cause of his death, iii. 56, 61, 64.

his estate, iii. 56.

references to, ii. 228, 327.

Character, Sketch of his own, i. 127.

Chaucer, the King's library referred to
as possessing Occleve's portrait of,
i. 306.

article in Bibliotheca by Bishop
Tanner on, i. 306.

alludes to the diversity of writing
our language, i. 326.

examples of his metre, i. 335, 336, 339.
Chaworth, Mr., killed in a duel with
Lord Byron, iii. 203.

Chenevix, Bishop of Waterford, in-
sulted in an Irish riot, iii. 26.
Chenevix, Madame, reference to, ii. 124.
Chesterfield, Earl of, purchased the
lanthorn from Houghton Hall, ii.
12.

his friendship for Mr. Dayrolles, f.
353.

Chevalier de St. George, references to,
ii. 68, 76, 84, 94.

Child, Epitaph on a, i. 126.

editorial note on, i. 126.
Chinese possess the art of landscape
gardening, iii. 160.

Cholmondeley, General, one of the
judges on the trial of Lord G.
Sackville, iii. 31.

Christ College, Cambridge, founded by
the Countess of Richmond, i. 96.

editorial note on, i. 210.

210, 213.

editorial note on, i. 210.

Chatsworth House, description of, iii.
134, 135.

Mr. Brown's improvements, iii. 135.
stateliness of its apartments, iii. 135.
Chaucer, old print by Speed from
Occleve's portrait of, i. 305.
family arms of, at bottom of print,
i. 306.

his portrait in possession of George
Greenwood, Esq., i. 306.

MS. of his Troilus and Cressida in
St. John's library, i. 305.
his portrait by Occleve not in St.
John's library, i. 305.

VOL. IV.

Norfolk's establishment in (?) six-
teenth century, ii. 296.
Christopher, Mr., reference to, ii. 165.
Chronological table of the works of

ancient poets and orators being
compiled at Cambridge, ii. 158,
164.

Chudleigh, Miss (Duchess of Kingston),
gives a ball to the Conde de
Fuentes, i. 40.

Madame de Mora present at, i. 62.
Churchill, Charles, death of, iii. 187.
Churchill, quotation from his Candi-
date, ii. 289.

Chute, John, Gray asks him to obtain
Marivaux' Mariane, i. 213.
at Casa Ambrosio, ii. 126.
Gray's regard for, ii. 136.
his return to England, ii. 204.

visited by Gray at The Vine" in
Hampshire, ii. 264.

Cibber, Caius Gabriel (Danish sculp-
tor), his work at Chatsworth, iii.

135.

Cibber, Colley, his Character and Con-
duct of Cicero, criticised by Gray,
ii. 169.

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