Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851

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1

The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, &c., Oxf. 1827.

2

The same.

3

Southey calls May "the very able competitor of D'Avenant," and describes him as "a man so honourably known by his translation of Lucan, and his Supplement to that poet, that it were to be wished he were remembered for nothing else."—Biog. Sketches.

4

Athenæ Oxon. Bliss's edit.

5

In MSS. Ashmol., as quoted in Biog. Britann., from which, and Chalmer's Biog. Dict., the dates, and such of the facts above given, not otherwise authenticated, are principally derived.

6

Biographical Sketches, Lond., 12mo. 1787.

7

This occurred in the year 1733.

8

"Averpenny was a sum paid as a composition for certain rustic services."