PRICES of STOCKS, from JANUARY 28 to FEBRUARY 25, 1792, both inclufive. By ANTHONY CLARKE, Stock-Broker, No. 13, Sweeting's-Alley, Cornhill. Days Bank Stock. 3 per C. reduced. 3 per C. .confols. 4 per C. confols. 5 per C. Long Short India India South Sea India Old New confols. Ans. Ans Stock. Ans Bonds. Stock. Ann. Ann. Navy Bills. 28 207 92 2 9212 103 6~ 116 1 26 93394 106 120 27 13 195 97 103 94a933 105 119 27 13 195 97 103 93 17 18 17 19 6 212 94393 105 120 27 ∙13 197 -: 97 94 par 212 93a 105 319 2.7 13 197 96 103 93 10 2.13 94 93 94 104 119 27 73 200 95 par 13 218 96 954a9611 105 119 27 13 204 92 97 14 219. 9.7 96 a .104 119 13: 209 98; 105 218 97 962a96 105 119 27 13% 209 97 105 96 플 16.216 96 964959 105 119 96 95 105 119 96a96 105 119 2222 G 13 208 97 105 1 95 27 207 91 97 96 27 13 208 98 95 플 27 12 27 12 *par 100 95 In the 3 per Cent. confols. the higheft and lowest Price of each Day is given; in every other Article the higheft Price only, the Long and Short Annuities excepted, which are given within a fixteenth of the highest Price. In the different Funds that are shut, the Prices are given with the Dividend till the Days of Opening. The UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE for MARCH, 1792. 161 MEMOIRS of the LIFE of RALPH THORESBY, F. R. Ŝ. With a fine Portrait of that celebrated Antiquary. lected a curious cabinet of them) who treated him very affectionately, and by letters, and perfonal conversation, fettled him in full communion with the established church. RALPH THORESBY, an eminent antiquary, was born at Leeds, in Yorkshire, in the year 1658, and was the fon of a reputable merchant of that town. His father was pof feffed of a good share of learning, and Mr. Thoresby was well respected had a peculiar turn to the knowledge of antiquities; which being inherited by the fon, he employed his leifure hours in vifiting remarkable places, copying monumental infcriptions, ftudying their hiftory, and particularly collecting accounts of proteftant benefactions. His father, defigning him for his own business, sent him, in 1678, to Rotterdam, in order to learn the Dutch and French languages, and to be perfected in mercantile accomplish-, ments; but he was obliged to return, the year following, on account of his health. On the death of his father, in 1680, he entered on his bufinefs: but, though commerce was his profeffion, yet learning and antiquities were his great delight; and they took fo firm a poffeffion of his heart, that, contenting himself with a moderate patrimony, he made those researches the great employment of his life. There is a circumftance relating to him, in the unhappy times under James II, which we cannot pafs over. He had been bred among the prefbyterians; but, never imbibing any of their rigid principles, had always occafionally conformed to the ellablished church and now, when popery began to threaten the nation, he more frequently attended its worship, with a view of promoting an union among the proteftants for their mutual prefervation. His prefbyterian pastor was highly difpleafed with his compliance, and treated him with a very indifcreet zeal. This prompted Mr. Thoresby to examine more clofely the arguments on both fides, and to apply to his diocefan and friend archbishop Sharp (who, by the way, had a geol talte for coins and medals, and col VOL. XC. by the clergy and gentry of his town and neighbourhood, and by all the eminent virtuofi and men of learning of his time. It would be almoft end lefs to enumerate the affiftances which he gave, in one way or other, to the works of the learned. When bishop Gibfon published his new edition of Camden's Britannia, he wrote notes and additional obfervations on the Weft-riding of Yorkshire, for the use of it; and tranfmitted above a hundred of his coins to Mr. Obadiah Walker, who undertook that province which related to the Roman, British, and Saxon monies. Hearne often acknowledged in print the favour of his correfpondence. He communicated to Strype fome original letters in his collection. He imparted to Calamy memoirs of feveral northern divines for his abridgment of Baxter's Life and Times;' as he did alfo of the worthy royalifts to Walker, for his Sufferings of the Clergy,' which was published as an antidote to Calamy's book; efteeming good men of all parties worthy to have their names and characters tranfmitted to pofterity. His fkill in heraldry and genealogy rendered him a very ferviceable correfpondent to Collins in his Peerage of England.' By thefe kindneffes, fweetened with the eafinefs of accefs to his own cabinet, he always found the like eafy admiffion to thofe of others; which gave him frequent opportunities of enlarging his collection, far beyond what could have been expected from a private perfon, not wealthy. He commenced an early friendthip with the celebrated naturalit Dr. Martin Lifter. To this friend he fent an account of fome Roman anti quities he had discovered in Yorkfhire, which being communicated by him and Dr. Gale, dean of York, to the royal fociety, he was enrolled a fellow of that learned body in 1697: and the great number of his papers, in their transactions, relating to ancient Roman and Saxon monuments in the north of England, with notes upon them, and the infcriptions of coins, &c. fhew how deferving he was of that honour. He died in 1725, in his 68th year, and was interred among his ancestors, in St. Peter's church at Leeds. His character for learning is beft feen in the books he published, which fhew him to have been a great mafter of the history and antiquities of his own country; to attain which, it became neceffary for him to be skilled, as he was, in genealogy and heraldry. He appears from thefe books to have been alfo an induftrious biographer: but that which fets his reputation the highest as a scholar, was his uncommon knowledge of coins and medals. He had long formed a defign of doing honour to his native town and its environs, by writing the hiftory thereof; and had accumulated a vast quantity of materials for the work, which was published in 1714, under the title of Ducatus Leodienfis; or, The Topography of Leeds and the parts adjacent.' To which is fubjoined, Mufeum Thorefbeianum; or, a Catalogue of the Antiquities, &c. in the repofitory of Ralph Thorefby, gent. &c.' In the former piece, he frequently refers to the hiftorical part, intended for giving a view of the ftate of the northern parts of the kingdom during the dark ages of the Britons and Romans; and of the alterations_afterward made by the Saxons, Danes, and Normans: and he proceeded fo far, as to bring his narration in a fair copy nearly to the end of the fixth century, illuftrating and confirming his hiftory by his coins. This curious unfinished manufcript is inferted in the Biographia Britannica, in order to excite fome able hand to carry it on, and compleat the noble defign of the author. His advancement in years hindering him from completing this work, he contented himself with committing to the prefs his Vicaria Leodienfis: or, The Hiftory of the Church of Leeds,' &c. which was published in 1724, 8vo. The fubject of this work being narrow and confined, he has enriched it with obfervations on the original of parochial churches, and the ancient manner of building them; as also on the old way of paffing eftates by delivery of pledges, fubfcription of golden croffes, pendent feals, &c: and, befide the memoirs of many worthy divines fucceffively vicars of Leeds, he hath added the lives of the doctors Matthew Hutton, Edwyn Sandys, Tobie Matthew, John Thorefby, archbishops of York, and of Henry earl of Huntingdon. The mufeum of this learned antiquary formed one of the greateft and most valuable collection of antique and curious coins and medals, that had ever been in this country. At the fale of this museum in the month of March 1764, the following medals and coins were fold as under: The famous copper medal of colonel Lilburne A Saxon penny of king Alfred's Two pennies of Alfred and Ethelred One Eactachius s. d. 217 0 4 10 5 76 4 10 0 One ditto ftruck at York A penny of 3 770 Ditto 7 26 A Commonwealth fixpence 3 6 0 Two farthings of Charles II. 3 4 0 ORAS |