FROM ITALY, IN THE YEARS 1754 AND 1755, BY THE LATE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN EARL OF CORKE AND ORRERY. PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINALS, WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES, BY JOHN DUNCOMBE, M. A. Chaplain to his Lordship, Rector of St. ANDREW's and St. One of the Six Preachers in CHRIST CHURCH, CANTERBURY, "Duncombe invet del. Letter XV page 182. Jaac Taylor sculp LONDON: Printed for B. WHITE, Horace's Head, Fleet-Street 1773. P PRE FAC E. HE noble author of the following Letters was the only fon and heir of Charles, the fourth earl of Orrery, by lady Elizabeth Cecil, daughter of John earl of Exeter. He was born January 2, 1706-7. Mr. Fenton, the author of Mariamne, and, one of the coadjutors of Mr. Pope in the Odyey, who had been fecretary to lord. Orrery in fome of his campaigns in Flanders, and who, after being difmiffed from that employment in 1705, had been mafter of the free-fchool at Sevenoak in Kent, was again taken into the earl's family as tutor to his fon*. He taught lord Boyle * This may ferve to difprove an affertion in Mr. Fenton's life in Biographia Britannica, that "the "earl of Orrery, after difmiffing him in 1705, "paid him justly his falary as fecretary, but "took no farther notice of him." See the Supe plement to that work, p. 50. |