THE HISTORY OF THE WORKS of the LEARNED, FOR THE Year One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Forty. CONTAINING IMPARTIAL ACCOUNTS and ACCURATE INTERSPERS'D WITH DISSERTATIONS on feveral curious and enter- VOL. II. LONDON: Printed for JACOB ROBINSON, at the Golden- THE HISTORY OF THE WORKS of the LEARNED. For JULY, 1740. ARTICLE I. N the Hiftory of the Works of the Learned, for January this Year, I printed an anonymous Letter, containing Corrections of fome fuppofed Errors in a late Edition of Gorboduc. i was then utterly unacquainted with my Correfpondent; but in a later Epiftle he has been pleased to inform me of his Name and Character, and I can now tell the Public, that we are indebted for thofe, as well as the following Remarks, to the Reverend Mr. Calton, of Marton, near Gainsborough in Lincolnshire. There is a Circumftance, of which it is neceffary I fhould take notice, in order to the Reader's understanding the Introduction of the enfuing Animadverfions: And this is, that an Alteration was made in the Beginning of Mr. Calton's firft Paper, publifhed in January, before I fent it to the Prefs. That an Alteration was made, B was |