The history and antiquities of Boston, and the villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle; comprising the hundred of Skirbeck, in the county of Lincoln. Including also a history of the East, West, and Wildmore fens, and copious notices of the Holland or Haut-Huntre fen ... sketches of the geology, natural history, botany, and agriculture of the district; a very extensive collection of archaisms and provincial words, local dialect, phrases, proverbs, omens, superstitions, etc. By Pishey Thompson. Illustrated with one hundred engravings.

442 DR. WILLIAM STUKELEY.
Dr. STUKELEY had three daughters by his first wife; Frances, married to Mr.
RICHARD FLEMING, an eminent solicitor in London; -, married to the Rev.
THoMAs' FAIRCHILD, Rector of Pitsey in Essex; and, who died unmarried.
IIe had no issue by his second wife.
Dr. STUKIELEY'S antiquarian and topographical publications were numerous,
and are much esteemed. The principal ones are,The " Itinerarium Curiosuln," in 2 vols. folio, with numerous plates.
London, 1724.
The "Medallic History of Carausius," 2 vols. 4to.; 21 plates. London,
1757-1759.
" Stonehenge and Abury," folio. London, 1743.
"Descriptions of Arthur's Oven, Graham's Dykes," and various other
antiquities.
" Paelmographia Sacra," 2 Nos. 4to. London.
"Antiquitates Royston," 2 parts, folio.
"Palheographia Britannica; or Discourses on Antiquities, relating to the
History of Britain," 3 Nos. in 4to.; the last two were published at Stamford in
1746 and 1752.," A Dissertation upon Oriuna, the supposed wife of Carausius," 4to. London,
1751.
" An Account of Richard of Cirencester, Monk of Westminster," and of his
works. 4to. London, 1757.
He also published some sermons, and a few medical tracts, particularly a
"Treatise on the Cause and Cure of the Gout, from a New Rationale." Dr.
STUKELEY left a large collection of valuable and interesting MSS. and papers;
but very little is known of their nature, or where,-if they have been preserved,they are at present deposited. Mr. JOHN BRITTON has two MS. volumes in Dr.
Stukeley's writing, a Diary, and a Common-place book, with several of the
Doctor's drawings.2
A more correct estimate of a person's modes of feeling and of action may, in
general, we think, be formed from his letters to his friends, when written
without any direct view to publication, than from any other source. We have
been favoured with the perusal, and are allowed the use, of a MS. collection of
Dr. STUKELEY'S letters, principally addressed to his friend, MAURIcE JOHNSON,
Esq., the founder of the Gentleman's Society at Spalding; the originals of which
are still preserved in the Society's Library. We shall endeavour to select some
interesting passages from this collection.
Dr. STUIKELEY strenuously maintained the opinion that Britain was originally
settled by Brute or Brito, the descendant of 2Eneas and Lavinia. We have
already stated that this is not our opinion, nor do the following observations
of the learned subject of our memoir in the least induce us to adopt it.
" I must own," says Dr. Stukeley, in writing to Mr. Johnson from Boston, 19th May, 1714,
" I have a mighty love for antiquity, and there is no greater satisfaction to me than being
lost as it were in the dark recesses of old times. In following through mazy obscurity the
bright shadow of truth, till with a joy superior to any the other sciences are ready to afford
you, you embrace, if it be but the appearance of the lovely goddess.
"Our old Father Brute, or Brito, makes a considerable show in my paper;3 and whatever
Mr. Selden and several other grave writers think, who, it is likely, took a distaste at first
sight against that old history, and never thoroughly exarmined into it; I must needs, with
the great Milton, say,'that he and his progeny, defended by many, and persons of great
capacity in antiquities, denied utterly by few, that the account of those old inborn names
- This gentleman's name was Richard, according 3 On the Chronology and Genealogy of the Ancient
to DRAKARD'S Stamford, p. 296. World.
2 Gentleman's Magazsne, July 1853, p. 77,