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."