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fa'tigable and Ikilful Antiquarian. On his death,King Edward gave all his papers to Sir John Cheeke,who, on being obliged to leave the kingdom, gavefour folio volumes of Collections to HumphryPurefoy, Efq. which were prefented by his foil toWilliam Burton, author of the Hiitory of Lelcef-terfhire. Eight volumes of the Itinerary were alfoin Burton’s poflfeffion; and, in 1632, depofited byhim in the Bodleian Library . The greater part ofhis other manufcripts are in the Cotton Library,and have been of tire greateft ute to our fubfequent.Antiquarians.

Sir Philip Sidney , the eldeftfen of Sir Henry Sidney , and Mary, the daughter of John Dudley ,Duke of Northumberland, was born in the year*554, at Penfhurft, in Kent.

Camden*, in his Kent, fpeaking of Penlhurlt,and of the Sidney family, fays:

“ But Sir Philip Sidney is not to be omitted with-■“ out an unpardonable crime (the great glory of his“ family, the great hopes of mankind, the molt“ lively pattern of virtue, and the darling of thelearned world); who hotly engaging the enemy“ at Zutphen , loft his life bravely. This is thatei S'idnby whom Providence ieems to have fent intoil the world, to give the prefent age a fpecimen ofthe ancients. Reft then in peace, O Sidney !

f Britannia in Kent. Ed. 1635, p. 191.

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