A List of the principal Learned or Illustrious Men who lived during that Period, pointing out the Year of their Death. 1753 Corneille bish. Cant. 1694 Jas.Thomson 1748) preaux Shaftesbury 1713 Bishop Berk- Chaulieu ley 1720 touches 1754 Pluche 1761 Sir W. Davenant 1714 Rich. Mead 1754 (Thomas) 1709 Polignac,car. 1741 Burnet, bish. 1714 Hen.Fielding 1754 Crebillon 1762 Poree 1718 Colly Cibber 1757 Dacier, Ma Handel 1759 dame Rowe John Flam Dr. Leland 1761 Domat Addison 1741 1720 Racine Puffendorf 1694 1699 1699 Racine,Louis 1764 1742 Renard 1709 1764 1741 1719 Math. Prior 1721 Bishop Atter bishop of D'Aquesseau, Restaut Sam. Richard Ducerceau 1730 Rousseau, JB. 1741 1761 Deshoulieres 1694 Rousseau, Jean Brumoy 1773 Calmet 1773 Gresset 1765 Fenelon 1715 Jaques 1778 1768 Flechier 1770 Fontenelle 1757 Savigne 1696 1770 Giannone 1748 St. Aulaire 1742 Grecourt 1774 Hamilton, 1779 Lachaussée 1954 Voltaire 1778 John Gay 1732 Samuel Foote 1777 Helvetius John Arbuth- Garrick 1779 Henault, Pt. 1734 W. Warbur- Lafontaine not 1740 ton Bish. Hare A List of the Cotemporary Princes, with the Date of their Death. Leopold I 1705 Peter III, de 1730 Charles VI 1740 Charles XI 1697 Charles VII 1745 Charles XII 1718 Kings of Sardinia. throned in 1762 Catherine Alexiewna II. widow of Peter III A List of the Lord Chancellors, Chief Justices of the King's Bench, Attorney Generals, and Solicitors General of England from the Revolution, pointing out the year when they were made. Lord Chancellors. (William Raw- Lord Har- Lord King 1725 The Great Seal is put in commis linson ibid. court 1713 Lord Talbot 1733 Sir Nathaniel again 1714 Wright 1700 Lord Parker, In Kecke ibida earl of Mac- Philip Yorke, earl of Hardwicke1737 Lord Henley, earl of Northington 176x A List of the Prime Ministers and Administration from the Revolution to the year 1763. King William III. and Mary. 1688 Sir John, afterwards lord So- 1695 The earl of Sunderland, &c. &c. mers, lord Godolphin, afterwards duke of Leeds, marquis of Halifax, earl of Pembroke, earl, afterwards duke of Shrewsbury, earl of Nottingham, earl of Devonshire, earl of Bedford. Queen 1697 Lord Godolphin, lord Cowper, 1705 Duke of Marlborough. 1697 Charles Montague, afterwards earl of Halifax, carl of Pembroke, viscount Lonsdale, earl of Orford, earl of Jersey, carl of Mulgrave, afterwards duke of Buckingham. Anne. 1710 Robert Harley, afterwards earl of Oxford, earl of Rochester, lord Dartmouth, St. John, Esq. afterwards viscount Bolingbroke, Simon, Esq. afterwards lord Harcourt, George I. 1714 Lord Cowper, duke of Shrews- Charles duke of Shrewsbury, &c. &c. hope, first lord of the treasury, chancellor, and under treasurer of the exchequer. Charles, earl of Sunderland, &c. &c. 1721 Robert Walpole, afterwards earl of Orford, first lord of the treasury, chancellor and under treasurer of the exchequer, K. B. and K. G. The Eldest Sons of Dukes of the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer Blood Royal Marquisses Dukes Eldest Sons Marquisses Eldest Sons Dukes Younger Sons Puisné Judges and Barons Knights of the Bath Knights Bachelors Colonels Serjeants at Law Doctors Graduate Esquires Gentlemen bearing Coat Armour The Ladies take place according to the degree of quality of their husbands. INDEX. This Index does not refer to the pages, but to the years, both Abbreviations.-The two first figures of the year are not re- ABBOT, Rt. Hon.C. Speaker of the House of Commons, 1753 1702 Addison, sec. of state, 1717 Aiguillon, D. d', defeats the 21 Aix-la-Chapelle, treaty of, 1608 -a congress at, 1747-pre- peace concluded, conditions Albemarle, Monk, created D. of, Alberoni, card. 1718-19 Algiers, war declared against, |