This lord Guilford wrote

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"An alphabetical Index of Verbs neuter, printed with Lilly's Grammar: compiled while he was at Bury school 4.

"Argument in a Case between Soams and Bernardiston 5."

"His Argument on a Trial between Charles Howard and the Duke of Norfolk;" printed with that case.

"The King's Declaration on the Popish Plot;"

composed chiefly by his lordship. A paper "Of the Non-gravitation of Fluids," considered in the bladders of fishes".

"An Answer to a Paper of Sir Samuel Moreland on his Static Barometer.”

This was never printed .

"This,

• Vide Life, p. 12. [It appears that this was printed by Dr. Stevens, the master, for the use of his own school. however easy to be done," adds his biographer, “was commendable; because boys ordinarily have not a steady application, and being required, seldom perform, industriously and neatly, such a task as that is."]

5 Ib. p. 56.

• Ib. p. 259.

? Printed in Lowther's Abridgment of the Philosophical Transactions, vol. ii. p. 845. [It seems that his lordship's hint was laid hold of, approved, and pursued by the virtuosi of the time, particularly by Mr. Boyle and Mr. Ray, whose papers on the subject are noticed in the same collection.]

• Life, p 293.

"A philosophical Essay on Musick";" printed by Martin, printer to the Royal Society, 1677.

"Lord Chief-Justice North's Narrative to the House of Commons, of what Bedloe had sworn before him at Bristol."

"A Narrative of some Passages in, or relating to the Long Parliament, by Sir Francis North, afterwards Lord Keeper of the Great Seal "."

"Many Notes of Cases, Fragments of Transactions at Court,"

and other papers published whole or in part, in various parts of his life, by Roger North, and in the Examen.

Lord-keeper Guilford had his grammar-learning at Bury school, whence he was admitted a fellow-commoner of St. John's college, Cambridge, in 1653, and being designed for the law, after two or three years spent at the university, was removed to the Middle Temple. Here he applied with great diligence to the main object, yet pursued his inquiries into all in

• [Not with the form and exactness of a solemn writer, but as the sense of a man of business, who minds the kernel and not the shell. Life of Lord Guilford, p. 297.]

• Somers's Tracts, vol.i.