NEW BIOGRAPHICAL
DICTIONARY:

CONTAINING

A BRIEF ACCOUNT

OF THE

LIVES AND WRITINGS

OF THE MOST

Eminent Perlons

AND

Remarkable Characters

IN

EVERY AGE AND NATION.

By STEPHEN JONES.

THE THIRD EDITION, CORRECTED:
With very confiderable Additions.

"No species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than BIOGRAPHY,
"since none can be more delightful or more useful, nor can more certainly en-
❝ chain the heart by irresistible interest, or more widely diffuse instruction to
"every diversity of condition."
RAMBLER.

Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt-court, Fleet-street,

FOR G. G. AND J. ROBINSON, J. WALLIS, J. SCATCHERD,

PREFACE.

THE nature, design, and groundwork, of this EPITOME, have been amply explained in the ADVERTISEMENTS to the FIRST and SECOND EDITIONS. Much, therefore, of the room heretofore occupied by prefatory discourse has been now employed in useful additions to the work itself.

The flattering testimony of PUBLIC APPROBATION evinced by the rapid and extensive sale of the first two impressions, encouraged the COMPILER to renew his labours, and to prepare with great attention and wearisome research this THIRD EdiTION. It comprises no fewer than Five Hun

dred