[The foregoing monumental inscription is given in Lipscomb's _Bucks_,
vol. iv. p. 76., to which is subjoined the following note:--"The
singularity of this name has occasioned much curiosity; but no
information can be obtained besides that of _True Blue_ having been a
stranger, who settled here, and acquired some property, which after his
decease was disposed of. It has been conjectured that he lived here
under a feigned name. One Hercules True, about 1645, kept a house at
Windsor, to which deer-stealers were accustomed to resort; and he
uttered violent threats against a person, whose son, having been killed
in attempting to resist the deer-stealers in the Great Park, Thomas
Shemonds prosecuted the murderers, and True declared he would knock his
brains out, and is believed to have afterwards absconded."]
_Charge of Plagiarism against Paley._--Has any reply been made to the
accusation against Paley, brought forward some years ago in _The
Athenaeum_? It was stated (and apparently proved) that his _Natural
Theology_ was merely a translation of a Dutch work, the name of whose
author has escaped my recollection. I suppose the archdeacon would have
defended this shameful plagiarism on his favourite principle of expediency.
It seems to me, however, that it is high time that either the accusation be
refuted, or the culprit consigned to that contempt as a man which he
deserved as a moralist.