"_Life of Cromwell_" (Vol. iv., p. 117.).--No life of Cromwell was ever
written by "_one Kember_;" there is a _Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord
Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland_, the
second edition (London, 1725) of which, greatly enlarged from the first,
is now before me, and which has the autograph of Malone, who has on the
fly-leaf asserted it to have been "written by Isaac Kimber, a Dissenting
minister, who was born at Vantage in Berkshire, Dec. 1, 1692. His son,
Edward Kimber, refers to it as the work of his father, in a history of
England in ten volumes, which he published."
Kimber's life is a much better one than Carlyle's; but the best
biography of that most extraordinary man is by Thomas Cromwell,
published some twenty or thirty years since, and of which there was a
second edition.