I do not know whether the notices respecting Cave's _Historia Literaria_
(Vol. ii., pp. 230. 255.) hold out any prospect of a new edition. It is
much to be desired; and as it may be done at some time or other, you
will perhaps allow me to make a Note of a circumstance which
accidentally came to my knowledge, and should be known to any future
editor. It is simply this: in the second volume of the Oxford edition of
1740, after the three dissertations, &c., there are fifteen pages, with
a fresh pagination of their own, entitled, "Notæ MSS. et Accessiones
_Anonymi_ ad Cavei Historiam Literariam, Codicis Margini adscriptæ, in
Bibliotheca Lambethana. Manus est plane Reverendiss. _Thomæ Tenison_,
Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi." Not to occupy more of your valuable space
than is necessary, I will merely observe that the "Anonymus" was not
Archbishop Tenison, but Henry Wharton. There can be no doubt in the mind
of any person acquainted with the handwriting of the parties; and to
those to whom such a notice is likely to be of any use at all, it is
unnecessary to say that the difference is important. I need scarcely
add, that if ever a new edition is undertaken, Wharton's books and
papers, and other things in the Lambeth collection of MSS., should be
examined.