_Daily Courant_, Jan. 9, 1714:
"Rome, Dec. 16.--The famous painter, Carlo Maratta, died some days ago,
in the ninetieth year of his age."
_The Post Boy_, Jan. 12-14, 1714.--_Old MSS. relating to Winchester._--In
the _Post Boy_, Jan. {617} 12-14, 1714, appears the following curious
advertisement:
"_Winchester Antiquities_, written by Mr. Trussell, Dr. Bettes, and Mr.
Butler of St. Edmund's Bury, in one of which manuscripts is the
_Original of Cities_; which manuscripts were never published. If the
person who hath either of them, and will communicate, or permit the
same to be copied or perused, he is earnestly desired to give notice
thereof to Mr. Mathew Imber, one of the aldermen of the city of
Winchester, in the county of Southampton, who is compleating the idea
or description of the ancient and present state of that ancient city,
to be speedily printed; together with a faithful collection of all the
memorable and useful things relating to the same city."
Gough, in his _Topography_, vol. i. p. 387., thus notices these MSS.:
"Wood says (_Ath. Ox._, vol. i. p. 448.) that Trussell the historian,
who was alderman of Winchester, continued to Bishop Curll's time, 1632,
an old MS. history of the see and bishops in the Cathedral library. He
also wrote _A Description of the City of Winchester; with an Historical
Relation of divers memorable Occurrences touching the same_, and
prefixed to it _A Preamble of the Original of Cities in general_. In a
catalogue of the famous Robert Smith's books, sold by auction, 1682,
No. 24. among the MSS. has this identical title, by J. Trussell, fol.,
and was purchased for twelve shillings by a Mr. Rothwell, a frequent
purchaser at this sale. The _Description_, &c., written by Trussell
about 1620, is now in the hands of John Duthy, Esq.; and from it large
extracts were made in _The History and Antiquities of Winchester_,
1773. Bishop Nicolson guesses that it was too voluminous, and Bishop
Kennett that it was too imperfect to be published.
"The former mentions something on the same subject by Dr. Bettes, whose
book is still in MS.
"Dr. Butler, of St. Edmund's Bury, made observations on the ancient
monuments of this city under the Romans."