Note 89 — HOGARTH. (continued 2)

William Gostling, M. A. a minor canon of Canterbury cathedral for fifty years, and vicar of Stone in the isle of Oxney, Kent, well known to all lovers of antiquity by his truly original "Walk in and about Canterbury," first printed in 1774, of which there have been three editions. He died March 9, 1777, in the 82d year of his age. Of his father, who was first a minor canon of Canterbury, and afterwards one of the priests of the chapel-royal and sub-dean of St. Paul's, there are several anecdotes, communicated by his son, in Sir John Hawkins's "History of Music." To which may be added what King Charles II. is reported to have said of him, "You may talk as much as you please of your nightingales, but I have a Gostling who excels them all." Another time, the same merry monarch presented him with a silver egg filled with guineas, saying, "that he had heard that eggs were good for the voice."