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he took considerable pains in revis:ng, correcting, and improving what John Rider had published in his English and Latin and Latin and English Dictionary, especially in the etymological part; this was first printed at London, 1616, in quarto, and was afterwards re­ printed several times with enlargements. He died 12th November, 1762. RICHARD JAGO, descended from a Cornish family, was the son of Richard Jago, rector of Beaudesert, in Warwickshire, and was born October 1st, 1715, being the third son. He received a good edu­ cation under the Rev. Mr. Crompton, at , where he formed an acquaintance with several gentlemen, his schoolfellows; amongst others, with , with whom he corresponded on the most friendly terms during life. From school he was entered in the University College, Oxford, where he took his degree of M.A., July 9th, 1738. In 1744, he married Dorothea Susanna, the daughter of the Rev. John Fancourt, rector of Kimcote. He was instituted to the vicarage of in 1746; Chesterton was also given to him by Lord Willoughby de Broke; together worth about £100 a year. In 1754 Dr. Madox, bishop of Worcester, through the interest of Lord Clare, procured for him the vicarage of Snit­ terfield, worth about £140 a year, where he had formerly been curate, and where he afterwards removed and resided till his death. In 1799 he married a second wife, Margaret, the daughter of James Underwood, Esq" of Rudgeley, in Staffordshire, who survived him. In 1771 Mr. Jago was presented to the rectory of Kimcote, then worth £300 a year, and resigned the vicarage of Harbury. After a short illness he died May 8th, 1781, aged sixty-five, and was buried, according to his desire, in a vault he had prepared at Snit· terfield. He had children only by his first wife: three sons, who all died young, and four daughters.

Mr. JAGO was the author of several poems in DodsIey's collec 4 tion, and of the "Blackbirds;" a beautiful elegy in the "Adt'en­ tUTe1'," particularly by Dr. Johnson in his life of Mr. West. His separate publications are a Sermon on the Cause of Impenitence, 1755, octavo; Edge Hill, a. poem, 1767, quarto; Labour and Genius, 01' the ltlill Stream and the Cascade, 1768, quarto; Poems, Moral and Descriptive, prepared for the presS; to which is added