.... The first five chapters of the Autobiography were com posed in England in 1771, continued in 1784 5, and again in 1788, at which date he brought it... ... FRANKLIN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1706 1757 TWYFORD, at the Bishop of St. Asaph’s, 1771. The country seat of Bishop Shipley, the good bishop, as Dr. Fran... ...st sons. When I searched the registers at Ecton, I found an account of their births, marriages and burials from the year 1555 only, there being no reg... ...d, one newspaper being, in their judgment, enough for America. At this time (1771) there are not less than five and twenty. He went on, however, with ...

...led me away. “We shall all be sorry to lose you,” said he: “laudo tamen.”’ 1771, AETAT. 62.]— ‘To SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, IN LEICESTER- FIELDS. ‘DEAR SIR... ...nd most humble ser- vant, ‘Ashbourn in Derbyshire, ‘SAM. JOHNSON. July 17, 1771.’ ‘Compliments to Miss Reynolds.’ 227 Boswell’s Life of Johnson In hi... ...ople die now than for- merly; so it is plain no more live. The register of births proves nothing, for not one tenth of the people of London are born t...