makes no mention of Andrews. It would therefore appear that he was curate or assistant or lecturer rather than incumbent.
All the religious books of John Andrews have interspersed verses of the same stamp as those to be found in the ‘Anatomie of Basenesse.’ They include: 1. ‘Andrewes' Golden Chaine to linke the penitent sinner unto Almighty God’ (1645). 2. ‘Brazen Serpent … at Paules Crosse’ (1621). 3. ‘Converted Man's New Birth’ (1629). 4. ‘Andrewes' Repentance, sounding alarum to returne from his sinne unto Almighty God, declaring his repentance. Published by John Andrewes, minister of the Word of God in the county of Wilts’ (1623). 5. ‘A Golden Trumpet sounding an Alarum to Judgement,’ by ‘John Andrewes, minister and preacher of God's Word,’ of which the twenty-ninth impression appeared in 1648. 6. ‘A Celestiall Looking-Glasse’ by ‘John Andrewes, preacher of God's Word’ (1639). 7. ‘Andrewes' Caveat to win Sinners … newly published by John Andrewes, preacher of God's Word’ (1655).
Of the ‘Anatomie of Basenesse’ only the solitary exemplar in the Bodleian is known. It is a vivid poem, and its terse aphoristic sayings linger in the memory. The ‘Feast of the Envious’ will still bear quotation. It contains these lines:—
Nor can the hand of reconciling Death
Free men from this injurious monster's sting,
Which through the bowels of the Earth doth pierce,
And in the quiet vault appeares more fierce
Than Death—the grave's sterne tyrannising king.
[Dr. Grosart's Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies' Library; Books as cited, whose verse is given in Introduction in the Miscellanies; Wood's Athenæ (Bliss), ii. 493; Fasti, i. 305.]
ANDREWS, JOHN (1736–1809), historical writer and pamphleteer, produced numerous works towards the end of the last and beginning of the present century. Among these are: 1. ‘History of the Revolutions of Denmark,’ &c., 1774. 2. ‘History of the War with America, France, Spain, and Holland, commencing in 1775 and ending in 1783,’ four vols., London, 1785–86. 3. ‘Letters to his Excellency the Count de Welderen on the present Situation of Affairs between Great Britain and the United Provinces,’ London, 1781 (of which a Dutch translation appeared in the same year at Amsterdam). 4. ‘Letters to a Young Gentleman on his setting out for France, containing a survey of Paris and a review of French literature,’ 1784. 5. ‘Historical Review of the Moral, Religious, Literary, and Political Character of the English Nation,’ 1806. The ‘Gentleman's Magazine’ for February 1809 has the following obituary announcement: ‘At his house at Kennington, Surrey, in his seventy-third year, Dr. John Andrews, a gentleman well known in the literary world. By his death the nation is deprived of an able historian, a profound scholar and politician, and a man ever ready to take up his pen in his country's cause.’
[Gent. Mag. February 1809; British Museum Catalogue.]
ANDREWS, MILES PETER (d. 1814), dramatist, was the son of a drysalter in Watling Street. After assisting his father in business during the day, he was accustomed ‘to sally forth in the evening with sword and bag to Ranelagh or some other public place,’ giving himself the airs of a man of fashion. Gradually forming higher connections, he engaged in certain very profitable speculations. He became the constant companion of the dissolute Lord Lyttelton, and is responsible for a story of the appearance to him of that nobleman's ghost (see Ward's Illustrations of Human Life, 1837). He was the owner of powder magazines at Dartford, said to be the most extensive in England, and became member of parliament for Bewdley. Occupying a large mansion in the Green Park, formerly tenanted by Lord Grenville, his grand entertainments and gala nights were of great attraction to the fashionable world of London. He affected the society of actors and authors, and was elected a member of the Beefsteak, the Keep-the-Line, and other convivial clubs. He enjoyed a reputation for wit and good humour, for kindliness and hospitality, while his temper was said to be extremely irritable, and he was nervous, credulous, and superstitious. He was the author of the following plays: the ‘Conjuror,’ a farce, produced at Drury Lane in 1774; the ‘Election,’ a musical interlude, produced at the same theatre in the same year; ‘Belphegor, or the Wishes,’ a comic opera, produced at Drury Lane in 1778; ‘Summer Amusement, or an Adventure at Margate,’ written in conjunction with William Augustus Miles, produced at the Haymarket in 1779; ‘Fire and Water,’ a ballad opera, produced at the Haymarket in 1780; ‘Dissipation,’ a comedy, produced at Drury Lane in 1781; the ‘Baron Kinkvervankotsdorssprakengatchdern,’ a musical comedy, founded on a novel by Lady Craven, produced at the Haymarket in 1781; the ‘Best Bidder,’ a farce, produced at the Haymarket in 1782; ‘Reparation,’ a comedy, produced at Drury
