| Administrative History | John Scott, [1730-1783]. Quaker poet. Defended Beattie in Gentleman's Magazine, 1778 |
| Description | Sending sheets of his volume to Beattie [evidently poems]. Rowley controversy revived in two octavo volumes by Bryant and a pompous quarto by Dean Milles [Jacob Bryant, Observation upon the poems of ThomasRowley: in which the authenticity of those poems is ascertained (London, 1781); Jeremiah Milles, Poems, supposed to have been written ...by Thomas Rowley...(London, 1782)]. The arguments for antiquity had no weight with Scott when he first read them, and they have been since fully answered by Mr Thomas Warton and others |