charity will be long honoured. It may easily be imagined that what
was printed under the direction of Boulter would have nothing in it
indecent or licentious; its title is to be understood as implying
only freedom from unreasonable prejudice. It has been reprinted in
volumes, but is little read; nor can impartial criticism recommend
it as worthy of revival.

Boulter was not well qualified to write diurnal essays, but he knew
how to practise the liberality of greatness and the fidelity of
friendship. When he was advanced to the height of ecclesiastical
dignity, he did not forget the companion of his labours. Knowing
Philips to be slenderly supported, he took him to Ireland as
partaker of his fortune, and, making him his secretary, added such
preferments as enabled him to represent the county of Armagh in the
Irish Parliament. In December, 1726, he was made secretary to the
Lord Chancellor, and in August, 1733, became Judge of the
Prerogative Court.

After the death of his patron he continued some years in Ireland,
but at last longing, as it seems, for his native country, he
returned (1748) to London, having doubtless survived most of his
friends and enemies, and among them his dreaded antagonist Pope. He
found, however, the Duke of Newcastle still living, and to him he
dedicated his poems collected into a volume.

Having purchased an annuity of 400 pounds, he now certainly hoped to
pass some years of life in plenty and tranquillity; but his hope
deceived him: he was struck with a palsy, and died June 18, 1749,
in his seventy-eighth year.