It has been often alleged that Bentley seems to have worked but little on the Greek Testament after 1729: that his attention was diverted by his editions of Paradise Lost (1732) and of Manilius (1739), by his Homeric studies and College litigation, until he was overtaken by a paralytic stroke in 1739, and died in his eighty-first year in 1742. Walker’s collations of cursive manuscripts at Christ Church (Evan. 506), however, obviously made for Bentley’s use, bear the date of 1732(204), and a closer examination of his papers, bequeathed in 1786 by his nephew Richard Bentley to Trinity College, shows that much more progress had been made by him than has been usually supposed. Besides full collations of the uncial Codd. AD (Gospels and Acts), of Cod. F (his θ) and G of St. Paul, of Arundel 547 (Evst. 257) executed by Bentley himself, of Codd. B and C by others at his cost, three volumes are found there full of critical materials, which have been described by Mr. Ellis, and digested by Dr. Westcott. One of these (B. xvii. 5) I was allowed by the Master and Seniors to study at leisure at home. It is a folio edition of the N. T., Greek and Latin (Paris, ap. Claud. Sonnium, 1628, the Greek text being that of Elzevir 1624), whose margin and spaces between the lines are filled with various readings in Bentley’s hand, but not all of them necessarily the results of his own labour, collected out of ten Greek and thirty Latin manuscripts. The Greek are all cursives save Evst. 5, and his connexion with them has been referred to above under the Cursive MSS. They are Evan. 51 (γ), Evan. 54 (κ), Evan. 60 (ε), Evan. 113 (θ?), Evan. 440 (ο), Evan. 507 (τ), Evan. 508 (δ), Act. 23 (χ), Apoc. 28 (κ), Evst. 5 (α). The Latin copies, which alone are described by Bentley in the fly-leaves of the volume, may not be as easily identified, but some of them are of great value, and are described above in Chap. III. These are _chad._ (ξ), _dunelm._ (Κ), _harl._3 (Μ), _lind._ (η), _mac-regol_ (χ), _oxon._ (Σ), _oxon._ (Paul. χ), _seld._ (Act. χ), _vall._, Westcott adds _harl._4 (Η). A second mass of materials, all Latin, about twenty in number, and deposited in England, is contained in the first volume of the Benedictine edition of St. Jerome’s works (Paris, 1693). In this book (B. xvii. 14) Dr. Westcott has pasted a valuable note, wherein he identifies the manuscripts used by Bentley by the means of his own actual collation. Those described above in Chap. III are the following: B. M. Harl. 1802 (W), B. M. _harl._2 (M. of Epistles, &c.), B. M. Addit. 5463 (F), B. M. King’s Lib. I. A. 18 (O), B. M. King’s Lib. I. B. VII. (H), B. M. King’s Lib. I. E. VI. (P), B. M. C. C. C. Camb. 286 (B), B. M. Trin. Coll. Camb. B. X. 5 (S), B. M. Trin. Coll. Camb. B. X. 4 (T, _ibid._), B. M. _lind._ (Y: as in B. XVII. 5), B. M. Camb. Univ. Lib. Kk. I. 24 (χ).