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    shire,’ 1793, 2 vols. A fire at the copperplate printer's consumed the whole of the plates and impressions for this work. In the previous year he had issued proposals for a complete history of Hampshire, but, after much labour, abandoned the enterprise (Gent. Mag. 1793, ii. 724). Warner's volume on ‘Domesday’ was included in vol. ii. of the ‘Collections for Hampshire, by D. Y., 1795,’ five volumes in six, but he disowned the publication of that miserable compilation (Literary Recollections, i. 268–72; Gent. Mag. 1793 ii. 742–4, 1797 i. 44–6).
  1. ‘General View of Agriculture of Isle of Wight;’ in ‘View of Agriculture in Hampshire by A. and W. Driver,’ 1794, pp. 45–66.
  2. ‘History of the Isle of Wight, with View of Agriculture,’ 1795.
  3. ‘Netley Abbey: a Gothic Story,’ circa 1795, 2 vols.
  4. ‘Illustrations of the Roman Antiquities at Bath,’ 1797; published by order of its mayor and corporation, but disfigured by numerous errata. Warner had obtained from the borough funds the means of cleansing and arranging these remains, which were many years later deposited in the Bath Literary and Scientific Institution.
  5. ‘Walk through Wales,’ 1798; 3rd edit. 1799; a very popular volume.
  6. ‘Second Walk through Wales,’ 1799; 2nd edit. 1800.
  7. ‘Walk through some of the Western Counties of England’ [from Bath to Launceston and back], 1800; reissued in 1809 as ‘A Walk through Somerset, Devon, and Part of Cornwall.’
  8. ‘Excursions from Bath, 1801.
  9. ‘History of Bath,’ 1801. Captain Rowland Mainwaring published his ‘Annals of Bath’ as a continuation to 1834 of Warner's history. Warner's work was criticised at much length in the ‘Anti-Jacobin Review’ (x. 113–31, 225–42, 335–56), but it has not been superseded.
  10. ‘Tour through Northern Counties of England and Borders of Scotland,’ 1802, 2 vols.; translated into German by C. G. Kültner in 1803.
  11. ‘Chronological History of our Lord and Saviour: the English Diatessaron,’ 1803; new edit. 1819.
  12. ‘Practical Discourses,’ 1803–4, 2 vols.
  13. ‘Companion to the Holy Communion,’ circa 1803.
  14. ‘Book of Common Prayer and Psalter; with Introduction, Notes,’ 1806.
  15. ‘Bath Characters: Sketches from Life by Peter Paul Pallet,’ 1807; 3rd edit. 1808. A skit on the chief residents at Bath, which provoked much controversy. It was followed, also under the pseudonym of Peter Paul Pallet, by
  16. ‘Rebellion in Bath’ [1st canto], 1808.
  17. ‘The Restoration’ [2nd canto of ‘Rebellion in Bath’], 1809 (cf. Halkett's and Laing's Anon. Lit. iii. 2096, 2187).
  18. ‘Six Occasional Sermons,’ 1808.
  19. ‘Series of Practical Sermons on Scripture Characters,’ 1810–11, 2 vols.
  20. ‘New Guide through Bath and its Environs,’ 1811.
  21. ‘Sermons, Tracts, and Notes on the New Testament,’ 1813, 3 vols.
  22. ‘Omnium Gatherum; or Bath, Bristol, and Cheltenham Literary Repository. By us two; 7 Nos. from October 1814.’ Conducted and nearly all written by Warner.
  23. ‘[57] Sermons on the Epistles or Gospels for Sundays,’ 1816, 2 vols.; 5th edit. 1826.
  24. ‘Old Church of England Principles,’ 1817–18, 3 vols.; 3rd edit. 1823.
  25. ‘Letter to Bishop Ryder on Ordination of Young Men holding Evangelical Principles,’ 1818; 2nd edit. with biography of Archibald Maclaine [q. v.], 1818 (cf. Gent. Mag. 1818, ii. 109, 143, 212, 310).
  26. ‘Miscellanies,’ 1819, 2 vols; some copies are dated 1820.
  27. ‘Illustrations, Historical, Biographical, and Miscellaneous, of Waverley Novels,’ 1823–4, 3 vols.
  28. ‘History of Abbey of Glaston and Town of Glastonbury,’ 1826; 250 copies at six guineas each.
  29. ‘The Psalter, with Notes,’ 1828.
  30. ‘Sunday Evening Discourses,’ 1828, 2 vols.
  31. ‘Literary Recollections,’ 1830, 2 vols. The Rev. Thomas Jervis printed a tract of twenty-one pages (varying title-pages dated 1831 or 1832) in correction of some errors in them.
  32. ‘The Anti-Materialist: a Manual for Youth,’ 1831.
  33. ‘Great Britain's Crisis: Reform, Retrenchment, and Economy’ [1st ed. anon.], 1831; 2nd edit. enlarged by the Rev. R. Warner, 1831.
  34. ‘Practical Religion: 12 Sermons to Keene's “Bath Journal.” By Presbuteros,’ 1837.
  35. ‘Simplicity of Christianity: four Sermons to the “Bath Journal.” By Presbuteros,’ 1839.
  36. ‘Thoughts on Duelling: four Letters to the “Bath Journal.” By Gabriel Sticking Plaister,’ 1840.
  37. ‘Sermon on the Mount: five Discourses in Chelwood Church,’ 1840.
  38. ‘For Family Worship: Specimens of Biblical Exposition on Book of Genesis,’ 1842.

Warner circulated among his friends many private impressions of sportive and serious pieces in prose and verse. One of them, ‘Nugæ Poeticæ: Solitary Musings on Serious Subjects. By an Aged Man,’ was dated ‘Chelwood, near Bath, Dec. 1847;’ and his ‘Diary of a Retired Country Parson, in Verse,’ was printed in 1848 (cf. Halkett and Laing, i. 626). Poems by him are in Peach's ‘Bath Houses, 2nd series’ (pp. 27–8), and in the appendix to his ‘Literary Recollections.’ He printed three series of sermons in manuscript-type for the use of the younger clergy, and a host of single sermons. That entitled ‘War inconsistent with Chris-

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