ABSTRACT
Zachary Grey (1688-1766), a Cambridge clergyman, an antiquary and scholar, wrote various historical and theological works. He was best known for his edition of Butler’s Hudibras (2 vols, 1744; additional notes, 1752) which was savagely abused by Warburton, and Grey may have been the author of some anonymously published works attacking Warburton’s Shakespeare, and defending Sir Thomas Hanmer’s, which appeared between 1746 and 1752. His collection of notes on Shakespeare, a long and diffuse book (it totals 740 pages), is the weakest of all the essays in textual criticism in this period.
