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SOME ACCOUNT 
 
 . ?l X X 
 
 OF THE 
 
 DEANS 
 
 O F 
 
 CANTERBURY; 
 
 FROM THE NEW FOUNDATION OF THAT CHURCH, 
 
 BY HENRY THE EIGHTH, 
 TO THE PRESENT TIME. 
 
 TO WHICH IS ADDED 
 
 A CATALOGUE OF THE 
 MANUSCRIPTS 
 
 IN THE 
 
 CHURCH LIBRARY. 
 
 By HENRY JOHN TODD, M. A. 
 Minor Canon of the Church, Chaplain to the Lords Fife and 
 Kilmorey, and Vicar of Milton, Kent. 
 
 CANTERBURY: 
 
 PRINTED AND SOLD EY SIMMONS, KIRKBY, AND JONES } 
 SOLD ALSO BY FLACKTON, MARRABLE AND CLARIS 3 AND 
 BRISTOW, CANTERBURY 5 
 AND BY T. CADELL, STRAND, LONDON. 
 MDCCXCIII. 
 
To the Right Reverend S<pȣo?<? 
 
 William t-^^r^M^U 
 
 Lord Bishop of Exeter, 
 
 The following Account 
 
 of his Lordfhip's Predeceflbrs in the 
 
 Deanery of Canterbury, 
 
 (the compilation of which he was 
 pleafed to encourage) 
 
 is infcribed 
 
 as an humble Teftimony 
 
 of fincere and refpe<9ful Gratitude^ 
 
 by his Lordfhip's much obliged 
 
 and moft obedient fervant, 
 
 The Author, 
 
PREFACE 
 
 H A T E V E R relates to the cha- 
 
 racters of diftinguiihed Ecclefiaftics* 
 is generally thought deferring of attention. 
 In many hiftories of Cathedrals, indeed, ex- 
 tenfive memoirs are given of their Prelates* 
 But of thofe who have not attained to the 
 Mitre, the accounts are often brief and un- 
 fatisfadlory. 
 
 Of the Deans and other inferior Mem- 
 bers of the Church of Canterbury, the 
 many defcriptions of that Church record 
 but little. On this account, the author 
 was induced to compile the following me- 
 moirs of the Deans, which, it is hoped, 
 will not be thought wholly uninterefting, 
 A 3 though 
 
Vi PREFACE. 
 
 though they are offered to the world only 
 as humble fketches. They are intended, 
 fuch as they are, to render that quotation 
 inapplicable to the Deans of Canterbury, 
 which a famous antiquary (a) has prefixed 
 to his Catalogue of dignified Ecclefiaftics ; 
 " Their 'very names are buried as deep as 
 u their bodies > and the one was fcarce fooner 
 " out of fight 9 than the other out of all men* 
 ie tion and remembrance" 
 
 Of Deans Godwin , Tillotfon, Sharp, and 
 Hooper, there are memoirs in the Biogra- 
 phia Britannica and General Dictionary, to 
 which the author of the following account 
 has been very greatly indebted ; and where 
 he has differed from them, he has not failed 
 to afiign his reafon, and produce his autho- 
 rity. His account of Tillotfon is but fhort $ 
 the Life of that great man by the learned 
 Dr. Birch being too well known to want 
 retailing, and too accurately written to re- 
 quire corre&ion. 
 
 (a) Le Neve. 
 
 The 
 
PREFACE. Vii 
 
 The affiftance alfo which the author has 
 derived from the works of others (manu- 
 fcript as well as printed) to the account of 
 each Dean, he has acknowledged in notes 
 of reference. And to thofe who have com- 
 municated any information he has been 
 careful to exprefs his obligations, and here 
 begs to return his refpedtful thanks. 
 
 The Church of Canterbury records among 
 its Deans, four living Prelates. The au- 
 thor's fituation in the church might ren- 
 der his praife of them fufpected, though it 
 might be beftowed with indifputable truth, 
 whether their conduct was difplayed in the 
 Decanal or the Epifcopal Chair. Of thefe 
 Prelates, as well as of the prefent much- 
 refpedted Dean of Canterbury, he hopes the 
 time is far diflant, before a larger account 
 be neceflary. 
 
 As no Catalogue of the Manufcripts in 
 the Library of the Church of Canterbury, 
 ? has been publifhed fince that which was 
 
 A 4 giveu 
 
Vlii PREFACE. 
 
 given in the " General Catalogue of MS$. 
 " in England, &c. Folio 1696 it is pre- 
 
 fumed that a new one, which the editor 
 (with the obliging approbation of the Dean 
 a;id Chapter) has added to thefe memoirs, 
 may not be found uimecerTary, (b) or at 
 
 leaft not unacceptable to men of curiofity 
 and letters. 
 
 To the candid Reader the author com- 
 mits his little work. The labour which 
 he has beftowed on the compilation of it, 
 has been a pleafure and he hopes that the 
 feverity of criticifm will not caufe him to 
 regret his time injudicioufly employed. 
 Perhaps it may occafion fome correfler pen 
 to employ itfelf in the perfonal hijlory of 
 Cathedrals ; or may afford fome few mate- 
 rials to abler biographers of the Deans of 
 Canterbury. 
 
 (b) Since the publication of the General Catalogue of MSS. 
 the Manufcripts in this Library have been newly arranged ; and 
 many are bound together: Thus, A. 2. contains two MSS. B. 2. 
 contains 11 MSS. &c. &c. To this fmall Collection of MSS. 
 one or two alfo have been added fmce the lalt Catalogue. 
 
 INTRO- 
 
( « ) 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 *"JpHE Title of Dean was reftored to the 
 Church of Canterbury, on its new 
 foundation by Henry VIII. , Deans having 
 preceded Priors in its monaftical eftablifh- 
 ment. 
 
 The Government (c) of this Churchy 
 before the Reformation, may prooerly be 
 divided into three periods : the fir ft from 
 Archbifhop Aiigajline to Wilfred, the fe- 
 cond from Archbifhop Wilfred to Lanfranc, 
 the third from Archbifhop Lanfranc to the 
 difTolution of the Convent. From Auguf- 
 tine to Wilfred are more than 200 years, in 
 which period the Archbifhop lived in com- 
 
 (c) See Batteley's Antiquities of Canterbury, Part the Second, 
 page in, in, &c. 
 
 mon 
 
Jt INTRODUCTION* 
 
 mon with his Monks, and prefided over 
 them in his own perfon, without any fub- 
 ilitute, Dean or Prior. F^rm Wilfred to 
 Lanfranc may be reckoned about 250 
 years, in which time the church was go- 
 verned under the Archbifhop by Deans : 
 and while they continued Prefidents of the 
 Church, the cloyfters were for the moft 
 part frequented and pofferTed by fecular 
 Priells ; they were like the Canons of Ca- 
 thedral Churches, who wore indeed the 
 habit, but did not obferve the rules of the 
 monaftical order. Lanfranc formed them 
 into a Benedi&ine Convent, and changed 
 the title of their Prefident from Dean to 
 Prior. Henry, the laft Dean, is ftiled the 
 firft Prior, about the year 1080. (d) 
 
 Thomas Goldwell, the 42d and laft Prior $ 
 furrendered the Convent to King Henry 
 VIII, in 1540. He, was allowed an annual 
 
 (c!) See Brown Willis's Mitred Abbies, Vol. i, 236 j and 
 Eatieley's Antiq. of Canterbury, part lid. 114.. 
 
 v penfion 
 
INTRODUCTION. XI 
 
 penfion, for his life, of eighty pounds ; and 
 had the offer of a Prebend on the new 
 
 r 
 
 Foundation. That, however, he refufed, 
 probably with filent indignation ; choofing 
 rather to meditate in retirement on the 
 change which he faw and experienced. 
 
 The Convent and all its property having 
 been furrendered to the King, his Majefty 
 created a new Society, confifting of a Dean, 
 twelve Prebendaries, fix Preachers, twelve 
 Minor-Canons, &c. The letters of In- 
 corporation are dated April the 8th, in the 
 3 2d year of his Reign, which was the 
 year 1541. (e) 
 
 (e) Copy of the Charter of Incorporation, in the poiTefMon of 
 the Dean ; and another copy kept in the Chapter Houfe. 
 
 Yet Batteley, Le Neve, and Dart, have given the date the 33d 
 year of Henry's reign, which was. 154.2. 
 
 Dr. Ridley, in his excellent Life of Riihop Ridley, has ftated 
 that the Biihop had been conftituted one of the new Prebendaries 
 of Canterbury j " as appears," fays he, " from the Foundation 
 " Charter in Bennet College Library, dated April 8, Henrici 8 VI 
 " 3a 0 * which was in the year 154,1*" [Ridley's Life of Bilhop 
 Ridley, 144..] 
 
 The Infcription «n Dean Wotton's monument Mates alio that he 
 
 wis 
 
Xlll INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Dean. 
 
 Ni chela s Wot ton. 
 
 TWELVE PREBENDARIES. 
 
 Richard Thornton^ Monk of the late Con- 
 vent, afterwards Suffragan Bifhop of 
 Dover. 
 
 Arthur Sentlegef* 
 
 Richard Champion . 
 
 Richard Parkhurft. 
 
 Nicholas Ridley , Bifhop of Rochefler, 1547* 
 
 of London, 1550. 
 John Menvs, Monk of the late Convent. 
 
 Hugh Glazier, 
 
 William Hunt, alias Hadleigh, Monk and 
 Sub- Prior of the late Convent. 
 
 William Gardiner ^ alias Sandwich, Monk of 
 the late Convent, and Warden of Can- 
 terbury College, Oxford. 
 
 John Myllys, alias Warham, Monk of the 
 late Convent. 
 
 was Dean 25 years, and 293 days : he died Jan.. 26, 1 566-7, and 
 therefore he was conftituted Dean, April 3., 1.541, 
 
 John 
 
INTRODUCTION. XIV 
 
 John Daniel, alias Chittenden, Monk and 
 
 Chaplain of the late Convent. 
 John Baptijia de Cafia. 
 
 SIX PREACHERS. 
 
 Lancelot Ridley. 
 Robert Series. 
 Edmund Shether. 
 ^Thomas Brooke. 
 Michael Drum. 
 
 John Scory, Bifhop of Rochefter, 1 551 , of 
 Chichefter, 1552, of Hereford, 1559. 
 
 While fome of the Monks of the Con- 
 vent had been converted into Prebendaries ; 
 others, lefs fortunate in their defignation, 
 were nominated to the 
 
 TWELVE MINOR CANONRIES. 
 
 John Elpbe, Monk and Chanter of the late 
 Convent. 
 
 John Lamberhurjl, Monk and Penitentiary. 
 John Charijburn, Monk. 
 
 John 
 
XV INTRODUCTION 
 
 John Chart, Monk and Mailer of the Ta- 
 ble. 
 
 John Cranebrooke, Monk and 2d Chanter, 
 Thomas Ickham, Monk and 3d Prior. 
 Henry Audoene, Monk and 4th Prior. 
 William Auften^ Monk. 
 Thomas Anjelm, Monk and 3d Chanter. 
 'Bartholomew Otford> Monk. 
 William Lichfield, Monk. 
 John Ambrofe, Monk, (f) 
 
 At the time of Incorporation the King 
 gave the new Society their Statutes, which 
 had been compiled by Archbifhop Cran- 
 mer. Thefe Statutes, while Dr. Godwin 
 was Dean, received fome additions from 
 Archbifhop Parker ; and while Dr. Bar- 
 grave was Dean, they were revifed and cor- 
 rected by Archbifhop Laud. By the Sta- 
 
 (f) See Batteley's Appendix, part lid. 51, 5s, and Dart's Hift. 
 of the Church of Canterbury, Appendix 55, 56. 
 
 tutes 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 xvi 
 
 tutcs thus altered, and confirmed in 1636 
 by King Charles Ift, the Cathedral of Can- 
 terbury is at this day, governed, 
 
 CONTENTS- 
 
P n M T F M 
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 PAGE 
 
 Wot ton 
 
 I 
 
 Godwin - 
 
 3° 
 
 Rogers - . - 
 
 5° 
 
 Nevil - 
 
 66 
 
 FOTHERBY 
 
 83 
 
 Boys 
 
 91 
 
 Bargrave - 
 
 100 
 
 Eglionby - 
 
 112 
 
 Turner - 
 
 117 
 
 TlL LOT SON r 
 
 134 
 
 Sharp - 
 
 149 
 
 Hooper ~. 
 
 169 
 
 Stanhope - 
 
 187 
 
 SYD ALL 
 
 200 
 
 Lynch ~ 
 
 211 
 
 •Friend - 
 
 220 
 
 Potter - 
 
 225 
 
 North - 
 
 229 
 
 Moore - 
 
 230 
 
 CoRNWALLIS 
 
 231 
 
 Horne - . - 
 
 232 
 
 BlJLLER ■» 
 
 25O 
 
 ■ /~\ B"l XT TT* TTT 7 A T T — 
 
 LOKNEWALL - - 
 
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 Catalogue of Manufcripts. 
 
 26l 
 
 
 DEANS 
 
DEANS 
 
 O F 
 
 CANTER B U R Y 
 
 WOTTON. 
 ICHOLAS WOTTON, the firft 
 
 ^ Dean on the new foundation, was de- 
 fcended from an ancient and illuftrious fa- 
 mily, which had long refided at Boughton- 
 Malherbe in the County of Kent, He was 
 the fourth Son of Sir Robert (a) Wotton, 
 Knight, by Anne Belknapp, daughter of 
 Sir Henry Belknapp, Knight. 
 
 He was educated in the Univerfity of 
 (b) Oxford, where he ftudied the Canon 
 and Civil Law 3 his fkill in which recom- 
 mended him to the notice of Tunftall, 
 Bifhop of London, to whom he became 
 Official in (b*) 1528, being at that time 
 Dodtor of Laws. 
 
 (a) Sir Robert Wotton, of Bough ton-Malherbe, was born in 
 24.63. He lived in the reign of Edward JVth, was by him trailed 
 to be Lieutenant of Guifnes, and Knight Porter and Comptroller 
 of Calais, where he died and lies honourably buried. [Ifaac Wal- 
 ton VLife of Sir H. Wotton, great nephew of the Dean.] 
 
 (b) Fuller's Worthies, Kent, (b*) Strype's Cranraer, 72. 
 
 B 
 
 Having 
 
2 WOTTON. 
 
 Having entered into the Church, he 
 was collated by Archbimop Warham to 
 the Redtory of Ivychurch in the County 
 of Kent. But this benefice he refigned in 
 1555, referving to himfelf a penfion (c) of 
 twenty-two marks (which was one third 
 of its reputed value) during his life. 
 
 He continued to aft as a Civilian ; and in 
 1536, when fentence was pronounced upon 
 the injured Anne Boleyn, he appeared in 
 Court as her (d) Proftor. 
 
 In 1538 Archbimop Cranmer conftituted 
 him (e) Commiffary of his Faculties for 
 the term of his natural life. About the fame 
 time he became Chaplain to the King, who 
 in 1539 nominated him to the Archdea- 
 conry of Gloucefter, then vacant by the 
 promotion of Archdeacon (f) Bell, to the 
 See of Worcefter. " And this poffibly," 
 fays an eminent antiquary, (g) " might be 
 " one of the firft inftances of the Crown 
 " taking that liberty, on making Bimops, 
 
 (c) Batteley's Antiq. of Canterbury, part 2d, 112. (d) Fuller's 
 Ch. Hift. Book 5th, 207. (e) Strype's Life of Cranmer, 72. 
 
 (f) John Bell, l. l. d. Archdeacon of Gloucefter, Warden of 
 Stratford on Avon, Prebendary of Lincoln and Lichfield, Chan- 
 cel 'or of the Diocefe ot Worcefter, and la(Uy Bifhop of Worceftcr. 
 He refigned his Bifhopric in 154.3, and died in retirement in 1556. 
 
 (g) Brown Willis's Survey of Worcefter Cathedral, 667. 
 
 " to 
 
WOTTON. ^ 
 
 t€ to difpofe of their former preferments," 
 Wotton was thelaft Archdeacon of Glou- 
 cefter, while it remained part of the diocefe 
 of Worcefter and the firft, after Glou- 
 cefter became a diftinft See of itfelf by the 
 Charter of Ereftion in 1541. 
 
 His next promotion was to the Deanery 
 of Canterbury in (h) 1541 ; in addition to 
 which he obtained in (i) 1 544 the Deanery 
 of York, and in the (k) following year was 
 prefented to the Prebend of Olbaldwick in. 
 that Cathedral. And to have poffeffed at 
 the fame time the Deaneries of the two 
 Metropolitan Churches, has been the dis- 
 tinction of Wotton alone. In (1) 1553 he 
 refigned the Archdeaconry of Gloucefter 5 
 and was prefented in (m) 1557 to the 
 Treafuryfhip of the Church of Exeter, 
 which he alfo relinquifhed in the fucceed- 
 ing year. 
 
 Such were the appointments which Wot- 
 ton obtained. We find however that he 
 had the modefly to decline a more exalted 
 fituation. For in 1539 a Bifhopric had 
 been offered to him by the King j his refu- 
 
 (h) See the Introduction. (i) Brown Willis's Survey of 
 
 York Cathedral, 69. (k) Ibid. 157. (1) Ibid. Gloucefter 
 Cathedral, 732. (m) Le Neve's Fafti. 91. 
 
 B 2 fal 
 
4 WOTTON. 
 
 fal of which he expreffed in the following 
 letter to the " Pa. Worfhipful Mr. Bel- 
 laffis r 
 
 " (n) Gentyle Mr. Bellaffis, for thepaf- 
 " {yon of God, yf hit be poffible yet, af~ 
 * c faye, as far as yow maye, to conveye 
 " this bifhopricke from me. So I might 
 <{ avoyde hit without difpleafure, I wolde 
 <: furelye never meddel withe hit. I can 
 " not incrvile ynough cur obtrudatur ncn 
 <( cupienti, into ne idoneo quidem. My 
 " mynde is as troubled as my wrytinge is. 
 " Aliquid quafo tandem excogita, it a tamen 
 * s ut citra affenfam* Sic que propter temporis 
 tx angujliani> nunc r oale feliciter. Written 
 " at Dimiffeldorpe the xith daye of No- 
 €C vember, A°. 1539, 
 
 " Yours to his littel powre 
 " Nicholas Wotton. 
 " Add whatfoever you v^ill 
 " more to hit, fo yow add 
 " not Bifhop." 
 
 And when Parker was raifed to the See 
 of Canterbury, Wotton was under the con- 
 fideration of (o) Secretary Cecil, and Sir 
 Nicholas Bacon for that important dignity. 
 
 (n) Biog. Brit. 4.339.. ^ ote A. (o) Strype's Life of Parker, 35. 
 
 It 
 
WOTTON. 5 
 
 It is affirmed alfo that he (p) refufed it. 
 So that, while he was an accomplifhed 
 Courtier, he was at the fame time an un- 
 ambitious Bccleiiaftic. 
 
 But his character becomes more confpi- 
 cuous, when it is confidered, how often he 
 was employed on foreign embaffies and 
 negotiations. He was twice (q) Arnbaffa- 
 dor to the Emperor Charles the Yth, once 
 to Philip King of Spain, once to Francis 
 the Ift King of France, thrice to Henry 
 the lid his Son, once to Mary Queen of 
 Hungary and Governefs of the Nether- 
 lands, and twice to William Duke of 
 Cleves, 
 
 His firft fervice abroad is thought to 
 have been his Embafly to (r) Cleves in 
 1539, in order to carry on the treaty of 
 Marriage between Henry and the Lady 
 Anne. Of her accompli(hments he tranf- 
 mitted to the King the following account, 
 that " flie (s) could both write and read in 
 " her own language, and few very well * 
 " only for Mufick, it vv 7 as not the manner 
 " of the country to learn it." It is not to 
 
 (p) L'oyd's Slate Worthies, (q) Monument, (r) Strype's 
 Cranmer, 72. (s) Lord Hei belt's Henry the 3th. 
 
 E 3 be 
 
6 WOTTON. 
 
 be fuppofed, that this defcription would 
 kindle fo fierce a flame in the breaft of his 
 royal mailer, as the picture of Hans Hol- 
 bein did 5 fo that we may* in fome meafure* 
 place the conclufion of the treaty, and the 
 difguft of the Monarch, not to the letter of 
 the Ambailador, but to the flattery of the 
 Painter, It was afterwards the difagreea- 
 ble office of Wotton to acquaint the Duke 
 of CJeves with Henry's repudiation of hig 
 Siftefb 
 
 In 1546 he Was one of the Commif- 
 fioners who met at Campe, a fmall place 
 between Ardres and Guifnes, in order to 
 negotiate Peace between England, Scot- 
 land, and France. To a reconciliation with 
 the latter Henry acceded without reluc- 
 tance 5 but the (t) admiffion of the Scots 
 into this treaty he, at firft, oppofed* Fran- 
 cis, their ally* was too generous to abandon 
 their interefi; ; and, by his addrefs, they 
 were included in the treaty* the articles of 
 which were ligned on the 7th of June* 
 
 In the September following Wotton ob- 
 tained the (u) royal difpenfation for Non- 
 Relidence on hid perferments, by which he 
 
 (t) Robertfon's Hift. of Scotland, (u) Batte'ey's Canterbury. 
 
 was 
 
WOTTON 7 
 
 was equally entitled to their profits. He 
 was then the King's Ambaffador in France ; 
 in which ftation he was at the death of 
 Henry in January following, by whofe Will 
 he was appointed one of the Executors to 
 whom, during the Minority of his Son Ed- 
 ward the Vlth, he entrufted the govern- 
 ment of the kingdom. And, as a tefti- 
 mony of his regard, the Monarch be. 
 queathed him the following legacy — 
 " Furthermore, (w) for the Kindnes and 
 <c good fervice that our fayd Executours 
 ** have mewed unto Us, We gyve and 
 " bequeath unto eche of them fuch foms 
 *' of Money, or the Value of the fame, 
 *' as hereafter enfuith, 
 
 " To Dodtor Wotton 300 Lib." 
 
 In the reign of Edward, the abilities of 
 Wotton were not only exercifed abroad, but 
 alfo in his own country ; as he held, for a 
 fhort time, the diftinguifhed office of Prin- 
 cipal Secretary of State, to which he was 
 appointed in 1549, but which he (x) re- 
 figned to Cecil in September 1550. He 
 might have enjoyed this ftation (the duties 
 
 (w) Rymer's Fosdera, vol. XV th. (x) Sir John HaywarcTs 
 Lite of Ed. 6th. Note in Kennet. 
 
 B 4 of 
 
8 WOTTON. 
 of which he was admirably qualified to dis- 
 charge) much longer; it was, however, 
 the earneft (y) requeft of himfelf and his 
 friends, that he might relinquish it. He 
 was one of the Council who, on the 6th 
 of October 1549, feceded from the Pro- 
 tector, and who addrefled a (z) memorial 
 to the young King on the encroachments 
 of that unfortunate Nobleman. 
 
 In 1 55 1 he was fent Ambaflador to the 
 Emperor, in order to explain that no (a) ab- 
 folute affurance had ever been made to the 
 Lady Mary, in refpect to the exercife of 
 her religion, but that only a temporary 
 connivance had been granted under the hope 
 of her amendment. Her refufal to comply 
 with the new liturgy, and her refoiution 
 to adhere to the mafs not only affected Ed- 
 ward with forrow, but prompted him to 
 refentment; and Mary was menaced as well 
 as preffed on the point of conformity. She 
 did not fail to (b) reprefent in the moft odi- 
 ous light thefe proceedings to her kinfman 
 Charles, who, by his Ambaflador, remon- 
 strated to the Englifh Court on her behalf, 
 
 (y) Monument, (z) Burnet's Hift. of Ref. vol. II. Appen- 
 dix.' (a) Inllru&ionsin note to Ed. 6th. in Kennet's Complete 
 Hill, of England, v. ii. 317. (b) Guthrie's Hift. of England. 
 
 and 
 
WOTTON. 9 
 
 and to his remonftranee, if flighted, added 
 the threat of hoftility. It was not the in- 
 terest of England then to engage in a war ; 
 and therefore the King (at length prevailed 
 on by the advice of his Council) deputed an 
 Ambaflador to the Emperor, with a view 
 to (c) continue a good correfpondence with 
 him : and the Dean received his inftruc- 
 tions on the ioth of April. 
 
 At the death of Edward, the Dean, Sir 
 William Pickering, and Sir Thomas Cha« 
 loner, were Ambafiadors in France, whence 
 they wrote to Mary on her acceffion to the 
 throne, (d) acknowledging her Queen, and 
 ceafing to a<fl any further in their public 
 character. But in this capacity her Majefty 
 thought proper to continue Wotton, with 
 whom fhe joined Sir Anthony St. Leger. 
 
 From France the Dean is faid to have 
 written to the Queen in 1553 on the fol- 
 lowing fubjeft. He (e) dreamed that his 
 Nephew Thomas Wotton was inclined to 
 be a party in fuch a proje<!t, as, if he were 
 not fuddenly prevented, would turn out 
 
 (c) Note, before the Inltru&ions, in Kennet. (d) Strype's 
 Cianmer, 304, (e) Walton's Life of Sir Henry Wotton. 
 
 both 
 
IO WOTTON. 
 
 both to the lofs of his life, and the ruin of 
 his family. Accordingly he refclved to 
 ufe fo prudent a remedy by way of prevent 
 tion, as might introduce no great inconve^ 
 nience either to himfelf or his Nephew, 
 He therefore wrote to Mary, requefting 
 that his Nephevy might be fent for out of 
 Kent, and that he might be interrogated by 
 the Lords of the Council in fome iuch 
 feigned fpeeches, as would give a colour 
 for his commitment to a (f) favourable pri- 
 fon. He added, that he would acquaint 
 her Majefty with the true reafon of his re- 
 quell, when he £hould next become fp 
 happy as to fee and fpeak to her. It was 
 accordingly done as he had defired. 
 
 Soon after this, it muft be obferved, the 
 rebellion of Wyat broke out, in which fp 
 many of the Kentifh Gentry fell in the field, 
 or perilhed ignobly w T ith their Leader. 
 
 An ancient friendfhip had fubfifted be- 
 tween the families of Wotton and Wyat. 
 And Mr. Wotton would probably have fuf- 
 fered in the calamity of his friend, had not 
 his Uncle fo happily dreamed him into 
 prifon. For when the Dean returned tp 
 
 (f) ibid, 
 
 England^ 
 
WOTTON. II 
 
 England, his Nephew confefled that he 
 had more than an intimation of Wyat's de- 
 fignj and joined the Dean in gratefully 
 reflecting on his efcape from ruin, 
 
 But may not the prevention, thus afcri- 
 bed to the dream of Dr. Wotton, be rather 
 attributed to that fagacity which he pof- 
 fefled ? The intended alliance of Mary with 
 Philip, was, no doubt known to him $ and 
 perhaps he forefaw that prejudice which, 
 many would conceive againft the marriage. 
 He apprehended that if Wyat lhould rife 
 amongft the difcontented, (and which he 
 might have ftrong reafon to fufpect) his ex- 
 ample and intimacy would influence the 
 conduct of his Nephew. At fuch a time, 
 who then can fuperftitioufly impute that to 
 a dream y which has all the appearance of 
 deep deliberation, and all the merit af in- 
 genious precaution ? 
 
 In 1556 war had commenced between 
 France and Spain ; and Philip was very de- 
 firous to engage Mary in the quarrel. Wot- 
 ton, (g) devoted to his intereft, (and then 
 Ambaffador at Paris) is faid to have founded 
 the intentions of the Court of France to- 
 
 (g) Guthrie's Hift, of Eng. 
 
 wards 
 
\% WOTTON. 
 
 wards England by the following ftratagem, 
 a relation of which he fent to the Queen in 
 order more readily to engage her to hoftili^ 
 ties with that kingdom. He employed his 
 (h) Nephew (who, though a Youth, was 
 9, perfect mafter of diffimulation) to addrefs 
 the famous Conftable Montmorency with 
 an offer of the fervices of the difcontented 
 in England, and with a promife to deliver 
 Calais into his hands. To the latter pro^ 
 pofition the Conftable, not fufpefting a 
 fnare, acceded with an eager enquiry how 
 it might be effected, and with an affurance 
 of great reward, if the defign fhould be ac- 
 complished. The Ambaffador now pof^ 
 fefled the information he wanted, with 
 which his Nephew was difpatched to the 
 Queen, and from which £he was readily in^ 
 duced to fufpedl the ill defigns of the 
 French. Some part of this account feems 
 to be without foundation. The purpofe of 
 young Wotton (according to Hume) had it 
 not been fruftrated by pure accident, would 
 have prevailed over all the caution and ex- 
 perience of the aged Montmorency. 
 In 1557 the Dean by (i) his circum- 
 
 (h) Burnet's Hift. of Ref. vol. ii,— Rapin, vol. ii.— (i) God- 
 win's Life of Q^Mary. Heylin* 
 
 fpedtion 
 
WOTTON* 13 
 
 fpecVion detected the rebellious plot of Tho- 
 mas Stafford, of which he tranfmitted an 
 account from Paris to the Council, before 
 his arrival in England ; fo that, though 
 Stafford, on his landing, took the town of 
 Scarborough which was but High tly guarded, 
 and invited the people with confidence to 
 arm againft Mary, he was in a few days ea- 
 fily defeated, andfoon after furlered. And 
 this confpiracy, it was pretended, was 
 (k) encouraged by the Court of France. 
 But whatever might be the motives that 
 ferved to exafperate the Queen, the deiire 
 of Philip was gratified, and war was pro- 
 claimed againft the French. 
 
 In the following year the Dean was ap- 
 pointed one of the Commiffioners to treat 
 concerning Peace, between England, Spain, 
 and France ; a negotiation to which the de- 
 jeded Mary, after the lofs of Calais, rea- 
 dily confented. The meeting of the Com- 
 miffioners was opened at (l)Cercamp in 
 October, but in the following month the 
 Queen died. 
 
 Senfible of the political value of Wotton 
 Elizabeth, on her acceffion to the crown, 
 
 (k) Speed. Hume. (1) Forbes's Preface to his State Papers. 
 
 fcrupled 
 
14 WOTTON. 
 
 fcrupled not to retain his fervices. He was 
 accordingly appointed (as he had been in 
 the three preceding reigns) a Privy Coun- 
 fellor ; and, with the Earl of Arundel, and 
 *Thirlby Bifhop of Ely, was continued to 
 carry on the negotiation they had fo lately 
 commenced. 
 
 On the 23d of November 1558 the Lord 
 Cobham was fent with a new commiffion 
 and inflruftions to them, before the (m) ar- 
 rival of whom the Earl of Arundel had re- 
 turned to England; and the treaty was 
 prorogued for about two months, 
 
 On the 14th of December Lord (n) How- 
 ard of Effingham was fent, as a fubftitute 
 in the Earl's place, to join the Bifhop and 
 the Dean, Of their negotiation Wot ton 
 gave an account to Secretary Cecil full of 
 the keener! obfervation, though with an 
 amiable diffidence he profeffed his incapa^ 
 city to inform that Statefman, as he ought 
 of fuch important matters. " They 
 
 * He was in 1 54.0 made the fiifc (and indeed the laft) B /hop of 
 Weltminfter. In 155Q he was tranfiated to }he See of Norwich s 
 and in 1554 to that of Ely. tje was deprived, however, in 1559 
 for oppdfing Elizabeth's alterations in Religion, fie died in 1 570* 
 [B- Willis's Ely.] 
 
 (in) Forbes's Preface, (n) Burleigh's Notes at the end of Mur* 
 Mil's State Papers, (o) Forbes's State Papers Vo\.l. 35. 
 
 » paffe,; 
 
WOTTON. 15 
 
 * c (o) paffe," fays he, " too farre the reach 
 *Vand capacite of my fimple wit te ; never 
 " yndeed but fimple, but fpecially now, by 
 
 eage andtravayle fo decayedde, that not 
 £C only I may trewlyecall it fimple, butalfc 
 4C moft fimple P " From the fame letter it 
 appears that his health was now greatly im^ 
 paired ; * x This journey hath much weak^ 
 6< ened me, I afiure you, I am even donne* 
 * £ and not able to fufteyne labour eny more » 
 " fpecyallye yn winter. And it is no won- 
 si der, for withyn thefe four monethes (yf 
 ** I ly ve fo long) I fhall entre ynto my great 
 " climaterike yere; which the Phificians 
 '* faye is the dangeroufefte yere of all % 
 4S marine's Jyfe/' 
 
 In a principal point of their negotiatioa 
 the Dean and his colleagues were unfuc- 
 cefsful, as the French would not content 
 to their propofal for the reftitution of €a«* 
 lais. It was at length agreed (though the 
 engagement was never fulfilled) that, after 
 eight years, France fhould relincjuifh the 
 pofleflion of that town to England - 9 and 
 Peace was concluded at Chateau-Cambre- 
 fis (p) April 2, 1559, 
 
 In the fame month Wotton returned to 
 
 ($) Burleigh's Notes. 
 
 England, 
 
l6 WOTTON\ 
 
 England, where his ftay was but very fli6rh 
 For in May he was commiffioned with Lord 
 Howard and Sir Nicholas Throgmorton to 
 receive from the French King the confir- 
 mation of the treaty. But he was now at- 
 tacked with a tertian ague, which on the 
 nth Sir Nicholas Throgmorton thus de- 
 fcribed tf Secretary Cecil; 6( Mr. (q)Se- 
 " tary, it may like yowe to underftand that 
 " being arrived at Canterbury, I find Mr. 
 f( Dodtor VVotton troubled with a tertian 
 " ague, whereofe he ha the had two fittes ; 
 '« and notwithflanding, becaufe his fit yef- 
 " terday was fummwhat eafye, he mindeth 
 cc to ride forward to Dover, and fo pafTe 
 " over with us, if he may. But foraf* 
 " muche as by reafon of his age, the daun- 
 cs gerous tyme of the yere, and throughe 
 cc his own conceipt, as he himfelf termeth 
 66 it, de anno climacterico, it may happen 
 " him not to have fo fone recovery, as to 
 " ferve the Queue's Majefte at this prefent ; 
 6€ I have thought good to fignify this moche 
 " unto youe ; praying youe to think in the 
 && meane time upon fomme other mete man, 
 € i who is acquainted with the treaty at 
 
 fq) Forbes, vol. i. 38. 
 
 " Cam- 
 
wotton. iy 
 
 H Cambray ; to th' intent that, in cafe of 
 ** his not recovery (the likelyhood whereof 
 <s will be known this daye or to morrowe) 
 " th' other may be difpatched in poft to 
 " ferve in Mr. Wotton's place." 
 
 But notwithstanding Sir Nicholas's fears* 
 and the Dean's own apprehenfions, he was 
 able to proceed on their commiffion, and 
 with Sir Nicholas failed from Dover on the 
 15th, and landed at Boulogne the fame af- 
 ternoon. 
 
 On the 19th they joined Lord Howard 
 at Amiens, and on the 23d they arrived at 
 Paris, where Lord Howard and the Dean 
 were provided with apartments " (r) nere 
 < 6 unto the Court ; who found bothe of 
 " them their lodgings, handfomly trymmed 
 " and hanged, and are at the King's charges 
 " furnifhed of their diet. Notwithftand- 
 " ing" (fays Throgmorton) " I, for my 
 " parte, do not as yet fin de any fuehe in- 
 " terteignment." But in his letter, dated 
 the next day, he appears better fatisfied, as 
 " it (s) was the King's pleafure," fays he, 
 " there flhulde be a meffe of meate fent to my 
 u lodginge for me at his charges $ wherby 
 
 (r) Forbes, vol. i, 100. (s) Ibid. 105, 
 
 c 
 
 " it 
 
l8 t WOTTOM, 
 
 " it fhulde feeme, that the King will de- 
 " fraye us of our owne tables, as longe a$ 
 '? we (hall contynue heere in the courte." 
 
 On the 28th they all (t) accompanied 
 the French King from the Louvre to the 
 Cathedral of Notre Dame, where, after 
 the celebration of mafs, amidft a van: con- 
 courfe of Nobility, Cardinals, and Bifhops, 
 he confirmed the treaty by his oath. They 
 were witneffes alfo to the fame folemnity 
 on the part of Francis (the Dauphin) and 
 Mary King and Queen of Scotland ; peace 
 with that kingdom being neceffarily com- 
 prehended in the treaty with France. 
 
 About this time, the Dean (u) received 
 the compliment of as much gilt plate as 
 amounted to 1 500 ounces or more ; and 
 in the latter end of June he returned to 
 England again, 
 
 The peace, however, in the negotiation of 
 which he had allifted, was but of fhort con- 
 tinuance. The ambitious proceedings of 
 the French Court in 1559, and the fuccefs 
 of their arms againft the Scotch Proteftants, 
 were fufficient to excite the vigilance of 
 Elizabeth. Her indignation at the claim 
 
 (t) Forbes, vol. i, 112. (u) Ibid. 116. 
 
 of 
 
W0TT0N. I9 
 
 of Mary to the Englim Crown, a claim 
 which the French hoped to eflablim, and 
 the declining affairs of the Reformers who 
 folicited her affiflance, at length (w) deter- 
 mined her to fend a powerful force to Scot » 
 land. In the event of this quarrel the 
 French were obliged to capitulate, and 
 Commiffioners were appointed to treat 
 Concerning peace. Thofe on the part of 
 England were the Dean and Sir William 
 Cecil - y on that of France Monluc Bifhop 
 of Valence and the Sieur de Randan. The 
 interefts of the Bnglifh and French Courts 
 were foon adjufted ; but to a formal treaty 
 with the Scots, the (x) French Ambaffa- 
 dors coiifi.defed it derogatory from the dig- 
 nity of their Sovereign to accede. The re- 
 drefs of their grievances was, however, 
 granted in the name of Francis and Mary, 
 and accepted by the Scots, as an act of royal 
 indulgence. And whatever conceffions they 
 obtained whether in refpecl to their perfonal 
 fafety, or their public demands, the French 
 Ambaffadors agreed to infert in the treaty 
 with Elizabeth : fo that they were fane- 
 tioned, though not with the name, yet with 
 
 (w) Hume, (x) Robertfon. 
 
 C 2 
 
 all 
 
20 WOTTON. 
 
 all the fecurity of the moft folemn negotia- 
 tion. The treaty was (y) figned at Edin- 
 burgh on the 6th of July r 560. 
 
 The public fervices of Wotton were af- 
 terwards employed in regard to the trade of 
 the Englifh Merchants, who had been ill- 
 treated (not only in Spain* but) more parti- 
 cularly in the Netherlands, upon (z) pre- 
 tence of civil differences, but in fact out of 
 hatred to the Protefiant Religion* They 
 therefore removed their mart to Embden in 
 Eail-Friezcland. But Guzman de Sylva 
 (Canon of Toledo) then the Spanifh Am- 
 baffador in England, endeavoured to com- 
 pofe thefe differences, which he found ma- 
 terially to affect the interefts of the Ne- 
 therlands. At length Elizabeth, and the 
 Duchefs of Parma Regent of the Low 
 Countries, exchanged in December 1564 
 a mutual agreement, by which the com- 
 merce between the two countries was re- 
 ftorcd, and (a) Vifcount Montagu, the 
 Dean, and Dr. Haddon were fent Commif- 
 fioners to Bruges in order to a full difcuf- 
 fion of the fubjecl:. But, in the following 
 year, the troubles in the Netherlands put a 
 
 (y) Burleigh's Notes, (z) Baker's Chronicle* (a) Ibid, Bur- 
 leigh's Notes. Camden's Eliz. 
 
 flop* 
 
WOTTON. 21 
 
 flop to their farther conference, after it had 
 been (b) agreed, that there fhould be an 
 open trade, till one Prince denounced war 
 againft the other ; and in that cafe, the 
 merchants fliould have forty days notice to 
 difpofe of themfelves and their effedts. 
 
 This probably was the laft public em- 
 ployment of the Dean, which indeed he did 
 not long furvive, He died, at London, on 
 the 26th of January, 1566-7, aged near 70. 
 
 He and his colleague, Dr. Haddon, are 
 mentioned " as (c) famous for a difwafion 
 tl againft making the Netherlands a Free 
 " State, urging that of Machiavel, That 
 M People accujlomed to live under a Prince^ 
 " if by any accident they become free, are 
 <c like be aft s let looje, and have much ado to 
 
 maintain either their Government or Li' 
 €C berty." 
 
 While the Dean appears to have been fo 
 much engaged as a Statefman, he was not 
 unemployed as a Divine. In 1537 the more 
 learned Ecclefiaftics of that period were 
 called together in order to the compofition 
 of the book entitled, " The Godly and 
 * c pious Injlitution of a Chrifiian Man 
 
 (b) Camden, (c) HarleianMSS, No. 7177, page 127. 
 
 C 3 among 
 
&2 WOTTON. 
 
 among whom was Dr. (d) Wotton. Ta 
 their difcuffion and judgment many of the 
 principal points of religion were fubmitted. 
 At this conference, or perhaps at another 
 meeting of Divines in 1540* it was the 
 opinion of Wotton that (e) € * confirmacyon 
 " ys a faerament of the newe teftament 
 that cs the outward fygne ys the markyne pf 
 *' the forhedde by the hands of the niynifter 
 " to that faerament deputyd and that " the 
 * c invifible grace is a corroboracyon or a 
 " ftrengtheninge and encoraigynge of hym 
 " that recey veth the faid faerament, to re-* 
 fS fiftc his goftelye ennemye, and the more 
 ** willynglye and boldly e to confeffe the 
 * ? name, and the croffe of Chryfte." 
 
 The learning of Wotton is faid (f) to have 
 been profound and extenfive | and to have 
 been difplayed to the greateft advantage in 
 the force of his arguments, and in the ea fi- 
 ne fs of his elocution. In council his fentx- 
 ments were delivered with admirable dif- 
 cretion and maintained with undaunted re- 
 folution. The vigilance of his political 
 conduct, both at home and abroad, dif- 
 tioguifhed him as an exemplary Statefman, ; 
 and the facility with which he could dif- 
 
 (d) Strype's Cranmer, 54.. (e) Original in his own hand 3 Cot- 
 ton Lib. Cleopatra E. 5. page 3 3.* (f) See Lloyd's State Worthies. 
 
 cufs 
 
WOTTON; 23 
 
 cufs the merits of a caufe, (his (f) method 
 being exaft, and his memory tenacious) 
 marked him as an acute Civilian. His 
 knowledge of trade and commerce was no 
 lefs confpicuous, and in an acquaintance 
 with the polity of nations he was inferior to 
 none. 
 
 To the greatnefs of his character Hoi- 
 lingfhed and Camden have bequeathed their 
 teftimonies. The firft has obferved that no 
 man ever had more numerous employments 
 for the State, none conducted them better 
 than Wotton ; " his (g) worth and learn-* 
 " ing," fays he, " entitled him to more re- 
 
 verence, than I fhall be able with due 
 " majeftie of ftile to exprefs." And the 
 latter has remarked that the Dean flourifhed 
 in his time, and " clofed (h) a long life 
 " with reputation of great devotion and 
 lt prudence." Henry the VHIth, is faid 
 to have thus addrelTed him, when he was 
 about to depart on an Embaffy, " Sir, 
 " I (i) have fent a Head by Cromwel, a 
 * e Purfe by Wolfey, a Sword by Brandon, 
 €< and I muft now fend the Law by you to 
 treat with enemies." 
 
 (f) Ibid. (g) Hollmgfhed's Chronicle. 
 Britannia. (i) Lloyd. 
 
 c 4 
 
 (h) Camden's 
 
 Of 
 
24 wotton; 
 
 Of his memory no difrefpedlful mention 
 is made, except with regard to his com- 
 plying in fuch different times : and hence 
 he has been concluded an unftable Divine, 
 a Doftor not only of both Laws, but alfo 
 of (k) both Gofpels $ of the Proteflant, 
 which had the Statefman's part, and of the 
 Popifh, which had the Chriftian. His re- 
 ligious conduft, it mull be allowed, be- 
 trays too cautious an attention to fecular 
 intereft. However, he was mild and inof- 
 fenfive. And if he was not fignalized him- 
 felf as a Reformer, neither has he difgraced 
 himfelf as a Bigot, To the horrid pro- 
 ceedings in the bloody reign of Mary he 
 gave no (1) confent, or countenance. Yet 
 his compliances cannot be defended upon 
 ft rift principles ; and fairer would have 
 been his fame, had he difdained to tempo- 
 rize. But in a word, Wotton was a Poli- 
 tician, rather than an Bcclefiaftic, 
 
 To this account of the Dean may be ad- 
 ded his Advice, 
 
 ftf Firft to (m) Church men j To un- 
 " derftand well the Common and Canon 
 iC Law, as well as the Divine 5 by the firft 
 
 (k) Lloyd and Fuller. (J) Serbia Rcclufa, vol. i, 25Z. 
 |m) Lloyd's State Worthies. 
 
 " whereof 
 
WOTTON. 25 
 
 f* whereof they might underftand their 
 <c Right, as by the fecond they informed 
 tf themfelves and others of their duty. 
 
 (< Secondly to State/men; Travel and 
 f< Hiftory. 
 
 € * Thirdly to Ambajfadors - 9 1. a good 
 " purfe ; 2, a noble and fober train ; 3. con*- 
 ec ftant correfppndence and obfervation; 
 s< 4. a happy medley of Debonnairenefs and 
 " Complacency, Refervednefs and Gravity; 
 (g with the firft he had taken Princes, and 
 " with the laft Statefmen ; the (n) former 
 " difcovers others, while the latter con- 
 " ceals you ; 5. Refolution ; I made often 
 " (faid he) as if I would fight, when they 
 " knew my calling allowed me only to 
 ?f fpeak ; 6. Civility y That man (faid the 
 " Prince of Orange) is a great bargain, 
 (< who is bought with a bare falutation. 
 
 ff Fourthly to Privy Counfellors ; That 
 €€ excellent caution, Always to fpeak laft, 
 sc and be Matters of other ftrength, before 
 " they difplayed their own." 
 
 He was buried in the chapel pf the Holy 
 Trinity in Canterbury Cathedral. He died 
 unmarried, leaving his Nephew Thomas 
 
 (n) So printed in Lloyd. 
 
 Wottoa 
 
26 WOTTON. 
 
 Wotton Efq. his heir, into (p) whofe hands 
 his Legations and other State-Papers came. 
 Soon after his death, Cecil Lord Burleigh 
 requefted the perufal of them, which was 
 readily granted by Mr. Wotton. 
 
 Of this Mr. Wotton and the Dean, Ifaac 
 Walton has recorded a (q) parallel circum- 
 ftance in refpedt to their laft end; " both 
 
 of whom," fays he, " (being men of 
 " holy lives, of even tempers, and much 
 " given to fading and prayer) forefaw and 
 " foretold the very days of their own death. " 
 
 To the Dean's memory a beautiful and 
 much-admired monument (part, if not the 
 whole of which, was executed at Rome) 
 is placed in the aforefaid Chapel. He is 
 reprefented kneeling at his devotions ; the 
 head is faid to have been carved by his own 
 order, while living. Over his figure is the 
 following infcription, 
 
 NlCOLAUS WoTTONUS, RoBERTI 
 
 Wottoni Equitis Aurati ex Anna Belk- 
 nap pa Filius, utriufque juris Doclor, Ec- 
 cleilae hujus primus, itemq ; Metropolitans 
 Eccle&x D. Petri Eboracensis Deca- 
 
 (p) Strype"s Anna's, veil. iii, 208. (q) Life of Sir Henry 
 W r utton. 
 
 BUS j 
 
WOTTON. 27 
 
 nus; Henrico viii. Edovardo vi. Ma- 
 hije & Elizabeths, Angli^e Regibus, 
 a fecretis Confiliis. Ad Carolum V. Cae- 
 farem bis, et ad Philippum Hispania- 
 rum Regem femel, ad Franciscum Pri~ 
 mum Francorum Regem feme], ad 
 Henricum II. ejus Filium ter, ad Ma- 
 riam Hungary Reginam Belgarum 
 Praefidem femel, ad Gulielmum Cli- 
 vensium Ducem bis, legatione fundus. 
 Renovata? pacis inter Anglos, Francos, 
 et Scotos, inter Guinas et Arderam, 
 Anno 1546; fimiliter et ad Caftrum Ca- 
 meracense, Anno 1559; deniqueEDiN- 
 burg 1 Scotia, Anno 1560, Oratorum 
 dnus. Hie tandem iere feptuagenarius re- 
 quiefcit. 
 
 Hxc ille ante mortem et ante morbum, 
 quafi fatalem diem prasfentiens, et cignearn 
 cantionem prophetice canens, fua manu in 
 Mufaeo fcripta reliquit. 
 
 Qui apud tales Principes, Divina Provi- 
 dentia gubernante, laudabiliter, et in tot, 
 et in tantis caufis (quarum magnitudo gra- 
 viffima utilitas publica fuit) feliciter bonam 
 vitas fuas partem confumpfit; eum Virum 
 fapientem et experientiffimum ipfa invidia 
 judicare debet. Quam femper ab omni 
 
 con ten- 
 
28 WOTTOM, 
 
 eontentione Honorum fuerit alienus, illud 
 deelarat 3 quod ad banc Ecclefiafticam Dig-, 
 nitatem nonambitione ullafua inflammatus, 
 nee a mi coram opera ufus afpiravit, fed earn 
 utramque Henricus viii. (hominis me-? 
 rito et virtu te provocatus) ultro detulit, 
 Cumque idem Rex illuftriffimus morbum 
 lethalem ingravefcere perfentifceret, et 
 Edovardi Principis fane excellentiffimi, 
 adhuc tamen pueri, et Reipublicas admini- 
 ftrands imparis, imbecillam astatem fenili 
 prudentia fecretioris fui confilii regend^m 
 efle exiflimaret* illis ex fedecim, quos fu- 
 premae- voluntatis fuas Teftes et V indices 
 Teftamento inflituit, hunc Nicolaum 
 (ablentem tunc in Francia Legatum) 
 unum eiTe voluit. Edovardo Regi jam 
 medio Regni curriculo prope confe&o, unu's 
 e primariis Secretariis fuit; quern locum 
 diutius tenere patuiffet, nifi et fuis et af- 
 fiduis amicorum precibus abdicandi veniam, 
 irnpetraiTet, 
 
 Corpus illi erat gracile quidem et par- 
 vum, fed rectum ; habitudo fana, vultus 
 liberalis, victus exquiiitus,, quern feme] 
 tantum in die carpere confueverat. Vale- 
 tudo adeo firma, ut raro morbum aliquem 
 fcnfcrit. Animus vero totus, lihris ac li- 
 tem 
 
WOTTON* 29 
 
 teris dicatus, Artium, Medicine, Jurifpru- 
 dentis, et Theologian ftudiis inteiitus; Lin- 
 guarum Romans, Italics, Gallics, et 
 Germanics inferioris cognitione pulchre 
 exornatus. Ita vir ifte genere clarus, le- 
 gationibus clarior, domi ac foris clariffimus, 
 honore florens, labore fractus, state con- 
 feclus, poftquam Decanus huic Ecclelis 
 annos 25 dies 293 prsfuiffet, Londini, Ja- 
 nuarii 26, Anno noftrs Salutis 1566, pie 
 et fuaviter in Domino obdormivit, Thoma 
 Wottono, Nepote, Hsrede reli&o ; qui ei 
 hoc Monumentum, non Honoris ergo, quo 
 abundavit vivus et florefcet mortuusj fed 
 Amoris caufa, quern Memoria colet, ut de- 
 bet, fempiterna, ccnrecravit. 
 
 GODWIN. 
 
I 30 ] 
 GOD W I N. 
 
 ^HOMAS GODWIN, the fecond 
 Dean, was a native of (r) Oaking- 
 ham in the County of Berks, and received 
 the firfl: rudiments of learning at the Gram- 
 mar School in that town. His parents 
 were probably but in (s) low circumftan- 
 ces ; he found a friend, however, in Dr. 
 Lay ton Archdeacon of Bucks, afterwards 
 Dean of York, and one of the mofr. zea- 
 lous promoters of the Reformation; to 
 whofe notice he had recommended himfelf 
 by his promifing abilities. 
 
 By the kindnefs of this patron he was 
 enabled to purfue his ftudies at the Univer- 
 fity. And accordingly he became a Mem- 
 ber of Magdalen College Oxford about the 
 (t)year 1538, where he took the degree 
 of Bachelor of Arts in 1543. Of this fo- 
 ciety he was in 1544 elected probationer, 
 
 (r) Bifliop Godwin- (his fon) de Praefulibus. edit. Richardfon, 
 3S9. (O Biog. Bnt. An. Godwin. (t) Wood's Athense 
 Oxon. vol. i. 
 
 and 
 
GODWIN. 31 
 
 and the year following adual Fellow. In 
 1547 he was admitted to the degree of M.A. 
 
 Not long before his eledtion to the fel- 
 lowfhip, his friend the Dean of York died $ 
 the lofs of whom muft have greatly affec- 
 ted him, as he had profited By his inftruc- 
 tions, as well as fubfifted by his bounty. 
 He had efpoufed the fame principles, as 
 the Dean, in refpedt to the Reformation : 
 and on that account his fituation in college 
 was rendered unpleafant by the perfecuting 
 fpirit of fome (u) papiftical members. 
 What he could no longer enjoy he was glad 
 to relinquifh ; he therefore accepted the 
 School of (w) Brackley in Northampton- 
 fhire, which was in the gift of his college, 
 and refigned his fellowftiip. To this ap- 
 pointment he retired in 1549, and foon after 
 (x) married Ifabella, the daughter of Ni- 
 cholas Purefoy, of Shalfton in the County 
 of Bucks, Efq. 
 
 He now applied that time which he 
 could fpare from Tuition to the ftudy of 
 Divinity and Phyfick. His intention, no 
 doubt, was to take orders. But the ac- 
 ceflion of Mary fruftrated that view. He 
 
 (u) Godwin's Praeful. (w) Ibid. (x) Biog. Brit. 
 
 was 
 
32 GODWIN. 
 
 was now fufpended from his office of teach- 
 ing fchool, and was fo (y) feverely 
 threatened by the tyrant Bonner, that he 
 was often obliged to remove his habitation, 
 and to feek refuge in obfcurity. 
 
 Under this perfecution he pradlifed Pby« 
 fickj as a fupport for his family ; and con- 
 fidering it then as the means of his future 
 fubfiftence, he proceeded in (z) 1555 to 
 the degree of Bachelor in that faculty. 
 
 But, when Elizabeth came to the throne, 
 he refumed his former defign of entering 
 into the miniftry. Accordingly he was 
 ordained at the beginning of her reign by 
 (a) BulHngham then Bifhop of Lincoln, to 
 whom he became Chaplain ; by whom alfo 
 he was introduced to the notice of the 
 Queen as an excellent preacher. Nor did 
 he difgrace the recommendation of his pa- 
 tron. His elocution and doftrine fecured 
 to him the approbation of his audience, 
 while they evinced his own judgment : he 
 was plain and pathetic. To Elizabeth 
 thefe abilities appeared alfo with fome ad- 
 dition from the advantage of his figure. 
 fl He (b) was an eloquent preacher^ fays 
 
 (y) Fuller's Worthies, Berks, 93. (z) Wood's Fafti, vol. ij^ . 
 S3, (a) Biog. Brit, (b) Fuller's Worthies, 
 
 Fuller, 
 
GODWIN. 33 
 
 Fuller, iC tall and comely in per/on ; qualities 
 ** which much indeared him to the Queen, 
 <e who loved good parts well, but better 
 €e when in a goodly perfon." For a feries of 
 eighteen years he was always appointed to 
 preach before her (c) Majefty in Lent* 
 
 He was riot as yet, however, diftin- 
 guiflied by preferment. But on the (d) de- 
 privation of Thomas Sampfon Dean of 
 Chrift Church Oxford for Non-Confor- 
 mity, he was in June 1565 promoted td 
 that Deanery. In December following 
 Bifhop Bullingham conferred on him the 
 (e) Prebend of Milton-Ecclefia in his 
 Church of Lincoln. And on the (f) 17th 
 Of that month he took the degrees of Ba- 
 chelor and Dodtor of Divinity. 
 
 In the next year the Queen paid a vifit td 
 the Univerfity of Oxford. On Saturday 
 the 31ft of Aiiguft (he was met at 
 (g) Wolvercdt (the fartheft limits or jurif- 
 didion of the Univerfity) by their Chan- 
 cellor the Earl of Leicefter, and by a feledt 
 
 (c) Huic vero j*rincipi iri tantum placuit erudita facimdia in 
 he-mine quern corporis proceritas et formae fumma dignitas corn- 
 mendabat, ut inter eos qui iblennes conciones quadragelimales pro 
 more in regis habebant, oclodecim per annos nunquam non fuerit 
 aTcitus. [Godwin de Pras.s,] (d) Biog. Brit, (e) B.Willis's' 
 Lincoln, (f) Wood's Fafti, vol. i, page 95. (g) A fmall vil- 
 lage diltant from Oxford about two miles on the road to Wo'odftock; 
 from which place the Queen came on this Vint,' 
 
 0 number 
 
34 GODWIN. 
 
 number of Heads of Colleges dreffed in 
 their robes, among whom was (h) Dean 
 Godwin. The fame evening he celebrated 
 prayers in his Cathedral for her Majefty's 
 happy arrival. During her ftay, all literary 
 exercifes were performed as in full term. In 
 the theological difputations, the moft emi- 
 nent divines of that period difplayed their 
 abilities ; Bifhop Jewel being Moderator, 
 Dr. (i) Humphrey Refpondent, and the 
 Doctors Godwin, (k) Overton, (1) Weft- 
 phaling, (m) Calfehill, and (n) Piers Op- 
 ponents. Nor did the Queen leave the 
 Univerfity without teftifying at once her fa- 
 tisfaclion and her erudition ; " Ex quo 
 " enim primum Oxoniam veni," faid fbe, 
 " multa vidi, multa audivi, probavi omnia. 
 " Erant enim et prudenter fadta, et ele- 
 " ganter dicta. "(o) 
 
 (h) PemaH's Hift. Univ. Oxon. 22 5. 
 
 (i) Laurence Humphrey then Prefident of Mag. Coll. Regius 
 Profeffor of Divin'ry, afterwards Dean of Glocefter, and laftly 
 Dean of Winchefter. 
 
 (k) William Overton of Mag. Coll. afterw ards Bifhop of L-ch- 
 field and Coventry. 
 
 (1) Herbert Weftphaling then Canon of Chrift Church, afterwards 
 Bifhop of Hereford. 
 
 (m) James Calfehill then Canon of Chrift Church, Lady Mar- , 
 garet's Profeffor of Divinity, afterwards nominated to the Bifhopric 
 of Worcefter bat died before confecration. 
 
 (n) John Piers of Mag. Coll. then Dean of Chefter, afterwards 
 of Chrift Church, and of Salifbury, then Bifhop of Rochefter, of 
 Salifbury, and laftly Archbirtiop of York. 
 
 (o) See the Queen's fpeech Pe/hali's Hift. Univ. Oxon. Life of 
 Robert E. of Leicelter, Appendix. 
 
 God- 
 
GODWIN. 35 
 
 Godwin foon afterwards experienced a 
 frefh proof of her Majefty's favour. For, 
 on the death of Dean Wotton, he was pro- 
 moted to the Deanery of Canterbury ; to 
 which he was inflituted March the ioth 
 1566-7. 
 
 In June following he was appointed by 
 Archbifhop Parker one of his Commif- 
 iioners to (p) vifit the Diocefe of Norwich. 
 And that Primate having eftablimed a be- 
 nefaction for a Sermon on Rogation Sunday 
 at Thetford in Norfolk, on Monday at 
 Wymondham, on Afcenfion Day at St. 
 Clement's in Norwich, and on the Sunday 
 following in the Green Yard the Dean, 
 while engaged in this com million, preached 
 the (q) firft fermon- of that foundation, on 
 Sunday morning July the 20th, in the Green 
 Yard adjoining to the Bifhop's palace. In 
 the afternoon he preached again under the 
 Great Oak in St. Clement's Church Yard. 
 Among his Auditors were the Duke of 
 Norfolk, the Bifhop of Norwich, the 
 Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs of the City, 
 and his fellow- commiffioners. 
 
 In 1569 the rumour of a rebellion in the 
 
 (p) Mafters'sHift. of Cor. Gh. Coil. Cambridge, 87. (q) Ibl . 
 
 D z North 
 
^6 GODWIN. 
 
 North was prevalent. Nor was it flighted 
 by the cautious Elizabeth. Her prepara-* 
 tions to fu'bdue the Infurgents were begun 
 with alacrity, as they were afterwards 
 Crowned with fuccefs. On this occafion 
 fhe fummo'ned the (r) Clergy tofupplyby at 
 rated proportion of arms that affi fiance,- 
 which her civil fubjedts might afford by 
 perfonal exertion. Accordingly Godwin 
 was to contribute, as Dean of Canterbury, 
 the following fhare > " i (s) Corflet, ij Al- 
 " mayn Ryvets,- Plate-Cotes, and Brigan- 
 lt dines, i Pyke, ij Long Bows, ij Sheaffk 
 " and Arrows, ij Steel Caps, i Harquebut* 
 €e and i Morion or Salet/' And as the 
 Archbifhop was direfted to regulate thefe 
 proportions according to the refpedtive in-* 
 comes of the Clergy, it appears that the 
 Dean was then rated as poffeffing not lefs 
 than 200I. per annum. 
 
 In the following year he rebuilt the 
 Deanery, * great part of which, fince his 
 promotion, had been deflroyed by fire. 
 
 When the Queen was magnificently en- 
 tertained at Canterbury in 1573 by Arch- 
 bifhop Parker, the Dean, on the Sunday 
 
 (r) "Strype's Life of Parker, 274..- (s) Ibid. 
 
 aft# 
 
GODWIN. 37 
 
 after her arrival, (t) preached before her 
 IVIajefty in the Cathedral. 
 
 In the fuceeeding year he quitted his 
 Prebend of Mijton-Ecclefia, on being pre- 
 fen ted by Cooper then Bifhop of Lincoln 
 (and who had fucceeded him in the 
 Deanery of Chrift Church) jto that of 
 Leighton-Bofard; the endowment of which 
 is confidered the beft in the Church of 
 Lincoln, and has obtained it the title of 
 the (u) Golden Prebend. 
 
 In 1576 he was one of the Ecclefiaftical 
 (w) Cpmmiffioners, empowered by the 
 Queen to take cognizance of all offences 
 againft the peace and good order of the 
 Church, and to frame fuch ftatutes as 
 plight conduce to its profperity. 
 
 The See of Bath and Wells had in 1584 
 been vacant fmce the death of Dr. Gilbert 
 Berkeley in November 1581. To this 
 Bifhopric the Queen was now pleafed to 
 nominate Dean Godwin, who accordingly 
 was (x) confecrated on the 13th of Sept, 
 1584 by Archbifh-jp Whitgift, affifted by 
 
 (t) Strype's Annals, vol. ii, Appx. No. 37. (u) B.Willis's 
 
 Lincoln, (w) Stryp'e's Life of G-nndal, 208, (x) Godwin de 
 Pnelul. 
 
 . D 3 Aylmer 
 
30 * GODWIN. 
 
 Aylmer Bifhop of London, and Young 
 Bifhop of Rocheften 
 
 He now relinquished the Deanery of 
 Canterbury - } and as he arrived at the Epif- 
 copal Dignity ce as well qualified" (in the 
 words of a (y) contemporary) c * for a 
 <c Bifhop as might be, unreprovable, with- 
 " out Simonie, given to good hofpitality, 
 " quiet, kind, and affable, "--it is to be 
 lamented that he was unjuitiy oppofed in 
 th© enjoyment of what he deferved. 
 
 At the time of his promotion there pre- 
 vailed among the (z) Courtiers no fmall 
 difiike to the Biihops ; the caufe of which 
 was only a deiire to fpoil them of their re- 
 venues* To cover their unjuft proceed- 
 ings they did not want plaufible pretences^ 
 the effects of which Godwin too feverely 
 experienced. 
 
 He was a Widower, drawing towards 
 feventy, and much enfeebled by the gout, 
 when he came to the See. But in order to 
 the (a) management of his family, and 
 that he might devote his whole time to the 
 difcharge of his high office, he married a 
 
 (y) Sir John Harrington's Brief View of the State of the Church 
 of England, (z) B og. Brit, (a) Ibid. 
 
 fecond 
 
GODWIN. 39 
 
 fecond wife, a widow, of years fuitable to 
 his own. An illiberal ■ mifreprefentation, 
 however, of this affair was but too readily 
 believed by the Queen, and the crafty flan- 
 derers gratified their aim in the difgrace of 
 the aged Prelate, and in obtaining part of 
 his property. 
 
 Sir John Harrington acknowledges that 
 when the Bifhop came to the See, he en- 
 joyed the good opinion of the Queen.-*- 
 With fome prejudice againft his marriage, 
 but with no fmall humour in the defcrip- 
 tion, he obferves, however, that 66 Non 
 <c (b) minor eji virtus quam queer ere part a 
 <c tueri. If he had held on as clear as he 
 " entered, I mould have highly extolled 
 t$ him. But fee his misfortune that firft 
 " loft him the Queen's favour, and after 
 <c forced him to another mifchief. Being 
 " aged, and difeafed, and lame of the Gout, 
 <( he married (as fome thought for opinion 
 €$ of wealth) a Widow of London. A 
 " chief (c) favourite of that time (whom I 
 " am forry to have occafion to name again, 
 " in this kind, had laboured to eet the Ma- 
 * c nor of Banwell from this Bifhopric, and 
 
 (b) Brief View, &c. (c) Sir Walter Raleigh. 
 
 D4 «dif- 
 
GODWIN. 
 
 difdaining the repulfe, now hearing this 
 intempeftive Marriage, took advantage 
 thereof, caufed it to be told to fhe Queen^ 
 (knowing how much fhe mifliked fuch 
 matches) andinftantlypurfued theBilhop 
 with letters and mandates for the Manor 
 of Ban well for 100 years. The goo4 
 Bifliop not expecting fuch a fudden tem- 
 per!:, was greatly perplext, yet a while 
 he held out and indured many fharp mef- 
 fages from the Queen, of which myfelf 
 carried him one, delivered me by my 
 Lord of Leicefter, who feemed to fa r 
 vour the Bifhpp, and miflike with the 
 Knight for molefting him, but they were 
 foon agreed like Pilat and Herod to con- 
 demn Chrift. Never was harmleis man 
 fo traduced to his Sovereign, that he had 
 married a Girl of twenty years old, with 
 a great portion, that he had conveyed 
 half the Bifhopric to her, that (becaufe 
 ' he had the Gout) he could not Hand to 
 c his Marriage, with fuch feoffs to make 
 ' him ridiculous to the vulgar, and odious 
 ' to the Queen. The good Earl of Bed- 
 < ford happening to be prefent when thefe 
 * tales were told, and knowing the Lon- 
 ' doner's Widow the Biihop had married, 
 
 « faid 
 
GODWIN. 4C 
 
 faid merrily to the Queen after his dry 
 manner, Madam , I know not how much 
 the Woman is above twenty but I know a 
 Son of hers is but little under forty. But 
 this rather marred than mended the mat- 
 c ter. One faid Majus pec cat urn habet. 
 ' Another told of three forts of Marriage j 
 c of God's making, as when Adam and 
 c Eve, two young folks, were coupled ; of 
 c man's making, when one is old and the 
 6 other young, as Jofeph's marriage ; and 
 ' of the devil's making, when two old 
 ' folkes marry, not for comfort, but fpr 
 ' covetoufnefs, and fuch they faid was this. 
 e The concluiion to the premilles was this, 
 ' that to pacify his perfecutors, and to faye 
 c Banwell, he was fain to part with Wilf- 
 ' combe for 99 years (I would it had been 
 ' 100) and fo purchased his peace. Thus 
 ( the Bifhopric, as well as the Bifhop, 
 6 were punifhed, who wifhed in his heart 
 c he had never taken this preferment to 
 c foile himfelf in his decrepid age, with 
 ;c that ftain that all his life he had abhorred, 
 " and to be made an inftrument of another 
 ? c man's facriledge, and ufed like a leaden 
 f conduit pipe to convey waters to others 
 
 " and 
 
4 2 GODWIN, 
 
 " and drink nothing but the dreggs and 
 << drofs and ruft itfelf." 
 
 Sir John then quotes part of Bifhop Fran- 
 cis Godwin's obfervation on the fituation of 
 his father ; the whole of which, expreffed 
 with no lefs modefty than learning, is too 
 interefting to be here omitted ; (< O ilium 
 " felicem, fi felix maluiffet manere, quam 
 " regiminis ecclefiaflici labores turn fufci- 
 €i pere, cum laboribus impar, fradtus fenio, 
 " invalidus corpore, neceffum illi fuerit 
 €€ aliorum uti auxilio. Qui quanquam ii 
 " deledi fuerint, qui omnium maxime de- 
 " buerint optimi fenis famas et faluti prof- 
 " picere: tamen (quod evenire folet) tan- 
 " quam in re aliena negligentiores facti, de 
 " fua tantum folliciti, utranque perdide- 
 <c runt. Hie vero expeclare quis jure pof- 
 €€ fit, ut quantos olim labores exantlaverit 
 " in propaganda veritate evangelica, quam 
 <f fludiofe pietatem fociafque virtutes co- 
 " luerit, gregem denique fibi commifTum 
 " quam follicite cuftodierit faltem paucis 
 ie commemorarem . Sed cum praaclara 
 (( virtus praeconem aut encomiaftam nuf- 
 iC quam defideret ; et modeftis me as magis 
 congruum, etad gloriam illius propagan- 
 dam commodius exiftimo, ab aliis pofthac 
 
 " laudes 
 
GODWIN. 43 
 
 (C laudes ejus decantari, quibus fidem de- 
 << rogare iron poffit fanguinis propinquitas, 
 " ac interim, quxvl potius a ceteris mor- 
 " talibus, cur non laudaverim, quam a ca- 
 " lumniatoribus paucis et malevolis, cur 
 " laudaverim." 
 
 " For my part" (to refume the narrative 
 of Sir John) " though I loved him well, 
 " and fome of his actions, yet in this cafe, 
 6i I can make no other apology for him, 
 " nor ufe no other plea in his defence, but 
 ce fuch as unable debtors do, that when 
 " they are fued upon juft occafions, plead 
 "per minas-y or rather to liken him to an. 
 " hulbandman, that dwelling near a judge 
 " that was a great builder, and coming one 
 " day, among divers others neighbours, 
 " with carriages, fome of ftone, fome tin : 
 " the fteward, as the manner of the country 
 " was, provided two tables for their din- 
 <f ners ; for thofe that came upon requeft, 
 " powdered beef and perhaps venifon; for 
 " thofe that came for hire, poor-john and 
 " apple-pies - } and having invited them to 
 *' fit down in his Lordlhip's name, telling 
 < e them, one board was for them that came 
 Ci in love, the other for thofe that came 
 
 for money; this hulbandman and his 
 
 " hind 
 
44 OODWIN. 
 
 **■ hind fat not down at either; the which 
 " the fteward imputing to fimplicity, re- 
 ** peated his former words again, praying 
 66 them to fit down accordingly; but he 
 * 6 anfwered (for there is craft in the clouted 
 fhoe) he faw no table for him, for he 
 
 45 came neither for love nor money, but for 
 €£ very fear: and even fo I dare anfwerfor 
 " this Biihop; he neither gave Wilfcombe 
 " for love, nor fold it for money, but lett 
 **■ it for fear. 
 
 <€ How flrangely he was intrapped in the 
 ^ unfit marriage : I know not if it may be 
 il called a marriage, Non Hymenceus adejl 
 " ////, non gratia leBo. Himfelf protefted 
 €i to me, with tears in his eyes, he took 
 C€ her but for a guide to his houfe, and for 
 - c the reft (they were his own words^ he 
 u lived with her as Jofeph did with our 
 cc Lady. Setting this one difgrace of his 
 u a fide, he was a man very well e (teemed 
 <c in the country, beloved of all men for his 
 "great hofpitality; of the better fort, for 
 « 4 his kind entertainment and pleafant 
 <e difcourfe at his table: his reading had 
 tc been much, his judgment and doctrine 
 c< found, his government mild and not vio- 
 C( lent, his mind charitable; and therefore 
 
 " I 
 
GODWIN; 45 
 
 u I doubt not, but when he loft this life, 
 " he won Heaven; according to his word, 
 6£ Win God, Win all" 
 
 This unfortunate affair, which affe&ed 
 his public character as well as his private 
 happinefs, contributed not a little to increafe 
 his infirmities. He continued* however,- 
 attentive to the duties of his fundtion, and 
 foon after gave proof that neither his dili- 
 gence nor his obfervation were inconfider- 
 able. 
 
 In 1587 the Lord Treafurer Burleigh 
 (d) fent private letters to the Bifhops, re- 
 quefting them to enquire into the character 
 of thofe who were juftices of the Peace in 
 their refpedlive Diocefes. A new comma-- 
 fion had lately been iffued from Court ; be- 
 fore which, many Juftices had been eon- 
 iidered as favourers of the plots formed by 
 the Papifts in the preceding year ; or as Re- 
 cufants themfelves ; or as incompetent to 
 the office through inability of learning, oi 
 infufficiency of wealth. Yet it had fo hap- 
 pened that in this new commiffion many de- 
 ferving Gentlemen were not nominated 1 
 while fome, ftill ftifpe&ed, were continued^- 
 
 (d) Strype's Whitgift, book w 3 di.'xix. 
 
 On 
 
46 GODWIN. 
 
 On this account the Lord Treafurer's. let- 
 ters were fent : the anfwer of Godwin was 
 as follows ; 
 
 ** After my (e) due commendations unto 
 " your Lordfhip, to your Letter of the 2d 
 " of Sept. this mine Anfwer. Upon con- 
 " ference with the Trufty, I mew your 
 cc Lordfhip, that of fuch as be removed 
 " out of the Commiffion, Mr. Sam. Norton, 
 cc Mr. Anthony Scutf y and Mr. Watkins, 
 " being found in the faith, and meet for 
 " their abilities in the places of their abode, 
 €C being very convenient ; efpecially fince 
 " the Death of Sir John Horner 3 are furely 
 " very fit men to be replaced." 
 
 <e Of fuch as be left in commiffion, I 
 " think Sir John Sydnam, and John Lancaf* 
 
 ter> to be unworthy of the place, on 
 " thefe confiderations ; Sir John Sydiiams 
 C( Lady is a Recufant ; his eldeft fon's 
 " wife a Recufant - y and fufpedted to be 
 " married at a Mafs. John Lane after, of 
 tc all honeft men taken to be an enemy to 
 Ci the Truth. And for the fame once ex- 
 £C pelled, Gray's Inn. His Father and Mo- 
 6S ther Lady-Matin folks. One of his be- 
 
 (e) Strype's Annals, vol, iii, Appendix, 177. 
 
 " loved 
 
GODWIN. 47 
 
 £e loved brothers a feminary at Rhemes : 
 (e His wife's father no Recufant, but back- 
 c ? ward in Religion. And fo is all his Al- 
 " liance : and more countenanced by his 
 <c place. His Hability too fmal : that at 
 " this laft Rating in the Subfidy refufed to 
 " be ceffed at io£. Lands." 
 
 " Thus heartily thanking your Lordfhip 
 " for the good opinion yee have conceived 
 " of me, that ye would truft me in fo 
 <e weighty a caufe ; wherein I have and ever 
 " will, deal without affection, I humbly 
 <( take leave, wifhing to your Lordfhip all 
 " Health of Body and Mind, long to en* 
 " dure. 
 
 " Your Honour's allured in the Lord 
 " Thomas Bath & Wells." 
 " From Ban well, 
 
 « oa. 2, 1587." 
 
 In the two (f) fucceeding years his health 
 more rapidly declined, and he was alio at- 
 tacked with a quartan ague. He was now 
 recommended by his Phyficians to try the 
 benefit of his native air. Accordingly he 
 came to Oakingham with this intention, 
 but breathed his laft there, on the 19th of 
 November 1590, in the 73d year of his age. 
 
 (f) B!og. Brit. 
 
 The 
 
4-8 GODWIN. 
 
 The memory of Bifhop Godwin will ever 
 be refpedted. His own merit brought him 
 into public notice, and when he rofe in 
 the Church, he adorned it by his amiable 
 qualities. 
 
 Though he was a diftinguifhed Scholar, 
 yet he has not publifhed any of his labours. 
 Among the Manufcripts which Archbi- 
 fhop Parker gave to Bennet College Cam- 
 bridge, there is a Sermon of Godwin's 
 which he preached before the Queen at 
 Greenwich in 1566, (g) Concerning the 
 Authority of the Councils end Fathers. 
 
 He was buried in the Chancel of Oak- 
 ingham Church. Againft the Baft Wall, 
 on a black marble, enchafed in white, is 
 the following modeft infefiption written by 
 his Son Francis Godwin, one of the moff; 
 accompiifhed fcholars of his time, and who 
 died Bifhop of Hereford in 163 3 ; 
 
 M.S. 
 
 Parentis chariffimi, patris vere reverendi* 
 Thomse Godwini, facrs Theologis Doc- 
 torisj iEdis Chrifti Oxon. primum, ae 
 deinde Cantuarien. Decani, Bathon. de- 
 mum ac Wellen Epifeopi, qui hoc in op- 
 
 (g) Catalog. MSS.C.C.C. C. 
 
GODWIN. 49 
 
 pido natus, hie etiam (dum valetudinis re- 
 cuperandae gratia ex medicorum fententia 
 hue fecedit) quartana febre confedtus, mor- 
 talitatem exuit Novemb. 19. 1590. confe- 
 crationis {ux anno feptimo, et hie jacet ex- 
 peftans adventum magni Deu 
 
 P. 
 
 Fil. Frane. Godwin Exon. Subdecanus^ 
 
 £ ROGERS. 
 
[ 50 ] 
 
 ROGERS. 
 
 RICHARD ROGERS, the third Dean, 
 was a native of Sutton-Valence in 
 Rent, and the defcendant of an ancient fa- 
 mily in that county. 
 
 He was educated at Chrift College in the 
 Univerfity of Cambridge, where he took 
 the degree of Bachelor in Divinity in 
 (h) 1562, and became afterwards Do dor 
 in the fame faculty. 
 
 About the latter end of 1 559 he was pre- 
 ferred to the (i) Archdeaconry of St. Afaph, 
 which he refigned in 1566. On his pro- 
 motion to this dignity he was only in Dea- 
 con's orders. For, in the return made to 
 Archbifhop Parker of the ftate of St. Afaph 
 Diocefe in 1560, he is thus defcribed 
 among the members of the Cathedral, 
 (k) " Magifter Richardus Rogers Diaco- 
 * € nus, ut ipfe fuis Uteris attellatus eft, 
 <f Archidiaconus Afaphenfis eruditus et ab- 
 " fens," He was fucceeded by Thomas 
 
 (h) B. Willises Survey of St. Afaph, 287* (i) Ibid, (k) Ibid, 252. 
 
 Powel 
 
ROGERS. 51 
 
 Powel who held this office till 1573, when 
 Dr. William (1) Hughes Bifhop of St. 
 Afaph, obtained poffeffion of it, and pro- 
 cured a faculty from Archbifhop Parker to 
 retain it in Commendam with the See - y a 
 privilege which has uninterruptedly been 
 enjoyed by his fucceffors. 
 
 On the refignation of his Archdeaconry, 
 it is probable that Rogers was prefented by 
 the Bifhop of St. Afaph to the Sinecure 
 Reftory of Llanarmon in the County of 
 Denbigh ; of which it appears he was pof- 
 feffed when he was (m) Dean of Canter- 
 bury. However, in 1567 he was preferred 
 in his native county, being collated by 
 Archbifhop Parksr to the (n) Rectory of 
 Great Chart. 
 
 In 1568 he was advanced to a more c.on- 
 fpicuous ftation, being confecrated by the 
 fame Prelate Suffragan Bifhop of Dover. 
 By an Adt paffed in the 26th year of Henry 
 VIII, Suffragans were to be denominated 
 from fome principal place in the diocefe 
 of the Prelate, whom they were appointed 
 to affift. And when a Bifhop defired a 
 Suffragan, he was to prefent two perfons 
 
 (1) B. Willis's Survey of St. Afaph, in. (m) Strype's An- 
 nals, vol. ii, Appendix, 63* (n) Reg. of Indu&ions. 
 
 E 2 to 
 
52 KOGERS. 
 
 to the choice of the King. — In conform 
 mity to this Act, Parker now prefented 
 to Queen Elizabeth, (p) Rogers then B. D. 
 and John Butler L. L. B. Prebendary of 
 Canterbury ; .when, on the 12th of May, 
 her Majefty nominated the former. 
 
 In 1569 he was (q) one of the Commif- 
 fioners appointed by the Metropolitan to 
 vifit the City and Diocefe of Canterbury, as 
 alio to examine and to puniih whatever 
 crimes or exeefTes were difcovered either in 
 the Laity or Clergy. 
 
 To the fupply of arms which, in this 
 year the State demanded of the Clergy, a 
 proportion far lefs confiderable from him, 
 than from Godwin, was required ; as in- 
 deed, though a (r) Suffragan Bifhop, he 
 was rated as pofleffing only 40^. per ann. 
 He was to furnifh " ij (s) Almayn Ryvets, 
 M Plate- Cotes, and Brigandines, i Long 
 " Bow, i Sheaf of Arrows, i Steel Cap, 
 " and i Black Bill or Halberd. " 
 
 In 1573 when the Queen paid her fa-^ 
 
 (p J Strype's Life of Parker, i6i. (q) Ibid. 283. 
 
 (r) It teems no diftinft revenue was provided for Suffragans.—- 
 [Lewis's EfTay on Suff. Bifhops.] 
 
 (s) See Life of Godwin. Of the arms which Godwin and Rogers 
 were to fupply, f.e the ufes explained in Grofe's Treatife on An- 
 cient Armour 0 
 
 mous 
 
ROGERS. 53 
 
 mous vifit to Archbimop Parker at Canter- 
 bury, the Suffragan of Dover, with the 
 Bifhops of Rochefter and Lincoln, attended 
 the Primate, and received her Majefty, on 
 l^er arrival, at the Weft door of the Cathe- 
 dral. After me had hear4 an oration from 
 one of the King's Scholars, fhe alighted 
 from herhorfe. " We (t) then'' fays Par- 
 ker, " kneeled down, and faid the Pfalm 
 " Deus mifereatur in Englifh, with certain 
 " other collects briefly; and that in our chi- 
 " mers and rochets." The royal vifitor was 
 then conducted under a canopy, borne by 
 four Knights, to her feat in the Choir. 
 
 In 1575 Archbimop Parker died, of 
 whofe friendfliip and refpedt Dr. Rogers 
 received the laft teftimony, in being ap- 
 pointed one of the overfeers of his Will, 
 and in being thus kindly remembered, 
 " (u) Doet lego Epifcopo Dovorenfi advo- 
 " cationem optirnam quamcunque ipfe eli- 
 " gere voluif, praeter advocationem pr^s- 
 ff bend^e in Ecclefia Cant." 
 
 On the death of Parker, his cpmmiffion 
 to exerpife the epifcopal duties was proba- 
 bly renewed by Archbimop Grindal ; as on 
 
 (t) Strype's Farker, 441. (u) Battely's Cant. Sac. Appendix. 
 
 E 3 the 
 
54 ROGERS, 
 
 the death of Grindal, it certainly was by 
 ( w) Archbifhop Whitgift. However, foon 
 after the promotion of Grindal to the Pri- 
 macy, a new ecclefiaftical commiffion was 
 appointed by Queen Elizabeth, in which 
 the mo ft diftinguifhed perfons of that time 
 both in Church and State were nominated : 
 and among thefe were the Suffragan (x) Bi- 
 fhop of Dover, and his predeceffor in the 
 Deanery of Canterbury. To thedifcharge 
 of fo important a (y) commiffion it was 
 neceflary indeed to delegate men of eminent 
 abilities - y as they were enjoined to take t 
 cognizance of flanderous and feditious pub- 
 lications againft her Majefty and her Laws, 
 to correct all ecclefiaftical abufes, and to 
 frame ftatutes forthofe cathedrals, collegiate 
 churches, and other ecclefiaftical corpo- 
 rations which had been founded in the 
 three preceding reigns. 
 
 In the time of Parker and Grindal, the 
 preferment of Rogers appears not to have 
 been confiderable. But Whitgift, foon af- 
 ter he had obtained the Primacy, (x) re- 
 commended him to the Queen, on the 
 profpec! of Godwin's removal to the Bi- 
 
 (w) See the Commiffion. Appen'ix to Strype's Whitgift. 
 (x) Strype's Life of Grindal, 10%. (y) See the Commiltion, 
 Appendix to Strype's Grindal. (x) Strype's Whitgift, 171. 
 
 fhoprick 
 
ROGERS. 55 
 
 fhoprick of Bath and Wells, to fueceed in 
 the Deanery of Canterbury. So great was 
 the confidence of Elizabeth in that Pri- 
 mate, that his recommendation was feldom 
 unfuccefsful. Accordingly Dr. Rogers be- 
 came Dean of Canterbury in September 
 1584, and was inftalled the 16th. 
 
 In this year an affair occurred at Canter- 
 bury, in his obfervations on which Rogers 
 befpeaks himfelf a pious and upright man. 
 And it is to be lamented that Sir Roger 
 Man wood, whofe integrity thefe obferva- 
 tions depreciate, fhould have occasioned the 
 imputation of fo foul a blot. The af- 
 fair is thus related by Dr. Rogers in a letter 
 to Thomas Diggs, Efq; " One (y) notable 
 " matter hath the Chief Baron [Manwood] 
 " done of late in the knowledge of all men, 
 " which is this. The Son of one Collard 
 " of Canterbury, did lately, in the open 
 te ftreets there, moft wilfully kill a poorer 
 <c man. Whereat the Chief Baron was fo 
 <c moved at the firft, that he earneftly 
 " vowed the hanging of the Murtherer. 
 " But after the Father, being a rich man, 
 " had dealt with him in behalf of his fon, 
 
 (y) Strype's Annals, vol. iii, 270. 
 
 E 4 " he 
 
56 ROGERS, 
 
 he brake his vow ; and contrary to all 
 " expectation, procured (as it muft needs 
 " be, of fome wrong fuggeftion) a Pardon 
 *f for the faid Murtherer, who then walked 
 " up and down the ftreets in Canterbury, 
 ?c as it were in defpight of all his enemies, 
 €C to the great grief of all the honeft inhabi- 
 
 tants there. But fuch Parts as thefe 
 f< were, were not, as he [Dr. Rogers] 
 
 thought ftrange unto him [to whom he 
 ? c wrote] in this Party [meaning the Chief 
 " Baron.] He added upon this, that he 
 " hoped a day would come, when they 
 €€ ihould fee him a better man 3 or elfe he 
 66 was perfuaded his confufion would not 
 " tarry long. For the Lord is a righteous 
 cc judge, Jlrang and patient. And God is 
 cc provoked every day. If a man will not 
 <€ turn he will whet his /word. He hath bent 
 ^ his bow, and made it ready. He hath pre- 
 * c pared for him the Instruments of Death" 
 
 The State of the Hofpitals within his 
 diocefe was an object, to which Archbifhop 
 Whitgift paid the mod humane attention. 
 Of the Commiffioners whom (z) he ap- 
 pointed in 1587 and in 1592 to vifit the 
 
 (z) Strype's Whitgift, 
 
 Churghe^ 
 
ROGERS. 57 
 
 Churches and Hofpitals of Saltwood and 
 Hithe Dr. Rogers was the chief. 
 
 In 1595 the character of Rogers appears 
 in an amiable light, by his attention to the 
 fufFerings of the poor which, on account of 
 the dearth that then prevailed, were very 
 great -> particularly in Kent. In order to 
 their relief, it was propofed to folicit the 
 contributions of the rich. A flock of corn 
 was then to be bought at the dear price cur- 
 rent, which was to be brought to the mar- 
 ket, and there fold at a cheaper rate : by 
 which method the poor might be fupplied, 
 and the high price of corn be reduced. To 
 effedt this neceffary purpofe the Privy 
 (a) Council fent letters to the High Sheriff 
 and Cuflos Rotulorum of the County, di- 
 re dling them to call a meeting of the Jus- 
 tices of the Peape. This was no fooner 
 made known, than Dr. Rogers moved the 
 immediate confideration of the cafe. His 
 own letter to Mr. Bois (the Archbifhop's 
 Steward) will beft explain his condudt ; 
 
 " Sir, (b) The matter required of us in 
 f thefe enclofed letters is fo charitable and 
 ff needful on our parts to be performed, 
 
 (4) Strype's Whitglft, 486. (b) Ibid. 487. 
 
 " that 
 
SS ROGERS. 
 
 *' that I wifh there might be a prefent 
 " meeting of us the Juftices of this Lathe 
 " (St. Auguftine's) for the fpeedy perform- 
 <c ance of it : Left while the Grafs grow, the 
 " Horfe ft awe. I pray you therefore to 
 <c take order for the meeting accordingly. 
 " And fo I heartily recommend you to the 
 <c Grace of the Almighty, this 5th of June 
 
 " *595- 
 
 « Yours, &c. Ri. Dover/ 1 
 In the fame year he received additional 
 marks of efteem from Archbifiiop Whit- 
 gifr ; by whom he was prefented (c) to the 
 Reclory of Mid ley in Kent, and to the 
 
 (d) MafterQiip of Eaft-Bridge Hofpital in 
 Canterbury, an appointment which, with 
 other advantages, poffeffes the right of pre- 
 fentation to the Vicarage of B lea 11 near the 
 City. In December following he was com- 
 miffioned by the (e) Primate to make en- 
 quiry into the number of Popifh Recufants 
 and Sectaries within the Diocefe. 
 
 Of thefe laft preferments his enjoyment 
 was but fhort ; for he died on the 19th of 
 May 1597, at the age of 64. 
 
 As he had been co-adjutor in the epifco- 
 
 (c) Hafted's Ken', vol. 504.. (d) Battdey's Cant. L Sac. 
 
 (e) Bib, Top. Brit. No. s3, Appendix. 
 
 pal 
 
ROGERS. 59 
 
 pal office to three Primates, it is neceflary 
 alfo to add, that in him the Suffragan (hip 
 of Dover ceafed. Nor did the office of 
 Suffragan remain long afterward in any dio- 
 cefe, but gradually fell into difufe. 
 
 The following letter from him to Mr. 
 Bois a learned Civilian, (the date of the 
 year uncertain) concerning the Validity of 
 his Leafes, difplays much information on 
 the fubjedt which he defended, and a fpi- 
 rited attention to the rights which he 
 claimed. 
 
 " Sir, if) 
 
 " I underftand, that you have often- 
 u times, and in any places, given it out, 
 66 that I as Dean of ChrifTs Church with the 
 " Chapter there, cannot make any Leafes 
 te of further continuance than for my Life- 
 u time, by Reafon of my Suffraganfhip. 
 " If this be your opinion and report, I 
 
 doubt not, but you have Law and Rea- 
 " fon for it. And inafmuch as I do hear, 
 " that you are of Council with us, the 
 " Dean and Chapter, I am bold to defire 
 " you to advertife me with as much fpeed 
 f< as you may, upon what Law and Rea- 
 
 (f) Strype's Annals, vol, iv, 309. 
 
 " fons 
 
60 ROGERS. 
 
 tc fons this your opinion is grounded, 
 " That thereupon I may provide fuch Re- 
 fC medy, as by Council I mail be advifed. 
 
 " The matter in refpedt of myfelf, I 
 " weigh very little, but in refpedt of the 
 *' Church's Eftate (which is maintained 
 « much by Fines raifed of Leafes) and in 
 " refpecl: of the Farmours, which maybe 
 " much prejudiced by not renewing their 
 " Leafes, I will endeavour to remedy of 
 " this Inconvenience, as much as I may ; 
 " and as I mall fee it needful. But I can- 
 <' not learn, either of her Majefty's At- 
 << torney General, either of Mr. Baron 
 " Flower dew (which both are of Council 
 " with us) that there is any thing in Law, 
 
 whereby I may not as lawfully, to al} 
 " intents and purpofes, make Leafes with 
 " the Chapter, as any other Dean. An4 
 * ' fare I am that the (g) Dean of Norwich 
 " (which immediately preceded the pre- 
 <€ fent Dean) being a Suffragan, as I am, 
 " did in his time, leafe out all the Lands 
 
 (g) John Salifbury D.D. Suffragan Biftiop of Thetford, who 
 was made Dean of Norwich in 1539. He was deprved by Q, L 
 Mary, but reftored by Elizabeth in 1560. In 1569 he was pro^ 
 moted to the See of Sodor and Man, with which he held his Deanery 
 till hii death in 1573. He was a native of Wales, and aiMedin 
 tranflating the Bible into Welch. 
 
 " ap-, 
 
u appertaining to the Dean and Chapter 
 " there, which Leafes ftand yet in good 
 " force. And yet have they been thrice 
 " fifted and called in queftion in the beft 
 " Courts of this Land, and once in the 
 cc Parliament Houfe, as the (h) new Dean 
 " tells me; faying withal that he would 
 " gladly give iooo Marks, if he could in 
 " Law overthrow thofe Leafes againft the 
 " Bifhop of (i) Salijbury that now is, who 
 <c being heretofore Dean of that Church 
 " and Bimop of Rochefter together, did 
 <c make Leafes, as Dean, which ftand in 
 " good force ftill* as the now Dean of Sa- 
 " UJbury Dr. (k) Bridges telleth me. 
 
 " Moreover King Edward in his nonage^ 
 ti and Queen Mary in her coverture being 
 " inverted with the Dutchy of Lanca/ler* 
 €e the one as Duke, the other as Dutchefs 
 <f thereof, made leafes of land appertain- 
 " ing to that Dutchy. Which are in law 
 
 (h) George Gardiner D.D. who was infialled Dean of Norwich 
 £)ec.9, 1573. He died in 1589 and was buried in Norwich Ca- 
 thedral. 
 
 (i) John Piers D.D. who, 011 his promotion to the See of Ro- 
 chefter in 1576, held the Deanery of Salifbury with it till 1577, in 
 which year he was tranflated to the See of Saliubury, and afterward 
 to that of York. He died in 1 594.. 
 
 (k) John Bridges D.D. was made Dean of Salifbury in 1577, 
 and in 1603 was promoted to the Btfhopric of Oxford. He died 
 in 16180 
 
 " holden 
 
62 ROGERS* 
 
 *' h olden to be good. Becaufe neither the 
 m Nonage of the one, nor the Coverture of 
 " the other was judged in Law to be pre- 
 €< judicial to the corporation of the faid 
 " Dutchy, in refpe£t that it was a corpo- 
 €i rate thing. And fo by the like reafon 
 16 my Council here faith, that my being 
 " of a Bifhop cannot prejudice any act that 
 " I and the Chapter fhall do, becaufe I 
 " do it not as a private perfon but as one 
 (€ of that corporation. In the time alfo of 
 " King Edward VI. Mr. (1) Hooper had 
 s< two Bimopricks together, viz. Gloucef- 
 " ter and Worcefter; which are more in- 
 " compatible than a Deanery and a Suf- 
 " fraganihip; yet he made leafes pertain- 
 
 (1) John Hooper D.D. the pious, and learned Martyr, was pro- 
 moted to the Bifhopric of Gloucefter in 1 550. With the confent 
 or the Dean and Chapter he furrendered that See to King Edward 
 the 26th of April 1552. On the deprivation of Dr. Heath Bifhop 
 of Worcefter in the lame year, the Bifhopric of Gloucefter was dii- 
 iblved, and became an Archdeaconiy, dependent on Worcefter, as 
 it had been formerly ; and Dr. Hooper became Bifhop of Worcef- 
 ter. Towards the end of the fame year a letter was fent him for 
 the furrerider of the Bifhopric of Worcefter, in order that there 
 might be a new «ollation to it; and on the 8th of Dec. the Bishop- 
 ries of W orcefter and Gloucefter were united into one, and thence- 
 forth to be one Diocefe, as Bath and Weils, Lichfield and Coventry : 
 the bifhop to be called the bifhop of Gloucefter and Worcefter, and 
 was to live one year in Worcefterfhire, and the next in Gloucefter- 
 mire. But this union continued no longer than the liSe of King 
 Edward. As Hoop r had ftrenuoufly oppofed Gardiner and Bon- 
 ner, they had a peculiar enmity againft him ; and^ on the acceffiofx 
 of Mary, exercifed their c ruelty upon him, by caufing him to be 
 imprisoned, condemned as an heretic, degraded? and finally burned. 
 Ke mlfered oa the 9th of Feb, 1554- with the moil exemplary forti- 
 tude. 
 
ROGERS. 63 
 
 rs irig to either of thofeBiihopricks. Which 
 " were as effectual as any Leafe of any 
 t( other fole Bifhop. And I do perfuade 
 " rnyfelf, that if I would enter into fearch- 
 " ing of Records in that faculty, I fhould 
 " find many more precedents of thofe 
 " which have had Bifhopricks and Dean- 
 " ries together; whofe leafes were never 
 " to this day called in queftion. And 
 " therefore till I hear from you, I fhall 
 " think that you in holding the contrary 
 " are much deceived. 
 
 '? I could alledge an old Suffragan, 
 '* Dean of JTork; by whom the Dean 
 u of that Church came to be fir ft called 
 " Lord Dean, becaufe he was a Biihop 
 
 " whofe Leafes of things appertaining to 
 " that Deanry never yet came into quef- 
 " tion. Neither did the forefaid leafes of 
 " the forefaid Bifhop Suffragan of Norwich 
 " come in queftion in refpedt of his SufFra- 
 " ganfliip, but upon other points. 
 
 " To conclude, 1 do not hold my Deanry, 
 66 as other Bifhops hold Benefices in Com- 
 " memdarriy but I hold it by nicer dotation 
 " from the Queen, and am by her Letters 
 " Patent put in poffeffion thereof, as all 
 <c other Deans are. And for avoiding all 
 
 y Cavil, 
 
64 ROGERS, 
 
 Cavil, I am befides under the like letters 
 " difpenfed withal to hold it, either with 
 <c or without my Suffraganmip ; no t with - 
 te ftlnding any conftitution or canon to the 
 " contrary. Which Difpenfation I take 
 ei to be fuflicient againft all Canons and 
 * c Civil Laws, out of which the greater!: 
 " Queftion in this matter doth arife, as I 
 cc fuppofe. 
 
 " But howfoever it be, let me, I pray you* 
 gc have your Reafons to the contrary: And 
 " I fhall thank you for them. But much 
 * c more would have thanked you, if you 
 " had at the firft imparted your opinion to 
 tc me, as ordering the Church's eftate, 
 <c whereunto you are a Counfillor^ and not 
 <c publifhed the fame abroad, fo much as I 
 <c hear you have done, to the impairing of 
 <c my Credit in that place, and much more 
 ic to the hindrance of the church's eftate, 
 <c in giving occafion thereby for our farmers 
 C£ to be afraid to renew their Leafes at my 
 <c hands. * Howbeit I am perfuaded, you 
 " had no ill meaning either towards me or 
 " the Church in this Report j Neither 
 €C have I towards you in this my Expoftula- 
 €C tion for the fame: but will be ready in 
 * s any thing I may, to ftand you in ftead, as 
 
 i€ I hope 
 
ROGERS, 65 
 
 cc I hope you will be the like towards me, 
 " And fo after long troubling you, I end: 
 <c Committing you to the Grace of the Al- 
 " mighty. Sothewark, the 7th of Decemb. 
 " Tour very loving Friend 
 u Ri: Dover." 
 
 He was married, and had (m) iffue, but 
 the family-name of his wife I do not find. 
 She furvived him fome years ; and was 
 (n) buried in Canterbury Cathedral. 
 
 He was buried in the Chapel of the Vir- 
 gin Mary* or, as it is now called the 
 Dean's Chapel, in the Cathedral. On a 
 table monument of black marble is the fol- 
 lowing unfinifhed infcription, 
 
 An. Dom. 1597, Mai 1 19, Richardus 
 Rogers Suttonvallensis Cantia- 
 n.us vlr antiqua f ami l i a et an- 
 
 TIQUORUM VIRTUTE, Ar CHIEPISCOPI 
 CANTUARIENSIS AN OS, 2S, SUFFRA- 
 GANEUS, E J USD EM QUE EcCLESIiE De- 
 CAN US AnOS, J 3 . iETATIS SUJE ANO, 
 64. HlC. SEPULTUS JUSTISSIM^E TIBI 
 VIT^S MEMORIAL RELIQUIT : ExEM- 
 PLUM FUIT, 
 
 (m) His Son Francis Rogers D. D w.ts Re&or of Denton and 
 Vicar of Alkeham in Kent, an J RecWof St. Margaret's in Can- 
 teihury, where he lies buried. He died in 1638. 
 
 (n) Church Regifter. " Mrs. Ann Rogers (fometime wife to 
 " the Lord SufJVecan of Dover) was burred the 23d da ye of 
 « Ju1 7j -i6i 3 ." 3 
 
 F NEVIL. 
 
[ 66 ] 
 
 N E V I L. 
 
 r jpHOMAS NEVIL, the fourth Dean, 
 defcended from the ancient and ho- 
 nourable family of Nevil, was the fon of 
 Richard Nevil of the County of Notting- 
 ham, Efq; by Anne Mantel, daughter of 
 Sir Walter Mantel, of Heyford in the 
 County of Northampton, Knight. He 
 was born in (o) Canterbury ; to which city 
 his father, who had fpent his younger days 
 at Court, had in his declining years retired. 
 
 He entered early at Pembroke Hall 
 Cambridge, of which fociety he was 
 (p) elected a Fellow in November 1570. 
 
 In 1580 he was (q) Senior Prodtor of the 
 Univerfity ; and before the expiration of 
 his office he was employed on the follow- 
 ing bufinefs. The intended marriage be- 
 tween Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou 
 had been not only the fubjedt of a fati- 
 
 ,(o) Fuller's Worthies. Kent, (p) Communicated to me by 
 lettei fiom Pemb. Hall, (q) Le Neve's Fafti. 397. 
 
 rical 
 
NEVIL. 67 
 
 rical (r) pamphlet; but in Cambridge a 
 Bachelor of Arts of Peter- Houfe had pub- 
 licly declaimed againft the Gallic Suitor, 
 and, in the Vice Chancellor's words, 
 " (s) mo(l wickedly and without all difcre- 
 44 tion" had made certain paflages in Ci- 
 cero's Orations Contra Verrem et Catalinam 
 fubfervient to his abufe. He was com- 
 mitted to prifon ; and an account of his 
 conduct, (as alfo of the excellent ftate of 
 the Univerfity in refpect to learning, de- 
 cency of drefs, and regularity of behaviour,) 
 was now reprefenied to their Chancellor 
 Lord Burleigh ; and the Senior Proctor was 
 made the Bearer of this Memorial. Of 
 the unfortunate Orator no further notice 
 probably was taken ; for he was defcribed 
 in the Memorial as " well known both in, 
 44 the College, and otherwife, to be fo 
 u greatly troubled with Melancholy, that 
 44 he had lived almoft folitary, without 
 44 any Difcretion ; or troubled in his wits 
 44 greatly." 
 
 (r) Entitled " The Gulph wherein England wfcjll be fwallowed A 
 " by the French Marriage." Stubbs the Author of it, and Page 
 who diipened the Copies of it, were fentenced to loie their right 
 bands. And that punifnment was injfli&ed. The Printer, who re- 
 ceived the lame ientence, was pardoned. 
 
 (s; Strype's Annais, vol iii, 49, 50. 
 
 F 2 In 
 
68 NEVIL. 
 
 In 1582, Nevil was prefented to the 
 (t) Mafterfliip of Magdalen College, by 
 Thomas Lord Howard the firft Earl of Suf- 
 folk, and Grandfon of Lord Audley the 
 principal Founder of that Society, who re- 
 ferved the patronage of the Mafterfhip to 
 himfelf and (u) heirs. 
 
 In the year following he, with other 
 Heads of Colleges, (w) add re (Ted a memo- 
 rial to their Chancellor concerning the ob- 
 ftru&ions, which were given by the Sta- 
 tioners of London to the Univerlity's pri- 
 vilege of Printing. That oppofition of 
 which they complained was foon defeated, 
 and the validity of their privilege confirmed. 
 
 In November 1587 (x) the Queen, to 
 whom he was Chaplain, conferred on him 
 the fecond Prebend in the Church of Ely : 
 at which time he was alfo Rector of Dod- 
 dington cum March in the Ifle of Ely. 
 
 In 1588 he was (y) elected Vice Chan- 
 cellor of the Univerfity, which office he re- 
 linquished in the following year to Dr. 
 Prefton Mailer of Trinity Hall. While he 
 
 (t) Le Neve, (u) The nomination to this Headfhip now be- 
 longs to Lord Howard of Walden. (w) Strype's Ann, vol. iii. 
 Appendix/ 65. (x) Bentham's Ely. (y) LeNeve. 
 
 prefided 
 
NEVIL. 69 
 
 prefided in this ftation, he took the (z) de- 
 gree of D. D. and had occafion to exercife 
 his authority in a confpicuous manner.— 
 Two Fellows of Chrift College, Cuth- 
 bert Bainbridge and Francis Johnfon, 
 had in their fermons before the Univerlity 
 reflected on the eftablimed Church. They 
 were accordingly fummoned before the 
 Vice Chancellor and other Heads of Col- 
 leges, by whom they were required to de- 
 clare on their oaths what they had publicly 
 delivered. Refufing to do this, they were, 
 in confequence, committed to prifon. The 
 ftate of this affair was, however, trans- 
 mitted to their Chancellor, who confidered 
 the punimment of the accufed as too Se- 
 vere, and recommended to the accufers a 
 milder method of proceeding. The latter 
 anfwered that they had in vain (a) " af- 
 Ci fayed by all good and gentle means to 
 66 prevail with them." The caufe was at 
 length referred to the moft eminent Civi- 
 lians, who were of opinion, " that the 
 " parties (Bainbridge and Johnfon) were 
 (e bound by Law to anfwer upon their 
 " oaths." 
 
 (z) By letter from Pemb. Ha'l. (a) Strype's Ann. vol. iii. 591. 
 
 F 3 It 
 
JO NEVXL. 
 
 It is obvious, that the Vice Chancellor 
 and Heads ailed from a principle of zealous 
 attention to the peace and good order of 
 the Univerfity. And that attention was 
 now gratified by the (b) fubmiffion of the 
 refradtory preachers. 
 
 In 1590 Dr. Nevil was promoted by her 
 Majefty to the Deanery of (c) Peterbo- 
 rough, then vacant by the removal of 
 Dr. (d) Fletcher to the Bifhopric of Briftoh 
 
 In 1592 he (e) joined with the other 
 Deans and Prebendaries of the late eredled 
 Churches, in a refolution, to folicit an A£t 
 of Parliament for the confirmation of their 
 rights. It was neceflary indeed to check 
 the defigns of thofe, who pretended that 
 their revenues arofe from concealed lands, 
 and that, therefore, they belonged to the 
 Crown. And in refilling thefe vexations 
 they were fupported by Archbifhop Whit- 
 
 gift- 
 
 (b) Strype's Annals, vol, in, 592. (c) Brown Willis's Sur- 
 vey of Peterborough Cathedral, 
 
 (d) Richard Fletcher D. D. of Benn<=t Coll. Cam. became Dean 
 of Peterborough in 1583, Biftiop of Briftol in 1589, tranllated to 
 Worcelter in 1591, and thence to London in 1 59+. He died uji 
 s 596. While he was Dean of Peterborough, he was appointed to 
 attend the unfortunate Queen of Scots on the Scaffold, when he 
 made a long but unheeded harangue to her. 
 
 (e) Strype's Whitgift, 398. 
 
 To 
 
NEVIL. 71 
 
 To the Deanery of Peterborough, fo 
 lately beftowed on Dr. Nevil, the Queen 
 added in (f) Feb. 1592-3 the Mafterfhip 
 of Trinity College, then vacant by the pro- 
 motion of Dr. (g) Still to the See of Bath 
 and Wells. He therefore quitted the Maf- 
 terftiip of Magdalen, in which he was fuc- 
 ceeded by Dr. (h) Clayton. 
 
 Attentive to the moral as well as the li- 
 terary difcipline of Students, he now joined 
 with other Heads of Colleges in renewing 
 an application to their Chancellor concern- 
 ing the Reftraint of public Shews and 
 common Plays. The Univerfity as yet 
 (they reprefented) was happily preferved 
 from their Infe&ion, and would be the 
 more likely to continue fo, if by his means 
 f* (i) they might be preferved from that 
 
 (f) Burleigh's Notes at the end of Murdin's State Papers, Soo. 
 
 (g) John Still, D. D. after of S-. John's Coll. 1574, re- 
 moved to the Maiterfhip of Trinity ia 1 577, became Bimop of 
 Bath and Wells in January 1592-3. He died in 1607. Sir J. 
 Hairing' on fpeaking of this Bilhop, fays, " I hold him a rare 
 *< man for preaching, for arguing, for learning, for living. " 
 
 (h) Richard Clayton, D. D. v\as removed from the Mafter/hip 
 of Magdalen to that of St. John's, and promoted to the Deanery of 
 Peterborough in 1607. He died in 161 2, and is buried in St. 
 John's College Chape'. 
 
 (i) Strype's Ann. vol. iv, 163.— It feems that in 1593 the nu- 
 merous company that flocked to Oxford for the fake of players put a 
 ltop to Deputations ; whence alfo complaints were fent to the 
 Chancellor and the Queen's Council, who in letters to the Vice 
 Chancellor and the HeaJs of Houfes, forbad players in the Univer- 
 fity, left not only the bodies, but the minds of the fcholars mould 
 be infefted. [Pemall's Hift. Univ. Oxon. 260.] 
 
 F 4 " kind 
 
72 NEVIL, 
 
 " kind of People, who were, as they 
 " thought, the molt ordinary Carriers and 
 " Difperfers thereof/' 
 
 In (k) March 1593-4, on being pre- 
 ferred to the Rediory of Teverfham near 
 Cambridge, he refigned the Redory of 
 Doddington. 
 
 In 1595 he was concerned in the Con- 
 troverfy, which originated at Cambridge 
 from the public declaration of Wm. Barret, 
 Fellow of Caius College, againft the doc- 
 trine of Predeftination, and Falling from 
 Grace. On (1) thefe points the general 
 perfuafion was then favourable to the dark 
 and rigid fyflem of Calvin. Barret was, 
 therefore, called before fome of the Pleads, 
 and compelled to retract his opinion. The 
 difpute, however, which was referred by 
 both parties to Archbifhop Whitgift, oc- 
 casioned the well-known conference of Di- 
 vines at Lambeth, where they agreed on 
 the Calviniftical Propofitions commonly 
 called the Lambeth Articles. To obviate 
 future differences in the Univerfity, the 
 Primate now feht a Copy of thefe Propofi- 
 tions to the Matters of Colleges, with in- 
 
 (k) Bentham's Ely. (1) See Strype's Whitgift, book 4. chap. 
 1.6, 17. and Warner's Ecc. H*it. vol. ii, 4.66. 
 
 junctions 
 
NEVIL. 73 
 
 junctions to teach the doctrines they con- 
 tained. To this regulation Nevil and other 
 Heads expreffed their obedience, and their 
 obligation. But when the Queen was in- 
 formed of thefe proceedings, (he. declared 
 her difapprobation, and ordered Sir Robert 
 Cecil to acquaint the Primate by letter, 
 (m) that me very much mifliked that any 
 <( allowance had been given by him and 
 " his brethren, for any fuch points to be 
 " difputed, being a matter tender and dan- 
 " gerous to weak ignorant minds ; and 
 " thereupon commanded him to fufpend 
 " the urging them publicly, or fuffering 
 <c them to be debated in the pulpit." On 
 this affair Whitgift had communicated his 
 fentiments to Nevil, as " (n) to his good 
 <c and trufty friend, and as a feeling mem- 
 " ber of the Univerfity giving him in- 
 Amotions, which he was to deliver pri- 
 vately to the Vice Chancellor refpecting her 
 Majefty's diffatisfaction, and the order 
 which they might confequently expect not 
 to urge but rather to difmifs the articles ; 
 recommending alfo their obedience to that 
 order, but at the fame time their avowal of 
 
 (m) Warner, 467. (n) Strype's Whitgift, 463. 
 
 their 
 
74 NEVIL. 
 
 their firm perfuafion in the truth of thole 
 Articles. 
 
 Soon after this, frefli caufe of offence 
 was given to the Matters of Colleges by Dr. 
 Baro, Lady Margaret's Profeffor of Divi- 
 nity, who maintained in a fermon (o) Fir/l, 
 " That God created al in Adam unto eter- 
 " nal Life; nor drove any away from it, 
 " unlefs for Sin. Secondly, That Chrift 
 " dyed fufficiently for al. Thirdly, That 
 ee the Promifes made to us are gene- 
 " ral." To thofe who approved of the 
 Lambeth Proportions no opinions could be 
 more ofFenfive than thefe. And therefore 
 we cannot be furprifed at finding (p) Nevil 
 among the Heads, who complained to their 
 Chancellor againfl the learned, but then 
 reputed heterodox (q) Profeffor. 
 
 The character of Nevil was now held in 
 fuch eftimation by Elizabeth that, on the 
 death of Dr. Rogers, fhe promoted him to 
 the Deanery of Canterbury, in which he 
 was initialled June 28, 1597 ; and was fuc- 
 
 (o) Strype's Whitgift, 475. (p) Strype's Ann. vol. iv, 229. 
 
 (q) This learned man (who was a Frenchman) foon after loft his 
 ProfeiTorfhip, and retired to London, where he lived fome years in a 
 houfe near St. Oiave's Church, Hart Street, in which he was bu- 
 red. His Corpfe was attended by the Miniflers of the City, ac- 
 cording to an order from the Bifhop of London. Six Do6tors of 
 Divinity were the Pali Bearers. [Strype.] 
 
 ceeded 
 
NEVIL. 75 
 
 ceeded in the Deanery of Peterborough by 
 Dr. (r) Palmer. 
 
 On the death of the Queen, to v,'hofe 
 bounty he had been fo much indebted, he 
 was fent by Archbifhop Whitgift into 
 (s) Scotland to addrefs her Succeflbr, in 
 the name of all the Clergy, with affurances 
 of their loyalty and affedion. He was alfo 
 commiffioned to enquire what commands 
 his Majefly had to enjoin as to caufes eccle- 
 fiaftical, and at the fame time to recom- 
 mend the Church of England to his favour 
 and protection. To this melTage James 
 returned a gracious anfwer, declaring that 
 he would maintain the Government of the 
 Church as Elizabeth had left it. The 
 Dean, on his return, was received with 
 no fmall fatisfadlion, as the intelligence 
 which he brought was doubly welcome to 
 (t) thofe who had fufpe&ed, that the King 
 would make fome alterations in the eccle- 
 fiaftical Government and Liturgy. 
 
 Soon after the acceffion of King James, 
 that diftinguifhed Primate Archbifhop 
 
 (r) John Palmer D. D. fucceeded Dr. Clayton in the Mailer- 
 Chip of Mag. Coll in 1595, as Dr. Clayton fucceeded him in the 
 Deanery of Peterborough. He died in 1607. ( s ) Strype's Whit- 
 gift. Warner's Ecc. Hift. (t) Namely, the Archbifhop, and 
 particularly Bancroft Bilhop of London. [& type's Whitgift, 559 ] 
 
 Whitgift 
 
76 NEVIL, 
 
 Whitgift died, who, as he had ever placed 
 his confidence in the Dean, appointed him 
 one of the (u) Overfeers of his Will. 
 
 In March 1 6 1 4- 1 5, the King paid a vifit 
 to the Univerfity of Cambridge, where he 
 arrived on the 7th, and having been enter- 
 tained with much folemnity and magni- 
 ficence departed on the nth. During the 
 royal vifit, Nevil (w) kept open houfe for 
 all his Majefty's train. The King, Prince 
 Charles, and the Nobility, "with the better 
 4 6 fort of their followers" were lodged in Tri- 
 nity College. Previous to his departure, 
 the Monarch (x) " accompanied with three 
 " biihops and the nobles went from his 
 " owne lodgeing, to vifitt our Pvlr. Dr. 
 €< Nevyle, who through his infirmity could 
 " not come to him, givinge him thankes, 
 " after hee had taken him from the ground 
 " kneelinge, for his Royall entertainment, 
 " faying (thefe were his owne words) bee 
 41 was proud of fuch a fuhjeB : And foe after 
 " the viewinge our Colledge library, fo- 
 " lemnly accompanied hee departed towards 
 
 (u) Le Neve's Life of Whitgift, 69, (w) MS. in my poiTei- 
 fion, entitled £< A brief and true narration of his Majeftie's enter.- 
 " tainement att Cambridge and of his gratious acceptance of the 
 tc fame : under the hand of a Matter of Arts and Fellow of Trinitye 
 " Colledge in Cambridge. 11 (x) MS. Ibid. 
 
 New 
 
NEVIL. 77 
 
 ce Markett the nth of the faid month, 
 " leaveinge the univerfity forrrowfuil for 
 ei his departure, but joyfull of his accept- 
 " ance of their unfaigned loves." 
 
 The Dean had been much enfeebled with 
 . the Pally* Nor did he long furvive the 
 Royal vifit. He died at Cambridge, an 
 aged Man (fays Fuller) (y) on the 2d of 
 
 May 1615. 
 
 Few men ever poffeffed a more liberal 
 
 heart than Nevil. By his munificence to 
 Trinity College he fecured to himfelf 
 the gratitude and admiration of pofterity. 
 He expended more than (z) three thoufand 
 pounds in rebuilding that fine quadrangle, 
 which to this day retains the name of Ne- 
 vil's Court. He was alfo a contributor to 
 the (a) Library of that College - 9 and a be- 
 nefactor to (b) Eaft-Bridge Hofpital in his 
 native city. The learned Camden has de- 
 fcribed the generous fpirit of the Dean in 
 very expreffive language : " (c) To make 
 " Trinity College,'' fays the Hiilorian, cc a 
 " pleafant retreat for the Mufes, it has been 
 " lately repaired, or rather new-built in a 
 
 (y) Bentham's Ely. (z) Fuller's Worthies, (a) Goftling's 
 Walk, (b) Bib. Top, Brit, vol, i. 380. (c) Gough s Cam- 
 den, vol. ii. 124., 
 
 magnificent 
 
7^ NEVIL. 
 
 " magnificent manner by the care of T. 
 '* Nevil the worthy Mafter of the faid Col- 
 4t lege, and Dean of Canterbury ; fo that 
 li it may vie with any College in Chriften- 
 * c dom for extent and beauty ; and he may 
 46 be pronounced ptyc&Mfmt magnificent, in 
 44 the opinion even of the greateft Philofo- 
 44 phers, for his liberalities both of a pub- 
 i( lie and private nature." 
 
 And as he thus teftified his regard to 
 places dedicated to learning, fo was he alfo 
 a friend to learned men. Of Bifhop Hacket 
 he may be faid to have been the earliefl pa- 
 tron ; for when the father of Hacket, 
 though unacquainted with Dr. Nevil, re- 
 queued his intereft refpefting the election 
 of his fon (then at Weftminfler School) to 
 Trinity College, he received this friendly 
 anfwer from him, " The (d) Boy fhould 
 ** go to Cambridge, or he would carry him 
 " on his own back/' His kindnefs to the 
 famous George Herbert was no lefs confpi- 
 cuous ; from whofc firft entrance into Tri- 
 nity College *' the (e) generous Dr. Nevil/' 
 fays Walton, " was a cherifher of his ftu- 
 
 (d) Plume's Life of Hacket; this liberal fpirited man became 
 Bifnop of Litchiieid and Coventry in i66i, (e) liaac Walton's 
 Life os Herbert. 
 
NEVIL. 79 
 
 cc dies, and fuch a lover of his perfon, his 
 (( behaviour, and the excellent endowments 
 " of his mind, that he took him often into 
 €< his own company, by which he con- 
 *' firmed his native gentilenefs." To his 
 recommendation alfo Dr. (f) Overall owed 
 the acquisition of the Regius Profefformip 
 of Divinity at Cambridge. 
 
 The Dean died unmarried. Fuller, 
 fpeaking of his bounty to Trinity College, 
 obferves that " he (g) contributed to it (I 
 u will not fay a JVidoivs Mite, but) a 
 Batchelour s Bou?ity" 
 
 He was buried on the (h) 7th of May in 
 Canterbury Cathedral, in the ancient Chan- 
 try in the South Ille, which he had fitted 
 upas the burial place of his family. This 
 Chantry had in 1447 ^ een f° un ded by Lady 
 Joan Brenehley, the revenues of which be- 
 ing feized at the Reformation, it was no 
 longer ufed, and fell into decay. Having 
 been repaired and beautified by the Dean 
 for the above purpofe, it was afterwards 
 called Nevil's Chapel. In it a Marble 
 Monument was placed by him to the me- 
 
 (0 Strype's Whirgift, 4.80. Dr. Oraal became afterwards 
 Biihop or Litchrkld and Coventry, from which See he was tranf- 
 la ed to Noi vVivh. (g) Fuikr'i VVortiues KLont. o^. (h) Chun.ii 
 Rafter. 
 
 mory 
 
8o NEVIL. 
 
 mory of his Father, Mother, and Uncle. 
 Another very handfome. Marble Monu- 
 ment, with a pediment fupported by three 
 Corinthian Pillars, and divided into two 
 arches, was alfo in this Chapel y under one 
 arch being the effigies of the Dean, in his 
 robes, kneeling at a reading defk ; under 
 the other that of his eldeft brother Alexan- 
 der in the fame pofture, in armour. But 
 in 1787 the Cathedral being new paved, 
 this Chapel was removed, when the monu- 
 ments in taking down were almoft entirely 
 deftroyed. The figure of the Dean, and 
 that of his brother which is mutilated, have 
 lince been placed in the Chapel of the Vir- 
 gin Mary. Of the Infcriptions, that to the 
 Memory of the Dean is now the only one 
 remaining per fed:. It is placed between 
 the two figures, and is as follows, 
 
 Thom^ Nevillo, Sacrze Theologize 
 Doctori Pr^estantissimo. 
 
 Ortu illuftri, pietate infigni, ingenio Op- 
 timo, eruditione haud vulgari, moribus 
 fuaviillmis, et fpe&atiffimo Theolop-o die- 
 niffimis : In flore prima? indolis (Canta- 
 brigian in Aula Pembrochiana ad annos fere 
 
 quin- 
 
NEVIL. 8.1 
 
 quindecem) omnibus iis ornamentis, qui? 
 bus adolefcentior astas illuftrari folet, egre- 
 gie perpolito : Magdalenfis Collegii in eadem 
 Academia (quod et ornavit, et ftudio atque 
 induftria fua, quoad potuit, locupletavit) 
 Pra;fec~to gratiofiffimo : Regina; Elizabeths 
 (cujus a facris fuit) excellentiffimi judicii 
 Principi ob fingulares et vere laudabiles 
 animi dotes acceptiffimo : Petroburgenfis 
 Ecclefias (cui ad annos o£lo haud mediocri 
 cum laude praefuit) Decano emiuentiffimo : 
 Sacrai et Individual Trinitatis Collegii, jam 
 non ejus Academia; tantum, fed totius Eu- 
 rope, celeberrimi (labantis non ita pridem 
 et prope cadentis, necnon ob veterem ftruc- 
 tu ram male coherentis, ipfius conlilio, au- 
 fpiciis atque xvc etiam fuo liberaliffime col- 
 lato, disjeclis male pofitis asdificiis atque in 
 elegantioremformam reda&is ; viis areifque 
 veteribus direttis et ampliatis, novis pul- 
 cherrime conftitutis, auftis, ornatis ad hanc, 
 qua nunc confpicitur, eximiam pulchritu- 
 dinem evecfci) Moderatori, \Amplificatori 5 
 Inftauratori faeliciffimo : Hujus denique 
 Ecclefias, quam fumma squitate, rara mo» 
 deilia, fide lingular! ad annos (i) gu- 
 bernavit, Decano moderatifiimo, integer- 
 
 (i) The datej have never been inferted. 
 
 G rimo ? 
 
Sz N-EVIL. 
 
 rimo, ampliffimo : Hoc Monumentum me- 
 moriae ergo Virtus et Honos, invita morte, 
 fuis quad manibus conftruxere. Obiit 
 Anno Dom. iEtatis fuae Menfis 
 
 Die atque in Mc capella, quam 
 (dum vixit) fibi ac fuis adornavit, non fine 
 ingenti fuorum masrore huic tumulo illatus 
 advenientis Domini noftri Jefu Chrifti gra- 
 tiam et gloriam fempiternam expe&at, 
 
 FOTHERBY 
 
[ 8 3 ] 
 
 FOTHERBY. 
 
 /^HARLES FOTHERBY, the fifth 
 Dean, was a Native of Great Grimfby 
 in Lincolnfnire, the fon of (k) Martin Fo- 
 therby, Efq; of that place, and the de~ 
 fcendant of an ancient family in that 
 county. 
 
 He was educated at Trinity College 
 Cambridge, of which fociety he was a 
 Fellow. But, though he was afterwards 
 advanced to fo confpicuous a dignity as the 
 Deanery of Canterbury, he proceeded, as 
 an Academic, no further than to the degree 
 of Bachelor of Divinity. 
 
 In 1587 he was collated by Archbifhop 
 Whitgift to the (1) Vicarage of Chiflet in 
 the County of Kent ; refigning which in 
 1592, he was fucceeded in it by his brother 
 (m) Martin Fotherby, and was prefented 
 
 (k) Hatred's Kent, vol. iii, 673. (1) Reg. Whftgift, psrtiii. 
 (in) Martin Fotherby, hh younger brother, was -ho 
 Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, afterward D. D. He was 
 
 collated 
 
 G 2 
 
84 FOTHERBY. 
 
 by Queen Elizabeth to the (n) Reftory of 
 Aldington in the fame County, then va- 
 cant by the promotion of Dr. (o) Coldwell 
 to the See of Sarum. He was about this 
 time alfo (p) commiffioned with Dr. Ro- 
 gers and others, to vifit the Churches and 
 Hofpitals of Saltwood and Hithe. 
 
 Soon after this, he received a fecond 
 mark of her Majefty's favour j being pre- 
 ferred, on the removal of Dr. (q) Redman 
 
 collated by Archbifhop Whitgift in 1 592 to the Vicarage of Chif- 
 let, and in 1594 to the Rectory of St* Mary Le Bo*, London. In 
 i 596 he was prefented by Queen Elizabeth to the eleventh Prebend 
 in the Church of Canterbury- and alio to the Rectory of Chartham, 
 belonging to her by lapfe. In 1601 he was collated by Archbifhop 
 Whitgift to the Rectory of Adifham. He became afterwards 
 Chaplain to James I. by whom he was made oae of the firlt Fellows 
 of Ch4fea College in 16 10, and was preferred by him to the Bi- 
 ihoprick. of Sarum in March 1618. He died in March 1619, aged 
 60, and was buried in the Church of Allhallows Lombard Street 
 London, where there was a monument ere6ted to his memory, but 
 which was derhoyed by the great lire in 1666. The Infcnption, 
 however, (wh ch reprefents him as a man of remaika'le merit) is 
 preferred. It maybe feen in " Antiquitates Sarifburienies," p. 161, 
 printed at Salifbury in 1771. Dr. Martin Fotherby publ.fhed in 
 1608, " Foure Sermons, wherennto is added, An anfwere unto 
 *' ceitaine objections of one unrefolved, as concerning the ufe of 
 *< the Croffe in Baptiime." He w as alfo the Author of " Atheo- 
 " maftix," which was put into the prefs before his death, but not 
 publiihe 1 till 1622. 
 (n) Reg. Whitgift. 
 
 (o) John Coldwell. was of St. John's College, Cambridge, 
 Rector of Aldington in 1 558, took the degree of Doctor of Phyiic, 
 was made Dean of Rocherler in 1585, and promoted to the See of 
 Sarum in 1591. He died in 1596, and w.ts buried in Salifbury 
 Cathedral. " He was the firlt married Bifhop that fat in the Ca- 
 thedral Chair of Sarum. " [A. Wood's Faiti. vol. i. 110.] 
 
 (p) See Life of Rogers. 
 
 (q) William Redman, D. D. was Fellow Ti inity College 
 Cambridge, Rector of Bifhopfbourne in Kent, Archdeacon of Can- 
 terbury in 1576, Prebendary of the full Sta'l in that Cathedral in 
 1589, and Bimop of Norwich in 1594. He died in 1601, and 
 was buried in Norwich Cathedral. 
 
 to 
 
FOTHERBY. 85 
 
 to the See of Norwich, to the Archdea- 
 conry of Canterbury (r) January 28, 1594. 
 The ancient privilege annexed to the dig- 
 nity which he had now obtained, is cu- 
 rious. For it is the office of the (s) Arch- 
 deacon of Canterbury to inftal all the 
 Biuhops within the province of Canter- 
 bury ; to conduct which folemnity he 
 formerly went in perfon. He received 
 as his fee the Bifhop's horfe and furniture* 
 and twenty pieces of gold. It was the cuf- 
 tom alfo for the Biihop at the table in din- 
 ner-time to drink to the Archdeacon in a 
 cup of filver, fometimes gilt, which he re- 
 ceived in addition to his fee. But this ce- 
 remony has long been performed by a man- 
 date of induction from the Archdeacon, 
 and in lieu of thefe perquifites he receives 
 (t) 7I. 3s. 4 d. 
 
 In 1595 he was again preferred not only 
 by the Queen, but alfo by Archbifhop 
 Whitgift - 9 by the former to the Vicarage 
 of (u) Tenham in the County of Kent, 
 
 (r; Reg. Whitgift, part it. (s) Ba'teley's Cant, Sac. part 1. 
 162, (t) Communicated to me by the rrefent Archdeacon of 
 Canterbury. 
 
 (u) This Vi-arage belonged indeed to his own patronage a? 
 Archdeacon of Canterbury ; but it had now cither d volvcd to thp 
 Crown by iapfe, or had fallen vacant during the fhort vacancy of 
 the Archdeaconry, and lb for this turn might b l^ng to the Crown. 
 
 G 3 and 
 
86 FOTHERBY. 
 
 and by the latter to the fourth (w) Prebend 
 in the Church of Canterbury. In this 
 year alfo he was again (x) commiffioned 
 with Dr. Rogers to make enquiry con- 
 cerning Popifli Recufants and Sectaries. 
 
 Nor did the kindnefs of the Primate to- 
 wards him end here ; for on the death of the 
 learned and pious Hooker in 1600, he was 
 collated by him to the (y) Rectory of Bi- 
 fliopfbourne near Canterbury, when he re- 
 signed the Vicarage of Tenham. By this 
 patron (of whofe friendmip he had received 
 fuch ample teftimony) he was alfo ap- 
 pointed, with Dean Nevil, (z) Overfeer of 
 his Will. 
 
 In 1603-4 he had loft both his friends, 
 the Queen and the Archbifhop. Nor does 
 he appear to have obtained any farther pro- 
 motion till the death of Dr. Nevil, when 
 he was appointed to the Deanery of Canter- 
 bury - y to which he was (a) inftituted May 
 12, 1 615. But this promotion came in 
 the decline of life, and he enjoyed it only 
 a fhort time. For he died March 29, 
 1618-19, aged 70: and was buried in the 
 
 (w) Chapter Reg. (x) See Life of Rogers, (y) Reg. Whitr 
 gift, (zj See Life of Nevil. (a) Le Neve. 
 
 Dean's 
 
FOTHERBY. 87 
 
 Dean's Chapel in the Cathedral the (b) 5th 
 of April following. 
 
 On his advancement to the Deanery, he 
 relinquished his Prebend, but retained his 
 other preferments. 
 
 He is faid to have been an exemplary 
 charadter ; diflinguifhed no lefs by the fre- 
 quency of his preaching, than by the friend- 
 linefs of his difpofition. Of his affedtion 
 to the Church of Canterbury we may 
 judge from the following earneft wifh ; 
 
 " I ( c ) gi ve >'* f a y s cc £o ev ery one of 
 " my lovinge brethren the prebendaries 
 ie that mail be refident and abidinge in the 
 " fame church at the hower of my death 
 " 26s. 8d. to buy them a ringe, which 
 " fhall be the teftimony of my good love 
 " towards them, befeechinge the lord Almigh- 
 tc tie to hleffe that church and focietie with uni- 
 * c tie, peace andprofperitie for ever. Amen!' 
 
 He was married, and had a numerous if- 
 fue, as his monument records : one fon and 
 four daughters furvived him. Mabella who, 
 at his death, was lingle, was afterward 
 (d) married to John Lord Finch, Baron of 
 Fordwich, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. 
 
 (b) Church Regifter. (c) Copy of his Will in the Coufiflory 
 Court, Canterbury, (d) HaltecTs Kenr, vol. ii', 136. 
 
 G 4 In 
 
88 F0THERBY. 
 
 In the beginning of the reign of James I, 
 he had (e) purchafed the Manor and Seat 
 of Barham Court near Canterbury ; and 
 from him it has defcended by the female 
 line to Charles Dering, Efq; the prefent 
 owner. 
 
 On the South Side of the Dean's Chapel, 
 clofe to the wall, is a table monument of 
 black marble placed to his memory j it is 
 adorned with fculk, and other human 
 bones, which are finely carved. Adjoin- 
 ing to it is a marble, with an infcription to 
 the memory of his wife, who furvived him, 
 dying in 1634, aged upwards of 60. The 
 Infcription on the Dean's Monument is as 
 follows, 
 
 Chariffimo Patri fuo 
 
 Carolo Fotherby de Grimsby 
 Magna in Comitatu Lincolniensi ; 
 olim Collegii Sandtae et Individual Trinita- 
 tis apud Cantabrigienses Socio ; Sacra3 
 ibidem Theologiae Baccalaureo, Cantua- 
 riensis Diocaefios annos circiter 24 Archi- 
 diacono ; Metropolises in ea Ecclefias 20 
 Frasbendario ; ejufdem Decano 4* uor ; feduio 
 et fmcero Verbo PraeconI, cordatoque di- 
 
 (e) Hafled's Kent, vol, iii, 755 
 
 vina? 
 
FOTHERBY. 89 
 
 vinae Veritatis Propugnatori ; viro pietate, 
 gravitate, hofpitalitate perquam infigni, 29 
 Martii Anno humanae faiutis .1619 Mtetis 
 fuas 70. Vitae mortalis fortem cum immor- 
 tal i gloria commutanti. 
 
 Johannes Fotherbeius Filius et 
 Hasres devotiffime pofuit. 
 Habuit uxorem unam et unicam Annos 31 
 Ceciliam Walker Cantabrigien- 
 sem. ex qua liberos fufcepit decern ; eo- 
 rum quinque tantum moriens reliquit fu- 
 perftites, Johannem Elizabeths ex An- 
 tonio Coco Milite Eflexcienfi Mari-. 
 turn ; Ph^eben Henrico Henrici Palmeri 
 Militis Cantiani Militi nuptam ; et Roberto 
 Johannis Movie de Buckwell in eodem co- 
 mitatu Armigero Priscillam : Innuptas 
 reliquit duas Elizabetham et Ma- 
 
 BELLAM. s 
 
 The infeription to the memory of his 
 wife is as follows, 
 
 Quae toro prius, tumulo nunc adjacet 
 fociata diledio conjugi fuo C^e cilia Fo- 
 therby, Cantabrigiensis natu, ex- 
 imium piae (dum vixit) vitae exemplum et 
 morum ; matrona yitam finivit cum Sab- 
 bato 19. O£tob. 1634, Annos fupra fexa- 
 
 genaria, 
 
90 FOTHERBY. 
 
 genaria, nobilis ac numerofae prolis mater 
 et ava 3 placide in Deo dormiens et Sabba- 
 turn mutans mortale hoc cum immortali in 
 c eel is ^ deiideratam ii deli bus refurre&ionem 
 per Jefum Chriftum, Primitias refurgen- 
 tium, hie expectat. 
 
 BOYS, 
 
[ 9i 1 
 
 BOYS, 
 
 JOHN BOYS, the fixth Dean, de- 
 fcended from John de Bofco, who en- 
 tered England with the Conqueror, and 
 allied to a family fo opulent and extenfive 
 as to be divided into (f) eight branches, 
 each refiding in their refpeclive feats in the 
 County of Kent, was born in (g) 1571. 
 He was the fourth Son of Thomas Boys 
 of Eythorne in that County, Efq; by 
 Chriftian his wife, daughter and co-heirefs 
 of John Searles of Wye, Efq; and Nephew 
 to Sir John Boys of Canterbury, Knight. 
 
 Having mod probably received the earlier 
 part of education at the King's School in 
 Canterbury, he went to Cambridge in 
 (h) 1586, where he became a Scholar of 
 Benet College, and proceeded to the de- 
 gree of M. A. in 1 593. He was about this 
 
 (f) Philipot'S Villare Cantianum. Edit. 1659. p. 251. (g) MS. 
 Pedigree of Wm. Boys Efqj of Sandwich, (h) Mailers* s Hill, of 
 C. C. C. C. 24.Q. 
 
 time 
 
9 2 BOYS- 
 
 time elecled to a fellowfhip of Clare Hall, 
 which is appropriated to a Native of Kent. 
 
 He entered on the duties of a pari£h 
 priefi firli at Hollingbourne in his native 
 county, of which place, however, he was 
 not the Vicar : and to the Inhabitants of it 
 he dedicated his Expofition of the Feftival 
 Epiftles and Gofpels ; " Well-beloved/' 
 fays he, " in the beft beloved, I have 
 " lately preached thefe notes among you, 
 " rather out of entire love, than out of any 
 " triall of law/' In (i) 1597 he was 
 preferred by his Uncle, Sir John Boys, 
 who had been the patron of his ftudies at 
 the Univerfity, to the Redory of Bettif- 
 lianger near Deal, In the fame year he was 
 alfo collated by Archbifhop Whitgift to the 
 (k) Mafterfhip of Ean: Bridge Hofpital in 
 Canterbury. In (1) 1599 the fame patron 
 prefented him to the Vicarage of Tilman- 
 ftone adjoining to Bettifhanger. He had 
 now acquired the character of a diflinguifhed 
 Theologift, and proceeded foon afterwards 
 to the degree of D. D. 
 
 His merit becoming known to James L 
 he was appointed by him (m) May 8, 1610, 
 
 (i) Reglfter of Inductions. Confift. Court, Canterbury* (k) Ibid. 
 (1) Ibid.' (m) Nevvcoyrt's Repcrtorium, vol. i. 
 
 one 
 
boys. 93 
 one of the firft Fellows of Chelfea College. 
 To the defign of this fociety the abilities 
 of Boys indeed were fully competent. " It 
 " (n) was intended/' fays Fuller, " for a 
 " Spiritual Garrifcn, with a Magazine of 
 " all Books for that purpofe ; where 
 " learned Divines fhould ftudy, and write, 
 " in maintenance of all Controverfies 
 " againft the Papifts/' Of this College 
 Dr. (o) Sutcliffe the firft Provoft was the 
 principal founder; to advance whofe in- 
 tention James in 1615 requefted the affift- 
 ance of all the Clergy within the province 
 of Canterbury. But the contributions were 
 fo inconfiderable, and other circumftances 
 were fo unfavourable, that the eftablifh- 
 ment which was intended, foon declined; 
 and the College " (p) became ruinous be- 
 " fore it was JiniJJjed" 
 
 Dr. Boys, foon obtained further pro- 
 motion. In (q) 1618 he was collated 
 by Archbifhop Abbot to the Rectory 
 of Great Mongeham, adjoining alfo to his 
 benefice of Bettifhanger, when he relin- 
 quiflied the Vicarage of Tilmanftone. And, 
 
 (n) Fuller's Ch. Hift. book rb, 51. 
 
 ^o) Matthew SutciifF, L.L, D. who was almoft the fole be* 
 nefa&or to this foundation, was alfo Dean of Exeter, to which he 
 was promoted in 1 58S. He died in 1629. 
 (p) F-uHer's Ch. Hift. (q) Reg. of Induaions. 
 
 on 
 
94 BOYS, 
 on the death of Mr. Fotherby, James pro- 
 moted him to the Deanery of Canterbury •> 
 to which he was admitted (r) May 3, 161 9. 
 
 In the dedication of his Works to the 
 King, he acknowledges his gratitude for 
 this appointment, in a manner that muft 
 have been highly gratifying to the vanity 
 of James •> " My works," fays Boys, " I 
 " prefent in all humility to your High- 
 (e neffe, as being the defender of the faith, 
 * c and as it were the common Atlas of the 
 " reformed heaven on earth; hating 
 €C fchifme with a perfect hatred, and era- 
 *' bracing unity with a love furpaffing the 
 €e love of women : And to your Highneffe, 
 <c as being not only the Scbollers King) but 
 <c alfo the King of Scbollers : And to your 
 (( Highneffe, as a pledge of my true devo- 
 " tion and unfained thankes for that emi- 
 " nent place which I pofleffe by your royall 
 " gift in the Church of Canterburie." 
 
 But he lived not many years to enjoy the 
 Deanery. He died fuddenly in his Study 
 (s) Sept. 26, 1625, aged 54* 
 
 If we examine his i6 Pofiils" or. the De- 
 fence of our Liturgy, we fhall have reafon 
 
 (r) Le Neve's FalK. (3) MS. ofWm. Boys, Efq. 
 
 to 
 
boys. 95 
 to admire his unwearied diligence, and his 
 profound knowledge ; to refpedt him as a 
 Scholar, and a Divine. His ftile, it muft 
 be conferTed, is quaint ; and difplays much 
 of that peculiar tafte which prevailed in the 
 reign of James : when the preacher too 
 often debafed his difcourfe by fome low 
 conceit, and when the approbation of the 
 audience was won by a quibble. But a 
 warmer adverfary againft the Pope cannot 
 be produced at this period, than Dr. Boys, 
 He attacks him bdfh with unfparing ridi- 
 cule, and with elaborate argument. Strange 
 as it may found, he turned the Lord's 
 Prayer into an execration upon his Holinefs, 
 which he introduced with great applaufe 
 in a Sermon preached on Gun -powder 
 Treafon Day at Paul's Crofs, << I 
 " (t) pray with our forefathers" fays the 
 preacher, (S in the fir ft Englifh Litany, fet 
 " out in the days of King Henry the VHIth, 
 " From all /edition and privie confpiracie, 
 ^ from the tyrannie of the BifJjop of Rome, 
 " and all his det eft able enormities, from all 
 cc falje doSlrine and her e fie > from hardneffe of 
 * c heart y and contempt of thy word and com* 
 
 (t) Falio Edit, of his Works in 1629, p. 7S8. 
 
 mandment* 
 
go BOYS 
 
 € f mandment, Good Lord deliver us. Where 
 note by the way, that the Pope's abo- 
 " minable Tyrannie is hedged in (as it 
 4C were) on the one fide with /edition and 
 "prime con/piracy, and on the other fide 
 €C with falfe doBrine and herejy. I have 
 €C another prayer, and for as much as it is 
 €€ in Latine, I muft entreat all fuch (if any 
 " fuch here be prefent who love Bonaven- 
 cc tares Pfalter and the Romifh fervice) to 
 €€ joyne with us in this^rifon. Papa nofler 
 c< qui es Roma, maledicetur nomen tuum, in- 
 €C t ere at regmim tuum, impediatur voluntas 
 " tua, fcut in Ccelo fic et in terra. Potum 
 <c noftrum in Ccend dominie a da nobis bodie, 
 <c et remitte nummos nojlros quos tibi dedimus 
 f- c ob indulgent i as y et ne nos indue as in hcereftn 7 
 t€ fed libera nos a miferid, qnoniam tuum eft 
 " infer mini) pix et sulphur in fcecula facu- 
 <c brum." 
 
 His Pojiils were firft publifhed in (u) 1614 
 in 4to. They were afterwards printed in 
 folio in 1622 and 29, together with his 
 Lectures, On mutual Support, Hoe Paines of 
 Hell, The judges Charge, and Tbe Royal 
 Priefikood. His remains, viz. Certaine 
 
 (u) Mafters's Hilt of C. C. C, C. 
 
 Sermons 
 
boys. 97 
 Sermons were printed in 4-to. in 1631* He 
 Is alfo (w) faid to have written A Defence 
 of Bijhop Andrews's Tortura Torti \ againft 
 Becanus the Jefuit. 
 
 The commendation beftowed on the abi- 
 lities of his Nephew Edward Boys by Roger 
 Flint, the Editor of his Sermons, carries 
 with it alfo a juft tribute to thofe of the 
 Dean ; and marks the eltimation in which 
 he was held. The writer funis up the ex- 
 cellent character of the former in thefe 
 words, " (x) But I muft fay no more than 
 <e this, that he was nephew to Dr. Boys, 
 * c that famous Dean of Canterbury ; and 
 e( thou may ft judge by his writings they 
 ** were near of kin." 
 
 But, above all, his character as an exem- 
 plary man, is uncontroverted. His Life 
 was no lefs pious, than his abilities were 
 diftinguifhed. Yet " (y) a great Pre- 
 " late in the Church" fays Fuller, " did 
 u bear him no great good will for mu- 
 " tual animofities betwixt them while ft 
 " Gremials in the Univerfityj the reafon 
 " perchance that he got no higher prefer- 
 
 (w) Mafters's Hift. of C. C. C. C. (x) Ibid. (y)FulI:r , 8 
 Worthies, Kent, 84. 
 
 H " mcnt." 
 
98 BOYS, 
 
 *< ment." He would have been an honour* 
 however, to the higheft ftation. 
 
 He married Angel, the daughter of Ro- 
 bert Bargrave of Bridge, in the county of 
 Kent, Efq; and Sifter to his Succeffor 
 Dean Bargrave* She furvived him many 
 years, and was rudely treated by the Rebels 
 in 1642, at the age of 80. 
 
 To his memory a very fine monument is 
 placed by her, in the Dean's Chapel in the 
 Cathedral, where he was buried. He is 
 reprefented in his Study, fitting in his chair, 
 and leaning his head on his hand. The 
 drapery is very juftly admired. Among the 
 books which form the back -ground of the 
 monument, is the following infcription ~, 
 
 Bonorum Lacrymis ! 
 
 Johannes Boisius S. T. P. hujus Ec-» 
 clefias Chrifti Cantuariensis Decanus, 
 nuper diligentiae Chriftianae, mox mortali- 
 tatis humanae, nunc gratiae divinae exem- 
 plurn : Ecclefiam ore, vita, fcriptis docuit, 
 asdificavit, illuftravit : et Opus quo non 
 cxtat Clero anglicano gratius aut uti- 
 lius, Liturgise univerfae praeclaram Eluci- 
 dationem fui perpetuum Monumentum 
 reliquit. * 
 
boys, 99 
 
 Hoc minus et indignius, fed tamen de- 
 bitum felicibus Manibus tanti viri, Ma- 
 riti amantiffimi amantiffima mseftiffimaque 
 Uxor 
 
 Angela pofuit. 
 
 BARGRAVE. 
 
 Hz 
 
[ 100 3 
 B ARGR AVE. 
 
 TSAAC BARGRAVE, the feventh Dean, 
 was the fixth (z) Son of Robert Bar- 
 grave of Bridge in the County of Kent, 
 Efq; by Joan the daughter of John Gilbert 
 of Sandwich, Efq; and was born in 1586. 
 
 He was entered early at Clare Hall in 
 Cambridge, of which fociety he was pro- 
 bably a Fellow, where he took his degrees 
 in Arts, He was incorporated M. A. at 
 (a) Oxford in July 1 6 1 1 . In 1 6 1 2 he un- 
 dertook the office of (b) Taxorin the Uni- 
 verfity of Cambridge. 
 
 In March 1614-15, when King James 
 vifited that Univerlity, Bargrave was one 
 
 (z) MS. Pedigree of Ifaac Bargrave of Eaftry, Efq. (a) Wood's 
 Fafti. vol. i. 
 
 (b) The Students of the Univerfity of Cambridge at the firft had 
 no other accommodations than in houfts which they hired of the 
 Townfmen, who were often very exorbitant in their demands of 
 Rent ; to regulate which two Matters of Arts, together with two 
 reputable Perlbns of the town, were appointed by Henry III. to 
 rate the rents of thefe houfes \ the former of which were thence 
 called Taxors, a name they have ever fmce retained, although 
 their office has been long fmce changed into that of examining the 
 weights and meaiures by which provifions are fold to Scholars. 
 £Matters , s Hift. of C. C. C. C. 64.3 
 
BAR GRAVE. JOI 
 
 of thofe who (c) performed a part in the 
 Comedy of Ignoramus before his Majefty ; 
 a play compofed by Mr. Ruggle his fellow- 
 collegian, in order to entertain the Royal 
 Vifitor. It was a keen fatire upon the pro- 
 feffional character of the practifers of the 
 common Law; and it was " (d) expreffed 
 " to the great contente of his Ma tie 
 <f and all the Court." "Yet," fays Fuller, 
 " (e) while many laughed aloud at the 
 " mirth thereof, fome of the Graver Sort 
 " were fad to fee the common Lawyers 
 " made ridiculous therein." 
 
 He was at this time a beneficed Clergy- 
 man 5 having been (f) inducted to the Rec- 
 tory of Eythorne in Kent in October 
 preceding. 
 
 He became foon afterwards (g) Minifter 
 of St. Margaret's, Weflminfter, and Chap- 
 lain to Charles Prince of Wales, whom he 
 ferved in the fame quality after his acceffion 
 to the Throne. In his Church of St. Mar- 
 garet he preached often before the Mem- 
 bers of the Houfe of Commons • by whom 
 
 (c) Hawkin's Edit, of Ignoramus. (d) MS. penes me. 
 (e) Church Hilt. Book 10, 70. (f) Reg. of Inclusions. 
 Lo) Lloyd's Memoiis. Walker's Sufferings of the Gerry. 
 
 H 3 he 
 
102 BAR GRAVE. 
 
 he was efteemed a diligent and faithful 
 Paftor, while perfecution as yet was diftant. 
 
 In (h) 1622, at which time he was 
 Doctor of Divinity, he was promoted by 
 the Crown to the fifth Prebend in the 
 Church of Canterbury. 
 
 On the (i) laft day of February 1623, 
 he delivered a difcourfe before the Houfe 
 of Commons, in which he inveighed with 
 honeft warmth againft the influence of 
 Popery, bad Counfellors, and Corruption ; 
 and he incurred the (k) difpleafure of 
 James. But whatever mark of difappro- 
 bation he might receive from that Monarch, 
 whatever check it might then occafion to 
 his further promotion y it affected neither 
 his reputation nor his intereft in the opinion 
 of Prince Charles who, foon after his ac- 
 ceffion to the Throne, nominated him, on 
 the death of Dr. Boys, to the Deanery of 
 Canterbury ; to which he was admitted 
 (1) October 14, 1625, 
 
 In January 1626 he was prefented by 
 the Chapter to the Vicarage of (m) Ten- 
 terden, which he held by difpenfation with 
 
 (h) Le Neve. ' (i) Title page of the Sermon, (k.) Lloyd's 
 Memoirs, (1) Le Neve, (m) j^eg. of Inclusions. 
 
 the 
 
BARGRAVE. I0£ 
 
 the Reclory of Eythorne. But in the fol- 
 lowing year he refigned Tenterden. For 
 on the tranflation of Dr. (n) Field from 
 the See of Llandaff to that of St. David's 
 in 1627, he was preferred by the King to 
 the Vicarage of Lydde in Kent, which the 
 Bifhop had retained with the former See. 
 And in 1628 he was collated by Archbifhop 
 Abbot to the Rectory of (o) Chartham near 
 Canterbury. 
 
 In 1629 he was (p) commiffioned by 
 that Primate, together with Archdeacon 
 Kingfley, to enforce the Inftrudlions from 
 the King concerning the regularity of Lec- 
 turers in the Diocefe, and the due attend- 
 ance at Divine Worship. 
 
 The account of Dean Bargrave now be- 
 comes clofely connected with thofe un- 
 happy times, when Rebellion and Fanati- 
 cifm trampled at once upon the Mitre and 
 the Crown ; when Cathedrals were plun- 
 dered with remorfelefs impiety, and the 
 Members of them treated with favage cru- 
 elty. In 1640 at a (q) fecond Convoca- 
 
 (n) Theophilus Field of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, D. D, 
 Vicar of Lydde, became Bifhop of Llandaff in 1619, tranflated in 
 1627 to St. David's, and thence in 1635 to Hereford. He died in 
 the following year, and was buried in Hereford Catheral. 
 
 (o) Reg. of Inductions, (p) Prynne's Canterbury's Doom, 
 37*» (q) Kennefs Comp. Hift. of England, vol, iii, 113. 
 
 H 4 tion 
 
*04 B ARGR AVE. 
 
 tion of the Clergy, he preached the Sermon 
 on the 4th of November in the Church of 
 St. Paul ; when Laud bemoaned the infeli- 
 cities which he faw impending over the 
 Church. In the following year the Dean 
 was (r) fined one thoufand pounds by the 
 Houfe of Commons, as a Member of the 
 Convocation ; in which he, with others, 
 had dared to affert their right. 
 
 In 1 64 1 alfo, the Parliament propofed 
 what they afterwards efFe&ed, the Aboli- 
 tion of Deans and Chapters. Nor would 
 they fuffer the Cathedral Clergy to employ 
 Counfel in defence of their eftabliuhment. 
 They allowed them, however to appear 
 and fpeak for themfelves. Accordingly on 
 the 1 2th of May the (s) Dean, and Dr, 
 Hacket Archdeacon of Bedford were dele- 
 gated to this purpofe in the name of all the 
 reft. It does not appear that the Dean 
 made any fpeech on this occafion ; and 
 though the found argument of Dr. Hacket, 
 in favour of Deans and Chapters, then pre- 
 vailed, yet the triumph was but fhort. 
 For in the fame feffion the Adt of Abolition 
 
 (r) Kennet's Comp. Hift. of England, vol. iii, 113. (s) WaL 
 Jeer's Sufferings of the Clergy, part i, 10. 
 
 palled, 
 
BARGRAVE. IO5 
 
 pafifed, although the petitions in their 
 behalf were numerous, refpectable, and 
 (t) earneft. Bat they were rejected by the 
 wife Reformers of thofe times. The Hie- 
 rarchy was deemed fo -rotten, that even 
 Botchen, in the vaunting ardour of Reform, 
 Botchers left old Cloaihs in the lurch, 
 And fell to turn and patch the (u) Church I 
 In 1642 the fpirit of thefe Reformers 
 more fully difplayed itfelf. In Auguft the 
 Rebel-Colonel Sandys, with his troop, 
 (w) arrived at Canterbury. Their hoftile 
 appearance, it was pretended, was for the 
 fecurity of Religion. They began, how* 
 ever, with defacing -the beautiful Cathe- 
 dral, and with terrifying the family of 
 Dean (x) Bargrave (who himfelf was ab- 
 fent) by their violent intrufion into the 
 Deanery late at night. Regardlefs even of 
 that refpecl due to the weaker fex, they 
 treated his wife, and his aged Sifter (the 
 widow of Dean Boys) with the molt un- 
 manly behaviour, and alfo threatened them 
 with pillage. But by the perfuafion of one 
 
 (t) Walker's Sufferings of t u e Clergy, 10. (u) HiidHjias. 
 (w) Dugdale's Short Vievv of the Troubles, &c. (x) See Mer- 
 curius Rufticus. Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy. Lloyd's 
 Memoirs, 
 
 of 
 
Io6 BARGRAVEi 
 
 of their party they reftored the gold, which 
 they had unjuflly feized. Their treatment 
 of the Dean's Son was no lefs brutal, whom 
 they fummoned from his bed, and carried 
 prifoner to Dover Caftle. Nor was Sandys 
 content to injure only the perfon, but he 
 attempted (though in vain) to blacken the 
 character of this excellent young man. 
 
 The fufferings of the Dean were greater. 
 Having been acquainted with the affliction 
 of his family, he was haftening to confole 
 them with his prefence. But Sandys in- 
 terrupted his defign : for, hearing where 
 he was lodged at Gravefend, he (y) rufhed 
 with his Banditti into his Chamber, as he 
 was preparing for bed, and made him his 
 prifoner. And without any reafon given 
 for this infolent outrage, they hurried him 
 to London, and committed him to the 
 Fleet Prifon. 
 
 To thefe feverities exercifed on the loyal 
 Dean, the troops of Sandys added the moft 
 horrid profanation of the Church. And 
 while 16 they brake down the carved work/' 
 they boafted over the ruins with the moft 
 (z) blafphemous expreffions, and then con- 
 
 (y) Walker's Snff. (z) See a letter in Mercurius Rufticus 
 from Dr. Pafke (Vice Dean of the Church) to the Earl of Holland 
 then Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, defcribing their 
 enormities. vprfpH 
 
BARGRAVE. 1 07 
 
 verted the holy place into a ftable for their 
 horfes. 
 
 The Dean continued m confinement 
 three weeks ; but was neither (a) exa- 
 mined, nor called before the Houfe. He 
 was, indeed, at laft releafed. But the 
 fenfe of his perfecution fo much affected 
 him, that he died in January following, 
 aged 56. It muft have added to his dif- 
 trefs to find Sandys the leader of thefe 
 Plunderers. For that unprincipled Rebel 
 owed his efcape from an ignominious 
 (b) death (when he was indidled at Maid- 
 ftone for a Rape) to the intereft of the 
 Dean. At the recital of fuch ingratitude, 
 who is not incenfed ? 
 
 The Dean had been a great Traveller ; 
 and his connections in foreign countries 
 were fuch as prove his difcernment, as well 
 as teftify his merit. He attended Sir 
 Henry Wotton in one of his Embaflies as 
 his (c) Chaplain, fucceeding the pious 
 Bifhop (d) Bedel in that capacity. Sir 
 Henry appointed hini one of the Supervi- 
 
 (a) Walker's SufF. (b) Ibid, (c) Walton's Life of Sir 
 Henry Wotton. 
 
 (d) Dr. Bedel became Provoft of Trin. Coll. Dublin, and 
 thence was removed to the Bifhopric of Kilmore in 1629. " In 
 " both which places/' fays Walton, " his life was lb holy, as 
 ff ieemed to equal the primitive Cl^rifthns," 
 
 fors 
 
108 BARGR AVE, 
 
 fors of his Will, and bequeathed to him 
 the following Legacy : " To Dr. (e) Ear- 
 " grave Dean of Canterbury I leave all my 
 66 Italian Books,- not difpofed in this Will. 
 " I leave to him like wife my Viol de 
 66 Gamba, which hath been twice with me 
 Ci in Italy, in which country I firft con- 
 " traded with him an unremoveable af- 
 
 During his refidence at Venice, he en- 
 joyed the intimate acquaintance of the ce- 
 lebrated Father Paul; " from (f) whofe 
 " mouth/' fays he, " I had it, that he 
 <c efteemed the Hyerarchy of our Church, 
 " the moft excellent peece of Difcipline in 
 " the whole Chriftian World/' 
 
 The Dean was a firm defender of our 
 civil and religious rights. His abilities, 
 which were very confiderable, had been 
 greatly improved by attentive Travel. He 
 was much refpefted ; for he was hofpitable 
 as well as upright, and his opinions were 
 manly and liberal. " (g) Away," fays 
 he, " with thefe diffracting names of Lu- 
 < c t her an, Cahinijt, Puritan, &c. We 
 ""are all the children of the fame father, 
 
 (e) Life of Sir H. Wotton. (f) Sermon before the Houfeof 
 Commons, 29. (g) Ibid, 35. 
 
 " who 
 
BARGRAVE. jog 
 
 ec who hath begotten us in the love of one 
 se Mediator, and fandtified us by one and the 
 " fame Spirit. Chrift and his Spoufe, the 
 " King and his Kingdome, Chriftian Bro- 
 (C ther and Brother, thefe are they which 
 " God hath joyned together, and curfed 
 €( may he bee that endeavours to put them 
 " afunder." Thefe enlarged fentiments 
 were fimilar to thofe of his friend Father 
 Paul, whofe moderation and learning were 
 alike confpicuous : " II (h) avoit, dit l'Ar«* 
 < c cheveque de Spalatro dans fon Epitre de- 
 " dicatoire a Jacques I, un Zele tres fin- 
 " cere pour faire cejfer toutes les divifion{ 
 " qui etoient dans rEglife." 
 
 The Dean publifhed three Sermons, 
 which were printed in London in 1624. 
 and 1627. • They are on the following 
 Texts, Pfalm xxvi, 6.-— Hofea x, i .-«•« 
 1 Sam. xv, 23. The firft of thefe is the 
 Sermon he preached before the Houie of 
 Commons, to whom he dedicates it, with, 
 an avowal of his public fpirit ; " I fhali 
 ec fpeedily annex/' fays he, to this two 
 66 other Sermons, the one againjl Bribery 9 
 " and the other againjl Self Policy ; bom 
 " which, I will bee bold to call, the cha« 
 
 (h) Yk <k Fra Pnofo par Lg Gjuajvr. 
 
 <( racier 
 
IIO B ARGR AVE* 
 
 t€ rafter of mine owne heart toward the 
 « c publike good of our Church and Com- 
 
 " monwealth." 
 
 The ftile of thefe Difcourfes is, in gene- 
 ral, lefs affected than what was then the 
 prevailing tafte. The Sermon againft Self- 
 Policy is particularly interefting, and ex- 
 po fes with great energy the fubtleties of the 
 many-headed Monfter, Hypocrify. 
 
 The Dean was married to (i) Elizabeth 
 the daughter of John Dering of Pluckley 
 in the County of Kent, Efq; by whom he 
 had feveral children. She furvived him 
 many years, dying in 1667, aged 74 : and 
 was buried near him in the Dean's Chapel 
 in the Cathedral, with an infcription to her 
 memory. 
 
 The Dean was buried in the faid Chapel 
 January 25, 1642-3. Over his Monu- 
 ment, in a tafte not common, is his Por- 
 trait painted on Copper, in a beautiful 
 frame of white marble. The Infcription 
 is as follows, 
 
 ISAACUS BARGRAVE, 
 
 Cantianus S. T. 
 Decanus, et ingens 
 
 P. Hujus Ecclefise 
 decus ; amaeno in- 
 
 genio 
 
 (i) MS. Pedigree. 
 
BARGRAVE. Ill 
 
 genio Pietatem et Eruditionem ornavit : In 
 faeculo Novitatis mmium avido fide vixit ac 
 moribus antiquis ; Gentibus exteris, do« 
 mique Nobilibus gratiffimus Hofpes, Hof- 
 pitio generofiffimo repofuit. Bello civili 
 ex partibus Regiis Cargli Martyris Stetit 
 ac cecidit. 
 
 Pofl varia per Europam itinera 
 Hie tandem fixus. 
 Ob. an falutis reparat f 1642 
 
 iMm. 56. 
 Johannes Bargrave, s. t, d. Cantianus 
 Pofterum expenfis 
 Ponendum curavit 
 Anno Domini 
 MDCLXXIX. 
 Hie (ultra mortem etiam) conjun&a Eli- 
 zabeth a Dering fuprapofiti Isaaci 
 Uxor Chariffima contumulatur. Vivos 
 amor conjugalis, et mores utrinque pla- 
 cidi ; mortuos liberorum pietas ; poft mor- 
 tem divina mifericordia, in caelo et in terra, 
 voluit infeparabiles. 
 
 Ob. Anno S Chrifti 1667 
 ( JSjatis 74. 
 
 EGLIONBY. 
 
[ "2 ] 
 
 EGLIONBY. 
 
 QEORGE EGLIONBY or (k) AGLI- 
 ONBY, the eighth Dean, was edu- 
 cated at Weftminfter School, and elected 
 thence to Chrift Church Oxford in 1619, 
 at which time he was (1) fixteen years of 
 age. As he is entered in the Univerfity 
 Matriculation-book, (m) Oxon. Doc ris . FiL 
 there is little doubt, but that he was the 
 Son of Dr. (n) John Aglionby, Principal of 
 Edmund Hall, and the defcendant of a very 
 (o) ancient and genteel family in the 
 County of Cumberland. 
 
 (k) Wood and Burn fpell the name both ways. (1) Univerfity 
 Matriculation Book, (m) Ibid. 
 
 (n) John Aglionby D. D. of the family of that name fettled 
 St Nunnery in the County of Cumberland, was Fellow of Queers 
 College Oxford. In April 1601 he was admitted Principal of Ed- 
 mund-Hall, and about the fame time obtained the Re£lory of Iflip 
 near Oxford. He was Chaplain alfo to Queen .Elizabeth, and to 
 James I. He was a molt accomplifhed and learned Preacher. In 
 the Traniiation of the New Tellament in 1604. he had a confider- 
 able hand. He died atlfiip, much regretted, Feb. 6,1609-10, in 
 the 43d year of his age ; and was buried in the Chancel of that 
 Church. To his Memory an Infcription was put up (according to 
 the opinion of W00J; by his Widow. 
 
 (o) Burn's Hi-it of Cumberland, 327* 
 
 While 
 
EGLIONBY. II3 
 
 While he refided in the Univerfity, he 
 was diftinguifhed as a perfon of fupe- 
 rior abilities. A. Wood has related, that 
 Henry Cary Lord Falkland often went to 
 Oxford to enjoy the converfation of the 
 learned and the witty among whom was 
 (p) George Aglionby of Chrift Church. 
 
 In June 1623 he took the (q) degree of 
 B. A. about which time he left the Uni- 
 verfity, and became probably an (r) Affift- 
 •ant at Weftminfter School. He was after- 
 ward Tutor to George, the fecond Duke 
 of Buckingham. 
 
 In 1634. we find he proceeded to the de- 
 gree of (s) D. D. and and in 1638 he had 
 acquired fuflicient intereft with Charles I. 
 to obtain the twelfth (t) Prebend in the 
 collegiate Church of Weftminfter, vacant 
 by the death of his Uncle Dr. (u) John 
 King. It is probable that he was alfo Pre- 
 bendary of Woodham in the Church of 
 
 (p) Wood^ Athena; Oxo». vol. i, 587. (q) Wood's F,fti y 
 Vol. i, 260. (r) Wood and other Writers call him Mailer of 
 Weftminfter School, but he does not occur in the Lift either of the 
 Head or Second Maft p rs of that Seminary. [See Lift of Scholars 
 of St. Peter's Coll. Weftminfter from the foundaion to 179O, &c] 
 (s) Fafti, vol. i 260. (t) New court's Repertorium, vol. i, 928. 
 
 (u) John King D. D. was of Merton College Oxford. He be- 
 came Prebendary of Weftminfter in 161 3, and in 1615 Canton alio 
 of Windfor. He died in Auguft 1638, and was buried in the 
 Chapel of St. George at Windlbr. 
 
 I Chichefter> 
 
114 EGL10NBY. 
 
 Chichefter ; of which flail the (w) poflef- 
 for, who died during the Usurpation, we 
 find to be a George Eglionby. 
 
 It is evident, that he was much efteemed 
 by Charles, whom he attended at Oxford 
 as a faithful fubjedt and fervant, after the 
 miferies of civil war had commenced. At 
 the clofe of 1642 that city was the epitome 
 of the whole nation, and the feat of learn- 
 ing now became the feat alfo of military 
 and political bufmefs. (x) Here was 
 
 the Court, the Garrifon, the Flower of 
 the Nobility and Gentry, Lawyers and Di- 
 vines from all parts of England. It was 
 (y) here that the King, on the death of 
 Dr. Bargrave, nominated Dr. Eglionby to 
 the Deanery of Canterbury. 
 
 But in this dignity he was never in- 
 flailed ; nor did he reap any advantage 
 from it. The Parliament had now feized 
 on the profits of thofe capitular bodies, 
 which were within the power of their 
 arms. Among thefe we have (z) already 
 feen th# Church of Canterbury. 
 
 Of this Cathedral Captain Monins, who 
 
 (w) Walker's SufF. of the Clergy, p. ii, 13. (x) Fell's Life 
 of Dr. Alleftree. (y) Cathedral News, p. ult. (z) Life of 
 Bargrave. 
 
 had 
 
EG LION BY* 115 
 
 had a Troop of Horfe in the Parliament's 
 Service, was appointed both Treafurer and 
 Receiver. In his Accounts he appears to 
 have received ic (a) three yeeres rent of 
 u Chartham Manfion due to the Deane at 
 " Mich 5 1645. " This proves that fomuch 
 of the Dean's property (and affords a pre- 
 fumption that more alfo) was fequeftered 
 while Dr. Bargrave was Dean. 
 
 Dr. Eglionby, however, experienced 
 only the beginning of perfecution. He 
 furvived his nomination to the Deanery 
 but; a few months ; dying at (b) Oxford in 
 November 1643, in the 40th year of his 
 age. He was buried on the nth of 
 the fame month in (c) Chrift Church 
 Cathedral, near to Biihop King's Mo- 
 
 (a) Original MS. lent me by J. Monins, Efq; of Canterbury. 
 It appears that the Dean's houie at Canterbury was let, during the 
 Usurpation, to Sir Edward Mailer at the yearly reat of" 7I. 10s od. 
 and the Manfion Houfe at Chartham to a Mr. James at the yearly 
 rent of 4.I. 6s. Sd.---The property of the plundered Church was 
 thus accounted for to the ruling powers. <£ Rec d this 29th March 
 " 1650, by Order from the Committee for Correfpondinge dated. 
 " ye 28th pair, of Capt. Thomas Monins, In receipt of iiich ar- 
 " rears as are in his hands, for the fequeftered Efbtes of the Deane 
 " and Chapter, Wee fay ree'd for the Ufe of ye Commonwealthe of 
 t( England, ye Summe of Eight hundred and ffifty pounds. Wee 
 a< fay ree'd per us John Browne 
 
 " Edward Peke." [MS. as before.] 
 Of Cap'a'm Monins it muft be mentioned, that he was forced 
 into the Service of the Parliament, and on that account, obtained 
 without difficulty the free pardon of Charles II. at his ReftoratiQn. 
 [Communicated tome bv J. Monins, Efq.] 
 
 (b) Cath. News, p. ult. (c) Gutch's Hill, of Coll. and Halls, 
 Oxford, 50S. 
 
 I 2 nument 
 
Il6 EGLIONB Ye 
 
 nument in the South Ifle adjoining to 
 the Choir. There is neither Monument 
 nor infcription to his Memory. Nor is 
 there any Portrait of him in the Deanery 
 at Canterbury ; the want of which inter- 
 rupts the regular feries of Portraits of the 
 Deans down to Dean (now Biihop) Corn- 
 wallis. 
 
 TURNER. 
 
TURNER* 
 
 npHOMAS TURNER, the ninth Dean, 
 was the (d) Son of Thomas Turner 
 of Heckfield in the County of Hants, Al- 
 derman and Mayor of Reading in the 
 County of Berks ; and was born in the pa- 
 ri fn of St. Giles in that Borough. 
 
 In (e) 1610 he was admitted on the 
 foundation at St. John's College, Oxford ; 
 two Fellowfhips in that fociety being 
 (f) appropriated to perfons from the town 
 of Reading. He was there (g) placed un- 
 der the tuition of the excellent juxon, then 
 Fellow of the College, afterwards Arch- 
 bifhop of Canterbury. His application to 
 Learning was affiduous and fuccefsful. And 
 having entered into Holy Orders, he im- 
 mediately (h) diftinguifhed himfelf as a 
 Divine of merit. Brown Willis in his Sur- 
 vey of Lincoln Cathedral, has made him 
 
 (d) Wood's Faftl, vol i, 259. (e) fhid. (f) Gutch's Hift. 
 of CoU. and Halls, note, p. 538. (g) Wood, (h) Funeral 
 Sermon preached by Dr. Du Moulin. 
 
 I 3 in 
 
I i 8 TURNER. 
 
 in 1612 B. D. Prebendary of St. Margaret's 
 Leicefler, and Reflor of Stoke Hammond. 
 But neither the age of Turner then qualified 
 him for preferment, nor his ftanding in the 
 Univerfity for a degree. 
 
 In (i) 1623 he was prefented by his Col- 
 lege to the Vicarage of St. Giles in the 
 Suburbs of Oxford, with which he retained 
 his Fellowship : that benefice, indeed, be- 
 ing generally held by a refident Fellow of 
 St. John's. He relinquished it, however, 
 in (k) 1628. 
 
 As he had been more particularly under 
 the notice of Laud, (who became Prefident 
 of the College foon after Turner's admif- 
 fion) that Prelate exprefled c< a (1) fingu- 
 " lar affection to his great parts of nature, 
 " grace, and ftudy and appointed him his 
 domeftic Chaplain. In April 1629, at which 
 time he was B. D. he was collated by this 
 patron, then Bifhop of London, to the 
 (m) Prebend of Newington in the Church 
 of St. Paul, and in Odtober following to 
 the (n) Chancellorship of the fame Church, 
 in which alfo he was appointed by Charles 
 I. a Canon Refidentiary. 
 
 (i) Pefhall's Hlft. of Oxford City, 216. (k) Ibid. (1) Fu- 
 neral Sermon, (m) Newcourfs Repertorium, vol, i. 389 
 
 (n) Ibid. 115. 
 
 He 
 
TURNER. II9 
 
 He had been recommended by Bifhop 
 Laud to the notice of Charles, to whom he 
 became Chaplain in Ordinary, and whofe 
 (o) approbation he obtained by his talents 
 as a preacher. He was prefented likewife 
 by the King to the Rectory of St. Olave 
 Southwark, with which he held the Rec- 
 tory of Fetcham in the County of Surry. 
 
 In 1633 his Royal Mailer had refolved 
 on a progrefs into Scotland, in order to his 
 Coronation ; and Turner was commanded 
 to attend his Majefty ; previous to which 
 he was on the ift of April 1633-4 (p) cre- 
 ated D. D. by the Univerfity of Oxford. 
 
 In 1640 there were two Convocations of 
 the Clergy - y at the former of which in 
 April, he (q) preached the Sermon in the 
 Cathedral of St. Paul. His text was Matt* 
 x, 16. Cf Behold I fend you forth as Sheep 
 fC in the midft of Wolves." In the clofe 
 of his difcourfe he (r) obferved, that all 
 Bifhops held not the reins of Church Difci- 
 pline with an even hand -> but that fome of 
 them were too eafy and remifs in the exer- 
 cife of their fundtion. Thus while they 
 
 (o) Funeral Sermon, (p) Wood, (q) Kennet's Comp. Hift. 
 of England, vol. iii. (r) Fuller's Church Hift. book ii, 167. 
 
 I 4 aimed 
 
120 TURNER. 
 
 aimed at the popular praife of lenity, they 
 caft on other Bifiiops (more fevere than 
 themfeves) the unmerited imputation of 
 rigour. He, therefore, advifed them all 
 to enforce with equal ftri&nefs an univerfal 
 conformity. 
 
 On the promotion of Dr. (s) Henry King 
 in 1641 to the See of Chichefter, Turner 
 was preferred by his Majefty to the Deanery 
 of Rochefter. And, on the death of Dr. 
 Eglionby, he was promoted to the Deanery 
 of Canterbury, of which however he could 
 not obtain poffeffion till the Restoration.- — 
 When he was nominated to this dignity, he 
 (t) refigned the Reftory of St. Olave into 
 his Majefty's hands, although the King 
 neither required nor expected his resigna- 
 tion of that benefice, 
 
 Of the many favours which he received 
 from Charles, he was indeed eminently 
 worthy : for his affection to that monarch 
 
 (s) Henry King D. D. an admired preacher, was a Student of 
 Chrilt Church, Oxford. He was Chaplain to James I. and Charles 
 I. became Archdeacon of Colchefter, Canon Refidentiary of St. 
 Paui, Canon of Ch, Ch. Oxon, Dean of Rochefter, and laftly 
 Bimop of Chichefter in December 164.1. He died in 1669, and 
 was buried in Chicheftrr Cathedral. He was a man of unble- 
 mimed reputation, and of great acromplimments. In his youth, 
 fays Wood, he v*as partial to the ftudies of Poetry and Mufic j 
 when he was older he applied himlelf to Ora'ory and Philofophy ; 
 and in his reduced age he fixed on Divinity, in which faculty he 
 became eminent, as his Sermons prove, 
 
 (t) Funeral Sermon. 
 
 triumphed 
 
TURNER, I2£ 
 
 triumphed over impending danger, and 
 over actual perfecution, 
 
 " — « unterrify'd 
 
 " His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal."(u) 
 It is probable, that he attended his Royal 
 Mafter as long as he continued in Oxford - 
 and would, no doubt, have attended him 
 in his melancholy confinement at Hoi- 
 denby. But the captive King was now de- 
 barred from the vifits of his ancient fervants 
 and chaplains ; " (w) from the affiftance 
 « of men judicioufly pious, and fobcrly 
 " devout." His folitude was not to be 
 cheered by friendly converfation, his dif- 
 trefs was not to be alleviated by fpiritual 
 comfort : " My (x) Agony," fays the ex- 
 preffive Mourner himfelf, « my agony is 
 " not to be relieved with the prefence of 
 " a ny one good angel • for fuch I account 
 " a learned, godly, and difcreet Divine ; 
 ff and fuch I would have all mine to be." 
 Eut the King being at length removed to 
 Hampton Court, he was fuffered to rcfume 
 the appearance of majefty and freedom : and 
 the (y) Dean was among the Divines who 
 
 (y) Milton. (w) e ( ^„ JWiAt^, Chap, 24, (*) Ibid, 
 (y) Funeral Sermon. 
 
 there 
 
122 TURNER. 
 
 there attended him. From this fituation, 
 however, Charles thought proper to retire, 
 and fled to the I lie of Wight. When the 
 Treaty there commenced between his Ma- 
 jelly and the Parliament, the (z) Dean alfo 
 was one of his fervants, to whom the li- 
 berty of viliting him was granted. Here 
 €C the (a) good King, preparing himfelf for 
 " his martyrdom, gathered about him fuch 
 €S fpiritual forces as he might be allowed to 
 * £ have, which might ftrengthen. him in the 
 te great trial. " His tragical and lamented 
 death foon followed. In the general for row 
 the Dean was a fin cere but filent mourner ; 
 finding it, like -the gallant Montrofe, im- 
 poffible to exprefs fufficiently the fenfe of 
 *' his (b) own. grief," and of " the Mo- 
 66 narch's too rigid fate." 
 
 His adherence to the royal caufe, as 
 might be expected,, brought him into much 
 diilrefs. Hs was abufed, pillaged, and 
 imprifoned. (c) Three of his houfes 
 were plundered of his furniture and li- 
 brary. Nor was any fatisfaction ever made 
 for them, except that Dr. Staunton, to 
 
 fz) Parliam. Journals, (a) Funeral Sermon, (b) See Mon- 
 trofe's Verfes on the Death of Charles, (c) Walker's Sufferings of 
 the Clergy, part ii, 6. 
 
 whom. 
 
TURNER, I23 
 
 whom the Committee of Surry had given 
 the books, acquainted the Dean's Son, 
 Francis, fome time after the Reftoration, 
 that he was in poffeilion of fome books, 
 which he confidered as belonging to him, 
 becaufe they were his father's. After this 
 appearance of generous reflitution he mag- 
 nificently delivered to him about (d) half 
 a dozen ! (e) 
 
 At his Church of (f) Fetcham he was 
 feized (probably in time of divine fen/ice) 
 by a party of Horfe ; becaufe, like a liberal 
 fubjecl; and a dutiful fervant, he had flip- 
 plied the King with money. The Rebels 
 at the fame time trampled the Book of 
 Common Prayer in the dirt before his face* 
 To profanation they added alfo indignity ; 
 and drefTing one of their Troopers in the 
 Surplice, which they tyed round with an 
 Orange Tawney Scarf, they directed him 
 to precede the Dean whom, placed on one 
 of their horfes, they now carried prifoner 
 to the White Lion in South wark. But the 
 Dean palled almofl: unobferved by the po- 
 pulace, as the white-robed trooper was the 
 
 (d) Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, part, ii, 6. (e) The 
 Dean in his iaft Will leaves to his " three forms thofe few books 
 thatUmdefcaped t h e plunder. [Will. Coniift. Court, Canterbury.} 
 (f) Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy. 
 
 objeft 
 
124 TURNER. 
 
 object of general attraction, and (in fuch 
 pious times) probably of unbounded ap- 
 plaufe ! 
 
 Of the Rectory of Fetcham forcible pof- 
 felTion was obtained by one (g) Fifher, a 
 man of defpicable character ; of whom it 
 is (h) related, that when he came to 
 eject the Dean, he denied him the indul- 
 gence of remaining in the houfe, only till 
 his wife, who expected hourly to fall in la- 
 bour, was delivered of her burthen. At 
 the R.eftoration, when the Rectory reverted 
 to its right owner, the wife of Fifher was 
 in the fame fituation, and he had the mean- 
 nefs to folicit what he himfelf had inhu- 
 manly refufed. But Turner was more ge- 
 nerous than to retort the hard meafure he 
 had received. He checked his refentment 
 in this noble anfvver, " You fhall fee I am 
 " a Chriftian ; In the name of God let her 
 €i tarry and welcome." 
 
 The Dean, when he was ejected from 
 Fetcham, had (i) retired to an eftate he 
 poiTeffed in Hertford (hire. Bui perfecu- 
 tion followed him there alfo. He was 
 fummoned before the Committee at Hert- 
 
 (g) Walters Sufferings of the Clergy, (h) Ibid, (i) Ibid. 
 
 ford, 
 
TURNER, 125 
 
 ford, the Chairman of which a Ship- Car- 
 penter charged him with Malignancy for 
 Attending the King, and Praying for him. 
 To thefe charges he replied, that his duty 
 as Chaplain obliged him to the one, and 
 that he never did the other without praying 
 for the Parliament alfo, and that too by the 
 exprefs order of his Majefty. Before fuch 
 Judges Vindication was unavailable. His 
 eftate was decimated, and he was com- 
 pelled to fly for fafety into Wales. 
 
 Such were the feverities the Dean and 
 the loyal Clergy experienced : feverities, 
 which were enforced from the pulpits of the 
 Saints as necelfary to be inflicted, and 
 when inflidted, were not to be pitied.-— 
 " (k) Whenfoever" fays an hypocritical 
 preacher of that time, you fhall behold 
 " the hand of God in the fall of Babylon, 
 f? fay, True, here is a Babylonift Priejl 
 * c crying out alas, alas, my living, I have 
 " a wife and children to maintain ; ay, 
 " but all this is to perform the judgment of 
 " the Lord. 13 
 
 (k) Sermon by W. Bridge. See more of this infamous cant in 
 <i Evangelium Armatum, or a collection of feveral doclrines and 
 " portions deftru&ive to our Government both civil audecclefiafti- 
 <£ cal. London, 1663.^ 
 
 But 
 
126 TURNER* 
 
 But thefe unhappy times the Dean fur- 
 vived, and joined in the general exultation, 
 which the return of Charles II. infpired. 
 With others of the (1) Clergy of Surry, he 
 united alfo in a congratulatory addrefs to his 
 Majefty. On the ioth of Auguft 1660, he 
 entered into full poffeffion of the Deanery 
 of Canterbury. His loyalty might now 
 alfo have been rewarded with a Mitre, had 
 he chofe to accept it. But he ftudioufly 
 declined that honour, modeftly preferring 
 " to (m) fet out too little rather than too 
 " much fail." Inftead of feeking addition 
 to his preferment, he foon refigned the 
 Rectory of Fetcham, " (n) defiring to eafe 
 <c his aged moulders of the Burthen of Cure 
 " of Souls ; and can fed it to be bellowed 
 " upon a perfon altogether unacquainted 
 C6 with him, but recommended very juftly 
 <c under the character of a pious man, and 
 " a fufferer for righteonfnefs." 
 
 Having enjoyed an uninterrupted mare 
 of (o) good health, during thirty years* he 
 was at length attacked with that fevere 
 difeafe the ft one ; the fharpnefs of which 
 he endured with exemplary fortitude and 
 
 (1) Kennet's Regifter, aaS. (m) Funeral Sermon, (n) Ibid, 
 (o) Ibid, 
 
 resignation. 
 
TURNER. I27 
 
 resignation. Nor did the " (p) innocent 
 " gayety of his humour," which made his 
 company fo agreeable to all, forfake him to 
 the laft. He reached the age of 81, and 
 breathed his laft in October 1672 with 
 ft the (q) greateft Chriftian magnanimity, 
 6t and yet with the deeper! fenfe imagina- 
 * f ble of godly forrow, working repent- 
 " ance unto falvation notto be repented of." 
 
 He was buried in the Dean's Chapel in. 
 the Cathedral on the 17th, when his fune- 
 ral Sermon was preached by Dr. Peter 
 (r) Du Moulin Prebendary of the Church. 
 
 The difpofition of Turner was generous, 
 difinterefted, and humble. His example 
 affords an excellent leffon to thofe, who 
 imagine that dignity is better fupported 
 by avarice and infolence, than by a liberal 
 ccndefcenfion : for " (s) never was Cler- 
 " gyman freer from pride and covetouf- 
 " nefs." 
 
 (p) Funeral Sermon, (q) Ibid- 
 
 (r) Peter Du Moulin D. D. ofLeyderi, was incorporated both 
 at Oxford and Cambridge in the fame degree. He was Chaplain 
 to Charles II. and became Prebendary of Canterbury. He died at 
 Canterbury 1684, in the 84-th year of his age, and was buried in 
 the Cathedral. He was the Author of feveral Treaties, and is 
 faid to have been an hone it and zealous Calvinift. The laft words, 
 fays Wood, which he uttered on his death-bed were, " Since 
 " Calvinifm is cried down, actum eft de religione Chrifti apud 
 " Anglos, &c." 
 
 (s) Funeral Sermon, 
 
 In 
 
128 TURNER, 
 
 In his whole life, he never (t) directly 
 or indirectly folicited preferment, never had 
 conteft with a competitor for any of his 
 dignities. In the feveral ftations which he 
 filled, he was affable and courteous, parti- 
 cularly attentive to the deferving, compaf- 
 fionate to the poor, hofpi table to all. What- 
 ever (u) toil, or cenfure, or money it colt 
 him, he advanced the good of the place 
 wherever he prefided. If any differences 
 occurred, he was eafy to be entreated, and 
 ready to forgive. And, indeed at all times, 
 he exercifed his authority without the 
 meannefs of fupercilious diftance : thus fe- 
 ci! ring the efleem of his brethren the 
 Clergy, and the refpect of fociety in ge- 
 neral. 
 
 To the Church and Library of (w) Can- 
 terbury he was a confiderable Benefactor. 
 In thankfulnefs for his deliverance from an 
 imminent danger, he dedicated to the Holy 
 Table in this Cathedral a (x) coftly Folio 
 Bible with covers of beaten iilver double 
 gilt. But to the Church of St. Paul his 
 liberality was more extenfive. For when 
 in 1661 the ruinous condition of that Ca- 
 
 (t) Funeral Sermon, (u) Ibid, (w) Ibid, (x) Ibid. 
 
 thedral 
 
TURNER. 129 
 
 thedral required general affiftance towards 
 its reparation, (y) Turner, then a Refiden- 
 tiary, with his brethren, gave an example 
 of munificence to others, by fubfcribing 
 each of them 500I. He (z) built alfo a 
 good houfe for his fuccefibrs in the Canonry, 
 on which he expended the better part of a 
 thoufand pounds. Two Colleges in Ox- 
 ford alfo received fome mare of his bounty. 
 Towards the building of a new Quadran- 
 gle at (a) Trinity in 1665 he gave 40I. 
 And in 1667 he fubfcribed the fame fum 
 towards the completion of a building in. 
 (b) Corpus Chrifti. 
 
 In 1667 likewife, when Charles II. re- 
 queued a fupply from the Clergy by way of 
 Loan, Dr. (c) Turner advanced on his own 
 account iool. befides his mare of 1000I. as 
 a Refidentiary of St. Paul's. He had before 
 contributed, on a fimilar propofal, 120I. 
 befides his proportion of 1000L contributed 
 alfo by the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. 
 
 To thefe inftances of his public fpirit, 
 mud be added his condudt to his relations. 
 We cannot but have admired his generofity, 
 
 (y) Klennefs Regifter, 590. (z) Funeral Sermon, (a) Gutch's 
 Hift of Coil, and Halls, 527. (b) Ibid. 399. (c) Scunner' s 
 MSS. in the Church Library of Canterbury, maiked C. 5. 
 
 K and 
 
13° TURNER. 
 
 and we ftiall now reverence his piety. He 
 had refigned " his (d) paternal eftate of con- 
 " fiderable value to his younger brother, 
 " had given portions to feveral of his fitters, 
 f and fettled them and others of his kin- 
 <c dred very handfomely in the world, at a 
 
 time when he was a married man and a 
 " father, and when the lowering fa<?e of 
 " the fky could make him prefage the 
 tc great imminent ftorm. And when the 
 " ftorm was moft raging, and his own for- 
 * 6 tunes were at a low ebbe, even then he 
 
 took into his care his aged Parents, ha- 
 < c raffed and ruined by the iniquity of the 
 c * times for their moft eminent loyalty. " 
 
 Dutiful as a Son, he was no lefs affec- 
 tionate as a (e) Hulband, a Father, and a 
 Friend. 
 
 As a Preacher, he (f) preferved the 
 energy of his abilities, to the very laft. 
 Wood (g) mentions a Sermon publifhed by 
 him in 1635 on Matt. ix. 13. Whether 
 he was the Author of any thing elfe, does 
 not appear. Prynne has repeatedly placed 
 him among " the (h) Ar mini an Party, 
 « whom Laud preferred to the higheji Ecck- 
 
 (d) Funeral Sermon, (e) Ibid, (f) Ibid, (g) Fafti, vol* I, 
 255. (h) Prynne' s Canterburies Doom, 176. 
 
 " fiaftical 
 
TURNER. I3t 
 
 €C ftajlkal "Preferments." He was alfo one 
 
 of thofe who were ridiculed in fome fatiri- 
 
 cal verfes difperfed about the Univerfity in 
 
 1632, entitled, The Academicall Army of 
 
 Epidemicall Arminiam : To the Tune of the 
 
 Souldiour. But if he was an Arminian, yet 
 
 the general tenor of his life was fo amiable, 
 
 that his fame will fuffer but little from the 
 
 clamours of the furious Puritan. 
 
 The Dean was married to (i) Margaret 
 
 the daughter of Sir Francis Windebank* 
 
 Knt. Secretary of State to Charles I. By her 
 
 he had three Sons, (k) Francis, (1) William, 
 
 and (m) Thomas, each of whom attained 
 
 to diitinguifhed ftations in the Church. 
 
 (i) Wood. 
 
 (k) Francis Turner D. D. was Fellow of New CoIl.Oxonj 
 
 afterwards Matter of St. John's Coll. Cambridge, Prebendary of 
 St. Paul's, Dean of Windfor, Rec"tor of Therfield, county of 
 Herts, promoted toth- See of Rochelter in 1683, and tranflated to 
 that of Ely in 1684,. He was one of the Bifhops who were de- 
 prived at the Revolution. He died in Nov. 1700, and was buried 
 at Therfield, with no other memorial over his grave than this one 
 word, Expergiscar. 
 
 (1) William Turner D. D. of Trinity Coll. Oxford, was 
 promoted to the Archdeaconry of Durham in 1676. He was alfo 
 Rector of Stanhope in that County. He died in Oxford in 1685, 
 and was buried in St. Giles's Church in the Suburbs of that City. 
 
 (m) Thomas Turner D. D. was Fellow, and afterwards 
 Prelident of Corpus Chrifti Coll. Oxford. He was alfo Archdea* 
 con ofEifex, Reclor of Thorley, Herts, and of Fulh am Sinecure, 
 Middleiex, Prebendary of Ely, Prebendary and Prazcentor of St. 
 Paul's. He died in 1714, and was buried in his College Chapel, 
 in which there is a monumental infcription to his mf-mory. He 
 was a fmgle man, remarkable for his munificence and liberality in, 
 his life time, and left the bulk of his fortunes, which were very 
 confiderahle, to public and charitable uies. He was a great bene- 
 factor to his College . 
 
 K 2 His 
 
J 3 2 TURNER. 
 
 His wife furvived him, dying in July 1692, 
 aged 84, and was buried in St. (n) Giles's 
 Church Oxford, near the remains of their 
 Son, William. 
 
 At the Eaft End of the Dean's Chapel, 
 under the window, is an handfome mural 
 monument erected to the memory of the 
 Dean, with the following infcription* 
 
 h. s. E. 
 
 Thomas Turner, s, t. d. 
 
 e BeatI Pauli apud Londinfenes Canonicus Refidentiarius 
 Ecclefia J Deinde Roffeafis Anno giodcxxxxi 1 
 / Tandemhujus Chrifti Cantuarienfis ciddcxliii 3 
 Quern Carolus primus et Archiepifcopus Laud, 
 Gloriofi et Sanctiffimi Martyres, 
 Sacellanum habuerunt et una. cnm illis foitidimum Confefforem, 
 Qucm Rex in ultimis fere Agonibus 
 In Curia Hamptonienfi et Infula Veclis 
 Unum e paucis fidiflimum afcivit fibi. 
 
 Generofa Profapia Redingiae 
 Natus, fi quis alter, Bono Publico. 
 For tuna magnaque rerum copia. reverenter ufus eft, 
 C Humilitatis profundiffimae 
 Ingens i Simplicitatis Chriitianiflimae I Exemplar* 
 (_ Zeli pro Ecclefia ferventiffimi J 
 Calamitates fub tyrannide perduellium animo sequiffimo tolera,vit^ 
 Et utriufque fortunae expertus 
 Utrique par exftitit. 
 Jux'a felicem Caroli fecundi reditum 
 Novas dignitates mininie ambiebat, 
 Et ocWenarlus Senex adhuc in concionibus dominabatunT 
 
 (n) Females Hift. Oxon, Appendix ai. 
 
 Jamque 
 
TURNER, I33 
 
 Jamque maturus ccelo 
 oft raulta immortalia fa£ta, nihil optavlt mortals 
 Mill raori in Domino, 
 Bt obiit Anno Domini CI3D CLXXII 
 vEtatis fuse lxxxi. 
 
 TILLOTSON, 
 
 K 3 
 
E x 34 ] 
 
 TILLOTSO N. (o) 
 
 OHN TILLOTSON, the tenth Dean, 
 
 was defcended from the ancient family 
 of the Tilftons of Tilfton in Cheftiire* 
 His great-Grandfather Thomas Tilfton 
 (p) changed the name to Tillotfon. He 
 was the fon of Mr. Robert Tillotfon, a re- 
 fpedtable Clothier at Sowerby in the Parifh 
 of Halifax, in the County of York, where 
 he was born in 1630. 
 
 His father, who was a rigid Puritan, 
 educated him in the fame principles > and 
 in i647fent him to Clare Hall Cambridge, 
 where he was placed under the tuition of 
 Mr. (q) David Clarkfon, an eminent Pref- 
 byterian Divine. 
 
 (o) The Editor has given only an humble abftracl of the Life 
 OF Tillotson, referring thofe who wifli to read a full and ex- 
 tenfive account of that great rcnn, to " Birch's Life," to the 
 *' Biographia Britannica," the (t General Dictionary," " Lq 
 54 Neve's Lives of the Archbifhops," &c. 
 
 (p) Watfon's Hift. of Halifax, 294.. 
 
 (q) David Clarkfon B. D. Fellow of Clare Hall, was after- 
 wards Minifter of Mortlake in Surry, of which he was deprived in 
 1662, on account of his attachment to the principles of the Non- 
 conforming. Mr. Baxter has given him an admirable character, 
 Tillotfon always preferred the greateft refpect for him. 
 
 Ia 
 
TLLLOTSON. I35 
 
 In (r) 1650 he took the degree of B. A. 
 and in the following year was elected Fel- 
 low of the Society to which he belonged. 
 He became foon after Tutor, and dis- 
 charged the duties of that office with exem- 
 plary care and judgment. In 1654 he took 
 the degree of M. A. In 1657 he left the 
 Univerfity, being invited by (s) Edmund 
 Prideaux, Efq; then Attorney General to 
 Cromwell, to inftrucT: his fon : and by his 
 connection with Prideaux he procured a 
 confiderable (t) benefa&ion to Clare HalL 
 
 At the Reftoration he loft his fellowfhip, 
 but conformed to the Church of England, 
 He had never, indeed, been (u) mattered 
 by the prejudices of Puritanifm. The 
 books put into his hands, while a youth, 
 he had found too heavy to intereft his at- 
 
 (r) Birch's Life of the Avchbifhop. 
 
 (s) Edr^und Prideaux, Efq; received part of his education at 
 Cambridge, whence he was removed to Oxford, and thence to the 
 Inner Temple. He was Member for Lyme, in the Long Parlia- 
 ment, in which he made himfelf fo confpicuous, that the " pa- 
 " triots" appionted him one of their commiflioners of their great 
 feai in 1643, worth 1500 per annum, which with the office ot At- 
 torney General, and other very lucrative employments, he enjoyed. 
 His Majefty's letters found after the battle of Nafeby, were given 
 him to infpe£t. He was a bitter enemy to that unfortunate Prince. 
 He was created a Baronet by Cromwell in 1658; figned the order 
 to proclaim Richard Protector ; was one of the members of the re- 
 •ftored long parliament j and one of the commiiTioners of fafety.--- 
 He was certainly a good chancery lawyer. He died prodigioully 
 rich. [See Noble's Memoirs of the Prot. Houfe of Cromwell, 
 yol. ii, 530.] 
 
 (t) Birch's Life, (u) Ibid. 
 
 K 4 tention, 
 
I 
 
 I36 TILLOTSON. 
 
 tention, and too auftere to influence his 
 condud. His mind was difpofed to no- 
 tions more extenfive, and to a temper more 
 amiable. And in fuch principles he was 
 confirmed, by having met with that excel- 
 lent work, " The Religion of Protejlants" 
 Having been ordained by Dr. (w) Syd- 
 ferfe Bifhop of Galloway, who demanded 
 of him neither oath nor fubfcription ; he 
 began ; his Miniftry in (x) 1661 with the 
 Curacy of Chefhunt in Hertfordfhire. In 
 (y) 1662 he was ele&ed by" the Parifhioners 
 to the donative of St. Mary Aldermanbury, 
 London, but declined the acceptance of it. 
 In June (z) 1663 he was prefented by Sir 
 Thomas Barnardifton to the Redlory of 
 Kedington in Suffolk, where his continu- 
 ance was but fhort. For in (a) November 
 he was elected by the Society of Lincoln's 
 
 fw) He was the only Scots Bifhop iiv'ng at the Reftorat'on, oil 
 which event he came up to London, txpecling to be advanced to the 
 Primacy of Scotland. But he failed in his expectations, having 
 given offence to the Engdifh Bilhops by his p; omifcuous ordinations, 
 when he firit came to England. For when the A 61 of Uniformity 
 required all men, who held any benefices there, to be epilcopally 
 ordained; he, who by obferving the ill effects of the former vio- 
 lence of the Scots Bimops, was become very moderate, ordained all 
 thofeof the Englifh Clergy, who came to him, without demanding 
 either oath"? or fubfcriptions of them. Some fuppofe he did this for 
 a fubfifter.ee from the fees of his letters of orders j for he was poor; 
 However he w as tranflated to the See or Orkney, one of the richeft 
 in Scotland; in which he lived little mo e than a year. Bifhop 
 Burnet has ftiled him a very learned and good man. [Birch.] 
 (x) Birch'* Life, (y) Ibid, (z) Ibid, (a) Ibid. 
 
 Jim 
 
TILLOTSON. 137 
 
 Inn their Preacher ; and from a confcien- 
 tious regard to that parochial refidence, 
 which he now could not keep, he refigned 
 the Rectory. Of the judicious choice which 
 that learned Body had made, the world was 
 foon convinced. The reputation of his dif- 
 courfes before them attracted general no- 
 tice, and in the following (b) year procured 
 him, in addition to this appointment, the 
 Tuefday Lectureship at the Church of St. 
 Lawrence Jewry. He was always attended 
 at this Lecture by a numerous and refpect- 
 able audience, and efpecially by many of 
 his own order, who could not pay a more 
 decided tribute to the merit of the Preacher, 
 than by acknowledging that they came thi- 
 ther " to form their minds." 
 
 In 1666 he took the degree of D. D. 
 In (c) this year his mafterly performance, 
 << The Rule of Faith " made its appearance; 
 to the publication of which he had been 
 induced by his zeal againft Popery. It was 
 an aqfwer to a book, confidered by the 
 Church of Rome as an impregnable de- 
 fence of her caufe, and entitled, " Sure 
 M footing in Chrifiianity * cr rational dif~ 
 
 (b) Birch's Life, (c) Ibid. 
 
 *J courfes 
 
I38 TILLOTSON. 
 
 * 6 courfes on the rule of faith $" the author 
 of which was Mr. John (d) Smith, a fe- 
 cular prieft. Nor was it long before the 
 Rule of Faith was anfwered by Smith ; to 
 whofe exceptions Tillotfon replied, and the 
 champion of Popery printed a rejoinder. 
 
 The merits of Tillotfon now became 
 known at Court ; and in (e) 1669, on the 
 promotion of Dr. Gunning to the See of 
 Chichefter, he was prefented by the King 
 to the fecond Prebend in the Church of 
 Canterbury. He became about this time 
 Chaplain to the King, to whom he is faid 
 to have been prefented by the famous Duke 
 of Buckingham with this remarkable re- 
 commendation : I introduce to your Ma- 
 jefty, faid the Duke, the gravefb Divine 
 of the Church of England, (and then ftep- 
 ping forward, added in a lower tone) 
 (f) " and offo much wit, that ij he chofe it, 
 " he could make a better comedy than ever your 
 
 (d) This perfoa prefixed to his publication the aflumed name of 
 John Sarjeant, * He was a Lincolnshire man, and had been of St. 
 John's College Cambridge, by the Senior Members of which he was 
 recommended to be Secretary to Dr. Mui ton Bifhop of Durham ; in 
 which employment he continued, till falling into doubts about his 
 religion, he went over to the College of Secular Priefts at Lifbon in 
 164-2., and was afterwards Prefect, of Studies in that College ; and 
 in 1652 returning to England, was elected Secretary of the Secular 
 Clergy, and employed in propagating his religion, and writing 
 books in defence of it. [Birch] 
 
 (e) Birch's Life, (f) Watfon's Hill of Halifax, 5*°- 
 
 £ Majejly 
 
TILLOTSOtf. I39 
 
 " Majefly laughed at" Of this kind of wit, 
 however, Tillotfon has left no fpecimen. 
 The compliment of Villiers was perhaps 
 intended to ferve him, as it contained what 
 was a powerful recommendation in the opi- 
 nion of the gay Monarch. 
 
 He was no favourite, however, of 
 Charles. Yet on the death of Dr f Turner, 
 he obtained the Deanery of Canterbury ; the 
 application for which, in his behalf, had 
 been made by Archbifhop (g) Sheldon, the 
 Duke of Buckingham, and Lord Berke- 
 ley. While he was Dean of Canterbury, 
 he paid a vifit to his father in Yorkshire, 
 and (h) preached before him in Sowerby 
 Chapel againft the doftrine of Calvin, pro- 
 bably with intent to foften the fevere no- 
 tions which he entertained. But when the 
 old man was afked by Dr. Maud (who * 
 ufed frequently to difpute with him con- 
 cerning Predeftination) how he liked his 
 Son's difcourfe ? he replied, in his ufual 
 way when he afferted any thing with ear- 
 neftnefs, " I ptofefs he has done much more 
 " harm than good" 
 
 In (i) 1675 the Dean was prefented to 
 
 (g) Beardmore's Life of the Archbifhop, printed at the end of 
 Birches, (h) Watfon's Hilt, of Halifax, 519. (i) Birch's Life. 
 
 the 
 
24O TILL0TS0N. 
 
 the Prebend of Ealdland in the Church of 
 St. Paul London, which he refigned in 
 Feb. 1677-8, on being admitted to that of 
 Oxgate, and to a Refidentiaryfhip in the 
 fame church. 
 
 In (k) 1683 he attended the unfortunate 
 Lord Ruffe], during his confinement, and 
 at his death on the fcaffold. He was ccn- 
 fured for that earneftnefs, with which he 
 urged his Lordfhip to a declaration againft 
 the Lawfidnefs of Refiftance. Yet he (1) juf- 
 tified his conduct to Lady Ruffe], of whofe 
 difpleafure he was apprehenfive ; and by 
 his explanation, recovered her efteem. 
 
 Towards the end of the reign of Charles 
 II. he (m) published his " Qifcourfe on 
 Iranfubftantiation y and this gave rife to 
 the Controverfy with the Papills, which 
 was carried on during the reign of James 
 II. And while the latter Monarch con- 
 tinued on the throne, the Dean exerted 
 his abilities with unremitting attention, in 
 order to expofe the principles and the de- 
 fign of Popery. In (n) 1688 he attended 
 the meeting of thofe Bimops at Lambeth, 
 who formed the well-known petition, 
 
 (k) Birch's Life. (1) Ibid, (m) Ibid, (n) Gutch's CoU 
 ie&arua Curiofa, vol. i, 336. 
 
 humbly 
 
TILLOTSON. 141 
 
 humbly requefting to be releafed from his 
 Majefty's injunction, in regard to the dis- 
 tributing and reading the declaration for Li- 
 berty of Confcience. And to this petition, 
 the Dean, with other Divines prefent, 
 added his fubfcription. 
 
 The Government being foon after fettled 
 upon King William and Queen Mary, they 
 repaid that attention which the Dean is 
 (o) faid to have (hewn to them in their 
 paffage through Canterbury to Holland in 
 1677; by appointing him in 1689 Clerk 
 of the Clofet, and by promoting him to 
 the Deanery of St. Paul's. He was ad- 
 mitted alfo to the Prebend of Newin'gtou 
 in the fame Church. In this year, his at- 
 tachment to a Compreherifion with Dijjhiters, 
 induced him to (p) recommend to his Ma- 
 jefty a propofal, which he hoped would for- 
 ward his defign. It was the appointment 
 of a (q) Commiffion, confiding of ten 
 Bifhops, and twenty Divines (of whom the 
 Dean was one ;) by whofe endeavours the 
 intended union fhould be effected, rather 
 than by parliamentary authority. The 
 Commiffioners, who acted agreeably to 
 
 (o) Blog, Brit, (p) Birch's Life, (q) Ibid. 
 
 this 
 
142 Tit LOT SON. 
 
 this view, determined on feveral alterations 
 in the Liturgy, and the ecclefiaftical con- 
 futation. Their proceedings were fub- 
 mitted to the Convocation of the Clergy, 
 but without effect. The majority declared 
 againft any alteration whatever. Dr. (r) 
 Jane, who was elected Prolocutor in op- 
 pofition to Tillotfon, triumphantly (s) con- 
 cluded his fpeech with the fenfe of that 
 majority ; Nolumus leges Anglia mutaru 
 
 When Tillotfon was promoted to the 
 Deanery of St. Paul's, the King communi- 
 cated to him his intention of (t) advancing 
 him to the Metropolitical See, in cafe San- 
 croft fhould incur the fentence of depriva- 
 tion. That fentence was at length paffed 
 on the Primate : and the Dean, after much 
 confideration on the important office, which 
 he had been urged to accept, was nomi- 
 nated Archbiflhop of Canterbury April 23, 
 1691, and confecrated May 31. At his 
 
 (r) William Jane D. D, was a Student of Chrift Church Oxford, 
 of which he was afterwards Canon, Dean of Gloucefter, and Prse- 
 centor of Exeter. He was one of the four fort by the Univerfity of 
 Oxford to the Prince of Orange, then at Hunsrerford in his march 
 fo London, with an offer of their piate, which the Prince refufed. 
 Dr. Jane is faid to have then applied for the vacant See of Exeter, 
 and on account of the refufal he met wi'.h, to have been ever after- 
 wards a fecret enemy to the Government of King William. He 
 obtained no further promotion, and died in Feb. 1706-7. 
 
 (s) Birch's Life, (t) Ibid. 
 
 confecration 
 
TILLOTSON* 143 
 
 consecration many of the Nobility attended, 
 to exprefs their efteem for his character, 
 and their fatisfadion at his promotion. 
 
 But this ftation to which he was fo 
 defervedly raifed, he enjoyed but a fhort 
 time. On the 18th of Nov. 1694. he 
 was (u) feized, while in the Chapel at 
 Whitehall, with a fudden illnefs, which 
 turned to a dead palfy ; and on the 23d he 
 died. His fpeech was much affedted by 
 the violence of this attack, but he was heard 
 to fay, " He (w) had no burden on his con- 
 €t fcience" 
 
 His death was univerfally regretted. For 
 while his fplendid talents commanded re- 
 fpedl ; his humility, his benevolence, his 
 charity, and his moderation fecured eiteem. 
 The King is faid to have deplored his lofs 
 in this expreflive tribute to his memory ; 
 Ci I (x) never knew an bonejler man, and I 
 * c never had a better friend" 
 
 The works of Tillotfon are too well 
 known to require a detail. His Sermons 
 intereft the heart, and convince the under- 
 ftanding. Eafe and perfpicuity, good fenfe 
 and fincere piety, are obferved by an elegant 
 
 (u) Birch's Life, (w) Le Neve's Life, (x) Ibid. 
 
 and 
 
144 TILLOTSOM* 
 
 and judicious (y) Critic to be their diftin- 
 guifhing character* Some inftances perhaps 
 may occur of incorredt expreffion, and un- 
 interefting ftile. But when his many ex- 
 cellencies are confidered, he will for ever 
 remain the boaft of this nation, as one of 
 its beft Writers, and probably as its ableft 
 Divine. Of fuch influence was his exam- 
 ple, that he " (z) taught more Minifters 
 €c to preach well, and more people to live 
 u well, than any other man lince the 
 ** Apoftles days." He converted alio more 
 Diffenters to the eftablifhed Church, than 
 £ny other Divine of his time. The ardour 
 of his oppofition to Popery, it muft be al- 
 lowed, betrayed him into fome exception- 
 able ailertions, which were expofed by his 
 enemies with unfparing rancour. His dif- 
 courfe on the <c Eternity of Hell 'Torments' 
 pccafionedalfo no fmall clamour againft him t 
 and " hath been (a) attacked by cavillers at 
 " home and abroad/' His opinions on this 
 fubjeft coincide with thofe of Epifcopius, 
 and fome part of the difcourfe appears al- 
 moft a literal (b) tranflatiorr from the cele- 
 
 (y) /Dr. Blair, (z) Burnet's Funeral Sermon, (a) Dr. Jor- 
 tnVs remarks at the end of Birch 1 a Life, (b) See " Epifcopit 
 «* Refponfio ad Quseitiones Theologicas. Quceltio LXII. Dc\ 
 (i geteinitate psenaium inferm," 
 
 brated 
 
TILLOTSON. I45 
 
 brated Arminian. This fermon, however 
 has been ably defended by Le Clerc. He 
 was charged alfo with Soeinianifm, and 
 publiihed his (c) fermons On the Divinity 
 of Chriji to vindicate himfelf from that 
 charge. But the accufation, as the learned 
 Dr. (d) Jortin has obferved, was entirely 
 groundlefs. His (e) fpirits, however, are 
 faid to have been greatly depreffed by the 
 petulance, and the flander of his adverfa- 
 ries. Yet the wrongs which he expe- 
 rienced never prompted him to revenge. 
 After his death there was found a bundle of 
 bitter libels, which had been published 
 againil him, on which he had written, 
 (f) Thefe are libels, I pray God forgive the 
 " authors, I do. Such was Archbifhop Til- 
 lotfon, who has very juftly been entitled, 
 
 (c) Jortin. 
 
 (d) John Jortin D. D. one of the molt learned and libera! D"- 
 vines of the eighteenth Century, was Feilow of Jefus College Cam- 
 bridge, by which Society he was in 1726 pielented to the V, of 
 Svvavefey near Cambridge, which he loan . relinquifhed. In 1737 
 he was prefented to the V. of Eaftwell in Kent, which he alio foon 
 refigned. In 1751 he was collated by Archbifhop Herring to the 
 Recioryof St. Dunftan in the Ealt, London. In 1762 he became 
 Chaplain to Dr. Ofbaldifton Bifnop of London, who in that year 
 collated him to a Prebend in the Church or St. Paul, and the fol- 
 lowing to the Vicarage of Kenlington. He died in Sept. 1770, in 
 the 72d year of his age. To his worth and abilities juftice has been 
 done by the elegant encomium of Dr. Knox, and by the accurate 
 and learned Memoirs of Dr. Dimey. [See Dimey' s Memoirs of 
 Jortin, 1792, and Bowser's Biographical Anecdotes, page 263. 
 
 (e) Jortin. (f) Bach. 
 
 L Patriae 
 
146 
 
 TILLOTSON. 
 
 Patri^: Lumen 
 Ecclesijs Decus et Columen. (g) 
 
 He had married in (h) Feb. 1663-4 
 Elizabeth the daughter of Dr. Peter 
 (i) French, by whom he had two daugh- 
 ters, Mary and Elizabeth ; both of whom 
 died before him. The former was married 
 to James Chadwick Efq; Commiffioner of 
 the Cuftoms ; the latter died in her youth. 
 The Archbifhop's widow experienced the 
 bounty of King William, according as he 
 had affbred him on his promotion to the 
 Primacy, in cafe he fhould die before her ; 
 tc I (k) promifeyou to take care of her'' Til- 
 lotfon forefaw the great expence of taking 
 poffeffion of the See ; and this, added to 
 the inftances of his generous temper, fo re- 
 duced his fortune, that his debts could not 
 have been paid, if the King had not for- 
 
 (g) On his Picture in the Deanery at Canterbury, (h) Birch, 
 (i) Peter French D. D. a man of Puritanical principles, was 
 educated at Emanuel Coll. Cambridge. He married Robina the 
 youngeft filter of Oliver Cromwell, by whom he had only one child 
 Elizabeth, the wife of Tillotfon. French was prefented by hi«s 
 brother Cromwell to a Canonry of Chrift Church Oxford, on the 
 villainous ejection of Dr. Pocock, one of the greatelt ornaments to 
 literature that England has produced. He was Chaplain to the Pro- 
 tector, and obtained his degree of D. D. at Oxford by diploma* 
 He died ^1655, [See Noble's Memoirs, vol, ii, 277.] 
 (k) Birch. 
 
 given 
 
TIILOTSON. 147 
 
 given his Firft Fruits. He left nothing to 
 his widow but the Copy of his Pofthumous 
 Sermons, which was afterwards fold for 
 2500 guineas. The annuity granted by the 
 King to his widow was at firft 400I. which, 
 on account of fome unforefeen lofTes (he 
 had fuftained, was augmented with 200I. 
 more : both which were continued till her 
 death in January 170 1-2. And fo foli- 
 citous was his Majefty for the regular pay- 
 ment of her penfion, without any deduction, 
 that he always called for the money quar- 
 terly, and fent it to her himfelf. 
 
 The Archbifhop was buried in the 
 Church of St. Laurence Jewry, and the 
 Funeral Sermon was preached by Dr. Bur- 
 net Bifhop of Sarum. On the left fide of 
 the Communion Table in that Church, a 
 neat marble Monument is erefted to his 
 memory, on which is the following modeft 
 infcription, 
 
 p. M. 
 
 Reverendiffimi et SanCliffimi Pra^fulis 
 
 JoHANNIS TlLLOTSON 
 
 Archiepifcopi Cantuarieniis, 
 
 L 2 Concionatoris 
 
I48 TILLOTSON, 
 
 Concionatoris olim hac in EccleM 
 per annos xxx celeberrimi, 
 Qui obit x°. Kal. Dec, mdclxxxxiv 
 iEtatis Suae lxiiii. 
 Hoc pofuit Elizabetha 
 Conju£ illius masftiffima. 
 
 SHARP. 
 
[ H9 3 
 S H A R P 
 
 JOHN SHARP, the eleventh Dean, was 
 defcended from the Sharps of Little 
 (1) Horton near Bradford in the County of 
 York, a family of great antiquity. He was 
 Son of Mr. Thomas Sharp an eminent 
 Tradefman, and was born at Bradford in 
 February 1644. 
 
 In April 1660 he was admitted a Mem- 
 ber of (m) Chrift College, Cambridge, 
 where he purfued his ftudies with un- 
 weared diligence, and obtained the degree 
 of B. A. in December 1663 not without 
 confiderable reputation. Yet moft of the 
 time he had been (n) afflicted with a quar- 
 tan ague, the long continuance of which 
 had alfo brought on hypochondriac melan- 
 choly. The favourite ftudies of his youth 
 are faid to have been thofe of (q) Botany 
 and Chemiflry. 
 
 About the year 1664 he was defirous to 
 obtain a (p) Fellowfhip in his College, but, 
 
 (1) Thorefby's Hift. of Leeds, 36. (m) Biographia Bri- 
 tannica, Art John Sharp: where fee a more extenlive account 
 ©f him. (n)Ibid. (o) Ibid, (p) Ibid. 
 
 L 3 his 
 
IS 0 SHARP. 
 
 the County of York being then full, he was 
 excluded by the Statutes. At a future va- 
 cancy, however, the whole Society were 
 unanimous in their offer of it to him : but 
 he had then better views* 
 
 In 1667 he took the degree of M. A. 
 and was ordained (q) both Deacon and 
 Prieft. In the fame year he was recom- 
 mended by the celebrated Dr. Henry (r) 
 More, as domeftic Chaplain to Sir Heneage 
 Finch then Attorney General - y to four of 
 whofe Sons he was Tutor : two of whom, 
 having afterwards entered into Orders, he 
 fucceffively (s) collated, when Archbifhop 
 of York, to the rich Prebend of Wetwang 
 in his Cathedral. 
 
 At the opening of the Sheldonian Thea- 
 tre in July 1669 he was (t) incorporated 
 M. A. with feveral other Cambridge Gen- 
 tlemen, whom the fame of that intended 
 folemnity had brought to Oxford. 
 
 In 1672 Sir Heneage Finch obtained for 
 him, from the King, the (u) Arch- 
 
 (q) Le Neve's Lives of the Archbifhops of Canterbury and 
 York, 280. 
 
 (r) Henry More D. D. was Fellow of Chrift Coll. Cambridge, 
 a Divine of remarkable abilities, and of the mod difmterefted con- 
 duel. See his Life by the Rev. Richard Ward in 1710, and aifo 
 in the Biographia Britannica. 
 
 (s) Biog. Brit, note c, (t) Wood's Fafti, vol. ii, 177. 
 (u) Biog. Brit. 
 
 deaconry 
 
SHARP. 151 
 
 deaconry of Berks, vacant by the promo- 
 tion of Dr. (w) Mews to the See of Bath 
 and Wells. In the fame year Sir Heneage 
 was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great 
 Seal, when he gave an eminent proof of the 
 confidence which he placed in the judgment 
 and integrity of his Chaplain. Attached 
 to the Interefls of the Church of England, 
 he had confidered the neceffity of enquiring 
 into the characters of thofe, who might be 
 candidates for benefices in the difpofal of the 
 Seal. But the many avocations of his high 
 office prevented his perfonal attention to 
 this point : he therefore addreffed his Chap- 
 lain to this effect, The (x) greateft dirli- 
 
 (w) Peter Mews or Meaux L. L. D. was Fellow of St. Johrfs 
 Coll. Oxford, and took up arms for Charles I. in the grand rebel- 
 lion. He ferved afterward in a military capacity under the Duke 
 of York in Flanders. In the Interregnum he had taken orders, 
 and had been prefented to the Rectory of Lambourn in ElTex, 
 which he was not fuffered to enjoy. In 1660 he was preferred to 
 the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and became in the fame year 
 Chaplain to the King, and Vicar of St. Mary's, Reading. He 
 had alio the Re<5tory of South Warnborough, Hants, from his 
 College. In 1662 he became Canon of Windfor, and of St Da- 
 vid's. In 1665 he was Archdacon of Berks, when he reiigned 
 that of Huntingdon. 1667 he was chofen Prelident of his College. 
 In 1670 he was made Dean of Rocheller, and in 1672 Bilhop of 
 Bath and Wells, from which See he was rranflated to that of WJn- 
 ckeiter in 1684. In 1685 he again acted in a military character 
 againft the Duke of Monmouth, when his directions in regard to 
 the pofition ot the cannon are laichto have been judicious and fuc- 
 cefsful. The King prefented him with a rich Medal in acknowledge- 
 mentothis fervice. He died in 1706, and was buried in Winehei- 
 ter Cathedral. Bifhop Burnet fpeaks very ilightingly of him. A, 
 Wood, and Mr. Salmon, in his Lives of the Englifti Bifhops, give 
 him an amiable and refpectabie character, 
 
 (x) Hildrop's Contempt of the Clergy confidered, ?vo, 65. 
 
 L 4 " culty, 
 
I52 SHARP. 
 
 " culty, I apprehend, in the execution of 
 " my office, is the patronage of Ecclefiaf- 
 " tical Preferments. God is my witnefs, 
 " that I would not knowingly prefer an un- 
 €< worthy Perfon ; but as my courfe of 
 <c Life and Studies has lain another way, I 
 €c cannot think myfelf fo good a Judge of 
 the merits of fuch Suitors as you are ; 
 " I therefore charge it upon your con- 
 " fcience, as you will anfwer it to Almighty 
 " God, that upon every fuch occafion, you 
 " make the beft Enquiry, and give me 
 " the beft Advice you can, that I may ne- 
 * c ver beftow any favour upon an unde- 
 " ferving Man ; which if you neglect to 
 c * do, the guilt will be entirely yours, and 
 " I fhall deliver my own Soul." This 
 truft, fo folemnly committed to his care, 
 Dr. Sharp faithfully difcharged ; and his 
 advice was no lefs faithfully followed by his 
 Patron, as long as he continued in office. 
 By fo confcientious a difpofal of Church- 
 Preferment in the diffolute reign of Charles 
 II. the caufe of Religion niuft have been 
 eminently advanced. 
 
 In 1674 he preached a (y) Sermon, the 
 
 (y) Bicg. Brit. 
 
 firft 
 
SHARP. 153 
 
 firft in the colle&ion of his printed works, 
 which occafioned a controverfy : and to the 
 controverfy we are indebted for his excellent 
 Difcourfes on Co?ifcience* 
 
 In 1675 he was (z) preferred by the 
 kiiidnefs of the Lord Keeper to a Prebend 
 of Norwich, as alfo to the Redtory of St, 
 Bartholomew Exchange, London ; and not 
 long afterwards to the Rectory of St. Giles 
 in the Fields. At this time there were re^ 
 fident in London, fome of the moft (a) 
 eminent Divines that have adorned this na- 
 tion ; with whom he had the happinefs to 
 be well acquainted. Tillotfon and (b) 
 Claget were his more particular friends ; his 
 connection with the former had commenced 
 (c) early in life, and to the latter he was 
 inseparably attached by a Similarity of man- 
 ners, of ftudy, and of inclination. 
 
 In 1679 he took the (d) degree of D. D. 
 in which year he had accepted the Lecture- 
 ship at St. Laurence Jury, which he re- 
 signed in 1683. 
 
 (z) Biog. Brit, (a) Ibid. 
 
 (b) On the death of Claget, he publiflied a volume of his fer- 
 1110ns, to which hep-efixed an account of his amiable and worthy 
 friend . It feems Mr. Claget was of Emanuel College, Cambridge, 
 and was Preacher to the Hon. Society of Gray's Inn, beiides which 
 he had two other preferments. He died of the linall pox, o-reatiy 
 lamented, in March 16 SS. u 
 
 (c) Birch's Life of Tillotfon. (d) Bi g. Brit. 
 
 In 
 
J54 SHARP. 
 
 In 1 68 1 he was promoted by the intereft 
 of his former Patron, now Lord High 
 Chancellor, to the (e) Deanery of Nor- 
 wich. Upon the death of Charles II. he 
 drew up the addrefs of the Grand Jury for 
 the City of London. He had been Chap- 
 lain to that Monarch, as he was alfo to his 
 Succeffor. 
 
 In the reign of James, however, he was 
 among thofe diftinguifhed Preachers, w r ho 
 vindicated with boldnefs the Reformed Re- 
 ligion, and expofed with fuccefs the errors 
 of Popery. On the (f) 2d of May 1686 he 
 delivered in his Church of St. Giles a me- 
 morable Difcourfe, in which he exprefled 
 a contempt of thofe who could be converted 
 by any arguments in favour of the Romifli 
 faith. It was therefore confidered as a re- 
 flection not only upon thofe courtiers who 
 had conformed to that Religion, but even 
 upon the King himfelf. No wonder then 
 that he experienced the refentment of 
 James and his party. Accordingly, June 
 17 following, a mandate was iffued to 
 Compton Bifhop of London to fufpend the 
 offending Preacher. But Compton was too 
 
 ' (e) Biog. Brit, (f) Ibid. The Sermon is on 1 Cor. ia. ii. 
 
 firm 
 
SHARP. 155 
 
 firm to the Proteftant Intereft to obey fo ty- 
 rannical a command. He wrote a letter to 
 Lord Sunderland, which he requefted might 
 be communicated to the King. In this letter 
 he faid cc (g) that the only power he had 
 " over Sharp, was as his judge ; and that 
 <c he could not in that capacity condemn 
 " him, without the forms of law." He 
 added, " Sharp was fo willing to give his 
 <( Majefty all reafonable fatisfadtion, that 
 " he made him the bearer of the letter." 
 But to this no anfwer was returned, nor 
 was Sharp admitted. The Bifhop, there- 
 fore, (h) recommended Sharp to defift from 
 the exercife of his function ; and prevailed 
 on him to write a petition to the King, in 
 which he exprefted his forrow for conftruc- 
 tions that were offenfive, and promifed to 
 be more guarded for the future. But the 
 petition was not admitted to be read. It 
 had been refolved indeed to humiliate 
 Compton, as well as to punifh Sharp. For 
 becaufe the mild Prelate refufed to con- 
 demn him uncited, unheard, undefended, 
 untried, he was himfelf fufpended by that 
 
 (g) Dauyraple's Mem, vc^l. ii, part i, 78, 79. (h) Ibid. 
 
 Ecclefiaftical 
 
I56 SHARP. 
 
 Rcclefiaftical CommiJJion, which fufpended 
 alfo Sharp ; and was another example of the 
 vengeance, which arbitrary power deter- 
 mined to execute on thofe, who had the 
 courage to oppofe it. 
 
 Dr. Sharp, during his fufpenfion, re- 
 ifided at his Deanery of Norwich. He 
 there amufed his leafure hours in (i) col- 
 lecting old Coins, of which, as well Bri- 
 tifh, Saxon, and Engliih, as Greek and 
 Roman, he then and afterwards collected 
 fufficient to furnifh a choice and valuable 
 Cabinet, To his refearches of this kind, 
 however they may be flighted by the faf- 
 tidious, or ridiculed by the illiberal, the 
 learned and the curious are much indebted. 
 For he afterward drew up fome ingenious 
 and accurate cc Remarks on theEngli/h^ Scots % 
 " and IrijJi Money " which he communis 
 cated in 1698-9 to Mr. Ralph Thorefby $ 
 in an introductory letter to whom, he ac- 
 knowledges his partiality to the ftudy of 
 Antiquity, but modeftly fears that he made 
 that a bufinefs, which fhould be only a re- 
 creation. Thefe Remarks have lately been 
 (k) publifhed. 
 
 (i) Biog. Brit. 
 
 (k) Part ef thefe Remarks! were publifhed by Mr. Ives in his 
 lc Seieft Papers 1 ' in 1773. The whole were publifhed by Mr. 
 
 Nicholg 
 
SHARP. I57 
 
 Dr. Sharp did not remain long, howe- 
 ver, in difgrace. In (I) January 1686-7 he 
 received information from Lord Sunderland 
 that he was reftored, and might return to 
 his parochial charge. From the time of 
 his fufpenfion, till this welcome news ar- 
 rived, a (m) guard or centinel is faid to 
 have attended his lodgings. 
 
 In Auguft 1688 he was (ft) fummoned, 
 with the other Archdeacons, before the 
 Ecclejiajlical CommiJjion 9 for difobeying the 
 King's orders in refpedt to the Declaration 
 for Liberty of Confcience. But they agreed 
 not to appear before that Court, and Dr. 
 (o) Sharp drew up the reafons of their re- 
 fufal. 
 
 On the 27th of January following he 
 preached before the Prince of Orange, and 
 on the 30th before the Convention. On 
 (p) both occafions he prayed for James. 
 The fir ft time it gave no offence, becaufe 
 the abdication of that Monarch had not 
 then been voted. But the throne being 
 declared vacant the 28th, the prayer of 
 
 Nichols in 1785 m his " Bibliotheca Topographica Bfitanhifca" 
 vol. vi, They were communicated to him by Mr. Gouo-h, who 
 purchafed them in MS. at the Sale of Mr. Ralph Thorefov's Mu- 
 ieum in 17.64,. 
 
 (1) Biog. Brit, (m) Kennet's Comp. Hift. of England, 
 vol. Hi, 483, note b. (n) Biog. Brit r (o) Ibid, (p) Ibid. 
 
 Dr. 
 
I58 SHARP. 
 
 Dr. Sharp for the King, as well as feme 
 paffages in his fermon on the 30th, were 
 heard not without furprize, nor without 
 difguft. The Vote of Thanks to him for his 
 Difcourfe, was long debated. The Com- 
 pliment, at length, was paid, with a re- 
 queft to print it; which, however, he 
 thought proper to (q) decline. 
 
 Unfavourable as this affair might feem 
 to his promotion on the acceffion of Wil- 
 liam 5 yet he explained himfelf in fuch a 
 manner to that Prince, as to become an ob- 
 ject not of his refentment, but of his re- 
 gard. Accordingly, on the promotion of 
 Dr. Tillotfon to the Deanery of St. Paul's, 
 he was promoted to the Deanery of Can- 
 terbury, in which he was inftalled Nov, 
 25, 1689 ; and was fucceeded in the 
 Deanery of Norwich by Dr. (r) Fairfax. 
 About this time he was appointed one of 
 the Commiflioners for revifing the Liturgy ; 
 an employment, in which he affifted with 
 particular (s) attention. But the fpirit of 
 
 (q) Biog. Brit. 
 
 (r) Henry Fairfax D D. defcended from the ancient family of 
 that name, had been Fellow of Mag. Coll. Oxford, from which 
 he was expelled by James II. for oppofirig his " Mandate to ad- 
 *' mit Mr. Farmer Prefident of that College." He was inftalled 
 Dean of Norwich Nov. i, 1689. He died in 1702, aged 68. • 
 
 (s) Communicated by Granville Sharp Efq; Grandibn of the 
 Subject of this Memoir. 
 
 Oppofition 
 
SHARP. 159 
 
 Oppofition prevailed, and the Labours of 
 the Commiffioners were rendered ufelefs. 
 
 The merit of Dean Sharp was now in 
 the higheft eftimation. Upon the depri- 
 vation of thole Bifhops, who refufed the 
 Oaths to William and Mary, he was (t) 
 confidered as a proper perfon to fucceed to 
 one of the vacant Sees. But neither the fa- 
 vour of his Majefty, nor the perfuafion of 
 his friends, could prevail on him to accept 
 the offer. He declined the promotion, not 
 from any fcruple of confcience, but from 
 a delicacy of feeling ; for he entertained a 
 particular (u) efteem for the Prelates who 
 were deprived. His refufal refle&s equal 
 honour on his difintereftednefs, and on his 
 fenfibility. However, it difpleafed the 
 King. But his friend Dr. Tillotfon, the 
 day after his nomination to the See of 
 Canterbury, waited on him, and propofed 
 an expedient, by which he might accede^ 
 without violation of his refolve, to the kind 
 intention of his Majefty. This was, that 
 he fhould promife to (w) accept the See 
 of York, when it fhould become vacant, 
 and that he fhould ground his prefent 
 
 (t) Biog. Brit, (u) Ibid, (w) Ibid. 
 
 refufal 
 
l6o SHARP. 
 
 (x) refufal on his wifh to be preferred in 
 his native county. To this he agreed, and 
 Dr. Tillotfon acquainted the King with 
 what had paffed ; when his Majefty figni- 
 fied his (y) approbation of Dr. Sharp's in- 
 tention. In a few days afterward, Lamp- 
 lugh the Archbiihop of York died. Ac- 
 cordingly the Dean of Canterbury was pro- 
 moted to that See, and was confecrated 
 (z) July 5, 1 69 1. His elevation to this 
 dignity, fays the Hiftorian of Leeds, was 
 not only to the comfort and honour of his 
 native country and family, but to the uni- 
 verfal fatisfa&ion and joy of the whole 
 
 (a) nation. 
 
 In 1693 he vifited his Diocefe, when he 
 found the Collegiate Church of (b) South- 
 well in the greateft confulion ; its govern- 
 ment negleded, and its members in dif- 
 traftion and animofity. By the wifdom 
 and moderation of his excellent (c) Injunc- 
 tions, he reftored it to its former decency, 
 order, and hofpitality. In 1697, as Me- 
 tropolitan, he (d) reprefented to the King, 
 
 (x) LeNeve. (y) B\og. Brit, (z) Ibid, (a) Thorefby, 36. 
 
 (b) RaftaU's Hift. of Southwell, 312. (c) Ibid. See the In- 
 junftions, 171. (d) Crutweil's Life of Bifhop Wilfon, 9, pre- 
 fixed tj the Bilhop's Works in folio. 
 
 that 
 
SHARP. l6l 
 
 that the See of Sodor and Man had conti- 
 nued vacant four years, of which his Ma- 
 jefty perhaps might not be acquainted; that, 
 of neceffity, it ought to be filled ; and that 
 the patron of the Bifhopric fhould be re- 
 minded, that any further delay would pre- 
 clude his nomination. The Iile of Man is 
 much indebted to the Archbifhop for this 
 remonftrance, as it occasioned the Earl of 
 Derby the patron of the See then to infift 
 on the primitive Wilfon's acceptance of it; 
 whofe modefly had before declined the ho- 
 nour, and who could not even now receive it 9 
 without faying, ce He was forced into the 
 €C Bifoopric" 
 
 On the acceffion of Q^ueen Anne, the 
 Archbifhop was fwom one of her Privy 
 (e) Council, and was appointed Lord Al- 
 moner. In 1705 he (f) concurred with 
 thofe, who <c apprehended" the Church to 
 be in danger. But their opinion, however 
 zealoufly defended, when it became the 
 fubjeft of Parliamentary Debate, was dif- 
 countenanced by a great Majority 5 and the 
 Church was declared to be " in a mojl fafe 
 " and fiouri 'fling condition." In 1706 he 
 
 (e) Biog. Brit, (f) Boyer's Hift. of Q^Anne, 218. 
 
 M was 
 
l6l SHAfcP, 
 
 was nominated one of the (g) Commif- 
 fioners for treating of the Union between 
 England and Scotland, He is faid to have 
 been appointed merely out of refpeft to his 
 dignity - y but would not be (h) prefent, 
 even once, at the Treaty. In the affair of 
 Sachevere.il, on which the opinions of men 
 were fo much divided in 1709, he joined 
 with thofe Peers, who expreffed the 
 mo ft (i) contemptible opinion of the 
 Sermon, but did not think the Preacher 
 guilty of a Mifdemeanour and who en- 
 tered their Protefts againft the fentence of 
 the Majority.— He afterwards oppofed the 
 intended promotion of Swift to an Englifh 
 Mitre, in this remarkable addrefs to the 
 Queen, (k) " that her Majefty Jhould be Jure 
 " that the man whom Jhe was going to make 
 " a Bijhop, was at leaji a Chrijiian" To 
 this he was induced by the folicitation of 
 Swift's implacable enemy the Duchefs of 
 Somerfet; to whofe earneft entreaties, ra- 
 ther than to the mifguided interpofition of 
 Sharp, Swift owed his difappointment. 
 The Archbiihop, however, was afterwards 
 convinced that a Wit may be a Chriftian : 
 
 (g) Biog, Brit, (h) Eoyer, 231. (i) Ibid. 4.39. (k) She- 
 ridan's Life of Swift. 
 
 he 
 
SHARP. 163 
 
 he repented of the injury which he had 
 done to Swift, and defired his (1) for- 
 givenefs. 
 
 In (m) 1 71 2 he perceived his health to 
 decline, and he was recommended to try 
 the benefit of Bath. Bat his recovery was 
 foon hopelefs. Not long before his death, 
 he (n) procured Sir William Dawes to be 
 appointed his Succeifor, merely from his 
 good opinion of him, " that he would 
 " be diligent in executing the duties of his 
 " office. " In the reign of Queen Anne, 
 the greateft attention indeed was always 
 paid to his recommendation. In the reign 
 of William, alfo, he had been joined with 
 feveral other diiinterefted Prelates in a 
 (o) Commijjion from his Majefty, (an exam- 
 ple ever worthy of remembrance, as of 
 imitation) to recommend deferring Clergymen 
 for the Crown -Preferments . Among the 
 many diftinguifhed Divines who, on va- 
 rious occalions, had been indebted to his 
 interest, were his particular friend Tillot- 
 fon, the Bifliops Bull, Beverzdge, Wilfon, 
 
 (1) See e / Observations upon Lore. Orrery's Remarks on the 
 <c Life and Writings of Swift, in a feries of letters, " — Swift, in 
 his Diary has noted, " The Archbilhop of York fays he will never 
 ec more {peak aga nit me." [Sheridan's Life of Swirt.] 
 (m) Eiog. B it. (n) Crutwell's Life of Wilfon, 26, note, 
 (o) Communicated by Granville Sharp, Efq. 
 
 M 2 " Potter, 
 
164 SHARP. 
 
 Potter, and Gibfon 5 Dr. Prideaux, (though 
 he himfelf thought otherwife) and Dr. 
 (p) Mills. 
 
 He died at Bath Feb. 2, 171 3-14, in the 
 
 69th year of his age. His remains were 
 removed to York, and interred (q) privately 
 in the Cathedral the 16th following. 
 
 He had married in 1676 (r) Elizabeth 
 the younger! daughter of William Palmer, 
 of Winthorp in the county of Lincoln, 
 Efq; by whom he had iffue. His eldeft 
 Son, John Sharp, Efq; a (s) learned and 
 ingenious Gentleman, was Member in 
 Parliament for Rippon in the County of 
 York. 
 
 The character of Sharp affords one of the 
 befi: examples that can challenge imitation, 
 whether he is confidered as a Man, as a 
 Scholar, as a Divine, or as a Diocefan. His 
 amiable difpofition and unfhaken integrity, 
 his diftinguiiTied learning and extenfive 
 charity will tranfmit his name to lateft ages, 
 as one of the greater!: ornaments of this 
 Country. He was that faithful and vigi- 
 lant Governor, who promoted the diligent 
 
 (p) Communicated by Granville Sharp, Efq. (q) Boyer T s 
 Annual Lift, end of Hift. of Queen Anne, 65. (r) Biog. Brit, 
 (s) Thorerby's Leeds, 105. 
 
 Clergy 
 
SHARP* 165 
 
 Clergy of his own Diocefe to the dignities 
 in his Cathedral ; who conferred, indeed, 
 on the deferving whatever was in his own 
 gift, without the leaft regard to (t) political 
 opinions, and party inter eft ; who enforced 
 the laudable injunction of (u) Refidence to 
 the Prebendaries of York, Southwell, and 
 Rippon ; who, in all refpedts, promoted 
 by true difcipline the decency of the 
 Church, as " by found doctrine he ex- 
 " horted and convinced the gainiayers." 
 
 His Sermons, which are collected into 
 feven Volumes, difplay a perfect know- 
 ledge of Divinity ; and are eminent nolefs 
 for piety and fervour, than for judicious and 
 energetic argument. They were written 
 with clearnefs, and they were delivered 
 with grace and juftnefs. It was obferved 
 of Tillotfon and Sharp, that the two Me- 
 tropolitical Sees were filled by the two 
 (w) Bejl Preachers of their time. In the 
 management of controverfy he was calm, 
 and candid ; he fcorned to calumniate or 
 mifreprefent the fubjecrs of difpute. He 
 was wont to fay himfelf, " That in his 
 
 (t) Communicated by Granville Sharp, Efq. (u) B. Wil- 
 lises Survey of York Cathedral, (w) Burnet's Hill, of his own 
 Times. 
 
 M 3 " fermons 
 
l66 SHARP. 
 
 " fermons againft the Papxfts he had al- 
 " always dealt honeftly and fairly with 
 " them, charging them with nothing but 
 " what their Church openly avowed in her 
 ffC Creed, and Councils, and public (x) of- 
 " fices." 
 
 In the Cathedral of York a Marble Mo- 
 nument of the Corinthian Order is placed 
 to his memory. There his character is 
 ably difplayed ; for the infcription which it 
 bears, was written by the learned Bifhop 
 Smalridge, whofe intimacy with the Arch- 
 bifhop, and whofe own integrity will ever 
 fupport the truth of his elegant teftirnony. 
 It is as follows, 
 
 M. S. 
 
 Reverend iffi mi in Christo patris 
 Johannis Sharp, Archiepifcopi Eboracenfis, 
 Qui 
 
 HonefKs parentlbus in hoc comitatu prognatus, 
 Cantabrigiae optimarura artiura ftudiis innutritus, 
 Turn foli, unde ortus, 
 Turn loci, ubi inftitutus eft, famam 
 Sui nominis celebrita'e adauxit. 
 Ab academia in domum illuftrinlmi Dom. Heneagii Finch, 
 Tunc teraporis Attornati Generalis, 
 Summi poftea Angiiae Cancellarii, 
 Virtutem omnium altricem fautricemque evocatus, 
 Et facellani minifterium diligenter abfoivit, 
 Et lacerdotis dignitatem una fuftinuit. 
 Talis tantique viri patrocinio adjutus, 
 Et naturae pariter ac doclrinae dotibus plurimum commendatus, 
 Peraclo rite munerum ecclefiafticorum curfu, 
 
 Cum 
 
 (x) Preface to to the 7th Vol. of his Sermons. 
 
SHARP. ifij 
 
 Cum Parochi, Archidiaconi, Decani offlcia 
 
 Summa curn laude prasititirTet, 
 .Ob eximia erga ecclefiam Anglicanam merita 
 Qaam iniquilTnnis temporibus, magno fuo periculo 
 Contra apertam pontificiorum rabiem 
 Argumentis invi6li'Fimis 
 Afferuerat, propugnaverat, ftabiliverat $ 
 Apoftolicas fimul veritatis prasco, ac fortitudinis aemulus, 
 Faventlbus Gulielmo et Maria regibus, 
 Plaudentibus bonis omnibus, 
 Ad archiepifcopalis dignitatis faftigium tandem eveclus eft. 
 Nec hujufce tantum provmcias negotia fatis ardua feliciter expe- 
 
 diit, 
 
 Sed et Annas principum optima? turn a confiliis, turn ab eleemofy- 
 nis, fuit j 
 
 Quas utcunque amplas, utcunque diffiuentes, 
 Ne quern forte inopum a fe triftcm dimitteret 
 De fuis faepenumero facultatibus fupplevit. 
 
 Below, 
 
 Erat in fermone apertus, comis, afFabilis 5 
 In concionibus profluens, ardens, nervofus j 
 In explicandis theologies cafuifticae nodis 
 Dilucidus, argutus, promptus j 
 In eximendis dubitantium fcrupul<s ; 
 Uicunque natures bonitate ad leniores partes aliquanto propenfior, 
 . iEqui tamen re£tique curios Temper fidiflimus, 
 Primaeva morum fimplicitate, 
 Inculpabili vitas tenore, 
 Propensa in calamitofos benignitate, 
 
 Diffusa in univerfos benevolentia, 
 Studio in amicos perpetuo ac iingulari 
 Inter deterioris fasculi tenebras emicuit, 
 Purioris aevi lumina asquavit. 
 Tarn acri rerum cceleftium defiderio flagrabat, 
 Ut h's foils inhians, harum unice avarus, 
 Terresas omnes neglex-rit, fpreverit, conculcarit, 
 Eoerat erga Deum pietatis ardore, 
 Ui ilium totus adamaverit, fpiraverit, 
 Ilium ubique prasfenteni. 
 
 M 4. mm 
 
i68 
 
 SHARP. 
 
 Ilium femper intuentem 
 Animo fuo ac ipfis fere oculis obfervaverit. 
 Publicas hafce virtutes domefticis uberrime cumulavit, 
 Maritus et pater arnantilfimus, 
 Et a conjuge, liberifque impenfe dile£lus, 
 Qui, ne deeffet etiam mortuo pietatis fuae teftimonium, 
 Hoc marmor ei mcerentes pofuerunt. 
 
 HOOPER. 
 
[ i6 9 ] 
 
 Hooper, 
 
 £JEORGE HOOPER, the twelfth 
 Dean, (y) Son of George JHooper, 
 Gent, was born at Grimley in the County 
 of Worcefter November i8, 1640. He was 
 firft admitted at St. (z) Paul's School, af- 
 terwards at Weftminfter, whence he was 
 eledted to Chrift Church Oxford in 1657. 
 In the Univerfity he diftinguifhed himfelf 
 as a moft accomplifhed Scholar ; directing 
 his ftudies with fuccefs not only to Philo- 
 fophy, Mathematics, the Greek and Ro- 
 man Antiquity, but to the more difficult 
 attainments of (a) Eaftern Learning, in 
 the purfuit of which he was aflifted by 
 that eminent Orientalift, Dr. (b) Pocock. 
 
 (y) General Dictionary, Article George Hooper. 
 (z) Rawlinfon's MSS. Bodleian Libraiy. (a) Gen. Diet:. 
 
 (b) Edward Pocock D. D. a native of Oxford, Fellow of Cor- 
 pus Chrifti Coll. in that Univerfity, afterward Rector of Childrey 
 in the County of Berks, the firft Laudian Profeffor of Arabic, and 
 in 1648 nominated by the King Hebrew Profeffor, and confe- 
 quently Canon of the fixth Stall in Chrift Church, which he ex- 
 changed for the fourth Stall, from which he was ejected in 1651, 
 but reftored in 1660 to the ProfefTorfhip, and fixth Canonry. He 
 died in 1691, and was buried in Chrift Church Cathedral. He 
 had made two voyages to the Eaft, and had acquired a per- 
 fect 
 
lyo HOOPER. 
 
 Of the Arabic language he afterward made 
 great (c) ufe in explaining the obfcurer 
 paflages of the Old Teftament. He took 
 the degree of B. A. in January 1 660-1, and 
 that of M. A. in December 1663. In 
 1672 he became Chaplain to Dr. (d) Mor- 
 ley, Biihop of Winchefter, who foon after 
 collated him to the (e) Rectory of Havant 
 in the County of Hants; the fituation of 
 which being unhealthy, he refigned it for 
 the Pe&ory of Eaft-Woodhay in the fame 
 County. In July 1673 he took the degree 
 of B. B* and not long afterwards be* 
 
 fe£t knowledge of the Arabic tongue, which he fpoke with fluency 
 and propriety. He tranftafred feveral books out of the Arabic. 
 He was well acquainted with feveral other Eaftern languages. His 
 ikill in ficred criticifm was evinced by his Commentaries on 
 Micah, Malachi, Hofea, and Joel. His publishing the four 
 Epiftles, which were wanting to a complete Edition of the Ne\y 
 Teftament in the Syriac language, procured him an early reputa- 
 tion at home and abroad. 
 
 (c) Gen. Dicl. 
 
 (d) George Morley D D. was educated at Weftminfter School, 
 and thence elected to Chrift Church, Oxford, afterward Rector of 
 Hartfield in Snffex, Chaplain to Charles I. Re&or of Mildtnhall, 
 Wilts, by exchange for Hartfield ; Canon of Chrift Church, 164.1, 
 the firft year's profits of which he gave to'the King towards the 
 fupport of his war. From his preferments he -was ejected by the 
 Parliamentarian Vifitors. After the murder of Charles he went 
 into voluntary exile. In 1660 he was made Dean of Chrift Church, 
 and in the fame year Bifhop of Worcefter, whence he was trans- 
 lated to Winchefter in 1662. He died in 1694, aged 86, and was 
 buried in Winchefter Cathedral, where there is an infcription ver 
 him, made by himfelf in the 80 f h year of his age. He was an 
 eminent controverfial writer,, a polite fcholar, and a man of public 
 fpirit. 
 
 (e) Gen. D1&. 
 
 came 
 
HOOPER. I7I 
 
 came Chaplain to Archbifhop (f) Sheldon ; 
 Morley having confented, at the particular 
 requeft of the Primate, to part with his 
 fervices. In 1675 the (g) Archbifhop col- 
 lated him to the Rectory of Lambeth, and 
 in 1677 t0 an °P tlon 9 the Precentormip of 
 Exeter ; in which Church he became alfo 
 a Canon Refidentiary. In the fame year 
 he took the degree of D. D. 
 
 He was about this time appointed (h) 
 Almoner to the Princefs of Orange, and 
 waited on her Royal Highnefs in Holland, 
 where he regulated her Chapel according to 
 the Ufage of the Church of England. Af- 
 ter one year's attendance, he came back to 
 this country, and was married to (i) Abi- 
 gail the daughter of Richard Guildford* 
 Gent. He then returned, as he had pro- 
 mifed, to Holland; where he continued, 
 however, not more than (k) eight months, 
 
 (f) Gilbert Sheldon D. D. a moft munificent and liberal Pre- 
 la e, had been Prebendary of Gloucelt-r, Vicar of Hackney, Mid- 
 diefex, Re&or of Ickford, Bucks, and of Newington, Oxon. 
 Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles I. afterwards Clerk of his Clofer. 
 Warden of All Soul's Coll. Ox. 1635, but ejecled by the Parlia- 
 mentary Vifitors in 1^48, reftored in 1660, but foon refigned it, 
 being made Bifhop of London in that year. In 1663 he was tranft 
 lated to Canterbury. He died in 1677. [See Biog. Brit. Article 
 Sheldon ] 
 
 (g) Gen. Di&. (h) Ibid, (i) Monument of his Wife, 
 (k) Gen. Di&. 
 
 having 
 
1J2 HOOPER. 
 
 having obtained the Princefs's permiffion to 
 come home. 
 
 On the death of Dr. (1) Alleftree, which 
 happened in January 1680-1, he is (m) faid 
 to have been offered the Regius Profef- 
 forfhip of Divinity at Oxford. But Dr, 
 Alierlree, finding his health impaired by 
 his attention to that office, had refigned it 
 in 1679, and had timely (n) fecured the 
 fucceffion in it for his mend Dr. Jane, 
 whom he had the fatisfaciion to fee ad- 
 mitted to the Chair (o) May 19, 1680. 
 Dr. Jane was then Canon of the fifth Stall 
 in Chrift Church Cathedral, which indeed 
 was the regular Canonry annexed to the 
 ProfefTorfhip, although Dr. Alleftree had 
 held it with the (p) eighth, on account of 
 the preference which he gave to the lodg- 
 ings. 
 
 But about the year 1680, Dr. Hooper 
 was appointed (q) Chaplain to Charles II. 
 
 (I) Richard Alleftree D. D. Student of Chrift Chrift Oxford in 
 
 1636. He took up arms, with oth'-r Students, in the King's caufe 
 in 1 041. Soon after the Reftoration he was made Canon of Chrift 
 Church, and in 1663 "Regius Profeflot of Divinity. In 1665 he 
 was made Provcft of Eton College. He died in January 1680-1, 
 aged 60. Ke was a learned, amiable, and exemplary Divine. 
 [See his Life by Dr. Fell, prefixed to his Sermons, printed at Ox- 
 ford 1-584.]' 
 
 (m) Gen. Dia. (n) Dr. Fell's Life of Alleftree. (o) Le 
 Neve's Fafti, 4.7a. (p) Brown Willis's Survej of Chrift Church 
 Cathedral, 4.58. (q) Gen. Diet. 
 
 In 
 
HOOPER. 173 
 
 In 1685, by the command of James II. 
 he (r) attended the Duke of Monmouth on 
 the evening previous to his execution ; with 
 v/hom he had much free converfation. The 
 following morning, that unhappy Noble- 
 man allured him C£ he had made his peace 
 € ' with God the nature and foundation 
 of which perfuafion Dr. Hooper folemnly 
 entreated him to confider well, and then 
 waited on him in his laft moments. 
 
 Soon after the Government was fettled 
 upon William and Mary, he became Chap- 
 lain to their Majefties. And on the pro- 
 motion of Dr. Sharp, her Majefty (during 
 the abfence of the King, then in Holland) 
 advanced him to the Deanery of Canter- 
 bury ; a favour which he had neither foli- 
 cited, nor (s) expefted : and he was in- 
 ftalled July 11, 1691. With a dilinterefted- 
 nefs not common, he now propofed to re- 
 fign either of his Livings, but the Queen 
 obferved, that (t) " though the King and Jlie 
 <c never gave two livings to one man, yet they 
 cc never took them away and ordered him 
 to keep both, However, he refigned the 
 Redtory of Woodhay. 
 
 (r) Gen. Dift. (s) Ibid, (t) Ibid. 
 
 In 
 
174 HOOPER « 
 
 In 1698 the Prince and Princefs of Den- 
 mark were defirous that he fhould he Pre- 
 ceptor to their Son, the Duke of Gloucef- 
 ter. But to this fervice, the (u) King 
 thought proper to appoint Biihop (w) 
 Burnet, 
 
 In February 1700-1 he was chofen 
 (x) Prolocutor to the Lower Houfe of 
 Convocation. In December following, 
 when a new Convocation was fummoned 
 to meet, in concurrence with the new Par- 
 liament, he could not, however, be pre- 
 vailed on to (y) re-accept the office. In 
 1701 alfo he (z) declined the Primacy of 
 Ireland, which had been offered to him by 
 the Earl of Rochefter, then Lord Lieu- 
 tenant. 
 
 In the famous Difpute concerning the 
 Rights of Convocation, which had now com- 
 menced, he joined with thofe who de- 
 fended the Independence of the Lower 
 
 (u) Gen. Dicl. 
 
 (w) Gilbert Burn t D. D. a native of Edinburgh, had been Pro- 
 feffor of Divinity in Glafgow. Sir Harbottle Grimfton appointed 
 him Preacher at the Rolls Chapel. King William advanced him 
 to the See of Sarum, and he was confecrated March 31, 1689. He 
 died in 1715 aged 72, and was buried in St. J mes's Church, 
 Clerkenwell, London. His excellent Work, "the " Hiftory of the 
 Reformation, - " will perpetuate his Name. 
 
 (x) Atterbury's EpifiL Correfpondence, vol. iii^ 24,. (y) Ibid. 
 59. (z) Gcn/Dia. 
 
 Houfe. 
 
HOOPER. I75 
 
 Houfe. He drew up a " (a) Narrative of 
 c< the Proceedings of that Houfe, relating to 
 u prorogations and Adjournments, from Fe- 
 <: bruary 10, 1700, to June 1701" Pub- 
 lications in reply were not wanting ; one 
 of which, by Dr. Gibfon, entitled " A 
 <c Short State of fmie prefent ^uejlions in 
 " Convocation, particularly of the Right to 
 u continue or prorogue, &c" he anfwered 
 in a Pamphlet, called, " A (b) Summary 
 <c Defence of the Lower Houfe of Convoca- 
 " tion, particularly concerning Adjournments, 
 u I 7°3 >" anc ^ -^ r# Gibfon rejoined in 
 "(c) Marks of a defencelefs caufe, &e." 
 
 In May 1703 Dr. (d) Jones, Biiliop of 
 St. Afaph, died ; and Dean Hooper, (e) 
 contrary to his inclination, was foon after- 
 ward nominated to that See by Queen 
 Anne. He was confecrated October 31, 
 
 and was fucceeded in the Rectory of Lam- 
 
 j 
 
 (a) See Article Francis Atterbury, B : ographia Britannica, 
 note I. (b) Ibid. 
 
 (c) This Pamphlet is attributed, by miftake, in the Gen. Dicl. 
 to Hooper. It certainly was Gibfon's (afterwards BiPnop of Lon- 
 don.) See note I, Article F. Atterbury, Biog. Brit, and Atter- 
 bury's Epill. Correfpondence, vol. i i, 99. 
 
 (d) Edward Jones D. D. was educated at Weftminlter School, 
 whence he was elected to Trinity Col'. Cambridge, afterward Dean 
 of Lifmore in Ireland, and Bifhop of Cloyne, whence he was trans- 
 lated to the See of St. Afaph in 1692. He died in May 1703, and 
 was buried in the ChuichofSt. Margaret Wefrminiier. 
 
 (e) Gen. Dift. 
 
 beth 
 
I76 HOOPER. 
 
 beth by Dr. (f ) Gibfon. His other pre- 
 ferments he retained with this Bifhopric, in 
 which, indeed, he continued but a few 
 months : and, on that account, he gene- 
 roufly (g) refufed the ufual (h) Mortuaries 
 or Pennons, then fo great a burden to the 
 Clergy of Wales, faying, " (i) they Jhould 
 never pay [0 dear for the fight of him " In 
 March following he was tranllated to the 
 See of Bath and Wells, vacant by the death 
 of Dr. (k) Kidder $ the removal to which 
 
 (f) Edmund Gibfon, D. D. a very eminent Divine, was of 
 Queen's College Oxford, a native of Bampton in Weftmoreland, 
 fucceeded Dr. Hooper in the Re£tory of Lambeth, was alfo Pre- 
 centor, and Canon Refidentiary of Chichefter, Archdeacon of 
 Surry, and in 171 5 Bifhopof Lincoln, whence he was tranflated 
 to the See of London in 1723. He died in 1748. 
 
 (g) Gen. Dia. 
 
 (h) Thefe Mortuaries were at length abolimed by means of 
 Biihop Fleetwood, who procured in 17 12 an Act of Parliament for 
 that purpofe, and obtained a good Living to be annexed to the 
 Bifhopric in lieu of them. From an account exhibited in Queen 
 Elizabeth's time, the following were the Cuftomary Mortuaries, 
 due to the Bimop of St. Afaph, on the Deceafe of every Clergy- 
 man beneficed in that Diocefe. [See B. Willis's St. Afaph, 280.] 
 
 Imprimis, His bed Gelding, Horfe, or Mare. 
 Item, His bell: Gown. 
 Item, His belt Cloak. 
 
 Item, His belt Coat, Jerkin, Doublet, and Breeches. 
 
 Item, His Hofe, or Nether-Stockings, Shoes, and Garters. 
 
 Item, His Waiftcoat. 
 
 Item, His Hat and Capp. 
 
 item, His F?ulchion. 
 
 Item, His beft Book. 
 
 Item, His Surplice. 
 
 Item, His Purfe and Girdell. 
 
 Item, His Knife and Gloves. 
 
 Item, His Signet, or Ring of Gold. 
 
 (i) Gen. Dia. 
 
 (k) Richard Kidder D. D. had been of Emanuel Coil. Cam- 
 bridge, Vicar of Stanground, Huntingdonshire, Reclor of Raine, 
 
 EiTex, 
 
HOOPER. 177 
 
 he had not only requefted to decline, but 
 had folicited the Queen to reinftate Dr. 
 Ken in that Bifhopric, of which he had 
 been deprived at the Revolution. This 
 her Majefty readily (1) granted : but Dr. 
 Ken was as ftrenuous in his own refufal, as 
 in his entreaties to Hooper to accept it. 
 Bifhop Hooper now relinquished the Dean- 
 ery, but wifhed to have retained the Pre- 
 centorfhip of Exeter in Commendam, folely 
 for the ufe of the modeft and confcientious 
 Dr. Ken. But this was not agreeable to 
 Dr. (m) Trelawney, the Bifhop of Exeter. 
 His intention, however, was fupplied by 
 the bounty of the Queen, who conferred 
 an annual (n) penfion of 200I. on the de- 
 prived Prelate: and Dr. Jane fucceeded to 
 the Precentorfhip of Exeter. 
 
 In 1705 Bifhop Hooper rendered himfelf 
 confpicuous in the Debate on the Danger of 
 
 EiTex, Re£lor of St. Martin's Outwich, London, Prebendary of 
 Norwich 1681, Dean of Peterborough 1689, and Bifhop of Bath 
 and Wells 169,1. He was killed in his bed, by the fall of a ftack 
 of chimneys, in his palace at Wells, November 27, 1703. The 
 world has been greatly benefited by his excellent writings, 
 (1) Gen.Dia. 
 
 (m) Sir Jonathan Trelawney D. D. was educated at Weftmin- 
 iter School, went thence to Chrift Church Oxon in 1668, and in the 
 follow ing year was wado ftudent. In 1685 he was ccnfecrated 
 Bifhop of Briftol, from which he was ti arflated to Exeter in 1689, 
 and thence to Whichever in 1707. He died in 1721, 
 
 (n) Gen. Di6t. 
 
 N the 
 
iyB HOOPER. 
 the Church ; for, with many other well- 
 meaning perfons, he apprehended the Dan- 
 ger to be more than imaginary. His obser- 
 vation was candid : he complained (with 
 jaftice) of that invidious dirlin&ion, which 
 the terms (o) High-Church and Low-Church 
 occailoned, and of that enmity which they 
 tended to produce. In the Debate in 1706 
 concerning the Union between England and 
 Scotland, his fpeech alfo was remarkable : 
 he (p) " was altogether" he laid, " againft 
 * c this Union, though ne could wi(h with 
 " all his heart it had been compleated an 
 " hundred years ago 5 becaufe all the fer- 
 * 6 ment and difcord which now were likely 
 to enfue upon it, would by this time, 
 iC have had their courfe : That he could no 
 * c better compare it, than to the mixing 
 iC together ftrong liquors, of a contrary na» 
 66 ture, in one and the fame veffel, which 
 " would go nigh being burft afunder by 
 cc their furious fermentation : that their 
 ic Bench was always reckoned the Dead 
 <c Weight of the Houfe ; but that the Sixteen 
 Cff Scotch Peers being admitted to fit therein, 
 « c would more effectually be fo ; efpecially 
 
 (o) Beyer's Hift. of C^Anne, 218. (p) Ibid, 281. 
 
 in 
 
HOOPER « 279 
 
 * z m any future Debates relating to the 
 e{ Church ; towards which they could no 
 66 ways be fuppofed to be well- affected.'' — 
 In 1709-10, when the Articles of Sache- 
 verell's Impeachment were debated, he 
 (q) endeavoured to excufe that Divine, 
 and entered his Proteft againft the Vote, 
 which he could not prevent. 
 
 But whatever were his political opi- 
 nions, his prudent, courteous, and liberal 
 behaviour in his Diocefe fecured the efteem 
 (r) both of Laity and Clergy. To the 
 latter he was a faithful friend. For, while 
 he (s) confined his preferments to thofe of 
 his own Diocefe, his difpofal of them was 
 judicious and difinterefted. The modefl 
 were often dignified without any expecta- 
 tion, and the diligent were always ad- 
 vanced without the leaft felicitation. His 
 regulation alfo in official proceedings w T as 
 fo confpicuous, that " (t) no tedious for- 
 <c malities protracted bufinefs, no imperious 
 " officers infulted the Clergy." 
 
 The regard, which he experienced, in- 
 feparably attached him to this Diocefe. 
 And it is (u) faid, that he could not be 
 
 (q) Boyer's Hift of Q^Anne, 433. (r) Gen. Dia. (s) Dr. 
 Coney's Account of Biinop Hooper, at the end of the Do6lor s 
 f.wemy-five Sermons, printed in 1730. (t) Ibid, (u) Gen. Dicl, 
 
 N 2 pre- 
 
HOOPER. 
 
 prevailed on to accept the See of London> 
 on the death of Dr. (w) Compton, nor 
 that of York, on the death of Dr. (x) Sharp. 
 
 Having prefided over the See of Bath and 
 Wells twenty-four years, and fix months, 
 and having attained to the great age of 87, 
 he died at Barkley in Somerfetfliire, whi- 
 ther he fometimes retired, (y) on the 6th 
 of September 1721. His remains were 
 interred in the Cathedral of Wells. 
 
 It had been obferved of this Prelate by 
 the celebrated Dr. Bulby, " (z) That he 
 *' was the beft Scholar, the fineft Gentle- 
 ' c man, and would make the compleateft 
 5 C Bifhop that ever was educated at Weft- 
 " minfter School.'* Dr. (a) Coney, who 
 
 (w) This amiable Prelate, Dr. Henry Compton, had been edu- 
 cated at Queen's Coll. Oxford ; but after the Rertoration, became a 
 Cornet o Horfe ; afterwards took orders, was Canon of Chrifl 
 Church, Oxon, Mafter of St. Crofs, Bifhop of Oxford in 1674, 
 and In 1675 Bifhop of London. He died in 1713, ag d 81. Not 
 long before the Revolution he appeared inarms at Nottingham, and 
 declared his readinefs to fight for the Prince of Orange. His de- 
 fence of 1 he Church in the Reign of James, had procured him the 
 title, by wiy of eminence, of " The Proteftant Bimop.'" He was 
 allowed, fays Mr. Grainger, to be much a Gentleman, and no lefs 
 a Lhriftian. He was a great benef actor to the Church. 
 
 (x) Probably die propolal of York might have been made to 
 Bifhop Hooper, on the declining health of the Archbifhop : as Dr. 
 Sha' p, not long before his death, is faid to have procured Sir W. 
 Dawes for his SuccefTor. 
 
 (y) Gen. Dicl. (z) Coney's Accoun'. 
 
 (a) Thomas Coney D. D. of Univerfity Coll. Oxford, was Preben- 
 dary of Wells, and Recloi of Bath, and Chedzoy in the County of 
 Sornerfet His " Sermons" are written with remarkable fpirit. The 
 celebrated Difcourfe which he delivered before the Univerfi'vof Ox- 
 ford, upon A61 Sunday 1 7 1 o, challenges particular attention. 
 
 knew 
 
HOOPER. I 8 I 
 
 knew the Bifliop well, has elegantly proved 
 this teftimony to have been verified in each 
 refpedt.— Yet the <e Hiftorian of his own 
 Times" has obferved with a bitternefs, 
 which the . prejudice of party alone could 
 dictate, that « the (b) Prolocutor (Dr« 
 « Hooper) was a man of learning and good 
 u conduct hitherto but <f he was referved, 
 " crafty \ and ambitious : his Deanery had 
 <$ not foftened him, for he thought he de« 
 ** ferved to be raifed higher." Let us re- 
 view the conduct of Hooper. He had been 
 promoted to the Deanery without the leaft 
 expectation, and he had relinquifhed pre- 
 ferment, even when defired to retain it. 
 The See of St. Afaph was, afterwards, 
 urged to his acceptance : <* (c) That fought 
 fi him, and not he it." The tra-nflation to 
 Bath and Wells he would have declined, in 
 favour of his friend ; and he had before re- 
 fufed Archiepifcopal Dignity. If fuch con- 
 duct betrays a difpofition crafty or ambitious, 
 then indeed was Hooper 66 the moil: offend- 
 ing foul alive"! — Nor can it but be la- 
 mented, that the learned (d) Atterbury alfo 
 
 (b) Burners Hift. of his own Times, vol. ii, 2 32. (c) At- 
 terbury's Epift. Correfpondence, vol, iii, 97. 
 
 (d) Francis Atterbury D. J), was educated at Weftminfter 
 School, and thence elecled to Chtift Church,. Ox ord, in 1680. 
 
 N 3 Chaplain 
 
l82 HOOPER. 
 
 fhould have dipped his pen in gall, when 
 he charges Biihop Hooper with (e) " rapa- 
 cious dealing'' For had his conduit been 
 ever influenced by " rapacious" motives, fo 
 foul a blot would hardly have efcaped ^/z*?- 
 ral obfervation. A Prelate thus ftigma- 
 tized, would have experienced the con- 
 tempt, rather than the efceem of his 
 Clergy. But he was their (f) delight 
 while living, and the conftant theme of 
 their grateful remembrance after his de- 
 ceafe. His character indeed will continue 
 to command refpedl and reverence, till the 
 value of Learning and Religion is forgotten, 
 or defpifed. 
 
 The following well-known, and fplendid 
 proofs of his exteniive erudition, were col- 
 lected into one volume, and publhhed at 
 Oxford in 1757, with a Preface by Dr. 
 (g) Hunt : " The Church of England free 
 
 Chaplain to K. William, and Mary, and afterwards to 
 Anne, Archdeacon of Totnefs in 1700. Dean of Carl lie in 1704, 
 and foon after Canon Refidentiary of Exeter, and Preacher at the 
 Rolls Chapel. Dean of Chrift Church, Oxford, in 17.11. In 171 3 
 he was advanced to the Bimopric of Rochefter, "'nil Deanery of 
 Weftm'mfter. In 1722, being committed to the Tower on fufpi- 
 cion of treafon, a bill to infUcl pains and penalties on him paffed in 
 May 1723. He le r t this kingdom in June following, Tbis dif- 
 tinguifhed Scholar died at Paris in February 17.31 2. His body 
 was brought to Enghmd, and buried in Wefcminiter Abbey. 
 
 (e) Atterbury's Epilt. Correfpondence, vol. iii, 172. (f) Dr. 
 Hunt's Preface to the Bifhop's Works, in 1757. 
 
 (g) Thomas Hunt D.D. a very learned Divme, had taken the 
 degree of M, A. at Hart Hall Oxford in 1721, was one of the firft 
 
 foundation 
 
HOOPER, 183 
 
 ci from the Imputation cj Popery written 
 at the requeft of Dr. Compton Bishop of 
 London, about the year 1682 ; re-printed 
 by Bifhop Hooper in 17 16, and given to 
 his Clergy at his triennial vifitation, the 
 year following, 
 
 " A fair and methodical Difcufjion of the 
 tc fir ft ana great Controversy , bet -ween the 
 c< Church of England and Church of Rome, 
 ffJ concerning the infallible Guide : in three 
 ee difcourfes ; n the two firft of which were 
 licenfed in 1687, but the la ft was never 
 printed. 
 
 cc A calculation of the Credibility of Humaji 
 €C Tefiimony printed in the Philofophical 
 Tranfadtions, 1 699. 
 
 <• A difcourfe concerning Lent, in two 
 Parts" 
 
 < 6 De Valentinianorum Hareji Con] e blur a y 
 c< qui bus illius Origo ex Mgyptiacd Theologid 
 i( deducitur" 
 
 tQ Emendationes et obfervationes ad Tertul- 
 €C Hani adverfus Valentinianos Traffiatum" 
 
 foundation Fellows at Hertford College in 1740, at which time he 
 was Landian Prorefl.br of Arabic. In 1743 he took the degree of 
 B. D. and in 1744. tnat c * ^« In 174.7 ! "' e u ' as appoin-ed Re- 
 gius Profeflbr of Divinit , and confequently Canon of the fifth 
 Stall in Chrift Church Cathedral. Ke was alfo Fellow of the Royal 
 and Antiquarian Societies. Ke died in i774-> aged 78, and was 
 buried in Chrift Church Cathedral. 
 
 N 4 " An 
 
184 HOOPER. 
 
 66 An 'Enquiry into the State of the ancient 
 ic Me a fares" 
 
 " In BenediStionem Patriarch^- Jacobi, 
 tc Gen. 49. ConjeBurce" This had been 
 published by Dr. Hunt, with a Preface 
 and Notes, collected out of the Arabic- 
 MSS. in the Bodleian Library, foon after 
 the Bilhop's death, according to directions 
 he had received from the JBifhop. Only 
 100 Copies were printed. 
 
 " Eight Occajional Sermons :"■ the ftile of * 
 which is eafy, and often animated. Per- 
 haps few difcourfes can be found more inte- 
 re fling and judicious, than that on the Text 
 sc If our heart condemn us, God is greater 
 6i than our heart." 
 
 In the Cathedral of Wells a Marble Mo- 
 nument with an Infcription is erected to 
 the memory of this excellent Biihop ; and 
 adjoining to it, is a Monument with an in- 
 fcrption to the memory of his wife, which, 
 as it affords much information relating to 
 his family, it may not be improper to fub- 
 join. The Infcription on the Bifhop's Mo- 
 nument is as follows : 
 
 In hoc Sacrario cineres fuos requiefcere voluit 
 Reverendus admodum Praeful 
 Georgius Hooperus, S. T. P. 
 Magnum Ecclefias Anglicans Decus, 
 
 Scientias 
 
HOOPER, 185 
 
 .Scientias quippe maxime reconditas, 
 Mathefm univerfam, 
 Antiquitates patrias txterafque 
 Linguas pcene omnes, quotquot ant Oriens protulit aut Occident, 
 Jus Civile, Municipal, Canonicum, 
 Elegantiorum Literarum yenuftate temperaverat : 
 Theolcgium verb 
 Aflidua facri Codicis et primsevorum Patrum le&ione, 
 Quafi alias omnes Scientias ignorare maluiiTet, 
 Totam penitus hauferat, 
 Saniorem hau.. dubie amplexus. 
 Summo tamen Eruditionis amore fernper incenfus 
 Non ita Studiis fe totum tradidit, 
 Ut arduis Negotiis impar, 
 Aut Hominnm ignarus, 
 Aut difficilis, inconcinnus, afper evaderet 5 
 Inerat enim illi 
 Comitate i^Lulis Principum digna 
 Chriftiana Simplicitas conditaj 
 Ingenium non ad Literas magis 
 Quam ad res agendas habile et verfatile, 
 Mira in conciliandis fibi Hominibus Solertia, 
 Sed Animarum Saluti unice intenta, 
 Ita cum Artes Do&rinaique longe diiHtas conjungeret, 
 Summifque Honoribus par 
 Nullum unquam ambiret j 
 Aditum ibi ad Famam eximiam 
 Ad primarios tarn in Republic!, quam Ecclefia. Vires, 
 Ad Re<?inarum denique pientillimarum 
 Marias, ft Annse, Patrocinium 
 Virtute fola patefecit ; 
 Itaque ab ilia, Decanatu Cantuarienfi 
 A'b hac, Infula primo San£t. Afaphenfj 
 Deinde Bathono Wellenfi ornatus eft. 
 
 Quo in munere ampliffirno 
 Cum Gregi fuo fideliter invigilaret, 
 Inopes occulto plerumque Munificentias fonte, 
 
 Sed perer.m, ubere, la!:e fluenti reficeret j 
 Prelbyteros fuos Indulgent! a paterna. foveret, 
 Impigerrimos quolque etiam Ruri latenies 
 
 la 
 
l86 HOOPER. 
 
 In Lucem et Splendorem nec opinanfes evocaret 5 
 Bonorum omnium Amorem et Obfervantiam meruit, 
 Pofteris Morum Exemplar pulchefrimum reliquit. . 
 Obiit vi Septembrisj A. D. mdccxxvii. 
 JEtatis lxxxvji. 
 
 That to the Memory of his Wife is as follows: (I 
 
 In Hope of a bjeffed Refurreclion 
 Near this place refts the body of 
 Abigail, 
 
 Daughter of Richard Guilford, Gent, and 
 Wife of Dr. George Hooper, 
 Late Lord Bifhop of this Diocefe, 
 With whom fhe lived 46 years, and had by him nine children 
 Of which two fons and five daughters dying young, 
 Were buried in the church of 
 Lambeth in Surrey. 
 She died September 24., 172,6, in the 
 71ft year of her age. 
 Near her 
 
 Lies the body of Rebecca, her youngeft daughter, 
 Who died June 4, 17 16, 
 In her 21 ft year. 
 As does alfo, 
 The body of Charles Guilford, her brother* 
 Who died in April, 1707, in 
 the 4-2d year of his age. 
 Abigail Prowse, 
 Fourth daughter, and only furviving child 
 
 Of the above-mentioned 
 George Lord Bifliop of Bath and Wells, 
 
 And Abigail his wife, 
 Humbly dedicates this monument to the 
 Pious memory of 
 Her moil beloved and excellent mother and fifter, 
 And in 
 
 Grateful remembrance of her very affectionate uncle 
 In the year of our Lord 
 1728. 
 
 (h) See Gent. Mag, Feb. 1792. 
 
 ST^NHO? 
 
I *S7 3 
 
 STANHOPE, 
 
 QEORGE STANHOPE, the thirteenth 
 Dean, Son -of the Rev. Thomas Stan- 
 hope, was (i) born March 5, 1659 60 at 
 Hertifhorn in the County of Derby; of 
 which parifh his father was Rector, as well 
 as Vicar of St. Margaret in the Town of 
 Leicefter, and (k) Chaplain to the Earls of 
 Chefterfield and Clare. His mother, whole 
 name was AlleMree, was of an ancient fa- 
 mily in the County of Derby. His Grand- 
 father Dr. George Stanhope, Precentor of 
 York, and Rector of Wheldrake in that 
 County, was one of thofe perfecuted Eccle- 
 fiaftics who, for their loyalty to Charles h 
 experienced the greater! diurefs : he was 
 difpoffeffed of his preferments, and (as 
 
 (i) Bowyer's Anecdotes, 498. 
 
 (k) He was of St. John's Coll. Cambridge, and in 1669 he was 
 inft idled Prebendary of Sutton cum Bucks in the Church of Lincoln, 
 but without deriving any advantage from it. For that Prebend, 
 which was the beft endowed in the Cathedral, was furreridered to the 
 Crown by Dr. Cox (afterward Bimop of Eiy) in 154-7 : and 
 though fome defe£l in the furrender was alledged, yet three perlbns 
 after him enjoyed only " magni nom nis umbram they could not 
 jjiftify their claims. The lail of thefe was Mr, Stanhope. He died 
 in 1674. or 1675. [SeeB. Willis's Survey of Lincoln Cathedral.] 
 
 Dean 
 
l88 STANHOPE* 
 
 Dean Stanhope (1) told Mr. Walker him- 
 felf) was driven to the doors with eleven 
 children, and died in 1644. 
 
 The Dean received the fir 11 rudiments of 
 education at the School of (m) Uppingham 
 in the County of Rutland, whence he was 
 removed to that of Leicefter, and again to 
 that of Eton ; from which he was ele&ed^ 
 on the Foundation at King's College in 
 1677, where he took the degree of B. A. 
 in .1681, and that of M. A. in 1685. 
 
 In his youth he had difplayed the mod 
 promifing abilities ; and at the Univernty 
 he enriched his mind with that valuable 
 Hock of learning, which he afterwards fo 
 judicioufly employed. Of the French, as 
 well as of the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew 
 languages, he (n) acquired a critical know- 
 ledge. 
 
 Having entered into holy orders, he did 
 not immediately leave the Univerfity, but 
 officiated at the Church of Quoi near Cam- 
 bridge ; and in (o) 16 83 was Vice-Proc- 
 tor of the Univerfity. In that year he was 
 
 (l) Walker's Suff. of the Clergy, part ii, 83. (m) Bowyer's 
 Anecdotes, 7. (n) Mutton's Account of Dr.. Stanhope, prefixed 
 to Bi (hop Andrews's Devotions, printed in 1730, (o) Bowyer's 
 Anecdotes, 
 
 preferred 
 
STANHOPE. 189 
 
 preferred to the Rectory of (p) Tewing in 
 the County of Hertford ; and in the fol- 
 lowing, to the Vicarage of (q) Lewifham 
 in the County of Kent. The latter bene- 
 fice he owed to the kindnefs of Lord Dart- 
 mouth, to whom he was Chaplain, and to 
 whofe Son he had been Tutor. He was 
 foon after appointed Chaplain in Ordinary 
 to King William and Queen Mary ; and 
 he enjoyed the fame honour under Queen 
 Anne. 
 
 July the 5th 1697 k° t0 °k tne degree of 
 D. D. the exercifes for which he performed 
 publicly, and with great (r) applaufe. On 
 the preceding Sunday he preached the 
 Commencement Sermon, in which he 
 ftated the Perfection and argued the Suffi- 
 ciency of Scripture. The clofe of this 
 Difcourfe furnifhes an eminent proof of 
 that expreffive ftile, fo peculiar indeed to 
 all his writings. " O welcome therefore," 
 (fays the Preacher, having fummed up his 
 unanfwerable arguments) " O welcome 
 " therefore, Holy Religion, to us dark 
 "wretched Mortals! Welcome, thou 
 sc Bleft, thou Powerful Book : Pure and 
 
 (p) Hutton's Account, (oj Bowyer. (r) Ibid. 
 
 " Clear, 
 
100 STANHOPE* ■ 
 
 * c Clear, as the Place from whence tliou 
 " comeft ; and Wife and Good, like Him, 
 fc whofe Spirit formed thee. And may 
 4C (my Chriftian Brethren) may this be 
 €e ever Firft and Beft in our efteem ; moft 
 <* in our Thoughts, our Studies, and De- 
 (( fires : may This be writ entire, and fairly 
 * f copied, not in our Memories only, but 
 € * our Hearts, and thence mine Bright in 
 :e all our Converfation. And Reafon good 
 <sr there is, why this Divine Volume mould 
 €i have the choiceflof all our Labours ; for 
 " this will fandify our other Studies, en- 
 cc large our Understandings, refine and exalt 
 €i our Souls, and teach us not only to ex- 
 * £ eel others, but daily to excel ourfelves. 
 " This is the only exception to the Preach- 
 cc er's character, In much of all other Know- 
 6i ledge, there is much Sorrow 9 but This \ 
 " makes us Wife with Pleafure and Safety • 
 <c not only wifer for this world, than the 
 cs reft of our Learning can, but which is 
 * £ beft of all, and a Prerogative peculiar to 
 c€ itfelf alone, This makes us wife for H-ea- 
 ic ven, and to Salvation. "(s) 
 
 (s) See the Sermon publi/hed with eleven others in 1727. The 
 Text is 2 Tim. iii, 16. 17. 
 
 In 
 
STANHOPE. 191 
 
 In 170 1 he was appointed Preacher at 
 the Lecture founded by the Hon. b!e Mr. 
 Boyle, when he acquitted himfelf as an ad- 
 mirable Defender of that caufe, which the 
 Benefactor intended to promote, by avert- 
 ing, in Sixteen Sermons, " The Truth and 
 " Excellency of the Chrifiian Religion againfi 
 C( Jews, Infidels, and Heretic$. y \t) 
 
 In 1703 he was prefented to the Vi- 
 carage of (u) Deptford in the County of 
 Kent, when he relinquiflied the Redtory of 
 Tewing, and held Lewifham and Deptford 
 by difpenfation. In this year alfo he was 
 promoted, on the tranflation of Bifliop 
 Hooper to the See of Bath and W ells, to 
 the Deanery of Canterbury; in which he 
 was inftalled March (w) 23, 1703-4. He 
 was now alfo Tuefday Ledlurer at the 
 Church of St. Laurence Jury ; in which 
 appointment, as well as in the Deanery, he 
 was no mean fucceflbr to Tillotfon and 
 Sharp. The Ledture, indeed, had long- 
 been fupplied by eminent Divines; and 
 was reputed a poft of (x) honour, rather 
 than of profit. He continued to maintain 
 
 (t) Preached in 1701, 1702, and publiihed In 1706. (u) 
 Bowyer. <w) Church Reg. (x) Preface to Mofs's Sermons. 
 
 its 
 
STANHOPE. 
 
 its reputation, and to advance his own, til! 
 the year (y) 1708 ; when he refigned the 
 bnice, and was fucceeded by Dr. (z) Mofs. 
 
 At the Convocation of the Clergy in 
 October 1705, he preached the Latin (a) 
 Sermon in St. Paul's Cathedral, and was at 
 the fame time propofed, with (b) Dr. 
 Einckes, to fill the Prolocutor's Chair : 
 but the Majority (c) declared for the latter. 
 In February 171 3- 14, however, he was 
 (d) elected to that office, and was twice af- 
 terwards re-chofen. In 1717 the fierce fpi- 
 rit of Controverfy once more raged in Con- 
 vocation ; and he checked the Bangorian 
 
 (y) Preface to Mofs's Sermons. 
 
 (z) Robert Mofs D. D. was of Bennet Coll. Cambridge, and 
 in 1693 Preacher at Gray's Inn, in the year following AJnilant 
 Preacher at St. James's Weftminfter. In 171 2 he became Dean of 
 Ely ; and in 1 7 14. he was presented to the -Reft ory of Gelfton in the 
 County of Herts. He died in 1729, and was buried in Ely Cathe- 
 dral. He wa'S a man ofdiftinguifhed learning, and of an open and 
 generous difpofition. He had been Chaplain to K. William, 
 Anne, and K. George I. [See his Life, prefixed to his Sermons, 
 !>ublifhed in 1736.] 
 
 (a) Concio ad Cierum, publifhed in 1706. The text is James 
 iii. ifi 
 
 (b) William Binckes D. D. was of St. John's Coll. Cambridge, 
 Vicar of Lemington, in the County of Warwick, Prebendary of 
 NarMngton in the Church of Lincoln in 1681, Prebendary of DafTet 
 Parva in the ChuTch of Litchfield in 1697, and in 1703 Dean of the 
 feme Church * He c'ied in 1712, and was buried at Lemington. 
 He rendered himfelf ccnlpicuous by a Sermon which he preached 
 January 30, 1762, in which he paralleled the fufFerings of Charles 
 I. with thoie of Chrift, but gave the preference in point of right, 
 Character, and ftation to the former. (See Smollett's Hift. of Eng.) 
 
 . It was cenfu! ed by the Houfe of Lords . 
 
 (c) Beyer's UiCu of Anne, 225. (d) Ibid. 665. 
 
 Champion^ 
 
 \ 
 
STANHOPE. 193 
 
 Champion, Archdeacon (c) Tenifon, in his 
 obfervations, by (f) reading the Schedule 
 of Prorogation. The Archdeacon, howe- 
 ver, not content only to proteft againftthe 
 Proceedings of the Houfe, (g) entered into 
 a Controverfy with the Prolocutor himfelf. 
 
 In the following year a (h) correspon- 
 dence commenced between the Dean, and 
 his Diocefan Biihop Atterbury, on the in- 
 creafing neglect of public Baptifms ; from 
 which it appears, that Stanhope had " long 
 " difcouraged private Baptifms," and that 
 the Prelate exprerTed himfelf obliged to him 
 for his attention in this refpect, as alfo for 
 his conftant choice of worthy Curates. 
 
 The life of Stanhope is ben: known by 
 his literary labours, And while his abili- 
 ties diftinguifhed him as an excellent Scho- 
 lar, and a judicious critic, they were more 
 efpecially exerted to the fublimeft purpo- 
 fes. His ftudy, to ufe his own words, 
 
 (e) Edward Tenifon D. D. of Bennet Coll, Cambridge, Reaor 
 of Wittermam in Kent, afterwards of Sundridge and of Chiding- 
 ftone, Prebendary of Tarvin in Litchfield Cathedral, became Arch- 
 deacon of Carmarthen in 1708 : in which year he had been col- 
 lated by his kinfman Archbifnop Tenifon to a Prebend of Canter- 
 bury. In 1730 he went out as firft Chaplain to the Duke of Dor- 
 set, then appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and in the follow- 
 ing year was made Bifliop of Oifory. He died at Dublin in 1735, 
 aged 6z. See Mafters's Hilt, of C. C. C. C 400 et feq. 
 
 (f) Mafters's Hilt, of C. C. C. C. 403. (g) Ibid, (h) See 
 Atterbury's Epiit, Correfponden.ee, vol. i, 48 et iecj. 
 
 " was 
 
194 STANHOPE, 
 
 u was the perfuading men to the diligent 
 " and conftant prafhice of religion, by en- 
 * c deavouring to draw them off from fuch 
 " courfes and opinions, as feemed more 
 " efpecially to obftruft or difcourage it." 
 
 He publifhed Twenty-one Single Sermons, 
 between the years 1692, and 1724, many 
 of which had been delivered before public 
 bodies, and for the fervice of public cha- 
 rities. 
 
 A tranflation of Thomas a Kempis in 1696. 
 
 A tranflation of the Sieur de (i) Charroiis 
 three Books of JVifdom y with an Account of 
 the Author, 1697 -> and in the fame year, 
 M. Antoninus Imperator de Rebus fuis, cum 
 annot. feledl. D'Acerii et Vita M. An- 
 tonini. 
 
 EpiBetuss Morals, with Simplicius's 
 Commentary, and the Life of Epidetus, 
 1700: and in the fame year a volume of 
 Fifteen Sermons* 
 
 (i) This treatiie has been loudly blamed for its freedom hy 
 many writers of France, and particularly by Garafle the Jefuit. 
 Our Stanhope, though efteemtd an orthodox Divine, tranflated it. 
 Bayle has remarked in oppofition to thefe cenfurers, that of an hun- 
 dred thoufand readers, there are hardly three to be iound in any 
 age, who are well qualified to judge of a book, wherein the ideas 
 of an exact and metaphyseal reafoning are let in oppofition to the 
 nioft common opinions.'" [EsTay on the Genius and Writings of 
 iPope, vol, ad, 133.] 
 
 A Para- 
 
STANHOPE, 195 
 
 A Paraphrafe and Comment upon the Epif- 
 tles and Gofpels, in 4 vols. 1705. This work 
 would alone be fufficient to perpetuate his 
 piety and learning 3 a work, in which in- 
 flruction is recommended with exhortations 
 the mo ft affectionate, and enforced with 
 arguments the moft irrefragable. 
 
 RochefoucauW s Maxims, 1706 ; in the 
 fame year, the Sermons he preached at 
 Boyle's Lecture, were publifhed. 
 
 Parfons's Chrijlian Directory, 171 6. 
 
 St. Augtijline 's Meditations, 1720. In 
 this tranflation, as well as in that of Bifiop 
 Andrews's Prayers, it may be feen how ju- 
 dicioufly he could preferve, if not Improve, 
 the fenfe of his Authors, without the clofe- 
 nefs of a literal verfion. 
 
 'The Grounds and Principles of the Chrijlian 
 Religion, tranflated from the French of 
 Oftervald. 
 
 Laftly, Twelve Sermons on feveral Qcca- 
 fans, 1727. (i) 
 
 And while he thus benefited Mankind, 
 
 as a writer, he was no lefs edifying as a 
 
 preacher. To a plain and clear ftile he 
 
 added the moft becoming action. There 
 
 are thofe who yet remember the force of 
 
 his oratory, and the gracefulnefs of his 
 
 (i) Two of thefc hadbeen publifhed fingly before. 
 
 O 2 perfon. 
 
I96 STANHOPE. 
 
 perfon. His manner was peculiarly his 
 own. A judicious Critic has obferved 
 that the Dean's " (k) thoughts and rea- 
 * f foning are bright and folid ; his ftyle 
 €e juft both for the purity of language and 
 se for ftrength and beauty of expreffion ; 
 *• but the periods are formed in fo peculiar 
 s * an order of the words, that it was an ob- 
 €C fervation, N& body could pronounce them 
 " with the fame Grace and Advantage as him- 
 
 After having lived an Example, even 
 from his Youth upwards, of cheerful and 
 unaffe&ed Piety, he died, univerfally la- 
 mented, at Bath, March 18, 1727-8, 
 
 aged 68. 
 
 His mild and friendly temper rendered 
 him the delight of all. To the misfortunes 
 of others he was remarkably (1) attentive, 
 and that concern which he expreffed, con- 
 veyed at once confolation to the heart, and 
 
 (k) Felron's Differtation on reading the ClafTics, 5th Edit. 184. 
 
 (I) See Bowyer's Anecdotes, p. 8, and p. 30 ; particularly the 
 former page, where there is a letter from the Dean, that difplays 
 great fenfibiiity, to old Mr. Bowyer, on the iofs which he had fuf- 
 fered by fire. On this occafion the Dean and Chapter of Canter- 
 bury fubfcribed thirty pounds towards his relief. The learned Son 
 of Mr. Bowyer who, as well as his Father, was a Printer, and who 
 di'.-d in 1777, bequeathed " thirty pounds to the Dean and Chapter 
 
 of Canterbury in gratitude for the kindnefs of the worthy Dr. 
 l< Stanhope to his Father." The Sum has been appropriated to 
 the purchale of Books, as the rnoft laiting Monument of the Tefta- 
 tcr\ Gratitude. [See Anec. of Bowyer, 4S7. 
 
 improvement 
 
STANHOPE. X97 
 
 improvement to the underftanding. His 
 care as a Parifh Prieft, and as a Dean, was 
 exemplary. That advice which he gave to 
 others, was the rule of his own practice 5 
 and let his advice never be forgotten by the 
 dignified or the inferior Divine, " You will 
 Cf do well fo to demean yourfelf in all the offices 
 tc of your function, that people may think you 
 ** are in very good earnelt, andfo to order your 
 " whole converjaticn> that they may be Jure 
 *' you are jo" (m) 
 
 As he had been remarkable for the many 
 good works which he did, while living, fo 
 he teftified his charity in his laft will. 
 Among other benevolent Legacies, he (n) 
 left the fum of 250I. to found an Exhibition 
 for a King's Scholar of Canterbury School, 
 to be nominated and chofen by the Dean, 
 or Vice-Dean and Chapter : fuch Scholar 
 •continuing: at fomc College in the Univer- 
 iity of Cambridge, and ceafing to enjoy the 
 profits of the exhibition, at the Michaelmas 
 after commencing Mafter of Arts. 
 
 The merits of Dean Stanhope juftly en- 
 titled him to the high eft Order in the 
 
 (m) See an excellent origh-nl Letter from the Dean to a young 
 Clergyman, in the Gent. Magazine for May, 1792. 
 (nj Goltling's Walk in and about Canterbury, 383. 
 
 O 3 Church. 
 
I98 STANHOPE. 
 
 Church. And it has been faid (o) that 
 Queen Anne defigned him for the See of 
 Ely when it mould become vacant ; though, 
 it has been alfo fuppofed, that Dr. (p) Mofs 
 would have fucceeded to that Biihopric. 
 The death of Dr. (q) Moore the Bifhop, 
 only the day before the deceafe of her Ma- 
 jefty, prevented the appointment of either. 
 
 The Dean had been twice married ; fir ft 
 to Olivia daughter of Charles Cotton of 
 Beresford in the County of Stafford, Efq; 
 by whom he had one fon and five daugh- 
 ters : fecondly, to Mifs Parker, half-fifter 
 to Sir Charles Wager, who furvived him, 
 dying in 1730, aged about 54. 
 
 He was buried in the Church of Lewif- 
 ham ; and within the rails of the Commu- 
 nion Table, on a grave-ftone, is this Me- 
 morial, 
 
 Depofitum Georgii Stanhqpe 
 
 S. T. P. Dec. Cant, et 
 Ecclefice hujus Vicarii, 1728. 
 
 (o) Bowyer's Anec. 498. (p) Mafters's C. C. C. C. 348, 
 (q) John Moore D. D. Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, Rec- 
 tor 01 Blaby in the County of Leicefter, and of St. AufthVs and St. 
 Andrew's, Holborn, London, Prebendary of Ely, in 1679, was 
 made Bifhop of Norwich in 1691, and tranflated to the See of Ely in 
 1707. He d ; ed July 31, 1714, aged 68 ; and was buried in Ely 
 Cathedral, where a monument, with an infcription, is erecled to 
 Jlis memory. 
 
 And 
 
STANHOPE. I99 
 
 And another Monument, erected to his 
 Memory by his Widow, is thus infcribed I 
 
 In Memory 
 
 Of the very Revd GEORGE STANHOPE, D. D. 
 38 Years Vicar of this Place, and 26 of 
 the Neighbouring Church at DEPTFORD ; 
 * Conflicted Dean of CANTERBURY, A. D. 1703. 
 And thrice Prolocutor, of the Lower Houfe 
 of Convocation. 
 Whofe Piety was real and rational, 
 His Charity great and univerfal, 
 Fruitful in Acts of Mercy, and in all good Works - 
 His Learning was Elegant and Comprehenrive, 
 His Cfonyerfation Polite and Delicate, 
 Crave without Precifenefs, Facetious without Levity % 
 The good Chriftian, the folid Divine 
 and the fine Gentleman, 
 in him were happily united ; 
 Who, tho' amply qualified for the Higheft 
 
 Honours of his Sacred Function, 
 Yet was content with only deferving them. 
 In his Paftoral Office a Pattern to his People, 
 And to all who (hall fucceed him in the Care of them. 
 His Difcourfes from the Pulpit 
 Were equally pleafing and profitable, 
 A beautiful Intermixture of the clearer! Reafoning 
 with the pureft Diction, 
 Attended with all the Graces of a juft Elocution; 
 As his Works from the Press have fpoke the Praifes 
 Of his happy Genius ; his Love of God and Men ; 
 for which Generations to come 
 will blefs his Memory. 
 He was born March the 5th. He died March the 1 8th 172^ 
 Aged 68 Years. 
 
 O 4 SYDALL. 
 
[ 200 ] 
 S Y D A L L. 
 
 T? LIAS SYDALL, the fourteenth Dean, 
 was a (r) native of Norwich, and the 
 Son of a Glover in that City. 
 
 He was (s) admitted in April 1688 a 
 Bible Clerk, on the foundation of Arch- 
 bifhop Parker at Bennet College Cam- 
 bridge ; where he took the degree of B. A. 
 in 1691, and that of M. A. in 1695, 111 
 which year he was elected Fellow of the 
 fame Society. His acquifition of the Fel- 
 low Chip he (t) owed to Dr. Greene (u) who 
 refigned in his favour, and to whom Dr. (w) 
 
 (r) MaftWs Hift. of C. C. C. C. 368. (s) Ibid, (t) Ibid. 
 177. 
 
 (u) Thomas Greene D. D. Fellow of Bennet, and Matter in 
 1698, was domeftic Chaplain to Archb. Tenifon, by whom he was 
 collated in 1695 to the Vicarage of Miniler in the Ifle of Thanet, 
 in 170a to the iixth Prebend in the Church of Canterbury, and in 
 1708 to the Rectory of Adifham in Kent, as aho to the Archdea- 
 conry of Canterbury. In 1716 he became Vicar of St. Martin's 
 in the Fields, Bifhop of Norwich in 1721, and Bifhop of Ely in 
 1723. He died in 1738, aged 80. [See Mafters's Hiil. of 
 C. C. C. C] 
 
 (w) William Stanley D. D elecled Mailer in 1693, was Reclcr 
 of Raine,Effex, afterwards of St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fifli- Street, 
 London, and of Much-Hadham, Herts, Prebendary of St. Paul's 
 in 1684, and Canon Refidentiary in 1689, Archdeacon of Londcn 
 in 1691-2, and laftly Dean of St. Afaph in 1706. He was Ne- 
 phew to Dr. Beveridge, Bifhop of St. Afaph. He died in 1731, 
 in the 85th year of his age. [See B. Willis's St. Afaph, and 
 Mate's Hift. ofC.C.tfC] 
 
 Stanley 
 
SYBALL. 201 
 
 Stanley Matter of the College paid the com- 
 pliment of recommending his SuccefTbr. 
 He had been ordained in the preceding year. 
 
 Continuing to refide in the Univerfity he 
 he was appointed Junior (x) Taxor in 1 698. 
 In the following year he (y) engaged in the 
 duty of St. Benedict's Church in Cam- 
 bridge, to which his College, as Impro- 
 priators, fupplied the Minifter. He re- 
 linquimed it in 1702. For, having been 
 appointed Chaplain to Archbifhop Teni- 
 fon, he was collated by him in (z) March 
 170X-2 to the Rectory of Biddenden in 
 the County of Kent ; which occafioned 
 him to relinquifli his Fellowfhip. This 
 benefice, however, he reiigned, on being 
 prefented by the fame Patron in (a) June 
 1704 to the Rectory of Ivychurch in Rom- 
 ney Marlb. In 1705 he (b) obtained the 
 degree of D. D. 
 
 In 1707 he received additional proofs of 
 the Primate's regard, being collated by him 
 in (c) June to the Rectory of Great 
 Mongeham, (which he held by difpenfa- 
 tion with Ivychurch) and in July to the 
 
 > (x) Mafters's C C. C. C. (y) Ibid, (z) Rtg'fter of Indue- 
 tions. (a) Ibid, (b) Cam, Graduates, (c) Reg, of Indue. 
 
 fourth 
 
&02 S YD ALL. 
 
 fourth Prebend in the Church of Can- 
 terbury. 
 
 In 171 o he was chofen Proftor in Con- 
 vocation for the Clergy of the Diocefe ; 
 and was (d) appointed one of the joint- 
 Committee of both Houfes, who, in 
 171 o- 11, were ordered to prepare a " Re- 
 
 prefentation of the prefect State of Reli- 
 " gion y the refult of whofe confutations 
 was to be presented to the Queen. A Re- 
 prefent&tion was accordingly drawn up, 
 chiefly by the niafterly pen of (e) Atterbury 
 then Prolocutor, in which the ezjceffive 
 growth of Infidelity, Herefy, and Prophane- 
 nefs was defcribed and lamented. But this 
 was confidered by the Upper Houfe as too 
 declamatory, and (f ) another more modeft 
 was prepared by their order. In the end, 
 however, (g) neither of the Representations" 
 was prefented. 
 
 In 171 1 he was (h) appointed by Arch- 
 "fnfhop Tenifon, to the Maftermip of the 
 Hofpitals of St. John North-gate, and St. 
 Nicholas Harbledown, near Canterbury ,: 
 
 (d) Mafters's C. C. C. C. (e) See Article F. Atterbury, 
 B^og. Brit, note (f) Atterbury' s Epiit. Correfpondence, 
 
 vol.ii, 34-9, note, (g) Ibjd. (h) ijift. of the Archiep. Hofpitals 
 In and near Canterbury. 
 
 tQ 
 
SYDALL. 203 
 
 to the duties of which office he faithfully 
 attended till the year 1731, when he re- 
 ligned it to Dr. Lynch, his Succeflbr alfo 
 in his Prebend, and in the Deanery. 
 
 In 17 1 6 he was nominated (i) Chaplain 
 to the King ; and, on the death of Dr. 
 Stanhope, he was promoted to the Deanery 
 of Canterbury, in which he was inftalled 
 (k) April 26, 1728. 
 
 .In 173 ! , on the tranflation of Bifhop 
 (1) Smalbroke to the See of Litchfield and 
 Coventry, he was -advanced to that of St. 
 David's, and was confecrated at (m) Ely 
 Houfe in Holbourn on the nth of April, 
 by a Commiffion from the Archbifliop of 
 (n) Canterbury to the Bifhops of (o) Lon- 
 don, (p) Ely, and(q) Bangor. On this 
 promotion, the Society, of which he had 
 been a Member, fent him their Letters of 
 
 (i) Mafters's C. C. C C. (k) Church Reg. 
 
 (1) Richard Smalbroke D. D. Fellow of Mag. Coll. Oxford; 
 obtained the Golden Prebend in the Church of Hereford in 1709, 
 became Treasurer of Llandaff in 1712, which office, after he 
 quitted it, was annexed by Act of Parliament to the See of Llan- 
 datfin lieu of Mortuaries'. He was alfo Reclor of Wifhington in 
 t e County of Gloucester, and Vicar of Lugwarden in the County 
 of Hereford. In 1723 he was advanced to the Bifhopric of St. 
 David's, and in 1730 tranllated to Litchfield and Coventry. He 
 died in 1749. 
 
 (m) Biown Willis's MS. Notes to Le Neve's Fafti, Bodleian 
 Library, (n) Dr. Wake, (o) Dr. Giblon. (p) Dr. Green, 
 (q) Dr. Shu-lock, afterwards Eiftiop of Salifoury, and laitiy of 
 London. 
 
 (r) Con- 
 
204 SYDALL. 
 
 (r) Congratulation. In November follow- 
 ing, on the tranflation of Biihop (s) Wil- 
 cox to the See of Rochefter, he was tranf- 
 lated to that of (t) Gloucefter. With both 
 Bishoprics he retained the Deanery of Can- 
 terbury till his death, which happened on 
 the 24th of December, 1733, in the 
 6 1 ft year of his age. 
 
 Bifho'p Sydall was much refpeded as a 
 polite Scholar, and much beloved as a mild 
 and diffident Man. Whifton in the cc Me- 
 €i moirs of his own Life and Writings' has 
 obfervedj that he was one of the (u) beft 
 Scholars he had examined for Holy Orders, 
 while Chaplain to Bifiiop (w) Moore. Of 
 his moderation alfo he has related an in- 
 fiance, which concerned himfelf : When 
 the Convocation proceeded again ft him in 
 171 1, Dr. Sydall objeded to the feverity 
 which a Member of that Convocation^ Mr. 
 Needham, appeared to countenance ; and 
 faid, " (x) What you are doing againft 
 
 (r) Mafters's C. C. C. C. t 97 . 
 
 (s) Jofeph Wilcox D: D. Fellow of Mag. Coll. Oxford, was 
 confederated in 1721 Biftiop of Gloucefter, (whiilt Fellow of the 
 College) with which he held a Prebend of Weftminfter in Corn- 
 mendam. In 173 1 he was translated to the See of Rochefter, with 
 which he obtained the Deanery of Weftminfter . He died in 1756. 
 
 (t) B. Willis's MS. Notes, ut fupra. (u) Whifton' s Menu 
 287. (w) Then Bifhop of Norwich, afterwards of Ely. (x) 
 Whifton s Mem. 288. 
 
 « Mr. 
 
SYD ALL . 205 
 
 " Mr. Whifton is like the proceedings in 
 " the Inquifition." Mr. Needham replied 
 in thefe remakable words, " (y) That the 
 " Inquifition, indeed may do now and then 
 < c an hard thing : but, for the main, they 
 < c keep things tight." — In his " Life of Dr. 
 " Clarke" Whifton has reprefented Sydall 
 as a (z) Favourer of the Arians. But the 
 learned ProfeiTor was perhaps too eager to 
 believe, that the Friend who refpedted his 
 abilities, could not but coincide with his 
 opinions. 
 
 Dr. Sydall publiGied Six Sermons. 
 
 1. A Sermon p eached at the Confecraiion 
 of (a) John Bifloop ofLandaff, 30 Jan. 1706. 
 
 2. The true life and Ends of Religious Faft- 
 ing, with a brief account of the Original of 
 Lent, 17 1 3. 
 
 3. The reafonablenefs of rejoicing and giv- 
 ing thanks for his Majefifs happy accejjion to 
 the throne $ on the Anniverfary thereof % Aug.. 
 1, 1715. 
 
 4. 5. The true P rote ft ant arid Church of 
 "England Clergy Vindicated from the Imputa- 
 
 (y) WhirWs Mem. aS§. (z) Wh'fton's Life of C'arke, 15. 
 
 (3.) John Tyler D. D. of Braze NoleCoii. Oxford, who in 
 obtained the Prebend of Bartonfram in die Church of Hereford. 
 He wasr Vicar of St. Peter's in Hereford. In 169a he was made 
 Dean of Hereford j and in 1705 Bifhop of LlandarFj to which See 
 he was a great Bentfaitor* He died in 1724. 
 
 tion 
 
206 SYB ALL. 
 
 Hon of preaching up themfehes ; m two dif- 
 courfes, the former preached at Tunbridge 
 Wells in 171 5, the latter at the Cathedral 
 Church of Canterbury in 1716. 
 
 6. The infuppor table Yoke of Popery, con* 
 fidered and applied with regard Jo the Prefent 
 Rebellion, preached alfo at the Cathedral, 
 Nov. 5, I 7 I 5* 1° this Difcourfe he made 
 ufe of a proverbial expreffion, which fome 
 of his Hearers were pleafed to (b) mifun- 
 derftand < as if he had affirmed that the 
 Pretender would Drove himfelf the legiti- 
 mate Son of parties ; when the difcuffion of 
 that point was foreign to his purpofe, and 
 when he intended no more than to afTert the 
 exacl refemblance that would mark the 
 conduct of both. He cautions his Audi- 
 ence not to be deceived with the vain Affu- 
 ranee of Safety to Proteftants under a P'opiffi 
 Prince : " Remember/' fays he, <c the 
 6£ Promifes and Performances of the Father 
 <r of him who now wants to rule over you, 
 <* And be ye allured, that whatever this 
 * c Pretender be in another refpedt, in that 
 «< of Promifes and Performances he will 
 * € approve himfelf his Fathers own Son," 
 
 (c) See the Note at the End of this Sermon. 
 
 The 
 
SYDALLo 207 
 
 The Preacher, indeed, has displayed with 
 fo much manly zeal, the advantages which 
 the Nation enjoyed under a Proteftant 
 Prince, and the miferies it muft have dif- 
 fered under a Popifli Pretender, that an ex- 
 tract will not, perhaps, be thought uninte- 
 refting. <c If" fays he, " you are for 
 " Falfe Dolifrine, Superjlition, and Idolatry ; 
 <c if you are for Ignorance? implicit Faith, 
 
 and blind Obedience in Religion ; if you 
 <c are for an Inquifition or Perfection on that 
 €C Account 1 if you are for Arbitrary Power 
 * c and Tyranny in Government , and for Sla- 
 *< ver y and Poverty, the neceflary Confe- 
 <e quences thereof ; if you are forgiving up 
 €C all that is or ought to be valuable to you, 
 " both as Men, and as Chriflians ; if you 
 ie are for undoing, at once, all that God 
 cc has been doing for us thefe 170 Years, 
 cs and defeating all the gracious Deiive- 
 " rancies he hath wrought for us fince the 
 iC Reformation ; if you defire to fee that 
 " Church which God's own Right Hand 
 " hath planted, and fo wonderfully pre- 
 " ferv'd in thefe Kingdoms, pluck'd up 
 " at laft and deftroyed 5 if you want to have 
 "..this Solemn Day of Thankfgiving for 
 * 5 our Deliverance from the Yoke of Popery 
 
 m 
 
2©8 SYDALL. 
 
 rf fet afide, and changed for another, for 
 " bringing it again upon us : And if you 
 c can reconcile fuch Behaviour with the 
 ' Oath of Abjuration, whereby you have 
 c fworn, to the utmojl of your Power, to 
 4 Support, Maintain, and Defend the prefent 
 c Protefiant SucceJJion ; why then you may 
 c fecretly wifh well to, and not oppofe the 
 ' Pretender and his Adherents. 
 
 ec But if you be for pure Religion, and 
 c Worflnp undefiled with Idolatry and Super - 
 e fiition ; if you be for the Liberty of ftudy- 
 c ing the Word of God, and knowing what 
 
 < it is he requires of you, in order to Sal- 
 e vation, and not depending entirely upon 
 c the Dictates of fallible Men; if you be 
 c for ferving God according to the beft of 
 f your Under (landings and your Confciences, 
 6 which is your only reafonable Service ; if 
 6 you be for Legal Government, whereby 
 c your Kings can never become Tyrants, 
 c nor your/elves be made Slaves ; if you be 
 e for the Increafe of Trade and Wealth, and 
 6 for reaping the Fruits of your own Traf- 
 
 < fick, Induftry, or Labour, which can ne- 
 4 ver be under any kind of Tyranny, whe- 
 • ther Ecclefaftical or Cm/ ; if you be for 
 e keeping thefe Privileges aad Advantages 
 
 which 
 
SYDALL. 209 
 
 " which God hath, by fo many Deliver- 
 " ances, hitherto preferv'd to you, and 
 " fome of which you cannot give up with- 
 " out being Traitors to God, and, in effect, 
 " denying the Lord that bought you - y why 
 " then you are ftedfaftly to adhere to, and 
 " vigoroufly to appear, act, pray, and, 
 " if need be, to fight for, our Rightful 
 " and Lawful Sovereign King GEORGE." 
 
 He wrote the (d) Epitaph upon the Mo- 
 nument erected to the memory of his, 
 friend the Rev. Mr. (e) Bradock, in St. Ste- 
 phen's Church near Canterbury. 
 
 He (f) married the only daughter of 
 Dr. William Deedes, a Phyfician in Can-» 
 terbury, by whom he had no iffue, and who 
 furvived him. (g) 
 
 His remains were interred (h) in St. 
 James's Church, Weftminfter, December 
 31, 1733. In the Chancel, on aflat ftone, 
 is the following Infcription, fome of the 
 Letters of which are almoft effaced. 
 
 (d) Mate's C. C. C. C. 370. 
 
 (e) This worthy Divine, John Bradock M. A. was Fellow of 
 Catha;ine Hall, Cambridge, and Vicar of St. Stephen's. He died 
 in 1719, aged 64.. 
 
 (f) Matters. 
 
 (g) She 'died in 1758, aged 69, and was buried in St. James's 
 Church, Weftminfter, near the remains of her Hufband. 
 
 (h) B. Willis's MS. Notes to Le Neve's Fafti. 
 
 P Spe, 
 
210 
 
 SYDALL. 
 
 Spe felici Refurre&ionis 
 Hie Situs eft Elias Sydall S. T. P. 
 Nordovici ex Parentibus ingenuis natus, 
 Cantabrigi^: Literis infitus 
 Et in Collegii Corporis Chrifti Societatem cooptatus ; 
 lade a Thoma nuper Aj chiepifcopo Cautuarienfi, 
 Ut ei a facris efTet, vocatus ; 
 Et Ecclefiae Cantuarienfis Canonicatu, 
 Praeter alia Beneficia donatus» 
 Tandem a Rege Georgio 2 do . 
 Ad iftius Ecclefiae Decanatum, 
 Poftea ad Epifcopatum Menevensem 
 Mox ad Glocestriensem Evedtus. 
 Ex his Viator Satis fuperque difces 
 
 Qiiis hie Homo fuerit, 
 Cujus C meres atque offa jam calcas ; 
 Qualis autem fuerit, 
 In die illo extremo 
 Cum Deus occulta Hominum indicaverit 
 Sat cito Intelliges, 
 Tu interea 
 Noli ante Tempus quicquam judicare $ 
 Obiit fi id tibi interfit, 
 24°. Die Menfis Decembris 
 f iErae Chriftianae 1733. 
 Anno 1 yEtatis fuse 61. 
 
 LYNCH. 
 
[ 211 ] 
 
 L Y N C H. (h) 
 
 JOHN LYNCH, the fifteenth Dean, 
 *J was defcended from an ancient Family 
 in the County of Kent, formerly fettled in 
 the fouthern part of it ; where Simon 
 Lynch founded a Grammar School at 
 Cranbrook in the reign of Elizabeth, 
 which continues to this day : he after- 
 wards purchafed the prefent Seat at Groves 
 in the Parifli of Staple, diftant about eight 
 miles from Canterbury : he was Member 
 in two fucceffive Parliaments for Sandwich 
 under the troublefome Government of 
 Mary. From him in a lineal fucceflion de- 
 fcended John, the Father of Dean Lynch, 
 who was efteemed one of the moil: ufeful 
 and popular men of his time in Kent : he 
 was High Sheriff of the County in the laft 
 year of Queen Anne, and on her Majefty's 
 deceafe proclaimed George I. whom he re- 
 ceived, at the head of the Gentlemen of 
 the County, on his arrival into thefe domi- 
 nions. 
 
 (h) The Editor is much indebted fo a Relation of Pean. 
 lynch' s> for the materials which form this Memoir. 
 
 P 2 Dean 
 
212 LYNCH. 
 
 Dean Lynch was born December 5, 
 1697, anc ^ was educated a ^ the King's 
 School In Canterbury 5 from which he re- 
 moved in his eighteenth year to St. John's 
 College Cambridge, and took the degree 
 (i) of B. A. in 1717, that of M. A. in 
 1 72 1. In the fame year he was alfo or- 
 dained a Deacon in that Univerlity. It is 
 faid to have been contrary to the wifhes of 
 his Father that he went into Orders. He 
 obtained preferment, however, in the 
 Church, almoft as foon as he was capable 
 of holding it. For he was collated by 
 Archbifhop Wake to the Rectory of All- 
 Hallows Bread Street in May 1723. 
 
 On the promotion of Dr. Sydall in 1728 
 to the Deanery of Canterbury, he was pre- 
 ferred by the fame Patron to the fourth 
 Prebend in that Cathedral. In this year 
 he obtained the degree of (k) D. D. at 
 Cambridge, having attended his Majefty 
 as one of his Chaplains, to Newmarket. 
 And on the (1) resignation of Dr. Teni- 
 fon (afterwards Bifhop of OfTory) he was 
 collated by the Primate to the Rectory of 
 Sundrich in Kent, which he held by dif- 
 penfation with his Living in London. 
 
 (i) Cambridge Graduate Book, (k) Ibid. (1) Mailers's 
 Hift.of CC.C. C 4.0.1. l n 
 
LYNCH, 2I3 
 
 In the April following he married Mary 
 the youngeft daughter of Archbiihop 
 Wake. He foon after received from his 
 Grace the valuable Option of the Mafter- 
 fhip of St. Crofs Hofpital near Winchefter, 
 and exchanged the Rectory in Bread Street 
 for that of Ailhallows the Great in Thames 
 Street. 
 
 In May 1731 he obtained from the fame 
 Patron the valuable Redtories of Ickham 
 and Biihopfbourne near Canterbury, and 
 in October following the Sinecure Re£tory 
 of Eynesford. He therefore relinquimed 
 his London benefice, as alfo that of Sun- 
 drich. In this year Dean Sydall, who was 
 advanced to the See of St. David's, re- 
 figned to Dr. Lynch the Mafierihip of the 
 Hofpitals of St. Nicholas Harbledown, and 
 St. John North gate. The fame liberal 
 motive which had induced the former to ac- 
 cept it from Archbifhop Tenifon, to whom 
 he had been Chaplain, inclined the latter 
 to receive it from Archbifhop Wake, to 
 whom he was Son-in-law : the appoint- 
 ment being attended with no emolument, 
 but requiring much attention in the poffef- 
 for to regulate the concerns of thofe en- 
 
 P 3 dowments. 
 
214 LYNCHo 
 
 dowments, He confcientiouflv difchar^ed 
 this truft till 1744? when he refigned it to 
 a worthy fucceffor, the Rev. Thomas (m) 
 Lamprey, Minor Canon of Canterbury Ca- 
 thedral. 
 
 In January 1733-4, on the death of 
 Biihop Sydall, Dr. Lynch was promoted to 
 the Deanery of Canterbury, and was in- 
 ftalled the 18th of that month. He was 
 for fom< time prevented from refiding re- 
 gularly on tfcis dignity, (as he otherwife 
 would have done) by the declining health 
 of his father-in law. And he continued 
 at Lambeth, to affift in the bufinefs incum- 
 bent on the Primate's office, till the death 
 of that worthy Son of the Church of Eng- 
 land in January 1736-7 a Prelate, who 
 with the greateft abilities pofiefTed the mo ft 
 liberal opinions ; and who adorned his emi- 
 nent ftation with that exemplary fidelity, 
 which will never be forgotten. 
 
 Dean Lynch now divided his time, 
 chiefly between his Deanery and his pater- 
 nal houfe. And as he was diftinguiihed 
 no lefs for his hofpitality, than for his 
 
 (m) Thomas Lamprey M. A. formerly Chaplain of Chrift 
 Church Oxford, and- Minifter of St, Mary Magdalen in that city ; 
 afterward Minor Canon of Canterbury, Rector of St. Martin's, 
 and V car of St. Paul's in that City. He died in 1760. He was 
 a found Scholar, and a judicious Divine, 
 
 much 
 
LYNCH. 215 
 
 agreeable converfation, his company was 
 much folicited, and his focial qualities 
 were greatly efteemed by a large and polite 
 neighbourhood. 
 
 In the Rebellion which broke out in 
 1745, he was forward by his purfe and in- 
 fluence to (hew his attachment to our ex- 
 cellent Conftitution, as he was by his con- 
 ventions and fermons to expofe the dan- 
 gers of Popery. 
 
 In 1747 he was appointed Prolocutor 
 of the Lower Houfe of Convocation. He 
 attended afterwards at the head of the 
 Clergy to prefent an Addrefs to his Majefty 
 on the peace which was made at Aix la 
 Chapelle. 
 
 In 1747 Dr. Herring, Archbiihop of 
 York, had been tranflated to the See of 
 Canterbury, with whom Dr. Lynch had 
 commenced an acquaintance at the Uni- 
 verfity. Their relation to each other in the 
 fame Church, now improved into a friend- 
 Ihip, which death only diffolved. That 
 accomplifhed Primate died in 1757; foon 
 after which the Dean was feized with a 
 paralytic ftroke, which (to ufe his own ex- 
 preffion) c< left the animal, bat dejiroyed the 
 man." He made an effort, however, to 
 
 P 4 exert 
 
2l6 LYNCH, 
 
 exert his faculties, and preached in the Ca- 
 thedral. But he delivered his Sermon with 
 fo much apprehenlion of a failure, that he 
 never more repeated the attempt. 
 
 He therefore obtained a Royal Difpen- 
 fation to excufe him from all duty : but 
 ftill continued at the Deanery. Nor was 
 he inattentive to his affairs, till his facul- 
 ties began to leave him fome months before 
 his death, which happened on Whit fun day 
 the 25th of May 1760, in the 63d year of 
 his age. His remains were conveyed to the 
 family .vault at Staple ; but as yet no mo- 
 nument is ere&ed to his memory. 
 
 To the preferment which he po defied , 
 muft be added the Treafurerfhip in the 
 Church of Sarum, another of Archbifhop 
 Wake's Options. Large as his Income 
 may appear, yet his expences were equal 
 to his revenues. On his Prebendal and 
 Deanery Houfes he had expended no 
 lefs than 3000I. And his private charities 
 were known to equal his public fpirit. 
 
 To the Society which was formed in 
 175 1 for the fupport of the Widows and 
 Orphans of the Clergy in this Diocefe, he 
 was an early and liberal Subfcriber. There 
 were, indeed, few public Charities of 
 
 whicrj 
 
LYNCH. 217 
 
 which he was not a Member, and few oc- 
 cafional to which he did not contribute. 
 The Intereft of the School at Canter- 
 bury he warmly and fuccefsfully promoted, 
 gratefully remembering the Scholar in the 
 Dean. 
 
 He was much admired as a Preacher. 
 And while his health continued, he feldorn 
 failed to officiate on Sundays, either in his 
 parifhes, or in the Cathedral. He has, 
 however, publifhed only one (n) Serrngn, 
 which was delivered in 1735 before the So- 
 ciety for the Propagation of the Gofpel, 
 and printed at their requeft. Yet otherpub- 
 lic bodies, before whom he had preached, 
 paid him the fame compliment, which he 
 modeftly declined. 
 
 His Widow, to whom he had been a 
 kind and affe&ionate Hufband, furvived 
 him between feven and eight years. His 
 eldeft fon. Sir William Lynch, K B. was 
 elected Reprefentative in Parliament for 
 Canterbury in 1768 : he died in 1785. His 
 fecond Son Dr. John Lynch, the only li- 
 ving member of his family, is now Pre- 
 bendary of the fifth Stall in Canterbury 
 
 (n) On A6ls v t 38, 39. 
 
 Cathedral, 
 
2l8 LYNCH. 
 
 Cathedral, Archdeacon of the Diocefe, and 
 Redlor of St. Dionis, London. 
 
 The following Infcription is intended for 
 the Dean's Monument : 
 
 M. S. 
 
 JoHAftNfs Lynch" de Groves in Staple s. r p 0 
 Decani .Cantuarienfis, Hofpitii S. Crucis 
 prope Wintoniam Magiftri, Ecclefise Sarif- 
 burienfis Thefaurarii, et Reftoris Paro- 
 chiarumde Ickham et BiAop&otirne, et de 
 Eynesford fine cura animarum ; Quas dig- 
 nitateset beneficia Favor et Amicitia GuL 
 Wake Archiepifcopi Cantuarienfis Viri de 
 omnibus Reform-atom in Ecclefiis optime 
 ifteriti contulit publicum Amoris Argu- 
 mentum, privatum autem, quodque illi 
 1onge carius, Mariam filiam natu Mini- 
 mam, faeminam animi vere Chrifliani nup» 
 turn dedit ; .ex qua duos fflids et fex Alias 
 fefdepit, quorum feptem fuperftites reli- 
 quit.— Curas Parochiales Paterno Ruri vi- 
 cinas digit, ne rei familiaris neceffitudine 
 ab ofiiciis ecclefiaflicis diftraheretur j In 
 quibus diligentem, in regimine Ecckfiae 
 Cathedralis vigilantem, in amicos iidelem, 
 in pauperes munificum 3 in fuos pium, in 
 
 omnes 
 
LYNCH, 2I9 
 
 omnes liberalem fi quis kudat, in quan- 
 tum poffit, imitetur, Deumque imperfecta 
 opera Chriili meritis condonaturum fuppli- 
 citer precetur. 
 
 FRIEND. 
 
[ 220 ] 
 
 FRIEND. 
 
 ^yTLLIAM FRIEND, the fixteenth 
 Dean, was the Son of Dr. (o) Ro- 
 bert Friend, Head Mafter of W eftminfter 
 School, by Jane daughter of Dr. (p) Sa- 
 muel Delangle, Prebendary of W eftminfter. 
 His Grandfather was the Rev. William 
 Friend, Redlor of Croughton, in North- 
 amp ton ihire. 
 
 He was admitted a Scholar at Weftmin- 
 Iter School in (q) 1727 s whence he was 
 eledted in 173 1, at the age of (r) fixteen, to 
 Chrift Church, Oxford, where he took the 
 degree of M. A. in June (s) 1738. 
 
 He had a better view, than a continuance 
 on his Studentship. For, as he was de- 
 
 (o) Robert Friend D. D. a very accomplifhed Scholar, was 
 Student of Chrift Church, Oxford, became Second Mafter of Weft- 
 minfter School in 1699, and in 171 1 Htad Mafter. In March 
 1710 he was prefented to the valuable Recloiy or Witney. In 
 1727, he was made Canon of Windfor, and in 1731, Preb ndary 
 ©f Weftminfter. In 173a he became Canon of Chrift Church, Ox- 
 ford, when herefigned the Stall at Weftminfter. He died in 1754, 
 aged 84, and was buried in the Chancel of Witney Church. 
 
 (p) Dr. Delangle was on. o f the Pafturs of the Reformed Church 
 of I harenton, and taking refuge in England, became Prebendary 
 of Weft ir. in iter. [Anecdotes of Bowyer, 330 ] 
 
 (q) Welch's Lift of Scholars of St. Peter's Coll. Weftminfter 
 (r) Umvermy Matriculation Book, (s) Oxford Graduate Book] 
 
 figned 
 
FRIEND. 22t 
 
 iigned for the Church, his Father, who 
 was Redtor of Witney in the County of 
 Oxon, had (t) folicited to refign that valu- 
 able benefice in his favour, when he fhould 
 be qualified to take it. The permiffion of 
 the Patron, Bifhop Hoadly, is (u) faid to 
 have been obtained with this laconic an- 
 fwer, " Jf Dr. Friend can ajk it, I can 
 grant it? On the refignation of his father 
 March 26, (w) 1739, he was inftituted to 
 the Redory the 4th of April following. 
 
 In (x) 1744 he obtained a Prebend of 
 Weftminfter. In (y) 1747 he was pre- 
 fented by that Collegiate Body to the Rec- 
 tory of Iflip near Oxford, with which 
 he held by difpenfation the Redtory of 
 Witney. 
 
 In July (z) 1748 he accumulated the 
 degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Divinity, 
 for which he went out Grand Compounder. 
 
 In 1756, on the promotion of Dr. (a) 
 Gregory to the Deanery of Chrift Church, 
 
 (t) Bowver's Anec. 325. (u) Ibid. (w) Bifhop of Oxford's 
 Regiiler. (x) Bowyer's Anec. 330. (y) Bifhop Ox. Reg. Feb. 
 29, 1747. (x) Oxford Graduates. 
 
 (a) David Gregory D. D. Student of Chrift Church, and Rector 
 of Semly, Wilts, became Canon in 1736, and Dean in 1756. He 
 was appointed the Firit Profeffor of Modern Hiftory andLanguages 
 on the Foundaiion of that Profeffjrfhip by King George I. he was 
 alfp Prolocutor of the Lower Koufe of Convention, and Mailer of 
 Sherborne Hofpital near Durham, He died in 1767 and .was bu - 
 ried in Chrift Church Cathedral, fGutch's Kift of the Coll. and 
 Halls, Oxford.] 
 
 Oxford 
 
222 FRIEND. 
 
 Oxford, (b) he fucceeded him in the Ca- 
 ll on ry of that Church, and (c) relinquifhed 
 the Prebend of Weflminfter. 
 
 In 1760, on the death of Dr. Lynch, he 
 was advanced to the Deanery of Canterbury, 
 This dignity he is (d) faid to have obtained 
 without felicitation, having unconditionally 
 refigned his flail at Chrift Church, in or- 
 der to accommodate his Patron with the 
 difpofal of it. He was in flailed Dean of 
 Canterbury June the (e) 14th, 
 
 In (f) 1761 he was elected Prolocutor of 
 the Lower Houfe of Convocation ^ and on 
 the 6th of November he delivered before 
 the Clergy 3 in the Church of St. Paul, an 
 elegant and animated Latin Sermon. 
 
 He died at Canterbury, Nov, 26, 1766, 
 aged 55. Few deans have been more ef- 
 teemed than Dr. Friend > for his attain- 
 ments, as a fcholar and a gentleman, were 
 eminent : his conduct, as a divine, was ex- 
 emplary. He poffeffed a moft benevolent 
 heart $ and he was modeft and unafTuming. 
 
 (b) Communicated by the Rev. Mr. Gutcfe, of All Souls Col- 
 lege, to whom the Editor Is greatly indebted fur fevera.1 particulars 
 from the Uiuverfity Regifier Books 
 
 (c) Bowyer's Anec, 330. (d) Ibid. 587. (e) Church Reg. 
 (i; Bowyer's Anec. 330. (g) Not at Witney, as faid in law- 
 yer's Anec. 330. 
 
 Ho 
 
FRIEND. 223 
 
 He publifhed cc A Sermon preached be- 
 c< fore the Honfe of Commons, January 30, 
 <€ 1755 j" and the <€ Concio ad Ckrum, No- 
 fc vember 6, 1761 There is, in the Ox- 
 ford Collection, a Copy of Latin Verfes by 
 him, on the marriage of the Prince of 
 Orange with the Princefs Anne, daughter 
 of George II. in 1734. He wrote alfo an 
 epitaph on his friend Dr. (h) Morres, Vi- 
 car of Hinckley, whofe great accomplifli- 
 ments he has difplayed with peculiar 
 energy. 
 
 He was a great Lover of Mufic, which 
 he patronifed and praclifed. Concerts at 
 the Deanery, in his time, were frequent ; 
 and many of the Performers were the prin- 
 cipal Gentlemen in Canterbury and the 
 neighbourhood. 
 
 He was Chaplain in Ordinary both to 
 the late and prefent King. He married one 
 of the Sifters of the late Sir Thomas Robin- 
 fonand the prefent (i) Primate of Ireland * 
 
 (h) Thomas Morres D D. who had been Fellow of Hertford 
 College, Oxford, and was Chaplain to the Princefs Dowager of 
 Wales, and V car of H nckley, in the County of Leicefter.° He 
 was a profound Schoiar, aud an exemplary Divbe. He died fud^ 
 denly March 16, 1761, aged 47. [See Hiftoiy of Rin.kley, 
 4-t.o, page 40.] 
 
 (i) Richard Robinfon D. D. (now Baron Rekeby of the King*, 
 dom of Ireland) was Student of Chrift Church, Oxford. In 175^ 
 hs was roade Bilhop of Killala and Aconry, in 1759 he wa s tranf. 
 
224 FRIEND. 
 
 by whom he left three Sons (k) Robert^ 
 (1) William-Maximilian, and (m) John | 
 and a daughter Elizabeth (n) married to 
 Captain Duncan Campbell, of the Chat- 
 ham Divifion of Marines. 
 
 His remains were removed to Witney, 
 and interred near thofe of his Father and 
 Mother. Under the handfome Monument,, 
 erecled within the rails of the Communion 
 Table in that Church, on a fmall fair piece 
 of Marble, is the following Infcription to 
 the Memory of the Dean ; 
 
 Here lieth the Body of William 
 Friend D. D. (Son of the above-named 
 Robert and Jane) Dean of Canterbury, and 
 Redor of this Pari£h, who died on the 
 26th of November, in the year of our Lord 
 1766, aged 55. 
 
 lated to the Sees of Ferns and Leighlin, In 1761 to that of Kildare* 
 and in 1765 to the Archhifhopric of Armagh, which his Grace 
 now enjoys. 
 
 (k) Robert Friend was a Canoneer-Student of Chrift 
 Church, and died young. [Communicated by the Rev. Mr. Gutch] 
 
 (1) William-ivi aximilian Friend was alfo a Canonetr- * 
 Student of ChriH Church, where he proceeded M. A. in 1771, and 
 afterwards h d preferments in Ireland from his relation the Lord 
 Primate ; which, however, he foon religned, and returned to Ox- 
 ford. He is at prefent Reclor of Chinnor near Thame in the 
 County of Oxford. [Ibid.] 
 
 (m) John Friend was ehcled from Weflminfter School to 
 Chrift Church 1772, and proceeded M. A. in 1779. In 1778 he 
 was made Prebendary of Armagh, snd in 1787 Archdeacon of Ar- 
 magh, with which dignities he has alfo a Living in Ireland. [Ibid.] 
 
 (n) Bowyer's Anec, 330, 
 
 POTTER. 
 
[ "5 ] 
 POTTER. 
 
 J OHN POTTER, the feventeenth Dean, 
 was the eldeft Son of Dr. (p) Potter, 
 Archbimop of Canterbury. He received 
 (as I have been informed) a private educa- 
 tion ; and was entered a Member of Chrift 
 Church, Oxford, in 1727, where he was 
 foon after appointed (q) Canoneer-Student, 
 his Father being, at that time, Canon of 
 the Church as well as Bifhop of the See. 
 He took the degree of M. A. in June (r) 
 
 His firft promotion in the Church, was 
 to the Vicarage of Blackburne in the 
 County of Lancafter, in the gift of his 
 Father, as Archbimop of Canterbury ; by 
 whofe intereft he obtained alfo in 1739 
 the valuable Sinecure of Elme cum Em- 
 neth in the Ifle of Ely. On the death of 
 
 (p) John Potter D. D. a moft learned and able Prelate, was 
 filif of Univerfity Coll. Oxford, then Fellow of Lincoln, after- 
 wards Regius ProfefTor of Divinity and Canon of Chrift Church. 
 In 1 7 1 5 , he was promoted to the See of Oxford, and in 1736-7 was 
 translated to the Archbilhopric of Canterbury. He died in 1 747. 
 
 (q) So called, as being nominated either by the Dean or Canons, 
 and not elected from Weftminfter School. 
 
 (r) Oxford Graduate Book. 
 
 Q_ Dr. 
 
226 POTTER. 
 
 Dr. (s) Rye, Archdeacon of Oxford, he 
 was prefented by his Father to that Arch- 
 deaconry, which was an option ; in which 
 he was inftalled September (t) 22, 1741. 
 In November following he took the (u) de- 
 gree of B. D. 
 
 In 1742 he was collated by his Father 
 to the Vicarage of (w) Lydde in Kent, with 
 which he held by difpenfation the Reftory 
 of Chidingftone in the fame county, con- 
 ferred on him by the fame patron. In 1745 
 he was prefented by the Crown to a Pre- 
 bend of Canterbury, in which he was in- 
 ftalled (x) September 27. In Oftober fol- 
 lowing he took the (y) degree of D. D. for 
 which he went out Grand Compounder, 
 as he had alfo for that of B. D. In 1747 
 he relinquifhed the Rectory of Chiding- 
 ftone, being collated by his Father to the 
 rich benefice of Wrotham in Kent, with 
 which alfo he retained the Vicarage of 
 Lydde. He is faid to have been a very li- 
 beral (z) Benefactor in refpedl to beautify - 
 
 (s) George Rye D.D.wasof Oriel College, Oxford, became 
 Archdeacon in 1724. ; he was alfo Reft or of Iflip near Oxford. In 
 3736-7 he was appointed Regius ProfefTor of Divinity, and Canon 
 of Chrift Church. He died in July 1 74.1. 
 
 (t) On his Picture in the Deanery, (u) Oxford Graduates, 
 (w) Regifter of Inductions, (x) Church Reg. (y) Oxford 
 Graduates, (z) Halted' s Kent, vol. ii, *44> *45» 
 
POTTER, 227 
 
 ing the Church, and greatly improving the 
 Parfona^e Houfe at Wrotham. 
 
 In 1766, on the death of Dr. Friend, he 
 was a dvanced to the Deanery of Canter- 
 bury, in which he was inftalled (a) De- 
 cember 23. On his promotion to this 
 dignity, he refigned the Archdeaconry of 
 Oxford, in which he was fucceeded by Dr. 
 (b) Randolph, Prefident of Corpus Chrifti 
 College. 
 
 After a fhort illnefs, he died at Wrotham; 
 on the 20th of September 1770, aged 57. 
 He was Chaplain in Ordinary both to the 
 late and prefent King. He does not appear 
 as an Author, except of a Copy of Verfes, 
 in the Oxford Collection, on the marriage 
 of the Prince of Orange with the Princefs 
 Anne, in 1734. 
 
 He had married early in life, but to the 
 difapprobation of his Father, who, how- 
 ever, prefented him, as we have feen, to 
 feveral preferments in the Church, but did 
 not make him the Heir of his fortune. 
 
 (a) Church Reg. 
 
 (b) Thomas Randolph D. D. a learned and eminent Divine, 
 'was a native of Kent, and educated at Canterbury School ; he was 
 elected Prelident of Corpus in 1748. Ke was afterwards cholen 
 Lady Margaret's Proferfor of Divinity, and befides the Archdea- 
 conry of Oxford, he obtained the Livings of Petham cum Walt- 
 ham, and Saltwood cum Hythe in his native County. He died in 
 1783, aged 8a, and was buried in the cloifter of his College, where 
 there is an Infcription to his memory. 
 
 Qjs His 
 
228 POTTER* 
 
 His remains were brought from Wrot- 
 ham, and interred in the Dean's Chapel in 
 the Cathedral on the 27th of September. — » 
 On a flat Marble is the following Infcrip- 
 tion to his Memory : 
 
 Johannes Potter S. T. P. 
 
 Cathedralis Ecclesi^e Cantuariensis 
 
 Decanus 
 
 Obiit — 20 — Septembers 
 
 f post natum Christum mdccucx, i 
 Annos 
 
 / i^TATIS SUiE LVII. 
 
 north; 
 
[ 22 9 ] 
 
 NORTH. 
 
 HE Hon. BROWNLOW NORTH, 
 
 the eighteenth Dean, Uncle to the 
 prefent Earl of Guilford, D. C. L. and 
 formerly Fellow of All Souls College, Ox- 
 ford, was promoted, on the death of Dr. 
 Potter, from a Canonry of Chrift Church, 
 Oxford, to the Deanery of Canterbury, in 
 which he was inftalled October 9, 1770. In 
 the following year, on the tranflation of 
 Bifhop (d) Egerton, he was advanced to 
 the See of Lichfield and Coventry, and was 
 confecrated September 8. From this See he 
 was tranflated to that of Worcefter, on the 
 death of Biihop (e) Johnfon in 1774.; and 
 thence to that of Winchefter in 178 1, on 
 the death of Bifhop (f ) Thomas. 
 
 (d) John Egerton D. C. L. formerly of Oriel College, Oxford, 
 Dean ot Hereford in 1750, Biihop of Bangor in 1756, tranflated 
 to the See;of Lichfield and Coventry in 1768, and laftly to that 
 of Durham in 1771. He died in January 1787. 
 
 (e) James Johnfon D. D. formerly of "Chrift Church, Oxford, 
 promoted to the See of Gloucefter in 1752, and tranflated to that 
 of Worcefter in 1759. 
 
 (f) John Thomas D. D. formerly Fellow of All Souls College, 
 Oxford, Canon Refidentiary of St. Paul's in 1742, advapcecfto 
 thp See of Peterborough in 1747, from which he was tranflated in 
 
 t 3 - 5 7 to that of Salifbury, and thence hi 1 76 1 to that of Whichever. 
 
 MOORE, 
 
[ 2 3 0 3 
 
 MOOR E. 
 
 JOHN MOORE, the nineteenth Dean, 
 D. D. formerly of Pembroke College, 
 Oxford, was advanced, on the promotion 
 of Dr. North, to the Deanery of Canter- 
 bury ; at which time he was Prebendary of 
 Durham and Canon of Chrift Church, Ox- 
 ford. He "was inftalled in the Deanery Sep- 
 tember 20, 1 771. In 1775 he was removed, 
 on the death of Bifhop (g) Ewer, to the Bi- 
 ihopric of Bangor, and was confecrated Fe- 
 bruary 12. On the death of Archbifhop (h) 
 Cornwallis in 1783, he was tranflated to 
 the Primacy of all England, and is the pre- 
 fent Lord Archbifhop of Canterbury. 
 
 (a) J onn Ewer D. D. formerly of Icing's College, Cambridge, 
 Canon of Windfor, Re&or of Weft Illley, Berks. Biihop of Lan- 
 dafF in 1761, and tranflated to the See of Bangor in 1768. 
 
 (h) The Hon. Frederick Cornwallis D. D. formerly Fellow of 
 Chrift College, Cambridge, Canon of Windfor, Bifhop of Lich- 
 field and Coventry in 174.9, £> ean °f St. Paul's in 1766, and in 
 1 "68 advanced to the metropolitical See of Canterbury. 
 
 CORNWALLIS. 
 
[ 2 3* 1 
 CORNWALLIS. 
 
 npHE Hon. JAMES CORNWALLIS, 
 the twentieth Dean, Brother to the 
 prefent Marquis Cornwallis, D. C. L. and 
 formerly Fellow of Merton College, Ox- 
 ford, was preferred, on the promotion of Dr. 
 Moore, from a Prebend of Weftminfter to 
 the Deanery of Canterbury, in which he 
 was inftalled April 29, 1775. In 1781, 
 on the tranflation of Bifhop (i) Hurd, he 
 was removed to the See of Lichfield and 
 Coventry ; and in 1791, on the tranflation 
 of Bifhop (k) Douglas (who held the 
 Deanery of Windfor with the See of Car- 
 lifle) to the See of Salisbury, he fucceeded 
 him as Dean of Windfor. 
 
 (i) Richard Hurd D. D. formerly Fellow of Emanuel College, 
 Cambridge, Reclor of Thurcafton, Leicefterfhire, Preacher to the 
 Hon. Society of Lincolrfs Inn, Bifhop of Lichfield and Coventry 
 in 1775, and tranflated to the See of Worcefter in 1781. 
 
 (k) John Douglas D. D. formerly of Baliol College Oxford, 
 Canon of Windfor, Canon Refidentiary of St. Paul's, Bifhop of 
 Carliile in 1788, with which he foon after obtained the Deanery 
 of Windfor, and in J791 tranflated to the See of Salifbury. 
 
 Q^4 HORNE. 
 
t 232 } 
 
 H O R N E. 
 
 EORGE HORNE, the twenty-firft 
 
 Dean, was born in (1) 1730, at 
 Otham in the County of Kent, of which 
 Parifh his Father the Rev. Samuel (m) 
 Home was Rector 5 under whofe care he 
 continued till he was about thirteen years 
 of age. He was then fent to Maidftone 
 School, the Matter of which was the Rev. 
 Deodatus (n) Bye, who obferved that 
 << he was fitter to go from School, than to 
 "come to it" He continued, however, 
 tinder his tuition two years, and increafed 
 the approbation which his early abilities 
 had obtained, 
 
 (1) Otham RegUler of Baptifms* " 1730, Nov. 1. George, 
 tc Son of Samuel and Anne Home." Kindly communicated, with 
 dth r particulars, by an intimate friend and relation of the Bifhop; 
 
 (m) Samuel Horne M. A. Reclor alfo of Brede in Su'flex. 
 He died in 1768 aged 75, and was buried in Otham Church. He 
 was a Divine of found principles, and an able Scholar: and was 
 much fydoved as a friendly man. He was fucceeded in both his Rec- 
 tories by his Son William Horne, M. A. formerly Demy of Mag- 
 dalift C oliege, Oxford, the prefcnt poflefTor. 
 
 (n) Deodatus Bye B. A. He had been a-lfo Reclor of Otterden 
 in Kent. His truly primitive piety and various learning rendered 
 him eminent in his day. [See Gem, Mag Feb. 1792.] 
 
HORNE. 233 
 
 In March .(o) 1745-6 he was admitted 
 at Univerfity College, Oxford, having been 
 previoufly chofen to a Scholarship from 
 Maidftone School. In October (p) 1749 he 
 took the degree of B. A. In the follow- 
 ing (q) year he was elected to the (r) Fel- 
 lowship of Magdalen College, which is ap- 
 propriated to a native of Kent. 
 
 In the Univerfity he was a laborious Stu- 
 dent, and gave many an (s) elegant tefti- 
 mony of the various learning which he ac- 
 quired. It was more efpecially his aim to 
 render the attainments of polite Literature 
 fubfervient to the knowledge, and illuftra- 
 tion of the Scriptures. He confidered his 
 time beft employed when with the learned 
 
 (o) Univerfity College Book, viz. March 15th. 
 (p) Ocl. 27. Univerfity Regifter. (q) Magdalen College R.e- 
 gifter. 
 
 (r) The 40 Fellowlhips of Magdalen are thus appropriated 
 
 Co. of Lincoln - 7 Co. of Buckingham 1 
 
 Diocefe of Winchefter 5 Co. of Kent - 1 
 
 Co. of Oxford - 4. Co. of Nottingham 1 
 
 Diocefe of Norwich 4 Co. of Effex - 1 
 
 Co. of Berks - 3 Co. of Somerfet 1 
 
 Co. of Gloucefter 2 Co. of London - 1 
 
 Diocefe of Chichefter 2 Co. of Northampton 1 
 
 Co. of Warwick 2 Co. of Wilts - r 
 
 Diocefe of York or Durham 2, and 1 to the defcendants of John 
 Foreman of the Diocefe of York, and in default thereof; to a na- 
 tive of, or neighbour to Rothwell and Rulton near Wakefield, 
 Yorkfhire. 
 
 (s) He had an elegant tafte in Greek, Latin, and Englifh 
 Poetry ; and many verfes of a fweet ftrain were cccafionally com- 
 poied by him. £Gent, Mag. Jan. i"92.] 
 
 companion 
 
234 HORNE. 
 
 (t) companion of his earlieft Studies, he 
 €t (u) raifed his thoughts from the Poets 
 <c and Orators of Greece and Rome, to the 
 C€ contemplation of the Great Creator's 
 ** wifdom in his word, and in his works/' 
 He became critically acquainted with the 
 Hebrew Language ; and ftudied fuccefs- 
 fully the Fathers of the Church. 
 
 Soon after he had obtained the Fellow- 
 ship, he began to attradt particular obfer- 
 vation, by the warmth with which he 
 efpoufed the Philofophy of Mr. (w) Hutch- 
 infon* In 1751 he commenced an attack 
 upon the Newtonian Syftem, and pnblifhed 
 (but without his name) " The Theology and 
 €€ Philofophy in Cicero s Somnium Scipionis 
 C( explained : or, A Brief Attempt to demon- 
 tz ftrate i that the Newtonian Syftem is per- 
 
 (t) William Jones M. A. now Minifter of Nayland in Suffolk ; 
 of whole eminent abilities as a Divine and a Philuibpher the world 
 hath received many valuable proofs. 
 
 (u) Dedication of Mr. Jones's Sermon " On the Natural Hif- 
 " toiy of the Earth and its Minerals,"" to Dr. Home, 1787. 
 
 (w) John Hutchinfon, a mcft laborious Scholar, and a very 
 worthy man, whole writings have made no inconfiderable noiie in 
 the learned world, was a native of Yorkmire, and was born in 1674.. 
 His occupation was that of a Steward, in which character he long 
 ferved the Duke of Somerfet. Of his learning and integrity, 
 and of his numerous works, a fatisfaclory account will be found at 
 the end of the third volume of" Floyd's Biography," publiihed in 
 1760 ; which account was furnifhed by Robert Spearman, Efq; 
 the learned author of " An Inquiry after Philofophy and Tlv-o- 
 " logy and of" Letters concerning the Septuagint Tranflation, 
 " and the Heathen Mythology." Mr. Hutchinibn died in 1737, 
 aged 63. 
 
 "fettly 
 
HORNE, 235 
 
 " feclly agreeable to the Notions of the wifeji 
 " Antients ; and that Mathematical Prin- 
 <c ciples are the only fare ones." This Pam- 
 phlet does not confift merely of formal ar- 
 gument : it difplays remarkable humour. 
 
 In (x) 1752 he took the degree of M. 
 In the fame year he engaged in a (y) Con- 
 troverfy on the Subject of the Cherubim, 
 in the Gentleman's Magazine, under the 
 fignature of Ingenuns in reply to Candidns. 
 His remarks were intended to prove that 
 re the Cherubim were a reprefentation of 
 " the Trinity." In the courfe of the dis- 
 pute, however, he was treated rather un- 
 handfomely by the Editor, who declined 
 publifhing his hit letter on the fubjedr, 
 which was a mafterly defence of the Hutch- 
 injonian pofition. 
 
 In 1753 he was fo defirous to illuftrate 
 the merit of Mr. Hutchinfon, (whofe works, 
 in his opinion, were not only received with- 
 out encouragement, but even oppofed with- 
 out due examination) that he publifhed "A 
 fair, candid, and impartial State of the Cafe 
 
 (x) June i. Oxford Graduates, (y) See Gent/s Mag. 1752, 
 and 1753. 
 
 between 
 
236 HORNE. 
 
 €t between Sir Ifaac (z) Newton and Mr. 
 * c Hutchinfon. In which is Jhewn 9 how far 
 cc a Syjlem, of Phyfics is capable of Mathema- 
 " tical demonfiration ; how far Sir Ifaac's, 
 <c asfuch a Syftem has that demonfiration ; and 
 " confeqiiently what regard Mr. Hutchin- 
 ** ions claim may deferve to have paid to it J* 
 
 In the following year he produced an 
 Ironical publication, the peculiarity of 
 which foon difcovers its namelefs author. 
 It was entitled, cc Spicilegium Shuckfordia- 
 * 6 num ; or a Nofegay for the Critics. Being 
 * c fome choice jhwers of modern theology and 
 Ci criticijm gathered out of Dr. (a) Shuck- 
 " ford's Juppkmental difcourfe on the creation 
 « € and fall of man. Not forgetting Bifhop 
 « e (b) Garnet's Vaiikra" 
 
 He had now entered into Holy Orders ; 
 and became a frequent and earned Preacher. 
 His labours, however, were depreciated by 
 the invidious application of a name . v for the 
 
 (z) Sir Ifaac Newton made a vacuum and gravity, the princi- 
 ples or his Philofophy. Mr. Hutchinfon, on the contrary, afierted, 
 that a plenum, and the air are the principles of tue Scripiure Phi- 
 lofophy. 
 
 (a) Samuel Shuc&ford D. D. formerly of Caius College, Cam- 
 bridge, Prebendary of Canterbury, Reelor of All-hallows Lom- 
 ^ard-lheet, London, and Chaplain in Ordinary to George II. He 
 died 1754-5 and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral. 
 
 (b) Joh n Garnet D. D. formerly of Sidney Coll. Cambridge, 
 went out Chaplain to the Duke of Dci-fet, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 
 in 7751, advanced to the united Bifhoprics of Leighiin and Ferns 
 'm iJS z i aR( * tranfrated to that of Clogher in 175S. He died in 1782. 
 
 Hutchinfomau 
 
HORNS. 2^7 
 
 Hutchinfontan was faid to poffefs more zeal 
 than knowledge, more prefumption than 
 humility. Hence a Pamphlet was pub- 
 lifhed in 1756 by a (c) Member of the 
 Univerfity, entitled " A JVordto the Hutch- 
 " infonians ; or Remarks on three extraor- 
 cc dinar y Sermons, lately preached before the 
 <c Univerfity of Oxford, by the Rev. Dr. (d) 
 € * Patten, the Rev. Mr. (e) Wetherell, and 
 " the Rev. Mr. Home." This did not re- 
 main long unanfwered. Mr. Home replied 
 in cc An Apology for certain Gentlemen in the 
 " Univerfity of Oxford, afperfed in a late ano- 
 " nymous Pamphlet, with a Poffcript con- 
 " cerning another Pamphlet lately publifed 
 « by the Rev. Mr. (f) Heathcote." The 
 earneftnefs of this defence, which difplayed 
 his own fincerity, did not, however, con- 
 vince the antagonift ; and there appeared 
 
 (c) Said to be Mr. Kennicott, of whom more prefently. 
 
 (d) Thomas Patten D. D. then Fellow of Corpus Chritiri Col- 
 lege, afterwards Reelor of Child; ey, Berks. He died in 1790. 
 
 (e) Nathan Wetherell, then M. A. and Fellow of Univerlity 
 College } now D. D, Ivlafter of the fame, Dean of Hereford, an$ 
 Prebendary of Weftminller. 
 
 (f) Ralph Heathcote M. A. of Jefus College, Cambridge, then 
 Affiftant Pi-eacher at Lincoln's Inn. The Pamphlet by him, was 
 ** the- Ufe of Reafon aflerted in Matters of Religion j or Natural 
 " Religion the Foundation of Revealed. In anfwer to a Sermon 
 < c preached before the Univerlity of Oxford on Act Sunday, July 
 <£ 13, 1755* and lately pub limed an the requeft of the Vice Chan- 
 " cellor, and other Heads of Houfes j by T. Paitca I). D. Fellow 
 « of Corpus Coil." 
 
 v fooa 
 
238 HORNE. 
 
 foon afterward <c True Cenfure nY Afperfon, 
 <c or, A Vindication of a late feafonable Ad- 
 cc monition, called, A Word to the Hutchin- 
 " fonians. In a Letter to the Rev. Mr. 
 c Home." 
 
 From fcenes of controverfy we return 
 to thofe of academical employment, when 
 we find Mr. Home in 1758 Junior (g) 
 Proctor of the Univerfity ; an office which 
 he adorned by the amiable connexion of 
 mildnefs with authority. 
 
 At the expiration of the Prodlorfhip he 
 took the degree of (h) B. D. 
 
 In 1760 he publifhed " A View of Mr. 
 <e (i) Kennic'ott's methodof correcting the He- 
 €i brew Text, with three Queries formed 
 <c thereupon , and humbly fubmitted to the con- 
 si fideration of the learned and Chrijlian 
 ** World :"in which he endeavours to prove 
 that Divine unequal to the bufinefs in 
 which he was engaged. 
 
 In 1764 he took the degree of (k) D. D. 
 
 As yet, we find him advanced to no con- 
 fpicuous ftation. He never, indeed, ob- 
 tained a parochial Benefice. But on the 
 
 (g) Ox. Graduate Book, (h) Ibid. April 2.7, 1759. 
 
 (i) Benjamin Kennicott, then M. A. and Fellow of Exeter Col- 
 lege, Oxford, afterwards D. D. and Canon of Chrift. Church. He 
 died in 1783, aged 65, and was buried in Chrift Church Cathedral. 
 
 (k) Jan. 28; J764. Ox 4 Graduates, 
 
 death 
 
HQRNE. 239 
 
 death of Dr. (1) Jenner, Prefident of Mag- 
 dalen College, he was elefted by the So- 
 ciety to fucceed him in that important fta- 
 tion on the 27th of (m) January 1768. 
 
 In the following year he teftified his re- 
 gard towards the younger Members of his 
 College, by publishing, with a view to 
 their improvement, " Confederations on the 
 " Life and Death of St. John the Baptift" 
 They were the fubftance of feveral Ser- 
 mons, which he had delivered before the 
 Univerfity in Magdalen (n) Chapel, on the 
 Baptift's day. 
 
 In 1 77 1 he was appointed Chaplain in 
 Ordinary to his Majefty, in which quality 
 he officiated till his appointment to the 
 Deanery of Canterbury. 
 
 In 1772 he exerted his abilities in de- 
 fence of our civil and religious eftablifh- 
 ment • firmly oppofing the defigns of thofe 
 who would have abolifhed Subfcriptibns, 
 and altered our Liturgy. An application 
 
 (1) Thomas Jenner D. D. was elected Prefident of Magdalen 
 in 1745. He was alfo Lady Margaret's Profeflbr of Divinity and 
 consequently Prebendary of Wo.ceiter. He died Jan. 12, 176S, 
 aged 80, and was buried in the College Chapel. 
 
 (m) Gutch's Hift. of Colleges and Halls. 
 
 (n) It is the cuftom to have ths Sermon preached before the Uni- 
 verfity in Magdalen College Chapel on St, Mark's day, and on St. 
 John Baptift's day. 
 
 was, 
 
24O HORNE. 
 
 was, at that time, intended to have been 
 made to Parliament, when he publifhed in 
 a letter to Lord North " Confiderattons on 
 " the projected Reformation of the Church of 
 " England." Very juft were his remarks, 
 that, " if, our governors fhould be inclined 
 " to preferve the peace among the various 
 " feds, which would be affembled in the 
 <c Church, according to the new fcheme, 
 " and to frame a new liturgy and conftitu- 
 " tion which might fuit them all, the Divi- 
 " nity of our Saviour muft be rejected to 
 " pleafe the Arians ; and his Satisfaction, 
 f to gratify the Sociniam ; the Prefbyte- 
 € * rians would objedt to Eptfcopacy, the 
 €C Independents to Prejbytery, and the Qua- 
 <c ken to all three y together with the Sa- 
 " craments of Baptifm and the Lord's 
 <c Supper." 
 
 In 1776 he publifhed his " Commentary 
 fC on the Pfalms i" a work, in which the 
 earneftnefs of the Chriftian Teacher, and 
 the modefty of the Critic are alike confpi- 
 cuous. To all his explanations unanimous 
 aflent hath not, indeed, been given. But 
 where is the faftidious reader who can pe- 
 rufe this ufeful Commentary, without 
 owning to have derived improvement to 
 
 his 
 
/' 
 
 HORNE* 241 
 
 his knowledge, and animation to his piety ?-— « 
 In the fame year he was appointed Vice 
 (o) Chancellor of the Univerfity, in which 
 ftation he continued till October 1780 : and, 
 perhaps, none ever prefided in that diftin- 
 guifhed ftation with greater attention or 
 greater popularity. 
 
 Engaged as he was in the weighty du- 
 ties of that office, his vigilance in his pro- 
 feffional character was by no means relaxed. 
 Dr. Adam Smith had publifhed an eulo- 
 gium on the Life of Mr. Hume: Dr. 
 Home conceived a reprehenfion more ne- 
 neffary. Accordingly he publifhed in 1777 
 " A Letter to Dr. Smith on the Life, Death , 
 * c and Philcfcphy of his friend David Hume, 
 " Efq. By one of the people called Chriflians 
 in which he lafhes, with keen and deferved 
 irony, both the Philofopher and his Pane- 
 gyrift. To give more abundant proof, 
 that he had not forgot the <c (p) Clergy- 
 " man in the Magiftrate," he not only 
 thus repelled the contagion of Infidelity, 
 but published in 1779 " Two Volumes of 
 <c Sermons.' 1 Many of them had been 
 preached before the Univerfity, and had 
 
 (o) Gutclfs Fafti Oxon. page 177, (p) Preface to his two 
 Volumes of Sermons. 
 
 R beea 
 
24-2 HORNE. 
 
 been - heard with that attention, which 
 competitions of ingenious enquiry, and of 
 affedting exhortation never fail to com- 
 mand. 
 
 His preferment, at prefent, confifted 
 only of his Headihip. But, on the promo- 
 tion of Dr. Cornwallis to the See of Lich- 
 field and Coventry in 178 1, he was ad-* 
 vanced to the Deanery of Canterbury, in 
 which he was inftalled (q) Sept. 22. It 
 has been faid, that another Deanery, which 
 had been vacant not long before, was in- 
 tended to have been conferred on him. 
 Lord North, it is certain, was his friend. 
 He could not, indeed, but experience the 
 particular regard of a Statefman, who " to 
 ** (r) his dying day, was a mo ft fincere 
 " friend, and moft powerful fupport of the 
 < c Church of England, in times when fuch 
 " fupport was moft wanted." 
 
 His time was now divided between Ox- 
 ford and Canterbury ; and, as at the former 
 place he was beloved as the amiable Go*- 
 vernor, at the latter he became no lefs 
 efteemed as the friendly and hofpitable 
 Dean, During his refidence at Canter- 
 
 (q) Cathedral Regifter. (r) Lord Bagot's teftimony; fee 
 < s Some Account of Dr. Town^b^ ,, lately publilhed, note, pageL 
 
 bury, 
 
HORNE* 243 
 
 bury, he was always ready (as he had ever 
 been both in the Metropolis, and in the 
 Univerfity) to exert his fervices from the 
 pulpit, oh public occafibns. The Opening 
 of a new Organ in the Cathedral, the Xnfti- 
 tution of Sunday Schools, the Annual 
 Meeting of Gentlemen educated in the 
 King's School, and the Vifitation of the 
 Archbilhop, afforded him opportunities of 
 difplaying in that city with what tafte and 
 feeling he could defcribe the power of facred 
 Mufic, with what zeal he could plead the 
 caufe of indigent children, with what juft- 
 nefs he could point out the means of obtain- 
 ing true wifdom, with what boldnefs he 
 could contend for the Faith delivered unto 
 the Saints. 
 
 While on thefe, and other occafion^ he 
 gratified the public as & Preacher, his ta- 
 lents were alfo employed as a writer in ex* 
 pofing the vain pretenfions of " Science 
 M falfly fo called." In 1784 he publifhed 
 " Letters on Infidelity in which, armed 
 with the weapons of found argument and 
 exquifite humour, he defeats the dark, and 
 wretched fyftem of Hume ; a fyftem which 
 would fubvert every idea of truth and hap- 
 pinefsj and teach us 
 
 R 2 " witk 
 
24}- HORN E. 
 
 — : tc ( s ) w ith Impious haMe 
 
 " To pluck from God's right hand his inftruments of death," 
 
 The theological opinions of another Phi- 
 lofopher, occafioned in 1787 the publication 
 of < c A Letter to the Rev, Dr. Pne/lley, by 
 is an Undergraduate" of Oxford ; the author 
 of which (who expofed with fo much hu- 
 mour the mutability of the Doctor's creed) 
 was foon known to be the Dean of Canter- 
 bury. He refpetted indeed the eminent di- 
 ligence, and the eminent attainments of 
 Dr. Prieftley in literary purfuits ; but he 
 conceived his abilities, €C (t) as touching 
 matters theological," to be mifemployed. 
 Dr. Borne was averfe from " a (u) Reli- 
 " glori without a Redeemer, without a 
 (( Sanctifier, without grace, without a fa- 
 Cf criiice, without a prieft, without an in- 
 " terceffor." He believed the Chriflian Sa- 
 viour to be the infinite and eternal Jehovah. 
 Ke affirmed the doctrine of the Trinity to 
 be a matter not of vain or unprofitable Spe- 
 culation. " Our (w) Religion" lays he, 
 6S is founded upon it ; for what is Chrif- 
 i€ tianity, but a manifeftation of the three 
 es divine perfons, as engaged in the great 
 
 (s) Warton's fine Ode " The Suicide." (t) Preface to Dr. 
 HoVne's Sermon on the Trinity, (u) Letter to Dr. P. page vi. 
 (\v) Dr* Koine's Sermon on the Trinity. 
 
 " work 
 
HORNE. 245 
 
 " work of Man's Redemption, begun , con - 
 " tlnued, and to be ended by them, in 
 €t their feveral relations of Father, Son, and 
 ec Holy Ghofi, Creator, Redeemer, and 
 " Sanctifier, three perfons, one God? If 
 s€ there be no Son of God, where is our 
 " redemption ? If there be no Holy Spi- 
 * € rit, where is our fanftification ? With- 
 €( out both, where is our falvation ? And 
 " if thefe two perfons be any thing lefs 
 tft than divine, why are we baptized equally 
 u in the name of the Father, and of the 
 fi£ Son, and of the Holy Ghoft ? Let no 
 * s man therefore deceive you : This is the 
 ec true God, and eternal Life." 
 
 The earlier promotion of Br, Home to 
 the Mitre, would not have been more 
 grateful to the world, than it was due to 
 his merit. However, on the tranflation of 
 Dr. (x) Bagot, Bidiopof Norwich, in 179 1 
 to the See of St. Afaph, he was nominated 
 to the former Bifliopric, and was confed- 
 erated at Lambeth Chapel on the 7th 
 of June ; his confecration fermon being 
 preached by his old and particular friend 
 
 (x) Lewis Bagot D. C. L. formerly St v dent of Chrlft Church? 
 Canon of the lame in 1771, Dean in 1777, promoted to the Ste of 
 Briltol in 1782, with which he held his Deai ery in Commendam 5 
 translated in 178^ to the See of N >rwich, when he quitted th® 
 Deanery, and in 1791 tranflated to the See oi St. Afaph, 
 
 R 3 Dr. 
 
246 IIORNE. 
 
 Dr. Berkeley, Prebendary of Canterbury. 
 He foon afterward refigned the Headfhip 
 of Magdalen College, in which he was fuc- 
 ceeded by the learned Dr. Routh. 
 
 His health, on this advancement, was 
 **but in a precarious ftate ; and his friends 
 had the forrow to perceiv.e it decay rather 
 than improve. He repaired, however, to 
 his palace at Norwich, where his ftay was 
 but fliort, yet fufficient to convince his 
 Clergy, and all who had obtained his ac- 
 quaintance, of how much pleafure and ad- 
 vantage they were deprived in his lofs. He 
 was recommended to try the benefit of 
 Bath ; whither he went. But a paralytic 
 ftroke, feme w 7 eeks before his death, frus- 
 trated all hopes of his recovery. On the 
 17th of January 1792 death put an end 
 to his fevere infirmities, and to his exem- 
 plary patience. The faculties of his mind 
 continued to the very laft : he was not only 
 compofed, but even chearful. His fpeech, 
 indeed, was in fome degree affedted, as he 
 had not been able for a few days previous to 
 his death, to exprefs himfeif clearly. Not 
 long before he expired, he received the Sa- 
 crament, after which he exclaimed, with 
 all the firmnefs of the Chriftian, 1? (y) Now, 
 
 ( 7) Communicated by a Bomeilic who was prefent. 
 
 " lam 
 
HORNE. 24.7 
 
 f I am bleffed Indeed /" In his lift mo- 
 ments he feemed to fuffer little pain, as he 
 expired without a groan. 
 
 Thus ended the Life of Bifhop Home ; 
 a Prelate whom few have furpaffed in 
 Learning, none in Piety. 
 
 From his fir ft labours in the Chriftian 
 Miniftry, he was a popular Preacher. The 
 fervency of his devotion, was no lefs die- 
 ting aimed than the propriety of his elocu- 
 tion : he felt what he fpoke. And while 
 he knew how to 
 
 — — — - — — (z) " cloathe 
 
 " His thoughts in beauteous Metaphor, he knew 
 (i To difcipline his Fancy— to command 
 '* The Heart ; and by familiar accents move 
 " The Chriftian Soulr* 
 
 His works difplay a GOpioufnefs of fu~ 
 blime fentiment and animated diction, of 
 happy pleafantry and well-directed fatire* 
 His flile is particularly nervous. Where he 
 is argumentative, he convinces with per- 
 fpicuity ; where he is pathetic, he never 
 pleads in vain. To fome of his fi- 
 gurative allufions objections have, indeed, 
 been made ; objections, however, which 
 weigh but as " the* fmall duft of the 
 balance" againft the multiplicity of his at- 
 
 (z) The Rev. Mr. Pofwhele's juft delineation of him, as a 
 
 Preacher, in his elegant Work " The Engiirti Orator," Book; 
 ly, page 4.5, 
 
 R 4 tainments. 
 
248 HORNE. 
 
 tain merits. That he was one of th@ 
 ableft defenders of Chriftianity by the effi- 
 cacy both of his example, and of his wri- 
 tings, no one will deny. He had powers 
 equal to the fevereft contefts of Contro- 
 yerfy ; and when thofe powers were (a) ex- 
 erted, they were neither difgraced by acri- 
 mony, nor weakened by abufe. He prac- 
 tifed what he recommended. Wit, which 
 he well knew how to exercife ; (b) " Wit," 
 fays he, " if it be ufed at all, mould be 
 €i tempered with good humour, fo as not to 
 ee exafperate the perfon who is the object 
 5« of it ; and then, we are fure, there is no 
 c< mifchief done. The* difputant ought to 
 
 be at once firm and calm ; his head cool, 
 < £ and his heart warm." Sullen antagonift ! 
 whoever thou art, learn from Eifliop Home 
 to increafe the weight of thy arguments by 
 the cpurteoufnefs of addrefs, and by the 
 fweetnefs of good-nature. 
 
 His conduct through life was marked 
 with that liberality, which confers dignity 
 upon every Ration, and without which the 
 jjhigheft cannot command it. The geod- 
 
 (a) See his mod excellent Sermons on " The Duty of contend- 
 " ing for the Faith" and on :i The Trinity in Unity. " (b) Ser- 
 pen on " The Duty 1 jf contending for the Fai h," 
 
 nefs 
 
■HORNE. 249 
 
 jiefs and fimplicity of his heart were unaf- 
 fedted : his endeavour was to promote uni- 
 verfal Benevolence, and to pra&ife univer- 
 fal Generofity. To his countenance and 
 kindnefs the author of this humble memoir 
 hath been repeatedly indebted, even from 
 his childhood ; and while his lofs hath been 
 by few more fincerely regretted, by none 
 will his favours be more gratefully remem- 
 bered. 
 
 To moft of thofe Public Charities which 
 immortalize the generofity of this nation, 
 he was an early and liberal Subfcriber. He 
 was one of the firft Friends to the excellent 
 Inftitution of Sunday Schools 5 and warmly 
 promoted" by his purfe, his intereft, and 
 his abilities their happy eftablifhrnent. His 
 private charities alio were large and exten- 
 five - ? and in the exercife of them he 
 fhunned an oftentatious difplay. 
 
 He was the moft agreeable as well as the 
 moft inftruclive companion. He abounded 
 with plea fant anecdote, and valuable in- 
 formation. His manner alfo gave addi- 
 tional dignity to # whateyer was ferious, and 
 additional humour to whatever was face- 
 tious. They who knew him beft, will of- 
 ten refledt on thofe happy hours, in which 
 
 they 
 
2$0 HORNE* 
 
 they enjoyed his company, and will ac- 
 knowledge how " (c) very pleafantly they 
 " palled, and moved fmoothly and fwiftly 
 " along ; for, when thus engaged, they 
 * e counted no time. They are gone, but 
 44 have left a relifh and a fragrance upon 
 * J the mind, and the remembrance of them 
 Ci is fweet." 
 
 Of facred Mufic he was a great admirer. 
 In his Cathedral at Canterbury, and in his 
 Chapel at Magdalen, he appeared to fee! 
 all thofe fublime fenfations, which are ex- 
 cited by " the pealing Organ'' and " the 
 " full- voiced choir." He did not, indeed, 
 profefs to have any knowledge of Mufic $ 
 but, in thofe fmaller Anthems which fre- 
 quent repetition had rendered familiar to 
 his ear, he was ufed to join with remarka- 
 ble fervency. 
 
 That he might never forget the folerrm 
 precept " Take heed unto thyfelf and to thy 
 S£ dottrine" it was his (d) ftated cuftom, 
 . from his fir ft admiffion into the Priefthood, 
 to read over the Service for the Ojrdination 
 of Priefts on the firft day of every month. 
 The imitation of this example may be prac- 
 
 (c) Preface to his t: Commentary on the Pfalms,''' page Ixv. 
 
 (d) Communicated by Dr. Berkeley, Prebendary of Canterbury, 
 who had this affertioa from the Bifhop's q\vn mouth. 
 
 fifed 
 
HORNE. 251 
 
 fifed with eafe, anal will be attended with 
 advantage. 
 
 Numerous and important as his writings 
 already appear to have been, he was the 
 Author of feveral other pieces, among 
 which are, " Cautions to the Readers of Mr, 
 Law" which were handed about in Ma- 
 nufcript, and were firft printed by Mr. 
 Madan (unknown to the Author) in fome 
 work which he publifhed. The greater 
 part of the " Preface to Dodd's Tra?f!aiion 
 ft of Callimachiis 1755." The *f Mifceilany, 
 f* by Nathaniel Freebody" in the St. James's 
 Chronicle, begun Jan. 1, 1767: he com- 
 municated, indeed, many Eflays at different 
 times to the Newfpapers and Magazines. 
 Several c< Papers figned Z in the (e) Qlla 
 * c Podrida 1787 of which none are more 
 entertaining, than thofe that fo elegantly 
 (f) prefcribe the rules of converfation, and 
 fo ludicroufly (g) expofe the frivoloufnefs 
 of modern Vifits. But the value of this 
 publication he hath more particularly en* 
 hanced by his vindication of Dr. Johnfon ; 
 by his brilliant (perhaps unrivalled) tefti- 
 
 (e) A very ingenious and entertaining publication by Mr. 
 Monro, then B. A. and Demy of Magdalen College, (t) No. 7. 
 (g) Nos. 9 and 12. 
 
 mony 
 
2§2 ■ HORNE. 
 
 iriony to the excellence of that great man. 
 From fuch an interefting Paper a quotation 
 cannot but be acceptable. <c (h) That 
 *< perfons" fays he, <c of eminent talents 
 €e and attainments in literature have been 
 C( often complained of as—dogmatical, boif- 
 (€ terous, and inattentive to the rules of 
 €C good breeding, is well known. But let 
 <c us not expect every thing from every man. 
 6S There was no occafion that' John fon 
 ec fliould teach us to dance, to make bows, 
 tfC or turn compliments. He could teach 
 " us better things. To reject wifdom be- 
 €s caufe the perfon of him who communi- 
 " cates it is uncouth, and his manners in- 
 * c elegant— what is it, but to throw away 
 ** a pine-apple, and affign for a reafon the 
 6S roughnefs of its coat? Who quarrels 
 tfc with, a botanift, for not -being an aftrono- 
 6€ mer ; or with a moralift, for not being 
 ** a mathematician ? As' it is faid in con- 
 €e c'erns of a much higher nature, every man 
 " hath his gift, one after this manner, and 
 <$ another after that. It is our buiinefs 
 €6 to profit by all, and to learn of each that 
 <£ in which each is belt qualified to in- 
 " ftruft us." 
 
 (h)-No. 13. 
 
 To 
 
HORNE. 253 
 
 To thefe works mud be added a fmall 
 piece " On the Repeal of the T ?Jl AB 1790 " 
 and his " Charge to the Clergy of hisDiocefe 
 1791," which his declining health pre- 
 vented him from delivering perfonally, but 
 which he published " that fo (i) whenever 
 c< he mould be called hence, he might 
 < c leave fome teflimony of his regard for 
 " them, and attention to their concerns." 
 This was the good Bifhop's farewell to all 
 his labours ; and they were clofed with un- 
 diminifhed vigour of intellect. Here he 
 maintains, what he had through life fo 
 ably maintained, the Doctrine of the Tri- 
 nity in Unity, and refutes the error of 
 thofe who, by the abufe of abftract reafon- 
 ing, would fubvert its truth. Here alfo 
 he pays equal attention to the deareft in- 
 terefls of Society, and to man's eternal hap- 
 pinefs : for this judicious " Charge 3 ' dif- 
 cuffes the great doctrines effential to Chrif- 
 tianity: " the (k) nature of God ; the 
 " nature of man - y the laving principle of 
 cc faith - ? the importance and ufe of the 
 <e Church ; the obedience due to Civil 
 (C Government ; the neceffity of a pure life 
 " and holy converfation." 
 
 (i) Advertifemeut prefixed to the Charge, (k) Charge, pige^. 
 
254 ttORNE* 
 
 A volume of his " Jingle (1) Sermons" 9 
 has lately been publifhed. 
 
 He re-publiihed Stanhope's edition of jB/- 
 Jhop Andrews s Devotions, and is faid to 
 have intended publiihing an edition of Ifaac 
 Walton s Lives t had he not been (m) pre- 
 vented by Br. Johnfon's telling him, from 
 miftake, that Lord Hailes had the fame in- 
 tention. 
 
 He married in the year 1768, the daugh- 
 ter of Philip Burton, of Hatton Street, 
 ,Efq; by whom he hath left three daugh- 
 ters ; the eldeft of whom is married to the 
 Rev. Mr. Selby Hele, Redor of Colm- 
 worth, Bedfordfhire, and Chaplain to his 
 Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales. 
 
 His perfon was above the middle fize, 
 In his youth he had certainly been hand- 
 fome. His countenance was remarkably 
 expreffive, and befpoke the fweetnefs of his 
 temper. In the canonical habit his figure 
 was venerably interefting. 
 
 His remains were interred in the family 
 vault of h;s father-in-law, Philip Burton, 
 Efqj at Eltham in Kent ; where a Monu- 
 
 (I) In this valuable colle&ion, the learned and animated Dif- 
 courfe preached at St. Mary's, Oxford, at the Afiizes July 27, 
 1775, challenges our mo ft particular attention. 
 
 (m) Bofwell's Life of Johnfon, vol. ii, 26, 
 
 ment 
 
HORNE. 255 
 
 ment is erected in the Church-yard to his 
 Memory, with the following elegant and 
 juft Infcription; the fame Infcription (with 
 a flight alteration) being alfo on a Monu- 
 ment lately eredled to his Memory in the 
 Cathedral of Norwich -> 
 
 Here lie interred 
 The earthly Remains of 
 The Right Reverend George Horne D. D. 
 Many Years Prefident of Magdalen College in Oxford^ 
 Dean of Canterbury, 
 And late Bilhop of Norwich. 
 
 In whofe Character 
 Depth of Learning, Brightnefs of Imagination, 
 Sanctity of Manners, and Sweetnefs of Temper 
 Were united beyond the ufual Lot of Mortality. 
 
 With his Difccurfes from the Pulpit, his Hearers, 
 Whether of the Univerfity, the City, or the Country Pari$v 
 Were edified and delighted. 
 
 His Commentary on the Pfalms will continue to be 
 A Companion to the Clofet 
 Till the Devotion of Earth mall end in the Hallelujahs of Heaven* 
 
 Having patiently fuffered under fuch Infirmities 
 As feemed not due to his Years, 
 His Soul took its Flight from this Vale of Mifery ; 
 To the unfpeakable Lofs of the Church of England, 
 And his forrowing Friends and Admirers, 
 Jan* 17th, 1792.J in the 6ad Year of his Ag£. 
 
 buller; 
 
[ 2 5 6 ] 
 
 B U L L E R, 
 
 ^ylLLIAM BULLER, the twenty-fe- 
 cond Dean, D. D. and formerly of 
 Oriel College, Oxford, was removed, on 
 the promotion of Dr. Home, from the 
 Deanery of Exeter to that of Canterbury ; 
 in which he was inftalled June 22, 1796, 
 On the death of Bimop (m) Rofs in 1792* 
 he was advanced to the Bimopric of Ex- 
 eter, and was confecrated December the 2d. 
 
 (m) John Rofs D. D. formerly of St. John's College, Cam- 
 bridge. Preacher at the Rolls Chapel, Vicar of Frome, Somerfet- 
 fliire, Prebendary of Durham, and in 1778 Biftiop of Exeter. 
 
 CORNEWALL 
 
[ 257 ] 
 CORNEWALL. 
 
 TjVOLLIOTT HERBERT WALKER 
 CORNEWALL, the twenty-third 
 and prefent Dean, D. D. and late Fellow 
 of St. John's College, Cambridge, was pre- 
 ferred, on the promotion of Dr. Buller, 
 from a Canonry of Windfor to the 
 Deanery of Canterbury, in which he was 
 inftalled Jan. 26, 1793. 
 
 CATALOGUE 
 
 S 
 
CATALOGUE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 MANUSCRIPTS 
 
 IN THE 
 
 CHURCH LIBRARY. 
 
CATALOGUE,©*. 
 
 A 
 
 A - *• RlCHARDUS de Media Villa 
 in Quartum Librum Sententiarum. 
 Folio fuper Membranam. 
 A. 2. i. Obfervationes Juris Ecclef. et 
 Civilis e Regiftro Papce Vrbani 5^ 
 per Johan. de Baro. Fol. 
 
 2. Alexander de St, Elpidio de Ec- 
 clejiajlicd Poteftate* Fol. 
 A. 3 . Somners Obfervations upon the Com- 
 miffary of Canterbury s Patent. FoL 
 Mr. Batteley, in his Preface to the 
 Antiquities of Canterbury, fuppofes 
 this Difcourfe to have been the firft- 
 fruits of thofe labours which Som- 
 ner devoted to the ftudy of Anti- 
 tiquity. It was compofed foon af- 
 ter the death of King James I. 
 upon the patent of CommirTaryfhip 
 granted to Sir Nathaniel Brent. It 
 treats of Ecclefiafiical Titles, and 
 of the privileges and jurifdi&ions of 
 Spiritual Courts. Great part of it 
 has been publifhed in his own"An- 
 tiquities of Canterbury. His in- 
 formation relating to Ecclefiafticai 
 S 3 Courts, 
 
2 CATALOGUE. 
 
 Courts, Officers, &c, he acknow- 
 ledges to have derived from Archbi- 
 fhop Parker's Antiquities of Britain. 
 
 4. Libri ^uinque Decretalium ab- 
 brev. per Henri cum Hojlienfem. Fol. 
 memb. 
 
 5. Step ham (a) Ar chief. Cant. Mo* 
 ralia in Ifaiam, jeremiam, et Eze* 
 chielem Frophetas. Fol. memb. 
 
 6. Ejufdem Moralia in Libros jfo^ 
 fua, Judicum, Ruth, in 4. libros Re* 
 gum, in Tobiam, Hefter, EJdram, et 
 duos libros Maccahaorum. Fol. memb, 
 
 7. Ejufdem Moralia in 1 2 Prophet as 
 Minores* Fol. memb. 
 
 8 f S. Auguflini Sermones de verbis 
 Domini > cum indice prcejixo.. Fol. 
 memb. This MS. formerly belonged 
 to the Library of St. Auftin's Mo- 
 naftery in Canterbury. 
 
 9. Job. Duns Scoti ^ucejliones Theo- 
 logies. Fol. memb. 
 
 10, Regiftrum Veftibuli in Thefaurario 
 perpetub confervcmaum. Fol. memb, 
 Rules and orders relating to dreffcs, 
 proceffions, ornaments, &c. alfo 
 " of the r eve/ling the Abbot cfWeft- 
 
 (a) Stephen Lang'on, who became Archbifhop of 
 Canterburyin 1206, and died in 1228. 
 
 i€ minfter 
 
CATALOGUE. 263 
 
 c * minjler at Even-Song, and of his 
 " fmging High-Ma fs" 
 A. 11. A Volume in Folio; containing 
 feveral Tranfcripts of ecclefiaftical 
 affairs from Old Regiflers, viz. 
 
 An Index to the Leiger Book of the 
 Priory of Dover ; Maifon Dieu, &c. 
 
 Collections from feveral Regiflers of 
 the Archbifhops a?id other Bifloops ; 
 from the Leiger Books of feveral Ab- 
 bies and Monafteries ; from the Rolls 
 in the Tower, the Firfl Fruits, Aug- 
 mentation, and Tally Offices, &c. re- 
 lating to Churches and Church Lands. 
 
 Appropriations of feveral Churches 
 to religious Floufes. Dotations of fe- 
 veral Vicarages. Catalogue of the 
 religious Houfes within the realms 
 of England and Wales, with their 
 Orders, Founders, and Values, both 
 fuch as were fuppreffed by King Henry 
 VIIL and fuch as were left flanding, 
 or have been fince ere Sled. 
 
 Account of certain Manors taken 
 into ^ Elizabeth's hands from the 
 Archbijhop of Canterbury, and what 
 recompenfe Jhe made out of Lands of 
 
 S 4 Abbies, 
 
CATALOGUE. 
 
 Abbies, ReBories Impropriate, Rents, 
 Tithes, &c. 
 
 Procejjus confecrationis Epifcopi 
 Sodorenjis -> viz. of John Philips, 
 who was confecrated Bifhop of 
 Sodor and Man Feb. 10, 16040 
 This Biihop procured the Common 
 Prayer Book of the Church of 
 England to be tranflated into the 
 language of the Natives of his Dio- 
 cefe. Pie died in 1633, 
 
 Account of the Archbi fop's Metro- 
 political Vijitation cf the Univerfty of 
 Oxford, taken out of the Regifler of 
 Arundel, This was Archbifhop 
 Arundel's Vifitation in 1397, to 
 which an oppofition was made by 
 the Chancellor and Scholars, but 
 which the King over-iuled in fa- 
 vour of the Primate. 
 
 Petitiones faftce in Parliamento 
 Domini Edw, Regis fit i Regis Hen. 
 AjUd CarlioL 
 
 Controverfia inter Oliver um Epifc. 
 Lincoln et Magijiros Univ. Oxon, 
 fuper confirm at ionem cancellarii fui* 
 This difpute happened in 1288, 
 Oliver Sutton 3 Bifhop of Line, re- 
 
 fufed 
 
CATALOGUE. 265 
 
 fufed to admit their Chancellor by 
 proxy ; the Mailers urged cuftom 
 immemorial, and indignant at the 
 Prelate's refufal, retired into the 
 country, The matter was loon af- 
 ter fettled by his admiiTion of their 
 prefentation. 
 
 Several Grants of Henry IV. V. 
 VI. and Edw. IV, to fever al Monafle- 
 ries, Alines^ &c* 
 
 Collections out of Records relating 
 to the Courts of the High Conjlable and 
 Earl Marfial of England. 
 
 At the end of the volume there is 
 a reference to the Benefices men- 
 tioned in it, noted by the learned 
 and accurate Mr. Norris, formerly 
 Auditor of this Church. 
 
 A. 12. Hugo de Sandio Claro fuper quatnor 
 Lib. Sent entiar urn. Fol. memb. 
 
 A. 13. Scotus fuper primum, fecimdum, et 
 tertium Lib. Sententiarum, cum col- 
 lationibus ejufdem. Fol. memb. 
 
 A. 14. A Folio Volume of Drawings, con- 
 taining 
 
 " Tbe f japes and formes of divers 
 cc beajls, foules, and birdes-, fy/Jjes, 
 ff monjlers, and ferpents, trees, herbs, 
 
 6C plants. 
 
CATALOGUE. 
 
 ' plants, and flowres, with divers 
 c accidents of Antiquity and Ar- 
 c mory. The dollors and fiher Coynes 
 c of all the contreyes, and free cytties 
 6 in Europe. The triumph of death 
 c over all ejfats. The Signs before 
 ( the day of Judgment, and the works 
 c of Chrifian Charitie. 
 
 <c The Armes and Names of all the 
 
 Nobilitie, Privi Councelers, and 
 
 chewfe Officers of England in 1 588. 
 f A learned remembraunce from an- 
 € tiquitie in vers of the Commendacon 
 6 of the mojl auncient and learned art 
 ( of Chymiflrie. 
 
 " A remembrance of diver fe Anti- 
 ' quities and Coynes both Gold, 5/7- 
 ' ver, and Brafje, &c* 
 
 " An AbftraB of Chiromantia with 
 ' the 7 Planets, & c. whereby you may 
 fudg of events according to f arte. 
 
 " The fall of Antichri/l, and the 
 6 Day of fudgment. 
 
 " Chronographye of the mo ft nota- 
 ' ble things from the beginning of the 
 'world to the year 1592, by John 
 c Nettleton, Gent, my Mr. and writ 
 ' by me W m . Byre he. 
 
 "Of 
 
CATALOGUE* 267 
 
 " Of Blazoning J 9 
 
 Towards the end of the book, 
 " The Wheele of Mr. George Ripley 
 <( Channon of Bridlington in York- 
 " Jloire, mentioned in his book called 
 "the 12 gates of Alcumye"; with 
 his c< vifion, preface, and recapitu-* 
 tc lation of his work ; to which are 
 " added Verjes of Sir Edward Kelley, 
 " and Sir Geffray Chaucer on the 
 S( Phifofophers Stone " 
 
 This Volume was the labour of 
 William Byrchein 1590, and 1591. 
 Among the drawings, many Latin 
 and Englifh Verfes alfo are inter- 
 fperfed. 
 
 A. 15. A Volume of Somners Papers. 
 Fol. 
 
 1 . Concerning Chrift Church Yard. 
 
 2. An Account of what was laid 
 out on the Church from 1660 to 1662 ; 
 a memorial, which records the li- 
 berality, the public fpirit, and the 
 piety of the Dean and Chapter. 
 
 3. The matter of Fac7 between the 
 Church of Canterbury , and the Militia 
 there, in 1664, fated. 
 
 4. Petitions, Cafes, &c. laid before 
 the Church. B. 1. 
 
S68 
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 B 
 
 B. i. Job. Duns Scotus in quartum Lib. 
 
 Sent enti arum, Fol. memb. 
 B, 2. A large Folio, containing 
 
 1. Liber Fir mar urn de anno n°. 
 R. Henrici 8 vi . 
 
 2. Copy of Matthew Parker Arch'? 
 hiffjop of Canterbury his Regijier from 
 1569 to 1574. 
 
 3. DePrcerogativis Archiep.Canf. 
 rnemb* written about 1334. 
 
 4. ABa Capituli Cantuar. in ne~ 
 gotio inthronizationis Archiep. Grin- 
 dal 1575. 
 
 5. De Vifitatione Collegii Omnium 
 "Animarum per Priorem ei Capita 
 Cantuar. This contains Articles in 
 which it was agreed, and to which 
 the hands and feals of feveral Doc- 
 tors of Lav/ are affixed, that du r 
 ring the vacancy of the Archbifhop, 
 the Prior and Chapter had full 
 power to vifit the faid College. (No 
 date.) 
 
 6. Lex et Confuetudo Villce Zand-* 
 wici. 
 
 7. Cufoms 
 
CATALOGUE. 269 
 
 7. Cuftoms and Ufage of the Elec- 
 tion and Office of a Bailiff, &c. At 
 the beginning of this MS. is a 
 Quaere — " Whether the following 
 Cuftoms and Ufages belong to the 
 Town of LyddV There are cer- 
 tainly Orders, &c. in it relating to 
 Lydd. 
 
 8. Leges Regis Aluredi Sqkonical 
 
 9. Gejla Servant or is Domini nojlri 
 Jefu Chrifii, quce invenit Theodofius 
 Magnus Imperator in ferujalem in 
 prcetorio Pontii Pilati in codicibm 
 publicis. Saxonice* Tranfcript. e MS J 
 Cantab . in Archivis Bibliothecce ad 
 jinem 4° r . Evang. Sax. 
 
 10. Several Bills , Covenants, De- 
 crees, &Cx. with an alphabetical 'Table 
 prefixed* 
 
 11. Several Medicinal Prefciptions % 
 among which is a long Epitaph in: 
 Englifh Verfe, " upon the death of 
 " Mr. Horton, fincere Preacher of the 
 fe wordof God in the citye of London" 
 
 Libri Decretalium cum Summd 
 Gaufridi. Fol. memb. 
 
 Conftitutiones Othonis et Ottoboni 
 cum Gloffd Johanms de Atton. Fol. 
 memb. B, 
 
27° CATALOGUE. 
 
 B. 5. Rent ale Villa deFaverJham. State 
 of St. Saviour s Mona fiery in that 
 town, taken Feb. \,anno Hen. VII, 
 .—Inventory of the Abbot's Cham- 
 ber, &c. taken Aug. 24, anno lien: 
 Vllly i6\— Certificate of the value of 
 all Manors, Parjonages, Rents, &c. 
 belonging to St. Saviour's Men ajlery. 
 Fol 
 
 B. 6. Biblia Latina Thomce de Banchef- 
 ter, cut prafigitur TraBatus Mora- 
 Hum Jupef Genefin, qui dicitur Sola- 
 tium fidelis animce. Fol. memb. 
 
 B* 7. 1. Redditus Ecclefice Chrijli Can- 
 tuar : in the time of the Mon artery, 
 Fol. memb. 
 
 2. Diver/or urn Pat rum Sent entice 
 de Primatu Romance Ecclefice quibus 
 addita funt Capita nonnulla de Mona- 
 chorum Moribus et Doftrind, fideque 
 ac difciplind Ecclefice Romance. FoL 
 memb. 
 
 3. Anonymi Sermones 4.J, cum ti- 
 tulis prcefixis ; quorum primus efi 9 
 In vigilia natal. Domini. Fol. memb* 
 
 B. 8. Liber Majoris Vcluminis Secreto- 
 
 rum Anonyrni* Fol. memb. In quo 
 
 continentur. 
 
 Imprimis, TraStatus Rotarum et 
 
 Argu- 
 
CATALOGUE. 27! 
 
 Argument or um tertice di/linSfionis fe- 
 
 cundum Raymundum Lully. 
 I tern . Quejlionarius 
 Item. Via art is tranfmutatorice 
 Item. Vera praBica ejufdem 
 Item. De Tabulis et Figuris 
 Item. De Separatione Elementorum 
 Item. Liber quint ce Ejfentia 
 Item. De remediis infirmitatum 
 Item. De Herbd Chelidonice 
 Item. Kalendare Judiciale de ho- 
 
 minis Nativitate 
 Item. De SigJtis et Planetis 
 Item. Angelicum Volumen de fro* 
 % prio Angelo 
 
 B. 9. Willielmi de Norvico LeBura fuper 
 Ifaiam. Fol. memb. 
 
 B. 10. 1. Diverjit 'as Panit 'entice fe cundum 
 Robertum (b) Gro/lhead, Epifcopum 
 Lincoln. Fol. memb. 
 
 2. Statuta (c) Bonijacii % Archiep* 
 Cant. Fol. memb. 
 
 B. 11. Mgidius de Regimine Principum* 
 Fol. memb. 
 
 B. 12. Tabula Speculi Ilijlorialis. Fol. 
 memb. 
 
 (b) Robert Grofthead became Bifhop of Lincoln in 
 1234, and died in 1253. 
 
 (c) Boniface was confecrated Archbifhop of Can- 
 terbury at Lyons by the Pope himfelf in i244> and 
 died in 1270. 
 
CATALOGUE, 
 
 G 
 
 C. I. Gregorii Epijlola? Decfefales. Foh 
 memb. 
 
 C. 2o A volume of Letters concerning 
 State Affairs in the time of §>. Eliza- 
 beth. Some of them are originals^ 
 and are fubfcribed W. Burghley, 
 F. Walfingham, Chr. Hatton, H. 
 Hunfdon, T. Suffex, R. Leycefter* 
 F. Bedford, J. Bromley, E. Lyncolnj 
 F, KnoIIys, C* Howard, John (d) 
 Abp Cant. Thomas Bp (e) Win- 
 ton, and other diftinguiftied per fo- 
 liages. They are dated 1 569, 1577, 
 1578, 1580, 1581, 1582, 1583, 
 1584, 1585, 1586, 1587, 1588, 
 
 *5 8 9> T 595> and l 59 6 - 
 C. 3, A curious Volume in folio; con- 
 taining 
 
 sc The Names, and Armes (embla« 
 kt zoned) of the Principall Captains 
 "as well of Noblemen as of Knights 
 * c that were with the Victorious Prince 
 " King Edward the thirds at the 
 * c Siege of Callys, 1346." 
 
 (d) John Whitgift Abp of Canterbury 1 585, who' 
 died in 1603. 
 
 (e) Thomas Cowper Bp of Winlon, 15S3, who 
 died in *524r« 
 
 An 
 
CATALOGUE* 273 
 
 " An Account of how many Ships 
 and Mariners every Tort fent 
 throughout "England to that Siege. 
 Alfo the fupply of Ships and Ma- 
 riners from Bayon, Spayne, Ireland, 
 Flaunders, and Gelderland" 
 ce An Account of all the Princes 
 and Noblemen Foreigners that ferved 
 at that Siege with their pay and of 
 the whole charge of that Siege" 
 " The Prince of * 
 Wales had by the 
 
 day for his diet - 
 
 xx JhilL 
 
 " A Duke, not of 
 
 
 the Blood Royal 
 
 viii fo. mid. 
 
 " An Earle 
 
 vi Jh. V\\\d. 
 
 " A Vifcount - 
 
 v Jh. 
 
 <c A Baron - - 
 
 iiii Jh. 
 
 " A Knight 
 
 ujh. 
 
 " An Efquier - 
 
 xviiid* 
 
 " A Gentleman for 
 
 
 him and his fervant 
 
 ii Jh. 
 
 " Archers on foot 
 
 \\\d. 
 
 <c on horfe 
 
 \\\\d* 
 
 " A Welfhman on 
 
 
 foote - - - - 
 
 iid. 
 
 " A Mariner - - 
 
 Hid. 
 
 The Titles, and Armes (embla- 
 T zoned) 
 
274 CATALOGUE. 
 
 zoned) of all the Noblemen that fiou- 
 rijked in each King aud Queen s reign 
 from JV m . the Conqueror, to £>. Eliz. 
 
 An Account of the Precedency of 
 the Nobility in fever al procejjions of 
 ^ Eliz, and K. fames. 
 
 The Order of Precedency of the No- 
 bles both Men and Women, by Jafper 
 Duke of Bedford (Uncle to Henry 
 VII. and Lord Lieutenant of Ire- 
 land) at the appointment of Henry 
 VII. 
 
 C. 4. Pentateuchm et Liber fojhua 
 Saxonice. FoL Tranfcriptus a 
 Somnero e pervetufto Lib. MS. in 
 bibliotheca Cottoniana. 
 
 C. 5. A Volume of Somners Manu- 
 fcripts, containing 
 
 1. Concilium Berghamjledenfe, anno 
 697. This is his emendation of 
 Spelman, vol. i, 194 ; and he here 
 gives us as a fpecimen of his atten- 
 tive correction, the Concil. Berg ham. 
 which exhibits at one view, the 
 Textus Roffen/is, Ejufdem Exemplaris 
 Corrcffio, D. H. Spelmanni Verjio, et 
 Verjio Nova. 
 
 2. Orojius Saxonice. Tranfcriptus 
 
 e per- 
 
CATALOGUE. 275 
 
 I pervetufto Lib. illo MS. Bib. 
 Cottoniana, in quo Chronologia 
 Saxonicainveniturexarata. See C. 8. 
 
 3. Caedmonis Paraphrafis Saxonica. 
 Tranfcriptus e pervetuftoLibro MS. 
 in Bib. Deuvefiana, chara&ere Sax* 
 exarato. 
 
 4. Median alis Anglitus Saxontce. 
 Tranfcriptus e pervetufto Lib. MS, 
 in Bibliotheca Regia apud S. Ja- 
 cob um. 
 
 5. In D nl . Hen. Spelmanni Equitis 
 Aurati GloJJarium Latino -Barb arum 
 Adverfaria ; Item. In Watfii Gkjfa^ 
 rium ; et In eximii Viri Gerardi Jo- 
 hannis Voffii de vitiis fermonis, &c. 
 traclaturn Adverfaria. 
 
 6- Statuta Ecc. Chrijli. Cant, abt, 
 Hen. 8™. Fundatore. 
 
 7. Godwin Sands. This is inferted 
 in his u Treatife on the Roman 
 " Ports and Forts in Kent" printed 
 at Oxford in 1693. 
 
 8. Littus Saxonicum per Britan- 
 niam. Mr. Batteley has obferved 
 that this treatife would be a defina- 
 ble addition to the Portus Iccius of 
 Somner. The defign of it is to 
 
 T 2 overthrow 
 
CATALOGUE. 
 
 overthrow the opinion of Mr. Sei- 
 dell in his Mare Claufum (L 2. 
 c. 7.) concerning this fliore, and to 
 vindicate the opinion of Ortelius, 
 Camden, Merula, Cluverius, and 
 other Geographers. [See Batteley's 
 Preface to the Antiq. of Cant.] 
 
 9. Mifcellanies ; confifting chiefly 
 of Letters relating to the affairs of 
 the Cathedral, and alfo of the Dio- 
 cefe : they contain fome curious re- 
 marks on the characters, refidence, 
 &c. of many Incumbents in the 
 Diocefe. 
 
 10. Chart a Gdonis Prions, Thefe 
 are copies of Covenants, Grants, 
 &c. by Odo, who was Prior of Ch„ 
 Church Canterbury in 1167, anc * 
 thence ele&ed Abbat of Battel in 
 
 ix. His " Difcourfe of Portus Ic- 
 
 " c us, wherein the late conceipts of 
 *< Chiffletiits in his topographic all dif- 
 Ci courfe thereof , are examined and re- 
 " fated \ the judgment oj Cluverius 
 « co?2cerning the fame port ajjerted 
 " and embraced and the true fite 
 " thereof more clearly afcertained" 
 
 This 
 
CATALOGUE. 277 
 
 This was translated into Latin, and 
 published at Oxford by Dr. Ed- 
 mund Gibfon (afterwards Bifhop of 
 London) in 1694. Soniner argues 
 for Bologne, Chifflet for Mard»/ke. 
 
 12. Chronica Gervafii, de combuf- 
 tione et reparat. Ecc. Cant, 1 1 74, 
 publilhed in the Decern Scriptores 
 in 1652; tranflated into Englifh, 
 and published in an Hift. Defcrip- 
 tion of Cant. Cathedral 1783, 
 
 C. 6. Somneri Scholia et Animadvert 
 Jiones in Leges Henrici Primi< FoL 
 
 C. 7* Soniner s rfreatife of the Roman 
 Ports and Forts in Kent, Fol. Pub- 
 Jifhed in 1693 : to which his Life 
 was prefixed by Dr. White Kennet, 
 afterward Bifhop of Peterborough. 
 The reader of that Life will find 
 Mr. Somner to have been a mo ft 
 judicious Antiquary, and a moft 
 worthy man. He died in 1669, 
 and was buried in St. Margaret's 
 Church, Canterbury, where there is 
 a Monument to his memory. 
 
 C. 8. Extradls by Somner. Fol. viz. 
 Ex Chronicis Will Thome.— Ex Got- 
 celini libro de tranjlatione S* Auguf- 
 T 3 tini 
 
^78 CATALOGUE. 
 
 tint Anglor. Apoft. et Sociorum ejus 
 in Bibliotheca Deuvejiana, Coru 
 cerning this treatife, fee the preface 
 to ? the 2d part of Wharton's Anglia 
 Sacra* — Ex Regijlro MS. t0 S. Auguf* 
 tint Mona/l. colleSi. a I'hom. Thaneto. 
 — Ex veteri Lib MS. olim Ecclejidd 
 Chrifti Cant, modo in bibliotheca Co- 
 xitis Arundelly cut titulus Rcgijlrum, 
 five Martyrologium Ecclefia Chrijli 
 Cant, — Ex veteri Lib, MS fc. Re- 
 giftro (ut injcribitur) temporalium, 
 Ecclefice et Epifcopatus Roffenfis ab- 
 breviate^ et circa tempora (13 19) 
 Haimonis de Hethe, 46. ejiifdem Se- 
 dis Epifc. ( ut cpinor) qui in Epifco- 
 porum ibi memoratorum catalogo ulti- 
 mum locum obtinet* — Ex libro Rqffenfi 
 in 4". — E. pervetujlo libro MS. in 
 bibliotheca Cottoniana, Orofti hijlo- 
 riam continent e y manu faxonica, cui 
 titulus, Chronica Saxonica Abbing- 
 donice ad annum 1066. See C. 5. 2» 
 QrofiuSy &e. 
 
 C. 9. Somneri Diflionarum Saxonico* 
 Latinum. Fol. Vol. 1. A. — L. 
 
 C. io, Eiufdem Vol. 2. L. — Y. This 
 
 Die- 
 
Catalogue. 279 
 
 Dictionary is alone fufficient to per- 
 petuate the diligence and learning of 
 Somner. It was publimed in 1659. 
 C. 11. An Account Book of fome Officer of 
 the Monaftery, containing 
 
 Inventoria Bonorum quorundam 
 Monacb. defunB, 
 
 Inventorium Capellez 8. Michaelis, 
 viz. de Veftimentis Corporalibus, Ca- 
 ll cibns Mifalibus, &c, per W. Ing- 
 gram, 1511- 
 
 Inventorium Capella, S. Bartho- 
 lomaei in Cryptis, 
 
 Dedicatio Altar is lapidei in offi- 
 cio Marty rii 5. 'Thorns (Becket) 
 Archiep. Cant cum catalogo cekhran** 
 tium qudlibet Dominica, 1507. 
 
 Inventorium rerum contentarum in 
 officio Cujlodis Martyrii S, Ihomce, 
 viz. de Veftimentis , Juellis> Reh 'qui is, 
 &c. Among the reliques were 
 <e Duo annuli aurei, unus beati 
 tc Thomas, et alter S. Edmundi 
 <c Archiepi cum duabus faphiris, 
 " magna et mirce virtiitis pro oculis 
 ec egrorum relevandis V y 
 
 Inventorium in Oratorio Archiepi. 
 Nota de juramento Clericorum Ecc. 
 
 Cbrifu 
 
2$Q CATALOGUE. 
 
 Chrijlu Cant. in ingrejfu. 
 
 Recepta Fratris WilL Inggram 
 Cujlodis Martyrii S. Thomce, et So- 
 lutiones ejufdem 1503, 1504, 1505, 
 1506, 1507, 1508, 1509, 1510. 
 
 Reparationes circa Libros in Li- 
 brarid fuper Capellam "Domini Pri- 
 ons. A Lift of the Books for- 
 merly in this Library is given in 
 Dart's Appendix to his Hift. of the 
 Church of Canterbury. 
 C. 12. Liber Tertius Decretalium. Fol. 
 memb. 
 
 C. 13, if A Book of forms of common 
 Law , viz. Indentured, Obligations, 
 Conditiones, &c. 
 
 2. De Anno Jubilao apud Cant. 
 1420. printed in Batteley's Appen- 
 dix to the Antiq. of Canterbury, 
 Part I. This Jubilee was obferved 
 once in 50 years, on account of the 
 tranflation of Becket's body to his 
 fhrine, 50 years after his death in 
 1220. At this fifth Jubilee in 
 1420, the concourfe of people is 
 faid to have been 100,000 ; all of 
 whom were well entertained 15 
 days, the time this Jubilee lafted. 
 
 Their 
 
CATALOGUE, 28f 
 
 Their oblations at the mrine of 
 Becket, no doubt, were ample. 
 
 3* Uf a g es > Laws, and Franchifes 
 that the Barons of Dover claym by 
 Prefcription. 
 
 4. Encomium mortis J ana? Re- 
 gince Anglia. Six Latin verfes, 
 C. 14. 1 • Liber Reddituum Locabilium 
 Prioris Ecclefice Cant. 
 
 2. Johan. Wodnyjberg EleBio in 
 Prior em Ecc. Chrifii Cant. 141 1. 
 
 3. Epifcoporum in Provincid Cant. 
 Decimce Spiritualium et Temporalium 
 Secundum Regiftr. Papa? et Regis. 
 
 C. 15. M. T. Ciceroni s Epijiola. FoL 
 At the beginning of this MS. is the 
 following note, " This booke I 
 " Edmond Witherpoll found in 
 " the lybrary off* owre kdye's 
 <c churche in Bulleyn the xxv day 
 " of Sept. Anno Domini 1544. 
 
 C. 16. Some of Somners Collections* Fol. 
 
 1. The Charter of K. Ed. 4'*. 
 granted to the City of Canterbury in 
 1460. 
 
 2. Anfwers to the Articles of En~ 
 quiry made by the Commifjioners of 
 Henry % th % concerning the ejlates, 
 
 goods, 
 
CATALOGUE. 
 
 goods, revenues, &c of certain Hof- 
 pitals in and near Canterbury, viz. 
 tff Eaftbridge, 0/Harbledown Hof- 
 pital and Chantry, e/'Maynard's, of 
 S c . John's, of Poor Priefis in S*. 
 Margaret's Parijh, of Prince Ed- 
 ward's Chantry, of Sir W. Roper's 
 Chantry, of S c . Jacob's Hofpital in 
 Thanington Parifi, of Wingham 
 Collegiate Church, of the Chantries of 
 our Lady and S\ Stephen in Afh, of 
 Reculver Chantry, of Heme Chan- 
 try, of Hothe Chantry, of our Lady 
 Church in Dover, of S\ Bartholo- 
 mew's Hofpital by Dover, of S e . 
 Martins in Dover, and of Archbijhop 
 Arundel's Chantry* 
 
 3. Tranfcripts from old Records, 
 viz. De tranjlaiione S. AuguJlini.-~ 
 De rejlituenia Abb at i a S, Augujlini. 
 —Refcriptum Archiepi ad D m \ Re- 
 gem de eadem. — Privilegtum Greg* 
 Papa IX.—Qu-oddam fcriptum de Ca- 
 pe Ua de Dane in Thane to — Appropri- 
 ate ecclefce de Eleham Scholar ib. de 
 Merton, Oxon.—Appropriatio eccle- 
 fce de Hedecrune (Hedcorne) Hof- 
 fit alt de Qipringe.—Decretum Do- 
 mini 
 
CATALOGUE. 283 
 
 mini Archiepi Cant* ut Inhabit antes 
 de Hearne contribaant reparation* 
 ecclejice de Reculver: ex autogra- 
 pho fob dgiWo.—Confirmatio carta 
 \theobaldi per Greg. Pap am fuper dona 
 obedientiariorum> in qua quadam de 
 prior atu S l \ Martini, Dovor, — Con- 
 Jirmatio Ccemiterii S*U Paulii Cant. 
 De Capella de Shorne vel Thorne* — 
 Ex fcedisD. DoB, Cafauboni —Carta 
 Hubert i Archiep. Cant, confervatoris 
 pojfejjtonum Canonicorum Prioratus 
 iSK Gregorii Cant. This is in- 
 ferted into the Monafticon Anglic. 
 —Donatio Manerii de Dane in in~ 
 fula Thaneti Mona/lerio S. Auguftini 
 Cant. — Compofitio inter Abb at em et 
 Conventum S. Auguftini et Tenentes 
 eorum de Menftre et Hengrave in 
 ^haneio* — Many of thefe records are 
 publiflied in Thorn's Chronicle. At 
 the other end of the book, Formula 
 quadam Procejjus in Curiis Ecc* 
 C. 17. Liber Formularum in Curiis Ec- 
 clefiafticis Ufitatarum. Fol. Written 
 in 1606. 
 
 C. 1 8. 1. Loci communes Juris Ecc. Or- 
 dine alphabetic. 
 
 2- Trac- 
 
CATALOGUE, 
 
 2« Traffiatus brevis or dims judi- 
 riorum* 
 
 3. Libellorum Formula in caufis 
 Eccies* to which is prefixed a fliort 
 account of " Caufes Papal to the 
 " number of 51, wherein I (the 
 €C Pope) only have pow T re to dif- 
 <s penfe, and no man ells, nether 
 €€ Byfhope, nor Metropolitane, nor 
 " legate, withoute a fpeciale ly- 
 €t cence from me," This difplay 
 of Papal Power is mode ft ^ in compa- 
 nion to the accomodating Table of 
 Abfolutions, Difpenfations, and 
 other limilar Fees of the Pope's 
 Chancery, which Sir Rich Steele 
 has given us in his Romifh Ecc. 
 Hiflory. 
 
 Certain Difputations in point of 
 of haw concerning the Kings of Eng- 
 land's right to their SucceJJion in the 
 Kingdom of Trance 3 from an antient 
 MS. copied by Sir Peter Manwood 
 in 161^ Fol. Of the Original, fays 
 Sir Peter, " the feames weare partly 
 cs confumed, and the letters dim- 
 « c med, and all mo ft worne out by 
 €t time the devourer of all things. 
 
 « In 
 
CATALOGUE. 285 
 
 * ff In which Booke I found con- 
 € * tayned the principall paffages of 
 €€ affaires betweene the two King- 
 " domes of England and Fraunce 
 €€ under the reignes of King Ed- 
 €€ ward the third, and King Henry 
 " the ffifth.— Out of this I in- 
 " treated a fpeciall freind to ex- 
 <£ tradt Certain Difputations, &c. a> 
 C, 20. Fundatio et Statuta Hofpit, S tl . 
 Laurentii juxta Cantuariam, etRe- 
 giflrum chartarum de terns ejiijdemi 
 FoL memb. 
 
 / 
 
 D. n 
 
2 36 
 
 CATALOGUE.' 
 
 D 
 
 D. i; 1 faciei Cafauboni Ephemerides FoL 
 This is the Diary of the Life of that 
 eminent Scholar and Critic Ifaac 
 Cafaubon, Prebendary of this 
 Church, written in Latin with his 
 own hand, commencing in the 
 39 th year of his age, and in the year 
 of our Lord 1597. He died in 
 1614. 
 
 D. 2 c Di&ionariutn Eatinum. Fol. 
 This Diet, is entitled " Propter 
 Vocabulorum copiatn Me dull d 
 Grammatices" Whether it be the 
 work of Galfrid, a Dominican, who 
 fiourifhed towards the end of the 
 a 5 th Century, who for his fkill in 
 Grammar was firnamed Grammati- 
 cus, and who wrote a Medulla 
 Grammatices, I do not prefume to 
 fay. 
 
 D. 3* Erdefwick's Antiquities of Staf- 
 fordshire. Fol. 84 pages. 
 
 D. 4. 1 . Redditus Ecc. Chrijii. Cantuar* 
 memb. 
 
 2. Computus T'hefaurariorum annis 
 2. 3- 4. 5. Regis Johannis. memb, 
 
 3. Galium 
 
catalogue: 287 
 
 3. Gablum de diver fis ferns. E#- 
 traB de Domefday Book de cer- 
 tis maneriis quce pertinent ad D mm . 
 Archiep. et Monachos Ecc. Chr. 
 Cant. memb. 
 
 4. Inquifitio fadla fuper redditihus 
 de Chertham. memb. 
 
 5. Redditus de Coltuna. memb. 
 
 6 . Redditus Farochite de Northgate 
 et ali arum Varochiarum. memb. 
 
 y, Redditm pertinentes ad Domum 
 S. Trinitatis Parochice de North- 
 gate, memb. 
 
 8. Relevia recepta anno fecundo et 
 fequentibus po/i reverjionem Convent us 
 abexilio, 12 15. memb. The Prior 
 of Chrift Church, Canterbury, and 
 his Monks, 64 in number, were 
 baniflhed by K. John in 1207, 011 
 account of the opposition which 
 they made to his nomination of an 
 Archbifhop. Their places were 
 filled with Monks from the Monaf- 
 try of St. Auftin. After 7 years 
 banifhment they were reftored > 
 ioool. was given them as a recom- 
 pence for all detriment, and they 
 received a Charter of Reftitution. 
 
 9. Ext raff 
 
288 CATALOGUE. 
 
 9. ExtraB Finium et Amerciament 
 torum, memb. 
 
 10. Particulce t err arum et reddi- 
 tuum emptorum et conduBorum Anno 
 I2%$,feq. memb. 
 
 1 1 . Nonnulli Computus Willielmi 
 Derby de Libertatibus Prions Ecc, 
 Chrifti. Cant* memb. 
 
 12. Placita coram D no . Rege apud 
 Weftmonajleriam termino S. Hilarii, 
 A 0 . Sexto Regis Edwardi 3^. memb, 
 
 13. De Mcnajlerio et Prioribus S. 
 Martini de Dovor. memb. 
 
 14. Rent ale de Godmerfham et aliis 
 locis. memb. 
 
 D. 5. Vetus Logica. Liber de Articu- 
 lis Fidei. Prifcianus de Conjlruc- 
 tionibus. Liber de Accentibus. Do- 
 nati Barbarifmus. Fol. memb. 
 This ancient MS. formerly be- 
 longed to the Monaftery of St. 
 Auftin, Canterbury. 
 
 D. 6. Evangelium S t} . Maithcei Latini 9 
 cum targd expofitione cujufdam Ano- 
 nymi. Fol. In fine prefervation, 
 and formerly belonged to St. Au- 
 ftin's Monaftery. 
 
 D. 7. Liber Sermonum colleBus de mult is 
 
CATALOGUE. 289 
 
 per Priorem de S\ Alphego. Fol. 
 memb. Moft of thefe lermons are 
 by Thomas Chabham, or Cobham, 
 a native of Kent, Subdtan of Sa- 
 rum, &c. one of the moft diftin- 
 guimed characters of his time both 
 for learning and virtue : he died 
 Bifhop of Worcefter in 1327. 
 D. 8. J . Formula procedendi in Jure 
 Civili. 
 
 2. St at uta Curia Cantuar* edit a 
 per Rob. (d) Winchelfea, Archiep. 
 Cant. 
 
 3 . Statutum Gregorii Papa de De~ 
 nariis Petri. 
 
 4. Conftitutiones Archiep. Job. de 
 (e) Peckham edited in Concil Lam- 
 beth. 
 
 5. Tr a Bat us fuper formis Eleffio- 
 num cum Inftrumentis ad ipfam jor- 
 mam fpeffantibus. 
 
 6. Carta magna Communiam Li- 
 bertatum Anglia . 
 
 7. Carta de Libertatibus Forejia in 
 Anglia. 
 
 (d) Robert Winchelfea was elected Archbifiiop of 
 Canterbury in 1292, and died in 131 3. 
 
 (e) John Peckham was confecrated Archbifiiop of 
 Canterbury in 1278, and died in 1292. 
 
 U 8. Vocatio 
 
29O CATALOGUE. 
 
 8. Vocatio Pralatorum ad Con- 
 cilium. 
 
 g. Lit era executoria fuper Ordina? 
 tis in Concilia. 
 
 10. Traffatus Moralis de Sacra- 
 mentis, de Vitiis, Virtutibus, et de- 
 cern Prceceptis. 
 
 D. g. i, gumma qua dicitur Pars Oculi 
 Sacerdotum. 2. Sum ma qua dicitur 
 Pars D extra Oculi Sacerdotum. 3, 
 Summa qua dicitur Siniflra Pars 
 Oculi Sacerdotum. 4. Tr afflatus de 
 Septem Sacramentis Ecclefea, de feptem 
 Virtutibus, feptem Peccatis Mortali- 
 bus et decern Praceptis. Fol. memb. 
 
 D. io, 1 . Anonymi Hijloria et Figura Ani- 
 malium* '4 0 . memb. very ancient, 
 
 2. A Repertory directing the keep - 
 ing of Merchants Accounts. 4 0 . 
 
 3, Epigrammafatiron ; Englifh 
 Poetry. 4 0 . It is entitled, " The 
 **■ times whittle or a newe daunce 
 iC of feven Satires, whereunto are 
 iC annexed divers other poems com- 
 fC prifing things naturall, morall, 
 tfC and theologicall, compiled by 
 *\ ■ - , ■ ■i g , ;■„■•- genu 
 
 — — c< Septem 
 
CATALOGUE. 29I- 
 
 ■ _ Septem compacla cicutis 
 M Fiftula, 1 ' 
 
 The name of the compiler is 
 erafed. He announces the delign 
 of thefe Seven Satires in a long In- 
 troduction, 
 
 ft ffrom the Rhamnufian goddefTe am I fent, 
 
 " On Sin t'inflift deferved puniihment. 
 
 '* All-feeing Sunne, lend me thy fearching eye 
 
 <( That I may finde, and fcourge impietie." Sec. &c. 
 
 The mifcellaneous poems are nu- 
 merous, and many of them enter- 
 taining. 
 
 4, The Names of Archbiflops and 
 BiJJjops of Spai?i and Portugal, with 
 a note of their yearly Revenues. The 
 Names of Dukes, Marquifes, Earls, 
 and Kings Council in Spain. The 
 Allowance of Ambajfadors in Spain. 
 Of fome Univerfties in Spain and 
 Portugal. 4 . No date to this little 
 compilation ; but at the time it 
 was written, the " Univerfity of 
 ff Salamanca had 7000, that of Al- 
 " cala Henares 6000, and that of 
 *f Coimbra 4000 Students." 
 
 5. A Vocabulary of Words written 
 in Figures, with fpecimens. 4 0 . A 
 
 U 2 kind 
 
292 CATALOGUE. 
 
 kind of fhort-hand Writing, at the 
 beginning of the 17th Century. 
 D. 11. Johannis Hijpani Cafus Deer eta- 
 
 limn. Fol. memb. 
 P, 12- 1. Nomina Monachorum Eccles. 
 Chrifti Cant, a tempore exilii eorum 
 1207 ad annum 1533. 
 
 2; Obitnarium Monachorum Eccles. 
 Cbr. Cant, ab \ 286 ad 1507, 
 
 2 . "Nomina 1 6 1 Major urn Civitatis 
 Cantuarice ab 1449. 
 D, 13. An Englijh Poem, entitled Stimu- 
 lus Confcieniice. 4 0 . very ancient. 
 
 The Poem opens " How God was 
 " evere withoute bygynnyge then 
 purfues a variety of fubjects relating 
 to our wants and paflions, the flates 
 of Heaven and Hell, our blifs and 
 mifery &c. &c. 5 commencing with 
 cc the bygynnynge of marine's lif." 
 D. 14. Sermones Anonymi Latini cum Ta- 
 bula Alphabetical 4 0 . 
 D. 15. Rentals of Filet h and Blcdbenie 
 
 Courts, &c. tempore Hen. 7. 4 0 . 
 P. J 6 I . Correclorium t otitis Biblice Ro- 
 berti Grofthead Epifc Lincoln. 
 
 2. Tabula fecundum or dine m Al- 
 phabeti in lib exemplorum Sacra 
 Scriptures* q. Liber 
 
CATALOGUE* 293 
 
 3. Liber Exemplorum S. Script urce 
 Fratris NicoL de Hanapis. 
 
 4. De Or bis Shu. This MS. 
 Vol. belonged to St. Auftin's Li- 
 brary. 
 
 D. 17. 1. An Alphabetical Glojfary of Law 
 Words. 2. Statuia Regis Ed. III. 
 etR. Ricardilh 4 0 . memb. 
 
 E; Chrcnicon 
 
294 CATALOGUE*- 
 
 E 
 
 E. Chronicon ab origine mundi, cul 
 
 pr<zfigitur % " Tabula fubfequentis 
 " operis fecundum ordinem Alpha- 
 <c beti" Folio, ends in 1338. 
 E. 1 1 Fragment um Hijloria Saxonicce 
 manu recenti. 4 0 . This once be- 
 longed to Somner. At the begin- 
 ning is the following Note, " Si 
 " comparetur hoc Fragmentum 
 €C cum impreffis haud modica dif- 
 cc crepantia apparebit." And on 
 the firft page, " Florentius Wigorn 
 € * optimus hujus hiftor. interpres. 
 " W. 9." To which are added, 
 Numerus hydarum Anglice, and a 
 « Parcel! of the hyjlory ofWorceJler. 
 E. 2. Canuti Regis Leges Saxonica. 4 0 : 
 E. 3. Expofitio five Gloffa Regulce S* 
 
 Beati Benedict. 4 0 . 
 E; 4. Rich. Atkynfon Comment, in l* m ^ 
 
 Epijlolam ad Corinthios, 1 547. 4 0 . 
 E,. 5. Ariflotelis Ethicorum ad Nicoma- 
 chum Libri, carmine Grceco per Will. 
 Barrum. 4 0 , 
 JB. 6, A Receiver s Book of the Church 
 Rents in the time of the Monajlery. 
 
 E. 7. 8. 
 
Catalogue. 295 
 Ei 7. 8. Willielmi Ingram Logica, 1478. 
 
 2 vols. 8vo, 
 E, 9. 1. Conftitutiones Othonis, et Otto- 
 boni. 2. Conftitutiones Oxonis de !i- 
 bertatibus Ecclefice. 3. Conftitutiones 
 de Weflmonafteria Bonifacii Archiep. 
 Cant* 4. Conftitutiones apud Read- 
 ing, 5. Conftitiones de Lambeth Jo- 
 hannis Peckham Archiep. Cant. 4 0 . 
 rnemb. 
 
 E. 10. Teftamenta Duodecem Patriarcha- 
 rum\ Narratio e libro qui Greece 
 vocatur Suda (Suidas.) Meditati- 
 ones beati Bernardi, 8 V0 . rnemb. 
 This book formerly belonged to 
 the Monaftery of St. Mary Overey, 
 Southward 
 
 E, it. Veterum Statutoram Regni ColleSiio^ 
 cum indie e preftxo. 8 vo . 
 
 E. 12. Regulce et Rubric ce excerpt ce ex or- 
 dinal} Sarum per Thorn, de Grant- 
 ham. Item, Ejufdem Regula de 
 Hiftoriis inchoandis 9 de Jerialibus 
 et Dominicalibus Miftis ( cantandis.) 
 8 vo . memb. 
 
 E, 13. 1. Taxatio Bonorum Spiritualism 
 et Temporalium Epifcoporum utriuf- 
 que Provincitf. 
 
 2. Statu fa 
 
296 CATALOGUE. 
 
 2. St at tit a Regis Ed. 3. ab anna 
 i°. ad 5o mum . 8'°. memb. 
 
 E. 14. Ephrem Syri Pieces. Grace. I2 m0 . 
 
 E. 15, Inftruttione del Signor Bah di Va- 
 lence Awfr\ de Re Chrijlianifs™ 0 . 1 2 mo ; 
 No date. 
 
 E. .16. (f) Account of Dr. John Bar grave's 
 Bt : cfaffiion to the Library. Dr. 
 Bargrave was Prebendary of this 
 Church, and Nephew of Dean 
 Bargrave. He had been a great 
 Traveller, like his Uncle, and had 
 collected, while abroad, many Coins 
 and Medals, and fome few Books 
 of Prints, which he gave to this 
 Library. One of the Books is too 
 curious to be here unnoticed. It is 
 placed among the printed Books 
 in the Library, (G. 3. 33.) and is 
 entitled Effigies 9 Nomina, et Cogno- 
 mina Papce et Cardinalium nunc vi- 
 ventium. Edit, d Jo. Jacobo de Ru- 
 beis Roma 1658. Folio. The effi- 
 gies of " the Pope and Colledge 
 " or Conclave of Cardinalles li- 
 
 (f) This account and another large account of his 
 and Dr. Calaubon's Coins and Medals, are kept m the 
 upper drawer of the little Cabinet in the Library. 
 
 vmg. 
 
CATALOGUE. 297 
 
 ** ving, when I was my fourth and 
 " laft time at Rome, wheare I 
 tr bought them in fheets* A 0 . 1660. 
 e< John Bargrave, of Kent, D. D. 
 " Canon of Chrift Church, Can- 
 €< terbury." On the Margins and 
 Backs of thefe Engravings are ma- 
 nufcript quotations made by Dr. 
 Bargrave from 11 Nepotiftno, U 
 Cardinalifmo, and other authori- 
 ties ; at the fame time there are 
 many diverting remarks, many in- 
 teresting anecdotes from his own 
 pen. At the beginning of this col- 
 lection he has made the following 
 note. <c The College of Cardinalis 
 ** when I w r as my fourth and laft 
 " tyme at Rome, I being then 
 *' there, when King Charles the 
 ** Second was Reftored to his 
 " three Crownes, and to my know- 
 " ledge, to the Create Greife of 
 " that Triple Crowne, and that 
 " Colledge, whoe thought to have 
 f< binn Mafters of England. 1660." 
 On the margin of the Pope's pic- 
 
 ture 
 
)5 CATALOGUE* 
 
 tare (Alexander the 7th) he has ob« 
 ferved that, " this picture and all 
 c f the reft following, are extraordi- 
 < c narily like the perfons, drawn and 
 cut by excellent hands ; I know- 
 " ing them all by fight (and fame 
 " by difcourfe) as well as I knowe 
 " any of my brethren the Canons 
 " of Ch. Church Canterbury." 
 Dr. Bargrave died in 1680. 
 . 17. Liber precum cujufdam Monachi 
 Cantuarienjis. 24*. memb. 
 
 Eighteen Volumes of Old Regifters, 
 containing much curious and valu- 
 able information, are kept in the 
 Chapter Room. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
Page x, line 3, for Form read From. 
 
 xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, mould be marked xii, xiii, xiv, XT. 
 65, line 20, for anos, read annos. 
 65, line 5, for Catalinatn, read Catilinam. 
 77, line i, for Markets, read Ne<w-Markett. 
 96, line 15, for dominicct, read dominie a. 
 104, line 8, dele after with others the full Jlop 9 
 
 and fupply a comma. 
 132, line 11, for Londinfenes, read Londinenfes* 
 156, line 8, for leafure, read leifure. 
 224, line 4, for Captain Duncan Campbell, read 
 now Lieutenant - Colonel Duncan 
 Campbell. 
 
 254, line 2, fince thefe meets were printed, 
 two more volumes of Bilhop Hern's 
 Sermons have been published." 
 262, line 24, for confernjanaum read confer vandum* 
 268, line 20, for Archbijbop, read Archbijkopric* 
 288, line 23, for Latini, read Latins. 
 
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