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PAGE 6.-Archbishop Sharp, whom Burnet pronounced one of the most popular preachers of the age, was a great reader of Shakspeare. Dr. Mangey, who married his daughter, told the Speaker Onslow, that he advised all young Divines to unite the reading of Shakspeare to the study of the Scriptures; and Dr. Lisle, Bishop of Norwich, who had been Chaplain to Archbishop Wake, assured Onslow that Sharp's declaration, "that the Bible and Shakspeare had made him Archbishop of York," was often repeated at Lambeth Palace.-See Onslow's note to the Oxford edition of Burnet's History of his own Time, vol. iii., p. 100.

Sharp was celebrated for the vigour and effect with which his Sermons were delivered.

FLETCHER.

Page 29.-Dr. Fletcher formed one of the Commission of the Metropolitan Visitation, appointed in 1581.Strype's Life of Bishop Grindal, p. 396, Oxford edition. In May 1596, Bishop Fletcher wrote to Lord Burleigh, requesting that nobleman to procure for his brother the appointment of Master Extraordinary in Chancery.Strype's Annals of the Reformation, vol. iv., p. 373. Dr. Fletcher was also Remembrancer of the City of London, an office obtained for him by Queen Elizabeth, who addressed a long letter in her own hand to the Lord Mayor, &c., upon the subject. A copy of this singular epistle I have been permitted to peruse, and

the terms in which Dr. Fletcher is recommended, evince the respect he was held in by Elizabeth.

Page 55.-This would have been more correctly expressed by saying, that three new books of the Faerie Queen were published in 1596.

WITHER.

Page 89.-Wither was again in prison in 1621. Mr. Collier has communicated to me the following interesting extracts from the Registers of the Privy Council:26 June, 1621. A Warrant to John Perrial, to bring before the Lords the person of George Wither.

27 June, 1621. This day George Wither, Gent., having been sent for by warrant from the Lords, hath tendred his appearance, which for his indemnity is here entred, he being nevertheless injoined to remaine in the custody of the Messenger, until by order from the Lords he shalbe dismissed.

On the same day, however, we find from another entry, that the Council issued a warrant to commit George Wither close prisoner into the Marshalsea, until further order.

15 March, 1621.

A warrant to the Keeper of the Marshalsea, to enlarge and sett at liberty the person of George Wythers, upon Bond, to be given by him, with a Suretie before the Clerke of the Councell attendant, to his Majesty's use for his forthcomeing and appearance at all tyme, as there shalbe cause.

Page 115.-One stanza from the " Prayer of Habakkuk," has been frequently quoted; a free animated manner pervades the entire poem :

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And the matchless Holy One
From Mount Paran forth appeared,
Heaven o'erspreading with his rays,
And earth filling with his praise.
Sun-like was his glorious light;
From his side there did appear
Beaming rays that shined bright;
And his power he shrouded there.
Plagues before his face he sent ;
At his feet hot coals there went.

Where He stood, He measure took
Of the earth, and viewed it well;
Nations vanish'd at his look;
Ancient hills to powder fell-

Through the earth Thou rifts didst make,
And the rivers there did flow:
Mountains seeing Thee did shake,

And away the floods did go

From the deep a voice was heard,

And his hands on high he rear'd.

SANDYS.

Page 128.-An erroneous calculation of the extent of the MS. alone prevented the insertion of a more copious notice of this interesting poet, in the earlier portion of the volume.

George Sandys, a younger son of the Archbishop, was born at the palace of Bishop Thorp, in 1587, and in his eleventh year was matriculated at St. Mary's Hall; but Wood conjectures that he afterwards emigrated to Corpus Christi College. It does not appear that he took any degree. In August, 1610, he set out on his travels, during which he visited the most interesting