NELSON'S Life of Bishop Bull.

P. 16. NELSON wishes for a divinity college.

32. Bull used to invite teachers who had drawn away any of his parishioners to confer with him in presence of the party. 34. Burial service. This probably is the story which Sprat has told.

40. The posey on his wife's weddingring was, "Bene parere, parere, parare det mihi Deus."

She survived her husband, and his grave was left unpaved, by her desire, waiting to receive her also.

48. Il reading ought to be a disqualification for orders.

54. Public baptism-the benefit of congregational prayers goes with it.

311. The firmest defenders of the Church against Popery-those who have been accused of coming nearest to it.

312. His efforts for suppressing immorality.

356. Duty of bishops in parliament, and of the clergy everywhere.

358. He advised young divines1 not to preach their own sermons; and if they were too poor to be provided with those of approved authors, to read a homily, or a chapter from the Whole Duty of Man.

363. He insisted upon a competent salary for curates.

382. Schoolmasters to be deprived of their license if they neglected religious instruction.

382. Parents advised to present their children with a small library of divinity, to the value of £3, £4, or £5.

SIDNEY'S Life of Rowland Hill.

39. One charge against the six students of Edmund Hall was, their being connected with Messrs. Venn, Newton, and Fletcher.

48. Berridge. 49. he said of Johnny Stittle, "he is a wonderful man indeed; somewhat lifted up at the present, I think; but his Master will take him by the nose by and by."

55. "The darkest moment in the whole nucthemeron is just before break of day.” -Berridge.

69. "Make the best of your time; and should the Lord afford travelling health and sound lungs, blow your horn soundly." -Berridge.

86. Rowland Hill at Olney, 28 March, 1773: a very large congregation from every quarter attended. No meeting-house would nearly hold them. Preached out of doors for the first time. "Go ye forth into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature." Mark xvi. 15, 16.

97. Sheridan said, "I go to hear Rowland Hill because his ideas come red-hot from the heart."

Milner (the Dean) said to him, "Mr. Hill, I felt to-day, 'tis this slap-dash preaching, say what they will, that does all the good."

104. Trevecca.

122. Sir H. Trelawny, 423.

128. 1777. Rowland Hill began to preach frequently to little children, whom he assembled on a Sunday for that purpose.

136. "Rowland Hill took a lively interest in Mr. Newton's ministerial duties, and in Romaine's. Through Newton he became acquainted with Cowper, from whom he received much kindness and attention, and of whom he always spoke with the greatest reverence and affection."

163. Cowper corrected his hymn for children. Cowper's letter is here, 29 March,

1790.

321. His spelling boxes for children. 437. Horseley made some severe remarks upon Sunday schools in one of his charges. 438. "I pity a priest ridden people," said Rowland Hill, "wherever they are to be found. But a people ridden priest is a still greater object of compassion."

DR. WORDSWORTH'S Ecclesiastical Biography. 1st Edit.

Life of Sir Thomas More. Vol. 2.

P. 81. EVERY day, feast and ferie. Hooker. Vol. 4.

P. 178. HOOKER's papers were in the library at Lambeth, which, after Laud's murder was given to Hugh Peters.

180. A curious anecdote concerning Francisco Suarez and his Defensio Fidei.

P. 30. HE and Bedel transmitted Father Paul's History in letters into England, as fast as it was written, to King James and the Archbishop of Canterbury. By their instigation this important work was written, and in England it was first published, in English and in Latin.

37. On his way to England, upon his final return, he left his arms wherever he lodged, with an inscription under them in Latin, saying that Henry Wotton, embassador so often and so long (enumerating all the legations which he had filled,)

"tandem hoc didicit Animas fieri sapientiores quiescendo." Nicholas Ferrar. Vol. 5. P. 82. His agony of scepticism at six years of age. Can this be true?

165. N. The custom of children asking a blessing before they retired at night of their parents, was disused as Popish by the Puritans. The ceremony of churching, the use of sponsors, the burial service also were laid aside; and there were some who proscribed not only the Doxology and the Creed, but the Lord's Prayer.

Sanderson. Vol. 5.

P. 494-5. HAVOc committed by the Puritans.

Vol. 6.

P. 65. SIR MATTHEW HALE was, both when at the bar and on the bench, a great enemy to all eloquence or rhetoric in pleading. He said, "If the judge or jury had a right understanding, it signified nothing but a waste of time and loss of words, and if they were weak and easily wrought on, it was a more decent way of corrupting them, by bribing their fancies and biassing their affections."

72. Had it not been for Sir Matthew Hale, the children of the Quakers would have been bastardized, through the rascality of one who wished to evade the payment of debts contracted by his wife before marriage

94. Among his MSS. which should be in Lincoln's Inn, is one entitled Magnetismus Physicus; there are two others, called Magnetismus Magneticus and Magnetismus Divinus.

194. James I used to say that the happiest lot of all others was to possess such an estate as set a man below the office of a justice of peace, and above that of a petty constable.

346. Philip Henry' would sometimes say, "I am too much of a Catholic to be a Roman Catholic."

"Sit in necessariis unitas, in non necessariis libertas, in omnibus charitas." rule pleased him well.

This

349. Some zealous people would have him to preach against knots. But Henry, though unfortunately a Non-conformist, had been too well educated to be a Puritan.

Special Remarques of the Life of Dr. Sanderson, late Lord Bishop of Lincoln. Oxford, 1663. Signed D. F.

lent observations touching schools, which he would say were the most considerable places in a kingdom, so he would usually say, that the practical way is the best, when, as Aristotle speaks, we learn that by doing, which we learn to do."

6. "With a slow but sure pace, he proceeded in all rational and solid learning; his unwearied mind struggling with the intricacies, perplexities, darkness, and confusion of nature, and aiming at that clear and genuine apprehension of things we were created in, after the image of God, in knowledge; not so intent upon the notions, as the nature of things."

7. "To find out the merit of a cause, the right joint of a question, exactly."

9. He would say, "it was no less than a miracle of knowledge that men might attain to, if they proceeded thus distinctly (after his method) in reading authors, and in pursuing after knowledge."

10. "I learn, said he, much from my master, more from my equals, and most of all from my disciples."

19. "Employment was improvement," he used to say.

"The miscarriages of school are not easily recovered in the university; the errors of the first concoction being hardly rectified in the second."

"At school," he observed, "he learnt an art of memory. When he was enjoined to learn what he understood not (which was then an ordinary miscarriage in grammar-schools), he was compelled to make use of similitudes, &c. and, to remember those things he knew not, to think upon something like them he knew. As he had many excel

The Life of Philip Henry is omitted in the last edition. A revised edition was published, London, 1825. 8vo. by J. B. Williams.

J. W. W.

worst sacrilege in the world; as which at once betrayed the Church to the unworthy and weak, and the University to the undeserving, and the founders' charity to those persons they never designed it for, to the shame of the present age, and the undoing of the future."

33. Charles I. said, "I bring an ear to hear others; I bring a conscience to hear Sanderson."

37. This man was silenced during the reign of the Puritans. "Nothing troubled him more than that he was laid aside, and made useless. What reason would have suppressed this worth? What people would have deprived this man? What Government would have laid aside so much reason, judgement, and most useful learning ?”

41. He was careful whom he ordained, "lest, as he would say, he should have reason, with him who made a dangerous man priest, to wish he had laid his hands on the briars, rather than on such a man's head."

Life of Dr. Barwick, by his Brother,

DR. PETER BARWICK. 1724.

P. 26. BARNABY OLEY. He carried what money Cambridge could raise to the King at Nottingham.

112. And provided Sir Marmaduke Langdale with a disguise when he made his escape.

114-36. A continual cough, followed by spitting of blood, and afterwards by a consumption of his lungs, a wasting and pining away of his whole body,-cured when he was in the Tower. He "who of all men living had been least used to indulge his appetite, now lived more sparingly than any mortal, after he had contracted this illness. The diet he used was herbs, or fruit, or thin water-gruel made of oatmeal or barley, with currants boiled in it, and sweetened with a little sugar; and this he used to cook himself in the prison, to help pass away the time. As he was always very abstemious, so he now refrained from all sorts of made drink, whether wine or beer, quenching his thirst with nothing but spring water."

153. High Court of Justice under one Keeble," who did not try persons according to the ancient way, by the verdict of a jury; but, without either witness or law, as well as without shame, whomsoever he thought there was sufficient ground of suspecting to favour the Royal cause, he immediately condemned him to the gallows, and without more ado had him executed. In this bloody slaughter-house were butchered Colonel Eusebius Andrews, and other loyal subjects."

123. He was threatened with the rack. "He that cried out loudest for putting him

to the torture was Sir Henry Mildmay." 158. "The Bishop of Durham was constrained to sell his library to support himself, when above fourscore and ten,-he that was formerly used to support so many others."

160. Bradshaw expressed "great bitterness against Cromwell, and uttered the most direful execrations against his arbitrary tyrannical government; but spake as respectfully of the Royal authority exercised within those bounds prescribed by the laws, as if he had had a mind to return into favour with kings."

163. The rebels were deliberating "whether they should not (according to Hobbes's doctrine, then lately published) destroy all such as they thought really favoured the Royal cause. Cromwell knew that the number was too great to be slaughtered, and contented himself to plunder them."

177. Clarendon's letters to Barwick at St. John's Library, Cambridge.

200. Care about preserving the succession of Bishops.

251. Wallis-his decyphering the Royalists' letters. Yet he did not disclose all their contents.

267. The Bishop of Ely always confided in Monk.

298. Hugh Peters stupified at his sentence, and seeming to have no religion at last.

304. The Scotch taken at Dunbar were confined in Durham Cathedral, “till, to preserve themselves from the cold of the winter, whereby they must otherwise have perished, they had been forced to make fires of all the wood-work therein which they were able to pull down."

310. At Durham, when Dean, he used to "entertain at his own table such strangers as were at prayers."

Lives of LELAND, HEARNE, and WOOD. Leland. P. 17.

printers.

ERMANS came to buy books here when the monasteries were spoiled, and published them at the press of Frobenius and other

23. His poem to Cranmer-quite worthy of its author.

45. The authority for Pol. Virgil's villainy.

Bale must certainly be wrong when he says in the New Year's Gift of John Leland, "As concerning the Hebrew, it is to be thought that many were therein well learned in the days of King Athelstan. For at the instant request of his prelates, he caused the Scriptures out of that tongue to be by certain doctors translated into the Saxonysh or Englyshe speech, as in the chroniclers is mentioned."

Hearne.

P. 2. THIS Mr. Cherry who put Hearne to school, I suppose to be the person who gave Bishop Ken a place wherein to hide his head.

Wood.

P. 45. Tucking1 freshmen at Oxford. 46. Shrove Tuesday pranks in the colleges.

65. This year, 1650, a Jew opened a

"That is, set the nail of their thumb to their chin, just under the lip, and by the help of their other fingers under the chin, they would give him a mark, which sometimes would produce blood." in loc.-J. W. W.

CARDAN-De Propriâ Vita. Amst. 1654.

NAUDEUS, in his preface, while arguing against astrology, professes his belief in the Caledonian Merlin, Nostradamus, Baudarra, &c. Who is the German Lolhardus whom he classes with them?

Cardan confesses that he wrote the more because he was paid by the sheet.

P. 8. Breastplates which would resist a bullet.

9. Before he was a month old, he had the plague, with five carbuncles on his face. Three years afterwards, when he had the smallpox, there was a pustule in each of these plague-marks. A fact worthy of notice by those who dreamt that vaccination might be a preventative against the plague.