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GEORGIUS CARLETONUS, episcopus Cicestriensis; 4to.

It is the original of the next print, and is prefixed to his "Thankful Remembrance of God's Mercie," 1630. This and the other prints in the same book were engraved by Frederic Hulsius.

GEORGIUS CARLETONUS, &c.: at his breast hangs a medal of the synod of Dort. In Boissard; small 4to.

GEORGIUS CARLETONUS, episcopus Cicestriensis; 4to. W. Richardson.

July, 1618.
Tr. from

Landaff,
Sept. 1619."

George Carleton was educated under the care of Bernard Gilpin, Consec. the famous northern apostle. His parts were shining and solid; and wore, without any sensible diminution, to an advanced age. He distinguished himself, whilst he was at Oxford, as a logician, an orator, and a poet; and was still more distinguished as a divine. He, perhaps, wrote upon a greater variety of subjects than any other clergyman of his time: of these the Oxford antiquary has given us a catalogue. He was deeply engaged in the Arminian controversy, and was one of the five divines sent to the synod of Dort by James; where he maintained, that the bishops were successors to the twelve apostles, and the presbyters to the seventy disciples. His elegant oration before the states of Holland is in print. His "Thankful Remembrance of God's Mercie," &c. has gone through more editions than any of his works. In the fourth, printed in 4to. 1630, are a series of upwards of twenty small historical prints, chiefly relating to the plots and conspiracies against the church and state in the reigns of Elizabeth and James, engraved by Fred. Hulsius. Ob. 1628. He had by his first wife Anne, relict of Sir Henry Neville, of Billingbere, in Berkshire, a son named Henry, who was an antiepiscopalian, and had a captain's commission in the parliament army in the civil war.

JOHANNES (WILLIAMS), Lincoln. episcop. Magni Angliæ sigilli custos, &c. F. Delaram sc. Ornaments; h. sh. scarce.*

The first impressions are in a close cap, instead of a hat, and are scarce.

Consec.

JOHANNES WILLIAMS, episc. Linc. Sold by Jenner. The original of Boissard's copy, 4to.

JOANNES GULIELMUS, &c. in Boissard; small 4to.

Archbishop WILLIAMS; in the " nack," 1733.

Oxford Alma

Bishop Williams seems to have owed his first preferment, and to Nov. 1621. that his succeeding dignities, to his magnificent and well-conducted entertainment of the lord-chancellor Egerton, and the Spanish amMade lord--bassadors, during his proctorship, at Cambridge. The chancellor keeper told him, "that he was fit to serve a king;" and soon after recomJuly 10, 1621. mended him at court. Lord Clarendon has given us a more disadvantageous, but probably a truer, character of him, than Bishop Hacket, who was his chaplain; as the probity of the former is less to be suspected, than the partiality of the latter. Both these authors have given us to understand, that his parts, whatever his principles might be, were very extraordinary; and his constitution still more extraordinary than his parts; as he could apply himself to study or business, and support his health, with only three hours' sleep. He was at first despised by the lawyers, in his office of lordkeeper; but was soon admired for his deep penetration, solid judgment, and retentive memory; which enabled him to recapitulate any cause tried before him, without losing a circumstance. next reign Class VI.

See the

A SCOTCH PRELATE.

PATRICIUS FORBESIUS, a Coirse, episcopus Aberdonensis, consiliarius regis.

"Pectoris indicio data frons est; quæque profundo

Corde latent, tacitis reddit imago notis.

Hoc vultu pietas, probitas, constantia, candor,
Sinceri referunt archetypos animi."

R. G. (Glover) sc. a small oval; rare.

Patrick Forbes, bishop of Aberdeen, was born in 1564, when the affairs of the church of Scotland were in much confusion; to the settlement of which he greatly contributed. As chancellor of the university of Aberdeen, he improved that seat of learning by repairing the fabric, augmenting the library, and reviving the professorships. He published "A Commentary on the Revelation," at London 1613. Ob. 1635.*

AN IRISH PRELATE.

BERNARD ADAMS, bishop of Limerick, &c. in the "Oxford Almanack," 1732.

Bernard Adams, born in Middlesex 1566, was at 17 years of age admitted scholar of Trinity College, Oxford; and elected fellow five years after. When master of arts, he was, by favour of the lordlieutenant, consecrated bishop of Limerick in 1604; and by a dispensation kept the see of Kilfenore with it to the year 1617, at which time he voluntarily resigned it. He is said to have been liberal and pious. Ob. 1625. He was buried in the cathedral church of Limerick, where a monument was erected to his memory.

DIGNITARIES OF THE CHURCH, &c.

JOHN BOYS, D.D. dean of Canterbury; four small portraits of him, in the engraved title to his works, 1629, fol. J. Payne sc.

John Boys, who was educated at Clare Hall, in Cambridge, was Installed famous for his Postils in defence of our Liturgy; and was also much May, 1619 esteemed for his good life. He gained great applause by turning the Lord's prayer into the following execration,† when he preached at Paul's Cross, on the 5th of November, in this reign. "Our pope, which art in Rome, cursed be thy name; perish may thy kingdom; hindered may thy will be as it is in heaven, so in earth.

* See his epitaph in Monteith's " Theatre of Mortality," part fi. p. 80, &c.' Edinburgh, 1713, 8vo.

See Boys on the last Psalm, p. 21.

Elected

27, 1621.

Give us this day our cup in the Lord's supper; and remit our monies which we have given for thy indulgences, as we send them back unto thee; and lead us not into heresy, but free us from misery: for thine is the infernal pitch and sulphur, for ever and ever Amen."* Ob. Sept. 1625.

JOHN DONNE, dean of St. Paul's. Et. 42. M. Merian, jun. sc. Frontisp. to his Sermons ; fol. 1640.

JOHN DONNE, &c. Loggan sc.

John Donne entered into holy orders by the persuasion of James I. dean, Nov. who often expressed great satisfaction in his having been the means of introducing so worthy a person into the church. We hear much of him as a poet, but very little as a divine, though in the latter character he had great merit. His "Pseudo-martyr," in which he has effectually confuted the doctrine of the papal supremacy, is the most valuable of his prose writings. His sermons abound too much with the pedantry of the time in which they were written, to be at all esteemed in the present age. Some time before his death, when he was emaciated with study, and sickness, he caused himself to be wrapped up in a sheet, which was gathered over his head, in the manner of a shroud; and, having closed his eyes, he had his portrait taken; which was kept by his bed-side as long as he lived, to remind him of mortality. The effigy on his monument, in St. Paul's church, was done after this portrait. See Dugdale's History of that Cathedral, p. 62. Ob. 31 March, 1631.

RICHARD EEDES; from a picture in the Bodleian Gallery, Oxford. E. Harding sc. 4to.

Dr. Richard Eedes, a native of Bedfordshire, was born about the year 1555, at Sewell in that county, where his family had for some

* Polemical divinity, which is sometimes styled "Theologia armata,"† was never more encouraged, or better disciplined, than at this period. Almost every divine attacked the pope, or one of his champions; and the most intemperate rage against the enemy was generally the most applauded. The king contrived an excellent expedient to perpetuate hostilities, by erecting a college for this branch of theology at Chelsea, where he appointed veterans for training up young divines to the service.

+ By Bishop Bull, &c.

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