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DR. HAYDOCK.

"JAMES the First," fays Wilson, "took delight by the line of his reafon to found the depths " of bruitish impoftures, and he discovered many: "for in the beginning of his reign, Richard Haydock, of New-College in Oxford, prac"tifed phyfick in the day, and preached in the "night in his bed. His practice came by his "profeffion, and his preaching (as he pre"tended) by revelation: for he would take a "text in his fleep, and deliver a good fermon upon it; and though his auditorie were will

ing to filence him, by pulling, haling, and "pinching, yet would he pertinaciously perfift to "the end, and fleep ftill. The fame of this fleeping Preacher flyes abroad with a light wing, which coming to the King's knowledge, he commanded him to the Court, where he fate up one night to hear him: and when the "time came that the Preacher thought it was

fit for him to be afleep, he began with a << prayer, then took a text of Scripture, which "he fignificantly enough infifted on a while, "but after made an excurfion against the Pope, "the Crofs in Baptifm, and the laft Canons of "the Church of England, and fo concluded "fleeping. The King would not trouble him T 3 "that

"that night, letting him reft after his labors, but "fent for him the next morning, and in private "handled him fo like a cunning Surgeon, that "he found out the fore; making him confefs "not onely his fin and error in the act, but the "caufe that urged him to, it which was, that he "apprehended himself as a buried man in the "Universitie, being of a low condition, and if

fomething eminent and remarkable did not " fpring from him, to give life to his reputation, " he should never appear any body, which made "him attempt this novelty to be taken notice "of. The King, finding him ingenuous in his "confeffion, pardoned him, and (after his recant"ation publiquely) gave him preferment in the "Church. Some others, both men and women,

inspired with fuch enthufiafmes, and frantique "fancies, he reduced to their right fenfes, apply ing his remedies fuitable to the distemper, "wherein he made himself often very merry, "And truly the loofneffe and carelesneffe of

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publique juftice fets open a dore to fuch flagi"tious and nefarious actions, as feverer times "would never have perpetrated."

DR. DONNE,

DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S.

THIS learned Divine having married a lady of a rich and noble family without the confent of her parents, was treated by them with great afperity. Having been told by the father, that he was to expect no money from him, the Doctor went home, and wrote the following note to him: "John Donne, Anne Donne, undone." This quibble had the defired effect, and the dif treffed couple were restored to favour.

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It was faid of Donne as of Picus de Mirandola, that he was rather born wife than made fo by study: yet, as his Biographer tells us, "he "left behind him the refultance of fourteen "hundred authors, moft of them abridged and analyfed with his own hand."

GROTIUS.

THIS great Civilian was in London in 1613, fent thither by the States General of Holland to fettle fome disputes that had taken place between that country and England, refpecting the right

of fishery in the North Sea, Cafaubon fays, that if he was not fatisfied with the decifion of the English Minister on the subject of the dispute, he had great reafon to be flattered with the reception he met with from the Sovereign, James the First, who was much pleafed with his converfation*, and fhewed him the greatest attention, Grotius's company and converfation were not, however, much relished by fome of the Courtiers, nor by his Majefty himself, as appears by the following Letter of Archbishop Abbot to Sir Ralph Winwood, Secretary of State, dated Lambeth, June 1, 1613::

"You must take heed how you truft Dr. Grotius too far, for I perceive him fo addicted to "fome partialities in those parts, that he feareth not to lafh, fo it may ferve a turn. At his "first coming to the King, by reafon of his "good Latine tongue, he was fo tedious and full of tittle-tattle, that the King's judgment

was of him, that he was fome pedant full of words and of no great judgment. And I myfelf difcovering that to be his habit, as if "he did imagine that every man was bound to hear him fo long as he would talk, (which is a

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great burthen to men repleat with bufynefs,) "did privately give him notice thereof, that he

Mire Grotii, fermonibus delectatus.-Cafaubon. Epiftola. "fhould

"fhould plainly and directly deliver his mind, or elfe he would make the King weary of him. "This did not fo take place, but that afterwards "he fell to it again, as was efpecially obferved "one night at fupper at the Lord Bishop of “Ely's, whither being brought by Monfieur "Cafaubon, (as I think,) my Lord intreated him "to ftay to fupper, which he did. There was

prefent Dr. Steward and another Civilian, unto "whom he flings out fome question of that "profeffion; and was fo full of words, that "Dr. Steward afterwards told my Lord, that " he did perceive by him, that like a smatterer "he had studyed fome two or three questions, "whereof when he came in company he must "be talking to vindicate his fkill; but if he

were put from thofe, he would fhew himself "but a fimple fellow. There was prefent also "Dr. Richardfon, the King's Profeffor of Divi"nity in Cambridge, and another Doctor in "that faculty, with whom he falleth in alfo "about fome of those questions which are now "controverted among the Minifters in Holland. "And being matters wherein he was studyed, "he uttered all his fkill concerning them; my "Lord of Ely fitting still at the fupper all the "while, and wondering what a man he had "there, who not being in the place or company "before, could overwhelm them fo with talk

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