"before whom that morning the greatest in

England would have ftood difcovered; all << crying, What is the matter? He said, A small "matter, I warrant you. They replied, Yes

indeed, high treafon is a small matter! Com

ing to the place where he expected his coach, "it was not there; fo he behoved to return the "fame way through a world of gazing people. "When at last he had found his coach, and "was entering it, James Maxwell told him, My "Lord, you are my prifoner, and muft go in 66 my coach; fo he behoved to do. For fome "days too many went to fee him; but fince, "the Parliament has commanded his keepers to "be ftraiter. Pourfuivants are dispatched to "Ireland, to open all the ports, and to pro"claim, that all who had grievances might 6c come over."

RICHARD BOYLE,

FIRST EARL OF CORK.

DR. WALLER, in his funeral fermon on the death of the Earl's feventh daughter, the Countefs of Warwick, fays, "She was truly excel"lent and great in all respects; great in the

"honour

"honour of her birth, being born a lady and a "vertuofa both, feventh daughter of that emi<c nently honourable Richard the firft Earl of "Corke, who being born a private Gentleman, "and a younger brother of a younger brother, "to no other heritage than this device and "motto, which his humble gratitude inscribed "on all the palaces he built,

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"God's Providence is my inheritance;"

by that Providence, and by his diligent and "wife industry, he raised fuch an honour and "eftate, and left fuch a family as never any fub

ject of these three kingdoms did; and that "with fo unfpotted a reputation of integrity, "that the most invidious fcrutiny could find no "blot, though it winnowed all the methods of "his rifing most severely, which the good Lady "Warwick hath often told me with great con"tent and fatisfaction.

"This noble Lord, by his prudent and pious "confort, (no leffe an ornament and honour to "their defcendants than herfelf,) was bleffed "with five fonnes, of which he lived to fee four "Lords and Peers of the kingdom of Ireland; "and a fifth (more than thefe titles fpeak) a fovereign, and peerleffe, in a larger province (that "of univerfal nature), fubdued and made obfe

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"quious to his inquifitive mind * ;-and eightdaughters. And that you may know how all "things were extraordinary in this great per"fonage, it will, I hope, be neither unpleasant nor impertinent to add a fhort story I had "from his daughter's (Lady Warwick's) own "mouth.

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"Mafter Boyle, (afterwards Earl of Corke,) "who was then a widower, came one morning "to wait on Sir Jeoffery Fenton, Secretary of "State for Ireland; who being engaged in bu

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siness, and not knowing who it was that de"fired to speak to him, for a while delayed him "acceffe, which time he spent pleasantly with "the Secretary's daughter, then a child in the "nurfe's arms. But when Sir Jeoffery came "and faw whom he had made stay somewhat "too long, he civilly excufed it. But Mafter

Boyle replied, he had been very well em

ployed, and had spent his time much to his "fatisfaction in courting his daughter, if he

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might obtaine the honour of being his fon-in"law. At which Sir Jeoffery fmiled, (so hear "one who had been formerly married move for "a wife carried in arms, and under two years "old,) and asked him if he could stay for her;

*The Honourable Robert Boyle, one of the greatest natural philofophers that any country has ever produced..

"to which he frankly anfwered him that he "would, and Sir Jeoffrey as generously pro"mifed him that he fhould have his confent. "And they both kept their words afterwards very honourably.”

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BISHOP BEDELL.

THIS excellent Prelate, to whom the Irish are indebted for the tranflation of the Bible into their language, was Bifhop of Kilmore in Ireland. Like the late Bishop Berkeley, he would never be tranflated from one See to another, thinking with him, that his church was his wife, and his diocese his children, from whom he fhould never be divorced.

Bishop Bedell lived with his clergy," fays his Biographer," as if they had been his brethren. "When he went his vifitations, he would not

accept of the invitations that were made to "him by the great men of the country, but "would needs eat with his brethren, in fuch

poor inns, and of fuch coarfe fare, as the "places afforded. He went about always on "foot when he was at Dublin, (one fervant only "attending him,) except upon public occafions, "that obliged him to ride in proceffion with his

"brethren

"brethren. He never kept a coach in his life, "his ftrength always enabling him to ride on "horfeback. Many poor Irifh families about "him were maintained out of his kitchen, and " in the Christmas-time he had the poor always "eating with him at his own table, and he

brought himself to endure both the fight of "their rags and their rudenefs. He by his will "ordered that his body fhould be buried in a church-yard, with this infcription:

DEPOSITUM GULIELMI QUONDAM

EPISCOPI KILMORENSIS.

"He did not like," continues his Biographer, "the burying in a church; for as, he obferved, "there was much both of fuperftition and pride "in it, fo he believed it was a great annoyance "to the living, where there was fo much of the ❝fteam of dead bodies rifing about them. "was likewife much offended at the rudeness "which the crouding the dead bodies in a small "parcel of ground occafioned; for the bodies

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already laid there, and not yet quite rotten, "were often raised and mangled; fo that he “made a Canon in his Synod against burying "in churches, and recommended that burying"places fhould be removed out of towns. In "this he was imitated by the Cardinal de Lo"menie, Archbishop of Sens, who published, "fome years ago, a very eloquent mandement on the subject."