"This learned Prelate," fays Wilson, "was of a comely and ftately prefence; and that, "animated with a great mind, made him appear

very proud to the vulgar eye; but that very "temper raised him to aim at great things, "which he effected: for the old ruinous body "of the Abbey-church of Westminster was new ❝clothed by him; the fair and beautiful Library "of St. John's in Cambridge was a pile of his " erection; and a very complete Chapel built "by him at Lincoln College in Oxford (merely "for the name of Lincoln, having no interest "in nor relation to that Univerfity); thefe," obferves Wilfon, "were arguments of a great "mind: how far from oftentation* (in this "frail body of flesh) cannot now be deter"mined, because the benefit of publique actions "fmooths every shore that piles up the build❝ing.

"But that," continues Wilfon," which "heightened him most in the opinion of those "who knew him beft, was his bountiful mind "to men in want, he being a great patron to "fupport, where there was merit that wanted supply; amongst the rest M. du Moulin † (a 66 very

*Tacitus fays, " Contemptû famæ virtutes contemnuntur.” + Pierre de Moulin, a celebrated Proteftant Minister in France, author of many books on religious controversy. He

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very famous Proteftant Minister of France) "in the perfecution there driven into England "for refuge. The Bishop hearing of him,

fpoke to Dr. Hacket, his Chaplain, to make "him a vifit from him; and because, faith he, I "think the man may be in want in a strange "country, carry him fome money (not naming "the fum, because he would founde the depth “of his Chaplain's minde). Doctor Hacket, "finding the Bishop nominate no proportion, "told him he could not give him leffe than 66 twenty pounds. I did demurre upon the "fum, faid the Bishop, to try you. Is twenty "pounds a gift for me to give a man of his <c parts and deferts? Take a hundred pounds, "and prefent it to him from me, and tell him "he fhall not want, and I will come fhortly and "visit him myself. Which he after performed, ❝and made good his promise in supplying him "during his abode in England."

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According to Wilfon,

"After a fpeech of "James the First to his Parliament, the Lord Keeper Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, and "Speaker of the House of Peers, (who always "uses to make the King's mind be further

came to England in the year 1615, with a plan of a general union of all the Proteftant churches. The Univerfity of Leyden offered him their Divinity Profefforship, which he refufed. He died in 1658, at the age of go.

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"known if there be caufe,) told the Houfes of "Lords and Commons, that after the eloquent

fpeech of his Majefty, he would not say any

thing; for as one of the Spartan Kings, being "afked whether he would not willingly hear a man that counterfeited the voice of a nightin

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gale to the life, made answer, that he had "heard the nightingale; fo, for him to repeat "or rehearse what the King had faid, was (ac<< cording to the Latin proverb) to enamel a gold ring with ftuds of iron. He doubted "not but that the King's fpeech, like the Ora"tions of Æfchines, had left in their minds a

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fting; and as an Hiftorian said of Nerva, that " having adopted Trajan, he was immediately "taken away, ne poft divinum et immortale fac"tum, aliquid mortale faceret, fo he could not "dare, after his Majefties divinum et immortale "dictum, mortale aliquid addere.

"This is not inferted," adds the acute and

neglected Hiftorian, "to fhew the pregnancy "and genius of the man, but the temper of the "times, wherein men made themselves less than

men, by making Kings little lefs than Gods. "In this the Spanish bravery is much to be ad"mired, and the French do not much come "fhort of them, who do not idolize their Kings "with Sacred, Sovereign, Immortal, and ora"culous expreffions, but in their humblest peti

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tions give him the title Sir, tell him their bu

finefs, and demand juftice of him. But where "thefe adulations are admitted, though it doth "not ftrike fuddenly into fome incurable dif"ease, yet the fame hand can make them con"fume, and in the end waste to nothing."

JAMES HOWELL, ESQ.

THIS learned writer took up his pen very early in the difputes between Charles and his Parliament. He wrote feveral pamphlets on the fide of the King. In one of them, called "The "Land of Ire," he has this observation:

"Touching the originals of Government and Ruling Power, queftionless the first amongst "mankind was that natural power of the father "over his children, and that defpotical fuperin"tendance of a master of a house over his fa

mily. But the world multiplying to such a "mass of people, they found that a confused "equality and a loofe unbridled way of living "like brute animals to be fo inconvenient, that

they chose one perfon to protect and govern, "not so much out of love to that perfon, as for "their own conveniency and advantage, that

they might live more regularly, and be fe

"cured from rapine and oppreffion; as also, "that justice might be administered, and every "one enjoy his own without fear and danger. "Such Governors had a power invested in "them accordingly; alfo to appoint fubfer"vient able Minifters under them, to help to "bear the burden."

Mr. Howell, in his "Italian Profpective," thus defcribes the fituation of England during the time of the Republic:

"The King's fubjects," fays he, "are now "become perfect flaves; they have fooled them"felves into a worse flavery than Jew or Greek "under the Ottomans, for they know the bot

tom of their fervitude by paying fo many "Sultaneffes for every head, but here in Eng"land people are now put to endless unknown

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tyrannical taxes, befides plundering and accife, "which two words, and the practice of them, (with ftorming of towns,) they have learnt of "their pure brethren of Holland. And for plunderings, these Parliamenteer Saints think they rob any that adheres to them as lawfully "as the Jews did the Egyptians! 'Tis an unfom"mable maffe of money thefe Reformers have fquandered in a few years, whereof they have "often promis'd, and folemnly voted, a public "account to fatisfie the kingdom; but as in a "hundred

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