Stillingfleet's Sermon entit. The Mischief of Separation, 4to. Lond. 1680. Reflections on the Doctrine of Mr. Baxter; or a Vindication of Dr. Stillingfleet, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Humfrey, and Mr. Clark, against Dr. Chauncey (Ibid. 620, 622; many more in Wood's Ath. Oxon. IV. 5 745 seq.).

Jo. Troughton, B.A., ejected fellow of St. John's Oxford: An Apology for the Nonconformists, shewing their Reasons both for their not Conforming, and for their Preaching publickly, tho' forbidden by Law. With an answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's Sermon, and his Defence of it. 4to. 1681 (Calamy Acc. 69).

Benj. Agas, M.A., ejected minister of Cheyneys Bucks: An Antidote against Dr. E. Stillingfleet's Vnreasonableness of Separation. 4to. 1681. (Calamy Contin. 143).

John Howe: A Letter to a Person of Quality, who took Offence at Dr. Stillingfleet's Sermon about Separation. 4to. (Calamy's Acc. 236; 15 Howe's Works, Lond. 1822, IV. 453).

Dav. Clarkson, the famous puritan tutor of Clare: No Evidence for Diocesan Episcopacy in the Primitive Times; in answer to Dr. Stillingfleet. 4to. 1681; and A Defence of it in 4to. 1682 (Calamy ibid. 667).

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'In a collection of original letters from Dr Patrick afterwards bp. of Ely to Mrs Gauden, is this passage in one dated Sat. Oct. 7. 1665: This was the occasion of the report that Mr. Stillingfleet was dead; the reader of St. Andrew's Holborn dying a good while ago. But as for Mr Stillingfleet, he hath not beene here a long time, but gets his place sup- 25 plyed by somebody. Whether this was mentioned as a reflexion upon him for deserting his cure in this time of sickness, or not, I can't be positive. Mr Patrick never quitted his all the time of the plague, and thought it his duty not to do so. (MS. Cole ix. 291).' WM. COLE.

OTHERS OF THE NAME.

Jo. S. the bishop's elder brother, fellow of S. John's (Is. Milles' Life 16); has Latin and English verses on Thos. Gataker (G's Life, f. L2 vo. seq.). Jo. Stillingfleete son of Sam. S. gent., of Cranburne, at school there under Sharpe, adm. pens. 23 Oct. 1647; admitted scholar for Dr. Goodman on the nomination of Wm. earl of Salisbury 10 Nov. 1647. B.A. 1653, M.A. 1655, D.D. 1668. Rect. of Beckingham Linc. and author (Wood's Fasti II. 204).

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Edw. S., son of Edw. dean of S. Paul's, born at Sutton Beds., at S. Paul's school under Dr. Gale, adm. pens. 12 Mar. 1677 under Billers; admitted lady Marg, scholar 4 Nov. 1678. B.A. 1683, M.A. 40 1685, M.D. 21 June 1692; F.R.S. 30 Nov. 1688; rect. of Newington Butts, which he exchanged for the rectories of Woodnorton and Swanton Norf.; Gresham prof. of physic. Died 1708 (Ward's Gresham Prof. 281; Stillingfleet's Life 24).

Jas. S. the bishop's son, preb. Worc., rect. Hartlebury (ibid. 24, 151; 45 Monk's Life of Bentley 1. 18). Jo. Mill gave him a high character when an undergraduate at Wadham (Bentley's Corresp. 35).

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Edw. S., of the bishop's family (Nichols Topographer I. 525).

Benj. S., the bishop's grandson, son of Edw. M.D., coll. Trin., ob. 1771 (Dodsley's Poems, 1782, I. 327 seq.; Nichols Poems VI. 109): a naturalist and poet, educated at Norwich School (Carlisle's Gramm. Schools II. 187). Works and Life, by Coxe, 1811, 8vo. 3 vols. Index to Correspondence of Dr Ri. Richardson. On his rejection when candidate for a Trinity fellowship see Monk's Life of Bentley A.D. 1727 (II. 254).

Jas. S., the bishop's great-grandson, rector of Hotham near Market Weighton (Jos. Milner's Life i n., lii-lvi, c; Tho. Dykes' Life, 16). P. 277 1. 13. ROB. GROVE. He has verses in Acad. Cantabrig. oŵoтpа. 1660. f. C 3. See his works in the Bodl. Catal. Tanner MSS. Dallaway's West Sussex L. 93; his monument ibid. (city of Chichester) 137; Horsfield's Sussex II. 32; MS. C. C. C. Oxon. cccvii. 65; Luttrell's Diary II. 279; IV. 115, 125; Ayscough's Catal. of Brit. Mus. MSS. 233 n. 144; Burke's Landed Gentry 510 b.; Newcourt 1. 83, 230, 268; II. 7, 366; Hardy's Le Neve I. 252; II. 331, 452; Wood's Ath. Oxon. IV. 337. He took part in drawing up the famous petition against the king's declaration for liberty of conscience, May 1688 (Patrick's Autobiogr. 133, 134). As chaplain to bp. Henchman he prefixed his Imprimatur, 6 Dec. 1669, to Gataker's Antidote against errour concerning justification. Life of Prideaux 109: 'Bishop Grove.., whilst the horses were running away with him, endeavoured to leap out; but the hinder wheel of the coach overtook him, ran over him and broke his leg, of which he died.' Ibid. 112: 'There have been frequent instances of Bishops, who dying too soon after their promotion have left their families in such poverty, as to want charity for their necessary subsistence... This was the case of Bishop G-ve.'

P. 278 1. 14. Scripsit Latine Responsionem. The English is in Tanner

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P. 278 1. 22. WM. Beveridge. Biogr. Brit.; Gen. Dict. of Birch and Bernard; lives by Kimber and Hartwell Horne before their edd.; Carter's Cambridge 263; Chaufepié; Baillet II. 262; Clement III. 267; Fabric. Hist. Bibl. II. 335 seq.; Bcdl. Catal.; Darling's Cyclop. ; Tanner MSS.; MS. C. C. C. Oxon. cccviii. 61; Anderdon's Life of Ken; Burnet; Luttrell; MS. Ashmol. 788. 50 b, 51.

Evelyn's Diary 7 May 1691: 'I went to visit the Archbishop of Canterbury [Sancroft] yet at Lambeth. I found him alone, and discoursing of the times, especially of the new designed Bishops; he told me that by no canon or divine law they could justify the removing the present incumbents; that Dr. Beveridge, designed Bishop of Bath and Wells, came to ask his advice; that the Archbishop told him, though he should give it, he believed he would not take it; the Doctor said he would; why then, says the Archbishop, when they come to ask, say Nolo, and say it from the heart; there is nothing easier than to resolve yourself what is to be done in the case; the Doctor seemed to deliberate. What he will do I know not, but Bishop Ken, who is to be put

out, is exceedingly beloved in his diocese; and, if he and the rest should insist on it, and plead their interest as freeholders, it is believed there would be difficulty in their case, and it may endanger a schism and much disturbance, so as wise men think it had been better to have let them alone, than to have proceeded with this rigour to turn them 5 out for refusing to swear against their consciences.'

Burnet (MS. Harl. 6584 p. 314 printed in Notes and Queries, Ser. 2. I. 22) gave at the time an account of this matter which he has not allowed to appear in his history:

'That see [Bath and Wells] had been offered to Beveridge, who is a IO man of great learning, a very practical preacher, and a devout man, and in the monastic way too superstitious and singular. He accepted of it, but he leaned much to the other side; and when he understood that Ken, who held that see, was resolved to continue in possession, he afterwards refused it: he is a very weak man, and very rough, but 15 honest and sincere.' Stillingfleet wrote A Letter to Dr. B. on refusing the Bishoprick of B. and W.

When archdeacon of London he examined Hen. Wharton for deacon's orders (D'Oyly's Life of Sancroft II. 117). He and Horneck 'had the chief direction of the religious societies, which began to be 20 formed in the reign of James II' (Macro in Wood's Ath. Oxon. IV. 531). Of his works the Thoughts on Religion had the honour of a place in Wesley's Christian Library (ed. 1827, XX. 349). His 'Dissertation on the origin of monasteries' is still in MS. St. John's Library H. 29. Several of his pieces have been translated into German, see 25 Georgii Bücherlexikon.

The Synodicum sive Pandecta Canonum. 2 vols. Oxf. 1672 fol. is fully described in Fabric. Bibl. Gr. ed. Harles, XII. 217-223. Baker writes to Zach. Grey, Cambr. 5 Mar. 1718 (Masters 41): If I meet with Dr Beveridge's Pandecta Canonum, I shall be sure to remember. 30 It begins now to be scarce and dear, and it is very valuable; I have it not in my study, and indeed scarce any Books that are in our Library.' A most competent judge (H. F. Jacobson in Herzog's Encykl.) says of it: 'Um das Griechische Kirchengeschichte hat er sich durch Herausgabe und Interpretation der Quellen verdient gemacht.... doch ist 35 Bev. minder glücklich in der Entwickelung der Geschichte der ältesten Rechtsquellen, wie insbesondere auch sein Codex canonum. . beweist.' Another work of Beveridge's has been largely used. 'Der Kirchengeschichte hat er durch Institutionum Chronologicarum libri duo una cum totidem arithmetices chronologicae libellis. Lond. 1669 und öfter 40 gedruckt, wesentlich genützt' (Jacobson). Jo. Hudson's Introductio ad Chronologiam. Oxon. 1691, Svo. is an extract from it (Wood's Ath. Oxon. IV. 451). R. Sault's translation of Giles Strauchius Breviarium chronologicum (2nd ed. Lond. 1711) is 'enlarged with all the usefullest things... taken from Dr. Beveridge's Institutiones chronolo- 45 gicae.' An edition of the Inst. was published at Utr. in 1734. 8vo.

In the advertisement sheet of Tho. Speed bookseller, 1702, I find Beveridge's Whitehall Sermon before the Queen 12 Oct. 1699, Of the Happiness of the Saints in Heaven, the 6th ed. 12mo. pr. 3d. 'or 208. a hundred to those who give them away.'

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P. 279 l. I. vicarius de Yealing, or Ealing, adm. 4 Jan. 166 (Wood's 25 Fasti II. 310).

P. 279 L. 2. rector ecclesiae Sti. Petri Cornhill, adm. 22 Nov. 1672 (ibid. 196).

P. 279 1. 8. alter. Ric. Kidder accepted it.' WM. COLE.

P. 279 L. 20. PHIL. HOWARD. 'Cardinal Howard has already been men 30 tioned [at p. 222 1. 8]. I will add here what Dr Richardson has said of him (Godwin 798, 799).

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35 P. 280 L. 1. THO. BOWERS. 'One reason of Mr Baker's declining to give any account of Bp. Bowers might be from his being a warm party man: this seems evident by his resuming a prosecution, as archdeacon of Canterbury, against Mr John Johnson vicar of Cranbrooke, which had been dropped by Dr Greene afterwards Bp. of Ely (Masters C. C. C. C. 322). WM. COLE, who also quotes Richardson's Godwin 517. See Dallaway's West Sussex I. 94. King's chaplain 17 Oct. 1717 (Hist. Reg.); prebendary of the third stall in Canterbury 13 Sept. 1715; and archdeacon there 7 Nov. 1721; both which preferments he held in commendam with the bishopric of Chichester, which he obtained 26 Aug. 1722 (Hardy's Le Neve I. 44, 50, 253). This Sermon [preached before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in the Abbey Church at Westminster 30 Jan. 1723; being the Anniversary of the Martyrdom of Charles I. 8vo. Lond. 1723], we believe is his only literary production'

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CONTINUATION OF CATALOGUE OF BISHOPS.

Mr Yate has a catalogue of bishops from the first, with their arms and some account of their lives. I have joined his materials with my own in the following brief summary. The arms may be seen 10 in Bedford's Blazon of Episcopacy.

RI. OSBALDISTON, bp. of Carlisle and London, consecrated 1747.

Son of Ri. O. kt., born at Hunmanby York, educated in Beverley school, adm. pensioner 2 June 1707 under Edmundson and Lambert. His pedigree in Hunter's S. Yorkshire II. 413. He was never scholar 15 here, as Mr Yate states after Carter. B.A. 1719, M.A. 1714, D.D. then fell. Pet. 1726. He was king's chaplain when he subscribed for a large paper copy of Spencer's De Legibus Hebr. 1727. Made dean of York 19 Sept. 1728 (Hist. Reg. and Hardy's Le Neve III. 127). Consecrated bp. of Carlisle 4 Oct. 1747 at Lambeth, translated to London 20 Oct. 1762, died 13 May 1764 (Stubbs 116; Hardy III. 244; II. 305). Rector of Hinderwell (Nichols Lit. Anecd. v. 405). He corresponded with Zach. Grey (ibid. II. 534). When bp. of London, he made Jo. Jortin his domestic chaplain, prebendary of Harleston and vicar of Kensington (ibid. 569, 573; Lit. Illustr. III. 719). He also recommended 25 Ri. Hurd for preferment (Lit. Anecd. VI. 478) and appointed Cæsar De Missy French chaplain to the king (ibid. III. 306). Buried in Fulham churchyard (ibid. IX. 505). Secker calls him 'every way unequal to that station,' the see of London (Dr. Chandler's Life of Dr S. Johnson 197). He published some sermons (Darling).

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