ticular, I have the gratification to state, that more than sixty churches of this diocese, which a few years ago had only single duty, have now the benefit of two services every Sunday, and many of them have two sermons.' P. II: I shall enter into no detail respecting the revenues of bishops. 5 I will only observe that they have been most grossly exaggerated; and that with respect to the revenues of this bishopric, they are so far from enriching the possessor of them, that they fall considerably short of the expenses which the bishopric unavoidably occasions. Yet bishoprics are no sinecures. They are generally attended with much trouble, and fre10 quently with much vexation.' Pp. 11-13. Average income of incumbents. Pp. 13, 14. Difficulties in the way of diminishing inequalities. Pp. 14, 15. Pluralities. Pp. 15—17. Detailed account of all the pluralists in the diocese, and of the incomes of their curates. 'Of the thirty-two clergymen who have more than one 15 living in this diocese, there is not an individual who does not strictly and literally belong to the class of the working clergy.' Pp. 17, 18. Mischiefs of pluralities; dilapidation of glebe-houses, and absence of incumbents from their charge remedies. Pp. 18-20. Other non-residents; difficulty of providing parsonages in poor livings. Pp. 20-22. Proposed spoliation 20 of the church, a new thing. P. 22: The reasons alleged for this sweeping reform are no less frivolous than the object itself is unjust. The chief argument is, that tithes are taxes,-taxes imposed by the legislature, and therefore liable to be repealed by the legislature. They are no more taxes than rents are taxes: they are dues to the clergy, as rents are dues 25 to the landlord.' Pp. 23, 24: It is further objected, that if tithes are due, they are not employed as they ought to be. Instead of being solely applied to the maintenance of the clergy, our modern Church reformers contend that they should be applied also to the maintenance of the poor, and the repairs of the Church. Now as more than two-fifths of the bene30 ficed clergy in this kingdom have an income which hardly averages £100 a year, it is really ludicrous to contend, that out of their own pittance, they should maintain the poor of their respective parishes, the population of which bears, not unfrequently, an inverse ratio to the value of the living. But it is a mere pretence that benefices were endowed for the support of 35 the poor: they were endowed for the support of the clergy, in return for the spiritual benefits conferred on their respective parishes.' Poor-rates became necessary after the plunder of the religious houses, which used to provide for the poor. Pp. 24, 25. Lay patrons and impropriators would suffer from the abolition of tithes. Pp. 25, 26. Tithe-payers would not 40 gain. P. 27: 'I shall not be subjected to the reproach of shewing more regard for the temporal than for the spiritual concerns of the Church. I regard the former only as the means of promoting the latter and I can appeal to the extensive correspondence which I have had with the clergy of this diocese, [to prove] that a regard for the spiritual welfare of their flocks 45 has been an object of my especial attention.' [The following should have been inserted in p. 883 after 1. 39.] Duke of Sussex to Sam. Parr, Kensington Palace, Jan. 25, 1823 (Parr's Works, VII. 5): 'The Edinburgh Review did notice that [the charge] of the Bishop of London [Wm. Howley], but not Dr. M[arsh]'s admonition, who certainly wishes to rule with a rod of iron, which may be proper for schoolboys, but not for discriminating beings.' Dr. John James, canon of Peterborough, bequeathed to the college in 1868 a portrait of bishop Marsh, which now hangs in the hall, on the W. wall. HUGH PERCY, bp. of Rochester and Carlisle. Consecrated 1827. Third son of Algernon first earl of Beverley, born 29 Jan. 1784, educated at Eton under Dr. Goodall, adm. fell. comm. under Wood and Smith Io Dec. 1802. Hon. M.A. 1805, D.D. 1825. 5 Married 19 May 1806, Mary eldest daughter of abp. Manners-Sutton, by 10 whom he had a large family. Chancellor of Exeter 30 Jan. 1810, resigned 13 July 1816; prebendary of Exeter 16 Apr. 1810, his successor appointed 26 July 1816 (Hardy's Le Neve 1. 421, 433); installed chanc. of Sarum 21 Dec. 1812 (ibid. 11. 653), canon of 2nd prebend Canterb. 16 May 1816, successor appointed 27 June 15 1825 (ibid. 1. 49); collated to the prebend of Holywell alias Finsbury Lond. 12 July 1816 (ibid. II. 397); archd. of Canterbury 26 Apr. 1822, successor appointed 18 June 1825 (ibid. 1. 45); dean of Canterbury 20 June 1825, successor appointed 2 Sept. 1827 (ibid. 35); consecrated bp. of Rochester at Lambeth 15 July 1827 (ibid. 11. 576; Stubbs); confirmed bp. 20 Carlisle 10 Nov. 1827 (ibid. 111. 245). Died 5 Febr. 1856 at Rose Castle Cumb. (Camb. Chron. 9 Febr. 1856). Collated by abp. Sutton in 1809 to the rectories of Bishopsbourne and Ivychurch (Gent. Mag. Apr. 1856, 421). He retained the chancellorship of Sarum and the valuable prebend of 25 Finsbury to his death. As dean of Canterbury he promoted an 'important repair of the interior of the cathedral, during which it was cleared of the whitewash and plaster of many generations, and of a host of modern and unsightly incongruities' (ibid. 422). His nephew, the hon. Josceline Wm. Percy, sometime M.P., took an honorary M. A. at St John's in 1833. His son and chaplain, Hen. Percy, of Eton and St John's, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1842; canon of Carlisle 1847, rector of Greystoke 1853. See the Peerage, under Beverley. SAMUEL BUTLER, bp. of Lichfield. Consecrated 1836. 30 35 Born 30 Jan. 1774, at Kenilworth, the native place also of the Sumners; his father, Wm. Butler, was a draper, his mother's maiden name was Lucy Brosell. He was admitted into Rugby 31 Mar. 1783; entered sizar at St John's under Dr Wood 14 Oct. 1791, and pensioner 22 Jan. 1792 (Life in Gent. Mag. Feb. 1840, p. 203; St John's Register). Browne's medallist, 40 Lat. ode, 1792 and 1793; Gr. ode 1794; Craven scholar 1793, defeating S. T. Coleridge, Keate of Eton, and Bethell afterwards bp. of Bangor; 4th sen. op. and senior medallist 1796; first members' prizeman 1797 and 1798. Elected foundation scholar of St John's 5 Nov. 1792, admitted Nov. 6; elected Platt fellow 3 Apr. 1797, adm. 4 April; M.A. 1799, D.D. by man- 45 date 1811. Presented by St John's college to the head mastership of Shrewsbury school in 1798 (Gent. Mag. LXVIII. 818a; Cambr. Chron. 21 July 1798). His predecessor James Atcherley died at Bridgenorth 3 Mar. 1804 (Gent. Mag. 1804, p. 381). He married on Tuesday 4 Sept. 1798, at Gt. St Andrew's Cambridge, Harriet, 5th daughter of Dr. East Apthorp (Camb. Chron. 8 Sept. 1798; 5 Gent. Mag. LXVIII. 1148a; Nichols, Lit. Anecd. III. 97). In 1802 he was presented to the vicarage of Kenilworth (Cambr. Chron. 13 Nov. 1802): collated to the prebend of Wolvey in Lichfield cathedral 15 May 1807 (Cambr. Chron. 6 June 1807); his successor, Wm. Gresley, was collated 27 Nov. 1840 (Hardy's Le Neve 1. 642). Collated to the arch10 deaconry of Derby 24 Feb. 1821; his successor, Francis Hodgson, was collated 9 Sept. 1836 (ibid. 578). Nominated by lord Melbourne bp. of Lichfield, consecrated 3 July 1836 (ibid. 560), at Lambeth (Stubbs 128). By order in council 22 Dec. 1836 the archdeaconry of Coventry was transferred to Worcester diocese, and the title of the see of Lichfield and Coventry 15 changed to Lichfield (Hardy ibid. 537). 'In discharging the duties [of an archdeacon] his zeal, diligence, and faithfulness were universally acknowledged' (Gent. Mag.). Upon his resigning Shrewsbury school, his former pupils raised by subscription a sum of £700 or £800, wherewith a handsome present of plate was made to him; 20 Dr. Kennedy (his successor at Shrewsbury) and others forming a deputation to present it; which was done at Eccleshall castle' (CHARLES Yate). 'From that time [of his consecration] he had incessant bad health, with much suffering. He was however singularly attentive to the discharge of his episcopal duties; seldom employing a secretary, unless obliged. During 25 the short time that I remained, as curate, in his diocese, having occasion to correspond with him, his letters were always written by his own hand.... Bishop Butler was undoubtedly a man of most distinguished talent; and from my own connexion with the county of Salop (my brothers were some of them his pupils) I can testify that he was much respected in the county 30 generally, tho' considered to be a high and proud man. His ill health stood in the way of his acquiring with his clergy the same affectionate esteem as his predecessor in his see; but with them he was held in high respect' (CHARLES YATE). The biographer in the Gent. Mag., in words ascribed by the Salopian 35 Journal, 11 Dec. 1839 (cited by Mr. Yate), to 'one that has deeply entered into our late revered diocesan's feelings, and had opportunity of witnessing the closing scenes of his mortal career,' says: 'We have to lament the loss of a man of varied acquirements, playful wit, profound learning, unbending integrity, and sound religion; all accompanied by a benevolence of heart, a 40 candour of mind, and simplicity of manner, that were the graces and adornments of his whole nature. He was not a mere man of talent, but the impress of genius, "the light from heaven," was upon him. Thus, nothing in him was dry and formal, but living and vigorous. His talk on the languages,-upon the knowledge of which his fame so greatly rested,--was 45 not that of one only well skilled in certain critical details and nice grammatical distinctions; but of one who saw into the life and power of the thing, and knew the mind that animated the whole body. So also when he spoke of history, he seemed, like the prophet of that great bard in whose noble songs he delighted, to see things past, present, and to come. He appeared to have lived among the great characters and events of antiquity. He would bring them down, and put them before his hearer, and connect them with present times; then "flying forward to the future, and comparing one with the other, give a verdict well nigh prophetical." He was liberal in his politics, and most charitable in his religion. He truly vene- 5 rated the constitution of his country, and deeply loved that church in whose high places he ruled with an honest and true heart, and, amid sickness, and pain, and suffering, served her faithfully with all his power. His career had been one of almost unbroken success. In the university he bore away the highest classical honours from the hands of most distinguished 10 competitors. Placed, when he had scarcely reached manhood, at the head of the Shrewsbury school, he raised it from the lowest grade of depression to the highest pitch of distinction; sending forth from her venerable walls an intellectual progeny, who have filled both universities with his and their fame. Laden with the honours flowing in upon him, as the fruit of 15 thirty-eight years' successful labour, he was raised, in 1836, to the episcopate. From that moment to his death he knew no day of health, scarcely an hour free from suffering. Yet this has been the noblest part of his life; for his patient uncomplaining submission to the hand of God has been an example to all around him; and his indefatigable attention, "to his power, 20 and beyond his power," to the great trust committed to him, combined with the mildness of his manner and the fatherliness of his conduct, has gained a hold upon the respect and affection of his clergy, which no common man, amid such seclusion as his has necessarily been, could possibly have acquired.' 25 He died about one o'clock on Wednesday morning 4 Dec. 1839 at Eccleshall (Cambr. Chron. 7 Dec.). He desired that his funeral should be private, but at the request of the people of Shrewsbury it was conducted with great state; the shops being all closed, muffled peals rung, and the day observed as one of general mourning (Gent. Mag.; Salopian Journal and Shrewsbury 30 Chron. cited by C. Yate). Funeral sermons were published on him preached 1. in Eccleshall church 3 Sunday in Advent 1839 by Henry Moore, M.A. vicar; 2. by archd. Bather, at St Mary's, Shrewsbury, on Sunday 15 Dec. 1839; who says that the basis of his character was 'simplicity and integrity, and love of 35 truth, and plain-dealing' (CHARLES YATE). A statue by Bailey was erected by subscription, and placed in St. Mary's Shrewsbury (Cambr. Chron. 26 Apr. 1845). The first and second (Aldine) parts of his library were sold by auction in 1840; the catalogue of the third part was printed, but not published, in 40 1841; the early printed books being bought by Messrs. Payne and Foss, the MSS. by the British Museum. The three parts of the catalogue are in the Bodleian. A full...collation of about twenty Greek manuscripts of the holy Gospels...by F. H. Scrivener, Cambr. 1853, 8vo. p. xliv.: 'BUTLER 2. BRIT. MUSEUM, 45 ADD. MS. 11,837 was purchased (with a few other Biblical MSS.) for the British Museum from the heirs of Dr Samuel Butler, late bishop of Lichfield, by which prelate they were briefly described for Horne's Introduction to the Scriptures.' See Horne, ed. 1846, II. 194, 195. This valuable collec tion (Add. MSS. 11,828 to 12,117) is described in Catal. of additions to the MSS. in the B. M. in the years 1841-1845. Lond. 1850. 8vo. pp. 9—44. His daughter Mary married 27 Mar. 1828, at St Mary's Shrewsbury, Edw. Bather M.A., rector of Meole Brace, and archd. of Salop (Cambr. 5 Chron. 4 April, 1828). In my boyhood I often saw and heard archdeacon Bather, a man of primitive honesty and plainness, admirable as a preacher and still more as a catechiser. I was told that, after an interview with the new bishop, he re-assured a gathering of 'Evangelical' clergy, dismayed by the elevation of one whom they regarded as their enemy. I know that 10 bishop Butler was much respected by that party in the church, when he had time to make himself known. The bishop's son Thomas, of St John's college, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, was appointed rector of Langar, Notts, in 1834; and sent up to the college a son Samuel, who in 1863 published A first year in Canterbury-settlement. 15 London, Longman. 8vo. pp. 162. The bishop's second daughter, Harriet, married John Thomas Lloyd Esq., of Shrewsbury, who left her a widow. There is an account of him in the Annual Biography for 1827, p. 464. Their eldest son, Thomas Bucknall Lloyd, of St John's, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849, is incumbent of St Mary's, 20 Shrewsbury. 25 'No husband and parent could be happier in his family than the bishop of Lichfield; and his declining years were cheered, cherished, and sustained, under the divine mercy, by the most unremitting attentions of filial love and duty' (Gent. Mag.). Mural table in S. Nicholas (the old) church, Kenilworth, on the N. side of chancel arch: 'Near the pulpit are interred the remains of Mr. William Butler and Lucy his wife; the former of whom departed this life 30 March 21, 1815, in his 87th year [Cf. Gent. Mag. 1815, pt. 2, p. 90 b.]; 35 40 45 the latter Nov. 2 1822 in the 84th year of her age. [Cf. Cambr. Chron. 15 Nov. 1822.] They were unostentatious but exemplary in the discharge of their religious, moral and social duties. Samuel Butler D.D. archdeacon of Derby and vicar of this church; in veneration for the memory of his beloved parents, length of days, esteem of friends, content of mind, Samuel Butler, afterwards lord bishop of Lichfield, died December 4, 1839, and is buried at St. Mary's, Shrewsbury.' There are other memorials of the Butlers in the church; one of the family, lately deceased, was agent to Lord Clarendon, and resided at Kenilworth. The E. window (by Evans of Shrewsbury) has the inscription: |