in rural parsonages before they were removed to London. Beveridge then was collated to the Vicarage of Yealing, Jan. 4, 1660, and left it when he was admitted to the Rectory of St. Peter's, Cornhill, London, Nov. 22, 1672, (Newcourt, vol. 1. p. 93, ed. 1708). Now, to say nothing of his Institutiones Chronologica, published in London 1669, he here brought out two huge folios, his Pandecta Canonum, an additional work of great value, and which is always priced now-a-days at several guineas. Patrick again was at Battersea from 1658-1662. His Jewish Hypocrisy is dated from Battersea (1660): here also he composed two of his best known works, his Mensa Mystica (1658), and his Heart's Ease (1659). If it be objected that Battersea was near London, it must be remembered that Chelsea was at that time a country village (Macaulay, vol. 1. p. 350). Again, Archdeacon Fullwood's Roma Ruit, one of the most important theological productions of the time, was composed in 1679 in a rural parsonage. Kettlewell, one of the most considerable writers of the period, composed at Coleshill his Help and Exhortation to Worthy Communicating, in 1682; and his Practical Believer at the same place in 1687. Towerson's standard work too on the Church Catechism (of which, as we have seen, Burnet speaks so highly), was composed in a country parsonage at Wellwynne, Herts. (1678-1685). Fuller in 1658 was presented to the Rectory of Cranford, and he was buried in the church there, in August 1661. Here he composed his Worthies; and Pepys, in his Diary, Jan. 21, 1661, mentions conversing with him upon it: it was not published till after his death, and it was then in an unpolished state. Scrivener, a priest, composed in 1672, 'Intra Privatos Parietes,' a sterling work in vindication of the Fathers against Daillé, entitled Apologia pro S. Ecclesiæ Patribus adversus Johannem Dallæum de Usu Patrum. Puller's Moderation of the Church H of England (which has been lately re-edited) was composed at Sawcombe, Herts., and published in April 1679: before he was presented in the September of the same year to the Rectory of St. Mary-le-Bow (Newcourt, vol. 1. p. 440, edit. 1708). Sherlock, Rector of Winwick after the Restoration, was the author of the Practical Christian, commended most highly by Bishop Wilson, which reached the sixth edition in 1713; he died before the Revolution. John Norris, a writer greatly admired by the lovers of Metaphysical Theology, produced at Bemerton in 1691, his Discourses on Divine Subjects: and in 1690, at Newton-St.-Loc, his Discourses on the Beatitudes, which reached the third edition in 1694. All the above works certainly deserve to be called important; some of them are first-rate. Others too there are which well deserve to be mentioned, though perhaps inferior to the foregoing. I shall only name a few of the authors, and designedly omit others of less consequence. Walker then is described by Wood, in the Athena Oxonienses, as very useful in his generation: he wrote many works, of which the Doctrine of Baptisms is perhaps the most important; it is dated Colsterworth, near Grantham. The works too of the following parochial Clergymen are much commended by Walker in his Sufferings of the Clergy: Fulman, Bentham, Samwaies, and Vaughan. Bragge and Falkner also were authors of respectability; to say nothing of a great number of minor publications which indicate their authors to have been men of good education. SECTION IX. ON THE INTERCOURSE OF THE CLERGY WITH THE GENTRY. THIS is a subject on which we must be very short: after what has been already proved, it is well-nigh superfluous to say anything. Mr. Macaulay represents the generality of the Clergy as not being gentlemen, as not associating with gentlemen, and as being condemned to menial services, in the two following passages among others: "The coarse and ignorant squire, who thought that it belonged to his dignity to have grace said every day at his table by an ecclesiastic in full canonicals, found means to reconcile dignity with economy. A young levite-such was the phrase then in use-might be had for his board, a small garret, and ten pounds a-year, and might not only perform his own professional functions, might not only be the most patient of butts and of listeners, might not only be always ready in fine weather for bowls, and in rainy weather for shovelboard, but might also save the expense of a gardener, or of a groom. Sometimes the reverend man nailed up the apricots, and sometimes he curried the coach horses. He cast up the farrier's bills. He walked ten miles with a message or a parcel. If he was permitted to dine with the family, he was expected to content himself with the plainest fare. He might fill himself with the corned beef and the carrots: but, as soon as the tarts and cheesecakes made their appearance, he quitted his seat, and stood aloof till he was summoned to return thanks for the repast, from a great part of which he had been excluded."*-Macaulay's History of England, vol. I. pp. 327, 328. * Eachard, Causes of the Contempt of the Clergy; Oldham, Satire addressed to a Friend about to leave the University; Tatler, 255, 258. That the English Clergy were a low born class, is remarked in the Travels of the Grand Duke Cosmo."-Mr. Macaulay's Note. Again: "It would be a great error to imagine, because the country rector was in general not regarded as a gentleman, because he could not dare to aspire to the hand of one of the young ladies at the manor-house, because he was not asked into the parlours of the great, but was left to drink and smoke with grooms and butlers, that the power of the clerical body was smaller than at present." -Ibid. vol. 1. p. 333. The proofs of all this (so far as our present section is concerned) appear to depend on Eachard and Oldham; and on the much later authority of the Tatler for November 1710. The passage from Eachard has been already cited at p. 47 of this treatise. If Mr. Macaulay had not been copying the Whig under several denominations instead of Eachard, he would not have represented "an ecclesiastic in full canonicals" as being subjected to such indignities on the authority of the latter. The passage from Oldham is, it must be admitted, altogether to the point. It runs as follows: "Little the unexperienced wretch does know Who tho' in silken scarf and cassock dress'd, Wears but a gayer livery at best. And if the enjoyment of one day be stole, And they tho' loose still drag about their chain." -Oldham's Works. Satire addressed to a Friend about to leave the University and come abroad into the World, pp. 281, 282, 7th edit. Lond. 1710. The reader may attach whatever importance to this passage he considers its writer to deserve: it seems to be an adaptation from Eachard, and to possess no independent value whatever. The Tatler had read Oldham, and quotes him at length, and is so utterly ignorant of his character as to call his raillery "the raillery of a friend!" It may be suspected that he was not speaking of his own knowledge (whatever, as an Essayist, he may affect to have seen), but was merely copying Oldham, and writing a humorous paper which no one was expected to believe. However, whether this be so or not, the author undoubtedly considered chaplains to be gentlemen. The following passage makes his sentiments clear: "In this case I know not which to censure, the patron or the chaplain, the insolence of power, or the abjectness of dependence. For my own part, I have often blushed to see a gentleman, whom I knew to have much more wit and learning than myself, and who was bred up with me at the University upon the same foot of a liberal education, treated in such an ignominious manner, and sunk beneath those of his own rank, by reason of that character which ought to bring him honour. This deters men of generous minds from placing themselves in such a station of life, and by that means frequently excludes persons of quality from the improving and agreeable conversation of a learned and obsequious friend."The Tatler, No. 255. South and Collier, in various places of their writings, unquestionably imply that chaplains were not always treated with proper respect. This is likely enough; their situation was a very delicate one: but it is not very likely that it was |