"I give and bequeath to my Sifter Ken the fum of Ten pounds. To my niece Krienberg the sum of Fifty pounds. "I give and bequeath to my Nephew, John Beacham, the fum of Fifty pounds, and to my Nephew, William Beacham, the fum of Forty pounds. "I give and bequeath to my Nephew, Isaac Walton, the fum of Ten pounds, and to my Niece Hawkins, his sister, the fum of Ten pounds, and to her daughter, Ann Hawkins, "Ex dono Car. Sutton Coker." "Ad Epifcopatum Bath et Wellen: A.D. 1685, evecti; ab eodem, anno 1690, ejecti. J. Beavor." "This book, from it's having been the Manual of that great and good man, Bishop Ken, is invaluable. G. H., Bath and Wells.Wells, 1829." Thus, the book appears to have been given by Ken, to Dr. William Coker, a Physician in Winchester ;—to have passed out of that family to Dr. Beavor, Rector of Trent, in Somersetshire, Fellow of Corpus Chrifti College, Oxford, and from his poffeffion into that of the late Bishop of Bath and Wells, Dr. George Henry Law. Bowles, who had seen the book, fays, "So familiar was Ken with the fublime chapter on the Refurrection, that at this prefent day-fo many years fince-the small volume opens generally of it's own accord at the 15th chapter of the Epistle to the Corinthians." Bowles's Life of Ken, vol. ii. p. 93. Several years ago, Mr. Thomas Kerflake, of Bristol, bought at a miscellaneous furniture auction, at Cricklade, another "Pocket Greek Teftament," which had belonged to Ken, and which he thus entered in his Book Catalogue for the year 1849; 5354. Bp. KEN'S POCKET GREEK TESTAMENT: - NOVUM TESTAMENTUM, Gr. CURCELLIÆI, Amft., Elzevir., 1658, 18mo., in the old black fish-fkin, with filver corners, with a most interesting autograph of that eminent Christian Soldier, 71. 75. "On one of the fly leaves is written :-"T. K.-Tu Grande illud q in terris Quæsivi- -Et inveni-PHAR: FIENNES." (See who Pharamus Fiennes was in COLLINS, by BRYDGES, vol. vii. p. 25.)— "On the oppofite leaf:-" Et tu Quæris tibi Grandia? Noli Quærere. -THO: KEN."-under which, in Greek,-1 Tim. iv. 15. and 1 Cor. iv. 6." This interesting volume is in the poffeffion of Mr. Serjeant Merewether, to whom it was presented, on his birth-day in 1849, by his son, Henry Alworth Merewether, Efq., Q.C. I am much indebted to the learned and good Serjeant for the trouble he has taken, to trace the history of this book, and of the Bishop's watch, before referred to. the fum of Fifty pounds, and to her son, William Hawkins, the sum of Fifty pounds, and to my Niece, Elizabeth Hawkins, the sum of Twenty pounds, to be paid to her on the day of marriage, or when my executor fhall fee it most for her advantage. "I give and bequeath to the English Deprived Clergy the fum of Fifty pounds; to the Deprived Officers the sum of Forty pounds, and to the Deprived Scotch Clergy the sum of Fifty pounds. "To the poor of the parish where I am buried the fum of Five pounds, and to my fervant who fhall be with me at my death the fum of Ten pounds. "I bequeath to the Library at Bath all my French, Italian, and Spanish Books. "I leave and bequeath to my very worthy dear Friend, Mrs. Margaret Mathew, dwelling in Caerdiff, my woodden Cup lined with gold, and Lord Clarendon's History, in fix volumes in red Turky guild. "I bequeath my little Patin and Chalice* guild, to the Parish where I am buried, for the use of fick persons who defire the Holy Sacrament. "As for my Religion, I die in the Holy Catholick and Apoftolick Faith, profeffed by the whole Church, before the disunion of East and Weft: more particularly I dye in the COMMUNION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, as it ftands diftinguished from all Papall and Puritan Innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrine of the Crofs. "I beg pardon of all whom I have any way offended: and I entirely forgive all those who have any ways offended me. I acknowledge myself a very great and miferable Sinner; but dye in humble confidence, that on my repentance I shall be accepted in the Beloved. "I appoint my Nephew, William Hawkins, to be my fole Executor of this my last Will and Teftament, who I know * These are still preserved in Frome Church. will obferve the directions punctually, which I leave for my Buriell. "Witness my hand and Seal, "THOMAS BATH & WELLS, Depr." "Signed and delivered in the presence of "FRA. GREEN=Jo. JENKINS." A remarkable circumftance should be mentioned, which is truly characteristic of the man, and shows the faint-like temper in which he kept the thought of death fixed and familiar in his mind. The reader will, perhaps, remember the paffage in Izaak Walton's Life of Dr. John Donne, defcribing how that holy man caused a choice Painter to draw his picture in a winding-fheet, which "He had put on him, and so tied with knots at his head and feet, and his hands fo placed, as dead bodies are usually fitted, to be shrouded and put into their coffin, or grave. Thus he was painted, with his eyes fhut, and with so much of the sheet turned afide as might thew his lean, pale, and deathlike face, which was purposely turned towards the East, from whence he expected the second coming of his and our Saviour Jefus. In this posture he was drawn at his just height; and when the picture was fully finished, he caused it to be fet by his bed-fide, where it continued, and became his hourly object to his death.” ↑ In the fame reverent spirit Ken had long prepared his own winding-fheet to be his conftant companion, and monitor of Death: Hawkins fays, " he had travelled for many years with his Shrowd in his portmantua, which he often faid, ' might be as foon wanted * Bowles, in his Life of Ken, vol. ii. pp. 306 to 309, has given a copy of the Will: it was proved, 24th April, 1711. † Major's Edit. of Walton's Lives, 1825, p. 72. as any other of bis babiliments.""* We shall fee, that he had also another purpose in this, befides the conftant memento mori,-which was, to prevent any expoJure of his perfon after death. There was a fentiment in this, deeper than common, and in harmony with his character. Through life he had dedicated his virgin body to God; fo in death he would have it configned to the earth with a modest reserve, as something entitled to honour; it was "the feat of the foul," the temple of the Holy Ghoft, which had so often partaken of the holy Elements, and should hereafter be raised a glorified body, and re-united to its kindred spirit ; "Though foul and flesh shall parted be, They'll meet in blest Eternity."† There are several paffages in the Poems expreffive of his thoughts on this reunion at "The Refurrection." "Great day! to mortals kept unknown, To wait their everlasting Doom.”‡ In his "Preparatives for Death," we have a clear expofition of this fcriptural doctrine of * Hawkins's Life of Ken, p. 44. Ibid. p. 45. "The State of Separation," which is the title of one of thofe poems. The body, he fays, diffolves to earth from whence it fprung,the foul returns to its Maker: "And there God on the Soul will shine, They Jefus fee, they hear His voice, |