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VIII. "EPISCOPACY (as eftablished by Law in England) NOT PREJUDICIAL to REGAL POWER. Written in the Time of the Long Parliament, by the special Command of the late King. London, 1673."

IX. "DISCOURSE CONCERNING the CHURCH, in THESE PARTICULARS: First, concerning the Vifibility of the true Church: Secondly, concerning the Church of Rome. London, 1688." Published by Dr. W. Afheton, of Brazen-nofe College, Oxford, from a MS. communicated to him by Mr. John Pullen, the Bishop's domestic chaplain.

X. 1." BISHOP SANDERSON's JUDGMENT concerning SUBMISSION to USURPERS." 2. "PAX ECCLESIÆ." 3." BISHOP SANDERSON's JUDGMENT in ONE VIEW for the SETTLEMENT of the CHURCH." This tract is written by way of question and answer. Anthony Wood tells us, that the questions were formed by the publisher, and that the answers were made up of fcraps, without any alteration, taken out of the prefaces and fermons of the Bishop. 4. "REASONS of the prefent JUDGMENT of the UNIVERSITY of OXFORD, concerning the SOLEMN LEAGUE and COVENANT, the NEGATIVE OATH, the ORDINANCES concerning DISCIPLINE and WORSHIP. London, 1678." These tracts are annexed to " Ifaac Walton's Life of Dr. Sanderson." 1678. XI. A large "PREFACE" to a book written at the command of Charles I. by Archbishop Usher, and published by Dr. Sanderson, entitled "The POWER communicated by GOD to the PRINCE, and the OBEDIENCE required of the SUBJECT. London, 1661."-4to. A fecond corrected edition of this work was published in 8vo, 1683. See "Kennet's Regifter," p. 347.

XII. "A PREFATORY DISCOURSE” prefixed to a collection of Treatifes, entitled 'CLAVI TRABALES, or NAILES faftened by fome great MASTERS of ASSEMBLYES, concerning the KING'S SUPREMACY and CHURCH GOVERNMENT under BISHOPS; the particulars of which are as followeth:

1. Two Speeches of the late Lord Primate Ufher's. The one of the King's Supremacy; the other of the Duty of Subjects to fupply the King's Neceffities.

2. His Judgment and Practice in point of Loyalty, Epifcopacy, Liturgy, and Conftitutions of the Church of England.

3. Mr. Hooker's Judgment of the King's Power in Matters of Religion, Advancement of Bishops, &c.

4. Bifhop Andrews of Church Government, &c.; both confirmed and enlarged by the faid Primate.

5. A Letter of Dr. Hadrianus Saravia, of the like fubjects. Unto which is added a Sermon of Regal Power, and the Novelty of the Doctrine of Refiftance. Publifhed by Nicholas Bernard, Doctor of Divinity, and Rector of Whitchurch in Shropshire.

Si totus orbis adverfus me conjuraret, ut quidquam molirer adverfus regiam Majeftatem, ego tamen Deum timerem, et ordinatum ab eo Regem offendere temere non auderem. Bern. Ep. I. 70. ad Ludovicum Regem, an. 1130. London, 1661,'

The Preface, written by Dr. Sanderfon, is dated "London, Aug. 10, 1661," and fubfcribcd The unworthy fervant of Jefus Chrift, Ro. LINCOLN."

XIII. "PRO

XIII. “PROPHECIES concerning the RETURN of POPERY," inferted in a book entitled Fair Warning: The fecond Part. London, 1663. This volume containing alfo feveral extracts from the Writings of Archbishop Whitgift, and Mr. Richard Hooker, was published with a view to oppofe the Sectaries, who were faid to be opening a door at which Popery would certainly enter.

XIV. "The PREFACE to the BOOK of COMMON PRAYER," beginning with these words; "It hath been the wifdom of the church".

XV. "EПINOMIE, feu EXPLANATIO JURAMENTI," &c. inferted in the Excerpta e Corpore Statutorum Univ. Oxonienfis,' p. 194. It was written to explain the Oath of Obligation to obferve the penal Statutes.

XVI. “ ARTICLES of VISITATION and ENQUIRY concerning MATTERS ECCLESIASTICAL, exhibited to the Minifters, Churchwardens, and Sidemen of every Parith within the Diocefe of Lincoln, in the first epifcopal Visitation of the Right Rev. Father in God, ROBERT, by Divine Providence, Lord Bishop of Lincoln; with the Oath to be adminiftered to the Churchwardens, and the Bishop's Admonition to them. London, 1662."-4to. See an account of this excellent tract in " Kennet's Register," p. 727.

XVII. Mr. Peck, in the Defiderata Curiofa,' Vol. II. has inferted "The HISTORY and ANTIQUITIES of the CATHEDRAL CHURCH of the Bleffed Virgin St. MARY, at LINCOLN ; containing an exact Copy of all the monumental Infcriptions there, in Number 163, as they stood in 1641; most of which were foon after torn up, or otherwife defaced. Collected by ROBERT SANDERSON, S. T. P. afterwards Lord Bishop of that Church, and compared with and corrected by Sir WILLIAM DUGDALE'S MS. Survey."

Dr. White Kennet, Bishop of Peterborough, had in his poffeflion the copies of two letters. tranfcribed from the originals that were in the hands of Bishop Barlow. 1. Superfcribed "For Mr. Thomas Barlow, at the Library in Oxon," and subscribed "Your very loving friend and fervant, ROBERT SANDERSON," dated "Botheby Pagnell, Sept. 28, 1656," importuning Dr. Barlow," to undertake the managing that difpute in the queftion of great importance. upon the ancient landmarks, by Dr. Jeremy Taylor; so unhappily (and fo unfeasonably too) endeavoured to be removed in the doctrine of original fin." 2. Another letter of Dr. Sanderfon to Dr. Barlow, at Queen's College, dated "Botheby Pagnell, Sept. 17, 1657," expreffing himfelf, "That Dr. Taylor is fo peremptory and pertinacious of his errors, as not to hearken to the fober advices of his grave, reverend, and learned friends, amidst the diftractions of thefe times," &c. See "Kennet's Regifter," p. 633.

The treatife here alluded to is entitled "Unum Neceffarium, or the Doctrine and Practice of Repentance, defcribing the Neceflity and Measures of a ftrict, holy, and a Christian Life, and rescued from popular errors. By JER. TAYLOR, D. D." In the fixth chapter of this treatife the author difcuffes the fubject of original fin otherwife than it is commonly explained in the Church of England; whofe ninth article affirms, that "the natural propenfity to evil, and the perpetual lufting of the flesh against the spirit, deferves the anger of Godland damnation." See also another tract inferted in Taylor's Polemical and Moral Difcourfes, under the title 322 of.

of "Deus Juftificatus; or a Vindication of the Glory of the Divine Attributes in the Question of original Sin, in a Letter to a Perfon of Quality."

It is foreign to my purpose to examine this subject of controversy. What Dr. Jeremy Taylor has advanced upon the question proceeded from the best motives, according to his own motto," Nihil opinionis gratiâ, omnia confcientiæ faciam."

Dr. Sanderson and Dr. Hammond were jointly concerned in a work entitled "A PACIFIC DISCOURSE of GOD's GRACE and DECREES," and published by the latter in 1660.

It would be improper not to observe, that in the preface to the Polyglott Bible, printed at London in 1657, Dr. Bryan Walton has claffed Dr. Sanderson among those of his much honoured friends who affifted him in that noble work.

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Page 62, line 5, his beloved London.] When it is recollected how much Dr. Donne was attached to London, we are surprised to find that in one of his letters he speaks of plaguy London. Let it be remarked, that this word had not at that time a burlefque fenfe. Donne, in one of his elegies, has "Death's plaguy jaws ;" i. e. affected with the plague.

Page 65, line 11, Dr. Gataker.] Mr. Walton tells us, that Dr. Donne was chofen preacher to the Society of Lincoln's Inn, upon the removal of Mr. Thomas Gataker. But this is a mistake for Mr. Gataker, who is improperly styled Doctor, having never taken any degree but that of Bachelor of Divinity, left Lincoln's Inn for the rectory of Rotherhithe in Surrey, in 1611; fix years before Dr. Donne was chosen there.

Page 94, line 5, that glass.] "In the account of churchwardens of St. Helens, in Abington, Berks, IVd. was paid for an hourglass for the pulpit, 1591. Archæolog. Vol. I. p. 22. There is fcarcely perhaps an earlier mention of this implement. It was used at Paul's Cross in 1616; for in a painting of that and the church of that date, now in the library of the Society of Antiquarians of London, I obferved an hourglafs near the preacher; and the custom continued till after the Restoration; for a very fine one which coft XVIII fhillings, was brought from Holland to Lynn in Norfolk. Blomefield's Hiftory, Vol. IV. p. 131. The iron frames in which they stood are fometimes ftill feen near pulpits." (Sir John Cullum's Hift. and Antiq. of Hanfted, p. 34.)

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Page 116.] A fatirical poem, called "A Scourge for Paper Perfecutors, by I. D. 1625," 4to, has been attributed to Dr. Donne. It was written by John Davies of Hereford, and is printed in his "Scourge of Folly," 8vo, which is not inferted by Wood among the works of Davies. See "Wood's Ath. Ox." Vol. I. col. 444.

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Dr. Donne is esteemed the author of a Latin epitaph, infcribed on a monument erected in the church of Hanfted in Suffolk, to the memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Drury, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Drury, Knight, who died in 1610, in the 15th year of her age. She was the heirefs of an immenfe fortune, and is faid to have been deftined for the confort of Henry Prince of Wales. The Lines by Dr. Donne, inferted in "The Spectator," No. 41, and affirmed to allude to his miftrefs, were really written on this lady, the innocent and lovely daughter of his friend. Tradition reports, that fhe died of a box on the ear, which her father gave her. This conceit rofe probably from her being represented on her monument as reclining her head on one hand; just as the ftory of Lord Ruffel's daughter dying of a prick of her finger,

finger, took its origin from her statue in Westminster Abbey, which reprefents her as holding down her finger, and pointing to a Death's head at her feet.

In the fame church of Hafted, is another monument, with an infcription, fuppofed to be written by Dr. Donne, commemorating both Sir William Drury, who, in 1589, was killed in a duel, in France, by Sir John Borough, Knight, and Sir Robert Drury, Knight, his fon, who died in 1615. See "Hift. and Antiq. of Hafted," p. 143.

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"A Copy of Verses, by Dr. Donne," is prefixed to "Captain Smith's History of Virginia, 1626." Fol.

Page 152, line 20, a will of conceits.] The paffage, to which Ifaac Walton alludes, is in a poem of Dr. Donne's, entitled "The Will."

"I give my reputation to those

"Which were my friends; mine induftry to foes};

"To schoolmen I bequeath my doubtfulness;

"My fickness to phyficians, or excess;

"To Nature all that I in rhyme have writ,
"And to my company my wit."

Page 156, line 26, Bishop of Spalato.] The opinion ufually entertained concerning the conduct of "De Dominis," upon his return to Rome, is lefs favourable to his character than he deferves, if we may judge from the narrative of Dr. John Cofin, Bishop of Durham, in his "Hiftory of Tranfubftantiation," C. II. § vii. We are affured, that on his departure from England, he left in writing this memorable declaration; "I am refolved, even with the danger of my life, to profefs before the Pope himself, that the Church of England is a true and orthodox Church of Chrift." This he not only promifed, but faithfully performed. He could never be perfuaded by the Jefuits or others, either to subscribe to the new-devifed tenets of the Council of Trent, or to retract those orthodox books which he had printed in England and Germany, or to renounce the Communion of the Church of England, in whose defence he conftantly perfifted to the very last.

Page 176, line 21, Hiftory of England.] "Sir Henry Wotton had a penfion of 200l, fettled on him in the third year of this reign (of Charles I.), which was now augmented to 500l. to enable him to compofe "The Ancient History of England," and to bestow 100l. on the amanuenfes and clerks neceffary to be employed in that work." (Acta Regia, p. 815.) ·

Page 191, line 14, Reliquia Wottoniana.] In Cibber's, or rather Shield's Lives of the Poets, the only fpecimen given of Sir Henry Wotton's poetry, is the famous compofition, "The World's a Bubble," which, in "The Reliquia Wottonianæ," is faid to have been found among his papers, the author unknown. Farnabie, in his "Epigrammata Selecta, 1629," afcribes it to Lord Bacon. He has tranflated it into Greek, and has fome various readings.

Of Sir Henry Wotton's Latin Panegyric on Charles I. there are two translations by unknown hands: The one is inferted in "The Reliquiæ Wottonianæ;" the other is very fcarce,

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