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Arch. no means deficient, applying himself, in Metropolitan of all Ireland, was a Prelate whofe panegyric cannot be better expreffed than by a plain detail of his actions; in all cf which his abilities and goodness of heart were equally manifefted. He was born in or near London, of a reputable family; and received his rudiments of learning at Merchant-taylors fchool, in that great metropolis: where, having with a quick proficiency got through fuch parts of knowledge as are ufually taught in fchools, he was admitted a Commoner in Chrift-church, Oxford, fome time before the Revolution. His merit became fo confpicuous there, that, immediately after that great event, he was elected a Demi of Magdalen-college, together with the late Mr. Addifon, and Dr. Jofeph Wilcox, afterward Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster. Dr. Hough, who was then restored to the Prefidentfhip of that college (from which he had been unwarrantably ejected in the reign of King James II.) ufed to call this election by the name of the golden election,' from the merit of the perfons who were chofen ; and the fame refpectful appellation was long after made ufe of in common converfation in the college. Mr. Boulter was afterward made Fellow of Magdalencollege, for which, as well as for Chriftchurch, he always retained fentiments of refpect and gratitude; and, as a proof thereof, he afterward remembered them both in his Will. He continued in the University till he was called to London, by the invitation of Sir Charles Hedges, Principal Secretary of State, in the year 1700, who made him his Chaplain; and fome time after he was preferred to the fame honour by Dr. Thomas Tenifon, Archbishop of Canterbury. In thefe ftations he was under a neceffity of appearing often at Court, where his merit and virtues fell under the notice of Charles Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, Principal Secretary of State, by whofe influence and intereft he was advanced to his firft promotions in the Church, namely, to the parfonage of St. Olave in Southwark, and to the Archdeaconry of Surry. The parish of St. Olave was very populous, and for the most part poor, under which circumftances it required a vigilant Paftor; and in this particular Dr. Boulter was by NOME CCCCLXI, VOL, LXVI. tion, correction, and reproof; nor was his purfe wanting to help the neceffitous, according to his abilities and their emer gencies. When King George I. paffed over to Hanover in the year 1719, Dr. Boulter was recommended to attend him in quality of his Chaplain. During his abode there he took a good deal of pains to learn the German language; and, at the King's inftance, received Prince Frederick under his care, to inttruct him in the English tongue; for which purpose he drew up A Set of Inftructions in writing. His great moderation and sweetness of temper riveted him in the King's favour, and caufed his Majefty to lay hold of the earliest opportunity of promoting him in the Church, which foon happened. For, during his abode at Hanover, the Bishop ric of Bristol, and Deanry of Chrift church, Oxford, became vacant by the death of Dr. George Smalridge, in 1719; and the King, of his mere motion, granted to him that See and Deanry, and he was confecrated Bishop of Bristol, on Novem ber 15. In this laft station he was more than ordinarily affiduous in the visitation of his diocese, and the discharge of his paftoral duty; well knowing how much the intereft of the Church depended upon. a ftrict reformation of the lives and morals. of the Clergy, and a faithful and diligent execution of the trust committed to them. While he was employed in one of these vifitations, he received a letter by a meffenger from the Secretary of State, acquainting him, that his Majefty had nominated him to the Archbishopric of Armagh, and Primacy of Ireland, then vacant by the death of Dr. Thomas Lindfay, on the 13th of July, 1724, and defired him to repair to London as foon as poffible, to kifs the King's hand for his promotion. What would have given jov to another to this good Bithop afforded only matter of grief; and we have heard it affirmed by indifputable testimony, that he never appeared more difconcerted in his life, than upon the receiving the news of the King's pleasure. He confulted with his own thoughts for a few hours, and advifed with fuch of his friends as were prefent, how he should conduct himself on this grand occation. At length he Ft fent der the fictitious name of Letters from a Drapier,' as if written by a tradefman to incite people again't receiving this bafe coin, which the patent left at the liberty of the fubject whether to receive or re ject. fent an answer by the meffenger, refufing the honour the King intended him, and requelting the Secretary to use his good offices with his Majefty, in making his excufe. Whether his refufal was owing to an unwillingness to quit his native country, where he flood fo fair in the King's favour, as to hope for high advancements, or to his great modefty, muft be left a doubt to pofterity: but this much may be affirined with certainty, that the people of Ireland were upon the point of Jofing a man, for whom they will ever have reason to be thankful to God. The messenger was dispatched back to him by the Secretary, with the King's abfolute commands that he fhould accept of the poft. He fubmitted, though not without relating all the good actions of his Grace, luctance, and foon after addressed himself to his journey to Court. Ireland was at that juncture not a little inflamed by a ruinous project fet on foot by one Wood, and it was thought by the King and Miniftry, that the judgment, moderation, and wildom of the Bishop of Bristol would tend much to bring back matters to a calm there. This project was a patent Wood had obtained from the Crown, for coining three hundred and fixty tons of copper into halfpence and farthings, to be issued in Ireland, of which he fent over great quantities truck in base metal, and under weight. All ranks and degrees of people murmured at this proceeding. The Parliament, the Lords Juftices and Council, and the county and city of Dublin, addreffed his Majefty upon the occafion; the prefs groaned with pamphlets written in oppofition to the scheme, and fome in particular were admirably well done by Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's Dublin, un He arrived in Ireland in November, 1724, and fet about ftudying the real and folid intereft of that kingdom, in which his lot was caft for life, and which all his actions fhewed he ever after confidered as his own. He appeared at all boards of public concernment, and gave a weight and vigour to them; and, in every refpect, was indefatigable in promoting the good and real happiness of the people. It would tire the Reader to be minute in re nor would it be an eafy tafk to do fo, fince he rather ftudied to do good, than defired to have it published. Yet fome things muft not be paffed over in filence.-In feafons of great scarcity in Ireland, he was more than once, under God, inftrumental in averting a peftilence and famine, which threatened the nation. When the fcheme was fet on foot for making a navigable canal from Lough-Neagh to Newry, to carry on more effectually an inland trade in the feveral counties of the north of Ireland; he greatly promoted the design, not only with his counfel but his purse. Drogheda is a large and populous town within the diocefe of Armagh, and, his Grace finding that the Ecclefiaftical appointments were not fufficient to fupport two Clergymen there, and the cure overburthenfome for one effectually to difcharge, he allotted out of his own pocket a maintenance for a fecond Curate, whom he obliged to give public fervice every Sunday in the afternoon, and prayers twice Lough Neagh is a large navigable meer of water, about twenty English miles long, and from ten to twelve miles broad, furrounded by the counties of Down, Londonderry, Antrim, Tirone, and Armagh; and Newry is a confiderable trading-town, feated on the Newry water, in the fouth of the county of Down, not far from the open ing of Carlingford bay. A great fund of valuable coals being difcovered on lands in the county of Tirone bordering on the faid lake, it was judged by fome Gentlemen, who wished well to the wealth and trade of their country, that if a navigation was made by a canal from the lake to Newry, a great faving would arife to the kingdom by bringing coals through the faid lake and canal to Newry, and from thence by a free good navigation by fea to Dublin. When the fcheme for opening this navigation was propofed in Parliament, in the year 1729, the Primate patronized it with all his intereft. The colliery flood on the See-lands of Armagh, which were then in leafe to a tenant. The Primate, fearing that the leffee might be exorbitant in his conditions in fuffering coals to be raised out of his lands, purchased in the leafe at a large expence in order to accommodate the public. He allo gave timber out of his woods to carry on the work ; and often, when the fund established by act of Parliament for cutting the canal did not readily come in, his Grace advanced money for the occafion without intereft, that no interruption might from thence arife to the defign. every day. He had great compaffion for the poor Clergy of his diocefe who were difabled from giving their children a proper education, and he maintained several of the fons of fuch in the University, in order to qualify them for future preferment. He ercated four houfes at Drogheda for the reception of Clergymen's widows, and purchafed an estate for the endowment of them, after the model of Primate Marth's charity; appointing that the furplus fhould be a fund for fetting out the children of fuch widows apprentices, or otherwife to be difpofed of for the benefit of fuch children, as his Truffees fhould think proper. He alfo by his Will directed, that four houfes fhould be built for Clergymen's widows at Armagh, and endowed with fifty pounds a-year; which building has been finished, and the endowment made fince his death. During his life, he contracted for the building of a ftately market-house at Armagh, which has been fince finished by his executors, at upwards of eight hundred pounds expence. He was a benefactor alfo to Dr. Stevens's Hofpital in the city of Dublin, erected for the main tenance and cure of the poor t. His charities for augmenting small livings, and buying of glebes, amounted to up wards of 30,000l. befide what he devised by his Will for the like purposes in England. The wisdom of man could not contrive a more effectual method for the inftruction of the poor Popifh natives of Ireland in the principles of Chriftianity, and for inuring them to industry and labour, than the inftitution of the incorporated Society for promoting English Proteftant working fchools in that country. Though the original projection of this fcheme cannot be afcribed to Primate Boulter, yet he was the chief inftrument in forwarding the undertaking, which he lived to fee carried into execution with confiderable fuccefs. "These are a part, and only a part, of the Primate's public charities, which have come to our knowledge. As to his pri vate ones, they were fo fecretly conducted, that it is impoffible to give any particular account of them: and we have it affirmed by those who were in trust about him, that he never foffered an object to leave his house unfupplied, and often fent them away with confiderable fums, according to their merits and neceffities. When his health would perinit him he was conftant in his attendance at the Council-table, and it is well known what weight and dignity he gave to the debates of that Board. As he always ftudied the true intereft of Ireland, fo he judged, that the diminishing the value of the gold coin would be a means of increasing filver in the country, a thing very much wanted; in order to effect which, he efpoused and supported a fcheme at the Council-table, which raised the clamours of unthinking people against him. The fcarcity of filver coin in Ireland was exceffive for fome years, occafioned by the finking of the current value of gold coin in England; the fame having been reduced there fix-pence in each guinea, which made it more advantageous to dealers in Ireland to send over filver than gold in payment of the balance of trade which lay against them. To remedy this inconvenience, the Primate fupported a fcheme introduced at the Council-table to reduce the value of gold coin in Ireland three-pence in each guinea, and other pieces in proportion, in order to bring filver and gold nearer a par in value, and by that means to put a stop to the practice of fending filver abroad. This scheme was carried into execution by proclamation on the 10th of September, 1737; and experience has fhewed that it had the intended effect, both by making filver more plentiful in the kingdom, and keeping down exchange to a more certain and moderate rate. The populace, however, encouraged by fome dealers in exchange, who were the only lofers by the alteration, grew clamorous, and laid the ruin of their country (as they ignorantly called it) at Dr. Stevens, a Phyfician of eminence in the city of Dublin, bequeathed by his Will an eftate of about fix hundred pounds a-year to his filter Mrs Grizel Stevens during her life, and, after her decease, to build and maintain an hospital for the cure of wounded and difeafed poor people, who fhould be judged to be curable. The Lady, from a principle of charity and goodness, fet about the work, and finished the best half of the fhell of the house, in which the referved an apartment for her own habitation; and she allotted almost the whole estate for the support and maintenance of her brother's defign. After the houfe was finished, several well difpoted perfons became contributors towards fitting up and furnishing the wards. Among others, Primate Boulter fubfcribed fifty pounds; furnished one of the wards for the reception of patients; and subscribed fifty pounds a-year towards the charity during his life Ff2 the |