mach these seven years, and I would not walk cross the way to get one!" Ibid.

35. Dr. Richard Kidder, Bishop of Bath and Wells. Died Nov. 26, 1703.

He was nominated to this Bishoprick 14 June, 1691.

He was killed in his Bed at Wells, by the fall of a stack of chimnies blown down in the great storm of wind Nov. 26, or 27, 1703. His wife was also killed at the same time.

"I have heard that Mrs. Kidder was found killed in the bed: but the Bishop was a little distance on the floor. While he was Vicar of Stanground near Peterborough, (before the Bartholomew Act,) they had a fine Boy eaten up by a sow." Ibid.

36. Dr. Leopold William Finch, Warden of All-Souls, Oxford, died in Dec. 1702.

"He was a younger son of Heneage, Earl of Winchelsea, born while his father was Embassador abroad; had the Emperor and Prince of Orange for his Godfathers, and thence the double name of Leopold William. I went to school with him at Wye in Kent, which was near to his father's seat of Eastwell.

"Upon the opening of the Revolution, he was the most forward to meet his Godfather the Prince of Orange, in his way to London, to invite him to pass through Oxford, to make an offer of presenting the University Plate, &c.

"He was installed Prebendary of Canterbury 1689.

"He was arbitrary in expelling Mr. Jonas, Prouost, from a Chaplainship in that College, who by unwearied application to the Visitor, Archbishop Tillotson, got at last to be restored to his place." Ibid.

* See Hearniana, p. 8c.

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I SHALL continue the Biographiana in this place, because it appears to me desirable to have them inserted in large masses, without too frequent interruption.

37. Dr. Robt. South. Died July 8, 1716, æt. 82.

"He had a great deal of ill-nature, with a good deal of good humour and good manners in him. He labour'd very much to compose his sermons, and in the pulpit work'd up his body when he came to a piece of wit, or any notable saying. He made a demur upon submitting to the Revolution, and thought himself deceived by Dr. Sherlock, which was the true foundation of the bitter difference in writing about the Trinity. He kept up such a character of a Churchman, that upon the death of Bishop Sprat, Q. Aun offered him the Deanery of Westminster; but he refused it, being got into a love of his own way, wherein he kept a handmaid, and left her the greatest part of his estate, which got her an able husband." Kennett.

38. Dr. Basil Kennett, President of Corpus Christi Col lege, Oxford, died 1714.

"He was the 2d son of the Rev. Mr. Basil Kennett, Vicar of Postling, and Rector of Dimchurch in Kent, born at Postling in 1674, educated by his elder brother, partly in the school at Bisiter, and partly in the private family of Sir William Glynne at Amersden in Oxfordshire. Admitted Commoner of St. Edmund's Hall, in Oxford, under the tuition of his brother, then Vice-Principal, who allowed him 407. per ann. when be had not above sól. coming in. He was thence elected scholar of Corpus Christi, as 2 native of Kent. After he had been sometime Fellow and Tutor, and a considerable writer, he went the first English Chap. Jain to the Factory at Leghorn; and after great difficulties aud

dangers of the Inquisition, he was the happy instrument of founding and establishing that Protestant interest, and national honour, in a course of succession, (we hope) for ever. He there contracted an ill-habit of body, either by too abstemious and studious a life, or, as much suspected, by a slow poison, administered to expel Heresy from such abode in Italy. However desirous to return, he would not leave the place till he saw his successor in it, the Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Taubman. He then took a tour to Florence, Rome, Naples, and back by way of France, collecting in his travels a good treasure of books, sculptures, and other curiosities; which when he had defrayed the charge of importation was all his substance. He retired to his Fellowship, and was soon made Chaplain to Dr. Wake, Bishop of Lincoln, who gave him civil entertainment at Buckden, and a small Prebend of Lincoln. He had before his travels accepted from his brother the Vicarage of Comb cum Harnham, near Salisbury, where he very much improved the Vicarage House, made a generous allowance to a Curate in his absence, and resigned it as soon as he had liberty to do it." Bp. Kennelt.

In the Chapel of Corpus Christi College,

H. S. E.

Basilius Kennett,

S. T. P.

Hujus Coll. Præses

MDCCXIV,
Etat. 41.

39. Dr. Humphrey Gower, Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, died March 27, 1711.

Humphrey Gower, D.D. Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, succeeded, 1688, Dr. Ralph Widdrington in the Margaret Professorship at Cambridge. Chose into the preferment in a year of trial, being then noted for his firmness, integrity, and prudent conduct in the government of his College, as he has since been for his extraordinary abilities in the chair." Ibid.

40. Dr. Charles Hickman, Bishop of Londonderry, died

1713.

"Charles Hickman, Bishop of Londonderry, by the interest of Lord Rochester, with whom he went over Chaplain, having lost his wife in Ireland, (sister to Mrs. Hutton of Ayno) retired into England for an indolent life, and died at Fulham in Middlesex Nov. 28, 1713, buried in Westminster Abbey." Ibid.

41. Dr. William Sherlock, Dean of St Paul's, died 1707. Et. 67.

"He died at Hampstead, June 19, and was buried at St. Paul's.

many "He left a widow, by whose importunity he had done things; two sons of which he had seen the eldest, Thomas Sherlock, succeed him both in the Mastership of the Temple, and in the rich rectory of Therfield, Co. Hertf.: the younger, William, was bred at the Temple, and died there on Saturday, Feb. 28, 1718-19; and two daughters, not beloved by their mother, one of which is married to Dr. Tho. Gooche, Master of Caius College, Cambridge.

Dr. Sherlock had been suspended for refusing to take the new oath. Upon further inquiry, he satisfied his scruples, and for his own vindication therein published his "Case of the Allegiance due to Sovereign Powers stated and resolved with a more particu lar respect to the oath lately enjoined." This was followed by 12 Answers.

"The design of Dr. Sherlock's book was plainly to lay down such principles as would clear the allegiance due to William and Mary, even supposing them to have no legal right. This Mr. Kettlewell could by no means agree with, and therefore wrote upon another principle-the duty of allegiance settled upon its true grounds.

"On the promotion of Dr. John Tillotson Dean of St. Paul's to the See of Canterbury, 1691, by his recommendation to gain the man, and to soften the party, William Sherlock, S. T. P. was elected Dean." Ibid.

42. Sir John Cook, Dean of the Arches, died March 31, 1710.

"He was of St. John's College in Oxford, took arms at the Revolution, and served in Ireland at the bat of the Boyne; returned to the Civil Law, and was an advocate in Doctors' Commons. I have heard Archbishop Tenison say, that upon a vacancy of the office of the King's Advocate General, he told his Majesty that the two persons recommended to his favour were Dr. Lane and Dr. Cook. "Well," said the King, "which is the best man?" The Archbishop answered-" They are both good Advocates; but there is this difference, the first fought against you, the latter fought for you at the battle of the Boyne.” "Oh," says the King, "I will have my own Fellow-soldier."

"Sir John Cook, Kt. Vicar General to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Advocate Gen. Clerk of the Pipe, a Commissioner for the Union, and one of the Commissioners for propagating the Gospel in foreign parts, died at his house in Great Knight-RiderStreet, London, March 31, 1710, æt. 42; buried at Whitechapel near his lady, who died Oct. 6, 1709.

"His lady was a daughter of Mr. Bateman of Whitechapel, wheelwright to the Tower. She died at the same house near Doctors' Commons, Oct. 6, 1709, and was buried in Whitechapel church, on the 11th of the same month, with a Funeral Sermon by Dr. John Clarke, Rector of St. James's Westminster." Ibid.

43. Dr. Humphrey Hody, Archdeacon of Oxford, died Jan. 20, 1706.

"He was Greek Professor at Oxford, and buried in the chapel of Wadham College.

He was a minister's son in Somersetshire; taken chaplain by Archbishop Tillotson, for writing against the pretensions of Mr. Dodwell, who laboured to make a schism upon the Revolution. He had first a church in London, and then the Rectory of Monks Risborough, Co. Bucks." Ibid.