From a Picture at Wardour Castle.

BLANCH

Noble sculp.

LADY ARUNDEL.

London,Publish'd March 13.1795,by Cadell & Davies, Strand.

WILLIAMS,

LORD KEEPER, AND ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.

IT is faid upon the monument of this learned Prelate, at an obfcure village in Carnarvonfhire, that "he was linguarum plus decem fciens---that he "understood more than ten languages." The Lord, Keeper had found, in the courfe of his own life, the advantage of knowledge to himself, and was very anxious that other perfons fhould poffefs those benefits which he had turned to fo good an account. His Biographer tells us, that in all the various progreffions in the dignities of the Church, whether as Canon, Dean, or Bishop, he always, fuperintended the grammar-fchools that were appended to his Cathedral, and took care that they should be supplied with proper and able

masters.

Williams had been Chaplain to Lord Bacon, and fucceeded him in his office. When that great man brought the Seals to his Sovereign James the First, the King was overheard to say,--"Now, by my foule, I am pained to the heart "where to bestow this; for as to my lawyers, "they be all knaves."

Williams,

"not kill they let loofe to the world for the next" "taker. In the parks they burn three tenements " and two lodges; they cut down all the trees " about the house and grounds. Oaks and elms, "fuch as but few places could boaft of the like,

whofe goodly bufhy advanced heads drew the

eyes of travellers on the plains to gaze on them; these they fold for four-pence, fixpence, or "twelve-pence a-piece, that were worth three, "fout, or five pounds a-piece. The fruit-trees "they pluck up by the roots, extending their "malice to commit fpoil on that which God, by a fpecial law, protected from destruction even in "the land of his curfe, the land of Canaan; for fo "we read: When thou shalt befiege a city, "thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing "an ax against them, for thou mayeft eat of them, "and thou shalt not cut them down and employ "them in the fiege; only the trees which thou "knowest that they be not trees for meat thou shalt 66 defroy. Deut. xx. 19, 26. Nay that which "efcaped deftruction in the Deluge cannot escape "the hands of thefe Children of the Apollyon the

Destroyer. They dig up the heads of twelve "great ponds, fome of five or fix acres a-piece, and "deftroy all the fish. They fell carps of two foot "long for two-pence and three-pence, a-piece: "they fent out the fish by cart-loads, so that the

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"country could not spend them. Nay, as if the present generation were too narrow an object for "their rage, they plunder pofterity, and destroy "the nurseries of the great ponds. They drive "away and fell their horses, kine, and other cattle, "and having left nothing either in air or water, "they dig under the earth. The castle was served. "with water brought two miles by a conduit of "lead; and, intending rather mischief to the "King's friends than profit to themselves, they cut, "up the pipe and fold it (as thefe men's wives in "North Wiltshire do bone-lace) at fix-pence a "yard; making that waste for a poor inconfiderable

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fum which two thousand pounds will not make "good. They that have the unhappy occafion to "fum up these loffes, value them at no less than one hundred thousand pounds. And though "this lofs were very great, not to be paralleled by 66 any except that of the Countess of Rivers, yet, "there was fomething in these sufferings which did cc aggravate them beyond all example of barbarity. "which unnatural war till now did produce, and

that was Rachel's tears, lamentation and weep❝ing and great mourning, a mother weeping for "her children, and would not be comforted, be"cause they were taken from her. For the rebels, "as you hear, having carried the two Ladies "prisoners to Shaftesbury, thinking them not safe « enough,

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