[704] Conformist's Plea, 85.

[705] He allowed a considerable annuity to Dr. Tuckney, whom in the Professorship of Divinity at Cambridge, and the Mastership of St. John's College, he succeeded after the Restoration.

[706] Hist. of his Own Time, i. 181. Temple, in his Memoirs, says, "My election in the University proceeded with the most general concurrence that could be there, and without any difficulties I could observe from that side (the Duke of Monmouth's) those which were raised coming from the Bishop of Ely, who owned the opposing me, from the chapter of religion, in my Observations on the Netherlands, which gave him an opinion that mine was for such a toleration of religion as is there described to be in Holland."—Temple's Works, i. 433.

[707] Fuller's Worthies, ii. 421.

[708] Athenæ Oxonienses, iii. 717.

[709] Conformists' Plea, 35.

[710] Nelson's Life of Bishop Bull, 206.

[711] Life and Times, ii. 363.

[712] Athen. Oxon., iii. 1195.

[713] Ibid., 940. Bliss says he was Canon of York.

[714] The letter is written by Dr. Lampleugh, January 12, 1675. State Papers, Dom. Charles II.

[715] Le Neve, part ii. 238.

[716] The letter is dated, Ely House, October 9, 1643. Le Neve's Lives of the Bishops, pt. ii. 247.

[717] See anecdote of Sterne in Baxter, ii. 338, quoted in the account of the Savoy Conference in this History.

[718] Hist. of his Own Time, i. 590.

[719] This corresponds with the eulogium on his tombstone.

[720] Grainger's Biography, iii. 232.

[721] Le Neve's Bishops, pt. ii. 258.

[722] Hist. of his Own Time, i. 590. Dolben was Dean of Westminster at the time of Albemarle's funeral. Ward preached. "The Dean and prebendaries wore copes. Offerings were made at the altar."—Stanley's Westminster, 228.

The following notice occurs in Thoresby's Diary, i. 172:—"I rode with most of the gentry in the neighbourhood, to meet Archbishop Dolben, who was much honoured as a preaching bishop. May 1, 1684: he gave us an excellent sermon at the parish church; see his remarkable preliminary discourse concerning holydays, their institution, and abuse in the Romish Church, which makes many good people (his own expression) averse to them, even as celebrated in the Church of England, though without superstition. In the whole he showed great temper and moderation."

[723] In addition to the particular books which I have noticed, I may state that my chief authorities for these notices of the Bishops are Wood, Le Neve, and Salmon.

[724] I find amongst the State Papers the following, in a volume on Ecclesiastical affairs, containing Congé d'élires, &c.:—

"Dean and Chapter of Lichfield

"Whereas upon the vacancy of that see by the death of Dr. Hackett the late Bishop we did by our Congé d'élire and our Great Seal of England grant you our license to proceed to an election of a fit person to succeed in the same, and at the same time did by our letter written recommend to you our trusty &c. Dr. Wood Dean of that our cathedral church to be by you chosen Bishop of the said see according to the laws of this our realm. We have now thought fit hereby to signify our pleasure to you that we do hereby will and require you to forbear to proceed to the election of the said Dr. Wood until our pleasure shall be further signified unto you—whereof you may not fail.

"June 11, 1671."

[725] D'Oyley's Sancroft, i. 194.

[726] Yet it is said in his epitaph, in St. George's Chapel, Windsor,—"Exule Carolo II., bonis multatus, reverso, a sacris, hujus Capellæ Canonicus, Decanus Sarisburiensis, postea Cicestrensis Episcopus, φιλόξενος φιλάγαθος," &c., &c.

There is a curious account in Kennet's Hist. of Brideoake's visit to Lenthall, the Speaker, when on his death-bed. He owed much to Lenthall's influence during the Commonwealth. A letter in the State Paper Office, 1678, Oct. 7, conveys intelligence of his death, and asks, in consequence, for Church promotion.

[727] This Lloyd is to be distinguished from him of the same name who was one of the Seven Bishops.

[728] In Ichabod; or, Five Groans of the Church, mention is made of 1,342 factious clergymen.

[729] Dom. Chas. II., 1677, Sept. 12.

[730] Mystery and Iniquity of Nonconformity, 1664. A curious tract entitled The Ceremony-Monger, his Character, in Six Chapters, describes "bowing to the altar, implicit faith, reading dons of the pulpit, reading the Psalms, &c., alternately, bowing at the name of Jesus, unlighted candles on the altar, organs, church music, and other popishlike and foppish ceremonials," all of which are unmercifully ridiculed. The author is E. Hickeringhill, Rector of the Rectory of All Saints, in Colchester. There is no date to the publication, but from abundant internal evidence, it must have been written after the Act of Uniformity. Hickeringhill is justly described by Chalmers as "a half crazy kind of writer." He was a pensioner of St. John's, Camb., in 1650; junior Bachelor of Gonville and Caius; Lieut. in the English army in Scotland, and Captain in Fleetwood's Regiment. He took orders in 1661 or 1662, being ordained by Bishop Sanderson; became Vicar of Boxted, Essex, in October, 1662, and about the same time, Rector of All Saints, Colchester. In reference to the Act of Uniformity, he says it is an unnatural, impossible, irrational, wicked, and vain attempt. "Go teach God," he says, "to make a new heaven, with uniformity of stars and skies,—teach Him to make men uniform," &c. Hickeringhill wrote The Second Part of Naked Truth, and A Vindication of it. The copy of it which I have seen is in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. The Bishop of London brought an action against him, in March, 1682, for slander. A report of the trial may be found in the same Library, Political Tracts, Y 24. Hickeringhill held his Rectory until his death in 1708.

[731] Quotation in Vindication of the Clergy, 82.

[732] Chamberlayne, part 1. 205, 207. The following entries indicate the poverty of clergymen:—

"1669. Given to a poor minister who preached here, at the church, April 25, 3s. Bestowed on him in ale, 4d.

"Feb. 13, 1669. Collected then, by the churchwardens, in the church, upon a testimonial, and at the request of the Lord Bishop of York, for one Mr. Wilmot, a poor minister, 8s. 4d.

"1670, April 10. Given then by the neighbours, to a poor mendicant minister, one Mr. John Rhodes, who then preached here, and after the sermon stood in the middle aisle to receive the charity of the people, the sum 12s. 3d.

"1670, July 3. Given then by the neighbours to a poor lame itinerary, one Mr. Walker, who preached here, and after the sermon stood in the middle aisle to receive the people's charity, which was 9s. 3d."—See History of Morley Old Chapel, by the Rev. J. Wonnacott.

[733] Hunter's Life of Heywood, 336.

[734] Grounds and Occasions, 19. It is from this paragraph, and other similar authorities, that Macaulay draws materials for his humorous one-sided satire on the clergy—Hist. of Eng. i. 340.

[735] Grounds and Occasions, 107. North complains of his father's chaplain being very illiterate.—Lives, iii. 312.

[736] Evelyn's Diary, 1684, February 23.

[737] Vindication of the Clergy (1672), 122. The author of the Grounds and Occasions followed up his work by "Some observations upon the answer."

[738] Vindication, 100, et seq. See Answer to the Grounds and Occasions (1671), 14. Another book was published—Hieragonisticon, being an answer to the two books on the Grounds and Occasions (1672). Five additional letters were published by the author of the Grounds and Occasions, &c. Through the kindness of my friend, Mr. John Rotton, the whole of this curious collection has been placed at my service.

[739] Vindication, 108.

[740] Appendix to Second Report of Commission on Ritual, 628.

[741] "An account of the life and conversation of the reverend and worthy Mr. Isaac Milles," quoted in Ken's Life by a Layman, 48–50.

[742] Ichabod; or Five Groans of the Church (1663). Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, says he "met with three debauched clergymen in Hertfordshire, whom he shall deprive: the gentry are most kind wherever he goes. Thinks the principles he goes upon will be successful."—State Papers, July 18, 1668.

[743] Life of Philip Henry, 101. He made this remark at the close of the year 1662. In Hunter's Life of Oliver Heywood, p. 149, a wretched account is given of the six ministers who succeeded him.

[744] History of his Own Time, i. 186.

[745] Diary, 1668, February 16.

[746] Burnet, i. 258.

[747] Appendix to Second Report of Commission on Ritual, 628.