Earl of Essex. It was his intention first to have destroyed the ships preparing, and then sailing to the Azores, or Western Islands, to have waited for, and captured the Spanish India Fleet. This scheme however failed, through contrary winds, storms, and a dispute between the Earl of Essex and Sir Walter Raleigh.

Page 34. The Lord Elsemore.

Sir Thomas Egerton, Knight, a native of Cheshire, the founder of the house of Egerton. In consideration of his singular merits, he had the care of the Great Seal committed to him, May 6, 1596, under the title of Lord Keeper, and by King James I. he was created Baron of Ellesmore, and constituted Lord Chancellor of England. It was said of Bankes, the Attorney General, that he exceeded Bacon in eloquence, Chancellor Ellesmore in judgment, and William Noy in law.

Page 36. Henry, Earl of Northumberland. Henry Percy, the ninth Earl of Northumberland of that name; 66 a learned man himself, and the generous favorer of good learning," as he is called by Anthony Wood.

Page 41. Dr. Morton.

"This learned and charitable prelate," as Isaac Walton somewhere calls him, not more distinguished by the splendor of his parentage, than by his habitual temperance and diligence in study, died Sept. 22, 1659, in the 95th year of his age, after having re

ceived the most injurious treatment from the Parliament. No apology is necessary for the insertion of the following affecting story concerning him. "Having suffered imprisonment at different times, and undergone many hardships, he was expelled from Durham-house. Wandering from place to place, he at last went to London with about sixty pounds -(which it seems was then his all); — he was overtaken on the road by Sir Christopher Yelverton, who being known to the Bishop was unknown to him; and in discourse asking the old gentleman, "What he was," the good Bishop replied, "I am that old man, the Bishop of Durham, notwithstanding all your votes:" for Sir Christopher was not free from the stain of the times. Whereupon Sir Christopher demanded where he was going: "To London," replied the old gentleman; "to live a little while and then die." On this Sir Christopher entered into further discourse with him, and took him home with him into Northamptonshire, where he became tutor to his son.

Page 57. The learned and eloquent works of his Majesty.

How far the works of this royal author deserve the epithets here bestowed upon them, we venture not to decide. "The Dæmonologie " and "The Counterblast to Tobacco" do not excite very flattering sentiments of his literary acquirements. Quotations, puns, scripture, witticisms, superstition, oaths, vanity, prerogative, and pedantry, are affirmed by the writer of "The Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors" to be the

ingredients of all his sacred majesty's performances. (Vol. I. p. 41.)-Yet the incense of praise and adulation was liberally offered to him, both in his lifetime and after his death. Ben Jonson, in an epigram, commends James as "best of kings and best of poets." One of the most learned divines of his time declares the King's Paraphrase upon the Revelation of St. John, which he is said to have written before he was twenty years of age, to be a memorable monument left to all posterity, "which I can never looke upon, but those verses of the poet runne alwaies in my minde :

"Cæsaribus virtus contigit ante diem:
Ingenium cœleste suis velocius annis
Surgit, et ignavæ fert mala damna moræ."

Page 57. Dr. Andrews.

Of this great divine Casaubon thus speaks, "De cujus altâ doctrinâ in omni genere disciplinarum quicquid dixero minus erit." In him were eminently united those qualities, which seldom meet in one man, "Scientia magna, memoria major, judicium maximum, et industria infinita." He is said to have possessed a critical and accurate knowledge of at least fifteen modern tongues. Hence, no one was better qualified to be one of the translators of the Bible in the reign of King James. Amongst Milton's juvenile poems is an elegy on the death of Bishop Andrews. Fuller observes of him, that "the Fathers are not more faithfully cited in his book, than lively copied out in his countenance and carriage; his gravity in a manner awing King James,

who refrained from that mirth and liberty in the presence of this prelate, which otherwise he assumed to himself." Of his writings perhaps the most known and most useful is his Manual of Devotions, composed in Greek and Latin for his own private

The house at Theobald's, near Waltham in Essex, was built by the Lord High Treasurer Burghley, in the reign of Elizabeth; a place, than which, as to the fabric, nothing can be more neat, and as to the gardens, walks, and wildernesses about it, nothing can be more pleasant." James I. was so much delighted with its situation, that he gave the manor of Hatfield Regis in exchange for it to Lord Cecil, afterward created Earl of Salisbury.

He died at this his favorite palace, March 27, 1627. This noble and beautiful edifice was plundered and destroyed in 1651.

Page 67. Dr. Gataker.

Mr. Thomas Gataker, a solid, judicious, and truly pious divine, highly esteemed by Salmasius and other learned foreigners, was the author of a treatise once much read "Of the Nature and Use of Lots," &c. and was justly celebrated for his critical knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew languages. Being one of the Assembly of Divines appointed by Parliament in 1642, he conducted himself in that department with singular prudence and moderation. In the Assembly's Annotations on the Bible he execut

ed with uncommon ability that division which included Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Lamentations. His Explication of Jeremiah x. 12, subjected him to the severe castigations of the famous astrologer William Lily, against whom he wrote "A Discourse Apologetical, wherein Lily's lewd and loud lies in his Merlin or Pasquil for the year 1654, are clearly laid open," &c. His house bore the resemblance of a college, where many young men, foreigners as well as natives, continually attended to receive instructions from his lectures. The most approved of his works are "A Dissertation upon the Style of the New Testament;" a Tract "de Nomine Tetragrammato Adversaria Miscellanea."

Page 71. St. Dunstan in the West.

Isaac Walton, our biographer, was an inhabitant of this parish, and thus became intimately acquainted with Dr. Donne.

Page 80. St. Augustine's life.

St. Augustine died after the Goths and Vandals had with much barbarous cruelty and bloodshedding overrun the greater part of his native country of Africa. Only three cities of any note were preserved from their fury, of which his own city, Hippo, was one, though besieged by them fourteen months. According to his prayer he was delivered out of their hands by the mercy of God, who took him to himself during the time of the siege. See his life written by Posidonius, and usually prefixed to his works.