the Prince of Wales, afterwards Edward III. On the accession of that monarch, he was appointed cofferer, and, successively, Treasurer of the Wardrobe, Archdeacon of Northampton, Prebendary of Lincoln, Sarum, and Lichfield, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Dean of Wells, and, in 1333, Bishop of Durham. In 1334, he was made Lord High Chancellor, and in 1336, Treasurer of England. The celebrated Petrarch was one of the luminaries of the age, with whom this learned prelate corresponded. His love of literature induced him to found a public library at Oxford, on the spot where Trinity College now stands. At the period of the dissolution, the books of this fine collection were dispersed. Bishop Aungervyle wrote a book, entitled "Philobiblos" (a manuscript copy of which is still extant in the Cottonian collection) for the regulation of his library. It is said to have been printed at Oxford, in the year 1599. The bishop died in the year 1345, and was buried at Durham.

JOHN EVERSDEN, a monk who died in the year 1336, was an author of considerable celebrity in his day. He excelled in the Belles Lettres, was a good poet and orator, and a faithful historian.

ROGER, surnamed the COMPUTIST, who flourished about the year 1360, was distinguished by his learning and monastic virtues. He was prior of the abbey. He wrote "An Exposition of all the difficult Words throughout the Bible;" "Comments on the Gospel," &c.

HENRY BEDERICK, alias Bederickwortн, an Augustine Monk of the 14th Century, studied at Paris, where he became a doctor of the Sorbonne, and afterwards returned to England, where he was much followed and admired for his eloquent preaching. He wrote several works::-"Commentaries upon the Master of the Sentences," "A course of Sermons for the whole year," &c. and died about the year 1380.

EDMUND BROMFIELD, eulogised by Leland, as one of the most erudite monks of Bury Abbey, is said to have gone through his studies in England, and then to have repaired to Rome, where he was chosen professor, and distinguished by the title of Count Palatine of the University. The Pope appointed him to the see of Landaff, in the year 1389. He died in 1391, and was buried in his own Cathedral.

With the date of the birth of Boston de BURY, a monk who flourished here, in the year 1410, we are unacquainted. He was the author of the following works:-" Of the Original Progress and Success of Religious Orders, and other Monastical Affairs;' "A Catalogue of Ecclesiastical Writers; " "The Mirror of Conventuals, State of his own Monastery," &c. This monk, who appears to have been actuated by a genuine and ardent love of literature, travelled over almost all England to inspect the libraries. Nor was this perambulation undertaken from motives of idle curiosity, or mere selfish gratification. With great labour, he compiled an

alphabetical catalogue of all the books which the respective libraries contained; and, to render it complete, he gave a brief account of each of the authors, with the opinions of his most learned contemporaries respecting their writings, and noted in what library each book was deposited.

JOHN PADDESLEY, the son of Simon Paddesley of this town, a Goldsmith in London, by his wealth and reputation, obtained the office of Lord Mayor of that city in 1440.

JOHN OF BURY, so called from his being born in this town, was an Augustinian Monk in the Abbey of Clare, Doctor of Divinity in Cambridge, and provincial of his order throughout England and Ireland. He was a good scholar, but a zealous opposer of all the followers of Wickliffe. He flourished about the year 1460.

STEPHEN GARDENER, a celebrated prelate and statesman, born in 1481, was the illegitimate son of Dr. Woodville, bishop of Salisbury, and brother to Elizabeth, queen of Henry IV. He was educated at Trinity hall, Cambridge; from thence he went into the family of the Duke of Norfolk, and afterwards into that of Cardinal Wolsey, who made him his secretary. Wolsey recommended him to Henry VIII. He had a considerable share in effecting the king's divorce from Catherine of Arragon; and he assisted him in throwing off the papal yoke. For these, and other services, he was elevated to the see of Winchester; but, opposing the refor

mation, in the succeeding year, he was thrown into prison, where he continued several years, till Queen Mary released him, restored him to his bishoprick, and invested him with the office of Lord High Chancellor. He drew up the marriage articles between Queen Mary and Philip II. of Spain, with the strictest regard to the interests of England. He opposed, but in vain, the coming of Cardinal Pole into the kingdom. He preserved inviolate the privileges of the University of Cambridge, of which he was chancellor, and defeated every scheme for extending the royal prerogative beyond its due limits. He had, however, a principal share in reconciling the English nation to the see of Rome; and he was deeply implicated in the persecution against the Protestants. He died in 1555.

SIR NICHOLAS BACON, whose father was an officer belonging to the abbey, was born at Bury, in 1510, and educated at Bene't College, Cambridge. From College he went to study the common laws, in the Inns of Court, where he was so great a proficient, that he was first made Attorney to the Court of Wards, and from thence raised to be Lord Keeper of the Grand Seal, to Queen Elizabeth. He died February 20th, 1578, and was buried in the choir of St. Paul's Catheral. His eldest son, Sir Nicholas Bacon, of Redgrave, Knight, was created the first Baronet of England, by King James I. His younger son, Sir Francis Bacon, was in the same reign created Lord Verulam, and Lord Chancellor.

WILLIAM CLAGETT was born in 1646, and educated at Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he took his doctor's degree in 1683. He became preacher to the society of Gray's inn, rector of Farnham-Royal, Bucks. and lecturer of St. Michael Bassishaw, London. He died in 1688. Four volumes of his sermons were published after his death; besides which he wrote some controversial pieces against the romanists and dissenters.

NICHOLAS CLAGETT, D. D. brother of the preceding, was born in 1654, and educated at Cambridge, where he took his doctor's degree in 1704. He was preacher of St. Mary's, Bury, and rector of Hitcham, also in Suffolk. He died in 1727. His son Nicholas became bishop of Exeter.

JOHN BATTELY, D. D. born in the year 1647, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He became chaplain to archbishop Sancroft, who gave him the rectory of Adisham in Kent, and the archdeaconry of Canterbury. He died in 1708. Dr. Battely wrote "Antiquitates Rutupinæ," and " Antiquitates St. Edmundburgi."

JOHN SUDBURY, D. D. Dean of Durham, in King Charles II's reign, was a native of Bury, and gave to it £30 a year, in land, for the apprenticing three poor boys every year.

JOHN LYDGATE, commonly called the monk of Bury, though not a native of that town, is here