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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 12. 1869. 



No 167.— CONTENTS. 



Notes:- Page 



ArchbishopWilliams, by Rev. J. E. B. Mayor - - - 209 



Curious Ceremony for the Souls of the Slain in Battle, by Rev. 



Dr. Todd 210 



On an Interpolation which Gibbon has admitted into the Text 

 of liis History, in a Quotation from ^neas of Gaza respecting 

 the African Confessors, a.d. 484 ----- 210 



Portraits of Sir Pliilip Sydney 213 



Scribbling on Windows, by S. Redmond .... 213 

 Haydon and Charles Lamb, by James Elmes - - - 214 

 Minor Nctes: — Didot's " Biographie G^n^rale " — Inscriptions 

 at New College, Oxford — WooUett the Engraver — Renovation 

 in old Age — Dr. Samuel Johnson— Eggleston Parochial Li- 

 brary - Thee and Thou 216 



Minor QuKRiKf : — Gloucestershire Churches — Lorentz Klopf, 

 Strasburgh — Edward Barnard's " History of England " — Ge- 

 nealogical Queries — Inchbald— Quotations Wanted — Church 

 Tune " Wareham " — Donnybrook Parish Register, (fee. - - 216 



Minor Qcekies with Answers :—" The Caravan "— Fleming's 

 Christology _ Thomas Walkington, D.D. — P. Forester — Davit 219 



Rkplies : — 

 Freebcnch or Customary Dower and Curtesy, by Rev. T. Boys,&c. 219 

 " Comparative View of Man, &c. ----- 222 

 S. Paul's Visit to Britain - - - - , - 222 



Kepliks to v.jNon QuFRiEs: _" Carleton's Memoirs" — Uniforms 

 worn at Charles I. s Execution — Enniskillen School— Richard 

 Symonds — Swift's Drapier's Letters, &c. - - - - 223 



Notes on Books, &c. ....... 227 



ARCHBISHOP WILLIAMS. 



Coleridge's " warm recoramen dation " of Hacket's 

 Life of Williams procured many purchasers and 

 readers for a book which had too long been neg- 

 lected. Many writers, since the publication of the 

 Literary Remains, and but the other day Mr. Masson, 

 have given a similar verdict. In pointing out some 

 scattered materials for Williams' biography, which 

 have appeared chiefly within the last few years, 

 I would call attention to the great importance of 

 a complete edition of Williams' Life and Corre- 

 spondence for all who are interested in the y)oliti- 

 cal and ecclesiastical struggles of the seventeenth 

 century. Such a collection would worthily take 

 its place by the side of Ussher's and Laud's cor- 

 respondence, from both of which, especially from 

 the latter (thanks to the exemplary diligence and 

 exactness of Mr. Bliss), a valuable portion of its 

 contents would be derived. 



In the European Magazine for April, 1792, 

 seven very interesting letters were printed, which 

 supply many gaps in the early pages of Hacket's 

 narrative. Two letters are given by Sir H. Ellis 

 (Orig. Letters, Ser. ii. No. '265; Ser. iii. No. 459.) 

 In the Westminster Magazine for 1781 (according 

 to a note which I some time ago made at second- 

 hand, and have not since had an opportunity of 

 verifying) is a letter from Williams (Tower, April 

 28, 1640), in which he desires Hampden's assist- 

 ance in procuring his liberty. On H.'s refusal he 

 returned his letter, and sought to recover his own. 

 See more about his incarceration in Lathbury's 

 Histori/ of the Common Prayer Book, pp. 186, 

 187 ; and a note of a sermon preached by him in 

 the Tower in " N. & Q." for June, 1858, p. 453. 



Several MSS. relating to him are preserved in 

 the Cambridge University library ; e, g. the de- 

 crees against him in the Star Chamber, 1637, MS. 

 Ee. ii. 1, art. 2 ; his letter to the king resigning 

 the Great Seal, MS. Gg. i. 29. art. 55 ; the origi- 

 nal book of causes tried before him when Lord 

 Keeper, MS. Ii. v. 5. 



As regards his mode of dealing with the Puri- 

 tans, the most delicate of his episcopal functions, 

 see the testimony of Cotton Mather {Life of John 

 Cotton, pp. 21, 22; Magnolia, book iii. pp. 71. 

 96.), who applauds his " generous goodness- and 

 candour ; " Herbert Palmer once preached at his 

 visitation (Clarke's Lives of Eminent Divines, ed. 

 1677, p. 119) ; and William Catlin appeared as a 

 witness in his favour (Zach. Catling's Life of 

 Sibbes, printed with the Cambr. Ant. Society's 

 Report for 1857, p. 263). It is natural that 

 Preston's biographer should give a less flattering 

 account of an opponent of Buckingham's (see 

 Ball's Zi/(? o/Prestora in Clarke, pp. 91. 95. 100, 

 101.). As respects his visitations in 1635 and 

 1637, see Prynne's Canterburies Doome, pp. 101, 

 105; cf. ibid. p. 92. (the second page so num- 

 bered). Heylin, of course, is bound to paint 

 Laud's great rival in the blackest colours. See 

 his JJfe of Laud, pp. 252. 269. seq. 295. seq., 311. 

 seq., 323. seq., 435, 436. 439. 443. 459. 461. 



In a contemporary newspaper, entitled "A 

 Continuation of certain Speciall and Itemarkable 

 Passages from both Houses of Parliament and 

 divers other parts of the Kingdome" (Monday, 

 Oct. 3— Oct. 5, 1642, No. 12, p. 4.), I find the fol- 

 lowing passage : — 



" TTiere was certaine information given to the Houses 

 on Tuesday last by Letters from Yorkeshire that there 

 hath beene great opposition in that County betweene 

 the Lord Fairfax and those of his part}' for the Parlia- 

 ment, and the Earle of Cumberland and the other Gentle- 

 men for the commission of Array, That the Earle of 

 Cumberlands Cavallieres tooke themselves to Pomfrett 

 Castle, whether also the Bishop of Yorke fled for Sanc- 

 tuary." 



In the valuable series of letters published from 

 Dr. Birch's MSS. in 1849 (Colburn, 2 vols. 8vo.) 

 under the title The Court and Times of James 

 the First, many alliisions are made to Williams 

 and his fortunes. See vol. ii. pp. 57. 206. 221. 

 227. 259. 264. 266. 269. 273. 



In Plume's Life of Hacket (p. vi., mention is 

 made of Williams' funeral oration on Dr. Playfer 

 in Great St. Mary's, a.d. 1608). Cf. ibid. p. vii. 

 He has verses in the Epicedium Caidabrigiense 

 (1612), 50, 51. 



William Lilly {Life, ed. 1774, p. 47.) tells us 

 that he allowed a search for treasure in West- 

 minster Abbey. 



One of the best points in Williams' character, as 

 in Laud's, was his readiness to befriend individual 

 men of learning and learned foundations. Wit- 

 ness his support of Lydyate (Fuller's Worthies, 



