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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 28. 1950. 



No 178.— CONTENTS. 



Notes ; — Pajre 



BishoiiBedelMiyRev. J. E.B. Mayor - - - - '12y 



Anniversary Ceremonies of Preservation of the Koiiian Cnpito! - 43o 

 The Old Countess of Desmond, by Sir Henry Bun bury - - 131 



IfANDHLiANA, by Dr. Rimbanlt : _ IlandcVs Residence at Acton — 

 Roubiliac's Statue of Handel— The Handel Tcstival of 1784 — 

 Victor's Notices of Handel - - - - - - 432 



Passage in St. Matthew •132 



Minor Notfs : — Alliance of Secondary with Great Powers — No- 

 velties in Clockwork — Quadrature of the Circle — The Talking 

 fish — A Fanatical Citizen's Prayer - - - - - 133 



Minor Qoeriks: — Peg Tankard — Vowtes, or Vows, over Altars 



— The Precious Ointment — Book Note — Baptism for the Dead 



- On buying a Bible, &c. - - - - - - 131 



Minor Quekies with Answers : — Scandal against Queen Eliza- 

 beth—Hebrew Old Testament and the Septuagint— " Bowdled •' 

 —Su' William Alex.inder.&c- Lists of M.P.'s- Witchcraft - !:7 



Rfpliks ; — 



NewCatalc^ueofShakspcariaua, by Charles Wylic - - i'i<i 



C'axtou Relics, by William Blades - . . . . 410 



Carthaginian Passapre in Plautus, by Dr. Doran, &o. - - 111 



'Y7ro,rra<rK, by T. J. Buckton ------ U] 



Coglan's Art of Memory ..-.-. (i2 



Major-General William Roy - - . - - -Hi 



Repmbs to Minor QcEniEs: — (, Alleged) Superstitions regarding 

 the Blossoming of Plants — Father Paul's " Ilistory of the Coun- 

 cil of Trent"— Dr. John Leyden—Farreu Family, &c. - - 143 

 Xotes on Books, &c. - - - - - - - 447 



BISHOP BEDELL. 



By the kindness of Josliua Wilson, Esq., I am 

 enabled to communicate Kennett's notes on Bur- 

 net's Life of BedelL 



After referring to the Tanner MS. 278., which 

 is sufficiently described by Dr. Cotton, Kennett 

 proceeds : — 



" See An examination of certaine' Motives to Recu- 

 s,aiit;y by W. Bedell, 1628. 8vo. pp. 61. w«' Ep. ded. to 

 the right -vvorshipfuU my very good friend S"^ Thomas 

 Barker. MS. T(anner). 505." 



He next makes two long extracts from — 



" Bp Burnet in his Vindication of Himself from the 

 Keflections made on his fun. Serm. for ABp. Tillotson, 

 •Svo. 1696," pp. 68. 88, 89. 



Some of the sentences are worth citing here ; 

 the whole sliould be reprinted in any future edi- 

 tion of Burnet's Life of Bedell^ or in any complete 

 History of the Censorsliip in England. 



'• He reproaches me for adding a Marginal Note to a 

 part of Bp. Bedell's Book, in w'' he treats of Subjects 



resisting their Princes When I writ Bishop Bedell's 



Life, his Book against Wadsworth was found to be so 

 well written, and was so much out of Print, that it was 

 thought fit to reprint it, and bind it up with his Life. I 

 could not but take notice of the Case of Subjects re- 

 sisting their Prince, fully stated and justified by him 

 [pp. 445, 446.] ; and that in a Book dedicated to King 



Charles the first, then Prince of Wales I thought 



myself bound to warn Mr. Chiswell of that Passage ; he 

 was much threatned at that time for having printed 

 Julian, and he was afraid of raising a new Storm against 

 himself. I told him, I would not suffer the Book to be 

 printed, unless that Passage were printed in it. He 

 shewed it to S' Roger U Estrange, who would not let it 

 pass, till several words were scatter'd quite through it 

 to give it an Air, as if Bedell had been only repeating 

 llic arguments of other Men. And yet even that did not 



serve [the] turn. A marginal Note was to be added to 

 the end of that Paragraph (in p. 446.), w*^'' was framed 

 by S"" Roger himself. .... All I could do was to get 

 those words between Crotchets, so that the Reader by 

 passing them over might have seen the thread of Bedell's 

 Discourse." 



On the passage referred to (p. 445.), Kennett 

 notes : " The words in crotchets were added by 

 S' Roger Lestrange or his Order ; " and on the 

 next page : " this marg. Note was framed by S' 

 Roger himself." Neither Burnet nor Kennett 

 seem to have been aware that some copies of 

 Burnet's book (1685) were struck off before Sir 

 Roger added his note.* I have an early copy 

 which wants the note, and in which p. 446. begins 

 thus : — 



" and inviolable, as was Sauls to David. Last - 

 ly, if the inraged Minister of a lawful Prince," 



In Kennett's copy these two lines have been 

 pushed back to p. 445., in order to allow room 

 for the censor's note to overflow its margin. 



The second extract from Burnet's tract proves, 

 if proof be needed, that his Life of Bedell can 

 only be tolerated as a makeshift, and ought to be 

 superseded by the original memoirs, whose place 

 in our libraries it has so long usurped. 



" He again reproaches me for the Life of Bishop Bedell. 

 Mr. Fulnian sent me Remarks on some parts of it, and I 

 made no Answer ; and these have fallen into the Author's 

 hands, and he has printed them w"' great triumph. I 

 publisht that Life just when I went out of England. 

 Mr. Fulman sent a Packet after me to Paris, for which 

 I paidverj' dear. I had neither the conveniencies nor the 

 inclination to answer it at that distance. Since I came 

 into England a Copy of it was sent to me by him into 

 whose hands Mr. Fulman's Papers came, for he was then 

 dead. I sent him a full Answer to them, to be printed 

 or not, as he thought fit. He judged it better to let the 

 matter sleep, and so returned all back to me again. I 

 will only say this for my part in that work. The whole 

 Materials were prepared for me many j-ears before I 

 medled -with them by an ancient and Reverend Clergy- 

 man, Mr. Cloggy. I Avas apprehensive that some might 

 take exceptions to my writing on that Argument, and so 

 declined to do it for some years; bvit repeated Impor- 

 tunity overcame me at last, so I undertook it: I had 

 then separated mj'self from my Books, which I had be- 

 stowed in a place where I knew they would be preserved 

 safe for me : I upon that took no sort of care to examine 

 the matter of those Papers, I only put them in Form : I 

 am not answerable for any mistakes that may be in the 

 first Part of them, which mj' Author may have mis- 

 remembred: So if any of these are wrong, they are 

 another Man's Errors, they are not mine." 



On p. 1. of the Life, Kennett has given two 

 extracts from the Lambeth registers : — 



" Commissio Matthei Cant. Aropi Mgro Robto Weston, 

 LL.D. Curite Cant. OfBciali ad admittend. Willum Bedks 



* The note is sufficiently curious to deserve a place at 

 the foot of the page : " This Passage above, is to be con- 

 sidered as a Relation, not as the Author's Opinion : But 

 yet for fear of taking it by the wrong Handle, the Reader 

 is desired to take notice; That a Subject's resisting his 

 Prince in any cau?e whatsoever, is Unlatcful, and Im- 

 pious." 



