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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"<i S. X. July 28. '60. 



" See a very different character of these Scotch Bps. 

 in his History of his own Time. Vol. i. p. 216. W. C. 



" Under a note close to this character, promising a more 

 particular account of the person chiefly referred to in the 

 aforesaid character is wrote: Bp. Leighton died 1684. 

 T. B. 



"This, I presume, was Bp. Lay ton, or Leighton, whose 

 character is given more at large hy Bp. Burnet, in the 

 History of his own Time. Vol. i. p. 134, 142, &c., 286, 289, 

 341, 374, 588. 589. T. B. 



" A very different character is given him by Dr. Hickes 

 in Some Discourses on Dr. Burn':t and Dr. Tillotson, p. 

 23, 24. T. B. 



" Leighton died An. 1684, at the Bell Inn, in Warwick 

 Lane, of a pleurisy, aged above 70. See Bp. Burnet's 

 History, Vol. i. p. 588, 589. Sed quaere. This book was 

 printed 1685. Leightoun was ArchBp. of Glascow. 

 T. B. 



" On the blank page at the end of the preface I have 

 wrote : Intcrdicti Veneti Hisioria de Molu Italice sub Ini- 

 tiu Pontificatiis Paidi V. Commentarius, Autliore R. P. 

 Paulo Sarpio Veneto. Recens ex Ititlico conversus. Can- 

 tabriglcc, 1626, 4to. Dedicated b}' Wm. Bedel to King 

 Charles, in which he tells him, that he received it from 

 the author when he was at Venice ; but with injunctions 

 not to transcribe it: but after the author's death, who 

 had then nothing to fear from the resentment of the 

 court of Rome, he translated it from the Italian'copy. At 

 the end of it is bound up with it a small treatise printed 

 at Cambridge in 1630 in 4to. intituled, Qucestio quodlibe- 

 tica : An liceat stipendia sub principe religione discrepaiite 

 merere. But by whom wrote, I know not, except bv Bp. 

 Bedell. W. C. 



" At p. 14. where he mentions Bedel's ineffectual press- 

 ing Sir Harry Wotton to present King James his Pre- 

 monition to all Christian Princes and States, to the senate 

 of Venice, I have added : 



" This is just as probable a story as many others in his 

 History of his Own Time, and much in the marvellous 

 and secret-history manner of them. W. C. 



" At p. 20. he affirms what others speak only doubt- 

 fuUj' of, viz. : that the ArchBp. of Spalato was poisoned : 

 on which account I have added on the side : 



"This is advanced with this author's usual confidence. 

 I suppose he had no absolute authority to rely on in re- 

 gard to his being poysoned: it being only conjecture that 

 he was so served. W. C. 



" P. 27. he says Bedell would not use bowings : he 

 means towards the altar: to which I have added this 

 note : Bowing at the name of Jesus, or to the east, was no 

 innovation. W. C. 



" P. 38. is part of a letter from Primate Usher to him : 

 by it I have put : 



"Vid. Letters 124. 126. in the Collection published by 

 Dr. Parr, at the end of the Life of ArchBp. Usher : tho' 

 this cited is not among them. VV. C. 



" P. 86. he says ABp. Usher was not made for the go- 

 verning part of his function : on which account I have 

 referred in a note to the latter part of the preface before 

 the Life of that Primate, where Dr. Parr has excepted 

 to this particular. [W. C] 



" P. 139. he calls his countrymen's behaviour on ac- 

 count of their refusal of the Common Prayer, forcing 

 their Covenant on every one, and putting down episco- 

 pacy, ' a schismatical Rage against the Church, backt with a 

 rebellious Fury against the Slate.' To which I have ob- 

 served on the margin : 



" This author, as most of his writings were published 

 at critical junctures to serve a party, so none more evi- 

 dently 60 than this before us. However, to give him his 

 due, this is wrote with much more moderation and 

 candour than most of them. Yet as he wrote of the same 



persons at different times very differently. So his censure 

 of the Scotch proceedings before 1640 in this place, is 

 widely different from the account he gives of them in his 

 partial History of his Own Time. W. C. 



"P. 175. He says Bp. Bedel was so exact an observer 

 of ecclesiastical rules, that he would perform no part of 

 his functions out of his diocese, without leave from the 

 Ordinary : and gives as an instance of this exactitude, that 

 being in Dublin, when his wive's dauter was to be mar- 

 ried to one Mr. Clogy, and both of them were desirous of 

 his blessing on the occasion, he would not do it, till he 

 first took out a licence for it in the ABp. of Dublin's con- 

 sistorj'. Upon which I have observed as follows in the 

 margin : 



"How so exact? when he used not his proper habit 

 in the afternoon, when, I presume, there is no exceptiou 

 for that, no more than for the morning. But it is too 

 plain by this trifle of his not blessing Mr. Clogy and his 

 wife, as well as from other occurrences in this book, that 

 this Bp. Bedel, as well as that other Scotch Bp. Leigh- 

 toun, of whom this author was so much enamoured, how- 

 ever good, pious and well-meaning they might both be, 

 3'et were persons of whim and fancy, if not of great con- 

 ceit and affectation. W. C. 



" P. 175, 176. is a fearful description of the clergy of the 

 Roman Church in Ireland before our confusions in the 

 Grand Rebellion : to which I have remarked : 



" The book seems to have been wrote expressely to re- 

 present the barbarity of the Irish massacre, in order to 

 spirit up a faction against King James 2^ at the begin- 

 ning of his reign : a passion which grew stronger with 

 the author the older he grew. W. C. 



" P. 189. He gives a translation of a Latin letter in 

 1641 to the titular bishop of Kilmore, whose name was 

 Swiney, from Bp. Bedel; where the latter telling Bp. 

 Swiney of his method used with him in his family devo- 

 tions, as reading the Scriptures and using the daily 

 Prayers in English, in order to prevent the titular Bp. 

 from coming into the same house with him, Avhich, it 

 seems, he was desirous of; our good Scotch Bp. in order 

 to make his favourite Bp. Bedel acceptable to his cove- 

 nanting and psalm-singing fraternity, takes the libertj' 

 to add these words ' aiid with the singing of Psalms ; ' 

 when there is not one word tending that way in the ori- 

 ginal Latin letter, which he has given at p. 251. Tliis, 

 it must be confessed, is no very material addition : j'et it 

 sufficiently shows that he was never scrupulous in his 

 quotations: especially if they tended at all to his fa- 

 vourite system. I have added by it : 



" Not one word of psalmody in the original letter : but 

 that, as a mark of a Puritan stamp, was foisted in by 

 good Dr. Burnet, in compliment to his psalm-singing 

 countrymen. W. C. 



"P. '223. He says that Bp. Bedel not only looked upon 

 the Roman Catholic Church as idolatrous, but as the Anti- 

 christian Babylon. I have noted by the side: 



" If he had not, he would not have had this Scotch 

 divine for the writer of his life. W. C. 



" P. 255. he gives a letter from Sir Harry Wotton to 

 Dr. Collins, whom he calls Collings, to whom, as a new- 

 year's gift, Sir Henry had sent a picture of tho famous 

 "Servite Padre Paulo: on which I have observed: 



" This very picture, or, as is more probable, a copj' from 

 it, is still in the College 1744. viz. in King's College in 

 Cambridge, where Dr. Collins was Provost. W. C. 



"P. 257. Mention is made of a visite from th^ prince 

 of Conde to Father Paul: where I have noted on the 

 side: 



" See the whole conversation that passed at this visite 

 in the Italian Life of Father Paul, p. 152. &c. The Life 

 I referred to is a small 8"° book in Italian in my posses- 

 sion, said to be printed at Venice in 1658, without any 



