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thought was happy. An unmeasured and deso- 

 late plain — a mighty river — the distant towers of 

 the fallen city — the enfilading batteries with an 

 hundred guns — the wonder-working bridge itself, 

 now made the scene of hilarity, joy, and triumph — 

 all united, with the flush of victory, to produce 

 one common soul-inspiring ardour which has not 

 had its like again. H. D'AviSNBr. 



WILL OF BICHA.RD LINGAED. 



(2°'^ S. ii. 104.) 



Allow me to offer a few observations which may 

 throw some light upon the curious will of Richard 

 Lingard, printed in your number of the 9th of 

 this present month. 



Dr. Richard Lingard, probably an Englishman, 

 went from the University of Cambridge to that of 

 Dublin, where he became a Fellow of Trinity 

 College, and Regius Professor of Divinity. In 

 1666, after he had been more than forty years in 

 holy orders, he was appointed Dean of Lismore 

 [not Rismore'J, but held that dignity only four 

 years. 



His death must have taken place within a very 

 short time after the signing of his will on Nov. 10, 

 1670 : as on the 29th of that month a patent was 

 granted to his successor in the deanery. 



The circumstance of his will being proved in 

 the Court of York may be accounted for by his 

 possessing property in Cumberland, which is 

 within that province. It must also have been 

 proved in Ireland, either at Dublin or Waterford. 



It is certainly a very curious document, and 

 although it is too indistinct to enable us to under- 

 stand all the particulars referred to, and probably 

 is disfigured through the lack of scholarship in 

 his man " Arthur Brinan whoe did write the said 

 hasty will ; " yet it is such an one as we may well 

 conceive a man dangerously ill and in great weak- 

 ness, to have dictated to his servant at his bed- 

 side, one clause following another without much 

 connexion of subject or distinctness of expression, 

 just as the several matters arose in his mind. 



From his desire " to be buried where the parish 

 of St. Andrew shall appoint," I think it most 

 likely that he resided, and died, within that parish. 

 He was interred in Trinity College Chapel. 



With respect to some of the persons and places 

 mentioned in the will, I may mention that 



" The College," means Trinity College, Dublin. 



" The Dean of Cork " was Dr. Thomas Vesey, 

 afterwards Archbishop of Tuam. 



" The Library " means that of Trinity College. 



" The Provost " was Dr. Thomas Seele, Dean 

 of St. Patrick's, Dublin. 



" Mr. (or Dr.) Styles " probably was the Rev. 

 Henry Stiles, a prebendary of St. Patrick's. 



" Mr. Crookes " perhaps was Mr. John Crooke, 



an eminent printer and bookseller in Dublin at 

 that time. 



"Patrick and William Sheridan" were brothers, 

 the Deans of Down [not Derry or Dromore'] and 

 Connor [not CorkJ. 



It does not well appear, whether the poor man 

 intended to ask forgiveness from them, or to m- 

 part it to them. 



It would seem as if Dr. Lingard had been pre- 

 paring some literary work — some " notes " — for 

 publication ; and desired that a few — not more 

 than six — of his sermons should be inserted. I 

 am not aware whether this design was ever carried 

 out. He himself had printed one sermon, in de- 

 fence of the Liturgy of the Church of England 

 and Ireland, which he had preached before King 

 Charles II. 4to. London, 1668. And, two years 

 afterwards, he published A Letter of Advice to a 

 Young Gentleman leaving the University. 12mo. 

 1670. These are the only fruits of his pen which 

 I have heard of (see Fasti Ecclesice Hibern., i. 

 169.). H. Cotton. 



Thurles, Aug. 20. 



THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 



C2"* S. i. 440.) 



Professor Browne, as quoted by A. A. D., who 

 bestows his approbation upon the statement 

 by calling it " accurate," says : — " The second 

 commandment is joined with the first according 

 to the reckoning of the Church of Rome." Here 

 we have the first oversight in the " accurate 

 statement " of the professor. Holy Writ, while 

 it tells us that the words of the Law were ten 

 (Deut. iv. 13.), nowhere lets us know the pre- 

 cise way in which they were divided, nowhere 

 defines for us which is the first, which the second, 

 which is the ninth, which the tenth word or com- 

 mandment. From St. Austin's days, that is, since 

 the beginning of the fifth centur/, the Western 

 Church has used the same division of the com- 

 mandments as we Catholics now use. With re- 

 gard to England's practice, Alcuin and MIMq 

 show us that our Anglo-Saxon countrymen did as 

 we still do (Alcuini Opp. ed. Frobenio, i. 340 ; 

 iElfric's Horns, ii. 199. 205.) ; and our national 

 councils held one at Lambeth, a.d. 1281, another 

 at Exeter, a.d. 1287 (Wilkins, Concil. ii. 55. 

 162.), witness for the same usage at a later period ; 

 not to mention such authorities as the Papilla 

 Oculi, fol. clxii., and the Coventry Mysteries, p. 60. 

 The professor goes on to say : " It will be found 

 so united in the Masoretic Bibles ; the Masoretic 

 Jews dividing the tenth commandment (accord- 

 ing to our reckoning) into two." By " our " is 

 meant, of course, the present Protestant reckon- 

 ing of England. Not only have even Protestants 



