Aug. 7. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



125 



(though not, as Ileylin had been led to expect, in 

 a revised edition of the Church History), Fuller 

 did actually retract what he had so injuriously said 

 of Dr. Cosin. 



In his Worthies of England (ed. Lond. 1652, 

 p. 265.) Fuller writes of Cosin, then Bishop of 

 Durham, as follows : 



" I must not pass over his constancy in his religion, 

 wliich rendereth him amiable in the eyes, not of good 

 men only, but with that God with whom there is no 

 variableness nor shadow of changing. It must be con- 

 fessed that a sort of fond people surmised as if he had 

 once been declining to the Popish persuasion. Thus 

 the dim-sighted complain of the darkness of the room, 

 when, alas! the fault is in their own eyes; and the 

 lame of the uneveimess of the floor, when indeed it 

 lietli in their unsound legs. Such were the silly folk 

 (their understandings, the eyes of their mind, being 

 darkened, and their affections, the feet of their soul, 

 made lame by prejudice), who have thus falsely con- 

 ceited of this worthy Doctor, However, if anything 

 that I delivered in imj Church History (relating therein 

 a charge drawn up against him for urging of some 

 ceremonies, without inserting his purgation, which he 

 cfiectually made, clearing himself from the least im- 

 putation of any fault), hath any way augmented this 

 opinion, I humbly crave pardon of him for the same. 

 Sure I am, were his enemies now his judges (had they 

 t!ie least spark of ingenuity), they must acquit him, if 

 proceeding according to the evidence of his writing, 

 living, disputing." 



Fuller then goes on to say how Cosin, while he 

 remained in France, was the "Atlas "of the Church 

 of England, "supporting her doctrines" with his 

 piety and learning, confirming the wavering therein, 

 yea, daily adding proselytes (not of the meanest 

 rank) thereunto, &c. 



Has this retractation of Fuller's been noticed in 

 any recent edition of the Church History ? 



J. Sansom. 



[This retractation has been noticed in an edition of 

 Fuller's Church History, published in 1837, and edited 

 by Mr. James Nichols, author of Arminianism and 

 Calvinism Compared; who has also subjoined Fuller's 

 retractation to Bishop Cosin's letter in the new edition 

 of The Appeal of Injured Innocence ; at the end of which 

 Mr. Nichols adds, " One might have expected a more 

 ample apology than this from such a candid and up- 

 right mind as Fuller's : but when it is recollected that 

 his History of the Worthies of ^England was a posthu- 

 mous work, and that his death was somewhat sudden, 

 we shall cease to blame the worthy old historian." — 

 Ed. J 



ENGLISH CATHOLIC VICAKS APOSTOLIC, 1625 — 1689. 



Any information as to age, family, or education, 

 •with dates, if known, of consecration and death ; 

 also names of consecrators and place of conse- 

 cration, with place of death or burial, of the fol- 

 lowing : Richard Smith, Bishop of Chalcis ; John 



Leyhum, V. S. D., Bishop of Adrumetum ; Bona- 

 venture Giffard, Bishop of Madaura ; James Smith, 

 Bishop of Callipolis ; and Fr. Philip Ellis, V. S.B., 

 Bishop of AurellopoHs. The names of what dis- 

 tricts in England the three latter, Bishops Giffard, 

 Smith, and Ellis, presided over, also solicited. I 

 may mention that my notitia contain the following 

 scanty data: — '■'■R. Smith, appointed Bishop of 

 Chalcis, and V. A. of England, by brief of Feb. 4, 

 1625, banished the realm 1629, and died 1658 in 

 France, where he had taken refuge (probably at 

 Douay College). Bishop Leyburn, nominated V. A. 

 for all the kingdom of England, and consecrated 

 1685, subsequently appointed to London District, 

 1688, and sent to Newgate in December of that 

 year. Bishop Giffard, nominated V. A. 30th Ja- 

 nuary, 1688, installed President of Magdalen Col- 

 lege, Oxford, on death of Bishop Samuel Parker, 

 also sent to Newgate at Revolution, but after- 

 wards liberated, and survived - till beginning of 

 1734, when he died, upwards of ninety years of 

 age, at Hammersmith, and his heart was, accord- 

 ing to his directions, sent to Douay College, where 

 he had received his education : he was a Doctor of 

 the Sorbonne, and consecrated in the banqueting- 

 house at Whitehall, probably by Bishop Leyburn." 

 " Father Ellis, Monk of the Holy Order of St. Be- 

 nedict, and of the English Congregation, was also 

 consecrated, as well as Bishop J. Smith (of whom, 

 however, I have no particulars), in the year 1688, 

 and sent to Newgate with Bishop Leyburn in 

 December, 1688 ; he was brother to Welbore 

 Ellis, who died Bishop of Meath in Ireland, 1733 

 (having been previously Bishop of Kildare, 1705 — 

 1731), and also to Sir William Ellis, Knt., who 

 went to Ireland as secretary to Richard, Earl of 

 Tyrconnel, Lord-Lieutenant, in 1686, having been 

 previously a puisne judge of the Court of Common 

 Pleas in 1672, afterwards removed, but re-ap- 

 pointed 1679. The family of Ellis had been 

 seated for centuries at Kiddall in Yorkshire." I 

 believe Philip Ellis is mentioned in Wood's Athen. 

 Oxon., but I have not that work to refer to. 



What vicars apostolic were nominated after the 

 above four mentioned, or till the year 1750? since 

 when a list of them is given in the " General 

 Clerical Obituary," published in the Catholic An- 

 nual Register, for the year ended June 30, 1850, 

 of Dolman, London. A. S. A. 



Wuzzeerabad. 



mobell's book-plate. %'. 



(Vol. v., p. 604.) 



Your correspondent Mr. Hooper gives an in- 

 teresting account of his acquisition of a copy of 

 ^schylus, once the property of Dr. Thomas Morell, 

 and having his book-plate and autograph. 



Allow me, as a fellow book-collector, to convey 



