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given him a claim to the highest rank in the admiration of 

 posterity. In Rutter's delineations of a part of Somerset- 

 shire, he gives a neat wood-cut of the cottage at Wrington, 

 wherein Locke was born, and he informs us, that in the 

 garden belonging to Mrs. Hannah More, near that village, 

 she has placed an urn commemorative of Locke, which was a 

 gift to her from the justly celebrated Mrs. Montague. He 

 was drawn also by Kneller. Bromley gives a list of many of 

 his engraved portraits. Houbraken engraved one for Birch's 

 Lives. Vertue gave two engravings from Kneller. 



William Fleetwood, successively Bishop of St. Asaph 

 and Ely, and who died in 1723, was author of "Curiosities 

 of Nature and Art in Husbandry and Gardening," 8vo. 1707. 

 His portrait is prefixed to his "Sermons on the Relative 

 Duties," 8vo. 1716; and also to his " Essay on the Miracles." 

 His works were published in a collected form in 1 vol. folio, 

 1737. He was incontestibly the best preacher in his time. 

 Dr. Doddridge calls him " silver tongued." Pope's line of 



The gracious dew of pulpit eloquence, 



might, no doubt, have been justly applied to him. Dr. Drake, 

 in the third volume of his Essays, to illustrate the Tatler, 

 Spectator, and Guardian, has some interesting pages respect- 

 ing him. His benevolent heart and exemplary life, added 

 great effect to his persuasive eloquence in the pulpit. " His 

 sermons (says Lempriere), and divinity tracts, were widely 

 circulated; but the firmness of his opinions drew upon him 

 the censure of the House of Commons. His preface to his 

 sermons on the deaths of Mary, the Duke of Gloucester, and 

 of William, and on the accession of Anne, gave such offence 

 to the ministry, that the book was publicly burnt in 1712; 

 but it was more universally read, and even appeared in the 

 Spectator, No. 384." As to this burning, Dr. Johnson re- 



