LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP BANCROFT. 93 



change, he declared that he could contentedly 

 live. 



Of his z-ealous attention to the various duties 

 of his elevated station, we have had ample evi- 

 dence in the narrative of his life ; but there is 

 one circumstance to which we have not suffi- 

 ciently adverted ; namely, his unsolicited en- 

 couragement and patronage, on several occa- 

 sions, of eminent and learned men. It has 

 already been stated that he appointed Mr. 

 Henry Wharton his domestic chaplain,* and 



* Among his other domestic chaplains during his occupation 

 of the primacy, were persons of considerable eminence. The 

 following is a list of all those, in addition to Mr. ^Miarton, 

 whose names are recorded as having held this situation under 

 him. 



Dr. John Battelev. — In 1684, he was Rector of Adisham in 

 Kent, afterwards Archdeacon and Prebendary of Canterbur}'. 

 He was formerly fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He 

 wrote Antiquitates Rutupinae, being an inquiry into the an- 

 tient state of the isle of Thanet, published after his death in 

 1811, by Dr. Thomas Teriy. He also left an unfinished 

 work on the Antiquities of his native town. Bury. His 

 editor says of him, that he was " tum in Greecis Latinisque 

 Uteris, tum in recentioribus antiquitatis omnimodse scripto- 

 ribus versatissimus, — theologus consummatissimas, et con- 

 cionator creber, ardens, facundus. His brother published the 

 Antiquities of Canterbury. 

 Henry Maurice. — He was collated in 1 QSb to the rectory of 

 Chevening in Kent, and afterwards obtained other prefer- 

 ments. He wrote several sermons and other pieces. 



