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works." — ** The manner of Mr. Bull's receiving 

 the preferment," Mr. Nelson proceeds, in a 

 well-merited panegyric on the bestower of it, 

 " added very much to his reputation, because it 

 was conferred upon him by an Archbishop who 

 had a particular regard to the merits of those 

 he advanced, without any solicitation or appli- 

 cation ; and, indeed, what could be expected 

 less from so venerable a prelate, who had all 

 those great abilities of learning and wisdom, of 

 piety and integrity, joined with a prudent zeal 

 for the honour of God and the welfare of the 

 church, which qualified him for that eminent 

 station in which the providence of God had 

 placed him ; and yet at the same time was 

 endued with large measures of mortification 

 and self-denial, contempt of the world, and 

 passive courage." 



On the whole. Archbishop Bancroft was 

 greatly eminent in his generation for the man- 

 ner in which he fulfilled all the public and pri- 

 vate duties of life. The various excellencies 

 and virtues which adorned his character, are 

 sufficient to claim for him the tribute of admira- 

 tion from posterity in general ; but by the pro- 

 testant members of the church of England, his 

 name must ever be especially cherished with 

 grateful recollection, for the noble stand which 

 he made, at the hour of trial, in defence of the 



