APPENDIX. 



No. I. 



The following is copied from a MS. in th,e 

 Lambeth library, hitherto unpublished, con- 

 taining copious extracts made by Dr. Birch 

 from the life of the learned Henry Wharton, 

 written by himself. It is entitled, Excerpta 

 ex Vita MS. Henrici Wharton a seipso scripta. 

 At the beginning is a note in the handwriting 

 of Archbishop Seeker to this effect, '' Given 

 me by Dr. Birch, his own handwriting." It is 

 dated by Dr. Birch, in March, 174x. 



The entire original has never been published, 

 and is now probably lost. Dr. Birch, in his 

 life of Tillotson,* mentions that at the time he 

 wrote, it was in the possession of the Rev. Mr. 

 Calamy ; and he gives some short extracts from 

 it in his notes. But the loss of the original is in. 

 great measure compensated by the following co- 

 pious abstract of it, containing not only the sub- 

 stance of the whole, but all the more important 

 parts of it extracted in the author's own vv^ords. 



This piece of self-biography must be consi- 

 dered a great literary curiosity, as well from the 

 celebrity of the person who has thus recorded 



* P. 143. 

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