LIFE OF WHARTON. 153 



1694, die 3 Martii. — Historiam Laudianam 

 Chiswello in manus tradidi, ejus cura atque 

 sumptibus typis nitidis imprimendam." 



10 April. — Settles in his house at Chartham. 



25 June. — Goes to Bath. 



27 August. — Returns to London from Bath, a 

 little better in health. 



In October and November, spits blood. 



'* Studia interim, fracta penitus valetudine, 

 parum procedere poterant. Sumptis tamen in 

 manus historiis, quas ante triennium scripseram, 

 de Episcopis Londinensibus et Assavensibus 

 eas revisi, et additionibus praeclaris auxi. 

 Nonnihil etiam in adornanda nova atque am- 

 pliore Historiae de Cselibatu Cleri meae editione 

 preestiti. 



Mense Novembri, educta jam prselo Historia* 

 R. R. P. Willelmi Laud, Archiepiscopi Cant. 

 et Martyris de persecutionibus suis, quam 

 mense Martio superiore prselo commiseram, 

 publici juris facta est. Eo nomine 88 circiter 

 (quas stipulatus fueram) libras a Ricardo Chis- 

 well bibliopola recepi. 



Die 9 Novembris, tricesimum setatis annum 

 complevi. Plures mihi annos Deus pro clemen- 



* Mr. Wharton lived only to publish the first volume. The 

 second volume was edited in the year 1 700 by his father,, the 

 Reverend Edmund Wharton, to whom he consigned his papers. 



