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of it, was very much lamented by learned men, 

 both at home and abroad.* The clergy, in 

 particular, as a testimony of that value which 

 they had for him, did, in great numbers, attend 

 at his funeral. Here ought by no means to be 

 past by in silence that singular honour which 

 was paid to him by the Right Reverend the 

 Bishops ; many of whom, and among the rest, 

 the most Reverend the Archbishop himself, 

 and the Right Reverend Bishop of Litchfield, 

 who had both of them visited him in his last 

 sickness, being present at it ; while another of 

 that venerable order, the Right Reverend the 

 Bishop of Rochester, performed the funeral 

 office. 



" All sorts of persons were willing to show 

 their respect for him in the best manner they 

 were able. The Reverend the Dean and Pre- 

 bendaries of Westminster not only caused the 

 king's scholars to attend him to his grave, (an 

 uncommon respect, and the highest they can 

 show on such an occasion,) but did also each 



* The following notice of him appears in the Acta Eniditorimi, 

 Lips, anno 1696. p. 425. Idem omnium,, quse smit in Anglia, 

 Ecclesiarum Cathedralium Historiam moliebatur ; verum, quod 

 non modo Anglis, ad quorum antiquitates eruendas natus et 

 factus videbatur, sed omnibus bonas literas amantibus dolendum 

 est, immatura morte prseventus, quam trigessimo aetatis anno 

 subiit, specimen tantum magni illius, quod animo conceperat, 

 operis reliquit. 



