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of advice to Villiers, such as is not usually given in courts, 

 but of a strain equally free and friendly, calculated to 

 make the person to whom it was addressed both good and 

 great, and equally honourable to the giver and the receiver : 

 advice which contributed not a little to his prosperity in 

 life. It is an essay on the following subjects : (a) 



1. Matters that concern religion, and the church and 

 churchmen. 



2. Matters concerning justice, and the laws, and the 

 professors thereof. 



3. Councillors, and the council table, and the great 

 offices and officers of the kingdom. 



4. Foreign negociations and embassies. 



5. Peace and war, both foreign and civil, and in that 

 the navy and forts, and what belongs to them. 



6. Trade at home and abroad. 



7. Colonies, or foreign plantations. 



8. The court and curiality. 



Each of these subjects he explains, with a minuteness 

 scarcely to be conceived, except by the admirers of his 

 works, who well know his extensive and minute survey of 

 every subject to which he directed his attention. (6) 



() See vol. vi. p. 400. 



(6) From the following analysis, some conception of his vigilance may 

 be formed : 



1st, General advice as to Suitors. 



i. Religion. 



1. Protestant religion. 2. Doctrine. 3. Church discipline; its atten 

 tion. 4. Catholics. 5. Archbishops and Bishops. 6. Deans, Canons, 

 &c. 7. Clergy. 8. Dissenters. 9. Ceremonies. 10. Vicars, Clergy. 

 11. Preservation of revenue of church. 12. Universities. 



n. Justice. 



1. The Law of the land. 2. Resistance to arbitrary power. 3. The 

 Judges. 4. Of private application to them. 5. On the circuits. 6. Their 

 duties. 7. Charges to them by the Chancellor. 8. Public and private. 



