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I now give concise biographical sketches of 

 some of them. 



"And we may well wonder how many more sons of Memory 

 must he not have known or seen in all those years — so populous 

 with men justly famous." 



1 have dived into a multitude of books to gain 

 my information, and I think that certain matters 

 not generally known will here be found narrated. 



THOMAS BARLOW, BISHOP OF LINCOLN 



(1607-1691). 

 "Fling away ambition." 



He was born at Langhill, in the Parish of Orton, 

 in Westmoreland, and was a son of Richard 

 Barlow, descended from the ancient family of that 

 name, of Barlow Moore, in Lancashire. He was 

 educated at Queen's College, Oxford. He was 

 a strong Protestant and Calvinist, and became a 

 very ambitious man and a great time-server. In 

 1660 he wrote in favour of toleration.^ Becoming 

 Provost of Queen's College, and a prebendary of 

 Worcester Cathedral, he was, in 1675, appointed 

 Bishop of Lincoln. It appears he changed his 

 views in 1684, for in a charge to his clergy he 

 called on them to enforce the laws against the 

 dissenters, " agreeably to the resolution of the 



1 The title of the treatise being The Case of Toleration in Matters 

 of Religion ; it was addressed to Eobert Boyle. 



