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US with catalogues of the incumbents of our several 

 churches [21 j We look into them in vain, also, for 

 the catalogue of Masters of the Grammar School, for 

 Bath has had the benefit of one of these foundations 

 almost from the time when it lost the advantage of 

 having a society of learned religious within its 

 walls. [22] There have been, however, some names 

 in those walks which well deserve to be remembered ; 

 and amongst them must be placed in the first rank 

 the name of John Hales, with whose name has 

 descended the epithet " the Ever-memorable," either as 

 expressive of the estimation in which he was held by 

 his contemporaries, or in respect of his preferment, as 

 being the Provost of Eton College. [23] Hales w^as 

 a native of Bath, and was justly considered one of 

 the great theological lights of an age which pro- 

 duced Andrewes, Hooker, and Taylor. The youth 

 of Dr. Samuel Chandler, [24] one of the ablest 

 defenders of revelation in the controversies of the 

 last century, was spent at Bath ; and it was here, or 

 rather in our immediate neighbourhood, that War- 

 burton produced the great work to which he chose to 

 give the title of The Divine Legation of Moses demon- 

 strated, a work which, however people -may incline to 

 trust or to doubt of the method of proof which the 

 writer has chosen to adopt, will ever command admi- 

 ration for its learning and its genius. 



