43* OF E M I N E N T M E N, 



tranfuory grandeur of this world. There is an excellent print of 

 him in Mezzotint o by the ingenious Mr. Hwfton, in Mr. Rolt'& hif- 

 , tory of. the principal reformers. 



George Carhtvn, D.D. Bifhop of Chichejler, was born at Norham- 

 caftle by 7 weed-fide, of which his father was captain ; and fent 

 his fon to Hough ton le Spring, near Durham, to be educated with 

 other young gentlemen under the eye and care of the famous 

 Bernard Gilpin; who, like the fun, cheriflied with his light all 

 ranks and degrees of men, as well within his pariih, as out of 

 it ; and, like that great luminary alfo, did not fhine only within 

 the fmall limits of a country-parifli, but let it fpread, many 

 times at the peril of his own life, through lands covered with 

 darknefs and error, letting the world fee the beauty and loveli- 

 nefs of a good life by die heavenly fplendor of his own. In- 

 fpired by the divinity, as it were, of his example, Bimop Carkton, 

 had all the graces that are charming in a divine, was the ad- 

 miration, not only of his own college of Merton, in Oxford, but 

 alfo of that univerfity, and of the fynod of Dort, to which he 

 was fent, with three othe-r eminent clergymen, by King James I. 

 He wrote the life of his dear friend, Mr. Gilpin, in elegant 

 Latin- (q), and fome other pieces (r). He died, i K. Charles I. 



Richard Holdfivorth, S. T. P. was born at Neivcajlle upon Tyne. 

 He was named after his father, a clergyman, who, after a good 

 fchool-education, fent him to St. Johns, college, -in Cambridge. He 



(q) Vita Bernardi Gi'pini, a Ges. Carletono confcripta, 4(0. Lend. 1628. 

 Inter Colieftanea Gul. Batefti, 410. Land. 1681. 



{r) One, infilled, A thankful Remembrance of God's Mercy: another, intitled, A Con- 

 futation of Judicial Aftrology. 



was 



