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filled the See of Worcester twenty-seven years, he expired in his 

 sleep on the 28th of May 1808, having completed four months be- 

 yond his eighty-eighth year. He was, according to his own direc- 

 tions, buried in Hartlebury church-yard. 



Of Bishop Hurd's character (says his biographer) little need 

 be said. Where calumny had not ventured even to insinuate 

 a fault, and where respect and reverence were his constant attend- 

 ants, it would be unnecessary to expatiate on good qualities. As 

 a writer, his taste, learning, and genius, were universally con- 

 fessed. His sermons are read with no less advantage than they 

 were delivered. With his friends and connections he had obtained 

 their best eulogium, their constant and warm attachment; and 

 with the world, a kind of veneration, which in times like the pre- 

 sent could neither be acquired nor preserved but by the exercise 

 of great virtues. 



A complete edition of Bishop Kurd's Works, in eight volumes 

 8vo. was published in 1811, as were also editions of Addison, and 

 his friend Warburton, all prepared for the press by the Bishop.* 



RICHARD CALDWELL. 



RICHARD CALDWELL was born at Overholm, in Staffordshire, in 

 the year 1530. He was educated at Brazen-nose College, Oxford, 

 of which he was elected fellow. He took his degree of M.A. in 

 1539, became one of the senior students of Christ Church in 

 1547, and having studied physic, and passed through the grada- 

 tions of that faculty, he became an eminent physician. His reputa- 

 tion for medical skill was so great, that he was elected Censor of 

 the College of Physicians, soon afterwards chosen one of the 

 Elects of that Institution, and in 1570 raised to the honourable 

 station of President. We are informed by Wood that he wrote 

 several pieces on the Art of Healing, but none of them have 

 been preserved. 



In 1585, Dr. Caldwell translated and published a medical work, 

 written by 4 Moro, a Florentine physician. He also founded a Chi- 

 rurgical Lecture in the College of Physicians, and endowed it with 

 a salary ; and it appears from the few documents respecting him 



Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, Vol. VI. p. 468, et seq. 



