Anniversary Address. 27 



His eldest brother (by his father's first marriage) was 

 William Grey, the first Lord Grey of Warke, and the direct 

 lineal ancestor of the Earl of Tankerville. His uncle was 

 Sir Edward Grey, of Howick, the youngest brother of his 

 father, and the ancestor of the present Earl Grey, of Howick. 



Dr. Grey was born in 1610, educated first at Northallerton, 

 and in 1617 he delivered an address from the school, to King 

 James, on his progress into Scotland. 



In 1623 his father bequeathed to him the Manor of Langton- 

 upon-Swale, and in the same year his mother appointed a 

 tutor to him and his brother Edward, with a salary of <£20 

 a year, under the supervision of Dr. Neale, Bishop of Durham. 



He was sent to Christ's College, Cambridge, and became a 

 Fellow. He took orders as a Clergyman, but from the 

 necessities of the times, he, as a soldier, joined the fortunes of 

 his King. 



In 1644 he was among those besieged in Milium Castle. At 

 that time his brother, Lord Grey, was fighting on the side of 

 the Parliamentarians. 



In 1652 he nearly lost his estate for his loyalty, but was 

 released, upon promising to take what was called the engage- 

 ment. 



On the 15th of March, 1652, he was collated tp the Rectory of 

 Bishopwearmouth, and on the 10th of May following, to the 8th 

 Stall in Durham Cathedral ; but these preferments were in 

 name only, the Church being then in the hands of the 

 Usurpers. 



In 1660 he was by mandamus restored to his preferments, 

 and was then in his 50th year, and he enjoyed them for nearly 

 another half century. 



King James II. succeeded in 1684. He endeavoured to 

 bring the realm to acknowledge the Pope, contending also for 

 power to dispense with the laws at his Kingly pleasure. Dr. 

 Grey and others were not so pliant, or so easily converted to 

 such views. The Bishop of Durham (Crewe) pressed Dr. Grey 

 and Dr. Morton to read King James's declaration for the dis- 

 pensing power in their parish churches, which they declining 

 and arguing against it, his Lordship angrily told the Dr. that 



