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a perfccutor of God and his miniHers, and a breaker and 

 contemner of tliole oaths and jironiil'es, which thou madeft 

 unto ine before the altar of St. Peter." The king was 

 aftoiiilhed and terrified, threw himftlf at tlie fctt of the 

 arehbKhop, and anxiouiiv entreiittd to know »ihat offence 

 he had curnnutted. A'i'hen the noblhtv v.'ho were prefent 

 exprc'Jcd their indignation at the prflatt"s iiifolence, and at 

 liis fiiifering tlie king to he at Ids feet ; " let him alone ;" 

 faid the aichbifliop ;" " let him lie ; he is not fallen at n-.y 

 feet, but at the feet of St. Peter." At length he railed 

 the king and delivered his complaint ; upon which an order 

 was ilTiied, that the goods diould be fidly j'ullored, and the 

 prelate was lent away loaded with ritli prefents. 



Aldred's verfatility cif principle was fuflieiently manifcll 

 in his condurt under the changes of government that oc- 

 curred during tlie latter part of his life. When hij patron 

 Edward w'as dead, he alfiiled Harold in obtaining the crown. 

 On tlie arrival of W illiam the K\;rman, when Stigand, arch- 

 bifliop of Canterbury, rtfufcd to crown him, Aldrcd fell in 

 with the ilrcani, and performed the ceremony. I'pon the 

 Daiiidi invafioii, when the citizens of York, and others, 

 declared for prince Edg^r Atheling's title, the archbilhop 

 liekened at the news, and died Sept. lo, 1069, jull before 

 the Danes landed ; and was buried in the cathedral church 

 of York. Biog. Brit. 



ALDRICH, or Aldridge, Robert, was bidiop of 

 Carlide, in the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., and 

 Marv, and of courfe accommodated liis principles to the 

 changes of the timtf. He was born at Burnham, in Buck- 

 inghanifliire, educated at Eton fchool, and elefted fcholar 

 of king's college, Cambridge, in 1507, where he took the 

 degree of mailer of arts. At this time Erafraus ftvled him 

 " blandcE cloqucntia' juvcnis." Leland has alfo celebrated 

 him for his admirable parts and learning. In 1529 he was 

 incorporated bachelor of divinity at Oxford, and in 1530 

 he was licenfed as docfor in the lame faculty. He fuceef- 

 fively became archdeacon of Colcheftcr, canon of Windfor, 

 and regillcr of the order of the garter, and at length, in 

 1537, bilhop of Carlifle. He died March 25, 1555, at 

 Horn-Caftle, in Lincolnfhire, which was a lioufc belonging 

 to the bithops of Carlifle. He wrote fcveral pieces, fuch 

 as " Refolutions concerning the Sacraments," ." Anfwers 

 to Qiieries, concerning the Abufes of the Mafs," " Various 

 Epigrams," and " Refolutions," of fome queftions relating 

 to bilhcps and pricfts, and other matters, tending to the re- 

 formation of the church, begun by Henry VIII. Biog. Brit. 



Aldrich, Henry, an eminent divine and polite 

 fcholar, was born at AVeftminfter, in 1647, and educated in 

 the college fchool, under the famous Bufby. In 1662 he 

 W'as admitted into Chrillchurch college, Oxford, where he 

 continued, in the feveral fituations and with the appropriate 

 con.-.iicndations of a diligent ftudent, ufeful tutor, and 

 excellent mafter, to the day of his death, Dec. 14, 17 10. 

 Having paffed through the gradations of bachelor of arts 

 in 1 666, and mafter in 1 669, he took orders, and became an 

 eminent tutor in his college. In 1681 he was inflalled 

 canon of Chrift church, and in the fame year accumu- 

 lated the degrees of bachelor and dodor in divinity. During 

 the reign of James II. he bore a confpicuous part in the 

 controvcrfy with the papills, and pnbliflied ievcral trails ; 

 ranking, according to bifliop Burnet, (Hifl. of his cwn 

 Times,) among thofe eminent Engiifh clergymen, " who 

 examined all the points of popery, with a folidily of iudg- 

 ment, a clearnefs of arguing, a depth o^ learning, and a 

 vivacity of writing, far beyond any thing that had before 

 th^t tir.-.e appeared in our language." Soon after the Re- 

 volution, t'/z. in 16S9, Dr. Aldrieh was inflalled dean of 

 Chrillchurch, in which high flation he behaved in the moft 



worthy and exemplary manner, and exerted himfelf in pro- 

 moting learning, virtue, and religion. By his fliill in archi- 

 tedure lie iinpioved the buildings of the College ; and that 

 part of it called Peckwater quadrangle, fo dcfervcdlv ad- 

 mired, was deligned by him. The pariili church o^ All 

 Saints, in Oxford, and the chapil of Trinity College, 

 which he defigned, are furJicr fpeciinens of his architcdurtil 

 knowledge. In order to excite and clierifli a talle for jvolite 

 hterature, he annually publifhed fome ])iece of an ancient 

 Greek author, as a new year's gift to the fludcnts of his 

 houfc. The works of this kind which he edited were 

 " Xenophontis Memorabilia," Gr. and Lat. Oxou. 1690, 

 8vo. ; " Xenophontis Sermo de Agclilao," Cir. and Lat. 

 Oxon. 1691, Kvo. ; " Arifleae Hifloria LXXII. Interprc- 

 tum," Gr. and Lat. Oxon. 1692, 8vo. ; " Xenophontis de 

 re equcllrilib."Oi-. and Lat. Oxon. 1693, Svo.; " Epidtttus 

 et Theophrailus," Gr. and Lat. Oxon." 1707, 8vo ; " )'la- 

 tonis, Xenophontis, Plutarchi, l^uciani Sympofia," Gr. 

 Oxon. 171 1, 8vo. lie wrote likewife a fylleni of Logic, 

 intitlcd " Artis Logicac Compendium," Oxon. 1691, 8vo ; 

 and " Elements of Geometry," in Latin, never publifhed. 

 He was alfo concerned in Gregor)''s Greek 'i'eftamcnt, 

 printed at Oxford in 1703, fol. He wrote noteson Haver- 

 camp's edition of Jofcphns, and in concuiTence witli bilhop 

 Sprat, he revifcd the MS of Lord Clarendon's Hillory 

 of the Rebellion. The trafts which he publifhed in the 

 popilh controverfy were, " A Reply to two Difcourfes, 

 lately printed at Oxford, concerning the Adoration of our 

 Blefl'cd Saviour in the Holy Eueharill," Oxford, 1687, 

 4to. ; and " A Defence of the Oxford Reply, &c." Ox- 

 ford, 1688, 4to. 



Dr. Aldrich amufed his academic leifure with mufic and 

 poetry. His abilities as a mulician rank him, in the o]iinion 

 of competent judges, among the mailers of the fcience. He 

 compofed many fervices and anthems for the church fervice, 

 and adapted Engiifh words to many of the motets of the 

 Italian maflers, fome of which are frequently fuiu> in our 

 cathedrals as anthems. He eftabliflied a muCcal fchool in 

 hi^ college, and at his deceafe bequeathed to it a moft capital 

 colleftion of church mufic. Although he chiefly applied 

 himfelf to facred mufic, yet being of a ehearful temper, and 

 poffefling a fund of humour, he occafionally diverted himfelf 

 by producing pieces of a lighter kind. Eor the entertain- 

 ment of fmoakers, to which fraternity he belonged, lie com- 

 pofed a fmoiiking catch to be fung by four perfons whilft 

 they were fmoaking ; and he was alio the author of the 

 popular catch " Hark the boniiv Chrift church bells." As 

 a Latin poet, Aldrich is entitled to fome diftindion. Two 

 elegant pieces written by him are contained in the " Mufx 

 Anglicanse ;" one on the acceffion of William III., the 

 other on the death of the Duke of Glouccfter. The fol- 

 lowing epigram, intitled, " Caufx Bibendi," is alfo iiifcribed 

 to him : 



" Si bene quid memini, caufx funt qninque bibendi, 

 Hofpitis adventus, prxfens fitis, atqne f^utura, 

 Aut vini bonitas, aut qu^libet altera caufa." 



Thus tranflatcd : " If on my theme I rightly think, 



There are Ave reafons why men drink : 

 Good wine, a friend, becaufe I'm dr\'. 

 Or left I fhould be by and by. 

 Or any other realon why." 



The candour of Aldrich's temper, and the moderation of 

 his principles, may be inferred from his having been ap- 

 pointed by William III. in 1689, one of the comniinioners 

 for preparing matters towards introducing alterations in the 

 ftrvice of the church, and Hctomplilhing a comprchenfiun 



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