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lowed in every part of England: but, at Croydon, the 
reading of it was exprefsly forbidden by archbifhop Ab¬ 
bot; and it is probable that, if the king had infilled upon 
its being read throughout all the churches at this time, 
confequences would have followed fimilar to thdfe which 
took place in the reign of his fon. In the year 1618 our 
prelate was tranflated to the fee of Lichfield and Coven¬ 
try. One of the moll remarkable circumltances which 
occurred during bifliop-Morton’s continuance in this fee, 
was his detefting the impollure of the boy of Bilfon in 
Staffordlhire, who pretended to be poflefled with a devil, 
and was made the inftrument of carrying on the abomi¬ 
nable forgeries of the jefuits and popifii prielts. 
In 1631 our prelate was tranflated to the fee of Dur¬ 
ham, in which he condudled himfelf not only with great 
moderation and equity, but with the moll extenfive be¬ 
neficence and charity, till he was involved in the ruin of 
the church of England during the civil wars. Of the 
privations and fufferings which the epifcopal clergy fuf- 
tained in thofe days of their calamity, bifliop Morton had 
an ample fliare. Belides the perfonal dangers to which 
he was expofed from the mob, on account of his being a 
bifliop, his rents were feized by order of parliament in 
1640; and in 1641 he was accufed of high trealon, and 
committed to the cultody of the ulher of the black-rod, 
for joining with eleven of his brethren in a protellation 
againft: certain proceedings of parliament. Upon his re- 
leafe, after a confinement of about four months, he re¬ 
turned to his apartments in Durham-houfe, where he gave 
himfelf up to liis Itudies and devotions, under the p re flu re 
of much inconvenience from the fequellration of his re¬ 
venues. In 1645 he was committed prifoner to the fer- 
jeant-at-arms, or to the Tower, during a term of fix 
months, for refuflng to deliver up the leal of the county- 
palatine of Durham, and for having baptized a daughter 
of the earl of Rutland according to the form in the 
Common Prayer Book. When his revenues were wholly 
taken away upon the aiflolution of the biflioprics, in 1646, 
parliament voted him an annuity of 800I. for life; but 
without any mention by whom, or out of what funds, 
that fum Ihould be paid. Owing to this circumilance, 
the vote proved ineffedlual; and it was not without great 
difficulty that his friends fucceeded in procuring for him 
a thoufand pounds from the treafury of the parliament, 
with which he paid his debts, and purchafed an annuity 
of 200I. during his life. Being turned out of Durham- 
houfe, in 1648, by the foldiers who came to garrifon it, 
he relided for a fliort time in the family of the earl of 
Rutland, at Exeter-houfe, in the Strand. Having, how¬ 
ever, too independent a fpirit to live at the expenfe of 
others, while li'e poflefled the means of a frugal fubfiftence, 
he went to refide at firfl: in Hertfordfliire, afterwards in 
Bedfordfliire, and finally fettled with fir Chriltopher Yel- 
verton, at feallon-Mauduit in Northamptonfliire, in the 
capacity of tutor to his fon, who was afterwards the very 
learned fir Henry Yelverton. For his venerable precep¬ 
tor the pupil entertained an afledlionate regard, and, after 
thedeceafe of fir Chriftopher, fupported him till his death, 
in 1659, when he was in the ninety-fifth year of his age. 
That bifliop Morton poflefled very relpedlable abilities, 
and a confiderable fliare of learning, is fufficiently telli- 
fied by the works which he publiflied ; but we conceive 
that the part -which he took on the fubjedl of the Book 
of Sports, will jullify us in withholding our aflent from 
the encomium palled by his biographers on the folidity 
of his judgment. With refpedl to his moral character, 
he was dillinguiftied by exemplary piety, ftriiSl and rigid 
temperance, extenfive benevolence, and generous hofpi- 
tality. So difinterelled was he, that “ he never purchafed 
one foot of land, whatever he fold, nor other temporal 
pofieffion, in all his long life, notwithftanding his plenti¬ 
ful income; but, as his revenues increafed, fo were they 
fpent in hofpitable, charitable, and other Chrillian, ufes.” 
When he was in his ninety-fourth year, the popilh writ 
tc’?s, in order to invalidate the Englilh ordinations, re- 
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vived the ftory of the Nag's-head club; and, among other 
proofs of its truth, pretended that bifliop Morton, in a 
folemn fpeech made in full parliament, had declared in 
exprefs words, that the full Englilh bifliops made after 
the Reformation had been confecrated in a tavern. Being 
informed of this calumny, the bifliop fent for a public 
notary from London, and in the prefence of proper wit- 
nefles made a folemn protellation of the falfehood of this- 
llory, and figned it in due form. He them fent his chap¬ 
lain, Dr. Banvick, to all the lords f pi ritual and temporal 
then alive, who had fat in that parliament, requesting 
that, if they believed him undefervedly afperfed, they 
would attell it by fubferibing their names; which was 
done by fix bifliops and fourteen temporal lords, and by 
the feveral clerks and regiflers of the houfe. This pro- 
teftation, with the proofs, was afterwards publiflied by 
Dr. Bramhall, bifliop of Derry, in a treatife, in titled, “The 
Confecration and Succeffion of Proteftant Bifliops jufti- 
lied, &c.” Bifliop Morton was the author of feveral con- 
troverlial treadles, in Latin and Englilh, againft the pro- 
teltant nonconformiits and the papilts; Angle Sermons, 
&c. the titles of which may be leen in the Biog. Brit, and 
Dr. Barwick’s Life of the Bifliop, annexed to the Sermon 
preached at his Funeral. Gen. JBiog. 
MOR'TON (Richard, M. D.) an eminent phyfician, 
was a native of Suffolk. His father was both a divine 
and a phyfician of great practice. Richard took the de¬ 
gree of B. A. at Oxford, and was afterwards a chaplain m 
the family of Foley, in Worceilerihire; but, as he had 
adopted the principles of the nonconformifts, he was- 
obliged, in the intolerant times of Charles II. to abandon 
the theological profeffion, and adopt that of pliyflc. He 
took the degree of dodlor of this faculty in 1670, at Ox¬ 
ford, whither he had accompanied the prince of Orange, 
whom he attended upon as his phyfician. Fixing in the 
'metropolis, he became a fellow of the College of Phyfi- 
cians, and appears to have obtained a large fliare of city- 
pradlice. He died at his houfe in Surrey, in 1698. 
The firlt work by which Dr. Morton made himfelf 
known to the profeffion, was his “ Phthifiologia, feu Ex- 
ercitationes de Phtliiii,” 1689, 8vo. This is valuable as 
a pathological work, deferibing all the forms of confump- 
tion, with their complications; but the diilindlions are 
not marked with much precifion, and the medical treat¬ 
ment is theoretical and complex. It was tranflited into 
Englilh in 1794, and appears to have been popular. His 
“ Pyretologia, feu Exercitationes de Morbis univerialibus 
acutis,” confifts of 7. vols. 8vo. one publiflied in 1691, the 
other in 1694. In the theory of fevers, his fundamental 
principle is, “ that the febrile fomes is fomething dele¬ 
terious lurking in the animal fpirits, or nervous fluid, 
which primarily adling upon them like a ferment, and 
producing an agitation in them, lecondarily imparts va¬ 
rious changes and morbid qualities to the humours.” 
The regulation of the fuppoled fermentative expanfion 
of the animal fpirits is therefore his great rule of prac¬ 
tice; and this has in general led him to a more free em¬ 
ployment of cordial and ilimulant remedies than was 
ufual at that period. He contributed greatly to the libe¬ 
ral ufe of the Peruvian bark in febrile difeafes; and he 
employed opium freely in a variety of diforders. He il- 
luftrates his dodlrines by a. number of cafes, in which 
much fagacious difeernment and vigorous practice is to 
be met with; and, upon the whole, though occafionally 
warped by hypothetical theory, he may,rank among the 
moll eminent pradlitioners and improvers of the healing 
art. His works have been edited colledliveiy at Amller- 
dam, Leyden, Geneva, Venice, and Lyons. Gen. Biog. 
MOR'TON (Dr. Charles), was born in Weftmoreiand 
about the year 1716, and was a pradiifing phyfician at 
Kendal in 1745. In 1744 he married mils Mary Berke¬ 
ley, niece of lady Betty Germaine. His feccnd wife was 
lady Saville, mother of fir George Saville, to whom Ins 
was married in j 772, and who died in February 11791. 
The latter part of the fame year, when he was feventy- 
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