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fome yerrs 60, in others yo or 80. He 
was Bifhop of Durham fomewhat lefs than 
twelve years, in which time he preached 
550 fermons ; and, during the fixteen years 
he was Archbifhop of York he preached 
722 fermons: in all 1993 fermons, from 
which he has been frequenily called the 
Preaching Bifhop.. _ 
When Bifhop, he was very fevere in 
cenfuring Mr. Ball, who firft broached 
the now trite jeft at a wedding fermon, 
that MARRIAGE is a MERRY-AGE. 
One day the firft Lord Fairfax finding 
‘the Archbifhop very melancholy, inquired 
the reafon of his Grace’s penfivenefs— 
My Lord, faid the Archbifhop ‘* I have 
great reafon of forrow with refpeét to my 
fons. One of them has wit and no grace, 
the other grace but no wit, and the 
third neither grace nor wit.”? Lord Fair- 
fax replied, ‘* Your Grace’s cafe is fad, 
but not fingular; I am alfo difappointed 
in my fons. OneT fent into the Nether- 
Jands, to train him up as a foldier, and he 
makes a tolerable country-juftice, but is 
a mere coward at fighting: my next I 
fent to Cambridge; and he proves a good 
lawyer, but is ameredunce at Divinity: and 
my youngeft I fent to the Inns of Court ; 
and he’s goog at Divinity, but nobody in 
the Law. 
Thefe anecdotes are taken, for the mot 
part, out of the regifter the Archbithop left, 
in his own hand-writing.  ~ | ie 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, i, 
IT is, in my opinion, to be regretted, that 
the hints which were fome time fince given 
by Dr. Watkins on the fubje&t of Negleéted 
Biography, haye not met with more attention 
than they feem to have fecured. Articles of 
this kind would make your Mifcellany a va- 
luable repofitory for the ufe of future writers 
on the hiftory of the progrefs of knowledge 
and inquiry. Many characters, of whom 
few or no traces will, in a fhort time, be left, 
would be preferved from oblivion; and im- 
perfe& fketches of this nature might draw 
out more full and exact information from the 
furviving connections of thofe, the remem- 
brance of whofe talents and vircues it isa 
Jaudable tribute of refpeét to merit, to at- 
tempt to perpetuate and extend. With thefe 
views, the following fketches, as well as 
thofe already given concerning the family of 
the ScoTTs, offer for a place in your enter- 
taining and inftru@ive Magazine, from your 
conftant reader, : J. Toutmin. 
Taunton, Fan. 6, 1303. 
PIECES OF NEGLECTED BIOGRAPHY. 
\R. Epwarp CHANDLER was of 
J J Emanuel College, Cambridge. In 
Dr. Edward Chandler. 
f March a 
1693, he was Chaplain to the learned Dr. 
William Lloyd, then Bifhop of Coventry 
and Litchfield, and was concerned with 
Bifhop Smalridge and Dean Addifon, as 
Prefbyters, in laying hands on Mr. Wil- 
liam Whifton, when, after a moft uncom- 
mon and very improving examination and 
inftrustion, he was publicly ordained prieft. 
His firft preferment appears to have been 
that of a canon of Litchfield. On the 
17th of November, 1717, be was confe- 
craied Bifhop of Coventry and Litchfield 5 
on the 21ft of November, 1730, he was 
tranflated to the fee of Durham: he held 
this high dignity till the fummer of 1750, 
when he died at more than eighty years of 
age. 
He publifhed various fingle Sermons 
delivered on public occafions, by feve- 
ral of which he marked his approbation 
of the Union with Scotland, and his 
zeal for the Hanover-{ucceffion; but his 
principal work was ‘‘ A Defence of 
Chriftianity, from the Prophecies of the 
Old Teftament, wherein are confidered all 
the Objections againf this Kind of Proof, 
advanced in a late Dilcourfe of the 
Grounds and Reafons of the Chriftian 
Retigion.”” This performances which has 
been charatterifed as very’ learned and ela- 
borate, made its firft appearance from the 
prefs in 1725. A candid and able writer*, 
in the fame controverfy with Mr. Antho- 
ny Collins, pronounced it ¢a noble work, 
which difcovered a mafterly {kill im criti- 
cifm and in antiquity.” In 1728, it came 
to a third edition, to which were annexed 
a Summary View of the whole Argument, 
and an Index of the Texts explained. In 
the fame year, his Lordthip refumed and 
purfued the fubje&t in ** A Vindication of 
the Defence of Chriftianity, from the Pro- 
phecies of the Old Teftament, in Anfwer 
to the Scheme of Literal Prophecy confi- 
dered ; with a Letter from the Rev. Mr. 
Maffon, concerning the Religion of Ma- 
crobius, and his Teftimony touching the 
Slaughter of the Infants at Bethlehem, 
with a Poftfcript upon Virgil’s fourth 
_Eclogue, 2 vols. 8vo.”” 
His Lordfhip was alfo the writer of the 
«¢ Chronological Differtation,”” prefixed to 
Arnald’s Commentary on Ecclefiaflicus. 
Befides the fervice which his own pen 
gave to the caufe of revelation and of fa- 
cred literature, the Bifhop was the editor 
of a pofthumous work of tne learned Dr. 
Ralph Cudworth, intitled «* A Treatife 
concerning Eternal and Immutable Mora- 
* Mr. Thomas Jeifery, a Diffenting-minifter. 
lity, 
