1806.]  Extraéis from the Port-folo of a Man of Letters. 
During the violence of the civil war he re- 
tired to Oxford for fheiter, where he con- 
tantly preached. When the King was 
in the Ifle of Wight, he fent for Dr. 
Ferne, where he was the laft perfon that 
preached before him. He was archdea- 
con of Leicefter, dean of Ely, vice-chan- 
cellor of Cambridge in 1660, and appoint- 
ed bifhop of Chetter in 1661, which pre- 
ferment he enjoyed but a fhort time, dying 
in 1662. He was extremely devout and 
pious. His temper was {weet, harmle(s, 
and ingenuous ; and it is faid, that if he 
had a fault, it was, that he couid not be 
angry. During his whole life he never 
cenfured any one either in public or pri- 
vate. Hewas celebrated for his clear re- 
folutions cf the differences between the 
King and the Parliament, and between 
the Churches of England, Geneva, and 
Rome, which he performed with fuch 
ftreneth and perfpicuity, that bis adver- 
faries confefled that the Church of En- 
gland’s caufe never looked fo clearly or 
devoutly in any writings as in thofe of 
Dr. Ferne. 
SEDITIOUS SERMONS. 
Tn the year 1622, the Privy-Council, 
by the direStion of King James, wroie to 
the univerfity concerning a wicked fermon 
preached by one Knight, who fhelised 
himfelf under the do€trine taught by Pa- 
rens in his Commentary on the 13th chap- 
ter of Romans, which the bifhops nad de- 
clare feditious, fcandalous, and contrary 
tothe Scriptures. The heads of the Uni- 
verfity were therefore enjoined to ftop fuch 
doétrines, and to fearch all: the libraries, 
and in cafe any fuch books were found 
there, to burn them. ; 
DR. THORNDIKE. 
Dr. Herbert Thorndike was a fellow of 
Trinity College, and proétur of the Uni- 
verfity in 1638. On the death of Dr. 
Ward he was ele&ted mafter of Sydney 
College, but was for fome time kept out 
of his fituation by the violence of the 
times. He leaned to the Church of Rome, 
probably in fome degree from his utter 
averfion to the fectaries of the day. He 
miaintained that the Romifh was a true 
church, that the pope was nor antichrift, 
and the papifts no idolaters. He dicd 
prebendary of Weitminfier in 1672. He 
affifed in the Polyglot Bible. 
ARCHBISHOP SANCROFT, 
Dr. Cofins, bifhop of Durham, made 
Dr. Sancroft a prebendary of his cathedral 
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in1664, and adopted him as his moft inti- 
mate friend and confidast, principally on 
account of his furprifing claffical attain. 
ments. 
COMMITTEE FOR PLUNDERED MINIS- 
’ TERS. 
In the books of the Committee for 
Plundered Minifters, under the date of 
the 8th of July, 1645, is the following 
entry :-— 
*¢ Whereas the rectory of the parith of 
Little Granfden, in the county of Cam- 
bridge, being void by death, and, ‘as the 
Committee were informed, was in the gift 
of the Bifhop of Ely, it was accordingly 
fequeftered by the Committee to the ufe 
of Thomas Perry, a-god!y and orthodox 
divine ; and whereas }. hn Tolley, matter 
of arts, hath fince pretevded fome right 
to the faid church, by fome other title, 
which faid John Tolley hath been fince, 
upon articles exhidited againit him,, and 
examinations therein taken on borh fides, 
difcovered to be a very ftrict prachfer of 
the late iliegal innovations, of bowing at 
the name of J-fus to the altar and to the 
eaft, and to have furnifhed one of hig 
chambers at Peter Houle Collepe in Cam- 
bridge, where he was fome time fellow 
and prefident, with divers popifn or: a- 
menis, and ia particular with 4 crucifix 
and an altar at the eatt end thereof, with 
an ovell upon the wall over it, with Mripes 
of gold round aoont it, repreiening a 
glory, and acrofs within it, and othe: fu- 
“perflitious ‘rimming, and to have affitied 
in the conveying away «f the college and 
univerfiry plate to the King, fr which 
his fellowfhip had been fequeftered from 
him.—TIt is ordered, that the faid rétory 
and the profits thereof fhell continue fe- 
queftered to the ufe of the faid Thomas 
‘Perry, and that the faid John Tolley be 
not permitted to officiate the cure of the 
faid church, but that the faid Thomas 
‘Perry fhall coniinue to officiate in the 
fame, and enjoy the profits of the faid recs 
tory, until further order fhall be made. 
) ARCHBISHOP PARKER. 
The treatment which the remains of 
this learned prelate met with fhews the 
violence of the times. His body was 
taken from the place wherein he was bu- 
ried, the leaden coffin fuld, the corps bu- 
ried ina duoeghill, and his tombfone con- 
verted into a table. 
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