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remarks of Sancroft, ** that he was a 
man of fingular prudence and integrity ; 
a very wile and very good man ; and, as 
his name imports, Sancroft or Sancraft, 
of uncorrupt fincerity. He had a vatlt 
multitude of papers and colle€tions ; and 
therein more, perhaps, wrote with his 
own hand, than any man either of this or 
the laft age ever did write,’ faith Mr. 
Wharton, in bis Preface to the Trial of 
Archbifhop Laud.*? The fame writer 
obferves, ** that he was unexpectedly ad- 
vanced to the archiepifcopal chair of Can- 
terbury, without the leaft inclination of 
his» own.” He was one of the feven 
bifhops who was committed to the Tower 
for refufing to order his Majefty’s decla- 
ration to be read; and refufing to take the. 
oaths to King William, he was deprived 
of his archbifhopric, and lived retired in 
the place of his nativity, where he died 
in 1693, in the 77th year of his age. He 
poficfled a very valuable library. This 
now compofes a great part of the excel- 
lent library belonging to Emanuel Col- 
lege, confilting of the belt editions of the 
clafiics, theology, and the fathers. There 
is a full length portrait of him in Ema- 
nuel-College Piéture-Gallery, and he 
makes a very confpicuous figure in Jofhua 
Barnes’s Euyapicnesov. 
NO. CXCI.—BISHOP CUMBERLAND. 
This prelate was born in London in 
4632, was firft of St. Paul’s School, and 
afterwards of Magdalen College. Two 
of its malfters in his time were men of 
eminence, Dr. Rainbow, Bifhop of Car- 
lifle, and Dr. Duport, Dean of Peterbo- 
rough. He was contemporary, and main- 
tained a particular acquaintance with Mr. 
Pepys, fecretary to the Admiralty, who 
left to the college that curious library, 
called from him the Pepyfian Library, 
of which an account has already been 
given. 
He was a learned, and a very ami- 
able man. There is a fhort’ Me- 
moir of him written by his domeftic chap- 
Jain, Mr. Payne. This is prefixed to 
Sanchoniathon’s Phcenician Hiftory, tran- 
flated from the firft book of Eufebius, De 
' Preparatione Evangelica,by Bifhop Cum- 
berland. The writer fays, that Cumber- 
land, through his whole life, was in ccn- 
ftant calm and ferenity, hardly ever ruffled 
with any paffion. Having thus a mind 
friendly to his body, and being exactly 
regular and temperate in his way of liv- 
ing, he attained to a good old age, with 
perfect foundnefs of mind and body. He 
was not afflicted with or fubjeét to any 
ailing or diftemper ; never complained 
Cantabrigiana. 
- latter profeflorfhip. 
[ Jan. 1, 
that he was ill or out of order; came al- 
moft conftantly from his chamber in a 
morning with a {mile in his countenance. 
He was one of King William’s bifhops, 
_His memorialift remarks: ‘* The Kong 
was told that Dr. Cumberland was the 
fitteft man he could nominate to the’ 
Bifhopric of Peterborough. Thus a pri- 
vate country clergyman, without potting 
to court, a place he had rarely Jeen 5 with- 
out fuing to great men, without taking 
the leaft ftep towards foliciting it, was 
pitched upon to fill fo great a truft, cnly 
becaufe he was fitteft for it. He walked, 
after his ufual manner, on a pott-day, to 
the coffce-houfe, and read in the newf- 
paper, that one Dr. Cumberland was named 
to the Bifbopric of Peterborough.” 
Tt is mentioned by Cicero, as an ex- 
ample of great zeal end indufiry in Cato, 
that he learned Greck when he was fixty 
years of age. Bifhop Cumberland fat 
dewn to fiudy the Coptic when he was 
eighty-three years old. Heaétually maf- 
tered the language, and went through 
great part of the Coptic verfion of the 
New Veltament, prefented to him by Dr. 
Wilkins. Heufed to remark, that a man 
had beiter wear out than ruff. 
His remaiks on Sanchoniathon’s Hif= 
tory is a learned work, but not remark- 
able either for ftrength er elegance of 
compofition. His other works are, Dif- 
quifitio Philsfophica de Legibus Nature, an 
Eflay towards the Recovery of Jewith 
Weights and Mealures, and two-volumes 
of Mifcellanies. There is a half-length 
penne of him in Magdalen College- 
all. 
No. CXCII.—-DR. ISAAC BARROW. 
Dr. Barrow was born in London, in 
1630. He was firft a penfioner of Peter- 
Houfe, and afterwards of Trinity-Col- 
lege, of which fociety he became fellow 
in 1649. He became at length Mafter of 
the College, and was both Greek Profetior 
and Lucafian Profeffor of Mathematics, 
being the firft after the foundation of the 
He was alfo a poet, 
and has left behind him fufficient proof, 
that feverer ftudies are by no means in- 
confiftent with poetical proiufions. Among 
performances in this way, he wrote an 
Ode on King Caarles’s reitoration, though 
it does not appear that he was fo much 
benefited by it as he expected; to which 
circumftance thefe lines, not in his poems, 
allude : 
‘* Te magis optavit rediturum, Carole, nemo; 
Et nemo fenfit, te rediifle minus.” 
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