"James Evans. Petitioner a parchment maker, &c.

Chappel related to Mrs. Tennison recommended to be Clerke. "24th (March) I lent Allen 208.

"13th (June) Nicholas had 2 guineas being £2. 48. Od.1

"Mem" to speak to ye Warden of All S. that Mr. Stone may have a sight of ye Terrier of Newington and Hocum.

"1st (September) Mrs. Clerke had 6 : 0 : 0 from Mr. Holt.
"E. Vernon at Meare in Staff: sh: to be put in ye stone bag.
"13th (Sep") I gave Nicholas five pounds to buy him a Livery.
"21st (ditto) paid by order of Dr. Maynard £3. 158. 6d.

"21 (ditto) Mrs. Clerke had £7. 08. Od.

'Powell recommended to me by Mr. Portman to be a servitour in some college when 'tis profitable or &c.

"Nov. y 3d. I then borrow'd of John Yates an hundred pounds and gave bond at six per cent.: the bond is in Mr. Tringhams hands. "I discharg'd all accounts for housekeeping to Nov. ye 2d. "November y 10th. I gave to J. Gorway two guineas. "December y 1st. Allen had eight pounds.

"Mr. Peak lodges at the greyhound in Holbourn.

"Dec. ye 23d. I recd from ye Bo of Kildare a bill of fifty pounds upon Mr. Hastwell which upon Dec. ye 24th I gave to Mr. Clarke to receive for me.

"8 chirurgical treatises, &c., by Rich. Wiseman, surgeon to K. Chr. ye 2d. printed for Ben. Tooke and Paul Meridith.

"Nov. ye 23d. Mr. Clarke receiv'd of Mr. Moreton twenty pounds for me.

"Nov. y 24th. Mr. Clarke recd two years rent of Mr. Bateman, being 13:6: 8.

I came to London on Thursday ye 26th of November.

"On Munday the 31st of November I receiv'd fifty pounds from a goldsmith by a bill of Mr. Ball.

"December y 1st. I received of Mr. Gundry for discharge of his sons Battells 18:6:6.

"Some day in December, 1696, I recd fifty pounds of Mr. Clutterbuck, Collector of ye College rents in Southwark.

"December y 22d. Nicholas had of me forty shillings--and at several times since he came to me he has had in all seven pounds four shillings.

"Jan. y 17th, 1699. Recd then of Dr. Cox ye sum of 31: 18:00 being rent due to Magd. Coll. from Alderman Coldhams estate.

"Allen had forty shillings.

"March y 2d, 1699. I then recd of Mr. Charles Jenning y sums of thirty three pounds and one shilling for a years rent for Överton and Twicross (?) ending at Mich. last.

"About a month since I recd Mr. Cherrys rent for Bray till Michaelmas last.

"March y 13th, 1699. I then reca of Mr. Parkhurst sixteen pounds, being a years rent due from Stukely at Lady Day last.

"The same day I rec" of St John Huband twelve pounds six shillings and eight pence for a years rent ending at Michaelmas last.

"April ye 15th. Gorway of Magd. Hall had four guineas.

April y 22d, 1697. I paid Mr. Hicks fifty pounds which I borrowed of him August y 6th, 1695.

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April ye 26th, 1697. My cosin Higford had five guineas. I gave to Dr. Turner of Soldern 40s. for ye parsons widdow at Deddington. 'April 27, 1697. I paid Mr. Clements bill, which was £20 : 00: 00. "Mr. WTM Bedford at the six Clerks office in Chancery Lane.

April y 8th, 1697. Left at London books in Fol. 17, 4to. 17, 12° 5."

Besides the above, there occur two entries, which appear to be in a different handwriting; the second is in pencil. The first seems to refer to Christmas-boxes.

"Mr. Clutterbuck lodges at Mr. Leeches housse in Distaff lane; his Collection is 80: 12:4."

2. Inscription on Bishop Hough's Tomb at Worcester.

(The tomb is a life-sized marble figure in episcopal vestments, in a half-recumbent posture, in bad taste, but well sculptured. The bishop wears a skull cap, and the face is remarkably intelligent, earnest, and attenuated. A figure of Faith, with open Bible, stands by his side. Under the figure of the bishop is a sculpture in relief, representing the trial of Hough and the Fellows before the three Commissioners in Magdalen common-room, Hough apparently in the act of protesting. Below this is placed a medallion sculpture of the wife, with an inscription given below.)

"Sacred to Posterity

Be the virtues of the most excellent Prelate
DR. JOHN HOUGH,

The ever memorable President of Magdalen Coll. Oxon.
In the reign of James the IId.

Called forth to this dangerous and important station
For his learning, prudence, piety,

He maintained it in the day of trial

With ability, integrity, dignity:

Firm in his defence of the invaded rights of his college,
How Providentially for this Church and nation
He opposed the rage of Popish Superstition and Tyranny,
Let the Annals of England testifie.
In happier times

He was advanced to be a guardian of the religion and liberties of his
Country.

In honourable testimony of his eminent services to both,
Was made Bishop of Oxford, A.D. 1690;

Was translated to the see of Lichfield and Coventry, A.D. 1699;
To the see of Worcester, A.D. 1717.

In his faithful administration of the pastoral office,
By prudent government, by impartial affection, by personal example,
He was honoured and beloved;

And left to each successor a well regulated diocese.
In every condition and relation,

From the influence of a lively faith,
From the overflowings of a benevolent heart,
It was the business and pleasure of his life
To serve GOD and to do good.

His benefactions to Magdalen College1 and his episcopal houses
Are illustrious and lasting monuments of his munificence.
Yet much were they excelled by the nobler instances
Of his diffusive and unbounded Charity.

His courteous affability and engaging condescension were the delight
Of the numerous partakers of his general hospitality.
Grace was in his address, and dignity in his deportment;
In conversation-purity and propriety of language,
In writing-exactness, ease, and elegance of style,
Embellished

The justness, the delicacy, the humanity, the piety of his sentiments.
Blest with uninterrupted health and tranquillity of mind,

In the 93rd

Happy in his life and in his death,

Full of honours and full of days,

year of his age and 53rd of his consecration,
In the entire possession of his understanding,
In the consciousness of a well spent life,
In sure and certain hope of a joyful Resurrection,
He expired without a groan.

"He was the son of John Hough, citizen of London, and of Margaret his wife, daughter of John Byrche of Leacroft in the county of Stafford, Esq., and married Lettice, daughter of Thomas Fisher, of Walshall, in the county of Warwick, Esq., by Dorothy his wife, daughter of John Lacon, of West Coppice, in the county of Salop, Esq. She was relict of Sir Charles Lee, of Billesley, in the county of Warwick. He was born April 12, 1651, and dyed May 8, 1743. She was born July 20,

1 He contributed £1000 towards the new buildings at Magdalen; which, alas! were intended to supersede the old quadrangle.

1659, and died Nov. 12, 1722. Both lie interred in our Lady's Chapel.

"This monument was erected at the expense of Mr. John Byrche, the Bishop's executor."

The wife's medallion bears the following inscription:

"By me she was most entirely beloved and by all other persons esteemed and valued for her good understanding, sweet and even temper, courteous and easy carriage, unblameable life and prudent and exemplary conduct, in every condition and circumstance. Jo. Worcester."

MR. LIDDON'S BAMPTON LECTURES.

The Divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Eight Lectures preached before the University of Oxford in the year 1866, on the foundation of the late Rev. John Bampton, M.A. By HENRY PARRY LIDDON, M.A., Student of Christchurch, &c. Rivingtons. 1867.

MR. Liddon prefaces these lectures with an apology to the University for their late publication. His excuse is perfectly valid. He was called at the eleventh hour to take the place of Mr. Haddan, who was compelled by a serious illness to seek a release from his engagement. Nor are Mr. Liddon's readers likely to regret the delay, since it has enabled him to finish his task with a fulness and completeness truly admirable. It is, indeed, not often that a reviewer finds in his vocation such a treat as the perusal of this book affords; but, delightful as it is to read, it is a book which, by reason of its very excellence, it is far from easy to review. It is a compactly reasoned treatise on the Divinity of our LORD, filling between seven and eight hundred octavo pages, and embracing in its survey of that great subject the whole field of controversy from the Apostles' time to our own. High as was Mr. Liddon's reputation before as a preacher and (with those who knew him well) as a theologian, this book, if we do not greatly err, will enhance his fame among his intimate friends, as well as among the public generally. It is not the book of a clever man who has "read up" for his subject, but that of a man who has "brought out of his treasures things new and old"—the treasures of a well-stored and fertile mind. There are some men who have a wonderful capacity for imbibing knowledge, but they have no digestive organs. They make nothing their own. Their minds are full of useful information, but it does not assimilate with their mental system, and become part of it; and therefore it happens that, when a man of this type reproduces any portion of his knowledge, you see it

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coming out just as it went in, a congeries of facts huddled together, with no logical coherence among themselves, and no visible connection with anything else; or perhaps, still worse, licked out of their original shape in the process of mastication, and pressed into the service of a cause to which they are naturally antagonistic. We remember a certain Northern prelate of this capacious but barren class some years ago publishing a quarto of quotations from Anglican divines in support of a novel theological theory: the quotations were made with great accuracy, but the volume was simply a crude mass of undigested matter, sufficient to sink with its own dead weight even a more buoyant theory than that which it was intended to float into popular favour.

Very unlike this class of unproductive theologians is Mr. Liddon. His Bampton Lectures display a varied and even profound erudition, and an aptitude for metaphysical discussion for which we own we had not previously given him credit. He shows himself familiar, not only with the great patristic authorities, but also with some of the less known by-paths of patristic literature; he walks with ease among the speculations of the Alexandrian divines, and one of the most interesting of his lectures is that in which he discusses Philo's Platonico-Hebraic system. Mr. Liddon is also quite at home among the critical schools of Germany; indeed, his book is far more an answer to the ever-varying and mutually destructive theories of German neology than to their feeble echoes among ourselves; so that the Broad Church school, whatever they may think of Mr. Liddon's lectures, will certainly not be able to meet them with the usual sneer of pity for the author's ignorance of the achievements of modern criticism. We sincerely doubt whether any single writer of the Broad Church party possesses such a mastery of modern literature, in its bearing on Biblical criticism, as these lectures display; and there is an honest bravery about them which is particularly noteworthy. Mr. Liddon does not shirk or glide skilfully over difficulties; he confronts boldly all the problems of modern scepticism which circle round the Person and earthly life of our LORD. With honest spirits who have gone astray in the sincere quest of truth he deals gently and tenderly; but he has a keen blade of cutting irony for the pride of cold-blooded, self-sufficient men like Strauss, or for the insolence of patronizing sentimentalists like Renan.

But it is time to let our readers have a glimpse of the contents of the volume before us. Our review can be nothing more than a glimpse, for it is obviously impossible, in the space at our disposal, to do more than indicate Mr. Liddon's line of thought and argument.

It is usually maintained by Rationalistic writers, and sometimes by writers who would disdain the imputation of Rationalism, that our LORD taught religious morality, as instanced by the Sermon on the Mount, and thought little of dogma, if, indeed, He did not