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in letters to several persons of honor and quality, &c. Lond. 1693." This book, which was published by Sir Peter Pett, with an Epistle to the Reader before it of his writing, begins with a large Treatise containing Directions to a young Divine for his study of Divinity and choice of books, &c.

12. He also, it seems, wrote a letter in defence of Anabaptism, which is to be found in a treatise on the same subject (8vo. London 1674) by D'Anvers.

13. Also a tract, to prove that true grace doth not lie so much in the degree, as in the nature of it; which forms the sixteenth chapter of Sheppard's book on "Sincerity and Hypocrisy," Oxon. 1658; -that is, of Mr. Serjeant Sheppard, a distinguished law-writer in the time of the Commonwealth, and a Judge, in Wales. This Serjeant Sheppard was also an intimate friend of the prelate.

14. Barlow also wrote a preface, touching the conspiracy of gunpowder treason, to a book entitled "The Gunpowder Treason," with a discourse of the manner of its discovery, 8vo. London 1679; the substance of this preface is in his "Genuine Remains," pp. 383, 384, &c.

Dr. Barlow died at Bugden, in Huntingdonshire, on the 8th day of October, 1691; and was buried on the 11th of the said month, on the north side of the chancel belonging to the church there, near to the body of Dr. Robert Sanderson, some time Bishop of Lincoln, and, according to his own

desire, in the very grave of Dr. William Barlow, some time Bishop of the same place; to whose memory, as well as his own, is erected a marble monument, with the following Inscription:

"Exuvia Thomæ Barlow, S. T. P. Collegii Reginensis, Oxon. præpositi, Protobibliothecarii Bodleiani, Archideaconi Oxoniensi, pro Dom. Margareta Comitissa Richmondiæ S. Theol. Professoris Episcopi (licet indigni) Lincolniensis in spem lætæ resurrectionis Epitaphium hoc moriens composuit tumulum sui prædecessoris Gulielmi Barlow rabie fanaticâ ruiturum sumptibus propriis extruxit, Obiit 8 die October 1691, an. ætatis suæ 85."

This strange elegy he composed himself a few days before his death.

He gave all such books in his own library to that of Bodley, which were not there already at the time. of his death; and the remaining part he gave to Queen's College, Oxford, where the Society erected in 1694 a noble pile of buildings, on the west side of the College, to receive them; since enlarged to receive one of the most munificent bequests of books in modern times, made by Dr. Mason, an Incumbent of the College. The Library is not only valuable as a collection, but fitted up with great judgment. Dr. Barlow gave all his MSS. of his own composition to his two domestic chaplains, Offley and Brougham, and desired that they would not make public any of his writings after his decease. He also gave to them all his Greek, Latin, and English Bibles, &c.

Appleby School, where he received the first rudiments of his education, in its daily orisons, remembers him as one of its benefactors. The College also has sundry weighty reasons for doing likewise. But the Church of England, the Diocese of Lincoln, his native county, and the world at large, can (as we think) afford to forget him.

Chomas Smith.

BISHOP OF CARLISLE, CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO

KING CHARLES THE SECOND, &c.

1614-1702.

"He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch."-PROV.

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HE family of Smith (as Byron somewhere tells

us) is very prolific and numerous in England; (whereof the gallant Sir Harry, of Aliwal renown, is, perhaps, the spem gregis or hope of the flock just now), yet we doubt whether the great family of man can boast of a more generous, of a noblerhearted, of a more liberal-minded soul than Thomas Smith, Bishop of Carlisle. Within his diocese

what village has not some substantial mark of his munificence? The school and college in which he was educated remember him in their prayers, as among their greatest benefactors, The public edifices, to which he was officially attached, retain

the most lasting memorials of his taste and nobility of soul. These were the distinctive features of his character, but not all. He raised himself from the middling ranks of life to the supreme honours of the Church; and he did so as an honest man. He was first cousin in blood to Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, but in soul they were as the Poles

asunder :

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Unpractis'd he to fawn, or seek for pow'r,
By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour;
Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize,
More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise!

He was born at Whitewall, in the parish of Asby, on the 21st of December, 1614. He was also educated at Appleby School, and in the sixteenth year of his age was admitted into Queen's College, Oxford. His early proficiency in his studies quickly gained him a singular repute in the University; one instance whereof was remarkable in the performance of his Lent exercise; for, at that time, and for several years after, the fond humour of one college's engaging another in brawling disputations, which they called coursing, being fashionable in the University, his questions were, unknown to himself, sent by Mr. Thomas Crosfield, senior Fellow of his College, to the young students of Brasen-nose, with the following challenge, subscribed: Prodeat aliquis è vobis Eneus qui

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