doth afford me some title to dedicate my weak endeavours to your honour." It is dated from Sion College, May 2, 1660. To this little volume was affixed as a motto, "Let your moderation be known unto all men; the Lord is at hand." The motto speaks the spirit of the author and of his meditations. He was always the same, and if now his loyalty leaped for joy, his moderation did not loose itself in any extravagancies. He was for a real and not verbal accommodation between the Episcopal and Presbyterian parties. He pleaded for a general toleration. He conceded all that he could with truth as well as charity, to the intentions of those who had been led away beyond themselves in the late confusions, whilst none could be more severe against those who ate the bread of others, and who lived only by faction. He commented upon the past by the light of God's Providence, and justified his ways who brings light out of our darkness, order out of our chaos.

His loyalty in the midst of its exultation, did not disown his former patriotism. "A commonwealth and a king are no more contrary than the trunk or body of a tree and the top branches thereof: there is a republic included in every monarchy."

Fanaticism and wilful separation he scrupled not to condemn most cordially, and to expose most effectually. "How sad is the condition of many sectaries in our age; which, in the same instant have a fog of ignorance in their judgments, and a tempest of violence in their affections; being too blind to go right, and yet too active to stand still."

Revisiting Broad Windsor, which now became rightfully his own once more, he is said to have been so satisfied with the preaching of the then incumbent, as to have spontaneously promised not to be the cause of his removal. This was probably soon after the Restoration, for in 1660, Fuller again visited Exeter, as we learn from his Worthies, where, treating of Exeter, he says, "As for the parish churches in this city, at my return thither this year I found them fewer than I left them at my departure thence, fifteen years ago. But the demolishers of them can give the clearest account, how the plucking down of churches conduceth to the setting up of religion. Besides, I understand that thirteen churches were exposed to sale by the public crier, and bought by well-affected persons, who preserved them from destruction." *

In this same year Dr. Fuller put forth his ingenious Dialogues of the Birds and Flowers, evidently allegorizing the events of his day.

On August the second, a royal mandate was issued from Whitehall, to confer the degree of D.D. upon Fuller, together with Edmund Porter, Richard Drake, Chancellor of Sarum, and translator of Bishop Andrewes' Devotions, Anthony Sparrow, afterward Bishop of Norwich, Robert Pery, Archdeacon of Middlesex; all B. D.; and upon Richard Watts, Rector of Morecote, Rutlandshire, William Belle, Prebendary of Canterbury, and John Breton ;

* Worthies, vol. i. p. 303.

all M. A. This mandate took effect on the 5th of September.

Now also was Dr. Fuller appointed a Chaplain to the King, and restored to his stall in the Cathedral church of Sarum.

Dr. Fuller wrote a Poem on the Restoration, entitled "A Panegyrick to His Majesty on his Happy Return, by Thomas Fuller, B.D. London, Printed for John Playford, at his shop in the Temple, 1660.* This, I suppose, was that John Playford who put forth forty or more tunes, in part taken from the tunes printed in our Prayer-books from about 1560, but by him harmonized in a more modern and flowing, but less solemn style than that of Ravenscroft, and the composers who enriched his incomparable Psalmody of 1621.

Afterwards reprinted in the Worthies of England, under Worcestershire.

CHAPTER XIX.

Our Author's last Illness and Death.

AVING in August, 1661, returned to London from Salisbury, probably after a journey thence to Netherbury, to settle a lease of his prebendal property there, he contracted a fever, of which he died. About the same time Dr. Matthew Nicolas, Dean of St. Paul's, died also on his return from Salisbury.* For, being desired to

* Dr. Matthew Nicolas, of a family seated at Winterbourn Earls, about three miles from Salisbury, and brother to Sir Edward Nicolas, Secretary of State to King Charles II. was, in 1639, made Dean of Bristol, and installed on the 22d of June, in the place of the disinterested and much beloved Dr. Edward Chetwynd, deceased; this Dr. Chetwynd married Helena, daughter of Sir John Harrington, of Kelston, Somersetshire, who died before him, in 1628. When King Charles in 1641, appointed the upright and exemplary Dr. Winniffe, Dean of St. Paul's, to the See of Lincoln, (together with other eminent persons to divers vacant Sees for their conspicuous merit, to save episcopacy, ready to fall through the impolicy and arrogance of Laud,) Dr. Nicolas (LL.D. of

preach a marriage-sermon on Sunday, the twelfth of August (at the chapel of St. Mary, Savoy), for a kinsman of his, who was to be wedded the day after, the good Doctor lovingly undertook it; but on that Sunday, whilst at dinner, felt himself very much indisposed, and complained of a dizziness in the head: whereupon his son entreated him that he would go and lie down on bed, and forbear preaching that afternoon, but he would not be persuaded, saying "he had gone up often into the pulpit sick, but always came well down again, and he hoped he should do as well now, through God's strengthening grace." Those who have laboured much under indigestion, so common to men of sedentary habits, will understand this speech of our author.

Being in the pulpit, he found himself very ill, so that he was apprehensive of danger; and therefore before his prayer, addressed himself thus to his congregation: "I find myself very ill, but I am re

New College, Oxford, in 1627,) was appointed to the Deanry of St. Paul's, but in those troublous times he could not be duly elected and confirmed therein. At the Restoration he had a new grant to this Deanry, and on July 10, 1660, was duly elected Dean, and installed on the same day; and on the 17th of August following, was collated to the Prebend of Cadington Major, in that church, in the place of Dr. Westfield, Bishop of Bristol, deceased. He was also Prebendary of Westminster, to which he had been preferred in 1642, on the death of Dr. William Robinson, brother by the mother's side to Archbishop Laud. He was, moreover, at the time of his death, Canon Residentiary of Sarum, and Rector of West Dean, in Wiltshire. He died August 14, 1661, and was buried at Winterbourn.