very much shocked Mr. Grove, and brought to his mind the story of Mr. Shaw afresh. About three weeks ago Mr. Shaw died of an apoplexy in the desk, of the same distemper as poor Arthur Orchard died of.-Note. Since this strange completion of matters, Mr. Grove has told this relation, and stands to the truth of it; and that which confirms the Narrative is, that he told the same to Dr. Baldiston, the present Vice Chancellor, and Master of Emanuel College, above a week before Mr. Shaw's death; and when he came to the College, he was no way surprized as others

were.

"What farthers my belief of its being a true vision, and not a dream, is Mr. Grove's incredulity of stories of this nature. Considering them both as men of learning and integrity: the one would not first have declared, nor the other have spread the same, were not the matter itself serious and real.

"Yours, &c.

EDWARD WALTER."

Rev. FRANCIS JESSOP* to Archbishop WAKE.

"MOST HONOURED LORD,

Treeton, near Rotherham, in Yorkshire, Dec. 2, 1717.

"I have a just apology for myself, as well as true occasion to write to your Lordship, if ever man had, who have proclaimed King George with great multitude of my followers, and took the paths to his Majesty with as much sincerity, yet as real caution, as could concern a Christian conscience; was ever a great lover of the late Queen Anne, and so much respected the Hero, the late King William, that I not only acted as a Justice of Peace under his Majesty; but as became a loyal servant, I preached a Funeral Sermon to his sacred memory, in York Minster, with all the encomiums of a panegyrick that I could contrive for his Royal honour. But nothing would come to good effect, because I in all my actions of life ever kept up in reserve to my holy office, according to my ordination, and trust an unspeakable veneration to the Church of England, on whom I lived, and depended for maintenance of life; and whose sacred livery and sacerdotal robe I wore, which I looked never upon, but I thought of the fortitude of Elijah, the Prophets, and all the Apostles, except him of perdition, in her cause. As to the rights of Kings, I postpone them to the rights of the Church; and in the Apostolic Creed we profess to believe in the Holy Catholick Church, without mentioning Kings. This is a constraint upon me. I would be Apostolic to stand by my Church till death, under all the sad present calamity of illegal and arbitrary sequestration; and when I see the King according to his title, a Defender of the Faith in the Church of England, the Church then needs no more my defence in these unrighteous sufferings; but I should stand up for the present King, as for the late King William, where rights stand upon the same foot in what relates to usurpation. Was King

*Of Lincoln College, Oxford; M. A. 1692.

William

William the next true natural Heir to the Crown after the death of his Royal Consort?-We all know to the contrary; but he having a right by law in the judicatory of human reason, and not persecuting the Church, but being a Defender of the Faith against the avarice of the Whigs, who were for seizing upon the rights of the Church, if King William had not intervened - he thus meriting, as a defender could command our loyalty. I therefore distinguished myself as a true Magistrate under him, till his death, by my temporal office, and after it by my spiritual one.

"According to the strictest Scheme of Monarchy, he was yet a Usurper. This was nothing to me so long as he defended the Church in her rights, and did not persecute her, nor any of her true members for religion; but since truest monarchy could not be had without the Church's immediate destruction, as her servant, and a watchman in Israel, I was satisfied. Was not Queen Anne, if the Pretender was truly born, an Usurpress? I look upon the Pretender to be truly born, but for all that an enemy to our Church; and I cannot, in all my extremities, which be great motives, heartily fancy him. But I sorrowfully declare to every body, that the Church lies between two persecutors, as Christ was crucified between two malefactors; and that I wish the Grand Seignior might conquer us, because I animadvert, from the unpersecuted state of the Greek Church, we as well as they might hope to live quietly under him. If your Lordship should then enquire, who I am for? I declare myself to be for the Sultan, or for any King that will not persecute the Church of Jesus Christ; when all others be not Kings, but Tyrants; and even natural right according to the strict rule of monarchy, in pure duty to mine sacred office, shall have no claim with me in such a case. My office requires me to stand by the interests of the Church till death, whether Kings reign, or Tyrants persecute. "I never missed in the ways of my office five times in twentyfour years; spent all my revenues upon my parishioners, as they came in; served the ends, I thank God, of charities, and hospitality to an ungrateful people; who for my good-will rewarded me with evil, and had no other sense than to proclaim, the times were on their sides. And as my living was sequestered in Oliver's days, as if it was destined to that allotment, so it is as unjustly as then sequestered now, by the brood of Noll's Sequestrators. That brood I never could affect, but avoided their company all I could, and would lash at the wickedness of old Noll's times in my discourses; and yet I was so fair to these wretches, notwithstanding these doctrines, that I got them their lease with the late Duke of Norfolk, and snatched the farm out of another man's hands, who was my tenant, for them. But such acts of real kindness would not prevail with them to be quiet; but, as if malignancy to the Rector of the parish lay in their blood, they got a grant from me to have a schoolmaster, called Robert Brown, whom I valued because he was a good Grecian, and I allowed him three pounds a year, and he had the privilege of my table

when

when he pleased, particularly his Sunday's dinner; and I made him my parish clerk to mend his place, and in the year of his ingratitude I gave him the mourning for Madam Bradshaw in my church. But still this villain would court the daughter of a Meeting-house, for which I rebuked him; but, instead of amending he grew exorbitant, and wore a sacerdotal girdle, de jure divino (Exod. xxviii. 40.), belonging to the sacerdotal habit, an emblem of distinction between the Clergy and the Laity; and, upon my just reprehension, he confidently told me he would wear it. Upon this I wrote to Dawes * (or Daous), that calls himself Primate of England, who proved an apostate; but, instead of hearing me, he laid two suspensions upon me, as if one rope was not sufficient to hang any one person. Because I owed fifteen shillings to the Archdeacon, this was the occasion of the first suspension; a very slender reason, and I appeal to your Lordship's judgment in it. A second cause for suspension was my praying for King George's conversion; and I pray yet, that God will convert him, that he may ever be the Church's true son, consequently in my judgment, a rightful monarch. To these things I submitted, even twice; but nothing would serve, but I must have a libel preferred against me, of John Wickliff's sort; and in the state article, when I mentioned the Apocalyptick beast, they swore I meant King George, whereas I intended the beast whose number was 666, λάtivos, where every letter standing for a figure makes up that number, according to the Greek grammar. Be your Lordship judge, whether the accusers did not libel the King, and forswore themselves to my meanings, while I was clear? They accuse me for meaning the Pretender, when I preached upon advent texts on those Sundays, so that I knew not what to preach according to the Church's direction; and since I am unjustly disturbed in my office, I am resolved never to preach again, and then they cannot swear to my meanings. But Dawes (or Daous's) spite arose from such-like instigations, as that I said he was ungrateful to Queen Anne for voting against her within a fortnight after she gave him the dignity of a Primacy, and rejoiced at her demise, saying that the three kingdoms were fairly delivered. This bigamist besides courted the Lady Betty Hastings, whom I had addressed five or six years before, and he maligned my better treatment from her. But now he utterly denies it to the Lord of Canterbury, in justification of which I will stake my living to his mitre, and am ready to challenge him to combat before King George. But the miles auratus proves to be plumbeatus, a daous upon every challenge, the Church's slug; I mean through her heart, while his way is to combat behind the back, not before the face. But the true reason why he denies the Lady Betty, is his courtship of Madam Firth, a girl under fourteen, in Nottingham, and becomes Lieutenant Dilke's dangerous rival. I speak of an horse-hair wig above, and a black libertine underneath; and this discomposes the bigamist.

*Sir William Dawes, bart. Archbishop of York.

"Such

"Such things he gets by scandalously attacking my spotless virtue and honour; which is the reason, in pure veneration to my uncontaminated celibacy, that I will not accept of the act of grace; not in anger to King George, whom I could love was he the Church's Defender, but because I am innocent before unjust accusations, and I need it not. Sequestration, upon correction, is robbery and sacrilege; and I cannot make up any agreement with Dawes, or any felon, without incurring an indictment for theft-boot; therefore I receive no money from Sam Buck, an attorney in Rotherham, Dawes's sequestrator general. But to make me to submit to illegal and arbitrary, as well as felonious sequestration, the wicked Buck set a creditor upon me, called John Patrick, of Sheffield, to sue me for 231. I desired this man to borrow so much money of any person, and I would enter into bond for it, which was all that could be done in my case. This will not appease John Patrick, but I must take money of Buck, whose illegal usurpation I disallow, according to my trust in the Rights of the whole Clergy, else he would not agree. He makes this Sequestrator his Attorney, who served a writ upon me, and would not give me time to sell my goods, but I must give appearance. I ordered Mr. William Laughton to appear for me; but I declare to your Lordship that I will not appear against a just debt, but by my most just complaint against the Attorney and sequestrator, Buck of Rotherham. As I do it by myself now, so I shall do it by Attorney hereafter; and beg of your Lordship, that your Honour will not grant any trial out against me, till justice is done me by your Lordship upon Buck for undertaking such a dirty concern in Patrick's cause. I do myself the honour to send, in all duty, a Sermon I printed in Queen Anne's reign, to give to all persons, to shew what the Church of England is upon scriptural foundations. This I send to your Lordship, because there hath been a late process against the Bishop of Bangor, who writes no better than Heresy in what relates to the Kingdom of Christ. But in my Sermon your Lordship will read the true foundation of the Church, de jure divino. While I yet beg pardon for disturbing your Lordship's serious leisure, who are a great admirer of the polite parts; therefore, most honoured Lord, "Your Lordship's dutiful servant,

FRANCIS JESSOP."

Treeton, Dec. 7, 1717.

"MOST REVEREND FATHER, "From reports of the enemy attacking the Church of England by blasphemous and heretical doctrines, that I may give some good account of my time in my leisures, to the cœlestial Monarch of the Universe, my Lord and Master, I am beginning in the Latin tongue, for European perusal, a folio book, large; with your Grace's spiritual and patriarchal blessing, I hope good also. The title runs thus: Doctrina de Christo omnium Supremo Monarchâ, qualis sit in Epistolâ Septimanatim Borealis.' "The dedication, through patriarchal candour, is to your Grace's self, on this manner: Epistola Pontifici Dignissimo, et

maximo sub Christo Monarchæ Wilhelmo Wake, e Sacris Theologiæ Professoribus ornatissimo, Reverendissimo Patri, Præsulum Principi, soli totius Angliæ Metropolitano et Primati, necnon unico vero Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Patriarchæ, non duntaxàt à suo, quoad sacrum et publicum munus; filio dicanda, quàm Comitiis sui sacratissimis salutatoria, et septimanatim continuanda. 'Septimana prima blateratione Sacrarum rerum generali plena. Septimana secunda de Christo naturis Salew unitis natu

raliter Monarchâ.

'Septimana tertia de Monarchiâ ecclesiæ militantis Anglicanæ Supremâ.

Septimana quarta de proceribus et ministris Monarchiæ Supremæ ex jure regnantibus.

Septimana quinta de muliplice Evangelii nomine, et naturâ. Septimana sexta de Sacris ordinibus et clavium potestate, quoad Successionibus derivatis, et de Officio Sacro multifero ex iisdem processu.

'Septimana septima de verbo Dei monstrato, et Sacramentalibus ex jure divino oblatis.

'Septimana octava de distinctione auctoritatis, quoad stationes

exortâ.

'Septimana nona de Monarchis terrarum laicis cum clericâ conjunctis.

Septimana decima de Tyranno Monarchiæ binæ, sed unitæ adversario.

'Septimana undecima de Clero à Tyrannidis terrore, necnon astu claudicanti.

'Septimana duodecima de Monarchâ, sub Christo, totius Angliæ, à jure divino Supremo Cantuariensi.

"Hic labor, hoc opus est; sed nemo, mittens manum suam að aratrum, et respiciens retrò, aptus est regno Dei. Si sulcus in arando, sæpè corrumpatur respicienti, debet ducerectus; multò satius curandum est quid fortitèr perageret, et qualis curæ adhibeatur ad opus diligentiæ; dum benedictio tua, ne otio vacaret, aspiret ex auspiciis cœlestibus, his cœptis,

"Reverendissime Pater Patriarcharum, gnati in Christo obsequentissimi, FRANCISCI JEssop."

Dr. WILLIAM SHERARD to Dr. R. RICHARDSON*, North Bierley.

"DEAR SIR, Badminton, Sept. 6, 1701. "I am extremely obliged to you for your letter, and present of plants. As soon as I come to London (which will be the latter end of next month) I will send you some observations on them, with Mr. Ray's, Mr. Bobart's, and Monsieur Tournefort's synonyma to the mosses. I have there almost all theirs under their own hands, which is the certain way of adjusting them. I gather

See the first volume of these "Illustrations," pp. 225, 339.