There is a portrait of him at Christ Church, in Oxford, of which college he was dean.

from Salisbury, Oct. 4, 1660.

Brian Duppa, who was successively promoted to the bishoprics Translated of Chichester and Salisbury by Charles I. was, upon the restoration of Charles II. advanced to the see of Winchester. He had been preceptor to the latter of these princes, and was, in all respects, well qualified for that important office. He was a very handsome personage, of a graceful deportment, and of an irreproachable life. He lived in retirement at Richmond during the usurpation; and was then hospitable, generous, and charitable, to a degree beyond his fortune. He is said to have received 50,000l. for fines, soon after his translation to Winchester. It is certain that he remitted no less than 30,000l. to his tenants, and that he left 16,000l. to be expended in acts of charity and munificence. He left legacies to Christ Church, and All-Souls College, in Oxford; and to the several cathedrals in which he sat as bishop; and founded an almshouse at Richmond. The king asked his blessing on his knees, as he lay on his death-bed. He died March 26, 1662. He was author of sermons, and several books of devotion. When he was bishop of Chichester, he published his " Jonsonius Verbius," which is a collection of verses in praise of Ben Jonson and his works, by above thirty different hands.

GEORGE MORLEY, bishop of Winchester. P. Lely p. R. Tompson, exc. large h. sh. mezz.

GEORGE MORLEY, &c. Lely p. Vertue sc. 1740. In the collection of General Dormer, at Rowsham. Illust. Head.

GEORGE MORLEY, &c. in the " Oxford Almanack,"

1744.

GEORGE MORLEY, &c. sitting in a chair; h. sh.

mezz.

This print, as I learn from Vertue's manuscript, was done by Vansomer.

There is a portrait of him at Christ Church, in Oxford, of which he was canon, and afterward dean.

There is another by Sir Peter Lely, at Amesbury.

Translated

from Worcester, May

14, 1662.

George Morley, some time chaplain to Charles I. was a polite scholar, and an eminent divine, especially in controversy. He was, in the early part of his life, one of Ben Jonson's sons. He was also an intimate friend of Lord Falkland, Mr. Hyde, Mr. Chillingworth, Mr. Waller, and others of the first eminence in the late reign. One of his excellences, which raised him much in the esteem of all his friends, helped to degrade his character in the opinion of his enemies. This was his wit, which was natural, but uncommon; keen, but inoffensive. The very faculty was condemned by many in this age, without the least regard to its application. After the death of the king, he retired to the Hague, where he attended on Charles II. He afterward resided at Antwerp, where he was very assiduous in his ministerial duty. During his residence abroad, he contracted an intimacy with Rivetus, Heinsius, Salmasius, Bochart, and other persons of rank in the learned world. Upon the restoration, he was made dean of Christ Church, and the same year bishop of Worcester, whence he was translated to Winchester. His constant practice was to rise at five o'clock in the morning, to go to bed at eleven, and eat but once a day. By these rules he preserved his health, with very little interruption, through the course of a long life. He died Oct. 29, 1684. His writings are chiefly on polemical subjects.†

PETRUS MEWS, Wintoniensis episcopus, &c. qui pugnavit et oravit pro pace regni et ecclesiæ. D. Loggan ad vivum del. et sc. h. sh. There are two oval prints of him, smaller than the former, without the name of an engraver.

DR. PETER MEWS, &c. in a square. D. Loggan; T. Trotter sc. 4to.

His portrait is at St. John's College, in Oxford, of which he was president.

Mr. Morley was under an arrest for a debt, when this gentleman first became acquainted with him; and it is said that he paid the debt, on condition that he would live with him at Beconsfield, which he did for many years. Mr. Waller acknowledged that he was indebted to him for his taste of the ancient classics. See the "Life of Waller," before his works, 12mo.

+ In 1683, he published several treatises in a quarto volume. In the preface is a good account of the religious character of Anne Hyde, dutchess of York, before her conversion to popery.

ter, 22 Nov.

1684.

Peter Mews, who was a fellow of St. John's College, left that Translated society upon the commencement of the civil war, and entered into from Bath and Wells, the royal army, where he was promoted to the rank of a captain. to WinchesHe served the king both in England and Scotland, and afterward retired beyond the seas. In the time of the interregnum, he entered into holy orders, and was, by a relation, presented to the rectory of Lambourn, in Essex, which he was not suffered to enjoy. As he had been a zealous royalist, preferments were heaped upon him after the restoration, and he rose by the usual gradations to a bishopric. In February, 1672-3, he was promoted to the see of Bath and Wells, whence he was translated to Winchester. Mr. Wocd tells us, that "when he sat in the former of these sees, he was much beloved and admired for his hospitality, generosity, justice, and frequent preaching." Bishop Burnet represents him as a man of very slender abilities, with a small pittance of learning, who by his zeal and obsequiousness raised himself through several steps to his high station in the church. In 1685, he again appeared in arms to oppose the Duke of Monmouth. Ob. Nov. 9, 1706.

His portrait may be placed in the next reign, in which it was probably engraved. See the reign of James II.

ROBERTUS SANDERSON, episcopus Lincolniensis, t. 76, 1662. Loggan, sc. h. sh. This appears to be the original print.

ROBERTUS SANDERSON, episcopus Lincolniensis. W. Hollar f. 1668; 12mo.

ROBERTUS SANDERSON, &c. Et. 76. W. Dolle sc. Before his "Sermons, with his Life;" folio.

ROBERTUS SANDERSON, &c. Et. 76. R. White sc. Before his "Life," 1678; 8vo.

ROBERT SANDERSON; in the " Oxford Almanack,"

1733.

28 Oct.

Dr. Sanderson, who stands at the head of all casuists, ancient Consec. or modern, was frequently consulted by Charles I. His casuistry 1660.

is founded on the clear principles of truth and equity, and is very different from that which hath been taught in the schools of the Jesuits; in which sophistry was substituted for argument, and disguise and mental reservation for candour and sincerity.* He was, especially in the former part of his life, remarkable for his excessive modesty; an infirmity oftener seen in men of the quickest sensibility and the best understanding, than in the half-witted, the stupid, and the ignorant. He would often lament this weakness to his intimate friends. His Latin lectures, read in the divinity school at Oxford, are well known.+ His Sermons still maintain their reputation for clearness of reason, and a purity of style, which seems to be the effect of it. Ob. 29 Jan. 1662-3.

Archbishop Usher has given us a just and admirable character of this great prelate, which may been seen at p. 531, of Lloyd's "Memoirs."

NICHOLAS MONCK, lord-bishop of Hereford, &c.

* The moral character of this great and good man has lately been rashly and feebly attacked by the author of the Confessional,‡ and as ably defended by the author of " A Dialogue between Isaac Walton and Homologistes." Every enemy to church-government hath been, for the same reason, an enemy to Bishop Sanderson and every other prelate; but I am confident that the uprightness and integrity of his heart, as a casuist, was never before called in question by any man who was not an entire stranger to his character. He saw and deplored, and did his utmost, honestly and rationally, to remedy the complicated ills of anarchy in church and state; when " every man projected and reformed, and did what was right in his own eyes. No image can better express such a condition, than that of a dead animal in a state of putrefaction; when, instead of one noble creature, as it was when life held it together, there are ten thousand little nauseous reptiles growing out of it, every one crawling in a path of its own."||

+ Casuistry has perhaps started more difficulties than ever it solved; as nothing is more common than for scruples to multiply upon reflection. Dr. Sanderson was frequently embarrassed in nice points, and was sometimes at a loss to know which reason should preponderate, among the variety that offered, when the clock informed him that it was time to read his lecture. He was then obliged to determine from necessity. It is observable, that the hasty decisions which he made were generally the same that he afterward adhered to, upon the maturest deliberation.

Conjecit.

Telumque imbelle sine ictu

VIRG.

See the 2d edit. of the "Confessional," betwixt page 299, and 315.

§ Lond. 1768, 8vo.

Mudge's "Sermons." Sermon on the Evils of Anarchy, p. 86.

Jos. Nutting sc. a small head, with several others of the Rawlinson family; 4to.

NICHOLAS MONCK, bishop of Hereford, 1660; oval, in a square frame, small. W. Richardson.

Jan. 13. 1660-1.

Nicholas Monck was third son of Sir Thomas Monck, of Pothe- Consec. ridge, in Devonshire, and brother to the general. He lived some years upon a small benefice in that county; but was, before the restoration, presented by Sir John Greenvile to the rectory of Kilkhampton, worth about 3001. a year. Sir John, at the same time, signified to him, that if he should have occasion to use his interest with his brother, he hoped he might depend upon him: Mr. Monck assured him that he might. He was afterward employed by that gentleman and sent to Scotland to engage the general in the king's service. It is probable that the arguments he used had their due weight; but he could not prevail with his brother to enter into confidence with him. His near relation to the man that set the king upon the throne, and his own personal services, entitled him to preferment. He was therefore in June, 1660, made provost of Eton College, and soon after promoted to the bishopric of Hereford. He could scarcely be said to enjoy this preferment, as he died within a year after his promotion, on the 17th of December, 1661.

EDWARDUS REYNOLDS, episcopus, Norvicensis. R. White sc. 12mo.

Jan. 13,

1660-1.

Edward Reynolds, preacher at Lincoln's-Inn, and one of the Consec. assembly of divines, was by the authority of parliament, preferred to the deanery of Christ Church, in Oxford, on the 12th of April, 1648, soon after the ejection of Dr. Samuel Fell. About two years after, he was himself ejected, and Dr. John Owen, who was as highly esteemed and revered by the independents, as Dr. Reynolds was by the Presbyterians, was promoted to that deanery, which he

The Moncks of Potheridge are said to have descended from Arthur Plantagenet, viscount Lisle, a natural son of Edward IV. It is asserted, that the race of Plantagenet became extinct with that of Monck: this is very improbable, as the FitzEdwards were doubtless as numerous as the Fitz-Charles's. But it was not usual, in the age of Edward, for the natural sons of kings to be created dukes, or even so much as owned.