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lot was cast, and have commanded the homage of mankind by their learning, judgment, fortitude, charity, and true devotion. Their example has been worthily followed in the Church which they reformed and renovated; and among the innumerable saints and sages whose useful lives have been passed without public notice or distinction, Mr. Shuttleworth has proved the successive and continued merit of modern ecclesiastics by adverting to the example and sketching the biography of Leland, Hooker, J. Prideaux, Fuller, Pearson, Cudworth, Patrick, Tillotson, Barrow, Stillingfleet, Whitby, Marsh, H. Prideaux, W. Lowth, Wilson, Clarke, R. Newton, Secker, T. Newton, R. Lowth, Parkhurst, Paley, and Porteus. The anecdotes of J. Clarke will bear revision; his controversies on the Trinity did impair his reputation as a divine. The portraits of Leland, J. Prideaux, and Parkhurst, are unexceptionable, and will not be contemplated without improvement.

“John Leland, the great antiquary, overthrew a highly cultivated mind by an ardent desire to rescue from oblivion such objects of interest and antiquity, as the destroying zeal of the Reformers had fortunately overlooked. He traversed nearly the whole kingdom, visited every wreck of its ecclesiastical grandeur, collected the missals and manuscripts which the piety of individuals had snatched from the vengeance of the enthusiasts, and was preparing the result of his inestimable labours for the public eye, when the worst cala mity which can befal human nature oppressed his faculties and consumed his life. Intellectual application, bodily fatigue, and affiction for the sad desolation be had witnessed, combined to undermine his constitution; and after passing two years in anabated insanity, he terminated an exist ence incalculably valuable to literature and his country, without one returning interval of reason. His classic attainments, skill in foreign languages, taste for curious research, and singular industry, procured him the appointment of one of the King's chaplains, keeper of his library, and royal antiquarian (antiquary.) To these considerable Church preferment was added, but without paralyzing for a moment that energy to which he fell an un✿mely sacri

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Leland was also distinguished by his piety and grateful celebration of the gifts and dispensations of the Divine Providence.

"Avidity in the pursuit of learning recommended John Prideaux to those patrons who opened to him a path in life more brilliant than his enthusiastic thoughts could have contemplated. So humbly was he situated previously, that he conceived he was aspiring very highly when he offered himself a candidate for the office of Parish Clerk of Ugborough in Devonshire. The chagrin he experienced upon his defeat on that occasion, and an apparent disposition to cultivate his understanding, induced a female friend of his family to be at the charge of obtaining him better instructions than his parents could provide. His progress was deemed so remarkable, that with some trifling pecuniary assistance from his neighbours he repaired to Oxford, and was contented to fulfil the servile duties of a College for the opportunities the situation afforded him of himself conspicuous-at the age of eighteen prosecuting his studies. He soon rendered was admitted a member of the University, took his degrees rapidly, and at the age of thirty-four was elected Rector of his College. His elevation to that dignity is considered the dawn of its prosperity and fame. Three years afterwards he was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity, and consequently Canon of Christ Church and Rector of Ewelme in Oxfordshire. He officiated as Vice Chancellor several years, and was ultimately nominated to the sec of Worcester: but his zeal and loyalty marked him out for persecution; and to so low a state of poverty was he reduced, that even the clerkship of Ugborough became once more in his estimation a munificent provision. As a Bishop, he experienced more wretchedness and greater privations than in the humble cottage of his parents; and on his death-bed he had no comfort but what his conscience imparted, no legacy to leave his children but what this short and verbal testament expressed :'Pious poverty; God's blessing; a father's prayers, and an example of strict integrity and honour.'” P. 262.

"John Parkhurst inherited a valuable estate, to which Church patronage was attached; but having selected the clerical life from early predilection, he pursued it simply from principles of piety and a wish

to do good. When a living in his gift be came vacant, he presented an individual without any other recommendation, than his own couscientious belief, that he would faithfully perform all the important duties of a parish priest. Sufficiently rich in what Providence had bestowed upon him, he never sought or accepted preferment, but with singular humility fulfilled for many years the duty of Curate in his own parish. Although his patrimony devolved to him unexpectedly, it caused no change in the habits of life he had prescribed himself, when only a student in College; and all his enjoyment seemed concentrated in promulgating the amiable doctrines of Christianity. He compiled an Hebrew and English, and a Greek and English lexicon; applied himself to the Scriptures without plausible apologies for less profitable indulgences; was devoted to truth, candour, and benevolence; and combated every constitutional failing with success. He thus rendered a long life serene and happy, and passed into a better world triumphant over the passions and temptations of the present." P. 290.

The Church and the Clergy will not be ashamed of the light in which Mr. Shuttleworth has placed them, nor disown the obligations which in

all ages they have rendered to society, the arts, and literature. It is true that there are higher grounds on which they may command respect; but the pleasing views of clerical usefulness, benevolence, and piety, which this volume presents, have not therefore been drawn in vain; and if they do not succeed in abating the prejudices of the interested, the malignant, and the ir religious, they will conciliate in the mind of the candid and benevolent that affectionate esteem which, notwithstanding the infirmities of human nature, is due to the ecclesiastical orders, and is an act of humanity and of true religion.

If the author should receive the recompence which he merits, and a second edition of his work should be required, or the dignities of the Church should be conferred upor their strenuous advocate, he will probably learn the distinction which he has hitherto overlooked between a prebend and a prebendary, an office and an officer.

MONTHLY

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.

Diocesan and District Committees.
Calcutta Diocesan Committee.

The Diocesan Committee at Cab cutta have forwarded their report for the year 1820. Early in the year, the Committee received a large consignment of the Society's Family Bible, to the value of 5581. forty copies of which have been disposed of. The Committee having likewise received from the Society, in the course of the year, very large consignments of Bibles, Testaments, Common Prayer Books, and religious Tracts, have been enabled to furnish abundant supplies of those books and tracts to the several depôt stations, particularly to the depôts at Dinapore and Meerut, and to the depôt recently established at Dacca and Chittagong. Of Prayer Books, Tracts, and elementary Books, the Committee have also continued to afford supplies, as they have been called for, to the Military Orphan Asylum, the Free School, the Female Orphan Asylum, and other cha

REGISTER.

ritable institutions, and wherever else occasions have been offered for distri buting them to advantage. Upon a re presentation from T. C. Plowden, Esq.

that he had found the Books and Tracts obtained from the stores of the Committee, highly useful and acceptable to persons employed in his office, it was resolved to make known, to the Christians employed as Writers in the several principal Public Offices, the existence of these publications, which are so cheap, and so much calculated to do good. Accordingly, a circular on the subject was addressed to the heads of departments. In this circular, the Committee respectfully request, that catalogues of the Books and Tracts may be circulated among the Christians employed in several public offices; and, at the same time, give an assurance, that, upon the application of the head of each department, they will have much pleasure in supplying from their stores, either at reduced prices, or gratuitously; whatever may be required for the use of such persons. A great number of persons thankfully availed themselves of the offer; and a large quantity of Books and Tracts were

furnished accordingly, the greater part being regularly paid for at the Society's prices. A small stock was also placed under the care of Dr. Willich, for the use of the apprentices and other Christians employed in the Botanical Gardens.

The Committee being desirous of turning their attention to the translation of Tracts into the languages of India, and the Society having, in addition to former grants, placed another sum of 10001. at the disposal of the Right Reverend the President; his Lordship has resolved to appropriate a part of the sum to the expence of publishing a translation into Hindostanee, both in the Nagree and Nustaliq characters, of "Sellon's Abridgment of the Holy Scriptures," a work admirably calculated for the purposes of the Committee. The superintendance and revision of this work has been kindly undertaken by the Rev. D. Corrie, under whose care it has already made considerable progress. The Committee anticipate means of doing very extensive good in the department of translating and printing the Society's Books and Tracts, by the happy instrumentality of the "Mission College of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts," now happily commenced; while they also hope, that the liberality of the public will enable them at present to effect something under this head, which is likely to become so important a branch of their labour.

Respecting the Native Schools, the Committee state, that the circle to the southward of Calcutta, has been completed by the addition of two Schools, one at Russapugly, and the other at Ballygunge; that both these Schools were filed almost as soon as opened; and that the attendance of the children has continued undiminished. A class has been selected, from the several Schools in the circle, of the best proficients in Bengalee, who, after attending the regular duties of the morning in their own School, assemble in the afternoon in the Central School of Beltollah, to receive instruction in English. The Committee also state, that they have at length been enabled to commence a second circle of Schools in the district of Cossipore, to the northward of Calcutta, where some degree of difficulty had before been experienced. Two spots, well situated with reference to the population and to means of access, have been procured on

The Schools

Pottahs for ten years. were nearly completed, and were to be opened early in the year 1821. An able Pundit was engaged for the immediate superintendance of their Schools; and the Committee were prepared to establish, and to complete the circle as favourable opportunities shall offer.

The Committee have taken under their patronage, and have provided a teacher for the principal school at Barripore ; they have also determined to revive three or four other Schools, which were formerly established at the same place, as competent masters may be found.

The Christian School at Barrackpore, under the patronage of the Most Noble the Marchioness of Hastings, has likewise been placed under the care of the Diocesan School Committee; her Ladyship having been pleased to signify her wish of transferring it to them, and her intention of providing funds for its support. The Committee having expressed their sense of the honour conferred on them by this mark of confidence, her Ladyship was generously pleased to inform them, that "being solicitous to place the School in their hands in good repair, to prevent the necessity of any great expense till the fund proposed for its support shall have accumulated," she would consider the Committee as prepared to take the charge of it from the 1st of January, 1821. The School meanwhile was to undergo a thorough repair.

The Committee, in consequence of representations made to them, have lately turned their attention to the remote and obscure station of Noacolly, in the district of Tipperah; and have determined to establish a School at that place. Mr. Plowden, who kindly interests himself respecting the condition of a Christian population settled around him, having engaged to defray the expence of the building, and to superintend the management of its concerns, the Committee have provided a Schoolmaster competent to take charge of the School.

The Right Reverend the President of the Committee having announced his intention of establishing a Christian School, to be attached to the new Church of St. James, in Calcutta, the Diocesan School Committee, who understood that the sum in his Lordship's hands would not be fully adequate to complete the work as might be desired, placed at his disposal, if it should be required, a further sum of 2000 Sicca Rupees.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Ashbridge, Joseph, to the vicarage of
Heath, Derbyshire.

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Bagnell, William Webber, B.A. to the perpetual curacy of Honiton's Clyst, REMEMBRANCER, No. 37.

Devon; patrons, the DEAN and CupTER OF EXETER.

Birdwood, W. J. M.A. to the vicarage of Holne, Devon,

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Bonney, Henry Kaye, M.A. to the archdeaconry of Bedford; patron, the LORD BISHOP of LINCOLN.

Boulton, Henry, LL.B. to the vicarage of Sibsey, Lincolnshire; patron, the LORD CHANCELLOR.

Coke, Francis, to hold by dispensation, the vicarage of Sellack, and the chapelry of King's Chapel annexed, with the rectory of Gladestry, Radnor; patrons, the DEAN and CHAPTER of HE

REFORD.

Coke, George, B.A. to the rectory of
Aylton, Herefordshire; patron, the
EARL of OXFORD.

Darson, H. M.A. to the rectory of Bun-
well, Norfolk; patron, SIR R. J. Bux-
TON, Bart. of Shadwell Lodge.
Day, E. B.A. to the rectory of Kirby
Bedon St. Andrew, Norfolk; patron,
MRS. M. DAY.

Foot, J. S. to the vicarage of Liskeard, Cornwall; patron, REV. P. F. HONY, of All Souls' college.

Ford, C. M.A. to the rectory of Billing ford, Norfolk; patron, T. W. COKE, Esq. of Holkham Hall.

Freer, Thomas Lane, M. A. to the vicarage of Wasperton, Warwick, by dispensation; patron, REV. JouN LUCY, M.A. as rector of Hampton Lucy. Grace, H. T. to the vicarage of Westham; patron, LORD G. H. CAVENDISH. Hacker, Nicholas Marshall, to the rectory of Kiddington, Oxon; patron, LORD VISCOUNT DILLON.

Hodgkinson, J. of Brasenose college, to the vicarage of Leigh, Lancashire; patron, LORD LILFORD.

Hopkins, W. M.A. to the rectory of Fitz, Shropshire; patron, the LORD CHAN

CELLOR.

Hughes, Thomas Lewis, M. A. appointed one of the domestic chaplains of LORD COMBERMERE.

Humphreys, Robert, B.A. to the perpe

tual curacy of Bramley, near Leeds. Hurlock, J. T. D.D. of St. John's college, Cambridge, to the prebendal stall of Husborne and Burbage, in the cathedral of Salisbury; patron, the LORD BISHOP.

Jacob, John, to the perpetual curacy of St. Aubyn's Chapel, Plymouth Dock; patron, REV. THOMAS WILLIAMSON, rector of Stoke Damarel. Jeffery, John, D.D. to the rectory of Exton, Somerset; patrons, JOHN EVERED and JOSEPH JEFFERY, Esqrs. Mainwaring, James, appointed one of the domestic chaplains of EARL So

MERS.

Livingstone, Terence, to the rectory of Bigbury, Devon; patron, PETER BROWNE, Esq.

Matthews, Arthur, B.D. fellow of Brazenose college, and prebendary of Hereford, admitted to the office of Prælec

tor in Divinity in the cathedral church of Hereford.

Meade, T. R. to the rectory of Marston

Bigot, Somerset; patron, the EARL of CORK.

Nicolay, G. F. L. M.A. rector of St. Michael and St. Martin Vintry, London, to hold by dispensation the vicarage of Little Marlow, Bucks. Nourse, William, M.A. to the rectory of Chapham, Sussex; patron, RICHARD WATT WALKER, Esq.

Penrice, C. M.A. to the rectory of Little

Plumstead, with Witton and Brundall annexed, Norfolk; on his own petition. Prichard, Richard, B.D. rector of Langan, appointed Senior Vicar Choral of Llandaff; patrons, the CHAPTER. Roberts, T. G. to the rectory of Lianaber, Merioneth; patron, the LORD CHANCELLOR.

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Skinner, R. B.A. to the rectory of Samp

ford Peverell, Devon; patrons, JOHN SILIFANT and THOMAS HUGO, Esqrs. Spurway, J. M.A. to the rectory of Pitt Portion, founded in the church of Tiverton; patron, REV. R. SPURWAY. Tattersall, T. M.A. fellow of Queen's college, Cambridge, to the perpetual curacy of St. Matthew's, Liverpool. Vicars, Matthew, to the rectory of Allhallows, Exeter; patron, THE KING, by reason of lapse.

Watson, T. M.A. to the rectory of Thurlton, and to the perpetual curacy of Hardley, Norfolk; patrons, the CORPORATION of NORWICH.

Webb, John, to the vicarage of Cardiff; patrons, the DEAN and CHAPTER of GLOUCESTER.

White, W. H. M.A. of Wadham college, to the vicarage of St. Mary Bredin, Canterbury; patron, HENRY LEE WARNER, Esq. Wilson. H. vicar of Great Bedwin, to the rectory of Collingbourne Ducis, Wilts; patron, the MARQUIS of AYLES BURY. Wylde, Charles, D.D. to the rectory of Waltham, Norfolk; patrons, the CHAPTER of the COLLEGIATE CHURCH of SOUTHWELL.

Wyndham, Henry Penruddocke, M.A. fellow of New college, Oxford, to the rectory of Sandford Parva, Essex; patrons, the WARDEN and FELLOWS. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

Degrees conferred November 29. BACHELORS OF ARTS.-John Law, Excter college; Francis Hole, Queen's col. lege; Walker King, Oriel college; William Heathcote, Oriel college; Henry John Lewis, Worcester college.

December 1.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.-Edward Maxwell Griffith, Exeter college; James Galloway, Exeter college; Thomas Lawrance Bloxham, scholar of Lincoln col

lege; Joseph Cooke, Magdalen hall; John Edward Gray, Oriel college; John Eveleigh, Oriel college; Carr John Glyn, esq. student of Christ Church; James Edward Leslie, Christ Church; Archibald Crawfurd, Baliol college; Thomas Boucher Coney, Baliol college; Edward Gardiner, Baliol college; Thomas Bissland, Baliol college; Charles Ingram Ford, Worcester college; Joseph Daniel, Worcester college; John Edward Wilson Panton, University college; James Grassett, University college; John Joseph Ellis, fellow of St. John's college; Benjamin Holford Banner, fellow of St. John's college.

December 4.

MASTERS OF ARTS.-Rev, Charles William St. John Mildmay, fellow of Merton college; rev. Thomas Williams, Christ Church; rev. Robert Downes, Worcester college.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.-James Allan Park, esq. Baliol college, grand compounder; Thomas Lawrence, Exeter college; John Pyke, Exeter college; Zachary James Edwards, scholar of Wadham college; Thomas Horatio Walker, Oriel college; Richard Harrington, Christ Church; George Hawkins, scholar of Corpus Christi college; Richard Henry Mostyn Pryce, Corpus Christi college; George Grimstead, Magdalen college; George Newton, Trinity college; William Hutchinson, Brasenose college; John Lodge, Brasenose college; Cicero Rabbits, Worcester college.

December 11.

MASTER OF ARTS. Rev. Thomas Wyett, Trinity college,

BACHELORS OF ARTS.-William Drake Sealy, St. Alban hall; William Strate ton, St. Edmund hall; John Wetherall, Brasenose college; Edmund Philip Stock, Magdalen hall; Edward Trelawny, Oriel college; Henry Thursby, Oriel college; John Williams, Jesus college; Thomas Procter, Jesus college; Frederic Richard Stevens, Worcester college; Henry Peyton Sadler, Pembroke college.

December 17. MASTER OF ARTS.-Rev. Wm. Hawkes Langley, Christ Church.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.-Thomas Henry Walpole, All Souls' college; John Hobart Seymour, Exeter college; John Barn. well, Pembroke college; Henry Philips, Queen's college; Robert Yarker, Queen's college; Henry Addington Simcoe, Wadham college; Charles Wood, Oriel college; James Robert Chaplyn, Trinity college; John Wickes Tomlinson, Trinity college; William Henry Cartwright, Trinity college; Edward Churton, Christ Church; William Lyde Wiggett, University college.

The whole number of degrees in Michaelmas term was, B.D. 1; B.C.L. 1; M.A. 22; B.A. 76; Matriculations 112.

December 4-The names of the following gentlemen, who had been respectively nominated to succeed to the office of select preachers at Michaelmas next, were approved in convocation, viz.: rev. George Gleed, B D. fellow of St. John's college; rev. Benjamin Parsons Symons, B.D. fellow of Wadham college; rev. William Daniel Conybeare, M.A. of Christ Church; rev. John Keble, M.A. fellow of Oriel college; rev. William Crowe, B.C.L. New college.

December 8.-The rev. Henry Hart Milman, M.A. of Brasenose college, and vicar of St. Mary's, Reading, was elected professor of poetry, in the room of the rev. John Josias Conybeare, of Christ Church, resigned.

Mr. Thomas Medland, commoner of Baliol college, was admitted scholar of Corpus Christi college, for the diocese of Exeter.

The following subjects are proposed for the chancellor's prizes for the ensuing year:

For Latin verses, Alpes ab Annibale superata.

For an English esssy, On the Study of Moral Evidence.

For a Latin essay, An, re vera, prævaluerit apud Eruditiores Antequorum Polytheismus?

The first of the above subjects is intended for those gentlemen of the university who have not exceeded four years from the time of their matriculation; and the other two for such as have exceeded four, but not completed seven years.

SIR ROGER NEWDIGATE'S PRIZE.-For the best composition in English verse, not containing either more or fewer than fifty lines, by any under graduate who has not exceeded four years from the time of his matriculation. Palmyra.

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

December 1.-On Wednesday last the following gentlemen were admitted to the undermentioned degrees:

DOCTOR IN DIVINITY.-The rev. John Jeffery, St. John's college.

MASTER OF ARTS.-Edward R. Tunno, Trinity college.

BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW. Horne, St. Peter's college.

Edward

Frederick

BACHELOR IN PHYSIC. Granger, Emmanuel college. BACHELOR OF ARTS.-George William B. Daniell, Caius college.

December 7.-At a congregation on Wednesday last, the following degrees were conferred:

HONORARY MASTER OF ARTS.-Rev. R. Skinner, of St. Peter's college.

BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW.-Rev. Charles Burton, of St. John's college.

At the same congregation William Wilkinson, M.A. of Trinity hall, was

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