that there wandered, in his early days, another report of this story: That the celebrated lady having taken possession, in the King's name, of the bachelor Prebendary's ecclesiastical residence, refused, except vi et armis, to move! Possession had been taken in the absence of the owner, who, on his return, finding the unexpected guest deaf to entreaty, was obliged to order a part of the roof to be taken off ;* when the lady, thus forcibly dislodged, scudded to the deanery, to make her report of the obdurate Prebendary to the King!

Having offered my acknowledgments to those who have favoured me with these communications, I reserve my last acknowledgment, with every affectionate feeling, for my old and esteemed friend, the Rev. James Dallaway, with whom that friendship through many years, commenced in the earlier and social hour when we were scholars together on the same foundation of Trinity College in Oxford. He gave me all the assistance which his knowledge of genealogy in particular supplied; and to him, for much other information, I am equally indebted.

* The brick appendage to the deanery, called traditionally "Nell Guinne," was at this time projected.

I shall detain the reader in making a very few more observations.

My duty imposed upon me a comprehensive view of Puritanism, in its progress and effects, as witnessed from the year 1640 to the Restoration; and if, in speaking of the other religious extreme, which Ken so steadily avoided, the religion of the Church of Rome, I should give offence to any of its conscientious members, particularly many individuals whom I respect and love, I hope I shall not be condemned for feelings of intolerance and uncharitableness.

My own religion is as dear to me as theirs is to them; and I felt it my duty to express my conviction of the unscriptural errors of some doctrines, however I might love and respect those who do not view them in the same light with myself.

To obviate any misconception with regard to what is said of Ken's Greek Testament, I must expressly state that I by no means would justify the inference, that, because the GREEK TESTAMENT, without note or comment, is the best answer to elaborate systems of scholastic divinity, therefore the theologian has nothing to do but to confine himself to one book. He will keep his eye

not only intent on this divine code, but he will remember the Articles to which he has subscribed, and the numerous eloquent and learned writings with which his station in the Christian church renders it necessary he should be acquainted; but all systems must be submitted to the Gospel, and not the Gospel, as is too often the case, submitted to systems. To him who is well grounded in the code of Christ and his Apostles, all systems, supralapsarian, sub-lapsarian, Calvinistic or Arminian, will be as "chaff, hay, stubble;" but he will not therefore reject all interesting illustrations, or the various critical expositions of learned and pious, but, not infallible men.

Here I hoped to have finished all I had to say, but can I relinquish the pen, having held up to my Christian countrymen the great example of an English prelate, educated in our public schools, and a Fellow of that Society where he had been educated, without taking some notice of those calumnies and falsehoods which, whilst I write, have been circulated, with no sparing assiduity, against such institutions connected with our episcopal and religious establishments. Far be from me the remotest wish, or even a thought, of interfering with the

conscientious religious principles of any; but where neither truth nor charity can be pleaded for the aggressive attacks on institutions which have fostered such virtues as I have described, surely the most dispassionate, at this momentous period, might say, in the language of St. Paul, "Being defamed, we entreat."

Bishop Ken was a scholar at Winchester school; he was admitted a Fellow of New College, founded by the founder of Winchester College, to receive those who, having had their education at Winchester College, should, in case of vacancy, be admitted to a Fellowship of New College, Oxford. This was the will of the founder; but a battery from what is called the "Black Book" has been opened—and no book ever more deserved such a name against the whole Church Establishment, and against this foundation in particular, with the old cant distinctions about public and private property.

If a person, by the name of Allen, chooses to leave his property, lawfully acquired, to the support of a benevolent foundation, enjoining by will that a Lay-master and Lay-Warden, by the names of ALLEN, should for ever superintend his eleemosynary foundation; shall the intent and purport of

this will be set aside, and the estates alienated, on the plea that they are public property? Why is not the property of William of Wyccham, and the freeholds of Bishopricks, as sacred as those of the Founder of the "College of God's Gift," in Surrey? But what a Satanic perversion, to represent, deliberately, the bounties of private benevolence, first as PUBLIC PROPERTY, and second to represent as a robbery of the public, that very wealth which was bequeathed to and for the public!

As to Fellowships, was there ever a more virtuous or conscientious man upon earth than he whose history I have imperfectly narrated? Had he been robbing the public, because he was Fellow of Winchester? And if a living was tenable with this situation, was he as unfeeling as unprincipled for holding a living with his fellowship? I can have no motive for saying this, but a conscientious belief that the guardians of this noble Foundation have observed the spirit of the Statutes, from the foundation to the present day.

I came forward in answer to the objections of Mr. Brougham, now Lord Chancellor of England, -and a nobler or more ingenuous opponent no controversialist ever had. I come forward again,