On his leaving the Earl of Carnarvon, he had been presented to the Rectory of Hartfield, in Sussex, his first preferment, which he exchanged for the Rectory of Mildenhall, commonly called Minall, near Marlborough, Wilts. We have stated that a Canonry of Christ-Church becoming vacant soon after his attendance on Charles, this high ecclesiastical dignity, in a college where he had been student, was bestowed on him by the King himself, doubtless no less for his piety than his attachment to the King's cause and fortunes. He was appointed Canon of Christ-Church 1641. Notwithstanding his having been Chaplain to the King, he was selected, being considered of Calvinistic princi ples, to preach before the Parliament in 1643, which he did with so little satisfaction to those by whom he was appointed, that, when the sermons of all the other preachers were ordered to be published, his sermon only was excepted.

The reason may be readily guessed. It was not tuned to the Parliament; and the reader will know what was expected from the political pulpits, when only two passages are set before him, one from a sermon preached before the same Parliament by Case, and another from the well-known Stephen Marshall, one of the authors of "Smectymnuus."

How may Lord King be recreated by such doctrines as the following, not preached by the intolerant Clergy of the Church of England!

Case, in his sermon before the Commons, 1644,

proclaims, "God is angry;" and then makes the God of mercy thus expostulate: *

"Will you not strike? Will you execute judgment, or will you not? Tell me-for if you will not I WILL! [God will strike, unless the Parliament take it out of his hands!] I WILL have the enemies' BLOOD!"

But this blasphemous fiend in the pulpit falls short of the pious Stephen Marshall, in 1641:

"What SOLDIER'S HEART would not start deliberately to come into a subdued city, and take the little ones on a spear's point, to take them by the heels, and beat out tHEIR BRAINS against the wall! yet if this work be to REVENGE GOD'S CHURCH (the Presbyterian!) against BABYLON (the Church of England), he is a BLESSED MAN that takes and dashes the little ones against the stones."

How must Morley, the early friend of Sir Lucius Carey, afterwards Lord Falkland, and of Chillingworth, and of Hammond, have disdained such language! And such sentiments were uttered in a Christian Church!

* Why do I publish this? Because, otherwise, it would not be believed; and because, if I spoke of fanatical preachers without proof, I should be set down as wanting charity.

+ So Milton, in Lycidas: "Stands ready to strike once!" alluding to the axe which beheaded Laud! "STRIKE!" was well understood at the time; and this bloody rhapsody was preached in the year of Laud's trial, to hasten his end, he having been three years in prison.

Morley, if not, like Locke, born "in the storm," now began to witness and experience its violence ; and how often, during its continuance, till it fell on his unsheltered head, and the heads of his most beloved friends - how often must he have recollected those peaceful academical days when he was one of that delightful society which met at the Tusculum described by Clarendon, of Sir Lucius Carey-near Oxford. The account of the place, manner of living, and company, is so interesting, that I shall be excused for inserting the description:

"His house where he (Sir Lucius Carey) usually resided, Tew, in Oxfordshire, within ten or twelve miles of the University, looked like the University itself by the company always found there. There were Dr. Sheldon, Dr. MORLEY, Dr. HAMMOND, Dr. Earle, Mr. CHILLINGWORTH, &c. and, indeed, all the men of eminent parts and faculties from Oxford, besides those who resorted thither from London, who all found their lodging there as ready as in the colleges; nor did the lord of the house know of their coming or going, or who were in the house, till he came to dinner or supper, where they still met. Here Mr. CHILLINGWORTH wrote, and formed, and modelled his excellent book."+

Let us think of this unaffected scene of noble

and friendly hospitality of Morley Hammond

* Afterwards Bishop of Salisbury, who translated the Icon into Latin; educated at Winchester, before Ken.

+ His "immortal" work.

Chillingworth-meeting at supper or dinnerof the deep reasoning of Chillingworth, the pure, scriptural religion of Hammond, compared with the livelier humour and frankheartedness of Morley. In such a society, he was remarkable for the gaiety of his conversation, and one witticism of his is recorded by Lord Clarendon, which shews at the time, how little that spirit of Puritanic Calvinism prevailed, which so soon afterwards soon afterwards gained its gloomy and tyrannical ascendant.

It was enquired of him, what the ARMINIANS held? "What the Arminians hold! hold all the Bishoprics and Deaneries in England!" answered Morley. One of these Deaneries, before the Restoration, he "held" himself, till dispossessed-not by the Arminians!!

But how soon after this smart saying was it found that neither Bishoprics nor Deaneries remained to any of these grasping Arminians, for they who assembled at this peaceful academical Tusculum in youth, were the very first to experience the domination of Calvinistic toleration!

The benevolent and accomplished master of the house, Lord Falkland, and Robert Earl of Carnarvon, were killed in the same battle. Chillingworth and Hall, the noblest writers and the best of men, lived to have their days shortened by cruelty and insult; Laud, the Arminian Primate of all England, was condemned to be "HANGED, DRAWN, and QUARTERED!" This was the end of "Arminian Deans

and Bishops!" Morley, though no Arminian, was deprived of all he had.

Whilst the King was permitted to have his Chaplains with him, Morley was constantly in attendance. The Presbyterians sternly forbad, at Holmby, any spiritual attendance but of their own priesthood, the King being denied the common consolation of the vilest criminal! At Holmby he was first left, as it is said in the Εικων Βασιλική, to his "solitary prayers," and most grievously did he feel this deprivation of those whose looks-whose voices, were always compassionate and respectful,— whose instruction was necessary to confirm his fortitude, or elevate his heart above this scene of mortal suffering. Let the reader turn to the prayer in the Icon, "on parting with his Chaplains." That this affecting prayer was written by the wretch Gauden, I no more believe than I believe Gauden could write King Lear; and I would ask my excellent friend Mr. Hallam, whether he thinks the PRAYER-of that only I speak-which contains the words, "To thee, therefore, oh Lord! I now offer up my solitary prayers," whether he thinks this prayer as "cold" as he has pronounced the Icon ? If he does, then our feelings and taste differ: to me,

it appears that this prayer could only have proceeded from a heart that deeply felt what in such affecting language it

expresses.

MILTON, the stern Iconoclast, was a very different being from Milton the author of PENSEROSO