he did not quite effect the murder ; and therefore in order to complete his horrid purpose, he beat him about the head with the butt end of the gun in so violent a manner that he broke it, and in his terror put only one of the pieces in his bag. He was seen about eight o'clock the following evening near Pershore, and had changed his blue coat for a brown one. As a strict search is making after him, we hope he will not long elude that justice which his crime demands. At Winston, Durham, the Rev. Jonathan Mirehouse, formerly curate of Ryton. At Dalby, in Yorkshire, aged 75, the Rev. Thomas Lurnley, LL. B. rector of Dalby, and forty years rector of Bransby. By his death society has lost a worthy, intelligent, and independent member: his acquaintance a sincere, valuable, and hospitable friend: and the poor a most humane, liberal fand according to his abilities), munificent benefactor. At Chesterfield, aged 76, the Rev. John Bourne, rector of Sut, ton cum Duckmantown, and vicar of South Wingfield, Derbyshire. The Rev. Luke Willey, many years master of the free grammar school at Doncaster. At the rectory house at Soulderne, in Oxfordshire, in his 73d year, the Rev. John Horseman, upwards of thirty-four years rector of that parish, and formerly fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge: B. A. 1755; M. A. 1758; and B.D. 1766. The master and fellows of St. John's are patrons of the rectory. At Stanlake, after a short but severe illness, aged 49, the Rev. Arthur Homer, D. D. rector of that parish, and formerly fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. The living is in the gift of that society. At Harrington Hall, in Worcestershire, the Rev. George Hartley. In the 71st year of his age, the Rev. Robert Nash, of Worcester. At the rectory, Blithfield, Staffordshire, the Rev. Walter Bagot, aged 75. He was the intimate. friend and correspondent of Cowper the poet. At Bibury, in Gloucestershire, of an apoplectic fit, the Rev. Mr. Davies, rector of that parish, and late member of Wadham College, Oxford. At Thaxstead, in Essex, the Rev. Mr. Maynard, brother of Lord Maynard, and rector of Rudwinter, and vicar of Thaxstead. At Bridgewater, Samuel Day, Esq. of Hintou. At a meeting held on the 7th of June for the nomination of a representative for the county of Somerset in the place of the late William Dickenson, Esq. the bustings gave way, and several gentlemen were precipitated to the ground, from a considerable height. Among these was Mr. Day, whose leg was broken by the accident. From the very favourable appear ances of the fracture, a speedy recovery was at first expected; but in a few days he was seized with a vomiting and convulsive hiccups, which he foretold were preludes to his approaching dissolution. His sufferings were supported with much manly and christian fortitude, even to the afflicting trial of taking leave of his friends, A few hours previous to his death, which took place on the 16th, he received at his own express desire the holy sacrament, from the hands of his relation the Rev. Mr. Skurray, who accompanied Mrs. Day and her son from Hinton, and remained with them to the last mournful scene. Mr. Day was a most active magistrate, and supported the character of a country gentleman in its primitive excellence-humane, upright, hospitable, and religious. He was in the 50th year of his age. TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE circumstance related by EsSSEXIENSIS is so very serious and important, that we cannot insert it on merely anonymous authority. If he will favour us with the particulars, we shall not fail to expose the case as it deserves. The ACADEMIANA and other deferred articles in our next. ORTHODOX CHURCHMAN'S MAGAZINE AND REVIEW; FOR AUGUST, 18 1806. What is rightly done in the CHURCH on Earth, stands good in Heaven, as if it had been done there. BIOGRAPHY. JONES on the Church. Some Account of GEORGE HICKES, D. D. formerly Dean of Worcester. THI HIS venerable and learned divine was born in the. parish of Kirby Wiske, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, in June, 1642. At an early age he was placed under Mr. Thomas Smelt, an excellent grammarian, of whom our author, out of gratitude, afterwards wrote the following account: "He was chosen to be Master of the Free-School at North Alverton, from a village three miles off that place, called Danby Wiske, where he had taught a private school about ten years. It was there I was first put to him, where he taught about threescore boys; the greater part of which were gentlemen's sons, or sons of the more substantial yeomanry of that part of Yorkshire, or the south parts of the bishopric of Durham, which were near to it. When I came first to him, he was, as he had been some time before, much given to drink. Sometimes he would drink two days together but, however, he kept his school in such excellent order, and his scholars made such proficiency under him, that the country overlooked this fault in him, and valued him as a blessing sent from God, there being then in those parts none comparable to him for the inVol. XI. Churchm. Mag. August, 1806. M struction struction of youth. After I had been about a year with him, he wholly left off his custom of intemperate drinking not by degrees, but all at once, which, as I remember, gave the boys occasion to say, that it was upon a great fright which he received at the sight of something he saw as he was walking in the fields: but whatever was the occasion of his reformation, it was effectual and permanent; for after God was pleased so suddenly to work this happy change in him, he forsook his drunken companions of the town and neighbouring country, and became a great example of sobriety, even to the wonder of his scholars; who, as all scholars are, were strict observers of their master's life. "Soon after he had reformed himself, the master of the free-school at North Alverton dying, he was chosen into his place. Thither all his scholars of better quality followed him; and his strict sobriety continuing, be grew more and more into reputation: insomuch, that all the time I was with him, he had seldom less than fourscore scholars, which he taught himself, without any assistant under him. He had never been bred in either University, though he sent many fine youths to both, but especially to Cambridge; and one to Trinity College, in Dublin, who was a great ornament to it, viz. Dr. William Palliser, afterwards archbishop of Cashel, in Ireland. The learned Dr. Thomas Burnet*, master of the Charter-House, was also bred under him, for whom he had a particular kindness when he was his scholar, and for many years after he left the school, used to propose him as a great example to us who came after him. The very learned and ingenious Mr. Thos. Rymert, well known for his great critical skill in human learning, especially in poetry and history, was his scholar and great favourite, and in the same class with myself. And after our time, the famous physician Dr. John Radcliffe, and Mr. Kettlewell, were bred under him. To express myself in the phrase of those times, when I was scholar to our worthy master Smelt, he was a great loyalist, or cavalier, though he concealed his principles, which, upon some occasions, however, would discover themselves in the school. * Author of the Sacred Theory of the Earth; and several other ingenious performances. Compiler of that great work, the Federa; and author of several pieces. "North "North Alverton is a noted thoroughfare on the northern road, through which part of the army of those times, both horse and foot, did often march; and we observed, that as soon as he heard the sound of drum or trumpet, his countenance did always fall; and it usually was a good while before he could recollect himself, and reform his disordered looks. The officers of the army would sometimes come to beg play-days, but he would never grant it; and once one of Cromwell's great commanders, whose name I have forgot, lying in the town, he sent one of his officers, in his name, to beg a playday, but, as I remember, he would not grant it; and coming to the knowledge of the boys who went to petition the major-general to make that request to him, he chastised them in the most severe manner, and had like to have turned them out of the school. I remember, when we read Justin's History, he made many reflections upon Agathocles, which he intended we should understand of the Protector Cromwell, insomuch, that being a young scholar at Oxford, when the life of Agathocles came out without the author's name *, I could not but think it had been written by some one that had been his scholar before my time. When we came to read Homer, he would take occasion from the many passages in that poet, which the learned know are written for the honour of kings, to read us lectures against rebels and regicides, whom he compared to the giants that fought against the gods: and I do here offer all humble thanks to God, that, by his means; I first received that light, which made me first discern the iniquity of the times in which I was born, and hitherto bred. He was alive, when I published Jovian, in answer to Julian the apostate, in 1683. And Mr. Kettlewell, who preserved a just esteem for his good master, twice, in his free but obliging way, expostulated with me for neglecting to send him copies of that, and some other books I had then printed, as tokens of my respect for him. He made me sensible of my fault, and thereupon resolve to make him amends, which, when I was going to bed, I heard of his death; but the respect and gratitude which I neglected to pay to his person, I desire now to pay, with interest, to his memory, who was a good man, in all relations, as well * It was written by Richard Perrinchief, D. D. author of the Life of King Charles the First, &c. as a good schoolmaster, and free from all vices but that which I have mentioned, to which he was subject in his younger days; but I have mentioned it for his honour, who made such an effectual and lasting reformation of himself from a sin which so few reform, and for the praise and honour of God, who made him so exemplary a penitent, that he would never after go into any public house of drinking, or contract any acquaintance with those who used to do so, but remained a monument and pattern of strict temperance and sobriety to his dying day*." We have extracted this account as being not only interesting and instructive, but as manifesting the excellence of Dr. Hickes's disposition, in thus recording his grateful remembrance of his worthy tutor. In April, 1659, our author was admitted a servitor of St. John's college, Oxford, from whence he soon after removed to Magdalen college, in the same capacity, and where he continued till he took his bachelor's degree, when he entered of Magdalen Hall. On the 23d of May, 1664, he was elected Follow of Lincoln College, where he distinguished himself greatly as a tutor, and had a considerable number of pupils under his care, - one of whom he accompanied to the continent, in 1679, and spent eighteen months with him in France and Switzerland. At Paris he contracted an intimacy with the learned Henry Justell, who sent by him, as a present to the Bodleian Library, the original manuscript of the Canones Ecclesia Universalis, in Greek, published by his father Christopher Justell, in return for which the University of Oxford conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws on the son, by diploma. In June, 1677, Mr. Hickes, accompaned John, duke of Lauderdale, into Scotland, as his chaplain, having been recommended to his grace by Dr. Compton, bishop of London. During his stay in Scotland happened the trial of James Mitchell, for attempting to murder Dr. Sharp, archbishop of St. Andrew's; on which Mr. Hickes wrote and published a book, entitled, Ravaillac Redivivus; but he was careful to conceal his name as the author, lest he should be exposed to the sanguinary vengeance of the fanatics. The year following the university of St. Andrew's conferred the degree of Doctor of * Memoirs of Mr. John Kettlewell, p. 10-15. 8vo. 1718. Divinity |