OF DENIS GRANVILLE, D.D. DEAN AND ARCHDEACON OF DURHAM, &c. BEING A FURTHER SELECTION FROM HIS CORRESPONDENCE, DIARIES, AND OTHER PAPERS. ATHENAUM LIVERPOOL Published for the Society BY ANDREWS & CO., DURHAM; WHITTAKER AND CO., 13, AVE MARIA LANE; T. AND W. BOONE, MRS. NUTT, 277, STRAND (Foreign Agent), LONDON; BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH. 1865. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS Ат a Meeting of the Council of the SURTEES SOCIETY, held in the Castle of Durham, on Tuesday, Dec. 6th, 1864, the REV. TEMPLE CHEVALLIER in the chair, it was ORDERED, That a Second Volume of the Letters of DEAN GRANVILLE should form one of the publications of the Society for 1865, to be edited by the Rev. George Ornsby. JAMES RAINE, INTRODUCTION. A VOLUME of Miscellanies published by the SURTEES SOCIETY in the year 1860, contained, inter alia, the Remains of Denis Granville, Dean and Archdeacon of Durham, being a collection of Letters and Papers, some written by the Dean whilst in exile for his faithful adherence to the cause of his Royal Master, James II., others addressed to him on various subjects, together with some which illustrate the state of the Diocese of Durham during the time of the Dean's connexion with it, a period which extended from the Restoration of Charles II. to the Revolution of 1688. To these documents, collected, in the early part of the last century, by the care of Dr. Hunter, a Durham Antiquary of some celebrity, and preserved amongst the MSS. of the Dean and Chapter, the Editor appended such illustrative matter as was then within his reach, chiefly obtained from the Tanner Collection and Dr. Rawlinson's MSS. in the Bodleian Library. Soon after the Volume appeared, however, a large mass of papers relating to Dean Granville came to light, the existence of which was previously unknown. These papers were discovered in the repositories of the Bodleian Library, amongst a quantity of unsorted MSS., which by the care of the present accomplished Librarian, the Rev. H. O. Coxe, have since been properly arranged and |