Here the Compiler feems to be a Stran- Page 74, & 138. ger to the Bishop's Family, in miftaking the Death of his only Child and Daughter for that of his Son. Mr. JANAWAY's Letter was writ to Mr. CHADWICK, who had married that Daughter, with whom he had only one Thousand Pounds, the Bishop faying it was a Gentlewoman's Fortune, and would not be prevailed with to give her more, tho' Mr. CHADWICK was a Gentleman of a good Estate and Family. It is ftrange, that no particular Enquiry has been made, to know what Pofterity the Bishop left, which I think are Two Sons and a Daughter, his Grand-Children by his Daughter. The Daughter I perceive by Mr. NELSON's Will (the noted Non-juror) married one Mr. FOWLER, probably a Son of Bishop FOWLER, or Grandfon. Here that part of his excellent Prayer, Page 97. (which is in the 14th Vol. of his Sermons) fhould have been inferted, wherein, he bleffes God, that he was born of Honeft and Religious Parents - and that he had en abled him to return to them and their Childred the Kindness he received from them, and to be still a Father to them. I wonder very much that Mr. LESLEY Page 120. fhould be made the Author of fome Dif courfes upon Dr. BURNET and Dr. TIL LOTSON, LOTSON, &c. when all the World knows they were written by Dr. HICKES, who never difowned them, and whom Bishop BURNET pointed to fo often in his Answer to them, and almost named him, besides the very great difference of the Stile from Mr. LESLEY'S, and likeness or fameness rather with the Doctor's. Page 138 Put Daughter in the room of Son, as was noted before. It may be here added, that the Bishop was buried near his dear Friend Bishop WILKINS (no doubt) according to his Order and Defire; for that Bishop WILKINS was buried under the North-Wall of the Chancel of the Church of St. Lawrence, as you may fee in Newcourt, Vol. 1. p. 388. and in Wood's Athen. Oxon, Vol.2. P. 370. Page 137. I forgot to obferve here, that it seems to have been proper to have given an Account of the Death of the Arch-Bishop's Lady, Mrs. TILLOTSON, who departed this Life, as the publick Prints did fay, Jan. 20. 170. and where she was buried, which I know not, but suppose by her Husband. A Gentleman of Hertfordshire, who was a Juftice of Peace in the late Reigns, and a violent Profecutor of the Diffenters, had got Dr. TILLOTSON's Picture in his Par Parlour. The Dr. was drawn with his Gown on, and a Cloak upon one Shoulder, which he fhew'd often to Strangers for their Diverfion, and to expofe and ridicule the Doctor, into whofe Company and Converfation he afterwards accidentally fell, and was fo pleafed and charmed with it, and fatisfied in his Character, that he declared his Grief for what he had done, and burnt the Picture. Arch-Bishop TILLOTSON was fully fatisfied long before he died, as he declared to an eminent Clergyman, that his long projected Defign of a COMPREHENSION was utterly impracticable, and that the Diffenters would never comply with any Abatements in Ceremonies, or other Terms of Conformity, nor any Thing less than the entire Overthrow of our prefent Church Polity and Service, and the hoifting their own new-fangled Scheme into the Place of it. And indeed Dr. CA LAMY, who may be prefumed to speak the Mind of the reft of his Party, tells the World very frankly, and with much Integrity, and without fhuffling or prevaricating (which has been, and is but too *The Reverend Mr. CHADWICK, Rector of Wormley in Hertfordshire, who was very intimate with him. much t much used in this Cafe, when they are And this is agreeable to the Refolutions and Declarations of the Non-Conformists in Queen ELIZABETH'S Reign. See Collier's Church Hiftory, Vol. 2. p. 586, and in that of King CHARLES I. Bishop HACKET'S Life of Arch-Bishop WILLIAMS, Part 2. ·P.147. FINI S. |