England, at that interval, in behalf of natural and revealed Rc. ligion, and Proteftanism, and civil liberty; the Revolution of 1688, together with the afcertainment of the diftinct nature and rights of an established Church, and a religious toleration; and the principles of the Non-jurors," P. xi.

The object of Dr. Wordsworth profeffedly was, not to go in fearch of new materials, but merely to revive the old; and the undertaking to do this became the more meritorious, as it has been of late the earnest and ftrenuous endeavour of fome modern writers among us, of the Roman Catholic perfuafion, and of Dr. Milner in particular, to call in queftion the fidelity of one of the most accurate and authentic of all Ecclefiaftical Hiftorians, namely, of honeft John Fox. His fame, however, is too well fupported by documents of unquestionable hiftorical authority, to be at all impaired or fhaken by the attacks of fuch adverfaries. We think it our duty to inform the readers, in due order, what are the lives to be found in this valuable compilation. The work commences with the hiftory of Wickliffe, which, with thofe of William Thorpe, Lord Cobham, and Cardinal Wolfey, comprife the first volume. The Life of Cardinal Wolfey, by Cavendish, has here received additions fo confiderable from a Manufeript in the Archiepifcopal Library at Lambeth, as almoft to deserve the name of a new work.

In the fecond Volume we have the lives of Thomas Bilney, of Sir Thomas More, William Tindal, Cromwell Earl of Effex, John Rogers, Bifhop Hooper, and of Dr. Rowland Taylor. The Life of Sir Thomas More is now first published from a Manufcript in the Lambeth Library, by an unknown Author,-From this, we fhall present our readers with an extract,

"It happened once one of his fonnes in law faid merrilie unto him, "When Cardinal Wolfey was Lord Chancellour manie got well by him. Not only thofe that were neare about him, but his Yeomen, Door-keepers and Porters had their gaine. And fith I have married one of your daughters, and give attendance still on you, in good reafon, methinks, I might look for fomething."

And foe thou mayeft fonne," quoth he; "for I may manie wayes pleasure you, or your friend; either by my good worde, or letter; or if you have a caufe depending before me; at youre request, I may heare that before another; or if your, or your friends caufe be not the beft, I may move the parties to fall to some reasonable compofition by arbitrement. Howbeit one thing thing I affure thee on my faith and honeftie, I will never goe against equitie and confcience; no, if my father stood on the one fide and the Divell on the other, if his caufe were good, the Divell fhould

have his right." And this afterwards appeared to be true in his fonne Herons cafe. For he having a matter in the Chancerie, and prefuming too much of his father's favour, would by no means be perfuaded to agree to anie indifferent order; then he made a flat decree against him.

Being in this high office, he ufed commonlie every after noone, at his owne houfe at Chelfey, to fit in his halle, to the intent that all that had anie fuit to him, might boldlie come to his prefence. He kept noe door fhut. Both to riche and poore he was readie to give audience. His manner was, before he would award any fub-poena, to reade over every bill of complaint himfelfe; and if he found matter fufficient, he would fet his hand unto it; if not, he would prefently cancel it. He difpatched moe causes in shorter fpace than were wont to be in manie yeares, before or fince. once he fat when there was no man or matter to be heard. he caufed to be enrolled in publique acts of that court. ftrange to them that know there have been caufes there depending fome dozen yeares. And there be fo many things there heard, that it will be a rare thing to heare the like againe.

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"Once he made a decree against one Pernell, at the fuite of Mr. Vaughan. This faid Pernell complained grievously to the King, that his Chancellour was a great briber and extortioner; and that he received by Vaughans wife, for giving fentence with her hufband, a faire gilded cup, for a bribe. By the Kings appointment, after he had given up his Chancellourfhip, he was called before the council to anfwere that matter; where by the Lord of Wilhire, who mifliked him for his religion, it was forcibly urged against him, as a heynous cryme. Sir Thomas thus replied,

For as much as the cup was brought me for a new years gift, long after the decree was made, at the gentlewomans importunate preffing it upon me, I confeffe, I refufed not to receive it." The Lord his enemie, in a rejoicing manner, not expecting the rest of his fpeech, "my Lords," quoth he, "I told you you thould finde a foule matter of it: for 1 was enformed certainelie of the truth of it." Whereupon Sir Thomas defired their Lordshipps, that as they had curteouflie heard him tell the one parte of his tale, fo they would of their honours indifferentlie heare the reft. So he declared unto them," that albeit," quoth he, " I did indeed, with much a-doe, receive the cup, yet immediately I caufed my butler to fill it with wine, and I dranke to the bearer, Mrs. Vaughan; and when fhe had pledged me, I gave her the cup againe, as freelie as fhe gave it me, to deliver to her husband for his new-yeares gift; and at my inftant request, againft her will fhe was forced to receive it. This her felfe fhall depofe, and others now here present can witneffe it."

"And at another tyme, upon a new yeares daye, there came to him one Mistress Crocker, a riche widowe, for whom he had made a decree against the Earle of Arundel, and the prefented him with a paire of gloves and forty pounds in angells in them, of whom

thankfully

thankfully he receaved the gloves, and refufing the money faid unto her, "Miftris, fince it were against good manners to for-fake a gentlewomans new years gift, I am contented to take your gloves, but as for the money I utterlie refufe it." So he forced her to take her gold againe.

"A gentleman, one Mr. Grefham, having a caufe depending before him in the Chancerie fent, for a new years gift, a faire golden cup, the fashion whereof liking him well, he caused one of his owne prefentlie to be brought him. His owne was better in value, but in his mynde not of fo good a fashion; this he gave the messenger to deliver to his maitter in recompence of his, and under other condition he would in no wife receive his maifters cup. Such was his innocencie and clearnefs, evidentlie proved to be voide of all corruption and partial affection.

"You have heard how Sir Thomas before he came to the Kings fervice, had a very worshipful living. After he was of the Kings Council, Under-Treafurer, Chauncellour of the Duchie, and after High Chauncellour of England. Moreover, how he was in manie honorable ambaffages, alwayes in great favour with the King, and in his expences he was never prodigal nor wafteful: yet for all this, after the refignation of his office of chancellourship, he had not, for the maintenance of him felfe, his wife, children and nephewes, of all the lands and fees he had in England, befides the Kings gift, not yearlie the full fumme of fiftie poundes; whereof fome he had by his later wife, who was a widow when he married her; fome was left him by his father; fome he purchased; and fome fees he had of fome temporal men his frendes. As for the lands he purchased, they were not above the value of twenty marks by the yeere. And after his debts paide, except his chaine of gold, he had not in gold and filver left him the value of one hundred pounds. Compare it with the wealth of fome men that have these latter yeares poffeffed his offices, and there will appear two-pence halfpennie a-yeare difference.

"At that time he called all his children unto him, and asked their advice, how they might, now in this decay of his abilitie, by the furrender of his offices fo much impaired, that he could not as he was wont, and gladlie would, beare out the whole charge of them all himfelfe, from hence-forth be able to live and continue together, as he would wish they fhould. When he fawe them filent, and not readie in that cafe to utter theire opinions, "I will then" (faid he)" fhowe you my poore minde.”

"I have bin brought up at Oxforde, at the Inns of Chancerie, at Lincolns Inn, and also in the King's Court, and fo, forth from the lowest to the higheft; and yet I have not in yearlie revenues, at this prefent left me little above one hundred pounds, either by inheritance, gift or fee; fo that we must hereafter, if we like to live together, be content to become contributaries. But by my counfel, it shall be beft for us not to falle to the lowest fare at first. So we will not defcende to Oxforde fare, nor to the fare of New

Inn, but we will beginne with Lincolns Inn diet, where manie right worshipful of good years doo live full well. Which, if we the first yeare find not ourselves able to maintaine, then will we the next yeare ftepp one foot lower to New Inn fare, with which manie an honeft man is contented. If that alfo exceed our abilitie, then we will the next yeare after fall to Oxforde fare, where manie grave and ancient fathers be continuallie converfaunte; which if our power ftretch not to maintaine, then may we, like poore fchollers of Oxforde, goe a begging with our bags and wallets, and fing falve regina at rich mens doores, where for pitie fome goode folkes will give us their merciful charitie; and fo keep companie and be merrie together." VOL. II. P. 95.

The third volume contains three lives only, namely, thofe of Bishop Latimer, Bifhop Ridley, and Archbishop Cranmer. The contents of the fourth volume are the lives of Bishop Jewell, Bernard Gilpin, Richard Hooker, Archbishop Whitgift, Dr. John Donne, and George Herbert. The life of Bishop Jewell is reprinted entire from a life prefixed to an English edition of the apology of the Church of England in 1685. Bernard Gilpin's life is reprinted from a translation of the Latin life by Bifhop Carlton. Hooker, Donne and Herbert, are from Walton's lives, and that of Archbishop Whitgift from the life, by Sir George Paul.

In the fifth volume are the lives of Sir Henry Walton, of Nicholas Ferrar, Bishop Hall, Dr. Henry Hammond, Bishop Sanderson, and Richard Baxter. The life of Nicholas Ferrar by Dr. Peckard has in this compilation received very confiderable additions from the Manufcript in the Lambeth Library.

The fixth and concluding volume prefents us with the lives of Sir Matthew Hale, Philip Henry, the Earl of Rochester, and finally of Archbishop Tillotfon. An Index is added, and the whole work continually illuftrated with notes by Dr. Wordfworth. These notes are fo judicious, and fo appofite, that the reader will neceffarily wish them to have been more numerous. The work is infcribed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, in an addrefs which some may perhaps think too adulatory, but which is doubtless strictly inerited. We beg to return our thanks to Dr. Wordsworth for this valuable and truly important publication, which cannot be too strongly recommended to all theological students.

ART.

ART. VII. A Narrative of a Voyage to Surinam, of a Refidence there during 1805, 1306, and 1807; and of the Author's Re turn to Europe by the Way of North America. By Baton Albert Von Sack, Chamberlain to his Pruffian Majefty. 4to. pp. 282: G. and W. Nicol. 1810.

WER

ERE the climate lefs unhealthy, there is no country in the world which prefents more curious objects of refearch to European travellers, than Dutch Guiana, commonly called Surinam, from the capacious and beautiful river of that name. It produces every variety of vegetable production, and prefents an inexauftible field to the botanift; neither is its zoology much less diverfified, its immense and almost impene trable forefts fwarm with tribes of quadrupeds, ferpents and infects, many of which are either altogether unknown or have been imperfectly defcribed by naturalifts. The foil is luxuriant almost beyond competition, and abounds in every thing ne ceffary for the fupport, as well as the luxuries of life. Of its natural hiftory we have a fplendid reprefentation in the works of Madam Merian, a Dutch lady of extraordinary talents as an artift, who refided many years at Surinam for that exprefs purpofe. The original drawings of infects, fruits and animals are depofited in the British Mufeum. Since her time nothing interefting has appeared on the fubject of this region, except the volumes of Captain Stedman, which however curious and entertaining on the whole, were fo defaced by the reprefentations of the atrocious cruelties practifed on the poor slaves, that they could not be read without a dreadful fhock to the feelings of humanity. Happy are we to have the authority of this enlightened traveller for informing our readers, that fuch inftances of cruelty as Stedman has not only mentioned but exhibited in difgufting drawings, are no longer known.

The prefent entertaining and well-written volume was originally compofed in German. The author, who was in the honourable employment of Chamberlain to his Pruffian Majefty, tranflated it himself into English by way of improving himself in our language, fubmitting it, as he candidly observes, to revifion by a friend, that the inaccuracies of language unavoidable to a foreigner might be removed. The voyage feems to have been undertaken with a view to the re-establishment of the writer's health, and from the reprefentations here given it manifeftly appears, that if Europeans would regulate. their mode of life to the circumftances of the climate, and with a careful obfervation of the rules of prudence and temperance, Surinam is in fact by no means fo unhealthy as it has been generally supposed. As we have now a more peculiar intereft