was erected in the body of the cathedral, under a rich canopy of state, and Dr. Burnell, chancellor of the church, officiated on the occasion. Jenkin's Hist. of Ereter, p. 161.

Before the departure of the Queen from Exeter, she was presented, in the name of the citizens, with a purse containing £200, in gold. Ibid, p. 162.

- The Lady Elizabeth Russell, daughter of the Earl of Bedford, married August the 7th, 1582, to the Rt. Hon. William, Earl of Bath, was born in Bedford House, as was also the Lady Margaret Russell, Countess Dowager of Cumberland, youngest daughter of the Rt. Hon. Francis Russell, the second Earl of Bedford, baptized in St. Stephen's, Exeter, (since rebuilt) July 9th, 1566.

Bedford House was the residence of the Abbots of Tavistock when at Exeter, and formed part of the monastery of Benedictines there, which was founded by one of the abbots as a cell to Tavistock. It was a large and sumptuous building, and was, at the dissolution, granted together with the abbey of Tavistock, to John, Lord Russel, afterward created Earl of Bedford; and from the earls and dukes often residing here, it received the name of Bedford House, but being deserted by them in the last century, was divided into several tenements, and pulled down to make way for some new houses commenced in 1773, and now called Bedford Circus. They stand north-east of the cathedral.

P. 153. Dr. Robert Vilvain. Robert Vilvain of Exeter College, B. A. May 9, 1597. Wood's Fasti, ed. Bliss, p. 274, vol. i. M. A. July 8, 1600, p. 286. M. D. June 20, 1611.

Robert Vilvain, a most noted physician of his time in the west of England, son of Peter Vilvain, sometime steward of the city of Exeter, by Anne his wife, was

born in the parish of All Hallows, in Goldsmith Street, Exeter, and there educated in grammar learning. In Lent Term 1593, he became a sojourner of Exeter College, aged 18' years, was elected fellow of that house in 1599, and in 1600, July 8, proceeded M. A. In 1611, June 20, he took the degree of M. D. and resigned his fellowship. He then returned to his native city. He published Theoremata Theologica; Theological Treatises in eight Theses of Divinity, viz. Production of Man's Soul, Divine Predestination, The True Church Regimen, Predictions of Messiah, Christ's Two Genealogies, The Revelation Revealed, Christ's Millenar Reign, The World's Dissolution. Lond. 1654, 4to. [Bodl. B. 3, 5, Linc.] with Supplements subjoined. A Compend. of Chronography, 1654. Lond. in 5 sh. 4to. Enchiridion Epigrammatum Latino-Anglicum, or an Epitome of Essays Englished out of Latin, &c. also A Fardel of 76 Fragments and a Survey of our English Julian Year. He was buried early in 1663, in the cathedral, Dec. 21, Feb. 1662-3, at. 87.

He was a liberal benefactor to two hospitals for poor children in that city; and in 1633, gave £32. per ann. for four poor scholars, each to have £8. per ann. to come from that Free School in Exeter, founded by Hugh Crossing, Esq. to Exeter College, or any other college, Oxford. Wood's Ath. Oxon. B. 2, 633, vol. 3, 1817. In 1657, Dr. Vilvain gave a library to the cathedral. On the left side of the entrance into the Lady Chapel is his monument fixed to the wall. His benefactions to his native city may be seen in Jenkin's Hist. of Exeter, pp. 332-334.

In the anonymous life of Dr. Thomas Fuller, it is said, that after the birth of the Princess Henrietta, and Fuller's appointment to be chaplain, "The King to

signify his approbation of the doctor's excellent worth by a farther testimony of it, soon afterwards gave him a patent for his presentation to the town of Dorchester in Dorsetshire, a living valued to be worth £400 per annum." P. 34. Both the livings at Dorchester were latterly in the gift of the corporation.

CHAPTER XVII. P. 274.

HE birth of this young prince [Charles the Second, A.D. 1630,] as it gave cause of great rejoicings to all good subjects, so it gave no small matter of discouragement to the Puritan faction, who had laid their line another way, and desired not that this king should have had any children: insomuch, that at a feast in Friday Street, when some of the company shewed great joy at the news of the Queen's first being with child, a leading man of that faction (whom I could name, were it worth the while) did not stick to say, that he could see no such cause of joy as the others did. Which said, he gave this reason for it, that God had already better provided for us than we had deserved, in giving such a hopeful progeny by the Queen of Bohemia; whereas it was uncertain what religion the King's children would follow, being to be brought up under a mother so devoted to the Church of Rome. Heylyn's Life of Laud, p. 209, 1668.

CHAPTER XVIII. P. 286.

PENCER'S KAINA KAI ПAAAIA, by John Spencer, a Lover of Learning and Learned Men. London, W. Wilson and J. J. Streater for John Spencer at Sion College, 1658, fol. pp. 679; is the fruit of an immense variety of read

ing both of ancient and modern learning. In this very extensive and interesting collection, are several passages from Fuller's unpublished sermons.

C. XIX. Riches have wings.

Ir is a term amongst falconers, that if a hawk fly high, she lessens, she lessens (saith the falconer); but if she soar yet higher, then he cries out, O she vanisheth, she vanisheth. And it is now found to be true by sad and woful experience, that riches are upon the wing, and have of late, by one means or other, taken such a flight out of many men's purses, that they have lessened and lessened every day more and more, and are now at present by the continuance of time even as good as quite vanished. Tho. Fuller's Serm. at S. Clem. [Eastcheap] London, 1647. Spencer's Things New and Old, p. 29.

296. Not to continue angry.

Two Grecian bishops, being fallen out about some difference in point of judgment, parted asunder in great anger, but the elder of them, (for so the wiser is to be accounted) sent unto his colleague a message only in these two words, Sol ad occasum, The sun is about to go down. The other no sooner heard it, but he reflected on that of the apostle, Let not the sun go down upon your wrath; and so they were both friends again. How doth this amity of theirs condemn the enmity that is amongst many of us at this time. As that deadly feud of the Scots, who entailed their lands on posterity conditionally, that they should fight against the party that had offended, and never entertain any the least pacification: and such wrangling lawsuits as that of the two noble families Barclay and Lisle, which began in the reign of Edward the Fourth, and continued to the first year of King James, full seven

score years. It cannot be denied, but that a man may with good qualifications go to law for his own; but the length of time in the suit, when the grandchild shall hardly end that which the grandfather began, may draw on a great suspicion in the want of charitable affection. T. Fuller's Ser. at S. Clem. 1647. Spencer, p. 72.

582. God slow to anger and of great patience.

Ir is observable, that the Roman magistrates, when they gave sentence upon any one to be scourged, a bundle of rods tied hard with many knots, was laid before them. The reason was this, that whilst the beadle, or flagellifer was untying the knots, which he was to do by [i. e. in] order and not in any other hasty or sudden way, the magistrate might see the deportment and carriage of the delinquent, whether he were sorry for his fault, and shewed any hope of amendment, that then he might recal his sentence, or mitigate the punishment; otherwise to be corrected so much the more severely. Thus God in the punishing of sinners how patient is he! how loath to strike! how slow to anger if there were but any hopes of recovery! How many knots doth he untie! How many rubs doth He make in his way to justice! doth not try us by martial law, but pleads the case with us, Why will ye die, O ye house of Israel? and all this to see whether the poor sinner will throw himself down at his feet, whether he will come in and make his composition, and be saved. T. Fuller, Serm. at St. Dunstan's in the East. London, 1647. And see in p. 230, a passage upon Blasphemous Language. Also a passage upon the true measure of justice, too familiarly illustrated from Edward the First making the measure of his arm the standard yard measure of the kingdom; so the counsel of the divine will is the standard of his justice, and should be of ours. Spencer, p. 231.

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