HIS LIFE AND TIMES.

ILLUSTRATED FROM HIS OWN WRITINGS, AND FROM

CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS.

BY W. JOS. WALTER,

LATE OF ST. EDMUND'S COLLEGE.

SECOND EDITION.

Like Cato firm, like Aristides just,
Like rigid Cincinnatus nobly poor,

A dauntless soul, erect, who smiled on death.

Thomson.

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ON MORE'S PORTRAIT.

From Holbein's hand, it is the portraiture
Of More, the mild, the learned, and the good;
Trac'd in that better stage of human life,
When vain imaginations, troublous thoughts,
And hopes and fears have had their course, and left
The intellect compos'd, the heart at rest;

Nor yet decay hath touch'd our mortal frame.
Such was the man, whom Henry, of desert
Appreciant alway, chose for highest trust;
Whom England in that eminence approved,
Whom Europe honoured, and Erasmus loved.

SOUTHEY, Poet Laureate.

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PREFACE.

In one of his latest works, the lamented Sir James Mackintosh challenged the zeal of the Catholics as a body. His words are these: "Being now restored to their just rank in society, the Roman Catholics have no longer an excuse for not continuing this useful work:"-he is speaking of Dodd's Church History.* It might be asked whether a greater latitude could not have been given to this appeal, so as to have included the lives and writings of the many eminent statesmen and scholars, both lay and ecclesiastic, who at once illustrated the faith of their fathers, and the age in which they flourished, and who are justly entitled to our grateful regard ?

The object of the present volume, as it will be

* Sir James's appeal to Catholic scholarship has not been without its effect. The first part of Dodd's "Church History" has issued from the press, under the able editorship of the Rev. M. A. Tierney, F.S.A. No doubt can be entertained of the patronage of the public to so important a work. The time is to come, when all that relates to the English Catholics in particular, their unshaken loyalty and patriotisn. through the most stormy periods of British history, and their patient endurance through ages of suffering and trial, should be familiarly known to their Protestant brethren.