forbidden, by an order from Oliver and his council, to sell it to any one without his consent; so it was at last bought by the soldiers and officers of the then army in Ireland, who, out of emulation to the former noble action of Queen Elizabeth's army, were incited by some men of public spirit to the like performance, and they had it for much less than the real worth, or what had been offered for it before by the agents above-mentioned. They had also with it all the manuscripts which were not of his own hand-writing; as also a choice, though not numerous, collection of ancient coins. But, when this library was carried over into Ireland, the Usurper and his son, who then commanded in chief there, would not bestow it upon the college, lest perhaps the gift should not appear so considerable there as it would do by itself; and therefore they gave out that they intended it for a new college or hall which, they said, they intended to build and endow. But it proved, that as these were not times, so they were not persons capable of any such noble or pious work; so that this library lay in the castle of Dublin, unbestowed and unemployed, till Cromwell's death; and, during that anarchy and confusion that followed, the rooms where this treasure was kept being left open, many of the books, and most of the best manuscripts, were stolen away, or else embezzled by those that were intrusted with them.

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His Works. From the Primate's manuscripts we have several posthumous pieces in print, some of which have been occasionally mentioned in the course of this memoir. The titles of the rest are, I. Chronologia "I. Sacra seu Annorum waidooias Patriarcharum Israelitarum in Egypto; Annorum etiam Judicum, Regum Juda Israelis arods Chronologica. Oxford, 1660, in 4to. published by Dr. Thomas Barlow, keeper of the Bodleian Library, and afterwards Bishop of Lincoln, and was reprinted with the Annals of the Old and New Testament, at Geneva, 1722, in fol. But this chronology is imperfect, the Author dying while he was engaged in it. II. A collection of Pieces, under the title of The Judgment of the late Archbishop, &c. published by Dr. Nicholas Bernard, at London, 1658, 8vo. who also published, in 1659, III. The Judgment and Sense of the present See of Rome, from Apocal. xviii. 4. by the late Archbishop, &c. together with Ordination a fundamental, &c. as also, Of the Use of a set Form of Prayer in the Church; The Extent of Christ's Satisfaction,

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&c. Of the Sabbath, and Observation of the Lord's Day; his Judgment and Sense of John xxi. 22, 23, &c. IV. A Volume of Sermons preached at Oxford, before his Majesty and elsewhere. V. Historia Dogmatica Controversiæ inter Orthodoxis et Pontificios de Scripturis et Sacris Vernaculis. Accessere ejusdem Dissertationes duæ de PseudoDionisii scriptis et de Epistola ad Laodicens. Descripsit, digessit, et notis atque auctario locupletavit, Henricus Whar ton, London. 1690, 4to. VI. A Collection of Three Hundred Letters, written to James Usher, Lord Archbishop of Armagh, and most of the eminent persons for piety and learning in his time, both in England and beyond the seas. Collected and published from the original copies under their own hands, by Richard Parr, D. D. his Lordship's chaplain at the time of his death, with whom the care of all his papers were intrusted by his Lordship. London, 1686, folio. This collection is annexed to the Primate's life, written by the same gentleman.

This worthy divine, Dr. Parr, who had so great a share in the Primate's friendship, was the younger son of Richard Parr of Devonshire, who, being sent into Ireland by King James I. to be minister there after Tyrone's rebellion, fixed himself in the town of Fermoy in the county of Cork, where this son, Richard, was born in 1617, his mother being then fifty-five years of age. Afterwards the father, removing to Castle-Lyons in the same county, put his son to school to an Irish Roman catholic priest, who, with others of the same church, were the only schoolmasters in Ireland at that time for the Latin tongue. In 1635 our Author was sent to England, and, in Michaelmas term the same year, was entered a poor scholar or servitor of Exeter college, at which time being recommended to the care of Dr. John Prideaux, the rector, for his towardliness and great ingenuity, he was, by the rector's interest, chosen, while bachelor of arts, chaplain fellow of that college, anno 1641. In 1643, Primate Usher being driven, in the civil wars, to take sanctuary at Oxford, became a lodger in the same college, and taking notice of Mr Parr, then a junior master and a frequent preacher in Oxford, he made him his chaplain, and took him in his retinue that year to Caerdiffe and St. Donate in Glamorganshire; at which places continuing in the Primate's service till the said wars were terminated, he attended him then to London, and soon after became vicar of Ryegate in Surrey, by the presentation of one Roger James, gent. whose sister he married, being a widow of a plentiful fortune. In a pamphlet that came out in 1647, containing the contents of the covenant, and the names of the ministers of Surrey that set their hands in testimony of the lawfulness of it, Mr. Parr's name appears among the rest: Yet his friends and intimate acquaintance averred that he never took the said covenant, though much pressed thereto by the committee of Goldsmithshall in London. In 1649 he resigned his fellowship of Exeter college, but continued chaplain to the Primate till his Grace's death. Afterwards he became vicar of Camberwell in the said county of Surrey, rector of St. Mary Magdalen in Southwark for a time, and after his Majesty's restoration he was created doctor of divinity, and was about the same time offered the deanery of Armagh, and soon after a bishopric

JOSEPH HALL, D. D.

BISHOP OF NORWICH.

THIS ingenious, learned, and pious Prelate, successively bishop of Exeter and Norwich, was born July the 1st, 1574, in Bristow-park, within the parish of Ashbyde-la-Zouch, in Leicestershire. His father was an of ficer to Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, then president of the North; and, under him, had the government of that market town, in which stands the chief seat of the earldom. His mother, Winifride, of the family of the Bambridges, was a woman of uncommon piety. His words concerning this excellent parent are truly memorable. My mother Winifride (says he) of the house of the Bambridges, was a woman of that rare sanctity, that (were

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in Ireland; but, refusing both, he contented himself with only a canonry of Armagh. He was a constant and ready preacher, delivering himself extempore, and was much followed. We are happy to add, that his pulpit is now filled with the same effects, and that God hath raised up a successor to this cure, whose usefulness we trust will be crowned with everlasting remembrance in the salvation of souls. In this course of constant preaching at Camberwell he continued near thirty-eight years; during all which time he was esteemed a person of great piety, and of so regular and unblemished a conversation, that no party could pick up any thing to object against him on that account; but gene rally looked on him as a moderate person, chiefly, perhaps, because he was a Calvinist. He died at Camberwell, November 2, 1691, and, according to his desire, was buried together with his wife in that churchyard. Soon after a stone was laid over his grave, with an epitaph inscribed thereon, testifying that he was in preaching constant, in life exemplary, in piety and charity most eminent, a lover of peace and hospitality, and, in fine, a true disciple of Jesus Christ.' To which may be added, that he was a person of a generous, genteel temper, exceeding good-natured and charitable to all sorts of people, insomuch that those of his own nation, though of a different profession in religion, were often relieved by him, &c.

Besides the Primate's life, he published: "I. Christian Reformation; being an earnest persuasion to the serious practice of it; proposed to all, but especially designed for the serious consideration of his dear kindred and countrymen of the county of Cork in Ireland, and the people of Ryegate and Camberwell in Surrey. London, 1666, 8vo. 11. Several sermons; as, first, The Judges' charge, preached before the judges of assize, at St. Mary Overy's in Southwark. London, 1658, 4to: Another, entitled, Christ's Gracious Intention to Sinners, &c. London, 1661, 8vo : And a third, preached February 20th, 1676, at the funeral of Dr. Robert Bretton, minister of Deptford in Kent. London, 1672, 4to."