great mixture of Pride, nothing of that appeared in the Bishop. He carried himself towards all people with fuch a gaining humility, that he got into their Hearts: He lived with his Clergy as if they had been his Brethren: When he went his Vifitations, he would not accept of the Invitations that were made him by the great Men of the Country, but would needs eat with his Brethren in fuch poor Inns, and of fuch coarfe Fare, as the pla ces afforded. A Perfon of Quality, that had prepared an entertainment for him during his Vifitation, took his refufing it fo ill, that whereas the Bishop promised to come and fee him after Dinner, as foon as he came near his gate, which was ftanding open, it was prefently fhut, on defign to affront him, and he was kept half an hour knocking at it: The affront was vifible, and when fome would have had him go away, he would not do it, but faid, They will hear e'er long. At laft the Mafter came out, and received him with many fhews of civility,but he made a very fhort vifit, and though the rudeness he met with prevailed not on him, either to refent it, or to go away upon it, yet it appeared that he understood it well enough. He avoided all affectations of ftate or greatness in his carriage: He went about always on foot, when he was at Dublin, one fervant only attending on him, except on publick occafions, that obliged him to ride in Proceffion among his Brethren. He never kept a Coach; for his ftrength continued fo entire that he was always able to ride

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on Horfeback: He avoided the affectations of humility as well as of pride; the former often flowing from the greater pride of the two, and amidst all thofe extraordinary Talents, with which God had bleft him, it never appeared that he over-valued himself, nor defpifed others; that he affumed to himself a Dictatorship, or was impatient of contradiction. He took an ingenious Device to put him in mind both of his Obligations to purity and humility: It was a flaming Crucible with this Motto in Hebrew, Take from me all my Tin. The Word in Hebrew that fignifies Tin, was Bedil. This imported that he thought that every thing in himself was but bafe alloy, and therefore he prayed that God would cleanse him from it. His great humility made the fecreter parts of his goodness, as to his private walking with God, lefs known, except as they appeared in that beft and fureft indication of it, which his life and converfation gave; yet if the Rebels had not deftroyed all his Papers, there would have been found among them great discoveries of this; for he kept a daily Journal for many years; but of what fort it was, how full, and how particular, is only known to God; fince no Man ever faw it, unless fome of the Rebels found it. Though it is not probable that they would have taken the pains to examine his Papers, it being more likely that they destroyed them all in a heap. He never thought of changing his See, or of rifing up to a more advantageous Bishoprick, but confidered himself as under a

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tie to his See, that could not be eafily diffolved. So that when the tranflating him to a Bishoprick in England was proposed to him, he refused it, and faid, he should be as troublesome a Bishop in England, as he had been in Ireland.

It appeared he had a true and generous notion of Religion, and that he did not look upon it fo much as a Syftem of Opinions, or a fet of Forms, as a Divine Disciple that reforms the Heart and Life; and therefore when fome Men were valued upon their zeal for fome leffer matters, he had those Words of St. Auguftine's often in his mouth, It is not Leaves but Fruit that I feek. This was the true principle of his great zeal against Popery: It was not the peevishness of a party, the fournefs of fpeculative Man, nor the concern of an interefted perfon, that wrought on him: But he confidered the corruptions of that Church, as an effectual course for enervating the true defign of Chriftianity; and this he not only gathered from fpeculation, but from what he faw and knew during his long abode. in Italy. His Devotion in his Closet was only known to him, who commanded him to pray in fecret. In his Family he prayed always thrice a day, in a fet Form, though he did not read it: This he did in the Morning, and before Dinner, and after Supper: And he never turned over this Duty, or the short Devotions before and after Meat, on his Chaplain, but was always his own Chaplain. He look'd upon the Obligation of obferving the N Sab

Sabbath as moral and perpetual, and confidered it as fo great an Engine for carrying on the true ends of Religion, that as he would never go into the liberties that many practised on that day; fo he was exemplary in his own exact obfervation of it; preaching always twice, and catechifing once; and befides that, he ufed to go over the Sermons again in his Fami ly, and fing Pfalms, and concluded all with Prayer.

As for his Domeftick concerns, he married one of the Family of the L'Eftranges, that had been before married to the Recorder of St. Edmondsbury: She proved to be in all re-. fpects a very fit Wife for him; she was exemplary for her life, humble and modeft in her. habit and behaviour, and was fingular in many excellent qualities, particularly in a very extraordinary reverence that fhe payed him; She bore him four Children, three Sons and a Daughter, but one of the Sons and the Daughter died young, fo none furvived but William and Ambrofe. The juft reputation his Wife was in for her Piety and Virtue, made him chufe that for the Text of her Funeral Sermon, A good name is better than ointment. She died of a Lethargy three years before the Rebellion broke out; and he himself preached her Funeral Sermon, with fuch a mixture both of tenderness and moderation, that it touched

whole Congregation fo much, that there e very few dry eyes in the Church all the le. He did not like the burying in the arch: For, as he obferved, there was much

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both of Superftition and Pride in it, fo he be lieved it was a great annoyance to the Living, when there was fo much of the fteam of dead bodies rifing about them; he was likewife much offended at the rudenefs which the crowding the dead bodies in a small parcel of ground occafioned; for the bodies already laid there, and not yet quite rotten, were of ten raised and mangled; fo that he made a Canon in his Synod against burying in Churches, and as he often wish'd that burying-places were removed out of all Towns, fo he did chuse the most remote and leaft frequented place of the Church-yard of Kilmore for his Wife, and by his Will he ordered that he should be laid next her with this bare Infcription,

Depofitum Gulielmi quondam Epifcopi Kilmorenfis.

Depofitum cannot bear an English Tranflati on, it fignifying somewhat given to another in trust, fo he confidered his burial as a trust left in the earth till the time that it fhall be called on to give up its dead.

The modefty of that Inscription adds to his merit, which those who knew him well, believe exceeds even all that this his zealous and worthy Friend does through my hands convey to the World for his memory, which will outlive the Marble or the Brafs, and will make him ever to be reckoned one of the speaking and lafting Glories, not only of the Epif

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