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There is also a memoir of the Archbishop in the Biographia Britannica, article Sharp. There is, too, a brief notice of him in Le Neve, Lives and Characters of the Archbishops, vol. 2, page 279.

NOTE (23), page 56.-The Editor has not been successful in his endeavours to discover the name of the person to whom Melmoth here refers. He has shown the passage cited to several friends in the Church, who have not been able to recal to mind in what work it

occurs.

Rev. John Kettlewell.

NOTE (24), page 59.-The Editor has never been able to meet with the Essay upon the Omnipresence of God. It must have been published anonymously, as Melmoth describes the author as "That unknown but excellent person." There is a tract concerning the Divine Omnipresence, founded on Psalm cxxxix. verses 7-10, 1683, 4to.; by John Turner, Fellow of Christ College, Cambridge. See Watts' Bibliotheca Brit. No copy of this tract of the Rev. John Turner occurs either in the printed Catalogue of the Library of the British Museum (Catalogus Bibliothecæ Musei Britannici, 7 vols. 8vo. London, 1813-19), or in that of the Bodleian Library (Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ. In Academia Oxoniensi. 3 vols. folio. Oxonii, 1843. Bandinel).

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In some editions of the present treatise which have come to the hands of the Editor, there is the ensuing further extract from the Essay upon the Omnipresence of God:"-" If we would be happy and sensible of our Maker's presence, from the secret effects of his mercy and goodness, we must keep such a watch over all our thoughts, that, in the language of the Scripture, his soul may have pleasure in us; we must take care not to grieve his Holy Spirit, but endeavour to make the meditations of our hearts always acceptable in his sight, that he may delight thus to reside and dwell in us. The light of nature could direct Seneca to this doctrine, in a very remarkable passage among his epistles; Sacer inest in nobis Spiritus, bonorum malorumque custos et observator; et quemadmodum nos illum tractamus, ita et ille nos.'* There is a Holy Spirit residing in us, who watches and observes both good and evil men, and will treat us after the same manner that we treat him.' But I shall conclude (says he) this discourse with those more emphatical words in Divine Revelation; If any man love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.'"

NOTE (25), page 84.-The Rev. John Kettlewell was born in 1653, and died in 1695. The five discourses here mentioned are

[Sacer intra nos spiritus sedet, malorum bonorumque nostrorum observator et custos: hic prout à nobis tractatus est, ita nos ipse tractat. Sen. Epist. xli.]

reprinted in his works, vol. 1, page 697. The preface to the five Rev. John discourses was written by the pious Robert Nelson. The Life of Kettlewell. Kettlewell, prefixed to the first volume of his works, concludes with the ensuing testimony given to Kettlewell by Nelson in that preface to the five discourses:-"Such was the lustre of his eminent sanctity, that all parties paid a due veneration to his character; and how wide soever they differed in other matters, they owned the perfection of his Christian morals. Indeed, his great piety, useful learning and solid judgment, rendered him a public blessing and a peculiar ornament to the church and age wherein he lived; and the wise improvement of such valuable talents will cause his light to shine bright to posterity, and future generations shall call him blessed."

There is a memoir of Kettlewell in the Biographia Britannica.

A Complete Collection of the Works of the Reverend and Learned John Kettlewell, B.D., formerly Vicar of Coleshill, in Warwickshire, in two volumes. The several Treatises printed from Copies revised and improved by the Author a little before his Death; to which is prefixed the Life of the Author; wherein are contained many remarkable Transactions of his Time, compiled from the Collections of George Hickes, D. D., and Robert Nelson, Esq.; and compleated by a Friend of the Author, at the desire both of Dr. Hickes and Mr. Nelson, with an Appendix of several Original Papers. London, 1719, 2 vols. folio.

+ Also printed in octavo, London, 1718.

APPENDIX B.

REMARKABLE PERSONS

BURIED IN THE CLOISTER UNDER LINCOLN'S INN CHAPEL.

CONTENTS.

JOHN THURLOE, Secretary of State to Oliver and Richard Cromwell-William Prynne-Couplet written on the Title Page of Prynne's earliest Publication beneath the Name and Description of the Author-Prynne's RecordsTitle Page to Tome 1 of Prynne's Records-Title Page to Tome 2 of Prynne's Records-The House of Prynne's Printer, with most of the printed Copies of Tome 1 of his Records, as likewise of Tome 2, formerly published, and of the First Book and Third Tome, wherein he had made some Progress, burnt in the Fire of London, whilst Prynne was busy endeavouring all he could to excite others to assist in extinguishing the supinely over-long neglected raging Flames and to preserve the Public Records of the King and Kingdom from their Fury-Title Page to Tome 3 of Prynne's Records, 1668 -Another Title Page to Tome 3 of Prynne's Records, 1670-Latin Title Page prefixed to some of the Copies of Tome 3 of Prynne's Records, 1672 -Epistle Dedicatory of the Third Volume of Prynne's Records to Lord Anglesey, Sir Harbottle Grimston, Sir Matthew Hale, Sir Edward Atkins, Sir Richard Rainsford, Sir Robert Atkins, and the rest of the Worshipful Readers of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, the Author's everhonoured kind Friends and Readers of that Society-The famous additional Volume of Prynne's Records-Copy of the Works of St. Augustin in the Library of Lincoln's Inn, the Gift of Prynne-Autograph of Prynne in flyleaf of two volumes in Lincoln's Inn Library-The Substance of Prynne's Speech in the House of Commons, 4th Dec. 1648, touching the King's Answer to the Propositions of both Houses upon the whole Treaty whether they were satisfactory or not satisfactory, wherein the satisfactoriness of the King's Answers to the Propositions for the Settlement of a firm lasting Peace and future Security of the Subjects against all-feared Regal Invasions and Encroachments whatsoever is clearly demonstrated-[Arthur Annesley, Earl of Anglesey-Generally believed that if Lord Anglesey had lived a month longer he would have been declared Lord Chancellor]-Serjeant Owen Wynn-Thomas Jones, Esq.-Sir Richard Holford, Master in Chancery in the Reigns of William and Mary and Queen Anne; Robert Holford, Esq.. his Son, Master in Chancery in the Reigns of Queen Anne and Kings

George I. and George II.; and Peter Holford, Esq., his Grandson, Master in Chancery in the Reigns of George II. and George III.—Hugh Wrottesley Esq.-Peniston Lamb, Esq.-[Viscount Melbourne] --George Clive, Esq., Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer-William Melmoth, Esq., Author of The Great Importance of a Religious Life-Oliver St. John, Esq., Grandson of Oliver St. John, Esq., Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and one of Cromwell's Lords-Graves Martyn, Esq.-John Roberts, Esq.-Edmund Sawyer, Esq., Master in Chancery in the Reign of George II.—Marmaduke Dayrell, Esq.-William Hamilton, Esq.-Robert Salkeld, Esq.-Francis Capper, Esq.-John Soley, Esq.-John Richmond Webb, Esq.-Richard Spooner, Esq.-Theodore Johnson, Esq.-The Right Honourable Sir Richard Aston-Arthur Jones, Esq.-John Coxe, Esq.-Thomas Pickering, Esq.-The Right Honourable Sir John Anstruther-[The Right Honourable Spencer Perceval-Inscription on the Mural Tablet raised to Mr. Perceval's Memory by the Treasurer and Masters of the Bench-Dec. 4, 1813. Order of the Masters of the Bench that Bishop William Jackson should be requested to write the Epitaph for the Tablet to Mr. Perceval's MemoryThe Rev. Mr. Ives's Account of the Sermon delivered by Bishop Van Mildert in Lincoln's Inn Chapel, 31st May, 1812, on the Catastrophe of Mr. Perceval's Death-Character of Mr. Perceval by Bishop Van Mildert— 29th May, 1812. Resolution of the Masters of the Bench: Two Sets of Chambers, the Property of Mr. Perceval, and holden for his Life, having by his Death fallen into the Disposition of the Society: that in Consideration of the irreparable Loss which his Family had sustained by his premature and sudden Death by an act of horrible and detestable Assassination, and as a Tribute of affectionate Regard for the Memory of so illustrious an Ornament of their Profession and Society, it was proper and expedient that they should avail themselves of the Opportunity of offering the Chambers to the Representatives of their departed Friend-Mr. Perceval's Proposal to found a Ritual Professorship in the University of Cambridge-Dec. 2, 1806. Letter from Mr. Perceval to Dr. Edward Pearson-4th Dec., 1806. Letter from Dr. Pearson to Mr. Perceval-7th Dec., 1806. Letter from Mr. Perceval to Dr. Pearson]-Francis Hargrave, Esq.-Bishop Lloyd-Eleanor Louisa Brougham-[Titles and Dates of the Marquis Wellesley's Carmina, printed in the Musæ Etonenses --Lord Wellesley s Primitia Juvenis et Reliquiæ Senis: A Volume of Poems printed for Private Distribution, 1840]–[Sir William Weller Pepys, A.D. 1756. In obitum J. Algood-Other Carmina of Sir William Weller Pepys, printed in the Musæ Etonenses.]

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