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the learned, and the powerful, who have preceeded us in the career of mortality, must interest the mind, while at the same time it .constitutes not the least considerable species of knowledge. If

"The proper study of mankind is man."

Let us not delay, since we must often shudder at his vices, and deplore his follies, to draw our full proportion of benefit, from the contemplation of those remnants of primeval goodness, which still exist amidst the general corruption of his nature. The memoir, therefore, which we have now closed, may, it is humbly presumed, be perused with advantage, and whether public conduct, or private character be considered, it will not be accounted the meanest of Queen Elizabeth's glories, that she had Archbishop Whitgift for a subject.

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX.

Rectors of Croydon.

FEW names of the Rectors of Croydon can be discovered; the dates of admissions may be seen in the Registers of the Archbishops. The first we find, is Egidius de Audenando; who appears to have been Rector in the years 1282, and 1289; he was also Rector of Cherrynge, which Rectory he resigned into the hands of Archbishop Peckham, May 4th, 1284*. He was likewise a Canon of the Church of St. Mary, in St. Mary, Dover Castle, where he had the Prebend of Pesmere; for it appears, that on the calends of February, 1287, he presented Hugo de Wengrave to the Vicarage of Northyam, in the Diocese of Chichester, in right of his said Prebend.

* 1284. 2 col' Maii Egidius de Audenando, Rect' Eccl' de Croyndon resignat' Eccles' de Cherryng in manus Archiep dat' in Capitulo Cantuar', fol. 207. a.

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