I. SUPPLEMENTAL

PARAGRAPHS OF BIOGRAPHY.

1. Among Periodical Works containing Memoirs of Bishop Hall, the following may be enumerated :

Christian Magazine, vol. vi. for 1765; p. 4.

Orthodox Churchman's Magazine, vol. ix. for 1805; p. 242.

Christian Observer, vol. viii. for 1809; pp. 609, 681, 745.

Christian Guardian, vol. iv. for 1812; p. 109.

Christian Observer, vol. xxxvii. for 1838; pp. 354, 418, 479, 542.

Memoirs are also prefixed to—

The Contemplations, edited by Rev. T. Hughes, B. D. Lond. 1831, 3 vols. 12mo.

The same, edited by Rev. Ralph Wardlaw, D. D.

2 vols. 8vo.

Glasg. 1834. The same, edited by James Hamilton, M. B. S. Edinburgh, 1838, 8vo. Treatises, Practical and Devotional, edited by Rev. R. Cattermole, B. D. Lond. 1834, 12mo.

Another is inserted in the last volume of Lives of Eminent Christians, by Rev. R. B. Hone, M. A. Lond. 1833-37, 3 vols. 12mo. It is somewhat remarkable that in no one of the instances already mentioned does the author avow his approbation of the doctrines so zealously maintained by the subject of his Memoir. Of a far more kindred spirit is the Rev. John Jones, Perpetual Curate of Cradley, Worcestershire; whose Memoirs of the Life and Times of Bishop Hall, Lond. 1826, 8vo, were the dimensions of the volume compressed, and the typographical errors corrected, would be really a valuable and useful volume.

Mr. Britton, in his Norwich Cathedral, (1816, 4to. p. 73.) commends Mr. Pratt for the ample Memoir prefixed to his edition. Such is the danger of criticising, even favourably, what we have never seen! Mr. Pratt himself says, that "he had originally proposed to accompany his edition with a new Life of the Author; but finding the materials for such a work accumulate very much in his hands, he had judged it best to limit his publication to the Bishop's own writings; and had therefore prefixed only such Memoirs as the Author had left of himself." An instance of similar accuracy occurs in a volume of humbler pretensions, Jones's Christian Biography, 1829, 12mo :— "The writings of Bishop Hall, which are numerous, and which are generally known by the appellation of Hall's Contemplations,' consist of five volumes, 4to, or twelve volumes, 8vo!" This remark is followed, as might have been expected, by a critical description of their contents.-H.

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2. Bishop Hall travelled once, as the friend and companion of Sir Edmund Bacon, in his visit to Spa, in 1605; and thrice, in three successive years, under royal authority: first, as Chaplain to Lord Doncaster, afterwards Earl of Carlisle, on his mission as ambassador to the court of France, in 1616; again, as attendant on James the First, in his journey to Scotland, in 1617; and lastly, with his brethren, Carleton, Davenant, and Ward, as a deputation to the Synod of Dort, in 1618.

His University career may be thus briefly stated :-Entered at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1589; Degree of B. A., 1592; Fellow of Emmanuel College, 1595; Degree of M. A., 1596; of B. D., 1603; of D. D., 1612.

His preferments were as follows:-To the Rectory of Halsted, or Hawstead, Suffolk, 1601; Domestic Chaplain to Prince Henry, 1607; to the Donative of Waltham Cross, Essex, 1608; Prebendary of Wolverhampton, 1612; Dean of Worcester, 1616; Refused the Bishopric of Gloucester, 1624; Bishop of Exeter, 1627; Bishop of Norwich, 1641.-H.

3. The Bishop married in 1603; and lost his wife in 1652. Out of a large family, he seems to have had three sons ordained to the ministry of the Church. Of these, his eldest son Robert was born at Halsted in 1605; educated at Exeter College, Oxford; became a Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral; Rector of Stokeintinny, and of Clisthydon, Devon; and Archdeacon of Cornwall. The second, Samuel, held also a Prebendal stall at Exeter, and succeeded his elder brother in the Rectory of Stokeintinny.—The third, George, was born at Waltham; educated at Exeter College; became, in 1639, a Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral; and, in 1641, succeeded his eldest brother in the Archdeaconry of Cornwall: during the usurpation of Cromwell he preached in London, by allowance of the Protector, sometimes at St. Bartholomew's, Exchange, and sometimes at St. Botolph's, Aldersgate. After the Restoration, he was appointed Chaplain to King Charles the Second, Canon of Windsor, and Archdeacon of Canterbury; and, in 1662, was consecrated to the see of Chester. He preached, in 1655, the first sermon for the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy; he also published a curious volume entitled 'The Triumphs of Rome over Despised Protestancy,' Lond. 1667, 12mo. The manner of his death was rather singular: he was killed, in 1668, by a knife which happened to be open in his pocket, when he fell in his garden at Wigan.-In Norwich Cathedral (Magna Britannia, iii. 316.) is a monument to another son, Edward, the youngest, who died in 1642.—Ánd in Heigham Church (Blomefield's Norfolk, in loco) once was (but no longer is) a stone inscribed to another son, John, who died in 1650. The inscription, probably from the pen of the father, was, "Fui Johannes Hall, Josephi filius, in Legibus Baculaureus: dormivi suaviter in Domino, Feb. 12, anno Salutis, 1650, resurrecturus olim in gloriá." This was, some years ago, according to Mr. Jones, the stepping-stone of a stile in the Church-yard.There was yet another son, named, after his father, Joseph; who, as well as Robert, Samuel, and George, survived their parents, but died without issue. There were also two daughters, both of whom married, and left families.— H.

4. "Bishop Hall published his Hard Measure about the latter end of May, 1647, which probably raised some commiseration in the hearts of those who had usurped the authority in church and state; for this year some small favour was shewn to those bishops and others, who had lived peaceably, and had been only spectators of the distracting miseries of their country. The committee was ordered to pay the £800. a year granted to Dr. Morton, bishop of Durham. Neal says that Bishop Hall's real estate was discharged; but Walker says, 'I find indeed an order of Feb. 15, 1647, for taking off the sequestration, (which doubtless was from his temporals only,) but I presume it had just the same effect (that is, just none at all) with the order for his pension of £400. per annum. For his Hard Measure, wherein he so justly complains of his horrible oppression, bears date, May 29, following; and he mentions not one word there of any thing restored to him.' Probably there was some lenity shewn him about this time, though his hardships were very great; which he bore with christian fortitude and patience. . . . Archbishop