Usher had now an allowance of £400. a year, till he could be otherwise provided for; and was soon after allowed to be a Preacher at Lincoln's Inn, upon his taking the Negative Oath."-Jones's Memoir, pp. 413, 4.

5. The Bishop died at Heigham, a small hamlet in the western suburbs of Norwich, on the eighth of September, 1656, in the 82nd year of his age. It appears from Blomefield's History of Norfolk, that the advowson of Heigham is appendant to the Bishopric of Norwich; and that, in 1652, after many intruders, the good Bishop, who had retired to this suburban village, instituted his friend John Whitefoot into the rectory; who resigned it, in 1682, to a son of the same name: the father having preached the Bishop's funeral sermon. On the same authority it may be added, that there was no Bishop of this diocese from the time of Hall, (when, says the topographer, " episcopacy suffered a great eclipse in its reputation and authority,") till that wise and pious prelate, Edward Reynolds, was consecrated in 1660; and that it was he who built the present chapel in the episcopal palace.-H.

6. The Christian Observer, from June to August, 1838, contains a succession of papers, signed ZENAS, and headed "Reminiscences of Bishop Hall." A few selections, of an antiquarian description, may prove both agreeable and instructive :

"On inquiring very naturally (at Norwich) for the spot which covered his remains, I was told that they rested elsewhere; and that not even the meanest memorial of him was to be found in his own cathedral. Being referred, however, to Heigham (a village in the neighbourhood), I immediately repaired thither; and was not a little satisfied with my visit.”— Christian Obs., June, p. 355.

"As I entered the village of Heigham, a large house of solemn appearance and ancient date, which stands above a quarter of a mile short of the church, left me in little doubt that it must have been there that the deprived bishop had waited his final change. It is now split into tenements, the principal of which is a public-house (called the Dolphin): to what base uses may we return!' The love of hunting out localities-which will only be understood by antiquaries-carried me over this interesting, though now dilapidated mansion; and while there could be no doubt as to the apartments which Hall would have daily occupied, I pleased myself with imagining that, partly from my own observation, and partly from the tradition of the place, I was in the same room where his pious spirit would have found its long-expected release, and joined the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven.'

"The house has on its front a somewhat conspicuous date of 1615; but the first object which presents itself on entering what is now the hall, is an ancient and well-wrought piscina, or the receptacle used in the times of Popery for conveying away (by means of a central duct) the sacramental wine after its consecration. I was at first induced to suppose from its situation that this had been a receptacle for holy water, but was soon convinced of my mistake, on finding that it was plainly a piscina with its usual orifice; besides which, it is surmounted by a well-wrought niche and canopy, though now divested of the Virgin or other Saint which once filled it. Either, therefore, this beau-morceau of stonework has always occupied its present place, in which case the hall which contains it was once a chapel; or else it had been transferred to the present spot (perhaps from the parish church) at the time of the Reformation, and fixed as a mere ornament of the house in which it now appears. That the house itself was standing long before the date of 1615 (appearing on its front) is attested by the several dates of 1587 over a side door, and 1595 on a gable end. But as even those dates do not

carry us back to the reign of Popery, it is most probable that the ornament in question had been transferred from some other place. Here, however, as I said, the good bishop waited his dismission; and here, ripe in years and full of faith, he found the end of his labours and his trials, though not till after great bodily sufferings had been added to the mental sorrows which the loss of his much-loved wife, and his bitter persecutions, had occasioned.

"I now walked to the church of Heigham, which is a very plain structure, and found a mural monument to the Bishop on the south wall, so unworthy of him that I suspect it must have sustained some considerable alteration after its first erection: the whole centre at present consisting of a gilded skeleton, holding in one hand a scroll, with the heathen motto "Debemus" (for debemur) "morti nos, nostraque;" and in the other a scroll, with the words "Persolvit, et quietus est." To my mind this tasteless figure conveyed the impression that it had been substituted for other matter once occupying the same space (perhaps a character of the deceased) which it had supplanted; but however this be, we now find at the top the words, "Obiit 8 Septembris, anno aerae Christianae 1656; et suae 82;" and at the foot of the monument, "Josephus Hallus, olim humilis Ecclesiae servus." The disjointed collocation of these words-the date of the death, etc. appearing in a different part of the monument from the name of the deceased-favours the notion of a subsequent metamorphosis of this monumental record. But I come now to the flat stones which may be supposed to cover the bodies of the Bishop and his wife. Upon the Bishop's are the words, "Induviae Josephi Hall, olim Norvicensis Ecclesiae servi, repositae 8oo die mensis Septembris, anno Domini 1656, aetatis suae 82%. Vale, lector! et aeternitati prospice !" The other inscription is, "Mrs. Elizabeth, the deare and vertuous consort of Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich, with whom she comfortably lived 48 years, chaunged this mortall life for an eternall, Aug. 27, 1652, in the year of her age 69. Farewell, reader! and minde eternitie!" It will scarcely be believed that a modern pew has been permitted to cover the word recording the actual number of years which the Bishop and his wife lived together, which I am only able to supply from Blomefield's history. . . . I could not contemplate the designation of the pious Bishop in the epithets of "the former humble servant of the Church at Norwich," without referring such phraseology to himself. For this supposition there seemed the same internal evidence as I found at Salisbury, where, in the late Bishop's usual sittingroom (adjoining the picture gallery), I found a small but very curious old portrait of the excellent Bishop Jewell, witht his inscription, “ Vae mihi, si non evangelizavero,” (“ Woe is unto me, if I preach not the Gospel!”) a text which I could hardly suppose any painter would have ventured to place under a patron's portrait, if the Bishop himself had not desired him to do so -a remark (I recollect) in which the late valued Bishop (Burgess) entirely agreed with me, when I mentioned it to him. All this humility on the part of Hall was in perfect consistency with the remarkable opening of his Will, I, Joseph Hall, D. D., not worthy to be called Bishop of Norwich, etc. First, I bequeath my soul, etc. My body I leave to be interred, without any funeral pomp, at the discretion of my executors, with this only monition, that I do not hold God's house" (meaning a church consecrated to God's service) "a meet repository for the dead bodies of the greatest of saints," etc. (Fuller's Worthies, i. 566.) It seems, from Blomefield, that this direction for his interment in the churchyard had not (as it was in the case of Bishop Ken, at Frome) been complied with; although it served to mislead Lloyd and others, who naturally imagined that, because the Bishop's will had so directed, the executors had therefore obeyed his wishes."-Christian Obs., August, pp. 479–481.

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The fact is, the clause before recited from the will had occasioned a general supposition (see, among other authorities, Zouch's Life of Donne) that the Bishop was buried in the churchyard; until some excavations made in the

Chancel, in the year 1823, discovered the position of the tomb, below the mural monument erected on the southern wall. The stone upon the floor had been removed some years previously from the grave into the middle of the chancel.

To these may be added a memorial of still earlier date. The Rev. Sir John Cullum, in his History of Hausted, observes, in reference to the presentation of Joseph Hall to the donative of Waltham Cross, "I conjecture he did not much reside here; for, during his time, there are not above two years in the Register, of the same hand.” ... "Till within a few years," he adds, "there was (as I am informed by a gentleman who has seen it) in the parsonage-house a plate of lead, with his motto, "Imum nolo : summum nequeo: quiesco," adopted, I suppose, when he first settled here, and expressive of a mind, not totally unambitious, yet content." (Edit. 1813, p. 69.)—H.

7. To the character of Bishop Hall there is a beautiful testimonial by Richardson, in his continuation of Godwin de Præsulibus Angliæ. Cantab. 1743, fol. :-" Vir rerum usu peritus, ingenio subtili et exercitato, eruditione multiplici instructus: nec interim minor erat modestiæ et indolis mansuetissimæ laus. .. Pacis usque et concordiæ utcunque amantissimus, non odia et hostiles perduellium triumphantium iras effugere potuit; sed incarceratus, et beneficiis exutus omnibus, patientiæ, quale hominem Christianum et Episcopum decebat, exemplum laudabile exhibuit.”—(Vol. ii. p. 24. Episc. Norvic. No. 43.)

Another, not the less expressive from its brevity, is from the Obituary of Smith, a contemporary, preserved in Peck's Desiderata Curiosa:“ 1656, Sept. 8. Died, Bishop Joseph Hall: plenus dierum, plenior virtutum.”

There are several copies of laudatory and commemorative verses, engraved under the portraits of the Bishop: and there is a Poem, (entitled "The Good Bishop, 1652,") on his Balm of Gilead, in Thos. Shipman's Carolina, 1683, 8vo. The following, suggested for his Epitaph, and enumerating various circumstances and localities of his life, are from the English Verses, signed H. N., and printed with Whitefoot's Funeral Sermon :

:

"Maugre the peevish world's complaint,
Here lies a Bishop and a saint.

"Whom Ashby bred, and Granta nurs'd,
Whom Halsted, and old Waltham first
To rouz the stupid world from sloth,
Heard thund'ring with a golden mouth,
Whom Wor'ster next did dignifie,
And honoured with her Deanry:
Whom Exon lent a mitred wreath,
And Norwich, where he ceas'd to breath.

"These all with one joint voice do cry,
Death's vain attempt, what doth it mean?
My Son, my Pupil, Pastor, Dean,
My rev'rend Father, cannot die."

A few remarks from the "Worthies" of his quaint friend Thomas Fuller shall close the list of his encomiasts :-"He passed all his degrees with great applause first, noted in the University for his ingenuous maintaining (be it truth or paradox) that Mundus senescit, " The World groweth old." Yet, in some sort, his position confuteth his position; the wit and quickness whereof did argue an increase rather than a decay of parts in this latter age." He was preferred, first Dean of Worcester, then Bishop of Exeter, then Bishop of Norwich, then Bishop of no place; surviving to see his sacred function

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buryed before his eyes." "He may be said to have dyed with his pen in his hand, whose writing and living expired together. He was commonly called our English Seneca," (by Sir H. Wotton, in his Letter to Dr. Collins,) "for the purenesse, plainnesse, and fulnesse of his style. Not unhappy at Controversies, more happy at Comments, very good in his Characters, better in his Sermons, best of all in his Meditations." "He had preached to two Synods, reconciled six controversies, served two princes, and as many kings; sat in three parliaments, kept the pulpit for fifty-three years, managed one Deanery, and two Bishoprics, written forty-six excellent treatises, and seen his and the Church's enemies made as odious at last, as they were popular at first."

Mr. Jones bestows on Bishop Hall the title of English Chrysostom, as more appropriate than that of English Seneca.-H.

II. ADDITIONAL NOTES AND EMENDATIONS.

VOL. I. PAGE XLIV. HARD MEASURE.

In the British Museum is a sort of abstract of Bishop Hall's "Hard Measure," incorporated with other matter, under the following title :-" Fanatick Moderation, exemplified in Bishop Hall's Hard Measure, as it was written by Himself. To which is annexed, A specimen of the unparallelled behaviour of the Sectaries towards some others of that Sacred Order. As likewise, a General Bill of Mortality of the Clergy of the City of London, who were defunct by reason of the Contagious Breath of the Pretended Reformers of that City, from the year 1641 to the year 1647. London, Printed and Sold by A. Moore, near St. Paul's Church Yard. Price 6d." 8vo.-There is also an abridgment of the Hard Measure, with an Extract from Whitefoot's Funeral Sermon, in Barksdale's Memorials of Worthy Persons; of which a handsome Edition, with additions, was printed for J. Wilford, 1741, fol.—II.

VOL. I. PAGE LVII.

WHITEFOOT'S FUNERAL Sermon.

The Editor regrets, that, not having been able, at the time, to procure a copy of the original, he was obliged to print the Extracts from Whitefoot, as most incorrectly given in the Appendix to Mr. Jones's Memoir of Bishop Hall. Having since obtained the volume itself, he would now just add, that the full title is, “IΣPAHA AгXIOANHE: Death's Alarum, or the Presage of approaching Death; given in a Funeral Sermon, preached at St. Peter's, Norwich, Sept. 30, 1656, for the Right Rev. Joseph Hall, D. D., late Lord Bishop of Norwich: who, upon the 8th day of Sept. 1656, Anno Ætatis Suæ 82, was gathered to the Spirits of the Just made perfect. By John Whitefoote, M. A. Rector of Heigham, near Norwich." Lond. (2nd ed.) 1657, 12mo. Subjoined are two Elegiac Tributes, in Latin, apparently by different authors, but both signed J. W.; and one in English, signed H. Ñ. These are all preserved by Mr. Jones. The following errata, in the Extracts, the reader is requested to correct :

Page lxiii. line 33, for disabled, read disenabled.

24, to the word alms, subjoin, in a note, £30 a-piece.
40, for 1 Col. read Col.

27, after how that may, insert be.

It was probably the son, John Whitefoot, who afterwards published what he strangely called "A Discourse on Charity, as it is a means to procure pardon." Camb. 1695, 12mo.-H.

VOLS. I. AND II. CONTEMPLATIONS.

For the following suggestions the reader is indebted to a correspondent of the Gentleman's Magazine, (September, 1836; pp. 258, 9,) who writes under the signature of J. M. (the Rev. Joseph Mendham, and the Philalethes of a former communication). Several other emendations, proposed in the same Letter, had already been adopted by Mr. Pratt.

Vol. I. Page 174, line 21, for overcome, read overflowed. 19, read not with Israel.

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