" science to a compliance with their proposals and "cannot; and I will not lose my conscience to save my life:" And within a very short time after, he told Dr. Sanderson and Dr. Morley, or one of them that then waited with him, that " the " remembrance of two errors did much afflict him, " which were, his assent to the Earl of Strafford's "death, and the abolishing Episcopacy in Scot"land; and that if God ever restored him to be in "a peaceable possession of his crown, he would "demonstrate his repentance by a public con" fession and voluntary penance (I think barefoot) " from the Tower of London or Whitehall, to "St. Paul's Church, and desire the people to " intercede with God for his pardon." I am sure one of them, that told it me, lives still, and will witness it. And it ought to be observed, that Dr. Sanderson's Lectures de Juramento were so approved and valued by the King, that in this time of his imprisonment and solitude he translated them into exact English, desiring Dr. Juxson m

■ Let it ever be remembered to the honour of this Prelate, whom Charles I. was wont to call "the good man," and whom he declared to be his greatest comfort in his most afflictive situation, that he delivered his sentiments without disguise to the King, on the subject of Lord Strafford's fate, telling him plainly, that "he ought to do nothing with an unsatisfied conscience, upon any consideration in the world." His character is thus beautifully pourtrayed by Sir Henry Wotton, in a letter to the Queen of Bohemia. "There is in him no tumour, no sourness, "no distraction of thoughts; but a quiet mind, a patient care,

(then Bishop of London), Dr. Hammond, and Sir Thomas Herbert" (who then attended him in his restraint) to compare them with the original. The last still lives, and has declared it, with some other of that King's excellencies, in a letter under his own hand, which was lately shewed me by Sir

" free access, mild and moderate answers. To this I must add, "a solid judgment, a sober plainness, and a most indubitable "character of fidelity in his very face; so as there needs not " much study to think him both a good man and a wise man." (Reliq. Wottoniana, p. 31.) The appointment of this Divine to the office of Lord High Treasurer of England gave great disgust to the nobility: But he conducted himself so well in the administration of it, as to silence all complaint.

■ This learned person who published observations upon his Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, under the patronage and at the expense of his kinsman, William Earl of Pembroke, went abroad in 1626, and spent four years in visiting Asia and Africa. Upon his return into England, he waited on that Nobleman, who having invited him to dinner, the next day, at Baynard's Castle in London, died suddenly that night, according to the calculation of his nativity, which his father had made several years before. Thus disappointed in his expectations of promotion, he again went abroad, and travelled over several parts of Europe. He afterward joined the Parliament against Charles I. whom he was appointed to attend from the very beginning of his imprisonment to the time of his death. He shewed himself a most faithful servant to the King, whose real character he soon dis covered to be totally different from that which had been represented to him. In 1660, Charles II. advanced him to the dignity of a Baronet, by the name of Thomas Herbert of Tinterne, in Monmouthshire, "for faithfully serving his royal "father, during the two last years of his life." In 1678 he published

William Dugdale, King at Arms. The translation was designed to be put into the King's Library at St. James's, but, I doubt, not now to be found there. I thought the honour of the author and translator to be both so much concerned in this relation, that it ought not to be concealed from the reader, and it is therefore here inserted.

I now return to Dr. Sanderson in the chair at Oxford, where they that complied not in taking the Covenant, negative oath, and Parliament ordinance for Church-discipline and worship, were under a sad and daily apprehension of expulsion; for the Visitors were daily expected, and

published " Threnodia Carolina; containing Memoirs of the two "last Years of the Reign of King Charles I." A work much commended for the candour, impartiality, and truth, with which it is composed. He assisted Sir William Dugdale in compiling the third volume of his "Monasticon Anglicanum;" and died at York, his native place, in 1682, leaving several MSS. to the public library at Oxford, and others to that of the Cathedral at York.

Charles I. who always entertained the most sincere affection for this his upright and faithful servant, gave him many of his books a little before his death. There is extant a copy of Shakspeare's Works, fol. 1632, in which is the King's writing, in these words, " Dum spiro spero. C. R." And by Mr. Herbert's hand, "Ex dono serenissimi Regis Car. servo suo humiliss. "T. Herbert.”

• The Life of this eminent antiquary, written by himself, is prefixed to the second edition of his "History of St. Paul's " Cathedral."

both city and University full of soldiers, and a party of Presbyterian Divines, that were as greedy and ready to possess, as the ignorant and ill-natured Visitors were to eject the Dissenters out of their Colleges and livelihoods P: But notwithstanding, Dr. Sanderson did still continue to read his Lecture, and did, to the very faces of those Presbyterian divines and soldiers, read with so much reason, and with a calm fortitude, make such applications, as, if they were not, they ought to have been ashamed, and begged pardon of God and him, and forborn to do what followed. But these thriving sinners were hardened: and as the Visitors expelled the orthodox, they, without scruple or shame, possessed themselves immediately of their Colleges; so that, with the rest, Dr. Sanderson was (in June 16489) forced to pack up and be

P See a full account of this Visitation in "Walker's History " of the Sufferings of the Clergy," P. I. p. 122, &c.

June 14, 1618.

A transcript of the following order was kindly communicated to me by the Rev. Dr. Sheffield, Provost of Worcester College, and Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum:

"AT THE COMMITTEE OF LORDS AND COMMONS, FOR REFORMATION OF THE UNIVERSITIE OF OXON.

"WHEREAS the answeres of Dr. Fell, Deane of Christ-Church, "and others, the Prebendaries of Christ-church, in Oxford, re"fusinge to submitt to the authoritie of Parliament for visitinge "the said Universitie, were referred to this Committee, by "speciall

gone, and thank God he was not imprisoned, as Dr. Sheldon, Dr. Hammond', and others then

were.

"speciall order of both Houses of Parliament, to hear, and " determine, and to apply effectual remedies as the cases should "require: Upon full hearinge and debate of the said answeres, "it was resolved, that the matter hereof was an high contempt, "and denyale of authoritie of Parliament; and further resolved, "that Dr. Sanderson was guilty hereof; and that, for an " effectual remedy, the said Dr. Sanderson be removed from his " place of Prebendary of Christ-Church, and Regius Professor of "the Universitie of Oxford: And whereas upon further con"sideration, this Committee thought fitt, and ordered, that their " former vote should be suspended, in hope of his submission to "the authoritie, and conformity to the orders and ordinances of " Parliament, for the reformation of the Universitie: Now upon "hearinge the report of the Visitors (which is), That the said "Dr. Sanderson hath not, all this while, given any satisfactorie " testimony of his submission: it is therefore ordered, That the "last vote of the Committee concerning the suspension of the " said Dr. Sanderson, be taken off, and revoked; and the former "vote concerning his removall doe stand and be confirmed.

"CAT. MSS. ANGL. N°. 3736.

FRANC. ROUS."

During his confinement at this time, Dr. Hammond began his excellent "Paraphrase, and Annotations on the New Testa"ment."-When Dr. Sanderson was ejected from the Divinity chair, he was succeeded by Dr. Robert Crosse, Fellow of Lincoln College, who at the end of three months resigned it. The Regulators of the University then appointed Dr. Joshua Hoyle, on whom they had conferred the Mastership of University College. How this honourable office was filled, Anthony Wood has informed us: "Professoris regii munus obire cœpit D. Hoyle " oratione planè plumbea, et eruditionis omnimodæ prorsus " experte."