forbidden, by an order from Oliver and his council, to fell it to any one without his confent; fo it was at last bought by the foldiers and officers of the then army in Ireland, who, out of emulation to the former noble action of Q. Elizabeth's army, were incited by some men of public fpirits to the like performance, and they had it for much less than the real worth, or what had been offered for it before by the agents abovementioned. They had alfo with it all the manufcripts which were not of his own hand-writing: As also a choice though not numerous collection of antient coins. But, when this library was carried over into Ireland, the Ufurper and his fon, who then commanded in chief there, would not bestow it upon the college, left perhaps the gift should not appear fo confiderable there as it would do by itself; and therefore they gave out that they intended it for a new college or hall which they faid they intended to build and endow. But it proved that, as these were not times, fo they were not perfons capable of any fuch noble or pious work; fo that this library lay in the castle of Dublin, unbeftowed and unemployed, till Cromwell's death; and, during that anarchy and confufion that followed, the rooms where this treasure was kept being left open, many of the books, and moft of the best manuscripts, were ftolen away, or else embezzled by those that were intrufted with them. His WORKS. From the Primate's manufcripts we have several pofthumous pieces in print, fome of which have been occafionally mentioned in the course of this memoir. The titles of the reft are, "I. Chronologia Sacra feu Annorum παιδοποιας Patriarcharum παροικίας Ifraelitarum in Egypto; Annorum etiam Judicum, Regum Judæ Ifraelis anodes Chronologica. Oxford, 1660, in 4to. publifhed by Dr. Thomas Barlow, keeper of the Bodleian library, and afterwards bishop of Lincoln, and was reprinted with the Annals of the Old and New Testament, at Geneva, 1722, in fol. But this chronology is imperfect, the Author dying while he was engaged in it. II. A collection of pieces, under the title of The Judgement of the late Archbishop, &c. published by Dr. Nicholas Bernard, at London, 1658, 8vo; who also publifhed in 1659, III. The Judgement and Senfe of the prefent See of Rome, from Apocal. xviii. 4. by the late Archbishop, &c. together with Ordination a fundamental, &c. as alfo, Of the Ufe of a fet Form of Prayer in the Church; The Extent of Chriff's Satisfaction, &c. &c. Of the Sabbath and Obfervation of the Lord's-day; his Judgement and Senfe of John xxi. 22, 23, &c. IV. A volume of Sermons preached at Oxford before his majefty and elsewhere. V. Hiftoria Dogmatica Controverfiæ inter Orthodoxos & Pontificios de Scripturis & Sacris Vernaculis. Acceffere ejufdem Differtationes due de PfeudoDionifii fcriptis & de Epiftola ad Laodicenos. Defcripfit, digeffit, & notis atque auctario locupletavit, Henricus Wharton, London. 1690, 4to. VI. A Collection of Three Hundred Letters written to James Usher, Lord Archbishop of Armagh, and most of the eminent perfons for piety and learning in his time, both in England and beyond the feas. Collected and publifhed from the original copies under their own hands by Richard Parr, D. D. his Lordship's chaplain at the time of his death, with whom the care of all his papers were intrusted by his Lordship. London, 1686, folio. This collection is annexed to the Primate's life, written by the fame gentleman *, JOSEPH This worthy divine, Dr. Parr, who had fo great a share in the Primate's friendship, was the younger fon of Richard Parr of Devonfire, who, being fent into Ireland by K. James I. to be minifter there after Tyrone's rebellion, fixed himself in the town of Fermoy in the county of Cork, where this fon Richard was born in 1617, his mother being then fifty-five years of age. Afterwards the father, removing to Cafle-Lyons in the fame county, put his fon to school to an Irish Roman catholic priest, who, with others of the fame church, were the only fchoolmasters in Ireland at that time for the Latin tongue. In 1635 our Author was sent to England, and, in Michaelmas term the fame year, was entered a poor scholar or servitor of Exeter-college, at which time being recommended to the care of Dr. John Prideaux, the rector, for his towardlinefs and great ingenuity, he was, by the rector's intereft, chofen, while bachelor of arts, chaplain-fellow of that college anno 1641. In 1643, Primate Uber being driven, in the civil wars, to take fanctuary at Oxford, became a lodger in the fame 'college, and taking notice of Mr. Parr, then a junior mafter and a frequent preacher in Oxford, he made him his chaplain, and took him in his retinue that year to Caerdiffe and St. Donate in Glamorganshire; at which places continuing in the Primate's fervice till the faid wars were terminated, he attended him then to London, and foon after became vicar of Ryegate in Surrey by the prefentation of one Roger James, gent. whofe fifter he married, being a widow of a plentiful fortune. In a pamphlet that came out in 1647, containing the contents of the covenant, and the names of the minifters of Surrey that set their hands in teftimony of the lawfulness of it, Mr. Parr's name appears among the reft: Yet his friends and intimate acquaintance averred that he never took the faid covenant, though much preffed thereto by the committee of Goldsmithsball in London. In 1649 he refigned his fellowship of Exeter-college, but continued chaplain to the Primate till his Grace's death, Afterwards he became vicar of Camberwell in the faid county of Surrey, rector of St. Mary Magdalen in Southwark for a time, and after his majesty's JOSEPH HALL, D. D, ΤΗ BISHOP OF NORWICH. HIS ingenious, learned, and pious Prelate, fucceffively bishop of Exeter and Norwich, was born July the 1ft, 1574, in Briftow-park, within the parish of Afhby-de-la-Zouch, in Leicestershire. His father was an officer to Henry, earl of Huntingdon, then president of the North; and, under him, had the government of that market town, in which ftands the chief seat of the earldom. His mother, Winifride, of the family of the Bambridges, was a woman of uncommon piety. His words concerning this excellent parent are truly memorable. "My mother Winifride (fays he) of the house of the Bambridges, was a woman of that rare fanctity, that (were majefty's restoration he was created doctor of divinity, and was about the fame time offered the deanery of Armagh, and foon after a bishopric in Ireland; but, refufing both, he contented himself with only a canonry of Armagh. He was a conftant and ready preacher, delivering himfelf extempore, and was much followed. We are happy to add, that his pulpit is now filled with the fame effects, and that GOD hath raised up a fucceffor to this cure, whose usefulness we truft will be crowned with everlafting remembrance in the falvation of fouls. In this course of conftant preaching at Camberwell he continued near thirty-eight years; during all which time he was esteemed a perfon of great piety, and of fo regular and unblemished a converfation, that no party could pick up any thing to object against him on that account; but generally looked on him as a moderate perfon, chiefly, perhaps, becaufe he was a calvinift. He died at Camberwell, November 2, 1691, and, according to his defire, was buried together with his wife in that churchyard. Soon after a ftone was laid over his grave, with an epitaph infcribed thereon, testifying that he was in preaching conftant, in life exemplary, in piety and charity moft eminent, a lover of peace and hofpitality, and, in fine, a true difciple of Jefus Chrift. To which may be added, that he was a perfon of a generous, genteel temper, exceeding good-natured and charitable to all forts of people, infomuch that thofe of his own nation, though of a different profeffion in religion, were often relieved by him, &c. Befides the Primate's life, he published: I. Chriftian Reformation; being an earnest perfuafion to the ferious practice of it; propofed to all, but especially defigned for the serious confideration of his dear kindred and countrymen of the county of Cork in Ireland, and the people of Ryegate and Camberwell in Surrey. London 1666, 8vo. II. Several fermons; as firft, The Judges charge, preached before the judges of affize at St. Mary Overy's in Southwark. London, 1658. 4to: Another, entitled, Chriff's gracious intention to finners, &c. London, 1661, 80: And a third, preached February 20, 1676, at the funeral of Dr. Robert Bretton, minister of Deptford in Kent. London, 1672, 4to. |