pus Christi College, Oxford, to Elizabeth Jane, eldest daughter of the late Rev. George Clarke, of Meysey, Hampton; at Cirencester, by the Rev. John Keble, M.A. and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. Lakin, John, Rector of Nursling, Hants, to Elizabeth, daughter of H. T. Tennison, Esq. of Tatchbury Mount House. Lavie, Thomas, eldest son of the late Sir Thomas Lavie, K.C.B. to Octavia Constance, fourth daughter of Theophilus Richard Salwey, Esq. of the Lodge, Salop; at Richard's Castle, near Ludlow. Leathes, Chaloner Stanley, M.A. late of Exeter College, Oxford, to Miss Leathes, daughter of the Rev. Isaac Leathes, Rector of Mepal cum Sutton, Cambridgeshire; at Therfield, June 14. Parker, William Harris, of Downing Col lege, Cambridge, to Ann Montagu, relict of the late Thomas Murthwayte Parker, Esq. of Parknorth, Cumberland. Plumptre, Charles Thomas, M.A. Rector of Claypole, to Caroline, second daughter of J. C. L. Calcraft, Esq. of Ancaster, Lincolnshire. 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House, in the Parish Church of St. Nicholas, Deptford. By John H. Spry, D.D. 4to. 28. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. We should be glad to avail ourselves of the assistance of Faustus in some other form, but we do not approve of a sketch of character during the life-time of the subject. The article signed B has been received and will appear probably in our next Number, A. B. is assured that a very different feeling to that he anticipates is conceived of his communication'; it was not received when the last Number was published, and the reply solicited has only been delayed from an unusual press of engagement, which has prevented that deliberate consideration which the case demands. THE CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER. AUGUST, 1825. THE LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP BRAMHALL,* BISHOP OF DERRY 1634, PRIMATE OF IRELAND 1661. JOHN BRAMHALL was born about the year 1593, at Pontefract, in Yorkshire. He was descended from the Bramhalls, an ancient family of Cheshire. The place of his birth was that also of his juvenile education. From thence he was removed to Sidney College, in Cambridge, in 1608, where he made great progress in his studies under the tuition of Mr. Hulet, a grave and worthy man. Having passed the course of his studies in the university, and done his exercise with that applause which is usually the reward of pregnant wit and hard study, he was removed into Yorkshire, where first, in the city of York, he was an assiduous preacher; but, by the disposition of the Divine Providence, he happened to be engaged at Northallerton in disputation with three pragmatical Romish priests of the Jesuits' order, whom he so much worsted in the conference, and so shamefully disadvantaged by the evidence of truth, represented wisely and learnedly, that the famous primate of York, Archbishop Matthews, a learned and an excellent prelate, and a most worthy preacher, hearing of that triumph, sent for him, and made him his chaplain; in whose service he continued till the death of the primate, but, in that time had given so much testimony of his dexterity in the conduct of ecclesiastical and civil affairs, that he grew dear to his master. In that employment he was made Prebendary of York, and then of Rippon, the dean of which church having made him his sub-dean, he managed the affairs of that church so well, that he soon acquired a greater fame, and entered into the possession of many hearts, and admiration to those many more that knew him. There and at his parsonage he continued long to do the duty of a learned and good preacher, and by his wisdom, eloquence, and deportment, so gained the affections of the nobility, gentry, and commons of that country, that as at his return thither upon the blessed restoration of his most sacred Majesty, This account of Archbishop Bramhall is compiled almost entirely from Jeremy Taylor's Sermon, preached at his funeral, in Christ's Church, Dublin, July 16, 1663. See also the Life prefixed to Bramhall's Works, by Bishop Vesey, of Limerick, folio, Dublin, 1677. he knew himself obliged enough, and was so kind as to give them a visit; so they, by their coming in great numbers to meet him, their joyful reception of him, their great caressing of him when he was there, their forward hopes to enjoy him as their bishop, their trouble at his departure, their unwillingness to let him go away, gave signal testimonies that they were wise and kind enough to understand and value his great worth. At York, he married a clergyman's widow, who possessed a good fortune, besides a valuable library left by her former husband. Afterwards, he obtained the living of Elrington or Eterington, to which he was presented by Mr. Wandesford who was subsequently Master of the Rolls and Lord Deputy in Ireland. In 1630 he took his degree of Doctor of Divinity. But while he lived there, he was like a diamond in the dust, or Lucius Quinctius at the plough; his low fortune covered a most valuable person, till he became observed by Sir Thomas Wentworth, Lord President of York. This rare person espied the great abilities of Doctor Bramhall, and made him his chaplain, and brought him into Ireland, in 1633, where he was soon after appointed to the Archdeaconry of Meath, as one who, he believed, would prove the most fit instrument to serve in that design, which, for two years before his arrival here, he had greatly meditated and resolved, the reformation of religion, and the reparation of the broken fortunes of the church. The complaints were many, the abuses great, the causes of the church vastly numerous; but as fast as they were brought in, so fast they were by the Lord Deputy referred back to Dr. Bramhall, who by his indefatigable pains, great sagacity, perpetual watchfulness, daily and hourly consultations, reduced things to a more tolerable condition, than they had been left in by the schismatical principles of some, and the unjust prepossessions of others, for many years before. The first specimen of his abilities and diligence in the recovery of some lost tithes, being represented to his late Majesty, of blessed and glorious memory, it pleased his Majesty, upon the death of Bishop Downham, to advance the doctor to the bishoprick of Derry, in 1634, which he not only adorned with an excellent spirit and a wise government, but did more than double the revenue, not by taking any thing from them to whom it was due, but by resuming something of the churches' patrimony, which by undue means was detained in unfitting hands. But his care was beyond his diocese, and his zeal broke out to warm all his brethren; and, though by reason of the favour and piety of King James, the escheated counties were well provided for their tithes, yet the bishopricks were not so well, till the Bishop of Derry, by the favour of the Lord Lieutenant, and his own incessant and assiduous labour and wise conduct, brought in divers impropriations, cancelled many unjust alienations, and did restore them to a condition much more tolerable; insomuch, that at his going into England he gave account to the Archbishop of Canterbury of 30,000l. a year, in the recovery of which he was greatly and principally instrumental. But the goods of this world are called waters' by Solomon: Stolen waters are sweet, and they are too unstable to be stopped: some of these waters did run back from their proper channel, and return to another course than God and the laws intended; yet his labours and pious counsels were not the less acceptable to God and good men, and therefore by a thankful and honourable recognition, the convocation of the church of Ireland has transmitted in record to posterity their deep resentment of his singular services and great abilities in this whole affair. And this honour will for ever remain to that Bishop of Derry; he had a Zerubbabel who repaired the temple and restored its beauty; but he was the Joshua, the high-priest, who under him ministered this blessing to the congregations of the Lord. But his care was not determined in the exterior part only, and accessaries of religion; he was careful, and he was prosperous in it, to reduce that divine and excellent service of our church to public and constant exercise, to unity and devotion; and to cause the Articles of the Church of England to be accepted as the rule of public confessions and persuasions, that they and we might be in Ireland of one heart and one lip,' building up our hopes of heaven on a most holy faith; and taking away that Shibboleth which made this church lisp too undecently, or rather, in some little degree, to speak the speech of Ashdod, and not the language of Canaan; and the excellent and wise pains he took in this particular no man can dehonestate or reproach, but he that is not willing to confess, that the Church of England is the best reformed church in the world. God, by the prosperity of his labours and a blessed effect, gave testimony not only of the piety and wisdom of his purposes, but that he loves to bless a wise instrument, when it is vigorously employed in a wise and religious labour. He overcame the difficulty in defiance of all such pretences, as were made even from religion itself, to obstruct the better procedure of real and material religion. These were great things and matter of great envy, and, like the fiery eruptions of Vesuvius, might, with the very ashes of consumption, have buried another man. At first, indeed, as his blessed Master, the most holy Jesus, had, so he also had his annum acceptabilem.' At first the product was nothing but great admiration at his stupendous parts, and wonder at his mighty diligence and observation of his unusual zeal in so good and great things; but this quickly passed into the natural daughters of envy, suspicion, and detraction, the spirit of obloquy and slander. His zeal for recovery of the church-revenues was called oppression and rapine, covetousness and injustice; his care of reducing religion to wise and justifiable principles was called popery and Arminianism, and I know not what names, which signify what the authors are pleased to mean, and the people to construe and to hate. The intermedial prosperity of his person and fortune, which he had as an earnest of a greater reward to so well-meant labours, was supposed to be the production of illiberal arts and ways of getting; and the necessary refreshment of his wearied spirits, which did not always supply all his needs, and were sometimes less than the permissions even of prudent charity, they called intemperance; yet none could prove that ever he received a bribe to blind his eyes, to the value of a pair of gloves' it was his own expression, when he glory to God who had preserved him innocent. But, because every man's cause is right in his own eyes, it was hard for him so to acquit gave |