to all men, by which they may be bishop's wealth and large revenues, saved if they will. he drew up a particular and satis8. No man can come to Christ, factory account of all his purchases unless it be given unto him, and since he had been bishop, with the unless the Father draw him; and sums given for the same, and the all men are not drawn by the Father, yearly value of the lands, and to that they may come to the Son. what and whose uses, together 9. It is not in the will or power with the yearly value of the archof every one to be saved.” bishopric. Of these articles Dr. Whitgift Through that constancy in his declared, “I know them to be friendships which formed a promisound doctrines, and uniformly pro- nent feature in his character, he fessed in this Church of England, incurred at this period considerable and agreeable to the articles of displeasure on the part of her Mareligion established by authority." jesty, from his attachment to the Whatever diversity of sentiment Earl of Essex. For that nobleman may exist on this declaration at the had not forfeited the good opinion present day, it was sanctioned by of Whitgift by bis political conduct, the other Archbishop. The arti- thougb to his royal benefactress he cles were then forwarded to Cam- appeared both disloyal and ungratebridge, where they were highly ful; and Elizabeth was so much approved by the whole University, offended at the repeated intercession with design to settle some disputes of the Primate in behalf of his disoriginated by Barret, and Peter graced friend, and rebuked him with Baro, a Frenchman, Lady Margar such sharpness, that he was both et's professor of divinity, who grieved and perplexed. Soon after, maintained opposite opinions. The the Earl committing overt acts Primate recommended that the doc- of treason, the Archbishop being trines they contained should be at court on Sunday morning, the taught in the schools, and preached eighth of February, 1600, hastened in the pulpits; notwithstanding his home without any attendant, and consciousness that such a measure commanded all his servants and was disagreeable to the Queen. retainers to arm themselves imme Obtuining letters patent from diately, and proceed in good ordet her Majesty, he laid the foundation to the palace, to be at the disposal of a hospital at Croydon, and pro- of his Sovereign; which seasonable tected the rights and property of a reinforcement and loyal behaviour similar institution at Harbledown gave the higbest satisfaction to in Kent: receiving also a grant of Cecil and the rest of the Council, who all the revenues belonging to the all declared him “a most worthy hospital of Eastbridge in Canter- prelate.” A captain was instantly bury, he found out and recovered appointed to march them to the some lands fraudulently withheld residence of the guilty Peer, and from it. Having completed his they were the first band that entered charitable design at Croydon in his gates; keeping possession of 1599, it was consecrated by the the outer court till he surrendered Bishop of London. The founding himself, and was brought by the of this hospital* (then the largest Lord Admiral to Lambeth-house, in the kingdom) having given rise where he remained an hour or two, to an invidious report of the Arch and from thence was conveyed to the Tower. The Archbishop had • It was called the Hospital of the likewise in readiness that afternoon Blessed Trinity, with endowment for a forty horse well accoutred, and exWarden, and twenty eight brothers and sisters, a free school, and schoolmaster's pected directions from the Court bouse. how to dispose of them. The next morning he sent a gentleman to another publication, called “The know how the Queen did, and what humble petition of the thousand sort of a night she had passed. ministers for redressing offences in Elizabeth, who had been completely the Church,” at the conclusion of conciliated by his prompt and effi- which they required a Conference. cient loyalty, returned for answer, On his Majesty's arrival, he had that she had rested and slept the discoursed with his Grace at Theobetter for his care on the preceding bald's, and had opened his mind to day; but she added, “I beshrew him on church affairs in such a his heart, he would not believe this manner as to give him much confiof Essex, though I had often told dence, that any attempts against the him it would one day thus come to establishment would not meet the pass.” royal sanction; and the conduct of Her Majesty continued to distin the monarch answering this expecguish him by her kindness, and tation, the Archbishop prepared condescended to honour him with himself with the more cheerfulness her company to dinner, as she had for the performance of the duty been accustomed twice or thrice in belonging to his office, against the almost every year during his session; twenty-fifth of July, which was the calling his men her “servants,” in day fixed for the solemnity of the token of her approbation of their Coronation. His Majesty ordered attendance, and according to the the Conference to be held at Hampwit of the times, naming him her ton Court, where he heard at full “black husband.” He constantly the objections of the Puritans, with attended her in her last illness, in the answers of the Bishops, and 1602, and composed a prayer on signified publicly his resolution for that occasion. He was principal the continuance of the existing formourner at her funeral, received the mularies and discipline ; highly offering, and had the banners pre- commending the care and persevesented to him. Having joined in rance of the late Queen, as well as the proclamation of King James, the zeal and discretion of the ecclehe sent Dr. Neville, Dean of Can- siastical dignitaries, and giving terbury, into Scotland to that orders relative to the new printing monarch, in the name of the bishops of the Common Prayer-book, for and clergy of England, to tender the farther ratifying of the Liturgy. their allegiance, and to understand As the time approached for the his Majesty's pleasure in regard to meeting of Parliament in 1604, his the government of the church; and Grace invited some of the Bishop's though the Dean brought a gracious and Judges of his court to confer message to him from the King, with him, at the Bishop of London's assuring him he would maintain the house at Fulham. As he prosettlement as his predecessor had ceeded thither in his barge up the left it, yet he was not without con- river on a cold tempestuous day, siderable anxiety on this important having the awning drawn up, acsubject. cording to his custom, the wind The Puritans began to entertain blew so sharply that his gentlemen hopes, from a new Sovereign, and in waiting requested his command a fresh administration, of some to lower the cloth ; but to this he countenance to their plans of eccle- objected, because the water was siastical polity, and to speak on the rough, and he preferred seeing the probable removal of many res. course taken by the rowers. This traints. A book had been printed conduct was imprudent with respect by some of their party, entitled, to his health, however satisfactory “The plea of the Innocents,” and as to personal safety, as age and in April 1603, it was followed by infirmity had hindered him from attendance at Court the preceding deep sigh, and lay down again ; summer, and as he had lately and the following evening at eight suffered from an attack of jaundice. o'clock, being the last day of FebFrom the flashing of the water and ruary, 1604, he calmly expired, in sharpness of the air he caught a the seventy-third year of his age, severe cold in the head; but the having filled the See of Worcester next Sunday, being the first in six years and five months, and that Lent, he went to Whitehall, where of Canterbury, twenty years and the King held a long discourse five months. with him and the Bishop of London Camden was of opinion that on church-matters both before and mental anxiety was the cause of after bis Majesty's leaving the this prelate's departure; observing Chapel. As he was going thence that " Whilst the King began to to the Council chamber to dinner, contend about the liturgy received, from fatigue and fasting, he was and judged some things fit to be seized with a paralytic stroke on altered, Archbishop John Whitgift the right side, and lost the power died with grief.” But Strype of articulation. The servants con- remarks, “Whether grief was the veyed him to the Lord Treasurer's cause of his death, or grief and chamber, whither he was attended fear for the good estate of the by his sympathizing friends the Church under a new King and Lord Chancellor, the Lord Trea- Parliament approaching, mingling surer, and the Bishop of London, itself with his present disease, might and arrangements were soon made hasten his death, I know not. Yet to carry him to his own palace at surely, by what we have heard Lambeth. On Tuesday he was before related in the King's managevisited by the King, who from a ment of the conference, and the sense of his important services at letter he wrote himself to the Archthis particular juncture, told him bishop, he had a better satisfaction “ he would pray to God for his of the King's mind. To which I life, and that if he could obtain it, may add, that there was a Direche should think it one of the tory' drawn up by the Puritans, greatest blessings that could be prepared to be offered to the next given him in this kingdom.” The Parliament, which in all probability Archbishop endeavoured to make would have created a great deal reply to his Majesty in Latin, but of disturbance in the house, having utterance was too imperfect to be many favourers there; which paper intelligible, except that he was heard the aged Archbishop was privy to, to say, with uplifted hands and and apprehensive of. And thereeyes, “ Pro ecclesiâ Dei! Pro fore according to another of our ecclesiâ Dei!”_" For the Church historians, upon his death-bed, he of God!” should use these words : “ And He probably recommended the now, O Lord, my soul is lifted up, ecclesiastical establishment to the that I die in a time, wherein I had paternal care of the Sovereign, as rather give up to God an account well as interceding for it with the of my bishopric, than any longer to King of Kings. After his Majesty's exercise it among men.” departure, he made signs for pen and His funeral was solemnized at: ink, as intending to write what he Croydon on the twenty-seventh of would have spoken, but he failed in March, the Earl of Worcester and this attempt also, for he had no the Lord Zouch attending the sooner touched the paper with the hearse and bearing his banners. pen, than it fell from his hand. He Dr. Babington, Bishop of Wortried again once or twice, but cester, preached on the occasion finding it to no purpose, fetched a from 2 Chron. xxiv. 15, 16. “ But Jehoida waxed old, and was full Earl of Salisbury, that “there was of days, and died. And they buried nothing more to be feared in his him in the city of David, with the government, especially towards his kings, because he had done good latter time, than his mildness and in Israel, and toward God and his clemency.” This part of his house." character is confirmed by Hooker, In person the Archbishop was who, with that majestic simplicity of middle stature, brown com which distinguishes his expressions, plexion, black hair and eyes, and declares, “ He always governed grave aspect. His frame was agile with that moderation, which useth and well-shaped. As a scholar, he by patience to suppress boldness, held a middle rank; as a preacher and to make them conquer that he was popular and diligent. He suffer.” Impartiality will strike left no writings behind him, except the balance between the discordant those relating to the controversy testimonies of episcopalian friends with Cartwright. Indeed he is and presbyterian enemies in this, chiefly known to posterity as the as in other accounts of eminent great maintainer of the ecclesiastical divines; Humility will pray to be constitution. From his choleric preserved from the sin that doth temper, and determined action, he easily beset the most excellent was called by the more violent of character ; and Gratitude will prethe Puritans “ The Pope of Lam. sent her offering for that change beth;” but his candour and justice of circumstance and improvement were acknowledged by the less in policy, which has raised on the prejudiced, and it ought to be ruins of the Star-chamber the fair recorded, that as he advanced in fabric of Toleration, and taught the years, his whole behaviour was truly pious of every communion, much sanctified by divine grace, that the want of active co-operation and the sallies of his temper does not suppose the absence of restrained by prudence. When spiritual liberality, and that mutual Pickering was censured in the Star- credit may be given for conscientious chamber for libelling him after his principle, without any compromise death, it was observed by Cecil, of particular sentiment. THE PLEIADES. J. W. M. ON GYPSIES. SIB-A constant reader of the ed, that any plan proposed should Christian Guardian, finding in the be calculated to meet the difficulties Number for Dec. 1827, some que- raised by the vagrant, habits of a ries relative to gypsies, ventures to race which practically exhibits the take the liberty of offering a few secret of perpetual motion, a cirremarks, conscious of their insuffi- cumstance constituting the chief ciency, but anxious that the subject obstacle to their improvement. should be attended to, joyfully hail- 3rdly. To produce any general ing every opportunity of raising and permanent good, it is thought even the feeblest voice on behalf of that there should be a sort of simulthat benighted race, and humbly taneous effort in all quarters of the hoping that the very poverty of kingdom where these wanderers this attempt may provoke some abound, and a Committee to reabler champions to lend their assist- ceive intelligence and publish an ance to this interesting cause.. annual Report. It may be superfluous, Sir, to 4thly. It is surmised that for remind your Readers, that “ Greth want of the foregoing advantages, nan's Dissertation on the Gypsies,” nothing effective bas hitherto been gives an account of their origin, accomplished on this subject. language, peculiarities, &c. but it In unison with these remarks, is perhaps more calculated to gra- the following plan has been sugtify learned curiosity, than to excite gested. Christian sympathy; for which I. Let a printed circular be sent purpose, a more recent work, enti- into every county in the kingdom, tled, “Hoyland's Historical Survey with useful queries as to the numof the Gypsies,” is well adapted, bers, and precise haunts of the being not only full of information, gypsies, requesting an answer, by but contemplating the deplorable a specified date, addressed to the condition of these poor domestic Committee at Southampton, This savages, with the tender eye of was easily done by Mr. Hoyland, Christian compassion, and asserting author of “the Survey,” at page that many thousands of these home 163 of which may be seen his cirheathens are now traversing this cular, questions, and the answers country in a state of Pagan igno addressed to himself. rance and vice, with no plan in ac II. Let a proposal be printed, tual operation for their improve requesting the reader to procure ment. Now Sir, as it has fallen to what benevolent co-operation he my lot frequently to hear this sub- can, but, at all events, to visit the ject discussed, I will, in answer to gypsies nearest to himself, as soon your Southampton inquirer, take as their companies arrive, collectthe liberty simply to state some of ing the children, daily, for readthe most useful suggestions which ing and religious instruction, and have transpired. the parents also, as much as possiIst. It is agreed, on all hands, ble; reading the Bible to them, that while foreign heathens are distributing tracts (especially hymns carefully instructed, it is high time and prayers), and persuading them that these poor Pagans at home so attend some place of worship should “sit in darkness” no longer, during their stay, in short, doing, but that some effectual, public, and as much as may be, “the work of decided measures should be adopted an Evangelist among them.” As on their behalf. Dr. Chalmers wisely says, “ the 2ndly. It is also generally allow- aggressive movement must be made |