the like to him. The bishop owned the obligation, but answered, "that he was resolved to live contented with the small means he had of his own."

for private

Bishop Heber, in his Life of Bishop Jeremy Opportunities Taylor, incidentally notices "the peculiar evils of malice. the times," as giving occasion for "the effects of private malice," in disturbing the tranquillity and happiness of the clergy.

privy council.

"A person named Tandy, whom Taylor calls a madman, and who appears, by Lord Conway's letters, to have been something like an agent to different noble families, out of pure jealousy that the new-comer stood more in favour with his patrons than himself, and was a more welcome and frequent guest at their houses, denounced him to the Irish privy council as a dangerous and disaffected Jeremy Taylor character, and more particularly, as having used the sign of denounced to the the cross in the ceremony of private baptism. Taylor himself does not seem to have been much alarmed: but Conway expresses himself on the subject with a degree of feeling which does him honour; and with an indignation against the informer, not unnatural in one who conceived, that, in attacking his friend, that informer was treating himself with ingratitude. In consequence of the information laid against Taylor, a warrant was issued to the governor of Carrikfergus, by the Irish privy council, to bring him before them for examination. In the minutes of the council no other entry occurs relating to him; and it is, therefore, probable, that his friends had power to obtain his speedy discharge. The journey, however, to Dublin, in the heart of winter, was sufficient to throw him into a severe illness, which perhaps was admitted by the government as a plea for letting him off so easily."

the foregoing

In illustration of the foregoing narrative, it may Illustration of be here mentioned, by the way, that, at the time in narrative. question, Taylor had been recently established in a lectureship at Lisburn, in the county of Antrim, residing principally at Portmore, the property of the

Correction of part of the statement.

Church in which
Taylor officiated.

Remark on the phraseology of the statement.

Earl of Conway, about eight miles distant from that town. "Perhaps, indeed," says Bishop Heber, "he only visited Lisburn for the discharge of his weekly lectureship; since the tradition of his descendants determines him to have chiefly, if not always, occupied a house in the immediate neighbourhood of his patron's mansion; and to have often preached to a small congregation of loyalists in the half-ruined church of Kilulta."

I copy the statement as I find it; wishing, at the same time, to offer a correction of one not very important particular in it, and to accompany it with an observation upon another.

There is in the diocese of Down and Connor no parish of the name of Kilulta, or Killultagh; but there is a townland of that name, from which the manor takes its designation; and my informant, the Rev. Edward Cupples, vicar-general of the diocese, remarks that he cannot find that there is any churchyard, or ruin of a church, in that townland. It appears, however, that the church of Ballinderry, which was used before the building of the present one, was built in the time of King Charles the Second, and was always called "the new church,” in contradistinction, as is supposed, to an old church, the ruins of which stand in an ancient churchyard, still an extensive burial-ground, on the margin of Lough Beg, at a very short distance from Portmore, where Bishop Taylor formerly resided. "This," adds my correspondent, "I take to have been the church in which Bishop Taylor officiated."

As to the statement that Bishop Taylor "often preached to a small congregation of loyalists," I strongly suspect that the language is, not that of Bishop Heber himself, but of his informant, who has

used a kind of phraseology derived probably from the times with which we are now concerned, and still not uncommon in a country, many of the inhabitants of which are taught to assign a very undue value to the office of preaching, in comparison of the principal duty to be performed in God's "House of Prayer:" where the people, amongst whom a clergyman exercises his ministry, are frequently wont to be termed his "hearers;" and the avowed motive, which brings a congregation together, is frequently nothing more than a desire to "hear" such and such a preacher. In the church, whither he resorted, Bishop Taylor may have preached to his little flock of loyalists: but he also, no doubt, accustomed his congregation to the duty of publick prayer: and of prayer, I would fain believe, according to that Liturgy, of which both he and his biographer were so capable of estimating the value, and of enjoying the beauty.

Declaration of

the loyalists in London.

April 24, 1660.

SECTION I.

Church restored
Satisfaction at

Restoration and Proclamation of the King.
to her station. Surviving Bishops.
Bishop Bramhall's elevation to the Primacy. Opposition
to the Church. King determined to support it. Appoint-
ments to vacant Bishopricks. Solemnity of the Conse-
cration of the new Bishops. New Arrangements of
certain Sees. Hostility of Church of Rome in Ireland.
Bishop Taylor's Sketch of Popery as then existing. Pro-
testant Sectarists. The Law concerning them. How
treated by the Primate; and by Bishop Taylor, and the
other Northern Bishops.

THE honoured name of Jeremy Taylor may not
unaptly connect the narrative of the depression of
the Church with that of her resuscitation and resti-
tution, of which he was a conspicuous part. He had
in the last year visited England, apparently for some
private or domestick purposes; and had thus an
opportunity of annexing his name to a Declaration of
the loyalists of London and its neighbourhood, on
the 24th of April, 1660; an occurrence which may

have been useful in bringing him under the immediate notice of the restored sovereign; and so far have contributed with his former office of chaplain to the martyred king, and his long-tried attachment to the royal person, with his losses and sufferings, with his profound learning and his exuberant eloquence, and with his well-known principles of devotion to the monarchy and filial veneration for the Church, in recommending him for promotion on the event of their ensuing Restoration.

the king in

Dublin.

May 14, 1660.

The king was proclaimed in Dublin, on the 14th Proclamation of of May, 1660, and, as soon as the order was received in all the great towns of the kingdom, with wonderful acclamations of joy. The Marquis of Ormonde, being made lord steward of the household, and having received other substantial marks of favour, as one whom the king delighted to honour, the bishops and episcopal clergy yet left in Ireland now applied to him for that patronage and protection, which he had ever, and on all occasions, been ready to afford them, to the utmost of his power; and, considering the present to be a very favourable opportunity to provide for their comfortable maintenance, and to establish the Church on a foundation better than it had ever enjoyed before, he resolved to stand forward in her defence.

Marquis of

Ormonde the

defender of the

Church.

Efforts of the
Presbyterians in

Besides the Scotch ministers in the northern counties of Ireland, there were others of the Presby- Ireland. terian party, who, under the patronage of the usurping government, had latterly gotten possession of the churches in Dublin and its neighbourhood; and, without any regard to the ecclesiastical constitution of the kingdom, diligently laboured to bring the people into subjection to the rules of the Covenant,