the States of Holland wrote king James a letter of thanks, for fending to them a perfon, whom they not extravagantly styled, imago atque expressa virtutis effigies:" i. e. a living image and counterpart of all virtue. His majefty, likewife, was fo thoroughly fatisfied with the whole of his conduct *, that he tranflated him to the fee of Chichester, in Septémber, 1619.

What must endear his name to pofterity, while found religion breathes in England, are the invaluable works, which his pious and learned pen has bequeathed to the Church of God. Among thefe,

fhines his famous "Examination" of Mr. Richard Mountagu's Appeal." This Mountagu, in order to curry favour with Charles I. and with archbishop Laud, wrote a very fhallow, but very infolent tract, entitled, "An Appeal to Cæfar:" in which the author was fo loft to all fenfe of veracity and fhame, as to aim at fqueezing the articles and homilies of the Church of England into the newfangled mould of Arminianifm. Many were the refutations, which the paltry and daring pamphlet received, from fome of the beft and greatest clergymen then living. Bithop Carleton was among the foremoft to affert the fcriptural and established doctrines, in oppofition to the innovations of error; and to that worse than Stygian flood of varnished Atheism, which has fince over-whelmed fo great a part of the Proteftant vineyard, and which ftill continues (though in a much narrower channel than formerly)

"Res à fynodo geftas non noftrum eft attingere: fatis erit adnotâffe, Landavenfem hunc noftrum tantâ cum eruditionis & pietatis laude controverfias agitatas adminiftrâffe, ut, in patriam reverfus, Jacobo regi carior factus, ad epifcopatum Ciceftrenfem, vicefimo Septembris, 1619, promoveretur."

Godwin, de Præfulib. Angl.-Edit. Richard fon, fol. p. 515.

to roll its baneful ftream. The great prelate forefaw, and deplored, the terrible effects, which have redounded from the free-will fyftem; and which once operated, almoft to the utter extirpation of Christianity, morality, and found philofophy, from off the face of this land.

Before our civil and ecclefiaftical troubles, in the feventeenth century, arrived at their height, God was pleased to tranflate Dr. Carleton from earth to heaven. He expired, aged 69, full of faith and of the Holy Ghoft, and richly laden with good works, in May, 1628, and was buried, the 27th of that month, in the choir of Chichester cathedral, near the altar.

The compilers of "Biographia Britannica," who have fupplied us with feveral of the above particulars, are so just to the memory of this profound and ftedfaft Calviniftic bishop, as to obferve, that " He was a perfon of folid judgment, and of various reading; well verfed in the fathers and schoolmen ; wanting nothing that could render him a complete divine."-Echard, in his " Hiftory of England characterizes him in terms of diftinguifhed honour. -As does the indefatigable Dr. Fuller, whose words are: "About this time, George Carleton, that grave and godly bishop of Chichester, ended his pious life. He was bred and brought up under Mr. B. Gilpin, that apoftolical man; whofe life he [i. e. bishop Carleton] wrote, in gratitude to his memory. He retained his youthful and poetical ftudies, fresh, in his old age.'

The teftimony of the great Mr. Camden fhall' close the present sketch (I wish the materials were more ample) of this admirable prelate's life and character. The learned antiquarian, in his account of Norham and its caftle, writes as follows: "This,

* Vol. ii. p. 72. + Church Hift. Book xi. P. 131. See alfo Dr. Fuller's Worthies of England, part ii. p. 304.

and

and other matters, were taught me (for I fhall always own my inftructors) by George Carleton, born at this place whom, for his excellent proficiency in divinity (whereof he is profeffor), and the other polite parts of learning, I love, and am loved by him. And I were unworthy of that love, if I fhould not acknowledge his friendship *." Mr. Camden wrote this, in 1607, fome years before Dr. Carleton's elevation to a bishopric.

* Camden's Britannia, vol. ii. col. 1099.-Edit. 1722.

MEMOIRS OF

JOHN, LORD HARINGTON,

BARON OF EXTON*.

THIS

HIS extraordinary young nobleman was the eldest son of that lord and lady Harington, to whofe care king James I. committed the education of his daughter Elizabeth, who was afterwards married to Frederick, prince elector Palatine. They were perfons eminent for prudence and piety, and were unwearied in forming the mind of their fon to learning, and his manners to virtue.

He foon manifested, that the labours of his parents and tutors was not in vain in the Lord. Effectual grace laid hold on his heart, betimes; and, as he advanced in years, he gave brighter and brighter evidences of found converfion and increafing holiness.

In very early youth, he was able to read the common Greek authors, not only with ease, but with taste. He spoke Latin with fluency; and wrote it with elegance and could converfe with foreigners, either in French, or Italian. He was not a perfect speaker of the Spanish, but had enough of it to read and understand several books written in that language. Logic, natural and moral philofophy, and the mathematics, he was more than competently master of; and excelled in the theory of tactics, and of navigation. What added luftre to all, were, his deep experience, and his admirable knowledge of the

See the fecond volume of that curious work, entitled, Nuga Antiquæ, p. 112.-Alfo, Clark's Lives.

great

great things of God. Theology was his grand and favourite study; and there were few, even of the facred order (though, at that time, bishops and clergymen merited the name of divines), who could difembarrafs an intricate queftion, or refolve a difficult case of confcience, with more ability, judgement, and fpirituality, than he.

Being well grounded in religion and learning, his noble father fent him to make the tour of France and Italy, under the care of the excellent Mr. Tovey, who had, formerly, been head mafter of the free-fchool at Coventry. During their travels on the continent, they feem to have been imprudently zealous, in their avowal of the Proteftant faith; by which having given offence to fome Jefuits, the latter took an opportunity to adminifter a flow, but fure poifon, to the noble traveller and his religious tutor; that (fays the original writer of this memoir), feeing they had no hope of being able to corrupt their minds, they might at least destroy their bodies, and bring them to their graves."

Mr. Tovey, who was in years, and lefs able to encounter the ftrength of fo potent a poifon, died quickly after his return to England. But lord Harington, who was of a ftrong conftitution, and in the prime of life, did not fo foon yield to it's effects, though it's violence prefently fhewed itself in his countenance, and, a very few years afterwards, terminated in death.

On his lordship's arrival in England from his travels, he teftified his gratitude to God, by giving twenty pounds to the poor, which donation he continued annually, while he lived. The fecond fabbath after his landing (having fpent the preceding Saturday with his tutor, Mr. Tovey, in prayer, fafting, and thanksgiving), he devoutly attended on the preaching of the word, received the Lord's fupper, and diftributed five pounds to the poor of that parish, together with forty pounds befide, for the