tions of the Common Prayer."-" The Paschal or Lent Fast, apostolical and perpetual, and an Answer to some Objections of the Presbyterians to the Fast of Lent." Let us now pass to the Non-conformists.

One of the most distinguished of these for learning, was Mr. David Clarkson, B. D. He appears to have gone off to a living, before the Restoration: for, according to Dr. Calamy, he was ejected from Mortlack, in Surry, by the Bartholomew Acta. While at Clare Hall, he had been Fellow, and Tutor to Mr. Holcroft, and Mr. Tillotson, after Archbishop of Canterbury, who, according to Calamy, bore a singular respect to him, as long as he lived. He wrote a Discourse against the Romanists, in 4to. entitled "The Practical Divinity of the Papists proved destructive to Christianity and Men's Souls;" also, no Evidence for Diocesan Episcopacy, and a Defence of it in 4to. and two Sermons in the Volumes of MORNING EXERCISES. After his death were published two Discourses by him, on Free Grace, another on Episcopacy, a third on Liturgies; and a volume of his Sermons in folio.

Francis Holcroft, A. M. and Fellow, though not an author, was a great sufferer for his principles, and a leader among his party. party. He was a man of a bold spirit; as an Independant, he was what Gunning was, as an

2 Calamy's Account of Ejected Ministers, vol. ii. p. 667.

b I apprehend Walker is incorrect, in saying, that Tillotson succeeded David Clarkson in his fellowship; as I find by a register of Clare Hall, that Dr. Cudworth was Master, and Henry Holcroft, David Clarkson, Francis Holcroft, and John Tillotson, were all A. M.'s and Fellows, in the same year, 1652.

c A Letter only of his was printed-" A Word to the Saints from the Watch-Tower.”

Episcopalian. With the zeal of an innovator, he was obliged to sit down with the lot of a martyr; and was ejected both from his fellowship, and his living of Bassingbourn, in Cambridgeshire. In 1663 he was thrown into jail for preaching privately in Cambridge; and after his enlargement from his first imprisonment, was imprisoned again, for almost nine years, in Cambridge castle, from 1663 to 1672.

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He was a man of family, the son of Sir croft, and his first enlargement was obtained by the influence of the Earl of Anglesea: in all his sufferings he experienced much kindness from Dr. Tillotson, who had been his fellow-student and chum a at Clare Hall.

After his enlargement from Cambridge castle, Holcroft persevered in preaching, and formed dissenting churches. I have been thus particular, because, assisted by other ejected Cantabs, he became the father and founder of the Independant congregations in and about Cambridge".

Dr. Cudworth, according to Querela Cantabrigiensis, was made Master here by the Parliament, when Dr. Paske was ejected. He was a man of great abilities and learning, author of the Intellectual System of the Universe, a work replete with ancient literature. It is of

• Chum is a college phrase for chamber-fellow; from Chommer, Fr. to rest, says Bailey; Dr. Johnson better, from Chom, Armoric, to live together.

b His principal assistant was Joseph Oddy, A. M. who had been ejected from his fellowship in Trinity College, and the living of Mil dred, Cambridgeshire. Mr. Oddy commenced afterwards itinerant preacher in the Isle of Ely.-An Account of Holcroft and Oddy, together with that of the Rise and Establishment of the Dissenters in Cambridge, being derived from the Dissenters' church book in St. Andrew's parish, Cambridge, may be seen in Robert Robinson's Memoirs, p. 35,

this, that a writer, quoted by Mr. Collins, in his Discourse of Freethinking, pp. 48-85, says, with some severity, which, however, he qualifies by saying, "that the most that charity itself can allow the Doctor is, if it could step forth, and speak his character to the world, that he was an Arian, a Socinian, or a Deist." Dr. Cudworth was succeeded in the mastership, according to Mr. Walker, by Dr. Theophilus Dillingham, before the Restoration. He died 1688.

All I shall add further of Dr. Tillotson is, that he took his degree of S. T. P. in 1666; that he was made Dean of Canterbury 1672, Dean of St. Paul's in 1689, and that, contrary to the expectation of alla, he stept immediately thence, in 1691, to the archiepiscopal throne, of the province of Canterbury. His works consist of sermons, and few Sermons have been so much read and admired as Archbishop Tillotson's ".

Mr. Thomas Philpot, says Mr. Carter (he should have said Thomas Philipott, Esq.), was an antiquary: Mr. Smyth adds, he was a poet. Of his poetry I have seen nothing, and can say nothing. But he wrote an Historical Discourse of the first Invention of Navigation, which is curious, and very rare, 1661 and also Villare Cantianum, or Kent SURVEYED and ILLUSTRATED; being an exact Description of all the Parishes, Boroughs, Villages, and other respective Manors, included in the County of Kent, drawn out of

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* Dr. Richardson, in Godwin. de Præsul, &c. p. 166. This distinction, it is said, was obtained through the influence of Bishop Burnet with King William, and after much solicitation and importunities with Dr. Tillotson to accept it.

b His Works were published by his Chaplain, Dr. Barker.

A copy is in the library of the London Institution.