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To the Rev Dr Hawes, who furnished for this Work the original drawing this Plate is inscribed:

Published by J.B.Nichols & Son March 11830.

CHAPTER VI.

PARENTAGE

EARLY

LIFE, FORTUNES, CHARACTER, AND TIMES OF BISHOP
MORLEY, KEN'S FIRST PATRON
SOCIETY-CHAPLAIN TỔ CHARLES THE FIRST-LAST IN-
TERVIEW- ·EXPELLED FROM HIS CANONRY OF CHRIST-
CHURCH BY THE PARLIAMENTARY VISITORS-HIS WAN-
DERINGS, AFTER LEAVING WALTON'S COTTAGE CHA-
RACTER
DOMESTIC GROUPE IN THE

REFLECTIONS

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PALACE HOUSEHOLD WHEN HE WAS BISHOP OF WINCHESTER.

Equam memento rebus in arduis
Servare mentem, non secus in bonis.

HORACE.

We have brought Ken from Oxford back to the scene from whence, thirteen years before, a disciplined and ingenuous youth, he set out on the eventful journey of life. He was now twenty-nine.

Immediately on his return to Winchester, he was appointed Domestic Chaplain to Bishop Morley, and soon after presented to the rectory of Brixton, in the Isle of Wight.

The interest which Morley took in his fortunes, and the origin of that interest, we have been the first to shew.

Before we proceed on the public and more eventful passages of Ken's life, it will be proper to relate more particularly some of the chief occurrences in the life of that munificent Prelate, the first patron and promoter of Ken's fortunes.

Morley, now Bishop of Winchester, having been promoted from Worcester 1662,— according to Wood, (the universal storehouse of biographical information,) was son of Francis Morley, by Sarah sister of Sir John Denham, the poet. He was born 1597, and educated at Westminster school, from whence he was elected Student of ChristChurch, Oxford. He was afterwards domiciliated as Chaplain and friend, as we have related, in the household of Robert Earl of Carnarvon.

We may here add the account of the family of this generous and loyal nobleman, who was afterwards killed at the battle of Newbury.

Robert Dormer, created Lord-Elizabeth, dau. of Viscount Dormer, 1615.

Robert Dormer, created Earl of Carnarvon 1623; killed at Newbury fight.

Montagu.

Lady Anna Sophia Herbert,* daughter of 4th Earl of Pembroke.

Charles Dormer, 2d and last Earl of Elizabeth, dau. of Arthur

Carnarvon,

Lord Capel.

Dormer.

Elizabeth Philip Earl of
Chesterfield.

Isabel Dor-Charles Earl of

mer.

Montrath.

From the loyalty of his friend and patron, whose household Morley left in 1640, we have concluded, as he was made Chaplain to King Charles, in the commencement of his troubles, that he was first recommended to this post by Lord Carnarvon.

*Their portraits are at High-clear. Loyalty and sorrow seem to have connected the families, for the son of Lord Carnarvon married the daughter of Lord Capel.

On his leaving the Earl of Carnarvon, he had been presented to the Rectory of Hartfield, in Sussex, his first preferment, which he exchanged for the Rectory of Mildenhall, commonly called Minall, near Marlborough, Wilts. We have stated that a Canonry of Christ-Church becoming vacant soon after his attendance on Charles, this high ecclesiastical dignity, in a college where he had been student, was bestowed on him by the King himself, doubtless no less for his piety than his attachment to the King's cause and fortunes. He was appointed Canon of Christ-Church 1641. Notwithstanding his having been Chaplain to the King, he was selected, being considered of Calvinistic principles, to preach before the Parliament in 1643, which he did with so little satisfaction to those by whom he was appointed, that, when the sermons of all the other preachers were ordered to be published, his sermon only was excepted.

The reason may be readily guessed. It was not tuned to the Parliament; and the reader will know what was expected from the political pulpits, when only two passages are set before him, one from a sermon preached before the same Parliament by Case, and another from the well-known Stephen Marshall, one of the authors of "Smectymnuus."

How may Lord King be recreated by such doctrines as the following, not preached by the intolerant Clergy of the Church of England!

Case, in his sermon before the Commons, 1644,

proclaims, "God is angry;" and then makes the God of mercy thus expostulate: *

"Will you not strike?

Will you execute judgment, or will you not? Tell me - for if you will not I WILL! [God will strike, unless the Parliament take it out of his hands!] I WILL have the enemies' BLOOD!"

But this blasphemous fiend in the pulpit falls short of the pious Stephen Marshall, in 1641:

"What SOLDIER'S HEART Would not start deliberately to come into a subdued city, and take the little ones on a spear's point, to take them by the heels, and beat out THEIR BRAINS against the wall! yet if this work be to REVENGE GOD'S CHURCH (the Presbyterian!) against BABYLON (the Church of England), he is a BLESSED MAN that takes and dashes the little ones against the stones."

How must Morley, the early friend of Sir Lucius Carey, afterwards Lord Falkland, and of Chillingworth, and of Hammond, have disdained such language! And such sentiments were uttered in a Christian Church!

* Why do I publish this? Because, otherwise, it would not be believed; and because, if I spoke of fanatical preachers without proof, I should be set down as wanting charity.

So Milton, in Lycidas: "Stands ready to strike once!" alluding to the axe which beheaded Laud! "STRIKE!" was well understood at the time; and this bloody rhapsody was preached in the year of Laud's trial, to hasten his end, he having been three years in prison.

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