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the perpetual advowson to S. John's College in Cambridge, that his heirs might not afterwards revoke his grant: wherein he was a treble benefactor to the Church and the College hath deservedly honoured his memory with a monument of thankfulness in their library, and also wrote a respective letter of acknowledgment to this excellent knight, to whom they knew some part of the thanks to be due, for his pious advice and direction.

"Sir Roger Townsend, a religious and very learned knight, of great estate in that country, restored three impropriations to the Church, besides many singular expressions of great respect to the Clergy, having had a great part of his education together with sir John Spelman, (a gentleman of incomparable worth,) eldest son to sir Henry, and by his direction both attained great perfection and abilities.

"The like I have understood of others in that country, but cannot certainly relate their names, and all particulars at this present, that shire abounding with eminent gentlemen of singular deserts, piety, and learning, besides other ornaments, as Cambden observeth of them.

"In other parts divers have been moved with his reasons to make like restitution, whereof I will mention some as sir William Dodington, knight, of Hampshire, a very religious gentleman, restored no less than six impropriations out of his own estate, to the full value of six hundred pounds yearly and more.

"Richard Knightly of Northamptonshire, lately deceased, restored two impropriations, Fansley, [Fausley] and Preston, being a gentleman much addicted to works of piety, charity, and advancement of learning, and shewing great respect to the clergy.*

"The right honourable Baptist lord Hicks, viscount Cambden, besides many charitable works of great expense to hospitals and churches, as I find printed in a catalogue of them in the Survey of London, restored and purchased many impropriations.

"1. He restored one in Pembrokeshire, which cost £460.

"2. One in Northumberland, which cost £760. "3. One in Durham, which cost £366.

"4. Another in Dorsetshire, which cost £760. "He redeemed certain chantry lands, which cost £240. And gave pensions to two ministers, which cost £80. Besides legacies to several ministers.— The particulars more fully recited in the Survey, to which I refer, p. 761.

"Mrs. Ellen Gulston, relict of Theodore Gulston, doctor of physic, a very learned man, being possessed of the impropriate parsonage of Bardwell in Suffolk, did first procure from the king leave to annex the same to the vicarage, and to make it presentative; and having formerly the donation of the vicarage, she gave them both thus annexed freely to S. John's [* These livings are still in the gift of the Knightleys.-EDD.]

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College in Oxon., expressing many godly reasons in a pious letter of her grant, to advance the glory of GOD to her Thus with devout prayers for a blessing from GOD upon those which should be chosen rectors there, she commendeth the deeds and conveyances of the parsonages for ever to the College.

"The right honourable lord Scudamore, viscount Sligo, hath very piously restored much to some vicarages in Herefordshire, whereof yet I cannot relate particulars fully.

"Divers colleges in Oxon., having been anciently possessed of impropriations, have of late years taken a course to reserve a good portion of their tithe-corn from their tenants, thereby to increase the vicars' maintenance: so that the best learned divines are willing to accept the livings, and yet the College is not diminished in rents, but loseth only some part of their fine, when the tenants come to renew their leases.

"In particular, Christ-Church in Oxon. hath been very careful in this kind. Likewise New College, Magdalene College, and Queen's College, have done the like upon their impropriations, and some others have made augmentations also.

"Certain bishops have also done the like; as Dr. Morton, while he was bishop of Lichfield, did abate a good part of his fine to increase the portion of the minister in the vicarage of Pitchley in Northamptonshire, belonging to his bishopric, and so did his

successor, Dr. Wright, for the vicarage of Towcester also in the same shire: which was very piously done, considering what great lands and manors were taken away from that bishopric among others, and some impropriations given in lieu of them.

“And while sir Henry Spelman lived at London, there came some unto him almost every term to consult with him, how they might legally restore and dispose of their impropriations to the benefit of the Church to whom he gave advice as he was best able, according to their particular cases and inquiries; and there wanted not others, that thanked him for his book, promising that they would never purchase any such appropriate parsonages to augment their estates."

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So that Clement Spelman might well say,'although he was not so happy as with S. Peter at once to convert thousands, yet was he not with him so unsuccessful as to fish all night and catch nothing; for some were persuaded with what was written, neither can I say that others believed not; but rather think that, like the young man in the Gospel, they went heavy away, because they had too great possessions to restore."

It now only remains to mention the works to which we are principally indebted. Of county historians-Ormerod's Cheshire; Hitchin's Cornwall; Jefferson's Cumberland; Polwhele's Devon ; Prince's Worthies of Devon; Hutchins's Dorsetshire; Surtees's Durham; Morant's and Wright's Essex;

Atkyns' Gloucestershire; Rudder's Gloucestershire; Chauncey's, Clutterbuck's, and Salmon's Hertfordshire; Hasted's Kent; Baines's Lancashire; Nichols' Leicestershire; Blomfield's Norfolk; Baker's Northamptonshire; Morton's Northamptonshire; Hodgson's Northumberland; Thoroton's Nottinghamshire; Blore's Rutlandshire; Collinson's Somersetshire; Shaw's Staffordshire; Manning's Surrey; Dallaway's Sussex; Dugdale's Warwickshire; sir R. C. Hoare's Wiltshire; Nash's Worcestershire; Meyrick's Cardiganshire; Jones's Brecknockshire. Of local histories, principally, Stow's Survey; Aungier's Sion House; Ferrey's Christchurch; Jacobs's Faversham; Sketches of Moray (Edinburgh, 1839); Dunsford's Tiverton ; Yate's Bury; Bullock's Man; Plee's Jersey; Sharp's Hartlepool; Sturt's Gainsborough; Miller's Doncaster; Young's Whitby; History of Newbury (Speenhamland, 1839); Savage's Hundred of Carhampton; Hunter's Doncaster; Bennet's Tewkesbury; Hay's Chichester; Hindewell's Scarborough ; Pricket's Bridlington; Clarke's Ipswich, Steinman's Croydon; May's Evesham. Of French local histories: Blordier-Langlois, Angers; Gerusez, Rheims; Dorville, Seez; Environs de Paris (4 vols., Paris, 1839); Dusevil, Amiens; Guipon, Nantes; Henry, Rousillon; Histoire de Toulouse, (Paris, 4 vols., 1775); Benoit, Toul; Menard, Nismes; Simon, Vendôme; Martin and Jacob, Soissons; Bernard, Forez. Of works on monastic history: Dugdale's Monasticon, of which we always quote the noble