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His friendship and conversation lay much among the good-fellows and humourists, and his delights were, accordingly, drinking, laughing, singing, kissing, and all the extravagances of the bottle. He had a set of banterers, for the most part, near him, as, in old time, great men kept fools, to make them merry. And these fellows, abusing one another and their betters, were a regale to him; and no friendship or dearness could be so great, in private, which he would not use ill, and to an extravagant degree, in public. No one that had any expectations from him was safe from his public contempt and derision, which some of his minions at the bar bitterly felt. Those above, or that could taunt, or benefit him, and none else, might depend on fair quarter at his hands. When he was in temper, and matters indifferent came before him, he became his seat of justice better than any other I ever saw in his place. He took a pleasure in mortifying fraudulent attornies, and would deal forth his severities with a sort of majesty. He had extraordinary natural abilities, but little acquired, beyond what practice in affairs had supplied. He talked fluently, and with spirit; and his weakness was, that he could not reprehend without scolding, and in such Billingsgate language, as should not come out of the mouth of any man. He called it "giving a lick

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with the rough side of his tongue." It was or, dinary to hear him say, Go, you are a filthy, lousy, knitty rascal;" with much more of like elegance. Scarce a day past that he did not chide some one or other of the bar, when he sat in the Chancery; and it was commonly a lecture of a quarter of an hour long. And they used to say, "This is yours; my turn will be to-morrow.' He seemed to lay nothing of his business to heart, nor care what he did, or left undone ; and spent, in the Chancery Court, what time he thought fit to spare. Many times, on days of causes at his house, the company have waited five hours in a morning; and, after eleven, he hath come out inflamed, and staring like one distracted. And that visage he put on, when he animadverted on such as he took offence at, which made him a terror to real offenders; whom also he terrified with his face and voice, as if the thunder of the day of judgment broke over their heads and nothing ever made men tremble like his vocal inflictions. He loved to insult, and was bold without check; but that only when his place was uppermost. To give an instance:A city attorney was petitioned against for some abuse, and affidavit was made that, when he was told of my Lord Chancellor, My Lord Chancellor," said he, "I made him ;" meaning his being a means to bring him early into city busi

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When this affidavit was read, "Well," said the Lord Chancellor," then I will lay my maker by the heels." And, with that conceit, one of his best old friends went to gaol. One of these intemperances was fatal to him. There was a scrivener of Wapping brought to hearing for relief against a bummery bond: the contingency of losing all being shewed, the bill was going to be dismissed. But one of the plaintiff's counsel said, that he was a strange fellow, and sometimes went to church, sometimes to conventicles, and none could tell what to make of him, and "it was thought he was a Trimmer." At that the Chancellor fired, and "a Trimmer!" said he, "I have heard much of that monster, but never saw one. Come forth, Mr. Trimmer ; turn you round, and let us see your shape." And at that rate talked so long, that the poor fellow was ready to drop under him; but, at last, the bill was dismissed, with costs, and he went his way. In the hall, one of his friends asked him how he came off? "Came off!" said he: "I am escaped from the terrors of that man's face, which I would scarce undergo again to save my life; and I shall certainly have the frightful impression of it as long as I live." Afterwards, when the Prince of Orange came, and all was in confusion, this Lord Chancellor, being very obnoxious, disguised himself, in order to go be

yond sea. He was in a seaman's garb, and drinking a pot in a cellar. This scrivener came into the cellar after some of his clients, and his eye caught that face, which made him start; and the Chancellor, seeing himself eyed, feigned a cough, and turned to the wall with his pot in his hand. But " Mr. Trimmer" went out, and gave notice that he was there; whereupon the mob flowed in, and he was in extreme hazard of his life; but the Lord Mayor saved him, and lost himself; for the Chancellor, being hurried with such a crowd and noise before him, and appearing so dismally, not only disguised, but disordered, and there having been an amity betwixt them, as also a veneration on the Lord Mayor's part, he had not spirits to sustain the shock, but fell down in a swoon, and, in not many hours after, died. But this Lord Jeffries came to the seal without any concern at the weight of duty incumbent upon him; for, at the first, being merry over a bottle, with some of his old friends, one of them told him, that he would find the business heavy. "No," said he ; “I'll make it light." But, to conclude with a strange inconsistency, he would drink and be merry, kiss and slaver, with those bon companions over night, as the way of such is, and, the next day, fall upon them ranting and scolding with a virulence unsufferable.”

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APPENDIX, No. VII.

JULIAN THE APOSTATE.

THIS work is undertaken with the view of answering Dr. Hickes, who, in his sermons, had asserted the dogma of non-resistance. It had been maintained, that the Gospel does not prescribe any remedy but flight against the persecutions of the lawful magistrate, allowing of no other means, when we cannot escape, but denying or dying for the faith; and that the professors of Christianity ought rather to die than resist by force, not only the King, but all that are put in authority under him. According to which doctrine, as Mr. Johnson observes, the lives of all subjects would lie at the mercy of every constable or tything-man who should have violence or baseness sufficient to destroy them. It is needless to dwell upon the arguments brought forward to overturn a theory which no longer imposes on the meanest understanding, and which the authority of two great national acts has set aside.

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