which he retired to Paris, and officiated as chaplain to the protestant part of Henrietta Maria's family, and was afterwards appointed to the see of Durham. Obiit. 1671. Æt. 72.

Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury. His rise and fall may be ascribed to the same causehis zeal in furthering the divorce of Henry VIII. from Catherine of Arragon; whilst it gained him the favour of the sated husband, it entailed on him the resentment of his daughter Mary, who could not forget the injury sustained by her queenmother. The conduct of this learned prelate has been equally the subject of exaggerated praise and undeserved censure; but truly heroic was the fortitude with which he closed a well-spent life of sixty-seven years. Thirlesby Bonnor, with two of the Queen's proctors, went to Oxford to degrade him; and having dressed him in all the ornaments of an archbishop made of canvas, he was stripped of them piece by piece, but refused to surrender his crosier; they then put him on a yeoman-beadle's gown, and a townsman's cap, and remanded him to prison. He was persuaded to sign a recantation; and was afterwards burnt before BaliolCollege in 1556, when he thrust his hand into the fire, for being the instrument which produced his recantation.

Matthew Parker; the second protestant archbishop of Canterbury. He was not only a great patron of learning, but a liberal encourager of the arts; he formed large collections relative to the History of England, which he bequeathed to Christ's-college, Cambridge, of which he had been master. He published the Bishop's Bible, and several of the old English historians; translated the Psalms into English verse; and was the founder of the Antiquarian Society. Obiit 1575, Et. 72.

John Whitgift Archbishop of Canterbury; frequently stiled the English Pope, from the zeal and eagerness with which he carried into execution the penal statutes against all who dissented from the established church, during the reign of Elizabeth, Obiit 1603, and was succeeded by

Richard Bancroft; who was translated from the see of London. He proved himself a no less rigid disciplinarian than his predecessor. Chelsea college was originally designed for the reception of students, who should answer all Popish and controversial writings against the Church of England; and the institution, if not projected, was certainly warmly patronized by Bancroft, who bequeathed to it his very valuable library, in case it was built. within six years after his decease. But the plan never having been compleated, his books were by

another clause devised to his successors for ever at Lambeth; where they now are deposited, and have been considerably augmented by subsequent bequests. Obiit 1610, Æt. 67.

Launcelot Andrews Bishop of Winchester; who successively filled the sees of Chichester, Ely, and Winchester, and materially bettered all the places where he had preferment; one of the most pious, learned, and amiable prelates that ever were advanced to the episcopal chair. Well skilled in fifteen languages, his discourses are infinitely better than the usual stile of writers of those times, but so overloaded with Latin quotations and quaint phrases as no longer to be held in very high estimation, in consequence of the improvement which has taken place in that species of composition. Obiit 1626, Et. 71.--Archbishop Laud.

The black parlour, so called from its being fitted up with wainscoating of that tremendous hue, is a good specimen of all the other apartments, which seem to be well calculated for producing that hypochondriacal affection known by the name of the "Blue Devils." We were gratified, however, in the gallery, by the most beautiful piece of Saxon masonry we had ever seen; it is an arch-way, formerly connecting this passage with an apartment, but for many centuries, perhaps, stopped up and

unknown. The present bishop, whose munificence fully equals his ability, to make improvements and alterations in this venerable pile, accidentally discovered the arch-way, and directed it to be cleaned and repaired. The number of mouldings, the variety of ornaments, the beauty of the pattern, and the nicety of the workmanship, render it unquestionably the most interesting monument extant of the Anglo-Norman architecture.

In the common dining-room, from the circumstance of its late alterations, a man might make a comfortable meal. Here we found half-lengths of George II. and his Queen Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg; and on looking from its windows, had an extremely singular view of the town which crouched below us, and the river nearly encirling it, its bridges, and wooded banks. To these we descended by a path from the church-yard, and here entered upon the celebrated walks opened and kept in repair by the dean and chapter, which accompany the bending of the stream, and command several singular and interesting peeps at the city and its august ornaments, the castle and cathedral. The banks, rocky and abrupt, on one hand, and sloping gently to the river on the other, darkened by a solemn depth of shade, sequestered and retired, in the immediate neighbourhood of a busy scene of society, afford a

retreat of the most beautiful and agreeable nature imaginable. The variety of the scenes which they open also is remarkable; deep glades and solemn dells; scarred rock and verdant lawn; sylvan glades and proud castellated edifices. From the elegant new bridge, the last-mentioned feature is seen to great effect; the castle and cathedral blending their battlements and turrets together, rise with inconceivable majesty from the sacred groves which clothe their rocky foundations. The combination here of trees and buildings, water and rock, home sylvan scenery and fine distance, is at once beautiful and grand.

Quitting Durham by the Newcastle turnpike, we bent our course towards Cocken-Hall, the property of Mr. Carr Ibbetson; and for this purpose turned out of the great road at the three-mile stone, and stretched across a country hardly passable in the finest weather for wheel-carriages; a nearer way than by Chester-le-street, but accompanied with difficulties that more than equal the advantage of lessened distance. On reaching the mansion, which stands upon a hill, and overlooks a pleasing country, we were unspeakably disappointed to find that the small but select collection of pictures which rendered Cocken-Hall one of the shew places of Durham, had been removed on the preceding