The poet whom he was charged with robbing was Congreve.

He wrote another poem on the death of the duke of Gloucefter.

In 1710 he became fellow of the college; and next year, entering into orders, was prefented by the society with a living in Warwickshire, confiftent with his fellowship, and chofen lecturer of moral philofophy, a very honourable office.

On the acceffion of queen Anne he wrote another poem; and is faid, by the author of the Biographia, to have declared himielf of the party who had the honourable diftinction of High

churchmen.

In 1706 he was received into the family of the duke of Beaufort. Next year he became doctor in divinity, and foon after refigned his fellowship and lecture; and, as a token of his gratitude, gave the college a picture of their founder.

He was made rector of Chalton and Cleanville, two adjoining towns and benefices in Hertfordshire; and had the prebends, or finecures, of Deans, Hains, and Pendles in Devonshire. He had be

'fore been chofen, in 1698, preacher of Bridewell Hospital, upon the refignation of Dr. Atterbury.

From this time he feems to have led a quiet and inoffenfive life, till the clamour was raised about Atterbury's plot.

Every loyal eye was on the watch for abettors or partakers of the horrid con

fpiracy; and Dr. Yalden having fome acquaintance with the bishop, and being familiarly converfant with Kelly his fecretary, fell under fufpicion, and was taken into cuftody.

Upon his examination he was charged with a dangerous correfpondence with Kelly. The correspondence he acknowledged; but maintained, that it had no treasonable tendency. His papers were feized; but nothing was found that could fix a crime upon him, except two words in his pocket-book, thoroughpaced doctrine. This expreffion the imagination of his examiners had imprég nated with treason, and the doctor was.

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enjoined to explain them. Thus preffed, he told them that the words had lain unheeded in his pocket-book from the time of queen Anne, and that he was afhamed to give an account of them; but the truth was, that he had gratified his curiosity one day, by hearing Daniel Burgess in the pulpit, and those words was a memorial hint of a remarkable fentence by which he warned his congregation to beware of thorough-paced doctrine, that doctrine, which, coming in at one ear, paces through the head, and goes out at the other.

Nothing worse than this appearing in his papers, and no evidence arifing against him, he was fet at liberty.

It will not be fuppofed that a man of this character attained high dignities in the church; but he still retained the friendship, and frequented the converfation, of a very numerous and fplendid body of acquaintance. He died July 16, 1736, in the 66th year of

his age.

Of his poems, many are of that irregular kind, which, when he formed his poetical character, was fuppofed to be Pindarick. Having fixed his attention on Cowley as a model, he has attempted in fome fort to rival him, and has written a Hymn to Darkness, evidently as a counter-part to Cowley's Hymn to Light.