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chester who had possession of this anc

ration he was made Dean of Christ Church, and in the same year Bishop of Worcester, whence he was translated to Winchester. His constant practice was to rise at five o'clock in the

and afterwards Bishop of Lincoln. From school he was elected scholar to St. John's College, Oxford, and became Fellow of the same College at the commencement of

ath of Dr. Bailey he was made President of St. John's College. In 1669 he was chosen Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, and in 1673 he was pro

time prefixed Bishop Mews also died by a strange accident. He was subject to fainting fits, from which he soon recovered by smelling spirits of hartshorn. Being seized with a fit whilst a gentleman was with him, and perceiving its approach, he pointed eagerly to a phial in the window; the visitor took it, and in haste poured the contents down the Bishop's throat, which instantly suffocated him. As the time approached which Needs had prefixed for his own dissolution, of which he named even the day and the hour, he sickened, apparently declined, and kept to h

information. His answer was, that "John Needs had indeed foretold that the Bishop of Winchester (Mews) and old Mr. Carman should die that year; but then they being very aged men, he had foretold, for two or three year

nherited the title. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where there is a portrait of him. He was in succession Bis

maintain the Protestant cause. When the news of his probable peril of life reached Cornwall, the miners

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George I., and translated to the see of Winchester in 1721. This bishop, naturally of a weak constitution, did not long survive his last promotion. He died at Farnham in 1723, aged 40. This prela

p of Gloucester, translated in 1721 to Salisbury, and thence to Winchester in 1723, where he resided till his death, which happened suddenly at

College Tutor, and appears to have been held in high esteem throughout the whole course of his academical studies. Although he applied to study with an intensity of application that made him eminent, he acquired at the same time consid

hath justly merited the favour and recommendation of this House. That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, that she would be graciously pleased to bestow some dignity in the church on Mr. Hoadly, for his eminent services, both to the Church and State." A change of Ministry prevented any benefit arising to him from this a

he did not know the way up stairs, the attendants being all busily engaged at the moment, and by mistake he sat down i

of the night he was seized with a fit of vomiting, of which the violence abated in about an hour. Medical assistance was immediately sent for, and the bishop seemed better, but about two o'clock the following even, his lady found

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gham, for instance, was remarkable for the length of his periods, or final sentences, but with him it evidenced deep thought, and enabled him to impart into hi

n. In 1742 he became Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's, and was sworn in one of his Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary. He was consecrated Bishop of Peterborough in 1747, and four years after was appointed Preceptor to the Prince of

a canonry at Christchurch, to the deanery of Canterbury. His elder brother being now Prime Minister he obtained the mitre of Lichfield and Coventry in 1771, at the early age of 30. In 1744 he was promoted to the see of Worcester, soon after which he was promoted to the rich see of Winchester. By his wife, formerly Miss Bannister, a lady previously well known

e a youth, fell accidentally with considerable force on the shore of the river, it being at the time "low water." The bishop observing the accident, and perceiving the injury sustained, gave immediate instructions for his being carrie

loor of which comprised the great hall, kitchen, and chapel, the latter being of moderate dimensions, plainly but neatly fitted up. The great staircase at the eastern end of the hall led to three grand drawing rooms, which extended the whole length of the south front, and which, during the residence of Bishop North, were splendidly furnished. The walls were covered with beautiful paper, having gold borders, the ceilings were rich

y, of modern art, and of natural history, of which the principal were, Greek sepulchral vases, specimens of ancient marbles used in the Roman villas, mural paintings from Herculaneu

20 ft. wide; on a table stood an antique juve

, consisting of specimens of all the articles of domestic use among the ancient Romans. Here likewise stood a sepulchral Rom

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esco paintings from Herculaneum, and other works of ancient arts. In the next apartments were portraits of Bishop North, and his lady. Along the gallery which led to the garden were disposed, in glass cases, a rich variety of beautiful shells,

ater, conveyed by pipes from a conduit, built by Henry VI

outline with black chalk in a bold and animated style. Various opinions have been given respecting these spirited sketches. They displayed much of the manner of Hogarth, who lived on intimate terms with Bishop Hoadly, and it was supposed t

a dislike to the place altogether. His lordship, in consequence, applied to Parliament and obtained an Act to enable him

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piers of the ancient Manor House, Cheyne Walk, it is here only necess

indows, and divided by four buttresses of great width, carried up considerably higher than the roof, either as ornaments or concealed flues. The parapet of this part was castellated. Two additions, on the east, seems to have been subsequently added to the original; on

e Manor House. A man, named Howard, who was employed in the remova

on of the episcopal domain took place, Mr. Clare, with some difficulty, obtained a portion of the land upon which the gardens of the above venerable edifice stood, in the arrangement and

to Lady Steele, dated Chelsea, 14th of February, 1716, he says, "Mr. Fuller and I came hither to dine in the air, but the maid has been so slow th

red him the delight of the soldiery, and having made choice of a profession which set him free from all the ordinary restraints in youth, he indulged his inclinations in the wildest excesses. He became Secretary to Lord Cutts, who obtained for him the rank of captain in Lord Lucas's regiment of Fusileers; and, in the beginning of Queen Anne's reign, he was appointed to the profitable place of Gazetteer, to which he had been recommended by Mr. Addison. Steele had already exhibite

nist. He took his seat in the House of Commons as Member for Stockbridge, in Hampshire, but was expelled thence in a few days after for writing seve

o the Royal Stables at Hampton Court, had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him,

s profusion, that scarcely a twelvemonth had passed before he was obliged to sell his share in a theatre to relieve the oppressive exigencies of want. In 1725 he surrendered the whole

f prosperity; at another depressed by all the evils of the most embittered poverty. His frailties were not the offspring of vice, but the effects of habitual carelessness and the want of prudence. Compassionate in his heart; unbounded in his benevolence; no object of distress that he could relieve ever left

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on his travels. The collection of curiosities, which were principally the gift of his master, being the duplicates of his various curious collec

e following humorous description of this once far-famed

tions in observing, also, persons of eminence, whom he before knew nothing of: thus it fared with me, even in a place so near the town as this. When I came into the coffee-house, I had not time to salute the company, before my eye was diverted by 10,000 gimcracks round the room, and on the ceiling. When my first astonishment was over, comes to me a sage, of thin and meagre countenance, which aspect made me doubt whether reading or fretting had made it so philosophic; but I very soon perceived him to be of that sect which the ancients call Gingivist?, in our language, tooth-drawers. I immediately had a respect for the man; for these practical philosophers go upon a very rational hypothesis, not to cure, but to take away the part affected. My love of mankind made me very benevolent to Mr. Salter; for such is the name of this eminent barber and antiquary. Men a

he history, which gave me satisfaction in the doubt, why Don Saltero writ his name with a Spanish termination; for he is descended in a right line, not from John Tradescant, as he himself asserts, but from that memorable companion of the Knight of Mancha; and I hereby certify, to all the worthy citizens who travel to see his rarities, that his double-barrelled pistols, targets, coats of mails, his sclopeta, and sword of Toledo, were left to his ancestor, by the said ancestor to all his progeny down to Don Saltero. Though I go thus far in favour of Don Saltero's merit, I cannot allow a liberty he takes

g his rarities, as the china figure of a lady in the glass case, the Italian engine for the imprisonment of those who go abroad with it; both of which I hereby order to be

in merit, and not according to their fortune or figure; and if he is in a coffee-house at the reading hereof, let him look round, and he will find there may be more cha

rals, chrystals, ores, shells, animals preserved in spirits, stuffed animals from various parts of the world, idols, cu

s affixed; and under the management of skilful hands this collect

Mr. Pennant's ancestor, who lived at Chelsea, often took his great nephew, Mr. Pennant's father, to the coffee-house, where he used to see poor Richard Cromwell, a little and very neat old man, with a most placid

enominates, is called, in the edition of Saltero's catalogue that we have seen, "a piece of a root of a tree that grew in the shape of

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on room, where gentlemen met and conversed, and which was frequently visited by men of literature and science, many of whom are st

f expressed it, he was "madly in love with ideal liberty." He became an officer in the French army, and a member of the National Convention, and personally acquainted with all the leading characte

tle, after an imprisonment of four years, for a seditious libel.

minence, had his life been prolonged. Indeed, the zeal with which he devoted himself to his various professional pursuits, hastened, if it did not bring on, the disorder which put a period to his existence at the comparative early age of forty-one years. As a classical scholar, and nervous elegant

agistrate for the county, and highly esteemed in the parish. As a gentleman he was affable and courteous, and

ociate of the most distinguished political as well as literary men of the earlier part

Frances Eggleton bequeathed a sum of money, to be given at her sister's death to the Rector and Churchwardens, in trust, for them to give, on Christmas Eve, "a shoulder of mutton of not less than seven pounds in weight, and not exceeding

ected in the parish, and was of a most benevolent disposition. His deed of gift

sided with his family in a spacious house, within a few doors of Manor Street.

lk, where he died. Mrs. Sarah Handford, his relict, who did not very long survive him

and who has long been connected with the press, resi

nemann,) for a considerable period. He was Steward of the Manor for eighteen years. He died in 1833

t cheek through the violence of the pain, he had marked them very much. He compared the sensation to a worm in the marrow of the upper bone of his arm, and used to keep a boy to beat it with a stick whenever the pain returned, and to tap on the back of his head with a piece of wood covered with cloth. Mr. Fraine's death was occasioned by the fall on

ucation at Christ Church, Cambridge, put an end to his existence at his chambers in the Tem

larities of system, seemed to have a dread (not aversion) of marriage. The tendency of her social feelings, strictly regulated and controlled by the reserve of modesty and the dignity of virtue, almost irresis

Fraine, in 1780, frequently expressed to a very near neighbour her ardent wish that a particular child were placed under her own sole and imm

gifted and unfortunate lady. It succeeded so far as to repress any further application by the lady, but her feelings remained the same. The follo

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