behalf; which, I am very fenfible, is a point that should be managed tenderly. It is poffible, however, as your Lordship fays, that a lucky minute and a lucky humour may chance to meet, and give your Lordship an opportunity for it. I did your Lordship's mesfage to the Master of the Rolls on Sunday laft; and he commanded me to return his most humble fervice both to your Lordship and the Major-General †, and to tell *Sir John Trevor. * you that he The Bishop's brother, Major-General Charles Trelawny, who reprefented the town of Plymouth, in feveral Parliaments, in the reign of Queen Anne. He married, firft,; and fecondly, Anne, daughter and coheir of Richard Lower, of London, M. D. He died in Sept. 1731, aged 78, and was buried Oct. 8, at Plynt, in Cornwall, where we find this character of him: "A Gentleman of an ancient and honourable "family, which he alfo ennobled by his virtues. "His first appearance in the field was about the year 1672, under the famous Turenne,' a Mar"fhal of France; and his gallantry and experience "in military affairs fpoke him worthy of fo great "a mafter. His public actions in feveral inftances "redound to his honour, but are not fo particu"larly and perfectly known, as a public relation "of them may require; thofe who ferved with "him can give the jufteft eulogium; his modefty 66 was too delicate to recite his actions. He was he was much pleased to find that you preserved a kind memory of him. Here "fo far from courting the applaufe which was due "to his behaviour, that he very rarely made men❝tion of the one, left it fhould demand the other. "He ferved in the troops which King Charles II, "fent to the affiftance of France, when they and "their country gained the greatest reputation, by "covering the retreat of the French, and repulf 66 ing the Germans; an action of that fignal fer"vice, that it merited the public thanks, "This may be faid to his and the nation's "honour, that the armies of France have been "protected, as well as conquered, by the English. "Nor did he fhine lefs in his private than in his "active life: the reputation he acquired in pub"lic fervices he adorned with affability, tender"nefs, and charity to all about him: the bravery "of the foldier was tempered with the politeness "of the most accomplished gentleman. In fhort, "fo generous and noble a fpirit attended his "whole courfe of life, and fo much patience and "refignation his last most painful and lingering "illness, that he appeared in both equally the hero, and died great as he had lived. He was "inftrumental in bringing about the late Revolu"tion, though he was forry that his country re"quired it: he loved his King, but his country "more intereft would have inclined him to fup66 port the King and abfolute power; his honour "and the love of his country commanded his fer"vice for the conftitution, the laws, and liberty: "he ferved then with reluctance as against the 03 "King, Here is a very notable book come out in behalf of the occafional conformifts, intituled, "The Rights of Proteftant Diffenters," dedicated to the Queen, and supposed to be written by Locke; I doubt not but Churchill* fends them down to you, or else I would 66 King, but he could not ferve the King when "against his country. In the great and famous "battle of the Boyne, he fhared the glories of the "field; and, in confidence of his bravery and ho nour, the important city of Dublin was recom"mended to his care; an eminent fign of the "high esteem he merited, when the metropolis of Ireland was thought safest under his govern66 ment. As his arms were ferviceable against "the enemies of his Majesty, fo was his adminis "tration in protecting his fubjects: he preferved the city from the violence of the foldiers, and "generously defpifed the advantages of fafeἐσ guards and contributions: when he left it, the "fad effects of both broke in upon it. As he "maintained his poft with honour, fo he retired out "of a point of honour; but his retirement was diftinguished by particular marks of royal fa"vour; King William fent a commiffion, apδε pointing him governor of Plymouth. How his great qualities endeared him to the inhabitants "of that place, their univerfal esteem and pub"lic acknowledgements of his merits abundantly "testify." * Awnfham Churchill, the greatest bookseller and ftationer of his time. He was afterwards reprefentative in parliament for Dorchester, and died April 4, 1728.·· convey one to your Lordship. It is written with great art, and skill in colouring: it is an eighteen-penny pamphlet, and is a firft part only; a fecond will speedily follow. I wifh fome able hand undertook it: for, I forefee, it will be much cried up, and made ufe of to ill purposes. I am your Lordship's ever obliged and most dutiful humble fervant, FR. ATTERBURI LETTER LXXI. To Bp. TRELAWNY. Bridewell, June 10, 1704. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIP, TH HE Dean of Wells, by a fall in his garden, hath gotten fuch an hurt, as it is thought he cannot recover; and fome letters from Oxford faid he would be dead before the news could reach us at London. There were fome thoughts of an exchange ane of the Deanery of Gloucester for that of Wells. If they continue, your Lordship * Dr. Ralph Bathurst. 04 will will be pleased to confider what step is to be taken in order to it. It may be expected perhaps that Dr. Jane fhould ask it. I am your Lordship's most dutiful fervant, FR. ATTERBURY. I have frightened the new Bishop, with throwing out a hint in a proper place, from whence I knew it would come round to him, that he hath no right to his annus poft mortem ; there being a statute of the land against him. The Dean of Sarum is very ill at Bristol, and may probably go off. An epitaph, written by Dr. Garth, on St. Evremond +, is to be put up in the Abbey, if *Dr. Young. He died Aug. 9, 1705. the † See p 118. The prefent epitaph runs thus ; Carolus de St. Dennis, Dom. de St, Evremond, Nobili genere in Nornianniâ ortus, a primâ juventute Militiæ nomen dedit; et per varia munera, ad caftrorum Marefchalli gradum evectus, aliifque claris belli ducibus, |