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ADDITIONAL NOTES.

HAMPTON.-Christopher

1. NOTE CONCERNING ARCHBISHOP Hampton, D.D., was born at Calais, and was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. "One Christopher Hampton was admitted a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1570; and in 1585 was elected a Fellow. Probably this was the Archbishop." [Cole.] He was nominated for Bishop of Derry in 1611, but was not consecrated to that see. He was advanced to the Primacy by patent, dated May 7th, and consecrated on the day following. He was a person of great learning, and a benefactor to his see, having repaired the ruined Cathedral of Armagh, and built a handsome Palace at Drogheda, repaired the Palace at Armagh, and bestowed on it a demesne of 300 acres. He died on 3rd January, 162, and was buried in St. Peter's Church at Drogheda. Among the MSS. in Trinity College, Dublin, is his "Collection of Proofs relating to the Precedence of the Archbishops of Armagh." Vide Table of Consecrations No. II,, "Archbishop Laud's Consecration."

2. THE IRISH SUCCESSION AS EXISTING AND PERPETUATED IN 1662.-Eight of the prelates who had governed the Irish Church before the Rebellion survived until the Restoration. Of these the ablest and most noted was John Bramhall, D.D., Bishop of Derry, who was translated to Armagh, and became Primate of all Ireland. Soon after this translation he consecrated twelve Bishops to fill the vacant sees, in January 1663. So that Ireland possessed four Archbishops and seventeen Bishops, a number which was retained until the mischievous Act of 1833 came into operation. Since the Church of Ireland has recently been robbed of the main part of her lawful revenues and disconnected from the State, it would seem only politic on the part of her present rulers to fill up the ancient sees once

more.

3. NOTE CONCERNING ARCHBISHOP BRAMHALL.-John Bramhall, D.D., was born at Pontefract, in Yorkshire, and was educated at Sidney College, Cambridge. After quitting the University, he kept a school at Kilburne, near Kirtlington, in Yorkshire; and having distinguished himself by a successful controversy with a Roman Catholic Priest and Jesuit, was made a Prebendary of York, and afterwards of Ripon, in 1633. Hearing of the distressed state of the Irish Church, he yielded to the persuasions of the Earl of Strafford; and, resigning all his English preferments, to the deep grief of his friends and parishioners, came over to Ireland as Chaplain to the Lord Deputy. He was soon made Archdeacon of Meath, and was employed in a regal visitation of the bishoprics of the south of Ireland. In 1634 he was advanced to the bishopric of Derry, where he diligently applied himself to the improvement both of the spirituals and temporals of the Church. He bore a principal share in bringing about the adoption of the English Articles, and in compiling a body of Canons for the Irish Church. During the troubles, which followed the Rebellion of 1641, he retired to the Continent; but at the Restoration returned to Ireland, and was speedily advanced to the Primacy, when he continued to exert himself in every way for the permanent benefit of the Church. He died in Dublin, on June 30th, 1663, in the seventieth year of his age; and was buried in Christ Church Cathedral. Vide p. 324.

4. JAMES SHIRLEY.-James Shirley is said to have been of an ancient family. He was born A.D. 1694, in London, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School; he went to St. John's College, Oxford, but was advised by his friend and patron, Laud, not to take orders. However he left Oxford, went to Cambridge, was eventually ordained, and subsequently obtained preferment near St. Alban's. Here he joined the Church of Rome, after which, going to London, he resided at Gray's Inn, where he wrote thirty-nine plays. His first, The Wedding, was published in 1629. He died in 1666, having been burnt out of his house by the great Fire of London. He is said to have regarded the ordinations of the Church of England as good and valid, but came to agree with the martyred archbishop

that he was not a fit person for the office to which he had been appointed.-Note to Chapter xxwv., p. 248.

5. MANBY, DEAN OF DERRY.-Peter Manby, A.D. 1672, sometime scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, afterwards canon of Kildare, was installed Dean of Derry, Dec. 21st, 1672. Having, as it is declared, been disappointed of his hopes of obtaining a Bishopric, he, for this and other reasons, joined the Church of Rome. In 1686, King James II. granted him a dispensation under the Great Seal of England, dated July 21st, authorising him to retain the Deanery of Derry, notwithstanding that he had declared himself a Roman Catholic, and had declined to be re-ordained. He was the author of a few tracts-the most remarkable being on the Duty of Abstinence and the value of Sacramental Confession. Manby died in London, in 1697, having undergone no re-ordination to the day of his death.-Note to Chapter xxiv.

6. ADDITIONAL NOTE TO P. 276.-"The French clergy who lived at Thame for so many years after the Revolution were certainly on the best of terms with the Vicar, and constantly expressed their warm interest in the position and work of the Church of England. At that time there were only two or three Dissenting families in Thame, and everybody attended the Parish Church. The French Priests who performed their own religious duties very early on Sunday mornings in a room fitted up as a Chapel, at Mr. W―'s house, usually attended the Evening Services, sitting in the Chancel in their long black gowns, and publicly taking part in them. Before those who returned home left the town, they publicly thanked God, in the Prayers of the Church of England on a day set apart, for His mercies and blessings to them, and acknowledged the hospitalities of the English people. The Vicar preached on the occasion of this occurrence of a religious thanksgiving, and a beautiful and touching sermon it was. The French Priests revered him greatly. He had buried some of their number in the Churchyard, when the services were very solemnly done; and they left him memorials of their affection

and respect, both as a friend and as the clergyman of the parish."-MS. Letter belonging to the Author.

Extracts from the Registers of Burial of the Prebendal Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Thame, Oxon.

Burials, A.D. 1796.-Jan. 18, Rev. William Chandermerle, French Priest of the Parish of St. Thurtan, Town of Quintin, Diocese of St. Brieux, Province of Britanny, Aged 69.

A.D. 1796.-Rev. John Benign Le Bihan, French Priest of St. Martin des Prés, Diocese of Quimper, Province of Britanny, Aged 60."

7. BISHOP STONOR ON ANGLICAN ORDERS. Vide p. 277.-The following passage from a Roman Catholic Magazine of the early part of this present century has been forwarded as stating the expressed opinion of Bishop Henry Stonor. As the Author of this Treatise was unable to verify it, it was omitted in the book itself, and is added here in order that any one better acquainted with the literature in question may do so :

"The question between the Protestant Church and ourselves is not one that can be settled by any determined controversies about Ordinations, the form of Ordination, or the changes at the Reformation; therefore, the anxiety on this point, of your correspondent T.R.,' is exaggerated, as it seems to me and to others whom I have consulted. Bishop Stonor, who was one of those who held the sufficiency of the Ordination Formularies of the Prayer Book of the Established Church, maintained in print that as far as he had inquired he was willing to believe that Church-of-England Ordinations were sufficient and valid; but that the question of separation from the Catholic Church, far graver and far more considerable, was the question which ought always to be put in the fore-front of our controversies, when controversy appeared likely to do good rather than harm."