what his Friend had faid. Dean SHERLOCK fpeaking of the Great and Noble Defigns Queen MART had form'd to promote true Religion, and the Service of the Church of England, could not help upon this Occafion giving a juft Encomium upon the Arch-Bifhop in the following Manner. 'Thave (fays he) Reason to say this from thofe frequent Intimations I have had from our late admirable Primate, who had great Designs himself to serve the Chriftian Religion, and the Church of England, in its trueft Interests; and had infpir'd their MAJESTIES, and particularly the QUEEN, who had more leisure for fuch Thoughts, with the fame great and pious Designs; it may be no Churchman ever had, and I am fure, not more defervedly, a greater Intereft in his PRINCE'S Favour; and the great Use he made of it was to do publick Service to Religion, and whatever fome Men might fufpect, to the Church of England, tho' it may be not perfectly in their Way; and the greatest Fault, I knew he had, was, that fome Envious and Ambitious Men could not bear his Greatness, which he himself never courted, nay, which he industriously avoided. Before this,

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'all England knew, and own'd his Worth; ' and had it been put to the Poll, there had 'been vaft odds on his Side, that he 'would have been voted into the See of Canterbury; for no Man had ever a clearer and brighter Reafon, a truer Judgment, or more eafy and happy Expreffion, nor a more inflexible fearless Honesty: He was a true and hearty Friend where' ever he profess'd to be fo; tho' he had many Enemies at laft, he took care to 'make none; he was obliging to all Men; ' and tho' he could not eafily part with a 'Friend, he could eafily forgive an Ene6 my. But I cannot give you the Chara· Eter of this Great Man now what I ; have already faid, I confefs, is an Excurfion, which I hope you will pardon, 6 to the Paffion of an old Friend; and ' learn from Two great Examples, that 'neither the greatelt Inocence, Virtue,

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or Merit, can defend either Crown'd or • Mitred Heads from the Lash of spiteful ' and envenom'd Tongues.' Thus far Dean SHERLOCK. Another Friend fays of him, When he was importun'd to use his Intereft with great Men for his Friends, upon any Vacancies of Preferment in their Gift, he would fometimes defire to be excufed from it, telling them that he had often paid dear for fuch Favours, fince he had been forced in return, their request, to give Livings to K 4 • others,

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others, which were of double or treble Value to thofe he had obtain❜d from them, and get this could not be avoided; and therefore he intreated those who had Expectations from him, patiently to wait till Preferments fell, which were in his own Gift, and Disposal.

Not to add the many Panegyricks upon him from printed Books, I can't pass by one from a Manufcript Diary of a late learned and pious Divine, because there is a Particular in it which muft arise from a perfonal Knowledge of Bishop TILLOTSON. He taught (fays he) by his Sermons, more Minifters to Preach well, and more People to Live well, than any other Man fince the Apoftles Days; he was the Ornament of the laft Century, and the Glory of his Function; in the Pulpit another CHRYSOSTOM, and in the Epifcopal Chair a Second CRANMER. He was fo exceeding Charitable, that while in a private Station, he always laid afide Two Tenths of his Income for charitable Uses.

Of his GRACE's Writings, one Volume in Folio, confifting of Fifty Two Sermons, and the Rule of Faith, were published in his Life Time, and corrected by his own Hand. Those which came Abroad after his Death from his Chaplain Dr. BARKER, make Two Volumes in Folio, the Value of which, if we may judge from the Price of the Copy, being Two Thousand Five Hundred Guineas, is not inferior to the

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former. This, indeed, was the only Legacy he left to his Family, his extenfive Charity confuming his yearly Revenues as conftantly as they came to his Hands. If Charity be the Characteristick of a true Difciple, furely he who exhausted all he had in the nobleft manner, and trusted in Providence for the future Support of his own Family, deferves that Name more truly, than any in these late corrupted Ages can pretend to. But the God whom he ferved in the ftricteft of the Letter of the Commandment, fuffered not them to want, the Royal Bounty exerting it felf to his Widow, as I find in the two following Grants, taken from the Original Records in the Office of the Rolls in Chancery-lane, viz.

ANNO 7o GULIEL. Tertio.

The KING (May 2.) granteth unto ELIZABETH TILLOTSON, Widow, and Relict of JOHN late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, an Annuity of 400/. during the Term of her natural Life.

ANNO IO GULIEL. Tertio.

The KING (August 18th) granteth 'unto ELIZABETH TILLOTSON, Relic of Arch-Bishop TILLOTSON, 200 l. per Annum, as an Addition to her Annuity of 400 l. per Annum, granted to her by Letters Patents dated May 2. 1695.

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As to the Family of the Arch-Bishop, all that we can learn of them is, that his Lady was the Daughter of Dr. FRENCH, whose Widow Bishop WILKINS married. Of his Children we can say no more, than that he himself mentions the Lofs of his only Son in his Letter to Mr. HUNT, and that he has a Daughter ftill living, married to JAMES CHADWICK, Efq; to whom Bifhop WILLIAMS dedicates his Vindication of his GRACE'S Sermons from the Charge of Soci nianifm. Thus much could 'we collect of this Great Man, which tho' but imperfect, the Bishop of Salisbury, who fupplied us with fome Memoirs, and promifing us many more, dying while this Work was in hand; but if any one can give us any farther Notices of any Thing that relates to him, we shall hereafter infert them with all due Acknowledgment and Gratitude.

In the Church of St. Lawrence Jewry, on the left Side of the Communion Table, a very neat Marble Monument is erected to his Memory, with his Effigies in Bufto, as here exactly delineated.