her that new name when her Father, B' of Ely, was standing by, for her excellent skill in mufic, both of voyce and inftrumentall.

"And, to give you a Rowland for your Oliver, about the trayter of a fervant, who hath perverted a thousand pounds, plus minus, of his deceased glorious master's ;-will you take notice of a second deprivation, y* I, whilst yet alive, am fallen under, not by a faithlesse servant, but by a friend as faithlesse, one that I could have trufted with my life, as well as my mony, and thought it fafe in his hands: for our acquaintance was of long standing and intimate, both at home and abroad. Yet he, forgetting all, playes fast and loose with me, to y° fum of 350l. Y° whole fum, after I had forgiven him 50l., was 400l. With much adoe I got 50l. out of his hands: the rest is fub judice. Judge Powell, a noble friend of mine, who I am sure will doe w he can to recover it, first amicably, and if yt will not doe, then by dint of law: an hard chapter, you'll fay, for me, putting his bond in fuits, to my mighty regret.

"But God's will be done on me and mine. Y loffe of it shall never breake my heart, fleep, or that peace of mind which I enjoy, and hope ftill to enjoy through His mercy. The fame mercy keep you, my dear Brother, from such disasters, and give you comfort in all things. But what comfort can you or I take in any earthly thing, when the name, and honour, and dignity of our deare Saviour, is fo vilifyed by lewd wretches & apoftates, in London, as I heare it is by two letters thence. Y' weather is wondrous cold, and if these rascals, or abettors, want a fire in Smithfield, let 'em fend for me to make them one; by God's grace I would in death itself owne, & glorifye what they deride.

CC Farewell, my deareft. Pray for

"Feb. 9, §."

"Yours unfeinedly, and for ever,

"ROBERT FRAMPTON, GLOUSTER.”*

Dr. Williams's Collection of Original Letters.

It is difficult to know where to ftop, in turning over these most natural and spirited letters; but we must do so after the following to Bishop Lloyd,— an appropriate conclufion, as it fhows how well prepared the writer was for his final releafe, and that eternal reft, to which he ardently aspired.

"May 12, 1703.

My good Lord and dearest Brother: "Behold here, in pure obedience to your LP's will, a letter from me, fuch an one as it is, and may well be fupposed to be, when I am not only fuperannuated, having paffed my fourscorth yeare, and mightily burthened with fuch infirmityes as foe great an age may be supposed to be.

"But be these things as they will, or rather as my good Maker pleaseth, it is not in the power of tyme, or outward accidents, to alter y° inward difpofition of my foule, God be blessed for it, and by His grace it never fhall be. Noe, I love Him above all things with my whole heart and foule— next to Him all good men and women in y° world, because they beare His image. Especially my noble friends, such as your good LP and y° two moft Honourable perfons whom you mention. I hate noe one person in the world, not those that have done me most wrong. Am as content as any man alive can be, want nothing that is neceffary, though my superfluityes are paffed away. Alfo am willing to leave this world, foe foon as my bleffed Maker pleaseth. Only forry that I cannot lay down my life by way of martyrdome for His fake. Pray you for me that my exit hence, and my being for ever after, may be happy to me.

"This I pray for you, for them, and for all others. "Farewell. Yours most unfeignedly,

"ROBERT FRAMPTON, once B. G.*

* Frampton's Will is a remarkable one: it is dated in February, 1702, and was proved in November, 1708. "In it he is only styled

"I daily afke God's pardon for wt hath bin amiffe in my life, and would do it day by day, if I were to live a thousand years more."

Such was Bishop Frampton. Unwavering stedfastnefs of faith was his ftrength: fimple-hearted, and careful for his flock, he never placed them in any difficulty, but kept them true to the Church, though they were under the rule of an intruder. His cheerful and benevolent difpofition, blending with a Christian boldness, was fo kindred to the temper of Ken, that we cannot wonder they should have fuch an esteem for each other, as their letters always exprefs. The circumstances of Ken's earlier life had brought his natural gifts and powers into more prominent view, and placed him in a wider range of usefulness. But Frampton was in heart and act an equally devoted confeffor to the facred cause of his Heavenly Master.

Robert Frampton, of Standish, in Gloucester Diocese, without any title; he bequeathed therein an 100l. to one who had been his servant above thirty years; 10l. to Pimperne poor, Co. Dorset, where he was born; 10l. to Fountmill and Okeford, where he was Minifter; 10l. to Turnwood, where he had taught school; 100l. to promote the Gospel in foreign parts; 100l. to Deprived Ministers; and 100l. to poor Servitors at Chrift Church, Oxford, where he had been brought up." Willis's Cathedrals, vol. i. p. 726.

CHAPTER XXVII.

Ken furvives all the other deprived Bishops-Controversy among the Non-jurors-Ken recommends all to conform to the Church -Hickes, Wagstaffe, Collier, and others refuse.

N the 1st of January, 1710, Ken was left the only deprived Bishop, by the death of his friend, Dr. William Lloyd, of Norwich.* The warm attachment

of fuch a man as Sancroft, might alone affure us of Lloyd's high qualities: and although we cannot applaud the part he took in perpetuating the Schifm among the Non-jurors, his firmness, his piety, and candour, command our respect. As he lived in

* In Willis's Cathedrals, 4to, 1742, vol. ii. p. 509, we have the following particulars of his life:

"William Lloyd, S. T. P., born in North Wales, at Langower, C° Merioneth, near Bala, where his Father was Minister. St. John's Coll., Cambridge; Vicar of Battersea, Co Surrey; Chaplain to the English Merchants Factory at Portugal, and also to La Treasurer Clifford ; Prebendary of Cadington Minor in St. Paul's, London; BP of Landaff; elected to Peterborough, 1679, to the great misfortune of the Church of Landaff, where he was an excellent active Bishop, and a generous promoter of the welfare of that Cathedral, which has, fince his leaving it, been most miserably neglected. He was, after he had sat here fix years, removed to Norwich, 1685. Upon his deprivation (on ift February, 1690) he retired to Hammersmith, died January 1, 1709, aged 72, and was buried in the Bellfry, or Tower of that Church, which is reckoned a Chapel of Eafe to Fulham, without any memorial.” It is remarkable that Lloyd, White of Peterborough, and Ken, had no epitaphs placed on their graves: and Turner of Ely only one expreffive word, EXPERGISCAR, which applies, and will be fulfilled, to us all.

the immediate neighbourhood of London, he was the leader of his party. Sancroft writes to him on one occafion,

into

"Thus my dear L. while others of us scamper away y Wilderness, where they can find their convenience; remaining fome beyond Jordan, others in y° ships, or on y° feafhore; you ftill jeopard y" to y° utmost in the high places of yo Field, fixing y" there in the very point of danger, as y center of Unity, filling y° whole circumference wth y' care, & bringing forth daily those y' handle y° pen of y° writer. God cover yr Head in y° Time of Danger, & remember you concerning this, and blot not out y' kindnesses, and good deeds to y House of God. Amen."*

What, now, was the part which Ken would take? was the immediate queftion that occurred to every one. There was not a moment's hesitation in his mind. Having long fince acquiefced in Hooper's fucceffion to Bath and Wells, and fo often expreffed a defire that the Schifm should be healed, he rejoiced in the opportunity which was now afforded of bringing back the Non-jurors to the Church. Five years before this the watchful, and ever diligent Henry Dodwell, had foreseen the time when the Sees of the deprived Bishops would become void by death or refignation: and accordingly wrote a book, called "The Cafe in View," to prepare the Non-jurors for their return to the bofom of the Church. Hitherto the whole

* Dr. Williams's Collection of Original Letters.

+ A Cafe in View confidered: in a Discourse, proving that (in case our present invalidly deprived Fathers, shall leave all their Sees vacant, either by Death or Refignation) we shall not then be obliged to keep up our Separation from those Bishops, who are as yet involved in the Guilt of the prefent unhappy Schifm. By Henry Dodwell, M.A., 8vo, 1705.