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Capt. Wickham to mifs Lamplugh, of Cottingly-hall.

Richard Myddleton, Efq; of Chirk-castle, to mifs Rufhout.

Rev. Mr. Champnefs to mifs Baildon.
Jof. Calverley, Efq; to mifs Adams.
Major Ramfden to mifs Ingrace.
Henry Drummond, Efq; to lady Elizabeth
Compton, fifler to the earl of Northampton.
Heron Powney, Efq; to mifs Severn.
John Hughes, Efq; to mifs Payne.
Capt. Clunil to mifs Elliot of Harlow.
John Scott, Efq; to mifs Newham.
Earl of Harborough to mifs Marg. Hill.
Hon. Tho. Knollis, Efq; to miss Porter.
Nicholas Fenwick, Efq; to mifs Lewis.
Samuel Seawell, Efq; to mifs Chitty.
Arthur Ormsby, Efq; to mifs Green.
Sir John Newcomen, Bt. to mifs Bourke.
Jof. Fortescue, Efq; to mifs Fortescue.
Col. John Campbell to mifs Lewis.
Capt. de Paffaw to mifs Childern.
Capt. Brathwait to mifs Brown.
William Drake, Efq; to mifs Webber.
Rev. Mr. Duncombe to mifs Highmore.
Earl of Sutherland to mifs Maxwell.

Capt. John Eraf. Blacket to mifs Rhodam.
Paul Mowbray, Efq; to mifs Byard.
DEATHS.

James ford Forbes, firft baron of Scotland. Mifs Chriftian Grant, daughter to lord Prestongrange,

Dr. Benj. Hoadly, bishop of Winchefter. Countefs of Marr, relict of the late earl. Dr. Schomberg, in Fenchurch-street. Charles, lord Dormer.

The countefs of Gower, in child-bed. Dr. Thomas Fletcher, bishop of Kildare. General Kennedy, at Bath.

Capt. Cornwallis, 2d fon of ld.Cornwallis. A. Johnson, Efq; of the Victualling-office. Mrs. Jane Atkins at Grimpthorp, Yorkfire, aged 100.

Sir T. Denny, Knt. of Derry, in Ireland.
PROMOTIONS.

The earl of Bessborough, and the hon. Rob. Hampden, the office of post-master general. Lord viscount Ligonier, commander in chief of his majesty's forces.--Lord viscount Ligonier, the office of master-general of the ordnance.--The marquefs of Granby to be lieut. gen. of the ordnance.-Charles Frederick, Efq; mafter-furveyor of the ordnance. ... William Rawlinson Earle, Efq; clerk of the ordnance... Andrew Wilkinson, Efq; keeper of ordnance-stores.... Charles Cocks, Efq; clerk of the deliveries of ordnance... William Skinner, Efq; chief engineer of all the garrisons, castles, forts, blockhouses, and other fortifications whatfoever, in Great Britain..The earl of Waldegrave, warden of the Stannaries...The earl of Ilchefter, and James Creffet, Efq; comptroller of the accounts of his majesty's army. ..John Eyles, Efq; warden of the Fleet.... William Poyntz, Efq; infpector of the profecutions in the court of Exchequer, concerning uncuftomed and prohibited goods.. William Poole, Efq; receiver-general of the ftamp-duties...Charles Saunders, Efq; treafurer; and Ifaac Townsend, Efq; master of Greenwich-hofpital....Geo. Grenville, Efq; treafurer of the navy....Henry Fox, Efq; paymaster-general of the forces....Sir Fr. Charlton, Bart. receiver-general of the postoffice...Earl of Thomond, treasurer of the houfhold...Mansfield Cardonnel, Alexander Legrand, Jofeph Tuder, and Robert Mont

Dr. Vernon, rector of St. George's, gomerie, Efqrs. together with Corbyn MorBloomsbury.

Lord viscount Irwin, of Scotland.
Thomas Basket, Efq; King's Printer.
Sir Edward Goodyere.

Dr. Holcombe, prebend of Canterbury.
Dr. Cobden, archdeacon of London.
The duke of Burgundy in France.
Hon. Patrick Boyle at Drumlanrig.
Sir Henry Bellenden, gentleman-usher of
the Black Rod.

Mr. Shuckburg, bookseller, Fleet-ftreet. Lady Abney, relict of Sir Tho. Abney. Wm. Oldys, Efq; Norroy King at Arms. Capt. Alex. Gray, brother to lord Gray. JohnOfborne, Efq; provost of Edinburgh. Samuel Hilton, Efq; late high fheriff for Lancashire, by being thrown from his horfe into a brook.

ris, Efq; in the room of lord Deskfoord, to be commiffioners of the cuftoms in Scotland...Thomas Durell, Efq; viscount of the island of Jersey.

Earl of Effingham, a lieut. col. of horfe. ..Lord Malpas, col. of the 49th reg. of foot, now at Guadaloupe....Capt. Morrison, deputy quarter master-general to the army.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Mr.Tryon, rector of St. George, Bloomfbury... Mr. Gould, vicar of Denham, Suff. ...Dr. Squire, bishop of St. David's....Mr. Secker, prebend of Canterbury... The hon. and rev. Dr. Townshend, dean of Norwich. ...Mr. James Bowman, rector of Holt, Gloucestershire... Jofeph Bateman, vicar of Leigh, Gloucestershire, with the rectory of Bletfoe, Somersetshire.

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BISHOP ATTERBURY.

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THE

BRITISH MAGAZINE,

For MAY, 1761.

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The LIFE of Dr. FRANCIS ATTERBURY, Bishop of ROCHESTER.

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RANCIS Atterbury, bishop of Rochefter, was the fon of Dr. Lewis Atterbury, an eminent divine of the church of Eng#land; and was born at Middleton, or Milton Keynes, near Newport Pagnel, in Buckinghamshire, the 6th of March 1662, where his father was rector. Яe had his education in grammar learning at Westminster school; and from thence in 1680, was elected a ftudent of Chrift's Church college in Oxford, where he foon distinguished himself for the politeness of his wit and learning, and gave early proofs of his poetical talents. In 1684, he took the degree of batchelor of arts, and that of mafter three years after; about which time he made his firft effay in controverfial writing, in a piece intitled, An anfever to fome confiderations on the spirit of Martin Luther, and the original of the reformation. It was a very learned performance, and written with great spirit and vivacity, entirely refuting all the objections brought against Luther's doctrines and manners. May, 1963,

This

vindication of that great reformer induced bishop Burnet to rank the author among thofe eminent divines who had distinguished themselves by their admirable defences of the Proteftant religion.

During his ftay in the university, he is generally thought to have borne no inconfiderable part in the controversy between doctor Bentley and the honourable Charles Boyle, (afterwards earl of Orrery) concerning the genuineness of Phalaris's epiftles, which the former gentleman had denounced fpurious; though Mr. Atterbury's name was not made ufe of on that occas fion. At what time he entered into holy orders is not certainly known; but in 1693, upon the death of his father, he made application to the earl of Nottingham, to fucceed in the rectory of Milton, which he then called the height of his ambition and wishes, as being the place of his birth; but in this expectation he was disappointed, that preferment being given to doctor Wooton.

He had been long tired of a college life, and paffionately defred to be in a more acFi Five

in the conclufion) intreat you to review the groundless and pernicious doctrine you have unwarily taught on this fubje&t: confider if charity ought to be founded upon a temper inconfiftent with innocence, and an unspotted confcience; as productive of wice, folly, and madrefs; as leading to the neglect of the principal branches of itself, and the like; and whether it becomes a Chriflian divine to fet the several parts of God's law at variance, and to make the performance of one of them an atonement for the neglect of others as indispenfibly required.” We shall not enter into any part of the controversy, nor of Mr. Hoadley's reasons to fhew that Mr. Atterbury had mistaken the meaning of the text; but only obferve, that the author of the fermon did not think fit to make any reply to the exceptions.

The fame year (1694) he was warmly attacked for his fermon, preached before the queen at Whitehall, intitled, The fearner incapable of true wifdem. But the largest field of controverfy in which he ever engaged was that which opened itself in the year 1700, and continued four years, between him, Dr. Wake, (afterwards archbishop of Canterbury) and others, concerning the rights, powers, and privileges of convocations; in which he afferted, with a very high hand, the prerogatives and immunities of the church. However the

tive ftation. He fancied himself made for another scene, and another converfation, and that he was lofing time every minute he ftaid there. These were his own words in a letter he wrote to his father, three years before his death, dated the 24th of October 1690; wherein he told him, "That he was perfectly wearied with the naufeous circle of fmall affairs, that could now neither divert nor inftruct him. The only benefit he ever proposed to himself by the place was fludying, and that he was not able to accomplish. His pupil, Mr. Boyle, took up half his time; college and univerfity bufinefs took up a great deal more; and befides, he was forced to be useful to the dean in a thousand particulars, fo that he had very little time." Having long revolved in his mind what course he fhould take, he made London his refidence; and foon diftinguished himself in fuch a manner, that he was appointed one of the chaplains in ordinary to king William and queen Mary, and was elected preacher at Bridewell, and lecturer of St. Bride's. In 1694 he preached a remarkable fermon at Bridewell chapel, before the governors of that and Bethlem hofpital, on the power of charity to cover fin; to which Mr. Benjamin Hoadley (late bishop of Winchefter) fome years after published fome exceptions. Mr. Atterbury's text was from the 4th chapter of St. Peter's first epiftle, and 8th verfe: Charity fhall cover the multi-truth of the question may be, he displayed ude of fins; which words he explained in bis fenfe : "That the virtue of charity is of fo great price in the fight of God, that thofe perfons who poffefs and exercife it in any eminent manner, are peculiarly entitled to the divine favour and pardon, with regard to numberless flips and failings in their duty, which they may be otherwife guilty of: this great Chriftian perfection of which they are mafters, hall make many Attle imperfections to be overlooked and unobferved; it thall cover the multitude of fins." Mr. Hoadley, in the pofticript to his fecond Letter to Dr. Atterbury, published in 1708, excepted again this doctrine, as farther enlarged and explained by Dr. Atterbury. Among other things, he fays; "If God will accept of one duty in lieu of many others; and If our performance of thar fhall be our jufification, notwithstanding our omiffion of many others; this is a fort of falvation, in my judgment, unworthy of the nature of man to receive, and unworthy of the nature of God to offer.---Let me therefore (adds he

fo much learning and ingenuity, as well as zeal for the interefts of his order, that the lower house of convocation returned him their thanks; and the univerfity of Oxford complimented him with the degree of doctor in divinity, January the 29th, 1700, he was inftalled archdeacon of Totnefs, by Sir Jonathan Trelawny, then bishop of Exeter. The fame year he was engaged with fome other learned divines, in revifing an intended edition of the Greek Teftament, with Greek fcholia, collected chiefly from the fathers, by Mr. arch-deacon Gregory.

Upon the acceffion of queen Anne, in 1702, Dr. Atterbury was appointed one of her majefty's chaplains in ordinary; and in October 1704, he was advanced to the deanery of Carlisle. About two years after this, he was engaged in a difpute with Mr. Hoadley, concerning the advantages of virtue, with regard to the prefent life, occafioned by his fermon preached at the funeral of Mr. Thomas Bennett, a book

feller,

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