The Rev. James Doubleday, of Calton, Staffordshire, and formerly of Clare Hall, Cambridge, B. A. 1791, M. A. 1794. The Rev. Samuel Simon Lawry, M. A. Rector of Bluham, in Bedfordshire, The Rectory, which is very valuable, is in the patronage of the Earl of Hardwicke. The Rev. John Willian Harrison, A. M. Rector of St. Clement's, and minor Canon of the Cathedral Chureh of Worcester. The Rev. W. Wellington, Rector of Upton Helion in Devonshire, aged 29. At Bristol, the Rev. Henry Jack son Close, formerly Rector of Hitcham, Suffolk, and of Carlton St. Peter, in Norfolk, which livings he exchanged in 1801, for preferment in Hampshire. He was a distinguished agriculturist, and wrote several ingenious tracts on that subject. He took the degree of M. A. at Cambridge, in 1795. At Drummore, in the county of Derry, in the 75th year, the Rev. Gabriel Stokes, D. D. Chancellor of the Cathedral of Waterford, Prebendary of that of Elphin, and Rector of Desert Martin in the Diocese of Derry. At Farley, in Staffordshire, aged 80, the Rev. John Bill, Bector of Draycot in that county, and for merly of Christ College, Cam bridge, B. A. 1748. The Rev. William Butts, Recr tor of Little Wilbraham, and Vicar of Granchester in the county of Cambridge, and formerly of Ben net College, B. A. 1769; M. A. 1771. These livings are both in the gift of Benet College. Aged 82, the Rev. George Thee mas, Vicar of East Dereham, and brother to the late Dr. Thomas, Bishop of Rochester. The Rev, Richard Mountford, Rector of Stockton, in Shropshire.. At Gloucester, the Rev. James Pitt, Rector of Brimpsfield, and son-in-law and nephew to the late member for that city. TO CORRSPONDENTS. The letter signed "a Rector," shall be duly attended to. ERRATA IN OUR LAST. Page 299, line 29, dele" they might otherwise obtain." 301, line 7, for "had" read "hold." 303, line 19, for "umpires" read " umpire." 305, line 29, for "faith" read “trutlı” THE ORTHODOX CHURCHMAN'S MAGAZINE AND REVIEW, FOR JUNE 1806. Όσα αν μετανοησαντες έλθωσιν επι την ενοτητα της εκκλησίας στον Θεό εσοίαι ινα ωσιν κατα Ιησεν Χριστον ζωνίες. Whosoever repenting shall come to the unity of the church, they shall he God's, that they may live according to Jesus Christ. Ignatii Ep. ad Philadelph. BIOGRAPHY. TH LIFE OF JOHN COSIN, D. D. SOME TIME LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM. HIS excellent prelate was the eldest son of Cies Cosin, a citizen of Norwich, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Rennington, Esq. of Rennington castle, a good and antient family. He was born at Norwich, 30th November, 1595, and educated at the freeschool there till he attained the age of fourteen. When thirteen, his father died and left him several houses, which he gave up to his mother, reserving only 20l. a year for his maintenance at Cambridge. In 1610 he was sent to Caius College, where he was successively chosen scholar and fellow, and regularly took his degrees in arts: having distinguished himself by his learning, diligence, and fine parts, in the year 1616, at about the age of twenty, he had offers at the same time from Dr. Lancelot Andrews, then Bishop of Ely, and from Dr. Overall, Bishop of Litchfield, of a librarian's place; and by his late tutor's advice, he accepted the offer of the latter, who liked him Vol. X. Churchm. Mag. for June, 1805. 3 F So so well, that on account of his knowlege and fair-writing, he made him also his secretary, and committed to him the care of his episcopal seal; at the same time he encouraged him to study divinity, and sent him from time to time to keep his exercises in the university: but in 1619 he lost his excellent patron, and with him all the hopes he had entertained of advancement. Providence soon supplied the loss, and gave him a more munificent friend in Dr. Richard Neile, then bishop of Durham, who took him for his domestic chaplain, and in 1624 appointed him to the tenth prebend in that cathedral. All the time he enjoyed this prebend, which was about six and thirty years, he was constant in his residence, and kept an hospitality consistent with the statutes of that church, so that, according to Dr. Basire, upon the search of the register of that cathedral, he could not find one dispensation for him in all the time he continued a prebendary. He was very attentive to the rights, privileges, and antiquities of the church, compared the repertorium with the original records, and marked what were wanting. In September 1624, he was collated to the archdeaconry of the East Riding, in the diocese of York, vacant by the resignation of Marmaduke Blakiston, whose daughter he had married; and the 20th of July, 1626, he was collated to the rectory of Brancepeth in that diocese, where he first displayed his abundant taste for ornament and elegance, by beautifying that church in an extraordinary manner: the same year he took his degree of bachelor in divinity. About this time, having frequent meetings at the Bishop of Durhain's house in London, with Dr. William Laud, then Bishop of Bath and Wells, Dr. Francis White, soon after Bishop of Carlisle, Dr. Richard Montague, and other learned men, distinguished by their zeal for the doctrine and discipline of the church of England, he began to be obnoxious to the Puritans, who in the heat of their bigotry, regarded divines of Mr. Cosin's cast of sentiment as being popishly affected. A book which he published in 1627, entituled, "A Collection of Private Devotions," met with their particular censure. This book was written at the command of King Charles the First, who thought it expedient that this manual of prayers should be composed, to take place of such books as he discovered were much iu the hands of the queen's attendants. The title-page sets forth that " it was formed upon upon the model of a book of private prayers, authorized by queen Elizabeth, in the year 1560*. Lu 1628 he was concerned, with other members of the church of Durham, in a prosecution against Peter Smart, a prebendary there, for a seditious sermon preached in thet cathedral. About that time he took the degree of doctor in divinity: and on the 8th of February, 1634, was elected master of Peter-House, in the room of Dr. Matthew Wren, newly made Bishop of Hereford, in which station he applied himself earnestly to the promotion of learning and religion. He served the office of vice-chancellor for the university of Cambridge in 1640; and *The top of the frontispiece had the name of Jesus in three capital letters, I. H. S. Upon these there was a cross encircled with the sun, supported by two angels, with two women in a devout posture. This innocent work was severely animadverted upon by Henry Burton in his "Examination of Private Devotions, or the Hours of Prayer, &c." and by W. Prynne in his " Brief Survey of Mr. Cosin's Cozening Devotions." † Smart, who had been a schoolmaster at Durham, was collated in 1609 to the sixth prebend in the cathedral there. He had afterwards other preferments bestowed on him: which he evidently ill-deserved. Being to preach the 7th of July, 1628, in the cathedral, he took for his text, Psalm xxxi, 7. I hate them that hold of superstitious vanities. From which he took occasion to make a most bitter invective against some of the Bishops, charging them with no less than popery and idolatry. Among other virulent expressions, he had these: "The whore of Babylon's bastardly brood, doating upon their mother's beauty, that painted harlot of the church of Rome, have laboured to restore her all her robes and jewels again, especially her looking-glass the mass, in which she may behold her bravery. The mass coming in, brings with it an inundation of ceremonies, crosses and crucifixes, chalices and images, copes and candlesticks, tapers and basons, and a thousand such trinkets which we have seen in this church."-For this sermon he was questioned first at Durham, afterwards in the high-commission court at London, from whence he was removed at his own desire to that at York, where refusing with great scorn to recaut, he was for his own obstinacy degraded, and by sentence at common law, soon after dispossessed of his prebend and livings; whereupon he was supplied with 4001. a year, by subscription from the Puritan party, which was more than all his preferments amounted to. As for Dr. Cosin, he was so far from being Smart's chief prosecutor, that after he was questioned in the high-commission, he never meddled in the matter, save that he once wrote a letter to the Bishop of York and the commissioners in his favour. Fuller calls Smart a man of grave aspect and a reverend presence," which might well be, and yet the interior of the man's character justify what Dr. Cosin says of him," that he was an old man, of a most froward, fierce, and unpeaceable spirit." He had not preached in the cathedral church of Durham, though prebendary of it, for seven years, till he delivered the seditious serinon for which he was questioned. And whilst he enjoyed this preferment and his health too, he seldom preached at all more than once or twice a year,—Biog, Brit. 46 and the same year, the king, to whom he was chaplain, conferred upon him the deanry of Peterborough, in which he was installed on the 7th of November: but he did not long enjoy that dignity; for on the 10th of the same. month, a petition from Smart was read in the House of Commons, wherein he complained of the doctor's superstitious innovations in the church of Durham, and of his own severe prosecution in the high-commission court; whereupon, on the 21st of the same month, Dr. Cosin was ordered into the custody of the serjeant at arms, and a committee was appointed to prepare a charge against him. Soon after he presented a petition to the House, which on the 28th following, was read and referred to a committee. On the 3d of December, the serjeant had leave given him by the Commons to take bail for Dr. Cosin, which was accordingly done on the 19th of January, 1640, the doctor himself being bound in 2000l. and his sureties in 1000l. each, for his appearance upon summons. On the 22d of the same month, he was by a vote of the whole House sequestered from his ecclesiastical benefices; being the first example of that kind among the clergy. On the 15th of March, the Commons sent up twenty-one articles of impeachment against him to the House of Lords, chiefly on account of his innovations (as they were termed) in the church of Durham. The doctor put in an answer upon oath to the several allegations, and so fully vindicated himself, during the five days the affair was depending efore the Lords, that most of them acknowledged hi innocence: and Mr. Glover, one of Smart's counsel, told him openly at the bar of the House of Lords, "that he was ashamed of him, and could not in conscience plead for him any longer :" on which the Lords dismissed the doctor, upon his putting in bail for his appearance; but they never sent for him again. About the same time, upon a motion made in the House of Commons," that he had enticed a young scholar to popery," he was committed again to the serjeant at arms, and ordered to attend daily, till the House should think proper to call him to a hearing. After fifty days imprisonment, and charges of twenty shillings a day, he came at length to a hearing, when he made it apappear, that, being vice-chancellor of Cambridge, he severely punished that young scholar (whom upon examination he had found guilty), by expelling him the University: |