Bible is before them, which four characters, denoting the devil, the pope, a cardinal, and a friar, are vainly endea vouring to extinguish from beneath the table.

This room abounds also in portraits, of which the following is a list:

The east end is appropriated to the FOUNDER, and his family.

Dr. WILLIAMS, over the chimney.

Mrs. JANE WILLIAMS.

Mr. FRANCIS BARKSTEAD, her first husband, of whom there is a duplicate portrait.

Mr. T. BARKSTEAD, jun.

BARKSTEAD, Esq. in the dress of the reign of

Charles II.

A very remarkable portrait, clothed in the Oliverian buff jerkin, with epaulets on the shoulders; a very significant countenance. This is named SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE; but, with due deference, we should rather call it Col. JOHN BARKSTEAD, one of the judges of Charles I. The painting must be more valuable from such a circumstance; for the arts had not arrived to the excellence of canvas painting, which this portrait exhibits, in the time in which Oldcastle lived; besides the costume is materially different.

He

Rev. THOMAS CARTWRIGHT, D. D. "He was some time Margaret professor of divinity at Cambridge, and a very celebrated preacher." When he preached in St. Mary's church, the concourse of people to hear him was so great, that the sexton was obliged to take down the windows. was expelled the university for Puritanism, by Dr. Whitgift, the vice-chancellor, with whom he maintained a long controvery about church discipline, which is in print. He was at the head of those rigid Calvinists who openly opposed the Liturgy, and episcopal jurisdiction, and were advocates for the plan of religion established at Geneva. Ob. 1603*.

Bust of Dr. WATTS.

Rev. DANIEL ROGERS, of Wethersfield,

* Granger.

PORTRAITS

PORTRAITS OF MINISTERS.

From the south east side:

WILLIAM WOLLASTON, M. A. author of "The Religion

of Nature."

Rev. JOSHUA BAYES.

Rev. THOMAS COTTON.

Rev. BENJAMIN ROBINSON.
Rev. MATTHEW SILVESTER.

Rev. JOSEPH BURROUGHS. Rev. TIMOTHY ROGERS. Rev. WILLIAM PERKINS. College, Cambridge. He wrote many learned works, dispersed through Great Britain, France, Germany, the Low Countries, and Spain; many translated into the French, German, and Italian tongues: a man industrious and painful; who, though he were lame of his right hand, wrote all with his left." He was deprived by archbishop Whitgift for Puritanism, and died at Cambridge, in 1602.

"This divine was of Christ's

Rev. SAMUEL BAKER.

Rev. MATTHEW HENRY; whose Annotations on the Holy Scriptures, for the soundness of their doctrine, will perpetuate his name to future ages *.

Three anonymous portraits.

Rev. JOHN OAKES, jun.

Rev. THOMAS CASE, ejected from the rectory of St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street.

Rev. THOMAS AMORY, D. D.

Rev. RICHARD MAYO, ejected from the vicarage of Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. Died 1695.

Rev. JOHN OAKES, sen. ejected from the vicarage of Boreham, Essex.

Rev. DANIEL CHAUMIER, a French refugee.

Rev. JOHN CHESTER. This gentleman was ejected from his rectory of Wetherby, which he had brought from a state of savage ferocity to that of reverence for religion. He was driven from this flock in the most brutal manner. Baxter says of him, that he was a man of a very sober,

See an Account of his Life attached to his folio Edition of his Annotations.

calm,

calm, peaceable spirit; sound in doctrine and life; and a grave and fruitful preacher." He afterwards settled in Southwark, and preached at the meeting house in Gravel Lane; and died at his son's, a physician at Guildford, in May 1696.

Rev. VINCENT ALSOP, M. A. ejected from Wilby, in Northamptonshire; afterwards minister in Westminster, and one of the six lecturers at Pinner's Hall.

ON THE STAIR CASE.

Rev. JOSHUA OLDFIELD, D. D.

Rev. BENJAMIN GROSVENOR, D. D.

HOPTON HAYNES, Esq.
BENJAMIN AVERY, L. L. D.

JASPER MAUDUIT, Esq.

Rev. DANIEL BURGESS.

Rev. JOSEPH CARYL; ejected from the rectory of St. Magnus, London Bridge. He was afterwards minister of a Dissenting congregation, near his late rectory; and his church so much increased, that at his death he left one hundred and thirty-six communicants. He was a moderate Independent, a man of great piety, learning, and modesty. He died at his house in Bury Street, St. Mary Axe, February 7, 1673, aged seventy-one. In the summer of that year, his church chose Dr. John Owen for their pastor, and all united with that which was before under his care, which consisted of several persons of rank in the army. This respectable society had afterwards the learned Mr. David Clarkson for their pastor, who was succeeded by Dr. Chauncey, as he was by the late eminent Dr. Isaac Watts, for whom, in 1708, they built a new meeting house in Bury Street; where the Rev. Samuel Morton Savage, D. D. was afterwards pastor, and likewise divinity tutor of the academy at Hoxton.

We close this list, with the following remark of the great LOCKE on the Act of Uniformity; which, on account of being passed on St. Bartholomew's Day, 1662, was denominated THE BARTHOLOMEW ACT:

"Bartholomew

"Bartholomew Day was fatal to our Church and Religion, in throwing out a very great number of worthy, learned, pious, and orthodox divines."

RULES OF THE LIBRARY.

I. The library shall be open from ten o'clock in the forenoor till three in the afternoon, on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, in every week throughout the year, except Christmas and Whitsuntide weeks, and the month of August; and the librarian (unless prevented by sickness) shall constantly attend the library at such times. Nevertheless a trustee shall have access to the library whenever he thinks proper.

II. All persons shall be admitted during the appointed hours, upon producing to the librarian a written order from one of the trustees, specifying their names, places of abode, and proper additions.

III. No book shall be perused or consulted in the stalls (unless by the special leave of the librarian to such persons as are well known to him), but shall be taken down, and brought to the desk or table in the library by the librarian, and there perused or consulted; and no paper shall be laid on a book when any extracts are made.

IV. No book shall be taken out of the library except by one of the trustees on his giving a receipt for it to the librarian, and such book shall be returned at or before the next quarterly meeting, except the same be in the actual possession of such trustee.

V. The librarian shall keep a correct account of all books taken out of the library, with the time when taken, and the name of the trustee taking the same; and of all applications for books already taken out. Such accounts shall be laid before the library committee previously to every quarterly meeting of the trustees.

VI. All books given or purchased for the use of the library shall be immediately, on such gift or purchase, inserted by the librarian in the catalogue, in their proper places, and stamped or marked; and also entered in the book of benefactions, in which shall be specified the time when, and the name of the person by whom given : and such book of benefactions shall be laid on the table at every meeting of the trustees, and of the book committee.

VII. The librarian shall not receive any money or other gratuity from any person for the use of this library.

In the library is a register for the birth of children.

This foundation, which has been greatly augmented since its first institution, is under the direction of twenty-three trustees, viz. fourteen ministers and nine laymen, who must be all Dissenters; under whom there is a secretary and steward.

Stow informs us, that,." In this Red Cross Street, lived one Pottier, that was a servant of Richard, duke of Gloucester, afterwards king Richard III. of whom Sir Thomas More relates this passage, as if it had been for some time before the design of that duke to make way to usurp the kingdom after his brother Edward the Fourth's death, viz. That the same night in which that king died, as he learned by credible information, one Mistlebrook, early in the morning, came in great haste to this Pottier's house; and hastily rapping at the door, was soon let in: whose business was, to let him know the news, that king Edward was departed." To which Pottier replied, "By my truth, man! then will my master, the duke of Gloucester, be king!"

At the south end of this street stands the parish church of
ST. GILES, CRIPPLEGATE.

THIS church is said to have been built by Alfune, bishop of London, about the year 1030, before the reign of William the Conqueror; and though it was demolished by fire, in the year 1545, it escaped the same ordeal in 1666.

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