Inn by Bishop Van Mildert, a clergyman of high theological learning declared, that so far as his own reading extended, no such collection of sermons had appeared since those of Bishop Horsley. The bishop also edited the works of Dr. Waterland, of which no complete edition had appeared, in ten volumes, 8vo.; and "by his masterly Review of the Life and Writings of the Author which he prefixed, filled up a chasm in the History of the Church of England. It shows the progress of the Trinitarian controversy from the death of Bishop Bull in 1709, to that of Waterland in 1740; and is a solid, luminous, and comprehensive production of equal value to the ecclesiastical historian and to the theological student."*

CHARLES LLOYD, Bishop of Oxford, 21st June, 1819. Bishop Lloyd has not left any published works to preserve his fame; but was the editor of the beautiful little Greek Testament printed at the Clarendon Press, which is used in the chapel of Lincoln's Inn. He was buried in the cloister under the chapel.

REGINALD HEBER, Bishop of Calcutta, 25th April, 1822. On the occasion of Bishop Heber's last sermon in Lincoln's Inn Chapel, on the eve of his departure for India, Sir Tho. Dyke Acland states in a letter to the bishop's widow, that

* Gentleman's Magazine, 1836.

the common feeling which the sermon of that day diffused through an audience composed of various habits and principles, was comparatively but a light indication of the powerful and salutary influence by which the Bishop conciliated to many good purposes the active and hearty good will, with the united affections, of the immense and various and sometimes conflicting masses upon which it was exercised during his whole course in India.*

EDWARD MALTBY, D. D. 18th April, 1823, Bishop of Chichester in 1831, translated to the see of Durham in 1836. Besides several volumes of Sermons and Charges, Bishop Maltby has published an edition of Morell's 'Lexicon Græco-Prosodiacum,' and a Greek Gradus, or Poetical Lexicon of the Greek Language.

JOHN LONSDALE, D. D. 13th January, 1836, Bishop of Lichfield in 1843. Bishop Lonsdale has published an Account of the Life and Writings of the Rev. Tho. Rennell, some Discourses and Sermons; and the Four Gospels, with annotations, in conjunction with the Ven. Archdeacon Hale.

The REV. JAMES S. M. ANDERSON, elected 12th January, 1844, is the present Preacher of Lincoln's Inn. Mr. Anderson has published several volumes of Sermons and Discourses, and two volumes of the History of the Church of England in the Colonies

* Bishop Heber's Life, by his Widow.

and Foreign Dependencies of the British Empire. A third volume of this work is in preparation.

In the chapel of Lincoln's Inn are also delivered the Warburtonian Lectures, founded by Bishop Warburton in 1768, for the purpose of proving "the truth of Revealed Religion in general, and of the Christian in particular, from the completion of the Prophecies in the Old and New Testament which relate to the Christian Church, especially to the Apostasy of Papal Rome."

These Lectures are delivered annually, pursuant to the will of the founder, on the first Sunday after Michaelmas Term, and on the Sunday immediately before and after Hilary Term.

The first Lecturer was Bishop Hurd, who was succeeded by Dr. Samuel Hallifax, Bishop of Exeter; Dr. Lewis Bagot, Bishop of St. Asaph; Dr. East Apthorpe; Archdeacon Nares (who was assistant preacher of Lincoln's Inn); Dr. Edward Pearson; Rev. Philip Allwood; Rev. John Davison; Archdeacon Lyall; Dr. Frederick Nolan; Dr. Alexander M' Caul; Archdeacon Harrison; Rev. Frederick Denison Maurice. The Lectures of these Preachers have been published. The following are the Lecturers who have not published their Discourses: Dr. Nicholson, Dr. Layard, Rev. Thomas Rennell, Rev. M. Raymond. The present Lecturer is the Rev. H. V. Elliott, author of the Hora Apocalypticæ.'

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NEW SQUARE.

IN the reign of Charles II. there was an open space of ground southward of the ancient buildings of Lincoln's Inn known as Little Lincoln's Inn Fields, or Fickett's Fields, thus distinguished from the larger Fields, where Inigo Jones had planned and erected handsome ranges of houses, which were greatly admired from the novelty of their architectural character. This unoccupied ground belonged partly to the Honourable Society, and partly to Henry Serle, Esq. one of the Benchers of Lincoln's Inn. Under certain agreements entered into between this gentleman and the Society, Mr. Serle, in the year 1682, erected eleven houses of brick, each appropriated to suites of chambers, presenting a uniform, and even stately appearance, and forming three sides of the area now named New Square, but originally Serle Court, the northern side being left open to the Garden. The size of the area is about three hundred feet on its longest side, and about two hundred on the shortest.

This square at the time of its erection was greatly admired. The houses are large and substantial; the divisions of the stories and windows are well disposed, but the doorways alone have dressings, with broken pediments in which are balls; and with

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the exception of a bold cornice with modillions, there seems to have been no pretension to decoration in the architecture. At the south eastern angle of the Square, is an elliptical arched way opening upon Carey Street, which is enriched with an architrave and broken pediment. Above this are two shields, bearing the lion of the Earl of Lincoln, and the arms of Henry Serle, Esq., with the date of 1697, the time probably when this court was completed, with the initials of William Dobyns, Esq. Lower down are the initials of Nathaniel Gooding Clarke, Esq. 1818, Treasurer when some repairs were executed, and over the arch those of Clement Tudway Swanston, Esq. 1849, Treasurer when the recent alterations and improvements were made.

The nameless architect of these edifices, influenced by the general predilection for the Italian school, introduced and skilfully employed by Inigo Jones in his masterly designs, was probably unable fully to appreciate the beauty and capabilities of the style in which the earlier buildings of this Inn were erected; and thus lost the opportunity of availing himself of the models it afforded for his guidance in this large addition to its precincts.

In the centre of New Square was formerly a Corinthian column on which was raised a vertical sun-dial; and at the base of the shaft, four jets d'eau arose from infant Tritons holding shells.