Biographer have had him made a Bishop at once? In 1597 the Queen makes him a Prebendary of Westminster (the New Biographer says a prebend;" with a semicolon, and how can the reader understand that it is intended he should read on "of Westminster?"), and four years after she gives him the Deanery of Westminster. In less than two years more her Majesty was dead. Was that an unreasonably long time for a Dean, at that time not fifty years of age, to wait for a Bishopric? How, then, were his "merits neglected by Queen Elizabeth"? But, besides, we were just before told that he had "many offers of a bishopric: "and, on better authority than the New Biographer, it is stated that he received, (9) not "many," but two, in Queen Elizabeth's reign. Bishop Buckeridge says, "When the Bishoprics of Ely and Salisbury were void, and some things were to be pared from them, some overture being made to him to take them, he refused them utterly. He seemed to answer, I will not be made a Bishop, because I will not alienate Bishops' lands." Now, a very little inquiry shows that this happened in the reign of Elizabeth. The contest which Elizabeth had with Cox Bishop of Ely about the exchange of lands is popularly known; and after that prelate's death, in 1581, her Majesty kept the see vacant for above eighteen years, until 1599. It was not again vacant until 1609, when Andrewes was actually promoted to it. Salisbury was vacant from Oct. 1596 to Sept. 1598, and not again until 1615. Both these overtures, therefore, were made to Andrewes before he was Dean of Westminster.* Then with regard to the sermons before the Queen. Instead of Andrewes preaching (10) "very frequently" before her Majesty in the nine years mentioned, the Biographer cannot furnish us with proofs of his having preached more than once in the years 1589, 1590, 1593, 1594, 1598, 1599, and 1602; nor of his having preached at all before her in 1596 and 1597. The truth is, that four of the discourses printed in his "XCVI. Sermons," were preached before the Queen during Lent in the four years first named; that in 1598, 1599, and 1602 he preached on Ash Wednesday before her; and that on the second of the latter occasions, viz. the 21 Feb. 1599, the sermon was delivered "at what time the Earle of Essex was going forth, upon the expedition for Ireland." Andrewes preached twice at Court" in 1596, and once again, on Good Friday 1597; but at those times the Queen was evidently not present, or her presence would have been stated as in the other instances. To proceed to King James :— "He appointed him to preach continually in his presence; made him, first of all, his almoner; then bishop of Chichester in 1605; and because of the poverty of that see, gave him the parsonage of Cheynham to hold in commendam, which the bishop freed for ever from a pension of 4007. hitherto annually paid by himself and his predecessors." Here we have to remark (11) that the King did not make him "first" Lord Almoner, and "then" Bishop, but both preferments came together, as they had been previously held by Dr. Anthony Watson; (12) that the living given in commendam was Cheam in Surrey (not Cheynham), which had also been the commendam of Bishop Watson; and (13) that he did not free the parsonage from any pension at all. This a broken fragment from Bp. Buckeridge's preface, and properly belongs to the Bishopric-"of Winton. In which he freed himself and his successors of a pension of 4001. per annum which many of his predecessors had paid." But we do not mend as we proceed— "In 1609 he advanced him to the see of Ely, then appointed him privy councillor, first for England and Scotland, and afterwards took him with him in his progress through this kingdom." Here I fear your readers will imagine I am hoaxing them, but I assure Isaacson (in a subsequent place) tells an anecdote of Bishop Andrewes voting in Parliament against the alienation of Sherborne castle from the see of Sarum, and when asked his reason, replying that he could not have done otherwise for consistency's sake, "many yeares before, in the days of Queen Elizabeth, he might have had this Bishopricke of Sarum," had he yielded the very point then about to be enacted. them this is an accurate quotation from the New General Biographical Dictionary, p. 455. What should have been said (14) is, as in Isaacson, "In which time (whilst Bishop of Ely) he was made a Privie Councellor, first of England and then of Scotland, in his attendance on the King thither." It will be seen that the New Biographer was not driven to his version by the overpowering length of the original. (15) We have next another specimen of accurate abridgment: "In the last years of his life his private alms amounted to upwards of 1,300l." Isaacson's words are, "his private almes in his last six years, besides those publique, amounted to the sum of 1,300l. and upwards." Of all these misapprehensions and perversions the New Biographer must enjoy the sole merit. They do not appear to have arisen in the transmission of information from one copyist to another, as sometimes happens, but they have all the value of originality. There remains a plentiful gleaning of verbal and literal blunders. In the Latin contained in these ten columns there are four errors. (16) dejecta membra (p. 453). (ib.) In the English, besides the constellations I have already quoted, there are the following lesser stars : (20) "The same of my right and duty belonging to your Honour," (p. 454,) read very right." (21) "The lectures which he delivered in St. Giles's church, or rather notes, some notes of them were afterwards published" (ibid). (22) "the complete sermons in the ninety-sixth collection." (ib.) This is the New Biographer's new method of designating a volume entitled "XCVI. Sermons." And again, regarding the same Sermons, edited by Bishops Laud and Buckeridge, (23) "To them,' say the learned editors, he had been most kind, and in them he most excelled.'" What learned editor would so express himself? To conclude, within a few lines of the termination of this precious per formance, we have these two misnomers, (24) 'Dr. Duke" for Dr. Richard Drake; and (25) "the Rev. Suter Hall" for the Rev. Peter Hall. It is only an act of justice towards the latter gentleman to add, that the Life of Bishop Andrewes prefixed to his edition of the Bishop's “Private Devotions," published in 1830, (not, as we are here told, (26) 1839,) is a much more sensible and satisfactory, though hardly fuller composition, than that which I have now examined. To particularize the omissions of the article I cannot attempt; but I may remark that the account of the Bishop's published works is slovenly done; that his Life by Isaacson is not mentioned, nor of course its recent republication by the Rev. S. Isaacson; nor the volume of his Sermons modernized by the late Rev. Charles Daubeny, LL.D. Archdeacon of Sarum. The excuses that have been advanced for a work of this description, that its compilers have not time to enter into extensive researches for the investigation of obscure materials, cannot be applied to the Biography I have reviewed. The materials were already amassed in books of easy access, and especially in the contemporary memoirs of Isaacson and Buckeridge, which required nothing more than a modest and faithful abstract, instead of an ambitious and blundering paraphrase. If the New Biographical Dictionary is to proceed, a course I have not the slightest wish to oppose,-it will be right that the work should not remain disgraced with such an article. Yours, &c. H. that the preceding remarks upon the first Note. As it may be considered strange volume of the New General Biographical Dictionary should appear so long after its publication, and even when another entire volume has been completed, under different and we hope more careful management, it seems necessary to explain that our Correspondent's letter, which did not reach our hands at a very early date, has been for some months mislaid. We think, however, that the grave character of the errors he has pointed out in a work of such pretensions, and the great importance of the venerable person whose biography has been so much misrepresented, will be a justification for our giving insertion to this criticism, however much beyond its proper season.-Edit. CATALOGUE OF FRENCH AMBASSADORS TO ENGLAND, 1602-1605. Christophe de Harlay, Comte de Beaumont. A series of his letters, in 8 vols. folio, is in the British Museum, King's Library MSS. 121-128. See also Brit. Mus. Bibl. Cott, Calig. E. x. 262. 1603. Maximilien de Béthune, Baron de Rosny, afterwards the great Duke de Sully. Louis Galluccio de l'Hospital, Marquis de Vitry. As Ambassadors Extraordinary. Brit. Mus. Bibl. Cott. Calig. E. x. 199. Brit Mus. Bibl. Harl. 3951. 1606-1610. Antoine le Fevre, Seigneur de la Boderie. La Boderie's first Embassy to London was from April 1606 to July 1609. His second from 28 Dec. 1609 to 1611. On the 24th of March 1610, De Valençai, nephew of De Vic, was thought of to replace him. A series of his letters, in 4 vols. folio, is in the British Museum, King's Library, 128, a, b, c, d, and another copy in the Bodleian Library, MSS. Carte, N.N.N. There are also copies in the Bibliothèque du Roi, 9003, 9004; and Fonds de Brienne, 42, 43. They have been printed in 5 vols. 12mo. 1750. See also Brit. Mus. Bibl. Cott. Otho E. VIII. 337. The letters and despatches of Henry IV. MM. de Villeroy and de Puisieux, to La Boderie, written between the years 1606 and 1611, were printed at Amsterdam in 1733, 2 vols. 8vo. 1610. Arnault de Pompone. Jean de Beaumanoir de Lavardin, Maréchal de France. In Stow the latter appears as the Marshal de la Verdyne. 1612. Henry de la Tour d'Auvergne, Duc de Bouillon. 1611. (Jan. 1611 to April 1612.) M. de Buisseau. Brit. Mus. Bibl. Cott. Otho E. VIII. 284. A series of his letters is in the Bibliothèque du Roi, Fonds de S. Germain. 1615 to 1618. Gaspard Dauvet, Comte des Marets, from July 1615 to the end of 1618. Copies of his despatches, and the replies to him, are in the Bibliothèque du Roi, Fonds de Dupuy, 419, 420, and Fonds de Séguier, 31. 1617. In February,.... De Toure. Camden [in Kennett. ii. 647.] 1618...... Le Clerc, agent for the King of France, was forbid the Court in September and left London in Oc tober. Camden [in Kennett, ii. 650.] At the same time Sir William Beecher, agent in France, was there confined to his house, and was recalled in November. 1619. Antoine le Fevre, Seigneur de la Boderie. According to Rymer, tom. vii. pt. iii. p. 108; but La Boderie died in 1615. 1619, in May. The Marquis de Tremouille, of the family des Ursins. Camden [in Kennett, ii. 651.] 1620. Honoré d'Albert, called the Seigneur de Cadenet, Maréchal de France, afterwards (in 1621) Duke de Chaulnes. He was brother of the Duke de Luynes. 1624. Henri Auguste de LoménieBrienne, Seigneur de la Ville-auxClercs; sent to settle the articles of marriage of Henrietta Maria with Charles I. A narrative of his Embassy is in Brit. Mus. Bibl. Sloane 1156. 1624, 1625. Antoine Coiffier, dit Ruzé, Marquis d'Effiat et de Chilly, afterwards Maréchal of France. was the father of Cinq Mars.] [He Tanneguy le Veneur, II du nom, Comte de Tillières, Seigneur de Carouges. Three copies of their letters during this Embassay, are in the British Museum, viz. Bibl. Harl. 4593-4596. King's Library, 129–132. Another copy is in the Bodleian Library, among Carte's MSS. K.K.K. See also Brit. Mus. Bibl. Harl. 4710. D'Effiat's despatches during the year 1625 are in the Bibliothèque du Roi, Missions Etrangères. An account of his Embassy Extraordinary respecting the marriage of Henrietta Maria and Charles I. is printed in the 12th vol. of the Mercure Français. In a volume, recently printed, but which it would be invidious to name, D'Effiat's name has been printed as Fiat, and then translated as part of a sentence. 1625. Claude de Lorraine, Duc de Chevreuse, who was proxy for Charles 1. at the marriage of Henrietta Maria, and accompanied her to England. His despatches were in the library of the Bishop of Seez, sometime before the year 1770. 1625. Guillaume d'Hugues, General of the Franciscans, and Archbishop of Embrun. He came with Henrietta Maria. Brit. Mus. Bibl. Harl. 1583, arts. 73 and 77. D'Hugues' own narrative, addressed to Richelieu, is printed at the end of the Mémoires de Degeant; and also in the English Translation of 1690. 1625, 1626. Jean de Varigniez, Seigneur de Blainville. A series of his letters, in 2 vols. folio, is in the British Museum, King's Library, 133, 134. Several copies are in the Bibliothèque du Roi. See also Brit. Mus. Bibl. Harl. 1583, art. 84, &c. 4440, art. 7. 1626. François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France. Charles de l'Aubespine, Marquis de Châteauneuf. The narrative of Bassompierre's Embassy was printed in 1626, and his Memoirs (in 4 vols.) in 1668. An English translation of the Embassy, by the Rt. Hon. J. W. Croker, was published in 1819. MS. Copies of the works are in the Brit. Mus. Bibl. Harl. 4363, 4598, and also in the Bibliothèque du Roi. Bassompierre's reply to the English Commissioners, with other papers, is printed in the xiiith vol. of the Mercure Français. See also Brit. Mus. Bibl. Harl. 1323, art. 17, 4598, art. 2. 1630-1633. François du Val, Marquis de Fontenay Mareuil. His despatches and letters, from Jan. 1630 to Jan. 1649, were (about the year 1730) in the library of François le Bouthillier-Chavigny, Bishop of Troyes, son of Léon de Chavigny, who had been Secretary of State. 1631-1636. Jean (or Jacques) d'Angennes, Marquis de Poigny and de Boisereau. (He died near London in Jan. 1637.) GENT. MAG. VOL. XIV. 1635. M. Beautron? His despatches are in the Bibliothèque du Roi, Fonds de Colbert. 1635-1637. Henri de S. Nectaire, or Senneterre, Marquis de la FertéNabert and de S. Nectaire. His letters are in the Bibliothèque du Roi, Fonds de St. Germain des Près. 1637. Godefroi, Comte d'Estrades, Marshal of France. 1638-1649. Pomponne de Bellièvre, Seigneur de Grignon, afterwards First President of the Parliament of Paris. He was son of the Chancellor of the same name, who had been ambassador in the years 1586, 1587. His letters, from 15th Feb. 1635 to 25th June 1645, were, about 1730, in the library of François le Bouthillier-Chavigny, Bishop of Troyes. Nine volumes of his letters are in the Bibliothèque du Roi, Fonds de St. Germain. 1645-1650. Jean de Montreuil, one of the members of the French Academy. His despatches are in the Bodleian Library, Carte's MSS. L.L.L. Another copy is in the Bibliothèque du Roi, Fonds de Séguier, 66. 1644, 1645. M. de Sabran. [Honoré de Sabran, Baron d'Ansouis ?] His despatches are in the British Museum, MSS. Add. 5460, 5461. Another copy is in the Bibliothèque du Roi, Fonds de Baluze. 1652. Godefroi, Comte d'Estrades, Marshal of France. 1652-1660. Antoine de Neuville, Seigneur de Bordeaux. Brit. Mus. MS. Addl. 4200, contains some of his letters, written in 1653. They are described in Ayscough's Catalogue as Letters from Bourdeaux (meaning the place of that name) to the French Ambassador in England. Brit. Mus. Bibl. Harl. 4549, contains his letters in the years 1657 and 1658. Brit. Mus. MS. Sloane, 856, contains an account of his being seized for attempting to carry off a suit of hangings. 1654, 1655. M. de Barrière, as Agent for the Prince of Condé. Brit. Mus. MS. Addl. 4200. 1661. Godefroi, Comte d'Estrades. In this Embassy the famous quarrel with the Baron de Vatteville, the Spanish Ambassador, took place. 4 I 1663. Gaston Jean Batiste de Cominges, Comte de Cominges. 1665. April. Henri de Bourbon, [natural son of Henri IV.] Duke de Verneuil. M. Antoine Courtin. British Museum, Bibl. Egerton, 627, contains the despatches of this Embassy. The MS. formerly belonged to the Chancellor Lamoignon. 1667. Henri de Massué, Marquis de Renneval près Amiens, et de Ruvigny, Deputé General of the Reformed Church of France. [He was father of Henri de Ruvigny, who was created Earl of Galway by William III.] 1668, 1669. Charles Colbert, Marquis de Croissy, [brother of the great Colbert.] His despatches were in the library of his son, Charles Joachim Colbert de Croissy, Bishop of Montpelier, who died in 1738. 1670, July. Bernardin Gigault, Marquis de Bellefonds, Marshal of France. 1670, 1671. M. de Baas. [?] 1671, April 19. Count de St. Gran. [?] 1671, April 30. Count de Alboa. [? Gilbert Antoine d'Albon, comte de Chazeul, chevalier d'honneur to Henrietta of England, Duchess of Orléans.] 1672. Charles Colbert, Marquis de Croissy [brother of the great Colbert, and father of the Marquis de Torcy, who, now only six years of age, came with his father into England.] MR. URBAN, IN your Oct. Magazine, p. 439, you have recorded the death of the Rev. Alex. J. Scott, formerly Chaplain of the Victory, and one of the attendants on the deathbed of Admiral Lord Nelson. 1674. Henri de Massué, Marquis de Ruvigny. [See the year 1667.] 1677. M. de Barillon [Antoine de Barillon, Seigneur de Morangis?] Ambassador Extraordinary in August. Brit. Mus. Bibl. Harl. 1518. fol. 210. 1683. M. de Tilladet [Jean Baptiste de Cassagnet, Marquis de Tilladet ?] 1685. Louis de Crevant d'Humières, Duc D'Humières, Marshal of France. François Joseph, Comte de Clermont et de Tonnerre. Ambassadors Extraordinary in October, on the defeat of the Duke of Monmouth. 1687. Jean Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Torcy, [son of the Marquis de Croissy, and nephew of the minister Colbert,] Ambassador Extraordinary in September. His Memoirs were printed in 3 vols. 12mo. at La Haye [Paris] in 1756. 1688. M. de Barillon. 1689. Jean Antoine de Mesmes, Comte D'Avaux, sent to James II., in Ireland. His negociations are in the Bibliothèque du Roi, Fonds de De Mesmes. 1697-1700. Camille d'Hostun' Duc de Tallart, Marshal of France. 1698. Phélippeaux d'Herbeaut. 1700. M. de Poussin, who came upon the departure of Tallart; he was ordered to quit England 23 Sept. 1701. In the churchyard of Woldham, near Rochester, is a gravestone which bears the following record of another witness of that memorable scene. |