had the credit of this or that part of it, and be being a young man, if it might be a means to let him into public notice (upon which account he seemed to insist upon it) I was content be should have the last two sæcula by way of appendix. Whereto he afterwards added several things, making use of the scattered notes I had prepared, and what was before in the Chartophylax, without taking any notice whose they were, nor did I much expect it, or desire he should. And because there were two or three sheets from ann. 1280 to the end of that sæculum, which he said he had done, I cut out these leaves (and for any thing I know, they may be among his papers at this hour) and did it entirely over again, wherein there was not one word of Mr. Wharton's made use of, more than what will necessarily fall in, where two persons make use of the same books in prosecution of the same design. I further told him (for now I began to perceive his humour and what he aimed at) that to the end there might be no farther dispute about this matter hereafter, if there was any other part to which he could make out a claim, I would strike it out and do it over again, and that I all along designed to own in the preface what real help he had contributed, shewing that part of the Prolegomena wherein I had done it; with which he was satisfied, and never afterwards spoke of it to me, or that I know of to any one else, though he lived more than seven years after.

"Thus, my lord, I have truly and sincerely laid the whole case before you; and I thought myself obliged to do it in order to the doing myself right. For I should have been unpardonably wanting to myself had I suffered myself to be undeservedly transmitted to posterity as one that had published another man's labours under my own name, a thing from which I was ever most averse, and have commonly erred on the other hand. I know not into whose hands Mr. Wharton's booke may hereafter fall, or what use may be made of these notes; if therefore your grace shall think fitt to lett these two or three notes stand as they are, I humbly beg the favour and justice, that this paper may be fastened into Mr. Wharton's book, that so impartial persons may be rightly informed in the state of things. I want not an opportunity at this time of publicly doing myself right, but since the notes are kept private under your grace's custody, I did not thinke fitt to make my defence any more public than by this address to your grace. If,

when I am dead, any use shall be made of these notes to my prejudice, I hope this paper will in some measure plead for me, or that some friend will stand up to do me right; however that, there's a time coming when God will bring forth my righteousness as the light, and my integrity as noon-day. Mr. Wharton was one for whose worth I ever had a just value, and if I have exceeded in any thing it has been upon all occasions in over-lavish commendations of him. But he was subject to one weakness (which all his friends that intimately knew him, could not but take notice of) viz. a vanity of magnifying his own performances, and an overweening conceit of himself, join'd with an unsatiable thirst after fame, which 'tis like his reduced age might have corrected, as I remember I once told one of your grace's predecessors, who was his great patron, when he was pleased to ask my opinion of him. With pardon, humbly begg'd, for the trouble of this tedious account, I am, my lord, &c. &c."

This letter seems to confirm what Burnet had asserted of Wharton's temper, and which, indeed, will be found confirmed by other passages in our authorities. But Wharton, upon the whole, is certainly a man to be venerated for his uncommon zeal as an ecclesiastical antiquary, and his incessant labours. Perhaps no man ever applied so diligently, or produced so much in the short space allotted to him, for he was little more than thirty years old. He probably began his researches early, and it is certain that he was a mere youth when Cave employed him, and conceived that high opinion of his talents which he so liberally expressed in the preface to his "Historia Literaria." The second edition of this work, it must not be forgot, has many additions from Wharton's MSS. at Lambeth, which have improperly been ascribed to Tenison. Mr. Wharton had some property, and by his will ordered the greatest part of it" to be disposed of to a religious use in the parish of Worstead, in which he was born." His executors were his father, the rev. Edmund Wharton, the rev. Dr. Thorp, one of the prebendaries of Canterbury, and Mr. Charles Battely. His biographer informs us that "he never undertook any matter of moment without first imploring the divine assistance and blessing thereupon," and that "in all his journeys, which his learned designs engaged him in, he was ever wont so to order his affairs, as not to omit being present at the monthly sacrament wherever he came."

To such a man some irregularities of temper and displays of conceit may be forgiven.'

WHARTON (THOMAS), an eminent English physician, was descended from an ancient and genteel family of that name in Yorkshire. He was educated in Pembroke college, Cambridge, whence he removed to Trinity college, Oxford, being then tutor to John Scrope, the natural and only son of Emanuel earl of Sunderland. Upon the breaking out of the civil wars he retired to London, where he practised physic under Dr. John Bathurst, a noted physician of that city. After the garrison at Oxford had surrendered to the parliament in 1646, he returned to Trinity college, and as a member of it was actually created doctor of physic May 8, 1647, by virtue of the letters of general Fairfax to the university, which said that "he was sometime a student in that university, and afterwards improved bis time in London in the study of all parts of physic." He then retired to London, and was admitted a candidate of the college of physicians the same year, and fellow in 1650, and for five or six years was chosen censor of the college, he being then a person of great esteem and practice in the city, and one of the lecturers in Gresham college. In 1656 he published at London, in 8vo, his "Adenographia, seu Descriptio Glandularum totius Corporis," which was reprinted at Amsterdam, 1659, in 8vo. In this he has given a more accurate description of the glands of the whole body, than had ever been done before; and as former authors had ascribed to them very mean uses (as supporting the divisions by vessels, or imbibing the superAluous humidities of the body) he assigns them more noble uses, as the preparation and depuration of the succus nutritius, with several other uses belonging to different glands, &c. Amongst other things, he was the first who discovered the ductus in the glandulæ maxillares, by which the saliva is conveyed into the mouth; and he has given an excellent account of morbid glands and their differences, and particularly of strumæ and scrophule, how new glands are often generated, as likewise of the several diseases of the glands of the mesentery, pancreas, &c. Wood tells us that he died at his house in Aldersgate-street in October

↑ Life prefixed to his "Sermons," 1697, 2 vols. 8vo.-Biog. Brit.-Birch's Life of Tillotson.-Burnet's Hist. of the Reformation, pref. to vol. III.-Nicolson's Letters, vol. I, p. 12, 18.-Letters concerning, in Gent. Mag. vol. LX. and LXI.-Strype's Craniner, Appendix, p. 253.

* Mr Rich. Smith's account is correct. See Tamer MISS

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1673, and was buried in the church of St. Botolph without
Aldersgate; though others say that he died November the
15th, and was buried in Basingshaw church, in a vault. But
Mr. Richard Smith, in his Obituary, published by Peck,
observes, that he died on Friday November the 14th, at
midnight, at his house in Aldersgate-street, and was buried
on the 20th in the ruins of the church of St. Michael Basi-
shaw, where he formerly had lived.1

WHATELY (WILLIAM), an eminent puritan divine, was
born at Banbury in Oxfordshire, in May 1583, where his
father, Thomas Whately, was justice of the peace, and had
been several times mayor. He was educated at Christ's-
college, Cambridge, under the tuition of Mr. Potman, a
man of learning and piety, and was a constant hearer of
Dr. Chaderton, Perkins, and other preachers of the Puri-
tan-stamp. It does not appear that he was originally de-
stined for the church, as it was not until after his marriage
with the daughter of the Rev. George Hunt that he was
persuaded to study for that purpose, at Edmund - hall,
Oxford. Here he was incorporated bachelor of arts, and,
according to Wood, with the foundation of logic, philoso-
phy, and oratory, that he had brought with him from Cam-
bridge, he became a noted disputant and a ready orator.
In 1604, he took his degree of M. A. as a member of
Edmund-hall," being then esteemed a good philosopher
and a tolerable mathematician." He afterwards entered
into holy orders, and was chosen lecturer of Banbury, his
native place. In 1610, he was presented by king James
to the vicarage of Banbury, which he enjoyed until his
death. He also, with some of his brethren, delivered a
lecture, alternately at Stratford-upon-Avon. In his whole
conduct, Mr. Leigh says, he "was blameless, sober, just, holy,
temperate, of good behaviour, given to hospitality;" &c.
Fuller calls him "a good linguist, philosopher, mathema-
tician, and divine;" and adds, that he "was free from
faction." Wood, who allows that he possessed excellent'
parts, was a noted disputant, an excellent preacher, a
good orator, and well versed in the original text, both
Greek and Hebrew, objects, nevertheless, that, "being a
zealous Calvinist, a noted puritan, and much frequented"
by the precise party, for his too frequent preaching, he
laid such a foundation of faction at Banbury, as will not

↑ Ath. Ox, vol. II,-Gen. Dict.-Peck's Desiderata.

easily be removed." Granger, who seems to have considered all these characters with some attention, says, that "his piety was of a very extraordinary strain; and his reputation as a preacher so great, that numbers of different persuasions went from Oxford, and other distant places, to hear him. As he ever appeared to speak from his heart, his sermons were felt as well as heard, and were attended with suitable effects." In the life of Mede, we have an anecdote of him, which gives a very favourable idea of his character. Having, in a sermon, warmly recommended his hearers to put in a purse by itself a certain portion from every pound of the profits of their worldly trades, for works of piety, he observed, that instead of secret grudging, when objects of charity were presented, they would look out for them, and rejoice to find them. A neighbouring clergyman hearing him, and being deeply affected with what he so forcibly recommended, consulted him as to what proportion of his income he ought to give. "As to that," said Whately, "I am not to prescribe to others; but I will tell you what hath been my own practice. You know, sir, some years ago, I was often beholden to you for the loan of ten pounds at a time; the truth is, I could not bring the year about, though my receipts were not despicable, and I was not at all conscious of any unnecessary expenses. At length, I inquired of my family what relief was given to the poor; and not being satisfied, I instantly resolved to lay aside every tenth shilling of all my receipts for charitable uses; and the Lord has made me so to thrive since I adopted this method, that now, if you have occasion, I can lend you ten times as much as I have formerly been forced to borrow."

Mr. Whately died May 10, 1639, aged fifty-six, and was interred in Banbury church-yard, where is a monument to his memory, with a Latin and English inscription. His works consist of a considerable number of ser-. mons, printed separately, oue of which, "The BrideBush, or Wedding-Sermon," 1617, 4to, brought upon him some censure: in this he maintained, that adultery, or desertion, on the side of either of the married persons, dissolved and annihilated the marriage. For a doctrine so contrary to the laws, and pernicious in itself, he was summoned before the high commission-court, where he acknowledged his error, and was dismissed. Among his other publications, are, 1. "A pithy, short, and methodical way