patron who having recommended him to Edyngton, the bishop of Winchester, was introduced by him at this early age into the service of king Edward the third. From his extensive architectural knowledge and extraordinary skill in that science, he was appointed clerk of the kings works, and was attached to the castle and forest of Windsor as surveyor. The ability he displayed in these situations, induced the king to confer upon him, in 1359 many similar appointments. Being at this time only in the lowest rank in the church he was received into the priesthood in 1362. From this time his official rise was extremely rapid, in 1363 he was made warder and justiciary of the royal forests, south of Trent, and in the following year he was nomi-nated keeper of the privy seal; he then became chief of the privy council and governour of the great council; to his ecclesiastical preferments, which hitherto had been inferior, the see of Win. chester was added, upon the death of his former patron Edyngton in 1366; in the next year he was raised to the dignity of Lord high Chancellor, but of this office he was deprived in 1370. In 1884, he was induced, though with reluctance, to accept the great seal a second time, but resigned it in 1891. This was in the reign of Richard the Second, by whom, upon his recover ing his authority, he with the other commissioners was impeached of high treason, and escaped solely by the influence of his wealth. Though present at the first parliament under Henry IV. which in 1399 deprived Richard the second of his crown, he did not assist at the council which pronounced on him the sentence of perpetual imprisonment. His health was at this time fast declining, and being unable to perform his episcopal functions, he nominated two coadjutors to his see, and quietly waited for that inevitable fate which should release him from all worldly care : he expired in September, 1406, in the eighty fifth year of his age. Having lived in a state of celibacy, and possessing the most ample wealth, he was enabled to gratify the spirit of munificent liberality by which he is pre-eminently distinguished. In addition to the numerous other buildings he created and repaired within his own diocese, in the course of ten years he rebuilt in the gothic style the cathedtal of Winchester, which had been a Saxon edifice of the eleventh century. His college at Oxford, was known by the name of New College, was completed in 1388, in the turbulent reign of Richard the second, as was also the school or college at Winchester, from which it was to be supplied with students; this was finished in 1393. Whatever charges the violence of party, may have preferred against this prelate in his life, impartial posterity has regarded him with the highest admiration; almost superior to the age in which he lived, he possessed all the noble qualities that distinguished it, and seems to have been exempt from its defects. TILLOTSON. It appears, from the series of portraits preserved in the great dining room at Lambeth palace, that Archbishop Tillotson was the first to wear a wig: which however, resembled his natural hair, and was worn without powder. It has been said of Dr. Barrow that he wrote longer sermons than any man of his time; of Archbishop Tillotson, it may be said that he wrote a greater number. The latter was appointed Clerk of the closet to king William, in 1689, and afterwards dean of St. Pauls. There is a curious letter of his, to Lady Russell, in which he says "After I had kissed the king's hand for "the deanery of St. Pauls, I gave his majesty 66 66 my most humble thanks, and told him, that now he had set me at ease for the remainder "of my life. He replied, 'no such matter, I "assure you,' and spoke plainly about a great place, which I dread to think of, and said it was necessary for his service, and he must |