Restituta - 1814 Author:Egerton Brydges Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 21. Dr.Thomas White, Bishop of Peterborough. So elated lb'85. " The mother of Dr. Thomas White, a widow and grave matron, lived long in the family of William ... more »Brockman, Esq. of Beachborough in Kent, and was nearly related to that family, and had a jointure of estate in or near Romney Marsh holding of the court of Aldington. " He was an eminent Preacher in London, Chaplain to the Princess Anne, Vicar of Newark, Archdeacon of Nottingham; a man famous for strength of body and greatness of courage. He fairly beat a trooper of the king's Life-guard at Dartford in Kent, and made him bring the Parson's horse into the stall from which he had moved him ; for which King Charles II. jocosely charged him with high treason." Hid. 22. Dr. Peter Gunning, Bishop of Ely. Died July 6, 1684. Bishop Burnet in his ('indication, 8vo. 1696, p. 93, says, " I passed over what he had said of my stealing many hints from Bishop Gunning, and then printing them : it is no great matter whether it be true or false; but, as it happens, it is absurdly false. Bishop Gunning had much learning and true piety , but his ideas were so confused, and so over subtle, that I could never learn any thing in all the time that ever I conversed with him, and so I did not wait often on him." Hid. £3. Henry Cornish, Esq. executed for High Treason, l6s). " The Commons in a conference with the Lords about the Bill for reversing the two judgments given against Titus Gates, gave reasons of disagreement to their Lordships' amendments, wherein they say, July 23, 1689, that the trial of Oates was at such a time when neither counsel nor witnesses durst appear for the said Titus Oates ; when perjury was countenanced by tampering with and suborning witnesses to swear falsely, by judges not daring to take notice how witne...« less