author of London's Liberty: Or a learned Argument of Law and Reason, anno 1650. Reprinted in 1682, folio, under this title, "London's Liberties: Or, The Opinions of those great Lawyers, Lord Chief Justice Hale, Mr. Justice Wild, and Mr. Serjeant Maynard, about the Election of Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen, and Common Council of London, and concerning their Charter."

Published after his decease. "I. Pleas of the Crown: or a Methodical Summary of the Principal Matters relating to that Subject. London, 1678, 8vo. II. Discourse touching Provision for the Poor. Lond. 1683, 12mo. III. A Treatise touching Sheriffs' Accounts. Lond. 1683, Svo. to which is joined his Trial of Witches, at the Assizes held at Bury St. Edmunds, on the first of March 1664. His condemnation of those poor crazy wretches was the worst and the most culpable action in his whole life: But not worse than the statute, which obliged him to condemn them. IV. His Judgment of the Nature of True Religion, the Causes of its Corruption, and the Church's Calamity by Men's Additions and Violences; with the desired cure. Lond. 1684, 4to. Published by R. Baxter. V. Several Tracts: as, A Discourse of Religion under three heads, &c. His Treatise concerning Provision for the Poor, already mentioned: A Letter to his Chil dren, advising them how to behave in their speech: A Letter to one of his sons, after his recovery from the smallpox. Lond. 1684, 8vo. VI. Discourse of the Knowledge of GoD and of Ourselves, first by the Light of Nature, secondly, by the Sacred Scriptures. To which is added, Brief Abstract of the Christian Religion: And considerations seasonable at all times for the cleansing of the Heart and Life. Lond. 1688, 8vo. VII. The Original Institution, Power, and Jurisdiction of Parliaments. Lond. 1707, 8vo. VIII. Historia Placitorum Corona. The History of the Pleas of the Crown: first published, in 1736, from his original manuscript, and the several references to the Records examined by the Originals, with large notes, by Sollom Emlyn of Lincoln's Inn, Esq. 2 vols. folio. The House of Commons had made an order, the twenty-ninth of November 1680, that it should then be printed; but it was never printed till then. The Pleas of the Crown, &c. printed in 1678, 8vo. (as above) was only a plan of this work. He left several other pieces in manuscript: as, Concerning the Secondary Origination of Mankind, folio. Concerning Religion, 5 vols. folio, and many others."

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By his Will he bequeathed to the Society of Lincoln's Inn his manuscript books. They are of inestimable value, as being close and patent rolls, and charter-rolls in the time of King John for the clergy: The principal matters in the close and patent rolls of Henry III. from the ninth to the fifty-sixth of his reign: Close rolls of King John: Placita de tempore Reg. Johannis, Edward I. Edward II. Edward III. Richard II Henry IV. and V. Placit de Banco, Edward I. ab anno 1, ad annum 21. The Pleas in the Exchequer, styled Communia, from 1 to 46 Edward III. Close rolls of Edward II. and III. Close and patent rolls in the reign of Edward III. Leagues of the Kings, Edward I. II. and III. in many volumes. He desired they should be kept safe, and all together, bound in leather, and chained; not lent out or disposed of: Only, if any of his posterity of that society should desire to transcribe any book, and give good caution to restore it again at a prefixed time, they should be lent to him, and but one volume at a time. They are, says he, a treasure that are not fit for every man's view; nor is every man capable of making use of them."

EDWARD REYNOLDS, D. D.

BISHOP OF NORWICH.

THIS reverend Prelate was the son of Austin Reynolds, one of the customers of Southampton, where he was born in November 1599, and being bred at the free-school there, became post-master of Merton college in 1615, as also probationer-fellow in 1620, in which place, (which he got by his skill in the Greek tongue) as also throughout his bachelorship, he shewed himself a good disputant and orator. After he had taken the degree of master of arts, he went into orders, and became a noted preacher, and was made preacher at Lincoln's Inn, and rector of Braynton in Northamptonshire. After the rebellion broke out in 1642, he sided with the presbyterian party, and in 1643, was one of the assembly of divines, a covenanter, a frequent preacher in London, and sometimes before the Long Parliament, by whom he was appointed in 1646, one of the six ministers to go to Oxford, and preach the scholars into obedience to them. After which he was one of their visitors in the University, was made Dean of Christ-church, in the room of Dr. Samuel Fell, ejected, and vice-chancellor in 1648, when he was

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created doctor of divinity; he was also vice-chancellor in 1649. But being ejected from his deanery in 1650, for refusing to take the Independant Engagement, he retired to his former cure for a time. He lived afterwards mostly in London, and preached there, being then vicar of St. Lawrence-Jury. After this he struck in with General Monk, to bring in the king, using his interest thereto in London, where he was the pride and glory of the presbyterian party. Dr. Pierce, in the introduction to his Divine Purity defended, says he was, a person of great authority as well as fame among the Calvinists.

When the secluded members were restored to parliament, they restored him to his deanery of Christchurch, on the eleventh of May 1659. And on the twenty-sixth of May following, 1660, he, together with Mr. Edmund Calamy, was made chaplain to his Majesty, then at Canterbury, in order to his restoration. After which

he preached several times before the king and both houses of parliament; and in the latter end of June, being desired to quit his deanery, he was the next month elected, by virtue of the king's letter, warden of Merton college, and was consecrated Bishop of Norwich on the sixth of January, the same year. He was, concludes Mr. Wood, a person of excellent parts and endowments, of very good wit, fancy, and judgment, a great divine, and much esteemed by all parties, for his preaching and fluid style: And Sir Thomas Browne, who knew him well, gives him the character of a person of singular affability, meekness, and humility, of great learning a frequent preacher, and constant resident. But a more full account of our Author is given in a funeral sermon preached at Norwich by the reverend Mr. Riveley, in July 1676, on 1 Sam. x. 13. Concerning this our deceased and justly to be commemorated Lord and father, (says the preacher) I shall dare to recommend thus much as true to succeeding generations, viz. That he was a person in whom all was generally good, (allowing for human frailties) and many things were excellent, and exceeding remarkable. I. He was a good man. Nature had before indued him much in his constitution: he was of a most sweet and obliging temper, of great candour, meekness and ingenuity; he had a comely countenance, a gentle disposition, a pleasantness of conversation; he neither eagerly sought any dignity, nor declined any capacity of doing good. II. He was a good Christian. Revelation was a great mistress with him, and he was a great adorer, as

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