[Footnote 23:  Honest Walton rather overstates the case.  Thucydides simply says that attendance on the sick promoted the spread of the pestilence. (Lib.  II. c. 51.)]

[Footnote 24:  This amiable philosopher was born Jan. 25th, 1626-17, at Lismore, in the province of Munster, in Ireland.  He was a scholar, a gentleman, a Christian of the most exalted piety and charity, and a very eminent Natural philosopher.  He died Dec. 30th, 1691.]

[Footnote 25:  Dr. Thomas Barlow was born in 1607, at Orton, in Westmoreland, was made Bishop of Lincoln, in 1675, and died at Buckden, in 1691.  His character appears to have been vacillating; he was not among the venerable Prelates who stood forth the Protectors of the Protestant Religion in 1688.  His theological learning was considerable.]

[Footnote 26:  Richard Baxter was born at Rowton, in Shropshire, 1615, and was a Chaplain in the Parliamentary Army, though he was a defender of Monarchy.  He refused the Bishopric of Hereford, and died in 1691.  His “Saint’s Everlasting Rest” and “Call to the Unconverted” are his most famous books.]

[Footnote 27:  Dr. Peter Gunning was a loyalist Divine, who suffered considerably for the Royal cause, and died Bishop of Ely, in 1684.]

[Footnote 28:  Dr. John Pearson was the author of the famous “Exposition of the Creed;” in 1661, he was made Lady Margaret’s Professor of Divinity, at Cambridge, and died Bishop of Chester, in 1686, aged 74.]

[Footnote 29:  Dr. William Bancroft, born at Freshingfield, in Suffolk, in 1616, and educated at Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he was deprived of his Fellowship in 1649, for refusing to take the engagement.  He was made Archbishop in 1677, and in 1688, he was one of the seven Prelates sent to the Tower by James II.  At the Revolution he refused taking the Oaths to the new government, for which he was suspended and deprived.  He died in retirement Nov. 14th, 1693.]

[Footnote 30:  Bishop Sanderson’s Will is recorded in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, in the volume called Juxon, Article 37.  After his death, it was industriously reported that he repented of his writing against the Presbyterians, and would not suffer a Church Minister to pray by him, which is refuted by the narrative of Mr. Pullin’s giving him the Sacrament.]

[Footnote 31:  Mr. John Pullin, B.D., and formerly Fellow of Magdalen College, Cambridge.  His name is subscribed to a copy of commendatory Latin verses prefixed to “Duport’s Greek Version of Job.”  He was a Prebendary, and also Chancellor of Lincoln.]

DR. PIERCE’S LETTER.

[Sidenote:  Letters from Sanderson]

GOOD MR. WALTON,

At my return to this place, I made a yet stricter search after the letters long ago sent me from our most excellent Dr. Sanderson, before the happy restoration of the King and Church of England to their several rights:  in one of which letters more especially, he was pleased to give me a narrative both of the rise and the progress, and reasons also, as well of his younger, as of his last and riper judgment, touching the famous points controverted between the Calvinians and the Armenians, as they are commonly (though unjustly and unskilfully) miscalled on either side.