In the beginning of September, he began his treatise of the celibacy of the Clergy, and finished it by the middle of October.

In the middle of September, the Bishop of Durham returned to London. "Illum die 22° conveni, promissa ejus, mihi toties iterata, finem denuò consecutura sperans. Verùm levis iste ac versipellis episcopus, promissionum non tam immemor quam eas parum curans, sibi res adeo mutatas esse causatus est, ut promissa implere non posset, rectius verò nollet; summum erga (me) favorem, rerumque mearum studium animo suo infixum esse professus. Summam levissimi viri perfidiam detestatus ad Doctorem Tenison rectà me contuli, cum eo enim mihi aliis de rebus agendum est." The Doctor was glad to see him, being just going to send his servant to him, having the day before received a letter from the Honourable John Arundel, eldest son of Richard Lord Arundel, of Trerise, desiring him to recommend a tutor for his only son, and promising to confer on the said tutor the living of Selworthy, near Mynehead, in Somersetshire, a rectory of £160 per ann. Mr. Wharton accepted the offer, but not being of age by above a year to be instituted into the living, he agreed with Mr. Solomon Cooke, B. D. Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, and brother of Mr. Shedrach Cooke, Lecturer of

Islington, to hold it for one year, receiving all the profits, and then to resign it, and be curate for half the income. Mr. Cooke was accordingly instituted into the living by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, on the 18th of October.

In the mean time, Mr. Wharton continued in Dr. Cave's house, and on the 16th October wrote at Dr. Tenison's request an answer to Speculum Ecclesiasticum, by T. Ward, a Roman Catholic soldier.

Dr. Cave and his family returning to town, he went to Ridge, between Barnet and St. Alban's, on the 25th October; and, though he was seized with a rheumatism, he wrote a sermon, and preached for the first time there the Sunday following, October 30th, for the vicar, Mr. Mills, who was absent.

He returned to London November 2d, and, his patron not being come to town, he lodged at Mr. Barrow's, in Thames Street. A few days after, he was persuaded to undertake a confutation of the defence of the Speculum Ecclesiasticum; he wrote it on the 14th November; and, being joined to the former answer, it was published on the 20th.

His patron, now Lord Arundel by the sudden death of his father, came to London on the 16th of that month, and took a lodging in Great

duced to him by Dr. Tenison, and it was agreed that he should come into his family about eight days after. During which he went to Cambridge, in order to examine the MSS. there; several eminent divines of London having often requested him to make such a search there, as he had already done in the royal library at St. James's; and Mr. Chiswell, the bookseller, furnishing the expense of the journey, and having a design to publish a collection of English historians not yet published, desired Mr. Wharton to mark what he thought worthy of publication. He accordingly went to Cambridge, November 21st, and having searched the libraries, and made extracts, returned to London on the 2d December, and went to Lord Arundel's on the 7th.

On the 28th November, his Treatise of the Celibacy of the Clergy was published, and his "Incurable Scepticism" on the 12th December, for each of which pieces he received ten guineas of the booksellers.*

* It is stated in his published Life that "this and his other pieces so raised his reputation, that the Romanists were anxious to gain him over to their party, and the most excellent pieces were sent to him out of France for that purpose. But, to use his own expression, (probably from this Life of himself, of which Dr. Birch has made extracts,) quo magis Pontificiorum scripta pervolvi, eo leviora et futiliora illorum argumenta mihi

13th of December, he visited the Bishop of Ely, who, having read his Treatise of the Celibacy, expressed great esteem for him, as did many other persons of distinction, whom he met with that month.

The same day, the French history of the Inquisition of Goa* was put into his hands by several persons of learning, who desired him. to translate it into English, which he did in a few days at his leisure hours, and, having wrote a preface to it, on the 24th of December, gave the translation to Dr. Tenison.

Having brought from Cambridge a Treatise of Reginald Peacock, Bishop of Chichester, proving the Scripture to be the rule of faith, some learned friends thinking it proper to be published, in the beginning of the year 1688 he prepared it for the press, and wrote a preface to it; and having finished the work on the

semper visa sunt.—It is added that, "what their weaker arguments failed in, his own more solid performed; reducing one of excellent parts to our communion, which he had in his younger days been unhappily prevailed upon to desert: who, in testimony of the reality of his conversion, received from his hands the blessed sacrament at St. Martin's church, leaving a schedule of his abjuration of Popery, in the hands of Rev. Dr. Tenison, then vicar there."-See Life of H. Wharton, prefixed to his Sermons.

7th January, he gave it to the bookseller, who allowed him five guineas for it.

8th January. He translated into Latin the Prologue and Epilogue to Eunomius's Apologetical Treatise, which he had before transcribed from a MS. of Dr. Tenison.

9th and 10th of the same month, he read several Latin lives of Ignatius Loyola.

12th. He visited the Archbishop of Canterbury, who received him with great civility, and promised him some great favours. He left his collections relating to the Cambridge MSS. with the Archbishop, and carried back an Imprimatur for Bishop Peacock's Treatise.

13th. Mr. Joseph Watts, a bookseller, desired him to take care of an edition of Dr. Thomas James's Treatise of the Corruptions of Scripture, Councils, and Fathers, by the Prelates, &c. of the church of Rome.

"Lametham antea se contulerat (Watts) licentiam a Doctore Batteley Capellano Archiepiscopi postulaturus. Noluit id dare Batteleius, nisi phrases Jamesii duriusculæ emollirentur; utque id auspicatò fieret, bibliopolam ad me remisit. Laborem haud illibenter in me recepi, cumque Doctorem Cave et Mag Cooke horis pomeridianis invisissem, rei inchoandæ vespertinas addixi. Horas matutinas spuriæ S. Macarii Homilia e Lipsiâ nuper transmissæ de