The Works of the Rev. Thomas Zouch ... With a Memoir of His Life

establishment of his own country *. If there be any peculiar excellence (we may add) by which his volume of Travels' is discriminated, it is that aweful sense of the superintendence of Providence, which it every where displays. Regardless of the derision, to which he might occasionally be subjected by his occasional reflexions of this description, the author consoled himself with his resolution of writing "as a Christian and a philosopher."

At no period of time were the annals of England more illustrated by the talents, the acquirements, and the virtues of her clergy, than at the conclusion of the seventeenth century. Enriched

* Mr. George Sandys was equally sensible of his happiness in being restored to his native country, after having traversed the greatest part of the Turkish Empire, Egypt, the Holy Land, and the remoter parts of Italy. "Now shape we our course for England. Beloved soil! as in scite

wholly from all the world disjoin'd,

so in thy felicities. The summer burns thee not, nor the winter benumbs thee: defended by the sea from wasteful incursions, and by the valour of thy sons from hostile invasions! All other countries are in some things defective; when thou, a provident parent, dost minister unto thine whatsoever is useful, foreign additions but only tending to vanity and luxury. Virtue in thee at the least is praised, and vices are branded with their names, if not pursued with punishments. That Ulysses, who 'knew many men's manners, and saw many cities,' if as sound in judgement as ripe in experience, will confess thee to be the land that floweth with milk and honey." (Travels, IV. 170.)

with all the stores of learning, and influenced by the strongest sense of duty, they showed themselves irreconcileably hostile to Popery, however associated or recommended. The Revolution, unfortunately, gave birth to dissensions, which no human prudence could prevent or heal. With many of these truly venerable characters Sir George Wheler maintained habits of the most friendly intercourse, exhibiting in his own demeanour a pattern of moderation and liberality. Throughout his whole life, indeed, his deeds of munificence were alike numerous and unostentatious.

In his last Will, dated in 1719, he secured a provision for the Minister employed to officiate at his Chapel in Spital-Fields in the French tongue.

His books of Divinity and Church-History he bequeathed to his second son, Granville, “ if found worthy to be admitted into Holy Orders" if not, he directed them to be placed in the Library of the Parish-Church of Basingstoke.

A set or service of Communion-plate he left to Bishop Crew, "his most honourable patron and benefactor, as an humble and grateful acknowledgement of all his many and great favours conferred upon him above his deserts," in case of survivorship: otherwise to Lincoln College, Ox

ford; to which Society, likewise, he bequeathed all his Greek and Latin MSS.*

* Georgius Wheler Miles, Eccles. Dunelm. Prebend., et hujus Coll. quondam Comm. Sup. Ord., huic Bibliothecæ donavit sequentes Codices Manuscripto:

1. Psell versus Politici, et Tractatus varii de Sphærâ, Cœlo, Naturâ Meteoris, Planetis; cum Nicomachi Arithm. explicatâ, &c.

2. Plotini Enneades, cum ejusdem Vitâ à Porphyrio.

3. Andreæ et Epiphanii de Fulmine et Fulgure peopos. Oratio in Crucem; cum variis Chrysostomi, Eph. Syri, Anastasii Syn., Dorothei, Joh. Damaseni, Nectarii, Athanasii, Andreæ Cretensis, Amphilochii, Georgii Nicomed., Greg. Nyss., Greg. Naz., Greg. Antioch., Cyr. Alex. opusculis.

4. Gregor. Naz. Sermones.

5. Evangelistarum literis majusculis exaratum, circa annum (ut mihi videtur) 990 vel 1000. (E. T.)

6. Theodoreti de Provid. 10 Serm., et Philonis Judæi Tractatus varii.

7. Codex 4 Evang. axepaλos. Incipit ad ista Oupavois aɣiaoŵyτw, &c. Cap. vi. Matt. Adscripta sunt ubique scholia è Græcis Patribus. Extat in fine Synaxarium.

8. Typicon, cum nitidissimis Imaginibus quorundam ex Familiâ Comnenorum.

9. Ακολεθία Græca Johannis τῷ Νηςευτέ.

10. Euchologium.

11. Libanii Epistolæ, cum quibusdam Synesii Epis.

12. Liber ritualis, continens Hymnos in Jesum, &c.

13. Tractatus de Cœlo anonymus.

14. Codex 4 Evangeliorum, cum Eusebii Epistolâ ad Carpianum, ejusque Canonibus.

15. Aπoçoλos, seu Lectiones ex Epistolis et Actis.

16. Anenii

The University of Oxford had, for it's legacy, all his dried plants (in number exceeding a thou

16. Anenii C. Pani Tractatus in Ecclm. Rom. Greg. Palamæ Apologetica 1ma. Excerpta è Patribus. Theodori Lat., Greg. Nyss., Johan. Hierosolymitani Tractatus. Francorum, Latinorumque, Hæreses. Niceta, Euthymii, Photii, Ignatii Tractatus. Græci cujusdam μelovpos.

17. Johannis Sinaita Tractatus varii, præpositis duabus Epistolis et Vitâ ejus.

18. Augustini de Trinitate, Lib. 15. Græcè redditi à Maximo Planud.

19. Epistolæ Abbatis Dorothei.

20. Menologium pro Mensibus Decemb. Januar. et Februar. 21. Menologium pro Mense Jul.

22. Menologium pro Mense Decemb.

23. Typicon Joannis Prodromi.

24. Sermo axépaños de Præcipuis Fidei Christianæ Articulis, et Pachomii Epistolæ quædam.

25. Anoλ80ìa, continentes varios Hymnos, &c.

Sermo περὶ τῆ

€úxeλ8. Parthenii Oratio in Obitum Augustini Filii. Preces cujusdam Demetrii. Nomocanon.

26. Dionysii Areopagita Opera cum Scholiis integris, et ejusdem Martyrio.

27. Ignatii Monachi Petritzensis Opuscula metrica, cum Historiâ Fabulosâ de Miraculis Nicolai Thaumatourgi.

28. Historia Judica, seu Vita St. Barlaami et Josaphat, cum Vitâ St. Patris Andreæ.

29. Liber Musicus, continens Hymnos Ecclesiæ Græcæ Notis musicis accommodatos.

30. Liber Psalmorum.

31. Anthologia pro Mense Oct. Decem. Janu. Jun. Juli. Augus., cum Hymnis in Vigilias quasdam et Acoluthiæ in omnes ferè Sanctos.

32. Nomocanon, Acoluthia, et variæ Precum formulæ.

33. Aristophanis

sand) and the four volumes, in which they were preserved.

To the Honourable the Dean and the Worshipful the Chapter of Durham he left all his silver and brass medals, or ancient coins * (with 33. Aristophanis Plutus, et Trac. varii.

34, 35.

36. Psalterium Augustini cum veteris quibusdam Libris Con. Manich.

37. Ακολεθία.

38.

39. Açμoλóyıav, seu Liber Hymnorum, cui præmittitur Mona. Catalogus Monte Astro.

40. Biblia Sacra Latin. St. Hieron.

41. Chrysostomi Liturgia.

L. Aretinus de Bellis Punicis, Gallicis, et Illyricis, et de
Militiâ Romanâ.

Apocalypsis Johannis.

*The following is an abstract of the Catalogue of those Coins. In the Catalogue itself, a description of each coin is given with great precision.