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Jesus came, and touched them, and said; "Arise, and be not afraid." And, when they lifted up their eyes, they saw no man save Jesus only.

Of the blessedness of Elijah in heaven no doubt can be admitted. How consoling is the reflexion to the good Christian, that when he has finished his earthly course, he likewise shall be received into the general Assembly and Church of the firstborn, with Moses, with Elijah, and with all the Prophets!

SKETCHES

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YORKSHIRE BIOGRAPHY.

Our County, as the curious observe, is the Epitome of England, whatsoever is excellent in the whole Land being to be found in proportion there. Beside this, God hath been pleased to make it the Birth-place and Nursery of many great Men.'

(Dr. George Hickes Sermon, preached at the Yorkshire Feast in Bow Church, London, June 11, 1682.)

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One may call and justify this to be the best Shire of England, and that not by the help of the general Katachresis of Good for Great (a good blow,' "a good piece,' &c.) but in the proper acceptation thereof.

(Fuller's Worthies, II. 489.)

Non adeo obtusi gestamus pectora

Nec tam aversus equos nostrá Sol jungit ab urbe.

(Virg. Æn. I. 571.)

SKETCHES, &c.

1. ALCOCK JOHN

Was born at Beverley. His parents lie buried at Kingston-upon-Hull, where he built a Charity, and where he also established a free-school for the benefit of the inhabitants. Fuller observes that Bale, who is not very liberal of his praises, has characterised Alcock as "given to learning and piety from his childhood, growing from grace to grace, so that in his age none in England was higher in holiness." A religious house founded at Cambridge by Malcolm (of the Scots royal race) in 1133, and dedicated to St. Radegund, being with all it's lands conferred by Henry VIII. and Pope Julius II. upon Alcock, he converted it into a College dedicated to Jesus, to the Virgin Mary, and to St. Radegund. The original establishment consisted of one master, six fellows, and six scholars. In 1472, being Dean of St. Stephen's, Westminster, and Master of the Rolls, he became Bishop of Rochester. In 1476, he was translated to the See of Worcester; and, in 1486, to that of Ely. He died October 1, 1500, and was buried in his chapel at Hull.

He was distinguished by his munificence in repairing and adorning the several episcopal houses, which he successively inhabited. Henry VIII. appointed him Lord President of Wales. He had previously been made Chancellor of England by Henry VII., for whose diet (as Fuller quaintly observes) "a dunce was no dish."

The Arms of Jesus College, "Argent, a fess between three cocks' heads," &c. allude to the name of the founder.-(See the Plate opposite to p. viii. in Matthew Parker's British Antiquities. See, also, Fuller's History of Cambridge, 85., and his Worthies, II. 520. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors, 55., and Goodwin's Lives of the Bishops, by Richardson, p. 269. He is slightly referred to in Nichols' Literary Anecdotes, IV. 138., VIII. 589, 590.)

2. ASCHAM ROGER

Was a native of Kirkby Wiske near Northallerton, a small village situated on the river Wiske.

His father, a steward in the ancient family of Scroop, was a person of great integrity and gravity, and of singular honour, modesty, and discretion.

He died December 30, 1568, and was honoured by his friend Buchanan with the following epi

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