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Wheler died at his prebendal house, after a short illness, January 15, 1723-4; and was buried in that part of the Cathedral called 'Galilee,' near the tomb of Venerable Bede. His prebend was given to Mr. Martin Benson*, and his rectory of Houghton-le-Spring to Mr. Thomas Secker, afterward Archbishop of Canterbury.

The learning, which this respectable scholar had acquired in his boyhood, he improved at Oxford; above all, that which taught him to remember his Creator in the days of his youth. To an intimate acquaintance with the history of ancient times, he added a considerable knowledge of the men and manners of the age in which he lived, Having carefully explored the politics of several foreign nations, he returned home disposed, as every sensible and good man must be disposed, more heartily to admire the civil and ecclesiastical

latter in his ninety-eighth year) reached a very advanced age. He was eighty-eight at his decease. It is strange, that no mention should be made, in the Biographia Britannica, of his noble charity instituted at Bamborough Castle, for which see Hutchinson's History of Durham.'

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Upon this amiable divine, who subsequently became Bishop of Gloucester, Cowper, Dean of Durham, pronounced a high eulogium in his Speech delivered at the enthronisation of Dr. Richard Trevor, in the Church of Durham. See Monthly Rev., Feb. 1753, p. 136.

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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

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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 Mesogos. Oratio in Crucem; cum variis Chrysostomi, Eph. Syri, Anastasi 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 Ougavois ayıaoDytw, &c. Cap. vi. Matt. Adscripta sunt ubique scholia è Græcis Patribus. Extat in fine Synaxarium.

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

9. Ακολεθία Græca Johannis τε Νηςευτᾶ.

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. Amogoλog, 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 Ima. Excerpta è Patribus. Theodori Lat., Greg. Nyss., Johan. Hierosolymitani Tractatus. Francorum, Latinorumque, Hæreses. Niceta, Euthymii, Photii, Ignatii Tractatus. Græci cujusdam μeloupos.

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 ànépaños de Præcipuis Fidei Christianæ Articulis, et Pachomii Epistolæ quædam.

25. Anoλebia, continentes varios Hymnos, &c.

Sermo περὶ τῆ

€úxeλa8. 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 Thaumaturgi.

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

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