Blackhead and Young seem to have been thorough-paced villains.
[223] These letters, dated March, 1692, are amongst the Tanner MSS.
[224] Life of Sancroft, ii. 20.
[225] The instrument, which is very curious, is given by D’Oyley, ii. 31.
[226] D’Oyley, ii. 43, 58, 62, 64.
[227] Lives of the Bishops, 234.
[228] Own Time, ii. 135.
[229] “He was, in those years, a very good scholar, an acute logician and philosopher, a quick disputant, of a solid judgment. He spoke Latin exceedingly well.”—Lansdowne MSS., Kennet’s Coll., 949, 114.
[230] Milman has well brought out this point in his Annals of St. Paul’s. I quite agree with that distinguished critic in placing Barrow far above Tillotson. To several others I should also assign a higher place. Yet we must not forget Dryden’s literary obligations to Tillotson, and the praise bestowed on him by M. H. A. Taine.
[231] In reading Tillotson’s Sermons, the first volume strikes me as much more interesting than the second.