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playful pluses ; yet he must have fiaae some essays , at least , in verse , as Sir John Suckling in . tifpduces his name into his Sessions of the Poets . *
ChiJtiqgwortb contracted some friendships at Oxford , which illustrate his character , and had probably no small influence upon Bis opinions and conduct . A friend in whom , as will appear by two letters which we shall
hereafter transcribe , he reposed an early religious confidence , and whom in his last will he denominates his 4 < deare father , " was Br . Sheldon , afterwards bishop of London , and , upon Juxon ' s
4 eath , promoted to Canterbury . It were useless to inquire what points in Sheldon ' s character conciliated the esteem of Chillingvvorch : for the prelate who obstructed the healing design of the
conferences at the Savoy , and who promoted the Act of Uniformity , and the Five-mile-Act , our Protestant champion could scarcely have entertained respect ; ht < j C 0 tijd certainly have felt no
predikcUoja arising from congeniality of sentiment on great principles and important plans of ^< 5 ciesiasucal policy : but SheU don ' s character might change with his place ; t Chillingwoith knew hiin not as a prelate ; and tturnet ,
? * 'Ijfr&gmcnta Aurea , 1646 , p . 7 . Sockling writes the name Shillingsworlh ; tfbp -spelling even of proper names not Wng yet uniform . With Chillingworth , others are brought forward as
cfmdidates for poetical fame who will aofc now be considered a » successful votaries of the M « s «« * Selden , For instance * is said jto have " sate hard by the « ha £ rV » J * u ; M ^ Lord tucios Falkland was wbt to-say , that he * rttver ktteW any m that a pair * of lawne ifcfcrc % had
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who regarded him with no reve « rence or affection , has recorded ^ that he w&s dextrous in busin ^ ss ^
quick of apprehension and of % true judgment ; generous arid charitable ; exceedingly pleas&ht in conversation , and having ail
art , that was peculiar to him , of treating all that came to him in a mobt obliging manner , Another friend of Chillingworth ' s was Lucius Carey , Lord Falkland ; a nobleman who was the
ornament of his age , who joined the court party in the civil war without bringing his love of liberty into qaestiDn , and who felt [ in the battle of Newbury , Sept . 20 ,. 1 ( 543 ] in the thirty-fourth 4
year of his age > * having so much dispatched the true business of life , that the eldest rarely attairi to that immense knowledge , and the youngest enter not into the world with more innocency z Whosoever , ' * ( adds Clarendon ,
whose picture of this truly noble royalist , glows in the bright colouring of truth as well as of friendship ) , * ' leads such a life needs be the less anxious upori how short warning it is taken from * him . " || Falkland and Chillingworth were endeared to each
other by an equal love of learn ., ing and truth . It is related of the former , as an instance of his resolution and perseverance , that he once resolved not to see Lon * don , to which he was greatly
atnor altered from himself , but only Bp » Ju xon . '* Avhreys Lives , in Letters , &c . from Bodleian , Sec . svo . 1813 , Vol . If . p . 376 .
< Q Hi $ t . of O . T . 8 vo , i $ Q 9 . Vol . I . p . 247 . )) Hurt , vf ticteL Vol . JI . Et . 1- # *•* Oxf . 1707 * P . 3 * 9 *
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Brief Memoir of Mr . Chillingmyrth ^ 3
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1814, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2436/page/3/
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