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 A N N E S L E Y. 251 He was perfectly verfed in the Greek and Roman hiftory, and well acquainted with the (pint and policy or thofc na- tions. He had ftudied the laws of his country with fuch, diligence, as to be dteemed a great lawyer. His writings which are extant [15] are proofs ot his learning and abilities ; foilm.', but the largeft and moft valuable of all his works was loft, I'cr^ge, or, as fome. fay, defhoyed. This was tc A Hiltory of the v '"' " " Troubles in Ireland fiom 1641 to 1660." He was one P> of the firft Englifh peers whodiltmguiflied himfelf by collcdt- ing a fine library, which he did with great caie, and at a large expencc. But after his deceafe, all his books were ex- pofed to fale. At this fale the difcovery was made of the carl's famous memorandum, in the blank leaf of an Ei'xxv Bao-jAotn ; according to which, it was not king Ch:ir!es I Sre Arf but bifliop Gulden who was the author of this performance 3 GAf which produced a long controverfy. [n] H'slordfhip puKli/hed in his life- quarto. BefiJes thefe, hr wrote many time the following pieces: 1. "Truth other things, fome of which were pub- unveiled, in behalf of the Church of lifted after his deccaA- ; a% 5. "The " Mr. John Standifh's Sermon, preached " before the K-np, and published by " his Majefty's Command, 1676, " quarto. To which ii a.Ide 1, A fliort Privileges of the Houfe nf Lords jnd Commons, argued and ftated in two Conferences between b'jth Houfcs, April 19 and 21, i6?i. To vxiiiili is addfd, A Dilcourie, wherrin the " Treatife on the Subject of Tranfub- " Righrs of the Houfe of Lords are " ftantiation." 2. " A Letter from a " truly averted ; with learned Remaiks " Herfon of Honour in the Country, " on the Iteming Arguments and pic- " written to the Earl of Caftiehaven ; " temied Precedents offt-red at that " being Obfervations and Reflections " Time againfl their Loidihip?." 6. " on his Lrdfhip's Me.-r.oirs concerning " The King's Right of Indulgence, in " the Wars of Ireland, 1681," oclavo. " fpiritual Matteis, with the Equity 3. " A true Accouni of the whole Pro- " thereof afTerted, i68>'," quarto. 7. ' ceedings between J^mes Duke of Or- " Memoirs, intermixt wi'.h mo-al, po- ' mond and Ar'hur Earl of Ar>g!efey, " litical, and hiflorical Obfenration^ " before the King and his Council, &c. ' hy way of Difccuife, in a Letter to 51682," folio. 4. " A Letter of " Sir 1'tter Pett, 1693," 8vo. ' Remarks upon Jovian, 1683," ANSELM (archbifhnp of Canterbury in the reigns of William Rufus and Henry I.), an Italian by birth, bo:n in the year 1033, at Aolr, a town belonging to the duke of Sa- voy. After having travelled for fome time in France, he took the monadic habit in the abbey of Bee, in Normandy, ct which Lanfranc, afterwards archbifhop of Canterbury, was then prior. Three years after, when Lanfranc was made aboot of Caen, Anfelm fuccecded him in the priory of Bee ; and when Herluin. abbot of that monaftery, died, Anielmwas_ T A r i Fadmen promoted to the abbacy. In 1092, Anlelm came over to Cjntllgir . England, and foon after his arrival, William Rufus nemi-H.ft. naicd '" ' f. 10. T
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