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 ATTERBURY. 381 loufe bft Convocation returned him their thanks [F], and -he ur.iverfity or xford complimented him with the de^rt-c or D. D.J[r;|. January 29, 1700, he was iultalled ai Jcacon or Totneis, being promoted to that dignity by Sir Jonathan Trelawny, then bifho;> of Exe'er. The lame he was cnjnt^trd, with fome otherlearned Divims, in reviling an intended edition of the " Greek Teftamcnt," with (,'reek c ' Scholia," collcded chiefly from the fathers, by Mr. Arch- deacon Gregory. At this period he was popular as Preacher J at the Rolls Chapel, an effice which had been conferred on him by Sir fohn Trevor, a great difcerner of abilities, in p. 19. 1698, when he refigned Bridewell, which he had obtained in 1693. Upon the acceffion of Qu'.en Anne, in 1702, Dr. Atierbury was appointed one of her majeffy's chaplains in ordinarv ; and, in October i 704, was advanced to thedeanery of Carlifle [nj. About two years after this, he was engaged in a difpute with Mr. Hoacily, concerning the advantages of virtue with regard to the preient life [ij, cccai r ior.ed by his Term on, iflo|j r y "- [F] April 5, xyot, Dr. Finch, hav- ing been Tint with a mell^gc trjm the Jo.ver to the upper houfe of convocation, returned with an account, that no mel- fage would be received from them, for w.int of t l ie Prolocutor's pretence. Hereupon the Dean of Gloucefter took cccafjoa to obferve, that, fince the Upper houfe refuted this coircfpon'dence with thcr.i it w^s now time for tlut h'.ufe to i-ctuin their tharlcs to .!i. Attertury, for ii ]. nvj pains in alFening c.mi vindicating the righrs of ulion. Upon which a debate enfuuu, and it wa5 prnpoiej to change the form of tharlis from "learned pains " in airer'.in^ and vin^ii'.'.ting," to " his endeavours to aiTert and vindi- " cate ;" bur, upon a divili m, it v/ascar- tied for the firft nicrion, and the thanks cl the Houfe returned accordingly. [cj In confequencc of the vote of the lower rumfe of convocation men- tioned in the laft i<-mark, a letter was fent to the univcrfity of Oxtord, ex- preffinj, that, " whereas Mr. Francis ' A-terbury, late of Chrift Church, " privileges of an En^lifh C.'onvocation, e * as to mtrit the folerr.n thinks of the " lov.-er houfe for his hsrr.sd pains " upon that fubj^rt ; it rr.i^ht be " hopedj that the ur::v:rfity vauM L>c " notice of fo great a pisce of fervice " to the Church : And that the ir.oft " fpetl to him, v.-oulil be to confer on " liim the degree of dodlor in divinity " by diploma, vvitboutdoing exercife, or <: paying fees."'' The univerfity ap- proved the contents of this letter, and ac- cordingly created Mr. Atterbury D. D. [:] In a fmall traft, intituled, ' A '* Letter from the South, by way of " An Twer to a Letter from a Northern " Divine; giving an Account of a " ftrange Attempt made by Dr. A , " &c " an improbable ftory is r^ lated of Atterbury's over-eagernefs to get pqffenion of this deanery. The whole 1 matter is cleared up in "The " Form of Retraftation required from. " Pi. Atterbury, previous to his in- " ftitution at Car'.ifle; withanarri- " live of what palled on that occafun " between the dean and biftiop Niccl- fon," preferred in Bp. Atte;L.: / "<-. " Epiltolary Correfpondence," vol. ii p. 197. And Ice vol. Hi. p. 247. [i] The doctrine of this fermon Mr. Hoadly examined, in " A Letter " *.o Dr. Francis Attcrbury, concern- ." ing Virtue and Vice," puhl-(hed in T 706 ; in which he undertakes to /hew, that Dr. Atterbury has extremely mif- taken the feme of his text. Dr. Attcr- t r.ry, in a volume of ' Sermons" pub- liihed by hirr.ftlf, prefixed a long ' Pre- " facs" to the Siirrr.ca EC Mr. Bonnet's B b 7 funeral j
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