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 Political and Religious Persecutions,’ 2 vols. Lond. 1876, 8vo, conjointly with Fernando Garrido. 8. ‘The Iliad of Homer, Homometrically translated,’ Lond. 1877, 8vo. 9. ‘The Sonnets and Stanzas of Petrarch,’ translated, Lond. 1879, 8vo. 

CAYLEY, CORNELIUS (1729–1780?), religious writer, was born in 1729 at Hull. At nineteen Lord Scarborough introduced him to a place at court as clerk in the treasury of the Prince of Wales. With a view to promotion he learnt foreign languages and practised music and dancing, and after a time made application to go as under-secretary to the ambassador to Paris; but superior interest procured the place for another. After this disappointment he attempted to indulge in the gaieties of London life; but a strongly religious temperament led him into other pursuits. He became acquainted with James Hervey, author of the ‘Meditations,’ and through him he visited the Tabernacle in Moorfields. There for a time he was in constant attendance, read religious books of the old puritan sort, and soon took to preaching about London. He printed a little treatise on ‘The Doctrine of Jesus Christ,’ for presentation. For a time he made his home in the house of Lady Cornelia Piers at Mill Hill, where he preached to very select company. His autumn vacations were usually spent in travelling through the country and preaching wherever opportunity offered. He still held his place at the treasury, until he was told that he must give up preaching, when he resigned his post to devote himself entirely to religious work. He then settled for a time at Norwich, which he left in 1761. While there, in 1756, he composed a Christmas anthem, which was frequently sung to a fine piece of cathedral music, and he published a letter in answer to Mr. Potter, a clergyman of Reymerston, who had printed a sermon against the methodists. In the autumn of 1772 Cayley started on a tour through Holland, Flanders, and France. He wrote an account of his travels on the way: it was printed in parts in the ‘Leeds Weekly Newspaper,’ and afterwards printed separately in a 12mo volume. On arriving at Dover he set off for his ‘little retirement near Leeds.’ There, in 1778, he published the third edition of his ‘Life’ (originally published at Norwich in 1757–8), with enlargements, but with little further account of himself after 1761. A portrait of ‘Cornelius Cayley, minister of the gospel,’ drawn by Swanfelder and engraved by I. Taylor, is prefixed to this third edition. The book has been reprinted four times in the present century, so recently as 1862 and again in 1863. Cayley also published: 1. ‘The Seraphical Young Shepherd and a Small Bunch of Violets,’ 1762, 2nd edit. 1769. 2. ‘The Amethyst; or some Beams of Eternal Light,’ 1763. 3. ‘The Day-Star of Glory rising in the Hearts of the Saints,’ 1769. 4. ‘The Olive Branch of Peace and the Shulamite: a poem,’ 1771. 5. ‘An Evangelical Dialogue,’ 1780, and various other small things. He also wrote largely on the ‘Mystery of the Two Adams,’ but the manuscript has not been traced, nor any further account of the author after 1780.

[Life of Cornelius Cayley, written by himself, 3rd edit. Leeds, 1778; Cayley's Tour through Holland, Flanders, and part of France, 2nd edit. Leeds, 1777.]  CEADDA, Saint (d. 672), better known as, was a Northumbrian by birth. He had three brothers, Cedd, Cynibill, and Caelin. All four were ordained to the priesthood, and two, Cedd and Ceadda, became bishops (, iii. 23). He was one of St. Aidan's disciples, but spent part of his youth in Ireland in the monastery of Rathmelsige, now Melfont, in company with Ecgberht, another young Northumbrian of noble family, eminent for piety and missionary zeal. In 664 Ceadda's brother Cedd, bishop of the East-Saxons, died at his monastery of Lastingham, in Deira [see ], of which he was abbot, and by his appointment Ceadda succeeded him in the office (ib. iii. 23). In the same year the synod of Whitby had been held, which, through the influence of Wilfrith, had decided to adopt the Roman time of keeping Easter. Colman, bishop of Lindisfarne, who adhered to the Scottish usage, resigned his see, and Tuda, his successor, died soon afterwards of the plague. Wilfrith was then elected bishop, and the see, probably at his request, was moved to York, where there had been no bishop since the flight of Paulinus in 633 [see and ]. Wilfrith went to Gaul to be consecrated, and tarried there so long that Oswy, king of Northumbria, and his people grew impatient, and resolved to have Ceadda made bishop instead. He was accordingly sent to Canterbury for consecration, accompanied by Eadhæd, afterwards bishop of Ripon. On their arrival they found the see just vacant by the death of Archbishop Deusdedit, so they repaired to Wessex, where Ceadda was consecrated by Wini, bishop of Winchester, assisted by two British bishops probably from Cornwall (ib. iii. 28). He