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1700. His will was proved ou 20 February of that year (registered in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 25 Noel).

Sir Charles Ingleby, or Ingilby, who wore the ermine not longer than four months, was the third son of John Ingleby (died 28 Novem- ber, 1648), of Lawkland Hall, Yorkshire, by his second wife Mary (died 19 November, 1667), daughter of Sir Thomas Lake, of Canons, Middlesex, Secretary of State to James I. He was born at Lawkland, 20 Feb- ruary, 1644, and was buried there 5 August, 1718. His seat was at Austwick Hall, York- shire. By his marriage to Alathea (died September, 1715), daughter and heiress of Richard Eyston, of Saxton, in the same county, he had issue a son, Thomas (born 1684, died 1729), Serjeant-at-Law, and four daughters : Dorothea (born 1681) ; Mary (born 1683), married William Hesketh,Esq. ; Alathea (born 1685), a nun at the English monastery at Liege ; and Anne (born 1688), married Mr. Fell, an apothecary in London. These facts will be found set forth in Mr. Joseph Foster's 4 Pedigrees of the County Families of York- shire,' a source of information unaccountably overlooked by the writer in the ' D.N.B.' GORDON GOODWIN.

FATHER PAUL SARPI IN EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE.

IN my communication on Bishop Hacket's 'Life of Archbishop Williams' (9 th S. x. 401, 423 ; xi. 103) I quoted from that very remark- able biography a number of appreciative passages relating to Father Paul. These, of course, need not be here repeated. Before, however, passing on to the immediate pur- pose of this note, I should like to record the opinion of one great modern writer, I mean Lord Macaulay. The following passages are taken from his ' Life and Letters ' (2 vols., 1876) :

"I have adopted an opinion about the Italian

historians I place Fra Paolo decidedly at the

head of them." Vol. i. p. 450.

" On my return home I took Fra Paolo into the garden. Admirable writer !" Vol. ii. p. 282.

" I read part of the Life of Fra Paolo prefixed to his history. A wonderful man." Vol. ii. p. 283.

"To have written the History of the Council of Trent, and the tracts on the Venetian Dispute with Rome, is enough for one man's fame. "Vol. ii. p. 284. His subject did not admit of vivid painting ; but what he did, he did better than anybody." Vol. ii. p. 284.
 * " Fra Paolo is my favourite modern historian.

I am almost certain that our great historian took the key-note of his historical style from Father Paul. For the sake of comparison,

I quote from the folio of 1676 the words with which Sarpi opens his history :

"My purpose is to write the History of the Council of Trent. For though many famous His- torians of our Age have made mention in their Writings of some particular accidents that happened therein," &c.

The personal note throughout is characteristic of both writers.

And here I may be permitted to call atten- tion to two splendid articles on Fra Paolo Sarpi by Mr. Andrew D. White, at one time American Ambassador to both Russia and Germany, in The Atlantic Monthly for January and February, 1904. The second concludes with these glowing and inspiring words :

"At last, under the new Italian monarchy, the patriotic movement became irresistible, and the same impulse which erected the splendid statue to Giordano Bruno on the Piazza dei Fiori at Rome, on the very spot where he was burned, and which adorned it with the medallions of eight other mar- tyrs to ecclesiastical hatred, erected in 1892, two hundred and seventy years after it had been decreed, a statue, hardly less imposing, to Paolo Sarpi, on the Piazza Santa Fosca at Venice, where he had been left for dead by the Vatican assassins. There it stands, noble and serene, a monument of patriotism and right reason, a worthy tribute to one who, among intellectual prostitutes and solemnly constituted impostors, stood forth as a true man, the greatest of his time, one of the greatest of all times, an honor to Venice, to Italy, and to huma- nity."

The first extract I shall give is from the pen of that curious writer Tom Coriat, of Odcombian fame ('Coryats Crudities,' 1611, p. 247) :

" In this street [called S* Hieronimo] also doth famous Frier Paul dwell which is of the order of Serui. I mention him because in the time of the difference betwixt the Signiory of Venice and the Pope, he did in some sort oppose himselfe against the Pope, especially concerning his supremacy in ciuill matters, and as wel with his tongue as his pen inueighed not a little against him. So that for his bouldnesse with the Popes Holynesse he was like to be slaine by some of the Papists in Venice, whereof one did very dangerously wound him. It is thought that he doth dissent in many points from the Papisticall doctrine, and inclineth to the Protestants religion, by reason that some learned Protestants haue by their conuersation with him in his Conuent something diuerted him from Popery. Wherefore notice being taken by many great men of the City [Venice] that he be- ginneth to swarue from the Komish religion, he was lately restrained (as I heard in Venice) from all conference with Protestants."

Walton, in his ' Life of Sir Henry Wotton,' has these passages (I quote from the text printed in the ' Reliquiae Wottonianse,' 1685) :

"Matters thus heightned, the State [of Venice] advised with Father Paul, a Holy and Learned Frier (the Author of the ' History of the Council of Trent') whose advice was, 'Neither to provoke the