Chapter L

_Taylor's Holy Living._--I should be obliged by any of your readers kindly informing me whether there is any and what foundation for the statement in the _Morning Chronicle_ of Dec. 27th last, that that excellent work, _Holy Living_, which I have always understood to be Bishop Taylor's, "is now _known_" (so says a constant reader) "not to be the production of that great prelate, but to have been written by a Spanish friar. On this account it is not included in the works of Bishop Taylor, lately printed at the Oxford University Press." I do not possess the Oxford edition here mentioned, so cannot test the accuracy of the assertion in the last sentence but if the first part of the above extract be correct, it is, to say the least, singular that Mr. Bohn, in his recent edition of the work, should be entirely silent on the subject. I should like to know who and what is this "Spanish friar?" has he not "a local habitation and a name?"

W.R.M.

[A fraud was practised on the memory of Bishop Jeremy Taylor soon after
his death, in ascribing to him a work entitled _Contemplations of the
State of Man in this Life, and in that which is to come_, and which
Archdeacon Churton, in _A Letter to Joshua Watson, Esq._, has shown,
with great acuteness and learning, was in reality a compilation from a
work written by a Spanish Jesuit, named John Eusebius Nieremberg. The
treatise _Holy Living and Dying_ is unquestionably Bishop Taylor's, and
forms Vol. III. of his works, now in the course of publication under
the editorship the Rev. Charles Page Eden.]

_Portrait of Bishop Henchman_ (Vol. iii., p. 8.).--Your correspondent Y.Y. is informed, that there is in the collection of the Earl of Clarendon, at the Grove, a full-length portrait of Bishop Henchman, by Sir Peter Lely. This picture, doubtless, belonged to the Chancellor Clarendon. Lord Clarendon, in his _History of the Rebellion_, b. xiii. (vol. vi. p. 540. ed. Oxford, 1826), describes the share which Dr. Henchman, then a prebendary of Salisbury, had in facilitating the escape of Charles II., after the battle of Worcester. Dr. Henchman conducted the king to a place called Heale, near Salisbury, then belonging to Serjeant Hyde, afterwards made chief justice of the King's Bench by his cousin the chancellor.