——­ “My manor, sir? he cried;
    Not that, I cannot part with that,—­and died.”

[Footnote 2:  Lord Bacon thinks (see his Sylva Sylvarum) that soporiferous medicines “are likeliest” for this purpose, such as henbane, hemlock, mandrake, moonshade, tobacco, opium, saffron, poplar leaves, &c.]

[Footnote 3:  See his History of the World.]

[Footnote 4:  See his Table Talk, section “Witches.”]

[Footnote 5:  Sir Thomas Browne’s evidence at the trial of Amy Duny and Rose Cullender at Bury St. Edmunds in 1664, is too well known to need an extract from the frequently reprinted report of the case.  To adopt the words of an able writer, (Retros.  Review, vol. v. p. 118,) “this trial is the only place in which we ever meet with the name of Sir Thomas Browne without pleasurable associations.”]

[Footnote 6:  Those who wish to have presented to them a faithful likeness of Sir Matthew Hale must not consult Burnet or Baxter, for that great judge, like Sir Epicure Mammon, sought “for his meet flatterers the gravest of divines,” but will not fail to find it in the pages of Roger North, who has depicted his character with a strength and accuracy of outline which no Vandyck or Lely of biography ever surpassed.  Would that we could exchange some of those “faultless monsters” with which that fascinating department of literature too much abounds, for a few more such instantly recognised specimens of true but erring and unequal humanity, which are as rare as they are precious.  In the unabridged life of Lord Guildford by Roger North, which, with his own most interesting and yet unpublished autobiography, are in my possession in his autograph, are found some additional touches which confirm the general accuracy of the portrait he has sketched of Hale in the work which has been printed. (Vide North’s Life of Lord Guildford, by Roscoe, vol. i. p. 119.)]

[Footnote 7:  See his Dialogue on the Common Laws of England.]

[Footnote 8:  Dr. Cudworth was the friend whom More refers to without naming, Collections of Relations, p. 336, edit. 1726, 8vo.]

[Footnote 9:  There is no name in this catalogue that excites more poignant regret than that of Dr. Henry More.  So exalted was his character, so serene and admirable his temper, so full of harmony his whole intellectual constitution, that, irradiated at once by all the lights of religion and philosophy, and with clearer glimpses of the land of vision and the glories behind the veil than perhaps uninspired mortality ever partook of before, he seems to have reached as near to the full standard of perfection as it is possible for frail and feeble humanity to attain.  Dr. Outram said that he looked upon Dr. More as the holiest person upon the face of the earth; and the sceptical Hobbes, who never dealt in compliment, observed, “That if his own philosophy were not true, he knew of none that he should sooner like than