[18] Although the register of Flore, the residence of Dr. Hutton, was preserved from an early date during the lifetime of Brydges, an early one is not now to be found. That of Christ-Church, Oxford, is not so old as the death of the bishop: his name is not found in that of Twickenham. [19] Wit Restored, 8vo. 1658. [20] Athenæ Oxon. vol. i. col. 736. [21] Harl. Catalogue, 464. fol. 3. He appears to have conceded a portion of the patronage attending his elevation, as in the Museum is “Carta Ricardi Corbet episcopi Norwicensis, qua concedit Georgio Abbot, archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, preximam advocationem, nominationem, præsentationem, liberam dispositionem, et jus patronatus archidiaconatus Norfolciæ, dat. 15 Maii, an. 8 R. Caroli 1.” Harl. MSS. No. 464. Fol. 3. [22] Strafford State Papers and Dispatches, vol. i. p. 221. folio. [23] He was author of a curious sermon, printed in 1627, 4to. under the title of “Woe to Drunkards,” which was republished with king James’s Counterblast, and other philippics against _tobacco_ and _coffee_; 4to. 1672. Upon the intrusion of the Book of Sports, Ward told his congregation that “the Church of England was ready to ring changes on religion, and that the Gospel stood on tip-toe ready to be gone.” For these words he was suspended. [24] Harl. MS. No. 464. fol. 13. [25] Blomefield’s History of Norfolk, vol. ii. p. 522. fol. [26] Notwithstanding these harsh measures, which originated with Laud—for, to the praise of our amiable prelate, he had not a grain of persecution in his disposition—“the Walloon company in 1637 having undertaken to repayre and make fit the church of Little St. Maryes to be used for God’s worship by the said congregation, and also to repayre the yard on the northside, had a lease for forty years. Which lease hath been renewed, and now it is the church of the French congregation.” Blomefield’s History of Norfolk, vol. ii. 57. fol. 1739. [27] Strype’s edition of Stowe’s Survey, book iii. page 151. edit. fol. 1720. Perhaps his fellow-collegian Cartwright intended an immediate compliment to Corbet in the following lines: Two sacred things were thought, by judging souls, Beyond the kingdom’s power, Christ-Church and Pauls, Till by a light from heaven shewn the one Did gain his second renovation. Poems, 188, 8vo. 1651. [28] Ath. Oxon. vol. i. p. 601. edit. 1721. [29] Harl. MS. No. 750. Malcolm’s Londinum Redivivum, vol. iii. p. 80. It occurs, also, with some difference, in Mus. Ashm. No. 1153. [30] Reg. Prerog. Court Cant. 97. Sadler. [31] Gomersall, in an epistle to Barten Holiday. See his poems, p. 7. edit. 1633. [32] Fuller’s Worthies, page 83. fol. 1662. [33] Headley, i. 38. [34] From hence it should seem that the edition 1647 was not published at the time this preface was written.