confefies the guilt: And therefore, upon judgent, either of outlawry, or of death, for treaor felony, a man is faid to be attainted. A rion attainted of high treafon, forfeits all his ds, tenements, and hereditaments; his blood corrupted, and he and his pofterity rendered fe. See CORRUPTION, FORFEITURE, &c. At inders may be reversed or falfified, (i. e. proved be file) by writ of error, or by plea. If by rt of error, it must be by the king's leave, &c. d, when by plea, it may be by denying the n, pleading a pardon by act of parliament, . Perfons may be attainted by act of parliant. Acts of attainder of criminals have been Tod in feveral reigns, on the discovery of plots rebellions, from the reign of king Charles II. in an act was made for the attainder of feveral Das, guilty of the murder of king Charles I. ong acts of this nature, that for attainting Sir Fenwick, for confpiring against king Williis the most remarkable; it being made to atit and convict him of high treason, on the oath one witness, juft after a law had been enacted, that no perfon fhould be tried or attainted of treafon, where corruption of blood is inred, but by the oath of two lawful witneffes, fs the party confefs, ftand mute, &c." Stat. nd 8, W. III. cap. 3. But, in the cafe of Sir n Fenwick, there was fomething extraordinator, he was indicted of treafon, on the oaths two witneffes, though but only one could be duced against him on his trial. I. * ATTAINMENT. n. f. [from attain.] hat which is attained; acquifition.-We difte with men that count it a great attainment to able to talk much, and little to the purpose. ville. 2. The act or power of attaining.2 Scripture must be fufficient to imprint in us character of all things neceffary for the attainit of eternal life. Hooker. 1.) * ATTAINT. n. f. [from the verb.] thing injurious; as illness, wearinefs. e is now obfolete. 1. A. This Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour Into the weary and all-watched night; ut freshly looks, and overbears attaint With cheerful femblance. Shakef. Henry V. tain; fpot; taint.-No man hath a virtue he has not a glimpse of; nor any man an at4, but he carries fome ftain of it. Shak. 3. In emanship.-A blow or wound in the hinder of an horse. Farrier's Dict. ATTAINT, in the English law, is a writ lies after judgment, against a jury of twelve , that have given falfe verdict in any court of rd, in an action real and perfonal, where the t or damages amount to above 40s. Stat. 5 14 Ed. III. c. 7. It is called attaint, because party that obtains it endeavours thereby to 1 or taint the credit of the jury with perjury, whofe verdict he is grieved. The jury who to try this falfe verdict must be twenty-four, are called the grand jury; for the law wills that the oath of one jury of twelve men fhould attainted or fet afide by an equal number, nor lefs indeed, than double the former. And he brings the attaint, can give no other evidence the grand jury, than what was originally given to the petit. For, as their verdict is now trying, and the question is, whether or no they did right upon the evidence that appeared to them, the law adjudged it the highest abfurdity, to produce any fubfequent proof upon fuch trial, and to condemn the prior jurifdiction, for not believing evidence which they never knew. But those against whom it is brought, are allowed, in the affirmance of the firft verdict, to produce new matter: because the petit jury may have formed their verdict upon evidence of their own knowledge, which never appeared in court; and, because very terrible was the judgment which the common law inflicted upon them, if the grand jury found their verdict a false one. The judgment was, 1. That they fhould lofe their liberam legem, and become for ever infamous. 2. That they should forfeit all their goods and chattels. 3. That their lands and tenements fhould be feifed to the king. 4. That their wives and children fhould be thrown out of doors. 5. That their houses should be rased. 6. That their trees fhould be rooted up. 7. That their meadows fhould be plowed. 8. That their bodies fhould be caft into jail. 9. That the party fhould be restored to all that he loft by reason of the unjuft verdict. But, as the feverity of this punishment had its ufual effect, in preventing the law from being executed, therefore, by the ftatute 11 Hen. VII. c. 24. revived by 23. Hen. VIII. c. 3. and made perpetual by 13 Eliz. c. 25. it is allowed to be brought after the death of the party, and a more moderate punishment was inflicted upon attainted jurors; viz. perpetual infamy, and if the caufe of action were above L. 40 value, a forfeiture of L. 20 a-piece by the jurors; or, if under L. 40, then L. 5 a-piece; to be divided between the king and the party injured. So that a man may now bring an attaint, either upon the ftatute, or at common law, at his election; and in both, may reverfe the former judgment. But, the practice of fetting afide verdicts upon motion, and granting new trials, has fo fuperfeded the ufe of both forts of attaints, that there is hardly any inftance of an attaint, later than the 16th centu ry. (3.) ATTAINT, or ATTEINT, in horsemanship, a hurt in a horfe's leg, proceeding either from a blow with another horfe's foot, or from an overreach in frofty weather, when a horse, being rough fhod, or having fhoes with long caulkers, ftrikes his hinder feet against his fore leg. * To ATTAINT. v. a. Lattenter, Fr.] 1. To difgrace; to cloud with ignominy. His warlike shield verdict of the jury. The other is before the coroner or fanctuary, where he, upon his confeffion, was in former times conftrained to abjure the realm; which kind is called attainder by abjuration. Attainder by battle is, when the party appealed, and choofing to try the truth by combat, rather than by jury, is vanquifhed. Attainder by verdict is, when the prifoner at the bar, anfwering to the indictment not guilty, my lord, hath an inqueft of life and death paffing upon him, and is by the verdict pronounced guilty.-Attainder by procefs is, where a party flies, and is not found till five times called publickly in the county, and at laft cutlawed upon his default. Cowel. 3. To taint; to corrupt. My tender youth was never yet attaint With any paffion of inflaming love. Shak. ATTAINTED, ATTAINTUS, Or ATTINCTUS, in law, a perfon under attainder. See ATTAIN DER. * ATTAINTURE. n. f. [from attaint.] Legal cenfure; reproach; imputation. Hume's knavery will be the duchefs's wreck, And her attainture will be Humphry's fall. Shak. ATTAKE, a mountain in Arabia, near Suez. ATTAL, a town of Arabia, in the province of Yemen, in the empire of Imam. Lon. 43. 40. E. Lat. 16. o. N. ATTALIA, in ancient geography, 1. a city of Lycia; and 2. a fea port of Pamphylia, feated on a bay of the Mediterranean Sea: both founded by one of the Attali, kings of Pergamus. In this laft city, Paul and Barnabas preached, about A. D. 49. and it had bishops in the 5th and 6th centuries. It is now called SATTALIA. ATTALICE VESTES, in antiquity, garments made of a kind of cloth of gold. They took the denomination from Attalus, furnamed Philometer, a wealthy king of Pergamus, who was the firft, according to Pliny, who caufed gold to be woven into cloth. ATTALICUS, in ancient phyfic, epithets (1.) ATTALUS, given to certain medicines, defcribed by Galen, but now out of use. (2.) ATTALUS, in ancient hiftory, the name of feveral kings of Pergamus. See PERGAMUS. To ATTAMINATE. v. a. [attamino, Lat.] To corrupt; to fpoil. ATTEGUA. See ATEGUA. ATTELABUS, in zoology, a genus of infects belonging to the order of coleoptera, or beetle kind. It has four wings, of which the fuperior are cruftaceous, and ferve as a fheath or cover to the inferior, which are membranous. The head tapers behind, and is inclined; the feelers turn thicker towards the apex. See Plate XIII. Fig. 17. The fpecies are 13. I. ATTELABUS APIARIUS is blueith, with red elytra, and three black belts. It is a native of Germany. 2. ATTELABUS AVELLANA is black, with the breaft, feet, and elytra red. See N° 7. 3. ATTELABUS BETULA has fpringy legs, and the whole body is of a dark red. It frequents the leaves of the birch. 4. ATTELABUS BUFRESTOIDES is of a dark colour, with a globular breaft, and nervous e tra. It is a native of Europe. 5. ATTELABUS CERAMBOIDES is of a black red colour, and the elytra is furrowed. It f quents the fpongy boletus, a fpecies of mushroo 6. ATTELABUS CORYLI is black, with red e tra, or cruftaceous wings. 7. ATTELABUS CURCULIONOIDES is blac with red elytra and breast. These 2 last spec and the AVELLANA, frequent the leaves of t hazel and filbert nut trees. 8. ATTELABUS FORMICARIUS is black, wi red elytra, and a double white belt towards t bafe. It is a native of Europe. 9. ATTELABUS MELANURUs is black, wi tetaceous elytra, black at the apex. It is a n tive of Sweden. JO. ATTELABUS MOLLIS is hairy and yello ifh, with pale elytra, and three belts. It is a r tive of Europe. II. ATTELABUS PENNSYLVANICUS is blac with red elytra, a black belt round the midd and another towards the apex of the elytra. is a native of Philadelphia. 12. ATTELABUS SIPYLUS is green, with hairy breast, and a double yellow belt upon t elytra. 13. ATTELABUS SURINAMENSIS has a doul indentation (or two teeth) in the top of the e tra. ATTELLANE. See ATELLANE. * To ATTEMPER. v. a. [attempero, Lat.] To mingle; to weaken by the mixture of fou thing elfe; to dilute.-Nobility attempers fo reignty, and draws the eyes of the people fon what afide from the line royal. Bacon. 2.1 foften; to mollify.-His early providence cou likewise have attempered his nature therein. E ATTEMPERATE, adj. temperate. Chauc. * To ATTEMPERATE. v. a. [attempero, Lat To proportion to fomething.-Hope must be pr portioned and attemperate to the promise; if exceed that temper and proportion, it becomes tumour and tympany of hope. Hammond. ATTEMPERATION, in rhetoric, &c. t cafting a restriction, or foftening, on fomethi faid by the formulas, Fama eft, ut perhibent, Sc. ATTEMPERAUNCE. n. f. temperance. ATTEMPRE, adj. tempered. Chauc. ATTEMPT. n. J. (from the verb.] 1. A attack.-If we be always prepared to receive enemy, we fhall long live in peace and quietne without any attempts upon us. Bacon. 2. An fay; an endeavour. Alack! I am afraid, they have awak'd, Al And 'tis not done; th' attempt, and not the deed, Confounds us. Shakefp. Macbeth. (1.) To ATTEMPT. v. a. [attenter, Fr] 1. To attack; to invade; to venture upon. He flatt'ring his displeasure, Trist me behind, got praifes of the king, For bun attempting, who was feif-fubdu’d. Shak. . To try; to endeavour.-I have nevertheless attempted to fend unto you, for the renewing of brotherhood and friendship. 1 Mac. xii. 17. (2) To ATTEMPT. v. n. To make an attack-1 have been fo hardy to attempt upon a Lime, which among fome is yet very facred. Glanville's Scepfis. • ATTEMPTABLE. adj. [from attempt.] Liable to attempts or attacks.--The gentleman wooching his to be more fair, virtuous, wife, and lefs attemptable than the rareft of our ladies. Shakespeare. * ATTEMPTER. n. f. [from attempt.] 1. The perfon that attempts; an invader.→ The Son of God, with godlike force endu'd Againft th' attempter of thy Father's throne. Milton. 1. An endeavourer.-You are no factors for glory treafure, but difinterefted attempters for the u#al good. Glanville's Scepfis. (1) To ATTEND. v. a. (attendre, Fr. atten Lat. 1. To regard; to fix the mind upon.The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempeft doth attend the unskilful words of a paffenger. Sid. 1. To wait on; to accompany as an inferiour.His companion, youthful Valentine, Attend the emperour in his royal court. Shak. To accompany as an enemy. He was at prent frong enough to have topped or attended Waller in his weftern expedition. Clarendon. To be prefent with, upon a fummons. accompany; to be appendant to. 4. 5. Το My pray'rs and withes always fhall attend The friends of Rome. Addifan's Calo. To expect. This fenfe is French.—So dreadful 4 tempeft, as all the people attended therein the very end of the world, and judgment day. Raleigh's dry. To wait on, as on a charge.The fifth had charge fick perfons to attend, And comfort those in point of death which lay. Spenfer. & To be confequent to.-The Duke made that fortunate defcent upon Rhee, which was afterwards attended with many unprofperous attempts. Clarendon. 9. To remain to; to await; to be in Sore for.-To him, who hath a profpect of the Rate that attends all men after this, the meafures of good and evil are changed. Locke. c. To Wat for infidioufly.-Thy interpreter, full of de(pat, bloody as the hunter, attends thee at the archard end. Shakefp. Twelfth Night. 11. To be bent upon any object. Their hunger thas appeas'd, their care attends The doubtful fortune of their abfent friends. to two objects, if you employ your spirit upon a book or a bodily labour, you have no room left for fenfual temptation. Taylor. 2. To flay; to delay.-Plant anemonies after the first rain, if you will have flowers very forward; but it is furer to attend till October. Evelyn. 3. To wait; to be within reach or call. 4. The charge thereof unto a covetous fprite, Commanded was, who thereby did attend And warily awaited. Fairy Queen. To wait, as compelled by authority.-If any minifter refused to admit a lecturer recommended by him, he was required to attend upon the committee, and not difcharged till the houses met again. Clarendon. * ATTENDANCE. n. f. [attendance, Fr.] 1. The act of waiting on another; or of ferving.The other, after many years attendance upon the duke, was now one of the bedchamber to the prince. Clarendon. 2. Service.- Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance Are to behold the judgment, but the judg'd, 4. Attention; regard.-Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 1 Tim. iv. 13. 5. Expectation: a fenfe now out of ufe.-That which caufeth bitterness in death, is the languishing attendance and expectation thereof ere it come. Hooker. (1.) * ATTENDANT. adj. [attendant, Fr.] Accompanying as fubordinate. Other funs, perhaps With their attendant moons, thou wilt defery, Communicating male and female light. Milt. (2.) * ATTENDANT. ». f. 1. One that attends. --I will be returned forthwith; difmifs your attendant there; look it be done. Shakefp. Othello. 2. One that belongs to the train.— When fome gracious monarch dies, Soft whispers first and mournful murmurs rife Among the fad attendants. Dryden. 3. One that waits the pleasure of another, as a fuitor or agent.-I endeavour that any reader may not wait long for my meaning: to give an attendant quick difpatch is a civility. Burnet's Theory. 4. One that is prefent at any thing. He was a conftant attendant at all meetings relating to charity, without contributing. Swift. 5. [In law.] One that oweth a duty or fervice to another; or after a fort, dependeth upon another. Cowl. 6. That which is united with another, as a concomitant or confequent.-It is hard to take into view all the attendunts or confequents that will be concerned in a queftion. Watts. * ATTENDER. n. f. [from attend.] Companion; aflociate.— The gypfies were there, Ben Jonfn. * ATTENT. adj. [attentas, Lat.] Intent; attentive; hecdful; regardful.-Now mine eyes E fhall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. 2. Chron. vii. 15. ATTENTATES. n. f. [attentata, Lat] Proceedings in a court of judicature, pending. fuit, and after an inhibition is decreed and gone out; thofe things which are done after an extrajudicial appeal, may likewife be ftyled attentates. Ayliffe. (1.) * ATTENTION. n.f. [attention, Fr. The act of attending or heeding; the act of bending the mind upon any thing. By attention the ideas, that offer themfelves, are taken notice of, and, as it were, registered in the memory Locke Attention is a very neceffary thing; truth doth not always ftrike the foul at firft fight. Watts. (2) ATTENTION, [from all, to, and tendo, to ftretch,] has also been defined a due application of the ear, or the eye, as well as of the mind, to any thing faid or done, in order to acquire a knowledge thereof. Attention of mind is not properly an act of the understanding, but rather of the will, by which it calls the understanding from the confideration of other objets, and directs it to the thing in hand. Neverthelefs, our attention is not always voluntary: an interefing object feizes and fixes it beyond the power of controul. Attention, in refpect of hearing, is the fretching or training of the membrana tympani, fo as to make it more fufceptible of founds, and better prepared to catch even a feeble agitation of the air: Or, it is the adjusting the tension of that membrane to the degree of loudnefs or lownes of the found to which we are attentive. According to the degree of attention, objects make a ftronger or weaker impreflion. Bacon, in his natural hiftory, obferves, that "Sounds are meliorated by the intention of the fenfe, where the common fenfe is collected moft to the particular fense of hearing, and the fight fufpended. There fore founds are sweeter, as well as greater, in the night than in the day; and I fuppofe they are fweeter to blind men than to others; and it is manifeft, that between fleeping and waking, when all the fenfes are fufpended, mufic is far fweeter than when one is fully wakin." Attention is requifite even to the fimple act of freeing: the eye can take in a confiderable field at one took; but no object in the field is feen ditinctly but that fingly which fixes the attention in profound reverie that totally occupies the attention, we fcarce fee what is directly before us. In a train of perceptions, no particular object makes fuch a figure as it would do fingly and apart; for, when the attention is divided among many objects, no particular object is intitled to a large fhare. Hence, the ftilinefs of night contributes to terror, there being nothing to divert the attention. In matters of flight importance, attention is mostly directed by the will; and, for that reafon, it is our own fault if trifling objects make a ny deep impreffion. Had we power equally to with-hold our attention from matters of importance, we might be proof against any deep in preffion. But our power fails us here; and while our attention is thus forcibly attached to one object, others will folicit it in vain. * ATTENTIVE. adj. [from attent.] Heedful; regardful; full of attention.-Being moved with thefe, and the like your effectual difcourfe whereunto we gave most attentive ear, till the entered even unto our fouls. Hooker. * ATTENTIVELY. adv. [from attentive Heedfully; carefully. If a man look sharply an attentively, he shall fee Fortune; for, though f be biind, the is not invifible. Bacon. * ATTENTIVENESS. ». /. [from attentive. The ftate of being attentive; heedfulness; atte tion.-At the relation of the queen's death, brav ly confefed and lamented by the king, how atte tiveness wounded his daughter. Shakelp. ATTENTON, a village in Nottinghamshir 2 miles NW. of Barton. (1.) * ATTENUANT. adj. [attenans, Lat What has the power of making thin, or diuting (2.) ATTENUANTS, OF ATTENUATING MED CINES, are fuch as fubtilize and break the h mours into finer parts; and thus difpofe them f motion, circulation, excretion, &c. Attenuati and inciding medicines are of very extenfive u in phyfic, and come under different denomina ons, according to the different effects they pr duce. Thus, when tenacious and vifcid jui not only ftagnate in the cavities of the veffeis, b cbftruct the minute ducts of the vifcera and munctories, thefe medicines, by their incidi and attenuating qualities, difcharge the humou and remove the obftructions; for which reafe they are not improperly called operients. nuants produce fo great a variety of effects, th it is proper we should be well acquainted wi their feveral kinds, as appropriated to the fever diforders, and know which will prove moft fervid able in each. According to Hoffman, the dif ving and attenuating of vifcid crudities in t ftomach and prime vie, is well anfwered by t roots of arum, acorus, pepper, ginger, and t like; as alto by fal ammoniac, vitriolated tart the fixed alkaline faits, and the fimple or dulcifi fpirit of falt At When crude and unconcocted h mours are to be evacuated by fool, this intenti is very well anfwered by the neutral falts, as t falts of the purging waters, and the ful polycr tum, with a futficient quantity of a watery hicle. When vifcid humours, occafioning dif ders of the breaft, are to be attenuated and pectorated, the intention is moft effectually fwered by elecampane and orice roots; and gum ammoniacum, myrrh, or benjamin, and b fam of Peru; or by regenerated tartar, oxyn of squills, a folution of crabs eyes in diftilled negar, and the fyrups of tobacco, and the li When the mafs of blood is tainted by thick a tenacious fordes, and the emunctories are by t means obftructed, and the humours contaminat by a faline fulphureous and fear butic dyseracy, most efficacious of the attenuants are the hor ridith, fcurvy grafs, water and garden cref mustard, gum ammoniac, benjamin, myrrh, 1 oil of fixed nitre, oil of tartars per deliquiun, lutions of nitre, spirit of fal ammoniac, falt wormwood with lemon juice, and the falts of 1 medicina waters. When grumous or coagulat blood, occafioned by contufions or blows, is be at nuated, and again diffolved, the intenti is fure to be answered by the roots of Soiemo feal, vinegar, and crabs eyes, the regenerated tartar, and nitre prepared with antimony. And in cades where the lymph has acquired a preternatural thickness and vifcidity, efpecially if from a venereal taint, the curative intention is moft effactually answered by guaiacum, the acrid tinc ture of antimony, calomel, æthiops mineral, and the like; which, when skilfully ufed, are of fingular efficacy in diffolving and attenuating the vifcas impacted in the glands of the liver. * ATTENUATE. udi. {from the verb.] Made thin, or flender.-Vivification ever confifteth in hints attenuate, which the cold doth congeal and Coagulate. Bacon. * TO ATTENUATE. v. a. [attenuo, Lat.] To make thin, or flender: opposed to condense, or ange, or thicken.-It is of the nature of acids to dilove or attenuate, and of alkalies to precior incraffate Neavion's Opticks. (1) *ATTENUATION. n.s. [from attenuate.] The act of making any thing thin or fiender; lefg-Chiming with a hammer upon the outde of a bell, the found will be according to the ward concave of the bell; whereas the elifion es attenuation of the air, can be only between the Ammer and the outside of the bell. Bacon. ATTENUATION, is defined more generally by Chauvin, the dividing or feparating of the mie parts of any body, which before, by their taal nexus or implication, formed a more conruous mafs. Accordingly, among alchemifts, we fometimes find the word ufed for pulverizati0, or the act of reducing a body into an impalpable powder, by grinding, pounding, or the like, ATTENUATION, in medicine, the leflening the power or quantity of the morbific matter. 'ATTER." n. f. [ater, Sax. venom.] Corrupt matter. A word much ufed in Lincolnshire. {L 1.) ATTERBURY, Bp. Francis, fon of Dr Lew Atterbury, was born at Milton in Bucking anthire, 1662, educated at Weftminfter; and Lence elected to Chrift-Church in Oxford, where at foon diftinguished himfelf by his genius. In 155, he was made M. A. when he exerted himIn the controverfy with the Papifts, vindicated Luther in the strongest manner, and difplayed uncommon fund of learning, enlivened with at vivacity. In 1690, he married Mifs Ofborn, abdy of great beauty, but with little or no tane. About 1690, he took orders, and in 1691, was elected lecturer of St Bride's church in London, and preacher at Bridewell chapel. He was foon after appointed chaplain to King WilAm and Queen Mary. The hare he took in the Controverfy against Bentley, (about the authentity of Phalaris's Epiftles) is now clearly afcertained. In one of the letters to his noble pupil, Gated Chelfea, 1698," he says, the matter had coft him fome time and trouble. Ia laying the defign of the book, in writing above half of in reviewing a good part of the reft, in tranng the whole, and attending the prefs," he ds, half a year of my life went away.' In 15, a ftill larger field of activity opened, in Which Atterbury was engaged 4 years with Dr Wake (afterwards archbishop of Canterbury) and others, concerning "the Rights, Powers, and Privileges of Convocations ;" in which he displayed fo much learning and zeal for the intcreits of his order, that the Lower Houfe of Convocation returned him their thanks, and the Univerfity of Oxford complimented him with the degree of D.D. January 29, 1700, he was inftalled archdeacon of Totnefs. The fame year, he was engaged, with fome other learned divines, in revifing an intended edition of the Greek. Teftament, with Greek Scholia, collected chiefly from the fathers, by Mr Archdeacon Gregory. At this period he was popular, as preacher at the Rolls Chapel; an office which had been conferred on him by Sir John Trevor, in 1698, when he refigned Bridewell. Upon the acceffion of Queen Anne in 1702, Dr Atterbury was appointed one of her chaplains; and, in October 1704, was advanced to the deanery of Carlisle. About two years after this, he was engaged in a difpute with Mr Hoadly, concerning the advantages of virtue, with regard to the prefent life; occasioned by his ferron, preached Auguft 30, 1706, at the uneral of Mr Thomas Bennet, a bookfeller. In 1707, Sir Jonathan Trelawney, bifhop of Exeter, appointed him one of the canons refidentaries of that church. In 1709, he was engaged in a fresh difpute with Mr Hoadly, concerning "Paflive Obedience;" occafioned by his Latin Sermon, intitled "Concio ad Clerum Londinenfem, habita in Ecclefia S. Elphegi." In 1710, came on the famous trial of Dr Sacheverell, whofe remarkable fpeech on that occafion was generally fuppofed to have been drawn up by our author, in conjunction with Dr Smalridge and Dr Freind. The fame year Dr Atterbury was unanimously chofen prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation, and had the chief management of affairs in that houfe. May 11, 1711, he was appointed by the convocation, one of the committee, for comparing Mr Whifton's doctrines with those of the church of England; and in June following, he had the chief hand in drawing up " A Reprefentation of the prefent State of Religion." In 1712, he was made dean of Chrift Church, notwithftanding the ftrong intereft and warm applications of feveral great men in behalf of his competitor, Dr Smalridge. In the beginning of June 17139 the Queen advanced him to the bifhopric of Rochefter, with the deanery of Westminster in commendam. He was confirmed July 4, and confecrated at Lambeth next day. At the beginning of the fucceeding reign, his tide of profperity be gan to turn; and he received a fenfible mortification after the coronation of king George I. when, upon his offering to prefent his Majefty, with the chair of ttate, and royal canopy, (his perquifites as dean of Weftminfter,) the offer was rejected, not without evident marks of diflike. During the rebellion in Scotland, when the Pretender's declaration was difperfed, the archbishop of Canterbury, and the bishops in and near London, had published a "Declaration of their Abhorrence of the Rebellion, and an Exhortation to be zealous in the dif harge of their duties to king George;" but the bithop of Rochefter refufed to fign it; and engaged bishop Smalridge in the fame refutal, on account of fome reflections it contained againft the high church party. He appeared generally a E 2 mong |