RT.

Warmington.

The prelate to whom your correspondent alludes was Dr. John Hacket, Rector

of St. Andrews, Holborn, cons. to the see of Lichfield and Coventry on

December 22, 1661. The anecdote was first related by Granger. (Chalmers's

_Biog. Dict._, vol. xvii. p. 7.)

Bishop Bull, while rector of St. George's near Bristol, said the Baptismal

Office by heart on one occasion. (Nelson's _Life_, i. § ix. p. 34.;

_Works_, Oxford, 1827.)

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