[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.