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he sale of his library is found in John Walker's _Sufferings of the Clergy_, 1714, Part II, p. 94. l. 24. _syded_, i.e. stood by the side of, equalled, rivalled. Page 173, ll. 1 ff. His _Tract concerning Schisme and Schismaticks_ was published in 1642, and was frequently reissued. It was written apparently about 1636, and certainly before 1639. He was installed as canon of Windsor on June 27, 1639. 52. Clarendon, MS. Life, pp. 58-9; _Life_, ed. 1759, pp. 28-30. Clarendon clearly enjoyed writing this character of Chillingworth. The shrewd observation is tempered by subdued humour. Looking back on his friendship at a distance of twenty years, he felt an amused pleasure in the disputatiousness which could be irritating, the intellectual vanity, the irresolution that came from too great subtlety. Chillingworth was always 'his own convert'; 'his only unhappiness proceeded from his sleeping too little and thinking too much'. But Clarendon knew the solid merits of _The Religion of Protestants_ (_History_, vol. i, p. 95); and he felt bitterly the cruel circumstances of his death. Page 174, ll. 17-19. Compare the character of Godolphin, p. 96, ll. 1 ff. Page 176, l. 14. _the Adversary_, Edward Knott (1582-1656), Jesuit controversialist. l. 29. _Lugar_, John Lewgar (1602-1665): see Wood's _Athenae Oxonienses_, ed. Bliss, vol. iii, cols. 696-7. Page 177, l. 24. This Engine is described in the narrative of the siege of Gloucester in Rushworth's _Historical Collections_, ed. 1692, Part III, vol. ii, p. 290: 'The King's Forces, by the Directions of Dr. _Chillingworth_, had provided certain Engines, after the manner of the Roman _Testudines cum Pluteis_, wherewith they intended to Assault the City between the South and West Gates; They ran upon Cart-Wheels, with a _Blind_ of Planks Musquet-proof, and holes for four Musqueteers to play out of, placed upon the Axle-tree to defend the Musqueteers and those that thrust it forwards, and carrying a Bridge before it; the Wheels were to fall into the Ditch, and the end of the Bridge to rest upon the Towns Breastworks, so making several compleat Bridges to enter the City. To prevent which, the Besieged intended to have made another Ditch out of their Works, so that the Wheels falling therein, the Bridge would have fallen too short of their Breastworks into their wet Mote, and so frustrated that Design.' ll. 26 ff. Hopton took Arundel Castle on December 9, 1643, and was
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