on by his personal appearance, to answer any complaints
before the Lord Mayor, for as he was a Peer of the realm, no
magistrate whatever had a right to take cognizance of his conduct, and
that he was only accountable to the House of Lords, of which he was
one. The bishop proceeds to enumerate the various insults he received
from the enraged populace; sometimes they searched his house for
malignants, at other times they threatened violence to his person; nor
did their resentment terminate here; they exercised their fury in
the cathedral, tore down the altar, broke the organ in pieces, and
committed a kind of sacrilegious devastation in the church; they burnt
the service books in the market-place, filled the cathedral with
musketeers, who behaved in it with as much indecency, as if it had
been an alehouse; they forced the bishop out of his palace, and
employed that in the same manner. These are the most material
hardships which, according to the bishop's own account, happened to
him, which he seems to have born with patience and fortitude, and may
serve to shew the violence of party rage, and that religion is often
made a pretence for committing the most outrageous insolence, and
horrid cruelty. It has been already observed, that Hall seems to have
been of an enthusiastic turn of mind, which seldom consists with any
brilliance of genius; and in this case it holds true, for in his
sermons extant, there is an imbecility, which can flow from no other
cause than want of parts. In poetry however he seems to have greater
power, which will appear when we consider him in that light.

It cannot positively be determined on what year bishop Hall died; he
published that work of his called Hard Measure, in the year 1647, at
which time he was seventy-three years of age, and in all probability
did not long survive it.

His ecclesiastical works are,

A Sermon, preached before King James at Hampton-Court, 1624.

Christian Liberty, set forth in a Sermon at Whitehall, 1628.

Divine Light and Reflections, in a Sermon at Whitehall, 1640.

A Sermon, preached at the Cathedral of Exeter, upon the Pacification
between the two Kingdoms, 1641.

The Mischief of Faction, and the Remedy of it, a Sermon, at Whitehall
on the second Sunday in Lent, 1641.

A Sermon, preached at the Tower, 1641.

A Sermon, preached on Whitsunday in Norwich, printed 1644.

A Sermon, preached on Whitsunday at Higham, printed 1652.

A Sermon, preached on Easter d