volume; and I think nearly equals my friend Mr. Heber's
copy, once Lord Halifax's, of the same edition. Of Laud's
benefactions to the Bodleian Library, the bibliographer will
see ample mention made in the _Catalogus Librorum
Manuscriptorum Angliae, Hiberniae_, &c., 1697, folio. The
following, from Heylin, is worth extracting: "Being come
near the block, he (Laud) put off his doublet, &c., and
seeing through the chink of the boards that some people were
got under the scaffold, about the very place where the block
was seated, he called to the officer for some dust to stop
them, or to remove the people thence; saying, it was no part
of his desire 'that his blood should fall upon the heads of
the people.' Never did man put off mortality with a better
courage, nor look upon his bloody and malicious enemies with
more christian charity." _Cyprianus Anglicus_; or the _Life
and Death of Laud_; 1668, fol.; p. 536. In the Master's
library at St. John's, Oxford, they shew the velvet cap
which it is said Laud wore at his execution; and in which
the mark of the axe is sufficiently visible. The archbishop
was a great benefactor to this college. Mr. H. Ellis, of the
Museum, who with myself were "quondam socii" of the same
establishment, writes me, that "Among what are called the
king's pamphlets in the British Museum, is a fragment of a
tract, without title, of fifty-six pages only, imperfect;
beginning, 'A briefe examination of a certaine pamphlet
lately printed in Scotland, and intituled _Ladensium
Autocatacrisis_,' &c., 'The Cantabarians Self-Conviction.'
On the blank leaf prefixed, is the following remark in a
hand of the time. 'This Briefe Examen following, was found
in the Archbishop's (Laud?) Library, wher the whole
impression of these seauen sheets was found, but nether
beginning nor ending more then is hearein contained. May
11th, 1644.' This work, (continues Mr. Ellis,) which is a
singular and valuable curiosity, is in fact a personal
vindication of Archbishop Laud, not only from the slanders
of the pamphlet, but from those of the times in general: and
from internal evidence could have been written by no one but
himself. It is in a style of writing beyond that of the
ordinary productions of the day."]

Peace, peace, thou once "lo