m,
by reason of which no better account could be expected from him than
what he has given. He hits off the character of this piece of
biography--"A Life to the half; an imperfect creature, that is not only
lame (as the honest bookseller said), but wanteth legs, and all other
integral parts of a man; nay, the very soul that should animate a body
like Dr. Heylin. So that I must say of him, as Plutarch does of Tib.
Gracchus, 'that he is a bold undertaker and rash talker of those matters
he does not understand.' And so I have done with him, unless he creates
to himself and me a future trouble!"

Vernon appears to have slunk away from the duel. The son of Heylin stood
corrected by the superior Life produced by their relative; the learned
and vivacious Barnard probably never again ventured to _alter and
improve the works of an author_ kneeling and praying for corrections.
These bleating lambs, it seems, often turn out roaring lions![148]

FOOTNOTES:

[143] Dr. Heylin's principal work, "_Ecclesia Restaurata_; or, the
History of the Reformation of the Church of England," was reprinted
at the Cambridge University press, for "the Ecclesiastical History
Society," in 2 vols. 8vo, 1849, under the able editorship of J. C.
Robertson, M.A., Vicar of Bekesbourne, Kent. The introductory
account of Heylin has enabled us to correct the present article in
some particulars, and add a few useful notes.

[144] Dr. John Barnard married the daughter of Heylin, when he lived
at Abingdon, near Oxford. He afterwards became rector of the rich
living of Waddington, near Lincoln, of which he purchased the
perpetual advowson, holding also the sinecure of Gedney, in the same
county. He was ultimately made Prebendary of Asgarby, in the church
of Lincoln, and died at Newark, on a journey, in August, 1683. His
rich and indolent life would naturally hold out few inducements for
literary labour.

[145] Mr. George Vernon, according to Wood (Athen. Oxon. iv. 606),
was made Chaplain of All Souls' College, afterwards Rector of
Sarsden, near Churchill, in Oxfordshire, of Bourton-on-the-Water, in
Gloucestershire, and of St. John and St. Michael, in the city of
Gloucester. Wood enumerates several works by him, so that he was
evidently more of a "literary man" than Barnard, who enjoyed
"learned ease" to a great degree, and was evidently only to be
aroused by something flagi