was in election to be member for the town of Cambridge, as he engaged all his friends and in-“ terefts to oppofe it; fo when it was carried but by one vote, he cried out with much paffion, that, that fingle vote had ruined church and kingdom *, fuch fatal events did he prefage from the fuccefs of Oliver. - Mr. Cleveland was no fooner forced from the College, by the prevalence of the Parliament's intereft, but he betook himself to the camp, and particularly to Oxford the head quar-· ters of it, as the most proper fphere for his wit, learning and loyalty. Here he began a paper war with the oppofite party, and wrote fome fmart fatires against the Rebels, especially the Scots. His poem called the Mixt Affembly; his character of a London Diurnal, and a Committee-man, are thought to contain the true fpirit of fatire, and a juft reprefentation of the general confufion of the times. From Oxford he went to the garrifon of Newark, where he acted as judge advocate till that garrifon was furrendered, and by an : excellent temperature, of both, fays Winstanley, he was a juft and prudent judge for the King, and a faithful advocate for the Country. Here he drew up a bantering anfwer and rejoinder to a Parliament officer, who had written to him on account of one Hill, that had deferted their fide, and carried off with him to Newark, the fum of 1331. and 8d. We fhall give part of: Mr. Cleveland's anfwer to the officer's first letter, by which an citimate may be formed of the rest. ! SIXTHLY BELOVED! "It is fo, that our brother and fellow-la"bourer in the gofpel, is ftart afide; then this "may ferve for an ufe of inftruction, not.. to trust in man, or in the son of man. Did 10 * Winft. Lives of the Peets "not "not Demás leave Paul? Did not Onefimus run "from his mafter Philemon? Alfo this fhould' "teach us to employ our talents, and not to lay "them up in a napkin; had it been done among "the cavaliers, it had been juft, then the Ifraelite "had spoiled the Egyptian; but for Simeon to "plunder Levi, that that, &c. The garrifon of Newark defended themselves with much courage and refolution against the befiegers, and did not furrender but by the King's fpecial command, after he had thrown himself into the hands of the Scots; which action of his Majefty's Cleveland paffionately refented, in his poem called, the King's Difguife: Upon fome private intelligence, three days before the King reached them, he forefaw, that the army would be bribed to furrender him, in which he was not mistaken. As foon as this event took place, Cleveland, who warmly adhered to the regal party, was obliged to atone for his loyalty by languishing in a jail, at Yarmouth, where he remained for fome time under all the difadvantages of poverty, and wretchedness : At laft being quite fpent with the feverity of his confinement, he addreffed Oliver Cromwell in a petition for liberty, in fuch pathetic and moving terms, that his heart was melted with the prifoner's expoftulation, and he ordered him to be fet at liberty. In this addrefs, our author did not in the leaft violate his loyalty, for he made no conceffions to Oliver, but only a reprefen.ation of the hardships he fuffered, without acknowledging his fovereignty, tho' not without flattering his power. Having thus obtained his liberty, he fettled himself in Gray's-Inn, and as he owed his releafement to the Protector, he thought it his duty to be paffive, and not at leaft to act against him: But Cleveland did not long enjoy his state of unenvied eafe, for he was feized with an intermitting fever, and died the 29th of April, 1685. On On the first of May he was buried, and his dear friend Dr. John Pearfon, afterwards lord bishop of Chester, preached his funeral fermon, and gave this reafon, why he declined commending the deceased, " becaufe fuch praifing of him "would not be adequate to the expectation of "the audience, feeing fome who knew him "muft think it far below him."-There were many who attempted to write elegies upon him, and feveral performances of this kind, in Latin and English, are prefixed to the edition of: Cleveland's works, in verfe and profe, printed in Svo, in 1677, with his effigies prefixed. From the verses of his called Smectymnuus, we fhall give the following fpecimen, in which the reader will fee he did not much excel in numbers. Smectymnuus the goblin makes me ftart, The Saints monopoly, the zealous cluster, The following lines from the author's celebrated fatire, entitled, the Rebel-Scot, will yet more amply fhew his turn for this fpecies of poetry.. Nature herfelf doth Scotchmen beafts confefs, <i Making their country fuch a wilderness; "A land that brings in question and fufpence "God's omniprefence; but that CHARLES came thence; Winft. Lives of the Peets. But - "But that MONTROSE and CRAWFORD's loyal band "Aton'd their fin, and chriften'd half their land."A land where one may pray with curst intent, 66 O may they never fuffer banishment ! "Had Cain been Scot, God would have chang'd his doom, "Not forc'd him wander, but confin'd him home. "Lord! what a goodly thing is want of shirts! "How a Scotch ftomach and no meat converts! "They wanted food and rayment, so they took Religion for their fempftrefs and their cook."Hence then you proud impoftors get you gone, "You Picts in gentry and devotion. "You fcandal to the ftock of verfe, a race "Able to bring the gibbet in difgrace. "The Indian that heaven did forfwear, "Because he heard fome Spaniards were there, "Had he but known what Scots in Hell had been, "He would, Erafmus-like, have hung between." It is probable that this bitterness against our brethren of North-Britain, chiefly fprang from Mr. Cleveland's refentment of the Scots Army delivering up the Kiug to the Parliament. Dr. BARTEN HOLYDAY, ... SON ON of Thomas Holyday, a taylor, was born at All Saints parish, within the city of Oxford, about the latter end of Queen Elizabeth's reign; he was entered early into Chrift Church, in the time of Dr. Ravis, his relation and patron, by whom whom he was chofen ftudent, and having taken his degrees of batchelor and mafter of arts, he became archdeacon of Oxfordfhire. In 1615, he entered into holy orders *, and was in a fhort time taken notice of as an eloquent or rather popular preacher, by which he had two benefices confered on him both in the diocese of Oxford. In the year 1618 he went as chaplain to Sir Francis Stewart, when he accompanied to Spain the Count Gundamore, after he had continued feveral Years at our court as embaffador, in which journey Holyday behaved in a facetious and pleafant manner, which ingratiated him in the favour of Gundamore ||. Afterwards our author became chaplain to King Charles I. and fucceeded Dr. Bridges in the archdeaconry of Oxon, before the year 1626. In 1642 he was by virtue of the letters of the faid King, created, with feveral others, Dr. of divinity. When the rebellion broke out, he fheltered himfelf near Oxford; but when he faw the royal party decline fo much that their caufe was defperate, he began to tamper with the prevailing power; and upon Oliver Cromwell's being raifed to the Protectorship, he fo far coincided with the Ufurper's interefts, as to undergo the examination of the Friers, in order to be inducted into the rectory of Shilton in Berks, in the place of one Thomas Lawrence, ejected on account of his being non compos mentis. For which act he was much blamed and cenfured by his ancient friends. the clergy, who adhered to the King, and who rather chofe to live in poverty during the ufurpation, than by a mean compliance with the times, betray the intereft of the church, and the caufe of their exiled fovereign. * Athen. Oxon. 259. Ed. 1721. || Wood ubi fupra. After |