Atterbury, Lewis, eldest son of the preceding, was born at Caldecot, in Bucks, on the 2d of Ma}', 1056. He was educated at Westminster School under Dr. Busby, and at Christ Church, Oxford. He was or- dained deacon in September, 1670. In 1683 he served as chaplain to Sir William Pritchard, lord-mayor of London. In February, 1684, he was instituted rector of Symel, in Northamptonshire. In 1691 we find him lecturer of St. Mary Hill, in London. Soon after his marriage he settled at Highgate, where he supplied the pulpit of the reverend Mr. Daniel Lathom, on whose death, in June, 1695, he became pastor of the chapel. He had a little before been appointed one of the six preaching chaplains to the princess Anne of Denmark at Whitehall and St. James's, which place he contin- ued to supply after she came to the crown, and like- wise during part of the reign of George I. To help the poor of his parish, he studied physic ; and after acquiring considerable skill, practiced gratis anions his poor neighbors. In 1707 the queen presented him to the rectory of Shepperton, in Middlesex, and in March, 1719, the bishop of London collated him to the rectory of lionise}-. In 1720, on a report of the death of Dr. Sprat, archdeacon of Rochester, he applied to his 1 rother to succeed him. The bishop giving his brother Bome reasons why he thought it improper to make him his archdeacon, the doctor replied, "Your lordship very well knows that Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury, had a brother for his archdeacon, and that Sir Thomas More's father was a puisne judge when lio was lord chancellor. And thus, in the sa- cred history, did God himself appoint that the safety and advancement of the patriarchs should be procured by their younger brother, and that they, with their father, should live under the protection and govern- ment of Joseph." In answer to this, the bishop in- form- bis brother that the archdeacon was not dead, hut well, anil likely to continue so. He died, how- ever, soon after; and on the 20th of May, 1720, the bishop collated Dr. Brydges, the duke of Chandos's brother, to the archdeaconry, after writing thus in tie- morning to the doctor: •• I hope you are convinced, by what I have said and written, that nothing could have been more improper than the placing you in that post Immediately under myself. Could [have been easy under that thought, you may he sure no man liv-
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ing should have had the preference to yon." To this the doctor answered: " . . . . There is some show of reason, I think, for the non-acceptance, but none for the not giving it. And since your lordship was pleased to signify to me that I should overrule you in this mat- ter, I confess it was some disappointment to me. . . . I hope I shall he content with that meaner post in which I am ; my time at longest being but short in this world, and my health not suffering me to make those necessary applications others do, nor do I un- derstand the language of the present times; for I find I begin to grow an old-fashioned gentleman, and am ignorant of the weight and value of words, which in our times rise and fall like, stock." This correspond- ence is creditable to the bishop, at least.
Dr. Atterbury died at Bath, October 20. 1731. He published Twelve Sermons (London, 1720, 8vo) : — Ten Sermons (Lond. 1699, 8vo) : — Select Senium?, edited by Yardley, with a life of Dr. Atterbury (2 vols. 8vo, 1745): — Letters on the Council of Trent; and several translations from the French. In his will he gave some few books to the libraries at Bedford and New- port, and his whole collection of pamphlets, amount- ing to upward of two hundred volumes, to the libra- ry of Christ Church, Oxford. He charged his es- tate forever with the payment of ten pounds yearly to a schoolmistress to instruct girls at Newport-Pag- nel, which salary he had himself in his lifetime paid for many years. He remembered some of his friends, and left a respectful legacy of one hundred pounds to his "dear brother, in token of his true esteem and affection," as the words of the will are, and made the bishop's son Osborn (after his granddaughter, who did not long survive him) heir to all his fortune. — New Gen. Biog. Diclionaiy, i, 377 ; Biographica Brltannica, vol. i.
Attersoll, William, a clergyman of the Church of England, rector of East Hoadley, was ejected for non-conformity in 1662, and was subsequently minis- ter at Isfield, Sussex. His writings include A Com- mentary on the Epistle to Philemon (London, 1612 and 1633, fol.) : — A Commentary on the History of Balaam and Balac (Ito) : — A Commenlarie vpon the Fourth Book of Moses, called Numbers (London, 1618; and in Dutch, at Amsterdam-, in 1667) :—The Trumpet of God (London) : — De Saerameniis (4 to) : — Catechismus. The work on the sacraments was printed in English in 1614, under the title The New Covenant. He also wrote Three Treatises, on Luke xii, 1 ; xiii, 1 ; Jonah iii, 4. — Landon, Ecclesiastical Dictionary, i, 610 ; Allibone, Dictionary of Authors, i, 81.