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in repairing the buildings in the see of Winchester, be- queathed a considerable sum to St, Paul's, London, and left £1000 to purchase lands for the support of small vic- arages. The bishop also bore a high reputation for the- ological learning before the civil wars, as well as after the establishment of the episcopacy, and was acknowl- edged as well versed in the logic of the schools, and as a iorraidablc controversialist. lie wrote A Sermon at the Coronation of Charles II, April 23, 16G1. In the dedication to the king, by whose command it was pub- lished, lie says that he was now past his great climac- teric, and this was the first time that ever he appeared ill print: — Vindication of himself from Mr. Baxter s Calumny, etc. (1GG2) : — Kpistula apolof/etica et par(r:ne- tica ad theolotjiim quendam Bvlijam scripta (1GG3, 4to; written at Breda, June, 1G59; reprinted in 1G83, under this title, Epistola, etc., in qua af/itur de seven. re;fis Car. II err/a reformatam reliffionem affectu). In this letter he attempts to clear Charles II from the imputa- tion of ])opery, and urges the Dutch to lend their ut- most assistance towards his restoration; but he was mistaken in his master's religion, and perhaps lived long enough to know it : — The Sum of a Conference with iJarcey, a Jesuit, at Brussels (1649): — An Argunmit draiunfrom the Evidence and Certainty of Sense against the Doctrine of Transubslantiaiion : — Vindication of the A ryumenf, etc. : — A itswer to Father Cressy's Letter, writ- ten about 1662 : — Sermon before the King, Nov. 5, 1G67 : — Answer to a Letter written by a Romish Priest (1676) : — Letter to Anne, duchess of York (1G70), Tliis lady, the daughter of Sir Edward Hyde, was instructed in the Protestant religion by our subject while he lived at Antwerp, but she afterwards forsaking the faith of her family. Dr. Morley wrote this defence of Protestantism : — Ad Virum Janum Ulilium Epistola; duce de Invoca- tione Sanctorum (1G59). ^\11 tlie above pieces, except the first and second, were printed together in 1683, 4to: — A Letter to the Earl of Anglesey concerning the Means to keep out Popery, etc., printed at the end of .1 true Account of the whole Proceedings betwixt James, duke of Ormond, and Arthur, earl of Anglesey (1683): — Vindi- cation of himself from Mr, Baxter's injurious Rejlections, etc. (1683): — he made also An Epitaph for James I (1625), which was printed at the end of Spottiswood's History of the Church of Scotland, and is said to have been the author of ,4 Character of King Charles II (1660, in one sheet 4to). In his polemics against Ko- manism bishop Morley discusses only three important points. The treatment of these indicates deep learning and great skill, lie plies with much success the argu- ment against transubstantiation, " drawn from the evi- dence and certainty of sense," maintaining his convinc- ing argument witli the dexterity of a practiced logician, so as to parry most successfidly all the objections of Ko- man Catliolic antagonists. He decidedly opposes the popish doctrine of purgatory ; but he vindicates prayers for the dead in the way in which tliey were offered in the early Church, and as by modern Anglicans they are still encouraged to be offered; that is, for the rest of the soul, tlic resurrection of the body, and the plenitude of redemption at the last daj'. Whatever may be the propriety of praying for the dead in such a "qualified sense as this, Morley contends there is no ground on which to rest the doctrine of the invocation of saints. That doctrine he overthrows by an appeal to Scripture ; and then he proceeds, after tlie Anglican method, to examine the writings of the fathers, and to sliow that they do not justify the popish dogma and its associated practices. Tlie l)ishop enjoyed the association of some of the most distinguished literati of his day. He was an intimate friend of Falkland, and mixed much with Ben Jonson anil Edmund Waller. Ho was strict and exem[ilary in his life, though much given to witticisms, and surrounded by a host of gay courtiers and literati ; and was acknowledged by all as truly abstemious aiul } laborious in his habits. See Chambem's Magazine, viii, ' 69 ; Stoughton, Eccks. Hist, of England {Church of the I
Restoration) (see Index in vol. ii) ; Perry, Eccles. Tlist. vol. ii (see Index in voLiii); Wood, Athence Oxon.; Neal, Hist. Puritans (Harper's ed.), ii, 230; Burnet, Hist, of his own Times, i, 590 ; Salmon, Lives of the English Bishops, p. 346. (J. II. W.)
Morley, Thomas, one of the most distinguished of EnglaiKl's early composers of sacred and profane mu- sic, and author of the first regular English treatise on the art of music, was born probaljly alxnit the middle of the 16th century, but the exact time is not determined. All that is known of this eminent professor is gathered from Wood, who, in his A theme Oxoniensis, tells us that he was a disciple of Birde, to whom he dedicated his book in very reverential and affectionate terms; that he obtained a bachelor's degree in 1588, and was sworn into his place as gentleman of the royal chapel in 1592. He died. Dr. Burney supposes, in or near the year 1604. Morley produced many compositions that are still well known, among which are canzonets of different kinds, particularly for two voices, madrigals for five voices, and services and anthems, including the fine Funeral Service published in Dr. Boyce's collection, the first that was set to the words of the Anglican Reformed Liturgy. See E7tgl. Cyclop, s. v. ; Burney, Hist, of Music.