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Hand a ehquent'us juvenem. 1'he compliment was asjuft as it is elegant.

Dr. Aldrich was born in Buckinghamlhire, aboutthe year 1493, and educated at Eton ; front whence,in 1507, he was eledted a Scholar of this College,where he took his degrees of Arts, and was after-wards Proctor of the Univerfity. In 1525, he wasappointed Maher of Eton , loon afterwards Fellowof that College, and finally Provoft. Mr. Aldrich,in 1529, went to Oxford, where being firit incor-porated Batchelor of Divinity, in the following yearhe proceeded Dodtor in that faculty. In i?3f, hewas made Archdeacon of Colchefter; in 1534,Canon of Windfor; and in the fame year, Registrarof tiie Order of the Garter . He was cortfecratedBilhop of Carlifle in 1537, anc l died Horn-caftle*, in Liucolnfhire, in 1556. He held hisbifhopric, fays Wood, to the time of his death; and“ though there were many changes in the church“ and hate, he ran through them all, and fo con-“ fequently complied with all.”

The mere circumltance of the Bifhop’s continuingunmolfcfted ih thefe fucceffive reigns, may feem to■authorize Wood’s conclufion, viz. “ That he com-plied with the mulifh religion of Henry, the refor-mation of Edward, and the popery of Mary.”—It

'* Which was formerly the epifcopal palace and refidence♦f the Bifhops of Carlide,.