E. BUNNEY-E. PAGET. 253 that' church, and the rectory of Bolton-Percy,near the city of York. After holding the rectory twenty-fiveyears, he resigned the living, when he was made sub-dean of York. He died at Cawood in that county, February 26, 1617, aged fifty-seven years. His remains were interred in the south aisle joining to the choir of the cathedral, of York; and over his grave is his effigy carved in stone and fixed in the wall, with a monumental inscription to his memory, of which the following is a translation : EDMUND BUNNEY, born of the ancient and noble family of the Bunneys, was Bachelor of Divinity, and once Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, Pastor of the parish of Bolton-Percy, a very worthy Prebendary of St. Paul's, London ;, of St. Peter's, York ; and St. Mary's, Carlisle. He spenta great part of his time in going about from place to place in preaching, leaving, for the love he had to Christ, the patrimony bequeathed him by his father, to his brother Richard. He died February26, in the year 1617. His WORKS.-1. The Summ of the Christian Religion, 1576.- 2: AnAbridgment of JohnCalvin's Institutions,1580.-3. ATreatise of Purification, 1584.-4. The Coronation of King David, 1588.-5. A necessary Admonition out of the Prophet Joel, concerning the hand of God that late was upon us, and is not clean taken offas yet, 1588. -6. A brief Answer to those idle and frivolous Quarrels of R. P. (Robert Parsons) against the late edition of the Resolution, 1589.- 7. Divorce for Adultery, and Marrying again,that there is no sufficient Warrant so to do, 1610.-8. The CornerbStone ; or, a form ofTeaching Jesus Christ out of the Scriptures, 1611. EUSEBIUS PAGET.---TMS excellent divine was born at Cranford in Northamptonshire, about the year 1542, and educated in Christ's Church, Oxford. He went to the university at twelve years of age, and became an excellent logician and philosopher. During his abode at Oxford, he broke his right arm, and was lame of it ever after. Removing from the university, he became vicar of Oundle, and rector of Langton,* in his native county, but was exceedingly harassed on account of his nonconformity. I' Bridges's Hist. of Northamptionshire, vol. I. p.. 166.
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