CHARLES  TALBOT,  firft  earl,  and  afterwards  duke  of  Shrewf-
lury,  a  full-length,  in  robes  of  the  garter,  with  a  white  rod,  as
lord  treafurer,  in  1714,  delivered  to  him  by  the  queen,  with  her
dying  hand.  A  nobleman  of  fine  abilities,  and  fine  addrefs,  wa-
vering and  unfettled :  a  flrong  revolutionift  j  yet,  in  a  little  time,
feduced  into  a  plan  of  dethroning  the  very  prince  whom  he  had
invited  over.  He  died  neglected  by  all  parties;  permanent  only
in  the  proteftant  religion,  to  which  he  was  an  early  convert  by  the
arguments  of  our  great  Tillotfon.  He  died  in  February  1718,
giving,  almoft  with  his  laft  breath,  aflurance  of  his  adherence  to
the  church  of  England.
THE  duke  of  Monmouth,  in  a  long  black  wig,  drefled,  if  I
remember  right,  like  the  former,

THE  munificent  Sheldon,  archbifhop  of  Canterbury,  is  repre-
fented  here,  fitting.  He  did  honor  to  his  promotion  by  his  pa-
tron Charles  II.  whom  he  attended  in  his  exile.  He  was  equally
confpicuous  for  his  charity  and  his  piety.  He  expended  above
fixty-fix  thoufand  pounds  in  public  and  private  benefactions,  in
relieving  the  miferable  diftrefTed  in  the  time  of  the  peflilence,  and
in  redeeming  Chriftian  flaves.  His  theatre  at  Oxford  is  a  magnifi-

*

*  Mr.  Walpole1*  Anecdotes >  ii.  25.
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cent  proof  of  his  refpect  to  the  univerfity  in  which  he  had  moft
honorably  prefided,  as  warden  of  the  College  of  All  Souls.
