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ject, after more mature consideration, thought that there was'no solid objection
to a compliance with the bishop's request: but, on Lord Bath's applying for
Newton, Bishop of Bristol, to succeed him, the ministers interposed, and, at a
third audience, the king told him, that he must think no more of resigning. In
J 768, however, he obtained leave to resign the deanery; but retained his bishop-
ric till June, 1774, on the 24th day of which month, he closed his distinguished
and venerable life.

He was interred in Westminster Abbey, and his monument displays the fol-
lowing record of him :

M. S.

Viri adraodum reverendi
Zachakije Pearce, S. T. P.
Episcopi Roffensis, hujusque Ecclesiae Collegiatse,
Nec non Honoratissirai Ordinis de Balneo,
Decani.

Pueritia in scbola Westmonasteriensi bene acta,
Uberiorem scientia? fructum
Apud Canlabrigienses collegit.
Quantus inde et criticus prodiit et theologus
Testantur scripta istius jamd.udum edita,

Testabuntur et mox edenda.
Secessus tandem, ac otii impense cupidus;
Quo Sacris Literis elucidandis vacaret,

Decanatum bunc abdicavit;
Episcopatum, insuper, modd licuisset
Abdicaturus.
Absoluto, demum, quod praecipue in votis erat,
In Sacrosancta Evangelia et Acta Apostolorum
Limatissimo Commentario,
A Iaboiibu#.requievit,
xxix Junij, A. D. M.DCC.LXXIV. jEtat. LXXXIV.