Apanthismata.  
MEMORIALS OF Worthy PERSONS Lights and Ornaments OF THE Church of England.  
Two new Decades.  Neque omnia, neque nihil. 
OXFORD, Printed by A. and L. Lichfield, and are to be sold by S. Thomson at the Bishops-head in St. Paul's Churchyard. 1664.   

Nobilissimo Adolescenti, D. EDVARDO HYDE, Ex Aede Ch.  
Illustrissimi Viri EDVARDI Comitis de CLARENDON, Regni ANGLIAE & Acad. OXONIENSIS CANCELLARII Honoratissimi, Filio non degeneri: C. B. Ejusdem Cancellarii benignitate Rector de Naunton in Agro Gloc. Libellum suum, Animi non immemoris indicem, Humillime D. D.  

Magni propago Seminis, Collegii  
Henriciani, Matris ac almae decus,  
A Matre posses sumere exemplum Tibi,  
Nisi esset instar omnium Clarus Pater.  
Haec nostra non erunt inutilia tamen:  
Sunt ista fortiora quae plures docent.    

The Persons.  

1. K. Edward 6.  
2. La. Jane Grey.  
3. Sir John Cheek.  
4. Arch B. Whitgift.  
5. Mr. Rich. Hooker.  
6. Bishop Andrews.  
7. Bishop Brounrig.  
8. Mr. Tho. Gataker.  
9 Dr. H. Hammond.  
10. Bishop Smith.    

Ad Librum.  
Vade, Liber, pede felici: Lectoribus esto Delicium, tantis auree Nominibus   

To the Ingenuous Readers.  
GENTLEMEN,  
THe Persons here presented, are worthy, certainly, of an honourable Remembrance: the particulars collected are such as, to me, seemed most remarkable. More you may find, if you desire, in the Authors to whom I refer you: For I would be taken only for a faithful Collector. The benefit to be received hence (which I do principally aim at) is, that you may worthily esteem of our Church, adorned with such excellent examples; and that, by your imitation of these, yourselves may deserve to be, hereafter, added to the Catalogue.  
Your affectionate Servant, C. B. Oxon. Apr. 23. Die Coron. R. Car. 2. 1662.   


EDOVARD VI.    

MEMORIALS. I. K. EDWARD VI.  
Out of Dr heylyn's History of the Reformation, etc.  
1. EDward, the only surviving Son of K. Henry VIII. was born at the Royal Palace of Hampton Court, Oct. 12. 1537. of Q. Jane Seymour the next wife to K. Henry after Anne Bollen. Some Ladies who had seen the Pictures of both Queens at Whitehal Gallery, have entertained no small dispute to which of the two they were to give preeminence in point of beauty; each of them having such a plentiful measure of perfections, as to entitle either of them to a superiority. If Q. Anne seemed to have the more lively countenance, Q. Jane was thought to carry it in the exact symmetry, which shown itself in all her features. Love which seemed to threaten in the eyes of Q. Jane, did only seem to sport itself in the eyes of Q. Anne. There was more Majesty in the garb of Q. Jane Seymour, and more lovelines in that of Q. Anne Bo●en: yet so, that the Majesty of the one did excel in loveliness, and that the loveliness of the other did excel in Majesty. In a word, Q. Jane had in her all the Graces of Q. Anne, but governed with an evener and more constant temper.  
2. It hath been commonly reported and no less generally believed, that the child being come unto the birth, and there wanting natural strength to be delivered, his Mother's belly was ripped open to give him a passage into the world. But there are extant two several letters to evince the contrary. Though questionless, she had a very hard labour, which brought her first into a very high distemper, and after into a very great looseness, which accelerated the approach of death, to the General lamentation, Novemb. 12.  
Her Epitaph.  
Phoenix Jana jacet, nato Phoenicia. Dolendum est, Secula Phoenices nulla tulisse duas.  
3. The Prince having attained unto the age of six years was taken out of the hands of his women, and committed to the Tuition of Mr John Cheek (whom he afterwards Knighted, and advanced him to the Provost-ship of Kings Coll. in Cambridge) and Dr Richard Cox (whom afterwards he preferred to the Deanery of Westminster, and made chief Almoner.) These two being in Authority, employed themselves to his advantage in their several kinds; Dr Cox, for knowledge of Divinity, Philosophy and Gravity of Manners; Mr Cheek for Eloquence in the Greek and Latin Tongues. Besides which two, he had some others to instruct him in the modern languages, and thrived so well amongst them all, that in short time he perfectly spoke the French tongue, and was able to express himself significantly enough in the Italian, Greek and Spanish. And as for the Latin, how early a Proficient he was therein (with reference to the times wherein he lived) is yet to be seen in some Latin ●pistles of his written to the King and others, before he was eight years old.  
4. For a Companion at his book, or rather for aproxy to bear the punishment of such errors as either through negligence or inadvertency were committed by him, he had one Barnaby Fitzpatrick. He had a very easy substitution of it. And, if it sometimes happened, as it seldom did, that the servant suffered punishment for his Master's errors; it is not easy to affirm, whether Fitzpatrick smarted more for the fault of the Prince, or the Prince conceived more grief for the smart of Fitz-patrick. Certain it is, that the Prince entertained such a real estimation of him, that when he came unto the Crown, he acquainted him by letters with the sufferings of the Duke of Somerset, instructed and maintained him for his travels in France, endowed him with fair lands in Ireland, his native Country; and finally made him Baron of upper Ossory: which honourable Title he enjoyed till the time of his death, in the later end of Q. Elizabeth's reign; at which time he died a zealous and Religious Protestant.  
5. One thing I must not pretermit to show the extraordinary piety of this hopeful Prince in the days of his childhood; when, being about to take down somewhat, which seemed to be above his reach, one of his servants proffered him a bossed plated Bible, to stand upon and heighten him: Which, when he perceived to be a Bible, with holy Indignation he refused to do; but took it, and kissed it, and laid it in its place, sharply reprehending him that made the offer. A strong assurance of that dear esteem and veneration, in which he held that Sacred book in his riper years.  
6. Having attained the Age of nine, there were great preparations made for his solemn Investiture in the principality of Wales: But scarce were the provisions ready, but the King's sickness brought a stop, and His death shortly after put an end to those preparations; the expectation of a Principality, being thereby changed to the possession of a Crown.  
7. It cannot be denied, but that King Henry left the Church, in many respects, in a better condition than he found it; not only in order to the Reformation of Religion, which none but such a masculine Prince durst have undertaken, but also in the policy and endowments of it. The Monasteries and Religious Houses might possibly be looked upon no otherwise, then as so many excrescences upon the body of the Church: but, Bishoprics being more essential to the Constitution of the same, he did not only preserve, as before he found them, but increase their number. Six of the wealthier Monasteries he turned into Episcopal Sees, i. e. the Abbeys of Westminster, peterborough, Bristol, Gloucester and Chester, with that of Ousney, for the See of the Bishop of Oxon; assigning to every new Episcopal See its Dean and Chapter, and unto every such Cathedral, a competent number of Quire-men and other officers, all of them liberally endowed and provided for. And that the Church might be continually furnished with sufficient Seminaries; he founded a Grammar School in every one of his Cathedrals, either old or new, with Annual Pensions to the Master and some allowance to be made to the Children yearly; and ordained also, that in each of the two Universities there should be public Readers, in the faculties of Divinity, Law and Physic, and in the Greek and Hebrew Tongues: all which he pensioned, and endowed with liberal Salaries, as the times than were. Besides which public benefactions, he confirmed Cardinal Wolsey's College in Oxon, by the name of King's College first, and of Christ-Church afterwards; and erected that most beautiful pile of Trinity College in Cambridge: Those being the two fairest, and most magnificent Foundations in the Christian World. And as for the polity of the Church, he settled it in such a manner, that Archbishops and Bishops might be chosen, consecrated, and all the Subjects relieved in their Suits and Grievances, without having such recourse to the Court of Rome, as formerly had drained the Realm of so much Treasure.  
8. The Earl of Hartford (after, Duke of Somerset) the young King's Uncle, is chosen Governor of his Person, and Protector of his Kingdoms, till he should come to the Age of eighteen years. The Protector and other Grandees of the Court presently entertain some thoughts of a Reformation. In which they found Archbishop Cranmer, and some other Bishops to be as forward as themselves: but, on different ends: endeavoured by the Bishops, in a pious zeal for rectifying such things as were amiss in God's public Worship▪ but by the Courtiers, on an hope to enrich themselves by the spoil of the Bishoprics.  
9 Commissioners are sent forth into all parts of the Kingdom, armed with Instructions to inquire into all Ecclesiastical Concernments, in the manner of a Visitation; directed by the King, as Supreme Head on Earth of the Church of England. Which Commissioners, being directed into several Circuits, were accompanied with certain learned and godly Preachers, appointed to instruct the people, and to facilitate the work of the Commissioners in all Towns and Places, where they sat. And, that the people might not cool or fall off again, in, and from that which had been taught them by the learned Preachers, they were to leave some Homilies to the same effect with the Parish-Priests: which the Archbishop had composed; not only for the help of unpreaching Ministers, but for the regulating and instructing even of learned Preachers. The Preachers were more particularly instructed to persuade the people from praying to Saints, from Adoring of Images, from praying in unknown Language, and some other like things whereunto long Custom had brought a Religious Observation. All which was done to this intent; That the people in all places being prepared by little and little, might with more ease and less opposition admit the total Alteration in the face of the Church, which was intended in due time to be introduced. Among the Injunctions sent with the Commissioners were these following. viz. That the laws for abolishing the Pope's usurped Power be observed: That the people be exhorted to works of Faith, Mercy and Charity: That Images be taken down: That the Bible in English, and Erasmus Paraphrase be placed in the Church: That Ecclesiastical persons ptomoted give exhibitions to poor Scholars in the Universities: That no Ecclesiastical person haunt Alehouses. That none preach without licence: That no Curate admit to the Communion such who are in malice with their Neighbours: That the Holy Day be wholly given to God, except in times of harvest: That Tithes be not detained: That Priests be not abused, etc.  
10. The famous Preacher at Court was Father Latimer: who drew such multitudes of people after him to hear his Sermons; that being to preach before the King on the first Friday in Lent, it was thought necessary, that the Pulpit should be placed in the King's Privy-garden, where he might be heard of more than four times as many Auditors, as could have thronged into the Chapel. In which place was erected afterwards a fixed and standing Pulpit for the like occasions: especially for Lent-Sermons on Sundays in the Afternoon: and hath so continued ever since, ti●l these later times.  
11. In the second of his reign, An. 1548. his Majesty declared by Proclamation Septemb. 23. That for the settling of an Uniformity and Order throughout his Realm; and for putting an end to all Controversies in Religion, He had caused certain Godly Bishops and other notable learned men to be Congregated, or called together. And thereupon doth infer: That, notwithstanding many of the Preachers, formerly licenced, had behaved themselves very discreetly and wisely, to the Honour of God and the contentation of his Highness: Yet till such time, as the said Order should be generally set forth throughout the Realm. His Majesty did thereby inhibit all manner of Persons, whatever they be, to preach in open Audience, in the Pulpit or otherwise, by any sought colour or fraud, to the disobeying of his Commandment. And this he did to the intent; That the Whole Clergy in the mean space might apply themselves to prayer to Almighty God for the better achieving of this same Godly intent and purpose; Not doubting but that all his loving Subjects in the mean time would occupy themselves to God's honour, with due prayer in the Church, and patiented hearing of the Godly Homilies: and so endeavour themselves, that they may be the more ready, with thankful Obedience to receive a most quiet, godly and uniform Order throughout all his Realms and Dominions.  
12. Here it is to be observed, That those who had the chief directing of this weighty business▪ were before hand resolved, that none but English heads or hands should be used therein: le●t otherwise it might be thought, and perhaps objected, That they rather followed the example of some other Churches, or were swayed by the Authority of those foreign Assistants, then by the Word of God, and the most uncorrupted practice of the Primitive Times. And though it was thought necessary, for the better seasoning of the Universities in the Protestant Reform Religion, that Martin Bucer and Peter Martyr, two eminent Divines of the foreign Churches, should be invited to come over: yet we find neither of them here, till the end of November (1548) when the Liturgy had been approved of by the King and Council, if it had not also passed the Approbation of both Houses of Parliament.  
13. The Book being finished and subscribed, it w●s with all due reverence humbly presented to the ●ing: by whom it was received to his great Comfort and Quietness of mind, as the Statute telleth us: and being by him commended to the Lords and Commons then assembled in Parliament. They did not only give his Highness' most hearty and lowly Thanks, for his Care therein; but, on perusal thereof, declared it to be done by the aid of the Holy Ghost: and thereupon it was enacted, That all Ministers in the King's Dominions should say Common and open prayer in such order and form, as is mentioned in the same Book, and no otherwise.  
14. The reign of this Young King was indeed remarkable for the progress of the Reformation, but otherwise tumultuous in itself, and defamed by Sacrilege, and so distracted into sides and factions, that in the end the King himself became a prey to the strongest party.  
15. The Physicians that attended him on his death bed whispered: That neither their Advice nor Applications had been at all regarded in the course of his sickness: That the King had been ill dealt with, more than once or twice: and, That, when by the benefit both of his Youth and careful means, there were some fair hopes of his Recovery, he was again more strongly overlaid than ever. It is affirmed by a Writer of the Popish party, (who could have no great cause to pity such a calamitous end) that the Apothecary who poisoned him, for the horror of the offence, and the disquietness of his Conscience, did, not long after, drown himself.  
16. In his dying prayer (as it was taken from his Mouth) we have those pious words: Lord God, deliver me out of this miserable and wretched life, and take me among thy Chosen. Howbeit not my will, but thine be done. Lord, Bless my people, and save thine inheritance. Defend this Realm from Papistry, and maintain thy true Religion.  
Ob. 6. Jul. An, D. 1553. Aet. 16.   


Nata 1537. cc Regina Declaritur Guildfordice Dudley 1553 Iul: 10. Conjugata Capite Plectitur 1553. Maij. 1553/4. Feb: 12.   
Printed for Richd. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church yard.   

II. The Lady JANE GREY.  
Out of Dr Heylins' History of the Reformation.  
1. SHe was eldest Daughter of Henry L. Grey, Duke of Suffolk. Her Mother was the Lady Francis, daughter, and in fine one of the coheires of Charles Brandon, the late Duke of Suffolk, by Marie his wife, Queen Dowager to Lewis 12. of France, and youngest Daughter of K. Henry VII. She seemed to have been born with those Attractions, which seat a Sovereignty in the face of most beautiful persons: yet was her Mind endued with more excellent Charms, than the Attractions of her Face: Modest and Mild of Disposition, Courteous of Carriage, and of such Affable Deportment, as might entitle her to the name of Queen of Hearts, before she was designed for Queen over any Subjects.  
2. These her Native and obliging Graces, were accompanied with some more profitable ones, of her own acquiring: which set an higher value on them, and much increased the same, both in Worth and Lustre. Having attained unto that Age, in which other young Ladies used to apply themselves to the sports and exercises of their Sex, She wholly gave her Mind to good Arts and Sciences; much furthered in that pursuit by the loving Care of Mr Elmer: under whose charge she came to such a large proficiency, that she spoke the Latin and Greek Tongues, with as sweet a fluency, as if they had been natural and native to her: exactly skilled in the liberal Sciences, and perfectly well studied in both kinds of Philosophy.  
3. Take here a story out of Mr Ascham's Schoolm. p. 11. in his own words: One example, Whether love or fear doth work more in a child, for virtue and learning, I will gladly report: which may be heard with some pleasure, and followed with more profit. Before I went into Germany, I came to Brodegate in Leicestershire, to take my leave of that noble Lady Jane Grey, to whom I was exceeding much beholding. Her Parents the Duke and the Duchess, with all the Household, Gentlemen and Gentlewomen, were hunting in the Park: I found her in her Chamber, reading Phoedon Platonis in Greek, and that with as much delight, as some Gentlemen would read a merry tale in Bocace. After salutation, and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her, why she would lose such pastime in the Park: Smiling she answered me; I wiss, all their sport in the Park, is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato: Alas, good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant. And how came You, Madam, quoth I, to this deep knowledge of pleasure, and what did chief allure You unto it, seeing not many women, but very few men have attained thereunto. I will tell you, saith she, and tell you a troth, which perchance ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe Parents, and so gentle a Schoolmaster. For, when I am in presence either of Father or Mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sowing, playing, dancing, or doing any thing else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world; or else I am so sharply traunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes, with pinches, nips and bobs, and ways, (which I will not name, for the honour I bear them,) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come, that I must go to Mr Elmer: who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing, whiles I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because, whatsoever I do else, but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear and whole misliking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it, all other pleasures, in very deed, be but trifles and troubles unto me. I remember this talk gladly, both because it is so worthy of memory, and because also it was the last talk that ever I had, and the last time that ever I saw that noble and worthy Lady. Thus far Mr Ascham.]  
4. By this eminent proficiency in all parts of learning, and an agreeableness in Disposition, she became very dear to the Young K. Edward: to whom Fox not only makes her equal, but doth acknowledge her also to be his Superior in those noble studies. And for an Ornament superadded to her other perfections, she was most zealously affected to the true Protestant Religion, then by law established; Which she embraced, not out of any outward compliance with the present current of the Times, but because her own mo●t excellent Judgement had been fully satisfied in the Truth and Purity thereof. All which did so endear her to the King, that he took great delight in her Conversation.  
5. Thus lived she in these sweet Contentments, till she came unto the years of Marriage, when she, that never found in herself the le●st spark of Ambition, was made the most unhappy Instrument of another Mans. The proud and aspiring Duke of Northumberland treats with the Duke of Suffolk, about a Marriage between the Lord Guildford Dudley his fourth Son, and the Lady Jane. The Marriage is concluded, and by Northumberland's policy; the Crown is transferred from K. Edward to his Cousin the Lady Jane, his two Sisters the Lady Mary and Lady Elizabeth being passed by. Memorable is the Speech she made to the two Dukes, when they owned her for Queen, to this effect: That the Laws of the Kingdom, and natural Right, standing for the King's Sisters, she would beware of burdening her weak Conscience with a yoke, which did belong to them: That she understood the Infamy of those, who had permitted the violation of Right, to gain a Sceptre: That it were to mock God, and deride Justice, to scruple at the stealing of a shilling, and not at the usurpation of a Crown. Besides (said she) I am not so young, nor so little read in the guiles of fortune, to suffer myself to be taken by them. If she every any, it is but to make them the subject of her spoil: If she raise others, it is but to pleasure herself with their Ruins. What she adored but yesterday, is to day her pastime. And if I now permit her to adorn and Crown Me, I must to morrow suffer her to crush, and tear me in pieces, etc. But the Ambition of the two Dukes was too strong and violent, to be kept down by any such prudent Considerations. So that being wearied at last with their Importunities, and overcome by the entreaties of her husband, whom she dearly loved, She submitted unto that necessity which she could not vanquish, yielding her head with more unwillingness to the ravishing Glories of a Crown, than afterward she did to the stroke of the Ax.  
6. The Acclamations at the proclaiming of Queen Mary, were heard by the Lady Jane (now no longer Queen) with such Tranquillity of mind and composedness of countenance, as if she had not been concerned in the Alteration. She had before received the offer of a Crown, with ●s even a Temper, as if it had been nothing, but a Garland of flowers: and now she lays aside the thought thereof with as much contentedness, as she could have thrown away that Garland when the scent was gone. The time of her Glory was so short, but a nine Days wonder, that it seemed nothing but a Dream, out of which she was not sorry to be awakened. The tower had been to her a prison, rather than a Court, and interrupted the Delights of her former life by so many Terrors, that no Day passed without some new Alarm to disturb her Quiet. She doth now know the worst that fortune can do unto her: and having always feared, that there stood a Scaffold secretly behind the Throne, She was as readily prepared to act her part upon the one, as upon the other.  
7. Her Death is resolved upon: but first She must be practised with to change her Religion. To which end Fecknam is employed: a Man, whose great parts ptomised him an easy victory over a poor Lady of a broken and dejected Spirit. But it proved the contrary. For, so well had She studied the Concernments of her own Religion, and managed the Conference with him, with such a readiness of wit, such Constancy of Resolution, and a Judgement so well grounded in all helps of Learning; that she was able to make Answer to the strongest Arguments; as well to her great Honour, as his Admiration. So that, not able to prevail with her in the change of Religion, he made offer of his service to prepare her for death. Which, though she thankfully accepted of, as finding it to proceed from a good affection; yet soon he found, that she was also aforehand with him in those preparations, which are fit and necessary for a Dying-Christian.  
8. Friday, 9 Febr. was first designed for the day of the Execution: but the Desire of gaining her to the Church of Rome procured her the short respite of three days more. On Sunday night, being the Eve unto the day of her Translation, she wrote a Letter in the Greek tongue, at the end of a Testament, which she bequeathed as a Legacy to her Sister the Lady Katherine, which being such a lively Picture of the excellent Lady, some lines thereof are worthy to be presented here: I have sent you a Book (dear Sister) which although it be not outwardly trimmed with Gold, yet inwardly it is more worth than precious stones. If you with a good mind read it, and with an earnest desire to follow it, it shall bring you to an immortal and everlasting life: it shall teach you to live, and learn you to die: it shall win you more, than you should have gained by your woeful Father's Lands. You shall be an Inheritor of such Riches, as neither the Covetous shall withdraw from you, neither Thief shall steal, neither yet the Moths corrupt. Desire with David (good Sister) to understand the Law of the Lord God. Live still to die, that you by death may purchase eternal life. Defy the world: Deny the Devil: Despise the Flesh; and delight yourself only in the Lord. Be penitent for your sins, and yet despair not. Be strong in Faith, and yet presume not. And desire, with Saint Paul, to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, with whom, even in death, there is life. And as touching my death, rejoice as I do (Good Sister) that I shall be delivered of this Corruption, and put on Incorruption, For I am assured, that I shall, for losing a mortal life, win an immortal one. The which I pray God to grant you, and send you of his Grace, to live in his fear, and to die in the true Christian Faith: from the which, in God's name, I exhort you, that you never swerve, neither for hope of life, nor for fear of death.  
9 The fatal Morning being come, the Lord Guildford earnestly desired the officers, that he might take his Farewell of her. Which, though they willingly permitted, yet, upon notice of it, she advised the contrary, assuring him, That such a Meeting would rather add to his Afflictions, and her presence rather weaken than strengthen him: That he ought to take courage from his Reason, and derive constancy from his own heart: That he should do well to remit this Interview to the other World; that there indeed Friendships were happy, and unions indissoluble, and that theirs would be eternal, if their souls carried nothing with them of Terrestrial, which might hinder them from rejoicing. All she could do, was to give him a Farewell out of a window, as he passed toward the place of his dissolution: which he suffered on the Scaffold on Tower-Hill, with much Christian meekness.  
10. The Lady was led to a Scaffold within the Tower, by Sir Henry Gage the Constable; who desired her to bestow some small gift upon him, as a Memorial of her. To gratify which desire, she gave him her Table-book: in which she had written three sentences, in Greek, Latin and English; as she saw her Husband's Body brought unto the Chapel; which she besought him to accept as her last Bequest. The Greek to this effect: That, if his executed body should give testimony against her before Men; his most blessed soul should give an eternal proof of her Innocence in the presence of God. The Latin added: That Humane Justice was against his Body, but the Divine Mercy would be for his Soul. The Conclusion in English: That, if her fault deserved punishment, her Youth at least, and her Imprudence were worthy of Excuse; and, that God and Posterity would show her Favour.  
11. Conducted by Fecknam to the Scaffold, she gave not much heed to his Discourses, but kept her eyes upon a Prayer-book of her own. And, being mounted on the Throne, from which she was to receive a more excellent Crown, than any which this vile Earth could give her, she addressed herself in some few words to the standers by, letting them know; That her offence was not for having laid her hand upon the Crown, but for not rejecting it with sufficient Constancy: That she had less erred through Ambition, than out of Reverence to her parents; yet such Reverence deserved punishment: That she would willingly admit of death, so to give satisfaction to the injured State: And that she had justly deserved this punishment, for being made the Instrument, (though an unwilling Instrument) of Another's ambition. Then, having desired the people to recommend her in their prayers to the mercies of God, being ready for the block, with the same clear and untroubled Countenance, wherewith she had acted all the rest of her Tragedy, she said aloud the Psalm of Miserere mei Deus, in the English Tongue, and so submitted her pure neck to the executioner. An. 1553.  
Miraris Janam Graio Sermone loquntam?  
Quo primum nata est tempore, Graia fuit.  Camd. in Reliq.  

III. Sir JOHN CHEEK.  
Out of his Life prefixed to The hurt of Sedition, written by Dr. Langbane.  
1. THIS learned and worthy man fell immediately, from the womb of his Mother, into the lap of the Muses; being both born and bred within the liberties of that famous nursery of good Letters, Cambridge. He seems to have been of no vulgar extraction, for two of his Sisters were fairly matched, one to Dr. Blithe, the King's professor of Physic; and Mary, another of them, to William Cecil, afterwards Lord Burghley, a most able Minister of State.  
Ingenium magni moderatus Principis exul CHECUS, at inconstans in Pietate ●uit ●  
3. In the discharge of this later he went over all Sophocles twice, all Homer, all Euripides, and part of Herodotus, to his Auditor's benefit and his own credit: which was all the Salary he then had: till King Henry VIII of his royal bounty endowed that and the other Chairs with the liberal Allowance of XL pounds per annum; and, upon the sole Commendatories of his former deservings, conferred that honour on him, to be the first Regius professor of the Greek tongue in Cambridge, as Sir Thomas Smith was of Law.  
4. These two especially by their advice and example brought the study of Tongues and other politer learning first into request in that University. Upon hopes of facilitating the Greek Tongue, they attempted to reduce it to the ancient, but obsolete manner of pronunciation: an innovation quickly observed by B. Gardiner, the Chancellor, and repressed by a strict Injunction, May 21. 1542. And though at last, after several Writings, Mr. Cheek was content to submit to that one unanswerable Argument of the Chancellor's Authority; yet his Rules and Practice had taken such deep root in his Auditors, that by them it was propagated through this whole Kingdom: and that we Englishmen speak Greek, and are able to understand one another, we must acknowledge it to be a special effect of Mr. Cheek's rare ingeny.  
5. That famous King, Henry VIII, thought it sit to call this great light of Learning out of the shadow: and so he did July 10. 1544. and to his Custody he then committed the most precious Jewel of the Kingdom, the young Prince Edward, being at that time not full seven years of age. What progress he made under this Director of his studies, appears by those noble Relics of his industry und sufficiency, both in Greek and Latin, which are still preserved in his Majesty's Library at S. James.  
6. It may be truly said, that under God Mr. Cheek was a special Instrument of the propagation of the Gospel, and that Religion which we now profess in this Kingdom. For he not only sowed the seeds of that Doctrine in the heart of Prince Edward, which afterwards grew up into a general Reformation when he came to be King; but by his means the same saving truth was gently instilled into the Lady Elizabeth, by those who by his procurement were admitted to be guides of her younger studies. Such were, first William Grindall, and after him Roger Ascham, who had fomerrly been his Scholar in the Coll. and successor in the Orator's place in the University: a man dear unto him for similitude of studies, but more for his zeal to the true Religion.  
7. An. 1547. When the young King was well settled in his Throne, he admitted Mr. Cheek to be one of his privy Chamber. This accrue of Honour to her son made his learned Mother the University a suitor to him for protection in those stormy times: who in her Letters to him gives him such an Elegy, as must not be omitted here. This it is: Ex universo illo numero clarissimorum virorum (Clarissimè Chece) qui ex hac Academia in Remp. unquam prodierunt, Tu unus es, quem semper Academia, prae universis aliis, & praesentem complexa est, & absentem admirata est: qnam Tu vicissim plusquam universi alii & praesens ornaveras, & absens juvas.  
An. 1551. When his Majesty was pleased to make a doal of Honours among his deserving Subjects; Mr. Cheek was not forgotten: He, with his Brother in Law Secretary Cecil, were then Knighted, This was but a foundation upon which the grateful Prince had a purpose to erect higher preferments, had not the hand of Providence so soon snatched him away into another Kingdom, to invest his temples with a more glorious Crown. This was done July 6. 1553. not long after he had called Sir John Cheek to sit at the helm of State, the Council Board. In this common loss of so good a King, He, good man, had more than a common share. Being clapped up in prison July 27. he was stripped of the greatest part of his honours, and all his fortunes: ●ut his Person was set at liberty Sept. 3. and not long after we meet with him in Germany, either a forced or a voluntary exile.  
9 From thence he passed into Italy, and by the way left those adversary Epistles of Winchester and himself with his Friend Coelius, who put them in print without the Authors privity. At his return to Germany, he was kindly entertained at Strasburg, where he took up his old trade, and set up shop again, being chosen Professor of the Greek tongue in that place. This was a treasure which maintained him in his exile: this he had not confiscate to the Queen: this escaped the diligence of the Searchers, when he conveyed it out of the Kingdom.  
10. Here he lived about two years in good repute, till I know not what unlucky stars put him upon a journey into the Low Countries. Some have said it was to marry a wife: but what need of that, when he was already matched to a young Lady; who lived to see many happier days after his decease, and died well nigh threescore years after him, An. 1616. Sleidan tells us he went into low Germany, ut uxorem educeret, to fetch his wife thence, who belike was lately come over out of England, and meant to settle with him at Strasburg. But in his return from Bruxelles to Antwerp, May 15. 1556, both Sir John Cheek and Sir Peter Carew were waylaid by the Provost Martial for K. Philip, beaten from their horses, tied hand and foot to the bottom of a Cart, and so conveyed hoodwinked to the next Haven; where they were shipped under h●tches, and their first landing place was the Tower of London, where they were committed to close prison. Sir Peter Carew outlived his Troubles, and underwent many honourable services under Queen Elizabeth, and died An. 1575.  
11. Sir John Cheek's lot was somewhat harder: he was put to this miserable choice, either to forgo his life, or what is far more precious, his liberty of Conscience. No mean: neither his great Learning, nor his known integrity, nor the intercession of his friends, and among them Abbot Fekenham (a man which could do somewhat with Queen Mary) could compound for his pardon at any lower rate, than the recantation of his Religion. Upon this he was soon restored to his liberty, but never to his content. The sense and sorrow for himself, and the daily sight of that cruel butchery which was exercised upon others for the constant profession of the truth, made such deep impressions in his broken soul, as brought him to a speedy, but comfortable end of a miserable life.  
12. He died at London in the house of Peter Osbern Esq; Sept. 1557. He left one Son, which bore his name, a comely young man and a stout, slain in his Prince's service in Ireland 1580. but the issue of his brain was more numerous; De pronuntiatione Graecae linguae, Panegyricus Edvardi VI De obitu Buceri, De Eucharistiae Sacramento, Maximi Monachi Asceticus, etc. His Body lies buried at Saint Alban, Wood-street, with this Epitaph:  

Doctrinae Checus linguaeque utriusque Magister,  
Aurea naturae fabrica morte jacet.  
Non erat è multis unus, sed praestitit unus  
Omnibus, & patriae flos erat ille suae.  
Gemma Britanna fuit: tam magnum nulla tulerunt  
Tempora the saurum: tempora nulla ferent.    


JOHANNES WHITGIFTUS ARCHEP. Whitgiftus rup●●is vinclis Romana relinguens Sacra pius, sese meliores vertit ad usus ●    

IV. Dr. JOHN WHITGIFT Archbishop of Canterbury.  
Out of his life written by Sir George Paul, Controller of his Grace's household.  
1. HE came of the ancient family of Whitgift of Whitgift in Yorkshire, the eldest son of a Merchant Henry Whitgift of great Grimsly in Lincolnshire, and was there born An. 1530. He was taught (among other young Gentlemen) by his Uncle Robert Whitgift Abbot of Wellow. In which time (as he was pleased often to remember) he heard the Abbot say: That they and their Religion could not long continue; because (said he) I have read the whole Scripture over and over, and could never find therein that our Religion was founded by God.  
2. His Uncle finding an extraordinary forwardlynesse in him, sent him afterwards, to London, where he became a Scholar in S. Anthony's School, and boarded at his Aunt's House in Paul's Churchyard. From thence he repaired to Grimsly to his Parents, being thrust out of doors by his Aunt, because he would not go with her to Mass, imputing all her domestic misfortunes to her harbouring such an Heretic in her House: and for a Farewell told him; That she thought at the first, she had received a Saint into her House, but now she perceived he was a Devil.  
3. His Parents finding his proficiency, by the direction of his Uncle, sent him to Cambridge. Dr. Ridley made him Scholar of Pembroke Hall: thence, Dr. Pearn chose him Fellow of Peter house: Being there fallen grievously sick, the Doctor (who loved him for his good parts) placed him with a good woman near the College, visiting him oft, and charging her to spare no cost for his recovery: If he lives (said he) he will be able to pay you himself: if he die, I will satisfy you.  
4. After his recovery, Dr. Pearn, finding he purposed to travel Beyond Sea to avoid the Visitors sent by Queen Mary, conferred with him, and seeing him resolute in his Religion, upon many good and sound reasons (as the Doctor often acknowledged) willed him to be silent, and quiet, and he would so order the matter, that he might keep his Religion and not leave the University: which the good old man justly performed.  
5. After he was entered into the Ministry (which was upon the year 1560) being to preach his first public Sermon in S. Mary's, he chose for his Text that excellent saying of S. Paul, I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, etc. Wherein his singular method, choice of matter, and judicious handling thereof were such, that his whole Auditory, especially the Chief of the University, grew into great Admiration of those great parts in so young years.  
6. From being Fellow of Peter House, he succeeded Doctor Hutton in the Mastership of Pembroke Hall, and being Chaplain to Doctor Cox Bishop of Ely, he had a Prebend there. He was also chosen the Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, and afterwards the Queens. The Queen, having heard him preach, said he had a White gift indeed, made him Master of Trinity College, and caused him immediately to be sworn her Chaplain, An. 1567.  
7. He governed the College for five years' space with great quietness, until Mr. Tho. Cartwright (a Fellow of that College) his last return from beyond the Seas. Whose first discontentment grew from the Queen's neglect of him at a Disputation before her Majesty in the University.  
8. The Master being from home, Mr. Cartwright with some of his adherents made three Sermons upon one Sunday, and so vehemently inveighed against the Surplice and other Ceremonies, that they of the College at Evening Prayer, laid aside their Surplices, three only excepted.  
9 Doctor Whitgift, after that Mr. Cartwright had broached his dangerous Doctrine, used to confute it in the same Church, the next Sunday following, and settled the judgement of many; and foreseeing these sparks of sedition, if not timely quenched, would grow to a great flame, often sent to Mr. Cartwright, and in friendly manner advised him to surcease from those courses: but finding him wilful and obstinate, highly conceited of himself and a despiser of others that were not of his mind, and a refuser of any fair trial of his cause by Conference or writing; caused him to be expelled the House, and deprived likewise of the Margarit Lecture: An. 1570.  
10. Not long after, the Disciplinarians published a seditious Treatise entitled, An Admonition to the Parliament: the summary of their opinions and slanders. And in regard of the applause it found among the greener heads, given to novelty, Doctor Whitgift answers it. Cartwright replies, and Doctor Whitgift defends his Answer. A second Reply being published by Cartwright, the Doctor addresses himself to answer that too, but is dissuaded by his judicious friends, and especially by Doctor Whitaker in a Letter, wherein are these among other words concerning the Author: Veris ludit, sententiis dormitat, & plane indignus est, qui à quopiam docto refutetur.  
11. In his ten years' Government of Trinity College, Doctor Whitgift bred many excellent Scholars (six whereof were in his time Bishops, and some great Statesmen: he procured an Amendment of the Statutes of the University; and as the causes he dealt in were always just, so his success was ever prosperous, through his wisdom and stoutness. And yet that stoutness was so well tempered and mingled with his other virtue of mildness and patience, that Mr. Hooker made this true observation of him; He always governed with that moderation, which useth by patience to suppress boldness, and to make them conquer that suffer: which well suited with his Motto, Vincit qui patitur.  
12. An. 1577. He was chosen to be Bishop of Worcester, consecrated 21. Apr. and having taken leave of the University and College by preaching of peace publicly and privately, he was in June following attended on his way to Worcester by a great Troup of the chiefest persons, full of sorrow for their loss of so excellent a Governor. The Queen, to show her Bounty and Love, forgave him his first fruits, and gave him the disposing of all the prebend's of that Church during his Continuance there.  
13. He found the Bishopric at his first coming much impaired by his Predecessors, in long Leases and Grants: but that which most troubled him was the letting of the Rend Corn of his two best Manors, Hollow and Grimley, the chief upholding of the Bishop's hospitality. To redeem the said Corn from a powerful Tenant, the Bishop was contented, by way of Composition to give three hundred pound out of his own purse to have the lease surrendered.  
14. There was such mutual love between the Gentlemen and the Bishop, that they delighted to converse much together. And if the Bishop understood of any jar or discord, he ●ould send for both parties (under pretence of some service to be done) and make them friends. If they were froward against persuasion, he would interpose his Authority, as Vice Precedent of Wales (which place her Majesty bestowed on him shortly after he was made Bishop) and threaten the obstinate with imprisonment.  
15. He had a special care of his own family (as behoved him) and of his Attendants near unto him; and to avoid all colour of corruption would never receive informations or petitions in his private Chamber but abroad, by the Petitioners themselves; in so much that a Gentleman of his Bedchamber making request he might have the delivery of Suitors Petitions, and endorse their Answers, he grew into such dislike, that he presently discharged him.  
16. Her Majesty out of her experience of his wise and prudent Government, was pleased (upon complaint of the many discords and disorders in the two Cathedral Churches of Lichfield and Hereford) to direct two Commissions unto him for the visiting of the said Churches. He reform them both, and ordained them Statutes for their better Government.  
17. Archbishop Grindal, laboured him in most earnest manner to accept of the Archbishopric, being himself contented to shake off his cares, and receive from her Majesty some yearly Pension: which Bishop Whitgift utterly refused, and in presence of the Queen herself besought pardon in not accepting thereof, upon any condition whatsoever, in the life time of the other. Whereupon the Queen was graciously pleased to say: As she had made him an Archbishop, so he should die an Archbishop: As he did shortly after.  
18. He was advanced to the Archbishopric of Canterbury, Sept. 24. 1583. At his first entrance he procured an Order for the abatement of his first fruits: he recovered from the Queen a thousand Acres of Land, and by abating the fines of his Impropriations increased the Pensions of Curates.  
19 Her Majesty commanded him to be vigilant and careful for the reducing of Non-Conformists, much strengthened by his Predecessors connivency. Wherein he had much ado, many conflicts, and was opposed by some great Personages. Concerning whom he thus writeth: I trust those that love me indeed, will not so lightly cast off their old friends for any of these new fangled and factious Sectaries, whose fruits are to make division.— If my honourable friends should forsake me, when I think to deserve best and in a manner consume myself to satisfy that which God, her Majesty and the Church requireth of me, I should be evil rewarded. Sed meliora spero.— The slanderous tongues of this uncharitable Sect, reported that I am become a Papist: but it proceedeth from their lewdness, not any desert of mine, etc. But how is it possible that I should perform the charge, which I have undertaken, after so long liberty, and lack of Discipline, if a few persons, so meanly qualified (as most of these factious Sectaries are) should be countenanced against the whole state of the Clergy of greatest account both for learning, years, staidness, wisdom, religion and honesty; and open breakers and impugners of the Law, young in years, proud in conceit, contentious in disposition, should be maintained against their Governors seeking to reduce them to order and obedience, etc. The day will come, when all men's hearts shall be opened. In the mean time I will depend upon him, who never fiaileth those, that put their trust in him.  
20. An. 1587. Tho. Bromley (the then Lord Chancellor) died. Whereupon it pleased her Majesty to discover her gracious inclination, to have made the Archbishop Lord Chancellor of England. But he excusing himself in many respects, that he was grown into years, and had the burden of all Ecclesiastical businesses laid upon his back (which was as much as one man could well undergo, considering the troubles with so many Sectaries that were then-sprung up) desired to be spared; and besought her Highness to make choice of Sir Christopher Hatton, who shortly after was made Lord Chancellor in the Archbishop's house at Croyden; thereby the rather to grace the Archbishop. His advancement did much strengthen the Archbishop and his friends, and withal, the Earl of Leicester and his designments came soon after to an end.  
21. An. 1588. Upon the death of the Farl of Leicester, the Chancellorship of Oxford being void, divers of the Heads and others of the University made known unto the Archbishop their desire to chufe him their Chancellor, although he was a Cambridge man. To whom he returned this Answer; That he was already their friend, whereof they might rest assured, and therefore advised them to make choice of some other in near place about the Queen, that might assist him on their behalf; and both at the Council-board, and other places of Justice, right them many ways, both for the benefit of their University, and of their Colleges. And therewithal recommended unto them Sir Christopher Hatton, being sometime of that University. Whom accordingly they did choose for their Chancellor, and whom the Archbishop ever found a great Assistant in bridling and reforming the imtemperate humour of those Novelists, who by the Countenance of some great personages were now grown to a strong head.  
22. It was in their Assemblies Classical and Synodical concluded, that the Discipline should, within a time limited, be put in practice, and erected all in one day by the Ministers together with the people: whom those Disciplinarians bragged ●o be already inflamed with zeal to lend so many thousand hands, for the advancement of their Cause. In their public Sermons and Exhorcations (as in their private Conventicles) they did alienate the hearts of their Auditors from all obedience of the Ecclesiastical Magistrates. As namely Mr. Cartwright: who also in his prayer before his Sermons, used thus to say: Because they (meaning the Bishops) which ought to be pillars in the Church, do band themselves against Christ and his truth; therefore, O Lord, give us grace and power, all as one man, to set ourselves against them. Which words, by way of Emphasts, he would often repeat. And doth not ●dall threaren, that the Presbytery shall prevail, and come in by that way and means, as shall make all their hearts to ache, that shall withstand or hinder the same.  
23. Great was the temper and moderation of the good Archbishop in handling these businesses. In his time Brown was changed from his fancies, and afterwards obtained a Benefice called Achurch in North-Hamptonshire, where he became a painful Preacher. He did not, though he might have blemished with her Majesty the reputations of some in great place for favouring the Libelers and Libels, which had stowage and vent in their Chambers. He procured at her Majesty's hands both pardon and dismission for Mr. Cartwright and the rest out of their troubles. For which Mr. Cartwright held himself much obliged, and in his letters acknowledgeth his bond of most humble duty so much the straighter, because his Grace's favour proceeded from a frank disposition, without any desert of his own.  
24. The Archbishop hath been heard to say, That if Mr. Cartwright had not so far engaged himself, as he did, in the beginning, he thought verily, he would in his later time have been drawn to Comformity. For, when he was freed from his troubles he often repaired to the Archbishop, who used him kindly, and was contented to tolerate his preaching in Warwick divers years, upon his promise that he would not impugn the laws, orders and government in this Church of England, but persuade and procure, so much as he could, both publicly and privately, the estimation and peace of the same. Which albeit he accordingly performed, yet when her Majesty understood by others, that Mr. Cartwright did preach again (though temperately, according to his promise made to the Archbishop:) She would by no means endure his preaching any longer without subscription; and grew not a little offended with the Archbishop for such conniving at him. Not long after Mr. Cartwright died rich, as it was said, by the benevolence and bounty of his followers.  
25. An. 1592. After the death of Sir Christopher H●tton, Sir John Puckering was made Lord Keeper, who shown himself a friend to the Church, to the Archbishop and his proceed, and acknowledged him a furtherer of his Advancement. Sir Thomas Egerton Master of the Rolls succeeded him, 6. May. 1596. a lover of learning, and a most constant favourer of the Clergy and Church-government established: as also a faithful loving friend to the Archbishop in all his affairs: In so much as after his advancement to that honour, and that the Earl of Essex and the Archbishop concurred together, being also further strengthened by the friendship and love of Sir Robert Cecil Principal Secretary, he began to be fully revived again. And her Majesty finding in him a zealous care, and faithful performance of his duty, laid the burden of the Church upon his shoulders, telling him: That, if any thing went amiss, be it upon his soul and conscience to answer it: for she had rid her hands, and looked that he should yield an account, on her behalf, to Almighty God.  
26. And now, though the Archbishop was in this singular favour and grace with his Majesty, so that he did all in all for the managing of Clergy-affairs, and disposing of Bishoprics, and other Ecclesiastical promotions; yet was he never puffed up with pride, nor did any thing violently against any man. For he ever observed this rule, That he would not wound, where he could not salve. So that it was truly noted by the Earl of Salisbury a great Counsellor, in the Star-chamber when Pickering was there censured for libelling against him after his death: That there was nothing more to be feared in his Government (especially toward his later time) than his mildness and clemency. And some younger spirits were of opinion that he was much to blame in that kind, and sometimes would be bold to tell him: That he knew not his own strength with her Majesty.  
27. As you may perceive his clemency towards the irregular sort, so, towards the conformable, he was carried with an exceeding tender respect and kindness. He loved a learned Minister, virtuous and honest, with all his heart, framing himself unto that rule of Aristotle, which directeth a good Magistrate, to be as careful in encouraging good men according to their merits, as in punishing the bad according to the quality of their offences. If he found a Scholar of extraordinary gifts or hopes, that out of wants grew discontented, and inclined to Popery or Puritanism (as most of their discontentments and waywardnesse proceedeth thence) him would he gain both with supplies of money out of his purse, and preferments of his own gift, or otherwise as opportunity served.  
28. Neither was his Bounty wanting to men of learning and quality of foreign Countries. Sundry times sent he money to Mr. Beza out of his own purse, besides the general Collections for Geneva. Upon which occasion many letters passed between them. In his letter Mar. 8. 1591. Beza confesseth: That he never intended to touch, or impugn the Ecclesiastical policy of this Church of England, nor to exact of us to frame ourselves or our Church to the pattern of their Presbyterial Discipline, etc. That as Queen Elizabeth was the true nursing Mother of the Church of Christ, so England and our English Church was both the harbour of the Godly, and the preserver of all other Reformed Churches. So far was he also from esteeming the Archbishop an Antichristian Prelate, as he never omitted to term him, A most Reverend Father in Christ, and his most honoured good Lord. I wish that our Disciplinarians, who seem to direct themselves by the rule of Geneva, would learn thus to Discipline their tongues with him, and imitate his Modesty.  
29. Although Monsieur Buse, a French Minister, who read weekly a Lecture in Latin in his Chapel, by his French pronunciation and want of good delivery, did somewhat blemish the goodness of the matter which he handled, yet the Archbishops property ever was, to cherish and encourage him, and all others that preached before him, and was never heard to give the Preacher distaste, but rather would commend, or excuse him against other men's censures; saying, If he were young, better experience would correct his defaults: and if he were in years, he was in that respect to be borne withal: alleging for both, that some would take exceptions sometimes, rather to satisfy their own too much curiosity, then for any just cause of dislike in the Preacher.  
30. As his continual endeavours were to reward those of best gifts, and to encourage those of meaner; so (as often as Church and State-affairs gave him leave) he was industrious in propounding wholesome Doctrine to the people, and a worthy pattern of true Divinity and diligence unto all others of the Clergy. When he was Bishop of Worcester (unless extraordinary businesses of the Marches of Wales hindered him) he never failed to preach upon every Lordsday; many times riding five or six miles to a Parish-Church, and after Sermon came home to dinner. The like he did also when he was Archbishop, and lay at Croyden, the Queen being in her Progress. No Sunday escaped him in Kent, where the Gentlemen would exceedingly resort unto him: and he would often preach so early in the morning in some Parish-Church, both in Worcester and Canterbury, that he came afterwards to the Sermon in the Cathedral-Church.  
31. His gift that way was excellent, as if you had heard Saint Augustine himself, or some of the ancient Bishops in the primitive Church: his gesture and action in the Pulpit so grave and decent, his words coming from him so fatherly and comely, and though plainly (for the most part) and without affectation, yet always elegantly, with special choice, and substantial matter, full of good and sound learning; plentiful in Authorities out of Scripture, Fathers and Schoolmen, so singularly applied, that he much affected his Auditory therewith. And his pious life was answerable to his religious Sentences. He never preached, but he first wrote his notes in Latin, and afterward kept them during his life. For he would say, that whosoever took that pains before his preaching, the older he waxed, the better he should discharge that duty; but if he trusted only to his memory, his preaching in time would become prattling.  
32. When he was Bishop of Worcester, he did much good also by his often conference and conventing of the Papists, whom he used with mild and temperate speeches, and thereby got many of them to conform themselves, both Gentlemen and others: whereby, as at his first coming he found many Recusants, so he left very few at his coming thence. Immediately after he came to be Archbishop, he convented before him the chiefest, and most learned Recusants throughout all England: He also wrote letters to the Bishops, his brethren, within the Province of Canterbury, to proceed with the Recusants by their Authority Ecclesiastical, and censures of the Church, and called yearly upon them for an account of their do.  
33. An. 1600. In the time of Essex's disloyalty, the Archbishop sent threescore men well armed to show themselves before the Court: of whose arrival Secretary Cecil, with the rest of the Lords of the Council were right glad, and said He was a most worthy Prelate. They had speedily a leader appointed them, and marched presently, and were the first that entered into the Gates of Essex house: and in the first Court made good the place until the Earl yielded himself, and was by the Lord Admiral brought to Lambeth house, where he remained an hour or two, and was from thence conveyed to the Tower. The Arch▪ bishop had likewise in readiness forty Horsemen well appointed, and expected directions from the Court, how to dispose of them. The next morning, he sent a Gentleman to know how the Queen did, and how she rested all night. To whom she made Answer, That she rested and slept the better for his care the day before: but I beshrew his heart (said she) he would not believe this of Essex, though I had often told him, it would, one day, thus come to pass. But indeed, the Queens own recommendation of the Earl had wrought that good opinion of him in the Archbishop.  
An. 1602. Mar. 24. died Queen Elizabeth. And although the Arch bishop was much dejected and grieved for the loss of his dear Sovereign and Mistress, who had so highly advanced him: yet he with the rest of the Lords, repaired immediately to Whitehall, and after two hours sitting in Council, about the penning of the Proclamation, He principally (as his place required) with a cheerful countenance, and the rest of the Lords in like sort, accompanying him, first at the Court gate at Whitehall, with the applause and unspeakable comfort of all the people, proclaimed her most rightful Successor, King James. Afterwards in like cheerful sort, the Archbishop with the rest of the Lords, trouped up to the Cross in Cheapside, and there with like acclamation of the Lord Mayor and Citizens proclaimed him again. The People and Citizens took great comfort in the presence of the Archbishop, as if they nothing doubted, but that all went well for the State in that Council, among whom He was present.  
35. Besides the pains, which he took himself, many years, with a number of worthy young Gentlemen in reading to them thrice a day, he took into his house, besides his Chaplains, divers of quality to instruct them in the Mathematics, and other Lectures of sundry Arts and Languages; giving them good allowance and preferments otherwise, as occasion was offered. And besides the many poor Scholars, whom he kept in his house till he could provide for them, and prefer them, he also maintained divers in the University, at his own charge.  
36. He kept also for the exercise of Military Discipline, a godly Armoury, and a fair Stable of great Horses: insomuch as he was able to arm at all points both horse and foot, and divers times had one hundred foot, and fifty horse of his own servants mustered and trained: for which purpose he entertained Captains, etc. His house, for the Lectures and Scholastic exercises therein performed, might justly be accounted a little Academy, and in some respects superior, etc. His Domestic Chaplains, both before and since his death, attained to the chiefest honours and dignities in our Church and Commonwealth; namely, Bancroft, Ravis, Barlow, etc.  
37. He carried himself with great Resolution and courage in the determination of Causes belonging to his proper Cognizance. When a Gentleman of good note told him once, that the Lords of the Council were of another opinion than his Grace: What tellest thou me (said the Archbishop) of the Lords of the Council? I tell thee, they are in these Cases to be advised by us, and not we by them. He would upon such occasions oftentimes say unto his private friends, toward his later time: That two things did help much to make a man confident in good causes: namely, Orbitas & Senectus: and (said he) they steed me both.  
38. He gave Audience unto Suitors twice a day, and afforded them set hours for their dispatch: at which time, he would so courteously entreat them, giving so mild and gentle Answers, that even they that sped not in their suits, did departed without discontentment. Wherein I may justly compare him unto Titus, qui neminem unquam à se tristem dimisit. He often feasted the Clergy, Nobility, and Gentry of his Diocese and Neighbourhood: at Christmas, especially, his Gates were always open, and his Hall set twice or thrice over with strangers. Every year, he entertained the Queen at one of his houses (and some years twice or thrice) who besides other favours, would bid him Farewell by the name of her Black Husband, etc.  
39 His Charity is testified by that notable Monument, his Hospital of the blessed Trinity in Croyden, which he built very fair and Colledge-wise, for a Warden and eight and twenty Brothers and Sisters. He builded also near unto it a goodly free School, with a Schoolmasters house, allowing to the Schoolmaster twenty pounds by year for ever. And when he had finished and done the whole work, he found himself no worse in his estate, then when he first began, which he ascribed unto the extraordinary blessing and goodness of God. After which, when the French Ambassador (by whom he was reputed a peerless Prelate for piety and learning,) enquiring what Books he had written, was told, He had only published certain Books in the English tongue, in defence of the Ecclesiastical Government, and that he had founded an Hospital and a School: The Ambassador replied, Profecto Hospitale ad sublevandam paupertatem, & Schola ad instruendam juventutem, sunt optimi libri quos Archiepiscopus conscribere potuit.  
30. 1603. Ap. 28. He was the principal Mourner at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth; crowned and anointed King James Jul. 25. being visited by his Majesty in his sickness, spoke to him earnestly in Latin, and by his last words, pro ecclesia Dei, pro ecclesia ●ei, was conceived by the King to commend unto his royal care (as he had done sundry times before) the Church of England. Ob. ult. Feb. hora 8. pomerid. An. Dom. 1603. Aet. 73.   


M. Richard Hooker. Author of the Books of ●cclesiasticall Politye.    

V Mr RICHARD HOOKER.  
Out of his life, written by the R. R. Bishop of Exeter, Dr Gauden.  
1. HE was born in the West, either in, or not far from the City of Exeter, An. 1550. (A Country that is, as Mr Cambden observes, ferax ingeniorum.) But with what presages of his future eminency, there is not any notice to be had. One of his Uncles, was Chamberlain of Exeter, in Mr hooker's Youth, and contributed both care and cost toward his Education in the free School there. His Parents need no other monument of honour, than this, that they were blessed with so worthy a Son.  
2. This excellent Person had a body and soul every way so adjusted and suited to each other, that they were like meet pairs happily married together, and living peaceably. His outward aspect and carriage was rather comely than Courtly, his looks always grave and reserved: his soul more looking inward then exspatiating at his eyes, or taking the outward prospect of his senses. He went always, as if he meditated some great and good design: what he designed he industriously acted, without affectation or ostentation.  
3. His words were always sober and wellordered: not more in number, than weight. He was like an hive full of honey, of a plain outside, and a narrow access and orifice, but heavy, as having in him all manner of good literatute, industriously gathered and aptly digested. His friends or Confidents were few, but choice, as one that had no great opinion of himself, nor sought the applause of others.  
4. While he continued in Corpus Christi College, few men of any note in either University, but promised more than he did, as to any great and public undertaking: not that he wanted a public spirit, or excellent Abilities in nature and education: but he was so locked up and reserved by a natural modesty, and self-distrust, that he seemed to think it reward sufficient to have the conscience of welldoing, and pleasure enough, to see himself daily profit in his studies; and preferment even to envy, to enjoy virtue, though never so cloistered and confined to his own breast.  
5. Mr Hooker did not look upon the ease and quietness of a College life, as the ultimate design of his studies: nor did he say with the Apostle, It is good to be here, as in a settled Tabernacle; but gently embraced those small offers of Ministerial Employments in the Country, which were made to him, by such as thought them somewhat proportionate, if not to his worth and learning, yet to that humble plainness and simplicity of his Genius and mode of living. His first living was Boscomb in the West, to which the College presented him: his next in Lincolnshire, called Drayton Beauchamp, An. 1584.  
6. The ●oise, which some Non-Conformists made, kept this good Country Parson awake; who, however he could bear with patience and silence the reproaches cast upon himself as a private man, yet he thought it stupor to hear, without just indignation, his Mother reviled by ungrateful children. Hence sprang that excellent work of the Ecclesiastical Polity. Wherein, he hath justly obtained this Encomium from all intelligent Readers, That never any man undertook a better cause (since the ancient conflicts of the Fathers) nor handled it with an honester heart, an abler judgement, or an eloquenter stile.  
7. His first five Books he lived to publish: providence in time brought forth those esteemed Abortive, the three last Books, with such lineaments of their father's virtue and vigour on them, that they may be easily and justly owned for : although they had not the last politure of their Parent's hand: The seventh book, by comparing the writing of it with other indisputable papers, or known Manuscripts of Mr Hooker's, is undoubtedly his o●n hand throughout: The eighth is written by another hand (as a Copy) but interlined in many places with Mr Hooker's own characters, as owned by him.  
8. An. 1592. He had the Dignities of a Prebend in Salisbury and the Subdeanrie bestowed on him: and by the Queen he was preferred to be Master of the Temple, i. e. the public preacher in that great Auditory, which requires an excellent preacher, and where he may well deserve an honourable maintenance. Mr Travers was popularly chosen by the Society to be Lecturer in the afternoon, a man of esteemed piety and good learning, but a Nonconformist. In comparison of whom, Mr Hooker was much undervalved by the vulgar hearers.  
9 These two, although they differed in some matters, yet they corresponded in the main of sound Doctrine and holy life: like generous rivals, they honoured and loved what they saw good in one another. Hence that very worthy speech of Mr Travers, when being asked, what he thought of some vile aspersion cast upon Mr Hooker; he answered, In truth, I take Mr Hooker to be a very holy man.  
10. An. 1594. He was removed to his last station at Bishopsburn in Kent, and was made also Prebend of Canterbury by the favour of the Archbishop Whitgift, whose valiant and able Second he was in that Conflict, which he so notably maintained against the Disciplinarian faction, or the unruly Non-conformists.  
11. This was the period of Mr Hooker's promotion, much below indeed his merit, but adequate, it seems, to the retiredness of his temper, and most suitable to the policies of those times, where Church-Governors were to be rather active than contemplative spirits. And from this something rising, but not very high ground, did this excellent person take his ascent and rise to heaven, the only preferment worthy of him, dying with great comfort at his parsonage in Kent about 50 years old, An. 1599, says Mr Camden, An. 1603, says his Monument. He was interred in the Chancel of Bishopsbourn, where a fair Marble and Alabaster Monument (no way violated or deformed in all our late years of confusion) was long after erected to his Memory, An. 1634. See the rest in the eloquent Bishop, before the Eccl. Pol.  

ADDITIONS.  
Out of Dr W. Covels Defence of Hooker, 1603.  
12. A Letter (which is here answered) was published by certain Protestants (as they term themselves) which I hear (how true I know not) is translated into other tongues: This they presume hath given that wound, to that reverend and learned man, that it was not the least cause to procure his death. But it is far otherwise: for he contemned it in his wisdom (as it was fit) and yet in his humility would have answered it, if he had lived.— But first of all he was loath to intermeddle with so weak adversaries, thinking it unfit (as himself said) that a man that hath a long journey, should turn back to beat every barking cur; and having taken it in hand, his urgent and greater affairs, together with the want of strength, weakened with much labour, would not give him time to see it finished.— Death hath taken from us a sweet friend, a wise Counsellor, and a strong Champion. Others are fit enough to live in the midst of error, vanity, unthankfulness and deceit, but he was too good. p. 13.  
13. As, profoundly to judge with sound variety of all learning, was common to him with divers others; so, to express what he conceived, in th● eloquence of a most pure stile, was the felicity almost of himself alone. That honourable Knight Sir Philip Sidney, gave a taste in an Argument of Recreation, how well that style would befit an Argument of a graver Subject: which it may be is more unpleasing in the taste of some, because the manner is learned, and the subject is not agreeing to their humour. Doubtless the perfecting of a style, and especially of our English style (which, in my opinion, refuseth not the purest ornaments of any language) hath many more helps, than those honourable places of learning, the Universities can afford. And therefore in those things which they conceive (and some of them conceive much) there are found in the Prince's Court, divers most purely eloquent, whom even the best in the Universities may despair to imitate. And (if I may speak without offence) I am fully persuaded, that Mr hooker's stile (if he had had less learning: a strange fault: for the weight of his learning made it too heavy) had been incomparably the best that ever was written in our Church. If our English story had been born to that happiness, ever to have been attired in such rich ornaments, she might worthily have been entertained in the best Courts that the World hath. But all Countries know our actions have been better done, than they have been told.  
14. His Arguments, you say, are found in the Answer of that Reverend Father unto Mr Cartwright. If there were no difference, yet the consent of their Arguments were reason enough for you to allow Mr Hooker, seeing you h●ve given your approbation of the works of that most Reverend Father: (whose worthiness, no doubt, can receive little honour from your praise:) yet you know, that the whole subject of Mr Hooker's first four Books, is an argument, as, full of learning, so directly heretofore not handled by any, that I know. Concerning those three Books of his, which from his own mouth I am informed that they were finished, I know not in whose hands they are, nor whether the Church shall be bettered by so excellent a work. For; as the Church might have been happy, if he had lived to have written more, so she were not altogether so much harmed, if she might but enjoy, what he hath written. p. 150.  
15. The government of his passions was in his own power, and he was able to rule them. For he was truly of a mild spirit, and an humble heart; and abounding in all other virtues. Yet he specially excelled in the grace of Meekness. The Gravity of his looks, was cleared by those that did sit or converse with him; lest he should be burdensome unto them; but a full laughter few ever discovered in him. Some such our church had in all ages, a few now alive, which are her ornament, if she can use them well, but more that are dead, whom she ought to praise. For all these were honourable men in their generations, etc.  
* While this was under the Printers hand, I had the happiness to be in Dr Pococks' company, (sometimes Fellow of C. C. C.) and heard him, amongst other good Discourse, tell a story of Hooker to this effect: That He, with some others of the college, journeying on foot (as the manner than was) into their country, by the way visited Bishop Jewel (sometime of the same Coll.) The Bishop understanding some Scholars desired to see him, (or as we now speak more courtly) to wait upon his Lordship; said, They should be welcome. It was added, They were of Corpus Christi: They shall be the more welcome to me, said the Bishop. To omit the rest of their entertainment, when the Scholars took their leave, the Bishop gave them, every one a viaticum, some money to bear their charges, and especially to Hooker: upon whom also, he pleasantly said, he would bestow his own Nag, and brought forth, and gave him an old staff, which had been his companion in his Travel.— Te nunc habet iste secundum. Had I that staff, I should esteem it no less than a very Sacred Relic. *    

VI. Dr. LANCELOT ANDREW'S Bishop of Winchester.  
Out of his Funeral Sermon by John Bishop of Ely.  
1. HE was born in the City of London, of honest and godly Parents; who besides his breeding in learning, left him a sufficient Patrimony and inheritance, which is descended to his heir, at Rawreth in Essex.  
2. His life was well composed and ordered ever from his childhood. In his tenderest years, he shown such readiness and sharpness of wit and capacity, that his two first Masters (Mr. Ward and Mr. Mulcaster) contended for him, who should have the honour of his breeding, that after became the honour of their Schools, and all Learning.  
The right reverend Father in God Lancelot, Bishop of Winchester, and Praelate of the Garter.  
Vaughan sculp.  
4. Their pains and care he so carefully remembered all his life long, that he studied always how to do good to them and theirs. In which gratefulness he promoted Dr. Ward to the Parsonage of Waltham: and ever loved and honoured his Master Mulcaster during his life; and was a continual helper to him and his Son. And as if he had made Mr. Mulcaster his Tutor or Supervisor, he placed his picture over the door of his study: whereas in all the rest of the house you could scantly see a picture.  
5. From Mr. Mulcaster he went to Cambridge, to Pembroke Hall, and was there admitted one of Dr. Wat's Scholars: (a notable Grammarian, well entered in the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew tongues, and likewise in Geometry, and some of the Mathematics:) and after, a Fellow there, in which he passed over all Degrees and places in such sort, that he ever seemed worthy of higher, and would in the end attain the highest: for his abilities and virtues were mature and ripe for greater employments.  
6. He often lamented that he never could find a fit opportunity to show his thankfulness to Dr. Wats, his Patron, nor to any of his Posterity. Yet he did not utterly forget him in his will, having ordered that the two Fellowships to be founded by him in Pembroke-Hall, should always be chosen and filled, out of the Scholars of Dr. Wat's Foundation (if they were found fit) of which himself had been one.  
7. Being in holy Orders, he attended the noble and zealous Henry Earl of Huntingdon, Precedent of York, and was employed by him in often preaching and conference with Recusants, both of the Clergy and Laity: In which God so blest his endeavours that he converted many.  
8. After this Mr. Secretary Walsingham takes notice of him, and obtained him of the Earl, intending his preferment, in which he would never permit him to take any Country-benefice, lest he and his great learning should be buried in a Country-Church. His intent was to make him Reader of Controversies in Cambridge, and for his maintenance he assigned to him (as I am informed) the lease of the Parsonage of Alton in Hampshire: which after his death he returned to his Lady; which she never knew or thought of.  
9 After this he obtained the Vicarage of S. Giles without Creeple-gate, London, and a Prebend Residentiaries place in Paul's, and was chosen Master of Pembroke-Hall, and afterward was advanced to the Deanery of Westminster: and all this without any ambition or suit of his own, being promoted for his great worth.  
10. His knowledge in the learned and modern Tongues, to the number of fifteen in all (as I am informed) was admirable: His Memory great: His Judgement profound: His pains and Industry was infinite. In the works he wrote, he used no man to read for him (as Bellarmine and others employed whole Colleges to read and study for them:) he only used an Amanuensis, to transcribe that, which himself had first written with his own hand.  
11. As he was himself most learned, so he was a singular lover and encourager of Learned men: which appeareth in his liberality and bounty to Mr. Casaubon, Mr. Cluverius, Mr. Vossius, Mr. Grotius, Mr. Erpenius, whom he attempted with the offer of a very large stipend out of his own purse to draw into England, to have read and taught the Oriental Tongues here.  
12. When the Bishoprics of Eli and Salisbury were void, and some things were to be pared from them, some overture being made to him to take them, he refused them utterly: He seemed to answer, Nolo episcopari, quia nolo alienare: I will not be made a Bishop, because I will not alienate Bishops Lands.  
13. After this, by some persuasion, he accepted of Chichester; yet with some fear of the burden: and after that, of Eli: and last of this of Winchester. (Whence God hath translated him to Heaven.) In which he freed himself and his Successor of a Pension of 400 per an. Which many of his Predecessors had paid. He was Almoner, Dean of the Chapel, and a privy Counsellor to King James, and King Charles: In which he spoke and meddled little in Civil and temporal Affairs, being out of his profession and element: but in causes of the Church he spoke fully and home.  
14. Wheresoever he lived, all places were bettered by his providence and goodness. S. Giles was reduced by him to a Rate toward the better maintenance of the place, and the house repaired. He found nothing in the Treasury in Pembroke-Hall: he left it in ready money a thousand pound: being Prebend Residentiary in Paul's, he built the house in Creed-Lane belonging to his Prebend, and recovered it to the Church: he repaired the Dean's lodging. When he came to Chichester he repaired the Palace there: at Eli, he spent on the Bishop's houses two thousand pound. Besides, he refused to make some Leases in his last years, which might have been very beneficial to him, for the good of his Successor. His reason was, Many are too ready to spoil Bishoprics, and few enough to uphold them.  
15. He was always a diligent and painful Preacher: most of his Solemn Sermons he was most careful of, and exact; I dare say, few of them, but they passed his hand and were thrice revised, before they were preached: and he ever misliked often and lose preaching, without study of Antiquity: and he would be bold with himself and say, When he preached twice a day at S. Giles, he prated once.  
16. After he came to have an Episcopal House with a Chapel, he kept monthly Communions inviolably; yea though himself had received at the Court, the same month. In which, his Carriage was not only decent and religious, but also exemplary. He ever offered twice at the Altar, and so did every one of his servants: to which purpose he gave them money, lest it should be burdensome to them.  
17. He was such an enemy to Simony, that he endured many Troubles by Quare impedit, and Duplex querela. As for himself, he seldom gave a Benefice or Preferment to him that petitioned for it: he rather sent for men of note, that he thought wanted preferment, and gave them prebend's and Benefices, under Seal, before they knew of it; as to Mr. Boys and Mr. Fuller.  
18. Sacrilege, he did abhor, as one principal cause among many, of the foreign and civil Wars in Christendom, and invasion of the Turk. And at home, he wished some man would take the pains to collect, how many Families, that were raised by the spoils of the Church are now vanished, and the place thereof knows them no more.  
19 He was a great Almes-giver. When he lived at St. Giles, his certain Alms there was ten pound per an. paid quarterly by equal portions: and twelve pence every Sunday he came to Church and five shillings at every Communion, etc. The total of his pious and charitable works mentioned in his will, amounts to the sum of six thousand three hundred twenty six pound: He gave in private Alms in some few years before his death, to the sum of one thousand three hundred and forty pound.  
20. A great part of five hours every day did he spend in prayer and devotion to God: and a good while before he sickened he spent all his time in prayer: and in the time of his sickness he continually prayed, until it pleased God to receive his blessed Soul to himself.   



Lo here a Prelate, in whom Light, & Heat  
Learning & Zeal, Meekness, & Courage met,  
In God's cause, & the: Kings, our Brownrige was  
A Boanerges, though a Barnabas.   
W: Faithorne sculp.    

VII. RALPH BROUNRIG Bishop of Exeter.  
Out of Doctor Gauden's Sermon at his Funeral.  
1. BIshop Brounrig was a person of that soundness of Judgement, of that conspicuity for an unspotted life, of that unsuspected Integrity, that his life was virtutism norma (as St. Jerom of Nepotian) Ita in singulis virtutibus eminebat, quasi caeteras non habuisset: so eminent in every good and perfect gift, as if he had had but one only. I never heard of any thing said by him, which a wise and good man would have wished unsaid or undone; yet I had the happiness to know him above thirty years.  
2. The spring of this so fair, so deep, so clear, so noble a stream of Learning, Piety and Wisdom, was at Ipswich, a Town of good note in Suffolk: where he was born An. 1592. His parents of Merchantly condition, of worthy reputation, and of very Christian Conversation. When he was not many weeks old, God took away his earthly Father, that himself might have the more tender care of the Orphan. By the prudence of his pious Mother, his Youth and first years of reason were carefully improved for his breeding in all good Learning.  
3. He was sent in his fourteenth year to Pembroke-Hall in Cambridge. There, his Modesty, Pregnancy and Piety soon invited preferment. He was first made Scholar of the House, and after Fellow, a little sooner than either his years or standing in rigour of Statute permitted: but the College was impatient not to make sure of him, by grafting him firmly into that Society, which had been famous for many excellent men, but for none more than Brounrig.  
4. When King James (that most learned Prince) was pleased to honour the University of Cambridge by his presence, and to make Exercises of Scholars the best part of his Entertainment, this person (than a young man) was one of those who were chosen by the University to adorn that Reception of the King. The part he performed was Jocoserious (of praevaricator) a mixture of Philosophy with Wit and Oratory. This he discharged, to the admiration more than the mirth of the King, and the other learned Auditors: who rejoiced to see such a luxuriancy of Wit was consistent with innocency; that jesting was confined to conveniency, and Mirth married with that Modesty which became the Muses.  
5. Among his learned and accurate performances in public, I cannot but observe, that when he took the Degree of B. D. the Text upon which he chose to preach his Latin Sermon was prophetic and preparatory to his after sufferings: Phil. 1. 29. Vobis autem datum, etc. To you it is given on the behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for his sake. Which eloquent and pious Sermon he afterwards was to fulfil indeed. Quod docuit verbo, firmavit exemplo: He made his Doctrine good by his practice, taking up the cross of Christ and following him.  
6. He was preferred to be Prebend of the Collegiate Church of Eli, by the favour and love of the then Bishop of that Seat, Doctor Felton, a very holy and good man. He had also a good living at Barlow, not far from Cambridge, a Country Village; where he condescended in his preaching and catechising to ordinary capacities: (He oft deplored the disuse and want of Catechising:) After that, this great Lamp was set and shined in a Sphere more proper and proportionate, being chosen Master of Katherine Hall. Here, it was wonderful to see, how the Buildings, the Revenues, the Students and the studiousness of that place increased, by the care, counsel, prudence, diligence and Fame of Doctor Brounrig; who had such an eye to all, that he oversaw none, frequenting the Studies, and examining even younger scholar's, that they might be encouraged in Learning and Piety.  
7. He kept up very much, as good Learning and good Manners, so the honour of Orthodox Divinity, and orderly Conformity: He kept to the Doctrine, Worship, Devotion, and Government in the Church of England: Which, he would say, he liked better and better, as he grew older. If any, out of scruple or tenderness of Conscience, was less satisfied with some things, no man had a more tender heart, or a gentler hand to heal them. He would convince, though he did not convert Gain-sayers; and if he could not persuade them, yet he would pity and pray for them.  
8. He could endure differences among learned and godly men, in opinions, especially sublime and obscure, without distance in affection. He thought that Scripture itself was in some points left unto us less clear and positive, that Christians might have wherewith to exercise both Humility in themselves, and Charity towards others. He very much venerated the first worthy Reformers of Religion at home and abroad: yet was he not so addicted to any one Master, as not freely to use his own great and mature Judgement. He hoped every good Man had his Retractations, either actual or intentional; though all had no time to write them, as Saint Austin did. He had the greatest Antipathy against those unquiet and pragmatic Spirits, which affect endless Controversies, Varieties and Novelties in Religion, to carry on a party, and under that screen of Religion to advance their private Interests and politic Designs.  
9 For the Liturgy, though he needed a set form as little as any, yet he had a particular great esteem of it: 1. For the honour and piety of its Martyrly Composers: 2. For its excellent matter, and prudent Method: 3. For the good he saw it did to all sober Christians: the want of which he saw was not supplied by any Ministers private way of praying and preaching. Not, that the Liturgy is unalterable: but he judged all such Alterations ought to be done by the public spirit. As for Bishops, he was too learned a man to doubt, and too honest to deny the universal Custom and practice of the Church of Christ, in all ages and places for fifteen hundred years, according to the pattern (at least) received from the Apostles: who, without doubt, followed, as they best knew, the mind of Christ.  
10. He was by the favour of King Charles, and to the great liking of all good men made Bishop of Exeter, Anno 1641. Whereupon, a certain Gentleman told me; He wondered Doctor Brounrig would be made a Bishop, whom he had heard sometime declare his judgement against Episcopacy. Which, as I no way believed, so relating it soon after to the Bishop, He with some passion replied; I never thought, much less said, as that person hath falsely averred. I thank God, I took the office of a Bishop with a good Conscience, and so I hope by his Mercy I shall both maintain and discharge it.  
11. And however this excellent Bishop enjoyed not the benefit of the King's favour and munificence, as to his Bishopric, or any other preferment, after the Troubles of the times; yet he was ever most unmovable in his royal respects of fidelity, gratitude, love and obedience. Accordingly, when O. P. with some show of respect to him, demanded his judgement in some public affairs, the Bishop with his wont Gravity and Freedom replied: My Lord, the best Counsel I can give you, is that of our Saviour, Render unto Caesar the things that be Caesars, and unto God the things that be Gods. With which free Answer O. P. rested rather silenced then satisfied.  
12. This Grave personage, when forced to retire, was useful to those that were worthy of him, and knew how to value and use him, either as a Bishop, or as a Divine, or a Counsellor, or a Comforter, or a Friend. Among those, that gave him a liberal and noble entertainment, Thomas Rich Esq; of Sunning in Bark-shire, deserves with honour to be thus registered, That he was the special friend to Bishop Brounrig. Indeed none could be hospitable to him gratis: He always paid largely for his entertainments by his many excellent Discourses.  
13. He was always, when in health, as cheerful (as far as the Tragedies of the Times gave leave) as one that had the continual feast of a good Conscience; and as content, as if he had had a Lords estate. All diminutions and indignities, which some men put upon so worthy and venerable a person, he digested into patience and prayers. Thus he was in some degree conformable to the primitive Bishops, which were poor and persecuted, yea to the great Bishop of our Souls, Who for our sakes made himself of no reputation.  
14. About a year before he died, he was invited with much respect and civility to the Honourable Societies of both Temples, to bless them, as with his constant Residence, so with his Fatherly Instructions and Prayers. To show the Reality of their love and value to his Lordship, they not only allowed an annual honorary Recompense to express their Thanks, but they provided handsome Lodgings, and furnished them with all things necessary, convenient and comely for a person of his worth. Such as could hear him preach rejoiced at his gracious words: such as for the crowd could not come nigh enough to hear him, had pleasure to stay and behold him, conceiving they saw a Sermon in his looks, and were bettered by the venerable Aspect of so worthy a person.  
15. God was pleased to exercise him with bodily pains, indispositions and distempers, sometimes with sharp fits of the Stone; but under all these God supported him with his Grace, and spirit, as always humble, devout and pious, so for the most part sociable, serene and cheerful, till he had lived to his sixty seventh year. He had more frequent Infirmities, as gentle monitors, a little before his death, of which he would speak to myself and others, as one that by dying daily was well acquainted with death: and would say, That it was a very cheap time now to die: there being so little temptation to desire life, and so many to welcome death: since he had lived to see no King in the State, no Bishop in the Church, no Peer in Parliament worthy of that name. He only hoped and prayed that God would favour him so far with an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, as to let him die without pain: as indeed he did. For after his spirits were in ten days decayed and wasted, he slumbered much, yet had vigilant Intervals; at which times he gave himself to prayer and meditation and holy Discourses: And being full of the Grace and peace of God, and confirmed in it by the Absolution of the Church (which belongs to all that die in the true faith, and blessed hope of penitent sinners) he placidly rendered his holy, devout and precious Soul to God that gave it, Dec. 7. 1659. vid. fin.  
16. His Body for stature and figure was somewhat taller and bigger than ordinary, yet very comely. No man ever became the Preachers Pulpit, or the Doctor's Chair, or the Episcopal Seat (it was called of old Thronus Episcopalis) better than he did; carrying before him such an unaffected State and grandeur, such a benign gravity, and a kind of smiling Severity, that one might see much in him to be reverenced, and more to be loved: yet what was venerable in him was very amiable, and what was amiable was very venerable.  
17. If you please to add to your former favours (while he lived amongst you) this last, of giving order and leave to adorn your Chapel with any Monument for him, you need be at no more cost, then to inscribe, on a plain Stone, the name of BISHOP BROUNRIG: This will make that Stone Marble enough, and your Chapel a Mausoleum.  Naz. Orat. 23. 
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VIII. Mr THO. GATAKER.  
Out of the Narrative annexed to his Funeral Sermon.  
1. HE was a branch of an ancient Family, so firmly by God's providence planted in Shropshire, that the stock hath continued in the same House, carrying the name of its owner, and known by the title of Gatacre-hall, by an uninterrupted succession from the time of K. Edward the Confessor.  
2. His Father was household Chaplain to Robert Earl of Leicester, and Pastor of S. Edmund's in Lumbardstreet London. In that parsonage-house, by his Wife Margarit, being of an honest Family of the Pigot's in Hertfordshire, among other children, he had this Son Thomas, born Septem. 4. 1574.  
3. In his childhood, he was so addicted to learning, that he needed a bridle rather than a spur. This love of learning joined with an admirable capacity, a nimble wit and vast memory, adorned with sober manners, advanced him from the Grammar School to the University, (where he was by his father placed in Saint John's College, in Cambridge) in the 15 year of his Age, 1590.  
4. Here, not from mere favour, but from merit (upon proof of his learning) he was chosen Scholar of that worthy Society: wherein he continued his studies with unwearyed diligence and happy success, till with abilities answerable to his Degree, he commenced Master of Arts.  
5. Take for an instance of his Industry this: That he was a constant Auditor of that eminent light of learning Mr Jo. Boys: who read a Greek Lecture in his bed to certain young students, that preferred antelucana studia before their rest and ease. The Notes whereof he kept as a Treasure, and being visited by Mr Boys many years after, he produced them to the no small joy of the good old man, who professed himself made some years younger by that entertainment.  
6. Such esteem he was of in the University, that he was chosen to be Fellow of Sidney College, while it was in building. Mean while, he retired to a Gentleman's house in Essex, where he expounded some part of Scripture every morning. At which exercise, Dr Stern, suffragan of Colchester, at a time happening to be present, and approving his endowments, exhorted Mr Gataker to take holy Orders. But he well weighed the burden of that Calling, and modestly judging of his own Abilities, deferred the matter, till by the advice of Mr Alvey, formerly his Tutor, and by a second instance of the Doctor, he assented to be Ordained by the said Suffragan.  
7. Sidney Coll: being finished, he betook himself to his station there, and was happy in seasoning Young Students with principles of piety and learning. He was also a partner to some other charitable Divines, in a pious Design of preaching in places adjacent to the University, where need was. And for half a year he preached at Everton every Lord's day.  
8. After this, he removed from Cambridge, to Sir William Cooks Family, then resident in London, where he made a more public discovery of his Ministerial gifts, and was invited to the Lecturers place in Lincoln's Inn. But he, according to his usual Modesty declined it, till Dr Montague, Mr of Sidney Coll. then in London, with an intention to call Mr Gataker back to the College to read the Hebrew Lecture, laying that aside, encouraged him against his own diffidence, and with his Authority and Arguments wrought him at last to an Assent.  
9 At Lincoln's Inn he spent ten years to the advancement of piety: and in the Vacations resided and preached in the Family of Sir William Cook; to whose Lady he was near in blood: and so dear to both, that in consideration of his pains freely taken, they settled upon Mr Gataker an Annuity of twenty pounds. This he enjoyed some few years, but after (for some reasons) generously remitted unto the Heir of that Family, forbearing to use the right he had, and forbidding his Executor to claim any Arrears of that Annuity.  
10. An. 1611. being called to the Rectory of Redrith in Surrey, commending his former charge to the Grace of God, he betook himself to the sole attendance on that Flock of which God had now made him Overseer. His Industry in discharge thereof was constant and great, notwithstanding an almost perpetual headache, wherewith God had exercised him from his very youth. To the work of his preaching on the Lord's day, he added a weekly Catechetical Lecture on Friday in the Evening, which he continued, accurately and methodically, till he had gone through the whole body of Divinity, and gave it over when he observed his parishioners grown to a neglect his of free labours in thatkind. Solent ultroneae putere merces. Hieron.  
11. An. 1620. Having a justifiable curiosity to see our neighbour Church in the United Provinces, and something of the other Provinces in Belgium, he took the advantage of the Truce then between the Spaniard and the Hollander, for a free passage between both Countries. In this travel he shown himself a good preacher to the English Church at Middleburgh, and a good Disputant to the English Papists in Flanders. God prospered his journey; and within a month, having viewed the most considerable places in the Low Countries, he returned safe.  
12. An. 1643. Being scarce recovered from a violent fit of the Colic, he was called into the Assembly of Divines: where his modest and peaceable behaviour was remarkable. During his attendance there, the Mastership of Trinity Col. in Cambridge, the greatest preferment in that University, was offered him. But this good man (though often importuned by many friends to accept of the motion) according to his accustomed Modesty refused to undertake that place of much honour and advantage, pleading, together with his unworthiness, his old age and weakness of body.  
13. His Gifts of edification may be seen in his Works extant, viz. Of the Nature and Use of Lots. A volume of Sermons in fol. De Novi Test. stylo Dissertatio. Comment. in M. Anton. Imp. and many more. His Polite literature was much esteemed by learned men abroad, Salmasius and others, with whom he held correspondence: And the exercise of it, with condescension to children, hath been admired at Tunbridge School in the Visitation of it. He had a felicity to make his human literature (as it ought to be) subservient to Religion.  
14. His graces of Sanctification were also very eminent: His piety, in the care of God's ordidinances, and love to God's House: His Charity, in his tender sense of the Church's Afflictions, and abridging himself of his liberty in some lawful things to please the weak: His Humility, in a low esteem of his Abilities, and declining of dignities and preferments: His Meekness, in conversing with the meanest, and descending to them in the way of Counsel and satisfaction of their doubts: His patience, in bearing the afflictions on his body; and his Faith, in commending his soul into the hands of God. Satur Vitae tanquam conviva recessit. An. D. 1654. aet. 80.  
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— He is gone,  
Learnt in all here, where more is to be known.   


DR. HENRY HAMMOND, From an Original Picture in the Hall of Magdalene College, Oxford. Pub. 1 Nou. 1796. by E & S▪ Harding Pall Mall.    

IX. Dr. H. HAMMOND.  
Out of his life written by Dr. John Fell, Dean of Ch. Ch.  
HE was born in Surrey, 18. Aug. 1605. the youngest son of Doctor John Hammond, Physician to Prince Henry, and from him had the honour at the font to receive his Christian name. Being yet in his long coats, he was sent to Eton School; and at thirteen years old, to Magd. Coll. in Oxford. Being to proceed Master of Arts, he was made Reader of the natural Philosophy Lecture there. An. 1629, ●eing twenty four years of age, he entered into holy orders. An. 1633, having preached at Court for Dr. Frewen, he was preferred by the Earl of Leicester to the Rectory of Pensehurst. *  
1. In the discharge of his Ministerial function (at Pensehurst) he satisfied not himself in diligent and constant preaching only (a performance wherein some of late have fancied all Religion to consist) but much more conceived himself obliged to the offering up the solemn daily Sacrifice of Prayer for his people, administering the Sacraments, relieving the poor, keeping Hospitality, reconciling of Differences amongst Neighbours, visiting the sick, catechising of the Youth.  
2. As to the first of these, his Preaching, 'twas not at the rate of the Times, an unpremeditated, undigested effusion of shallow and crude conceptions; but a rational and just discourse, that was to teach the Priest as well as the Lay-hearer. His Method was (which likewise he recommended to his Friends) after every Sermon to resolve upon the ensuing Subject; that being done, to pursue the course of study which he was then in hand with, reserving the close of the week for the provision for the next Lordsday. Whereby not only a constant progress was made in Science, but materials unawares were gained unto the immediate future work: for, he said, be the Subject treated of never so distant, somewhat will infallibly fall in conducible unto the present purpose.  
3. The offices of Prayer he had in his Church, not only upon the Sundays or Festivals and their Eves, as also Wednesdays and Fridays, according to the appointment of the Rubric (which strict duty and ministration, when 'tis examined to the bottom, will prove the greatest objection against the Liturgy) but every day in the week, and twice on Saturdays and Holiday Eves: For his assistance wherein he kept a Curate, and allowed him a comfortable Salary. And at those Devotions he took order that his Family should give diligent and exemplary attendance: which was the easilier performed, it being guided by his Mother, a woman of ancient virtue, and one to whom he paid a more than filial obedience.  
4. As to the Administration of the Sacrament, he reduced it to an Imitation, though a distant one, of Primitive frequency, to once a month, and therewith it's anciently inseparable Appendent, the Offertory: wherein his Instruction and happily insinuating Example so far prevailed that there was thenceforth little need of ever making any tax for the poor. Nay (if the report of a sober person born and bred up in that Parish be to be believed) in short time a stock was raised to be always ready for the apprentising of young Children, whose Parents condition made the provision for them an equal Charity to both the Child and Parent. And after this there yet remained a superplusage for the assistance of the neighbour Parishes.  
5. For the Relief of the poor, besides the forementioned expedient (wherein others were sharers with him) unto his private Charity, the dedicating the Tenth of all Receipts, and the daily Alms given at the door, he constantly set apart over and above, every week, a certain rate in money. Yet farther, an other Art of Charity he had, the selling Corn to his poor Neighbours at a rate below the Market-price: which, (though, as he said, he had reason to do, gaining thereby the charge of portage) was a great benefit to them, who, besides the abatement of price and (possibly) forbearance, saved thereby a days work.  
6. He that was thus liberal to the necessitous poor, was no less hospitable to those of better quality: and as at other times he frequently invited his Neighbours to his Table, so more especially on Sundays, which seldom past at any time without bringing some of them his guests: but here beyond the weekly treatments, the Christmas Festival had a peculiar allowance to support it. He knew well how much the Application at the Table inforc'd the Doctrines of the Pulpit, and how subservient the endearing of his Person was to the recommending his instructions, how far upon these motives our Saviour thought fit to eat with Publicans and Sinners, and how effectual the loaves were to the procuring of Disciples.  
7. As by public admonition he most diligently instilled that great fundamental doctrine of Peace and Love, so did he likewise in his private address and conversation, being never at peace in himself till he had procured it among his Neighbours; wherein God so blest him, that he not only attained his purpose of uniting distant parties unto each other, but, contrary to the usual fate of reconcilers, gained them to himself: there having been no person of his function any where better beloved than he when present, or lamented more when absent, by his flock. Of which tender and very filial Affection, in stead of more, we may take two instances: the one, that he being driven away, and his books plundered, one of his Neighbours bought them in his behalf, and preserved them till the end of the War: the other, that during his abode at Pensehurst he never had any vexatious Law-dispute about his deuce, but had his Tithes fully paid, and not of the most refuse parts, but generally the very best.  
8. Though he judged the time of sickness an improper season for the great work of Repentance, yet he esteemed it a most useful Preparative, the voice of God himself exhorting to it: and therefore not only when desired made his Visits to all such as stood in need of those his charities, but prevented their requests by early and frequent coming to them. And this he was so careful of▪ that after his remove from Pensehurst, being at Oxford, and hearing of the Sickness of one of his Parishioners, he from thence sent to him those Instructions which he judged useful in that Exigent, and which he could not give at nearer distance.  
9 For the Institution of Youth in the Rudiments of piety, his Custom was, during the warmer season of the year, to spend an hour before Evening prayer in Catechising, whereat the Parents and older sort were wont to be present, and from whence (as he with comfort was used to say) they reaped more benefit than from his S●rmons. Where it may not be superfluous to observe that he introduced no new form of Catechism, but adher▪ d to that of the Church, rendering it fully intelligible to the meanest capacities by his Explanations. (It may be useful withal to advert, that if in those times Catechetical Institution were very seasonable, 'twill now be much more; when Principles have been exchanged for dreams of words and notions.) Besides all this, that there might be no imaginable assistance wanting, he took care for the providing an able Schoolmaster in the Parish, which he continued during the whole time of his abode.  
10. And as he thus laboured in the spiritual building up of Souls, he was not negligent of the material Fabric committed to his trust: but repaired with a very great expense (the annual charge of 100 l.) his Parsonage house; till from an incommodious ruin he had rendered it a fair and pleasant dwelling, with the adherent conveniences of Gardens and Orchards.  
11. While he was thus busy on his Charge, etc. But I earnestly desire the Reader to peruse the whole story of this excellent Divine excellently written by the Venerable Dean. Only, I will take leave to add here some of his Rules and Say.  
12. He scarcely recommended any thing in his advices with that concern and vigour, as, To be furnished always with somewhat to do. This he proposed as the best expedient both for innocence and pleasure, assuring, That no burden is more heavy, or temptation more dangerous, then to have Time lie on ones hand: adding, The idle man's brain is the Devil's shop.  
13. He professed, He had no such way of enjoying any thing, as by reflection from the person whom he loved: so that his friends being happy was the readiest way to make him so.  
14. The principal thing he contracted for in Friendship was a free use of mutual Admonition: which he extended even to undecencies, saying, It was a poor design of Friendship to keep the Person he admitted to his breast only from being scandalous; as if the Physician should endeavour only to secure his patiented from the plague. And this he gave as a general rule, and enforced by his Example, Never to reprove in Anger, or the least appearance of it.  
15. He would say, He delighted to be loved, not reverenced; thinking that where there was much of the later, there could not be enough of the former; somewhat of restraint and distance attending on the one, which was not well consistent with the perfect freedom requisite to the other.  
16. To the performances of friendship he ha●ed all mercenary returns, whereof he was so jealous, as hardly to leave place for gratitude, Love, he said, was built upon the union and similitude of minds, and not the bribery of gifts and benefits. So generous was he herein, that he has oft professed, He admitted retributions of good turns, yet not so much on any score, as that his friend might have the pleasure of being kind.  
17. When any one had sent him a slight present of Apples or the like, his Reward would usually much exceed the value; and he would be so well pleased to have such an occasion of giving to a servant, saying, Alas, poor Soul, I warrant he is glad of this little matter, that this seemed a part of the senders courtesy.  
18. He was used to say, That 'twas a most unreasonable and unchristian thing to despise any one for his poverty. And, That 'twas one of the greatest sensualities in the world, to Give: Upon which consideration he often took occasion to magnify the exceeding Indulgence of God, that had annexed future rewards to that which was so amply its own Recompense.  
19 He gave this for a Rule to those of his friends that were of estate and quality, To treat their poor Neighbours with such a cheerfulness, that they may be glad to have met with them.  
20. To show how high a value he put on the Souls of men, he often broke out into words of this effect, which had with them still in the delivery an extraordinary vehemence, O what a glorious thing, how rich a prize for the expense of a man's whole life were it, to be the instrument of rescuing any one Soul!  
20. His Motto of instruction to young persons was, Principiis obsta, and, Hoc age; to withstand the overtures of ill, and be intent and serious in good: to which he joined a third advice, To be furnished with a Friend.  
21. For serenity and calm of Mind, he laid this Rule before him, which proved of great use, Never to trouble himself with the foresight of future events, being resolved of our Saviour's Maxim, Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof.  
21. If he saw any perplexed about the manage of their difficult affairs, he was wont to ask them, When they would begin to trust God, or permit him to govern the World. And to himself and friends he was wont solemnly to give this mandate, Quod sis esse velis, nihilque malis; in his English, to rather nothing: Not only to be content or acquiesce▪ but be resolved the present estate to be the very best that could be wished or fancied.  
22. He looked upon the King's return with pity and compassion, as bringing him to that uneasy, if not insuperable Task of ruling and reforming a licentious people. It will be a blessing to his people, but unto him can not be so, but only on this score, by having opportunities through glorious self-denyals to do good.  
23. When the Change approached, discoursing of occurrents, he broke forth into these words, I must confess, I never saw that time in all my life, wherein I could so cheerfully say my Nunc dimittis, as now. Indeed I do dread prosperity, I do really dread it. For the little good I am now able to do, I can do it with deliberation and advice: but if it please God I should live and be called to any higher office in the Church, I must then do many things in a hurry, and shall not have time to consult with others, and I sufficiently apprehend the danger of relying on my own judgement.  
24. In his last sickness he comforted his sad friends, saying, He should leave them in God's hands, who could supply abundantly all the assistance they could either expect or desire from him; and who would so provide, that they should not find his removal any loss.  
25. When in his sharp agonies his friends betook themselves to their extemporary ejaculations, he composed those irregularities by saying, Let us call on God in the Voice of his Church.  
26. At the Communion, hearing those words of the Apostle, Jesus Christ came into the World to save sinners, he pathetically rejoined, Of whom I am chief.  
23. To the good Lady of the house, who asked him, what he would chief commend to her, he briefly answered, uniform Obedience.  
28. A few minutes before his death, he breathed out those words which best became his Christian life, Lord make haste.  
Ob. Apr. 25. 1660.   

X. Dr MILES SMITH. Bishop of Gloc.  
Out of the Preface before his Sermons, published by Mr Jo. Stephens.  
1. FOr the manner of his life and the constant tenor of it, this I can affirm, that therein he shown forth the fruits of the Spirit, such as the Apostle speaks of, Love, Joy, Peace, etc. Add hereunto that sincerity and godly pureness that appeared in all his actions, striving not so much to seem, as verily and indeed to be a pattern of gracious deportment, and it may be said of him, as our Saviour testifieth of Nathaniel, Behold an Israelite in whom was no guile.  
2. He always shown himself most ready to minister to the necessity of the indigent and needy, having a tender touch even naturally that way. Yeerly pensions he allowed whilst he lived, as his great charge would give him leave, to be distributed to the poor, as of the place where he was Bishop, so in other places where he had means; besides the daily relief they of the City found at his gates. Exhibition of maintenance he continued to divers poor Scholars in the University of Oxford, whose parents were not able to sustain that charge; and was ever forward in succouring and relieving poor strangers and travellers that came unto him. Whether his Alms were great or small, they were always mixed with alacrity and cheerfulness.  
3. And as he was pitiful to the poor, so very charitable towards all, and apt to forgive wrongs and injuries done unto him, hardly to be digested in the stomach of a carnal man. The virtuous and religious he always praised and encouraged, using instruction and rebuke to the contrary minded; not in the voice of thunder, in an over zealous strain, but soft words of meekness, the most likely, if not the only winning way. And in matter of doubt, the bias of his good inclination still hanged (as every good man's should do) towards the better sense. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Naz.  
4. His piety must not be forgotten, his care of God's true worship and zeal unto his house. It was his joy to see a company of well-devoted people to meet together to praise God; and to that end, he did not only continue a Lecture (begun in his predecessors time) to be read in the Cathedral weekly on the Tuesday, by the gravest Orthodox and Conformable Preachers within his Diocese, from the time of his entrance into that See, till he died; being full twelve years and upward: but did usually present himself in the assembly at divine prayers and Sermons, both on the Lords Day and Lecture days, if urgency of occasions hindered not. And certainly there is nothing that ties the hearts of the people so close unto their guides and governor's, and maketh them so faithful each to other, as a joint harmony and consent therein. Hence he gained from men a reverend esteem, he was honoured and beloved of all sorts, and God, I doubt not, in Christ, hath given him to find the fruit of his holiness in the fruition of his blessed presence.  
5. Touching the things of this world, he carried himself as though he looked not after them; never looking for any preferment that he had, before it was by God's providence cast upon him. Surely, the Bishopric of Gloc. was conferred upon him unsought for, unlooked for, at the suit of the Archb. of Cant. That of Naz. may be verified of him: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
6. And now for his sufficiency in learning, as therein I suppose he was inferior to none, either for knowledge in Divinity, or skill in the Eastern Tongues: So joining to the height of his knowledge the Humility of his mind, for my part I must confess, that I never knew or heard of his match. Of his exactness in those languages, this may be a sufficient testimony, that he was not only thought worthy by King James of blessed memory, to be called to the Translation of the Bible, but was one of the twelve by whom it was revised; and at last it was referred to the final Examination of Bishop Bilson, and this our Bishop: Viri eximii & ab initio in toto hoc opere versatissimi (Synod. Dord.) who happily concluded that worthy labour. The work being finished, Bishop Smith was commanded to write a Preface, and so he did, in the name of all the Translators (the same that is now extant in our Church-Bible) the Original whereof I have seen under his own hand.  
7. Though he were so useful an instrument, so strong a helper in the former work, as also the Sole-authour of this latter, the Preface: (a comely Gate to so rich and glorious a City:) yet could I never hear that he did at any time speak of either, with any attribution to himself more than to the rest. So that as the Sun, the nearer it cometh to the Zenith, the less shadow it causeth; so certainly the higher he mounted into the mysteries of Divine and Humane knowledge, the lower and less he seemed to be in his own eyes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. As Naz. spoke of Athanasius.  
8. And now concerning the course of his studies (wherein I would propose him as a Pattern to be imitated by young students in our ●niversities) he constantly applied himself from his youth (as they that were then acquainted with him know) to the reading of ancient Classical Authors of the best note in their own languages: Wherewith, as with the Neoterick, he was plentisully stored, and lufted after no worldly things, so much as books: Nullius rei praeterquam librorum avarus, was sometime his own speech merrily, but (as I persuade myself) truly, for there was scarcely a book (in so great a number) to be found in his Library, especially of the Ancients, that he had not read over, a capite ad calcem, as hath been observed by those that had the perusal of them since his death.  
9 He ran through the Greek and Latin Fathers, and judiciously noted them in the margin, being sitted for that purpose by the dextrous use of his pen, wherein he came not short even of P●ofes●ots themselves in that faculty. The Rabbins also, so many as he had, with their Glosses and Commentaries, he read and used in their own id●om of speech: and so conversant he was and ex●●●t in the Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, that he made them as familiar to him almost, as his own native Tongue.  
10. But for the Hebrew, this I can affirm from credible relation, that being upon a time sent unto and requested (whilst he was a Residentiary in the Cathedral Church of Hereford: which city was also honoured with his birth) by the then Dean of the same Church, upon special occasion to read the first lesson at evening prayer there, he yielded thereunto; and having with him a little Hebrew Bible (the same I suppose that he afterwards used to his death) of Plantins' impression sine punctis; he delivered the Chapter there in the English Tongue plainly and fully, to that learned and judicious Auditory: (Far be from us any suspicion of Ostentation in him for that act, who never knew to boast of himself, or any thing that he had, or any thing that he did.)  
11. Stories of all times he knew, and for his rich and accomplished furniture in that study, had this Elogium given him by a grave and learned Bishop, B. King, to be a very walking Library. And he was so well acquainted with the site of places, Topography, and observed so well the time when every thing of note was done in those several places, that he hath caused great Travellers and Scholars falling into discourse with him, to departed away with admiration of his skill.  

Additions out of Mr. Prior's Sermon at his Funeral.  
12. His merit in the new Translation of the Bible, preferred him to this place of Government in the Church. For, with Basilius Magnus, Non ex majoribus, sed ex propria virtute nobilitatem duxit: He ennobled himself with his own worth and virtue.  
13. Two singular ornaments crowned him, which seldom meet in one man, Learning and Humility. On a time (and many such I could tell you) a poor Minister sending in to speak with him, abruptly he broke off a most serious discourse, saying, But the Minister must not stay, lest we should seem to take state upon us. Therein imitating the great Athanasius, being, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Nazianz.  
14. When in his sickness, one hoped for his recovery, he gave the answer that St. Ambrose gave to the Nobles of Milan, that desired him to pray for life: Non ita inter vos vixi, ut pudeat ms vivere; nec timeo mori, quoniam dominum bonuns habemus.  
15. Not many hours before his departure (for non obiit sed abiit) I found him, as me seemed, victorious upon some conflict (Quis sarctorum sine certamine coronatur?) I drew near his bed, he reached for my hand and greezed it, saying, I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded, that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. This occasioned something about reliance on God by Faith: Yea, said he, I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. And again, The mercies of the Lord are from generation to generation, on them that fear him. Mercy brought in thoughts of Christ: Oh (saith he, in the words of that holy Martyr) none but Christ, none but Christ! Being told how preciously the Lord esteemeth the death of such: He replied, Right dear, right dear in the sight of the Lord, is the death of his Saints. Some prayers made for him upon his desire, at conclusion, he said: Amen, I thank God: Amen, enough: Amen, I thank God.  
16. When he was leaving this life he looked on his daughter, and on the rest of his children in the chamber present, and said: Christ bless you all. And like that old Patriarch, he moved himself upon the bed, and cried, Christ Jesus help, and so Christ took him, and conclamatum est. ●is soul is now at rest: his Name is among the Worthies of our Church.  
His Motto.  
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Ob. A. S. 1624. aet supra 70.  
FINIS.    

A Letter.  
To fill up this void leaf, or rather to promote conformity, which is partly the design of these Memorials, I take leave to translate hither out of the Oxford-book, very worthy to be Reprinted,  
A Letter of the Vicechancellor and others the Heads of the University of Cambridge, to the Vicechancellor and others of the University of Oxford, Octob. 7. 1603.  
E Latino.  
WHen ne●ly, and indeed very late, there came unto us a report of the Petition for Reformation (forsooth) of the Church of England, offered to his Majesty (as is pretended) by a thousand Ministers: though we found in it nothing new, and what hath been answered heretofore a thousand times; Yet, because they boast of their number, that these Millenaries may know, if Saul hath his thousand, David in this cause will never want his ten thousand, we were desirous (notwithstanding the work was altogether unworthy of it) to provide an answer. Whilst we were meditating thereof; there is brought unto our hands, that most Elegant answer of the University of Oxford, being a most rational and brief confutation of all that had by those men so laboriously been framed and feigned: upon sight whereof, nothing seemed to remain for us (whom in this best of causes, the zeal and industry of our Brethren easily able to refute such Adversaries, had prevented) but this, to add unto the weight of their Arguments (because those men glory most in their multitudes) the number of our Suffrages. This we did formerly (as it were divining) both foresee and provide for. For when, after the death of our Excellent Queen Elizabeth, always the same and most constant (a singular and incomparable example in a woman) in this best of causes, those men did not so much deplore the loss of a most Religious Princess, and the case of Religion itself (if not dying with her, yet at least in very great hazard) as meditate, and every day attempt Innovations against the new King's approach: Our University very opportunely judged her aid to be needful, and a decree to be made in a full and solemn Convocation: That, whosoever shall in the University of Cambridge publicly oppose, in word or writing or any other way, the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England, or any part thereof, by Law established; He shall be excluded from taking any degree, and be suspended ipso facto from the degree he hath taken. Which decree, even by Unanimous consent of the whole House, voted and recorded publicly, Jun. 9 1603. we do now desire to publish to the whole World, that all may be assured, what is the judgement, not of some Opiniasters in their corners and Conventicles, but of almost all the Cantabrigians in open senate, concerning that Discipline which we have not forced on us, but freely received and entertained. Whose consent so fraternally and sweetly concurring with the Oxford-answer, with Scripture, Fathers and Councils, with the decrees of our Princes, our Laws and Parliaments; Away with those thousand Ministers, let them go and answer at thousand Books of ours, already written and set forth for their satisfaction, before they do so impudently obtrude their Cram so often boiled, upon so wise a King, and so excellently learned. Or if they would have Suffrages rather to be numbered then weighed, let the poor Fellows, forsaken of the Universities and Muses, bethink themselves, of how little account, what nothings they are.  
Thus we take our leave of our most dear Brehrens in Christ; and, as we and our University, being united to you, both by similitude of studies and manners, are most fitmly Yours; So we entreat you, always to continue your love to Us.  
Camb. Oct. 7. 1603.