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A30950	Memorials of worthy persons the third decad / by Cl. Barksdale.; Memorials of worthy persons. Decade 3	Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.	1662 (1662)	Wing B801; ESTC R3607	45,467	114

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 impugne the Ecclesiastical policy of this Church of England nor to exact of us to frame our selves or our Church to the pattern of their Presbyterial Discipline c. 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 Arch-bishop 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 Chappel by his French pronunciation and want of good delivery did somewhat blemish the goodnesse of the matter which he handled yet the Arch-bishops property ever was to cherish and encourage him and all others that preached before him and was never heard to give the Preacher distast but rather would commend or excuse him against other mens 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 withall alledging 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 unlesse extraordinary businesses of the Marches of Wales hinder'd him he never failed to preach upon every Lords-day 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 Arch-bishop and lay at Croydon the Queen being in her Progresse 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 alwayes elegantly with special choice and substantial matter full of good and sound learning plentifull 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 pratling 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 Arch-bishop 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 doings 33. An. 1600. In the time of Essex's disloyalty the Arch-bishop sent threescore men well armed to shew 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 entred into the Gates of Essex house and in the first Court made good the place untill the Earl yeelded 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 readinesse fourty Horse-men 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 passe But indeed the Queens own recommendation of the Earl had wrought that good opinion of him in the Arch-bishop An. 1602. Mar. 24. dyed Queen Elizabeth And although the Arch bishop was much dejected and grieved for the losse of his dear Soveraign 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 cheerfull 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 rightfull Successor King James Afterwards in like cheerfull sort the Arch-bishop 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 Arch-bishop 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 Mathematicks 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 Armory and a fair Stable of great Horses

her To gratify which desire she gave him her Table-book in which she had written three sentences in Greek Latine and English as she saw her Husbands Body brought unto the Chappel 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 Latine 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 shew 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 then any which this vile Earth could give her she addressed her self in some few words to the standers by letting them know That her offence was not for having layd her hand upon the Crown but for not rejecting it with sufficient Constancy That she had lesse erred through Ambition then 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 Anothers ambition Then having desired the people to recommend her in their prayers to rhe 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 loquutam 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. Blith the Kings professor of Physick and Mary another of them to William Cecil afterwards Lord Burghley a most able Minister of State 2. Certainly his deserts were so far above vulgar and ordinary that they quickly purchased him a Fellowship in S. Johns Colledge and it may be disputable whether in point of learning he owed more to the place or the place to him His eminency was so generally taken notice of by the whole University that they pitched upon him for the sole manage of two weighty but honorary employments of their publick Orator and Greek Reader 3. In the discharge of this later he went over all Sophocles twice all Homer all Euripides and part of Herodotus to his Auditors 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 XI 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 antient but obsolete manner of pronuntiation 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 Chancellors 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 English-men 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 progresse he made under this Director of his studies appears by those noble Reliques of his industry and sufficiency both in Greek and Latine which are still preserved in his Majesties 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 professe in this Kingdom For he not only sowed the seeds of that Doctrin 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 bin his Scholar in the Coll. and successor in the Orators 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 wel 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 suiter to him for protection in those stormy times who in her Lerters to him gives him such an Elogie 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 quam 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 gratefull Prince had a purpose to erect higher preferments had not the hand of Providence so soon snatcht 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 Boord In this common losse of so good a King He good man had more then mon share Being clapt up in prison