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A45581	A briefe view of the state of the Church of England as it stood in Q. Elizabeths and King James his reigne, to the yeere 1608 being a character and history of the bishops of those times ... / written ... by Sir John Harington ..., Knight.	Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612.; Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.	1653 (1653)	Wing H770; ESTC R21165	84,945	232

nine dayes yet in a while he found means to pacifie her so well as she promised to come and I think did come to a house he had at Chelsey For there was a stayre and a dore made of purpose for her in a bay window of which pleasant wits descanted diversly some said that was for joy to shew he would as the Proverb is cast the house out at window for her welcome some more bitingly called it the Impresse or Emblem of his entry into his first Bishoprick viz. not at the doore but at the window But certain it is that the Queen being pacified and hee in great jollity with his faire Lady and her Carpets and Cushions in his bed-chamber he died suddenly taking Tobacco in his chaire saying to his man that stood by him whom he loved very well Oh boy I die whereupon many bolts were roved after him and some spitefully fether'd which both for charity sake as wel as brevity I wil omit but this blunt one not knowing out of whose Quiver it first came but fitting a gray goose wing I wil produce as his most vulgar Epitaph Here lies the first Prelate made Christendom see a Bishop a husband unto a Ladee The cause of his death was secret and hid He cry'd out I die and ev'n so he did He was buried in the Church the Dean and Chapter of Pauls not being so scrupulous as they of York were the 9. of Hen. 1. who because their Archbishop died suddenly buried him without the Church-porch notwithstanding he had been their great benefactor Bishop Vaughan Mr. Richard Vaughan is the next I have to speak of being the last man nam'd in my Authors Book and of him he hath but two lines onely declaring him to have been the Bishop of Chichester Upon the remove of my Lord of Canterbury that now is● he succeeded him in London as is not unknown to your Highnesse His beginning of preferment was under the Lord Keeper Puckering being his examiner of such as sued for the benefices in my Lords gift in which though some complaine he was too precise yet for my part I ascribe to that one of his greatest praises For this I know that a Preacher being a Noblemans Chaplaine and therefore qualified for two Benefices came to him ●recommended in good sort and brought with him a Gentleman of both their acquaintance that sometime had been an University man to speak for his approbation Mr. Vaughan examined him of no very deep points and found him but shallow and not very ready in the Roman Tongue his friend having been fain to help him up in two or three foule stumbles both of language and matter whereupon he dismist him without all hope of the Benefice and after told the Gentleman seriously that if he would have it himselfe he would allow him sufficient but the suitor by no means He was in those daies very prompt and ready in speech and withall factious he was an enemy to all supposed miracles insomuch as one arguing with him in the Closet at Greenwich in defence of them and alledging the Queens healing of the Evil for an instance asking him what he could say against it he answered that he was loth to answer arguments taken from the Topick place of the Cloth of estate but if they would urge hi● to answer he said his opinion was she did it by vertue of some precious stone in possession of the Crown of England that had such a naturall quality But had Queen Elizabeth been told that he had ascribed more vertue to her Jewels though she loved them wel then to her person she would never have made him Bishop of Chester He grew heavy and corpulent of a sudden not so much with too much ease as with too little exercise Corpus quod corrumpitur aggravat animam soon after his remove to London he fell into that drousie diseas● of which he afte died growing thereby unfit for the place that requires a Vigilantius and not a Dormitantius He was held a milde man and was well spoken of in the City which sometime hapneth not to them that deserve the best To conclude being taken with an Apoplexie he may be properly said to have slept with his forefathers Doctor Ravis Within a few moneths there succeeded him Doctor Ravis Bishop of Gloucester who is not formerly mentioned in this book because Mr. Goldborow his predecessor in Gloucester was then living His preferment to Gloucester makes me remember a story that some record of Scipio who being made Generall of the Roman Army was to name his Questor or Treasurer for the wars whom he thought fit being a place in those daies as is now in these of great importance one that took himselfe to have a speciall interest in Scipios favour was an earnest suitor for it but by the delay mistrusting he should have a deniall he importuned him one day for an answer Think not unkindness in me said Scipio that I delay you thus for I have been as earnest with a friend of mine to take it and yet cannot prevaile with him Noting hereby that offices of charge and conscience are fittest for such as shunne them modestly rather then such as seek them greedily And even so did my Lords of the Councell deale with Mr. Ravis who being then Dean of Christ-Church which lightly is not held but by some choise man of the University being a place of good valew and reputation was requested by them to take this Bishoprick when many that sued to have it were put by But as he was not willing to goe thither so they of Gloucester were more unwilling he should goe thence he was in a short space in so good liking of all sorts insomuch as some that can scaut well brook the name of a Bishop yet can be content to give him a good report For my part I have observed a great change in Gloucester from that it seemed nine yeers since about the Earle of Essex going into Ireland for at that time neither their Bishop seemed to care for them lying at a Prebends in Worcester which methought was very inconvenient nor they seemed much to care for themselves all their buildings both publique and private looking old and ruinous whereas of late yeeres their Bishop keeping his house neere them and being daily with them they have built them a new Market-place and are now building a faire Hall for justice which commendable and comfortable disposition of the people there and elsewhere though it be principally ascribed to the joy and comfort that all wel affected persons took of his Majesties happy entrance and peaceable government and of the succession established in his hopefull issue yet is not the leaft to be imputed to the discretion and diligence of the Pastors that waken and stirre up their charity and make them more sensible of Gods good blessings bestowed on them and the rather by this good Bishops means The Lord of Shrewsbury hath very Nobly and

yeeres and for Ethelmare to hold Winchester in like manner nine yeeres in Henry the thirds time to omit how Stygand in the Conquerours time and Woolsey in Henry the eighth his time both held Winchester in commendam As for changing or abating the possessions of it the laws then in force allowed it though a most godly law since restrained the like and I would all the Bishopricks in England were but so well left Now to come to Doctor Heaton he was compelled in a sort so to take it for potentes cum rogant jubent and as long as there was not quid dabis but haec auferam the more publique it was and by authority then lawfull he may be thought the more free from blame But were Eely as good as ever it was that could not finde the mouth●s bread that finde fault with his taking it in that order Before his Majesties comming to Oxford I was in Oxford Library and some of good quality of both the Universities and one of their chiefe Doctors said merrily to a Cambridge man that Oxford had formerly had a good Library till such time said he as a Cambridge man became our Chancellour and so cancell'd or catalog'd and scattered our Books he meant Bishop Cox in King Edwards time as from that time to this we could never recover them The other straight replied then are you even with us for one of your Oxford men hath seal'd so many good deeds of our good Bishoprick in Cambridgeshire that till they be canecl'd it will never be so good as it should be By his christen name also many take occasion to allude to this matter which whether for brevity sake he writ Mar or Mart or at full length Martin alwaies by adding Eely unto it it sounds to the like sence that either he did Marr it or Mart it or Martin it But he is too wise to be troubled with these Sapientis est nil praestare praeter culpam If any fare the worse for this now it is himself And as for his learning nd other good parts belonging to a Bishop he is inferrour to few of his ranke as your Highnesse can tell that have heard him preach before the Kings Majesty who said of him that fat men were wont to make lean Sermons but his were not leane but larded with much good learning And so much of the Bishoprick and Bishop of Eely Of LINCOLN Of Doctor Chaterton now living Following my Authors method I am next to speak of Lincoln a very large Diocesse yet not so great a Bishoprick as it hath been which I suspect by the oft removes from it as Bullingham Cooper and Wickham in Queen Elizabeths time and White in Queen Maries time I'note also that one of these removed to Worcester namely Bullingham of which I can imagine no reason except the largenesse of the Diocesse make it more painfull as indeed it would if the decree made in a Synod held by Saint Cuthbert in England were duely observed Of which the third as Mr. Fox hath it is that every Bishop once every yeere should goe over all the parishes of his Diocesse with which Decree by what authority men dispence I know not but sure few doe keep it This Doctor William Chaterton now Bishop of Lincoln and before of Chester I may remember in Cambridge a learned and grave Doctor though for his gravity hee could lay it aside when pleased him even in the Pulpit it will not be forgotten in Cambridge while he is remembred how preaching one day in his younger yeers a wedding Sermon which indeed should be festivall as the Marchant Royall was at my Lord Hays marriage with which being now in print many a good husband doth endeavour to edifie his wife I say Mr. Chatterton is reported to have made this pretty comparison and to have given this friendly caveat That the choice of a wife was full of hazzard not unlike as if one in a barrell full of Serpents should grope for one Fish if saith he he scape harm of the snakes and light on a fish he may be thought fortunate yet let him not boast for perhaps it may be but an Eele c. Howbeit he married afterwards himself and I doubt not sped better then his comparison He was well beloved among the schollers and the rather for that he did not affect any soure and austere fafhion either in teaching or government as some use to doe but well tempered both with courage and courtesie Being made Bishop of Chester he was a very great friend to the house of Darby Preaching the funerall Sermon of Henry Earle of Darby for some passages whereof he was like to be call'd in question though perhaps himselfe knew not so much I was present when one told a great Lord that loved not Ferdinando the last Earle how this Bishop having first magnified the dead Earle for his fidelity justice wisdome and such vertues as made him the best beloved man of his ranke which praise was not altogether undeserved he after used this Apostrophe to the Earle present And you saith he noble Earle that not onely inherit but exceed your fathers vertues learn to keepe the love of your Countrey as your father did you give saith he in your Arms Three Legs know you what they signifie I tell you they signifie three shires Cheshire Darbishire and Lancashire stand you fast on these three legs and you shall need feare none of their armes At which this Earle a little moved said in some heat not without an oath This Priest I believe hopes one day to make him three Courtsies But the two Earles I trust are friends now both being since departed this world though neither as I could wish them the one dying of a Yex the other of an Axe The Bishop was removed to Lincoln where he now remains in very good state having one onely daughter married to a Knight of good worship though now they living asunder he may be thought to have had no great comfort of that matrimony yet to her daughter he means to leave a great patrimony so as one might not unfitly apply that Epigram written of Pope Paulus and his daughter to this Bishop and his grandchild Cum sit filia Paule cum tibi aurum Quantum Pontifices habere raros Vidit Roma prius patrem non possum Sanctum discere id sed possum beatum Which I thus translated when I thought not thus to apply it Thou hast a daughter Paulus I am told and for this daughter store thou hast of gold The daughter thou didst get the gold didst gather make thee no holy but a happy father But if the Bishop should fortune to hear that I apply this verse so saucily and should be offended with it I would be glad in full satisfaction of this wrong to give him my sonne for his daughter which is a manifest token that I am in perfect charity with him Of COVENTRY and LICHFIELD Doctor William Overton now living

or two as occasion shall serve First therefore for the City of Bath to omit all the Antiquities noted by Mr. Camden and other good Authors as also seen by my selfe I observe this that amongst all our old Traditions and Legends thereof that seemeth as it were purposely left in suspence and not yet fully determined whether the Crowne or the Miter have more claime to the vertue that all men see and say to be in these waters Some affirme that King Bladud a learned King brought up at Athens long before Christs time either by his cunning in Magick did frame it or rather by his search did finde it or at least with his cost did first found it others believe that King Arthurs Uncle St. David a Bishop of Wales that lived longer with Leekes then we doe now with Larkes and Quailes by his Prayer procured this vertue to these Springs but this is manifest by most credible Histories that Offa King of Mercia built a goodly Abby there where before had been a Temple of Minerva and Hercules whom they feined to be Presidents of hot Bathes This Monastery built by Offa 775 was destroyed by the Danes being then no Christians about the yeare 900. Then it was reedified by Elphegus a Bishop of Canterbury 1010. and continued in great estimation for a place of holy and strickt life but had not yet the Title of a Bishoprick till John de Villula a French man borne and a Physician by profession being made Bishop of Wells which was in Latin de Fontibus admiring the vertue of these Bathes and the Cures they wrought for which it had been long before by the Saxons surnamed Akmanchester that is sick mans Towne This John de Villula thinking this place de Fontibus more honourable then the other cal'd Wells bought this City of K. William Rufus and translated his seat thither And finding that both that Towne and Abbey had beene late before defaced with fire he new built both about the yeare 1122 and was the first Bishop was buried there Then was that againe burned in the yeare 1132 and repaired againe by Bishop Robert and remained still the Bishops seat and inheritance till that Bankrout B●shop Savaricus for covetousnesse of Glastenbury In mercedem bujus unionis to use my Authors word for recompence of this Union of Glatenbury to Wells gave Bath againe to King Richard the First and yet notwithstanding these two so huge Revenues he spent so prodigally and unprovidently in his many journeyes to the Emperour that it is written he had a Legion of creditors and for his wandring humours he had this written for an Epitaph though not set on his Tombe at Bath Hospes eras Mundo per Mundum semper eund● Sic suprema die fit tibi prima quies Thus Bath againe after 100 yeares became the Kings and ever may it be so But the Church was not so sufficiently repaired as it ought in so much that in Henry the sevenths time it was ready to fall what time that Oliver King about 100. yeares since built it againe with so goodly a Fabrick as the stone work stands yet so firme notwithstanding the injuries of men time and tempests upon it Here I may by no meanes omit yet I can scarce tell how to relate the pretty Tales that are told of this Bishop King by what visions predictions he was encouraged and discouraged in the building of this Church whether some cunning woman had foretold him of the spoyle that followed as Paulus Jovius writes how a witch deceived his next successor Hadrian Bishop of Bath or whether his own minde running of it gave him occasion to dreame sleeping of that he thought waking but this goes so currant and confirmed with pretty probabilities That lying at Bath and musing or meditating one night late after his devotions and prayers for the prosperity of Henry the seventh and his children who were then all or most part living to which King he was principall Secretary and by him preferred to this Bishoprick He saw or supposed he saw a vision of the holy Trinity with Angels-ascending and descending by a ladder neere to the which there was a faire Olive Tree supporting a Crowne and a voyce said Let an Olive establish the Crowne and let a King restore the Church Of this dreame or vision he took exceeding great comfort and told it divers of his friends applying it to the King his master in part and some part to himselfe To his Mr. because the Olive being the Emblem or Hieroglyphick of peace plenty seemed to him to allude to King Henry the seventh who was worthily counted the wisest and most peaceable King in all Europe of that age To himselfe For the wisest will flatter themselves sometimes because he was not onely a thiefe Councellor to this King and had been his Ambassadour to conclude a most honourable peace with Charles the eight who paid as Hollinshed writeth 745. Duckets besides a yearely tribute of 25000 Crownes but also he carried both the Olive and King in his name and therefore thought he was specially designed for this Church work to the advancement of which he had an extraordinary inclination Thus though as St. Thomas of Aquin well noteth all dreames be they never so sensible will be found to halt in some part of their coherence and so perhaps may this yet most certaine it is for the time he was so transported with this dreame that he presently set in hand with this Church the ruines whereof I rue to behold even in writing these Lines and at the west end thereof he caused a representation to be graved of this Vision of the Trinity the Angels and the Ladder and on the North side the Olive and Crowne with certaine French words which I could not read but in English is this verse taken out of the Booke of Judges chap. 9. Trees going to chuse their King Said be to us the Olive King All which is so curiously cut and carved as in the West part of England Is no better worke then in the West end of this poore Church and to make the credit of all this more authenticke he added this word to it De sursum est it is from high Thus much the stones and walls though dumbe witnesses yet credible doe plainly testifie But in midst of all this Jollity having made so faire a beginning to his owne great content and no lesse to the Kings who came into this country at that time and lay at the Deane of Wells his house nine dayes I say in all this joy and comfort that hapned the Kings Primogenitus the Noble Prince Arthur having lately before married a great Infanta of Spaine to depart this life This so daunted the heart and hopes of this good Bishop that he doubted now his Vision would prove but an illusion that his Oliva would be but an Oleaster which melancholy thoughts were increast in him by the predictions as I touched before of some