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A55422	The life of the Right Reverend Father in God, Seth, Lord Bishop of Salisbury and chancellor of the most noble Order of the Garter with a brief account of Bishop Wilkins, Mr. Lawrence Rooke, Dr. Isaac Barrow, Dr. Turbervile, and others / written by Dr. Walter Pope ...	Pope, Walter, d. 1714.	1697 (1697)	Wing P2911; ESTC R4511	81,529	202

the Chancellor and he paid the Officers and the poor Knights of Windsor the Surplus the King had formerly granted to Sir Henry de Vic and it was quietly possest by him till he died out of which he was to defray the Charges and Fees of Admission of foreign Princes and Noblemen who were elected into that Order For this also the Bishop of Salisbury had the Kings Hand which Grant had been firm and irrevocable had the Bishop Seald it with the Seal of the Order which he kept in his possession or causd it to pass the usual Offices which had been easie for him to have done then being in much favour at Court But he made use of neither of these Corroborations and afterwards smarted for it sufficiently In the last Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second and the first of the precipitous decay of the Bishop of Salisburys Intellectuals some sagacious Courtier found out a Flaw in this Grant whereupon the Bishop was sent for up to London and obliged to refund the uttermost peny which in so many Years amounted to a considerable Sum all which his Majesty took without any scruple or remorse CHAP. XV. Concerning my Self YOU may remember at the beginning of the last Chapter I threatned to treat at large of two or three of the Bishops second rate Friends and here as the Saying is I will make bold to Christen mine own Child first for Charity begins at home and take this opportunity to put in my claim to that glorious Title I say therefore and proclaim it to the World that I was his hearty intimate and unfeigned Friend I doubt not but that this proud Assertion will provoke some testy old-fashion Filosofer to take me up severely that such an inconsiderable Fellow as I should presume to stile my self a Friend to so great a Prelate since it is evident out of Aristotle that Amicitia est inter pares Where there is no Equality there can be no Friendship But I pray you Sir have a little patience and hear how I defend my self against Ipse dixit I will make use of the Shield of Horace who lived in a greater Court and may be presumd to understand good Manners as well as Aristotle and I make no doubt but that he had as much Wit too This I rather believe because he did not think fit to trouble the World with entelecheias entities and quiddities and such other abstruse unintelligible Metafysical Notions I say this Horace uses the word Friend reciprocally betwixt Mecenas and himself Quod te sortitus Amicum i. e. That you are my Friend And in another place Iubesque esse in Amicorum numero That is You have orderd me to be registerd amongst your Friends Nay he goes yet farther and boldly averrs that he deservd to be so and that whoever doubted of it must esteem Mecenas a Fool and not able to choose a worthy Friend when he took so much care and caution about it Presertim cautus dignos assumere That is You do not choose your Friends hastily and hand over head But I shall not bear pace with Horace so far I only assert that there was not a greater inequality betwixt the Bishop of Salisbury and Me than betwixt Mecenas and Horace Our Poet was meanly descended and Poor Mecenas had the Etrurian Kings Blood in his Veins and was immensly Rich and what is yet greater chief Favourite to Augustus the most happy and glorious of all the Roman Emperours and Governour of Rome the Queen of Cities and at that time the greatest and richest Town in the known World Having thus made the way plain I hope I may say without contradiction that I was the Bishop of Salisburys Friend and he was mine But some may yet object how will you make this appear Have a little patience and read on I did him all the Services in my power I sufferd Cold with him upon Salisbury Plains and Heat in his Chamber where there was always a great Fire tho he did not use to sit by it I made it my business to delight him and divert his Melancholy nay I may truly say I profited him too I presented him with an excellent Pad Nag in whom he took much delight not permitting any one to ride him besides himself and valued him so highly that he refusd fifty five Guineas which Mr. Baptist May Privy Purse to King Charles the Second profferd for him but this Nag afterwards unfortunately died by a tread upon one of his hinder Heels notwithstanding the joint endeavours of the best Farriers to cure him But I forget my self I am writing the History of Horses This Nag was given me by my honoured Friend Charles Lord Clifford whose kindness I can never enouf acknowledge and whose death I can never sufficiently lament I presented him also with some curious Books which I had collected in my Travels and I taught him French and Italian and went through several Treatises with him in those Languages I read to him frequently till my Eyes by a vehement Inflammation were useless to me and renderd me less serviceable to him for above a Years time This Malady was perfectly curd by Gods blessing upon Dr. Turberviles application as I have gratefully acknowledged in the eighteenth and nineteenth Stanzas of the First Part of the Salisbury Canto I hope therefore t will not be thought that the Bishops kindness to me was wholly undeservd for Amor ut Pila vices exigit That is Love like a Ball or a Shuttle-cock must be returnd and held up on both sides I acknowledge he was very kind and obliging to me but yet I would not have the Reader run away with an opinion that he heapd mountains of Gold upon me I had I acknowledge my Diet and Lodging with him as long and as often as I pleasd and when we Traveld together or to speak with more respect when I accompanied him or attended him in any Journey he defrayd my Charges as one of his Retinue Besides this I never received of him directly or indirectly in Money or Moneys-worth to the value of Ten Pounds and after his death my Name was not so much as mentioned in the Will and it cannot be imagind that I expect any Reward for writing his Life now so many Years after he has been bereavd of it tho' I confess he did more than once proffer me Money when I was Sick in London To what I said before that his Favours were not wholly undeservd I will take the boldness to add here neither were they wholly cast away for they fell into good Ground and have produced a Gratitude in me which lives and encreases still tho' he is dead 'T is not every one that will continue his Devotions and Thanks-Offerings when the Altar is turnd to Dust and the Saint removd He did as great and greater Favours to many others which puts me in mind of that Saying in the Gospel Nonne Decem facti sunt mundi Sed ubi