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Apanthismata. memorials of worthy persons lights and ornaments of the Church of England, two new decads.; Memorials of worthy persons. Decades 1-2
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Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.
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Apanthismata MEMORIALS OF Worthy PERSONS Lights and Ornaments OF THE Church of England Two new Decads 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. Pauls Church-yard 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 Authours 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 your selves may deserve to be hereafter added to the Catalogue Your affectionate Servant C. B. Oxon. Apr. 23. Die Coron R. Car. 2. 1662. EDOUARD VI. MEMORIALS I. K. EDWARD VI. Out of Dr Heylyns History of the Reformation c. 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 shewed it self in all her features Love which seemed to threaten in the eyes of Q. Jane did only seem to sport it self in the eyes of Q. Anne There was more Majesty in the garb of Q. Jane Seymour and more lovelynesse in that of Q. Anne Boâ—en yet so that the Majesty of the one did excel in lovelinesse and that the lovelinesse 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 Mothers belly was ripped open to give him a passage into the world But there are extant two several letters to evince the contrary Though questionlesse she had a very hard labour which brought her first into a very high distemper and after into a very great loosnesse which accelerated the approach of death to the General lamentation Novemb. 12. Her Epitaph Phoenix Jana jacet nato Phoenice 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 Deanry 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 spake the French tongue and was able to expresse 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 â—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 easie substitution of it And if it sometimes happened as it seldom did that the servant suffered punishment for his Masters errors it is not easie 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 entertaind 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 Sommerset 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 honorable Title he enjoyed till the time of his death in the later end of Q. Elizabeths raign at which time he dyed a zealous and Religious Protestant 5. One thing I must not pretermit to shew the extraordinary piety of this hopeful Prince in the daies of his childhood when being about to take down somewhat which seemed to be above his reach one of his servants proferd 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 kist 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 Kings 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 denyed but that King Henry left the Church in many respects in a better condition then he found it not only in order to the Reformation of Religion which none but such a masculin Prince durst have undertaken but also in the policy and endowments of it The Monasteries and Religious Houses might possibly be lookt upon
fair Stable of great Horses insomuch as he was able to arme at all points both horse and foot and divers times had one hundred foot and fifty horse of his own servants mustered and trayned for which purpose he entertained Captains c. His house for the Lectures and Scholastick exercises therein performed might justly be accounted a little Academy and in some respects superiour c. His Domestick Chaplains both before and since his death attained to the chiefest honours and dignities in our Church and Common-wealth namely Bancroft Ravis Barlow c. 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 then his Grace What tellest thou me said the Arch-bishop 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 intreat them giving so mild and gentle Answers that even they that sped not in their suits did depart 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 Diocess and Neighbourhood at Christmas especially his Gates were alwayes 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 c. 39. His Charity is testifyed by that notable Monument his Hospital of the blessed Trinity in Croydon 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 School-masters house allowing to the School-master 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 goodnesse of God After which when the French Ambassador by whom he was reputed a peerlesse 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 Embassador replyed 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 sicknesse spake to him earnestly in Latin and by his last words pro ecclesia Dei pro ecclesia â—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 Bookes of â—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 Vncles was Chamberlain of Exeter in Mr Hookers Youth and contributed both care and cost toward his Education in the free School there His Parents need no other monument of honour then this that they were blessed with so worthie 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 Couâ—tly his looks alwaies grave and reserved his soul more looking inward then exspatiating at his eyes or taking the outward prospect of his senses He went alwaies as if he meditated some great and good design what he designed he industriously acted without affectation or ostentation 3. His words were alwaies sober and well-ordered not more in number then weight He was like an hive full of honey of a plain outside and a narrow accesse 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 choise as one that had no great opinion of himself nor sought the applause of others 4. While he continued in Corpus Christi Colledge few men of any note in either University but promised more than he did as to any great and publick undertaking not that he wanted a publick spirit or excellent Abilities in nature and education but he was so locked up and reserved by a natural modestie and self-distrust that he seemed to think it reward sufficient to have the conscience of weldoing and pleasure enough to see himself dayly profit in his studies and preferment even to envy to enjoy vertue though never so cloistred and confined to his own breast 5. Mr Hooker did not look upon the ease and â—uietnesse of a Colledge 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 plainnesse and simplicity of his Genius and mode of living His first living was Boscomb in the West to which the Colledge presented him his next in Lincolnshire called Drayton Beauchamp An. 1584. 6. The â—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 Politie Wherein he hath justly obtained this Encomium from all intelligent Readers That never any man undertook a better cause since the antient conflicts of the Fathers nor handled it with an honester heart an abler judgment 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 fathers virtue and vigour on them that they may be easily and justly owned