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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

verified indeed in the Kings Majesty that now is who was then unborn and hath since so happily united these Kingdoms yet least that which I would make in him a Prophecy others will take in me for flattery I will proceed to the next or rather I should say to another for of the two next I need add nothing my Authour having testified by both their Epitaphs that they lived and died well Doctor Thomas Cooper I intend therefore to speak next of Dr. Cooper because of Bishop Herne and Bishop Watson I cannot add any thing upon sure ground for of the former times I have either Books of stories or relation of my Fathers that lived in those dayes but or these that lived in the first twenty yeeres of the Queens Raign when I was at school or at the University I could hear little yet at my first coming to the Court I heard this pretty tale that a Bishop of Winchester one day in pleasant talk comparing his Revenue with the Arch-bishops of Canterbury should say your Graces will showe better in the Rack but mine will be found more in the Manger upon which a Courtier of good place said it might be so in diebus illis But saith he the Rack stands so high in sight that it is fit to keep it full but that may be since that time some have with a provideatur swept some provender out of the Manger and because this Metaphor comes from the Stable I suspect it was meant by the Mr. of the Horse To come then to Bishop Cooper of him I can say much and I should do him great wrong if I should say nothing for he was indeed a reverent man very well learned exceeding industrious and which was in those dayes counted a great praise to him and a chief cause of his preferment he wrote that great Dictionary that yet bears his name his Life in Oxford was very commendable and in some sort Saint-like for if it be Saint-like to live unreprovable to bear a cross patiently to forgive great injuries freely this mans example is sampleless in this age He maried a Wife in Oxford for that speciall just cause I had almost said onely cause why Clergymen should mary viz. for avoiding of sin Melius est enim nubere quam uri yet was that his very hard hap that she proved too light for his gravity by many grains or rather many pounds At the first he winkt at that with a Socraticall and Philosophicall patience taking or rather mistaking the equivocating counsel of Erasmus Ecchoe Quid si mihi veniat usu quod his qui incidunt in uxores parum pudicas parumque frugiferas Feras At qui cum talibus morte durior est vita vita wherein I observe in the two Ecchos how in the first Feras signifies either the verb suffer or that Nown wild beasts or shrews In the latter vita signifieth the Nown life or the verb shun or eschew so he good man construed Feras Vita suffer during life and I should take that vita Feras shun shrews But this Fera whom his Feras made Feram committed wickedness even with greediness more then was in power of flesh and blood to bear wherewith being much afflicted having warned his Brother privatly and born with him perhaps 70. times seven times In the end taking him both in a place and fashion not fit to be named that would have angred a Saint he drave him thence not much unlike as Tobias drove away the spirit Asmo●eus for that was done with a Roste and this with a spit It was high time now to follow the Counsel Dic Ecclesiae so as all Oxford knows her Paramor was bound from her in a bond of one hundred pound but they should rather have been bolts of an hundred pound The whole University in reverence of the man and indignity of the matter offered him to separate his wife from him by publique authority and so to set him free being the innocent party But he would by no means agree thereto alledging he knew his own infirmity that he might not live unmarried and to divorce and marry againe he would not charge his conscience with so great a scandall After he was Bishop mad Martin or Marprelate wrote his book or rather Libell which some playing with Martin at his own weapon answered pleasantly both in Ryme and Prose as perhaps your Highnesse hath seen or I wish you should see for they are short and sharp But this Bishop with authority and gravity confuted him soundly whereupon Martin Madcap for I think his cap and head had like proportion of wit replying and anabaptized his bastard book by the name of Work for the Cooper and had not the wisdome of the State prevented him I think he and his favourers would have made work for the Tinker And so much of Bishop Cooper though I could adde a report that a great Lord dying in his time bequeathed him a great Legacy but because I have not seen his last testament I cannot precisely affirm it William Wickham This Bishop my Authour professeth to reverence for his names sake and his predecessors sake and I much more for his own sake and his vertues sake About the yeere 1570. he was Vice-provost of Eaton and as the manner was in the Schoolmasters absence would teach the schoole himselfe and direct the boyes for their exercises of which my selfe was one of whom he shewed as fatherly a care as if he had been a second Tutor to me He was reputed there a very milde and good natured man and esteemed a very good Preacher and free from that which St. Paul calleth Idolatry I mean covetousnesse so that one may say probably that as the first William Wickham was one of the richest Prelates that had been in Winchester a long time and bestowed it well so this was one of the poorest and endured it well He preached before the Queen at a Parliament I think the last time that ever he preached before her and indeed it was Cygnea vox sweetest being neerest his end which if I could set down as he delivered were well worth the remembring But the effect was this that the Temporalities of Bishopricks and Lands of Colledges and such like were from the beginning for the most part the graces gifts and Almes of Princes her Majesties progenitors that for some excesses and abuses of some of them they had been and lawfully might be some quite taken away some altered some diminished and that accordingly they were now reduced to a good mediocrity for though there were some farre greater Bishopricks in France Spaine and Germany● yet there were some also lesse and meaner even in Italy But yet he most humbly besought her Majesty to make stay of them at least in this mediocrity for if they should decay so fast in thirty yeeres to come as they had for thirty yeeres past there would hardly be a Cathedrall Church found in good repaire within England

such a fault yet now that the fault had left him as well as he the fault had just cause to complain and the Knights practise was blame-worthy to seek to entrap him thereby to the spoile of the Church and disgrace of his calling And the Arch-bishop did much noblier to hazard this obloquie of some idle tongues then to have incurred the greater scandall of betraying his Church To conclude therefore I wish all Squires and all Knights to be fuller of reverence toward Bishops and Arch-bishops and not to oppose or contest with them The play at Chess a Game not devised for or by fooles may teach that the Bishops due place is nearest the King and though some Knight can leap better over the pawns heads yet ofttimes he leaps short where the Bishops power if you crosse it reacheth the length of the whole Province Doctor John Piers. Of this Doctor John Piers who lived and dyed a moft reverent Prelate I must to give him the greater commendation do like those that when they will enforce them to leap their farthest go back the contrary way some part of the ground and by little and little amending their pace at last over-leap the mark themselves had designed so shall I look back into some part of his life and showe first how unlikely he was to come to such high honour and place as he dyed in For although he was a Scholar towardly enough in his youth of good wit and not the meanest birth having a Gentleman of good sort to his Brother yet hasting to a competent ftay of life he accepted of a small Benefice in the Countrey as I take it near Oxford and there was in great hazard to have drowned all those excellent guifts that came after to be so well esteemed and rewarded in him there first he was enforced to keep mean and rusticall Company that Company enticed him to the German fashion even then grown too common in England to sit whole nights in a Tipling house at Ale and Cakes as Ennius Cato are noted of the former of whom Horace saith Ennius ipse pater nunquam nisi potus ad arma prosiluit dicenda and of the latter Martial saith Quod nintio gaudes noctem producere vino Ignosco vitium forte Catonis habes Howbeit this Gentleman never met with such a disgrace by such company as the Parson of Limmington had whom our Countreyman Sir Amias Pawlet about a drunken fray set in the Stocks and yet after he proved both Arch-bishop of York and one of the greatest Cardinals of Christendom Neither do I bring these examples to lessen this fault as if I were to leave some aspersion hereof upon him my purpose is nothing lesse for I am rather of that Gentlemans mind that having by Fatherly indulgence tolerated the humour of gaming and wenching in his Sonne disinherited him for drinking saying of the first if he had wit he would not lose much by it of the second that in time for his own ease he would leave it but of the third he said he would prove the elder the viler and hardly ever amend it Now therefore that I have show'd you how this Bishop was in danger by this fault let me also showe how he was freed from it Being once against preparing as well himself as others for receiving the holy Communion and making choice of a discreet Confessor before whom he might powre out his soul a custom as pittifully abused in those dayes as disused in these he declared to him by the way this disposition of his to company and drinking The Preacher like a true spirituall Father indeed no less learnedly then zealously laying before him the enormity of such a Custom did earnestly dehort him from it affirming to him that though every particular excess in that kind did not reach to a habit or height of mortall sin as one act of Adultery murder or false witness doth yet if it should grow to a habit it were not onely an ugly scandall in that profession but would draw also as bad sins as it self with it Behold a comfortable example how where nature is weak grace can strengthen it upon this grave admonition he left first the vice and after the Company and following his study more industriously then before at the University he ascended worthily the degrees of Doctor and Deane and Bishop and Arch-bishop and lived all his life not onely continent but abstinent of his continence my Authour hath said sufficient of his abstinency this may be one proofe that being sickly toward his end he was so fearfull to drinke Wine though his stomacke required it that his Physician being a pleasant man and loving a cup of Wine himselfe very well was wont to fay to him sometimes now if your Grace will call for a cup of Wine and drinke to me I warrant it will never hurt you Doctor Matthew Hutton I no sooner remember this famous and worthy Prelate but me thinks I see him in the Chappel at White-Hall Queen Elizabeth at the window in the Closset all the Lords of the Parliament spirituall and temporall about them and then after his three courtsies that I heare him out of the Pulpit thundring this Text The Kingdomes of the Earth are mine and I doe give them to whom I will and I have given them to Nebuchodonozor and his son and his sons son which Text when he had thus produced taking the sense rather then words of the Prophet there followed first so generall a murmur of one friend whispering to another then such an erected countenance in those that had none to speake to lastly so quiet a silence and attention in expectance of some strange Doctrine where Text it selfe gave away Kingdomes and Scepters as I have never observed either before or since But he as if he had been a Jeremiah himselfe and not an expounder of him shewed how there were two speciall causes of translating of Kingdomes the fulnesse of time and the ripenesse of sinne that by either of these and sometime by both God in secret and just judgments transferred Scepters from kindred to kindred from Nation to Nation at his good will and pleasure running over historically the great Monarchies of the world as the Kingdome of Egypt and after of Israel swallowed up by the Assirians and the golden head of Nabuchodonozor the same head cut off by the silver brest and armes of the Medes and Perfians Cyrus and Darius this silver consumed by the brazen belly and this of the Graecians and Alexander and that brasse stamped to powder by the Iron legges of the Romans and Caesar Then coming neerer home he shewed how oft our Nation had been a prey to forreiners as first when we were all Brittans subdued by these Romans then when the fulnesse of time and ripenesse of our finne required it subdued by the Saxons after this a long time prosecuted and spoyled by the Danes finally conquered and reduced to perfect subjection by the