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A remembrancer of excellent men ...; Remembrancer of excellent men
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Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.
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by hastning to give life to his Books But this is certain that the nearer he was to his Death the more he grew in Humility in holy Thoughts and Resolutions 27. In this time of his Sickness and not many days before his death his house was rob'd of which he having notice his question was Are my Books and written Papers safe And being answered that they were his reply was Then it matters not for no other loss can trouble me 28. About one day or two before his death Dr. Saravia who knew the very secrets of his soul for they were supposed to be Confessors to each other came to him and after a Conference of the benefit of the Churches Absolution it was resolved that the Doctor should give him both that and the Sacrament the day following Which being performed he returned early the next morning and found Mr. Hooker deep in Contemplation and not inclinable to discourse which gave the Doctor occasion to require his present thoughts to which he replyed That he was meditating of the number and nature of Angels and their blessed Obedience and Order without which peace could not be in Heaven And oh that it might be so on earth And a little afterward Lord shew Mercy to me and let not death be terrible and then take thine own time I submit to it let thy will be done And after a little slumber Good Doctor said he God hath heard my daily Petitions for I am at peace with all men and he is at peace with me And from that blessed assurance I feel that inward joy which this world can neither give nor take from me Then after a short conflict betwixt Nature and Death a quiet sigh put a period to his last breath and he fell asleep 29. He died in the 46. or 47. year of his Age Mr. Cambden who hath the year 1599. and the Author of that Inscription on his Monument at Borne who hath 1603. are both mistaken For it is attested under the hand of Mr. Somner Canterbury-Register that Hooker's Will bears date Octob. 26. 1600. and that it was prov'd Decemb. 3. following He left four Daughters and to each of them 100. l. his Wife Jone his sole Executrix and by his Inventory his Estate a great part of it being in Books came to 1092 l. 9 s. 2 d. His youngest Daughter Margaret was Married unto Ezekiel Clark a Minister neer Cant. who left a Son Ezekiel at this time Rector of Waldron in Sussex 30. Dr. Henry King Bishop of Chichester in a Letter to Mr. Walton My Father's knowledge of Mr. Hooker was occasion'd by the Learned Dr. John Spencer who after the Death of Mr. Hooker was so careful to preserve his three last Books of Ecclesiastical Politie and other Writings that he procur'd Henry Juckson then of C. C. Colledge to transcribe for him all Mr. Hookers remaining written Papers many of which were imperfect for his Study had been rifled or worse used by Mr. Clark and another of Principles too like his These Papers were endeavoured to be completed by his dear Friend Dr. Spencer who bequeathed them as a precious Legacy to my Father then Bishop of London After whose death they rested in my hand till Doctor Abbot then Archbishop of Canterbury Commanded them out of my Custody They remained as I have heard in the Bishops Library till the Martyrdom of Archbishop Laud and were then by the Brethren of that Faction given with the Library to Hugh Peters and although they could hardly fall into a fouler hand yet there wanted not other endeavours to corrupt them and make them speak that Language for which the Faction then fought which was to subject the Sovereign power to the people Thus for Bishop King 31. Soon after Mr. Hooker's death Archbishop Whitgift sent for Mrs. Hooker to Lambeth and examined her concerning those three last Books to whom she confessed That Mr. Clark and another Minister near Canterbury came to her and desired that they might go into her Husbands Study and III. Dr. Will. Whitaker From the Latin Life before his Works 1. NAzianzen saith Let a Minister teach by his Conversation also or not teach at all Herein shewing his Zeal rather than his Judgment for Christ would have the Doctrine even of the impure Pharisees sitting in Moses Chair to be heard and his Apostle rejoyceth that Christ is preached howsoever though out of Envy and Contention Nevertheless it is true the Doctrine is more accepted when it is delivered by a Clean hand and when the Will of God is declared to us by one that does it The more worthy is the holy and learned Whitaker to be set forth whose great care was Vertere verba in opera as St. Jerom speaks to be an example of what he taught and who deserved a better Pen an Homer to describe this Achilles than mine yet shall I endeavour to recompence the want of Oratory by my diligence and Fidelity in the Narration 2. He was born in Lancashire at Holme in the Parish of Burnbey a mountainous place in such an Air as is fittest to cherish a purer Wit his Parents both of good Families and noble Alliance Having passed his Childhood under their Tuition and learned the first Rudiments of Grammar under his Master Hartgrave to whom afterward he was a good Benefactor at 13 years of age his Uncle Dr. Nowell the famous Dean of Pauls for his better Education sent for his Nephew into his house and kept him in Pauls-School till he was fit for the University 3. At the age of 18. the good Dean sent him to Cambridge and placed him in Trinity-Colledge under the care of Mr West where for his proficiency in Manners and Learning he was chosen first Scholar then Fellow of the House and performed both his private and publick Exercises with such commendation that in due time he was honoured with his Degrees in the Arts and having with much applause attained them gave not himself to ease as many do but followed his Studies with greater vehemence 4. His first-fruits he gratefully paid to his Reverend Uncle in the Translation of his Elegant Latin Catechism into as Elegant Greek And further to shew his Affection to the Church of England he rendred the Liturgy or Divine Service into pure Latin Lastly he adventured upon a greater work and excellently translated into the Latin Tongue that learned Defence of Bishop Jewell against Harding wherein 27 Theses are maintained out of the Monuments of Fathers and Councils within the first 600 years after Christ A work of great use to the Church and promising that the Translator would in time be Author of the like 5. After he had performed a solemn exercise at the Commencement being upon a dissention between the Proctors chosen to be Father of the Artists whose office is to praise encourage and exhort the proceeders and to handle some Questions in Philosophy and had thereby filled the University with admiration of his Learning and
others eat and drink at his cost And for an eminent proof of his Charity but a little before he took his bed in his last sickness he lent freely to one that had dealt falsly enough with him and was likely for so doing to be utterly ruin'd by the fraud of another he lent I say to him notwithstanding a considerable summe of mony to preserve him from perishing So notable was his Charity in returning good for evil 15. It pleased God to enlarge his Patience by the manner of his last sickness which seizing at length on his Lungs deprived him of the use of his Speech for any length or continuance of speaking during which time I never observed in him the least impatient carriage in word or deed or any repining at the heavy hand of God upon him but silently he submitted himself under the scourge like him that said I became dumb and opened not my mouth for it was thy doing 16. And lastly for his Constancy as he approved it in the course of his Life so to the Death constant he was to the Religion he had been born and bred up in an obedient Son of the Church of England as he had ever professed himself to be and suffered for it Heartily he answered to all questions that were asked him about the profession of his Faith willingly and readily submitted himself to Gods will for leaving the world gladly forgave all that had offended him and wherein he had offended any professed himself willing to ask forgiveness and to make restitution 17. Being put in mind of the Sacrament he would not for Reverence sake receive it in the Evening but deferred it till the next morning and then most piously and devoutly like one that bowed the knees of his heart when those of his body failed him with eyes lifted up and hands bent to Heav'n he received it and when he heard after both kinds taken Lord grant it may nourish you to eternal life chearfully and audibly he said Amen After which he dismissed us from longer praying by him being desirous to be left for the present to his own private Devotions and requested us to pray by him again in the afternoon as if he had foreseen the certain time of his departure and in the afternoon according to his own appointment at Prayer we continued by him till toward five in the evening At which time most meekly and silently and like a Lamb he departed and quietly slept in the Lord. Ob. Apr. 1659. VII Mr. John Gregory From Mr. John Gurgany 1. A Mersham in the County of Buckingham ennobled hitherto only by the Honourable Family of the Russels may now boast in the birth of this Learned man Which happened on the tenth of November 1603. And though his Parents were but of mean Extraction and Estate yet of such noted Piety and Honesty as gained them love and respect from the best of that place 2. Whence this their eldest Son about the 15th year of their pious Education of him was chosen by the worthy Dr. Crook to wait upon Sir William Drake and soon after on Sir Robert Crook at Christ-Church in Oxford where they had the happiness to be under the tuition of the most ingenious and learned Dr. George Morley 3. This young Scholar for divers years studied 16 of every 24 hours and that with so much appetite and delight as that he needed not the cure of Aristotle's drowsiness to awake him In his first Academical exercises his worth like the rising of the Sun began to discover it self darting forth such fair hopes and glimmerings of future perfection as were quickly espied by the then vigilant Dean of Christ-Church Dr. Duppa since Lord Bishop of Sarum who immediately received him into favour and soon after made him Chaplain of Christ-Church and after that his own Domestick and Prebendary of Chichester and Sarum 4. For which favours he now began about 26 years old to publish to the world his worth and gratitude in the dedication of his Notes on Learned Ridleys civil Law to his honour'd Patron the Bishop of Sarum In which Notes he made an early discovery of his Civil Historical Ecclesiastical Ritual and Oriental Learning together with the Saxon French Italian Spanish and all Eastern Languages through which he miraculously travelled without any guide except Mr. Dod the Decalogist whose society and directions for the Hebrew Tongue he enjoyed one Vacation near Banburie For which courtesie he ever gratefully remembred him as a man of great Piety and Learning Gravity and Modesty Of which Graces also this person was as great a Possessor as Admirer 5. Hence these many tracts both in English and Latin were bashfully laid by in his youth as Abortives Some whereof are now published and entituled Posthume as so many Testimonies and monuments of his general Learning For which he was much honoured by the acquaintance and favour of men of the greatest honour and eminence that this Age hath produced besides the Correspondence in points of Learning which he held with divers famous men abroad as well Jesuits and Jews as others 6. And now being like the Sun in his Zenith ready to shine in his greatest lustre behold the whole Kingdome began to be clouded Yet the hope of a clear day preserved this Learned man a while sufficiently spirited for study whereby he composed and published a little before his death those his excellent Notes upon some passages of Scripture in which kind of holy study he intended to spend the rest of his life 7. But after 20 years trouble with an hereditary gout improved by immoderate study and now invading his stomach the thred of his life being laboriously spun out but 39 years foreseeing the Glory was now departing from our Israel his spirits began to fail in an extraordinary manner 8. For recovery and supportation whereof his first noble Patron the Bishop of Sarum being disabled by sequestration c the liberal hand of a second Mecaenas was presently extended Ed. Bishop Esq Of whose Charity I may say as our Saviour of that Unguent Was it not to bury him Yes and to raise him too with Fame being very active and free toward the publication not only of his posthumous Tracts but also of some other of greater expectatation 9. And here is to be lamented the loss of that his excellent piece entituled by himself Alkibla In which with very great Judgment and Learning he vindicated the Antiquity of Eastward Adoration 10. Some suspected him a favourer of the Roman way but their jealousie to my certain knowledge was unjust and groundless he having often declared and protested not only to me but also to many of his familiar friends his Abhorrence of Popery and his sincere Affection and constancy to the Protestant Religion as it was established in England by Acts of Parliament 11. And as he lived so he dyed also a most obedient and affectionate Son to his distressed Mother the Church of