satisfied in the Truth and Purity thereof All which did so endear her to the King that he took great delight in her Conversation 5. Thus lived she in these sweet Contentments till she came unto the years of Marriage when she that never found in her self the leâ—st spark of Ambition was made the most unhappy Instrument of another Mans. The proud and aspiring Duke of Northumberland treats with the Duke of Suffolk about a Marriage between the Lord Guilford Dudly his fourth Son and the Lady Jane The Marriage is concluded and by Northumberland's policy the Crown is transferred from K. Edward to his Cosin the Lady Jane his two Sisters the Lady Mary and Lady Elizabeth being passed by Memorable is the Speech she made to the two Dukes when they owned her for Queen to this effect That the Laws of the Kingdom and natural Right standing for the Kings Sisters she would beware of burthening her weak Conscience with a yoke which did beloâ—g to them That she understood the Infamy of those who had permitted the violation of Right to gain a Scepter That it were to mock God and deride Justice to scruple at the stealing of a shilling and not at the usurpation of a Crown Besides said she I am not so yong nor so little read in the guiles of fortune to suffer my self to be taken by them If she enrich any it is but to make them the subject of her spoil If she raise others it is but to pleasure her self with their Ruins What she adored but yesterday is to day her pastime And if I now permit her to adorn and Crown Me I must to morrow suffer her to crush and tear me in pieces c. But the Ambition of the two Dukes was too strong and violent to be kept down by any such prudent Considerations So that being wearied at last with their Importunities and overcome by the intreaties of her husband whom she dearly loved She submitted unto that necessity which she could not vanquish yielding her head with more unwillingnesse to the ravishing Glories of a Crown then afterward she did to the stroke of the Ax. 6. The Acclamations at the proclaiming of Queen Mary were heard by the Lady Jane now no longer Queen with such Tranquillity of mind and composednesse of countenance as if she had not been concerned in the Alteration She had before received the offer of a Crown with â—s even a Temper as if it had been nothing but a Garland of flowers and now she layes aside the thought thereof with as much contentedness as she could have thrown away that Garland when the sent was gone The time of her Glory was so short but a nine Daies wonder that it seemed nothing but a Dream out of which she was not sorry to be awakened The Towr had been to her a prison rather than a Court and interrupted the Delights of her former life by so many Terrours that no Day passed without some new Alarm to disturb her Quiet She doth now know the worst that fortune can do unto her and having alwaies feared that there stood a Scaffold secretly behind the Throne She was as readily prepared to act her part upon the one as upon the other 7. Her Death is resolved upon but first She must be practiced with to change her Religion To which end Fecknam is employed a Man whose great parts ptomised him an easie victory over a poor Lady of a broken and dejected Spirit But it proved the contrary For so well had She studyed the Concernments of her own Religion and managed the Conference with him with such a readinesse of wit such Constancie of Resolution and a Judgement so well grounded in all helps of Learning that she was able to make Answer to the strongest Arguments as well to her great Honour as his Admiration So that not able to prevail with her in the change of Religion he made offer of his service to prepare her for death Which though she thankfully accepted of as finding it to proceed from a good affection yet soon he found that she was also aforehand with him in those preparations which are fit and necessary for a Dying-Christian 8. Friday 9. Febr. was first designed for the day of the Execution but the Desire of gaining her to the Church of Rome procured her the short respite of three dayes more On Sunday night being the Eve unto the day of her Translation she wrote a Letter in the Greek tongue at the end of a Testament which she bequeathed as a Legacy to her Sister the Lady Katharine which being such a lively Picture of the excellent Lady some lines thereof are worthy to be presented here I have sent you a Book dear Sister which although it be not outwardly trimmed with Gold yet inwardly it is more worth then pretious stones If you with a good mind read it and with an earnest desire to follow it it shall bring you to an immortal and everlasting life it shall teach you to live and learn you to dy it shall win you more then you should have gained by your wofull Fathers Lands You shall be an Inheritor of such Riches as neither the Covetous shall withdraw from you neither Thief shall steal neither yet the Moths corrupt Desire with David good Sister to understand the Law of the Lord God Live still to dy that you by death may purchase eternal life Defie the world Deny the Devil Despise the Flesh and delight your self only in the Lord. Be penitent for your sins and yet despair not Be strong in Faith and yet presume not And desire with Saint Paul to be dissolved and to be with Christ with whom even in death there is life And as touching my death rejoyce as I do Good Sister that I shall be deliver'd of this Corruption and put on Incorruption For I am assured that I shall for losing a mortal life win an immortal one The which I pray God to grant you and send you of his Grace to live in his fear and to dy in the true Christian Faith from the which in Gods name I exhort you that you never swerve neither for hope of life nor for fear of death 9. The fatal Morning being come the Lord Guilford earnestly desired the officers that he might take his Farewell of her Which though they willingly permitted yet upon notice of it she advised the contrary assuring him That such a Meeting would rather add to his Afflictions and her presence rather weaken then strengthen him That he ought to take courage from his Reason and derive constancy from his own heart That he should do well to remit this Interview to the other World that there indeed Friendships were happy and unions indissoluble and that theirs would be eternal if their souls carried nothing with them of Terrestrial which might hinder them from rejoycing All she could do was to give him a Farewell out of a window as he passed toward the place of his
them as Saint Austin did He had the greatest Antipathy against those unquiet and pragmatick Spirits which affect endlesse Controversies Varieties and Novelties in Religion to carry on a party and under that skreen of Religion to advance their private Interests and politick Designs 9. For the Liturgy though he needed a set form as little as any yet he had a particular great esteem of it 1. For the honour and piety of its Martyrly Composers 2. For its excellent matter and prudent Method 3. For the good he saw it did to all sober Christians the want of which he saw was not supplied by any Ministers private way of praying and preaching Not that the Liturgy is unalterable but he judged all such Alterations ought to be done by the publick spirit As for Bishops he was too learned a man to doubt and too honest to deny the universal Custom and practice of the Church of Christ in all ages and places for fifteen hundred years according to the pattern at least received from the Apostles who without doubt followed as they best knew the mind of Christ 10. He was by the favour of King Charls and to the great liking of all good men made Bishop of Exeter Anno 1641. Whereupon a certain Gentleman told me He wondred Doctor Brounrig would be made a Bishop whom he had heard sometime declare his judgment against Episcopacy Which as I no way beleived so relating it soon after to the Bishop He with some passion replyed I never thought much lesse said as that person hath falsely averred I thank God I took the office of a Bishop with a good Conscience and so I hope by his Mercy I shall both maintain and discharge it 11. And however this excellent Bishop enjoyed not the benefit of the Kings favour and munificence as to his Bishoprick or any other preferment after the Troubles of the times yet he was ever most unmovable in his royal respects of fidelity gratitude love and obedience Accordingly when O. P. with some shew of respect to him demanded his judgment in some publick affairs the Bishop with his wonted Gravity and Freedome replyed My Lord the best Counsel I can give you is that of our Saviour Render unto Caesar the things that be Caesars and unto God the things that be Gods With which free Answer O. P. rested rather silenced then satisfyed 12. This Grave personage when forced to retire was usefull to those that were worthy of him and knew how to value and use him either as a Bishop or as a Divine or a Counsellor or a Comforter or a Friend Among those that gave him a liberal and noble entertainment Thomas Rich Esq of Sunning in Bark-shire deserves with honour to be thus registred That he was the special friend to Bishop Brounrig Indeed none could be hospitable to him gratis He alwaies paid largely for his entertainments by his many excellent Discourses 13. He was alwaies when in health as cheerfull as far as the Tragedies of the Times gave leave as one that had the continual feast of a good Conscience and as content as if he had had a Lords estate All diminutions and indignities which some men put upon so worthy and venerable a person he digested into patience and prayers Thus he was in some degree conformable to the primitive Bishops which were poor and persecuted yea to the great Bishop of our Souls Who for our sakes made himself of no reputation 14. About a year before he dyed he was invited with much respect and civility to the Honourable Societies of both Temples to blesse them as with his constant Residence so with his Fatherly Instructions and Prayers To shew the Reality of their love and value to his Lordship they not only allowed an annual honorary Recompence to expresse their Thanks but they provided handsome Lodgings and furnished them with all things necessary convenient and comely for a person of his worth Such as could hear him preach rejoyced at his gracious words such as for the crowd could not come nigh enough to hear him had pleasure to stay and behold him conceiving they saw a Sermon in his looks and were better'd by the venerable Aspect of so worthy a person 15. God was pleased to exercise him with bodily pains indispositions and distempers sometimes with sharp fits of the Stone but under all these God supported him with his Grace and spirit as alwaies humble devout and pious so for the most part sociable ferene and cheerfull till he had lived to his sixty seventh year He had more frequent Infirmities as gentle monitors a little before his death of which he would speak to my self and others as one that by dying dayly was well acquainted with death and would say That it was a very cheap time now to die there being so little temptation to desire life and so many to welcome death since he had lived to see no King in the State no Bishop in the Church no Peer in Parliament worthy of that name He only hoped and prayed that God would favour him so far with an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as to let him dy without pain as indeed he did For after his spirits were in ten days decayed and wasted he slumbred much yet had vigilant Intervals at which times he gave himself to prayer and meditation and holy Discourses And being full of the Grace and peace of God and confirmed in it by the Absolution of the Church which belongs to all that dye in the true faith and blessed hope of penitent sinners he placidly rendred his holy devout and precious Soul to God that gave it Dec. 7. 1659. vid. fin 16. His Body for stature and figure was somewhat taller and bigger then ordinary yet very comely No man ever became the Preachers Pulpit or the Doctors Chair or the Episcopal Seat it was called of old Thronus Episcopalis better then he did carrying before him such an unaffected State and grandeur such a benign gravity and a kind of smiling Severity that one might see much in him to be reverenced and more to be loved yet what was venerable in him was very amiable and what was amiable was very venerable 17. If you please to add to your former favours while he lived amongst you this last of giving order and leave to adorn your Chappel with any Monument for him you need be at no more cost then to inscribe on a plain Stone the name of BISHOP BROUNRIG This will make that Stone Marble enough and your Chappel a Mausoleum Naz. Orat. 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 VIII Mr THO. GATAKER Out of the Narrative annexed to his Funeral Sermon 1. HE was a branch of an antient Family so firmly by Gods providence planted in Shropshire that the stock hath continued in the same House carrying the name of its owner and known by the title of Gatacre-hall by an uninterrupted succession from the time of K. Edward the Confessor 2. His Father was houshold Chaplain to
up desired to be spared and besought her Highnesse to make choice of Sir Christopher Hatton who shortly after was made Lord Chancellour in the Archbishops house at Croydon thereby the rather to grace the Arch-bishop His advancement did much strengthen the Arch-bishop and his friends and withall the Earl of Leicester and his designments came soon after to an end 21. An. 1588. Upon the death of the Farl of Leicester the Chancellorship of Oxford being void divers of the Heads and others of the University made known unto the Arch-bishop their desire to chufe him their Chancellour although he was a Cambridge man To whom he returned this Answer That he was already their friend whereof they might rest assured and therefore advised them to make choice of some other in near place about the Queen that might assist him on their behalf and both at the Council-board and other places of Justice right them many waies both for the benefit of their Vniversity and of their Colledges And therewithall recommended unto them Sir Christopher Hatton being sometime of that University Whom accordingly they did chuse for their Chancellour and whom the Arch-bishop ever found a great Assistant in bridling and reforming the imtemperate humour of those Novelists who by the Countenance of some great personages were now grown to a strong head 22. It was in their Assemblies Classical and Synodical concluded that the Discipline should within a time limited be put in practice and erected all in one day by the Ministers together with the people whom those Disciplinarians bragged â—o be already enflamed with zeal to lend so many thousand hands for the advancement of their Cause In their publick Sermons and Exhorcations as in their private Conventicles they did alienate the hearts of their Auditors from all obedience of the Ecclesiastical Magistrates As namely Mr. Cartwright who also in his prayer before his Sermons used thus to say Because they meaning the Bishops which ought to be pillars in the Church do band themselves against Christ and his truth therefore O Lord give us grace and power all as one man to set our selves against them Which words by way of Emphasts he would often repeat And doth not â—dall threaren that the Presbytery shall prevail and come in by that way and means as shall make all their hearts to ake that shall withstand or hinder the same 23. Great was the temper and moderation of the good Arch-bishop in handling these bâ—sinesâ—es In his time Brown was changed from his fansies and afterwards obtained a Benefice called Achurch in North-Hamptonshire where he became a painfull Preacher He did not though he might have blemished with her Majesty the reputations of some in great place for favouring the Libellers and Libels which had stowage and vent in their Chambers He procured at her Majesties hands both pardon and dismission for Mr. Cartwright and the rest out of their troubles For which Mr. Cartwright held himself much obliged and in his letters acknowledgeth his bond of most humble duty so much the straiter because his Graces favour proceeded from a frank disposition without any desert of his own 24. The Arch-bishop hath been heard to say That if Mr. Cartwright had not so far engaged himself as he did in the beginning he thought verily he would in his later time have been drawn to Comformity For when he was freed from his troubles he often repaired to the Arch-bishop who used him kindly and was contented to tolerate his preaching in Warwick divers years upon his promise that he would not impugn the laws orders and government in this Church of England but perswade and procure so much as he could both publickly and privately the estimation and peace of the same Which albeit he accordingly performed yet when her Majesty understood by others that Mr. Cartwright did preach again though temperately according to his promise made to the Arch-bishop She would by no means endure his preaching any longer without subscription and grew not a little offended with the Arch-bishop for such conniving at him Not long after Mr. Cartwright dyed rich as it was said by the benevolence and bounty of his followers 25. An. 1592. After the death of Sir Christopher Hâ—tton Sir John Puckering was made Lord Keeper who shewed himself a friend to the Church to the Arch-bishop and his proceedings and acknowledged him a furtherer of his Advancement Sir Thomas Egerton Master of the Rolles succeeded him 6. May. 1596. a lover of learning and a most constant favourer of the Clergy and Church-government established as also a faithfull loving friend to the Arch-bishop in all his affairs In so much as after his advancement to that honour and that the Earl of Essex and the Arch-bishop concurred together being also further strengthned by the friendship and love of Sir Robert Cecil Principal Secretary he began to be fully revived again And her Majesty finding in him a zealous care and faithfull performance of his duty laid the burthen of the Church upon his shoulders telling him That if any thing went amiss be it upon his soul and conscience to answer it for she had rid her hands and looked that he should yeeld an account on her behalf to Almighty God 26. And now though the Arch-bishop was in this singular favour and grace with his Majesty so that he did all in all for the managing of Clergy-affairs and disposing of Bishopricks and other Ecclesiastical promotions yet was he never puffed up with pride nor did any thing violently against any man For he ever observed this rule That he would not wound where he could not salve So that it was truly noted by the Earl of Salisbury a great Counsellour in the Star-chamber when Pickering was there censured for libelling against him after his death That there was nothing more to be feared in his Government especially toward his later time then his mildnesse and clemency And some younger spirits were of opinion that he was much to blame in that kind and sometimes would be bold to tell him That he knew not his own strength with her Majesty 27. As you may perceive his clemency towards the irregular sort so towards the conformable he was carried with an exceeding tender respect and kindnesse He loved a learned Minister vertuous and honest with all his heart framing himself unto that rule of Aristotle which directeth a good Magistrate to be as carefull in encouraging good men according to their merits as in punishing the bad according to the quality of their offenses If he found a Scholar of extraordinary gifts or hopes that out of wants grew discontented and enclined to Popery or Puritanism as most of their discontentments and way-wardnesse proceedeth thence him would he gain both with supplies of mony out of his purse and preferments of his own gift or otherwise as opportunity served 28. Neither was his Bounty wanting to men of learning and quality of forrein Countries Sundry times sent he mony to Mr. Beza
for genuin although they had not the last politure of their Parents hand The seventh book by comparing the writing of it with other indisputable papers or known Manuscripts of Mr Hooker's is undoubtedly his oâ—n hand throughout The eighth is written by another hand as a Copy but interlined in many places with Mr Hooker's own characters as owned by him 8. An. 1592. He had the Dignities of a Prebend in Salisburie and the Subdeanrie bestowed on him and by the Queen he was preferred to be Master of the Temple i. e. the publick preacher in that great Auditory which requires an excellent preacher and where he may well deserve an honourable maintenance Mr Travers was popularly chosen by the Societie to be Lecturer in the afternoon a man of esteemed piety and good learning but a Non-conformist In comparison of whom Mr Hooker was much undervalued by the vulgar hearers 9. These two although they differed in some matters yet they corresponded in the main of sound Doctrine and holy life like generous rivals they honoured and loved what they saw good in one another Hence that very worthy speech of Mr Travers when being asked what he thought of some vile aspersion cast upon Mr Hooker he answered In truth I take Mr Hooker to be a very holy man 10. An. 1594. He was removed to his last station at Bishopsburn in Kent and was made also Prebend of Canterburie by the favour of the Archbishop Whitgift whose valiant and able Second he was in that Conflict which he so notably maintained against the Disciplinarian faction or the unruly Non-conformists 11. This was the period of Mr Hooker's promotion much below indeed his merit but adequate it seems to the retirednesse of his temper and most suitable to the policies of those times where Church-Governors were to be rather active than contemplative spirits And from this something rising but not very high ground did this excellent person take his ascent and rise to heaven the onely preferment worthie of him dying with great comfort at his parsonage in Kent about 50 years old An. 1599 saies Mr Camden An. 1603 saies his Monument He was interred in the Chancel of Bishopsbourn where a fair Marble and Alabaster Monument no way violated or deformed in all our late years of confusion was long after erected to his Memory An. 1634. See the rest in the eloquent Bishop before the Eccl. Pol. ADDITIONS Out of Dr W. Covel's Defence of Hooker 1603. 12. A Letter which is here answered was published by certain Protestants as they term themselves which I hear how true I know not is translated into other tongues This they presume hath given that wound to that reverend and learned man that it was not the least cause to procure his death But it is far otherwise for he contemned it in his wisdom as it was fit and yet in his humilitie would have answered it if he had lived But first of all he was loth to entermeddle with so weak adversaries thinking it unfit as himself said that a man that hath a long journie should turn back to beat every barking curre and having taken it in hand his urgent and greater affairs together with the want of strength weakned with much labour would not give him time to see it finished Death hath taken from us a sweet friend a wise Counsellour and a strong Champion Others are fit enough to live in the midst of errour vanitie unthankfulnesse and deceit but he was too good p. 13. 13. As profoundly to judge with sound variety of all learning was common to him with divers others so to expresse what he conceived in thâ— eloquence of a most pure stile was the felicity almost of himself alone That honourable Knight Sr Philip Sidney gave a tast in an Argument of Recreation how well that style would befit an Argument of a graver Subject which it may be is more unpleasing in the tast of some because the manner is learned and the subject is not agreeing to their humour Doubtlesse the perfecting of a style and especially of our English style which in my opinion refuseth not the purest ornaments of any language hath many mo helps than those honourable places of learning the Vniversities can afford And therefore in those things which they conceive and some of them conceive much there are found in the Princes Court divers most purely eloquent whom even the best in the Universities may despair to imitate And if I may speak without offence I am fully perswaded that Mr Hookers stile if he had had lesse learning a strange fault for the weight of his learning made it too heavy had been incomparably the best that ever was written in our Church If our English storie had been born to that â—appinesse ever to have been attired in such rich ornaments she might worthily have bin entertained in the best Courts that the World hath But all Countries know our actions have been better done then they have been told 14. His Arguments you say are found in the Answer of that Reverend Father unto Mr Cartwright If there were no difference yet the consent of their Arguments were reason enough for you to allow Mr Hooker seeing you hâ—ve given your approbation of the works of that most Reverend Father whose worthinesse no doubt can receive little honour from your praise yet you know that the whole subject of Mr Hooker's first four Books is an argument as full of learning so directly heretofore not handled by any that I know Concerning those three Books of his which from his own mouth I am informed that they were finisht I know not in whose hands they are nor whether the Church shall be bettered by so excellent a work For as the Church might have been happy if he had lived to have written more so she were not altogether so much harmed if she might but enjoy what he hath written p. 150. 15. The government of his passions was in his own power and he was able to rule them For he was truly of a mild spirit and an humble heart and abounding in all other virtues Yet he specially excelled in the grace of Meeknesse The Gravitie of his looks was cleered by those that did sit or converse with him least he should be burdensome unto them but a full laughter few ever discovered in him Some such our church had in all ages a few now alive which are her ornament if she can use them well but more that are dead whom she ought to praise For all these were honourable men in their generations c. * While this was under the Printers hand I had the happinesse to be in Dr Pococks company sometimes Fellow of C. C. C. and heard him amongst other good Discourse tell a story of Hooker to this effect That He with some others of the colledge journeying on foot as the manner then was into their country by the way visited Bishop Jewel sometime of the same Coll. The Bishop understanding
some Scholars desired to see him or as we now speak more courtly to wait upon his Lordship said They should be welcome It was added They were of Corpus Christi They shall be the more wellcome to me said the Bishop To omit the rest of their entertainment when the Scholars took their leave the Bishop gave them every one a viaticum some money to bear their charges and especially to Hooker upon whom also he pleasantly said he would bestow his own Nag and brought forth and gave him an old staff which had been his companion in his Travel Te nunc habet iste secundum Had I that staff I should esteem it no lesse than a very Sacred Relique * VI. Dr. LANCELOT ANDREWES Bishop of Winchester Out of his Funeral Sermon by John Bishop of Ely 1. HE was born in the City of London of honest and godly Parents who besides his breeding in learning left him a sufficient Patrimony and inheritance which is descended to his heir at Rawreth in Essex 2. His life was well composed and ordered ever from his child-hood In his tenderest years he shewed such readinesse and sharpnesse of wit and capacity that his two first Masters Mr. Ward and Mr. Mulcaster contended for him who should have the honour of his breeding that after became the honour of their Schools and all Learning The right reverend Father in God Lancelot Bishop of Winchester and Praelate of the Garter Vaughan sculp 4. Their pains and care he so carefully remembred all his life long that he studied alwaies how to do good to them and theirs In which gratefulnesse he promoted Dr. Ward to the Parsonage of Waltham and ever loved and honoured his Master Mulcaster during his life and was a continual helper to him and his Son And as if he had made Mr. Mulcaster his Tutor or Supervisor he placed his picture over the door of his study whereas in all the rest of the house you could scantly see a picture 5. From Mr. Mulcaster he went to Cambridge to Pembroke Hall and was there admitted one of Dr. Wats Scholars a notable Grammarian well entred in the Latin Greek and Hebrew tongues and likewise in Geometry and some of the Mathematicks and after a Fellow there in which he passed over all Degrees and places in such sort that he ever seemed worthy of higher and would in the end attain the highest for his abilities and vertues were mature and ripe for greater employments 6. He often lamented that he never could find a fit opportunity to shew his thankfulnesse to Dr. Wats his Patron nor to any of his Posterity Yet he did not utterly forget him in his will having ordered that the two Fellowships to be founded by him in Pembroke-Hall should alwaies be chosen and filled out of the Scholars of Dr. Wats Foundation if they were found fit of which himself had been one 7. Being in holy Orders he attended the noble and zealous Henry Earl of Huntington President of York and was employed by him in often preaching and conference with Recusants both of the Clergy and Laity In which God so blest his endeavours that he converted many 8. After this Mr. Secretary Walsingham takes notice of him and obtained him of the Earl intending his preferment in which he would never permit him to take any Country-benefice lest he and his great learning should be buried in a Country-Church His intent was to make him Reader of Controversies in Cambridge and for his maintenance he assigned to him as I am informed the lease of the Parsonage of Alton in Hampshire which after his death he returned to his Lady which she never knew or thought of 9. After this he obtained the Vicaridge of S. Giles without Creeple-gate London and a Prebend Residentiaries place in Pauls and was chosen Master of Pembroke-Hall and afterward was advanced to the Deanry of Westminster and all this without any ambition or suite of his own being promoted for his great worth 10. His knowledge in the learned and modern Tongues to the number of fifteen in all as I am informed was admirable His Memory great His Judgment profound His pains and Industry was infinite In the works he wrote he used no man to read for him as Bellarmine and others employed whole Colledges to read and study for them he only used an Amanuensis to transcribe that which himself had first written with his own hand 11. As he was himself most learned so he was a singular lover and encourager of Learned men which appeareth in his liberality and bounty to Mr. Casaubon Mr. Cluverius Mr. Vossius Mr. Grotius Mr. Erpenius whom he attempted with the offer of a very large stipend out of his own purse to draw into England to have read and taught the Oriental Tongues here 12. When the Bishopricks of Eli and Salisbury were void and some things were to be pared from them some overture being made to him to take them he refused them utterly He seemed to answer Nolo episcopari quia nolo alienare I will not be made a Bishop because I will not alienate Bishops Lands 13. After this by some perswasion he accepted of Chichester yet with some fear of the burthen and after that of Eli and last of this of Winchester Whence God hath translated him to Heaven In which he freed himself and his Successor of a Pension of 400 per an Which many of his Predecessors had paid He was Almoner Dean of the Chappel and a privy Counsellor to King James and King Charles In which he spake and meddled little in Civil and temporal Affairs being out of his profession and element but in causes of the Church he spake fully and home 14. Wheresoever he lived all places were better'd by his providence and goodnesse S. Giles was reduced by him to a Rate toward the better maintenance of the place and the house repaired He found nothing in the Treasury in Pembroke-Hall he left it in ready mony a thousand pound being Prebend Residentiary in Pauls he built the house in Creed-Lane belonging to his Prebend and recovered it to the Church he repaired the Dean's lodging When he came to Chichester he repaired the Palace there at Eli he spent on the Bishops houses two thousand pound Besides he refused to make some Leases in his last years which might have been very beneficial to him for the good of his Successor His reason was Many are too ready to spoil Bishopricks and few enough to uphold them 15. He was alwaies a diligent and painfull Preacher most of his Solemn Sermons he was most carefull of and exact I dare say few of them but they passed his hand and were thrice revised before they were preached and he ever misliked often and loose preaching without study of Antiquity and he would be bold with himself and say When he preached twice a day at S. Giles he prated once 16. After he came to have an Episcopal House with a Chappel he kept monthly