by these gentle and mild ways of Correption the Dissenters of those times treated him for it with as little respect as Mr. Harding and his Confraternity had before as Bishop Whitgift assures us his words are these They the Dissenters will not stick saith he in commending themselves to deface all others yea even that notable JEWEL whose both Labour and Learning they do envy and amongst themselves deprave as I have heard with mine own ears and a number more besides For further proof whereof I do refer you to the report that by this faction was spread of him after his last Sermon at Paul's Cross because he did confirm the Doctrine before preached by a famous and learned man touching obedience to the Prince and Laws It was strange saith he to me to hear so notable a Bishop so learned a Man so stout a Champion of true Religion so painful a Prelate so ungratefully and spitefully used by a sort of wavering wicked and wretched Tongues but it is their manner be you never so welll learned never so painful so zealâ—us so vertuous all is nothing with them but they will deprave you rail on you back-bite you invent lyes of you and spread false rumours as though you were the vilest Persons in the whole earth THUS writes that venerable Arch-bishop in his Defence of the Answer to the Admonition p. 423. upon occasion of a Paper written also about this time by Bishop Jewel upon certain frivolous Objections against the Government of the Church of England made by Thomas Cart wright which the Bishop had confuted and Cartwright writing against him Whitgift defended them in this place and by the by shews how ill the good Bishop was treated for his last Sermon at Paul's Cross by this generation of Vipers which extorted from him that Protestation he made on his Death-bed of which I shall give an account hereafter BEING naturally of a spare and thin Body and thus restlesly trashing it out with reading writing preaching and travelling he hastened his death which happened before he was full fifty years of Age of which he had a strange Perception a considerable time before it happened and wrote of it to several of his Friends but would by no means be perswaded to abate any thing of his former excessive Labours saying A Bishop should die preaching THO he ever governed his Diocess with great diligence yet perceiving his death approaching he began a new and more severe Visitation of it correcting the Vices of the Clergy and Laity more sharply injoyning them in some places tasks of Holy Tracts to be learned by heart conferring Orders more carefully and preaching oftener HAVING promised to preach at Lacock in Wiltshire a Gentleman who met him going thither observing him to be very ill by his looks advised him to return home assuring him it was better the People should want one Sermon than to be altogether deprived of such a Preacher But he would not be perswaded but went thither and preached his last Sermon out of the fifth to the Galat. Walk in the Spirit c. which he did not finish without great labour and difficulty THE Saturday following being the 22d of September 1571. he piously and devoutly rendered up his Soul into the Hands of God having first made a very devout and Christian Exhortation to those that were about him and expressing much dislike of one of his Servants who prayed for his Recovery He died at Monketon farly when he had been a Bishop almost twelve years and was buried almost in the middle of the Quire of his Cathedral Church and Aegidius Lawrence preached his Funeral Sermon He was extreamly bewailed by all men and a great number of Latin Greek and Hebrew Verses were made on this occasion by learned men which are collected and printed by Mr. Lawrence Humfrey Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxon in the end of his Life written in Latin by the order of that University nor has his name been since mentioned by any Man without such Elogies and Commendations as befitted so great so good so learned and laborious a Prelate HAVING thus brought him to his Grave my Reader may be pleased to permit me to collect some particular things which could not so well be inserted into the History of his Life without breaking the thread of it HE had naturally a very strong Memory which he had strangely improved by Art Mr. Humfrey gives several Examples of this but I will instance in two only John Hooper Bisop of Glocester who was burnt in the Reign of Queen Mary once to try him writ about forty Welsn and Irish words Mr. Jewel going a little while aside and recollecting them in his Memory and reading them twice or thrice over said them by heart backward and forward exactly in the same order they were set down And another time he did the same by ten Lines of Erasmus his Paraphrase in English the words of which being read sometimes confusedly without order and at other times in order by the Lord Keeper Bacon Mr. Jewel thinking a while on them presently repeated them again backward and forward in their right order and in the wrong just as they were read to him and he taught his Tutor Mr. Parkhurst the same Art THO his Memory were so great and so improved yet he would not intirely rely upon it but entered down into Common place Books whatever he thought he might afterwards have occasion to use which as the Author of his Life informs us were many in number and great in quantity being a vast Treasure of Learning and a rich Repository of Knowledge into which he had collected Sacred Profanne Poetick Philosophick and Divine Notes of all sorts and all these he had again reduced into a small piece or two which were a kind of General Indexes which he made use of at all times when he was to speak or write any thing which were drawn up in Characters for brevity and thereby so obscured that they were not of any use after his Death to any other person And besides these he ever kept Diaries in which he entered whatever he heard or saw that was remarkable which once a year he perused and out of them extracted what ever was more remarkable AND from hence it came to pass that whâ—â—â—eas Mr. Harding in that great Controversie they had abounded only in Words Bishop Jewel overwhelm'd him with a cloud of Witnesses and Citations out of the ancient Fathers Councils and Church Historians confirming every thing with so great a number of incontestableo Authorities that Mr. Harding durst never after pretend to a second perfect and full Answer but contented himself with snarling at some small pieces the truth is as Dr. Heylyn observes all the following Controversies were in this point beholding to the indefatigable Industry of this great Leader YET he was so careful in the use of his own Common place Books that when he was to write his Defence of
IOHANNES IEWEL S. T. D. Episcopus Sarisburiensis THE APOLOGY OF THE Church of England AND An Epistle to one Seignior Scipio a Venetian Gentleman Concerning the Council of Trent Written both in Latin By the Right Reverend Father in God JOHN JEWEL Lord Bishop of Sarisbury Made English by a Person of Quality To which is added The LIFE of the said Bishop Collected and written by the same Hand LONDON Printed by T. H. for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard 1685. THE PREFACE TO THE READER THE ensuing Discourses are all designed for the Good and Service of the Religion by Law established and two of them are so excellently adapted to that end by their Author that if I have not spoiled them by an ill version there can be no doubt made but they will be of great use Of the Third I beg leave to give somewhat a larger Account because I am a little more concerned in it THE Life I have collected from Mr. Humfrey's who wrote Bishop Jewel's Life at large in Quarto 2. The English Life put before his Works which was pen'd about the Year 1609. 3. Mr. Fuller's Church History 4. Dr. Heylyn's Ecclesia Anglicana restaurata and others who wrote any thing that related to those times and fell into my hands in that short time I had to finish it in Mr. Humfrey's alone would have been sufficient if he had observed an exact Method in Writing this Life or been altogether free from Affections But tho he tell us Bishop Jewel kept a Diary of his Life and that he had assistance from Dr. Parkhurst Bishop of Norwich Aegidius Lawrence Mr. John Jewel the Bishops Brother and one Mr. John Garbrande and others and Printed his Piece in the Year 1573. Which was not much above two years after the Death of Bishop Jewel yet he has not observed any exact order or method in the History of his Life and he no where tells us in what Year he was made a Fellow or received Orders nor from whom only he tells us Mr. Harding took his Orders at the same time Nor has he acquainted us when Mr. Harding published his first or second Antapologies nor when the Bishop went to Padua nor how long he staid there nor who were his Partners in his Visitation for the Queen Nor has he marked almost any of the principal Actions of his Life when they were done and tho he mentions a Sermon at Paul's Cross and a Conference with the Dissenters not long before his death yet he neither tells us the time or occasion of either of them but instead of these runs out into Discourses against Harding and others of that Perswasion which were nothing or very little to his purpose THE English Life before his Works is only an Extract out of Mr. Humfrey's Latin Work but yet was helpful to me in many Particulars being done by a wise Man and who doth not seem to have been biassed as the former was who makes it his business to represent both the Church of England and Bishop Jewel as wonderous Friends to the Churches of Switzerland that is to the Calvinists because he Good Man was one himself tho not so mad as those that followed and upon this very account I do suspect he has left out many things that he might have related and would have afforded great light to the Church History of those times and especially to Bishop Jewel's Life Fuller is barren in his Relations of those times the Bishop lived after his Consecration tho he afforded me some good helps Dr. Burnett has continued his History but a little way in Queen Elizabeths time and Dr. Heylyn ended his with the beginning of the Year 1566. which was about Five Years before the death of Bishop Jewel and I have neither time nor leisure nor Interest to search the Records of those times and compare the Editions of Books and other things by which this Life might have been put into a better Method as to the timing of things And besides all this it were perhaps indecent to put a long Life before two such small Tractates as I am to entertain my Reader with but yet I hope the Life such as it is will give some light to the Discourses and raise a venerable Idea of this good Bishop in the Readers mind which were the things I chiefly aimed at in the Writing of it As to the Pieces the first of these the Apology was written in Latin in the beginning of the Year 1562. or the latter end of the foregoing Year and was occasioned by Pope Pius the Fourth his calling the Council of Trent and sending his Nuncio Martiningo to invite the Queen to it and the interposition of most of the greatest Princes of Christendom who wrote to the Queen to entertain the Nuncio and submit to the Council Whereupon it was thought but reasonable to give the World an account of what we had done in the preceding Parliament and the reasons of it and to retort the many Accusations brought against our Church by the Papists And therefore it was but reasonable that it should be in Latin that being the most common Language and understood by the Learned Men of all Nations and accordingly it found entertainment in all places and was read in them Which is more perhaps than can be said of any other Book written for our Church since the Reformation Mr. Harding had a great Quarrel against it because it was not inscribed neither to the Pope nor to the Council But there being no reason to make them our Judges and they having no right to claim that Authority over us it had been a great oversight to have made any such Inscription which would have been a kind of making them what they had neither right nor reason to expect to be and from whom we could expect no Justice The Natives had without doubt a great desire to see what was in this Book which then made so great a noise in the World and the Learned Men being then otherwise imployed a Lady who was one of the most Learned of the Age undertook that task and made a very Faithful and perhaps Elegant Version of it for the time when it was made She was then Wife to Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England second Daughter to Sir Anthony Cooke Knight one of the Tutors to King Edward the Sixth who being an excellent Scholar had taken care to improve his Five Daughters so much in Learning that they became the Wonders of the Age and were sought in Marriage by great Men more for their natural and acquired Endowments and Beauty than for their Portions tho they did not want that neither Mildred the eldest married William Cecil Lord Treasurer of England Anne the second was this Lady Bacon Katherine the third married Sir Henry Killigrew Elizabeth the fourth married Sir Thomas Hobby the fifth whose name is lost married Sir Ralph Rowlet all three Knights
others till at last Stephen Gardiner finding who were their Benefactors threatned he would in a short time make them eat their Fingers ends for hunger and it was sore against his will that he proved a false Prophet for he clapt up so many of their Benefactors in England that after this there came but a small if any Supply out of England to them But then Christopher Prince of Wittenberg and the Senators of Zurick and the foreign Divines were so kind to them that they had still a tolerable Subsistence and Mr. Jewel stood in need of the less because he lived with Peter Martyr till his return into England SO saith Mr. Humfrey in his Life but it is apparent by the first lines of his Epistle to Seignior Scipio that he studied some time at Padua and there being no mention of his travelling at any time before his exile nor indeed any possibility of it I suppose that whilst he was thus with Peter Martyr at Zurick he made a step over the Alpes to Padua which was not very distant and there studied some time and contracted his acquaintance with the said Venetian Gentleman for this Journey is no where mentioned by any other Author that I have seen and I can find no time so likely for it as now DURING all the time of his exile which was about four years he studied very hard and spent the rest of his time in consolating and confirming his Brethren for he would frequently tell them that when their Brethren indured such bitter Tortures and horrible Martyrdoms at home it was not reasonable they should expect to fare deliciously in Banishment concluding always Haec non du rabunt aetatem These things will not last an Age Which he repeated so very often and with so great an assurance of mind that it would be so that many believed it before it came to pass and more took it for a Prophetick Sentence afterwards When the English left their Native Country they were all of a piece bu◠some of them going to Geneva an other places which had imbrace the model of Reformation settle by Calvin they became fond 〈◊〉 these foreign Novelties and som◠of them at Franckford in the yea◠1554. began an alteration of th◠Liturgy and did what they could to dra◠others to them and to these men Knox th◠great Intendiary of Scotland afterwards joyned himself and not long after one Whitehead a zealous Calvinist but of a much better temper than Knox. Not contented with this alteration the fifteenth of November 1554. they writ Letters in open defiance of the English Liturgy to them of Zurick who defended it in a Letter of the 28 th of the same month Grindal and Chambers were sent from Strasburgh to Frankford to quiet these Innovators but to no purpose so returning back again the English at Strasburgh wrote to them the thirteenth of December all which procured no other regard from them but only to obtain Calvin's judgment of it which being suitable to their own as there was no wonder it should things continued thus till the thirteenth of March following when Dr. Richard Cox entered Frankford drove Knox out and resettled the Liturgy there Whereupon in the end of August following Fox with some few others went to Basil but the main body followed Knox and Goodman to Geneva their Mother City as Dr. Heylyn stiles it where they made choice of Knox and Goodman for their constant Preachers under which Ministry they rejected the whole Frame and Fabrick of the Reformation made in England in King Edward's time and conformed themselves wholly to the fashions of the Church of Geneva c. Thus far Dr. Heylyn Mr. Jewel being then at Zurick used his utmost endeavour to reclaim these men and put a stop to this rising Schism Exhorting them as Brethren to lay aside all strife and emulation especially about such small matters least thereby they should greatly offend the minds of all good men which thing he said they ought to have a principal care of And doubtless this good man thought that their gratitude to God for restoring them to their Native Country under the auspicious Reign of Queen Elizabeth of Blessed Memory had for ever put an end to this dispute and he seems to speak as much in his Apology for the Church of England but within a few years this fury broke loose again and just about the time of Jewel's death became more trouble some than ever before and just about an hundred years after its rise by a dismal Rebellion overturn'd at once the Church and Monarchy of Great Britain BUT to return to Mr. Jewel and our Exiles the seventeenth of November 1558. God remembred the distressed State of the Church of England and put an end to her Sufferings by removing that Bigotted Lady the news of which flying speedily to our Exiles they hasted into England again to congratulate the Succession of Queen Elizabeth of ever Blessed Memory HIS good Benefactor and Tutor Mr. Parkhurst upon the arrival of this news made him a visit in Germany but fearing Mr. Jewel had not chosen the safest way for his return to England left him and went another way which seeming more safe in the end proved otherwise Mr. Jewel arriving safely in England with what he had whilst the other was robbed by the way and so at his landing in England Mr. Jewel who was here before him very gratefully relieved his great Benefactor THE time of Mr. Jewel's arrival in England is no where expressed that I can find but he being then at Zurick in all probability was for that cause none of the first that returned so that when he came back he had the comfort to find all things well disposed for the reception of the Reformation for the Queen had by a Proclamation of the thirtieth of December 1558. ordered that no man of what quality soever he were should presume to alter any thing in the State of Religion or innovate in any of the Rites and Ceremonies thereunto belonging c. until some further order should be taken therein Only it was permitted and with all required that the Litany the Lords-Prayer the Creed and the Ten Commandments should be said in the English Tongue and that the Epistle and Gospel should be read in English at the time of the High Mass which was done saith Dr. Heylyn in all the Churches of London on the next Sunday after being New-Years-day and by degrees in all the other Churches of the Kingdom Further than this she thought it not convenient to proceed at the present only she prohibited the Elevation of the Sacrament at the Altar of the Chappel Royal Which was likewise forborn in all other Churches and she set at liberty all that had been imprisoned for Religion in her Sisters time and ordered the Liturgy to be revised with great care and that a Parliament should be summoned to sit at West-minster the 25th of January 1559.
ALL this I suppose at least was done before Mr. Jewel returned into England for whether he was here at the Coronation is uncertain He was entertained first by Mr. Nicholas Culverwell for almost six months and then falling into a Sickness was invited by Dr. William Thames to lodge at his House but this was after the Parliament THE Liturgy being then reviewed and whatever might give the Popish Party any unnecessary Exasperation or Discontent purged out in order to the facilitating the passing an Act of Parliament for the settling it and the establishment of other things that were necessary a publick Disputation was appointed on the Thirtieth of March following to be holden in the Church of Westminster in the English Tonguo in the presence of as many of the Lords of the Council and of the Members of both Houses as were desirous to inform themselves in the State of the Questions The Disputation was also to be managed for the better avoiding of Confusion by a mutual interchange of Writings upon every Point each Writing to be answered the next day and so from day to day till the whole were ended To all which the Bishops at first consented tho they would not afterwards stand to it The Questions were Three concerning Prayers in the Vulgar Tongue the Power of the Church for the changing Rites and Ceremonies and the Propitiatory Sacrifice of the Mass for the Living and the Dead THE first use that was made of Mr. Jewel after his return was the nominating him one of the Disputants for the reformed Party and tho he was the last in number and place yet he was not the least either in desert or esteem having made great Additions to his former Learning in his four years Exile and Travel which is a great improvement to ingenious Spirits But this Disputation was broken off by the Popish Party who would not stand to the order appointed so that Mr. Jewel in all probability had no occasion to shew either his Zeal or Learning THE Parliament ended the eighth of May 1559. and by virtue of an Act passed in this Parliament soon after Midsummer the Queen made a Visitation of all the Diocesses in England by Commissioners for rectifying all such things as they found amiss and could not be redressed by any ordinary Episcopal Power without spending of more time than the Exigencies of the Church could then admit of And this was done by a Book of Articles printed for that purpose and the Inquiry was made upon Oath by the Commissioners Here Mr. Jewel was taken in again and made one of these Commissioners for the West When he visited his own Native Country which till then perhaps he had not seen since his return from Exile when also he preached to and disputed with his Country-men and indeavoured more to win them to imbrace the Reformation by good Usage Civility and Reason than to terrifie or awe them by that great Authority the Queen had armed him and his fellow Commissioners with RETURNING back to London and giving the Queen a good and satisfactory account of their Visitation the 21st of January following Mr. Jewel who was then only Batchelor of Divinity was consecrated Bishop of Sarisbury which he at first modestly declined but at last accepted in obedience to the Queens command This See had been void by the death of John Capon his immediate Predecessor who died in the year 1557. now near three years And here the Divine Providence again gave him the advantage in point of Seniority over his Tutor Mr. John Parkhurst who was not consecrated Bishop of Norwich till the Fourteenth of July after but then his Tutor had the advantage of him in point of Revenue for Mr. Jewel's Bishoprick had been miserably impoverished by his Predecessor so that he complained afterwards that there was never a good Living left him that would maintain a Learned Man for said he the Capon had devoured all because he hath either given away or sold all the Ecclesiastical Dignities and Livings So that the good Bishop was forced all his Life-time after to take extraordinary pains in travelling and preaching in all parts of his Diocess which brought him to his Grave the sooner whereas his Tutor had a much richer Bishoprick and consequently more ease and out-lived his Pupil Jewel three years THE Sunday before Easter of this year Bishop Jewel preached at Paul's Cross his famous Sermon upon the 1 Cor. 11. v. 25. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you that-the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took Bread c. This Sermon gave a fatal blow to the Popish Religion here in England which was become very odious to all men by reason of the barbarous Cruelty used by those of that Perswasion in the Reign of Queen Mary but the Challenge which he then made and afterwards several times and in several places repeated was the most stinging part of this Sermon and therefore tho I am concerned to be as short as I can I will yet insert this Famous Piece at large IF any Learned Man of our Adversaries said he or all the Learned Men that be alive be able to bring any one sufficient Sentence out of any old Catholick Doctor or Father or General Council or Holy Scripture or any one Example in the Primitive Church whereby it may clearly and plainly be proved during the first six hundred years 1. That there was at any time any private Masses in the World 2. Or that there was then any Communion ministred unto the People under one kind 3. Or that the People had their Common-Prayer in a strange Tongue that the People understood not 4. Or that the Bishop of Rome was then called an universal Bishop or the Head of the universal Church 5. Or that the People were then taught to believe that Christ's Body is really substantially corporally carnally or naturally in the Sacrament 6. Or that his Body is or may be in a thousand places or more at one time 7. Or that the Priest did then hold up the Sacrament over his Head 8. Or that the People did then fall down and worship it with Godly Honour 9. Or that the Sacrament was then or now ought to be hanged up under a Canopy 10. Or that in the Sacrament after the words of Consecration there remained only the accidents and shews without the substance of Bread and Wine 11. Or that then the Priests divided the Sacrament into three parts and afterwards received himself alone 12. Or that whosoever had said the Sacrament is a Figure a Pledge a Token or a remembrance of Christ's Body had therefore been adjudged for an Heretick 13. Or that it was lawful then to have thirty twenty fifteen ten or five Masses said in the same Church in one day 14. Or that Images were then set up in the Churches to the intent the People might worship them 15. Or that the Lay-People were then forbidden
Religion as our Author tells us it was because he had no great occasions given him but what he thought of these men will best appear from the Sermon I mentioned above his words are these By whose name shall I call you I would I might call you Brethren But alas this heart of yours is not Brotherly I would I might call you Christians But alas you are no Christians I know not by what name I shall call you For if you were Brethren you would love as Brethren If you were Christians you would agree as Christians So that he could have no good opinion of those whom he every where in that Sermon stiles proud self-conceited disobedient and unquiet men who did not deserve the title of Brethren or Christians What would he have said if he had lived in our days BESIDES confuting some of the Seditious Doctrines of Thomas Carwright who became famous by his Admonition to the Parliament in the year following the Bishop said Stultitia nata est in corde pueri virga disciplinae fugabit illam Which shews he was no encourager of Faction by Lenity and Toleration tho he was a man of great moderation otherwise and expressed a great sense of the Frailties of Mankind in other Instances as appears by his Letter to Dr. Parkhurst when Bishop of Norwich Let your Chancellor saith he be harder but you easier let him wound but do you heal let him Lance do you Plaister wise Clemency will do more good than rigid severity one man may move more with an Engine than six with the force of their hands And accordingly he would often sit in his own Consistory with his Chancellor hearing considering and sometimes determining Causes concerning Matrimony Adultery and Testaments c. not thinking it safe to commit all to the sole care and sidelity of his Chancellor and Officials But tho as a Justice of Peace he often sate in the Courts of Quarter-Sessions yet judgment were desired concerning some scruple of Religion or some other such-like difficulty So exact was his care not to entangle himself with secular affairs and yet not to be wanting to his duty in any case THO he came to a Bishoprick miserably impoverished and wasted yet he found Means to exercise a prodigious Liberality and Hospitality For the first his great Expence in the building a fair Library for his Cathedral Church may be an instance which his Successor Dr. Gheast furnished with Books whose name is perpetuated together with the Memory of his Predecessor by this Inscription Haec Bibliotheca extructa est sumptibus R. P. ac D. D. JOHANNIS JEWELLI quondam Sarum Episcopi instructa vero libris à R. in Christo P. D. Edmundo Gheast olim ejusdem Ecclesiae Episcopo quorum memoria in Benedictione erit A. D. 1578. HIS Doors stood always open to the Poor and he would frequently send his charitable Reliefs to Prisoners nor did he confine his Bounty to English men only but was liberal to Foreigners and especially to those of Zâ—rick and the Friends of Peter Martyr BUT perceiving the great want of learned men in his times his greatest care was to have ever with him in his House half a dozen or more poor Lads which he brought up in Learning and took much delight to hear them dispute Points of Grammar-learning in Latin at his Table when he was at his Meal improving them and pleasing himself at the same time AND besides these he maintained in the University several young Students allowing them yearly Pensions and when ever they came to visit him rarely dismissed them without liberal Gâ—atuities Amongst these was the famous Mr. Richard Hooker his Country-man whose Parents being Poor must have been bound Apprentice to a Trade but for the Bounty of this good Bishop who allowed his Parents a yearly Pension towards his maintenance well near seven years before he was fit for the University and in the year 1567 appointed him to remove to Oxford and there to attend Dr. Cole then President of Corpus Christi Colledge who according to his Promise to the Bishop provided him a Tutor and a Clerks place in that Colledge which with a Contribution from his Uncle Mr. John Hooker and the continued Pension of his Patron the Bishop gave him a comfortable subsistence and in the last year of the Bishops Life Mr. Hooker making this his Patron a visit at his Palace the good Bishop made him and a Companion he had with him dine at his own Table with him which Mr. Hooker boasted of with much joy and gratitude when he saw his Mother and Friends whither he was then travelling a Foot The Bishop when he parted with him gave him good Counsel and his Blessing but forgot to give him Money which when the Bishop bethought himself of he sent a Servant to call him back again and then told him I sent for you Richard to lend you a Horse which hath carried me many a mile and I thank God with much ease And presently delivered into his hand a walking-staff with which he professed he had travelled many parts of Germany and then went on and said Richard I do not give but lend you my Horse be sure you be honest and bring my Horse back to me at your return this way to Oxford and I do now give you ten Groats to bear your charges to Exeter and here is ten Groats more which I charge you to deliver to your Mother and tell her I send her a Bishops Blessing with it and beg the continuance of her Prayers for me And if you bring my Horse back to me I will give you ten more to carry you on foot to the College and so God bless you good Richard It was not long after this before this good Bishop died but before his death he had so effectually recommended Mr. Hooker to Edwin Sandys then Bishop of London and after Arch-bishop of York that about a year after he put his Son under the Tutelage of Mr. Hooker and was otherwise so liberal to him that he became one of the learnedest men of the Age and as Bishop Jewel soild the Papists so this Mr. Hooker in his Books of Ecclesiastical Polity gave the Dissenters such a fatal Defeat as they never yet could nor ever shall be able to recover from Nor was Mr. Hooker ungrateful but having occasion to mention his good Benefactor in that Piece he calls him Bishop Jewel the worthiest Divine that Christendom hath bred for the space of some hundreds of years BUT to return to Bishop Jewel he had collected an excellent Library of Books of all sorts not excepting the most impertinent of the Popish Authors and here it was that he spent the greatest and the best part of his time rarely appearing abroad especially in a Morning till eight of the Clock so that till that time it was not easie to speak with him when commonly he eat some slight thing for the support