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A30388	The life of William Bedell D.D., Lord Bishop of Killmore in Ireland written by Gilbert Burnet. To which are subjoyned certain letters which passed betwixt Spain and England in matter of religion, concerning the general motives to the Roman obedience, between Mr. James Waddesworth ... and the said William Bedell ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.; Bedell, William, 1571-1642. Copies of certain letters which have passed between Spain & England in matter of religion.; Wadsworth, James, 1604-1656?	1692 (1692)	Wing B5831; ESTC R27239	225,602	545

late King He communicated to him the inwardest thoughts of his Heart and profesed that he had learnt more from him in all the parts of Divinity whether Speculative or Practical than from any he had ever conversed with in his whole life So great an intimacy with so extraordinary a person is enough to raise a Character were there no more to be added P. Paulo went further for he assisted him in acquiring the Italian Tongue in which Bedell became such a Master that he spoke it as one born in Italy and penned all the Sermons he then preached either in Italian or Latine in this last it will appear by the productions of his Pen yet remaining that he had a true Roman Stile inferior to none of the Modern Writers if not equal to the Ancients In requital of the Instruction he received from P. Paulo in the Italian Tongue he drew a Grammar of the English Tongue for his use and for some others that desired to learn it that so they might be able to understand our Books of Divinity and he also translated the English Common-prayer Book into Italian and P. Paulo and the seven Divines that during the Interdict were commanded by the Senate both to preach and write against the Popes authority liked it so well that they resolved to have made it their pattern in case the differences between the Pope and them had produced the effect which they hoped and longed for The intimacy between them grew so great and so publick that when P. Paulo was wounded by those Assassinates that were set on by the Court of Rome to destroy so redoubted an Enemy upon the failing of which attempt a Guard was set on him by the Senate that knew how to value and preserve so great a Treasure and much precaution was used before any were admitted to come to him Bedell was excepted out of those rules and had free access to him at all times They had many and long discourses concerning Religion He found P. Paulo had read over the Greek New Testament with so much exactness that having used to mark every Word when he had fully weighed the importance of it as he went through it he had by going often over it and observing what he past over in a former reading grown up to that at last that every word was marked of the whole New Testament and when Bedell suggested to him critical explications of some passages that he had not understood before he received them with the transports of one that leapt for joy and that valued the discoveries of divine Truth beyond all other things During his stay at Venice the famous Ant. de Dominis Archbishop of Spalata came to Venice and having received a just character of Mr. Bedell he discovered his secret to him and shewing him his ten Books De Republica Ecclesiastica which he afterwards printed at London Bedell took the freedom which he allowed him and corrected many ill applications of Texts of Scripture and Quotations of Fathers For that Prelate being utterly ignorant of the Greek Tongue could not but be guilty of many mistakes both in the one and the other and if there remain some places still that discover his ignorance of that Language too plainly yet there had been many more if Bedell had not corrected them but no wonder if in such a multitude some escaped his diligence De Dominis took all this in good part from him and did enter into such familiarity with him and found his assistance so useful and indeed so necessary to himself that he used to say he could do nothing without him A passage fell out during the Interdict that made greater noise than perhaps the importance of it could well amount to but it was suited to the Italian Genius There came a Jesuite to Venice Thomas Maria Caraffa who printed a Thousand Theses of Philosophy and Divinity which he dedicated to the Pope with this extravagant Inscription PAULO V. VICE-DEO Christianae Reipublicae Monarchae invictissimo Pontificiae Omnipotentiae conservatori accerrimo To Paul the U. the Uice-God the most invincible Monarch of the Christian Common-wealth and the most zealous asserter of the Papal Omnipotency All people were amazed at the impudence of this Title but when Mr. Bedell observed that the numeral Letters of the first Words PAVLO V. VICE-DEO being put together made exactly 666. the number of the Beast in the Revelation he communicated this to P. Paulo and the Seven Divines and they carried it to the Duke and Senate it was entertained almost as if it had come from Heaven and it was publickly preached over all their Territories that here was a certain evidence that the Pope was Antichrist And it is like this was promoted by them more because they found it took with the Italians than that they could build much upon it though it was as strong as the like computation from the Greek Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon which some of the Ancients laid some weight This flew so over Italy that lest it should take too much among the people the Pope caused his Emissaries to give it out every where That Antichrist was now born in Babylon and was descended of the Tribe of Dan and that he was gathering a vast Army with which he intended to come and destroy Christendome and therefore all Christian Princes were exhorted to prepare all their Forces for resisting so great an Invasion And with this piece of false news that was given out very confidently the other conceit was choaked But though Mr. Bedell makes use of it in his Book against Wadsworth yet he was too modest a Man to claim the discovery of it to himself but Sir Henry Wotton assured King Iames That he first observed it Here I must add a passage concerning which I am in doubt whether it reflected more on the sincerity or on the understanding of the English Ambassadour The breach between the Pope and the Republick was brought very near a Crisis so that it was expected a total separation not only from the Court but the Church of Rome was like to follow upon it It was set on by P. Paulo and the Seven Divines with much zeal and was very prudently conducted by them In order to the advancing of it King Iames ordered his Ambassadour to offer all possible assistance to them and to accuse the Pope and the Papacy as the chief Authors of all the mischiefs of Christendome The Prince and Senate answered this in words full of respect to King Iames and said That they knew things were not so bad as some endeavoured to make the World believe on design to sow discord between Christian Princes and when the Popes Nuncio objected That King Iames was not a Catholick and so was not to be relyed on The Duke answered The King of England believed in Jesus Christ but he did not know in whom some others believed Upon which P. Paulo and the Seven Divines pressed Mr. Bedell to move

THE LIFE OF WILLIAM BEDELL D. D. Lord Bishop OF Killmore in Ireland WRITTEN By GILBERT BURNET D. D. Now Lord Bishop of Sarum To which are Subjoyned Certain Letters which passed betwixt Spain and England in Matter of Religion concerning the general motives to the Roman Obedience between Mr. Iames Waddesworth a late Pensioner of the Holy Inquisition in Sevil and the said William Bedell then a Minister of the Gospel in Suffolk LONDON Printed for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1692. THE PREFACE THe Contests that have been raised in this Age concerning the lawfulness and the usefulness of the Episcopal Government have engaged so many learned Men to treat that Argument so fully that as there is very little excuse left for the Ignorance or obstinacy of those who still stand out against the Evidence of a Cause made out so clearly so there is scarce any thing left to be said by any whose zeal may set him on to handle a matter that seems to be now exhausted There is one sort of Arguments yet remaining that as they are more within every ones compass to apprehend and apply so they have a greater force on Mens affections which commonly give a biass to their understandings For conviction has an easie access to us when we are already inclined to wish that were true concerning which we imploy our enquiries And in practical matters such as Government Arguments fetched from great Patterns do not only prepare us to think well of such Forms but really give us truer and juster Ideas of them than speculative Discourses can raise in us which work but coldly on persons unconcerned An Argument not foreign to this is used by all the Assertors of Episcopacy in which the force of the reasoning is equal to the truth of the assertion Which is that it is not possible to think that a Government can be criminal under which the World received the Christian Religion and that in a course of many Ages in which as all the corners of the Christian Church so all the parts of it the sound as well as the unsound that is the Orthodox as well as the Hereticks and Schismaticks agreed the persecutions that lay then so heavy on the Church made it no desireable thing for a Man to be exposed to their first fury which was always the Bishops portion and that in a course of many Centuries in which there was nothing but Poverty and labour to be got by the Imployment There being no Princes to set it on as an Engine of Government and no Synods of Clergymen gathered to assume that Authority to themselves by joynt designs and endeavours And can it be imagined that in all that glorious Cloud of Witnesses to the truth of the Christian Religion who as they planted it with their Labours so watered it with their Blood there should not so much as one single person be found on whom either a love to truth or an envy at the advancement of others prevailed so far as to declare against such an early and universal corruption if it is to be esteemed one When all this is complicated together it is really of so great Authority that I love not to give the proper name to that temper that can withstand so plain a demonstration For what can a Man even heated with all the force of imagination and possessed with all the sharpness of prejudice except to the inference made from these Premisses that a Form so soon introduced and so wonderfully blest could not be contrary to the Rules of the Gospel and cannot be ascribed to any other Original but that the Apostles every where established it as the Fence about the Gospel which they planted so that our Religion and Government are to be reckoned Twins born at the same time and both derived from the same Fathers But things so remote require more than ordinary knowledg to set them before us in a true light And their distance from us makes them lessen as much to our thoughts as Objects that are far from us do to our Eyes Therefore it will be perhaps necessary in order to the giving a fuller and amiabler prospect of that Apostolical Constitution to chuse a Scene that lies nearer and more within all peoples view that so it may appear that for the living Arguments in favour of this Government we need not go so far as to the Clement's the Ignatius's the Polycarp's the Ireneus's the Denys's and the Cyprian's that were the glories of the Golden Ages Nor to the Athanasius's the Basil's the Gregorie's the Chrysostome's the Martin's the Ambrose's and the Austin's that were the beauties of the Second but Silver Age of Christianity but that even in this Iron Age and dreg of time there have been such Patterns as perhaps can hardly be matched since Miracles ceased We ought not to deny the Church of Rome the just Praises that belong to some of the Bishops she has produced in this and the last Age who were burning and shining Lights and we ought not to wonder if a Church so blemisht all over with the corruptions of her Clergy and in particular of the Heads of them covers her self from those deserved Reproaches by the brightness of such great names and by the exemplary Vertues of the present Pope which being so unusual a thing it is not strange to see them magnifie and celebrate it as they do France has likewise produced in this Age a great many Bishops of whom it must be said That as the World was not worthy of them so that Church that used them so ill was much less worthy of them And though there are not many of that stamp now left yet Cardinal Grimaldy the Bishop of Angiers and the Bishop of Grenoble may serve to dignifie an Age as well as a Nation The Bishop of Alet was as a great and good Man told me like a living and speaking Gospel It is true their intanglements with the See of Rome and the Court of France were things both uneasie and dangerous to them but I love not to point at their blind Sides it is their fair one that I would set out and if we can bear the highest commendations that can be given to the Vertues of Heathen Philosophers even when they do eclipse the reputation of the greater part of Christians it will be unjust for any to be uneasie at the Praises given to Prelates of another Communion who are to be so much the more admired if notwithstanding all the corruptions that lye so thick about them that they could hardly break through them they have set the World such examples as ought indeed to make others ashamed that have much greater advantages But since the giving of Orders is almost the only part of their function that is yet entirely in their Hands they have indeed brought a regulation into that which was so grosly abused in former times that cannot be enough commended nor too much

writ to him inviting him to come and accept of that Mastership so an Address was made to the King praying that he would command him to go over And that this might be the more successful Sir Henry Wotton was moved to give his Majesty a true account of him which he did in the following Letter May it please your most gracious Majesty HAving been informed That certain persons have by the good Wishes of the Archbishop of Armagh been directed hither with a most humble Petition unto your Majesty That you will be pleased to make Mr. William Bedell now resident upon a small Benefice in Suffolk Governour of your Colledge at Dublin for the good of that Society and my self being required to render unto your Majesty some Testimony of the said William Bedell who was long my Chaplain at Venice in the time of my imployment there I am bound in all Conscience and Truth so far as your Majesty will accept of my poor Iudgment to affirm of him That I think hardly a ●itter Man could have been propounded to your Majesty in your whole Kingdom for singular Erudition and Piety Conformity to the Rites of the Church and Zeal to advance the Cause of God wherein his Travells abroad were not obscure in the time of the Excommunication of the Venetians For may it please your Majesty to know That this is the Man whom Padre Paulo took I may say into his very Soul with whom he did communicate the inwardest Thoughts of his Heart from whom he professed to have received more knowledge in all Divinity both scholastical and positive than from any that he had practised in his Dayes of which all the passages were well known unto the King your Father of blessed memory And so with your Majesties good favour I will end this needless office for the general fame of his Learning his Life and Christian Temper and those religious Labours which himself hath dedicated to your Majesty do better describe him than I am able Your Majesties most humble and faithful Servant H. Wotton But when this matter was proposed to Mr. Bedell he expressed so much both of true Philosophy and real Christianity in the Answer that he made to so honourable an offer that I will not undertake to give it otherwise than in his own Words taken from a Letter which he writ to one that had been imployed to deal with him in this matter The Original of this and most of the other Letters that I set down were found among the Most Reverend Primate Vsher's Papers and were communicated to me by his Reverend and worthy Friend Dr. Parre SIR WIth my hearty commendations remembred I have this Day received both your Letters dated the 2. of this Month I thank you for your care and diligence in this matter For answer whereof although I could have desired so much respite as to have conferred with some of my Friends such as possibly do know the condition of that place better than I do and my insufficiencies better than my Lord Primate yet since that I perceive by both your Letters the matter requires a speedy and present answer thus I stand I am married and have three Children therefore if the place requires a single Man the business is at an end I have no want I thank my God of any thing necessary for this life I have a competent Living of above a hundred pound a Year in a good Air and Seat with a very convenient House near to my Friends a little Parish not exceeding the compass of my weak Voice I have often heard it That changing seldom brings the better especially to those that are well And I see well That my Wife though resolving as she ought to be contented with whatsoever God shall appoint had rather continue with her Friends in her native Countrey than put her self into the hazzard of the Seas and a foreign Land with many casualties in Travel which she perhaps out of fear apprehends more than there is cause All these reasons I have if I consult with Flesh and Blood which move me rather to reject this offer yet with all humble and dutiful thanks to my Lord Primate for his Mind and good Opinion of me on the other side I consider the end wherefore I came into the World and the business of a Subject to our Lord Iesus Christ of a Minister of the Gospel of a good Patriot and of an honest Man If I may be of any better use to my Countrey to Gods Church or of any better service to our common Master I must close mine eyes against all private respects and if God call me I must answer Here I am For my part therefore I will not stir one Foot or lift up my Finger for or against this motion but if it proceed from the Lord that is If those whom it concerns there do procure those who may command me here to send me thither I shall obey if it were not only to go into Ireland but into Virginia yea though I were not only to meet with troubles dangers and difficulties but death it self in the performance Sir I have as plainly as I can shewed you my mind desiring you with my humble service to represent it to my reverend good Lord my Lord Primate And God Almighty direct this affair to the glory of his holy name and have you in his merciful protection so I rest From Bury March 6. 1626. Your loving Friend Will. Bedell The conclusion of this matter was That the King being well informed concerning him commanded him to undertake this charge which he did cheerfully obey and set about the duties incumbent on him in such a manner as shewed how well he had improved the long time of retirement that he had hitherto enjoyed and how ripely he had digested all his thoughts and observations He had hitherto lived as if he had been made for nothing but speculation and study and now when he entred upon a more publick Scene it appeared that he understood the practical things of Government and humane life so well that no man seemed to be more cut out for business than he was In the Government of the Colledge and at his first entry upon a new Scene he resolved to act nothing till he both knew the Statutes of the House perfectly well and understood well the tempers of the people therefore when he went over first he carried himself so abstractly from all affairs that he past for a soft and weak Man The zeal that appeared afterwards in him shewed That this coldness was only the effect of his Wisdom and not of his Temper but when he found that some grew to think meanly of him and that even Vsher himself began to change his opinion of him Upon that when he went over to England some Months after to bring his Family over to Ireland he was thinking to have resigned his new Preferment and to have returned to his Benefice in Suffolk but the Primate

answers and the same in Consultations which Themistocles was in Action as will appear unto you in a Passage between him and the Prince of Conde The said Prince in a voluntary journey toward Rome came to Venice where to give some vent to his own humours he would often devest himself of his greatness and after other less laudable curiosities not long before his departure a desire took him to visit the famous obscure Servite to whose Cloyster coming twice he was the first time denied to be within at the second it was intimated That by reason of his daily admission to their deliberatives in the place he could not receive the visit of so illustrious a personage without leave from the Senate which he would seek to procure This set a great edge on the Prince when he saw he should confer with one participant of more than Monkish Speculations So after leave gotten he came the third time and there besides other voluntary discourse which it were a tyranny over you to repeat he assailed with a question enough to have troubled any Man but himself and him too if a precedent accident had not eased him The question was this He desired to be told by him before his going away who was the true unmasked Author of the late Tridentine History You must know that but newly advertisement was come from Rome That the Archbishop of Spalato being there arrived from England in an interview between him and the Cardinal Ludovisio Nephew to Gregory XV. the said Cardinal after a complemental welcoming of him into the Lap of the Church told him by order from the Pope That his Holiness would expect from him some Recantation in Print as an antidote against certain Books and Pamphlets which he had published whilst he stood in revolt namely his first Manifesto Item Two Sermons preached at the Italian Church in London Again a little Treatise intituled Scogli And lastly His great Volumes about Church Regiment and Controversies These were all named for as touching the Tridentine History his Holiness saith the Cardinal will not press you to any disavowment thereof though you have an Epistle before the Original Edition because we know well enough that Fryer Paulo is the Father of that Brat Vpon this last Piece of the aforesaid Advertisement the good Father came fairly off for on a sudden laying all together that to disavow the Work was an untruth to assume it a danger and to say nothing an Incivility he took a middle Evasion telling the Prince That he understood he was going to Rome where he might learn at ease who was the Author of that Work as they were freshly intelligenced from thence Thus without any mercy of your time I have been led along from one thing to another while I have taken pleasure to remember that Man whom God appointed and furnished for a proper Instrument to anatomize that Pack of reverend Cheaters Among whom I speak of the greater part Exceptis senioribus Religion was shuffled like a Pair of Cards and the Dice so many Years were set upon us And so wishing you very heartily many good years I will let you breath till you have opened these inclosed ERRATA PAg. 79. Margent for 1. read 2. p. 105. l. 29. after Correction del p. 115. l. 13. for Vnderstanding r. an undertaking p. 122. l. 16. after Oath r. not l. ult for Baily's Clerk r. Baily p. 129. l. 18. for 1630 r. 1638. p. 132. l. 18. before as r. such p. 142. l. 12. for those Articles r. these Articles p. 150. l. 15. for ther r. their p. 206. l. 10. after carried r. themselves l. 25. for Forker r. Forbes THE COPIES OF CERTAIN LETTERS Which have passed between SPAIN ENGLAND In matter of RELIGION CONCERNING The general Motives to the ROMAN OBEDIENCE BETWEEN Mr. Iames Waddesworth a late Pensioner of the holy Inquisition in Sevil and W. Bedell a Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in Suffolk LONDON Printed in the Year MDCLXXXV To the most HIGH EXCELLENT PRINCE Prince CHARLES I Should labour much in my excuse even to my own Judgment of the highest boldness in daring to present these Papers to your Highness if there were not some relieving Circumstances that give me hope it shall not be disagreeable to your higher Goodness There is nothing can see the light which hath the name of Spain in it which seems not now properly yours ever since it pleased you to honour that Country with your presence And those very Motives to the Roman obedience which had been represented unto you there in case you had given way to the propounding them are in these Letters charitably and calmly examined Between a couple of Friends bred in the same Colledge that of the foundation of Sir Walter Mildway of blessed Memory whom with Honour and Thankfulness I name chosen his Scholars at the same Election lodged in the same Chamber after Ministers in the same Diocess And that they might be matchable abroad as well as at home Attendants in the same rank as Chaplains on two honourable Ambassadours of the Majesty of the King your Father in Foreign parts the one in Italy the other in Spain Where one of them having changed his Profession and received a Pension out of the Holy Inquisition House and drawn his Wife and Children thither was lately often in the Eyes of your Highness Very joyful I suppose to see you there not more I am sure than the other was solicitous to miss you here These passages between us I have hitherto forborn to divulge out of the hope of further answer from Mr. Waddesworth according to his Promise though since the receipt of my last being silent to my self he excused him in sundry his Letters to others by his lack of Health Nor should I have changed my resolution but that I understand that presently after your Highnesses departure from Spain he departed this Life Which News though it grieve me as it ought in respect of the loss of my Friend yet it somewhat contenteth me not to have been lacking in my endeavour to the undeceiving a well-meaning man touching the state of our differences in Religion nor as I hope to have scandalized him in the manner of handling them And conceiving these Copies may be of some publick use the more being lifted up above their own meanness by so high Patronage I have adventured to prefix your Highnesses name before them Humbly beseeching the same that if these Reasons be too weak to bear up the presumption of this Dedication it may be charged upon the strong desire some way to express the unspeakable joy for your Highnesses happy return into England of one amongst many thousands Of your Highnesses most humble and devoted Servants W. Bedell THE CONTENTS 1. A Letter of Mr. Waddesworth containing his Motives to the Roman Obedience Dated at Sevil in Spain April 1. 1615. printed as all the rest out of his own Hand-writing p. 265. 2. Another

the Ambassadour to present King Iames's Premonition to all Christian Princes and States then put in Latine to the Senate and they were confident it would produce a great effect But the Ambassadour could not be prevailed on to do it at that time 〈◊〉 pretended that since S. Iames's day was not far off i● would be more proper to do it on that day If this was only for the sake of a Speech that he had made on the conceit of S. Iames's Day and K. Iames's Book with which he had intended to present it that was a weakness never to be excused But if this was only a pretence and that there was a design under it it was a crime not to be forgiven All that Bedell could say or do to perswade him not to put off a thing of such importance was in vain and indeed I can hardly think that Wotton was so weak a Man as to have acted sincerely in this matter Before S. Iames's day came which I suppose was the First of May and not the Twenty fifth of Iuly the difference was made up and that happy opportunity was lost so that when he had his audience on that Day in which he presented the Book all the answer he got was That they thanked the King of England for his good will but they were now reconciled to the Pope and that therefore they were resolved not to admit of any change in their Religion according to their agreement with the Court of Rome It may be easily imagined what a Wound this was to his Chaplain but much more to those who were more immediately concerned in that matter I mean P. Paulo with the Seven Divines and many others who were weary of the corruptions of their Worship and were groaning for a Reformation But now the reconciliation with Rome was concluded the Senate carried the matter with all the dignity and Majesty that became that most se●ene Republick as to all civil things for they would not ask Absolution but the Nuncio to save the Popes credit came into the Senate-House before the Duke was come and crossed his Cushion and absolved him Yet upon this they would not suffer any publick signs of joy to be made nor would they recal the Jesuites But in all these things greater regard was had to the dignity of their State than to the interest of Religion so that P. Paulo was out of all hopes of bringing things ever back to so promising a conjuncture upon which he wisht he could have left Venice and come over to England with Mr. Bedell but he was so much esteemed by the Senate for his great Wisdom that he was consulted by them as an Oracle and trusted with their most important Secrets so that he saw it was impossible for him to obtain his Congè and therefore he made a shift to comply as far as he could with the established way of their Worship but he had in many things particular methods by which he in a great measure rather quieted than satisfied his Conscience In saying of Mass he past over many parts of the Canon and in particular those Prayers in which that Sacrifice was offered up to the honour of Saints He never prayed to Saints nor joyned in those parts of the Offices that went against his Conscience and in private Confessions and Discourses he took people off from those abuses and gave them right Notions of the purity of the Christian Religion so he hoped he was sowing Seeds that might be fruitful in another Age and thus he believed he might live innocent in a Church that he thought so defiled And when one prest him hard in this matter and objected that he still held communion with an Idolatrous Church and gave it credit by adhering outwardly to it by which means others that depended much on his example would be likewise encouraged to continue in it All the answer he made to this was That God had not given him the Spirit of Luther He expressed great tenderness and concern for Bedell when he parted with him and said that both he and many others would have gone over with him if it had been in their power but that he might never be forgot by him he gave him his Picture with an Hebrew Bible without Points and a little Hebrew Psalter in which he writ some Sentences expressing his esteem and friendship for him and with these he gave him the unvaluable Manuscript of the History of the Council of Trent together with the History of the Interdict and of the Inquisition the first of these will ever be reckoned the chief pattern after which all that intend to succeed well in writing History must copy But among other Papers that P. Paulo gave him some that were of great importance are lost for in a Letter of Mr Bedells to Dr. Ward he mentions a Collection of Letters that were sent him Weekly from Rome during the contests between the Iesuites and Dominicans concerning the efficacy of Grace of which P. Paulo gave him the Originals and in his Letter to Dr. Ward he mentions his having sent them to him These very probably contained a more particular relation of that matter than the World has yet seen since they were writ to so curious and so inquisitive a Man but it seems he did not allow Bedell to print them and so I am afraid they are now irrecoverably lost When Bedell came over he brought along with him the Archbishop of Spalata and one Despotine a Physician who could no longer bear with the corruptions of the Roman Worship and so chose a freer air The latter lived near him in S. Edmundsbury and was by his means introduced into much Practice which he maintained so well that he became eminent in his Profession and continued to his death to keep up a constant correspondence with him As for the Archbishop of Spalata his Story it is too well known to need to be much enlarged on He was an ambitious Man and set too great a value on himself and expressed it so indecently that he sunk much in the estimation of the English Clergy by whom he was at first received with all possible respect but after he had stayed some years in England upon the promotion of Pope Gregory the XIV that had been his School-fellow and old acquaintance he was made believe that the Pope intended to give him a Cardinals Hat and to make great use of him in all a●fairs so that he fancied that he should be the instrument of a great Reformation in the Church his Pride made him too easie to flatter himself with these vain Hopes and the distaste some of the English Clergy had taken at him for his ambition and covetousness gave Gundamor the Spanish Ambassadour great advantages in the conduct of that matter for his mind that was blown up with vanity and sharpned with resentment was easily wrought on so that he believing that the Promises made him would not only be performed but that