two years before his death that none should be a looser by it make his last Will. Concerning which a doubt still remains whether it discovered more holy wit or conscionable policie but there is no doubt but that his chief design was a Christian endeavour that his debts might be satisfied as appeareth by this part of it To my Lords Grace of Cant now being I leave my picture of divine love rarely copied from one in the Kings Galleries of my presentation to his Majestie beseeching him to recieve it as a pledge of my humble reverence to his great wisdom And to the most worthy L. B. of London Lord high Treasurer of England in true admiration of his Christian simplicitie â—nd contempt of earthly pomp I leave a Picture of Heraclitus bewailing and Democritus laughing at the world most humbly beseeching the said Lo. Archb. his Grace and the â—o B. of London of both whose favours I have tasted in my life time to intercede with our most Gracious Soveraign after my death in the bowels of Jesus Christ that out of compassionate memory of my long services wherein I more studyed the publick Honour than mine own Utility some order may be taken out of my Arrears due in the Exchequer for satisfâ—ction of my Creditors c. Accordingly conscionable satisfaction was given for his just debts 26. He went usually once a year if not oftner to the beloved Bocton-hall where he would say he found both cure for all cares by the company which he called the living furniture of that place and a restorative of his health by the connaturalnesse of that which he called his genial air He yearly went also to Oxford but the Summer before his death he changed that for a jorney to Winchester College And as he returned said to his companion How useful was that advice of a holy Monk who perswaded his friend to perform his customarie devotions in a constant place because in that place we usually meet with those thoughts which possessed us at our last being there And I find it thus far experimentally true that at my now being at that School seeing that verie place where I sate when I was a boy occasioned me to remember those thoughts of my Youth which then possessed me c. 27. After his return from Winchester he fell into a dangerous fever which weakned him much he was then also much troubled with a continual short spitting but that infirmity he seemed to overcome in a good degree by leaving Tobacco which he had taken somewhat immoderately And about two months before his death Oct. 1639. he again fell into a fever which though he seemed to recover yet these still left him so weak that those common infirmities which were wont like civil friends to visit him and after some short time to depart came both oftner and at last took up their constant habitations with him still weakning his body In the beginning of a December following he fell again into a Quartane fever and in the tenth fit his better part that part of Sir Henrie Wotton which could not dy put off mortality with as much content and cheerfulnesse as humane frailty is capable of being in perfect peace with God and man His Epitaph by himself Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus Author Disputandi pruritus Ecclesiarum scabies Nomen alià s quaere Another sentence wherein he delighted Animas fieri sapientiores quiescendo Another Amor unit omnia Ob. Etonae Anno Sal. 1639. Aetat 72. VIII Mr WILLIAM BEDEL Bishop of Kilmore Out of Mr Iz Walton and Bish Hall D. Thomae Carles Rect. de Barnesley 1. WHen King James sent Sr Henrie Wotton Embassador to the State of Venice he sent also an Embassador to the King of France and another to the King of Spain With the Embassador of France went Joseph Hall late B. of N. whose many and useful Works speak his great merit with the Embassador of Spain Ju. Wadsworth and with Sir Henrie Wotton William Bedel 2. These three Chaplains to these three Embassadors were all bred in one Vniversitie all of one College all Beneficed in one Diocese and all most dear and entire friends But in Spain Mr Wadsworth met with temptations or reasons such as were so powerful as to perswade him who of the three was formerly observed to be the most averse to that Religion that calls it self Catholick to disdain himself a Member of the Church of England and declare himself for the Church of Rome discharging himself of his Attendance on the Embassador and betaking himself to a Monasterial life in which he lived very regularly and so dyed 3. When Mr Hall came into England he wrote to Mr Wadsworth t is the first Epistle in his Decads to perswade his return or the reason of his Apostacie The Letter seemed to have many expressions of love and yet there was something in it that was so unpleasant to Mr Wadsworth that he chose rather to acquaint his old friend Mr Bedel with his Motives 4. By which means there past between Mr Bedel and Mr Wadsworth very many Letters which be extant in print and did well deserve it for in them there seems to be a controversie not of Religion only but who should answer each other with most love and meeknesse Which I mention the rather because it seldome falls out so in a Book-war 5. Mr Hall in an Epistle to Mr Bedel at Venice having lamented the death of our late Divines addeth What should this work in us but an imitation yea that word is not too big for you an emulation of their worthinesse The Church our Mother looks for much at your hands She knows how rich our common Father hath left you She notes your graces your oportunities your imployments She thinks you are gone so far like a good Merchant for no small gain and looks you shall come home well laded Let me perswade you to gratifie us at home with the publication of that your exquisite Polemical Discourse whereto our conference with Mr Alablaster gave so happy an occasion You shall hereby clear many truths and satisfie all Readers yea I doubt not but an Adversarie not too perverse shall acknowledge the truths victory and Yours 6. In a Letter of Sir Henrie Wotton's to the King is mentioned a Petition to his Majestie from persons directed hither by the good wishes of the Arch-bishop of Armagh to make Mr Bedel then Resident upon a small Benefice in Suffolk Governour of Dublin College for the good of that Society And Sir Henrie himself being required to render some testimonie of Mr Bedel long his Chaplain at Venice in the time of his first employment there goeth on thus I am bound in all conscience of truth so far as your Majestie will vouchsafe to accept my poor judgment to affirm of him that I think hardly a fitter man for that charge could have been propounded unto your Majestie in your whole Kingdom for singular erudition and pietie
it as if he had said That no war is lawful among Christians So the King called for a Cup and drank to him embraced him most kindly and promising him all the favours that could be expected from a most loving Prince dismissed him and turning to the Courtiers said Well lâ—t other men chuse what Doctors they please and make much of them This man shall be my Doctor From that day forward never durst his enemies trouble Colet any more a person that in an high fortune and plenty was led and governed not by his nature but by Christ in a word whom I shall not doubt to reckon in the Catalogâ—e of my Saints though he be never canonized by any Pope Thus far Erasmus 13. I shall onely annex a few lines collected out of Stow's Survey of London in fol. concerning his kindred His father Sr Henrie Colet son to Robert Colet of Wendover in Buckinghamshier Esq was buried at Stepney where his Monument still remains And the Pictures of Sr Henrie and his Dame Christian and ten of his Sons and ten of his Daughters remain in the window on the North side of St Anthonie or Antlin his Church near Budge-row But he was born in the Manour of Hale in Buckinghamshire near Wendover and Alesburie which Manour our Doctor left to Pauls School and fome of his name dwell there still See his Monument excellently described by learned Mr Dugdale in his History of St Paul's Cathedrall Ob. An. Dom. 1519. aet 53. II. Mr JOHN LANGLY Master of Paul's School Out of his Funeral Sermon by Dr Ed Reynolds now L B. of N. M ro Markly Schol. Winchc 1. LEarning is so excellent an endowment that the Teachers of it ought to be had in great honour And I scarce know a greater defect in this Nation than the want of such encouragement and maintenance as might render the Calling of a School-master so honourable as men of great learning might be invited unto that service Errors in the first concoction are not mended in the second what is lost in the School is hardly ever fully recovered in the Vniversitie And by how much the fewer men of great worth and parts are imployed in that Service by so much the more should the loss of rare and worthy men in that way be bewayled by us 2. Great was the happinesse of this Citie in this particular while it enjoyed this worthy man and great the losse in being deprived of him For though through Gods goodness there be many excellent men remaining out of whom some reparation may be made of so great a damage yet still I look on the departure of this man as if the middle and most precious stone in a rich Jewel should drop out which though many others remain in cannot but be greatly missed 3. Our dear Brother was a learned man learned in the whole Body of Learning not only an excellent Linguist and Grammarian Historian Cosmographer Artist but a most judicious Divine and a great Antiquarie in the most memorable things of this Nation Into whatsoever parts of the Land he travelled he was able to refresh and to instruct his Fellow-travellers in the most remarkable particulars of every Country Pausanias was not more accurate in the description of Greece than he of England And I have heard that he had it sometimes in his thoughts to have published some thing in this kind He was a man of a solid Judgment he alwaies spake è sulco pectoris and I have not without great satisfaction heard him give his Notions upon difficult places of Scripture and Arguments of Divinity in ordidinary discourse as if he had elaborately studied them 4. He was able out of his full Treasurie and Storehouse of Learning to bring foâ—th both new and old I never knew any learned subject spoken of in his company wherein he was not able most dextrously to deliver his opinion He was a man of a copious discourse but withal so solid and judicious as did ever delight his Auditors never weary them As Livie said of Cato Natum ad id diceres quodcunque ageret we may say of him Doctum in hoc uno crederes quodcunque diceret 5. He was a Worker as well as a Speaker he was not a barren figtree that had leaves without fruit nor a tinkling Cymbal noise without love he taught by his life as well as by his learning Verbis tantum Philosophari non est doctoris sed histrionis as he said and Dicta factis deficientibus crubescunt saith Tertullian And indeed he was a man of fixed and resolved honestie and wondred in his sicknesse what men did learn Christianitie for if it were not in every condition to practice it and adorn the profession of it 6. He was a patient man patient in his School patient in his sufferings willingly bearing the reproach of Christ and not fearing the wrath of any man in comparison of the reverence he did bear to his own conscience patient in sicknesse composing himself with as unshaken confidence to dye as in time of health he would have gone about any other businesse 7. He was a faithful man most exactly answerable to the trust of his place opprimi potius onere officii maluit quam illud deponere as once Tullie spake It was hardly possible for any friend by any importunity to draw him from a most punctual observation of timely attendance upon the duties of his place And so tenderly fearful was he of miscarriage herein and so sensible of any the least defect that in a former Sicknesse he desired if he should then have dyed to have been buried at the School-door in regard he had in his ministration there come short of the duties which he owed unto the School The fullest ears of corn bow their heads and the most worthy men are most humble and apprehensive of their own failings 8. He was a constant man punctual and immovable from honest principles Vir rigidae innocentiae as Livie said of Cato He was of Polemo's judgment in this point Debere in esse quandam moribus contumaciam That men having proved all things should hold fast the best and be pertinacious in goodness 9. He was a Wise man Prudence is requisite to tame and calm the wild and unswaied humors of yong children It is noted as a special piece of Socrates's Wisdom that he did by his instruction fix and reduce the wandring and vitious inclinations of Alcibiades 10. I might go on and instance in the Authority Gravity Meeknesse observable in our dear friend but I only adde his great care of the School at his last that there might be an able Successor chosen The evening before he dyed with great earnestnesse he commended it to the Company by a Member thereof who came to visit him That they should use their uttermost wisdom and care to chuse an able learned religious and orthodox man into the place naming one of whose fitnesse both he and the Company and
rather because thereby he was brought so much nearer London than before whither he must have many occasions to go for the putting forth of such Books as he had in design to write For it was not long after that he printed his first part of his Apologia Catholica About which time the Archbishop of York Toby Matthews that most exquisite preacher conferred upon him a Prebend in that Metropolitical Church 12. An. 1606. He took the Degree of Doctor in Divinitie with the great Approbation of both the professors in Divinity Dr John Overal that profound Scholar and Dr Tho Playfer that acute Disputant and accurate Preacher who were both of them very competent Judges of mens abilities And there began that intimate acquaintance he had with the said Dr Overal afterwards Dean of S. Paul's Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry and lastly of Norwich which continued between them till it was dissolved by death And about the same time he was sworn Chaplain in Ordinary to K. James and by him made Dean of Gloucester and assumed by the Lord President of Wales for one of his Majesties Council for the Marches In his first journy to Gloucester he went by Oxford at the Act time where he was incorporated and admitted to the same Degree he had in Cambridg where also he was much taken with the exercises of Mr Dan. Featly then a proceeder and carried great friendship to him ever after At which time among other eminent Persons he fell into acquaintance with that famous Dr John King then Dean of Ch. Ch. afterwards Bishop of London which afterwards grew so intimate that the Bishop made choice of him to perform the last offices to him both at his death and burial 13. An. 1609. he succeeded Dr George Abbot in the Deanry of Winchester There Bishop Bilson conserred on him the Rectorie of Alesford and there among other learned men whose friendship he much valued he had intimate acquaintance with Dr Arthur Lake then Master of St Cross In the next year a Parliament being held he preached the Sermon to the Convocation upon Matth 5. 13. Vos estis sal terrae with general applause and should have been Prolocutor but in modesty declined it and preferred a friend of his In his abode at London he took his lodging at Dean Overal's who gave him the opportunity of a very early acquaintance with the learned Isaac Casaubon then newly come out of France andentertained by the Dean The love thus begun was never intermitted in their lives nor obliterated by death as appears by Casaubon's Monument at Westminster Abby set up at the charge of Morton About the same time he had the opportunity of entring into a very good acquaintance with several other eminent forein Scholars and Divines as namely Scultetus Diodati Du Moulin whose worth is very well known by their learned works in print 14. While he continued in Winchester a certain great person passionately told the King That Dr Morton had spoiled one of the best Deanries in England It concerned the Dean to vindicate his good name from that foul and unjust aspersion And therefore acquainting his Brethren of the Chapter with it they were very forward to give and he not backward to receive a Testimonial from them under their hands and seals That he had been one of the best Deans that ever had been at Winchester in their times and some of them were very antient 15. An. 1616. July 7. he was consecrated Bishop of Chester While necessaries were preparing for his journy thither and for the accommodation of his Palace there he retired himself to Clay-Hall in Essex upon the earnest invitation of his Noble friend Sr Christopher Hatton and there fell sick of a dangerous Fever but being happily recovered presently put himself upon his journy towards his great work and was met on the borders of his Diocess and brought into the City of Chester by such a great number of Knights and other the best Gent of the Country beside the Clergy as may give a lasting testimony to their honour as well as his in shewing such a religious respect to their Bishop 16. When he was setled there he found all the inconveniences which he fore saw and which made him at first loth to undertake that weighty Office and some also which he could not foresee at so great a distance For beside the great number of Romish Recusants which hath alwaies been observed in this Diocess he found another sort of Recusants better known by the name of Nonconformists who though they were not so many in number as the other yet had they so much perversenesse and obstinacy in them as made them equal or rather superiour in relation to the trouble he had with them For the reducing of them to their obedience to the Church he used no lesse fatherly mildnesse then strength of Argument and after he had endeavoured their satisfaction in a publick Conference with them about the use of the Surplice c. he printed a Relation thereof with some enlargements intituled The defence of the three innocent Ceremonies But in reducing the other party the Popish Recusants God blessed him with far better successe to the great content of his Majestie 17. An. 1617. at the Kings return out of Scotland through Lancashire his Majestie was petitioned about some innocent Recreation for servants and other inferiour persons on the Lords day and Holy daies whose laborious Callings deprived them of it all other times The King consulted with the Bishop how he might satisfie their desires without endangering this libertie to be turned into lasciviousnesse Whereupon the Bishop presented to the King in writing the next day Bishop Andreâ—es attended the King the same time several limitations or restrictions which the King so well approved that he said He would only alter them from ohe words of a Bishop to the words of a King viz. That all known Recusants and all that are not present at Church at the Service of God shall be barred from the benefit of this liberty That these Recreations shall not be used before the end of all divine services for that day That every person should resort to his own parish Church c. The Declaration was published May 24. in the 16. of his Raign and since republished by our late Gracious Soverain K. Charles 1. The good Bishop to maintain his hospitality in that place where good house-keeping is so much valued and practised had the Rectorie of Stopford in Commendam bestowed on him by the King where his name and memory is still pretious 18. An. 1618. Mar. 6. At the motion of that great pattern of Episcopal perfection Dr Andrewes above mentioned then Bishop of Eli who was never known to do the like for any other and yet did this without his seeking or knowledge that he might have him his nearer neighbour as he said and of the same Province with himself He was translated to the See of Coventry and Lichfield void
Church And in custody he remained six months before he could obtain his enlargement After this he remained in Duresm house till he was thrown out thence by the soldiers that came to Garrison it a little before that horrid fact was committed upon the person of our late Gracious King and after that being importuned by his honorable friends the Earl and Countess Rutland he became a part of their care and family at Exeâ—er-house for some short time But being loth to live at the charge of others while he was able to subsist of himself and thinking the air of the Country might better suit with his declining years he betook himself to sojourn first with Captain Saunders in Hartfordshire and after with Mr Tho. Rotheram in Bedfordshire till by the great civility and earnest importunity of that Noble young Baronet Sr Henry Yelverton he went with him to his house at Easton-Manduit in Northampton-shire where he found all the tender respect and care from the whole family which a Father could exspect from his children till after some four months he rendred up his happy soul into the hands of his Heavenly Father 28. When the House of Commons had voted for the dissolving of Bishopricks and selling the lands that belonged to them some prevailed for another Vote of Yearly Allowance to present Bishops during their lives Our Bishop had 800l per an voted to him but while he was able to subsist without it never troubled himself to look after it And at last pressed by necessities having procured a Copy of the Vote found it to contain no more than only that such a sum should be paid but no mention either by whom or whence And by that time he could procure an explanation of the Order to make the Pension payable out of the Revenues of his own Bishoprick all the Lands and Revenues of it were sold or divided among themselves Only by the importunity of his friends he obtained an Order to have 1000l out of their Treasury at Gold-smiths Hall with which he paid his debts and purchased to himself an Annuity of 200l per an during his life upon which he subsisted ever since 29. No man can expect any considerable Legacies in the Will of a person deceased who made his own hands his Executors while he lived like his great kinsman Arch-bishop Morton who chose rather to inrich his kindred and servants in his life time then at his death or rather like Arch-bishop Warham successor to Morton who lying on his death bed called for his Steward to let him know what money he had and understanding from him it was but thirty pound thanked God for it and said He never desired to dye richer Our Bishop had so much left him at his death that he gave 40l to one of his servants who then attended him having provided for the other formerly and 10l to the poor of the Parish and his Chalice with a Patin double guilt to the Noble Baronet for the use of his Chapel The rest deducing some small remembrances he ordered for his burial which was also sufficient for a Monument though far below his worth yet sutable to his great Modesty 30. I cannot omit the chief Legacy of his Will for the common good of souls in the Church of England particularly in his own Diocess See it in the Funeral Sermon where he concludes thus My earnest exhortation to them is that they would still continue their former Affections notwithstanding all temptations to the contrary both to the Doctrine Discipline Government and Form of Worship in this poor afflicted Church Which if I did not believe to be the securest way for the salvation of souls I had not ventured my own upon the same bottom 31. His high esteem of the sacred Liturgie of the Church of England attended him as I may say to his Grave For he gave expresse command to his Chaplain not to omit nor so much as transpose as he had observed too frequently to be done by others the reading of the Lesson 1 Cor 15. which the Church hath prescribed to be read at the Grave and which being read there while such a spectacle of mortality is before their eyes could not said he but have a greater influence upon their souls than any Funeral Sermon he had ever heard preached Great fervor and devotion he shewed in the Church-prayers whereunto he seldom answered with a single Amen and at which duty he never kneeled upon a Cushion I think in all his life nor ever prayed but upon his knees till he was confined to his death bed and even would never ly with his Cap on his head if he either prayed himself or any other prayed by him while he had strength to pull it off with his own hands Great consolation he took in the Church-preparations for his long home viz. in the profession of his faith and Charitie and Repentance in receiving the benefit of Absolution and the Viaticum of the Holy Eucharist 32. He lived a great number of years and very few ever husbanded their time better for he was never idle with his good will He was often up at his devotion and study before four a clock even after he had lived above fourscore years and yet very seldom went to bed till after ten and then had alwaies a servant to read some book to him till such time as sleep did surprize him and so had he alwaies when he travelled in his Coach that his jouny mighr not be too great a hinderance to his study He used to lye on a straw bed till he was above fourscore 33. He led his life in a holy and chast celibate The issue of his brain was numerous beside M. SS above twenty several Volumes in print some of which are these that follow Apologia Cath. p. 1. pars 2. The Catholick Appeal Causa Regia The Grand Imposture and proofs Sermons Confessions out of forein Divines for Bishops Gods Providence the last book he lived to publish a fit Meditation for his declining years in those sad Times 34. To add somewhat of his Character 1. His patience In the greatest tryal of his temper that ever he had the news of the Vote that the Revenues of the Church were to be sold he only said The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away Blessed be the name of the Lord Which he repeated three times over before the company he was in and presently retired himself to his prayers 2. His Hospitality He entertained the King and his Court and at least the Officers of his Army all at one time in the first expedition toward Scotland which cost him in that place of great cheapnesse above 1500l in one day There seldome came any Scholar to him whether Forein or English whom he did not liberally entertain and dismisse with a considerable sum of mony 3. His Beneficence He built a Free School at Bishop Aukland and endowed it with 24l per au which is more by
conformitie to the Rites of the Church and zeal to advance the Cause of God wherein his Travels abroad were not obscure in the time of the excommunication of the Venetians 7. Then he certifies the King 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 Divinitie both Scholastical and Positive than from any that he had ever practised in his daies Of which all the passages were well known to the King your Father of most blessed Memory 8. And so he concludes in these words With your Majesties good favour I end this needlesse office for the general fame of his learning his life and Christian temper and those religious labours which himself hath Dedicated to your Majestie do better describe him then I am able 9. Mr Bedel was to the great joy of Sir Henrie Wotton made Governor of the said Colledg and after a fair discharge of his duty and trust there he was thence removed to be Bishop of Kilmore In both which places his life was so holy as seemed to equal the primitive Christians for as they so he kept all the Ember-weeks observed besides his private devotions the Canonical hours of prayer very strictly and so he did all the Feasts and Fast-daies of his Mother the Church of England his patience and charitie were both such as shewed his affections were set upon things above 10 Indeed his whole life brought forth the fruits of the Spirit there being in him such a remarkablenesse that he had a good report of those that were without Those that in point of Religion were of the Roman perswasion of which there were many in his Diocese did yet ever look upon him with respect and reverence and testified it by a concealing and safe ptotecting him in the late horrid Rebellion in Ireland when the furie of the wild Irish knew no distinction of persons yet there and then was he protected and cherished by those of a contrarie perswasion and there and then he dyed though not by violence 11. With him were lost many of his learned Writings which were worthy of preservation and among the rest was lost the Bible which by many years labour and conference and study he had translated into the Irish Tongue with an intent to have printed it for publick use IX M. ANT. de DOMINIS Dean of Windsor Out of Dr Barwick D. Roberto Glyn Rect. de Risington p. ABout the year 1618. there came over into England that very learned though unfortunate man Marcus Antonius de Dominis Arch-bishop of Spalato Primate of Dalmatia c. Which as he was wont to glory was St Hieroms Native Country as well as his 2. This great Scholar after he had so profoundly asserted the truth of Christian Religion as it is professed and practised in the Church of England in so many particulars against the errors and Corruptions of the See of Rome in his Learned and laborious books De Republica Ecclesiastica and had also from the Kings bounty received so great incouragements for his honorable supports as the Deanry of Windsour and Mastership of the Savoy besides many rich and yearly presents not only from the Bishops and Clergy but also from the Nobilitie and Gentrie Was so far wrought upon by that Polititian Count Gondamar the Spanish Embassador then in England and other instruments of the See of Rome that sought his ruin under some specious pretences as to take up a resolution of returning to Rome and could not be disswaded from it by his true friends that really endeavoured his security Among whom Bishop Morton was neither the least nor last who very earnestly advised him both by word and writing noâ— to venture himself upon such a hopelesse and hâ—ssardous journy 3. The Arch-bishops pretence was very plausible and commendable and how real he was in it must be left to God namely to negotiate an unitie in Religion between the Church of Rome and the Church of England upon those moderate grounds which he had laid down and so well defended in his learned and laborious Works printed here at London He applauded himself in the excellency of the work in removing the Schism and of the honour in becoming a Repairer of the breach and of the reward which is promised to the peace makers And he thought himself the more likely to go through with his work by reason of the seasonable opportunitie he had at that time when Gregorie the fifteenth was newly chosen Pope who had been of his old and intimate acquaintance brought up in the same School and College with him And however he was resolved to make an attempt because if he failed in it he hoped he should lose nothing but his labour for as for his Indemnitie Count Gondamar had promised him the securitie of the King of Spain his Master But how well that promise was perform'd will appear by the Sequel 4. While he was swelled up full with this promise and these hopes Dr Morton the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventrie coming to visit him had this ensuing discourse with him among many others which I have often heard him repeat with pleasure and shall therefore insert it and the rather because it shews us of how little authority the Council of Trent would be if it were not for the terrour of the inquisition Leichf Domine quid tibi in animo est Anne convertere Papam Atque etiam conclave papale Spal Quid ni domine Anne existimas eos diaboloâ— esse ut non possint converti Leichf Minime Domine nec puto dominum Spalatensum deum esse ut hoc possit praestare Nostin enim concilium Tridientinum Spal Novi domine ausus sum tibi dicere Millies Mille sunt etiam in Italia qui huic concilio fidem nullam adhibeant 5. This discourse and many other having passed between them they parted friendly And not long after did this Bishop reinforce his arguments with an addition of mâ—ny more in a long and learned Epistle to him Wherein among other Motives to dissâ—ade him from his journy he used one wherein he shewed himself a true Prophet concerning the entertainment he was like to have at Rome Which proved to be that before he gâ—t to Rome Pope Gregorie the fifteenth his old friend was dead and a successor chosen in his plâ—ce by whom this Arch-bishop was impriloned in Castro St Angelo Where he died not without strong suspition of murder or poyson And his body was afterward burnt as of an Heretick in Campo Flâ—ri 6. I could here start a problematical question concerning this learned Arch bishop Whether or no did he ever retract his works which he pulished in print If he did why did they at Rome buâ—n his body for Heresie If not then they abused him in his life time as well as after his death in the manifesto which they put forth