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A45581	A briefe view of the state of the Church of England as it stood in Q. Elizabeths and King James his reigne, to the yeere 1608 being a character and history of the bishops of those times ... / written ... by Sir John Harington ..., Knight.	Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612.; Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.	1653 (1653)	Wing H770; ESTC R21165	84,945	232

neere Pensance in your Country of Cornwal called Mam amber of which he writes page 136. hath the very like quality Of LANDAFF Doctor Francis Godwin It is doubtlesse a wonderfull antiquity that my Authour produceth of Landaff that it professed Christianity and had a Church for Christian Religion in the yeer of our Lord 180. But alas for a man to boast of great Nobility and goe in ragged clothes and a Church to be praised for great antiquity and make ruinous showes is in mine opinion according to the vulgar proverbe a great boast and a small roast But by this Authors relation it appeares this rost was so marred by an ill Cooke as by a worse Kitchen for in the yeare 1545. being the 37 yeare of Henry the eight Doctor Kitchen being made of an idle Abbot a busie Bishop wading through those hazardous times that ensued till the first yeare of Queene Elizabeth to save himselfe was content to spoile his Bishoprick Satan having in those dayes more care to sift the Bishoppricks then the Bishops else how was it possible for a man of that ranke to sing Cantate domino canticum novum four times in fourteen yeares and never sing out of tune if he had not lov'd the Kitchen better then the Church Howbeit though he might seeme for name sake to favour the Kitchen yet in spoyling that sea hee was as little friend to the Kitchen as the rest spoyling the woods and good provisions that should have warm'd it which gave occasion to Doctor Babbington now Bishop of Worcester to call it Aph without Land and Doctor Morgan after to remove to Saint Assaph from thence not for name sake but for his own name sake that is More-gaine At what time the present Bishop I now speake of being then Sub-Deane of Exeter Doctor Francis Godwin having that yeare newly published this worke she gave him presently this Bishoprick not full two moneths vacant and would as willingly have given him a much better in her owne disposition as may well appeare in that she gave Doctor Cooper the Bishoprick of Lincoln● onely for making a Dictionary or rather but for mending that which Sir Thomas Eliot had made before Of this Bishop therefore I may speake sparingly yea rather spare all speech considering that every leafe of his worthy worke is a sufficient testimony of his vertuous mind unfatigable industry and infinite reading for even as we see commonly those Gentlemen that are well descended and better bred are most carefull to preserve the true memory and pedigree of their Ancestors which the base and ignorant because they could not conserve will seeme to condemne So this worthy Bishop collecting so diligently relating so faithfully the succession and lives of so many of our Christian most reverend Bishops in former ages doth prove himselfe more by spirituall then carnall birth to come of those Ancestors of whom it was long before prophecyed by the princely Prophet In stead of thy Fathers thou shalt have Children whom thou shalt make Princes in all places Though the policy of these latter times hath sought to make our Fathers all but Children and younger brothers as they say and to disinherit them of their patrimonie he deserveth therefore a pen much better then mine and equall to his own to doe that for him he hath done for others Before his going to Ex eter I had some acquaintance with him and have heard him preach more then once at our Assizes and else where his manner was to be sharpe against the Vices most abounding in that time Sacriledge Symony contempt of God in his Ministers and want of Charity Amongst other of his Sermons preaching once of Dives and Lazarus the said that though the Scriptures had not expressed plainly who Dives was yet by his clothes and his face he might be bold to affirme hee was at the least a Justice of Peace and perhaps of Oyer Terminer too This speech was so ill taken by some guilty conscience that a great matter was inforc'd to be made of it that it was a dangerous seditious speech and why forsooth because it was a deare yeare but see how a mans enemies sometimes doe him as much good as his friends their fond accusation his discreet justification made him both better known more respected by them that were able to doe him most good Since this he hath lived in so remote places from my occasions first at Exeter and then beyond sea in Wales that I am become almost a stranger to his person but yet I am growne better acquainted with his writings both in Latin and English and namely by this his Catalogue which having read first with great contentment to my self I have since for your Highness pleasure perused again and presumed to adde some notes and a table by way of Alphabet for the more readie finding of most memorable matters beside a supply of such as were in his edition wanting of whom finding himselfe to be one that comming in so worthily was unworthy to be left out I give him here in his due place his more due commendation which if I should fortune upon some envie to have forborn or upon judgement to have omitted as a praise needlesse where the whole worke is his praise he might worthily have said as much of me as I wrote of a certaine Poetaster some yeares paft who left me out of the bead-roul of some riming paper blotters that he call'd Poets Of Poets Balbus reckoning up a table doth boast he makes their names more honourable And nere vouchsafing me to name at all he saies he knowes he grieved me to the gall I galled simple soule no thou art gulled to thinke I prize the praise of such a dull-head Whose verse 〈◊〉 guilty of some b●dge or blame Let them seeke testimonialls of their fame Then learn untaught then learn ye envious Elves No Books are prais'd that praise not most themselves And thus much be said for the Province of Canterbury and the Bishops of the severall Diocesses thereof There follows now to say somewhat also of the Province of Yorke which I shall indeavour to accomplish with like brevity and fidelity Of the Arch-bishops of Yorke and first of Doctor Thomas Young Concerning the Arch-bishops of Yorke that have been in the former ages whose lives are particularly-related by this Author it seèmes to me a matter worthy some note that there have been of them for devotion and pietie as holy for blood and nobilitie as high of wealth and ability as huge as any not onely of England but of Europe Now that every age may have his excellency I will say of this our age I meane for some fifty yeares past in which there hath bin seven Arch-bishops of Yorke that these have been as excellent in courage in learning and eloquence for Doctor Nicholas Heath whom her late Majesty found both Arch-bishop and Chancellor though she did take or rather receive both from him

such nugacity becomes not his place and lament that nature and custom have so fram'd him that when he ceases to be pleasant at his meat he must cease to be for my part I' speak frankly I will love this fault in him if it be a fault and be glad if I can follow it having learnt an old rule of my mother in law At meat be glad for sin be sad and I will say hereafter for my selfe Haud metuam si jam nequeo defendere crimen Cum tanto commune viro Or as upon no unlike occasion I wrote ten yeers since to Dr. Eeds Though M●s love mens lines and lives to scanne He saith he thinks me no dishonest man Yet one great fault of mine he oft rehearses Which is I am too full of Toyes and Uerses True 〈◊〉 true it is my fault I grant Yet when thou shalt thy greatest vertues vaunt I know some worthy spirits one might entice To leave that greatest vertue for this Uice But if any wil be so Stoicall as to make this confession of my Lords grace which is indeed of grace to serve them for an accusation to give him thereby the nick-name of Nugax given 500 yeers past to Radulphus Archbishop of Canterbury and successour of the great Anselme as is noted in the Catalogue p. 38. I should think them unjust and undiscreet to stir up new emulation between Canterbury and Yorke but rather I might compare him with one of his own predecessors in Durham Cuthbert Tunstall p. 532. of the same book well worth the reading and remembring In the mean time let me lay their censorious mood with this verse Qui sic nugatur tractantem ut seria vincat Hic tractaturus seria quantus erat But to draw to an end I will tell one act of his of double piety done not long since He made a journey accompanied with a Troop fit for his calling to Bristol to see his mother who was then living but not able to travel to him after much kindnesse shewed to her and much bounty to the City he went to visit his other mother of Oxford and comming neer the Town with that troop of his retinue and friends to the water it came into his mind how that time 40 yeer or more he past the same water as a young poor scholler going to Oxford remembring Jacobs words In baculo meo transivi Jordanem istum c. with my staffe I passed over this Jordan and now I passe over again with these troups he was so moved therewith that he alighted from his hors and going apart with devout tears of joy and thankfulnesse he kneeled down and used some like words It may seem pity that a man of so sweet and milde disposition should have any crosse but he that sends them knowes what is best for his He hath had one great domesticall crosse though he beares it wisely not in his wife for she is the best reported and reputed of her sort I thinke in England and they live together by St. Pauls rule Uientes hoc seculo But I meane such a crosse as David had in his sonne Absalom for though he gave both consent and commission to prosecute him yet nature overcame displeasure and forced him to cry Absalom my son my son I would I might suffer for thee or in thy stead my son my son For indeed this son of his whom he and his friends gave over for lost yea worse then lost was likely for learning for memory for sharpnesse of wit and sweetnesse of behaviour to have proved another Thoby Matthew neither is his case so desperate but that if he would belief Matthew better then Thoby I would thinke yet there were hope to reclaime him Of DURHAM and the present Bishop thereof Dr. James It is noted of Dionysius of Sicily that he had no care of any religion that was professed in his country as neither had his father before him making but a sport to robbe their Gods taking away Aesculapius Beard of Gold because his father Apollo had no Beard and Jupiters golden Cloake saying that it was too heavy for Sommer and too cold for Winter yet used he to conferre sometimes with Philosophers and have the choysest of them and give them honourable entertainment which honour at last bred him this commodity that losing his Crowne hee learned to beare poverty not onely without dismay but with some disport The like I may say of a late great Earle of this Realme Son of a great Duke who though he made no great conscience to spoyle the Church livings no more then did his father yet for his reputation and perhaps for his recreation he would have some choyce and excellent men for his Chaplaines of both Universities as Doctor Thoby Matthew now Archbishop of Yorke Doctor John Still Bishop of Bath and Wells and this Prelate that I am now to speake of Doctor James then Deane of Christchurch and this hope of comfort came to his Lordship thereby that if it pleased God to impart any mercy to him as his mercy endureth for ever it was by the speciall Ministery of this man who was the last of his Coat that was with him in his sicknesse Concerning this Bishoprick it is formerly noted by mine Author that it was once dissolved by Act of Parliament in the Minority of King Edward the sixth what time the two new Dukes of Sommerset and Northumberland like the Souldiers that cast lots for Christs garment divided between them Patrimonium Crucifixi namely the two good Bishopricks of Bath and Durham one being designed as a seat for the Western Duke the other for the Northern and whereas by an old Metamorphofis the Bishop of Durham had been Earle of Northumberland now by a new Apotheosis the Duke of Northumberland would have beene Bishop of Durham But qui despexit de coelo deribedat eos That visible hand that wrote in the wall while Balthasar was quaffing in the holy Vessels that hand though invisible weighed these petty Monarks in the ballance of Gods judgements found them too light and because they should not grow too long they were both cut shorter by the head the Bishopricks restored to what they now are by Queene Mary one being in substance the other by accident of leaden Mines two of the best Bishopricks of England and as worthy Bishops they have had especially these two of them namely two Matthews are spoken of in the Title of Yorke There remaines now this third who having had yet scant a yeare and a day as they say I have the lesse to speake of as of a Bishop But that examining by the infallible square set downe by St. Paul to Timothy chap. 3. for choyce of a Bishop he will be found as worthily chosen as any For his Learning it may be sufficient to say he was Deane of Christchurch which as I have said formerly attaines not to but choyce men and there are sermons of his extant in Print that testifie