God hath vailed onely for himâ— But the successe proved them to be Propheâ—icall and thiâ— Confessour having his body macerated with fasting and prayer and other afflictions through the chinks and cleâ—â—â— thereof stole a glympse of heaven and the knowledge of future things For the day before his surrender Queene Mary dyed and now Fox with the rest of his friends hasteth home so that if feare gave them feet to runne beyond the Seas joy gave them winâ—es to flye home to their nativâ— Country Here arrived he continued and finished that worthy Worke formerly begun For as God preserved one of Iobs sâ—rvants from fire and â—ury of the Caldeans and Sabeans â— to report to Iob the losse of his fellowes so divine Providence proâ—ected this man from Martyrdome intended for him that he might be the worlds intelligencer to tell the Tidings of the number and mâ—nner of Gods worthy Saints â—nd servants who were destroyed by the cruelty of these Romish adversaries Which bad newes is very well told in his Unpartiall relation For for the maine it is a worthy Worke wherein the Reader may rather have then lack presenting it selfe to Beholders like Aetna alwayes burning whilst the smoke hath almost put out the eyes of the adverse party and these Foxes fire-brands have brought much annoyance to the Romish Philistines But it were a Miracle if in so Voluminous a Worke there were nothing to be justly reproved so great a Pomgranate not having any rottâ—n kernell must onely grow in Paradice And though perchance he held the beame at the best advantage for the Protestant party to weigh downe yet generally he is a true writer and never wilfully deceiveth though he may sometimes be unwillingly deceived Many yeares after Master Fox lived in England highly favoured by presons of quality So that it may seeme strange considering the heighth of his friends and largenesse of his deserts that he grew to no place of more honour and spread to no preferment of greater profit in the Church But this must be wholly imputed to hâ—s owne modesty in declining advancement For although the richest Myter of England would have counted it selfe preferâ—'d by being placed upon his head yet he contented himselfe onely with a Prebend of Salisbury pleased with his owne obscurity whilst others of lesse desert make greater show And whilest prouâ— people stretch out their Plumes in Ostentation he used their Vanity for his shelter more pleased to have worth then to have others take notice of it Now how learnedly he wrote how constantly he preacht how piously he lived how cheerefully he dyed may be fetcht from his life at large prefixed before his book Oâ—e passage therein omitted we must here insert having received it from witnesses beyond exception In the eighty eight when the Spanish halfe Moone did hope to rule all the motion in our Seas Master Fox was privately in his Chamber at prayers battering heaven with his importunity in behalfe of this sinfull Nation And we may justly presume that hâ—â— devotion was as actually instrumental to the victory as thâ— wisdom of our Admirable valour of his Souldiâ—rs â—kil and industry of his Sea-men On a sudden coming downe to his Family â—e cryâ—d out They are gone they are gone which indeed hapned in the same instant as by exact Computatioâ— afterwards did appeare His Liberality to the poorâ— was boundlesse so powerfull was the holy spell of the name of Jesus unto him that no poore person ever charmed him therewith but presenâ—â— raised his charitable spirit to bestow an almes upon himâ— One dâ—y Master Fox came from the Pallace of Bishop Elmer in London when a company of poore people by thâ—â— retinue he might ever be tracted importunately begged oâ— him Master Fox having no mony returned back to the Bâ—shop desiring to borrow five pound of him which waâ— readily granted and going forth diâ—tributed it amongst thâ— poore Some mounths after the Bishop asked Father Fâ—x for so he was commonly stiled for the money he owâ—d him I have laid it out quoth Master Fox for you and have payed it where you owed it to the poore People that lay at your gate The Bishop was so far from being offended with him that he thanked him for being so carefull a Steward such was the marvelous familiarity betwixt them and great respect the Bishop bore to this Holy man But Master Fox this extraordinary instance excepted did not offer free offerings of other mens goods but of hiâ— owne So great was his Bounty that it fell under the censure of excesse the streame being likely to draine the Spring and impaire his Estate But God whose Providence provideth meet helpe fellows for men fitted him with such a wife whose hands as they knew not basely to scrape so they were skilfull thriftily to keep and this excellent medley so preserved his Estate that a competency was left to his children He was not nipt in the Bud nor blasted in the blossome nor blowne downe when green nor gathered when ripe but even fell of his owne accordâ— when altogether whithered As for the timâ— of his death take it from his owne Epitaph on his Monument which for the beauty thereof beares better proportion to the outward meanes then to thâ— inward merit of his person there entombed in S t. Giles Church without Criplegate Christo S. S. Iohanni Foxo Ecclesiâ— Anglicanae Martyrolgâ— Fidelissimo Antiquitatâ—â— Historicae Indagatori sugacissimo Evangellicae veritatis Propugnatori acerrimo Thaâ—maturge admitabili Qui martyres Marianes tanquam Phoenices ex cineribus redivivos praestitit Patri suo omni pietatis officio inprimis Colendo Samuel Foxus illius Primogenitus hoc Monâ—mentum posuit non sine Lacâ—rymis Obiit die 18. mens April An. Dom. 1587. Iam septuagenarius Vita vitae mortalis est Spes vitae immortalis Rare Fox well â—urr'd with patience liv'd a life In 's youthfull age devoted unto strife For the blind Papists of those frantick times Esteem'd his vertues as his greatest Crimes The hot persuit of their ful-crying hounds Forc'd him to flyâ— beyond the lawlesse bounds Of their hot sented Malice though their skill Was great in hunting yet our Fox was still Too crafty for them though they rang'd about From place to place they could not finde him out And when they saw their plots could not prevaile To blesse their noses with his whisking â—ayle They howl'd out curses but could not obtain Their preâ— being fled their curses prov'd in vaine From whence I thinke this Proveâ—b came at first Most thrives the Fox that most of all is curst The Life and Death of George Soâ—nius who dyed Anno Christi 1589. GEorge Sohnius was born at Friburg in Wetteraw Annâ— Christi 1551. of honest parents and brought up aâ— School in learning where he sucked in the first rudimentâ— with much eagernesse and fom School went to the Unâ—versity of Marpurg at fifteen years old where he profited so exceedingly in Logick and Philosophy that he
them and others since have made much use of wherin also by the way he hath inserted the lives Acts and carriages of the Romane Popes that the world might see and know what manner of men or monsters rather many of them have been and how far unlike unto Christ who yet have given themselves out to be Christs Vicars and the chiefe pillars of his Church Shorâ—ly after the happy entrance of that blessed Princess Q. Elizabeth when the storm raised by her sister Mary was now laid he returned over again into England as it semeth stept over from thence into Ireland to visit it may be his former flock if any faithfull of them were remaining yet there or to looke after his library if he might light upon any remaines of it in those places where it had been disor in the hands of those that had seazed upon it But he survived not long to enjoy either the peaceable times of Gods Church here re-established or the comfort of his people if he found any left there or the use and benefit of his books if he recovered any of them For it is by some reported that he dyed in Ireland at sixty and seven yeers of age in the year of our Lord 1558. which yet for the year of his decease may seeme not so to be since that his Catalogue or Centuries of our Brittin Writers Printed by him at Basile while he yet aboad in those parts is dedicated by himselfe to Queen Elizabeth then setled in the throne of this kingdome who began her raigne but in the latter part of that year besides that the latter part of that impression beareth date the Month of February 1559. as alâ—o some verses prefixed before the whole Worke wherein mention is made also of Queen Elizabeths reigne and of the Authors then taking leave of his friends in those parts and intendment of returne with his wife for England again bear date of March the same year which though they may be supposed to imply the close of the yeare 58. according to our computation who begin thâ— year at the latter end of March whereas they begin it at the first of Ianuary yet some space of time must be allowed for his travell out of Swiiâ—serland into England and from thence again into Ireland if there he deceased And it may well be deemed therefore that he survived if not to 1560. yet to 59. at least But this I leave to those that have more certaine records of it nor is the thing it selfe much materiall His Wokes for the most part as himselfe hath related and ranked them together with some few omitted by him and added by others are these First those that he compiled while he was yet a Papists 1 A Bundle of things worth the knowing 2 The Writers from Elias 3 The Writers from Berthold 4 Additions to Trithemius 5 Germane Collections 6 French Collections 7 English Collections 8 Divers writings of divers learned men 9 A Catalogue of Generals 10 The Spirituall War 11 The Castle of Peace 12 Sermons for Children 13 To the Synode at Hull 14 An answer to certaine Questions 15 Addition to Palaonydorus 16 The History of Patronage 17 The Story of Simon the Englishman 18 The Story of Franck of Sene in Italy 19 The Story of Saint Brocard 20 A Commentary on Mantuanis Preface to his Fasti. Secondly those that he wrote after that he had renounced Popery First in Latine 1 The Heliades of the English 2 The Brittish writers 3 Notes on the three Tomes of Walden 4 On his Bundle of Tares 5 On Polydore of the first invention of things 6 On Textors Officine 7 On Capgraves Catalogue 8 On Barnes his lives of Popes 9 The Acts of the Popes of Rome 10 A Translation of Thorps Examination into Latine 11 That of Brittish writers much enlarged with the lives and Acts of the Bishops of Rome inserted 12 An Additton of Scottish Irish and other writers 2 In English 1 In English Meeter and divers sorts of Verse 1 The life of John Baptist. 2 Of John Baptists Preaching 3 Of Christs Tentatinus 4 Two Comedies of Christs Baptisme and Tentations 5 A Comedie of Christ at twelve years old 6 A Comedie of the raising of Lazarus 7 A Comedie of the High Priests Councell 8 A Comedie of Simon the Leper 9 A Comedie of the Lords Supper and the washing of the Deisciples feet 10 Two Comedies or Tragedies rather of Christs Passion 11 Two Comedies of Christs buriall and Resurrection 12 A Poeme of Gods Promises 13 Against those that pervert Gods Word 14 Of the corrupting of God Lawes 15 Against Carpers and Traducers 16 A defence of King John 17 Of King Henries two Mariages 18 Of Popish Sects 19 Of Papists Trecheries 20 Of Thomas Beckets Impostures 21 The Image of love 22 Pammachius his Tâ—agedies translated into English 23 Christian Sonnets 2 In English Prose 1 A Commentarie on Saint Johns Apocalypse 2 A Locupletation of the pocalypse 3 Wicklefs War with the Papists 4 Sir John Oldcastles Trials 5 An Apologie for Bernes 6 A defence of Grey against Smith 7 John Lamberts Confession 8 Anne Askews Martyrdome 9 Of Luthirs Decease 10 The Bishops Alcaron 11 The man of Sinne. 12 The Mistery of Iniquity 13 Against Antichrists or false Christs 14 Against Baals Priests or Balaamites 15 Against the Clergies single life 16 A dispatch of Popish Vowes and Priesthood 17 The Acts of English Votaries in two parts 18 Of Heretickes indeede 19 Against the Popish Masse 20 The Drunkards Masse 21 Against Popish perswasions 22 Against Standish the Imposture 23 Against Bonners Articles 24 Certaine Dialogues 25 To Elizabeth the Kings daughter 26 Against customary swearing 27 On Mantuane of death 28 A Weeke before God 29 Of his Calling to a Bishoprick 30 Of Lelands Iournall or an Abridgement of Leland with Additions 31 A Translation of Sebald Heydens Apologie against Salâ—e Regina 32 A Translation of Gardiners Oration of true Obedience and Bonners Epistle before it with a Preface to it Notes on it and an Epilogue to the Reader Many other things he compiled translated and published which neither himselfe could sodainly call to minde nor others easily light on who yet have added to his recitall But it may well be admired how being so haunted hunted chased and hurried as he was from pillar to post and so oft stript both of bookes and other helps he could come to the sight and view of so many Authors much more how he should have time to surveigh such a multitude of them as by his writings it appeareth he did and most of all how he should be able to write so many volumes to goe no further as you see here related although some of them were but small His industry therefore is very remarkable which as it accompanied him to the last so it surviveth his decease in the fruit of it with us and in the reward of it to him Loe here the man who stir'd Romes
that durst take it downe Master Gilpin requested the Sexton to take it downe who replyed That he durst not Then said Master Gilpin Bring me a staff I will take it down which accordingly he did and put it into his bosome and in his Sermon he took occation to reprove these inhumane challenges and reproved him in particular that had hug up the glove shewing them that he had taken it downe and that such practices were unbeseeming Christians and therefore he perswaded them to love and mutuall charity amongst themselves after Sermon he distributed mony amongst the poor and as his manner was visited the prisoners gave them mony and preached to them and brought many of them to repentance and for some that were condemned to die he procured pardon and saved their lives Not long after a Rebellion was raised in the North by the Earls of Northumberland and Cumberland which Master Gilpin having intelligence of resolved to retire himselfe and making a speech to the Master aud Scholars to demean themselves carefully and peaceably in his absence he went to Oxford till the Queens Army commanded by the Earl of Sussex had dissipated the Rebels but before that Army came the Rebels having seazed upon Durham some of them flew as far as Houghton and finding Master Gilpin's Barns full of corn young cattell fatted and many things provided for hospitality they made spoile of all the chiefest of which plunderers was a knave whom Master Gilpin had saved from the Gallows but when those Rebels were overthrown Master Gilpin returned home and begged the lives of many of the simpler sort whom he knew to be drawn into that Rebellion through ignorance After the death of Bishop Pilkington who was Master Gilpins faithfull friend there succeeded in the Bishoprick of Durham one Richard Barns who was offended with him upon some false suggestions which came thus about Master Gilpins custom was sometimes to goe to Oxford and once as he was upon his way he espied a young youth before him sometimes walking and sometimes runing Master Gilpin demanded of him what he was whence he came and whether he was going He answered That he came out of Wales and was bound for Oxford to be a Scholar Master Gilpin thereupon examined him and finding him a prompt Scholar for the Latin and that he had a smattering in the Greek asked him if he would goe with him and he would provide for him the youth was contented whereupon he took him with him to Oxford and afterwards to Houghton where he profited exceedingly boâ—h in Greek and Hebrew whom Master Gilpin at last sent to Cambridge and this was that famous Hugh Broughton who afterwards râ—quited evill for good by stirring up of the Bishop of Durham against Master Gilpin Now the Bishop sent to Master Gilpin to preach at a Visitation appointing time and place but it fell out just at that time when Master Gilpin was going his Northern journy into Riddesdale c. whereupon he sent his man to the Bishop desiring him to appoint som other to preach the Visitation-Sermon for that he might have many to doe that but none would goe amongst the Borderers if he did it not when his man had delivered his message to the Bishop the Bishop hâ—ld his peace which being related to M r. Gilpin he said Silence arguâ—'s consent and so went on in his journy But so soon as the Bishop heard of it he suspended him which Master Gilpin at his returne much wondred at Shortly after the Bishop sent to him to warn him to meet him and the rest of the Clergy at Chester whither Master Gilpin went and when the Bishop and Clergy were all met in the Church he said to Master Gilpin Sir I must have you preach to day Master Gilpin desired to be excused because he was unprovided and for that he was suspended But saith the Bishop I free you from that suspension Yet Master Gilpin replyed That he durst not go up into the Pulpit unprovided You are never unprovided saith the Bishop you have such an habit of preaching Master Gilpin still stifly refused sayingâ— That God was not so to â—e tempted c. Whereupon the Bishop commanded him to goe into the Pulpit forthwith Well Sir said Master Gilpin since it must be so your Lordships will be done so after a little pause went up and began his Sermon and though he saw some extraordinarily prepared to write his Sermon yet he proceeded in his application to reprove the enormities in that Diocesse And now saith he Reâ—erend Father my speech must be directed unto you God hath exalted you and will require an account of your Goveâ—nment a reformation of what 's amisse in the Church is required at your hands c. neither can you henceforth plead ignorance for bâ—hâ—ld I bring these things to your knowledge this day and therefore what evils you shall â—ither doe your sâ—lfe or suffer by your connivance â—ereafâ—er you make it your own câ— His friends hearing him thuÌ„der out these things much feared what would become of him and after Sermon some of â—hem told him with tears That now the Bishop had that advantage against him which he had long looked for c. to whom he answered Be not affraid the Lord God over-ruleth all aâ—d if God â—ay be glorified and his Truth propagated Gods will be done â—onâ—erning â—ee After they had dined together all men exspecting the issue of this businesse Master Gilpin went to take his leave of thâ— Bishop Nay said the Bishop I will bring you home and so went along with him to his house and walked there together in a Parlour the Bishop took him by the hand saying Father Gilpin I acknowledge you are fitter to be Bishop of Durham then my selfe to be Parson of your Church I aske forgivenessâ— for errors past forgive mâ— Father I know you have hatched 〈◊〉 some chickens that now seek to pick out your eyes but be sure so long as I am Bishop of Durham no man shall injure you Master Gilpin and his friends much rejoyced that God had so over-ruled thingsâ— that that which was purposed for his disgrace should turn to his greater credit His body being quite worn out with pains-taking at last he feeling before hand the approach of death commanded the poor to be called together unto whom he made a speech and took his leave of them He did the like also to others made many exhortations to the Scholars to hiâ— servants and to diverse others aud so at the last he fell asleep in the the Lord March the fourteenth An. Christi 1583. and of his Age 66. He was tall of stature slender and hawk-nosed his clothes not costly but frugal in things that belonged to his own body bountifull in things that tended to the good of others especially to the Poor and Scholars His dooreâ— were still open to the poor and strangers he boorded and kept in his owne house twenty four Scholars most of
having no Folioes The Life and Death of the late reverend and worthy Prelate LANCELOT ANDREWES late Bishop of WINCHESTER THis grave and honorable Prelate was borne in the City of London in the Parish of All-Saints Barking of honest and Religious Parents his Father having most part of his life used the Seas in his latter time became one of the society and Master of the Holy Triniâ—y comonly called the Trinity house and was descended from the ancient family of the Andrewes in Suffolke From his tender yeeres he was totally addicted to the study of good letters and in his youth there appeared in him such aptnesse to learne answerable to his endeavours that his two first Schoolmasters Master Ward and Master Mulcaster conceiving or foreseeing that he would prove a rare scholer contended who should have the honor of his breeding From Master Ward Master of the Coopers Free-Schoole in Radcliffe he was sent to Master Mulcaster Master of the Mercantaylors free schoole in London where he answered the former opinion conceived of him for by his extraordinary industry and admirable capacity he soone outstript all the scholers under Master Mulcasters tuition being become an excellent Grecian and Hebrecian Insomuch as Thomas Wattes Doctor of Divinity Prebend and Residentiary of Saint Pauls and Archdeacon of Middle-sex who had newly Founded som Scholerships in Pembrook Hall in Cambridge sent him thither and bestowed the first of his said Scholarships upon his which places aâ—e sincâ— comonly called the Greeke Scholarships As soone as he was a Bachelour of Arâ—s and so capable of a fellowship there being then but one place void in the said Colledge and Thomas Dove late Lord Bishop of Peterburgh being then a scholer also in the said Colledge and very well approved of by many of the Society The Masters and Fellowes put these two young men to a Tryall before them by some Scholasticall exercises upon performance whereof they preferred Sir Andrewes and chose him into the fellowship then void though they liked Sir Dove so well also that being loth to loose him they made him some allowance for his present maintenance under the title of a Tanquam Socius In the meane while Hugh Price having built Iesus Colledge in Oxford had heard so much of this young man Sir Andrewes that without his privity he named him in hiâ— foundation of that Colledge to be one of his first Fellowes there His Custome was after he had been three yeeres in the University to come up to London once a yeer to visit his Parents and that ever about a fortnight before Easter staying till a fortnight after and against the time he should comâ— up hâ—s Father directed by letters from his Son before he came prepared one that should read to him and be his guide in the attaining of some Language or Art which he had not attained before So that within few yeeres he had laid the foundations of all Arts and Sciences and had gotten skill in most of the Modern Languages And it is to be observed that in his journeys betwixt London and Cambridge to and fro he ever used to walke on foot till he was a Baâ—chelour of Divinity and professed that he would not then have ridden on horse-backe but that diverse friends began to finde fault with him and misinterpret him as if he had forborne riding onely to save charges What he did when he was a Child and a schoole-boy is not now knowne But he hath beene sometimes heard to say that when he was a young scholer in the Universiâ—y and so all his time onward he never loved or used any games or ordinary recreations either within doores as Cards Dice Tables Chesse or the like or abroad as Buts Coyts Bowles or any such but his ordinary exercise and recreation was walking either alone by himselfe or with some other selected Companion with whom he might conferre and argue and recount their studies and he would often professe that to observe the grasse herbs corne trees cattle earth waters heavens any of the Creatures and to contemplate their Natures orders qualities vertues uses c. was ever to him the greatest mirth content and recreation that could be and this he held to his dying day After he had been some while a Master of Arts in the University he applied himselfe to the study of Divinity wherein he so profited that his fame began to be spread farre and neare Insomuch as being chosen Catechist in the Colledgâ— and purposing to read the ten Commandements every Saturday and Sunday at three of clocke afternoone which was the hour of Catechizing not onely out of other Colledges in the University but diverse also out of the Country did duely resort unto the Colledge Chappell as a publique Divinity Lecture Before I proceed to his life after he left the University give me leave to relate a story of him while he yet remained there and that as near as I can from his owne mouth and in his owne words Upon his first shewing himselfe at Cambridge in his Divinity studies especiall notice was soone taken of him among his abilities and eminencies as a man deeply seene in all cases of Conscience and he was much sought to in that respect To proceed with his owne particular His worth made him so famous that Henry Early of Huntingdon hearing of it sent for him and thought himselfe much honoured by his accompanying him into the North whereof he was President and whâ—re God so blessed his painfull Preachings and moderate private conference that he converted Recusants Priests and others to the Protestant Religion Sir Francis Walsingham Secretary of State to Queene Elizabeth tooke also especiall notice of his abilities and highly affected him and being loath that he should not be better known to the world wrought meanes to make him Vicar of Saint Giles without Criplegate London then Prebend and Residentiary of Saint Pauls and afterwards Prebend of the Collegiate Church of Southwell Being thus preferred to his owne contentment he lived not idlely but continued a painfull labourer in the Lordâ— vineyard witnesse Saint Giles Pulpit and that in Saint Pauls Church where he read the Lecture thrice a weeke in the Terme time And indeed what by his often Preaching at St. Giles and his no lesse often reading in St. Paâ—ls he became so infirme that his friends despaired of his life Upon the death of Doctor Fulke he was elected to the Mastership of Pembrooke Hall whereof he had been a Schollar and Fellow a place of credit but of little benefit for he ever spent more upon it then he received by it Afterwards he was made Chaplaine in ordinary attendance of which kinde there were then but twelve to Queen Elizabeth who tooke such delight in his Preaching and grave deportment that first she bestowed a Prebend at Westminster upon him and not long after the Deanry of that place and what she intended further to him her death prevented He soone grew into far greater esteem
To the better discharge of this part of the account he tooke order still before hand by continuall search and enquiry to know what hopefull young men were in the University his Chapleins and friends receiving a charge from him to certifie him what hopefull and towardly young wit they met with at any time and these till he could better provide for them were sure to taste of his bounty and goodnesse for their better encouragement Diverse eminent men in Learning that wanted preferment when any thing fell in his guift convenient for them though otherwise they had no dependance at all upon him nor interest in him he would send for before they knew why and entertaine them in his owne houseâ— and conferre the preferment upon them and also defray the very charges incident for a dispensation or a faculty yea of their very journey and all this that he might have his Diocesse in generall and his preferments in particular the better fitted So that that may fitly be applyed to him which was sometimes to Saint Chrysostome In administratione Epatus prebuit se fidelem constantem Vigilantem Ministerum Christi And if you looke upon him in those Temporales wherwith he was intrusted you shall find him no lesse faithfull and just As first diverse summes and many of them of good value were sent to him to be distributed among poore scholers and others at his discretion all which he disposed with great care and fidelity even according to the Donors minds and entents For his faithfulnesse in managing those places wherein he was entrusted for others joyntly with himselfe let Pembrooke Hâ—ll and Westminster Colledge speake for him for when he became Master of the first he found it in debt being of a very small endowment then espcially but by his faithful providence he left above eleven hundred pounds in the Treasury of that Colledge towards the bettering of the estate thereof And when he was made Deane of the other it is not unknowne to some yet living who will testfie that he left it for all orders aswell of the Church as of the Colledge and Schoole a place then truly exemplarily Collegiate in all respects both within and without free from debts and arrerages from encrochments evill Customes the Schoole-boyes in the foure yeeres he stayed there being much improved not by his care and oversight onely but by his owne personall and often labours also with them To these may be added that whereas by vertue of his Deanry of Westminster his Mastership aâ— Pembrooke Hall and his Bishopricke of Ely the elction of Scholers into the Schoole of Westminster and from thence to the two Universities as also of many Scholers and fellowes in Pembrook Hall some in Saint Peters Colledge and some in Iesus Colledge were in his power and disposall he was ever so faithâ—full and just that he waved all Letters from great Personages for unsufficient Scholers and cast aside all favor and affection and chose onely such as in his judgment were fittest And lastly which is not the least in this kind being many times desired to assist at the election of Scholers from the free Schooles of the Merchantaylors and from that at Saint Pauls of the Mercers and perceiving favour and affection and other by respects sometimes to oversway merit with those to whom the choyce belonged and that diverse good Scholers were omitted and others of lesse desert preferred he of his owne goodnesse diverse times tooke care for such as were so neglected and sent them to the University where he bestowed proâ—â—ment upon them To conclude this account of his take a view of his fidelity in that great place of trust the Almoâ—orship which was sufficiently evident especially to those who attended him neerly First in that he would never suffer one penny of that which accrewed to him by that place to be put or mingled with any of his own Rents or Revenewes and wherein he kept a more exact account then of his owne private Estate and secondly being so separated he was as faiâ—hfull in the disposing of it not onely in the generall trust of his Soveraigne in the daily charges incident to that place expended by the Sub-Almoner and other yeerly ordinary charges but when he perceived that he had a surplussage those charges defrayed he would not suffer it to lye by him but some of it he disposed to the reliefe of poore Housekeepers some in releasing of poore Prisoners and comforting them which lay in misery and iron and some in furnishing poore people with Gownes hose shooes and the like for all which many so bestowed by him had he reserved to his owne use his Patent being sine computo no man could have questioned him But he was a faithfull Steward in this as in the rest and expected that joyfull Euge Well done thou good and faithfull servant thou hast bin faithfull c. enter thou into the joy of thy Lord which no doubt but he possesseth The next is his Gratitude or thankfulnesse to all from whom he had received any benefit Of this vertue of his there are and were lately divers witnesses as Doctor Ward Son to his first Schoolemaster upon whom he bestowed the Living of Waltham in Hampshire and Master Mulcaster his other Schoolmaster whom he ever reverently respected during his life in all companies and placed him ever at the upper end of his Table and after his death caused his Picture having but few other in his House to be set over hiâ— Study door And not onely shewed he this outward thankfulnesse to him but supplyed his wants many times also privaâ—â—ly in a liberall and plentifull manner and at his owne death the Father being dead he bequeathed a Legacy to his Son of good valune who as is said before bestowed a full Scholarship on him in Pembrooke Hall Concerning the kinred of Doctor Watts after much enquiry he found onely one upon whom being a Scholar he bestowed prâ—ferments in Pembrooke Hall and he dying there hiâ— Lordship much grieved that he could heare of no more of that kinred to whom he might expresse his further thankfulnesse And yet he forgat not his Patron Doctor Watts at his end for by his Will he tooke order that out of the Scholarships of that Foundation the two Fellowships which he himselfe Founded as you shall see by and by in Pembrooke Hall should be supplyed if they should be found fit for them Lastly to Pembrooke Hall omitting the Legacies by him bequeathed to the Parishes of Saint Giles Saint Martin Ludgate where he had dwelt Saint Andrewes in Holborne Saint Saviours in Southwarke Allâ— Saints Barking where he was borne and others to that Colledge I say where he had beene a Schollar Fellow and Master he gave one thousand pounds to purchase Land for tâ—o Fellowships and for other uses in that Colledge expressed in his Will besides three hundred such Folio Books of his own to the encrease of that Colledg Library as