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A67469 The life of Mr. Rich. Hooker, the author of those learned books of the laws of ecclesiastical polity Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.; King, Henry, 1592-1669. 1665 (1665) Wing W670; ESTC R10749 56,844 234

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rifled or worse used by Mr. Charke and another of Principles too like his but as these Papers were endeavoured to be completed by his dear Friend Dr. Spencer who bequeathed them as a precious Legacy to my Father then Bishop of London after whose Death they rested in my hand till Dr. Abbot then Archbishop of Canterbury commanded them out of my Custody authorizing Dr. Iohn Barkeham to require and bring them to him to Lambeth at which time I have heard they were put into the Bishops Library and that they remained there till the Martyrdom of Archbishop Laud and were then by the Brethren of that Faction given with the Library to Hugh Peters as a Reward for his remarkable Service in those sad times of the Churches Confusion and though they could hardly fall into a fouler hand yet there wanted not other Endeavours to corrupt and make them speak that Language for which the Faction then fought which was To subject the Soveraign Power to the People I need not strive to vindicate Mr. Hooker in this particular his known Loyalty to his Prince whilest he lived the Sorrow expressed by K. Iames at his Death the Value our late Soveraign of ever-blessed Memory put upon his Works and now the singular Character of his Worth by you given in the passages of his Life especially in your Appendix to it do sufficiently clear him from that Imputation and I am glad you mention how much value Robert Stapleton Pope Clement the VIII and other Eminent Men of the Romish Persuasion have put upon his Books having been told the same in my Youth by Persons of worth that have travelled Italy Lastly I must again congratulate this Undertaking of yours as now more proper to you than any other person by reason of your long Knowledge and Alliance to the worthy Family of the Cranmers my old Friends also who have been Men of noted Wisdom especially Mr. George Cranmer whose Prudence added to that of Sir Edwin Sandys proved very useful in the Completing of Mr. Hookers matchless Books one of their Letters I herewith send you to make use of if you think sit And let me say further you merit much from many of Mr. Hookers best Friends then living namely from the ever renowned Archbishop Whitgift of whose incomparable Worth with the Character of the Times you have given us a more short and significant Account that I have received from any other Pen. You have done much for Sir Henry Savile his Contemporary and familiar Friend amongst the surviving Monuments of whose Learning give me leave to tell you so two are omitted his Edition of Euclid but especially his Translation of King Iames his Apology for the Oath of Allegeance into elegant Latine which flying in that dress as far as Rome was by the Pope and Conclave sent to Salamanca unto Franciscus Suarez then residing there as President of that College with a Command to Answer it When he had perfected the Work which he calls Defensio Fidei Catholica it was transmitted to Rome for a view of the Inquisitors who according to their custom blotted out what they pleas'd and as Mr. Hooker hath been used since his Death added whatsoever might advance the Popes Supremacy or carry on their own Interest commonly coupling Deponere Occidere the Deposing and Killing of Princes which cruel and unchristian Language Mr. Iohn Saltkell his Amanuensis when he wrote at Salamanca but since a Convert living long in my Fathers house often professed the good Old man whose Piety and Charity Mr. Saltkell magnified much not onely disavowed but detested Not to trouble you further your Reader if according to your desire my Approbation of your Work carries any weight will find many just Reasons to thank you for it and for this Circumstance here mentioned not known to many may happily apprehend one to thank him who is Chichester Nov. 13 1664. Sir Your ever-faithful and affectionate old Friend Henry Chichester To the Reader I Think it necessary to inform my Reader that Dr. Gauden the late Bishop of Worcester hath also lately wrote and publisht the Life of Mr. Hooker and though this be not writ by design to oppose the Life of Mr. Hooker written by him yet I am put upon a necessity to say That in it there be many Material Mistakes and more Omissions I do conceive some of his Mistakes did proceed from a Belief in Mr. Thomas Fuller who had too hastily published what he hath since most ingenuously retracted And for the Bishops Omissions I suppose his more weighty Business and Want of Time made him pass over many things without that due Examination which my better Leisure my Diligence and my accidental Advantages have made known unto me And now for my self I can say I hope or rather know there are no Material Mistakes in what I here present to him that shall become my Reader Little things that I have received by Tradition to which there may be too much and too little Faith given I will not at this distance of Time undertake to justifie for though I have used great Diligence and compared Relations and Circumstances and probable Results and Expressions yet I shall not impose my Belief upon my Reader I shall rather leave him at liberty But if there shall appear any Material Omission I desire every Lover of Truth and the Memory of Mr. Hooker that it may be made known unto me And to incline him to it I here promise to acknowledge and rectifie any such Mistake in a second Impression which the Printer says he hopes for and by this means my weak but faithful Endeavours may become a better Monument and in some degree more worthy the Memory of this Venerable Man I confess that when I consider the great Learning and Virtue of Mr. Hooker and what Satisfaction and Advantages many Eminent Scholars and Admirers of him have had by his Labours I do not a little wonder that in Sixty years no man did undertake to tell Posterity of the Excellencies of his Life and Learning and the Accidents of both and sometimes wonder more at my self that I have been persuaded to it and indeed I do not easily pronounce my own Pardon nor expect that my Reader shall unless my Introduction shall prove my Apology Errata Page 6. line 10. read to my introduction p. 58. l. 22. r. vented p. 106. l. 16. r. of so great a Controvertie p. 108. r. many p. 111. l. 3. adde Dr. Spencer p. 113. r. Salisbury p. 117. l. 10. r. by it self p. 137. l. 6. r. facetious p. 167. l. 11. after Dr. Abbot adde or the Bishop of London p. 171. l. 2. r. Fabian ibid. l. 5. r. Fabian THE LIFE OF Mr. Richard Hooker The Introduction I Have been persuaded by a Friend that I ought to obey to write The Life of RICHARD HOOKER the happy Author of five if not more of the eight learned Books of The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity And though I have