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A77900 The life and death of Sir Matthew Hale, Knt. late Lord Chief Justice of England. Containing many pious and moral rules for humane conversation. : Also, many remarkable sayings and worthy actions of the said lord chief justice. : And many other things worth the readers perusal. / Written originally by Dr. Gilbert Burnet, now Bishop of Salisbury. Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. 1700 (1700) Wing B5829A; ESTC R175615 23,651 17

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and have affected all occasions of raising their own Esteem by depreciating other Men He on the contrary was the most obliging Man that ever Practised If a young Gentleman happened to be retain'd to argue a point in Law where he was on the contrary side he would very often mend the Objections when he came to repeat them and always Commend the Gentleman if there were room for it and one good word of his was of more advantage to a young Man than all the favour of the Court could be Having thus far pursued his History and Character in the publick and Exemplary parts of his Life without interrupting the thread of the Relation with what was private and Domestick I shall conclude with a short account of these He was twice Married his first Wife was Anne Daughter of Sir Henry Moore of Faly in Berkshire Grandchild to Sir Francis Moore Serjeant at Law by her he had Ten Children the four first Died young the other six lived to be all Married And he out lived them oll except his eldest Daughter and his youngest Son who are yet alive The Conclusion THus lived and died Sir Matthew Hale the renounced Lord Chief Justice of England He had one of the blessings of Virtue in the highest measure of any of the Age that does not always follow it which was that he was universally much valued and admired by Men of all sides and perswasions For as none could hate him but for his Justice and Virtues so the great estimation he was generally in made that few durst undertake to defend so ingrateful a Paradox as any thing said to Lessen him would have appeared to be His Name is scarce ever mentioned since his Death without particular accents of singular respect His oppinion in points of Law generally passes as an uncontroulable authority and is often pleaded in all the Courts of Justice And all that knew him well do still speak of him as one of the perfectest Patterns of Religion and Virtue they ever saw The Commendations given him by all sorts of People are such that I can hardly come under the Censures of this Age for any thing I have said concerning him yet if this Book lives to aftertimes it will be looked on perhaps as a Picture drawn more according to Fancy and Invention than after the Life if it were not those who knew him well establishing it Credits in the present Age will make it pass down to the next with a clearer Authority As he was honoured while he lived so he was much lamented when he died And this will still be acknowledged as as a just Inscription of his Memory tho' his Modesty forbid any such to be put on his Tombstone That he was one of the Greatest Patterns this Age has Afforded whether in his Private Deportment as a Christian or in his Publick Employments either at the Bar or on the Bench. FINIS ADVERTISEMENT THe Best and most Experienced Remedy for Sore or Weak Eyes that ever yet was made known to the World being of that wonderful Efficacy that it infallibly dispels any Humor or Salt Rheum distilling from the Head and takes all Soreness or Redness or Swellings It also strengthens weak Eyes sometimes occasioned by the Small-Pox and will disperse any Film or Cataract growing over the Eye whereby the Sight oftentimes becomes dim In a few times using this Excellent Remedy to those that will be perswaded to use it often it will preserve the Sight to an incredible Age and read the smallest of Prints It being a Secret acquainted by a Gentleman in his long Study whereby he has wrought wonderful Cures among his Relations and Aquaintance and now made Publick for the Benefit of all People that will make tryal of it For those that are really Poor they shall have it for nothing to Others for 6 d. the Bottle Only to he sold at the Bible in Fetter-Lane near Fleet-street