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Memorials of worthy persons (lights and ornaments of the Church of England.), the fourth decad. / by Cl. Barksdale.; Memorials of worthy persons. Decade 4
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Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.
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1663
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Wing B802; ESTC R9168
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MEMORIALS OF WORTHY PERSONS Lights and Ornaments OF THE Church of England The Fourth Decad. By CL BARKSDALE Hi Majores tui sunt si te illis dignum prastes Sen. OXFORD Printed by A. and L. Lichfield 1663. TO Mr THOMAS SAVAGE Eldest Son of THOMAS SAVAGE of Elmeley Esq AND TO Mr THOMAS WILLIAMS Eldest Son of DAVID WILLIAMS of Corndon Esq GENTLEMEN HAving in the late evil Times never to be forgotten been comforted and relieved by the real Favours and pious Munificence of your Noble Parents I do gladly make this grateful Remembrance thereof in the Dedication of this part of my Memorials of Worthy Persons to your Worthy Names In these Papers though it were my principal design to honour the memory of the Lights of our own Church yet have I now and then taken in one of the Roman or Genevian Perswasion thinking They might not be unsociable here whose holy Souls I believe now that the Certamina are ended by death pulveris exigui jactu rest in peace Some Hypereriticks who are pleas'd with nothiâ—g but what they do themselves if yet they do any thing at all will despise me and say I do actum agere and write what is written already Truly as a Historian does not make but frame and compose his matter so an Historical Collector performs his Undertaking when with diligence and judgment he selecteth and compileth dispersed pieces for the ease and benefit of his Readers If in this Collection I have done any service to Young Gentlemen and other ingenuous Persons to incline them more to love piety and learning to converse with good Men and good Books to become loving friends and Patrons or obedient servants and Ministers to the Church of England This is my Delight and Joy This is to me instead of Praise or any other Reward of my well-meant Endeavours That I have inscribed upon the particulars the names of other friends is upon the most friendly Plinies reason Ingenuum est fateri per quos profeceris Your obliged Servant CL. BARKSDALE The Persons I. Dr Colet II. Mr Langley III. Bishop Morton IV. Bishop Hall V. Mr G. Herbert VI. Sr Tho More VII Sr Henry Wotton VIII Bishop Bedel IX M. Ant. de Dom. X. Mr Wheelock IOANNES COLETVS Cum cotis Aomas exculte COLEET Esorores Te doctos inter posthuma fama refert MEMORIALS I. Dr JOHN COLET Dean of S. Pauls Out of his Life Collected by Mr Tho Smith of Ch Coll from Erasmus D. Anthonio Stratford LL. Bac. 1. JOhn * Coheleth in the Heb. signifies Ecclesiastes the Preacher Colet is that part of the ring wherein the precious stone or signet is set Thomas in voce pala Colet was born in London the Son of Henry Colet Knight and twice Lord Major of that City and Christian his Wife a Matron of very rare Piety and Christian Fortitude She had 11 Sons and as many Daughters of the same Husband all which she saw buâ—ied except John her first born Yet when she was fourscore and ten years of Age her countenance was so comely and entire her behaviour so cheerful and pleasant as if she had never had any sorrow or any childbearing in her life So much strength of mind was shewen in a woman caused not by Philosophy or human learning but by sincere piety to God and trust in Christ 2. Nature was as indulgent to him as fortune for he had a very proper tall handsom and comely body In his younger daies he much addicted himself to the study of Scholastical Philosophy exquisitely learned in the liberal Arts All Tullies works were as familiar to him as his Epistles so well read in Plato and Plotinus that when I heard him speak methought I heard Plato himself not ignorant in any part of the Mathematicks 3. Being thus well principled at home Master of Arts he began to look abroad and improve his stockin forein parts In France he added to his Humanity what he chought necessary for the study of Divinity which then he effectually prosecuted in Italy He studied the Fathers and Schoolmen was well versed in both Laws singularly read in History both Civil and Ecclesiastical Modern Writers also he both read and diligently imitated accommodating thereby his stile to the Pulpit and preaching of the Gospel 4. After his return from Italy he staid not long in London where his Parents lived but chose to live in Oxford where he publickly yet freely and without stipend expounded S. Paul's Epistles being not full thirty years of age yonger than was by two or three months I here and then I had the happiness to come first acquainted with him Though at that time he had neither took nor desired any degree in Divinity yet there was no Doctor whatsoever either of Theology or Law no Abbot nor dignified Person in the whole University that did not frequent and which is more take notes of his Lectures Which was to be imputed either to Colet's authority or their studiousness and modesty choose you whether 5. But before he left Oxford they honour'd him with the Degree of Doctor which he accepted rather to please the Givers than himself From that University and these sacred Employments he was called back to London by the favour of K. Henry VII who bestowed upon him the Deanty of S. Paul's that he might be President of his Colledge whose Epistles and learning he loved so well He was made both Doctor and Dean An. 1504. Of all the Deanries in Englaâ—d the highest in esteem but not of greatest value which Colet embraced rather as a barthensom charge than honour And therefore as soon as he had regulated his Colledge of Prebends and raised up the antient Discipline that was fallen down he resolved which was not usual in those times to preach every Holy day in his Cathedral over and above his Sermons at Court and many other Churches At S. Paul's he ran over sometimes a whole Epistle sometime a whole Gospel the Creed or the Lords prayer Wheresoever he preached he was exceedingly followed both by the chief Citizens and Courtiers particularly by Sr Thomas More afterwards Lord Chanc of England as appears by this following passage of his Letter What can be more troublesom to me than to be deprived of your sweet company having been so long used to enjoy your most prudent counsel to be refresht with your most pleasant societie to be rouzed with your most grave Sermons and bettered by your excellent example and life in a word in whose very countenance and gesture I was wont to be unspeakablie delighted 6. The Dean's Table which in former times had under pretence of good house keeping been too much prostitute to excesse he reduced to frugality For he kept himself to one meal a day many years together both before and after his preferment which at once cut off all his supper-guests late Dinners not a few and the more because his entertainment though neat was neither costly nor excessive his