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A69606	The life of Dr. Thomas Morton, late Bishop of Duresme begun by R.B. secretary to his Lordship ; and finished by J.N., D.D., his Lordship's chaplain.	R. B. (Richard Baddeley); Naylor, Joseph.; Nelson, Joseph.	1669 (1669)	Wing B382B; ESTC R37053	34,218	206

then on foot he had scarcely wherewith to defrey the Fees and Charges of his Confinement which is the less to be wondred at that he was not so plentifull in his Purse and the rather considering the great and extraordinary charges which he was put to by the frequent entertainment of Scottish Lords and others who Posted too and fro especially about the time of the Scottish Insurrection Durham being in their Northern Road Ah! nimium vicina Scotis Dunelmia He never Ordained any for Priests and Deacons which he commonly did at the foure Ordinations but such as were Graduates in the University or otherwise well qualified in good Learning And for a tryall of their Parts he alwayes appointed a set time to examine them in University Learning but chiefly in Points of Divinity and in this he was very exact by making them answer Syllogistically according to their abilities And he trusted not his own Chaplains in this sacred business though otherwise very able and learned Divines He never conferred any Benefice or Spirituall Preferment chiefly whiles he was Bishop of Duresme being a most free and bountifull Patron but on his own learned Chaplains except three onely which were commended unto him by King Charles I. his sacred Majesty viz. Mr. John Weemes that learned Writer in Morall Divinity Mr. Anthony Maxton both which were made Prebendaries of the Cathedrall Church of Duresme and Mr. Clappurton being three Scotch men and able Schollers For his Judgement of the due deserts of Learning take one instance when he was Deane of Glocester and Mr. John Donne had cast himselfe into a Sea of misery by the marriage of the Daughter of Sir George Moore Knight whereby he was exuted of his Secretaries place under the Lord Chancellor Egerton and had spent most of his own means in the pursuit of his said marriage whereby he was brought to a low ebb and debility in his Estate and knowing no wayes or means whereby he could subsist Children especially encreasing yearly then did Deane Morton earnestly and seriously move him to take the holy Ministery on him whereby the better to support and maintain that Charge and for his better incouragement he willingly and freely offered to resigne unto him the Rectory of Long Marston in York-shire being of the yearly value plus minus of two hundred pounds per Annum yet to this friendly motion he would not then give his assent but put it by in hope as it should seem of some other preferment for which he thought himselfe more fit And long after the said Mr. Donne having grapled with many extremities at home he passed over into France where he gave himself to the Study of the Laws And from Amiens as I remember he writ a Letter to his alwayes true friend Deane Morton wherein he requested his advice Whether taking the Degree of a Doctor in that Profession of the Laws it might not be conducible and advantagious unto him to Practice at home in the Arches London Unto whom the Deane then returned him answer That in his Judgement he thought the Ministry in the Church of God would be safer and fitter for him Whereupon he desisted from further prosecution of those Studies For doubtless the holy Spirit had the greatest stroak and power to incline and draw him to that sacred Profession For my selfe have long since seen his Picture in a dear friends Chamber of his in Lincolnes Inne all envelloped with a darkish shadow his face feature hardly discernable with this ejaculation and wish written thereon Domine illumina tenebras meas which long after was really accomplished when by King James his weighty and powerfull perswasions he took holy Orders at the hands of the right Reverend Father John Lord Bishop of London and so became a learned and assiduous Preacher Whereupon His gracious Majesty King James bestowed the Deanary of St. Pauls London upon him where what profitable pains he took and els where the large Book of his Sermons and other Learned Labors which are Published both before and after he had been Dean do most sufficiently attest and demonstrate For a Close concerning this Learned Gentleman I will add one instance of his ripe and sudden wit For at one time when Bishop Morton gave him a good quantity of Gold then a usefull token saying Here Mr. Donne take this Gold is restorative He presently answered Sir I doubt I shall never restore it back again and I am assured that he never did This Bishop Morton was a great benefactor to Saint Johns College in Cambridge where sometimes he had been Fellow and bestowed many hundreds of pounds in Books for the adorning and augmenting of that their faire Library which Dr. Williams Bishop of Lincolne and Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England sometimes Fellow there had Founded He built also out of an old decayed Chappell at Bishop Auckland a fair Grammar School and endowed the Master thereof with 24. pounds per Annum for ever Other things he purposed to have done as the enlarging of the old Market Place and the erecting a new Market Crosse in the Pavement at York near to which he was born but was prevented by the late wofull and destructive times but God would accept of his smal offerings as he did the poor Widdows Mite He converted sundry Persons in his time from the Popish Religion and by Gods grace brought them to the true Church of England amongst which was the Lady Cholmeley Wife to Sir Henry Cholmeley Knight ſ When he was Bishop of Chester he ●●r●ed ●er So Mr. Redmaine a Popish Priest afterwards Viccar and Preacher at Congleton in Cheshire So Mr. Theophilus Higgons who after was a learned Preacher and Rector of Hunton in Kent Mr. Toby Swinburn● then lately returned from the English College at Rome afterwards created Doctor of the Laws at Oxon and in these late unhappy times deprived of his life whose death was chiefly effected by their cruell imprisonment of him after that he had received many deep and desperate wounds in the battle at Newbery for the affection and loyalty which he did bear to His late Majesty Charles I. Also a Reverend Bishop now living but here shall be nameless Also Mr. Thomas Hulse Gentleman Mr. Mathew and sundry others He was alwayes very beneficiall and bountifull to the poor wheresoever he lived or came so that as it pleased God to devest him of those ample means which sometimes he had to dispose of and to doe good on all occasions so took he timely order during almost his whole life to erogate and bestow the mean● which God lent him to the best ends which was for the maintenance of the poor of all sorts viz 〈◊〉 the place where he resided or by the way where 〈◊〉 travelled or poor Schollers in the University to many of whom he gave yearly Stipends poor strangers and Travellers to whom his Purse was always open And in the Bishopprick of Duresme he gave besides his

God by his providence not to suffer m● to remain in the Dale wherein I could willingly have spent my dayes had there not been an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in it and to set me upon an Hill I pray God as a true light for the good of soules c. For as in his former dignities he was most free from ●mbitious prolling and seeking so was he as innocent from the touch of expecting or so much as desiring those preferments which after followed and were most freely conferred on him by those two most gracious Princes King James and King Charles hi● Sonne But when he stood designed Bp. of Chester agreat O●● who shall here be nameless cast an undeserved ● spersion upon Dean Mori● unto the King viz. Th●● he was not fit to be a Bishop for that he had spoyled one ●● the best Deanaries in England c. Which false c●lumny was cast as a block in the way of his advancement to a Bishoprick wherewith being made acquainted he was of necessity to clear himselfe of so foule and undeserved an aspersion which he did by communicating the same unto his Brethren of the Chapter of Winton who unanimously testified under their Hands and Seales That Doctor Morton had been the best Dean that ever had been in their times And some of them were very old men and had long enjoyed their Dignities in that Cathedrall Church as Mr. Browne Mr. Barlow Mr. Harward c. So then this black cloud of Obloquy being dispelled he was Consecrated Bishop of Chester at Lambeth in the Province o● Canterbury by delegation from the Arch-Bishop of York in whose Province Chester is where were present many Noble Men and Gentlemen of the Court but chiefly a Noble Ma● of Poland who had the education of Prince Rodzivils Sonne thither invited who very much admired the solemnity of the Ordination of the Bishops in England and the receiving of the blessed Sacrament whereof they then were partakers as it was Administred according to the Forme of the Church of England And not long after being recovered of a violent Fever which took him at Clayhall in Essex the House of that Honorable Knight Sir Christopher Hatton his most loving and deare friend he prepared for his Journey into Cheshire and advanced with his own retinew towards that Country but was encountred and met on the way to the City of Chester by so grand a number of the best Knights and Gentlemen of that County Palatine with their attendants and that multitude of Plebeyans thronging and rejoycing at the receipt of their new Bishop that the like hath scarce been seen there and perhaps in few places else where After a small time of his settlement there like a true Bishop and one mindfull of what he was sent for he convented the Non-conformist Ministers and called on them to shew the Reasons of their dissenting from the Orders and Discipline of the Church and told them That his purpose was to conferr with them publickly to reduce them to conformity with the Church of England At which time those Ministers insisted on those three Points First Crosse h Or rather after Baptisme as indeed it is in Baptise Secondly Kneeling at the receiving of the Lords Supper Thirdly Th● Surplice c. In which conference he argued with them very zealously and endeavoured by many Arguments to reduce the● to conformity with the Church of England but i● the end fell short of hi● pious expectation Yet no prevailing with those refractory Ministers not withstanding he wrought great work by Gods mo●● gracious hand and ass●stance yea neer the ve●● same time by reclaimin● and reducing many of t●● Lancashire Recusants and in bringing them home to the true Church through his industrious vigilance And not long after he Writ and Published a Relation of that Conference which was inscribed The three innocent Ceremonies which Book long after he being Bishop of Coventry and Leichfeild was impugned by one Mr. Ames as was conceived but most learnedly answered and defended by Dr. John Burges Parson of Sutton Cobfeild in Warr after that Doctor Morton had been many years Bishop of Coventry and Leichfeild About this time viz. Anno 1617. the Kings Majesty returned out of his Progress from Scotland and passed through Lancashire where he was Petitioned by the Plebeyans of that County for Recreation to be allowed on the Lords day which was accordingly gratiously granted by His Majesty Whereupon they growing insolent and being incouraged and heartened by some Gentlemen who were Popish Recusants they made ill use of the Kings gracious clemency and thereupon Bishop Morton made his humble address unto His Majesty and acquainted him with sundry particulars of their abuse of His well-meant gracious favour Whereupon it pleased His Majesty to command the Bishop to adde what cautions and restrictions he thought fit to be inserted into His Majesties Declaration for that purpose which was accordingly done viz. That they should have no liberty for recreation till after Evening Prayer That they should have no Beare-baiting nor any such unlawfull sports And that no Recusant who came not to Morning and Evening Prayers should be capable of such His Royall indulgence at all c. Having now resided towards three years in that Bishoprick it pleased the Royall Majesty of King James to cause him to be translated to the See of Coventry and Leichfeild where he succeeded that profound Doctor John Overall who was newly removed thence to the Bishoprick of Norwich in the year of our Lord 1618. And in the Bishoprick of Chester succeeded him Dr. John Bridgeman one of the famous Preachers of his time the more to be honored because it pleased God to bless him with a Sonne Sir Orlando Bridgeman Knight now Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England which High Place may he long enjoy for the good of this Kingdom and honour of the Married Clergy In the time of his Incumbence in the Bishoprick of Coventry and Leichfeild he was acquinted with that grave and learned Scholler Marcus Antonius de Dominis late Arch-Bishop of Spalato in Dalmatia Saint Hierome's Countrey-man as he often used to call himselfe who had renounced Popery and passed over into England to draw the fresh and pure Ayre of Christs true Religion which yet some few years after i The most infamous Eccbolius of our times whose Corps were afterwards burned at Rome for a Relaps he most wretchedly deserted in hope of higher preferment at Rome upon the assurance which he built of his Quondam School-fellows Election to the Papacy by the name of Gregory the fifteenth But this Pope was quickly rid out of the way and another Pharaoh succeeded who knew not this Joseph But his change of Religion was the more to be wondred at for that by His Majesties gracious bounty he had been k These though competent Preferments could not allay or quench his sacred thirst for I have seen the Copy of a Letter which was