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A55422 The life of the Right Reverend Father in God, Seth, Lord Bishop of Salisbury and chancellor of the most noble Order of the Garter with a brief account of Bishop Wilkins, Mr. Lawrence Rooke, Dr. Isaac Barrow, Dr. Turbervile, and others / written by Dr. Walter Pope ... Pope, Walter, d. 1714. 1697 (1697) Wing P2911; ESTC R4511 81,529 202

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THE LIFE OF THE Right Reverend Father in God SETH Lord Bishop of SALISBURY And CHANCELLOR of the Most Noble Order of the GARTER With a Brief Account of Bishop Wilkins Mr. Lawrence Rooke Dr. Isaac Barrow Dr. Turbervile And others Written by Dr. WALTER POPE Fellow of the ROYAL SOCIETY Quid foret Iliae Mavortisque Gener si Taciturnitas Obstaret meritis Invida Romuli Hor. LONDON Printed for William Keblewhite at the Swan in St. Paul's Church-yard 1697. To the Honourable Colonel JOHN WYNDHAM of DORSETSHIRE SIR I Might easily bring into the Field and Muster a Brigade if not an Army of Motives which compelld me to Dedicate this Book to you but because I know you love Brevity I shall content my self to declare to the World only one of them viz. Amongst the few Friends I have for Old Men generally out-live their Friends I could not pitch upon any Patron so fit as your Self For you were intimately acquainted with the deceased Bishop the Subject of this Treatise lovd him and was intirely belovd by him I appeal therefore to you as Competent Iudge and an Eye witness whether what I have said concerning his Hospitality his humble and obliging Conversation in Salisbury be not rather less than more than it deservd You also as I find by Experience bear no small Affection to me which I humbly beg you to continue as long as I shall approve my self SIR Your most humble obliged and Grateful Servant Walter Pope ERRATA PAGE 17. Line 23. Read London p. 44. l. 5. for Town r. College p. 45. l. 19. r. Protector p. 76. l. 11. r. is our p. 80. l. 8. r. Chaplain p. 82. l. 18. r. ten pounds p. 145. l. 3. r. omnium or panfarmacon p. 151. l. antep r. Multum p. 156. l. penult r. Absentem THE LIFE OF THE Right Reverend Father in God SETH Lord Bishop of Salisbury c. CHAP. I. The Introduction THE Motives that incouraged me to write this ensuing Treatise were such as these viz. 1. The deceas'd Bishop had conferred many Favours upon me and I thought this was a fit opportunity to publish my Gratitude for them 2. That his Life was worthy to be transmitted to Posterity and that it would be more acceptable to the Learned that it should be done by me as well as I could than not at all for I have not yet heard of any person who has designed or attempted it tho there are more than eight years past since he died 3. I am not altogether unprovided for such a Work having during my long Acquaintance with Him and his Friends inform'd my self of most of the considerable Circumstances of his Life 4. And in the fourth and last place because I shall run no risque in so doing for tho some may blame my Performance yet even they cannot but approve my pious Intention and the worst that can be said against me if I do not attain my end will have more of Praise in it than Reproach 't is what Ovid says of Faeton Magnis tamen excidit ausis i. e. 'T was a noble Attempt but the Success was not answerable I at first design'd to have written it in a continual Narration without breaking it into Chapters making any Reflections or adding any Digressions but upon second thoughts which usually are the best I steer'd another Course I have cut it into Chapters which may serve as Benches in a long Walk whereupon the weary Reader may repose himself till he has recovered Breath and then readily proceed in his way I have also interwoven some Digressions which if they are not too frequent forein impertinent and dull will afford some Divertisement to the Reader But I fear the Gate is too great for this little City CHAP. II. Of the Bishops Parentage Birth and Education till he was sent to Cambridge I Think it not worth my pains to play the Herald and blazon the Arms belonging to the numerous Family of the WARDS or to tell the World the Antiquity of it that that Name came into England with William the Conqueror that there is at present one Lord and very many Knights and Gentlemen of very considerable Estates who are so called For supposing this to be true as it is it makes little if any thing to the Praise of the the Person whose Life I am now writing Vix ea nostra voco Vertuous Actions not great Names are the best Ensigns of Nobility There are now always were and ever will be some bad Men even of the best Families I shall therefore go no further back than to his Grandfather who lived near Ipswich in Suffolk and had the misfortune to lose a considerable hereditary Estate whereupon the Bishops Father whose Name was Iohn settled himself at Buntingford in Hertfordshire following the Employment of an Attorney and was of good Reputation for his fair Practice but not rich His Mothers Maiden Name was Dalton I have often heard him commend her extraordinarily for her Vertue Piety and Wisdom to whose good Instructions and Counsels he used to say he ow'd whatever was good in him And that this Character was due to her I have the testimony of that worthy Gentleman Ralph Freeman Esq of Aspenden in Hertfordshire who has faithfully served his Country as Knight of the Shire for that County in several Parliaments this Mr. Freeman liv'd in the same Parish and well remembers the Bishops Mother I never heard the Bishop speak of his Father possibly he died before his Son came to years of Discretion on the contrary I find Horace never mentions his Mother but is very frequently praising his Father but to proceed Iohn Ward left three Sons and as many Daughters the Sons were Iohn Seth and Clement Iohn died a Batchelour Clement left three Sons and several Daughters to the Care of his Brother Seth who had then no other Preferment or Income than the Place of the Savilian Professor of Astronomy in Oxford and even then he gave two hundred pounds to one of his Sisters in Marriage which Summ he borrowed of a Friend of his whom I knew who lent it him upon his own Bond without any other Security 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which let me thus translate since 't is not è Cathedra nothing doubting or not despairing to be repaid as he was in a short time with Thanks and Interest This Friend of his perceived evident signs of a rising Man in Mr. Ward which must infallibly advance him if Merit alone can elevate as it has often without Friends under some Kings and some Archbishops and it will certainly at long run if as the Saying is The Horse does not die before the Grass is grown For all these Male and Female Children and Relations before mentioned he provided more than a competent Maintenance binding some of them Apprentices breeding others at Schools and Universities till they were fit for the Ministry and then placed them in good Benefices whereof he had the Presentation He also took