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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61860	The life of the learned Sir Thomas Smith, Kt., doctor of the civil law principal secretary of state to King Edward the Sixth, and Queen Elizabeth : wherein are discovered many singular matters ... With an appendix, wherein are contained some works of his, never before published.	Strype, John, 1643-1737.	1698 (1698)	Wing S6023; ESTC R33819	204,478	429

of the Pedigree as it is preserved in the Office of Arms yet there seems to have been another Son an elder Brother to Thomas For I have seen sometime a Crescent for distinction in his Seal which he used for the Sealing of his Letters engraven with his Arms. His Brother Iohn was the chief Instrument and Procurer of the new Erection of the Corporation of the Town of Walden in the Third Year of King Edward VI. after the Dissolution of the ancient Fraternity of the Holy Trinity of the said Town by Vertue of an Act of Parliament in the first of the said King mentioned before The Corporation then founded by that King's Letters Patents bore the Name as the old Fraternity or Guild had done of Treasurer and two Chamberlains who were Justices of Peace and Four and Twenty Aldermen which now by a later Charter is changed into a Mayor and Twelve Aldermen In those Letters Patents the said Iohn Smith junior was nominated the first Treasurer of the said Corporation In the Chamber where the Town-Writings of Walden are kept there is a Book containing their By-Laws which bears the Title of Ordinances and Statutes for the Corporation of the Town of Walden upon the new Erection of the same From thence is extracted what is above-said Another piece of good Service done by the said Iohn to the Town was That when an ancient Alms-house founded Anno 1400. the Lands of which were swallowed up and lost being given to the King by Act of Parliament as an Appendent perhaps of the Guild the Parishioners made Suit to him in behalf thereof by this Iohn Smith who by means of his Brother our Sir Tho. Smith then Secretary of State obtained Letters Patents from the King dated Feb. 18. in the Third of his Reign That he the said Iohn Smith being then Teasurer and William Strachy the younger and Thomas Williamson then Chamberlains and their Successors might found erect c. an Alms-house with one Master and his Brother c. and that it should be called King Edward 's Alms-house I can give no Account of this Branch of the Family unless perhaps it was that Stock of the Smiths that lived long in Little Walden upon a moderate Living there which now is gone out of the Name and possessed at present by the Reverend Dr. E. Norton to whom I am beholden for communicating what is here written of this Brother of Sir Thomas with some other things relating to the Town of Walden His younger Brother George followed the Calling of a Merchant of London living in a House of his Brother Thomas's in Philpot-lane while he remained at Cambridge And as his Money came in there he used to send it to his said Brother to mend his Stock without taking a Penny or Half-penny Advantage in consideration of his Loan the better to assist him in carrying on his Traffick as Sir Thomas wrote somewhere to justifie himself from an Imputation of Covetousness charged upon him once by the Dutchess of Somerset when he lived in her Family Where our Youth 's tender Years were formed I cannot assign but I conclude it to be at the old School in his Native Town of Walden which afterward by his Interest at the Court he got advanced unto a Royal Foundation with good Endowment from the King his Master in the Third Year of his Reign when he granted to the School there two Mills viz. a Corn-mill near the Town and a Malt-mill in it together with all the Emoluments Tolls and Benefits accrewing and an Annuity of Twelve Pounds issuing out of the Mannor of Willingale Spane in Essex for the Maintenance and Support of the said School This seems to be but a Grafting upon the ancient School here For I have received from the Reverend Person above-mentioned the present Vicar of Walden and he from the Inspection of the Town-Writings That there was anciently a School in this place and a Master and Usher over it and that it was governed by divers excellent Orders for its Six Forms and that in the 14th Year of King Henry VIII one Dame Iane Bradbury for why should these old Memorials be lost settled 10. l. per Annum upon it That there was also a Tripartite Indenture for the said School dated Aug. 24. betwixt Dame Iane Bradbury Widow Sister to Iohn Leche late Vicar of Walden and the Treasurer and Chamberlains of the Guild of the Holy Trinity in the Parish Church of Walden and the Abbot and Convent of the Monastery of the same Town And that one William Cawson had behaved himself so well in singing Mass and in teaching the School that he was elected when it was made a Free School and he was obliged to teach Grammar after the Form of Winchester and Eaton and to teach freely the Children that were born in Walden Little Chesterford Newport and Widdington and the Children and Kinsfolk of the said Dame Iane. We are in Obscurity concerning the Towardliness of Smith's young Years and those Sparks of Aptness Ingenuity and Vertue that then appeared in him which yet we may take for granted from his early remove to the University of Cambridge For according to the nearest Computation I can make he was transplanted thither at the Age of 14 or 15 Years at the most And having brought him thus far to enter now upon our Remarks of him and to unveil who and what this Man was whom I have raised as it were from the Shades now after an Hundred Years and more to set him before this present Age as a Pattern of true Honour Vertue and Generosity We shall take a four-fold View of him I. At the University where his Learning made him famed II. Under King Edward when he became a Courtier III. Under Queen Mary when he concealed himself and lived in a private Capacity IV. Under Queen Elizabeth when after she had much employed him in her Service both in her own and Foreign Courts he piously concluded his useful Life CHAP. II. Sent to Queen's College in Cambridge Chosen a King's Scholar Reads the Greek Lecture And rectifies the Pronunciation University Orator His Applause He was admitted in Queen's College in the aforesaid University a College then reckoned in the Rank of those Houses that Savoured Erasmus and Luther and harboured such as consorted privately together to confer about Religion purged from the Abuses of the Schools and the Superstitions of Popery Of this House was Foreman who hid Luther's Books when Search was made in the College for them and Heyns an ancient Friend of the Gospel and Sufferer for it afterwards Master of the College and Dean of Exeter and one of those who in King Edward's Reign was chosen to assist at the compiling of the English Communion Book And perhaps Erasmus and his Writings were more particularly favoured here that most Learned Man having not long before resided in this House These might have been some Advantages to ground young

listen more attentively And when Smith had often inculcated 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as E and OI they who three Years before had heard him sound them frequently uncorrectly after the old way could not think it was a Lapse of his Tongue but suspected something else and laughed at the unusual Sounds He again as though● his Tongue had slipp'd would sometimes correct himself and say the Word over again after the old manner But when he did this daily and as appeared every day the corrected Sounds flowed from him more and more some of his Friends came to him and told him what they noted in his Lectures Smith now cared not to dissemble but owned that he had been thinking of something privately but that it was not yet enough digested and prepared for the Publick They on the other hand prayed him not to conceal it from them but to tell them without any grudging Whereupon he promised he would Upon this Rumor many came together and repaired to him whom he required only to hear his Reasons and to have Patience with him three or four Days at most until the Sounds by Use were made more trite to their Ears and the Prejudice of Novelty more worn off And so by little and little he explained to them the whole Reason of the Sounds Many went to Cheke and related to him Smith's Discourses and others resorted to others according as they esteemed them to be Men of Judgment in this matter These thought some one thing some another Cheke assented At this very time Smith read upon one of Homer's Odysses at home in the College There he began more plainly and openly to shew and determin the Difference of these Sounds Then many came that they might the more easily learn of him viv● v●ce to frame their Tongues and utter the true Sounds The same did Cheke in his College It is not to be express'd with what Greediness and Affection this was received among the Youth and how gladly they agreed to it The following Winter in St. Iohn's College was acted the Greek Play of Aristophanes called Plutus in this Pronunciation and one or two more of his Comedies when among those that professed Greek and were esteemed Learned Men it was observed there was not so much as one that signified any Dislike or shewed any Opposition Iohn Ponet a Learned and Ingenious young Man and Smith's Scholar afterwards Bishop of Winton seems to have succeeded his Tutor in this Place For he read Greek in the Schools in the Name of the University near this time and followed his Masters way of sounding Greek Words Next him came into this Place Ascham of St. Iohn's a Person of like Wit and Diligence who read Isocrates He in the beginning of his Lectures contended with Ponet about this way of pronouncing and ref●s●● to follow it But because of the Authority that Cheke and Smith had gained in the University he would not reprove it openly Yet was it not long after that he became a very eager Defender of this very thing and so remained Thus in a few Years had this correct way of reading Greek introduced by Smith prevailed all the University over And which was more remarkable it was consented to by Iohn Redman Publick Professor and Reader of Divinity of great Honour and Deference in the University for his Learning Integrity of Life and Gravity of Manners who when at any time in his Reading he all●dg●d a Text in Greek used to read it after the correct Pronunciation And thus by Smith's Pains and Endeavours never to be forgotten by Posterity was the Noble Greek ●ong●e restored to it self as it was spok●n in the Times when Greece flourished and brought forth Plato Dionysius Plutarchus D●mosthenes Thucydides and others Out of whose Writings he had Cheke produced Authorities that they pronounced the Greek as he taught And by this revived Pronounciation was displayed the Flower and Plentifulness of that Language the Variety of Sounds the Grandure of Diphthongs the Majesty of long Letters and the Grace of distinct Speech And as the University laid that Honour upon him of making himself their Greek Reader so they gave him the Office of their Orator In his Greek Lectures among other good Authors as Aristotle and Homer he read Socrates and Euripides for Philosophy and Morality His Oratory and Learning intermixed was so admirable and beyond the common Strain that Queen's College carried away the Glory for Eloquence from all the Colleges in the University besides and was rendered so famous by this her Scholar that it had like to have changed her Name from Queen's to Smith's College Unius Eloquio sic jam Reginea tecta Florebant quasi quae vellent SMITHE A vocari Sic reliquos inter Socios Caput extulit unus As Gabriel Harvey Smith's Townsman and one that knew him well writes upon his Death Such was the Fame of his Lectures that not only his own private College but all the University Learned and less Learned Young and Old flocked to hear him So writes the same Author Pendebat ab ore Unius privata domus Schola publica docti Indocti Schola tota Virûm Schola tota Puellûm And the Learnedest and Gravest Men and his Seniors and the choicest Wits of the University would be present when he read and sit there as his Scholars As Redman Cox Cheke Cecil he that afterwards was Lord Treasurer Haddon Ascham Car Tonge Bill Wilson Goldwel Watson c. Men of great Name afterwards in Church and State Felix qui p●tuit Smitho auscultare loquenti Sive illi Graecè dicendum sive Latiné And happy he that might hear Smith speak whether it were in Greek or Latine Thus he continued divers Years in the University till he was succeeded in the Place of Orator by his Fellow and Friend Iohn Cheke and he by Roger Ascham another curiously Learned Man in the Year 1544. CHAP. III. He Travels His Conferences with Learned Men at Orleans and Paris Takes his Degree at Padua Returns Home His Usefulness at the University The Controversie there arisen about his way of pronouncing Greek SMITH having now arrived at some Maturity of Knowledge and Learning and in the Seven and Twentieth Year of his Age it being now the Year of our Lord 1539. went abroad to Travel for the further improvement of himself in polite Learning elegant Language Skill in the Modern Tongues and Experience of the Customs and Laws of other Countries A thing commonly practis'd by Scholars in these times to study sometime at Foreign Universities in France and Italy which used then to be replenished with very Learned Professors Being abroad he took notice of the different Ways of speaking Latin which although he did not like especially the French who sounded Latin very corruptly yet he conformed himself to their manner of Speech And when he came into Italy he followed them there in