passed the Approbation of both Houses of Parliament 13. The Book being finished and subscribed it wâ—s with all due â—everence humbly presented to the â—ing by whom it was received to his great Comfort and Quietnesse of mind as the Statute telleth us and being by him commended to the Lords and Commons then assembled in Parliament They did not only give his Highnesse most hearty and lowly Thanks for his Care therein but on perusal thereof declared it to be done by the aid of the Holy Ghost and thereupon it was enacted That all Ministers in the Kings Dominions should say Common and open prayer in such order and form as is mentioned in the same Book and no otherwise 14. The raign of this Young King was indeed remarkable for the progresse of the Reformation but otherwise tumultuous in it self and defamed by Sacrilege and so distracted into sides and factions that in the end the King himself became a prey to the strongest party 15. The Physicians that attended him on his death bed whispered That neither their Advice nor Applications had been at all regarded in the course of his sicknesse That the King had been ill dealt with more than once or twice and That when by the benefit both of his Youth and carefull means there were some fair hopes of his Recovery he was again more strongly overlaid than ever It is affirmed by a Writer of the Popish party who could have no great cause to pity such a calamitous end that the Apothecary who poysond him for the horrour of the offense and the disquietnesse of his Conscience did not long after drown himself 16. In his dying prayer as it was taken from his Mouth we have those pious words Lord God deliver me out of this miserable and wretched life and take me among thy Chosen Howbeit not my will but thine be done Lord Blesse my people and save thine inheritance Defend this Realm from Papistry and maintain thy true Religion Ob. 6. Jul. An D. 1553. Aet 16. Nata 1537. cc Regina Declaritur Guildfordice Dudley 1553 Iul 10. Conjugata Capite Plectitur 1553. Maij. 1553 4. Feb 12. Printed for Richd. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Pauls Church yard II. The Lady JANE GREY Out of Dr Heylins History of the Reformation 1. SHe was eldest Daughter of Henry L. Grey Duke of Suffolk Her Mother was the Ladie Francis daughter and in fine one of the coheires of Charles Brandon the late Duke of Suffolk by Marie his wife Queen Dowager to Lewis 12. of France and youngest Daughter of K. Henrie VII She seemed to have been born with those Attractions which seat a Soveraigntie in the face of most beautiful persons yet was her Mind endued with more excellent Charms then the Attractions of her Face Modest and Mild of Disposition Courteous of Carriage and of such Affable Deportment as might entitle her to the name of Queen of Hearts before she was designed for Queen over any Subjects 2. These her Native and obliging Graces were accompanied with some more profitable ones of her own acquiring which set an higher value on them and much encreased the same both in Worth and Lustre Having attained unto that Age in which other young Ladies used to apply themselves to the sports and exercises of their Sex She wholly gave her Mind to good Arts and Sciences much furthered in that pursuit by the loving Care of Mr Elmer under whose charge she came to such a large proficiency that she spake the Latin and Greek Tongues with as sweet a fluencie as if they had been natural and native to her exactly skilled in the liberal Sciences and perfectly well studied in both kinds of Philosophie 3. Take here a story out of Mr Ascham's Schoolm p. 11. in his own words One example Whether love or fear doth work more in a child for vertue and learning I will gladly report which may be heard with some pleasure and followed with more profit Before I went into Germanie I came to Brodegate in Leicestershire to take my leave of that noble Ladie Jane Grey to whom I was exceeding much beholding Her Parents the Duke and the Dutchesse with all the Houshold Gentlemen and Gentlewomen were hunting in the Park I found her in her Chamber reading Phoedon Platonis in Greek and that with as much delight as some Gentlemen would read a merry tale in Bocace After salutation and duty done with some other talk I asked her why she would leese such pastime in the Park Smiling she answered me I wisse all their sport in the Park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato Alas good folk they never felt what true pleasure meant And how came You Madam quoth I to this deep knowledge of pleasure and what did chiefly allure You unto it seeing not many women but very few men have attained thereunto I will tel you saith she and tell you a troth which perchance ye will marvel at One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me is that he sent me so sharp and severe Parents and so gentle a Schoolmaster For when I am in presence either of Father or Mother whether I speak keep silence sit stand or go eat drink be merry or sad be sowing playing dauncing or doing any thing else I must do it as it were in such weight measure and number even so perfectly as God made the world or else I am so sharply traunted so cruelly threatned yea presently sometimes with pinches nips and bobs and waies which I will not name for the honour I bear them so without measure misordered that I think my self in hell till time come that I must go to Mr Elmer who teacheth me so gently so pleasantly with such fair allurements to learning that I think all the time nothing whiles I am with him And when I am called from him I fall on weeping because whatsoever I do else but learning is full of grief trouble fear and whole misliking unto me And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure and bringeth dayly to me more pleasure and more that in respect of it all other pleasures in very deed be but trifles and troubles unto me I remember this talk gladly both because it is so worthy of memory and because also it was the last talk that ever I had and the last time that ever I saw that noble and worthy Lady Thus far Mr Ascham 4. By this eminent proficiency in all parts of learning and an Agreeablenesse in Disposition she became very dear to the Young K. Edward to whom Fox not onely makes her equal but doth acknowledge her also to be his Superiour in those noble studies And for an Ornament superadded to her other perfections she was most zealously affected to the true Protestant Religion then by law established Which she embraced not out of any outward compliance with the present current of the Times but because her own moâ—t excellent Judgement had been fully
satisfied in the Truth and Purity thereof All which did so endear her to the King that he took great delight in her Conversation 5. Thus lived she in these sweet Contentments till she came unto the years of Marriage when she that never found in her self the leâ—st spark of Ambition was made the most unhappy Instrument of another Mans. The proud and aspiring Duke of Northumberland treats with the Duke of Suffolk about a Marriage between the Lord Guilford Dudly his fourth Son and the Lady Jane The Marriage is concluded and by Northumberland's policy the Crown is transferred from K. Edward to his Cosin the Lady Jane his two Sisters the Lady Mary and Lady Elizabeth being passed by Memorable is the Speech she made to the two Dukes when they owned her for Queen to this effect That the Laws of the Kingdom and natural Right standing for the Kings Sisters she would beware of burthening her weak Conscience with a yoke which did beloâ—g to them That she understood the Infamy of those who had permitted the violation of Right to gain a Scepter That it were to mock God and deride Justice to scruple at the stealing of a shilling and not at the usurpation of a Crown Besides said she I am not so yong nor so little read in the guiles of fortune to suffer my self to be taken by them If she enrich any it is but to make them the subject of her spoil If she raise others it is but to pleasure her self with their Ruins What she adored but yesterday is to day her pastime And if I now permit her to adorn and Crown Me I must to morrow suffer her to crush and tear me in pieces c. But the Ambition of the two Dukes was too strong and violent to be kept down by any such prudent Considerations So that being wearied at last with their Importunities and overcome by the intreaties of her husband whom she dearly loved She submitted unto that necessity which she could not vanquish yielding her head with more unwillingnesse to the ravishing Glories of a Crown then afterward she did to the stroke of the Ax. 6. The Acclamations at the proclaiming of Queen Mary were heard by the Lady Jane now no longer Queen with such Tranquillity of mind and composednesse of countenance as if she had not been concerned in the Alteration She had before received the offer of a Crown with â—s even a Temper as if it had been nothing but a Garland of flowers and now she layes aside the thought thereof with as much contentedness as she could have thrown away that Garland when the sent was gone The time of her Glory was so short but a nine Daies wonder that it seemed nothing but a Dream out of which she was not sorry to be awakened The Towr had been to her a prison rather than a Court and interrupted the Delights of her former life by so many Terrours that no Day passed without some new Alarm to disturb her Quiet She doth now know the worst that fortune can do unto her and having alwaies feared that there stood a Scaffold secretly behind the Throne She was as readily prepared to act her part upon the one as upon the other 7. Her Death is resolved upon but first She must be practiced with to change her Religion To which end Fecknam is employed a Man whose great parts ptomised him an easie victory over a poor Lady of a broken and dejected Spirit But it proved the contrary For so well had She studyed the Concernments of her own Religion and managed the Conference with him with such a readinesse of wit such Constancie of Resolution and a Judgement so well grounded in all helps of Learning that she was able to make Answer to the strongest Arguments as well to her great Honour as his Admiration So that not able to prevail with her in the change of Religion he made offer of his service to prepare her for death Which though she thankfully accepted of as finding it to proceed from a good affection yet soon he found that she was also aforehand with him in those preparations which are fit and necessary for a Dying-Christian 8. Friday 9. Febr. was first designed for the day of the Execution but the Desire of gaining her to the Church of Rome procured her the short respite of three dayes more On Sunday night being the Eve unto the day of her Translation she wrote a Letter in the Greek tongue at the end of a Testament which she bequeathed as a Legacy to her Sister the Lady Katharine which being such a lively Picture of the excellent Lady some lines thereof are worthy to be presented here I have sent you a Book dear Sister which although it be not outwardly trimmed with Gold yet inwardly it is more worth then pretious stones If you with a good mind read it and with an earnest desire to follow it it shall bring you to an immortal and everlasting life it shall teach you to live and learn you to dy it shall win you more then you should have gained by your wofull Fathers Lands You shall be an Inheritor of such Riches as neither the Covetous shall withdraw from you neither Thief shall steal neither yet the Moths corrupt Desire with David good Sister to understand the Law of the Lord God Live still to dy that you by death may purchase eternal life Defie the world Deny the Devil Despise the Flesh and delight your self only in the Lord. Be penitent for your sins and yet despair not Be strong in Faith and yet presume not And desire with Saint Paul to be dissolved and to be with Christ with whom even in death there is life And as touching my death rejoyce as I do Good Sister that I shall be deliver'd of this Corruption and put on Incorruption For I am assured that I shall for losing a mortal life win an immortal one The which I pray God to grant you and send you of his Grace to live in his fear and to dy in the true Christian Faith from the which in Gods name I exhort you that you never swerve neither for hope of life nor for fear of death 9. The fatal Morning being come the Lord Guilford earnestly desired the officers that he might take his Farewell of her Which though they willingly permitted yet upon notice of it she advised the contrary assuring him That such a Meeting would rather add to his Afflictions and her presence rather weaken then strengthen him That he ought to take courage from his Reason and derive constancy from his own heart That he should do well to remit this Interview to the other World that there indeed Friendships were happy and unions indissoluble and that theirs would be eternal if their souls carried nothing with them of Terrestrial which might hinder them from rejoycing All she could do was to give him a Farewell out of a window as he passed toward the place of his
his Person was set at liberty Sept. 3. and not long after we meet with him in Germany either a forced or a voluntary exile 9. From thence he passed into Italy and by the way left those adversary Epistles of Winchester and himself with his Friend Coelius who put them in print without the Authours privity At his return to Germany he was kindly entertained at Strasburg where he took up his old trade and set up shop again being chosen Professor of the Greek tongue in that place This was a treasure which maintained him in his exile this he had not confiscate to the Queen this escaped the diligence of the Searchers when he conveyed it out of the Kingdom 10. Here he lived about two years in good repute till I know not what unlucky stars put him upon a journey into the Low Countries Some have said it was to marry a wife but what need of that when he was already matched to a young Lady who lived to see many happier days after his decease and dyed well nigh threescore years after him An. 1616. Sleidan tells us he went into low Germany ut uxorem educeret to fetch his wife thence who belike was lately come over out of England and meant to settle with him at Strasburg But in his return from Bruxelles to Antwerp May 15. 1556 both Sir John Cheek and Sir Peter Carew were way-laid by the Provost Marshall for K. Philip beaten from their horses tyed hand and foot to the bottom of a Cart and so conveyed hood-winkt to the next Haven where they were shipt under hâ—tches and their first landing place was the Tower of London where they were committed to close prison Sir Peter Carew out-lived his Troubles and under-went many honourable services under Queen Elizabeth and dyed An. 1575. 11. Sir John Cheek's lot was somewhat harder he was put to this miserable choise either to forgo his life or what is far more precious his liberty of Conscience No mean neither his great Learning nor his known integrity nor the intercession of his friends and among them Abbot Fekenham a man which could do somewhat with Queen Mary could compound for his pardon at any lower rate then the recantation of his Religion Upon this he was soon restored to his liberty but never to his content The sense and sorrow for himself and the dayly sight of that cruel butchery which was exercised upon others for the constant profession of the truth made such deep impressions in his broken soul as brought him to a speedy but comfortable end of a miserable life 12. He dyed at London in the house of Peter Osbern Esq Sept. 1557. He left one Son which bare his name a comely young man and a stout slain in his Princes service in Ireland 1580. but the issue of his brain was more numerous De pronuntiatione Graecae linguae Panegyricus Edvardi VI. De obitu Buceri De Eucharistiae Sacramento Maximi Monachi Asceticus c. His Body lyes buryed at Saint Albans Wood-street with this Epitaph Doctrinae Checus linguaeque utriusque Magister Aurea naturae fabrica morte jacet Non erat è multis unus sed praestitit unus Omnibus patriae flos erat ille suae GeÌ„ma Britanna fuit tam magnum nulla tulerunt Tempora the saurum tempora nulla ferent IOHANNES WHITGIFTVS ARCHEP Whitgiftus rupâ—â—is vinclis Romana relinguens Sacra pius sese meliores vertit ad vsus â— IV. Dr. JOHN WHITGIFT Arch-bishop of Canterbury Out of his life written by Sir George Paul Controller of his Graces houshold 1. HE came of the antient family of Whitgift of Whitgift in York-shire the eldest son of a Merchant Henry Whitgift of great Grimsly in Lincolnshire and was there born An. 1530. He was taught among other young Gentlemen by his Unkle Robert Whitgift Abbot of Wellow In which time as he was pleased often to remember he heard the Abbot say That they and their Religion could not long continue because said he I have read the whole Scripture over and over and could never find therein that our Religion was founded by God 2. His Uncle finding an extraordinary forwardlynesse in him sent him afterwards to London where he became a Scholar in S. Anthonies Schoole and boarded at his Aunts House in Pauls Church-yard From thence he repaired to Grimsly to his Parents being thrust out of dores by his Aunt because he would not goe with her to Mass imputing all her domestick misfortunes to her harbouring such an Heretick in her House and for a Farewell told him That she thought at the first she had received a Saint into her House but now she perceived he was a Divel 3. His Parents finding his proficiency by the direction of his Uncle sent him to Cambridge Dr. Ridley made him Scholar of Pembroke Hall thence Dr. Pearn chose him Fellow of Peter house Being there fallen grievously sick the Doctor who lov'd him for his good parts placed him with a good woman near the Colledge visiting him oft and charging her to spare no cost for his recovery If he lives said he he will be able to pay you himself if he dye I will satisfy you 4. After his recovery Dr. Pearn finding he purposed to travel Beyond Sea to avoid the Visitors sent by Queen Mary conferred with him and seeing him resolute in his Religion upon many good and sound reasons as the Doctor often acknowledged willed him to be silent and quiet and he would so order the matter that he might keep his Religion and not leave the University which the good old man justly performed 5. After he was entred into the Ministry which was upon the year 1560 being to preach his first publick Sermon in S. Maries he chose for his Text that excellent saying of S. Paul I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ c. Wherein his singular method choice of matter and judicious handling thereof were such that his whole Auditory especially the Chief of the University grew into great Admiration of those great parts in so young years 6. From being Fellow of Peter House he succeeded Doctor Hutton in the Mastership of Pembroke Hall and being Chaplain to Doctor Cox Bishop of Ely he had a Prebend there He was also chosen the Lady Margarets Professor of Divinity and afterwards the Queens The Queen having heard him preach said he had a White gift indeed made him Master of Trinity Colledge and caused him immediately to be sworn her Chaplain An. 1567. 7. He govern'd the Colledge for five years space with great quietnesse untill Mr. Tho. Cartwright a Fellow of that Colledge his last return from beyond the Seas Whos 's first discontentment grew from the Queens neglect of him at a Disputation before her Majesty in the University 8. The Master being from home Mr. Cartwright with some of his adherents made three Sermons upon one Sunday and so vehemently inveighed against the Surplice and other Ceremonies that they of the Colledge
Communions inviolably yea though himself had received at the Court the same month In which his Carriage was not only decent and religious but also exemplary He ever offer'd twice at the Altar and so did every one of his servants to which purpose he gave them mony lest it should be burthensome to them 17. He was such an enemy to Simony that he endured many Troubles by Quare impedit and Duplex querela As for himself he seldome gave a Benefice or Preferment to him that petition'd for it he rather sent for men of note that he thought wanted preferment and gave them Prebends and Benefices under Seal before they knew of it as to Mr. Boys and Mr. Fuller 18. Sacriledge he did abhor as one principal cause among many of the forrein and civil Wars in Christendom and invasion of the Turk And at home he wished some man would take the pains to collect how many Families that were raised by the spoils of the Church are now vanished and the place thereof knows them no more 19. He was a great Almes-giver When he liv'd at St. Giles his certain Almes there was ten pound per an paid quarterly by equal portions and twelve pence every Sunday he came to Church and five shillings at every Communion c. The total of his pious and charitable works mentioned in his will amounts to the sum of six thousand three hundred twenty six pound He gave in private Alms in some few years before his death to the sum of one thousand three hundred and forty pound 20. A great part of five hours every day did he spend in prayer and devotion to God and a good while before he sickned he spent all his time in prayer and in the time of his sicknesse he continually prayed until it pleased God to receive his blessed Soul to himself Lo here a Prelate in whom Light Heate Learning Zeale Meeknesse Courage met In Gods cause the Kings our Brownrige was A Boanerges though a Barnabas W Faithorne sculp VII RALPH BROVNRIG Bishop of Exeter Out of Doctor Gauden's Sermon at his Funeral 1. BIshop Brounrig was a person of that soundnesse of Judgment of that conspicuity for an unspotted life of that unsuspected Integrity that his life was virtutism norma as St. Jerom of Nepotian Ita in singulis virtutibus eminebat quasi caeteras non habuisset so eminent in every good and perfect gift as if he had had but one onely I never heard of any thing said by him which a wise and good man would have wished unsaid or undone yet I had the happinesse to know him above thirty years 2. The spring of this so fair so deep so clear so noble a stream of Learning Piety and Wisdom was at Ipswich a Town of good note in Suffolk where he was born An. 1592. His parents of Merchantly condition of worthy reputation and of very Christian Conversation When he was not many weeks old God took away his earthly Father that himself might have the more tender care of the Orphan By the prudence of his pious Mother his Youth and first years of reason were carefully improved for his breeding in all good Learning 3. He was sent in his fourteenth year to Pembroke-Hall in Cambridge There his Modesty Pregnancy and Piety soon invited preferment He was first made Scholar of the House and after Fellow a little sooner then either his years or standing in rigour of Statute permitted but the Colledge was impatient not to make sure of him by grafting him firmly into that Society which had been famous for many excellent men but for none more then Brounrig 4. When King James that most learned Prince was pleas'd to honour the University of Cambridge by his presence and to make Exercises of Scholars the best part of his Entertainment this person then a young man was one of those who were chosen by the University to adorn that Reception of the King The part he performed was Jocoserious of praevaricator a mixture of Philosophy with Wit and Oratory This he discharged to the admiration more then the mirth of the King and the other learned Auditors who rejoyced to see such a luxuriancy of Wit was consistent with innocency that jesting was confined to conveniency and Mirth married with that Modesty which became the Muses 5. Among his learned and accurate performances in publick I cannot but observe that when he took the Degree of B. D. the Text upon which he chose to preach his Latin Sermon was prophetick and preparatory to his after sufferings Phil. 1. 29. Vobis autem datum c. To you it is given on the behalf of Christ not only to believe in him but also to suffer for his sake Which eloquent and pious Sermon he afterwards was to fulfill indeed Quod docuit verbo firmavit exemplo He made his Doctrin good by his practice taking up the cross of Christ and following him 6. He was preferred to be Prebend of the Collegiate Church of Eli by the favour and love of the then Bishop of that Seat Doctor Felton a very holy and good man He had also a good living at Barlow not far from Cambridge a Country Village where he condiscended in his preaching and catechising to ordinary capacities He oft deplored the disuse and want of Catechising After that this great Lamp was set and shined in a Sphere more proper and proportionate being chosen Master of Katharine Hall Here it was wonderfull to see how the Buildings the Revenues the Students and the studiousness of that place increased by the care counsell prudence diligence and Fame of Doctor Brounrig who had such an eye to all that he oversaw none frequenting the Studies and examining even younger â—cholars that they might be encouraged in Learning and Piety 7. He kept up very much as good Learning and good Manners so the honour of Orthodox Divinity and orderly Conformity He kept to the Doctrin Worship Devotion and Government in the Church of England Which he would say he liked better and better as he grew older If any out of scruple or tendernesse of Conscience was lesse satisfied with some things no man had a more tender heart or a gentler hand to heal them He would convince though he did not convert Gain-sayers and if he could not perswade them yet he would pity and pray for them 8. He could endure differences among learned and godly men in opinions especially sublime and obscure without distance in affection He thought that Scripture it self was in some points left unto us lesse clear and positive that Christians might have wherewith to exercise both Humility in themselves and Charity towards others He very much venerated the first worthy Reformers of Religion at home and abroad yet was he not so addicted to any one Master as not freely to use his own great and mature Judgment He hoped every good Man had his Retractations either actual or intentional though all had no time to write
them as Saint Austin did He had the greatest Antipathy against those unquiet and pragmatick Spirits which affect endlesse Controversies Varieties and Novelties in Religion to carry on a party and under that skreen of Religion to advance their private Interests and politick Designs 9. For the Liturgy though he needed a set form as little as any yet he had a particular great esteem of it 1. For the honour and piety of its Martyrly Composers 2. For its excellent matter and prudent Method 3. For the good he saw it did to all sober Christians the want of which he saw was not supplied by any Ministers private way of praying and preaching Not that the Liturgy is unalterable but he judged all such Alterations ought to be done by the publick spirit As for Bishops he was too learned a man to doubt and too honest to deny the universal Custom and practice of the Church of Christ in all ages and places for fifteen hundred years according to the pattern at least received from the Apostles who without doubt followed as they best knew the mind of Christ 10. He was by the favour of King Charls and to the great liking of all good men made Bishop of Exeter Anno 1641. Whereupon a certain Gentleman told me He wondred Doctor Brounrig would be made a Bishop whom he had heard sometime declare his judgment against Episcopacy Which as I no way beleived so relating it soon after to the Bishop He with some passion replyed I never thought much lesse said as that person hath falsely averred I thank God I took the office of a Bishop with a good Conscience and so I hope by his Mercy I shall both maintain and discharge it 11. And however this excellent Bishop enjoyed not the benefit of the Kings favour and munificence as to his Bishoprick or any other preferment after the Troubles of the times yet he was ever most unmovable in his royal respects of fidelity gratitude love and obedience Accordingly when O. P. with some shew of respect to him demanded his judgment in some publick affairs the Bishop with his wonted Gravity and Freedome replyed My Lord the best Counsel I can give you is that of our Saviour Render unto Caesar the things that be Caesars and unto God the things that be Gods With which free Answer O. P. rested rather silenced then satisfyed 12. This Grave personage when forced to retire was usefull to those that were worthy of him and knew how to value and use him either as a Bishop or as a Divine or a Counsellor or a Comforter or a Friend Among those that gave him a liberal and noble entertainment Thomas Rich Esq of Sunning in Bark-shire deserves with honour to be thus registred That he was the special friend to Bishop Brounrig Indeed none could be hospitable to him gratis He alwaies paid largely for his entertainments by his many excellent Discourses 13. He was alwaies when in health as cheerfull as far as the Tragedies of the Times gave leave as one that had the continual feast of a good Conscience and as content as if he had had a Lords estate All diminutions and indignities which some men put upon so worthy and venerable a person he digested into patience and prayers Thus he was in some degree conformable to the primitive Bishops which were poor and persecuted yea to the great Bishop of our Souls Who for our sakes made himself of no reputation 14. About a year before he dyed he was invited with much respect and civility to the Honourable Societies of both Temples to blesse them as with his constant Residence so with his Fatherly Instructions and Prayers To shew the Reality of their love and value to his Lordship they not only allowed an annual honorary Recompence to expresse their Thanks but they provided handsome Lodgings and furnished them with all things necessary convenient and comely for a person of his worth Such as could hear him preach rejoyced at his gracious words such as for the crowd could not come nigh enough to hear him had pleasure to stay and behold him conceiving they saw a Sermon in his looks and were better'd by the venerable Aspect of so worthy a person 15. God was pleased to exercise him with bodily pains indispositions and distempers sometimes with sharp fits of the Stone but under all these God supported him with his Grace and spirit as alwaies humble devout and pious so for the most part sociable ferene and cheerfull till he had lived to his sixty seventh year He had more frequent Infirmities as gentle monitors a little before his death of which he would speak to my self and others as one that by dying dayly was well acquainted with death and would say That it was a very cheap time now to die there being so little temptation to desire life and so many to welcome death since he had lived to see no King in the State no Bishop in the Church no Peer in Parliament worthy of that name He only hoped and prayed that God would favour him so far with an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as to let him dy without pain as indeed he did For after his spirits were in ten days decayed and wasted he slumbred much yet had vigilant Intervals at which times he gave himself to prayer and meditation and holy Discourses And being full of the Grace and peace of God and confirmed in it by the Absolution of the Church which belongs to all that dye in the true faith and blessed hope of penitent sinners he placidly rendred his holy devout and precious Soul to God that gave it Dec. 7. 1659. vid. fin 16. His Body for stature and figure was somewhat taller and bigger then ordinary yet very comely No man ever became the Preachers Pulpit or the Doctors Chair or the Episcopal Seat it was called of old Thronus Episcopalis better then he did carrying before him such an unaffected State and grandeur such a benign gravity and a kind of smiling Severity that one might see much in him to be reverenced and more to be loved yet what was venerable in him was very amiable and what was amiable was very venerable 17. If you please to add to your former favours while he lived amongst you this last of giving order and leave to adorn your Chappel with any Monument for him you need be at no more cost then to inscribe on a plain Stone the name of BISHOP BROUNRIG This will make that Stone Marble enough and your Chappel a Mausoleum Naz. Orat. 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 VIII Mr THO. GATAKER Out of the Narrative annexed to his Funeral Sermon 1. HE was a branch of an antient Family so firmly by Gods providence planted in Shropshire that the stock hath continued in the same House carrying the name of its owner and known by the title of Gatacre-hall by an uninterrupted succession from the time of K. Edward the Confessor 2. His Father was houshold Chaplain to
depart away with admiration of his skill Additions out of Mr. Priors Sermon at his Funeral 12. His merit in the new Translation of the Bible preferred him to this place of Government in the Church For with Basilius Magnus Non ex majoribus sed ex propria virtute nobilitatem duxit He ennobled himself with his own worth and virtue 13. Two singular ornaments crowned him which seldom meet in one man Learning and Humility On a time and many such I could tell you a poor Minister sending in to speak with him abruptly he brake off a most serious discourse saying But the Minister must not stay lest we should seem to take state upon us Therein imitating the great Athanasius being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nazianz. 14. When in his sickness one hoped for his recovery he gave the answer that St. Ambrose gave to the Nobles of Milain that desired him to pray for life Non ita inter vos vixi ut pudeat ms vivere nec timeo mori quoniam dominum bonuns habemus 15. Not many hours before his departure for non obiit sed abiit I found him as me seemed victorious upon some conflict Quis sarctorum sine certamine coronatur I drew near his bed he reached for my hand and greezed it saying I know whom I have believed and I am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day This occasioned something about relyance on God by Faith Yea said he I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living And again The mercies of the Lord are from generation to generation on them that fear him Mercy brought in thoughts of Christ Oh saith he in the words of that holy Martyr none but Christ none but Christ Being told how pretiously the Lord esteemeth the death of such He replyed Right dear right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Some prayers made for him upon his desire at conclusion he said Amen I thank God Amen enough Amen I thank God 16. When he was leaving this life he looked on his daughter and on the rest of his children in the chamber present and said Christ bless you all And like that old Patriarch he moved himself upon the bed and cried Christ Jesus help and so Christ took him and conclamatum est â—is soul is now at rest his Name is among the Worthies of our Church His Motto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ob. A. S. 1624. aet supra 70. FINIS A Letter To fill up this void leaf or rather to promote conformity which is partly the designe of these Memorials I take leave to translate hither out of the Oxford-book very worthy to be Reprinted A Letter of the Vice-Chancellour and others the Heads of the Vniversity of Cambridge to the Vice-Chancellour and others of the Vniversity of Oxford Octob. 7. 1603. E Latino WHen neâ—ly and indeed very late there came unto us a report of the Petition for Reformation forsooth of the Church of England offered to his Majestie as is pretended by a thousand Ministers though we found in it nothing new and what hath been answered heretofore a thousand times Yet because they boast of their number that these Millenaries may know if Saul hath his thousand David in this cause will never want his ten thousand we were desirous notwithstanding the work was altogether unworthy of it to provide an answer Whilst we were meditating thereof there is brought unto our hands that most Elegant answer of the Vniuersity of Oxford being a most rational and brief confutation of all that had by those men so laboriously been framed and feigned upon sight whereof nothing seemed to remain for us whom in this best of causes the zeal and industry of our Brethren easily able to refute such Adversaries had prevented but this to add unto the weight of their Arguments because those men glory most in their multitudes the number of our Suffrages This we did formerly as it were divining both foresee and provide for For when after the death of our Excellent Queen Elizabeth alwaies the same and most constant a singular and incomparable example in a woman in this best of causes those men did not so much deplore the loss of a most Religious Princess and the case of Religion it self if not dying with her yet at least in very great hazard as meditate and every day attempt Innovations against the new Kings approach Our Vniversity very opportunely judged her aid to be needful and a decree to be made in a full and solemn Convocation That whosoever shall in the Vniversity of Cambridge publickly oppose in word or writing or any other way the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England or any part thereof by Law established He shall be excluded from taking any degree and be suspended ipso facto from the degree he hath taken Which decree even by Unanimous consent of the whole House voted and recorded publickly Jun. 9. 1603. we do now desire to publish to the whole World that all may be assured what is the judgment not of some Opiniasters in their corners and Conventicles but of allmost all the Cantabrigians in open senate concerning that Discipline which we have not forced on us but freely received and entertained Whose consent so fraternally and sweetly concurring with the Oxford-answer with Scripture Fathers and Councils with the decrees of our Princes our Laws and Parliaments Away with those thousand Ministers let them go and answer at thousand Books of ours already written and set forth for their satisfaction before they do so impudently obtrude their Crambe so often boiled upon so wise a King and so excellently learned Or if they would have Suffrages rather to be numbred then weighed let the poor Fellows forsaken of the Universities and Muses bethink themselves of how little account what nothings they are Thus we take our leave of our most dear Brehren in Christ and as we and our Vniversity beng united to you both by similitude of studies and manners are most fitmly Yours So we intreat you alwaies to continue your love to Us. Camb. Oct. 7. 1603.