and the Lord hath taken away Blessed be the name of the Lord Which he repeated three times over before the company he was in and presently retired himself to his prayers 2. His Hospitality He entertained the King and his Court and at least the Officers of his Army all at one time in the first expedition toward Scotland which cost him in that place of great cheapnesse above 1500l in one day There seldome came any Scholar to him whether Forein or English whom he did not liberally entertain and dismisse with a considerable sum of mony 3. His Beneficence He built a Free School at Bishop Aukland and endowed it with 24l per au which is more by so much than ever he purchased to himself for that was just nothing He gave many excellent books to the Colledge where he had his Education to the value of 4 or 500l with an intention at last to bestow 100l per an during his life had not the times disabled him to buy books of special worth and not for superfluity 4. His Almsgiving While he was sufferd to enjoy his estate he had his Beadsmen in Livery at a constant Table besides what he gave away at his Gate and upon other occasions Nay so constant was he in this duty even then when he had hardly so much left as to afford bread for his own mouth that he had alwaies a certain number of poor impotent persons in a constant pension that came weekly to him for their allowance when he was not able himself to go among them to give it and this will be abundantly testified by the poor in all places where of late he hath lived 5. His Devotion He would often forgo ot at least much moderate his one meal a day often deny himself some part of that pittance of time allowed for sleep to rise out of his bed and to spend in prayer as the Attendants in his Chamber witnesse See the rest in the reverend Author of his Life and of his Funeral Sermon Ex Epitaphio Nullo non dignus Elogio Eo vero dignior quod nullo se dignum aestimaverit Ob. Crastino S. Mat. Sepult Festo S. Mich. Anno Salut 1659. Aetat 95. Episc 44. The Effigies of Mr George Herbert Author of those Sacred Poems called The Temple IV. M. GEORGE HEREBRT Vide Vol. 1. Out of his Life before his REMAINS D. Richardo Cooper Rect. de Weston 1. MR George Herbert was extracted out of a Generous Noble and Antient Family His Father was Richard Herbert of Blachehall in Montgomery Esq descended from the great Sr Richard Herbert in Edward the IV's time and so his Relation to the Noble Family of that Name well knoâ—n His Mother was daughter of Sr Richard Newport of Arcoll who doubtlesse was a pious daughter she was so good and godly a Mother She had ten children Job's number and Job's distinction seven sons For whose Education she went and dwelt in the Vniversitie to recompence the losse of their Father in giving them two Mothers And this great care of hers this good Son of hers studyed to improve and requite as is seen in those many Latin and Greek Verses the Obsequious Parentalia he made and printed in her Memorie Which though they be good very good yet to speak freely of this man I so much honour they be dull or dead in comparison of his Tempâ—e Poems And no marvel To write those he made his Ink with water of Helicon but these Inspirations Prophetical were distilled from above In those are weak Notions of Nature in these raptures of Grace In those he writ flesh and blood a frail earthly woman though a Mother but in these he praised his Heavenly Father 2. He did thrive so well in Cambridge in Trinitie Coll that he was first chosen Fellow there and afterwards Orator of the University The Memorials of him left in the Orators book shew how he discharged the place and himself intimates Church p. 39. That whereas his Birth and Spirit prompted him to Martial Atchievements The way that takes the Town and not to sit simpering over a Book God did often melt his spirit and entice him with Academick honour to be content to wear and wrap up himself in a Gown so long till he durst not put it off nor retire to any other Calling However probably he might I have heard as other Orators have had a Secretary of States place being one of the most prudent and accomplisht men of his time I have heard sober men censure him as a man that did not manage his brave parts to his best advantage and preferment but lost himself in an humble way That was the phrase I well remember it 3. This good man like a good genuine son of Levi I had like to have said Melchizedek balked all secular waies saw neither Father nor Mother Child nor Brother birth nor friends save in Christ Iesus chose the Lord for his Portion and his service for imployment And he knew full well what he did when he received holy Orders as appears by every page of his Country Parson and by the Poems called Priesthood and Aaron and by his unparallel'd Vigilancy which he used ever in his Parish which made him a Peer to the Primitive Saints and more than a Pattern to his own age 4. Besides his Parsonage of Bemmerton in Wiltshire he had also a Prebend in the Church of Lincoln Which I think because he lived far from and so could not attend the duty of that place he would fain have resigned to Mr Ferrer and often earnestly sued to him to discharge him of it But Mr Ferrer wholly refused and diverted or directed his charity as I take it to the reedefying of the ruin'd Church of Leighton where the Corps of the Prebend lay So that the Church of England owes to him besides what good may come by his book of the Country Parson towards the repair of us Churchmen in point of Morals the Reparation of a Church material and erection of that costly peece of Mosaic or Solomonic work The Temple which florishes and stands inviolate when our other Magnificences are desolate and despised 5. He was of a singular sincerity in embracing and transcendent dexterity in defending the Protestant Religion established in the Church of England He that reads Mr Herbert's Poems attendingly shall find not only the excellencies of Scripture-Divinity and choice Passages of the Fathers bound up in Meeter but the Doctrine of Rome also finely and strongly confuted as in the Poems To Saints and Angels p. 69. The British Church 102. Church militant c. 6. As for our Brethren that erred on the right hand his chief aim was to win those that disliked our Liturgie Catechism c by the constant reverent and holy use of them Which surely had we all imitated having first imprinted the virtue of these prayers in our own hearts and then studied with passionate and affectionate celebration for voice gesture c. as
and since republished by our late Gracious Soverain K. Charles 1. The good Bishop to maintain his hospitality in that place where good house-keeping is so much valued and practised had the Rectorie of Stopford in Commendam bestowed on him by the King where his name and memory is still pretious 18. An. 1618. Mar. 6. At the moâ—ion of that great pattern of Episcopal perfection Dr Andrewes above mentioned then Bishop of Eli who was never known to do the like for any other and yet did this without his seeking or knowledge that he might have him his nearer neighbour as he said and of the same Province with himself He was translated to the â—ee of Coventry and Lichfield void by the Translation of his old friend Bishop Overal to Norwich And here his trouble was not so great as at Chester though his Diocess was longer because the common sort of people for the most part were better principled by the care and vigilance of his Predecessor But yet he abated nothing of his former pains and industry both in Writing Preaching and conferring with those thâ—t were not wilfully obstinate besides his ordinary Visiting his Diocess and Confirming such children as could give an Account of their Faith 19. Among the works of Charitie performed by this Bishop while he was of that See memorable is the Education he bestowed upon one George Canner who like another Didymus of Alexandria or Fisher of Wewminster was born blind This youth he brought up first at School and afterwards sent him to Cambrigde where he maintained him and his Unkle to look to him in S. John's Coll. After he had taken the Degree of Bachelor of Arts he sent for him into his oâ—n Family and there instructed him in the whole Body of Divinitie then admitted him into sacred Orders placed him in a Cure in Stâ—ffâ—rdshire Which Cure the blind man discharged diligently and laudably being a very good preacher and able also to perform the whole Office of the Church as it is prescribed in the Book of Common prayer only by the strength of his admirable Memory 20. Memorable also is that passage of the Boy of Bilson near Woolverhampton who being wrought upon by some Romish Priests counterfeited himself to be possessed with a Divel But the Divel having steeled his heart as his own phrase was after his confession he continued Demoniac longer than was intended and accused a neighboring woman of the Romish Communion for bewitching him so cunningly prosecuting the charge as the woman hardly escaped The Bishop suspecting the Boy did but counterfeit got leave of the Judges to have the Boy home with him where by his wisdom and great pains he discovered the imposture and afterwards upon the Boyes Confession and Repentance bound him out an Apprentice to a Shomaker in Bristol 21. An. 1632. He was translated to the See of Duresm void by the death of Bishop Howson a place of greater trust and honour as well as of greater emolument For besides the Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Affairs as before he had now the care and management of all the tumporal Affairs within the County Palatine of Duresm by virtue of the Palatinate which for many hundreds of years hath been annexed to the Episcopal See in so much as it passed for a Maxim there Quicquid potest Rex extra Episcopatum potest Episcopus intra And yet in the same he carried himself with so much justice and equity for ten years together before these late Troubles put a disturbance in the exercise of his Government that no complaint was ever made against him to the Parliament except only the case of Mr Smart which yet had no relation to the County Palatine neither could the charge be made good against him 22. Some Rules which he set unto his Government were these First for his Fines at the renewing of Leases he never intermeddled in setting them himself but referred the businesse to four Gentlemen of the neighbourhood to make a moderate composition between him and his Tenants 2. In wreks he took such a small sum of the persons that had suffered them as was not worthy the name of a Composition and that only to preserve the right of his place 3. In Deodans where any man had made himself away though by law the whole estate was confiscated in detestationem criminis yet exceeded he not a fourth part of the estate after the most moderate Valuation And lastly for Wardships he used that tenderness as never any of the Gentry had wrong in their Minority 23. How much greater his Fatherly care was for the Spiritual affairs of the Bishoprick will appear by his pious indeavours in setling competent Augmentations upon the smaller Benefices He had given a good exâ—mple long before whiles he was Bishop of Lichfield in abating a good part of his Fine to increase the portion of the Vicar of Pichley in Northamptonshire And now in a work of so much importance he applied himself for Counsel to three of the most learned in the Laws Lo. Keeper Coventry Mr Noy Sr Henry Martin who all concurred That the Bishops Authoritie over Churches appropriate was neither taken away nor any way infringed but that he may now appoint a competent Augmentation c. See the Author 24. Having thus fully informed himself of his just parts in a matter of so high Concernment for the advancement of Christian Religion and the good of Souls he resolved to put it in practice as fâ—r as God should enable him and trust God with the event He began at home with the Parish of Bâ—shop-Aukâ—and Here he augmented the sâ—ipend of the Mother-Church from sixteen pounds per an to fourscore and the Chapels belonging to it from about six pounds per an to thirty intending to extend the like Episcopal care in some proportion over all the rest of his Diocess But so pious heroical a work became abortive by the Scotch Invasion c. 25. We are come now to the precipice of this Reverend Bishop's outward splendor though neither his Glory nor Happinesse incurred the least diminution by his future suffrings For he was never more happy in his own thoughts nor more glorious in the eyes of all good men then in being exercised in those troubles whereof the continual series of publick affairs afforded him a perpetual oportunity from this time till his death 26. In one of the tumults after the beginning of the long Parliament this Reverend Bishop was in extreme hazard of his life by the multitude that were beckned thither by the contrivers of our late miseries whereof some cryed Pull him out of his Coach Others Nay he is a good man Others But for all that he is a Bishop And he hath often said He believed he should not have escaped alive if a leading man among that rabble had not cryed out Let him go and hang himself Upon this and the like violations of the liberty and freedom essential to all the Members of Parliament
the Thames Being asked what those three things were he answered 1. That where most part of Chriistian Princes be now at mortal war they were at an universal peace 2. That where the Church of Christ is at this time sore afflicted with many errors and heresies it were settled in a perfect uniformitie of Religion 3. That whereas the Kings marriage is now brought in question it were to the glorie of God and quietness of all parties well concluded 10. When he observed any of his to spend much time in dressing themselves to be fine in their Apparel he would tell them That if God gave them not hell he should do them much wrong for they took more pains to please the world and the Divel than many even virtuous men did to clense their souls and please God 11. To his wife and children when at any time they were troubled he would say We may not look at our pleasure to go to heaven in fether-beds that is not the way For our Lord himself went thither through pain and many tribulations and the servant may not look to be in better condition than the master 12. The King sent the Bishop of Durham and Sr Thomas More Embassadors to Cambray a place then neither Imperial nor French to treat of a peace between the Emperor and the French King and Him In the conclusion Sr Thomas so worthily behaved himself procuring in the league far more advantages unto this Kingdom than at that time by the King or his Council was thought possible that for his good service in that employment the King made him Lord Chancellor and caused the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk to bring him through Westminâ—â—er-hall to his place in the Chancery Where the Duke of Norfolk in audience of all the people there assembled shewed that he was from the King himself streitly charged by commission there openly in presence of them all to make Declaration how much all England â—as heholding to Sr Tho. More for his good service â—nd how worthy he was of the highest preferment in the Kingdom and how dearly his Grace loved and trusted him 13. Now upon Sr Tho More 's entrance into this honorable Office every one might perceive a very strange alteration For whereas the precedent Chancellor Wolsey would scarce look or speak to any into whose only presence none could be admitted unlesse his fingers were tipt with gold on the contrary this Chancellor the poorer and meaner the Suppliant was the more affably he would speak unto him the more attentively he would hearken to his cause and with speedy tryal dispatch him For which purpose he used commonly every afternoon to sit in his Hall that if any Person watsoever had any sute unto him they might the more boldly come into his presence and open their complaints before him To shew his integrity he professed If the parties will at my hands call for justice though my Father whom I dearly love stood on the one side and the Divel whom I extremely hate stood on the other his cause being good the Devil should have right 14. The Bishops considering his learned works in defence of religion and knowing that for all his Princes favour he was no rich man nor advanced in yearly revenues as his worthinesse deserved agreed together in Convocation and concluded upon a sum of four or five thousand pounds to recompence him for his pains Tâ—nstal and some other Bishops repaired to him and declared That albeit they could not according to his deserts so worthily requite him as they gladly would but must refer that only to the goodness of God yet for a small part of recompence in respect of his estate so unequal to his worthinesse in the name of their whole Convocation they presented to him that sum which they desired him to accept of To whom he answered That like as it was no small comfort to him that so wise and learned men so well accepted o his doings for which he never intended to receive reward but at the hands of God only to whom alone was the thanks thereof chiefly to be ascribed so also he most humbly thanked the Honors for their bountiful consideration But for all their importunity they could not fasten it upon him nor would he suffer them to bestow it upon his wife and children 15. He behaved himself in his office of the Chancellorship for the space of two years and a half so wisely that none could mend his doings so uprightly that none could take exception against him so dextrously that t is to be supposed never any man before or since did that which hâ— did For he had taken such order for the dispatching of all mens causes that on a time sitting as Judge there and having finished one cause calling for the next to be heard answer was made That there was not one cause more depending This he caused to be set down upon Record 16. After he had obtained of the King a discharge from his office he fell into his Majesties displeasure about â—he Marriage And then was he accused for receiving a bribe from one Vaughans wife The matter being laid to his charge before the Council he confessed that a gilt Cup being long after a certain Decree brought him for a â—â—w years gift and pressed on him in courtesie he received it Whereupon his Adversary with much joy said Lo my Lords did I not tell yâ—u that you should find the matter true Sr Thomas desiring their Lordships to hear him out It is true said he I did being much urged receive that Cup but immediately caused my Butler to fill it with wine drank to the Gentle â—oman and freelie gave it to her again to be presented to her husband as a New years gift for him This being testified presently upon oath of the party her self and others the mountain was delivered of a Mouse 17. After the King's indignation against Sir Thomas More the Duke of Norfolk and He chanced to fall in discourse and amongst other talk the Duke said unto him By the Masse Mr More it is perillous striving with Princes and therefore I would wish you somewhat to incline to the Kings pleasure For Indignatio Principis mors est Is that all my Lord said Sir Thomas Then in good faith is there no more difference betwixt your Grace and me but that I shall dye to day and you to morrow 18. When he was sent unto the Tower for not swearing to the Oath of Supreâ—acy and Succession at his entrance there the Porter demanded of him his upper garment Mr Porter said he here it is and took off his Cap and gâ—ve it him I am sorrie it is no better for thee No Sir said the Porter I must have your Gown which he gave him 19. The Lieutenant coming into his chamber to visit him professed himself obliged by former favours to enteâ—tâ—in him nobly which since he could not do for fear of the Kings displeasure he prayed him to
interest of all his Friends to procure it By which means and quitting the King of his promised reversionary Offices and by a piece of honest policy he got a grant of it from his Majestie 20. And this was a fair settlement to his mind but money was wanting to furnish him with those necessaries which attend removes and a settlement in such a place To procure that he wrote to his old friend Mr Nicholas Pey in whom was a radicated honestie and true gratitude to the Family having been preferd at Coâ—rt by the Lord Wotton to use all his interest to procure five hundred pounds of his Arrears for lesse would not settle him at the College and the want of it wrinkled his face with cares 't was his own expression and that being procur'd he should the next day after find him in his College and Invidiae remedium writ over his study door 21. This mony being procured and he being settled according to the desires of his heart the College being to his mind as a quiet harbour to a Seafaring man after a tempestious voyage his first study was the Statutes of the College by which he conceiv'd himself bound to enter into Holy Orders which he did being made Deacon with convenient speed Shortly after as he came in his Surplice from the Church-service an old friend a person of quality met him so attired and joyed him to whom Sir H. Wotton replyed I thank God and the King by whose goodnesse I now â—m in this condition a condition which the Emperour Charles the fifth seemed to approve c. I dayly magnifie my God for this particular mercie of an exemption from businesse a quiet mind and a liberal maintenance even in this part of my life when my Age and infirmities seem to sound me a retreat from the pleasures of this world and invite me to contemplation in which I have ever taken the greatest felicitie 21. After his customary publick Devotions his use was to retire into his Study and there to spend some hours in reading the Bible and Authoâ—s in Divinity closing up his Meditations with private prayer This was for the most part his employment in the forenoon But when he was once sate at Dinner then nothing but cheerful thoughts possess'd his mind and those still encreased by constant companie at his Table such persons as brought thither additions both of learning and pleasure But some part of most daies was usually spent in Philosophical conclusions Nor did he forget his innate pleasure of Angling which he did usually call his idle time not idly spent saying He would rather live five May-months than fortie Decembers He was a great lover of his neighbors and a bountiful entertainer of them very often at his Table where his meat was choice and his discourse better 22. He was a constant cherisher of all those Youths in that School in whom he found etiher a constant diligence or a genius that prompted them to learning For whose encouragement he was beside many other things of necessity and bounty at the charge of setting up in it two rows of Pillars on which he caused to be drawn the pictures of divers of the most famous Greek and Latin Historians Poets and Orators persivading them not to neglect Rhetorick Because Almightie God has left mankind Affections to be wrought upon And he would often say That none despised Eloquence but such dull Souls as were not capable of it He would also often make choice of Observations out of those Historians and Poets but he would never leave the School without dropping some choice Greek or Latin Apothegm or Sentence such as were worthy of a room in the memory of a growing Scholar He was pleased constantly to breed up one or more hopely Youths which he picked out of the School and took into his own domestick care and to attend him at his meals Out of whose behaviour and discourse he gathered observations for the better compleating of his intended work of Education of which by his still striving to make the whole better he lived to leave but part of posterity 23. He was a great enemy to wrangling Disputes of Religion Having in Rome made acquaintance with a pleasant Priest who invited him one evening to hear their Vesper musick at Church the Priest seeing Sir Henrie stand obscurely in a corner sends to him by a boy of the Quire this question writ in a small piece of paper Where was your Religion to be found before Luther To which question Sir Henrie presently underwrit My religion was to be found then where yours is not to be found now in the written word of God To another that asked him Whether a Papist may be saved he replyed You may be saved without knowing that look to your self To another whose earnestnesse exceeded his knowledge and was still railing against the Papists he gave this advice Pray Sir forbear till you have studied the points better for the wise Italians have this Proverb He that understands amisse concludes worse And take heed of thinking the farther you go from the Church of Rome the nearer you are to God 24. And to another that spake indiscreet and bitter words against Arminius I heard him reply to this purpose In my travels I rested almost a year at Leyden where I entred into an acquaintance with Arminius then Professor of Divinitie in that Vniversitie a man much talkt off in this Age which is made up of opposition and contrariety And indeed if I mistake not Arminius in bis expressions as so weak a brain as mine is may easily do then I know and differ from him in some points Yet I professe my judgment of him to be that he was a man of most rare learning and I know him to be of a most strict life and of a most meek spirit And doubtlesse many middle witted men which yet may mean well many Scholars that are not in the highest Form for learning which yet may preach well do justly fall under the reproof of S. Jude for being busie-bodies and for medling with things they understand not 25. This is some Account both of his Inclination and the Imployment of his time in the College where he seemed to have his Youth renewed by a continual conversation with that learned Societie and a dayly recourse of other friends of choicest breeding and parts by which that great blessing of a cheerful heart was still maintained he being alwaies free even to the last of his daies from that peevishnesse which usually attends age Yet his mirth was sometimes dampt by the remembrance of divers old debts and finding some decaies of health he did about two years before his death that none should be a looser by it make his last Will. Concerning which a doubt still remains whether it discovered more holy wit or conscionable policie but there is no doubt but that his chief design was a Christian endeavour that his debts might be satisfied as appeareth by
this part of it To my Lords Grace of Cant now being I leave my picture of divine love rarely copied from one in the Kings Galleries of my presentation to his Majestie beseeching him to recieve it as a pledge of my humble reverence to his great wisdom And to the most worthy L. B. of London Lord high Treasurer of England in true admiration of his Christian simplicitie and contempt of earthly pomp I leave a Picture of Heraclitus bewailing and Democritus laughing at the world most humbly beseeching the said Lo. Archb. his Grace and the Lo. B. of London of both whose favours I have rasted in my life time to intercede with our most Gracious Soveraign after my death in the bowels of Jesus Christ that out of compassionate memory of my long services wherein I more studyed the publick Honour than mine own Utility some order may be taken out of my Arrears due in the Exchequer for satisfection of my Creditors c. Accordingly conscionable satisfaction was given for his just debts 26. He went usually once a year if not oftner to the beloved Bocton-hall where he would say he found both cure for all cares by the company which he called the living furniture of that place and a restorative of his health by the connaturalnesse of that which he called his genial air He yearly went also to Oxford but the Summer before his death he changed that for a jorney to Wâ—nchester College And as he returned said to his companion How useful was that advice of a holy Monk who perswaded his friend to perform his customarie devotions in a constant place because in that place we usually meet with those thoughts which possessed us at our last being there And I find it thus far experimentally true that at my now being at that School seeing that verie place where I sate when I was a boy occasioned me to remember those thoughts of my Youth which then possessed me c. 27. After his return from Winchester he fell into a dangerous fever which weakned him much â—e was then also much troubled with a continual short spitting but that infirmity he seemed to overcome in a good degree by leaving Tobacco which he had taken somewhat immoderately And about two months before his death Oct. 1639. he again fell into a fever which though â—e seemed to recover yet these still left him so weak that those common infirmities which were wont like civil friends to visit him and after some short time to depart came both oftner and at last took up their constant habitations with him still weakning his body In the beginning of a December following he fell again into a Quartane fever and in the tenth fit his better part that part of Sir Henrie Wotton which could not dy put off mortality with as much content and cheerfulnesse as humane frailty is capable of being in perfect peace with God and man His Epitaph by himself Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus Author Disputandi pruritus â—cclesiarum scabies Nomen alià s quaere Another sentence wherein he delighted Animas fieri sapientiores quiescendo Another Amor unit omnia Ob. Etonae Anno Sal. 1639. Aetat 72. VIII Mr WILLIAM BEDEL Bishop of Kilmore Out of Mr Iz Walton and Bish Hall D. Thomae Carles Rect. de Barnesley 1. WHen King James sent Sr Henrie Wotton Embassador to the State of Venice he sent also an Embassador to the King of France and another to the King of Spain With the Embassador of France went Joseph Hall late B. of N. whose many and useful Works speak his great merit with the Embassador of Spain Ja. Wadsworth and with Sir Henrie Wotton William Bedel 2. These three Chaplains to these three Embassdors were all bred in one Vniversitie all of one College all Beneficed in one Diocese and all most dear and entire friends But in Spain Mr Wadsworth met with temptations or reasons such as were so powerful as to perswade him who of the three was formerly observed to be the most averse to that Religion that calls it self Catholick to disdain himself a Member of the Church of England and declare himself for the Church of Rome discharging himself of his Attendance on the Embassador and betaking himself to a Monasterial life in which he lived very regularly and so dyed 3. When Mr Hall came into England he wrote to Mr Wadsworth t is the first Epistle in his Decads to perswade his return or the reason of his Apostacie The Letter seemed to have many expressions of love and yet there was something in it that was so unpleasant to Mr Wadsworth that he chose rather to acquaint his old friend Mr Bedel with his Motives 4. By which means there past between Mr Bedel and Mr Wadsworth very many Letters which be extant in print and did well deserve it for in them there seems to be a controversie not of Religion only but who should answer each other with most love and meeknesse Which I mention the rather because it seldome falls out so in a Book-war 5. Mr Hall in an Epistle to Mr Bedel at Venice having lamented the death of our late Divines addeth What should this work in us but an imitation yea that word is not too big for you an emulation of their worthinesse The Church our Mother looks for much at your hands She knows how rich our common Father hath left you She notes your graces your oportunities your imployments She thinks you are gone so far like a good Merchant for no small gain and looks you shall come home well laded Let me perswade you to gratifie us at home with the publication of that your exquisite Polemical Discourse whereto our conference with Mr Alablaster gave so happy an occasion You shall hereby clear many truths and satisfie all Readers yea I doubt not but an Adversarie not too perverse shall acknowledge the truths victory and Yours 6. In a Letter of Sir Henrie Wotton's to the King is mentioned a Petition to his Majestie from persons directed hither by the good wishes of the Arch-bishop of Armagh to make Mr Bedel then Resident upon a small Penefice in Suffolk Governour of Dublin College for the good of that Society And Sir Henrie himself being required to render some testimonie of Mr Bedel long his Chaplain at Venice in the time of his first employment there goeth on thus I am bound in all conscience of truth so far as your Majestie will vouchsafe to accept my pâ—ot Judgment to affirm of him that I think hardly a fitter man for that charge could have been propounded unto your Majestie in your whole Kingdom for singular erudition and pietie conformitie to the Rites of the Church and zeal to advance the Cause of God wherein his Travels abroad were not obscure in the time of the excommunication of the Venetians 7. Then he certifies the King This is the Man whom Padre Paulo took I may say into his very soul with whom he did communicate
the inwardest thoughts of his heart from whom he professed to have received more knowledge in all Divinitie both Scholastical and Positive than from any that he had ever practised in his daies Of which all the passages were well known to the King your Father of most blessed Memory 8. And so he concludes in these words With your Majesties good favour I end this needlesse office for the general fame of his learning his life and Christian temper and those religious labours which himself hath Dedicated to your Majestie do better describe him then I am able 9. Mr Bedel was to the great joy of Sir Henrie Wotton made Governor of the said Colledg and after a fair discharge of his duty and trust there he was thence removed to be Bishop of Kilmore In both which places his life was so holy as seemed to equal the primitive Christians for as they so he kept all the Ember-weeks observed besides his private devotions the Canonical hours of prayer very strictly and so he did all the Feasts and Fast-daies of his Mother the Church of England his patience and charitie were both such as shewed his affections were set upon things above 10 Indeed his whole life brought forth the fruits of the Spirit there being in him such a remarkablenesse that he had a good report of those thâ—â—â—â—re withouâ— Those that in point of Religion were of the Roman perswasion of which there were many in his Diocese did yet ever look upon him with respect and reverence and testified it by a concealing and safe protecting him in the late horrid Rebellion in Ireland when the furie of the wild Irish knew no distinction of persons yet there and then was he protected and cherished by those of a contrarie perswasion and there and then he dyed though not by violence 11. With him were lost many of his learned Writings which were worthy of preservation and among the rest was lost the Bible which by many years labour and conference and study he had translated into the Irish Tongue with an intent to have printed it for publick use DE DOMINIS facies hcec est quem Roma cremavâ—â— Cur ais Ausonium liquerat ille Iovem IX M. ANT. de DOMINIS Dean of Windsor Out of Dr Barwick D. Roberto Glyn Rect. de Risington p. 1. ABout the year 1618. there came over into England that very learned thoâ—gh unfortunate man Marcus Antonius de Dominis Arch-bishop of Spalato Primate of Dalmatia c. Which as he was wont to glory was St Hieroms Native Country as well as his 2. This great Scholar after he had so profoundly asserted the truth of Christian Religion as it is professed and practised in the Church of England in so many particulars against the errors and Corruptions of the See of Rome in his Learned and laborious books De Republica Ecclesiastica and had also from the Kings bounty received so great incouragements for his honorable supports as the Deanry of Windsour and Mastership of the Saâ—oy besides many rich and yearly presents not only from the Bishops and Clergy but also from the Nobilitie and Gentrie Was so far wrought upon by that Polititian Couâ—t Gondamar the Spanish Embassador then in England and other instruments of the See of Rome that sought his ruin under some specious pretences as to take up a resolution of returning to Rome and could not be disswaded from it by his true friends that really endeavoured hiâ— security Among whom Bishop Morton was neither the least nor last who very earnestly advised him both by word and writing not to venture himself upon such a hopelesse and hassardous journy 3. The Arch-bishops pretence was very plausible and commenâ—able and how real he was in it must be left to God namely to negotiate an unitie in Religion between the Church of Rome and the Church of England upon those moderate grounds which he had laid down and so well defended in his learned and laborious Works printed here at London He appâ—uded himself in the excellency of the work in removing the Schism and of the honour in becoming a Repairer of the breach and of the reward which is promised to the peace makers And he thought himself the more likely to go through with his work by reason of the seasonable opportuaitie he had at that time when Gregorie the fifteenth was newly chosen Pope who had been of his old and intimate acquaintance brought up in the same School and College with him And however he was resolved to make an attempt because if he failed in it he hoped he should lose nothing but his labour for as for his Indemnitie Count Gondamar had promised him the securitie of the King of Spain his Master But how well that promise was perform'd will appear by the Sequel 4. While he was swelled up full with this promise and these hopes Dr Morton the Bishop of Lichfield and Coâ—â—ntrie coming to visit him had this ensuing discourse with him among many others which I have often heard him repeat with pleasure and shall therefore insert it and the rather because it shews us of how little authority the Council of Trent would be if it were not foâ— the terrour of the inquisition Leichf Domine quid tibi in animo est Anne convertere Papam Atque etiam conclave papale Spal Quid ni domine Anne existimas eos diabo oâ— esse ut non possint converti Leiâ—hf Minime Domine nec puto dominum Spalatensum deum esse ut hoc possit praestare Nostin enim concilium â—ridientinum Spal Novi domine ausus sum tibi dicere Millies Mille sunt etiam in Italia qui huic concilio fidem nullam adhibeant 5. This discourse â—nd many other having passed between them they parted friendly And not long after did this Bishop reinforce his arguments with an addition of many more in a long and learned Epistle to him Wherein among other Motives to dissâ—ade him from his â—ourny he used one wherein he shewed himself a true Prophet concerning the entertainment he was like to have at Rome Which proved to be that before he gâ—t to Rome Pope Gregorie the fifteenth his old friend was dead and a successor chosen in his plâ—ce by whom this Arch-bishop was imprisoned in Castro St Angelo Where he died not without strong suspition of murder or poyson And his body was afterward burnt as of an Heretick in Campo Flori. 6. I could here start a problematical question concerning this learned Arch bishop Whether or no did he ever retract his works which he pulished in print If he did why did they at Rome buâ—n his body for Heresie If not then they abused him in his life time as well as after his deâ—th in the manifesto whiâ—h they put forth in his nâ—me which wâ—s so learnedly answered by Dr Crakanthrop There is but one way of avoiding this Diâ—emma and that will bring them into a greateâ— strait than either of the other namely That