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A26728	Hieronikēs, or, The fight, victory, and triumph of S. Paul accommodated to the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas, late L. Bishop of Duresme, in a sermon preached at his funeral, in the parish church of St. Peter at Easton-Manduit in Northampton-shire, on Michaelmas-day, 1659 : together with the life of the said Bishop / by John Barwick ...	Barwick, John, 1612-1664.	1660 (1660)	Wing B1008; ESTC R16054	101,636	192

28 30. St. Greg. prolog in lib. 40 Homil. in Evangel quarundam quidem dictata expositio assistentiplebi est per Notarium recitata quarundam vero explanationem coram populo ipse locutus sum Idem Hom. 21. in princip Multis vobis lectionibus per dictatum loqui consuevi sed quia lassescente stomacho ea quae dictaveram legere ipse non possum c. (a) Febr. 26. 1658. (b) The first clause in his Will after the commending of his soul to God and his body to the Earth is Nedel I will that this profession of my Faith Approbation of the Discipline of the Church of Christ by Bishops and Vindication of my own innocency hereunto annexed be esteemed and accounted part of this my last Will and Testament (c) Tho. B●rwell Tho. King and Rob. Gray (a) Antiqua quaedam observantia imo Apostolica traditio in Ecclessis diu obtinuit c. Concil Nicen. 2. Act. 3. Bin. Tom. 3. p. 318. (b) Hoc enim praestitit St. Greg. magnus lib. 1. Ep. 24. idquesecundum priscum praedecessorum suorū morem teste Johanne Diacono in vita ejus l. 2. c. 3. Quid enim facit exceptâ ordinatione Episcopus quod Presbyter non facit S. Hieron Ep. ad Euagr. Heb. 11 4. Jud. 16 30. S. Luke 9.56 Psal 116 15. Psal 106 16. Can. 29. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See the Sermon at his Funerall Confes Aug. Cap. ult de potest Eccl. Non petunt Ecclesiae ut Episcopi honoris sui jacturâ sarciant concordiam tantum petunt ut injusta onera remittant quae nova sunt praeter consuetudinem Ecclesiae Catholicae recepta Io. Budden vit Io. Mort. Archiep. Cant. pag. 50. Thomam Mortonum Et Johanem Mortonum duos ex fratribus filios Scripsit haredes Hincmar in Vit. S. Remigii Vt primum disciplinarum capax factus est Non modo natu majores ingenii felicitate discendique ardore sed morum maturitate singulari Excelluit Epist ad dict Col. dat Ian. 30 1634. in Regist Epist p. 336. Quod olim antistes literarum divinus ille Whittakerus Non collegium sed propter omnium in eo Artium infignem Mercaturam Academium ipsam indigitabat Regist Coll. Regist Academ Regist Coll. Regist Fundat dict Col. Regist Academ Psal 141 6. Mr. Brown Mr. Barlow Mr. Hurward and others Hincmar in vit S. Remig. Ad pontificii culmen non tam electus quam violentur raptus fuit Bed Hist gent. Anglor lib. Episcopatum suscipere fuit coactus Lib. 7. ad An. 1616. In a book written on this subject by Mr. Rich. Baddleley this Bishops Secretary see also Mr. Wilson in his narrative of the life of K. James pag. 170. Mr. Stephens pref to S. Hen. Spelmans larger work of Tithes * In his larger works of Tithes chap. 29. p. 161. p. 153. Plowd f. 500. p. 152. p. 153. p. 157. * Well and sufficiently endowed 15. R. 2. c. 6. p. 161. p. 154. p. 158. Acts 19.31 1 King 21. Chap. 2. Sect. 3. p. 9. Sect. 28. p 36 27. S. Jude ver 9. 1 S Pet. 2 23. S Mat. 5.44 1 King 17.6 Psalm 114.8 Antiq. Brit. in vit Jo. Morton Caeteris suis necessariis admodum parce legavit quia ejus liberalitaetem in vivis uberrime senserant * Triginta aureos * See above in the Funeral Sermon Annis jam triginta duobus praeter fluxis à quo c. Replic init vid sup Sect. 3 Joh. 1.39 Dated Jan 29. 1654 In vit S. Aug. Sermon at his Funeral Orat. de S. Athanas Act. 25.15 a 1 Tim. ● 2 b Tit. 1.6 c 1 S. Jo. 1.10 d Aquin. in Loc. e S. Aug. lib. cont duas Ep. Pelagianor Multi sine crimine sunt fine querela vivunt sed nemo sine p●ccato f 1 Tim. 3.7 See above Chap. 1. sect 84. * See the Funeral Serm. p. 30 31. Arist Eth. l. 6. c. 13. Psal 45.14 S. Greg. Nazianz Apologet 1. Plutar. lib. de Doctrinâ prin cipum Act. 20 28. Tit. 2.7 a St. Bernard lib. 4. de consid ad Eugen. in fine Oppertet to esse forma● justitiae Sanctimoniae speculum pietatis exemplar b S. Chrys Hom. 3. in Act. Apost c S. Greg. Naz. Apologet 1. 1 Tim. 3.3 Lib. 1. cont Pelagian Job 1.21 1 Sam. 4.18 Diog. Laer. in vit ejus 1 Pet. 4.9 Rom. 12.13 Heb. 13.2 1 Tim. 3.2 Tit. 1.8 S. Hieron epist ad Ocean Laicus unum aut duos aut paucos recipiens implebit Hospitalitatis officium Episcopus nisi omnes recipiat inhumanus est * Chap. 1. sect 62. Regist Epistolar dicti Collegii p. 371. * Ibid. pag. 351. qui ita annuus in teipsum redis ita 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beneficia repetis ac si novissima quaequc munera recentiore fulgore castigares Et pag. 359. Tam frequentia sunt erga nos beneficia vestra tam perpetuis choreis in orbem acta ut ducat ilia gratitudo nostra nec anbela tamen liberalitati tanta responders possit c. * Vide supr pag. 33. a Possid in vita ejus Pauperum prima illi semper cura erat eisque abundè succurrebat b Vita ejus apud Garsium ad diem 14. Sept. In pauperum inopiâ sublevandâ mirè beneficus fuit cum ipse interim tenuissimo victu vitam non tam sustineret quam afflixit c St. Hieron Epist ad Ocean Gloria Episcopi est pauperum opibus providere ignominia Sacerdotis est propriis studere In vitâ Jo. Mortoni pag. 300. Aristot Ethic. lib. 5. c. 10. Supra cap. 1. sect 68. Ser. pag. 32. S. Mat. 23.24 Justin lib. 2. S. Mat. 7.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 chap. 17. Chap. 1. sect 32 33 34 35. S. Greg. Nazianz. Apologet. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Supra p. 43. Dr. Samuel Bolton now one of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary Mr. Lawrence Maydwell Bishop Davenant Edit Cantabr 1650. Registr E stol pag. 343. Supra sect 13. 1 Tim. 2.9 Epist ad Ocean Ornatus vocatur qui decorum servat in motu incessu habitu sermone a Possid in vita S. Aug. c. 16. Vestis ejus aliaque corporis cubiculi ornamenta nec nitida nimium nec abjecta plurimum erant veste honesta nequaquam à vulgari consuetudine temporis illius abhorrente utebatur b S. Greg. Nazianzen Orat. 18. in Laud. S. Cypriani In vestitu philosophiam in Congressibus gravitatem cum humanitate conjunctam pari intervallo à vilitate arrogantia remotam c. a S. Ambr. de dignit Sacerd c. 6. b S. Greg. Hom. 17. in Evangel Ezra 3.10 See also Ezr. 2 69. Polycrat apud Euseb Hist l. 3. c. 31. 1 Tim. 5.23 a S. Hieron Epist ad Ocean Sed quod populo praecepturus est prius à domesticis exigat b Lib. 4. de confid ad Eugen. Interest gloriae sanctitatis tuae ut quos prae oculis habes ita

life for he also was a person of a comely countenance wherein there was such a mixture of sweetness and severity as did very much encourage those that were good and terrifie those that were proud and negligent 43. My intention is not to Hatter his memory and therefore when I go about to compare him with Ancient holy Fathers of the Church I must profess my meaning to be not to make a parallel but only to shew in some few instances how near he attained to their perfection I cannot say as St. Hierome of Hilarion that he laid upon a Mat spread on the ground till his dying day nor that he never put on new cloathes till the old ones were worn to pieces but I may truly say he lay'd upon a straw-bed when he was past S. Hilarions age who lived but about 80. years and he seldome wore a new garment but he gave the old one away And as for the Character given to St. Hierome himself by the Author of his life it will well agree with this Reverend Bishop that he laid hard because he would sleep no more then only to satisfie the necessity of Nature that his cloathes were but course and ordinary and that in his old age I may truly say when he had out-lived St. Hierom many years he remitted nothing of his pains and industry in his studies nor of his alacrity in his prayers insomuch that it was a wonder to see a body that had sustained so much fasting and labour to be so full of vigour and fortitude 44. When I compare him with S. Hierom in point of Age and Vigor I cannot pass by what the same Father hath left recorded of Paulus Concordiensis a person of 100 years old after whose example God and nature had much fitted this Reverend Bishop For his sight was good considering his great years He could walk very well his hearing was quick his voice was clear his body solid and full of moysture the whiteness of his head and ruddiness of his face could hardly be imagined to be in one and the same person I verily believe no Physician in the world would have judged him to be of above half the Age he was if he had only considered the plumpness of his flesh and smoothness of his skin without looking upon the whiteness of his hair 45. I think he hath hardly left his equall behind him of any Bishop in the world for multitude of years either as a Man or as a Bishop And if we look over all Histories we shall not find many precedents if we take them both together Simon the second Bishop of Jerusalem lived I grant till 120 But he fell far short of the years of this reverend person as he was Bishop on the other side St. Athanasius Patriarch of Alexandria and St. Wilfrid Archbishop of York exceeded him the one two years the other one as Bishops but they fell far short of his age as a Man I cannot call to mind any that exceeded him in both except St. Remigius Archbishop of Rhemes whose case I think is singular as being made Bishop in the 22. year of his age and so continuing till the ninety sixth 46. But it was not the Age of this Reverend Bishop that was so remarkable as his vigour and indefatigable industry in his old age wherein he was a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Iron-side another Hercules as Laertius speaks of Cleanthes It was a Miracle that Moses should continue the vigour of his sight and natural force till he was 120 years old and would be thought little less then a Miracle that any of half his age should now enjoy them and yet this Reverend Bishop found very little defect in any of his Senses except only a little in his sight till death deprived him of them all What Suidas sayes of Servilius the Consul and the Father of Ausonius the Poet of himself was very applicable to this Reverend Bishop when he was older then either of them Nonaginta annos baculo sine Corpore toto Exegit cunctis integer officiis 47. It is possible I might say probable that the smalness of his stature might give him some advantages above other men in this particular for the lesser the Body is the more easie it is to be actuated by the spirits And then if he had lived before Archidamus the King of Sparta this Example might have preserved that King from the Mulct which the Ephori imposed upon him for marrying a little Wife utpote non Reges sed Regulos daturus For however some in those ancient times might dote upon Bulk more then Virtue as appears by the great Statue of little Lactius the Poet at Rome in Aede Camaenarum yet it is sure enough there have not been more famous men then some of no great stature as the instance of King Pipin in the French History and King Edgar in our own will make manifest It is often seen that he that is Staturae exiguae is animi excelsi so it was with Asinaeus the Captain of the Jewes as well as with these two famous Kings and so was it likewise with this Reverend Bishop Insomuch as Cicero's jest may very fitly be applyed to him if we consider his Body and Soul apart which he made upon his Brother Quintus when he saw so great a picture and yet but half way neither drawn for so little a man Major est dimidius quam totus His inward and invisible part was greater then any would have thought the whole person to have been 48. But I have given so large an account already of his inward and invisible part in the two foregoing Chapters in relation both to his Life and Doctrine that I may now be excused if I sum up both of them in that Character which Venerable Bede gives of his predecessor St. Cuthbert that as he discharged the duty of a good Bishop both in his daily prayers for the people committed to his charge and his wholsome exhortations to them So he taught them nothing by his words whereof he did not give them a good example in his actions 49. And this excellent Method of teaching by his Deeds as well as his Words was no new thing in him but a constant habit of Virtue of very long continuance For it was so remarkable in him as to be publickly taken notice of in a Sermon preached at St. Pauls Cross 50. years agoe and since printed wherein we have these words The learned and venerable Dean of Winchester for that was then his Title of whose Knowledge and Charity I have had so much experience that whether he be Melior or Doctior a better Man or a more learned Divine I cannot easily resolve only I can resolve with Seneca that of these two commendations O virum Doctum and O virum bonum the later doth excel the first 50. This being a Truth so

the Church of Rome might be decided by the doctrine and practice of the Church for the first five hundred years after Christ for that hath been my design in all my writings 9. If I had not believed upon sufficient evidence that the succession of Bishops in the Church of England had been legally derived from the Apostles I had never entred into that high calling much less continued in it thus long And therefore I must here expresly vindicate my self from a most notorious untruth which is cast upon me by a late Romish writer That I should publickly in the House of Peers the beginning of the last Parliament assent to that abominable fiction which some Romanists have devised concerning the Consecrating Matthew Parker at the Nags-head Tavern to be Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for I do here solemnly profess I have alwayes believed that Fable to proceed from the Father of lyes as the publick Records still extant do evidently testifie Nor do I remember that ever I heard it mentioned in that or any other Parliament that ever I sate in 10. As for our Brethren the Protestants of forraign reformed Churches the most learned and judicious of themselves have bewailed their miserie for want of Bishops And therefore God forbid I should be so uncharitable as to censure them for No-Churches for that which is their Infelicity not their fault But as for our perverse Protestants at home I cannot say the same of them seeing they impiously reject that which the other piously desire And therefore I cannot flatter those in this Church who have received their Ordination only from meer Presbyters so far as to think them lawfully Ordained S. Hierom himself reserved to the Bishop the power of Ordination 11. Seeing therefore I have been as I hear so far misunderstood by some among us as to be thought to approve of their Ordination by meer Presbyters because I once said it might be vallid in case of Necessity I do here profess my meaning to be That I never thought there was any such Necessity in the Church of England as to warrant it where blessed be God for it there be so many Bishops still surviving And therefore I desier them not to mistake my meaning in that saying 12. Wheresoever there is a formed Church there must of necssity be some set form of Gods worship Otherwise it will quickly fall in peices as wofull experience hath taught us And of all formes of Gods worship in the whole Church of Christ none in my judgement did ever exceed the Leiturgy of the Church of England both for decency edification and devotion in all the severall offices of it If the Assemblers themselves that first laid it aside could have found any faults in it their modesty was not so great if we may judge of it by their other actions as to have concealed them from the world 13. Having thus far prevented the uncharitableness of others against my self I do here from my heart protest my unfained charity to all the world and more particularly both towards those Papists and perverse protestants whom I have so much endeavovred to undeceive both by my Sermons conferences and writings It was only their errors whereat I was offended I have alwayes loved and pittied their persons and prayed and laboured for the right informing of their minds and the eternall salvation of their soules 14. But yet my common charity to them must not supersede my more particular love and obligation which I have to those truly humble and meek soules in the Church of England and more especially in my own Diocess of Duresme who still stand firm upon the foundation of a sound faith and continue obedient to the doctrine of Gods word and discipline of his Church without wavering either to the right hand or to the left 15. And my earnest exhortation to them is that they would still continue their former affections notwithstanding all temptations to the contrary both to the doctrin disciplin government and form of worship of this poor afflicted Church Which if I did not believe to be the securest way for the salvation of their soules I had not ventured my own upon the same bottom 16. This is the onely Legacy I now can and the best I ever could leave them beside my prayers Wherein I commend them all to the blessing of almighty God and to the glory of his saving grace in Christ Jesus I have appointed two Copies of this my Legacy or Declaration to be written The one whereof I do hereby order to be annexed as a Codicill to my will and the other to be delivered into the hand of my beloved Chaplain Mr. John Barwick to be published in print after my death Both of which I have signed sealed published and declared this 15. day of Aprill in the year of our Lord 1658. In the presence of Tho Duresme Thomas Saunders Iunior John Barwick Cler. Joseph Draper Cler. R. Gray Evan Davies And now you have had His Sermon as well as mine and may see by it he hath not ended his fight though he hath ended his life For by this he hath set a guard upon his memory after his body is in the grave I might in this thing fitly compare him to Abel before the flood who being dead yet speaketh Or to Samson under the Law Who slew more at his death then in his life but only that I have made choyce of St. Paul for the pattern now under the Gospell It is the Gospell rule not to kill but to save With St. Paul to build up the Church of lively stones the soules of men and not with Sampson to pull down the house upon our selves and others To this it was that St. Paul engaged in all his fights both in what he did and what he suffered and in this it was that he was looked upon as a pattern and presedent by this reverend Bishop How many thousand soules the Apostle hath gained even since his death is known only to God And so is it also how many may still be brought in by this crowning act of this deceased Bishop They have each done his part in their severall rank and degree according to the proportion of their abilities And God in mercy will I hope supply the rest both to them and us They have severally fought a good fight they have finished their course they have kept the faith and henceforth is laid up for each of them a crown of righteousness and so there will be for us also if we follow their good example For it is no peculiar reward to them or any other in particular The Lord the rigteous judge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will give or render it not only to them but as it followes in my Text to all those that love his appearing To him therefore with the Father and the Holy Ghost three persons and one God let us render as is due all glory honor prayse power thankesgiving and

Church And for his qualifying thereunto he did not as is now too frequent run before he was duly called and sent but according to the method of holy Church was admitted to the sacred order first of Deacon in the same year 1592. and the next year after of Priesthood by Richard Howland then Lord Bishop of Peterburgh who had formerly been Master of the same College whereof he then was Fellow 12. Having thus received his commission from God and his Church he was very ready to assist others in the way of Charity but not too forward to take upon himself a particular cure of soules And accordingly we find him for about five yeares after this continuing in the College prosecuting his own privat studie and reading to such young Scholars as were committed to his care and Tuition 13. In the year 1598. Dr. Iegon Master of Corpus Christi College being Vicechancellor and Mr. Moon of Katherin Hall and Mr. Sutton of Kings College Proctors he took his Degree of Bachellor in Divinity And about the same year being presented instituted and inducted to the Rectory of Long Marston foure miles distant from his Native Citty of York he betook himself wholly to the Cure of Soules there committed to him which he discharged with great care and diligence And yet he did not intermit his higher studies for the generall good of the Church while he attended it And to that end he had alwayes some person to be his assistent whom he knew to be pious and learned as Mr. John Price and Mr. Matthew Levet who were both formerly his Pupills in Cambridge the former afterward a prebendary of Leichfeild the later of Duresme and also Subdean of Rippon 14. And this assistence was the more necessary because his great parts and worth would not suffer him to enjoy his privacy in a Country cure For first he was made choyce of by the Earle of Huntington then Lord President of the North to be his Chaplain for his dexterity and accuteness in disputing with the Romish Recusants For it was Queen Elizabeths express command to him to convince them by arguments rather then suppress them by force and this she expressed as his Lord-ship was wont to say in the words of the Prophet Nolo mortem peccatoris 15. But the Earle dying presently after he returned again to his privacy at Marston where he continued not long before the Lord Sheffeild who succeeded as Lord president commanded him to hold a publick Conference before his Lord-ship and the Councell at the Manner house in York with two Romish Recusants who were then prisoners in the Castle the one was Mr. Young a Priest the other Mr. Stillington a Lay-man Which he performed with great satisfaction to the Auditory among whom were many of the chief Gentry and Clergy of York-shire I have heard there is still in some mens hands a true relation of that conferrence in writing But he would never suffer it to be Printed because he and his Adversaries engaged themselves by mutuall promise not to Print it but by common consent which he never could obtain from them though he earnestly desired and sought it 16. In the year 1602. began the great Plague at York at which time he carryed himself with so much heroicall charity as will make the Reader wonder to hear it For the poorer sort being removed to the Pest-house he made it his frequent exercise to visit them with food both for their bodys and soules His chief errand was to instruct and comfort them and pray for them and with them and to make his coming the more acceptable he carried usually a sack of provision with him for those that wanted it And because he would have no man to run any hazard thereby but himself he seldom suffered any of his servants to come near him but sadled and unsadled his own Horse and had a private door made on purpose into his house and chamber 17. The next year following the Lord Ever being sent Embassadour extraordinary by Queen Elizabeth both to the Emperour of Germany and King of Denmark he made choyce of him and Mr. Richard Crakanthorp famous also for his learned works in Print to be his Chaplaines And Mr. Morton being desirous to improve himself by seeing forraigne Kingdomes Churches and Universities did willingly accept of the employment 18. He had leave from the Lord Embassadour while he stayed at Breme to visit some of the chief Cityes and Universityes of High Germany In which travell while he was at Mentz he fell into a very familiar acquaintance with Father Mulhusinus a learned Jesuit who gave him a Book of his own writing inscribed with his own hand pro Domino Mortono and also with Nicholas Serarius another learned Father of the same Society and Rector of the College there who afterward mentioned him with civility in a Book he wrot against Joseph Scaliger Both these were so well satisfied with his learning and piety as to treat him with much courtesy while he stayed there and to desire his prayers when he departed thence and that ex animo too when he pressed them to know whether it was not merely out of civility and complement I cannot say he found Beccanus in the contrary temper at Colen though he left him so For being gaulled with some Arguments in a disputation between them he sleighted his prayers as of one whom he miscalled an Heretick I only instance in this to shew that many learned men of the Church of Rome and some even of the Jesuits order do not in their hearts and privat discourses condemne us of the Church of England for Hereticks whatsoever ever they publickly write or speak out of designe and policy 19. His stay in these parts was the shorter because the Embassadours commission determined at the death of the Queen But however he improved his time so well partly in furnishing his own library with Bookes at Frankfurt and else-where but chiefly in his conversation with learned men and in his forraign observations that he alwayes very highly valued that oppertunity 20. At his return he was sollicited by Roger Earle of Rutland to be his domesticall Chaplain Which profer he was the more willing to accept for the privacy he hoped to enjoy in a place where he was not known for making use of that Treasure of Bookes he had got in his travells And the rather because thereby he was brought so much nearer to London then before whither he must have many occasions to travell for the putting forth of such Bookes as he had in designe to write For it was not long after that he Printed the first part of his Apologia Catholica of which and the rest of his works I shall speak more particularly hereafter 21. About this time it was that the Arch-Bishop of York Toby Matthews that most exquisit preacher conferred upon him a Prebend in that Metropoliticall Church 22. In the year of our Lord 1606. Dr. Clayton

Councells Fathers Historians and their own Authours will be far more argumentative to any indifferent person that is not wilfully prepossessed then his own dubious perhaps imposed authority can countervaile His Manifesto if it was his consisteth only in affirming or denying in bare words In his works whatsoever is affirmed or denied is backt with such convincing and irrefragable arguments as no man hath taken the boldness in all these forty years since they were written to undertake the answering of them 61. I must acknowledge this to be a Digression and therefore must hasten the faster from it And so I shall also from the rest of the occurrences which concerned this Bishop while he governed the Church of Leichfeild and Coventry Which were not many of any memorable note for as much as I could learn though the time he sate there was above fourteen years I shall only instance in two whereof the one concerned a person that seemed to be more then a man the other a Boy that seemed to be little less then a Divell 62. The former was one George Canner who like another Didimus of Alexandria or Fisher of Westminster was born blind and yet was not inferiour to either of them the proportion of his age being considered either in strength of parts or industry in getting of learning or memory in retaining what he had once heard Among the rest of the works of Charity performed by this Bishop while he was of that See one was to bring up this youth in good learning his parents being poor and not well able to do it themselves which he did first at Schole and afterward when he was fitted to receive University learning he sent him to Cambridge where he maintained him at his own charge in St. Johns College and his Vakle with him to look to him And after he was well grounded in all manner of secular learning and had taken the Degree of Bachellour of Arts he sent for him into his own family and there instructed him in the whole Body of Divinity And afterward admitted him into sacred Orders and placed him in the parish Church of Clifton Canvile in Stafford-shire where he undertook the cure of their soules and diligently and laudably discharged the duty of his place being a very good preacher and which is more able also to perform the whole office of the Church as it is prescribed by the Book of Common Prayer only by the strength of his admirable memory 63. The other instance I intimated was the Son of one Edward Perry of Bilson near Woolver Hampton in Stafford-shire from whence he is best known by the title of the Boy of Bilson both in those parts and elsewhere This Boy being by nature very dull and uncapable of learning and thereupon very unwilling to go to Schole was wrought upon by some Romish Priests in those parts to free himself from that troublesome task of going to Schole by counterfeiting himself to be possessed with a Divell and he had the promise of a very good reward into the bargain if he would suffer himself to be dispossessed by their Exorcismes But the Divell having steeled his heart as his own phrase was afterward in his confession he continued to act the Demoniack both longer and otherwise then they desired who first instructed him in the art And in pursuance of it he accused a neighboring woman for bewitching him notwithstanding she was of the Romish Communion only because she commonly went under the suspicion and title of a Witch And he acted his part so cunningly in prosecuting the charge against her at the Assizes at Stafford as the woman did very hardly escape with her life The particulars whereof both there in publick and elsewhere more privatly as also of his exceeding great art in Counterfeiting and patience in enduring any thing to keep himself from being discovered would be too large a task and too impertinent here to relate and hath been by others upon other occasions published to the world All that will concern my present undertaking is that this Bishop being fully perswaded in his own thoughts that the Boy did but personate and counterfeit in all this though so strangely as made it almost beyond discovery and again that if it should not be discovered the poor innocent Woman that was accused of Witchcraft was in danger to lose her life spake to the Judges that went the Circuit that he might have the Boy home with him to his own house at Eccleshall Castle assuring them he would use his best endeavours to find out the imposture before the next Assizes which he did though not without great paines difficulty wisdom and patience as the Reader may see in the above mentioned relations And afterward upon the Boy 's confession and Repentance he bound him out an Apprentice to a Shoemaker in Bristol The man is still living in or about London I think in the parish of St. Martins in the fields and I hope hath ingenuity enough as well as memory to testify the truth of all this to those that shall make any doubt of it 64. And now this Reverend Bishop having so well discharged himself of his duty in those places he had formerly sustained in the Church it was his Majesties pleasure to have him translated to the See of Duresme in the year 1632. then void by the death of Dr. John Howson the last Bishop there as to a place of greater trust and honour as well as of a greater emolument then either of the other Bishopricks he had formerly enjoyed 65. For beside the Spirituall and Ecclesiasticall affaires as before in his other Diocesses he had the care and mannagement of all the temporall affaires within the County Palatine of Duresme by virtue of the Palatinate which for many hundreds of years had been anexed to his Episcopall See In particular he had the power of placing and displaceing all the Judges Registers Clerks and other officers belonging to the Courts of Justice of constituting the Sheriffe and under Sheriffe Escheters Feudaries Coroners c. Of commissionating all Justices of the peace and likewise of all the Deputy Leivtenants Colonells Captaines and all other officers of the Trained Band within the said County palatine of Duresme In sum his power was so great in all temporall affaires there as it passed for a maxim or generall rule Quicquid potest Rex extra Episcopatum potest Episcopus intra And yet in the mannagement of all these great affaires 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 during all the time that Satan was let loose to sift him like wheat as well as the rest of his Brethren of that Holy Order which is an argument of his integrity beyond all exception 66. I except only the case of Mr. Smart which had no relation