charged with such great credit, that he received both applause and honour, and is said to have taught more by Example than Precept. Jewell was a great admirer of Cicero and Horace; and both read and imitated the Works of Erasmus: and agreeable to what he invariably asserted" That men acquired more Learn ing by the frequent Exercise of the Pen, than by reading many Books,”—it was his custom to write something every day. He was not accustomed to study the flowers of Rhetoric, nor other beauties of language, though no man understood them better; for he himself had written a Dialogue on the Art of Rhetoric: but he endeavoured rather to express himself fluently, neatly, and with great weight of Argument and strength of Reason.

He commenced Master of Arts in February, A.D. 1544: his good Tutor, Mr. John Parkhurst, who then possessed the rich Rectory of Cleve in the Diocese of Glocester, generously

paying his Fees. Nor was this the only instance of that benevolent man's bounty to him; for he often invited Jewell to his house, and seldom dismissed him without presents, consisting of money, and other things necessary for the prosecution of his studies. One morning, when Jewell and some companions, who were the guests of Parkhurst, were about to depart for the University, coming into their room, he seized upon their purses, exclaiming-"What money, I wonder, have those miserable, beggarly Oxonians?" And finding them pitifully empty, he amply replenished them.

Edward the Sixth succeeded his Father, January, A.D. 1546; and the Reformation, the progress of which had, in the preceding reign, been continually checked, now proceeded more regularly and rapidly. In 1548, this Prince invited Peter Martyr from Germany, and appointed him Professor of Divinity at Oxford. This was an event of no small import

ance to Jewell, who became one of his most constant hearers; and by the assistance of some Stenographical Characters, invented by himself for the purpose, noted down all his Lectures, almost as perfectly as they were delivered. About this time, Martyr was publicly insulted and interrupted in the delivery of his Lectures, by Dr. Smith, a papist; who had formerly possessed the Chair, rather a Sophist than a sound Divine. The German however was not to be surprised into a defeat, but with great presence of mind, remembered and defended his opinions in the schools, where a Tumult arose; the Protestants supporting Martyr, and the Papists the deposed Professor. This insult gave rise to a Public Disputation, to which Martyr challenged Dr. Smith; but the latter fearing to be called in question for the uproar he had occasioned, fled to St. Andrew's in Scotland. The Disputation, which began May 28th, A.D. 1549, and lasted five days, was held before a Council, appointed for the occasion, consisting of

Henry, Bishop of Lincoln, Dr. R. Cox, Chancellor of Oxford, Dr. Christopher Nevison, Dr. Simon Haines, and Richard Morison, Esq., Commissioners and Moderators: the popish Doctors, Tresham and Chadsy, and a person named Morgan, being opposed to Martyr. The Subject was the Lord's Supper, and the Dispute was conducted with tolerable decency. Martyr, who already began to entertain great esteem for him, appointed Jewell to report the proceedings, from which records it was published, A.D. 1649.

Jewell proceeded to the Degree of Bachelor of Divinity, A. D. 1551, on which occasion he preached an excellent Latin Sermon, (still extant, nearly perfect,) taking for his Text the words of St. Peter, Ep. I. cap. iv. ver. 11. "If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God," &c. And upon those words he founded such incontrovertible Doctrines, and made such wise and holy reflections, in so pure and elegant a style, as established his

reputation as a Scholar and Divine with all the World.

At this period he accepted a small Living called Sunningwell, near Oxford; not on account of its proceeds, which were small, but from a desire of doing good; and, though lame, he walked thither once a fortnight. He was at the same time frequently preaching both publicly and privately in his own College, and in the University. He had now acquired many friends, amongst others a Mr. Curtop, then a Fellow of his own College, and afterwards Canon of Christ-Church, who allowed him forty shillings per annum ; in those days a considerable sum. Also from a Mr. Chambers, who was intrusted with the distribution of certain charities from London for the assistance of the Poor Scholars in Oxford, he received six pounds per annum for the purchase of books.

The death of Edward the Sixth, which