happened July 6th, A.D. 1553, and the succession of Queen Mary, which followed the seventeenth of the same month, were events which proved fatal to many of the Reformers and their cause; and no one felt its fury sooner than Jewell, for, before any law existed, or any mandate was issued by the Queen for that purpose, he was expelled by the Fellows of his College on their own private authority; whose accusations against him were-1st, that he was a follower of Peter Martyr; 2ndly, his preaching some Doctrines contrary to Popery; 3rdly, his taking Orders according to the Laws then in force:-But Fuller, in his Church History, says, he was expelled for refusing to be present at Mass. Such, however, was the fury against him, that John Moren, a fellow of his own College, who acknowledged his life to be-" Angelical and extremely honest”—could not forbear calling him Lutheran, Zuinglian and Heretic, by way of reproach.

Jewell is said to have taken leave of his

College in nearly the following words :-" In

my

last Lectures I have imitated the custom of famished men, who, when they see their meat likely to be suddenly and unexpectedly snatched from them, devour it with the greater haste and greediness. For whereas I intended thus to put an end to my Lectures, and perceived that I was like forthwith to be silenced, I made no scruple to entertain you (contrary to my former usage) with much unpleasant and ill-dressed Discourse; for I see I have incurred the displeasure and hatred of some, but whether deservedly or no, I shall leave to their consideration; for I am persuaded that those who have driven me from hence, would not suffer me to live any where if it were in their Power. But as for me, I willingly yield to the times, and if they can derive down to themselves any satisfaction from my Calamity, I would not hinder them from it. But as ARISTIDES, when he went into exile and forsook his Country, prayed that they might never more think of him; so

I beseech God to grant the same to my Fellow Collegians; and what can they wish for more? Pardon me my Hearers, if grief has seized me, being to be torn from that place against my will where I have passed the first part of my Life, where I have lived pleasantly, and been in some Honour and Employment. But why do I thus delay to put an end to my Misery by one word? Woe is me, that (with my extreme sorrow and resentment I at least speak it) I must say farewell my Studies, farewell to these beloved Houses, farewell thou pleasant Seat of Learning, farewell to the most delightful Conversation with you, farewell Young Men, farewell Lads, farewell Fellows, farewell Brethren, farewell ye beloved as my Eyes, farewell ALL, farewell."

In those simple, yet pathetic words, he took leave of his Lectureship, Fellowship, and College and was thus, at one blow, reduced to great Distress and Poverty: but he

for some time found an asylum in Broadgates-Hall, another College in the same University.

As some recompense for the manner in which he was so inhumanly driven from his own College, and deprived of all emolument, the University appointed him her Orator: and in this official character, he shortly after penned a curious Congratulatory Address, on the behalf and in the name of the University:

Expressing in it the Countenance of the Roman Senators in the beginning of Tiberius's Reign, exquisitely tempered and composed, to keep out joy and sadness, which both strove at the same time to display their colours in it; the one for dead Augustus; the other for reigning Tiberius. And upon the Assurance of several of her Nobles, that the Queen would not change the Established Re

* There being no entire copy extant, for the Heads of this Address, see Laurence's translation of Humfrey's Life of Bishop Jewell.

ligion, expressing some hopes she would so do, which was confirmed then to them by the Promise the Queen had made to the Suffolk and Norfolk Gentry, who had rescued her out of the very Jaws of Ruin."

Fuller, in his Church History, asserts that the composition of this Address was put upon Jewell as a trick, that he might be insnared by the adverse party: but others assert, there was no foundation for this suspicion, and that he was chosen Orator on account of the injuries he had experienced, and as a regard for his great learning and superior style in composition. Of the reading of this Address, the last named historian has recorded the following incidents-Whilst Jewell was reciting the Address to Dr. Tresham the ViceChancellor, the great Bell of Christ-Church, which the Doctor had a few days before caused to be re-cast and named Mary, in honour of the Queen, tolled: and on hearing its sound, which now called him to his be