an easier life, being in the possession of a rich Bishopric, out-lived his Pupil three years.

Bishop Jewell was most remarkable for his Apostolic doctrine, holy life, prudent government, incorrupt integrity, unspotted chastity, and bountiful liberality. In his first visitation he began, and in his last he perfected such a reformation, not only in the Cathedral and Parochial Churches, but in all courts of his jurisdiction, as procured him, and the whole order of Bishops, due reverence and esteem. For he was a careful overlooker and strict observer, not only of all the Flocks, but of all the Pastors of his Diocese: and he watched the proceedings of his Chancellor and Archdeacons, his Stewards and Receivers so narrowly, that they had no opportunity of being guilty of oppression, injustice, and extortion; nor of being a burden to the people, and a Scandal to himself. To prevent these, and the like abuses, for which the Episcopal Courts were often too justly censured, he sat

often in his Consistory Court; and saw that all things were carried rightly there. Neither did he sit as Judge in the Consistory only, but also often times as assistant on the Bench of Justice; (being himself a Justice of the Peace) informing the Judges in such causes where the Law of God and the Law of the Land seemed to clash; and exhorting the prisoners willingly and patiently to submit to the Stroke of Justice. With regard to his more private conduct, he rose at four o'clock in the morning; and, after prayers with his family at five, and in the Cathedral at six, he was so fixed to his Studies all the morning, that he could not without great violence be drawn from them. After dinner his doors and ears were open to all suitors; and it was observed of him, as of Titus, that he never sent any sad from him. Suitors being thus dismissed, he heard with the most unwearied attention and patience such causes debated before him, as either devolved to him as a Judge, or were referred to him as an Arbitra

tor: and, if he could spare any time from these troublesome affairs, he reckoned it as clear gain to his study. About nine o'clock at night he called all his servants to an account, how they had spent the day; commending those who had done well, and rebuking such as had neglected their duty; and then went to prayers with them. From the Chapel he withdrew again to his Study till near midnight; and from thence to his bed: in which after he was laid, the gentleman of his bedchamber read to him till he fell asleep. This watchful and laborious kind of life without any recreation at all, except what his necessary refreshment at his meals, and a very few hours of rest in the night afforded him, wasted his precious life too fast; and undoubtedly hastened his end*.

The Sunday before Easter of this year, March 30th, A. D. 1560, the Bishop

* Biographia Britannica. Humfrey in Vita ejus. Fuller's Abel Redivivus.

preached at St. Paul's Cross his

Sermon upon the 1 Cor. ii. v. 23.

famous

"For I

have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took Bread," &c. This Sermon gave a Fatal Blow to the Popish Religion in England *, which had before become odious to the Majority of

* The greatest deference was, (as may be collected from the preceding pages) on all occasions paid to Jewell's opinions, no wonder then, that he now enjoyed the admiration and respect of the Protestant Party; still, however, a better idea of the high estimation in which he was universally held, may perhaps be drawn more correctly from the encomiums bestowed upon him by his bitterest enemies. Nicholas Sanders, the Jesuit, in his well-known and elaborate treatise on the Schisms of the Church of England, and in a paragraph headed" the Hypocrisy and vain boasting of Jewell," is unwillingly compelled to acknowledge his extensive erudition, and the very high reputation he enjoyed amongst the Protestants, not of England alone, but of all Europe. Sanders however, as desirous of obliterating the favourable impression this notice might produce, after recording his address, and part of the celebrated challenge to all his adversaries which we have here inserted, declares without the slightest authority, that the Bishop's friends upon a reconsideration of the Subject, were indignant at his temerity, and openly condemned his rash proceedings, in stating circumstances which he could not fairly support, and unjustly

the Nation through the barbarous Excesses and Cruelties committed by those who professed that Doctrine, during the Reign of Queen Mary. The Challenge which the worthy Bishop then gave, and which he afterwards repeated at several different places in the following words, was the stinging part of the Sermon:-"If any Learned Man of our Adversaries, or all the Learned Men that be alive, be able to bring any one sufficient Sentence out of any Old Catholic Doctor, or Father, or General Council, or Holy Scripture, or any one Example in the Primitive Church, whereby it may clearly and plainly be proved during the first Six Hundred Years: I.-That there was at any time any private Masses in the World: II.-Or that there was then any Communion Ministered unto the People under one kind: III.-Or that the People had their Common Prayer in a strange Tongue which

accusing the Papists of upholding Systems and advocating Doctrines, which they never even contemplated.-Nicolaus Sanderus de Schismate Anglicano, page 337-9. Edit. Colon. Agrip. 1610.