inward praiers of devotion, and sighs of longing desire, the soule returned to God that gave it. M. RIDLEY the Steward of his house shut his eies in the yeere of our Lord 1571, September the 22nd, about three of the clocke in the afternoone, Ann. Æt. almost 50. Such was the Life and Death of Bishop Jewell; a most worthy trumpet of Christ's Glorious Gospell. What now remaines, but that we mournfully complain in the words of St. Jerom concerning the death of Fabiola; Pretiosissimum de locis sanctis monile perdidimus*: The spouse of Christ hath lost a precious Jewel. Or rather, because he shined so bright in divine virtues both in his life and death, we are to rejoyce for his happie translation. This Jewel is not lost, which Christ hath taken from off the ring of his spouse which is his Church, and set it in a Crowne of purest Golde upon her head, which is himselfe, the Saviour of his elect, where hee shineth in glorie for evermore. Lord adorne and * Hieron. Epist. Fabiol. inrich thy Church continually with such Jewels; decke her cheek with rowes of such rubies, and her necke with chains; make her borders of golde, with studs of silver*. Ament." Thus terminated, at his Palace at Monkton in Wiltshire, in the 12th year of his consecration, the Earthly career of this great and pious Bishop, whose death may be said to have been universally mourned; but no one was more afflicted at the early departure of so pure a Spirit than Archbishop Parker. Dr. Laurence Humfrey, Regius Professor of Divinity of the University of Oxford and President of Magdelene College was requested to preach at his funeral: but this happening to be during the period that the Plague raged at Oxford, Humfrey had sought safety elsewhere; so that the bearer was unable to deliver his message. Giles Lau *Cant. 1. 9. 10. The Life of Bishop Jewell, prefixed to his Works, p. 10. A. D. 1609. rence however, another learned man, undertook the office: and in the afternoon preached Mr. Holcot, a gentleman of good quality, who did not live of the Church but of his own Estate; and who taught the Gospel gratis: probably he was in Orders. His loss was greatly lamented abroad, where he had formerly resided; and his Learning and Zeal, previously even to the publication of his Works, had been both known and appreciated. Gualter, that great Light of Zuric, lamenting his death in an Epistle to certain English Bishops, thus wrote of him ;-" That they esteemed it a wound not given to England alone but to the whole Church of Christ, of which he was a notable Luminary. That now his blessed Spirit lived with the Lord Christ, to whose Service he had wholly consecrated himself: and here on Earth he left a dear want of him, and an Immortal Reputation to his Name *. وو * Lupton's Life of the Modern Protestant Divines, p. 264. Lond. 1637. Strype's Life of Archbishop Parker, Lib. 4. Cap. 5. p. 317. Dr. Laurence Humfrey, at the request of the two Venerable Prelates, Archbishop Parker and the Bishop of London, undertook to write the Life of Bishop Jewell in Latin, which he finished and published, A. D. 1573. At the end of which is printed many Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, and other verses, written in commendation of the Bishop by the most pious and eminent men of the age Having thus brought the History of this celebrated Man down to the period when, to the regret of all good men and even many of his enemies, his ashes were laid in the bosom of his Mother Earth; we will now proceed to recount some anecdotes and characteristics necessary to be known: that the reader may form a just estimate of the mind and talents of this great and unrivalled Original. It is recorded of his memory, which was wonderful and naturally * Strype's Life of Archbishop Parker, Lib. 4. Cap. 5. p. 317. strong, that he very much improved it by art: indeed he seldom forgot any thing remarkable which he heard, and generally entered it in a Common-place Book. He could exactly repeat whatever he had written, after reading it once. During the ringing of the bell he would commit to memory a repetition Sermon, and pronounce it without hesitation. His custom was to write the heads of his discourses, and imprint them so firmly on his mind, that he used to say; " If ten thousand people were quarrelling or fighting all the while he was preaching, yet they could not put him out." In order to try him Dr. Parkhurst having proposed to him some of the most difficult and barbarous words out of a Calendar, and John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester, forty Welsh, Irish, and foreign words, he, after once or twice reading, and a little recollection, repeated them all by heart backward and forward. Also, A. D. 1563, Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great-Seal, having read to him out of |