application as by Conversation with Peter Martyr and other learned Men.

He was, as has been before observed, a most laborious Preacher, and faithful Attendant on his Clerical Duties; frequently travelling through his Diocese and preaching wherever he came. He always endeavoured to adapt his Discourse to the understanding of his Audience, despising all high-sounding phraseology, as beneath the Dignity of the Sacred Place: nevertheless, he was careful in the Choice of his Words, and endeavoured to move the Affections of his Auditory by pathetic and zealous Applications; avoiding all light Expressions, and using a grave and sedate, rather than a sweet way of speaking: never venturing, in the presence of the humblest Audience, to preach Extempore* !

* Though Bishop Jewell was a constant preacher, yet he never attempted to do it Extempore, and without due pre paration.-Abel Redivivus. Lupton's Lives of the Modern Protestant Divines, 1637.

He was naturally grave, and so perfect in Probity and Virtue, that his bitterest enemies * were obliged to confess that he lived the Life of an Angel; being himself contented in every station and endeavouring to make others equally so. Yet withal, he was of an extremely agreeable and obliging humour, never valuing himself upon his superior attainments. This natural generosity, though he came to a Bishopric miserably impoverished and wasted in its Revenues, was exercised to an almost unlimited extent both in gifts and hospitality. He no sooner came to reside at Salisbury than he built a Splendid Library † for his

* Moren, Dean of his College and an Adversary of his Religion, said-" I should love thee, Jewell, if thou wert not a Zuinglian. In thy Faith I hold thee a Heretic, but surely in thy life thou art an Angell. Thou art very good and honest, but a Lutheran." This reminds us of the Pagan's assertion—" Bonus vir Caius scius, sed malus tantum quod Christianus."-Tertull. Apol. adversus Gentes.

"Dr. Humfrey (says Fuller) in making this monument (his Life) to continue the memory of Jewell, eternized his own; but Jewell himself a second Monument more famous

Cathedral Church; which Dr. Gheast afterwards furnished with many books, and whose name, together with that of the learned founder, is perpetuated in the following Latin inscription; "Hac Bibliotheca extructa est sumptibus. R. P. ac D. D. JOHANNIS JEW. ELLI, quondam Sarum Episcopi; instructa vero libris à R. in Christo P.D. Edmundo Gheast, olim ejusdem Ecclesiæ Episcopo, quorum memoria in Benedictione erit A. D. 1578."

Of so charitable a nature was this great and pious man that his Doors were always open to the Poor; and he would frequently send relief to the Prisons for such as stood in need of it. Nor did he confine his liberality to the unfortunate of his own Country; for he was very bountiful to Foreigners, especially those of Zuric and the Friends of

than that, the Library he built in Salisbury; and yet a third more lasting than either of the former, his Works.”Abel Redivivus, 311.

Peter Martyr. Perceiving the great want of Learned Men in those times he took care to have six poor lads constantly in his House, whom he educated under his own eye, carefully directing them in the pursuit of their Studies: and he took no small delight in hearing them dispute on points of Critical and Grammatical Knowledge in the Dead Languages at his Table during their Meals; often setting them right, or enlarging their views on the subject in question. Besides these, he maintained several young Students in the University, allowing them yearly Pensions; and whenever they came to visit him, he rarely dismissed them without liberal Gratuities. Amongst this number was the celebrated Richard Hooker, his countryman, whose Parents being poor, must have been bound Apprentice to a Trade but for the liberality of the good Bishop, who allowed a yearly Pension towards his maintenance seven years before he was old enough to commence residence at the Uni

versity; and in the year 1567, appointed him to remove to Oxford, and there to attend Dr. Cole, the President of Corpus Christi College. Dr. Cole, agreeably to a Promise made to the Bishop, provided a Tutor for him, and a Clerk's place in that College; which, with a Contribution from his Uncle, Mr. John Hooker, and the Pension allowed him by the Bishop, afforded him a comfortable subsistence.

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During the last year of Bishop Jewell's Life Mr. Hooker was attacked with a dangerous sickness which lasted two months; all which time his mother, having notice of it, did in her hourly Prayers as earnestly beg his Life of God, as the Mother of St. Augustine did that he might become a true Christian: and their Prayers were both so heard as to be granted: which Mr. Hooker would often mention with much joy, and pray that he might never live to occasion sorrow to so good a Mother; whom, he would often say,