assist at the election of scholars, from the free schools of the Merchant Tailors, and from that at St. Paul's, and of the Mercers, and perceiving favour and affection, and other by-respects, sometimes to oversway merit, with those to whom the choice be longed, and that divers good scholars were omitted, and others of less desert prefer. red, be of his own goodness at divers times took care for such as were so neglected, and sent them to the University, where he bestowed preferment upon them. To conclude this account of him, take a view of his fidelity, in that great place of trust, the almonership; which was sufficiently evident, especially to those who at tended him nearly. First, in that he would never suffer one penny of that which accrued to him by that place, to be put or mingled with any of his own rents or revenues, and wherein he kept a more exact account than of his own private estate; and, secondly, being so separated, he was as faithful in the disposing of it, not only in the general trust of his sovereign, in the daily charges incident to that place, expended by the Sub-Almoner, and other yearly ordinary charges; but when he perceived that he had a surplusage (those charges defrayed) he would not suffer it to lie by him, but some of it he disposed of to the relief of poor housekeepers, some in releasing of poor prisoners, and comforting them which lay in misery and iron, and some in furnishing poor people with gowns, hose, shoes, and the like, for all which, many, so bestowed by him, had he reserved to bis own use, his patent being sine computo, no man could have questioned him; but he was a faithful steward in this, as in the rest, and expected that joyful Euge, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful, &c. enter thou into the joy of the Lord;" which no doubt but he possesseth. The next is his gratitude or thankfulness to all from whom he had received any beDefit. Of this virtue of his there are and were lately divers witnesses; as Dr. Ward, son to his first schoolmaster, upon whom he bestowed the living of Waltham, in Hampshire, and Mr. Mulcaster, his other schoolmaster, whom he ever reverently respected during his life, in all companies, and placed him ever at the upper end of his table; and after his death caused his picture, having but few others in his house, to be set over his study door: and not only shewed he this outward thankfulness to him, but supplied his wants many times also, privately, in a liberal and plentiful manner; and at his own death, the father being dead, he bequeathed a legacy to his son of good value. Concerning the kindred of Dr. Watts, who, as is said before bestowed a full scholarship on him in Pembroke-Hall, after much inquiry, he found only one, upon whom, being a scholar, he bestowed preferments in Pembroke-Hall; and he dying there, his Lordship much grieved that he could hear of no more of that kindred, to whom he might express his further thankfulness. And yet he forgot not his patron Dr. Watts at his end, for by his will he took order that out of the scholars of that foundation, the two fellowships which he himself founded, as you shall see by and by, in PembrokeHall, should be supplied, if they should be found fit for them. Lastly, to Pembroke-Hall (omitting the legacies by him bequeathed to the parishes of St. Giles, of St. Martin Ludgate, where he had dwelt, of St. Andrew in Holborn, of St. Saviour in Southwark, of All Saints Barking, where he was born, and others,) to that college, I say, where he had been a Scholar, Fellow, and Master, he gave one thousand pounds to purchase land for two fellowships, and for other uses in that college, expressed in his will, besides three hundred such folio books of his own, to the increase of that college library, as were not there before; together with a gilt cup and a bason and ewer, in all points, as weight, fashion, inscription, &c. so like to the cup, bason, and ewer, given about three hundred years since to that college, by the religious foundress thereof, as that not ovum ovo similius; and these, he professed, he caused to be made and given, not for the continuance of his own me mory, but for fear that those which she had given so long since, might miscarry, and so her remembrance might decay. The fifth is his munificence and bounty, to prove which little need be said more, than that which hath been touched in his bountiful charity. But besides that, the two famous Universities, and they which then were poor scholars in them, will witness for him in this point, he never coming near either of them after he was Bishop, but that he sent to be distributed among poor scholars, sometimes one hundred pounds, and ever fifty pounds at the least one thing I cannot pass over in silence-that when King James was pleased to grace the University of Cambridge with his presence, in 1617, this reverend father being present also at the Philosophy Act, he sent, at his departure, to four of the disputants forty pieces of gold, of two and twenty shillings a piece, to be equally divided among them. But what speak I of these? Was ever Prince better enter tained, and in more magnificent but orderly manner, than was his said Majesty at Farnham Castle (one of the houses belonging to the Bishopric of Winchester,) where in the space of three days the Bishop spent three thousand pounds, to the extraordinary contentment of his Majesty, and the admiration of all his followers *. The next is his hospitality; from the first time of his preferment (to means of any considerable value) even to his dying day, he was ever hospitable and free in entertainment to all people of quality and worthy of respect, especially to scholars and strangers, his table being ever bountifully and neatly furnished with provisions and attendants answerable, to whom he committed the care of providing and expending in a plentiful yet orderly way, himself seldom knowing what meat he had, till he came from his study to dinner, at which he would shew himself so noble in his entertainment, and so gravely facetious, that his guests would often profess, they never came to any man's table where they received better satisfaction in all points, and that his Lordship kept Christmas all the year, in respect of the plenty they ever found there. And yet, by the way, take this, that he ever strictly observed in his provisions of diet, the time of Lent, Embers, and other fasting days, according to the laws of this kingdom, and the orders of the Church. I shall not need to speak of the extraordinary great hospitality he kept, and the large expence he was at, in entertainment of all sorts of people in Scotland, at what time he attended King James thitber; the nobility, clergy, gentry, and others of both nations there present, will, as they often already have, speak of it for me to his exceeding great honour. So that I know not whether I have fitly couched it under this head of hospitality, or whether it had more properly belonged to that of his muuificence and bounty. The seventh is his humanity and affability, not only to the last mentioned, his guests, but to every one that did converse with; for which, not only divers famous scholars and others of this kingdom, but others of foreign parts, as they had just cause, have admired him; as, not to mention natives, Master Casaubon, Master Cluverius, Master Vossius, Master Grotius, Master Moulin, Master Barclay, and, *Besides he refused to make some leases in his last years, which might have been very beneficial to him, for the good of his successor; his reason was, "Many are too ready to spoil Bishopricks, and few enough to uphold them."-Fun. Serm. besides many others, Master Erpenius, to whom he tendered an annual stipend, to have read and taught here the Oriental tongues, (wherein long before his death he himself had been well versed, as may appear by his Commencement Verses) the experienced professorswhereof be much delighted in, and did much for them; as Mr. Bedwell, to whom he gave the vicarage of Tottenham, in Middlesex, if living, among others, would testify. And the reason for this, a late reverend father of this Church hath given Omnes quod in se amant, in aliis venerantur; loving and honouring these gifts in others which he had in himself, for among the other parts of his profound learning, he by his industry had attained to the knowledge of fifteen tongues, if not more *. To these former may be added his modesty, which was ever such, that although the whole Christian world took special no. tice of his profound and deep learning, yet was he so far from acknowledging it in himself, that he would often complain of his defects, even to the extenuating, yea vilifying of his own worth and abilities; professing many times that he was but inutilis servus, nay inutile pondus ; insomuch, that being preferred by King James to the Bishopric of Chichester, and pretending his own imperfections and insufficiency to undergo such a charge, as also that he might have not only his clergy, but all others to take notice thereof, he caused to be engraven about the seal of his bishopric those words of St. Paul-Et ad hæc quis * A pleasant story (at once too well known to be mentioned, or yet to be passed over) is related of him in the life of Waller the poet. That gentleman, going to see the King at dinner, overheard a very extraordinary conversation between his Majesty and two Prelates, the Bishop of Winchester (Andrews,) and Dr. Neale, Bishop of Durham, who were standing behind the King's chair. His Majesty asked the Bishops, "My Lords, cannot I take my subjects' money when I want it, without all this formality in Parliament?" The Bishop of Durham readily answered," God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the Bishop of Winchester, “Well, my Lord, what say you?"—“ Sir,”_replied the Bishop, “I have no skill to judge of parliamentary matters." The King answered, "No put off, my Lord; answer me presently."" Then, Sir," said he," I think it lawful for you to take my brother Neale's money, for he offers it." idoneus? and who is sufficient for these things? 2 Cor. ii. 16. One note of his modesty, mixed with his last virtue of humanity, may be added, that after his chaplains had preached in bis chapel before him, he would sometimes privately request them, that he might have a sight of their notes, with very good words, and full of encouragement: insomuch, as they would profess of him, that they would never desire a more candid anditor. So that what was said of Bede, may as fitly be said of him: A pietate modestia, et castitate nomen Venerabilis adeptus est. His indefatigability in study cannot be paralleled, if we consider him from his childhood to his old age. Never any man took such pains, or at least spent so much time, in study, as this reverend prelate; for even in those days, when it might have been supposed he would have taken some ease for his former pains, then also from the hour he rose (his private devotions finished) to the time he was called to din ner, which, by his own order, was not till twelve at noon at the soonest, he kept close at his book, and would not be interrupted by any that came to speak with him, or upon any occasion (public prayer excepted,) insomuch that be would be so displeased with scholars that attempted to speak with him in a morning, that he would say, he doubted they were no true scholars that came to speak with him before noon. After dinner, for two or three hours space, he would willingly pass the time either in discourse with his guests, or other friends, or in dispatch of his own temporal affairs, or of those who, by reason of his episcopal jurisdiction, attended him; and being quit of these and the like occasions, he would return to his study, where he spent the rest of the afternoon, even till bed-time, except some friend took him off to supper, and then did he eat but sparingly. Of the fruit of this his seed-time, the world, especially this land, has reaped a plentiful harvest, in his sermons and writings: never went any beyond him in the first of these, his preaching, wherein he He used no man to read for him as those great clerks, Bellarmine and others fashion is, to employ whole colleges and societies to study and read for them, and to furnish them; he only used an amanuensis to transcribe that which himself had first written with his own hand.-Fun. Serm. REMEMBRANCER, No. 62, : had such a dexterity, that some would say of him, that he was quick again, as soon as delivered; and in this faculty he has left a pattern inimitable so that he was truly styled, Stella prædicantium, and an angel in the pulpit. And his late Majesty took especial care in causing that volume of his sermons to be divulged, though but a handful of those which he preached, by enjoying whereof this kingdom hath an inestimable treasure *. And for his acuteness and profundity in writing against the adversary, he so excelled all others of his time, that neither Bellarmine, champion to the Romanists, nor any other of them, was ever able to answer what he wrote: so that as his sermons were inimitable, his writings were unanswerable. To draw to an end of deciphering his virtues and attainments, it may truly be said of him, that he had those gifts and graces, both of art and nature, so fixed in him, as that this age cannot parallel him; for his profundity and abyss of learning were accompanied with wit, memory, judg→ ment, languages, gravity, and humility; insomuch that if he had been contemporary with the ancient fathers of the primitive Church, he would have been, and that worthily, reputed not inferior to the chiefest among them. He generally hated all vices, but three (which he ever reputed sins) were most especially odious unto him. First, usury, from which he was so far himself, that when his friends had need of such money as he could spare, he lent it to them freely, without expectance of aught back but the principal. The second was simony, which was so detestable to him, as that for refusing to admit divers men to livings, whom he suspected to be simoniacally preferred, lie suffered much by suits of law: choosing rather to be compelled, against his will, to admit them by law, than voluntarily to do He was always a diligent and painful preacher; most of his solemn sermons he was most careful of and exact: I dare and were thrice revised before they were say few of them but they passed his hand, preached; and he ever disliked often and loose preaching without study of antiquity, and he would be bold with himself and say, "When he preached twice a-day at St. Giles, he prated once ;" and when his weakness grew on him, and that by infirmity of his body he grew unable to preach, he began to go little to the Court, not so much for weakness,as for inability to preach, -Fun. Serm. M that which his conscience made scruple of And for the livings and other preferments which fell in his own gift, he ever bestowed them freely, as you have seen before, upon deserving men, without suit: so that we may say of him, as was said long since concerning Robert Winchelsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Beneficia Ecclesiastica nunquam, nisi doctis contulit: precibus ac gratiá nobilium fretos, et ambientes, semper repulit. The last was sacrilege, which he did so much abhor, that when the Bishopric of Sarum, and that of Ely, before it was so much deplumed, were offered to him, upon terms savouring that way, he utterly rejected them. Concerning that of Salisbury, give leave to add a particular passage of his, which happened many years after his said refusal of it, which was this-—At a parliament under King James, when an act was to pass concerning Sherborne Castle, it was observed, that only Bishop Andrews and another gave their votes against the same: that the other should so do was not much marvelled at, but that Bishop Andrews should do it, when none but that other lord did so, was so remarkable, as that he was demanded by a great person what his reason was for it? to which he most worthily replied, that it could not be well wondered why he should now vote against that which if he would have yielded unto many years before, in the days of Queen Elizabeth, he might have had this Bishopric of Sarum, which reason of his when his late Majesty, being then Prince, and present at the passing of the act, heard; he beshrewed him, that when he denied his consent, he did not declare the reason of his denial also, professing that had he been made acquainted with the state of that case, as now he was, he would, with the King his father's good leave, have laboured against the passing of the said act. To close up this point, this reverend prelate went yet a degree further, in refusing, when he was Bishop of Winchester, divers large and considerable sums, to renew some leases, because he conceived that the renewing of them might be prejudicial to succession. Now let us lay all these together: his zeal and piety; his charity and compassion; his fidelity and integrity; his gratitude and thankfulness; his munificence and bounty; hospitality, humanity, affability, and modesty; and to these his indefatigability in study, and the fruits of his labours in his sermons and writings, together with his profundity in all kind of learning➡his wit, memory, judgment, gravity, and humility, his detestation of all vices and sin, but especially of three. All which (by couching them only in this compend) we have seen in him, as ex ungue Leonem, or by Hercules' foot, bis whole body; and consider whether the Church of God in general, and this in particular, did not suffer an irreparable loss by his death. Having taken a short survey of his life, let us now see him dying. He was not often sick, and but once, till his last sickness, in thirty years, before the time he died, which was at Downham, in the Isle of Ely, the air of that place not agreeing with the constitution of his body. But there he seemed to be prepared for bis dissolution, saying oftentimes in that sickness, “It must come once, and why not here?" And at other times, before and since, he would say, "The days must come, when, whether we will or no, we shall say, with the Preacher, I have no pleasure in them," (Eccles. xii. 1.) Of his death he seemed to presage himself a year before he died, and therefore prepared his oil, that he might be admitted in due time into the bride-chamber. That of qualis vita, &c. was truly verified in him, for as he lived so died he. As his fidelity in his health was great, so increased the strength of his faith in his sickness. His gratitude to men was now changed into his thankfulness to God. His affability to incessant and devout prayers and speech with his Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier. His laborious studies, to his restless groans, sighs, cries, and tears; his hands labouring, his eyes lifted up, and his heart beating and pauting to see the living God, even to the last of his breath. And him, no doubt, he sees face to face, his works preceding and following him, and he now following the Lamb, crowned with that immortality, which is reserved for every one that lives such a life as he lived. His He departed this life September 25, 1626, in the 71st year of his age, and lieth buried in the upper aisle of the parish Church of St. Saviour's, Southwark. executors have erected to him a very fair monument of marble and alabaster. And one that formerly had been his household chaplain, (whom this honourable and reverend prelate loved most tenderly from his childhood, rather like a father than a lord or patron,) but since his death a successor to him in some of his places in the Church, for the duty and reverence which he ever bare to him while he lived, hath most gratefully and cordially, in his everlasting honourable memory, added to it a most excellent, significant, and speaking Epitaph, which followeth; LECTOR, Si Christianus es, siste: Non nescire Te, Qui vir hìc situs sit; Indefessâ operâ in Studiis, Rara amoenitate in suos, Anuorum pariter, et publicæ famæ satur, Regis Caroli II o. Etatis suæ LXXI o. Tantum est (Lector) Quod te mærentes Posteri Reader, be serious, let thy thoughts reflect Peruse his well spent life, and thou shalt finde he had a rare, and heav'n-enamel minde. He was our kingdomes Star, and shin'd most bright In sad afflictions darke, and cloudpst night; Let his example teach us how to libe In lobe and charity; that we may give To those, whose wants inforce them to implore ere crown'd and guilded with resounding praise. The concluding part of this inscription is manifestly corrupt; and we have not the means of ascertaining the true reading. The inscription at present on the monument is as follows: Septris. 21mo. Die Lunæ Horâ matutinâ ferè quartâ Lancelotus Andrews Meritissimum lumen orbis Christiani tatis suæ 71. |