116. At his first Journey into Kent. His firft jourhe rode to Dover, being attended with ney into Kent, an bundred of his own Servants, at least, with pomp and July. 1589. in Livery, whereof there were forty folemnity. Gentlemen in Chains of Gold. The

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Train of Clergy and Gentlemen in the Country, and their Followers, was above Five hundred Horfe. At his en- A Romish Intrance into the Town, there happily telligencer aclanded an Intelligencer from Rome, of lands, he adgood Parts, and Account, who won- mires the Ap dred to fee an Archbishop, or Clergy-pearance, and man in England, fo reverenced, and at- ken prejudice tended: But feeing him upon the next concerning the meanness of Sabbath day after in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, attended upon by his Gentlemen, and Servants (as is aforefaid;) alfo by the Dean, Prebendaries, and Preachers in their Surplesses, and scarlet Hoods, and heard the fo lemn Musick, with the Voices, and Organs, Cornets, and Sagbuts, he was overtaken with admiration, and told an English Gentleman of very good qua lity (who then accompanied him) That Sir Edward they were led in great blindness at Rome Hobby. by our own Nation, who made the People there believe, that there was not in England, either Archbishop, or Bishop, or Ca thedral, or any Church or Ecclefiaftical GoH 2

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vernment; but that all was pulled down to the ground, and that the People heard their Minifters in Woods, and Fields, amongst Trees, and bruit Beasts: But, for his own part, he protested, that (unless it were in the Pope's Chappel) he never saw a more folemn fight, or heard a more heavenly found. Well, faid the English Gentleman; I am glad of this your fo lucky and firft fight, ere long you will be of another mind, and, I hope, work miracles when you return to Rome, in making thofe that are led in this blindnefs, to fee and understand the truth. It is (faid the Intelligencer) the chief caufe of my coming, to fee with mine own eyes, and truly to inform others. Whereupon the faid English Gentleman accompanied him to London, and fo to the Court, where he faw and heard many things to confirm the Gentleman's report, for the for the government of the Church, and civil carriage of the People, in their obedience to the Clergy and Magistrates in the Commonwealth. Afterwards this Intelligencer had private fpeech with Sir Francis Walfingham with Secretary (then principal Secretary to her Majeftey) Walfingham, who related all this to the Archbishop with due approbation of his Kentish

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Journy; confeffing that he fhould reverence and honour him therefore while he lived. And although he were one of the honourable Counsellors, before mentioned, that feemed to favour the precife Faction, yer, undoubtedly, he was, after this time a kind Friend to the Archbishop, and did him many good Offices with the Queen. Het

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117. Howbeit, fome of near alliance unto Sir Francis, bearing themselves very boldly upon his favour, would oftentimes handle the Archbishop very roughly, and much. provoke him by vain Speeches, and brags of their own worth and fcholarship; and (being meer Lay-men) would very unmannerly compare themselves with the beft conformable Divines, for true knowledge, and understanding of the Scriptures. But the Archbishop fmiling at their Vanities, would notwithftanding courteously handle and entreat them in his own Houfe, according to the true Rule of Hofpitality; not unlike unto Pericles, who being reviled by a leud Plutarch m Fellow in the Market-place all the day long, vit. returned no bad languge, but dispatched his Affairs in hearing the Suppliants, and determining their Caufes; and when night H 3

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cane on, the Party followed him ftill, railing upon him till he came to his own Houfe: It being now dark, Pericles, as he entred in, commanded one of his Servants to light bim home.

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fuch a Magiftrate as Jethro advised MoJes to take in judging the People of God, and fuch a Bifhop as St. Paul requireth in the Church of Chrift. Provide (faith Exod. 18. Fethro) among all the People, men of courage, fearing God, dealing truly, hating covetousness, and appoint fuch over them to be rulers. And a Bishop (faith St. Paul) 1 Tim. 3. must be unreproveable, the husband of one wife, watching, temperate, modeft, harbarous, apt to teach, not given to wine, no Striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gen. tle, no fighter, not covetous, one that can rule his one houfe honeftly. He may not be a young Scholar, left he, being puffed up, fall into the condemnation of the Devil. He must also be well reported of, even of them which are without, left he fall into rebuke, and the fare of the Devil.

119. And now what is there that the Devil himself, with all his Imps, Pa-. pifh, or Schifmatical Libellers, can rebuke or condemn, in this good Archbishop's Saintly Life? Let them examine his Actions, in all his carriage. and courfe, if fo they can convince him in any thing, that was not agreeable to the directions of Jethro for a Magiftrate, and anfwerable unto the Rule of Saint Paul for a Bishop.

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