did, and reformed them both (being very far out of order) and ordained them Statutes for their better and more peaceable government afterwards.

50. These his Courfes thus held for his government, and reforming both of Church and People, gained him fo general an opinion and liking in the lifetime, and difgrace, of Archbishop Grindall, that her Majefty defigned him The Queen deArchbishop of Canterbury,as was fignified figns him for unto him, and earnestly wifhed by fome Archbishop of Canterbury, of his honourable Friends about the in the room of Queen, and alfo by Archbishop Grindall Grindall then in disgrace. himself much defired, who, out of the great eftimation he had conceived of his government, and other his many Virtues, and worthy Parts, and by reason of his own Years and Infirmity, laboured him in like earnest manner, presently to accept thereof,being himself well contented to shake off thofe Cares, and receive from her Majefty fome yearly Penfion, which Bishop Whitgift utterly re- He utterly refused, and in prefence of the Queen her fuferh it dufelf, befought pardon in not accepting dall's Life; thereof upon any condition whatsoever the Queen is in the lifetime of the other. Whereup- contented. on the Queen commiferating the good Old man's Eftate (being a grave and

learned

ring Grin

learned Father of the Church; and at that time blind with years and grief) was graciously pleafed to fay, That as

Grindall dies. he had made him an Archbishop, so he fhould die an Archbishop, as he did fhortly after.

Whitgift fent

51. Upon whofe deceafe, Bishop for to Court. Whitgift receiving Letters from a great Counsellor for his repair unto the Court, and the Speech thereof, toge ther with the report of Archbishop Grin dall's death, being fpread abroad, you would have wondred to have fen the repair, and flocking of Gentlemen and others, unto him, both out of Worcesterbire, and the Marches of Wales, not to congratulate his Advancement (which they upon fuch his preparation to the Court, conjectured was to follow) but to express their true love, and hearty affection towards him, and to beseech him not to depart from thence; and fo with tears and fobs took their leave of him, as kind natured Children ufe to part from their Parents, whofe Face they are out of hope ever to fee again. Plutarch obferveth, that it falleth out very feldom with Magiftrates, and those who are in Authority, that they should pleafe the multitude, or be acceptable to the

common

common People, because they, striving still to reform the difordered, do grieve them as much as Surgeons do their Patients, when they bind up their Aches with Bands to cure them. For though by that binding they restore and bring to their natural places again the broken Bones, and Members out of joint, yet put they the Patient to great pain: But this Bifhop was not fo boisterous a Surgeon, for he had learned the Art of curing the Diseases of a Commonwealth, from a more skilful Surgeon, even from him that taught, that as Wine was to be poured into the Wound to fearch, fo Oil was also necessary to fupple, but both expedient for the Cure. And therefore as he always refolutely endeavoured the redress of the ill-affected, fo with an excellent Temper of rare Mildness, he ever effected it without exasperation of thofe, whofe good he was defirous to procure. For which fingular mixture of two fo requifite Virtues in a Magiftrate, he was most worthily, and moft happily, both for the Church and Commonwealth, advanced from the Bi fhoprick of Worcester, to the Archbi fhoprick of Canterbury, September 24. Canterbury,

1583.

Is tranflated to the Archbi

Shoprick of

Septemb. 24.

52. At 1583.

Finds the BiShoprick overvalued: : gets.

an abatement

in the Firstfruits for him and his Succeffors:

Recovers

Lands that had been de tained.

Amends Cu

rats Wages, where Small.

The Queen jea

ritans, charges

520

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This first entrance he found the Archbishoprick furcharged in the valuation, and procured an Order out of the Exchequer, for the abatement of One hundred pounds, for him, and his Succeffors, in the Payment of his First-fruits: He also shortly after recovered from the Queen, as part of the Poffeffions of the Archbifhoprick, Long-Beachwood in Kent, containing above a thousand Acres of Land, which had been many years detained from his Predeceffor by Sir James Croft, then Comptroller of her Majefty's Houfhold, Farmer thereof to her Majefty. In letting Leafes of his Impropriations, if he found the Curates Wages but small, he would abate much of his Fine to encrease their Penfions, fome Ten pounds by the year, fome more, fome lefs, as at Folkftone, Maidstone, and others.

53. But to leave these particular Af lous of the Pu- fairs, and to come to thofe publick Imthe Archbishop ployments, for which he was fpecially to fee ftrict made Archbishop; her Majefty fearing ferred to the the danger that might enfue by the Established affembly of divers Minifters to Exercises, Ghurch and and Prophecying, (as they termed it)

Conformity ob

Government,

ftraightly

ftraightly charged him to be vigilant, and careful for the reducing of them, and all other Ministers by their fubfcription and conformity, to the fetled Orders, and Government; adding, that fhe would have the Difcipline of the Church of England formerly established, of all men duly to be observed, without alteration of the leaft Ceremony; conceiving belike, that these Novelifts might have wrought the fame mischief here, which the turbulent Orators of Lacedemonia did in that Commonwealth, fo wifely fetled by Lycurgus his Laws; which whilst they took upon them to amend, they miferably defaced, and deformed. The inconvenience of which kind of reforming, that Prudent and Judicious Queen had learned out of the Poet Aratus, his Anfwer to one Diog. Laert. who asked him, How he might have Ho- de vita Philofoph.lib.go. mer's Poems free from Corruptions, and Faults; Get (faith he) an old Copy not reformed: For curious Wits labouring to amend things well done, commonly either guite mar them, or at least make them worse.

54. The Archbishop endeavouring His care of the to perform this, her Majefty's Com- Queen's Com mandment, had notwithstanding much and. ado,

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