Sir Francis Drake", Sir Walter Raleigh", and many others memorable for their valour and learning". He was born about the year of our Redemption, one thousand five hundred fifty and three; and of parents that were not Bishop, it remains yet unanswered. Originally written in Latin, it was tranflated into the Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch languages. To Peter Martyr, Bullinger, and many other foreign Protestants, it gave infinite fatisfaction. An English verfion by a lady, Anne the fecond daughter of Sir Anthony Cook, and the wife of the Lord Keeper Sir Nicholas Bacon, was published for the ufe of the common people in 1564, and ordered to be kept in every parish-church throughout England and Wales. This great and good prelate, having impaired his conftitution, as well by the fatigues he underwent when abroad, as by an inceffant application to his ftudies, died Sept. 23, 1571, in the fiftieth year of his age. Of his noble challenge to the learned of his adverfaries, or to all the learned men that be alive. See "Concilia Magna Britanniæ," Vol. IV. p. 220. "Juelle, Mater quem tulit Devonia, 66 Nutrixque fovit erudita Oxonia, "Elizabetha docta doctarum artium : "Quam parva tellus nomen ingens occulit!" BUCHANANI POEMATA, p. 3, 60. m Sir Francis Drake, the first captain who achieved the circumnavigation of the globe, was the fon of a private clergyman in Devonshire. See "Prince's Worthies of Devon," p. 239, and his Life in Dr. Johnfon's Works, Vol. XII. p. 63. n Prince's Worthies, &c. p. 530, fays:-"Who hath not known or read of this prodigy of "wit and fortune, Sir Walter Raleigh, a man unfortunate in nothing but in the greatness of "his wit and advancement, whofe eminent worth was fuch both in domeftic policy, foreign "expeditions, and discoveries in art and literature, both practic and contemplative, that it "might seem at once to conquer example and imitation?" (Howell's Familiar Letters, p. 387.) This great man fell a victim to the jealoufy of Gondomar, the Spanish Ambaffador. No one encountered danger with more intrepidity and firmness: Yet his character never fhone with greater luftre, than when he patiently fuftained the injurious and indecent language of the Attorney-General, Coke, at his trial. • Mr. Prince, in the dedication of his "Danmonii Orientales Illuftres," or "The Worthies of Devon," obferves, that "he prefents to the view of the reader such an illuftrious troop of "heroes as no other country in the kingdom, no other kingdom (in fo fmall a tract) in "Europe in all refpects is able to match, much less excel." not fo remarkable for their extraction or riclies, as for their virtue and induftry, and God's blefing upon both; by which they were enabled to educate their children in fome degree of learning, of which our Richard Hooker may appear to be one fair teftimony, and that nature is not fo partial as always to give the great bleffings of wisdom and learning, and with them the greater bleffings of virtue and government, to thofe only that are of a more high and honourable birth.. His complexion (if we may guefs by him at the age of forty) was fanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was flow, even in his youth, and fo was his fpeech, never expreffing an earneftness in either of them, but a gravity fuitable to the aged.. And it is obferved (fo far as inquiry is able to look back at this diftance of time) that at his being a schoolboy, he was an early queftionist, quietly inquifitive", "Why this was, and that was not, to be remembered?" "Why this was granted, and that denied?" This being mixed with a remarkable modefty, and a fweet ferene quietness of nature, and with them a quick apprehenfion of many perplexed parts of learning, impofed then upon him as a fcholar, made his mafter and others to believe him to have an inward bleffed divine light, and therefore to confider him to be a little wonder. For in that, children were less pregnant,. lefs confident, and more malleable, than in this wiser, but not better age'. This meeknefs and conjuncture of knowledge, with modefty in his converfation, being obferved by his schoolmafter, caufed him to persuade his parents (who intended him for an apprentice) to continue him at school till he could find out fome means, by perfuading his rich uncle, or fome other charitable perfon,. to ease them of a part of their care and charge; affuring them, that their fon was fo enriched with the bleffings of nature and grace, that God feemed to fingle him out as a special inftrument of his glory. And the good man told them alfo, that he would double his diligence in instructing him, and would neither expect nor receive any other reward, than the content of fo hopeful and happy an employment. ℗ Principium eft fcientiæ quærere, et principium quærendi dubitare.. This The age was, perhaps, not wifer, though it might be more knowing in fome refpects... This was not unwelcome news, and especially to his mother, to whom he was a dutiful and dear child; and all parties were so pleased with this propofal, that it was refolved fo it fhould be. And in the mean time his parents and mafter laid a foundation for his future happiness, by inftilling into his foul the feeds of piety, those conscientious principles of loving and fearing God; of an early belief, that he knows the very fecrets of our fouls; that he punisheth our vices, and rewards our innocence; that we should be free from bypocrify, and appear to man, what we are to God, becaufe firft or laft the crafty man is catched in his own fnare. These feeds of piety were so seasonably planted, and fo continually watered with the daily dew of God's bleffed fpirit, that his infant virtues grew into fuch holy habits, as did make him grow daily into more and more favour, both with God and man; which, with the great learning that he did attain to, hath made Richard Hooker honoured in this, and will continue him to be fo to fucceeding generations. This good schoolmaster, whofe name I am not able to recover, (and am forry, for that I would have given him a better memorial in this humble monument, dedicated to the memory of his fcholar) was very folicitous with John Hooker', then Chamberlain of Exeter, and uncle to our Richard, to take his nephew into his care, and to maintain him for one year in the university, and in the mean time to use his endeavours to procure an admiffion for him into fome college; ftill urging and affuring him that his charge would not continue long; for the lad's learning and manners were both so remarkable, that they must of neceffity be taken notice of; and that God would provide him fome second patron, that would free him and his parents from their future care and charge. r Thefe John Hooker, alias Vowell, was born at Exeter, in 1524, of a very creditable family, being the second son of Robert Hooker, Mayor of that city. Having received his education at Oxford, where he studied the Civil Law, he travelled into Germany, and at Cologn kept his exercises in law, and took his degree there. Next he went to Strasbourg, and fojourned with Peter Martyr, by whom he was inftructed in divinity. Returning home after a short stay, he travelled into France, and was prevented from proceeding into Italy and Spain by the French declaration of war against England. Hence he retired to his native town, whereof he became the first Chamberlain in 1554, and was chofen one of the Citizens for the fame in the Parliament, holden at Westminster in 1571. Hejdied in 1601, at the age of near eighty years. He affifted Holinfhed in his Chronicles, and is mentioned by feveral writers with fingular refpect as an antiquary, and an hiftorian of great accuracy and fidelity. These reasons, with the affectionate rhetoric of his good mafter, and God's bleffing upon both, procured from his uncle a faithful promife that he would take him into his care and charge before the expiration of the year following, which was performed. This promife was made about the fourth year of the reign of Queen Mary; and the learned John Jewel (after Bishop of Salisbury) having been in the first of this queen's reign expelled' out of Corpus Chrifti college in Oxford (of which he was a fellow), for adhering to the truth of those principles of religion, to which he had affented in the days of her brother and predeceffor Edward VI. and he, having now a juft cause to fear a more heavy punishment than expulfion, was forced, by forfaking this, to feek fafety in another nation, and, with that safety, the enjoyment of that doctrine and worship for which he suffered. But the cloud of that perfecution and fear ending with the life of Queen Mary, the affairs of the church and ftate did then look more clear and comfortable; fo that he, and many others of the fame judgment, made a happy return into England about the first of Queen Elizabeth; in which year this John Jewel was fent a commiffioner or vifitor of the churches of the western parts of this kingdom, and especially of thofe in Devonshire', in which county he was born; and then and there he contracted a friendship with John Hooker, the uncle of our Richard. • This good man was one of the first victims to Popish resentment after the acceffion of Queen Mary, being expelled by feven of the fellows of his college, for attending Peter Martyr's lectures in divinity; for preaching doctrines contrary to Popery; for receiving ordination. by the new form, and refusing to be present at mass. He concluded his valedictory speech,. delivered on occafion of his expulfion, with thefe words: "Valeant ftudia, valeant hæc tecta, ❝valeat fedes cultiffima literarum, valeat jucundiffimus confpectus veftri: valete juvenes, va"lete focii, valete fratres, valete oculi mei, omnes valete." ! temporary dereliction of the Proteftant faith; which happened foon afterward, affords a melancholy inftance of the imbecillity of human nature to withitand the attempts of infidious artifice. But, like Cranmer, he burst forth with fevenfold fplendor from that momentary eclipfe which obfcured his fame. "Mr. Jewel was appointed for the western circuit, and fo it fell out fitly that he prefented the first-born of his labours in the miniftry, after his return from exile, in Devonfhire, and parts adjacent; there firft breaking the bread of life where first he received the breath of life; where he endeavoured more to win his countrymen to embrace the reformation by preaching and good ufage, than to terrify and awe them by that great authority the Queen's majefty had. armed him with." (Prince's Worthies, &c. p. 422.) In the third year of her reign, this John Jewel was made Bishop of Salif bury; and there being always obferved in him a willingness to do good' and oblige his friends, and now a power added to it, John Hooker gave him a vifit at Salisbury," and befought him, for charity's fake, to look fa"vourably upon a poor nephew of his, whom nature had fitted for a scho"lar; but the estate of his parents was fo narrow, that they were unable "to give him the advantage of learning; and that the bishop would, there“fore, become his patron, and prevent him from being a tradesman; for "he was a boy of remarkable hopes." And though the bishop knew men do not ufually look with an indifferent eye upon their own children and relations, yet he affented fo far to John Hooker, that he appointed the boy and his fchoolmafter fhould attend him, about Eafter next following, at that place; which was done accordingly and then, after fome questions and obfervations of the boy's learning, and gravity, and behaviour, the bishop gave the schoolmafter a reward, and took order for an annual penfion for the boy's parents, promifing alfo to take him into his care for a future preferment; which was performed. For, about the fourteenth year of his age, which was anno 1567, he was, by the bishop, appointed to remove to Oxford, and there to attend Dr. Cole", then prefident of Corpus Christi college; which he did; and Dr. Cole had (according to a promise made to the bishop) provided for him both a tutor (which was faid to be the learned Dr. John Reynolds) and a clerk's place in that college; which : place, " Dr. William Cole, in 1599, exchanged with Dr. John Reynolds the presidentship of Corpus Chrifti College for the deanery of Lincoln, which he did not long enjoy. He fled into Germany in the time of Queen Mary, and Anthony Wood names him as one of the exiles at Geneva engaged with Miles Coverdale and others in a new tranflation of the Bible. He mistakes him for his brother Thomas Cole, mentioned in "Lewis's Hiftory of the feveral "Translations of the Bible," p. 206. * The great prodigy of learning in his time, Crakanthorp, under whom he was educated, applied to him what was faid of Athanafius. "To name Reynolds is to commend virtue it"felf." "He alone," fays Bishop Hall, in his " Decad of Epiftles," (Dec. I. Ep. 7.) " was a well "furnished library, full of all faculties, of all ftudies, of all learning: the memory, the reading of that man were near to a miracle." He was the great champion of Protestantism against Bellarmine. "Cum vibrat do&tæ Reynoldus fulmina linguæ, "Romanus trepidat Jupiter, et merito." Having |