from common fearchers. So that by thefe, added to his great reason, and his industry added to both, he did not only know more of caufes and effects; but what he knew he knew better than other men. And with this knowledge he had a moft bleffed and clear method of demonftrating what he knew, to the great advantage of all his pupils (which in time were many), but especially to his two firft, his dear Edwin Sandys, and his as dear George Cranmer of which there will be a fair teftimony in the enfuing relation. : This for his learning. And for his behaviour, amongst other teftimonies, this still remains of him, that in four years he was but twice abfent from the chapel prayers; and that his behaviour there was fuch as fhewed an awful reverence of that God which he then worshipped and prayed to; giving all outward teftimonies, that his affections were fet on heavenly things. This was his behaviour towards God; and for that to man, it is obfervable, that he was never known to be angry, or paffionate, or extreme in any of his defires; never heard to repine or difpute with Providence, but, by a quiet gentle fubmission and refignation of his will to the wifdom of his Creator, bore the burthen of the day with patience; never heard to utter an uncomely word: And by this, and a grave behaviour, which is a divine charm, he begot an early reverence unto his person, even from those that at other times and in other companies, took a liberty to caft off that ftrictness of behaviour and difcourfe that is required in a collegiate life. And when he took any liberty to be pleasant, his wit was never blemished with fcoffing, or the utterance of any conceit that bordered upon or might beget a thought of loofenefs in his hearers. Thus innocent and exemplary was his behaviour in his college; and thus this good man continued till death; ftill increasing in learning, in patience, and in piety. In this nineteenth year of his age he was chofen, December 24, 1573, to be one of the twenty fcholars of the foundation; being elected and admitted as born in Devonshire; out of which county a certain number are to be elected in vacancies by the founder's ftatutes. And now he was much encouraged; for now he was perfectly incorporated into this beloved college, which was then noted for an eminent library, ftrict ftudents, and remarkable fcholars. And indeed it may glory, that it had bishop Jewel, Dr. Dr. John Reynolds, and Dr. Thomas Jackson, of that foundation. The first famous by his learned "Apology for the Church of England," and his "Defence Kk Dr. Thomas Jackson, descended from a refpectable family and born at Witton on the Wear, in the county of Durham, was defigned by his parents to be a merchant in Newcastleupon-Tyne. From this intention he was diverted by the Lord Eure, Baron of Malton, &c. through whose perfuafion he was placed in Queen's College, Oxford, and from thence removed to Corpus Chrifti College. He was first promoted to the pleafant rectory of Winston, in his native county, and then to the vicarage of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. After a refidence of fome years in that town, he was invited to return to Oxford, and was appointed prefident of his college. The precious manufcripts, which he left at his death, were configned by Archbishop Sheldon to the care of Mr. Barnabas Oley, who tells us, that "the reader will find in this author "an eminent excellency in that part of divinity which I make bold to call Christology, in dif"playing the great mystery of godliness, God manifefted in human fefb." He adds, " He that will "carefully perufe this good author's works, fhall thereby have a goodly prospect of the Old "and New Testament opened unto him; fhall mightily improve in the understanding of the "holy Bible." And in his preface to Mr. Herbert's "Country Parfon," he bleffes God for the confirmation which Dr. Jackson hath given him in the Chriftian religion against the Atheist, Jew, and Socinian, and in the Protestant against Rome. One part of Dr. Jackson's character is highly deserving of imitation. He willingly admit→ ted, and was much delighted with the acquaintance and familiarity of hopeful young divines, not defpifing their youth, but accounting them as fons and brethren, encouraging and advising them what books to read, and with what holy preparations; lending them fuch books as they had need of. So placid and benign was his difpofition, that no one ever went fad from his prefence. A circumstance, which occurred in his earlier life, affords an opportunity of congratulating the present age on a noble and humane inftitution. That circumftance is thus related by his biographer: "Walking out with others of the company to wash himself, he was in imminent peril of "being drowned. The depth chefed him round about, the weeds were wrapt about his head. He "went down to the bottom of the mountains, the earth with her bars was about him for ever, yet God "brought his foul from corruption, Jonah ii. 5, 6. that, like Mofes from the flags, for the future "good of the church and government of the college where he lived, there might be pre"served the meekeft man alive; or, like Jonas, there might be a prophet revived, as afterwards he "Defence of it againft Harding"." The fecond, for the learned and wife manage of a public difpute with John Hart', of the Roman perfuafion, about "he proved, to forewarn the people of enfuing deftruction, if peradventure they might repent, and God might revoke the judgments pronounced against them, and fpare this great and fin"ful nation. It was a long and almoft incredible fpace of time wherein he lay under water, ́ ́ and before a boat could be procured, which was sent for rather to take out his body, before it floated, for a decent funeral, than out of hopes of recovery of life. The boatman difcerning where he was by the bubbling of the water, the laft figns of a man expiring, thrust down "his hook at that very moment, which, by happy Providence, at the first effay, lighted under "his arm, and brought him up into the boat. All the parts of his body were fwollen into a vaft proportion, and although by holding his head downward they let forth much water, yet "no hopes of life appeared, therefore they brought him to the land, and lapped him up in the "gowns of his fellow-ftudents, the belt fhroud that love or neceffity could provide. After some "warmth and former means renewed, they perceived that life was yet within him, conveyed "him to the College, and commended him to the skill of Dr. Channel, an eminent physician of the fame houfe, where, with much care, time, and difficulty, he recovered, to the equal "joy and wonder of the whole fociety. All men concluded him to be reserved for high and admirable purposes." Dr. Thomas Harding, educated at Winchester school, became Fellow of New College, Oxford, in 1536. He was the firft King's Hebrew profeffor in that university, having been appointed by Henry VIII. in, or about, 1542. He was, in the reign of King Edward VI. a conftant attendant on the lectures of Peter Martyr, and difplayed great zeal for the reformed religion. A little before the King's death he exhorted the people not to fhrink from the true doctrine of the gofpel in the day of trouble, but to confider perfecution as fent from God to try their faith.. But, alas! he found himself unequal to temptation. Under Queen Mary he abandoned his principles, and obtained confiderable preferment, a prebend in the church of Winchester, and the treasureship of of Salisbury, On the acceffion of Queen Elizabeth he adhered to the religion to which he had recently conformed, and fled beyond fea to Louvain, where he distinguished himself by writing against Bishop Jewel's "Challenge." He had been chaplain to the Duke of Suffolk, father of Lady Jane Grey. A letter from her is yet extant in Fox's "Book of Martyrs," addressed to him in very strong language. She admonishes him to relinquifh the errors of Popery, reproaches him for his apoftacy, and urges many argu ments to perfuade him to repentance and reformation. Mr. Hooker (Ecclef. Polit. B. II. 6.) applies to Bishop Jewel and this his antagonist, what Velleius Paterculus remarks of Jugur tha and Marius: "Sub eodem Africano militantes in iifdem caftris didicere quæ poftea in ❝ contrariis facerent." Mr. Harding and the worthieft divine that Christendom hath bred for the space of fome hundreds of years, who being brought up together in one university, it fell about the head and faith of the church, then printed by consent of both parties. And the third for his moft excellent " Expofition of the Creed," and for his other treatises; all fuch as have given greatest satisfaction to men of the greatest learning. Nor was this man more eminent for his learning, than for his strict and pious life, testified by his abundant love and charity to all*. In the year 1576, February 23, Mr. Hooker's grace was given him for inceptor of arts; Dr. Herbert Weftphaling', a man of noted learning, being then vice-chancellor, and the act following, he was completed mafter, which was anno 1577, his patron, Dr. Cole, being that year vice-chancellor, and his dear friend, Henry Savil of Merton College, then one of the proctors. It was that Henry Savil, that was after Sir Henry Savil", warden of Merton Kk 2 College, fell out in them which was spoken of two others, "they learned in the fame that which in "contrary camps they did practise." A convert to Popery, ftyled by Camden the most learned of his brethren, known principally from his dispute with Dr. Reynolds, the particulars of which are related in "the Sum "of a Conference between John Reynolds and John Hart, touching the Head and the Faith "of the Church, &c. London, 1588." approved, as it is faid, by John Hart to be a true conference, and tranflated into Latin by Henry Parry, C. C. C.-Being banished from England with other Roman priests in 1584, he was admitted of the Society of Jefus, and was much refpected by his fraternity for his learning and fanctity of life. (Wood's Ath. Ox.) * In the preceding editions the name of Cardinal Poole was inferted. He was originally of Magdalen College, Oxford, where in 1515 he was admitted B. A. In 1522 Bishop Fox appointed him Fellow of Corpus Chrifti College, during his refidence in foreign parts, but whe ther he came to take poffeffion of his fellowship is not certain. (See Gutch's Wood's Colleges and Halls, p. 320, 398.) 1 Otherwise Westfayling, of foreign extraction, being the grandfon of Harbert, a native of Weftphalia in Germany; he was canon of Christ Church, and vice-chancellor of the university for one part of the year in 1576, and confecrated Bishop of Hereford in 1585-6: a man of great piety of life, and of such gravity, that he was scarce ever seen to laugh; leaving no great estate, but, as he declares in his will, fuch a one as would be attended with the bleffing of God, as being conscious to himself that no part of it was acquired by any dishonest means. 1576. John Uuderhill of New college, Pr. And 1576. Henry Savil of Merton College, Pr. [LE NEVE.] Henry Savil, celebrated for his fuperior knowledge of Greek Literature, his proficiency in mathematical and philofophical studies, has been ftyled "That magazine of learning, whose memory College, and provoft of Eaton: he which founded in Oxford two famous lectures, and endowed them with liberal maintenance. It was that Sir Henry Savil that tranflated and enlightened the "Hiftory of Cornelius Ta"citus," with a moft excellent comment; and enriched the world by his laborious and chargeable collecting the scattered pieces of St. Chryfoftom and the publication of them in one entire body in Greek; in which language he was a moft judicious critic. It was this Sir Henry Savil that had the happiness to be a contemporary, and a most familiar friend to our Richard Hooker, and let pofterity know it. And memory shall be honourable amongst not only the learned, but the righteous for ever." He was born at Over-Bradley near Halifax in Yorkshire, Nov. 30, 1547, and was admitted into Merton College, Oxford, in 1561. Upon his return from his travels into France and other countries, he was appointed Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth in the Greek language. He was one of the learned men, to whom the province of tranflating the bible was configned in the beginning of the reign of James I. His name is in the fifth class, among those to whom the four Gofpels, the Acts of the Apostles, and the Apocalypfe were allotted. Nor was he less diftinguished for his knowledge of English antiquities. He founded and liberally endowed two profefforships at Oxford, one of Geometry, the other of Aftronomy. At this time scholaftic learning and polemic divinity were principally regarded and encouraged. In the preamble of the deed, by which a falary was annexed to those two profefforships, it is expressly faid that "Geometry was almost totally unknown and abandoned in England." One of the most important translations in the 16th centry was that of the four first books of "Tacitus," and "The Life of Agricola," by Sir Henry Savil. The valuable notes that accompanied these translations were rendered into Latin by Gruter, and published at Amfterdam. Ben Jonfon has commended this work in an epigram, which begins with these lines "If, my religion safe, I durft embrace "I should beleeve the foule of Tacitus "In thee, most weighty Savile, liv'd to us." "Learning," saith Fuller, (Holy State, p. 186.) “ hath gained most by those books by which "the printers have loft." As an inftance of the truth of this remark he adds, "Our worthy "English knight, who fet forth the golden-mouthed Father' in a filver print, was a lofer by it." To the excellency of this edition a learned foreigner hath given his teftimony by applying to it the line in Horace. "Nil oriturum alias, nil ortum tale fatemur." |