and composed differences betwixt his people, who knowing his great wisdom and integrity, did very often refer themselves to him as the sole abitrator, where they met with speedy, impartial, and unchargeable Justice. At nine at night he called all his servants about him, examined how they had spent their time that day, commended some, and reproved others, as occasion served, and then closed the day with prayers, as he began it: the time of his publick morning prayers seems to have been eight. After this, he commonly went to his study again, and from thence to bed, his gentlemen reading some part of an author to him, to compose his mind; and then committing himself to his God and Saviour, he betook himself to his rest. He was extream careful of the revenues of the church, not caring whom he offended to preserve it from impoverishing in an age, when the greatest men, finding the Queen not over liberal to her courtiers and servants, too often paid themselves out of the church patrimony, for the services they had done the crown, till they ruined some Bishop Not over liberal.] "My good old Mistress was wont to call me her watch-candle, because it pleased her to say, I did continually burn: and yet she suffered me to waste almost to nothing." Sir F. Bacon to King James, A. D. 1612. "A company of young Courtiers appeared extraordinary gallant at a Tilting, far above their fortunes and estates, giving for their Motto, Solvat Ecclesia. Bishop Bancroft, then of London hearing of it, finds on enquiry that the Queen was passing a considerable parcel of Church-lands to them; and stops the business with his own and his friends interest, leaving these Gallants to pay the shot of their pride and prodigality cut of their own purses." Lloyd's State Worthies, p. 766. Compare Bancroft's Survey of the Pretended Holy Discipline, p. 211. ricks intirely, and left others so very poor, that they are scarce able to maintain a prelate. There is one instance of this mentioned by all that have written our Bishop's life; a courtier (who was a lay-man) obtained a prebendary in the church of Sarisbury, and intending to lett it to another lay-person for his best advantage, acquainted Bishop Jewel with the conditions between them; and some lawyers opinion about them. To which the Bishop replied; "What your lawyers may answere I know not; but for my part, to my power, I will take care that my church shall sustain no loss whilst I live." What was the event of this, none of them have told us. Nor was he careful of his own church only, but of the whole English Church, as appears by his sermon upon Psalm 69. v. 9. The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up, which he preached before the Queen and Court; as appears by it in several addresses to her in the body of that sermon. In it he hath this observation. "In other countries the receiving of the Gospel hath always been the cause that learning was more set by; and learning hath ever been the furtherance of the Gospel. In England, I know not how it cometh otherwise to pass, for since the Gospel hath been received, the maintenance for learning hath been decayed; and the lack of learning will be the decay of the Gospel." And a little after he tells us, "Those that should be fosters of learning, and increase the livings, had no zeal. What said I, increased? Nay the livings and provisions which heretofore were given to this use, are (saith he) taken away." And a little after, "Whereas all other labourers and artificers have their hire encreased double as much as it was wont to be; only the poor man that laboureth and sweateth in the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts, hath hath his hire abridged and abated." And he applies himself towards the conclusion thus to the great men, "You inriched them which mocked and blinded and devoured you; spoil not them now that feed and instruct and comfort you.' I had not taken the pains to transcribe so much of this excellent discourse, which may easily enough be read by any that desire it in his works, but to raise a little consideration if it be possible, in this debauched age. This good man foretold here, that this sacrilegious devastation of the church would in time be the ruine of the Gospel, as he calls the Reformation, and so it came to pass : for whereas he observed then, that by reason of the impropriations, the vicarages in many places, and in the properest market towns were so simple, that no man could live upon them, and therefore no man would take them, but the people were forced to provide themselves as they might with their own money; the consequence of this in a few years was, that these mercenary men becoming factious, or being such, crept into such places out of hopes of the greater advantage; and so infected the minds of the trades-men, that as the church became very much weakened and disquicted by their factions; so our Parliaments in a little while became stuft with a sort of lay-brethren who were enemies both to the church and crown, which To raise a little consideration.] It is greatly to be regretted, that this consideration is almost as much wanting in these times, as it was when this Life was drawn up.-In connection with this subject the Editor begs leave to recommend to the perusal of those who may have power and influence to diminish the evils alluded to, Kennet's Case of Impropriations, and of the Augmentation of Vicarages and other insufficient Cures, A. D. 1704. See also Malham's Historical View of the unavoidable causes of the Non-residence of the Parochial Clergy. A. D. 1801. was was a great part of the occasion of the rebellion in 1640, in which many of those families whose ancestors had risen by the spoils of the church were ruined: and tho much care was taken upon the restitution of his late Majesty Charles the second, for the prevention of such mischiefs for the future, yet no care was taken of these livings in market towns and corporations; by which means it came to pass, that within about twenty years more, we were very fairly disposed for another change, and nothing but God prevented it. From whence I conclude, that till this leak is stopped, both church and crown will be in danger of a shipwrack. There is fixed upon the Bishops grave-stone, a plate of brass with the arms of his family, and this following inscription. D. Johanni Jewello Anglo Devoniensi ex Antiqua Juellorum familia Budenæ Oriundo; Academiæ Oxoniensis Laudatissimo Alumno: Mariana tempestate per Germaniam Exuli; Præsuli Regnante Elizabetha Regina Sarisburiensis Diocoescos (cui per Annos XI. Menses IX. summa fide & integritate præfuit) Religiosissimo: Iminaturo fato Monktonfarleæ prærepto XXIII. Sept. Anno salutis humanæ Christi Merito Restitutæ 1571, & tatis suæ 49. Positum est Observantiæ ergo Hoc Monumentum. This Epitaph was drawn for him by Mr. Humfrey, and much more; which in probability could not be all put upon the brass but yet he took care to publish it at large in his life of the Bishop, from whence I have transcribed it, which is in these words: D. Joanni Juello Anglo, Devoniensi, Ex antiqua Juellorum Familia Budenæ oriundo, Regnante Elizabetha Regina, (Cui per Annos XI. menses IX. summa fide & integritate præfuit.) Religiosissimo; viro singulari eruditione, Theologiæ cum primis cognitione Gemmæ Gemmarum ; Immaturo fato Monkton-farleæ Prærepto; Cœlorun civi. Laurentius Humfredus Hoc Monumentum observantiæ ergo Et Benevolentiæ Consecravit, Anno salutis Humanæ In memoria æterna erit Justus. |