has seen him described as “ αγαθος κουροτρόφος, nec collegio gravis aut onerosus." He resigned his stall at Westminster and his archdeaconry on being promoted to the see of Bath and Wells. Bishop Still was famous for his powers of preaching and disputation.

He is also celebrated for having written, when M.A. of Christ's College, one of the plays first printed in the English language. It was printed in London, 1575, having been "played on stage not longe ago in Christe's Colledge, in Cambridge."

He died at Wells, Feb. 26, 1607, and lies interred in the cathedral there, under an alabaster monument. During his tenure of the see its revenues were much augmented by the discovery of lead in the Mendip Hills.

He was twice married; first, to a daughter of Thos. Alabaster, of Hadley in Suffolk, whose grandson we shall notice under Election 1583.

He is said to have raised a great estate, and founded three families, from the proceeds of his see; but the simoniacal charges brought against him were refuted; he left 500l. to build almshouses at Wells.-Cole's MSS. xlv. 225; xlix. 330; Ath. Ox. ii. 829; Fuller's Worthies, ii. 2767: Le Neve's Fasti, 34 and 398; lists in Romilly's Cantabrigienses Graduati; Granger's Biog. Hist. i. 255-6; Catalogue of Lady Marg. Professors, lxvi.]

1 W. JAMES, master of University College, 1572; archdeacon of Coventry, 1577; dean of Durham, 1596; bishop of Durham, 1606; died 1617; [admitted a student of Christ Church about 1559; B.A. 1563; M.A. 1565; divinity reader in Magdalen College; B.D. 1571; rector of Kingham, Oxon, from 1575 until 1601; elected master of University College, June 12, 1572; and resigned that charge September 14, 1584; proceeded D.D. 1574; and was dean of Christ Church for twelve years, until 1596. He served the office of vice-chancellor in 1581 and in 1590; and was "very strict in his office, endeavouring, not only to break the ill course of preaching taken up through a late custom by the Divines of the University," but also trying to suppress the clamorous proceedings of the regents on the granting of degrees; he succeeded Dr. Tobie Mathew in the deaneries of Christ Church and Durham, and in the bishopric of the latter diocese, and, dying on the 12th of May, 1617, was buried in the choir of that cathedral. was chaplain to Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and his confessor at his death. Two single sermons of his were printed, one preached before the queen, at Hampton Court, 1578; the other preached at Paul's Cross, 1589. Dr. Bliss quotes a

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curious letter, dated 1573, to Lord Burleigh, from the chaplains and fellows of the Savoy, in which, after commending James's "living, learning, and zeal in religion, and more particularly his wisdom and policy in restoring and bringing to happy quietness, the late wasted, spoiled, and indebted University College in Oxon, whereof he is now master," they pray that the queen may be moved to appoint him master of the Savoy.

Bishop James was the son of John James, of Littleton, in Staffordshire, but he was a native of Sandbach, in Cheshire, whence his mother came. His hospitality during his younger days was notorious; he spent a great deal in the repair of the chapel of Durham House in the Strand, and bequeathed legacies to the poor at Kingham and Bishop's Auckland. He contributed liberally to the re-establishment of the library at Christ Church, and to the formation of the Bodleian Library. His picture hangs in the hall at Christ Church, and in the Bodleian. Ath. Ox. ii. 203-4; Fasti, i. 161. 168. 187. 196. 217. 250; Hist. and Antiq. ii. 246-7, Pt. ii. 791. 937, Pt. iii. 52-3. 439. 458, Appx. 296; Fuller's Church Hist. iii. 266, lib. x.; Willis's Cath. Surv. i. 248-9. 254. 416; ii. 440.]

2 T. NEVILLE, master of [Buckingham, otherwise called] Magdalen College [1582]; dean of Peterborough, 1590; dean of Canterbury, 1597. He built one of the quadrangles of Trinity College (called Neville's Court) and enlarged the old one; died 1615. [One of the ancient and illustrious family of the Nevilles. His father, Richard Neville, Esq., held a place about the court for some years, and, when he withdrew from it, settled at Canterbury, in which city his son was born. Thomas Neville was sent to Cambridge, and became fellow of Pembroke in 1570; he was rector of Doddington, in the Isle of Ely, from 1587 till 1590; appointed queen's chaplain and prebendary of Ely, 1587, being at that time rector of Teversham; he was also rector of Charton, Hants, and of Barnack, Northamptonshire; and vice-chancellor, 1588. He resigned the headship of Magdalen, on his nomination to that of Trinity, and the deanery of Peterborough, on his appointment to that of Canterbury. He died May 2, and was buried at Canterbury on the 25th, in a chapel adjoining the body of the cathedral, which had been repaired for him, and wherein he had erected a monument for himself and his brother Alexander, whom he had survived. He was famous for his liberality, and especially for the manner in which he entertained King James when he visited Cambridge; upon which reception Bishop Hacket remarks that "he never had his like for a splendid, courteous, and bountiful gentleman." He is said to

have spent more than 30007. upon the buildings at Trinity. Dr. Neville was very intimate with Archbishop Whitgift, and was deputed by that prelate to convey the address of the clergy to King James, on the death of Queen Elizabeth. Whitgift also appointed him overseer of his will.— Cole's MSS. iv. 97; xlv. 225; Ath. Ox. ii. 777; Hacket's Life of Williams, 214; Le Neve's Fasti, 398; Hasted's Kent, iv. 591; Willis's Cath. Surv. ii. 378. 511; Fuller's Church Hist. iii. 168-9.]

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3 W. CAMDEN. See p. 11-12.

1 T. RAVIS. See Election, 1575.

[R. IRELAND. See Election, 1587.]

3 L. ANDREWES, canon residentiary of St. Paul's, 1589; prebendary of Southwell; chaplain to Queen Elizabeth; master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge; prebendary of Westminster, 1593; bishop of Chichester, and lord high almoner, 1605; bishop of Ely, 1609; bishop of Winchester and dean of the Chapel Royal, 1618; a learned man and eloquent preacher; one of the translators of the Bible; died, 1626, aged 71.-Biographia Britannica, i. 184. [This learned prelate was a native of All Hallows, Barking, and educated at Cambridge, being first a scholar, then a fellow, of Pembroke College, of which he was chosen master in 1589. He was M.A. of Cambridge; incorporated in that degree at Oxford, 1581, and elected one of the first scholars of Jesus College in the lastnamed university; B.D.; vicar of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, which living he gave up in 1604; and of Cheam, Surrey, 1609; but he resigned the latter vicarage in the same year. He was also a privy-councillor.

He died September 26, at Winchester House, Southwark, and lay there till November 11, when his body was removed to St. Saviour's Church, and there interred.

Bishop Andrewes was never married, and left the greatest part of his estate to charitable uses; indeed it has been said of him that every benefice he had was the better for his tenancy of it. As dean of Westminster he was present at, and took part in, the Conferences of Divines at Hampton Court, before King James, 1604; and presided over the ten translators of the Bible, who met at Westminster, and to whom were assigned the earlier books of the Old Testament to the end of the first book of Chronicles. Fuller thus quaintly

records his learning and virtues :-"The world wanted learning to know how learned this man was, so skilled in all (especially oriental) languages, that some conceive he might, if then living, almost have served as interpreter-general at the confusion of tongues. Nor are the Fathers more faithfully cited in his books than lively copied out in his countenance and carriage, his gravity in a manner awing King James, who refrained from that mirth and liberty in the presence of this prelate, which otherwise he assumed to himself." And Bishop Hacket tells us that he looked much after the improvement of the Westminster Scholars, often even supplying for a week together the place of the masters; that he revised their exercises, was always accompanied by two of them when he went to Chiswick, that he frequently sent for those in the upper forms, and devoted whole evenings to their instruction, and that this was done in a very strict and exact, though in a mild and tender manner. Bishops Duppa, and Hacket himself, who were instructed in Hebrew by this pious dean, are instances of this attention to the interests of the King's Scholars. (See Election, 1605.)-Fasti Ox. i. 219; Hist. and Antiq. ii. 569; Romilly's Cant. Grad., Lists at the end; Widmore's West. Abbey, 144-6 and 223; Fuller's Church Hist. iii. 173. 186. 227 and 348-9, (books x. and xi.); Newcourt, i. 357; Manning's Surrey, ii. 479; Hacket's Life of Williams, 44-5.]

R. NEILE, master of the Savoy, 1605; clerk of the closet to King James I. and King Charles I., bishop of Rochester, 1608; bishop of Lichfield, 1610; bishop of Lincoln, 1613; bishop of Durham, 1617; bishop of Winchester, 1627; and archbishop of York, 1632; died, 1640. [Richard Neile, or Neale, as his name is written in all the archives of St. John's College, was the son of a tallow-chandler in King Street, Westminster, and born in that city, March, 1561-2; educated at Westminster School under Grant. On the death of his father, his mother would have been forced to apprentice him to a trade, had he not been removed from Westminster, on the nomination of Dean Goodman, to one of the two scholarships at St. John's College, Cambridge, which Mildred, Lady Burghley, had founded in Goodman's name at that College. His subscription upon his admission is in these words: "Ego Ricardus Nealus Westmonasteriensis, admissus sum Discipulus pro Dño Doctore Goodman

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Decano Westmonasteriensi, 1580, Apr. This benefaction he held until 1585. He matriculated in the month after his admission, and took the degree of B.A. 1584; that of M.A. in 1586. Wood says "that he passed through all degrees and orders of the Church of England, and was thereby made acquainted with the conveniences and distresses incident to all conditions. He served the church as schoolmaster, curate, vicar, parson, master of the Savoy, dean of Westminster; and it must be remarked that the number of his translations is unparalleled in the English church." The Cecils did not desert him, for after his ordination he was made chaplain to the great Lord Burghley, and continued in that employment by his son Robert, Earl of Salisbury. Vicar of Cheshunt, Herts, from 1590 until 1605; and he also held the living of Tuddington; he was first prebendary, and, in 1598, treasurer, of Chichester; the latter office, and therefore probably the former, he resigned on his promotion to Lichfield, in 1610; he held the livings of Southfleet, Kent, and of Clifton Cumville, in commendam with the see of Lichfield, which was the occasion of a remarkable lawsuit.

In 1600, Neile was incorporated in the degree of D.D., at Oxford, to which he had already been admitted at Cambridge; he was installed dean here, November 5, 1605, the day of the celebrated Gunpowder Plot; consecrated a bishop October 9, 1608; sworn of the Privy Council April 29, 1627; at the same time as Bishop Laud, whose patron he was, having made him his chaplain, and placed him in the road to the great preferments which he ultimately reached.

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He died, October 31, in the Close of the church at York, and was buried in that cathedral in the chapel of All Saints, without any memorial being erected to him, although Sir Paul Neile, his son, who survived him, was a person of fortune. was, as may be seen by his will, sincerely and firmly attached to the Church of England, and opposed the Scotch courtiers of James I. in their incessant attempts to pillage her revenues. Both at Durham and Lincoln he spent large sums of money upon the episcopal residences. Dr. Heylin describes him as "a man of so strange a composition, that whether he were of a larger and more publick soul, or of a more uncourtly conversation, it were hard to say." Wood's character of him is still more in his praise, "He died," says that biographer, "as full of years as he was of honours, an affectionate subject to his prince, an indulgent father to his clergy, a bountiful patron to his chaplains, and a true friend to all who relied upon him." He is supposed to have published a book called Spalato's Shiftings in Religion; against Marc. Ant. de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalato, in 1624. He left to his

1610. John Wilson2.

1610. Thomas Hardinge".

successors, at Westminster, an account, attested by seven prebendaries, of what was done at Westminster during the five years he was Dean, with an account of himself; in which it is recorded also that Camden presented to the chapter an ewer and basin weighing 105 oz. Dr. Baker, in his account of this prelate in St. John's College, says, "Fuit Scholæ Westmonasteriensi tam ope quam consilio egregius patronus-ubi olim fuerat alumnus."-Fasti Ox. i. 287-8; Widmore's West. Abbey, 146 8; Cole's MSS. xlix. 143. 271-2, Athenæ, N. 30; Strype's An. III. ii. 126; Willis's Cath. Surv. i. 55. 249. 393; ii. 68; Fuller's Worthies, ii. 421.]

5 J. KING. See Election, 1576.

1 G. MONTAIGNE, divinity professor of Gresham College, 1606; master of the Savoy; bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 1610; bishop of Lincoln, 1617; bishop of London, 1621; bishop of Durham, 1627; and archbishop of York, 1628; died, 1628. ["Scarce warm in his church," Fuller tells us, "before cold in his coffin;"he was born, 1569; entered at Queen's College, Cambridge, 1586, of which he became fellow, 1591; and served as junior proctor to the University, 1600; B.D. 1602; D.D. 1607; rector of Great Cressingham, Norfolk, 1602; and of Cheam, Surrey, 1609; he resigned this deanery on his translation to Lincoln in 1617; and was appointed Lord High Almoner, 1619; he was anxious to have been master of his college, but Bishop Davenant carried off the prize; it was on this occasion that he gave a handsome drinking cup to the college, with the inscription "Incipio" on it. He was nominated to the see of Durham, as stated above, in 1627, but, not liking to leave London, he deferred accepting it until 1628, when York fell vacant, and he gladly took it; he was elected to York, June 26; enthroned, October 24; and died in a fortnight from that time, about November 6. He was buried in the chancel of the church of Cawood, Yorkshire, his native place, in which a "comely' monument was erected to his memory by his brother, surmounted by a bust of him in large sleeves, with a long inscription on it; the metrical part of which was by Hugh Holland the poet. He died a bachelor, and, in grateful remembrance of having been a fellow of Queen's, founded two scholarships and gave a large piece of ground to that college. Fuller asserts (erroneously, as may be seen by the monument at Cawood) that Montaigne was a native of Thame, Oxon; and adds, that when his great housekeeping" (in the see of London) "and magnificent entertaining of King James shall be forgotten, will longer survive for his bountiful benefaction to Queen's College, Cam

bridge." Widmore says, that he had the character "of a person of wit and entertaining conversation," and got into James the First's favour by the pleasant and lively answers he made to that prince upon several occasions: He was celebrated for his personal courage; and Fuller says, "would turn his back upon no man when he was out of his gown:" He accompanied Lord Essex to Cadiz, in the capacity of chaplain. When Bishop of London, he used jokingly to predict his own advancement—" Lincoln was, London is, and York shall be," in allusion to the ancient couplet :

"Lincoln was, London is, and York shall be The greatest city of all the three."

Ath. Ox. ii. 871-2; Willis's Cath. Surv. i. 54. 249; Newcourt's Rep. i. 29-30. 719; Fuller's Worthies, iii. 413, Church Hist. iii. 294. 359; Widmore's West. Abbey, 148-9; Ward's Lives of the Gresham Professors.]

2 J. WILSON. See Election, 1602.

3 [THOS. HARDINGE. There is mention of him in the following document, quoted in Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, Book XIII. No. xvi. 502-6, where a letter is given from Owen Price, of Magdalen College, to Henry Scobell, secretary to His Highness his Councill in Whitehall, complaining of the difficulties he meets with in his way to the mastership of Westminster School; with certain considerations to be proposed to the Governors, dated June 2, 1658.

"Considerations to be proposed to the Hon. the Governors of the Free School at Westminster. 1. "That whereas the second schoolmaster of that school was wont to teach the third and fourth formes (as it hath bin a constant custome for above sixty years), and that now, upon the occasion of a late quarrel, this method is disordered by taking up the third schoolmaster into the Upper School, and by casting down the second to teach the three lowest formes. It is desired that the school may be reduced to its former order, and that the second schoolmaster may have the full benefit of those boyes whom he teaches for himself.

2. "That no restraint be upon him to be constant with the town boyes at bed and board; but that sometimes he may visit his familie, it being in the neighbourhood. For one MR. HARDING (who was the second schoolmaster and a married man) had his abode in his own familie; the statutes not requiring that the second should be more constant with them than the Head schoolmaster.

3. "It s desired that the schoolmasters should

pray in English in their turns, not using the same form and that he that prays should call one of the boyes to read a chapter in the English Bible; and that all the boyes should give an accompt of the chapter read, as the master is pleased to ask"]

I W. GOODWIN. See Election, 1573.

2 J. RICHARDSON, one of the translators of the Bible; regius professor of divinity [from 1607 till 1617]; master of Peterhouse [1608], and vice-chancellor [1617]; died, 1625. [Fellow of Emanuel College; B.D. 1592; admitted master of Trinity College, May 27, 1615. Fuller relates an acute and severe reply which he made to King James I., who was presiding at a divinity act at Cambridge: The question debated was the right of excommunicating kings; and the king exclaimed to Dr. Richardson, who quoted the precedent of St. Ambrose and the Emperor Theodosius, "Profectò fuit hoc ab Ambrosio insolentissimè factum;" Richardson rejoined, "Responsum vere regium et Alexandro dignum. Hoc non est argumentum dissolvere, sed desecare;"-and refused to continue the discussion. He was celebrated for his skill in languages. A benefactor to Emanuel College and to Peterhouse; to the latter, he gave 100l., towards rebuilding the new court. He was buried in Trinity College chapel. Fuller says that he was born of honest parentage, at Linton, in Cambridgeshire.-Cole's MSS. xlv. 225, Cole's Athenæ, R.; Le Neve's Fasti, 401; Fasti Ox. i. 336; Fuller's Worthies, i. 238; Hist. of Cambridge, 48; Lists at the end of Romilly's Cant. Grad.]

3 R. TOUNSON, bishop of Salisbury, 1620; an eminent preacher; died, 1621. [A native of Cambridge, and educated in that university; became fellow of Queen's College;-was incorporated in the degree of M.A. at Oxford, in 1599;-proceeded D.D. at Cambridge, and was consecrated bishop of Salisbury, July 9, 1620. Bishop Tounson is described by Fuller as possessing a happy memory," and as being "of a comely carriage, courteous nature, an excellent preacher;" and, it is added, "he left a wife and many children, neither plentifully provided for, nor destitute of maintenance;" the same author says in another place that Tounson was "free from covetousness, confident in God's providence that his children should be provided for, which they were." Camden, on the contrary, says that these children amounted to fifteen, and were in a great measure unprovided

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for. He died May 15, 1621, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, against St. Edmund's Chapel, but without any monument to his memory. From another account of him we learn that he was "a person of singular piety, eloquence, and humility."-Fasti Ox. i. 283; Fuller's Church Hist. iii. 204; Worthies, i. 231-2; Widmore's West. Abbey, 149-50; Le Neve's Fasti, 261.]

1 J. WILLIAMS, chaplain to King James I., master of the Savoy, dean of Salisbury, 1619; lord keeper of the great seal, and bishop of Lincoln, 1621; archbishop of York, 1641; died, 1650.-Biographia Britannica, vii. 427. [Derived his origin from a good family in North Wales, being the son of Edmund Williams of Conway, Carnarvonshire;-received his education at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took his degrees, that of B.A. at the close of the Queen's reign, and that of M.A. three years later; he was chosen fellow, 1603; appointed chaplain to the Lord Chancellor Egerton, but did not reside with him, until he had served the office of proctor to the university, in 1611-12. During his year of office he was noted for the splendid manner in which he entertained the Lord Chancellor and the Spanish Ambassador on their visit to Cambridge. In 1601, he was appointed to the rectory of Duddinghurst; in 1611, to that of Grafton, Northamptonshire; and in 1614, to that of Waldegrave, in the latter county. He also held the rectory of Dinam, and the sinecure rectory of Llanchiadr, in Kinmerch; the latter he vacated soon after his nomination to the deanery of Salisbury, when he likewise gave up the mastership of the Savoy.

He was also appointed prebendary of Hereford, 1612; prebendary and precentor of Lincoln, 1613; and prebendary of Peterborough, 1616. He held the stall at Lincoln, and the rectory of Waldegrave, in commendam with the see of Lincoln,-and the deanery of Westminster, with the archiepiscopal see, until December 1644. He was appointed to an archdeaconry in Wales (probably Cardigan) by Archbishop Bancroft; it is, however, doubtful whether he actually took possession of it; though by virtue of it he sat in the Convocation of 1613. His political career is well known at the suggestion of the Duke of Buckingham, King James appointed him Lord Keeper, July 10, 1621. The hand that raised him pulled him down; and he was removed from that important post, November 1, 1625, which, Lord Clarendon sarcastically says, "though he was a man of great wit and good scholastick learning," was "the only recompence and satisfaction that could be made for his promotion." Upon his disgrace at court, he withdrew into the country, and obtained considerable

popularity by undisguised speeches against the court and the king. He had always looked upon Laud as his enemy, and,- on the latter taking in hand the restoration of the Church from the negligent state into which it had fallen under Archbishop Abbot,-published a book against the rules and injunctions of the Archbishop; "a book," says Clarendon," so full of good learning, and that learning so close and solidly applied (though it abounded with too many light expressions), that it gained him reputation enough to be able to do hurt; and showed that, in his retirement, he had spent his time with his books very profitably." He had several informations lodged against him in the Star Chamber, and was finally convicted for suborning the witnesses, and sentenced, July 11, 1637, by that court to suspension from his benefices, fined in a great sum of money to the king, and committed prisoner to the Tower, where he remained until November 16, 1640. After his release he was for some time the idol of the Puritans, whom, however, he displeased by a sermon preached in the early part of the following year; in the latter part of which the king translated him to York; and he it was who, a few days after this translation, persuaded the other eleven bishops to sign the Protest against the legality of the Acts of Parliament during their absence, for which they were accused of high treason by the House of Commons, and imprisoned in the Tower for eighteen months. When he regained his freedom, he joined the king at Oxford, and retired to his castle of Aberconway, which he carefully fortified for the royal cause, but upon some pique gave it over to a garrison of the Parliament, and declared for that party.

He died at Glodduith, in Carnarvon, March 25 (being the anniversary of his birthday), 1650, and was buried in Llandegui church, where his heirs erected a monument to him, for which Bishop Hacket (see Election, 1608) wrote the inscription. Wood says, that "while he was in his greatness, he was characterized to be a person of a generous mind, a lover and encourager of learning and learned men (he himself being very learned), hospitable, and a great benefactor to the public, yet always high and proud, and sometimes insolent, and to have pharisaical leaven in him:" Certain it is that he displayed a princely liberality towards the benefices committed to his charge. At Westminster, Widmore says, he made Islip his pat tern, for his conduct as to the buildings of the church, and Dean Andrewes, for the encouragement of the school and scholars, and advancement of learning; and Bishop Hacket gives the same testimony as to his anxiety for the proficiency of the King's Scholars. He laid out, in no long time after his nomination to the deanery, 4,5007. on the repairs