'Now, my son, you will expect that I should say something that may remain of us jointly (which I will do, though it make my eyes gush out with tears, and cuts me to the soul to remember), and in part express the joys with which I was blessed in him. Glory be to God, we never had but one mind throughout our lives; our souls were wrapt up in each other; our aims and designs were one; our loves one; our resentments one. We so studied one the other, that we knew each other's minds by our looks. Whatever was real happiness, God gave it to me in him. But to commend my better half (which I want sufficient expression for), methinks is to commend myself, and so may bear a censure. But might it be permitted, I could dwell eternally on his praise most justly. But thus without offence I do, and so you may-imitate him in his patience, his prudence, his chastity, his charity, his generosity, his perfect resignation to God's will; and praise God for him as long as you live here, and be with him hereafter in the kingdom of heaven.'

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SIR JOHN GLANVILL.

IR JOHN GLANVILL, Knt. (says Wood) was a younger son of SIR John Glanvill of Tavistock, in Devonshire, one of the Justices of the Common Bench, (who died 27th July, 1600) and he, the third son of another John of the same place; where, and in that county their name was genteel and ancient. When he was young he was not educated in this University; (Oxford) but was (as his father before him) bred an attorney, and afterwards studied the common Law in Lincoln's Inn, and, with the help of his father's notes, became a great proficient. When he was a counsellor of some years standing, he was elected Recorder of Plymouth, and Burgess for that place, to serve in several parliaments: in the fifth of Charles Ist. he was Lent reader of his Inn, and on the 20th of May, 1639, he was made Serjeant at Law: at which time, having engaged himself to be a better servant to the King than formerly, (for in several parliaments he had been an enemy to the Prerogative) he was in the year following elected Speaker for that Parliament which began at Westminster on the 13th of April, in which he shewed himself active to promote the King's desires: on the 6th July, the same year, he was made one of the King's Serjeants, being then esteemed an excellent orator, a good lawyer, and an ornament to his profession, and on the 7th of August 1641, he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall; afterwards, when the King was forced to leave the Parliament, he followed him to Oxon, and was very serviceable to him in many respects. In 1645 he was disenabled from being a member of Parliament, sitting at Westminster, for his delinquency, as it was then called; so that retiring to his home after the King's

cause declined, he was committed to Prison, where continuing till he made his composition, he was released in 1648. Under his name are these things extant (1.) Enlargements and Aggravations upon the sixth, seventh, and eighth articles against George Duke of Buckingham, anno 1626. See in John Rushworth's collections under 1626. (2.) Speech at a general committee of both Houses 23rd May, 1628, wherein he delivers the reasons of the Commons House, why they cannot admit of the propositions tendered unto them by the Lords concerning Sovereign power. Sovereign power. Printed in 4to. See in a book entitled the Sovereign's Prerogative and the Subject's Privileges discussed, &c. in the 3d and 4th of King Charles Ist. London, 1657, fol. p. 145. 186. (3.) Speech in Parliament concerning the petition of right. (4.) Two speeches before the King in the House of Lords, when he was presented by the House of Commons as their Speaker, 15th April, 1640. See in the said collections under the year 1640, p. 1121. 1123. (5.) Speech in the Upper House of Parliament for the redress of present grievances, in December, 1640, &c. with other things. After the return of his Majesty King Charles II. he was made his Serjeant also; and, dying on the second day of October, 1661, was buried in the church at Broad Kirton, in Wiltshire, the manour of which he some years before had bought. In September, 1673, Winifred his widow put a monument over his grave, with an inscription thereon, which, for brevity sake, shall be now omitted. One John Glanvill, of Exeter College, took the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1622, and afterwards that of Master; but he is not to be understood to be the same with Sir John; because he was never bred in any university, as his son hath informed me. The said Sir John Glanville had an elder brother, called Sir Francis, an inhabitant of Tavistock; who when young being very vicious, was disinherited by his father, and the estate settled on Sir John; but Sir Francis becoming afterwards a sober man, Sir John restored to him the estate. See the life and death of Sir Matthew Hale, written by Gilbert Burnet, D. D. London 1682, in a large octavo, p. 11." Wood's Fast. Oxon. II. Col. 720. edit. 1691.