"was a Fellow of Pembroke-Hall, in Cam bridge (then called Collegium Epifcop.) for that " in one time in those days there were seven of "that House. The Puritan faction did begin "to emerge in those days, and especially at Em "manuel College: they had a great mind to "draw in to them this learned young man; who

(if they could make strong) they knew would "be a great honour to them. They carried "themselves antiently with great severity and "ftrictness. They preached up the strict keep"ing and obferving of the Lord's-Day, made it "damnation to break it, and that 'twas leffe fin "to kill a man. Yet these hypocrites did bowl " in a private Green at other Colleges, every "Sunday after fermon. And one at the Col "lege, (a loving friend to Mr. Andrewes,) to fa"tisfy him, lent him one day the key of the

private back-door to the Bowling-Green, "where he difcovered these zealous Preachers "with their gownes off earnest at play; but "they were ftrangely furprized to fee the entry "of one who was not of the brotherhood.

"There was then at Cambridge a good fatt "Alderman that was wont to fleep at church, " which

which the Alderman endeavoured to prevent, "but could not. Well, this was preached « against as a mark of reprobation. The good "man was exceedingly troubled at it, and went "to Mr. Andrewes's chamber to be fatisfied in "point of conscience. Mr. Andrewes told him, "it was an ill habit of body, not of mind, and "advised him on Sundays to make a sparing "meal at dinner, and to make it up at fupper. "The Alderman did so, but fleepe comes upon «him againe for all that, and he was preached "againft. He comes again to Mr. Andrewes " with tears in his eyes to be refolved; who "then told him that he would have him make "a full hearty meale as he was used to do, and "presently after take out his full fleep. The "Alderman followed his advice, and came to "St. Marie's church the Sunday afterwards, "where the Preacher was provided with a fer"mon to damn all those who slept at that godly "exercise, as a mark of reprobation. The good

Alderman, having taken Mr. Andrewes's ad«vice, looks at the Preacher all the fermon "time, and spoiled his defign. Mr. Andrewes "was extremely fpoken and preached against "for offering to affoyle or excufe a fleeper in "fermon-time. But he had learning and witt " enough to defend himself."---Aubrey's MS. Notes.

"The fullness of his material learning," fays the Dedication of Bishop. Andrewes's Sermons, " left room enough in the temper of his brain "for almost all languages, learned and mo❝dern, to feat themselves; fo that his learning "had all the helps language could afford, and

his languages learning enough for the best of "them to exprefs; his judgment, in the mean "time, fo commanding over both, as that nei❝ther of them was fuffered idly or curiously to start from, or fall fhort of, their intended fcope; fo that we may better fay of him than' was faid of Claudius Drufus, He was of as "many and as great virtues as mortal nature "could receive, or industry make perfect."

This Prelate's character was fo. tranfcendant, that Milton himself did not difdain to write an Elegy upon his death. Archbishop Laud is faid to have made ufe of the Ritual of Bishop Andrewes, in the Ceremonies of the Church.

In his "Diary," Laud thus fpeaks of this great Prelate: "Sept. 21. Sept. 21. About 4 o'clock in the morning died Launcelot Andrewes, the moft worthy Bishop of Winchester, the great દુઃ light of the Christian world."

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DR. HAYDOCK.

"JAMES the Firft," fays Wilson, " took delight

by the line of his reafon to found the depths "of bruitish impoftures, and he discovered many: "for in the beginning of his reign, Richard "Haydock, of New-College in Oxford, prac "tifed phyfick in the day, and preached in the night in his bed. His practice came by his profeffion, and his preaching (as he pretended) by revelation: for he would take a "text in his fleep, and deliver a good fermon upon it; and though his auditorie were will "ing to filence him, by pulling, haling, and pinching, yet would he pertinaciously perfift to "the end, and fleep ftill. The fame of this "fleeping Preacher flyes abroad with a light "wing, which coming to the King's knowledge, "The commanded him to the Court, where he fate "up one night to hear him: and when the

time came that the Preacher thought it was "fit for him to be asleep, he began with a

prayer, then took a text of Scripture, which "he fignificantly enough infifted on a while, "but after made an excurfion against the Pope, "the Crofs in Baptism, and the last Canons of "the Church of England, and fo concluded "fleeping. The King would not trouble him T3 "that!

"that night, letting him reft after his labors, but "fent for him the next morning, and in private "handled him fo like a cunning Surgeon, that "he found out the fore; making him confefs "not onely his fin and error in the act, but the "cause that urged him to, it which was, that he "apprehended himself as a buried man in the

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Univerfitie, being of a low condition, and if fomething eminent and remarkable did not fpring from him, to give life to his reputation, " he should never appear any body, which made "him attempt this novelty to be taken notice "of. The King, finding him ingenuous in his "confeffion, pardoned him, and (after his recant"ation publiquely) gave him preferment in the "Church. Some others, both men and women,

inspired with fuch enthufiafmes, and frantique "fancies, he reduced to their right fenfes, apply.

ing his remedies fuitable to the distemper, "wherein he made himself often very merry, "And truly the loofneffe and carelesneffe of

publique juftice fets open a dore to fuch flagi. "tious and nefarious actions, as feverer times would never have perpetrated."