сс LETTER II. TO THE SAME. "St. John's College, Cambridge, Aug. 18, 1611. "Whether you will be at that coste with your fon (Robert) or noe to make him Senior Bro"ther in Cambridge, beinge a Younger Brother at home, yeat the very conceyte thereof hath wroughte fuch miracles, as that there is more fittinge uppe at nights, more ftudiinge and "gettinge up in morninges that either love or "feare could worke before, fo that as St. Auften fpeakes, there is felix error quo decipimur in "melius. Befide his ordinarie charges for ap paraile and commencement, wch your Wor: « knows must neceffariely be borne in every "Batchelor, he is befide to feafte the Doctours " and Maifters of Houfes, wch will come to "fome 181. & to give the Father of the Acte a "Satten Suyte, or the value thereof; who, if it "fhould prove to be myself, as is most likelye, "that coste may be fpared. I referre it wholye "to yr Worshippes difcretion to judge if the cre" ditt will countervaile the charges; furelie it will "be an honour unto him as long as he continues in "the Universitie, & to his Brothers if they should "followe him.-Your poor kinfman in all dutie." LET 66 SIR, LETTER III. TO THE SAME. Bugden, 1 Dec. 1625. "With the remembrance of my love and beft "affections unto you-Being very fenfible of that ་་ great good will you have ever borne me, I thought "it not unneceffary to take this courfe with you, "wch I have done with no other Frynd in the worlde, as to defire you to be no more troubled "with this late accident befallen unto me, than you "fhall understand I am myfelfe. There is nothing happened which I did not forefee & (fithence the "death of my dear Maifter) affuredly expect, nor laye it in my power to prevent, otherwife than " by the facrififinge of my poor eftate, and that "wch I esteem farre above the fame, my reputation. "I know you love me too well, to wifh that I "fhould have been lavishe of either of these, to " continue longer (yeat noe longer than one man pleafed) in this glorious miferye and fplendid flaverie, wherein I have lived (if a man may call "fuch a toilinge a livinge) for these five years al"moft. I loofinge the Seals I have loft nothinge, "nor my fervants by any fault of mine, there being nothing either layde or fo much as wif"pered to my charge. If I have not the oppor"tunitie I hadd before to serve the King, I have "much more conveniency to ferve God-wch I " embrace "embrace as the onelye end of Gods love evidence to me in this fudden alteration. pro "For your Sonne Owen Wynne (who together " with my debts is all the object of my worldlye "thoughts & cares) I will performe towards him "all that he can have expected from me, if I live; " & if I dye, I have performed it allreadye.~~ "You neede not feare any miffe of me, being "so just and reserved in all your defires & re"quests; having alfoe your Eldefte Sonne neare "the Kinge & of good reputation in the Court, "who can give you a good account of any thinge "you fhall recommend unto him. ес Hoping therefore that I shall ever hold the "fame place I did in your love, wch was first "fixed on my perfon not my late place, & wch "I will deferve by all the freyndlye & lovinge "offices which thall lie in my power, I end with my prayer unto God for the continuance of "your health, & due reft your very affured loveinge Friend and Cozen "Jo. LINCOLN." "This learned Prelate," fays Wilson, " was of a comely and stately prefence; and that, ani"mated with a great mind, made him appear << very proud to the vulgar eye; but that very "C temper raised him to aim at great things, which "he effected: for the old ruinous body of the Abbey 2 "Abbey-church of Westminster was new clothed "by him; the fair and beautiful Library of St. "John's in Cambridge was a pile of his erection; "and a very complete Chapel built by him at "Lincoln College in Oxford (merely for the "name of Lincoln, having no intereft in nor re"lation to that Univerfity); thefe," obferves Wilson, "were arguments of a great mind: how "far from oftentation* (in this frail body of flesh) cannot now be determined, becaufe the "benefit of publique actions fmooths every fhore "that piles up the building. "But that," continues Wilson, " which heightened him moft in the opinion of those "who knew him best, was his bountiful mind to "men in want, he being a great patron to fupport, "where there was merit that wanted fupply; amongst the rest M. du Moulin † (a very famous "Proteftant Minister of France) in the perfecu"tion there driven into England for refuge. The Bishop hearing of him, fpoke to Dr. Hacket, "his Chaplain, to make him a vifit from him; " and because, faith he, I think the man may be « in Tacitus fays, "Contemptu fame virtutes contemnuntur.” † Pierre de Moulin, a celebrated Proteftant Minister in France, author of many books on religious controverfy. He came to England in the year 1615, with a plan of a general union of all the Proteftant Churches. The University of Leyden offered him their Divinity Profefforship, which he refafed. He died in 1658, at the age of 90. « in want in a strange country, carry him fome money (not naming the fum, because he would founde the depth of his Chaplain's minde). "Doctor Hacket, finding the Bishop nominate "no proportion, told him he could not give him leffe that twenty pounds. I did demurre upon "the fum, faid the Bishop, to try you. Is twenty сс pounds a gift for me to give a man of his parts " and deferts? Take a hundred pounds, and prefent "it to him from me, and tell him he fhall not want, and I will come fhortly and visit him myself. Which he after performed, and made good his promife in fupplying him during his "abode in England." According to Wilfon, " After a fpeech of James "the First to his Parliament, the Lord Keeper "Williams, Bifhop of Lincoln, and Speaker of "the House of Peers (who always uses to make "the King's mind be further known if there be caufe,) told the Houses of Lords and Com"mons, that after the eloquent speech of his Majefty, he would not say anything; for as one "of the Spartan Kings, being afked whether he "would not willingly hear a man that counter"feited the voice of a nightingale to the life, "made anfwer, that he had heard the nightingale; "fo, for him to repeat or rehearse what the King "had faid, was (according to the Latin proverb) "to enamel a gold ring with ftuds of iron. He "doubted |