taking effect (1 Jan. 1656) of Cromwell's declaration (24 Nov. 1655), which forbade sequestered clergy to preach in public. On the two Sundays preceding his departure a clerical friend preached for him, when the parishioners made collections at the church doors, and presented him with 400l.
He returned to the country, and was in the daily habit of paying a visit to Hales, then reduced to a ‘mean lodging’ at Eton, where in May he died. On learning his friend's circumstances, Farindon said: ‘I have at present money to command, and to-morrow will pay you fifty pounds in part of the many sums I and my poor wife have received of you in our great necessities, and will pay you more, suddenly, as you shall want it.’ Hales, though nearly at his last shilling of ready money, refused to take a penny from Farindon. It was to Farindon that Hales gave directions for his simple funeral.
Farindon died in the country on 9 Oct. 1658; it is not certain whether he had been allowed to resume his London ministry; he was buried at the church in Milk Street. His will, which is dated 6 Oct., mentions his sons Anthony and Charles, and four daughters.
Farindon's reputation rests upon a hundred and thirty sermons, of which thirty-one were published by himself, in a volume dedicated to Robinson, his patron, the remainder by his executors, John Millington and John Powney (son of an old servant of Hales). At the university he had been ‘a noted preacher’ (Walker), and his discourses, though more remarkable for force of style than polish of manner, will always be valued for their grasp of learning and strength of thought. Jackson very happily says of Farindon's use of ancient authors, that he ‘employs them only as his servants, not as his masters.’ His breadth of treatment shows the influence of Hales, and without disparagement to his orthodoxy he may be ranked with the more cautious of the latitude men.
His works are: 1. ‘XXX. Sermons,’ &c., 1657, fol. (some copies are dated MDCXLVII., the British Museum copy has MDCLVII.; the dedication is dated 20 April 1657; in reality there are thirty-one sermons). 2. ‘Forty Sermons,’ &c. 1663, fol. (edited by Anthony Scattergood for the executors). These two volumes were reprinted in 1672, fol.; but the reprint differs both in number of sermons (having eight additional) and in their arrangement. 3. ‘Fifty Sermons,’ &c. 1674, fol. (Jackson thinks the sermon on Ps. li. 12 not genuine). There is a complete edition of the sermons, 1849, 8vo, 4 vols.
Farindon at the time of his death was collecting materials for a life of Hales. These papers were sent by Millington, his executor, to Izaak Walton, who placed them at the disposal of William Fulman [q. v.] The paper containing Farindon's account of his last visits to Hales (quoted above) came on Fulman's death into the hands of Archdeacon Davies of Sapperton, Gloucestershire, who communicated it to Walker. Chalmers, in his life of Hales, made some use of Farindon's materials, as digested by Fulman.
[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), iii. 457 (also under ‘Woodward’ and ‘Ireton’); Fasti, i. 365, 393, 452; Lloyd's Memoires, 1678, p. 543; Walker's Sufferings, 1714, ii. 94, 96, 240; Chalmers's Gen. Biog. Dict., 1814, xvii. 41 (art. ‘Hales’); Life, by T. Jackson, prefixed to 1849 edition of the sermons; autobiography of Sir John Branston in Ecclesiastic, October 1853, as quoted by Stoughton, Church of the Commonwealth, 1867, pp. 299, 300; extract from baptismal register of Sonning, per Archdeacon Pott.]
FARINGDON (alias Cook), HUGH (d. 1539), was subchamberlain of the Benedictine abbey of Reading at the death of Abbot Thomas Worcester in July 1520, and was elected to supply the vacancy. The election was confirmed on 26 Sept., and a few days after Henry VIII visited the newly elected abbot and was hospitably entertained. He was probably of obscure birth, and a native of Faringdon, Berkshire. He was, however, a friend of Arthur Plantagenet, lord Lisle, the natural son of Edward IV, and received his stepson, James Basset, to be educated in the abbey school under his eye. His relations with the king, as far as recorded, were of the usual courteous character for a man in his position. New-year's gifts were exchanged, and when the king was hunting in the neighbourhood the abbot sent him presents of fish (Kennet trout probably) and hunting knives; and while the king was searching everywhere in England and on the continent for authorities to support his views on matrimonial law, Faringdon sent him a catalogue of the abbey library, and subsequently the books which he thought would serve his purpose. He took his share of the public work expected of a mitred abbot. He sat in parliament from 1523 to 1539, and in the former year was one of the triers of petitions from Gascony and the parts beyond the sea. He was present also in the House of Lords at the passing of the act for the suppression of the greater monasteries in 1539. In November 1529 he attended convocation personally and not by proxy, as was usual at that time. In the following summer he appended his signature, with other spiritual and temporal lords, to the letter to the pope pointing out the
