cester, on the death of Orindal, in 1583. So far was he from excelling his predecessor in learning, that perhaps he might have been omit- ted in a literary history of his country, had he not made a striking figure in the theological transactions of the period. His bold and ardent spirit fully qualified him for seconding the views of her majesty against those who refused to con- form to the established church. Such was his zeal in this respect, that he obtained an ecclesi- astical commission with the most inquisitorial powers, and under virtue of which he contrived to lay every possible restriction on the liberty of the press. He was born in 1530, and died Feb. 28, 1604. He left no work deserving of parti- cular notice.[1]
Edwyn Sandys was one of the commissioners for revising the Liturgy, and had a share in the translation of the Bishops' Bible. He was appointed bishop of Worcester; in 1576 was translated to London, and in 1567 to York, where a wicked conspiracy was formed to fix on him the imputation of adultery, which was dis- covered, and the authors punished. He was born at Hawkshead, in Lancashire, in I5I9, and died August 8, 1588. His sermons and letters have been printed.[2]
John Aylmer was born in Norfolk, about 1521, was educated at Cambridge, and afterwards tutor to lady Jane Grey. In 1553, he was made arch- deacon of Stow, in Lincolnshire, and strenuously exerted himself against the catholics. During Mary's reign he retired to Zurich, in Switzer- land, but returned on the accesnon of Elizabeth, and in 1576 was appointed to the see of London. Like Whitgift, he was more noted for bis seve- rity against the puritans than for his learning; thon^ Stiype says, that he was not only a learned, but a humble and pious bishop. The work by which he distinguished himself in the literary world was his answer to John Knox's Pint Blast againtt the Monitrmu Regiment mid Empire of Women. He died at Fulham, June 3, 1504.
Thomas Bilson, bishop of Winchester, to which be had been translated from Worcester, was of very considerable eminence among the divines of the age. He was afterwards one of the two final correctors of the present translation of the bible. He died June 18, 1616.
Gervase Babington was successively bishop of Landaff, Exeter, and Worcester, was unques- tionably a man of abilities and learning. He was born in Devonshire, and educated at Trinity college, Cambridge. He died May 17, 1610, leaving some esteemed works, as Notet on tite Pentateuch, etc. Buried at Winchester.
Bernard Gilpin, generally called the apottie of the North, demands an applause to which mere literature, imaccompanied by such virtues, as he was endowed with, can never be entitled. He was possessed of learning; but his chief praise arises from having devoted his whole life to preaching, to hospitality, to the erection of schools, to the care of the poor, and providing for the destitute churches. By these means he diffused the most im^rtant knowlege, in an ignorant and comparatively uncivilized country, far more extensively than he could have done by the publication of books. He was bora at Kent- mire, in Westmoreland,in 1517, and educated at Queen's college, Oxford, of which he became fellow; and by reading the works of Erasmus, he secretly embraced Sie principles of the re- formation. In 1556 he was presented by his uncle to the archdeaconry of Durham, and the rectory of Easington, where he laboured with truly apostolical zeal; and in his capacity of archdeacon made strict visitation, being a great enemy to non-residence and pluralities. He was next presented to the rectory of Houghton le Spring, where his labours were so remarkable, that Bonner gave orders for him to be arrested, smd sent to London. Gilpin dressed himself for the stake, but before he reached London news arrived of the queen's death, on which he re- turned to his parish to the great joy of the people. Elizabeth offered him the bishopric of Carlisle, which he refused. He died universally regretted by his parishioners at Houghton Ic Spring, March 4, 1583.
Thomas Bentham, bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, was particularly celebrated for his knowledge of the Hebrew and Chaldee tongues. He died Feb. 19, 1597.
Alexander Nowell, dean of St Paul's, who died Feb. 13, 1602; Laurence Humphreys, dean of Winchester; and Peter Baro, a native of France, were conspicuous for their theological attainments.
Among the writen of the puritanic party, Thomas Cartwright was the most eminent both as a scholar and a divine; he was, indeed, the head of the party, and qualified to sustain that character by his abilities, his zeal, his literature, and his writings. He was sometime lady Mar- garet professor at Cambridge. For his attach- ment to the principles he had embraced, he went through a variety of sufferings; being harassed by suspensions, deprivation.s, and a long im- prisonment. Archbishop Whitgift pursued him with unrelenting rancour, charging him with want of learning, but Theodore Beza, who was, undoubtedly, a competent judge, said of him, that there was not a more learned man under the sun. After various labours and conflicts, Cartwright obtained a peaceful asylum, by the favour of Robert earl of Leicester, who made him goveraor of his hospital at Warwick, where he ended his days, in much esteem for his mo- deration, prudence, and pieW.
Thomas Sampson, dean 01 Christ church, Ox- ford, of which fie was deprived, and imprisoned
- ↑ In November, 1572, a Presbytery of dissenters was first established at Wandsworth, near London -. and in 1595, Whitgift, assisted by the divines of Cambridge, forms the Lambeth Articles.
- ↑ Sir Edwin Sandys, his second son, was born about 1551, and educated at Oxford under the learned Hooker. He then went on his travels.and the result of his observations he published under the title of Europe Speculum, 4to. Be was knighted by James I. and died 1629. He left £1550 to the university of Oxford, for the endowment of a metaphysical lecture.
