ſome in mourning habits to a cave, and a freſh cloth is ſpread, which is obſerved to be done for all of them, that none of thoſe that ſuffered might ſee the Corps or bloud of thoſe that ſuffered before them.
Chap. LXII.
I. THis man had an incomparable wit, famous for his learning, as appeareth by his writings, renouned for his travels through Germany, Italie, France, England, and Turkie, where he lived ſeven years, he was very zealous, deſerving reverence even for his age, (for he was ſeventy years old) eminent alſo in regard of his places of preferment. For under Rodolphus he was a Counſellor, and was called to the place of one of the Directors of the reformed Conſiſtory, and Academie. By Mathias he was made a Counſellor, and by the Order, Director of the Kingdome in the vacancy, until a King was elected. Laſtly he was Preſident of the Court of Appeales, the glory of his Country, and the bright ſhining ſtarre of the Church; he was none that Lorded it over his inferiors, but was rather a Father to them. In a word , he was right deare both to God and man.
