constant preacher; and, in his own sermons, his course was to write down only the heads, and meditate upon the rest, while the bell was ringing to church. Yet so firm was his memory, that he used to say, if he were to deliver a premeditated speech before a thousand auditors, shouting or fighting all the while, they would not put him out. Mr. Humfrey gives several examples of this, but we shall mention two only: John Hooper, bishop of Gloucester, who was burnt in the reign of queen Mary, once to try him, wrote about forty Welsh and Irish words; Mr. Jewel guing a little while aside, and recollecting them in his memory, and reading them twice or thrice over, said them by heart backward and forward exactly in the same order they were set down. And another time he did the same. by ten lines of Erasmus's paraphrase in English, the words of which being read sometimes confusedly without order, and at other times in order by the lord keeper Bacon, Mr. Jewel thinking a while on them, presently repeated them again backward and forward, in their right order and in the wrong, just as they were read to him; and he taught his tutor Mr. Parkhurst the same art. Though his memory were so great and so improved, yet he would not entirely rely upon it, but entered down into common place books, whatever he thought he might afterwards have occasion to use; which, as the author of his life informs us, were many in number, and great in quantity, being a vast treasure of learning, and a rich repository of knowledge; but being drawn up in characters for brevity, they were so obscured, that they were not of use after his death, to any other person.

He was an excellent Grecian, and not unacquainted with the Italian tongue; and as to the Latin, he wrote and spoke it with that elegance, politeness, purity, and fluency, that it might very well be taken for his mother tongue and certainly he took the right course to be master of it, having made himself in his youth perfectly master of Horace, (upon whom he wrote a large commentary) Tully, and Erasmus, all whose voluminous and excellent works be read over, and imitated every day, especially during his continuance at Oxford; and he then used to declaim extempore to himself in Latin in the woods and groves as he walked. He was excellently read in all the Greek poets, orators, and historians, especially in the ecclesiastical his

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torians; ahd, above all other, he loved Gregory Nazianzen, and quoted him on all occasions.

His learning was much improved by his exile, in which, besides his conversation with Peter Martyr and the other learned men at Strasburgh and Zurich, and his society with Mr. Sandys, afterwards archbishop of York, who was his bedfellow almost all the time they were in exile, his curiosity led him over the Alps into Italy, and he studied some time in Padua, and by the acquaintance he contracted with Seignior Scipio, a great man, seems to have been very much esteemed there.

Although he came to a bishopric iniserably impoverished and wasted, yet he found means to exercise a prodigious liberality and hospitality. His great expence in the building a library for his cathedral church, may be an instance, which his successor Dr. Gheast furnished with books, whose name is perpetuated, together with the memory of his predecessor by this inscription; "Hæc Bibliotheca extructa est sumptibus, R. P. ac D. D. JOHANNIS JEWELLI, quondam Sarum Episcopi; instructa vero libris à R. in Christo P. D. Edmundo Gheast, olim ejusdem Ecclesia Episcopo, quorum memoria in Benedictione erit. A. D. 1578."

His doors stood always open to the poor, and he would frequently send his charitable reliefs to prisoners, nor did he confine his bounty to the English only, but was liberal to foreigners, and especially to those of Zurich, and the friends of Peter Martyr.

Perceiving the great want of learned men in his times, his greatest care was to have ever with him in his house half a dozen or more poor lads which he brought up in learning; and took much delight to hear them dispute points of grammar learning in Latin at his table when lie was at his meal, improving them, and pleasing himself at the same time. And besides these, he maintained in the university several young students, allowing them yearly pensions; and whenever they came to visit him, rarely dismissed them without liberali gratuities *.

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Amongst these was the famous Richard Hooker, his countryman, whose parents being poor, must have been bound apprentice to a trade, but for the bounty of this good bishop, who allowed his parents a yearly pension towards his maintenance nearly seven years before

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Beside the works abovementioned, bishop Jewel was author of a great many others, in Latin as well as in English.

JOLLIE, THOMAS, was born in 1631, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. His first stated preaching was at Althome in Lancashire, to which place he was unanimously invited by the parishioners. There he continued nearly thirteen years with great success. Before his ejectment he was seized by three troopers, according to a warrant from three deputy lieutenants, When he was brought before them, he was accused of many things, but nothing was proved. They then required him to take

he was fit for the university, and in 1567, appointed him to remove to Oxford, and there to attend Dr. Cole, then president of Corpus Christi College, who, according to his promise to the bishop, provided him a tutor, and a clerk's place in that college; which, with a contribution from his uncle Mr. John Hooker, and the continued pension of his patron the bishop, gave him a comfortable subsistence; and in the last year of the bishop's life, Mr. Hooker making this his patron a visit at his palace, the good bishop made him, and a companion he had with him, dine at his own table with him, which Mr. Hooker boasted of with much joy and gratitude, when he saw his mother and friends, whither he was then travelling on foot. The bishop when he parted with him, gave him good counsel and his blessing, but forgot to give him money, which when the bishop bethought himself of, he sent a servant to call him back again, and then told him, "I sent for you, Richard, to lend you a horse which hath carried me many a mile, and, I thank God, with much ease." And presently delivered into his hand a walking-staff, with which he professed he had travelled many parts of Germany; and then went on, and said, "Richard, I do not give, but lend you my horse; be sure you be honest and bring my horse back to me at your return this way to Oxford; and I do now give you ten groats to bear your charges to Exeter; and here are ten groats more which I charge you to deliver to your mother, and tell her, I send her a bishop's blessing with it, and beg the continuance of her prayers for me. And if you bring my horse back to me, I will give you ten more to carry you on foot to the college; and so God bless you, good Richard." It was not long after this, before this good bishop died, but before his death he had so effectually recommended Mr. Hooker to Edwyn Sandys, then bishop of London, and afterwards archbishop of York, that about a year after he put his son under the tutelage of Mr. Hooker, and was otherwise so liberal to him, that he became one of the most learned men of the age. Nor was Mr. Hooker ungrateful, but having occasion to mention his good benefactor on that occasion, he calls him, Lishop Jewel, "the worthiest divine Christendom hath bred for the space of some hundreds of years."

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the oath of supremacy, with which he readily complied, and was discharged. In the same month he was again seized and confined; and when he was released, his enemies would by violence have prevented his preaching in public; but not succeeding in their attempt, he was cited into the bishop of Chester's court, and obliged to attend there three times, though he lived at forty miles distance. He was at last censured by the court for refusing the ser vice book, and his suspension, "ab officio & beneficio," was to have been published, the next court day, but the death of the bishop prevented it. Some time after, however, the suspension was declared, but not published, according to their own order; and yet they thereupon proceeded to debar him the liberty of preaching one Sabbath before the act came to be in force. When the day came, in which he must either submit to what he thought unlaw ful, or resign his place, he preferred the latter. Upon leaving Althome, he remained for a time in an unsettled condition. At length he retired to Healy, where he had not been long, before he was apprehended by captain Parker's lieutenant serjeant and two soldiers, and brought before two deputy lieutenants, by whom he was examined, and obliged to find sureties for his good behaviour, without any reason alledged for it, and by their order confined in a private house. The family were religious, and as he and they were engaged in family worship, captain Nowel broke into the house, and with blasphemous expressions snatched the Bible out of his hands, and dragged him away to the guard, pretending they had kept a conventicle. The captains obliged him to sit up with them all night, whilst they drank and insulted him. In the morning, they let him lie down upon a little straw in the stable; and the next day, though it was the Lord's day, and excessively wet, they sent him to Skipton in Craven, where he was committed into the marshal's hands. He had not been long released from this imprisonment, before he was again seized by three troopers, who told him they must carry him to York. He demanded their warrant for taking him out of the county. They laid their hands upon their swords, and taking hold of his horse's bridle, obliged him to go with them. He was there committed close prisoner at the castle, in a small room, and allowed no fire, though it was winter. The window was much broken, and the stench

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of the stable came into the room, which had two beds in it, with two in each bed. In this miserable place he was confined for some months. At length, as they could find nothing against him, he was discharged. In 1664, he and some others were taken at a meeting, and committed to Lancaster jail for eleven weeks. In 1665, he was arrested again, by an order from the lord lieutenant, and very roughly treated by colonel Nowel. In 1669, he was com mitted to jail for six months, having preached within five miles of Althome, and refused to take the oath required by the Oxford Act. At Preston the justices who committed him refused to release him, though their illegal proceedings were plainly proved to them. Nay, they suffered him, with some others, to be indicted as a rioter, for the very same supposed crime for which they had committed him. In 1674, he was apprehended by justice Nowel at a meeting in Slade, and fined twenty pounds. In 1684, he was apprehended by order of the lord chief justice, and brought before him at Preston, where he was obliged to find sureties, who were bound in two hundred pounds each (judge Jefferies would have had it two thousand pounds) for having frequent conventicles in his house. When he appeared at the next assizes, nothing was alledged against him, and according to law he should have been discharged from his recognizance, but it was renewed. However

baron Atkins, then upon the bench, accepted his single bond of one hundred pounds. Mr. Jollie died near Člitherow in Lancashire, April 16, 1703, in the seventy-third year of his age, and the fifty-third of his ministry; commending what he called primitive christianity, or puritanism, to the very last. Mr. Matthew Henry speaks of him as a minister of the first rank for gifts and graces. His conversation in public was very exemplary, and his private conduct no less exact. His fastings were strict and frequent, and he was daily employed in self examination. His gift in prayer was uncommon. In the work of his ministry he laboured abundantly; often preaching eight times in a week. He drew up a large essay for farther concord amongst evangelical reforming churches, and was very active in promoting the design.

To this account of Mr. Jollie the following curious anecdote is subjoined. He had a small estate on the west side of Pendle Hill, at a place now called Wyman Houses, VOL. III.-No. 54.

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