338 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. Mr. Fox was uncommonly liberal to the poor and dis- tressed, and never refused giving to any who asked for Jesus's sake. Being once asked whether he remembered a certain poor man whom he used to relieve, he said, 4, Yes, 1 remember him, and I forget lords and ladies to remember such."-As Mr. Fox was going one day from the house of the Bishop of London, he found many people begging at the gate ; and having no money, he immediately returned to the bishop and borrowed five pounds, which he distributed among the poor people. After some time the bishop asking him for the money, 14r. Fox said, "I have laid it ont for you, and have paid it where you owed it, to the poor that lay at your gate ;" when his lordship thanked him for what he had done.* As Mr. Fox was going one day along the streets in London, a woman of his acquaintance met him ; and as they discoursed together, she pulled out her Bible, and with too much forwardness, told him she was going to hear a sermon ; upon which, he said to her, " If you will be advised by me, go home again." But, said she, then when shall I go to church ? Towhich he immediately replied, " When you tell no body ofit."+ Mr. Fox, it is said, used to wear a strait cap, covering his head and ears ; and over that, a deepish crowned, shallow-brimmed, slouched hat. His portrait is takenwith his bat on, and is supposed to have been the first English engraving with a hat.t His WORKS.---1. De Christo Triumphante, 1551.-2. De censura seu excommunications ecclesiastica, 1551.-3. Tables of Grammar, 1552.-4. Comtnentarii rerum in Ecclesia gestarum ' 1554.-5. Arti- cult, seu Aphorismi aliquot Johannis Widevi &c, 1554.-6. Collec- tania qua3dam ex Reginaldi Pecocki Episc. &c., 1554.-7. Opisto- graphia ad Oxonienses, 1554.-8. Locorum communicam Logica- lium titan & ordinationes &c., 1557.-9. Probatioties & Resolutiones de re & mataria sacramenti Eucharistici, 1563.-10. De Christi crucifixo, 1571.-11. De Oliva Evangelica, 1587.-12. Concerning Man's Election to Salvation, 1581.-13. Certain Notes of Election, 1581.-14. On Christo gratis justificante, contra Jesuitas, 1583.- 15. Disputatio contra Jesuitas & eorum argumenta, 1585.- great-great-grandehildren. She lived a most pious life, and died a most ebriitian death, May 11, 1620, in the ninety-third year of her age. Her remains were interred in Markshall church in Essex, where there was a monumental inscription erected to her memory.-Ftiller's Worthies, part ii. p. 85. Fuller's Abel Redivivus, p. 382. + Clarke's Marrow of Reel. Hist. p 796. Peck's Desideratte Curiosa, vol. i. 1. xv. p. 9.
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