36.4 LIVES OF TIDE PURITANS. versation, and for his wit and learning ; and was permitted, for the benefit of his studies, to travel one year into foreign parts, on condition that he kept himself from such places as were suspected to be heretical, or favourers of heresy, and that he refrained himself from the company of those who are, or have been, authors of heresy or heretical opinions." Having thus obtained liberty to leave the country, he went to Zurich, where he joined the English protestant exiles, and, not returning at the end of the year, was deprived of his fellowship.. During his exile, we find his name subscribed to a letter from the exiles at Zurich, to their brethren at Frankfort. This letter is dated October 23 1554.+ Upon the accession of Queen Elizabeth, Humphrey re- turned home. But having held a correspondence with the learned divines at Geneva, during his absence, he is said to have returned to England, so much the Cakinian, both in doctrine and worship, that the best that could be saidof him 'as, that he was a moderate and conscientious noncon- formist. Upon his return he was immediately restored to his fellowship, and, by her majesty, nominated queen's professor of divinity in the university of Oxford, being accounted the fittest person in the kingdom for that office. He soon after took his degrees in divinity, and was elected president of Magdalen college, though not without much opposition from the popish party.t In this situation, many persons, afterwards famed for their celebrity, were brought up under him; among whom was the famous Sir Thomas Bodley.§ In the following account of this celebrated divine, we shall have frequent occasion to mention his worthy and intimate friend, the famous Dr. Thomas Sampson. Theywere persons of great reputation, especiallyin Oxford, and were highly distinguished for their learning, piety, and zeal inpromoting true religion. But their learning, piety, and zeal, were no sufficient screen from the prosecutionpf the highcommission, Wood's Athenm Oxon. vol. i. p. 195. Troubles at Frankeford, p. 10-12. t Wood's Athenm, vol. i. p. 195. Sir Thomas Bodley was celebrated as a statesman, and as a man of letters ; but incomparably more, in the ample provision he has made for literature, in which he stands unrivalled. In 1599, he openedhis library, called the Bodleian Library, at Oxford, which will perpetuate his Memory as long as books shall endure. He drew up the statutes of the library ; wrote the memoirs of his own life ; and died Jan. 28, 1613.-Thid. p. 327.-Granger's Biog. Kiss. vol. i. p. 283, 211.
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