HUMPHREY. Peirce, wereopponents. BishopJewel acted on this occasion, as moderator. At the conclusion, her majesty delivered a speech in praise of the learneddisputants.. This learned divine was, at length, favouredwith a tole, ration for about ten or eleven years; and about 1576, he consented to wear the habits. Wood says, in the year 1570, but Mr. Strype, 1576, he was made dean of Glouces- ter ; and in 1580, he was removed from the deanery of Gloucester, to that of Winchester. This he kept to his death.i. He was particularly intimate with the Lord Treasurer Burleigh, who, even before he consented to wear the habits, moved the queen to prefer him to a bishopric : but, as Burleigh informed him, his nonconformity seemed to be the chief impediment in the I% ay.t The Earl of Leicester, in his letter to the university of Cambridge; dated March 26, 1567, makes very honourable mention of him, and most warmly recommends him to the office of vice-chancellor of that university ; " who," says he, " is every way a right worthy man. '§ Dr. Humphrey was intimate with Mr. Gilby, a celebrated puritan, at Ashby-de- la-Zouch in Leicestershire, with whom he held a friendly correspondence. Someof his letters to thisvenerable divine are now before me, addressed "to his worshipful and well beloved friend Mr. Anthony Gilby, at Ashby ; in one of which he writesas follows :11 " My salvation in Christ Jesus. I thank you for your good counsel. I would I were " as well ableas I am willing. Though many brethren and " nobles also wish ; yet we must pray that God may open " the queen's majesty's ears to hear of a reformation; for "there is the stay. And openly to publish such admoni- " tions as are abroad, I like not; for in some parts and " terms, they are too broad and overshoot themselves. A " book, indeed, I gave as a present of mine office and " cognizance of the university, a Greek Testament, with " mine additions or collections, to stir up her majesty to " peruse the book, and to reform the church; by it, in cer- " tain sentences. I have there declared, and in a word or " two using orations, the copy whereof I send you. The " Lord Jesus, less you and yours. Oxon. Jan. 17, 1572. " Yours, L. nUllIPIIREY" Biog. Briton, vol. iv. p. 2230. Edit. 1747. -t Wood's Athena. Oxon. vol. i.p. 195.-Strype's Annals, vol. ii. p, 45l t Ibid. vol. i. p. 430. § Baker's MS. Collec. vol. xvii. p. 25.6. 11 Ibid. vol. xxxii. p.431.
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