- FULKE. 385 his sons Jonn and NATHANIEL erected this monument to the memory of their belovedFather. His Wouxs.-1. ALetter to the Professors of Christ's Gospel, in the parish ofAlhallows in Bread-street, London, 1554.-2. AWarning to take heed of Fowler's Psalter, 1578.-3. 'lief Collection of the Churchand the Ceremoniesthereof, 1581.-4. Prayers and Meditations Apostolike, gathered and framed out of the Epistles of the Apostles, 1592.-He collected and published several Sermons written by his old friend, Mr. John Bradford. WILLIAM FULKE, D. D.-This celebrated divine was born in London, and educated in St. John's college, Cam- bridge, where he was chosen fellow in 1564. He was a youth of great parts, and a very high spirit. When he was a boy at school, having a literary contest with the famous Edmund Campion, and losing the silver pen which was proposed to the victor, he is said to have been angry and mortified to a degree almost beyond conception. Before be became fellow of his college, he spent six years at Clifford's-inn, where, in compliance with the wishes of his father, he was employed in the study of the law. But upon his return to the university, not liking the law, he directed his studies to other objects more congenial to his wishes; with which his father was so exceedingly offended, that though he was a man of considerable property, he refused to afford him support. Young Fulke, not dis- couraged by the unnatural treatment of his parents, was resolved to persevere in his literary pursuits, and to make his way through the world as well as he could. This he did, by his uncommon endowments, with the greatest ease. He studied with intense application, the mathematics, the languages, and divinity, and became a most celebrated scholar in each of these departments. This learned divine espoused the principles of the puritans at a very early period ; and iri the year 1565, be preached openly and boldly against the popish habitsand ceremonies incorporated with the ecclesiastical establish. ment. This presently roused the attention of the ruling ecclesiastics, when he was cited before the chancellor of the university. Though our author does not say what prose- cution he underwent, nor what penalty he suffered, the chancellor declared his determination to proceed against him with rigour, and that he should find no comfort while voL I. 2 c
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