346 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. left a standing monument of his piety and charity, by the erection and endowment of a free-school. It does not, however, appear whether he was any relation to our learned diviner His WORKS.-1. The Doctrine and Use of Repentance, 1610.- 2. A Sermon at the Funeral ofJohn LordHarrington, 1614.-3. Com- mentary on Malachi, 1641.-4. Stock of Divine Knowledge, 1641.- 5. Truth's Companion. ANTHONY WOTTON, B. D.-This learned person was born in London, and educated first at Eton school, then at King's college, Cambridge, where he took his degrees. Being a person of considerable reputation, he became fellow of the college, andWas for some time chaplain to the Earl of Essex. Upon the death of Dr. Whitaker, in the year 1596, he stood as candidate for the king's professorship of divinityat Cambridge ; but Dr. Overall, by a superior interest, carried the election. Mr. Wotton, notwithstanding this, was highly applauded in the university.f He was, during the above year, chosen first professor of divinity in Gresham college. Also, upon the resignation of his professorship, he was chosen lecturer of Alhallows Barking, London. Here he met with some trouble on account of his nonconformity. Having used this expres. sion, " Lord, open thou the eyes of the king, that he may be resolved in the truth, without respect to antiquity," his words were supposed to insinuate, " that the king was blind, wavering, and inclined to popery."# For this, therefore, with some other things, he was silenced by Archbishop Bancroft.s Mr. Wotton, on account of his views of the doctrine of justification, fell under the displeasure of some of the Thoresby's Vicaria Leodiensis, p. 66. f Fuller's Hist. of Camb. p. 152. t Ward's Gresham Professors, p. 39. § Archbishop Bancroft wasa stout and zealouschampion for the church, which, it is said, he learnedly and ably defended to the confusion of its enemies. Clarendon says, " that he had an excellent knowledge of the church ; that he almostrescued itout of the hands of the Calvenian party, that be very much subdued the unruly spirit of the nonconformists, and that his death could never be sufficiently lamented." Fuller says, " it is confessett that he was most stiff and stern in pressing,conformity, which he did very fiercely throughout all his province." Collier says, " his unrelenting strictness gave a new face to religion. The liturgy was more solemnly observed ; , the fasts and festivals were more regarded; the use of copes was revived ; the surplice generally worn ; and all things in a manner recovered to the first settlement under Queen Elizabeth. Some who had formerly subscribed in a loose, reserved sense, were now called upon to sign their conformity in more close, unevasive terms ; so that now there
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