446 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. years, he was lecturer at one of the churches in Cambridge; in which place his holy, learned, and judicious sermons were made a blessing to multitudes. October 26, 1578, he preached the sermon at Paul's cross. This sermon appears to have been the only article he ever published. About the same time, he was appointed, by an order of parliament, to be preacher at the Middle Temple, and to have a salary of twenty pounds a year, to be raised by the contributions of the house.. In the year 1584, when Sir Walter Mildmay founded Emanuel college, he made choice of Dr. Chadderton to be the first master. But, on account of his great modesty, he was extremely reluctant to under- take the charge ; which, when Sir. Walter discovered, he said, " If you will not be the master, I will not be the founder of the college."+ Upon this, he complied, and continued in this office thirty-eight years. During the whole of this period, his deportment was agreeable to the expectations of the worthy founder. By his active and laudable endeavours, the funds of the institution were greatly enriched. He paid the most exact attention to the religion and leatning of the scholars.. Many persons of distin- guished eminence were his pupils, among whom was Mr. William Bedell, afterwards bishop of Kilmore in Ireland.t This learned prelate always retained the highest opinion of his venerable tutor. After he was made provost of Dublin college, and introduced to a friendly correspondencewith the celebrated Usher, he could not make mention of his name without particular sensations of pleasantry and esteem. " The arts of dutiful obedience, and just ruling also in part," says he, " I did seventeen years endeavour to MS. Chronology, vol. iii. A. D. 1640, p. 4. -1 Sir Walter was an avowed enemy to superstition, a zealouspromoter of religion, and ever forward to advance a further reformation in the church. Coming to court, after he had founded the above college, the queen addressed him, saying, " Sir Walter, I hear you have erected a puritan foundation." " No, madam," said he, " far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary to your laws : but I have set an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit of it." This college, it is added, became the very nursery of puritans. Moreover, when Sir Walter founded this college, he, to counteract the influenceof superstition, ordered the chapel belonging to it, to stand in the direction of north and south; but, curious as it may appear, the building in this position, being noneonforinable, became an offence to the ruling prelates, and as a punishment for standing thus, it was pulled down in the reign of Charles II. and erected in the position of east and west.-Fulter's Hist. of Cam. p. 147.-MS. Remarks, p. 495.-Prone's Cant. Dooms, p. 369. t Biog. Britan. vol. ii. p. 133. Edit. 1778.
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