W. WHITAKX% 83 so far as I may do God and his church service;"* and soon after quietly departed in the Lord, December 4, 1595, in the forty-seventh year of his age, haVing filled the, professor's chair about sixteen years, and that of master almost nine. Dean Nowell, in his last will and testament, made the following bequest : " To his cousin, Dr. Whitaker of Cambridge, he gives twenty books of his own choosing :" but the venerable dean survived him some years.-F In the above year he was preferred to a prebendary in the church of Canterbury. He certainlydeserved greater preferment, and he stood in need of it ; for he died poor, considering the family he left behind him. It was some reproach to the nation, that the two greatest men that ever filled the pro- fessor's chair in the university of Cambridge, should have been no better provided for : these were Dr. Whitaker, and the celebrated Martin Bucer, who was forced to borrow money with his last breath.# Dr. Whitaker's library was very choice and valuable,which the queen designed toobtain for herself, and Archbishop Whitgift wished to procure his numerous and valuable manuscripts. At his death, the college conferred upon him the honour of a public funeral, an account of which is still preserved among the records of the society, where so much is put down for his funeral feast, so much for his tomb, and so much for the other necessary expenses. Mr. Bois delivered a funeral oration at his grave, and the vice-chancellor and public orator or his deputy at St. Mary's church.§ His corpse was, with very great solemnity and lamentation, carried to the grave, and was interred in the chapel of St. John's college. Near the place of his interment was a costly monumental inscription erected tohis memory, of which the following is a transla- tion :11 This Monument is erected to the memory of DOCTOR, WHITAKER, formerly the royal interpreter of Scripture. His interpretations were adorned with elegance of language ; his judgment was acute, his method beautiful, his memory strong, his labours and perseverance invincible, and his life most holy. With these very rare endowments of mind, his candour, virtue, and humility, ar Clark's Eccl. Hist. p. 819. 2 Churton's Life ofNowell, p. 354, 356. t Baker's MS. Collee. vol. i. p. 224. § Ibid. p. 221. H Knight's Life of Colet, p. 398.
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