Chap. VII. The HISTORY of the PE; RrrANS. 265 bride -chamber, in which he(pent his eye fight, his /irength, and his health. .ueen He was certainly a learned and venerable prelate, and had a high efleem Elizabeth, for the name and do&rines of Calvin, with whom, and with the Berman swls divines, he held a conftant correfpondence. His high flations did not make him proud ; but if we may believe his fucceffor in the fee of York, Strype'sdnn. archbifhop Sandys, he muff be tainted with avarice (as moft of the queen'sS pplUp. 21. bithops were) ; becaufe within two months after he was tranflated to Can- terbury, he gave to his kinfinen and fervants, and fold for round fums of money to himfelf, fix fcore leafes and patents, even then when they were thought not to be good in law. But upon the whole, he was one of the bell: of queen Elizabeth's bithops. He lies buried in the chancel of the church at Croydon, where his effigies is to be feen at length, in his dodor's robes, and in a praying pofture. C.H A P. VII. From the death of archhop GRI NDAL, to the Spanifh Invafion in 1588. UPON the death of GRINDAL, Dr. Jost WHITGIFT bithop Whitgift of Worce/ler, was tranflated to the fee of 'Canterbury, and con -n="4 -"- firmed September the z3d 1583. He had diflinguifhed himfelf in the 6 -4°p' controverfy againft the Puritans, and was therefore thought the molt proper perfon to reduce their numbers. Upon his advancement, the queen charged him " to reftore the difcipline of the church, and the uniformity " eftablithed by law, which (lays her majefty) through the connivance " of Tome prelates, the obftinacy of the puritans, and the power of t° fome noblemen, is run out of fquare." Accordingly the very firft week, his grace publifhed the following articles, and Pent them to the bithops of his province, for their direflion in the government of their feveral diocefes. Art, t. " That all preaching, catechifing, and praying in any private His Articles. " family, where any are prefent befides the family, be utterly, extin- L. of Whir " guifhed. gift, p. 1s8. Vol.. I. Mm 2. " That
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