"knew Sir W.; and I have heard him fay, that "notwithstanding his fo great mastership in

ftyle, and his conversation with the learnedest "and politeft perfons, yet he fpoke broad De"vonshire to his dying day. His voice was "fmall.

re He was fcandalized with atheism: he was a "bold man, and would venture at difcourfe "which was unpleasant to the Churchmen. In "his fpeech on the scaffold (I heard my cofen "Whitney fay, and I thinke 'tis printed) that "he fpake not of Chrift, but of the great and "incomprehenfible God, with much zeale and "adoration, fo that he concluded he was an "Achrift, but not an Atheist. He tooke a pipe " of tobacco a little before he went to the fcaf"fold, which fome formal perfons were scanda"lized at (but I thinke 'twas well and properly "donne to fettle his fpirits). The time of his "execution was contrived to be on my Lord

Mayor's Day, 1618, (the day after Saint Si"mon and St. Jude,) that the pageants and fine "shows might avocate and draw away the peo

ple from beholding the tragedie of the gal"lantest worthie that England ever bred."---Aubrey's MS.

"A fcaffold," fays Sir Richard Baker, in his Chronicle, "was erected in the Old Palace "Yard,

Yard, upon which, after fourteen years re"prievement, Sir Walter Raleigh's head was "cut off. At which time fuch abundance of "blood iffued from the veins, that fhewed he "had a stock of nature enough left to have con"tinued him many years in life, (though now) "above threescore years old,) if it had not been "taken away by the hand of violence. And "this was the end of the great Sir W. Raleigh; great fometimes in the favour of Queen Eliz"abeth, and next to Sir F. Drake the great scourge and hate of the Spaniards; who had many things to be commended in his life, but none more than his conftancy at his death, which he took with fo undaunted a refolution, "that one might perceive he had a certain expectation of a better life after it, fo far was "he from holding those atheistical opinions, an "aspersion whereof some perfons had caft upon * him."

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The following lines were written by Sir Walter the night before his execution:

Even fuch is Time, that takes on truft
Our youth, our joyes, our all we have,

And pays us but with age and duft;

Who in the dark and filent grave
(When we have wander'd all our ways)
Shuts up the ftory of our days.

But from this earth, this grave, this duft,
My God fhall raife me up, I truft.

LAUNCELOT ANDREWES,

LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,

was a Fellow of Pembroke-Hall, in Cambridge (then called Collegium Epifcop.) for that " in one time in those days there were seven of "that Houfe. The Puritan faction did begin

to emerge in those days, and especially at Em"manuel College: they had a great mind to "draw in to them this learned young man; who

(if they could make strong) they knew would

"be a great honour to them. They carried "themfelves antiently with great severity and "ftrictness. They preached up the ftrict keepis ing and obferving of the Lord's-Day, made it "damnation to break it, and that 'twas leffe fin "to kill a man. Yet thefe hypocrites did bowl "in a private Green at other Colleges, every Sunday after fermon. And one at the College, (a loving friend to Mr. Andrewes,) to fatisfy him, lent him one day the key of the private back-door to the Bowling-Green, "where he difcovered these zealous Preachers "with their gownes off earnest at play; but

they were strangely furprized to fee the entry. "of one who was not of the brotherhood.

"There was then at Cambridge a good fatt "Alderman that was wont to fleep at church, " which

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" which the Alderman endeavoured to prevent, "but could not. Well, this was preached against as a mark of reprobation. The good man was exceedingly troubled at it, and went "to Mr. Andrewes's chamber to be fatisfied in point of confcience. Mr. Andrewes told him, "it was an ill habit of body, not of mind, and "advised him on Sundays to make a sparing "meal at dinner, and to make it up at fupper. "The Alderman did fo, but fleepe comes upon "him againe for all that, and he was preached "againft. He comes again to Mr. Andrewes "with tears in his eyes to be refolved; who "then told him that he would have him make "a full hearty meale as he was used to do, and presently after take out his full fleep. The Alderman followed his advice, and came to "St. Marie's church the Sunday afterwards, "where the Preacher was provided with a ser"mon to damn all those who slept at that godly "exercise, as a mark of reprobation. The good "Alderman, having taken Mr. Andrewes's ad"vice, looks at the Preacher all the fermon

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time, and spoiled his defign. Mr. Andrewes "was extremely spoken and preached against "for offering to affoyle or excuse a sleeper in << fermon-time. But he had learning and witt "enough to defend himself."---Aubrey's MS. Notes.

"The fullness of his material learning," fays the Dedication of Bishop Andrewes's Sermons, " left room enough in the temper of his brain

for almost all languages, learned and mo "dern, to feat themfelves; fo that his learning "had all the helps language could afford, and

his languages learning enough for the beft of "them to exprefs; his judgment, in the mean "time, fo commanding over both, as that nei"ther of them was fuffered idly or curioufly "to ftart from, or fall fhort of, their intended "fcope; fo that we may better fay of him than

was faid of Claudius Drufus, He was of as ઇંદ many and as great virtues as mortal nature "could receive, or industry make perfect.

This Prelate's character was fo tranfcendant, that Milton himself did not difdain to write an Elegy upon his death. Archbishop Laud is faid to have made ufe of the Ritual of Bifhop Andrewes, in the Ceremonies of the Church.

In his "Diary," Laud thus fpeaks of this great Prefate: "Sept. 21. About 4 o'clock in "the morning died Launcelot Andrewes, the "moft worthy Bishop of Winchester, the great light of the Christian world.”