"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 spoke broad De"vonshire to his dying day. His voice was «fmall.

"He was fcandalized with atheism: he was a "bold man, and would venture at difcourse "which was unpleasant to the Churchmen. In "his fpeech on the fcaffold (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 scaf"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 "fhows might avocate and draw away the peo

ple from beholding the tragedie of the gal"lanteft 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 reprievement, Sir Walter Raleigh's head was "cut off. At which time fuch abundance of "blood iffued from the veins, that fhewed he "had a ftock of nature enough left to have con"tinued him many years in life, (though now "above threefcore 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 Elizabeth, and next to Sir F. Drake the great "fcourge and hate of the Spaniards; who had

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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 afperfion whereof some perfons had cast upon "him."

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

Even fuch is Time, that takes on trust
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 raise me up, I trust.

LAUNCELOT ANDREWES,

LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,

"was a Fellow of Pembroke-Hall, in Cam bridge (then called Collegium Epifcop.) for that " in one time in those days there were seven of that House. 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 "themselves antiently with great severity and "ftrictness. They preached up the strict keep

ing and obferving of the Lord's-Day, made it "damnation to break it, and that 'twas leffe fin to kill a man. Yet these 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 fa"tisfy him, lent him one day the key of the

private back-door to the Bowling-Green, "where he discovered these zealous Preachers "with their gownes off earnest at play; but they were strangely furprized to see 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 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 conscience. 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 "against. 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 fer"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

time, and spoiled his defign. Mr. Andrewes "was extremely spoken and preached against "for offering to affoyle or excufe a fleeper 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 themselves; 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 curiously "to ftart from, or fall fhort of, their intended "fcope; fo that we may better fay of him than ૬૮ was faid of Claudius Drufus, He was of as * many and as great virtues as mortal nature "could receive, or induftry 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 Bishop Andrewes, in the Ceremonies of the Church.

. In his "Diary," Laud thus fpeaks of this great Prelate: "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.”