for the appropriateness of his quotations from the Fathers.* It is indeed much easier to allege them. copiously than to discriminate between their dogmatical and rhetorical sayings; much easier to draw hasty conclusions from isolated passages, than to compare all the places in which the same subject is handled by one and another of them, and thence to deduce a full and fair statement of their doctrine.

In Fuller's account of Dr. Roger Fenton,† Rector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, and Prebendary of St. Paul's, he gives the following anecdote: 66 Once my own father gave Dr. Fenton a visit, who excused himself from entertaining him any longer. Mr. Fuller, said he, hear how the passing bell tolls at this very instant for my dear friend Dr. Felton now a dying. I must to my study, it being mutually agreed upon betwixt us in our healths, that the survivor of us should preach the other's funeral sermon. But see a strange change, God to whom belong the issues from death, was pleased (with the patriarch Jacob blessing his grandchildren), willingly to guide his hands across, and he not only performed that last office to his friend Dr. Fenton, but also survived him more than ten years, and died Bishop of Ely."+ Roger Fenton wrote, says Fuller, a solid treatise on Usury.

* Bishop Hacket's Life of Archbishop Williams, b. i.

† B. A. of Pembroke College, 1588. M. A. 1592. B. D. 1602. D. D. 1613. Univ. Reg.

Worthies. Lancashire, p. 116.

He died January 16th, 1616, in his fiftieth year, as we read in the epitaph on his monument, erected to his memory by the affection of his parishioners.* From some notes of his funeral sermon, preached by his friend Bishop Felton (one high in the esteem of Bishop Andrewes and his successor in the see of Ely) we learn that Dr. Fenton was free of the Grocers' Company, and was Preacher of Gray's Inn. He was one of the translators of the Bible. "None was fitter," says Felton, "to dive into the depths of school divinity. He was taken early from the University, and had many troubles afterward; yet he grew and brought forth fruit. Never a more learned hath Pembroke Hall brought forth, with but one exception," observes Bishop Felton. That exception was doubtless Bp. Andrewes. From his sedentary habits he was greatly afflicted. This

* Strype's Stowe's Survey of London, vol. i. b. ii. p. 197. Dr. Roger Fenton was admitted to the Church of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, August 18th, 1601, on the death of Arthur Lawrence, A. M. and was presented by the crown to the Rectory of St. Bennet's, Sherehog (his Church of St. Stephen was in the patronage of the Grocers' Company), this he resigned by November, 1606, being admitted on the 14th of that month to the Vicarage of Chigwell, Essex. On the translation of Bishop Andrewes from Chichester to Ely, Fenton was collated in his place to the prebend of Pancras in St. Paul's, by which he became also (says Newcourt. Report, i. 197.) Rector of that Church. He died Jan. 16th 1615-16, in the fiftieth year of his age. cras he was succeeded by Dr. Henry King, eldest son of that éloquent and nervous preacher Dr. John King, Bishop of London. Dr. Henry King, successively Dean of Rochester and Bishop of Chichester, will not fail to be had in remem

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he had in common with Andrewes, Robert Abbot, and not a few of that indefatigably learned period.

"In the time of his sickness I told him," says his friend," his weakness and disease were trials only of his faith and patience." Oh no, he answered, they are not probationes but castigationes.

In his "Church History," Fuller memorializes the intimate friendship of his father and the pious and devoted Richard Greenham. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and on November 24th, 1570, was instituted to the Rectory of Dry Drayton, near Cambridge. There he lived many years, preaching early every morning, and as constant in his deeds of temporal as of spiritual charity. His works were highly esteemed in his own day, passing through five or six editions, the

brance as the friend of the pious and ingenious Dr. Donne, Dean of St. Paul's. In the Church of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, succeeded Aaron Wilson, Archdeacon of Exeter, and, May 17th, 1639, D. D. of Queen's College, Oxford. He resigned his Church in 1635, to Dr. Thomas Howell, who for his piety and the general esteem in which he was held, was nominated to the see of Bristol July 1644, and consecrated by Archbishop Ussher. Notwithstanding he suf fered greatly from the rebels, and died in 1646, being about fifty-eight years of age. For a copious and admirable life of Bishop King, see his Poems edited by the Rev. J. Hannah, Oxford, 1843.

"Not trials but corrections." In the same manuscript volume in the University Library, Cambridge, whence these brief notices of Dr. Fenton's Funeral Sermon are taken, are numerous notes from his Sermons upon the Creation, &c.; also a copy of a letter from him to Bishop Overall.

latter in folio. Fuller records that no book in that age made more impression on people's practice than Greenham's Treatise on the Lord's Day. He distinguished himself also by his unwearied application in procuring stipends and exhibitions for the assistance of poor scholars at the University. He was in discipline and ceremonies much inclined to Puritanism, and so met with trouble from Bishop Cox. His last days were spent in London, where he died in 1592.*

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Fuller, as he was one of the most benevolent, so he was amongst the most grateful of men. cordingly, in his "Worthies of England," we find the following memorial of Valentine Carey, one of the three bishops who owed their rise at least, in part to the munificent Lord Keeper Williams. "He was a complete gentleman and excellent scholar. He once unexpectedly owned my nearest relation in the High Commission Court, when in some distress, for which courtesy, I as heir to him who received the favour, here publicly pay this my due thanks unto his memory."+

Dr. Valentine Carey (sometimes spelt Carew) was educated at Christ College, Cambridge, where he was chosen to a fellowship, and in the memora ble year of 1588, proceeded to the degree of A. B. Thence he was elected a Fellow of St. John's College, where he proceeded A. M. in 1592, and in

* Ch. Hist. b. 9. pp. 219, 220. Clark's Lives. Baker's MSS. vol. xxxvi. p. 97.

+ Worthies. Northumberland, p. 305.

1599 B. D. In January 1605, he was appointed an University Preacher. On September 17th, 1607, he was installed Prebendary of Stow Longa, in the Church of Lincoln; and on July 14th, 1608, admitted to the prebendal stall of Chiswick, in the Church of St. Paul, London, in the place of Dr. William Barlow, then translated from the see of Rochester to that of Lincoln. In 1610, being appointed Master of Christ College, he proceeded to the degree of D. D., and in 1612, served the office of Vice Chancellor. Whilst he was Master of Christ College, Dr. William Ames being then one of the Fellows, resigned to avoid expulsion for nonconformity, after having preached a sermon against cards and dice, which to many made his nonconformity the more offensive. He settled in Friesland, and his " Marrow of Divinity" procured for him a great reputation amongst such as sided with him.*

On the consecration of the learned Dr. Overall to the see of Lichfield and Coventry, Dr. Carey was made Dean of St. Paul's in 1614. In 1617 he, with Bishop Andrewes, Laud and others, attended King James on his tour to Scotland, and is said to have roused the anger of the people against him, by introducing a prayer for the dead upon occasion of a military funeral. For this he was compelled to apologize. On the 27th of September, 1621, he was elected to the see of Exeter on the decease of Dr. William Cotton, godson to

* See Fuller's Hist. of Cumbridge, p. 301. Cambridge,