520 The Dean of Westminster [April 29, 



interests me as a member of my own College, having been a Fellow 

 of Christ's from 1552 to 1554; who moreover owed his place as a 

 Prebendary, as I owerl mine, to the head of the great house of Cecil ; 

 and who afterwards as Dean had Lord Burleigh as his Lord High 

 Steward, as it is my good fortune to have the Marquis of Salisbury 

 to-day. I should wish to linger on Dean Goodman, who must, I 

 think, have been a lovable man. The Abbey owed to him its new 

 organisation as a College of Prebendaries, including a famous school : 

 and I cannot refrain from quoting an extract from a letter which he 

 wrote to Lord Burleigh in reference to the project ot the new 

 statutes in 1577 : ' I beseech your honour that there may be that 

 moderation used, which may be most convenient for all in respect. 

 Hitherto I and the company, I thank God, have agreed very brotherly 

 with great quietness, as any such company, I hope. I would be 

 sorry, if by seeking to better things, dissension should grow to un- 

 quietness.' 



But we must leave Dean Goodman who is really a survival from 

 the last century, and who will be buried in St. Benet's Chapel, near 

 Dean Bill, before the year has half run its course. His successor will 

 again be sought among the Prebendaries, and will again be a 

 Cambridge man, as indeed all the Deans were for the first hundred 

 years. Lancelot Andrewes, master of fifteen languages, the witty 

 courtier, the prince of preachers, and one of the saiutliest names of 

 the English Church, had been a Prebendary for four years, when, on 

 the nomination of the Lord High Steward, as was the custom of 

 those days, he was appointed Dean. I find by certain lists of 

 preachers at the Chapel Eoyal, which have somehow strayed into our 

 muniment room, that with Andrewes began the tradition, which still 

 remains in force, in accordance with which the Good Friday sermon at 

 St. James's is preached by the Dean of Westminster. His memory 

 is preserved at the Deanery by a curious old portrait on wood, by 

 the coloured glass in the Jericho parlour, and by the wainscot there 

 and in the room above. In 1605, after giving us nine of the best years 

 of his life, he became Bishop of Chichester ; but he never forgot to 

 pray for to i7nt,ccf)vpLov ixovaarypLov, ' the West Monastery,' as he calls 

 us in his famous book of devotions. 



Our new Dean, Kichard Keile, was installed on that notorious day, 

 the original ' Fifth of November.' He presented a striking contrast 

 to the refined and graceful scholar whom he succeeded ; he had 

 forced his own way up, and was a clumsy, though a powerful courtier. 

 We see the two ex-Deans at a later period standing by the chair of 

 King James, who knew the good points of each and trusted both. 

 ' My Lord,' said the King, ' cannot I take my subjects' money without 

 all this formality in Parliament ? ' Neile, now Bishop of Durham, 

 replies : ' God forbid, Sir, but you should ; you are the breath of our 

 nostrils.' The King turns to Andrewes, the Bishop of Winchester, 

 ' Well, my Lord, what say you ? ' ' Sir, I have no skill to judge of 

 parliamentary causes.' ' No put-offs, my Loy«3 ; answer me presently.' 



