20 THE LIFE OF 



C H A P. The Bishop began his primary visitation in London, De- 

 11 cember 17, 1577, when subscription was urged ; and as 



His primary ma ny did subscribe, so some refused ; who called the sub 

 scribers dissemblers for their simple subscription : nay, and 

 very uncharitably compared them to Arians, Priscillians, 

 Anabaptists, and such like. And not only so, but they 

 flouted and mocked them ; as Earl, one of these subscribing 



in Bibiioth. Ministers, in a journal of his yet extant, records it. &quot; Where- 



EpjSoJric. &quot; as,&quot; writes he, &quot; all that we say to them is, that we are 

 &quot; sorry for them, but cannot help them.&quot; 



At this visitation the Bishop discovered (and perhaps 

 among the Clergy) a Mass-Priest, a conjurer, and a semi 

 nary reconciler : of whom we shall hear by and by. 



His ex- The expenses of his first year, what with first-fruits and 



penses. ( li vers other necessary disbursements, were such, as he could 

 not spend above 5001. that year, and scarcely that: how 

 ever, he came rich and well to pass to the bishopric. 



Preaches He preached very frequently in his cathedral church; 



frequently. an( j ^ a( j a no t a ble art of winning the ears and attention of 

 his auditors. As once when he perceived those about him 

 not so attentive as they ought to have been to what he was 

 teaching, he presently fell to reading the Hebrew Bible: 

 which he did so long, that all his drowsy auditors gazed at 

 him, as amazed that he should entertain them so unprofit- 

 ably, in such unknown language. But when he perceived 

 them all thoroughly awake and very attentive, then he went 

 on with his sermon, after he had given them this grave 

 reprimand ; how it reflected upon their wisdom, that in mat 

 ters of mere novelty, and when they understood not a 

 word, they should be wakeful, and listen so needfully, but in 

 the mean time to be ready to fall asleep, and give so little 

 attention and regard, while he was preaching to them the 

 weighty matters that concerned their everlasting salvation. 



At another solemn audience in the Parliament time at 

 Paul s Cross, where were present a great many noblemen 

 and persons of quality, that he might speak aptly to them, 

 and excite them to evangelical virtue and true religion, and 

 a serious regard of piety, he set before them the pattern of 



