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thy men, that their names and good works may never die, 

 nor be forgotten. And as it is a piece of justice to them, 

 so of considerable benefit to us in this age ; the contemplat 

 ing of their lives being like to prove of very good use to 

 those that have the skill to gather lessons of prudence and 

 conduct in human life from them. I may add, the pleasure 

 and satisfaction that is commonly taken in relations and his 

 tories of persons of rank and eminence that lived in former 

 times. It hath somewhat very acceptable and agreeable in 

 it, as there is in seeing the lively portraitures or statues of 

 such as have been great Statesmen or learned Ecclesiastics, 

 being the usual ornament of the galleries of noblemen s 

 houses: though those could but represent the outward 

 shape, and not the minds and deeds, as history can and 

 doth. What flocking is there when an ambassador or a 

 great man is to be seen ! Many put themselves to the ex 

 penses of travelling abroad, chiefly to see the faces of for 

 tunate princes, or to be acquainted with profound scholars, 

 or men of some other great figure. And what inquiries do 

 they make into their manners, opinions, and factions ! Which 

 shews what a delight mankind usually takes in the know 

 ledge of men, whose dignities or employments have distin 

 guished them from the inferior rank. 



I have in this book shewn to the world one of these sin 

 gular men, viz. Queen Elizabeth s third Bishop of London. 

 Within whose diocese lay both the Court, Westminster Hall, 

 and London, the great metropolis of the nation : and by 

 whom the Archbishop of Canterbury passed all his injunc 

 tions and mandates to the rest of the Bishops and Clergy of 

 his province. And therefore we may reasonably look for mat 

 ters of great moment to be occasionally recommended to 

 this Bishop in this busy reign, and to fall into the accounts 

 we give of him. 



If it be asked why I do not rather begin with Grindal 

 and Sandys, this Bishop s two immediate predecessors in 

 the said see of London ; it is enough to answer at present, 

 that the one being afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, 

 and the other of York, it may be more proper to treat of 



