62 THE LIFE OF 



CHAP. &quot; ready to accomplish it as any whosoever either love you 

 &quot; or honour you. And so the Lord pour his rich blessings 



upon you and yours to his glory,&quot;&quot; &c. 

 The Bishop Jt wa s still the Bishop that moved this body, the rest 

 stay of the being ready to slip away from the work, had not he still 

 Commis- appeared, and acted vigorously, and carried the Commis 

 sioners along with him. For he was absent but once by 

 reason of a pain in his eyes, and there was no sitting, to the 

 great murmuring and charges of the suitors. The civil 

 lawyers that were of the Commission neglected the public, 

 and looked after their private affairs, where their gains most 

 lay. But the Dean of the Arches, and Hopton, who was 

 Lieutenant of the Tower, continued very diligent. And 

 the Bishop on these considerations moved the Lord Trea 

 surer to write a letter to the Registrar, a little to touch the 

 slackness of the Commissioners, naming none, and giving 

 some commendations unto Dr. Clark and Sir Owen Hopton, 

 who only were painful. And that his Lordship would here 

 by greatly farther the service. 

 The success And indeed by his diligence and patience he was a great 



of his pains. . . , ,. 



instrument, in obedience to the Queen, to quell and take 

 down these men, who set themselves against the ecclesiasti 

 cal order, notwithstanding all their endeavours and interest 

 at Court against him : which he remembered to the Lord 

 Treasurer as a good office that he had done, for which the 

 Queen, he reckoned, ought to favour him, and not to give 

 ear to every information given against him and the Com 

 missioners ; but to consider into what peaceable tranquillity 

 God, by his poor service, as he said, had brought not only 

 London, and the whole diocese, but also the most part 

 of England, since he came to that place : whereby he had, 

 as he thought in his conscience, rather deserved her gra 

 cious favour than discouragement. For on the other side 

 he expressed how he was hated like a dog, and was called 

 the oppressor of the children of God. 



Meets with By this it appears that he laboured at this time under some 

 discountenance at Court, the Puritans commonly raising a 

 dust there against the Bishops that favoured them not. 



