THE LIFE OF 



CHAP. X. 



The Bishop s last visitation. His death. His burial. His 

 last will. His children and posterity. 



His last A GREAT burden of years lay now upon the aged Bi- 

 100 shop, and yet he omitted not the care of his diocese : for in 

 the year 1592, March 18, when his son the Archdeacon vi 

 sited his archdeaconry, he was present, to counsel, advise, 

 and oversee. And the next year, viz. January 16, 1593, 

 was the ancient Bishop^s last visitation ; when Dr. Stanhop, 

 his Chancellor, assisting him, or visiting in his name, every 

 Minister was enjoined, among other things, to do what was 

 somewhat extraordinary, (but this I suppose by order from 

 above,) that the full state of each man might be the better 

 known and examined ; it was, to bring, in a fair sheet of 

 paper in writing under their hands, their parents, their 

 schools where they were educated, their degrees, their age, 

 the day and year of their letters of orders, when made Dea 

 con and when Priest, their presentation, institution, in 

 duction into their benefices, and their licences to preach the 

 word of God, and where; and lastly, the Bishop that 

 allowed them, since they officiated in the Church. These, 

 with the frequent and careful visitations of his good consci 

 entious son the Archdeacon, and their rules, orders, coun 

 sels, instructions, tasks, and examinations, did great good 

 among the Clergy of the city, especially towards the re 

 forming and quickening of them, and keeping them within 

 their duty, and in the better discharge of it. 



Departs this Thus our Bishop continued, rubbing through many dis 

 couragements, but still persisting in the discharge of his 

 episcopal function in preaching and governing his Church, 

 and watchfulness over such as disturbed the peace or orders 

 of it ; till June 3, 1594, when being arrived to a good 

 old age, that is, to seventy-three, he departed at his palace 

 at Fulham. His body was interred with due solemnity in 

 his own cathedral church before St. George s chapel, which 

 was in the north walk of the east part of that church, under 



