116 THE LIFE OF 



CHAP, county, Esq. the other unmarried. And from Anthony, 

 x * the youngest son of the same Samuel, is descended another 

 Brabazon Aylmer, the bookseller and publisher of this book ; 

 who, out of due and honourable respects to the memory of 

 his great grandfather, the Bishop, put me upon exposing 

 these collections, and communicated some considerable papers 

 and notices relating hereunto. 



Dr. Ayi- Theophilus, his second son, was bred up to the study of 

 divinity, and commenced Dr. of Divinity, was Archdeacon 

 of London, and Rector of Much Hadham in Hertfordshire : 

 out of which parish he married his wife Mary, daughter of 

 William Newce, (Thomas Newce, Esq. was anno 1617 High 

 Sheriff of Hertfordshire, who, I suppose, was the said Wil 

 liam s son.) He was, if we may take Dr. Fuller s character 

 of him, one of the most reverend and learned divines of his 

 generation, and an excellent preacher : and preaching once 

 before King James, the King took great satisfaction in his 

 sermon, commending it much ; but being chiefly levelled 

 against the Puritans, he thought he made use of his father 

 the Bishop s notes, who little favoured that party. Among 

 others the good and praiseworthy qualities of this man, he 

 was an encourager of learning, and maintained some scholars 

 at the University to be brought up to the ministry : among 

 the which was one John Squire, his nephew; and by the 

 said Theophilus s means possessed of the living of Shore- 

 ditch, London : which favours the said Squire did openly 

 acknowledge in his epistle to a Paul s Cross sermon by him 

 preached anno Dom. 1623, which he dedicated unto him, 

 and gratefully remembered there ; confessing it was he sent 

 him to the University, procured his preferment there, and 

 had been his patron ever since. This Squire s father was 

 in such reputation with the Bishop, that he gave him one 

 of his daughters in marriage. But how he proved after 

 wards, we shall see by and by. 



Some cha- We may take some character of this Dr. Aylmer from a 

 l etter f llis occasionally written to Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, 

 a great man, now, or soon after, Lord High Treasurer, con 

 cerning tithes due to him from the said Earl s tenants; for 



