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be two copies of verses of his extant upon the death of C H A P. 

 Bishop Jewel, one in Latin, the other in Greek. This Bi- 

 shop he styled his master in those verses ; 



Heu ! mihi, mors rapuit dominum. 



So that Squire seems either to have been his Chaplain, or 

 brought up under him ; and that that Bishop exhibited to 

 him in the University. And I find he had in that Bishop s 

 life a dispensation for the vicarage of Conmore in the diocese 

 of Sarum. This man was somewhat fantastical, as appears 

 in that he would needs preach his own wedding sermon ; 

 which he did from that text, It is not good for Adam to be 

 alone ; Adam being his own Christian name. But this \vas 

 not the worst of him ; for he proved an unkind husband, Squire the 

 and a dissolute man. She was a virtuous woman, and well so ^ in p ^^ 

 brought up. But he, to cover his disloyalty to her bed, 

 unworthily feigned an intrigue between her and a Knight ; 

 and, as we are told, framed a letter from the Knight unto Brief vi&amp;lt; 

 her, which was indeed his own inventing, to bespatter her J { 

 reputation. The Bishop sent for the Knight, and found Church, 

 oiit the truth : and soon after, arguing the case between 

 him and his son-in-law, soundly cudgelled him for his 

 baseness ; which Martin Marprelate hearing of, thus abu 

 sively related it ; &quot; that he went to buffets with his son-in- 

 &quot; law for a bloody nose.&quot; 



He had good preferments in the Church. In one whereof, S 

 by the statutes of the church where it was, he was bound pr 

 to keep hospitality ; and to have every Saturday three Vi 

 cars Choral at supper ; and every Tuesday to feed all the 

 poor that came to his house for alms: and there came 

 weekly above ninety persons. But as he was vicious, so he 

 was of a prodigal humour, and ran much in debt : and his 

 houses and chancels belonging to his livings fell into great 

 decay. He was also in the Queen s debt for first-fruits and 

 tenths ; and was fain to make use of a protection. So that 

 at last the Lord Treasurer, the Bishop, and his eldest son, 

 and four other commissioners, took the management of his 

 debts, the Archbishop of Canterbury having granted his 



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