THE LIFE OF 



CHAP, had offered himself to trial in any court in England, saving 

 _only where his father-in-law was a Judge; although he 



knew, as he said, that all the civil lawyers almost stood in 

 awe of him ; and the rather for that the Lord Archbishop 

 of Canterbury had joined with him in this action. He pro 

 tested before the eternal God, that he had ever, until their 

 meeting at the Council-table, in all humble and most dutiful 

 sort, reverenced his father-in-law, and most entirely loved 

 and yet did love his wife; although he had been greatly 

 abused, and strangely dealt withal. 



What afterwards became of this loose man I know not. 

 But his son John seems to have been left in low circum 

 stances ; whom his uncle, Dr. Theophilus Aylmer, brought 

 up and maintained at the University, and proved a sober 

 and honest man. He enjoyed the benefice of St. Leonard, 

 Shoreditch, London, by the means of his uncle, and other 

 preferments ; which he gratefully acknowledged in print, as 

 was said before. He was endued with good learning, as 

 appears by his sermon preached at Paul s Cross anno T523, 

 upon the second Commandment ; which hath a great deal 

 of reading in it. 

 The Bi- Having said all this of our Bishop, and his children, I 



shop s name . -i -IP-I 1-1 



and family, might add somewhat of his name and family, which was 

 ancient and genteel. I find several of the Aylmers in the 

 city of Norwich about the beginning of the sixteenth cen 

 tury commencing 1500. In St. Peter s church in Norwich 

 was buried one Richard Aylmer, with an old inscription in 

 Latin verses upon him ; which shew him to have been 

 Mayor of that city, and derived of an honourable stock. 

 Which verses began thus : 



Weever s Aijlmer Richardus procerum de stipite natus ; 



Mon. p.soa. j s q llonc i am Major urbisjacet hie tumulatus^ &c. 



His wife was named Joan ; and by her he had posterity ; 

 is charactered for a good and a charitable man ; and was 

 buried 



anno milleno D. bino cum duodeno ; 



that is, 1514, if 1 take it right. And before him there was 



