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CHAP, &quot;his cross to his mortal enemy. Oh! foolish Germans, 



L_ &quot; which see not their own undoing, [which Germans were 



&quot; his soldiers, or favoured him,] who conspire not together 

 &quot; with the rest of Christian Princes, to pull such a traitor 

 &quot; to God and his kingdom by the ears out of France, and 

 &quot; hang him against the sun a drying, &c. God cannot long 

 &quot; suffer this, though he wink a while at his wretchedness.&quot; 

 One would think our Divine spake these words by a pro 

 phetic spirit, when we consider the event. For it was not 

 much above a quarter of a year after that this King indeed 

 died, viz. July 10, 1559, and that in the flower of his age, 

 being forty-two years old ; and, which is more remarkable, 

 not by a common death, but God made a new thing : and 

 he was thrust into the eye by a lance, notwithstanding his 

 head-pitce, in tilting with one of his nobles, that he com 

 manded to run with him, though earnestly declining it. 

 Whereby his head festered, and he died in miserable pain 

 and anguish. 



Diligent In the discharge of his duty, the Bishop was very con- 

 and painful. -, J 



scienttous and exact, and spared for no pains, being natu 

 rally an active and stirring man : and so he was particularly 

 in his episcopal function. One part of his diligence con 

 sisted in pressing a due conformity unto the laws and orders 

 of the Church established: and that because he thought 

 it the best bulwark to secure from Popery. This was the 

 cause he spared neither Papist nor Puritan. Whereby he 

 drew upon himself the hatred of both : but especially that 

 of the Puritan appeared most visibly against him ; setting 

 Martin Marprelate loose upon him, and giving him all the 

 trouble they could any other way, as we have seen in part 

 in the foregoing history. 



Not to be Nor was he a man to be biassed by any temptation, or 

 brib 1 w? d by blinded by gifts. An instance of this happened in the year 

 1581; when a certain prisoner, (some Papist, as it seems,) 

 sent a letter to him, wherein was some signification of a 

 liberal gratification offered for his favour, perhaps to pro 

 cure him liberty some clancular way : or whether it were a 

 contrivance to betray him into some unwarrantable action, 



