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quired more than three Iiours sleep in twenty-four 

 to keep him in perfect healtli. He was elected 

 into a foundation fellowship for the diocese of 

 Bangor in April, 1603. Being held in great esti- 

 mation by the fellows of his college, he was fre- 

 quently employed in transacting business on be- 

 half of the society, and this, subsequently, led to 

 his advancement; having been sent to court to pe- 

 tition the king for a mortmain to increase the 

 maintenance of the master and fellows, he suc- 

 ceeded by his address, and the king and his minis- 

 ters at this time took particular notice of him. In 

 the twenty-seventh year of his age he took orders, 

 and three years after, archbishop Bancroft confer- 

 red on him an arch-deaconry in Wales, probably 

 that of Cardigan, which gave him a seat in the 

 convocation held in 1613. He became so eminent 

 as a public preacher in Cambridge, that he was 

 selected to preach before king James and prince 

 Henry at Royston, to whom he gave the greatest 

 satisfaction. Soon after, he was appointed by lord 

 chancellor Egerton to be his chaplain, and he con- 

 tinued with his patron until his death in 1616, and 

 under his auspices he obtained various preferments. 

 He was then made chaplain in ordinary to the king, 

 who appointed him, of his own accord, dean of 



