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puaytad by John Cheney, Esq. to the rectory of Dray- 

 in Iluckinghmnuhire, where be led a 

 most uncomfortable life with hU wife Joan. I 1 

 aJtuation. he received visit from hi* friend and pupil 

 Sandys, in company with another pupil, Mr Cranmer, 

 a jfrand-nepHew of the celebrated Archbishop Craiuner. 

 The** yoong men found their learned and respected 

 hi a ~ " field, with a Horace in hi* hand, 

 a mall flock of sheep, in the absence of his 

 who had been called away to aomt hii mistress 

 in *ome JoBMHic bosiaeas. When released from thi* 

 duty, hi* friend* accompanied ban to hi house, where 

 they had an opportunity of witnessing the vexation 



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Upon 

 who took a 



their return to London, Mr Sandy* 

 ther with Hooker's deplorable 

 i interest ID hi* cuMCCfiM^ I 

 of the Temple, in 1583. 



Hooker soon discovered 



and cot him appointed 



Although *) ' H i 



that 



wa* not a place that raited his temper and dis- 



ter of the Tempi*, 

 with T ravers, an 

 of 



cite in him the desire of obtaining the 



living. At the time when be wa* chosen mas- 

 he got involved in a controversy 

 tlirrr, roan, it 

 good manners, but aealooaly 

 This controversy 

 of the 



in 



*%, 



of which wore hud while he 

 But in thi* reaidtnt* be found 



to* Temple. 



" > of canting OB the work to his own 



Whitgift. to remove him into some more quiet situa- 

 tion, m a letter which exhibits an interacting picture 



th*t un..*. rfffex .:,,.,:,c;t>. ti,.- i lev : : 



of hi* character. " Mr lord," says be, " when I loot 

 the freedom of my cell, which wa* my college, yet I 

 round some degree of it hi my quiet country parsonage, 



Hut I .,,n,,-.,ryof the H.M 5 p"T "''''" 



for 

 nv lord, my part. cular 



have pr.ur.1 '.I., r MM 



vv MWfru M*mr UMHW Wt UBpmBWmU* MJ UBBJ* HV*J*VnnW 



bVve Urn to be a good man ; and that belief bath 



ing hi* 

 the Hol 



And to satisfy that. I hare 

 Holy Scripture*, and other law., both bu 

 divine, whether the fi*nienfe of him. and 

 hi* jaiUmmr, ongnt to be *> 

 a* to alter onr frame of 

 nerofGoif* *.*ha. 



u. And in this < 

 I have not only letiaiirt myself, but hare brgwn a trea- 

 tise, in which I intend the aatiefaction of others, by a 

 i of the rr*nnabloBi** of oar law* of ec- 

 Bnt, my lord, I shall never be able 

 I bt rvuiowd 0ito 

 I may see God's bluing. 



to finish 



l polity. 

 what I 



pring out of my mother earth, and eat my 



in peace and privacy ; a plant, where I may without 



*^wi3aTwa*M 



oVvtotheC~dofalliriu.- 



In consequence of this application, be wa* presented. 



in 1591, to the rectory of Boscomb, in Wiltshire ; and 

 in the same year, he obtained other valuable prefer- 

 ments in the cathedral of Salisbury. At Boscomb be 

 finished four books of his Ecrletiattical PoLly, wl.idi 

 were entered at Stationer's-hall in the month of March 



but not printed till 159 1. In the follow-in- 

 he quitted Boscomb, and was present, -1 by Queen Eli- 

 sabeth to the rectory 1 of Bishop's Bourne, in Kent, v 

 he resided during the remain tier of his h: : >'ng 



the duties of his office in the most conscientious and 

 exemplary manner. In this place he com|>osed the 

 fifth book of his great work, which was dedicated to 

 the archbishop, am! published by itself in 1597. He 

 also finished the Gth, 7th, and Sth books, but did not 

 live to publish them ; and it has been much disputed 

 whether we have these book* genuine as he left them. 

 In the year 1600, be caught a severe cold, in a passage 

 between London and Graresend, which produced a 

 lingering and painful illness, that at length put a pe- 

 riod to his life, in the ITtli year of hi* age. He died 

 on the -'(! of November ItiOO. Notwithstanding the 

 severity of h indisposition, he persevered in hi* >; 

 to the last A few days before his death, his house was 

 robbed. When informed of that circumstance, he en- 

 quired whether his books and written papers were safe ; 

 and being answered that they were, " then," said he, 

 " it matter* not. for no other loss can trouble me." 



The personal character of Hooker may be gathered 

 from the preceding narrative of his life. As an author, 

 the church i* indebted to him for the most pro! 



of ecdeaiaotical establishment* 



Hi- treatise on 

 Polity, indeed; na* been admired both at home and 

 abroad, a* a work of deep and extensive research, and 

 of acute and sound reasoning ; and the author IMS been 

 universally diitingiiiehfd by the honourable title* of 

 " the judicious,- and the Unrnod i valuable 



work, Pope Clement \ III it reported to have said, 

 that " there were in it such seed* of eternity ., 

 continue till the last fire shall devour all learning." 

 James I. ascended the throne of England, 

 be i* said to have asked Archbishop Whit. 

 friend Mr Hooker ; and being answered, that he had 

 died a year before the queen, who expressed great con- 

 orrn when she received the news, he replied, " And I 

 receive H with no learn, a* I shall want the desired hap. 

 pine** of seeing and discoursing with that man, from 

 whoae book* of church polity I have received such nv 

 tiefaction." He afterward* added, - though many 

 otters write well, yet in the next age they will be for- 

 n ; but, doobtloa*. there i* in every page of Mr 

 tar'* book the picture of a divine soul; u< .' 

 tare* of truth and Milan, and drawn in so sacred co- 

 lour*, that they shall never fade, but give an immortal 

 memory to the author." 



Betides the eight book* of EccUntulicol Polity, and 

 hi* answer to Travers's .Wavtiraricm, Hooker left some 

 ermoM, which were collected and published with hi* 

 works in folio. An octavo edition has also been print- 

 ed at Oxford, f ;) 



lioogl vi. p. 214. 



MOO-n : .see ( in* A, voLvip 211. 



H !- >< rt-Rt, vol. i. p. 319; and 



BIIKWI*O, vol. iv. p. 



HORACE, Qcirrrs Ho*ui it., one of the 



celebrated of the Roman poet*, was born .IT 

 nuuan, a lawn in the confine* of Apulia and Lucania, 

 in the consulship of Aurelius ( *ta and Manlius Tor- 

 quatui. His father wa* the son of a frcedmon, and foU 



