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neral vifitation and reformation: of the Englifh sale 
That day, he fays, he wifhed as ardently to fee, as Sim 
did to behold the Meffiah; and he adds, that for three ane 
we almoft all his fhudies, labours, thoughts, and cares, 
been directed to that objeét within his own particular 
fantaicion. iog. Brit. 
Fox, Epwarp, likewife a prelate and ftatefman, was 
bor urfle ey in Gloucefterfhire ; educated at Eton, aud 
purlued a more advanced ftudies at King’s colle <8 
bridge, to which he was admitted in the year 1 
was foon ree to poffefs great cleus. and to be cainedl: 
qualified for ftations of a¢tivity and confidence. In the 
year 1528 he was sap 5d aa of his college, and retain- 
ed that poft to the time of his death: in the fame year 
Wolley a appointed a eon with Gardiner, a 
the bifhop of Winchefter, embaffador to Rome to obtain 
the confent of pope Clement VIL. es the divorce of oe 
I. from his queen Catherine of Arragon. After his 
return he was appointed to embaffies both in France and 
an e 
months’ negociation nothing was Hedi nd the bifhop re 
turned to England in 1536, and having enjoyed his bithoprie 
fomewhat lefs than three years, he died at London in 
ie year 1538. Asan author he left behind him a treatife 
e vera differentia regi Poteftatis et ecclefialtice, et 
fa veritad utr iufque,”’ which was afterwards 
t an «& 
and Gardiner, concerning their proceedings at 
This is among the collection of records at the ae of the 
to t 
led privately, by his ‘influence and a 
therance of the meafures by which it was nares ef. 
fected, "Bice Brit. 
Fox, » was born = — Lincolathire, « of re- 
phante,”? was publifhed at London and at Bafil, and tranf- 
lated by Richard Day, fon of the famous printer, in the 
reign of queen Elizabeth. Fox had a {till ftronger predi- 
leétion for divinity than for poetry, and ftudied with the 
utmoft fervour.and affiduity, tall be had made himfelf maf- 
: in one book ; to whic 
se acquired an ps es ee of the ao Jan 
e. Inthe courfe of -his i inquiries, he became fatisfed 
of ie errors of papery ry; and being refolved to Bibs truth 
wherever the might lead him, he abftained from the efta 
blifhed werfhip of the country. 
was expelled the houfe, and told that 
might confider it a mark ef great clemency and particular 
favour towards him, that the punifhment did not extend ta- 
take away his life. By this asia Mr. Fox 
of his friends, who were alarm 
ook advantage of his yeee ine to: 
fhould he eel to the ee for that purpofe OX: 
was now on, the verge of great diftrefs, when he eee ks 
edly met with a ie in fir Thomas Lucy of Warwick- 
fhire, who appointed him tutor to his children. In the 
houfe of this gentleman he continued be his pupils were 
grown up, during which time he had m 
i venti A few 
ury VIII. he went os London ; 3 bt 
eect with employment, he was again redu trem 
diftrefs, and in danger of perifhing through want. From’ 
an unknown pe erica. who had feen him fitting one day in 
t. Paul’s cathedral, bent doven under his diftreffes, he re- 
ced relief ; and in a very fhort time afterwards he was fo 
fortunate as to be taken into a duchefs of Richmond’s 
family, to ue the children of h her, the famous 
Heny Howard, earl of Surrey, abe were entrufted to her 
care, when their father was fent to the Tower by Henry 
VIII. this noble eal bee 1¢ continued to refide dur- 
one of his pu is nthony Woo 
been reftored to his fellow ie in Magdalen c ahi poi 
the reign of Edward VI., and to ras been the firft perfou 
who preached the- reformed do€trines at: Ryegate. The 
bloody-minded Gardiner was Geog. “after the life ‘of this: 
excellent man; and it was with the-utmoft difficulty that he’ 
efcaped the {nares laid for him: by that cruel prelate, who 
t 
their refidence at Bafil. e gained 
correCting the prefs for Oporinus, a celebrated printer ; 
here he formed-the ee of his «* Aas and Monuments of 
the Church.”” He had, fome time before this, publifhed 
at Strafburgh, “ Cee Rerum in Ecclefia geftarum,. 
maximarumque per totam Europam Perfecutionum a Wic- 
were all: ‘printed - par in 1559, 1 any y 
Mr. Fox joined the other Enghih ree in publicly + ine 
the liturgy et oy the French and Genevan reformed: 
churches, in preference to that ordered by king Edward. 
On the acceflion of ve Elizabeth, Mr.. Fox returned to 
his native country, where he was kindly received by his 
former pupil, the duke of Norfolk, who maintained him at 
his houfe as long as he lived, and fettled a ete upen him 
at his death. By the intereft of Cecil, 
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