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all the nobility of England. 
«* He was very skilfull in the Oriental 
tongues. Linguarum Orientalium cal- 
Tentissimus vir Tliomas Bodleus. Drus. 
Not. in Tetragram. He was the great 
founder of our famous Oxford library, 
which is therefore cailed Bibhotheca 
Bogleiana.. He gave many Hebrew 
books to the library,and was imployed 
in many honourable embassies to the 
kings of France and Denmark, the 
lantgrave of Hesse, the duke of Brans- 
wick, the states of Holland. 
“ He gave for his arms three crowns, 
with this inscription, Quarta perennis 
erit.” 
na** Philip de Commines, knight, ‘was 
born at Commines, a town in Flanders. 
In» his youth he served Charles, 
duke of Burgundy, and afterwards Lewis, 
the eleventh of that name, king of 
France, who imployed him in his weigh- 
tiest and secretest affairs. The French 
tongue he spake perfectly and eloquently 5 
the Italian, Dutch, and Spanish, rea- 
sonably well. 
“He hath written the history of 
France under Lewis XL, and Charles 
VITi. his sonne. 
“‘ Hle was the spectator and actor of 
his history. 
“Nothing more grieved him, then 
that in his youth he was not trained up 
in the Latin tongue, which his misfortune 
he often bewailed. " The emperour 
Charles V., and Francis: I. king of 
France, matte so great account of this 
history, that the emperour caried it con- 
tinually about with him, and the king 
was much displeased with the publishing 
thereof. 
“He, in his history, dived so farre 
into, and writ 0 plainly of, the greatest 
affairs of state, that queen ‘Catharine de 
Medicis used to say, that he had made 
as: many hereticks in state-policy, as 
Luther had done in religion.” 
“ Fr. Costerus. 
“ Qur bishop Hall met with him i his 
travels; he saith thus of him: Moreteasty 
then subtill, and more able to wrangle 
then satisfie. 
“ His Enchiridion 
is most commended.” 
Sir Thomas Elyot. 
He hath written a book called, 
Controversiarum 
~The Governour, his Castle of Health. 
‘For his learning in all kinde of 
knowledge, he brought much honour to 
He told me 
he had awork in hand, which he nameth 
De Rebes Memorabilibus Angliz, which 
I trust we shall see in print shértly, and 
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‘the simplicity of ‘the Scripture did nog 
\kept then: during his life. - 
[A pril I, 
for the accomplishment of that ane he 
had read and perused over many old 
monuments of England.”—Ascham’s 
Toxophilus, p. 28. 
“ Josephus Judaicus clarissimus Ju- 
dzorum Historicus. Ful. Miscel. 1. i. _ 
c. 3. most learned in. the Greek and 
Hebrew. 
“He is a diligent historian; yet since 
he wrote the antiquities of his own 
nation, withan intention to communicate - 
them to others, he described them as 
stately as he could; and when he thought 
suffice to the commendation of things 
done among the Hebrews,. he invented 
and added many thins himself; therefore, 
in those things he is to be prudenily 
read, lest he deceive the unwary reader. 
This fault, Luther, on Gea. 34, and 
Rivet, on Exod. 2. and Chamier and 
others, tax him with——Vide Cornel. a 
Lap. in Gen. xxix. and in Numb. c. li. 
V.o45 
“ There was a Jew in latter times, 
who, out of the true Josephus translated 
into Latin by Ruffinus, (he himself un- 
derstanding no Greek,) and Hegesyppus 
(or rather Ambrose) his Latine history of 
the destruction of Jerusalem, set out an 
Hebrew history under the false name of 
Joseph Ben-Gorion, whom he thought, to 
be the same with Josephus the historian, 
for whom he would be taken. The 
epitome of this Hebrew history is en- 
titled, Josiphon, whence the name of 
Josippus was taken up.” * 
« John Whitgiyft, archbishop of Cans 
terbury. - 
« He had an uncle called Robert Whit- 
gift, abbot of tne monastery of Wellow, 
in Lincolnshire, who, teaching divers 
young gentlemen, took like pains also 
with him. In which time, {as he was 
pleased often to remember,) he heard bis 
uncle the abbot say, that they, and their 
religion, could not long continue, be- 
cause, (said he) I have read the whole 
Scripture over and over, and could never — 
finde therein, that our religion was 4 
founded by God. And for proof of his — 
opinion, the abbot would alledge that — 
saying of our Saviour, Matth. xv. 13. 7 
Every plant which my heavenly Father 1 
hath not planted, shall be rooted out.. 
“Tie never preached, but he first 
wrote his notes in Latine, and afterward i 
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him and Thomas Cartwright, about the “y 
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