the hepyng of synne upon sinne wretchedly by his auncestors and forefathers: wherefore he little or nothing esteemed or in anywise did turment or macerate hymself, whatsoever dignitie, what honor, what state of life, what child, what friend he had lost, or missed; but if did sound an offence toward God, he looked on that, and not without repentance, but mourned and sorrowed for it. These and other offices of holynes caused God to work miracles for him in his life tyme (as olde menne saied); by reason whereof, Kyng Henry the Seventh, not without cause, sued to July, Bushup of Rome, to have him canonized, as other sainctes be: but the fees of canonizing of a King were so great a quantitie at Rome (more than the canonizing of a bushoppe or a prelate although he sitte in Saincte Peter's chaire) that the said king thought it more necessary to kepe his monye at home for the profit of his realme and country, rather than to impoverish his kyngdome for the gaining of a new holy day of Saincte Henry: remitting to God the judgment of his will and intent. This Kyng Henry was of a liberall mynde, and especially to such as loved good learning; and those whom he saw profitte in any virteous science he hartely favoured and embraced, wherefore he first holpe his owne young scholars to attein to dis-cipline, and for them he founded a solempne school at Eton, a towne next unto Wyndesore, in the which he hath stablished an honest colege of sad priestes, with a great nombre of children whiche bee there of his coste frankely and freely taught the eruditaments and rules of grammar. Beside this he edified a princely colege in the Universitie of Cambridge called the Kynges Colege, for the further erudicion of such as were brought up in Eton, which at this daie so flourisheth in all kyndes as well . litterature as of tongues that above all other it is worthy to be called the Prince of Coleges." EDWARD FOXE, who was elected from Eton to King's in 1512, and was made Provost of King's in 1528, was one of the statesmen and divines who co-operated in bringing about the Reformation. In the same year in which he was made Provost of King's, he was sent with Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, on an embassage to Rome, on the subject of Henry the Eighth's divorce. He was then almoner; and Burnet says that he was reputed one of the best divines in England. He was afterwards employed on embassies both in France and in Germany. It was Foxe who first introduced Cranmer to King Henry, by relating Cranmer's advice given to Gardiner and himself, that they should wait no longer for the slow and uncertain judgment of the Court of Rome, but have the question, as to the legality of the King's marriage, determined by the opinions of the most learned Universities and scholars in Christendom. The King sent Foxe and Gardiner to Cambridge, where, after great difficulty, they obtained an opinion from the University against the validity of the marriage, as the King desired. Foxe was particularly active, some years afterwards, in persuading the convocation at Canterbury to acknowledge the King as supreme head of the Church. In 1535 he was made. Bishop of Hereford, and in the same year was sent to Germany on a fruitless negotiation with the confederate Protestant Princes then assembled at Smalkalde. He returned to England in 1536, and died at London in 1538. He is said to have been a man of considerable abilities, but of more caution. He was rather a secret wellwisher to the Reformation than an open friend; but, by judiciously employing his influence, and exerting himself at every opportunity, when he could do so without risk of persecution, he materially aided the progress of that great revolution in our Church and State. (Life in Aiken.-Burnet's Hist. of the Reformation.) RICHARD COX was born at Whaddon, in Buckinghamshire, and educated at Eton, whither he afterwards returned, to educate others. He became a scholar of King's in 1519, where he speedily acquired a high reputation for learning. Cardinal Wolsey was at this time engaged in founding Christ Church, in Oxford; and, as Fuller says, "This great Prelate, desiring that his college should be as fair within as without, and have learning answerable to the building thereof, employed his emissaries to remove thither the most hopeful plants of Cambridge, and this Richard Cox among the rest. He became afterwards schoolmaster of Eton which was happy with many flourishing wits under his endeavours, and Haddon among the rest, whom he loved with filial affection: nor will it be amiss to insert the poetical pass between them : Walter Haddon to Dr. Cox, his schoolmaster. "Hence he was sent for, to be instructor to Prince Edward, which with good conscience to his great credit he discharged." Fuller proceeds: "Here, reader, forgive me in hazarding thy censure in making and translating a distich upon them. "Præceptor doctus, docilis magis an puer ille? "On Edward the Sixth's accession to the throne, Cox became a great favourite at Court. He was made a Privy Councillor, and the King's Almoner. King Edward used to say of his tutors that Randolph, the German, spake honestly; Sir John Cheke talked merrily: Dr. Coxe, solidly; and Sir Anthony Cooke, weighingly." Cox was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1547. On Queen Mary's accession he was deprived of all his preferments and confined for a short time in the Marshalsea. Being released, and perceiving the coming storm of persecution he went abroad and resided at Strasburg until Queen Mary's death. He then returned to England, and was one of the divines appointed to revise the Liturgy. He frequently preached before Queen Elizabeth, who esteemed him highly and made him Bishop of Ely. He presided over that see for twenty-one years, and was regarded as one of the chief pillars of the English Church. He died in 1581, in his eighty-second year. Harwood says of him-"it must be remembered of this Bishop, that he was the first who brought a wife to live in a college." (Harwood's Alumni Etonenses. Fuller's Worthies. - Burnett's Hist. Reformation.) SIR THOMAS SUTTON, the founder of the Charter-house, born at Knaith, in Lincolnshire, in 1532, of an ancient and opulent family, was placed at Eton, and educated there, by the advice, and under the direction, of Dr. Cox, whose name has been lately mentioned. He matriculated at St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1551, whence he went to Lincoln's Inn, with a view of studying the law. He spent, however, the whole of Queen Mary's reign in travelling abroad. Returning home, in 1562, he entered into the possession of a handsome fortune, his father having died during his absence. He now became a courtier; but a courtier such as most of Queen Elizabeth's were,-distinguished for his successful activity in military service. He was appointed Master of the Ordnance at Berwick, and "while he was thus acquiring that glory which is the peculiar purchase of military exploits, he grew not less distinguished by an extraordinary access of wealth. Soon after his arrival in the North, he had purchased of the Bishop of Durham the manors of Gateshead and Wickham, famous for coal-mines in that bishopric; and in 1570 obtained a lease from the Crown, for the term of seventy-nine years. These prospered so fast, that on his coming up to London, in 1580, he brought with him the quantity of two horse-loads of money, and was reputed to be worth fifty thousand pounds. About the middle of the year 1582, he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Gardiner, Esq., of Grove-place, in the parish of Chalfont St. Gyles, in Buckinghamshire, and widow of John Dudley, of Stoke-Newington, in Middlesex, Esq., a near relation of the Earl of Warwick. This lady brought him a very considerable estate, and among the rest, a moiety of the manor of StokeNewington, which being near London, he made that house his country seat; and purchasing in the city a large house, near Broken Wharf, in the parish of St. Mary, Somerset, he took up the business of a merchant, which his ready cash enabled him to follow with such great credit, and so much to his advantage, that he soon became one of the chief merchants of London, and is said to have had no less than thirty agents abroad; and his riches flowing in with every tide. Mr. Sutton was likewise one of the chief victuallers of the navy, and seems to have been master of the barque called 'Sutton,' of seventy tons and thirty men, in the list of volunteers attending the English fleet, against the Spanish Armada, in 1588." One of his biographers states that "it is very probable that he was the principal instrument in the defeat of that Armada. For Sir Francis Walsingham having, by the help of a Popish priest, his spy, procured a copy of the King of Spain's letter, giving an account of his mighty preparations to the Pope, the invasion was hindered for a whole year by our merchants, who, at the instance of Sir Francis, gathered up the chief bills of the Bank of Genoa, and drawing their money out of it just as King Philip had ordered bills upon that bank to set his fleet out to sea, those bills were through necessity protested, so that patience became the only remedy. His Majesty was obliged to wait the arrival of his Plate Fleet from the Indies, for the necessary supplies; and England had thence time to prepare for the reception of the Invincible Armada. Mr. Sutton was at this time the chief and richest merchant in London, and, considering his obligations to the Crown, together with his known loyalty, no doubt can be made but he was also the chief of those merchants who drained the bank of Genoa, according to a strong tradition that prevails at Charter-house." In 1602 Sutton was left a widower. He had hitherto lived in a style of open and sumptuous hospitality; but after this bereavement he lost all relish for society, and passed the remainder of his days in seclusion. He now formed the resolution of disposing of his vast wealth in the foundation of some great public charity; and considering himself thenceforth only a steward of his possessions, he lived in the most frugal manner. "But before he had fixed upon any particular plan for carrying that design into execution, he was greatly alarmed, in the year 1608, with the news of a design to raise him to the peerage, in the view of laying him thereby under an obligation to make King Charles I., then Duke of York, his Heir. Upon the first notice that came to his ears of this project, he immediately put a stop to it; and having received a letter from Mr. Joseph Hall, (afterwards Bishop of Norwich), exciting him to come to some determination in his intended. charity, he soon after, on the 10th of March 1609, petitioned the King in Parliament, for an Act to empower him to erect an hospital at Hallingbury-Bouchers, in Essex. The petition was accordingly granted; but in a little time, changing his mind as to the situation, he purchased, of the Earl of Suffolk, Howard House, or the late dissolved Charter-house, near Smithfield, for the sum of thirteen thousand pounds, where he founded the present hospital of Charter-house, in 1611. He designed to be himself the first Master of it; but soon after the grant, being seized with a slow fever, and perceiving his end to approach, he hastened, and by a deed, dated on the 30th of October that year, nominated the Reverend John Hutton, Master of Arts, and Vicar of Littlebury in Essex, to that post. On the first of November he signed an irrevocable deed of gift of the estates specified in the letters patents to the governors in trust for the hospital. On the second of that month he made his last will, |