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Alice, Cicily, Jane, and Margaret; that he gave to each of them a hundred pounds; that he left Joane his wife his fole executrix; and that by his inventory his estate (a great part of it being in books) came to 10921. 9s. 2d. which was much more than he thought himself worth; and which was not got by his care, much lefs by the good housewifery of his wife, but faved by his trusty servant Thomas Lane, that was wiser than his master in getting money for him, and more frugal than his mistress in keeping it of which will I shall fay no more, but that his dear friend Thomas, the father of George Cranmer, of whom I have fpoken, and fhall have occafion to fay more, was one of the witnesses to it.

One of his elder daughters was married to one Chalinor, fometime a schoolmaster in Chichester, and both dead long fince. Margaret, his youngest daughter, was married unto Ezekiel Clark, bachelor in divinity, and rector of St. Nicholas in Harbledown near Canterbury, who died about fixteen years past, and had a fon Ezekiel, now living and in facred orders, being at this time Rector of Waldron in Suffex; fhe left alfo a daughter, with both whom I have spoken not many months past, and find her to be a widow in a condition that wants not, but far from abounding; and these two attested that Richard Hooker, their grandfather, had a fifter, by name Elizabeth Harvey, that lived to the age of one hundred and twenty-one years, and died in the month of September, 1663.

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of Bichopesborne The residue of goods and chattells whatsoever unbequethed my funeral debts and legacies discharged and paid I give unto Joane Hooker my welbeloved wife whom I ozdaine and make lote executoz of this my latt will and testament And ordaine and make my welbeloved father Mr. John Churchman and my allured good frende Mr. Gdwin Sandes my overleers By me Richard Hooker Sealed and delivered in the pzelence of these whole names are lubscribed Robert Role Daniel Nichols Avery Chelton. I.

Proved the third day of December 1600, befoze the Reverend James Billel
Clerk Surrate to Revd. George Newman Doctor of Laws Commillary
General of the city and diocele of Canterbury by the oath of Joane Hooker
widow the relic and fole executrix named in the laid will, tc.

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For his other two daughters I can learn little certainty, but have heard they both died before they were marriageable; and for his wife fhe was fo unlike Jephtha's daughter, that she staid not a comely time to bewail her widowhood; nor lived long enough to repent her fecond marriage; for which doubtless she would have found caufe, if there had been but four months betwixt Mr. Hooker's and her death. But fhe is dead, and let her other infirmities be buried with her.

Thus much briefly for his age, the year of his death, his eftate, his wife and his children: I am next to speak of his books, concerning which I fhall have a neceffity of being longer, or fhall neither do right to myself or my reader, which is chiefly intended in this Appendix.

I have declared in his Life, that he propofed eight books, and that his first four were printed anno 1594, and his fifth book firft printed, and alone, anno 1597, and that he lived to finish the remaining three of the propofed eight; but whether we have the last three as finished by himself, is a just and material queftion; concerning which I do declare, that I have been told almost forty years paft, by one that very well knew Mr. Hooker, and the affairs of his family, that about a month after the death of Mr. Hooker, Bishop Whitgift, then Archbishop of Canterbury, fent one of his chaplains to inquire of Mrs. Hooker for the three remaining books of Polity, writ by her husband; of which fhe would not or could not give any account; and I have been told, that about three months after the bishop procured her to be fent for to London, and then by his procurement fhe was to be examined by fome of her Majefty's Council, concerning the difpofal of thofe books; but by way of preparation for the next day's examination, the bishop invited her to Lambeth; and, after fome friendly queftions, fhe confeffed to him," that one Mr. Chark, and another minifter that dwelt near Canterbury,

This could not be Mr. Ezekiel Chark, B. D. who married Margaret, the youngest daughter of Mr. Hooker. The perfon here meant was probably Mr. William Charke, a noted puritan, deprived of his fellowship at Peterhouse in the university of Cambridge, and banished from the univerfity for having afferted in a Latin fermon, preached at St. Mary's, Dec. 3, 1572, "that the states of bishops, archbishops, metropolitans (patriarchs), and laftly of popcs, were "introduced into the church by Satan; and that among the minifters of the church one ought not to be fuperior to another." (Strype's Whitgift, p. 43.)

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terbury, came to her, and defired that they might go into her husband's "study, and look upon fome of his writings; and that there they two "burnt and tore many of them, affuring her, that they were writings not "fit to be seen, and that she knew nothing more concerning them." Her lodging was then in King-street, in Westminster, where the was found next morning, dead in her bed, and her new hufband fufpected and questioned for it; but was declared innocent of her death..

And I declare alfo, that Dr. John Spencer (mentioned in the Life of Mr. Hooker) who was of Mr. Hooker's college, and of his time there; and betwixt whom there was fo friendly a friendship, that they continually advised together in all their ftudies, and particularly in what concerned these books of Polity: This Dr. Spencer (the three first books being loft) had t delivered into his hands (I think by Bishop Whitgift) the imperfect books, or first rough draughts of them, to be made as perfect as they might be, by him, who both knew Mr. Hooker's hand-writing, and was best acquainted with his intentions. A fair teftimony of this may appear by an epistle first and usually printed before Mr. Hooker's five books (but omitted, I know not why, in the laft impreffion of the eight printed together in anno 1662, in which the publishers feem to impose the three doubtful, as the undoubted books of Mr. Hooker) with these two letters J. S. at the end of the faid epiftle, which was meant for this John Spencer; in which epiftle the reader may find thefe very words, which may give fome authority to what I have here written.

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"And though Mr. Hooker haftened his own death by haftening to give "life to his books, yet he held out with his eyes to behold these Benjamins, "these fons of his right hand, though to him they proved Benonies, fons of pain and forrow: but fome evil-difpofed minds, whether of malice or "covetousness, or wicked blind zeal, it is uncertain, as foon as they were born, " and their father dead, fmothered them; and, by conveying the perfect copies, left unto us nothing but the old, imperfect, mangled draughts, dif"membered into pieces: no favour, no grace, not the fhadow of themselves "remaining in them. Had the father lived to behold them thus defaced, "he might rightly have named them Benonies, the fons of forrow; but being the learned will not fuffer them to die and be buried, it is intended

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“the world shall see them as they are: the learned will find in them some "fhadows and refemblances of their father's face. God grant, that as they "were with their brethren dedicated to the church for meffengers of peace, "fo, in the strength of that little breath of life that remaineth in them, "they may profper in their work, and that, by satisfying the doubts of such 66 as are willing to learn, they may help to give an end to the calamities of "these our civil wars!

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And next the reader may note, that this epiftle of Dr. Spencer's was writ, and first printed within four years after the death of Mr. Hooker, in which time all diligent fearch had been made for the perfect copies; and then granted not recoverable, and therefore endeavoured to be completed out of Mr. Hooker's rough draughts, as is expreffed by the faid Dr. Spenfince whose death it is now fifty years.

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And I do profess, by the faith of a Chriftian, that Dr. Spencer's wife (who was my aunt, and fifter to George Cranmer, of whom I have spoken) told me forty years fince, in thefe, or in words to this purpose," that her "husband had made up or finished Mr. Hooker's laft three books; and "that upon her husband's death-bed, or in his last sickness, he gave them "into her hand, with a charge they fhould not be seen by any man, but be "by her delivered into the hands of the then archbishop of Canterbury, "which was Dr. Abbot, or unto Dr. King, Bishop of London; and that "fhe did as he enjoined her."

I do conceive, that from Dr. Spencer's and no other copy, there have been divers tranfcripts, and were to be found in feveral places, as namely, in Sir Thomas Bodlie's library, in that of Dr. Andrew's late Bishop of Winton, in the late Lord Conway's, in the Archbishop of Canterbury's, and in the Bishop of Armagh's, and in many others; and most of these pretended to be the author's own hand, being much difagreeing; being, indeed, altered and diminished, as men have thought fitteft to make Mr. Hooker's judgment fuit with their fancies or give authority to their corrupt designs; and, for proof of a part of this, take thefe following teftimo

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Dr. Barnard, fometime chaplain to Dr. Usher, late Lord Archbishop of Armagh, hath declared in a late book, called "Clavi Trabales"," printed by Rich. Hodgkinfon, anno 1661, that, in his fearch and examination of the said bishop's manufcripts, he there found the three written books, which were the fuppofed fixth, feventh, and eighth, of Mr. Hooker's books of " Eccle"fiaftical Polity ;" and that, in the faid three books (now printed as Mr. Hooker's), there are fo many omiffions that they amount to many paragraphs; and which caufe many incoherencies; the omiffions are by him. fet down at large in the faid printed book, to which I refer the reader for the whole; but think fit in this place to infert this following fhort part of them :

"Firft, As there could be in natural bodies no motion of any thing, un"lefs there were fome firft which moved all things, and continued unmove"able; even fo in politic focieties there must be fome unpunishable, or elfe

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no man shall fuffer punishment; for, fith punishments proceed always "from fuperiors, to whom the administration of justice belongeth, which "administration must have neceffarily a fountain that deriveth it to all "others, and receiveth not from any, because otherwise the course of juf"tice should go infinitely in a circle, every fuperior having his fuperior "without end, which cannot be, therefore, a well fpring; it followeth, "there is a fupreme head of juftice whereunto all are fubject, but itself in fubjection to none. Which kind of pre-eminency if fome ought to have "in a kingdom, who but the King fhall have it? Kings, therefore, or no man, can have lawful power to judge.

"If private men offend, there is the magiftrate over them which judgeth; "if magistrates, they have their prince; if princes, there is Heaven, a tribu

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d Or, "Nails fastened by some great Masters of Assemblies," &c. published by Nich. Bernard, D. D. London, 1661. It is a collection made by Archbishop Usher of tracts written by himself, Mr. Richard Hooker, Dr. Lancelot Andrews, Adrian Saravia, &c. with a preface by Bishop Sanderfon. This volume contains the Lord Primate's Original of Bifhops and Metropopolitans; wherein he proves from Scripture, as alfo from the most ancient writings and monuments of the church, that they owe their original to no lefs authority than that of the apostles; fo that there never was any Chriftian church founded in the primitive times without bishops which difcourfe was not then, nor perhaps ever will be, answered by those of a contrary judgment. (See Dr. Parr's Life of Archbishop Usher, p. 41.)

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