charge of Sir William Cooper in Borne church, where Mr. Hooker was buried, his death is faid to be anno 1603, but doubtlefs both are mistaken; for I have it attefted under the hand of William Somner the Archbishop's register for the province of Canterbury, that Richard Hooker's will bears date October the 26th in anno 1600, and that it was proved the third of December following. And this attefted alfo, that at his death he left four daughters, Alice, Cicily, Jane, and Margaret; that he gave to each of them a hundred pounds; that he left Joane

f The following is extracted from the registry of the Archdeacon's Court of Canterbury.

In the name of God Amen This sixe and twentieth of October in the yeare of our Lord one thousand and sixe hundred I Richard Hooker of Bishopsborne though sicke in bodye yet sounde in minde thankes be unto allmightye God doe ordaine and make this my last will and testament in manner and forme followinge First I bequeth my soule unto Allmightye God my creator hopinge assuredly of my salvation purchased thorough the death of Christ Jesus and my bodye to the earth to be buried at the discretion of mine executor Item I give and bequeth unto my daughter Alice Hooker one hundred pounds of lawfull Englishe money to be paide unto her at the daye of her marriage Item I give and bequeth unto my daughter Cicilye Hooker one hundred pounds of lawful Englishe moneye to be paid unto her at the daye of her marriage Item I give and bequethe unto my daughter Jane Hooker one hundred pounds of lawful Englishe money to be paid unto ker at the day of her marriage Item I give unto my daughter Margaret Hooker one hundred pounds of lawful Englishe moneye to be paid unto her at the day of her marriage And if it shall happen any of my said daughters to departe this life before the daye of their said marriage then I will that her or their portion so dieinge shal be equally divided amonge her or their sisters survivinge Item I give and bequeth unto the poor of the pishe of Barha five pounds of lawful money to be paid unto them by mine executor Item I give unto the poor of the pishe of Bishopesborne fiftyje shillings of lawfull Englishe money to be paid unto them by mine executor Item I give and bequeth three pounds of lawful Englishe money towards the buildinge and makeing of a newe and sufficient pulpett in the pishe church of Bishopesborne 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 ordaine and make sole executor of this my last will and testament And I ordaine and make my welbeloved father Mr John Churchman and my assured good frende Mr Edwin Sandes my overseers By me Richard Hooker Sealed and delivered in the presence of these whose names are subscribed Robert Rose Daniel Nichols Atery Cheston. ||.

Proved the third day of December 1600, before the Reverend James Bissel Clerk Surrate to Revd. George Newman Doctor of Laws Commissary General of the city and diocese of Canterbury by the oath of Joane Hooker widow the relict and executrix named in the said will, &c

£.

s. d.

Iny 1092 9 2

Exd WM. CULLEN.

THOS, BACK HOUSE, Regifirar,

his wife his fole executrix; and that by his inventory his estate (a great part of it being in books) came to 10921. 9 s. 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 trufty fervant Thomas Lane, that was wifer than his master in getting money for him, and more frugal than his miftrefs in keeping it: of which will I fhall fay no more, but that his dear friend Thomas, the father of George Cranmer, of whom I have spoken, 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 Chichefter, 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 paft, and had a fon Ezekiel, now living and in Sacred Orders, being at this time Rector of Waldron in Sufsex; fhe left alfo a daughter, with both whom I have spoken not many months paft, and find her to be a widow in a condition that wants not, but far from abounding; and these two attefted unto me, that Richard Hooker, their grandfather, had a fifter, by name Elizabeth Harvey, that lived to the age of one hundred and twentyone years, and died in the month of September, 1663.

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 doubtlefs the would have found caufe, if there had been but four months betwixt Mr. Hooker's and her death. But the 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 necefsity of being longer, or fhall neither do right to myfelf nor 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 finith the remaining three of the propofed eight; but whether we have the laft three as finished by himself, is a juft and material queftion; concerning which I do declare, that I have been told almost forty years past, by one that very well knew Mr. Hooker, and the affairs of his family, that about a month after the death of Mr. Hooker, Bifhop 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 questions, fhe confefsed to him, "that one Mr. Chark, and another mi"nister that dwelt near Canterbury, came to her, and defired "that they might go into her husband's ftudy, and look upon "fome of his writings; and that there they two burnt and tore "many of them, afsuring her, that they were writings not fit

to be feen, and that the knew nothing more concerning them." Her lodging was then in King-street, in Westminster, where fhe was found next morning, dead in her bed, and her new husband suspected and queftioned 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 studies, and particularly in what concerned thefe books of Polity: This Dr. Spencer (the three firft books being loft) had 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 beft acquainted with his intentions. A fair teftimony of this may appear by an epiftle first and usually printed before Mr. Hooker's five books (but omitted, I know not why, in the laft impression 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 some authority to what I have here written.

"And though Mr. Hooker haftened his own death by haften"ing 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

The perfon here meant was probably Mr. William Clarke, a noted Puritan, deprived of his Fellowship at Peterhoufe in the University of Cambridge, and banished from the University for having asserted in a Latin fermon, preached at St. Mary's, Dec. 3, 1572, "that the states of Bishops, Archbishops, Metropolitans (Patriarchs), and laftly of Popes, 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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"fome evil-difpofed minds, whether of malice or covetoufnefs, 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, difmembered into pieces: no "favour, no grace, not the fhadow of themfelves remaining in them. Had the father lived to behold them thus defaced, he might rightly have named them Benonies, the fons of forat row; but being the learned will not fuffer them to die and *be buried, it is intended the world fhall fee them as they are:

the learned will find in them fome fhadows and resemblances "of their father's face. God grant, that as they were with their "brethren dedicated to the church for mefsengers of peace, fo, in "the ftrength of that little breath of life that remaineth in "them, they may profper in their work, and that, by fatisfy ing the doubts of fuch as are willing to learn, they may help to give an end to the calamities of these our civil wars!

"J.S."

And next the reader may note, that this epiftle of Dr. Spencer's was writ, and firit 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 exprefsed by the faid Dr. Spencer, fince whofe death it is now fifty years.

And I do profefs, by the faith of a Chriftian, that Dr. Spencer's wife (who was my aunt, and fifter to George Cranmer, of whom I have fpoken) 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 "hufband's death-bed, or in his laft fickness, he gave them into "her hand, with a charge they should not be feen 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 the 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 Bifhop 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 fittest to make Mr. Hooker's judgment fuit with their fancies or give authority to their corrupt defigns; and, for proof of a part of this, take thefe following teftimonies :

Dr. Barnard, fometime chaplain to Dr. Ufher, late Lord Archbishop of Armagh, hath declared in a late book, called

Clavi Trabalesh," printed by Rich. Hodgkinson, anno 1661, that in his fearch and examination of the faid Bifhop's manufcripts, he there found the three written books, which were the fuppofed fixth, seventh, and eighth, of Mr. Hooker's books of "Ecclefiaftical Polity;" and that, in the said three books (now printed as Mr. Hooker's), there are so many omifsions that they amount to many paragraphs; and which caufe many incoherencies; the omifsions 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 short part of them :

"First, As there could be in natural bodies no motion of any "thing, unless there were fome firft which moved all things,

and continued unmoveable; even fo in politic focieties there "must be some unpunishable, or else no man fhall fuffer pu"nifhment; for, fith punishments proceed always from fupe65 riors, to whom the administration of juftice belongeth, which "administration must have necefsarily a fountain that deriveth "it to all others, and receiveth not from any, because other"wife the courfe of justice fhould 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 fubjec❝tion 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 66 judge.

"If private men offend, there is the Magiftrate over them "which judgeth; if Magiftrates, they have their Prince; if "Princes, there is Heaven, a tribunal, before which they "fhall appear; on earth they are not accountable to any.". Here,' fays the Doctor, it breaks off abruptly.'

And I have these words also attefted under the hand of Mr. Fabian Philips, a man of note for his useful books:

hOr, "Nails faftened by fome great Mafters of Assemblies," &c. published by Nich. Bernard, D.D. London, 1661. It is a collection inade by Archbishop Ufher of tracts written by himself, Mr. Richard Hooker, Dr. Lancelot Andrews, Adrian Saravia, &c. with a preface by Bishop Sanderson. This volume contains the Lord Primate's Original of Bishops and Metropolitans; wherein he proves from Scripture, as alfo from the moft ancient writings and monuments of the church, that they owe their original to no less 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, anfwered by thofe of a contrary judgment.

(See Dr. Parr's Life of Archbishop Usher, p. 41.)

A barrifier of fome eminence in his profefsion, and noted for his loyalty. From his diligent fearch of records and papers depofited in the public offices, he obtained a moft extenfive knowledge of the hiftory

and