This  caused  him,  during  his  life-  vol.  i.  p.  163.]
time,  to  lie  under  the  charge  of  illibe-


LANCELOT  ANDREWES.  XV

The  third  is  his  fidelity  and  integrity ;  faithful,  upright,
and  just  he  ever  was,  whether  you  respect  him  in  his  ordi-
nary transactions,  in  which  no  man  could  evep  justly  tax
him  with  the  least  aspersion  of  injustice ;  or  whether  you
look  upon  him  as  entrusted  with  those  great  offices  and  places
which  he  did  undergo,  and  they  were  either  his  spiritual
preferments  or  temporal  office,  besides  some  other  matters
committed  to  his  fidelity  ^ .  In  the  first  of  which  he  declared
evidently  to  the  world,  that  he  reputed  himself  but  God^s
steward,  and  that  he  must  give  an  account  to  his  Lord  and
Master  for  them.  To  begin  then  with  the  lowest  account :
he  was  ever  faithful,  provident,  and  careful  to  keep  in  good
repair  the  houses  of  aU  his  spiritual  preferments,  and  spent
much  money  that  way ;  as  upon  the  Vicarage-house  of  Saint
Giles,  the  Prebend's  and  Dean's  houses  of  "Westminster,  and
the  Residentiary's  house  of  Saint  Paul's*-  Upon  the  house
belonging  to  the  bishopric  of  Chichester,  he  expended  above
4201.  J ;  of  Ely,  above  2,440^.  ^ ;  of  "Winchester,  besides  a  pen-
sion of  400^.  per  annum,  from  which  he  freed  his.  see  at  his
own  charge ',  he  spent  two  thousand  pounds  "'-

But  in  that  part  of  the  account  which  concerned  him  more
nearly  to  perfect,  which  was  his  pastoral  and  episcopal  charge,
the  cure  of  souls,  and  the  well  ordering  of  the  several  dioceses
committed  to  his  trust,  never  any  made  a  more  just  and
exact  account.
