Secondly.  The  second  was  simony,  which  was  so  detestable
to  him,  as  that  for  refusing  to  admit  divers  men  to  livings,
whom  he  suspected  to  be  simoniacally  preferred,  he  suffered
much  by  suits  of  law;  choosing  rather  to  be  compelled
against  his  will  to  admit  them  by  law,  than  voluntarily  to  do
that  which  his  conscience  made  scruple  of.  And  for  the
livings  and  other  preferments  which  fell  in  his  own  gift,  he
ever  bestowed  them  freely,  as  you  have  seen  before,  upon
deserving  men,  without  suit=:  so  that  we  may  say  of  him,

amble.'"    Fuller  farther  observes,  in  ?  [It  was  published,  at  the  King's

his  Church  History  (book  xi.  sect.  i.  command,  by  Bishops  Buckeridge  and

§  48),  "As  for  such  who  causelessly  Laud.]

have  charged  his  sermons  as  '  affected  ■■   [See  his  "  Determiuatio  de  Usu-

and  surcharged  with  verbal  allusion,'  ris,"  in  Opusc.  Posthuma.]

when  they  themselves  have  set  forth  •   [Hyde  writes  thus  to  Dr.  John

the  like,  it  will  be  then  time  enough  Barwick,   Nov.  28,    1659:    "I   have

■to  make  this  Bishop's  first  defence  always  been  of  the  opinion,  that  the

against  their  calumniations."]  method   you  say  was    observed    by


LANCELOT   ANDREWES.
