Memoires of the lives, actions, sufferings & deaths of those noble, reverend and excellent personages that suffered by death, sequestration, decimation, or otherwise, for the Protestant religion and the great principle thereof, allegiance to their soveraigne, in our late intestine wars, from the year 1637 to the year 1660, and from thence continued to 1666 with the life and martyrdom of King Charles I / by Da. Lloyd ...

THE Life and Death OF Dr. ACCEPTED FREWEN, Lord Arch-bishop of York.

THE three last Arch-bishops of York, were men of as great sufferings as enjoyments.

I. Dr. Richard Neile, born in Westminster, whereof he was Dean; and bred in St. Iohns Col∣ledge Cambridge, whereof he was Fellow, going by the favor of the Cecills, bred in the same Col∣ledge with him, through several Preferments and Dignities, from the Vicaridge of Chesthunt in Hertford-shire, to the Deanery of Westminster, and by the bounty of his two Royal Ma∣sters, who had the same apprehensions with him about the Church (a publick body (he would call it) not only to be taught by Preachers its duties, but to be kept (as long as men are men) by Discipline and Government from scandals) came by the inter∣mediate advancements of Rochester 1608. Coventry and Lichfield 1610. Durham 1617. Winchester 1627. from the Deanery of Westmin∣ster, to the Arch-bishoprick of York 1632. was much envied for his Preferment, more for his Principles; most of all for his Favo∣rites and followings; the Parliament in 1628. threatning for pre∣ferring Dr. Laud to be a Bishop, and the Faction 1641. charging Bishop Laud for making him an Arch-bishop.

II. Arch-bishop Williams, of whom before.

III. Arch-bishop Frewen, bred Demy, Fellow, and President of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford, a general Scholar, and aa 1.1 good Orator, made Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 1643/4. a Preferment he suffered rather than enjoyed; and after fourteen or fifteen years sufferings and privacy with his Relations in London, upon his Majesties Restauration, Installed Arch-bishop of York. His parti∣cular temper was, that by his goodly presence and great Retinue he hazarded the envy of people, to avoid contempt: a thing (he would say) a man should avoid as death, it being an undervaluing of a man upon a belief of his utter uselesness and inable; attended with an untoward endeavor to engage the world in the same be∣lief and slight esteem, a rising man prevent, as ruine to be thought down, is the very Preface to be so; a contempt like the Planet

Saturn, hath first an ill Aspect, and then a destroying influence: and a Governor provide against as a deposing, what obedience can he expect from them that give him not so much as respect; the carriage cannot reverence the person over whom the heart in∣sults: nor the actions submit, if the apprehensions rebel. Repu∣tation is power, which who despises, weakens; for where there is contempt, there can be no aw, and where there is no aw, there will be no subjection; and we have known that the most effectual method of disobedience, is first to slur a Governors person, and then to overthrow his power. He knew that though he must approve himself to wise men by his vertues, he must take the vulgar that see not beyond the surface, with his carriage; they as the Spaniard, being of opinion, that if you would know a man, you must know him by his gate. He dyed 1663/4.

P. M. Accepti Freweni, quis seit si ultra quaeras; jam dignus es qui nescias.

Notes

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  Witnessh Moral Ph•••••• phy Lectur•••••• & his Oratioa upon Prince Henry's Fu∣neral made in Magdalene-Colledge.