The apology of the Church of England, and an epistle to one Seignior Scipio…

HIS Doors stood always open to the Poor, and he would frequently send his charitable Reliefs to Prisoners,¹ nor did he confine his Bounty to English men only, but was liberal to Foreigners, and especially to those of Z• rick, and the Friends of Peter Martyr.

1. 1Charity.

BUT perceiving the great want of learned men in his times, his greatest care was to have ever with him in his House half a dozen or more poor Lads which he brought up in Learning; and took much delight to hear them dispute Points of Grammar-learning in Latin at his Table when he was at his Meal, improving, them, and pleasing himself at the same time.

AND besides these, he maintained in the University several young Students, allowing them yearly Pensions; and when ever they came to visit him,¹ rarely dismissed them without liberal Gratuities. Amongst these was the famous Mr. Richard Hooker his Country-man,² whose Parents being Poor, must have been bound Apprentice to a Trade, but for the Bounty of this good Bishop, who allowed his Parents a yearly, Pension towards his maintenance well near seven years before he was fit for the University, and in the year 1567, appointed him to remove to Oxford, and there to attend Dr. Cole then President of Corpus Christi Colledge, who according to his ⟨p. 47⟩