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

Thus did he take his leave (saith the Author of the English Life before his Works) of his Lecture, Fellow-ship and College; and was reduced at one blow to great Poverty and Desertion: but he found for some time a place of Harbour in Broadgates-Hall another College in the same University. Here he ⟨p. 10⟩met with some short Gleams of Comfort; for the University of Oxon more kind than his College, and to alleviate the Miseries of his Shipwrack'd Estate, chose him to be her Orator, in which capacity he curiously penned a Gratulatory Letter or Address (as the term now is) to the Queen, on the behalf and in the name of the University, Expressing in it the Countenance of the Roman Senators in the beginning of Tiberius his Reign, exquisitely tempered and composed, to keep out joy and sadness, which both strove at the same time to display their colours in it; the one for dead Augustus; the other for Reigning Tiberius. And upon the Assurance of several of her Nobles, that the Queen would not change the established Religion, expressing some hopes she would so do, which was confirmed then to them by the Promise the Queen had made to the Suffolk and Norfolk Gentry, who had rescued her out of the very Jaws of Ruin. Fuller saith, that the Writing this Letter was put upon him with a design to ruin him, but there is not the least colour for this surmise; he being so very lately, seasonably and kindly chosen Orator. when he was so injuriously expelled out of his own College; but it is much more probable the sweetness, smoothness and briskness of his stile, was both the reason why he was chosen Orator first, and then employed to pen this Letter. The Sum or Heads of which are in Mr. Laurence Humphrey's Life of Jewel: But there is no entire Copy extant.

Thus did he take his leave (saith the Author of the English Life before his Works) of his Lecture, Fellow-ship and Colledge; and was reduced at one blow to great Poverty and Dissertion: but he found for some time a place of Harbour in Broadgates-Hall another Colledge in the same University. Here he ⟨p. 10⟩met with some short Gleams of Comfort; for the University of Oxon more kind than his Colledge, and to alleviate the Miseries of his Shipwrack'd Estate, chose him to be her Orator, in which capacity he curiously penned a Gratulatory Letter or Address (as the term now is) to the Queen, on the behalf and in the name of the University, Expressing in it the Countenance of the Roman Senators in the beginning of Tiberius his Reign, exquisitely tempered and composed, to keep out joy and sadness, which both strove at the same time to display their colours in it; the one for dead Augustus; the other for Reigning Tiberius. And upon the Assurance of several of her Nobles, that the Queen would not change the established Religion, expressing some hopes she would so do, which was confirmed then to them by the Promise the Queen had made to the Suffolk and Norfolk Gentry, who had rescued her out of the very Jaws of Ruine. Fuller saith, that the Writing this Letter was put upon him with a design to ruine him, but there is not the least colour for this surmize; he being so very lately, seasonably and kindly chosen Orator. when he was so injuriously expelled out of his own Colledge; but it is much more probable the sweetness, smoothness and briskness of his stile, was both the reason why he was chosen Orator first, and then imployed to pen this Letter. The Sum or Heads of which are in Mr. Laurence Humfrey's Life of Jewel: But there is no entire Copy extant.