Twenty sermons preached at Oxford before His Majesty, and elsewhere

First, To the testimonies concerning him from Spanhemius, Ger. Vossius, Buchartus, Simplitius, Lud de dieu. Paulus Testardus, Blessensis, Arnoldus, Bootius, Mr. Selden, Dr. Prideaux, Bp. Davenant, Bertius, Mr. Camden, Sir Rog. Twisden, and the whole University of Oxford, beside the forced testimony of his adversaries, Moranez, Beaumont, (Alias) Rookwood, Challoner, Henry Fitz. Simonds, for all which I refer to the book aforesaid. Give me leave to add the testimony of Dr. William Chapel, sometimes fellow of Christ's College in Cambridge, and afterwards Provost of Trinity College near Dublin: which from such an acute man as he was, may amount to the like equivalent testimony from the University of Cambridge. He gave me once three reasons why he thought Doctor Usher (then ¹Bishop of Meath) was in his esteem the greatest Scholar in the Christian world.

First, To the testimonies concerning him from Spanhemius, Ger. Vossius, Buchartus, Simplitius, Lud de dieu. Paulus Testardus, Blessensis, Arnoldus, Bootius, Mr. Selden, Dr. Prideaux, Bp. Davenant, Bertius, Mr. Cambden, Sir Rog. Twisden, and the whole University of Oxford, beside the forced testimony of his adversaries, Moranez, Beaumont, (Alias) Rookwood, Challoner, Henry Fitz. Simonds, for all which I refer to the book aforesaid. Give me leave to add the testimony of Dr. William Chappel, sometimes fellow of Christ's College in Cambridge, and afterwards Provost of Trinity College near Dublin: which from such an acute man as he was, may amount to the like equivalent testimony from the University of Cambridge. He gave me once three reasons why he thought Doctor Usher (then ¹Bishop of Meath) was in his esteem the greatest Scholar in the Christian world.

1. 1James Meath. Anagram, I am the same. See Dr. Bernard, pag. 52.

1. One was, because of his rare natural parts, the foundation of his other Learning; having a quick Apprehension, a prompt Wit, a strong Memory, a clear Understanding, a piercing Judgment, and a ready utterance: Seldom (said he) shall you meet all these in an Eminent degree in the same person, but in him they so concurred, that it is hard to say in which he most excelled.