A man must take the tyme that Christ offereth himselfe: yf he was with Simon and Andrew at night, he parted into the wildernes in the morning. The feuer left hir, and shee ministred, v. 31, hence he collected the conveniency of church-going for women to give publique thanks for safe deliverance.
fo. 119b.
3 Aprill, 1603.
In the afternoone Clapham. He prayed for the King and his sonne Henry Frederick and Frederick Henry; prayed for a further reformacion in our Churche.
Note: the 7 moneth amongst the Jewes, according to their civil computacion, was but the first in their ecclesiasticall.
Close fisted, that will give nothing to the ministers and musty doctors that lett learning mould and rust in them for want of use.
4.Gluttony and lechery dwell togither, Venter et genitalia sunt membra vicina. (Mr. Key.) As they are placed in that prayer, Ecclesiasticus xxiii. v. 6. "Lett not the gredines of the belly, nor the lust of the flesh, hold me." A great spender in leachery must be a great ravenor in glutony, to repayre what he looseth.
Dr. Parry told me the Countess Kildare assured him that the Queene caused the ring wherewith shee was wedded to the crowne, to be cutt from hir finger some 6 weekes before hir death, but wore a ring which the Earl of Essex gave hir unto the day of hir death.
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fo. 120.
5 Aprill.
I heard that Sir Robert Carewe lay in the Kinges chamber the first night he brought the newes of hir Majesties death, and there related the whole discourse; whereupon he was made one of his chamber, a place of confidence and means to preferment.[178]