[316] Elrington's Life of Archbishop Ussher, 244.
[317] "The poor orthodox clergy have passed one Sunday in silence. The Bishop of Armagh hath been with Cromwell about them, it is feared to little purpose, yet some Court holy water was bestowed on the old man, besides a dinner and confirmation of Church leases to him in Ireland."—State Papers Dom., 1655-56, 10th-20th January.
[318] Elrington's Life of Ussher, 279.
[319] When visiting it in 1864, I found the exterior, and one of the apartments, in much the same state as when Hall lived there.
[320] Walker's Sufferings, p. ii. 18.
Mention is made of Morton's daily alms, his single meal, his straw bed at eighty years of age, his hospitality, and his rising at four o'clock in the morning.—Biograph. Brit.
[321] Worthies, iii. 172.
[322] "He was observed to run (with emulation without envy) in the race of virtue even with any of his order, striving to exceed them by fair industry, without offering proudly to justle their credit, much less falsely to supplant their reputation."—Fuller's Worthies, i. 456.
[323] Fuller says of Owen: "He was bred a fellow in Jesus College, in Cambridge, where he commenced Doctor of Divinity, and was chaplain to King Charles whilst he was a prince. A modest man, who would not own the worth he had in himself, and therefore others are the more engaged to give him his due esteem. In the vacancy of the bishopric of St. Asaph, King Charles, being much troubled with two competitors, advanced Doctor Owen (not thinking thereof) as an expedient to end the contest. Indeed, his Majesty was mistaken in his birth, accounting him a Welshman, but not in his worth, seeing he deserved a far better preferment."—Fuller's Worthies, ii. 506.
[324] Tanner MSS., vol. lii., 1653-8, 41. This letter is addressed to Sheldon. There is another in the same volume from Dr. Ferne, lamenting that churchmen "were wanting to see what those in power would do, as if there could possibly be any expectation of advantage either from them," or from "delay." Both letters are printed in the Ecclesiastic, October, 1853.