By their shades their substances;
And from their compasse borrowing advise,
Buy’st travayle at the lowest price.
Nor are thy eares so seald but thou canst heare
Far more with wonder than with feare.
—Cætera desiderantur.
ROBERT WISDOM
Was rector of Settrington in Yorkshire, and was presented to the archdeaconry of Ely by Elizabeth the 27th of February 1559-60. In bishop Cox’s Certificatorium (MS. Bennet Col. Lib.) he is returned to the archbishop as “a priest and B. D. usually residing upon his living of Wilberton, appropriated to the archdeaconry, was qualified for preaching, and licensed thereunto by the Queen’s majesty.”
He died, and was buried at Wilberton the 20th of September, 1568.