THE BRITISH PLUTARCH; CONTAINING THE LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT STATESMEN, PATRIOTS, DIVINES, WARRIORS, OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, FROM THE ACCESSION OF HENRY VIII. TO THE PRESENT TIME; INCLUDING A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND DURING THAT PERIOD. VOLUME I. THE FIFTH EDITION, Revised, Corrected, and considerably Improved by the Addition of New Lives. BELFAST: PRINTED AND SOLD BY SAMUEL ARCHER. CONTENTS THE Life of John Colet, D. D. Dean of St. Paul's.......... The Life of Cardinal Wolsey..... The Life of Sir Thomas More............................. The Life of Sir John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester.................. The Life of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex........ The Life of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk; with Memoirs of his family, particularly Sir Edward Howard, Lord-High-Admiral of The Life of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset ; including Memoirs of his Brother, Sir Thomas Seymour, Lord Sudley...... The Life of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland................................................ The Life of Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester; with Memoirs of The Life of Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester; including Me- moirs of John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester...................... The Life of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury................ 181 The Life of Cardinal Pole; including Memoirs of Bonner, Bishop of 920 1344 12068 The Life of Roger Ascham........ The Life of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury.......................... The Life of Mathew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury; including The Life of Sir Thomas Gresham, Merchant and Citizen of London 265 The Life of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, including Memoirs of Sir Philip Sydney, and Sir Robert Dudley...................................... The Life of William Cecil, Lord Burleigh; including Memoirs of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Sir Nicholas Throgmorton, and Thomas Howard, The Life of Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham, and Lord-High- The Life of William Camden; including Memoirs of Sir Thomas Bodley, Founder of the Bodleian Library......................... BRITISH THE PLUTARCH. THE LIFE OF JOHN COLET, D. D. DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S. [A. D. 1466, to 1519.] Is the various degrees of kindred merit, which endear the memories of illustrious men to latest posterity, surely that which lays a foundation for the improvement of the human mind, through a long succession of ages, by providing for the education of youth, deservedly holds a very high rank. The reader therefore will not be displeased, that the chronological order of time, which we have engaged to follow accurately throughout this work, requires us to give the first place, in our extensive field of emulative fame, to the memoirs of the pious founder of St. Paul's school. This excellent divine was the eldest son and heir of Sir Henry Colet, citizen and mercer, who, on the accession of Henry VIL to the throne, had the honour of knighthood conferred on him, for his attachment to that prince, after the death of Richard III. He was likewise twice elected, by his fellow-citizens, to the dignity of chief magistrate. JOHN COLET was born at London, in the year 1466; and in 1483 he was sent to Magdalen College, Oxford, where, after pursuing the usual studies, at the expiration of seven years, he took his degree of master of arts, with distinguished reputation for at this time all the works of Cicero were as familiar to him as his B : |