Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . BISHOP ANDREWES. 25 lectures three days in the week at St. Pauls duringterm time. Upon the death of Dr. Fulke, he waschosen master of Pembroke Hall, to which collegehe afterwards became a considerable was next appointed one of the chaplains inordinary to Queen Elizabeth, who took great delightin his preaching, and promoted him to the deaneryof Westminster, in 1601. He refused a bishopricin this reign, because he would not submit to the interest, or solicitations on the part of himself orhis friends : it
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . BISHOP ANDREWES. 25 lectures three days in the week at St. Pauls duringterm time. Upon the death of Dr. Fulke, he waschosen master of Pembroke Hall, to which collegehe afterwards became a considerable was next appointed one of the chaplains inordinary to Queen Elizabeth, who took great delightin his preaching, and promoted him to the deaneryof Westminster, in 1601. He refused a bishopricin this reign, because he would not submit to the interest, or solicitations on the part of himself orhis friends : it is likewise observed, that thoughhe was a privy councillor in the reigns of James Charles I., he interfered very little in temporalconcerns; but in all affairs relative to the Church,and the duties of his office, he was remarkablydiligent and active. After a long life of honourand tranquillity, in which he enjoyed the esteemof three successive sovereigns, the friendship of. JOHN COWER. spoliation of the ecclesiastical revenues. In thenext, however, he had no cause for such scruple,and having published a work in defence of KingJamess book on the Rights of Sovereigns,against Cardinal Bellarmine, he was advanced tothe bishopric of Chichester, and at the same timeappointed lord-almoner. He was translated to thesee of Ely in 1609 ; and in the same year he wassworn of the kings privy council in England, ashe was afterwards of Scotland, upon attending hismajesty to that kingdom. When he had sat nine years in the see of Ely, hewas translated to that of Winchester, and alsoappointed dean of the royal chapel; and to hishonour it is recorded of him, that these prefer-ments were conferred upon him without any court243 all men of letters, his contemporaries, and theveneration of all who knew him, Bishop Andrewesdied at Winchester House, in Southwark, in Septem-ber, 1626, at the age of seventy-one. One of the most ancient memorials preserved inthe church is the oaken
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