Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richd Hooker, George Herbert, | Page 6

second, for the
learned and wise manage of a public dispute with John Hart,[8] of the
Romish persuasion, about the Head and Faith of the Church, and after
printed by consent of both parties. And the third, for his most excellent
"Exposition of the Creed," and other treatises; all such as have given
greatest satisfaction to men of the greatest learning. Nor was Dr.
Jackson more note-worthy for his learning, than for his strict and pious
life, testified by his abundant love, and meekness, and charity to all
men.
[Sidenote: Inceptor of Arts]
[Sidenote: Sir Henry Savile]
And in the year 1576, February 23, Mr. Hooker's Grace was given him
for Inceptor of Arts; Dr. Herbert Westphaling,[9] a man of note for
learning, being then Vice-Chancellor: and the Act following he was
completed Master, which was anno 1577, his patron, Dr. Cole, being
Vice-Chancellor that year, and his dear friend, Henry Savile[10] of
Merton College, being then one of the Proctors. 'Twas that Henry
Savile that was after Sir Henry Savile, Warden of Merton College, and
Provost of Eton; he which founded in Oxford two famous Lectures; and
endowed them with liberal maintenance.

It was that Sir Henry Savile that translated and enlightened the History
of Cornelius Tacitus, with a most excellent Comment; and enriched the
world by his laborious and chargeable collecting the scattered pieces of
St. Chrysostom, and the publication of them in one entire body in
Greek; in which language he was a most judicious critic. It was this Sir
Henry Savile that had the happiness to be a contemporary and familiar
friend to Mr. Hooker; and let posterity know it.
And in this year of 1577, he was so happy as to be admitted Fellow of
the College; happy also in being the contemporary and friend of that Dr.
John Reynolds, of whom I have lately spoken, and of Dr. Spencer; both
which were after and successively made Presidents of Corpus Christi
College: men of great learning and merit, and famous in their
generations.
[Sidenote: Sandys and Cranmer]
Nor was Mr. Hooker more happy in his contemporaries of his time and
College, than in the pupilage and friendship of his Edwin Sandys and
George Cranmer; of whom my Reader may note, that this Edwin
Sandys was after Sir Edwin Sandys, and as famous for his "Speculum
Europae," as his brother George for making posterity beholden to his
pen by a learned relation and comment on his dangerous and
remarkable Travels; and for his harmonious translation of the Psalms of
David, the Book of Job, and other poetical parts of Holy Writ, into
most high and elegant verse. And for Cranmer, his other pupil, I shall
refer my Reader to the printed testimonies of our learned Mr. Camden,
of Fynes Moryson[11] and others.
"This Cranmer," says Mr. Camden in his Annals of Queen
Elizabeth,--"whose Christian name was George, was a gentleman of
singular hopes, the eldest son of Thomas Cranmer, son of Edmund
Cranmer, the Archbishop's brother: he spent much of his youth in
Corpus Christi College in Oxford, where he continued Master of Arts
for some time before he removed, and then betook himself to travel,
accompanying that worthy gentleman Sir Edwin Sandys into France,
Germany, and Italy, for the space of three years; and after their happy
return, he betook himself to an employment under Secretary Davison, a
Privy Councillor of note, who, for an unhappy undertaking, became
clouded and pitied: after whose fall, he went in place of Secretary with
Sir Henry Killegrew in his Embassage into France: and after his death

he was sought after by the most noble Lord Mountjoy, with whom he
went into Ireland, where he remained, until in a battle against the rebels
near Carlingford, an unfortunate wound put an end both to his life, and
the great hopes that were conceived of him, he being then but in the
thirty-sixth year of his age."
[Sidenote: "A sacred friendship"]
Betwixt Mr. Hooker and these his two Pupils, there was a sacred
friendship; a friendship made up of religious principles, which
increased daily by a similitude of inclinations to the same recreations
and studies; a friendship elemented in youth, and in an university, free
from self-ends, which the friendships of age usually are not. And in this
sweet, this blessed, this spiritual amity, they went on for many years:
and as the holy Prophet saith, "so they took sweet counsel together, and
walked in the house of God as friends." By which means they improved
this friendship to such a degree of holy amity, as bordered upon heaven:
a friendship so sacred, that when it ended in this world, it began in that
next, where it shall have no end.
[Sidenote: Hooker's studies]
And, though this world cannot give any degree of