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 A Y L M E R. 413 his declaiming, in his anfvver to Knox [A], againfl the fplendor and wealth of the church, in thcle worJj ; " Come 1 oft, ye bifliops, away with your fuperftuittCV, yield up " as you are: let your portion be prieft-like, n-t princc- " like : let the queen have the rtft of" your temporal-tics and 4> other lands, to maintain thefe wars, vvhicli you procured, " to build and found fchools throughout the realm : trut " every pariih-church may have its preacher, every city its " taper intend ant, to e honeltly and not pompoufi), " which will never be, unlefs your lands be difperfed, and " one [B]." However, he was appointed one cf the queen's jufticesof the peace for the county, and one of htr ecclefi- aftical commiflioners. In 1573, he accumulated the degree of bachelor and doclor in divinity in the ur.iverlity of Oxford. In 1576, on the trauflation of his friend and fellow exile Wood's Dr. Edwin Sandys to the archbifhopric of Yotk, he was made Filftl vol> ' bifhop of London ; and though Sandys had been very in- 1 itrumental in his promotion, recommending him to the queen as a proper perlbn for his fucceflbr, he fued him for dilapidations, and after forne years profecutioa recovered 900 or icool. He preached frequently in his cathecrJ, and had an ad- mirable talent at captivating the attention of his hearers. At one time perceiving his audience to be very inattentive, he , took a Hebrew Bible out of his pocket, and began to read it: this immediately awakened his hearers, v. ho looked up at him, amazed that he fliould entertain them fo unpraftt- [A] In 1556, John Knox printed at " Mowne bhfte, concerning the go- Geneva a treatife under this title, " The " vcinment of women: wherein be? lign was to (hew, that by the J.tws of " with a briefs cxiiortation to obedi- Cod women could not exercife fove- " er.ce. StrHburgh, 1559." Strype. reign authority. The reafon of his [uj Aylmer, when this paflage was writing of it, was his fyijiht againft afterwards objcded to hm:, anfwercd, two queens, Mary of Lorrain then " When I was a child, I fpoke like a queen of Scotland, and Mary queen of " child, and thoupht like a child," England. This piece prejudiced the &c. Strype, &c. p. 269. TherL-flec- Proteftant religion exceedingly in the tion this pi c ce d;.w upon Aylmer, minds of princes and thole in authority probably deterred him from meddling under them; which Mr. Aylmer per- with the prefi again j to which he re- ceiving, wrote an anfwer to it, under tamed an irrcn ncileable averfion, ex- the title of '' An harborowe for faith- cept in cafes of jicccfluv, to tht very ' full and true tobjefts .igainft tbe 1-ic end af his life.
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