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 manded by the officers (, Church History, p. 236). He was also strictly examined as to the meaning of the king's last word. The body was embalmed under his directions, and he, with several lay lords, chose the place for the grave in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, after permission to bury it in Henry VII's Chapel was refused. On 7 Feb. Juxon and his friends bore the coffin into the chapel through the driving snow, but Juxon was forbidden to read the burial service.

Juxon was deprived of his see in 1649, but orders were given later that arrears due to him should be paid. For the next ten years he resided at Little Compton, Gloucestershire, a manor which he had purchased some time before. Whitelocke says that he engaged in hunting, and that his pack exceeded ‘all other hounds in England for the pleasure and orderly hunting of them.’ Tradition says that he read the church services every Sunday at the neighbouring Chastleton House. He assisted many of the deprived clergy. In 1657 he gave four oriental manuscripts to the Bodleian Library (, Annals of the Bodl. Libr.) At the Restoration Juxon was recognised as the only possible primate. On 3 Sept. 1660 the congé d'élire was granted to the chapter of Canterbury, and on the same day he took the oath of supremacy and allegiance. On the 13th he was elected, and on the 20th the election was confirmed in Henry VII's Chapel amid a great concourse of clergy and laity and every sign of rejoicing. The king gave him the patronage that had belonged to his predecessor (e.g. letter of September 1660 on office of commissary of faculties), and he resumed at once all the ecclesiastical powers of his office, but he was much hampered by the king's interference (cf. Calendar of State Papers, February 1661;, Diary, ed. Wheatley, ii. 124; , Memorials of Merton College). He was ‘much indisposed and weak’ at the coronation, but he performed the ceremony of unction and the blessing of the sword, placed the crown on the king's head and the ring on his finger, and delivered to him the two sceptres (, Diary). ‘The king treated him with outward respect, but had no great regard to him,’ and Juxon, ‘after some discourses with the king, was so much struck with what he observed in him that he lost both heart and hope’ (, Register, i. 666). He resumed the restoration of St. Paul's; he rebuilt the great hall at Lambeth ‘in its ancient fashion,’ and spent nearly 1,500l. in repairs at Lambeth and Croydon; but his sickness grew upon him, and he took no share in the revision of the prayer-book, though he was nominally the president of the Savoy conference. His last acts were acts of charity, in augmenting the endowment of the benefices, the great tithes of which were appropriated to the see of Canterbury. He died on 4 June 1663. His body was embalmed and taken to Oxford, where it lay in state in the divinity school, and an oration was delivered by South, then public orator. On 9 July he was laid in the chapel of St. John's by the side of the founder, Sir Thomas White, and next to the spot in which the body of Laud was placed a few days later.

As a churchman Juxon was simple, spiritual, and sincere. He held the views of Laud as to the constitution and order of the church, but enforcing ecclesiastical ordinances with tact and discretion. As a statesman he was laborious rather than original, carrying out a system, with which there is no reason to think that he was not in full agreement, as far as possible without friction. Strong and loyal, self-contained yet sympathetic, he was one of the few men in times of strife of whom it may be said that they made no enemies. ‘His best character was that which his royal master, King Charles I, gave him, that Good Man’ (, History, iii. 248).

By his will, dated 20 Sept. 1662, he left benefactions to the poor of the parishes with which he had been connected, and legacies to a great number of friends and kinsfolk. To St. John's College he left 7,000l. for the purchase of lands ‘for the increase of the yearly stipends of the fellows and scholars of that college;’ towards the restoration of St. Paul's he left 2,000l. His nephew, Sir William Juxon, was executor and residuary legatee, and his old friend Sir Philip Warwick, to whom he left his ‘silver standish, with the watch and counters,’ was named ‘overseer’ of his will.

Two tracts are attributed to him: 1. ‘The Subject's Sorrow, a Sermon on the Death of Britain's Josiah,’ London, 1649. There is no sufficient evidence for the authorship of this tract, though Halkett and Laing (Dict. of Anon. and Pseud. Lit.) attribute it to Robert Brown. 2. ‘Chapis kai Eirēnē, some Considerations upon the Act of Uniformity,’ London, 1662. This was probably written by Bishop Gauden. Juxon was concerned in drawing up an ‘Office of Penance and Reconciliation of a Renegado or Apostate for Turcism’ (, Works, vol. v. pt. ii.) There are portraits of him at Lambeth, at Worcester deanery, at St. John's College, Oxford, in the National Portrait Gallery, and at Longleat, Wiltshire. A print appears in the octavo edition of Clarendon's ‘History’ (Oxford, 1712). [The State Papers from 1627 are full of information as to Juxon's official labours. The Calendars (ed. Bruce and Hamilton) contain