Lives of Dr. John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr. Richard Hooker; Mr. George Herbert; and Dr. Robert Sanderson (1796) (14596593868)

Identifier: livesdrjohndonne00walt (find matches)
Title: Lives of Dr. John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr. Richard Hooker; Mr. George Herbert; and Dr. Robert Sanderson
Year: 1796 (1790s)
Authors: Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683 Zouch, Thomas, 1737-1815
Subjects: Donne, John, 1572-1631 Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639 Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600 Herbert, George, 1593-1633 Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663
Publisher: York : Wilson, Spence and Mawman
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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el, fomewhat refemble the flails in cathedrals, but are very fimple,with little or no ornament, nearly alike, and formed of oak. Tt was evidently the intention ofMr. Herbert that in his church there (hould be no diftindlion between the feats of the richand thofe of the poor. During divine fervice the men have from time immemorial been ac-ctiftomed to fit on the fouth-fide of the nave, and the women on the north-fide. In the crofs-aifle, the male-fervants fit on the fouth-fide, and the fcmale-fervants on the north-fide. The flrongell and bed part of the church is the tower, which is of moft durable and excel-lent ftone, dug out of the quarries of Barnock in Northamptonfliire. It is confidered as a finefpecimen of good architecture. Mr. Walton feems to have been mifinformed when he writes, that the workmanfhip of thechurch was a coftly Mofaic, and that Mr. Herbert lived to fee it wainfcotted. No traces ofcitlicr are difcoverable. The church is now, in 1795, dilapidated in feveral parts.
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GEORGE HERBERT.. 347 for he would often fay, They Ihould neither have a precedency or prio- rity of the other j but that prayer and preaching, being equally ufeful, might agree Hke brethren, and have an equal honour and e(limation^ Before I proceed farther, I muft look back to the time of Mr. Her-berts being made prebendary, and tell the reader, that not long after, hismother being informed of his intentions to rebuild that church, and ap-prehending the great trouble and charge that he was likely to draw uponhimfelf, his relations, and friends, before it could be finilhed, fent for himfrom London to Chelfea (where fhe then dwelt), and at his coming faid,* George, I fent for you, to perfuade you to commit Simony, by giving* your patron as good a gift as he has given to you ; namely, that you* give him back his prebend: For, George, it is not for your weak bodyand empty purfe to undertake to build churches. Of which he defiredhe might have a day to confider, and then make her an anfwer