it, as to be confident I mistake not; and for the year of his death, Mr. Camden, who in his Annals of Queen Elizabeth, 1599, mentions him with a high commendation of his life and learning, declares him to die in the year 1599; and yet in that infcription of his monument, fet up at the charge of Sir William Cowper, in Borne Church, where Mr. Hooker was buried, his death is there faid to be in anno 1603; but doubtless both mistaken; for I have it attefted under the hand of William Somner, the Archbishop's Regifter for the province of Canterbury, that Richard Hooker's will bears date October 26, in anno 1600, and that it was proved the third of December following 2.

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a And the reader may take notice, that fince I firft writ this Appendix to the Life of Mr. Hooker, Mr. Fulof Corpus Chrifti College, hath fhewed me a good authority for the very day and hour of Mr. Hooker's death, in one of his books of Polity, which had been Archbishop Laud's. In which book, befide many c confiderable marginal notes of fome paffages of his time, under the Bishop's own hand, there is alfo written in the title-page of that book (which now is Mr. Fulman's) this atteftation :

"Richardus

And that at his death he left four daughters, Alice, Cicily, Jane, and Margaret; that he gave to each of them an hundred pound; that he left Joan, his wife, his fole executrix; and that, by his inventory, his estate (a great part of it being in books) came to 10921. 9s. 2d. which was much more than he thought himself worth; and which was not got by his care, much less by the good housewifery of his wife, but faved by his trufty fervant, Thomas Lane, that was wifer than his master in getting money for him, and more frugal than his mistress in keeping of it. Of which will of 'Mr. Hooker's I fhall fay no more, but that his dear friend Thomas, the father of George Cranmer, (of whom I have spoken, and shall have occafion to say more,) was one of the witneffes to it.

One of his elder daughters was married to one Chalinor, fometime a fchool-maf

"Richardus Hooker vir fummis doctrinæ dotibus ortr natus, de Ecclefia præcipue Anglicana optime meritus, "obiit Novemb. 2. circiter horam fecundam postmeridia❝nam, Anno 1600."

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ter in Chichester, and are both dead long fince. Margaret, his youngest daughter, was married unto Ezekiel Charke, Bachelor in Divinity, and Rector of St. Nicholas in Harbledown near Canterbury, who died about fixteen years paft, and had a fon Ezekiel, now living, and in facred orders, being at this time Rector of Waldron in Suffex. She left alfo a daughter, with both whom I have fpoken not many months paft, and find her to be a widow in a condition that wants not; but very far from abounding. And these two attefted unto me, that Richard Hooker, their grandfather, had a fifter, by name Elizabeth Harvey, that lived to the age of 121 years, and died in the month of September, 1663.

For his other two daughters I can learn little certainty, but have heard they both died before they were marriageable. And for his wife, fhe was fo unlike Jephtha's daughter, that fhe ftaid not a comely time to bewail her widowhood; nor lived long enough to repent her fecond marriage; for which, doubtlefs, fhe would have

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found caufe, if there had been but four months betwixt Mr. Hooker's and her death. But he is dead, and let her other infirmities be buried with her.

Thus much briefly for his age, the year. of his death, his eftate, his wife, and his children. I am next to speak of his books; concerning which I fhall have a neceffity of being longer, or fhall neither do right to myself, or my reader, which is chiefly intended in this Appendix.

I have declared in his Life, that he propofed eight books, and that his first four were printed anno 1594, and his fifth book first printed, and alone, anno 1597; and that he lived to finish the remaining three of the proposed eight: but whether we have the last three as finifhed by himself, is a juft and material queftion; concerning which I do declare, that I have been told.. almost forty years paft, by one that very well knew Mr. Hooker and the affairs of his family, that, about a month after the death of Mr. Hooker, Bifhop Whitgift, then Archbishop of Canterbury, fent

one of his Chaplains to enquire of Mrs. Hooker, for the three remaining books of Polity, writ by her husband: of which she would not, or could not, give any account and that about three months after that time the Bishop procured her to be fent for to London, and then by his procurement fhe was to be examined by fome of her Majefty's Council, concerning the difpofal of thofe books: but, by way of preparation for the next day's examination, the Bishop invited her to Lambeth, and, after fome friendly questions, fhe confeffed to him, "that one Mr. "Charke, and another Minifter that "dwelt near Canterbury, came to her, "and defired that they might go into her "husband's study, and look upon fome "of his writings: and that there they "two burnt and tore many of them, af"furing her, that they were writings not "fit to be feen; and that she knew nothing "more concerning them." Her lodging was then in King-street in Westminster, where the was found next morning dead