inferior to none of his contemporaries. The fashion of thofe times allowed more to exterior expreffions of funeral forrow than ours, and by entertaining the eyes of the vulgar with a lugubrious fpectacle of a great man's laft journey, impreffed on their minds a greater degree of reverence than could be wrought by words. In this point, there was a remarkable attention paid to the bishop; and an author has taken the pains to leave the ceremonies of his obfequies, clearly, circumftancially, and methodically fet down: but this was an age, when there was more attention paid to fight than to all the reft of the tentes, and more money beftowed, and more diligence used, in feting out fuch a folemnity, than without fuch a detail as the above-mentioned could be easily imagined. Many intrigues were let on foot at court, on this great prelate's death, about filling his places, which occafioned fome delay in difpofing of them. The great feal was, in the mean time, put into the hands of Sir Nicholas Hare, mafter of the rolls, and, on New-year's-day following, given to Dr. Nicholas Heath, archbishop of York. In the chancellorship of Cambridge he was succeeded by cardinal Pole, who had fome inclination to have held his bishopric of Winchester, too, in commendam; but at length it was given to Dr. White, bishop of Lincoln, the modeft cardinal contenting himself with a penfion of one thousand pounds a year out of the revenue, E 5 for for the fupport of his dignity. As to the maf terfhip of Trinity-hall, Dr. Mowfe, who took it as a good proteftant in king Edward's time, was now become fo good a catholic as to take it again in queen Mary's time; and, in the days of Elizabeth, had a prebend of York beftowed on him, being once more become a proteftant. As to the private eftate of bishop Gardiner, he difpofed of it by will, of which his two old friends, Sir Anthony Brown vifcount Montacute, and Dr. Thomas Thirlby bishop of Ely, were the executors. THE THE LIFE OF CARDINAL POLE. RE EGINALD POLE, cardinal, was defcended of royal blood, being a youn ger fon of Sir Richard Pole, lord Montague, knight of the garter, and coufin-german to Henry VII. by Margaret, his wife, daughter of George, duke of Clarence, younger brother to king Edward IV. He was born at Tiverton, in Staffordshire, in the year 1500; and, after the greatest care had been taken by' his mother to form his mind and manners from his cradle, he was fent, at feven years of age, to be inftructed in grammar by the Carthufians, in the monaftery at Shene, near Richmond, in Surry; and, at about the age of twelve, became a nobleman of Magdalencolledge, in Oxford, where an appartment was provided for him in the prefident's lodgings. The famous Linacre, and William Latimer. two of the greateft mafters of those times in the Greek and Latin tongues, were our young nobleman's principal preceptors; and he made a confiderable progress in his fiudies under them. In June, 1515, he took the degree of bachelor of arts, having firft kept the regular E 6 exercife |