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WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 259
in the month of May, 1621 ; leaving behind him, as is related by Camden, a
widow and fifteen children, with very slender means of provision*. He was
buried in the abbey, opposite to St. Edmund's chapel; but without a stone to
distinguish his grave.
Hacket, in his Life of Archbishop Williams^, and he was qualified to speak
from personal knowledge of Tounson, describes him as a man of singular piety,
eloquence, and humility. By another writer he is said to possess a graceful pre-
— * *
sence, and to be an excellent preacher^.
JOHN WILLIAMS.
On the !0th of July, 1620, which was the day after Tounson's consecration
as Bishop of Salisbury, Williams was installed Dean of Westminster. He was
born at Aber-Conway, in the county of Caernarvon, in North Wales§, in the
year 1582, and was descended from a good family in that principality. His edu-
cation, which was begun at Ruthin, he completed at Cambridge, and became a fel-
low of St. John's College, in that university. He was afterwards taken into the
family of Lord Chancellor Egerton, on whose death he was appointed chaplain to
James I. who, on the 10th of September, 1619, conferred on him the deanery of
Salisbury; which, in about ten months, he quitted for that of Westminster. In
the following year he was sworn into the office of privy counsellor, and advanced
to be keeper of the great seal and Bishop of Lincoln; holding the deanery of
Westminster, at the same time, in commendam.
* Camden. Annul. Jac. I.
+ P. 44.
% H. Turner's manuscript Surrey of Westminster.
k The history of this remarkable person was written by Dr. Hacket, afterwards Bishop of Litch-
field and Coventry, who had been his chaplain, and which is referred to by all the historians of this
period.
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in the month of May, 1621 ; leaving behind him, as is related by Camden, a
widow and fifteen children, with very slender means of provision*. He was
buried in the abbey, opposite to St. Edmund's chapel; but without a stone to
distinguish his grave.
Hacket, in his Life of Archbishop Williams^, and he was qualified to speak
from personal knowledge of Tounson, describes him as a man of singular piety,
eloquence, and humility. By another writer he is said to possess a graceful pre-
— * *
sence, and to be an excellent preacher^.
JOHN WILLIAMS.
On the !0th of July, 1620, which was the day after Tounson's consecration
as Bishop of Salisbury, Williams was installed Dean of Westminster. He was
born at Aber-Conway, in the county of Caernarvon, in North Wales§, in the
year 1582, and was descended from a good family in that principality. His edu-
cation, which was begun at Ruthin, he completed at Cambridge, and became a fel-
low of St. John's College, in that university. He was afterwards taken into the
family of Lord Chancellor Egerton, on whose death he was appointed chaplain to
James I. who, on the 10th of September, 1619, conferred on him the deanery of
Salisbury; which, in about ten months, he quitted for that of Westminster. In
the following year he was sworn into the office of privy counsellor, and advanced
to be keeper of the great seal and Bishop of Lincoln; holding the deanery of
Westminster, at the same time, in commendam.
* Camden. Annul. Jac. I.
+ P. 44.
% H. Turner's manuscript Surrey of Westminster.
k The history of this remarkable person was written by Dr. Hacket, afterwards Bishop of Litch-
field and Coventry, who had been his chaplain, and which is referred to by all the historians of this
period.
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