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Dr. Nowel could not with a very good grace cenfure others for doing the
very thing which he had done himfelfo For the laft thirty years of his
life he preached the firfl: and laft fermon in the time of lent before the
queen. At one time on his fpeaking with lefs reverence of the fign of
the crofs than fhe approved of, fhe called aloud to him from her clofet-
window, commanding him to retire from that ungodly digreflion, and re-
turn to his text.
April 28, 1594, he was inflailed canon of Windfor ; and in the
following year, (Sept. 6) at the great age of eighty four, he was elected
Principal of Brazen-nofe college, in which he had been original!}
educated, and where he had lived as a fludent for thirteen years; and in
OCt. following was created D.D. with allowance of precedence before all
the doctors then in the univerfity, not only in regard to his age, but
dignity in the church. All his contemporaries concur in giving him the
character of a learned, pious, and charitable man ; and he is particularly
noticed for his kindnefs to fcholars, of which his donation to his college
of 200I. a year, for the maintenance of thirteen fludents, is an eminent
proof.*
Ifaak Walton in his Complete Angler, fays, “ this good man was
i( a dear lover and conflant praftifer of angling, as any age can produce ;
“ and it was his cuftom to fpend a tenth part of his time in this con-
templative recreation ; and a tenth part of his revenue, and ulually all
“ his fifh, among the poor that inhabited near thofe rivers in which it was
caught : often faying, 4 that charity gave life to religion’; and on his
ii return to his own houfe would praife God he had fpent that day free
it from worldly trouble; both harmlefsly, and in a recreation that became
a churchman. And this good man was well content, if not defirous,
that pofterity fhould know he was an angler, as may appear by his
picture,•f' now to be feen in Brazen-nofe college, to which he was a
*<■ liberal benefactor; in which picture he is drawn leaning on a defk, with
* Hjeroolog. Anc. p. 217.
f From which we have taken our print.
very thing which he had done himfelfo For the laft thirty years of his
life he preached the firfl: and laft fermon in the time of lent before the
queen. At one time on his fpeaking with lefs reverence of the fign of
the crofs than fhe approved of, fhe called aloud to him from her clofet-
window, commanding him to retire from that ungodly digreflion, and re-
turn to his text.
April 28, 1594, he was inflailed canon of Windfor ; and in the
following year, (Sept. 6) at the great age of eighty four, he was elected
Principal of Brazen-nofe college, in which he had been original!}
educated, and where he had lived as a fludent for thirteen years; and in
OCt. following was created D.D. with allowance of precedence before all
the doctors then in the univerfity, not only in regard to his age, but
dignity in the church. All his contemporaries concur in giving him the
character of a learned, pious, and charitable man ; and he is particularly
noticed for his kindnefs to fcholars, of which his donation to his college
of 200I. a year, for the maintenance of thirteen fludents, is an eminent
proof.*
Ifaak Walton in his Complete Angler, fays, “ this good man was
i( a dear lover and conflant praftifer of angling, as any age can produce ;
“ and it was his cuftom to fpend a tenth part of his time in this con-
templative recreation ; and a tenth part of his revenue, and ulually all
“ his fifh, among the poor that inhabited near thofe rivers in which it was
caught : often faying, 4 that charity gave life to religion’; and on his
ii return to his own houfe would praife God he had fpent that day free
it from worldly trouble; both harmlefsly, and in a recreation that became
a churchman. And this good man was well content, if not defirous,
that pofterity fhould know he was an angler, as may appear by his
picture,•f' now to be feen in Brazen-nofe college, to which he was a
*<■ liberal benefactor; in which picture he is drawn leaning on a defk, with
* Hjeroolog. Anc. p. 217.
f From which we have taken our print.