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This zealous Reformer had not totally loft fightof the Popiih text, compel them to come in: but aftronger proof of his implacability and felf import-ance, appears in his letter to the Lord-TreafurerBurleigh; in which he warmly expoftulates withthe Council for interpofing in behalf of the Puritans,or meddling in concerns of the Church, admonilh-ing them to keep within their own fphere.

This Prelate was certainly no great favouritewith the Queen; the reafon afligned by Strypc forwhich, is his zealous oppofition to her retaining thecrucifix and wax candles on the altar of the Royal.Chapel; alfo his ftrenuous defence of the marriageof the Clergy , which her Majefty always difap-proved. Nor was he more happy among her Cour-tiers; by fome of whom, particularly Lord North,he was often perfecuted.

He was interred in the Cathedral of Ely , under amarble flag, with a Latin infeription, which wasdefaced not long after his death, excepting the fourfollowing lines:

Vita caduca vale, falveto vita perennis :

Corpora terra tegit, fpiritus alta petit.

In terra Chrifti Gallus Chriftum refonabam ;

Da, Chriiie, in cadis te fine fine fonem.

Gallus, in the third line, is a wretched pun uponhis name Cox, fimilar in found to Cocks .

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