Chapter Hook to Hooker of H by Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

him as “an obscure, harmless man, in poor clothes, of a mean stature and stooping…his body worn out, not with age, but study, and holy mortification, his face full of heat-pimples…and tho’ not purblind, yet short, or weak, sighted.” In his calling as a parish priest he was faithful and diligent. In preaching “his voice was low…gesture none at all, standing stone-still in the pulpit.” The sixth book of the Ecclesiastical Polity has been considered of doubtful authority, and to have no claim to its place, and the seventh and eighth are believed to have been put together from rough notes. Some of his MSS. were destroyed after his death by his wife’s relatives. The epithet “judicious” attached to his name first appears in the inscription on his monument at Bishopsbourne.

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