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Chapter V. Marriage—Incumbency of Horningshearth—Literary 128 LIFE AND DEATH OF WILLIAM BEDELL. Edmund's, and died wealthy. From his will,* proved at Bury St. Edmund's, July 22, 1650, it appears that his wife Susan and his daughters Katherine and Anne were living at the date of his will, December 13, 1648, but that Isabell, the second daughter, was dead. CHAPTER V. MARRIAGE—INCUMBENCY OF HORNINGSHEARTH—LITERARY LABOURS—DE DOMINIS—THE DIODATI FAMILY. On his return from Venice, Mr. Bedell resumed his duties as preacher at St. Mary's in Bury St. Edmund's, and about a year thereafter married. The following is the entry of his marriage in the register of St. Mary's parish : "1611. January 29, Married, Mr. William Bedle, Clk. and Leah Mawe, Vid." Mrs. Leah Mawe's first husband, Robert Mawe, Esq. Recorder of Bury St. Edmund's, was buried at St. Mary's, in that town, on the 1st of June, 1609 (P.R.). At the time of his marriage Bedell was forty years of age, and his wife Leah thirty. According to the text, Mrs. Bedell was a daughter of John Bowles, Esq. of Earsham, co. Norfolk,f but Mr. Alexander Clogie, who married her daughter by her first husband, says in his Memoir of Bishop Bedell that she was a daughter of the family of L'Estrange. Bishop Burnet and all other biographers of Bedell repeat the statement. The assertion of Mr. Clogie, on this point, however, is not to be relied on as any authority. * Wills and Inventories from the Register at Bury St. Edmund's. Edited by Samuel Tymms, F.S.A.* A volume of the Camden Society for 1850-51. f The Rev. W. P. Goode, Rector of Earsham, kindly searched the P. R. for me, but did not find an entry of the baptism of Leah Bowles, nor one of her marriage to Robert Mawe. MARRIAGE. 129 Mrs. Bedell's family by her first husband, Mr. Robert Mawe, consisted of, 1°, Nicholas, baptized at St. Mary's, Bury St. Ed- mund's, February 25, 1601-2. He entered the,medical profession, and in the Roll of the College of Physicians of London by Dr. Munk we find the following account of him : " Nicholas Mawe, M.D., a native of Suffolk, was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, of which he was matriculated Pensioner in July, 1619. He pro- ceeded A.B. in 1622 3, A.M. in 1626, M.D. in 1634, and was ad- mitted a candidate of the College of Physicians, 15th of September, 1634 ;" 2°, John, baptized at St. Mary's, Bury St. Edmund's, June 19, 1603, died young; 3°, Leah, baptized at St. Mary's, Bury St. Edmund's, November 16, 1604 ; 4°, Robert, baptized at St. Mary's, Bury St. Edmund's, December 10, 1606, died young; 5°, Edward, baptized at St. Mary's, Bury St. Edmund's, March 22, 1607. The daughter Leah and this son Edward accompanied their mother and step-father to Ireland, where they will come to be noticed again. The family of the Rev. William Bedell and his wife Leah con- sisted of three sons and one daughter : 1°, William, baptized at St. Mary's, Bury St. Edmund's, February 14, 1612-13 (P. R.). Dr. Samuel Warde, Master of Sidney College, Cambridge, was his god- father. Of this the eldest son, and his family, a full account will be found in Chapter XIX. 2°, Grace, baptized at St. Mary's, Bury St. Edmund's, May 29, 1614 (P. R.), buried at Horningshearth, April 25, 1624 (P.R). 3°, John, baptized at St. Mary's, Bury St. Edmund's, August 9, 1616 (P. R.), died at Kilmore in the beginning of the year 1635 ; 4°, Ambrose, baptized at Horningshearth 21st of March, 1618 (P. R.)* Of this son Ambrose a biographical notice is given in Chapter XVIII. In a letter to Dr. Samuel Warde, dated Bury, this last day of * For the verification of the above entries in the P. R. of St. Mary's, Bury St. Edmund's, I am indebted to the Rev. John Richardson; and for that of the entries in the P. R. of Horningshearth I am indebted to the Rev. S. IX Brownjohn. CAMD. SOO. • S 130 LIFE AND DEATH OF WILLIAM BEDELL. November, 1613,* Mr. Bedell mentions that some of his writings are at Geneva, in the hands of Sr Diodati, " as my cosin Alistone can tell," who had recently been at Geneva. Understanding from his cosin Alistone of Warde's being in London, he takes the opportunity to request, through Warde, leave from Sir Henry Wotton to publish " a Eelation of Venice," and, by reason of his public ser- vices when Chaplain to the Embassy there, remarks that he con- siders himself entitled to preferment. Among the Venetian State Papers of the date of Bedell's residence in Venice, in the Public Record Office, there are three writings, one in Latin and two in Italian, on the History of Venice.f One of the latter is entitled *'a Relation of Venice." In the Library of the Servi at Venice, Griselini informs us, there are five volumes of Father Paulo's MSS. in one of which there is, among other matters, a History of Venice. The writings here mentioned on the History of Venice among the "Venetian State Papers, were probably copied or extracted from Paulo's manuscript, and may have been the groundwork of what Bedell proposed to publish. The Rectory of Horningshearth falling vacant in February, 1615-16, by the death of the Rev. Thomas Rogers, who had been Rector of the parish since December 11, 1581, Mr. Bedell was pre- sented to it by the patron, Sir Thomas Jermyn,}: whose name is intimately associated with that of Bedell as his warm and constant friend. In the Diocesan Registry of Norwich there is a MS. (one of the Tanner Collection) from which the following is an extract, * Tanner MS. lxxiv. 31, in Bodleian Library. f No. 117, De origine Imperil Venetorum, Nos. 125 and 133-111. J Sir William Hervey, an ancestor of the Marquis of Bristol, married Susan, daughter of Sir Robert Jermyn, of Rushbrook, co. Suffolk, and sister of this Sir Thomas Jermyn. By this marriage the Jermyn property came to the Herveys, in- cluding the right of presentation to the rectory of Horninger, or Horningshearth. The present Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Lord Arthur Heryey, was many years Rector of that family living. LITEKAKY LABOUKS.. 131 but corrected as to the year, which is erroneously put down as 1625 instead of 1615.* " Horninger Magna Sf Parva Lib. xxii. 56, 13 Mart. 1615, Guliel. Bedell ad pras. Thomas Jermyn Mil." The course of Mr. Bedell's life at Horningshearth is very fully detailed in the text. His leisure time he occupied in literary labours, which here claim some notice. While resident at Horningshearth, Bedell's correspondence with his old college friend James Waddesworth, above referred to, took place. After Waddesworth's death, Bedell published the letters under the following title, and dedicated the book " To the Most High and Excellent Prince, Prince Charles." " The Copies of Certain Letters which have passed between Spaine and England in Matter of Eeligion. Concerning the General Motives to the Koman Obedience. Betweene Master James Wadeswoith, a late Pensioner of the Holy Inquisition in Sevill, and W. Bedell, a Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, in Suffolk." London, 1624. In the text, at page 10, it is stated that these letters were to have been reprinted and published along with " this present history/' But the author's intention of publishing the history, and reprinting the letters along with it, was never carried into effect. The Eev. Gilbert Burnet (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury), however, reprinted the correspondence at the end of his Life of Bishop Bedell, pub- lished in 1685. This was the year in which James II. succeeded to the throne, on the death of his brother Charles II., and in which their cousin of France, Louis the Fourteenth, revoked the Edict of Nantes, under which the Protestants of that country had enjoyed toleration during the preceding seventy-five years. The time was, therefore, not propitious for the republication of the passage in Bedell's last letter (p. 133, Original Edition), which argues for the lawful- * I am indebted to the kindness of my former colleague at University College Hospital, Mr. Cudge, the distinguished surgeon, of Norwich, for procuring me this extract. , 132 LIFE AND DEATH OF WILLIAM BEDELL. ness of resisting religious persecution by Princes, and repelling force with force. And all the less propitious for the republication of the said passage under the auspices of Gilbert Burnet, who had been recently deprived of his preachership at the Rolls, and his lecture- ship at St. Clement's Danes, by order of the King, on account of his having (in 1683) attended Lord William Russell on the scaffold, and who, on the accession of James II,, found it prudent to leave England and retire to Holland. Accordingly, Sir Roger L'Estrange, the Censor of the press, would not allow the republication of the passage without interpolations calculated to give it an air as if Bedell had been only repeating the arguments of others, but not endorsing them. The interpolations occur in the tenth chapter of the tenth and last letter (p. 133 of the original edition, and pp. 445-6 of Burnet), where the author is speaking " of the Reformers in France and Holland." This tenth letter comprises pp. 39 to 162 of the book and is an elaborate dissertation against Popery, divided into twelve chapters.
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