PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK: THE REVEREND THOMAS FULLER, D.D. Absence: Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. Anger: Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind. Belief: He does not believe that does not live according to his belief. Chance: A wise man turns chance into good fortune. Courage: The more wit the less courage. Debt: Debt is the worst poverty. Dress: Good clothes open all doors. Excuses: Bad excuses are worse than none. Fame: Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all. Friends and Friendship: There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. Gold: It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart. Greed: If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. Husbands: Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth. Learning: Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. Marriage: If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. Memory: Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. Passion: A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him. Present: Today is yesterday’s pupil. Promises: Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. Satisfaction: He is rich that is satisfied. Travel and Tourism: Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse Virtue: Virtue is the only true nobility. Wives: He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows. HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF A WEEK: THOMAS FULLER, D.D. 1586 The schoolmaster and traveller William Camden’s BRITANNIA, the first comprehensive topographical survey of the British islands, followed the general form and content for such works established by Giraldus Cambrensis in the late 12th Century. The book was written in Latin and still paid a lot of attention to the tribal divisions of Roman times in Wales. It would not see an English translation until 1610. A WEEK: If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read. As Fuller said, commenting on the zeal of Camden, “A broken urn is a whole evidence; or an old gate still surviving out of which the city is run out.” When Solon endeavored to prove that Salamis had formerly belonged to the Athenians, and not to the Megareans, he caused the tombs to be opened, and showed that the inhabitants of Salamis turned the faces of their dead to the same side with the Athenians, but the Megareans to the opposite side. There they were to be interrogated. THOMAS FULLER WILLIAM CAMDEN LAMB ON FULLER 2 Copyright 2013 Austin Meredith HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF A WEEK: THOMAS FULLER, D.D. 1608 June: Thomas Fuller was born at his father the Reverend Thomas Fuller’s rectory, Aldwinkle St Peter’s in Northamptonshire. He was the initial son. June 19: Thomas Fuller was baptized, his uncle, Dr. John Davenant, bishop of Salisbury, functioning as godfather. 1621 At the age of 13 Thomas Fuller was admitted to Queens’ College, Cambridge, a school which was presided over by his uncle, Dr. John Davenant, bishop of Salisbury. Also, one of his cousins, Edward Davenant, was a tutor there. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project 3 HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF A WEEK: THOMAS FULLER, D.D. 1625 Lent: Thomas Fuller received the B.A. at Queens’ College, Cambridge. 1628 July: Thomas Fuller received the M.A. at Queens’ College, Cambridge. November: There was an election of fellows at Queens’ College, Cambridge, and Thomas Fuller was not selected. He moved, therefore, to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. 1630 Thomas Fuller received, from Corpus Christi College, the curacy of St Benet’s, Cambridge. 1631 The Reverend Thomas Fuller published a poem, DAVID’S HEINOUS SINNE, HEARTIE REPENTANCE, HEAVIE PUNISHMENT, on the subject of the Old Testament account of David and Bathsheba. June: Dr. John Davenant, bishop of Salisbury, provided his nephew the Reverend Thomas Fuller with a prebend in Salisbury — where Thomas’s father the Reverend Thomas Fuller (who would die in the following year) already held a canonry. 4 Copyright 2013 Austin Meredith HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF A WEEK: THOMAS FULLER, D.D. 1634 The Reverend Thomas Fuller became the rector at Broadwindsor in Dorset (which then was part of the diocese of Bristol). 1635 June 11: Grant of the Province of New Hampshire From Mr. Wollaston to Mr. Mason. READ THE FULL TEXT READ THE FULL TEXT In England, the Reverend Thomas Fuller became B.D. (Bachelor of Divinity). “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project 5 HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF A WEEK: THOMAS FULLER, D.D. 1639 While he was serving as the rector at Broadwindsor in Dorset, the Reverend Thomas Fuller had been compiling his history of the period of the crusades, THE HISTORIE OF THE HOLY WARRE, which was published during this year. He had also been composing his THE HOLY STATE AND THE PROPHANE STATE, an analysis of a “holy” situation as it might be brought into existence within the family and in public life as well, which would see publication in 1642. This work, which would provide rules of conduct, and model “characters,” for various professions and styles of life, would over the years come to be exceedingly well accepted: A WEEK: If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read. As Fuller said, commenting on the zeal of Camden, “A broken urn is a whole evidence; or an old gate still surviving out of which the city is run out.” When Solon endeavored to prove that Salamis had formerly belonged to the Athenians, and not to the Megareans, he caused the tombs to be opened, and showed that the inhabitants of Salamis turned the faces of their dead to the same side with the Athenians, but the Megareans to the opposite side. There they were to be interrogated. THOMAS FULLER WILLIAM CAMDEN LAMB ON FULLER HOLY AND PROFANE STATES 1640 Publication of an initial volume of the Reverend Thomas Fuller’s sermons, entitled JOSEPH’S PARTY- COLOURED COAT. He got married with Eleanor Grove, a daughter of Hugh Grove of Chisenbury in Wiltshire. At the convocation of Canterbury which occurred along with the “Short Parliament,” he was elected proctor for Bristol. On the sudden dissolution of this parliament, he joined himself to the minority group of those who were urging that this religious synod should likewise dissolve itself (the religious assembly would, however, at royal decree, continue, and eventually during civil war he would need to pay to the Roundheads a fine of £200 for having had a part in it — you will find the details in the Reverend’s CHURCH-HISTORY OF BRITAIN). 6 Copyright 2013 Austin Meredith HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF A WEEK: THOMAS FULLER, D.D. 1641 William Habington’s OBSERVATIONS VPON HISTORIE (Printed by T. Cotes for Will. Cooke, and are to be sold at his shop, neere Furnivalls-Inne gate in Holborne), created in collaboration with his father Sir Thomas Habington. Due to the onset of the English Civil War, in Broadwindsor the Reverend Thomas Fuller, his curate Henry Sanders, the churchwardens, and five others needed to certify that each and every adult male of their parish, 242 in total, had sworn the Protestation oath that had been ordered by the speaker of the Long Parliament. Although he would not be formally dispossessed of his living and prebend on the triumph of the Presbyterian party, at about this period he would relinquish both preferments. For a short time he would preach at the Inns of Court and then, at the invitation of Walter Balcanqual, the master of the Savoy, and the brotherhood of that foundation, he would become lecturer at their chapel of St Mary Savoy. Sometimes his hearers there would overflow the structure and stand in the chapel-yard looking in at the windows and doors. In one of his sermons he would set forth the hindrances to peace, and urge the signing of peace petitions directed both to King Charles I at Oxford, and to the Parliament. June 6: The Reverend Thomas Fuller baptized his son John at Broadwindsor (the mother, Eleanor Grove Fuller, died; the infant John would afterwards be of Sidney Sussex College, would in 1662 edit his father’s THE WORTHIES OF ENGLAND, and would become rector of Great Wakering in Essex, where he would die in 1687).