The life of Dr. George Abbot, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury / by the Rt. Hon. Arthur Onlsow, late speaker of the House of Commons ... a description of the hospital which he ... endowed in ... Guildford; correct copies of the charter and statutes of the same ... To which are added the lives of his ... brothers, Dr. R. Abbot ... and Sir M. Abbot.

Arthur Onslow

Date:: 1777

Credit: The life of Dr. George Abbot, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury / by the Rt. Hon. Arthur Onlsow, late speaker of the House of Commons ... a description of the hospital which he ... endowed in ... Guildford; correct copies of the charter and statutes of the same ... To which are added the lives of his ... brothers, Dr. R. Abbot ... and Sir M. Abbot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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While the good Bifhop was thus employed, a new opportunity offered of the King’s teflifying his efteem of, and confidence in; this worthy perfon, by the Archiepifcopal See of Canterbury’s becoming vacant as it did, on the 2d of November, 1610, by the death of Dr. Richard Bancroft. The court Bifhops immmediately caft their eyes upon the celebrated Dr. Lancelot Andrews, then Bifliop of Ely, and pointed him out to the King, as one fufficiently qualified to take upon him the go¬ vernment of the Church ; and they thought this re¬ commendation value of one hundred pounds, for the maintenance of three fellows, and four fcholars; upon which, the tru flees before- mentioned, having repaired, and, in a manner, rebuilt Broad- Gate-Hall, in Oxford, procured in the reign of King James, upon their petition fetting forth thefe finds-? a charter of Mort¬ main, for feven hundred pounds per annum, to this new founda¬ tion, which was called Pembroke College, in refpeS to William, Earl of Pembroke, then Chancellor of the Univerfity ; and for our Prelate’s a&ivity in accomplithing this affair, Dr. Thomas Clayton, who was the iirft mailer of the new college, wrote him a very handfome letter of acknowledgement, which is Hill extant. See Ward’s Lives of the Profeffors of Grelham Col¬ lege, fob 1740. p. 210. in Aiigull, 1610, heconfecrated the new church-yard, on the well fide of Fleet-Ditch, the around of which had been given to the inhabitants of St. Bride’s pariffu by the Earl of Dorlet. His zeal, and indefatigable diligence-, in the publick exercifeof his function, were fo remarkable, and the conduct of his private life fo exemplary, as well as irre¬ proachable, that we find him celebrated by an eminent poet. [J. Dsv is of Hereford, in his Scourge of Folly, See. in honour of many noble and worthy Perfons,] for uniting the wifdom of the ferpent, with the innocency of the dove : which was not only- true of him then, but in the whole fucceeding courfe of his life ; wherein it may be truly faid, that as his abilities railed him to preferment, fo nothing but his rigid virtue and incorruptible probity, expofedhim to thofe llorms of envy and malice, which, however they might affeft his fortune, could never ihake his conitancy, or prejudice his reputation. ]

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