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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![The concern his majefty had fhewn for removing Arminius firft, and then Vorftius, had given their favourers in Holland fo much uneafmefs, that the famous Hugo Grotius, the great champion of their caufe, was fent over to England, to endeavour to mitigate the King’s difpleafure, and if poffible, to give him a better opinion of the Remonftrants, as they began then to be called ; and we have a very fingular account of the man, and of his negotiation, from the pen of the Archbifliop [T], f h ] Of the man, and of his negotiation, from the pen of the Arch- hifhcp. ] This is contained in a letter from hjs Grace to Sir R. Winwood, dated June i, 1613, from Lambeth : it contains a great variety of curious particulars, fome of which follow,. 4 You mud take heed, how you truft Dr. Grotius too far, for 14 I perceive him to be fo addicted to fome partialities in thofe 4 parts, that he feareth not to lafh, fo it may ferve a turn. At 4 his firll coming to the King, by r-eafon of his good Latin * tongue, he was fo tedious, and full of tittle-tattle, that the 4 King’s judgment was of him, that he was fome pendant, full 4 of words, and of no great judgment. And I myfelf, dif- 4 covering that to be his habit, as if he did imagine that every 4 man was bound to hear him, fo long as he would talk, (which 4 is a great burthen to men replete with bufmefs) did privately •4 give him notice thereof, that he fhould plainly, and direbtly, 4 deliver his mind, or .el.fe he would make the King weary of 4 him. This did not fo take place, but that afterwards he fell 4 to it again, as was efpecially obferved one night at fupper at 4 the Lord Bifhop of Ely’s, whither being brought by Mr. Ca- 4 fawbon, (as I think) my Lord intreated him to day to fupper, 4 which he did. There was prefent Dr Steward, and another 4 Civilian, unto whom he flings out fame queftion of.that pro- 4 feffion, and was fo full of words, that Dr Steward afterwards f told my Lord, that he did perceive by him, that, like a 4 imatterer, he had ftudied fome two or three queftions, where- .* of when he came in company he mull be talking to vin- 4 dicate his Kill ; but if he were put from thofe, he would 4 fhew himfe.lf but a Ample fellow. There was prefent alfo, 4 Dr Richardfon, the King’s pjofeflbr of divinity in Cam- ‘ bridge,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30508605_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
