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LEWESDON HILL.

Than thy just having to redeem thy guilt,
And daredst bid th' Almighty to become
The minister of thy curse. But sure it fell,
So bigots fondly judged, full sure it fell
With sacred vengeance pointed on the head
Of many a bold usurper: chief on thine
(Favourite of Fortune once but last her thrall)
Accomplish'd^[1] Raleigh! in that lawless day

Henry; who died not long after the possession thereof. After Prince Henry's death, the Erle of Somersett (Carr) did possesse them. Finally, he lost them, and many other fortunes.' Peck's Desid. Cur. Lib. 14. No. 6.

↑ 'How Dr. John Coldwell, of a Physitian, became a Bishop I have heard by more than a good many; and I will briefly handle it, and as tenderly as I can; bearing myself equal between the living (Sir Walter Raleigh) and the dead (Bishop Coldwell). Yet the manifest judgements of God on both of them I may not pass over with silence. And to speak first of the Knight, who carried off the Spolia opima of the Bishoprick. He, having gotten Sherborne Castle, Park, and Parsonage, was in those days in so great favour with the Queen, as I may boldly say, that with less suit than he was fain to make to her e'er he could perfect this his purchase, and with less money than he bestowed since in Sherborne (in building, and buying out leases, and in drawing the river through rocks into his garden) he might, very justly, and without offence of either Church Or State, have compassed a much better purchase. Also, as I have been truly informed, he had a presage before he first attempted it, which did foreshew it would turn to his ruin, and might have kept him from meddling with it,—Si mens non læva fuisset: For, as he was riding post between

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[p24-2] 'How Dr. John Coldwell, of a Physitian, became a Bishop I have heard by more than a good many; and I will briefly handle it, and as tenderly as I can; bearing myself equal between the living (Sir Walter Raleigh) and the dead (Bishop Coldwell). Yet the manifest judgements of God on both of them I may not pass over with silence. And to speak first of the Knight, who carried off the Spolia opima of the Bishoprick. He, having gotten Sherborne Castle, Park, and Parsonage, was in those days in so great favour with the Queen, as I may boldly say, that with less suit than he was fain to make to her e'er he could perfect this his purchase, and with less money than he bestowed since in Sherborne (in building, and buying out leases, and in drawing the river through rocks into his garden) he might, very justly, and without offence of either Church Or State, have compassed a much better purchase. Also, as I have been truly informed, he had a presage before he first attempted it, which did foreshew it would turn to his ruin, and might have kept him from meddling with it,—Si mens non læva fuisset: For, as he was riding post between

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