chair of Divinity at Oxford. On the accession of Queen Mary, Peter
Martyr (who was born at Florence in 1500, and whose family name was
Vermigli) returned to Strasburg, and went thence to Zurich, where he died
in 1562. Jewel, repenting of his assent to the new sovereign's authority
in matters of religion, followed his friend Peter Martyr across the
water, and became vice-master of a college at Strasburg. Upon the
accession of Elizabeth, in 1588, Jewel came back, and he was one of the
sixteen Protestants appointed by the Queen to dispute before her with a
like number of Catholics.

In 1559 John Jewel was appointed a commissioner for securing, in the West
of England, conformity with the newly-arranged Church service, and he had
to see that the Queen's orders were obeyed in the churches of his native
county. Before the end of the same year he was consecrated Bishop of
Salisbury. He was most zealous in performance of all duties of his
charge. To his good offices young Richard Hooker owed his opportunity of
training for the service of the Church. Among Jewel's writings, this
Apology or Defence of the Church of England was the most important; but
he worked incessantly, and shortened his life by limiting himself to four
hours of sleep, taken between midnight and four in the morning. Bishop
Jewel died on the 21st of September, 1571, before he had reached the age
of fifty.

H. M.




AN APOLOGY, OR ANSWER, IN DEFENCE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,