[83] By the right of Dr. Leonard Hutton, a man of some note in his day, the fellow-collegian and subsequent father-in-law of bishop Corbet. Hutton passed from Westminster School to Christ-Church, of which he afterwards became a canon. It was in his residence at Oxford most probably, and not, as the editors of the Biographia Britannica have conjectured, upon this tour, that Corbet first became acquainted with Hutton’s daughter. By the dean and canons he was presented to the rectory of Flore in Northamptonshire, where he accounted for the first-fruits Aug. 6th, 1601, and to the vicarage of Weedon in the same county in 1602. Having lived to the age of 75 years, he died the 17th of May, 1632, and was buried in the divinity chapel of Christ Church, where a monument remains to his memory. [84] A note in the old copies informs us that his name was “Ned Hale.” [85] A sergeant. Edit. 1648. [86] These are said in the old copies to be “the ministers of Daventry;” but as no such names occur in the list of incumbents, it is probable they officiated for Thomas Mariat, the then vicar, who must have been very old, as he was inducted to the living in 1560. [87] Dod and Cleaver, thus honourably introduced to our notice, were united by the strong ties of puritanism and authorship. Ambo animis, ambo insignes præstantibus armis; _Hic_ pietate prior. The latter has fallen into oblivion, but the superior zeal of John Dod has preserved his memory. He was born at Shottledge in Cheshire, where his family had territorial possessions, and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. “He was,” says Fuller, “by nature a witty, by industry a learned, by grace a godly, divine.” He had good preferment in the church, but was silenced for non-conformity, though afterwards restored. He died and was buried at Fawesly in Northamptonshire, of which he was vicar, Aug. 19th, 1645. They were again joined in derision by Cartwright, in his “Chambermaid’s Posset.” Next Cleaver and Doddism both mixed and fine, With five or six scruples of conscience cases.—&c. Poems, p. 231. 8vo. 1651. [88] In Leicestershire. [89] A note in Tanner’s Bibliotheca Brit.-Hibernica thus relates the indignity offered to the remains of this parent of the Reformation, after he had been ‘quietly inurned’ during the space of forty-one years: “Magister Johannes Wicliff Anglicus per D. Thomam Arundel. archiepiscopum Cantuar. fuit post mortem suam excommunicatus, et postea fuit exhumatus, et ossa ejus combusta, et cineres in aquam juxta Lutterworth projecti fuerunt, ex mandato P. Martini V.” [90] Parson of Heathcot, Edit. 1672. It has been observed in the Introduction that there is no village of this name in this situation: the copy 1648 says Parson Heathcote, which was probably the name of the parson of Ayleston, who was their conductor.