It will easily be believed that his former standing for a Proctor’s place, and being disappointed, must prove much displeasing to a man of his great wisdom and modesty, and create in him an averseness to run a second hazard of his credit and content:  and yet he was assured by Dr. Kilbie, and the Fellows of his own College, and most of those that had opposed him in the former Election, that his Book of Logic had purchased for him such a belief of his learning and prudence, and his behaviour at the former Election had got for him so great and so general a love, that all his former opposers repented what they had done; and therefore persuaded him to venture to stand a second time.  And, upon these, and other like encouragements, he did again, but not without an inward unwillingness, yield up his own reason to their’s, and promised to stand.  And he did so; and was the tenth of April, 1616, chosen Senior Proctor for the year following; Mr. Charles Crooke[6] of Christ Church being then chosen the Junior.

In this year of his being Proctor, there happened many memorable accidents; namely, Dr. Robert Abbot,[7] Master of Balliol College, and Regius Professor of Divinity,—­who being elected or consecrated Bishop of Sarum some months before,—­was solemnly conducted out of Oxford towards his Diocese, by the Heads of all Houses, and the chief of all the University.  And Dr. Prideaux[8] succeeded him in the Professorship, in which he continued till the year 1642,—­being then elected Bishop of Worcester,—­and then our now Proctor, Mr. Sanderson, succeeded him in the Regius Professorship.

[Sidenote:  Dr. Lake]

And in this year Dr. Arthur Lake[9]—­then Warden of New College—­was advanced to the Bishopric of Bath and Wells:  a man of whom I take myself bound in justice to say, that he has made the great trust committed to him, the chief care and whole business of his life.  And one testimony of this proof may be, that he sate usually with his Chancellor in his Consistory, and at least advised, if not assisted, in most sentences for the punishing of such offenders as deserved Church-censures.  And it may be noted, that, after a sentence for penance was pronounced, he did very rarely or never, allow of any commutation for the offence, but did usually see the sentence for penance executed; and then as usually preached a Sermon on mortification and repentance, and did so apply them to the offenders, that then stood before him, as begot in them a devout contrition, and at least resolutions to amend their lives:  and having done that, he would take them—­though never so poor—­to dinner with him, and use them friendly, and dismiss them with his blessing and persuasions to a virtuous life, and beg them to believe him.  And his humility and charity, and other Christian excellencies, were all like this.  Of all which the Reader may inform himself in his Life, truly writ, and printed before his Sermons.

And in this year also, the very prudent and very wise Lord Ellesmere, who was so very long Lord Chancellor of England, and then of Oxford, resigning up the last, the Right Honourable, and as magnificent, William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, was chosen to succeed him.