Sir Henry Savile’s monumental edition of the Greek text of St. Chrysostom, in eight large folio volumes, was published at Eton, 1610-12.  Savile was an imperious scholar, but when Clarendon says that Hales ‘had borne all the labour’ of this great edition, he can only mean that Hales had given his assistance at all stages of its production.  In Brodrick’s Memorials of Merton College, p. 70, it is stated that Hales was voted an allowance for the help he had given.  Savile was appointed Warden of Merton in 1585 and Provost of Eton in 1596, and continued to hold both posts at the same time till his death in 1622.

Page 171, ll. 8-12.  Compare the verse epistle in Suckling’s Fragmenta Aurea, which was manifestly addressed to Hales, though his name is not given (ed. 1648, pp. 34-5): 

  Whether these lines do find you out,
  Putting or clearing of a doubt;
   ... know ’tis decreed
  You straight bestride the Colledge Steed ... 
  And come to Town; ’tis fit you show
  Your self abroad, that men may know
  (What e’re some learned men have guest)
  That Oracles are not yet ceas’t ... 
  News in one day as much w’ have here
  As serves all Windsor for a year.

In Suckling’s Sessions of the Poets, ’Hales set by himselfe most gravely did smile’.

ll. 14 ff.  Compare the story told by Wood:  ’When he was Bursar of his Coll. and had received bad money, he would lay it aside, and put good of his own in the room of it to pay to others.  Insomuch that sometimes he has thrown into the River 20 and 30_l_. at a time.  All which he hath stood to, to the loss of himself, rather than others of the Society should be endamaged.’

l. 19.  Reduced to penury by the Civil Wars, Hales was ’forced to sell the best part of his most admirable Library (which cost him 2500_l_.) to Cornelius Bee of London, Bookseller, for 700_l_. only’.  But Wood also says that he might be styled ‘a walking Library’.  Another account of his penury and the sale of his library is found in John Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy, 1714, Part II, p. 94.

l. 24. syded, i.e. stood by the side of, equalled, rivalled.

Page 173, ll. 1 ff.  His Tract concerning Schisme and Schismaticks was published in 1642, and was frequently reissued.  It was written apparently about 1636, and certainly before 1639.  He was installed as canon of Windsor on June 27, 1639.

52.

Clarendon, MS. Life, pp. 58-9; Life, ed. 1759, pp. 28-30.

Clarendon clearly enjoyed writing this character of Chillingworth.  The shrewd observation is tempered by subdued humour.  Looking back on his friendship at a distance of twenty years, he felt an amused pleasure in the disputatiousness which could be irritating, the intellectual vanity, the irresolution that came from too great subtlety.  Chillingworth was always ‘his own convert’; ’his only unhappiness proceeded from his sleeping too little and thinking too much’.  But Clarendon knew the solid merits of The Religion of Protestants (History, vol. i, p. 95); and he felt bitterly the cruel circumstances of his death.