...preferment was then vacant, or soon expected to be so. Upon removing to his parish, he found it in great disorder. With a firm resolution, therefore,...seemed a torch, where no brighter light was ever seen be108 fore. Surely preaching now ran very low, if it be true what I read, that Mr. Tavernour, of WaterEaton,...

...appears by Mr. Tavernour's Sermon. So much for the bishops. As for the inferior clergy, under them, the best that could be gotten were placed in pastoral...charges. Alas ! tolerability was eminency in that age. A rush-candle seemed a torch where no brighter light was ever seen before. Surely, preaching now ran...

...Age, as appears by Mr. Tavernour's Sermon. So much for the bishops. As for the inferior clergy, under the best that could be gotten were placed in pastoral...charges. Alas ! tolerability was eminency in that age. A rush-candle seemed a torch where no brighter light was ever seen before. Surely, preaching now ran...

...degradation of the clerical character at that time: " As for the inferior clergy under them," (the bishops) " the best that could be gotten were placed in pastoral...candle seemed a torch, where no brighter light was ne'er seen before. Surely preaching now ran very low, if it be what I read that Mr. Tavanour of Water...

...was remitted. See Strype's Park. 148. Grind. 91.] ni Sam. xxvi. 12. 0 Psalm xc. clergy under them, the best that could be gotten were placed in pastoral charges. Alas ! tolerability appears by was eminencv in that age : a rush candle seemed a Mr.Taver- * ,.,,., nour'« ser- torch,...

...wearing, in addition to his other unclerical dress, a sword by his side. " Surely," says Fuller, " preaching now ran very low, if it be true what I read, that Mr. Tavernour, of Water Eaton, in Oxfordshire, high sheriff of the county, gave the scholars a sermon in St. Mary's,...

...it in great disorder. With a firm resolution, therefore, of doing what good he could in it, he sat himself in earnest to reprove vice publicly and privately,...that Mr. Tavernour, of Water-Eaton, in Oxfordshire, highsheriif of the county, came in pure charity, not ostentation, and gave the scholars a sermon in...

...university, wearing, in addition to his other unclerical dress, a cword by his side. " Surely," says Fuller, "preaching now ran very low, if it be true what I read, that Mr. Tavernour, of Water Eaton, in Oxfordshire, High Sheriff of the county, gave the scholars a sermon in St. Mary's,...

...he died in 1568. ' So much for the Bishops,' says Fuller. ' As for the inferior clergy under them, the best that could be gotten were placed in pastoral charges. Alas ! tolerability was eminence in that age ; a rush candle seemed a torch where no brighter light was ever seen before. Surely...

...he died in 1568. ' So much for the Bishops,' says Fuller. ' As for the inferior clergy under them, the best that could be gotten were placed in pastoral charges. Alas ! tolerability was eminence in that age ; a rush candle seemed a torch where no brighter light was ever seen before. Surely...