But he is most accused for over-medling in State-matters, more then was fitting, say many, then needful, say most, for one of his profession.  But he never more overshot himself, then when he did impose the Scotch Liturgie, and was [Greek:  allotrio-archiepis[ko]pos] over a free and forrain Church and Nation.  At home, many grumbled at him for oft making the shallowest pretence of the Crown deep enough (by his powerfull digging therein) to drown the undoubted right of any private Patron to a Church-living.  But Courtiers most complained, that he persecuted them, not in their proper places, but what in an ordinary way he should have taken from the hands of inferior officers, that He with a long and strong Arm reached to himself over all their heads.  Yet others plead for him, that he abridg’d their bribes not fees, and it vexed them that He struck their fingers with the dead-palsie, so that they could not (as formerly) have a feeling for Church Preferments....

[Sidenote:  An enemy to gallantry in Clergiemens cloaths.]

He was very plain in apparrel, and sharply checkt such Clergymen whom he saw goe in rich or gaudy cloaths, commonly calling them of the Church-Triumphant.  Thus as Cardinal Woolsy is reported the first Prelate, who made Silks, and Sattens fashionable amongst clergy-men; so this Arch-Bishop first retrenched the usual wearing thereof.  Once at a Visitation in Essex, one in Orders (of good estate and extraction) appeared before him very gallant in habit, whom D’r Laud (then Bishop of London) publickly reproved, shewing to him the plainness of his own apparrel.  My Lord (said the Minister) you have better cloaths at home and I have worse, whereat the Bishop rested very well contented....

[Sidenote:  No whit addicted to covetousness.]

Covetousness He perfectly hated, being a single man and having no project to raise a name or Family, he was the better enabled for publick performances, having both a price in his hand, and an heart also to dispose thereof for the general good.  S’t Johns in Oxford, wherein he was bred, was so beautified, enlarged, and enriched by him, that strangers at the first sight knew it not, yea, it scarce knoweth it self, so altered to the better from its former condition.  Insomuch that almost it deserveth the name of Canterbury-Colledge, as well as that which Simon Islip founded, and since hath lost its name, united to Christ-Church.  More buildings he intended, (had not the stroke of one Axe hindred the working of many hammers) chiefly on Churches, whereof the following passage may not impertinently be inserted.

[Sidenote:  The grand causer of the repairing of Churches.]