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ARCHBISHOP MATHEW.
by the death of Archbishop Hutton, w ho left a large
landed estate behind him. " I neither praise nor
envy an episcopal fortune," is Surtees' remark
" Hutton, however, only succeeded in that which
most of his contemporaries tried to effect : his son,
Timothy Hutton, served the office of sheriff of Yorkshire
in 1607 : and the family of Hutton, of Marske,
have ever since ranked with the first gentry of the
North Riding.'' 1
Another Bishop of Durham succeeded to the primacy
of York. Bishoii Toby Mathew was appointed
in July, 1606. He was an able controversialist, and
one of the most eloquent preachers of his day, and
in private life was singularly beloved for his steady
friendship, his great liberality, and his remarkably
genial temperament—the "cheerful sharpness of wit,"
as Sir John Harington expresses it, " that so sauced
his words and behaviour." Both Fuller and Sir John
have preserved several of his jests, for he was always
Spargens sales cum cacliinno,
Lepido ore et concinno.
The record of one may be allowed here in connection
with his elevation to York :— he said it was
/or lack of grace, for, according to a homely northern
proverb, York has the higher rack, but Durham the
deeper manger.
The discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605
excited the fears and inflamed the prejudices alike of
the king, his council, and the people generally against
the Roman Catholics.
It occasioned the imposition
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Surtees' " Ilist. of Durham," i. p. Iwxiv.
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