The Life of Dr. John Barwick, Dean of St. Paul's (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1903. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... The Life of Dr. John Barwick, D.D. DR. JOHN BARWICK, whose life I am going to write, was born April the 20th Anno 1612, at Wetherslack in Westmoreland, a village formerly of no great note, but render'd famous in the late troubles, partly by the worth of this great man, and his unshaken loyalty in the worst times, partly by the glorious death of-Mr. William Leybourne, a gentleman also born there, and an intimate acquaintance of Mr. Barwick's almost from his cradle, who in the beginning of the Civil War bravely lost his life for the King in the field of battel, to the great grief of all good men, particularly of his dearest friend Mr. Barwick, the rival of his great virtue; who, though not of honourable parentage (as his friend Mr. Leybourne was, deriving his pedigree in a right line from an antient family of that name) yet was born of honest parents, George Barwick and Jane his wife, whose maiden name was Barrow. This George was the eldest son of Nicholas, a descendant of the antient family of the Barwicks of Fair Ridg near the little village of Staveley in the north part of Lancashire. The chief of the Barwick's family was Thomas de Berwick, who in the reign of that victorious prince King Edward the Third, had the command of all his archers, as appears from an instrument quoted out of the archives by Sir John Bankes the King's Advocate, in one of his arguments in the case of ship-money, published in Rushworth's " Collections." John Barwick's parents had but a small estate; yet by living frugally, and prudently managing what little they had, they decently bred up all their children (which were five sons, besides one that died young) and except Mr. Leybourne's family, were as charitable to the poor, as any in that neighbourhood; yet far from running out thei...