Catalogue description Examination of John Copley, preacher and vicar Bethersden in Kent, before the Archbishop...

Examination of John Copley, preacher and vicar Bethersden in Kent, before the Archbishop at Lambeth.

--Examinate lived much in Mr. George Cotton's house at Warblington, during his life and about a year after his death, which took place about four years past. Was very well acquainted with Mr. John Cotton, second son to the said George, who was then a great student, applying himself to nothing but his book and his breviary, and studying in his private closet with such earnestness that it might well appear he had some important business in hand, although he would never signify about what his study was, and concealed his papers if examinate went into his closet.

Further saith that when the Archbishop showed him the book called Balaam's Ass, and asked his judgment of the hand, he was somewhat doubtful whether he had not seen some loose sheets in John Cotton's study with the like red lines on them, and now rather thinketh he did, on a time when John Cotton was abroad and examinate got the key of his study from his wife to fetch candles thence for the chapel. When the book called Pruritanus, or the Quoeries, came first into print, Cotton had a copy sent him by Edward Walpoole, a Jesuit; and among the books which he much studied before that time were Ribera the Jesuit upon the Apocalypse, and Bozin's De signis Ecclesiae. Signed.

Endorsed by the Archbishop as "the last exam. of Copley."