Nowel became Dean of St. Paul's in 1660, and died in 1601-2, aged 95; Dean Goodman of Westminster in 1561, and died the same year as Nowel. These two Worthies were brothers in design as well as in dignity, each founding Charities of the same description. Dean Nowel founded a School at Middleton in Lancashire, and Scholarships in Brazen-nose College, of which Society he was for a short time Principal.

Nowel, it is unnecessary to observe, has attained the greater celebrity of the two, being so well known as the Author of the Catechisms, which carry his name, and his Biographer thinks our present Church Catechism was entirely his composition. One of his Catechisms was immediately translated into Greek by his Nephew Whitaker, the well known Cambridge Professor of Divinity, of whom Cardinal Bellarmine said that "He was the most learned Heretick he ever knew." Whitaker was in doctrine a Calvinist, but acknowledges in a Letter to Whitgift (Appendix to Strype's Whitg.) that the Predestinarian Controversy was not concluded or defined by public authority in the Church of England, which opinion is of itself a sufficient answer to the charge that its present Members are untrue to its principles.

Note to PAGE 8 of Dean Goodman's Will, line 12.

"Late my Father's House of blessed memory, being the House I was born in."

There is no tradition which with certainty points out this House, but the following Extract from Fuller's Church History (Book 11th, page 184) throws light on the subject, and indicates it to be the one which is known to have belonged to Sir Thomas Exmewe, a native of Ruthin, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1517. It forms the West side of the Market-place, and is now partitioned out into Shops, presenting a venerable black and white plaistered brick and timber gable end to the Town Hill.

The Puritan Lord Brooke having libelled the Bench of Bishops, by saying that they were all men of mean birth, defæce populi, and no way fit to govern, their Lordships meet to draw up their vindication in this respect, when Bishop Goodman is

reported to have declared that his Grandfather by his Father's side (Edward Goodman lên) had left him more than Lord Brooke's Father had to maintain him, and purchased the whole Estate of Sir Thomas Exmewe, a native of Ruthin, Lord Mayor of London in 1517.-(Vide Baker's Chron.)

This Family, we may suppose by its name, was not of Welsh extraction, but settled here under the Lord's Grey. On attaining wealth in the Metropolis, as its Civic honours indicate, it probably emigrated from Wales when its Residence in Ruthin passed by sale into the occupation of the rising Family of Goodman, some years before the birth of the Dean in 1528. An antient Picture, on board, of this Sir Thomas Exmewe, in now in the possession of John Lloyd Wynne, Esq. of Coed Côch, and hangs up in the House in Castle-Street, Ruthin, with those of the Goodmans mentioned in the 27th page of the Memoirs. This Picture, it may be supposed, came into the hands of Edward Goodman with the Mansion House, and from him descended with the other Portraits to its present possessor. To account for its being thus associated, it is not necessary to suppose Exmewe married a Goodman, as an endorsement (but apparently of much more recent date than the painting itself) informs us, and for the following reason. Sir Thomas Exmewe must have been a middle-aged man in 1517, when none of the Children of Goodman were in being, and it is not likely, twenty or thirty years after, when he was an old man, that he connected himself in marriage with so young a person as one of these Daughters. Add to this, Welsh Pedigree Books take no notice of such marriage.

Ranging with the north gable of Exmewe Hall, the greatest piece of antiquity in the Town presents itself to view, called Maen Huail. It is a rude block of Lime Stone, of which the following account is taken from the Notes to the late Rev. Peter Roberts's Chronicles of the Kings of Britain, which he derived from a MS. of J. Jones, of Gelli Llyfdy. The celebrated Prince Arthur being crossed in an amour by Huail the Son of Caw, of Ederneion, and Brother of the Writer Gildas, met with his Rival in Ruthin, and chopped off his head on a Stone which (says the MS. written two hundred years ago) is still to be seen in Ruthin, and bears Huail's name. The traditional history of this Stone has been preserved to the present day.

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Welsh Poems on the Death of Dean Goodman.

There are to be found among the MSS. of the late Mr. Owen Jones, at the Welsh School in London, three Welsh Poems, written on the Death of Dr. Gabriel GoodDean of Westminster, by Edward ab Ralf and Edward Morys, Bards, as will appear by referrence to No. 8 of the Greal, or Welsh Magazine, published in London, 1807. The following are the first Lines to each Poem, as printed on the cover of the said Number.

By Edward ab Ralf.

1.-Wrth roi gras o'wrthiau 'r Grog.

2.-Pwy yw cun a'n pencenedl.

By Edward Morys.

3.-Cred gwyvyn vydd hirddydd ha’.

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