JEWELL, JoHN, D.D., was born at Buden in Devonshire 1522 ; was sent to Oxford at 13, be came B.A. and tutor of Merton five years after wards, and subsequently professor of rhetoric at Corpus Christi College. During the early part of his university career, while Henry VIII. was still living, he was careful not to take an open or decided part in the theological controversies, though he was secretly attached to the principles of the reforma tion, and, as far as opportunity offered, did what he could to advance them. Upon the accession of Edward VI. Ile adopted a bolder line, and on the visit of Peter the Martyr to Oxford attached himself warmly to him. With the death of Edward, how ever, fortune again turned, and Jewell's position became one of peril. When recantation was pro posed to him, Ile hesitated for a inoment, but at length sought safety in exile. He went to Frank fort. where he found others similarly situated with himself; thence to Strasburg, where he again met with Peter Martyr, and assisted him in some of his works. On the accession of Elizabeth he returned
to England, and the following year, 1559, was raised to the See of Salisbury. Jewell was a prelate of great piety and erudition, a strenuous and deter mined adversary of the Romish Church, and an in defatigable worker, rising, it is said, at four and not retiring to rest till midnight. In his Exposition of the Two Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonthns, Lond. 1594, he finds ample scope for his anti Romanist zeal ; the exposition is chiefly polemical and practical. His best known work is Apologia Lcclesth (INT/Lerma', translated by Lady Bacon, the mother of Lord Bacon. Jewell used to say that a bishop should die preaching, and it was literally fulfilled in his own case, for he was seized with his mortal illness when on a preaching tour in a re tired portion of his diocese, and died Sept. 21, 1571. The best edition of Jewell's works is that by Dr. Jelf, 8 vols. 8vo, Oxford 1848.-8. L.