Discovered yesterday, while escorting granddaughters to view the Christmas trees in Worcester Cathedral. The Latin is beautiful and elegant. Any Classics teacher would want to be described as dexter(ra) 'in Latinis, Graecis, Hebraicis Literis feliciter edocendis.' (See below for translation), also as a celeberrimus (a) Gymnasiarcha. Hail Henry Bright of Worcester! Mane, Hospes, et lege.
Halt, stranger, and read. Magister Henricus Bright, Mr. Henry Bright, celeberrimus Gymnasiarcha, The most celebrated schoolmaster, qui Scholae [wrongly inscribed "Schola"] Regiae istic fundatae Who over the Royal School here founded, per totos quadraginta annos summa cum laude praefuit : For 40 years in all, presided with the highest distinction. Quo non alter magis sedulus fuit scitusve aut dexter No other was more diligent or wise than he, or more skilled in Latinis, Graecis, Hebraicis Literis feliciter edocendis : At felicitously imparting Latin, Greek and Hebrew letters: Teste utraque Academia, quam instruxit aifatim numerosa pube literaria ; As witness, both universities, which he supplied amply with numerous learned youths. Sed et totidem annis coque amplius Theologiam professus, For as many years, furthermore, ordained in theology, et hujus Ecclesiae per septennium Canonicus major, And for seven years a major canon of this church, sepissimè hie et alibi sacrum Dei Praeconem magno cum zelo et fructu egit ; Very often, here and elsewhere, he acted as God's holy herald with great zeal and effect; Vir pius, doctus, integer, frugi, de Republicâ deque Ecclesia optimè meritus, A pious man, learned, of integrity and restraint, worthy of the best of Church and State alike, à laboribus perdiu pernoctuque ab anno 1562 ad 1626, From his labours by day and by night from the year 1562 to 1626[A] strenue usque extant latis, 4to Martii suaviter requievit in Domino. Exhausted at last, on 4th March sweetly rested in the Lord. Written by Joseph Hall (1 July 1574 – 8 September 1656) who was an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church politics, he tended in fact to a middle way. Thomas Fuller wrote: He was commonly called our English Seneca, for the purenesse, plainnesse, and fulnesse of his style. Not unhappy at Controversies, more happy at Comments, very good in his Characters, better in his Sermons, best of all in his Meditations. P.S. All these learned men would have undoubtedly supported the Save Classics at High Storrs campaign. Follow in their footsteps, if you've not done so already here
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