more’.^45 He reports on Jewel’s palace where ‘even sovereigns ... are ...
suitably entertained’, his gardens, and the stream where Jewel was now
creating a lattice work in order to trap fish. Folkerzheimer, at the
bishop’s command, went hunting, and was pleased with the alacrity of
the dogs in the chase. Jewel’s attitude was another matter. ‘The bishop
indeed I perceive, does not take much delight in this kind of amusement.
“What pleasure,” he says, “I pray you, can possibly be derived from
pursuing with fierce dogs a timid animal, that attacks no one, and that
is put to flight even by a noise?” I should, however, tell an untruth, were
I to say that I am not delighted with it.’ Yet it was not merely for the
amusement of his guests that Jewel had the dogs, but ‘that the table may
always give proof of the activity of the dogs and the labour of the
huntsmen.’^46 Folkerzheimer showed himself quick to relay all these
details, begging Simler’s pardon for the delay in writing, but he had left
France in secrecy, having nothing of worth either for food or drink, but
now that Jewel had ended his Bohemian existence, he would be quick to
relate all. After recounting his poor fare in his voyage, of mixing vinegar
with water as a substitute for wine, he gets to the telling lines:
Immortal powers! what a sudden change I experienced, what a
power of breathing freely after my long imprisonment! I am
transplanted into the magnificent abode of a prosperous individual,
with whom, as you know, I have long been on the most intimate of
friendly terms. He directs his attendants ... The butler forthwith
makes his appearance. And also, when dinner or supper time
arrived, how can I describe to you the abundance or magnificence of
the silver plate?But for all of this, the opulence and good board of a bishop’s life, Jewel
appeared to Folkerzheimer as unaffected, having retained the demeanor
of the Oxford don, the abstemious and disciplined student who would
trek across the woods of Oxfordshire reciting his Cicero and
Demosthenes. From this Folkerzheimer concludes that such things ‘do
not seem to afford much pleasure to their possessor, and appear to have
been provided rather for his guests’ sake than his own’.^47
This was not the only account left of Jewel’s munificence, for there is
also the account pertaining to Richard Hooker as related by Izaak
Walton in his life of Hooker, penned in 1664 and appended to
subsequent editions of Hooker’s works. Jewel had known Hooker’s
uncle, John Hooker, at Oxford, and with him had gone into exile. Like
Jewel, the elder Hooker had sat under the tutelage of Peter Martyr, and
was in Zurich during the exile. He also, like Richard Cox, had gone to
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(^45) Zurich Letters, II, p. 86.
(^46) Ibid., pp. 86–87.
(^47) Ibid., pp. 87–88. Jewel also took Folkerzheimer to Old Sarum and Stonehenge.