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" Egypt, and from thence through the Red Sea, to the " intent they should therein perish, but that he of them " should shew a most glorious deliverance. Neither sent " Christ his Apostles in the midst of the sea, and suffered " the boisterous storms to assault them and their boat, to " the intent they should there perish ; but because he would 151 " the more have his great goodness towards them felt and " perceived, in so mightily delivering them out of the fear " of perishing ; giving us thereby an example, that he " would do the like to us, if we abide constant in our pro- " fession and faith, withdrawing ourselves from superstition " and idolatry. — Trouble is come : O dear brethren, look " for the comfort ; and, after the example of the Apostles, " abide in resisting this vehement storm a little space. The " third watch is not yet ended. Remember that Christ " Jesus came not to his disciples till it was the fourth " watch, and they were then in no less danger than you be
UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 239 " now : but their faith fainted not ; their bodies were in CHA P. " danger, but Christ Jesus came when they looked not for. " him : and so shall he do to you, if ye will continue in the AnD0 1554 - " profession that you have made. This dare I be bold to " promise in the name of him, whose eternal verity and glo- " rious gospel ye have heard and received."
book, entitled, An Exhortation to the Cross. It was writ An Exhor- by way of epistle, for the use of those that were professors the cross. of the gospel, and either suffered persecution, or were in daily danger of it. The author's name is not set to it ; but it appears that he was a preacher under King Edward, and then an exile ; (I believe him to be Coverdaie ;) for thus he writes : " How many now go with you lustily, as I and " all your brethren in bands and exile for the gospel ? Pray " for us ; for, God willing, we will not leave you : we will " go before you. You shall see in us that we preached no " lies, nor tales of tubs, but even the true word of God ; " for which we, by God's grace, and help of your prayers, " will willingly and joyfully give our blood to be shed for " the confirmation of the same, as already we have given " liberally our goods, livings, friends, and natural coun- " try."
ening and comforting the professors to steadiness in their holy course, notwithstanding persecution. " Therefore," as he writ, " like God's children, let us go on forward apace ; " the wind is on our back. Hoise up the sails; lift up " your hearts and hands unto God in prayer ; and keep " your anchor of faith to cast in time on the rock of God's " word, and on his mercy in Christ, and I warrant you." The book consisted of these chapters, (after a Preface to the Christian Reader:) I. What we be, and where we be. II. Persecution must not be strange unto us. III. Trouble cannot hurt God's children. IV. The cross is commodious and profitable. V. How Papists hold their four special articles, which they so grievously persecute for. VI. How God's word teacheth of the supper, with confutation of
240 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP, transubstantiation. VII. How God's word teacheth of XViIL Christ's sacrifice, with the Romish blasphemy therein re- Anno 1554. proved. VIII. Of praying for the dead, the true doctrine. IX. Of praying to saints. X. The Romish doctrine of the sacrament confuted more largely. XI. The Popish doctrine of the sacrifice in massing confuted. XII. The confutation of the Papists sacrificing and praying for the dead. XIII. The refutation of the heresy of praying to saints departed out of this world. XIV. The knitting of the matter, and conclusion or peroration ; with a prayer for the help of God in this time of danger and divers temptations. To this was joined another little book of the same vo- The Hope lume, entitled, The Hope of the Faithful, and, as it seems, Faithful. °f tne same author. The contents of this book were accord- 152 ing as they are set down in the first chapter, thus begin- ning: " Considering that by the Evangelists and by all the " Apostles there is nothing written more diligently than " touching the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, my " purpose is somewhat more largely to talk of the same, " and of the glorious ascension of his body into heaven. " Item, Of the resurrection and ascension of our own bo- " dies ; of the damnation of unbelievers ; and of the hope " and eternal life of the blessed." Which subjects are in- deed, in this book, discoursed of closely and well, first by apt places in scripture, and then by arguments, without any reflection on the Popish religion. And I verily think the work to be Cover-dale's. He had been a prisoner in the beginning of this Queen, and very hardly escaped. The means whereby lie procured his liberty was thus: he was brother-in-law to one Dr. John Macchabaeus, chaplain to Christiern, King of Den- mark, they marrying two sisters. Macchabaeus prevailed with his King to send two or three letters to Queen Mary for the deliverance of Coverdale out of prison, and to send him over thither. One of these letters bore date 25 Apr. 1554. In this letter it seems to appear, that Coverdale was imprisoned upon suspicion of being concerned in the late insurrection : but in the answer of the Queen's to this letter,
UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 241 she laid not that to his charge, but a pretence that he was CHAP, in debt to her concerning his bishopric : but the first-fruits were forgiven him by King Edward: it must be therefore Anno 1 554. for his tenths. And in the King of Denmark's second let- ter, it appeared that Coverdale made this plea for himself as to that, that he had not enjoyed the bishopric long enough to be able, out of the profits thereof, to pay the Queen. The King's second letter was dated Sept. 24, 1554; and the Queen's grant of his request was not before Feb. 18, 1555: which is, reckoning the year to begin Jan. 1, near a twelvemonth after the King's first solicitation for this reve- rend man ; so loath was she to let him go out of her hands. As soon as he had his liberty, he repaired to the said King.
courses and treatises, and printed them, at this time, and d had such as conveyed them into England ; which did much good service to the religion : insomuch that the State soon took notice of it, and by acts and proclamations forbad those books severely. Some of these exiles had been caught before they could Some Pro- pass over the seas and escape ; and having not courage and reC ant. strength enough, were fain to recant. The chief of these Bishop were Jewel, Barlow, and Scory ; the two last being bishops. ca a ,[ t ° w The said Barlow, bishop of Bath and Wells, was, by Gar- diner and other Papists, forced not only barely to recant, but to compose a book of recantation ; which he did for fear of his life : and afterwards, when he fled, Gardiner, or some other, published his book t beo read by all. Dr. Tur- ner took occasion hence to rub Gardiner up for his book, De Vera Obedientia : which he would not set forth in Eng- lish, as Turner said he wished ; and gave the reason, be- cause he looked upon it as a matter he owned not. His words are these : " If that Mr. Gardiner allow his doctrine Spirit. " still of King Henry's marriage, let him set forth the same iysic ' " doctrine in English at large, because the common people " may learn some wholesome doctrine of it ; even as he, or " at least some of his, have handled Mr. Barlow, which VOL, HI. K 242 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP. " wrote a naughty and a false lying book, compelled for fear L " to do so. But if he will not set out his book in English, Anno 1554. " both because he knoweth in his conscience that it is a 153 " false book and an heretical book; because he was com- " pelled by fear to write against the open truth, he, or at " the least one of his Popish 'prentices, is very uncharita- " ble and unjust unto Mr. Barlow, which handleth him " otherwise than he would or will be handled himself; that " is, to publish his book which he wrote for fear.'' 1 His re- The recantation of this man was as followeth, as I tran- Cott* Li- scribed it out of the original, prescribed, as it seems, for him. brar. cieop. " Praise be to God, who out of his infinite goodness, and " mercy inestimable, hath brought me out of darkness into " light, and from deadly ignorance unto the quick know- " ledge of troth : from the which, through the f end's insti- " gation, and false persuasion, I have greatly swerved, " wrapping myself in manifold errors and detestable here- " sies, against the doctrine of Christ and determination of
" and have suffered them to be imprinted : as, The Trea- " tise of the Burial of the Mass ; A Dialogue betxccen the " Gentleman and the Husbandman ; The climbing up of " Friars and religious Persons, pourtr ay >ed with Figures ; " A Description of God?s Word compared to the Light; " also a common dialogue, without any title, inveighing " especially against St. Thomas of Canterbury : which as " yet was never printed nor published openly. In these " treatises, I perceive and acknowledge my self grievously " to have erred, namely, against the blessed sacrament of " the altar, disallowing the mass, and denying purgatory ; " with slanderous infamy of the Pope and my Lord Cardi- " nal, and outragious raving against the clergy, which I " have forsaken and utterly renounced.
" endued with so excellent learning and singular judgment " of the troth, which endeavoured not only to chase away " and extirpe al heresies, but also to se a reformation of " slanderous living, for the restraint of vice in al estates, to
UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 243 " the furtherance and avauncement of God's word: also, CHAP. xvm " considering the piteous favour void of rigor, and mercy abhorring cruelty, which your Highness hath used to- Anno1554, " wards others of your subjects fallen into such like here- " sies, and have submitted themselves humbly unto your " Grace, I have made suite, by al means possible, freely, " without motion of any man, to come and present my self " before your Highness, for to submit my self unto your " merciful plesure, beseeching your gracious pardon : also, " as far forth as I have knowledge, in all things to ascer- " tain your Grace unfeignedly, whatsoever your Highness " shall vouchsafe to demaund of me your unworthy subject " and orator, " William Baric" This seems to have been Barlo's first address to the Queen, offering and praying to be received to a recantation, rather than the recantation itself: whereby we may gather how dear it cost him, as well as others, to get his liberty and life ; namely, that he was not only to make a recanta- tion, and a profession of being reconciled to the Papal Church, but to confess all the books that he ever made against that Church, and to renounce and revoke them ; and also to be had under examination, and be a betrayer of all other faithful professors of religion, and to discover any other thing to the disservice of it. There was a book printed in octavo, an. 1553, in London, of this Bishop's writing, entitled, The true Original of the Lutheran Fac- 154 tion : which seems to be the book before spoken of. Sufficient account hath been given elsewhere of the exiles Some win for the gospel, and of their several congregations; which, with tlie together with what hath been now writ of them, shall suf- con s re s a "
another sort of exiles, that yet would not appear to be so ; joining themselves to no religious assembly of English in any place, but passed through the towns where the Eng- lish had settled themselves, as travellers ; that they might not be reported in England as associating with these pro- fessors, for their better safety, if they should return into
244 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP. England: choosing thus to conceal themselves. Therefore XVIII.
Anno 1554. m ex \\ e> though they came into the towns where they were, but made short tarriance, and rid through them. And .Others chose to go into Popish cities in France or Italy, that they might be the less suspected to have gone out of Eng- land for religion. To these a writer in those times, and an Reproved, exile, gave this reprimand-: " Some dwelling in papistical man. " places, among the enemies of God, in the midst of im- " piety in France, as in Paris, Orleans, and Roan, and some " in Italy, as in Venice and Padua; which persons, in flee- " ing from their Queen, run to the Pope ; fearing the " danger of their body, seek where they may poison their " souls : thinking by this means to be less suspected of Je- " zebel; shewing themselves afraid and ashamed of the " gospel, which in time past they have stoutly professed ; " and lest they should be thought favourers of Christ, have " purposely ridden by the churches and congregations of " his servants their brethren, neither minded to comfort f* others there, nor to be comforted themselves : wherein " they have shewed this coldness of their zeal towards re- " ligion, and given no small occasion of slander to the word " of God, which they seemed to profess. For being re- " turned again to their country, they either became idola- " ters with the Papists, to please the Queen, and keep their " possessions, or else dissemblers, with the rest of counter- " feit Christians." CHAP. XIX. A third Parliament. Things done there ; and in convoca- tion. Cardinal Pole comes in quality of the Pope's le- gate. Bishop Gardiner, lord chancellor, preaches at PauVs Cross. King Philip appointed governor of the royal issue. Friars in Ireland petition the Cardinal.
parliament- p pi sn religion were not fully despatched, much more re- UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 245 maining still to be done. And the Queen wanting fit par- CHAP, liament-men for her purpose, sent her private letters to all the sheriff's to deal with the people for electing such re- Anno 1554. presentatives as might do her work. And that the com- mons might be the better drawn to it, they were to assure the people, that it was not the Queen's intention to take away any man's possessions, many of which came to them 155 by the dissolution of monasteries, or from the Church ; and to labour to free the people from believing other rumours then spread abroad. The Queen's letter ran thus :
246 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP. " and the advice of our counsellors and estates of this our
Anno 1554." the rest of the Justices of that county, to whom you shal " also shew and declare these our letters, that spreaders of " rumours and tales may be, by their diligence, speedily " apprehended, and according to the law of our realm " sharply punished, according to the trust we have in them, " and as they wil answer for the due punishment of their f* slackness and remiss dealing in this behalf. Yeven, 1- ' &c. *s
The effect The effect of this letter we may understand by what the " er ' " Bishop of Sarum, in his History, relates from Beal, clerk of Hist. Re- Queen Elizabeth's Council, viz. " That men in many
** places were others employed by the court in the elections, " who did violently hinder the other from coming to choice ; " and that some that were chosen, and came into the house, " were forcibly thrust out : and in many places false re- " turns were made. 1- ' Upon which reasons he concluded it no Parliament. The Queen To which I add, that it was observed, that the Queen ofher wits (contrary to what she had done before) called this Parlia- her title of ment by her writs, without the addition and style of Su- Head. preme Head in earth of the Church of England, &c. which made many scruple whether it were a lawful Par- liament or no. Because there had been a special statute, and of the greatest importance, made on purpose under King Henry her father, to declare, that the Bishop of Rome had no authority in this realm; and chiefly upon 156 this cause, as was alleged in a Parliament under Queen Elizabeth, an. 13 Reginae, for that King Henry, seeing his daughter Mary's stubbornness and malice to his doings, and her fond devotion to the Pope, meant, that if she should at any time come to that place, she should not, if she would, undo that he had done. Cardinal Cardinal Pole, that had been attainted of treason under
latere into n0 w coming hither in quality of the Pope's legate ; being UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 247 shortly to be very busy in putting the tilings of the Church CHAP, into their old superstitious posture again. The brief im- port of the letters given the Cardinal by Pope Julius III. Anno 1554. constituting him his legate de latere, to the King and Queen, and the whole kingdom of England, was, to re- concile the kingdom (which then a great while had been se- parated from the unity of the Catholic Church) to God and the Church of Christ, and to his vicar upon earth ; and to procure, by all possible pains that he could take, all that belonged to the peace and tranquillity of this kingdom, after by God's goodness, and their Majesties 1 piety, and by the authority of the most holy father the Pope, a reconcilia- tion was made : and that the unity of the Church, upon which depended the salvation of so many souls, redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, might by him be corrobo- rated, and remain in safety.
him an honourable maintenance for his household, suitable the cardi- to his eminent quality. In order to which his steward, or I,al ' s house.
of every thing that should be requisite for his necessary ex- pences, both for his travel and first entrance, and for his family provisions, wages of servants, clothes, &c. It was certified for this purpose, that with all his revenue and Papal provision, he could not expend monthly less than a 1000 crowns; that he entertained 130 in family, besides 30 more abroad ; that the said* 1000 crowns would but suffice for food for his said servants. Besides, that there would be the charge of the equipage of 40 horses and mules for his eminence's ordinary attendance ; the ordinary wages of his old family, which came monthly to 75 crowns : to which would be added 25 crowns more for the wages and livery of his new. His own apparel would cost yearly 500 crowns, and as much more for the livery and clothes of his cham- berlains, chaplains, and officers. And that there would be immediate need of 2000 crowns for the renewing of his plate, and for the supply of his chapel, his table, and his larder; and for utensils of brass, iron, pewter, &c. 300
248 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP, crowns: for linen and napery, for the tables and cham- .bers, 600 crowns more, and a great deal besides. This ex- Anno i554.traordinary charge the enjoyment of the Cardinal's presence would cost the Queen : and well it might be borne, seeing Yüklə 12,09 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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