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with war, that is presently between the Emperor and the Annol554 « French King ; but shall, as much as in him lieth, see the peace thereof kept. Soon after this marriage the Emperor sent over one Dra- The Em- berncott, a gentleman of his chamber, to congratulate his ^atuiates" son and daughter-in-law. And to her was wrote a kind let- the mar - ter in French with his own hand, beginning : " Madame ma bonne fille et cousin e : Comme le desir a 133 " este plus grand, et de sy long temps, de la venue de mon^ si * Uerio ii t fils, le Roy, vostre rnary, en vostre royaume? &c. The Titus, b. 2. contents whereof were : " That as his desire was great " and long, that his son, the King her husband, should " come Into her realm ; so the understanding of the love that " was between them, and that she particularly had towards " the person of his son, did double his content of this cor- " responding affection of them both. Then De laquelleje " desire la perpetuation, et le fruyt, taut requis, que jes- " pere Dieu endonnera: et que V assistance, qit'il vous " pourra feire en V administration et defence de v're " riaume, et autorite, soit tel qit'il convient. Puisque vous '* avez tousjours eu en moy et en luy telle coiifiance, a la " quelle je puis dire qxCil puisse satis/hire de son coste, " comme je ni'asseure de sa bonne volonte, et vous pouvez " vous asseurer de la meme. II y a aucuns jours que j^avoys
"jils, et congratuler a vous deux la consummation du " marriage, &c. i. e. Of which he desired the continuation " and the fruit, so requisite, that he hoped God would give " it : and that the assistance which he would afford her in " the administration and defence of her realm and autho- " rity, should be such as was convenient. And since she " ever had such confidence in him and his son, wherein he " [the Emperor] might say, that his said son was able to " give her satisfaction on his part, as he assured himself of VOL. III. p 210 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP. " his good-will towards her, and she might assure herself of , " the same. That it was some time since he had thoughts Anno i554.« f sending Monsieur Draberncott, a gentleman of his " chamber, (who was the bringer of his letter,) to visit her " and his son, and to congratulate them both of the con- " summation of their marriage, but the delay thereof hi- " therto was occasioned by urgent business that took up all " his time, as that gentleman could make report.'" And then he concludes, " La fin de ceste sera de vous asseurer " ancoyres pour tousjours de V affection de celluy qui de- " meure a jamais, " Votre bon pere,frere et cousin, « Charles." , The Em- In September the Emperor's ambassador returning home, bassador ^ e Queen made this noble present of plate to him ; as I goes home. fi n d \ t m a Cotton MS. Plate. Weight. Three gilt bowls with a cover . . 96 oz. \. Three gilt bowls more with a cover . 105 oz. quar. Three gilt bowls more with a cover . 122 oz. qrt. One pair of gilt pots . . . . 155 oz. d£. One other pair of gilt pots . . 92 oz. 3 qr. One pair of gilt flagons . . . 173 oz. One standing cup with a cover, &c. The rest is torn off: but it seems there was much more. So liberal was the Queen to this ambassador, in acknow- ledgment of her obligations to the Emperor his master. Spanish ar- There were many Spanish artisans already got into Eng- London. land and London. In which city they began to set open shops for selling and trading. But for fear of provoking the city, they were commanded to shut them up again, it being contrary to the orders and privileges of that place for any but free denizens to open shop there.
UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 211 CHAP. XV. 134 Cardinal Pole coming legate a latere. Dr. Thomeden, suffragan of Dover. Masses. Elizabeth Croft does penance. Apprehensions from Scotland.
hastening towards us from the Pope, who had now a fair The Le s ate game to play. And this legate was Reginald Pole, the England* English cardinal, an outlawed traitor : who being come as ex " cis * s his o authority far as Flanders, was gently stopped for a while by the Em- "ere. peror, for some politic considerations. But though he re- mained there this summer, (and in June I find him at Brus- sels, the Emperor's court,) and had not yet arrived as far as England, yet he was not idle in exercising his legatine authority. For he constituted Robert Collins his commis- Collins, his sary for Canterbury, by his letters patents : but a mutable ™ mm,s " man. For in King Edward's reign, at a visitation at Wing- ham, he had preached, that Christ was a full satisfaction for all sins past, present, and to come. And this, one Bland, who then heard him, told him openly to his face, when he sat to judge him. And Harpsfield, archdeacon of Canter- bury, he intrusted with the power of absolving all under his jurisdiction, that had erred from the unity of the Church, and had complied with the reformation : and, moreover, of communicating a power of absolving to other priests, that they might absolve others under their cures. And so also to Dr. Richard Thorneden, or (as he is commonly written in Fox) Thorneton, suffragan of Dover, the Cardinal com- mitted a faculty of absolution, though not to that degree as to authorize other priests to absolve, as he had granted to Harpsfield. Because Thorneden had not deserved such a privilege to be granted him, having himself gone so freely forward in the late schism. So that Thomas Goldwel, one that had constantly attended upon Pole, and lately been his messenger into England, was fain to intercede very hard with the Cardinal, before he would either continue him suffragan, or yield unto him any privilege at all. p2 212 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP. For Thorneden had sent by Goldwel very humble and J submissive letters to the Legate. But he had received such Anno1554 - informations of him, as made the Legate hesitate much suffragan of aDout hi m '¦ as > tnat ^ e ^ ac ^ agreed with all the evil pro- Dover, va- ceedings of late in England, as well against the sacrament riable. to . of the altar, and the supreme authority of Christ's vicar in earth, as in the use of the late Communion-Book, and the marriage of priests ; and that he had conferred orders upon base, unlearned, and evil disposed persons : by reason whereof they had taken upon them to preach, and had done much hurt in Kent. So that men commonly reported of him, that if there should be any new mutation, he would be as ready to change again as any other : which things created Goldwel much work to obtain any thing of the Car- dinal for him. But, at last, not only an absolution was pro- cured and sent him of all matters past, but divers faculties : yet, charging him not to confer them upon any, but such as he knew would gladly receive them. And Goldwel told 135 him, that there was never a bishop in England that had so great authority conferred on him concerning those under his cure ; nor any other in England, besides Archdeacon Harpsfield. Reproved. Thorneden being thus reconciled to the holy see, and thus furnished with his faculties, presently fell upon the exercise of his function in celebration of the Popish mass in all his pontifical attire. For which Goldwel gave him a severe reprimand, in a letter to him from Brussels in June, (which seems to have been written by the Legate's direc- tion.) That so presently after he had received his own ab- solution, instead of an humble and penitent deportment for his past miscarriages, he presumed to sing mass in his pon- t'lficalibus on the holy, days immediately following, and to minister to children the sacrament of confirmation. Whereas it would, he said, have been more honour to God and him- self, and edification to the people, if, like as he had offended in the face of the world, to the damnation of many, he would have shewed himself penitent in the face of the world, to the edification of many : not only not to have celebrated
UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 2] 3 so very pontificaliter, but also for a time to have abstained, CHAP, for reverence, totalitcr from the altar, according to the old xv - custom of the Church, and as he had known some to have Anno 1554. done.
thrust himself into Adisham living, the incumbent, a learned abhomd* and good man, being alive, viz. Mr. Bland aforesaid, who the mass - was afterwards burnt at Canterbury, an. 1555, for his holy profession. And this intruder was one of his judges. This man once said, that in his conscience he had abhorred the mass three years. And when sitting upon the bench, Bland's judge, he called him a sacramentary, Bland told him, that he heard him say those words, and then he was a sacramentary himself. But the Suffragan not liking to have these past matters rubbed up, told him, he lied, nor ever said it. But the other replied, he could produce witness of it, and assign, if need were, the very day and place, where and when. But he sufficiently repaired his reputation by being in this reign so instrumental to the death of many holy professors, by virtue of his commission and suffragan authority. The Paul's Cross sermon, June 10, was preached by Dr. a gun dis- Pendleton, (for his mutability akin to Thorneton,) and be- jj"^?* tween ten and eleven o'clock, while he was preaching, a gun Cross was shot off, and the bullet went over him, and hit the wall ; P reilcher - it being a pellet of tin ; whether it were done by some out of detestation of Pendleton's doctrine, or his person ; who had been a zealous professor of religion in King Edward's days, which he basely renounced under Queen Mary. But not- withstanding the narrowest search, the shooter could not be found.
cross, sung the English Litany: for which he was sent toJJ"^*^ Newgate. Now none of the holy days of note passed without some ex. The stran- traordinary masses and processions. On the same 24th of gers ' mass - June, being the festival of St. John, was the strangers' mass; which was kept at St. Edmund, Lombard-street, p3 214 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP. London, performed with much solemnity, and the church . hung with rich cloth. And the next day was a mass kept Annoi 554. at t h e Q re y p^ars for the sextons of London. And after, tons' mass. t nev went a procession, with the waits playing and clerks singing, through Cheapside unto Soper-lane, and back again through Paul's Churchyard by the Dean's Place; 13oand through Warwick-lane unto the Grey Friars, whence they set out. And so to dinner unto the Cook's-hall. For with good dinners these processional shows commonly ended.
some red, some green, some white. On the 29th of June, being St. Peter's and St. Paul's day, was a fair at Westminster-abbey, and a goodly proces- sion, and after mass. There the Prince of Piemont and di- vers Spaniards heard mass in King Henry the Seventh's chapel.
t pe- ma id t na t practised the fraud of the voice in the wall by a whistle, in Aldersgate-street. For now, a scaffold being made at Paul's Cross for her to stand upon, on the 6th of July, one of the prebendaries then preached, and the maid standing as aforesaid, she acknowledged openly, that it was one John Drakes, Sir Anthony's [some priest's] servant, that employed her. She wept pitifully, and kneeled down, and asked God mercy, and the Queen, and bade all people beware of false teaching : and said, that promises were made her that she should have many good things given her ; as though that had been the cause that induced her to this deceit. And on the Thursday following, viz. July 10, one who was a weaver, d veiling in Golden-lane, being of counsel with this maid, was set on the pillory.
realm was in hostility with France, being set on by that crown. The Queen of Scots early in July was expected at Jedworth, a town in Scotland upon the borders. For UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 215 great provisions were making for her reception, forty CHAP, puncheons of wine, with other necessaries, being laid in. xv - Of which the Lord Conyers gave the Earl of Shrewsbury, Anno 1554. lord president, notice by a letter, July 1, signifying, that he thought she would shortly make her repair to the bor- ders ; requiring the Earl, that such as he had already given warning unto, both in Richmondshire and other places, might be in a readiness upon one hour's warning to come thitherward, if need should so require. And for the better knowledge of her intent, the said Lord Conyers had upon feigned matters written unto that Queen, and given order unto the messager to learn what he possibly might of her purpose : upon whose return he gave the Lord Pre- sident further advertisement. And of this approach of the Scotch Queen he also certified the Lords of the Queen's Council. Nor was this the first time he gave intelligence hereof to the said Lord President. For on the 6th of June the said Lord Conyers signified it, and what the report was of the reason of her coming ; writing in this tenor to him :
" of this instant June, to make her repair unto these east I"L p_ l % " borders or confines of Scotland. And for the more cer- dent of the " tainty thereof, I am assured, that her provision is there E r ". " made accordingly. But to what purpose her coming is, com. Salop. " I am not as yet surely advertised : but, as she doth al- Armor. " lege, the same is only for justice sake, and to minister " the same unto such evil doers on the borders of Scotland, " as do go about to break the peace and amity between the " realms. But whatsoever her intent is, I trust, by the " grace of God, with the small power I have, to put myself 13^ " in such readiness, as for the sudden, if her purpose so " were, that she and her force should be resisted. And, if " need further require, I do intend, as my duty is, to send " unto your Lordship, being lieutenant in these parts, for *) such aid and relief as occasion shall serve, &c. From " Barwick, 6 June.
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xv " motions of the Scotch Queen, this July 19, further informed Anno 1554. the Lord Lieutenant. " So far as I can learn, the Scotch Ubi supra, u Q ueen dc-th greatly desire, that justice be ministered on " the borders. And, for the more appearance thereof, sithence " her repair to Jedworth, I do well understand, that she hath " called before her divers of the most and greatest faulters, " both of Tividale and the March, and doth punish them in " ward. So that by mine intelligence I cannot wit, that " she meaneth any thing at this time towards these pieces, " saving only the administration of her laws, and the paci- " fying the deadly feuds which are among divers surnames " of her borders. 11 The Queen Soon after this, the Queen went away, without offering, °Lis fi S orlr as yet, any injury to England. For as the same Lord wrote, Jedworth. July 28, " that the Scotch Queen departed from Jedworth " the 13th instant, and came the same night unto Kelsay, " and the next day to Hume castle ; and so along the bor- " ders unto Langton, Haymouth, Donbarr, and Adding- " ton : and that she had travailed very earnestly to bring " her subjects unto amity and love one with another; and " took, of divers surnames, pledges for the observing and " keeping of good rules ; as of the Carrs, the Scots, with " divers others. And that for the redress of those marches *' between him [the Lord Conyers] and the wardens of " Scotland, he was well answered, and as to equity and " justice appertained : and as good delivery made on both " parts, as had been done in a great while before. ,1
CHAP. XVI. Bishop Boner's visitation. Orders for Cambridge. Visi- tation of Oxford. Boner visits IN the vacancy between this marriage, and the sitting of his diocese. ^ ^^ p ar ii ament) Boner, bishop of London, visited his diocese: which visitation began Sept. 6. For this purpose he prepared a book of articles, containing thirty-seven in number : according to which articles, six men in every UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 217 parish were to make inquiry, and to bring in their present- CHAP, ments by the 23d of September, of all that had offended xv l ' against any of them. Boner went in person this visitation. Anno 1554. Of his fury and high displeasure, when he came to Had- ham, because the bells rung not to welcome him, and a rood was not set up in the church, and such like matters, Fox makes relation ; making a mention also of the Bishop's ar- ticles, but sets them not down; which therefore I have put into the Catalogue : whereby it may appear to him N°. XVI. that reads them, that this visitation was instituted chiefly to 138 root out the reformation, and the godly clergy that favoured it, out of his diocese. A bitter invective against these ar- ticles John Bale set forth in 1554, exposing the Romish clergy and their vices. This book was entitled, A Declara- tion of Edmund Boner's Articles concerning the Clergy of London diocese: whereby that execrable Antichrist is in his right colours revealed. His epistle is dated from Ba- sil, " To his faithful brethren of London diocese, and so " forth to all the Christian believers within England, Ire- " land, and Scotland. 11
Henry and King Edward, schismatical, and said, that they King's ordi- were contrary to the ancient order. Whereupon the foresaid nan . ces
" say, that they were schismatical, contrary to ancient or- " der, repugnant to the customs of the Catholic Church ? " They were set forth according to the Scriptures of God, " and are agreeable to the order of the primitive Church. " If the holy Scripture, and the primitive Christen Church iS be old, and an order allowed, then were their ecclesiastical " ordinances, according to the old order, allowable : and he " for his slanderous report is more worthy of a halter than " a mitre. In the foresaid King Henry^ days, he not " only allowed them, and praised them, but also he magni- " fied and advanced them even to the very stars. Then *' were they a maintenance to Christ's Gospel ; then were " they to the honour of Almighty God ; then were they " to the commodity of all Christen people, by his own
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XVI. Anno 1554 Dr. Byrd, suffragan, The Bishop comes to Dunmow
in his visi- tation.
Divorced ; but his
chastity suspected afterwards.
" report. In those days were both he and they evangelical : " now are they become altogether schlsmatical. O creep- " ing heretic ! O dissembling Gnatho ! O abhominable " flatterer ! With how double a heart, and more wicked a " conscience, hast thou borne that deceitful face of thine " for these twenty years space ? Didst thou not know, " that he that resisteth the power, which is of God's ordi- " nance, procureth to himself damnation ? Thou oughtest " not thus to have mocked therewith ; neither yet now in " the end to have railed thereon, for conscience sake, if " thou hadst any conscience." Before we leave Bishop Boner's visitation, let us trace him a little into Essex : " where passing from place to place, 1 [I use here a Foxian MS.] to visit his flock, (not as ' Christ passed by the coasts of Tyrus and Sydon, and the ' parts of Samaria, to preach the gospel of peace, to help ' their diseases, and to give life to the people ; but, as the ' bishops of that church be ever wont, to glean their rao- 1 ney, to keep down the gospel, to spy out heretics, and ' bring poor men to the fire,) arrived at the town of Dun- ' mow, where Dr. Byrd was then vicar, who of late afore ' had been bishop of Chester, and thereof lately de- 1 prived, for that he was lawfully married. For the which, ' notwithstanding he shewed himself so repentant, (saying, i that he married against his will, and for bearing with the i time, and thereupon did unlawfully repudiate his lawful ' wife,) that he was again invested, and not only made vicar ' of Dunmow, but also Bishop Boner's suffragan, attending ' upon the Bishop in his visitation to confirm children after f the manner of that office.
1 one eye ; and though he, to flatter with the time, had re- f nounced his wife, being made of a young Protestant an ' old Catholic ; yet, as Catholic as he was, such devotion he Yüklə 12,09 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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