Search York

natyon in their sowles. And surely so wil he do, except

thei repent the soner, and ask for mercy. Thei shal know

right wel, that he is nothing pleased with ther shameful hy-

pocrisy, and glistering superstition, nor with the abhomina-

tyons that reygne in this myserable and wretched world.

Thei shal not find him a Christ of clowts, one that cannot

do the office of God. But as he is God indcde, so shal al

the wicked feal his mighty hand and powre, except tliei re-

pent. For he shal dehver them unto wrath, indignatyon, Rom. ii.

tribulatyon, and perpetual anguysh and damnatyon, that

shal come upon the sowle of al that work iniquitie. I trust

ye wil let this stand for trewth til another yere.

Item, he said, that soxcles departed do not come again xi.

and zvalk, and 2^/«7/ bo-peap with us. I said so indede.

What is then to be said to such apparitions as many one

liave seen in our days ? Surely nothing but the words of S.

Paul ; Forasmuch as men received not the love of trewth^ 2 Thess. ii.

that they might be saved, God shal setid among them strmig

illusions, that they may beleve lyes: that thei al may be

judged that beleved not the trueth, but approved unright-

zoysnes. We be wonderous careful for dead saints, for

dead mens apperings ; but that God commaunded, we seak

nothing for. They have, said Christ, Moses arid tlie irro- Luc. xvi.

phets, let them hear them. Nay, say we, the dead gosts

walk, and we will have an one or other Sir John to conjure

tliem. And then the puling scly goost must have pilgrim-

age to this place or that place, and thus many trental

masses, and masses of scala cocli, &c. And to blind the eyes

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of men, he requireth almesse to some convent of munks and

friers, &c. But thanks to God, ever since the word of God

came in, thei nether be herd nor sene.
As concerning the place whither the spirits of men depart,

the Scripture saith, that al rightwyse shal be with Christ,

and the wicked shal be dampned from the face of God, and
Prov. xiv. the glory of his saynts. When the iingodli man dieth, there

shal be no more recovery^ or \\o^e,Jhr him, and the lohing

of those that are careful for him shal perish. The right-
Joaa. iii. wyse man shal he delyveredfrom payne, or sorow. He that
beleveth in Christ is not judged, but he that beleveth not is
judged alredy. Because he beleved not in the name of the
only Son of God. Agein, He that beleveth the Son hath
^2A^i^^'f^o,l lyfe : but he that beleveth not the Son, shal not se
De Verb. If^^ but the ivruth of God continueth upon him. And S.
Ap. Serm, Austin saith. After this life ther are two dwelling places,

one in the everlasting fire, another in the everlasting king-

Cont. Pe- dom. Ageine he saith, First, surely the CathoUque faith,
^h.v.'^^^^ by the divine aucthoritie, beleveth that ther is the Mngdom

qfhevin ; from whence, as I have said, he that is not bap-

tized is excepted. Secundly, That ther is hel, where every

one that for saketh Christ, or els that is not of the faith of

Christ, fealeth by experience that ther are punishments. As

for the third place, we are utterly ignorant of it ; nether find

we in the Scriptures that there is ony such. Belike therfore

this purgatory began since S. Austines days, when men

were more studious to seak such dead holynes, than S. Au-

stine was : whose care was to instruct with reding, preach-

ing, and exhorting men in this life, and not to mass them,

and trental them, when they be dead.

I exhort therfore al Christen men, lyve godly in this life,

and loke for the life to come with Christ. And when ony

Christen man dieth, commend his body to the erth with ho-

nest Christen burial, and his sowle to God with psalmes and

In Joan. devout prayers, with almes dedes ; which, as Chrysostom

saith, shal much profit him, and be an ornament to him in

the holy resurrection.

XII. Item, That one of us ought to here anothcrs burthen. As

RECORDS AND ORIGINALS. 477

in the body the bonys strengthen and maintayn the Jlesh.

This is S. Pauls doctrin, Rom. xv. Gal. vi. Ephes. iv.

Col. iii. and S. Petre, i Pet. iv. and S. Joan, i Joan. iii.

and S. James, Jac. ii. iii. and S. Jude i.

Item, He said, That there was no difference of meats : xiii.

but that a man might eat al meats at al tymes. This ar-

ticle he falsely layeth to my charo-e. Although by the

Scripture it is trew, nevertheles bycause of politicpie ordre,

I wold have men not be heady upon flesh at such times as

y t is forbydden them. The kingdom ofhevin is not meat Rom. xiv.

and drink, but rightwisnes, and peace and joy in the Holy

Goost. And certayn, those that thus serve God are accepted

afore him. And as they are blameworthy, that without a

reasonable nead, breke the publick order; so are thei as

much to be rebuked, that have their consciences so marked i Tim. iv.

with the iron of scrupulous superstition, that thei wil not

tast an egg for an C. pound upon the Friday, or in Lent ;

no, though the King by proclamatyon licence his subjects

so to do. Such hypocrites wil not stick to slandre, back-

byte, falsely accuse, and seke ther brothers bloud ; and to Mat. xv.

poll and pill ther neibours, and to begile them. Where in

very dede of thes things shuld thei have conscience, and not

of that which entreth into the mouth and belly, and is cast

owt into the draught. Christen men (saith Austin) Tiepe tivoiyc Saiut.

Jasts at once : that is, abstaining the body from meat, and i^ocument.

the soxvljrom ivrath,Jiiry, detraction, and blasphemy and

braxoling. For, as we have before sheiaed, thes are the

deadly meats, or rather poysons to the sowl, that Jeedeth it

into evil, and hil it with death everlasting. And Origen in Hom.

saith, Wilt thou that I shal shczo thee tchat fast thou art^^-''^^-'^^'

bound to fast ? Fast from al yll dedes : fast from ill words :

abstenefrom evil thowghts.

Thus have you all the matters, both new and old, that Tiie cause
are layd imto me. But yet ther is one, that is the special||[g^^"g ^'"*
and only cause of al my troble, that is, the gret envy that eiu^.
myne adversaries had, that the people so followed me when^-^^
J preached. For the Bishop of Harford^ said, that it was^J^j^"^^"
not for nowght, that so gret resort was to my sermons, ra- tiien was
Boner.

Joan, xli

and xi.

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ther than to other better lerned than I, that had not half

the audience. It is, seid he, a token that ye teach some pri-

vate doctrin, and not as al other do. I answered, that

[I called] God and my conscience to witnes, I taught never

other than that the Scripture of God teacheth. And that

have I ever taught to the best of my wyt and connynge.

And that it pleased God to move their herts to come, and

to give me grace to edify them with his word, 1 do hartily

thank God for yt.
This indede is the very only cause of my punishment. It

greved them to se the people so drawen to here me ; and I

never wold in my sermons teach such beggery and trash as

some of them teach. And loe! said thei, yee se that we

jjrofect nothing at al. Loe ! al the world goeth after him.

Yf we let him alone thus, al wil beleve him. And so the

council concluded that I must ly by the heles. Wei, thanks

to God for his holy hand and merciful chastisement. And

the blessed wil of God be don in me both in life and deth.

Amen, and thanks to God.

Eph. vi. Now, gentil reder, I beseche thee, be strong in the Lord,
and in the power of his strength. Arme thee with the ar-

mour of God : and studiously apply the study of God's Scrip-

ture, night and day, that thou mayst be a frutful olive tree
Ps. xcii. in the house of the Lord. Pray continually unto the Lord,
2 Thes. V. and without cessing. Desire his mercy to send furth work-

men into his hervest, and to open the dore of faith, that his

Mat. ix. holy word may yet once have free passage. And pray for

me, that al the wil of God may be perfectly don in me, that

I may have strength in his Spirit, that God may be glorified

in me. And, yf it be the Lords pleasure, that I may be de-

lyvered from this hel ; as I trust to be, the rather for your
rhii. i. prayers. Let al your conversation be such as becometh the
Epii. V. children of light, in al sobrietie, rightwisnes, and godlines;

as ye have ever be taught by the holy Gospel of Christ.

Col. iii. And as I have ever admonished and warned you, walk

wisely, because of such as yet are estranged from the trewth ;

and redome the tyme, for the dayes are evil. Let your

RECORDS AND ORIGINALS. 479

words and talk be evermore powdered with grace, and be-

ware what ye speake, and to whom. Do good to al men, <^'!*i vi.

especially to such as are of the houshold of faith. Knowing, Mat. xxv,

what you do to the littil ones, you do it to Christ. Salute 2 Cor.

one another with the holy kiss. This is my salutatyon to al

that love the Lord Jesu unfainedly. Peace be to the brethren,

and love with faith, from God the Father, and the Lord Kpii. ^

Jesu Christ. The grace of our Lord Jesu Christ be with

you al. Amen.
Sent from Lollards Towre by Robert Wisdome,
Prisoner of Jesu Christ.

XIII.

Number CXVI. 326
Edtcta Stephani Vinto7iiensis JEpiscopi, Canccllarii Canta-

brtgiensis, de Pronuntiatione LingucB Grcecce. et Latifice.

STEPHANUS Wintoniensis Episcopus, Academiae Can- Joann.

tabrigicnsis Cancellarius, cum me^ tum senatus universi pr„n,',',,tia-

aucthoritate legitima, rogatione ad me delata quid in lite- timit-

rarum sonis, ac linguae tum Graecae tum Latinae pronuntia-

tione, spectandum, sequenduni, tenendum, sic itaque edico :
Quisquis nostram potestatem agnoscis, sonos, Uteris sive

Grascis sive Latinis, ab usu publico pracsentis seculi alienos,

privato judicio affingere ne audeto.
Quod vero ea in re major aucthoritas edixerit, jusserit,

praeceperit, id omnes amplectuntor et observanto.

Diphthongos Graecas, nedum Latinas, nisi id diaeresis

exigat, sonis ne diducito, neve divellito. Quae.sitam usu

alteri vocalium pran-ogativam ne adimito. Sed ut marem

foeminae dominari sinito. Quse vero earum in communione

soni usu convcnerunt, iis tu negotium ne facessito.
Al et s, 01 et Si ab » sono ne distinguito. Tantum in or-

thographia discrimen servato. H, », u uno eodemque sono

exprimito. Cujusque tamen propriam in orthograpliia sedem

diligenter notato.

In K et y, quoties cum diphthongis aut vocalibus sonos 1

aut e referentibus consonantur, quoniam a doctis etiamnum

in usu variantur, aliis densiorem, aliis tenuiorem sonum af-

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fingentlbus, utrlusque pronuntiationis modum discito: ne

aut horum aut illorum aures ofFendas ; neve de sonis litem

inutiliter excites. Cffiterum, qui in his sonus a pluribus re-

ceptus est, ilium frequentato.

B literam ad exemplum nostri B, ne inspissate, sed ad

imitationem V consonantis mollius proferto.

Literas tt et t, item y et x, pro loco et situ alios atque

alios sonos admittere memento. Itaque t et tt, tum demum

/3, quum proxime locantur, liaec post ju., ilia post v, his locis

videlicet Utera t referat nostrum D, tt vero B nostrum ex-

primat.
Litera porro y cum proxima sedem occupet ante x, ;^, aut

ahud y, huic tu non suvnn, sed sonum v literae accommodato,

X autem post y positae sonum y affingito.
Ne multa. In sonis omnino ne philosophator, sed utitor

prsesentibus. In hiis siquid emendandum sit, id omne au-

thoritati permittito. Pubhce vero profiterl quod ab auctori-

tate sancita diversum, et consuetudine loquendi recepta ali-

enum sit, nefas esto.
Quod hie exprimitur, id consuetudini consentaneum du-

cito, hactenusque pareto.

Siquis autem, quod abominor, secus fecerit, et de sonis

(re sane, si ipsam spectes, levicula, si contentionis inde natffi

indignitatem, non ferenda) controversiam publice moverit,

aut obstinato animi proposito receptum a plerisque sono-

rum modum abrogare aut improbare perrexerit; quive

ooysciens prudens ad hoc data opera, quod hie sancitum est,

verbo factove pviblico, palam contempserit, hunc hominem,

quisquis is erit, ineptum omnes habento ; et a senatu, siqui-

dem ex eo numero jam fuerit, is qui auctoritati praeest, nisi

resipuerit, expellito. Inter candidates vero si sit, ab omni

gradu honoris arceto. Ex plebe autem Scholarium si fuerit,

quum ita haberi id ei commodo esse possit, pro Scholari ne

censeto. Puerilem denique temeritatem, siquid publice ansa

fuerit, domi apud suos castigari curato.

Postremo, Vicecancellarius et Procuratores, quae hie prae-

scripta sunt, ne contemnantur, neve edicto fraus aliqua fiat,

pro modo jurisdictionis singuli providento.

RECORDS AND ORIGINALS. 481

Ab his siquid adversum haec admissum sit, aut oniissum,

mulcta est quani dixerit Cancellaiius.

In summa, hoc edictum omnes sacrosanctum ita habento,

lit nee contumacibus remissum, nee resipisccntil)us scveruni,

esse videatur. Datum Londini 18 calend. Junias, anno

Domini 1542.

Number CXVII.

Stephen, Lord Bishop of Winchester, and Chancellor of the

University of Cambridge, to Dr. Edmunds, his Vice-

Chancellor ; reproving the Universitifs neglect in ob-

serving Lent, and requiring the observation of the order

Jhr pronounehig Greel'.

MR. VICE-CHANCELLOR. After my risht hearty cc.cc.

• Liljrarv
commendations; Yee shal understand I have been adver-Miscei.

tised, how divers of tlie Regents of that LTniversity, who^'*"^''''-

should rule, and be good examples to others, have the Lent

last past very dissolutely used themselves in eating of flesh.

Which fault how it hath been punished here, I am sure, ye

liave heard. Wherein I have been noted a great advancer

and setter forth of that punishment. Which rumor albeit

it be not true, and that indeed the Kings Majesty himself,

with the advise of the rest of his Councel, did earnestly pro-

secute, as the effect hath shewed in some that misorder;

yet nevertheles, because the fault is greater in Scholars than

in others, and especially called to the state of Regents, I

cannot quietly pass over and neglect this information, hav-

ing so apparant and manifest truth, as it hath been brought

to light sundry wayes, as this bearer can inform you. Unto

whom, I pray you, give credence therin. AVherfore, I pray

you, travail with me for reformation. Whicli I would have

so used as the matter might be punished without increase

of the slander, which might do hurt to the whole University.

And therfore I have devised and thought good, that ye

should secretly speak with such as be noted faulty, and in-

duceing them to confess their fault, and pay some fine, by

your discretion, to be taxed to the use of the University :

so to dismiss them without further publishing of their

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names. Wherin I would ye used such temperance, as tlie

paine were not contemned, ne the party grieved aboue his

328astate. But I wil have it in any Avise punished: for I wil

not suffer the University with these dissolute manners to be

corrupt. Londs have not been given, ne lectures founded

for any such evil purpose. If the offenders wil have pity of

themselves and their own fame, and so privily and secretly

with you submit themselves to punishment, I wil gladly

bear with them. But otherwise this charitable way not re-

garded, I wil procede to an open inquisition, and note the

fault where I find it. I am not desirous to know their names,

but onely to understand from you, that by payment of the

taxation the matter is punished. Wherof, I pray you, cer-

tify me as shortly as ye shal have done any thing in it.

The last year, by consent of the whole TTniversity, I

made an order concerning pronunciation of the Greek tongue,

appointing paines to the transgressors, and finally to the

Vice-Chancellor, if he saw them not executed. AVherin, I

pray you, be persuaded, that I wil not be deluded and con-

temned. I did it seriously, and I wil maintain it. If you

se the transgressors punished, I have cause to be contented :

but otherwise I intend in you, and the Proctors persons, to

use mine authority, given me by the University : wherunto

I trust yee wil not enforce me. To be Chancellor of the

University is onely honor, which by contempt is taken away.

And I wil beware to give any man cause to contemn me.

What information I have, I wil not write : but by that I shal

see henceforth, 1 wil believe that is past. How necessary it

is to bridle the arrogance of youth, the experience of your

years hath, I doubt not, taught you. And it would much

grieve me privately to have any variance with you, with

whom I have had so old acquaintance. Which cannot be,

if ye suffer them not by toleration to hope more of you,

then ye would avow they should.

The Kings Majesty hath, by the inspiration of the Holy

Ghost, componed al matters of religion : which uniformity

I pray God it may in that, and al other things, extend

unto us : and foi'geting al that is past, go forth in agree-

ment, as tho there had been no such matter. But I wil

RECORDS AND ORIGINALS. 483

withstand fancies even in pronunciation, and fight with the

enemies of quiet at the first entry. Wherfore I pray you,

Master Vice-Chancellor, look earnestly on these matters, and

give me cause, by your industry, to rejoyce in the Univer-

sity : and onely to care for acquieting our matters with the

town. Wherin, I trust, ye shal have good speed by the

grace of God : who send you hartily wel to fare. At the

Court, 15 May. Anno 1543.

Your assured loving friend,
Ste. Winton.

m
Number CXVIII. 329

John LelancCs new-year's gift to King Henry ^ in the thirty-

fifth year of' his ixign.

WHERAS it pleased your Highncs, upon very just con- Ex Baiaeo.

siderations, to encourage me, by the auctorite of your most

gracyous commyssion in the xxxv. year of your most pros-

perous reygn, to peruse and dylygentlie to search al the ly-

braries of monasteryes and collegyes of thys your noble

realm ; to the entent that the monuments of auncyent writ-

ers, as wel of other nacyons as of your own provynce,

myght be brought out of deadlie darkness to lyvelie lyght,

and to receyve lyke thanks of their posteritie, as they hoped

for at such tyme, as they employed theyr long and great

studyes to the publyque wealth : yea, and furthermore, that

the holy Scripture of God myght be syncerely taught and

learned, al maner of superstycyon and crafty-coloured doc-

tryne of a rowt of Romayne Bysshopps, totally expelled out

of this your most Catholyque realme : I think it now no less

than my very dewtie, brevely to declare to your Majestic,

what frute have spronge of my laborious journey and costy

enterprise, both rooted upon your infynyte goodness and

lyberalyte, quaUties ryght hyghly to be estemed in al

prynces, and most specyally in yow, as naturally your own

wel known proprietes.
First, I have conserved many good authors, the which

otherwise had bene lyke to have peryshed, to no smal in-

"lis'

484 APPENDIX OF

commodite of good letters. Of the which, part remayne in

the most magnificent lybraryes of your royal palaces : part

also remayne in my custodie. Wherby I trust ryght shortly

so to describe your most noble realm, and to publysh the

majestie of the excellent acts of your progenitours, hytherto

sore obscured, both for lack of empryntyng of such works

as lay secretly in corners ; as also because men of eloquence

hath not enterprised to set them fourth in a floryshing style,

in some tymes past not commenly used in England of wryt-

ers, otherwyse wel-learned : and now in such estymacyon,

that except truth be delycately clothed in purpure, her

wrytten verytees can scant fynd a reader. That al the world

shal evydently perceyve, that no particular region may

justely be more extolled than yours, for true nobylyte and

vertues at al poynts renoumed.
Farthermore, part of the exemplaries curyously sought

by me, and fortunately found in sondry places of this your

domynion, hath bene emprynted in Germany, and now be

in the presses chefely of Frobenius: that not alonely the

Germans, but also the Italians themself, that count, as the

Grekes did ful arrogantly, al other nacyons to be barbarous

and unlettered, saving their own, shal have a direct occasyon

openly of force to say, that Britannia prima fuit parens^

altrix, addo hoc etiam, etjure quidem optimo, conservatrix^

cum virorum magnorum, turn maxime ingeniorum, : that is,

Britain was the first mother^ nurse, and I adde (and that de-

servedly) maintainer, as of great men, so of great wits

especially.

330 And that profyt hath rysen by the aforesaid journey, in

hrynging ful many thyngs to light, as concernyng the usurp-

ed autoryte of the Bysshop of Rome and hys complyces,

to the manyfest and vyolent derogacyon of kyngly dyg-

nyte, I referre my self most humbly to your most prudent,

lerned, and hygh judgment, to dyscerne my dylygence in the

long volume, wherin I have made answer for the defence of

your supreme dygnyte, alonely leanyng to the strong pillar

of holy Scrypture, agaynst the whole college of Romanysts,

flokyng their crafty assercyons and arguments undre the

RECORDS AND ORIGINALS. 485

name of one poor Pighius of Ultraject in Germany : and

standyng to them as to their only ankerhold agaynst tem-

pests that they know wyl aryse, yf truth may be by lycence

let in, to have a voyce in the general council.

Yet herein only I have not pytched the supreme work of

my labour, wherunto your Grace, most lyke a kyngly patron