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her 5, 1551. Anno 1550. As for Bishop Gardiner, his story is related at length ^/^i^^P Gar- elsewhere. He was dealt very honourably with, having di- matter. vers messas^es sent to him from the Kin^, and divers of his ^'¦*"°^^'''s
suade him. Among the rest, once the Lord Great Master, the Lord Treasurer, the Master of the Horse, and the Se- cretary, brought him certain articles to subscribe, together with the King^s letter : which being omitted in Cranmer\s Memorials, and so expressive of the matters wherein the Bishop gave oifence, I shall here insert from the original :
« EDWARD, " It is not, we think, unknown unto you, with what cle- The King's " mency and favour we, by the advice of our Council, bishop Gar- " caused you to be heard and used, upon those sundry ^'irx^J"-
374 MEMOKIALS ECCLESlASTiCAJL BOOK " sundry times, divers of the noblemen and others of our " Privy Council, and travailing by them with clemency and Anno 1550. u favour to have reduced you to the knowledge of your duty; " yet in all this time have you neither knowledged your " faults, nor made any such submission as might have be- " seemed you, nor yet shewed any appearance either of re- " pentance, or of any good conformity to our godly proceed- " ings. Wherewith albeit we have good cause to be offended, " and might also justly, by the oi'der of our laws, cause " your former doings to be reformed and punished, to the " example of others ; yet for that we would both the world *' and yourself also should know, that we dehght more in " clemency than the strait administration of justice, we " have vouchsafed not only to address unto you these our " letters, but also to send eftsones unto you four of our " Privy Council, Nvith certain articles ; which being by us, " with the advice of our said Council, considered, we think " requisite, for sundry considerations, to be subscribed by " you. And therefore will and command you to subscribe " the said articles, upon pain of incurring such punishment " and penalties as by our laws may be put upon you for " not doing the same. Yeven at our palace of Westminster " the viii. day of July, the fourth year of our reign. " E. Somerset. W. Wiltshire. J. Warwyk. J. Bedford. " W. Northampton. E. Clynton. G. Cobham. W. Paget. " A. Wyngfeld. W. Herbert. Edw. North. W. Petre S." When his case came before the commissioners, he had the liberty of producing favourable witnesses in his behalf. And they were many, and some persons of honour, as the Lord Rich Lord Chancellor, Lord Paget, Sir John Baker, Bishop Tunstal, Bishop Thirleby, John Seaton, D. D. William Meddow, John White, Thomas Watson, clerks, (these four last his chaplains ;) Francis Allen his secretary, James Basset, Jaques Wingfield, his proctors in this pro- cess; William Coppinger, John Davie, Rich. Hampden, Will. Brown, Thomas Growt, Robert Massie, and a great many more, some his chaplains, and others his officers or
OF KING EDWARD VI. 375 servants. Their depositions and testimonies are all set CHAP, down at large in John Fox'*s first edition of his Acts. It may be observed here, that some of the Bishop'^s wit- Anno 1550. nesses were of the Privy Council : but it was at the request, ^'^<^*^"f
was favourably granted by order of Privy Council ; which was to this tenor : " Jan. 19. This day two of the Bishop " of Winchester's servants came to the Council, and desired " certain of them [of the Council] to be sworn upon cer- " tain articles, for witness on his [the Bishop's] behalf. " Whereunto they answered, that upon their honours, and " as they would answer before God, they would witness " truly according to their conscience, and as effectually as " if they were sworn upon a book.*" And when the Lord Rich, Lord Chancellor, on the eighth session, or court-day, was to be deposed, (that I may mention this by the bye,) he declared, that honourable personages, being of dignity and office, (as he was,) were by the laws of the realm privi- leged, not to be sworn in common form as other witnesses : 240 promising nevertheless, upon his truth to God, his allegi- ance to the King, and upon his fidelity, to certify the truth. And the Judges did onerate him upon his truth to God, his allegiance to the King, and his honour and fidelity, to depose the plain and whole truth. And as these checks were given to sectarism and popery A cinnch this year, so countenance was shewn to the true profession ftn",l!ers ^ of the Gospel : one instance whereof follows. Great num- bers of pious foreigners, Dutch, and of other nations, were now in and about London ; many whereof were driven out of their own countries by the popish persecution. These had a place assigned them for their safe assembling themselves to- gether for the public worship of God ; being a large and fair part of the church of the Augustin friary dissolved. And one Johannes a Lasco, a nobleman of Poland, became joim a Las - their first and chief pastor. This man had abandoned his ^^ l''^''"
for the freer acknowledgment of the Gospel ; but not with- out the Polish King's good leave, to whom he was well
376 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL BOOK known and beloved. For so a foreign good historian teaches us : A Lasco left Poland, sciente et permittente rege ; cut Anno 1550. jjropter ingenii dexter itatein cliarus erat, et qui in arduis Hilf Sacra- ^^^^^^^^-^ ^^^"^ Opera non semel usus est ; that is, " by the mentar. " knowledge and permission of the King, to whom, for his " excellent parts, he was dear, and who did more than once " make use of him in his difficult affairs.'" rhe patent. The date of King Edward^s grant of this church to these strangers, and the particular place where, is ascertained from that King'*s Book of Sales, being set down in these words ; " The King, de speciali gratia, of his especial " grace, granted the superintendent and ministers of the " church of the Germans and other strangers, totnm illud *•' te^nyl. sive ecclesiam nuper J'ratrum Augustinens. in civi- " tat. Lond. ac totam terram, fundum et solum ejusdem ec- " clesi(£y The test of the patent was July 24. an. 4 Edw. VL \n Older As for A Lasco, he was very vigilant in exercising from the , . , . . . , -^ ^ ,. . ,. , * Council for prcachmg, admmistermg the sacraments, disciphne, and go- ;his church. ygj.j^j^gj^|-^ as being superintendent, and deserved well of this church. And when in the year 155J2. some of them received molestation for not frequenting the parish churches where they dwelt, according as the laws then directed ; and opposition seems to have been made by some busy persons, to hinder the exercise of religion in this church ; A Lasco made his complaint above, where he was much respected, and got this obligation of going to the parish church dis- pensed with, and allowance for them to resort still to their own church. For he obtained this order of Council : " Nov. 4, 1552. Ordered, that the Bishop of London *' should confer with John a Lasco, and between them " devise some good means for appeasing the disquiet lately *' happened in the strangers' church in London, upon exe- " cution of the statute for coming to church. And in the *' mean while, till the matter may be further considered, to *' suffer the said strangers to repair to their accustomed " church, as they were wont to do."*"* L Lasco A Lasco buried his wife anno 1552. And for his con- train, veniency, comfort, and for the better managery of his do- mestic affairs, married again not long after. For he had CHAP, divers young children : one was called Barbara, and an-
other Thomas, (to whom I suspect Archbishop Thomas ^""^ 1550. Cranmer was godfather, and gave him his own name.) Which marriage Peter Martyr, then at Oxon, approved of. For when John Utenhovius, a man of nobility, piety, and 241 learning, and one of the ministers of the Dutch church in London, had by letter advised the said Martyr, lately also become a widower, to take another wife, as A Lasco had done, "the good man thanked him for his counsel, and P* ^^^'¦tyr's " added, that so he would, if he were in A Lasco's case, and thereof. " had children vouno^ and numerous as he had. Wherefore S'^^l'")'';
" as for himself, he had no child, and was grown into years. " And therefore thought it better for him to remain as he " was.'"* As I collect from a private letter of his. This grave nobleman, and servant of God, resided some ^ Lasco time in his youth at Basil in Switzerland ; where he seemed Erasmus at first to have tasted the word of God, and seen the errors and^*^*^* superstitions ordinarily practised in the Church. Here he was, while Erasmus, that great scholar, abode here, by whom he was well known and highly esteemed. And, as a pecu- liar testimony thereof, he made a sale of his library to him in his lifetime, to enjoy after his death, paying such a sum. Which Erasmus forgets not to specify in his last will ; wherein is this clause; '' Bihliothecam quidem 7neam^ &c. i. e. " I have sold my library to M. John a Lasco, a Pole, ac- " cording to a bond made between vis upon this contract. " Yet let not the books be delivered before he pay to my " heir two hundred florins." It was one commendable practice of this church of Strang- Discipline , ,,,.,. 1 • • 1 • exercised ia ers, that good discipline was preserved m it, to bring scan- this church, dalous sinners to open shame, whatever their outward qua- hties or respects were. To this church, at this time, be- longed a scholar and a preacher, named Michael AngeloMicAn- Florio, an Italian; who preached to a congregation of Ita- lians, and had the countenance of the Archbishop and the Secretary ; by both whose means he had an annuity of 20Z.
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N.Bat. for life, payable by the King quarterly. But having been . found guilty of an act of fornication, he underwent the cen- sures of the Church, and was deposed from his ministry. Afterwards enjoined penance, which he performed. But some time after seemed to have been restored again. This was entered into the acts of the church. In the year 1566, I find Grindal, Bishop of London, sent unto Cousin and Wing, the Dutch preachers, that they would transcribe out of the said acts or register, a short account, what was done with this Italian for his scandalous sin in deflouring a maid, and the form of the public penance enjoined to and per- formed by him. But after search, this book was not to be found then among them. And the ministers abovesaid con- jectured, that Martin Micronius had carried it along with him to Embden, when that church was broken up upon Queen Mary''s access to the crown.
mersetshire be unmentioned, with Valerandus Pollanus, their preacher and superintendent. These consisted chiefly of weavers of worsted. The good Duke of Somerset, to whom that dissolved abbey was granted, settled them there by indenture between him and them, with a promise to lend them money to buy wool and necessaries, to carry on their manufactures, and allotted them rooms for their dwelling, and ascertained certain proportions of land for feeding of their cows ; and lastly, appointed one Henry Cornish to be their chief overseer, to take care of them, and to see them provided with all things needful for them and their trades. But upon the disgrace and misfortunes of the Duke, these honest men's industry was at a stand for a time, till some farther encouragement came to them from the Privy Coun- cil ; as we shall hear by and by. This church, seated at Glastenbury, came from Stras- burgh, flying thence by reason of the iiiterim. Pollanus had come to this church eight years before. In February 1550, being in London, there he set forth in Latin the li- turgy of these strangers, which they used in their religious worship at Strasburgh : that so exposing, as I suppose, their ur rviiMjT shuw j\nu vi. ?)7y worship to public view, they might the easier be admitted CHAP. in England to the free exercise of it. The epistle dedica- ^^^^- tory was to King Edward, dated Feb. 19, 1551, that is. Anno 1550. according to the computation of the Church of England, 1550. Herein he wrote, " that he thought it worth his '^' pains to put into Latin the rites and manners (never suf- " ficiently commended) used by the strangers'" church at " Argentine, exiles for the Gospel of Christ : being in- " duced to it as a point of duty, understanding how this *' good church had been slandered by some for changing " their religion ; by others, for the licentiousness of their " manners. He also mentioned aphorisms of their disci- '' pline, which he intended ere long to publish : and gives " this high character of the said church, that there was " none purer, or that came nearer to that which was in the " Apostles' times."" This liturgy is short. It was printed in October, and bare this title : Liturgia Sacra^ seu Ritus Mi- nisterii in Ecclesia Peregrinomm Prqfugoriim propter Evangelium Christie Argefitine 1551. Cum Apologia pro hac Liturgia. Per Valerandum Pollanum Flandrum. And because some more particular account of this fo- The parti- reign liturgy may, perhaps, not be unacceptable to some, IfJJ^'^ct^^ shall here set it down. burgh li-
Then the first table of the Decalogue is sung in rhyme. Then the pastor, standing at the table, turning to the people, thus begins. Our help is in the name of the Lord, &c. A short exhortation to confess their sins. A confession. [The sentence, the exhortation, and confession are the same which are at this day used in the French congregations, and prescribed in their liturgy. But therein is nothing of this that follows.] Then the pastor rehearseth to the peo- ple some sentence out of the Scripture of the remission of sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, the people either kneeling or stand- ing all this while. Then the Gospel is read. Then the ab- solution is again repeated. Then the rest of the Decalogue is sung. Then the pastor exhorteth them to pray. Then
^80 MEMUlilAl^S Jh:(JCl.±:SlA!5TiCAi. BOOK follows a very short prayer, like one of our collects, that ' God would give them grace to keep the commandments. Anno 1550. xhen the same collect is sung. And the pastor goes up into the pulpit ; where he first prays, and then preaches upon the New Testament, beginning some one book of it, and going on till he hath ended the whole book in several sermons. Then a prayer. Then banns of marriage are published, baptism celebrated, the sick particularly prayed for, alms collected by the deacons. Then comes a long prayer, the same with that prescribed in the French form, for the whole church, after sermon. Then the Apostles'* Creed. Then, when there is a communion, the pastor first 243 rehearseth the institution of that sacrament out of 1 Cor. xi. Then he subjoins an excommunication of all idolaters, blas- phemers, heretics, schismatics, perjured, seditious, conten- tious, disobedient to parents, whoremongers, thieves, covet- ous, &c. and forbids any such to partake of the said Sup- per. Then he makes an exhortation concerning the Lord's Supper. Then he communicates in both kinds himself; next the deacon in both kinds ; then all the men first, and after them all the women, approach reverently to the table : where the pastor, at one end of the table, gives to every one of them the bread one by one ; and the deacon, at the other end of the table, gives them the wine: a psalm of praise being sung all the while by the people. The pastor in giving the bread to every one says, The bread which we break is the communion of the body of Christ. The deacon in giving the cup, says to every one. The cup zvhich we bless is the communion of the blood of Christ. Then follows the same thanksgiving and benediction which is at this day used by the French protestants. Here ends the morning service.
catechised and instructed in the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments, for an hour.
sermon, a prayer and the benediction. The daily service. Every morning a psalm is sung, a OF KING EDWARD VI. 381 prayer, a sermon, a prayer and benediction in the pul- CHAP, pit.
The service of repentance. Every Tuesday was a day of Anno isso. more solemn devotion, to deprecate God's judgment, and confess their sins, in this form : a psahii, the confession, a sermon, a long prayer, the same as above. The service of baptism is the same which is used by the French, except that the parent and godfathers brought the child. The minister asked them. Will you have this child baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost? They answered, This we desire, &c.
of the sick, the same with the French. The service for ordination of ministers, and ecclesiastical discipline, not much differing from that which the French now use.
bury may be taken up from several orders that issued from the stran- the Privy Council, concerning them, as they were taken outJ^^J*^ of the Council-Book, viz. " Nov. 11, 1551. An order sent bury. " to Valerandus Pollanus, chief and superintendent of theg^^j^*''" " strangers, worstedmakers at Glastenbury, signifying unto " them, that order is taken with Henry Cornish for the " conclusion of such conveniences as were drawn and arti- " culated between the Duke of Somerset and the said com- " pany, willing him and them, for the acceptance of the said " Cornish as their director herein, as they had done here- " tofore. " Ordered also. That Henry Cornish do agree with them '' for divers leases, &c. " Ordered also, The auditor and receiver of the Duke of " Somerset's lands to conclude such articles as were agreed " upon, &c. And to take an account of Henry Cornish, ap- " pointed by the said Duke to be the overseer of the said " strangers, and to advance money for them.
*' Sir Hugh Pawlet, Sir John St. Loo, &c. do consider the " void places and ropms about the monastery of Glasten-
382 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL BOOK " bury, that may be fittest for the placing such strangers ' " there as are not ah'eady provided for : and to put the Anno 1550. u game rooms in such order as the said strangers may inha- " bit in them, as soon as may be, having regard neverthe- " less to the best way of saving charges as they think may " be devised.
" six household strangers at Glastenbury ; and for every " of them so much ground as may keep two kine, as good " cheap as other inhabitants do there commonly pay."" MSS. D. Add to the rest of the favours shewed to these strangers
" Warrant Book. viz. Dece^nb. — cm. 5 Rems ; a free de- " nizenship to Valerandus Pollanus, born under the Em- " peror, with a clause written under the said bill, to make " sixty-nine like letters patents to sixty-nine other persons, " whose names are mentioned therein."' K. Edward's Martin Bucer, that godly confessor and public professor Bucer's ^ of divinity at Cambridge, died in February. King Ed- Yüklə 12,09 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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