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death, ward, in his Journal, thought it not unworthy to make a
Journal. . n ^ i • I , i i • • ^ n
memorial of this good man s death ; writing thereupon alter

this tenor : " Feb. 28, the learned man Bucerus died at

" Cambridge, who was two days after buried in St. Mary's

" church at Cambridge, all the whole University, with

" the whole town, bringing him to the grave, to the num-

" ber of three thousand persons. Also there was an oration

" of Mr. Haddon made very elegantly at his death ; and a

" sermon of [Dr. Parker.] After that, Mr. Redman made

" a third sermon. Which three sermons made the people

" wonderfully to lament his death. Last of all, all the

" learned men of the University made their epitaphs in his

" praise, laying them on his grave."" AVhat time King Ed-

ward assigned for the day of Bucer's death, we saw above ;

but according to Sleidan, he died the last day of February

save one ; and according to Nicolas Car, in his letter from

Cambridge to Sir John Chckc, on the calends of March.

One James Bucer was minister of a Dutch church at CHAP.

Sandwich, about the beginning of Queen Ehzabetli, in the ^^^X-

year 1562. But whether he were a son of Martin Bucer I Anno 1550.

cannot affirm. '^'^"^^s Bu-
For the supply of Bucer's room in Cambridge, to read Meiancthon

sound divinity there, the King; sent a Latin letter to the ^^"^ ^^'"•

/ 1 -i- Council's
great learned German, Phihp Meiancthon, to come over Warrant

into England; certifying him, that his Majesty had elected ^^**^*

him in Bucer^s place in that University. But this letter

was not writ till the month of May, in the year 1553. And

probably Meiancthon might have come over, had not the

King's death prevented.

The summer before his death, July S2, being St. Mary Bucer vi-

Magdalen's day, upon Martyr's invitation, Bucer came to ^1)^^^ j^' ^^^'^"

Oxford with John Bradford and some others, to see that^xon.

University and his dear friend and fellow professor. Where,

before he departed, he read a lecture in Christ Church,

upon that text, Sanctifica eos^ O Pater, in veritate, &c.

Though Bucer were well esteemed and highly valued by

some of the best members of the University where he pro-

fessed, yet, as his colleague at Oxon, he underwent much 245

slander and disesteem from the general sort, addicted to

asperse sobriety and godhness. Whereof to give an in- Defamed

stance, the two hopeful sons of Katharin, Duchess of Suf-':^"j| 'j^^''j|?*

folk, being admitted students at Cambridge, and she, as it p. 260.

seems, for their sakes, some time sojourning there, had,

among other her kindnesses, sent Bucer a cow and a calf

towards the maintenance of his family. It happened that he

walked out one day, for his recreation, into the fields to see

them : upon this his enemies reported of him, that he was

taught by a cow and a calf what he should read in the

schools, as though they were some magic spirits that as-

sisted him. Which coming at length to the good man's ears,

he said in a joke, without any passion, " Behold ! these are

" my masters, whence I have learned what I teach others :

" and yet they can neither speak Latin nor Greek, Hebrew

" nor German, nor talk with me in any other language."

To which I will add one defamation more, and that as im-

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BOOK pudent as uncharitable: the author, one Pontac, of Bur-

^' dois, having the face to publish it in print, in a book set

Anno 1550. out not loug after Bucer^s death; that Bucer upon his

deathbed said, " That Jesus Christ was not the promised

" Messias, but that we were to look for another.""* Suffi-

ciently confuted, not only by the long course of his pious

life, but also by those many persons that were with him in

his last sickness, and testified of the devout and holy end

which he made.

His ene- Among his enemies, and those that opposed him in the

Hirfriends. University, were Dr. Redman and Dr. Yong. Among his

friends there, were Dr. Parker, Dr. Haddon. Among those

that consorted to him were Bradford the holy martyr, and

Roger Ascham, that fine wit; one whom, for his great

Lih- i. parts and ingenuity, he loved much. Whose frequent dis-

^"^ * courses with him (as he told his friend Sturmius of Argen-

tine) were fresh in his memory : which were sometimes

about the state and motions of religion and of the common-

wealth ; sometimes concerning the right course and method

of learning, and such like. For Bucer was very useful in

promoting learning and religion at home, as well as in the

schools ; communicative in excellent discourses to as many

as repaired to him, as friends or learners. The foremen-

tioned Ascham and he had much discourse together con-

cerning that learned man of Argentine, Jo. Sturmius, and

of putting him upon reading on Aristotle, by their joint let-

ters. The good Duchess of Suffolk must be remembered

with honour, who, knowing his worth, cherished him in his

sickness by night and by day ; of whom she had a tender

care, and endeavoured his cure and recovery, if possible.

Haddon's So wisc and useful was the conversation of him and his
him and fellow, the King's Professor of Oxford, that a man in those

Martyr. days, of great fame for learning and virtue, who was ac-

Osorius, quainted with them both, called them " that golden couple

o- 29. . u Qf fathers, and confessed, that he received an inestimable

" benefit of God, that he did once hear, see, and know

" those notable fathers ; esteeming more, one day's confe-

" rence with them, than all the vainglorious pomp of Oso-

OF KING KDWAKU VI. J3»5

" rius, a Portugal Bishop, [who had spoken contemptibly of CHAP.

«« them,] and that those two worthy personages did as much ^^^

" surmount him in wisdom and learning,'' &c. Anno isso.
We heard before of Anabaptists and such like sectaries, A commis-
^ . 11 ^^^^^ against
that shewed themselves in Kent and Essex ; msomuch that Anabap-

the ecclesiastical courts were fain to take notice of them.t^^^^-

But that cognisance, it seems, sufficed not : for in January 24 6

a special commission was issued forth against them from the

King, to one and thirty persons, viz. to Tliomas Archbishop

of Canterbury, the Bishops of Ely, London, Lincoln, Nor-

wich, and Rochester, Nic. Wotton Dean of Canterbury,

Will. Petre, Will. Cecil, Richard Cocks, Anthony Coke,

James Hales, Tho. Smith, John Cheke, Will. May, John

Taylor, Simon Haynes, Gryffith Leyson, John Redman,

Hugh Latimer, Giles Eire, Matt. Parker, Miles Coverdale,

John Oliver, Richard Liel, Roland Taylor, Christopher

Nevynson, Richard Goodrick, John Gosnold, Richard

Wilks, Henry Sidal, and Nic. Bullingham ; or to any three

of them : whereof the Archbishop, the Bishops of Ely,

Norwich, and Rochester, Nic. Wotton, Petre, Cecyl, Cox,

Hales, and May, to be one. These were authorized to cor-

rect and punish all Anabaptists, and such as did not duly

administer the sacraments according to the Book of Com-

mon Prayer set forth by the King's Majesty.^

CHAP. XXX.

Cecyl becomes Secretary. Gentlemen of the King's privy

chamber. Sir Thomas Wroth. The Earl of Arimdel.

Bullinger^s counsels to the King. Hoper and A Lasco.

Ridley made Bishop of London. Visits his diocese.

Gives orders. Ponet made Bishop of Rochester.
And now to turn our eyes a little to the King. He be-

ing now at Otelands, Dr. Wotton, the present Secretary, a cecyi mad<

man much employed abroad in embassies, was released of ^^^''J^^^^T*

his place, and September 5, Wilham Cecyl, Esq. was sworn Book.

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BOOK Secretary in his stead, though he seemed to have officiated

in that place a year before, according to a diary of his own.

Anno 1550. wherein he writ, that in the month of September, 3 Ed-

ward VI. he was chosen into the -office of Secretary. And

in October following he had the grant of lOOZ per ann. dur-

ing pleasure, out of the Augmentation Office, as his salary.
His cha- This man deserves to stand upon record, as meriting highly

of this Church, I may say, above any one person about

King Edward or Queen Elizabeth, and taking vast pains

in settling it in that good constitution wherein it stands.

He was a man of great wisdom and sincere religion and in-

tegrity, and endued with abundance of admirable qualities,

both as a statesman and a Christian ; and was the very basis,

under God, of Queen Elizabeth's government, and worthily

esteemed among all men, in those days, the very Nestor of

his age. But all this hath of late been swallowed up and

247 clearly forgotten, because of one act of his, which is wont,

by some, to be laid to his charge, viz. of getting the hundred

of Nassaburgh, with the appurtenances, from the bishopric

of Peterburgh : and the observator upon Cranmer''s Memo-

rials is among this number, who falls very foul upon him,

saying, that " he tore away from that bishopric the far bet-

*' ter part of the revenue thereof, and that he got a Bishop

" removed that he might compass it.'** Which he had from

Heylin, a too hasty and passionate writer. This is not a

place to inquire into the truth of this accusation, which,

for my part, I doubt of: but I must needs say, it is very

ungratefully done of the age, especially of the Clergy, to set

this great and good man in so bad a light, to blacken his

memory as they do, and to forget so many and so great

good turns, for one supposed ill one.
A new Mas- As there was now a new Secretary, so there was, a little
Rolls. after, a new Master of the Rolls. For in December the

office of Master of the Rolls was granted to John Beaumont,

Esq. for life, with all fees and profits thereunto belonging,

in as large and ample manner as Sir Robert Southwel lately

had it. But how he managed this place for his own advan-

tage, we shall hear hereafter.

OF KING EDWARD VI. 387

The King had divers sober and learned men about him, CHAP.

gentlemen of his privy chamber, in whose wise and learned ^^ '

conversation he was much delighted, and as much profited. Anno 1550.

For 0-reat care was taken by his uncle, the Duke, to have ^ *^^ king's

o J ¦> ¦' iHvour lor
only such about his person. And for these, as a grateful sir Thomas

master, he had a great kindness, and expressed it in royal

bounty to them. And M^hosoever of these was in greatest

favour with him, surely Sir Thomas Wroth, a gentleman of

the west, was one of those that received the largest share

of benefits from him : for he not only knighted him, but

heaped great wealth, honours, offices, and possessions on

him. Whereof these were some :

In the fourdi year of his reion, of his special grace, and Grants to

in consideration of service, he granted hmi the reversion ot Book of

the office of keeper of his manor of Elsing in Endefeld in ^^^^^•

the county of Middlesex, and the office of steward and bailiff

of the manors of Elsing and Worcester, and of the manor

of Edelmeton, and of keeper of the new park in Enfeld,

after the death or surrender of John Earl of Warwick.

The value of which offices were five marks and sixty shil-

lings per annum, and eight pence per diem. The patent

dated March 10.

April 9. following, for the like consideration, the King

granted him the manors of North-hall, Down-Barnes, and

Hamsted, with their appurtenances, rights, and members, in

the county of Middlesex, parcel of the possessions of the

late bishopric of Westminster. The value whereof yearly

amounted to Q>hl. 15^. ob.

July 24. following, for the like consideration, the King

granted him the lordship and manor of Bardfield, and the

town of Bardfield in Essex, and the manors of Chigwel and

West-Hatch, with the appurtenances in the same county.

Value yearly 77/. 15^. 4d rent reserved, IIZ. ^s. Sd.
December 29- following, a patent, dated at Greenwich, g'^^^^.^Jj^?J

was granted to Sir Thomas Wroth of the privy chamber, j^ej^. Book.

of the manors of Lidiard in Somersetshire and Theydon Warr.Book.

Boyce, and the scite and demean lands of Berden in Essex,

with the appurtenances ; the scite and demean of Abendon,
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BOOK and other lands: to have to him and his heirs, in respect of

^* an annuity of an hundred mark already cancelled: which

Anno 1550. lands were of the yearly value of 84Z. 8s. 11 ob. q.

248 In the fifth of the King he had an annuity of 100/.

granted him out of the bishopric of Winchester.

Warr.Book. In June, the sixth of the King, he had the office of

keeping the chief house and messuage of Sion, and the of-

fice of steward and bailiff of the manor of Istleworth in the

county of Middlesex ; and all other lands, tenements, and

hereditaments in Istleworth, Twickenham, Heston, Whitton,

Sutton, Brainford, &c. in the same county, for life ; with all

profits, and a fee for keeping of the house of Sion,8e;c. [which

house and lands belonged before to the Duke of Somerset.]

In September after, he granted the same Sir Thomas the

rich furniture and bedding of the same house, which had

been the said Duke's.
Besides which, in the third of the King, he granted him

the rectory of Mytton in Yorkshire, with all tlie rights and

appurtenances in the said county and in the county of Lan-

caster, and five messuages in London, during the life of

Bartholomew Burgoyn, clerk.
The Lord Rich and Sir Thomas Wroth were joint pa-

tentees for an office in Waltham forest, (it was, I suppose,

that of lieutenant of the forest,) for the term of their lives.

The Lord Rich, (Wroth being fled abroad,) under Queen

Mary, surrendered his patent in the Chancery, and there it

was cancelled. And upon this a new patent was granted of

the Queen to Sir Edward Waldgrave, one of her Privy

Council. But when Wroth returned, under Queen Eliza-

beth, he sued for the said office, alleging, that he had never

surrendered his patent. And so, I suppose, he had it

again ; as his son Sir Robert enjoyed it after him.
Sir Thomas Wroth had also of the King the manor of

Ewing in the county of Hertford, and the manor of New-

ton in the county of Somerset.
The King sometimes would exercise and play with him :

and once he won of the King ten yards of black velvet, which

he received, by order, from the King"*s wardrobe.

This gentleman was an exile under Queen Mary, with CHAP,

his family, but returned into England after her death,

and was in great favour with Queen Ehzabeth, and lived Anno 1550.

many years in singular reputation in Enfield, augmenting J^^^"

his estate, and serving his country long in the quality of a

member of Parliament. He had issue, Robert, (who was

knighted,) Richard, Thomas, Gersom, and John, whereof

Gersom was born in exile, on which account he had his

name ; and by a private act, in one of Queen Elizabeth^s

first Parliaments, he was made a free denizen. Sir Robert

kept up the state of the family, and enlarged his posses-

sions by the purchase of Lucton, or Loughton, in Essex,

an estate belonging to the duchy of Lancaster, whereof his

father-in-law had a long lease before. He bought also of

the Queen divers other leases of lands thereabouts, that for-

merly belonged to the abbey of Waltham. I meet with

John Wroth, Esq. of this family I doubt not, who obtained

a pardon of King Richard III. with a clause in the same of

fines, amercements, and other debts and accounts by him

due. For that he was escheator in the counties of So-

merset and Dorset. The name and family still continues

in Essex, but the estate greatly diminished ; the uncertain

lot of all secular things. Pardon, reader, this digression, (249)

which my neighbourhood to that seat, and knowledge of

that family, drew from me.

I subjoin the mention here of another courtier, of greater A debt of

quality than Wroth, I mean Henry Earl of Arundel, a per- Arundli "*

son of ancient nobility, and lately Lord Chamberlain. The pardoned,

last year he was fined 12,000Z. for misdemeanours. And now

again this year I find another for the payment of 1000/. to

the treasurer of the Augmentations. And a debt owing to

the King lay upon him, viz. 8,800Z. taxed and cessed upon

him for a full recompence of certain contempts by him

against the law made and committed. For which he had

given eight several recognisances, remaining in the Court

of Chancery, whereby he stood bound to the King. What

these contempts were, I know not. King Edward in his

Journal calls them, certain faults ; and wjitcs, that he had
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I.
Aauo 1550

Endeavours

to restore

the Duke

to his pro-

tectorship.

Bullinger

dedicates

a book to

the King.

committed them within twelve years. So it seems he was

, now called to account for twelve years past ; which w as

somewhat hard, and a sign he had enemies at Court. But

he received the favour to have a clear discharge from this

debt. For in January a warrant was sent to the Lord

Rich, Lord Chancellor, to cancel every of the said recogni-

sances and the enrolments of them ; so that the said Earl,

his heirs, executors, &c. may be thereby discharged. The

Court was minded not to lose this nobleman. But yet it

seems he could not long hold in, an heartburning being be-

tween some of the Court and him : for in the next year I find

this Earl, with the Earl of Southampton, wholly discharged

the Council-Board, and commanded to keep his house. And

the year after that, he was fain to pronounce a solemn sub-

mission before the King, as we relate in due place.

The Parliament, that had been sitting from the 4th of

November, broke up the first of February. The Duke of

Somerset, notwithstanding his enemies among the nobility,

remained still favoured by the Commons. And some, as it

seems, in the lower house were consulting among them-

selves for his restoration to the office of Protector of the

King's person, which was taken away from him in his late

troubles ; but seemed to be prevented by the breaking up

of the session. Yet they intended the next session to set

about it. In the mean time the Lords were to be prepared :

and Whaley particularly, the receiver for Yorkshire, en-

deavoured to persuade divers noblemen to make the Duke

Protector the next Parliament. For which Whaley was

brought into trouble in February. And the Earl of Rut-

land was one that was witness against him.
In March (whether that were in the latter end of the

year 1549, or the beginning of 1550, I know not) Henry

Bullinger, the chief minister of Zurich, (a wise man, and of

great esteem in the Protestant Churches,) dedicated, in a

long epistle to King Edward, his third, and part of his

fourth Dccad ; being many learned discourses upon the chief

heads of religion : invited, I suppose, by some in England,

for the young King''s benefit, so to do ; that King having

Ur JV11"MVT JCjXJ \\ .tXXVXJ * A.

a great reverence in his mind for the foreign learned re- CHAP,

formers. In the entrance of his epistle, being a stranger,

he makes way for his admission and liberty of speech to the Anno isso.

King, by promising to shew him, in a few words, the certain

causes of the happiness or misery of kings and kingdoms.

" Your royal Majesty," as he begins, " would I know ad-

" mit to speech some new guest, that should undertake,

'^ from the judgments of the wisest men, to lay before you, (250)

« in short, what the real causes were of the felicity or infe-

" licity of kings and kingdoms. Your Majesty therefore

" will not, I hope, exclude me from access to you, who do

" surely promise you, clearly and evidently to demonstrate

" the very reasons thereof before you ; that whosoever hears

" me needs not attend with any painful diligence to appre-

" hend me, but bring with him only a benevolent mind.

" For, by God's help, I shall offer it in that manner, that it

" shall not only be perceived by their understanding, but be,

" as it were, seen with their eyes, and felt with their hands.

" And this fetched not from the dubious placits of men,

" but the most certain oracles of the true God.""
Then he suggested to him what those things were which

the wise men of the world agreed in, to be proper to render

a king or a kingdom very happy; namely, " If he were a

" wise king that presided and governed : if he had about

" him for his counsellors many such as were men of pru-

*' dence, stayed in years, faithful, and such as understood

" the affairs of the world : if he had captains that were va-

" lorous, well exercised, and fortunate in war : if he were

" furnished with plenty of all things : if his kingdom were

" on all parts well fortified, and, in a word, his subjects all

" of one mind, loyal, and obedient. These things, he said,

" were rightly and prudently spoken : but that there was

" another singular and most excellent thing omitted, with-

" out which no true prosperity could be obtained or pre-

« served ; and where that was, those other things mentioned

" before would also be." After this manner of preface did

BuUinger heighten the pious King's expectation, which this

learned man satisfied in his following discourse ; directing

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BOOK him straightway to God'*s word. " God,"" said he, " who

^- '' suggests the most wise and absolute counsels more suc-

\nno 1550." cinctly and better than the wisest men, thus pronounceth