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may be concluded, counselled that learned professor to write a comfortable and exhortatory letter to them : which he did in September 1554, with this superscription, Omnibus Anglis, qui Tiguri degunt in sancta societate, dilectis Deo, et mihi in Christo charissimis. The tenor whereof was : p. Martyr's " That when his good brother, Mr. Horn, passed that exiles, stu. 6 " wav > [ VIZ - Strasburgh,] he had much discourse with him dents at « concerning them, his most dear and most desired brethren Epist. " in Christ. That although he was absent in body from riieoi. a t ] le gight f them, yet he was most nearly joined with " them in a living spirit. That from him he heard such THE PREFACE. ix " things of them, as he wished and desired : and which (he " thanked God) exceedingly delighted him. For he re- " lated, how they cherished godliness among them, and in- " creased in it : and that every one of them set himself to " learning and study : and how they strove among them- " selves in an innocent conversation, and in profitable and " honest exercises, with a very commendable emulation. " He therefore blessed God for his goodness, whom it had " pleased so notably to gather such a fruit from so great a " shipwreck. That he was wont so to do; and that it was " the manner of the divine clemency, that from ruins, by a " wonderful counsel, he snatched out some remnants, to the " glory of his name : whereby he restored things over- " thrown, and builded up things gone to decay. " Moreover, this their recess he did wonderfully congra- " tulate, in which he heard they so behaved themselves, " that they not only lived to themselves, but to the edify- " ing of one Christ and his members, [meaning in love and " unity.] That which remained was, that they should fi- " nish what they had begun : because, as they well knew, " to begin excellent things, was wont to excite the expecta- " tions of men : which at length should end in plentiful " and pious thanksgivings ; when such things as were ho- " lily begun, were vigorously concluded. Which, if they " were left imperfect, would begin a just grief to godly " men and their friends ; and besides cause laughter to the " enemies and wicked sort.
" doubted of their perseverance. For concerning that he " promised himself, that he that had begun in them a good " work would carry the same on to the end. And besides, " he saw them endued from God with so great strength " and constancy, that he doubted not their house was not " built upon the sand, but a firm rock : but his intent in " thus addressing to them, was only to applaud them who " ran well ; and to discourse with them of the end, which " he was persuaded they propounded to themselves in this " their enterprise, and which he understood was expected
x THE PREFACE. " of all good men from them. Nor did he think it needed " his pains to praise their holy counsel and pious purpose ; " because the profit was of itself evident.' 1 ''
dies, and shewing the advantage of this retirement for that purpose and end ; with his prayer for them, and begging their prayers for him. Dated from Argentine, (that is, Strasburgh,) the 30th of September, 1554.
nation, being a means of improving them, in this vacation, in good and useful learning ; and hence supplying the Church with pious, learned, and able men. For this sor- rowful scene of misery lasted not long, and ended with that Queen. The exiles returned : religion was restored : the Church furnished with excellent bishops and pastors. And what steps were taken, and holy methods pursued, in set- tling religion under Queen Elizabeth, may be seen partly in the conclusion of the History of the Reformation, by Bishop Burnet; and more at large in the Annals of the Reformation, in the first twelve years of that Queen's reign ; and also in the Life and Acts of Archbishop Parker. Which books may serve for a continuance of these Ecclesiastical Memorials : wherein the account of the affairs of the Church are carried on to a greater length : and whither I betake the reader.
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IN THE ECCLESIASTICAL MEMORIALS OF QUEEN MARY'S REIGN. THE INTRODUCTION. -L HE interregnum under the Lady Jane. She sends Richard Anno 1553. Shelley ambassador to the Emperor. Hers and the Council's letters to the ambassadors there. Addresses of some of the Emperor's court to the ambassadors upon King Edward's death ; and the new succession. The ambassadors repair to the Emperor with the news of the King's death. The Emperor condoles. Shelley returns. Page 3.
to her. Proclaimed. Many taken up, and sent to the Tower. The Queen comes to London. King Edward's funerals. P. 14.
umberland and others arraigned. Mass begun. Occurrences. Popish Bishops restored. Bishop Bonner to London. P. 32.
The Duke of Northumberland and Sir John Gates executed. P 38 CHAP. IV. The cares for the north. A tax remitted. The ordnance of the xii THE CONTENTS Tower. John Lord Dudley's obsequies. The coronation. The Queen's first Parliament. A Convocation. Points defined there. Popish service by proclamation established. P. 46.
bridge, and in Oxford. The Parliament's second session. The return of the popish religion and worship. Bishop Ridley's leases. Ambassadors from the Emperor. The match of the Queen with King Philip. P. 76.
remembrance of Hancock, an eminent preacher, and minister of Pole in Dorsetshire. P. 1 03.
preached before the Queen ; printed. Account of another ser- mon preached before her, to exasperate her against her Pro- testant subjects. P. 113. CHAP. IX.
Wyat's insurrection. The gentlemen pensioners' service. P. 125. CHAP. X. Victory over Wyat. Arraignments and executions of the Lady Jane, the Duke of Suffolk, and divers others. Earl of Devon and Lady Elizabeth sent to the Tower. King Edward's Bi- shops deprived. Voice in the wall. P. 140. CHAP. XI. A further account of Mountain's troubles. The troubles of Dr. Crome. A pious nobleman in prison for religion. P. 155. CHAP. XII. The deprivation of married priests. The injustice and severity OF THE CHAPTERS. xiii thereof. The Romish clergy now in place. Their unclean lives. Their character. P. 1 68* CHAP. XIII. Some new Bishops. A new Parliament. Cranmer, Ridley, Lati- Anno 1554. mer at Oxford : their disputations there. A disputation intended at Cambridge. Divers remarkable matters happening in the months of April and May. Divers trials, executions, proces- sions, punishments. The Queen's progress. P. 180.
Queen pass triumphantly through London. The articles of the marriage. The Queen's present to the Emperor's ambassador.
CHAP. XV. Cardinal Pole coming legate a latere. Dr. Thorneden, suffragan of Dover. Solemn masses. Elizabeth Croft does penance. Ap- prehensions from Scotland. P. 211.
Oxford. P. 216. CHAP. XVII. The professors of the gospel, clergy and laity, under persecution. Their benefactors. Some account of them. P. 221. CHAP. XVIII. The principles of the Protestants as to obedience. The exiles : who they were ; and where they harboured : their writings. Some Protestants recant. Bishop Barlow's recantation. A par- ticular sort of exiles. P. 230. CHAP. XIX.
Cardinal Pole comes in quality of the Pope's legate. Bishop Gardiner, lord chancellor, preaches at Paul's Cross. King Philip appointed governor of the royal issue. Friars in Ireland petition the Cardinal. P. 244.
The King and Queen ride through the city. Dr. Martin's book n,v THE CONTENTS against Priests' marriage. Dr. Standish, Procter, Bush, and Christopherson, bishops, set forth books. P. 262. CHAP. XXI. The misfortunes and lamentable ends of some eminent professors of the gospel ; viz. Sir James Hales, William Ford, Richard Wever, William Thomas, esq. P. 274.
gers, Taylor, Saunders, eminent divines and preachers; mar- tyrs. P- 282. CHAP. XXIII. A further relation of Mountain's troubles. P. 292. CHAP. XXIV. What befell Mountain after his deliverance from prison ; of his great dangers, and of his escape beyond sea. P. 309. CHAP. XXV. Various memorials of things happening in the months of Sep- tember, October, November. P. 315. CHAP. XXVI. Further memorials in the months of December, January, Fe- bruary, and March. P. 325. CHAP. XXVII.
happening in the months of March, April, May, and June. P 338 CHAP. XXVIII. Memorable events happening in the months of July, August, September, October, and November. Some remarks upon Bradford and Latymer, martyrs. P. 355.
revoked. P. 388. OF THE CHAPTERS. xv CHAP. XXXI. The persecution of these times. The exiles : where. Protestants' prayers and letters. Free-willers. The nation involved in per- jury. Neuters. A letter of Bishop Ridley, containing his judg- ment concerning such an one. P. 400. CHAP. XXXII. Prohibition of heretical books. The Spanish match. The revenues of the Church and hospitals spoiled. P. 4 1 7. CHAP. XXXIII. Bishop Ferrar, Cardmaker, canon of Wells, and Philpot, arch- deacon of Winchester, burnt for religion. Divers remarks con- cerning them. Arians. P. 423.
The death of Bishop Gardiner, with some remarks upon him. He and Bishop Bonner bloody. Sir W. Paget and Sir Tho. Wriothesly bred in Gardiner's family. P. 448. CHAP. XXXVI. Memorable notes of things occurring in the Church and State, in the months of December, January, February, and March. Car- dinal Pole made archbishop of Canterbury. P. 468.
CHAP. XXXVIII. Occurrences in the State in the months of April, May, June, and July, briefly noted. A conspiracy. Scotch matters. P. 487. CHAP. XXXIX. Various matters falling out in the months of August, September, October, November, December, January, February, and part of March. The lamentable fall and end of Sir John Cheke. P. 500.
xvi CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS. CHAP. XL. A match intended for the Lady Elizabeth. The Queen writes to King Philip about it. The beginning of the traffick into Russia. A dearth. Ponet's apology. P. 517.
John Knox sent for to Scotland. P. 535. CHAP. XLII. A conspiracy. The Lady Elizabeth's name used therein. Court- ney, Earl of Devon, dies. Proceedings against heretics. P. 545. CHAP. XLIII. Preparations in the north. Matters with Scotland. The Earl of Cumberland complained of. P. 558. CHAP. XLIV. A plot for betraying Guisnes to the French ; managed by Dudley, and other English. Discovered by a spy. French matters. P. 566. CHAP. XLV. Some passages of Shaxton, sometime bishop of Salisbury. Hul- lier, a pious preacher, burnt at Cambridge. An oath to be taken of such as took degrees in Cambridge. P. 570.
therein. Boulton's sufferings. A relation of the taking of Palmer. P. 574.
prisoner for religion. Protestants' confessions of faith. Care taken of the prisoners. Parish priests. Presentations to va- cant churches. P. 586. CHAP. XL VIII.
HISTORICAL MEMORIALS, ECCLESIASTICAL, REVIEW TAKEN OF THE REIGN OF
QUEEN MARY I.
VOL. III. HISTORICAL MEMORIALS, 1 ECCLESIASTICAL, REVIEW TAKEN OF THE REIGN OF
QUEEN MARY I.
THE INTRODUCTION. The interregnum under the Lady Jane. She sends Richard Shelley ambassador to the Emperor. Her^s and the Council's letters to the ambassadors there. Addresses of some of the Emperor \? court to the ambassadors upon the Kings death ; and the new succession. The ambassa- dors repair to the Emperor with the news of King Ed- ward's death. The Emperor condoles. Shelley returns.
have succeeded to the imperial crown of these realms after ^'"j^ ^ad her brother King Edward's death, (which happened on Mary's suc- Thursday, July the 6th, at night,) yet that King's convey- 1 ance thereof to the Lady Jane Grey, wife of the Lord Guilford Duddley, and the obligations of the Privy Coun- sellors, by their oaths and subscriptions, to stand by her, put some days stop thereto ; which our historians relate at large. I shall insert some select matters wherein they are silent, happening in this short reign, or interregnum of Jane, a high-born, virtuous, and learned lady ; happy in
4 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL 1NTROD. all other respects, but most unhappy in this her advance- Anno 1553. ment - 2 The days next following the departure of the King, The popular things appeared propitious to her, and looked towards a sort appear . ° l * > l 1 for her. fair assurance of her quiet succession. For though there were some, in the countries where the Lady Mary was, ap- peared on her side ; yet they were generally of the meaner and popular sort, few of the nobility or gentry joining with them, but rather opposing them : whom, therefore, Jane and her court made no doubt of quelling, by the forces go- ing against them under the conduct of the mighty Duke of Northumberland. The day en- And, to strengthen her interest, as it was supposed, there sums; King l m i t i i i Edward's came to the 1 ower three great Lords the day next ensuing Lord h Admi- tne King's death, that is to say, the Lord Treasurer, the rai made Earl of Shrewsbury, and the Lord Admiral, (in whom, it f°{h e a 6 seem S the Duke of Northumberland reposed a confidence,) Tower. with some others. And there they discharged Sir James Croft of the constableship of the Tower, to whom it had been lately committed, and put in the said Lord Admiral, who had been by mouth before appointed to the said place by King Edward. And he accordingly took the oath, and the charge of the Tower. And the morrow after, he con- veyed into all places of the Tower great guns, and into other convenient places within the Tower : as above upon the White Tower. The officers On the 9th day of July w^re sworn unto Queen Jane, sworn to Q. „ . , .. , . 1 _, , . _ Jane. at Greenwich, all the head officers, and the guard, as Queen of England. On the day following she publicly took upon her the royal state and government of the kingdom : and, in order the Tower to ^^ ma ^e her entrv mto the Tower that day, between four and five of the clock in the afternoon, with a great company of lords and nobles, the Duchess of Suffolk her mother bearing up her train, with many great ladies, and such a volley-shot of guns and chambers, as had rarely been heard before. And by six of the clock she set forth her Proclaimed, proclamation (which is exemplified in the late History of UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 5 the Reformation, by Bishop Burnet) to declare her title to INTROD. the people, and to require their allegiance; and therein it Anno 1553 was asserted, that the Lady Mary was unlawfully begot- Voi.ii. Coi- ten. It was performed by two heralds and a trumpet blow- ing, in Cheapside firsthand then in Fleet-street. Nor did there seem now any opposition to be made, or so much as murmuring against this proclamation ; unless that a young man, a vintner's apprentice, had the boldness to speak cer- tain words of Queen Mary's true right and title ; for which he was immediately taken up, and the next day, at eight of the clock in the morning, set on the pillory, and both his ears cut off, an herald present, and trumpet blowing : and incontinently he was taken down, and carried to the Coun- ter.
Mary, the same 10th day she confirmed the respective !"! e ^ ords Lords Lieutenants in the same authority they were in-nants. vested with before by commission from King Edward. And so I find a letter dated this 10th of July from the Writes to Tower, signed on the top by Jane, the Queen, written to the M: f ir " the Marquis of Northampton, who was Lord Lieutenant Northauip- of Surrey, Northampton, Bedford, and Berks : wherein she °°' intimated, " how the late King, for the security and wealth " of the realm, had established certain ordinances, by virtue 3 " whereof she was entered into the possession of the king- " dom, (which she styled her rightful possession,) as might " more evidently appear, as she added, by the will of her " cousin the late King, and several other instructions to " that effect, signed with his own hand, and sealed with his " great seal in his own presence : whereunto the nobles of " the realm, for the most part, and all the Council and " Judges, with the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Lon- " don, and divers other grave personages, subscribed their " names. She let him understand, therefore, that by the " ordinance and sufferance of the heavenly Lord, and by the " consent and assent of the said nobles, counsellors, and " others, she made her entrance that day into the Tower " as rightful Queen of England ; and she expected that ho
6 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL INTROD. " should, in all things, to the utmost of his power, endea- Anno 1553. " vour to defend her just title, and to assist her in the pos- " session of her kingdom, and to disturb, repel, and resist " the feigned and untrue claim of the Lady Mary, bastard- " daughter to her great uncle King Henry the VIHth : " which she would remember to the benefit of him and his. " And her further pleasure was, to continue him to do and " execute every thing as her lieutenant within all places, " according to the tenor of the commission addressed unto " him from her cousin the late Kino;. Which commission " she intended shortly to renew and confirm under the " great seal." This letter was indited by the Duke of Northumberland, as appears by the minutes thereof, which I have seen under that Duke's own hand. Ammuni- On the 12th of July, by night, came three carts to the from the Tower, and carried thence all manner of ordnance, as great Tower. guns and small, bows, bills, spears, morice-pikes, arms, ar- rows, gunpowder, victuals, many tents, gun-stones, &c. and a great number of men of arms accompanied ; all for the use of the army sent towards Cambridge. And two days after followed the Duke, and divers lords and knights, and many gentlemen and gunners, and many of the guards and men of arms. And with this company he marched to- wards Bury against the Lady Mary : but all proved against himself; for his men forsook him. Two Paul's There were but two Paul's Cross sermons preached dur- Cross ser- . _ , " . ' ' * ' _ mons. in g the JLaay Janes government, lasting but two Lords- days : the former was delivered July 9, by Ridley Bishop of London, by order of the Council. He told his auditory of the danger the nation would have been in, had the Lady Mary succeeded, who was a stiff Papist ; of which himself had former experience, when, being once in his diocese, he had endeavoured to bring her to the knowledge of the Gos- pel. That therefore, were she Queen, it must be expected she would overturn all the religion so happily established under King Edward, and would betray the kingdom to a foreign power. This sermon rose up in judgment against him soon after. The next Sunday, being July 16, was UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 7 supplied by Mr. Rogers, the learned Reader of St. Paul's, INTROD. who was more wary, preaching only upon the Gospel of the Anno 1553- day : but both burnt after, when she got the crown.
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