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Secondly, An act for the election of Bishops, and what seals and styles they and other spiritual persons exercising jurisdiction ecclesiastical should use.
nistration of the sacraments, throughout the realm. Fourthly, An act to take away all positive laws made against the marriage of priests. Fifthly, An act for the abolishing and putting away of divers books and images. Sixthly, An act for the ordering of ecclesiastical minis- ters.
and the administration of the sacraments.
days.
made for the marriage of priests, and for the legitimation of their children. g 2 84 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP. And by this same repealing act it was further enacted, that none should be molested for using heretofore, or until Anno 1553. the 20th of December following, the divine service men- tioned in the said act, nor for the using of the old divine service and administration of the sacraments, in such man- ner as was used in the Church of England before the mak- ing of the said acts. But from and after the 20th of De- cember, no other kind or order of divine service should be used, but what was commonly used in the last year of the reign of King Henry VIII. An act There was another public act now made, for the uniting,
court. f g 00( l husbandry, I suppose; that so a less number of officers managing the Queen's courts, thereby the Queen's 55 expenses might be retrenched. In pursuance of this new act, and according to the power given her, she did, by let- ters patents, dated Jan. 23, in the first of her reign, dissolve the Court of Augmentations : and the next day following, by other letters patents, united the same to the Exchequer ; which was utterly void, because she had dissolved the same before. So as she pursued not her authority, saith my Lord Coke, and so resolved by all the Judges. Dyer, 4 Eliz. 16. The private and unprinted acts made in this session were these :
Private acts. An act for the restitution of Sir Edward Seymour, son of the late Duke of Somerset. An act for the corporation of Martin [Merton] college, Oxon.
Norfolk to be void.
And,
Miles Partridge.
Marquis of Northampton's marriage. By which act of UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 85 King Edward, a divorce from his former wife, and his CHAP, marriage with a second, was confirmed; which now was evacuated. Anno 1553. This Parliament was short-lived : and the reason thereof This Par- was this. The Spanish match was now all the talk; a thing ^" t e "[ ved . most of all abhorred of the people, that a proud insulting and why. Spaniard should come to be King of England : foreseeing the dismal issues thereof. As, that the realm was in danger of becoming tributary to a stranger, and to have the head of the realm put under the girdle of a foreign prince. And withal, they considered the great advantages that would ensue from the Queen's marrying with one of her noblemen. Which things being deeply considered by the Parliament, the house ran unanimously against this marriage ; nay, and some also as were of her Privy Council. And they made an earnest address to her in this behalf. But she was resolved in her mind upon this marriage. And thereupon, for their pains, they were soon dissolved. Concerning this disincli- nation of the Parliament, one who lived in that time, and, very probably, was a member of the same, wrote thus: " Do you remember then [viz. in this Parliament] the mo- Sir Tho. " tion of the Speaker, and the request of the Commons' Smit ^ "J, " house, what they did, and could have moved then ? and mss. " how they all ran one way, like the hounds after the hare, " high and low, knights, and esquires, and burgesses, such " as were of the Privy Council, and others, far and near ? " Whom preferred they, I pray you, then, if they should " have had their wish? The stranger, or the Englishman? " And think you, they did not consider, her Majesty's ho- " nour ?" &c. In this Parliament, I suppose, it was, that when somebody in the house had endeavoured to reconcile the rest to this marriage, by shewing how safe the nation might make itself by bonds and covenants that this prince should enter into with the Queen, a member of the house stood up, and asked this smart question : In case, said he, the bands should be broken between the husband and the wife, either of them being princes in their own country, who shall sue the bands? who shall take the forfeits?
86 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP, who shall be their judges? and what shall be the advan- ' tage ? Which Sir Thomas Smith (from whom I have this Anno 1553. relation) reckoned a shrewd question, and concluded no "Q other answer could be given to it, but this ; " What advan- " tage ? None, but discord, dissension, war, bloodshed, and " either extreme enmity, or else, that one part must at " length break or yield." The people After the overthrow of Northumberland, and this restor- PoiMjry. a tion of Popery by the Parliament, and the imprisonments and frowns that happened to the preachers and professors of true religion, and the apostasy of the rest ; the ordinary people made use of all this as undoubted signs of the good- ness of the Popish religion, and the falseness of that pro- And why. fessed under King Edward. For after this rate the com- mon sort argued and discoursed at this time, as an author Exhortation in those days brought them in speaking: " If this were Cross. " God's word, if this people were God's children, surely " God would then bless and prosper them. But now, in " that there is no doctrine so much hated, no people so " much persecuted as they be, therefore it cannot be of " God. This is of God, which our Queen and old Bishops " have professed. For how hath God prospered and kept " them ! What a notable victory hath God given to her ! " Whereas else it is impossible that things should come to " pass as they have done. And did not that great captain " [the Duke of Northumberland] confess his fault, that he " was out of tl)e way, and not of the faith which these Gos- " pellers profess ? How many are come again from that " which they professed to be God's word ! The most part " of this realm, notwithstanding the diligence of preachers " to persuade them concerning this new learning, which " now is persecuted, never consented to it in heart, as ex- " perience teacheth. And what plagues have come upon " this realm sithence this Gospel, as they call it, came in " among us ! Afore we had plenty, but now there is no- " thing like as was. But to let this pass ; all the houses of " Parliament have overthrown the laws made for the esta- " blishment of the Gospel ; and now laws are erected for
UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 87 " the continuance of that which is contrary, and was had CHAP. " before. All these things do teach plainly, that this doc- " trine is not God's word." Ann ° iw* But that author, who, I believe, was Coverdale, shewed The true what false reasoning this was, to argue from worldly success. this c i )ange . " If they considered," said he, " that there was with us un- " thankfulness, no amendment of life, but all kind of con- " tempt of God, all kind of shameless sinning against the " preaching of the Gospel ; they must needs see that God " could not but chastise and correct. That as he let Satan " loose, after he had bound him a certain time ; so, for " men's unthankfulness, and to punish the same, he had let " those champions of Satan run abroad to plague us by " them. As for the victory given to the Queen's High- " ness, if men had any godly wit, they might see many " things in it. First, that God hath done it to win her " heart with kindness unto the Gospel. And as well be- " cause that they that went against her put their trust in " horses and power of man, and not in God, as because " that in their doctrine [doings] they sought not the propa- " gation of God's Gospel. Which thing is easily now seen " by the confession of that captain [the Duke aforesaid.] " His heart loved Popery, and hated the Gospel. Besides " this, men may easily see he was purposed never to have " furthered the Gospel ; but so to have handled the livings 57 " of ministers, that there should never have been any mi- " nistry in manner hereafter. And what one of the Coun- " sellors, which would have been taken as Gospellers in our " good King's days, declare now, that even they loved the " Gospel ? Therefore, no marvel, why God fought against " them. They were hypocrites, and, under the cloak of the " Gospel, would have debarred the Queen's Highness of " her right. But God would not so cloak them. Now " for the relenting, returning, and recanting of some from " that which they have once professed or preached, alas ! " who would wonder at it? for they never came to the " Gospel, but for commodity and gain's sake ; and now for « -Tc.; n leave it. As for the Parliament, and statutes there- u 4 88 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP. « of, no man of wisdom can think otherwise, but that look v. .
Anno 1553." j} u t it goeth not in those houses by the better part, but " by the bigger part. It is a common saying, and no less " true, Major pars vincit meliorem?'' This was the sense of pious men in those days, in respect of the present change of religion. Popish ser- According to the liberty granted by the foresaid act of Paul's" Parliament, Popish religion began to be exercised every where, according as people stood affected; so it was in Paul's church, London. On St. Katharine's day, after
singing with lights, after the old custom. On St. Andrew's day, they began the procession in Latin, viz. the Bishop, Curates, Parsons, and the whole choir, with the Mayor and divers Aldermen, and the Prebendaries in their grey amices; and so continued three days. And also, Jan. 14, began the procession of the Sundays about the church, with the Mayor and Aldermen in their cloaks; and the preacher taking his benediction in the midst of the church, according to the old custom. And this was intended as a good pattern for the other Scripture churches in London and Southwark to follow. And, among verses wiped -. . •»-iii out of the the other points of the Popish reformation of the churches, waiis CheS ' ^ le verses °f Scripture that were wrote on the walls, for suitable instructions to the people, for their reverent beha- viour when they resorted thither, were appointed to be all washed out and defaced, by the commandment of Gardiner and Bonner. This Bale, after his manner, thus related:
" posts of thine house, &c. Now comes parson Peacock's- " tail, wily Winchester, and Dr. Fig-after, puffed up like " a bladder, and panting like a porklet ; commanding them " to be wiped out of the churches, as things not pertaining " to the same." Bonner ai- p or Bonner, that had been deprived from his see of lows not of r Ridley's London under King Edward, was soon restored again upon leases. tne connn g m f Q ueen Mary ; and Ridley, that took his UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 89 place, turned out; and Bonner enjoyed safely his bishop- CHAP, ric again. This would not serve his turn : but he would ' A lawsuit on.
not allow of any of the leases that Ridley had made while Anno 15J he was Bishop : pretending himself thrust out unjustly, and his deprivation illegal, and therefore null : and so reputing himself, during all the time that Ridley possessed the see, to be lawful Bishop ; and reckoning all the tenants, admit- ted by Ridley into lands of the bishopric, to be intruders ; and so, without any regard to the fines and rents that they had paid, taking them into his hands, and letting them to others. Therefore, in this first year of the Queen, he made a lease of the park and manor of Bushley to Letchmore: 58 which Ridley had granted and leased before to Car. Tbis her ^ begat a notable suit at law, which is set down in Bulstrode , s Reports ; where it is thus reported : That Boner was Bi- shop of London in the time of Henry VIII. and so he con- tinued unto the second of Edward VI. At or about which time, a commission issued out to the then Lord Chancellor and others, to convent Bishop Boner before them, and to examine him : and if they found him to be contumacious, and would not answer them, the commissioners were em- powered then to imprison him, or to deprive him. The commissioners did imprison him, and after, deprived him. Boner from this appealed, and his appeal was not heard. Nicolas Ridley was made Bishop of London ; who makes a lease of the said park and manor of Bushley ; under which lease the defendant claimed. After, primp Marice, Ridley is declared to be an usurper; and Boner, by a sentence definitive, is restored again to the bishopric of London, and makes a lease of the premises demised unto the plain- tiff. But, upon verdict, the points stirred were these : I. Whether the deprivation of Boner was lawful, or not ; the authority by the commission being in the disjunc- tive, sell, to imprison, on to deprive: and it was urged, they first imprisoning of him, had thereby executed their authority : and so then the deprivation was void.
continued Bishop of London : and then Ridley was never 90 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP. Bishop. For that there could not be two Bishops of Lon- ' don, simul et semel. And so the lease made by him to the Anno 1553. defendant was a void lease.
by the appeal ? Whether it did not suspend the sentence of deprivation ? And, if so, then again Ridley was no lawful Bishop. And so the lease which the defendant claimed was void.
and also by civilians; and the Judges inclined to be of opinion for the plaintiff. But the defendant perceiving this, preferred his bill in Chancery, and there obtained a decree against Letchmore. This case was shewn me by the late reverend and learned Baron Letchmore, deceased; de- scended of that Letchmore to whom Boner made the said lease. And then he told me, moreover, that there was a bill put up in the Parliament under Queen Mary, that all Rid- ley's leases might be void. But it would not pass. The Empe- But now let us see how the Spanish match proceeded, to bassadors" 1 " which the people of the land, by this Parliament, had de- about the clared so great dislike. The Queen's mind having- been al- match. . ready well perceived by the Emperor, how she stood affected towards it, a little before Christmas, he despatched from Bruxells a formal and splendid embassy hither, to treat about and conclude it. His ambassadors were, his admiral, Count d'Egmont, Prince of Gaurel, Charles Count de la Laing, governor, captain general, and grand bailly de Saynnau, who were of the order ; Jehan de Montmorancy, Sieur de Corners, and Philip Nigri, counsellor, and ordi- nary master of requests of the Emperor's household, and chancellor of the order. These, with the Emperor's am- bassador resident, were instructed to treat jointly upon 59 making an alliance by this marriage. By these ambassadors the Emperor sent a letter dated from Bruxelles, Decemb. 21, to Winchester Lord Treasurer, (who was, no question, to be gratified to forward the match,) praying him to give cre- dence to his ambassadors as to himself; who had charge to speak something to him on his part, concluding, de vous UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 91 asseurer que vous trouverez envers vous toute entiere et chap. cordiale affection. Priant, mon cousin, nostre Seigneur vous avoir en sa garde, &c. CHARLES. Ann ° 1&53 ' Winter was admiral of the fleet that brought over this Winter , ., admiral. splendid embassy. To whom, as a gratuity, the Emperor sent a fair chain, which the said ambassadors presented him from their master. Which, when Winter soon after had shewn to Sir Nicolas Throgmorton, (one concerned in Wyat's plot, of which we shall hear hereafter,) he told him, " For this gold chain you have sold your country .V As Count Egmont and the rest of the' ambassadors passed through Kent towards London, the Kentish men, (who dreaded the issue of this match with Spain,) supposing him to be Prince Philip, were upon the point of making a mu- tiny, and began to stir against him and his train.
great shooting of the guns. The Lord William Howard, lord deputy of Calais, was their safeguard to London, and rode along with them through the city. In Fanchurch- street they were met by the Earl of Devonshire, and divers other persons of quality ; who rode with them unto Dur- ham-place, which was appointed for them ; where they lighted. The next day the Lord Mayor and the Chamber- lain of London waited upon them, and presented them with many great gifts, of provision for their tables of food and wine. On the 9th day, the ambassadors and all the Council dined at the Lord Chancellor's: where he treated them with a magnificent dinner. The day following they rid to Hampton Court. There they had great cheer, and hunted the deer : and were so greedy of their destruction, that, it seems, they gave them not fair play for their lives. For, as the journal- writer expresseth it, they " killed tag and rag " with hands and swords." On the 15th day of this January, Winchester the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen went to Westminster to match * vitn the Court. To whom, and many others present, the Lord Spain. Chancellor made a declaration, that the Queen was minded
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CHAP, to marry with the Prince of Spain. By which the realm . would partake of great benefits coming in to them. Shew-
V.
Crorne and Hadding- ton com- mitted.
Anno 1 553. i n g ? that the said Prince was not to meddle with the public affairs of the state ; but the Queen's great Council of the realm, as before was accustomed.
and parson of St. Mary Aldermary, for preaching on Christ- mas-day without licence, was sent to the Fleet, Jan. 13. And the next day, one Mr. Haddington, a wealthy citizen, dwelling in Budge-row, was carried to the Tower ; and all his goods, both at his house and in the country, were seized on for the Queen. His crime was, for professing, as it seems, certain heretical doctrines. SO On the 22d of January, the Lord Robert Duddley, an-
song, Mr. Fecknam was made a Prebendary there. CHAP. VI. Underhill writes a ballad.
His own relation
Mr. UnderhilVs sufferings for religion. of them.
began, in taking up and committing to prison such great numbers of people. Among these was Mr. Underhill, a re- markable man, of whom some things were spoken elsewhere, under the year 1548. To his lot, among the rest, it fell to be summoned in August before the Council then sitting at the Tower, and by them to be sent to Newgate, for a ballad he had made, being a witty and facetious gentleman; wherein were some strokes against the Papists. This was imme- diately after the proclaiming of the Queen at London, she being then in Norfolk. Of the sufferings of this man I shall
UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 93 here give some account, out of the relation that himself CHAP, wrote and sent to Mr. Fox ; because herein many historical ' passages of this time may be observed, and with what rigour Anno 1553. matters were then carried. For, to fetch this matter a little higher. This gentleman had, in the former King's reign, Foxii MSS. divers disputes at Calais with Sir Edward Hastings, one of the band of pensioners to King Edward, and Master of the Horse to this Queen. The Earl of Huntingdon, his brother, went over general of six thousand men, and Underbill went with him in the place of Comptroller of the Ordnance. The Earl being visited with sickness, Underbill diverted him, partly by playing and singing to the lute, which he did well ; and partly by affording him the satisfaction of hearing him reason with his brother in matters of religion. His bro- Yüklə 12,09 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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