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ber of attendance, once forestalled the way between Win- chester and Mr. Philpot's sister's house, about three miles from the said city, whither he was going ; and lying in wait for him, set his men upon him, and sore beat him, overdone by number: for otherwise the Archdeacon had as lusty a courage to defend himself, as in disputation against popish rf 4 440 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP, prelates, to impugn their doctrine. But though he were ' thus beaten, hurt, and wounded, yet remedy he could have Anno i55o. none m tJ le spiritual court, the Bishop, as well as this his register, being in contest with him. But enough of Phil- pot.
Justices. Bishop Bonner's book for his diocese. Other books set forth. A Parliament. First-fruits and tenths. A synod. A bull granted to Secretary Petre.
their cruel natures. The civil magistrates in each county were procured to be such as might seek out every where the true professors of religion, and bring them to suffering. In Essex were these justices of peace, among others ; the Lord Rich, that had been lord chancellor under King Ed- ward, and a complier with his proceedings, but now a severe prosecutor of the Protestants ; Sir Anthony Brown, Henry Tyrril, Edmund Tyrril, Tho. Mildmay, Roger Appleton, Richard Weston, Justice Gaudy ; which last was the only favourer of them, and the least fierce against them. Bonner sets j$y ^\ s t j me Bishop Bonner had prepared, by the study containing of his chaplains, a book of popish doctrine and homilies for Doctrine ary tne use °^ nis diocese, being printed by Cawood in Septem- ber. It was entitled, A profitable and necessary Doctrine, with certain Homilies adjoining- thereunto. Set forth by the reverend father in God, Edmund, Bishop of London, for the instruction and information of the people being within his diocese of London, and of his care and charge. The Bishop's Preface to the Reader hath this beginning: " Whenas in the time of the late outrageous and pestiferous v schism, being here in this church and realm of England, " all godliness and goodness was despised, and in a manner " banished, and the Catholic trade and doctrine of the " Church, with a new, envious, and odious term, called and " named Papistry? &c. The book itself begins with an UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 441 explication concerning faith, what it is. Then follows the CHAP. exposition or declaration of the Creed, the exposition of the XXXIV - seven sacraments, the exposition of the Ten Commandments, Anno 1555. the exposition of the Pater noster, the exposition of Ave Maria, the exposition of the seven deadly sins, the exposi- tion of the seven beatitudes, and lastly, prayers. Then fol- low in the same volume, " Homilies set forth by the right And h °-
" only promised before in his book, entitled, A necessary " Doctrine, but also, now of late, adjoined and added there- " unto. To be read within the diocese of London, of all " parsons, vicars, and curates, unto their parishioners, upon " Sundays and holydays, anno mdlv. 1 ' These homilies were thirteen in number, viz. I. Of the creation and fall of man. II. Of the misery of all mankind, and of his con- demnation to death. III. Of the redemption of man. IV. How the redemption in Christ is appliable to man. V. Of Christian love and charity. VI. How dangerous a thing to break off charity is. VII. Of the Church, what it is, and of the commodity thereof. VIII. Of the authority of the Church. IX. Of the supremacy. X. Of the true presence of Christ's body and blood in the sacrament of the altar. XL Of transubstantiation. XII. Of certain answers against some common objections made against the sacrament of the altar. The book is concluded with an address of the Bishop 20O to all parsons and curates within the diocese of London, beginning, " Forasmuch as the people of my diocese, &c. " Therefore desiring to have something done onward, till " God, of his goodness, provide something better ; I have " laboured with my chaplains and friends to have these " homilies printed, that ye may have somewhat to instruct " and teach your flock withal : requiring and charging every " one of you, that diligently, and upon Sundays and holy- " days, ye read to your flock, fruitfully and deliberately, " one of the said homilies. And thus, fare you well. Given " at my house at London, the 1st of July, 1555."
man in Pudding-lane, who set forth a book about this time, 442 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP, (or rather the year after,) bearing for its title, Against the English Protestants : a piece written with much bitterness Anno 1555. and scurrility; laying to their charge the famine, and the other miseries of England. This man made some pretence to learning; but Bale laughs at him for going about to prove fasting from Virgil's ./Eneis and Tully's Tusculan Questions. But he set himself to oppose and abuse the gos- pellers, being set on and encouraged by priests and mass- mongers, with whom he much consorted, and was sometimes with them at Bishop Bonner's house. And the Protestants were even with him, and made verses upon him, not sparing him at all : some whereof, in Latin, may be seen in Bale's
row e y- man f E SS ex, was Bonner's prisoner, because he would not permit his child to be christened after the popish rites, this Hogheard was in company with Doctor Richard Smith, and others of the Bishop's chaplains, who came to confer with the said Hawks. Then did this tradesman take upon him to talk with Hawks, but he was not his match. He asked Hawks, where in Scripture he proved that infants were bap- tized, thinking thereby to drive him to acknowledge the authority of the Church. But Hawks readily answered, Go and teach all nations, baptizing them, &c. To which Huggard replied, " What, shall we go teach children ?" Hawks again briskly, ' f Doth that word trouble you? It " might be left out full well," [speaking ironically, as they would have it, to save themselves the pains of teaching.] " It is too much for you to teach." He added, " Is not " your name Huggard ? and be not you a hosier, and dwell " in Pudding-lane?" And when the other had confessed it, Hawks replied, " It should seem so, for you can better skill " to eat a pudding, and make a hose, Than either to answer " or oppose." With which he was in a great rage, and did chafe up and down. Whereat Hawks desired some good man to take the pains to walk the gentleman, he fretted so. A book And from time to time came forth books, to set a fair forth, call- f ace upon the alteration of religion. Nor were the Pro- UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 443 testants a whit behind them in exposing the mass and the CHAP. • XXXIV superstitions brought in again, and in upbraiding those that/ had their hands therein. And particularly about this time, Armo 1555 « in the month of October, somebody (perhaps Coverdale, or De's^tton some other scribe) laid it close in a small book to the nobi- of Atheism, lity, by whose means all this change was effected : who themselves, under King Edward, had established, and shew- ed themselves forward for that which now they rejected. 267 This book was entitled, A short Description qf Antichrist, unto the Nobility of England, and to all my brethren, and countrymen born and dwelling therein: ivith a Warning to see to, that they be not deceived by the hypocrisy and crafty conveyance of the Clergy. It began, " There is no- " thing more perilous, right honourable Lords, ne yet more " pernicious and evil to Christian man's religion, than so to " be corrupt, poisoned, and blinded in his understanding " and judgment, that he esteemeth and judgeth evil in the " stead of good, error in the stead of verity, cloaked supersti- " tion in the stead of Christ's true religion, painted hypo- " crisy in the stead of godly virtue, manifest and open ido- " latry in the stead of the true worshipping of God, men's " dreams and traditions in the stead of God's most holy laws " and ordinances ; a common custom, long time used of our " forefathers, instead of a sure ground and firm foundation \* of our Christen faith : and finally, to accept and take " Antichrist, the man of sin and child of perdition, as Paul " nameth him, instead of God and of Christ ; whose name " is most contrary to God, and most hateful to Christ, in " all his doctrines, works, and conditions," &c. He directed his book especially to the nobility, those of Upbraids , _ ., f • . 11- the nobility. the Queen s Council, and the rest ; because by their means that law of burning men for religion was revived : " which " law," he said, " did not only accuse their Lordships of their " inconstancy, who not long time before, upon reasonable " and godly causes, well weighed, freely disputed and rea- " soned, did disannul, make frustrate and void the same as " a wicked law ; but also this their sudden reviving of the " same, declared that they cared not what they did, were it 444 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP. " never so wicked and contrary to God; so they might " avoid the displeasure of the magistrate and supreme civil Anno 1555." governor: whereby it appeared manifestly, that they re- " garded more the displeasure of man than the displeasure " of God. " Alas ! right honourable, 11 as he passionately proceeded, " who hath so bewitched you, that you so suddenly are fled " from God's truth, your own consciences so long time ap- " proving the same ? before whose eyes Jesus Christ was so " lively preached, and so faithfully set forth ; and neverthe- " less now, not only his doctrine, and the true and profitable " use of the sacraments, be by your consents repealed for " heresy, but also Christ himself, in his holy members and " mystical body, most cruelly tormented and slain. Alas ! " that foreign nations shall object this inconstancy to your " dishonours; namely, to be so inconstant and wavering in " the principal points concerning a Christian man's religion, " now by you repealed as heresy, which was by your " commandments set forth and commanded through all " the realm and dominions of England, to be taught, and " also to be received of the people. To what truth and " what religion may the subjects of this realm hereafter " cleave, and assuredly, without wavering, follow ; which " do perceive that your Lordships, contrary to your own " commandment heretofore, made and directed to them, do " fly and retire from the doctrine and true use of the sacra- 268 " ments, that you, in so little time past, did most worthily " approve to be most godly and necessary to be taught and " followed ? God grant that the commons of this realm, " that now murmur and grudge at this inconstancy, and " other your evil doings, do not hereafter burden you with " the same ; and especially for your flying from the true " religion, which you did before all men approve to be most " godly 1 from the which ye be now fled, to the great dis- " honour of God. Wherefore God, by his prophet, threat- " eneth you to bring you to dishonour, saying, / will give " them honour that honour eth me, and they that dishonour " me, will I bring to dishonour.'''' Thus this fickleness in
UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 445 the gentry and nobility of those times was smartly thrown CHAP, in their teeth by the best sort. xxxiv. The method the author of this book followed was, first, Anno 1555. to describe and set forth Christ according: as the holy Scrip- The sub ;
colours, that arch-heretic Antichrist, that extreme contrary to Christ : so that the one contrary, compared and set near to the other, should expressly declare and set forth the other more evidently, plainly, and apparently.
Queen) was begun and holden on the 21st of October this year, and lasted to the 9th of December following, and then dissolved. The Queen rode to the Parliament-house in a horselitter open ; so that they might behold her Grace very plainly : who never looked more merrily to all men's sight ; as was wrote in a letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury in the north, from one that belonged to him in London. In this Parliament, that which was done about religion First-fruits was, that the King and Queen released the first-fruits to the *" clergy, (which had been given to King Henry VIII.) and that these payments should from henceforth cease, and be clearly extinguished for ever, their honours and consciences them especially hereunto moving: though this bill stuck, and passed not above two or three days before the breaking up. And touching the order and disposition of the tenths of spi- ritual and ecclesiastical promotions ; of these, being called a perpetual pension and annual rent to the King, the clergy was to be exonerated and acquitted also ; but yet to be so ordered and disposed, as afterwards in the act was ex- pressed. And the Lord Legate should, from time to time, A trust name and appoint certain of the clergy, and the successors to'theLe- of them, who should take, perceive, and receive the perpe- g ate - tual pensions, annual rents of divers and sundry rectories, parsonages, benefices, improprieties, glebe land, tithes, obla- tions, pensions, proportions, &c. belonging to the King and Queen, and the reversion and reversions of them, since the 20th of King Henry VIII. as also all and singular the re- venues, rents, profits, and commodities of the said rectories,
446 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP, parsonages, &c. to this use and intent following;, that the
abbots, priors, masters of colleges, chantry priests, their pensions, corrodies, annuities, &c. for their term of years or life. And to the intent the poor benefices and cures of this realm might be furnished with good and able curates, to in- struct the people with good and sincere doctrine ; and to be 269 a kle to maintain hospitality, and for and to other godly in- tents and purposes, the said Lord Legate might dispose, employ, and convert the said rectories, parsonages, bene- fices, improprieties, glebe lands, tithes, oblations, pensions, &c. to the increase and augmenting of the livings, and other- wise for the finding of preachers, or the exhibition of scho- lars within this realm, according to the godly wisdom and discretion of the said Legate. And upon the death of any persons that received the said pensions, annuities, &c. the said payment of perpetual pensions, annual payments, or tenths, shall utterly cease and be determined for ever. This may be noted as one great respect given to the Cardinal, and a considerable employ for him. John I find one John Hooper, gent, related, it is probable, to this Par- Bishop John Hooper, lately martyred, a burgess in this hament. Parliament for New Sarum ; who absented from this Par- Lord Coke s institut. p. hament, as not liking perhaps their doings. iv. p. 20. rp| ie c arc i ma i 5 hoping to bring his matters to pass the the Cardi- better by the assembly of the clergy, had now called a synod hoictf "<>• snor tly to appear before him at Westminster, upon the ses- synod. sion of the Parliament : but thought it not convenient to do it absolutely, or found he could not, by virtue of his lega- tine power, without the licence and allowance of the Prince, as the year before he obtained it for the dispensing of his graces and faculties to the subjects. Another patent there- fore was granted him from the King and Queen, dated No- vember 2, for celebrating this synod : the tenor whereof was as followeth. Regist. « Philip and Mary," &c. [then repeating their former
UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 447 they proceed,] " Know ye, that forsomuch as the said re- CHAK verend father, earnestly desiring that his labour and tra- XXX1V - vail may take fruit, to the honour of God, and the wealth Anno 1555. of our subjects, hath now called a synod of the clergy of this realm of England to appear before him at our palace of Westminster; we, to avoid all danger, doubt, and ambiguity, which might arise in that case, by reason of any laws, statutes, customs, or prerogatives of us, or of this our realm of England, and for the more ample de- claration of our said letters patents, have granted, de- clared, and signified, and by these presents do grant, de- clare, and signify, that our will, pleasure, and consent is, that as well the foresaid reverend person may freely, with- out lets of us, or danger of any of our laws, statutes, &c. call and celebrate the said synod, or any other synod hereafter, at his will and pleasure : and in the same synod ordain and decree any wholesome canons, for the good life and manners of the clergy of our realm of England, or any other of our realms and dominions, and to any other thing for the better executing of their office and duty. And also the said clergy may appear and be pre- sent at the said synod or synods, and consent to fulfil and obey all such canons as shall be ordained in the same, or in any of them, without let or impediment of us, and without incurring any danger, or penalty, or forfeiture of any of our laws or statutes ; any act, ordinance, or other matter contrary to the same notwithstanding. And hereto 2 70 we have given full power and authority by these presents. In witness whereof, we have caused these our letters to be made patents, the 2d of November, in the second and third years of our reign." 1 '' By which it seems to appear, that the clergy was shy of assembling in synod, or doing any thing there, upon the summons of the Cardinal, notwithstanding; his Watine va- pour, for fear of running into a p?'emunire, by virtue of some former laws of the realm : and so as yet they assem- bled not, though the Parliament began to sit twelve days before the date of the former letters. Something was done 448 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP, by the Legate in this convocation, which may be read in the History of the Reformation by Bishop Burnet. Anno 1555. Notwithstanding the law that was made in the Parliament S 24 " P l as t y ear » confirming church lands to the present owners ; Church yet so cautious was Sir William Petre, one of the principal lands con- secre taries of state, that he thought it not sure enough to
ope. t ^ e p p e ^ £ or t ] ie ratification of the manors and lands that he had purchased of King Henry VIII. which had formerly belonged to monasteries ; absolving him from all excommu- nication for the same ; and that he might continue his pos- session of them without scruple of conscience; and com- manded the Bishop of Cond. to permit the said Petre not to be vexed or disturbed in relation to the said lands. This Vol. ni. at \y U \\ i s ex tant in Dugdale's Monasticon, where it is specified, that Sir William Petre was ready to assign and demise the said lands to spiritual uses. The original bull was in the keeping of William Lord Petre, descended from the said Secretary, anno 1672.
CHAP. XXXV. The death of Bishop Gardiner, with some remarks upon him. Bishop Gardiner and Bishop Bonner bloody. Some ac- /\_g this year brought many Protestant bishops and divines count of l • -i ¦ • Bishop to their deaths, so it brought their great persecutor, in the Gardiner, j^i^gt G f his bloody triumphs over them, to his end. For in November, the next month after the burning of Ridley and Latymer, Stephen Gardiner, bishop of Winchester, and lord high chancellor of England, deceased ; a man of good learn- ing and great parts, but of infinite pride, ambition, and ma- lice, and most fatally set against the gospel, and the pro- fession of it ; for the prevention of which he shed abundance
of his death, and in the place where he deceased ; making the former to be November the 9th, and the latter, his house at Winchester place by St. Mary Overy's. To assign the p. 1130. UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 449 truth of which, we are enabled by a letter, dated November CHAP. XXXV 14, 1555, wrote from London by Crych to the Earl of Shrews- 1, Dury, whose servant he was; the said Earl being then i n Anno 1 555. the north. In which letter he signified the news of the de- parture of the Bishop in these words : " My Lord of Win- chester (whose soul God pardon) is departed; and his 27 1 " bowels were buried at St. Mary Overy's in Southwark : " but his body (as the saying is) shall be carried to Win- " Chester to be buried there, [and so it was.] What time he " departed is not yet certainly known ; but most say, he " died on Thursday night, being the 12th day of this in- " stant, about two of the clock at after midnight at West- Yüklə 12,09 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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