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from the rector and university, was recommended this year to the King. " They thanked God, who had yielded a quiet " harbour in the King^s countries for tlie church and good
OF KING EDWARD VI. 49 " studies. And when in all other kingdoms the pubhc mi- CHAP. • • XVII. " nisters of the Church, and the studies of good learning, '_ "were either wholly destroyed or sadly wasted, by the ^""0 's^^* " cruelty of popes, the tumults of wars, and the differences " of opinions, it was God's great mercy to afford a quiet " seat in the King''s dominions for the godly constituted " churches and schools : which were so cherished by the " wisdom, piety, munificence, and authority of the King's " Majesty, that in these ornaments the kingdom of Eng- " land exceeded all the kingdoms of the world beside." This address to the King may be read in the Repository. H. And indeed good King Edward, among his many other The King's princely qualities, was a true patron of learning, as loving i^jg "studies, and promoting it both in himself and others, from his ^°^" ^^^* youngest days. It was observed of him, how exceeding di- ligent he was usually at his book : he would sequester him- self from all companies, into some chamber or gallery, to learn without book his lessons, with great alacrity and cheerfulness. If he spent more time in play and pastime than he thought was convenient, he would find fault with himself, and say, " We forget ourselves," as Mr. Cheke re- ported of him, " that should not lose substantia pro acci- " dente.'''' He used to pen letters, both in English and La- tin, as part of his exercises : the subject whereof generally was, to excite other young nobles, his acquaintance, to fol- low their studies, with very pretty arguments ; as, what an ornament learning was, both to prince and people ; what glory subjects might take in a learned pnnce; and what joy a prince might take in learned subjects ; and the like. There was one Mr. Heron in these days, a schoolmaster The notable of ingenuous youth; one of whose scholars had a father Jj^^"^"",^ that took occasion, from the example of the King, to excite example up- his son the more to follow his studies; writing to him scholars, sometimes in English and sometimes in Latin, these and such like passages of the King's diligence, and admonished him and his schoolfellows to follow the godly example of so virtuous a prince : adding, " That if they," (I do but tran- scribe,) " by his worth, and example, and precedent, wold
50 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL BOOK "apply their study and learning, it wold most happily ^'' " come to pas, that the lerned King shold have moeli fe- Anno 1552. « Hcite in his lerned subjects, and they no les to glory in " so lerned and prudent a prince ;" with such like persua- sions. Which letters of commendations of the said King being uttered by chance unto the said schoolmaster, and having partly received letters thereof from the father of the said scholar, he incontinently caused them that were written in English to be turned into Latin by his scholars, 385 and such as were written in Latin to be Englished : using the same, not only as lessons for his scholars, but also as matter of animating and provoking unto the better and more diligent applying of their learning. Upon this oc- casion, the said Mr. Heron, as well by his letters as by his private talk, yielded unto the father of the said scholar right hearty thanks for his said letters, directed unto him and his son, touching the King's diligence ; declaring plainly, that, in his opinion, the virtuous example of that worthy and good young King wrought more in the heads of his unwilling scholars, for their furtherance unto good literature, than all his travail among them in one year past before.
Schools How King Edward's good heart stood affected to the for- k-^^'^fh'^^ warding both of learning and soimd religion too, appeared ward. by appointing a school in his court for his henchmen, that Cott. libr. is^ his Majesty's pages, and other youth attending on him : and for encouragement of the schoolmaster, he assigned him a salary for life. For such a patent I have seen granted to Clement Adams, M. A. authorizing him to be school- master to the King's Majesty's henchmen, with the fee of 10/. by the year for life: dated May 3, anno 6°. Edw. Reg. But especially this appeared by his founding so many schools in the nation ; more, by a great many, than any of his predecessors had done. For, to compute only from the time that Bishop Goodrick had the great seal, in little more than sixteen months, he founded at least sixteen free schools. For besides the schools at Bury in Suffolk, at Spillesby OF KING EDWARD VI. 51 in Lincolnshire, at Chelmesford in Essex, at Sedberg in CHAP. Yorksliire, at Louth in Lincolnshire, and at East Retford in Nottinghamshire, Avith others founded by him in the Anno 1552. years 1550 and 1551, these following owned the King for their founder, and were erected from December, anno 1551, being commonly called King Edward the Sixth's free gram- mar schools ; viz. Brymingham in Warwickshire, Shrews- bury, Morpeth in Northumberland, Macclesfield in Che- shire, Nonne Eaton in Warwickshire, Stourbridge in Wor- cestershire, Bath, Bedford, Guilford in Surrey, Grantham in Lincolnshire, St. Alban's in Hertfordshire, Tunbridge, Southampton, Thorn in Yorkshire, Gyggleswic in Craven, and Stratford-upon-Avon. These schools had governors ap- pointed over them, a master and usher, and endowed com- monly with 20/. 301. or 40/. per annum. And indeed, for the most part, the endowments were out of tithes for- merly belonging to religious houses, or out of chantry lands given to the King in the first of his reign, according to the intent of the Parliament therein : which was, to con- vert them from superstitious uses unto more godly ; as, in erecting grammar schools for the education of youth in vir- tue and godliness, for further augmenting the vuiiversities, and better provision for the poor : and the good King was so honest and just, to lay them out, in a considerable mea- sure, for these pious ends. See the foundations of these schools distinctly specified in the Repository, from an ori- I. ginal.
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II. 52 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP. XVIII. Anno 1552. ^rQ Popery hi Corpiis Christi college, Oxon. Dr. Hems dies. Immanuel Tremellius prefei'red. Bishop Ponefs book. Knox at Newcastle. Lady Anne of Cleves. Day, late bishop, his Judgment aboiit altars. Commissions. Sir William Boxcyer''s last xoill. Ordinations of ministers. Places and offices bestowed. -LjET me be allowed to gather vip a few more passages, that may deserve to be related, happening witliin this sixth year of the King. The Coun- Dr. Morwin, president of Corpus Christi college, Oxon, totl.r'"'*'^"^ Welsh and Allen, fellows of the same college, were, Fleet some May ult. summoned to appear before the Council. Jvme 5, christf they were ordered to appear the Sunday following. June coll. Oxon. 15 t]iey y^yQYQ coumiitted to the Fleet. Their fault was, for Council- . •' 1 • • 1 -1 Book. using upon Corpus Christi day other service than was ap- pointed by the Book of Service. And a letter was sent to the college, to appoint JeAvcl to govern the college during the imprisonment of the president. July 17, the Warden of the Fleet was ordered to release the president of Corpus Christi, upon his being bound in a bond of 9.001. to appear next term before the Council. November 29, Allen, upon his conforming to the King''s orders, was restored to his fel- lowship.
mon Heins, D. D. dean of Exeter, and prebendary of West- minster, being one of the first company of prebendaries planted there by King Henry, upon the new foundation thereof, as a reward for the services he did in embassies he was employed about by the King. He was an ancient fa- vourer of the Gospel, even from the time he lived in Queen''s college in Cambridge. He was one of the com- pilers of the English Liturgy under King Edward. And was succeeded in his prebend by Andrew Pern, D. D. the King's chaplain ; and in his deanery by James Haddon, a learned and good man. The said Heins was true to the dies.
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under King Henry. Suthray, treasurer of the church of ^^^^^- Exeter, and Dr. Brewrwood, chancellor, accused him, their Anno 1552. Dean, to the Council, for preaching against holy bread and holy water, and that he should say in one of his sermons, that " marriage and hanging were destiny :" whence they would have gathered treason against him, because of the King's marriage, as though he had an eye to that. But however upon this accusation he was sent to the Fleet, with Sir PhiHp Hoby, accused by Bishop Gardiner. Heins had also a prebend in the church of Windsor, where, about the year 1541 or 1542, he, with Sir Philip Hoby and his wife. Sir Thomas Chardin, Mr. Edmund Harman, Mr. Thomas Welden, and others, were by Dr. London, dean of Walling- 38/ ford, a busy persecutor, and some others, combining toge- , ther, put into a paper of complaints ; which was presented to Bishop Gardiner, the King's great privy counsellor, (in which plot himself privily was,) as aiders and maintainers of one Anthony Persons, a good preacher in Windsor, who was about that time burnt. And Heins was moreover ac- cused as a common receiver of suspected persons.
the same judgment, and of the same University, though of j|j[j^'^"",'"* another country, viz. Immanuei Tremellius, an Italian by 'jend of birth, escaping hither out of Germany for his religion ; a ' man he was of great learning, and especially in Hebrew, harboured sometime by Archbishop Cranmer ; and was ap- pointed by the King to be the reader of Hebrew in Cam- bridge, with a salary. He had also a prebend of Carlisle, void by the death of William Pirrie, conferred on him : which the Bishop of Ely, lord chancellor, was very instru- mental to his obtaining: for he had begged this prebend of the King for Dr. Bellasis. But he dying, the Chancellor in September, being then at Ely, wrote a letter to Secretary Cecyl, that he would procure that canonry for Immanuei, of the King : writing thus ;
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Anno 1552." rather, forsomuch as I understand by one Anthony, a The Bishop u Frenchman, who is in house with the said Immanuel, that
behalf. 44 stand with your pleasure to help him to it, I shall be very "well contented, and glad thereof; and ye in so doing " shall deserve thanks at the university's hand, and have " him your continual orator for the same. As knoweth " Jesus, who have you in his keeping. From Ely, this 5th " of September.
non-resident, as long as he read the said Hebrew lecture, with letters, or a writ for his induction.
Ponet, or Poynet, now bishop of Winchester, for the law- fulness of priests' marriage : which, in the year 1554, Dr. Martyn, the civilian, made an answer, such as it was, to ; dedicating his book (the better to ingratiate himself) to Queen Mary. Dr. Taylor, lately made bishop of Lincoln, not long after the edition of this book of Poynet's, preach- ing at St. Paul's Cross, took notice of it, with high commen- dations, and words of magnifying given unto it, as the said Martyn in his answer took notice ; " As if," said he, " it " had been sent down from heaven by revelation, or had " proceeded out of the very bosom of the Holy Ghost." Taylor then said, " That therein was contained a sufficient " doctrine for priests' marriages, and learning enough to " convince all gainsay ers." In this book, if you will take 388Martyn's word, Poynet hath this expression, to shew the impossibility of living chaste : " Neither fasting nor watch- " ing, nor any such like, is more able to strait their desire, " life and health being preserved, than abating of moisture " and earth about the root of a tree, so ye kill him not, is " able to strait the same tree from brin Ponet's
book for the mar- riage of priests. OF KING EDWARD VI. 55 " and blossoms in the spring-time of the year." And the CHAP. foresaid Bishop Taylor, in that sermon at Paul's Cross, is said by Marty n to have alleged this passage out of Poynet's Anno 1552. book, concerning the necessity for bishops and priests to marry, by St. Paul's doctrine to Timothy ; " St. Paul saith " to Timoth}' and Tite, A bishop or jjriest must be thehus- " band of one wife. Paul doth not say, It is enough for " him, if he hath had a wife ; but he saith in the present " time, Siquis est sine crimine, unius uxoris vir, et oportet " ipsitvi esse irreprchensibilem. He mvist esse, be the " husband of one wife. Neither find I fault with the doc- " tors, which change be into hath been, but such bishops " and priests as neither be nor have been married, nor will " marry to this day, must find some other exposition for " this text of St. Paul, or else cannot I see how they can " excuse themselves, but that they shall be found guilty by " this description and rule of a blameless bishop." In confutation of this book. Dr. Martyn undertook to Answered answer three points. 1. Poynet's false expounding of the ^J'^^''*'''^'"- holy scriptures, touching priests' marriage. 2. His untrue interpretation of God's word, for the defence of married monks, nuns, and friai's. 3. His falsely reporting the canons of the Apostles, untrvdy alleging sundry chronicles and his- tories, and most unhonestly slandering old writings, and the decrees of holy fathers. But Dr. Martyn was not Poynet's match, who sufficiently vindicated himself, soon after Martyn had set forth his book : and Archbishop Parker, under Queen Life of Elizabeth, published a very learned manuscript, wrote i'^ parke" ^^"^ Queen Mary's reign, in answer likewise to Martyn ; which was Poynet's. To which that Archbishop himself made very large and excellent additions : which are taken notice of by me elsewhere.
his translation of Chrysostom's homily. Brethren, I would lation J* *' not have you ignorant, &c. : printed by Tho. Berthelet. This knight also set forth a translation of the New Testa- ment, in 4".
56 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL BOOK John Knox, the earnest preacher, and one of the King's ^^' itineraries, was now in the north : and on Christmas day Annoi552.he preached at Newcastle upon Tyne. There he spake Knox aa-ainst the obstinacy of the Papists, and affirmed, " that preaches at ^^ . , . , i-ii • i 11 Newcastle. " whosoever m his heart was enemy to Christ s gospel and " doctrine, which then was preaclied within the realm, was " enemy also to God, and secret traitor to the crown and " commonweakh of England. And that, as such, thirsted " after nothing more than the King's death, which their " iniquities would procure, he said, so they regai'ded not " who should reign over them, so that their idolatry might " be erected again." Tliis, it seems, provoked many of his auditors extremely; insomuch that they began to raise trou- ble against him, and accused him to the magistrate ; as ap- pears by his Admonition to the Professors of God's Truth in Enffland, printed in 1554. " How these my words at " that time pleased men, the crimes and actions intended «' against me did declare." But then. Queen Mary being on the throne, and Philip of Spain made her husband, he 389 appealed ^^ those expressions of his, reckoning it at that time as a thing commonly owned, that the people had made a very bad choice, when they took for that Queen a Spanish husband to reign over them. " Let my very enemies now " say their conscience, if those my words are not proved " true." The Kill}? The Lady Anne of Cleves, once King Henry's wife, but iands"Sh divorced, was still alive, living in England upon her dowry, the Lady and, as it seems, in good reputation. She had lands in creves!*^ Bisham, which were those, I suppose, formerly belonging to the monastery there ; and at Blechingley, where she had a house, and sometimes dwelt. She seemed to be a lady of good behaviour, and of an obliging carriage ; bearing a very friendly correspondence with the Lady Mary, as well as with tiie other ladies of the Court. She spoke, or at least writ, English very well, as appears by her letter under- written : which she writ upon certain business happening between the Lady Mary and lier, occasioned by a change of
OF KING EDWARD VI. 57 lands the Kina; made this year, both with her and with his CHAP ~ "^ I'll- win sister. The lands which the Lady Anne parted with to him were those of Bisham : for which the King granted her Anno 1552. Westrop in Suffolk, with the appendages : for the getting of which confirmed to her, she was fain to wait a great while. Of the Lady Mary hkewise, this year, the King de- sired to have in exchange her manors of St. Osyth's, Clax- ton Magna and Parva, and Willeigh, all in Essex. The Lady Mary desired of the King, (in recompence for this change, I suppose,) those lands in Sviffolk which he had given before to the Lady Anne. This occasioned the stop of the great seal, which, after long expectation, was going to pass for the Lady Anne. Whereupon she wrote this civil letter to the Lady Mary, which I have transcribed from the original of her own hand. " To my Lady Marys Grace. *' Madam : After rav most harty commendations unto She writes ^ ¦ ^ o to the Lady <' your Grace, being very desirous to hear ot your prosper- ^i.,ry. *' ous health; wherein I much do rejoice. It may please ^^^^^- G- P- " you to be advertised, that it hath pleased the King's Ma- " jesty to have in exchange my manor and lands of Bysham " in the county of Berkshire; granting me, in recompence, " the house of Westrop in Suffolk, with the two parks, and " certain manors thereunto adjoining. Notwithstanding, if *' it had been his Highness pleasure, I Avas well contented " to have continued without exchange. For which graunt, " for mine own assurance in that behalf, I have travailed, " to my great cost and charge, almost this twelve months : " and it hath passed the King's Majesty's bill signed, and " the privy seal, being now, as I am informed, stayed at the " great seal, for that you, Madam, be minded to have the " same, not knowing, as I suppose, of the said graunt. I " have also received at this Michaelmas last past, part of the " rent of the foresaid manors. Considering the premisses, " and for the amity which hath always been betwixt us, of " the which I most earnestly desire the continuance, that it " may please you therefore to ascertain me by your letters, 58 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL BOOK " or otherwise, as it shall stand with your pleasure. And " thus, good Madam, I commit you unto the evei'-living Anno 1552. «' God, to have you in merciful keeping. From my house 390 " of Blychenley, the viii. day of January, A^. Dv'^ liii.
" little power, to command, " Anna, the dowghter of Clevcs." The lands jj-j ([^q month of August before, I find the King gave this lady, in consideration of the surrender of Bisham, the manors of Brokeford and Thwaite in Suffolk, with divers other lands, (in which, I suppose, the aforesaid Westrop is comprised,) amounting to the yearly value of 67/. 17*. lO^d. Dr. Day ex- Dr, Day, late bishop of Chichester, had been harboured judgment now about half a year with the Bishop of Ely, lord chanccl- aboutthe j^jj.^ |jy^ under restraint. There Cecyl, the secretary, being one day entered into discourse with him about that same ar- gument, which, about two years before, was the cause of his imprisonment and deprivation, viz. for disobeying an order of the King and Council, for taking altars out of the churches, and placing tables in their rooms, for the use of the holy communion. Day now, in his converse with the Secretary, shewed himself very moderate in that behalf, when, as it seems, he entreated him to stand his friend for the obtaining of his liberty : whereat the Secretary, who had favourably reported of him at Court, willed him soon after . to write the communication that they had together. Day tlicrefore, January 10, wrote him a letter to this purport: " That to treat of that argument could be no less unplea- " sant and dangerous unto him, than it would be to a nier- *' chant to sail again in those seas wherein he had suffered " shipwreck before ; yet he had gone about to accomplish ** the Secretary's will and pleasure, and had devised with *' himself, how and what he should write of that matter. Yüklə 12,09 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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