Search York

*' But he professed, in good truth, he could not tell what he

** should write therein, otherwise than he had answered unto

" the Lords of the Council, before he was committed to

OF KING EDWARD \ I. 59

" iDi'ison, and afterward to tlie commissioners, at the time of CHAP.
I ' . Will
" his deprivation, viz. diat he sticked not at the aUar, either '__
" at the usual form of the altar, or of the situation thereof. Anno 1552.

" or of the matter, stone or wood, whereof the altar was

" made. And that he then took, as he did at present, those

" things to be indifferent, and to be ordered by them that

" had autliority. But that the commandment which was

" given him, to take down all altars within his diocese, and

" in the lieu of them to set up a table, implying in itself, as

" he took it, a plain abolishment of the altar, both the name

" and the thing, from the use and ministration of the holy

" communion, he could not with his conscience then exe-

" cute, as he answered the Lords of the Council then, and

" afterwards to the King's commissioners. And what he

" should now answer further, he coidd not tell." But herein

Day seemed not fairly to relate the matter : for the com-

missioners, finding him so much to insist upon retaining the

name of altar, because he found it used in the old doctors,

and, as he pretended, in the scripture too, told him, that

touching the naming of the holy table an akar, it was in-

different, and left it so to him. He added, " that if the391

" Secretary and Sir John Cheke would, in consideration of

" the loss of his living, and two years' imprisonment, obtain

" for him the liberty of a subject, if he should hereafter

" abuse it, he would not desire to live ; and he would pray

" for the King's most excellent Majesty, and his most ho-

" nourable Council, and them his deliverers. But that if

" his liberty must be bought with a new conflict, and hazard

" of his conscience, he thought it better to want it, than to

" purchase so poor a commodity at so great a price."

The King's debts pressing him, many commissions were Various

this year, one upon the neck of another, sent forth, for the si,,n™fo'r

remedvins: thereof; the Council hoping thereby to raise raising of
-^ O ' ^ '^ •' , monies.
great sums of money : whereby, no question, great numbers

of people were sufficiently vexed, to the discontent and dis-

turbance of the innocent, as well as the guilty. 1. One com-

mission, in March last, was issued to certain persons, for the

surveying of the state of all the King's courts erected for the

60 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK custody of the King's lands, and for the answering of his

rents and revenues. 2. Another commission came forth in

Aano 1552. June, for the sale of chantry lands. 3. And in the same

month were divers other commissions and instructions to pe-

culiar persons in every shire, to view and survey the bells,

plate, jewels, vestments, or ornaments belonging to every

church ; and to seize into their hands, to the King''s use,

such of the said goods as had been, at any time before the

said survey, embezzled. 4. Another commission was direct-

ed to Clarencieux, the king at arms, to visit his province,

that is, from the river Trent southward, that whosoever had

taken into their cognizance, or arms, standards, or banners,

any bearing contrary to the usage of the realm, knowledge

thereof should be given to the King and Council ; I sup-

pose, to get fines that way also. 5. Another commission was

issued out in December, to the Duke of Northumberland,

and several other noblemen and knights, to examine all the

treasurers, receivers, and officers whatsoever, of tlie Exche-

quer, of the Court of Augmentations, of the King's Cham-

ber, of the First-fruits, of the Wards, of the duchy of Lan-

caster, of the town and marches of Calais, of the town and

garrison of Berwick ; and all other treasurers, which had

been formerly, or were at present, from the 24th year of

King Henry VIII. to that time, (that is, from the year

1532 to the year 1552, twenty years :) and also, all pay-

masters, surveyors, mustermasters, purveyors, victuallers,

and the like, that had received of the King, or his father,

any sums of money to be employed in the wars, buildings,

fortifications, or other affairs. And if any should be found

indebted to the King, to proceed with them for the due

satisfaction thereof. 6. Another commission came forth the

same month, to see how the King was satisfied as to lead,

belmetal, plate, jewels, ornaments, stock, &c. coming to him

from divers monasteries, priories, colleges, and chantries, or

bv attainder of divers persons, or by divers forfeits of jewels,

silver bullion, plate, gold, and silver. 7. Yet another com-

mission there was in January, to examine by record of

chancery, or other ways, what sums of money were due to

OF KING EDWARD VI. 61

the King at any time for sale of lands, since the 4th of CHAP.

Februaiy, 27th Henry VIII. (the year wherein the lesser. ^^'^"•

monasteries were dissolved,) and how the same was answered. ^"'^•^ *^52.

8. Another yet came forth the same month, for the collec-392

tion of church-stuff, plate, jewels, ornaments, &c. 9. In the

month of February we hear of another commission for many,

or all counties in England, to survey all manner of church

goods. 10. And lastly, in March, when all this scraping

would not get money enough for the King's necessities,

came forth a commission to sell for ready money, as much of

the Kings's manors and lands as should come to the value

of 1000/. per annum. And there were other commissions

of the same import, for sales, before this. And yet I find,

that in February, before that commission was sealed, many

considerable things were sold away from the crown ; as the

manor of Keverdly in Lancashire, and other lands; the

manor of Bushton in Wilts, and divers other lands ; the

manor of Compton Basset in Wilts, the manor of Odick-

nol, and Chamleigh in Devon, the lordship of Otherey in

Somersetshire, the tithes of the parish of Wrenbury in

Cheshire, &c.

Sir William Bowyer, an alderman of London, and lord ^ commis-

mayor of the said city, anno 1544, dying in his mayoralty, amine the

left a fair estate, and five daughters to inherit; but ap- *^^"*^*"^*

pointed such executors and overseers, as seemed more will- William

ing to enrich themselves by the estate of the deceased, and ce°a^7d.'^' ^'

defraud the children, than to discharge their trusts faith-

fully. Francis Chaloner married Agnes, one of the daugh-

ters : which Francis had much contest with the executors ;

and in the year 1552 obtained a commission for the just

examination and determination of this matter. And about

February, a commission was granted, at the suit of the said

Francis, to three doctors of the Arches, and three sergeants

of law, who were. Dr. May, dean of St. PauFs, Dr. Ley son,

and Dr. Cook, Gawdy, Stamford, and Catlyn, to call before

them the executors and overseers of the said Sir William

Bowyer's will ; " who," as the commission ran, " had de-

" frauded Agnes, the daughter of the said William, and

62 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK "four other sisters, of their said father's legacies; which

'* were great sums of money, besides moveable goods and

Aimo 1552. " jewels, which they had abused to their own lucre, and had

" not only left out of the inventories, exhibited into the

" prerogative court of the Arches, much of the goods and

*' jewels, but also had caused the same to be prized for

" under their value : and, that is worse, had also caused the

" same to be rased, and many parts to be cancelled :

" whereby they had made the same very unperfect. Nor so

" contented, had caused the hoped for and recuperable

" debts to be put into the title of the desperate debts. And

*' among the debts, had put in many feigned sums of money

" to be indebted by the deceased to them : and finally, had

" extended the funeral expences to 200/. above the same ap-

" pointed by the order of the city."

Bishop The persons ordained this year by Ridley, bishop of
ordinations. London, were first, May 15, eleven deacons, all of them

Fellows, or Masters of Art of Cambridge, and six priests.

Again, at Bartholomew-tide, requesting licence to ordain of

the Bishop of Ely, Ridley being then at Cambridge, in that

Bishop's diocese, he ordained in Pembroke hall, his own

college, Robert Kensey, M. A. Fellow of Trinity College,

Vicar of Ware ; and many others. Again, December 11,

were seven deacons ordained : whereof one was aged forty,

another thirty-seven, and another thirty-three. Again,

December 21, were ordained three priests; William Harley

393 of Katharin Creechurch, London ; William Turner, dean

of Wells, and Robert Kensey, before mentioned.

Places and This year were these places and offices conferred by the

st^wed''^" King. In April, Ambrose Earl of Warwick, eldest son of

the Duke of Northumberland, was made master of the

King's horses, upon the Earl of Pembroke's surrender of

that office: and to have 100 marks yearly. In the same

month, the King appointed for his chief officers in the Mint

within tlic Tower, Thomas Egerton, esq. treasurer of the

Mint ; Thomas Stanley, comptroller ; William Billingsley,

assaymaster; John Munds, provost. And Sir John God-

salve, who had been before comptroller, in regard of his

OF KING EDWARD VI. 63

sui-render, had an annuity of 601. And to Sir Nich. Throg- CHAP,

morton, late one of the treasurers of the coin of the said '

Mint, was granted an annuity of 1001. for his surrender Anno 1552.

and his faithful service. In May, Sir Edward Bray had

the grant of the constableship of the Tower in reversion,

after the death of Sir John Gage, by the fee of 50/. per

annum. In June, Sir Roger Cholmely was constituted

lord chief justice of England; Henry Bradshaw, chief

baron of the Exchequer ; Edmund Griffith was made at-

torney-general of all the Courts of Record within England ;

and John Gosnold solicitor-general. In the same month,

the Lord Robert Dudley, another of the Duke of Northum-

berland's sons, was made master of the buck-hovmds, with

the yearly fee of Q31. 6s. 8d. upon surrender of the same by

the Earl of Warwick, his brother. In September Sir John

Cheke, knt. and one of the privy chamber, obtained a

patent to be one of the chamberlains of the Exchequer, or

of the receipt of the Exchequer; once belonging to Sir

Anthony Wyngfield, deceased : and also to appoint the

keeper of the door of the said receipt, and of all other

officers belonging to the same. Dr. Nicolls had a patent for

an annuity of lOZ. and a licence to take the bodies of pri-

soners, both men and women, after their execution, [for dis-

secting.] He was, I suppose, constituted the King's chi-

rurgeon. As the year before, John Hemingway had the

office of being the King's apothecary given him ; and a fee

of 40 marks yearly. And in February the abovesaid Lord

Robert Dudley had the office cajjitalis trenchiatoris, [chief

carver,] upon the surrender of the Duke his father's patent

for the same place, granted him by King Henry VIII. to

have to the said Robert for term of life, with the fee of 50Z.

yearly. This place the said Lord Robert had executed from

the feast of St. Michael.

64 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

^^i^^ CHAP. XIX.
" A Parliament. The Kin/fs letters to the Sheriffs. Bi-
Aniio 1552. ^ o -^
3Q4 shopric ()f Durham dissolved. A general j)o,r don. Cer-

tain excepted. The King removes to Greenwich. Knooc's

last sermon at Court. Summoned before the Council.

Earls of Pevihrolce and Westmorland. Sir Andrew Dtid-

ley. Sir John Williams. Melancthon. North-east pas-

sage. Archbishop Holgate.

The King's X OWARDS the conclusion of tlie year, the Kino- called
care for an ti i- * i ^ ¦ ¦ i • i ,.
able Par- a new parliament. And now beginning to set himself, as

hament. j^jg years came on, to mind business, he intended to have an

house composed of men of great and good abilities, to con-

sult withal in the present affairs and difficulties of his king-

dom. Therefore, after he had sent out a warrant, Jan. 18,

to the Lord Chancellor, to direct forth process for the sum-

moning of a Parliament the 1st of March next, he caused his

letters to be wrote in January to the sheriffs of each coun-

ty, that they should diligently give notice to the citizens,

and burgesses, and freeholders of every county, that it was

the King"'s will they should choose and send up to him, as

much as possibly they might, men of knowledge and expe-

rience, that so the needs of the State might be more effec-

tually provided for than heretofore had been. And that

where any of his privy counsellors should recommend men

of learning and wisdom, to have regard to their direction, as

tending to the same. The letter was as followeth :

The Kind's " Trusty and well-beloved, we greet you well. Foras-

sherifts^for^ " much as we have, for divers good considerations, caused a

parliament " summoiiition for a Parliament to be made, as we doubt

" not but ye understand the same by our writs sent in that

" belialf unto you ; we have thought it meet, for the fur-

" therance of such causes as are to be propounded in the

" said Parliament, for the common weal of our realm, that

" in the election of such persons as shall be sent to the Par-

" liament, either from our counties, as knights thereof, or

*' from our cities and boroughs, there be good regard had,

" that the choice be made of men of gravity and knowledge

OF KING EDWARD VI. 65

" in their own countries and town^, fit, for their understand- CHAP.
V I V
" ing and quahties, to be in such a great council. And ' ' '

therefore, since some part of the proceeding herein shall Anno 1552.

" rest in you, by virtue of your office, we do, for the great

" desire we have that this our Parliament may be assem-

" bled with personages out of every country, of wisdom

" and experience, at this present will and command you,

" that ye shall give notice, as well to the freeholders of

" your county, as to the citizens and burgesses of any city

" or borough, which shall have any of our wi-its, by your di-

" rection, for the election of citizens and burgesses, that our 395

" pleasure and commandment is, that they shall choose and

" appoint (as nigh as they possibly may) men of knowledge

" and experience, within the counties, cities, and boroughs :

" so as by the assembly of such, we may, by God's good-

" ness, provide (thorough the advice and knowledge of the

" said Parliament) for the redress of the lacks in our com-

" monweal, more effectually than heretofore hath been.

" And yet, nevertheless, our pleasure is, that where our

" Privy Council, or any of them, within their jurisdictions,

" in our behalf, shall recommend men of learning and wis-

*' dom ; in such case their directions be regarded and fol-

" lowed, as tending; to the same which we desire ; that is,

" to have this assembly to be of the most chiefest men in

" our realm for advice and good counsel."

Letters also were sent in January from the King to some Persons no-
,.,,._. T 1 • 1 niinated for
of the high sheriffs, recommending tiierein persons to them i,„ights of

to be elected knights : as one to the sheriff' of Hampshire, *'"' ^'^"¦^•

for the electing of Sir Richard Cotton to be one of the

knio-hts for that shire. The like letter to the sheriff" of Suf-

folk, for the electing of Sir William Drury and Sir Henry

Benningfield, knights, for the next Parliament. Another to

the sheriff of Bedfordshire, in commendation of Sir John

St. John, knight, and Lewis Dy ve, esq. To the Sheriff of

Surrey, in commendation of Sir Thomas Cavarden, knight,

and John Vaughan, esq. To the sheriff" of Cambridge, for

Sir Edward North and James Dyve, esq. To the sheriff"

of Berks, for Sir William Fitzwilliams and Sir Henry Ne-

void. II. PART II. F

66 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK vyl. To the sheriff of Oxon, for Sh- John Williams and
' Richard Fines, esq. To the sheriff of Northamptonshire,
Anno 1^52. for Sir Nicolas Throgmorton and Robert Lane, esq. And
no more were recommended by the King''s letters. And
these were such as belonged to the Court, or were in places
of trust about the Kinar.
Dissolution fhis Parhameut began to sit March 1, and ended March
of the bi- . ^ P 1 • 1
siiopric of the last, HI the seventh year of the Kmg. Then was a pri-

Durham. ^^^^ ^^j. y^^^^^ f^j. denizing the children of Richard Hills,

an eminent merchant abroad ; and another for restitution

of Edward Seimour, knight, eldest son to the late Duke of

Somerset. And the third and last private act was for the

dissolution of the bishopric of Durham ; that so the cour-

tiers, (however well the King meant it, vb:. for the found-

ing two bishoprics out of it,) as if they had not enough

humbled the Church, might have a few more good fleeces

from her. But he that had the greatest expectation from

this dissolved bishopric, namely, the Duke of Northumber-

land, was sadly disappointed, and instead of gaining the

good revenue thereof, lost his own head, and his possessions

beside, within less than half a year after. These were sud-

den counsels, and carried with a strong hand ; for but in

November last, a grant was made of this bishopric to Ro-

bert Horn, D. D. the dean of that church.

Durham For it was soon after this dissolution of the bishopric,

county nil- namely, in April, that Durham was changed into a county

latine. palatine, and so to continue from thenceforth by letters pa-

tents: wherein was set down the constitution thereof, and

the number of judges, officers, and ministers were appoint-

ed, requisite to supply the same ; and to have a great seal

and privy seal ; and to be united to the imperial crown of

the realm. And this new county palatine was, I suppose,

396' to add a new title to the ambitious Duke of Northumber-

land, viz. Earl of Durham. I find the demeans of this dis-

solved bishopric began soon to be dispersed. For in IMay

the fee-farm of the lordship, manor, town, and borough of

Gateshead, late parcel of the possessions of that bishopric,

were granted to the mayor and burgesses of Newcastle.

OF KING EDWARD VI. 67

And in June the capital messuage of Coldharborough in CHAP.

Thames-street, London, lately belonging to the said bi- ______

sliopric, was given to the Earl of Shrewsbury. Anno 1552.

The King concluded this Parliament with a general par- Persons ex-

don. Out of which Avere these persons following excepted : of the "^ene-

Cardinal Pole, Jeffrey Pole, [brother, unless I mistake, to '''' pf^^Jon-

the Cardinal, some of whose name, viz. Arthur and Ed-

mund, were in a plot afterwards against Queen Elizabeth,

and pardoned.] Richard Pate, [once Bishop of Worcester,

and was at the Council of Trent; and so shall be again

under Queen Mary, and who fled abroad again vmder Queen

Elizabeth.] Goldwel, [servant to Cardinal Pole, and under

Queen Mary made bishop of St. Asaph, and fled abroad

again under Queen Elizabeth, and abode at Rome.] John

Clement, [doctor of physic, and that had been schoolmaster

to Sir Thomas More''s children. In More"'s epistle to Pe-

trus iEgidius of Antwerp, he called this Clement, puer^

i. e. his servant; " whom, he said, he suffered not to be

" away from any discourse, whence he might reap some

" benefit or advantage. For from this young bladed and

" new shot up grain, which had already begun to spring up

" in Greek and Latin learning, he looked for, he said, a

" plentiful increase, at length, of goodly ripe corn." This

Clement was constituted by Cardinal Wolsey his rhetoric

and Greek reader.] John Story, doctor of law, [that was

under Queen Mary a great man, and very zealous in the

office of examining and butchering the poor Protestants ;

but his end was the death of a traitor under Queen Eliza-

beth.] William Rastal, [who was the son of John Rastal,

a learned man, and a printer, who married Sir Thomas

More's sister. This Wilham, nephew to Sir Thomas, was

of Lincoln"'s Inn, went beyond sea under King Edward,

and abode at Lovain. Under Queen Mary he returned,

and was made one of the Justices of the Common Pleas.

This man wrote several books of the law. Under Queen

Elizabeth, he fled to Lovain again, and there died. This

William Rastal married John Clements daughter.] Three

Italians also, viz. Anthony Bonvice, Benedict Bonvice, and
F 2

68 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK Balthazar Guarsey : [this Balthazar, I take to be once of

Canterbury, and very busy in collecting accusations against

Anno 1552. good Archbishop Cranmer, about that time under King

Henry VIII. when Bishop Gardiner, and several of the

prebendaries, and others of the church of Canterbury, had

conspired to ruin him.] Germain Seo, Edmund and Tho-

mas CraifFord, Thomas Finch, Thomas Raynolds of Whit-

staple in the county of Kent ; and another Thomas Ray-

nolds, related probably to Raynolds, the monk of Sion,

that was executed under King Henry for refusing the su-

premacy ; and lastly, William Bedel. Many of these were

concerned with Cardinal Pole, and others denied the supre-

macy ; and some were concerned with the holy maid of

Kent.

Ambassa- This March were Dr. Wotton and Sir Thomas Chaloner

''°''*' sent to the French King : and Sir Philip Hoby sent to the

Emperor : and so was also Thirlby, bishop of Norwich.

Hoby was to be ledger there, in Sir Richard Morison"'s