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surphce close at the wrists, and a scarf over it, a square cap on his head, a book in his hand, two great stoned rings upon his two forefingers, the one a ruby, and the other a sap- phire, and another small ring upon the little finger of his left hand. A severe black visage shaven close, and his eye- brows somewhat hanging over his eyes.
had been Archbishop Cranmer"'s chaplain. He had 2000 marks a year settled upon him : the rest of the temporalties of this rich bishopric was taken into the King's hands ; who bestowed most of the good manors and lands thereof upon several of his courtiers. This Bishop was one of that order in this reign that cordially favoured religion, and was an exile under Queen Mary. Bale, the antiquary, and Good- OF KING EDWARD VI. 167 acre, were at one time this Bishop's chaplains, and went botli CHAP • XXVI together into Ireland, one to be Bishop of Ossory, and the _!___ other Archbishop of Armagh. Tonstal. A privy counsellor, and long experienced in Durham, matters of state. He went along with the Reformation for some years, till at length he was laid in the Tower for mis- prision of treason, in concealing a conspiracy in the north, and was deprived. He was base born. Restored by Queen Mary ; and died a very aged man, about a year after Queen Elizabeth's access to the crown. He wrote a book De Veri- tate Corpoj'is et Sanguinis Domini nostri in Eucharistia^ in the year 1551 : and was then seventy-seven years of age. Archbishop Parker buried him in Lambeth church, with the respect due to his character.
shopric, but enjoyed it not, having no mind to it, Tonstal being alive. It was soon after, by some resolves of Council, dissolved by act of Parliament. Upon a design of founding it anew, Ridley, bishop of London, was nominated to it ; but it went no further. Goodrich. A privy counsellor : he was advanced to be Ely. lord chancellor, after the resignation of the Lord Rich. Noted for his impartial distribution of justice : gentle to his enemies, but somewhat too harsh to his friends and depend- ants. Under him the Reformation succeeded well. He was employed much by King Henry and King Edward, in em- bassies and matters of state. He was the son of Edward Goodrick, of Kirby in Lincolnshire, by Jane his wife, dauo-hter and heir of Williamson, of Boston in the same county : and gave for his coat, argent, on a fesse, gules, between two lions passant gardant, sable, a flower de lys of the first, between two crescents, or, Holhech. A true favourer of the gospel, and made much Lincoln. use of in the reforming and settling of the Church. He was called sometimes Henry Rands, of Holbech in Lincolnshire. He had been lord prior of Worcester, and upon the new establishment of the cathedral churches, was made the first dean of Worcester. He was married, and left a son, named 463 M 4 168 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL BOOK Thomas. Thirty-four rich manors, belonging to tliis see of ' Lincohi, were ahenated in his time, though not by his fault. The sons of Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, were for some time educated vmder him at Bugden, and both died there of the sweating sickness. Taylor. A true well-wilier to the Reformation. For- merly incumbent of St. Peter's, Cornhill, in London ; more lately, master of St. John''s college in Cambridge, and dean of Lincoln: succeeding Holbech in the year 1552. He was married : and upon that pretence thrust out of the Parlia- ment house in the first of Queen Mary. Godwin tells us, he died soon after, at Ankerwick ; perhaps at Sir Thomas Smith's house there, formerly a nunnery: for he and the Bishop seem to have been old acquaintance at Cambridge. Coventry Scimpson. He was bred in St. Clement's hostle, Cam- field, bridge. Though a Papist, yet he complied so far, that he continued bishop throughout King Edward's reign. In the year 1551 he was appointed one of the commissioners for the limits of Scotland : and died under Queen Mary, anno 1554. Salisbury. Solcot, alias Capoii. A Papist, but made a shift to keep in all this King's reign. He spoiled the bishopric : so that Jewel, his successor, found it so bare, that he complained he had no benefices to maintain learned men. He enriched himself, by making his bishopric poor. Bath and Knight. Employed much in embassies by King Henry. His house, by some exchange, was the nunnery without Aid- gate, called TJie Minories : in a diapel whereof he was consecrated. Barloro. A married man, and real friend to the Reforma- tion. He made some compliance in the beginning of Queen Mary, to save his life. Afterwards got beyond sea ; and re- turned upon Queen Elizabeth's access to the crown ; and was then made bishop of Hereford. He left several daugh- ters, all married to bishops. Exeter. ^f>ysey.) OX Vtysy, alias Ilarman. He was governor to
and kept a great court. He was a brave courtly prelate, OF KING EDWARD VI. 169 but made great spoil of the bishopric, by selHng away many CHAP, lordships and seats from it. He, upon persuasion, and some _Jll___L good terms made for himself, resigned : but took his bi- shopric again under Queen Mary. He sold the manor and bursre of Paington in Devon, and other lands and tene- ments, unto Sir Thomas Speke, knt. by indenture bearing date December 21, 1549, with the assent of the Dean and Chapter : which estate, it seems, the King had some pretence unto. Therefore there was made by the King a confirmation, in November 1551, of the said pvirchase to him, with a re- lease of all the King''s right thereto. The Earl of Bedford also, and others of the Council of King Edward, purchased good pennyworths of him. For the assuring of whose titles, a letter was sent from the King and Council to the Bishop, March 10, 1550, to suffer the said Earl, and others of the Council, to procure the best assurance for the lands bought of him, appertaining to the bishopric : for it seems he was not yet actually out of the bishopric, though in November before, a letter of thanks was sent him for surrendering thereof; which, I suppose, must be understood of his pro- mise to surrender.
where he had a benefice, and married a sober woman, named Elizabeth, born in those parts. A grave, reverend, good man, and a serious promoter of the reformation of this Church. He lived in exile under Queen Mary ; returned home in Queen Elizabeth's reign, and assisted at the conse- cration of Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury. He lived privately in London for some time : but in 1563 he was preferred to be rector of St. Magnus, London ; whose poverty was such, that the Queen forgave him his first-fruits. And such was the esteem he bore, that he had no less per- sons for his intercessors with the Queen, than the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Earl of Leicester, and the Secretary of State. He was a diligent corrector of the English Bible after Tindal ; which is commonly called Coverdale's translation. 170
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II. Norwich. Rug-ge, alias Reps. He had his name of Reps from the denomination of the town where he was born, or where liis father hved, fi-tr. North Reps in Norfolk. He was abbot of St. Benedict de Hulmo.
kept under Bilney^'s chamber : being then a scholar, he used often to play upon his recorder, for his diversion : and then good Bilney would go to his prayers. He was often sent abroad, as ambassador, by King Henry ; who first preferred him to be bishop of Westminster. He was dean of the chapel to King Edward, and by him sent to the Emperor. He became bishop of Ely vmder Queen Mary : and under Queen Elizabeth was deprived ; but lived and died, with much freedom and good usage, with Archbishop Parker ; who gave him honourable burial in Lambeth church.
age of forty-nine years. After his deprivation he lived with Ridley, bishop of London, during the reign of King Ed- ward : and under Queen Mary was advanced to be arch- bishop of York, and lord chancellor of England. Deprived again under Queen Elizabeth, and lived many y^ars in great plenty and freedom at his manor of Cobham in Surrey.
Germany, especially in Switzerland, where he became well known to Bullinger. Under King Edward he returned into England, and was chaplain to the Duke of Somerset, and a great preacher in and about London. He married a dis- creet woman of the Low Countries, and had by her several children. A zealous favourer of pure religion : and for that cause martyred under Queen IMary very cruelly. Glocester. Wakcman. He was the last abbot of Teuxbury, and the first bishop of Glocester. Ilopcr. In the year 1552, this diocese of Glocester and that of Worcester were united into one, by the King's pa- tents; and from thenceforth to be taken and reputed for one. And Hoper was constituted the first bishop of the diocese of Worcester and Glocester.
OF KING EDWARD VI. 171 Sky p. He was once chaplain to Queen Anne Bolen, and CHAP, her ahnoner. A forward man once for rehgion. He made ' away, by a long lease of two hundred years, his London Hereford, house or inn, belonging to the bishops of Hereford, situate in the parish of St. Mary Mounthaw, or Moimthault, to the Lord Clinton, lord admiral. Harley. An hearty friend to the Reformation. Dr. 4^5 Laurence Humfrey, president of Magdalen, and the King's professor in divinity, was his scholar in Magdalen college, Oxon. In Queen Mary's reign, he instructed his flock in woods and secret places, and administered the sacrament ac- cording to the order of the English book ; lurking up and down in the nation ; and died in the hard reign of the said Queen : yet hving to the last year of her reign. Therefore it is an error in Mason's book, where he saith, that Harley dc Minist. assisted at the consecration of Bishop Grindal. It is an^'^^^* error also, that he makes those that assisted Archbishop Cranmer, at the consecration of Harley, to be the suffragan ibid. of Sydon, and Tayler, bishop of Lincoln, when indeed nei- ther of them did, but Nicolas, bishop of London, and Robert, bishop of Carlisle, as may appear by the Arch- bishop's register. Day. He complied for some years with King Edward's Chichester. proceedings : but afterwards, for refusing to take down the altars in his diocese, he was deprived ; yet restored under Queen Mary, being a zealous Papist. He told Bradford in prison, who had charged him with departing from the re- formed Church in King Edward's days, " that he was but " a young man, and then, coming from the University, he " went with the world, but it was always against his con- " science." Under Queen Mary, he was one of the commis- sioners for trying, judging, and sentencing the Protestant divines, and other professors of religion.
he had been Archbishop Cranmer's chaplain, and one of the six preachers in Canterbury. A married man. He made some compliances under Queen Mary ; but afterwards fled abroad, and was an exile, till he returned under Queen
172 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL BOOK Elizabeth, and was placed by her, not in Chichester again, ' but over the diocese of Herefoixl. Rochester. Ridley. ~\ Afterwards translated to other dioceses, as Pmjnet. > above is shewn ; and the diocese remained ScoTy. J void for near two years. Oxford. King. He was first a monk of Rewly, or Royal-lieu, near Oxford ; then abbot of Bruern in Oxfordshire ; after abbot of Thame ; and lastly, abbot of Oseney : who surrendering those religious houses, or some of them, to King Henry VIII. was rewarded by being constituted the first bishop of Oxford, having been suffragan bishop of Reon, and called, commonly, bishop of Thame, where he had been abbot, and probably lived. He passed through all the changes under King Henry, King Edward, and Queen Mary, and died to- wards the latter end of her reign.
porary, and both eminent, and in holy orders ; one a doctor of physic, bred in Merton college, Oxon, where he was suc- cessively fellow and warden, and one of King Henry's physicians in ordinary, and that signed a letter, with five others of the said King's physicians, want to the Council, concerning the dangerous condition of Queen Jane, after the birth of Prince Edward ; there styling himself j9?-i^5^. He . was dean of St. Stephen's, Westminster, archdeacon of
when the Articles of Religion were framed, and then signed \\m\^e\i Johannes Cliamhre Divi Stephani Dccamis, et Bed- ford. Arch. He died 1549- The other John Chambre was bachelor in divinity, a Benedictine monk, bred up chiefly in 466 Cambridge ; after made abbot of Peterburgh ; and having resigned the said alibey to the King, he was constituted the first bishop thereof: and died 155G. It was Godwin's error, (and an easy error it was,) to confound both these Cham- bres, supposing them to be one and the same person : whicli Mr. Anthony a Wood hath taken notice of. Bristo]. Biuh. This man also was governor of a religious house, and provincial of the order of religious men, called Bon- honivies, and well skilled in physic, as well as divinity ; and OF KING EDWARD VI. 173 wrote learned books. He was married, and therefore de- CHAP. prived under Queen Mary. He was forced, though he op- ^^^^' posed it stiffly for a time, to comply with the iniquity of this age, and to part with a good manor belonging to the bi- shopric, in exchange with the King ; namely, the manor of Leigh : which one Norton coveted, and obtained. Alchich. A man of good learning. A complier through- Carlisle. out tliis reign, though not well affected to the Reformation. Bird. About the year 1530 this man was sent to Bilney, Chester. then in prison, to confer and argue with him. He was then provincial of the White Friars ; and then, or after, a suifra- gan in Coventry, where he was born ; after, suffragan of Penrith; after, bishop of Bangor, and then of Chester. He was married, and therefore deprived under Queen Mary: but in her reign, suffragan to Bishop Boner, and vicar of Dunmow in Essex. Barlow. Of him somewhat before Avas said. He was the st. David's King's chaplain. When Stephen Gardiner, in the year 1528, then the King's secretary, commonly called Dr. Stephens, was ambassador at Rome with the Pope, the King des- patched this Barlow, then a canon of St. Osyth's in Essex, with letters to him. He was preferred to the priory of Haverford West by Queen Anne Bolen. When he was bishop of St. David^'s, in the year 1537, he laboured with the Lord Cromwel, for the translation of the see to Carmar- then, and the disposing of Aberguilly college to Brecknock, the principal towns of South Wales ; whereby provision being made for learning and knowledge in the Scriptures, the Welsh rudeness might have been framed into English civility, and their gross superstitions in religious worship rectified and reformed. He wrote several books against Popery : as, a treatise of the Burial of the Mass ; a Dialogue between the Gentleman and the Countryman ; the Climbing up of Friers^ and Religious Persons, pourtrayed, with figures; a Description of God's Word, compared to the light: also a Dialogue, inveighing especially against St. Thomas of Can- terbury ; but this was never printed.
174 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL BOOK once a chaplain to the Duke of Somerset. He was one of ^ the King''s visitors in tlie first year of his reign, and one of the preachers in that visitation. A married man. Unhappy in the contest some of his churcli raised against him, for their own ends, to stop his episcopal visitation of them : whereby he was the less able to take care of collecting and returning of the tenths of his clergy ; and so was cast into prison by the Council for the Kings's debt. And under Queen Mary, who found him in the Tower, martyred in the flames, for adhering to the gospel. He left children. 4^7 Kitchin, alias Dunstan. This man, according to the
under King Edward, made a grievous waste and spoil of a very wealthy bishopric. He was the only bishop under Queen Mary that continued in his bishopric, and complied ^vith the changes under Queen Elizabeth.
time before his death : being suddenly struck with blind- ness, as though it had been some judgment upon liim for sacrilege. St. Asaph. Parfew^ alias Warton. Well affected to Popery. Once abbot of Bermondsey in Southwark. He made a spoil of his bishopric by long leases. Under Queen Mary he was trans- lated to the see of Hereford. CHAP. XXVIL A catalogue qf divers letters, orders of Council, commis- sions, ^c. sent and given out in this reign : collected and preserved by John Fox. -T OR the conclusion of these collections of this reign, to let in some further sure light thereinto, specially as to the eccle- siastical state thereof, and to make up any defects in some of the foregoing relations, I shall here subjoin a catalogue of letters, orders of Council, commissions, and other authentic
OF KING EDWARD VI. 175 ' records of this time, exemplified by Fox in his ninth book CHAP, of Acts and Monuments. Fox is the storehouse, I am only ' the index, to point thereunto. 1. A letter missive of Boner, bishop of London, to the Bishop of Westminster, for the tenor of the Archbishop's letter, for abolishing of candles, ashes, palms, and other ce- remonies. Dated Jan. 28, 1548. 2. A letter of the Council, sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury, for abolishing images. Dated Feb. 11, 1548. 3. Boner, bishop of London, his letter sent with the Archbishop's mandate to the Bishop of Westminster, for abolishing images. Dated Feb. 20, 1548.
the land, concerning the communion to be ministered in both kinds. Dated March 13, 1548.
bishop of London, for abrogating private masses, namely, the Apostles' mass, within the church of St. Paul's, used vmder the name of the Apostles' communion. Dated June 24, 1549.
residentiaries, prebendaries, sub-dean, and ministers of the same church, to the same import. Dated June 26, 1549.
ber, to the justices of the peace, for the advancement and setting forward of the King's godly proceedings.
of London, partly rebuking him of negligence, and partly charging him to see to the better setting out of the Service- Book within his diocese. Dated July 23, 1549. 9. Bishop Boner's letter to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, in pursuance of the letter abovesaid. Dated July 26, 1549.
six, given Aug. 11, 1549, to Bishop Boner by the Council, to be followed and observed by him.
wal, sent to the King, anno 1549. 176 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL BOOK 12. A message sent by the Iving''s Majesty to certain of ' the people assembled in Devonshire. Given at Riclimond, July 8, in the third of his reign.
the commissioners for the visitation at London, concerning Bishop Boner''s recantation, made before them, of his pro- testation at the receiving of the injunctions and homilies. Dated Sept. 12, 1547.
the examination of Boner, Sept. 8, 1549- 16. The tenor and form of Boner's protestation, exhibited to the King's commissioners at his first appearing. 17. A certain declaration or interpretation of the King, touching certain points and doubts in his former commis- sion, with licence given to the commissioners, as well to de- termine as to hear the case of Boner. Dated Sept. 17. 18. Boner's recusation of the judgment of Sir Thomas Smith.
London.
men of London, charging them not to be abused with naughty preachers at Paul's. Dated Sept. 16, 1549.
with the rest of the Privy Council, from the Marshalsea, complaining of his imprisonment by the commissioners. Dated October 7, 1549. 24. Sententla deprivationis lata contra Eadmund. Lon- don. Episcopum. 25. Boner's appeal in words from the sentence definitive. Yüklə 12,09 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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