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ECCLESIASTICAL MEMORIALS,

RELATING CHIEFLY TO

RELIGION,

AND

THE REFORMATION OF IT,

AND THE EMEROENOIES

OF THE

CHURCH OF ENGLAND,

UNDER

KING HENRY VIII. KING EDWARD VI.

AND

QUEEN MARY I.

WITH

LARGE APPENDIXES, CONTAINING ORIGINAL PAPERS,

RECORDS^ &c.

Ooe generation shall jncaue thy works unto another, and dedare thy power.— The memorial
of thine atMmdant kindness shall be shewed ; and men shall sing of thy righteousness.

Piolm exlv. 4, 7.

BY JOHN STRYPE, M. A.

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AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.
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HISTORICAL MEMORIALS,

CHIEFLY ECCLESIASTICAL,

AND SUCH AS CONCBHN

RELIGION,

ANJy

THE REFORMATION OF IT,

AND THE PROGRESS MADE THEREIN,

UNDER THE REI-GN AND. INFLUENCE

KING EDWARD THE SIXTH.

CONTAINING ALSO

MANY NEW DISCOVERIES OF THE LIFE, ACTS, AND
GOVERNMENT OF THAT PRINCE.

THE

CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS

BOOK 11.

CHAP. XIV.

Disturbance in Buckinghamshire. Bishop Hoper visits. The
bishoprics of Worcester and Gloucester united. The Duke
of Somerset's daughters. The Duchess, &c. The King goes
a progress. The gests thereof. The Duke of Northumberland
goes into the north. Lord Guilford Dudley, llie Bishop of
Bath's exchanges. Dr. Walter Haddon, &c. The King's sales
of Church lands. Merchants of Bristol, &c. P. 1.

CHAP. XV.

A commission for inquiry into heresies. The new service.
The Bishop of Durham's troubles : deprived. A synod. Ar-
ticles of Religion framed : and a Catechism^ confirmed. Ar-
ticles for uniformity. Bernard Gilpius*s sermon at court. P. 1 9.

CHAP. XVI.

New sergeants. Lady Mary visits the King. The King's sales.
A Lasco's judgment of the ceremonies. Divers books printed.
Leland the antiquarian dies. P. 29.

CHAP. XVII.

Commissioners from France. Corruptions at Court. Paget,
Beaumont, and the Earl of Arundel, their submissions. The
university of Rostock's letter to the King. The King*s dili-
gence^ and good example. Free schools by him founded. P. 42.

CHAP. XVIII.

Popery in Corpus Christi college^ Oxon. Dr. Heins dies. Im-
manuel Tremellius preferred. Bishop Ponet's book. Knox

vi . THE CONTENTS

at Newcastle. Lady Anne of Cleves. Day, late bishop, his
judgment about altars. Commissions. Sir William Bowyer.
Ordinations of ministers. Places and offices bestowed. P. 52.

CHAP. XIX.

A Parliament. The bishopric of Durham dissolved. A general
pardon. Certain excepted. The King removes to Greenwich,
Knox*s last sermon at Court. Summoned before the Coun-
cil. Earls of Pembroke and Westmorland. Sir Andrew Dud-
ley. Sir John Williams. Melancthon. North-east passage.
Archbishop Holgate. P. 64.

CHAP. XX.

A design to enter into league with the Protestant princes. The
present condition of the Emperor. The embassy to him from
England. Letters from the English ambassadors, concerning
the state of the Low Countries. P. 78.

CHAP. XXL

The King's ambassadors in France^ and to King Ferdinand, and
to the Emperor. Their access to his presence. Instructions
sent them for their proceedings. P. 93.

CHAP. XXIL

Anno 1553. Order for subscription to the Articles of Religion 3 and for the
teaching and learning of the Catechism set forth by the King^s
authority. Irish matters. The Duke of Northumberland.
Lady Mary's letter to the King. Divers great matches. The
King's gift to London, &c. The King's death. His last will.
His funerals, &c. His character. P. 104.

CHAP. XXIIL

A view of the manners of all sorts of men in these times : nolHc^
lity : gentry : yeomanry: judges : the poor : the clergy. J?. Ml;^

CHAP. XXIV.

Observations concerning patrons ; the universities 3 the city
court. Taxes in this reign. P. 141

CHAP. XXV.

Creations of noblemen. The King's counsellors. Courtiers aft.
great officers. P. 15

OF THE CHAPTERS. vii

CHAP. XXVI.

A catalogue of the Bishops in this King's reign j with remarks
upon them. P. 165.

CHAP. XXVII.

A catalogue of divers letters, orders of Council, commissions,
&c. sent and given out in this reign. P. 174.

CHAP. XXVIII.

Animadversions upon the History of the Life and Reign of King
Edward VI. written by Sir John Hayward. P. 179.

CHAP. XXIX.

Commissions and proclamations issued out from the King upon
divers occasions, annis 1550, 1551, 1552, and 1553. P. 198.

CHAP. XXX.

Divers acts of the King's grace and favour, shewed to his cour-
tiers and others. P. 214.

CHAP. XXXI.

f A collection of various letters, warrants, and licences from the
I King, both to foreigners and his subjects. P. 239.

CHAP. XXXII.

A Collations, presentations, grants, indulgences, and permissions
to churchmen, and men of the universities. P. 257.

CHAP. XXXIII.

A catalogue of King Edward's free grammar schools, founded by

iV| bim. More private matters concerning the King's household.

The conclusion. P. 278.

\^]

.' 1-

•S J3-I

MEMORIALS

OP MATTERS WORTHY REMARK

ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVIL

IN THE REION OF

KING EDWARD VI.

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BOOK IL

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CHAP. XIV.

turbance in Buckmghamshire. Bishop Hoper visiii.
lie bishoprics of Worcester and Gloucester united. TTu
hike of Somerset s daughters. The Duchess^ fcc The
Ing goes a progress. The gests. The Duke qf Nor*
\umberland goes into the north. Lord GuiUybrd Dudley^
is son. The Bishop ofBaiKs exchcmges. Dr. WaUer
laddon^ &c. TTie Kin^s sales. The merdumiii qf
iristoWy &c.

BT us now take another review of tins year, and pilbtxksm xiiH*

divers other voxx^ private matters that happened widiai

compass of it.

lAndlcnrds had now so wracked their rents, and laiitd i^mnn

m so high frcxn the old wont, that the Uanaaen gpew irety a^db^

contented ; or ratha- oontmued so, fsartiy tasr iimi nasnil,

I partly for the contimuDiGe of the desarth at provMicaM,

)t up still by some of the ridier sort : wUdi

)ther insurrectkm, about the beginiBiig of this ji

ickin^anishire. The pieteiioe wheraof wai^ W liar«

^ upon easier rests, and victnals better ebcaft TW

ief man that headed this tmrndt wm a taaner of Jhsmih

VOL. II. PAST II. m

2 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK field in that county, called Isaac Herae; who was after
taken and indicted, but pardoned. His pardon bore date

Anno 166«. April 29.

^*"*q^A The reverend father John Hoper, holding the see of
Bp. Hoper Worcester in commendam with Gloucester, (Worcester be-
viMti Wor- ing void by the late deprivation of Heth,) as he had vi-
sited Gloucester, anno 1551, bringing certain articles of re-
ligion with him, to be by that clergy subscribed ; so now,
1552, he went in visitation to the diocese of Worcester
Two canons with the same articles. But in the church of Worcester

there refuse

subscrip. were two canons, named Johnson and Jolliff, who refused
uon to his ^ subscribe, and protesting against them, charged the said
articles not to be catholic, nor agreeable to the ancient
doctrine : with whom the bishop entered into a dispute,
and had much trouble. And at length sent up a full ac-
count thereof to the Council.

But however Popish these men were, they made a shift
with their consciences to continue in their places throughout
this reign, for ought I find to the contrary; and under
Queen Mary had more preferments heaped upon them.
Johnson got a prebend in the church of York, and a rectory
in the same county. JollifiP became Dean of Bristow. John-
son wrote against Hoper'^s articles, but kept his writing pri-
vately by him during King Edward's rdgn ; till JoUiff car-
ried the manuscript with him beyond sea to Lovain, in the
beginning of Queen Elizabeth, and printed it in Antwerp,
1564, with additions of his own, under this title, Responsio
sub Protestationejacta, &c. i. e. An Answer made under Pro-
testation to those Articles of John Hoper , bearing the name
^Bishop of Worcester y in which he dksagreedfrom the Ca-
tholic Jaith. Together with some confutation of the said
Hoper; and the replies of the right reverend JixAer in
Christy Stephen Gardtpier, bishop of Winchester^ at thai
time detained in prison for the confession of thejhilh. De-
dicating the said book to the King of Spain.
Visits Giou- After the Bishop had done his visitation in the diocese of
jecondtime. Gloucester, hearing his articles were not subscribed to by di^
vers of his dergy, and many abuses still remained tb^e^

OF KING EDWARD VI. d

he hastily went over that diocese again, and administered CHAP,
certain interrogatories, both for the clergy and the laity :

which were these that follow : Anno i55«.

Interrogoitories and examinaUons agavnsi the clergy.

I. What is the cause of his non-reddency, and whether Hoper's in.
his curate be sufficient ? riwu^

II. Whether the communion be used in such place, and ^ J®"*
alter such sort,. as most varieth from, and is most distant
bcfOL the FojHsh mass ?

III. Whether they preach any doctrine to avouch pur-
gatory, pardcms, auricular confesidon, praying to saints, the
Bishop of Rome, holy water, holy bread, palms, ashes,
beads?

IV. Whether they allure the people to the love of any
other person or persons within this realm, or without, to this
intent, that the people should favoiu: them ?

V. Item^ Whether they say one part of their service
softly, and the other aloud, as they were wont to say the
PatcT'-ncater with a small voice, and the psalms with a loud
vcrioe?

VI. li&n^ Whether they sit at one part of the service,
and kneel at another, and stand at another, as they were
wcmt?

VII. liem^ Whether they use any month^s minds and
anniversaries ?

VIII. Item^ Whether they use any corporas cloth in the
communion P

IX. lUm. Whether they ring or knoll the bells in the 355
time of the communion, or between mattins and the com-
munion?'

X. lifm^ Whether they su£Per the people to i»t at the
epistle, pind stand at the gospel ?

XI. liem^ Whether at the visitation of the sick they
bear the sacrament with covering their heads with the sur-
plioey or at their breast, or with any light : or, when they
come into the house, they su£fer the people to kneet and
honour it?

4 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK XII. Itenij Whether any of them speak imreverently c^
Grod the Father, the Son, or the Holy Ghost, gc mock and

-^■^ ^^^-soom at Ae word, laws, and promises of God f

XIII. Item, How many priests within the deanery have
subscribed unto the articles that I put forth unto them ?

Agamst Ae laity.

XIV. Whether the midwives at the labour or birth of
any diild, do use any prayers or invocations to any saints,
(saving to Gfod <xily in Christ,) for the deliverance of the wo-
man : and whether they do use any salt, herbs, water, wax,
ckidis, gjmdils, relics?

XV. Item, Whether any midwife refuse to come to any
woman-labouring of child, for religion sake, or because she
is a wife to a minister of the Church, that hath married, or
do marry, both by Clod's laws and the King's?

XVI. Item, How many priests within this deanery have
subscribed to my artides?

Hoper Hcper having been Inshop <^ Gloucester about fourteen

deed of gift ^^'"'^^ made a deed <^ gift. May 1^ to the King, dT the
^fj^^y^ said Inshf^yric, viz. of all the lands and annuities which by
tbe King, means of that Ushojvic he enjoyed : and also a Dedimus

potestatem annexed to the same, directed to Jc^n Tayler,
otherwise called Baker, and to Jciui Coventre, to reo^ve
the ocmfirmation <^ the said deed, to be made by the Dean
and Ch<^ter there, to the said King^s Majesty. This was
in cfFder to the disserving this Inshc^Hic, and the founding a
new Indiopric, by the imiting of this of Gloucester and that
of Worcester into one.
'^1^^'*^ In April he was translated to the bishc^fNric of Worcester,
with all the IcMxIdiips, mancHrs, &c. during his life : and a
patent was granted to JcJm Hoper, Ushop of Gloucester,
to be Inshop of Wixcester, and for the uniting the bishc^ric
of Gloucester with that of Wmicester. So that the juris-
detion <^ the Ushcfpnc oi Glouoestor shall now cease, and
be aoeoimted parcel of the Indiopric of Worcester, kabend.
Mi durante vita, quamdiu se bene gesserii, (for so it is set
down in the manuscript,) anno 6 £dw. VI. without any

OF KING EDWARD VI. 6

other date. Soion after, another patent was granted him for CITAP.
the discharge of his first-fruits. ^ '

In September he reerived a letter for the surrender ofAnnoi65«.

Surrenders
Worcester.

the bishopric of Worcester, to the end there be a new col- Surrenders

new
see.

lation of the same.

I find another patent and grant made by the King to Union of
this Bishop, dated December 8, an. 6 reg. Edw. VI. viz. f^^ Wo!^'
uniting the bishoprics of Gloucester and Worcester into one ; ccstcr.
and to be one from henceforth, and one diocese, and so to
be reputed and taken.

And yet another granted him soon after, to be Bishop of 356
Worcester and Gloucester for life. By another patent the^^P*'..

"^ * made bi*

King gave him, and his successors for ever, to the main- shop of

tenance of the same Ushopric, the manors of Alchurch, ^JJ*]^^'

Kempsey, Hallow, Grimley, Blockley, and Astcm, in the cester.

eounty of Worceister; and the hundreds of HeswoldslowTheen-

and Patslow, in the said county ; and the manor of Cleve, this

in the county of Gloucester : also the manors of Maysmore,

Brokthoi^, Harscomb, Preston, Longford, Droyscort, and

Brockworth, in the county of Gloucester : and the manors

of Ruge and Farleigh iti the said county: and the manors

of Hopemeleshal, Dewchiurch, and Kilpeck, in the county

of Hereford, lately belonging to the monastery of St. Peter'^s

in Gloucester : and the scite of the manor called the Vine-

yardy with the park, and the King^s part of the manor of

Lasfflngton, and the half c^ the wood called Woolridg,

and Le Perch ; with the parsonages and churches of Hart-

purie, Maiscombre, and Upton, in the city of Gloucester ;

and of Canyme, Northlach, Eenysfml, Welford, South-

semey, and Standiishj in the county of Gloucester ; and of

Dewdiurch, Kilpeck, Glaseburyj Deyenock^ Cowem, ai^

Envias Harndd, in the county <^ Hereford: and the par-

flonagie and church of Newport, in the county of Wenlock,

in Wales ; and the chapel of Piperton in Hereford : and all

Ae tenths in the parishes of Standish, Culdrick, Hardwick,

Overoxiinch, B;anwich, Parva Harveld, Netheroxlineh, Sail,

Putley, Farley, and Auney St. Crucis, in the county of

Gloucester ; and in Devenock, Wentworth, and Talthworth,

6 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK in Hereford: and the portion or annual rent of BSs. 4ed. to
be taken from the rectory of Resimsford, and yearly paid

Anno i66«.by the Vicar of the same church for the time being; and
526*. of the rectory of Teynter ; and 10*. of the rectory of
Rencomb ; and 26*. of the rectory of Nevinsfeld ; and 26*.
of the church of Newport, in the said county of Wen-
lock : and the tenths in Aldesworth, Linton, and Skipton
Solas, in the county of Gloucester ; with all the advowsons
belonging to the aforesaid manors; with the advowsons
and collations of the vicarages of Hartpurie, Maysmore,
and Upton S. Leonards, in the county of the city of
Gloucester ; and of Camyer, Norlech, Kemesmisford, Wel-
ford, Southsemey, and Standish, in the county of Glou*
cester ; and of Dewchurch, Kilpeck, Glasebury, Devenock,
Coweme, and Envias Harrowld ; and the presentations of
chaplains or stipendiaries of those chapels of Maysmore,
Camyas, Stinchecomb, and Piperton, in the counties of
Gloucester and Hereford ; which came to the Eing^s hands
by the concession of the said John Hoper : so fully and
entirely granted as they were before put into the King^s
hands, by reason or pretence of gift, or concession, or sur-
render of the said Hoper : which are extended to the dear
annual value of 1000 marks, above and beyond the tenths
and yearly rents for the time to come reserved by these
presents. To have to him and his successors for ever ; to be
held in pure and perpetual alms :

Hit tenths. And rendering thence yearly to the King at the Court of
First-fruits and Tenths, 66 Z, 13*. 4td, at the feast of our
Lord^s Nativity every year ; to be paid in the name of the
whole tenths, and of the tenth part, as well of the premises
granted to the Bishop and his successors, and of the bishopiic
of Wigom and Gloucester, and of all the manors, rectories
&c. and for full recompence of all tenths. And when the
separate and annual tenths of the foresaid bishoprics in the
357 Court of First-fruits and Tenths, heretofore yearly paid
inter se, did extend to the sum of 136/, 10*. S^d. Yet the
King granted by these presents the said Bishop and his sue*
cessors to be acquitted and disburdened of all sums of maofy

OF KING EDWAKD VI. 7

and burdens, besides the said annual tenths of 6&. IBs, 4d. CHAP.
And this said Bishop to be discharged of the first-fruits for ^^^'
this one time. And the Eing^s Majesty doth covenant to Anno i658.
discharge him, and his successors, yearly, of 183/. 6s. S^cL
yearly to be paid to John Bell, clerk, late bishop of Wor-
cester, out of the foresaid manors belonging to the same bi-
shopric ; and of 5Z. yearly to be paid for the fee of the
chief steward of the foresaid manors ; and of 42^. paid for
the moiety of the fee for keeping* the Bishop^s palace of
Worcester ; and to discharge him of other, &c. But of, &c.
and 261. ISs. 4d. yearly, to be paid to John Tayler, alias
Baker, gent for keeping the register of the Bishop of
Gloucester.

In June a warrant went to the officers of the Court of He it |wr-
First-fruits, to discharge the said Hoper, bishop of Wor- ^^.f^'J^,
cester, of all the first-fruits. Nay, and so much was he £eu- •
Youred, that a letter was sent to the Lord Chancellor, to
take order, that no person should demand a fee of him*
This letter was wrote December 1552.

In the month of May, there was a call of these sergeants Sergeants
at law, Robert Brook, recorder of London, James Dier, John ^ '*^*
Caril, Thomas Gawdy, Richard Catlyn, Rafe Rookesby,
William Stamf(»*d, and WilUam Dallyson, esquires. And
a warrant was issued to the Lord Chancellor, to make out
writs to than, that his Majesty having nominated them to
be sergeants at the law, therefore they should prepare them-
selves for the execution of the same, upon pain of the for<*
{dture of lOOOZ. apiece.

The good Duke of Somerset having been beheaded inTbedaugh-
January last^ the King and Council took care of his ^our^^^J*^
younger daughters, as he had six, viz. Anne, Margaret, Somerset.
Jane, Mary, Katharin, and Elizabeth ; all bred up to I^^u^'b^^^'^'
ing- For I find, by order of the King, they were committed, Wwr.Book.
May 2, 1552, to the Lady Cromwel, who was to have 502.
per aon. for each of them : which salary was, November 1,
increased to 100 marks a year ajnece. One of his daughters,
PUT. the Lady Elizabeth, was before in the keeping of the

iB4

8 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOR Lady Smith, (the wife, I suppose, of Sir Thomas Smitl

who had belonged to the Duke ; or periiaps ratha: the wii

1 Mt. of. Sir Clement Smith, who was her aunt.) And in Februat

there was a warrant to the Exchequer, to pay to that lad

an annuity of 100 marks towards the finding the Lady El

zabeth, one of the late Duke of Somerset'^s daughters, durin

the said Elizabeth'^s abode with her. One of these ladies, vi,

Jane, the third daughter, the Duke her father secretly L

boured to match with the King, and employed the Loi

Strange much about his person, to recommend her to bin

and to take his opportunity to move the King that way ; i

that Lord confessed in the said Duke^s last troubles. Bi

she died unmarried, as also did two of her sisters, Margari

and Kathann. Those that were married were, Anne tl

eldest, who was married to John Dudley earl of Warwicl

and eldest scm to the Duke of Northumberland, and afte

wluds to Sir Edward Umpton, kni^t of the Bath. Elizabet

married Sir Richard Knightly of Fausly, she being his s

358cond wife. Mary was married twice, first ta Sir Bicha]

Rogers of Brianslo in the county <^ Dorset, knt. and oft

to Sir Henry Peyton, knt. Yet I find that Margaret afor

said was desired in marriage by the Lord Strange, in tl

year 1551 : for a letter was directed from the King ai

Council, to the Earl of Derby, his father, dated in Jut

that tl^ Sang^s Majesty was well pleased, that his son shou

solemnize marriage with his kinswoman the Lady Margan

daughter to the Duke of Somerset, But perhaps the Duki

disgrace and misfortunes, that soon after befell him, was tl

occasion that that match took not effect.

1^ As for the Duchess, she ranained in the Tower, (as d

must do all this reign.) In the beg^ning of the year 155

1002. was assigned her out of the profits of the late Duki

lands, by a letter of order to the Chancellor of the Au

mentations, to be paid to the Lieutenant of the Tower i

her use. And it being the good time of Easter, leave ^m

given to Bishop Hoper, formerly the Duke^s chaplain,

vim, her.

OF KING EDWARD VI. 9

May 6, the Lord ChanoeUor, the Bisliop of London, Sir chaf.
John Cheke, Dr. May, Dr. Wendy, were appointed viflitorB '__

of Eaton college. May 14, Mr. Riley, vice-jHovoBt, iqppeared. Ab^ i**t.
Hurland, the usher, and Avise, a fdlow, were warned to j ^j^iej.
appear : and Fawding, one of the fellows, was committed to
the Fleet for lewd words.

June 10, Covent Garden and Long Acre, (which have CoTcot
imjnroved wnee to such a vast estate,) were given to the Earl ^^^^^*
of Bedford.

This summer, in the same month of June, King Edward The King's
began his last prepress. It had been resolved, the extent J^u.*^
of the progress should be to Pool in Dorsetshire, and to
come back by Salisbury homeward to Hampton Court:
fifty pound of gold was coined of the new standard, to
carry about in this progress; of which these were the gests :
June ^, he removed to Hampton Court ; thence to Oat-
lands, another of the King'^s houses, where he stayed about
eight days ; thence to Guildford in Surrey ; thence to Pet-
worth in Sussex ; thence to Condrey, Sir Anthony Brown^s
bouse, where the King was most nobly banqueted ; thenoe
to Halvenaker, a pretty house beside Chichester ; thence to
Warblington, a fair house of Sir Richard Cotton^s ; thencae
to Waltham, a fair great old house, formerly belon^ng to
the IKdiop of Winchester, at that present the Lord Trea-
sarer^a. In all these places the King had good hunting
and good cheer. Thence to Portsmouth ; where the King
wdl viewed the town and the haven, but cluefly the bul-
warks : of which he gave this account in a letter to Fitz-
Patric, ^^ that the bulwarks were chargeable, massy, wdl Hit i^mf-
'' ramjnred^ but ill fashicmed, ill flanked, and set in unmeet]
^ places : that for the town, it was weak in comparison d
^ what it ought to be ; that it was too great, there bong
*^ within the walls large closes, and much vacant room : that
*' the haven was notably great, and standing by nature e$my
^ to be fortified. For the more strength thereof, he AestmA
^^ two strong castles on either side of the haven^ ni thif
" mouth thereof.'' From Portsmouth he went to TuMMilf
the Earl of Soulhamptcm's house: thence to SotHhanipt/m.

10 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK The dtizens had put themselves to much cost against his
comings by painting, repuring, and rampiring of their walls.

Anno 1662. Thence to Beaulieu, or Bewly, a little village in the middle of
the New Forest: thence to Chrisfs-church, a little town in the
same Forest ; where the King was the 22d of August : thence
35p to Woodlands; thence to Salisbury; thence to Wilton; thence
to Wotisfunt, the Lord Sands^s house ; thence to Winches-
ter ; thence to Basing, the Lord Treasiurer'^s house ; thence
to Donnington castle, near the town of Newbury ; thence
to Reding ; and so to Windsor, whither he came Septemb.
15; and thence, Septemb. ^, to Hampton Court again.
While he was at Christ^s-church, he wrote an ingenious ac-
count of his progress so far, to his favourite Bamaby Fitz-
Book Til. Patric, then in France : which is preserved in FuUer^s His-
P*"- tory.

Kings at The King went this his progress in great state, beseem-

^^: ing a monarch : and he took along with him, as part of his

King. retinue, four kings at arms, viz. Garter, Clarencieux, Nor-

roy, and Ulster, the only king of arms for all Ireland, whom

the King had made the last February ; and three heralds,

viz, Somerset, Rouge Dragon, and Blewmantel; and ap-

pointed them handsome allowances for their diet : the chief

kiag had ^s. a day, and the rest 6^. 8d. The noblemen

and officers that attended the King had each a band of men

to go with them, which amounted to the numb^ of four

thousand: but the country being very poor, both in hay

and grass and other provisions, they were dismissed, and

only one hundred and fifty culled out to go with the King.

Prepwation Among Other preparations for this progress, a letter was

for the pro- ^^^^ jujy ^^ ^ g^. phiHp Hoby, surveyor of the ordnance^

to be resident within the Tower, joining with the Lieutenant
of the same, to take good order for the keeping thereof, and
of the city of London, in the time of progress. He fell sick
in the Tower soon after his coming there, so that in Au^
gust the King licensed him to repair into the country. Fiir
the King^s own furniture and apparel. Sir Andrew Dudley,
who was keeper of the wardrobe in Westminster, was or^
dered to deliver to Azanius, the King's armourer at Green-

OF KING EDWABD ¥1. 11

wich, a yaid oi crimaan vdvet and a yard <^ satin, to trim CH \r.
an headpiece (or his Majesty : tot it seems the King did, in

this noble progress, scmietimes ride in armour. And a war- Amm isst.
rant was sent to Humfirey Orme, keeper of the standing
wardrobe of the Tow;er of London, to deliver to Thomas
Chappel, the King^s bedmaker, one bed, and a bolster of
fustian, filled with down ; which, I suppose, was the King^s
travelling bed. The said bedmaker received of Sir Andrew
Dudley, for the appareling of the new bed, seventeen yards
and an half of for the o^er, tester, and double va-

lance ; six yards and an half of taffeta to line the ceiler ;
eleven yards and half of red Bruges satin to line the
tester; four yards of Turky alk incarnate; twenty yards
of crimson damask for curtains; twenty-two yards and
three quarters of crimson capha, for a damask to the same
bed ; seventeen yards and an half of crimson damask for a
rich counterpoint; ten yards and an half of changeable
sarcenet to line the same ; and two papers, with part of aiw
other paper, of passemain Ifu^ of gold ; containing together
sixty-seven yards, to garnish the curtains and ceilers of the
same bed.

Yirhile the King was in his progress, the Duke of Noitli-TWIM«
umberland, general warden of all the marches towacds SeoU^]|^^^ji
land, being gone down thither, with the Earls of Hunting'-' «>i>«»4ww
QOQ and Pembroke, to take a view there, whidi was byj^mlU*.
order of Council in May; having so done, aooordin|^y wwte
to the King the state of those places : and advised^ thai
some new fortifications should be made in Berwick; thai
A some unnecessary expences there should be retrendicd; thm
^1 thaie mi^t be a general deputy warden, and three father
jA wardens of the three marches; recommending one tor iht^HGtp
Del ^^uty. He mentioned also to the King, eertmn ouikm^
^1 that is, some in the borders that had robbed and i|wilcd ;
W these were willing to return to their obedience tiptm a
^ j pardon. To this letter of the Duke^s the King in aJl ptmtU

figneii and sent an answer, in July, flgmfyioup^ ^ thai'/v i(^«^f
" the BSng thought his oinnkm good, and very ntammjf^^*^
^^ concerning a new piece to be made in Barwicfc^ mtd ikm^^^^'
** charges thereby diminished And tberefim his fika^ir^; ^'^' ^^^'

lh-

1« MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK « was, that he, the Duke, should give order and direct!

' ** there for the new plat and device, and to cause such pa:

Anno 1559. (( q{ thg works to be first advanced as shall most need, o

** before the other. And also, his Majesty did well all<

** his good opinion, to have a deputy general over all t

** three marches, and deputy wardens there : where 1

** Majesty thought none more meet than the Lord Whj

'^ ton ; of whom the said Duke had thereto a good opinic

^ And finally, that the King was contented that cert£

" persons outlawed, and of their voluntary wills retumc

** should have his mercy shewed them.^ Here the Du

saw 10,00(M. disbursed, which was sent down before him.

Reports There was notice taken by the people, that the Duke

D^'t not Northumberland went not with the King in his progres

poing with which made some surmise, aiid others talk abroad, i

cording as they would have it, that the Duke was in d

favour at court, and was commanded to be absent. Th

when it came afterward to the Duke^s ears, was not to

put up by him : and the complaint was brought before t

Council ; and the reporters, some of them, were found w

punished. For so we meet with this order of Council

September.

Some com- « Sept. 26, one John K3rrton was committed to the Fie

reporting ^^ ^^^ reporting that the Duke of Northumberland shot

^^« ^^ be commanded to be absent from the court, with ott

*^ slanderous reports. And one John Burrough was co

** mitted to the Tower for the like matter.''

A match While the King was in his progress, he endeavoured

tbe Lord g'^^J this Duke, by forwarding a match between the Lc

mdif ^Md <^"^^^<^<1? Ws son, and a daughter of the Earl of Cumb

the Earl of land. For this marriage had been earnestly laboured to

^^J*'' brought to pass ; and the more, for that there were gn

daughter impediments pretended. Whether the Earl had no incUi

Toured. tions thereto, and to conceal the same (for it was not safe

deny Northumberland any thing) gave out these impe

ments : perhaps some precontract ; or, more probably, 1

cause she came of a family related to the royal blood. I

Warr. Book, this purpose, there was a letter writ by the King, in Ju

to the Earl of Cumberland, ^^ de^ng him to grow to so

OP KING EDWARD VI. 18

^< good end forthivith, in the matter of marriage between CHAP.
'* the Lord Guildford Dudley and his daughter; with li» ^^^'

^^ cenoe to the said Earl, and all others that shall travail Anno 1 559.
^^ therein, to do their best, for eonducement of it to effect ;
^< any law, statute, or other thing to the contrary notwith-
^^ standing.^ And that the Duke was the impulsive cause
of the King^s writing this earnest letter in his son^s behalf,
may appear by a letter which he forthwith sent to the said
Duke, signifying as well his Majesty^s writing and speaking
to the said Earl heretofore, for this matter of marriage, as
his writing again at this present, for the permitting thereof,
with licence thereof to the said Duke, his son, or any tor
diem, to travail therein, any law, statute, or other thing to
the contrary notwithstanding. But though this, whatever
die cause was, succeeded not, (and perhaps the forwarding 36l
this match might be one of the ends of his going down into
the north,) yet the next year the ambitious Duke had his
defflie fiilly, and joined this his son to the Lady Jane, of
die blood royal) (though it proved his own and their de-
structions,) and his elder scxi. Sir Andrew, to the said Earl
of Cumb^land^s daughter, as we shall see in due place.

The King, this July, made an exchange (for the benefit An ex-
of some of his craving courtiers) with the Bishop of Bath^j,^^]^
and Wells. The King' to have the chief mansion of the of Bath,
deanery of WeUs, with the lands within the prednct there-
of, and the manor of Westoker, and the patronage o^ the
parsonage thereof, and the borough of Wellington and
Stoguney, in the county of Somerset, and the park of
Wedmore, and an annuity coming out of the manor of
CHtttonbury : and the Bishop to have the chief mansion
Monging to the Bishop of Bathes see, commonly called ^
^iAop of Bath and WdW palace^ and all within the pre*
onct of the same ; and the house in Wells appcnnted for
tk safe custody of clerks convict, and the manors in Wells
tad Westbofough, and the borough of Wells, and the hun-
ched of WeUs, and all the appurtenances ; which lately the
and Bidmp had made over to the Duke of Somerset, and now
were fiorfeited to the crown, and so reverted again upon

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BOOK this exchange: but he was to pay yearly to the King
^^' the manor of Wells lOZ. For this there was an indent

Anno 1569. between the King and the said Bishop, viz. that the Bisi
had bargained and sold to his Highness, his heirs, and
ecutors, the chief mansion, &c. And then the King mac
gift to the said Bishop, in consideration of the said barg
and sale, and to his successors, of the chief house of
see, &c. to be holden in pure alms.
Dr.Haddon About this time the King and Council had provided
***** ^id f '^^ masters for two colleges ; the one in Cambridge,
president of Other in Oxford. Dr. Walter Haddon, a very learned ;
^[^^*°* honest man, doctor of the civil law, that had lately b
removed from King's college to be mastier of Trinity 1
in Cambridge, (of ,. whom the King had made great us(
his proceedings, and in commissions for religion,) was
tended to be promoted to the presidentship of Magdi
college in Oxford; Dr. Oglethorp, the present preside
having been dealt withal to resign. So, July ^, Dr. Mo
was recommended to be master of Trinity hall in O
bridge: and, August 14, Dr. Haddon was appointed to
elected master of Magdalen college, Oxon, at Michaeli
next, when Oglethorp promised to resign. But it happen
that neither Oglethorp was after willing to resign, nor
fellows to elect Dr. Haddon ; which caused the King, a
one letter written to that college in behalf of Haddon w
out success, to send them a second angry one. But at
he was placed there.
Sir Andrew Sir Andrew Dudley, brother to the Duke, having b
J^o^jyp"*- captain of Guisnes, an high and honourable post esteei
in those times, and got into debt by the service there,
now, in October, sent for home, to prevent the inconvi
ences of a feud between him and the Lord Willough
captain of Calais: whereby he became nearer about
King*s person, and was made one of the four principal ^
tlemen of the King's privy chamber ; he was also keepe:
the King's wardrobe in Westminster. He it was, that in
362 beginning of the King^s reign, being in the Pauneey, on
the King^s ships, met at sea with the Lion, a principal t

OF KING EDWARD VI. 16

3f Scotland, and giving her a broadade^ did so maul bar, CHAP.
Jiat he took her. ^'^•

The King took care <^ the Tower; and now, in October, Anoo iMt.
^sstablished articles and ordinances for Sir John Gage, <^on- ^|[|^?^''^
stable thereof, and Sir Edward Warner, newly made lieu- Tower.
::«nant, and for the yeomen of the guard, with others, ap-
pointed to give attendance in the said Tower of Londcm,
For the sure keeping of the same, to be observed and kept,
upon pains therein limited. Sir Anthony Darcy was Ueu-
tenant hitherto ; but in the month <^ October, the said Sir
Anthony received a letter, to deliver by indenture to Sir
^ward Warner the charge <^ the Tower, with the pri-
vaaecsj and all other things thereunto belcmging.

And for the relief of the country, and for the making Prodama.
oommore cheap and plenty, a proclamation came forth inttuLe.'^
November, willing and charging all justices of the peace,
! diligBitly to have respect to the due execution of a statute
; Qttde the last session of Parliament for tillage, to be used
I ssit was in any one year since the first year of the reign of
1 Eng Henry VIII.

It was the King^s pressing need, I suppose, that occa- Commis-
, Boned somewhat a severe commission to be issued forth this^^'^^ '

year, not only to take away out of churches all garments sr^ods from
; «»d other utenrils used formerly in superstitious worship. "•""•""•
I out to take, fo^ the King^s use, all goods belonging to the
diuiches that could be spared : and then, to be sure, little
Wugh would be left. Now in November, a letter was di-
luted to ** to take all certificates and returns of the
^ late commission, directed to divers countries, for the said
^ survey <^ church goods, and to devise the best means for
^ the bringing and converting to the King^s use such goods
*' as could be spared in the churches.*" Among other things
that came into the King'*s possession by virtue of this commis-
sqo, was good store of linen, good and bad, as surplices, altar-
doths, towels, napkins, &c. used for the celebration of mass.
Tbese the Bishop of London, as it seems, as much as was
4iind in the churches of London, or of his diocese, begged
iorlbe poor children of ChristWhurch : and accordingly a

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BOOK letter came from the King and Council to the Bishop of

^^* London, to deliver to the Governor of the hosjntal of

Anno 1 562. Chrisfs^hurch in London, such linen vestures and other

linen cloth not employed for the ministry in the said

churches, as of the Eing^s ^ft, for the poor orphans, and

other poor people.

The King The King was now selling away apace the rectories and

8di8 away ^dyQ^gQug Qf guch churches as came into his hands by act

rectories. . . j

Book of of Parliament, either from the joaonasteries, chantries, and
^' free chapels, or by exchanges. I will here give an account
of a few of these purchases.
ToRere Thomas Reve and George Cotton purchased the par-
and Cotton. gQjjage of East Pury, alias Potterspury, with the appur-
tenances, in the county of Nottingham, with divers other
lands, to the yearly value of 852. 7^. 6d. for the sum of
li&ll, 8s. B^d. paid to the treasury.
To Whiting A patent was granted to John Whiting and Thomai
and Free- pj^gmmi^ ^f thg county of Leicester, gentlemen, of the pa*
rish and church of Wissenden, in the county of Rutltfidy
lately belonging to the priory of Sempringham, in iiM^
county of Lincoln ; and the parsonage of Moulton, and th^
363 advowson and right of the vicarage of the parish chinch oC
Moulton ; and the parsonage of Winswick, and the advow<r
. son and right of patronage of the vicarage of the pante
church there, in the county of Huntingdon, lately bekiQj^
ing to the priory of Huntingdon, &c. Et iUis est concesiWK^
rectorias prcBcUctcts ad proprios ustis. Dated Nov. 18^ ISfifc*
For which they paid 1S24Z. 13^. lOid.
To Brad- A patent granted, and stands in the book next to thal^
shaw. mentioned before, to John Bradshaw the elder, of the par**
aonage and church of Prestend, with the right of the pCr-
tronage of the vicarage of the same, in the county of
ford, late parcel of the monastery of Wigmore, in the
county, with all com and hay in the parish of Prestend. Hi'
iUis est concessum ccmvertere^ &c.
To Marga- Another purchase of the great tithes in the town «nJ
re rown. g^y g q£ Wyke, and in Pershore in Worcestershire, by
Margaret Brown, for the sum of 2662. 4^.

OF KING EDWABD VI. 17

A patent was granted to Sir Rowland HiU, knt [and al- CHAP,
derman of Londcm,] for the sum of 408/. Ids. 8d. of the

parsonage and churdi of Sainton upon Hyne Heath, in the ^^^ ****•
county of Salop; and the advowson, donation, and free dis-j^ ^yi^ ~
position, and right of patronage of the vicarage of the
[^hurch, and one rectory in the county of Chester ; and the
rectory of Sherf, with the appurtenances, in the counties of
Salop and Stafford: to have to him and his heirs, of the
yearly value of 172. 17^. 9^^. Et quod convertere possit
pnedictas rectorieu adproprios usus.

To which I will add another purchase, (though it hap- And to
pened two or three months after,) made by Thomas Cecyl, cecyL
son or relation to Sir William Cecyl, secretary, and John
M, for the sum of 20552. 19s. 9^d. of the parsonage of
Canfield, with the advowson of the same, and divers other
advowsons and chantry lands, and lands ^ven to the
nuimtenance of priests, to sing soul masses, and to the
nuuntenance of obits, &c. in divers shires ; which were ex-
tended to the clear yearly value of 942. 3«. 9d. to them and
d)^ hdrs, to be held in soccage, and part in capite. Dated
FA. 9.

These sales were made for raising money for satisfying C^mmm"
theCDg'^s debts: and as a commission came out lately to^^f^^y,
certain persons for the sale of 1000/. lands, so a warrant ^'H**
in November came to the Lord ChanceUcn', signifying to
him, that it was his Majesty^s pleasure, that immediately
upon the determination of the said commisskin, he lAu/uUl
make out three other like commis^ons, one after sanAher^
under the great seal, putting into every of them lOWl/.
[lands per ann.j to be sold by the said commis^noner^ in
Hke manner as the other. These commissioners were, th«
ffidu^ of Norwich, Sir Jdin Grates, Sir Philip Ilritjy, fe/:.

The King now took care of the merchants f^ Ilni(t//ir/;M m^f
and allowed one. Edward Prince, Thomas Hick^ awl If// JJ,'^'^;/
bm Butler, merchant adventurers of that dty, t// tififtf^- h f"*^ • "'^
master of that mystery, and two wardens, an^l tniuU^ ti n y/il^/X^,i,
ooiporation for ever : which makes it seem as t\u0»0i itt^ts^
were no corporation of merchants before in that city, kfni hH

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BOOK free traders: unless perhaps this corporation was esta^
^^' blished for the traders into some particular parts of the

Anno 1553. world, which are not mentioned in the manuscript.

364 Two embassies were now, Decemb. % preparing to be
^^"Tt despatched. Sir Andrew Dudley was going to the Em-
the Em- peror : and a letter was sent to Morison, embassador in
Ftaush'' ^^^^ court, wherein the affairs of the ambassade of the said
King. Sir Andrew was commended to him. And Sir Henry Syd-
ney wasjambassador to the French King: and letters were
sent to Sir William Pickering, lieger there, touching the
business about which Sir Henry was sent.
iThe magis* About this time letters were sent to the King from the
strasburgh i»a^strates of Strasburgh, (from which place the learned
Mud for Peter Martyr came last into England,) to permit the same
tyr. reverend man to return again to them; for that they needed

him in their public schools. But the King, and Archbirfiop
Cranmer, and as many as favoured sincere religion and sound
knowledge in divinity, were loath to lose him from Oxford,
where he now was placed the King's professor. Therefore a
letter from the King was sent to Christopher Mount, th«
King'*s agent in those parts, residing there, to make relatioi
The iUng'8 to the Said ma^strates of Argentine, " that Peter Martys
answer. ^ ^hom they desired to return thither for the govemmen
of their schools, could not depart hence, he being already
appointed reader of the King'^s Majesty'^s public lecture
of divinity at Oxford, and was admitted free denieei^
" and to desire them to accept his Majesty's doings herei)
" in good part.*"
NavBistores The King took care of his shipping : and to supply him"
brought in g^jf f^^^^ ^j^^ ^^^ country with cables, corda^, and other

tion. tiaval Stores, in the month of February he agreed to allow

ten clothiers of Suffolk to make five hundred coarse cloths,
for the use of Richarcf Crag, of London, draper, to be
transported to Dansig, and the eastern parts ; commanding
the customers to take bond of the same person, to bring in
the said naval provisions, as much as should amount to the
value of the said cloth.

'V-

OF KING EDWARD VL 19

CHAP. XV. 365

A commission Jbr inquiry into heresies. The new service.
The Bishop of Durham's^ troubles : deprived. A synod.
Articles of Religion^ cmd a Catechism^ confirmed. Arti-
cles Jbr y/nifbrmiiy. Giipin'^s sermon at court.

JMOW for a few matters relating to religion, or reli^ousAimoi55«.
men. A commission was directed this year, dated in Octo-Acommis-
ber, to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, ^^^'b^.
and other worshipful persons in Kent, to make inquiry after resies in
sundry heresies lately sprung up ; and for the examination *" '
and punishment of erroneous opinions, as it seems, of the f ,
Anabaptists and Arians : of which sort some now, notwith- '
standing former, severities, shewed their heads. Under pre-
tence of this commission, some Papists of that country did
hope to bring divers honest professors of the gospel into
trouble. And indeed these were the chief procurers of this
commission, and were joined with the Archbishop in it:
dissembling, nevertheless, to be indifferent in the matters of
rdigion. The Archbishop and commissioners sat at Ash-
&rd. Among others questioned at this commission, a man
«nd a woman of good life, and professors of religion, living
at Adiford, were accused falsely by several employed for
that purpose, to have been lewd together in an house :
where, the witnesses said, they saw them by moonshine, at
deven o^clock at night, in an entry on such a side of the
house, and on such a day of the month. And they cried
<»it to the Archbishop, for exemplary punishment to be
taken on them. The Archbishop going that day to dinner. The Arch-
passed by the side of the house where this lewdness was pre- gaL^ty.
tended to be committed : where making a stop, by consider-
ing found that the moon, on the day sworn, shone on the
<idber ode of the house at eleven o^clock, and was hardly up,
or but just rising at that time. So that it appeared not
possible to see into that part of the house at that time, by
tbe help of the moon. And considering withal the good
reputation of the man, and of the woman especially, and the

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BOOK ill disposition of the accusers, by this means the sagacious
Archbishop made a clear discovery of the innocency of these

Anno 1668. two folks, and the malicious wickedness of their adversaries :
and so he set them both at hberty . And when a year or two
after he was himself in bands at Oxford, he sent a present
to the good woman, by one W. P. to whom the Archbishop
told this story, and who writ this account ; desiring her to
forgive him for his straitness used towards her. And the
Fox, 1st gaid person carried this present unto the woman, and de-
1477. ' liv«*ed the message accordingly.

Orden As the revising, perusing, explaining, and finishing the

new rerited Bodc of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacra-
Common ments, had been committed to the Archbishop, and certain
Book. other learned divines ; so the work was completed, and was
Bookf*" printed ojff by Grafton, in the month of September, anno
366 I^I* But it seems the book was not so correct as it should
be; for September ^7, an order came to Grafton, the
printer, in any wise to stay from uttering any of the books
of the new service : and if he had distributed any of them
among his company, [of Stationers,] that then he give strait
commandment not to put any of them abroad, until certain
faults therein were corrected. And, probably, one reason of
this order might be, for inserting the article for declaring
the right meting of kneeling at the communion. For which
there was an order in October.
The reri- These reviewers, before spoken of, were Cranmer, Rid-
ley, and certain other doctors ; whereof Dr. Cox was one :
who being met together at Windsor, diligently, as their
scope was, reformed the book according to the word of God.
T^de^ And they intended also to proceed to the restoring of a
nsfton dit- good discipline in the Church. But here great stop and op-
<^i>i^^' position was made ; and loath men w^e to be brought under
ecclesiastical discipline. Of this, Cox wrote to BuUinger,
Cox to October 5, 1552. Therein he told him, '' that they had
Baiiinger. « already altered the rites of the public prayers and sacra-
<< ments, and framed them according to the rules of Grod^s
^^ word. But we hate, said he, those bitter institutions of
'* Christian discipline. We would be sons, yea, heirs, but

OF KING EDWARD VI, m

** we abhor the rod. And he prayed Bullinger, that he CHAP.
*' would by his letters stir up the great men and nobles, to ^^'

take particular care about this discipline; without which, Anno i56«.

with gi^eat grief he spake it, the kingdom of God would be

taken away from them.'' But something Cox met with in
Bullinger's fifth Decad, in the place where he treated of the
Lord's supper, which he was not satisfied in, and which
looked contrary to an order they had made in the Com-
munion-Book, concerning communicating the sick: which
that learned man seemed not to allow of, for want of a con-
gr^ation, which four or five persons could not make.
Where Cox propounded this inconvenience, as arising from
his opinion ; ** What if, when the Lord's supper was to be
^^ publicly administered, all should go out, or refuse, besides
** three, four, or five, that stayed to receive ; might not the

sacrament be lawfully administered to them ? Why then

should the sick be deprived of that liberty ?'^ Of ihis he D,
desired BuUinger's fuller solution.

But as for the aforementioned book, thus reformed. The new
called now the new service^ it was ratified by the Parlia- J?^^^ "'
ment that sat in January following, in an act, entitled. An
Act far the Uniformity of Common Prayer^ and Ad/mvnis^
traUon of the Sacraments. Whereby aU persons were en-
joined to resort to th^r parish churches on Sundays and
holydays, to hear those prayers, and to abide there quietiy
and soberly, upon pain of the censures of the Church : and
no other forms to be used, nor any present at such forms,
upon pain of imprisonment.

There had, about the year 1550, been a conspiracy in the Bishop of
north : to which the Bishop of Durham had been privy ; but ^^^*
thought fit to conceal it. But one Ninian Menvil discovered
it; and withal informed against the said Bishop: where-
upcm he was in danger of misprision of treason. This busi-
ness against the Bishop came before the Council in the month
of June, when it began to be considelred: but the King
being then about taking his progress, it was resolved, June
19, to defer it till his Majesty's return. About September
the Bishop was sent up for by the Council, upon certain ac- 367

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BOOK cuHdtionfi. And accordingly, about the faegnnmig of Ocb>-
' ber, htf was in I^ndon. And on the 4th and 5th dqrs d

Aoiioi&6t.the Haid month, lodged at the late mnnaarpiy of Wlote
Monks on Tower-hill ; and aoon after was wniiiitlffd thence
to the Tower ; and a special oommiflooD appcanted &r Ub
trial. Which commission was directed to Sir Roger Chohne-
ly, lord chief justice of the Cng*s Bench, Sir Bidiaid Bead,
John Gosnold, Richard Goodrick, Robert Cfaidkj, ■
Stamford, esquires, and Richard lid, doctor of the kw,
&c. or to seven, six, or five of them, '^ to call befote them,
^* at such time and place as they should think oimvemeBt,
** Cutbert, bishop of Durham, and examine him of aD maii-
^* ner of conventicles, conspiracies, contempts, and oonceil-
*^ ments, or other offences. And if he be found goStCyj to
'< deprive him of his bishopric ; and otherwise, to do in the
Anddepri. *^ premises according to their wisdoms,^ 8e& In fine, he
^***°' was found guilty, and deprived, the 14th of October, of his
bishopric; or the 11th day, according to King Edwaid*s
Journal.
The bi- And as Tunstal was thus deprived in October, so in No-

hlesiowld vember following a grant was made to Robert Home, pro-
upoD Horn, fessor of divinity, and dean of Durham, of the said Insbopric,
'with all the lordships, manors, lands. Sec to the same be-
longing, during his natural life. But in an Apology writ by
the said Horn, soon after his flying abroad under Queen
Mary, it is evident that he accepted not of it : and the les-
son why he refused it was, because he cared not to take
Tunstars bishopric over his head. Yet Tunstal, when re-
stored in the said Queen^s reign, was his great and chief
enemy, as he complained in the said apology. The
liishopric was soon after dissolved, with an intent to found
two in the room of it.
Mriii lit* re- JJut a worrant was issued out to Sir John Williains to pay

Will dtfll r * w

to Menvile, [for his good service in making this discovery,]

Outiawrd ^y ^^y ^^ ^'** Majesty's reward, the sum of lOOL but he
uiukr iittid for this afterwards. For in the first and second of
Coll. Ill- ^^^R Philip and Queen Mary, under the name of Ninian
•liL par.iu. Mtfwile nuper de Sedwich in com. Dunelm<, Armig. he was

OF KING EDWARD VI. 28

indicted in the Eing^s Bench of high treason, [perhaps he CHAP,
was concerned in Wyat''s business,] and upon process he was

outlawed, and so returned. He lived to the fourth year of Anno i66«.
Queen Elizabeth : in whose reign, long after, his daughter
and heir brought in a writ of error in the Eing'^s Bench
against her father^s indictment; wherein two errors were
assigned. And the outlawry was reversed, (Mmo regin.
Elijsab.rt.

De Chambre, in his history of the bishops of Durham, Bishop
i^ieweth how Menvile, (whom he calls Rinian Menvile,) as the Dean
he accused Bishop Tunstal of concealing a conspiracy in the *^?"^^
north in the year 1550, so in the year 1548 he had also ao- conspiracy
cused him, together with his chancellor, and the Dean : a>^d^jj*j^|: j.
I suspect it was of a crime of the like nature ; for it is {n'o- par. i.
bable enough, that as in that year there was a dangerous
rebellion by Papists broken out in the west, so there might
be another hatching in the northern parts, to back them.
Upon this accusation, the. said Bishop, and the two other
accused with him, were summoned up to London; where
the Dean, named Dr. Whitehead, formerly the prior there,
an ancient man, and not used to these harasses and troubles,
ended his days, and was buried in the church of the Mi-
nories, London.

Hay ward, that undertook to write the history of King 368
Edward^s life, was ignorant of all this. For this is all he^^yj^*'^
writ of Bbhop Tunstal'^s troubles; ^^That he was sent to the
'^ Tower for concealment of I know not what treasons, writ-
^^ ten to him, I know not by whom, and not discovered
^' until what I shall call the party, did reveal it.'*'* Because
he could pick nothing else of this matter out of King Ed-
ward'^s brief Journal, which was the main assistant of his
history, and he could not tell where to go, or would not take
the pains to give himself further information, he sets it
down after this sarcastical manner, below the gravity of a^
historian ; and all, the better to conceal his own ignorance,
and to tax the government. Was this writ like an historian,
whose office is to relate.and^ve the reader pUin and satis-

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BOOK factory accounts of things? But this is a digresaon ivludi
^^' the r^er will pardon. And I proceed.

Anno 1559. While the Parliament was ^tting this winter, a synod aho
A 8]rnod. was held ; wherein was framed and concluded a book of
Articles of Articles of Rehgion, taken out of the word of God, purified
WaifBook **"^ reformed fix)m the errors of Popery and other sectfc
« But it was in the month of May, anno ISSS,^ (I tran-
scribe out of the Warrant-Book,) '^ that these Artides,
^^ agreed upon by the bishops and other learned men, in
<^ the synod at London, in the yeai* of our Lord 165S^ for
'< avoiding of controversy in ojnnions, and the establishment
<< of a godly concord, in certain matters of reli^on, were
<^ published by the King^s commandment^ And a book,
containing these Articles, was then eigned by the Elng^s own
hand.
A Gate- j^ Catechism for the instruction of children in the funda-
pioTed by mentals of true religion passed the said synod ; but who was
the iynod. ^^ author was not known in those days. Bishop Ridley
was charged to be the author and publisher thereof, by
Ward and Weston, in the disputation with him at Oxford ;
who falsely also told him, that Cranmer had said so but the
day before. Ridley declared he was not, and that Cranmoc^
would not say so. But he confessed that he saw the book,
perused it after it was made, and noted many things for it:
and so consented to the book. Weston then told Ridley,
that he made him at the synod to subscribe it, being then a
bishop, as he said, in his ruff: but Ridley replied, he com-
pelled no man to subscribe. Indeed he set his hand to it;
and so, he said, did Cranmer ; and that then it was given to
others of the convocation to set their hands, but without
compulsion. Ward then would have framed an argument
out of this Catechism against Ridley, to prove, that though
Christ was ascended into heaven, yet he mi^t be on earth ;
and so consequently in the sacrament: and then quoted a
passage out of it. Si visibiliter et in terrisy &c.
Licence for What I have to Say more of this Catechism is, that it
^"" ^ * ' seems to have been pubUshed in English as well as in Latin,

OF KING EDWARD VI. 26

^iutt John Day printed it, and licensed to come abroad 155S. CHAP.
Jot, according to the Warrant-Book, ** in September, 1552,

** a licence was granted to the same printer, to print it both ^nno issf.
^^ in Latin and English, the King having caused it to be set^*"'^*'^*
"forth:" but it was not printed before 1553. And the
reason it was so long between the licence and the publica^
tion, (half a year and more,) I conjecture was, because it
was thought fit to have the allowance first of the convoca-
txxi, for the ^ving it the greater countenance and authority.
It was certainly writ by Alexander Noel, as I find by com- The author.
paring Node's Catechism and this together. The coUocu^SGQ
tores are in both Catechisms the same, vi%. magister and
audUor. And in many places the very same questions and
answers are given verbatim ; only NoePs Catechism, pub-
lished under Queen Elizabeth, is much larger. In May the
next year, viz. 1558, the Council sent their letters abroad
in behalf of this Catechism, enjoining it to be taught to
scholars, ^^ as the ground and foundation of their learning," Enjoined to
as it is expressed in the Warrant-Book. schools.

At the same time were many letters issued out, dated May Articles for
20, to the clergy, " That the King had sent unto them cer- ^^^"^^^
** tain articles (which were fifty-four in number) for an uni-
** form order to be observed in every church within the realm :
^^ which articles are there said to be gathered with great
** study, and by the greatest learned men of the bishops,'^
&C. These articles were enjoined for uniformity in rites, Vide Cran-
as the last year were framed the articles for uniformity in ^^J^^'
doctrinCy h&ng forty-two in number, though published notch. S7.
before June this year. And thus, by the care of the Arch-
biafaop, the reformation of the Church seemed to be com-
pletely provided for. But what these articles were, I cannot
tell ; nor do I know any book or manuscript but this, where
-there be any footsteps or mention of them.

Bernard Gilpin, famed in the north for his good zeal to Gilpin
religion, and his care of his flock, was sent for up to court J[^u,^
to preach before the King. In obedience to which he came
up, and on the first Sunday after Epiphany he preached,
though the King, upon some occasion detained, was not

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BOOK present to hear him. It being a notable sermon, not 9fB'
ing vice, in whomsoever he met with it, and pcnnting to tlie

Anno 1558. comiptions of these times, I shall briefly give some aooomt
of it He preached upon the gospel for the day, wiuck
was Luke ii. be^ning at ver. 49, taking only one dantt .
of it, Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's iiui-
ness f The method he chose for his discourse was, to shew
in order, how all estates of men, the clergy, the nobililji
and the commonalty, were under the bands of this oUigi-
Uon. They must be about their Father^'s budness. And he
must, he said, cry so unto all estates, as well ot the ecde-
riastical mimstry, as of the dvU governance, together with
the vulgar people,
to* tT^fh* ^® began with the priests, who, he said, seined to hare
•ennon. brought blindness into the whole body, making men to for-
get their heavenly Father^'s business. Then he shewed the
avarice and ambition of the clergy in former days; and
how the Bishop of Rome abused Peter^s keys to fill Judas'*!
sachel; how he dispensed with all prelates that broug^
any money, from obeying Chrises commission given to Pe-
ter. Feed, feed my lambs and my sheep ; and stretched it
so largely, that instead of feeding Christ's Iambs and sheep^
he allowed them to feed hawks, hounds, and horses, I will
not say, said he, harlots ; and instead of fishers of men, he
made them to become fishers of benefices. He hroug^
preaching into such contempt, that it was accounted a great
absurdity for a cardinal to preach after he had once bestrid
his moyle. And then he declared, that if he had that gpft,
strength, and calling, (though he were sure to smart for it,)
he had rather speak against the Pope^s enormities in Hasae,
than to speak of them there. Then he declaimed against
the intolerable abuses that came from Rome, and could not
be driven away, and sent to Rome again to their fiulier:
370 he meant dispensations for pluralities and totquots, and for
non-residences : which had, he said, so many patrons, that
they could not be driven away, together with other abuses. •
From the clergy he intended to turn his speech to the
Eong and the nobles; but they were not then present

OF KING EPWARD VI. «7

\£^lHkexeBt be used these words; ^^I am come this day to CHAP.
^3i*^ prelu^ to the King, and to those that be in authority un-

*►* der him. I am very sorry they should be absent, which Anno i65«.

.^ ougjit to give example, and encourage others to the hear-

t:^ ing of Grod^s word. And I am the more sorry, because
. ^ other preachers before me complain of their absence. But

- •* you will say, they have weighty affairs in hand. Alas !
"*"' : ^ hath Grod any greater buaness than this ? ^But in their

- ** absence I will speak to their seats, as if they were pre-
^ s&Qt.*" And so he proceeded to speak to the King, and
dm> to the nobles. Whereof, concerning such of them as

- were patrons of Uvings, he said, that they saw that none
did their duty : and that they thought as good to put in

' asses as men : and that as for the bishops, they were
aever so liberal formerly in making of lewd priests, but
.they w^re at that present as hberal in making lewd vicars.
&e dared to say, that if such a monster as DervU Gatherel,
the idol of Wales, burnt in Smithfield, could have been
well conveyed to come to set his hand to a bill to let the
patron take the greatest part of the profits, he might have

had a benefice. For worldly offices, they searched meet

and convenient men ; only Christian souls, so dearly bought,
were committed, without respect, to men not worthy to
keep sheep.

He advised the Kipg to send forth surveyors to see how
benefices were bestowed and used, how Christ and his gos-
pel were robbed and dishonoured, to the great decay of the
realm and commonwealth. That he should find but a small
Bumber of patrons, that bestowed rightly their livings,
seeking Grod^s glory, and that his work and business might
be rightly applied. For that it was almost general to ob-
serve of every one of them, his farming of them to himself or
lus fiiends, and to appoint the rent at his own pleasure. But
wcNTse than all this, a great number never farmed them at all,
but kept them as their own lands, and gave some three half-
penny-priest a curate's wages, 91. or lOZ.— -They began
first with parsonages, and seemed to have some conscience
towards vicarages. But now their hearts were so hardened.

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BOOK all is fish that comes to the net That there were vktnMi)

mm "

about London, having a thousand pecqile bdonpng H

Anno 155S. them, so spoiled. Grentlemen kept in their hands fivinip
of 40Z. or BOl. and gave one that never came thesre, fiLor ft
Some changed the grounds of the benefice with their ttM
nants; to the intent, that if it were called for, the tOMit
should lose it, and not they. He could name the plift
where a living of an hundred mark by the year, [mentknol
in the margent, viz. Crostwait and Cheswic,] had been soli
for many years, he supposed an hundred, save one ; and w
continued still. That noblemen rewarded their servnli
with livings appointed for the gospel— —That he was ndt
able to rehearse, nor yet any man knew, all the abuses
which the simoniac, ambitious, and idol pastors had bron^
into the land. By whose examples, ravenous wolves, paint-
ed Christians, hypocrites, had entered and defiled the sano-
tuary, spoiled Christ and his gospel, to the destructioa of
his flock.
371 Then he descended to shew what gross superstition and
blindness remained among the people, through lack of fiEdth-
ful preachers. He passed over much infidelity, idolatry,
sorcery, charming, witchcrafts, conjuring, trusting in fi-
gures, &c. which lurked in comers, and began of late to
come abroad, only for lack of preaching ; they thought bi^
tism not effectual, because it wanted men^s traditions. A
great number thought it a great offence to take the sacm-
ment into their hands, that had no conscience to receive it
with their blasphemous mouths.— —Many, because th^
saw not in the church the shining pomp of painted cloths,
candlesticks, images, altars, lamps, tapers, they said. As good
go into a bam : nothing esteeming Christ, who spake to
them in his holy word ; neither the holy sacrament, reduced
to its first institution.— —That the Devil, by those cormo-
rants that devoured the livings appointed for the gospel,
had made a fortress and bulwark to keep learned pastors
firom the flock; that is, so to decay learning, that there
should be none learned to commit the flock unto. For by
reason livings appointed for the ministry, for the most

OF KING EDWARD VI. 29

pvrty were dther robbed of the best part, or clean taken CHAP,
pevajy almost none had any zeal or devotion to put their

duldren to schools, but to learn to write, to make them ap- Anno i56«.
prentices, or else lawyers : the two wells, Oxford and Cam-

hcidge, almost dried up. The decay of students so great,

llMt there was scarce left of every thousand an himdred :
iddiDg^ that if they decayed so fast, in seven years more
Hwfe would be almost none at all. And then might the
]tevil make a triumph. A thousand pulpits in England
vcfe covered with dust. Some had not had four sermons
■I fifteen or sixteen years, since friars left their limitations :
ind few <^ those worthy the name of sermons. These were
WQtnB of the gross abuses and corruptions used in the Church
bdEore, and even to this time, for covetousness sake. And
tbift was the free and honest way, this and other preachers
in these days used in exposing of them. But now to other
matters.

CHAP. XVI.

New sergeants. Lady Mary visits the Ki/ng. The King's
sales. A Ijiscds judgment of the ceremonies. His epistle
to the Kvng, Books printed. Leland dies.

About the 7th of October, the seven sergeants of the The new
ooif^ faominated in May last, went unto Westminster-hall ing^rol^
their gowns and hoods of murrey and russet, and their ser«
vants in the same cdour. There their charge and oath was
^v^i them by the King^s judges and old sergeants. This
dime, they returned with the judges, and the old sergeants,
and learned men of the law, unto Gray^s Inn to dinner, to-
gether with many of the King^s privy council, nobles, and the
kxd mayor and aldermen. The new sergeants gave to every 3^2
judge, the old sergeants, and men of the law, rings of gold,
evefy new sergeant giving ]ike rings. After dinner they
repaired to Paul'^s, and so went up the stairs, and roimd
about the choir, -and there did their homage. And so came
unto the north »de of Paulas, and stood upon the steps, un-
til four old sergeants came together, and fetched four young,

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BOOK and brought them unto certain pillars. And an oration wa
there read unto them by the old sergeants. And sodcnri

Anno 1559. again they went unto Gray^s Inn.
SirTho. Sir Thomas Grermyn, knight, the best housekeeper m i

^Ued. ^ ^^^ county of Suffolk, died about this time. Part of hb
state in housekeeping consisted in his chi^l, where prajcn
and holy offices were daily celebrated, with singing and
singing men, as in cathedrals. The county was reckoned to
have had a great loss in him. His funerals were pompouljp
performed, with his standard, pennon of arms, coat armourt '
target, borne by heralds, &c. October 21.
Two December 16, the Earl of Westmorland and Sir Andrev i

iiie^uter. Dudley were installed at Windsor of the noble carder rfdie

Garter.
The King Ditto, the 23d, the King removed from Westmiiister to
p2t ^ Greenwich, to keep his Christmas there. And hegBoa to
ChrisUMt. keep hall; and had a l<Mrd of misrule, who ordered the
sports and pastimes for the Kng'^s diveraon ; which were
in as great variety and royal pomp, as scarcely ever had
been seen before.
Wtttham February 9, between seven and eight of the dock in the
****^^"*' evening, the great steeple of Waltham abbey in Essex fidl
down to the ground, and all the great beUs; and the dioir,
aiHl much of that statelv church, demolished with it.
Tbe LmIj On the 10th day of the said month, the Lady Mary (who
tbelsi^.^ on the 6th came to London to St. John^s through Cheap-
side, attended with lords aiHl ladies, knights and gentle-
men, to the number of two hundred) rode through Fleet-
street unto the King at Westminster, nobly aiKl nume-
rously accompanied : for they now seemed to look upon her
as the rising sun, the King b«ng in a consumption. Among
the ladies that now attended her wore the two Dudiesses
of Sufiblk and Northumberland, the two Marchionestts of
Northampton and Winchester, the Countesses of Bedford,
Shrewsbury, Arundel, the Lady Clintcm, the Lady Brown,
aiHl many morv. When she arrived at the outwaord court,
there met her the Dukes of Suflblk and Northumberiand,
tbe Marquis of WiiKhester, the Earls of Bedford, Shrews-

OF KING EDWARD VI. 81

Bury> Arundel, the Lord Chamberltdn, the Lord Admiral, CHAP,
imd a great number of knights and gentlemen. And so she

was conducted up to the chamber of presence, and there Anno i55t.
the Eang met her, and saluted her. This visit seemed to
be^ to see him in his sickness.

On the 24th of February, Sir William Sydney was ho-
nourably buried at his place at Fensehurst in Kent.

On the 17th ditto, the Earl of Fembroke came riding The Earl of
into London, with three hundred horse ; afore him, an hun- retinue.
died gentlemen with chains of gold ; all in blue cloth plain,
with badges on their sleeves, being a dragon. And so to
Bernard castle ; which was his place.

In the month of March, the King sent forth several
ships to find out and apprehend one Strangwich, a great pi-strangwich,
rate; and appointed 46(K. to be laid out in victualling and*^*'****
fbmishing those ships for the service. I find this Strang- 373
wich, and two KiUigrews with him, such notable sea rovers, And two
that in the month of February the King sent a letter to ^'"'K^ws.
the French King, that he would do his endeavour for the
qyprehension of them ; perhaps to vindicate himself from
conniving at them for any damage they might do to that
Singes subjects, as well as to prevent them from doing any
more to his own.

Fopular disturbances and tumults seemed now to be very a oommis-
frequent, and the common people uneasy under the Present JJ^'jJ^^j
juncture : which occasioned, surely, that severe commission
which was given out this month of March, to John Earl of
Bedford, William Earl of Fembroke, the Lord Darcy, Sir
William Fetre, Sir John Baker, Sir Fhilip Hoby, Sir Ro-
bert Bows, Sir Thomas Wroth, Edward Griffith, John Gos-
nold, or to any sdx or more of them ; to put in execution
all sudi martial laws as should be thought by their discre-
tions most necessary to be executed. And instructions were
also given them in nine distinct articles.

In this month of March, and the month preceding, the The King's
Cng sold away his lands and lordships in great quantity, ^^' ^^
(besides not a few given to his courtiers,) his necesaties, no Sales.
question, so requiring. So that all this money fdlowing

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BOOK came into the Exchequer tar to numj tevcfal puidiase
(tor it would be too long to mentiaa the names of the lane

Anno i6$s.and purchaaers.)

£. s. d.
9055 19 2

In Feb.

889 6

890 17

1343 10 10

1331 18

951 2

958 6

246 5

1988 16

56b.

146 13

930 14

700 2

4570 14

566 15

396 13

694 2

1223 15

564 5

712 15

425 19

850 0

767 8

(-1482 9 3
66 13 4

In Mar.

£.

1086 14 10

1199 15

lob.

859 12

568

889 19

5db.q.

886 18

846

1 10

246

574

694

1696 11

800

917 10

933

580

889 15

1718 10

732 10 11

1340

613

870 15

744

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646

1596

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1606 3 2
1248 17 7 oft.
1477 19 2 oft.

374 Beades these, were many more purchases made of tl
Eing^s lands the year ensuing. For the sale of which, the
was a commission on purpose, directed to the Bishc^
Norwich, Sir John Gates, Sir Philip Hoby, Sir Walt
Mildmay, and others.

Divers there were now, in this King's reign, that liked

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ttle of Popery, that they thought it highly convenient not CHAP,
symbolize with that Church in any of its usages. And

lat gave occasion to them to dislike particularly two Anno isss,
lings; viz. the posture of kneeling at the reception of the ^"^^^"J*
Humunion ; and the priestly habits ; whiqh' were not laid crament,
side by the reformers of this Church -from Papal innova- bits, give
ons. The retaining of these gave the morie disgust, be- offe°c««
ai|E^ it was contrary to the example of many of the fo-
^gn reformers, as those of S^ritzerland and Geneva;
rbpse books and judgments swayed greatly, and were
nuch used here. A Lasco, the superintendent of the fo-
rigners' congregations in London, bein^ a person greatly
respected by the King, and the nobility, and bishops, as for
lis noble bloofl^ so for his learning and religion, was put
iipcHi writing on this argument to the King. And he com- a Lasco's
posed a treatise in Latin of the Sacrament, which was******^'
[^ted in London, 1552. This book bore this title ; Brevis
^ dUucida de Sacrammtu Eccksice Christi Tractatio, In
^ua etjbns ipse et ratio totius sacramentaricB nostri tern-
poris cQntroversice pmcds eocponitur^ naturague ac vis Sa^
^^^ymterUorum compendio et perspicue eaplicatur: per Jo-
^f^finem A Lasco^ Baronem Potonice^ Superint&ndentem Ec^
^^esicBPeregrinortemLondini^ anno 1552. in 8yo. Together
^ith this book was bound up a. tract entitled, Consensio
^^uHia in re saCramentaria Ministrormn Tigurince Eccle-^
H(B, et D. Jo. Calvvniy Mvnistri Genevensis Eccksice, Data
Tiguriy Aug* 30, 1549. This book the noble author pre-
Bented to several of the court, his friends, and among the
lest, to. Sir Anthony Cook. Which very book was lately in Mr. n. Bat-
the possessifHi of a very reverend friend of mine, deceased, ^ ^'
apd hath these words writ in it by A Lasco\ own hand,
Ciarissimo ac doctisaimo viro D^ Cuko, PriBceptori Regio
Udeliswnoy Joannes A Lasco^ D. D. Before it was an epistle
to Sang £dward. Which, to shew what arguments swayed
lith A Xasco, and others, at this time, for the abolishing
lO habits and customs used in the Papal worship, I shall
lere set down, and the rather, it being now so rarely to be
net with.

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BOOK t* Joauiet A Lateo, ^. k> Ae renomud Edmari Hu

i^<- M Reetejadi paier, lamdemque meretur proaMubiOj i»
^^^^ ^JSBam virgtmemT &c The EngBsh wheareal was as fol
loweth : ^ Well doth that &ther, and without doubt de-
^ senreth praise, who, having a daughter a virffiny drawn
^ by the guile of panders into some lewd and dishonest
** house, wad there trinuned after the whorish guise, doth
presently rescue her thence, and bring her home to lus
own house, befcure she be utterly spoiled. But the same
<< father, if he be wise, thinketh it not enough fnr the safety
*< of his daughter, and the honour of his house, that he
^* hath Innougfat her home agun, unless he take from her
*^ wholly whatsoever he knoweth to be accounted in those
*^ houses an whorish attire : n^thor doth he inquire whence
^* such attire came first, but judgeth it dishonouraUe to
375 << himself, and so unworthy his daughter, and whole family,
that any such thing at aU, as strumpets have used finr
dressing in their houses, should appear in his. And he
doth not ^ve ear to their persuaaons, who bear him in
hand, that aU things are to be esteemed according to the
*^ father^s mind in his own house ; and so think that the
^' fath^^s approbation can make that hcmest in his own
*^ house for his daughter and whole family, which in an-
^< other house is most dishonest for any daughters that re*
^< gard their own credits. Ascribing so mudi to the fii-
<^ ther'^s prerogative, that whatsoever he approves must be
<< of others well liked of, so far as it concerns his own
<' house. For he knows fuU well, that although all those
things, which he hath authorized, in his own house, be
there well thought of, yet that is not enough, since the
honour of his daughter, and his whole family, must not
asAj be cared for within his own house, but also through-
out the whole city ; that he may remove all Ul suqpicions
from his family among all his neighbours ; and is heedful
that the panders have not the least occasion left them, of
challenging or lajdng claim to his said daughter, as hav-
ing something of their whore-house marks upon her.

OP KING EDWARD VI. 8«

" Even so in the Church of God, as m a dty, magistrates C H AF;
" and ministers are in place of parents, having the pure

" and right administration of the sacraments committed ^'^^ **fi*-

** unto them of God, for to be tended and tendered as their "

** own daughter ; it is therefore very commendable in these

** parents of the church, as we may tenii them, if they res-

^^ cue the^lawful and pure administration of the sacraments

^' from the violence and tyranny of the Romish panders, by

^ taking it into their own care and custody.

But here they ought to remember, especially they
who are called by the Holy Spirit eminent ministers of
^* God, and nursing fathers of his Church, that is. Christian
*^ kings and monarchs, diat it is not enough for them, thus
^ to have brought this daughter out of the Papist stews
*^ hmne, intd their own care and keeping, unless they also
^ put off finom her all that dressing which they know to be
^^ whorish in the stews. That no such thing may be seen
'* with them, which may be accounted whorish ; especially
^ in that city where there is great variety of judgments ;
** the overruling whereof by man^s authority is not to be
*^ expected, and where there are so many hucksters for the
^ stews remaining.

<^ Nor let them hear the delusions of those, who suggest,
that such kinds of dressing, from whencesoever they be
taken, may be made good and honest by authority. For
*• well they know, they are not set over the whole Church
^ of God, but only one part of it, as a family in a city :
^^ and that therefore, though they could bear out such
things at home by their authority ; yet it is their duty,
as they regard public chastity and hcmesty, to procure
** the honour of their daughter and family, not only within
** thdr own walls, but also without the whole city ; not
'< suffmng any thing to be seen within their house, which
^'they know to be held, urged, and maintained by the
'^ Rtnnish stews, and their instruments, as their proper
'^ whorish stuff.

** Last of all, they must be wary, lest any signs or tokens 376

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BOOK " be left upon thar daughter, by wlieh she may be ques-
^^' ** tioned again by these panders, as one of theirs.
Anno 1659. " Now if it please your excellent Majesty, yoii are one

<^ of these nursing fathers of the Church of God, blessed be

" his name ; therefore, in this high calling, you have by

*< the Lord God this ministry of the sacraments, as a
daughter rescued out of the Popish brothels, and brought
into your own house, that is, into your own domestic care

<* and keeping. Here therefore be pleased to set bdbre
your eyes the foresaid example of a good father in those
things which yet remain to be performed; that is, in

" providing for the public credit of this your reduced
daughter, and so of your whole family, not <Hily m this
your flourishing kingdom, but also in the Catholic Chuidi
of Christ, whereof you are a citizen : unto whom a prin-

^' cipal part thereof, as an honourable family, is committed

*^ in trust.

** This is that which all the godly throughout the Chris-

<^ tian world do expect from your hands ; and tbut the

** more earnestly, because they know, that God hath en-

^^ riched you with such excellent gifts, and placed you in
so high a station, almost above all others, even to this
very end, that you might remove from the ministry of

"the sacraments all these Popish trinkets^ wh^rewidi. it
hath been fearfully profaned, and restore unto it again
that virgin-like attire, wherewith it was of old adorned

" by the high King of kings and Law^ver, Christ the
Lord, in his holy institution. . So shall your faiith aiid fi-
deUty be famous throughout the Christian world, and the

^" Church of England grow more honourable under your

** government.''

This letter was, to serve the turn of some dissenters,
printed agfdn, 1633, in a book entitled, A Jrenh Suit
agmnst humane Ceremonies ; or^ A TripliaUion unto J).
Surges his Rejoi^iderjbr Dr. Morton.

To the former book of the Sacrament^ published this

66.

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year, I add a few more ; vkc* CcUechismus brevis ChristiantB CHAP.

• • • XVI

DiscipliniB summam continenSf omnibtis Ludimagistrisj

atUoritate regia^ commendahts> MandiUo Regis Edwofrdi^'^^^^*'
prapasiio. In 1»>. For the priniingipf which; John Day ^^^^^^
had a special licence granted him, dated in September.

ArticuM de quUms Synodo Londinensi, cmnoDomini 155S. ^^' •
coHveneraiy regia autoritate prommlgati* In \9f*.

A book now also appeared in Latin with a feiimed namie, Marcat
but It was known to be made by Bisbop Gardiner, against tius.
Ardhbi^op Cranmer^s answer, set forth the last year. This
book was {Minted at Paris, and went under this title, Ccn-
JvtcUio CavUkUionmn, quilms sticrosa/ncittm EudiaristiiB
Sacramn^ntwn' ab impiis CapemaiHs impeH solet, Autore
Marco Antonw€(mstantio,TheohgoLovanen8L Which was
again learnedly answejred by Peter Martyr. Of whose book,
what the reputation was in those times, we are told by an
eminent authcnr, namely, ^^ that in his book was contained Layat.Hiit.
** in effect whatsoever is delivered of the whole matter of the i^^h^iibro
** euchanst, as yvell in scripture, as in the ancient fathers fe« .<>"»"»•
^< and councils.^ At the entreaty oT friends, the author re- tur, &c.
duced his book into an epitome.

Z^ lAvre de PrUres Communes, de V Administration dess^J
Saeremenis et autres CSrhnonies en VEffUse d'^Angleterre.'^^^ c®»-
This book was our Boox of Common Prayer, translated in Fmich.
into French : which was done by Francis Philip, the Lord
Chanoellor^s servant, as he styled himself, and printed by
Tho. Gaultier, the King^s printer for the French language,
in the year 1553, that is, reckoning the year to begin in
January ; for in December, 1552, a licence was granted to this
Gaultier of London, to print in French all such books of the
Church as should be set forth. This book was by the said
Francis Philip dedicated to Thomas Goodrich, bishop of
Ely, lOTd chancellor. In which dedication he shewed, " how
<< the said Chancellor put him upon this translation, for
** the use of the isles and lands which spake French :
'* which therefore he did very gladly undertake, and finish
^^ as soon as possibly he could ; not only to the end, that
<< the King^s most royal and Christian ordinance for the use

88 IfEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK ** of this Book of Common Prajor to be used in all his do-
'*' ^ minions might obtain its eflfect, but also that all France

iMt.« might know, that the Christian religion was not whdly
^ abolished in England^ as many among them esteemed.
^ For in readBng this book they should know evidentlj,
*^ that God was here served in apirit and in truth, and that
^ the sacraments were here administered purel j and aii-
^* oerdy, according to the word of God : and that he was
^ assured, that haying read it, the good and weU-disposed
^ sort would say. Blessed be so noUe a King, under whom,
^ from day to day, the reformation of religion so increased
** and flourished.^
^^J^ In tlus year also, John Bale printed and set forth a book
entitled, Jn ExpostukUkm or Comftaini against the hbu^
fiktmieM tf aJramUc Ikspisi ^Hampshire. Prinied by
Jokm Doff. The Piqpist he wrote against, and for what
cause, he declared towards the beginning of his book, viz.
** That on one of the Christmas hcdydays, to wit, Decem-
'^ her S9 last past, in the house of a gentleman of his own
^* aflBnity in the said county, the said Papist, being in the
** full heat of his frensy, brast out into this unrever^id,
** blasphemous, and contemptuous talk of the King'*s Ma-
*^ jesty, and of his most godly proceedings: < Alas ! poor child,''
<* said he, * unknown it is to him, what acts are made now-
adays. But when he comes once of age, he wiU see another
rule, and hang iqp an hundred of such heretic knaves.^ ^
Meaning the preachers of those times : for at the same sea-
son he had most spitefully railed on one of them, b^ng ab-
sent These words Bale divided into three parts, and an-
swered each at large: the first part touched the King'^s
Highness ; the second his honourable Council ; and the third
the true ministers of Grod^s word.

That which touched the King he made to be, that this

man had called the King a poor child; <' when as,^ said Bale,

he was abundantly replenished with the most gracious

^ts of (rod ; specially with all kinds of good learning,

" far above all his progenitors, Kings of this imperial r^on.

^^ And when childishness in a king is reproved by the mouth

OF KING EDWARD VI. 30

^^"of God, and given many times of him to a pec^le as a CHAP.
** curse, plague, and scourge for their unfaithfulness. /
*^ JuM give you children^ saith the Lordy to be your princesy Anno isss,
*^ and babes shaUhave rule aoeryou. Is. iii. That is, ye shall
*• have for your disobedience, men to be your governors
*^ that are dissolute, rash, wanton, and careless: yea, men 378
^^ unexpert, and unexperienced in princely affairs, and men
^* which will not regard your commonwealth, but follow
*^ their own lu£(ts. Wo be to such a land, saith Solomon,
^* a^t hath so childish rulers. And all these childish ways
be detestable in a king; yet is not the childhood of youth
in him to be reproved : for so might King Josias have
been reproved, which began his reign in the eighth year
*^ of his age. — ^Then he comes closer to this Papist, so bias-
^' phoDoously reporting the noble and worthy King Edward
^^ (then in the fift^nth year of his age, and the fifth of his
rdgn) without all honour and reverence^ He added, his
worthy education in liberal letters, and godly virtues, and
« his natural aptness in retaimng of the same, plenteously
'^ declared him to be no poor chUd, but a manifest Solomon
in princely wisdom. His sober admonitions, and open
example of godliness at that d^j, shewed him mindfully
to prefer the wealth of the commons, as well ghostiy as
bodUy^ above all foreign matters. Mark what his Ma-
jesty hath done already in religion, in abolishing the most
shameful idolatry of Antichrist, besides his other acts for
public affairs, and ye shall find at this day no Christian

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** prince like to him.''

This book the author dedicated to the Duke of Northum-
berland, with this tide. To the right high cmd mighty
Prince Johan Duke of Northu/mberlandy Lord Great Master
of the King's most honourable HoiLsehMy and Lord Presi^
dent of his Mcyesty'^s most honourable Privy Council. In
this epistle he set him forth as a angular favourer and pa^
triot of the true religion ; which yet, as it appeared after-
wards, influenced him no more than as it served to forward
his worldly interest. For thus Bale addressed to him:
^^ Ccmsidering in your noble Grace the san^ mighty, fer-

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BOOK « Tent, and religious zeal in Grod^s cause, wbidi I have &-

II.

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ligently marked in Moses, the servant of Grod, &c.*»TIi]i
Anno 1552. w ppQ^ Expostulation am I, your poor orator, so mudi the
bolder to dedicate to your Highness, in that I have at
ways known the same a most mighty, zealous, and ^ent
supporter, maintainer, and defender of God^s lively word.
—Jesus Christ, whose invincible verity your Grace hath'
** hitherto most fervently favoured."**
Vocation of The same author, John Bale, set forth this year his Fo-
' cation to Ae Bishopric ofOssory in Ireland^ and his perse-
cution in the same, and his final deliverance.
Order for Here I shall subjoin a privilege granted to William
tbe°Primer. Seres, Stationer, to print all books of private prayers, called
Primers, as should be agreeable to the Book of Commcm
Prayer established by Parliament: and that none else
printed the same, upon pain of forfeiture thereof. Provided,
that before the said Seres and his assigns did b^in to print
the same, he should present a copy thereof, to be allowed
by the Lords of the Privy Coundl, or by the Lord Chan-
cellor for the time being, or by the Kings's four Ordmaij
Chaplains, or two of them. And when the same was, or
should be, from time to time printed, that by the said Lords,
and others of the Privy Council, or by the Lord Chancellor^
or with the advice of the wardens of the occupation, the
reasonable price thereof to be set, as well in the leaves, as
being bound in paste or board : in like manner as was ex-
pressed in the end of the Book of Common Prayer. This
privilege was dated March the 4th.
379 I cannot here omit the mention of the death of the most
Leiand dies learned antiquarian, John Leland, which happened in April
this year, after he had been a year and upwards distracted,
to the deplorable frustration of his noble de^^s of illustrat-
ing the history of this ancient nation. Being bereft of his
wits, he became the King's care ; who committed the keep-
ing of him either to his father or uncle, I suppose, (for he
was one of the same name,) John Leyland, or Leland, senior,
together with all his lands, and rents, and profits whatso-
ever, in as ample manner as John the younger, being in his

OF KING EDWARD VI. 41

right mind, enjoyed them, for the better sustentation of CHAP.
him. This grant was in the mlonth of March, 1550. This ^^^-
Leland, who had the caide of this poor gentleman, lived, I Annoi55«.
iappose, in Paternoster-row, which bdionged to the parish
fi€ St. Midiael the Quern, in whidi church, not much above
8 year after, he was buried.

•He being a Londoner bom, had his education under His school-.
Lilly, the famous gmmmarian, and first master of the frefe""^[^^*
school near St. Paulas. He had divers contemporaries, which, lows.
by their learning and advancement afterwards, added lustre
both to the school where all of them were bred, and to the
rity where some of them were bom : as namely. Sir William
Paget, afterwards secretary of state, and made Lord Paget
of Beau Desert^ and honoured with the Grarter. To whom
Leland, addresang a copy of verses, speaks thus of Lilly,
their common instructor :

Notior Ule tUn^ notior iUe mihi :
and makes mention of something which he [Paget] wrote
m rintiication c^ their master, against one Gonel, a learned
man. Another of his schoolfellows was Sir Edward North,
after also Lord North, and a privy counsellor, a citizen
lx»D. To him Leland dedicated some verses, mentioning
dieran th^ learning together :

Imbibimus l^eH UUerulasque simuL
ffir Anthony Denny, gentleman of the privy chamber to
* Bng Henry, and a great favourer of the professors of the
gospel, and as great a scholar, was also Leland^s mate in
this learned school : of whose wittiness and ingenuity there
ie speaks in a piece of his poetry, written to him. Sir Tho-
mas Wriothesly, trfterwards Lord Wriothesly, and Lord
Chancellor of England, was also a Londoner bom, and so
was his father, and a great friend of our Leland, and was
probaMy of the same school with him, being a man brought
up in letters. In honour of whom did Leland also exer-
cise hi* curious vein of poetry.

From this nursery of St. PauFs he was transplanted to
the Univarsity of Cambridge ; where, in learned studies.

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BOOK and cuntqie with mgemoiit men, he took greiit'deli|^t|
^ «ad made gresl imprafcmcntB>

li&t. Apptnmi Jlndiw GrmUa beaia meU.

But aftcrwaids h seems, he studied at Qxf<Htl, and wai
there piefcncd, and made iiJlow of All Souls. Hispatnn
and firiends, besides those mentioned before, were AicUi-
diop Cranmer, Sir ftianTuke, % John Mason, Dr. Legh,
Dr. Cos, Dr. Haddon ; all men of fiune in their days.

380 CHAP. XVIL

Commisskmersjrom France, Corntpiioms at Court Pagdj

amd Braumonij and ike Earl cfJrunddj Aeir ndmih

nans. The unioerrify of Bosiodk to ike King. Tk

Kin^sdiUgence^ and good example. Free echodbbj/lm^

Jbunded.

The Frencb X HIS year came commissioners finom France, Monsieur
^^^' Aubrey and Monsieur du Val; the one lieutenant civii
of Paris, the other an advocate unto the French Song. An
agent of th& King^s, whose name was Bamaby, m^ with
them at London. They came about some matters of resti-
tution to scmie English merchants, for ships and goods
taken, pretending they belonged to the Spaniard, because
they were not carried in English bottcmis. They told Bar-
naby, in a vapouring sort, (which that nation was then
much addicted to,) how little harm England in their wan
was like to do them; and that in the last war, wherein
King Henry, together with the Dukes of Norfolk and Suf-
folk, invaded them, and took Bullcngn, we did but spBid
all our riches, and destroyed a great number of subjects,
and left all our money in Flanders and Artois, and could
not now shew one town we had taken.
to'dJbMs Upon this occasion Bamaby, in a letter to Sir William
Fraoceyand Cecyl, the secretary, related, by his own long experience of
EiM^d. ^^ country, (having made twenty-eight voyages thither.

OF KING EDWARD Vt 4»

anployed by King Henry, and Crumwell,) how we might CHAP,
effectually distress that country : namely, by this one thing, ^

mcreaang mariners in England. Whereas, for want of ships Anno i6M.

md shipmen, our commodities of our own growth were^'PP""^'

Eslidied away ^from us for very small prices by French ves-

Kb, to their exceeding enriching. He had seen going out

of Rye at aae tide thirty-seven hoys, laden with wood and

^ber, and never an English mariner among them. He

had heard great complaints for want of English ships, to

hde goods for Spain, and other places, and none to be had.

Great benefit also might be made of our fishing, if we had

ilups; but especially of our Newcastle coals. This last,

die French could not live without : it maintained those in

France that wrought in steel, and metals, and wire, and

made guns; and likewise their goldsmiths. The French

CQstom was, that after th^ fishing was done, three or four-

floore ships of Normandy and Britain were sent for coals ;

the gain whereof was prodigious. Coals were bought at

Newcastle for two shillings and two pence a chaldron, and

sold again in France for thirteen nobles.

These things considered, Bamaby^s advice was, that the A project
Eng of England should take coals into his own hands, (as^'^J^
the French King had taken salt,) and bring them into Kent, ^« <^^
ni there make a staple of them. And that no goods what- own hands.
ioe?er ^ould be carried out of England, but in English
bottoms. By this means an infinite number of mariners
vould be set awork, and it would prove a great strength to
the realm. And hereby England, in respect of trade and 381
seamen, might no longer be so inferior to France, which did
at that present so much outdo it. For in these times there
would sometimes come out at one tide from Diep five hun-
dred boats, and more, and in every boat ten or twelve men :
whereby the maritime towns maintained themselves, their
towns and ports, by fishing, and grew very rich by trade.
Whereas in England, Sandwich, Dover, Hyde, Hastings,
(Vincfaelsea, were decayed exceedingly for maintenance,
ind hardly any mariner in those ports : and Bamaby would
mdertake to set six or ^even thousand, mariners awork, in

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BOOK carrying coals only. But I betake the reader to Bwnubfi
__!_ letter, where he may read this, and other things worth ooU

Anno i5S8.ii]g, of the State of the nation, more at lai^.

^* The Court was very corrupt, and extremely oovetouii

raption of especially towards the declining of the King'*s reign ; laUng
the Court, continually from the King, (who was fidn to borrow,) for Ae
enriching of themselves, and making preys also cme of ifr
other. The Lord Paget, chancellor of the duchy, aid
Beaumont, master of the rolls, and Whaley, receiver d
Yorkshire, were in the month of May discovered to hue
K. Edward's gTossly wrouged the King. Paget had sold away lands^ mI
Joam.p.s5.^,^^ timber woods, and had taken great fines of the Eia^
lands, to his particular profit and advantage, never tunuag
any of it to the King'*s use. He made leases in reversioa
for more than twenty-one years. All this he oonfeased b^
fore the Privy Council, and surrendered his c^Boe, (whiA
was after conferred upon Sir John Grates,) and submitted
himself to what fines should be laid upon him. ' BeaumoBt
bought lands with the Kng^s money, lent the King^s mo-
ney, and kept it from the King, to tiie value of 90001. and
above, and 11,0002. obligations. And being judge in a
cause in chancery between the Duke of SuiBPolk and the
Lady Powis, he took her title, and went about to get it into
his hands, paying a sum of money, and letting her have a
farm of a manor of his ; and caused a false indenture to be
made, with the old Duke^s counterfeit hand to it ; (by wUch
pretended indenture the said Duke gave these lands to the
Lady Powis;) and went about to make twelve men perjured;
and lastly, had concealed the felony of his man, to the sum
of ^OOZ. All this he confessed; and for these things sur-
rendered all his offices, lands, and goods to the King, and
gave the I King an obligation under his hand and seal for
See the his debt of 20,861/. and upwards. Whaley lent the King's
Repository, money upon gain : he paid one year's revenue with the ar-
rearages of the last : he bought the King's land for himadf
with the King's own money : in his accounts he made many
false suggestions. At the time of the Ball of money, he
borrowed divers sums of money, and had allowance for it

, OF KING EDWARD VI. 45

dler: by whidi he gained BOOL at one crying down, the CHAP.
wliole sum being SOOOZ. and above. All this he confessed^ ''

surrendered his office, and submitted to fines. Anno i558.

The Lord Paget and Beaumont, June 16, were brought Paget and
into the Star-chamber. There the former declared his sub- for cor-
nission by word of mouth, and delivered it in writing : he r"P*^*V^
was fined 60002. But Beaumont had denied his former into tbe

Bon before the Ck>uncil : but now being called before ^**'"<5**""-
the Counci], he acknowledged a fine of his lands, and signed
in. obligation and surrender of all his goods. And on the
flIMi di^, being brought again to the Star-chamber, he
eolfessed all.

. When the Council had discovered all this corruption, on 382
die 18th of June, from Greenwich, they wrote the news of'^**7*"f".

r6nu6T tn6ir

k to the Duke of Northiimberland, Earls of Huntingdon goods and
and Pembroke, and Secretary Cecyl, who were in a journey, **"^'
i^Duig down to the borders of Scotland, upon many disor-
Sen- there, and negligent looking to the forts, the Duke
bang lord warden of the marches. Beaumont had surren-
dned his goods and lands to the King ; but the King was
not. to be the better for them ; some of them being pre-
tnitly begged by the Duke of Northumberland and Earl
cf Pembroke, for the Earl of Huntingdon. And Hunting-
don another time will do the like courtesy for them, if need
be. That which they asked for this Earl was, the custody of
Givoedieu, the parsonage of Dunington, and the manor of
Throuston and Swanington, parcel of the said Beaumonfs
pMsesmcHis, with all his goods and chattels in and upon the
and house and lands. And when order should be taken
Ibt the ddivery of any of the lands of the Lord Paget, in
mtiAcdxm of part of his fine, they prayed the Council, that
the Earl of Huntingdon and the Lord Chamberlain might
not be fbrenotten; the one to have the custody of his house See thu let-
it Drayton, and the other of that at London. And as these Repository.
dungs before mentioned came under the keeping of Hun- ^'
tingdon, so the ne^t year be became the proprietor of
them : for in June 1553 the King granted him the scite.

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BOOK drcuit, and precinct, and alao the mancHr (xf Ghraoedieu k
Leicestershire, with divers other lands, to the yearij iiIih

Amiol65«.of 168/. 8*. 6d.
Tbe con- The conclusion with the Lord Paget, after he was dnv
^^^^ censured, and had also made his submisnon for being piify
L.Pkget. to the late Frotector^s practice against Northuiqberiaiidy
was in December following, when he had a general pardn
of all offences and transgresdons, and othar negligenoo^*
except debts due to his Majesty in the Court of Exchequer,
the Augmentation, the Wards, and the First-fnuts and
Tenths. And an indenture was made between the Sjngfk
Majesty and the Lord Paget, for the assurance unto fak
Majesty of lOOZ. by year, and for the payment also of 9000L
that is to say, 100(M. at Christmas next, and the other tf
Christmas following. Yet not long after, he came into some
favour at Court For in February he had a disehaige fir
the payment of the 9000Z. imposed on him as a fine. And
the month ensuing he had a spedal grant for his coat of
arms, which before was taken away from him, upon pre-
tence that it was given him by a king of arms that could
not give it. But now the same coat was confirmed to him
by patent, granted to him by the name of William Lofd
Paget, of Beaudesert, and his posterity for ever.
The Earl The third day of this month of December (that same
?l ^^^*^ day twelvemonth the Duke of Somerset was tried and oon-

la prison. *^

demned) did the Earl of Arundel appear before the Eng^
and make his humble submission by word of mouth. He
had been lord chamberlain, and of the Privy Council, but
upon some occasion put out of both places : whereat he grew
malecontent, and was dealt with to come into the late {dot
of the Duke of Somerset, against certain of the great ncliles
that bore the sway : yet he would not meddle, but concealed
it, and chose to be a looker on, thinking to have his malice
executed by other hands ; but it cost him dear. For Octo-
ber 20, 1551, Crane, one of them in this plot, did confess,
that the E^l knew of the matter, about inviting those no-
383 bles to the Lord Paget^s house to a banquet, and then to

OF KING EDWARD VI. 47

have cut off their heads: and that Stanhope was the mes- cHAP.
aenger that went to the Earl. Upon this, November 8, ^^^^'

the Earl, with Stoadlj and St. Alban, his men, was com- Anno is5«.

mitted to prison ; and that because Crane did disclose more

and more of him: and having been a prisoner above a

twelvemonth, December 3, he was fain to make a submission,

and submit to a fine. His submission was in these words,

m tfaey are taken out of the Council-Book, and there said to

be by order of Council entered into the said book.

<' It may please your most excellent Majesty to under- His sub-
** stand, that whereas I, Henry Earl of Arundel, now pri-co"^^!
" scMier in the Tower, have been charged to be one of the Book.
**' confederates and conspirators with Edward late Duke of
'^ Somerset, lately attainted, and with others, for the appre^
« hension and imprisonment of divers noblemen, then and
yet being of your Majesty^s privy ^ouncil: and foras-
much as upon my examination taken during the time of
^ my imprisonment in the Tower of London, before John
'^ Duke of Northumberland, John Earl of Bedford, Wil-
'^liam Lord Marquis of Northampton, William Earl of
^ Paoabroke, and Sir Philip Hoby, knt. and otherwise, it
^ doth xppeaxj that I, the said Henry Earl of Arundel,
^ was privy and of knowledge of the said dangerous con-
« spiraey, practised by the said Duke and others, to the
^< peril of the state of this your realm : and forasmuch also as
^ I, the said Earl of Arundel, did not, according to my most
^* bounden duty, reveal so much as I did know of the said
^ Duke'^s intents to your Highness, or to some others of
^ your Majesty^s privy coundl, but did conceal and keep
M the same secret ; whereby I do confess and acknowledge,
^ that I have not only worthily deserved this mine impri-
^ sonment, but also that the same my said offence and con-
^^ oealment should be dangerous unto me, without your
Majesty^s clemency : for the mitigating therefore of the
same, I do most humbly acknowledge, by this my sub-
missimi, my said offence, and do crave and desire your
^ most gracious pardon for the same : and further, do sub-

48 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK " uiit rnvaelf fur the premiaes to the most mercifiil order of
** vour Highness And of your mofit honourahle CounciL^

Aunu i^^t. AfuT thi« submisaon, the Earl of Arundel appeared tbe
Aii.1 ftiir. ^gj^^ j^^^ before the Council : where the LoEda in&nned
him, that he was fined 6000 marks, to be paid in six yeu%
at 1000 nuu^ks a year. And he was bound in a bond of
10«000 marks to pay the said fine: and was set at liberty
being admonished by the Lurds to behave himself acoaidiiig
to the duty of a nobleman, and to be indeed what he pro^
fcrsscil in words.

But the Earl found favour afterwards : for. May 10^ s
grant was made him, that he should pay SUStlL 1&. 3d. at
the Augmentation, in form following ; xAs. at Easter nezt^
S21/. 1 Us. iUL and after, yearly at the same feast, 8S82. 6i. 8i
until the whole sum were satisfied and paid. And July i
following, (that is, but four days before the King'^s deaths
being then also, as it appears, of the Piivy Council,) a par-
don and discharge was sealed to him for 10,000 marks, $i>
knowledged by him to owe it to the King^s Majesty by re-
cognisance, upon certain considerations in the same ei-
pressed. This, we may conclude, was Northiunberiand's
doing, his policy being to giun as many noblemen hit
384 friends as he could, in the great intrigue he was then upu%
to bring the crown into his family. But Arundel deceived
him.
Tht univer- This nation was now become renowned abroad tat its
tock^to the <^tintenance to true religion and good learning, and King
Kiny. Edward for a right nursing father to both. While eveiy
where in Germany, and all other countries, the gospdi tnd
learning was oppressed and discouraged, Engjland was the
conunon asylum for all good and learned men to fly to:
and hither they came daily, both for shelter and finr sub-
sistence. Among the rest I find one Wolfgang Porister, |
Prussian* of the imiver^ty of Rostock, who, by a letter
from the nx'tor and imiversity, was recommended this year
to the King. ^* They thanked God, who had yidded a qiuet
^'^ harlnnir in the KingV ixunitrii's for the church and good

OF KING EDWARD VI. 49

^studies. And when in all other kinccdoms the public mi« CHAP.

• XVII

" nisters of the Church, and the studies of good learning,

** were either wholly destroyed or sadly wasted, by the A"»® ***••
*f cruelty of popes, the tumults of wars, and the differences
^ of. ofMnions, it was God^s great mercy to afford a quiet
**.8eat in the King^s dominions for the godly, constituted
** churches and schools: which were so cherished by the
*f wisdom, piety, munificence, and authority of the King^s
'* Majesty, that in these ornaments the kingdcxn of £ng-
*^ land exceeded all the kingdcnns of the world beside.^
This address to the King may be read in the Repository. H*

s And indeed good King Edward, among his many other The King^t
princely qualities, was a true patron of learning, as loving hig^^dict.
and promoting it both in himself and others, from hisf'^'iiMS.
joungest days. It was observed of him, how exceeding di^
Kgent he was usually at his book : he would sequester him-
wM from all companies, into sc»ne chamber or gallery, to
kam without book his lessons, with great alacrity and
dieerfiihiess. If he spent more time in play and pastime
llian he thought was convenient,. he would find fault with
Umself, and say, ^^ We forget oursjelves,^ as Mr. Cheke re-
ported of him, ^^ that should not lose substcmtia pro acct^
^ defUe.'" He used to pen letters, both in English and La-
&> as part of his exercises : the subject whereof generally
vas, to exdte other yoimg nobles, his acquaintance, to fol-
low their studies, with very pretty arguments ; as, what an
mament learning was, both to prince and people; what
^oiy subjects might take in a learned prince; and what joy
a prince might take in learned subjects ; and the like.

There was one Mr. Heron in these days, a schoolmaster The noubie
of higenuous youth; one of whose scholars had a fetherj,]j2"^^,j^
that took occasion, from the example of the King, to excite example up-
Ids son the more to follow his studies; writing to him^oian.
sometimes in EngHsh and sometimes in Latin, these and
nich like passages of the King'^s diligence, and admonished
him and his schoolfellows to follow the godly ei^ample of so
virtuous a prince : adding, <^ That if they,^ (I do but tran«
icribe,) ^' by lus worth, ai^ emmple, and precedent, wold

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BOOK ^^ spply their study and leanung, it wbid most hiqipily

'' come to pas, that the lerned King shold have moch fe-

Anno 1668. « licite in his lerned subjects, and they no les to gkqr 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 sdidan,
385 and such as were written in Latin to be Englished: using
the same, not only as lessons for his scholars, but also ai
matter of animating and provoking unto the better and
more diligent applying of their learning. Upcm this oc-
casion, the said Mr. Heron, as well by his letters as by his
private talk, yielded unto the father of the said sdhdar
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.
SchooU How King Edwards's good heart stood affected to the for-

^Hll^Ed!*^ warding both of learning and sound reli^n too, appeared
wwd. 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 Song's Majesty's henchmen, with the fee of
101. by the year for life: dated May 3, anno &>. 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 Groodrick 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.
Yorkshire, at Louth in Lincolnshire, and at East Retford ^ '
in Nottinghamshire, with others founded by him in the Anno iwa.
years 1650 and 1551, these following owned the King for
thdr foimder, and were erected from December, anno 1551,
bang 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-
cestendibe, Bath, Bedford, Guilford in Surrey, Grantham
in Lincolnshire, St. Alban's in Hertfordshire, Tunbridge,
Southampton, Thorn in Yorkshire, Gyggleswic in Craven>
smd Stratford-upon-Avon. These sdiools had governors ap-
pointed over them, a master and usher, and endowed com-
vonly with S02. 301. or 402. per annum. And indeed, for
the most part, the endowments were out of tithes for-
merly belon^ng to reli^ous houses, or out of chantry
koids gifvcn to the King in the first of his. reign, according
to the intent of the Parliament therdn : 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 universities,
and better provision for the poor : and the good King was
80 honest and just, to lay them out, in a considerable, mea-
sure, for these pious ends. See the foundations of these
sdiools distinctly spedfied in the Repository, from an ori-^ I.
ginal.

¥:2

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BOOK

"• CHAP. XVIIL

Anno 156S.

qqQ Popery in CorptiS Christi college^ Oaon. Dr. Heins did.
Immanuel Tremettius preferred. Bishop Ponefs book
Knox at Newcastle. Lady Anne qf Cleves, Day^ kU
bishop^ his Judgment aboui altars. Commissions* SSr
William Bowyer's last wiU, Ordinations qf minister.
Places and offices bestowed.

x^ET me be allowed to gather up a few more pafingei)
that may deserve to be related, happening within this sixtli
year of the King.
The Coun- Dr. Morwin, preadent of Corpus Christi odlege, QxoO)
to ttw"*™******^ Webh and AUen, fellows of the same college, wen.
Fleet tome May ult Summoned to appeal* before the CoundL June 1^
Christi they were ordered to appear the Sunday following. Jim

^"ndi**"' ^*' *®y ^^^^ committed to the Fleet. Thdr feult was, Ik
Book. using upon Corpus Christi day other service than was ap
pointed by the Book of Service. * And a letter was sentta
the college, to appoint Jewel to govern the collie ducng
the imprisonment of the president. July 17, the Wardoi fli
the Fleet was ordered to release the prendent of Corpus
Christi, upon his being bound in a bond of 20(M. to appeal
next term before the Council. November 29, AUen, upon
his conforming to the King^s orders, was restored to his £d-
lowship.
Dr. Heins In October departed an eminent man of the Church, Si<
mon. Heins, D.D. dean of Exeter, and prebendary of WesC^
minster, being one of the first company of prebendariei
planted there by King Henry, upon the new foundation
thereof, as a reward for the services lie did in embaanes he
was employed about by the Ejng. He was an andent &
vourer of the Gospel, even from the time he lived is
Queen'^s college in Cambridge. He was one of the com'
pilers of the English X^iturgy under King Edward. And
was succeeded in his prebend by Andrew Pern, D.t). thi
King^s chaplain ; and in his deanery by James Haddon, i
learned and good man. The said Heins was true to th<

dies.

OF KING EDWARD VI. SS

interest of religion, and endured trouble for the sake of it^ CHAP.
under King Heiury. Suthray, treasiurer of the church of ^^^^•

Exeter, and Dr. Brewrwood, chancellor, accused him, their Aimo i56«.

Dean, to the Council, for preaching against holy bread and

lioly water, and that he should say in one of his sermons,

diat ^^ 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

Sat Philip 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

Wdden, and others, were by Dr. London, dean of WaUing- 387

Inrd, a busy persecutor, and sc»ne others, combining toge-

Aer, put into a paper of complaints ; which was presented

to Bishop Gardiner, the King'^s great privy counsellor, (in

whidi plot himself privily was,) as aiders and maintainers of

tne Anthony Persons,- a good preacher in Windsor, who

ttt about that time burnt And Heins was moreover ae-

inised as a common receiver of suspected persons.

With the mention of Heins, I join another confessor, of immaauei
the same judgment, and of the same University, though otl^l^^X
anoth^ country, viz. Immanuel Tremellius, an Italian by ^<><> o^
birth, escaping hither out of Grermany 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-
hridge, with a salary. He had also a prebend of Carlisle,
YOid by the death of WiUiam I^rrie, 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 djring, the Chancellor in
September, being then at Ely, wrote a letter to Secretary
Cecyl, that he would procure that canonry for Immanuel, of
the King : writing thus ;

^ Fcnrasmuch as Immanuel, the Hdbrew reader m Cam-

54 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK ^* biidge, taketh great paioB, b4Tuig little; to take unto, I
"• *< thought it well bestowed, if he might obtun it. And tbe

ADaoi66t.«< rather, forBomuch as I understand by one Anthony, t

ofEi^'to'^ ^^ Frenchman, who is in house with the said Immanuel, thst

Cecyi in bis *< you youfself motioued the matter. Wherefore, if it Aall

^ <^ stand with your pleasure to help him to it, I shaU be vej

<< well contented, and glad thereof ; and ye in so diing

<^ shall deserve thanks at the univerrity'*8 hand, and iitve

** him your continual orator for the same. As knoweth

^^ Jesus, who have you in his keeping. From Ely, thisjdi

" of September.

^* Your assured loving friend,

" T. Ely, Cane.'*

His patent was dated October 24s, with a clause to be
non-resident, as long as he read the said Hebrew lectuie,
with letters, or a writ for his induction.
r^<\^** About this time came forth a learned book, wrote by Dr.

iKx>k for . ^

the mar- Ponet, or Poynet, now bishop of Winchester, for the lav-
pr^t^^ fulness of priests^ marriage : which, in the year 1554^ Dr.
Martyn, the civilian, made an answer, sudi as it was, to;
dcdioadng his book (the better to ingratiate himsdf) to
Queen Mary. Dr. Taylor, lately made Inshop of Lincoln,
not long after the edition of this book of Foynet^ presdi-
ing at St Paul's Cross, took notice of it, with hi^ comment
dations« and wcvds of magnifying given unto it, as the said
Martyn in hia answer tut^ notice; ^* As if^"" said he, *^ it
** luul been sent down from heaviexi by revelation, or had
^* pr^vctxleil out of the very bosom of the Holy Ghost^
Tavlor then sdukU *^ That therein was c(»tained a suffident
** ikvtniH> tVur ^vriests' marriages^ and learning enough to
*« vx^ivitKV all ^n^ayer^*' In this book, if you will take
oSS Martyu s wvvxU Foynet hath this expiession. to shew the
xra^x^btaty iVf uvliu: chasce : ** Neiihiar jSftsdng nor watch-
^* iiwiT* tK>r aay sttch likc^ is mor^ ahce to soait their desire^
*^ >.ro ;i;\t h^-^^:*"^. Nni^^ m^^'^oxxi. uuin ifriinng of moisture
** Atxl vNiirth aIvv,: :Sc r\xK vSf di :rvt\ 5o ye kill him not, is
'^ ^bk^ V s:;r;it^: ;>sr 5^:»c tr^xr nvoi hhr^cic^ forth of leaves

OP DN& EDWARD VL

^ and blossoms in the spiingutmie of die jeat.^ And the chap.
bfesBid Bishop Taylor, in that sermon at PanPs Cross, is ^^^"*

id by Martjm to have alleged this passage out of Pojmetls Anno 16M.
bodk, oonceming the necessity for bii^ps and priests to
BBsny, by St. Paul's doctrine to Timothy ; " St Paul saith
^^ to Timothy and Tite, A bishop orprie^ mast be the hus-
** band of one wifs. Paul doth not say, It is enough fhr
^ him, if he hath had a wife; but )ie saith in the present
^ time^ Siquis est rine crimineyunius uxoris vir^ et oportet
** ipsum ESSE irrqfrehefvribUem. He must esse, be the
^ husband of one wife. Nether find I fault with the doc-
tors, which change be into hath been, but such bishops
and priests as neither be nor have been maitied, nor will
marry to diis day, must find some other exposition for
^^ diis text of St. Paul, or eUe cannot I see how they can
excuse themselves, but that they shall be found guilty by
this description and rule of a blameleiss bishop^^
In oonfiitation of this book. Dr. Martyn undertook to Answered
answer thi^ poinds. 1. Poynet's fialse expounding of the^^^"**"*
inly scriptures, touching priests^ marriage. 2. His untrue
interpretation of God^s word^ fen* the defence of married
raonks, nuns, and friars. 8. His falsely reporting the canons
d the Apostles, untruly aQeging sundry chmnides and his-
tcnries, and moiit unhoniestly slaiidering 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 m^^^^^^^
Queen Mory^s reign, in answer likewise to Mattyn; which
was Pojmet's. Td whidi that Ardibishop himself made very
hu^ and excellent additions: which are taken notice of by
me elsewhere.

The learned knight, SSr John Cheke, printed this year Cheke seu
his translation of Chrysostom^s homily. Brethren, ^ ^^'^^^^^ ilxions,
not have you ignorant, &c.v: printed by Tho. Berthelet.
This knight also set forth a translation of the New Testa-
raant, ixk 4P.

E 4

M MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK John Knox, the earnest prendier, and one of the K

°' itinengies, was now in the north : and on Christmas

Atmo iMt.he preadied at Newcastk upon Tyne. There he 8

**", ^ against the obstinacy of the Papists, and affirmed, *^

NciMMtie. ^^ whosoever in his heart was enemy to Christ's gospe

^^ doctrine, which thai was preached within the reahn

«< enemy also to Grod, and secret traitcnr to the crown

^' commonwealth of England. And that, as such, thi

after nothing more than the Kii^^s death, which

iniquities would procure, he said, so they r^ardec

« who should reign over them, so that thdr idolatry i

^f be erected again.^ This, it seems, provoked many c

auditors extremely; ioaomuch tluit they b^an to raise

Ue against him, and accused him to the magistrate ; a

pears by his Jdmonitian to the Professors ofGocTs 2

in England^ printed in 1554. *' How these my wor

that time pleased moi, the crimes and actions intc

against me did declare.^ But thai, Queen Mary ]

on the throne, and Philip of Spain made her husban

SSpiq'pealed to those ezpresaons of his, reckcming it at

time as a thing commonly owned, that the people had

a very bad dioioe^ wh^i they took fcnr that Queen a Sp

husband to reign over them. ^ Let my v^ enemiei

^* say their conscience, if those my words are not pi

" true."

The King The Lady Anne of Cleves, once King Henry'^s wife

^SS^^^tk divorced, was still alive, living in England upon her d<

^^^^ and, as it seems, m good reputation. She had Ian

cicfct. Bisham, which were those, I suppose, formerly beloi

to the mmiastery there; and at Blechingley, where sh

a house^ and sometimes dwelt. She seemed to be a la

good behaviour, and of an obliging carriage ; bearing a

friendly correspondence with the Lady Mary, as wi

with the other ladies of the Court. She spoke, or at

writ, En^ish v^ well, as appears by her letter u

written: which she writ upon certain business happ

between the Lady Mary and her> occasioned by a chan

OP KINO EDWARD Vj. fit

liiids the IQiur made this year, both with her and with his CHAF.
ngter. The lands which the Lady Anne parted with to him

wwe those of Bisham: for which the King granted her Anno iss^,

Westrop in Suffolk, with the appendages : for the getting

of which confirmed to her, she was fain to widt a great

while. Of the Lady Mary Hkewise, this year, the King de-

nred to have in exchange her manors of St. Osy thX Clax-

ton Magna and Panra, and Willeigh, all in Essex. The

Lady Mary desired of the King, (m recompence for this

diange, I suppose,) those lands in Suffolk which he had

giten bef<Mre to the Lady Anne. This occainoned the stop

of the great seal, which, after long expectation, was gmng

to pass for the Lady Anne. Whereupon she wrote this dvil

letter to the Lady Mary, which I have transcribed from the

oiiginal of her own hand.

^^ To my Lady Mcvry*$ GrcLce.

^ Madam ; After my most harty commendations unto She writes
« your Grace, being very deaious to hear of your prosper- "Cj'. ^''
**ou8 health; wherdn I much do rejoice. It may please ^^' ®' 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 was 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 th&
^^ same, not knowing, as I suppose, of the said graunt. I
'' have also received at this Michaelmas last past, part of the
^ lent of the fnesaid 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 m^ by your letters.

58 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK <' or otherwise, as it ahall stand with your pleasure. And

'' thus, good Madam, I commit you unto the ever-hyiog

Aono 1558. « God, to have you in tnerciful keeping. From my house
390 ^^ of Blychenley, the yiii. day of January, A^. Dy<^ jliii.

Your assured lovyng friend, to her
little power, to command,

Anna, the dowghter of Cleves.^

((

«€

((

The lands jj^ i\^q month of August before, I find the King gave tlw
*~ *''lady, in consideration of the surrender of Bisham, the
manors of Brbkeford and Thwaite in Suffolk, with diven
other lands, (in which, I suppose, the aforesaid Westropifi
comprised,) amounting to the yearly value c^ 672. 17^. 10^1*
Dr. Day ex- Dr. Day, late bishop of Chichester, had been harboured
judgment now about half a year with the Bishop of Ely, lord chancd-
lOwutthe |q|.^ Ij^^ under restraint. There Cecyl, the secretary, bang
one day entered into discourse with him about that same ar-
gument, which, about two years before, was the cause of ins
imprisonment and deprivation, viz* for disobeying an aria
of the King and Council, for taking altars out of tte
churches, and placing tables in their rooms, for the use of
the holy commimion. 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
therefore, January 10, wrote him a letter to this purport:
That to treat of that argument could be no less unplesU
sant and dangerous unto him, than it would be to a mei^-
'^ chant to sail again in those seas wherein he had suffisrd
shipwreck before ; yet he had gone about to acomipliiA
the Secretary'*s will and pleasure, and had devised with
^^ lumself, how and what he should write of that mattef.
^^ But he professed, in good truth, he could not tell what hi
*^ should write therein, otherwise than he had answered untc
*^ the Lords of the Council, before he was committed tc

OF KING EDWABD VI. 09

** ptisoBw and «fter#jard to the omnmia^tmers, at the time of chap.
^ Ids deprivatioD, viz, that he sticked not at the altar, either |_

^^ at the usual form of the altar, or of the ntuaticm thereof, ^^ i&^*<
^ or of the matter, stooe or wood, whereof the altar was
^^ made. And that he then look, as he did at present, those
^' things to be indifferent, and to be ordered by them that
^*had authcNTity. 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 abolisJiment of the altar, both the name
^ and the thing, from the use and ministration of the holy
^OQmmunion, 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 could not tell.^ But herein
Day aeemed not fairly to relate the matter : for the com-
ndsaoners, finding him so much to insist upon retaining the
oame of altar, because he found it used in the old doctors,
lod, as he pretended, in the scripture too, told him, that
toudiing the naming of the holy table an altar, it was in-
Afferrat, and left it so to him. He added, ^'that if the 391
'' Secretary and Sir John Cheke would, in con^deration of
^ the loss of his living, and two years^ imprisonment, obtain
^ for him the lib^ty of a subject, if he should hereafter
" abuse it, he would not desire to live ; and he would pray
^ &x the King^s most excell^dt Majesty, and his most ho-
^Dourable 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 KiBg^s debts pressing him, many commissions were Various
this year, one upon the neck of another, sent forth, for the gjonrfor
ranedying thereof; the Coundl hoping thereby to raise niising of
great sums of money : whereby^ no question, great numbers ™®°"'*
of people were suffidently vexed, to the discontent and dis-
turbance of the innocent, as well as the guilty. 1. One com-
mBoonj in March last, was issued to certain persons, for the
surveyuig of the state oi all the King's courts erected for the

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BOOK custody of the King^s lands, and for the answering of hit
^^' rents and revenues. 2. Another commisnon came forth ill
Anno ISM. June, for the sale of chantry lands. 8. And m the sanie
month were divers other commis^ons and instructions to pd^
culiar persons in every shire, to view and survey the bdDis^
plate, jewels, vestments, or ornaments belonging to eveiy
church ; and to seize into their hands, to the King^s use^
such of the said goods as had been, at any time before thi

ed to Clarencieux, the king at arms, to visit his provino^
that is, from the river Trent south waid, 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 commissicm wa^
issued out in December, to the Duke of Northumberland,
and several other noblemen and knights, to examine all iiit
treasurers, receivers, and ofiicers whatsoever, of the Exche-
quer, of the Court of Augmentations, of the King's Cham^
ber, of the First-fruits, of the Wards, of the duchy rf Laih
caster, of the town and marches of Calais, of the town and
garrison of Bewick ; and all other treasurers, which had
been formerly, or were at present, from the S4th year of
King Henry VIII. to that time, (that is, from the yeii^
153S to the year 155S, twenty years :) and also, all pa]f^
masters, surveyors, mustermasters, purveyors, victualkn^
and the like, that had received of the King, or his h!tbet\
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 diie
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, dr
by attainder of divers persons, or by divers forfrits of jewds;
silver bullion, plate, gold, and silver. 7. Yet another oomi*
mission there was in January, to examine by record tvf
chancery, or other -ways, what sums of money were due to

OF KING EDWARD V^. 61

the Kinff at any time for sale of lands, mnce the 4ith of CHAF.

■• XVIII

February, S7th Henry VIII. (the year wherein the lesser,

monasteries were dissolved,) and how the same was answered. ^"^ ^****
8w Another yet came forth the same month, for the coIleo-392
tiKXi 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 maimer 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 sdl for ready money, as much of
the King'^s manors and lands as should come to the value
of lOOW. per annum. And there were other commissions
of the same import, for sales, before this. And yet I find,
that in February, before that oommismon was sealed, many
ocmsiderable 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- .
liol, 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 4 ^^""^^
mayor of the said city, anno 1544, dying in -his mayoralty, amiiie tbe
left a fiur estate, and five daughters to inherit; but ^^f^^
painted such executors and overseers, as seemed more will- WiJJiam
ing to enrich themselves by the estate of the deceased, and^^^^*
ddEraud the dhildren, 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 15S2 obtained a commission for the just
exanrinarion and determination of this matter. And about
Felnruary, a commission was granted, at the suit of the said
Fiancis, to three doctors of the Arches, and three sergeants
of law, who were. Dr. May, dean of St. Paulas, Dr. Leyson,
and Dr. Cook, Gawdy, Stamford, and Catlyn, to call before
them the executors and overseers of the said Sir William
Bowyer^B will ; ^^ who,^ as the commission ran, ^^ had de-
^^ fiauded Agnes, the daughter of the said William, and

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BOOK ^* four other Asters, of their said father*s legacies; wtiA
^^' ** were great sums of money, besides moveable goods and

Anno 1558. ^^ 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 saipe to be prized for
^ under their value : and, that is worse, had also caused the
^^ same to be rased, and many parts to be canceled:
** whereby they had made the same very unperfect. Not m
^^ contented^ had caused the hoped f(»r and recuperable
^^ debts to be put into the title of the desperaie debts. Ani
^^ am(Hig the debts, had put in many fi^gned sums of monejr
^^ to be indebted by the deceased to them : and finally, had
^^ extended the funeral expences to S002. above the same ap-
** pointed by the order of the city.'' •
Bishop The persons ordained this year by Ridley, bishop rf

ordinations. Lond<Hi, were first. May 15, eleven deacons, all of thcns
Fellows, or Masters of Art of Cambridge, and six {Hriests;
Again, at Bartholomew-tide, requesting licence to ordain of
die !IKshop of Ely, Ridley being then at Cambridge, in thai
Bishop's diocese, he ordained in Pembroke hall, his own
college, Robert Kensey, M. A. Fellow of Trinity Collie,
Vicar of Ware ; and many others. Again, December 11,
were seven deacons ordained : whereof .one was aged forty,
another thirty-sevaii, and another thirty-three. Again,
December 521, were ordained three priests; William Harley
393 of Kathann Creechurch, Xiondotr; William Turner, dean
of Wells, and Robert Kensey, before mentioned.
Places and Tfais year were these places and offices conferred by the
stowed^ King. In April, Ambrose Elarl of Warwick, didest son <rf
the Duke of Ncnrthumberland, was made master of the
TSjn^% horses,'upon the Earl of PembnJce's surrender of
that office: and ta liave 100 marks yearly. In the same
month, the King appcnnted for his chief ofiicers in the Mint
within the Tower, Thomas Egerton, esq. treasurer of the
Mint; Thomas^ Stanley, comptroller; William Billingsley,
assaymaster ; John Munds, provost. And Sir John God*
salve, who bad^been before comptroller, in regard of his

OJt KING EDW AED. VI. GS

surrender, had an annuity of 601. And to Sir Nich. Throg- CHAP.-
morion, late one of the treasurers of the coin of the said ^^^^^'
Mint, was granted an annuity of lOOZ. for his surrender Anno i&.^s.
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 60/. per
annum. In June, Sir Roger Chohnely was constituted
lord chief justice of England; Henry Bradslmw, chief
baron of the Exchequer ; Edmund Griffith was made at-
tOFDey-gaieral of all the Courts of Record within England ;
and John Gosndd solicitor-general. In the same month,
the Lord Robert Dudley, another of the Duke of N(»*thum-
berland^s sons, was made master of the buck-hounds, with
the yearly fee of 33/. &. 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 chamberlwis 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 fcH*
an annuity o^ 102. and a licence to take the bodies of pri-
soners, both men and women, after their execution, [for dis«
secdng.] He was, I suppose, constituted the King^s chi-
rurgeon. As the year before, John Hemingway had the
office of being the Eing^s apothecary given him ; and a fee
of 40 marks yearly. And in February the abovesaid Lord
Robert Dudley had the oflSce capitaiis trenchiatorisj [chief
carver,] upon the surrender of the Duke his father^s patent
tor the same place, granted him by King Henry VIII. to
have to the said Robert for term of life, with the fee of 50/.
yearly. This place the said Lord Robert had executed from
the feast of St. Midbael.

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^^^^^ CHAP. XIX.

T— — "J Parliament. The King^s letters to the Sheriffi. BU
304 shopric of Durham dissolved. A general pardon. Cer-
tain excepted. TTie King renwoes to Greewwich. JTnox^i
last sermon at Court. Swmmoned he/bre the Council
Earls of Pembroke and Westmorland. Sir Andrew Dud-
ley. Sir John Williams. Melancthon. Norik^easi pas-
sage. Archbishop Holgate.

The King's ToW ARDS the conclusion of the year, the Kinff called

care for an t* i« a -i 1 • • 1 • i*

mbie Par. a new Parhament. And now beginning to set himself, as
^**°'^°^' his years came on, to mind business, he intended to ha^e an -
house composed of men of great and good alnlities, to con-
sult withal in the present affairs and difiicultieg of his king-
dom. Therefore, after he had sent out a warrant, Jan. 18,
to the Lord Chancellor, to direct forth process foar 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 dtizens,
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 directicHi, as
tending to the same. The letter was as foUoweth :
the King's ' " Trusty and well-beloved, we greet you welL Fooraft-

letter to the ^^ 1 i_ ^ j» j • j ^^ j

sheriffs for much as wc have, for divers good considerations, caused a
parliament « summouition for a Parliament to be made, as we doubt
^^ not but ye understand the same by our writs sent in that
^^ behalf 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-
<^ lament, 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 knowled^

men.

OF KING EDWARD VI. 65

** in their own countries and towns, fit, for their understand- CHAP.
^ ing and qualities, to be in such a great council. And

** therefore, since some part of the proceeding herein shall Anno i55«.
** 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 writs, by your di-
^' rection, for the election of citizens and burgesses, that our 395
'^ pleasure and commandment is, that they shall choose and
^^ iqypoint (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, om* 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.^

Lietters also were sent in January from the King to some Persons no-
of the high sherifis, recommending therein persons to them jf^rghu o'^'
to be elected knights : as one to the sheriff of Hampshire,**** ***"*•
fcnr the electing of Sir Richard Cotton to be one of the
kni^ts 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 D}rve, 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 FitzwiUiams and Sir Heilry Ne-

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BOOK vyl. To the sheriff of Oxoo, for Sir John Williams and
"• Richard Fines, esq. To the sheriff of Northamptonshire,
AnnpiAAfl.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 {daces
of trust about the King.
OlMHilutlun This Parliament began to sit March 1, and ended Mardi
•liM|irii) of the last, in the seventh year of the King. Then was a pn-
Uurliftiu. yi^i^ ^^ made for denizing the children of Richard Hills,
an eminent merchant abroad ; and another for restitution
of Edward Seimour, knight, eldest son to the late Duke d
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, vix. for the found-
ing two bishoprics out of it,) as if they had not Plough
humbled the Church, might have a few more good fleece
from her. But he that had the greatest expectation from
this dissolved bishopric, namely, the Duke of Northumber-
land, was sadly disappcnnted, 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 Inshopric to Ro-
bert Horn, D. D. the dean of that church.
Ourhtm For it was soon after this dissolution of the bishopric,

county pa- namely, in April, that Durham was changed into a county
utine. 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-
land3 vix. Earl of Durham. I find the demeans of this dis-
solved bishopric began soon to be dispersed. For in May
the fee-farm of the lordship, manor, town, and borough of
Gateshead, late parcel of tlie possessions of that tnahopric,
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 hi- ^'^*

shofMTic, was given to the Earl of Shrewsbury. Anno im«.

The King concluded this Parliament with a general par- Persons ex-
don. Out of which were these persons following excepted : of the ^ne-
Cardinal Pole, Jefirey Pole, [brother, unless I mistake, to ^^^ P"don.
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 under Queen
Elizabeth.] Goldwel, [servant to Cardinal Pole, and under
Quem Mary made bishop of St. Asaph, and fled abroad
again under Queen Elizabeth, and abode at Rome.] John
element, [doctor of physic, and that had been schoolmaster
to Sir Thomas Morels children. In Morels 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 diot up grain, which had already begun to sprii^ up
in Greek and Latin learning, he looked for, he said^ a
plentifrd increase, at length, of goodly ripe com.^ This
Clement was ccmstituted by Cardinal Wolsey his rhetoric
and Greek reader.] John Story, doctor of law, [that was
undo* 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^
betb.] William Rastal, [who was the son of Jdin Rastal,
a learned man, and a printer, who married Sir Thomas
Moce's sister. This William, 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 cme of the Justices of the Common Pleas.
This man wrote several books of the law. Under Queen
Elijudbethy he fled to Lovain again, and thare died. This
William Bastat married John^ ClenientV daughter.} Three
Italians alaa^ xnx. Amfaaoy Bottviee,. BenecBct BoHvioe, and

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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 refunng 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.
AmbasM- This March were Dr. Wotton and Sir Thomas Chabner
^"' 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 Mbrison's
397 i^oom, now coming home. To whom there was a letter sent,
April 1, to deliver to Sir Philip Hoby, sent ambassador to
the Emperor, by bill indebted, all such plate as he recdved
when he entered into that charge.
Tfcstons In York, and those northern parts, the testons still

Torkf ' passed for sixpence ; but about April a design was in hand
to take them down to a groat. An inkling of which going
about, every body ran in with their testons to the mint in
York, and paid them in there. Whereupon grew this in-
convenience, that all commodities began to rise much, and
a great scarcity of money followed. Wherefore to remedy
this dearth, the Council in the north was fain to procure
some to be punished, that sold at unreasonable and prohi-
bited prices.
The King's The King, for his health^s sake, as it seems, and to en-
to Green- j^J ^^ country air, removed, April 11, from Westminster by
wich. water to Greenwich. As he passed by the Tower, he was

presented with a great shot of guns and chambers : and all
the ships shot off their guns all the way to Ratcliff ; and so
did the three ships that were riding there, appointed to go

OF KING EDWARD VI. 69

bo Newfound Land, and the two pinnaces that were to ac- CHAP.
Dompany them. And this was the last remove of the good ;_

King- Anno 155ft.

Apiil 17, came a command down to London, that all the A certificate
diurchwardens of London should repair unto Guildhall, ^^^^^
and appear before the Eing^s commissioners, the Bishop o(^^^^°^ to
London, and the Lord Mayor, and Chdmely, lord chimin,
justice ; and bring with them a true certificate of all church
goods,. plate, money, bells, and of all copes and ornaments
that pertained to each church. For the sacrilegious hunger
of the courtiers was not yet satiated.

Knox, it seems, upon the displeasure taken against him Knox
in Newcastle, as was said before, soon after returned tOhlTi^
London, apd being in good reputation with the King, and wrmon at
some of the Council, for his zealous preaching against the
errors of Rome, and the vices of the time, he was appointed
to preach before the King and his Council at Westminster,
a little before his Majesty departed thence. And his ser*
mon, being the last he preached before his Majesty, he
suited to the Court as it now stood ; wherein the main go-
verning men, and who carried all the stroke, were mere
temporizers, and secretly well-wishers to the old religion,
and shewing little zeal for the present establishment of the
Church, any further llian the national laws absolutely re-
quired : and so they outwardly complied, but craftily con-
cealed their inward judgments, for the accomplishing th&x
worldly ends and interests. These were the men now chiefly
about the King. There were two ei^)ecially ruled all in the
Court, the Duke of Northumberland, by stout courage and
proudness of stomach, and the Marquis of Winchester, the
treasurer, by counsel and wit. This was well enough ob-
served by the good sort: and bold Knox, being now to
preach at Court, was resolved to speak his mind, and re-
prove them, even to their faces. And for that purpose,
took his text in Psalm xl. He that eateth bread with me^
haih lift wp his heel offainst me. This sermon he spake of
afterwards, in his Faithfiil Admonition ; where he was men-
tioning how the Papists, with their craft, wrought all mis-

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70 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

HOOK chief in King EdwanTs reign, being inch as bore autbority

'•• and rule. "And who, I pray,'' nid be, " ruled the r«»t in

Ahw lAftf . •« the Court all this dme, by stout courage and proudnen
" of stomach, but Northumberiand ? And who, I pn^^ you,
.1|)H " niled all by counsd and wit? Shall I name the man? I
" will write no more plainly now than my tongue spake the
** Im mormon that it pleased God that I should make be-
«« (\in» ihat innocent and most godly King Edward VI. and
«^ )h»(^mv tho CouncH at Westminster, and even to the £sKes
« s^ ^swK"^ Sic.

M> ^HS>4Mih^) «^ the foresaid text, he made this affirmation,
^' ^V\\*i\ \>^m\^v^\\ it is seen, that the most godly princes
'> \\^\ vOKsH!^^ aih) chief counsellors most ungodly, conjured
"^ t^uvAwW* U^ iW^iV true rehgion, and traitors to their
V ^MHVJt : ^ iImiI tkcir wickedness and ungodliness was
^^ ^ip^^t^Uy )>«^wvi\^ and cspkd out of the smd princes
'' wU gUUv ttWQ : but that for a time those crafty colours
** coukl io ckiak thetr malice agnnst Grod and his truth,
^^ aud iKeur hoUow hearts towards dieir kmi^ masters, that,
^^ by wwldlY wisdom and pcficj, at length th^ attained to
^^ high promotioBSL"* And for the proof of this his affirma-
tion, he recited the histories of Achitoidiel, and Shebna,
and Judas. Of whom the two former had high offices «dA
prmnodons, with great authority, under die most goSj
princes Darid and Ezekuis; and Judas was purse-master
with Christ Jesus. And when he had made some discourse
in that matter, he moved tlus question, ^' Why so godly
'^ princes permitted so wicked men to be upon didr coun-
**' cil, and to bear office and authority under them ?^ To
which he answered, << That other they so abounded in
oridly wisdom, foreaght, and experience, touching the
goiremment of a commonwealth, that their counsel ap-
^ peared to be so necessary, that the commonwealth could
^ not lack them, and so by the ocdour to preserve the tran-
^ quilfity and quietness in realms, they were maintuned in
^authority; or else they kept their malice, which they
** bare towards thdr mastors and Grod*s true religion, so
^' secret in their breasts, that no man could espy it, till by

OF KING EDWAAD VI. n

^* Grod^s permission they waited for such occasion and op- CHAP.
*' portunity, that they utt^ed all thrir mischief so plainly,

that all the world might perceive it. And that was most Anno U6t.
evident by Achitophel and Shebna. For of Achit<^heP^K-*s»
it ia written, that he was David^s most secret counsellor ;
'* and that because his counsel in those days was like the
** oracle of God. And Shebna was unto good King Ezekias Em- »ii.
'* sometime comptroller, sometime secretary, and last of all
" treasurer. To the which offices he had never been pro-
** moted under so godly a prince, if the treason and malice
^^ whidi he bare against the King, and against God^s true
** reli^on, had been manifestly known. No,^ said he,
^' Sobna was a crafty fox, and could shew such a fair coun-
*^ tenance to the King, that neither Jhe nor his council
*^ could espy his malicious treason. But the prophet Esaias
^* was commanded by Grod to go to his presence, and to de-
** dare his traitcfrous heart and miserable end.

** Were David,*" said he, "and Ezekias, princes of great
^^ and godly gifts and experience, abused by crafty coun-
sellors and dissembling hypocrites ? What wonder is it
then, that a young and innocent King be deceived by
crafty, covetous, wicked, and ungodly counsellors ? I am
greatly afraid that Achitophel be counsellor, that Judas
bear the putse, and that Sobna be scribe, comptroller,
'^ and treasurer."" This he said, and somewhat more he
spake that day, not in a comer, but even before those
whom his conscience judged worthy of accusation. He
said, that since that time they had declared themselves
ndore manifestly, namely, under the Queen. He affirmed,
that under that innocent King, pestilent Papists had 399
greatest authority. " Oh ! who was judged to be the soul
** and life to the Council in every matter of weighty im-
** portance ? Who but Sobna ? Who was most frank and
** ready to destroy Somerset, and set up Northumberland ?
<* Was it not Sobna ? Who was most bold to cry, Bastard,
^' bastard ; incestuous bastard Mary shall never reign over
** us? And who, I pray, was most busy to say. Fear not
** to sdbsmbe with my Lords of the King's Majesty's most

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iK^HHinihle Privy Council : agree to his Grace'*s last irill
^ aik) ivdWt testament And let never that obstinate wo-
'^ wwui \XMKio to authority. She is an eiTant Papist. She will

>Mb>ttt the true idigion, and will bring in strangers, to
>^ iW \k^nictkiii of this oommonwealth. Which of the

\\^Micw. I «iiT« had these, and greater persuasions against
"^ >i«r^x V «iMn now he crouches and kneeleth? Sobna

v-V $^>«ttKr. Attd what intended such traitorous and

* xi>«M.'tt»^aaM: \xf^vritts by all these and such like cnifly

* >;>i^Vx ««gl cv«ttHKrim cooveyance? Doubdess the over-
- ;.V^>^« ^^ v^bcrssc^^ rue rd^ioo, which then began to
** eksiK«M^ -tt V^i^viiid.* Thus he wrote eoocenung his

N * \'v * bti«; 'K>^^t;hs43iHnti^ :ae pKicmg glboMes thereof upon
r\.\ \^ * ' x^^uiv- ^"^ aV ^*^«£ "Mijtt,. ^ w«c « ■B» as I can guess, ^ut
liux :.iUK\ .iVu lOi^ CsHUKu jiiis 3» :k Airiibishcp of Can-
uiiK^Aj^ :«> *x^u* 'iikf ivm^ -jc Ai&aSows upon Mr. Knox.
Bu: \»a«.ii .: ^zts jifenu Tim, 2fiif rsaaed it, not caring to be
bv>uiKl u> Udc Jul SJmr Ekfwani s imiL Aad Sampscm, and
af t«ri' him Sauniers. I j&cg^anls a BKrrr«) were collated to
Uc Couu- tbe said pariah. April 14. Ksux wv caDed brfcHre the
Liu^w^'c ^ Councix : who finpaiwipd of hiai dinw qoestiDns^ 1. Why
lUciu to tie refused the besedce provided Ssr hini in London ? To
c;*uitf. which he answered, due hs cooadesice £1 wkness, that he
mighc profit more in wrae ocfao- piace dian in London. And
therefore had no pleasore to accept any ofioe diere: but he
might hare umwend^ that he refused thift parsonage, be-
cause of NorthumberkaKTs oontrarr command; who de-
signed it, perhaps f"^ him that succeeded into it, namely,
SampvoD. S. Whether he thought that no Christian might
senre in th<r 6«f;i«si»rtical ministration accoiding to the rites
and Uws tA the realm of England? To wUdi he said,
that many ttiing* at that time were worthy of reformatioQ
in the ministry r/f Kngland ; without the reformation where-
of, no mintnUrr did or could discharge his consciffldoe be-
fiire Gfid. Ftjr no ministers in England had authority to
separate the k^pers from the heal : (i. ^. the whcde or sound ;
that is, they had not the full power of excommimication :)

OP KING EDWARD VI. 7»

1 was, he said, a chief point of his office. 8. They CHAR
I him, if kneeling at the Lord^s table was not indif» ^^'
t? He answered, that Christ^s action was most per- Anno 1559.
and that it was most siure to follow his example:
hat kneeling was man^s addition and invention. About
last question, there was great contention between
oords of the Council and him. There were then pre-
the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cranmer ; the Bishop
ly, Goodrich ; Lord Chancellor, the Lord Treasurer,
Saris of Bedford, Northampton,{Shrewsbury, the Lord
nberlain, and both the .Secretaries. After long reason-
it was said to him, he was not called of any ill mean-
and that they were sorry to know him of a contrary
to the common order. He answered, he was sorry
ommon order was contrary to Christ^s institution. He
lismissed, with some gentle speeches, and willed him to 400
e with himself, if he would communicate according to
order^ All this above is collected from a letter of
Cs own writing.

»w Knox seems to have gone into the parts of Buck- Knox fa
mshire, and that in his itinerary course of preaching. "^ '
)me places in this circuit, and particularly at Amer-
» he took a liking, partly for their forwardness to hear
EUid partly for their civilities towards him. In these,
!bre, and such like places, he would tarry somewhat
r than in others, where he could not find so much de-
, and there, and elsewhere, sometime allow himself
tdon. But this was afterwards a trouble to him, as
[ling himself to have been guilty of too much indul-
to himself, and of too little regard of the need that
people stood in, of having the gospel preached to
: and he blamed himself, ^^ that he had not been an in- Faithful
erent feeder, as was required of Christ's stewards. For^^^™°"'"
)reaching Christ's gospel,** said he, " albeit my eye, as
1 knoweth, was not much upon worldly promotion;
the love of friends, and carnal affection of some men,
1 whom I was most familiar, allured me to make more
ience in one place than in another ; having more re-

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spect to the pleasure at a few, than to the neeesaty
^* many. That day I thoilght I had not sinned, If 1
'* not been idle. But thid day I know it was my duty
^< have had connderation, how long I had remain^ in
'* place, and how many hungry souls were in other p
^^ to whom, alas ! none took pains to break and distril
^* the bread of life* Moreover, remaining in one plaee^
^* was not so diligent as mine office required, but som<
'* by counsel of carnal friends, 1 sptured the body ;
'* time I spent in worldly buEaness of particular
^^ and some time in taking recreation and pastime, by est
•' cise of my body." This I the rather set down, that
may see one of the King^s itineraries in his office.

But leaving Knox, we shall make some remembrances
other men of note, as they occasionally about this time
us matter to relate of them.

Sir William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, now grew
having been lately advanced from a commoner to a nobl
man, specially since the conspiracy of the Duke of ^i
set, wherein it was pretended, that he, together with tlu^3!
Duke of Northumberland, and the Marquis of North«ai]^~ i
ton, his brother-in-law, should have been assassinated! -■
whereby he became linked in with those two overtojqpi
men. He was made president of the Council for
marches of Wales in 155S. And in this last year of tM
Sang, he made two great purchases of lands and lordsJiipdi. '
from the crown, which cost him upwards of 1800Z. H^
' was made the first and chief of a commission to view aB#
smrvey all church goods, plate, furniture, &c. belongii^ td
any church, chapel, or guild, in the county of Chester. ThI
King also bestowed upon him the office of keeping the ^
rests and parks of Claringdon, Pauncet, Buckholt, axri
Melthurst, in Wilts ; to him and his son for their lives.
And he obtained, as of the King'^s gift, the manor of Dii-
nyate in Somersetshire, with other lands' and possesions.
401 Henry Nevyl was Earl of Westmorland in this reign, a
Westmor- person of ancient nobility, but of a taiMed life and ble-
doned and mished manners. In the ^ear 1551 he conspired to have

rewfurded.

OF KINO EDWARD VI. 75

ibed ihe King's treasure at Middleham, where his Ma* CHAP.
tj had confflderabk revenues. He endeavoured also to ^'^*

b bis mother: and sdd land to the value of 9007. per Anno i66f.

aiuniy either lavished away in prodigality, or to cany

I a treason. And to ple^use the people, he intended to set

rth a pTodamation for the raising of coin to its former

ihie, which, being of a baser alloy, had been lately cried

ofwn, hy the Eong's order, that money might oome to a

reer standard. These things Horn, dean of Durham, had

Bsoovered against him in October 1559 : but was bid to

i»ep the matter close. Whatever punishment this Eari un-

lerwent, in the beginning of April 155S, by the means, f

Nippose, of Northumberland, who grew formidably great in

fte northern parts, to gain this northern nobleman, had

great favour shewn him. For he had a pardon of all trea^

tons, little and great, misprifAon of treason, fcc comnritted

Mure the 90th of March last ; and soon after, in the same

moDth, the King gave him the manors of Keaton^ hufUm^

Ghetecomb, Baseby, Stow, and Deping, and other landf

in the counties of Devon and Lincoln. To wbon they w^rrt

before entailed : to him and the h^rs of his body. And m

die month fi^owing, ocHnmission came to the Earl f^ Hm^

tii^dott and Sir Andrew Dudley, knights of the ipr^l^ar^ V/

adnnt and install the said Westmorland into the atid ur^,

WIndi Sir Andrew, cS. late risen exceedingly, as w*«Jj m ^^ h^^^^m
Ac Lord Chamberlain, {viz. the Lord Darcy,) Im^ '^'^^J^/JiT*
Ml kfdy admitted into the said order. And m Ayr>j 4m^ *f ^*'^-
^bskg gave them both, out of his wardrtibe, 4ig)>v»9iW jwA^
of crimson velvet, for the Hvery of the «aid m^t^ f/ ^J**-
Garter, and ten yards apeee of white mgrtxn^ ^ff *aM^m^
to Kne it Dudley succeeded the Lord Fa^^ «^>v^ ^y^^
pretence of defect of blood and arms &r ^hr^, 4»!«^>«i*^> ^^
been before deprived of the Grarter ig/aoaism^Mir h*/^ ^
lAer ccsruleuSj in the legisUj cf the ksi^^ k^ f^
Windsor, observed, it waa not w rotid) thoair f^uft**^ *t ^^
prevalence and practice of the Dofce </ 5Cor*w«A»yl<«M4,
ty which he had been mgusthr and uo<Jkwf^«>4iy ^ ^M
4e order. But Sr John Harnrd, m ^j ^/^^ w* w'**-

i«*<

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BOOK taken, when they write, that the George and Gkurter were
^^' forthwith bestowed upon the Earl of Warwick, that Duke^i

Anno 155S. eldest son; when indeed it was not bestowed upon the son
of the said Duke, but upon Sir Andrew, his brother, as iras
shewn before. ' «

Sir John Sir John Williams, who was master of the jewel-hom^
„„^^rof and now discharged in May, gave up his accounts, andimi
the jewels, cleared of the sum of 16,667Z. This gentleman was unda
Queen Mary created Lord Williams of Thame, and made
lord chamberlain of the household to King Philip.
A letter to Had not the King died so soon, the moderate, learned, and
thon. ^i*^^ Melancthon would have come into England, and bees
placed in the University of Cambridge. For in this montb
of May, a letter in Latin was sent to him from the Eli^
fflgnifying, that the King had elected him to supply tM
place which Martin Bucer, deceased, had in that Univer*
sity. And June 6 following, a warrant was issued to the
Treasurer of the Augmentations, to deliver to the Arcb-
402 bishop of Canterbury 502. to be sent over the seas by him,
for the expences of the same learned man coming to the^
King^s presence.
The a^^^n- jn this month of May did the King grant letters of oom-
Dorth-east mendation, or safe conduct, for the three ships that were
P*"*^** enterprising that noble adventure of seeking for a passage'
into the eastern parts of the world through the unknown'
and dangerous seas of the north. Of this expedition Sebas>
tian Gabato, an excellent mariner of Bristow, but of Italian'
parentage, was a great mover, to whom the King, as a giUr
' tuity, had given 200Z. For this voyage, in February last,
the King^ lent two ships, the Primrose, and the MocHi, a
pinnace, to Bams, lord mayor of London, Garret, one of
the sheriffs, York and Windham, adventurers, binding
themselves to deliver to the King two ships of the like bur-
den and good condition, in Midsummer, anno 1554. Sir
Hugh WiUoughby, a brave knight, was the chief captain
in this enterprise : to whom the King granted a passport to
go beyond the seas, with four servants, 40Z. in money, his
chain, &c. The letters of safe conduct were wrote in Latin,

OF KING EDWARD VI. 77

to aU kings, princes, and other states, being three m num. CHAP.
ber, for each ship one : and three others of the same e£Pect

irere.writ in Hebrew, and three others in the ChaldeeAonoiss*.
tongue ; to suit with the language of the eastern countries,
rhen they should arrive in those parts of the world. But
the voyage proved unfortunate, by reason of the ice and
storms in the north parts ; though so much was gained, to
iie great advantage of the nation, that by it the country of
S^ussia was better known, and a trade with it then first dis-
overed.

In this month of May did Holgate, archbishop of York, Arehbiihop
he only wealthy bishop then in England, bestow somepurchateUi
lart of his wealth very commendably , for the benefit of his ^^^^J-
iiocessors in that see. For he made purchase from the King
f the sdte, circuit, and precincts, capital messuage and
lanfflon, lordship and manor of Scroby in Scroby, with the
ppurtenances, in the county of Nottingham, lately parcel
f the possesfidons of the Archbishop of York : which pre-
lises were extended to the yearly value of &il. 8s. B^d.
hove all reprises and allocations. To have the premises to
be Archbishop and Barbara his wife, during the life of the
^jchbiabop and of Barbara, and either of them, living
ongest, with impetition of waste during the life of the said
^jchbishop; and after the departure of the Archbishop
ind his wife, then to his successors. Archbishops of York,
br ever. To hold of the King, and his successors, in free
xxscage ; which was purchased by him for the sum of 6801.
Is. 6d. May 27.

Mr. Sheres was in this foresaid month of May sent am- AmbaMa*
bassador to the King of the Romans ; and to Maximilian ^jZi^^
Kng of Boeme; and about the same time, Florentius de
Diaceto to the King of Denmark.

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— — CHAP. XX.

^ ' A design to enter into league with the Protestant prinm*
The present condition of the Emperor. The embasiy to
him from Engla/nd. Letters from the English ambaail^
dors J concerning the affairs of the Low Countries.

JDUT now to turn ourselves to the King^s concerns ifA

his two neighbour princes.
Ambassa- This year England had Sir Thomas Chamberlain amfail-
dors abroad. ^^ ^^^ ^^ Regent, the Bishop of Norwich, Sir Richari

Morison, and Sir Philip Hoby, ambassadors with the £1%
peror : who laboured the confirming of the amity with Efl|^
land, and did sincerely favour him against the Frencki
though more privily, because of the peace with Fmei:
where our ambassadors were. Dr. Wotton, Sir WillilB
Pickering, and Sir Thomas Cfialoner : whose office wa% W
mediate a peace between that King and the Emperor. Nov
because we have no history extant, as I know of, that giWi
any sufficient account of these concertations, but are v«9
dcdSective, nay, say nothing at all thereof, therefoire I ^
by the help of the letters of these ambassadors, and of thi
Council to them, declare this at some mate length. j[

A design to It must be known, that a great intrigue now driving iH
iM^e with^ by these ambassadors with the Emperor was, to c^n a cImI
the Pro. to Strike a league with the Protestant jmnces c^ G^rmany^
princes. ^^ ^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ discretion of the amba8sad(»*s> to talp
their opportunity to move the matter. They sent letlepi
Apail 28, to the Council, b^ng an answer to letters that luiJ
been belbre sent from the Council to tbem : ther^ thil
dgnifiedy that as yet there bad been no good (^[^xirtun^ II
utter, especially in those parts, any {»eee of the mattef 4
the Council'^s letters, until more time and further intdE
gence might give light for the manner and order of exkttf
By the next letters of the Lords, wrote May 5, they of
dered the ambassadors to forbear to say or do any tha)
therein; that is, for entry of any practices touching th
league, whereof they wrote before. Yet it was their will

OF KING EDWABD VI. 79

that the said ambaasadors should devise, both with Mr. chap.
Mount, the English agent at Strasburgb, at his coming to _

them, and by all other ways, to understand as much as they Anno ims.
might, in all things mentioned in their former letters ; and
especially to oonsid^ this one point, mj^. with what princes
of Germany, in what d^rees, and after what sort, it were
best to enter 9Qd break first, when the King, upon further
intelligenoe and ocoaedon, should think good to proceed fur-
ther in this matter. And in these pmnts they desired to
understand the ambassadors opinions, who ,had all three
great and long experience of those princes, and had been,
privy, as they thought, with what commissions, and under
what sort, the covenants had passed heretofore with the
princes of Grermany, both in the league for the defence of
the Low Countries^ and in some other like conidderations
made in those parties in times past.

The Emperor still remained very sickly, and in more like- 404
Hhood to die than to live. In case of whose mortality and lostruc-
departure, the Council instructed the ambassadors, diat itctmoi the
was the King^s pleasure, that they should use such words of J"P*"*'**
lamentation as might seem meet ; and to declare to the Re-
gent, that considering, that by the said Emperor^s death tl^
^id of thdr embassy was ^ come, and their commission ex-
pired, he, the Bishop of Norwich, and he. Sir Richard Mop-
lison, wore minded to take their leaves, and to make thdbr
returns to the King^s presence ; and he, Sir Philip Hoby,
according to his Majesty'^s letters, of late written to the Re-
g^t for thiM^ purpose, did mind to make his abode and con-
tinuance in those parts, to attend upon her the said Regent,
according to the charge committed unto. him.

The Emperor^s party were, this April and May, besieging The Em-
Therwin, but with no great hope of success ; any more than JJ^^^eg^Tier.
there was in the latter end of the last year, when the Em- win.
peror besi^ed Metz, and was forced to raise the siege. He
was now greatly distressed for money: for his subjects of
the Low Countries dunk back, and made terms, in case a
tax were levied upcm them ; and the bankers refused to lend
any more For, as Chamberlain wrote to th^ Lords, that
tor the last demand from Holland, the people stood with the

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BOOK President there rending, dealing, tliat if they should yieli
thereunto, they might be unburdened of an impost of UA
Anno i56s.upon the hundred, put upon them for all fish and merchaii-
dise, since the beginning of these wars, towards the fumisii-
ing of a navy of ships, which, they were made beheve, the
Emperor would find upon the same, for a sure convoy d
their merchants'* ships between this and Spain, from time to
time. And instead of such a navy, they were compelled to
double man their own ships, and double furnish the same
with ordnance, at their own cost, and not to depart till thirtj
or forty ships were ready together : and yet was the im-
post, neverAeless, gathered of them. So that they standiog
hereupon, the President wrote to the Regent, that he ooaU
not induce them to condescend, otherwise than with promifle
to take away the said impost. Finally, it was known that
the Regent wrote to the President, that if he could do no
better, he should promise as much as they asked ; wbidi
should be performed as other the like had been.
The people The people did murmur, and thought that money already
CountrieT pven illy bestowed ; and had no better hope of the enter-
marmar. prise upon Therwin, than they had of Metz. When they
were required for this last grant, one of the presidents, tfp
allure them to condescend, was commanded to shew unt9
divers, certain accounts of the charges of the last year;
that it might appear how much the last did amount unto,
and yet was not enough by a great deal, and that Cesar
should yet be in debt unto divers persons, five or six mil'
lions. It was reported, that among the rest, one gentleman
of Holland said merrily to the President, " What shall it
^^ boot me to see the accounts, seeing I do know, that il
^^ there be not enough, more will be asked ; and bdbg tOG
" much, none shall be restored ?^
Money rery The nobles, the abbots, and others of the clergy, di^
be nused. ^^ ^^^ ynski the commons, devising upon the easy levying
of this last grant in Brabant ; which they could not lev]
upon meat and drink, as they were wont, there beil^
already so many new imposts and gabels, beside the <»r£
nary excise, as the poor commons were not able, and won
405 willing, to bear it ; so that as yet they could not agree ; an^

OP KING EDWARD VI. 81

uie money was unready when Cesar had present need CHAP,
thereof. ,

The Fnggars, and other merchants in Antwerpj-would*"""*'*"'
Jend no more upon interest, until the old were piud; which ^.h^u'l,'
-some mean merchants did exclium for, heing not able other-^°*™^
wise to pay their debts : but naught could they get, and yetieod uif
still more was craved of them. The Fuggars would lend no '°°""
more at interest, but by exchange; whereby they meant,
both to make more gain, and also to stand in more surety of
thnr payment. For that delivering money here by ex-
change, they would drive the Prince to seek, out another
merchant, that might promise them payment in Spiun or
Italy : and so thought themselves better able to obtain the
payment of others, merchants, as they themselves were, than
there of Cesar's receivers ; whose bills, and none other, they
Trere wtmt to have for thdr money.

The people found themselves shrewdly wronged : forThe people
"rfiere the last year they disbursed their ready money to re-^o^"*
rare yearly rents upon the demeans of these countries, "™"8«l-
*^en the year came, that they looked for payment, they
tre half p^d, and forced to tarry until the end of the se-
•rod year : and then they looked for as little, by reason all
iIk demeans, and other things there, were set to pledge, and
iIk money faster spent than it was gathered.

The cause of this scarceness of money did proceed from The c&uw
lie great mbtrust that now went of the merehants' weak- .onrMneii
■•», stepping duly aside : so that the gendemen, burgesses, "^ nioMy.
*idoffs, and others of those countries, that were wont to
pot fbrth such money in banks, as they did spare to spend
of thrir yearly revenues and other gains, did now think
better to keep it in coffers, without gtuns, than to put it in
bucksters* hands, and lose the principal..

The Fmperor's own condition was now, in April, such, The B
that he kept himself close, and gave no audience to (
ntui, Dorwas seen abroad. The reason whereof was thouf
to he, that the despite of his ill successes had bred in him •
mekncholic humour, not much differing from a phrensy : wi
dut the English ambaBsadon (who came for c
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8S MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK of the amity, and to offer a mediation for peace between the
^^' Emperor and France) remained as yet without access to
Anno 1562. his presence. Of this want of admission, the said amb^ssa-
d(»:s informed the Lords ; who authorized them, for lack of
access to the Emperor^s own person, to declare imto tk
Regent, his sister, the effect of their ambassage. Where-
upon they agreed, that Sir Richard Morison should repair
to Monsieur de Arras, to have audience spoken for accord-
ingly. The said Arras said, he would declare it to the Em-
peror ; assuring him, that if the Emperor had been in any
ability to have given them audience himself, they had not
been thus long delayed. And because they should not
think the time long, he therefore sent his secretary B. unU>
them, to pray them to resort unto the Regent : which. Arras
said, proceeded only of the Emperor^s debility ; for had he
been in case able to have ^ven them audience, they should
most thankfully have been received by him. After this,
D^Arras sent the secretary unto them, to tell them, he de-
clared this matter to the Emperor, who took it in very good
part, and was determined nevertheless, within two or three
days, to ^ve them audience himself, if he were able. It was
406 May 7, in the moriiing, when two of the Emperor'^s Coun-
cil came to them, telling them, that the Queen was ready to
give them audience : with whom they repaired unto her pre-
sence, and there declared the effect of their message, accord-
ing to their instructions; and withal delivered unto her,
first her own letters, and afterwards the Emperor's letters;
praying her, that like as she had always shewed herself an
augmenter of amity between the King's Majesty and her
brother the Emperor, so she would now do what good in her
lay, to the furtherance of the King's Majesty's godly intent
and purpose, as well to the honour of both Princes,, as to the
profit of the universal state of Christendom. Whereunto
she made as gracious and loving answers as might be de-
sired ; promising continuance of her good-will towards that
amity, which she knew the Emperor tendered much ; and
that for the rest, she would declare it to the Emperor, and
let them know his mind therein, as shortly as might be, not

OF KING EDWABD VI. 8£f

doubting but that they should be answered to their con- CHAP.
lentatioQ. ■^^'

After havmg paused a little, they further declared unto ^unp i5£^s.
her, that lake as the King^s Majesty had sent them thither
unto the Emperor for that good intent, even so had the
Sang sent the like ambassadors to the French King, with
commandment to do their best : and as matters might grow
to any good purpose, so to advertise them [the ambassadors
with the Emperor] of it; offering themselves to employ
theiip Utmost difigence to do good in this behalf: which the
](egent accepted most thankfully.

After this audience with the said Queen, (which was at Talk be-
Srussels,) on May 10, Mons. d' Arras came to the ambas-JJU^^
Sf^dors^ lodgings tp visit them ; and after much courtesy and &°d the
gentle words, they fell in talk of the state of their anny at ^on.
Therwin, and out of that, into a discourse of the peace :
wherein DlAxras said, that the Queen deferred their answe;^'
(Hdy, for that the Emperor was desirous to make them an-
swer himself. And further, said he, ^^ Whereas you re-
<< quire to understand the occasions of these wars, th^
^^ Emperor knoweth none other cause, but the French
^^ King^s ambition : who hath taken the Emperor'^s ships at
" Barcelona, spoUed his merchants upon those seas, stirred
^^his subjects against (he Emperor, and taken towps be-
^^ longing to the empire : which was both begun and done,
^^ when his i^mbassador did affirm and syt^ear, that his master
^^ the French King meant nothing but good peace.*^ Then
speaking of the high and unreasonable demands the French
intended to make, in order to peace, he added, that these
w^re rather the means to irritate them that were alre^y
prickecl; and that the mediators should do tlieir best to
stay diose demands. '^ Nay,^ said Sir Richard Morison,
^^ it noay be, for saving their honour in speaking firsts they
^^ will demand unreasonable things, and nevertheless, in the
^^ end be contented with reason : for if the French b^ will-
^^ ing to have peace, they will speak, and yet, peradvei^tlire,
^^ their ;speech shall be high.^^ ^^ The Frenph willing to
^ have peace ?^ »aid D' Arras. ^^ Yes^^ I wiss,^ ntiA he»

84 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK "I know they have sought peace of us by several way
" and have propounded certain particular demands for tl

Anno i65«." same. Howbeit,"^ said he, " the French 'trust not yoi

" because they know you be our friends : and therefore,

" you should tell them this, they would deny it. Neverth

" less," as he proceeded, " since all the world knoweth tl

" beginning of these wars, and the French King^s doin^

407 " the Emperor needeth not to utter them. Which things

said he, " the French King ought to be put in remei

" brance of by them that be mediators ; that the Fren<

" King might be thereby moved to make such offers as a

" reasonable. And when that shall be offered, the wor

*^ shall well know the Emperor to be affected to such a re

sonable peace, as may serve to avoid the occasion of m

wars, and be for the quiet of all Christendom.'^

This was the sum of the talk that passed between An

The »ute and the ambassadors. Touching the estate of the Empero

peror*s per- pcrson, the ambassadors sent word to the Lords of the Cou

•<>"• cil, that they could by no means learn assuredly how it w

with him : for it was kept so, that there was no man cat

abroad that was able directly to say, the Emperor is in tl

or that case.

As for the state and government of the Low Countri<
after the Emperor's death, which the Lords willed the ai
bassadors to understand, they caused Chamberlain, one
them, to make as diligent search as he could : whose d
course they sent to the said Lords, together with the adv<
tisements out of Italy.
And of his The Said discourse was to this tenor : " That he h
after his * ^^ learned, that the government of those countries belong
decease. it q{ right to the Emperor's son, after his decease, althou,
the people did bear him small affection; so that it ¥
thought, that if Maximilian would make any offer of hi
*^ self, when such opportunity should serve, that he mig
be the rather and willinger received before the other,
was also thought, that then Ferdinando might make qu
tion for the portion of his father's goods; wherein
" would say, he Was not indifferently dealt with, allegi

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6i

OF KING EDWARD VI. 85

** the partage or repartition to be wrong made : whereof his CHAP.

** brother had promised him recompence, as yet unper»

'^ formed. For Spain, it was thought, that if the mother Anno 1552.

** should outlive Cesar, that Ferdinando should be nearer

** than Philip, by the laws of that country. Although some

'* said, that Cesar, to make that sure, had gotten his mother

'* to grant beforehand unto the inheriting of his son her

'* nephew : which, for all that, was counted of no more

'* value than the act of a madman. That country would

" by no means have the Spaniard to govern or bear rule

" over them ; which they fear to have, if Cesar'*s son be

"their head. They thought that rather, by accepting of

" Maximilian, they should not only be quit of Spaniards to

" rule them, and bear stroke in those parts, but also they

" should, by such means, unite themselves faster with the

" Germans, who did bear him good-will : and so be out of

" fear of the Germans^ revenge upon that country ; for that

" they conceived, that Cesar could never have done to them

" that he had, without the assistance of those Low Coun-

" tries with their money.*"

As to the Regent, thus he discoursed : " That if Cesar The Regent

"should take his leave [of the world] or ever his son

"[Philip] did arrive, he did not learn, that the Regent

"were like to sit long in governance, the people did so

" much mislike her former proceedings divers ways. For

" whereas in times past, the use had been at all times, when

" any loan or tax should be demanded of those countries,

" for to call together all the states thereof, parliament-wise,

" and openly to propound the demand, with all gentleness

"and loving exhortations, the Regent had taken an use for

" to call but the deputies of Bruges for Flanders, and the

" like of Antwerp for Brabant, stoutly willing them to con- 408

" descend unto such sums as she had demanded : which, if

" they had sought to qualify, making any good demonstra-

" tions of the weakness of the conmions, she would bid

"them leave their merchandises or bargaining with her,

" saying, that Cesar must and will have Ur These, and

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BOOK Other things, did Morison write to the Lords, concerning
^^' the posture of things there.

Anno 1552. By letters from the Council, dated May 34, it appeared
The em- ^ |jg ^jj^jj. intent, to take the occasion that the time mi-

bassy to ,

the Em- lustered, as w^U for the proceedings with the Emperor, as
join with *^ ^^ ^^^ matters of Almaine, to join the King's Majesty
the ]Em- both with the Emperor, and tJso '^ith other princes of Ger-
thrGcraian"^*"^yj ^^ * straitcT amity: and that Sir Richard Morison
princes, gjiould Open unto his colleagues the particularities of those
things tfiat he had knowledge of. Accordingly they con-
ferred together, and perused such articles of discourse as the
said Sir Richard had delivered in writing to them. The
copies whereof were sent to the Lords, to the intent that
they might the better consider the same ; with which also
went the ambassadors' letters. Wherein they wrote, *^ that
according to their Lordships' device, they thought that
such a league and amity would serve to very good pur-
^* pose, as well for the King's Majesty, as for the defence of
** those Low Countries. .But how this communication might
" be entered into, they were in doubt ; because the Em-
^* peror's i^ckness seemed to be such, that it was thought he
** would not ^ve audience himself, but refer this, as he did
" other things, to the Queen : so that of likelihood Mons.
^* D' Arras, and others, should be made privy to it. And
^^ because the matter required so great secrecy, they mis-
*^ trusted it could not be kept so secret, when it was opened
" to the Queen, and by her to others. Hiis made them
" doubt how it might be broken, unless they had audience
of the Empei*(^ himself. If the Emperor grew better, and
were able to give them audience, and should like this
^* league, as in rea^n he ought, the ambassadors signified
" to the Lords, that they thought it good to be followed
" with the princes of Germany, after such order as in the
" articles of discoiu'se was contained, or otherwise, as shotdd
seem best to the Lords : which might also be the occa^on
16 bring those unto accord, that then by their strife trou-
" bled all Germany, But in case^ as the ambassadors fur-

OF KING EDWARD VI. 87

"ther shewed their minds, the Emperor should not like CHAP.
" this confederation, as princes' hearts be unknown ; then, '

" after the opening of the matter unto him, they thought it Anno 1559.

i: " a matter to be feared, that he would practise to disappoint
" the King for making any league at all with the Germans.
" Wherefore they thought, that this matter was so to be

I " moved to the Emperor, as he might not know the King's
" full mind herein, until the Emperor's own inclination therer
" unto were first felt. They added, that after they should
" have spoken with Mr. Mount, (the agent employed with
*' the German princes,) they should be more able to say fur-
" ther herein, and would thereof advertise their Lordships.*"
Here follow the articles of discourse mentioned above :

It shaU be thought goody that the King's Majesty should 40Q
enter into a straiter amity with the Emperor, Jointly
with the other princes of Germany.

1. First, Whether the Emperor can be contented, that
a foreign prince should join in league, having heretofore
shewed himself averse to suffer the like.

2. Also, whether he could be contented, tl^at the King's
Majesty, our master, should be in confederation with the
Germans : because he may fear, that their reli^on, which
he misliketh, might by these means the better be established,
and the harder to be altered by him.

8. And whereas the empire, by the league that the Em-
peror already hath with them, is bound to defend these
Low Countries ; and he bound again, in all contributions,
to pay but as much as two electors, with many other ad-
vantages on his part ; whether now he can be contented to
enter into communication of a new league, which may hap-
pen not to prove so beneficial for him, as the present league
he now hath.

4. Whether the Germans could be contented to embrace
such a league, because that, as it is supposed, they which
neither love nor trust the Emperor would be loath to join in
league with him, that hath heretofore wrested them unto
covenants not indifferent. And as it may be, that by their

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88 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK good-wills they would not observe this present league, so
they may be much less willing to enter into any new league

AoDo 1659. with him.

5. Whether the league should be made with the ptincefi,
without the Emperor.

6. Whether the discord which is among the princes
should hinder the Eing'^s Majesty'^s purpose herein : for hav-
ing John Frederic, he should want Duke Maurice and the
Landgrave, like as, having them, he may want the other.

7. Whereas a diet is appointed to be at Frankford, for
the appeasing of these disorders, if the princes that vary
shall be there personally, whether it were good that the
King'^s Majesty should send a person thither, to move the
said princes unto accord.

8. Whether it were convenient to let the Emperor under-
stand the King^s Majesty^s intent here, before he shoidd so
send, lest the Emperor might mistrust some other practices,
or else might find himself aggrieved, that another prince
should meddle with the pacifying of the estates of Germany,
he being Emperor, to whose office the order of those matters
^ppertaineth.

9. When these princes should be satisfied, they being of
two sorts, as they call them, Protestants and Papists, whe-
ther both sorts can be contented to enter into this league
or not.

10. Whether the league should be made with part of the
princes, unless they were such as were strong enough to
weigh the rest. For otherwise, it is doubted, the King's
Majesty may be put to more charges with the defence of
them, than he shall receive commodity by that league.

410 These articles the King's ambassadors seriously debated
among themselves, and at last came to certain resolutions,
which they also sent to the Lords under this title :

Our opinions^ agreed upon in debating the doubts mentioned
. in the said articles ^ to every article particuiarly.

1. The Emperor heretofore hath not liked the practice of
any foreign prince with the Germans, as well for that somc^

OF KING EDWARD VI. 89

of those practices were meant against him, as he took the CHAP,
league of Smalcald to be ; as also because they might be ^^'

a hinderance to his chief purpose; which, as divers have Anno i65<.
thought, was to have made himself absolute lord of the
whole. But now that he seeth his purpose therein cannot
take place, by reason as well of his own age as infirmities, as
also by the experience of his enemies^ force, we see not in
reason, why he should be loath to have other foreign princes
jcnned in league with him and the empire, for the more
strait [security] and safeguard of his own countries.

S. When the Emperor shall perceive, that the intent of
this league tendeth only to the defence and preservation of
his friends^ countries and his own, whereby Christendom
may be the better preserved from the Turkish invasions,
and the French also have the more cause to be in quiet,
(without which league, neither his own countries nor Ger-
many can be without danger, if God should call him away,)
we think reason would, that, leaving the controversy of re-
ligion, he should be content to join with all manner of
friends. As the Switsers, who being diverse in religion, are
nevertheless whole in league, for their own defence. And
athence he hath suffered Duke John Frederic, the Duke
also of Wirtemberg, and others, also to continue in their
religion, it is to be supposed, that for religion only he will
not refuse so necessary a league as this.

8. If this league, that the Emperor now hath with the

Germans, as it is beneficial for the Emperor, be thought

prejudicial unto the Germans, and so taken as unequal,

especially for two causes ; one, that the Low Countries,

bdng much subject unto wars, shall put the Germans very

often to travail and charges, in the contributions, whereof the

Emperor^s charge is very little, all things considered ; and the

other, that whereas upon occasions the princes of Germany

We sought order at the Emperor^s hands, for the correction

of those his officers of the Low Countries, which violently have

broken the peace against them, that forasmuch as by the

common law no man ought to be judge in his own case, it

nn^t therefore please his Majesty, those cares might be

determined either jp^r earner am imperiaJemj or by indifferent

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BOOK a]4)iters; they have been answered, that their oountriei
. should not be sued in the chamber 6f the empire, for nb

Anno 166S. manner of cause, but only for not contributing such mengr
as by the covenants they are bound. So that they thmk
the covenants not equal ; as it may appear in the wiitii^
exhibited by the Germans, in the diet of Augusta. Wherfr-
for6 if the Germans, misliking this inequality of covenants^
to the which they consented as it were by ccmipulsion, wticn
die Emperor was at the greatest, should now have a dispo-
i^tion not to perform this league, when their time dbouM so
411 serve them, we think reason would, the Emperor, consider-
ing the inequality of these covenants, dbould be contented
to have them brought unto that equality, that they might
have just cause to observe them : and so to stand him in
stead, where now it is possible the present league ^hall stand
him in none.

4. The causes why it is thought the Germans neither
love nor trust the Emperor, are, that the one side perceived
that he went about to alter their religion ; and both parts
mistrusted he meant of Germany to make a kingdom: which
they may so long fear, as he [shuffleth in] his leagues wiiii
them. Wherefore, when they shall see a King of England
the third in the league, one like to stand by them, as well
in religion as in maintenance of their liberties, they cannot
in reason but rejoice at it : like as the Emperor himself, who
hath now, as it is thought, changed his purpose, neither
seeking dominion over them, alteration of religion, nor pro-
motion of his son to the coadjutorship, should be glad to
have such an one joined with him, as may both rid the
Germans of suspicion, and also be a continual stay for his
house.

6. We think it not good for the King's Majesty to eater
into any league, unless this Emperor, or his successor Fer-
dinand, be one of the confederacy. For like as the charges
otherwise will be great, and the commodity small, so we
reckon little surety to be had of the members without the
head.

6. We think, that there be few better means to end the
discords and variances at Germany, than the travailing

OF KING EDWARD VI. 91

ibout this league. For if the King our master, and the CHAP.
Emperor, do enter with the one party, it is like enough the ^^'
other will make means not to be left out. For neither Anno 1559.
Fredmc would suffer Maurice to be in, and himself out,
nor yet Maurice nor the Landgrave remain excluded, if
tolerable conditions be offered : as it is like enough there
shaH be, when men not partial shall be judges thereof, and
Dot themselves.

7. The Germans sending heretofore of their ambassadors
into England, to move peace between the King^s Majesty
deceased and France, may now serve as a good occasdon
for the King^s Highness to render unto them the like gra-
tuity. And as this may be a good beginning to the rest,
80 they conceiving in us a certain love and affection towards
their nation, may, upon friendly motion of this amity, think
08 fit to be desired and sued unto, to join in this league
with them.

8. We think it good, for avcnding of all doubts, if the
King^s Majesty shall send any man to Frankford to move
the princes to a peace, that the Emperor be first made privy,
both that his Majesty mindeth to send, and for what pur-
pose he sendeth. And forasmuch as the Emperor, and
Eng of the Romans, and others, have much travailed to
see a concord among the Germans, and as hitherto have not
brought it to pass, the thing being so godly, and so to the
Emperor^s benefit as it is, we reckon he must not only take
it well, but also yield his thanks unto the King's Majesty,
who offereth as well to help peace forward in Germany, as
be mindeth it between his Majesty and France.

9. In our opinion, the guerre in relipon will rather fur-
ther this matter than hinder it : for while these two are thus
£vided, they be both so afraid to take harm as they are,
and like to refuse safety, if any man would make them offer
thereof. The Protestants be not so much the stronger, but
they may be afraid of practices, the Emperor being on the4li|
other side. And the Papists, being every day spoiled, and
afraid of worse, whensoever the Emperor shdl go his wsy*
Would be gladder than the Protestants, that sudi order

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BOOK taken, as they neither might fear stirs, nor also fear toloft
that they have. This is answered in the fifth.

Anno 1564. 10. For the moving of the matter, we do think Jolm -
Frederic the fittest man to hear of it first : for as he camifll '
but like it, so he is better able to devise which ways it hm^
be furthered than we can. He hath a man called Fredeii^ '
as fit a man as any is to handle this matter. His masta
and he might perhaps bring it to pass, that the Germans
might seek this league at the King'^s Majesty^s hand : indndi
were greatly to the King'^s honour : and they might ako
intreat the King of Romans unto it. And in case ttie
Emperor be either dead, as some think he is, or not fit to
be practised withal, then we might think Ferdinando might
so be moved by the said Frederic, and others, to this mattar,
as he should by himself, or by his friends, either seek this
league at the King^s Majesty^s hands, or be cont^ited if any
overture were made thereof. For Ferdinando shall want
these estates, that wealth and riches that the Emperor now
hath, and therefore more need foreign friendship than the
Emperor doth.

And if the King of Romans, being spoke unto by Fr©.
deric, would think it his part to advertise the Emperar
hereof, and so should communicate the matter unto him,
the Emperor should yet but know what the Germans de-
sire. And Frederic might say, the King's motion of him
and others to peace made him to devise how he, and the
rest of Germany, might declare themselves worthy this his
good-will.

It is Uke, that Ferdinando, understanding his brother's
estate, will practise what he can, and where he may, to get
him all the friendship that is to be gotten. And here it is
to be feared, lest, if neither we speak for ourselves, nor ncHie
other for us, that he, in this time of practice, may speed
himself of such friendship, as he shall think our amity here-
after little needful. He is already allied, by marriage ol
his daughters, with the Dukes of Bavaire and of Clevea.
And now there is a marriage concluded between the King
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oteemed a Prince of a rig^t and good nature, true of his CHAP,
■ord, much careful of his honour : and therefore is beloved _

of Protestants and Fafnsts. He travailed very much with Anno issa,
Ibe Emperor at Villache, that the articles of reli^on might
pBB as the Protestants did desire : and therefcwe will not,
u ve think, much s6ck to enter into any amity with Eng-
Ind, notwithstanding our reU^on.

And these were the matters the EXng's ambaBsadors were
doDg in G^many, and the advices they gave : which the
Lords of the Coundl did so approve, that they seemed
. ipeedHy to resolve upon those measures.

CHAP. XXI. 413

lie King's ambassadors in France, and to King Ferdi-
nand, and to the Emperor. Their access to his presence.
Instructions sent themjbr their proceedings.

' ' In the mean time, the English ambassadors, commis^onersTbe

fix the mediation in France, Wotton, Pickering, and Cha-J^'"''''
' liiKr,by a letter writ May 1, gave some account of the de-
: mmds of the French ; which were extravagant For having
( conference with the French King and his council, they
I fixind these men loath to seem to make any first offer, before
r ibrf heard how the other part, viz. the Emperor, was dis-
I posed for a peace. Hence th^ demands at first were, the
I duchy of Milan, the county of Ast, the realms of Naples
'. uA Sicily, and Arragon, the superiority of Flanders and
rfArtras, the town of Tourney, with the county of Tour-
neoes ; the kingdom of Navar to be restored to the rightful
king ; and Siena they were content should be set at liberty,
ti before, free from the subjection of the one and the other.
As fw Metz, Tul, and Verdune, they challenged nothing
bat the guard and [H'otecUon thereof. These demands a
oSas the ambassadors sent to the Lords of the Count
be Anther used, as thrar wisdoms should think mee
iheir instnictuMis. But these oikn for eui ii

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BOOK the peace wei^e of such a nature, that the ambassadors wkl^
^^' the Emperor forbpre to open them to that court: for ibiBf
Anno 1669. supposed them to be such, as would marvellously hiqdcs
that matter, rather than do any good ^t all, as they wrote
to the Lords, and as we shall hear more by and by.
Instructions Sheres, as was said before, was despatched amba8sad(xp to
^^JT' the King of the Romans and his son, wi* instructions t^
to Ferdi- ing, as it seems, to make way thereby for a fast frienddup
with the princes of Germany, and to induce the Empenpr
thereto. These instruc^ons (which were the same in e&l
with the schedule in the chapter before, sent the Council bf
the ambassadors in the Emperor'^s court) were by the Coun-
cil communicated to the said ambassadors. Wherein thej,
in their letters, June 4, gave their opinions, that the Lords
had taken the best way possible to be devised ; and chosen
the very time that best ser^^ed to the beginning of that
matter, and, as they verily trusted, there should good suc-
cess follow thereof.
The am- The Emperor still continued indisposed, sp that no access
could yet ^ the Bnglish ambassi^ors could be permitted to him. lie
have no King thought long of their abode there, without any entij
reason of hitherto into the matter they came for, being now the he-
the Em- ^nnupg of Jime : and willed them therefore to use the best
sickness, meains they coul4 conveniently, to obtain the Emper(»r^s
answer. On the other hand, the ambassadors assured the
Lords^ that it had grieved, ^nd did grieve them not alittk^
414 to think how long this delay had lasted, and how impossible
it was for them to do inore than they had done. For the
Emperor^s sickness, as they shewed, bein^g such, as no man
could speak with him, was the continual excuse made by
that court to the ambassadors for their delay. So that a$
fast as they pressed them for answer, they as fast again did
entreat them of a litde patience, bearing them still in hand,
that the Emperor himself would needs answer them. Yet
should the Emperor^s Council have given in their answei
now, the ambassadors said, they could in a numner ccm-
jecture what it should be. For they looked to have some
overtures out of France, through their [the ambassadors^]

OP KING EDWARD VL 9S

haods^ 8iidi as might be an entry to persuade them, that it CHAP,
vas like the French King would come to some reason. ^^'

Whereas those offers above-mentioned, that they had re-Aimoi6$«.
cehred £rom the Sng'^s ambassadors there, were demands, French's
and not such as they thought meet for them to open in par- insolent
ticularides, without special commandment from the King^s obstruct
CeundL Lest that they of the Emperor's Council there, ^^«^"*^**"^
leeeiving at tke ambassadors' hands such unreasonable de-
prnds, instead of c^ers, ai^d thinking them allowed by the
Lends of the King's Council, and so set forth by them [the
. ambassadors] by order from the said Lords, might take it
r unkindly, and all^e, that the King's Majesty tendered not
I die Emperor's honour in this, so much as by their message
' it was pretended : and thereupon the Emperor's Council
Bttk^ answer to them [the ambassadors] contrary to the
JEing's Majesty's expectaticm.

. The ambassadors added, that they remembered, that be-
; &re their coming forth, their Lordships would not suffer
^ the like matter to be put into the instructions, having con-
adoed as mudi as that came to, upon Pickering's adver-
tttem^its of the French's like demands.

The Council had urged the ambassadors to press for an The ambas-
angwer from the Emperor, upon this reason, because th^J^^JSo'^
aiQbassadors in France did expect to hear from the Empe-^^c°^ ^tbe
tahi court, pow since the French King had onc^ spoken.
Upon which the said ambassadors with the Emperor wrote
to the ^([ing's Council, tha,t they could not see what they ^
mi^t do more, considering that this the French King's
peaking was, as they said, no speaking at all. For that as
yet it had not been uttered unto the Emperor ; and that,
in tfa^ opinion, it should rather hinder the matter than
otherwise, if those demands should be uttered. They pro-
ceeded, that it might appear by former letters, wrote May 13,
lent to their Lordships, wherein was contained their com-
munication with Mons. D' Arras : unto whom they did then
indirectly, by circumstances, open a likelihood of the French's
ofere, as things grounded for honour, to the beginn'mg of a
talk, and nothing meant; yet they could not perceive any

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BOOK disposition in him to hear unreasonable matters moved:
whereby, they said, they had the more cause to oonjecture^

Anno 165S. that of unreasonable demands, like answer might folknr.
The conclusion was, that seeing the Emperor was in that
case, that it was most uncertain when they should speak with
him ; yea, and when they should speak with him, that they
should have no other offers than those to make him ; thej
therefore humbly besought the Lords to prescribe unto
them what they should do ; whether they should open to
the Emperor (or for lack of him to the Queen) these
French offers as they were, or what they should further do
4 15 in this behalf. For, said they, without order given us ftwn
your Lordships, we neither durst nor dare open these
demands.

The Empc- About this time came D' Arras to the ambassadors^ lodg-"
ings, to pray them of a little more patience, telling them,
that the gout in the Emperor^s leg had so fairly left him,
that he thought himself almost well : but it was come intb
his hand, that he could not yet tend any business. Never-
theless, he would surely answer them within a while, to thor
contentation. The ambassadors made him a courteous an-
swer, wishing the Emperor speedy recovery, that they might
understand some towardness of the matter they came for.

Thcambas- The 8th of June was the day the King^s ambassadors

audience!^* had their long expected audience of the Emperor. The
manner whereof was as foUoweth : the same day, in the af-
ternoon, about five of the clock, Mons. de Baldemont and
Gerard, two of the Emperor'*s Council, fetched them from
their lod^ng to the Court : where first they had access untc^

The Regent the Queen. By whom, after great excuse made of the long

sneftks to

'$m. delay of their answer, it was told them, that like as the King
their master, in travailing on this sort to pacify tbe present
wars, had not only shewed himself a very sincere fnend unto
the Emperor, but also a well- wilier of the tranquillity of all
Christendom, according to the office of a good King : so the
Emperor, for his part, did not only yield unto his good bro-
ther his most hearty thanks, but also assured them, thatwhen-
soever those reasonable conditions were offered, that might

OP KING EDWARD VL 97

appear to tend unto a perfect and unfeigned peace, it ^ould CHAP,
well be known, that the Emperor did presently no less covet

the quiet of all Christendom, than as a good Christian Prince A°"<> ^ **••
should, and as he >had ever coveted and travailed for it.
And since the cause of these wars was unknown to the Em-
pennr, being begun of the Prench King in that sort, that all
the world knew, it was therefore reason that the offers also
should begin there : or else, said she, let them that had be-
gun shew what ground they had to be^n it, that it might
be seen by indifferent men in whom the fault was: and
then look what might, with the Emperor'^s honour, in reason
be required ; and it should be seen, whether he meant not
indeed as she had now said unto them. And herewith she
left that matter, and told them, that they should immedi-
atdy speak with the Emperor himself, and ^ould at his
hiiods perceive, whether this were true or not.

Wh^^upon she caused them to be led down to the Em- They come
pow^g chamber. of presence: from whence, after a little^p^^.
pmiae, they were brought into his privy chamber. There P'*^'***'
I they found him sitting in a chair, with his feet on a stool,
\ looking very pale, weak, lean, and feeble ; howbeit, nothing
r «o ifl as they before believed of him ; for his eyes were lively
■ enough, and his speech sensible : so that the ambassadors
could not tell what to judge of him ; for he had escaped so
many perils of sickness, that though his colour and his flesh
woe gone, yet he might, they said, endure a while : yet,
to judge him by their «ght, they said, that he appeared to
tbem a man of short time of continuance. When the am-
I * bttsadrars came into his presence, and had made their due
J revarenoe, they gave the King'^s commendations to him,
A nd in few words touched the King^s Majesty^s affection to
1 Um, and then the cause wherefore they were sent. Where-
unto he briefly answered them after this manner: ^^ That 41 6
" he was sorry for their long delay there ; but his sickness He uifwtrt
** had been the cause, wherefore he prayed them to bear h.
'* withal. And for their message, he did especially thank
J *' the Cng, his good brother, both for his good if actioD,
^ '* which he always found in him, {md also for his leal u|t|j^

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BOOK << the concord and peace of all Christendom, giTing him die
" title of a good and virhiotis King; shewing himself

Anno 1558. « much pleased, that the King did so earnestly follow this
^^ good purpose, so friendly by him taken in hand : assuring
^^ them, that upon ofler of reasonable conditions, his honour
" being saved, they should well see how he tendered peace.
** And praying them to make his most hearty commenda-
** tions again unto the King, his good brother,'' the am-
bassadors took their leave of him, wishing to his Majesty
strength and long health. All this the ambassadors certi-
fied by a letter, dated June % sent by Mr. Thomas, clefk
of the Council, together with other intelligence, which he
had in credit from them.

The Coun- By letters from the Council, dated June 11, the ambas-

cil*8 clirec~

tioos to the sadors, who, as we heard before, desired further directions,

dore^'to wh^^^^ ^^ w^^^ ^^ King'^s pleasure that they should apesk
meotioQ either to the Emperor or the Queen those offers which
demand! ^^^® made by the French King, or not, were told, that it
might have appeared to them by former letters, that they,
the Council, thought not fit that the said overtures should
be opened, neither to the Emperor, nor the Queen, nor any
other; and that the King was still of the same mind, as
well for the considerations mentioned in their [the ambas-
sadors'] letters, as for certain other. And whereas the
Council had before wrote unto them of the unlikelihood of
further opening on the French part, for such causes as were
in their letter contained ; their meaning, they said, was not
that they, the ambassadors, should declare those unreason-
able demands of the French, but only to set forth to them,
that they should take occasion, as soon as they might, to do
the message they had first from them, the King^s Council.
The French The French still remained high in their terms, and shew-
T^^^"" ed no good disposition towards an accord with the Emperor,
terms. but only in words. For the Council, by the King*s com-
mandment, had written to Dr. Wotton and the rest at the
French court, to use the best means they could to get some
further knqwledge, and to assay wheth^ it might be ob-
tained to have any other conditions propounded in France :

OF KING EDWARD VI. 99

but, as they ngnified to the ambassadors with the £iiipenn% CHAP,
diey had no great hope to reoeiye any answer more certaiii

ihan before. And therefore now, by a letter writ June 11, Anno iMt,
tihey instructed the said ambassadors, that they might, as
diey should see convenient time, proceed acomling to their
imtruetians. And that if any overtures more reasonable
should be propounded, then they might further go on, ao-
cordnig to his Majesty'^s former dharge coimnitted unto them.

The ambassadors with the Emperor, aft^ their audience, Ursed bf
soon wrote to the King's commissioners with the F^^i^ch J^JJ^^
King, dedaring what answ^ the EmpercH* had ^ven them ; propoond

caduntiiig them, ihat they dhould move that King as eam-temt.
eady as they could devise, to come to the ofier of some rea-
•flooable oonchtions, or at least such as were void of extremi-
ties, and the which might induce i^ome treaty by their friends
toward a <xmoord. To this the Council also urged the said
conmisaonclrs. And by this plain pit)ceeding with the
Frendi Kh^, the Council did think (and so they wrote, 417
June dO, to the iunbassadors at Brussels) their comrais-
noners ehoold either have occasion given to enter further
into the matter, or some such other resolute answer, as
v^ht determine both their ambassades.

The Eng bmng now near tns end, and in the daily in- The King's

crease of his sickness, which by this time grew very extreme hu media.

iipcm him, yet such was his generous and Christian dispo-tion.

adon, that he was very earnest in diis his mediation for

peace, as though he desired to see Christendom at quiet be-

fiie his death. And these were the last steps I find made

is diis bnsiness. After the Eing'*s ambassadors had been

vith the French King, soliciting for more reasonable oflfers,

tbt might shew him well affected to peace, he, in fine, gave

tliem socfa answers as httle tended to the proceeding to a

tMtf. Neverthdess, the Emperor was again addressed to

by die <aad»Madors at his court, who now diewed him

pUnly what the Frendi^s demands were; but they were in-

itacttd to soften the roughness of them, by esteeming it

^ as a psactice fermorly used in the entay into these kind

^ Mates, wherein ^oromoiily more was demanded than

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BOOK was expected to be granted, being intended chiefly to intro-
duce discourse. But, however these things succeeded, die

'^^®^^^^- ambassadors were ordered to assure the Emperor of the
King^s most hearty afPection to him and his affairs, and of
his care for the good estate of Christendom. But the Couik-
cil^s letters to these ambassadors will shew all this business
more distinctly: which I will set down at length in this
place, being writ the 1st of July, that is, but ^ days before
the good King'^s death.

The Coun- « After our hearty commendations. Upon the rec^pt of
ambassa- " your letters of this last month, by the which you declared
thrEm*** " ^"^ "^ ^^^ answer made unto you by the Emperor, upon
peror. ** your access unto him, we sent unto you the Eing^s Mi^
B. 19,' ** j^sty's commissioners being in France, to proceed again
** with the French King in the matter of peace, and by
^^ some means to procure more reasonable demands ; upon
the which some kind of entry might be taken to treat
thereof. For which purpose, we gave them certain know-
ledge of the Emperor^s answer unto the French King:
whereby it might be seen, both how the Emperor was
disposed to a peace, and yet, nevertheless, without some
particular overture of the French King^s behalf, not
" minded to enter any further talk of the matter. This
^' message is done by our ambassadors, and answer recaved
from the French King, such as do little further the pro-
ceeding to a treaty. And yet it seemeth convenient, tot
the honour of the King'^s Majesty, and for demonstration
^^ of his earnest meaning in this travail, to proceed further
" with the Emperor by your means.

" And first, touching the answer made by the French
^^ King, because ye shall both certainly and plainly under-
^^ stand as we do, we send herewith a copy of such part of
^^ the ambassadors^ letters as appertaineth thereunto. Upcm
^^ consideration whereof, the King^s Majesty thinketh it con-
" venient, that ye should seek access unto the Emperor, and
" after recommendation from his Majesty, declare the very
" troth and proceedings of the matter, as foUoweth. First,

OF KING EDWARD VI. 101

** that the King'^s Majesty^s ministers with the French King CHAP.
'' had such answer from him in their first motion for the ^^'*

"peace, that although the French King declared himself Anno 1553.

" to have good-will to a peace, yet his demands were so ^ ^ ^

" great, and in such extremities, as the King our master

" thought it not expedient, for the furtherance of the mat-

^^ ter, to open the same demands unto the Emperor : but as

^ one that meant indifferently in these extremities, to obtain

" that which he desired, that was, the peace betwixt both,

" the Prince forbore the utterance of that which he thought

^^ impertinent to the end, and sought only occasion of some

" oitry unto a treaty. And now having caused his minis-

" ters with the French King to proceed again unto some

^ more reasonable articles, or matters of treaty, they find

" the fcnrmer disposition in the French King to appear for

^^ the weal of Christendom ; and yet they find him still to

^ lest so upon his former demands, as he looked for answer

'^ to be had thereof before he will fashion any new matters.

^* So as the King^s Majesty hereupon is, as it were, forced,

" tor the earnest desire he hath to see some fruit of his tra-

'^vail, to open unto his said good brother the Emperor,

" both the fashion of the French King's answer from time

^ to time, and the cause that moved his Majesty to abstain

** from the opening thereof before.

" This done, if the Emperor require it, or that you shall
" see it otherwise convenient, ye may declare unto him the
^particularities of the first demands of the French King,
*^ as heretofore ye have been advertised from hence ; and as
"you, Mr. Hoby, have indirectly opened heretofore to
^ Mons. D' Arras. After the which declared, ye may add,
"for the salving of the strangeness of the deipands, that
" although the King's Majesty, our master, taketh the same
^demands to be very strange; yet calling to remembrance,
"that heretofore between princes being in debates, and
" coming towards treaties of peace, it hath been often used,
" that in the beginning, to enter in communication of like
" matters, there hath been, in outward appearance, and in .
" the first speech, larger and more ample demands madcj
^* than have been meant^ either of one part to

IM MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK «< the odier to grant; offering tfaweby oooukm ovty ci
^ talk : as in this case it maj please the £aap«ror to isleP'

Aaoo 1568. M pret it ; the King's Majesty thinketh it not unlikdj 89
^ to proceed of the French Ein^. And therrfore hia Ma-
" jesty desireth his good brother to take this his trmwi
aind plainness in good part ; and to assure bimaelfy that
*^ what means soever may be devised towards the pcooeed-
ing and perfection of this beginning, his Msgiesty will not
^^ refuse to shew himself, as he hath hitherto done^ both
^^ careful of the common estate of Christendom, and alwsrjfv
*^ well wilhi^ to have the affiuara of his good brother in Kke
*^ consideratiim as his own.

^^ In this manner, as ye see -occasion, either dilate or
^ strengthen the proceedings in speech, so ,aa you observe
^^ two things ; the one, that the King's Mi^esty's sdTeelioii
^^ towards the having of this peace, may appear to eontwiis
'^ as it hath been from the beginnix^ uttered : the olhtf ifl^
'< that if you see likelihood of peace to foUow, that the
** King'^s Majesty's former travail be not made frustrate^ by
<' other intermeddhng herein; but that his MigeaCy May
^^ have both the ameyning of the matterst, and be thcaeiDy
^^ for his own part, provided as becometh. If you shall see
^ no likelihood of peace, then it shall be well done to pio-
^^ cure such resolution and answer, as may be an oceasioB
419 *^ for your return, upon advertisement first made hither to
*< us, the honour of the King's Majesty, and the continu-
^' ance of amity with the Emperor, therein provided.

" And until answer hereof be had from you, the com-
*< misdioners with the French King ranai% as it were, un-
^* occupied, 8cc. And so we bid you heartily fareweU, ftom
^* Greenwich, the 1st of July, 165S.

<< Tho. Cant. W. Northampt. R. Cotton.

<' Tho. Ely, Cane. F. Huntingdon. J. Gates.

** Winchester. Pembroke. W. Petre.

<< Northumbwland. Ed. Clyntoa W. CecyL

«' J. Bedford. G. CoUuun. Joh. Cfacke.

« H. Suffolk. R. Ryche. Ed. Nordi.

" Arundel. T. Cheyne. Ra Bowes.^

*' F. Shrewsbury. Darcy.

OF KING EDWAHD VI. 10?

By the number of Bubsciiber^ -we may conclude the CHAP.
Court vas now full ; partly to Bee what the end of the _

Eng's sckness wouM be; and partly obliged, no doubt, byAono'Sos.

Northumberlaiid, to be present at the new settlement that^^^'^j^

was BOW making of the crown, after the King's decease, into «nd why.

Ins family : that so all the Council, and best of the nobility,
nught be dipped in it, that it mi^t be the firmer.

In this mediation nothing more was done, Bor likely toAfoniand
be done, the Bishop of Norwich and Sir Richard MorisoQ ^!'jlm,
tomi^ home, and the King's death, preventing. Nor do I miited upon
find any other orders after this, proceeding from the Coun-
' al to these ambassadors, but only oBe by a letter written
toHoby, (left there ledger,) three days before the King's
dath, cancemii^ a Jintl and moat cruel pvracy, as it is
ibae called, done upon the sea by some of the Emperor's
fut^ects. The Coundl sent withal a supplication, and eer-
trai oOatx writings, exhibited unto them, the Council, by
tntain merchants of London, that were the sufTerers:
vfaich pi^TS shewed the manner of doing it at length. One
vfaerec^ the Council took parUcular notice of, as they writ,
"That although the rest of the circumstances made the
" thing strange, yet this made it to be- most strange, that
" the piracy should be committed by such a fleet, having
"nuoiig them an admiral, a man of name and reputa-

" " lion," &c. They therefore denred Hoby to employ his
■ccustamed wisdom and dexterity, in such sort, as the mer-
diants might hare a just and large recompence, or restitu-
^ of their ships and goods, and other things taken &oni
ihem.

The King's ambassadors also with the French King had Ambuu-
irders to come home the very beginning of July, vix. Dr. niry in
Woitoo and Sir William Pickering; little advance toward ''™°"' ""^
itKaty between that King and the Emperor being like to Emptror.
■ucceed by their mediation : and as Hoby was left the
King'i ambassador ordinary with the Emperor, so Sir Tho-
■Bu Chaloner was left in the same quality in France. And
■Idler, dated July 2, was sent to that King, is commenda'
tw of the Bud Sir Thomas, for his placing in that k
I h4

104 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK CHAP. XXIL

Orders Jbr subscription to the Articles of Religion ; a

^™*** AOft ^ tecuMng cmd lea/mvng of the Catechism setjb
the Kin^s authority. Irish matters. Tlie Duke ^
thumberland. The Lady Mary's letter to the
Divers great matches. The Kin^s gift to Londi
The King's death. His last wiU. His fanerdk
cha/racter.

IjUT now to return into the Kings's dominions, ai

upon things nearer home.

Tbe King's Some of the good King's last consultations for th

to the bi- of religion was, his care that the Articles of the tn

shops for ^j^g q£ religion, lately framed, should be subscribed

subscriptioo the bi^ops, and by all such as should take holy ore

ticiM*otRe- <>fficiate in the Church, either in reading or preach

ligion. that enjoyed any benefices : and that a book should I

in the bishop's register for that piu-pose, as a record

that any that refused to subscribe to them, should

admitted by the bishop to any orders or ecclesiasti

nistry. And that such as scrupled to subscribe, for

the right knowledge and understanding of any of th<

bishop by instruction and conference should endea^

inform them, allowing them about six weeks' time £

beration ; otherwise to disable them from enjoying a

ferment in the Church. And this seems to be the fii

that subscription to the Articles was enjoined.

And for And haviufi: likewise lately set forth a Catechism,

teaching . ''

the Cat«. royal authority, for all youth that went to schoo
chism. taught, in order to their bringing up in Grod's favoi
in the knowledge 6f true religion, with a command]
all schoolmasters to teach it accordingly; the Ki
joined the bishop to visit yearly every school in his
tive diocese, and to inquire how the said Catechi
duly taught, and all scholars learned the same. An
ficate to be sent from the bishop to the archbishop,
offences committed against this order, from time f
Letters from the King, dated from Greenwich, in

I OF KING IIDWARD VI. 105

ftr tlm puipoa^ I shall act down, (ud the nther, because CHAP.
Mnerfour Cburdi historians take notice of it,) being ex- ^^"'
aof£fied from that soit to Ridley, bishop of London. Adoo ma.

"Rig^t reverend father in God, right trusty and ^^^ll-JJ^f?*''*
" bdored, we greet you well. And because it hath pleased p. 497,
" Almi^ty Gtod, in this latter time of the world, after long
"dtrkness of knowledge, to reveal to this his Church of
" fiigland, wheret^ we have, under Christ, the chief chaige
"m earth, a mncere knowledge of the gospel, to the ines-4Sl
" timable benefit of us and our people, redeemed by our
" Ssriour Christ ; we have thou^t it meet, and our duty,
**(&»■ the pure conservaticai of the same gospel in our
"Church, with one uniform prt^es^on, doctrine, and
"preaching, and for the avcnding of many perilous and
"nin ojnnions and errors,) to send unto you certiun Ar-
" tides, devised and gathered with great study, and by
"counsel and good advice gf the greatest learned part of
"our bishops of this realm, and sundry others of our
" dwgy. Which Articles we will and exhort yourself to
''aibscribe, and in your preachings, and readings, and
" teachings, to observe ; and cause to be subscribed and
" observed of all others, which do or hereafter shall preach,
" teach, or read within your diocese. And if any person or
"fenoaa, having benefice within your diocese, shall from
" botceforth not only reftise wilfully to set thar hands to
" these Articles, but also obstinately exhort their parochions
" to withstand the same, and teach the people in any con-
**trary way, our pleasure is, that being duly proved, yc
"diall advertise us or our Council of the whole matter
" fiiUy ; to the intent, that such further order may, by di-
"rection fiom us and our sud Council, be taken, aa the
"cause shall require, and shall stand with justice and the
" order of our laws.

" And further, that when, and as often as ye shall b»T>
" any manner of peiwn presented to you, to be advi
** by you, aa the Ordinary, to any ecclesiastical c
<* taatry, office, fir core, within your diocese, ye ■
" fixe ye adnut him, confer with ham in etaj ti

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BOOK *^ tides; and finding him tlnereto coosaitiiigy to eauaehim
• ** to subscribe the same, in one ledger-book to be fiamed

cc
it
it
tt

tt
tt

Anno 1553. << for that purpose : which may remain as a r^^ister fx s
^^ record ; and to let him have a copy of the same Articles.
^^ And if any man in that case shall refuse to coos^t to
^^ any of the said Articles, and to subscribe the same, tbei
<^ we will and command you, that neither you, nor any for
you, or by your procurancy in any wise, shall admit him,
or allow him, as sufficient and meet to take any orikn^
ministry, or ecclesiastical cure. For which your ao doisg^ .|
we shall discharge you from all manner of penalties, of
danger of actions, suits, or pleas ofPremymrey Quare kih
*^ pedity or such like. And yet our meaning is, that if any
party refuse to subscribe any of these Articles, for lack of
learning, or knowledge of the truth thereof, ye shall in
'^^ any wise, by teaching, conference, and proof of the same
^^ by the Scriptures, reasonably and discreetly move tfid
<^ persuade him thereto, before ye shall peremptorily judge
^^ him as unable, and a recusant. And for the trial (^ Us
^^ conformity, ye shall, according to your discretion, pefix
<^ him a time and space convenient to dehberate, and gire
^^ his consent : so it be betwixt three weeks and six weeks
^^ from the time of his first access unto you. And if afiter
^^ six weeks he will not consent and agree wilUngly to sul^*
^^ scribe, then ye may, and lawfully shall, in any wise refuse
^^ to admit or enable him.

" And where there is of late, by our authority, set forth
^^ a Catechism for the instruction of young scholars in the
fear of God and true knowledge of his holy religioBj
with express commandment from us to all schoolmasters^
^^ to teach and instruct scholars the said Catechism ; m«k-
^^ ing it the be^nning and first [entry] of their teaching ia
422 ^^ the schools ; our pleasure is, that for the better executioa
^^ of our said conunandment, you shall yearly (at the least)
^^ once visit, or cause to be visited, every school within your
^^ said diocese. In which visitation it shall be reqinred,
^^ both how the schoolmaster of every such school hath
^^ used himself in the teaching of the said Catechism ; and

tt
tt

OF KING EDWARD VI. 107

*dn how the schobra do nttare taA fdlow the nma: chap.
' Biktng plun ud full certificate of the off«ider» contrarj _ ^^"■

' to thu order, and oi thtar several i^ences, to the An^ Anui nbs.
• tnibop (^ the' proTiDce, irithin three months, from tune

to time, afW ererj such <^ence. Yeven under our ng>

net, at our manor of Greenwich, the 9th day of June, in

the BeTcnth year of our reign.**

Thia Catechisn I couclude to be the Church Catechism, Wur.Book.
■aed now ordmanly with our Commcm Prajer, for the
lintsB^ of which John Day had the King's Bcence in the
unth of March before ; as likewise he had from Queen
'JiatiKth oftesirards.

In the month of May were many letters written frocn Letten ta
be King to tBrers, and the chirf, ^ the Iruh nobility : l^'^l."'''
fbat the contents thereof were, I do not learn. But if I
ike it right, the intention thereof seems to he, by proHuses
i pardon and fair words, either to reduce them to obe-
Bcace, or to keep them irom making disquiet in that realm,
rbeae letters, all of tme date, vix. May 1^, were to the Earl
iTjnaex totheBish<^ofDoneaDdDromore; toOHao-
!<», lord of Oriet ; to Mac Donel, captain of the 6alk>-
jhi; toMacuIyn; toOchan; to Magwyre lord of Farman.
a^ ; to John O-nel, the Earl of Tyrone's son ; to Mol-
Dor Oraylie, kwd of Brefiyo ; and to Hugh Macnellog, lord
ofOanaboy.

Dudley, the great Duke o( N<»tbumbcrlaod, now bore Northnm-
)D the sway at Court, and in effect did what he listed. g^J,'^''''
rUs year, bendea the county palatine of Durham, (the ho-
xni and power of which was like to fall to him,) the King
;m biro Bemsrd^s castle there, with very great additions
Elands and IwdshipB in that county and in Nortbumber.
■nd. He was also now made high steward of ail the ho-
oars, castles, manors, l<Ht)ships, and lands in the counties
f Ctunborland, Northumberland, Westmorland, and Y<nrk,
r any otherwhere in the bish<^>nc of Durham, for life.
le had also granted to htm the manors of Feckenbam,
rameagroTe, KingVoorttm, in Worcestershire, with many
her lands. The year before, he was made chief steward

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BOOK of the east riding of York, and of all the BLUig^s l<sddnpi&
''* Holdemes and Cottingham in the said county. The yetf

Anno 1559. before that, he was constituted general warden or keeper of
the marches of England towards Scotland; namely, of tk
east, west, and middle marches : which were scarcely hd^
fore put into one man^s hand, (except the Marquis of Do^;1
set, immediately before him,) and he to appoint his defwij
wardens. And his patent was ordered to be drawn up ii
the most large and comprehennve manner, enduing Ui.
with as much authority, power, pf'eeminence, commodit]^
and liberty, as any before him had enjoyed from Ridind
the Second'^s time to Henry the Eighth, as the warrant no.
Besides these things in the north, he obtained of the King
great and spreading demeans in Somersetshire, Warwickf
and Worcestershire, and many other counties.
423 So that by this time the Duke had prodigiously enriched
The ihikc himself, and made himself formidably great, by lands aoi
thomber- lordships, honours and offices, castles, and places of trust,
^"^^ heaped upon him by the King ; to whom it was not safe to
deny him any thing he asked. He had strengthened bb.
interest also by raising himself Mends upon the Kings's ooit^
as more especially, thie Lord Clinton and Sir John Gate^-
and his brother, Sir Andrew Dudley, master of the waid* ,
robe, and taken into the order of the Garter, and his owl
sons, Ambrose, raised to the degree of Earl of Warwick,
and master of the Eing^s horse. Sir Robert Dudley, madet *
lord, and the King^s carver, and Guilford Dudley, whoa -
the Duke was now marrying to one of the royal blood, vis. ]
the Lady Jane, eldest daughter of the Duke of Suffidk. . I
Northum- This present juncture was an extraordinary busy time ,
cares for^ ^^ ^un. For finding the King declining apace in fail
the realm, health, (which some thought himself the instrument of,) his
ambitious mind drew him to make his advantage hereof,
and to advance his family to reign : which he did by BOg^
gesting to the King the danger of the true religicm, wUdi
he had so carefully reformed and established, if his sister.
Mary should succeed, who was whoUy Popish : advising him
therefore, that he should by his express will exclude hor,

OF KING EDWARD VI. 109

md make a settlemeDt of the crown upon the fiunily of the CHAP.
"inya, married into the roya] blood ; a daughter whftreof
ne of his sons had lately wedded. The courtiers saw Nor- A"°" '***•
humberland's designs, and many of them did hut coldly
^KMiae the business, and were i&t as careful in the matter
> himself: which he expected they should be, out of their
nfeigned concern for religion and the safety of the realm,
rhich he much talked of and pretended. And having oc-
Raion in the beginning of May to write to Secretaiy Cecy),
liai retired into the country upon pretence of being sick of
n ague, but peihaps more truly sick of Northumberland's
nject, he lamented to him the great negligence of many
0 the Court in those, as he called them, most dangerous
Irju: "and that nather zeal, nor the consideration of the
' lime, could scarcely awake them, and smoothly winked
' all cares from their hearts. And that he could illy hear
' them ; such was his duty to the State, as he plausibly
' writ, like a very careful statesman." But another of ^
DB cares perhaps now was, that in the beg^niung of this
kCay the King was in a probability of restoration to his
Mslth. For he now seemed to amend and grow better, The King
md the phyacians made no doubt of his thorough recov^y:
ud the rather, because the King was now resolved to ftd-
Dw thdr directicms, which he was not so inclinable to do
twfoe. This, Northumberland siud, he was sure would
iunint the Secretary ; and that the news of it, two or three
nxningB one after another, bdng brought him by the phy-
•citns, revived his spirits. Nevertheless, all this surely was
but a copy of his countenance. Or if be were in earnest, it
m because the King might live to have his aforesaid de-
igned settlement of the crown confirmed by Parliament;
rhich was soon after called for that purpose, and shouhl
Kve sat, had the King lived.
And the King''s growing better, t^^ther with a present tih Ltif
• had sent his uster Mary, caused her to write to him a,^^^
aigFatuldtory letter, as little doubting now a perfect reco- ^
try ; which ran in this tetu>r :

110 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK ** My duty noBt humbly remembered wotto yw 1
^^' " jesty. It may please the same to be advertisedy dud

Anno 1 558. ^< the hearif^ c(f your Highness^ late rheum-oough wa

424 "^^ me as much grief as ever was any thing; evensothel

PetH. At- ** ^^^ I ^^e coiioeiTed^ since I received your Majc

mig. ^* last token by my servant, hath beai not a little to

^ comfort. Praying Almighty Grod, as acceding to

** bounden duty, to give your Majeisty perfect health

^ strength, with long continuance in prosperity to t\

** Beseeching your Highness to pardon this my bold

*< Tilde writing. And if in the same I do trouUe your

^< jesty at this present, as I hope I do not, that tbei

*^ humUe duty and nature, which enfixpced me theiei

*< may excuse my default. Thus most humbly taking

^ leave of your Majesty, I do and shall daily pray £m

^ prosperous preservation of your most royal state, i

** all others I am most bound. From Beaulyeu, the t

May, flcriUbled with a rude hand.

Your Majesty'*s most humble sister,

Maryi

A deputy Now thereifore having the fi^reat same of all to pla

cnnat&hlp o o o r >

of the bring the crown into his fieunily, the Duke thought c
''^3*' curing the Tower. Sir Jchn Gage, the jM*e8ent constab
the Tower, being now absent, either by sickness or i
other cause, Sir James Croft, one of this Duke^s confid
was appointed to be Gage^s deputy in his absence, in <
to laying him quite aside. And in May instructiotts
s^it by the King to Sir James Croft and Sir Edward ^
ncT, lieutenant of the Tower, for their proceedings, touc
the good order to be Icept there. And a warrant was
to the Treasurer of the Augmentations, to pay the «ai<
James, deputy constable of the Tower, forty shilling
the day, for thurty men ajqxnnted under him ; and t
Edward Warner, e^htpenoe a day apiece for ten men.
in the vame month of May orders were given to C&
lord admiral, for the dischaii^ng of several bulwarks

OP KING EDWARD VI. Ill

faltificalioiis, tt tboee at East and West Tilbury, Sanddiot CHAP,
in Dorsetshire, the foalwark of Higham, and those of ^^^^'

Bnnresend and Milton m Kent, and the powder and mu-Ann«ift»8.
ikkm in them to be removed to the Tower, for the better
guard thereof. And in llie same month of May a licence
iims given to the Lord Warwick and to the Lord Robert
Dudley, two of the Duke^s sons, th^ one to retain an hun-
feed men, and the other fifty. .

In the next month, mx. June, a third secretary of state A new se-
ma appointed, (a thing scarce known before,) vix. Sir John^'*'*^'
CSieek : whose love and zeal to religion made him safe to the
krterest of the Lady Jane. And a gift was added to him
Md his heirs, of Clare in Suffolk, with other lands, to the
yearly value of 1002. And in the same month was sent to
liie Lord Admiral a letter, to take charge of the Tower, Lord ciin-
ind enter upcm the government thereof. And another letter ^"^JJU^*
%ras sent to the Lieutenant, to asast the said Lord Admiral of the
in ail things, as should be by the said Lord declared to him,
and to observe such directions as he should appoint. And
another letter, dated June 80, revoking Sir James Croft 425
from the charge of the oversight and order of the Tower,
and to permit the said Lord Clinton, to whom the King
liad appointed the diiei ord^, rule, and safe custody of
the same.

And a little before this time were great preparations mak- Prepam-
ing for the match (which was celebrated in May) of the ^IJ]^'
Ciady Jane with Guilford, Northumberland's son, and great
tane other marriages that were to accompany that ; as the ^
Bod of Pembroke's eldest son with the Lady Katharin, the
Sake of Suffolk's second daughter ; and the £arl of Hun-
■Cng^mi's eldest son with the Duke of Northumberland's
yomigest daughter ; and another of the said Duke's near
rAitions, (his brother, I think,) Sir Andrew Dudley, was
ftewise matched, n^ir the same time, with Margaret Clif-
lordj the Earl of Cumberland's daughter. And for the
mate aciemnitj and splendour of this day, the master of
ike wardrobe had divers warrants, to deliver out of the

118 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK Eing^s wardrobe much rich apparel and jewels: as^tode-
Uver to the Lady Frances, Duchess of Suffolk, to die

Anno 1553. Duchess of Northumberland, to the Lady MarchMmend
Northampton, to the Lady Jane, daughter to the Duke a
Suffolk, and to the Lord Guilford Dudley, for wedding if
parel ; (which were certain parcels of tissues, and doth o
gold and silver, which had been the late Duke^s ani
Duchesses of Somerset, forfeited to the King;) and to tb
Lady Eatharin, daughter to the said Duke of Suffolk, an
the Lord Herbert, for wedding apparel, and to the Lon
Hastings, and Lady Katharin, daughter to the Duke'o
Northumberland, for wedding apparel, certain parcels o
stuff and jewels. Dated from Greenwich, the 24th of April
A warrant also there came to the wardrobe, to deli?er U
the Eing^s use, for the finishing certain chairs for his Mft
jesty, m yards of green velvet, and six yards of green satin
another, to deliver to the Lady Mary'^s Grace, his Miyes^^i
sister, a table diamond, with pearl pendant at the same
and to the Duchess of Northumberland, one square tabk
of gold, enamelled black, ^th a clock, late parcels c^ th
Duchess of Somerset'^s jewels. And lastly, another wamo
to Sir Andrew Dudley, to take for the Lady Margare
Clifford, daughter of the Earl of Cumberland, and to htm
self, for their wedding apparel, sundry silks' and jewds
this last warrant bearing date June 8.
The Ring's The Eing, but the month before hb death, gave a moi
giftto the royal and exemplary charity to the city of London, for th
^^t- better maintenance of their poor of all sorts. For in JuB

* there was an indenture made between the Eing'^s Majeflt
and the mayor, commonalty, and citizens of Londa
witnessing, that the Eing^s Majesty hath given an
granted to the said mayor and commonalty, and the
^^ successors for ever, towards the maintenance of the po(
^^ and impotent peojple, all his manor-hoUse and place (
Bridewei. << Bridewel, with the appurtenances, lying or being in tl
CouncU. « parish of St. Bridget in Fleet-street, London, with dive
^^ other lands, &c. with a licence unto them for to puicha

(ft

OP KING EDWARD VI. 113

" 4000 mark land, for the use abovesiud ; besides the lands CHAP.
"given them by his Majesty in London, and elsewhere.

"And also his Majesty covenanteth, that they shall pur- Anno 1 663.
" chase so much land as they are afore licensed, besides the
" fees and pensions granted by the King^s letters patents to
" the officers that shall serve in any of the hospitals. And
"his Majesty covenanteth, that as well the lands given by
" his Highness, as those that they shall purchase, shall be
"clearly quitted and discharged against his Majesty, his 4 26
" hdrs and successors for ever, of all tenths and first-fruits,
" and of all and singular sums of money, for or in the name
" of a tenth, or yearly tenth part, or in the name of first-
-fruits. And that they may make godly and wholesome
" ordinances, statutes, and rules, for the good governance of
" the poor. And it shall be lawful for them, within the city
" of London and county of Middlesex, to search and ex-
" amine, by all ways and means, all manner of suspicious
^ houses, as taverns, alehouses, and such like, gaming and
"diceing houses, dancing schools, tennis plays, bowling
" alleys, and such other like suspect places, for ruffians, vaga-
." bonds, and idle persons, and masterless. And further,
" his Majesty hath granted unto them to do, and suffer to
" be done, all thing and things, be it by letters patents, acts
" of Parliament, confirmation, or otherways, for the more
"assurance of the premises, as by their learned Council
" shall be devised :^ as it ran verbatim in the Council ma-
nuscript book, which I often make use of, and I do here
the rather specify it, because perhaps this original indenture
may have been consumed in the great conflagration, with
other of the hospital^s writings and muniments. In the same
manuscript a note of the ^t is set down in these words :
^ A gift unto the said mayor. Sec. of the manor, chief metsk
'^suage, tenement and house called Bridewel, and divers
^^ other lands, to the yearly value of 450/.^ And besides
tUs house of Bridewel, he gave the city for their poor, the
Gray Friars, now called Christ'^s Church, and St. Thomas ^
hoe[HtaI in Southwark*

VOL. II. PAET II. 1

lift MEMORIALS ECCI/ESIA9TICAL

BOOK ItL this month of June a warmt wm usned to the 1
^^ ChiUio^or) to make out writs for a Parliament^ to be k
Anno IMS. the 18th of September.

^^^^^ And the ArdiUdiop had more good work upon the i
AoonToca- to do fcNT religion and, the Church, had the Ejng lived]
tion ram- )|^ remained in place. For June 19» a command came
the King to the Archbishop for holding a oonvoeatkm
accordingly the Archlnshop ismied out Ins letters of <
IUgitt«Eid.to Aidley, bishop of London, for a convocation to be
in St. Paulas, September 19 ensuing. The ArchUs
said letters were dated July 8. And Bishop Bidley ii
out his letters, bearing date July 6 : whidi were not
cuted, the King dying that day. But by the way,
makes it plain, that Ridky, however he was in deagn
never actuaUy bishop of Durham: because the ver}
day of the King^s life, he styled himself in the sod le
Nicolausy iniseraikme divina, London. epUccpus.
A new edU This year Coverdale set forth another edition of the
^^f^^^^ Bible, entitled, The whoU Bible of the Old and
Tetiament^ faW^vUy tranelaied into English, by 1
Coverdale. : and newhf overseen and correct, m^b
)j Thes. iii. Pray fir us, that tke word of God may
free passage^ and be glorified. Set JbrS^ tMh the K
most gra^dous licence. The epistle dedicatory was t<
King. And M. Coverdale had an epistle also there t
Christian reader.
The oate- And A licence of privilege was granted unto John
^ "'"' printer, for the printing a catechism in Englii^, witl
brief of an A* B. C. thereunto annexed: and alsofb
The books printing and reprinting of all such works and books, as
Ponetaifd ^^^sed and compiled by the right reverend falhi
Becon. God, John, now bishop of Winton, and by Thomas B<
42/ professor of divinity. So that no such books, nor any
of them, be in any wise repugnant to the holy scriptiuf^
the proceedings in religion, and the laws of the realm,
licence was dated at Westminster, March S5.
A licence also was indulged to Richard Tothel, pri

EDWAKD VI.

116

print all manner of books of the commoD law of this ^J^4?'
m, for seven years : so as the first copies thereof be al-

XXII.

ed by one of the justices of the law, or two sergeants, or ^""^ ^^^•
« apprentices of the law : whereof one to be ai reader in pn^Jidg **'

court, &C. ^»^ books.

ind Thomas Stemhold, one of the King'^s servants, set sternhoWs
li his Psalms: being a collection of some of David'*s
[m% which he, for his own private entertainvient, had
poBed into English verse, and set them to tunes, and had
I and played by himself, for his own godly solace. These
i the young King, sometimes overhearing them, much
sure: whidi was the reason of Sternbold^s dedicating
1 to the King ; though they seemed not to be published
kfter his death. His book was entitled, AU such Psalms
Tavid as Tho. Stemhold^ late groom of ike King's
*esiy*s robeSf. did m his life-time draw into English

lie S[ing^s sales this last year of his reign, besides what 1^^ King's
5 set down before, were as follow : year.

£. 8.

£. s.

iar4l072 18
I 236 10

Sob.

1406 10

888 17

1440 7

f 704 13

395 6

1554 12

In Apr. '

303 18

234 8

756 1

5 oft.

980 17

1786 18

7 oft.

615 10

3302 6

1330 0

585 16

1161 19

F- "j 1334 19
893 6

■1989 6

435 4

3102 7

Oob.g

301 5

1681 13

In May, ^

: 949 7

3 .

1717 8

1797 7

190,16

783 8

1709 29

.1049 9

116 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK
U.

£. ».
689 6
497 11

i.
0
8

£. *. d
8708 11 9

699 18 1

664 14 11 o6.

727 3 7

1667 0 0
616 14 10 oi.

631 0

129 7 11

1072 13

6o6.

126 0 0

786 17

1119 18 4

InMay^ -

1608 14
630 7

Oo&.
6

13^ 3 0%
687 6 6

1926 3

9o&.

\m. 7 1

718 8
1402 18

\ob. InJ"n«»-

81 13 4

362 3 2

■

270 0

442 16 2

4221 11

1961 14 9ofi.

773 0
3972 9

1704 0 4

4 oft.

436 12 7

303 18 7

428

'2132 3

610 13 10

126 6

1108 16 0

414 18

1928 4 3

In June, ■

738 12
776 19

06b.

366 13 4
1096 6 8

834 14

212 17 10 InJuly,

1 600 15 7o6.

307 4

These were the distinct sums of money for the sevi
purchases of the King^s lands, sold by the commissioner
the months beforesaid, besides many other, which the E
parted with of free ^t.
One cruelly The mouths of the t^mmon people were now fiill of n
leditSms "' Hiurings upou the King^s continual wasting aiclqiess,
many forbore not to talk broadly against some, of urang
fair .ways for despatching the King out of the world :
whom condign vengeance was taken. And June 9k
young fellow was whipped cruelly, by a new invention.
pretended visions, mid opprobrums cmd seditious wo.

words.

OF KING EDWARD VI. 117

which, very probably, were about the Eing^s sicknees, and CHAP,
against the Duke of Northumberland's practices, and the_ ■ ■

J by the King's two sistere from succeeding to the Anno issa.
crown. The invention was this : a post was set up by the
standard in Cheap, to which he was lied with a collar of
irai about his neck, fastened to a chain, and that chun
fastened to the post ; and two men with two whips whipping
liiin about the said post.

It was wonderful also to think how frequent the reports Frequmt
fkn about that the King was dead, some months before his the Kiog't
death happened ; as though there were Rome ground for the ■**■*■
time. The Countnl-Book mentions the several times vhenN.Battcly.
examinations were had of these reports, and the persons that
>{H«ad them. Anno ISBS, April SS, one Bodynham ; April
S6, Alice Hill; May 5, a man and two women; May SI,
Chiigtopher Moor, and three others; May S7, John Saun-
ders; were examined, and convicted, and punished, by order
li the Council, for reports concerning the King's death, and
die like lewd speeches.

The last winter the King fell sick of a cough, which Th» KiDg'i
brought him into a consumption of the lungs: and so he^|^^_
fingered, and grew worse and worse. Yet sometimes there
seemed to appear great hope of his recoveiy, as there did in
May; whereof the Duke of Northumberland, in a letter to
Secretary Cecyl, wrote with seeminggreat joy, aswas shewed
before ; till July 6, when he piously left an earthly crown
for an heavenly.

That he died by poison,would not out of the people's minds 439
and mouths ; as may appear by what I find in a journal kept ^"'PJ^J**
hymietn those times: where *he King's death is thus by him poiion.
Kt down, soon after Queen Mary's coming to the crown, ^''f"""'
" July 6, ' deceased the noble King Edward VI. in the
" seventh of his reign. And he was poisoned, as everybody
■' saith. Where now, thanks be to God, there be many of
* the traitors brought to their end. And, I trust God,
^ more shall follow, as they shall be spied out." And tf
ike seemeth to be hinted in Gabriel Harvey's Mui "*
i3

118 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

Whether
poisoned.

BOOK LacrymtB ; where, oocasiooally speaking of King Edwaidii
^^' death, he thus expresseth it:

^"^ ^*^' Morho tahescens aurea proles :

PuJmonem ahsumptum medici dixere. Quid ad nos f

This report of King Edward's being pcMsoned ran abmi
not only through this nation, but into other countries: and
Papists soon took it up, and made their use of it, to repioadi
the Reformation. So did Oscnrius, bishop of Sylva, in die
kingdom of Portugal, in his letter wrote to Queen Eliwihrii,
soon after her access to the crown ; affirming expresdy, dilt
that King was heinously poisoned in his childhood. Btft
he that was his answerer, a grave and knowing man, Dr>
Walter Haddon, that knew very much of the matters of the
Court and those times, being himself a courtier, esteemed
this report to be but a fable, raised by idle people, and car-
ried about by such as favoured Popery. For these are Ui
words in answer to this rumour, which he wrote near twenty
years after, and might then be supposed to speak the truA
without fear : ^^ Can you, being a Portugal bom, so im-
^^ pudently defame our region with that horrible crimen
^^ without all likely or probable proof, now that twenty
^^ years be spent and gone, when as no sober or discreet Eng-
^' lishman did ever conceive any such thou^t in his mind?
^^ The physicians reported that he died of a consumption:
^^ the same was affirmed by the grooms of his privy cham^
^^ ber, which did keep continual watch with the sick King*
^' All his subjects did believe it for a confessed truth : nd^
'^ ther could your slanderous fable have been blown abroad,
^' but among tattling women, foohsh children, and sudi
" malicious English losels, like unto you. Nor yet could
" this rotten unsavoury cavil have had any discreet author,
*' had it not been whispered into the ears of Osorius.'*'
Reported to The King^s death was reported divers days before it hap-
vers^days* peucd, the reporters being chiefly his enemies ; and the re-
ports thereof fled beyond the seas ; nay, even when there
were hopes conceived of his recovery : for so, it seems, they

Fol. 87.

vers
before.

OF KING EDWARD VI. 119

IttdylHtndv^befiaKliisdcptilme. For the idliq^ng <^ CHAP^
vUdinrnMun^iheCouDcilwiotetotheaiiil^^ '

who ooold Dot tell what to think of it themselves, *< That ^^ ***••
^ beoHue they thought the lewdness of some sort of men,
^ both hefe at hcnne and abroad, was such, as either for
: ** figktneas, or for oontentation of thdur own malice, made
[ ^etilfiJae reports of the King^s estate, (which God preserve,)
I ^ tliey did assure them, that, thanked be Grod, his Majesty
^ ^ was afive,wlutfaoeverevS men did write or spread abroad:
I ^ aid, as they trusted and wished, his estate and toward-
^ nesB of vecoverf out of his sickness should shortly appear,
^ to the comfort o( ail good men : of which matter they
^ assured them, as well for their own [the said ambassa- 430
^ dras] satisfjEustion, as for the answer of others.^ This was
i writ July 1, from Greenwich.

i But dght days after^ a letter of a sadder accent came
( fran the same Council to Sir Philip Hoby , to this tenor :
\ ^ After our hearty commendations. We must needs be TheCoimtii
^ MHsry at that which cometh both from us, and goeth to Ki^*.
*^;qu, with such extreme sorrow, as the like never P'^^^'^u*^^
'^ under these our hands. But such is the almighty will of MnbMMdor.
^ God un all his creatures, that his order in time may not be
^hy as resisted. In one word, we must tell you a great
^hop of infielicity : God hath called out of this world our
^Mffeeeign Ijoid, the 6th of this moflith, towards night:
"3riiQse]naaBer4tf death was sudi, toward God, as assureth
^ us that his soul is in place of eternal rest His disease
^ wiaeai he died was of the putrefaction of the lungs^
^baagutterly nncinaUe of tUseviL For the importance
^ we advertise yon, knowing it to have most comfort to have
^been thereof ignorant. And the same ye may' take time
^ to dcfier to the Eaperor, as from us, who know assuredly,
^ that his Majesty wiU sorrow and eondole with us, fer the
"dsfture mmi lorn at a Prince of that exc^lency, and m>
^dcar M brolher and friend: not dodbcmg bat that bii»
^ MaycHy «31 have in remembraaee die andent mky fhiit
^ hadi been always betwixt ihdr ancestor. For muMmh
^ tioB aiem^, ye shall assure bkn, thac there shMA Mii<

190 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK ^< any thing lacldng on our parts, but all readiness to db8er?e
''^' ^< aiMcl maintain the same. And so we wish to us all the ooov*

Annd 156S. << fort of Grod'^s Spirit in all adversities. July 8, 1568.^
^™* uls't ^^ ^® King's last will and testament, whereby he ex-
will. eluded his two sisters from the crown, and preferred du

heirs of the Duke of Suffolk, enough is said in other Ins
torians. But as to the other points of his last will, it ma,]
not be an unnecessary search to inquire after than. Som
satisfaction may be had herein, from a certain papcar wind
I have seen, and hereunder inserted a copy of, as I tnn
scribed it from a manuscript of Secretary Peter's own hand
being a rough draught taken by him from the King's moutl
entitled,

" To be contained in my last wiU^ a>s parcel thereof: '

MSS. G. p. <« First, That during the young years of any my heirs (
^^^S' it successors, my executors shall not agree to enter into an
wars, except upon occasion of invasion to be made l:
enemies : nor, to the best of their powers, shall su£Ssr an
quarrels to be unjustly pyked by our subjects, wherel
any new war may ensue.

^^ Second, Our said executors shall not suffer any jne
of rdli^on to be altered. And they shall diligently trav^
to cause godly ecclesiastical laws to be made and set ford
such as may be agreeable with the reformation of religi<
** received within our realm. And that done, shall also cau
*^ the canon laws to be abolished.

** Thirdly, Our said executors shall not only follow tl

*^ devices already begun and agreed upon for the payme

of our debts, but also by other good means devise for tl

speedy payment of our said debts.

43 1 ** Fourthly, They shall consider to be discharged all s

^^ perfluous charges, both in the excessive expences of oi

*' household and chamber, and in the over-great number

" courts, by uniting the same according to the statute pr

" vided in that behalf, and such other superfluous charges

" Fifthly, My will is, that my sisters, Mary and Elizabet

" shall follow the advice of my executors, or the more p

OF KING EDWARD VI. ' • I2r

^^ of them,.m their marriages. And if they so do, and will CHAP.
" be bound to live in quiet order, according to our appcnnt- ^^*'*

'^ment, and as by our said executors shall be appointed. Anno tsss.

" we will, that they, and either of them, shall have of our

" free gift, 10002. yearly, by way of annuity, out of our

" ooflers. And if they do marry by the advice of our said

^ executors, or the more part of them, that then we will,

^ that ^ther of them shall have towards their marriages, of

^ oiir gift, 10,0002. over and above the money for the mar-

^ riages given by our father^s bequest.

^ Sixthly, Our pleasure is, that our scud counsellors shall
" not agree to giv^ any lands or tenements to any person in
^' fee-ample, or fee-tail, other than excheated lands: neither
^^ shall they grant any lands in fee-farm, nor annuities, but
'^ only to such as have served us, or shall serve our succes-
^' sors for the time being, in some place of special trust : nor
-^ any leases in reversion to any other than to the servants of
^ our successors for th^ time being.

^^ All our debts to be paid with, as much speed as can be.

^^ All injuries, if any have been done, to be recompensed;
^ and the parties, their heirs, or children, recompensed, ac-
^'cording to equity and good justice.

" The coU^e of St. John^s in Cambridge to have of our
^ gift in land, 1002. by year, towards maintenance of their
'^ diarges \ • This was

" A new college to be erected, to be endowed in lands to ^u**to^cc-"
'* the double yearly rent of the said coUes^e of St. John^s : to «!, his se-

. . cretary

'^ be builded up, and made by discretion of our executors, and cheke,
" within the space of seven years. both"*?'*

^' The grant made to the mayor and city of London, st. John's
" touching the Savoy, and lands thereof, to be performed. **^*8**

^* All such as have grants of us, of any lands, offices, or
*^ fees, to enjoy our grants.

*' All such as have paid their monies upon any bargain
^,for landcs to have their books and bargains performed.

<' To be bestowed in highways, and to the poor, by dis-
^ cretion of the executors, the sum of
'^ The king my father^s tomb to be made up. All monu-

1» 'MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK '• mento to be made of the burials of Edwwrd I V. JM^
"' « Henry VI."

Anno 1668. gy wlnctk parod of the Eiiig*s will, may be judged liii
roycd wisdom and prudence, his rdUi^on and justiee, Us
piety to his ancestors, bis gratitude, charity, and liberalitjr.

ftmenu"*'* funerals were solemnized at Westminsta-, Aug. 8:

whereat were expressed, by all sorts of people, such signs/of
sorrow for his death, by weepings and lamentations, as Che
like was scarce ever seen or heard upon the like occasioo.
The solemnity was thus perfcNaned. First of all went a gicst
eompaoy of diildren m their surplices, and clerks and
priests, silking: then his &ther beadsman: and then two
432 heralds : next, a standard with a dragon : then a great noift-
her a! his servants in black : then another standard, with a
white greyhound : after this, a great number of his officers:
after them followed more heralds : then a standard, with the
head officers of his house : and then heralds. Mr. Hoaojf
one of the kings at arms, bare the helmet and the.crest on
horsebad^ : and then the great banner of arms in embroidery)
with diTers otha: banners. T^en came riding Mr. Clareo-
deux, another king of arms, with his target, his garter, and
his sword, gorgeous and rich : and after, Mr. Garter, die
third and chief king of arms, with his coat armoury in em-
brdklery : then more banner^ of arms : then came the
chariot, with great horses trapped with velvet to the ground)
every horse having a man cm his back in blade, and every
c«e bearing a bannerol of divers of the Eing'^s arms, and
with escutcheons on their h<»rses. The chariot was oovered
with cloth of gold. And on the body lay the effigies, lying
piteously, with a crown of gold, and a great collar, his sceptre
in his hand, clothed with his robes, and the garter about his
leg, and a coat in emlnroidery of gold. About the corpse
were borne four banners ; a banner of the .Order, another of
the Red Rose, another of Queen Jane, another of the Queen's
mother. After him went a goodly horse, covered with doth
of gold unto the ground, and the Master of the King^s horse

Offic. Ar- leading him after the corpse : and another goodly honse,

p!Ti7.b!' ^^ ^ ™^"^ ^^ arms in armour; which, both man and horse.

OF KING EDWARD VI. t9»

were ofiered. Thai followed the Marauis of Winchester, CHAP.
beaiig chief mourner; and next, the twelve other mourners,

two and two, viz. six earls and six barons: the earls were, Anno \6ss,
Oxford, Shrewsbmy, Worcester, Sussex, Bath, and Pem-
broke; the barons were, the Lords Burgavennj, Windsor,
Borough, Barkley, Stourton, and Cobham. A majesty was
set up for him in the chapel at Whitehall, and another in
Westminster-^bbey, with three standards, the Hon, the
dragon, and the greyhound ; thirteen banners, and a few
other plainer bannerols and pensils, and hung about with
▼dvet. The whole charge of the funeral amounted to
41JSI. &. 2cL too thrifty and penurious an expence for the
last respects due to so brave a Prince. Dr. Day, late bishop
of Chicbester, preached the funeral sermon, and Archbishop
Cnmmer, however now imder a cloud, celebrated his burial
rffcar the reformed way, by the English Service-Book. To
which was joined a communion, by him also administered. Hist Re-
though after much opposition, as we are told: which was the[!]'^™ j^^'*
last public office, I suppose, that Archbishop performed.

I shall not make any reflections myself upon the loss of A foreign-
this admirable Prince, but only repeat what a foreigner ob- JJ^^ of
served soon after his death: for his accomplishments and^i^<^^°£f-
virtues were knbwn abroad as well as at home. Coelius
Secundum Curio, a man of learning and eminence m the city
of Basil, and father-in-law to Hieronymus Zanchy, (in his
epistle dedicatory to Sir Anthony Cook, before Sir John
Cheke^s book of the Pronunciation of Greek,) hath these
words concerning the hopefulness of this King, by the means
of both their happy instructions of him : Vo8y communibus
'ooHs, conailiis^ indtisiria^ summ(B ac plane divimB gpei
tUgemJbrmabatis. A vobis iUe divmus puer, &c. That is,
'^Ybu, by your united prayers, counsels, and industry,
^formed a King of the highest, even of divine hopes. 433
^ From you did the godhke youth rec^ve that instruction,
^ which neither Cyrus, nor Achilles, nor Alexander, nor
"any other king, ever received more polite, more hdiy':
" which had he Uved to adult years to make use ef, and batt
^^ come therewith to the government of the ktngdoBij'arf

124 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK
II.

Anno 1558.

((

The King
commended
by Cooper,
the school-
master of
Magdalen
college,
who was
afterwards
bishop of
Lincoln.

had been snatched away before, by an immature death;
what reahn on earth had been happier? what nadon had
^^ ever been more blessed ? But God was minded only to
shew him to the world, and sufPer him no longer to abide
in it The English nation would have seemed to haye
" been too happy,*" &c.

And, if you please, take some further character oi him
and his tutors, from the words of one in an epistolary adr
dress to him, when he presented him with a new edition of
Sir Thomas EUoOs Dictionary: " What subject, endued
^^ with common sense and reason, doth not even now, in these
** your tender years, perceive your godly inclination, di»-
'* posed so to rule and govern us in virtue and true religioD)
^^ that of all nations we may judge ourselves to be most :
** happy and fortunate ? For these things chiefly we are
** bound daily on our knees with lowly hearts to ^ve most
** humble thanks to God, who pitying our state, of a angu-
^^ lar favour and mercy towards this realm of England, sent

** you to reign over us. Such and so excellent instruc-

*' tors were provided for your Highness, as scantly the like
in virtue and leiuning may in any place be founden:
whose godly instruction and virtuous counsels, how ef-
fectually they take place in your sacred Majesty's breast,
^^ it doth right well appear to all them that attend upon
your royal person, by the sage and godly talk that pro-
ceedeth from your most gracious mouth. We here abroad
by your most godly {»roceedings evidently perceive, how
" your Grace willeth, that your dear uncle, and other most
'^ honourable counsellors and ministers, should endeavour
*^ and apply themselves, first to set up true religion, to
Gt)d's honour and glory, to abolish idolatry and supersti-
tion ; and then constantly to proceed forth to the advance-
ment of the commonweal : that is, truly to administer
justice, to restrain extortion and oppression, to set up
tillage and good husbandry, whereby the people may in-
^^ crease and be maintained. Your godly heart would not
^^ have wild beasts increase, and men decay ; ground so en-
*^ closed up, that your people should lack food and suste-

€i

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OF KING EDWARD VI. 126

"nance; one man by shutting in of fields and pastures to CHAP.
" be made, and an hundred thereby to be deBtroyed. Oh ! '^''"■

" godly heart. Oh ! Prince most worthy to reign, not over Anno isss.
"two or three realins, but over the whole world. Such
" talk hsth seldom been heard of princes of full age, per-
" feet discretion, and long r^gn.

" Wh^^ore the unestimable comfort and joy that all
" your loving subjects do take at this your wise and discreet
" devising and communing, and many other lovely sparks
" and cert^n tokens of virtue and Christian regiment, cai>-
" not be Buffidently expressed. Yea, undoubtedly many
"English hearts have conceived an unfngned hope, that
" your Majesty, shewing yourself so sage, so grave, so ja-u-
" dent in your tender youth, should, as very Solomon, by
" m§dom bring the world from tumult and rufding to rest-
"ful quietness, from war to peace, from hatred and discord
"to love and amity, from contentious sects and opinions to 434
"mw ChnBtiaa unity and true religion. Surely, I say,
" many are fully persuaded, that the eternal wisdom and
" »ecret counsel of God hath orduned your Highness this
" to do, to his great honour, your immortal pnuse, and the
" veal and proSt of your loving subjects.^ These words
ue suffitnent to shew the spirit and temper, the wisdom and
parta <^ his youth, when he had not been above three or
lour years King, even while his uncle the Duke was alive,
vben this address was made. And these were the mighty
opectations the honest and good part of the nation had of
luin. But bis untimely death prevented all.

The learning of tbis young King, while he was Prince, hu LMin
did appear by divers letters in Latin, which I have seen, ^^,^,1^^^
Wly written by his own hand : whereby not only his pro- tioas.
fdency in that language is shewn, but also bis ingenuity,
■it, sweetness of temper, courtesy, and sense of reli^on
ihined forth. Some of these epistles were writ to his royal
father the King, some to his mother Queen Kutliarine, some
to hu sisters. Lady Mary and Lady Eiizabetli, some to his
uncle the Protectw, one to the Archlnshop of Canteibury^ J

126 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

ROOK another to Day, Ushop of Chichester, Atcts to Dr. C0K9 h&
precepti»r and ahiuxier, as he stykd him. I have seen abo

Anno i6d8. some of his scholastical exercises in declamations, or anJaaag,
upon several subjects ; whidi do shew his inventioo, haid* ;
some style, his reasonii^^ and his readii^ too^ eqseciaUyk |
Tully. And all the aboveaaid letters writ in the year 154^ \
when he was not ten years did : and the orations csomposed '
by him when not fully twelve. A specim^i of these, both ,
epistles and cnrations, will very acceptably oitertain the
I" reader, to be found in the Repository : where I have exadlj
transcribed some of them from the originals.
His book To which I must add, that he was not unacquainted ^th
against the ^® French tongue : in which he arrived to that degree !»•
Pope. fore he ^g3 twelve years old, that he composed a tract, con-
sisting of thirty-seven leaves in quarto, against the papacj,
and the usurpations over the Christian Church, and the idols-
try and gross errors brought in by popes, and uphcJden
by them. The title he gave this his book, written aa the
t(^ of the first page, was, Ueruxmtre Us Abus du Monde:
that is. Against tiie Abuses of the World, Meaning the
abuses imposed upon the faith and worship of Christians
by the Pope ; wlnmi he calleth Antichrist. It begins thusr
" ^GM&p&woons tresbien voir et appercevoir par Fexpeii-
'^ ence du monde, que la nature humaine est prone [prompfef
^* writ over by the French master] a tons maux, et embrouil-
^^ 1^ de tous vices. Car quel pais y a il au monde, auquel
n^y ait quelque vice et abus: principallement au tempi
present : veu que maintenant le grand empire de TAnti*
christ est en vogue. Lequel est la sourse de tout mat et
la fontaine de toute abhomination, et vray filz de diable;
" Pource que quand Dieu est envoye icy bas son filz unique
pour nostre infirmite, afin de reconcilier le monde a soy
par la mort d'yceluy, le diable changea des lors les insti-
tutions de Christ en traditions humaines, et perverti les
escritures a son propos par le Pape, son miniBtre,**^ &c.
435 The conclusion is in these words: ** Conclusion, et cin-
^* quiesmepartie. En la primiere partie de nostre livre nous

OP KING EDWARD VI. 1«7

^^ arons dedar^, et proun^ ecniiide IKerre n'^estat pas le pri- chap.
^ mat dc TEglise : coDfutans lei raisons papistiques. £n k ^^'''

^ aeoonde, nous irons prouu^, quil ne peuent apporterAnnoiss^.

^ [pieguerj writ &wei bj the master] quelque vraje tesmo-

" g^>89^ ^6 Pierre ait e8t6 a Rome. En la troi^esme par-

^ ia^f nous arcms prouu£ par leurs dictz mesmes, quilz ne

^' deyroient pas avoir la primaut^. En la quatriesme partie,

^ nous avoQS demonstr^ les prophesies portantes de PAnti-

'^ christ Puis donques, que le Pape est le vray filz de

^^ diable, bomme mauvais, un Antichrist, et tyran.

^' Prions tous Seigneur, qu^il conserve ceux^ qui ont veu
^ la lumiere, en la lumiere ; et qu^il monstre a ceux, qui
^' sent en tenebres, la vraye, sincere et pure lumiere. A
^^ oelle fin, que tout le monde en ceste vie glorifie Dieu ; et
'^ en Pautre numde soit participant du royaume etemel, par
** Jesus Christ nostre Seigneur. Auquel avec le Pae et le
^^ Sainct Esprit, soit glmre, honeur, empire, et louange pour
^ tout jamais. Amen.*"

This book (whidi I speak of) contains the first minutes
cf the Singes writing ; and so hath here and there a correc-
^on, sometimes of his French master, and sometimes of his
own* It hath in the margin of every page various quo-
tatknis of proper places of Scripture, for proofs of his pur-
pose: which shew how well versed he was in those holy
books.

The dedication of this his book, the King made to his
uncle, the Duke of Somerset ; which began thus :

'^ Edovard Sixiesme de ce nom, par la grace de Dieu,
** Roy d^Angleterre, France, et Irlande, Defendeur de la
^ Foy, et en terre apres Dieu, Chef de TEglise d'Angle-
^'terre et Irlande: a son tres cher et bien aym^ oncle
^Edouard, Due de Somerset, Govemeur de sa personne et
** Prc^^cteur des ses royaumes, pais et subjectz.

" Ccmsiderant (tres cher et tres bien^aym^ oncle) la va-
^ nit^ du monde, la mutability du temps, et le changement
^ de toutes choses mondaines ; commes des richesses, biens,
^honneurs, jeux, et pUdsirs: considerant aussi, que telles
^ semblables sont,^^ &c.

1«8 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK And now at last, to prove all this book was wholly hu
own, done propria Marte^ and the effect of his parts, with-

(ft
(ft

Adoo 1558. out any other help, his French master testified at the endd
the tract, under his own hand, in these words following:
Tout ainsi qu^un bon paintre peut representer le vi-
saige, regard, contenance et corpulence d^un prince : aina
par les escritz, paroUes, et actions d^un prince, on peat
<^ facilement entendre quel esprit est en luy, et aquoy il est
adonn^. Comme on peut veoir par les escritz de ce jeune
Roy : lequel compose et escrivit ce liure ; n^ayant encoies
^^ douze ans accomplis : et sans Tayde de parsonne viuant,
^^ excepte de propos qu^il avoit ouys de plusieurs, et de so-
*' venance qu'il avoit des liures qu'^il avoit leuz. Car des
ce qull commenca a escriure le diet liure, et jusques a ce
qu'^il Teust acheud, le diet liure a tons jours est^ en ma
garde, jusques a present.*" That is.

Just as a good painter can represent the visage, lool^
countenance, and bulk of a prince ; so by the writings}
words, and actions of a prince, one may easily understand
436 ^^ what spirit is in Kim, and to what he is addicted : as one
may see by the writings of this young King, who com-
posed and writ this book, being not yet full twelve yean
" old, and without the help of any person living ; excqpi
^* the subject, which he had heard of many, and the r&
" membrance which he had of books that he had read. Foi
" from the time he began to write the said book, and unti
*^ he had finished it, the said book was always in my keep
" ing even to this present.*"

He began this book, according to the date set down b;

himself, December 13, 1548, and finished it March 1'

following.

Another There is yet another book in French, said to be of hi

French writ writing? ^^^^l kept in the library of Trinity college, Can

J^.***®i^^°*J- bridge ; consisting of places of Scripture, which he had note

voi.ii. Coll. in his own English Bible: and afterwards, for his Frenc

P- ^®- exercise, had put them all into French, with his own ban-

as he signified to the Protector, his uncle : to whom he al

dedicated this work of his.

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(ft
((

(ft
(ft
ftft
ftft
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Oa? KING BDWABD VL ltd

1 dmll |i44 09e d^vf^ more oo&eeiBiiig thk King*^ leara^ CHAP,
bg : it is this; that many taking example by him, the nation

b^an #tiwigely to addict itself to art^ and diligence, and^°°^^^^-
especially to karaiag, for the puUic safety and ben^t of ence of the
the kingdom. And many good books were now set forth, King^s
for the use of the commonwealth, and increase of useful ^^'^''^'^*
knowledge. TUs^ Raphe JEU>bynsoQ, a scholar, acknow-
ledged, sji^rpened him, and set him on work to translate
into English thai acoeUait description at a good common-
wealth set down by Sir Thomas More, before spoken of, as
in his epiatle dacUcatory he ogmfied in these words: ^ See-
« ing every aort aod kind of people in dieir vocatkm and
^ d^ree is buedly occupied about the commiMiwealth^s affairs,
'' and especiaUy learned men, daily putting forth in writing
^^new inveaticNis iand devices, to the furtherance ci the
''same, I thought it my bounden duty to Grod and my
^ oomitry, to oocupy and exercise myself in bestowing such
^ spare hours as I eould convemently win to myself,^ &c.

To ccmclude: of this admirable Prince, thus writ Bale: Bale and
''He did vehemently love the gospel: and to all learned J ^i^j,
"men he gave harbour and patronage; Germans, Italians, ^^°S'
" French, Soots, Spaniards, Poles, &c.^ Bibliander said of
Urn, <' Many wise men believed, thatJhe, as another Sokmon,
"did aqitre to that wisdom and virtue thai came from the
" celestial throne.^

Of King Edward'ls ^excel]ent endowments and abilities. And Fox.
nun% may be read in the ninth book, of the Acts and Monu-
ments of the Church, at the faegkming.

And so I take my leave of him, with the verses that Sir And ImHj,
Thomas Chalons describes his youth, in his heroic poem cbaioner.
upon the praises of King Henry his feitfaer :

Q^is ptieri Edwardi suavisdma pectora, mores
Ter stiaves^ pvMiri exemplar quod nuUus Apelles
Exprimat^ et nuHo descrihat TvMils ore^
Condigne hie per gat rum digno dicer e versu f

And his death, in his second book De Repui. Anghr.43J
mtaur^mda : where he thus bewails him, and sets forth his

VOL. n. PART II. K

MO MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK incomparable virtues in verses worthy the noble subject ]
^^' treats of.

Anno 1558. Tondcm (eheu /) lentam inviius surreant in iram,

Omnia pecccmtia populi commissa rependens
Unites ablatupuerij qtiem Parca beatis
Restituit coeloj qiu) lapstcs, sedibuSj et nos
Destituit manifesta Dei prcesentia in iUo.
Quern si longa dies plures servdsset in ofmoSy
Si non moituro nurrs immatura neg&sset
Exerere tdteritts divvrne pignora dotis,
Tanta tibif O Exmardb^JuH tttm graiiaJbmuBj
Indoiis et tarn rara usque ad mwacula virttis,
Ingenio docti curcmi supercmte magistrij
Tanta tibi et morvm probitas, vbi mite sereni
Prindpis effvlsit ^ecimen pueriUbus annis
Gratius, ingenuo sacrum os omante pudore,
Verbaque vel dura^ blonde penetrantia cautes;
Tanta^ i/nquam,^ Juerwnt congesta h<BC omnia in

unvm
Dona DeUm^ ut meritopost snecla effoeta credsse
Delicitmi humani generis natura putetur.
Quo duce, Brittannis iUa aurea tempora rursus
Lacte Cannes, et mette rubos signata redirent^
Quando iterwm nostris errarent Dii quoque sylvis,
Dii faxMeSy lustrata novis altaria donis^
QuiqUe pias gra/to spectarent ^dere pahnas^
.Et genti annnerent restaurato ordine longum
RelUgumCj tog(B studiis^florescerey et armis.

Dignus eras triplices canus qui vivere in annos
Nestorisj ipse decern qui Nestoras unus obires^
Cifjus et imperio totus se subderet orbis.

OF KING EDWAKD VI. 1«1

CHAP. XXIIL 438

A view of the manners of all sorts of men in these times :
ftMity : gentry: yeomanry : jtidges : the poor: the

clergy.

And DOW let us stay a little, and look back upon the ^^^ ^^sa.
tunes m which this King reigned. How good soever he ^^^ ^f ^
^as, and what care soever was taken for the bringing in the sorts of
aiowledge of the -gospel, and restoring Christ's true reli- these days,
pon, the manners of men were very naught; especially of "^^^f****
t great sort of them.

Among the grandees and noblemen, many were insa-Thenobi-
iably covetous ; which appeared partly, in raising their old ^ntry
•ents: which made Lat3rmer use to call them step-lcyrdsj in-[«>v«toui.
(tead of lamdJords: which was done in this proportion^
'hat what had gone before for 901. or 30/. a year, (which wagj
ui honest portion to be had in one lordship, from otheif
men's sweat and labours,) was now let for 60Z. or 100/. a year.
A.nd this caused that dearth that continued for two or three
fears in the realm, or more, notwithstanding God sent plen-
^usly the fruits of the earth. Provisions were unreason-
ably enhanced in their prices, occasioned by this raising of
>*ent by the landlords ; for then the tenants might reason^^
^ly, and did, raise the prices of their commodities, as pigs,
s;eese, bacon, chickens, eggs, he. as well as grain, and the
fruits of the earth, and cattle. Another evil hereof was, the
UBpoverishing of the yeomanry, which was the chief stay of
4e nation : for out of the yeomen proceeded soldiers for the The yeo-
Bng's wars; husbandmen, for improving land for the pro-™*"'^'
^udng fruits and corn ; seamen, for the King and the mer-
chants' ships ; supplies of people, for the trades and occupa-
tions of the city; and scholars, to be sent to the Universities,
to be bred up clergymen, for the services of the Church.
^t this rank of men, so serviceable to the Church and
State, that used to be of good wealth, and hve in a plentiful
<!ODdition, was brought down to low and mean circumstaQceB.
hy these racked rents. ^ . a

ia« MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK To ^ve an instance: Latymer^s father was a yeomai
Leicestershire, and had no land of his own ; only he h«

Anno 1553. farm of three or four pounds a year at the utmost i
weidth of hereupon he tilled so much, as kept half a dozen men.
yeomen had Walk for an hundred sheep, and his mother mil
onner y. ^-^.^y j^^^^ . j^^ ^^ able, and did find the King a han

with himself and his horse, while he came to the place
he should receive the Eing'^s wages. Latymer rememb
how he buckled his father^s harness when he went to Bl
heath field. He kept this his son at 8ch(X>l, until he ws
for the University, and maintained him there. He mai
his daughters with five pounds or twenty nobles apiece,
kept hospitality for his poor neighbours ; and some alni
gave to die poor. And all this he did out of the said f
439 Whereas he that had the same farm in KingEdwanTs
paid sixteen pounds by the year, or more, and was not
to do any thing fcMr his prince, tar himself, nor for his
lint set. dren, (x give a cup of drink to the poor. All this Lat^
^e^King.'^ thought not amiss to say in one of his court^sermons,

more to expose this evil of racked rents.
Enclosures. Again, the covetousness of the gentry appeared, t
raising their rents, so in oppressing the poorer sort b]
closures ; ^thereby taking away the lands, where they
used, and their forefathers, to feed their cattle for the
sistence of their families; which was such an oppres
that it caused them to break out into a rebellion in the
1549.
No redress Another way they hiad of oppressing their inferiors
for the poor. ^^^^ these Were forced to sue them at the law for 1
wrong they had done them, or for some means which
violently detained fix)m them. For either they threat
the judges, or bribed them, that they commonly favo
the rich against the poor, delayed their causes, and 1
the charges thereby more than they could bear. Ofteni
tSiey went home with tears, after having waited loi
the court, their causes unheard. And they had a con
saying then, M<mey %$ heard every where : and if a
were rich, he should soon have an end of his matter.

OF KING EDWARD VI. 188

In fine, the poor were so oppressed by these means, that CHAP.
iMymsT, DOW aged, and a great court-preacher, and c^_

uithority witii the King, and ntany <rf the great men, was*""" '5***
never abnost without poor suitors, that came to him to, J^"^,
tneak to the irreat men, that their matters might be heard ; ^bem to
Gomplaming to bun, at what great costs aoa charges thej cat gnat
h*d laid, to their undoing ; insomuch as being at the Arch- """
nshop of Canterbury''e house, where he used often to re^de,
be had no time so much as to look in his book, as he told
the King in his sermon. This countenantnng of the rich
Eien against the poor, was occaooned partly from the ser-
nnts of the King's great officers, who did use to commit
the hearing and examining of causes to them. Wherefore
l4tymer took the confidence in one of his sermons, to advise
tbeSjng to hear causes himself; and so he advised the
Protector, and the Lord Chancellor, who left matters to
others to hear and determine. He bade them, in God's be-
half, to sit upon the bench themselves, and not to put all to
Ihe hearing of velvet coait and upikips, as he termed them.

For the judges also, some of them at least, were very cor- The jadgM.
nipt, and would sell justice for money. A great man kept
ttrtun lands from a gentlewoman, and would be her tenant
ift^ate of her teeth. She tarried a whole year in town for
• bearing agiumt him, and could get but one day ; when
die great man brought a great sight of lawyers on his side :
the wtHnan had but one on hers, and he threatened and
frowned upon by the great man. And when the matter
Wis to come to a point, the judge himself wrs a mean to
^ g^itlewoman, that she would let the other have her
land. That she could have done at first, without all that
nibag and charge, if she had seen it convenient for her so
to have done. And this was all the reUef she could have,
Au her judge became a pleader on her adversary's behalf.
LaQrmer did more than once complmn before the King o
the judges, and would himself give them many a jerk in h
■eanons. Once he sEud, " that if a judge should -.isk luid
" tJte way to hell, he would shew him this way. Firai, k'l
" him be a covetous man : then, let him go a U
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BOOK ** and take bribes: and lastly, pervert judgment. The
• ** lacketh a fourth to make up the mess, which, so &

AuQo 1553. ^< help me, if I were judge, should be hangum tuum, a T

bum tippet, to take with him, if it were. the judge

the King^s Bench, the Lord Chief Justice of Englani

yea, if he be my Lord Chancellor himself: to Tybu

*' with him.*" I suppose he might in these words glance

these men, or some of them, as not clear in this char]

And again, speaking of an evil judge that took brib

Fifth ser- *' He would wish, that of such a judge in Englmid now,

thc^Kiiigr " n^ig^t have his skin hanged up : it were a goodly sig

the sign of the judge^s skin. It should be Lot's wife

all judges that follow after.***

The mise- The miseries also of the poor, and the wrongs and hai

p^^,^ ships they endured, occasioned by the covetousness of 1

rich, were set forth by another preacher in these days, ii

Bern. Gil- sermon before the Kinsr* *' Look,'' saith he, " in all countri

pm s 8er- , ° ,

mon before " how lady avarice hath set on work altogether mighty m
the King, u gentlemen, and all rich men, to rob and spoil the po
** to turn them from their livings and from their rig!
" and ever the weakest go to the waUs. And being tl
** tormented and put from their right at home, they co
" to London a great number, as to a place where just
No relief « should be had : and there they can have none. They j

from the ,£ -^ -I -I .

rich : smtors to great men, and cannot come to their spec

" Their servants must have bribes, and they no small or

*' All love bribes : but such as be dainty to hear the po

*^ let them take heed lest God make it as strange to the

when they shall pray. Who stoppeth Ms ear at the cryi

of the poor, he shall cry, and not be heard, Pro v. xxi. G

reproveth them, that it is so hard for the poor to ha

" access to them^; and coming into their presence, are

** astonied and speechless, with terrible looks. — Oh ! wi

what glad heart and clear consciences might nobleni

go to rest, when they had bestowed the whole day

hearing Christ himself complain in his members, and

redressing their wrongs! But alas! what lack thera

Nor the « Poor people are driven to seek their right amon&: 1

lawyers. r jt o &

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OF KING EDWARD VI. 13S

"Iswjers: and there, as the Prophet Joel saith, what the CHAP,
"caterpillar hath left in their robbery and oppression at _'''""■

" hwEe, all that do the greedy locusts, the lawyers, devour Anno i6&3.
"at London. They laugh with the money which maketh
" others to weep. And thus are the poor robbed on every
" ode without redress ; and that of such as seem to have
"authority thereto.

"When Christ suJFered his passion, there was one Ba-
" nbbas, St. Matthew calls him a notable thief, a gentleman
" thiei^ sucb as rob nowadays in velvet coats. The other
" two obscure thieves, and nothing famous ; the rustical
" tlueves were hanged, and Barabbas was delivered. Even
"io nowadays the little thieves are hanged that steal for
" necessity ; but the great Barabbases have free liberty to
"rob and spoil without all measure in the midst of-the
" city.— Alas ! silly, poor members of Christ, how you be
" thorn, oppressed, pulled, haled to and fro on every side !
" Who cannot but lament, if his heart be not flint ! There
"be a great number every term, and many continually,
" vhidi lamentably complain for lack of j ustice ; but all in
"vain. They cpend that which they had left, and many 441
" times more : whose ill success here [at London] causeth
" Ibousands to tarry at home beggars, and lose their right.
" And so it were better, than here to sell their coats. For
" ibis we see, such is the poor man's cause, though never
" u manifest a truth, that the lich shall for money find dx
" or seven counsellors stand with subtilties and sophisms to
"doak an ill matter, and hide a known truth. A piteot^
"case in a commonwealth !"

And again, omceming the great oppres»on of landlords Opprewtng
tovuds their tenants, by turning them out of all, to thtar
utter undoing, thus he spake : *' Now the robberies, extor-
" tifflis, and open oppressions of covetous cormorants have
" no end nor limits, no banks to keep in their vileness. As
"for turning poor men out of their holds, they take it for
"no ofl^ce, but say, their land is their own ; and so they
" turn them out of their shrouds like mice. Thousaada in j
** Englaitd, throu^ such, beg now itoxa doof to A
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BOOK *^ have kept honest houses.— ^Theae,'' he added, ^ hiA ndh
^^ <^ quick smdling hounds^ tfa«t tbey eould live ait London,

Aaao i$68.^ and turn men out of their £MnDs md tenements an hm-
** dred, some two hundred miles off. Oh ! Lordy whita
^^ number of such oppressors, worse than Ahdb, are m En^
'^ land, which seU the poor Jbr a pair of skoet^ AiMStt.
'^ Of whom, if God should serve but three or fimr m te
^ did Ahab, to make the dcgs lap the blood of them, ^im
^ wives and posterity, I think it woidd cause a gpeainui-
*^ ber to beware of extortion : and yet escapikig tampttil
'^ punishments, they are sure, by God^s wofd^ their Uofld
is reserved for hell-hounds. En^and fai^ had able mm
terrible examines of God'^s wrath, in suddoi and stnn^
'^ deaths oi such as join field to field, aaxd house to haott
^ Great pity they were not chromdied, to the terciar d
"others.''
Their But in the mean time, these mighty and great mas iaid)

^' that the commonalty lived too well at ease: th^ giew
<< every day to be gentlemen, and knew not tbenseiiveff:
their horns must be cut shorter, by raking their raata^and
by fines, and by plucking away their pastures.^
The gentrj And hereby the commonalty came to hate the geatxj'
^'*^' for " they murmured, and grudged, and said, thad the gett-
^ tlemen had all ; and there were never so many getttkaoen
and so little gentleness. And by their nattaal logic they
would reason, how these two co90ugataj these yoke-fd-
« lows, gentlemen and gentleness, should be banished so fcr
^' asunder. And they laid all the misery of the conunoa-
^^ wealth upon the gentlemen^s siioulders.^^
^y^ In fine, to this pass had c&oeiousness brought the nadim,

'''*^- that every man scraped and piUed from other ;ev«r J ntii
would suck the blood of others ; every man encroached
* upon another. It cut away the large wings of diarity, and
plucked all to herself. She had chested all the old gdd in
England, and much of the new : which made the foi^esaid
preacher add, ^^ that ^e had brought it to pass, that there
*^ was never more idolatry in England than at that day ;
^' but the idols were hid, and came not abroad. Alas !' no-

OF KINO EDWABD VI. 1»7

^rinee, said h^, (turning his speech to the King,) that chap.
mages of your ancestors, graven in g<dd, and yours ^^^^^'

contrary to your mind, are worshif^ped as gods : Anno I6M.
all the poor lively images c^ Christ perish in the 442
ts through hunger and cold.^

y murders were m this mgn also committed ; and Murders.
rderers too often escaped, by the favour and affection
judges. One of the King^s searchers executing his
lis{deased a merchantman ; insomuch, that when he
ing his office, they were at words. The merehant-
reatened him. The searcher said, the King diould
3 his custom. The merchant goes home and sharpens
idknife, and comes again, and knocks him on the
ind kills him. Tlus was winked at: they looked
b their fingers, and would not see it. *^ Whether,^
atymer, accor^ng to his coarse style, ^* it be taken
rith a pardcm or no, I cannot tell; but this I am

and if ye bear with such matters, the Devil shall
you away to heU.'*^ But these words of Latymer
fence, as reflecting upon the merchant'^s reputaticm,
( friends, when this searcher'^s death, they said, was
ind of chance-medley. But he understanding this,
:t Lord'*&-day toc^ notice of it, and said, ^* he in-
d not to impair any man's estimation or honesty,
hat they that enforced it to that, enforced it not to his
ing: considering, he said, he heard but of such a
' : and according as he heard, so he took occasion to
:hat no man should bear with another, to the main-
ice of voluntary and prepensed murder.'' Of whidb
ttwithstanding their mincing the matter into dhance-
. he supposed the fact was. ^^ He knew not, he said,

they called chance^^medley in the law, for that was
as study ; but he knew what voluntary murder was
e God. If I shall fall out with a man, he is angry
me, and I mth him, and lacking opportunity and
, we put it off for that season. In the mean time I
ire my weapon, and sharpen it i^ainst another time ;
dl atid boil in this passion towards him ; I Mek him.

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BOOK ^^ we meddle together. It is my chance, by reason my
^^' " pon i» better than his, and so forth, to kill him. I

Anno 1658. <^ him his death^s stroke uf my vengeance and anger.
" call I voluntary/ murder by Scripture ; what it is i:
" law, I cannot teU.*" And this. It seems, was the true
of the case between the merchant and the searcher.

m^gjy^ Another there was, that slew a man in a certain
ship, and. was attached upon the same, and twelve me
panneled. The man had friends, the sheriff laboure
* bench. , The twelve men stuck at it, and said, except
would disburse twelve crowns, they would find him g
Means were found that the twelve crowns were paid
quest came in, and said. Not guilty. But it was obs<
that some of the bench were afterwards hanged, as a
ment of jGod upon them for perverting justice. Ai
murderer was a woman, that brought forth three b
children at a birth. She wrung their necks, and cast
into a water, and so killed her children. But beii
raigned at the bar for it, she was brought in. Not g
though her neighbours, upon suspicion, caused her
examined, and she granted all. But the judge was h
And yet at the same sessions a poor woman was hang
stealing a few rags off an hedge, that were not w(
crown. Another time a gentleman was indicted foi
der: this man was a professor of the word of Goc
443 fared, probably, the worse for that He was cast int
son, but persisted in it that he had no hand in that mi
yet he was arraigned at the bar for it, and condemned
was made for his pardon, but it could not be gottei
sheriffs, or some others, bare him no good-will, and h
for it. Afterward Latymer, being in the Tower, anc
ing leave to come to the lieutenant^s table, heard hit
that a man was hanged afterward, that killed the sam
for whom this gentleman was put to death.

Divorces. The nation now became scandalous also for the freq
of divorces ; especially among the richer sort. Men
be divorced from their wives, with whom they had
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OP KING EDWARD VI. 139

i^t satisfy their lusts with other women, whom the; be- chap.
gm to like better than their own present wives. That_''^'""

h gave pccarion also to these divorces was, the cxivet-Anno i&aa.
nuness of the nobility and gentry, who used often to marry
ibeir children when they were young, boys and ^rls ; that
they might join land to land, possession to possession, nei-
duf learning, nor virtuous education, nor suitableness of
tempers and dispontions regarded : and so, when the mar-
ried persons came afterwards to be grown up, they disliked
many limes each other, and then separation and divorce,
nd matching to others that better liked them, followed ; to
tlie breach of espousals, and the displeasure of God.

These divorces and whoredoms (a great cause of them) AdulUiici.
had especially stoned the last reign, and introduced them-
lelTes into this ; and prevailed so much, that the compilers
rf the book of Homilies thought convenient to frame one
homily against whoredom and adultery; which, how it
^iread, and what sense was then generally had of it, may
'ppeat by' the beginning of that homily : " That though
" there were great swarms of vices worthy to be rebuked,
** yet above all other vices, the outrageous seas of adultery,
'or breaking of wedlock, whoredom^ fornication, and un-
" cleanness, have burst in, and overspread all the world,:
"and that it was grown to such an'height, that in a man-
" ner among some it was counted no sin at all, hut rather
"ft pastime, a dalliance; not rebuked, but winked at; not
" putushed, but laughed at. Therefore the homily was com-
"pceed to declare the greatness of this sin ; how odious and
"abominable before God and ail good men; how griev-
" ooaly it hath been punished, both by the law of God and
" divers piinces : and to shew a certiun remedy to escape
" Ais detestable sin." In the second part of thb homily
Ae writer speaks of divorces, that then were so common,
od shewed the occaaon of them : " Of this vice [of whore-
"(Jmii] Cometh a great part of the divorces, which j
"days be so common, accustomed, and used by c
* Tate authority, to the great displeasure of God, and Ij
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BOOK " For when this most detestable sin iaonee soeiept inlAtb^
^^* ** breast of the adulterer, so that he is ^otaogled wMi im-

Anno 1658. << lawful and unchaste love, straightway Us true and ha4A
'< wife is despised, her presence is abhorred, her oaiB|Mgr
'^ stinketh and is loathsome, whatsoever she doth i» ikh
pniised: there is no quietne* in the house bo loBg » 4r
is in sight Therefore, to make short work, she sMt
away, for her husband can brook her no loeg!?r. ^^
through whoredom is the honest and harmless wife pK
444 <^ away, and a hark>t received in her stead. And ib W^
<< manner it happeneth many times in the wife towards luf
" husband.''
^nten- Contention about rdigion^ reading the Scriptippe, ud
maintaining doctrines out of it, true or fakej wkb ^
greatest stiffiiess one against another, was aaiHhtf vies ia
this reign. Which was the cause of framing anodier hiBt
mily, viz. against contention and Inrawling. ^ For too mtfif
*^ there were,'' as that homily expresseth it, ^^ which uptn
<^ the ale^bench, or other places, delimited to set fiCfflh ces\m
*^ questions, not so much pertaining to edificatioiii, as to
'' vainglory, and shewing forth their cunning; and so m-
^^ soberly to reason and dispute, that when neither put
^^. would give place to other, they fall to chiding and ooo-
^^ tention ; and sometimes from hot words to further ioooa-
*' venience."
Lftwsnits. It was a contentious age, and peopLe seemed to qiiaivd
for trifles, and often would run to the law to vex each olbff-
One lawsuit was commenced upon this ridiculous oocanoB.
The owner of an horse told his friend, that he should htm
him, if be would. The other asked the price. He said, twen^
nobles. The other would give him but four pounds. The
owner said, he should not have it then. But the oljur
claimed the horse, because he said he should have it, if be
would. This bargain became a Westminster matter. Tlie
lawyers got twice the value of the horse : ^^ and when sil
^< came to all, two fools made an esid of the matter," as Lv*
tymer, according to his mann^ of speaking, tokl the King
in one of his sermons.

OF KING EDWARD VI. 141

The ii&gy dso were now generally vetj bad, from the CHAP,
bidlops to the cuMtes. As to the bishops, diough some of ^^^^^'

them 'w&ce learned and ocmscientious, yet the rest, and the Anno ibss.
§kMet part, were such, that there could be no good dw-*^*** clergy.
dpline ex^xused for the restramt of mn, and for the due
correetson of swearing, rioting, neglect of God'^s word, and
cAer scandalous vices. Of the need of disctpUnej and of the DisdpUne.
faiger or insignificancy of committing it to the bishops,
Je good King was very senaWe; as appears by that wise
aBODorse of his, which he wrote, I suppose, in the year
BfiS. Whardn he saith, ^ that it were very good that dis-

"dplme went forth, so that those that should be the

^'aecntors of it were men of tried honesty, wisdom, and
"jnc^ment But because those bishops, who should exe-
^ oMe it, some for PajHstry, some for ignorance, some for
*iige^ some for their ill name, some for all these, are men
''enable to execute discipline, it is therefore a thing un-
* meet for these men. Wherefcwre it were necessary, that
*^ those that be appointed to be bishops, were honest in life,
'and learned in their doctrine; that by rewarding such
^ men, others might be allured to foUow their good life.^
Therefore for the jH^sent, he resolved to set up discipline,

. md yet to keep it out of the hands of ill bishops. As one

^ tf this King^s memorials for religion, wrote in October
165S, assures us; wherein he made a memorandum ^^for
^oommissions to be granted to those bishops that were

^ ^giave, learned, wise, sober, and of good religion, for the
^executmg of disciphne.^ And the bishops had exercised
m much dominion and rigour, and been such Papaiins,
diat the very name ci bishop grew odious among the

I people, and the word supermtendent began to be affected. Bishops

' mi come in the room; and the rather, perhaps, being aperinten-
nwd used in the Protestant churches of Germany. This **^"**«

I Ae Papists made sport with. But see what favourable con- ^^^
Itaetion one, who was a bishop himself, put upon this prac-
tise, and the reason he assigned hereof. And why.
^' Who knoweth not that the name bishop hath been so Ponet in
** abused, that when it was spoken, the pec^le understood Jj^J^^IJ?^

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BOOK ^^ nothing else but a great lord) that wait in a white ro-
^^* " chet, with a wide shaven crown, and that carried an oil*
Anno i56fl. << box with him, wherewith he used once in seven yean, lid-
^^ ing about, to confirm children, &c. Nqw, to bring the
*^ people from this abuse, what better means can be de-
" vised than to teach the people their errOT by anotber
^^ word out of the Scripture of the same signification. WhiA j
** thing, by the term superintendent^ would in time hxn ■
*^ been well brought to pass: fen: the ordinary pains of such |
^^ as were called superintendents, to understand the dutyiif j
^^ their bishops, which the Papists would fain have hidden
*^ from them ; and the word superintendent bdng a liaej
^ Latin word, made English by us, should in time li«?e
*' taught the people, by the very etymc^gy and proper
^^ signification, what thing was meant, whai they heard
that name, which by this term bishop could not so well
be done ; by reason that bishops, in time of Popery, were
overseers in name, but not in deed. I deny not, as that
notable man proceeded, that that name bishop may be
'^ well taken ; but because the evilness of the abuse hath
^ marred the goodness of the word, it cannot be denied but
that it was not amiss to join for a time another word widi
it in his place, whereby to restore that abused word to hk
right signification. And the word superintendent is sud
a name, that the Papists themselves (saving such as lade
both learning and wit) cannot find fault withaL^ And
then he quoted Peresius the Spaniard, and an arch Papist,
out of whom Martin had stolen a great part of his hock;
who, speaking of a bishop, saith, Primum episcopi munui
Tiomen ipsum prcB sejert^ quod est superintendere. Epu
Scopus enim superintendens interpretatur. So Pcxiet. To
Tindai's ex. the same purpose Tindal before him, in his notes upon that
mS ""^ ^" Timothy, He that desireth the office of a bishop, ik-
sireth a good work : ^^ Bishop^ sidth he, ^^ is as mudi as to
" say, a seer to, or a taker heed to, or an overseer ; whidhy.
** when he desireth to feed Christ^s flock with the food of
^^ health, that is, with his holy word, as the bishops did in
" PauPs time, desireth the good work, and the very crfto

OF KING EDWABD VI. 148

' of a bishop. But he that desireth honour, gapeth for lucre, CHAP.
^ thirsteth for great i:ents and hearths ease, castles, parks, ^^^^^'
^ liMrdflhips, earldoms, &c. desireth not a good work, and is Anno isss,
^ nothing less than a bishop, as St Paul here understands
<' a bishop.''

The curates were both ignorant, and scandalous for their Curates.
31 lives. The people in many places did withhold their
tithes from them ; and the reason they gave was, because
tliar curates, some were ignorant, and some were idle, and
tiok little care and pains in their ciures, and many of them
80 intolerably bad, lazy, and wicked, that the parishioners
oftentimes complained, and brought informations against
diem to the bishops of the dioceses, nay, to the Council.
They would ordinarily say, ^^ Oiu* curate is naught, an
^agfiehead, a dodipot, a lack-latine, and can do nothing.
^ Shall I pay him tith, that doth us no good, nor none
** will do ?** The fault of this lay much in patrons : many
ivhereof would choose, sudi curates for their souls, as they
flugfat call fools, rather than such as would rebuke their 446
GOfetousness, ambition, unmercifulness, and uncharitable-
Bess; that would be sober, discreet, apt to reprove, and re-
art the gainsayers with the word of God. Another evil in Chantry
the clergy nowadays was, that chantry priests, out of ^"** '
good husbandry, to save the King a little money, were
taken into dignities and places ecclesiastical ; who generally
were persons addicted to the old superstitions, notwithstand-
nig their outward compliance. For these, when put out
' of their places, had pensions allowed them for their sub-
astence. But as King Henry, to save his pensions, pre-
fixed these abbots and priors of dissolved monasteries to
liishoprics, and other good places in the Church, however
otherwise unqualified sometimes ; so now, under King Ed-
wud, there were whisperings of saving much money that
Hy, which went out in pensions to the chantry priests,
the diantries having been given by the Parliament to this
Ciig.

The clergy also were much cried out against, for thrust- The <
]g themselves so much into secular offices, to the great neg-.^*^

IM MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK iect of their respective cures. For as it was in Kmg Heo-
rj^s days, so it. continued in King Edward% that many of

AttQo 155S. the prelates and inferior dei^ were constituted in aecultf
* employments : which the soberer part of the nation mudi
disliked ; because by this means their flocks were left with-
out due care of them. They lived in such high state, isd
in so much grandeur, as did not become such as wexe d^
voted to God and the Church. Many oocufued in the EiDgfi
affidrs; some were ambassadors; and some of the Fri^
Council; and some fumidied the Court; and some wen
precddents ; [so was Lee, bishop of Litchfield and Coventij,
A priest prcffldent of Wales ;] and one, oomptrdUer of the nunt:
of Ui^emint ^hich studc SO much in old Latymer^s crop, that in a (Mr-
mon preached in the shrouds at St. Paul^ he exdakned
against them all, hut especially against this comptidSer:
** Should we,'' said he, " have ministers of the Churdb to
^' be comptrollers of the mint ? Is this a meet office for a
^^ priest that hath cure of souls? I would here ask OBO
^^ question ; I would fain know, who oomptroUeth the Devil
^' at home in his parish, while he comptrolleth the voioLt
*^ If the Apostle might not leave his office of preadung to
^^ be deacon, shall one leave it for minting? I cannot teB
you, but the sapng is, that since priests have bectt
minters, money hath been worse than it was before; and
^^ they say, that the illness of money hath made all thingi ]
** dearer."

The igno- But the reason of this pladng religious m^i in secokr
nobility offices was, indeed, because the laity, both nobility and
made it ne- gentry, were not fit for such places. They were bred uf k
prefer the « SO much ignorance and idleness, jhat the King was fomi
clergy, . ^ employ the clergy, among whom was the learning and
' the best abilities. And this made the foresaid good old &-
ther again to upbraid England for their nobihty. *^ Eng-
land, I speak it to thy shame, is there never a noU^naa
to be lord prendent, but it must be a prelate ? Is theie
never a wise man in the realm to be comptroller of the !
" mint P'' Then he asketh this question, " Why are not i
^^ the noblemen and young gentlonen of England broiqght

OF KING EDWARD VI. 145

'^up in a knowledge of Grod, and in learning, that they c6ap.
" may be able to execute offices in the commonweal ?^ He ^^^^^'

advised) ^^ that as the King had a great many wards, that Anno i558.

^ there might be a school for the wards, as well as there is 447

'^ a court for their lands. He was for their being set to

^ sdiool, and sent to universities, that they mi^t be able

^ to serve the King when they came to age. The benefit

" of this would be, that the gentry would not give them-

^ dahres so much to vanity ; and the common people would

** be better : for they were bad by following them. There-

^fi>re he exhorted much to have teachers and school-

^ masters set up, and encouraged by stipends worthy their

^ pains. He would have them brought up in Ic^c, in rhe-

^ tone, in philosophy, in the civil law, and especially in the

« TOid of God.^

Thus it was in the latter part of the reign cf King The nobi-
Hoiry; but rince King Edward came to the crown, these ^ be ^"
tluBgs began in a great measure to be remedied. They be-J«aro«d*
gan to bet brought up in learning and godliness, to the great
jojr and comfort of England : so Latymer, in place above-
mentioned, observed. ^^ So that there was now good hopes,
^ he said, that we shall another day have a flourishing com-
^monweal, considering their godly education. Yea, that
^ there were already nobles enough, though not so many
** as he would wiA, fit to be put into places of trust.''

But to return to the clergy again. Among the rest of The habit
vhose fiiults must be added, their affectation of going too^ier^.
costly in thdr apparel. Some of them ware velvet shoes .
ttd velvet slippers. " Such fellows,'' saith our old Cato,
^ iv^ere more fit to dance the morris-dance, than to be ad-
** mitted to preach." We may conclude the rest of their ha- .
Int was agreeable to that piece of it.

VOL. II. PART II. L

146 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL
*n^^ CHAP. XXIV.

^„<, 1553. Oi^^rva^ioTW concerning patrons; the universities;
448 dty and court. Taxes in this reign.

XjIaVING taken some view of the nobility, genfary,
clergy in these times, let us proceed to make our obsc
tions of patrons, of the universities, the city, the cc
and so make an end of this book.

Patrons. Fatrons did shamefully abuse their benefices, somet
by selling them to such as would or could ^ve mone]
them, or other consideration: sometimes they would
farm them: insomuch that when any afterward sh
have the benefice, there was neither^house to dwell in,
glebe-land to keep hospitality. But the curate was fai
take up his chamber in an alehouse, and there ^t, and
at tables all day.

Unirersi- Very ill also was the state of the universities now. 1
was a mighty decay. Latymer cbnjectured, that there
ten thousand students less than there was within tv
years before. The reason whereof was, because the
venues of the Church were gone away to laymen, an
little encouragement for the students in divinity. He pr
the King therefore, that he would take order that pn
ing might not decay; for that if it did, ignorance
brutishness would enter again. Those that were in (
bridge, very few of them studied divinity: no more
just that number that of necessity must furnish the coll
according to the statutes. And the livings there wa
small, and victuals so dear, that they tarried not there,
went otherwhere to seek livings. And only great men's
remained in the colleges, whose fathers intended them
for preachers. So that the said father feared it would c
to pass, that they should have nothing but a little Edj
divinity, and that the realm would be brought into
barbarousness, and utter decay of learning. And the
added, *' It is not that, I wiss, that will keep out th(
" premacy of the Bishop of Rome."" Upon this he mj
suit to his auditors, '*• that they would bestow so mu<

OF KING EDWARD VI. 147

"the finding: of scholars of fi^ood wits, beinfi^ the sons of CHAP.

• . XXIV

" poor men, to exercise the office of salvation, [he means 1.

" preaching Gkxi's word,] as they were wont to bestow in Anno i568,
''pilgrimage matters, in trentals, in masses, in pardons, and
" purgatory matters.''

But let us leave these places of learning, and go else- City of
where, and look upon the great metropolis of England, the
city of London ; which was much degenerated, especially
at die beginning of this King's reign. In times past, the
citizens were full of pity and compassion ; and when
churchmen died, they were wont to appoint some share
of their estate in exhibition, for the maintenance of poor
sdiolars in the universities, and for the relief of the poor.
But now the poor died in the streets for cold, and laid sick
at thdur doors, and perished for hunger.

And one reason of this plenty of miserable objects in Lon-449
Am was, the destruction of tiUage in the coimtry, and the ^5^^
demolishing cottages there: whereby it came to pass, that gars,
the poor had neither work nor harbour. And so having no
subsistence in the countries^^ they were fain to come up to
get bread, or beg for it in the city. Which made Thomas
vUver, a very grave preacher, in a sermon before a solemn
auditory, cry out, " O merciful Lord! what a number of
** poor, feeble, halt, blind, lame, sickly, yea, with idle va-
^gabonds, and dissembling caitiffs mixed among them, lie
**and creep begging in the miry streets of London and
** Westminster ! It is a common custom with covetous
** landlords, to let their housing so decay, that the farmer
^ shall be fain,'for a small regard, or none at all, to ^ve up
**his lease; that they taking the grounds into their own
** hands, may turn all to pastures. So now old fathers, poor
** widows, and young children, lie begging in the miry
*' streets.**"

And wjien Latymer was so curious to make inquiry. Decayed in
rhat helps for poor students were now distributed and sent rity,
D the universities, he could hear of little or none ; nor of
nich ^fts of charity bequeathed by the richer sort at their
bftths as was wont before to be. London also had enjoyed

148 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK the preaching of the gospel in King Henry's time, more
any other place in the nation, and there sprang up a (

Anno 1553. harvest of gospellers here. But the city shewed itself
addicted to religion, and too much addicted to supersti
to pride, to malice, to cruelty, and uncharitableness.
latter end of the reign of King Henry, when the Pa
swayed all, had a mighty influence upon the dty. So
there was a kind of apostasy among the Londoners. Yi
made old Latymer, so often quoted before, in a sa
preached at the shrouds in St PauTs before the citis
cry out, O London^ London^ repent, rqpent And sudb
the vanity, and fickleness, and pride of the inhabitants,
another preacher styled them buttgrflies rather than
gesses.
The citizens But this made them clamour much against the pre«
to butter- for disparaging them. Latymer came up not long 8
**®'* and vindicated that preacher ; speaking thus : ** Whai

^^ there hath been in London against this man, fcHr whfl
" said but too justly. And would God they were nof
" than butterflies. Butterflies do but their nature.
" buttei*fly is not covetous, is not greedy of othar 1
" goods, is not full of envy and hatred, is not malidux
" not cruel. [Meaning to charge all this upon the citia
" The butterfly glorieth not in her own works, nor
" ferreth the traditions of men before Grod'^s; commi
" not idolatry, nor worshippeth false gods. But Loi
" cannot abide to be rebuked : such is the nature of i
" if they be pricked, they will kick ; if they be rubbe
" the gall, they will wince. London was never so evil
" is now."" And to the scandal of the Reformation, 1
were more loose houses in London now in King Edw>
days, than ever were before. The Bank, in [Southwj
when it stood, was never so common for whoredom a
city now. And it went unpunished. And so shameful
wicked were many grown, that some thought a woi
that London did not sink, and the earth gape and swi
it up.
450 This uncleanness was chiefly confined unto certain pi

OF KING EDWARD VI. 149

that were called privileged places, where men might sin CHAP,
^th impunity ; that is, where the lord mayor had nothing ^^^^*

to do, and the sheriffs could not meddle, and the quest did Anno isss.
not make inquiry. There men brought their whores, yea,^^'®^ .^
and other men^s wives. Here sometimes was blood shed in London,
quanrels about women. A Spaniard killed an Englishman,
by runiiing him through with his sword, about a whore ;
but the Spaniard escaped hanging. Here also were dicing-
lioafies, where idle people used to play, and spend their pa-
tiimony : and here many other foUies were committed. So
thai the manly exerdses, that used to be among English-
ism without doors and abroad, began to be laid aside, and
tinned into gloidng, gulling, and whoring within doors.
And particularly that exercise of shooting, for which this Shooting in
u&m had been so famous. This shooting was in time
pttt much esteemed in this realm. " It is a gift of God,^ said
IiBtymer, *^ that he hath given us to excel all other nations
" withal. It hath been God's instrument, whereby he hath
** given us many victories against our enemies. And every
^ man in former times used to teach his children the prac-
" tice of it, or to make them practise it ; as the law also
^ enjcnned this shooting in the bow. He spake of his fa-
^ ther, that he was as diligent to teach him to shoot, as to

* feam him any other thing. He taught him how to draw,

* how to lay his body in his bow, and not to draw with
^ strength of arms, as other nations do, but with strength

* of the body. And he had his bows brought him accord-
'^ ing to his age and strength ; and as he increased in them,
*^ 80 his bows were made bigger and bigger : for men could
" never shoot well, except they were brought up to it. It
" is a goodly art,'' said he, " a wholesome kind of exercise,
^ and much commended in physic. And he urged the ma-

* gistrates, even froni the pulpit, and that in the reverence
•* oi God, that a proclamation might go forth, charging
"^ the justices of peace, that they saw such acts and statutes
^ kept as were made for this purpose.'*''

Fr<Mn the city let us repair to the Court. Here indeed The Court.
WBB an excellent King, but he was a minor ; and so was too

150 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK much imposed upon by his courtiers and officers, who grew
rich under him, while he grew poor : insomuch that he ran

Anno 1558. into debt, and could not pay what he ought. Poor artifioen
came for money for the works they had done for him, and
went away without it. For the King^s officers did so rake
and scrape to themselves, that without liberal gratifications
SomewroDgno money would be parted with. Those that had accounts
'^* to make to the Sang for monies received for the King^s use,
used to defalcate a part, and put it into their own pockets;
and those that took their accounts were gratified, and so
they passed their accounts without an^ further examinatiGn.
These things the King'^s preacher (so often mentioned be-
fore) knowing well enough, by his converse with the best of
the Court, plainly acquainted the King with in his last ser-
mon before him, which was in the year 1550 : where in his
own person he glanceth at some about the King. ^^ I will
^^ become the King^s officer for a while. I have to lay out
" for the King 2000Z. or a great sum, whatsoever it be.
*' Well, when I have laid it out, and do bring in my ac-
" count, I must give. 300 mark to [have] my bills war-
" ranted. If I have done truly and uprightly, what should
461 ** need me to give a penny to my bills warranted ^ Snaell
you nothing in this ? What needeth a bribe-^ving, ex-
cept the bills be false ? Well, such practice hath been io
England ; but beware ; it will out one day. Beware oi
God'^s proverb, There is nothing hidden that shall wji
be opened. And here now I speak to you, my mastei
minters, augmentationers, receivers, surveyors, auditors;
" I make a petition to you, I beseech you all, be good tc
" the King. He hath been good to you ; therefore be y€
" good to him. Yea, be good to your own souls. Ye arc
*' known well enough, what ye were afore ye came to youi
" offices, and what lands ye had then, and what ye hav(
^^ purchased since, and what buildings ye make daily
Well, I pray ye, so build, that the King'^s workmen maj
be paid. They make their^ moans, that they can get n
" money. The poor labourers, gun-makers, powder-maken
** bow-makers, arrow-makers, smiths, carpenters, soldiers

OF KING EDWARD VI. 161

" and other crafts, cry out for their dues. They be unpiud CHAP.

" some of them three or four months ; yea, some of them '__^

"half a year; yea, aod someof th€m put up bills this timeA""" issa.
*' tvelvemonth for their money, and cannot be ptud yet. It
" seems ill-favour edly, that ye should have enough where-
" with to build superfluously, and the King lack to pay his
" poor labourers."

Some of these eozeners of the King in their offices under Some make
iiiiii were so touched in conscience, that they, privately „«iitn^n.
Mtne, and some openly, made restitution to him. And that,
diiefly, upon occasion of a sermon preached by Latymer at
the Court. About the year 1548, in Lent, he preached
Bp<Hi making restituium ; and that they who had wronged
the King must make Testiiutton, or else they would go io
At Devil, to use his plain English. .Some indeed, and I
•uppose the mwt part, were angry mth him for his ser-
»». " Let him preach contrition," said they, *' and let
" KEtitution alone. We can never make restitution." But
Hne wa% better touched in conscience. So that one came
pirately to him, and acknowledged he had deceived the
Ehig, and sent Latymer that Lent, in part of his restitution,
sot to be restored to the King's use ; and promised gW.
DMre that Lent: but it came not; hut the Lent after, he
*M the 301. and SOW. more with it. And Latymer paid it
loio the King's Council. And the third Lent, the same
wntin 180/. 10a. more: which Latymer paid also into the
Eng^a Council. And so, according to his judgment, lie
"wde a godly restitution. The Council asked him, who
"W was ; but he concealed him. And Latymer conjec-
wed, that if every one would make such restitution, it
*oiaId amount to 20,000?. Nay, said another, an whole
lWl,0O(W. Another, named Sharington, came and made
"pw restitution. Whom therefore Latymer called, an ho-
"% gentleman, and one that God loved. He openly con-
foBeiJ, that he had deceived the King, and he made open
'"titution. This was Sir William Sharington; of w^
before.
Money was coined about the year 1540, in tMt
t4

168 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK than the current money was before, and yet in Valium Ihe
^^' same. Herem again was a great cheat put upon the siili-
Anno 1658. ject by the minters : which made old Latymer, in the puL
pit, (who would take that opportunity to speak his min^ to
the King,) give a nip at this new' coined money. " We hwi
" now a pretty little shilling ; in very deed a pretty que. I
^^ have but one, I think, in my purse, and the last day I
452 << had put it away almost for an old groat, [that beii^ ai
<^ big as this new shilling,] and so, I trust, some will td(0
^^ them. The fineness of the silver I cannot see, [which wm
^^ the pretence, that the shilling was less in quantity^] bdl
^^ ther^ is printed a fine sentence, [which was to mdtt
^^ amends for the smallness of it,] Timor Ikmimfim vite
^^ vel sapiefUicB.'^ Which was the motto of this ooin^
The King And when, to help the King^s necessities, certain taiil
hbsSii-"* were laid upon the subjects, they found out shifts to diesk
dies. the King, and to save their own purses : so that his taxes fiS

much of what was expected to be brought in. Abcmt the
year 1549, or 1550, there was a tax, that every mm should
pay the fifteenth part of his goods to the King. But wbea
the commissioners were sent abroad to take the yalue cf
every man'^s estate, each did exceedingly undervalue what
he was truly worth, and gave a false estimate. And he tlifll
was worth in cattle, com, sheep, and other goods, 100
marks, or lOOZ. would give himself in to be worth lOif. An-
other, that was worth SOOZ. besides money and plate, and
married his daughter^ and gave with her 400 or 500 marks,
yet at the valuation was set but at 20Z. Which, it seems,
was an old trick. For in the Cardinal'^s time, for the pre-
venting of it, men were put to their oaths, to swear what
Latymer*s they were worth. " O Lord,'' saith Latymer, " what per-
^!im^rd! " J^^ ^^ ^ England by that swearing ! For, doubtless,
" many one wittingly and willingly forsware themselves al
" that time. Which course that father therefore CBlled t
" sore ihinffj and would not wish to be followed." He kne^
it would tend more to the King's advantage, and to tlu
safety of his subjects, to make them honest and true, thai
to administer to them an oath:

or KDI& EBiTASD VI. 153

Bribery wai iloi ^aj £&. ^sck 5x £ccleaastkal bene^ CHAP,
fioes, and crril oAsb ani wass^ Hissj zfedeed ^^rould seem ^^^^'

toicAiae an- gifis^ lAen biwuiLai: ^jf d)^: but some that Anno i663.

me depgndama wodii jsbbb:^ c&m mdilr enough, for ""^'''^-

dieir maataa use and astk. Ja^ees* vires would some-

tmes take farBieab Tltey aad jmjm? 4 wwMriiiM^ as La-

^fmer scried tfaeoL Sosk x mmm -vcnld sav. If tou come

to mj maater^ aid affer bob a yoke of oxen, you shall

: fnd nevo' the wmul; fao. I iIdsIl. sit master will take

\ >one. Wktm dbe pKtr kad oftrad nmednng to the mas-

I Iff, and lie duakil a» cdke is. di^ caaae another servant,

ttd Hidi, If joK wil bnnp k id ifae dcik of the kitchen,

TondHdl be iiaiMl 1 d^ bcner. Wbicli was like the

fiian Ofaaer^anc, Am wmld be seen to recare no bribes

1 odken 10 more them tar them.
Coon ihnr took bribes: in the coimtnr AbwoL
uMy oppvesaed tlie poor, by sriang thcsr rents;, taking
iBiiij even to fixvy per ccoL Lazidlonis tnmed glaziers
od boog^ Dp the gpaia 10 sdl dear j^^inst a hard time.
In the citj tlieT bought up wood and coals. Seme bur-
S^ses hwjune r^iraxon akow and some farmers regrated
and bought up all the com in the markets, and laid xi up in
stoe, to sell it again at a Inkier price, when ther saw their
tme. There wias a menJiaui thai had trareOed all the dars
of his fife in the trade of merdiaiidifie. and had got 500W.
or 400(NL by bayizi^ and selling : but in case he might hare
been licensed to praedoe regra&mg^ he nould undenake to
get lOOCV. a year, cmiIj by buying and selfing grain hen: 4^3
within the reahn. And in London tliere were some alder,
inen that became coBmct^ and woodmonger*. So that there
could not a poor body buy a sack of ooals. but it must
come through th^ hands. Which made our preacher b-jk;
to Kng Edward, that there might be prvmater^. Kudb hh
were ir King Henry^s days, to promote [that ik. infuriL
^^gsinst] the King'^s own officers, when they did amist : aiic
to promote all other offenders : such as reEl-raiber^. *y\JVir*r.^
*M^ of the poor, extortioners, fariberb. usure^^. Bu* ♦••

154

MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK
II.

Anno 1553.

Want of
discipline
the cause
of these
disorders.

These times
and the
former com-
pared.

would have them to be of godly discretion, wisdom, am
conscience.

One great reason of all these abuses, corruptions, m
gross impieties, that reigned now in the nation, was, th
neglect of ecclesiastical discipline : which the cburcbmei
either could not or would not execute against immoralitie!
The manners of men were very bad. And upon occasioi
of the sins of uncleanness, (for which the nation was ?er
infamous, and especially London, and such lechery as wa
used in none other places of the world, and yet made but
matter of sport,) hereupon good men wished that the law c
Moses might be brought into force, for the punishment c
this sin. And Latymer applied himself to the King, to n
store discipline unto the Church : " That such as were nouAl
offenders might be excommunicated, and put from tfa
congregation, till they be confounded. Which would b
*' a means, said he, to pacify God's wrath and indignatio
against us, and also that less abominations be practise
than in times past have been, and are at this day. Brin
*^ into the Church of England that open discipline of ea
" communi<:aii(my saith he, that open sinners may be stricke
" withal.""

And thus we have taken a sight how dissolute thes
times were. Not that these days of King Edward wer
worse than the former ; but that now, upon the light of tb
gospel, these wickednesses, that were not so much regarde
before, were now more observed. So the writer of th
epistle dedicatory to Erasmus'^s Paraphrase in English
** Because it is in so great a manner amended, look whei
*' such corruption still remaineth, there doth it better an
" more notably appear ; as strange things are common!
" more wondered at. For all good and godly folks do no
" wonder, that God^^s word being spread abroad, and beii
" now almost in every body'^s hand and mouth so commo
*' there should be any creature in whom any of the enom
" ties aforementioned should reign." For though the
times were bad, yet they were better than the times befoi

jii

OF KING EDWARD VI. 166

So the aforesaid writer concerning the beginning of King CHAP.
Edward^s reign : '* Of this young and green foundation, ^^^^'

" bdng yet very newly laid, thus much good edifying hath Anno i66s.

" already grown in all persons^ consciences, that blasphemy,

"perjury, theft, whoredom, making of affrays, and other

"abominations, are more detested than they were in the

" blind world, very late years gone.^ And again, " A great

" many diat have hated matrimony, and yet have not hated

"fornication, incest, advoutry, begin now to abhor and

" manifestly to fly these and other Uke pestilences, and ex-

" ercise the contraries.'"

The taxes that happened in this King^s reign, and mo^Taxet.
lues given him by Parhament, may not be improper to
be here set down, for the letting in some further light into
tbis history. And to do this, I shall but transcribe a brief
computation thereof, done to my hand by Sif Walter Ila-454

"In the second year of King Edward VI. the Parlia-Prerogatire
"ment gave the King an aid of twelve pence the pound, of^^^^J**"
'' goods of his natural subjects, and two shillings the pound
^ of strangers. And this to continue for three years. And
"by the statute of the second and third of Edward VI. it
" may appear, the same Parliament did also give a second
\ " aid, as followeth ; to wit, of every ewe, kept in several
; "pastures, three pence; of every wether, kept as afore-
[ " said, two pence ; of every sheep, kept in the common,
"three balance. The house gave the King also eight
" pence the pound, of every woollen cloth made for the sale
" throughout England, for three years. In the third and
" fourth of the King, by reason of the troublesome gather-
" ing of the pole-money upon sheep, and the tax upon
" doth, this act of subsidy was repealed, and other relief
" given the King. And in the seventh year he had a sul)-
*' sidy and two fifteenths.'"

I will add here, the sum of the charges of the King'K'j'iii» wkimii
Iwuaehold for one week, beginning Sunday, December ^9, ^mllhuUi
m the third year of his reign ; which were as follow : mhs. ^mw*

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II.

156 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

Anno 155S.

"Sunday, n

rl49 19 dd&i-

Monday,

131 1 Soi.}.

The charges

Tuesday,

129 8 10 06.

of the house- <<

Wednesday,

^were < 164 12 9 <*•

hold on

Thursday,

151 16 3

Friday,

196 17 6

.Saturday,

U49 11 0

Sum total 1003 2 11 o».

The charges of the household for one week, beginmug

Sunday, March 16, in the same third year of the King, were

as follow :

rSunday, ^ ^124 7 4

Monday,

117 19 Oj.

The charges

Tuesday,

112 0 6oi.

of the house- *<

Wednesday,

>were \ 114 19 3

hold on

Thursday,

117 19 11 oJ.

Friday,

118 18 4

.Saturday,

-122 1 7

Sum total 828 6 0 j.

I subjoin the expences of the King'^s household yearly,
which were as follow :

The last half year of*

King Henry VIII.
28080/. 14^. 2d. ob.
And the first half year
of King Edward VI.
21107Z. 4rf. 6d.

In all for
)^one whole <
year

49187 18 Sol

465

The second whole year of King
Edward'*s reign
The third year of his reign -
The fourth year of his reign -
The fifth year of his reign -
The sixth year of his reign

46902 7 3

46100 3 11 06. i-
100578 16 4o&.
62863 9 \ob.q-
65928 16 49.

OP KING EDWARD VI. 167

During these three last years of the King, his preroga- CHAP,
tire [of taking up proviaons, I suppose, at an easy rate] ^^ *

eased: which heightened the account of his household Anno 1 568,
xpences.

To fiU up this work, and for a conclusion of these histori-
il ooUectionB, as I have hitherto endeavoured to give some
aeoiint of ikmgi and matters remarkable, so I shall set be-
>re the reader the men^ whether in State or Church, of
lOst eminence for their honours, qualities, or trusts com-
lifted to them : and that under several distinct ranks and
rden, as follows.

CHAP. XXV.

yeations. The King's counsellors^ Courtiers cmd great

officers.

xHIS chapter shall shew what creations of noblemen hap-
meA in this rdgn, and give a catalogue of the names of the
^g^s counsellors, lords lieutenants of the counties, and
iBost of the chief officers of the household, or otherwise.

L For the creations of nobility by this King, I am be- Noblemen
bolden both to a manuscript of the right reverend father ^^'^^^ *
■fohn, late Lord Bishop of Ely, and likewise to the Office of
Keralds. The nobles created by him were seventeen.

Dukes.

1. Edward Seymour Earl of Hertford, and Viscount Beau-
4amp. Created Duke of Somerset, Feb. 12, 1646. And
^ issue Edward Earl of Hertford.

% Henry Grey Marquis of Dorset, Lord Ferrys of
Groby, Harrington, Bonvyle, and Aystley. Created Duke
rf Suffolk, October 11, 1651, He had Henry Lord Har-
Kington, who died without issue, and three daughters.

8. John Dudley Viscount Lysle, Baron of Scwnerye,
BlBset, and Teyes, and Lord Dudley. Created Duke of
Northumberland, Octob. 11, 1551. Earl of Warwick, Feb.
17) 1546. Then made High Cluunberlain of England.
Made Earl Marshal of England in the 5th of Edw. VI.

168 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK April SO. Hadissue Ambrose Earl of Warwick, and Hobo*!
'I* Earl of Leicester, and other sons. He bore a cresc^it foi

Anno 1558. distinction in his arms.

456 Marquisses.

4. William Far, Lord Par of Kendal, Marmyon, and
S. Quintin. Created Marquis of Northampton by Eiig;
Edward VI. Feb. 17, 1546. And Earl of Essex fay Emg
Henry VIII. And died without issue.

5. William Faulet Lord S. John of Banng. Created
Marquis of Winchester, Octob. 11, 1661. And Earl cf
Wilts, Jan. 19, 1549. And after made Lord Treasurer of
England. Bore a crescent in his coat for distinction. He
left issue John.

Earls.

6. Thomas Wriothesly. Created Earl of Southamptoo^
and Lord Wriothesly of Titchfield, Feb. 17, 154a, 01
whom descended Henry, his son, Earl of Southamptoii-
[Dugdale makes this, and the other creations about tUc
time, to be Feb. 16, that is, three days before the coronal
tion : which yet happened Feb. 20.]

7. John Russel Lord Russel. Created Earl of 6edf(»d:
Jan. 19, 1549. And after made Lord Privy Seal. Hat
issue Francis Earl of Bedford.

8. William Herbert Created Baron Herbert of Cardiff
October 10, 1551, and the next day Earl of Pembndbe
Father to Henry Earl of Pembroke.

Viscounts.

9. Walter Devoreux, Lord Ferris of Chartley. Createi
Viscount Hereford, Feb. 2, 1649. Of whom descendei
Walter Devoreux Viscount Hereford, his grandson, by Si
Richard Devoreux, his son.

Baeons.

10. Gregory Cromwel, son of Thomas Cromwel Earl o
Essex, was created Lord Cromwel of Okeham. And ham
issue, the Lord Cromwel. [This is an error: for thi
creation happened not in this reign, but Dec 18, 87 0
Hen. VIII. This Lord Cromwel died 5 Edw. VL]

11. Thomas Seymour, brother to Edward Duke of Sc

OF KING EDWARD VI.

169

meraet, was created Lord Seymour of Sudley, Feb. 17, CHAP.
1546. And made Lord Admiral. And died without V

IKUe. Anno 1553.

IS. lUchard Rich, created Lord Rich of Lighes, Feb.
17, 1546. And had issue, Richard [Robert, according to
Sugdale] Lord Rich.

18. William Willoughby, heir male to the Lord Wil-
loughby of Eresby. [Mistaken: in truth heir male to Sir
Qnifltopher Willoughby.] Created Lord Willoughby of
Ptrham, Feb. 17, 1546. And had issue, Charles Lord
ITilloughby.

16. Edmund Sheffield, created Lord Sheffield of Butter-
wkk, Feb. 17, 1546. John Lord Sheffield, his son and
heir.

15. William Paget, called by writ to the Lords house,
Deoeinb. 8. Created Lord Paget of Beaudesert, Jan. 19,
IMS. And knight of the most noble order of the Garter.

I Who had issue, Henry Lord Paget, that died without
iwie.

16. Thomas Dajrcy, created April 6, 1551. Lord Darcy 45/
rf Chich, and knight of the noble order of the Garter.
Rtther to John Lord Darcy.

17. Ogle, created Lord Ogle. [This is erroneous :

ftr his creation was in the reign of Edward IV. not of £d-
wdVL]

II. The names of King Edward's Council, upon his first
•ccess to the crown, to assist the Protector, were as follow :

Thomas Cranmer, arch- great chamberlain of £ng-

['ttiop of Canterbury.

William Lord Saint John,
great master of the King's
'hoindiold and president of
fte Council.,

John Lord Russel, keeper
rf the privy seal.

William Marquis of North-
■qploii.

John Earl of Warwick,

land.

Henry Earl of Arundel,
lord chamberlain.

Thomas Lord Seymour of
Sudley, high admiral of
England.

Cutbert, bishop of Dur-
ham.

Richard Lord Rich.

Sir Thomas Cheyney,

160 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK knight of the order, tresUiur-
''' er of the household.
/LnDo 1653. Sir John Gate, knight of
the order, comptroller of the
household.

Sir Anthony Browne,
knight of the order, master
of the hoi*ses.

Sir Anthony Wyngfield,
knight of the order, vice-
chamberlain.

Sir William Paget, knight
of the order, chief secretary.

Sir William Petre, one of
the two principal secreta^-
lies.

Sir Ralph Sadle)rr, mas-
ter of the great wardrobe.

Sir John Baker, of the
Augmentation Office.

Dr. Wotton, dean of
Canterbury and York.

Sir Anthony Denny, geft-
tleman of the prhry chamber.

Sir William Herbot^ga^
tleman of the privy chambfld

Sir Edward North, dian-
cellor of the courts of Ang-
mten^ticms, and Revennesof
the crown.

Sir Edward Montague^
diief justice of the CoolkBon
Pleas.

Sir Edward Wotton.

Sir Edmund PeckhflO,
cofferer of the household.

Sir Thomas Bromdy, one
of the justices of the Common
Pleas.

Sir Richard SouthweL

The names of the privy counsellors anno 1662 were as

follow :

Thomas Archbishop of
Canterbury.

Thomas Bishop of Ely,
lord chancellor.

The Lord Treasurer, Mar-
quis of Winchester.

The Duke of Northum-
berland.

Lord Privy Seal, Earl of
Bedford.

The Duke of Suffolk.

The Marquis of North-
ampton.

The Earl of Shrewsbury.

The Earl of Westmerland.

The Earl of Huntingdon.

The Earl of Pembroke.

Viscount Hereford.

Lord Admiral, Lord Clin-
ton.

Lord Chamberlain, Lorf
Darcy.

Lord Cobham.

Lord Rich.

Mr. Comptroller, Sir An-
thony Wyngfield.

Mr. treasurer, Sir Tho-
mas Cheyne.

Mr. Vice-chamberlain, Sr
John Gates.

Mr. Secretary Petre.

Mr. Secretary Cecyl:

OF KING EDWAKD VI.

lilip Hoby.

)bert Bowes.

•hn Gage, constable

owcr.

hn Mason, secretary

'rend) tongue.

tlph Sadleir.

lor of the court of Augmen- _
tations.

Judge Bromely.

Judge Mountague. 4SS

Dr. Wotton.

Mr. North.

bat f<^ow were King Edward's Council in the

north.
is £arl of Shrews- Henry Savyle, knt.
d president. Bobert Bowes, knt

Earl of Westmer- Nicolas Fairfax, knt.

Geoi^ Conyers, knt.
Earl of Cumber- Leonard Beckwith, knt.

William Babthorp, knt.
ert, bishop of Dur- Anthony Nevyl, knt.

Thomas Gargrave, knt
m Lord Dacres of Robert Mennel, sergeant
I. at law.

Liord Conyers. Anthony Bellasis, esq.

IS Lord Wharton. John Rokeby, doctor of

lind, knt. one of his law.
3 justices of the Com- Robert Chaloner, esq.
la. Richard Norton, esq.

nd Molineux, knt. Thomas Eymis, esq. secre-
at law. tary.

sident and Countnl in the marches of Wales, by a
saon from the King, anno 1551, were as follow:

illiam Herbert, pre-

Jarl of Worcester,
r Viscount Here-

t Bishop of St.

fd Lord Fowis.

. 11. PART 11. - M

Sir Robert Townsend.
Sir Thomas Bromely.
Sir John Facktngton.
Sir John Savage.
Sir Richard Cotton.
Sir Anthony Kingston.
Sir John Setlow.
Sir GtHJige H<

162

MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

II.

BOOK Sir Richard Mauxd.
. Sir ThoDiafl Johns.
Sir Walter Denys.
Sir Edward Came.
Sir Roland HiU.
Sir James Croft.
Sir Robert Acton.
Sir Nicolas Arnold.
Sir John Price.

Sir Adam Mitton.
Griffith Leyson.
John Pollard.
Matthew Herbert
John Skidmore.
Richard Hussal.
William Shelden
John Basset.
John Throgmerton.

Lords jiw- IIL These were the King^s justices commissioiM

lords liea- May, 1652, and lords lieutenants of the counties ; who

the^wmn/ ^ inquire of all treasons, misprisions of treasons, insi

ties. tions, rebellions, unlawful assemblies, and conventicles

lawful speaking of words, confederacies, conspiracies,

allegations, contempts, falsehood, negligences, coi

ments, oppressions, riots, routs, murders, felonies, ax

other evil doings. And to appoint certain days and ]

for inquiry thereof: and to be the King^s lieutenaU

levying of men, and to fight agsdnst the King'^s enemie

459 rebels, and to execute upon them the marshal law ; and

due all invasions, insurrections, &c. as should chance

moved in any place ; as it ran in their commissions :

The Duke of Northumberlana, for the counties of
thumberland, Cumberland, Newcastle upon Tine, and
wick.

The Earl of Bedford, for Dorset, Somerset, Devon
Comwal.

The Earl of Sussex, Lord Dudley, Sir William Fen
and Sir John Robsert, for Norfolk.

The Earl of Shrewsbury, for Yorkshire and the c:
York.

The Lord Darcy, the Lord Wentworth, and Sir Ant
Wyngfield, for Suffolk.

The Duke of Northumberland and Viscount Her<
for Staffordshire.

The Earl of Darby, for Lancashire.

The Lord Chancellor, for the Isle of Ely.

OF KING EDWARD VL Itt

td Marquis of Northampton, tar die counties of CHAP.

ton^ Bedford, Surrey, Hertford, Cambridge,,

1 Oxon.

Ktd Treasurer, for Southampton and the Isle of

>rd Clinton, for Lincohidiire.

irl of Oxford, Lord Dwrcy, Lord Ridi, and 8v

«, for Essex.

rl of Westmerland, for the Insho^Hric of Durham.

ike of Northumberland and £arl of Warwick, for

« ■

rl of Pembroke, for Wilts.

ert Bowes, £Dr Middlesex.

ke of Suffolk, for Leicester.

rl of Huntingdon, for Darby and Rutland.

rd Warden, for Kent and Canterbury.

rl of Rutland, for Nottingham.

lert Tyrwit and Thomas Audley, esq. for Hun-

rd Russel, for Bucks.

rd La Ware, for Sussex.

rl of Cumberland, for Westmerland.

1 of Pembroke, for Wales, and the marches thereof.

persons in place and office, and chief about the
e were the most eminent :

k, bishop of Ely, chamberlain of the house-
ellor. hfAd.

ifarquis of Win- Lord Clinton, lard high
Mrd high treasur- -admiral of England.

The Earl of Warwick,
rl of Bedford, lord master of the King^s horses.

uke of Northum- SurAnth.Wyng-

)rd great master. field,

Marquis of Nortli- Sir Richard Cot-

ird high chamber- ton,

dand.

UK^of Chiche, lord Sir John Gates, viee^^am-

M Je

09 no

OB 4^ JQ

MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK berlain and chancellor of the
' d uchy .

Sir John Williams, master
of the jewel-house.
460 The Lord Strange, '
Sir Philip Hoby,
Sir ThomaaWroth ,
Sir Nic. Thr<^mor-

ton,
Bamaby Fitz-Pa^

trie,
Sir John Cheke,
Sir Robert Dudley,
Sir Henry Nevyl,
Sir Henry Gates,
Sir Henry Sidney,
SirWilliamStanley,
And some others,

Sir Ralph Sadleyr, master
of the wardrobe.

Sir William Cavendish,
treasurer of the chamber.

SirW.Petre, "1 P'^P'

SirW.Cecyl, j'^"^
■' ■'of state.

Sir John Mason, set^etn;
for the French tongue.

Sir Greoi^ Howard, mu-
ter of the Eing''s henchmok

Sir John Gage, constable '
of the Tower.

Sir James Croft, itxA de-
puty of Ireland.
RichardCecyl, 1^^^

Rob.Robotham, f"™?,
Jthemba

SirThomas Chaloner, -j jj

Bernard Hampton, f^d

Armapl Waad, > ■ I

William Thomas, l|o

William Honnins, ■''**

Cutbert Vaughan, eai.

master of the King's bears,

bulls, and dogs.

V. The names of the high sheriffs of Essex and Hertforf-
shire were these :

(1. Edward Brocket of
Hatfield, esq.
2. JohnCockof Brokes-
bum, esq.
3. Sir John Gates of
Chesthunt, knt.

14. Sir Greorge NMton,
knt.
5. Sir Henry Tyrrel d
Heron, knt.
6. Sir ITiomasPoperf
Tittenhanger, knt

VI. The names of the King's chief captains and head
officers in Cal^ and Guisnes, and the marches thereof in
the latter end of his r«gn, were these :

The Lord William Howard, The Lord Grey, Sir An-
thony Aucher, Sir Raynuld Scot, Sir Maurice Denys, John
Harleston, George Brown, Edward Griraston^ Sir Thomtf
Cotton, Nicolas Alexander, Eustace Alungdcn.

OF KING EDWARD VI.

CHAP. XXVI.

'alogtie of the Bishops in this Kittys reign ; with re-
marks upon them.

D as these were the chief of quality and honour among
ity, so for those of that 6gure among the spiritualty,
U offer here the names of the several archbishops and
X that governed the respective sees under this Xing,
lom were not above half a score that heartily favoured
jrthered the reformation of religion.

Abchbishops.
mmer. A privy cougsellor : memoiiaJs of whom were CMtterburr.
years ago published. To hira the Church of England

her excellent reformation. He was a married man :
ft a son, of his own name ; who was restored in blood
I fifth of Queen Elizabeth. This Archbishop was
red by fire at Oxford, under Queen Mary.
}gtde. A favourer of the Reformation. The only York,
ly prelate in this reign; and a married man. He
ased of the King the manor of Scrowby in NotUng-
lire; and, after his own and his wife's death, laid it to
rchbishopric of York. Upon the coming of Queen

to the crown, he was cast into the Tower; spoiled of
reasure, plate, and jewels, and household-stuff, at his
9 at Cawood, and at Battersea in Surrey, and other
, where he sometimes readed.

Bishops.
ler. He was deposed under King Edward's reign ; London,
stored under Queen Mary, by sentence of Dr. John
inwel. Commonly called bloody Boner, for his popish
a sentendng so many professors of the gospel to the ,

. He was deprived ag^n under Queen Elizabeth;
mained excommunicate several years before his d
ised to be base son of one Savage, i

Marshalsea.

la/. , He succeeded, upmi the deprivat
u3

106 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK A great instrument and assistant to Cranmer in the refor-
^^ mation of this Church. Very learned and pious. He was
chaplain to King Henry VIII. before whom he once
preached a notable sermon, at the marriage of the Lady
Clynton to Sir Anthony Browne, master of the horse to that
King. He was martyred by fire imder Queen Mary : aod
died unmarried.
Wiocbetter. Gardiner > Deprived imder this King, and laid in Ibt
Tower. But under Queen Mary restored, and advanoed to
be \(xA chancellor of England. He was chancellor also A
the University of Cambridge, and master of Trinity hdl
there : which place he held to his death. He is supposed
to be the base son of Woodvile, bishop of Salifibuiy. Bui
462 he gave the coat of the Gardiners of Glemsford, near Ips*
urich in Suffolk ; which was, azure, a cross, cn*, charged ifA
a cinquefcnl, gules, pierced ; or rather, a roae, (which, 1
sufqx)se, was an addition granted him by the King,) be
tween four griffins^ heads erazed, argait, languid, gules : «
I observed from an ancient picture of diis prelate^s, in th^
possession of my worthy friend. Sir Richard Gibbs, of Whet
bam in Suffolk, knt Upon the frame is writ his motto
Vana solus hommis. When that jHcture was taken of him
he was fifty-three years of age. He is represented with
surplice close at the wrists, and a scarf over it, a square ci^
on his head, a book in his hand, two great stoned rings iqioa
his two forefingers, the one a ruby, and the other a siqc
phire, and another small ring upon the little finger of hi
left hand. A severe black visage shaven close, and his eye
brows somewhat hanging over his eyes.

Ponet. Upon Gardiner^s deprivation, he succeeded. H<
bid been Archlxshop Cranmer^s chaplain. He had SOOI
marks a year settled upon him : the rest of the tempocaltie
of this rich bishopric was taken into the King's hands ; wbi
bestowed most of the good manors and lands thereof upa
several of his courtiers. This Bishop was one of that ordi
in this reign that cordially favoured religion, and was a
exile under Queen Mary. Bale, the antiquary, and Gooc

OF KING EDWARD VI. 167

•ere, were at one time this Bishop's chaplains, and went both CHAP,
together into Ireland, one to be Bishop of Ossory, and the ^""''
other Archbishop of Armagh.

Tonstal. A privy couasellor, and long experienced inDorham.
matters of state. He went along with the Reformation for
ume years, till at length he was l^d in the Tower for mis-
prisiDii of treason, in concealing a conspiracy in the north,
■nd was deprived. He was base bom. Restored by Queen
Mary; and died a very aged man, about a year after Queen
Eliabeth's access to the crown. He wrote a book De Fm-
We Corporii et Smigvmia Domini nastri in Euckaristia,
ffl the year 1S61 : and was then seventy-seven years of age.
Aichtishop Parker buried him in Lambeth church, with the
reject due to his character.

■ Bom. Dean of Durham, had the grant of this bi-
dupnc, but enjoyed it not, having no mind to it, Tonstal
bang alive. It was soon after, by some resolves of Coundl,
oindTed by act of Parliament. Upon a design of founding
It anew, Ridley, bbhop of London, was nominated to it;
bat it went no further.

Goodricte. A privy counsellor : he was advanced to be Eijr.

W diaocellor, after the resignation of the Lord Rich.

I Noted for bis impartial distribution of justice : gende to his

\ oemiea, but somewhat too harsh to his ^ends and depend-

«ls. Under him the Reformation succeeded well. He was

employed much by King Henry and King Edward, in em-

biaaes and matters of state. He was the son of Edward

[ Goodiick, of Kirby in Lincolnshire, by JaJie his wife,

' daughter and heir of Williamson, of Boston in the same

CDun^ : and gave for his coat, argent, on a fesse, gules,

between two lions passant giu^nt, sable, a flower de lys of

tbe first, between two crescents, or.

Hdlbech. A true favourer of the goqiei, and made much Lincoln,
lue 1^ in the reforming and settling of tJieCbiiT^h. He was
called sometimes Henry Rands, of Holbech in Lincolnshire.^
He had been lord prior of Worcester, and upon (
establishment of the cathedral chundies, was mai
deao t£ Worcester. He was married, and^
h4

168

MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

II.

Coventry
and Litch-
field.

BOOK Thomas. Thirty-four rich manors, beloD^g to tUs see of
Lincoln, were alienated in his time, though not by his fiuiit
The sons of Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, were for some time
educated under him at Bugden, and both died there of the
sweating nckness.

Taylor. A true well-wilier to the Reformation. For-
merly incumbent of St. Peter'*s, Comhill, in London ; more
lately, master of St. John^^s college in Cambridge, and deal
of Lincoln: succeeding Holbech in the year 155S. Hewn
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
Smithes house there, formerly a nunnery : for he and the
Bishop seem to have been old acquaintance at Cambridge. .

Sampson. He was bred in St. Clement's bostle. Cam- -
bridge. Though a Papist, yet he complied so far, that he
continued bishop throughout Sling Edward''s reign. In
the year 1551 he was appointed one of the commissioDeif
for the limits of Scotland : and died under Queen Marys
anno 1554.
Salisbury. Solcot^ alias Capon. A Papist, but made a shift toke^
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.

Knight Employed much in embassies by King Henry.
His house, by some exchange, was the nunnery without Aid-
gate, called Tfie Minories: in a chapel whereof he was
consecrated.

Barlow. A married man, and real friend to the Reforma-
tion. He made some compliance in the beginning of Que^
Mary, to save his life. Afterwards got beyond sea; and re-
turned upon Queen Elizabethans access to the crown; and
was then made bishop of Hereford. He left several dau§^
ters, all married to bishops.

Voysey^ or Veysy^ alias Harman. He was governor to
the Lady Mary, when shef had the title of Princess of Wales,
and kept a great court. He was a brave courtly prelate,

]

Bath and
Well».

Exeter.

OF KING EDWARD VI. 169

3>iit made great spoil of the bishopric, by selling away many C HA P.
ordships and seats from it. He, upon persuasion, and some ^^^^'
igodi terms made for himself, resigned: but took his In-
ihopric again under Queen Mary. He sold the manor and
t>urge of Paington in Devon, and other lands and tene-
ooents, unto Sir Thomas Speke, knt. by indenture bearing
iate December ^1, 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 purchase to him, with a re-
lease of all the Emg's right thereto. The Earl of Bedford
abo, 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 sidd 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
Aereof; which, I suppose, must be imderstood of his pro-
Bnse to surrender.

Cffverdale. He lived long in Germany and Denmark ; ^g^
where he had a benefice, and married a sober woman, named
Bfizaheth, bom in those parts. A grave, reverend, good
nan, and a serious promoter of the reformation of this
Church. He lived in exile under Queen Mary ; returned
home in Queen Elizabeths 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
jwverty 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
rf Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Eai-1 of Leicester,
tnd the Secretary of State. He was a diligent corrector of
he English Bible after Tindal ; which is commonly called
]!overdale^s translation.

170 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

fiOOK Rugge^ alias Reps, He had his name oS, Reps frooi
^^' denomiiiarion of the town where he was bom, ch: wha

Norwich. &ther lived, mz. North Reps in Norfolk. He was abb
St. Benedict de Hukno.

Thvrleby, He was of Trinity hall in Cambridge,
kept under fiilney^s chamber : being then a scholar, he
often to play upon his recorder, for his diversion : and
good Bilney would go to his prayers. He was often
abroad, as ambassador, by King Henry ; who first pref
him to be bishop of Westminster. He was dean a
chapel to King Edward, and by him sent to the £m{
He became bishop of Ely under Queen Mary : and i
Queen Elizabeth was deprived; but lived and died,
much freedom and good usage, with Archbishop Pai
who gave him honourable burial in Lambeth diurch.

Worcester. Hethe. He was deprived in the year 1550, b^g o
age of forty-nine years. After his deprivation he lived
Ridley, bishop of London, during the reign of Kinj
ward : and under Queen Mary was advanced to be
bishop of York, and lord chancellor of England. Dep
again under Queen Elizabeth, and lived many years in
plenty and freedom at his manor of Cobham in Surrey
Hoper. Once a monk at Glocester. He lived loi
Germany, especially in Switzerland, where he became
known to Bullinger. Under King Edward he returnee
England, and was chaplain to the Duke of Somerset, \
great preacher in and about London. He married i
creet woman of the Low Countries, and had by her sc
children. A zealous favourer of pure religion : and foi
cause martyred under Queen Mary very cruelly.

Glocester. WaTcemo/n. He was the last abbot of Teuxbury, an
first bishop of Glocester.

Hoper. In the year 1552, this diocese of Glocestei
that of Worcester were united into one, by the King^
tents; and from thenceforth to be taken and repute
one. And Hoper was constituted the first bishop c
diocese of Worcester and Glocester.

OF KING EDWARD VI. 171

Skjip. He was once chaplain to Queen Anne Bolen, and CHAP.
her almoner. A forward man once for reli^on. He made 1

tway, by a long lease of two hundred years, his London Hereford,
house or inn, belon^g to the bishops of Hereford, situate
in the parish of St. Mary Mounthaw, or Mounthault, to the
Lord Clinton, lord admiral.

Harley. An hearty friend to the Reformation. Dr. 465
liurmce Humfrey, president of Magdalen, and the King^s
professor in divinity, was his scholar in Magdalen college,
OnxL In Queen Mary'^s reign, he instructed his flock in
voods and secret places, and administered the sacrament ac-
coding to the order of the English book ; lurking up and
doiwn in the naticm ; and died in the hard reign of the said
Queoi: yet living to the last year of her reign. Therefore
it is an error in Mason^s book, where he saith, that Harley De MiDist.
muted at the consecration of Bishop Grindal. It is an^'^^^*
9Rar also, that he makes those that assisted Archbishop
Cnuuner, at the consecration of Harley, to be the suffragan ibid.
ofSydon, and Tayler, bishop of Lincoln, when indeed nei-
Aer of them did, but Nicolas, bishop of London, and
Bobert, bidiop of Carlisle, as may appear by the Arch-
WAop'. register.

Iksy. He complied for some years with King Edward^s Chichester.
pnwsedings : but afterwards, for refusing to take down the
4ltan in his diocese, he was deprived ; yet restored under
Qoeen Mary, b^ng a zealous Papist. He told Bradford in
prifion, who had charged him with departing from the re-
finned 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-
sioiierB fxx trying, judging, and sentencing the Protestant
divines, and other professors of religion.

Scory. An hearty embracer and furtherer of reUgion :
he had been Archbishop Cranmer^s chaplain, and one of
the six preachers in Canterbury. A married miin. He
BUide some compUances under Queen Mary ; but
fled abroad, and was an exile, till he returned under

17a MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK Elizabeth, and was placed by her, not in Chidiester agnn,
' but over the diocese of Hereford.

Rochester. Ridley. '\ Afterwards translated to other dioceses, u
Poynet, > above is shewn; and the diocese renudned
Scon/. J void for near two years.

Oxford. King. He was first a monk of Rewly, or Royal-lieu, netr

Oxford ; then abbot of Bruem in Oxfordshire ; after abbot
of Thame ; and lastly, abbot of Oseney : who surrendering
those reli^ous houses, or some of them, to King Henrj
VIII. was rewarded by being constituted the first bishqp d
Oxford, having been suf&agan 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.

Peterbargh. Chombre. There were two John Chambres, contemn
porary, and both eminent, and in holy orders ; one a doctor
of physic, bred in Merton college, Oxon, where he was sue-'
cessively fellow and warden, and one of King Hcawy's
physicians in ordinary, and that signed a letter, with fitfe
others of the said King's physicians, writ to the Coundl,
concerning the dangerous condition of Queen Jane, after the
• birth of Prince Edward ; there styling himself ^?ri^^. He
was dean of St. Stephen'^s, Westminster, archdeacon of
Bedford, and one of the famous convocation, anno 153^
when the Articles of Religion were framed, and then signed
himself Johcmnes Chambre Divi Stephani DecanuSy et Bed-
Jbrd. Arch. He died 1549. The other John Chambre WM
bachelor in divinity, a Benedictine monk, bred up chiefly in
466 Cambridge ; after made abbot of Peterburgh ; and having
resigned the said abbey to the King, he was constituted the
first bishop thereof: and died 1556. It was Grodwin's error,
(and an easy error it was,) to confound both these Cham^
bres, supposing them to be one and the same person : whidi
Mr. Anthony k Wood hath taken notice of.

Bristol. Bush. This man also was governor of a religious bouse,

and provincial of the order of religious men, called jffofi-
homines^ and well skilled in physic, as well as divinity ; and

OF KING EDWARD VI. 178

wrote learned booka. He was married, and therefore de- CHAP.
[Hived 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-
sIk^c, in exchange with the King ; namely, the manor of
U^ : which one Norton coveted, and obtained.

JJdrich. A man of good learning. A complier through- Carlisle,
^t this reign, though not well affected to the Reformation.

Bird. About the year 1530 this man was sent to Bilney, Chester,
thai in prison, to confer and argue with him. He was then
pvovindal of the White Friars ; and then, or after, a suffira-
gui in Coventry, where he was bom ; 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
Dumnow in Essex.

Barlow. Of him somewhat before was said. He was the st. David's.
Cng^s chaplain. When Stephen Gardiner, in the year 1528,
AeQ the Eing^s secretary, commonly called Dr. Stephens,
Wtt ambassador at Rome with the Pope, the King des-
pitched this Barlow, then a canon of St. Osyth^s in £ssex,
fith letters to him. . He was preferred to the priory of
Haverford West by Queen Anne Bolen. When he was
IMiop of St. David's, in the year 1637, he laboured with
the Lord Cromwel, for the translation of the see to Carmar-
then, and the disposing of Aberguilly college to Brecknock,
die principal towns of South Wales; whereby provision being
niadefor learning and knowledge in the Scriptures, the Welsh
rudeness might have been framed into English civility,
tnd their gross superstitions in religious worship rectified
tnd reformed. He wrote several books against Popery : as,
t treatise of the Burial of the Mass ; a Diahgue between
Ae Gentleman and the Countryman ; the Climbing up of
Friers, and Religious Persons, pourtrayed, with figures;
I Description of GocCs Word, compared to the light : also a
Dialogue, inveighing especially against St. Thomas of Can-
letbiiry ; but this was never printed.

Ferrar. A real professor, and friend to the Reformation,

174 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK once a chfiplain to the Duke of Som^set. He ww ooe d
^^' the King's viators in the first year of his reign, and ow of
the preachers in that visitation. A married man. \JviuBpffj
in the contest some of his church raised against him, Av
their own ends, to stop his episcopal visitation of thaH!
whereby he was the less able to take care of eollectu^ nl
returning of the tenths of his clergy ; and so was cast into
prison by the Council for the Eing^s debt. And under Qtieefl
Mary, who found him in the Tower, martyred in the flamei)
for adhering to the gospel. He left children.
4Q*j Kitchin, alias Ihsngtan. This man, aoomxiing to tin

Landaff. practice of several others of the pojnshly aflfected bishepl
under King Edward, made a grievous ¥ra6te and i^xmI of I ,
very wealthy Inshojuic. He was the only bishop under
Queen Mary that continued in his bishopric, and O0m|^
with the changes under Queen Elizabeth.

Bangor. BuOcley. He sat bishop from the year 1541 to the jett

1555, that is, in three princes reigns. He was blind soni
time before his death : being suddenly struck with IXaA
ness, as though it had been some judgment upon him tot
sacril^e.

St. Asaph. Parfew^ alias WarUm, Well affected to Popery. Qw
abbot of fiermondsey in South wark. He made a spcnl of Ui
bishopric by long leases. Under Queen Mary he was tnms-
lated to the see of Hereford.

CHAP. XXVIL

A catalogue of divers Utters^ orders of Council^ commk'
sums J Sfc. sent and given out in this reign : collected ani
preserved by John Fox.

Jl or the conclusion of these collections of this reign, to kt
in some further sure light thereinto, spedally as to the ecdfr*
siastical state thereof, and to make up any defects in some of
the foregoing relations, I shall here subjoin a catalcgoe of
letters, orders of Council, commis^ons, and other authentic

OP KING EDWARD VT. 175

xi«d« of tbiB time, exemplified by Fax in his ninth book CHAP.
Acts and Monuments* Fox is the storehouse, I am only 1

e index, to point thereunto.

I. A letter missive of Boner, bishop of London, to the
ishop of Westminster, for the tenor of the Archbishop^s
Iter, for aboUshing of candles, ashes, pahns, and other ce-
»mu68. Dated Jan. S3, 1 548.

S. A letter of the Council, sent to the Archbishop of
anterbury, for abolishing images. Dated Feb. 11, 1548.

5. Boner^ biaiiop of London, his letter sent with the
uchlnshop^s mandate to the Bishop of Westminster, for
htlnhtng images. Dated Feb. SO, 1548.

4. Letters misdve from the Council to the bishops of
le land, concerning the communion to be ministered in
oA kinds. Dated March 13, 1548.

6. A letter directed from the King^s Council to Boner,
Uiop of London, for abrogating private masses, namely,
he Apostles^ mass, within the church of St. Paulas, used
mder the name of the Apostles^ communion. Dated June
M,1649.

6. A letter of the said Bishop to the dean and canons 46*8
^entiaries, prebendaries, sub-dean, and ministers of the
•Boe diurch, to the same import. Dated June S6, 1549.

T. The Lord Chancellor Riches speech in the Star-cham-
ber, to the justices of the peace, for the advancement and
setting forward of the King^s godly proceedings.

& A letter from the King and Council to Boner, bishop
3f London, partly rebuking him of negligence, and partly
ivgmg him, to see to the better setting out of the Service-
Book within his diocese. Dated July S3, 1549.

ft. Bishop Boner's letter to the Dean and Chapter of St.
W's, in pursuance of the letter abovesaid. Dated July

4^1549.

10. Certain private injunctions and articles, in number
tf given Aug. 11, 1549, to Bishop Boner by the Council,
be followed and observed by him.

II. The articles of the commons of Devonshire and Com-
il, wnt to the King, anno 1549.

176 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK 18. A message sent by the Kings's Majesty to obtain ^
■ the people assembled in Devonshire. Given at Bidunott

July 8, in the third of his reign.

IS. The Council to Sir Anthony Cook, and the rest o
the commissioners for the visitation at London, conoenubf
Bishop Boner^s recantation, made before them, of his pi^
testation at the receiving of the injunctions and haaSaa,
Dated Sept. 12, 1647.

14. The form of Boner^'s recantation.

15. The copy of the King''s commission sent down fir
the examination of Boner, Sept 8, 1549*

16. The tenor and form of Boner^s protestation, exhiUtod
to tiie King^s commissioners at his first appearing.

17. A certain declaration or interpretation of the IjDg}
touching certain points and doubts in his former connoii*
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 Thomai
Smith.

19. The first appellation intimated by Boner, Inshopof
London.

20. The second recusation made by the said bishop.

21. Bishop. Boner^s letter to the Lord Mayor and Alder-
men of London, charging them not to be abused with
naughty preachers at PauPs. Dated Sept. 16, 1549.

22. Boner^s declaration before the commissioners.

23. His supplication to the Lord Chancellor of En^and,
with the rest of the Privy Council, from the Marshabe^y
complaining of his imprisonment by the commisdooei^
Dated October 7, 1549.

24. Sententia deprivationis lata contra Eadmund. Loi^
don. Episcopum.

25. Boner^s appeal in words from the sentence defimtive.

26. Boner^s supplication to the Lord Chancellor, and ^
rest of the Council, complaining of the commisoonefi*
Dated October 26, 1549.

27. The heads of another supplication to the King fioa
the said Boner, desiring his Majesty'^s letter of stiper^edttiii

OF KING EDWARD VL 177

guodst the caHunianoners ; and that the matter might be CHAP.
e«rd before the Council. J^^^"'

S8. The King and Council^s letter to Nicolas, bishop of 469
UmmIod, for taking down of altars in churches. Dated
Nov. S\ 1550. With certain reasfcms why the L<»rd''s board
should rather be ajpter the form of a table, than of an altar.

80. The Lady Mary to the Protector, and the rest of
the Council, concerning her confonoitj to the King^s jnto-
oeedings. Dated June S2, 1549.

. M. A remembrance of certain matters appointed by the
Council to be declared by Dr. Hopjton to the Lady Mary\
Cnipe, for answer to her former letter. Dated June 14,
[S4,] 1549.

$1. The Lady Mary to the Liord Protect^nr, and the rest
Mthe Council. Dated June 37, 1549.

St The 3EQng'8 Majesty^s letter to the Lady Mary.
Bated Jan. 24, 1550.

88. The Lady Mary to the King^s most excellent Ma-
pty. Dated Feb. 3.

. 84. The Lady Mary to the Lords of the Council, Dec.
4, 1560.

35. The Council to the Lady Mary, Dec. 25.

86. The Lady Mary to the Lords of the Council, May
S,1561.

37. The Council to the Lady Mary, May 6, 1551.

38. The Lady Mary to the CouncU, May 11.

80. The CouncU to the Lady 3f ary, May 27, 1551.

40. The Lady Mary to the L<M*ds of the Council, June
fl,1561.

tt. The Council to the Lady Mary, June 24, 1551.

42. The Lady Mary to the King^s Majesty, Aug. 19.

48. The King to the Lady Mary, Aug. 24.

44^ The King^s Majesty^s instructions concerning their
iiessage to the Lady Mary, given to the Lord Chancellor,
Sir Anthony Wyngfield, and Sir William Petre, Aug. 24.

45. A writ or evidence touching the ord^ and manner of
the misdemeanour of Stephen, bishop of Winchester, witli
dedaration of the faults wherewith he was justly charged.

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178 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK 46. A letter of the Bishop of Winchester to Mr. Vaugl
of Portsmouth, concerning pulling down certain images

that town. Dated May 3, 1647.

47. Divers letters of the Protector to that Bishop, a
of that Bishop to the Protector, dated from South wark a
Winchester, 1647.

48. The Bishop of Winchester to Ridley, contidni
matter and objections against a certain sermon of his, ma
at Court.

49. The tenor and copy of a letter sent from the Dn
of Somerset to the Bishop of Winchester, touching sai
points as the said Bishop should entreat of in his sermc
Dated June 98, 1648.

60. A letter sent to the Bishop of Winchester, sign
by the King, and subscribed by the Council, togeth
with certmn articles for him to subscribe. Dated July
1650.

61. The sequestration of the Bishop of Winchester.

62. The appeal of the said Bishop before the senten
definitive.

63. The sentence definitive against him.

54. A letter of the Lord Protector to the Lord Ru9«
lord privy seal, concerning troubles working against hii
Dated Oct. 6, 1649.

55. The Lord Protector to the Council at London, Oi
7, 1649.

470 S6. The Eing'^s letter to Sir Henry Amcotts, lord mayo
and Sir Rowland Hill, mayor elect, and to the aldenw
and citizens of London, to levy men to attend upon hi
and his uncle the Protector. ' Dated Oct. 6, with the ft
tector^s name subscribed.

67. The Lords^ letter to the mayor, aldermen, and dtisei
of London, for a supportation of armed men against tl
Protector. Dated also Oct. 6, 1649.

58. Articles objected against the Lord Protector.

69. An epistle of young Prince Edward to the Archb
shop of Canterbury, his godfather.

60. Another eptstie of the same to the same.

OF KING EDWARD VI. 179

61. The answer of the Archbishop to Prince Edward^s CH&P.
pbtle. ^^^"-

62. Dr. Cox, the Princess schoolmaster, to the Archbi-
hop of Canterbury, concerning the Prince''s proficiency.

63. The prayer of King Edward before his death.
From all which may be collected ample matter for a fur-
ther illustration of the state of affairs in this King^s reign.

CHAP. XXVIIL

Animadversions upon Sir John Hayward^s life and rdgn

of King Edward VL

As I have in several places of the foregoing history taken Posterity
occasion to correct some errors or defects in Sir John Hay- imposed
ward's book; so I cannot conclude my collections of thisy,P**'\»'*f'[
Aing, without some few more animadversions thereon : and be misre-
that out of that private love I bear to the truth of history, P'^«'«"**^-
aod that public concern that inspires me with a care of pos-
terity; and that it be not (as it is too much) imposed upon
with falsehood : and that those that are long since dead, be
oot represented quite different from what indeed they were,
and that, too often, to the diminishing of their reputation
to posterity.

Hayward'^s style and language is good, and so iis his fancy Hayward's
too; only he makes too much use of it for an historian : [^|^, '^
whidb puts him somedmes to make speeches for others ^|J«<*^ ^'"5
which they never spake, nor perhaps thought on : there ispr. i630.*
one made for the King, upon his reflection on the loss ofP*^^^*
Us unde the Duke of Somerset, too wise and too deep for
(t child-king to think or utter. It is another imperfection
ui cKir author, that he shewed himself too partial, seldom
speaking well of the Reformation, nor of the chief rrformers,
cqpedally those of the clergy, as of Goodrack, bishop of Ely,
L«tymer, sometime bishop of Worcester, and Cranmer,
ttchbishop of Canterbury: against the two last whereof
c^iedally be shot out his arrows, even bitter worde^ and

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im MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK fflamed such characters of them, as, if tnie^ would h&ve reo-
^' dered them very evil men. His pen is, for the most put)
dipped in vinegar and gall, giving sharp and ill descripdoDS
4^1 of men generally, and making the r^gn to run altogedief
upon intrigue and ill design ; and that, however fdaufflU^
things outwardly appeared, other matters were drove at
And lastly, it is a &ult in him, that he wrote a history "with-
out any chronology, and leaves his reader to grope for the
knowledge of the time, and the months and years whereia
the respective things fell out. The want of whidi spoBs
the beauty and evidence of hist(»y, and makes the notkes
of things confused and uncertain.
The au- The authors he is beholden to, for assisting him with the

him used, materials of his history, are four especially. The first is
Patten^s account of the expedition into Scotland by the Ddce
of Somei^et, in the first year of the King ; (which author ii
transcribed intx> Holinshed, whence, I suppose, he had it;)
and that is the reason he is so large aiid particular in tint
afiair : but that autiior assists him no further than when
that expedition aided. His second assistant is Holinshed^t
History ; which he often transcribes, and sometimes menk
the speeches which he meets with there, by his own fancy
and additions. His third author is King Edward himsdf)
in his excellent Journal; which, it seems, he had the penufll
Page s. of, by the favour of Sir Robert Cotton ; and so he acknow-
ledges. But this Journal, containing but short and imperfect
notiioes of things that fell out, our author hath taken too
much liberty sometimes to fill up and add unto them bj
his o#n mere conjectures, confidently related as matten
of truth ; which yet sometimes prove mistakes And when
the Journal is at an end, (for it concludes in Npvembel
16653,) his history is well near ended too ; though there wer
eight months between that and the King's death. Th
fourth auth€n*'he makes use of is Nicolas Sanders, De Schim
Aii^icamo; a most profligate fellow, a very slave to th
Roman, see, and a sworn enemy to his own country, carin
not what he writ, if it might but throw reproach and dii
enough upon the reforming kings and princes, the refom

OF KING EDWARD VI. 181

en and the Refonnation. From this man he ventures to CHAP.

XXVIII

take some things that he sets down in his book, scurrilous
and fidse ': but as for records, registers, manuscript letters,
to improve or justify his history, and to present his readers
with some new things, and unknown before, he offers no-
thing thence.

This fot the faults of the histpry in general. I proceed
wm to make scnne particular remarks and observations
upon some passages in it : yet prefacing this before I begin,
Aat I do not this out of any prejudice or vainglory, or
love of contenti(») or contradiction, or any other ill end, (for
I know mine own imperfections,) but for the sake of truth
(mly, and to contribute my ^poor mite towards the maintain-
H^ofit

Page 1. Hayward writes. King Edward was born the The day of
17th day of October, 1637.] Whereas, according to Cooper, b'rth^'"^'"
Stow, Holinshed, the Lord Herbert, and theljest histo- First edit.
Bans, the 12th, being the eve of St. Edwaixi, was the ^ay of
Us Inrth.

P. eadem. He writes, that all reports constantly ran, that Not cut out
Usmother^s body was opened for his birth, and that shether's
died of the incision the fourth day following.] This, I make^^°*^«
no quei^n, was a popish invention at first, and the report
ioon became current among that pM*ty, out of ill-will to King
Heniy, to render him cruel, and the Prince his son unluck-
ily born. Sanders, as far as I can see, first gave out the
story, who writes, that when the Queen was in hard labour, 472
tkey asked the King whose life they should save, the Queerfs
« the young infantas ; and he answered, " he could very
"easily have more wives." But neither Cooper, in his Epitome
of Chronicles, nor HoUnshed, nor the Lord Herbert, say a
vord of this. And Bishop Burnet mentions original letters
Id the Cottcoi library, that shew how the Queen was well
ddivered of the Prince, and died in childbed the next day,
<v rath^, two days after, according to HoUnshed and
Herbert, and our other best historians. Those letters are
^emplified by Dr. Fuller in his Churdi History : the one Book yU.

182 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOO K from the Queen herself, the other from her physicians: both
*'• wrote to the Council.

Cox and P. 3. He speaks of the instructors of the young Prince;

instructon. namely, Dr. Cox and Mr. Cheke.] But he leaves out Sir
Anthony Cook, who was also a great guide of his leamiog
and manners in those early years of his.

Moreover, of Cox and Cheke he asserts, that they were
of mean birth, and that they might be well said to be bom
of themselves.] As for the former, I can say but httle; ody
that one of both his names, viz. Richard Cox, was an emi-
nent citizen and skinner of London, and buried at St Aus-
tin'^s church, anno 1467, where he had a monument As
for Cheke, his family was ancient, and of good wealth. I
find one Margaret Cheke undpr King Ridiard III. vbo
granted her a licence to found a chantry, with one priest
in the parish church of Long Ashton, nigh Bristol ; which
bespake her a woman of quahty and wealth. This Cheke
was sprung from the Chekes 'of the Isle of Wight: the
antiquity of which family is traced as far upward as
King Richard the Second^s time, when a Cheke married a

Eccicsiast. daughter of the Lord Mountague'^s ; as Dr. Fuller teaches
us, who also takes notice of this error of our author.

Upon Cheke^s learning also he casts a blur, when he sajs,
that for his other' sufficiencies, beddes skill in Latin oA
Greek, he was pedantic enough, as appears by his books.]
I believe Sir John Hay ward saw only three books written
by him, and scarcely them, (no more of his, 1 think, being"
ever published,) viz, his translation of two oraticms of St
Chrysostom, that then first saw the light ; his letters to
Bishop Gardiner, concerning the true viray of pronoundng
Greek, wrote in Latin ; and his True Subject to the Rebel,
in English ; which no man can depart from the reading of.
but with very high opinion of Cheke''s great ingenuity and
learning. He was a man of great reading, ah excell^
Platonist and philosopher ; one of the first restorers of goa

Epist dedic. polite learning in Cambridge. Dr. Thomas Wylson, seen

Cecyi, be- tary of state to Queen Elizabeth, and his contemporary i

OF KING EDWARD VI. 183

the University, who well knew him, called him, " that rare CHAP.
*Meamed man, and singular ornament of the land.*" Much ^^^^^^*
more might be said of the worth of the man, if this were a fore hb

1 translation

P"*** ofDemo8t.

P. 4. Great preparations were made, after he was nine o™**
years old, for the creating or declaring him Prince of Wales, f^^JJjJn**'*
Duke of Comwal, and Count Palatine of Chester.] The p. 494.
Lord Herbert writes, this Prince was miade so six days after
Hb birth : at which time there was a creation of two other
eads, viz. the Earls, of Hertford and Southampton. But
tliis, indeed, Hayward took out of the King's Jourtial, that
qpeaks of the great preparations for it when he was about,
that age. But he, as doubting of the Princess creation now, 473
added, or declaring him so to be.

IKd. The Earl of Hertford and Sir Anthony Brown The King,
were despatched from the Council, to fetch the King, then Hertford or
lying at Hertford.] This Ukewise he had from the Journal. Hatfield.
fiiHt Holinshed makes the place of the King^s present resi«
dence now to be, not Hertford, but Hatfield,

P. 6. A few days after th^ King^s coronation, the EarlTheEariof
of Southampton was not only removed from his office of ton dis- '
chancellor, but from his place and authority in Council.] ^^^^^Tf*^**
This he hath verbatim from Holinshed ; but both he and
his author must be understood warily here, so as not to
mean that he was removed .from being a privy counsellor,
but from that authority he had at the board before: for
tbi»Earl was not removed from being a counsellor till the
fimrth of the King, at Candlemas, when he and the Earl of
Arundel were both put out, as Holinshed himself writes. P« >o^*-

P. 7. He writes, that Archbishop Cranraer was violent Archbishop
with the King, by persuasions and entreaties, to seal the^^^^^^j/
warrant for the execution of Joan Butcher, an Arian : and
by his importunity prevailed with the King, who told the
said Archbishop, he would lay the charge thereof upon him
before God. And then the author adds his conjecture here-
ipon, that it might be Cranmer'*s importunity of blood,
vhereby that woman was burnt, that he himself afterwards
elt the smart of fire.] This passage, whether it be true or

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BOOK tio, I cannot tell. The King mentioneth nothing of i
^'* hia Journal, only that she wa« burnt tor her obstinar

her heresy : and the character is utterly disagredng i
Cranmer^s spirit ; for none was more tender of blood
he; none more pitiful and compassionate: nor was 1
man for rigorous methods and violent courses. In
Fox mentions, that the Council put Cranmer upon mo
the King to sign this warrant ; which was a sign he ha
great f(»rwardness to it himself: and in obedience tol
he did labour with the King about it, and obtained it
though he did this, it neither argued videnee^ nor f#
tumtffjbr blood : for as he was not present at her ccnk
nation, as appears by the Council-Book, so he may be
eluded to have had no desire of her death, though
warrant by his means was ragned for her execution*
thoughts, I am apt to think, were, that this fear of d
which she saw so near, might serve to reclaim her fron
error, when his and other learned men'^s reasonings
her, being both ignorant and obstinate, were iiieffe^
So that this you must look upon as another strain of ]
ward'^s pen, and good-will to churchmen.
Duke of p. 15. He saith, the Duke of Somerset was a man
name esteemed, either for wisdom, or person, or courage in ai
wronged, ffj^g wroDg this author hath done the name of this :
Duke to posterity, by this and such like characters rf
interspersed through his book, I have endeavoured to i
See chap, in these Collections. And he that shall but read (or
n. an in. j^^ ^^ same paragraph where these undervaluing word
bestowed upon the Duke, will find the author conft
himself.
The altera- P. 43, 44. He blames the counsels as unadvised,
in religion. Were taken for alterations, both in respect of religicna
enclosures ; because of the danger thereof in the tiew ]
of the young King: and says, that some respect sli
.474 have been given to those green times. And that as to
gion, though King Henry VIII. passed the like chang
fore, yet Uiat example was not then to be followed
King being not equal either in spirit cm* power.] 1

OF KING EDWARD VI. 186

were the very considerations that Biishop Gardiner and the CHAP.
Papists in those times used with the Protector, and others ^^^^^^'
of the Council, for the continuance of the popish religion.

He dislikes the Protector^s proclamation for laying down And j>ro.
mdasures by a certain day : which, he saith, being^ not obey- ^lamation

J ^ J ' 7 o J against

ed, gave occasion to the multitude to make tumults.] In enclosures,
troth, the enclosures themselves, whereby vast numbers of j][^y^^7
poor people had the food taken out of their mouths by the
lieh, were the causes of tumults. The proclamation was
but just and reasonable, to redress such wrongs done to the
fing* pocNT subjects.

P. 45. He seems to disapprove of the injunctions that And the
were set forth in the beginning of the Eing^s reign, for re-^°^"" *^"*'
Boving images out of the churches, and for abolishing some
ceremonies ; because the people stood so affected towards
them.] If such regard were to be had to the pleasing of
tbe people, why should they not be as well regarded in the
natter of enclosures, which he expresses himself much for ?
ftit herein, whatsoever of a politician our author shewed
himself, surely but an indifferent Protestant. If it were
ground sufficient, not to reform religion, because it would
pre distaste to the superstitious people, religion must never
he reformed : but in truth, vast were the numbers of people
' Aroughout this land, especially the most civilized parts of
it) that at this time of day did earnestly desire a reforma-
tioD in the worship of images, and the use of superstitious
ceremonies.

P. 46. He makes the commitment of Bishop Boner, Bi- Bishops
sh(^ Grardiner, Bishop Tonstal, and Bishop Hethe, to be^ndwiiy. ^
d in the first year of the King.] Boner indeed endured a
jfcort restraint in the Fleet then, but that which may be
truly called his imprisonment, happened but in September
1840, Hethe^s the same year, Tonstal''s not before the year
1861. And only Ga^diner^s happened in the King^s first
jeuy thou^ he were put at liberty again not long after.
Nlor was Boner put into prison for refusing the King^s injunc-
tions, as Hayward asserts, to make Boner^s merits look the
gveater, for be did receive them, though under a

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BOOK tion; but the true reason was, because be did not puM
in a sermon the King^s authority during his minority, as he

was commanded. But hitherto, having recanted before the
Council, for the ill manner of his receiving the injunctioDS
and homilies from the King^s visitors, he went along inth
the King^s proceedings, swore obedience to the King, pio*
fessed his assent and consent touching the state of religion
then settled, directed out his letters, according to the Arch-
bishop^s precepts for abolishing images, abrogaticm of the
mass, setting up Bibles in churches, &c. Neither was Gtf-
diner'^s imprisonment this first year qf the Sang, as thb
author asserts, because he preached that it were well these
changes in religion should be stayed uU the King were of
years, but for his refractoriness, to the King'^s proceedings.
His second imprisonment indeed was occasioned by a ser?
mon which he preached on St. Peter's day, in the second
year of the King ; not for preaching that the changes in le-
Ugion should be stayed, but for omitting to speak of sevenl
matters comn^iitted to him in writing, by command of the
475 Council : as, concerning the usurped power of the Bishcf
of Rome, the superstitions used towards St. Nicolas and
other saints, concerning the authority of the King in his
minority, concerning auricular confession, and some other
things. Hethe was committed for refusing to subscribe the
new book of ordinations. Nor was Hethe now bishop rf
Rochester, as our author names him, but of Worcester.
He leaves out Day, bishop of Chichester, whom he might
have mentioned among the rest of the said bishops com-
mitted.
Reciting P. 47. He holds the setting down acts of Parliament in

lia^eDt^*' history to be fruitless, and improper for a " true carried
whether fit « history,"'' as he expresses it ; though he confesseth, a noUe
writer esteemed it a maim in history not to recite them.]
And surely that noble writer, whoever he were, was right
And this was the practice of that noble historian the Lore
Herbert, and that complete historian Mr. Camden. Aw
certainly that must be but an imperfect history, howeve
t,rue carried he fancies it, that shall take little or no notic

OF KING EDWARD VI. 187

rftbe great and public transactions that pass through the chap.

Y Wl If

chief and high Council of the nation, consisting of the peers,
ttid wisest and wealthiest of the commons, assembled toge-
ther in their Parliaments.

P. 82. He suggests, that the Lord Sudley dissented froiji L. Sudiey,
his brother the Duke of Somerset'*s opinions.] That is, in papigt.
other words, that he was a Papist. No such thing appears
ia history, but rather, that he was of the religion now pro-
68Bed and countenanced : for one of his last requests, when
he had the message sent to him to prepare for death, was,
that his daughter might be committed to the care of the
Duchess of Suffolk, a fast Protestant ; and another was, that
Mr. Latymer might be sent to him, to asi^st him with his
counsel, and prayers; who would not have been a ghostly
&ther fit for his turn, had he been a Papist.

Ibid. He makes the first cause of dissolving the knot of HU fail,
the two brothers^ love, tiz. of the Duke and the Lord Ad-
' nural, to proceed from the Duchess : and that she rubbed
mtothe Duke^s dull capacity, as he unhandsomely reflects
on that great peer, that his brother sought to take away his
Hfe, and to attain his place.] And,

P. 83. That the Duk€ at length yielding himself to her. The Duke
M devise his brother's destruction. And that being con- ^j^u^J^^
demned by act of Parliament, within a few days after, a
warrant was sent under his brother'^s hand for his execution.
And lastly, that the accusations against him consisted of
frivolous or pitiful matters.] By all this account of this
lord's fell, he is represented to have come unjustly by his
death, by the unnatural acting of his brother against him :
and that he was set on to all this mischief, like a weak man,
by his wife. This, if it were true, layeth a most heavy im-
putation upon the Duke : but surely he was no Such man
«8 he is here delivered down to be : he had better morals
and more religion than this came to. The Admiral was
certainly an evil man, turbulent, and full of ambitious de-
signs, from the be^nning of this King's reign. And his
brother the Duke did often advise him, and earnestly dis-

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BOOK suade him from his dangerous courses, and used all die
^^' fairest means with him, pardoning what was past, and (thit
he might meet with his high mind) gratifying him with
possessions, and the high and honourable office of Icnrd ad^
miral. Yet was he continually practising after this; he
4>^g raised soldiers, and threatened he would make the Uaekeri
, Parliament that ever wa^ in England, He is suspected fee
have poisoned his wife, that excellent woman Queen Ka-
tharine, that, being single, he might make his addressee 1»
the Lady Elizabeth, the Eing^s raster. So that, in fine, dii
Parliament did judge these things to be a traitorous 9sspt»
ing to the crown. And surely Sir John Hay ward had never
read the act of Parliament, whereby timt Lord was ^
tainted, to term his accusations to he JHvoUm^ er pit^
matters. But I refer the reader to the fifteenth chapter rf
these Memorials, for further satisfaction about the justice of
this lord'^s death. Indeed it doth appear, that his brother^
with the rest of the Council, signed the warrant for his exe-
cution. But I am so far from believing that his death wsi
acceptable to him, that surely it was^ thing went very neer
him, out of that natural love and afiection that he ever
shewed to have had for him.

And verily afl this is the less to be credited, viz. the

controversy between the two wives for^recedency, and the

Duchess of Somerset s setting her husband upon this mis*

chief, because it is taken from lying Sanders, or, at the best,

from vulgar report.

TheAdmi- Ibid, He speaks of the AdmiraPs protestation at the

rai's ill life, point of his death ; and that the open course and carriage

of his life cleared him in the opinion of many.]* What hie

. protestations were, I know not, nor do I know any histcfy

that relates them ; any more than that Stow writ, that he

took it on his death, that he had never committed nor

meant treason to the King or realm. The contrary to which

his deeds declared ; and he confessed himself, in the Tower,

that he would have had the government of the King^s per*

son. But the course and carriage of his life, I am sure,

OF KING EDWARD VI. 189

xnald not clear him, havinfic durinf: all this rekn lived so CHAP.

. . . XXVIII.

known a turbulent and vicious life >. 1

Then follows another most vile insinuation against the

Protector, and the said reverend father and martyr, Hugh

Latjmer ; viz. that he was set up by the said Protector, an

bttrument to preach false stories to the people, to take off

die odium of the Lord Admiral^s death, in these words :

P. 83. Dr. Latymer, pretending all the gravity and sin^ Latymer
Ottity of a professed divine, yet content to be serviceable to ' *" ^^^ '
gvett men^s ends, declared, in a sermon before the King,
diat while the Lord Sudley was a prisoner in the Tower,
he wrote to the Lady Mary and the Lady Elizabeth, that
they should revenge his death. He adds, that Latymer cast
fath many other imputations, most doubted, many known
to be untrue. And then from this story the author taken
ooQBflion to express his cankered mind against men in holy
oders, in these words : ^^ Some theologians have been em-
" ployed to defile places erected only for religion and truth,
"hy defending oppressions and faction; distaining their
^'profesaon, and the good arts which they have learned, by
^'publidbing odious untruths, upon report and credit of
" others.''] As though they were a mercenary, base sort of
oen, that, however sacred their office is, would be hired to
ke the trumpets of other men's Ipng inventions, for the
better deceiving of the people. This author going thus out
of bis road, that he might give a lash to the theologians, as
Recalls them, shews his good-will to that order of men.' But ^77
tor^um to Lat}nner.

Thus doth our author what lay in his power to render Vindicated.
^ grave and good man, and constant martyr for religion
Mi truth, to be a public liar in the pulpit, to do a piece of
Mmoe to the Duke. And he, that chose to die rather than
^ rtibeciibe or acknowledge that to be true, which he

^tkos Latymer concerning him, in one of his sermons before the King:

''Hut when the good Queen, his wife, bad daily prayers before and after

" noon in her boose, the Admiral would get him out of the way. And that he

" was a coTetons, an ambitious, and seditious man, and a contemner of cfun-

* mmkfnBftr,'*

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MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

Hayward
goes witb
Stnden.

BOOK thought to be false, is made such a profligate wretdi, lAi
^^' fully and openly to promulgate, before so solemn an assem-
bly, uncertainties and downright lies.

Hay ward seems indeed to go hand in hand with Sanden^
to defame this reverend man ; who, speaking of LatynKr,
^ves him this broad compliment. His apoB&eship conAM
in lying; and then t^lls this story of him : That aftar the
Duchess had invented the mischief against the Admital,
the Protector went and dealt with Latymer, that he sh^
in his sermon traduce him before the people for a tni-
tor. And that accordingly Latymer readily undertook it^
and soon after in the pulpit tdd a tale of, I- know not
what, snares preparing against the King'^s Majesty by ^
Admiral; and therefore that he deserved death. So diit
by this account the Duke and the divine are represaited
as a coujde of bloody wretches, combining together to make
an innocent man seem guilty of treason, and then cry out
for execution against him.

P. 85. The author here begins the relation of the Dokels
first troubles ; wherein he follows, almost word toe word,
Holinshed'^s history ; only framing two fine speeches ; one
to be spoken by the Lord Rich, lord chancellor, to thtf
mayor and citizens of London, whereof we have not aoy
footsteps in history, as I can find ; the other to be delivered
by George Stadlow, a grave citizen', to his fellow citizens:
whose speech indeed we have in Holinshed; but our
author is pleased to dress up and adorn it with much florid
language, and several additions of his own : which seeoH
more proper f6r a romance than an history.

P. 94. Of Secretary Petre he gives this character, " who
" under pretence of gravity, covered much untrustaness d

heart"" An unfair character of a very wise and honeil
and long experienced in the public affairs, withoil
any spot that ever I could find ; except that he did comply
with the changes of religion under the princes in whose
reigns he served : which was a practice of a great nmxdber
more besides himself.

P. 101. Speaking of the Duke^ after his subscripdoQ to

p. 86.

Secretary
Petre.

man.

OF KING EDWARD VI. 191

the articles laid against him, and acknowledgment of his CHAP.
ftult, and desire of pardon, our author thus gives his judg- xxviii.
ment ; ^* assuredly he was a man of a feeble stomach, unable Whetherthe
"to concoct a great fortune, prosperous or adverse: andof*afeebte
** that he should have lost his life to preserve his honour : *?»"*•
** and that he cast away life and honour together : and that,
** as he thirsted after his brother^s blood, so others thirsted
** after his.'^ Would a man of a cooler temper than our
aathor have presently judged the Duke so impotent and
feeble, and unable to govern himself? Would he not ra-
Aer have considered the circumstances wherein he stood,
and what powerful enemies combined together against him,
and thirsted for his ruin ? The Duke might perhaps have
been somewhat too hasty, if Sir John Hay ward had been
Us counsellor, to have presently taken up arms, and ven-478
tured life and honour together : and so might have lost
bodi together, as in all probability he would, being so infe-
Bor in strength to his adversaries, who were, in effect, all
the Council, except one or two. The Duke undoubtedly con-
ftdered this, and also the danger the King was and would
bave been in, if this broil had proceeded further ; and the
danger of religion too, to which many of the other side had
IK) great favour; and who, upon the condition of their as-
BBtance, would have made their terms : and it was not his
feebleness therefore, but rather his caution and wisdom, that
made him submit as he did, and ask pardon. As for his
thirsdng after his brother'^s blood, it was a calumny, as I
have mentioned before.

P. 106. Sir John Mason, secretary of state.] He was not Sir John
Kcretary of state, but secretary for the French tongue. ****"*

P. 128. Having occasion to speak of the Marquis of Dor- The Duke
tet, who was now raised to be Duke of Suffolk, according °^ ^^^'
to his wont, he ogives this disparaging character of him ; " a
^man for his harmless simplicity neither misliked nor
'^much r^arded.**^] This nobleman was a great friend to
tile Reformation, and a patron of learned men. I have seen
letters of Bucer and BuUinger to him. And, which is in^
tead of all that can be said of hiin^ he was the father of a

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BOOK very admirable, though unfortunate woman, the Lady Jtfie
Grey. He was no such domineerer or boutefeu as Nor*

thumberland ; but surely was never the worse f<Mr that
Sir Robert Ibid. But of all the ill characters our author gives of
^^^^^f' men, none exceeds diat he bestows Upon Sir Bobert D«d-
ley, the great Duke of Northumb^land^s son : whom he
calls, *^ the true heir cf his father's hate againHpermmstf
nobility, sxkdqfhiscurminff to dissemble the same. He wis
afterwards,"*^ [he means under Queen Elizabeth, wh^ he
was Earl of Leicester,] ^^ for lust and cruelty, a monster of
*^ the Court, as apt to hate, so a most sure executioner of
*' his hate, yet rather by practice than by open dea£ng, m
^^ wanting rather courage than wit.^ And finally, he attxi*
butes the King^s death to him.] It is true, this man m
none of the best, but is r^resented commonly worse thai
he was, especially by Parsons, in his boc^ entitled, LA*
tester*^ Commonwecdth. Out of which Hayward hath takeft
a character for Dudley : when other more wary men would
hardly set down for truth what they read in that malidous
book, and wrote by so envenomed an author. This chh
racter must not h^ denied^im ; that he was a good soldier,
a gallant courtier, and a favourer of learning.
Marquis of P* 136. Of the Marquis of Northampton he had but a
Northamp- Yaean opinion too, and set an ill mark upon him, as well a»
he did upon the rest of the nobles of this King^s Court. Of
this Marquis he saith, that when he was crossed, or conten-
tious with any, he never replied to any answer : which, he
said, was a manifest sign of no strong spirit.] It was a ma-
nifest sign indeed of no contentious spirit, and that de-
lighted not in fending and proving, as we say. But he
means a meanness and lowness of spirit and coun^. I
think it not so manifest a sign ; because sometimes this sptr-
ingness of words, and slowness of replies, proceeds fixNn
wisdom and discretion. But where he met with this account
of the Marquis''s temper, I know not ; he was certainly abk
enough to make replies, if he had pleased, being of a veij
gay and florid fancy and wit.
479 P* 137* He writes not like an historian, when he ^veaui

OF KING EDWARD VI. 198

nlame an account of the imprisonment of the Bishop of chap.

Y Y VI IT

Durham. He saith, " He was sent to the Tower for con- 1

" cealment of I know not what treason, written to him, I B»sbop of
" know not by whom, and not discovered until what shall I why

com-

** call the party, did reveal it.''] In the Journal, our author ^^^^^'
met with the commitment of this Bishop for concealment of
treascm. And because he had read no more particulars of
it, he would hint as though his imprisonment were unjust,
and would cast the imputation of it upon the state, as a
piece of forgery and oppression. Whereas by the minutes
m the Council-Book, and the Book of Warrants to the
aeal, the particulars of this matter appear.

Ibid,. Conceminfi: the reason of the Lord Rich's relin- Lord Rich,
quishing the chancellorship, and the ill character given by Eiy.**** **
our author to the Bishop of Ely, that succeeded in that of-
fice, I have spoken in the foregoing book.

P. 144. The commission to thirty-two persons for fram- The com-
ing a body of ecclesiastical laws, to be used in this king- framing^c-
dom, he saith, took no effect.] It took effect so far, that a ci^iMtkai
book of laws was drawn up, and completely finished, and
wanted nothing but the King's confirmation; which his
death, and some other causes, unhappily prevented.

And the reason he gives why this took no effect was, be-
cause of the number of the commissioners, and divers of
them £ar remote, and others had great offices, that they
could not afford meetings for so great a business. Also
their differences of professions and ends necessarily raised
difference in judgment.] But for remedying of all this, he
might have known, that the King therefore issued out an-
o&a: commission in October 1551, to eight persons only,
leaving the work in their hands to finish. And the Arch-
oiAop of Canterbury being one of these eight, knowing
the great usefulness of the thing, hastened it, and in effect,
linself completed it, as is shewn in the Memorials of Arch-
faishop Cranmer. But indeed the true reason why this ex-
ceOeot book, with so much study, and care, and consulta-
tion, well framed, had not authority given to it, was, be-
cause the nation, especially the great men,, could not endure

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BOOK ecclesiastical discipline. And so Cox, one of the eight con^
• missioners, wrote about this time to Bullinger, in the coune
of his correspondence, *^ We hate those Htter institutiomof
*^ Christian discipline.'*'

The King's p. 155. The King's debts, he saith, were given forth to
be at least ^1,000/.] The King's debts, anno 1551, owing
at home and abroad, were in all 241,179/. 14«« lOd as iinej

Chap. ix. are particularly set down in a paper of Secretary Cecfii,
which may be seen before.

And in the page before, he is setting down firom tb
Journal an account of what the King had paid of the m<ni^
he took up at interest from abroad, namely, 68,0001. Fle-
mish, paid in February, and 24,00W. in April.] Wheieas
in the Journal, the last sum is 14,000/. Which two suns
came to 77,000/. together. And so it is set down in the
Journal. From which he varies again ; and instead d
77,000/. writes 87,000/. wilfully, the better to cover his
former mistake.
480 P. 166. He errs again from the King's Journal. Fwrn

master o?' ^^ich uow all along he does but copy, with some Uttle de-

the rolls, scants of his own. He writes, that Beaumont, master of the
rolls, lent above 700/. of the King's money.] Whereas in
the King's Jounial it is 9000/.

P. 173. He saith, the Duke of Northumberland, in the
contrivance of the settlement of the crown upon the Lady
Jane, used the advice of two persons especially, viz. the
Lord Chief Justice Mountague, who drew the letters pa^
tents, and Secretary Cecyl : both which furnished the pa-
tents with divers reasons, some of law, and some of pdicy
in state.] Herein Sir John Hayward grossly wrongs the
memory of both these gentlemen ; out of what design, I
know not.

Cecyl as- First, As for Cecyl, he was so far from assisting and

sisted not j . i • • /» i 11 J\

in the new drawing up this mstrumeut of settlement, that he opposec

^f*th™^°* it as much as he could, (and so Camden expressly saith;]

crown; though he signed with the rest. Moreover, I have seenai

apology oi his own drawing up about this matter. Whemt

he writ, how he refused to subscribe the book, when norK

OF KING EDWARD VI. ISS

cf the Council did refuse, whereby l^e incurred the indigna- CHAP,
tion of the Duke of Northumberland. That he refused to ^^^"•

make a proclamation, (which was for the proclaiming Queen
Jane,) and turned the labour to Throgmorton. That he re-
fused the writing of a letter to send abroad in the realm, for
the shewing Queen Janets title. This he refused, because he
would not write Queen Mary, bastard: , and the Duke
viote it himself. That he avoided being present at the
diawing up of the proclamation for the publishing of Janets
title, though he were especially appointed thereunto. That
he avoided answering of the Queen^s letters, which she
wrote from Kenninghal to the Council, requiring their obe-
dience. That he avoided likewise writing all pubhc letters
to the realm upon Janets access to the crown. Moreover,
that he practised with the Lord Treasurer to win the Lord
Privy Seal, that he might by the Lord RussePs means
cause Windsor castle to serve the Queen : and tliey two to
levy the west parts for the Queen'^s service. That he opened
himsdf to the Lord Admiral, whom he found thereto dis-
posed. That he did the like to the Lord Darcy. That he
purposed to have stolen down to the Queen'^s Highness, and
Gosnold offered to lead him thither, because he knew not the
way: and he had his horses ready at Lambeth for that pur-
pose. That when he heard of this purpose first secretly, he
disliked it, and fearing the event, conveyed away his lands,
his goods, and his leases. All these things considered, who
can think it true, that he furnished the settlement with ar-
ticles taken £rom policy ? The most he did was to sign with
the rest. Whidi also he did as a witness to King Edward^s
hand, and not as an abettor or counsellor.

This for Cecyl. Then for Sir Edward Mountague, the And Moan-
loni chief justice, how he stood affected, and what he did in ^^^^^
this affair, may be seen by an original paper, drawn up by ^'''''
that judge^s own hand, which his great grandchild, Kdward
lord Mountague, of Broughton, communicated uuUj Dr ^hnnU
Fuller. The sum of which was, that he, and the re^t i/f ih- "'J* ^ ""
judges, told the King, that the bill of articles blMrwiil to
them, according to which they should frame a brjok foi iitf

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BOOK settlement of the crown in the I^ady Jane, was directly
against the act of succesinon: which was an act of Ptr-

liament) and would be taken away by no such device. Bui
481 when it was the King'^s absolute will, that a book should
be made according to those articles, he took them. And
the^next day, he and the rest concluded to do nothing; but
to report to the Lords, that not only the executing of this
device was treason after the King'*s death, but the mAsag
of this device was presently treason : and so they did re^
port to the Council. And that the Duke of Northumbo^
land upon it was in a great fury, and called Sir Edward,
traitor : and so he departed home, without doing any thing
more. Afterwards Mountague received another letter frort
the Council, to come to the Court, he, and some other of the
judges and lawyers. And beiitg come, they were brought
to the King ; who demanding, why they had not made the
book, Mountague told the King the reason. And moreover*,
that if they had, it were of no effect nor force, but uttettj
void, when the King should decease : and that the statute
of succession could not be taken away, but by the same a*
thority that made it, and that was a Parliament ; and ad-
vised the King, that all might be deferred to a Parliament.
The King said, they should make it, and afterwards it
should be ratified by Parliament. That divers of the liOrds
then said, that if he and the rest refused now, they were
traitors. So that, what with the Duke^s anger the day be-
fore, and the King^s and other Lord'*s now, he was in thfe
greatest fear that ever he was in all his life. And so at last,
being an old man, and for safety of his life, he told the
King, that he had served his father and his Highness dur-
ing his life, and loath he would be to disobey his command-
ment, and would for his own part obey it, so that he had
his Highnesses licence and commission, under the great sealy
for the doing of it, and when done, to have a general pardon.
Both which were granted him. And he tad the rest made
the device, as he writ, with sorrowful hearts and weepii^
eyes. And lastly, after he had done this, to shew how littte
he approved of putting by the true succession, he sent his

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aoD to serve and asast Queen Mary with twenty men, with CHAP..
Other gentlemen of Buckinghamshire. By what is written •
sufficiently appears, our author hath wronged the memory
of these two worthy men, and wronged posterity also in im-
posing upon their belief matters of falsehood.
Sir John Hay ward in his lifetime was esteemed for his^*y*'^'f

. . "^ . . 'sense of n»

wntiDgs of English history: of which, what his own own writ-
thoughts were may appear in his preface to a devout trea^*°^**
tise of his, named DavicTs Tears j written when he was not His book
brfrom the conclusion of his life, and printed annol6^.yid*tTean.
^Qf mine own productions never any did fully content
^'me; and the approbation of others is no warrant to my
"own judgment, tender and severe in what I do. They*^
[his productions] " may happily be sprinkled over, but
^ thoi:ou^ly died, i conceive, they are not. . In case any
'thing is excusable in them, it is not in regard of them-
' selves, but in comparison with some other formless, un-
* sinewy writings. Whereto, notwithstanding, I find good
'allowance to be given. Assuredly knowing mine own
' ignorance and defects, I wonder much at the constant as-
' surance of many others. But modesty forbids us to speak
' good or evil of ourselves.'" This is his own sense of his
writings, which he calls his productions. Wherein, first,
he declared that he was not satisfied with them : whether
ite were conscious of some wilful mistakes, or interpola-
uoDs, or other deficiences in them, I know not. And
perhaps he thought the best quality in them was his style 48^
wd language: which he seems to mean by their being
VtinJcIed^over, and his partiality and neglect of truth,
^Bo^ssat by his phrase of their not being thoroughly died.
But how imperfect soever they were, secondly, he valued
«em before other men'^s ; which, however well thought <mi
hy^Jther readers, and by the authors themselves, yet, to his
Htoet accurate eye, they w&cejbrndess cmd unsinezvy. And
^Wigh in a seemingly modest fit he reckoned but meanly
tf his productions, and knew his own ignorance and defects, ,
y^ his judgment he valued sufficiently, styling k, tender
^ievere in what he did.

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BOOK In truth, his temper seemed not well qualified for an lus-
torian, being touchy and morose, censorious, ooncdted, and

Somecfaa- too much aspiring: which was the cause, in probaUlity,
this writer. ^^^^ ^ ^^ ^^ enemies, so he wanted interest enough to
overpower them that opposed him and his advancement,
and that intercepted him in it : so that he fell short of his ex-
pectation of some things he aimed at, and thought his me-
rit deserved. And so in his old age he gave himself to re-
tirement in some discontent, and there wrote his DavU^s
^rtb^ to Tears. Which those words of bis do express : " This is
Teaw, " the reason wherefore many well esteemed for sufficiency,"
[meaning himself for one,] ^^ whose virtue forbids thc^ to
be base, hang under the wheel, and cannot advance. Yea,
sometimes it happeneth, that while they are most ho-
nestly bu^ed, men of scornful and beggarly ignorance,
separate from imitable qualities or endeavours, will be
nimble to nip from them such small matters as they have.
** I confess I have been bitten by some such vipers,^ [a just
punishment ; as he had in his censures bitten others,] *' who
<^ think nothing suffident that they haVe, nothing dishonest
•* that they do. But I envy not the gravel in dny man's
" throat. It sufficeth for me, that I have attained a quiet
** contented life, free either from anguish in myself, or envy
** at others, free either fix)m wishing great matters, or
^* wanting some small.'" And so we leave this historian.

46.
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483 CHAP. XXIX.

Commissions cmd proclamatiom isstced Jrom the Kv^
upon divers occasions^ in the years 1550, 1551, IBBlif
and 1553.

-DESIDES various notices and instructions which I have
been frumished with from the Lord Chancellor Grbodrick^s
leger-book, and King Edward's Book of Wiarrants, oc-
casionally made use of by me in the foregoing hiBtory>
there be many considerable matters besides, remaining i^
those manuscripts, which will serve notably to. illustrate thi^
reign. And therefore I shall here insert them under divert

OF KING EDWARD VI. 199

heads, for better method, as precious remains, viz. com- CHAP.

missaons and proclamations, gifts, grants, annuities, par- 1_

dons, purchases, and o£Sces ; letters, warrants, licences, and
passports; collations, presentations, and other grants to
diurchmen and universities; schools founded; and lastly,
particular matters relating to the Eing^s household ; com-
mencing from the fourth year of the King'*s reign, and the
year of our Lord 1550.

I. Commissions. Anno 1550.

A commission to Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, A commis-
Nicolas Bish(^ of London, Thomas Bishop of Ely, Henry trial of Gar-
Bishop of Lincoln; Sir William Petre, Sir James Hales, ^^'*^'^' **'■
knights ; Griffyn Leyson, John Olyver, doctors of law ; Ri- winton.
diard Goodrick and John Gx)snal, esquires; or to nine,
eight, seven, six, five, or four of them, whereof the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of
Ely, the Bishop of Lincoln, and Sir William Petre, [and
Sir James Hales, for he is added in the commission itself,]
to be one : to call before them, at such days, times, and
places as they shall think convenient, Stephen Bishop of
Wmchester, and all others whom they shall think good
and necessary to be called, for the examination, trial, proof,
and full determination of such matters as appertaineth unto
him : and to require every such process, writing, and escript,
as have passed in that matter : and he beipg called eftsoons,
[if he shall] refuse to conform himself according to the
Eing^s Majesty^s commandment, to proceed against him to
deprivation of his bishopric, and removing of him from the
same. December 1550. This fall commission, at length, is
preserved by Mr. Fox, in his Acts and Monuments, first
edition, p. 776.

A commission to Edward Duke of Somerset, to Thomas A commis-
Ardibishop of Canterbury, Richard Rich, knight, Lordj;^^*^^
filch, &c. William Earl of Wiltshire, John Earl of War- Parliament.
^, John Earl of Bedford, William Marquis of Nor-
thampton, Edward Jl«ord CUnton, Thomas Lord Went^
worth, Cutbert Bishop of Durham, William Lord Wind-
wr, and William Lord Paget, or to two of them, to pro-

o 4

200 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK rogue the Parliament that was adjourned to the SOth of
January next, junto the second day of March following.

Anno 1550. A Commission to Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury,

-484 the Bishops of Ely, London, Lincoln, Norwich, Rochester,

baptittoT Nicolas Wotton, dean of Canterbury, William Petre, W8-

and irregu- Ham Cecyl, Richard Cocks, Anthony Coke, James Hales»

tersofthe Thomas Smith, John Cheke, William May, John Taykjr,

sacraments, ginion Haynes, Griffith Leyson, John Redman, Hugh La-

tymer, Giles Eire, Matthew Parker, Miles Coverdale,

John Oly ver, Richard Liel, Roland Taylor, Christq)her

Nevinson, Richard Goodrick, John Gosnold, Richaid

Wilks, Henry Sidal, and Nicolas Bullingham, or to any

thirty-one, thirty, twenty-nine, twenty-eight, twenty-seven,

twenty-six, ^five, four, or three of them ; whereof the

Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Norwich, the Bi-
shop of Rochester, Nicolas Wotton, William Petre, Wil-
liam Cecyl, Richard Cox, James Hales, and William [May,
I suppose,] to be one : to correct and punish all Anabap-
tists, and such as do not duly minister the sacraments ac-
cording to the Book of Common Prayer, set forth by the
King's Majesty. This was dated in January 1550.
Acommis- A commission to Edward Duke of Somerset, Thomas
proroguing Archbishop of Canterbury, Richard Lord Rich, lord chan-
the Pariia- ^^^j. William Earl of Wiltshire, John Earl of Warwick,

meat.

John Earl of Bedford, William Marquis of Northampton,
Henry Marquis of Dorset, Henry Earl of Arundel, Ed-
ward Lord Clinton, Thomas Lord Wentworth, and divers
more, or any two of them, to prorogue the Parliament to
the 30th of October next. This bore date in February
1550.
1551. . A commission to Thomas Bishop of Norwich, Sir Bxv
^ths^l ^^^^ Bowes, Sir Leonard Beckwith, and Sir Thomas Chalo-
land. ner, or to three of them, to determine with the Queen d

Scots, or her commissioners, certain controversies risen be-
tween the King and her, since the late treaty of peace con-
cluded betwixt the King's Majesty and the French King;
as well of limits and confines, as of taking and delivering
captains and pledges, and all manner of spoils, piracies, and

OF KING EDWARD VI. 201

her attempts done by either of their subjects. Dated CHAP,
pril 15, 1661. ^^^^

A commis^on to Helier de Cfuteret, John Clerk, Cle- Anno 1551.
lent Lemprier, esquires; Ninian Saunders, gent.. Lewis ^^^"^ '^'"•^
iampton, clerk; Charles Mabion, clerk; Richard Dinnarick,
^kxdas Lemprier, Edward Denmarick, Laurence Hampton,
nrats; Hugh Ferrin and Nicolas Solomont, gentlemen;
ffld to twelve, eleven, ten, nine,— —or six of them, whereof
Helier de Carteret, and John Clerk, or one of them at the
least, to be one : pving them power and authority to call
before them the inhabitants of Jersey, by the advice of Sir
Henry Powlet, knt. captain there: and to assess every of
tbem to be contributories, according to their goods and
lands, towards the building of two fortresses to be edified,
the one in the islet of St. Helier, and the other in the islet of
St Obyn there : and also a perpetual pension to be ga-
thered of their lands^ for the charges of the safe keeping of
them : and to put their said order and cessment in writing,
that it may remain for ever ; with an authority ^ven them
to appmnt officers to make all manner of provision for the
^cation of the said fortresses. This was dated in May.

A commission to Edward Duke of Somerset, to be the To the
Cng^s justice, to inquire of all treasons, misprisions of ^"^^^ ^'
reason, insurrections, rebellions, unlawful assemblies and ^, the
^nventicles, unlawful speaking of words, confederacies, tice in ^"*"
conspiracies, false allegations, contempts, falsehoods, negli- ?"*!^® *"**
^ces, concealments, oppressions, riots, routs, murders, 435
^donies, and other ill deeds, whatsoever they be ; and also
d accessories of the same, in the counties of Bucks and
Berks : and to appoint certain days and places for the in*
quiry thereof: and to be the King's lieutenant within the
sud counties, for levying of men, and to fight against the
Kng's enemies and rebels, and to execute upon them the
Ottrtial law ; and to subdue all invasions, insurrections, &c.
u shall chance to be moved in any place, as he shall re-
pur to the limits of the said shires ; with a commandment
to all officers to assist him. And that the ssud commissioa

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BOOK be not prejudicial to the former commissions of oyer

terminer within the said counties.
AoDo 1551. A like commission to the Earl of Rutland and the I
ft^*Lincoin Cliuton, for Lincoln and Nottingham,
and Not- The like to the Earl of Sussex, Sir Roger Towns
tingbam. gj^. ^mj^ Fermor, ainl Sir John Robertscm, [Bdi

For Nor- ' ' "-

folk. perhaps,] for Norfolk.

For staf- The like commission to the Earl of Warwick, the
^ * count Hereford, and the Lord Paget, for Staffordshire.

For Suswix. The like to the Earl of Arundel and the Lord La Yi

for Sussex.
For Essex. The like to the Lord Chancellor [Lord Rich] the Ea

Oxon, the Lord Darcy, and Sir John Gaie, for Essex.
For Wilts. The like to Sir William Herbert, for Wiltshire.
For Ely. The like to the Bishop of Ely, for the isle of Ely.

For War- The like to the Earl of Warwidc, for Warwick and Oxi
Oxoo. The like to the Lord^Marquis of Northampton,-f(»r

For Surrey, jey.

For Kent. The like to the Lord Cobham^ and Lord Warden oi
Cinque Ports, [Sir Thomas Cheny,] for Kent and i
terbury.

For Leices- The like to the Earl of Huntingdon, for Leicester

Huntingd. Huntingdon.

For Lan- The like to the Earl of Darby, for Lancashire.

cashire. rj^^ jjj^^ ^ ^^le Earl of Shrewsbury, for Darby.

For Darby. , ... ...

For Wales. ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^"' William Herbert, for the principality

marches of Wales.
For SuflFoik. The like to the Lord Darcy, Lord Wentworth, and

Anthony Wyngfield, for SuflPolk.
For HuQ- The like to Sir Robert Trewhit, and Mr. Thomas 1

tinsdon. •• /» tt ^* j

^ ley, for Huntingdon.

For Nor- The like to the Lord Marquis of Northampton
He^.and Northampton, Bedford, Hertford, and Cambridgeshire
cambrid. The like to the Earl of Bedford, for Dorset, Som<
SoL?rt^,*' I^von, and Cornwal.

Devon, and The like to the Lord Treasurer, [Earl of Wiltshire
For South- Southampton.

ampton.

OP KING EDWARD VI- iWJS

TTie Bke to the Lord Paget and Sir Roger Cholmely, chap.
fcf Middlesex. All these commissions were dated in May. ^^^^'

A commission to Sir William Godolphin, knt. John Killi- Anno 1551.
grew, and John Godolphin, esquires, personally to repair to ^^'' **"*^'*'
die isle of SuUfey, [Scilley,] and to make a perfect diligent ^ ^mniis-
ftnw of all the same^sle, and to set out the number of "*«" ^^

. . . . , Scilly.

lores of land within the same ; and to divide the same into
flomany parts as may serve for tenants, and householders of
huibandry, allowing them sufficient land for tilling, and suf-
ftient pasture : and to grant the same for twenty-one years,
Ksenring to the King reasonable rents. And for their better
nBtmction^ the King hath sent there enclosed certiun in^
itructions. And that they signify in the Chancery, in dis* 486
tinct writing in pardmient, under their hands, widiin three
OKHiths after they shall accomplish the same commission,
Adr dcnng therein. Dated in May.

A commission to Robert Record, esq. appointed surveyor For mines
of all the mines of metal and minerals in the realm of Ire-*°
hud; that he, during pleasure, shall as well rule and order
therffein and works concerning the said mines, and provi-
skms of the same, as to appoint and take all manner of pro^
TisioD, labours, and carriages, both by land and water, a^
weQ in the realm of England as Ireland. And that the
treasurer, comptroller, and seymaster of the late erected
mints, and other officers, in all their alleys, [alloyes,] assays,
Qnxtures, meltings, blanchings, sheerings, and other their
wwks, use the counsel of the said surveyor. Dated in May.

A commission to John KilHgrew, to take up and provide For foitify
dl manner of workmen, and labourers of all sorts, and air°^ '**'**^^'
«nch stuff, cf what kind soever it be, as shall be thought re-
qiririte and needful for furtherance and finishing of the new
fortification within the isle of Scilley. Dated in June.

A commissidn to the Bishop of Chester, William Cliff, For a di-
Ridiard Liel, Jefifrey Glyn, and Henry Harvey, doctors of
the law, and George Wimesly, bachelor of law, or any two
of them; that upon the proof of the manifold adultery of
Elizabeth Atherton, they separate and divorce her from
r<^n Atherton her husband. Dated in June.

, vorce.

804 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK A commission to SirWilIiamPeti^,8^i«Cary, Sir RkJiai^
"• Read, &c. upon due proof of the manifest adultery of the ,

Anno 1551. Lady Mary Luttrel, to separate and divorce her from Sir
For a di- j^jj^ Luttrel her husband. Dated in June.

Torcc.

For piofo- A commission, dated in August, to the Duke of Somer-
guinf the ggf Thomas ArchbishoD of Canterbury, &c. or any two of

Parliament. , ^ , il ,. i a i ^ ^/ t.

them, to prorogue the Paruament to the 4th of Noyembs ,
next.
Forvisiting A commission to Sir Roger Cholmeiy, Sir Richard Rede,

the Savoy. Richard Goodric, esq. Broke, [Dr. Oliver,] and Dr.

Liel, or to six, four, or three of them, to viat the house cr
hospital, commonly called the Savoy : and to inquire and
search, by all ways and means, not only how and in wfapt |
sort the foundation, statutes, and ordinances thereof have \
been and be observed, and wherein the same doth agree ]
with the common order and proceeding of the realm ill
causes of religion ; and how the ministers, both men and ,
women, give attendance, and do their duties in their several
offices ; but also of the life, behaviour, and ccMiversadon of
all the ministers aforesaid ; and the state of their house, and
order of their lands : and to call before them such men as
they shall think expedient, for the attaining of more know-
ledge touching the premises: and to advertise the King's
Majesty, or his Privy Council, of their proceedings. This
was dated in September.
For trial of A commission to Sir Roger Cholmeiy, knt. Sir Richard

S Wor^cJis* ^*^^' ^^^' ^i^^- Goodrick, esq. John Gosnold, esq. Johp

ter and Oliver, and Richard Liel, doctors of the law, or to six, five,

'^* or four of them ; authorizing tiiem, at such several daysj

times, and places, and as often as they shall think good, to

call before them the Bishops of Worcester and Chichester,

and every of them, several and apai't, and all other whom

they shall think good and necessary, for the examination,

487 trial, proof, and full determination of such matters as te

laid against them ; and to require all process, writings, and

escripts, either remaining with the Council, or otherwise:

and finding that the said Bishops, and either of them, have

not conformed themselves according to the Eing'^s pleasure,

^ OP k:ing edwaud vl aos

'tonttandment, or monitions given by the Council, by the CHAF.
Xmg*s commandment, to proceed against them, and every of. ^^'^•

Aem, to deprivatimi of thefir several bishoprics. This bore Anno i65i.

"date in September*

' A commission, dated in October, to Edward Duke of So- For ?«>«>-

• sruinflr the

iKrset, Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, Richard Lord Parliament.
Si^, lord chancellor, William Marquis of Winchester, &c.
nd-to two of them, to prorogue the Parliament from the
iicS March until the 4th of November next.

A commission, dated October SS, to Thomas Archbishop For fimtidng
ft Canterbury, Nicolas Bishop of London, and Richard *^j*^**
Cocks, almoner, Peter Martyr, Rowland Tayler of Hadley,
Bartholomew Traheron, John Lucas, John Gosnold: to con-
adar all the King's ecclesiastical laws, according to a statute
of Parliament made &^. reg. Edw, VI. wherein thirty-two
persons were appointed for the same use; and to gather
md put in order in writing all such of them as they shall
dnnk convenient, and other laws ecclesiastical, as they shall
^k meet to be used within the realm : and to deliver the
•me unto the King^s Majesty, that they may be further
considered, according to his statutes.

A commission, dated October 26, to John Beaumont, esq. For des-
ffir William Portman, Sir James Hales, Sir Richard Rede, chancefy
Jrfin Ol3rver, and William Cook, and to five, four, or three matters.
"Of them, to hear and determine any manner of matters be-
fere the King in his Chancery, between his subjects, now
baling, or hereafter to be exhibited; with authority to
^ward out all manner of process that hath'been accustomed
therefore: and to punish all manner of contempts, and do
dl other circumstances necessary for the same ; with a com-
Quuidnient to all the o£Scers to attend upon five, four, or
three of them. And all things done by them to stand in
like force as if they were done by the Lord Chancellor.
[The Lord Chancellor Rich was now sick.]

A commission, in November, to Thomas Archbishop of To pro-
^terbury, Richard Lord Rich, lord chancellor, &c. top^^^^ent.
rorogue the Parliament from the 4th of November to the
Sd of January following.

906 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK A oommission, in November, to Edward Lord ClintoOt to
^^' christen the French King^s child.
Addo 1651. A commission to the said Lord Clinton, and Sir WilliMi I
TO f,f Pickering, jointly and severally, to hear all manner m^\
French with the French King : concerning the marriage betweei \
fhUd.' ^^ King's Majesty and the Lady Elizabeth, the Frenk
To treat of King's daughter, and the confirmation thereof acocHrding to
wiTh**^ their instructions, which they must recttve by "drtue of flip

France. same.

For the ec- A commisfflon, in November, to Thomaa Archbishop of
laws. Canterbury, Thomas Bishop of Ely, Richard Cocks, afanv*

ner, Peter Martyr, William May, Rowland Tayler,t)[(^ Lu-
cas, and Richard Goodrick, to confer together touching the
ecclesiastical laws. [This commission superseded that made ia
October, in which three persons were nominated commis-
sioners, which it was thought convenient afterward to dumge^
^. the Bishop of London, Baith. Traheron, and Jobn
Gosnold, for the Bishop of Ely, William May, and Bidi.
Goodrick.]
488 A commission, dated in December, to John Lord Ma^
For inquiry daunt. Sir John Saint John, Sir Urian Bruerton, knight^
dearth. Nic. Lukc, Fraucis Pygot, and Lewis Dives, esquires; to
inquire by all ways and means, how the enhancing cf
prices of corn, victuals, and other things, contained in a
proclamation annexed to the said commission, have grown,
and daily grow, by the insatiable greediness of divers co-
vetous persons in the county of Bedford ; and to punish «ll
such as shall disobey any thing contained in the same^
And a clause therein writ, to make out thirty-two omb-
missions for like effect to others there named.
For Ca- A commission, dated in December, to Sir Richard Cot-

Guisnes. ton and Sir Richard Bray, knts, to repair with certain
instructions to the town of Calais, and castle and county of
Guisnes, and to the other pieces on that side the seas: and
' there shewing their commission, do hear the opinions and
advice, as well of the counsellors in each of the said pieoeS)
as of other officers there, concerning the works, buildii^
and fortifications of the said pieces.

OF JQNG EDWARD VI. 907

A oommisncHi, in January, for assistance in hearing and CHAP.
letermining of the causes of the Chancery, to the Master of XXI x.
the RdUs, Sir William Portman, Sir James Hales, Sir Ri- Anno 1551.
diard Rede,. William May, Grifiyn Leyson, John Oly- F^' ."•«*•
imj Anthony Bellasis, and \^^am Cook. [The Bishop of chancery!
8^ having the great seal lately delivered to him.]

. A ccnnmisaon, in January, to the Lord Chancellor, John For inquiry
.brl of Bedford, Sir John Gates, Sir William Petre, &c. '^^^J^^
to call before them the heads and inferior ministers of the courts
Court of Exchequer, the Court of the Duchy of Lancas- revenues!
ttr, the Court of Wards and Liveries, the Court of Aug-
Mstations, the Court of First-fruits and Tenths : charging
nd commanding them to make before them perfect and
M declaration in writing under their hands, of all the
Eng's revenues, profits, and casualties, within their several
dttiges and offices, answerable in the said courts before
the date of the said commission, and of all rents, resolutes,
1)68, annuities, pensions, and other deductions.

A commission, in March 155^, to Henry Earl of West- >55«.
tterland, the Lord Wharton, Sir Thomas ChaJoner, Sirbatabie
Xhomas Palmer, or to four, three, or two of them ; to con- ^*"^-
dude With the Scots Queen^s ambassadors or commissioners,
\xc and concerning a certain parcel of land, called the de-
kttable land, and of other lands in the marches of Scotland ;
md to make division thereof.

A commission, in the same month, to John Earl of Bed- To put
iord, William Earl of Pembroke, the Lord Darcy, Sir Wil- JJ*"^*? ^^^^.^
iam Petre, Sir John Baker, Sir Philip Hoby, Sir Robert ^ution
9ows, Sir Thomas Wroth, Edward Griffyth, John Gos-
K)ld, or to ten, nine, eight, seven, or six of them, to put in
SLecution all such martial laws as shall be thought by their
liscretions most necessary to be executed. Instructions
[iven to them in nine articles.

A commission, the same month, to the Lord Chamber- For survey
tin, the Bishop of Norwich, Sir John Gates, Sir Wil- ^^j^^^f^^
am Petre, Sir Robert Bows, Sir Thomas Wroth, Sir Ri- courts.
lard Cotton, Sir Walter Mildmay, and John Gosnold, or
» nine, eight, seven, six, five, or four of them; to sur-

908 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK vey and peruse the state of all the King^s courts, erected
^^' or kept for the custody of the King's lands, and for the an.

Anno i55«.swering and payment of any manner of rents and revenue^

4®9 &C. And instructions given to them in five articles.
Forlceeping A Commission, the same month, to Sir John Gates, au* i
the ducby. thorizing him, as well to keep the privy and great seals rf j
the duchy still, as also to do all other things that shall ooo-
.cem the said office, during the Eing^s pleasure, in as ample
manner as the Lord Paget had it, with authority to appdot
a vice-chancellor.
For the Commissions in May for the counties in England, to the
tices of the noblemen, and other great men, to be the Eing^s justieei;
counties. ^^ inquire of all treasons, misprisions of treason, insunect
tions, rebellions, unlawful assemblies, and conventicles, unlaff'
ful speaking of words, confederacies, conspiracies, false aUe^
tions, contempts, falsehoods, neglects, concealments, riot^
routs, miu'ders, felonies, &c.
For sale of A commission in June for the sale of chantry lands, &
lands. rected to Sir John Gates, Sir Robert Bows, Sir Riduud
Sackvile, Sir Walter Mildmay, knights ; Richard GkwdriA
and John Gosnold, esquires.
To survey Divers commissions and instructions in June, to certaii
&c. bebng- persons within every shire of the realm ; to view and survqf
* h^ \ ^^® bells, plate, jewels, vestments, or ornaments, beloDgiif
to every church within the said shire ; and to take account,
and seize into their hands, to his Majesty'^s use, such of the
said goods as have been at any time since or before the last
survey embezzled away.
To ciaren- A commission to Thomas Hawly, alias Clarentieux, king
survey of of arms, and principal herald from the river of Trent south-
arms. ward ; to visit and oversee within his province, the anns,
devices, and cognisances of all noble and gentlemen : and if
any fault be found in any their coat armours, standardsi
banners, &c. contrary to the usage of this realm, to ff^
knowledge thereof to the King's Majesty and his Coundl.
For trial of A. commission in September, to Sir Roger Cholmdy)
of Durham. Sir Richard Rede, John Gosnold, Richard Goodrick, Bo-
bert Chidley, Stamford, esquires, and Richard Iid>

OP KING EDWARD VI. 209

doctor of law, or to seven, six, or five of them ; to examine CH AP.
mA call before them, at such times and places as they shall XXIX.
ttvik convenient, Cutbert, bishop of Durham, [and examine Anno isss.
liira,] of all manner of conventicles, conspiracies, contempts,
ttid concealments, or other ofiences: and if he be found
foOty, to deprive him of his bishopric, and otherwise to do
&e premises- according to their wisdoms, &c.

A commisinon, dated in October, to the Archbishop ofporpunUh-
Cinterbury, the Bishop of London, and others, for exami- "*"' ®^ *'"
jm^n and punishment of erroneous opinions in religion. opinions.
■ A commission, in December, to John Duke of Northum- For exuni-
feknd, John Earl of Bedford, Henry Duke of Suffolk, the^^S^„
Harquis of Northampton, the Earl of Shrewsbury, the Earl of the trea-
rf Pembroke, the Lord Darcy, Sir Thomas Cheyney, Sir
John Gates, Sir Thomas Wroth, Sir Walter Mildmay, and
Gliomas Mildmay, esq. or to five of them ; to call before
diem, at such time and place as they shall think meet, the
tvieasurer, under-treasurer, and teller of the Exchequer, the
treasurer of the Court of Augmentations, the treasurer of
Hie Chamber, the treasurer of the First-fruits, the receiver-
leneral of the Wards, the receiver-general of the duchy of
Lancaster, the treasurer of the town and marches of Calais, 49O
lie treasurer of the town and garrison of Berwick, and all
Hber treasurers, which now be, or heretofore have been,
inoe the 24th year of the Eang^s Majesty's father's reign, or
bdr heirs or executors ; or all and every paymaster, sur-
'eyor^ mustermaster, purveyor, victualler, and other per-
cxis, which at any time within the time aforesaid have re-
tAved of the King's/ Majesty, or his said late father, any
um or sums of money, treasure, bullion, victuals, provision,
IT other goods and chattels, either to be employed in the
rars, buildings, fortifications, or other affairs ; causing and
ompelling them which have not yet accounted for their
everal charges and receipts, to make and declare before
bem a full and perfect account of all such sums of money,
Uigations, specialties, treasures, bullion, victuals, provi-
008, &c. as they, or wcfy of them, received ; and also of the

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810 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK payment, and disbursage, and diacfaaige of the same,
^^' every part thereof. And if any of them shall be foimc

Anno i552.debted to the King, to proceed for the due saJdshe^nask

payment thereof.

To inquire A Commission, in the same month, to the Duke of Nortfa

mJ^I berknd, the Earl of Bedford, the Earl of Huntingdon, I

plate, &c. Darcy, Lord Clinton, Sir Richard Cotton, Sir Ralph j

ler. Sir Philip Hoby, Sir Walter Mildmay, Ridiard G

rick, Thomas Mildmay, or to four of them ; not only U

how the Eing^s Majesty is satisfied of all such lead,

metal, plate, jewels, ornaments, stock .and store-good

come and is due unto the King'^s Majesty by reason of d

commissions and visitations, and by reason of the dissoli

of divers monasteries, priories, colleges, chantries, &c. an

attainder of divers persons; but also for divers forfa

jewels, silver, bullion, plate, gold, and silver.

Commis- A commis^on, in January, to the Bishop of Ely,

STdIo" chanceUor, the Bishop of Noi-wich, Sir Richard Cotttm

monies due to examine, search, and try, as well by the record oJ

Chancery, as by all other ways, what sums of money

at any time heretofore due unto the King or his fsdhei

the sales of lands, possessions, sithence the 4th of Fel

27 Henry VIII. and how the same was answered.

For coiiec A commission, in the same month, to Sir Richard Cc

church ^^^ John Gates, Sir Robert Bowes, Sir John Mason

stuff. John Baker, Sir Walter Mildmay, John Lucas, Th

Mildmay, esquires, or to four of them ; for the collect!

church stuff, plate, jewels, ornaments, &c.

For deter- A commission, in February, to the Dean of St. P

mattef be- Thomas Gawdy, Griffyn Leyson, William Staunford,

tween Fran, liam Cook, and Richard Catlyn, or to three of them

^^r''""' the understanding, hearing, and final determining

matter in controversy between Francis ChaJoner, andi

his wife, daughter to Sir William Bowyer, late aldeni

London, deceased, and the executors and overseers <

last will and testament.

A commission, dated in the foresaid month, to Ri

OP KING EDWARD VI. 811

Blqphai^ £ar the finding of ores of gold and nlver, andother CHAP.
ine^dfl, within the counties of Darby and Chester, with li- ^

Woe of the owners. Anno i65i.

'^' A xxxnmissioB, the same month, to the Marquis of North- ^^^ ^^^
^pton, the Lord Bray, Sir John St John's, Sir Urian «iver ore.
, Richard Snow, and Lewis Dyve ; to make P^<^hitochnreh
€y of aH manner of church goods within the county of goods.
And that the like commissions be made out and 491
to the persons in the end of the said commissions,
the shii^es, cities, and towns therein declared.
A ocnnmission, dated in March, to Thomas Bishop o^J^**?*^
idi, Sir John Grates, Sir Philip Hoby , &c. to sell for raUe
E^HMJjf^ money any of the King's manors, lands, tenements, ^^^^'
'Jk.to the yearly value of lOOOi.

' A ootnmis^on, in April 1S53, to Sir Richard Cotton, Sir, i55«.
Italph~ Sadler, Sir Walter Mildmay, knights, and Edmund count of tbe
7!f|e0D, clerk of the wardrobes, or to three, or two of them ; S^"'*^ j|^
tiltiA:e account of June Cecyl, and Sir William Cecyl, knt. robe.
idttihistrators of the testimony of Richard Cecyl, [yeoman
if the wardrobes, deceased,] for certain robes, apparel, and
fiwds of the King, in the custody of the said Richard.
* A commisi^on, in May, to Sir Richard Cotton, Sir John To consider
Gates, Sir Roger Cholmely, &c. to call before them all trea-f^ the fail
iitrerB, receivers, biailifFs, collectors, &c. or other persons, <*^ "*<*"*y-
4Mit do demand allowance for the falls of any sums of money
idiq^ to be lost, by reason of two proclamations ; and to
Qonnder the same in their accounts.

To these commissions I add a few proclamations.

II. Proclamations.
A proclamation that none should melt any testour or shil- . \^^}'

^^ *^ "^ , Against

Sng, groat, half-groat, penny, halfpenny, orfarthing, or any meitiog
fMher coin of silver, being current within the realm ; to make KiM»s*coin.
YMel, plate, or any other thing, upon pain of forfeiture of
boat times the value of the money so molten, and to suffer
imprisonment and other pains. Dated in September 1551.

'A proclamation declaring, that the Eing^s Majesty hath Declaring
xdared and established to be made within his mints thes^ values of

«« MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK several coins, as well of nlver, in fineness of the standard, ai
II* also of gold, as hereafter ensueth: that is to say, onepieee

Anno 1651. of silver monies, which shall be current for five shillings of
sold Mid ^Q lawful monies aforesaid ; another piece, which shall be

silver com. i n i

called the piece of two shiUinga and giapence oi the lawnl
monies ; the third piece, which shall be called ike sUrimg
shillings current for twelve pence ; the fourth piece, whidi
shall be half of the ^d shilling, shall be current for dxpem
Also the Elng^s Miyesty hath ordered to have four pieoei
of small monies made Ukewise current: diat is to say, the
first piece shall be called a penny y with a double rofle, and
shall be current for a penny of the lawful mcmies tdiareaai\
the second shall be called an kalfpennyj with a angle nxe;.
and the third piece afcvrthmg^ with a portcullis. [Afourdi
jHece is here wanting, whether it should be the gioat or the
twopence, I know not.]

And of the coins of gold as here ensueth : that is to say^
the old sovereign of fine gold, which shall be curr^t fif
thirty shillings of lawful money of England ; another pieee
of fine gold, oalled ^ angd^ shall be current for ten sliik
- hngs ; the third piece of fine gold, which shall be called Af.
angtlety half of the angel, current for five shillings. And
further, a whole sovereign of crown gold diall be ctirrent ftf
twenty shillings; the second piece of crown gold^ which
shall be called ike half aoroereigny shall be current for tell
492 shillings ; and the third piece of crown gold, which shall be
called a crown, current for five shillings ; the fourth piece rf
crown gold, which shall be called the haffcrown^ diall be cur-
rent for two shillings sixpence of the lawful monies aforesaid

And the King's Majesty strictly chargeth and command-
eth all manner of persons within his realms and dominioiU) ;
to receive and pay the said several pieces of money, as well
of silver as of gold, at the several rates before rehearsed,
upon pain of the King's high displeasure, and to be further
punished as his Highness shall think convenient '

And his express commandment is, that all such base
monies which his Majesty did lately, by his several procbh

OF KING EDWARD VI. 218

taAaaa, reduce to the value of a lower rate, shall pass and CHAP.
p oirrent in payment in like manner and sort as his High-

M»*8 last prodamaticMi did declare, until such time as his Anno i56i.

Ibgesty^s mints may with diligence convert the same into

bb said new coins ; which his Majesty mindeth to have done

IrA all possible expedition.

> And Ins Majesty signifieth to all his loving subjects, that

if Uiey do bring in a quantity of monies now current, into his

filacers mint within the Tower of Lcmdon, they shall have

be same received there by tale at the value as they be now

Nnrait upon bills : and they shall, in as convenient time as

nay, be repaid for the same monies now current by tale in

adier the King^s Majesty^s new money afore declared; This

aine forth in October 1551.

A proclamation, set forth in November 1551, declaring, That the
ihat the King*^ pleasure is, that the proclamation set forth J^^n^^^e
br the cessing the prices of catde and other victuals, and prices of
il pains, forfeitures, and prices therein contained, shall from ^7"
iCDceforth cease, and be put no further in execution. [The *^*"*'
foclamation for assessing the prices of cattle^ and provision,
nd to which this refers, came out anno 1549) and may be
Bad in the foregoing history.]

A proclamation, in December 1551, charging and com- Against
landing all the King's true subjects not to credit such vain, |^*u^"jf
klse, and seditious rumours concerning certain pieces of his the King's
Durness's coin now made, which have been well stricken,
lat his Majesty'^s arms do not appear in the same, &c. to be
sditiously declared.

A jnroclamation, the same month and year, prohibiting the Against
uying and selling of coin at other prices than the same is^^"]?^^*"**
mrent by the King's late proclamation. coin.

A proclamation, Feb. ^, 1551, prohibiting frays andAgaidet'
^tings in cathedral churches, and bringing in horses and ^^ciies.
loyles into the same.

A .proclamation, in August 1559, to avoid all manner of 1559.
arsons infected with pestilence, or other outrageous dis- ^^^^ infedu
sett, or having any person in their houses therewithal in- ed to avoid
jted, from the Court, and other places, whereunto the

S14 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK King^s Majesty shall repair in this his Majesty'^s progrew:
'*' and also fcnrbidding any of the inhabitants of Pole or Win*

Anno iMt.bum Minster, by reason of the plague there, to resort toAe
Court at Woodlands, or Canford, during his Maj&tfi
abode there.
To put in A proclamation, in November 1552, willing and diarging
an act for ^ justices of peace diligently to have respect to the doe
tillage. execution of a statute made in the last session of the PaifiiF
493 ment, for tillage, to be used as it was in any one year flinch
the first year of- the reign of King Henry VIII.
For keeping A proclamation, in February 1552, that no person after
the publishing hereof, having no licence to eat flesh, do iriU
lingly ^t any manner of fie^ in time of Lent, or other fiuft^
ing days, upon the pain and penalty contained in a statute
in that behalf made. ^
i^or the A proclamation, the same month and year, that no penoni

GaMoin ^^^ ^U wine by retail, sell above eight pence a gallon al
Gascoin wine, four pence a pottle, and two pence a quart,
and a penny a pint, upon pain limited therefore.

WHie.

CHAP. XXX.

Divers acts of the Kind's grace and favour^ shewed to Ai

courtiers and others.

W E now proceed to set down various rewards, liberalities,
honorary and beneficial trusts, &c. conferred by the King
upon divers persons.

III. Gifls^ grants, annuities and offices, pardons ani

purchases,

1650. An annuity of 10(M. to William Cecyl, one of the King's
^JJJ^^*** secretaries, in consideration of his said office, during Ac
eretary. King^s pleasure : to be paid at the Augm^itation, firoa

Michaelmas last, half yearly. Dated October , 1550.
BeU-dap- ^ grant to Arthur Champon, and John Chichester, d
•d to Chun, all the clappers of the bells cc»nmanded tabe taken dowi
C^toter. ^thin the counties pjf Devon and Cornwall, with all th

OF KING EDWARD VI. 216

Hon and other furniture thereunto belonirinfi:. Dated in CHAP.
November. ^^^•

• A grant, dated in November, unto John Lord Sheffield, A'^<> ^s^^-
m and heir to Edmund, late Lord Sheffield, deceased ; to Sheffield^'*
' bestow himself in marriage at his own free election and under age,
dioice, without any fine or payment to be required in the hu mar-*'

;; Court of Wards and Liveries, or elsewhere, to the King^s "*««•
QBe, for the value of his marriage, being in minority : in
ttiisideration of the great charge that His said father sus-

r tuned in the King^s war at Norwich. [Where he was killed

i the last year.]

^ The office of steward of the manor of Rising in the To Sir John
onnty of Norfolk, and the constableship of the castle therej andstrRob.
te[Su*] John Robsert, and Sir Robert Dudley, [a son of Dudley.
Ae Earl of Warwick, and that married the daughter and
karof the said Sir John,] for life, and to the longer liver of

' them: with a fee of 40*. by the year for the office of
rtewardship, and for the constableship 131. Sd. per ann.
«nd for the office of master of the game 4Z, 13*. 3d. per 494
ttm. and 53*. 4d. for the wages of two forests : to be paid
by the receivers of the premises. Dated in December.

The office of master of the rolls to John Beaumont, esq. 'I'o Jo^"
for life ; with all fees and profits thereunto belonging, in as esq. *
l«ge and ample manner as Sir Robert Southwel lately had
It Dated in December.

The office of keeping the chief messuage of the manor of To the Earl
£sdber in Surrey, and the keeping of the gardens and or-^^g^*j[^d
dard there, with the office of lieutenant of the chase of Lord L"ie.
Hampton Court, to John Earl of Warwick, and John
liOid Lisle, during their lives, and the longest hver. Dated
in December.
An annuity of SI. to Nic. Bacon, esq. with the wardship To Nic.

aod marriage of Edward Fox, without disparagement, dur-

11^ his minority. And so from heirs male to heirs male.

Dated in January.
An annuity of SOO marks to Sir John Zouch, knt. for To Sir John

ife, after EUzabeth Zouch's death, late abbess of Shafts- ^'*"*'^-

p 4

S16 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK bury: to be paid at the Aiyncntatioti quarteriy. I
*^' in Januaiy.

Aiiaoi55o. Sir Martin Bowes, sub-treasurff of the money and a

ToSrMar-^ mint of the Tower of London: which place he
rendered, and had an annuity granted him therefine, <
the month above; besides the annuity of 66{.lS9.4d.gn
him by the King his Majesty^s father, for his good sc
done in the said office.

To tiM A grant to the said Sir Martin, of the same date, wh

'*'^' he was found indebted to the King in the sum of 10,
upon his account taken by John Earl of Warwidc
William Herbert, and Sir Walter Mildmay, commissi
appointed to hear and determine all accounts and re
ings of the King^s mints within this realm, that he shal
and discharge the same as followeth ; that is to say, in
SOOOl. and so at divers payments the rest, allowing
time.

To Uie A pardon to Sir Martin Bowes, of all treasons, tresp

contempts, &c. done and committed by the smd M
concerning the money and coin of the King's Majest
his fatherX before the date of these presents ; and
unjust and false making of money, and payments c
same ; and of all other offences done contrary to the
of the common law, or contrary to any statute, act, ]
^on, proclamation, &c. or contrary to any prescription
torn, &c. Dated as above.

To Thomas The office of Clerk of the Council to Thomas Mars
life, after the death of Richard Eden and Thomas 1
with a fee of 40 marks per ann. to be paid at the Excb
quarterly. Dated in March.

To the Earl ^ a\ft to John Earl of Warwick, in consideration c

of War- ® '

wick. manor of Assher and park, granted by the King, of a
manor of Chelsey, and the chief mansion house. T
yearly value of SOL 3s. 1^. Dated in March.

To John The keeping of John Layland [Leyland] the yoi
being mad, to John Layland the elder, with all his
tenements, rents, &c. in as large and ample manner \

OP KING EDWARD VL 817

wd John the younger, being in his right mind, had the cHAP.
Dated in March. ^OLX.

Guillim Stretes, the Eing^s painter, had paid him 50 Anno 1551.

Mrks, for recompence of three great tables made by theToGuiiiUn

wd Guillim. Whereof two were the pictures of his High-'

WttBy sent to Sir Thomas Hoby and Sir John Mason, [am-
' httsadors abroad,] the third a picture of the late Earl of 495

Sun^y, attainted: and, by the Council^s commandment,
- ietdied from the said Guillim^s house. Dated in March
. ttSl.

• To Sebastian Cabote [the great seaman] 800/. by way of To Sebas-
'. Ae Eng's Majesty's reward. Dated in March 1551. tianc»b«te.

The creation of Sir Thomas Darcy, and his heirs male of To SirTho.

m body, to the title of Baron of Chich in Essex, by the ^'

We of the Parliament. Dated in April.
' * A gift to the said Sir Thomas Darcy, and to his heirs To the
■ male, of the reversion of the house and seat of the late mo-^"**
'■ flitttay of Chich St. Osyth, with the appurtenances, in the
\ county of Essex, with the house and scite the Lady Mary
I kith during her life, with divers other lands, tenements, &c.
I together with a further ^t unto him in fee-simple, of the
[ iBanor of Lucton, alias Loughton ; with divers other lands
[ la the county of Devon. All extending to the yearly value
^ 0^467/. 13^. 1|^. To hold the entailed lands in capite by

one knight^s fee ; and the land in fee-simple in capite^ by

the half of one knight'^s fee. Dated in April.
A privilege to Laurence Torrentinus, printer to the Duke To Lau-

rf Florence, for seven years, to print the book of Digests [^„^,^^''

ttd Pandects of the civil law of the Bomans : and that none

print the same book during that time, without his li-
cence. Dated in April.

The office of hicrh marshal of En£:land to John Earl of To the Earl
•Warwick, for life, in as ample manner as John Mowbraly, J|,.ick *'^"
and Thomas late Duke of Norfolk, had and enjoyed the
ome. The patent dated in April.

A gift to the Lady Elizabeth, the Kings's sister, for the To the Lady
term of her life, of all the scite of the late monastery of *^
Missenden, in the coimty of Bucks, with divers other

SIS MEMORIALS ECCLESUlSTICAL

BOOK liuads, &c. to the yearly value of 80641. 17<9. 8d. /which bods
^^* before were given to her, and for divers considerations now
Anno 1561. signed, the month above.

To John A privilege to John Gipken, of London, [a Dutdiman,
*^ *°' lately made free,] bookseller, for ten years, to print, or cami
to be printed, the Herbal in English, compiled by W. Tuft
ner, doctor in physic : and that none other shall priat the
same. Dated in April.
To John A ^t to John Cheke, esq. in fee-simple, in confflderation
Chekc,e8q. ^f ^jjg surrendering of 100 marks rent granted him byJettfifl
patents, dated at Westminster, Aug. 26. ann. S Edward VL
for twenty-one years, if it should so long please the Cngi
of all the manor of Stoke juxta Clare, in the counties of
Suffolk and Essex, with divers other lands, tenements, &e.
all to the yearly value of 14W. 19s. Sd. to hold all the pra-
mises in capite, by the fortieth part of a knight's fee : ex-
cept the fuller mill in Stoke, the guildhall house in Stokey
the Pistem pasture, and other premises in Spalding, and
the rectory of Sandon, and other premises in Sandon ; to be
holden as of the manor of Greenwich, by fealty only. Pay*
ing yearly to the King for the manor of Stoke, 4i. 17*. 7i
Dated in May.
To John The keeping and governance of Richarcl and Edwaid
Fowler. Dautry, idiots, to John Fowler, groom of the privy duim*
ber, during their lives, and of all their lands, &c. with s
grant to the said John of all the revenues of the said landS)
&c. from the death of Sir John Dautry, knt. thrir fiither.
Dated in May.
496 A ^t to John Earl of Warwick, in fee-simple, of Ot- ^
w ^*^V ^^^^ ^ Kent, with divers other lands, &c. Value yemfy

4i9l 3s. Sd. Dated in May.
To Will. A grant to William Turk, groom of the privy chamber)
'^"' • of all William Rastal^s leases, goods, moveables, and iiD-
moveables, being forfeited to the King by the said BasUlj
for going beyond the seas without licence, contrary to astft*-
tute and proclamation in that behalf. Dated in May.
To John The office of prothonotary, or derk of the crown, to John

Leonard!"** Leonard and Thomas Leonard, for life, and the longest

OF ^NG EDWARD VI. 219

Hrer, of the counties of Glamorgan, Monmouth, Breck- CHAP,
nodt, and Radnor, in all courts, terms, sessions, &c. with the ^^^'

nakiDg and entering of all manner of writs, processes, de- Anno issj.
darations, &c. with all fees and profits thereunto belonging,
irithout account making. Which office John Leonard sur-
wndered, to have this joint patency. [Thomas probably
beh^ his son or heir.]

A gift, dated in July, to the mayor and commonalty of the To the
fhj of London, and their successors, of all the house and ^'^^'^oiii.
pote of the late hospital of Thomas Becket in Southwark,tyofLon-
cranmonly called St. Thomases hospital, in Surrey, withg^"*^^
^ers other lands, &c. ornaments, lead, and goods belong- mas's hos-
IBg to the said hospital, to the yearly value of 164Z. 17*. Id. ^** '
Jo be holden all by fealty only in soccage, as of the manor
of East Greenwich. And to take the profit from the An-
Buncialion of our Lady last ; with a new erection of the said
bosptal, and the appropriation thereof to the said mayor
and commonalty, and their successors. And that all the
ivofits of the said land shall go to the finding of the poor
yearly, except such as shaU go to the finding of twd masters,
two sisters, one porter, and the overseer of the said hospital.
And that the King shall appoint commissioners from time to
time, to visit the said hospital, and to see the same lapds to
bei^nt and employed, [accordinjg to the intent of the royal
Amor.] And that the officers thereof shall pay no first-fruits
wd tenths.

A gift to Sir John Gates, for life, in consideration of sur-To Sir John
Kndering the foresaid hospital of St. Thomas into the King'^s ^*^*^®'
lumds, granted unto him by his Majesty^s father'^s letters
patents, for life, with all the profits, and without account
iCBdering, of all the manors of Bradwel, Munden, Law-
fiird, in the county of Essex, and other lands, &c. to the
^esrly value of 208Z. 9^. 9id. Dated in July.

The office of keeping the capital messuage or mansion, To the
lite of Charles Duke of Suffolk, in South wark, and of the
prden, orchard, and park there, to Sir John Gates, for
ife, with the office of high steward and bailiff there, of

«ame.

290 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

B OO K all the lands, tenements, and liberties of the same : and also

* of the office of steward and bailiff of Paris Garden, and the

Anno 1 96 1- liberties thereof, with a fee of SOI. 6s. 8d. per annum. Dated

in July.
To Peter The oflBce of Clerk of the Faculties to Peter Osborn, for
^' life, with fees accustomed. Dated in July.

These parcels were given in July by the King, from the
. bishopric of Winton :
497 ^^ ^^^ John Gates, the manors of Sutton, Ropley, he .
ToSirJohn^Q the counties of Southampton and Surrey, to theyearfy

value of 146/. 19*. 9id.
To Sir Phi- To Sir Philip Hoby, the m^or of Harden, &c. in the
*^ ** county of Southampton^ to the value of 87/. 18*. 7Aper

annum.
To Sir An- To Sir Andrew Dudley, the manor of Witney, &c to the

draw Dud- , ^tt^rt.■| m,* 1

ley. value of 180/. 7|a.

ToSirHeu- To Sir Henry Scimour, 4ands to the yearly value of 18ff.

rySeimour. j.

To William To William Fitzwilliams, the manor of High Clere, ice

S^' ^o ^^^ y^a^'ly value of 84/. 17*. 3d.

To Henry To Henry Nevyl, the manor of Margrave, &c. to the
^*^y'- yearly value of 114/. 18*. lOd.

To several Annuities, dated in September, to several Frenchmen,
"**"* [ministers, probably, and others, fled from th^ own coun-
try for the persecution ;] viz.

£. s. d. £. s. d,

Francis de Bignon 37 10 0 Nic. Du Menir 27 7 6

Abraham Parady 27 7 6 Galliot Tassat 27 7 6

John de Len 27 7 6 CoUin le Cout 18 5 0

to be paid from the first of January last.

To Sir Wii. The office of steward of the lordship of Sheriff Hutton,

liam Picker»

ing. and constableship of the castle of Sheriff Hutton in Yoik-

shire, to Sir William Pickering, knight, for life, with all fees
and profits thereunto accustomed, together with the b^-
bage and pannage of the park thereof; paying so much
yearly as Charles Brandon, [late brother to the Duke of
Suffolk,] deceased, did. Dated in August.

OP KING EDWARD VI. 881

The office of the King^s apothecary to John Heming- CHAP,
way, fcM" life ; and a fee of 40 marks per annum. Dated in -

So^mber. Anno 1661.

A gift to William Thomas [clerk of the Council] in fee- Heming-

sim}de, of all the manor of Garway, with the appurtenances, ^^y*

ToV
lliomM.

rathe county of Hereford; and divers other lands, to the*^**^'""^

yearly value of 351. per annum, to be held in capite by the
iortieth part of a knight^s fee. Dated in September.

The creation of Sir William Herbert, knight^ and his To Sir wa-
kirs male, to the barony of Cardiff in Glamorganshire ; ^^
and to be lords of the Parliament, with the name, title, and
itikte thereof. Dated in October.

His creation to the earldom of Pembroke, with the name, To the
title, and state thereof. Dated as above, with 40Z. by year, '*™**
to be paid of the customs of Bristol.

The creation of John Earl of Warwick, and of his heirs To John
nale, to the dukedom of Northumberland, with 50 marks Warwick.
l>y year, to be paid of the customs of Newcastle. Dated as
above.

The creation of Henry Marquis of Dorset, and his heirs To Henrj
male, to the dukedom of Suffolk, with 60 marks by year, to^^J^J' ^'
be paid of the customs of Hippeswich. Dated as above.

The creation of William Earl of Wiltshire to the mar-ToWiUiam
quisy of Winton, and his heirs male, with 60 marks by year, wnu!
out of the fee-farms of Winton. Dated as above.

To Sir John Mason, and the Lady Elizabeth his wife, To Sir John
Uid their heirs, of the manor of Apulford in Berks, with
fivers other lands, of the yearly value of 104Z. Bs. Gjd. 498
C^ted in October.

A gift to William Earl of Pembroke, and his heirs, of To William
162?. 3*. 5d. being several rents reserved of the house and Pembroke,
site of the late monastery of Wilton in Wilts, and divers
other lands: as also of the manor of Bishopston, alias
EUesborn, in the same county, of yearly value 432. 2s. Id.
Dated as above.

The oflSce of general warden or keeper of the marches To the
f England, towards the parties of Scotland ; that is to say, ^IJrthum-

berlan<|*

8SS MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOR to the east march, the west march, and middle marcb, mgli
*'• the King^s dominions of Scotland, to Jchn Duke of Nor-

Anno i65i.thumberland; with authority to do and exercise all thiiigl
appertaining to the same office, in as large and ample imoi-
nar, as by authority of Richard Ih Henry IV. Heniy V.
Henry VI. Edward IV. Ridiard III. Henry VII. Hemy
VIII. it hath been used ; and to see the same well fortified
with weapons of war, for the safeguard of the King^s liege
people, and the sure defence of the town and castle of Ber-
wick: and to appoint, ordain, and constitute under him a
sub-warden ; and to have the preeminences, liberties, and
commodities belonging to the same office^ to him and hb
deputies, in as large and ample manner as any heretofixe
had the same. Dated in October.

To Sir wn- A gift to Sir WiUiam Cecyl, and Lady Mildred his wife,
' and to the heirs of the said William, of the manor of Beie-
bamstow and Deping, with the appurtenances, in the coun^
of Lincoln ; and of the manor of Thetford-hall in the same
county ; and also of the reversion of the manor of Barons
down, alias Wrangdike, with the appurtenances, in tbe
county of Rutland, granted to the Lady Elizabeth for life,
by the King^s letters patent, dated at Westminster, on. 4
reg. Also of the reversion of the manor of Liddington in
the county of Rutland, granted to Greorge [Gr^ory] Lord
Crumwel, and Lady Elizabeth his wife, during th^ lives.
Also the moiety of the rectory of Grodstow, alias Waltham-
sted, with divers other lands, to the value of 15^. Sf. 9)^
To be holden in capite by the half part of a knight^s fee.
Dated in October.

To Sir Ro- The office of master of the hospital of the Savoy, in the
parish of St. Clement of Dacars, without the bars of tbe
New Temple, in the county of Middlesex, to Sir Robert
Bows, knight, for life, with all manors, lands, tenements)
and hereditaments to the same belonging. Dated in No-
vember.

To Sir John The office of clerk of the Parliament granted to Sir John

^!^pii*"^ Mason, knight, and Francis Spilman, for their lives, with

man.

OF KING EDWARD VI. 888

btQ fee :of 4(ML by year, to be paid by the keeper of the CHAP.
mxkpet (rf the Chancery, quarterly : and the old letters ^^^'

patents cancelled to this joint patency. Anno i66i.

(.[.Annuities of 1002. to Richard Goodric and John Lucas. To Goodric
(Tbese were the Eing'^s lawyers, employed by him in many
commissions.] Dated in December.

/ The office of deputy warden of the west marches towards To the Lord
Jbodand, to the Lord Conyers, with the fee of 600 marks °^*"*
per annum, and for two deputies, lOZ. per annum. Dated
IB December.

1: The office of deputy warden of the east marches towards To SirNic.
&otkiid, to Sir Nic. Strelly, with the fee of 700 marks per^*""^'
flumm: with like allowance for deputies and sergeants.
Dated as before.

The office of deputy warden of the middle marches, to the 499
Lofd Ogle, with the fee of 600 marks per annum ; with like To Lord
MDunission and authority as the others have. Dated as before.

A grant to Sir John Mason, knight, of the lease and ^''oSir John
fan of Yelingbery and Wormold in the county of Middle-
ttx, in the parishes of Yelding and Fulham, demised by
tie Bishop of London to the Duke of Somerset, being pre-
mtly in the King^s disposition, as a chattel of the said
Duke's. Dated as before. ^

- A gift to Sir Thomas Wroth, as well in consideration of To SirTho.
li service, as of surrendering into the King's hand an an-
Boity of 100 marks, of the manor of Lydiard in the county
of Somerset, and divers other lands, to the yearly value of
W. 8*. llfd. to hold partly by fealty only in soccage, and
partly in capite : paying yearly for the manor of Thoyden
Boys 369. for the scite and demean lands of Berden, [a
lite piiory,] 47^. for the scite and demean of Abendon,
U#. and for the lands and tenements in Chulden, lOd.
nd.for the manor of Lydiard, 101. and for the manor
of Thoyden Bois, [mistaken by the scribe for some other
place,] 5L 18s. S^d. Dated as before.

A^t, dated in the said month of December, to the Duke To the Duke
of Northumberland, being the scite of the late monastery of J*^J^^^^
Tinmouth in the county of Northumberland, and a great land.

884 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK number of lordships and manors more. And another gift ti
him of the towns of Alnwick, &c. in the same ooimfj

Adda 1651. Dated as before.
To Row A patent to Rose Fisher, being a widow, of a sistenh^
within St. Bartholomew'^s hospital in Smithfidd. Dated 87th
September. [December it should be.]
To the Mar. A cift of the Kinff to the Marquis of Northampton, of
thamptoD. ' aU ^^ possessions and goods belon^ng to the late fiateni-
ties of our Lady, of St Peter and St Paul, of the Trii^)
and of St. George, within the town of Boston in linah-
shire : with a licence to him to erect an hospital within the
said town of Boston ; and to give for the maintenance of th
same, 501. of yearly revenue for ever : which hospital sUI
be called, TTie hospital of the Jbtmdation of WUUam MaT'
guis of Northampton. Dated January IS.
1552. A pardon granted to Henry Nevyl, Lord Bui^venny)
TotiieLordfor Striking a nobleman [viz. the Earl of ChrfcH^l in tke

King's chamber of presence. Dated April 6.
To Hainp- Clerks of the Council had these fees granted them n
mas, and" April ; viz. to Bernard Hampton, esq. 60 marks ; to "Wit
Wade. liam Thomas, esq. 401. to Armagil Wade, esq. 601. payable
out of the Exchequer. Their patents for these fees boKB
date May 12 following.
To the Duke A patent granted to the Duke of Northumberland, of
umberiand. ^^^ offices of the chief stewiCrdship, as well of the East Rid-
ing in the county of _York, as also of all the King^s lord-
ships and manors of Holdemes and Cottingham, widi the
appurtenances, in the said East Riding ; with the grant d
several fees belon^ng to the said several high stewardships:
and also the authority to name and appoint, by writing un-
der his hand, all offices of under-stewards, bailifis, eschea-
tors, feudaries, clerks of the crown courts, and other offi-
cers, whatsoever they be, within the East Riding, and Hd-
dernes, and Nottingham, when they shall chance to be vdd.
5 00 And also, that no particular officer shall grant, by ooipy of
court-roll, or let to farm, any lands within the East BkUng
aforesaid, without the consent of the Duke. And moreover,
to have the keeping of the manor and park of Scroby in

OF KING EDWARD VI. 22tf

Notthigbamdiire, with the fee of 52. &. 5|d. and to have CHAR
die barlage and pannage of the said park for term of life, ^^^'

tx the rent of 62. to be paid at the Court of Augmentations. Anno i55i.
Iked April 23.

A patent granted to Sir William Sidney, of the honour To Sir Wii<*
of Pendiurst in Kent, and of the manors of Ensfeld in"'"'^'*^-
Cepham and Hawden in the same county, lately parcel of the
iolieritance of Sir Rauf Fane, knight, attainted of felony ;
and alao free warren in the park, with all the deer and co-
mes in the said park, to him and his heirs : and also to have
iD the lands, goods, chattels, lead, utensils, vessels, mares,
gddings, mules, and other things, in and upon the said
cUef mansion of Penshurst, or within the foresaid manor of
Eoflfekl and park, which were the said Fane^s, October S
last past, and came to the Eing^s hands by his attaint : and
to have the issues and profits of all th^ premises from the
day of the attainder of the said Rauf. Dated April ^.

A patent granted to Sir Henry Gates, knight, and of theToSirHen-
King^s privy chamber, of the chief messuage in Kew in the*^ **'
parish of Mortlack in the county of Surrey, with the appur-
te&ances, which came to the King^s IVfajesty by the attain*
der of Sir Miles Partridge, to him and his heirs : as also of
the manor of East Greenwich, by fealty in soccage, and not
wi capUe. And to have the reversion of the advowson of
Bernstow, after the Earl of Pembroke, if he shall fortune
to decease without heirs male of his body begotten. And to
kve all the issue and profits of the premises from the time
of the attainder of the said Partridge. Dated April 26.

Another patent to him of all the goods and chattels of To the
Sir Miles Partridge, being at his house at Kew at the time **"***
of his attainder. Dated April 20.

The King appointed for his mint Thomas Egerton,To£ger-
esquire, treasurer of the mint of the Tower; Thomas Stan-{^^'^"
igr, oomptroUer ; William Billingsley, assay-master; Johnimgdey,
Mqndp^ pfovost« Dated in April.

A patent granted to the Earl of Warwick, [Ambrose, To the Earl
eldest son to the Duke of Northumberland,] to be master ''^^'^'*'^-
rf the King^s horses, upon surrender of the King's letters

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SS6 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK patents of the same office by the Earl of Pembroke, bdif
^^' of the date of December 58, S^ reg. tor his life: and finr the

Anno 1552. occupation of the said office to have 100 marks at the re-
ceipt of the Exchequer. Dated April 99.

Td Sir Jobn A patent granted to Sir John Mason, knight, aoe of the
Council, and Ehzabeth his wife, of the fee-farm of all (be
manor of Wrotham in Kent, with the appurtenances, late
parcel of the possessions of the Archbishop of Canteibuiy;
which be extended to the yearly value of 40Z. 10*. 6ji
Dated May S.

To Sir John An annuity granted to Sir John Godsa}ve of 601, by the
^' year, upon the surrender of the office of comptrolment of
the mint in the Tower of London, durante vita. Dated as
before.

To SirEdw. A patent granted to Sir Edward Bray, of the constaUe*
'*^* ship of the Tower, in reversion after the death of Sir John
Gage, by the fee of 502. per annum. Dated May S8.
501 A patent granted to John Earl of Bedford, and lord

^fMf^'^P"^ seal, of the gift of Covent>-garden, lying in the ps-
rish of St. Martin's in the Fields next Charing-cross, iridi
seven acres called Long Acre, of the yearly value of 61 ft.
8d. parcel of the possessions of the late Duke of Somerset
To have to him and his heirs, to be held in soccage, and
not in capite. Dated in May.

To Christ's A patent granted to Christ's college in Cambridge, of the

c^g^dge. manor of Bume in Cambridge, and the parsonage with the
advowson of the same, in. the said Bume, late belonging to
the priory of Bamwel in the said county : upon the surren-
der of one annuity of Wl. granted to the said coU^ by
King Henry VIII. to be levied yearly of the m^ior of Wet-
ing in the county of Norfolk, inpuram et perpetuam tkt'
mcsynam.

To Sr A grant to Sir Roger Cholmely, of the office of chief

Choimeiy, justice. To Henry Bradshaw, of chief baron of the Ex-

g;;^fj^^^; J chequer. To Edmund Griffith, of the office of attiMmey-

Gonioki. general of all the courts of record within England. And to
Johi^ Gosnoldj of solicitor-general. Dated in June.

L. Robert A graiit of master of the buckhounds to the Lord Rob^

I>ud]ey.

OF KING EDWARD VI. 887

Dudlej, for life, with the yearly fee of 332. 6s. 8d. upon CHAP,
surrender of the same by the Earl of Warwick, [his bro- ^^^'

dier.] Dated as before. Anno 1559.

Remisaon of a debt owing to the King by the Duke of T<>thei>uke
liortbumberland, in sundry particular sums, amounting to umber.
imi.ns.Sd. Dated as above. ^»°^-

A grant to divers persons, aliens, being bom out of the To divert
Cng^s dominions, to detain every sum of money taxed on **"**
fteir heads for their relief, as of the King^s gift. Dated as
dbove.

A pardon granted to Sir John York, knight, under-trea-ToSirJohn
•urer of the coin, money, and mints within the Tower of xhrogmorl
London and Southwark ; to Nic. Throffmorton, esquire, to°» Sir

« , 1 - 1 ., . o.. ^ 1 'John God-

one ot the under-treasurers of the said mmts ; to Su* John gaive, &c.

Godsalve, knight, comptroller of the mint within the Tower; ^^^^^
toTha Fletewood, gent comptroller of the mint within the
Tover and Southwark ; to William Knight of London,
Belter, assay-^master of the said mints ; to William Dunch,
9adkioT of the said mints; -to William BiUingsley, assay*
Vaster of the daid mints ; to William Stanley, goldsmith,
ttsay^naster of the said mints: lor all and all manner of
ttiQflgressiims, contempts, abusions, and offsnces, touching
or concerning the said mints of the Tower and South-
wark. Dated July 21.

A patent of licence granted to Sir John Cheke, knight. To Sir John
one of the gentlemen of the King^s privy chamber, to li-
c^ise at all times one of his household servants, to shoot in
^e crossbow, handgun, hackbut, or danyhake, at certain
fcwis or deer, expressed in his patent, notwithstanding the
statute made to the omtrary, anno 33 Henry Y III. Dated
«t the King's honour of Petwc»lh, July 23.

A patent of exchange of lands, granted to Sir Thomas To Sir Tho-
I)arcy, lord chamberlain of England, for the manors of™**^*^*
Locton, alias diet. Loughton, Chingford Pauli, and Ching*
tfxA Comitis; in the county of £s9ex, with the appurte-
iMmoes; to have the manor and park of Beddington in the
comity of Surrey, and the manor of Ravesbury in the sami^

S88 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK county, and divers other manors and lands there ; which h
_____ extended to the clear yearly value of 86i. Ife . 6d.
Anno 1559. A gift to the Lady Anne Cleves, for life, in consideraticD
^^^ of the surrender of the monastery of Bisham, of all the ma-
Anne ^ nors and lordships of Brokefwd and Thwait in the ooun^
cieves. ^f Suffolk, with divers other lands, to the value of 671 ITi.
lOd. and to pay therefore yearly 7/. 18^. 6|c2. Dated ii
August.
To SirTbo- A grant to Sir Thomas Wroth, of the remain of certua
"** "* ' beddiiig and other stuff of the late Duke of Somerset's, be.
ing in the hands of the same Sir Thomas : which is vahd
by the clerk of the wardrobe of beds, the keeper of die
wardrobe at Richmond, and an upholsterer at Londmi, it
GIL Is. 9d. Dated in September.
To Sir Ed- A patent to Sir Edward Seimour, knight, son of Edward
jg^^^ ' late Duke of Somerset, of all the lordships and manonof
Walton, Shedder, pud Stowey, and the park of Stowey,
and the hundred of Winterstock, with the appurtenanoes,
in the county of Somerset, lately the posses^cm of his ft- .
ther : which are extended to the clear yearly value of lift
19^. Id. to him and his heirs for ever : to be held of the
King in capite : rent reserved 131. 19«. 8|d. Dated at Elj)
September 6. [From his father'^s death to this time he had
no provision made for him.]
To John A pardon granted to John Seimour, [perhaps the Duke's
brother,] of all treasons, &c. with all his goods and laiMb
[restored.]
^^•***f N**^' A p9,tent granted of exchange by the King^s Majesty, to
thampton. the Lord Marquis of Northampton, to have the Icnrdship
and manor of Southwark, sometimes the Bishop of Win^
chester^s, for the chief or capital mese of Lamtieth, some-
times the Duke of Norfolk's, attainted of treason.
To Sir John A patent granted to Sir John Cheke, knight, one of 4e
privy chamber, to be one of the chamberlains of the Ex-
chequer, or of the receipt of the Exchequer: whidhi iwa
once Sir Anthony WyngfeUs office, now dead : and also to
appoint the keeper of the door of the said receipt, when the

OF KING EDWARD VI. 289

loom diall Ml; and the appointing of all other officers be- CHAP.
longing to the same^ for term of Jife. Dated at Sarum,

dbout September. Annoissa.

A ps^nt granted to John Peter, of Exeter, gent, for the To John
ram of 1£0/. 13^. M, to enjoy the mansion-house of the late
adlege or chantry of Slapton in the county of Devon,
pBicd of the possesions and -inheritance of Sir Thomas
Arundel, knt. [executed for felony,] and also the manor of
Norton in the said county, and parcel of the foresaid col*
]egdy ond of the possesinons of the said Arundel. All which
premises are extended to the yearly value of &, 8d. to
Um and his heirs, from the feast of the Annunciation last
past Signed September 18.

A patent of an annuity of 102. granted to Dr. Nicols;ToDr.
nid licence to take the bodies of prisoners, both men and '^
women, after their execution. [For dissecting. He was, I
nippose, the King'^s chirurgeon or physician.]

An annuity of 11(K. to James Moris and William Moris, To James
fcr Adr lives : to be paid at the Augmentation, from Mi- Moris,
diadmas, ami, 88 reg. Hen. YIII. Dated in December.

A patent granted to Sir Henry Nevyl, knt. of the prebend 503
rf South Cave in the county of York, with the parsonage JJ^^^^*"'
and advowson of the said South Cave, Waddisworth, and
Otdey; which extend to S4l. S«. 8d. Dated in January.

A patent granted to Henry Duke of Suffolk, of the chief To the
ineasuage and manaon, called the Minory House, within the suAiik.
precincts of the monastery called the Minories, without
Aldgate^ London, and divers houses in London belonging
to the sanie: which extend to the dear yearly value of
tSL Us. Bid. [So it is set down in Chancellor GroodncVs
book, but in the Warrant-Book it is 37Z. 11^. 5|d] To hold
m free soccage, and the capital house m capite: from the
iiust of St. Michael. At Westminster. Dated Jan. 13.

A patent granted to the Earl of Darby, to have in ex- To the Evi
diange of Darby-place, at PaulVwharf, in the parish of °' ^^*^^'
Sl BenetX in the dty of London, now in the tenure of Sir
Ridiard Sackvyle, knt and divers other messuages and he-

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MO MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BO O K reditaments sold by the sidd Earl to the Kuig's Majesty,
by his indenture bearing date November 24, mmo reg. &

Anno i65«. certain lands, cdled Leonard's Lands, joining to the Earrt

parks, called Knowsley-park, in the county of Lancaster,

and lately belonging to the monastery of Bristow, of tbe

yearly value of 90s, with other lands, &c. to the value iof

47. 10«. and a mese and a grange, called fiadley Grai^

of the value of 4St8, in Cheshire : all which amount to tke

value of 7Z. 1 %8, Dated Jan. S4.

For the An allocate for the Duke of Suffolk {or 407. a year,

Suffolk, given him by the King with the erection of the dukedofli

of Suffolk, directed to the Treasurer and BarcHis of die

Exchequer, for allowance of the same 40/. per annum.

To Bamaby An annuity of 150Z. to Bamaby Fitz-Patric, one of the

**'"*^*^' gentlemen of the privy chamber, during pleasure. A licence

granted to him for this, dated February 6.

To Sir Nic. An annuity of lOM. to Sir Nic. Throgmorton, in ooDsi-

^jPDgmor. jgj^^Qjj ng ^g|| Qf ijjg surrender of his office of one of the

treasurers of the coin of the mint in the Tower, as for his
faithful service, during life : granted Jan. S8. The pateat
bore date in February.
To Sir An- A gift to Sir Andrew Dudley, of the manor of Mynster
le^.^ "**' Lovel, and the hundred of Chadlington, in the counties of
Oxoii and Glocester, to the yearly value of 54/. 1&. \\i'
Dated in the month above.
To the Lonl A patent granted to the Lord Robert Dudley, of the dice
Rob. Dud- capiffj^ tranchiatorisj i. e. of chief carver, upon the sur-
render of the said letters patents of the Duke of NcHrthinn-
lierland his father, granted to him by King Heniy VIH-
anno regni sui 34. for term of life ; which the Kin^*
Majesty hath had long in his Grace^s hand : to have to tbe
said Lord Robert for term of life, with the fee of SOL to be
received by the hands of the treasurer and chamberlain rf
the Exchequer. And because the said Lord hath exercised
the said office from the feast of St. Michael hitherto, without
feo, the King hath granted to the same as many pence 9S
that allowance came to, of his free gift. Dated Feb. 27.

OF KING EDWARD VL S81

A grant to the Duke of Northumberland, of the manor CHAP,
wd borough of Stratford, and Old Stratfc^d, in Warwick*

fidbir^ inth other lands, to the yearly value of 1000 marks. Anno um.
And anoth^ gift of the lordship, manor, and castle of Eie* ^^^
odwcHth in' the same county, and other lands, to the yearly uvkt of
^ue of 407. ia«. Hd. And likewise the manor and town of ^^^][||^^'
Wellington in S^nersetshire, with divers 'other lands, c^ the
yearly value of 1042. ISs. 5^. But for these he surrendered
to the King the castle and manor of Tunbridge, and two
parks, called the Postern, and the Cage ; and certain lands
and chases of North Frith, &c. in Kent, Otford in the same
county, and Chelworth in Wilts. Dated in February. ,

The King, in the month beforesaid, lent a ship called the To George
Primrose, and a pinnace called the Moon, with all the tackle ^^^ ' *
i|nd apparel to them belonging, to George Bams, mayor ofJ^oboYork,
London, William Grarret, one of the sheriffs, John York, windi»ni.
sod Thomas Windham ; they engaging themselves, and be-
ing bound to deliver to his Majesty^s use by Midsummer
lfi54, another ship and pinnace of like goodness and burden.
[These ships were set forth for the great adventure into the
east by the north seas, by the encouragement of Sebastian
Gabato, a great seaman. They set forth a month or two
after, being conmianded by Sir Hugh Willoughby, who pe-
rished in the adventure in the northern parts. But it had
this advantage, that hereby the trade into Rusffla was dis-
covered.]

A privilege granted to William Seres, stationer and book- To ^imtm
seller, to print all books of private prayers, called Primers, ^^*'
as shall be agreeable to the Book of Common Prayer esta-
blished in the Court of Parliament : and that none else do
print the same, upon pain of forfeiture of the same. Pro-
vided, that before the said Seres and his assigns do begin to
{nrint the same, he shall present a copy thereof to be allowed
by the Lords of the Privy Council, or by the King^s Chan-
cellor for the time being, or by the King'^s four ordinary chap-
lains, or two of them. And when the same is or shall be from
time to time printed, that by the said Lords and others of
the said Privy Council, or by the Lord Chancell(»', or with

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9»3t MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK the advice of the wardens of the occupation, the rea«xiid>]e
price thereof to be set, as well in the leaves, as bdng boond

Anno 1659. in paste or board, in like manner as is expressed in the end
of our Book of Common Prayer. March 4, an. 7.

To.orifith A patent to GriiBth Leyson, LL. D. of a manor caDed |

^^'^^ Tresberket, in New Carmarthen, lately belonging to tlie
"pAxxj of Carmarthen, with the appurtenances, and otihar
lands, &c. Dated March 9. Paying yearly 892. I69. lOd.

To Sir . A patent granted to Sir Philip Hoby, of the monasteqr

^ ^'of Bisham in Berks, with all the grange within the wd

monastery, and the advowson and right of patronage to die

vicarage, &c. extending to the value of 612. 19f. 8ci. And

that he may convert the foresaid rectory, with its appwte-

nances, glebe, and profits, to his on^ use. Dated Mardift

To WUL A purchase to William Crowch, esq. and Susan his irif^
Cfpwch. ^^^ ^j^^ ^^^ ^j ggg^ ^ g^ ^£ jj ^^^ lordship and manor

of/ Hampton, and all the hundred of Hampton in die
county of Somerset, with all the rights and appurtenances
505 whatsoever, late parcel of the lands, revenues, and posses-
sions of the Bishop and bishopric of Bath and Wells : ani
also all the lands, meadows, pastures, &c. called by die
name of Cleves ; and all the land, &c. called Archers Meads,
&c. lately belonging to the monastery of Henton. Dated
March 15.
To Sir Rog. A purchase to Sir Roger Chplmely, lord chief justice of
Choimeiy. England, and Lady Christine his wife, for the sum of «4«.
of the lordships and manors of East [Ham], West Ham, and
Placy, in the county of Essex ; late parcel of the possesooBS
belon^g to the late monastery of Stratford Langton:
which are extended to the sum of \91. 6s. March S4.
ToL.P»get. A grant to William Lord Paget, of Beaudesert, andtQ
his posterity for ever, to give in hb arms, sables, a cross '
engrailed between four eaglets, argent ; upon the cross five
lioncels passant sable, armed and languid, gules. And to Us
crest, upon the helm, a demy tiger, sable, rampant, fashed,
toothed, with a crown about the neck, argent, upon i
wreath, argent and sables, mantled of the same. WUch
arms was given him before by a king of arms that could

OP KING EDWARD VI. JB8

lot give it; and bow oonfirmed by the King's Majesty. CHAP.
Dated March 81. ^"'

A wardship or custody granted to the Earl of Warwick, Anno iMt.
d Edward Seimour, knt. with an annuity of 5102. 9s. 6d,
growing and coming out of certain manors in Dorsetshire,
Somerset, and Wilts, for the education of the said Edward :
which lands were appcnnted and assigned out by the master
and council of the wards, by virtue of the King'^s warrant.
Dated Mardi 30.

A purdiase granted to the Lady Johan Denny, widow ^^^9.
[of Sir Anthony Denny, of King Henry's privy chamber], Dcnoy. '
for the sum of S^^. Us. 0|d. [so in Chancellor Goodrick's
^er, but m the Warrant-Book 4102Z. 7^.] of the l(»xlships
and manors of Waltham and Nasing, with the appurte-
nances,-with a fullingmiil and two watermills, late parcel
of the dissolved abbey of Waltham-cross in Essex, with the
parsonage and church of Mettingham, and advowson of the
Hune; and the parsonage and church of Sibton, and advow-
aoii of the same ; late parcel of the possessions of the Duke of
Norfolk, &c. extending unto the yearly value of 1082. 4^. 8d.
To have to her and her heirs the manors in capite, the rec-
tories in soccage. Dated April 16. an. reg. 7.

A pardon granted to the Earl of Westmerland, of all '^o the Earl
ireascms, as well greater as less, and concealments of trea-meriand'
^008, misprisions, insurrections, rebellions, confederades,
conspiracies, imaginations, and abetdpgs, procurations, com-
pletions, unlawful uttering of words, before the SOth day
^ March: and all other murders, homicides, accessaries,
<Uid flights for the same. And all heresies, and heretical
Ofmiions, and undue uttering of words against the King and
ills counsellors. Dated April 17.

A gift to Sir Thomas Wroth in fee-simple, of all thcToSirTho.
scite of the monastery of Abendon, and St. John's chapel, ^"*'''
lying in St. MichaePs church in Abendon, in Berks, with
livers other lands, &c. to the yearly value of '52. 14«. Dated
n March.

An exchange made between the King's Majesty and the To the Lord
joxA Darcy, lord chamberlain. The King granting to the ^*^^'

884 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK same Lord the manor of Clarkton, with the appurtenanees^
» ^^' in the county of Essex, sometime parcel of the bishopric d

Anoo 1668. London ; with the lands called Westwick, and the pads d
606 Alton and Clarkton, with the man(Mr of Weylech, with the
free warren of deer in Weyleche-park : and all the maner
of CanonshaU, with the parishes of Much CladLton, littk
Clackton, and Little Holland : and all those the manon,
lordships, and tenements of Wiglarrow in Chiche, with the
advowson of Eenne in the county of Devon, and ChurchtoQ
in the county of Stafford. And the King^s Majesty hath
of the said Lord Darcy all his manors, or late prebendsof
Wollesgrove, and Towford, Henstue, Folecros, with diven
other lands in the county of Devon, with the manor of
Creditcm, with all the lordship or manor, hundred and bo-
rough, late part of the bishopric of Exeter ; and the mamr
of Weachton, Underwold, in the county of York, with the
advowson and parsonage of Morchard Bishop, called Bi
shop^s Morchard, in the county of Devon, &c.
ToWUiiam A pardon granted to William Worthington, bdng ifr
Worthing, jebted to the King for and concerning the office of baiM

and collecUH- of the rents and revenues of all the mancm
messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments within th
city of London and the county of Middlesex, which dk
belong to colleges, guilds, fraternities, or free chapels, n
the sum of 892Z. 10^. 3d. as upon the foot of his account
made by the said William before Thomas Mildmay, audito
of the said revenues, manifestly in it doth appear : in god
sideration of his service both in France and Scotland, am
also his daily service and attendance, being one of the or
dinary gentlemen and pensioners ; and for that debt giev
by the unfiuthfuluess of his servant, who ran away with th
same. Granted in March, but the patent signed in April*
To Sir Hen- The office of keeping the chief mansion at Otford to Si:
ry Sydney. He^jy Sydney for life, with the fee of two pence a day: th
office of steward of the honour of Otford, with the fee <
61. 13^'. Sd. per ann. and the keeping of the woods thei<
with the fee of two pence a day : the office of bailiff of tl
manor : the office of bailiff of the manors of Gravesend as

OP KING EDWAED VI. 2S8

MKlton : the keeping of the great park there : the office of CHAPi ,
under-steward there : the office of steward of the manor of ^^^.
Swinsoomb : the keepmg of the mdnor of Knol, with the Aono idsa,
pirHen and orchard : the keeping of the park at Knol : the
keq)ing of the woods there : the office of under-steward of

the manor of Knol, with the respective fees : and a lease to

bnn of the little park of Otford. Dated in April.
A grant to Sir Henry Sdmoiir, for hfe, of the manors of To Sir Hen.

Somerford and Hum, with the appurtenances, in the county

of Southampton, and divers other lands, to the yearly value

of flOfU. 69, dfcL without account rendering, or paying any

dung therefore. Dated as before.
The office of chancellor of the order of the Garter to Sir To Sir Will.

William Cecyl, knt. with the fee of 100 marks per ann. ^*''^^-

dttrii^ his life, to be paid at the Exchequer half yearly.

Bated as above.
A grant for the establishing of the corporation of StToSUAi^-

Alban's in the county of Hereford, [Hertford,] with cer-

t«m liberties therein mentioned ; and for the erecticm of a

free grammar-school there ; with a grant of the late abbey 507

ofauich to be their parish church. Dated as above.
Apurchase to the Lady Denny in April, for 11092. 7*. Ofd. To the Ladf

of certain mancnrs, lands, &c. in the counti^ of Essex and ^^^'

Sufelk, of the yearly value of J.53/. 4^. Hd.
A patent dated in April, for augmentation of a bordureTotheLoHl

of lioDs^ legs to the Lord Wharton^s ancient arms.
A purchase to Sir William Petre, knt of the manor of To Sirwui.

Shapwich, Murlinch, and Ashcote, and the hundred of * **'

Whittelegh, in the county of Somerset, and divers other
Jaods in Devon ; for the sum of 5542. IZs. Id. of the yearly
^ue of 77/. 6s. 3^. to him and his heirs for ever. Bearing
date April 8.

A passport to the Archbishop of Athens, to pass through To the
tbe realm into Scotland, with twelve persons in hiis company, of Athens.
Dated in April.

The erection of the county palatine of Durham, to con- Durham
inue fr<»n henceforth in such manner and degree as is men- ^^ ^^
oned in the letters patents : wherein shall be appointed ifttine.

2S6 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK such numbers of judges, officers, and ministen, as be requi-
^* site to supply the same ; and a great seal and privy seal

Adbo 1658. And the same county palatine shall be united to the impe-'

rial crown of England. Dated as before. »

To tiie A enft to the Duke of Northumberland, and to his hm

Northum- male, of the castle called Bemard^s Castle, within the U*
beriand. ghopric of Durham, [or] in the county of Northumbedaod,
with divers lands, to the yearly value of 2S92. &. f^
Dated as before.
To tiie The office of steward of all the honours, castles, manon)

**°^' lordships, lands, &c. in the counties of Cumberland, North-
umberland, Westmerland, and York, or any otherwhere
within the bishopric of Durham, to the said Duke of North-
umberland for life, with the several fees of 502. 13f. 4d
to the same offices belonging. Dated in the said UMHith of
April.
To Sir John A grant to Sir John Mason, knt and to the inhabitants
Mason. ^^f ^^ ^^^^^ ^f Abendon in Berks, that there shall be an
hospital in Abendon, called Christ^s Hos[ntal, to continue
for ever, with twelve governors : with a gift to the same
governors, and to their successors, of the messuage and te-
nement called the Antelope, in Abendon, with divers otber
lands, &c. to the yearly value of 65Z. 11^. lOd. Dated in Hay.
To Sir John A gift to Sir John Gates, of the manor of Hursbourn,
^■**^ in the county of Southampton, with divers other lands, to
the yearly value of 203Z. 10*. 0|d. with a further grant
that there shall be for ever one market and two fairs at
Ringwood. Dated in May.
To Sir John A gift the same month to Sir John Cheke, and his heirs
^*'*^** male, of Clare in Suffi3lk, with divers other lands, to the

yearly value of lOOZ.
To New- A grant to the mayor and burgesses of Newcastle upon
Tine, of the fee-farm of the lordship, manor, town, and bo-
rough of Gateshed, lately parcel of the possessions of the U-
shopric of Durham, with divers other lands, to the yearly va-
lue of 2^1. 8ld. to be holden in free burgage. Dated in May.
508 Many lands and manors passed away by purchase {rmn
the King^ this month of May.

OF KING EDWARD VI. 28T

A grant in June to the Lady Mary'^s Grace, during her CHAP.
fife, of the castle and manor of Hertford, the manor of

Hardngford-bury, the pu-ks' of Hertford and Hartingford- Anno 155a.
bury, with the appurtenances, in the county of Hertford; J^^*^^^
the manor and park of Wikes in E^sex : to the yearly vidue
dm. ^. Sid.

^The office of master and overseer of the King'^s bears, To Catbert
bulls, and dogs, to Cutbert Vaughan for life, with all pro-^*"^**^'
fits to the same belonging: and to take up mastiff dogs,
bears, and bulls, at reasonable prices. Dated in June.

A gift to the Lord Robert Dudley, of the manor ofToL.Rol>t.
Corsy and Saxlingham in Norfolk, of the yearly value of
14K IQs. 4d. Dated as above.

A gift to the Duke of Northumberland, of the manors To the
cf Feckenham^ Bromesgrove, and King^s Norton, in Wor-jjorthum-
ce^ershire, of the yearly value of 8001. Dated as above, beriand.

A purchase for 687/. 6*. 6d. to Sir William Cecyl, of allToSirWUL
the lands, meadows, pastures, feedings, now or of late in ^^ '
the tenure of William Broke, dying at Collyweston in
Northampton, with other lands, to the yearly vfdue of 80/.
1&. 5|</. Dated as above.

The office of keeping the house and park at Eltham, to To Sir John
% Jdm Grates, and the park of Horn, and the office of
steward of the manor of Eltham. Dated as above.

The Lord Clinton appointed the chief order, rule, and'^o*''®^'^
safe custody of the Tower of London, with such numbers
as are appointed by his Highness. Dated as above.

A pardon and discharge to the Earl of Arundel for To the Earl
10,000 marks, acknowledged by him to owe unto the Eing'^s
Majesty by recognizance, upon certain considerations in the
same expressed. Dated as above.

A purchase to Sir William Petre, knt. of certain tenths, To Sir Will.
BDounting to the yearly value of 15/. Is. S|(/. reserved to
he King'^s Majesty out of the manors of Engerston, Hend-
ej, Cawondel, abas Thorowden, in Essex ; the manors of
^eddenham and Sutton in the county of Glocester; the
lanor of Churchsto in the county of Devon ; paying for
e same 707/. 4^. ^. to him and his h€|irs. June SS.

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BOOK A pardon granted to Peter Osbom, [officer in the £x-
"• chequer,] for aU manner of accounts and reckoningB, as weB

Anno 1653. of such sums of money as he hath received of the arresr-
Tb Peter ^g^ ^f ^^ King^s Majestj^s debts, as other sums of money
received for his Highnesses special affairs, and by Mr. Vice*
chamberlain''s appointment, to the sum of SO^O^d?. wludi
he hath issued out by sufficient warrants, as in the declara-
tion of his accounts appeared. Together with his dischaige
for 1062. taken away in the chamber, where the King doth
commonly hear the sermons. Dated June 25.
To the Earl A gift to John Earl of Bedford, and Edmund Downing,
^ ' gent, of the manor of Boiton or Barton de Bridge, with the

appurtenances, in the county of Comwal, and other manon
in Wilts, and other parcels of the bishopric of Woroestor,
509 and divers other manors in other counties ; extending to
the full value yearly of 78/. Ss. Id, to them and their heirs:
paying yearly out of the manor of Boytcm 41. 17s. and from
Lurgishal 72. 6^. ^. Dated June 19*
To the Earl A gift to the Earl of Shrewsbury, of the capital mei-
bury. suage of Coldharborow, in Thamesrstreet, London, beloi^-
ing lately to the bishopric of Durham, with the appurte-
nances to the same messuage belonging : and all those ax
messuages and tenements late in the teniu*e of Heniy Pol-
ston, and others, in the parish of St. Dunstan in the East
in London, with divers other lands belon^g to Sir John
Robert, of Knaresborow, and the priory of Pomfret, in the
county of York ; to him and his heirs : to the yearly value
of 6&. 16s. l^d. Dated June 30.
To Anth. A purchase made by Anthony Brown, [of South Weald in
Brown, esq. £53^^^] esq. in reversion of the Lady Anne of Cleves, the
manor of Costed-hall, with the appurtenances, in the county
of Essex, with all the fairs and markets in Brentwood;
which were pait of the possessions of Thomas Crumwel, knt
late Earl of Essex ; and are extended to the yearly value of
ni. Ss. 4d. to have to the said Anthony, and his wife JohsD,
and their heirs for ever. Dated June 28.
To Spainy A purchase to Edward Spidny and John Baspole, gentle^
p^i^^ "' men, for the sum of 4362. 1S«. id. of Leman'^s manor in the

OF KING EDWARD VI. ^ 289

county of Norfolk, and the parsonage of Tamstale, of the ^U^^'
late possessions of the house of Sybton, in the county of.

Suffolk; with certain other lands and tenements, extended ^^^*^^****
to the clear yearly value of ^L ISs. S^d. to hold the said
manor of Leman^s in capite^ of the fiftieth part of one
knight^s fee, and the rectory in soccage. * Signed at West-
minster, July 1.

The same 1st of July was granted them a fee-farm, in To the
reversion of the Duchess of Richmond, and Countess of
Nottingham, of the scite of the late monastery of Westacre,
and the lordship and manor of Westacre, and Ousthorp ;
and the parsonage of Westacre, and all the appurtenances,
in the county of Norfolk ; with two warrens of conies,
irfridi they call Wycan Warren, and the other Ousthorp,
infli a mill, and a meadow, called Will'*s Meadow, atid the
pnrsonage and church of Ousthorp and Westacre ; and all
die lordship and manor of iQreat* and Little Walsingham,
inth all the lordships and manors of Betts and Hadshaws,
in the county of Norfolk. Which are extended to the
yearly value of ^IZ. 14^. 9^^. to have to them and their
lieirs for ever. Paying thence yearly 62Z. 6s.

A pardon granted to John Towly of London, pultor : To John
^ pardon of his lands and goods. Dated July 6. [This^°^^'
yf9B but the day before the Eing'^s death, and, I suppose,
the very last that ever he signed.]

CHAP. XXXL 510

A collection of various letters, warrcmtSj cmd licences Jrom

the King, both tojbreigners and his subjects.

T' . "^ . . "

0 give a further insight into the transactions of this

leign, I shall now set down ofher matters that passed from

the King and Council, viz.

IV. Letters, warrcmts, licences, cmd passports.

A passport to Dr. James Omphalius, stranger, to go into
Planders, with three servants, three horses, three hundfbfl

f40 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK crowns, with all other necessaries. Dated in Nov<
"• 1650.

Anno 1660. A letter to the Bishop of Colen, advertising him
?c^r ®P* the King hath received his letters sent unto his Hif

by James Omphalius. Dated as before.

To the A letter of answer to Otto, Duke of Brunswick, that

Biro * ^^ck ^® required of the King money and aid by his letten

his Highness would have been willing to have grantee

his request, if for the necessity of his reign and affairs

the contrary he were not forced. Dated in Novembei

To the A letter to the mayor, aldermen, and commons <

d^en &c.^^y ^^ London, in favour of Henry Fisher, that hi

of London, succeed Thomas Hays in the room and office of cha

lain of the said city, void by the death of the said Tb

Dated as before.

To the Lft* A warrant to errant to my Lady Elizabeth'^s Grac

K- «»u»p ««i .u^ or ^uta'iu,™,, d^tag h

nority, with the keeping of the manor of Overton Looj
and the advowson of the church o£ Overton Longfic
Huntingdonshire, without fine or accounts making. ]
in December.

To the Da- ' A warrant to grant to Katharin Duchess oi Suffol

Suffolk.^ wardship of Henry Duke of Suffolk, [her son,] anc
nes Woodhil* : allowing her for the keeping of them
a year. A warrant afterwards, allowing lOOZ. moi
keeping the Duke, and fMl. more for the said Agnes
ing their minority: and the grant of the wardshij
marriage of them to be^n from Michaelmas, an. 1
Dated in December.

To Jugg j^ licence to Jugg, citizen and stationer of Londoi

' to his sufficient deputies, to print the New Testamc

511 English, as well in great volumes as in small, for the

of — years, next ensuing the date hereof. Dated i

nuary.

ToMurga- A letter to Mar&raret- Birkenhead, widow, in favc

ret Birken- ° ' -

head.

* She seems to have been of the noble family of the Woodyiles, th

Earls Rivers ; Elizabeth of that name, Edwaid IV. made his Queen : «

sister was married to Henry Duke of Bucks.

OF KING EDWARD VI* Ml

tedst AttOD, that the will, at the oontemplatkiii of the CHAR
King's letters, take in marriage the said Peter. Dated as ^^^^-

befere. Aww iftM«

A warrant to Sir l^^Uiam Petre, to pay to Sir JohnTb&rWUU
Markham [lieutenant of the Tower] for ihe necessary ap> ^^'*'
psrel of William Courtney, [a prisoner in the Tower fk»m
Ik childhood, son and heir of the Marquis of Exeter, be-
boded,] the sum of OSL &8. 8d. and for his spending mo-
Mjr SOL payable at the feasts of the Annunciation of our
Lidy, the Nativity of St. Jcltm Baptist, St. Michael, and
Christmas. Dated in February. •

A Uke warrant to Sir William Petre, to pay Sir John To tht
MaiUiam, far the necessary apparel of the late Duke of**™*'
Norfdk [a prisoner] the sum of 73/. Bs* 4d. and for his
qpendmg money 80/. at the feasts mentioned in the other
nnant Dated in February.

A letter to the Earl of Bedford, warden of the stannery To the
of Devon, to summon before him, or his deputy, at a place f^^d.^
oiled Crockroitor within the said stannery, four and twenty
of tbe disereetest tinners of every stannery ; and to reform
all sodi laws and customs as be amiss therein : and to set
flicfa good laws and orders as be requisite for the preserva-
tin of the said stannery* Dated in February*

A letter undirected, in the presence of Mr. Vice-Cham^ To deface
bolam and Sir Anthony Aucher, to take all manner of gar^- f|]^^^^^^
nliments, and apparel of sihrer and gold, and to deliver it in Wett-
tothe said Sir Anthony ; and to deface and carry away out
of tbe hbrary at Westminster all books of miperstition.
Dtted as above.

A letter undirected, in fSavour of Edward RanddpAi, In Hrtmr
villiiig and eommandhig him, in conndeniUon of the faith- lundoiph*
inl service done by tbe said Edward to the King^s Majesty,
to make him a lease in reversion of the demeans of tbe
whole possesmm of the abbey of Ccmnel, in the comity of
Kldare, in the realm of Ireland, for twenty-^xie years, now in
the occtipaticm of Cteiard Sutton. Dated in Mardi.

A licewe to Bafe Hepton md faia wifSr, with two orT^Mi
VOL. n. PAST II. a

9m MEMORIALS ECCLESfASTICAL

BOOK three guests to eat flei^ in Lent^ and other fSASting d
during his life. Dated in March.

Anno 1560. A licence to Sir Edward Warner, and Elizabeth his^

^^J^'^'with two or three guests, to eat flesh and white mea

Lent, and on other fSEisting days, during his hfe. Dat<

beforer

1561. A warrant undirected, to pay the Bishop of Norwid

the^th^"*^^^* diet, from the 10th of April last, until his return

ofNorwicb^of the uorth], 40^. by the day: and to Sir Robert S

*^' 8fo. 8d. Dated in March.

To Sir An- A recognizance to Sir Andrew Jud, mayor of the

of London, and the commonalty of the same, that the

shall discharge them, their successors, lands, possesi

and goods whatsoever, as well beyond the seas, as on

ffide the same, for the payment of certain sums of n

Flemish, which they stand bound for to Anthony Fi

and his nephews, to be paid at Antwerp. Dated in A;

512 A letter to the Earl of Wiltshire, declaring, tha

Ifw^tt^^ King's pleasure is, that he call to him Sir Walter Mild

knt. and of such treasure as remaineth in his hand i

Tower of London, to deliver to the Lord Clinton one (

of gold of the order of the Garter, with a George ther<

appendant : taking of him so much gold of the same

ness, as the same collar shall amount unto, or the

thereof: and that he deliver also to the Lord Marqi

Northampton, one garter, with a George of the best

The same collar and garter to be employed upoi

French King. Dated in April.

To the A letter to the French King, declaring that the B

King. Majesty, with others of the honourable Garter, hath el

and taken him into the same order, the ^4th of I

[being the day foDowing the feast of St. George,] acco

to the old and ancient custom. Dated in May.

To Sir A warrant to Sir Ralph Sadler, to deliver to Ed

ler. Lord Clinton, lord admiral, who is now elect and choe

be of the right honourable order of the Garter, for his
of the same order, eighteen yards of crimson velvet, fc

OF KING EDWARD VI. MS

gown, hood, and tippet, and ten yards of white saitmet for CRAP.
the lining of the same. Dated in May. ^^^'*

A warrant to Sir Wilham Cavendish, to allow William Abmiui.
Thomas, clerk of the Coundl, gixng over into France in^JIJ^'**
quality of ambassador, for his diet 40f. a day ; and to thenq.
Marquis of Northampton lOiL a day; and to Sir Philip
Hoby 5 marks a day. Dated in May.

A warrant to Sir William Cavendish, for Sir Gilbert FV>r Sir
Dethic, knt alias Garter, principal king of arms, attending thic,kiit.
the Lord Marquis of Northampton in his ambassade to the
french King, to have for his diet 90s. by the day, fktim the
Uth of April last, unto his return to the Elng^s presence ;
and for his reward 20^. by the day : and to allow for his
poBdng and transporting, both outward and homeward, of
Urn and his train, and also for certain robes of the order,
nd other things necessary, such sums of money as by his
bill subscribed he shall ngnify. And further, to allow him
6r the diet of Chester herald 6*. by the day, and 6*. in re-
ward by the day : and for the diet of Rouge Dragon pur-
niivant fe. 6d. by the day, and 2*. 6d. reward also by the
day: and also for their posting money according to the*
tenor aforesaid. Dated as afore.

A warrant to Sir Ralph Sadler, to deliver to Sir GilbcTt Kor tli#
Dethic three yards of cloth of gold, two yards of clotli of
ffAA tissue, and sixteen yards of blue velvet : which vhall
be for the banner, for the mantles of the helmet, and thi*
lining of the same, for the installation of the French King.
Bated as afore.

A warrant to Sir William Cavendish, to pay to KirKw Ifii
Thomas Smith, sent into France, for his diet, (wm llii* ''***'•***
i9th of April last, unto his return to the King^s prt^WA*^
K. by the day : defSdking out of the same 100/. whii;h h*'
lath already received in prest. Dated as afore.

A posspoort to the Bishop of Ely to go into France in '"•'^^;j^**^1{J'
mbassade thither. Dated in May.

A warrant undirected, to deliver to him 9000 Frwuh A I H
towns, taking of him sufficient bond for the repay WM?ni t^f!^^^ J'^'JjJ,
le same in like crowns, or other eold of the uam ntunmm^ lfr$u^

a 2

S44 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK and of that value: and also to simdry othar iioUemea v^d
gentlemen, as shall attend upon the Lraxl Marquis of Noillt>

Anno 1661. ampton in his ambassade, 4000 French crownfi a^neoe, taking
likewise of every of them bonds of repaymait. Dated m
May.
For Dr. A warrant for aUowance of Jphn Olyv^, doctor of the

^^'' civil law, one of the two lawyers [Sir Thomas Smith the
other] appointed to go with the Mfurquia of Northampton
into France, four marks by the day lo^ his ^t. Dated as
above.
To cetM A warrant to the Exchequer, where John Forster, rf
of AndKw London, gave information to the officers, that Andrew \i^
CuUer, &c. j^^^ Richard Westerfield, Roger Ireland, John Bound, and
William Wright, of London, by the space of two hundrad
days, in the parish of St. Benet, in iKUidon, did maintain a
certain house of playing at dice a^d cards, contrary to ih^hw
provided theref(H^, forthwith they have forMted ev^ one
40^. to surcease for ever of all processes, executions, quar-
rels, and demands : so that they be discharged of the pre-
mises. Dated in May.
To pay the ^ warrant undirected, to pay to certain of the Lady Anacs
of cieve's of Cleve^s officers, viz. to the chamberlain 9ISL 13^. id* to
®®^"- her receiver 2W. to her coffisrer 2W. to her comptroller 131
fo. Sd. to Dr. Cornelius A61. 13^. 4d. to Chard 207. toHo^
ven 9Sl. 6«. 8d. to Bronkehosen 10/. to Lodwic 62. IS^. ii
to John SchcJebormve, and to some others, footmen and
others, &c. And to pay the same, whether the officers be
placed or displaced. Dated in June.
For Sir A letter undirected, where the King hath given to Sir

Sir PhUip ' John Gates, Sir Philip Hoby, Sir Henry Seimour, Sir An-
Hen^* slu ^^^ Dudley, knts. and Henry Nevyl, and William Fiu-
monr, &c. Williams, esqs. certain manors, lands, tenements, &c. to them
and their heirs, parcel of the castles, lands, and tenements)
lately had of the Bishop of Winchester, that pertained to
the bishopric, with the rents and profits, &c. And wfaeie
the King hath granted to Sir Thomas Wroth an annuity of
low. going out of the manor of Ta,untoH, and out of c^lm
lands, &c belonging to the same bishopric ; his Majesty's

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pteasnre ie, that he aocoant and pay to them all the said CHAP.
rents, issues, and profits, 6oming and growing of the said

Manors from Micbaeltnas last forwards : and the annuity to Anno 1551;
Sir Thomas Wroth from the death of Sir Francis Brian.
Bated in June.

A letter undirected^ for the eastle of Dover to be sur- For the
veyed, and theredpon. to be repaired sufficiently without de^oo^er.
hy. Dated as before.

A letter to the warden tA the stannery of Cornwall, toTothefrwr-
Aimmon widun the town of Lostwithiel four and twenty of stanneiy.
the most substantial and discreet tinners of every stannery ;
wA theife td raake^ amende and reform all sik^h lafws, cus-
toms, emmnitiei^, atid other things to are amiss, and needful
io be redressed within the scud stannery, for the quietness
and good gov^iUment of the tinners there, the preservation
Af the said iSlftniif^ry, and for the commonwealth of the
>eahi : and to |nit the said 6rde]^ and laws^ strictly in execu-
tibli. Daitecf in Ji^ne.

A licence to Grebrge CMdley, to wear his cap iii the King's To Geoiife
presence, or elsewhere^ without let or trouble of any man.
Ottted in July.

A klt«r tor the Eail of l)ai'by, declaring the King's Ma- 514
jesty is well pleased with his son the Loi-d Strange, that •^^ J^^JJl^^"*
shall solemnize marriage with his* Majesty's kinswoman the
Lady Margaret, daughter to the Duke of Somerset, his
ffi^ness's uncle. Dated in July.

A warrant to the sul*vdyor (rf Essex, to deliver to Sir^orSirWU-
William Petre twenty good oaks, fit for timber, within
H^sefiith park, in the same county. Dated in August

A warrant to' the cbffisrer and clei^k of the household, fo Henry Syd-
pay Hairy Sydney, admitted one 6f the chief gc^tMiien of "*^'
Ma M^esty'is pnvy chamber in th6 Loi^d Darcy's roomy lOOZ.
A^year, payable quarterly.

A licence to Sir Thoidtos Wroth, to give licence to any To SirTho.
ode of his servants, from time to time, to shoot in any cross-
baw or handgun, at all knld of fowls^ and with licence of
the owner, at all manner of d^er, red and fallo^^. Dated in
September: [For in th^ Sd aiid 3d of the King, all such

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BOOK shooting hailshot at any fowl was fcnrbidden to all under tbe
^^' degree of a lord of the Parliament.]
Anno 1551. A Warrant to the Lord Marquis of Dorset, and Locd
For the Cobham, to accept into the order of the Garter the LoA
Darcy, and to give, him his oath, according to a cluqpta
holden at Hampton Court by the King and his brethren,
the S8th of September. Dated in October.
To Sir Phi- Licences to Sir Philip Hoby, Sir John Gates, Edward |
sfr John* Lord Clinton, Sir John Mason, for life, with as many as
Gates^ &c ghall come to their tables, to eat flesh and white meatis in

Lent and other fasting days.
To Sir An. A warrant to the master and officers of the Court of
' Wards and Liveries, to deliver to Sir Anthony Cook dight
obligations, wherein he standeth bound for the paymait of
200/. at several days, for the wardship and marriage of
William Shelly. And also to discharge him of a yearly
rent of 47/. Gs. 8d. for the manors of Boxsted and Great
Horsly, in the counties of Essex and Suffolk, which the
King hath forgiven him. Dated in November.
For Sir A warrant dated in November, to the Duke of Northum-

ham. ^ ' berland, William Earl of Pembroke, &c. to discharge Sir
Edmund Peckham [treasurer of the mint] in his account
which he presently yieldeth to them, the several sums of

ab . s* a*
4000 0 0
2333 6 8
10642 4 11 q.
6790 0 0
which the King, for divers considerations, hath forgiven
him. [Sir John York, sub-treasurer, and divers other officers
of the mint, had these kind of pardons in December.]
To the Bi- A licence to John [Scory] bishop of Rochester, and EB-

cheJte/ ^' 2^^^^^ ^^s ^^^^9 t® ^*^ *®s^ i^ L^^^» *"^ ^^^^^ fasting daysj
during his life. Dated in November.

To the Lord A letter to the Lord Chancellor, to cause a sufficient com-
Chanceiior. ^iggion to be made, and sealed with the great seal of Eng-
land, of oyer and terminer, to the Lord Marquis of Win-
chester, that he may thereby be the King^s seneschal *^

OF KING EDWARD VL M7

vmca vice taniumj fat the heumg and detensmiiig of the CHAF.
treasons and fekinies of the Duke of Somerset; giving the___

date of the said comraiflBon the liSlh ci this month [of No- Aimm imi.
vember]. And ako to cause a oommisskm of oyer and ter-^ ^^
miner to be directed to the two chief justices, and to their
associates: so that the said justices, and any other three of
their sociates, be of the quorum of the said commission : and
the saine to be dated the 29th of this mcmth ; for the trying
hj the order of the laws. Sir Michael Stanhope, Sir Thomas
Arundel, Sir Rafe Fane, and Sir Miles Partridge, knts. John
Nudigate, and John Seimour, indicted with the said Duke.

Another letter to the said Lord Chancellor, to cause the To tht
eommissioh of oyer and terminer, made to the chief justices'^'''*'
of both the Eing^s Benches, for the trial of the treasons of
Sir Michael Stanhop, and others, to be made again to the
Earl of Bedford, Viscount Hereford, Lord Cobham, the
Lord Chief Baron, and after appointed in the said commis-
sioQ. Dated in November.

A warrant to Sir Anthony Darcy [who was now come To Mr An*
into the room of Sir Arthur Markham] for the diet of ihe^^^^^'
Duke of Norfolk every month sithence the 29th of October
Itst, ^. and for the diet of his man, every month S6f , 8d.
And for wood, coal, and candle, S2s.

And for the diet of Edward Courtney monthly, 5/. B»,
accounting twenty-eight days to the month : and SOs. tar
bis servant : and 8^. for wood, coal, and candle Dated in
December.

A warrant to the Chancdior of the Augmentation, and To tM
other oflScers there, to pay to Thomas Bishop at Ely, ta^^l^J^^
^m the King hath committed the custody of the geat seal, iwintMJHmn.
fix his wages, diet, and lively of himself, and his minifliters
<tf die Chancery, in as large manner as the Ijord Rich or
^odier had, from the £2d of December, m. 6. £dw. VI.

Six letters to being of one import, for t,M m-

«gnif]^ to them, that where the Kmg'ii Mi^esty hath ap^ 'i^^JHil
panted the ffishop al Ely, the Eari ct ^edtt0d^ $Hr ^ohn^r«»».
Gates, Sir Wilfiam Petre, Sir Rob. Btmen, mnd $tir tVakif
ViUmay, to be his Highness'^ ciwmnissWwierv ti>

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BOOK consider the state of his Majesty^s courts, and to undontani
^'' p^ectly what debts be due unto him within the same; \k

Anno iMi. Majesty^ pleasure is, that every one of them shall fim

time to time be attendant upon the said oommisfloiien^

giving unto them such instructions, and doing such tUngi^

as the said commissioners shall think good to require of

than. Dated in December.

'^^ ^^ "^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^ deputy and ooundl of Ireland, thatinose

council of they shall think it convenient, they do establish in the bbm

Ireland, y^alman office for the sealing and measuring of linen sod

woollen cloths, as like offices be in this realm ; making les*

sonable taxes for the same : and to grant a lease thereof to

John Colby, during the Kings's pleasure ; reserving ta As

King such reasonable rents as they shall think good. DiUd

in January.

To the Bi. A warrant to the Bishop of Ely, to make out a oommiB>

' ^^ ^'sion to the Lord Treasurer, to take the said [Bishopcf Efy]

Lord Chancellor's oath.
To Sir Tb9. A pardcm to Sir Thomas Palmer, of London, of all msn-
'*^' ner of treasons, &c. Dated in February.
5l6 A bill to be enacted for legitimating as well the maniige
M^8 of ^ William Marquis of Northampton, and Elizabeth hb
Nortbamp. wife, [his former wife yet Hving, fixmi whom he was &»
'^ vorced,] as the children bom between them. Dated ai

above,
^h *^* if"* ^ warrant to the Lord Chancellor, to make forth writs of
* execution of Sir Rafe Vane, Miles Partridge, Thomas Awn-
del, and Michael Stanhop, knts. that is to say, for hesding
of Thomas Arundel end Michael Stanhop, and hanging the
rest. Dated as above.
For the la- A protection to beg, granted to the poor lazars of 4^
MUe.end. house of OUT Saviour Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalen^ li
Mile^nd, [within the parish] of Stepenhuche, [StepMfy}
in the county of Middlesex : and John Mills appointed thor
)9roctor. Sealed February 18;
Protections A protection, or licence to beg, granted' to Bidiard Popi
of the parish of Henly, in the county of Hertford^ to beg
within the county of Hertford : and the same to endure fix

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one itriiole year. Fdbruaryl6. [These protecdoiis, granted chaP.
both to hospitak and necessitous persons, were frequently ^^^^^'

pracdsed, as appears by these ficdlowing, besides those above, Anno imi.
gmnted in February.]

A pratedaon granted to Thcmias Drauffield in Darby, to
beg within the counties of York and Leicester, and the d^
of York, and not elsewhere, during one whole year.

A protecdon granted to the lazturs of- the hospital of St
Betcr nigji St. Edmund^s Bury: and Greoige Hodgson,
guide of the house, appointed thdr proctor. To dure one
year.

A protection granted to die laurs of the house of Mary
Magdalen and St. Anthony of Beooles in Suffi)lk: and £d-
vud Lydgate appcnnted their proctor.

A protection granted to the hoiqntal of the brethren with-
rat Bishop^ate, London : and Thomas Haliday appointed
Aeb proctor.

A protection granted to the hospital of our Lady and St
Katharine, at Newington in Surrey: William Cleybroke their
poctor. All these dated in February.

A protecti(Hi granted to the hospital of Bethlem without
Kshopsgate : John Whitehed their proctor: to b^ within
thf counties of Linoobi and Cambridge, the city of
I^ndoii, and Isle of Ely: to endure far a whole year.
MaicfaT.

A licence to b^, for Nicolas Sondbume, of BnrkehaiB,
in the county of Berks, in consideration of a fire : to beg
Wdibi the county of Southampton, the Isle of Wight, the
Unm of Southampton: to oidure far one year. Dated
Ifardi 9SL [Such licences I find sometimes fbr losses fay
fire: but the fieences extended not but to one coun^ or
tmo.]

A warrant tc^ the. Chancellor of the Augmentation, and to For the Bi-
tke other officers, to pay to Thomas Bishop of Ely, md'^'^'^^^'
hmJL dhanceUor, for his wages, diet^ and lifery of himself
mi of the masters at tlte> Chancery; that is to soy, after
i» ntf» ef fi4e2.1&. by the year, firam the IStb of Januaiij^
m. 5. reff. Edw. VI. so long as be shaft

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BOOK office : and for his attendance in the Star-chamber, after the
rate of 50/. every term : and after the rate of SOW. by yeir

Anno 1661. over and above his said allowances quarterly. Dated in
^17 March.

1658. A letter of thanks to Albert Marquis of Brandoibuigh,
To the Mar- for falcons sent yearly unto the Einir by him. Dated in
Bnmden- March 155x.

burgh. ^ hcence to Henry Smith of London, merchant, to bring

Smith. ii^to ^6 realm such persons as he shall think meet, for maL
ing of glass, of Uke fashion and goodness to that which ii
called Normandy. Dated in April.
To the Lord A warrant to the Lord Chancellor, to make out several
Chancellor. ^^ ^ Robert Brook, James Dier, John Caril, ThonMii
Gawdy, Richard Catlyn, Rafe Rooksby, William Staun-
ford, and William Dallison, esquires, that in consideration
that his Majesty hath nominated and appointed them to be
sergeants at the law, to prepare themselves for the execution
of the same, upon pidn of forfeiture of lOOOZ. apiece accord-
ingly. Dated in June.
To the Lady A letter to the Lady Anne of Cleves, requiring her to
cieves. gi^^ order for the going through with the exchange for the

manor of Bisham. Dated in June.
To the A patent of licence granted to the mayor and burgesses of

Bofulii? i Boston, in the county of Lincoln, that Sir William Cecil,
knt. their recorder, may make his deputy in the said office;
proviso, that the said deputy be learned in the law. Dated
in June.
To the Mar- A warrant to the Lord Marquis of Winchester, master of
Winches- ^^ wards and liveries, signifying, that whereas it is fouiid,
ter, for that the late Duke of Somerset alienated certain lands wWA
mour. " came unto him by Katharin Fylol, his first wife, to theyeaily
value of 67Z. Ifo. 8d. which should have descended to John
Seimour, his eldest son, that he, according to the late act of
Parliament for the limitation of the said late Duke of So-
merset'^s lands to the heirs begotten of the body of the Lady
Anne, his second wife, appoint unto him so much thereof tt
shall amount to the same sum ; and to award that he may
have the same quietly. Dated in July.

OF KING EDWABD \X S51

A licence to John Day, piinter, of London, to print a CHAP.
Cbtechism, both in Latin and English, which the Eng^s ^^"^^'

llajesty hath caused to be set forth. Dated in September, Anae iMt.

A passport for two of the late Scotch King's bastard sons, ^ ^^^
to transport out of the reahn four dozen of bows, twenty For tbe
dozen of arrows, and four gross of strings, and two g^dings. ?^°f']^^'^
Dated in October. tons.

A warrant to the treasury of the chapter, [of the knights FV>rtii«
cfthe Garter,] to allow, jGrcni the 5th of July last unto the J^J^
7th of October, unto Garter king of arms, 10». by the day ; hcnhb.
unto Norroy, &. Sd. by the day ; to Clarentieux, &. 8d. by
the day ; to Somerset, 4a. by the day ; to Rouge Dragon,
Si. by the day; to Blue Mantle, &. by the day; and to al-
low to Ulster king of arms, for his diet, only &. 8d. by the
day. This for their diet in their attendance on his Majesty
in this time of his progress. Dated in October.

A letter to Sir Andrew Dudley, for his revocation from To Sir An-
the captainship of Guisnes, to serve about his Majesty in the \ey,
[dace of one of the four principal gentlemen of his Highnesses 518
piivj chamber. Dated in the month above.

A licence to Thomas Galtier, of London, to print in French To ThomM
all such books of the Church as shall be set forth. [As * '^''
Common Prayer Books, Homilies, Injunctions, &c. for the
use of the churches in Calais, Guisnes, the isles of Jersey,
Guernsey, &c] Dated in December.

A licence to Edward Prime, Thomas Hicks, and Robert To EdmiM
Buder,merchant&4idventurers of the city of Bristol, to choose Jf 'Swlt^*.
« master of the said mystery, and two wardens thereof. And
that it shall be a corporation in itself for ever. Dated in
I^eoember.

A warrant to the keeper of Mortymer park, and the littJe f'^^^rFhM.
Itek in the county of Berks, to deliver to Sir Philip Hr*>y "'***^
thirty timber oaks growing there. A like warrant t/p th#;
lceq)er of East Hemsted, in the said cotmty, for th^ Wkpi
tlombar. [To build him, it may be, an hou«« at K^nm ;
the monastery there being granted to him.; IM^4 in
fanuarv.

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BOOK A warrant to the Lord Chancellor, to cause td be nude
and directed forth process for the calling aixl summoni^

Anno 1559. the Parliament at Westminster, against the Ist of Maitb

To sir An- A Warrant to Sir Andrew Dudley^ to dehv^t to Johd
tewDod- Bridges ten yards of crimson velvet, to make bis Majes^ i
kirtle and a whode for his Parliament robes. Dated in
January.
To the Bi- A letter to the Bishop of Peterburgh, lieensiii^ hkn toh
Peterborgh. absent £rom the next Parliament, so as he make out his suM-

dent proxy to some discreet personage of the State.
2J^V^ a licence granted to Jdtm Harwel, and other nine in the
county of SujBblk, dothiers, to make five hundred aomt
cloths, so the same be made by Midiaelmas next oomiog?
and to sell the same to one Richard Crag, of London, dm-
per, his executors or assigns; and to carry the same out of
the realm during the space of one year after the diite hereof
into the parts o( Danske, or East Land, upon condition that
he shall Ining in, to the King^s Majesty^s use^ cables, coid-
age, and oars, for the furniture and munition ol the Sai^l
ships. Commanding the customers, comptrollers) searchen,
to take of him sufficient surety at the time c^ the shi|^m]g^
for the bringing in of the cordage, and other marine mmii-
tion, to the value of the same cloths : provided, that the fofe-
said parties, after this number of cloths so made, shaU not
make or continue their trader Dated February 10.
"^^.^^^S"" A warrant to William Marquis of Winchester, master of

quisofWin- , , ^ ,

Chester. the wards and liveries, and to the council of the same
court, to make such books and writings for the assuraDoe of
the wardship and marriage of Sir Edward Seimour, with Ae
keeping, use, order, and receipt of certain maSMM^ laddS)
tenements, &c. to the yearly value of 5007. and above, to the
Earl of Warwick^ Dated in February. Th^ patent wii
signed March SO following.

To the Mar- A letter of gratulation to the Marquis ojp Brnftdatibui^:

Braiden. [^^^ sending the King falcons, as he did- yearly.] IkJaA

burgh. in February.

OF KING EDWARD VI. «5S

A letter to Margaret Tayler, widow, to join in maniag;e CHAP:
fiA John Canslwe, gentlanan of the King's chapel. Dated ^'^y*
u before. Aqdo i ssi.

A licence to William Seres, for years, to print the^'n^"

books of private {H^yers, [vis. such as were called PrimerB.] 5 1 9
P«ed as before. To wuiUm

A warrant to Sir Edmund Peckham, to deliver to Andrew f^ ^j^ ^^
Wise 40001. to be employed by him towards the payment, """^ P"k-
Mwell of the charges of the mines in Ireland, as otherwise,
by order of the Privy Council, for the King's service. Dated
ii March.

A warrant to Sir Edmund Peckham,to deliver to Benjamin To tbc
Goutxi, treasurer of the admiralty, the sum of 6000^ to """'
be by him defrayed towards the discharge of such debts as
Be due within that office, for the marine affiurs. Dated
ie March.

A warrant to to deliver to Benjamin Gon- Far Benj*-

ni, trMsurer of the admiralty, the sum of 460t about "^^""^
n^tualling and furniture of such ships as are presently sent
inh for the apprehenson of Strangwich the pirate. Dated
ID March.

A warrant to deliver to Sir Maurice Denys, by way of For sSr
pat, 6000f. to be by himself defrayed about the King's d^^^
ifidrs in his office and charge. Dated as above.

Another warrant to deliver to Andrew Wise 6OOW. to be For Ab-
ddivered by bjm to the executors of MarlJn Pirry, late trea- " "*'
Direr of the mines in Ireland. Dated as above.

A letter to the commisuoners of the sales of lands, to pass ^'>' ^^
to the Earl of Pembroke certain lands after the rate of twenty Pcnbmke,
/cars' purchase: and to pass to Sir William Petre certain !g?^I^
Unds after the same rate ; he paying two parts in hand, and
a third at ACchaelmas. Dated as above.

A licence of privily granted to John Day, {Hrinter, for >sm.
pinting of a Catechism in English* with the brief of an jJ^T'^
A. B. C. thereimto amiexedj and alao the printing and re-
printing of all sudi works and books, devised and com}Hled
jy the right reverend tasher in God, John* now Bish^«'

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BOOK Winton, or by Thomas Beacon, professor of divinity: m
^^' that no such book, nor any part of them, be in any ww'
Anno 165S. repugnant to the holy Scriptures, or proceedings in reli-
gion, and the laws of our realm. Dated at Westmmster,
March 25.
F6rthe A warrant to the Exchequer, to allow unto the Lord

i^rf Whar- Wharton the sum of 6127/. 12*. ^^d. Who being charged
with the said sum upon his account, for his late office of
warden of the west marches against Scotland, and for Hoe
office of general receiver of certain manors in the county of
Cumberland, by the space of eleven years, can produce war-
rant and sufficient authority for the allowance of the said
sum before the treasurer and chamberlains of the Exdifr*'
quer. Which remission is granted to the same Lord WhaF'
ton, as well for the consideration mentioned in the book, as
for his long and faithful service. And in the said remisflioa
the Lord Dacre and the Lord Cdnyers must be also allowed
and discharged of their petition and demand touching tU
exercising of the said offices for their time ; to be allowed bj'
the said treasurer and chamberlains of the Exchequer. Dated
in March.
To Peter" A warrant to Peter Osbom, to disburse to Sir John
Gates, by way of loan, the sum of 400Z. taking his obliga-'
tion for payment thereof at Whitsuntide 1554. Dated as
before.
520 A passport for Sir Hugh Willoughby, knt. to go beyond
the seas with four servants, monies, and his chain, &c. Dated
as before.
For the Bi- ' A warrant to deliver to the Bishop of Norwich the sum of
Nondcb. ^^^* ^7 ^^Y ^^ reward for his attendance all the last yeat
hitherto about London in his Majesty's service, being there-
unto commanded. Dated as above.
For the A warrant to deliver to the four principal gentlemen of

d^af gen-"" *^ P^^J chamber the sum of lOOOZ. to be by them de-
tiemen. frayed as out of his Majesty's purse. Dated in March.
For the A letter to the Chancellor of the Augmentations, to amffi

L»dy So- Q^^ of ^Y^Q profits arising of the lands of the late Duke cl

OF KING EDWARD VI. 265

lomerset 100?. to be deliveired to the Lieutenant of the CHAP.
Cower of London, for the use of the Lady Somerset. ^^^^'
Dated in March. Anno issa.

A letter to the Bishop of Worcester, licensing him to re-To tb«Bi-
pair to the Tower, to the Lady Duchess of Somerset, in this wo?certer
tme of Easter. Dated in April.

A licence to Richard Tothel, printer, to print all manner To Richard
rf books of the common law of this realm, for seven years. ^*^*''***
So as the first copies thereof be allowed by one of the jus-
tices of the law, or two sergeants, or three apprentices of the
law, whereof one to be a reader in the court, &c.

The custody of Thomas Philpot, lunatic, [or idiot, ac-xoLord
cording to another manuscript,] to the Lord Robert Dud-^^"*
by, with all his lands, goods, &c. and the fee of 100 marks.
Dated April 17.

A warrant to the Lord Chancellor, authorizing him to To the Lord
lame and appoint, from time to time, commissioners for ^^*°<^"®'''
duirch goods, in lieu of such as shall happen to die, to be
ikj or otherwise occupied about the King^s affairs. Dated
a April.

A warrant to the Lord Treasurer, to deliver to Sir An- To the Lord
drew Dudley out of his charge, certain pieces of coin of """"'•
gdd of sundry coins, to the value of 1435Z. 9s. 6d. to be by
kiiii kept to the Eing^s Majesty**s use ; and for a device of
g(dd like a standing cup, with divers conclusions of arith-
lietic, with certain boxes, and in one of them S4 counters
of gold, all weighing 108 ounces ; two flagons of gold, with
<Jiains of the same, weighing 165 ounces, being sent by the
t«ord Admiral to the French Queen at the christening of
ller son : one ring of gold, set with a long diamond, sent to
ike Lady Elizabeth, daughter of France : one other ring,
let with a fair table diamond, given by his Majesty to the
Soots Queen, at her being here : a pearl pendent to a chain
inamelled, being set with diamonds, rubies, and pearls,
rhich was lost by his Majesty wearing the same : and for a
ireorge of gold set with eight small diamonds, which was
'le Earl of Southampton's, delivered to the said Lord Ad-
iral. Dated in April. [This was a discharge for these

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BOOK jewels to Sir Andrew Dudley, who was keeper of the
"• jewels.]

Anno 1558. A warrant to Sir Andrew Dudley, to deliver for the far-
IlvwDnd- ^^^^ o^ ^^ wedding apparel, to the Lord Gruilfud, ion
ley* to the Duke of NOTthumberland, and to the Lady JaMs,

daughter to the Duke of Suffolk, certain parcels of Ommb,
and cloths of gold and alver, of the late Duke's and Du-
chess's of Somerset, as appears by the same. Dated is
April.
521 A like warrant to him, to take to himself, as of thelQn^
To the ^nfL and a warrant to deUver to the Lord ChambaUo,

nine. o ' ■

each of them eighteen yards of crimson velvet, for thelmiy

of the order of the Grarter. Dated as above.
To the Two Hke warrants unto him, for ten yards axneoe d

white sarcenet or taffety, to line the same Uveries. Dated tf

above.
^Bttporu Three several letters of commendation, or safe ooadoel
Sip?"* ®' passport, for the three ^ps now going to the Newfiwud

Land, written in Latin, to all kings, princes, and otha

states. Three other of the same effect written in Hebrer.

Three others in Chaldee tongue of the same effect Dated

in May.
Letters Twenty letters to signifying, that the King*'

UlSde.* for Majesty hath sent unto every one of them certain artidtf
uniformity for an uniform order to be observed within every chuii
techism. Within this realm : which articles are gathered with gmi

study, and by the advice of the greatest learned men of th

bishops, &c. Dated in May.

Fifty-four articles concerning the uniform <Mrder to bt

observed in every church of this reabn. A Catechisin aho

to be taught to scholars, as the ground and foundatxni ^

their learning. Dated in May.
To Sir John A warrant to Sir John Gates;, to cause a book to be ^bui

Gstet

of the castle and manor oi Hartford, the manor of Hartof
ford-bury, the parks of Hertford and Hartingford-hnyi
with the a^^iurtenances, in the county of Hertford; id
the manor and park of Wikes in Essex, to the Lady tixtf
Grace. Dated in May.

OF KING EDWARD VL 857

A licence to the Earl of Warwick, to reUun an hundred chap.
xtMi ; and to the I^ord Robert Dudley, to retain fifty men. _ '^''^'^*-

Btied as before. Auho isss.

A warrant of discharge to Sir John WilliamB, for 1 6,667/. ^,^^
1*. 11^ paid to Peter Osbom, as the arrearages upon the rdiI Lord
detemdnabon <^ the said Sir John Williams^s account of his ^^^
lUe office of mastership of the jewel-house. Dated as above. To Sir John

A warrant to the Lord Chancellor, to make out write for ~ '''u'^'* .
i Pariiament to be holdeu the 18th of September nexL cbuncciior.
Otted m June.

AlettCT to the Lead Admiral, that it is the King^s plea^TotbeLord
mi* that he shall repcur unto the Tower of London, and '""""'•
tike the charge thereof, there being committed to him the
ctder and governance thereof. Dated in July.

A letter to the Lieutenant of the Tower, to assist him inTotheUeu-
all such things as shall by the said Admiral be declared toj^*^,.
■in or his; and to follow such direction as he shall appoint.
[Dug is the last warrant set down in this Warrant- Book.]

CHAP. XXXn. 522

CiBationSf pregentaHoTtSf mdulgences, and permissiona to

chwchmen.
VV £ go (HI now with another rank of things worthy ob-
iming, collected fixim the aforementioned manusoipts, via.

V. CoUatUmSy preaentatiana, grants, letters, and Ucencea to
men qfihe Church or Univer^ty.
A lease to Nicolas Wotton, dean of Canterbury, for i^so.

, , .-.. , .11 Tn Ninlu

•venty-one years, of the manor of Lagh, with the appurte- wotton.
ttnces, in Sussex, late parcel of the possessions of Sir Tho-
nu Cheny, knight, with dirers other lands, &c. paying
hstfore yearly 60/. to the buliff or recover of the pre*
BKs. Dated in October IS^.
A licence to the BishopofBathandWells, to^ve, gtantiTaUwBi-
Bd alien to Edward Duke of ScHneraet, in fee-simple, j
!ie Bdte, drcuit, and prednct of the chief manmon, i

VOL. II. FAET II. S

988 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK ihe palace of the Bishop of Bath land Wills, vni
^^' other lands, &c. to the yearly value of 62/. lid. to h

Anno 1550. by fealty only. Dated in November the same year.

To Nicolas A licence to preach to Nicolas Daniel, M. A. !
November*

Spiiiesby ^ grant, that the church of the late college or d

▼icwage. SpUlesby in Lincolnshire, dissolved by Parliamen
an. reg. Edw. VI. 1^. shall be the parish church of I
again, together with the churchyard : and that th
be a vicar endowed for ever : and he and his succes;
have a messuage, and two bams, and one horse
kilnhouse, and one acre of land in Spillesby s
commonly called in the sdte of the said

and an annuity of lOt. out of all the King^s lan<
payable quarterly, to be holden in frankalmoigne.
above.

To John A Ucence of preaching to John Bradford, pre
divinity. Dated in December.

To William ^ errant to William Dawson, to be vicar preach<

DawsoD. • ^ , ...

collie of Southwel in Nottinghamshire, with the f<
per annum during pleasure : to be paid by the n
the same shire. Dated as before.
ForNic. A nonresidence for Nic. Wotton, clerk, to tak<

Wotton.

profits of his prebend in Salisbury, during his life,

he be not regddent. Dated as before.

To the Bi- A presentation to John Bishop of Chester, to adn

Cb^ter. Pilkington to the vicarage of Kendal in West

Dated as before.

523 A warrant to Sir John Baker, knight, [chancelli

Baker' '^^^^ Court of Augmentations,] to exonerate and dischar,

Pilkington, clerk, and his executors, of his first-fru

vicarage of Kendal, whereunto he is presented ; wl

King hath pardoned him. Dated in December.

To the Bi- A presentation to the Bishop of Chester, to adm

Chester. Hkins, clerk, to the parish church of Bedal, vol

death of Thomas Magnus, last incumbent. Dated i

Tnd Ch^ A letter to the Dean and Chapter of Worceste

terof wi. the King did write to them in favour of Sir Rol

gorn.

OF KING EDWAKD VI. SS9

Wliit, knight, for a lease in revemon for axty years, of the CHAP,
rectory of Wimbleton, that they will make the hke grant to_''^^"-

Mr.Cecyl, secretary, and rather better; who hath the in-Annoifiso.
tenst oNhe sidd Sir Robert in the s^d rectory by the old
lease. Dated in January.

A nonresidence to Giles Eire, [the King's chaplain,] pro- To Giica
tmoT of divinity, during life, to take the profits of his two '"'
ftdKods in Winton and Westminster, whether he be pre-
mt (H- absent. Dated as above.

The advowson of the next canonship or prebend thatForPder
Uleth vcad in the cathedral church of Canterbury, to Peter
Aleiander, [a learned stranger, residing with the Archbi-
sIh^ of Canterbury.] Dated in February.

A letter to the Bishop, Dean, and Chapter of Sahsbury, To the Bi-
ta bvour of William Honning, esquire, [who was one ofsnTchsp-'
the clerks of the Council,] where Guido Cavalcant, incum-"'" f^-
Iwit of the prebend of Cheping Faringdon in the county of
Berks, is contented, upon request made unto him, to give
■nd surrender all his interest and estate of the possesion of
die aaid prefiend, to agree to his scud request, in such sort
as the same may take effect towards him in fee-^ple.
Dated in February.

A licence to the same Bishop, to grant the premises inTothcBi-
fte«mple unto William Honning. Dated as above. 'f^"^"

A warrant to Sir John Baker and Sir William Fetre, FortheBi-
iAere the reverend father in God, Thomas Bishop of Nor- jj„^"^
*ich, by five writings obligatory, every of them bearing
date the 10th of April, anno 4 Edw. VI. standeth bound to
&e King's Majesty in the sum of 10007. for the sure pay-
Bent of 5837. 13*. lOd. to be ptud for his firat-fruits : to de-
61k, deduct, and allow to the smd reverend Father out of
4e said sum 4G01. and to deliver so many obligations for
payment as amounts to the s^d sum : which Ae King hath
fin;given him. Dated as above.

An annuity of 9^. 6s. 8d. to Richard Squire, vicar of the To Bictaia
Mtish of Dovercourt in Essex, to be p^d of the tenths of ^'""'
he parsonage of Dovercourt, fioia dhristmas anno 4

MO MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK VI. half yearly, in reccMnpence of a promise made to

^^' thereof by the Eing^s Majesty's father. Dated as above

Anno 1550. A presentation to the Bishop of Chester, to admit «

To the Bi- StancQsh, D. D. to the parsonage of Wiggon in his dio

ChMter. void by the death of Mr. Herbert, late incumbent E

in March.
For Dr. A warrant to Jdhn Rither, cofferer, to pay WiUiam

Bill ^ ' tr ^

D. D. an annuity of 90L from Michaelmas, an. 3. reg.
ing the Eing^s pleasure.
524 -A. letter to the Bishop of Exeter, [Voysey,] to suffe

TotheBi- Earl of Bedford, and others of the Council, to procure

Ej^q.^ best assurance for certain lands bought of him, appertai
to his bishopric. Dated in March.

To Gest, A licence of preaching to Edmund Grest, B. D.

52j;;;;^\*"^like to Henry Ayland, B. D. and Thomas Bernard, »
Dated as above.

ToBbhop A translation of John Ponet, bishop of Rochester, U
bishopric of Winchester, during his life, with all lords
manors, lands, tenements, hereditaments, and other po
nons, as well spiritual as temporal, with all other oos
dities and jurisdictions. Dated in March.

To the The translation of the said John Bishop of Roche

to the bishopric of Winchester, during his life, with al
lordships and manors, Sec. New signed, because his
ritual jurisdictions and probate of testaments was not ii
other. Dated in the same month.

To William A licence to William Thynn, prebendary in the a
*y°"- dral church of Wells, to grant and alienate to Ed
Duke of Somerset, in fee-simple, all the manor of Dul
cote and Chilcote in the county of Somerset, with the
purtenances, belonging to his prebend there, by fine c
covery : and also to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, a]
the Dean and Chapter, to ratify and confirm the said gi
and to the said Duke, to grant and exchange therefo
the said William Thynn, and his successors, the man
Tyngerst, alias Fingurst, in the county of Bucks. Dat
before.

OF KING EDWARD TL Kl

A fioenoe §ar |Mgmluiie to Jmmem HmMim, 1L A. of GBAR
Cambridge; and to Tnhi Wirnrt M A nf rMfaii^K "™-
Dited in Mjsdi. Ah» iu^l

A presentadon to WilEaH Bfahap of Bidi jBd Wdk» to][2L^
WUfiam Tomer, doctor of pimK, [and who Kred m wasM

tbe Dake of Someraet^s &Bify,] to die doneiT of die draich "^ ^*

cf WeDs, widi all die lands and tenements theteuato be-

knging: wlncii tlie King hadi ^rcn loBy irith the prdiend

cfCurrej. Dated in Mavdi.

A nonresidenee to Wilfaai^ Tomer, to be absent fiom imi.
fa deanery wirim the dborA of Wefls> and to take diepwv'''^^^
Sts notwithstanding, doiii^ Us fife. Dated in March.

A jHiesentation to Thomas AidJnAop of Canlefbofy, tol^tke
dmit Wilfiam Mardi to the panom^ of St. Peter's within^
he marches of Calais, of Torwyn Aicese, Toid fay theiB-i>«7-
^[iiaticm of J<4m Butler, the late incmnbent. Dated in

A collation to John Sooiy to the bishopric of Rochester, To Scorj.
rith all IcMdahips, manors, lands, tenements, &c. during
is fife, finom the transhtfioo of Jdm, now Kshop of Win-
bester. Dated in April.

A letter to the Dean and C&qyter of Wcaioester ; where To tbeDna
ley have granted to Sir Philip Hoby the parsonage of^rwo^^
lOidiwidi and Norton in the coun^ of Worcester; imd to^^'
ohn Bamsley, the ferm and parsonage of Linrich, fcnr
^enty-one years; the Biing'^s Majesty's {deasnre is, although
le statutes of their house do not permit them to extend
leir grants any further than fcgr twenty-one years, to
spoise with th^ statutes in that behalf; and desireth
em to grant the same leases to them for mty years apiece,
ated in April.

A presentation to Thomi» Archbishop of Canterbury, to To the
mit William Britten to the parish church of St Dionys in^f ^;aiitcr^^
me-street in London: which Thomas Pannel hath re-^™7*
ned to the same WilKam, by his writing dated 18th Feb. ^ -
lo 6 Ed. VI. Dated as before.

A presentation to the Archbishop of Canterbury, to ad- To the

s 3

aes MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK mit Christopher Ashbum, B. A. to the parsonage cS St

"' MichaePs in Crooked-lane, London. Dated in April.
Anno 1561. A letter to Trinity college in Cambridge, declaring the
To^Trinity King is pleased to dispense with Thomas Dovel, B. D. and
vice-master of that college, for enjoying of his feUowcUip
and vice-mastership, notwithstanding he be married. Dated
in May. - ,

To the Bi- A letter to the Bishop of Carlisle, that at the contemjJft-
CitfiWe. ^on thereof he would grant to the Lord Clinton, lc»d ad-
miral, a lease for sixty years of the manor of Homcastleia
LiiKx>lnshire, after the accustomed yearly rent. Dated ia
May.

To the Bi- A licence of preaching to the Bishop of Windiester .
wiDcheatcr.^^^^ this realm: and to appoint whom he shaU judge
meet to preach within his diocese; and to inhibit them
whom he shall not think meet within the sam^* Dated as
before.

For BUhop A warrant to take bond of John Scory, bishop

of Rochester, for the payment of his first-fruits, to b^
at the Annunciation of our Lady, anno 1554. At vUdi
day he shall pay 100 marks : and so yearly at the same
feast 100 marks, till the same be satisfied and paid. Dated
as before.
To theBi- A letter to the Bishop of Oxon, that he will grant fiir
Oxon^^ reasonable years and rent to William Higham and Williaa
Holms, the parsonage of Oughton, alias Overton on the
Hill, in the county of Leicester ; which is presently in his
disposition. Dated in May.
For Dr. A letter to that it is the King's pleasure, that

TaWon ■^' Bowland Taylor shall succeed in the preacher's room
of Canterbury, now void by promoting Dr. Scory to the U-
shopric of Rochester, who last had the same. Dated as be-
fore.
For John A letter to * in favour of John Cal vely, that thej

*^*^' will grant a lease in reversion, .under their chapter seal)
for fifty years, of the whole lordship of Stoughton, alias
Sawton, a piece of land called Church, in Hedie in Che-

OF KING EDWARD VI. 868

hire, with all iN^ts and commodities thereunto belonging. CHAP.
They had granted this before to Calvely, fbr as nianyj^'™"'

i as their statutes would allow: but this letter served Audaibbi.
o dispense with them for letting it for fifty years.] Dated
» before.

A licence to John Clark, to have, hold, and enjoy his '^'> J'^»
prebend in Wells during his life ; and a licence to him to
marry. [As though he thought his marriage without the
King's licence might have ^aken his right md title to his
prebend; but he did not seem well to CMisider the act
BHde in the second year of this King, which took off all
cU canons and constitutions agunst priests* marriage, and
that all forfatures, puns, and' penalties for the breach of
tban should he of none effect] Dated in May.

A nonre^dence to George Carew, during his life, to have To Otatft
ill rents, benefits, fruits, &c. of his prebencU in the churches ""'
rf Oxon and Wells, notwithstanding his absence. Dated in

A jHVsentatitm to the Archbishop of Canterbury, to ad- To tbc
lut lUcbard Kiffin to the parsonage of Bonlngs in the^'f^'i;^
Baicbes of Calais, vend by the remgnation of Anthony b"^.
liile, last incumbent : which was delivered without preach- 536
ing h^an the King, notwithstanding the order taken.
Skted as before.

A varraut to the Chancellor, Treasurer, and Council, for tbe bi-
•nd to all other oflicera of the Court of First-fruits and^^JJj^
Tilths; where the King's Majesty hath given to John
Ute Bishop of Rochester, the bishopric of Winchester : and
where it is agreed, that the siud Bishop should assure unto
the King divers manors, lands, &c. of the said bi^<q»ic,
■nd the King granted to assure to the said Bishop divers
gf bis lands, tenements, and possessions, by reason whereof
[he sud bishopric shall be greatly diminished : the King is
xmtented therefore, that the said tnshopric of Winchesto*,
nd the revenues th««of, shall be rat^, taxed, and charged
o the King's Majesty at 2000 marks for the firsts
md not Above, [whereas before it was valued in the i
MN^ at $8S6l. 34. ^d.] as often as the first-fir
b4

SM MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK shall be due and payable: and the same bishopric of WiA*
Chester, and the possessions and revenues thareof, baB^

Anno 1561. henceforth shall be rated^ taxed, and charged at SOO marb
yearly, and not above, for the yearly tenths of the sudbi*
shopric : and that he shall be discharged of all sums o£
money heretofore due, or used to be paid for the first-fruits
and tenths of the said bishopric. And further, the tiog
hath licensed the said Bishop to enter into the same Mr
shopric before the payment of the said first-fruits ; to take
only the bonds of the said Bishop, without surety or sure-
ties to be bound with him, by ten several obligations, for.
the sure pa3rment of the said 2000 marks, for the satisfiio^
tion of his first-fruits, and of all other sums of money, in
ten years. And further^ to deliver all bonds and writings
touching the first-frmts of the bishopric of Rochester^ to
the said Bishop of Winchester ; which the King hath for^
given him. Dated in May.

To the Bi- A gift to the said Bishop, in consdderation of the manors

Winton. of Marden, Twiford, Marwel, Waltham, &c. in the county
of Southampton, and of divers other lands, tenements^
rents, &c. of all the rectory of Bremmer, and of the chapel
of Charford and H4le, and of the rec^ry of Rogbom in
the county of Southampton, with divers other lands, to tbe
yearly value of 2000 marks : to be holden in liberam eke-
mosyncmi; and to take the profits from Michaelmas last
Dated in May.

To the A licence to the said Bishop of Winchester, to enter into

the said bishopric, and to take and receive the {»x)£ts
thereof, without pa3mig any thing thereof, notwithstanding
a statute made in that behalf in the £6th of the reign of
Henry VIII. [anno Dom. 1534,] with a pardon to him of
all pains, penalties, and sums of money that might be for-
feited and due to the King, for entering into the bishopric
of Rochester contrary to the said statute. Dated in May.
[The said statute was, that every bishop, or other spiritual
person, before any actual or real possession, or meddling
with the profits of the bishopric, or other spiritual promo-
tion, should satisfy, content, and pay, or compound and

same

OF KING EDWARD VI. 966

igtee to pay to the King^s use, at reasonable days, upon- CHAP.
good sureties, the first-jfruits.] ^""^"'

. : A letter to {the Dean and Chapter of Wintcm] to confirm Aimo 1551.
z- Ibe grant of the said Bishop, by th^ full consadt and seal^^J^JIo^
r rf the duqpter, as in that case by the order <^ the laws isChapter of
f lequkite and accust<»ned. Dated as before. "^ ^^

A presentation to the Bishop <^ Winton, to admit Lfeo-527
Bttd Bilson, M. A. to the prebend in the cathedral church of ^^^^^
Winton, void by the death of Thomas White. Dated in*^"^
t Jane.

\ A presentation o£ Jdbn Ashdown to Ashtisford, [in Kent,] For John
whidi Ponet, when bishop of Rochester, held with his bi-
dK>pric. Dated in June.

A Jic^ice to John Bishop of Glocester, and Anne his To the
wife, .during his life, with five or six guests, to eat flesh oi^MSMter
a&d white meats in Lent, and on other fasting days. Dated *^^i*^^«-
as before.

A presentation to the Bishop of Norwich, to admit Laun-To the
cdot Thexton to the parish church of Great Bircham, in his Norwich,
diooese. Dated in June.

The deanery of Bristow to John Whithear, clerk, for life. To John
after Jdbin Snow^s death, or when it shall be vdid. Dated
^ before.

A presentation to Nicolas Bishop of Worcest^, to pre- For John
sent John Harley, M. A. to the prebend of Wwcester, call."*'^*^'
rt the nineteenth prebend, void by Webley's death. Dated
as before.

A licence of preaching to Miles Wilson, M. A. student in For Miles
divinity in the University of Cambridge. Dated May 7.

A letter io the Archbishop of York, in favour of Mr. To the
fcder, cofierer, fw the prebend of Uskel, which William f/^^^^JJl**'^
Laighton late had. Dated in July.

The collocation of the bishopric of Exeter to Miles Co- To Miles
verdale, with a licence of entry into the said bishopric, be- ^^"•^**
ing of the yeariy value of 500/. now, and no more ; where
afore it was of 15652. 13^. 6|d. And that the yearly tenths
shall be but 502. hereafter : and to be discharged of this

266 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK year'^s tenths, and all arrearages in the dd BiAop\im»
"' Dated in July.

Anno 1651. A grant to John Veysey, late Inshop of Exeter, upon

u^^wi^p* his resignation of his said bishopric, to enjoy all amimtiei

of Eaeter. granted unto him out of the lands of the bishopric, whereof

he hath made a state in fee-ample to others : and also to

enjoy certain rents granted out of the bishopric to certam

persons, that be comedo his hands: and that the said late

bishop may plead in any court by the name of John Veysej.

Dated in July.

For Bishop A warrant to the Court of First-fruits and Tenths, to

CoTcrdaie. digj;jj3j.ge MiJes Coverdale, a late made bishop of Exetor,

of his first-fruits. Dated in August.

To Sir John A letter to Sir John Mason, knt. where the Biidiop of
Winchester hath departed to the Eing^s Majesty certna
lands lately belon^ng to the see of Winchester; which lands
behoveth to be confirmed to his Highness, under the chapter
seal of the cathedral church there, before Michaelmas next;
that he with convenient speed repairing thither, and agree-
ing with the Bishop to meet with them there at a day cer-
tain, do cause all the canons, prebendaries, and other^irlioin
it concemeth, to assemble and come together in the chap-
ter-house at Winchester, for confirming of the said lands
before the feast of Michaelmas ; advising the Coimcil the
day of their meeting, as order may be ^ven to the King's
learned Council to be there at the same time. Dated in
August.

TotheBp. A licence of preaching to Miles Coverdale, bishop of
Exeter. Dated in September.
528' A licence to the said Bishop, and Elizabeth his wife,

To the during their lives, with five or six at their table, to eat flesh

same. " . , • i •

and white meats in Lent, and other fasting days. Dated in

September.
To Bartho- The deanery within the cathedral church of Chiche^)
heron! ^ Sussex, given to Bartholomew Traheron, for life, v(rid by

the death of Giles Aire, late the Eing^s chaplain, with all

the profits thereto belonging. Dated as before.

OF KING EDWARD VI. 367

A letter to the Dean and Chapter of Worcester, in fa- CHAP.
Vour of William Huggon, to grant him a lease for forty ^^^^^'

years of their lordship of Himbleton in Worcestershire. Anno tssi.
Dated as above. 1^^^^ ^

A presentation to the Bishop of Winchester, to admit Chapter of
John Hud, B. D. to a prebend in that church, void by the J^^'J^/**''
death of Giles Eyre. Dated in September. Bishop of

A letter to the Prebend and Chapter of Chichester, to Winton.
elect Bartholomew Traheron dean thereof, and to do all thoiomew
other, things thereimto requisite. Dated as above. Traheron.

A licence of preaching to Launcelot Thexton, M. A.ToLaunce-
Dated in October. iotTh«ton.

A letter to to elect Mr. Lever to be For Mr.

master of [St John's] college in Cambridge, now void by
reason of the preferment of him that was late master there
[vix. Dr. Bill] to another promotion within the same Uni-
versity. Dated in November.

A grant to Robert Home of the deanery within the ca- To Robert
thedral church of Durham, with all and singular preemi-
nences, jurisdictions, lands, 8z:c. for term of his life, in as
large and ample manner as Hugh Whithed had it Dated
as befcire.

A grant of the mastership of Trinity college to William To William
Bill, D. D. for life, void by the death of John Redman,
el^^ with all manors, mansions, 8z:c. Dated in November.

A presentation to John Bishop of Winchester, to admit For John

. . Watson.

J<^n Watson to a prebend in that church, void byjthe death
of Anthony Barker, late inciunbent Dated in November.

A presentation to the Bishop of London, to admit Tho-ForThomas
mas Rose to the vicarage of West Ham, void by the death
of the said Anthony. Dated in November: but the seal
passed not till January 18 following.

A presentation to admit Nicolas Udal, M. A. to a prebend For-Nicolas
of Windsor, void by the death of the said Anthony. Dated
as before.

A presentation to admit Alexander Nowel to a prebend For Alex,
in St. Peter's in Westminster, void by the death of John ®^* *
Redman. Dated as before.

ii6B MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK A preBentation to John Bishop of Chester, to admit Ni-
colas Ashtcm to the vicarage of Eirby in Kendal, vend by

Anno 1651. the resignation of James Pilkington, late incumbent Dated
J3;«^- as before.

BVyrThoDiM A letter to [the Fellows of University college, in Oxon,] to
^T* elect Thomas Kay to the mastership of their collie, vmdl^

the resignation of the late master diere. Dated as abom
To the Pro- A letter to the Provost [Sir John Cheke] and Fellows rf
FeiiowB of Kii^g^ collie, in Cambridge, that in choorang ordinary of*
Kibg'8 col- ficers, they use first the order prescribed in the statutes:
and if, after due form used, they cannot agree, that then
he be taken for officer whom the said Provost shall appoint;
whom the rest of the fellows shall obey during the time rf
his said office, in all things that the statute wills them, until
529 further order be- therein taken, either by the Kings's Ma-
jesty, or the Bishop of Lincoln, [their visitor.] Dated is
December.
To Jewel A licence of preaching: to John Jewel. A like lic^ioe to

and Samp- ^-,, * ^^

son. Thomas Sampson. Dated in December.

To the A licence to Nicolas Bishop of London, to give to Tho-

London.^ mas Lord Wentworth, and his heirs, all his chief messuage,
with the appurtenances, in the county of Middlesex, with
divers other lands, tenements, &c. [the yearly value not ex-
pressed,] to be holden in fealty only. Dated in December.
For Richard A presentation to admit Richard Turner, B. D. to a pre-
Tumer. y^^^ within the chapel of St. George the Martyr, in the
castle of Windsor, void by the death of Simon Simons.
Dated in December : the patents sealed Dec. 24.
To Shep. A licence of preaching to Adam Shepheard, B. D. Dated

heard. -r •% f

January 15.
Tho.Carew. Thomas Carew made archdeacon of Norwich, void by

the death of Alexander Carew. Dated in February.
To John A grant to John Ellis of a canonship in the church of

Rochester, void by the death of William Harrison. Dated

in February.
To Trinity A letter to the Fellows of Trinity hall, in Cambridge, to
^***' receive for their master Dr. Haddon, the King's principal

reader in the civil law. Dated in February.

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A licence for preaching to Nicolas Grimwald, M. A. CHAP.
Dated January 2. ' jcxxii^

A licence ctf preaching to Thomas Wylson. Dated Anno 1 56 1.
February 23. waif^'

Annuities of 40/. each, during pleasure, to be made from To Tbomai
MSdiaeknas last, to Wilham BUI, D. D. Mr. Grindal, B. D. ^''«*"-
Mr. Peme, D. D. Mr. Harley, B. D. the King^s ordinary King's
Jiaplains. Signed March 13,. with a liberat dormcmt. chaplains.

A licence of preaching to Dr. Bill. Dated March 1. To Dr. BUi.

A presentation to Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, toForWiiii»m
idmit William Britain, doctor of law, to St Denys Back- " "'
^urch, void by the resignation of William Ereth. Dated
n March.

A presentation to John Bishop of Lincoln, to admit ForThomas
Fhomas Wilson to the parsonage of Washingborough, void
)y promoting the said John Bishop of Lincoln. Dated in
ttfarch.

The translation of John [Scory] Bishop of Rochester, to *5^*-
he bishopric of Chichester, with all lordships, manors, lands, Rochester.
kc. to the same bishopric belonging, to him during his life.
Dated, in April.

Translation of John [Hoper] Bishop of Glocester, to theBp.Hoper.
)ishopric of Worcester, with all lordships, manors, &c. to
he same belonging. Dated in April.

A grant to Roland Tayler, LL. D. for life, of the arch- To Rowland
leaconry of Exon, with all lordships, manors, &c. to the, *^ ^^'
ame belonging. Dated in April. With the pensions granted
lim by the Court of Augmentations in recompence of a
rebend and sjoiodals of the late dissolved college, Glasney,
ad of the abbeys of Bodmin, Ty wardreth, and Luxam,
ith the discharge of his first-fruits, and the arrearages of
is predecessors for their tenths and subsidies. Signed
lay 3.

A pardon or release to the Bishop of Rochester, of aSlTorthe
manner of debts, or arrearages of debts, due to the King for Rochester,
enths for his bishopric and first-fruits. Dated in May.

A warrant to take the bonds of the new elected Bishop of 530
incoln, for the payment of his first-fruits and tenths: the^f!;**"«Bp.

'^ -^ of Lincoln.

270 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK first payment to begin at Michaelnuui 1558, after 100t.by
year. Dated in May.

ADnoi65t. A licence to Richard Tavemer to preach. Di^ as

r^lT before.

For Bm-. a letter to the Chancellor of the First-fruits, for there-

^"^^Z mission of Bartholomew Traherin[Traheron] of 5».1&.«.
due for the first-fruits of the deanery of Chichester. Dated
as before.

To the A letter to the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, for cond-

Cbupter of uuance of the divinity lecture in the cathedral churdi there,

^^"* as the Eing^s late visitors appointed it Dated as befne.

For Bishop A Warrant to the officers of the Court of First-frtdtB, to
^^^' discharge John Hoper, bishop of Worcester, of all his first-
fruits. Dated in May.

ToGrindai. A licence to Edmund Grindal, B.D. to preach. Dated
in June.

To Clement The prebend of Horton in the county of Glocester,
parcel of the possessions of the Duke of Somerset,' leased
to Clement Paston, esq. for twenty-one years, paying yearly
for the same 65/. Is, 7^d. Dated in June.

For Mat- A presentation for Matthew Parker, for the prebend of

thewPftrker. . • . .

' Corringham, in the church of Lincoln. Dated in June.

Passed the seal June SI.
For the A letter also to the President and Chapter of the dburd

**™®* of Lincoln, to admit and choose the said Matthew Parker,

D. D. to the deanery of Lincoln. Dated as before.
To the A licence to the Bishop of Lincoln to preach, with ao-

LUiwto°^ thority to him to forbid any to preach within his diocese^

being unable, and not having the Eing^s licence. Dated ss

above.
To the A licence to the Bishop of Chichester, both to pread

Chichester, himself, and also at his discretion to license or forbid any

other within his diocese. Dated in June.
To Dr. A licence to Dr. Standish, one of the Kine^s chaplaioS)

to enjoy his prebend in the church of Worcester, as thou^

he were resident. Dated as before.
ForThomas A letter in favour of Thomas Harding, [chaplain to the
Harding. ]y|^j.qnjg of- Dorset,] that they will, at the contemplation rf

OP KING EDWARD VI. 871

liu Uajesty^B letter, accept and choose him to be master of CH&P.

their college, whensoever the same shall next become vrad L

Dated as above. Ammissa.

A letter requiiing them, at the contemplation thereof, to For Dr.
Offlninale and elect Dr. [Walter] Haddbn, at Michaelmas"'^*'"-
next, to the room that Dr. Oglethorp hath in their college,
[which was the presidentship of Magdalen college in Oxon,]
vlio is then willing to reugn the same. Dated as before.

A patent granted for exchange of lands to the right To the
tCTerend William Bishop of Bath and Wells, vh. for the^iS,"^
chief manacm of the deanery of We'lis, with all the lands w*ii«,
vithin tl^e predncts of the same : and also the manor of
Westoker, with the right of patronage of the parsonage of
Westoker, and the borough of Wellington and Stogursej,
m the county of Somerset, to the yearly value of 6(W. 2*. 11 jd.
And also of the park of Wedmore : and for one annuity c^
16L cnniog yearly of the manor of Glastenbury, in the said
county : [which were made over to the King :] and the Bi-
>bap to have the chief mancdon belonj^ng to the Bishop's
W, OMnmonly called the Biahop ofBiUh and Welia' palace, 531
with all the appurtenances within the precincts of the siud
pilace, and the house in Wells appointed for the safe cus-
tody of the clerks convict, and all the manors in Wells and
Weetbioy : and all the borough of Wells, and the hundred
.(f Wells, with all their appurtenances; late parcel of the
pMession and inheritance of Edward Duke of Somerset,*
■Runted of felony, and sometime parcel of the possessions
irfdieBishopof Bath and Wells. And also the park called
Westbury . Park, parcel of the possesions of the foresiud
l^uke : etiam, nativos, fuUivaa el vUlanos cum eorum sc-
fdia: habend. eidem episcopo et succetsoribus auii in
ffrpeiuum tenend. de Domino Rege in perpetuam eleemo-
t^itam, : with a pardon for his first-fruits. The indenture
dited in July : die patents dated at Westminster, Aug. 1,
<Mn. reg. 6.

A liMnce irf |*e«chiog to Edward Pilkington, M. A. and To PiiUni
mother to Gri^th Jones. Dated in July.

«7« MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK A grant to Edmund Giindal, of a prebend in the church
^^' of Westminster, for life, void by the death of Breton. Daied

Anno 1659. in July.

To GrindaL j^ \q^j^j, ^ ^g Fellows of [Magdalen collqg;e, Oxon,] to

iToTOiteg^, choose next Michaelmas Dr. Haddon prendent thererf:

Ow>D« and that the King is not pleased for the denying of Ms
former letters, nor for the division that is betwe^i them.
Dated as before.

For John A presentation to the Bishop of London^ to admit John

^^"^ Puflen, B. D. to the parsonage of St. Peter's in Cornwall,
void by the advancing of John-[Tayler] Bishop of Linotdii)
to that bishopric. Dated in July.

To lufe A grant to Rafe Cavelare, [Cavalerius,] stranger, to he
*^® * free denizen ; and therein the advowson of a prebend [or,
of the newt prebend tr decmery^ as Chancellor Groodrick^s
l^er-book sets it down,] in the church of Canterbury:
in consideration of his reading the Hebrew lecture freely in
Cambridge. Dated in August

ToJwnes A gift to James Haddon, B. A. of the prebend of West-
minster, void by the death of Anthony Bellows, LL. D. and
master of chancery. Dated in August.

To Dr. A licence of nonresidence granted to Dr. Standish, a pre-

bendary in the church of Worcester, being one of the King'*
ordinary chaplains, to have the said prebend, being in any
other his promotions ; any constitution or act of Parliament
that is or shall be to the contrary notwithstanding. Dated
at Christ^s Church, [where the King was in his progress,]
August 20.

To Edwin A grant to Edwin Sands, D. D. of a prebend within the
church of Carlisle, void by the death of Ballace, [Bellows.]
Dated in September.

For John A presentation to the Bishop of Worcester, to admit John
Dee to the parsonage of Upton, void by the promotion of
John Harley to the bishopric of Hereford. Dated in Sept

To the A letter to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, signifying his

Bath^.^^ Majesty^s contentation, that the Bishop having many fit
places within the precinct of the house of Wells, to make an

OF KING EDWARD VI. 878

hall of, and for Ips hospitality, may (edifying one thereon) CHAP.
take down the great hall now standing, and grant the same ^^^^^'

iway : commending unto him for that purpose Sir Henry Anno ibi%.
Gates, upon knowledge had of the Bishop^s good inclination
towirds him. Dated in September.

A letter to the Master and Fellows of St. John^s college, 533
Oxon, to place one Alexander Smutches, stranger, in that
dace which Johannes ab Ulmis, lately departed hence, had.
Dttted as above.

A presentation to John Bishop of Winchesta-, to admit For Nicolae
!ficdas Uvedale, M. A. to the parsonage of Calbome, in the
Ue of Wight, void by the promoting of John Goodacre to
Jie archbishopric of Cashel in Ireland. Dated in September.

A grant to John Old, D. D. for life, of the canonship or To John
prebend in the cathedral church of Hereford, void by the
kath of Anthony Bellasis, [or Bellows,] and in the King's
;ift by vacation of the said bishopric. Dated in September:
igned and sealed October 4.

The King's letters to the Dean and Chapter of Worcester, To the
0 confirm under the chapter seal such assurance as shall chapt^of
•e devised for his Highness, for certain lands and heredita- Worcetter.
)ents reserved of the old possessions of the bishopric of
Vorcester. Dated in September.

A letter to the Bishop, Dean, and Chapter of Worcester, To the
n the surrender of the bishopric of Worcester, to the in-
9it there may be a new collation of the same, by the name
f the bishopric of Worcester and Glocester. Dated in
eptember.

A letter in favour of Nicolas Udal to the Dean and Chap- F«r ^AcoIm
V of Windsor, to have his dividend, and other commodi-
es growing to him by the prebend there, during the time
F his absence thence ; in consideration that he hath been
xmpied in preaching. Dated in September.

A letter to the Bishop of Hereford, for granting of Here- To the
»rd place in London, to the Lord Admiral, in fee-simple. Hereford.

A grant of a prebend in Westminster, void by the death To Andrew
f Simon Heins, to Andrew Peme, the King^s chaplain. •
)ated in October.

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S74 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK A grant of the deanery of the cathedral church of Exeter,
which Simon Heins, lately deceased, had, to James Haddon,

Anno i66«. D. D, to have during life. Dated in October : but the pft*

Hadd^^ tent not signed till January 8, at Westminster.

ForTrioity Statutes signed by the Eing^s Majesty for Trinity ccikff

««u«g«. in Cambridge. Dated in October.

To Oeorge A prebend granted to George Burden, B. D. in the cfr
thedral church of Rochester, now void by the death of WiL
bore : and that he shall have the daily distributions, divi-
dends, 8z:c. arising thence, whether he be absent or present;
provided that he make yearly sermons of the gospels in the
aforesaid church, either by himself, or some sufficieot
minister. Dated in September : but the patent bore date
November 28.

To the A patent and grant made by the King to the Bishqpof

GiowSter. Glocester, viz. uniting the bishoprics of Glocester and Wor-
cester in one, and to be one from henceforth, of one diocese^
and so reputed and taken. The patent dated Decembtf &

To Richard Richard Alvey, B. L. a donation to him of a jnrebendiB

^^^' the church of Westminster. Dated in Sept^nber : but tb -
patent bore date December 11.

To Bar- A grant of a prebend of Windsor to Bartholcmiew Trt-

Traheron. heron. Dated in September.

For joha A letter to the Deputy of Ireland, to place and receive

John Bale, professor of divinity, as a man commended bj

his Majesty, to the bishopric of Ossory there. Dated in

October.

533 A letter to the Lord Chancellor, to cause the great aed

For Trinity ^f England to be put to a commission given to certain ctan-

college. . , c> r ^ ^ . T i j—

missioners, for the devising and making divers and sundry
statutes and ordinances to be observed in Trinity cdlege
in Cambridge. Dated in October.
For Bernard A presentation to the Bishop of Chester, to admit Ber*
^*^P*"' nard Gilpin to the parsonage of Thornton. Dated in No-
vember.
For Will. William Denison, B. D. presented to St. Edmund^Si
eniBon. Lumbard-street, void by the attainder of John Percy, late
incumbent. Dated in November.

OP KING EDWARD VI. 875

A jirraiit to Bobert Horn, professor of divinity, of the bi- CHAP.

c? ■'1 J ' YYYTT

bopric of Durham, with all lordships, manors, lands,*&c. to 1

be same belonging, during his life. Q^ted in November. ^^™*® ^***-

A grant to John Hooper of the bishopric of Worcester Horn.
nd Glocester: and a gift to him and his successors for To Hooper,
iver, of all the lordships and manors of Alchurch, &c.
[)ated in November.

A presentation to the Bishop of Worcester, to admit T?***®
^leicander Creek, clerk, to the vicarage of Kidderminster, Worcester.
raid by the preferment of John Harley. Dated in De-
Dember.

An annuity of 40/. to John Enox, until he be promoted For Joha
to some benefice ; to be paid at the augmentation quarterly.
Bated in December.

A lease to Edward Lord Clinton for two hundred years. The Bp. of
of the Bishop of Hereford''s house in London : paying yearly y^l^
im. Now signed in December, [as one was signed in tlie
inoDth before,] for that there wanted in the other the re-
kanal of certain former leases.

A grant of a prebend in the cathedral church of Worces-To Arthur
ter to Arthur Dudley. Dated in December. ^"^^*y-

A patent granted to the Dean of the free chapel of St. To the
George of Windsor, and to his successors, to be a body cor-^*^^^.
porate, and to purchase lands to the value of 402. And to
kve the parsonage and church of Dunstable Houghton,
with the advowson of the vicarage, in the county of Bed-
ford; lately parcel of the possessions of St. Alban'^s, in the
county of Hertford ; viz. the said parsonage is granted to
William Franklyn, now dean there, and his successors;
iod to convert the same to their own use, rendering to the
Eng 82. Which rectory and the premises extend to the clear
yearly value of 412. Dated December 10.

A letter to the Bishop of Ely, lord chancellor, to take For the
order, that no person do demand a fee of the Bishop oi^J^^^^^
Worcester and Glocester. Dated in December.

A letter to the Bishop of Exeter, that the Eing^s plea- To the B|».
wre is, to dispense with Dr. Haddon for taking of any other ^^ ^"*^'

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S76 3IEM0RIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOO^ orders than he hath ahready. Dated in Decemb^. [Per-
haps he took orders among the Protestants beyond sea.]

Anno 1559. A prebend of* Brii^l granted to Thomas Bailj, B.D.
To Thomas j)^^^ j^ December.

To Trahe. A grant of a prebend of Windsor to Bartholomew T»-

"*"• heron. Dated in January.

For An- A presentation to the Bishop of Bath, to admit Anthcmy

^^^ ' Salvyn to the parish church of Higham. Dated in Ja-
nuary.

For the ^ letter to Sir John Baker, to discharge Anthony Salvyn

of such bonds as were made for the payment of the finU
fruits of the mastership of the hospital of Sherborn, in the
534 diocese of Durham : and to take bond of Sir Robert Bede
for payment thereof; in respect of the grant thereof unto
him made. Dated as above.

To Sir Ro- The office of mastership of the hospital of St. Mary Mag-
dalen of Sherbom, in the bishopric of Durham, to St
Robert Rede, knt. for life. Dated in February.

To Thomas A grant to Thomas Sampson, D. D. for lifSe^ of the deanfl^
mpaon. ^£ Chichester, with the profits thereunto belonging, upon
the resignation of Bartholomew Traheron, D. D. Dated
in February.

To GUpin. A licence of preaching to Bernard Gilpin, B. D. Dated
in February.

To Ma^ A licence for preaching to John Madowel, B. D. Dated

dowel. in February.

To ALasco. A licei^ce to John k Lasco, during his life, to eat flesh in
Lent, and other fasting days. Dated in February : but the
patent bore date March 11.

To Hariey. The creation of John Harley, D. D. one of his Majestj^s
ordinary chaplains, to the bishopric of Hereford, for life^
with all the lordships and manors belonging to the same,
except the mansion called the Bishop of Herefbria house^
lying in Old ^Fish-street, London, with the gardens and
houses belonging to the same, [which the Lord Clintcm had
got from the see.] Granted in February : but the patent
bore date March ^, 1653.

OF KING EDWARD VI. 877

A special licence granted to Ormund Hill, clerk, to obtain, CHAP.
Mirchase, or possess any manner of parsonage, vicarage,

ands, tenements, or other hereditaments whatsoever, to the ^^^^ isss.
ndue of m. by lease or otherwise, notwithstanding any actj^j,,^™^^
to the contrary. Dated March 18.

A licence for preaching to John Parkhurst, clerk. Dated ^*^ ^^"
Ln April.
A like licence to Guy Eton, clerk. Dated in April. '^^ ^^
A like licence to Alexander Nowel, schoolmaster of West-.jiQ^g3„^,
minster. Dated as before. der Nowel.

A patent to John Barlow, clerk, de^n of the church of To John
Worcester, giving him by the same full power and authority ' ^'^'
to take and receive of the King, or of any of his subjects
whatsoever, manors, messuages, lands, parsonages, tene-
ments, &c. in farm, to him, his executors, or assigns, being
either of the demission or grant of the !^ing, or any other
persons, for the term of sixty years, either more or less, as
between them can be agreed : so the clear value of the said
manors, messuages, &c. so by the said Barlow taken and re-
cfiYed to farm, do not exceed the clear value yearly of 501,
^thout incurring any forfeiture or penalty of the act made
in the 21st of King Henry VIII. of the statute of lands and
tenements to let to farm to clerks and ecclesiastical persons.
[Which statute actually forbad any spiritual person to take
to farm manors, lands, tenements, &c. upon pain to forfeit
IW. for every month they shall occupy such farm.] This
patent was dated April 7.

A licence to the Dean of Chester, to grant by deed in- To the
dented, or otherwise, any of his lands, tenements, &c. to Sir Qhest**/
Bichard Cotton, knt. of the yearly rent of 603/. 18s. lOd.
B&ted in April.

A licence of preaching to John Bud, B. D. Dated as
before.

A letter to to proceed to the election and For a ifew

EMHnination of a new master of the Savoy, according to the tb^&Ivoy.
bondation and statutes of the same house. Dated in May.

The office of master of the Savoy to Rafe Jackson, for To Rafe
ife, with all fees. Dat^ in June. ** ^

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BOOK Articles agreed on by the bishops, and other learned men,
^^* in the synod at London, in the year of our Lord 1652, for

Anno 1558. avoiding of controversy in opinions, and the establishment of

535 a godly concord in certain matters of religion, published by

^'^i^ °^ ^^^ King"'s Majesty's commandment in the month of May

*^'"'* 1663.
The book A book signed by the King's Majesty, containing the ar-
the'king! tides aforesaid.

To WiUiam A grant of the next prebend in the church of Fridewide,
^^^' Oxon, to William Walby , bachelor in phync. Dated in June.
To Dayid A licence to the Bishop of Peterburgh, to give and grant
Vincent, ^ David Vincent all the wood called Thomcts woody and

the gift of the parsonage of Bemak in Northamptonsfaire.

Dated in June.
To the A gift to David Vincent, in fee-simple, of the prebend of

**™** Rothfeune in Wiltshire, with divers other lands. Dated

in June.
To Christo- A letter to to assent to the gift of tbe

pher Perne. jing of the Square tower adjoining to the cathedral churd

there, with the bells, and other things thereto belonging, to

Christopher Perne. Dated as before.
For John A presentation to the Bishop of London, to admit John
^8«"- Rogers in the cathedral church of Paul's, London. Dated

as before. [To be reader there.]

CHAP, xxxin.

A catalogue of King Edward*sjree grammar schools, lion
private matters concerning the King's hoicsehoid.

JL HE next rank of things collected from the foresaid mam^
scripts is of

VI. Schools Jbunded by the King.

1650. A grant of a free grammar school at St. Edmund's Bury
in Suffolk, liberally endowed with several lands of dissolved

St. Ed-
mund's

Bury. chantries. Bearing date an. 4°. ]^^s.

OF KING EDWARD VI- 279

A grant of a grammar school at Spillesby in Lincoln- CHAP,
ahire, and for Robert Latham the first schoolmaster thereof, ^^ '
tar life: who shall have succession for ever, and be incor-Anno isso.
porated by the name of pcedagogus pcsdagogicB de SpU- ^^ ^P*^**'
leaby of the King^s foundation ; and that he and his suc-
cessors shall be able to take and purchase, and to give and
grant lands and tenements, &c. and to plead and be im-
pleaded by that name : and that the said Latham and his
successors shall have the parsonage of Spillesby for their
mansion and the school-house, with three acres and an half
of land there belon^ng to it, an annuity of 132. 13«. Sd.
out of the King'^s lands in Spillesby, payable quarterly.
With a grant in it, that Katharine Duchess of Suffolk, and 53d
Charles Brandon, and either of them, their heirs and assigns,
shall have as well the nomination and appointment of the
iicboolmaster of the said school, as the visitation and reforma-
tion of the same. Dated in November 1550.

A grant that there shall be a free grammar school in the At Chelm»-
parish of Chelmsford in Essex : whereof Sir William Petre, '*"**•
TValter Mildmay, Henry Tirrel, knts. and Thomas Mild-
may, esq. and the males of their bodies begotten, shall
have the governance of all the possessions and goods, with a
gift of all the chantry, called HilTs chcmtry^ with the ap-
purtenances, in Great Badow, in the said county; to the
said governors and their successors for ever: with divers
other lands and tenements, to the yearly value oi90l.Yts, 10(2*
besides 40«. yearly paid to the poor people of Badow afore-
said. Paying yearly therefore at Michaelmas Yts.AQd, at
the augmentation : and authority ^ven to the said governors
to appoint the schoolmaster and usher thereof, and to pro-
vide other necessaries for the said school, and to take the
profits of the said lands ; with a licence to purchase of the
King, or otherwise, lands, tenements, rectories, tenths, &c.
to the yearly value of 9101. besides the premises. Dated in
March.

A grant unto the inhabitants of the town of Sedbergh in issi.
the county of York, that there shall be erected a free gram- ^^^'
mar school in Sedbergh, to be called King Edwc^d the

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At Louth.

AtSiOop.

BOOK Sixties grammar school: and that James Ducket, Riduurd

' Middleton, &c. be governors of the same. With a further

Anno 1551. grant unto the said inhabitants, and their successors, towards

the sustentation of the said school, of the parsonage of

Weston in the county of York, ¥rith divers other lands, to

the yearly value of S02. 13«. lOd. Dated in ApriL

A grant to the inhabitants of the town of Loth, [Loudi,]
and their successors, that there shall be a free grammar
school there, called Kmg Edwa/rdCs free grammar school;
and one guardian, and six assistants, of the same town, one
schoolmaster, one usher ; with a ^t for the sustentiUion of
the same, of sixty-seven acres of land in Louth in Lincolft-
shire ; with divers other lands, &c. to the yearly value of 40L
Dated in September.

A grant to the bailiff, burgesses, and inhabitants of the
town of Salop, that there shall be a free granmsar school,
and one master and usher to teach children. For the sus-
tentation whereof, the King gave them, and their succeraora^
for ever, all the tithes coming and growing of the towna^
fields, and parishes of Astley, Sensaw, Cliff-Letton, and
Almon park, in the county of Salop. Dated in November.
[But the patent sealed in February following.]

A grant to the bailiff and burgesses of the town of Ea«t
Retford in the county of Nottingham, that there shall be a
grammar school there, which shall be called King Edwaris
free grammar school^ and a schoolmaster and usher. To
the sustentation whereof he gave the late chantry of Sutton
Loundale, in the parish of Lounde, in the said county; to
the yearly value of 15Z. 5s, S^d. Dated in November.

A free grammar school erected by the King at Bryming-
ham [alias Bromycham] in the county of Warwick, called
King Edward the Sixth's free gramimar school, with »
537 schoolmaster and usher. For the sustentation whereof he
gave all that his barn and four messuages lying in Dalend
in Brimingham in the said county ; to the value of 21t per
ann. rendering to the King, and his successors, 90^. yearly,
at the augmentations.
At Morpeth. A patent, bearing date March 18, at the request of the

At East
Retford.

At Brym-
ingbam.

OF KING EDWAKD VI. 281

Lard Dacres, granted to the bailiff and burgesses of Mor- CHAP.

peth in Northumberland, for the erecting of a school there, XXXIII.

ft Bcfaoolmaster, and usher; with a gift of two chantries inAimoissl.

Mc»rpeth, with divers other lands, &c. yearly value SOI.

10». 8d. and a licence of mortmain to purchase 202. by

the year for maintenance thereof.

likewise the next year, viz. 155S, were erected grammar isss.

schools at Macclesfield, at Non-Eton, at Stourbridge in field, &c^^

Woroestershire. This last by the grant to be called Kinff
EdwarcTs school^ and had a gift of all the yearly pensions
iiid portions of tithes of Markley and Suckley in the same
county ; and divers other lands. Likewise there were other
«cho(ds of his founding, the same year, at Bath and Bed-
ford, and at Guilford. And in the last year of the King,
t^. 1558, other schools, viz. at Grantham, at Thome, and i558.
at Gi^leswick. The foundations and endowments of all
ivhich abovementioned are shewn in the Catalogue of Re-
cords, book 2, at the letter I. And besides all those, yet
ether nuxre are these that follow, not mentioned there. ^

A grant for the establishing of the corporation of the At St. Ai- "
town of St. Alban's in the county of Hertford, with certain
liberties therein mentioned ; and for the erection of a free
gnmmar school there ; with a grant of the late abbey church
to be their parish church. Dated in April.

A grant to Sir Andrew Jud, knt. and alderman of London, At Ton-
that diere shall be a free grammar school in Tunbridge in ^^'
Kent, called King Edward the SixMs Jree grammar
*d^j with a schoolmaster and usher; with a Ucence to
the said Andrew Jud to take lands and possessions for the
Kittentation of the same school. Dated in April.

A free erammar school granted to the mayor and bur-AtSouth-
giesses of Southampton, with a schoolmaster and usher ; and

^nth a licence to take land to the yearly value of 407. Dated

^May.
A grant to the burgesses of Stratford-upon-Avon of aAtstrat-

iee grammar school and almshouse ; with a gift of certain ^^'

mds, to the value yearly of 462. Sf. ft^i. Dated in Jnncw

Old this waa the last this Prince founded. ' -

5182 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOK We may note, that the endowments of these schools vere
^'' for the most part out of the chantry lands, given to the

Anno 166S. King in the first of his reign, according to the intent of the
Schools en- Parliament therein : which was, to omvert them from super-

dowedwith ^ . .

chuitry stiUous uses unto more godly, as m erecting gnunmir
landt : uid g^i^Q^jg £3]. ^i^^ education of youth in virtue and godlinesB,

for further augmenting the universities, and better provi*
sion for the poor. And the King was so honest and just, to
lay them out in a very ocmuderable measure for these good
ends intended.

The last things we are to ^ve account of frcHn our manu-
scripts, are a few matters relating to the King*s housdiold
and servants ; which, though of a private nature, yet may be
well worthy our notice.

538 VII. Matters of the hottsehold.,

1550. A warrant to Sir Rafe Sadler, knt [belonging to tfaue
theKk^^s wardrobe,] to deliver to John Ventrice, Bog«r Newport*
footmen. Edward Broughtel, and Humphrey Colley, the King's Ma-
jesty's footmen, and to every of them, two yards and an half
of crimson velvet for a running coat, and to pay for the
lining and making thereof. Dated in October 1560.

A warrant to Sir Edmund Feckham, knt. [treasurer, as I
think, of the chamber,] to pay unto every one of the said
four footmen, for twenty-six ounces of alver parcel gilt, at
8d. [8s. perhaps] the ounce, about their running coats, for
the third year of the King^s reign. Dated as before.
Licence to Bartholomew Compagni, a Florentine, the Eang*s factors
fa^r for' ^ licence to him, his factors, and attorneys, appointed for
^^hT*^' provision of such things as be brought into the realm, as
followeth ; that is to say, all manner of cloth of gdd and
silver, all manner of silks and velvets, damasks, satins, taff^
tas, and sarcenets ; all manner of works of Venice gdd and
silver, damask gold and silver, and of silk, as passemain,
fringe, riband, and such other work, all gold and silver,
both Venice and damask ; all manner of gold work, plate
and silver vessels, jewels, pearls, precious stones, as wdl set
in gold, and embroidered in garments, as otherwise; all

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OF KING EDWARD VI. 288

aoanner of garments embroidered with gold and silver, CHAF.
skins and fiirs, sables and lusards, cloths of tapestry and

urras, mixed with gold, silver, or silk, and all other things Anno i650.
meet for the King^s Majesty's use and purpose; without any
manner of opening before it be brought to the port of Lon-
don, and there viewed and praised by the King's officers
tbesreunto admitted. Dated in October.

A warrant to Sir Rafe Sadler, to deliver to Robert Bas-^?^ the
8ok, sergeant of the vestry, threescore and two surplices, for chai^i.
the gentlemen of the chapel ; two surplices ¥rith wrought
iWMrk for the sub-dean of the chapel ; four-and-twenty sur-
plices for the children of the chapel ; for the table in the
ehapel three cloths; two tablecloths for the body of the
du^l; four diaper napkins for the commxmion; six albs
for the minister, deacon, and sub-deacon; two hundred
hooks, one hammer, a pair of pinsons, a little pot, and a
guispb, a pair of tin cruets, three yards of green cloth to
% the stuff upon. Dated in November.

A warrant to Sir Rafe Sadler, to deliver to the officers of issi.
•nns, that is to say, to the three kings of arms, three coats of the^jonm
*itin, painted with gold; to five heralds, five of damask, **»"n»>&««
pfiinted with gold ; and to eight pursuivants, eight of sarQje-
Jiet, painted with gold. Dated in February.

A commission to Philip Van Wilder, gentleman of the Singing
fmj chamber, in any churches or chapels, or other places ^ J^ ^" f"
^thin England, to take to the King^s use such and as many use.
ringing children or choristers, as he or his deputy shall think
9|ood. Dated in February.

A warrant to Sir Rafe Sadler, to deliver to Mr. Cecyl For the
md Mr. Robotham, yeomen of the robes, all things as hath maundy.
xen accustomed for the King^s maundy, for the fifth year
)f his reign. [When he was to wash the poor men'^s feet.]
Dated as above.

To Sir Greorge Howard, for his office of master 530

>f the henchmen for one whole year. He was appointed to Master of
ittend upon the young lords sent over the sea as hostages ; men.
rhereof tlie Earl of Hertford was one. Dated in March.

Se84 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

BOOR A warrant to the Exchequer, to deliver to Peter Ridiaid-
^^' son, goldsmith, 6001. prest, to be employed in fine mlver, to

Anno 1551. make spangles for the livery coats of the guard, the jeomea
Spa^iet Qf ^|,g Tower of London, the footmen and messengers of
coats. the chamber, for the fifth year of the King^s reign. Bated

in May.
CrimM>n A warrant to Sir Rafe Sadler, to deliver to Edward Lord
thJhJtd Clinton, lord admiral, which is now elect and chosen to be
Clinton of of the right honourable order of the Garter, for his Every rf
the same order, eighteen yards of crimson velvet, for one
gown, hood, and tippet, and ten yards of white sarcenet far
the lining of the same. Dated in May.
A child of A warrant to Sir William Cavendish, to pay to Job
**»« i«»J>. YVheeler, whom the King hath taken into the room of
child of the leash, the wages of 40^. by year, during his
life, from the death of Richard Bolton. Dated in Sef-
tember.
Hisap. A warrant to Sir Rafe Sadler, to deliver to the said

P"^* John Wheeler yearly, during his life, these parcels follow-
ing; first, eight yards of motley for a coat, at 3«. 4d the
yard, and for the making of the same coat 14?. six yards of
chamlet for two doublets, at 3*. 4d. the yard ; six yards of
fustian, at Sd, the yard, for lining to the same; two yards
of canvas to line the same, at Sd. the yard ; for making bis
said doublets, 16d, apece : six yards of fustian, at 19d. the
yard, for two doublets ; and four yards of cotton, at Sd, the
yard, and two yards of canvas, at 4d. the yard, for lining the
same; for making the same, 9>s. eighteen ells of Holland
cloth for six shirts, at 12d. the ell ; and for making every
shirt, Sd. four yards of broad cloth for a gown, at Bs. the
yard : a fur of black Irish lamb, price 30*. for furring and
making of the same, 3s. 6d. three broad yards of red woollen
cloth for a coat, &c. Dated as before.
Wages paid A warrant to Sir William Cavendish, to pay Sir Anthony
te^t o?" ^^cy his fee or wages of lOOZ. by year, for exerciang the
the Tower, room of lieutenant of the Tower of London. Dated in
December.

OF XING EDWARD VL «6.

A warrant to Sir William Cavendish, to pay to j?hilip CHAP.
fask Wilder yearly, the allowance of 80Z. for the finding of xxxni.
ix singing children of the chamber. Dated as before. Anno i«5ir

A warrant to Sir Rafe Sadler, to deliver to Richard Cecyl ^^^s^^

-_,- - !/»/• children of

aaia Robert Robotham, yeomen of the robes, fifteen gowns the cham-
of grey marble cloth, fifteen pair of single-soled shoes, and**®^*
fcrty-five ells of linen cloth, to be given to fifteen poor men For fifteen
on Maundy Thursday. p*^|[ ""«"

•^ , "^ . at the

A warrant to Richard Cecyl, esq. to deliver to the Earl of maandy.
Sirewsbury one of the Eing^s canes, having a dial of gold on A cane for
the top, and garnished with gold ; and having at the end a Shrewsbury,
viral [ferula] of gold ; as of the Eing'^s gift. Dated in April.

Richard Gowre, master of the children of the King's Master of
diapel; a letter to him, to take up, from time to time, as^renof'
many children to serve in the chapel as he should think fit. ***« King's
Bated in June. ^

The office of child of the leash to John Strete, for life. 540
[There was one Strete, the King's limner ; this John Strete ^ ^^^ ^^
nught be his son.] With the wages of 40^. by year, to be
pad by the treasurer of the chamber quarterly. And a
warrant to Sir Rafe Sadler, to deliver yearly to the said
Jdm Strete certain stuff for his apparel, with allowance for
makiDg. Dated in December.

A warrant to Sir Andrew Dudley, to deliver to Robert Warrant to
fiobotham, yeoman of the robes, to keep for the King oneJ^^^^j^^J^
fiir of black genets, taken out of a gown of purple cloth of
olver tissue ; another fur of black genets, taken out of a
purple gown of silver with works And to the Lord

Chamberlain a gown of crimson satin, embroidered with
gold, and furred with black genets. To Sir Richard Cotton
* crimson satin gown, furred with squirrels, and faced with
^ies, and ten yards of black : and to himself a gown of
dark crimson velvet, furred with aglets, and buttons thereto
^appertaining. And to Sir Thomas Wroth ten yards df black
^vet, which he won of the King. Dated in December.

A warrant to the Lord Treasurer, to deliver to Sir An-AooUaroff
Atw Dudley one collar of gold of the order of the Garter, ^ ^'^^
Remaining in his charge, containing twfenty-seven toses of

S86 MEMORIALS OF KING EDWARD VI.

BOOK gold enamelled red, with the garter about them enamelled
blue, and Honi soU qui mai y pense in it: and also twenty-

Anno 166ft. seven knots of gold enamelled, with a fidr Greorge pendant,

with three very httle short chains at it, set with five table

diamonds, and five pointed diamonds enamelled black on the

backside. Dated in December.

To the em- A warrant to the receiver of the duchy of Lancaster, to

pay to Ibgrave, embroiderer, for embroidering one hundred

and nine coats for the guard, and for four messengers of the

chamber, for the seventh year of the King^s reign, 41Z. 1&.

8d. Dated in March.

To uiotber A like warrant to him to pay Gillan Brodlet, for em-

^^ "^ '' broidering one hundred and twenty-two coats, 46/. fe. 8d.

Dated as before.
For wpmr A like warrant to him to pay Peter Richardson in prest,
^ ^* to be employed upon spangles, 600/. Dated as before.

THE END OF THE SECOND BOOK.

A REPOSITORY

DIVERS LETTERS,

AND

OTHER CHOICE MONUMENTS,

FROM AUTHENTIC MSS.

\ •

TO WHICH

BEFERENCE IS MADE IN THE FOREGOING HISTORY.

qBCSSHOEeaaBBX^BSeaB^B^E^BSa^BHHP

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DIVERS LETTERS, &c.

remonie^ andjiineral solemnities paid to the corpse
of King Henry VIII,

EB the ccMTps was cold, and seen by the Lords of the ^ o^^.
Councii, and others the nolnlity of the realm, a^ ap^ n.
led, commajidiniSiit was giy^i to the ^.pothecaries,
^eons, wax-chandlers and others, to do thdr duties in
)g, cleansing, bowelling, eering, embalming, fumish-
d dres^ng with spices the said corps; and also for
Qg the same in cerecloth of many fold^ over the fine
f rains and velvet, surely bound and trammePd with
)f silk : which was done and executed of them ac-
j^ly, 9£ jto the dignity of such a mighty Prince it ap-
leth : and a wridne in crreat and small letters annexed
; the breast, ooBtlbghk oame aad style, the day
ar of his deaths ip like manner. Aft^ this don, then
e plumper a^ carpenter appointed tp ca^e him in
lyl tp diiest him. Which being don, th^ said che^t
^ered about with blew velvet, and a cross set upon
ne.

1 the CjC^rps being th^s (»dained, the entrails and
were IuxK>rably buried in the chappel within the said
wit^ all manner of ceremonies thereunto belonging ;
' the dean and ministers of the same ehi^pel.
B was the corps ii^ the chest had into the mid^A of
iyy 4dbr^b€9*, and «^t upon tr^B(S8«ls wjith « licli pptt^if
tf 99I49 »il4 A ^3t€m th^eon, w^ aU

. II. PAET II. u

890 A REPOSITORY

therto requisite; having divine service about him with
masses, obsequies, and prayers ; and continual watch made
by his chaplains and gentlemen of his privy chamber, to the
number of thirty persons, besides the chapkuns, ccmtiniiallj
about him, in their orders and courses night and day, during
the time of his abode there, which was five days. And in
the mean time, all things in the chappel, and for preparing of
his herse in the same, were continually a doing, as hereafter
shal be declared.

First, The chambers, galleries, hal, chappel, and al other
necessary places, were hanged with black, and garnished
with escutcheons of his armes, descents, and mariages.

In the said chappel was ordained a goodly formal hene,
with fourscore square tapers ; every light containing two
foot in length, paising in the whole eighteen hundredweight
8. 14. p. 63. of wax; [another account saith, by estimation, two thofr
sand ;] garnished about with pensils and escutcheons, \m^. .
ners and bannerols of descents. And at the four camn
four banners of saints beaten in fine gold upon damask;
4 with a majesty therover of rich cloth of tissue, and vallance ,
of black sUk, and fringe of black silk and gold. And the
barriers without the herse, and the sides and floor of the sail
chappel, covered with black cloth, to the high altar : and aB
the sides and ceiling of the said chappel set with bannen '
and standards of St. George and others.

And at the foot, where the corps should be reposed within
the herse, stood an altar covered with black velvet, adorned
with al manner of plate and jewels of the revestry: upon
which altar there was said mas continually during the time
that the corps was there remaining. And the high altar veiy
richly adorned with plate and jewels, and other ornaments.

And in the mean time commandment was given to al
manner of states, as wel noble men and women, to whom it
appertained, as to al of them of the King^s house, to put
apart their several apparels, and put on them every man Ih
mourning weeds. And warrants directed out to the great
wardrobe, for the serving of them, every man and womatt
after the rate and proportion appointed to thdr degrees ^to

OP ORIGINALS.

891

the intenl they might give their attendance in sUch kind of
Bervice as to them should be appointed : which was accom^-
plished of every man against the day the corps should be
removed.

The names of the mourners appointed to give their atr
tendance upon the said corps, as wel at the herse as in the
lemoving therof from place to place, hereafter follow.

CHIEF MOUENEB.

Henry Gray, Lord Marques of Dorset.

TWELVE MOURNERS.

Lofd St. Johns, lord pre^-
dent of the council.

Henry Fitz Alleyn, Earl of
Arundel, lord chamber-

' Iain.

JUm Vere, Earl of Oxford.

Ran. Talbot, Earl of Shrews-
bury.

£dw. Stanley, Earl of Derby.

Hen. Ratclyff, Earl of Sussex.
Henry Parker, Lord Morley.
William Dacre, Lord Dacre

of the north.
Walter Devereux, Lord Fer-

rers.

Edw. Fyenns, Lord Clinton.
Edward Gray, Lord Gray.
John Scrope, Lord Scrope.

These noblemen prepared themselves in their mourning
Indbits, as hoods, mantles, gowns, and al other apparels, ac-
iBording to their degrees ; and were in good order and readi*
lless at the Court, to give their attendance when they should
be called.

. The names of the bishops and prelates appointed as well
fcr the executing and ministring divine service in the chap-
pd, as also to attend upon the conduct of the said corps
ilien it shall be removed,

Steven Gardiner, bishop of St. Davids. 5

Winchester, chief prelate. Henry Holbeach, bishop of

Catbert Tunstal, bishop of

r- Durham.

Edmund Boner, bishop of

London^
TH Goodrich, bishop of Ely.
W

Rochester.
John Wakeman, bishop of

Glocester.
Arthur Bulkley, bishop of

Bangor.

Barlow, \Aahop of PaulBusb^lHfiliopcC

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Wliereof the Bishop ofWindiester was appointed to
flermon ; and being chief prelate of the cider, to execute.

Theee, with al other chaplains and men of the chw
were commanded to be ready in their pontificaliiugj i
others (ot the execution of divine service at the time
pointed, as followeth :

The second day of the month of February, being Ml
nesday, and Candlemas day, betwixt eight and nine of
clock at night, the herse being lighted, and all other thi
appointed and prepared, the said most royal corps was
verendly taken and removed from the chambers, covi
with a rich pall of doth of tissue, crossed with white tia
and gamiriied with escutcheons of his arms; and sofaroi]
to the chapel by the lord great master, the officers of ho
hold, gentlemen of the privy chamber, esquires for the be
and other noblemen and gentlemen, both spiritual and t
poral ; placed in their d^rees, and going before the ca
and after, with lights meet for the same. And there it
honorably set and placed within the said herse, und^ a
of rich doth of tissue, garnished with escutcheons, an
rich doth of gold set with precious stones theron.

And the corps being so reposed in the herse, the deai
the chappel, with all other chaplains and ministers theroi
to their oraisons and suffrages.

After that, the gentlemen ushers, with officers of ai
and others therto appointed, began their watch in due coi
and order, as to them appertained, for that night; wl
order was also kept and continued honorably night and c
during the said corps there being, with al divine service n
and convenient for the same.

So the morrow after, being Thursday, the 3d of Fehrui
between nine and ten before noon, the mourners assemt
themselves in the pallet chamber, in their moumii^
parel, with their hoods on their heads: and from die
were conveyed to chappel in form following ; that is te I
two and two in order after their degrees, next to the cli
and then the chief mourner with his train boni aftor li
conducted with officers of arms, and gentlen&eii

OF ORIGINALS. 168

lioeHluunberliiin and diren otbers kUomag them, after
dieir degrees ; and so proceded u] they came to the Twrse^
lAere they were placed, and kneeled about thie corps oa
ether side, as they proceded ; and the chief mourners at
tbehead.

Then Norroy king of arms, standing at the quire dow,
mth his fiice to the people, said with a loud voice, " Of
"your charity pray for the soul of the high and most mighty
" Ptince, our late Sorerdgn Lord and King Henry VIII.'*
Which he did daily at the be^nning of al masses and (ii-
riga. Then from the veetry of the said chappel came out6
tbee bishops in pontificalilnu, and began the re^iem mass
■t the high altar, the chappel nn^g and Gsying the cere-
wnies tberto appertiuning, in most solempn and goodly wise,
to the offertory.

Then was a carpet and quission laid by the gentlemen
ad jeomen hnishers, for the chief mourner ; who inunedi-
n^ came up to the offering, with the rest following after
kim in order two and two, as aforesaid, conducted by officers
■tanas, and gentlemen huishers. Then the chief moumra',
Kceanng the offering 4rf the Lord Chamberlain, did offer
Ae game, assisted with al the rest, and none other offmng
nt he : and so returned in like order, leaving the corps on
&e i^ht hand, and placed themselves as they were ^3e!ore,
within the herse. And after the mas was ended, the pre-
wes that executed came from the altar down to the herse ;
>nd they censed the 8^ corps with al maner of cere-
Monies therto appertaining : and that don, they returned to
the vestry. And the mourners departed, conducted in or-
ler, as oforesiud, to the chamber of presence ; where was
prepared for them a sumptuous dinner; and the chief
Boumer served with assays, and al other service, saving
be estate, as if it had been the Kings Majesty personally

When the divine service was don, every man. drew b
df to his lod^g til afternoon at the hour appointe^^;^
ken they repaired again to the said c
ley woe had and oondusted in Uke-j^

994 A REPOSITORY

and placed about the corps, kneeling within the hene,a8
afOTe is mentioned. Then Norroy king at arms came dot
and proclaimed his style, bidding the prayers ; and with
that, the prelates before named began the placebo and di-
rige. And at every lesson Norroy went out, and bad the
bede.

Thus the aforesaid prelates, with the dean and dbapter,
continued in al maner of service and ceremonies, difigia
and masses, censings, watching, saying of psalters, and al
other rites and duties, as wel in the forenoon as after, hj
night and by day during the abode of the corps within the
chappel ; which was twelve days. In the mean time the
herses at Sion and Windsor, and al other kinds of prepi-
ration, were doing ; which was set forth as hereattex fid-
loweth.

First, the church of Sion, and the choir, with the house,
chambers, and lod^gs, where the ambassadors and Doblei
should repair, were hung to the ground with black doth,
and garnished with escotcheons of the Kings armes in the
garter and manages. In the midst of the choir there wn
ordained a royal and stately herse of nine principals with
double stories, and a costly majesty, a vallance fringed with
black silk and gold, and hatchments garnished over al with
pencils, escotcheons of armes, bannerols of descents; and
about the same double barriers hanged with black cloth)
escotcheons ; and the floor of the same herse covered with
black cloth to the high altar : which was al covered with
black velvet, and preciously adorned with al maner of plate
Jr and jewels of the church, silver, gold, and precious stmM^
in the best wise. And the said herse continued with al sorU
of lights in great number.

And at Windsor, the ways of passage from the castk-
bridge to the west door of the colledg were railed on bodi
sides the way, and hanged with black cloth to the grouni
with escotcheons of arms and mariages : and so were the
lodgings of the ambassadors and nobles within the castk;
and al the church peramble, and the choir of the coShep
hung and garnished as aforesaid : and the whole floor d

OF ORIGINALS. 296

the choir was spread with black cloth. And the herse
standing in the midst of the said choir was of a wonderful
state and proportion ; that is to say, formed in compas of
eight panes, and thirteen principals, double storied, of
thirty-five foot high, curiously wrot, painted, and gilded,
having in it a wonderful sort of lights, amounting in price
of wax to the sum of four thousand pound weight, and gar-
lushed underneath with a rich majesty, and a doome double
vallanced: on the which on either side was written the
Kings word in beaten gold upon silk, and his armes of
descents. And the whole herse was richly fringed with
double fringes of black silk and gold on either side, both
within and without, very gorgous, and valiant beheld.

And above, over al the herse among the lights, it was set
and garnished with pensils, scutcheons of arms and mariages,
with hatchments of silk and gold, and divers bannerols of
descents, depending in goodly order round about the herse.
Also the double barriers of the said herse were hanged with
black cloth, and set with escotcheons of the Kings armes,
and al the floor overspread with black cloth to the high
altar: which altar was hanged with cloth of gold, and
adorned with all the precious jewels of the church, as can*
dlesticks, crosses, basins, censers, shipes, and images of gold
and silver in great abundance. And another altar set at
the foot where the corps should ly within the herse, co-
vered with black velvet, hanged also with the richest orna-
ments and plate, that in the best form and order might be
devised.

Now while these things were in hand, and continually
working by artificers and others therto appointed, there was
ordained for the corps a sumptuous and valuable chariot of
four wheels, very long and large, with four pillars overlaid
al with doth of gold at the four comers, bearing a pillow of
ridi cloth of gold and tissue, fringed with a goodly deep
fitinge of blew silk and gold : and underneath that, turned
towards the chariot, was a marvellous excellent cloth of
majesty, having in it a doom artificially wrought in fine gold
upon oyl. And al the nether part of the said chariot was

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hanged with blew velvet down to the ground betireen die
wheels, and al other parts of the chariot enclosed m Bb
maner with blew velvet

Forthwith were al other necessary things for the condwl
of the said noble corps with al speed devised and set lbId^
to be ready at the day the same should be removed.

There was also order taken for the clearing and mencEif
of all the high ways between Westminster and TVlndflor,
whereas the corps should pas; and the n(»some boi](^
8 cut down of every side the way, for prejudioeing of de
standards, banners, and bannerols. And where the wiji
were narrow, there were hedges opened on ^tber ade, aoii
the footmen mig^t have firee passage, without tlmying or
disturbing of their orders.

Itenij My Lord of Worcester, the Kings almoner, iridi
other his minbters and asustants, did dayly distribute to die
poor people, as wel about the Kings house at Westmhttts^
as at Leadenhal in London, and divers other places, gral
plenty of mony in almesdeeds, both in open doles, and bf
way of proclamation ; and especially in the wards of Los"
don, wheras need was, to the great relief and comfort of thtf
poor people.

There was also two carts laden with hatches and esool'
cheons of armes delivered to the said almoner, to distribute
them, with certain mony, to the parishes along the wtj\
which carts went forth before the removing with the al-
moners deputies, and delivered the same to the curats lod
clerks of the churches here ensuing :
Charing-cross. Fulham.

St. Margaret at West- Kensington.

S. Martin.
Cheswick.
Hammersmith.
Stough.
Graiford.
Harlington.
Stanwel.
Eton.

minster.
St. Giles in the Fields.
Chelsith.
Norwood.
Thwykenham.
Hownslow.
Northal.
Bedford.

Acton.

Yerling.

Branforth.

Hanwel.

New Branforth.

Syon.

Thistleworth.

Hillington.

Shewn*.

Iver.

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eke. Shipstcm. LMgley*

L Docket Famham.

Hais. Winder.

:^ridg. Drayton. Windsctf* collie.

Mirats and clerks of these churches had tordfes and
ons and money delivered them by the Kings al-
And when the corps was coming, they stood in
' in their best ornaments, and honorably received
3, bidding their oraisons and prayers as appertained)
outly censed the corps as it proceeded. Which
as kept al the long way between Westminster and
r, ever as the corps removed.
3 and other things requirite to the removing in
ifore declared, ordained, and provided, on Sunday
; the 18 day of February, at the high altar of the
» where the corps remained, there were sung three
masses by bishops in pontificaUlms in sundry suitm
It of our Lady, in white : the second of the Trinity,
: the third of requiem^ by the right reverend the
rf Winchester, in black. And at every mas^two bi*
litred to minister therto, as epistolar and gospeller*
the chief mourner, with al the rest of the lords
rs were set and kneeled within the herse, the chap*
al the people keeping silence, Norroy king at armei(
le bedes in form before expressed. And the dboir
ie office of the first mas ; and so proceded solemnly q
3 prelates executing to the offertory of the mad of
. Then the chief mourner, accompanied with al the
he mourners, offered for them al. So the mas pnv
) the end. The mas don, the prelats as aforesaid
the corps, the chappel singing Libera me^ Damine.
)n, they went into the revestry again. Immediat^y
iraers, with al other prelats, drew to the diamber itf
I to dinner, as is aforesaid.

same day was proclamation made, that al men al-
lack fiveries of die King should give attendance the
J at five of the clock, at Charing-cross, for tibe ooo-

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duct of the said corps to Syon that night liewi^ lliat il
such as had cariage of their masters should go before for
troubling the passage of the said corps in the way.

After dinner they withdrew to their chambers, and re-
sorted to the chappel in due time, as is aforesaid: where
was dirige with censing of the corps, al suffirages and du-
ties therto appertaining. That done, they went to supper.
But there was solemn watch about the corps, with conti-
nual prayer and lights al that night

The next day early, [the 14 February,] the chariot was
brought to the court hal door ; and the corps with great
reverence brought from the herse to the same by mitped
prelats, and other temporal lords. In this wise went the
bishops two and two in order, saying th^ prayers, tordies
plenty on every side the corps, bom by sixteen yeomen of
the guard under a rich canopy of blew velvet fringed with
silk and gold, which was holden up with six blew staves and
knops of gold ; the six staves were bom by six barcms; vix.
the Lords Burgaveny, Conyers, Latjnoaer, Fitzwater, Bray,
and Cromwel : which lords executed the said office as oft
as the said corps was removed to and fro the choir. Then
followed the chief mourner and the rest of the lords mourn-
ers in order, with torches light, born on every side in great
numbers : and so was it reverently setled in the bulk of the ,
chariot. Over the coffin of the said chair was cast a pall of
rich cloth of gold, and upon that a goodly image like to the
Kings person in al points, wonderful richly apparelled, with
velvet, gold, and precious stones of al sorts ; holding in his
right hand a scepter of gold ; in his left hand the bal of the
world with a cross. Upon his head a crown imperial of ifr
estimable value, a collar of the Garter about his neck, and a
garter of gold about his leg. Which thus being honorary
conducted as aforesaid, was laid upon the said coffin by the
gendemen of his privy chamber upon rich cushions of dodi
of gold, and fast bound with silk ribbands to the jnllan of
the said chariot, for removing. Then were set at the bead
and feet of the said corps. Sir Anthony Denny and Sir

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Wilfiam Herbert, two of the chief of his privy chamber ;
whidi kept their rooms, and were caned in the chariot with
the corps.

The chariot with the corps and representation so dis-
posed, was garnished about with fourteen bannerols of
manages and descents ; that is to say, six at either side, and
at each end one. And so it rested there with a great num-
ber of torches burning on either side, with certain noblemen 10
and gentlemen attending theron, by the space of two hours,
til the horses and al other things necessary were seen and
set forward. So about eight of the clock, the weather be-
ing very fair, and the people very desirous to see the sights,
the nobles mounted their horses, and marched forward with
the noble corps.

First of al rode two porters of the Kings house [named
John Herd and Thomas Mervjnti] with two black staves in
their hands, to stay, that neither cart, horse, nor man should
twmble or cumber them in this passage : then came the ser-
geant of the vestry with his verger, and after him the cros,
^ the children, clarks, and priests of the chappel with
their surplices on their backs, singing in order their oraisons
«nd prayers. On each side of them, from the cross to the
dean, went the number of two hundred and fifty poor men
in long mourning gowns and hoods, with badges on their
left shoulders, the red and white cross in a sun shining,
crown imperial over that. In each of their hands a large
torch burning. And on each hand of them went two carts
laden with torches, to restore them always as the old wasted.
Then proceded Thomas A Bruges, esq. bearing the
Dragon standard ; and on each side of him a sergeant at
irmes with his mace.

Next, al maner of messagers, ambassadors servants, be-
ng gentlemen, trumpets .without instruments, gentile
Grangers, chaplains without dignity, esquires, head-ofBcers
XP household not being knights, in their d^ees, the better
he neerer the corps, and pursevants at arms riding contiU
lually up and down between the gtandardis ^:lt9^.AP0»
:eep their order*

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Then the standard of the Greyhound, bom by Sir Nico-
las Sturiey, kt. On each side of him another sa^geant 88
aforesaid. Next the standard followed the aldermen of
London, to the number of twelve. After them knij^ts
bannerets, chaplains of dignity, the Kmgs head offioen,
being knights, and other notable strangers, and two he-
ralds, and other officers, riding from standard to standard,
to conduct them.

Then (»me the standard of the lion, bom by the Lofd
Winsor, hooded, and trapped as the other aforesaid. Andod
each side of him a sergeant at armes with his maoe. Under
the standard al the Kings council of the law followed, and
others, not being of the Privy Council, after their degrees,
two and two in order. Then al lords or barons, viscounts,
earls, and bishops, after their d^rees, two and two in order,
then the lords of the council in their places two and two.
Then came al noble strangers, ambassadors of divers kmg^
doms, nations, and towns, accompanied with such of tbe
lords as best could entertain them, and understand their j
language. Then the ambassador of the Emperor, and with
him the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and four heralds rid-
ing about to see them keep order.

Then came the banner of the Kings armes embroidered^
born by the Lord Talbot, with his hood on, and his hone
garnished and trapped. After him Carlile herald of armes,
bearing the helm and the crest of the Kings horse trappd
1 1 and garnished. Then Norroy king at armes bare the targe
alone in like maner. Next, Clarentieux king at armes btie
the sword. Then Garter principal king of armes bare ihe
Kings rich coat of armes curiously embroidered. And od
each side of these, hatchments, sergeants of armes riding
with their maces.

Then the twelve banners of descents were hom^ two m
order, as foUoweth. First, a banner of the Kings and Q-
Janes^s armes, born by Geo. Harper, esq. Secondly, a hen-
ner of the Kings and Q. Katharins armes bom by Leonarjl
Chamberlain, esq. Thirdly, a banner of Bichmond and
Holland, by Sir William Barrington> kt. Fourthly, a ban-

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ner of March and Ulster, by Sir Edward Willou^by.
FifUily, a banner of Somerset and Beaucbamp, by Sir Pbi-
GpDragot, kt Sixthly, a banner of Somerset and Rich-
nmd, by Sir Nicolas Fonyngs, kt. Seventhly, a banner of
York with the mariage, by Sir Fulk Grevyl, kt. Eighthly, a
banner of King Edward IV. and his manage, by Sir Jdhin
Harcote, kt. Ninthly, a banner of King Henry VII. and
Ug manage, by Sir Anthpny Hungerford, kt. Tenthly, a
ittmier of S. Edmonds armes, by Sir Greorge Blount, kt.
EWesBthly, a banner of S. Edwards armes, by Edward
Littleton, esq. . Twelthly, a banner of Lancaster, with the
manage, by Sir John Markham, kt.

These banners went before the chariot one against an-
odier, as they be rehersed. And at the four comers of the
and chariot went four worthy kni^ts, with four banners of
fiour saints, as after fcdloweth : viz, a banner of S. Edward,
by Sir Thomas Clere, kt. A banner of King Henry the
Saint, by Sir William Woodhouse, kt. At the two hind^
comers, a banner of the Trinity, bom 1^ Sir Michael Lyl-
ato*; the other of our Lady, by Sir Francis Dautre, kt.

Then caxne the chair with the corps thereon, and the re-
(iRaentation before described, in the most noble wise that
Mikl be devised, with grooms, pages, from the first horse
bead to the mourners, on either side gdng on foot with the
^taff torches brenning about the chair, to the number of
msPf or more: the chair drawn by seven great horses
irfuitiy tn^pped in black velvet down to the pasterns, and
garniidied with escotcheons of the Kings armes; and on
Ateir fronts idiafiions of armes : upon the seven horses rode
aeven HJiildreD of honer al in black, with their hoods on
thdr heads ; and in their hands either of them holding a
baennende of the Kings dominions, and the antient armes of
Bi^land, led by sev^a perscxis in mourning appareL

On ^ther o^e oi the said chariot rode six assistants to
he same, hooded, their horses trapped in black ■ to the
jrmmdf bearing nothing in their liands; viz. Sir Thomas
Seonage, Sir Thomas Paston, Sir Thomas S ■ , {Sw-

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mour perhaps,] Sir John Gates, Sir Thomas Darcy, Sr
Maurice Barkley.

Next to the chariot came the chief mourner alcme, bk
horse trapped al in black ydvet. After him followed the
other twelve mourners, two and two, the horses trapped til
the ground. Next the mourners, the Kings Chamberlain
with his staff, and his hood on his shoulder, as adiiefdf-
ficer, and no mourner. Next to them Sir Anthony Brown,
1 2 master of the Kings horse, bare-headed, his horse trapped k
the ground. And he led the Kings spare horse trapped al
in cloth of gold down to the ground.

Then followed nine henchmen in black, and hooded:
their horses trapped to the ground, garnished with esoot
cheons of armes of England before the conquest, tod Ad
frons on their horses heads, holding in th^ hands banne
rols of the same arms that their horses were trapped with
that is to say, the armes of
Brute, Athelstane, Edward Exile,

Belin, Arthur, S. Edward,

Kadwellader, Edmond, England atone without Franoi

The henchmens names were John Sourton, [Stourte
perhaps,] Edward Ychingham, Thomas Le Strange, Georg
Dennys, Richard Brown, Roger Armour, Thomas Brown
Richard Cotton, and Patrick Bamaby.

Then followed Sir Francis Brian, master of the heaoA
men, alone. After him Sir Anthony Wyngfield, captain oi
the guard, and al the guard in black, three and three (fl
foot, bearing each one a halbard on his shoulder, wid
the point downward. After them al noblemens servants ao
cording to their degrees of their masters next aft^ thf
corps.

Thus they marched forward in goodly order from th
Court to Charing-cross, and so forth, to the great adiBi
ration of them that beheld it, which was an innumerabl
people.

So in time they came to Brainford; and shortly after t
Syon : where a little before, the gentlemen, enquires, an

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knights, aldermen of London, and divers other noblemen,
did stay themselves on horseback, and furnished the way
n ather side in maner of a lane ; til such time as the corps
nth the company afore and after the same were entred into
the place of Syon : which was about two of the clock the
Bune day afternoon : and so the chariot was rested afor the
wrt door of the church of Syon. Immediately the herse
was light, and tressels set for the corps to be set on. Then
ns the image of representation taken from the sfud ditur,
md carried, under the canopy to the vestrey.

Forthwith in like maner the corps was brought by the
MAmps in poniificaliims, (the nobles and ambassadors on
oilier side standing,) unto the place appointed under the
■id herse. Then was the corps covered with a pal of black
tdm with a white cross, and the helm and crest at Uie
head, the targe enclining therto. On the right hand
vWof was set the sword, and the rich coat embroidered at
4e feet On eveiy side of the herse along the quire stood
il the banner and standards that were bom after the corps,
■■aforesaid ; and the four banners of saints holden at the
int comers, with many torches brenning on either side the
quire, and the body of the church : tai& so rested a while,
^ the lords had shifted themselves, and were ready to come
to further service.

After they had past an hour, the gentlemen and officers 13
tf annea and others ^ving their attendance, the mourners
were honorably brought to the church, every man in a long
jown, in order according to hb degree, with their hoods on
Ihor shoulders, save only the mourners, and officers at
■nnes, which had them on their heads. So were the moum-
en phiced in the herse as they were accustomed.

After the bedes bidden bj Norroy king at armes at the
quire door, the Bishop of London began the ^rige, asmsted
nth others in pont^aiAbua, and al the rest of the Kings
diaplains following the same: and at every lesson the
KBjers were bade by the king of aimes, as aibre b men-
draied.
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other things therto appertainmg^ the moumen went in
like order to the chamber of presence : from whence thej
departed every man to his lodging ; where they had dieir
abundantly, in al degrees : and great plenty of meat ni
drink distributed to al that came: and al men had supped
by day-light, and then took them to rest. That nig^t (he
Lord Great Master charged the watch about the axrpi^
which was don with great reverence and devotion.

About three of the clock the next morning, every vm
prepared himself to await upon the mourners to the divins
service. When they came to church, they took th&r jdapes
in the herse ; and every man in his degree : where imme-
diately were many masses both sung and said at many al-
tars. Which don, and al the funeral ceremcxiies aforeaud}
the said corps was bestowed in the chariot with like reve-
rence as is before exprest. And the representation with
the bannerols and other necessaries in the same maner aet
upon the chariot, without any thing diminished, added, or
changed ; and so remained without the churdi a while.

And after the lords had brokai their fasts, every noas
mounted on horseback, and placed themselves in the sane
order as they were the day before : and about seven of tk
clock they marched forth from town to town : where th^
were received in procession with the priests and darks of
every parish on each side of th^ way, censing the ocvps, as
the day before: and al the bells rung in every churdi
against their coming. And so they proceded til they came
to Eton.

Where along the churchyard wal were the Bishop of
CarlUe [the provost] in pontijicalibusj and al the feUof*
and masters of the said church in their best ornaments and
copes : and by them al the young children scholars of the
collie in their white surplices, bare-headed, holding in the
one hand tapers, and in the other books, saying the aevea
psalms : and as the corps came by, kneeled and censed it,
bidding their de prqfundis^ and other prayers. And so the
corps passed til it came to the town of Windsor.

Where at the bridg foot, the maior, and the most lub-

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ttantial men stood on the one »de, and on the other, the

priests and clarks : and by them the corps passed through

to the castle-gate at one of the clock at afternoon the same

dtjr: where the Bishop of Winchester, with the said college

of Windsor, received it, as the Bishop of Carlile and Eton 14

«JI^. Which don, the said royal corps was brought to

flie west door of the said church. Then every man lighted

fiwn horse, and went in the order of their former proced-

*^ into the body of the same church ; where they stood

on either side, attending the bringing up of the said coips

mto the herse.

In the mean time the said noble herse of thirteen princi-
pdswas lighted. And then the representation and corps
were honorably removed from the chair, with the canopy
bom by six lords aforesaid: and with al due solemnity
■nd honour was placed and set within the said herse upon a
▼yce purposely made for the same. Under which vyce the
[dace of the sepulture was before prepared. The corps be-
ing covered with a great pall of black velvet, white crossed
inth satin, and upon that another rich pall of cloth of dssue.
The representation was laid upon the same, as afore is
diewed. After certain prayers made, every man departed
in due order to ocmduct the mourners to th^ lodgings in
die castle. That don, they shifted themselves from their
tiding apparel, and came again in thdr gowns, and hoods
on their dioulders, attending on the chief mourner, til the
pfdates and the quire were ready.

Thai went they in order from the castle to the west door
of the diurch in this maner. First, gentlemen, esquires,
kmg^ts, bannerets, barons, viscounts, earls, ambassadors.
Then, the Archlnshc^ of Canterbury. Then the mourners
irith their hoods on their heads, two and two, the chief
OKNimer behind alone; with Garter after him in the Kings
Doat; and his train aflter faim, bom by the Vice-chamber-
bin: after him the goaid, noUemens servants^ and others,
in order went into the diiirdi : where the moumers took
iheir accustomed jdaoes under the bene.
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of the order, and chief executor of divine service, w& al
the rest of the bishops, stood in pon^kaKbua on ather ode
of the altar.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, with the other the Kngp
executors, placed themselves upon forms on other ade the
quire beneath the prelat.

The four saints banners were set at the four corners of
the herse, in order as aforesud. And at the feet of tl»
herse, a little behind the altar, stood the L. Talbot with the
embroidered banner ; and before him the standard of the
Lion : and on the right hand the Dragon, and on the kft
hand the Greyhound : and al other banners and bannerols
placed accordingly; holden by persons appointed, duiii^
the time of al the divine sendee, with th^ hoods.

On the right hand of the high altar was another ahar
covered with black : whereupon was set al the hatdunentfl,
as helm, crest with mantle, sword, targe, and the Kingi
broidered coat of arms.

And in the Queens closet above stood the Que^, A the
noblemen, ambassadors, with other notable strangers, to «e
the divine service, and the royal order of the foneralls.

Then began the prayers by Norroy king at armes at the
quire door, with a loud voice, Ofyowr charity pray Jbr At
souly &c. Immediately the chief prelate began the dirigei
1 5 And at every lesson the said Norroy began the bedes afiofe^
said. When diriffe^ with al other service and solemnity, ivis
don, every man departed to supper, in order, to the said
castle, as they came from the church : and there they had
very liberal and sumptuous fare. Supper don, every nun
departed to his lodging for that night. Then was the watdi
appointed about the corps as aforesaid.

On the next day, being Wednesday, the 16 day of Fe-
bruary, at four of the clock in the morning, when landi
were made by the priests that watched, every man attended
upon the mourners from the castle to the church, wher thi^
had their accustomed order, and the bedes bidden.

Then the Bishop of Ely began the mass of the Trinity.
His deacon and subdeacon were two bishops mitred. Which

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mass solemnelj sung in prick song descant, and organ play-
ing, to the oflertory. Then the chief mourner, assisted with
the other mourners, and conducted with officers of armes,
Bg aforesaid, offered a piece of gold for the mass, and so de-
ported to their places again.

After that mass was ended, began another, which the
Bishop of London did celebrate, and two other bishops in
poM^icalUms for deacon and subdeacon : simg in the same
maner, with like ceremonies, at the offertory ; and so to thef
end. By that time it was day, fast upon six of the clock,
die mourners went in order to the Dean^s place, where
breakfut was prepared for them.

In the mean time al the knights of the Garter there pre-
sent came in their mantles of their order, to their oblations,
as they are bound to do by the religion. That don, they
went into the vestrey, and put off their mantles, and went
to the mourners to hast them to church.

Forthwith the mourners returned to their places. And al
persons hasted together, and gave their attendance, with al
the nobility and council in the quire : the Emperors ambas-
sadors, and others of foreign nations stood aloft, and be-
held the execution of this noble interrment. And after the
prayer bidden, the mass of requiem began by the Bishop of
Winchester, chief prelate, in pontificaMbuSy and the Bishops
of Londcm and Ely, deacon and subdeacon : which pro-
ceded unto the offertory. Then the Lord Marques, being
chief mourner, assisted with the other twelve mourners, of-
JBfed a jnece of gold of ten shillings for the mas-peny ; and
then returned again to the head of the corps, within the
heme on the right hand. Then the Earls of Arundel and
Oxfcnrd, the two next chief mourners, received of Gurter
the Kings broidered coat of armes, and, conducted by him
to the ccffering, with much humility and reverence offered
the same to the Bishop : who delivered the same to Garter
i^^o ; and he bare it, and laid it reverently upon the al-
tar. The Earls of Derby and Shrewsbury, the next moum-
Bi% received of Clarentieux the Kings target of armes in
the Ckurter, which was offered ut supra. Likewise the Eiii

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of Sussex and Rutland, the next mourners^ receired of Nor-
roy the Kings sword, and offered it up in the same sort.
The Elarls of Shrewsbury and Darby again received of Car-
lile, the herald, the hehn and crest, and used them as afore-
said. And with that the man of armes, which was Chydiod
16 Powlet, esq. came to the quire door upon his horse in oora-
plele harness, al save the head-pdece, and a poleaxe in Ul
hand, with the point downward. And there he alighted,
and was received by the Lord Morley, and the Lend Dscra
of the north : and was conducted by o£Scers of armes to
the offering : and there he offered the poleaxe to the fi-
shop with the head downward. And the Bishop turmngit
upward delivered it to an officer of armes, who bare it to
the altar end. And then the man of armes was had onto
the vestry, and there unarmed.

Then Richard Powlet, esq. with the gentlemen ushen^
brought in the palls ; which Garter received, and delivered
to the chief mourner and others, standing in order sa they
were sorted in couples under the herse ; the .chief mourner
last. To whom Garter deUvered four rich palls of doth of
gold of bawdkin^ and to every earl three, and every baroa
two. So came the fourth from either ade the herse without
the barriers to the corps feet ; where Garter stood on ooe
side, and Clarentieux on the other, &c. rec^ved the said
palls in order, as they offered, and laid them at the foot of
the said representation. The chief mourner offered last.

Then came in four gentlemen ushers to the head of tlie
corps conducting the Emperors ambassadors, and the am-
bassadors of France, with the ambassadors of Scotland tai
Venice : and they offered. Then the chief mourner, widi
the other twelve mourners, without any estate, went up and
offered for themselves.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, and al the rest of the
Kings executors there present, offered, according to their
estates and degrees. Then the treasurer, comptroler, and
other head officers of the Kings house. And after them, al
other noblemen and gentlemen came up and offered, ai
many as would.

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Then was the pulpit set directly before tbe high altar,
and the Bishop of Winchester b^an the sermon; whose
theme was, Beati mortui qui m Domino moriuntur. Where
he declared the frailty of man, and community of death to
the high and to the low : and showing the pittiful and do-
loorous loss that al maner men had sustained by the death of
BO gracious a King. Yet he recomforted them again by the
leBurrection in the life to come : and exhorted them al to
i^oioe, and give thanks to Almighty God ; having sent us
8p toward and vertuous a Prince to reign over us, as our
cnl J natural finend, lord, and King, at this time present
Desiring al men to continue in obedience and duty, with
many other godly exhortations very notably set forth, and
with great learning.

And after the sermon don, the mass proceded to the
end : and at Verbum carojbctum est, the Lord Windsor of-
fered the standard of the Lion ; the Lord Talbot offered the
banner embroidered ; and next to that were the four ban-
ners of saints, by the bearers thereof, to the bishops.

Then came the Dean of Windsor and chaplains, and re-
eeived the palls from the feet of the representation, and con-
veyed them forthwith to the vestry.

Then came six knights and received the representation ;
which was delivered to them by the gentlemen ushers ; and
flowith reverence brought into the vestry. Then was thel7
rich pall removed, and conveyed in like manner.

Then the three bishops that did execute came down to
the herse : after whom followed the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, and stood a little behind the bishops with his crosses.
Then the quire with one voice did sing Circumdedenmt me,
with the rest of the canticle funeral ; and the bishops cens-
ing the corps, with other ceremonies therunto appertan-
ing.

Then was the vault uncovered under the said corps;
md the corps let down therin by the vice, with help of six-
teen tal yeomen of the guard, appointed to the same.

Then proceded the Bishop of Wintcm in the aervioeaf-
the burial, standing at the head of the said vaiilt^andi

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the same il the officers of houaehold : that is to say, the
Lord St John, lord great master ; the Earl of Aiundd,
lord chamberlain; Sir Thomas Chejrne, treasurer; Sr
John Gage, comptroller ; William Knevet, sergeant porter;
and the four gendemen ushers ordinary, standing about the
corps, with their staves and rods. Then, when the mold was
brought, and cast in the grave by the prelate executing, at
the word Pulverem pulveri et cmerem cinerij first the Lotd
Great Master, and after the Lord Chamberlain^ and al
others aforesaid in order, with heavy and dolorous lamen-
tation, brake their staves in shivers upon their heads, aiii
cast them after the corps within the pit And then die gen-
tlemen ushers in like maner brake thmr rods, and threw
them into the vault with exceeding sorrow and heavines, not
without grievous sighs and tears, not only of them, but of
many others, as wel of the meaner sort as of the nobiHtjy
very piteous and sorrowful to behold.

Then, after this finished, and De prq/imdis said, and the
grave covered again with the planks. Garter stood in the
midst of the quire, accompanied with al them of his office^
in their coats of armes, and with a lowd voice proclaimed
the Kings Majesty stil now living in this form: "Al
mighty God of his infinite goodnes give good life and
long to the most high and mighty Prince, our sovereign
Lord King Edward VI. by the grace of God King of
England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and
" in earth, under God, of the Church of England and Lf©-
'* land the supreme Head and Sovereign, of the most noble
*^ order of the Garter." And with that he cryed, Vive fc
noble Roy Edward. And the rest of the officers of armes
cryed the same three several times after him.

Then the trumpets sounded with great melody and cou-
rage, to the comfort of al them that were there present
And al these things were don afore six of the clock of the
same day. And then every man departed to his place iqp-
pointed into the castle. Where they went to their dinners.
And after dinner the lords dissevered themselves, and tak-
ing their horses hasted them al to London that night. And

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thitt were the fimeral duties of interment of this most
m^ty and redoubted Prince fully accomplished and ended.
On whose soul Jesu have mercy. Amen. J. S.

B. 18

Tke Lard Protector" a prayer Jbr God's assistimce m the
hi^ qffke qf Protector and Governor, new committed to

LORD God of hosts ! in whose only hand is life and E mss.
4eath, victory and confusion, rule and subjection; recdvej^ joh.
Aethy humble creature into thy mercy, and direct me in^P"®-.
iiy requests, that I offend not thy high Majesty. O my
Lord and my God, I am the work of thy hands: thy
goodnes cannot reject me. I am the price of thy Sons
death Jesu Christ ; for thy Sons sake thou wilt not lese me.
I am a vessel for thy mercy ; thy justice will not condemn
me. I [am recorded in] the book of life : I am written with
the very bloud of Jesus ; thy inestimable love wil not can-
odl then my name. For this cause. Lord God, I am bold to
apeak to thy Majesty. Thou, Lord, by thy providence hast
called m^ to rule ; make me therfore able to follow thy call-
ing. Thou, Lord, by thine order hast committed an anointed
King to my governance : direct me therfore with thy hand,
that I erre not from thy good plesure. Finish in me, Lord,
thy beginning, and begin in me that thou wilt finish. By
thee do kings reign; and from thee al power is derived.
Govern me. Lord, as I shal govern : rule me, as I shal rule.
I am ready for thy governance ; make thy people ready for
mine. I seek thy only honour in my vocation : amplify it,
Lord, with thy might. If it be thy will I shal rule, make
thy congregation subject to my rule. Give me power. Lord,
to suppress whom thou wilt have obey.

I am by appointment thy minister for thy King, a shep-
herd for thy people, a sword-bearer for thy justice : prosper
the King, save thy people, direct thy justice. I am ready.
Lord, to do that thou commandest; command that thou

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wilt. Remember, O God, thine old mercieB : remember thy
benefits shewed heretofore. Remember, Lord, me thy mu
vant, and make me worthy to ask. Teach me what to 9skj
and then give me that I ask. None other I seek to. Lord,
but thee; because none other can give it me. And that I
seek is thine honour and glory. I ask victory, but to siisv
thy power upon the wicked. I ask prosperity, but for to
rule in peace thy congregation. I ask ¥dsdom, but by my
counnl to set forth thy cause. And as I ask for my sel^ kv
Lord, pour thy knowledg upon al them which shal ooinnil
me. And forgive them, that in their offence I wxSex Bot
the reward of their evil. If I have erred. Lord, forgive me:
for so thou hast promised me. If I dial not err, direct me:
for that only is thy property. Great things, O my God,
hast thou begun in my hand; let me then. Lord, be thy
minister to defend them. Thus I conclude, Lord^ by the
name of thy Son Jesus Christ. Faithfully I commit ai my
cause to thy high providence : and so rest to advance al
humane strength under the standard of thy omnipotaicy.

19 c.

The Lord Protector a/nd the other Governors of the Ein^9
person f to thejicstices of peace in the county ofNorfiXki
when a new commission of the pence was sent them,.

To our very good Lord, the Earl qfStissex, and to cur
loving JHends, Sir Roger Toxvnsend and Sir William
Pctston, Tcnights ; and to otherjustices of pea^e wiOMk
the county of Norfolk.

Cotton AFTER our right harty commendations : Where tht

I ihrn.r

Tit. b! 2. most noble King of famous memory, our late sovereign Lord
and Master K. Henry VIII. (whom God pardon) upon the
great trust which his Majesty had in your vertuous wis-
doms and good dispositions to the commonwealth of this
realm, did especially name and appoint you among otben,
by his t;ommission under his great seal of England, to be
coniservators and justices of his peace within this his county

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3>f Norfolk : forasmuch as the said commissions were dis-
lolved by his decease, it hath pleased the Kings Majesty
3ur sovereign Lord that now is, by the advice and consent
of us, the Lord Protector, and others, executors of our said
late sovereign Lord, whose names be underwritten, to
whom, with others, the government of his most royal person
Hod the (xrder of his idflfeyres is by his last wil and testa-
ment committed, til he should be of the ful age of eighteen
yean, to cause new commisfflons agejm to be made, for the
(X)ii8ervation of his peace throughout this realm; wherof
you shal by this bearer receive one for that county : and
tor that the good and diligent execution of the charge com-
Biitted to you and others by the same, shal be a notable
aurety to the King our sovereign Lords person that now is,
(to whom Grod give encrease of vertue, honor, and many
yeivs,) as a most certain stay to the commonwealth, whidi
must needs prosper where justice hath place, and reigneth ;
we shal deare you, and in his Majesties name charge and
command you, upon the recepte hereof, with al diligence to
assemble your selves together ; and calling unto you al such
others as be named in the said commission, you shal first
cry and cal to God, to give you grace to execute the charge
committed unto you with al truth and uprightnes according
to your oaths, which you shal endeavour your selves to do
in al things appertaining to your office accordingly, in such
scHt as, al private malice, sloth, negligence, displesure, dis-
dain, corruption, and sinister affections set apart, it may
•i^iear that you have God, and the preservation of your
sovereign Lord and natural country, before your eyes ; and
that you forget not, that by the same your selves, your
wives, and your children shal surely prosper, and be also

For the better doing wherof you shal at this your first 20
assemUy make a division of your selves into hundreds or
wepentakes; that is to say, two at the least to have a spe-
cial ey and r^ard to the good and order of that or those
hundreds, to se the peace duly kept, to se vagsbonds and
perturbers of the peace ponyshed ; and that evcrj

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ply himself to do as his calling doth require; and m al
things to keep good order, without alteration, innovadoDyOr
contempt of any thing, that by the laws of our sdd late flove^
reign Lord is prescribed and set forth unto us, for the better
direction and framing of our selves towards God and honeit
pdicy. And if any person or persons, whom you shal think
you cannot rule and order without trouble to the countrj,
shal presume to do the contrary, upon your informatioii to
us therof, we shal so aid and assist you in the execution of
justice and punishment of al such contemptuous ijlBsoden,
as the same shall be example to others.

And further, his Majesties plesure, by the advice and
consent aforesaid, is, that you shal take such ordar amoog
you, as you fail not once in every six weeks, til you shal lie
otherwise commanded, to write unto us, the Lord Fiotoe*
tor, and others of the Privy Coundl, in what state that shire
standeth ; and whether any notable things have ha{qpened,
or were like to happen in those parts, that you cannot re-
dress, which would be speedily met withal and looked unto,
or wherein you shal need any advice or counsiL To the
intent we may put our hands to the stay and reformation ol
it in the begiLng, as appertabeth: preying you d to
take order, that every commissioner in that shire may haves
double or copy of this lettre, both for his owne better in-
struction, and to shew to the jentylmen and such others as
inhabit in the hundreds especially appointed to them. That
every man may the better conform himself to do trouthe,
and help to the advauncement of justice, according to their
most bounden duties, and as they wil answer for the oqd-
trary. Thus fare you hartily wel. From the Tower of Loo-
don the xii. February.

Your loving friends,

£. Hertford,
T. Cantuarien. Tho. Wryothesly, Can^ W, Seint John,

cell. Job. Russel, Cuth. Durysme, £dw. North.

Anthon. Browne, Will. Paget, An-
tony Denny, Will. Herbert.

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Common places of state: drawn up hy WW,. TTuyrrms^ esq.
dark of the Council. For King EdwarcTs use.

■ I. A necessary order which a prince in battayl must ob-
serve and keep^ if he intend to subdue or pass through
his enemies lands,

FYRST, he must examin, whether hys cause be lawful £ BibUoth.
ffld just : for in a just canse God dial assyst hym. l^^

liem^ He must provyde, that he have a sufScient luxn- Eiiens.
ber of men, and money ready for them.

Itemj He must counsail wyth the most wyse and expert
inen of hys realm, al the weyght and daungers that may
fid: so that, as far as reason may lead hym, he be not ig-
Bonuint what frute shal follow of hys battail.

liem^ He must provyde that hys host lack no vyttayles*

Hem^ He must se that he lack no engine and other thyng
reqoyred to defend hjonself, or invade his enemy.

Item, That he have capytayns expert in warrs, the which
shal execute hys commaundement.

liem^ Let hjm be assuryd of his own cuntry or he invade
hys en^ny r ftud yf case require, set that quyet, or eUs de-
part not

Ifem^ Let hjm leve behynd hym sum noble and trusted
man, to order, and, yf nede be, to subdew hys enemyes in
hys absence, and order them.

liem^ That the most strongest fortresse be commytted to
loi most trusty freyndes.

Item^ That he oftentymes consult and counsail with hys
wyse and expert counsail : that he may know what is most
expedient to do, and let hym use theyr counsail.

Item, When he entreth his enemies lands, he shal cal hys
host before hym, that he may know the number, and yt he
fynde any unable to battail, to put hym away.

liemj That he have no superfluous carriage : for therof
groweth great dyspleasure; specially when a prynce in-
tendeth short victory. And then let hys vyttayles be hys
moost canryage. Wherin must be taken a good order ; so

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that he have them wy th hym, or pass by such places wher
it may be had ; or els he washeth a stone, that is to say, he
laboureth in vayne.

II. How only by customable usage qf dedes formes, <k
Romayne had the victory of id oOier naUons.

The old custome to chose knights at axteen yere cS. age
was to be perfect in thejrr age, and to the custom of warr.

Also a prynce must dyligently consyder which be most
princypal and most expert ; and over that, what every nna
in hys host is most apt unto.
22 For it is very peryllous to set an unexpert man in aoe-
thoryte. For djrvers men have dyvers wytts ; and as thej
be, they must be used. Some be able to rewle an host;
some an hundred fotemen ; other an hundred horsemen:
some be good on horse, some be good on fote, other be
good in felde, or battail, other to invade a castel, otfier to
defend it, other sodeynly on horse to invade an host, other
swyfte on horseback to espy news, other in ryding to com-
pass a felde and to note theyr number, other apt to chose a
mete or apt place for a felde, other be expert in [the theorj
of] battaile, and naught when they be at it, whose counsail is
not to be refused : other have no experience, howbeit they
be valyaunt when they be put therto, other be both exp^
and victorious, other be able neyther to counsail, defend,
nor invade, they be good at home. Quxb secta imUXli»:
other be good in ingynes, other to make bridges and pas-
sages, other to espy theyr enemies secrets in dyssimulated
habyts, other to gyve counsel and dyscuss ambassades,
other mete for execution of justice, other mete to kepe a
princes treasure, and other thyngs of charge.

Itern^ The foreward of the battail must be strong, as wel
with horsemen as with footmen : and let there be put hys
capitains of the valyauntest.

Item^ He must consyder that hys felde be set to an ad-
vauntage, and accordyng therto the host must be ordered. .

Item^ That he provyde wher hys host shal oommody-
ously rest, or he depart from whence he is ; and diligently

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let hym note the cuntry, whether it be plain, hilly, moun-
taynes, or fill of waters, and what straytes be therin.

Itenij Yf he may, let hym have it trewly painted or he
enter; so that the daungiers may be known, and the horse-
men may healpe the footmen in tjone of war.

ttemj Let hjrm provyde that hys carriage trouble not hys
host, yf they be invaded : wherfore let them be conveyed
by the one syde, provyded that they be surely garded.
. Item J There must be provysion that al artillery may be
9urely carryed. For the loss of that is the peryl of the host

Item^ That the explorators be sent to espy the joiumeys
af the adversaryes, and what vyttails they have, with al other
thyngs by them intended.

liemj That he take deliberation, yf he may get the fiiend-
flhip of any great man of hys enemyes counsail, by corrup-
tion of m<Hiey or otherwyse, by whom he may know the
purpose of hys said enemies.

Itemy That every day there be sent light horsemen to
the adversaries host to percejrve theyr purpose, lest they be
aodejrnly invaded : and also to the intent he may invade
them unprovyded, yf the case so requyred. Requiruniwr
mdA secreH etjiddes.

liem^ Yf he can perceyve that hys adversary intend hasty
hattayl, let him take hjonself in a wayte, that he may pro-
vyde hym in takyng of hys felde to his advauntage, and
pat hjrmself shortly in order.

liemj Yf he knows any daungerous way betwene him 23
mad hys enemyes, he shal by wysdom and dilygence pro-
oede toward that, until he come within three or four bow-
rfiotes, and ther put hymself in order to invade hys host.

lUfHj He must espy what artillery hys enemies use, and
what order they take.

liem^ Every country hath hys maner of fyghting to
thejrr advauntage, and theyr enemies confuaon.

Itemj He must beware of every hard and dowteful pas-
sage, except he have leasure to convaye hys host, or except
neoeasite compel hym.

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Item^ It is better to abyde the comyng to a battayl, then
to invade : for the fyrst commers commonly lack order.

Item^ Yf the enemyes ride out of order, and wander, in-
vade them ; for lack of order shal destroy them.

Item^ Yf thyne enemies draw to hostry of no strength,
and disperse themselfe, then they be easylyer taken.

Item^ When the host draweth neer to the enemies, let
the wards come nygh together for their better surcottes.

Itemy That footmen be on the one syde not myxt with
horsemen, quod generaretur c&nfimo.

Itemy In every ward must be some with hand gunns,
crosbowes, and other manual ingins; and likewise in the
latter ward, to put asyde the light horsemen.

Itemy Yf he may, let hym provyde that the sun and
wynd be for hym, specially for dust, yf there be any.

Iteniy Yf he be horsed, and stronger than hys enemy, kt
h3rm provoke hym to open battayle in the playne felde ; and
yf his footmen be myghtier than hys enemies horsemen, kt
hym take the advauntage of a streyght place.

Iteniy When he invadeth hys enemy, let hys caryage be
put in the one syde, and surely garded.

Itern^ He shal put hys ingyns of battayl betwene lum
and his enemyes, and wel defend them.

Iterriy Yf he be compelled to follow hys enemy, and for
default of vittayl to invade therin ; or yf he dread lest hys
host fortify his company, so that he cannot escape, except
he overcome his host, let hym study to break hys felde, that
is to say, let hym vex them with gonnes, and other poyntsof
warr ; so that they may dysorder themselves.

Item, A prynce must note the tyme, and use as it serr*
eth hym.

Iterriy When he is actually entred battayl, hys host dud
stand styl in a cluster, and in no wyse remove from the
place, whatsoever he se ; though he se his company paitif
flee, and partly slayne ; and also though he se hya enemyai
flee. For order maketh and marreth al.

Item^ When thou hast invaded th]me enemies with the

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EcK and hynder ward, let the myddle stand styfF and dose
"x) help both, as nede dial requyre. And when both wards
bare wel fought, let the myddle ward fyght ; but for al that,
let them not dysorder themselfe, except compulsyon.

licfn. He must have provysion for passages of waters. 24

lienif Before the battayle, a prjmce must se the order of
his host, and reform al thyngs mysordered : and thys may
Dot be forgotten.

Item^ He shal shew them, that he wyl lyve and dy with
them that day : and that, besydes theyr perpetual honour,
he wyl never forget to honour and reward them. And for
this, let him se couragyous prynces orations, as Alexander,
Catalyne, with other infinite, &c.

Item, He shal neyther magnify his enemy, nor despise
bym, but ^icourage hys capy tains to kepe theyr order;
and if that they so do, the vyctory wyl follow.

Item, He shal practyse, that both hys enemy and hys
host may alway thynk that more strength is commyng to
hym.

Item, That he se no robbyng, and that he commaund
hys captayns to se that observed upon payne of death.

Itemy That he execute indifferently justice, and punish
them that cause debates.

liem^ When hys enemies do treat of peace, then let hym-
sdf lefte awayt. Propter peHcula in hoc casu experta,

Itemy Let no man pass his cuntry, and invade another,
inthout nede requyre; except he se how he may return
inth honour, or how he may surely abyde there. It is but
symplenes to go up and down in a cuntry, and to ryde fsur
in it And hard it is to be long siu-e in a cuntry stiraunge,
•nd to return with honour. For in the time of Talbot,
zl knyi^ts of England layd sege to the town of Roane ;
and when they lacked that was necessary for theyr defence,
th«ifbre th^ lost it. And lyke thynges were done at Bri-
tain, At Vans, wh@re they lost al.

liem^ Yf any tydings come, forthwith let thmbe heard,
a^d follow them, as the tyme shal flcrve. ^^^AS^iLO^ l^ ^jii\

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ttemf A pry nee must be ke^nng hjs promyse, ells no nM
shall trust hjon.

Item, He must study to haye the favour of the best il
the country, and he must be just and egall.

Item, A prince must study to have the fiiendshypofthe
cuntries adjoyning : and let hym not have battayl with &
vers at once, except he be compelled. For there is modbe
suttelty used.

Item, In the day of the battayl he must have about hja
a certen of the wysest and most expert men, to kqpe, foUov,
and counsail them.

Item, He must provyde that hys enemyes espy not die
number of hys host, and the order of the same.

Item, Yf it fortune hjrm to lese a battayl or two, orto
lese hys artillery, then policy [it] is to resort to some £**
tres, and there to cal hys host together, and to refresh thea
as nedeth, and to get new-men, and to take peace yf he cttL
And in the mean tyme to make hys fortres strong, tyl lie
be able by some means to make battail, and to have il
thyngs redy therfore.

Item, He shal set hys tents nygh to hys enemyes hoflt,
that he may trouble and break the3rr array.

Item, He must beware that he be not beseged.
25 Item, He must beware, that, after one battail lost, be be-
gyn not another forthwith, except necessite compel hym.
For after a dystrage, the host cannot sodenly be apt to
fyght. For wounds and moumyngs shal let them; and
theyr enemies after vyctory be more imbolded ; howbqft
oftentymes men thynk upon dyspleasure to be revenged;
and so for lack of polycy take fury rebuke. And in thjs
maner Charles Duke of Burgon was destroyed. Wherfefe
set reason before wyll, and begyn to thynk nothing hard to
perfourme.

Item, Yf thou wynn a battayl, or a fortress of thyne ene-
mies, pursew h3rm graciously, and suffer hym nejrther to
rest, nor to restable hys strength. Wysdom it is to follow
the advauntage.

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^: Itemj Yf thou get a cuntry, committ It to some great man ;
iabd lykewyse of fortresses. And let hym be wel entreated,
jOid lack no money. For such men would be cherished.

. , IIL TTie maner of betegyng ajbrtress.

^..

Fjrrst, A prynce must remembre, whether he have suffi-^
t men to besege it in three dyvers parties ; and whether
wer that, he have men sufficyent for hys own defnice, and
ff»ey both.

Iteniy He must provyde artillay and vittaylls necessary^
ttid let hym wel beware that hys vittayl come not to hys
Swnyes hands ; and this principal to be noted.
\- Iteniy He must espy some man that knoweth the strength
ii the fortress, and the}^* counsayl must he use.
^ Item J He must espy how it be most easily taken, and
rliere hys host may best set theyr felde for theyr assurety.
iJtem, That done, set them in the foreward that were be-
bce sent to espy the strength of the fortress, wel fumyshed
nth archers and dyggers, and al other thyngs.

Item, Let th^m come as nygh to the walls as they can ;
ind so order them, that they may reject theyr enemyes
Earts.

Item, Above al thyngs, provyde that nothing may pass
Hit or enter into the fortress. For yf one gate be open, it
lial be never overcome.

rUm, Let one ward be ever ready to help the other, as
le^ ^al requyre.

' Item, The fyrst day of besegyng, the felde must be for-
jrfyed.

'Item, Men must be sent to every place to espy whether
Uijjy rescue be intended, &c. And yf it so be, let hym con-
ijder theyr power; and if he see paryl, remove hys host
lOd his artillery, lest he be invaded in both sydes, and
i^yde to some sure fortress for the tyme*

Item, Yf he se hys enemies of smal power, he may set
iome to fyght with them, and other to kepe the sege.

Item^^ When the walls be broken, fortify hys men, and
nake an assawte; provyded that he leve behynd them bottv

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26 horsemen and fotemen, to withstand hys back eaemyes.
For that not doyng, the Earl of Arminae lost Bysander, 1
castel of Lumbardy.

Item^ Yf he be put aback in the fyrst conflict, lethym in-
vade as sone as the day foUowyng. For upon a vyctory
oftentymes the oppidan is benegligent, trust]rng not so-
deynly to be invaded. By thys provysion many pkcesand
/(Stresses hath ben optained.

Item^ Many other thyngs be requyred: howb«t a pryncc
must specially beware of treason and simulation.

IV. Hem aprynce beseged shal order hymse^.

Above al thyng a prynce must study, as wel in tymeof
peace as in warr, to know hys neyghbours mynds; and often-
tymes to send orators to them, as wel to nourydie love, as
to know theyr good wyll.

Item^ Yf he se by a prynces ordinaunce, that he intend-
eth warr, let hyrm stre3mgthe hys fortress toward that contry.

Iterrij Let hym make some friend in that prynces house,
by whom he may know what is intended.

Item^ Yf he be assured that the prynoe intendeth hym
war, let hym prepare an host of as myghty men as hys mo-
ney wil suffer hym to doo. And yf he thynk hym sufiy-
cient to overcom hym, let hym follow hys fortune, and tany
hys enemy in the entry to hys contry ; or, yt he may, in
hys enemyes contry.

Item^ Yf he thynk hymself unsufiicyent in men and
money, let hym fortyfy hys hedde places next to hys ene- ^
myes, and garde them with money.

Item^ Yf there be moo fortresses then he may fumysb,
let them be take down ; and al maner vittayl be caryed from
thens, and the cuntry left bare.

Item^ Let hym have good capy tayns in hys fortresses ; the
which may do hys enemyes dayly displeasure, and dyqpefse
hys host, as it was done at Metz and other places.

Item^ Horsemen must be provyded, as it shal be thoiq^ 1
necessary, to take the messengers, and then make pfovisioii 1
with order.

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Itew$y Yf such obstacles be purveyed for enemies, they
dial little prevayle.

y. How ajbrtress shal be kept : and how they that be be*

seged shal order theyrselfe.

Fjrrst, dygge up the erth to the heyght of the walls, for
gons and other ingyns.

Itenij The bulwarks must be fortyfied ; and he must be-
ware, that the inner buyldyings joyn not to the wals. For
nygh to the wal inwardly must be made a trench to a good
heyght : so that yf the wal fayl, the wal of erth may help.

Itemy He must have good capy ta3ms to order and visit hys
watdi of the wals, and men expert

Itemf Crosbows, bumbards, dykers, physicians, surgeons, 27
podicaryes, with al other thyngs necessary.

Item^ He must have one capitayn to order hys watches,
as Dede shal requyre,

Item^ Every night the walls must be sene, and an order
set and kept for theyr sure custody.

Itemy There must be watch kept nygh to the walls, to
lielp theyr keepers, as nede shal requyre ; and also to with-
stand inward treason.

liem^ Yf there be any noyse, let every man go to theyr
own place : for oftentymes such noyse is made to make men
zoune together, whyle their enemies invade.

Item^ Let it be taken heed theyrwhyles, that theyr waters
be not poysoned.

liem^ When he shal invade, let hym wel counsayl, and
hys commodities foresene,

Iteftij Yf the wals be broken, let them be amended forth-
with, for fear of invasion : as it was at Rhodes, whyles the
lord was at mass.

liem^ Let it ever be commoned, that more pe<^le shal
come, to help to put them in better comfort.

Itemj A prince must beware that there be no murmur in.
the host, and if there be, that they be openly punyshed.

Item^ Yf the capitain understand that any battail is iost^
or fortress tfiken, unknown unto hys host, kt ^MC Jietl
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and let bym ever shew bys host thyngs of comfort
pleasure.

Item, In the principal parts must be set pryndpal men.

Itenij He must have guydes that know the cuntry.

Itenij Yf any message come, let hym ponder, and depely
discusse it, and be not over lyght of credence.

Item, Yf it be a cuntry of hylls, waters, or of strayts, he
must have the moo footmen.

Iteniy When it is proceded in battayl, some wyse men
strong and sure must be left bebynd, lest they invade in the
inner part of the battayl.

Item, Let not new locks of gates oft be made, for fear cl
counterfey ting : and it must be provyded of sure kepers*

Item, In the nyght there must be sure watdi about the
yates, for daungers that may fall : as it was don at Arra&

Item, There must be made barrars, nygh unto the for-
tress, for the defence of footmen, and the savety of horse-
men, and dy vers other oonsyderations.

Item, The wals shal be strengthened with thcnmes for
8hak3aig.

Item, Prysoners must be wel entreated : and yf thou
take hym that is not trew unto hys prynce, punysh him
forth withall.

Item, Yf any enemies treat of delyverance of thdr for-
tresses, hear it wel, but be not light of credence ; for there
be many sotteltyes ymagined. And at Betynam many were
by that mean destroyed.

Item, The watch must be kept all nyght, and the watch-
men not depart until every th3mg be sure.
28 Item, When the yates must be opened, there must be so
many present as may withstand the secret assault of theyr
enemyes. For by thys mean Leystoure was taken: foe
when two or three had (^ened the yates, theyr enemyes
secretly hydd, invaded them and slew them ; and there was
treason within.

Item, There must be many porters, for few may be soon
slajme by treason, &c.

Item, If any in the nyght season cal to come in, the whidi

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hy name and voycfe be known, that notwithstanding, lye se-
cret espyes, that it be known what number there be of them^
and when thou openest the utter gates, se the inner gate
shytte. For Frenchmen by thys mean toke Moelam : for
four traitors fayning that they had brought Inglish men
from the battayl of S. Denys, they opened the gates, and
were deceyved.

Item, Many men wyl consyder, and counsail dyverse and
great thyngs to be attempted : be not swyft to follow theyr
counsail.

Item, Some be ignoraunt, and dread no paryll.

Item, Some wyl persuade and counsayl great thyngs to»
be done, that they may be taken and thought couragyous ;
the which in effect be of no courage. Hi in beUo eoctremi.

Item, iLet hym beware, that none of hys host have too
great famylyarite with hys enemies, for fear of treason.

Item, When he wyl battayll, let it be secretly done, that
the guyders know it not, and let the gates be fast shytte
before he cause [hys} men to put them in armes. Also, let
men be set to kepe dilygently the passages out of the city,
that none may go unto theyr enemyes to shew the prepara-
tions that are made against them. Also, when he shal come
unto the felde with hys enemyes to fyght, let hym take a
way contrary unto that way which myght be thought he
Would take ; and after he hath gon two or three myles in
that way, let hym return unto the way which was first
thought that he wold have taken. But let hym take good
hede, that neyther the guydes nor other of hys company
know whither he wyl go, unto the tyme that they be in
the feylde*

Item, Yf any of the carriages or guydes of the waynes
come into the town, let it be sene that at their comyng in
one of the yates be shytte.

Item, Yf it fortune any of the sowldyers to be hurte or
Unrounded in battayl, or ells out of the battayl, let the
[ninces or theyr ministers se the medycyne be minystred
onto them in dew order. Let them be viinted, and gently^

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intreated mth good and soft words* And I^ than wf
ther lack physician nor surgeon. For these sayd thyngsdo
encourage and nourysh the hartes of warryers, and make
them strong, and wyllyng to fyght.

Itenij It behoveth a prynce to make good search, and to
know which of hys company be most diligent, valyaunt,
and taught in feats of war ; and of them to make nsost, and
to nourysh them with great liberalyte, aocordyng to theyr
meryts. For the liberalyte of a prynce cawseth hys con-
pany to be diligent, and also multiplyeth and encreaseth
the same.
29 Item, It apperteyneth to a prince, to forbidd that none
of hys company entend conflyct, or to go out of hys hoit;
without lycence of theyr capytayns.

Item, Many other thyngs might be rehersed, whereby
enemyes might be constreyned and repressed : but take thys
for a general conclusyon, that the effect xxf battayl consyst-
eth and standeth in three thyngs, that is to say, in abun-
dance of money, in good order put and kept, and in f<^
lowing the counsail and advertysement of wyse and exp^
warryers.

VI. To pacify the seditiofi of sowldt/ours.

When A. Manlius consul had perceyved that hys sow-
diours grudged against the men of Campania, where they
were now lodged, conspiryng togyther to dee theyr hostes,
and after to take away theyr goods ; he spred abroad thys
rumour, that they shulde ly there styl al the wynter : and
thus they of theyr purpose let and dysturbed, he delyvered
Campania from great peryll, and as tyme and occasyion senr-
ed, punyshed them that were causers of that sedition.

What tymes the legyons of the Romayns were fiuy*
ously sent and bent on peryllous sedytion, Lucius Sylla
retored them from theyr rage unto a quyettiess by thys po-
lycy ; he eommaunded that word shuld be brought hastily
to the host, that theyr enemyes were at hand, and that
they should raise up a cry, and cal them to harness, aod

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up Ibe trumpets : wherby he brak off tbe sedy fiGm^
altqgether unitiag^ as nede requyred, agayost tbeir

'bat tyme Pompeius host had slayne the senatours of
in, for fear of trouble and busynes that xnyght have
ened, yf he shuld have called the offenders alone to
dnation, he sent .for them al togyther, as wel for the
les as the gyltie ; so that they semed to be sent for for
other purpose, and therfore appeared they that were
ie with less fear, byeause they came not alone; and
whose conscyence pleded them not gyltie gave good
daunce to kepe them that were faultie, lest peradven-
theyr escape and flyght myght have toqmed them to
easure.

E. 30

names qf the Knights of tlie Bath made by King
Iward the Sixths February 20, Shrove Sunday y being
*■ day of his coronation.

Duke of Suffolk.

Earl of Hertford.

Lord M atravers.

Lord Strange.

Lord Lysle.

Lord Cromwel.

Lord Scrope^s son and

'raacis Russel.

^nthony Browne.

ohn Gates.

Uexander Umpton, of

fordshire.

alentine Knightley.

eo. Vernon, of the Peak.

homas ftousselyn.

dmund Mollineux.

a Sir William Balthrope.

ExOffic.

Sir Thomas Nevyl, of Hold. n«». i. 7.

b Sir Holcroft

Sir Henry Tyrrel.

Sir Wjnoaond Carew.

The Earl of Oxford.

The Earl of Ormonde.

The Lord Talbot

The Lord Herbert.

The Lord Charles Brandon.

The Lord Hastings.

The Lord Windsors son and

heir.
Sir Richard Devereux.
Sir Henry Semour.
Sir Anthony Cook, of Essex.
Sir George Norton.

* Perhaps
Babthorp,

^ Thomas
perhaps,
that was
Knt. Mar*
shal.

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Sir Robert Lytton.
Sir John Port, of Darby shire.
Sir Christopher Barker, Gar-
ter.
Sir James Hales.

Sir Thomas BryckaaL
Sir Amgel Mariam.
Sir John Cutts, of Essex.
Sir William Scarington.
Sir William Snathe.

These knights, being fourty in nwnber, being nominated
of the Bath, and made with so great royalty, were com*
manded to pay the duties of mony double to the same pay-
able by other knights.

TTie Knights of the Carpet dubbed by the King on Skrm
Tuesday J in the morning ; viz. some of them the same da/i
and the rest at other times during the utas of the ahao6'
said noble solemnization, bmtg jifty-five in alt.

Sir John Radcliff.
Sir Thomas Gray.
Sir John Windham.
Sir John Yaughan.
Sir Anthony Heviningham.
Sir John Wentworth.
Sir John Godsalve.
Sir Thomas Guilford.
Sir John Savage.
Sir Walter Savage^
Sir Humphrey StaiFord.
Sir George Pierpoint
Sir Thomas Fitz-Herbert
Sir Thomas Hanmar.
3 1 Sir George Brocket.
Sir John Horsey.
Sir John Salisbury.
Sir WiUiam Hollers.
Sir William Rainsford.
Sir William Pickering.
Sir Hary Doyle.
Sir ■ Drury.

Sir George Harper.

Sir John Norton.
Sir Thomas Nevyl.
Sir William Stanley.
Sir John Butler^ at Gloce^

tershire.
Sir John Shelton, of Suff.
Sir Anthony Anger.
Sir John Mason.
Sir Richard Cotton.
Sir Thomas Newman.
Sir Philip Calthorp.
Sir Maurice Denis.
Sir Rowland Martin.
Sir Thomas Dyer.
Sir ' Bameston.

Sir Roger Guilford.
Sir Edward Rogers.
Sir Roger Blewit.
Sir John Horsey.
Sir Francis Inglesfield.
Sir John Spring.
Sir John Grevil.
Su- Thomas Bell.

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5ir Rice Grjrffith, Sir Urien Brereton.

Sir Tkomas Gravener. Sir John Butler.

Sir Thomas Hollers. Sir Thomas Kemp.

Sir Thomas Wroth* Sir Robert Langley,

Sir John Gary. Sir John k Ryce.

A BdUad sung to King Edward in Cheapside, as he passed
through London to his coronation.

SING, up heart, sing, up heart, and sing no more downe, Ubi supra.
But joy in King Edward that weareth the crowne.

Sir, song in time past hath been downe a downe,
And long it hath lasted in tower and towne.
To have it much meeter, downe hath been added ;
But up is more sweeter to make our hearts gladded.
Smg, up heart, &c«

Kng Edward up springeth from puerilitie.
And toward us bingeth joy and tranquillitie;
Our hearts may be light and merry chere,
fie shal be of such might, that al the world may him fear.
Smg, up heart, &c.

Bis father late ouk sovereign both day and also houre,
I^t in joy he might reign like a prince of high power,
By sea and land hath provided for him eke,
•That never king of England had ever the leke.
Sing, up heart, &c.

He hath gotten already Boleign, that goodly town, 32

And biddeth sing speedily up, up, and not downe.
IVhen he waxeth wight, and to manhood doth spring,
Ele shal be strait then of four realms the King.
Sing, up heart, &c.

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Yee children of England, for the honour of the nrae,
Take bow and shaft in band, learn shoolage to frunew
That you another day may so do your parts.
To serve your King as wel with hands as with hearts.
Sing, up heart, &c.

Yee children that be towards, sing up and not downe,
And never play the cowards to him that weareth the crowne:
But alway do your care. his pksure to fulfil.
Then shal you keep right sure the honour of England stH.
Sing, up heart, &c.

Queen Katharine Parr's letter in LaHn^ to the Lady Mary;
concerning her translaiion ofErasmiLs's Paraphrase upw
tJie Gospel of St John.

Vespasiaa, CUM multa sint, nobilissima ac amantissima Domina, que
K 3> cott. jjjg facile invitant hoc tempore ad scribeudum, nihil tamen
perinde me movet atque cura valetudinis tuae, quam, ut
spero, esse optimam, ita de eadem certiorem fieri, magno*
pere cupio. Quare mitto hunc nuntium quern judico fore
tibi gratissimum, turn propter artem illam musicse, qua te
simul ac me oppido oblectari non ignoro ; turn quod a me
profectus tibi certissime referre possit de onmi statu acvale-
tudine mea. Atque sane in animo fuit ante hunc diem iter
ad te fecisse, teque cormn salutasse; verum voluntati mee
non omnia responderunt. Nunc spero hac hyeme, idque
propediem, propius nos esse congressuras. Quo sane loiiii
nihil erit jucundum ma^s, aut magis volupe.

Cum autem, ut accepi, summajam manusimpositasatper
Maletum operi Erasmico in Johannem (quod ad trala-
tionem spectat) neque qiiicquam nunc restet, nisi ut justa
quaedam vigilantia ac cura adhibeatur in eodem corrigendo^
te obsecro, ut opus hoc pulchernmum atque utilissimum,
jam emendatum per Maletum aut aliquem tuorum, aA m
transmitti cures ; quo suo tempore prelo dari possit : atque

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porro significes, an sub tuo nomine in lucem fdidssime exke
i^elis, an potius incerto auctore. Cui operas mea sane qfH-
nione injuriam facere videberis, si tui nominis autpritate
stiam posteris connnendatum iri recusaveiis : in quo accura-
dssime transferendo tantos labores summo Reip. bono sub-
^pisti ; pluresque (ut satis notum est) susceptura, si vale-
tudo C(»rp(»i8 pennisisset. Cum ergo in hac re abs te labo-
riose admodum sudatum fuisse nemo non intelligat, cur 33
quam omnes tibi merito deferant laudem rgicias, non video,
Attamen ego banc rem omnem ita relinquo prudenUse tua?,
ut quamcunque yelis rationem inire, earn ego maxime ap-
px)bandam censuero.

Pro crumena quam ad me dono misisti ingentes tibi gra-
tias ago. Deum Opt. Max. precor, ut vera ac intaminata
&Iidtate perpetuo te beare dignetur. In quo etiam diutis-
taime valeas. Ex Hanworthia 20. Septembris.

Tui studiosissima ac amantissima

Eatherina Regina £P.

me.

(imn Katherine Par to King Henry ; gone in his expedi^

Hon against Fraaice.

ALTHOWGH the dyscourse of tyme and accompte of mss. penes
days nether ys long nor many of your Majesties absens, yet
tbe want of your presens, so much beloved and desired of
9ie, maketh me, that I cannot quyetly pleasur in any thyng,
imtil I hear £tx>m your Majestye. The tyme therfor semeth
to. me very long wythe a great desire to know how your
Byeghness hath done, syns your departyng hens. Whos
piosperite and helthe I prefer and desyre more than myne
own. And whereas I know your Majesties absens ys never
vythout gret respects of thyngs moost convenyent and
lecessary, yet love and affection compelleth me to des}a'e
our presens. And againe, the same zele and love forceth
le also to be best content wyth that whyche ys your wyl
nd pleasure. And thus love maketh me in al thynges to

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...

set apart myne own commodite and pleasure, and to em-
brase moost joyfully hys wyl and pleasure whom I love.
God, the knower of secrets, can juge these words not to be
only wry tten wyth ynke, but moost truly impressed in the
hart. Muche more I omytt, lest I schuld seme to go about
to prayse my self, or crave a thank. Whych thyng to do I
mynde nothyng lesse, but a playn symple relacyon of my
zele and love towards your Majestie, procedyng from the
abundance of the herte. Wheryn I must nedes confessej
deserve ho worthy commendatyon, havyug such just* oca-
fflon to do the same.

I make lyke accompte wythe your Majesties as I db
wythe God for hys benefyts and gyftes heped upon m
dayly : knowlegyng my self always a gret detter unto hjf^
in that I do omytt my dutye towarde hym, not being able to
recompence the leste of hys benefyts. Ill whyche state I
am certayne and sure to dy. But yet I hope in his gia^
ous acceptation of my good wyll. And even such cmify*
dence I have in your Majesties gentylnes. Knowyngmf
34 self never to have done my duty, as wer requy&dte and mete
to such a noble and worthy Prince ; at whose hands I hare
founde and recey ved so muche love and goodnes, that wyth
words I cannot express yt. Lest I should be to tedyoitt
unto your M ajestye, I fynysche thys my scrybeled letter,
commyttyng you into the governance of the Lord wyth loi^
life and prosperous felicite here, and after thys lyf to en/of
the kyngdom of hys elect. From Grenwycbe.

By your Majesties humble, obedyent,
lovyng wife and servant,

Keteryn the Queue £P.

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S9S

m, pretended to he writ against the preachers ; en^
tided, A Pore Help.

The bucklar and defence of mother holy Kjrrke,
And weapon to dryre hence al that against her wyike.

1.
le in al this land,
h and take in hand
llows to withstand,
er like the sand ;
h the gospel naellesy
do nothynge elles,
ing tales telles,
our holy prelacie,
r Chnrches dignitie,
t is but papistrie,
led and hypocrisie,
18 and heresie :
ith their ^thoritie
le holy l^v^angdie :
mes ca:emonial
} ecclesiastical^
inded on Scriptnrey
*x to endure.
1 ye may be sore
tie tiiey allure^
w them from yoor lore»
;h wil grieve yoo sore,
le I say therefore,
!e was never more.

2.
ye besoslacke
th me alad^e,
behind your backe»
^wilcarpe aodcncke.
sof yoQ that dare
( of them compare,
diere be that are

) priest nor deacon,
wil fire his becoa,
mdi fellows frailey
t with toCfae and Bsyie,
fee «p maiBefldle,

And manfully to fyght
In holy prelates right.
With pen and ynke and paper.
And like no trifling japer,
To touch these fellows daper ?

And I indede am he,
That wayteth for to le.
Who dare so hardy be.
To encounter here with me.
I stand here in defence
Of sum that be far hence.
And can both blysse and cense.
And also undertake
Right holy th3mgs to make.
Yea, God within a cake;
And whoso ihvA forsake.
His bread shal be dowe bake.
I openly profess
The holy blissed mess
Of strength to be no less.
Then it was at the first
But I would see who durst
Set that among the worst,
For be sboold be aocorst.
With boke, and bel, and candel
And so I wonld liim baodd.
That be sbooU right wel kiMnr
How to escape I trow.
So hardy on bis bead
Deprave oar hgAj thread :
Or the to ynUor^^atUr
Against oar boly water*
This is a playne matter.
It oedrfh not to flatter*

Biblioth.
R.D. Job.
£p. Elien.

Tbeybe
Ashadb

4.
holy tibiiigcfy
wrawMbkiflfi.

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And yet these lend lofeUet
That bragg upon their gospelles.
At ceremonies swelles.
And at our christned bdles.
And at your long gownes,
And at your shaken crownes.
And at your tippetts fyne.
The javells wil repyne.
They say, ye lead eiril liTes
With other mennys wyves.
And wil none of your owne.
And so your sede is sowne
In other mennys gronnde.
True wedlock to oonfonnde.
Thus do they rayle and rave,
Calling ev^ery priest knave.
That loveth messe to say,
And after idel al day.
They would not have you play,
To drive the time away :
But brabble on the Byble,
Which is but unpos^ble
To be lemed in al your lifSe :
36 Yet therein they be rife.
Which maketh al this strife.
And also the paraphrases.
Much differing from your porteises.
They would have dayly used.
And porteise clean refused.
But they shall be accused.
That have so far abused
Their tongues against such holiness
And holy Churches busines.

Many hundred yeres ago,
Great clearcks affirmeth so.
And other many mo.
That searched to and fro
In Scripture for to fynd,
What they might leave behind,
For to be kept in mind.
Among the people blinde.
As wavering as the winde ;
And wrote therof such bokes.
That whoso on them lokes,
Shal find them to be clarkes.
As proveth by their warkes.

And yet there be that baikci
And say they be but darke.
But hark, ye loulars, harke,
So wel we shal yon maike,
That, if the woiid shal tuni,
A sort of you dud bum.
Ye durst as wel, I saye.
Within this two yeres day,
As sone to run away.
As such parts to play.
When sum did rale andieyae,
And aundent things midntsyi,
Which now be oounted vayne,
And brought into disdayne.
Such men I say they were,
As loved not this geaiw.
And kept you stU in feare.
To burn or faggots beare.
Then durst ye not be bold
(Against our leminges old.
Or images of gold.
Which now be bought and sold;
And were the laymans boke
Whereon they ought to loke)
One word to speake amisse;
No, no, yee foles, I wysse,
A thing to playne it is.

6.
Then did these claries devyne,
Dayly themselves encline
To prove and to defyne,
That Christs body above.
Which suffered for our k>ve.
And dyed for our behove,
Is in the sacrament.
Flesh, bloude, and bone, present.
And bread and wine away.
As sone as they shal say
The words of consecration
In time of celebracion.
So must it be indede.
Though it be not in the Crede.
And yet these fellows new
Wil say^ it is not true,
Christs body for to view
With any bodyly eye,
That do they playne deny.
And stiffly stand thereby :

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v]«ia« ta write,

>d> great iiid tnul

Umn fatbenal,

ay it cal,

' man BboaU teacb,

-people prtMh

Dgi witboat tbeir roach.

e there be that uy,

i*t cannot al day

irithia a box,

let ht tbe Hocki,

BD Uke a fox,

iner undBr locks,

led with powdred anniii,

leth in an home,
Qof amowH,
Id or be be spent,
n 6re be brent,
lu more be ilayne,
ed up agayne.
icrament 1 for thy pauton,
■e our exclamadoa
beae nwn of new faaliion,
'e ^ayntt tbe holy nacion,
}f titem in playes,
< and lugfa waya,
■ good acta dlsprayie !
yn would tbem make
it were at a itake,
pipe merri nnnot,
of wilaot cannot.
r cannot and wilnot,
ley »peke not uf h,lt ^il not

7-
Jar 'dark of late,

ed'With them checkmate,
■rage to abate,
them »aeh a tale,

their bonnets ndl,
elfa clean Uw aale
r whole pastime,
done in riume.
:'S man b tbys,

codU, 1 wyM,
iod-tbat Is amyaa.

That If he might ml apede,
And beare some rule agayne.
It abould be to thrir payne.
I think Aey were but worthy,
Because they be ao itardy
To rayl agaynat tbe wiA«
W our mother holy Kyrke.
Yet some Hiere be Id Aime,
And piQirdly do preanme.
Unto thia Inved nan
To answer and they eao ,
And wene tliey had tbe grace
His balad to deUee.
. 8.
And troweyou thatwilbe?
Nay, nay, belere ye me,
1 take my mark amyas.

If Dace be did not myts

A Tcry narrow byaa.

Wei, if you come agen.

May happen twelve men

Shal do aa they ffid then.

Have you fot^t the bar.

That ever tber yoji ware,

And etode to make and mar

By God and by the contrey.

You had a narrow eutrey.

Take heile ol corirm noAu,

We vil reckon with txiit.

If yon come agen.

We wil know who pulled the hen.

For al your bold courage,

You may pay for the pottage.

And are you nowao bragg

You may come to tagg.

Your bap may be to wagg

Upon a wooden nagg.

Or els a fair fyre

May happ to be yoor byre. *■

Take bede lest yon tyre.

And ly downe in tlie myre.

Hold &<t by tbe main ;

By the maaae it ia no game.

If my lord wkx not lame, A

You wil al be tnme.

When jnm hatre htm next,

Marie wdUi ten.

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He hfttii bene cnndy vext,
I fere me he be west
A Popistant stoat
Sorely al the rout.
That heareth him shal doubt.
He wil be in and oat.
Prowling ronnd about.
To get forth the snout.
If prayer may do good.
All the whole brood,
Skurry, skabbed, and skald.
Shaven, shorn, and bald.
Pore priests of fiaal.
We pray for him al.
Unto the God of bread.
For if he be dead.
We may go to bedd.
Blindfold, and be ledd
Without ragg or shred.

9.
But I am sore adred
I se him loke so red.
Yet I durst ley my head,
As Doctor Fryer said,
He hath somewhat in store.
Wei, you shal know more,
Harken wel therfore,
Some shal pay the skore.
He hath bene a pardoner,
And also a gardener.
He hath bene a vitayler,
33 A lordly hospitelor,
A Doble teacher.
And 8080 a preacher,
llio Germyn his man
Were hanged, what than ?
Say worse and you can.
Best let him alone.
For Peter, James, and John,
And Apostles every one,
(I give you playne warning,)
Had never no such learnynge,
As hath this famous clarke.
He is lerned beyond the mark.

10.
And also Ma3rster Huggarde
Doth shew himself no sluggard.

Nor yet no dniiiken dmiduurd;

But sharpeth up fala wyt, ,

And frametfa it so fyt.

These yonkers fior to hyt.

And wil not them permit

In error styl to sit.

As it may wel appeare

By his darkly answere :

The which intktled is,

Agaynst what meaueth this.

A man of old sort.

And writeth not in ^port.

And answereth emestly.

Concluding heresy.

And yet as I trowe,^

Some bluster and blowe

And crake (as the crowe.)

But uetts wil we lay.

To catch them, if we may.

For if I begin

I wil bring them in.

And fetch in my cosyns

By tiie whole dosens.

And call them coram nobis.

And teach them Dmninus vobis.

With Et cum qnritu tuo.

That holy be both duo.

When they be said and songe

In holy Latine tongue.

And solemne bdls be roung.

But these babes be too yonge ;

Perking upon their pattins.

And fain would have the mattins^

And evening song also.

In English to be do.

With manage and baptidng.

Burials and other thing.

In volgar tongue to say and ang»

And so they do it newly.

In divers places truly ;

Saying, they do but duely ;

Maynteining it in any wyse.

So should they do theyr service.

11.
Alass ! who would not mone.
Or rather grount or grone.
To se such service gone.
Which saved many one

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887

My sin and thame,
ly a spot of blame,
irgatory payae,
ly shower of rayne.
; I say agayn,
aest men remayne,
e their customes stil,
*more wil.
e indede my read is,
you to your beadis,
ind women, I say,
ith so to pray,
h good priestes may
t so alway,
me other like,
'eth in the dyke.
i ye do not faynt,
' to some good saynt,
may make r^straynt

Of al these strannge fashions
And great abominacions.
Because I may not tary,
I pray to swete Sir Harry,
A man that wil not vary,
And one that is no skulker.
But kna. knyght of the sepulchre.
That he may stand fast.
And be not overcast.
Or els to be the last
Of al them that do yelde
In city, town, oroide.
For if he stick therein.
No doubt he shal not blin
Tyl he come to eternltie,
With al his whole fratemitie.
Amen therefore, say ye,
That his partakers be.
Ye get no more of me.

me.

K. 39

KaiharinPar to the University of Cambridge : which
addressed to her to intercede with the King for them,
I an act J whereby the Parliament had given him all
geSf chantries, and free chapels.

(JR letters I have receyred, presented on al your mss. penes
» by Mr. Doctour Smythe, your discrete and lemyd
te. And as they be Latynely wry tten, (whych ys so
ed unto me by those that be lemyd in the Latyne
,) so I know you could have utteryd your desyres and
ns famyliarly in our vulgar tonge, aptyst for my in-
ice. Albeyt you seme to have conceyved, rather
Uy then truly, a favorable estimation both of my
forward and ^edycation to lernyng. Whych t'^ad-
or at the lest ccmserve, you by your letters move me
ly : schewjnpige how agreable yt is to me, beyng in
worldly state, not onely for myne owne part to b^
us, but also a mayntener and cheryscher ^
state, by beryng me in hand, that I am.

IX. PAET II. Z

838 A REPOSITORY

perfeited with those qualj/tes and respects^'wUch ought id
be in a person of my vocation. Truely thys your cfiscrete
and polytike document I as thankfully accept, as you desyre
that I schuld imbrace yt. And for as muche as I do wel
understand al kynde of lemyng doth floryssche amongest
you in thys age, as yt dyd amongest the Grekes at Atheu
long ago, I requyre and desyre you al, not so to hoDger fir
the exquysite knowlege of prophane lernyng, that yt may W
thowght the Grekes university was but transposyd, or not
in England ageyne revyved, forgettyng our Chrystianity;
synce theyr excellencye only did atteyne to moral and na-
tural thyngs: but rather I gentylly exhort you to study
and apply those doctrynes, as means and apt d^rees to the
atteynyng and settjmg forth the better Chrystes revereod
and most sacred doctryne. That yt may not be layd
ageynste you in evydence at the tribunal seat of Gk)d, hof
ye ware asschamed of Christes doctryne. For thys Latyne
lesson I am taught to say of Saynt Poule, Non me pudd
evangelii. The syncere settyng forthe wherof I trurt
universally in al your vocations and mynysteries, you wdl
apply and confourme your sondry gyftes, arts, and studies^
to such end and sort, that Cambrige may be accompted
rather an universitie of divine phylosophy, then of natural
or moral, as Athens was.

Upon the confydence of whych your accomplyschment to
my expectation, zele, and request, I, accordyng to your de-
syres, attempted my Lord the Kings Majesty for the stayrf
your possessions. In whych, notwythstanding hys Jfo- ^
jesties propertie and intrest throwgh the consent of tte
high court of Parlement, hys Hyeghness, being such a pa-
40 tron to good lernyng, he woU rather advance and erect ne#
occasion therfor, than confound those your colleges : *> t
that lernyng may hereafter ascribe her very oryginal, bofe j,
conservation, and sure stay, to our soverejTie Lord, hy*
only defence, and worthy ornament : the prosperous estate
and pryncely government of whom long to preserve, I doulj^ j
not but every of you woll with dayly invocacyon cal upo*
Hym, who alone and only can dyspose al to every creatuie'

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iueen Katharme to the Lady Wriotheshf ; comforting her
Jor the loss of her only son.

GOOD my Lady Wresely; Understandjmg yt hathMSS.p
pkasyd God of late to dysinheryte your sonne of thys
mvld, of intent he echuld become partener and chosen heyre
of the everlastyng inheiytance ; (which callyng and happy
vocatyon ye may rgoyce ;) yet wlien I consyder you are a
mother by fiesacbe and nature, doubtyng how you can gere
^■ce quyetly to the same ; in as much as Chrystes mother,
mdued with al godly vertues, dyd utter a sorrowful natural
pnsyon of her sons dethe, whereby we have all obtayned
ereriastyngly to lyve : therfore amongest other dyscrete and
godly consolatyons gyven unto you, as wel by my lord your
busband, as other your wyae irendes, I have thowght with
Bjne own hand to recommend unto you my symple consel
ttd advyce: desyring you not so to utter your natural
•ftctyon by inordynate sorow, that God have cause to take
Jou as a murmurer agenyst hys appoyntments and ordy-
Hances. For what is excessyfe sorow but a pleyne evydens
^eynst you, that your 'inward raynd doth repyne ageynst
Gods doyngs, and a declaratyon, that you are not contented
*»Bt God hath put your son by nature, but hys by adop-
^vn, in possessyon of the heavenly kingdom P Such as have
•oubtyd of the everlastyng lif to come, doth sorow and be-
^y!e the departure hens : but those whych be persuadyd,
Kat to dy here ys lyf ageyne, do rather honger for death,
Kid count yt a felicite, than to bewayle yt as an utter de-
tnictyon.

How much, Madam, are you to be counted godly wyse,
hat wol and can prevent thorow your godly wysdome,
bowleg, and humble submyssyon, that thyng that tyme
Mold at length fynyssche. If you lament your sons death,
Od do him great wrong, and schew your self to sorow for
be happyest thynge ther ever came to hym, beyng in tl
■nds of hb beat Father. Yf you are aoty ftw your c
gmmeclite, you schew your self to lyve logout self.

death,

Qw for ' ^^m
the ^^H

840 A BEFOSITOBY

41 as of hys towardnes you could but only hope, bys years war
so yong ; whych could perfourm notbyng, y t semyth that he
was now a mete and pleasant sacryfice for Cbryst

Wherfor, good my Lady Wreseley, put away al immo-
derate and unjust hevynes, requyryng you with thanks-
gyving to frame your hart, that the Father in heven mi^
thynk you are moost glad and best contendyd to make byn
a present of hys spyrytual and your only natural son:
gloryfying h3rm more in that yt hath pleased hys Mqeitf
to accept and able hym to hys kyngdom, then that yt tjiA
pleased hym to comforth you wyth such a gyft; who eia
at hys pleasur recompence your loss with such a lyke judl,
yf gladly and quyetly ye submyt, and refer al to hys feasor.

A proclamation concerning the irreverent talkers cf the
sacrament. Dated the SUth day of December ^ anno r^
reg. Edward, primo.

Penes Rev. WHERAS the Kyngs Highnes hath of late, with the
Eiien. assent and consent oi the lords spu-itual and temporal, ana
the commons in the Parlament held the day of

in the first year of his most gracious reign, made a good and
godly act and cstatute against those who do condempn, de-
q^ise, or. with unsemely and ungodly words deprave and re-
vile the holy sacrament of the body and bloud of our L(»d,
commonly called the sacrament of the alta/r : and the said
estatute hath most prudently declared, by al the words and
terms which Scripture speaketh of it, what is undoubtedly
to be accepted, beleved, taken, and spoken by and of the
said sacrament : yet this notwithstandyng, his Majesty is
advertised, that some of his subjects, not contented with
such words and terms as Scripture doth declare therof, nor
with that doctrine which the Holy Ghost by the evangelists
and St. Paul hath taught us, do not cease to move conten-
tious and superfluous questions of the said holy sacrament
and supper of the Lord ; entryng rashly into the discuBBHig

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3f the high mystery therof, and go about in their sermons or
talks, arrogantly to define the maner, nature, fashion, ways,
possibility or impossibility of those matters ; which neither
make to edification, nor God hath by his holy word opened.

Which persons, not contented reverently and with obedi-
ent fiEiith f accept that the said sacrament according to the
Baying of St. Paul, the bread is the communion or partak-
ing of the body of the Lord: the wi/JWy likewise, the partake
mg qf the hUmd of Christy by the words instituted and
taught of Christ; and that the body and bloud of Jesu42
Christ is there ; which is our comfort, thanksgiving, love-
token of Christs love towards us, and of ours, as his mem-
bers, within our self; search and strive unreverently, whe-
ther the body and bloud aforesaid is there really or figura-
tively, locally or circumscriptly, and having quantity and
greatnes, or but substantially and by substance only, or els
but in a figure and maner of speaking ; whether his blessed
body be there, head, leggs, armes, toes, and nails, or any-other
ways, shape and maner, naked or clothed ; whether he is
broken or chewed, or he is always whole; whether the
bread there remaineth, as we se, or how it departeth ; whe^
ther the flesh be there alone, and the bloud, or part, or ech
m other, or in throne both, in th'other but only bloud ; and
what bloud ; that only which did flow out of the side, or
that which remained : with other such irreverent, superflu-
ous, and curious questions, which, how and what, and by
what means, and in what forme, may bring into theim,
which of human and corrupt curiosity hath desire to search
oat such mysteries as lyeth hid in the infinite and bottom-
less depth of the wisdom and glory of God; and to the
which our humain imbecillity cannot attain : and therfore
oftymes tumeth the same to their own and others destruc-
tkMSy by contention and arrogant rashnes ; which simple and
Christian affection reverently receiving, and obediently be-
]eviQg, without further search, taketh and useth to most
great cxHnfort and profit*

For reformation wherof, and to the intent that further
cmteiitiofiy tumult, and question might not rise amongoi

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Kings subjects, the Kings Highnes, by the advice of the
Lord Protector, and other his Majesties councel, straitly
willeth and commaundeth, that no maner person from hence-
forth do in any wise contenUously and openly aigue, dis-
pute, reason, preachy or teach ; affirming any more termes of
the said bl. sacrament than be expressely taught in the holy
Scripture, and mentioned in the foresaid act, nor deny none
which be therin contained and mentioned ; unitil such tyme
as the Kings Majesty, by the advice of his Highnes Council,
and the clergy of this realm, shal define, declare, and set
furthe an open doctrin therof ; and what termes and words
may justly be spoken therby, other then be expressly in the
Scripture conteined in the act before rehersed.

In the mean while the K. H. pleasure is, by the advice
aforesaid, that every his loving subjects shal devoutly and
reverendly affirm and take that holy bread to be Christs
body, and that cup to be the cup of his holy bloud, accord-
ing to the purport and effect of t'holy Scripture, contaned
in th^ act before expressed, and accommodate th^mself m^
ther to take the same sacrament worthily, than rashly to
entre into the discussyng of the high mystery therof.

Yet the K. H. mindeth not hereby to let or stop the igno-
rant, and willing to learn, reverently or privatly to demauod
of those whom he thynketh knoweth more, the further in-
struction and teaching in the said bl. sacrament ; so that the
same be not doen with contention, nor in open audi^ce,
with a company gathered together about them, nor with
tumult: nor doth prohibite any man hereby likewise so
43 quietly, devoutly, and reverently to teach or instruct the
weak and unlearned, according to the more talent and leam-
yng geven to hym of God. But only, that si contention,
strife, and tumult, and irreverentness might be avoyded, and
in open audience and preachjmg nothing taught but which
may have the holy Scripture for warrant.

Upon pain that whosoever shal openly, with oontoition
or tumult, and in a company gathered together, ^ther in
churches, alehouses, markets, or elswhere, contrary to die
fourm and effect of this proclamation, defend and maintein,

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or irreverently and contentiously demaund of any man, any
of the questions before rehersed, either on the one part or
of the other, or any such like, or do otherwise revile, con-
tempne, or despise the said sacrament, by calling it an wfoZ,
or other such vile name ; shal incurre the Kyngs high in-
dignation, and suffre imprisonment; or to be otherwise
grievously punished at his Majesties wil and pleasure.

Gevyng further in aucthority to al justices of peace
^thin the shires where they dwel, to apprehend and take
al such as contentiously and tumultuously, with companies
or routs assembled about them, do dispute, argue, or rea-
son, or stifly mantein, or openly preach and define the
questions before rehersed, or any of them, or such like,
either on the one part or th^other ; and to commit the same
to prison, untyl such tyme as the K. M. pleasure herein be
known ; and that they immediately do certify the name or
names of the party so offendyng, and of theim who were
there at the same tyme present, makyng the rout or as-
semble to the K. H. counsel : willying and commaundyng
the said justices, with al diligence to execute the premisses,
according to the purport, effect, and true meanjnig of the
same, and their most bound duties, as they tender his High-
nes wil and pleasure, and will answer to the contrary upon
their peril.

N. 44

A proclamation Jbr the abstaining Jrom flesh m the Lent
time. Dated the \&h day of January^ an. reg. primo.

THE Kings Highnes, by the advice of his most entirely E Bibiioth.
beloved uncle, Edward Duke of Somerset, governor of his£p/Eiien.
person, and protector of al his realms, dominions, and sub-
jects, and other of his Privy Council ; considering that his
Highnes hath not only cure and charge of the defence of
his realms and dominions as a king, but also as a Christian
king, and supreme hed of the Church of England and Ire-
land, a desire, wil, and charge to lead and instracl Mi
peo|de, to him committed of God^ in such

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344 A REPOSITORY

customs, as might be acceptable to God, and to the further
encrease of good living and vertue, and that his suligecU
now having a more perfect and clear light of the goqpd
and true word of the Lord, thorow the infinite dem^ncj
and mercy of Almighty Grod, by the hands of his Majesty
and his most noble father of famous memory, promulgate,
shewed, declared, and opened unto them, should and ought,
therby, in al good works and vertues increase, be more
forward and diligent and plentiful : as in fasting, prayeff
and almose deeds, in love, charity, obedience, and other
such good works commaunded to us of Grod in his holy
Scripture:

Yet his Highnes is advertised and informed, that cbvene
of his subjects be not only to al these more slow and ne^
gent, but rather contempners and despisers of such good
and godly acts and deeds ; to the which if they were of theb
own minds bended and inclined, they needed not by out-
ward and princely power be appointed and commaunded.
But forsomuch as at this time now alate, more then at any
other tyme, a great part of his subjects do break and coo-
tempne that abstinence which of long tjrme hath been used
in this his Majesties realm, upon the Fridays and Saturdays,
and the tyme commonly called Lent, and other accustomed
tymes ; his Highnes is constreined to se a convenient order
herein set and appointed : not mindyng therby that his sub-
jects should thynk any difference to be in the days or
meats, or that the one should be to God more holy, more
pure, or more clean then the other ; for al days and al
meats be of one and equal purity, cleannes, and holines,
that we should in theim and by them live to the gk>ry
of God, and at al tymes and for al meats geve thanks
unto hym, of the which none can defile us at any tyme,
or make us unclene ; being Christian men, to whom al
things be holy and pure, so that they be not used in dis-
obedience and vice ; but his Majesty hath allowed and ap-
proved the days and tymes before accustomed, to be conti-
nued and stil observed here in this Church of England;
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their pleasures, and the meats wherin they have more de-
list; to the mtent to subdue their bodies unto the soul 4 5
and spirit ; imto the which to exhort and move men is the
o£Sce of a good and godly hedd and ruler :

And also for worldly and civil policy, certain days in the
yere to spare flesh, and use fish, for the benefit of the com-
monwealth, and profit of this his Majesties realm : whereof
many be fishers, and men using that trade of living, unto
the which this realm, on every part environed with the seas,
and so plentiful of fresh waters, doth easily minister occa*
SMHi ; to the great sustinaunce of this his Highnes people.
So that hereby both the nourishment of the land might be
encreased by saving flesh, and specially at the spring tyme,
when liCnt doth commonly fal, and when the most com-
mon and plenteous breedyng of flesh is ; and also, divers of
his loving subjects have good lyvyngs, and get great riches
iherby, in utteryng and selling such meats as the sea and
fresh water doth minister unto us ; and this his Majesties
realm hath more plenty of ships, boats, crayes, and other
▼easds, by reason of those which by hope of lucre do fol-
low that trade c^ livyng.

Wherf<n^ his Majesty, having consideration, that where
men of their own mynds do not geve themselfes so oft as
they should do to fastyng, a common abstinence may and
should be by the prince enjoyned and commaunded, and
having an ey and mind to the profit and commodity of
his realm and subjects, and to a common and civil policy,
hath willed and commaunded, and by these presents doth
wil and oommaund, by th^advice aforesaid, al maner of
person and persons, of what estate, degree, or condition he
or th^ be, (other then such as already be, or hereafter shal
be excused by law, or licensed or authorized sufficiently to
the contrary,) to observe and keep from hencefurth such
fastyng days, and the time commonly called Lent, in ab-
stdning from al maner of flesh, as heretofore in this realm
hath been most commonly used and accustomed: upcm
pdli that whosoever shal, upon any day heretofore wont to
be fitffed tMA ftesh, and not by the K. H. or his predeoes^

344 A REPOSITORY

customs, as might be acceptable to God, and to the further
encrease of good living and vertue, and that his subjects
now having a more perfect and clear light of the gospd
and true word of the Lord, thorow the infinite dem^ncj
and mercy of Almighty Grod, by the hands of his Majesty
and his most noble father of famous memory, promulgate,
shewed, declared, and opened unto them, should and ought,
therby, in al good works and vertues increase, be more
forward and diligent and plentiful: as in fasting, prayer,
and almose deeds, in love, charity, obedience, and other
such good works commaunded to us of Grod in his holy
Scripture:

Yet his Highnes is advertised and informed, that divena
of his subjects be not only to al these more slow and nq^
gent, but rather contempners and despisers of such good
and godly acts and deeds ; to the which if they were of theit
own minds bended and inclined, they needed not by oat-
ward and princely power be appointed and commaunded
But forsomuch as at this time now alate, more then at any
other tyme, a great part of his subjects do break and coo*
tempne that abstinence which of long tjrme hath been used
in this his Majesties realm, upon the Fridays and Saturdays,
and the tyme commonly called Lent, and other accustomed
tymes ; his Highnes is constreined to se a convenient order
herein set and appointed : not mindyng therby that his sub-
jects should thynk any difference to be in the days or
meats, or that the one should be to God more holy, more
pure, or more clean then the other ; for al days and al
meats be of one and equal purity, cleannes, and holines,
that we should in theim and by them live to the glory
of God, and at al tymes and for al meats geve thanks
unto hym, of the which none can defile us at any tyme,
or make us unclene; being Christian men, to whcHn al
things be holy and pure, so that they be not used in dis-
obedience and vice ; but his Majesty hath allowed and ap-
proved the days and tymes before accustomed, to be amd-
nued and stil observed here in this Church of England;
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thdr pleasures, and the meats wherin they have more de-
fi^t; to the mtent to subdue their bodies unto the soul 4 5
and spirit ; imto the which to exhort and move men is the
oflSce of a good and godly hedd and ruler :

And also for worldly and civil policy, certain days in the
yere to spare flesh, and use fish, for the benefit of the com-
iBonwealth, and profit of this his Majesties realm : whereof
many be fishers, and men using that trade of living, imto
the which this realm, on every part environed with the seas,
and so plentiful of fresh waters, doth easily minister occa*
skm ; to the great sustinaunce of this his Highnes people.
So that hereby both the nourishment of the land might be
encreafled by saving flesh, and specially at the spring tyme,
when Jjent doth commonly fal, and when the most com-
mon and pl^iteous breedyng of flesh is ; and also, divers of
his loving subjects have good lyvyngs, and get great riches
therby, in utter3mg and selling such meats as the sea and
fresh water doth minister unto us ; and this his Majesties
realm hath more plenty of ships, boats, crayes, and other
▼efleds, by reasaa of those which by hope of lucre do fol-
low that trade c^ livyng.

Wherfore his Miyesty, having consideration, that where
men of their own mynds do not geve themselfes so oft as
they should do to feustyng, a common abstinence may and
should be by the prince enjoyned and commaunded, and
having an ey and mind to the profit and commodity of
his realm and subjects, and to a common and civil poUcy,
hath willed and commaunded, and by these presents doth
wil and commaund, by th^advice aforesaid, al maner of
person and persons, of what estate, degree, or condition he
or they be, (other then such as already be, or hereafter shal
be excused by law, or Hcensed or authorized sufficiently to
the ccmtrary,) to observe and keep from hencefurth such
fastyng days, and the time commonly called Lent, in ab-
stoning from al maner of flesh, as heretofore in this realm
hath been most commonly used and accustomed: upon
p^ that whosoever shal, upon any day heretofore wont to
be&sfed fyoiA ftesh, and not by the K. H. or his predeces-

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sors abrogate and taken away, eat flesh contrary to this
proclamation, shal incurr the Kmgs high indignation, and
(shal sufire imprisonment, and be otherwise grieyously {Hi-
nished at his Majesties wil and pleasure.

And further the Kings Highnes, by the advice aforesaid,
straitly chargeth and commaundeth al maiors, bailiffs, and
other hed-oi&cers, and rulers of cities and townes, and al
. justices of peace in the sheres where they be in commisaoD,
to be attendant and diligent to the execution of this f»ocla-
mation ; in committing to prison the offenders contrary to
the proclamation, upon sufficient proof therof by two suffi-
cient witnesses, before them had and made: there to. re-
main during the Kings pleasure, according to the true pur-
port, effect, and meanyng of the same ; as they tender the
K. M. wil and pleasure, and wil answer the contrary at thdr
peril.

And where the late King of most famous m^nory, far
ther to his Highnes, hath pren divers yeres licence to his
subjects, in the tyme of Lent to eat butter, chese, and other
meats, commonly called white metxts^ the K. H. by th^ad-
vice aforesaid, considering the same to have been doen not
40 without great considerations, doth geve likewise licence and
aucthority to al his loving subjects from hencefurth freely
for ever in the tyme of Lent, or other prohibited tymes by
law or custom, to eat butter, eggs, chese, and other white
meats, any law, statute, act, or custome to the contrary
notwithstandyng.

A proclamation a^gainst sitch as innovate any ceremony^ or
preach without licence. Dated the Gth ofFehr. an. r^.
primo.

Ubi supra. THE K. H. by the advice of his most entirely beloved
uncle, the Duke of Somerset, governor of his most royal
person, and protector of al his realms, dominions, and sub-
jects, and others of his Council ; consideryng nothing so
much to tend to the disquietyng of his realm, as diversity

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>f opinions, and variety of rites and ceremonies, concern-
ing reli^on and worshiping Almighty God ; and therfore
studjdng al the ways and means which can be, to direct this
Church, and the cure committed to his Highnes, in one and
most true doctrine, rite, and usage :

Yet it is advertised, that certain private curats, preachers,
and other laymen, contrary to their bounden duties of obe-
lience, do rashly attempt, of their own and singular wytt
ind mynd, in some parish churches, and otherwise, not only
to persuade the people from the old and accustomed rites
iDcL ceremonies, but also themself bringeth in new and
straiuige orders, every one in their church, according to
their phantasies; the which, as it is an evident token of
[nride and arrogancy, so it tendeth both to confusion and
diisorder, and also to the high displeasure of Almighty
Grod ; who loveth nothing so much as order and obedience.

Wherfore his M. straitly chargeth and commaundeth, *
that no maner person, of what estate, order, or degree so-
ever he be, of his private mynd, wil, or fantasy, do omyt,
leave down, chaunge, alter, or innovate any order, rite, or
ceremony, commonly used and frequented in the Church of
England, and not commaunded to be left down at any
tyme in the reign of our late soveraign Lord his Highnes
fftther ; other then such as his H. by the advice aforesaid,
by his Majesties visitors, injunctions, statuts, or proclama-
tions, hath already, or hereafter shal commaund to be omit-
ted, left, innovated, or chaunged: but that they be ob-
served after that sort as before they were accustomed, or
els now ath prescribed by the aucthority of his M. and by
the means aforesaid : upon pein, that whosoever shal offend
contrary to this proclamation, shall incurr his H. indigna-
tion, and suffre imprisonment, and other grevous punish-
ments at his M. wil and pleasure.

And to th'^intent, that rash and seditious preachers should 4/
not abuse his H. people, it is his M . pleasure, that whoso-
ever shal take upon hym to preach openly in any parish
church, chapp^, or any other open place, other than those
which be liceoiSed by the K. M. or his H. visitors, the

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Archbishop of Canterbury, or the Bp. of tli^ diocese
where he doth preach, (except it be the bishop, parson, lu
car, dean, or provost, in his or thdur own cure,) shal be
forthwith, upon such attempt and preaching contrary to
this proclamation, committed to pris(Hi, and there rexnm,
imtil such tyme as his M. by th^ advice aforesaid, hath taken
order for the further punishment of the same.

And that the premisses shuld be more spedily and ^
gently done and performed, his H. geveth straitly in con*
maundment to al justices of peace, maiors, sheriffs, ooiw
stables, hed-borows, churdi- wardens, and al other his M.
officers and ministers, and rulers of towns, parishes, and
hamlets^ that they be diligent and attendant to the tinie
and faithful execution of this proclamation, and every part
therof, according to the intent, purport, and effect c^ the
same ; and that they of their procedyngs herein (c^ if any
offender be, after they have committed the same to prison)
do certify his H. the Lord Protector, or his M. Council,
with al spede therof accordingly, as they tender his M.
pleasure, the wealth of the realm, and wil answer the cgd<
trary at their uttermost perills.

The King's commission Jbr redress of enclosures.

EDWARD the Sixth, &c. tp our trusty and wel beloved
Sir Frauhcis Russel, kt. Foulk Grevyl, kt. John Hales,
John Marsbe, William Pynnocke, and Roger Amys, gret*
yng. Where, as wel in the fourth year of the ragn of the
most noble Prince and our graundfather, E. Henry VII. and
in the seventh, the twenty-fifth, and twenty-seventh years of
the most excellent Prynce of famous memory, and our most
dearly beloved father K. Henry VIII. many good, wbol-
some, and profitable laws were, by the universal consent of
al the whole realm, made for restitution, preservaticm, and
maintenance of the state and policy of the same: and
naijaely, for the maintenance and keeping up c^ houses of

OF ORIGINALS. S40

hlid)andiy ; {or adybiding destructions, and polling' down
of towns for inclosures, and converting of arable ground
into pastures; {or limiting what number of sheep men
.dbcmld have and keep in their possession at one time;
against plurality and keeping together of faitns; and for
maintenance of hospitality, housekeeping, and tillage, on
the scy tes, and precincts, and demeasnes of such monasteries,
pricNies, and reli^ous houses, as were dissolved by act of
Parlament made in the said xxviith year of the reign of 48
our said miDst dearly beloved father, as in the same statutes
it doth and may more at large appear : which statutes have
not wrought thWect that was hoped should follow : partly
for that the same, for fear of displesure, and chiefly through
the corruption and infection of private lucre grown univer-
sally among our subjects, were not put in execution : by
reason wherof the force and puissance of this our realm,
which was wont to be greatly feared of al foreign powers,
is very much decayed, our people wonderfully abated, and
those that remain grievously oppressed; the price of al
things excedingly encreased, and the common sort of our
subjects brought to and kept in extreme misery and po-
verty : to the great hindrance of the glory of God, our dis-
honour, and the subversion, utter undoing, and decay of
this our realm, if speedy remedy be not provided :

We, coveting above al things the glory of God, by whose
goodnes we be brought and maintained in this royal estate
and dignity, and the wealth and saveguard of our realms
and subjects committed to our charge ; having concaved a
good opnion, that you be men that love and fear God, and
desire the maintenance of our honor and savety, and ten.
der the universal wealth of this our realm and subjects ; by
th^ advice and consent of our most dearly beloved uncle Ed-
ward Duke of Somerset, governor of our royal person, and
pn^;ector of al our realms, dominions, and subjects, and the
rest of our oounsellours ; have appointed and assigned you
aix, five, four, three, or two of you, our commissioners : to
enquire by the oaths of twelve good and leful men of our
eounties of Oxford, Bark, Warwick, Leycestre, Bedford,

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Buck, and Northampton, and every of them, as wel within
the liberties as without, and by al other ways and mem
that you can devise, wherby the truth may the better ap-
pear, of ai and singular transgressors, breakers, and offeDd-
ers of the said statutes, or any of them, or any part or par-
cel of them, and of al and angular articles and drcum-
stances conteined in the instructions hereunto annexed.

And therfore we straitly charge you and every of you,
as ye wil answer to us, God, and the commonwealth of this
our realm, that you diligently attend and apply the pre-
misses, and execute the same earnestly and with effect

We also streitly charge and command our sheriffs and
justices of our peace of our said shires, excheators, and al
and singular other our officers, ministers, and subjects,
that from time to time, and at al times, they be attendaunt,
aiding and assisting you in th*^ execution of the premisses.
And that the said sheriffs from time to time do cause to
come and appear before you six, five, four, three, or two
of you, at such times and places as you shal appoint, as
many and such good and leeful men of their bailifwick, by
whom the truth may be the better known and come to
light, in and concerning the premises, as you shal think re-
quisite and necessary. And we wol and command also, al
and singular keepers of our records in al and every our
courts, and the clarks and ministers of the same courts, and
every of them, that upon your our said commissioners, or
4g two of your letters to them directed, they from time to time
do make out in writing, and deliver unto you with al expe-
dition, the copies of al and singular such our records, as ye
or two of you shal think meet and requisite for the better
execution of this our commission.

And further, we give unto you six, five, four, three, or
two of you, ful power and authority to commit to ward al
and singular persons, whom ye shal find rebellious, dis-
obedient, stubborn, obstinate, hindring, or letting by any
means, the execution of this our commission ; there to re-
mmn without bail or mainprize til our plesiu^ be further
known. And what ye shal do in the premisses, we wol that

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ify us in our Court of Chancery indelayedly, toge-
th this our commission : in witnes wherof we have
these our letters to be made patents. Witnes our
lYestminster, the first day of June in the second year
reign.

arge of Mr, John Hales^ one of the commissioners^
eir assembly Jbr the execution of the commission Jbr
^ss of enclosures.

!EWISE as when a man is very sore sick, and in MSS. penes
r of his life, if he send for a physician who studieth *^
:eth great pains for his health, and prepareth whol«
ad healtliful medicins ; yet if he do not receive them,
m do him no good; even so, good brethren, when
x>nveniences, mischieves, and hurts happen in the
Qwealth, if the Kings Majesty, his Council, and the
ent with their great study, toyl, and labour, prepare
^ke never so good laws to resist and put them away ;
hey be not received, obeyed, nor put in execution,
) not profit. Experience declareth the same to be
ue. There have been many good laws made for the
launce o( houses, and husbandry, and tillage, as in
i year of the reign of K. Henry VII. and the 7th
the reign of the Kings Majesties father, and in the
'ar of his reign : that no man should keep upon his
ds or farms, or upon his farms only, above the number
thousand sheep. And in the same year, that no man
have and occupy any more than two houses of hus-
in one town, parish, or hamlet And in the S7th
his Graces reign, that those that should have the
f any of the monasteries that were suppressed by
Parlament, being under the yearly value of three
d marks, should keep honest and continual house
jsehold upon the same, and occupy as much of the
Qes in tillage, as was occupied by any means with

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tillage within twenty years before the same act Yet Iw-
cause the same laws were not reverently obeyed, and obedi*
50 cntly observed, we se they do little or no good. Towds^ til-
lages, and parishes do diuly decay in great numbers ; housei
of husbandry and poor mens habitations be utterly de-
stroyed every where, and in no smal number ; husbandly
and tillage, which is the very paunch of the oonmicmwealtfa,
that is, that that nourisheth the whole body of the realm,
greatly abated ; and finally, the Kings subjects wonderfuDj
diminished ; as those can wel declare that confer the new
books of the musters with the old, or with the chronideg.

And al this groweth through the great dropsy and the
insatiable desire of riches of some men, that be so modi
given to their own private profit, that they pas nothing on
the commonwealth: they love themselves so much, tint
they forget their neighbours and Christen brethren: thej
remember not that we be members of one body, and that if
every member should pul and snatch from the other »
much as he could, al the whole body must needs perid.
Surely, good people, if the medicins that be prepared al-
ready, to resist, remove, and heal this most hurtful diseatt
of the commonwealth, privat profit^ I cal it, that is to say,
the laws, be not justly and truly put in execution ; it is to
be feared, yea, it is most certain, that within short time we
shal have no commonwealth, but rather, for lack of people
to defend us against our enemies, we shal be a prey for then.
Is it not a pitiful hearing, good people, that man, which was
ordeined of God to be a comfort for man, and as it were a
god^ (as the proverb is,) that is to say, ordained to do good,
is now clean changed, and is become a wolf, a devourer and
consumer of men ; one that cannot be contented that bis
neighbours should live with him and by him ?

Verily, good people, if men would consider by natural
reason what hurt followeth therby, not only to others, but
what at length shal chance to themselves, it is to be thought
that they would not so much give themselves to self love
and their own profit. What shal it profit the rich man to
have his chests ful of gold and silver, if he lack meat and

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P This the poor husbandman doth proYide. What
am his riches avail, if his enemies go about to assault at
iirrade him ? He must have oth^ to help, or eb he cannot
inist : which in this reahn hath always, til of late, been the
mnmons of the realm. And by reason they be now greatly
deoyed and diminished, a great occaaon wherof hath been
the destruction of their houses and habitations, and the
gveat dearth and prices of victual without any just cause^
ll^ith the Kings Majesty that dead is, and the Kings Majesty
ijhftt now is, was and is forced to send for and hire strangers,
Akmuns, Italians, and Spanyards. This thing also caused
die Kiiog that dead is to make so many castles and bulwarks
by the sea side as he did: And his charges by these means
nd occasions waxing daily greater and greater, he was of
peoeanty driven to ask and take so great subodies and taxes
^ Ins subjects as he did : whidi I dcmbt not but ye do
Hid wil omader. And whensoever the Kings Migesty
ibal have need of your aid and help, other with your per-
ipns or with your goods, ye wil gladly, like most fsuthful
and loving subjects, declare the same. But what availeth 5 1
die rich man to have his felicity and heaven in this world,
and to have infebci^ and hel in the world to come P
; The parable that is redted in the gospel of the rich man
i|iid the poor lazar, if we did wel omader of it, would make
al mea tronUe, that be so g^en to the inoirdinate deare of
ladies. But it is to be feared, that a great many think not
diat there is any other world. If they did, they would do
<^therwise than they da Or dse they think, as we were
made to believe in time past, that if we live never so leudly,
do never so much evil, they shal with masses and other
mens prayers after th^ death purdiase heaven : which per-
Buasicm and doctrin, as it was most ungodly, and contrary to
Grods wcMd, so it was most hurtful, and the destruction of
every commonwealth. It is even the right way to let in al
vices, and to put out al vertue : for vices be more agreable
with our ocHTupt nature than vertue. And surely, if m&t
mark wd the course c( the wcnid, they shal eaaly perceive,
diat this great greedines is jdagued here in this wcM of

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God. We se a great many given to this filthy desire d
gathering together gooda^ and yet God wil not suffer them
to enjoy the fruits th^of, and to use it to thar oommodi^.
Some be sick, and wil scaarce spend one peny to recover theb.
healths. Some scarce once a week wil refiredi thdr bodi»
with a good morsel of meat, if they shal pay for it tbcmr
selves. And others spare, to thintent they would kave
great possessions to their children^ and make their familjF:
noble. But we se, how man purposeih and God dispotsAf
as the old saying is. Many times such men have cfaildiien,
that, before thdr fathers be scarce laid in the grave^ ooik
sume and wast away on harlots, unthrifty games, and lewd-
company, that the father got before in long time and iritb
great penury. Evil gotten, worse qpent. It is no strangi
thing. Such evil heirs be no black swans or white cxomtf
but almost as common as white swans or black crows. Hn'
just plague of those that pas not how their dnldren te
brought up, so they may leave them goods and lands enough.
For Grods sake, good people, let us take heed ; let us iMt
|Mx>voke the ire and plague of God on us ; but having re-
ceived the knowledg of his word, let us live according.
Let our good living and works appear to the world. Lei
our love and charity be abundant to our poor neighbours;
that other men may speak wel of us, and say no longer,
that we be talkers of Gods word, and no^ followers. If ve
do not, no doubt but he wil take that his most holy w&tA
from us, and give it to a people that shal bring forth the true
fruit of it. And then wil he plague us with sword, famine^'
and pestilence, as he hath promised those that do not esteem,
but contemne his word. Let us be^n, good people, to
strive who may do most good ; and let us no longer study
how to do our neighbours and our country harm. Let us
have this godly opinion with us, that nothing can be profit-
able that is not godly and honest ; nor nothing godly and
honest, wherby our neighbours and Christen brethren, or
the commonwealth of our country is hurted or harmed.
Let us endeavour and give our selves to the obedience and
observation of good laws, and nd longer to the imaginatioa

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and practice, how to subvert and break good laws. Let it 53
appear, that we desire and follow that that is good, for the
love that we bfear to good, and not for fear of the laws or
punishment.

Howbeit, as we hear, there be a great many that now fal
in disputation, whether these statuts be necessary or profit-
able for the commonwealth, and so to make controversy:
Imt it becometh no honest subject so to do; when laws be
tnade, we may not disobey them. If we should, and per-
nit to ev^ mans judgment what is good, what is evil, we
shoulcf never be in certeinty. But because there be some,
:hat neither have the fear of God before their eyes, nor yet
jf the lawis, they be so drowned in covetousnes, and this
ih8a[t3able de^re of the vile muck of this transitory world;
not plisang How they come by it, so they may have it : the
EQngs Majesty being the life, heart, and head of this realm,
and of us his subjects, the Lord Protectors Grace, and the
Lords of the Council, coniddering that his Majesty is the
minister of God here in earth, and hath the sword^ that is,
authority ^en him of Gk)d to punish those that wil not do
willingly that that is good and godly, minding the preserva-
tion and w^Ith of this his realm, and that his poor subjects
sihould not be oppressed by the rich, and intending to set
such an order and stay in the commonwealth, as the poor
with the rich, and one of us with another, may live together
every man in his degree and vocation ; hath sent us here
among you, and layd upon us a very great burthen, to se
lus cotnmisinon diligently and earnestly executed, even as
we wiY answer to God, his Highnes, and the commonwealth
of his realm.

And by thauctority therof we have sent for to appear
before us^ and have sworn you, not by al saints^ but as ye
trust to be saved by the merits of Christs passion, to make
dligent enquiry and true presentment of such things as we
shai charge you with. Wherunto we require you al, spe-
cially you that be sworn, to give diligent and attentive ear,
diat ye may the better do your office and duty.

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[Then was read the commission and proclamatimi. And
then Mr. Hales proceeded, as follows :]

Good people, by this commis^on and proclamation ye
may perceive the zele and love that the Kings Majesde,
the L. Protectors Grace, and the rest of his most honorable
Council have to the commonwealth of this his realm and
us his subjects. By the same also ye may perceive gene-
.rally the cause of our coming, and your assemble here.
And albeit it extendeth to five principal points, that is, for
the decay of towns, villages, houses of husbandry, convert-
ing arable ground into pasture, the multitude of sheep, the
heaping together of farmes, the not keeping hosjntality and
household on the scites of the monasteries and religious
houses that were dissolved by statute made in the xxviith
year of the reign of the Kings Majesty that dead is, and
occupying of tillage on the demeans of the same monas-
teries: yet doth al together shoot but at one mark, and
prick but at one prick ; that is, to remove the self love that
53 is in many men, to take away the inordinate desire of ridies
wherewith many be cumbred, to expel and quench the insa-
tiable thirst of ungodly greedines, wherewith they be dis-
eased, and to plant brotherly love among us, to encrease
love and godly charity among us, to make us know and re-
member that we al, poor and rich, noble and ignoble, gen-
tlemen and husbandmen, and al other, of whatsoever state
they be, be but members of one body mystical of our Sa-
viour Christ, and of the body of the realm.

For as by natural experience we find it to be true, that tf
any one part of a mans body be grieved, or the bloud by
any maner of means be let, that it cannot come to it, it is a
great pain to al the whole body ; nor is it lusty and able to
do his office : so ought we to consider and remember in the
state of the body of the realm ; if the poorest sort of the
people, which be members of the same body as wel as the
rich, be not provided and cherished in their degree, it can-
not be but a great trouble of the body, and a decay of the
strength of the realm. Surely, good people^ methinketh

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that if men would know how much this ungodly desire of
worldly things, and the unleful getting and heaping toge-
ther of riches, were hated of God, how hurtful and dan-
gerous for the commonwealth of the realm it is, and what a
vertue the mean in al things is; these laws, nor a great
many more that be, needed not. Gods word is ful of threats
and curses against these kind of greedines. " Woe be unto
** you,'' saith he, " that cannot be contented that other men
** should live with you and by you ; but put men fipom their
** livings, join house to house, and couple field to field ;
*^ what do you mean ? Think ye to live alone in the midst
** of the earth ? No, no, the people be mine. I have a care
** and respect to them, I wil not suffer them to be devoured
** at your hands. It is not your policy, it is not your craft,
** it is not your riches, that is able to defend you against me.
*' I have the cure of the poor people ; I am their defender ;
*^ I am their ayder; and I wil not suffer them to perish.
'* If ye be not good to the poor, I wil not be good to you.
•* If ye labour never so much, and have not my help, your
^ labour is but in vwn. When ye look for plenty, I wil
•* send scarcity. For it is not your labour, but it is my
<^ blessing, which faJleth on them that do my commandments
** and wil, that maketh plenty of al things.*"

One of the causes why God plagued and burned the great
dity of Sodom was, the greedines of the rich men, and the
little mercy, pity, and compassion they had to their poor
neighbours : they thought al too little for themselves. Ther-
fbre, good people, let us consider and remember it. Let us
not willingly go about to provoke the ire and plague of God
on us. Let us remember, that our time in this world is but
short. Let us use this short time to Gods honor and glory.
It hath pleased him to send among i;s the light of his gos-
pel, which doth teach us how we should love, honor, and
trust in him ; how we should and ought to love our neigh-
bours as our selves. Let us not go about to gather things
together with the hurt of any other: for it is prohibited
both by Gods laws, the law of nature, and mans law. Let
it not appear that we have received the grace of Grod, «Bc|

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54 the knowledg of his word in vain; but let our doings beio
charitable, that al the world may se and perceive that as
Gods word doth teach us to be al one, so we be al one:
wherby we may provoke those that now hate Grods word,
to love and embrace the same, and to glorify God with us.

Thus have ye heard, good people, how much Grod ab*
horreth this greediness, and how he hath in time past, and
hereafter intendeth to punish the same. Now wil I tel you
partly how hurtful it is to the commonwealth. likewise, as
it hath pleased God to make the body of divers parts and
members, and every part and member hath bis distinct and
proper office, as to the ey to se, the nose to smel, the ear to
hear, the tongue to spe^^c, the hand to feel, ai^ the feet to
go ; so hath it pleased God also to ordeine in the common?
wealth divers degrees of people; some to be govemoursi
rulers, and defenders of it, a$ |iie Kings Majesty, his Counr
cil, and nobility and gentlemen, and others, to be his victuaL
lers and purveyors of things necessary for the use and siUr
tinence of man, as craftsmen and husbandmen. And as if
my hand, or any pth^r mepiber of tbei body, cquld by his
craft or policy, a^ they cal it, find the meaps tp get the
bloud of al the rest of the members to it, it should be an
occasion that al the whole body, should shortly perish ; so
likewise, when men in a commonwealth go about to gatho:
as much as they can, and to get it they care not how, not
considering whether by their gain any hurt should come to
their neighbours or to the cominonwealth ; not only others,
but they themselves should shortly perish. What availetha
man to have his house ful of gold, and be not able to keep it
with his force against his enemies ? So what shal al our goods
avail us. if we be not able to defend us from our enemies?

The force and puissance of the realm consisteth not only
in riches, but chiefly in the multitude of people. But it
appeareth, good people, that the people of this refthn, our
native country, is greatly decayed through the greedines rf
a few men in comparison, and by this ungodly meaps of
gathering together goods, by pulling down of town^ and
houses, which we ought al to lament; wheji^e the|:€ w^ ip

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ftw yeuts ten or twelve thousand people, thei^Jbe^tioir fieifinse
Jbur thousand; where there were a thousand, now scltt'ce
three hundred ; and in many places, where there w«"e very
maAy able to defend our country from landing of ^our ene-
mies, now almost none. Sheep and cattle that were or-
d^ed to be eaten of men, hath eaten up the men; not of
their own nature, but by the help of men. Is it not a pi-
tHVil case, that there should be so little charity among men.^
Is it not a sorrowful hearing, that one Englishman should
he tet to destroy his countryman ? The places where poor
men dwelt, dearly destroyed : lands emproved to so great
brents, or so excessive fines taken, that the pocH* husbandmen
icannot live. Al things at this present, saving com, (which
by reason that is in poor mens hands who cannot keep it, is
good cheap,) be so dear as never they were : victual and al
^her things that be necessary for mans Use. And yet, as
it is said, there was never more cattle, specially sheep, than
■there is at this present. But the cause of the dearth is, that 55
those have it that may chuse whether they wil sel it or no ;
lind wil liot sel it but at their own prizes. Al com would
be likewise, if rt Were in their hands, and might be wel
'4ept.

Therfbre the Kings Majesty, by th'advice of my Lord
PiDtectors Grace, and the rest of the Council, thinking
thAt if these laws might be put in execution many things
amiss in the commonwealth should be ref(»ined, hath sent
'his commissioners into these parties: wberupon we have
caused you to appear before us, and have sworn you, re-
qtdiing to give good ear to your charge.

Instructions given by the Kings Majesty to his cqmtnis-^

, siqnerSf appointed Jbt the execution of certam stq^tute^
made in the fourth year of the reign qf K, Henry VIL
amd the seventh, the twenty--^h^ cmd the t^nty^venth
yeaars qf the reign qf K. Henry VIII, to be inquired

. qf in the shires cmd pla>ces m the commission hereunto

, » anayexedy expressed.

Firit) Y€ dhal enquire what towns, villages, lind hamletB

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have been decayed and laid down by indosures into pas-
tures, within the shire contained in your instructions, ath
the fourth year of the rdgn of K. Henry VII.

Item, What lands were then in tillage at the time of the
said indosure, and what then in pasture.

IteiUj How many plows, by reason of the said indosure,
be laid down.

Item^ How many meases, cottages, and dwelling bouses
be fallen in decay, and the inhabitants of the same deputed
from their habitation there, by reason of the same indosure:
and how much land belonged unto the said tenants.

Item, By whom the said inclosures were made, and how
long agone; and if they were made within the same time;
and of what yearly rent and profit they be.

Item, Who hath now the state of inheritance, and tbe
profits of the same inclosure ; and of whom the lands be
holden.

Itenij How many new parks be now made sith the said
time.

Item, What arable land, at the time of the making tk
said parks, were imparked within the same.

Item, How many ploughs, houses, and inhabitations be
decayed by imparking of the said ground.

Itenif How many parks within the said shire be enlarged
^th the said time ; and how much of the same ground was
then arable and put in tillage.

Itenij How many ploughs, houses, and inhabitations be
decayed by reason of the said imparking.

Itenii If any person hath or doth keep above the numb^
of two thousand sheep, besides lambs of one years age;
and whether he hath kept the same upon his own lands, or
upon his farm lands, or upon both, or otherwise by covyn
or fraud ; and how long he hath kept them.
5g Iteniy How many sheep ye think have been necessary for
the only expences of such persons household for one year.

Itenif If any person hath letten any lands to farm, or by
copy of court-rol, reserving the sheep pasture of the same to
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commons, wherby they be not able to breed and keep their
aittel and maintain their husbandry, as they were in time
past.

Item^ If any person hath had or occupied above the
lumber of two houses or tenements of husbandry lying in
me town, village, hamlet, or tithing ; and how long he hath
xxnipied the same.

Item, Whether such person hath taken the same in farm,
Smt the term of life, years at wil, by indenture or copy of
»iirt-rol or otherwise, sith the feast of the Nativity of our
Lord Grod miUmo guingentesimo tricesvmo quinto; and
irhere such person dwelleth.

Item, If every person, body politic or corporate, that
dath, by gift, grant, lease, or demise, the scite or precinct
ind demeasnes of any monastery, priory, or religious house,
clissolved by vertue of the act of Parlament made in the
Vtih year of the reign of the King that dead is, do keep an
bonest omtinual house and houshold in the same scite or
precinct, and do occupy yearly as much of the same de-
measnes, in ploughing and tillage of husbandry, as was com-
monly used to be kept by the govemours, abbots, or priors
of the same houses, monasteries, or priories, or by their far-
mour or farmours occupying the same, within the time of
twenty .years next before the making of the same statute.

Itemy That you, our said commissioners, for your better
instructions, take with you the copies of al such offices as
irere found concerning the premisses in the ninth and tenth
jrears of the reign of our most noble father K. Henry VIII.

These be our instructions, and the articles of your charge
generally; howbeit we think it very good to open it more
spedally. For as there be many good men, that take great
pains to study to devise good laws for the commonwealth ;
lo be there a great many, that do with as great pains and
study, labour to defeat them ; and as the common saying
is, to find gapps and starting holes. But first, to declare unto
jrou what ij^ meant by this word inclosures. It is not taken
vhere a man doth enclose and hedge in his own prop^
pound, where no man bath commons. For sudi iiidiMMe

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IB very beneficial to the commonirealth ; it is a cause of
great encrease of wood : but it is meant therby, wheb ubj
man hath taken away and enclosed any other mens .oom-
mons, or hath pulled down houses of husbandry, and ood-
verted the lands from tillage to pasture. This is the mean-
ing of this word, and so we pray you to rranember it

To defeat these statuts, as we be informed, some hate
not pulled down thdr houses, but maintain them ; howbdt
no person dweUeth therin ; or if there be, it is but a abep-
heard or a milkmaid, and convert the lands from tillage to
pasture : and some about one hundred acres of ground, or
more or less, make a furrow, and sow that; and the rest ths^
57 till not, but pasture with their sheep. And some take the
lands from their houses, and occupy them in husbandry;
but let the houses out to beggars and old poor peopk
Some, to colour the multitude of their sheep, father dieji
on their children, kinsfolks, and servants. All which be
but only crafts and subtilties to defraud the laws ; sudi m
no good man will use, but rather abhor. For every goal
man wil direct his study to observe the laws, rather tliM
break them, and say with himself thus : I know Ae
makers of these laws meant good to the commonwealdi.
Men be but men, they cannot se al things ; they be 00
gods, they cannot make things perfect. Therefore I wil
rather do that they meant, altho^ without danger of the law
I might do otherwise, and I will withal my heart do good
to my country, albeit it be against my private profit, rate
than hurt it. And therfore if there be any such thi^ ae
these tricks, albeit they be not comprehended in the letter
of the law, I pray you let us know him, and present job
his name.

Thus have we declared unto you the causes of our cooi*
ing and your assemble here : which is only to enquire «!
such things as we have been charged with. If ye wil da
your office therein as becometh good men, that is to tafi
without partiality or favour, accuse and present those tbd
be to be accused and presented for ofiending of these abh
tuts ; and in these enornodties, we doubt not hut ye shal da

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God SB great and as acceptable 8acri6ce as may be. For
hereby shal his glory, and the firuit of his word, which is
charity and love to our neighbours, be published and set
foarth to the world ; ye shal do the King the greatest ser-*.
ncfB that can be devised. For hereby his people and sub-
jects (in the multitude of whom his honour and safty con-
IVSteth) shal be encreased ; and ye shal shew your selves
gpod members of the body and the commonwealth of the
iseaka, that covet and desire as much the wealth and com-
modity of your Christen brethren and neighbours, as ye
doyaurowi,.

Besides, it is not unlike but that these great fines for
Umds and emprovement of rents shal abate, and al things
yrtcf. better cheap ; xx and xxx eggs for a peny, and the rest
Bifier the rate as hath been in times past; and the poor
inaftgmen may live, and set their wares at reasonable prices;
mad noblemen and gentlemen that have not emprowed nor
cnhaunced their rents, nor were sheep-masters, nor grasiers,
tilt lived like noblemen and gentlemen, shal be the better
yUe to keep good hospitality among you, and keep servants
^ibout them, as they have done in time past. And that,
«th ye shal thus serve God, the King, and the oommon-
"wealth, ye wil put away al fear of any person, land lord,
pAster, or other. For God, the King, and the common-
wealth, if ye serve them truly and faithfully, as they be
fUe to defend you against the Devil, the world, and private
profit; so may you be sure they wil suffer no person to do
JQU injury. And considering the manifold benefits that
ip^j come by truly executing therof, we also require and
f^ertise you, that for no favour ye go about to excuse or
^ve unpresented those that ye may know to have offended :
jau shal do your sfelves much hurt by running into wilful
(piijury; and indeed nothing profit them whom ye intend 58
If gratify. For we our selves, if need shal require, wil take
tb^ pains to view every thing particularly.
. , .^jid therfbre for Gods sake, good people, do as becometh
^fimeat men, declare the truth, and nothdng but the truth.
And 091 th*other side, we require you cm Gods behilf> ogm>*

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mand you in the Kings name, and exhort you as yotn*
friends, that ye wil not abuse this the great goodnes of
God, the Kings Majesty, and his high Council heron of-
fered ; that is to say, that ye make not this godly thing an .
instrument of malice, to be revenged on any man to whom
ye bear displesure: for things grounded on malice, God
wil never suffer to prosper. Besides, we charge you and
command you al, that be present on the Kings behalf, and
that ye likewise charge al your neighbours that be absent,
that ye nor none of them go about to take upon you to be
executors of the statuts ; to cut up mens hedges, and to pot
down their enclosures, or by any ways to hurt them. For
this is not your oiSce to do. Ye shal highly offend God,
break the Kings laws, and be an occasion that that good thtt
might, and is like to foUow, shal not take place, nor come
to that good end that is desired. But let it appear to the
world that ye desire a charitable and quiet reformation by
the order only of the law, whereunto we ought and be
bound to be obedient. Be ye not breakers of the law, while
ye go about to have vices reformed by the law. Accuse and
present you justly those that be offenders of these statute
For this is only our duty to wil you and yours to do, and
let the law work his effect, power, and office afterward.

And by this means we trust in God, that as it hath
pleased him to put into the Kings and his Councils heads
to begin this matter, so wil he give them grace to finish and
accomplish the same ; and to do greater things to his glory,
the Kings honor and safty, and the universal benefit of us
al. And unles we wil shew our selves unkind, we cannot
but honor God, and ^ve him thanks, that it hath pleased
him to send us such a King, such a Protector, and sudi a
Council, that only be bent and enclined to do the peopk
good. Doubtles, good people, where the people love and
honour God, favour and embrace his word, and live accoA
ingly, to them doth God send good and gracious rukA
And on th'other side, where they favour not, nor love hii
word, to them he sendeth unpitiful and hard rulers, such ai
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not passing on their poor subjects. And therfore, good
people, let us love, favour, and embrace Gods word, which
thing only is the cause that this godly act is set forward : it
18 the general comfort of al Christian men, and specially of
the poor: it forbiddeth the rich to oppress the poor, and
willeth and commandeth him to be merciful to him : it de-
ejareth us to be members of one body, and biddeth us to
love together like brother and brother : it teacheth the ma^s-
trates their offices towards their inferiors, and commandeth
al people to be obedient to their superiors : it sheweth how
Crod rewardeth weldoers both here and with everlasting
felicity, and punisheth malefactors both in this world and with
eternal damnation. And therfore, good people, let us npt
only love and embrace Gods word, but also al such as be the
furtherers, preachers, and teachers hereof. Thus I make an
eBd, and Gtxl save the King.

R. 59

A discourse made hy WiUiam TTiomas^ esq. for the King's
tLse ; whether it he expedient to vary with time.

WHAT time is, Solomon, in the third of Ecclesiastes, Cott. Libr.
doth sufficiently describe, including al things under the sun y^^ '
within time* And as Petrarch saith in the Triumph of

time,

Passan voire grandezze, e vostre pompe^

Passan le signorie^ passano i regni :
Ogni cosa mortal tempo interrompe.

Wherfore seing time is both the father and.devourer of al
things, and consequently that nothing is to man more pre-
cious than time ; it foUoweth, that he who in time can take
his time, is most happy in this world. But because we se the
Htnrld to depend in maner altogether upon contraries, as rest
lad moving, lack and having, light and darknes, white and
^lack, silence and noise, sweet and sowre, hot and cold,
4ght and heavy, soft and hard, moist and dry, with infinite
:)tber8, in such wise as every thing hath his contrary ; ther-

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fore it seemeth a great difficulty unto man, (as indeed it is,)
how among so many discords he may gather any profit of
his time.

For when al is reckoned, no man findeth thing in this
world more joyful, nor more acceptable unto him, tbm
prosperity ; which he esteemeth so much, that he lefineth^
no labour, nor in maner any peril to attain it: and yet
hath this prosperity proved such a Iyer, flatterer, and de-
ceiver of men, that when they have most rejoyced and'
trusted in it, even the prosperity it self hath been cause of
their extreme sorrow and adverrity ; as by infinite examphs
it is manifest. How suddenly was the glory of Bahhanr,
in the fifth of Daniel, plagued of God.

For indeed this prosperity (or humane felicity, as ye firt
to cal it) is not esteemed prosperity til it be at the highest;
and then it semeth of ordinary, that when we reckon tcf k
most happy, suddenly some contrary happeneth: isr> that
the esteemed prosperity encreaseth the adversity, and n
rather a beginning of mishap than any felicity indeed:
which th^ astronomers ascribe unto the planets, because A
things in earth, as they say, are governed by the motions of
the stars. And as when they be in a sextile or trine aspect
they are accounted prosperous, so in the quadrate or oppo-
site they are unfortunate. And their courses being such a»
in a moment they leap from one to the other, it is no mer-
vail (say they) tho mens fortune do semblably vary.

Philip, king of Macedon, when he had in one day gotten
the victory in the Olympiades playes, and in the batti3
both, prayed God to recompence that great hap with some
60 small evil : wherupon he was by chance shot into the eye
with an arrow, and so lost his eye; accounting himsdf
happy in the midst of his prosperity to encounter with t
smal misfortune. For as the stone that is thrown into ^
air falleth the more vehemently the higher he is thrown; »
most commonly it fareth by mans prosperity, the higher lie
seemeth to climb, the greater is his overthrow. And if in
prosperity (to the which al men covet to aspire) we find Brii
difficulty or peril, wherunto then shal man apply his time?

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Truly as the musician useth sometime a flat, and some-
time a sharp note, sometime a short, and sometime a long,
fo make his song perfect; so, saith Macchiavegli, ought
nan to frame his procedings unto his time. And albeit
that man cannot so directly concord them, as to make them
dways agree, like the musicians divers notes, because some
men are led of vehemence, and some of respect and fear, in
the «3ke or other wherof al men most commonly do err ; yet
^ is to be esteemed the wisest and happiest man, that in
prooeding maketh least discords with time. And as the
physician to the remedy of sickness ministreth unto his pa-
ti»t8 both mededns and (Sets, other than they should re-
ceive when they were whole; so man in his aflairs should pro-
oede 8CccH*ding to his time, altering as the occasion requireth ;
ted not to persevere obstinately in one opinion, how good or
how profioible soever it had proved in other time before.

Fabius Maximus (of whom I have spoken heretofore) was

for his time a wonderful captain, and the whole preservation

of the whole commonwealth, because his fortune was to

spring in a time conformable to his nature. For Annibal

l»ng newly arrived in Italy with a couragious army, and

living obtained the victory of sundry sore battails, was

Hot any more to be foughten withal, as wel for the respect

cf his own encreased strength, as for the weakness of his

often abated enemies: so that against him in that time

lik&re was none so meet a captain as Fabius ; who with pro-

km^g of time decreased Annibals treasure and power. But

ifAc»*ward8, when the Romans were at a better stay, and

hiible as wel to offend as to defend, then was Scipio sent into

Aide with an army, to bring those wars to an end ; which

fate time and fortune served him to do. And yet was Fabius

at that time of opinion, that Scipio should not go, cleaving

sbiFays to his own maner of proceding : so that if Fabius had

then been prince or governor, in such sort as his opinion

itent have had place, Annibal might for him have been yet

ift Italy. Wbecin they do commonly err, that have before

prospeJhed in thw opinion. The hap wherof maketh them

Hi to hop^ the like, that in maner it shal be imposAU^ tar

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suade them : which indeed is one of the greatest causes of
the common mishapp that followeth prosperity. For when
men wil observe one direct, or (as I may cal it) obsdnate
proceding, if the time come that shal require the contraiy,
it followeth their proceding much perish.

I mean not, that any man should vary in amity, tun
from vertue to vice, or to alter in any such thing as re-
quireth constancy ; but touching the other publick or {MI^
vate doings, I think nothing more necessary than to oofjf
with the time.
6 1 Alexander the Lacedemonian, being a notable yaliant
prince, used nevertheless in al his doings more pcdii^thaB
force : wherof his familiars would sometimes reprove hini)
saying, that he degenerated from Hercules, of whom he was
descended. But he smiling would answer, ** That whoe
*^ he could not play the lion, it was no shame to play the
^^ fox :^ which of some men is condemned as a vile and
vitious thing. For Quintus Curtius, upon the answ^ d
Alexander the Great unto Parmenio, maketh a great £s-
course; declaring how Parmenio counsilled Alexand^ to
oppress his enemy by policy. Wherunto Alexander an-
svtrered, that if he were Parmenio he would so do, but beiif
Alexander, it behoved him liberally to fight, and justly to
overcome.

Indeed, whensoever a prince may openly without peril at-
tain either the victory over his enemy, or his purpose with
them that be indifferent, his proceding ought to have no
craft. But when either his power serveth not, o^ that Us
contrary practiseth subtilly, (as most commonly princes do
at these days,) then, meseemeth, policy is no vice: for al
men are not Alexanders. No, nor Alexander was not lum-
self at length. Even as he was to be commended in the ver-
tuous overcoming of his enemy, (if vertue it may be called,)
when his power served him therunto; so was he to be dis-
praised in the unnatural misuring of his friends, when with
them and by their help he had passed so many perils. Wher-
fore at length his own prosperity bred his own destructioik

Philip de Comines writeUi, that at the treaty of the peace

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heAde Conflans, Lovys the Xlth French king, aiid the
Ctinte Charolois, son to the Duke of Burgoigne, met simply
in the fields : and walking together alone, in treating of the
nKltter, the King led the Earl into a bulwark of his before
Paris, or ever the Earl took heed : and nevertheless agreed
with him, and sent him back again unto his army, that then
was wonderfully disturbed for his absence and danger. The
cburlesy wherof, as I believe, encouraged the same French
Kijig aft^wards to put himself in the Duke of Burgoigne'^s
power at Peronne; where he found great cause to repent
hikn of his folly : for whilest he lay in the castle, the Duke
was in a thousand thoughts, whether he should retain him
still, or do worse. And if the King had denyed any of his
li^uests, it had indeed proved evil with him.

Thus it appeareth that no man ought with his own nature
Uf mesUre the nature of another man ; and especially of
|iiin6e8, who are not reckoned wise, when they lose either
tim6 or advantage. And therfore Philip de Comines al-
loweth them not to meet togithers, unles it be in youth,
when their heads are given to pleasures. But in cases of
treaty for peace, in time of war, or for interest in time of
pgai^, when the power of the one may be suspect to the
oth^j let never princes meet. No, the jealousy of estate is
so great, that when a prince may advoide any peril either by
foresight or by policy, let him never tempt God, for miracles
iKf rare.

Isabell Queen of Naples, being expulsed the realm by the
£rst Alphonse, then intitled king therof, made recourse
unto Eugeny, then bishop of Rome, for aid to recover her
ciBtate : who in her favour sent a patriarch, called Vitelesco, 62
With men of war against Alphonse. And albeit the pa^
triarch for a while prospered; yet at length near unto
Stolerno, the King gate him in such a straight, as neither he
0or his conld escape. Then fell he to treaty, and promised
tbe' King al his request: wherupon truce was taken, and he
IbC ga But immediately after, knowing the King upon
tMst of the truce to be void of suspicion, he turned so sud-
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mas, word came that the patriarch was at hand, which not-
withstanding, the King of superstition w(RiId needs hear out
his bias ; and so obstinately persevered, that the patriardi
came indeed, fought with the Kings guard at the diuich
door, slew divers of them, took al the Kings plate and
cariages, and so hot4y pursued the King himself, that with
much ado he escaped to Capua.

Whenn like as the patriarch shewed himself a true mem-
ber of the wicked church, so did the King err in two ways:
first, in suffering the enemy to escape, when he had him at
the advantage; and after, in tetnpting God with a trust that
needed not. As Cicero saith, Ne qfferamua nos periaJii
wie causa,

Wherfore among princes, of al things the time and advan-
tage is to be observed, in such sort as having the enemy at
an afterdeal, either constrain him by force to yield unto thy
profit, or deal with him so liberally, that he may both kniDW
what case he is in, and how much kindnes thou deservest of
him. Which latter almost is not to be used ; because princes
have less confines to their wills, and less amity to their neigh-
bours, than in tune past hath been accustomed.

Titus Veturius Calvinus, and Spurius Posthumus, being
consuls of Rome, happened witli both their armies to arme
in a vally called Caudina, where their enemies, the Samnites,
stopped the straights in such sort, as livy writeth, that
the Romans, lamenting their misfortune, said, Nejerrum
quidem ad bene moriendum oblaturus est hostis: sedent
beUum conficiebat In which case the Samnites, astonied
with their unhoped fortune, wist not what counsil to U8&
Wherfore Caius Herennius, their captain, sent home to his
father, Herennius Pontius, an aged wise man, to hear his
(pinion : who understanding the case, answered, they should
freely let the Romans go, without offending them in any
thing. Which advice, the Samnites liked not, and therefore
sent to him again : then he bad cut them al to pieces, and let
not one escape. These two answers, so contrary, made them
believe ho doted, by reason of his age. Wherfore they sent
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quoth he, if ye do the first, your Uberality «hal establish a
perfect peace and amity with a people more puissant than
your self. And if ye do the second, destroying these two
armies, ye abase their power, so that in many years they
shal not again be hable to annoy yoU. Other council, quoth
he, I know none. And being then demaunded, what he
thought of a mean between these two extremities, in letting
them go upon such covenants as are wont to be taken of men
overcome ; he answered. So shall ye neither purchase friends,
nor rid you of enemies : for ye preserve them that ye have 63
emended ; yea, and further provoke them with shame. And
it proved true indeed : for it had been better for the Sam-
nites at that time to have been discomfited of the Romans in
bettail, than to have let them go as they did, with so shame-
ful a peac^, as by the proces of the history it appeareth.

In effect, it fareth with princes in this case, as in expences
it fareth with the prodigal man : who of his treasure gather-
eth but thanks, and perchance scorn ; and when he hath al
spent, his most gain is miserable pity. Wherfore the wise
prince loseth neither his time nor advantage; as K. Ed-
ward III. when he had lien a year before Calais, and was
diallenged by the French King to fight, answered, " No ;
** I have lien here these twelve months to my great charges :
•* and if I should now put that in adventure that I am sure
** of, I should commit a great folly.*** Which answer pro-
ceded not of cowardise : for before that time he refused not
the "fight at Vironfosse, nor the battails of Cane, Blanche-
take, nor Cressy ; but he would loose neither the time he had
spent there, nor the advantage of winning the town, which
within few days after was yielded unto him. And albeit
diat he varied from his nature to refuse any fight, yet be-
cause the time required so, it was rather honorable than
lEitherwise.

Loose therfore neither advantage nor time, the winning ^

wfaerof is accounted the greatest matter among princes ; like
as the loss is by example proved to be of ho less moment.
And let him not think to prosper in this world, that wil fl^
xmry in his procedings accorchng to the time:

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is nothing more pleasant than the conocMxi <^ inusidli^
nothing more displeasant than the discord therof ; so whea
doings and time agree, there is nothing more happy, nor
when they disagree, nothing m<»re unhaj^y ; baTing in them
much more variation than tunes in music have.

A second discourse made by the same persoriy Jbr the King's
use; whether it he better Jbr a commonwealth^ that ik
power be in the nobility or in the commonaJty.

Cott. Libr. THE people of every monarchy, or realm, is divided i&
D. 18. two parts : th'^one nobility , and the other commonalty, h
whom be two repugnant desires : the one to rule, and the
other not to be ruled. And because the desire of them pre*
vaileth in whom the power consisteth ; therfore our ques-
tion is, to whom the power is most convenient for the ooov>
monwealth.

Upon which question dependeth this other ; wheth^ i«
more prejudicial to the commonwealth, the nobleman that
64 seeketh to maintain his estate, or the unnoble that seeketh
to attain nobility. Or whose desire is the greater, his that
hath already, and feareth to loose, or his that hath not, and
coveteth to gain.

In effect, it hath been proved, that the desire of both it
equal : for he that hath, thinketh he cannot safely ^oy U3
own, if he get no more ; and he that hath not, must of neoeft*
sity seek to have. And tho this desire be equal in its ad^
yet are the effects therof unequal : for he that hath, mty
gain with ease ; wheras he that hath not, cannot wel gtfl
without travail. In which travail consisteth the ground of
al civil policy.

For if the needy might attain their things without tftsmi
ing for them, or the wealthy find none ease in the riebes All
they have travailed for, then should the world become hiP;
barous for lack of travail.

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Wberfore like as it is necessary to constrain the needful
to travul, even so it is requi^te to nudntiun him that by tra-
vmI hath deserved rest, in power to rest : for of diligence
and travul nobility is grown. And as long as either the
Dobloman or the unnoble seeketh to maintain or att^n by
due means, so long is neither of them noisome to the com-
numwealth. But whenioever dther of them seeketh his
purpose by power, and so grow into parties ; then is the party
<rf the commons the more dangerous, for three especial causes,
that is to wit, their inconstancy, peri), and ignorance.

First, That the multitude is most inconstant, it is evident : .
fiir among many men are many opinions ; which breedeth
confiision. And the by persuasion or necesuty they may
agree, yet is it imposrabte their agreement should long con-
timie. As for example.

In the banning of the third book of the third decad of
l^tus Livius, I read, that after the battail of Traamene,
when Ajinibal came before Capua, the commons of that city
had their senators and magistrats in such contempt, that the
best of the town feared to be slain, and so the city to be
yielded unto Annibal. Of which matter livy b^nneth on
this wise : Inde CapaamfiectKt ita-f Itururiantem longaJkU-
dtate atque mdtiigentia fortunee ; maaAme tamen inter cor-
rvpta omnia UcenHa pl^U, sine modo libertatem exercerMa.
inBomach that Pacuvius Calavius, one of the nobility there,
to aave both the senate and the city, and to win the people,
deHsed this subtilty. First he persuaded the senators to
be Didered by him, and so locked them up bothers in the
senate house. Then he called the commons unto him,
quiking an orati(»i to this effect, that he knew the just hate
lliey bear against their ml»^, which moved him to procure
a mean, how they might without th^r own peiil be avenged
qB than. Wherfore by his own policy he had made them
sure in the senate, and would Imng them forth to be pl^-
■usfaedat the peoples judgment, scoording to thctriienicntV!
lAeruf the people wonderfully rqoiced. But then he per-
auaded them it was necessary to do two things at onoe^&^j" '
tp dispatch the (AA senate, aqd the other, to ckt
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nator cmt ever they executed the old. Whenipon he caused
the senators names to be put into a pot, and so taken out
by one and one at adventure.
65 The first senator, whose name happened to be drawn, was
brought forth, and with an open cry of the people*,coft-
demned. Now, quoth Facuvius, ye have judged him,
choose one in his place. Of which electicm Livy wiiteth
thus : Primo^ silentium erat inopia potioris stiJbficimdi
Demde, cum aliquiSy omissa verecundiay quempiam fiomi-
nasset, multo major extemph clamwr oriebaturj cum alii ne-
garent nossCj alii mmcprobra^ nunc humUitatem, sordidam-
que inopiamj etpudend(B artis aut qucMttis genua obpcerenL
Hoc multo magis in secundo ac tertio aenatore Jadum at.
So that at length, for want of better, they were contented to
keep their old, and to stand to Facuvius his discretion.
And to this effect infinite examples may be alledged, that
nothing is more inconstant than the multitude.

Then for the ^mZ, none is to be compared to the frenzy
of the people : for like as if a mad man get the sword in his
hand, he is like not only to mischief other, but also himself;
even so fareth it by the commons. If they once attain the
power, they destroy both the nobility and themselves. Ex-
ample of the Jaquerie that sprang in Beauvoisine and other
countries of France, the year 1358; of whom Froisard, in
the 182 chapter of his first volume, saith these words:
'^ These mischievous people, thus assembled without capitain
*' or armure, robbed, brent, and slew al gentlemen that
'^ they could lay hands on, and forced and ravished ladies

and damoisels, and did such shameful deeds that no hu-
^^ mane creature ought to think on any such. Which rage,
^* if they had prevailed in, they would at length have am-
^^ verted upon themselves, when the gentlemen had been
^* utterly destroyed.'' I might bring a number of examples,
as wel of our own nation as of others, to this effect, but none
more cruel than the Jaquerie.

Thirdly, for ignorance ; the multitude utterly know^
nothing. And tho some examples of good succes maybe
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it shall appeat they never preceded of wisdom, but of ne-
cessity. And then comparing th'inconveniences that hap-
pened before the necessity to the successes that have fol-
lowed, it shal be found that the wisdom, learned of necessity^
is dearly bought. Even the Swizzers, that destroyed their
gentlemen in a day, and that now glory most in their popu-
larity, both have had of late years, and must needs have
shortly, the like ill fortune that hath happened unto Athens,
Florence, and such other.

Wherfore I determine, it is impossible any estate should
long prosper, where the power is in the commonalty. For
like as it becometh neither the man to be governed of the
woman, nor the master of the servant, even so in al other
regiments it is not convenient the inferior should have power
to direct the superior; because that of power procedeth
commandment, and of commandment execution.

It may be said, it hath been often seen by experience,
that through the covetousnes of the ndbility the commons
have been oppressed ; so that for the disordinate appetites
of a few, the multitude hath suffered: which seemeth a
greater evil than that the few should suffer for the multi-
tude. Wherfore, if the power were in the commonalty, the
magistrates would always be the more careful to bridle the 6*6
excesses of the nobility, and to advance the public wealth :
which argument indeed were very good, in case they would
always maintain their civil laws, and the orders of their ma-
^strats inviolate. But what popular estate can be read that
hath thirty years together eschewed sects, sedition, and
commotions, in such sort as once within thirty years the
whole estate hath not been in danger of subversion ? And
then must I ask, whether is more pestilent to the common-
wealtli, the tyranny of a few, or the subversion of the
estate?

I must confess there be two notable evils that in manner
grow of ordinary in the nobility : with the one wherof the •
commons are offended, and with the other grieved. The
first is amlution, and the second tyranny, which are both ao -•
united^ that lightly thone followeth thother.

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Whensoever the nobletnan cxr magistrate useth the place
of his calling for himself, without regard to the inferior sort,
then waxeth he ambitious : the maintenance wherof ingen-
dreth tyranny ; that is to say, practise of unlawful gain, or
cruel handling of his inferiors.

Wherfore M acchiavegli, in his discourses of the litw^y
of a commonwealth, detenqineth that m cases of extrenptj,
where the magistrats or nobility use this tjrranny, the oom-
motions of the people are necessary, to mitigate the excesg
of the great mens ambitions.

And in the greatest extremities, indeed, it seemetb to have
some reason ; as in the necessity of the poor Athenians, when
Solon was made praetor ; or the like of the Romans, wheo
they rebelled, and went to the Hcdy Hil, where Menemu9
Agrippa appeased them. But otherwise the ambition and
tyranny of the nobility were much more tolerable than the
insolence, inconstancy, peril, and ignorance of the multitude.
For these faults of the nobility are nothing comparable to
those of the commons ; and especially in that the estate le-
maineth with them always inviolate. Wheras if the mult^
tude prevail once in power, al goeth to confusion : the estate
is subverted, every mans property, his possession and goods
are altered, and they themselves never return to order, but
by necessity.

In the monarchy or estate of a prince, if the prince be
good, like as he keepeth his commons void of power, even so
he preserveth them from the tyranny of the nobility ; for he
is the same bridle in power over his nobility, that the Qobihty
is over the commons, and tendeth as wel to the rule of the
one, as to the preservation of the other.

And tho he were a tyrant, yet I say his tyranny is more
tolerable than the tyranny of the nobility of the estate ol
optimates ; where, instead of one, there be many tyrants:
for the property of a tyrant is, not to suflTei: within his power
any mo tyrants than himself. And if the tyranny of the
nobility, as I have said before, be more tolerable than th^ in-
solence of the multitude, much more tolerable thea is the
princes tyranny than the commons power.

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Wherfore I ccmclude, that it is better for the common- 6/
wealth the power be in the nobility, than in the commonalty.
' Neither do I mean, that for the dangers rehearsed, the
commons should be so kept down, as the wretched commons
of some other countries be. But I would their disciplin and
education should be such, that the only name of their prince
9hould make them to tremble. Which they should never re-
gwij if either the power were in them, or that they feared
not a superior power. For if they have but so much liberty
as to talk of the princes causes, and of the reason of laws, at
<|nc^ they shew their desire not to be ruled : wherof groweth
contempt, and consequently disobedience, the mother of al
arrears.

A ibird ppliiical discourse made by William Thomas^ esq,
Jbr the Kvn^s simdy; entitled^ Wlujki princes amity is
, be^t.

■ AMITY, or friendship, (as Cicero deflneth it,) is the per- Cotton
ffect concord of al divine and humane thin£;s with benevo- , A J* «

o Vespasian,

knee and charity. And he saith, that, wisdome excepted, he D. is.
knaweth not whether the immortal gods have given unto
man any better thing : for it maketh the prosperous things
more resplendent, and adversities the more easy. And if it
were possible for the princes of these days to use that amity
that some princes have don, as we read of Massinissa and
Seipib, and of other, then it were no need to talk of other
amity, than of that sweet private amity that Cicero so wel
hath described. And without further question, that princes
amity were best, in whose heart those rules were written.
But the perverse nature of men in this time doth scarcely
permit any perfect amity. Wherfore to treat of the politic
amily, that is to say, the accustcHnable amity that may be
had ; it is first to be considered, to what end the amity of
foireigii princes doth serve, and what need one prince halb
ci the oiheis amity.
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to be alledged, why it behoveth princes to hare anuty,
yet al should tend but to one end, that is to say, to main-
tain their own : for the fruit of the foreign princes amity
consisteth in two points.

One, in giving aid to resist an enemy, tU sine infuria tfi
pace vivatur ; and the other in relieving his friends coun-
try with those conunodities that it wanteth. Both which, as
I have said, tend to that end that is rehersed before. And
because few princes are of themselves hable to maintain
their own, if they want friendship of other princes, therfore
it followeth, this friendship to be very necessary. For it
hath been often seen, that princes and other estates have
been often brought to that point for lack of friends, that
having to do with such as were more puissant than them-
selves, they neither could msdntain peace nor sustain war.
68 In which case either they must throw themselves into thdr
laps that shal help them, or must become a pr^y to those
that do assault them.

And this happeneth through lack of foresight; when the
prince or estate hath not mesured their forces with thar do-
ings. As Livy writeth of the Latins in the eighth book rf
his first decad ; jam latio is statiis erat rerum^ ut^nequepor
cent neqtie helium pati possent By reason that through lack
of friends to aid them, the amity and the inimity of the Ro-
mans was indifferent unto them. For if they had peace,
their conditions were intolerable; and their impotency in
the war made them at length fal into thraldome.

But leaving the examples of people that had no prince,
we may read, as wel of our own histories as of others, what
inconveniences have happened to them that have wanted
foreign friendship.

How often did the Danes in King Egberts time invade
this realm, spoil it, and ransome it ? How many doubtful
and bloudy battails were foughten between our nation and
them in the fift year of Alureds reign ? What made King
Etheldred flee into Normandy, leaving his crown to the
possession of Suono, or Suanus, a Dane ? And had William
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^England, and to enjoy the crown, if Harold had any
strange friend ? If I should follow on with like examples,
where the estates been utterly subverted and altered from
one nation to another, (much through the lack of friend-
i^p,) I should be over tedious. But this I find, that tho
there be many causes to be alledged in the subversion or
alteration of estates; yet one of the greatest is the lack of
princes amity.

Wherfore determining, that, among the great cares that
princes ought to have for the preservation of themselves
and their estates, this amity, spoken of before, should not
be the least ; we must now examine what princes amity is
best. In which behalf four things are worthy of considera-
tion ; the propinquity, the antienty of friendship, the reli-
gion, and the nature of the prince, whose amity is sought.

First, for propinquity. Albeit that it is both profitable
and commendable to have the amity of al princes ; yet it is
evident that the neighbours amity is to be preferred before
the strangers. And herein lyeth a question, whose amity is
the better : his that may most annoy, or his that may most
asdst. For a mean prince that is a neighbour, may annoy
inore than a puissant prince that dwelleth far off. And such
a puissant prince again may by contrary means assist more
than the mean neighbour prince.

In effect, it hath been ever proved, that th^ amity of him
which may most annoy is to be preferred. For by this
amity ye do not only advcnd the daunger of that annoyance
that he may do, but ye also may have his aid to joyn with
yours ; which, though it were but mean in respect of the
far princes power, must nevertheles be such an help as may
serve the tium more readily. And the amity of far-princes
hath ever been proved so uncertain, that a smal power of
the neighbour hath been most commonly preferred before
it Wherfore, like as th' amity of a private neighbour is unto
every private man, for his domestick affairs, more necessary
than di'' amity of a stranger; even so in estate, th^amity of ^9
the neerest prince is more convenient than of him that is
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For proof wherof, in the last wars between the Empov
and French King, Barbarossa, the Ttirks adnural, with n
army of 8000 Turks, landed in Fmvence; being sent at the
French Kings request from the Turk to aid him againt
the Emperor. As for the Turks puissance, I need not to
reherse it. And the French Kings folly in this bdialf de.
dared itself. For when he thought the Emperor too atnog
for him, he made account, that matching himself with one
of more puissance, he should the rather suppress his enen^.
But because he considered not, that a strange prince npaa
an uncertain hope would be loth to adventure anygrait
power of his so far from him, that their return should be
^ther desperate or doubtful, therfore he jbiled in his ilBft'
gination. For the Turks sent him but a smal power, mn
for a continuance of amity than for amity indeed. UmI
army travailed far, put the French King to great ctutffBi,
discovered his country, and did him no service. So that it
was magis nomen gttam pressidium.

The contrary wherof proved with the Emperor, who
through the amity of bis neighbour, the Kii^ of Englaady
invaded France, and compelled the French King to condi-
tions of advantage.

For antient or long continuance of amity : what prinoe
soever abandoneth the antient amity between him and an-
other, or between his family and another, putteth hiJEnsdf to
great adventure, and may be after a maner resembled to
Esops water dog, that coveting the shadow lost the flesii.
Because that unto amity there is none §o great a minister as
tyme : which being once violated, without time again cannot
be recovered. And seeing that in princes af£nrs, many iiwffi
a new friendship one way engen&eth breach m old axatj
another way, it cannot be chosen but the defiling of tbat
amity must breed extreme displesure in the prince that re-
ceiveth the injury : whereof foUoweth the mortal hatred of
an antient assured friend,, for the uncertain amity of a new
reconciled foe.

The example wherof hath been wel seen in Louis StcrUy
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the Venetians, antient jqpproved friends unto his family, fel
mto the hands of the last Louis French King: in whose
prism he finished his miserable days.

For religion, it is necessary the princes that wiU observe
mcitj be <^ one ofnmcMi: otherwise it is impossible the
•EiHty should longer continue than necessity compdleth
tk^one or tb'^other to maintain it. For where are contraij
apimona of rdigbn, there can be no loi^ agreement And
tliere is no prince nor jMrivate man so simple, as, if it lay
in. bis po^er, would not compel the whole world to bdieve
aa be doth.

Indeed the Turk within his dominions compelleth no
iMMft to alter his religion : by reason wherof he is the more
^ialh peac)?ably to enjoy so large an em{nre. But if he
dpougbt he might bring al men to Mahomets law, (as he
l^h. the contrary,) he would use that rigor in religion that
he doth in other things. And there was never greater folly
imagined^ than the French Kings device of amity with the
Turk. For if the Turk observe not faith to the princes of his 70
owmeligion, but desttt>yeth as many as come once under
}m power, what faith or amity can he bear to a Christian
pvvpce? So that if by the Turks means the French King
mi^t have extirpated the Emperor, (which was the end of
this desii^ amityt) his own destruction must have foU
Iqw^ For wijth the Turk, nulla sa/ncta socieias^ nee fides
regni est.

Finally, for the princes nature ; if he be a good prince,
bia amity must needs be preferred before the amity of a ty-
mQt. Because th'^one doth that willingly, that the other never
dcrth hut of necessity.

Wh^rfore I conclude th"* amity of that prince to be best,
nfttfi ia ne^'est neighbour, most antient friend, aggreaUe of
IfeGgioiii and good of nature.

Ate the.leas^f if these four cannot be found in one prince,
then I think his amity best who is endued with most of

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Mr, Thmtaia fourth discourse to the King; touchi/ng Ui

Majesty's outward affairs.

WHAT case your Majesties estate is in, I doubt not but
your self doth understand. And tho I know there be a
number about your Highness hable both to care for the re-
medy of that that is amiss, and also to prevent the innm-
nent perills necessary to be foreseen: yet because, mee-
seemeth, some dul effects prove in things that ought to have
greater life ; therfore, having discoursed somewhat on ttftne,
my bounden conscience provoketh me to utter mine opimon
in present things : which I most humbly beseech your Ma-
jesty to accept, as offered, not of any purpose, either to pre-
fer mine inventions before the doings of wiser men, or to
accuse any for neglecting their duties in these cases ; but
only of the earnest affection I have both -unto our common-
wealth, and also unto your Highnes, on whom our wealth
dependeth.

Time was, in the days of your father of famous memorj,
that this estate, being dread of al our neighbours, needed
not to esteem any of them more than itself was esteemed.
But now the case is so altered, that because we are both
hated and contemned of them al, we, for lack of our own
estimation, must either esteem them or redeem our estima-
tion, or els perish. .

And because there be infinite reasons that threaten us
with war almost on every hand, therefore it is to be foreseen,
(as I have written in the discourse of princes amity,) that
we fal not into such a war, as either we must be a prey to
th''enemy, or els throw our selves into the lap of a dear pur-
71 chased friend: th'one or other being equally prejudicial
unto us. For the remedy wherof, one of two things must be
won ; either friendship to help us, or time to make our selves
strong.

As for friendship, I se not which way any is to begotten,
without either our extreme disadvantage, or the denying of
our faith : neither of which is tolerable. And as I bdieve it

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is impossible we should have any perfect amity with any
foreign prince that dissenteth from us in religion; so be-
cause we have no neighbour of uniform reli^on, I deter-
mine we can find no friend whose amity is to be trusted.

Wherfore we must of force turn us unto tyme^ to se how
much we may win therof, and what we may win withal.
And because neither is our force so ordered, that we may
trust therby to win oiu* tyme, nor our treasure such as may
purchase it; therfore our extremest shift is to work by
policy.

We have two puissant princes to deal withal ; the French
King, a doubtful friend, and the Emperor, a dissembUng
foe. The one hath don us already displesure; and the
other we are sure wil do it, if he can. For what quarrel hath
he to the Germans, but religion ? Wherin he hath sworn
rather to spend his life, than not to reduce it to his own
maner. And when he shal have overcomen those few that
rest, (which are of smal account in respect of his power,)
where shal he end his fury, but against us ?

I wot wel some are of opinion that M aydelburgh, with the
eonfederate cities, shal keep him occupied a while. Some
other add, that the Grermans are not yet won to the papisti-
cal sect. And some other reckon upon the Turks comming
into Hungary. Al which (say they) are impediments sufii-
dent to occupy the Emperors mind from meddling with
us. I like those reasons wel; beseeching God they may
prove as true as they be spoken. But I am persuaded, by
arguments of greater efiicacy, that the Emperor esteemeth
this matter of M aydelburgh very httle, and much les the
Germain Protestants, and least of al the Turk. The reasons
vherof are too long now to discourse. So that I fear me,
1|^ shal have sooner brought his purposes those ways to
jilBBSy than we shal be wel advertised of it. Wherfore, think
I, we have great cause to mistrust both his practices and
Idmself.

Oa the other side, the French King is already in the pos-
iemon of Scotland, and practiseth in Ireland amongst a
|ieople that loveth liberty ; and that ior every tsmal hope of

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gam wil be ready to revolt. Wherin if he ^oulcl prevai}, we
might reckon our selves berieged. So that, the cme and othei*
reckoned, we are not only abandoned of al fnends that msj
stand us instead, but in maner invironned of enemies.

Thus I have cast the peril of the worst, to the intent the
worst might be provided for : for the best will help it setf.

And because the time doth yet serve us to practise, bat-
ing no enemy that hitherto hath taken his sword in hand;
therfore, as we may now common to put them in hope of
things that we mean not ; and therby win time both to pro-
vide us of mony, and to order our men : so when time ahal
72 draw either of their swords, and we unprovided, (as pr^
sently we are,) then must we either perish, or be a prey to
throne of them, or at the best receive intolerable conditkxtt.
For say what men wil, our power without some fnenddnp
is of smal substance ; yea, tho we were al as good subjecti
as Edward III. had ; wheras now I fear me, there be as
wel hollow as whole hearts to be found.

And albeit that our quarrel is in God, and Gk)d our
quarrel, who never faOeth them that trust in him ; yet for-
asmuch as wickednes reigneth in the midst of us, like as ire
should not mistrust the goodnes of God, so ought we wi-
ther to neglect that policy that may help us to advcnd the
like captivity that for wickednes happened to the elect
people of Israel.

And this is my device,

Your Majesty shal either write or send some trusty
man with credit to the Emperor, declaring unto him (as he
knoweth already) in what sort the French King hath ob-
tained Scotland, and how he practiseth in Ireland ; puipos-
ing in your tender years to oppress the realm and subjeeta
And albeit ye mistrust not the Emperors perfect and sincere
amity, &c. yet to the end ye would join in a streit maner,
ye would gladly know what his Majesty would require rf
you; or covenant, that if the French King shoidd iio#
break with your Highnes, ye might be sure he would abo
break with France on his part, and generally be firiendd'tD
friends, and enemies to enemies:

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No doubt he would barken to sucb a message, and witb
the first would demaund alteration of religion: which I
think should be the principal point in the treaty on his
part. Wherfore, as the time served, I would wish the com-
munication therof not to be refused, and the matter to be
dissembled, with such practises of delays as may best serve
to the winning of time : wherof your Majesty shal gather
two commodities.

One, that by keeping the Emperor in hope of alteration,
he may cease from working of that mischief towards you
and your realm, that the mean time he would surely go
about.

And the other, the French King may have cause so to
doubt this league, that I believe he shal not offer to disturb
you ; which indeed were a great matter. By means wherof
your Majesty should not only get time more and more to
establish religion within your realm, but also to put your
subjects in a readines, and to provide you of mony against
the time of hostility. And if the time may so long be won,
that the Emperor dy, whose life cannot long endure, your
Majesty shall not only be free of this practise, but also free
of France, who surely shal have enough to do that way.
' As for the French King, we have peace with him, and no
cause of breach : but if he pick a quarrel to break, his hope
of gain shal be so great, that I se no reasonable overture
of our part sufficient to appease him. And then it is neces-
sary to threaten, that ye would rather yield in conditions to
the Emperor, than endure so unjust a war as he for gree-
dines shal begin. And if you doubt of that agreement stop ^3
Um not, I cannot devise what should stay him but our own
weapons.

. For Scotland, I have no hope of good but one, that the
governor by our comforts may be inticed to take the crown
upon him. If be, as he may be thereunto persuaded, we
ahal not only establish a puissant friend to our selves, but
also a perpetual enemy to France. The compamng wherof
liad need to be handled both very secretly and prudently.
- For Ireland; if there be just cause of suqncioa thai aojr

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of those lords should i^efvolt, let some meaais be ^kvised to
cal them, or the chief of them, hidier, fls shortly as maybe.
And here let them be wd entreated, til the next summer
be spent ; in which time their troth £lhal be tryed : iind
beside that, their entertainment may alter thcdr malice, if
there be any ; or at the least establish their allegiance.

For Denmark ; albeit the King is of our rdigion, and
the country both, yet they were never our friends. And un-
les we were more hable with money to hire them, than the
Emperor or French King are, let us never hope good of
them. For naturally they are given to the gain ; and of di
spoils, they deare the spoil of our nation. So that wkh
little mony they may be hired against us, where a great
deal of our mony shal scarcely cause them to at stiL Never-
theles I think it were not amiss to practice wi£h them, as
long as it turn not to our disadvantage.

Objections that may be a/rgued to the corUrary.

To my device of practice with the Emperor, I may be
answered, that it is dangerous for three causes.

One, that the knowledge of this practice shal encourage
the Papists of this realm to be the more obstinate.

Another, if it be known to Maydelburgh, and the other
powers that presently defend our religion, it shal be both a
discourage to them, and a slander to us.

And third, that when the Emperor shal po-ceive our dal-
liance with him, it shal set him al on fire, where now he is
but warm.

To the first, I reply, that if we quailed in our proced-
ings at home, the Papists might take courage ; but follow-
ing earnestly as we have begun, let them hope what they
wil, the end shal change their minds. And the mean wlrile,
they shal neither do nor talk.

And to the second, tho** we would, we are not able to aid
Maydelburgh, and their fellows, as well for the distance as
for our own necessity ; having enough to do to save our
selves. So that they can take no discourage^ where they
can hope no succour. And for slander, it can be none, un-

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les the slanderoua effect ibUow ; which shal be no part of
our meaning. And if we esteem the worldly fame, at the
worst the greater number (I mean the Papists) shal praise
^usfor the time.

To the third p<Hiit,:tbe Emperor is ahready so wann, that
if his fire might ikindle us, we should al bum, uid look for
none other, but whensoever his time seemeth, he will make
us amoek indeed. Wherfore, if any thing be to be won at 7^1
him, it is only time; whioh shal be evil handled if it be
not drawn one twelve or fifteen months long. And if we
begpn not this practice, or Maydelburgh be won, the Mta-
iperor wil afterward precede with us by a maner of conu
jnandment, rather than by treaty. For when the sword ]»
shaken .over <hu* .beads, then shal it be too lat$ for us to
■talk : at the worst, what hurt can we take by this practice ?
Common aa much as they list, as long as they be not able to
■compd us, so long we.need not to yield .in any thing unto
them. And if they may compel, then there is no boot. So
that wheras .good may come to us of our practice divers
■ways, I cannot »e which way any hurt may grow of it
at all.

For Scotland, it may be said, what peril were it, if the
ftench Eing.ehojutld .know our practice, and take displesure
•gainst us ? J aiuwer, the same peril that he is in with ua,
^.pracljungiin Ireland, b^ng such as ye may be sure shal
be no cause of war. Yea, it may happen to set such a broyle
between the governor and him, as may bring them by the
eon indeed. And as for the . conquest of Scotland, let us
never look for it. For if we were not able to conquer it,
■then ve had to do with it alone, much les able are we
Qow, when we must either conquer France or forbear Scot-
knd.

iMary, for the Irish lords there is peril, uqles the mat-
tor .be «o huidled, that they may come by way pf tr^l^y,
^vised upon persuasion of amity. Which, if it may ,be
^nought to pas, shal serve much to the puqjose. Otherwise
it may be the cause to make them revolt, if th^perwi^
tltnnselves once to be subjected.

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For the realm wUhinwards.

Two things are principally to be applyed ; the readines
of men, and a mas of mony.

Preparation doth not only discourage the enemy, but also
encourage the subject : who sustaining a suddain war im-
looked for, waxeth immediately timorous; wha!« beii^
warned, he waxeth hardy.

A people in Illyria, called Acamani, were threatned to be
destroyed by their neighbours the iEtoli ; insomuch, that
desperately they armed from the age of fifteen to sixty, as
many as could bear armour, swearing never to return van-
quisht : and did not only covenant, that if any fled from
the battail, they should neither have lodging nor victual
with any of the nation at home; but also prayed their
neighbours, the Epiroti, that if they were slain in the bat-
tail, they would bury them al in one place with this epi-
taph, Hie siti sunt Aeamani, qui adverims vim iUque inju-
riam jEtohrum pro patria pugncmtes^ mortem ofxubueruni
By reason of which determination, the iEtoh, for al thdr
puissance, gave them over, and suffered them to live in
quiet. And so it fareth by them that in like extremities do
valiantly provide for the worst.

Wherfore mine opinion is, that your Majesty should im-
mediately cause muster to be taken throughout the realm,
to se first what every man can make. And let nothing be
undon that may serve to have men ready in al events, tho'
jrs ye should never need man. At the worst this one profit
shal grow of it, those subjects that have their heads occu-
pied with civil commotions, mistrusting some outward war,
shal the les think on their mischief at home. And the out-
ward enemy shal have les mind to offend, where he seetb
preparation of defence.

On the other side, let no way be omitted that may bring
in mony^ to make such a mas as may serve the need. And
when ye have it, spend no peny of that proportion, whatso-
ever shift be made for your ordinary charges. This don, I
think your enemies shal either suffer your Majesty in peace,
or at the worst have smal advantage of you in war.

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I have siud my foolish opinion touching your Highnes
exterior af^rs ; I shal efisones humbly heseech your Ma-
jesty, if I have spoken any thing imprudently, to take my
ample meamng in good part. For as my desire is to ad>
vaunce your Highnes aff^rs, if it lay in my power, so if on
my advice any contrary succes should happen, my mean-
ing shal deserve no blame.

There be things also in the present civU governance that
in mine ojnnion might be amended : wherin if your Ma-
jesty command me, I shal gladly utter what I think.

WUIimn Thomas, esq. to the King ; touching the re/brma-
tion ofihe cmn.

To the Kings Majesty.

UPON Friday last Mr. Throgmerton declared your
Majesties plesure unto me, and delivered me withal the
notes of cert^ discourses : which, according to your
Hif^mes commaundment, I shal most gladly apply to send
Tou one every week, if it be pos^ble for me in so little
time to compas it. As in very deed it were more than
easy, if the daily service of mine ofEce required not that
^great travail and diligence that it doth.

And becwise he told me your Majesty would first hear
mine opinion touching the reformation of the coin, albeit
that I think my self boUi unmeet and unhable to ^ve any
judgment in so great and weighty a matter, without the
counul and advice of others, yet ^ce it is your Highnes
jdesur^ to have it secret, which I do mOch commend, I am
tberfore the bolder to enterprize the declaration of my ftm-
tasy ; trusting that upon this ground better devices and bet-
ter effect may ensue, than my head alone can contrive. -

And because Mr. Thro^erton is absent, I have deli*
v&Kd it thus sealed to Mr. Fitz-WLUiacis to deliver i
your M^esty, as it were a thing irom the Council ;-a
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Sigo A itEPGSltOltY

your Highnes, that tio creature is or Aal ht p#^ eitbe^ to
this, dt to atny of the rest, through me. WKicb I cb keep
so siecret to lihi» end, that your Majesty may uttear dwe
matters as of your oirti litudy ; Trherby it shfal have Ae
greater credit with your Council.

As for the danger to be author of a new thing, (whiA
when the turn cometh I shai declare at length,) I have a
wonderful confidence erf surety in your goodnes. B«t at
the worsty I esteem my Hfc les than the swrvice of my Prinee
and country.

I need not to reherse the private respects that should
move your Majesty to the reformation of your coin : but if
there were no roo reasons, meseemeth the necessary satis-
faction of your people in one kind is a sufficient argument

Plato, in his diatiogaeofHipparchtis De Lucri Cupiditait,
affirmeth, that al men naturally deare gain ; and after this
mancr he proveth it, Omnes homines bonum c^etuni, Et
quia lucrum utiie est, utile vero bomtmy omnes nafura lucrum
appetufnt. Quodque htsc appetitio naturaiis Idudanda est.

I wil not dispute of the difference, ordinate and disordi-
ndte in this desire. But it ia manifest, that al men deaie
gain ; and when they want the chiefest thing they covet to
gfdn, then their desire kindleth, and becometh vitioin;
which engendreth infinite inconveniences.

Now to prove that your Majesties subjects want thetf
most desire, I think that no man wil deny that gold and
silver are the sweetest fruit of al gain ; not for its self, but
because the having and use therof bringeth man in mancr
to every thing that he desireth. And because there is no
one thing can serve him to so many purposes ; therfore of
consequence there is no one thing that he can so mndi
desire.

If then your subjects want both gold and alver, how can
their desire be quiet ? Perhaps it shal be answered, they
want no mony, they have silver in a kind, yea, and gold too,
tho' they show it not.

To that I reply, first for the mony, they esteem it so little,
that they wil employ it to great disadvantage rather than

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keep it : which hteedeth multitude of barguns, and utter
iflipovenBhipg of the needy.

And for «ik>er, they have it indeed in such a kind, as they
nether esteem it fiar silver, nor can without great los use it
fca- 41ver.

As for gold, if there be any quantity rem^ing, (as some
men think hut amal,) it cannot come to light ; because that
like as the value of our mony doth daily decay, so doth the
gold encreaae to such value, that lying stil it amounteth
above the revenues of any land. And he that shall live
twelve months shal ee, that an old angel shal in value and
estiniation want little of twelve shillings of our current
money ; if provision for redress of your Majesties coin be
not had the rather.

Thus in mine opinion it appeareth, that the peoples
diiefest de«re shal kindle, ^ it be not already,) and at
length must needs bum. For moat commonly they-feel not
smart or they understand.

And the more phtgue it is a great deal, by reason that 77
not &e mean people only, but the middle sort and the great-
est do suffer for this ; each man in his kind.

Conclude then, that of extreme neces^ty this coin must
be rdbnaed, and that without delay.

Your Majesties most bounden servant,

William Thomas.

WiSiam Thtymaa^ esq. to the Kvng ; apologizing for some

peutagea in Ms discourse concemivg the amendment of.

the coin, and in his other discourses, writ by the Kvn^*

comvumdment.

PLEASETH your Highnes, as I s^d at the &8t, tho'
I 60 study these discourses, and am right glad to write the
best opinions that I can gather, yet I meaned not to be ^
a director, as were not glad himself to leam- N^ '
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trust mine authors so much, as not to mistrust contrary suc-
cesses, both to their rules and their examples. Nevertheles
since that providence which men may attain in things, is had
by study of rules and examples, (for he buyeth it dear that
hath it only by experience,) most happy is he in al regi-
ments, that knoweth most arguments to choose the best in
doubtful cases. Wherfore I shal most humbly beseech your
Highnes to take my study as a pyke or a quarrel to a deeper
matter, and with my good wil so to supply my lack, that
tho' I appear sometime too vehement, or too much assured,
yet that I be not therfore condemned, since it is not I, but
the matter as I take it.

And where indeed I was somewhat earnest for the refor-
mation of the coins, wherin it pleased your Majesty to com-
mand my opinion ; truly my zele to my country did so
prick me, that I could not forbear to exclaime against the
fault ; like as for the redress, I am not yet dissuaded firom
my device. For tho^ I understand there be other argu-
ments perchance better than mine, yet I like not his opinioQ
that in this case groundeth himself on malum bene conditm
ne moveas. For mMum it is indeed, but conditum it is not,
and bene it wil never be. Wherfore necesse est mffoeri.
And this I dare stand to in argument, that where I devised
an exaction of 12d. in the pound, if the mony thus continue,
your Majesty, by reason of the mints, shal exact above foA.
of the pound ; and yet be undon your self at length, unles
ye purchase land withal.

And whether it hath made your Majesty rich or no, I
cannot tel, but I am sure this coinage, since the first begin-
ning, hath exacted upon your subjects already above 8*J.
in the pound,
78 As for their frivole reasons, that allege three parts of the
four through the realm to fare the better for it, I will not
say that either they understand Jittle of policy, or els they
would be glad to become commoners themselves ; but this
I dare avow, there is not one of a hundred, no, not one of
a thousand, that is contented with this coine.

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Helas! Can we suffer neither fault nor remedy P neither
var nor peace P

Your Majeeties most humble serrant,

WiDiam Thomas.

Sir PhiUp Hobi/, the King's ambaaaador at the Emperor's

Court, to the Duke (^Somerset, concermng the interim :

From Augshw^.

IT may please your Grace to understand, that the 28th toW. ybr.
day of the last month the Bishop of Homes legate, that'^*'^'''
came last hither, had audience of the Emperors Majesty,
with whom he was a long while. And the same day both
he and the old legate dined with Grandevela ; where passed
much familiarity and fiiendly entert^nment on both parties.
On Friday was sevenight the French ambassadors brother
eame hither in post What news he bringeth I cannot
learn; but the morrow after his coming the ambassador
was with the Emperor, and had with his Majesty long con-
ference. Of these things had I no perfect knowledg undl
nithin these four days ; and therfore could not advertise of
ihexa by my last letters.

The Emperor, the diet being now finbhed, convrateth
his whole study to the setting forth of the interim ; which
it is Bind he is earnestly bent to cause these people in-
violably to observe. He useth to bring his purpose to pas
sundry ways ; and attempteth first by fair means to allure
them to foUow his wil. But if this way shal take no place,
it is thought, as partly hath been already' experienced, he
wil not fiiil to use extremity. The fear wherof hath caused
many to relent, that els would have hardly been brought to
grant to the interim. The three townes, Constance, Ar-
gentine, and Lynda, as in my last letters I wrot unto your
Grace, have not yet granted unto the interim. And, namely,
Lynda; which having first (as by my letters of the S6 of
the last month I adverted your Grace) utterly rt^

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grant thereto; being then by the Emperore Counci}, aA^r
they had wel laugh'^d at them, willed, under the pretence of
pity, to take better adviee^ and to copsuh: together again, and
make some wiser answer, have now, on Wednesday last, sent
their secretary hither ; who on the behalf of the whole
town hath declared unto the Emperors Council, that ac-
79coi'^iig to their commandment they have eftsones assem-
bled their whole commonalty, and generally al their whole
town together. Where they have ripely considered the et
fSects of the inierim, and taken advice and opinion of sun-
dry wel learned and godly men therin: and finally have
perceived, that it is far disagreable from the word of God,
whose law and commandments they a,re bound upon pain of
damnation to observe. Which having a special Tegiird unte^
and fearing more the threatnings of Go(}, and b^s just indig-
nation towards the neglecters of his wil and SicnptHre, than
the los pf goods, life, or any other tempcnra} thing; they
have resolved, in conclusion, not to accept or agree in any
condition therunto: which is theif resolute ansuffer. But
to the end the Emperors Majesty shal not think this to pro-
cede of any obstinacy or disobedience towards bipi^ (whom
they do acknowledg to be their prince and superior,) they
wil not, they say, refuse or resist whatsoever k shal please
him to dispose of them. Their gates shal npt be shut to
any of his soldiers en* men, either Spanyards or Italians,
(with whom they have been oftentimes threatned,) nor any
oth^ that it shal like him to send ; they wil not withstand,
nor againsay his plea^ire therin. Yea they are content he
take, if he list, their goods and lives from them : which he
shal not need by strong hand to go about; it shal suffice
him to commaifid them, and they wil, they i^y, gladly offer
their heads to the block.

This- answer of so smal a corner was not a little i)(rondred
at of the hearers, and their boldnes and constancy had in
much admiration, Grandevela threatned the utter des<^
tion of them and their town : but yet I cfinnot he^r of any
thing hath been don to thenpu Const^ce is not yet recon-
ciled^ and therfore, as enemy to the f^miperpr, hfive not hi-

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dbpte bdefl i«qi»red to answer. And Argcndney bein^
Mtf kttefy caonomanded to deckce thenr mind, have not jret
Inp^ught in tlMir respol»tlon.

The I>ake of Wirtimburgh, having received from the
Einperor the m^mm, with commandment to se it take place,
jttid lo be obs^red throughout bfe coimtry, it is- reported
he did not then make any countenance to disobey the Em*
{Hirers iril herein ; but received his commission very reve-
n^xdiy. And i^ortty after sufiering the interim to go abroad^
flSd the EiXipei^ors commisnioners appointed for that purpose
te dCft it ficoth, as: it liked them ; suddenly, without any men-
tinti mode of the interim^ or as tho^ he thought nothing
liter^, (as I helff lay he is a man somewhat aged, and merry^
6E)&eiffted, when- he list,) he caused proclamation to be made
ift Us eofontry, that each person, for every time they heard
inai^ should pay unto him eight duckats of gold. He for<*
bltd not the mas to be said, but would have the hearers pay
Um his tribute. This thing, tho^ it be commonly reported,
I da not greatly credit : yet to the intent your Grace may
f&ceeive the imaginations and fantazies of men here, I have
thought good among the rest to place this report

Oft Friday last Grandevela dined with the old Duke cf

fkbsosfty : unto whom^ after dinner, he remembred the Em*

perms deraency towards him; how gently he had been,

tiiMae hiR coming to the Emperors power, ordered : which

Mm Miyesty^ he said^ did nothing forethink, but thought the 80

ili^Uttie tight Wei bestowed, and would continue his goodnes

homsard^ Mm, and do more for him than he was ware of, if

fae would now isatisfy his request And here Grandevela

declared unto him the effect of the interim^ which, he smd,

ibe Etjoparor had, upon grounded considerations, and for the

^uietnes of al Germany, set forth ; and the same for the

^e rei^ects, he said, was of al the princes, and most of die

eominoiialty, embraced and willingly received. He desired

and vrilled him therfore, on his Majesties behalf, that he idso

wcmld shew himsdf conformable and graait therto ; which

rfiould, he said, be right acceptable to his Majesty, and not

unpn^table to hkn. To this the Duke answered, that he

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was now in the Emperors power, his Majesty might do
with him, and use his carcas as it liked him : he nrither
could nor would resist his pleasure therin ; but humbly be-
sought his Majesty, he would not press him to grant to this
thing, which, he said, being as it is against the word and
law of Grod, he would not agree unto, tho"* he wist to dy
for it

With this answer Grandevela went to the Emperor ; who
having heard the Dukes mind, was much moved therewith,
and sent Grandevela back again to him. Who,1)y the Em-
perors order, first commanded three hundred Spanyards,
more than the accustomed band, to be ready, and ward the
Dukes lodging. And then went he to the Duke, and shewed
him the Emperors pleasure, seing he so obstinately refused
to grant to his request, that the order, which ^as prescribed
at his taking, should now be straitly observed, and no more
gentlenes and courtesy shewed unto him, seing it could so
little prevail. And forthwith he caused al the daggs and
other weapons, that the Dukes servants had there in the
house, to be sought out and brought unto him ; which he
immediately sent away. And wheras the- Duke had then
about him above seventy servants, he sent them al away,
saving twenty seven ; which is the number allowed him by
the order appointed at his first taking. He also sent from
him his preacher, whom he threatned with fire, if he hasted
not forth of this country. His cooks and other ofiicers were
also commanded, upon pain of burning, they should not
from thenceforth prepare or dress for him any fle^ upon
the Fridays or Saturdays, or on other fasting days com-
manded by the Romish church. In this straitness remain-
eth the Duke now : wherewith he seemeth to be so little
moved, as there can be no alteration perceived in him, ather
by word or countenance ; but is even now as marry, and as
content to tlie utter shew, as he was at any time of his most
prosperity.

Grandevela's son, called Monsieur de Shantonny, who
was sent to Spain to carry the news, and present the con-
clusion of the spousals between the Arch Duke of Austriche,

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siHi to the King of the Romans, and the Emperors daughter,
is nor four days past returned to this Court, with the answer
at the s^d ladies conformity, and consent of the estates of
Spain herein. He was immediately dispatched in post by
(he £mperor, to cary these news to the King of the Romans;
who, as by my last letters I wrote unto your Grace, de-
parted hence on Monday last.

This town is stil ful of Scottish wars, and of the French 8
asastance there, which I warrant you is bragged out to the
Dttermost: wheronto I am not able to make any direct
answer, for want of advertisement from thence. My hope
IB, your Grace ml consider this my grief, and help to relieve
it. Herewith it may please your Grace to recave the order
<^ tile publication and condu^ou of this last diet, and the
. articles agreed upon in the same, which Jc^n Bemardine
hath gotten. Thus Almighty Crod preserve your Grace,
and send you most happy succes in al your aflmres. From
Aiupurge, the 9th day of July, anno 1548.

Your Graces at commandment,

Phelyp Hoby.

77te Cor^esaion qfSir Wmiam Sharingtotii concermrtff his
Jravds vn c<miiiff the King^s raoney.

In the Tower, tKe second of Febroary 1548.

I, Sir William Sharington, knight, humbly acknowledgM
and confess, that I have offended the King his Majestic and ^
his laws. First, in that, contrary to the prohitttion sent
unto me, and without warraunt, I coyned testons in the
moneths of May, June, and July, in the yere of our Lord
1647, to a great sum ; but the certenty therof I know not.

And also in the clyppings or shearinga of the mony, I
defrawded his Highnes veary moche, but how moche I c
not be certen ; but I am sure it was above iiii m. li. j^
by, upon a de^re of my own gt^e, I piade i
l^t out of the remedy.

89B A REPOSITORY

I -do iho confess, that when the moneihly dcmigs or dboob
were brought unto me, I did use every moneth to istxike
out as modi as I thought good : and to th^entent I nu^t
the better do so, I falsified th^endentures of the ooynage,
and burned al such bokes, indentures, and -writings, as mi^t
justly have charged me. But to what sum I deoeyved ins
Majesty by this meane, I am not able to exrpress; but sure
I am it amounteth to a 'notable sum, moch more than al
that I have will be able to pay.

For the which my said offences, and ol other, I subnut
my self wholly to his Highnes mercy, and acknowledgmy
«elf most worthy death and heynous punishment ; jmd.imlj
trust of his Highnes mercy and perdon, by the goodnesof
my L. Protector his Grace, -who hath hitherto ben mait
merciful to al men.

•Humbly, of my knees, and with a most woful hert, :t
man most ashamed of my deads of aay man lyvii^; !»•
quiring not justice to be executed towards me, .butiHieny.
And what fortune or lyf God shal put into the King*s Ma-
82 jesty, my L. Protector his Grace, and the Counsayles minds
to geve me, that must nedes be better then my deserts.
And T shal take that thankfully, as of the benefit oonly, and
dayly prey for ther estate, with most herty preyer and
request to Almighty God.

F.Shrewsbury. W. Sharington.

Thomas Southampton.
T. Smith.

zz.

A pious prayer ofQauxen Kaihcmne Parre ; by her comf^
in short ejaculcUions stdied to her condition,

MSS. D. MOST benign Lord Jesu, grant me thy grace, that it
1^*^^^ * may alway work in me, and persevere with me unto the end.
Grant me, that I may ever desire and wil that which is
most pleasant and most acceptable unto thee.

Thy wil be my wil, and my wil be to follow always thy
will.

01^ <0BJl6tKAlS. 999

li^t th&tt he alway in ^me ^fie wil imd 6iBie njeinre with
thee, and that I have no desire to wil^dr^ot to ^5 but^
Apti wilt.

Lord, thou kndwest nrhatt thing is ^ost profitable atnd
iHolrt expedient for me.

Give me therfore Wh^t thou wilt, as mudh tus thou 'wilt,
and when thou wik.

Do Math me what thou wilt, as it shal please thee, and as
ihal be mest to Ihine honor.

Put ttie where thou wilt, and ^freely do with me in all
things after thy will.

9:*hy isrealure I am, and in thy hands ; 'lead me and turn
rae 'where thou wilt.

liO! I am thy siertant, ready to al things that thou 00m-
inaai^ei^t : for I desire^not to live to my "self, but to thee.

Lord Jesu ! I pray thee grant me grace, diat I neveri^t
my heart on the things of this world, but that al carnal and
worldly 'tfeodbns may utterly dy and be mortified in me.

•Grabt me above al things, that I may rest in thee, and
fully quiet and pacify my heart in thee.

J^or diDu, Lord, art the vefy true peace ^f^heart,'and the
perfect rest of the soul; and without thecal things be griev-
Cius'ttud unquiet.

My Ldrd Jesu, I beseech thee be wi^me in every place,
and -at al 'times; and let it be to me a special sokce, gladly
for to love to lack all worldly solace.

Attd if thou withdraw thy comfort from me at any time,
keep me, O Lord, from separation, [desperation,] and make j
tne patiently to abide thy will and ordinance.

O Lord Jesu, thy judgments be righteous, and thy pro- 83
iddeftiGe is much better fen* me than al that I can imagin or
tlevise.

Wherfore do with me in al things as it shal please thee.

For it may not be but wel, al that thou dost.

If thou wilt that Lbe in light, be thou blessed ; if thou
Vnlt that I be in darknes, be thou also blessed.

If thou vouchsafe to comfort me, be thou highly blessed;

400 A REPOSITORY

and if thou wQt I ly in trouble and without comfott, be
thou likewise ever blessed.

Lord, give me grace gladly to sufler whatsoever thou wih
flhal fal upon me, and patienUy to take at thy hand good imd
bad, bitter and sweet, joy and sorrow : and for al things thu
shal befat unto me hciuljly to thank thee.

Keep me. Lord, &om Eon, and I shal then dread n^thet
death nor hell.

O t what thanks ought I to ^ve unto thee, which hntit
suffered the grievous death of the cross to deliver me from
my nns, and to obtiun everlasting life for me P

Thou gavest us most perfect example of patience, ful-
filling and obeying the wil of thy Father, even unto death.

Make me, wretched unner, obediently to use my self after
thy wil in al things, and patiently to bear the burtheo of
this corrupt life.

For tho' this life be tedious, and as a heavy burthen to my
soul, yet nevertheles through thy grace and by example of
thee, it is now made much more easy and comfortable, tbao
it was before thy incarnation and paseaon.
■ Thy htiy life b our way to thee, and by following of that
we walk to thee that art our head and Saviour. And except
thou hadst gon before, and shewed us the way to everlasting
life, who would endeavour himself to foDow thee, seeing we
be yet so slow and dul, having the light of thy blessed ex-
ample and holy doctrin to lead and direct us ?

O Lord Jesu, make that posable by grace that is to rae
impossible by nature.

Thou knowest wel, that I may little suffer, and that I am
soon cast down and overthrown with a little adversity.
Wherfore I beseech thee, O Lord, to strengthen me with
thy Spirit, that I may willingly suffer for thy sake at mans
of troubles and afflictions.

Lord, I wil knowledge unto thee al mine unrighteousnes,
and I wil confes to thee al the unstahlencss of my heart

Oftentimes a very little thing troubleth me sore, aod
maketh me dul and slow to serve thee.

lUICUI UlC EHBC, BW ,

OP OBIGINALS. 401

And sometimes I purpose to stand strongly ; but when a
little trouble cometh, it is to me great anguish and grief;
and oi a right little thing riseth a grievous temptation to me.

Yea, when I think my self to be sure and strong, as it
seemeth I have the upper hand, suddenly I feel my self
ready to fal with a little blast of temptation.

Behold therfore, good Lord, my weakness, and consider 84
my frailnes, best known to thee.

Have mercy on me, and deliver me from al iniquity and
^n, that I be not intangled therewith.

Oftentimes it grieveth me sore, and in a maner confound-
eth me, that I am so unstable, so weak, and so frail in resist-
ing sinful motions. ,

Which altho^ they draw me not away to consent, yet never-
theless their assaults be very grievous unto me.

And it is tedious to me to live in such battail, albeit I per-
ceive that such battail is not unprofitable for me : for therby
[ know the better my self and mine own infirmities, and that
[ must seek help only at thy hands, &c.

It is to me an unpleasant burthen, what pleasure soever
the world offereth me here.

I desire to have inward fruition in thee, but I cannot at-
tain therto, &c. And to a great length are these pious
breathings of the soul of this excellent Qiieen extended.

. .it"i ^j^i.t**!-*"'; I ■,;•■* *'•

▼OI.. HI. PABT lU

40S

A REPOSITORY

85 ZZZ.

An account of the King's sales of chantries, colleges^ S^cii

the second year of his reign.

K.Edw.
Book of
Sales.

Chantry, coUegCf hospital,
guild, Hfc.

The chantry upon the
bridge of great Totneys in
the county of Devon, and
other lands.

Chantry of St. Maries
within the parochial churdi
of Chard, count. Somerset,
and other lands.

College of S. Joh. Bap-
tist of Stoke, juxta Clare
in com. Suffolk, &c.

Capital messuage and te-
nement called Catford, ly-
ing in Lewisham in Kent,
lately belonging to the coll.
of Corpus Christi, near the
church of S. Laur. Fount-
ney, Lond. &c.

Chantry in the parochial
church of S. Mich. Coslam,
in the city of Norw. &c.

Tlie college of the name
of Jesu, in Bury S. Edm.
Suff. &c.

The messuage and house
called the Trinity hal, o~
therw^ise the common hal
80 of ,.the fraternity or guild
pi the Trinity founded in
the ch. of S. Botolph with-
out Aldersgate. And 8
meases commonly called
the Trinity aily, &c.

Three messuages, tene-
ments, &c. in S. Mary Al-
dermary, London, belong-
ing to tiie chantry at the
altar of S. Joh. Baptist in
the chappel neer the paro-
chial church of Aldermary
aforesaid, upon the char-
nel there, commonly called
Exportes chauntry,hnd di-
rers otlier lands, &c.

Yearly valne.

21 0 0 ob.

44 8 Og.
5 4 11

3 6 8

18 2 4

6 11 2 oh,

98 0 6 ob.

3
4
2
2
11

Purchase.

397 4 ^ob.

1417 1^ 9o*.

958 3 hob.

2
17
18
16

II
0
0
0

18 4 6
2 0 0

18 16 0

45 0 8
1 12 6

2034 14 10

492 11 8

497 8 0

Given.

689 7 4

Purchaser*

John Peter ti
John Bogan.

John Whitebor
and John Bayly.

John Cheke ai
Walter Moyle.

Hen-Polstedeai
Will. More.

Edw. Warner, ki
and Ric. Catlia.

Rich. Corbet.

Will. Hawy, all
Somers.

Walter Young M
Edward Young.

OF ORIGINALS.

403

9 college, kospi-
l, guild, 8fc,

i chauntry, called
Is chauntry in Bar-
in Cambridg, &c.
Iiauntiy of S. Joh.
8t,and S J.Baptist,
imacres chauntry,
irish of Wickham,
Durham,
lanotry of Heding
18 Hedningbam Si-
mitat. Essex, &c.
bauntry of Cober-
iocestersh.
ee cbappel in Cas-
inity in tbe county
cum pertinentiis.
[^bauntries in Wi-
in Essex, and tbe
3f Albiiis belong.
&c.

isuagc, tenement,
^age in the county
\et, belonging to
ntry of S. Maries
vdtbin tbe church
•inity of Dorcbes-

sept, scite, circuit
incts of the college
few Work of Leic.
ly called the New
allege in tbe town

launtry of Harrow
in tbe church of
upon the Hil in
»; and divers o-
Is, &c.

age and tenement
ie Bel, and other
nd tenements, &c.
jish of S. Katharin
Th, given to main-
[)riest to celebrate

ssbal chauntry in
idow, in the county
, &c.

bauntry in the pa-
:hurcb of Kirkeby
at. Lane,
bauntry of Great

Yearly value.

Pupchase,

69 6 2q, 958 17 7 o(. Thomas Wendy

and John Barton.

17 19 6

8 14 5

2 15 4

8 12 0

2 13 4

13 9 0
2 0 0

6 7 2

8 7 2

21 10 4

9 6 0

10 18 8

0 12 0
10 10 10

1 9 4

2 18 0
1 12 0
1 6 0

13 6 0

16 6 8

8 17 8o5.

0 9 2

6 15 0

In considera-
tion of service.

324 6 0

206 8 0
64 0 0

339 18 0

149 11 8

Purchaser.

12 10 8

453 6 4

742 8 6

219 7 0

562 12 1

148 10 0

314 19 10

Alex. Priogd.

John Lucas^esq.

Wil. Bridges, kt.
Will.Pastonykt.

Walter Cely.

Fraun. Samwel
and John Byll.

Joh. Beaumont,
esq. and William
Gyes.

William Gyes and
Michael Purefcy.

Giles Harrison.

Will.Mildmayand
John Mildmay.

Thomas Stanley.
Thomas TyrrcU

pdS

404

A REPOSITORY

Chanir$ff college y hospUalAYearly value,
guild, Sfc.

Sunpford in Essex, &c and
the diauntry of Iselham in
the county of Cambr.

The ff uild or fraternity of
S. Trinity and S. Job. Bap-
tist, in the parochial ch. of
Shepton MaUet in Somers.

llie messuage and tene-
ment, and al shops, cellars,
&c. situate witlun Christs
church within Newgate,
Lond. for the sustentation
of a priest to celebrate in
the chnrch of Hackney in
Middlesex, &c.

The rectory and free
chappel of S. Leonards in
the parish of HolUngton in
Sussex ; and the chauutry of
LewtOD founded in Awton
Gifinrd in Devon, &c.

Messuages, lauds, and
tenements, &c. situate in
the parislies of Chrisale
10 Essex, and Edelmeton,
lately belonging to the
chauutry of S. George the
QO Martyr, within the cathe-
dral church of Heref. and
divers other, &c.

Messuage and tenements
called the Plough, and o-
ther lands, houses, &c. ly-
ing in Faiter- lane, Lond. be-
longing to the fraternity of
S. Sithe in the church of
S.Andrews, Holborn.

The chauutry of Sprot-
ton in the county of North-
ampton, and al the mes-
suages, mills, &c.
. House in Bunbury in
the county of Chester, call-
ed the cliauntry -house, be-
longing to the chauutry or
chauntries of two priests
or clarks, lately founded
in the parochial church of
Bunbury, called Sir Rafe
JEgertons chauntry.

Lauds and pastures, &c.
lying in Westibam in Essex,
and al that land, contain-
ing by estimation an acre
and half, in Lay ton, Essex,
given to the sustentation of
an anniversary, &c.

14 i; 8

20 0 0

1 19 0
4 10 0
3 0 0

2 12 8

17 1 11

4 0 0

0 G 8

1 0 0
I 9 7
3 19 6

31 15 6

19 16 8

12 15 4

Purchase.

Purchastr.

85 15 7 ob.
5 4 0

357 4 0

894 4 2

1154 15 0

311 16 0

643 16 10

448 7 4

435 16 8

1924 10 1

John Honer.

Tho. PcTfse
and William
Alexander.

Job. Keyme sd
lUchard Keyme

Tho. Crawley.

Thorn. Bartlet
and Rich. Mod]

Silvester Taver
and J. Hyndc.

Tho. Bromeleyi
kt.

Tho. Goldifig «
Walter Cclye.

OF ORIGINALS.

collegCi hospitat,
ruild, Sfc,

Dtry in Sevenoke
and the messuage
!inent called the
-house, &c.
m and tenement,
e mansion-house
illcge or new-hal
tiintrey within the
ells, &c.

ms chappel, called
chappel of Green-

)llegc of S. John
of Shoteshroke in
c.

and rectory of
rn in Nottingh.
f to the priory or
)f S. Johns of Je-
n England.

anor of Colbridge

belonging to the

f S. Stc. Westm.

auors of Awbcry,
mm, and Charle-
ilts; parcel of the
n and rents of the
f S. Mary and Al-
' Fothcringhay in
pt. &c.

iges and tene-
lled Boyesy in Fal-
''oles'buut Knights,
parcel of the guild
nity of S. George
rish of S. Mary tlie
L Walden, &c.

try of Pensehurst
&c.

t mcssui^ge or te-
in Chanon-row,
belonging to the

Yearly value.

39 8 8

15 0 4

2 13 8

3 0 7
8 9 1

3 10 4
1 6 8

4 13 4

0 5 0

28 9 2

27 19 7

In considera-
tion of service.

963 0 8

23 2 6

5 1 Hob.

2 16 4ob,

1 18 0

Non patet

1 13

2 5

2
3
3

9
3
5
9
3

7
4
5
8
7
4

Purchase.

947 17 0

728 0 2

In considera-
tion of the rec-
tory of East-
bech, and in
performance of
K. H^nryVlll.
his will.

749 17 lob.

405

Purchaser,

Will. Twiadeti
and John Brown.

John Ayleworth
and Will. Lacye.

Rob. Hockeland.

Tliomas Weldon
andEdw.Weldon.

Wil. Bumel.

Edward Wotton^
kt.

2808 4 10 ob,
and in conside-
ration of an ex-
change of woods,
land8> &c. in
E^sex, and in
performance of
K. Henries wil.

346 4 10

Wil. Sharingtou,
kt.

0 15 8

8 18 Sq.

9 0 0

57 3 4

5 3 4

John Wells.

214 8 6

1477 15 8

Dd3

George Harper,
kt. and Rich.
Frye.

Sir Michael Stan-
hope and John ..
Beilowe.

406

A REPOSITORY

Chantry f coUeg^e, hasjntal,
gruild, 8cc.

college of S. Stephens, and
divers other laiidt> &c.

The free chappel of
nine in the parish of
Havton in Nott &c.

The channtry or free
chappel of S. Mary of Wit-
ney, Ox. &c

The fraternity or guild
of Loton iu Bedf. and
91 Hert and al the guild in
Hitchyn in Hertf. and the
whole house and mansion,
commonly called the BrO'
therhed house^ situate in
Hitchyn, &c.

The chauntry of Swyn-
ford in Leic. and al the
messuage called the chaun-
try house, &c.

The capital house and
scite of the college of Whit-
tington in the parish of S.
Michaels Pater Noster,
London, &c.

The chauntry called
Barheleys chauntry ffound-
ed in the parochial church
of Meere in Wilts, &c.

Yearly value.

1 15 1

3 4 5

5 0 0

25 3 0

Manor of Bettiscomb in
the county of Dorset, be-
longing to the college of
S. Stevens, Westm.

The farm and barton of
Eynston in the parish of
Henx-street in Somers. be-
longing to the chauntry of
S. Katharins in Ilminster
in the said county, &c.

Five messuages in Be-
verly in the county of York,
called the mansion houses
of the late prebendaries of
the prebends of S. Peter,
S. James, S. Stephen, S.
Q2 Katharine, and S. Martin,
founded in the late col-

7 3
2 13

6 q.

Purchase,

16 16 8

23 11 9
7 16 11
4 0 0
2 2 0

10 16 0

2 17 5

2 14 5

3 10 4
10 6 8

4 6 8

575 1 0

427 19 9

1036 14 4

404 12 0

Purchaser,

Tbo. Swifte u
William Swifte.

WUL Boxe.

Elanul. Bargba
Rob. Beverley.

22 11

7
3
3
2
3
3
2
77 11

12
0
1
2
2

2 oh,

14 10
12 3

28 2 4 oh.

36 3 11
25 13 4

23 13 1 q,
4 1 8

92 2 0

WUUamPkiie

ArmagUWade

2731 8 9 ob, John Tbyune,
and Laure
Hyde, gent.

661 8 O7.

1297 10 0

506 9 11

Rich. Randal.

lliomas Bell,
and Rich. Du
esq.

Mich. SUnbo
kt. and Job. £
lowc.

OF ORIGINALS.

407

yt coOeget hospital,
guild , ISfc,

f Beverly, and di-
:c.

messnafl^ and te-
nown by the name
Imes college in the
)f S. Gregory, Lend,
belonging to the
7 commonly called
t chauntry,
e cottages or tenem.
*ee gardens belong-
reunto, in East Kir-
he county of Line.

the occupation of
banterists of the
7 of East Kirby,

3r of Cbedworth in
mty of Glouc. and
e of the college of
h in Staff. &c.

ntry of Aston in
neer Brymingham
*w. and the house
nsion of the chaun-
id the manor of
, &c.

ntry called Hotosts
y in Orset in the
of Essex, &c.

ntry of S. Mary
en in Sprouston in
ity of Norf. and di-
ler lands, &c.
free chappel called
%se chappel in the
of Cranebroke in
nd the whole scite,
)mpas, and circuit
Eud chappel, &c.
e and scite of the
of Snelleshal in
and al the manor
ington, &e.

chauntry called
mi chauntry in
1 in the county of
and the chauntry
Tenet ChUds, alias

Yearly value.

72 4 S
8 2 8

21 15 0

9 0 3

1 10 8

1 10
3 3

2 0

6
9
0

38 16 10

5 7 7
17 1 8
72 14 8

3 7 7

2 17 10

1 14 4
18 0 5

9 0 6

2 19 6

3 6 8

3 10 10

78 0 4

Purchase,

1289 7 6

Purchaser,

John Hulson and
WA, Pendred.

606 9 0o6.

Rich. GoodHck &
Wil. Breton.

1286 5 7

oh.

146 7 9o6.

11 11
9 12

0
5

John Earl of War-
wic, Ric. Forset,
and others.

1522 16 3

532 13 4

276 0 0

262 3 8

Partly in ex-
change, and
partly in ful-
filling of the
will of K. Hen.
VIII.

508 2 0

Rich. Pallady and
Frauncis Foxhal.

Clement Cysley &
John Leeds.

Rob. Southwel,kt.
and John Corbet

John Baker, kt 9^

Thomas Palmer,
kt.

Gilbert Claydou &
Rob. Baiker.

Dd 4

406

A KEPOSITOBY

Chtmirff oMege, kotpUai,.
guild, Sfc.

the chauntry of S. Mary
de Wittham in Essex.

The chaontrf of S. Anne
de le Gon in* Shaftou in
Dorset, and the free chap-
pel of Little Mayne in
Dors, and the chaantry
of Langton, called GUdon
chauntry, founded in the
parochial church of Lang-
ton, &c.

Chauntry of Pepingbury
in Kent> &c.

The church of Bablack
in the city of Coventry,
parcel of &e guild of the
sud dty> called Trinity
guild.

The free chappel called
S, MargareU ehappel in
Tadingston, Suff. and the
chauntry adled Depden in
Kent, &c.

The chauntry called our
QA iMdy chauntry in Acton
in Suff. and the manor of
Bowerhal in Essex, be-
longing to Mills chauntry
in Melford in Suff. &c.

The messuage, tene-
ment, and inn, called the
Helmet in Kings-street,
Westm. and an house of an
inkecper within the said
messuage belonging to S.
Stephens coll. Westm.

Tlie chauntry of Hat-
field Broad Oak in Es-
sex, &c.

The chauntry of S. Mary
Magdalen in tiie parochial
church of Cross Thwaite
in Cumberl. &c.

Yearly valueA Jhtrchate, I Purchmr,

2 19 4 ob.
4 0 0

3 0
3 6

1 10
7 0
0 4

2 5

0
8
0
0
0
0

569 2 10

11 9 Odiq.
Non patet

14 19 6ob.

19 6 0
6 13 4

The chappel and scite
of the chappel of the As-
sumption of the Bl. Virgin
Mary, upon the bridge of
the town of Bristol, &c.

The chauntry of S. Mary
in Alfrcton in the county

13 0 8

8 3 1

5 5 8

1 6 8

253 8 0
Nihil.

342 2 2

486 0 0

562 5 4

5 13 4
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Job. Rede.

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Rafe Standish.

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The raaior
commonalty ol
city of Bristol.

Thorn. Babing

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409

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guild, 8fc,

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pital of Castleton
nd coQDty, and di-
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of the land of the
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407 4 0

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John White and
SteF. KyrtDQ.

Robert Drary, kt.

Henry Foisted and
William More.

Will. Chester and
Christopher Nede-
ham.

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AA.

Archbishop Cranmer^a Treatise of Unwritten Verities,

MSS. D. IN the day of Pentecost, whan the Holy Ghoofit de-
gV ^j^^ scended upon the apostles and discyples of Chryst, they
recey ved suche grace and goostly knowlege, that they hade
forthwith the gyfte of the understandynge of Scrypture, to
speak in the tonges of al men : and also that upon whomso"
ever they layde theyr handes, the Holy Ghoste should de-
scend upon them : and therupon they by theyr preachyng
and good doctryn converted in short tyme great multitudes
of people unto the fayth of Christ. And after that, dyyers
blessed men in strength of the fayth, wrote the lyfe, mi-
racles, doctryne, passion, death, and resurrection of our
mayster Chryst : but four of those writings were only re-
ceyved by al the whole Church of Chryst, that is to say, of
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And they receyved them
to be of such auctoryty, that it should not be lawful to any
man that would confess Chryst, to deny them. And they
were called the Jour Gospels of Christ And the Epystles of
. Paul, the Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles that be caDed
canonyTce^ and the Apocalyps, were receyved to be of lyke
auctoryty as the Gospels were. And thus by assent as wel
of the people as of the clergy, was the New Testament
afF3rrmed to be of such auctoryty as it is now taken to be of,
and as it is of indede : so that it is not lawful to deny any
thyng that it aflfirmeth, ne to affirme any thyng that it deny-
eth. And it is no mervayle though it be taken to be of such
strength. For it was auctorysed, whan the people that were
newly converted to the fayth were ful of grace and of devo-
tion, replenished with vertues, desyryng al way the lyfe to
come, and the helthe of thejrr own souls, and of theyr
neyghbours.

Than also were blessed bishops, blessed preestes, and
other blessed persons of the clargy. And what could such
men ask of God ryght wisely, that sholde be denyed them ?
And who may thynk, but that they, and al the people at the

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said auctorizing of the Scripture, prayed devoutly for the
issistaunce of the Holy Gost, that they might have grace to
siuctoryze such as shold be to his honour, to the encrease of
his fay th, and to the helth of the souls of al his people ?

The time also that thys auctoryzing of the New Testa-
ment, and the gather3mg it togyder was made, was, as I
suppose, the tyme of the moost high and gracyous sheddyng
out of the mercy of God into the world, that ever was from
the begynnyng of the world unto thys day : and I mean the
^rme that was from the incarnation of Christ unto [i. e. until]
the sayd auctorys3niig of the New Testament was accom-
plished. For in part of that tyme our Lord was here hym-
self in bodyly presence, preach3niig and teachjmg hys laws,
gatheryng and chusyng hys apostels and dysciplcs, that
sholde teach and preach hys laws, whan he was gone : which gQ
they did not only by word, but also by good examples, that
yet remayne unto thys day : so that al that tyme may in
maner be called the golden tyme. And not only the New
Testament was than recey ved, but also the Old Testament :
and by preachjrng and teachyng of these Testaments was the
faytb of Chryst mervaylously encreased in many countrees.

After al thys, by a common speakyng among the people,
the byshops, preests, and other of the clergy, which were as
lantemes unto the people, and the specyal maynteyners of
the Christen fayth, were called tiie Chyrche^ or men of the
Chyrche : and imder the colour of that name chyrchey many
of the clergy in proces of tyme pretended, that they might
make expositions of Scripture, as the universal Chyrche of
Christ, that is to say, as the hole congregation of Christen
people myght. And therupon whan covetyse and pryde
somewhat encresed in many of the clargy, they expounded
very favourably dy vers texts of Scripture, that sounded to
the mayntenaunce of theyr bmiour, power, jurisdiction, and
ryehes : and over that, take upon them to afiirme, that they
were the Chyrche that myght not erre ; and that Christ and
his apostells had spoken and tau^t many thyngs that were
not expresly in Scripture ; and that the people were as wel
bound to love them, and that under lyke payne, as if tbey

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had ben expressed in Scripture, and called them tmtmUen
verities. Wherof I shal, as for an example, recyte part.

Fyrst, That Christ after hys maundye, and after he had
washen the fete of his apostles, taught them to make hdj
cream, for ministradon of the sacraments ; and that they
have as ful auctoryty to do the same, as yf it had been con-
teyned in Scripture, that Christ had gyven them power to
do it.

That it is a tradicion of the apostles, that ymages ought
to be set up.

That the apostels ordeyned that al faithful people should
resort to the Chyrch of Rome, as to the most hygh and
principal chyrch of al other : and yet it cannot be proved
by Scripture, ne by any other sufficient auctoryty, that they
made any such ordynaunce.

Also, that the Creed, which is commonly and universally
used to be sayd by the common people, was made by the
twelve apostles : and though the articles therof are firmdy
and stedfastly to be beleved of every Christen man, as arty-
cles sufficiently proved by Scripture, yet that they were ga-
thered togyder by the XII apostels. And specially, that
every one of the apostels made one artycle, as paynters shew
that they did, cannot be proved by Scripture ; ne is it not
necessary to be beleved for our salvation. And though it
were but a smal ofiFence in the people to beleve that it were
an article necessary to be beleved for our salvation, because
the clergy, which be the lanternes and leders unto the peo-
ple, do instruct them that it is so ; and it is nether agaynst
the law of God, nor the law of reason, but that it may be so:
yet it is a great offence to the clergy, to affyrme for certayn
the thyng that is to themself uncertayne. And therfore it
would be reformed for eschewyng of offignces unto the clergy.
97 Also, that the people shal pray into the est is not proved
by Scripture. And yet they say, that by the tradicion of the
apostles it is to be beleved.

Also, that our lady was not bom in orygynal synne.

That she was assumpte into heven, body and soule.

All these, and many others, divers of the clergy cal un-

OF ORIGINALS. 418

written veryUe^^ l^t in the world by the tradicion and rela-
doa of the apostles, which, as they say, the people are bound
to bel^ve AS wel as Scripture ; for they say, that sy th no man
w«?e bound to bdeve Scripture, but bycause the Chyrch
say th. This is Scripture, so they say, that in the thyngs be-
fore rehersed, the Chyrche wy tnesseth them to be true ; and
that the people have assented to them many yeres: wherfore
it is not lawful to doubt at them, ne to denye them. To
this reason it may be answered, that yf it can be proved by
as good and as hygh auctoryte, that these thyngs were left
in the world by the tradicion and relacion of the apostles, as
the auctorynng of Scripture was, that than they are to be
bdeved as veryly as Scripture : but yf they be wytnessed to.
be so by some byshops and priests, and some other of the
clergy only, or that they be wytnessed to be so by decrees
and laws made by byshops of Rome, and by the clergy of
RcHne, or by opinion of doctors onely ; than no man is
bound to accept them, ne beleve them, as they are bound to
beleve Scripture: for Scripture, as it is sayd before, was
auctorysed by the hole Chyrche of God, and in the most
elect and moost gracious tyme, that of lykelyhode hath ben
ayth the begynnyng of Christs Chyrche. And yf it be sayd
that many of the sayd opynions have ben affirmed and ap-
proved by general councels, in whom no error may be pre-
sumed, it may be answered, that though the Chyrch ga-
thered together in the Holy Ghost may not erre in thyngs
perteyning to the fayth, that yet forasmoche as some general
councils have ben gathered, and not by the power of kyngs
and princes, that be heads of the Chyrche, and that laws
have ben also made at such general councels, of divers
thyngs which have not pertejmed to the fayth, but to the
mayntenance of the auctoryte or profyt of the clergy, or of
soch artycles as ar before rehersed, that they cal unwrytten
veryiieSy which undoubtedly perteyn not merly to the fayth,
that it may therfore be lawfully doubted, whether soch coun-
cels were gathered in the Holy Goost or not, and whether
they erred in their judgments or not. And it is no doubt,
but that in some general councils they have done so indede. <

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And I suppose that there be but few matters mcnre neces-
sary ne more expedyent for k}aigs and princes to loke
upon, than upon these unwrytten veryties, and of making
of laws by the clergy. For yf they be suffered to mayntayn
that there be any verytyes, which the people are bound to
beleve upon payn of dampnacion besyde Scripture, it wyl
persuade partly an insufficiency in Scripture, and therupcm
myght follow great daungers many wayfes. And yf it were
admy tted, that the clergy myght be receaved to affirme that
there be soch verytyes beade Scripture, yet they could mX
prove them. For if they wold in profe therof say, that the
Qg apostles fyrst taught those verities, and that they have 80
cont}aiued from one to another unto thys day, and shew
none other auctority therof but that, than al the saying may
as lightly be denyed as it was affirmed, and with as hygh
auctoryty. And jrf they wil ferther attempt to a{^rove it
by laws made by the byshops of Rome, and by the clergy at
Rome, yea, or by laws and decrees made at general councils;
yet these laws and decrees may be lawfully doubted at, as
before appeareth : so that they cannot by reason therof diyve
any necessitye of belefe into any person.

Wherfore kjmgs and prynces, that have receaved of God
the hygh power and charge over the people, are bound to
prohybyte soch sayings upon great payns ; and not to suflre
a belefe to be grounded upon thyngs uncertayne.

But yet yf some of the sayd articles, that be called wn-
wrytten verities^ were suffered to contjmue as thjmgs that
be more lyke to be true than otherwyse, and no necessities
belefe to be deryved therupon, I suppose verely it myght
wel be suffered, that they shuld stand styl, not prohybyte;
as it is of that artycle, that the XII apostles made the Cr^e :
that it is good to pray into the est ; that our Lady was not
born in original sin ; that she was assumpted body and soul :
and therfore yf it were orde3niied by kyngs and princes, that
no man, upon payne to be taken as a breaker of the quyet-
nes of the people, shuld deny any of the sayd articles, it
were wel done to kepe unytie among the people. But divers
realms may ordre soch thyngs diversely, as they shal seme

OF ORIGINALS. 415

convenyent, after the dysposition of the people ther. For
they be but thyngs indyfferent, to be beleved or not be-
leved, and are nothyng lyke to Scripture, to the Artycles of
the Fay th, the X Commaundements, ne to soch other moral
lemjmgs, as are merely dery ved out of Scripture : for they
must of necessity be beleved and obeyed of every Christen
man. For after Sajmt Paul ad Ephes. IIII. there must be
Dne God, one fayth, and one baptisme. But to suffi'e them
to stand as unnorytten veryties, that may not be denyed,
ind to have theyr auctoryty onely by laws made by the
clergy, it semeth daungerous : for it myght cause many of
he dergy to esteme more power in the clergy than ther is
.ndede ; and that myght lift many of them into a hygher
estimation of themself than they ought to have. Wherby
tnyght follow great daunger unto the people : for as long as
there be disorders in the clergy, it wyl be hard to bryng the
people to good ordre.

And al this that I have touched before may be reformed
without any rebuke to the clergy that now is. For the pre-
tence of soch unwrytten veryties, ne yet of makyng of laws^
to bynd kyngs and princes and theyr people, ne yet that
both powers, that is to say, spiritual and temporal, were in
the clergy, began not in the clergy that now is, but in theyr
predecessours.

And as to the sayd other pretenced unwritten veryties,

that is to say, that al men shuld resort to Rome, as to the most

high and principal Chyrche ; and that it is a tradyclon and

unwrytten veryty, that ymages ought to be set up ; it were

wel done, that they and soch other opinions, wherby pryde,

covetyse, or vain glory myght spring hereafter, were pro- 99

hybyte by auctorytie of the Parlament upon great paynes.

And as to the sayd unwrytten verytie, that holy creame

shuld be made after the maundie, it perteyneth onely to them

that have auctoritie to judge, whether it be an unwrytten

veritie or not, and to judge also what is the very auctoritie

of makyng of that creame. And therfore I wyl no fcrther

speke of that matter at thys tyme.

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BB.

Sir William Paget j an^a^fiodor wiih ihe Emperor, hi4 lelkr

to ike Lord Protector.
Cott. Libr. SIR, After my most humble commendations to your Grace.
' Albeit ye shal perceive by our common letters the maner of
our proceding with Mons. D** Arras and his oHnpany, wharf
we have deferred to advertise your Grace, upon trust to
have had ere this time answer of the Emperors mind m cer-
tain points touched in our conference ; yet I have thought
it toy part to render a reason to your Grace of the manerrf
my proceding, to the intent, if your Grace like the same, I
may perfect my be^nning therein ; and if your Grace thmk
good otherwise, that then you may inform me of your jJe-
sure, which I wil not fiul to follow accordingly.

And first. Sir, I consider that the chief cause of my
onning hither is to desciphre the Emperor; which is d-
vided into two branches : the one, for the confirmation rf
the old treaty ; and the other, to bring him with us into war
against France ; if he wil assent, as I suppose he wil, and we
look hoiu*ly to know the certainty.

To the confirmation then, may it seem to your Grace,
that notwithstanding any practice that hath been used to him
by any other against you, and notvnthstanding the proced-
ings at home, he mindeth to entertain your friendship. If
he assent to the understanding of my cause put to them,
then is there a more hope of his fnendship. If he wil
be content also to accept Boloygn into defence upon rea-
son reciproque, then by al likelihood, considering in what
doubtfulnes Boloign is at present to be assailed, hee wil not
stick to enter enimity with France: and also is determined
(in my poor opinion, under correction of your Grace,) to fill
out with them in respect of his own affairs, though you
should not move the same. But if he wil agree to the first
point only, or to the first and second, then, Sir, you know
whereto to trust at his hands, and must maintain your aflairs
with France of your selves. And then in this case to move
100 him to joyn with you for invasion against France with an
army, and not to come to a lesser point, which is the mean

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to a greater, I think it shal but discover you too much, and
hinder your doings hereafter peradventure with France ; and
therefore rather to pas it over in silence.

Nqw, Sir, if, as I said, he assent to the third point, viz, to
accept Boloygn into defence, I think also it shal be best not
to q>eak of the common invasion with armies : for I am of
opinion, that tho^ you bind not your self to & common inva-
sion, yet wil he the next year invade : and so need not you
to do, except you list. And if you wil, you may : mary, at
Kbeirty. And tho^ he do enter into invasion for his own
quarrels, or France with him, yet need you not to go further
(except your affairs lead you) than the Emperor hath and
doth now virith the Scots : so as I conclude upon this my
blind nibbling at tbe matter, that you need not to have any
mention made of common invasion : for you mean not but to
bring him in ; and this way for the defence of Bolign serveth
wel enough for the purpose, without entangling your self
further in the war than you shal wel get out of it again,
when you shal be weary of it. Neither, if they here shal
move the common invasion, and wil not otherwise to accept
the defence of Boloygn, then rather to joyn in the common
invasion, than to let slip the anchor hold.

And thus fEur, Sir, I have shewed your Grace my simple
opbion in this matter, beseeching your Grace both to take
the same in good part, and also to signify to me your plea-
sure therein, and whether you think it not good for the King,
that I move the points to be added to the treaty, viz. that
he shall be common enemy (besides the case of invasion)
that surprizeth any of the Kings and the Emperors forts, in
aniy the places comprehended in the treaties on both sides,
(a that now shal come into comprehension. Iterriy That safe
conduct to traffic shal be neither ^ven nor taken, either to
your common enemy, or of your own subjection. And your
Graces pleasure known in these points, I think to make an
end of the matter shortly ; and they here seem to look for
the same.

As for the matter of mi^iage, seing it hath been broached
there, and largely refreshed by us here, I desuia^also your

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plesure, if they speak no more of it, whether we shal eftsones

enter the same ; for a thing I note, that hitherto they hare

given us leave to move al the overtures in al points, and th^

only give ear : which I pray your Grace to consider, and to

signify your pleasure fully in every thing accordingly. And

thus with my most humble commendations to my Ladies

Grace, I pray God send you both long life and good hcalthi

and as wel to do as I would mine own self. Fhhu Brusaeb,

the last of June 1549.

Will Paget

101 CC.

TTie Protector's and CoundTa answer to Pagefs letters,
Ubi supra. AFTER our right herty commendations : We have aeea
your letters of the 25 of June, the answer whenmto haa§
deferred hitherto, we received yesterday your oth« kClen
of the last of the saipe month : and by them both do under-
stand at good length your procedings hitherto both with the
Emperor and his Council. Wherin hke as you have laid i
good foundation, and wel entred the matter, so have we no
doubt but you wil in likewise procede to the rest, acocsding
to your accustomable good wisdom and foresight; and by
the answer to be made from the Emperor upon this your
conference with the Council, we think, ye shal se much of
his determination, and to what effect this your journey is
like to grow : wherupon we may also be occasioned to write
further as shal be then thought good. In the mean time tct
answer unto such points, as by your further letters to m^
the secretary, and sithence by your others you desire to be
answered, we have thought good to signify, as followeth:

First, Where you would know, whether you shal fmrbear
to enter any treaty of that part of your instructions touch-
ing a jo3mt invasion or enimity against France, til furthtf
knowledge of the French procedings ; you shal understand,
that from France, notwithstanding our sending, and thdr
former answers, (as you know,) we never heard any thing til
yesterday. And by letters from Mr. Wotton, we were ad-

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vertised, that the French King hath appointed for commis-
aoners on his part Monsr. de Rochepot, Monsr. de Chas-
tilKon, and one Monsr. de Mortier, one of the masters of the
Requests ; al three of the Councel. At the naming of whom,
albeit the constable gave our ambassador very good words ;
yet for that the two chief of these men be officers upon their
bontiers, and named by them contrary to the request made
on our behalf, we doubt much what shal ensue of this meet-
ing, notwithstanding al their fair words. And yet that not-
withstanding we were of opinion before the receipt of your
latter letters, that it should be best for sundry conside-
rations, that you forbear to speak any thing of this joynt
hostility. In which opinion these your letters have more
cxxnfitmed us : and therefore for that matter we require you
to forbear to speak any thing of it. But if the matter shall
upon any occasion be set forth by the Emperors Council,
yoa may give ear unto it : and shewing your selves, as of
your selves, by some good general words, not unwilling to .
hear of it. Entertain their talk by such means, and after
such sort as you shal think best, to feel and suck out their
^Bsposition, and what they desire, as much as you may.

And touching the comprehension of Buloign, wherin it
seem^h they make some stay, we think good also, you for-
bear to require the same any more. We need not repeat
unto you the charges or dangerous keeping, the smal com-
modities, and many troubles the Kings Majesty hath with
that towne, and the members thereunto neer adjoyning.
And if at any time after this, upon some reasonable recom- 102
penoe^ or for any other just or honorable ground, it should
like the Kings Majesty to leave that towne, then should his
Mi^esty and the realm be always without any cause bur-
thened with that reciproque, which should be now received
into this comprehension for Bulloygn : and therfore, and for
sondry other causes, we think best you overslip that matter
tot comprehension.

And where by the former treaty with th'*esclarishement
joynt hostility is not entred, but only for invasion with eight
thousand then, we would wish, if they may be lM*ought to

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assent thereunto, that the covenant be made that the jomt
enunity shal be for any invaaon to be made by puUic officers
or authority with the number of five hundred [five thou-
sand.] And that this joint hostility should be not only for
such an invasion, but also for the surprizing dT any fort, now
in the possession of either of the said princes within any of
their countries comprized in the said former treaty.

Touching your desire to know, if they shal agree to the
confirmation of the treaties after such or like swt as you
have proponed, within what time you shal agree, that the
confirmation shal be made on both ddes; for as much as you
know the ratification in that case is to be made on the Kings
Majesties behalf by authority of Parliament, which caimol
be assembled before Allhallowntide at the neerest, you must
of force to take the larger day, and may agree to Candlemas.

As for the names of the countries that shal confirm the
said treaty on the Emperors behalf, we think4liat the Low
Countries named in the former treaty must ratify it by the
same several orders, by which they, make laws and ordi-
nances to bind their successors, like as for the Sang, it is to
be don by Parlament. But if they shal make strange to
have the same so confirmed, you may conclude for the rati-
fication of it by the Emperors Majesty and the Prince only;
and that within one month or six weeks after your agrement
and conclusion of your treaty.

Touching those questions you require to be answered,
what dote shal be offered with the Lady Mary, we would
you had not gon at the first so high, as to offer 100,000
crowns, which is the most may be granted ; and yet the same
to be moderated in respect of the dower that shall be given
by the Infant of Portugal. And as they shal ofer les or
more, so may you, as your self hath already said to than,
offer more or less, not exceeding in any case the offer of
100,000 crowns. The days of payment may be aggreed
upon wel enough hereafter, as the matter shal grow to mcwe
ripenes. In the treating and debating wherof you wil, we
doubt not, remember unto them, besides many other rircum-
stances, the possibility the Lady Mary standeth in with us:

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which albeit we trust in God shal never take effect, yet it is
nevertheles to be laid as a very great matter, by means she
is of reason to be the more honorably provided for : and her
dower cannot in reason be les than 20,000 crowns a year.
In this matter of manage wherin, as you write, you have
already largely spoken, if they shal speak no more of it, we
would you should likewise pas over the same in silence. For
besides that the Lady Mary, being the woman, is rather to
be sued for, than offered ; we think that having so much been
qpoken in that matter as there hath both here and there, it
seemeth that they either look to be much sued unto, or do 103
not much like it : and therefore we can be wel contented,
that it hath thus been once commoned of, and so leave it as
before. Mary, if that matter shal chance to come again in
communication, we have thought good that you, as of your
self, did cast forth a word or two shortly touching Boloign,
with the members neer adjoyning, to feel their disposition,
and how they would like it, if you could obtain it to be re-
leased to the Emperor with this manage of my Lady Mary.
You know there shal be due for it, and the rest, to the King
two millions of gold. And besides, that this town might
stand the Emperor in great sted, to make some bargain for
exidiange of it with some other town. We mean not this as
a matter here resolved to be offered, but for that we would
b^in to have their minds feeled, what desire the Emperor
would have to have the same, or how he would barken to it.
Whidi thing we would gladly have closely fished out by as
good policy and covert means as you can devise, either upon
talk of the matter of this manage, or upon any other occa-
sioii as you shall think best : and yet the matter to be so
handled, as they may by no means gather that this proced-
eth from hence.

We do al like very wel your motion, that it be added to
the former treaty, that where the joynt hostility is or shal be,
neither prince shal grant any safe conduct to any commcxi
enemy, to traffic in his realm, nor suffer any of his subjects
to traffic with any such common enemy. Wherin, and in the
oth^ p(nnts before mentioned, you may treat and oonohidv

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with them accordingly, &c. So bidding you most heartily
farewel : from Richmond, 4 July, 1549.

Your assured loving friends,
E. Somerset. W. Sent Jolrn.

R. Ryche, Cane. W. Petre, S.

John Baka%.
To our very loving friend. Sir Will. Paget,
comptroller of the Kings Majesties most
honorable household, presently ambassa-
dor for his Highnes with the Emperor.

DD.

Tlie Lord PHvy Seed to the Council^ concerning the def&A

of the rebels in the west.

Cott. laUr. UPON Friday we marched from Exeter to Kirton ; seven
* miles of the way was very cumberous : and on that day went
no further. On Saturday we marched towards the camp at
Sampford Courtney ; and by the way our scouts and the re-
bels scouts encountred upon the Sunday on a sudden : and
104 in a skirmish between them was one Maunder taken, who
was one of the chief captains. Order was given to my Lad
Gray and Mr. Herbert, for the winning of time, to take a
good part of our army, and with the same to make with al
diUgence possible towards the said camp, to view and se what
service might be don for the invasion therof. They found
the enemy strongly encamped, as wel by the seat of the
ground, as by the intrench of the same. They kept them
play with great ordinance, til more convenient way was made
by the pioners : which don, they were assaulted with good
courage on the one side with our foot men, and on the other
side with the Italian harquebutters in such sort, as it was
not long before they turned their backs, and recovered the
town, which they before had fortified for al events. While
this was doing, and I yet behind with the residue of the
army, conducting the cariage, Humfrey Arundel, with his
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busied with the assault of the camp : the sudden shew of
irhom wrought such fear in the hearts of our men, as we
wished our power a great deal more, not without good cause.
For remedy wherof, the L. Gray was fain to leave Mr.
Herbert at the enterprize against the camp, and to retyre to
our last horsemen and footmen: whom he caused to turn
their faces to the enemy in shew of battail against Arundel.
There was nothing for an hour but shooting of ordinance
to and fro. Mr. Herbert in this mean time followed the first
attempt, who, pressing stil upon them, never breathed til he
had driven them to a plain fight. To the chase came forth
horsemen and footmen : in the which were slain five or six
hundred of the rebels : and among them was slain one Under-
hil, who had the charge of that camp.

At the retyre of our men I arrived, and because it waxed
late, I thought good to loose no time, but appointed Sir
WilL Herbert and Mr. Eyngston, with their footmen and
horsemen, to set on the one side, my L. Gray to set on their
fiice, and I with my company to come on the other side :
uponthe aght whereof the rebels stomacks so fel from them,
as without any blow they fled. The horsemen followed the
diase, and slew to the number of seven hundred, and took a
tar greater number. Great execution had followed, had not
the night came on so fast.

Al this night we sat on horseback ; and in the morning we
had word that Arundel was fled to Launceston : who imme-
diatdy began to practise with the townsmen, and the keepers
of Grenefield, and other gentlemen, for the murder of them
that night The keepers so much abhorred this cruelty, as
they immediately set the gentlemen at large, and gave them
their aid, with the help of the town, for the apprehension of
Arundel : whom with four or five ringleaders they have im-
[nrisoned. I have sent incontinently both Mr. Carews [Sir
George and Sir Peter Carow] with a good band to keep
the town in a stay. And this morning I hast thither with
the rest..

We have taken fifteen pieces of ordinance, some bras and
flom iron. Of our part there were many hurt» but

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passing ten or twelve slain. The Lord Gray and Mr. Her-
bert have served notably. Every gentleman and captain
did thdr part so wel, as I wot not wel whom first to com-
mend. I have given ord^ to al the ports, that none of the
rebels shal pas that way, &c.

105 EE.

TTie Duke of Somerset ^ lord protectory to Sir Philip Hobyj
ambassador with the Emperor, imparting mteUigence of
the insurrections.

Cott. Ubr. KNOWING that al such as be embassadors abroad are
desirous not only of news for the love they bear to their
country, naturally desiring often to hear of the state of it;
but also to confirm or confute such rumours as be spred in
the parts where they live ; we have thought good to impart)
what sith our last letters hath chanced. The Devonshire
men, as wel chastised as appeased. Three others of that
captains have voluntarily come in, and simply submitted
themselves to Sir Tho. Pomery, Wise, and Harris ; who be-
fore were fled and could not be found. And the country
Cometh in daily to my Lord Privy Seal by hundreds and
thousands, to crave their pardon, and to be put in some sure
hope of grace. Burry, and some one or two more of their
blind guides that escaped from the sword, have attempted in
the mean season to stir up Somersetshire, and have gotten
them a band or camp : but they are sent after, and we trust
by this they have as they deserve.

The Earl of Warwick lyeth neer to the rebels in Norfolk;
which fain now would have grace gladly, so that al might be
pardoned. Keate [Eet] and the other archtraitors in the
number, upon that is [at] a stay : and they daily shrink so
fast away, that there is great hope that they wil leave their
captains destitute and alone to receive their worthy reward.
The which is the thing we most desire, to spare as much as
may be the effusion of bloud, and namely, that of our own
nation.

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In Yorkshire a commotion was attempted the week last
past; but the gentlemen were so soon upon them, and so
forward, that it was suppressed, and with weeping eyes the
rest upon their knees: they wholly together desired the
gentlemen to obtain their pardons. The which the Kings
Majesty hath so granted unto them, as may stand with his
Highnes honour : so that for the inner parts, thanks be to
Almighty God, the case standeth in good point.

The causes and pretences of their uproars and risings are
divers and uncertain, and so fill of variety almost in every
camp, as they cal them, that it is hard to write what it is ;
as ye know is like to be of people without head and rule,
and would have that they.wot not what. Some cry. Pluck
down inclosures and parks ; some for their commons ; others
pretend reli^on ; a number would rule and direct things,
as gentlemen have don: and indeed al have conceived a
w<Hiderful hate against gentlemen, and take them al as their
enemies. The ruffians among them, and soldiers cashiered,
which be the chief doers, look for spoil : so that it seems no
other thing, but a plague and a fury among the vilest and
worst sort of men. For except only Devon and Comwal, lo6
and there not past two or three ; in al other places not one
gentleman or man of reputation was ever amongst them, but
against their wills, and as prisoners. In Norfolk, gentlemen,
and al serving men for their sakes, are as illy handled as
may be : but this broyl is wel asswaged, and in maner at a
point shortly to be fully ended with the grace of God, &c.
Thus we bid you right heartily farewel. Aug. 24.

FF.

TTie Duke tf Somerset to Sir Philip Hoby^ concerning the
suppression of the insurrections in the west, and in
Norfolk.

AFTER our right harty commendations ; We have her- Cott.Libr.
tofore advertised you of the troublesome busines, uproars^ If^ ^
and tumults, practised in simdry places of the realm, by a

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number .<^ leud, seditious, and il disposed persons, to the ^
great disquietnes both of the Kings Majesty, and al other
his Highnes quiet and loving subjects. Which tumults and
commotions, albeit at the beginning they were spread in
many parts of the realm, yet in the end were wel pacified
and quieted, saving Devon, and Cornwa], and Norfolk;
where they continued their rebelhon so stubbornly, as the
Kings Majesty was forced to send the Kings Highnes hen-
tenant, with a power both ways, the sooner to suppres them
and bring them to their duty; viz. my Lord Privy Seal 6f
Devon and Comwal, and the Earl of Warwick into Nor-
folk. And hke as we have heretofore signified unto yoa
the procedings of my Lord Privy Seal in his journey, whkh
by his politic and wise handling of the matter, after the
slaughter of more than a thousand of the rebels, and execu-
tion of some of the ringleaders, he hath, thanks be to God,
so honorably atchieved and finished, as not only the coun-
try remaineth presently in good order, but also the multi-
tude so repent their former detestable and naughty doings,
as they abhor to hear themselves spoken of.

So you shal understand, that in Norfolk the living God
hath so wrought by the wisdom and manlines of my Lord
of Warwick, that they also are brought to subjection by
such means as insueth. The said rebels, having travailed
by the space of one month or more, to allure to them such
numbers of light persons as they might ; and partly by that
means, and partly by force and violence, at the last had as-
sembled together a great number, did after encamp them-
selves neer the city of Norwich : which city they had at their
commandment, and therin had placed their victuals and
other provisions, whereof they had gotten large furniture.
My Lord of Warwick coming to those parts, after he had
thorowly understood the state of the rebels, knowing the
better part of them to be such simple persons, as were either
constrained by force, or otherwise seduced by those of the
107^orser sort, thought best to use such means for subduing
of them as might be with least effusion of bloud, and pu-
nishment only of the heads and captains ; and for this cause

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travaiHiig first to cut off their victuals, did approach the
city of Norwich, which within short time he obtained ; and
at the getting of it, overthrew a great number of the rebels.
By which means he so bridled them, and cut off their vic-
tuals, as they were fain to live three days with water for
drink, and eat their meat without bread. Wherupon Thurs-
day last, issuing out of their camps into a plain neer ad-
jcyning, they determined to fight, and like mad and des-
perateinen ran upon the sword : where a thousand of them
bong slain, the rest were content to crave their pardon.

One Ket, a tanner, being from the beginning a chief doer
among them, fled ; and the rest of the rebels casting away
their weapons and hames, and asking pardon on their knees
with weeping eyes, were by the L. of Warwick dismissed
home without hurt, and pardoned, the chief heads, ring-
leaders, and posts excepted. Ket, with three of his bre-
thren, with other three chief captains, al vile persons, were
also taken, who now remain, in hold, to receive that which
they have deserved.

Thus are these vile wretches, that have now of a long
time troubled the realm, and as much as in them lay gon
about to destroy and utterly undo the same, come to confu-
non. So that we trust verily that these traitors, mutiners,
and rebellions, have now an end, lauded be God, &c. And
thus we bid you heartily wel to fare. Sept. 1, 154<9.

GG.

Sir William Paget to Hie Lord Pjvtector, upon his rough
usage of some gentlemen. Writ May 8, 1549.

IF I loved not your Grace so deeply in my heart as it Cott. Libr.
•annot be taken out, I could hold my peace, as some others ^^*™' ^* ^
lo, and say little or nothing; but my love to your Grace,
knd good hope that you take my meaning wel, hath enforced
ne to ngnify unto your Grace, that unles your Grace do
pare quietly shew your plesure in things wherin you ¥ril
lebttte with other men, and hear them again gracioiisly aay

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their opinions, when you do require it, that wil ensue when^
I would be right sory^.and your Grace shal have first cause
to repent : that is, that no man shal dare speak to you what
he thinks, though it were never so necessary ; tor you know
it : which in the end wil be dangerous unto you. For mine
own self I must confess, or else I were to blame, that [being]
one of the Council, you hear me speak very gently and gra-
ciously; mary, I think for the most part I speak as one that
have no experience, wherby your Grace seldom.is moved to
follow my advice. But in Council, as I am more liberal to
speak than others, (which if your Grace mislike, and take
for a fault, I wil most willingly amend it,) so your Grace
108 nipps me so sharply sometimes, as if I knew not your con-
ditions wel, and were not assured of your favour, I might
many times, ere this time, have been blanked for speaking
frankly.

Now then. Sir, if other honest men, not so wel acquainted
with your nature as I am, having to do with your Grace in
the Kings Majesties affair, and having occadon by your
own appointment and wil to say their opinions honestly and
sincerely unto you, shal be snapped, God knows what loss
you shal have by it. By the living God, if I knew not how
much men of service be troubled withal, I would never
write this much. Poor Sir Richard Alte this afternoon,
after your Grace had very sore, and too much more than
needed, rebuked him, came to my chamber weeping, and
there complaining, as far as became him, of your handling
of him, seemed almost out of his wits, and out of heart.
Your Grace to be sure have put him clean [out of counte-
nance.] I know that like fashion of the King, that dead is,
to him, had almost cost him his life. Your Grace perad-
venture thinketh it nothing; but by God, Sir, if you would,
as I wrot once to you, cal to your remembrance, how that
as you speake sometimes to men, saying their opinions con-
trary to that which you have conceived, if a king or car-
dinal in times past should have spoken to you, it would
have pricked you at the stomac. You shal wel feel that
words spoken by the Lord Protector goeth to a mans heart

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Howsoever it cometh to pas I cannot tel, but of late your
Grace is grown in great cholerick fashions, when soever you
are contraried in that which you have conceived in your
head. A king, which shal give men occasion of discourage
to say their opinions frankly, receiveth thereby great hurt
and peril to his realm. But a subject in great authority, as
your Grace is, using such fashion, is like to fal into great
danger and peril of his own person, beside that to the com-
monweal : which, for the very love I bear to your Grace, I
beseech you, and for Gods sake, consider and weigh wel.
And also when the whole Council shall move you, or give
you advice in a matter, like as they did of late for sending
of men to Bulloygn, to follow the same, and to relent some^
times from your own opinion : your surety shal be the more,
and your burden the less.

I trust your Grace wil take this letter in good part, for

it procedeth from a good heart towards you, as God can

judge. To whom I pray daily for the same weldoiog to

you that I wish to mine own self. And I beseech even now

his divine Majesty to give you his holy Spirit and grace to

do al things to his glory, the Kings Majesties hcmor, and

your own surety and preservation. From my chamber in

the Court, &c.

W. P.

HH. 109

Sir WiUiam Paget^ now ambassador abroad^ to the Lord
Protector^ upon the bredki/ng out of the rebellion in the
west : the letter bearing date July 7, 1549.

SIR, having heard here what men say of your govern- cott. Libr.
ment at home, and knowing partly before my coming forth, '^^^* ^' *'
and partly sithence, how things go there, and in what termes
you stand at home, I am put into such perplexities, as I
wot not what to do. My heart bleedeth, and mine eyes, by
Gk>d, distil down with weeping tears at the writing hereof.
Fori se at hand that coming which I have now hued,gf^
zood time, the destruction of that goodly jaofi

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sovereign Lord, the subversion of the noble reahn of I!ng«
land, and the ruine of your Grace, to whom of long time I
have given my heart for the service of the King ; and whom
I have loved for the honest good nature I have judged in
you. I se, I say, this sorrowful sight at hand, unks your
Grace open your eyes of justice in this yong age of the
King : and that out of hand, out of hand, in al the basts.
If ever you have loved me, (as I believe you have, and do
love me,) if ever you think I have don your Grace any jJe»-
sure in times past, or service athence the King's fiithen
death, pardon me now, and give me leave to write to your
Grace what I think, and what my conscience binds me to
write from hence : where I am in as much care f<Nr the pro-
ceding at home, as if I were present with your Grace.

Remember what you pivmised me in the gallery at Weit-
minster, before the breath was out of the body of the King
that dead is : remember what you promised immediatdj
after, deviong with me concerning the place which you now
occupy, I trust, in the end to good purpose, howsoever
things thwart now. And that was, to follow mine advice in
al your procedings, more than any other mans. Which pro-
mise I wish your Grace had kept ; for then I am sure things
had not gon altogether as they go now. If your Grace
remember, I wrot you a letter upon either Christmas day
or Christmas even at night : which letter I would to God
you had pleased to have considered and followed, and to
have kept me as men of war use to keep their espyes, til
they se the effects of their advertisements, and therupon to
have used me accordingly. I was at Cassandra, I told your
Grace the truth, and was not believed : wel, now your
Grace seeth it. What seeth your Grace over the Kings
subjects out of al disciplin, out of obedience, caring neither
for Protector nor King, and much les for any other mean
officer. And what is the cause ? Your own lenity, your
softnes, your opinion to be good to the poor ; the opinion
of such as saith to your Grace, Oh ! Sir, there was never
man had the hearts of the poor as you have. Oh! the
commons pray for you. Sir, they say, God save your Bfe.

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I know your gentle heart right wel, and that your meaning
is good and godly, how ever some evil men hst to prate 110
here, that you have some greater enterprize in your head
that lean so much to the multitude. I know, I say, your
meaning and honest vertue. But I say. Sir, it is great pity,
as the common proverb goeth, in a warm summer, that ever
warm weather should do harm. It is pity, that your too
much gentlenes should be an occacaon of so great an evil as
is now chanced in England by these rebells ; and that sav-
ing your Graces honour, knaves say, as a knave Spanyard
coming now very lately out of England, that he saw your
6moe ride upon a fair goodly horse, but he trembled*
Mary, he was so strong and big made, that he caned both
your Grace and al the Kings Council with you at once at a
burden upon his back : if I may £nd the gentleman, (for I
seek him,) I may peradventure stop him a tyde.

Wel, Sir, things past cannot be imdon,'«nd howsoever the
success fallethy you meant wel : and therfore you must do now
duit they may be wel. Consider, I beseech you most humbly
with al my heart, that society in a realm doth consist and is
n,aint«ni b, n.eans of reU^on and laws. And these two
ctr onfe wanting, farewel al just society, farewel kings, go-
vernment, justice, al other vertue. And in cometh com-
monalty, sensuality, iniquity, and al other kinds of vice and
mischief. Look wel, whether you have either law or reli-
gion at home, and I fear you shal find neither. The use
of the old religion is forbidden by a law, and the use of the
new is not yet printed : printed in the stomacs of eleven or
twelve parts of the realm, what countenance soever men
make outwardly to please them in whom they se the power
Deateth. Now say for the law, where is it used in England
at liberty? Almost no where. The foot taketh upon him
the part of the head, and commyns [meaning the commons]
18 become a king ; a king appointing conditions and laws to
lie governors, saying. Grant this and that, and we wil go
lome. Alas ! alas ! that ever this day should be seen in
his time : and would to God, that at the first stir you had
bllowed the matter hotly, and caused justice to have been

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ministred in solemn fSEU^ion to the terror of others, and then
to have granted a pardon. But to have granted pardons
out of course, (I beseech your Grace bear with my zeal,) they
did ever as mich good to the purpose which you meant, as
the Bishop of Romes pardons were wont to do : which ra-
ther, upon hope of a pardon, gave men occasion and courage
to sin, than to amend their faults. And so have your par-
dons given evil men a boldnes to enterprize as they do, and
cause them to think you dare not meddle with than, but
are glad to please them. Be it right or wrong, they must
have it : victuals, they say, wools, cloths, and every other
thing is dear : they must have a new price at their pleasure.
By and by the commons must be pleased : you must take
pity upon the poor mens children, and of the conservatJOB
and stay of this realm : and put no more so many irons in
the fire at once, as you have had within this twelve month.
War with Scotland, with France, tho^ it be not so termed:
commissions out for this matter : new laws for this : prodap
mation for another: one in anothers neck so thick, that thej
be not set by among the people.

What a good year be the inclosures lately made, that
these people repine now at ? Is victuals and other things so
dear in England, and no where else ? Is tlie state wharin
111 they live a new kind of life put into them ? If it be so, th^
have some cause to complain to the King. But victuals and
other things be so dear in other realms as they be in Eng-
land. Which they are indeed and so dear ; and that I know
and feel here right wel ; for I spend twice as much as I did
at my last being here, and yet I keep no greater counte-
nance. If they and their fathers before them have lived
quietly above these sixty years, pastures being enclosed, the
most part of these rufBers have the least cause to compkdn,
the matter being wel weighed. What is the matter then,
troweth your Grace ? By my faith. Sir, even that which I
said to your Grace in the gallery at the Tower the next day
after the Kings first coming there, Liberty, liberty. And
your Grace would have too much gentleness, which mig^
have been avoided, if your Grace would have followed mj

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advice. In giving wherof, as I have been somewhat frank
with your Grace apart, and seen little fruit come of it, so
liave I been discouraged at your Graces hands in open
Council to say mine opinion, as much as ever man was. But
as for that, albeit the matter had grieved me not a little,
yet afiterwards thinking of this proverb, A man is boldest
where he loveth best, I have passed it over, and could have
bom much better, if any had seen your Grace relent to
oounsil ; I mean not of me alone : for when I give your
Grace advice in a matter which you shal perceive the rest
of the Councill to mislike, then take it for folly, and follow
it not. But when the whole Council shal joyn in a matter,
and your Grace travail to out-reason them in it, and wrast
them by reason of your authority to bow to it ; or first shew
your opinion in a matter, and then ask theirs; alas! Sir,
jiow can this gear do wel ? I know in this matter of the
commons, every man of the Council have misliked your
procedings, and wished it otherwise. I know your Grace
can say. No man shal answer the King for these things, but
I. Sir, I fear, that if you take not another way betimes in
these matters of tumult, neither you nor we shal come to
answering. And yet. Sir, I believe, if any thing chance
amiss, wherfore a reckoning shal be asked by the King, (as
I trust in God you wil foresee there shal not,) that not only
your Grace shal give the account, which have authority in
your hands, but also such as did first consent and accord to
^ve you that authority.

Methinketh I se your Grace now reading of this letter,
joid conceiving what you think of me for the same : for I
know your Graces nature as wel as any man living. If you
think as I deserve, you think me one of the truest subjects
that ever prince had; and ever so I have been. And again,
God judg it betwixt you and me, I have ever desired your
tuthority to be set forth, ever been careful of your honor
and surety ; both for now and for evermore, ever glad to
jdease you, as ever was gentle wife to please her husband,
ttid honest man his master, I wys. My good Lord, alas !
ike no more gentle, for it hath don hurt ; the more pity. I

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have never been noysome to you or tiN>uble8ome9 if it hatb
not been in matters of state, where your honor or good
procedings for the King hath come in place : and that I
have don upon a good wil and zele of your weldoingr and
wys whosoever sheweth himself most at your wil, none shal
be more readier to Uve and dy with you than I am : and 1
telieve verily that your Grace loveth me. Mary, perad-
112 venture you think me very bold with you to write in this
fashion. Alas ! Sir, pardon me, for my zele and duty to
the King, the realm, and your Grace, enforoeth me," and
my conscience also constraineth me, being (unwortby) a
counsellor.

I write this to your Grace alone, minding not to be moie
busy in Council, because I se you like it not ; seing I have
commodity otherwise to say to your Grace mine opinkn.
But if your Grace shal mislike also my private advertuft-
ments of mine opinion, then most humbly I beseech your
Grace to discharge me of the Council, and my consdenoe
shal be satisfied. And then in respect of my love to your
Grace, (which shal never fail,) I wil fal to prayer only to
God for you and your weldoing in al things.

You wil now peradventure say unto me, that I have here
made a long declamation, and spoke of many things that I
think might be amended, but I say nothing how. And
things being grown into such a dangerous tumult, I write
not what I think for mine opinion meet to be don. Yes,
Sir, that wil I do. First, your Grace must remember that
saying for the name of a king, and that you must do al
things in the name of another. Your Grace is, during the
Kings yong age of imperfection, to do his own things, as it
were a king, and have his Majesties absolute power. Then,
Sir, for a king, do like a king, in this matter especially :
take a noble courage to you for your procedings: whein
take example at other kings: and you need not seek fiiillier
for the matter : go no further than to him which dyed last,
of most noble memory, K. Henry VlII. Kept not he his
subjects, from the highest to the lowest, in due obe^ence?
and how? By the only maintenance of justice in due coom;

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which now, being brought out of course, cannot, for any
thing I 66, be brought to reputation and to an establish-
ment, but by power or force, which is a grievous hearing,
if it might be otherwise: but it is better late than never,
and now the sooner best of al. In Grerinany, when the very
like tumult to this began first, it might have been appeased
with the loss of twenty men ; and after, with the loss of an
c. or cc. But it was thought nothing, and might easily be
appeased ; and also some spiced consciences taking pity of
the poor, who indeed knew not what great pity was, nor
who were the poor, thought it a sore matter to loose so many
of their even Christian [country folks,] saying, they were
ample folk, and wist not what the matter meant, and were
of a godly knowledg : and after this sort, and by such wo-
manly pity and fond persuasion, sufiPered the matter to run
eo fiir, as it cost ere it was appeased, they say, a thousand or
two thousand mens lives. By St. Mary, better so than mo.

And therfore. Sir, go to, believe me; send for al the
Coundl that be remaining unsent abroad. And for be-
tcause there are a good many of the best absent, cal to your
•Grrace to counsil for this matter six of the gravest and most
experienced men of the realm, and consult what is best to
be don, and follow their advices. And for mine opinion, if
the matter be so far spent, as you cannot without your men
■rf war help it, send for your Almain horsemen, who ly at
Cakis, and may for a time be spared : they be in number
'fittle lack of four thousand horsemen, a goodly band as ever
I saw for so many. Send for the Lord Ferris and Sir
iWilliam Herbert, to bring you as many horsemen as they
may bring wel out of Wales, and such as they dare trust.
Let the Earl of Shrewsbury bring the like out of JDerby- 113
dhire, Salopshire, Stafford, and Nottinghamshire, of his
Mtrants, keepers of forests and parks. Send your self for
^-your trusty servants to come to you. Appoint the King
>t6 iy at Winsor, accompanied with al his officers and ser-
^rants of his household, the pensioners, the men at armes,
and the guard; and go your self in person, accompanied
^h the Almatn horsemen, and the said nobkmen and their

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companies, first into Barkshire, oommanding il the gentle*
men to attend upon your Grace by such a day, at sudi a
place, with so many trusty friends and servants as they can
make. And appoint the chief justices of England, three
or four of them, to resort with commission of oyer and
terminer, to that good town which shal be next to the {dace
where your Grace shal remain, accompanied with certaie
of the justices of the peace of the same shire : to whom
your Grace must ^ve commandment to attach him and
"him, to the number of twenty or thirty, of the rankest knayes
of the shire. If they come peaceably to justice, let six be
hanged of the ripest of them without redemption, in sundry
places of the shire ; the rest remain in prison. And if any
rich men have been favourers to them in this matta*, let
the justices take good sureties of his good bearing and ap-
pearance in the Star-chamber in the next term, to abide a
further order. Let the horsemen ly in such towns and vil-
lages as have been most busiest, taking enough for A&t
mony, that rebels may feel the smart of their villany. Take
the liberty of such towns as have offended into the Kings
hands ; you may restore them again at your plesure after-
wards. If your Grace send some of the doers away far
from their wives, to the north, or Boloign, to be soldiers or
pioners, it would do wel. Give them no good words, or
make no promise in no wise: and thus from one shire
to another make a progres this hot weather, til you have
perused al these shires that have offended sithence their
pardons.

By this means shal your Grace redub this matter within
the realm, to your great praise, honour, and estimation in al
places abroad : which, I assure your Grace by my fidelity,
is by reason hereof touched wonderfully, both here and in al
other places of Christendom. Your Grace may say, I shal
loose the hearts of the people : of the good people you shal
not, and of the evil it maketh no matter. By this means
you shal be dread, which hitherto you are not, but of a very
few that be honest men. By this means you shal driver
the King an obedient realm ; and may in the mean Ume^

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during your office, be able for the service of the King to

bommand what you list ; and so shal be able to continue it,!

if you wil meddle no more with private suits, but remit

them to ordinary courses. If you reply, Shal I not hear

poor mens cases? Why, Sir, when you send him to the

Chancery, do you not hear him ? So I do, saith your Grace,

with a letter. Yea, mary Sir, but this letter marreth al : for

it hath a countenance of your Graces favour in the matter.

And, Sir, where your Grace saith, that they be a few that

with inclosures, &c. ^ve this account. Hold your peace to

jour self, and at leisure in the winter :» let them be sent' Sense im-

tor one by one, and had in confession, and let such of them

as be offenders smart for it : wherby both the Kings Majesty

may have a profit, and the poor men, if that be the sore, be

selieved.

Lo ! Sir, thus have I truly and frankly written to your 114

Grace what I think ; and believe verily, upon the knowledg

cf mine own sincerity of conscience, that you wil take it

griciously : for I mean truly and lovingly to your Grace,

God I take to witnes, whom I beseech with al my heart

daily to send you as wel to do, as ever man had wished to

any other, &c.

WP.

me.

II.

A letter sentjrom the Lord Paget concerning BuBoign, to
the Earl of Warwick^ then lord great mastery the 22d of
Fehrua/ryy 1649.

- THESE French men, ye se how lofty they are and haul-MSS. pen.
lain in al their procedings with us ; and no mervail, for so
iiey be c^ nature, and our estate (which cannot be hidden
lato them) encreaseth their courage not a little. They wil
itfve BuUmn, they say,* by fair means or by foul : they wil
M longer be tributaries, (as they terme yt.) And here they
■i furth the power of their King, and of ours as littil as
ih^ list, with such bragging and braying terfnes and coun-
as, yf your Lordship had heard and seen Rochepot,

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ye would have judged hym a man more mete to Biake of
peace a warre, than of warre a peace.

Debt they wil recognize none: for they say, (though
they 8ay untruly,) that you have made th«n spend, and
have taken upon the seas of theirs, ten times as mudi«B
the debt comyth to. Nevertheles, say they, let us have
Bulloine, and wype away al pretences that you make to us,
and aske a reasonable summe, and we wil make you a rea-
sonable aunswer. Or yf ye wil not, in respect of your mas-
ters yong age, acquit his pretence, let us have Bulloin, and
we wyl agree with you for y t upcm a reasonable summe, and
reserve you to your master the droictSj that he pretendetb,
and we to ours his defences for the same, and so to make
a peace. And yf ye afterwards demaund nothii^ of us,
we demaund nothing of you : kepe you within your lymits,
which Grod hath gyven you enclosed with the seas, (saving
your Calays, wherunto ye have ben maried theis two or
three hundred yeres, and therfore God send you joy with
it,) and we our lymitts upon the land, and we shal Ijrve t^-
gy ther in peace. And other bargain than this we wil sot
make.

To repete here what reasons we made to enduce them to
reason, that shal not nede, though I for my own part could
devise litil: yet I assure your Lordship, with the good
help of theis wise men, to whom I am assocyate, there was,
1151 beleve, as much said, as wherby they ought to have ben
persuaded to agre to our requests ; but al would not serve.

By the consent of the colleagues, I provoked a private
talk betwene Mortier, or Chastillon, and me, or some other
of us, apart, thinking therby to have practised sumidiat;
but it would not be. They would in no wise talk apart
with any of us, but. We wil have this, and wil have none
other : we pray you of a short aunswer, for we wil not tary:
we wil not advertise our master, for it nedyth not: we
know his mjad fully; and yf he had mynded eny thing ells,
then we know, no dowbt, but he wold have declared k
unto us. And so after some consultation, agreed- at the
last to tary tyl we did advertise, and heard out of l^i^^and

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agfiiii ; requiring us to send for any ample and determinate
resolution for every thing.

Lo ! Sir, thus standeth the case : and what is now to be
don, in good faith, I cannot wel tel, and am at my witts end.
Thdr orguil is intolerable, their disputations be unreason-
aUe, their conditions to us dishonorable, and, which is worst
of al, our esiiate at home miserable. What then f Of many
evils, let us chuse the least Then first, we must knowledg
(which we cannot denye) the evil condition of our estate at
h<Rne: which reoognisaunce is the first degree to amend-
ment. The next is, to know the cause of the evil ; and that
is warre, supposed to be, yf not the only, at the least one
of the chiefest amongst many great. How many, how great
occasions of mischief the warre hath engendred to England ?
Of yU mony, wherby outward things be dearer. Of con-
veying out of al kind of our commodities to forrein parts,
under pretence of our furniture of men of warre, wherby
eur inward things be dearer ; of breeding idlenes among
the people, great couraiges, disposition to imagyne and in-
vent novelties, grudgings, devices to amend this and that,
and an hundred myscheves more ; which make my hart
sorry to thynk upon: and these be the frutes of warre.
Then yf the disease wil not be taken away, but the causes
be taken away, also warre (which is one chief cause) must
be taken away. But that shal not be taken away (say the,
French) but upon this condition or that condition, as be-
fore I have spoken of two. They wil have BuUoin, they
say, and quarels ({uyte crossed, and gyve you a sgmme of
money, and make peace, leaving to each prince his pre-
tences and defences. But thys, say we, may be the occasion
of a new warre another tyme. Demaund, say they, nothing
of us, no more then we wil demaund of you ; and then that
shal be no new ooca^on.

Wel, what moveth us to stick ? Mary, the leaving ot
Bidkon. Ye do consider, whyther we be hable to kepe yt,
maulgre the French. Rochepot sayth, and braggeth, tbait
their King is not a King John, but a French l^ng, sucli
liath conquered Rome, and bene feared of the rest;

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wil have BuUoin again, (whosoever sayeth nay,) and tdleth*.
us, how we are in poverty and mutinies at hcmie, beset al
about with enemies, having no frinde to socour us ; destitute
of mony to furnish us, and so far in debt as hardly we can
find any credytors. Yf yt be not this, then Rochepot lyeth:
but yf y t be this, it b good to consider, whither yt be better
to let them have Bulloin again, and to have sumwhat for yt,
1 l6and to lyve in peace, tyl our master come to a m(xce age,
leaving to hym some store of mony to revenge hym, (yf thai
he shal think he have cause reasonable,) to have good op*
portunite for the stay of the things at home, and to put in
good our polycy ; or els, for want and insufficiency, to lose
Bulloin without any recompence, to lyve in warre without
synews ; and for lack of good opportunite, to be forced to
let things at home unredressed.

Yea, but the pension is a gret matter. Wote you what
the French commissioners say ? It is true, (they say,) the
pension was grawnted, but the tyme is toumed : then wa&
then, and now is now. Yt was grawnted by the Frendi
King that dead is, (they say,) to the King of England that
dead is, and to his successors in the crown of England. The
King of France (they say) cannot by hys symple grawDt,
without confyrmation of Parlyament, bind his successors.
And so (say they) the same treaty, where the pensyon is
grawnted, doth purport. And when '(say they) was yt
grawnted ? Mary, when your master saw tyme to make his
bargain best, though his ministers toke not hede to knytt it
surely up by Parlyament. And that tyme was, when he had
the gages in his hand ; viz, our master and tbemperour at
one tyme, and so might make his bargain hymself as he
lyst. And we wil use yt as you did, when tyme served you:
for we know our estate, and that you are not hable to war
with us. With these and such other comparysons the French
face us.

Wei then, they wyl, yt semyth, pay us no pension; novii
it to be considered, whither it be better to forbear <NVIP(.
sion, (for they are so good unto us
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in rec(Hnpence, and to lyve stil in warre ; or els to lose Bul-
linn, to forbear our pension, to have some recompence, to
lyve in peace, Sec and to leave to our mftster his chum, yi
he shal think yt good.

I am soiye I have not here the copy of the treaties of
peace made in an. 14 and 15 of our Lord ; which was upon
the first warres of the King our late master, of most wm-
thy memory : for yf I had, then could I write therof cer-
tainly. I pray your Lordship in any wyse to cause that to
be furtbwith looked up ; for yt is to purpose. But, as I re-
member, yt shal appere that then our s^d master, being
Irft by the King his father raervelous welthy, rich, wel
obeyed of his subjects, in peace ; furnished with friendship
of Spain, Flaunders, Rome, and Almainej entred the warrs
to recover his right of France. But in conclusion what
tight gat he P Mary, made a peace, and calculing certain
(Jd debts to King Edward his graund&ther,' and some to
the King his father, agreed with the French King upon a
mas of ten hundred thousand crowns, to be payd, as I re-
Btonber, in yerea, without having any pension, or other
diing. Delivered afterward Turwin and Tumaye : having
Edc Tarwyn nothing, and for Tumaye (which had cost the
keping no smal sommes of inony) six hundred thousand
caroTnes. This being thus, as I take yt to be, (praying your
Lordship to let yt be loked up,) the exemple is much to
move the peace.

Now compaiing the times, the estates, and al other cir-.
cunifltances of the Kings Majesty our master that now is,
to the tyme, estates, and orcumstances of the King his fa-
ther, b^g in his most florishing prosperitie, which yt may
like you by your wisdome to conader with the rest of the 1 1 7
vise heddes there, and to take in good part my good mean-
ing ta this matter: which is not to prejudice your wis-
doaMSr (knowing my self a fool,) but to lay before you the
iimdnes of my imagination : wliich yf you find fond in al
^ees, lay that under the feet, (I pray you,) and cover yt
I heap of my good wyl and de^e. But that the af-
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fantafflie: and the rather, for tliat your Lordship and sum
others, that be my good lords and irends, have the may-
ninge of them ; beseching Grod to ^ve you the grace to
mayne and conduct them as I do wish.

If you find any thing in it not fond, use yt as you like.
It may please your good Lordship to move the rest, that yf
ye shal think good to agree upon a somme of mony, then to
advertise us in your common letter the most and the least,
the maner of the pa}rment, in hand or at dayes. If at any
days, (which under correction I wish not, though yt be
less,) than what dayes, and what assurance for the payment
Item, the lowest point you wil come to for Scotland. And
thus with my humble and most hartie commendatioiis, &c.

KK.

The prayer ttsed at a pvblic fast for a great dearth.

As yt pleasyth Grod, so be y t

Fo»i MSS. OH ! eternal, everlastyng, and righteous Gkxl, before
whose Hyghnes we, presentyng us this day accordyug to
our dewtyes, and fourme of thy word, do confess unto thee
owr offences, sinnes, and wickednes, which thus have de-
sarved theys thy great plagis and grevous punishments ; for
neglectyng thy word and brekyng thy commaundments.
And as thou hast commaundyd by Joel thy prophet to pro-
clay me afobstyng, to caU the cofngregamm, gaiheryng ike
elders and inhabyters of the land unto the house of God,
a/nd cry unto hym, sayeing, Alass! ahissifbr thys day, Jnd
why? the Lords day is at ha/nd, and corny th as a destrof/er
from the Almighty, The sede shal perish in the grownd,
the,graners shal ly wast, thejloris shall be broken down:
for the corn shal be destroyed. And bycaus, sayeth Aggeus,
every man runne to his owne, the heavens is fbrbodden io
gyve eny dew, the earth isfbrboden to gyve you encrease,
I have caSydfor a drowght upon the land and moontayns^
upon corn, upon wyne, upon oyl, and every iking that Ae
grewnd bryngythfurthy upon men, upon caMel^ and upc^ t^

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^ labour. And dso, O Lord God, as thou hast sayd by
2S, that yf owr harts deceyve us, thow beyng wroth
nst us, wouldest shut up the heavens, that ther be no
■e, and that the land shuld not yeHfurth hyr encrease.
thowgh we have deservyd, as in Ahabs tyme Elias
er prevaylyd, that for the space of three yens no rayne
ew dyd f^, tyl al thyngs was consumyd, as now thys
y t ys cum to pass : yet, O Lord, behold us with the 118
vites, owr humylyacion befor thy Maiestie, apperyng
this day, to cal on thee for mercy, which with Solo-
pray unto thee, Yfthat the heaven be shut up, and that
J be no rayne, because that tee have synnyd against
yet prayeiig in this place, and knowledge to thy name,
tume us from owr synnes through thy shourging us,
hears thou us in heaven, and be merci/ul to the synnys
\y sarvants and people, t/iat thow shew us that good
, wherinjbr to leaik, and gyve rayne on the land thow
gyven us to enheryt. Send, 0 Lord, thy sweet dewes
ly heavenly grace, so to refresh and water the plants of
harts, that we so repent, and bo optayne thy marcy, as
our general prayer may be acceptyd of thee. And as
r hast promysyd, wher two or three be gatheryd toge-
m thy name to grawnt their requests, behold here so
y as callyth upon thee in feyth and humylyacion. Ap-
yng to thy marcy, thow canst us not deny to grawnt
WT requests ; lest the ungodly bost against the cause of
religion. They wold deny thy favour unto us oft ex-
1yd, they, seyng now thy work in our pebdon grawnt.
, may with us altogether prayse and worship thee with
iks for this thy marcy. To whom, O Grod owr Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost, be al prayse and glory, for ever
everlastingly. Amen.

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LL.

Bticer to A Lctsco^ concerning the controversy about wear-

ing the habits.

Amplissimo Domino et Cokndissimo SymmysUB,

Joam^ni A Lasco.

EBibiiotb. THE Lord graunt unto us, in these troublesome tune»
Epil?'^ of the Church, to be^n and finish al things, that offences
Eiien. and dangers be not encreased. Amen.

The more diligently I weigh and consider, both what
fruit we may gather by this controversy of vestures, and
also what Satan goeth about therby to work, I would have
wished before the Lord, that it never once had been spoken
of, but rather that al men of our function had agreably
and stoutly gon forward, and continued in teaching true
repentance, the wholsome use of al things, yea5 dcid com*
mending and putting on the apparel of salvation. I se,
not in a few, alas ! I say, I se mervailous diligence in abo-
lishing Amalec, concerning stones, stocks, vestures, and
those things that be wi'thout us, when in their deeds and
whole life they most stiffly maintain the whole Amalec stil.
I know also some that help forward this strife, so that in
the mean time the chief and most necessary points are les
regarded and called upon ; that is, of removing sacrilegious
persons from spoiling of churches, of providing fit ministers
for every parish, of the restoring of disciplin again.
II q As for my part, if I thought ceremonies and vestures
were impure of themselves, I would not take upon me in
any wise the office of a bishop, till by ordinary authority
they were taken away, &c. But to the purpose, I think it
not impertinent unto this matter, that we al be admonished
to take heed of Satans accustomed slights, wherby he lead-
eth us away from the care of necessary things, to carefulness
about those things which may be wel let pass, and from the
searching out of the true doctrin of Christ, to induce to use
those things wherin few can consent alike ; and finally, by
the which he kindleth in divers men a zele to purge those
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dtformities. And seeing whatsoever we do, in word or deed,
both privately and publicly, we ought to do it in the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ, ^ving thanks by him to God the
Father ; surely it is our duty no les circumspectly to be-
ware, that we neither do, nor leave undon any thing wher-
by we have not sure or certain authority out of Gods word,
touching our actions and matters, domestical and ecclesias-
tical. It is alway and in all things sin, whatsoever is not of
faith of the certain word of God.

But to consider this question in it self. I have, according
to ray gift, weighed your reasons ; and yet I can perceive
no other, but that the use of al external things, as wel in
holy ceremonies as in private matters, ought to be left free
to the churches of God. I cal that^^^ iLse wherin godly
men use things created of God without any superstition, and
to a certain edifying of their faith in Christ. I verily, as I
have confessed unto you, and have declared indeed unto our
countrymen, had rather that no kind of vesture which the
Papists used were retained among us. And that both for
the more ful detestation of the Antichristian priesthood,
and also for plainer advouching of Christian liberty ; yea,
and to be short, for the avoiding of dangerous contentions
among the brethren. Tho^ notwithstanding I would have
the ministers of churches to use sage vesture, and such
wherby they might be discerned from other men. But
chiefly, I would have al the disciplin of Christ to be in
force among us. Yet I cannot be brought by any scrip-
tures, as far as I se hitherto, to deny, that the true ministers
of Christs Church may use without superstition, and to a
certain edification of faith in Christ, any of those vestures
which the Antichristians abused. For what should let, but
that the churches may use that white vesture^ or more vesh
tures, to admonish us precisely of that divine benefit which
he by the holy ministry of the Church dealeth unto us : the
ben^t, I say, of the light and dignity of that heavenly
doctrin; and by the which also the ministers themsdives
.may be the more mindful of their office, and had, both for
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greater reverence of the oommon peo[de of the Chimji ?
Whether we wil or no, we are compelled to confes, that the
ensignes of them that bear public offices help somewhat to
retain and encrease the authority of magistrates and public
powers, if other things want not, by the which the true 1
reverence is ^ven unto them. For if these things be not
joyned with ensignes^ they induce not a veneration, but ra-
ther the singular detestation of them who unworthily use
these notes of vertue. Ensignes indeed are sdgnes, and not
120 the things: yet how much they are able to admonish and
move the mind, Gkxl giving the encrease, he that observed!
wil wonder.

Wherfore, wheras otherwise the true dignity of ministers
is evident, and if any particular Church by public judgment
do consent upoti the retaining of certain vestures, only for
the commending unto us of the gifts c^ Grod, which he
giveth by the ministry of the Church ; and for to put the
yonger and ruder sort in mind without al superstition, truly
I cannot se, why such use of vestures in such a Church may
not serve to some commendation of the holy ministry, and
so consequently to the edification of faith. For what let is
there, but that at this day they which are endued with the
same spirit of faith, may use a few signes as godly, as the
antient holy men have used many. They had, you wil say,
expres writing concerning the use of their signes. I grant;
and indeed it made much touching the true use of their
signes. But in that God did command the use of those and
many other things, we certainly know that the use of those
«ignes may serve, he giving grace, to promote true religion;
and that it hath none uncleannes in itself or superstition,
neither can be by the abuse of the wicked so polluted, that
it cannot be healthful to godly men, using it godly. Now
when as God by his word hath sanctifyed al things by our
prayers, and hath made al things pure to the pure, what
cause can we allege out of the word of God, to deny, that
God wil not bless such use of signes wherof we speak, that
it should not be efFectuous to that Church, to some conmioi-
•dation of the ministry, and therof also to some edification

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tif faith r For how can it be, but that he which promised
to Ues al the work of our hands, which we take in his name,
wil deny his blessing to these signes, seing he hath no where
forbidden such an use of them as we have expounded, and
hath made us lords of his sabboth, and al odier things of
this world ?

But if we grant that these things which I have spoken
eonoeming the use of such signes, may be, it is certainly
the part of brotherly charity, commandea us by God, to
leave such use of such signes in such a Church, free to the
judgment and conscience of that congregation ; except we
se an open abuse either of superstition, as if these things
were used as containing in them some part of godly worship
of themselves ; or of contention, as if they displeased the
greater and better part of the Church ; or of getting of good
wil of some men, whom in these things we ought not to
gratify, because they therby go about to bring a servitude
unworthy for Christian men.

It is evident at S. Pauls time, by the most clear scrip-
tmres of God, that the use of days, meats, and al other par-
ticular things were made free. And it was a sure token of
infirmity in faith to doubt therof. Yet the Holy Ghost
pronounceth, that such weaklings ought to be received, not
to the troubling of their cogitations, and not to be con-
tenmed of the stronger in f^th. And that in these things it
might be granted to every one to be sure of his own sense,
seeing that the Lord hath received these weaklings. Now
i£ the Holy Ghost would have men to yield so much to
tkem which were in a manifest error, in as much as they
•depended upon him in the chiefest and necessary parts of
wicere religion, what ought to be granted to these concern-
ing the free use of external things, which we cannot convict 121
rf any error by Gods word ? For howsoever I expend and
^fexomine those your two arguments, (that is, they are the
imitatkxi of the Aaronical priesthood, and the marks of An-
«tichri8tB priesthood, and therfore ought to be eschued of
them, that love Christ,) yet that thing which you would is
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not of it self vitious, but only then when men use them as
necessary to salvation, or to signify that Christ is yet for to
come, to take flesh upon him. Fcnr if by no means it be
lawful to use those things which were of Aarons priesthood,
or of the gentils, then is it not la¥rful for us to have
churches nor holydays. For there is no expres command-
ment by word. It is gathered notwithstanding from the
example of the old people, that they are profitable for us to
the encrease of godlines.

Which thing also experience proveth. For any thing to
be a note of Antichrist, is not in the nature of any creature
in it self, (for to that end nothing was made of God,) but
it hangeth altogether of consenting to Antichrists religion,
and the professing therof. The w^ich consent and proftfr-
sion being changed into the consent and profession of
Christianity, there can stick in the things themselves no
note or mark of Antichrists religion. The use of bels was i
mark of Antichristianity in our churches, when the people
by them was called to masses, and when they were nn^
against tempests ; now they are a token of Christianity,
when the people by them are gathered together to the gos-
pel of Christ, and other holy actions. Why may it not then
be, that the self same garments may serve godly with godly
men, that were of wicked signification with the ungodly?
Truly, I know very many ministers of Christ, most godly
men, who have used godly these vestures, and at this day
do yet use them. So that I dare not for this cause ascribe
unto them any fault at al, much les so hainous a fault of
communicating with Antichrist. For the which fault we
may utterly refuse to communicate with them in Chriat
The priests of devils did celebrate in their sacrifices the
distribution of bread and the cup, as Justinus Martyr and
TertuUian make mention. What let is there why we may
not use the same ceremonies also ? You wil say. We have a
commandment of the Lord touching this ceremony. \gj
wel : and by the self same it appeareth, ^same thing to
serve among the children of Grod to the service of Clufist,
which the wicked abused in the service of devils, if thi

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ecMnmandment of Christ be added therto. But it is the com-
mandment of Christ, that in our holy actions we institute
and use al things, so as comelmes and order be observed,
that £Euth may be edified.

Now if any Church judge and have experience, (such as
I doubt not there are many this day in Germany,) that the
nse of such vesture bringeth some commendation to the
holy ministration, and therby helpeth somewhat in the
way of ocHnelines and order to the encrease of faith ; what^
I pray you, can be brought out of the Scriptures, why that
Church is not to be left to her own judgment in this matter,
ndther therfore to be contemned, or to be called into ques-
tion for her judgment sake ? That Church verily wil keep in
these things a mean agreeable to the cros of Christ, and
wil diUgently attend, that no abuse creep into it. If ther-122
fore you wil not admit such liberty and use of vesture to
th]£( pure and holy Church, because they have no com-
mandment of the Lord, nor no example of it, I do not se
how you €an grant to any Church, that it may celebrate the
Lords supper in the morning, and in an open church espe>
cially consecrate to the Lord ; that the sacrament may be
4]istributed to men kneeling or standing, yea, to women as
>'wel as to men. For we have received of these things neither
.commandment of the Lord, nor any example ; yea, rather
the Lord gave a contrary example. For in the evening, and
JD a private house, he did make his supper, and distri-
'bute die sacrament, and that to men only, and sitting at the
table.

But it wil be objected, that in England many use ves-
.tures with manifest superstition, and that they do nourish
and oonfirm in the people superstition. Even so, it may be
:aDSwered, very many abuse al this whole sacrament, as also
.baptism, and al other ceremonies. Therfore let us withstand
.thk mischief, and vanish it utterly. Wherunto, tho' it may
,be thatt the taking away of vestures may help something,
■ yet to drive away al this mischief it will not suffice. Nay,
the priests themselves must be first removed, and in their
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«uch as be learned indeed, and godly affected. To this
therfore, to this, I say, must we chiefly endeayour our
selves, that the hearts of the people may be purged by
faith : which faith is first encreased by the hearing of the
word of God. This hearing is brought by the preachers of
the gospel.

Such therfore let us pray for. And that there may be
store of them, let us be earnest in our reformation : let tbsxe
be a visitation of the Universities, whence many fit ministors
for churches may be gotten : let us never cease to cry out
against that sacrilege, that the fattest benefices are granted
4x) unworthy men, in respect of their worldly service; that
the parishes are so miserably undon through papistical
slights and violence. These, these, I say, are certain pa-
pistical facts : against these ought we chiefly to bend our
force ; but to be stout and earnest against stones,, stocks,
vestures, and such other things, which of themselves neither
bring gain, piesure, nor honor, it is a very easy matter to the
hearer and speaker, especially those that be discharged firom
papistical superstition : for by the shaking off such things,
great mens stomacs are not offended. But to remore
church-robbers from the spoils of churches, and to do al
things possible to this end and purpose, that every parish
may be provided of convenient ministers, and that curats
may have sufficient for their sustentation, and to aid them
to the ful restitution of Christs disciplin ; this is a thing of
great moment. This is a hard thing to al them which are
not able to say with S. Paul, For Christ is to me lifcj and
death is to me advantage. And again, Godjbrhid thai I
shouM rejoyce^ saving in tlie cros of our Ijord Jesus Christy
wherin the world is crucified to m£^ and I to the world.

It pleaseth me right wel, that al Antichrists trash should
be removed as far as might be: I mean not only his ensignes
and marks, but al his steps and shadows, in what thing so-
ever they seem to stand, whether it be in stocks, stones,
garments, or whatsoever other thing else it be. But let us
endeavour our selves to banish first the body and substance
of Antichrist ; and then after, his ensignes, steps, and sha-

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dows. The body and substance of Antichrist consisteth in 123
the wicked destroyers and spoilers of churches : by whose
means not only Christs disciplin, but also the whole doctrin
is opprest, and put out of place.

When I consider these things, and again look back, as I
ought to do, towards the precepts of the Lord, and his ex-
amples, I wish with al my heart, that as many of us that wil
be Christs followers indeed, even so we earnestly go about
to restore his kingdom, as the Lord himself went about to
begin it, and that we seek it before al other things ; and let
the preachers in al doctrin and disciplin instruct the people,
and be such, who, for our Lord Christs sake, and the preach-
ing of the gospel, wil be ready to leave al ; and that by
these mens ministry w* bring the people to the kingdom of
Christ. And let us appoint to every flock thereof faithful
shepherds, who may labour no les to cal again the true notes
and marks of Christianity, as to abolish utterly the marks
and notes of Antichristianity : which I would so abolished,
that there remained not so much as the memory of them in
any mens hearts. But seing that these things cannot be
brought to pas without Christs kingdom be fully received, I
trould wish that al we should to that end bestow al our
strength u^to the which work. Forasmuch as we need
i&any workfellows, I would wish, with al such as truly love
:he Liord Jesus, that we set apart all dissension, and joyn in
me perfect concord, to endeavour our selves to set upon the
xxnmon adversary.

We se now, being taught by the experience of so many
l^ears, that the Lord granteth but to a few to depart from
that sentence which they have once fastened themselves in ;
especially if they have also contended for the same : so that
we shal be enforced either to dissolve Christian communion
with many whom the Lord hath received, or else we must
give place one to another ; to the intent that either of them
may rest in their own judgment, tho the other dissent. It
if a very hard thing indeed, yea to most holy men, to deny
thennelves; and he is seldome found among men, which
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in the opinion of his wit Now then, when ius we sqe Al-
mighty God bear this our infirmity in us so merdifiilly, ff
on the hardnes of our hearts, if the example of our Loid
and God cannot encline and mollify our hearts to the fike
mercy and patience.

Wherfore I conclude that we ought to take great diligent
heed, first, that we take not upon us straitway to detenmne
al questions as they rise ; yea, let us stir none at at, vhkh
. throughly tend not to the kingdom of Christ : let us ackoov-
ledg the weaknes of our wit and judgment; let us stand it
fear of our natural arrc^ancy , and our peevish self wil in our
-own inventions. Al things necessary unto salvation are Kt
unto us openly, clearly, and plenteously in the holy Saq^
tures; and in the study and perfection therof every one of
us wanteth very much. Let us labour then to fulfill, and
once to make up our imperfections with godly studies. Qf
al other matters let us dispute most warily, let us define mot
slowly or never, let us contend at no time. If at any time
through craft of Satan, or our own n^legence, variance «hal
1 24 rise in these things, let us betimes leave off from the same^
as soon as we can, by whatsoever way we may ; or els let us
make some truce in them : seldome is there any victory ob-
tained, yea, never whole victory gotten.

Hereby, most godly Sir, you se undoubtedly what is best
to be don, both in this controversy of vestures, as also of the
liberty of other ceremonies. I had rather than much goods
this question had never been moved : but now seing it is
moved, I wish it to be given over, and deferred to some
other time. These your two arguments, '^ It is a piece of
^^ Aarons priesthood, and therfore contumelious towuds
^^ Christ now exhibited, as then glorious when he was to be
" exhibited.*" Secondarily, " These are notes of Antiduis-
" tianity, and therfore not to be used of men given to
" Christianity."" These reasons, I say, conclude not, in mj
judgment, that which you took in hand : for we bomiv
many things godly from the order of Aaron'^s priesthood to
the glory of Christ now exhibited. So many things whid
the Antichrists have made marks of their impiety, may be

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made tokens of the kingdom of Christ ; as the signes of
bread and wine, the water of baptism, the laying on of the
lumds, preachings, churches, holy days, and many other
things. Aliso these places of Scripture are of great scope ;
The earth and the fuLnes therqfis of the Lord; not of the
Devil, not of Antichrist, not of the wicked, not against the
Son of man. Lord of his sabboth : and, The sabboth is made
Jot many and not man Jbr the sabboth : and, Al things are
pure to the pure : and, Every creature of God is good, nor
can be defiled by good men, by the abuse of evil men. The
word of Grod must be followed in al respects, as wel in oui*
private actions as public : for al things are to be don in the
name of the Lord Jesus, and to the glory of God. Then
such liberty as we grant to our selves in our private use of
external things, let us not deny in public. The true Spirit
of Christ going about to overthrow Antichrist, overthroweth
first those things which are chief and peculiar unto him : for
first the Spirit of Christ endeavouring the restitution of
Christ''s kingdom, restoreth first doctrin and disciplin, which
be the chief and peculiar points of Christs kingdom.
' Tlis colourable craft of Satan also must be taken heed ofj
by the which he bringeth to pas oftentimes, that either we
reckon those things sins which are no sins, and those that be
&ns indeed we seem not to regard them in our selves ; or els,
against those sins which our conscience defines to be sins in-
deed, we use no such severity as we ought.

The Lord grant that you, right worshipful friend, may
reli^ously weigh these things. I know you seek the glory
of Christ, and I have heard of you, wherin I rejoice, that
you are careful of your judgment, so that you dare not
Btraitway reckon the same for sure and certain, tho' you seem
to follow plainly the word of God, thinking with your self
that you are a man, and that you may slide out of the way :
theirfore I desire and beseech you, by the cross of the Son of
GUxl^ by the salvation of the churches, which are at this day
overwhelmed vrith calamities, by the desired consent that we
should seek to reign in al churches, by the peace that is in
Christ Jesus; again, I desi)*e and beseech you,' that you'cb

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nothing rashly in this question of ceremonies. You have
126 seen Veak members in the churches of Saxony ; you have
seen also many things, for the which you ^ve Grod thanks.
LfCt no man therfore, except it be upon great necesdtyi cast
oiF those whom the Lord hath so notably taken to him. 0 !
would to Grod the state of the churches of France, Italy,
Poland, were brought to this point. Let us in this realm
take godly heed, that we suffer not unawares the Devils in-
tent, who throweth in among us sundry questions and ood-
troyerdes ; lest we should take in hand to hinder the question
of setting forward the doctrin of the gospel, and restoring
of disdplin ; and therby to remove al drones from ecdeaas-
tical and scholastical ministries : this Satan, when he cannot
retiun the order of bishops wholly in service unto him, he
goeth about utterly to abolish this order ; and by that occa-
sion so to spoil the churches, that while due stipends want,
the holy ministry may be committed to the vilest of the
rascal people.

Let us take heed of these co^tations of Satan, and let ut
withstand them as much as we can, by the power of the
Lord ; and by no means unadvisedly to help them forward :
for we are, who sincerely profess the Lord Jesus, and none
of us there is, which is not opprest with much infirmity.
Therfore let us receive one another as the Lord hath re-
ceived us : let us yield mutually one to another, as the Lord
hath yielded to us : which sincere and dutiful love, if it bear
stroke among us, we shal be able with one spirit and one
mouth, and with our whole might, tx) discomfit the body
and substance of Antichrist. And so afterward, without any
offence of the good, and with certain edification of fidth
among the children of God, we may bring to pas the utter
defaceing of al the marks, steps, and shadows of Antichrist
Oh ! Lord Jesu, thou our only peacemaker, as wel with
the Father, as between our selves, banish out of our minds
whatsoever draweth us insunder, whatsoever darkneth the
clearnes of judgment among our selves, whatsoever by anj
way hindreth the absolute concord in thy ministers, in de*
fence of thy kingdom, and in destroying the tyranny of Asti*

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christ* Pour into our minds thy Holy Ghost, which may
lead us into al truth : who grant us to se and take in himd
hi one thing; but first of al that which is chiefest: wherby
the strength of thy kingdom may be restored unto us, and
al things pertaining to Antichrist may clearly be blotted out
of al mens hearts and memories. The goodnes and love of
the Son of Grod, for his infinite love sake towards us, vouch-
safe to give us these things, to the glory of his name, to the
salvation of the elect, and that the wicked say not stil, Where
is their Christ ? Amen.

Deditissimtis tibi in Domino,

Martinus Bticerus.

MM. 126

Haper to Martin Bu^cer, Jbr his Judgment concerning wear-
ing the habits.

To Mr. Martifi Biecery D,D. his wortliy reader, amd
master most reverend, grace and pea^ce Jrom ihe
Lordy ^c.

FOR what cause I am now in trouble, most reverend, yeE Bibiioth.
shal understand by this messenger in writing. I pray you^tk^'^P'
that you would vouchsafe once to give it the reading : and
if that you shal espy any error therin, I desire you to sig-
nify it unto me by your letters. If any thing hath been
uttered too darkly, and with fewer words than the cause re-
quireth, I pray you that you would set it out in the margin
with more light and apter words. If ye se the cause just
and meet for a godly minister, subscribe therunto in the end,
1 heartily pray you.

I send you al that I have written before, three years ago,
upon the Ten Precepts; that your worthines may know
what my judgment is in the case of divorse. I pray you,
vouchsafe to read it, that if I have erred in this part by hu-
mane oversight, I may be advertised by your learning and
fiitherly admonition, that I may reform the same. I pray
jour fatherhood therfore, and I doubt not but I shal aoon

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obudn^ that you would help the Churdi in her oonffictbf
the great and most notable fffts of Grod undoubtedfyW*
Btowed upon you. I require the same of Mr. Doctor [Peter]
Martyr. To whom, after your sentence and prudent jod^
ment is known, this messenger which I Bend, shal npsA
The Lord Jesus long preserve your worthines. At London
the 17 Octob. 1550.

Yours in heart and {vayer al whole, ^

John Hepcr.

NN.

Martin Bucer to John Hoper^ in anstoer to thejoregdng

letter.

UUtupn. GRACE and peace from the Lord. Reverend Sr, I
have diligently perused over your letters and writings oon-
ceming apparel: and verily this controversy, which •>
grievously hindreth your ministry and other, maketh me
exceeding sory. I could have wished to have ^ven a giest
127 deal, that either it had not been moved at al, or ds that it
were speedily removed and taken away : for by these kti
and stays, Satan prolongeth his ful banishment from among
the people of God. How much I desire, good Sir, to have
al things reduced as wel to the apostolic simplicity in ex.
temal things, as also to the ful and perfect religion of ad-
vancing Gods glory, not only in matters internal, but abo
external, I trust, you doubt nothing at al : for whersoever
the congregations have heard me speak, as at Argentina
Ulma, Augusta, Casella, and many other places, I never
procured to have a special kind of apparel in the administra-
tion of the sacraments. And that abuse which I se of these
garments remaining stil in England in many places, (the
more pity,) I would gladly suffer some great torment in my
flesh that they were wel taken away, not only with al the
marks and badges of Antichrists profession, but also with al
the sinews and peculiar detriments which as yet in most hor-
rible sort, bear sway every where in England: for church

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robbers do stil hold and spcnl the chief parish churches, and
oonmonly one man hath four, or six, or more of them. And
it IS rqiorted, that there are many which bestow two or three
benefices upon their stewards or huntsmen ; and yet on that
nidition, that they may reserve a good portion of the
cbdesiastical profits unto themselves alone, and cause vicars
Id serve the cures, such as they may hire best cheap, not
mch as are most fit for that ofiice. Both the Univerinties,
OQt of which meet persons ought to be taken, are miserably
boubled by many, which either are Papists or epicures.

Hereof it is that there are so few gospellers, that ye shal
have many chiurches which in five, six, or more years, have
beard no godly sermon. Al divine service is so coldly, dis-
orderly, and blindly uttered of the counterfeit parish priests
or Ticars, that it is as wel understood of the people, as if it
were read in the Afric or Indian tongue. Baptism is mi-
Qistred in the presence of a few light women, that have more
mind of dallying. When manages are solemnized, they
lirattle and play. The Lords supper in many places celc-
Ivated as a mas, from which the people know not that it any
tbing differeth, but that it is used in the mother tongue ;
and some one hired for money receiveth the sacraments. As
&r Christs flock, there is no due regard of it. They make
no conference of the Catechism with the ignorant sort.
Hiere is no public nor private admonition ^vcn to them
^ich be dack in their duty, or otherwise offend, wherby the
grievous offenders might be bound to repentance ; and they
whidi have don penance might be absolved ; and they which
stubbornly des[nse the congregation, might be accountccl tor
infidels. How many of them knoweth that God hath ho
commanded? They which have made no confesacm of thcfir
fidth either in word or deed before the congregation, are acU
mitted to al things belonging to Christ. They come with
empty hands befcxe the face of God into the holy congrega^
tion. There is no due r^ard of the poor. The Cliurch
hath no patrimony* The churches are conunrjn for ungodly
tales and bargains; and at service time the most fiait wra
tiiffiiigy or <iociifHed with worldly affiiirs. Tlie law of tJte

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H. Ghost concerning apparel set forth by Paul and Peter,
that our women, (much rather men,) should be attired with
comely apparel, with shamefastness and modesty, not with
128broydred hair, gold, pearls, &c. is not observed in the
churches, wherelthe gospel of Christ crucified is preached,
and the communion ministred : so where the dUdpUn is
neglected, yea, rather it is unknown what the Church is,
what the communion of saints is, what the kingdom of
Christ is ; it cometh to pas, that al fear of Grod falletfa out
of the hearts of men. Hereof arise so many complaints of
perjuries, of adulteries, of thefts, of lyes, of divers and most
impudent deceits, and of usuries most monstrous.

These mischiefs which I have rehersed we do know,
reverend Sir, that they are the chief members of Antichrist,
his bones, flesh, and sinews, wherof he altogether con-
sisteth : which if we with mutual force, vrith ccmimon and
continual travail, and with the aid of the H. Ghost do seek
to overthrow, the abuse of apparel and of al other thnigs
wil be utterly abandoned, and al the badges and shadows of
Antichrist would vanish away. But if these principal mem-
bers of Antichrist, his substance and whole body, be not cut
oflF, and the kingdom of Christ thorowly established, by re-
storing the pure doctrin and diligent disciplin, by faithful
and meet ministers of Christ, in vain shal we labour to put
the marks and shadows of Antichrist to flight.

My desire therefore is, good Sir, that we, following Christ
our Saviour, and his disciples, labour above al things that
faithful and meet pastors of the Lords flock may speedily
be appointed to every parish, as neer as may be ; that al
church robbers be deprived ; and that the people b^g in-
structed in Christ, the whole participation and disdplin d
Christ may be restored ; even as is described. Mat xvin.
John XX. Act. ii. 4, 5, 20. Rom. xii. 1 Cor. xii. E[A. iv.
1 Tim. V. and in such like places. Neither would I have
any ceremony either retained or newly ordained, unles it
might be thought by the better part of the congregation to
further the holy and worthy comelines and order of those
that glory in the cros of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the

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true edificati<Hi of faith. And if any of the churches would
give ear to me, surely they should retain none of these gar*
ments which the Papists have used in their superstitious ser-*
rice. But this would I have for these causes, that they
might therby more plainly confes and declare, both that
they had renounced al fellowship with the Romish Anti-
christ, and also surely acknowledge the liberty of external
things ; and that herein they are occupied to restore those
things, especially wherin the disciplin of Christ doth chiefly
consist, and which are commanded us by God. For these
causes, I say, and also lest any occasion of strife should re-
main among the weaker, either for these things, or such
like ; and upon condition beside, that al those things which.
are any part of the disciplin and participation of Christ be
received together, I could wish those garments wherof we
speak to be utterly removed.

But to say that these garments are so defiled by the
abuse of Antichrist, that no church may use them, albeit
how much soever some one of them worship their Saviour
Christ, and know the liberty of al things, I dare not be so /
bold; neither do I se any piece of scripture, wherby I may
defend this condemning of the good creature of God : for
the scripture in al places saith, that every creature of God
is good unto the good, that is, to those which truly believe 1 2Q
in Christ, and use his creatures godly ; and that it is good,
not only in respect of these effects which we cal natural, as
bread is good for his operation of feeding and strengthening
the body, and wine for his effect of drinking and heating ;
but also they are good in respect of sundry significations and
admonitions. For godly men stir up to themselves, and con-
tinue the memory and consideration of many of Gods bene-
fits^ by occafflon of al things, as they are Gk)ds creatures.
Wherof come these things which are in the psalms and songs
of the saints touching the praise and celebration of God,
wherunto they allure al the works of God.

That any ceremony is wickedly Aaronical or Antichristian,
•tandeth not in any creature of Grod, in any garment, in any \
figure^ in any cfdour, or any work of God, but in theiiiiQ4

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and profesnon of those which abuse Gkxls good creatures to
wicked significations. For what scripture doth teUch that
the Devil or wicked men have the power, that by thdr
abusing they can make any good creature of Gkxl, and such
a one as is good, (to signify and admonish simply,) evil and
wicked ? Wherfore nothing can be truly said to appertain
to the priesthood of Aaron, as touching that it is abolished,
(for neither the holy ministry of the church, which is taught
us by the precepts of the priesthood of Aaron, is yet abo-
lished,) but for that it is used with that superstition, as tho^
it were so necessary unto salvation, now that Christ is re-
veled; or that it were {Notable of it self; or that therby
occasion might be given to any man to take this superstitkm
to himself, either to retain it, or to trouble the unity of the
brethren : so then it cannot be called a ceremony of Anti-
christ, unles some profession or participation of Antichrist
therby be shewed, or that serve for such profes^cm or par-
tidpation.

Now who can deny that the Lord granteth to many of his
elect, to take unto themselves only significations and admo-
nitions out of al things, (beside the natural use of them,)
both of the benefits of God, and also of their own duties,
but not of dny evil thing ? And so they should detest from
the bottome of their hearts al things which are contrary unto
Christ, that no occasion at al may be given unto them by
any thing, howsoever other men have abused it, of any su-
perstition or fellowship with darkness, either disturbing of
brotherly love. Now if such true Christians (of whom there
soon would be great plenty every where, if that, with the pure
doctrin of Christ, his whole communion and disciplin &A
flourish in their churches) did think it would help some-
what to the setting forth of the holy ministry among simple
men and children, that ministers should wear some sperial
kind of apparel in their ministration ; (yea, and that which
the Papists have abused ;) truly I se not Scripture teach the
contrary, why I should not leave such Christians to thdr
own judgment. And why I ought so to do, I doubt not
but it is clearly taught, Rom. xiv. 1 Cor. viii. and ix. And

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•also in many other places we are taught concerning the li-
berty and the good use of creatures, not of meats only, but
also of al other things.

It is certain also, that our Lord Jesus Christ prescribed
unto us in his words the substance only o||the holy ministry
of his word and sacraments, and to have granted to the 130
churches the ordinance of al other things, which belong to
the comely and profitable administration of the sacraments :
wherupon we neither celebrate the holy supper at evening,
neither in a private house, neither ^tting, nor with men
only. Some reckon among these things, which freely are
left to the ordinance of the churches, to minister the com-
munion once a year only, thrice or four times, or oftener,
and to stand at it, nmther to be partaker of the sacraments.
But sure it is, that both of them are plaine papistical. It is
certain that the Apostles, and the congregations of the Apo-
stles, ministred the Lords supper after the institution of
Christ, eyeiy sabbath day, and as often as the brethren as-|
sembled in greater mesures together, and al that were pre-
sent were partakers, according to. the word of the Lord,
Drink ye ci of this : wherby it is plain enough, that he
would have al eat of the offered bread. Now in every holy
assembly of brethren, we ought to celebrate the memory of
■the Lord ; for which the Lord also ordained his supper, and
-so was continued by the Apostles, we are sufficiently taught.
Acts iv. and 1 Cor. xi. Then these two things, to celebrate
the Lords supper so seldom, and so few to receive it, I
judge to be simply pajnstical : for they disagree with the
word of €rod.

As for these things, touching the pkice, the iimej the ap-
parelj to minister or receive the holy communion, of admit-
ting women to the Lords table, of the maner of prayers and
hymnes unto Grod ; so also of apparel, and other things per-
taining to outward comelines, I doubt not but the Lord gave /
free liberty to his churches to appoint and ordain in these
things that which every church shal judge most available
.tor the people, to maintain and encrease the reverence to-
■wards al the divine service of Grod. If then any churchfi% .

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by this liberty of Christ, would have thdr ministers wear
some special apparel in their holy ministry to this end of
edifying the flock of Christ ; setting apart al superstition, al
lightnes, and al dissension among brethren, that is, al abuse;
I se not who can condemn such churches, for this matter, <^
any sin, no, nor of any fellowship with Antichrist. What if
some church, by the pure and holy consent of th^nselves,
should have that custome, that eveiy one should wear a
white garment at the holy communion, as they sometimes
did which newly were baptized ? For if any wil strive that
this liberty is to be granted to no church of Christ, he must
needs confes one of these ; either that nothing is to be per*
mitted to the churches, to be ordained about the Lords sup-

' per, wherof I have no expres commandment of Christ;
(wherby al churches shal be condemned of ungodly boldnes:
for al do observe both time and place, and gesture of body,
in the ministration of the holy supper, and they admit
women to the communion : of al which things they not only
have no commandment of the Lord, but also a contrary ex-
ample ; for the laord held his supper in the evening, not in
the morning; in a private house, not in a public; letting
down with his disciples, and receiving the pascal lamb, not
standing, and shewing this only communion of himself:
moreover the women were excluded, which yet were ac-
counted most devout and holy among his disciples ;) or ds
, it cannot be, that there should be churches, which the Lord
so far forth delivereth from al superstition and abuse of his
131 good creatures, that to the clean al the creatures of God are
good, and in use of signification clean by true faith in his
name ; (which whoso saith, he truly therby shal deny Christ
our Lord to be the same unto al men, which he promised to
become, namely, a deliverer from al sin, and a purger from
al uncleannes ;) or that the wicked by their abuse may so
pollute the creatures of God, which of themselves are good,
that they can serve no godly man to a godly use : which is

• plainly contrary to the testimonies of the Holy Ghost, Bom.
xiv. 1 Cor. viii. and ix. 1 Tim. iv. or else truly it is not law-
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lem of their Creator, and knowledg of themselves, and of
is benefits towards us, and our duties towards him : which
contrary to that the Holy Ghost in al places teacheth, of
le acknowledging and worshipping of Grod in al his works,
id doing al things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to
€ glory of the Father.

Al these absurdities must godly minds eschew. Neither is
at evil to be feared, which was wont to be objected : If so
"eat a liberty be granted to the Church, that they may put
eiy thing to godly significations and admonitions, there
e which wil bring into our service al the ceremonies, either
' Aaron, or of the Antichrist of Rome, or of the Gentils.
3r the churches which I have described, and to whom I
ink cannot that liberty be denyed wherof I speak, what-
ever ceremonies or apparel they take to their use, they wil
der to serve the gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
brist, by setting it forth, not by darkning it. Even as
Qong true Christians the next end of al the outward cere-
onies, and expresly commanded by the Lord, is the com-
endation and decking of the ministry of the gospel, by
bich al superstition and abuse of al things is put to flight :
that will we, nil we, we must needs confes the differences
' apparel in them that bear civil office, to give cause unto
en wel affected of singular reverence towards the magis-
Gites, what should let, why the same should not be in the
inistry of religion ? Every godly motion of the mind pro-
deth necessarily from the Holy Ghost ; and it must needs
i maintained by the word of God. Notwithstanding to this
pint, and to the word of Gt)d, al creatures with the godly
> serve: and so much the more, if the things by public
dinance be appointed to any godly signification and admo-
tion. For unto the good, God hath created al his works
ff good and sundry use. He preserveth them, and if they
w them in him, he delivereth diem unto him. Let us con-
der what the Holy Ghost teacheth touching the significa-
on of the vail of a woman, of the covering of a mans head.
Cor. xi. Also, why he made mention by name of the

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shining garments of Aaron. H^ doth nothing rashly, but in
al things he procureth the salvati<m of his, which oonsifltedi
by ffuth of the gospel. But herof I have writtaii nxxre at
large to master A Lasco.

The Lord knoweth how I desire to further your study,
but for the restoring of the whole kingdom of Christ: and
as I se the abuse of that apparel as yet to remain, I would
buy it dearly, that they were clean taken away. But to
make it wicked of it self to use them any ways, I se no
cause. Grant it to me. Whatsoever scriptures you alkdg
against the traditions of men, you know, that al that is to be
132 understood of these things wherwith men wil worship God
by themselves, and overpasnng the commandments of God,
eat meat rather with washed hands than unwashed. What^
soever you speak of beggarly and weak elements, you know
it pertaineth to superstition ; wherby these things were le- f
quisite, as necessary or profitable of themselves to satvatioD, I'
now that Christ is reveled. Whatsoever you se of the abuK w
x>f these garments, that is not in the gannents, but sdcketb P
in unclean minds. But can these things be so repugnant to ^
the word and Spirit of Grod, seing that al things are dean
io them, even those which Antichrists most filthily hate
polluted ?

If these things shal satisfy you, reverend Sir, I wil rejoice
4n the Lord. Otherwise I pray you, shew me those scrip-
tures in few words, wherby I may se, that this my opinioa
touching the liberty of these things standeth not with the
word of God. And I pray God, that he so modante^ tf
else remove this controversy, lest any way it hinder the ne-
cessary clensing of the Church ; and lest they be divided
.either in opinion or in ministration, whom God in such aft
hath coupled and joyned to set forward the salvation of
the people.

I wish you and your wife, and al the company of brethrea
there with you, to live happily in al things, and I commeDi |
my ministry unto your prayers. In that I send back so kt^ r
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my earnest busines, which these days have let me for the
Idngdom of Christs sake; and also because I lack trusty
messengers, to whom I might commit these to be brought
unto you. The grace of the Lord encrease always in you
and us al. Amen.

Your most bounden in the Lord,

Martin Bucer.

"^^

oo.

CraaokjfB epigrams concerning abuses.

I. Abba/ys.

AS I walked alone, and mused on thyngs £ Bibiioth.

"that have in my time bene done by great kings, ^* ^^^^

I bethought me of abbaysy that sometyme I saw, Eii^n*

Which iu% now suppressed al by a law.
O Lord, thought I then, what occasion was here,
To provide for learning, and make poverty chere?
The lands and the jewels that hereby were hadd.
Would have found godly prechers, which might wel have

ladd
The peqple aright, that now go astray,
And have fed the poor, that famish every day.
But as I thus thought, it came to my mjmde, 1 33

That the people wil not se, but delyghte to be blynde.
Wherefore they are not worthy good preachers to have.
Nor yet be provyded for, but in vayn stil to crave.
Than sayd I, O Lord Grod, make this tyme short,
For theyr cxily sake, that be thy chosen sort.

II. Alehouses.

Nede^stust we liaive places for vitayls to be sold,
FcMT wash as be syck, pore, feble, and old.
But, Lord, to how great abuse they be grown,
In eche little hamlet, vyllage and towne ?
They are become places of wast and excess.
An hefbour for such men, as lyve in idleness.

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And lygjbtly in the oontzy they be j^aoed ao^

That they stand in ^ens w^y, when they flhould to duKcfa

go-
And then ipuch as love not to hear theyr £EuiIts told

By the minister that readeth the N. Testament and 014

Do turn into the alehouse, and let the church go :

And men aooompted wise and honest do so.

But London, God be praised, al men may commend,

Which doth now this great enormity emende.

For in servyce tyme no dore standeth upp.

Where such men are apt to fyl can and cupp.

Wold God in the country they would do tlie same,

Either for Gods fear, or for worldly shame.

III. AhnesJumses.

A merchfmt that long time had bene in straungq laodesi
Returned to his contry which in Aurora stands.
And in his return his way kye tp pass
By a spittle house not far from wh^ his dwelling was.
He loked for this hospital, but none ^uld he se,
For a lor^jy bouse was built, where the bosfatall Aovii

be.

Good Lord, (sayd this merchant,) is my country so wealthy, 1
That the very beggars houses be built so gorgeously?
Than by the way syde hym chaunced to se
A pore man that craved of hym for charitie.
Why, (quoth this merchaunt,) what meaneth this thing?
Do ye begg by the way, and have a house far a king?
Alas ! Sir, (quod the pore man,) we are al turned out.
And ly and dy in corners here and thereabout.
Men of great riches have bought our dwelling place,
And whan we crave of them, they turn away their face.
Lord God, (quod this merchaunt,) in T(irkey ha-ve I l*ne,
Yet emong these heathen none such cruelty have I a^^

134 IV. BaUif arrants.

A bailif there was in the west contrey.
That did as they do in al quarters, men seye.

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He served with one wry t an whole score or twejme^

And toke in h$sA to excuse them, having pence for hy s payne.

And when he should warn a quest in sessions to a|q)ear,

He would surdy warn them that would make hym no chere.

And than take a hribe to make answer for them ;

But when he met his friends, than would he say, Hem.

But such a$ had no chere, near mony to pay,

Were nwce to trudg to the sesedon alway.

Ye must give hym some thyi^ to sow Ms hadland.

Or els ye can ba^e uo feiuour at his hand.

Some puddings <;^ baken, or chese for to eat,

A bushel of barly, some malt or some wheat.

His hadland is ^ood ground, and beareth al thynge.

Be it baken <^ beffe, stockfyah or lynge.

Thus pore men are pold and pild to the bare.

By such as should serve them to kepe them from care.

V. Bawds,

The bawds of the stews be turned al out :
But some think they ii^abit al England throughout ;
In taverns and typ]ing houses many might be found,
If officers would xnake sercb, but as they are bound.
Well, let them take heed, I wyl say ho more ;
But when Grod rev;engeth, he punisheth sore.

VI. Beggars.

I heard of two beggars that under an hedg sate.
Who did with long talk their matters debate.
They had both sore leggs most lothsome to se,
Al raw from the fote welmost to the knee.
My legg, qiiod the one, I thank God, is fa3nre.
So is myne, quod the other, in a cold ayre.
For then it loketh raw, and as red as any bloud,
I would not have it healed for any worlds good.
For were it ooce whole, my ly ving were gone,
And for a sturdy beggar, I should be take anone.
No maime wonuld pky me but for my sore legg,
Wheifore if it were whole, in vain I liiight begg.

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I should be oonstnuned to labour and sweat.
And perhaps sometime with scourges be beat.
Wei, sayd the tother, let us take hede therfore,
That we let them not heal, but kepe them styl sore.
Another thyng I hear of a b^gar that was lame,
Much lyke one of these, if it were not the same :
135 Who sytting by the fyre with the cupp in hys hand,
Began to wonder whan he should turn good husband.
I shal never thryve, quod this beggar, I wene,
For I gate but xvi pence to day, and I have spent eygfatene.
Wei, let the world wagg, we must needs have drink ;
Gro, ty\ me this quart pot ful to the brink.
The Uuigue must have bastjmg, it ¥ril the better wagg
To pul a Goddes peny out o£ a churles bagg.

VII. Brawlers.

A brawler that loveth to break the Kings peace.
And seke his own sorowe his £uicy to please^
Is like a burr dogg that setteth upon
Eche mastife and hound that he may light on :
He getteth hym hatred of every manne.
And meteth with his master ever now and than.
To hurt other menn he taketh great payne.
He tumeth no mann to profit or gayne ;
Except it be the surgeon or the armorer.
The baylife, the constable, or the jayler.

VIII. The coUier of Croyden.

It is said that in Croyden there did sometyme dwell,
A collyer that did al other collyers excel.
For his riches thys collyer might have bene a knight,
But in the order of knighthood he had no delight.
Would God al our knights did mind coling no more,
Than thys collyer did knighting, as is sayd before.
For when none but pore collyers did with coles mell,
At a reasonable price. they did their coles sell.
But synce our knight collyers have had the first sale,
We have payd much money, and had few sacks to tale.

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L lode that late yered for a royal was sold,

JTyl cost now xvi shillings of sylver or gold.

rod graunt these men grace their polling to refrayhe,

^r els bryug them back to theyr old state agayne ;

nd especially the cdliar that at Croyden doth sell;

'or men thynk he is cosin to the coUyar of hell.

IX. Double beneficed men..

The Kyng of that realme where justice doth reign,
^erused old statutes that in bokes remayne,
ind as he turned the boke, hym chaunced to se,
I'hat such as have benefices should resident be ;
Lnd have their abyding, whyles theyr lyfe should endure,
Lmong them over wh(»n God hath geven them cure,
^hen sayd he to himself, I thynk wel there is
lo law in this realm worse observed than this.
Tet can there nothing my flock more decay, 136

"hen wh^i hyrelings sufler my shepe go astray,
nien called he his council, and told them his mind,
\xA wylled that they should some remedy find,
^o with good advyce agreed on thys thyng,
rhat visdtours should be sent with the power of the King,
To punish al such as herein dyd ofi*end,
Unles they were found thorow willing to amend.
These visitours found many stout priests, but chiefly one
Who had sundry benefices, but would surrender none.
Then was this stout fellow brought to the Kyng,
Who sayd unto hym, How chaunceth this thyng ?
Wyl ye transgress my laws, and than disobey
Menne havyug my power ? Sir, what can you say ?
" it mai like your Grace (quod he) lo! here is to see
Your seal at a graunt of a pluralitie.
Wel, sayd the Kyng than, I repent ine of al yll ;
^ut tel me,M^terDoctour, wil you have your benefices stil?
" your Grace do me ryght, (quod he,) I must have them

my life time.
^ shalt thou, sayd the Kyng^for to morrow by prime,

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God wylling, thy body Aal be divided Md sent,

To ech benefice » peoe, to make thee indent.

Away with hym, (quod the Kyng,) and let al thjrAgs be dene

As I have geven sentenee by tOf morrow ei>e none,

For syth thoa art a stout priest, an example thou shalt be,

That al stoubum priests ly take wan^by thee.

X. ForestaUers.

The fryses of Walys to Bristow are brought.
But before they were woven, in Walys they are bought.
So that now we do pay four groats ar els more,
For the fryse we have bought for eight pence heretofore.
And some say, the woiol is bought ere it do grow^
And the com long before it co»ie in the mowe.
And one thyng there is that hurteth most of al.
Reversions of formes are botight Icwig 6re they fal.
And ryght so are benefices in every coafst :
So that persons and vicars kepe neither sodd nor rost.
The pore of the parish, whom the person should fede,
Can have nought of o«r tythis to succour theyr nede.
Reversions of fermes sit^ bought on ech 6yde,
And the old tenant must pay wel, if he wyl abyde:
And where the father payd a peny and a capon or twayn,
The son must pay ten pounds ; which passeth my brayn.
Wel, let these forestallers repent them by tyme.
Lest the clark of the market be with th^n ere prime.
For he when he cometh wyl punysh them all.
That do any nedeful thyng ingrose or forestal.

13>7 XI. Nice wives.

I think the abominable whores of the stews
Did never more whorelike attyrements use.
The capp on hyr head is lyke a sowes maw.
Such another fashion, I thynk never Jew saw.
Then fine geare on the forehead set after the new tryck,
Tho^ it cost a crown or two, what then ? they may not
styck.

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If theyr heyr wyl not take colour, tSen ifiust they buy new,

And lay it out in tussockflr; this thyng is too true;

At ech syde a tussock as bygg as a ball,

A very fayr sygfat for a fornicator bestiall.

Bjrr face fajnr pajmted, to make it shjnae bryght,

^d hjT bosome al bare in most whordyke dight.

Hyr myddle braced in as smal as a wand,

^d some buy wasts of wyre at the pastwyfes hand.

^ bumbe lyke a barrel, with whoops at the skyrte ;

lyr shoes of such stuff that may touch no dyrte.

^pon hyr why te fyngers many ryngs of gold,

^ith such maner stones, as are most dearly sold.

^ al the)^: other trifles I wyl say nothyng,

•east I have but smal thanks for thys my wiyting.

J modest matrons, I trust, wil take my part ;

-8 for nice whij^pets words, shal not com ny my hert.

XII. Obstinate Papists.

An obstinate Papist that was sometime a frier,
^ad of hys friers cote so great a desire,
hat he stale out of England, and went to Lovayne,
Xkd gat hys friers cote on hys foles back agayne.
wilful beggar this Papist wyl be,
fole and a fryer ; and thus is one msui three.
Tould God al the Papists that be left behynd,
Tere with bym in fryers cotys according to theyr kynd*

XIII. VcM/n wryters, vayn talkers^ "vayn hearers.

Of late as I lay, and lacked my rest,
t such tyme as Titan drew fast to the ea6t,
hys saying of Christ came into iny mynde,
/"hich certayn and true al maner men shal fynde ;
f every idle word ye shal geve a reckonyng,
e it spoken by mouth, or put in wrytinge.

Lord, thought I then, what case be they in,
'hat talk and write vaynly, and think it no syn ?
"hen slombred I a little, and thought that I saw
'hree sorts of vayn menne condempned by Gods law.

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138 Tbe one was a wryter of thjmgs nought and vayn,
And another a talker, and this was theyr payn :
The wryter had the crowne of hys head opened ;
Whose brayns with a styck the talker styrred.
And he with both hands drew the talkers tongue,
So that withowt hys mouth it. was an handful long.
The third was an herkener of fables and lyes, ,
Whose ears were almost drawn up to hys eyes.

XIV. UnsatiaJMe purchasers.

An unreasonable rych man dyd ryde by the way,
Who for lack of men hadd with hym a boy.
And as he past by a pasture most pleasant to se.
Of late I have purchased thys ground. Jack, quod he.
Mary, maister, quod the boy, men say over al.
That your purchase is great, but your household is smal.
Why, Jack, quod thys riche man, what have they to do?
Would they have me to purchase, and kepe great house too?
I cannot tel, quod the boy, what maketh them to brawle,
But they say, that ye purchase the Devil, his dam and all,

XV. Usurers.

A certain man had lands, little though it were.
And yet wold faine have lived lyke a gentlemans peer.
Of thys land he made sale, and toke ready gold ;
And let that for double rent of the land that was sold.
Then came there a broker, and sayd, if he would do
As he would advise hym, he should make of one peny two.
Mary, that would I fain do, quod thys usurer than,
I pray thee teach me the feat, if thou can.
You shal, sayd thys broker, lend but for a months day ;
And be sure of a sufficient gage alway,
With a playn bil of sale, if the day be not kept.
And se that ye do no causes accept.
Than must you be sure, that your interest be
One peny for a shilling, and three pence for three.
So by the yeres end twelve months geve twelve pence
For the use of a shillyng, lo! I have told you al sence.

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Than sayd tbys usurer, this matter gbeth wel,
For my twenty pound land, that I chanced to sel,
I shal have four hundred pound rent by the yere,
*To lyve lyke a lord, and make joly chere.

P p. 139

The form of the commission by the King to his Council, in

his minority.

EDWARD the Sixth, &c. Wheras the late King, ourTitiu,B.«.
most gracious lord and loving father. Sang Henry VIII.
of most worthy memory, perceiving in himself to draw to-
wards the end of this vain and transitory life, made his will
and testament in such maner and form, as appeareth en-
rolled in our high Court of Chancery for matter of record ;
and considering at the making of the said last will and tes-
tament, that the crown imperial, and kingly regiment of so
great and many realms, dominions, and subjects, descend-
ing imto us by right, title, and succession after his decease ;
we, for lack of knowledg and experience, which our young
and few years at that time could not so soon have conceived
and gotten, should not of our selves be so wel able to ad-
minister, direct, and rule the affairs of our said realms, do-
minions, and subjects, as both to our own honour and surety,
and also to the benefit and preservation of our own good
subjects should appertain ; did therfore, like a most prudent
Prince, and a very kind and natural loving father, choose,
dect, name, and ordain to be our executors and counsillors
of Privy Council about us, such personages, as of whose
faithfulnes, wisdoms, and diligences he had received, by a
long time, good proofs and great experience ; that is to say,
A. B. &c. praying, willing, and commanding them m as
earnest maner, and with as great charge as he could devise,
to take upon them the offices of his executors and oiu: coun-
cilors of Privy Council : giving to them such authority and
commission for the counsailing of us, and the government
of our person, and the mayning and directing of our affairs.

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both private and public, as in big said- last wil andttistft*
ment doth appear: akK> chaiging and ccAttittaiding m, so
far forth as a father might charge and command hift son, to
be ordered and ruled by the advice and cdungil of Ul said
executors and counselors.

And wheras also upon a spedal trust and confidence,
which our said father had in A. B. &c. he appointed them
in his said last will and testament to be of counsil, for the
aiding and assisting of the forenamed counsillors and exe-
cutors, when they or any of them should be called by his
said executors, or the more part of the sam^e : like as first,
we must and do, among many other benefitis given imto us
of God, knowledg his gift unto us of so prudent, careful,
loving, kind, and wise a father, to be one of the greatest
gifts and benefits unto us, and therafter render unto Ins
divine Majesty our most humble, lowly, and most heaitjr
thanks; so finding already, and knowing certainly how ne-
cessary, profitable, and honorable the making, appointing,
and mayning by the sead late King our father of his fore-
named executors and counsillors for assistance, and also
140th^ordre, charge, commission, and authority given to them
by him ; and his charge also to us to be advised and coun-
silled by them; hath been and is to us, our realms, domi-
nions, and subjects.

We do, of our certain knowledg and mere motion, ap-
prove, confirm, ratify, and take in most gracious, firm,
stable, and thankful part, al and every deed and deeds, act
and acts, thing and things, of what nature, condition, or
quality they, or any of them have been or be ; which the
foresaid executors and counsillors of Privy Council, or the
most part of them assembled in Council, or the forenamed
executors and counsillors of Privy Council, and counsillors
for assistance, or the most part of them assembled in Coun-
cil, have treated, concluded, commanded, ordered, ap-
pointed, directed, advised, counsilled, written, said, or don,
at any time or time, or in any maner, wise, or by any maner
mean, sithence the decease of the said late King our father,
in, for, or concerning the government of our person, or the

car OEIGINALSt 4f»

rule, government, direciion^ Dr mxpning in any
nse, with, of, or in our oTaira, priratft or public, in-
nr outward, of our realms, dominions^ or subjects, or
them^

forasmuch as having but now lately accoin]^shed>
e of twelve years, we do nevertbeles, thanks be to*
^el percdive and understand, how much unable yet'
me we are, for want of perfect knowledg and expeii-
D take unto our own^ mayninir and direction,, our a&
ither public or private, su/ar^ the g.^t Lmbers
riety of the same, occurring daily as wel at home in^
QQiinions, as with foreign parts. And omsidering also*
mvenient, needful, profitable, and honorable it is, for
Mince, of what estate or age soever he be, to elect
ve about him grave and wise counsillors, and to £ol-
^r advice and counsil in al his dcnugs and proced*
^e therfore, of our certain knowledg, mere motion,
ry just consideration, and for the good^ proof which
e always had of A. B. &c. whom the said late King^^
id father, did name and order to be his executors'
unsillours to us of our Privy Council ; and of the
. B. &c. whom our said father did appoint to be
lors for assistance; do desire and pray, and never-
^1 and command them to execute, use, exercise, and
3on them the offices and places of couninllors of oiur
ZIouncil, and counsillors for assistance, in such maner
rm as our said father by his last wil and testament
amed and af^inted them and every of them, for
aceming their advice for our mariage ; for and con-
; the government of our person, the cwrdering the af-
r the realm, both outward and inward, and also our*
ivate affairs: so to continue in the sttd rooms and
diuing our plesure, the same our plesure to be de-
to them, or any such of them whom we shal upon
n fortune hereafter to discharge from any the said
or places, by our letters patents signed with our own
uid sealed with the great seal of England.

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And for because the variety and number of things, af-
fairs, and matters, are and may be such, as we, not know-
ing now beforehand the names, natures, qualities, or cer-
tainties of them, cannot conveniently prescribe ex set forth
141 any certain instructions, rules, or^ orders, unto our said
counsillors, for their behaviour and procedings in thb
charge, which we have and do now appoint unto them dur-
ring our plesure, as aforesaid ; we therfore, for the special
trust and confidence which we have in them, do give and
grant ful power and authority to them, or to the most part
of them, assembled together in Councel, and in the absence
of any of them, to the most part of them which shal be pre-
sent and assembled together in Council ; to make, devise,
and ordain, what thing or things soever they, or the more part
of them, as aforesaid, shal from time to time, and at al tunes
during the time they be our counsillors, think necessary,meet,
or convenient, for the benefit, honor, surety, weal public,
or commoditie of us, our realms, dominions, or subjects, at
any of them : and the same thing or things so made or or-
dained by them, or the more part of them, as aforesaid, to
do, execute, accomplish, and set forth for us, and in our
name, or cause to be don, executed, accomplished, and set
forth for us, and in our name, by their discretions, or the
discretions of the more part of them, as aforesaid, in as large
and ample maner, as if we had or did expres unto them in
special words, articles, or matters, or by more special com-
mission, the self same maner of doing or proceding, which
they, or the more part of them, as aforesaid, shal think meet
from time to time to use or follow, or the self same particu-
lar matter or matters, cause or causes, that may chaunce or
occur, the time they be our counsillors, as aforesaid, willing
and commanding, &c.

OP ORIGINALS. ;4Tr

QQ.

Certain orders set Jhrth by the justices of Cornwall Jbr the
accomplishment of the Kvn^s commandment^ by his High-^
ness\ letters to them directed; Jbr the speedy refbrmatum
of the unreasonable prices of victuals in markets , amdjbr
the punishment of the causers of the same.

Comwal.

FIRST, That the said justices within their circuits and Titos, B. s.
limits to them appdnted, do treat with the best and most
honest personages of any market-towns within their said li-
mits ; and to know of them the names of those which were
wont to serve the markets, and such as now be hable to
serve the same markets, of grain ; which of butter and
dieese ; which of flesh ; and whether they, or any of them,
have withdrawn, or not.

liem^ After that taken and entred in a book, then to
know of them what the names^ of those were that have sold
the same at excessive prices, sithence the late command-
ment.

Itemy That every justice in their limits do send for the said 142
sellers, and to take their answers, and the proofs of the said
town-dwellers. And if it shal then appear they have oIL
fended, then to give them day under sureties to appear be-
fore them to receive their deserts.

Item^ If they accuse others that make sale of the same to
them at excessive prices, that then those be sent for, and
put under like sureties.

Item^ The grain of every the parishes to be surveyed by
the said justices, and likewise the of the same ; to

be likewise entred in a book, who occupieth the same, and
with what stufi^, and what prices the same have been sold;
whether they were fat or lean ; and to whom.

Item^ That victuallers be appointed to serve in the said
market-towns, such ^as dwel nigh or in the said towns, and
be no graziers ; and they to fetch cattel for the same mar-
kets with the said graziers, by the precept of the said jus-
tices, or any of them, directed to the constable of his parish

478 A METOSlTOSiY

there : and such constable is for their warrant to deliver the
same to his said victualler^ P&J^ for the same at the Songs
Majesties price.

Item, Likewise that grain be appcnnted to serve the said
markets by the said surveyors at reasonable prices, by them
to be appointed, after the quantity by those persons there,
as it shal appear it is by their survey.

Item, Likewise of butter and cheese, that tiiey that were
accustomed to serve the markets with butter and cheese, and
other victuals, do serve the same, if they have wherewith, .
At the Kings price.

Item, That the butcher, having beefs, muttons, and al
other victuals at his graziers hands, at the Sings price, shal
be compelled to sel the same to the Kings pe^d[^ aocordiog
to that rate, by the orders of the mayors and diief dSeets
of the market-town, at the commandment of the justices.

Item, That if any amlnguity rise betwixt the butdier and
the grazicar in making the price, having regard to the large-
ness of the beast, that the same be appealed, and ^judged
by the justice of peace next adjoyning.

Item, That every victualler bris^ the bide of every the
bieasts that shal be killed weekly to the markeits, and theie
make sale oi them in open market, at such prices. as the jus-
tices of peax ^al appoint.

Item, That henceforth no fisher make sale of any kind of
fish upon the sea, nor elsewhere, but upon the strand; and
that the same remain upon the strand during one whole
hour, to be sold to al comers of the country, at such prices
as one of the said fishers and one of the landmen will ap-
point And in case none of the country be there to buy
the $£ud fish, or any part therof, by the space of one hour,
that then the said fishers shal be at liberty to sel the same
to any jowtar, or other, to their most advantage, as they
and the buyers may agree.

Item, When the fisher or jowtar bring any fidi to the
market, that then they sel the same at reasonable prices, or
els at such prices as the mayors and chief officers of the
same town shal appoint.

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«9

Tahle moking mention of certain prifes made ij/ihe King's 1 43
Majesty's jtLstices^ of all kinds qfcom^ and strndry other
necessaries.

Cprnwall.

A bushel ^ wheat.

At Stretton,
Launceston^
S£dtashe.
Lyskerde,
Lowe.
Bodmyn,
liOiEituthyel,
Tregony,
Trerewe,
St. Columbe,
EjBnryn,
Padstow.

Helston, ) /»

Redruythe. J

ston, >- 3s. 4d.
J

I 4^, Sd.

{Memora/nd.
This is 12 gallons
to the bushel.

f 16 gallons U> the
X bushel.

>■ 5s. 8d. •<

18 gallons to the
bushel.

f This is a greater
\ pleasure still.'

y 20d.

A btishel of barley.

At Bodmyn,
Lofituthiel,
Tregonye,
Trerewe,
St.Columbe, '
Penryn,
Padstow.
Helston,
Redruythe
Launceston,
Saltashe,
Leskyrd,

Low. ^

Strotton, - lid.

I 5s. [It should be 15d.]

16d.

480

A REPOSITORY

A tmshd qfocUs.

At Bodmyn,
Padstow,
Lostuthiel.
Leskyrd,
Low,
Saltash,
Launceston.

90d.

18d.

Wine.
A gallon of the best Gascoin,

Memorcmdufn.
The measure of oats
is great, and not at
one dze, but m some
places more than in
some.

£. s. d.
- 0 0 6

Lirmm cloth.

A yard of dowlas,
— — — lockeram.

Hides tmtcmned.

The hide of every cow, - - -
' — ox, - - -

■ ' stere, - - -

■ heiffer.

0 0 9
0 0 7

4^. Sd. or 3 4

..68

4^. 4d. or 3 4

«*. 4d. or2 8

Shop leather well tanned.

A dyck of leather, viz. two hides at the least, 3 0 0
A foot of clowte leather, - - - - 0 3 0

Shoes.

A pair of mans shoes,
A pair of womans shoes,
A pair of boots, the best.

10 or lU

6 or U

Ss.id.

And if any person be disobedient to any of the orders
before mentioned, that the same be brought to the next jus-
tice of the peace, by him to be committed to ward, or ebe
to be bound, at the discretion of the said justice, to appear
before the justices of oyer and terminer; there to recrive
worthy punishment for their offences.

Thenji)lthw3 A table\ minting mention <jf the' prkes tf
9wndry JHnds of tktuals^ taa^d and appomUd ty ihd
Kvh^a Majestjfs proclamatkm : which is ewempUfied
in thejbregoing history.

For the overselling. The forfeiture for every of the
greater beasts, as of oxen, and such like, SI. apiece ; and c^
the sheep 10^. apiece.

BOOK II. 144

Scory, bishop of Rochester ^ tmto the Km^s most excellent
Mtyesty : putting him in mind of certain suits m^ctde to
him in his sermon be/hre him last LenL

I 6I¥E most humble thanks to God and to your Ma^ MSS. Guii.
jiesty, that it hath pleased you to judge me fidthful in puti. ^j^*
ting me in the ministry. And although your Majesty hath
a nmnber of faithful subjects, that could accomplish this of-
fice better than I, yet I wil through Gods grace, and ac-
ocnxling' to my hability, wholly endeavour my self to serve
God' and your Majesty in my ministry, both faithftilly and
diligently;

And' now I most humbly beseech your Majesty, to re-
tnember aiid consider, ambiig other, two of the essential
suits that I made the last Lent in my sermons unto your
Bfti^ecfty. The first was for the restitution of the ecclesias-
icaTcfisdipEne, wherby virtue may have again her old and
luirt estimation, and vice put to shame and confusion. The
leocmd was to banish greedy avarice: the which hath, by
iuJosures and converting tillage into sheep-pastures, con-
lafaiy to the wholsome laws of this your noble realm, de-
car^Fed^ your villages, townes, and dties, brought in an into-
liable scajxity and dearth of al thiings that your faithful
liibjects should live by, diminished the number of your
[e ill the country, atid therby f!e^l)Ied' and 'Weakened

VOL. II. PART II. I i

:.*... A.

48S A BEPOSITORY

your mighty power and strength, that your ndble progeni-
tors had, and your Majesty should and might have against
the enemy : and finally, if speedy remedy be not provided
by your noble Majesty and prudent counsillors^ it wil
bring your honorable state, and this your reahn, in time
past most worthy, unto utter ruine and desolation: the
which God, for the mercies of his Son Jesus Christ, save
your Majesty and your noble realm fronou Oh ! what a la-
mentable thing is it to consider, that there are not at this
day ten plows, wheras were wont to be forty or fifty.
Wheras your Majesties progenitors had an hundred men to
serve them with reverend obedience in the time of peace
and in the time of wars, with their strength, policy, goods,
and bodies, your Majesty have now scant half so many.
And yet a great number of them are so pined and famidied
by the reason of the great scarcity and dearth of al kind of
victuals, that the great sheep-masters have Inrought into this
noble realm, that they are become more like the slavery and
paisantry of France, than the antient and godly yeomandij
of England. Oh ! what a lamentable thing is it to behold
145 that ground, which at this time of the year, through mens
diligent labour and Gods blessing, was wont to be richly
adorned with com, to be now, through Gods curse, that is
fallen upon us for our idienes and greedy avarice, reple-
nished with mayweed, thistles, docks, and such like unpro-
fitable weeds. The ground, without controversy, would be
as fruitful as it hath been in times past, if it were, accord-
ing to Gods ordinance, and the wholsome laws of this reahn,
laboriously drest and tilled, as it was wont to be. But to
trust to have as much upon one acre as was wont to grow
upon three, (for I think that the tillage is not now above
that rate, if it be so much,) is but a vain expectation, and a
wicked tempting of God ; seeing that now, God sending us
seasonable seasons, we are compelled, as the experience of
this year have declared, to seek relief of our scarcity and
dearth of com at the hands of strangers : which was wont,
having such seasonable times, to relieve them with al kinds
of grains ; what should we be connpelled to do, if God should

OF ORIGINALS- 488

send us but one year unseasonable weathers ? If we have
scarcity and dearth by the reason the ground is undlled
and unsown, when God sendeth us rain and seasonable
times, in what misery and calamity shal we be, when he shal
send us the contrary ?

Wherfore, most noble King, and my most dread sove-
raign Lord, consider and ponder wel this matter. And so
I beseech God, for Jesus Christ, to preserve your royal Map-
jesty, with your honorable Council and your whole realm.

Your Majesties most humble subject,

John Scorey, bp. of Roch.

B-

Pohfdore Vergil to Secretary Cecyljjbr his warrant to re-
ceive the Kin^s gift.

OPTIME CeciUi, S. Initium jungendae amicitise tecum MSS. Cecil,
oocafiip hsec facit. Heri enim adivi ad illustrem Northum-
briae Ducem, mei negotii causa, qui statim petiit, an accepis*
sem sdbedulam a concilio regio subscriptam de dono Ma-
jeslatis xegLm dato. Respondi intellexisse me a Dno. pri*
vati sigiOi Custode eam esse signatam. Tum ille inquit.
Mane domi, ipse namque ad te Ulam mox mittendam cu^
rofto, 9% nonpotueris commodo ttu) a/nte habere* At ego ne
immodestus viderer, hodie bene mane me ad regiam con-
tuli; qiua etm heri te convenire studui, uspiam tamen non
potui ; sed accidit, ut tu paulo ante de cubiculo tuo exive-
ris. ' Quare nunc mitto ad te famulum meum Polydorum
Rosfie cum his Uteris meis ; cui rogo, velis eam ipsam sche-
dulam ad me dare, quo possim tempore suo rem meam per-
iBgere. Siquid vero tibi tuisque ministris inde debeatur,
iBiid libenter persolvam. Vale, et me ama. Ex sedibus nos-
tris X Npvemb. 1551.

Tuus Polydorus Vergilius,
Manu mea.

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m A REPOSITORY

146 C.

Thomtis Gresham to the Duke qfNorihwmberJafnd^Jram
Antwerp ; concemi/ng the King's debts. -

To the Dvke of Northumherlamdls Grace,
Cott. Libr. YY may please your Grace to be advertisecL that as. the
' ' ' 90 of this present I came unto this towa of Antwerp in
salty : whems I found neither Jasper Schetz^ nor the Fug-
gers factor^ being at Brusseht, and looked fiH* to morrow it
the farthest^ being the Slst day : with idiom I shal treat
according to such commisaon as the Kings Majesty hath
given me : wishing at this time, that it may please God to
send me such good succes, as that tfie IBongs Majesties ho-
nor and credit may be nothing touched. For that it shal
be no smal grief unto me, that in my time, being his Ma-
jesties agent, any merchant-strangers should be forced to
forbear their mony against their wills : which matter from
henceforth must be otherwise. fi^nBseijen, .of els in the end the
dishonesty of this ipatter shal hc^aHter be wholly laid upon
my neck, if any thing should chance of your Grace, or my
L. of Pembroke, otherwise than wel ; fcH* that we be al ma^
tal: which matter I do not doubt,, if Gkxi send you life^
you will fpresee in. time. Wherin I wil advertise you my
poor and simple advice at large.

But ere that I do procede any further in this matter, I
shal most humbly desire your Grace to pardon me of my
writing; fpr that this matter toucheth the Kings Majesties
honour and credit^ which I am boimd by my oath to maiii^
tain and keep: as also, the very love and obedience I do
owe unto you, putteth me: clean out of fear to write unto
you this my ful mind at large. For it may please your
Grace to understand, that at my coming^ home I brought
with me two bargains, for to discharge the Kings Majesties
debt, due the SOth of August, amounting to; the sum of
56,0007. as also of an overplus to remain in the Kings
hands for the seorvice of a year: and that was, I offered
52,000Z. in ready mony after the rate of 12Z. upon the hun-
dred for a whole year. And therewith the Kings Majesty

OF ORIOINALg. 48S

Aould have taken Manuel Rys^s jewel ; which I offered
otice to you for 80002. with another diamont of the value of
10002. which jewel I shewed to the Council at Alltham, be-
ing there my Lord of Wiltshire, my Lord Darcy, my Lord
Warden, Sir John Gates, and the there reck-

oning the jewels to be worth nothing, were they never so
perfect or orient. Secondly, I offered them a bargain from
the Fugger for the prolongation of 26,000?. and to have
taken 50007. in fiistians: which also did not like them;
saying that there was no other remedy, but that the Fugger
and the Schetz must forbear with the Kings Majesty at this
time; and that they would have them prolonged for an-
other year, without taking any merchandize or jewels.
Which matter did not a little abash me, considering how
things heretofore hath been used. For as your Grace doth 147
light wd know, when the Kings Majesties father did first
begin here to take up mony upon interest, Master Stephen
Vi^an being his agent, he took his fee-peny in merchan-
dize, dther in jewels, copper, gunpowder, or fustians. And
so the matter hath past ever since in taking of wares, when
the Kings Majesty hath made any prolongation, until the
charge therof was comniitted unto me. Wherin I travailed
to the utmost of my power, and, by the means of my friends,
I found the means to serve the King with 20,0002. without
takiiig any jewels or merchandize, as your Grace best
knoweth. And to be plain with your Grace in this matter,
I was fain to give forth mine own [word] that this mony
should be paid at the just day, or else the Kings Majesty
could never have had it.

Since the winch time it is not unknown to your Grace,
that the world is wonderfully altered here by reason of
these wars. For that the Emperor hath taken up the most
piirt upon this bourse of Antwerp; which hath made a
menrailous scarcity of mony. Wherin consideration ought
to be had ; as also the formal bargains heretofore made in
tddng iiiejbufihpenyinwa.js: which thing I wil insure
your Grace I have utterly abhorred it. For that lay in my
power^ having none other shift at this present, nor could

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find none other ways at this present to serve the Kings Ma-
jesties turn : which offers did nothing like the Kings Ma-
jesties Council, saying, that there was none other remedy
but that the King must prolong the debt of the Fugger and
the Schetz for another year, or for six months at the least
Wherewith I declared before them of the Council, that this
matter touched the Kings Majesties honor and credit; and
that hereafter if the Kings Majesty should have need of
mony, he should not find it, if they would thus fi^ the
merchants against their wills ; knowing that my friends the
Schetz had need of their mony : wherin your Grace must
have a consideration and earnest respect thereunto. Foi:
truly my poor experience is, better it were for the Eii^
Majesty to leese as much mony as he oweth, than his credit
should be touched in this matter: praying to the living
God, that I may never se that day. Ami to be plain with
your Grace in diis matter, according to my bounden duty,
verily if there be not some other ways taken for the pay-
ment of his Majesties debts, but to force men frt>m time to
time to prolong it, I say to you, the end therof idud neither
be honorable nor profitable to his Highnes.

In consideration wherof, if there be none other ways
taken forthwith, this is most humbly to beseech your Grace,
that I may be discharged of this office of agentship. For
otherwise I se in the end, I shal receive shame and discre-
dit therby, to my utter undoing for ever: which is the
smallest matter of al, so that the Kings Majesties credit be
not spotted therby, and especially in a strange country;
wheras at this present his credit is better than the Empe-
rors: which I pray to the living God long to continue. For
now the Emperor giveth 16 per cent, and yet no mony to
be gotten, &c.

Also, this is to give your Grace to understand, that the
Kings Grace hath given me another commission, to com-
mon for the prolongation of the sum of 43,000Z. and his
J 48 Majesty is content to take 6000Z. in fustians, at such prizes
as he hath heretofore taken them, upon condition that his
Majesty may transport and sel these fustians, wheras he

OF ORIGINALS- 487

dud think good. For that heretofore m a] his bargains
made with the Fugger, his Majesty was bound to sel them
m England.

Further, I must treat with Jasper Schetz, that so far
finrth as he is content to prolong the 10,000Z. due to the
90th of November for six month, that then the Kings Mi^
jesty would pay the 12,000Z. due to the 20th of this present
month, betwixt this and the ^th of November, allowing
them interest for the same time. So that they shal not so
aooncome to this town, but I shal be in hand with the Fug-
ger and the Schetz ; and shal bring their answer my self to
the Kings Majesty and you with al the expedition I can
make: prajring to the living God, I may bring this pro-
longation according to the expectation of the Kings Ma-
jesty, and his most honorable Council. And then I do not
doubt, if that my poor ample advice may be heard and
take place, I do not mistrust, but in two years to bring the
Kings Majesty wholly out of debt: which I pray God send
me life to se that day.

And for the accomplishment of the same, my request
shal be to his Majesty and you, to appoint me out weekly
12 or 1300Z. to be secretly received at one mans hands;
so that it may be kept secret, and that I may therunto
trust, and that I may make my reconing therof assuredly.
I shal so use this matter here in this town of Antwerp,
that every day I wil be seen to take up 2 or 300Z. sterling
by exchange. And this doing, it shal not be perceived,
nor it shal not be no occasion to make the exchange fal.
For that it shal be taken up in my name. And by these
means, in working by deliberation and time, the merchants
turn also shal be served. As also this i^ould bring al mer-
chants out. of such suspicion, whom doubteth nothing to
pay . of the Kings debts ; and wil not stick to

say, that ere the payments of the Kings debts, it wil bring
down the exchange to ISs. 4d. which I trust never to se
that day. '

So that by this you may perceive, if I do take up .every
day but 200t per diem^ [it wil] amount in one year to

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489 A REFl93IT!ORY

78,0002. and the E. Mq^y oweth hefe, nt Ihin prew^
i08,000L with tb^ intor^ many that ym pTsAovigpi itfier
this time. So that by these means, in two years time !ivdl be
oompassed according to my purpo^ pet forth ; m 0I0O by
this n^eans yQu shal mother trouble mesrdbaikt adventura*,
nor stapler, nor merchant stranger, &c.

AJbo^ tb.ere if^ another ^natter, which I would wiece al ia
the Kings hands, and that is Uad: which now is worth
her^ 8/. Flemish. So that if it standeth with the Kings
Majesties plesure, for the which to make a proclamation, or
eU to shut up his custome house, that no man Co ctmvej
out any parcel of lead five years day, upon forfeiture of fife
and goods, it slial not only cause the taerchants tp ffd their
lead there again good cheap, but it shal make it fal at jdie
peckes; wberaa there be fodders mcdten abore three or
four thousand, as I found ; and now sdledx for 6^. ISt. 4d
th^ C. at H.ul ; which is a goodly matter. Wherfore the
King shal make a staple therof ; and he ahid cause it to
rise, and to feed them here as they shal have need ther)o£
from time to time. Which thing must be don out of hand,
so that there may be none ^ent hither by the merchants that
149 be of merketa: which wil be an bocasicMi to

make it fal here. And this doing the Kings Majesty shal be
a great profiter therby, as tq you may appear.

And by these means your Grace shal receive much ho-
nor, and al those that be now of the Council, in keeping his
mony within his realms, a^ also in bringing him out of debt,
that bis late fath^ and the late Duke of Somerset brought
him in; which al the world doth right wel know tharof.
And also your Grace shal do his Majesty such service as do
Duke in England, to the renown of your house for ever.
For verily I say to your Grace, if this mony shal be f»o-
longed upon interest, it wil be a marvelous great hindrance
to his Majesty. Therfore it bdioveth your Grace most
earnestly to prev^^t this matter in time, if it be posable.

Now and it please your Grace, if this matter of leqd doth
like you, this is most humbly tp require, if there be any re-
straint made a<)cording to my M^ng, that it may please the

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IQngs Majesty to grant me pasport to transport three hun-
dred fodders of lead, which I have bought of Mr. Beau-
moat and others, as your Grace right wel knoweth. Wherof
as yet I have received but forty fodders of Mr. Beaiunont.
Wherin I shal deare you to move him in my behalf, that I
may have my lead delivered me out of hand. For that it
may please your Grace I have sold the aforesaid lead to my
tnend the Scfaetz, to convey it him at the cost, and change,
aad adventure at Hamburgh, at 14^. the ways ; and twelve
iraye maketh a fodder.

Certifying your Grace, that this day I have had peifect
newa i&mn Hamburgh, that I have a ship lost with an him-
dned fodder of lead, which oost me 10007. wherof I have as-
Vired QQOl. ao I do leese clear 4001. Most instantly requir-
ing your Grace of 'your abundant goddnes, to help me
fioithwith to the 10691. which the Kings Majesty hadi
ought me this eight mcmths, as your Grace best knoweth.
For verily I am in great need therof. And partly at this
timie my honesty and credit lyes th^son. So God help me,
4$ lit my coming home I shal declare to your Grace this my
necesfidly more at large.

ThenJiXUm news out ofGernumy and Frcmce.

>Not mistrusting, ere the year goeth about^

to save the Kings Majesty ^^0002. in the payment of his
debts, if I may be credited. Wherin I shal not let to for->
sake my own trade of living, for the better serving of hia
Majesty, as knoweth who preserve your Grace in health
with ^crease of honor. From Antwerp, the SI. Aug. 155%
At your Graces commandment during life,

^hon^ Greaham, naercer.

It va9j please your Grace to do my most
hamble commendations to my good
Jjoted Pembroke.

gunii*

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150 D.

Dr. Cox to BuUinger ; concerning the review of the book of

Prayers and Sacraments.

Charissimo in Christo Jrairi D. Henrico BuMingero,
ecciesicB Tigurin<B antistiti^ Ric. Cox.

Ex archW. ETSI nihil est alicujus momenti, charisfflme in Chnsto
eociM.Ti- frater, quod ad te jam sciibam, tamen Joannem hunc nos-
trum sine literis meis omnino dimittere nolui : id quod ipse
quoque aegerrime tulisset. Quod ad sincerse rel^^nis n^o-
tium attinet, benedictus Dominus Deus, cujus jufaar mirifice •
nobis indies affiilget. Jam iterum publicarum precum li
turn, atque etiam sacramentorum ipsorum immutavimus; et
ad normam verbi Dei expolivimus. Sed acerbas istas Chris-
tianse discipline institudones, cane pejus et angue, odimus.
Volumus esse filii, quin et haeredes etiam, sed virgam ex-
horrescimus. Excita nos, id est, optimates nostras, per spi-
ritum qui datus est tibi, ad discipline studium, qua fflne
(dolens dico) auferetur a nobis regnum Deiy et dabitur genii
Jhcientifructum ejus,

Sed unum est, mi Bullingere, quod penitus edoceri per-
cupio. Lego in libro tuo De Ccena Domini, in quinta decade,
haec verba, " Quoniam non est publicus vel generadis coetus,
" quando quatuor vel quinque cum aegro communicant, nihil
** dicunt qui aiunt apud aegros ccenam instrui posse, si alii
" quoque simul coenent." Quod si, coacto publico coetu, tr^s,
quatuor aut quinque tantum ex multis centenariis (aliis omni-
bus recusantibus) percipere velint sacramentum eucharistiae,
annon, aliis praesentibus, aut e templo discedentibus, id facere
liceat ? Cur ergo aegrotus hoc beneficio fraudabitur ? De hac
re plenius instrui exopto, cum per otium tibi vacaverit. D.
Jesus te nobis diutissime conservet incolumem ad Christi
gloriam et Ecclesiae suae aedificationem. Windesorae An-
glorum. Vo. Octobris, 1552.

Tuus in Christo frater,

Ric. Cox.

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E- 161

T%omas Bamabey a merchcmty to Sir WUliam Cecylj secre^
. iartf qfsUUe, Upon his great and large experience, he
propounds to him certain ways to distress the French.

To ike right honorable and his special good master Sir
William Cecyl^ secretary to the Kings, Mcyesty.

AFTER my most humbliestcommendacions unto your MSS.Ceciii.
mastership, y t shal please you to be advertysed, that I have
been of late with the commyssioners of Fraunce, that be here
com, the which is Monsr. Aubery, lieutenant civil of Parys,
and Monsr. du Val, advocate for the King, of Newhaven,
HcNDofleut, and Harfleut ; the which be right honest gentle-
men, and speke wel, and say, that they are not alonely sent
to common with us, as the people maketh report of them,
but to make restitution. And one of them also said unto
me, that our people be very desirous here to have war with
them, and that we should not fynd the realm of Fraunce
after the sort that we did for sixscore yeres agone, when we
did conquere yt. For he said, that then the Duke of Nor-
mandy, and the Duke of Brytayne, and the Duke of Bur- '
goigne, were al three agaynst the French King, and now y t is
knytt al to one realme : and that we may se what great hurt
we have don them with the warrs, that my Lord of Northfolk
and my Lord of SufPolk, and the Kings Majesty have don,
and what towne we can show, that we do hold : but only
have spent out al our riches, and destroyed a great nombre
of subjects, and left al our mony in Flanders, Heynou, and
Artous, to the ufter destruction of our realm. The which
I answered hym agayn to my simple witt, that I have had as
moch experience in France, or in those parties, as moch as
any man in the realm of England, and was marryed there
for xxxviii yeres agone : and since I have had save con-
duits of the Kings Majesty ; wherupon hath growea great
suits, and to my utter undoing. So that I dare be bold to
say, that there is never a port, haven, or bay, betwene Bou-
loigne and Bourdeaulx, but I know hym. And as for the

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realm of France besyde, I ought to know yt ; for I have
ben xxviii viages in France in post for the Kings Majesty,
Itnd contynuallie th^e al the while that my Lead of Win-
chester and Master Wallop were there ; and likewyse by my
Lord of London and my Lord Fachetts days. And some-
what I gathered there amongst them : for I think there
were few men that was sent so many tymes to the Council
privily for by-matters as I was : for the embassadours went
never to the Corte but for the Kings privy aflBsdres, but
always yt was my chance to be sent for every mans matters;
Wherfore there was nother the chancellor, nor the cardynal
of Lorrayne, nor the cardinal of Parys, nor the admyral,
nor the cunstable, which hath continewed longest in favor,
but I have knowen them al.
152 And as for the constable, somewhat I can say of hyra. I
think he be one of the doblest and dissemblingst gentlemen
that is in the world : for there is no more assurance of Iris
word, than to hold an ele by the tayle ; but wil speke feir,
and promise fair, and work the contrary. And besyde al
this, I promyse you of my fayth, he is as popish as I am
English, and always hath been : for the which my Lord of
Winchester nor Mr. Wallop did not hate hym. For I do
know yt. For I was sent divers viages by my Lord Crum-
wel, and perceived how the matter went : for the which they
sayd both of them, that I was my Lord Crumwers spy ; and
so 1 am assured that they told the cunstable one day. But
1 cared not, for I had the King my masters procedings
hanging in myae eyes. And as Paul sayeth, / am that
I am,

God knoweth my poor hart, how moch I do tender the
wealth and prosperitie of myne own nation, and that I am
sory, from the bottom of my hart, to think that they of
France accept us to be gross-natured people and covetous.
And they have sayed unto me or now, that yf wee had never
so rank or malicious war with them, they know how to buy
tis for mony : the which methinketh were a strange thing.
Howbeyt that was seen by my LcM-d Cardynals days ; foi^ he
h3rmself toke iiii hundreth thousand crownes to make peace

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beMene thb Vrfyachmwir OVA us: Uteithich ih^rwodiuyta
IftbA spoken of in Frwkce.

. L WQiMwisbe-to. God^ thfit wm did- know (Hir own streoglh '
wd power, and whai; ports, baj!^ and havens we have, that
dih&r Teialms h^ve^not. It ii not unknown but iii si. Franois
be baited havens, and yet by reaaon that they maintain theiir
fishing and their theving, there is more maryners in oo^
towoft tfaei^ then is herefltom the liands end to S. Midiel^
monntt , I have.seoe comie out at one tyde in Diep five
bundcedi and five boles^ and in* eveiy bote ten or twelve m6n;:
the. wfaidi was au. nmrveUms matter to se hoii^, they be ma»i^
toyncid Uy fydiing^ and what richec^ they get by the sea^ai^
liow ihdy ma^rntain th^ towns aild pc^rts. And as for us,
letl us begin at Sandwidi and go 1^ Ddter, Hyd^ aild
Hastings, and to Winchelsea, and se how they go downi&t
kck 6t maintenance, and in a maner no nlariners in th^m :
wfaidi ia for kick of good policy to set them- a Wo)rk. . Which,
^^ yf- yt. please the Cowncel to understand] tho^ diingB
diaii I wil i^ow you, they shal sdt 6 or 7000 maryners a
wort more than (here i^, in that thing, that Franoe can lyvie
no more without, than the fysh without wiii^; that is to
say, Newcastle coala: which; without timt th^ can neither
mid^ sfcele^wlork, or metaUWjork> ndr wya>w<u*k, ndr gdld-
smidvwoik^ lioir gunns, nornd :manei^;o£ thing* that passelh
di0:fier: And as &r them, ye shal: s^ in peafict tym^ iii <^
iin. scone ships of. Normana and Brytonsat ones^ asrsobn^i^s
tJieyff fishing is don; and a^ they be^'d^iaHtcd oometh as
niany nipe.' So that I occupying save^nduiti in Eisncf^
have- bought coles at Newbartle f(»* t^o shillings and into
pimce arcHauldron, and for; thirteen mobles: have sold th^
agslai in France; Also the vioe-admirai ci Narm^D^y,
Mbnsr^ Bu May, andthe Vioounteof Diep, have; prayed nie
tn brings in Newctfitle coles, and Ishotdd hive ^ahy other
nMle^iofc comniod^ethaa dieylmdwithia^ the' i^ealid^.wh^
ther^yt* wi^re poldtwii fori smylis^ or any other thitig; >

Now^ may yoo se what a ccHmnodyte is this smal thing, to 1 53
this relilBa. S6 that* me semeth, yf the EingsMajestyr would
take in these coles into his own hands^ and let no other ships

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but English ships, fetch them at Newcastel, and i90 to bring
them into Kent, and make a staple in such place as should
be thought necessary, you should not onely set a wonderful
sort of maryners a work, but also jrt shal be a great strength
to the realm, and specially to the cuntry of Kent; the whidi
is very lene of men by the sea syde, consydering the pe-
mysses aforesayd of the going down of the towns* Also it
is not unknowen but that the French King hath taken the
salt into his own hands, and hath gruntiers in every town to
sd yt to his profjrt. Now may you way, that the one ys
vittayll, and the other is fuel. Also, it is but reason we
should avance our own commody te as wel as they do thqrn,
to maintain oiur own subjects withal. Also I would wysh,
that there should nother Aiel nor vittayl go out of the realm,
but upon English bottomes.

Moreover, I have sene go out at one tyde out of Bye,
together, 87 hoyes laden with wood and tjrmber, and neva
an English maryner amongst them ; which is a wonderful
discommodyte to this realm. I have great mervail that these
things have bene so long forgotten ; which is so necessary a
thing to be spoken of.

And now. Sir, I pray you, speke we of the dty of London.
There be so many notable merchants and rich halls of lands.
Some may spend viii hondred pound, some vi hondred, some
less and some more; and a great revenue come to them
yereiy for quartrages and forfeits, which liseth to no smal
som ; and nothing don withal, but make great feasts every
month or six weeks at their halls, and cause vittayls to be
dere. But yt might be torned to a more honorable use.
Also, yt would be a great mayntidning to die Kings sub-
jects, for every craft to have a ship to cary their merchan-
dizes to and fro, to the great avancement of the Kings ho-
nor, and to their own commodytes. And yf chance should
fal, which God forbyd, that a ship should be lost, the halls
might easily bear the smarts therof. I think there is nevor
a city in Christendom, having the occupying that this city
hath, that is so slenderly provided of ships, havyng the sea
comyng to yt, as this hath.

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- I have hard of late moch complaining for English ships to
lide goods into Spayn and other places, and there is none
to be hadd. Yf this thing hadd ben thought on in tyme,
hiq)pil]r dus worly borly of our ships shold not have chanced :
ior the French men do alledge, that that was the Spanyards
goods, and other of the Emperors subjects. Wherfore I
pray God, that this mister may be loked upon in tyme to
come.

Now I come to your mastership with another matter. Yf
«o be yt, that we should war with them, (as God defend, for
thete is no man of God but he wil seek peace,) I know a
town in Normandy *, ^hich yf y t were ours, we should kepe Newhaven.
France and Normandy subject. Is yt possible to be beleved ?
-Yea, as sure as the Uving Gtxi lyveth. I have known within
this xxxviii yere, there was but three houses ; two houses to
lay cables and ancres in, and the other a vittailing house :
and at this present day I think there be three thousand. It
is now a second Roan ; and it is the very gulph, gullet, and 154
inouth of the sea, and a make-peace, yf we had yt. Yt is
tAl the French Kings joy, and he calleth the maryners of that
town his maryners, his pylots, and his theves. They be
maintayned, and take of us, of the Portungales, and of the
Spanyards. Al is fysh that cometh to net ; they wil have a
pece of every man. Now, Sir, wheras the chefe of the
French Kings revenue is levelled upon salt, as aforesaid,
yet can yt not be brought into France nor Normandy, but
it must come in danger of that town : for the canel lieth of
that syde of the land betwene Polhed and that haven.
Kother no merchandizes out xji what realm soever y t com-
eth, but yt must go by that way. And also there can
nothing come out of France, nother wyne of Ansurois, nor
^wfjne of Bayon, nor wyne of Orleans, nor wyne of Parys, nor
any other merchandizes, that is made in Parys or Roan, to
go to any other realm, being caryed by water, but yt must
iiedes pas that way. Nother no army, that the French King
can send to Scotland, nor to vittayl his army to the sea, but
it is al set forth there. I cannot tel what I should write
more of yt, for it is so commodious. There was one of the

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wittkM hedds in al Christendom itfs marchiiift,wlHdi^w.
ed me ones standing there together,; thai we neded noa other
rod to scourge NcHtnandy and Fraiiee, but dtily that, yf we
had yt. And I showed the same to my Loid Crumwdi, sad
he sent me tUtber upon the Kings cost ; and I drew a (dack
6f yt, and brought yt to hym^ Thie Freneb King was
there the same time, and the Admiral Brian,, and the cu»-
stable that is now, were there nine days to view yt, and to
cast its ditches. And over that they made a cry, that what-
soeve [whosoever], would come and build th^*e at liew^
haven, should have his foundation, and cost hym nothingi
And so after my coming home, my Lord Crumwet ccmfened
the matter with me and my Lord Fit^WiUiams, that wiBis
then lord admiral, better thain three c^ four hours» pervkw-
ing the placket ; and said yf he lived,, and that WDurrs sbodid
happeft, that diould surely be remensdbred ; for yt was worthy
the hering. And so he put me to the King: and so [I] tra^
vailed in hisf Graces affairs xjcviii viages, both in France^
Spayne, and Italy, and found hjnn always good lord unto
me, or els I had ben a very poor man.

For I had two ships taken by the French men for xxvi
yeres agon ; and have had continual sUte with them, and
never could bryng yt to an end, but was fain to leve yt, and
follow the Kings affayrs ; and had things many tymes to say
to my Lord of Winchester, concerning the Kings prooed-
ings, the which he might not wel away withal, nor Jarmyn
Gardener, his s^retary. And so whan any miy Lord Cnim-
wel died, I fered my Lord of Winchester, and so ceased, and
fel to my sute agayn in France : for I had many a bevy look
for hym of Mr. Wallop, and he sayd, that my great god
was gon, and that there was none longing to hym but sps»
and hereticks. But as for me, I did those things that I was
commanded to do by those days.

And now, forasmouch as I do sfe the gloriousnes of the
Frenchmen, and how they do rejoyce of their roberies, I can
do no less but certify your mastership that as I know. F(»r
yf we wil know our own strength, their courage shal be
bated wel 3niough : for kepe them from fishing, and geve no

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Ave ccmduits, and kepe them from Newcastel coles, and 155
they are not able to lyve. Or yf the western men have leve
to go to sea, and take what they can, and maintayn a lyttel
prety ile, called Oldemay, wheras I have ben or now, and
stand in the top of the castel in a clere day, and sene a man
ryde a horseback in France. And nother the Brytons, nor
the Gascons, can convey any thing into France or in Flan-
ders, but they must come betwixt the shore and them. It
is another manner of thing then it is taken. For I would
wysh firom the bottom of my hart that yt might be loked
iqxin : yt would make the very Brytons, and the Normans,
and the Gascons to stope.

I have or now advertysed al this to my Lord of Somer-
set, both by wryting and by mowth. And his Grace hath
written me a letter to come to hym, and conferr certayn mat-
ters with hym; and would have sent me into Gascoin whan
Ae insurrecdon was there. The which yf I had gon, and
the cunstaUe had catched me, I had payed for my comyng.
And whan I declared his Grace my mynd, I contentyd hym.

I do rejoyce from the bottom of my hart to think, how
toward a master we have : and again, I rejoyce to se how
Gods word is trewly and syncerely set forth. There lacketh
nothing but to fere God, and to be in obedience of our
Prynce. I do rejoyce again, to se what godly proviaon
here is for the poor ; the which would rejoyce any English
heart to se. And also [wish] that these matters aforesayd
may be loked upon, and that the ships and the maryners
may be maintayned. For the vice ameral of France, Monsr.
de Muy, hath sayd unto me or now, that we had no ships
in the realm of Englond, that were any thing worth, but the
Kings : and that yf they had such ports and havens as we
have, and such commodytes longing to them, they would
make themselves herds of gold.

I put no doubts but my Lord of Northumberlands Grace
hath knowledg of these things, by reason that his Grace lay
long in Roan of a long tyme. I am so bold to wry te half a
dozen words to his Grace ; the which I would humbly de^
are you to deliver yt hjrm, and to read hym my book. And

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this moost humbly I take my leave of you for this tyme.
Written at London, the first day of October, by yours with
his poor sarvice duryng his lyfe,

Thomas Bamabe.

Beaumonty master of the roBs, his acknowledgment of his

debt to the Kmg.

PaperOffice. FOR satisfaction of the Kynges Majesties dett charged
upon me in his Graces Court of Wards and Lyreries, for
redy mony and specialties, amountyng to the some of twenty
1 56 thousand eight hundred seventy one pounds eighteoi shil*
lings and aght pence, I am pleased and oontented, and bj
this present bil do acknowledg my self to be fully contented
and agreed, that the Kings Majestie shal have al my mft-
nors,^ lands, and tenements, whatsoever they be^ assured to
him and his heirs ; and also al my goods and cattals, move-
able and unmoveable, whatsoever they be, and in whose
custodie soever they remayne ; qs shal be devysed by the
Kyngs l^med Counsel, with the issues and profits of the
same. Provided alwayes, that yf in case there be any just
cause of allowance of any part of the aforesaid dett, that
then I shal be therof allowed. In wytnes wherof I have
subscrybed this byl with my hand, and therunto set to my
seal the xxviii day of May, anno vi Regis Ed. VI,

John Beamount

Beaummmfs submission and surrender of his place [to the

King,

xxviii Maii, anno 155S.

Ubi supra. I, John Beamount, do most humbly surrendre and gyff
into the hands of our soveraigne Lord the Kynges Majestie,
my office of master of the rolls ; most humbly besechynghys
Highnes to be mercyful unto me, and al my mysdemeynours
and contempts ; and in especyall, for the dett which I do
owe unto his Grace, to have some dayes upon good securi-

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tyes; and I am agreed to delyver my patent to be cancellyd,
unto the Lord Chancellor of Englond, or to any other who
shal pleyse his Highnes to appoynt to receve the same.

John Beamount

The Duke tf Northtrniberlcmd^ Earls of Huntingdcm amd
Pembroke^ and Secretary CeciUy to the Privy Council;
concerning lands qf Paget and Beamnountjtyrfeited.

AFTER our harty commendations unto^your good Lord- uw supra.
ships. We have recejrved your loving letters this xix of
June, written at Grenewich the xviii therof : conteyning
thadvertisments of divers your procedings, and such other
neWs as you have had by both thembassadors of themperor
and the French King. JPot the participation wherof we
most hartily thank you, having by the same (as it were) re-
freshing in our journeys this extreame hot wether. Your 157
proeedings with the Lord Paget and Mr. Beamount, sig-
nified by your letters, semeth to us for our part very good
and substantial. And upon the con^deration of the lands
and goods surrendred to the King by Beamounts submission,
we the rest, apart from the Erie of Huntington, most hartily
require your Lordships to have in remembrance a reasonable
sute made by the said Erie, to have the custody of Grace-
dew, the parsonage of Donnington, the manor of Through-
ston and Swannington, parcel of the said Beamounts pos-
sesions, with al his goods and cattals in and upon the said
house and lands, to the Kings Majesties use, until his plea-
sure shal be further therin determyned. Which sute we
pray your Lordships, as opportunity serveth, may be for-
thered, though he be absent himself. Like as it comforteth •
us to receive some intelligencies of news from your Lord-
ships, so having some more sent unto us in papers than we
cold understand for lack of interpretation, we retoume the
same to yoiu* Lordships, being certain doche letters sent to me.
Secretary Cecill, out of Almayn : where, after interpretation

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therof, you may use them as shal please you, eyther pri-
vately for your selves tbere, or in participation to us of the
same, when they shal have lemed to speke English. And
thus we most hartily wish contynual succes of prosperity
there, that whersoever we go or ride, nothing shal seme
paynful to us, laying the foundation of our compfort upon
yoiu* wel doings about his Majesty there, whom Grod long
preserve. From Master Cecills house at Bourleigh, besides
Stamford, the xix of June, 1552.

Your assured loving frends. •

We have thought mete to pray your good Lordships to
have ;n remembrance, that when any order slial be takea
for the delivery of any lands of the Lord Paget in satis-
faclion of part of his fine, oiur very good lords, the Erie of
Huntington and the Lord Chamberlayn, . may not be for-
gotten. The one to have the custody of the house at
Drayton, and the other the house at London; wherof your
good Lordships wel know their lack.

We pray your Lordships to be good lords to the berer
hereof, Mr. Yong, in his reasonable sute.

Northumberland, F. Huntingdon,

f Pembroke, W. Cecyll.

158 H.

Tfie University of Rostoch to King Edward ; recommend-
iTig to him one Peristerus^ a godly and learned man of
that University.

PapeiOffice. GRATIAS agimus Deo aetemo, patri D''ni nostri Ihesu
Christi, quod in R. M. V. terris tranquillum hospitium
praebet EccPae suae et honestis studiis, quae sunt praecipuum
generis h'ni [humani] decus. Cum n. in o'*ib. aliis regnis,
aut prorsus publicum EccPae ministerium et Trarum studia
deleta sint, aut pontificum saevitia et bellorum tumultibus,
et opinion um dissidiis vastentur, ingens Dei be'*fitium e'e
agnoscimus, quod in R. M. V. regno quietam sedem sane-

OF ORIGINALS. 501

tis^ime constitutis ecclesiis et scholis tribuit. Qua? etidm
n. M. V. sapientia, pietate, munificentia et authoritate ita
foventur, ut et his omamentis Anglise regni longe antecellat
o%. regnis totius orbis terrarum, et R. M. V. merito titu-
lum habeat nutritii eccrae Dei, quo nullum in terns preco
nium majus aut augustius dici potest. Nq3 quidem tanto-
rum decorum admiratione et amore incensi, gratulamur in-
dyto Anglise regno de hac foelicitate, e( Deum oramus,
ut eam perpetuo conservet. Speramus etiam R. M. V. pro
summa pietate et benevolentia, qua omnes doctrinse coelestis
et optimarum artium amantes complectitur, clementer ac-
cepturam esse nVas Tras, quas huic honesto et docto viro
' M'gra Wolphgango Peristero Borusso dedimus. Is enim in
tantis bellorum tumultibus et Germanise perturbationibus,
motus celeberrima fama de R. M. V. liberalitate et muni-
ficentia erga artium cultores per totam Europam passim
sparsa, in inclytas et toto terrarum orbe celebratas R. M, V.
academias iturus^ spe qualiscunque conditionis vel benefitii
obtinendi, a nobis testimonium de suis studiis, moribus et
gradu petiit. Vixit autem in academia nostra aliquandiu
magna cum laude modestise et diligentiae in omni o$cio.
Cumque linguam Latinam et Grsecam, et p'^hiae elementa,
et doctrinam a Deo eccFse traditam recte didicisset, et mores
essent honesti et integri, gradu ma^sterii apud nos omatus
est.

Prsebuit etiam eruditionis specimen in docenda lingua
GrsdcSLy ac multi se ipsius labore et diligentia adjutos esse
testantur. Cum autem reipublicae expediat, ho'es modestos,^
et bonis, placidis, et moderatis ing«niis prseditos, et erudi-
tione excultos, omare et provehere ad ea loca ubi servire
eccFae Dei possint, et hunc M. Wolphgangum non dubi-
temus eccYsd Dei et reip. in verae doctrinse propagatione
olim magno usui et omamento futurum esse, reverenter
eum R. M. V. commendamus, vt R."M. V. ea qua decet
regem Christianissimum benevolentia hunc M. Wolffgan-
gum complecti non dedignetur. Deum setei^um Patrem
Dni. tfri Ihesu Christi toto pectore precamur, vt Regia' M.
V. Eccrae suae et piorum studiorum nutntiam, perpetuo ser-

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1 50 ret incolumem et florodtem. Datum ex academia Bosto-
chiensi, anno D^ni 155S, ipso Divi Bartholom^ festo.

R. M. V. Obsequenriss.
Rector et Univeratas studii Rostochiena.
SerenMsimo potentismnoqtie Principiy ac
ITnOy Domino Eduardo Sexto^ AnglicRj
FrancuBy Hibemiteque Regi, Fidei De-
Jensoriy etc in terrisAngiicB Hibemicsgue
EcdesuB supremo stA Christo capitis
Domino suo clemeniissimo.

A catalogue of divers free schools^Jimnded by King Edwari
VI, within the spctce of^ sixteen months^ viz.

K. Edw. A Grammar-school at Bromycham in the comity of

^•"•®*^^' Warwick : the patent or grant dated December 6; sealed
January the 7th, 1551. Here he appointed twenty of the
most discreet and substantial men of the lordship of Bro-
mycham over the said school ; who should be a fraternity
incorporate. And gave them lands and demesnes, to the
yearly value of 9Qh to them and their successors, for the
perpetual use of the said King^s school : rendring to the
King and his successors 20,y. yearly, at his Court of Aug-
mentations.

A grant made to the bailiffs and burgesses of Shrews-
bury, for the erection of a school within the same town;
with his gift of certain tiths of com within the parishes of
Ashley, &c. belonging formerly to the college of our Lady
in Salop: and tiths in the parish of Frankwel, &c. for-
merly belonging to the college of S. Tedd : and al the rents
reserved upon any lease of the premisses ; in as ample maner
as any master or prependary [prebendary] of the said col-
leges lately dissolved, had the same ; to the value of 202. 8^.
with a further licence to receive by gift of any man, or by
purchase, to the yearly value of 20/. as by mortmain ; for
the better maintenance of the same school, and master,

OF ORIGINALS. £03

usher, and others therunto belonging. The patent bore
date February the 10th, 1651.

A patent bearing date March the 18th, 1551, at the re-
quest of the L. Dacres, granted to the baiUfiP and burgesses
of Morpeth in Northumberland, for the effecting of a school
there ; with a licence of mortmain, to purchase 901. by the
year for the maintenance thereof.

A patent granted per biUam Dm, Regis to the inha^ l6o
bitants of Macclesfield in Cheshire, Ucenceing them to erect
a grammar school there, to be called Kmg Edwatrd^s gram'-
mar school. And fourteen of the most substantial of the
same town appointed to be govemours of the possessions and
goods, to be given to the same school : who shal be a body
corporate, and of capacity to purchase lands, either of the
King or any. other. For the which intent, the King gave
to the foresaid govemours certain lands in the east part of
Chediire, and certain lands there, called the ptebends kinds^
late belonging to the college of John the Baptist, in the city
of Chester; and all the chauntry, caUed the peny coffum^
within the said city; with other land, which be extended to'
the yearly value of 212. 5^.: Dated April 26, 1552: from
the Kings mannar of East Girenewich.

A patent, dated May the 11th, to the inhabitants of the
town of Nonne £ton in Warwickshire, for the erection of a
school there ; with the gift of certain lands in the dty of
Coventree, belonging lately to die gilde of the Trinity in
the said city, and of Corpus Christi there. Which said land
were of the yearly value of 402. IBs. Sd. To them and their
successors for ever. To be held in socage ; with a licence
of mortmain, to purchase 202. by the year.

The erection of a grammar sdiool was granted by the
King to the inhabitants of the town of Stourbridge, and
parish rf Old Swinford, in the county of Worcester : en-
dowing it with lands to the yearly value of 182. \0s. Sd. with
a licence to purchase 202. per aiin. and to have the issues'
and profits of the same, from the feast of the Annuntiation
last past. To be held of the mannour of East Grenewicb
in socage.

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. The erection of a school was granted to the maior and
dtizens of Bath, with the gift of certain lands, lying in the
said dty and suburbs of the same. Which be extended to
the clear yearly value of S52. to them and their successors,
for the rent of 102.

A patent or ticence was granted to the maior ahd bur-
gesses of Bedford, to erect a free grammar school there:
and to purchase lands to the value of 40 mark to that use.
And that the president of Winchester college shal app(»nt
the schoolmaster and the usher.

A patent, dated Jan. S7, to the maior and towne of Guil-
forde in the county of Surrey, to erect a grammar sdiool
there : whereunto the King gave one annuity of &. ISs. 4A,
lately belon^ng to the chauntry of Stockabom in the county
of Surrey : and one other yearly rent of 1S2. 6s. 8d. coming
out of two chauntries in Southwel, in the county of Not-
tingham : to be held to the maior and honest men of 6u3-
ford. And by the advice of the Marques of Northampton,
keeper of the Kings manour of Guilford, and of the keep
ers of the same for the time being, to name the schoohnaster
and usher of the same school ; and, by the advice of the
Bishop of Winchester, to make statutes and rules for the
said school.

A patent, dated March the 28th, 1553, to the alderman
and burgesses of Grantham in the county of Lincoln ; for
the erection of a grammar school there : with the King'^s gift
l6l of certain lands there, to the value yearly of 14?. 3*. 8d. to
have to them and their successors for ever : and to pay to
the King and his successors yearly, 16^. 8d. to be held in
free socage and burgage of the same town. And to allow
to the schoolmaster, to be well instructed in the Latin and
Greek tongues, 121. per ann. And to make all statutes con-
cerning the school, by the advice of Sir Will. Cecyl, kt.
secretary to the King, durante vita : and after his decease,
with the advice of the Bishop of the diocess : and after his
decease, by the advice of the master of St. Johns's college in
Cambridge. And to purchase lands to the value of 10/.
yearly, notwithstanding the statute of mortmain.

OF ORIGINALS. 505

A gift of tb^ cbur<^h qf Thprne in the county oi York ;
dated M^y th0 SIst. To atftnd for perpetuity, with aU things
thereiOf the ornam^ts of gold and ^ver es^oepted ; bdng
a corporation griuitied to divers persons, by the name of
W^fdens erf the ehureh of Thome. To purcfaaee SOL by
y^^ of the King, or any other person or persona, for the
erection of a school

A fr^ school granted to the inhabitants of Gyggleswick
in Craven, iv^ the CQMnty of York : whereof John Nowel,
clerk, vicar of Gyggleawick, William Cotterel, Heniy Te-
nant, and others, w^pe appointed govemours, to make sta-
tutes a^ orders ooneeming the se^ school, with the assent
of \\i^ bishop of the diooes. And the King gave certain
lands, tP the v(due of 9W, per ann. and also licence to pur^
chase, other lands, to the value of 80/. per ann. The patent
befvrix\g date May the ^th.

TTie Duke of Northumberland to th^ Seoretar^/^ ilam^ig
the carelessness of some courtiers at that time ; and giv-
ing account of good hopes qfthe King^s recovery,

I HAVE recey ved soche lettres as came in your packy tt, MSS. Ce-
for the which I hartelie thank you, wishing yt might have *^*'^*'**
byn so, as your helthe wolde have p^rmytted you to have
delivered theiQ your siiife. Yt was styll sayde hef«, that
you had but a grudginge of an ague ; but now we heare
the contrary, and that you have byn thies thre or four fytts
grevously handelyd : for which I am right sorye, trusting
to God the worst ys past. Whereof I w(dde be as gladde
as any man, both for your own compforte, as also for the
advaunqeinent of the ^ing^s waiglM^ie ajfFayi?es, Your eom-
p^ivym^oth bi^a^e QMt the bmnleyn wi^ as moehe payne as
ajuy xnan can doi $a> ^H>che ys hi^ good wil towardes the
sorvic^ of bi^ Uia^t^r a^d his co^9^&> tb^ o£ a great deale
of payn^ hf^ wke;\h W^ a^pee^anee. Others we havc^
who^ ^rte yp^,^e wel acqiiaynt^ witjial, that nether em«

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est zeale, of oonsideratioii of tyme, can skorcely awake theym
162 out of theyr wonted dreames, and smothelie wynketh al
care from theyr harts, how urgent or wayghtie soever our
causes ar. Which thinge I can so y vel beare, as indeed of
late, but for my duty to the state, my harte colde skarsly
endure the mannour of yt, specially in thies mooste careful
dayes. Wei, I do herewith too much trouble you, and re-
oeyyyth no plessir with so often remembring the forgetful-
ness (or, I sholde say, the carelesnes) of others.

But now I wil recompfort you with the joyful compfort,
which our physicians hath ihies two or three mornings re-
vyved my spiritts withal ; which ys, that our soveraine Lord
doth begin very joyfully to encrese and amende, they hav-
yng no doubt of the thorro recoverye of his Highnes, the
rather becaus his Majestic is fully bent to follow theyr
counsil and advyce: and thus with my hartie commenda-
tions, I wish you perfy tt helthe. Frcmi Grenewyche this vii
of May, 1663.

Your assured loving fbende,

To my very loving Jrendf Northumberland.

Sir WyUiam CycyU^ Jcnight

Some original letters and declamations in Latin; being
learned exercises of King Edward, both before and soon
after his access to the crown,

An epistle toKingHenryhisJather; who had sent him a back,

Regise Majestati,

Ex omnibus quae me oblectabant, cum essem tecum, rex
nobilissime, atque pater illustrissime, nihil magis recreavit
animum meum, quam quod mihi copiam feceris videndi et
observandi Majestatem tuam. Amor enim meus in te con-
spectu tuo exercitatur : tum quod natura id confirmat ; turn
quod patema tua pietas magis ac magis quotidie erga me

OP ORIGINALS. 507

Eiugescit. Quamobrem ingentes gratias tibi ago. Et oontendo
etiam atque etiam ab te, ut te iterum visam, ciim tibi libitum
fuerit. Quod quo cidus fuerit, hoc mihi gratius erit.

D^nde, ingentes tibi gratias ago {h*o cervo quern ad me
miaisti. Quod signum est, te etiam mei absentis meminisse.
Denique n^ te, ut des mihi benedicdonem tuam. Opto
tibi multam salutem. Vale, rex nobilissdme, atque pater il- 163
lustrisidme. Hatfeldise, quarto Septembris, an. 1546.

E. Princeps.

II.

Another epistle to Kmg Henry; who had sent the Prince a

new-year's-gift.

Regise Majestati,

Cum tot et tanta in me contuleris benefida, rex nobi-
lissime, atque pater pientissime, quae vix numerare queam,
tum hsec strena, quam ad me postremum misisti, videtur
mihi non solimi prseclara, verum etiam patemse tuse pietatis
erga me plenissima. Ob quam ingentes tibi gratias ago. Et
cogito me, quanquam adnitar pro viribus omne tempus vitss
mese, et laborem in omni genere ofBcionmi, tamen vix mag-
nitudinem beneficiorum tuorum attingere posse. Quare
conabor, quod natura et ofBcium postulat, Majestati tuae
placere, atque esse optimi patris bonus filius, ac sequi exem-
plum virtutis, sapientise, et pietatis tuse. Quam rem spero
tibi futuram gratissimam. Atque hoc melius praestabo, si
pergas in benevolentia tua erga me : et mihi quotidianam
tantam benedictionem impertias. Dom. Jesus te servet in-
columem. Hertfordise, deciino Januarii, an. 1546.

E. Princeps.

III.

Another epistle of the Prince to the Kmg; upon occasion of
a peace after his wars with France.

Nihil ad te literarum dedi hoc longo tempore, rex il-
lustrissime, ac pater nobilissime : non quod fui aliqua ex
parte negligens, sed quod ego, considerans Majestatem tuam

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perturbari negotiis bellicis, putavi me pertutbatunim Ma-
jestatem tuam his puerilibus Uteris meis. Atque ideo ve-
niebat in mentem mihi scrupulus qindam, num scriberem
ad te, amioD. Sed nunc considerans, quod sdcut quivis la-
boriosus post diutumum laborem cupit recreare animum;
sic spero, cum Majestas tua longo intervallo habuerit nego-
tium, has pueriles literas meas potius recreaturas animum
tuum, quam perturbaturas.

Nam quia es amabilis et benignus mihi pater^ et spero
me futurum obsequentis^mum tibi filium ; ideo judico be-
nevolentiam tuam boni consulturam literas meas, ex se in-
dignas. Prseterea, rogo Majestatem tuam, ut impertias
mihi benedictionem tuam : optoquf tibi bonum eventum in
omnibus negotiis tuis. Vale, pater nobilis^me, et rex il-
lustrissime. Hunsdoniae, secundo Junii, an. 1546.

Edouardus Princeps.

164 IV.

An epistle of the Prince to Queen Katharine: thanks Jbr
her new-year'' s-gifi, being the King and Queen'^s pictures.

Reginae Catharinae,

Quod non ad te diu scripserim, regina illustrissima at-
que mater charissima, in causa fuit, non negligentia, sed
studium. Non enim hoc feci, ut nunquam omnino scribe-
rem. Quare spero te futuram contentam, et gavisuram,
quod non scripserim. Tu enim velles me proficere in omni
honestate et pietate. Quod est signum insignis et diuturni
tui amoris erga me.

Atque hunc amorem multis beneficiis mihi declarasti : et
praecipue hac strena, quam proxime ad me misisti. In qua
regiae Majestatis et tua effigies ad vivum expressa contine-
tur. Nam plurimum me delectat vestras imagines absentium
contemplari. Quas libentissime videre cupio praesentes : bc
quibus maxime tum natura turn officio devinctus sum-
Quamobrem majores tibi gratias ago ob banc strenam, quam
si misisses ad me preciosas vestes, aut aurum celatum, aut
quidvis aliud eximium.

OF ORIGINALS. 609

Deus Cel^tudinem tuam, quam me brevi visurum spero^
servet incolumem. Hartfordiae, decimo Januarii, 1546.

E. Princeps.

TTie Prince'f episHe to the Archbishop of Canterbury/, his
godfather J upon a golden cup sent himjbr a new-year'* s^
gift ; mth a letter.

Cantuariena Archiepiscopo,

Duse res mihi calcar addiderunt, ut ad te literas scri-

bam, susceptor amantisfflme. Prima, ut tibi gratias agam ob

calicem ; deinde, ob literas tuas, quas ad me postremum mi-

insti. Poculuni tuum perhibet testimonium, te mihi plurimos

felicisinmos amios optare ac precari. Ex Uteris autem tuis

inultum fructus accepi. Quod in illis me hortaris, atque

veluti stimulum mihi addis, ad perdiseendas bonas literas,

quse mihi usui futurse sint, cum ad virilem perveniam seta-

tem. Literse vero bonae, et artes liberales mihi discendse

sunt ; quod Aristippus hoc dicere solet : Disce, puer, qucB

libi vvro sunt usuijutura. Atque etiam huic quadrat ille

Cicero, eloquentissimus autor, narrans: Literarum studia

addescentiam cdunt, senectutem oblectantj res secundas or~

nantj adversis perfugium ac solatium prcebent, delectant

iomij non impediunt Jbris : pemocta/nt nobiscunif peregrin

nantuTy rusticantur.

Denique exoratum te volo, ut boni consulas latinitatem
tneam, ipsa barbaric barbariorem, cum tua eloquentia sit
Bxcellentis^ma. Vale, susceptor amantissime, oculis meis l65
mihi charior : cui multum felicitatis opta Hartfordise, 9,4P
Januarii, an. 1546.

E. Princeps.

VI.

The Prince to his sister, the Lady Mary, who had been sick.

Sorori Mariae,
Non doleo tantum quod non scripseris ad me hoc longo
tempore, soror charissima, quantum gaudebam te recupe-
rasse vaJetudinem tuam. Nam etsi non scripseris ad me,.

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scio tamen te non carere benevcdentia erga me: vatetudo
autem tua ketificat me, quia amo te, et segritudo tua fadt
me tristem eodem nomine. Gkro autem amorem erga te,
tum quod sis soror mea, turn quod natura fadt me amaie
te. Quare cura valetudinem tuam ; et ne labores, ut scribas
ad me, quando aegritudo tua non vult sinere te. Benevo-
lentia enim et amor tuus aocipitur in bonam partem, etsi
nihil literarum des.

Deus det tibi sapientiam Hester. Saluta quseso Domi-
nam Tunnt, Dominam Herbard, et Dom. Lanam. Vale,
soror charissima. Hunsdoniae, vigeamo Mmi, an. 1546.

E. Princeps.

VII.

TTie Prince to Ms sister^ the Lady EUzabethy upon the de-

, parttire qfherjrom him,

Sorori Elizabeths,
Loci quidem mutatio me non tantum angebat, charis-
sima soror, quantum discessus tuus a me. Nunc autem nihil
omnino mihi gratius acddere potest, quam %use literse. Ac
praecipue quod ad me prior dedisti literas, ac me literas
scribere provocasti. Quare ingentes tibi gratias ago, tum ob
benevolentiam tuam, tum ob celeritatem. Itaque adnitar pro
viribus, te si non superare, saltern sequare benevolentia ac
studio. Hunc vero meum dolorem consolatur, quod spero
me brevi visurum te, si nullus interim, neque apud me, ne-
que apud te, casus interv^iiat ; ut mihi retulit meus came-
rarius. Vale, soror charissima. Quinto Decembr. an. 1546.

E. Princeps.

166 VIII.

The Prince to Dr. Cox^ his preceptor cmd almoner^ shew-
ing his remembrance and love of him by writing to him;
and praying him to tfumJc the secretary Jbr his sand-iox
sent him.

Richardo Coxo,

Quemadmodum ofHcium meum postulat, scribo ad te
literas, eleemosynarie charissime, ut scias me tui memi-

OF ORIGINALS- 511

lisse. Si enim non scriberem ad te, esset signum me tui
>bliviscL Sed nunc cum scribam ad te est signum me te
unare, et tui meminisse. Et quemadmodum qui scribit ad
anum, non potest non meminisse illius, quia scribit illius
aomen in superscriptione ; sic ego, cum scribo ad te, non
possum oblivisci tui.

Frasterea, hortor te, ut literce sint seque duloes tibi, ac
venatio et aucupium delectsmt alios. Literse enim sunt me-
liores thesauris. Et quicunque tenet literas, tenet magnum
thesaumm. Nam dicitur in Paradoxis Ciceronis, Quod sdus
sapiefiSf dives, Literae enim sunt divitiae.

Saluta, quseso, Secretarium Regis, ac illi gratias age pro.
pixidicula arenaria. Nunc, optime valcj mi eleemosynarie
omatissime ac amantissime. Deus ne sinat pedem tuum
averti a justa via. Hartfordia^, nono Aprilis, anno 1646.

Tui amantissimus discipulus,

E. Princeps.

IX.

TTie Prince to Dr. Cone, in commendation of diligence cmd

learning; and thanking him for his correcting of an

error.

Ex quo Foulerus abiit, eleemosynarie charissime, non
misi ad te ejHstolam, quia cognovi neminem iterum ad te
venire ab illo tempore hucusque. Quod autem non exaravi
ad te phrases, elegantes sententias, et elegantia verba, hujus
rei . negligentiam expulsurum spero. Si enim fuero tardus
in conatis, formicae essent meliores me. Formicae enim labo-
rant; «t ego essem negligens. Atque mihi videtur qua-
drare hinc, quod ait Hebraeus iUe sapiens, Tarda mantis Ja^
(At pa/wperem; celeris autem divitem. Ago tibi gratias etiam,
quia narrasti mihi erratum meum. Illi enim sunt amid mei,
qui indicant mihi culpam meam.

Deus immortalis, et exhilarator omnium, aiBciat te gaudio,
et servet te incolumem; et augeat sapientiam tuam; atque det
tibi gratiam, ut consequaris voluntatem ejus ; ut post banc
/vitam .srivas cum Christo in aetemo regno ejus. Optime valeas,
praece^^lpr charissime. Hunsdoniae, tertio Julii, an. 1546.

E. Princeps.

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167 X.

Tlie PHnce^ now King, to Queen Katharine ; upon the death

of King Henry, his father,

Reginse Catharinse,

Plurimas tibi gratias ago ob epistolam, quam ad me
postremum misisti, charissima mater ; quae sane est ^gnum
insignis tui ac quotidiani amoris in me. Porro cum yisum
sit Deo Optimo Maximo, ut mens pater, et tiius oonji£;x,
Rex illustrissimus, banc vitam finiret, nobis ambobus com*
munis est dolor. Hoc vero nobis consolationem afiert, quod
jam sit in ccelo ; atque quod ex hac vita misera profectus
est in felicem et aetemam beatitudinem. Quisquis enim
hie felicem a^t vitam^ atque rempiublicam recte gubemat,
sicut nobilissimus mens pater fecit, qui prcHnovit omnem
pietatem, atque expulit omnem ignorantiam, habet certissi-
mum iter in ccelum. Quamvis vero natura jubet dolere, ac
lachrymas eflundere ob discesaum ejus absentis, tamen Scrip-
tura ac prudentia jubet moderari aifectos istos, ne videamur
nuUam omnino sp^oa habere resiurectionis mortuorum, et
vita deftinctorum.

Praeterea, cum tua Celsitudo in me tot beneficia contulit,
ego debeo quicquid commodi possum tibi afferre, praestare.
Opto tuae Celsitudini plurimam salutem. VaJe, Regina ve-
neranda. E Turri, septimo Februarii, anno 1546.

E. Rex.
XI.
The young King to his sister, the Lady Mary ; upon the

said sad occasion.
Sorori Mariae,

Natura, non sapientia, nobis classicum canit ad lamen-
tandum patris nostri charissimi mortem. Natura enim pu-
tat se ilium amisisse mortuum. At sapientia credit, quod
is qui vivit cum Deo, est in aeterna felicitate, Quare quum
Deus miserit nobis talem sapientiam, non debemus mortem
iilius lugere, cum ejus voluntas sit, qui omma in bonum
operatur.

Quod ad me autem pertinet, ero tibi charissimus frater, et

OF ORIGINALS. 613

omni benevolentia exuberans. Deus Opt. Max. te imbuat suis
donis. Vale. £ Turri Londoniensi ; octavo Feb. anno 1546.

E. Rex.

XII.

Another to his sister^ the Lady EUzabeth; wpon the said\Q%

death of the King^ their father.

Sorori filizabethae,

Minime opus est mihi te consolari, charissima soror;
quod eruditione tua cognoscis, quod sit faciendum. Pru-
dentia vero, et pietate tua, quod eruditio docuit te cognos-
cere, facto prsestas. Non enim lugendus est pater noster,
quamvis nobis chaiissimus fuerit; quod jam sit in ccelo.
Nee mors ejus est deploranda, quae est via ex hac vita misera
ad longe feliciorem. Quare quisque debet adniti pro viri-
bus, ut sapientia vincat naturam, et fortitudo moderetur
affectus, et consilium gubemet judicium populi. Quisquis
enim hoc facit, is vere Christianus appellatur. Ac siquis
dicat, qui huic contrarium facit, Christianum, eum certe
falso, atque illi indigno nomine, nuncupat.

Prseterea, literae tuae mihi admodum arridebant, tum quod
in illis elegantes sentential continentur, tum quod ex illis
sentio te aequo consuluisse animo mortem patris nostri.
Porro, si uUo modo possum tibi commodare, libenter pr»-
stabo. Optime vale. E Turri ; octavo Feb. anno 1546.

E. Rex.

XIII.

A declamation made by King Edward VI. June the 9^^
1549, heing one of his Latin exercises. "^ The tJisms was^
Virtus. And the question declaimed wpon vqos^ Whether
the act of virtue, or the habit, were more prjuseworthy
and preferable.

Omnes quidem, et philosophi ethnici et doctorea eccle-
siastici, concluduht, quod Virtus sit affectus quidam, imltans
decora, honesta et laudabilia: vitans vero turpia, seu oU-
scaena, et omnia Ula quae pugnant cum norma rationis.

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614 A REPOSITORY

Hanc ob causam ornnes Tin doeti in hoe mtmdo nihil pne^
standus, nihil pulchrius, nihil ma^s decorum judicaveriHif,
quam ilia virtus. Si homo excellat cseteiis animantibus,
quia est animal, et particeps rationis, turn etiam ilia res, quae
ab hae parte hominis procedit, est optima et pulcherrima.
Quanquam enim hoc omnes univoce affirmant, Viriuim
esse summum bonum, aut magnum bonttm; et docdssinu
inter se disceptaverunt, quas pars virtutis «t^ alteri pr»-
ferenda: ut

An actio mrtutis, vel habitus, sitlaudcUnlior, et pnBsta/niior.

Hoc igitur est thema, de quo jam tractabo. Ego auteiB
in hac qusestione seu controv^ina has t&aeo partes, habitum
iSpnon esse praestantiorem actione. Idque per partes probabo.
Sunt autem duo virtutum genera: quorum imum est philo-
sophicum ; aliud theolo^cum. Et quanquam omnes phikwo-
phicse sunt etiam theologicse, tamen plured in theologia Fe-
citantur, quam in philosc^hia. Philosophies^ enim sunt
quatucN*, prudentia, justitia, fortitudo, et temperantia^ Quid!
audetne prudentia se comparare justitise ? Audetne scientia
se comparare fortitudini ac temperantise ? Audetne cognitio
se sequiparare tam pulchro numero virtutum clarissimarum ?
Recte, recte dictum est a Cicerone illo pulcherrimo philo-
sopho, Omnis laus virtutis in actione consistit. Jam au-
tem justitiam esse praestantiorem prudentia, multis modis
praestabo.

Quod si enim ea vita contigerit sapienti, ut omnium rerum
affluentibus copiis ditetur; quamvis ibi possit rerum ordi-
nem secum considerare et perspicere; tamen si tanta sit
solitudo, ut hominem videre non possit, excedet e vita, po-
tius quam haec patietur. Igitur illae virtutes, quaei maxhne
hominum societatem defendunt, sunt optimae. Justitia au-
tem et fortitudo et temperantia magis colunt hominum so-
cietatem, et magis defendunt remp. quam prudentia : quare
sunt meliores prudenda. Ita, nisi rerum scienda et cognido
ad se adjuvandum appellet justitiam, solivaga erit cognido,
et jejuna. Quam ob causam concluditur jusddam esse po-

OF ORIGINALS. 616

tioireni pnidentia ; et omne officium, quod ad oonjuocticHiem
hominuin, et ad societatem tuendam valet, anteponendiuo^
est iUi officio, quod in rerum omnium scientia, intelligeotia
et cognitione versatur, aut consistit.

Hanc meam sententiam de justitia et prudentia tenet ille
praestantissimus philosophus et orator, M. T. Cicero, et Ari-
stoteles. Cicero autem in primo libro Officiorum, non soluiQ
affirmat justitiam esse praestantiorem prudentia, sed etian^
non paucas rationes addit. Hoc igitur jam a nobis prdba^-
tum fuit, actionem virtu tis philosophicse esse meliorem har
bitu. In sacris vero Uteris apparet, charitatem esse meli-
orem £de. Paulus vero ad Corinth, [cap. xiii.] dicit, Tres
stmt viriuites^ Jidesy spes, et chwritcLs: sed optima horuim^
clumitcta* Dicet autem quis, jQdes justificat. Ergo fides est
melior operibus. Nego argumentum. Non enim habet con-
sequentiam. Fides justificat Ergo melior est charitate. Si
enhn essent contradictorise sentential, tum Paulus
non affirmasset, et charitatem esse meliorem fide, et fidem
justificare. Haec vero ratio est, quare non sunt contradicto-
na haec duo. Prima bona opera quae facimus, non justi-
ficant Pximum vero opus Christiani, ordine naturae, eat
efiPectus. Ergo fides justificat. Sed jMima opera non sunt
semper optima. Ergo, non necesse sequi, et valere hoc al^^
gumentum; fides justificat; ergo, est melior operibus.

Cum igitur in omnibus, et philosophicis et theologicis vir*
tutibus, actio sit melior quam habitus, tum in omili genere
virtutis actio est meUor quam halntus. Finis enim proposi-
tus uniuscujusque rei est melior, quam res spectantes ad il-
ium finem in bonis rebus. Sed finis omnis habitus est actia
Finis enim propositus omnis prudentiae est, ut justitiam ad«>
ministremus, et pie vitam colamus, atque in societate humanae
totum tempus vitae, totum honorum et dividarumcumulum, -
totas denique opes et facultates impendamus. Ergo illae vir«>
tutes, quae versantur in actione et societate tuenda, meliores
sunt quam quae in habitu oHisistunt. Haec vero ratio 41I70
firmis dictis sumitur. Et quomodo confutaripossit, adhuc
non video. Hoc igitur sequitur, quod actio sit melior habitu.
Illae enim virtutes, quae administrant, regunt et defendant

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516 A REPOSITORY

respublicas, multo pulchrius ne^tium susceperunt, quam
illae quae solum in rebus perspiciendis versantur.

Sed illae primae omnes in actione, aliae vero in habitu.
Ergo, illae virtutes quae sunt in a^tione, sunt meliores iis
quae sunt in habitu.

Objicient fortasse adversarii, quod causa bonae rei est me-
lior effectu : sed habitum esse causam actionis afBrmabunt:
eanique ob causam, meliorem actione. Respondeo, me ne-
gare consequentiam. Quia major loquitur de causa tota et
perfecta. Minor vero de parte causae. Voluntas enim con-
juncta animi habitu est causa actionis, non solus habitus.
His ergo rationibus, in banc sententiam pedibus eo, quod
actio virtutis sit melior et laudabilior habitu. Dixi.

XIV.

Another declamation of King Edward^ June the SOthj 1549,
upon this gt^^^ion, Whether the foreknowledge of things
be profitable to the life of man.

An prcBscientia rerum sit utiMs.

Omnes philosophi et oratores, quanquam in multis re-
bus dissentiebant, tamen hoc omnes concluserunt, homioem
differre a caeteris animantibus. Quia est particeps rationis.
Animum enim caeterorum animalium dicebant solum in se
habere affectus rapidos, et expertes rationis ac intelligentiae :
hujus vero animum non solum affect uum rapidorum partici-
pem, sed etiaixi rationis : in qua omnis scientia continetur.
Eas vero res quae consistebant in parte experte rationis,
nulla laude dignas putabant. Contra vero eas virtutes et
scientias quae erant in part^ participe rationis, omni laude
efFerendas, judicabant.

Quare cum sit haec quaestio nobis proposita, Utrura prae-
scientia rerum futurarum sit utilis ad vitam, ego quidem in-
telligens, quod praescientia sit quaedam res consistens in ilia
parte animi quam vocant participem rationis, videlicet mente,
puto et aestimo utilem ad vitam. ,

Omnia enim honesta et bona utilia sunt. Recte enim dic-
tum est a Cicerone illo sapientissimo philosopho et oratore,
quod omnia utilia sunt honesta ; sed praescientia rerum fu-

OF ORIGINALS. 517

turarum non est inhonesta. Quapropter honesta. Ex faae
ratione recte et argute spectata licet intelligere, quod prae-
sdentia rerum futurarum sit utilis ad vitam. Omnis enim
notitia et cognitio rerum est utilis, bona et honesta. Sed re-
rum praescientia, seu praecognitio est intellectus, notitia aut
cognitio. Quare prsescientia rerum est utilis.

Videmus quidem in universitate rerum multa futura, quae
nisi praescirentur, omnes male suum tempus in otio et tran-
quillitate, non in labore consumerent. Si enim servus non
praesciret iram sui domini, nisi et sibi commissa servaret, et
mandatis pareret, certe nunquam suo domino obediret, et I7I
pareret : sed totam vitam suam in otio et stultitia, et ilia
mala libertate et licentia tereret.

Nos omnes, qui sumus servi Dei, et filii sui Jesu Christi,
nisi cognosceremus sibi displicere nostra peccata, in vitiorum
cumulo et mole permaneremus. Nunc autem animi ejus
iram praesciamus, cum ejus vindictam intelligamus, et ejus
minas praecognoscamus, primum veremur, ne si peccaremus,
etvitiis potius faveremus, quam virtuti, in hoc mundo nos
affligat, prematque molestiis, et ludibrio exponat. Deinde,
A malefaciamus, perterrefimus hac cogitatione, Deum nos in
leternum ignem conjecturum, videlicet, in infemum, locum
omnis supplicii et poenae; ubi erit gemitus et stridor den-
tium. Contra vero si beneficiamus, et recte vitam in hoc
mundo degamus, tum scimus Deum nos fortunaturum in
nostris actionibus, ut fortunavit Abrahamum, Josephum, et
Jaoobum, qui erant patriarchal ; et omnes illos qui erant in
coetu et ecclesia ejus.

Adhaec, vitam aeternam expectamus, et gaudium solatium-
que in Deo. Utile quidem est, cognoscere nos morituros in
hoc, ut nos praeparemus ad mortem. Utile, praescire tempus
fluctus et refluctus maris, ut nos paremus ad navigationem.
Utile est, praecognoscere tempus seminandi et arandi, ut
paremus aratrum et semen. Haec omnia praescire est utile
ad colendam vitam. Si enim praesciremus nihU, ad nihilum
nos paratos redderemus. Ilia vero quae subito sine delibera-
tione et paratione rerum fiant, nunquam, aut paucissimis
temporibus, recte fiant.

518 A REPOSITORY OF ORIGINALS.

Quamolnrem prsescienda rerum est utilis, bona, et honestft.
Videmus enim et intelli^mus multos, et philoaophos, et vinw a^^
hoc tempore sane eruditos oensere, quod placatio animi sk
felicitas, seu summum bonum. Quicquid adjuvat ad jdacar
tionem animi est bonum, honestum et utile. Quid vero potr
est esse dulcius, quid placatius, quid suavius, quod admo-
veatur animo, quam prsescientia rerum futurarumP Ergo,
est utilis ad vitam humanam. Humana enim mens oblit^
quserit, et inventa semper mandat mem<»n«. Nunquam 4e^
nnet laborare, nunquam otiatur, nunquam quietem patitur.
Semper agit, semper laborat, semper cogitat ; et inv^t ab-
dita et seoreta. Cum enim corpus donnit et quietem habetj
animus cogitat et invenit, quomodo res sint p^agendse.
Hinc ilia perpetuitas animi recte cemi potest. Quicquid
ergo ad hunc animum placandum p^linet, (non sentio par^
tem expertem rationis, sed partem participem,) illud utile est
ad vitam.

Cum autem jam ego legerim dudecticam, in ea cemo,
quod in naturalibus causas, semper bonam sequuptur bom
effectus. Causae vero naturales preescientiae, videlicet, va&o&i
et voluntas ei consentiens, sunt bonae. Ergo ipsa praescdentia
est bona, et utilis ad vitam.

Adhaec, legimus in sacris literis utile fuisse multis, quod
praesciverant Christum ventiu*um. Ergo, aliqua praescientia
est utilis.

Praeterea, nos duabus in rebus excellimus caeteris animan-
tibus, praescientia, et rerum aliquarum ratione. Deus nobis
in duabus rebus excellit, praescientia rerum omnium, et pa-
tientia. Hb ergo rationibus persuasus, teneo has partes,
quod prtBscientta rerum sit utilis ad vitam. Dixi.

TITLES

THE ORIGINAL PAPERS

AS THEY STAND IN

THE REPOSITORY:

Being divers letters and other choice monuments, exemplified from'
authentic MSS. relating to the Memorials Historical in the

reign of King Edward VI.

A. X HE ceremonies and funeral solemnities paid to the Chap. ii.
corpse of King Henry VHI.

B. The Lord Protector's prayer for God*s assistance in the
high office of Protector and Governor, now committed to him.

C. The Lord Protector, to the justices of peace in the county
of Norfolk ; when a new commission of the peace was sent them*

D. Common places of state : drawn up by Will. Thomas, esq. Chap. Hi.
clerk of the Council. For King £idward*s use. Under six heads*

E. The names of the Knights of the Bath made by King Edw.
VI. Feb. 20, Shrove Sunday, being the day of his coronation.
And of the Knights of the Carpet dubbed by him, during the time
of that solemnization.

F. A ballad sung to King E^iward in Cheapside, as he passed
through London to his coronation.

G. Queen Katharine Par in Latin, to the Lady Mary; con* Chap. v.
cerning her translation of Erasmus's Paraphrase upon St. John's
Gospel.

H. Queen Katharine Par to King Henry; gone in his expedi-
tion against France.

I. A Poem, pretended to be writ against the preachers ; en- chap. vii.
titled, A Poor Help.

K. Queen Katharine Par to the University of Cambridge : Chap. viii.
which had addressed to her, to intercede to the King for them.

620 TITLES OF ORIGINAL TAPERS.

upon an act^ whereby the Parliament had given him all colleges,
chantries^ and free chapels.

L. Queen Katharine to the Lady Wriotbesly ; comforting her
for the loss of her only son.
Chap. xi. M. A proclamation concerning the irreverent talkers of the
sacrament. Dated the 27th day of December, anno regni Reg.
Edward, prima.

N. A proclamation for the abstaining from flesh in the Lent
time. Dated the 1 6th day of January, anno Reg. primo.

O. A proclamation against such as innovate any ceremony,
or preach without licence. Dated the 6th of February, amo
Reg, prima.
Chap. xii. P. The King's commission for redress of enclosures.

Q. The charge of Mr. John Hales, one of the commissioners,
at their assembly for the execution of the commission for re-
dress of enclosures.
Chap. xiii. R. A discourse made by William Thomas, esq. for the King's
use 5 viz. whether it be expedient to vary with the time.

S. A second discourse made by the same person, for the King's
use 5 whether it be better for a commonwealth, that the power
be in the nobility or in the commonalty.

T. A third political discourse made by William Thomas, for
the King's study -, entitled, What princes amity is best,

V. Mr. Thomas's fourth discourse to the King 3 touching his
Majesty's outward affairs.

W. William Thomas, esq. to the King 5 touching the re-
formation of the coin.

X. William Thomas, esq. to the King 5 apologizing for some
passages in his discourse concerning the coin, and in his other
discourses, writ by the King's commandment.
Chap. xiv. Y. Sir Philip Hoby, the King's ambassador at the Emperor's
Court, to the Duke of Somerset, concerning the interim. From
Augsburgb.
Chap. XV. Z. The confession of Sir William Sharington, concerning his

frauds in coining the King's money.
Chap. xvi. ZZ. A pious prayer of Queen Katharine Par 5 by her com-
posed in short ejaculations suited to her condition.

ZZZ. An account of the King's sales of chantries, colleges,
&c. in the second year of his reign.
Chap. xvii. AA. Archbishop Crarimer's Treatise of Unwritten Verities.

TITLES OF ORIGINAL PAPERS. 681

£B. Sir William Paget^ ambassador with the Emperor^ bis Chap. six.
letter to the Lord Protector.

CC. The Protector's and Council's answer to Paget*s letters.

DD. The Lord Privy Seal to the Council, concerning the de- Chap. xxi.
feat of the rebels in the west.

EE. The Duke of Somerset, lord protector, to Sir Philip
Hoby, ambassador with the Emperor, imparting intelligence of
the insurrections.

FF. The Duke of Somerset to Sir Philip Hoby, concerning the
suppression of the insurrections in the west, and in Norfolk.

GG. Sir William Paget to the Lord Protector^ upon his rough Chap. xxii.
usage of some gentlemen. Writ May the 8th, 1549.

HH. Sir William Paget, now ambassador abroad, to the Lord
Protector, upon the breaking out of the rebellion in the west :
the letter bearing date July the 7th, 1549.

II, A letter sent from the Lord Paget concerning Bulloign, Chap. xxiii.
to the Earl of Warwick, thien lord great master, the 22d of Feb.
1549.

KK. The prayer used at a public fast, for a great dearth. Chap.xxvii.

LL. Bucer to A Lasco, concerning the controversy about Chap.xxviii.
wearing the habits.

MM. Hoper to Martin Bucer, for his judgment concerning
wearing the habits.

NN. Martin Bucer to John Hoper, in answer to the foregoing
letter.

GO. Crowley's epigrams concerning abuses. Chap.jooau

PP. The form of the commission by the King to his Council, Chapjoodii.
in his minority.

QQ. Certain orders set forth by the justices of Cornwal, for
the accomplishment of the King's commandment, by his High-
nesses letter to them directed, for the speedy reformation of the
unreasonable prices of victuals in markets, and for the punish-
ment of the causers of the same.

BOOK II.

A. Scory, bishop of Rochester, unto the King's most excel- Chap. iv.
lent Majesty : putting him in mind of certain matters he made to
him in his sermon preached before him last Lent.

VOL. II. PART II. M m

im TITLES OF ORIGINAL PAFEB^.

Chap. ▼. B. Polydore Vergil to Secretary Cecil, for his warrant to re-
ceive the King's gift.

Chap. z. C. Thomas Gresbam to the Duke of Northumberland, from

Antwerp; conceroing the King's debts.

Chap. XT. D. Dr. Cox to BuHinger ; concemtog the review of the book
of Prayers and Sacraments.

Chap. Z7ii. £• Thomas Barnabe» a merchant, to Sir William Cecil, secre-
tary of state. Upon his great and long experience, he propounds
to him certain ways to distress the French.

F. Beaumont, master of the rolls, his acknowledgment of bis
debts to the King ; with his submission, and surrender of bis
place.

G. The Duke of Northumberland, the Earls of Huntington
and Penibroke, and Secretary Cecil, to the Privy Council ; con-
cerning the lands of Paget and Beaumont forfeited.

H. The University of Rostoch to King Edward ; recommend-
ing to him one Perister, a godly and learned man of that Uni-
versity.

I. A catalogue of divers free schoob, founded by King Ed-
ward VI. within the space of sixteen months.
Chap. zzii. K. The Duke of Northumberland to the Secretary, blaming
the carelessness of some of the Court at that time 5 and giving
good hopes of the King's recovery : written May the 7th.

L. Original letters and declamations in Latin 5 being learned
exercises of this Prince, anno 1546, both before and after his ac-
cess to the crown.

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