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THE SETTLEMENT OF RELIGION 



HENRY GEE 



HfcNRY FROWDE, M.A. 

PUBUSHBR TO THB UNIVBKSITY OF OXFORD 




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ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



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SETTLEMENT OF RELIGION 

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PREFACE 



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One of the most useful services that can be rendered 
at the present time to English Ecclesiastical History is to 
turn the microscope on disputed points in the light of 
our constantly increasing means of information. We now 
possess in the British Museum, the Public Record Office, 
the Bishops' Registries, and elsewhere, an easily accessible 
store of contemporary documents for medieval and modern 
history ; so that it should not be difficult to settle finally 
many still doubtful questions, and to test traditions hitherto 
accepted on insufficient evidence. 

The primary object of the present work is to investi- 
gate the treatment of the clergy at the beginning of 
Elizabeth's reign, and to estimate the number deprived 
for refusing, by reason of their papal sympathies, to con- 
form to the settlement of religion then made. I began by 
trying to discover the actual numbers of those deprived. 
The figures accepted by English Church writers vary 
between one hundred and eighty-nine and four hundred. 
Roman Catholic authorities, on the other hand, have 
asserted with Rishton that ' the better part of the clergy 
followed in the footsteps of their prelates : veYy many of 
them, high dignitaries in the Church, were either thrown 
into prison or banished the realm ^.' In attempting a 
solution of this problem, I was led at the outset to trace 
all the modern lists to that of Nicholas Sanders, compiled 

* Sanders, Anglican Schism j Eng. Tr. by D. Lewis, p. 261. 



viii PREFACE 

about 1570. A very slight examination of his work^ 
however, proved that his figures were inaccurate and 
misleading ; and accordingly, after a preliminary survey 
of contemporary writers, I set to work to discover 
what there might be in the way of strictly coeval 
and official sources of information. It soon became 
evident that, despite pretty general objections to the 
new r^gime^ very few of the clergy were deprived at 
the commencement of the reign ; and it therefore seemed 
expedient to extend the inquiry over a longer period. 
I then determined to make 1564 my limit, since in that 
year and until 1570 nonconformity appeared to be due 
to Puritan rather than to Roman sympathies. I soon 
found that I must take into account not merely the bare 
number of those deprived, but the general attitude of 
the clergy towards the settlement of religion, together 
with some survey of the means taken to gain their 
adherence or to inflict punishment upon those who 
persisted in their opposition. As I went through the 
Domestic State Papers, the Patent Rolls, the Exchequer 
Records, &c., my research gradually brought to light 
many facts connected with the Visitation of 1559, the 
work of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the operation 
of the Penal Laws, and other matters which Strype 
and his successors had not been in a position to see 
so clearly. In the end it seemed worth while to set 
out these facts in detail in chronological order. I there- 
fore place before the reader, in sequence of time, what 
I have been able to collect, within the limits indicated, 
with regard to the methods and operation of the Settle- 
ment, so far as the clergy are concerned. The result 
of the direct inquiry into the number of clergymen 
deprived for Papal sympathies between 1558 and 1564 
is to some extent negative, but the evidence seems to 
warrant my conclusion that it cannot have greatly 



PREFACE IX 

exceeded two hundred. Further, I believe that I have 
proved the leniency with which the penal laws were at 
that time administered, in the face of the opposite assertion 
commonly made by* Roman Catholic writers. Severity 
was to come; but not until later events made it, as the 
Government thought, necessary. Until 1570 the penal laws 
were not generally enforced. In the six years now under 
review the number of persons imprisoned, whether clerical 
or lay, was small ; and those returned into the King's 
Bench as excommunicate were likewise comparatively few. 

My thanks are due to the Archbishop of Canterbury 
for permission to transcribe manuscripts at Lambeth, and 
to the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Bristol for 
their countenance and suggestions. I have also to thank 
many others who have assisted me in various ways : in 
fact it is only at the end of my task that I realize how 
wide is my indebtedness even in such a comparatively 
small investigation as the present First, I must mention 
my friend Mr. W. J. Hardy, F.S.A., with whom as collabo- 
rator I originally intended to write the book. To my 
regret, his other engagements have only permitted him to 
supply the first draft of the chapter on the deprivation of 
the bishops. Mr. Hardy has found time, however, to give 
me much advice with regard to the tracing of documents, 
and he has read the proof-sheets with me. The use of the 
editorial * we* throughout the work is, indeed, due to our pro- 
posed partnership ; and having begun with it I retained it 
to the end. I must also return special thanks to the 
Bishops' Registrars, who showed me the utmost courtesy, 
and allowed free access to such documents as I wished 
to see ; to Canon Dixon of Warkworth for much counsel, 
and for accepting the dedication of the book, though he 
is in no way responsible for its contents ; to Mr. G. H. 
Overend, F.S.A., of the Public Record Office,, whose help 



X PREFACE 

IS ever ready to all those who consult him; to Mr. William 
Page, F.S.A., whose sane judgement is a constant support 
to his friends ; to Mr. S. Wayland Kershaw, F.S.A., whose 
kindness is well known to all frequenters of the Lambeth 
Palace Library ; to Mr. C. W. Moule, Fellow and Librarian 
of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, who, at much personal 
inconvenience I fear, gave me more than one opportunity of 
consulting the Parker MSS. ; to Mr. F. B. Bickley of the 
British Museum, who has afforded me constant help ; to 
the Rev. George Hennessy, whose unique knowledge of 
London Diocesan Registers has been ungrudgingly placed 
at my disposal ; to Chancellor Leeke of Lincoln, Canon 
Church of Wells, and Canon Edmondes of Exeter, who 
gave me all facilities for consulting the Chapter Acts in 
their custody ; and especially to Miss Ethel Stokes, whose 
accurate transcription and orderly work has put me in 
possession of some lists and other documents which I was 
unable to find time to copy for myself. 

Henry Gee. 



SUMMARY OF CONTENTS 



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CHAPTER I. 

ELIZABETH'S FIRST PARLIAMENT. 

The authorities expected opposition from the clergy to any change 
in the status quo^ p. 2. First signs of change, p. 2. Protest of 
the clergy when Parliament assembled in January, 1559, p. 3. 
Introduction of the Supremacy Act in the Commons, p. 4. The 
original bill in the Lords, p. 4. The bill annexed passes the 
Lords (with the original bill), and goes to the Commons, p. 5. 
The bill annexed passes the Commons, p. 5> A new bill is 
introduced ; reasons for dropping the old one, p. 5. The most 
material points of the final Act enumerated, p. 7. The passage 
of the Uniformity Act through the Houses, p. 7. The penal 
provisions of the Uniformity Act, p. 8. Conclusion of the first 
parliament, p. 9. 

Illustrative Documents: i. The Supremacy Act (i Eliz. cap. i). 
ii. The Uniformity Act (i Eliz. cap. 2). 

CHAPTER II. 

THE DEPRIVATION OF THE BISHOPS. 

Action before Parliament sat, p. 30. The Bishops in Parliament, p. 31. 
The Westminster Disputation involves some of the Bishops in 
trouble, p. 31. First proceedings against the Bishops after May 8, 
1559, p. 33. Action under the Commission of May 23, p. 34. 
The oath tendered to Justices and Judges in June, p. 35. The 
Bishops again examined, p. 35. Deprivations after July 7, p. 36. 
Deaths of four of the Bishops, p. 38. 

Illustrative Document : Commission to the Privy Council to administer 
the Oath. 



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CHAPTER III. 

ARRANGEMENTS FOR A ROYAL VISITATION. 

The clergy as a body are reluctant, p. 41. Deliberation of Cecil and 
his advisers, p. 42. Scheme for a royal visitation, p. 42. The 
writ of visitation, p. 44. Probable discussions as to the method 
of visitation, p. 44. Departure of the cloistered clergy, p. 45. 

Illustrative Documents: i. The Royal Injunctions of 1559 collated 
with those of Edward VI. ii. Articles of Inquiry, 1559. 



CHAPTER IV. 

ROYAL VISITATION OF THE NORTHERN PROVINCE, 1 5 59. 

Arrangements complete in July, 1559, p. 71. Names of the Visitors 
for the North, p. 71. Part taken by the Visitors named, p. 72. 
Issue of writs of prohibition, p. 73. Summary of the duties of the 
Visitors, p. 73. Narrative of the Visitation, p. 74. At Nottingham, 
p. 74. Returns furnished by Churchwardens, &c., p. y6. South- 
well and Halifax, p. 76. Proceedings at York, p. 77. Form of 
the Oath subscribed, p. 77, Deprivations at York, p. 78. Diocese 
of Durham, p. 79. Diocese of Carlisle, p. 80. Appointment of 
Assessors, p. 80. Diocese of Chester, p. 81. Conclusion of the 
Northern Visitation, p. 82. 

Illustrative Documents : i. Names of absentees from the Visitation, 
ii. Letters Patent directing the Northern Visitation. 



CHAPTER V. 

ROYAL VISITATION OF THE SOUTHERN PROVINCE. 

Our materials for 'the Southern Visitation, p. 94. (i) London, 
Norwich, and Ely, p. 94. Places of Session in London, p. 95 ; 
Norwich, p. 96 ; Ely, p. 97. (2) Oxford, Lincoln, Peterborough, 
Coventry, and Lichfield, p. 97. (3) Salisbury, Bristol, Exeter, 
Bath and Wells, Gloucester, p. 98. Route of the Western Visitors, 
p. 100. (4) Canterbury, Rochester, Winchester, Chichester, 
p. 100. (5) Welsh dioceses with Hereford and Worcester, 
p. loi. Signatories in the Southern Visitation, p. loi. 

Illustrative Document : Alphabetical list of extant subscriptions. 



CONTENTS xiii 



CHAPTER VL 

ROYAL VISITATION OF THE UNIYERSITIES, 1 559. 

The Oxford Visitation as described by Wood, p. 130. Number of the 
deprived at Oxford, p. 131. The Cambridge Visitation, p. 132. 

Illustrative Doomients : i. The writ of Visitation for Cambridge and 
Eton, Jtme, 20, 1559. ii. Oxford University Deprivations, 1559. 
iiL Cambridge University Deprivations, 1559. 



CHAPTER Vn. 

THE FIRST ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION, 1559-I562. 

Distinction between the Visitation and the Commission, p. 137. The 
Supremacy Act contemplates such a commission, p. 137. First 
hint of the Commission, p. 138. Duties of the Commission, 
p. 139. Its special connexion with London, p. 139. Loss of 
Records of the Commission, p. 140. It was to sit in November, 
1559, p. 140. Suspension of the Visitations in October, p. 141. 
A new writ issued to the Commission, p. 142. Proceedings in 
November, 1559, p. 142. The recusants deprived, p. 143. Pro- 
ceedings with the deprived bishops, p. 144. Other prisoners at 
this time, p. 145. 

Illustrative Documents: i. Writ for the issue of the Permanent 
Coounission, July 19, 1559. ii. Writ of October 20, 1559, for 
administering the Oath. iii. Supplementary list of signatures, 
November, 1559. 

CHAPTER VIII. 

THE METROPOUTICAL VISITATION OF 1560-I. 

Settlement of sees in the interval, December 1559-March 1560, p. 156. 
The Supremacy Oath not strictly tendered during the interval 
before the Metropolitical Visitation, p. 157. State of the North 
to April, 1560, p. 158. Parker inhibits the Southern Bishops from 
vinting. May, 1560, p. 158. His commissions issued in August, 
p. 158. Further Commissioners, 1560, p. 159. Object of this 
Visitation, p. i6a Revival of the Visitation for other dioceses, 
1 56 1, p. 161. Scory's letters, p. 161. Importance of Scor/s 
letters, p. 162. Visitation of Eton, p. 162. Proceedings of Home, 
June, 1 561, p. 162. Further action of Home, p. 163. Summary, 
p. 163. 



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CHAPTER IX. 

NORTHERN COMMISSIONS DURING I56I AND 1 562. 

State of conformity during the vacancy of the Northern dioceses, 
p. 165. The sees at last filled up, 1561, p. 166. Issue of a com- 
mission to administer the Oath, May 5, 1561, p. 166. Episcopal 
visitations and reports, p. 167. i. Best, p. 167. ii. Pilkington, 
p. 168. General effect of the Commission for 1561, p. 169. The 
laity largely escape the oath, p. 169. Instructions for the Council 
of the North, 1562, p. 170. Summary of the position, December, 
1562, p. 171. 

Illustrative Document: Commission to administer the Oath in the 
North, May 5, 1561. 

CHAPTER X. 

THE SECOND ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION, 1 562. 

A new Commission in 1562, p. 174. First proceedings under the new 
Commission, p. 175. Restraint and surveillance of recusants, 
p. 175. Other duties of the new Commission, p. 176. Summary 
of the work of the Commissions, 1559-1562, p. 177. 

Illustrative Documents : i. Official abstract of the writ of July 20, 1562. 
ii. J^^ecusants which are abroad and bound to certain places. 

CHAPTER XI. 

THE PENAL LAWS OF ELIZABETH'S SECOND PARLIAMENT, 1 563-4. 

Fears of Papal sympathy, p. 186. A new bill for the assurance of the 
Supremacy, p. 187. Comparison with i £liz. cap. i, p. 188. Two 
chief points: i. Papal sympathy, p. 188. ii. Oath of Allegiance, 
p. 188. The special severity of the Act as regards the oath, 
p. 189. The new stage indicated by this Act, p. 189. Spiritual 
censures and the writ De Excommunicato Capiendo, p. 190. The 
most important points in the Act, p. 191. These two Acts are not 
pressed severely, p. 192. The imprisoned Bishops in relation to 
this legislation, p. 192. Scott escapes, p. 192. Bonner and 
Watson, p. 193. The Emperor intercedes for the Bishops, p. 193. 
Release of the Bishops from the Tower, p. 194. The Emperor's 
second letter and the Queen's reply, p. 194. Bonner and the oath, 
1564, p. 195. Sequel as regards the other Marian Bishops, p. 195. 



CONTENTS XV 

Bishop Poole, p. 196. In review the Assurance Act was pressed 
in a few cases only, p. 196. The same assertion holds good for the 
other Act, p. 197. A possible explanation for clerical acquiescence 
at this time, p. 19S. The Privy Council inquire as to the Justices, 
1564, p. 199. No Commission yet issued under the Assurance 
Act, p. 201. Our limit reached, November, 1564, p. 201. 
Illustrative Documents : i. Assurance of Supremacy Act (5 Eliz. cap. i). 
ii. Act for the due execution of the writ De ExcommuniccUo 
Capiendo, 



CHAPTER XII. 

THE DEPRIVED CLERGY: ESTIMATES OF HISTORICAL WRITERS. 

Estimates in modem histories of the number deprived, p. 2 1 7. Strype's 
three lists, p. 217. (a) D'Ewes*, p. 217. {b) Cotton MS. Titus 
C. 10, f. 172, p. 218. Comparison of this list with that in 
Camden's Annals^ p. 218. Origin of Camden's list in Sanders' 
De Visibili Monorchia^ p. 219. Clerke's criticism of Sanders, 
p. 220. Justification of such criticism, p. 221. {c) Cardinal Allen, 
p. 222. Origin of Allen's list, p. 222. The list in Tiemey's Dodd^ 
and its origin, p. 223. Criticism of Tieme/s list, p. 224. 
General conclusion about the lists, p. 224. 

Illustrative Documents : i. The list of Nicolas Sanders, 1 571. ii. The 
Summary in Ad Persecutores Anglos, 1583. iii. The Summary 
in J. Bridgwater's Concertaiio Ecclesiae Anglicanae^ 1588. iv. The 
list of Dodd as corrected by Tiemey, 1839. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

THE DEPRIVED CLERGY: EVIDENCE OF REGISTERS. 

An investigation of the Registers is necessary, p. 236. Nature and 
extent of their evidence, p. 236. Supplementary evidence at 
Lambeth, and in Bishops* Certificates, and Crown Presentations, 
p. 237. The list of deprived resulting from these combined 
materiab, p. 238. This list needs careful pruning, p. 238. The 
method of its reduction, p. 239. The result of this process, p. 239. 
Objections considered, i. Incompleteness of the registers, 
p. 241. ii. The large number of men ordained, p. 242. iii. The 
case of curates, p. 243. iv. The asserted probability of resignation 
for conscience sake, p. 243. Conclusion, p. 247. 



xvi CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XIV. 

SUMMARY OF THE INQUIRY. 

Facts established : Initial hostility of the clergy, p. 248. The basis 
of the settlement, p. 248. Royal Visitation, 1559, p. 248. First 
Ecclesiastical Commission established, 1 5 59, p. 249. Metropolitical 
visitation of the South, 1560-1, p. 249. Visitation of the North, 
1 561, p. 250. New Ecclesiastical Commission, July 20, 1562, 
p. 250. Penal Statutes of 1563, p. 25a Sanders' list of the 
deprived, p. 250. Evidence of Registers, &c., p. 25 1. 

APPENDIX I. Lists of Clergymen deprived, I558>i564, p. 252. 

APPENDIX II. List of Institutions after deprivation, 1558-1564, 
p. 271. 

APPENDIX III. Further continuation of these lists, 1564-1570, 
p. 288. 

INDEX, p. 293. 



CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 



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155& 

Nov. 17 . . . Accession of Queen Elizabeth. 
Dec. 14 . . . Watson's sermon at the Funeral of Queen Mary* 
Dec. ? . . . . Conferences held at Sir T. Smith's house. 
Dec 27 . . . Proclamation to repress preaching. 

1569. 

Jan. 23 . . . Parliament assembles. 

Jan. 24 • . . Convocation meets. 

Jan. 25 ... First session of Parliament. 

? , . . . Protest of Convocation. 
Feb. ? . . . . Bourne deprived of the Presidency of Wales. 
Feb. 15 . . . Original Bill of Supremacy drawn up. 
Feb. 16 . . . Uniformity Bill read in the Commons. 
Feb. 21 . . . First reading of Supremacy Bill in the Commons. 
Feb. 28 . . . The bill sent up to the Lords. 
Feb. 28 I 
March 13 / "^^ ^'" ^^^ ^>^«- 

^^^18^' I Readings of the bill annexed in the Lords, 

' } Readings of the bill annexed in the Commons. 
21, 22 j ** 

March. 31 . The Westminster Disputation begins. 

April 3 . . . Some of the Bishops before the Queen. 

April 4 . . . Bishops White and Watson sent to the Tower. 

April 10, I2,| j^^^ Supremacy BiU read in the Commons. 

April 15, 17,) New Supremacy Bill read and the proviso annexed in 
25 > the Lords. 

April 18, 19,1 Uniformity Bill read in the Commons. 
20 ' 

b 



xviii CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 

April 26, 27 Debate and reading of Supremacy Bill in the Commons. 

28 '1 Uniformity Bill read in the Lords. 

April 28, 29 . Final readings of Supremacy Bill in the Lords. 

May 8 . . . . Parliament prorogued. The Bishops forbidden to leave 

London. 
May 23 . . . Commission to the Privy Council to administer the oath. 
May 30 . . . Deprivation of Bonner. 

June Injunctions and articles of inquiry ready. 

June The oath administered to Justices of the peace. 

June Departure of the cloistered clergy. 

June 20 . . . Commission to visit Cambridge and Eton issued. 

June 24 . . . The Prayer Book comes into use. 

June 24 . . . Issue of writs for royal visitation. 

June 26 . . . Deprivation of Bishops Oglethorpe, Scott, Bayne, Pates, 

Goldwell, White and Watson. 
June ? . . . . Conunenoement of the Oxford visitation. 
July 7 . . . . Deprivation of Heath and Thirlby. 
July 19 . . . Issue of writ for Ecclesiastical Commission. 
July 20 . . . Tunstall comes to London. 
Aug. 8 . . . Commencement of the Cambridge visitation. 
Aug. 10 . • . Deprivation of Morgan and Turberville. 
Aug. II... Commencement of the London visitation. 
Aug. 22 . . . Commencement of the Northern visitation. 
Sept 9 . • . Commission to Tunstall and others to consecrate Parker. 
Sept. 21 . . . The visitors in the diocese of Durham. 
Sept. 28 . . . Deprivation of TunstalL 
Oct. 3 . . . . The visitors in the diocese of Carlisle. 
Oct. 9 . • . . The visitors in the diocese of Chester. 
Oct. ? . . . . Suspension of the visitations. 

Nov. l~7 . . Meeting of the Ecclesiastical Commission in London. 
Nov. 15 ? . . Deprivation of recusants by the Commissioners. 
Nov. 18. . . Death of Tunstall and Bayne. 
Dec. 17 . . . Consecration of Parker. 
Dec. 21 . . . Consecration of Grindal (London), Cox (Ely), Sandys 

(Worcester), Meyrick (Bangor). 
Dec. 23 • . . Death of Bishop Morgan. 
Dec. 31 . . . Death of Oglethorpe. 



1500. 

Jan. 21 . . . Consecration ofYoung (St. Davids), Bullingham (Lincoln), 

Jewel (Salisbury), Davies (St. Asaph). 

Feb. 27 . . . Commission for administering the oath in the Palatinate 

of Chester. 



CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE xix 

March 24 . • Consecration of Guest (Rochester), Berkeley (Bath and 

Wells )y Bentham (Coventry and Lichfield). 

April .... Bonner imprisoned in the Marshalsea. 

May Watson and Pates sent to the Tower. 

May Heath and Thirlby sent to the Tower. 

May 13 . . . Scott imprisoned in the Fleet 

May 17 . . . Parker inhibits Scory from visiting. 

June 18 . . Turberville and Bourne sent to the Tower. 

Aug. 8 . . . Parker issues five commissions for visitation. 

Sept. 8 . . . Commission issued to Jewel for visitation of Salisbury 

diocese. 

Sept II. . . Commission issued for Rochester and Canterbury 

dioceses. 

Nov Parker directs the southern bishops to send in returns. 

Dec 3. . . . Commission issued for the visitation of Gloucester. 

Dec. 19 . . . Commission for visitation of Peterborough diocese. 

1561. 

Feb. 18 . . . Commission for visitation of Worcester diocese. 

March 2. . . ConsecrationofPilkington (Durham), and Best (Carlisle). 

Translation of Young to York. 
April 24 . . Commission for visitation of Oxford diocese. 
May 4 . . . Consecration of Downham (Chester). 
May 5 . . . . Issue of a Commission to administer oath in the North. 

June Home visits Winchester diocese. 

July Best visits Carlisle diocese. 

Aug. 22 . . . Commission for the visitation of Eton. 
Sept Home visits certain Colleges in Oxford. 

1562. 

July 20 . . . Commission for trying religious ofiences in the Palatinate 

of Chester. 
July 20 ... A new Ecclesiastical Commission issued. 
Aug. 6 . . . The Commission directs the Bishops to make retums 

of recusancy. 
Nov Instmctions on Uniformity to the Council of the North. 

1568. 

Jan. 12 . . • Meeting of Elizabeth's Second Parliament. 

Meeting of Convocation. 
Jan. 28 ... Petition of the Commons for penal legislation. 
Feb. 15, 20 . Second and third readings in Commons of Assurance of 

Supremacy Bill. 



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Feb. 25 . . First reading of the Assurance Bill in the Lords. 
March i} 3 . Second and third readings. 
April 9 . . . The Bill for writ De Excommunicaio passed. 
April 10. . . The Assurance and De Excommunicato Bills receive 

Royal Assent. 

May The oath tendered to Bonner and Watson. 

July Outbreak of the Plague. 

Sept. 6. . . . The Bishops in the Tower liberated. 
Sept. 24 . . . The Emperor appeals to the Queen. 

1664. 

April .... Letter of Dennum to Cecil. 

April 26 . . . The oath again adminstered to Bonner. 

October . . . The Council directs a return of the Justices. 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY AND THE 
SETTLEMENT OF RELIGION 



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CHAPTER I. 



ELIZABETHS FIRST PARLIAMENT. 

During the five years of Queen Mary's reign a large 
number of clergymen were deprived in England and 
Wales ^ Fresh institutions were in most cases ^ made to 
the cures thus left vacant. In this way, when Elizabeth 
came to the throne on November 17, 1558, she found a 
small body of regulars ^ and a large number ^ of seculars, 
whom we may regard as more or less sincerely attached to 
the existing state of the church. That they would have 



Chap. I 

The au- 
thorities 
expected 
opposition 
from the 
clergy to 
any change 
in the 
status quo. 



* Sec the Rev. W. H. Frere's 
ian Reaction in its relation to the 
English Clergy, He says (p. 74) : 
' It is quite dear that the Marian 
deprivations amount to a great up- 
heaval which, for the time at least, 
altered the whole personnel of the 
clergy in a way unequalled either 
before or since.' 

' But study of the registers and of 
such returns as we have e. g. for the 
Diocese of Ely (Add. MS. 5813, f. 78), 
combined with incidental mention of 
vacancies in the Zurich letters and 
elsewhere (see below, p. 89, note 9), 
makes it abundantly clear that for 
various reasons a certain number of 
benefices were vacant at the begin- 
ning of Elizabeth's reign. 



* Under Queen Mary certain reli- 
gious houses had been restored, but 
the number of monks and friars does 
not appear to have been considerable, 
and it probably included many who 
were not in orders. Sanders in his 
De Visibili Monorchia, Book VII, 
gives very few names of dispossessed 
monks. Cf. Dixon, iv. 617. 

^ No exact estimate of numbers 
has been drawn up. On Camden's 
authority (trans. 1695, p. 30) it has 
usually been said that there were 
9,400 clergy. His original words, 
however, a.re promotiones ecdesiasticae, 
and) as the registers show, one man 
often held two, three, or even more 
of such promotioms. 



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2 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. I little sympathy with any alteration in the status quo may 
readily be assumed. For the present, the services and the 
personnel of the church remained undisturbed, but the 
known sympathies of the Queen, and her chief advisers, 
must have led all men to look for extensive alterations 
before long. Such alterations, indeed, must have been 
contemplated by the responsible authorities from the very 
moment that Elizabeth came to the throne. It is equally 
clear from a state paper which belongs to the beginning of the 
reign that strong opposition to change was expected by the 
Privy Council from the bishops and clergy in possession ^. 
First signs The first Sign which bespoke the policy to follow, was 
^^ given before the end of the year, when at Sir T. Smith's 
house in Westminster those conferences were begun in which 
the Prayer Book was revised in readiness for the approach- 
ing session of Parliament '. No special Commission, it is 
true, was issued for this revision, but from the antecedents 
of those engaged upon it, the probable result of the work 
must have been easy to predict. It is scarcely likely that the 
fact of these conferences failed to transpire. Meanwhile the 
Protestant party in England being reinforced from abroad 
b^^n to put themselves very much in evidence, and a good 
deal of unwise preaching was heard. The other party were 
not backward. In consequence of this a proclamation was 
issued on December 27, which silenced all preaching for 
the time, and postponed any alteration of service with 
the exception of the Gospel and Epistle and the Ten 
Commandments, together with the Litany, the Lord's 
Prayer, and the Creed * until consultation may be had 
by Parliament, by her Majesty and her three estates of 
this Realm'.' A threat was added that *if any shall 

' This paper exists in Cotton MS. preaching, and all other ways they 

Julius, F. vi. It is printed by Strype can, they will persuade the people 

in Annals of ttu Reformation^ i. App. from it,' &c. 

no. 4, 'What dangers may ensue ' See Cardwell, History of Con- 

upon the alteration/ It enumerates ftnncts on P. B., p. 19. 

five classes, and amongst them : ' H. Dyson*s Collection of Proda- 

' Bishops and all the clergy will see mations, f. 3. 
their own ruin. In confession, and 



ELIZABETH'S FIRST PARLIAMENT 3 

disobediently use themselves to the breach hereof, her Chap, i 
majesty both must and will see the same duly punished, 
both for the quality of the offence, and for example to 
all others neglecting her majesty's so reasonable com- 
mandment ^.' 

Queen Elizabeth's first Parliament was summoned to Protestor 
meet on January a3, 1559, but actually b^an to sit on the ^\^^^^ 
35th. On the 24th, Convocation assembled, and the Parliament 
unanimity of the clergy was at once evidenced by their assembles 
deliberations on the preservation of existing religion. They *" ^^^^ 
issued in a few days a formal protest against any alteration, 
and in this they emphasized five particular points of doctrine^ 
and practice, being instigated to do so by the Protestant 
tone of the Lord Keeper s speech, and the sermon of 
Dr. Cox at the opening of Parliament. In these articles thus 
drawn up, the first three deal with the doctrine of the Mass, 
and are a verbal reproduction of the theses disputed in 1554 
at Oxford, when Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer were 
condemned. These points were evidently regarded as what 
Strype calls 'the great KpiTrjpiov of Popery.' The fourth 
emphasized the Papal Supremacy, and the fifth declared 
* that the authority of handling and defining concerning 
the things belonging to faith, sacraments, and discipline 
ecclesiastical, hath hitherto ever belonged, and ought to 
belong only to the pastors of the church, whom the Holy 
Ghost for this purpose hath set in the church, and not to 
la3niien.' It appears that all five articles were endorsed by 
the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and were laid 
before the House of Lords by Lord Keeper Bacon *, with 
the significant exception of the last article as quoted above. 

' This threat was frequently put Barking; H. Comberford, of Lich- 

into execution during the early field ; T. Byrche, Vicar of Witley ; 

months of 1559, as the Privy Coun- J. Denton, Vicar of Spelhurst ; J. 

dl Acts, which survive until May, Murren, Vicar of Ludgate. SeePm^y 

sufficiently attest. It may be said Council Acts, pp. 54, 63. Others are 

here, without proving the matter in sent to the Fleet ; ibid. 59. See also 

detail, that a few of the clergy pp. 71, 77, 87, 9a, and^Asstm. 

ultimately deprived and others got * Wilkins, iv. 179, from Parker 

into trouble long before the summer MS. lai, f. 193. 

^ 1559 ; «.«• J- Gregyll, Vicar of » Stiype, Amt, I 56. 

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4 THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. I Thus, at the outset, Convocation and the Universities placed 
themselves in opposition to the course of l^islation which 
the new Parliament was expected to pursue. 
Introduc- The qualms felt by the clergy and Universities were 
th"s^ speedily justified. It is impossible to follow in detail all 
premacy the debates of Parliament when Hansard was as yet not 
Act » the dreamed of, but from the valuable summaries of the pro- 
ceedings which we find in the Journals of the Houses, and 
in the admirable compendia of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, we 
are quite able to understand what was done. The great 
Act, generally known as the Supremacy Act of Elizabeth, 
which forms the foundation of the Elizabethan Church 
Settlement, and the beginning of repressive legislation, was 
before the two Houses of Parliament during the greater 
part of the session. It is quite clear from the changes 
introduced, and from such records of the divisions as have 
survived, that it was no easy business to get the bill 
through. If we would follow its history clearly, we should 
keep before us three distinct bills which may be termed the 
original bill, the bill annexed, and the final draft. We first 
hear of the original bill on February 15, when Committees 
of the House of Commons were appointed to draw up a bill 
to annex the Supremacy to the Crown. This, of course, 
amounted to a declaration of war against the Convocation 
and Universities in their present attitude. We have no 
particulars of the proceedings, but it appears that the bill 
was complete within a week, for it was read for the first 
time on February ai. The thought at this time was 
evidently to hurry the bill through, as it was read a second 
time the very next day (an unusually rapid progress as the 
fate of other bills makes clear), and a third time on Saturday, 
February 25. At this stage it is called * The Bill for the 
Supremacy of the Churches of England and Ireland, and 
abolishing of the Pope of Rome.' So ended the momentous 
week so far as the Commons were concerned. 
The On the first available day — Monday, February 27, the 

^•*f!"*!u Bill was sent up to the Lords. The next day it was read 

bill in the ^ ' 

Lords. a first time. At this point the Treasons Bill was allowed 



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ELIZABETITS FIRST PARLIAMENT 5 

to take precedence of the Supremacy, and we hear no more Chap, i 
of the latter for a fortnight, when it is read a second time 
on March 13. It would seem clear that a diversity of 
opinion had now manifested itself. What followed it is 
not easy to determine. It seems that the bill was on this 
same day referred again to certain Committees of the , f 
Commons ^. The result, however, is clear enough, for we 
find that a new bill was ready within two days, the design 
being to annex this to the previous bill. 

This new bill, or the additional provisoes, or whatever we The bill 
are to call the changes made on March 1 3, was read a first ^'^'^^^e^ 

passes the 

time in the Lords on March 15. The same haste now char- Lords 
acterizes the proceedings. This bill annexed, as we here (with the 
term it, was read a second time March 17, and a third on 5^2^ '^nd 
March 18. It was now finally passed, so far as the new goes to the 
provisoes were concerned, and was sent down to the Co™™ons- 
Commons the very same day. Meantime, also on the 
same day, the Lords read the original bill a third time, so 
that this original bill and the bill annexed were for the 
present concluded, so far as the Lords were concerned. 
The Episcopal dissentients were the Archbishop of York, 
the Bishops of London, Winchester, Worcester, Llandaff, 
Coventry, Exeter, Chester, Carlisle. The Abbot of West- 
minster also voted against it, and the Earl of Shrewsbury 
and Lord Montacute. At the next session of the Commons The bill 
on Monday, March ao, the bill annexed was read a first ^"'^c^®^ 

passes the 

time, on the 21st, a second, and on the aand, a third. On the commons. 
forenoon of the same day the bill annexed was sent up to 
the Lords again, with a proviso which the Commons had 
added, and this proviso was read three times and passed 
by the Lords before that day's session concluded. 

At this stage the combined bills ought surely to have A new 
become law. The sequel is a little perplexing, and may be ***" ** *"" 

. x^tT^ s 1 « -rfc 1 t 1 troduced. 

given m D Ewes own words : But whether the many new Reasons 
additions and alterations in this foregoing bill had made <or drop- 
some confusion in it, or that the House of Commons oJ^^n/ 
disliked that their bill formerly passed with them had 

' Sec D*Ewes* Joumaly 99. 



6 THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. I received so much reformation in the Upper House, or for 
what other cause I know not : most certain it is that they 
had no desire the said former bill should be made a per- 
petual law by her Majesty's royal assent ; and thereupon 
they framed a new bill to the like purpose (in which I suppose 
they included also the substanceof all the additions, provisoes, 
and amendments which the Lords had annexed to their 
former bill) whidi had its first reading in the House of 
Commons. . . . On Monday the loth day of this instant 
April, being thus intitled (much differing from the title 
thereof here annexed, or after added, before the printed 
statute), viz. The Bill to avoid the usurped power claimed 
by any foreign potentate in this realm, and for the oath 
to be taken by spiritual and temporal officers.' Such is 
D'Ewes' hypothesis^. It is unfortunate that we do not 
possess the actual text of the original Act or the bill 
annexed, so that it is impossible to discover why the bill 
as passed on March %2 was thrown aside. Looking, 
however, to the fact, that several bills dealing with church 
matters were now before the Houses, it was resolved to drop 
the bill for the time being, and to incorporate some of 
these enactments in the final drafts It may be that in 
consequence of the steady opposition of the Spiritual Peers, 
which tacitly involved that of all the clergy, it was deter- 
mined to make the penalties of the Act more stringent. 
At all events, on April lo, the progress of the bill begins 
de novo, for on this day a new bill was brought into the 
Commons under the new title already mentioned by D'Ewes, 
viz. ' The Bill to avoid the usurped power claimed by any 
foreign potentate in this realm, and for the oath to be 
taken by spiritual and temporal officers.' The second 
reading took place on April la, and the third on April 13. 
The title appears to have been again altered at this stage 
to ' The Bill for restoring the spiritual jurisdiction to the 
imperial crown of the realm, and abolishing foreign power.' 
The next day it was sent up to the Lords, and received its 
first reading on the 15th, and the second on the 1 7th. A week 

* D'Ewes* /oMfMa/, 09. * Strypc, Ann. i. 58. 



EUZABETH'S FIRST PARLIAMENT 7 

elapsed during which the Uniformity Bill was occupying Chap. I 
the attention of the Commons. On the 25th the Lords 
debated a new proviso for the Supremacy Bill, and read 
It twice. Next day the proviso was passed finally by the 
Lords, and the bill was read a third time by them, and 
sent down to the Commons. It would appear that the 
proviso was passed by the Lower House within the next 
two days, for the bill and proviso were returned once more 
to the Lords on the 28th. The Commons had added a 
proviso of their own which the Lords seem to have read 
twice on the day of its arrival. At last on April 29, the 
proviso was passed apparently without difficulty, and the 
Supremacy Act was complete. The royal assent was 
added on May 8th. 

Such was the troubled passage of the measure through The most 
the Houses of Parliament The full text will be found in the ™**«"aJ 
Appendix. It will be seen that the Act may be summarized the final 
as follows : it repeals certain Acts of Queen Mary, and Act enu- 
revises some of Henry VIII (notably 25 Henry VIII. cap. '"^™**^- 
19 : the Submission of the Clergy), and one of Edward VI ; 
it annexes ecclesiastical jurisdiction to the Crown ; it gives 
authority to appoint ecclesiastical commissioners with the 
most ample powers; it prescribes a Supremacy oath; it 
appoints penalties for refusing the oath. The most material 
points to be noticed for our purpose are: (i) The Oath of 
Supremacy ; (2) The Appointment of Ecclesiastical Com- 
missioners. By these means it is enacted that the clergy, 
who are already known to be opposed to alterations, are to 
acknowledge the Queen's Supremacy on the one hand, 
whilst a Coounission with all the powers of Henry's 
Supremacy Act may at any time be appointed to manage 
church jurisdiction. 

We turn now to the history of the Elizabethan Uniformity The 
Act. It was first heard of on February 16 in the Commons, passage 
so that the original idea was to run the Uniformity Bill uniform- 
more or less pari passu with the Supremacy Act. On the ity Act 
day mentioned, the bill, already drafted, was allowed its [^^^"^^ 
first reading ; but at this juncture, when it goes by the Houses. 



8 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. I name of the * Bill for Common Prayer and Administering 
of Sacraments,' it disappears from view for two months, the 
Supremacy Bill thus taking precedence of it The protest 
of the Convocation, and the animus which it displayed, 
caused the authorities, we can scarcely doubt, to take the 
precaution of fortifying themselves behind the Supremacy 
Act before they again pressed on the Uniformity Bill. In 
this way, the Supremacy Bill had reached its final stage 
before the Bill of Uniformity was again introduced. It 
was, then, on April 18 that the *Bill for the Unity of the 
Service of the Church, and Ministration of the Sacraments ' 
was read a first time. It would seem probable from this 
title that a new bill was now before the House. Passing 
its second reading on the next day, and its third on the 
day after that, the bill was brought up to the Lords on 
April 25, when another small change in the title is noted. 
This now runs: *The Bill for Uniformity of Common 
Prayer, and Service in the Church, and Administration of 
the Sacraments.' It was read the three statutable times 
on three consecutive days — April 26, 27, 28. On the last 
day it was opposed in a speech of great vigour by 
Dr. Cuthbert Scott, Bishop of Chester. He gives, however, 
no hint of what amount of opposition existed amongst the 
clergy at large. Those who voted against the third reading 
were the Archbishop of York, the Bishops of London, Ely, 
Worcester, Llandaff, Coventry and Lichfield, Exeter, 
Chester, Carlisle, the Marquis of Winchester, the Earl of 
Shrewsbury, Lords Montague, Morley, Sheffield, Dudley, 
Wharton, Rich, North. 
The penal Referring the reader once more to the Appendix for the 
^nr **^'** text of the Act, we may here summarize the penal provisions 
Uniform- as foUows : For using any other form of Prayer after 
iiyAct. June 24, 1559, or for speaking against it or depraving it, 
the penalty is one year's sequestration of benefice, and six 
months' imprisonment for the first offence ; deprivation and 
a year's imprisonment for a second offence; deprivation 
and imprisonment for life for a third offence. In order 
to carry out this regime of liturgical uniformity, the 



EUZABETH'S FIRST PARLIAMENT 9 

archbishops and bishops are empowered to make use of Chap. I 
church censures ; justices are to hear and determine all 
cases brought before them in sessions and assizes within 
their commission ^ ; bishops may join the justices in such 
trials as take place within their dioceses. 

It will be unnecessary to follow the legislation of Conciu- 
Elizabeth's first Parliament any farther. The two important t^°\^j 
Acts for our purpose are those which have been described, Pariia- 
and which formed the legislative basis of the settlement ™*"^ ^^y 
of religion until the second Parliament which met in 1563. ' 
The dissolution took place on May 8, 1559, after the Acts 
had received the royal assent. In the next chapters we 
shall see the steps that were taken when the settlement of 
religion was carried out in accordance with the Acts of 
Supremacy and Uniformity. 



I. 

An Act restoring to the Crown the ancient 
jurisdiction of the state ecclesiastical and 
spiritual, and abolishing all foreign power 
repugnant to the same. 

(i Elizabeth, cap. i.) 

[Transcr. Statutes of the Realm^ iv. pt. i. p. 350.] 

Most humbly beseech your most excellent majesty, your faithful Recital of 
and obedient subjects, the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the P^'^*^*^®^- 

ings under 

' Special instructions were given call three or four parishioners and 

to the justices in regard to their to charge them to get the Prayer 

duties connected with the settle- Book; to see that the proper service 

ment of religion. The oath was was used, or to bring the curate 

directed to be taken by the writ before the lord lieutenant ; absentees 

of May 33 (p. 39). Accordingly, we from service to be presented ; to 

find that the Essex magistrates took give attendance on such preaching 

the oath at Chelmsford on June 16, as the queen or bishops send, so 

under the superintendence of the long as they tarry in those parts, 

brd lieutenant, the Earl of Oxford. These duties merely carry out io 

See the earl's return, dated August a I, detail the principle contained in the 

(S. P. Dom.), and cf. Strype's Sir T, Uniformity Act concerning justices 

Smithj p. 57. Among the duties (p. 26}. 
prescribed were the following: to 



lo THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. I Commons, in this your present Parliament assembled, that where 
Hemr" ^^ ^^™® ^^ ^^ reign of your most dear father, of worthy memory, 
VIII and King Henry VIII, divers good laws and statutes were made and 
Mary in established, as well for the utter extinguishment and putting away 
and repeal- ^^ ^^^ usurped and foreign powers and authorities out of this your 
ing laws realm, and other your highness's dominions and countries, as also 
d^ing £qj. ^jjg restoring and uniting to the imperial crown of this realm the 
siastical ancient jurisdictions, authorities, superiorities, and pre-eminences to 
matters, the same of right belonging and appertaining, by reason whereof 
we, your most humble and obedient subjects, from the five-and- 
twentieth year of the reign of your said dear father, were continually 
kept in good order, and were disburdened of divers great and in- 
tolerable charges and exactions before that time unlawfidly taken 
and exacted by such foreign power and authority as before that 
was usurped, until such time as all the said good laws and statutes, 
by one Act of Parliament made in the first and second years of the 
reigns of the late King Philip and Queen Mary, your highness's 
sister, intituled an Act repealing all statutes, articles, and provisions 
made against the See Apostolic of Rome since the twentieth year 
of King Henry VIU, and also for the establishment of all spiritual 
and ecclesiastical possessions and hereditaments conveyed to the 
laity, were all clearly repealed and made void, as by the same Act 
of repeal more at large does and may appear; by reason of which 
Act of repeal, your said humble subjects were eftsoons brought 
under an usurped foreign power and authority, and do yet remain 
in that bondage, to the intolerable charges of foixr loving subjects, 
if some redress, by the authority of this your High Court of 
Parliament, with the assent of your highness, be not had and 
provided : 
Repeal of May it therefore please your highness, for the repressing of the 
Mar/sAct ^^^ usurped foreign power and the restoring of the rites, jurisdic- 
tions, and pre-eminences appertaining to the imperial crown of this 
your realm, that it may be enacted by the authority of this present 
Parliament, that the said Act made in the said first and second 
years of the reigns of the said late King Philip and Queen Mary, 
and all and every branch, clauses, and articles therein contained 
(other than such branches, clauses, and sentences as hereafter shall 
be excepted) may, from the ^t day of this session of Parliament, 
by authority of this present Parliament, be repealed, and shall from 
thenceforth be utterly void and of none effect. 



ELIZABETH'S FIRST PARLIAMENT ii 

And that also for the reviving of divers of the said good laws Chap. I 
and statutes made in the time of your said dear father, it may also r^^JJ^ 
please your highness, that one Act and statute made in the twenty- of the 
third year of the reign of the said late King Henry VIII, intituled, following 
An Act that no person shall be cited out of the diocese wherein he a**^*^ ' 
or she dwells, except in certain cases ; VIII, c. 9. 

And one other Act made in the twenty-fourth year of the reign 34 Hen. 
of the said late King, intituled. An Act that appeals in such cases ^^^^* ^ '*' 
as have been used to be pursued to the see of Rome shall not be 
from henceforth had nor used, but within this realm ; 

And one other Act made in the twenty-fifth^ year of the said late 23 Hen. 
King, concerning restraint of payment of annates and firstfruits of ^^'^» ^* ^' 
archbishoprics and bishoprits to the see of Rome ; 

And one other Act in the said twenty-fifth year, intituled. An 95 Hen. 
Act concerning the submissibn of the clergy to the king's majesty ; ^^^^' ^* ^^' 

And also one Act made in the said twenty-fifth year, intituled, 95 Hen. 
An Act restraining the payment of annates or firstfruits to the VIII, c. 90. 
Bishop of Rome, and of the electing and consecrating of arch- 
bishops and bishops within this realm ; 

And one other Act made in the said twenty-fifth year, intituled, 95 Hem 
An Act concerning the exoneration of the king's subjects from ' ^' *'* 
exactions and impositions heretofore paid to the see of Rome, and 
for having licences and dispensations within this realm, without suing 
further for the same; 

And one other Act made in the twenty-sixth year of the said late 96 Hen. 
king, intituled. An Act for nomination and consecration of suffragans ^''^» ^* '^' 
within this realm ; 

And also one other Act made in the twenty-eighth year of the reign 98 Hen. 
of the said late king, intituled. An Act for the release of such as have ' ^* 
obtained pretended licences and dispensations from the see of Rome ; 

And all and every branches, words, and sentences in the said 
several Acts and statutes contained, by authority of this present 
Parliament, from and at all times after the last day of this sesdon 
pi Parliament, shall be revived, and shall stand and be in full force 
and strength, to all intents, constructions, and purposes. 

And that the branches, sentences, and words of the said several The words 
Acts, and every of them, from thenceforth shall and may be judged, °^^^ 
deemed, and taken to extend to your highness, your heirs and to apply 

1 This Act, printed as 93 Hen. VIII, cap. 9o, did not receive the royal 
assent tiU 95 Hen. VIII. 



12 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. I successors, as fully and largely as ever the same Acts, or any of 
absoluTely ^^^™' ^^^ extend to the said late King Henry VIII, your highness's 
to the new father. 

queen. And that it may also please your highness, that it may be enacted 

Parts of Y)y the authority of this present Parliament, that so much of one 
32 Hen. ^^^ ^^ Statute made in the thirty-second year of the reign of your 
VIII, c 38. said dear father King Henry VIII, intituled, An Act concerning 
not re- precontracts of marriages, and touching degrees of consanguinity, 

a& 3 Edw ^^ ^" ^^^ ^™® °^ *^® ^^^^ ^^"^ Edward VI, your highness's most 

VI, c. 33, dear brother, by one other Act or statute, was not repealed ; and 

and the also one Act made in the thirty-seventh year of the reign of the 

Hen^VIII ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^E Henry VIII, intituled, An Act that doctors 

c. 17, of the civil law, being married, may exercise ecclesiastical 

revived jurisdiction ; and all and every branches and articles in the said 

forced*' ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ mentioned, and not repealed in the time of the said 

late King Edward VI, may from henceforth likewise stand and be 

revived, and remain in their full force and strength, to all intents 

and purposes ; anything contained in the said Act of repeal before 

mentioned, or any other matter or cause to the contrary 

notwithstanding. 

AUstatutes And that it may also please your highness, that it maybe further 

in Mary's enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all other laws and statutes, 

repeal not ^^^ ^^ branches and clauses of any Act or statute, repealed and 

being here made void by the said Act of repeal, made in the time of the said 

M^'h^n"''*^ late King PhiHp and Queen Mary, and not in this present Act 

revived specially mentioned and revived, shall stand, remain, and be 

shall con- repealed and void, in such like manner and form as they were 

^*°"* before the making of this Act; anything herein contained to the 

contrary notwithstanding. 

Revival of And that it may also please your highness, that it may be enacted 

Ed*vi*^ by the authority aforesaid, that one Act and statute made in the 

c 1, against ^^st year of the reign of the late King Edward VI, your majesty's 

revilers most dear brother, intituled, An Act against such persons as shall 

^^^ unreverently speak against the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of^ 

ment Christ, commonly called the Sacrament of the altar, and for the 

receiving thereof under both kinds, and all and every branches, 

clauses, and sentences therein contained, shall and may likewise, 

fi-om the last day of this session of Parliament, be revived, and 

from thenceforth shall and may stand, remain, and be in full force, 

strength, and effect, to all intents, constructions, and purposes, in 



ELIZABETH'S FIRST PARLIAMENT 13 

such like manner and form as the same was at any time in the first Chap. I 
year of the reign of the said late King Edward VI; any law, 
statute, or other matter to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. 

And that also it may please your highness, that it may be further A repeal 
established and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that one Act and ®^^^® 
Statute made in the first and second years of the said late King ^ ^ ^ 
Philip and Queen Mary, intituled, An Act for the reviving of three Philip & 
statutes made for the punishment of heresies, and also the said M*n^ c- 6» 
three statutes mentioned in the said Act. and by the same Act [heHeresy 
revived, and all and every branches, articles, clauses, and sentences Acts, 
contained in the said several Acts and statutes, and every of them, 
shall be from the last day of this session of Parliament deemed and 
remain utterly repealed, void, and of none effect, to all intents and 
purposes ; anything in the said several Acts or any of them con- 
tained, or any other matter or cause to the contrary notwithstanding. 

And to the intent that all usurped and foreign power and AU foreign 
authority, spiritual and temporal, may for ever be clearly extin- *",*jj°"*y 
guished, and never to be used or obeyed within this realm, or queen's 
any other your majesty's dominions or countries, may it please dominions 
your highness that it may be further enacted by the authority *lx>lis^*<J« 
aforesaid, that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate, 
spiritual or temporal, shall at any time after the last day of this 
session of Parliament, use, enjoy, or exercise any manner of power, 
jurisdiction, superiority, authority, pre-eminence or privilege, 
spiritual or ecclesiastical, within this realm, or within any other 
your majesty's dominions or countries that now be, or hereafter 
shall be, but from thenceforth the same shall be clearly abolished 
out of this realm, and all other your highness's dominions for ever ; 
any statute, ordinance, custom, constitutions, or any other matter 
or cause whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. 

And that also it may likewise please your highness, that it may Ecclesias- 
be established and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that such tical juris- ^ 

. . J. ,. . .1 • •^' J • • •. 1 diction 

junsdictions, pnvileges, superiorities, and pre-eminences, spiritual annexed to 

and ecclesiastical, as by any spiritual or ecclesiastical power or the crown. 

authority have heretofore been, or may lawfully be exercised or 

used for the visitation of the ecclesiastical state and persons, and 

for reformation, order, and correction of the same, and of all 

manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts, 

and enormities, shall for ever, by authority of this present Parliament, 

be united and annexed to the imperial crown of this realm. 



14 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. I And that your highness, your heirs and successors, kings or 

-^ queens of this realm, shall have full power and authority by virtue 

may assign of this Act, by letters patent under the great seal of England, to 

commis- assign, name, and authorize, when and as often as your highness, 

sioners to ^^^^ \iti\^ or successors, shall think meet and convenient, and for 

ecclesias- such and SO long time as shall please your highness, your heirs or 

tical juris- successors, such person or persons being natural-born subjects to 

dicuon. yQ^j. highness, your heirs or successors, as your majesty, your heirs 

or successors, shall think meet, to exercise, use, occupy, and 

execute under your highness, your heirs and successors, all manner 

of jurisdictions, privileges, and pre-eminences, in any wise touching 

or concerning any spiritual or ecclesiastical jurisdiction, within these 

your realms of England and Ireland, or any other your highness's 

dominions or countries ; and to visit, reform, redress, order, correct, 

and amend all such errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, 

contempts, and enormities whatsoever, which by any manner 

spiritual or ecclesiastical power, authority, or jurisdiction, can or 

may lawfully be reformed, ordered, redressed, corrected, restrained, 

or amended, to the pleasure of Almighty God, the increase of virtue, 

and the conservation of the peace and unity of this realm, and that 

such person or persons so to be named, assigned, authorized, and 

appointed by your highness, your heirs or successors, afler the said 

letters patent to him or them made and delivered, as is afoFesaid, 

shall have full power and authority, by virtue of this Act, and of the 

said letters patent, under your highness, your heirs and successors, 

to exercise, use, and execute all the premises, according to the 

tenor and effect of the said letters patent; any matter or cause to 

the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. 

By whom And for the better observation and maintenance of this Act, may 

the oath of j^ please your highness that it may be further enacted by the 

is to be authority aforesaid, that all and every archbishop, bishop, and all 

uken. and every other ecclesiastical person, and other ecclesiastical officer 

and minister, of what estate, dignity, pre-eminence, or degree 

soever he or they be or shall be, and all and every temporal judge, 

justice, mayor, and other lay or temporal officer and minister, and 

every other person having your highness's fee or wages, within this 

realm, or any your highness's dominions, shall make, take, and 

receive a corporal oath upon the evangelist, before such person or 

persons as shall please your highness, your heirs or successors, 

under the great seal of England to assign and name, to accept 



EUZABETH'S FIRST PARLIAMENT 15 

and to take the same according to the tenor and effect hereafter Chap. I 
following, that is to say : 

'I, A. B.ydo utterly testify and declare in my conscience, that Form of 
the queen's highness is the only supreme governor of this realm, **** ®*^' 
and of all other her highness's dominions and countries, as well in 
all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes, as temporal, and that 
no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate, has, or ought 
to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or 
authority ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm ; and therefore 
I do utterly renounce and forsake all foreign jurisdictions, powers, 
superiorities, and authorities, and do promise that from henceforth 
I shall bear faith and true allegiance to the queen's highness, her 
heirs and lawful successors, and to my power shall assist and 
defend all jurisdictions, pre-eminences, privileges, and authorities 
granted or belonging to the queen's highness, her heirs and 
successors, or united and annexed to the imperial crown of this 
realm. So help me God, and by the contents of this book.' 

And that it may be also enacted, that if any such archbishop, Penalty for 
bishop, or other ecclesiastical officer or minister, or any of the said ^°** *"* 
temporal judges, justiciaries, or other lay officer or minister, shall refuse the 
peremptorily or obstinately refuse to take or receive the said oath, oath, 
that then he so refusing shall forfeit and lose, only during his life, 
all and every ecclesiastical and spiritual promotion, benefice, and 
office, and every temporal and lay promotion and office, which he 
has solely at the time of such refusal made ; and that the whole 
title, interest, and incumbency, in every such promotion, benefice, 
and other office, as against such person only so refusing, during 
his life, shall clearly cease and be void, as though the party so 
refusing were dead. 

And that also all and every such person and persons so refusing Those 
to take the said oath, shall immediately after such refusal be from fcfusingf 

incapable 
thenceforth, during his life, disabled to retain or exercise any office of holding 

or other promotion which he, at the time of such refusal, has office con- 
jointly, or in common, with any other person or persons. jointly. 

And that all and every person and persons, that at any time The oath 
hereafter shall be preferred, promoted, or collated to any arch- |o he taken 
bishc^ric or bishopric, or to any other spiritual or ecclesiastical entering 
benefice, promotion, dignity, office, or ministry, or that shall be by on office, 
your highness, your heirs or successors, preferred or promoted to 
auy temporal or lay office, ministry, or service within this realm, or 



i6 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. I 



Any pro- 
moted, 
&c., and 
obstinately 
refusing, 
incapable 
of taking 
office. 



Persons 
suing 
livery of 
lands, 
doing 
homage, 
or enter- 
ing the 
queen's 
service, 
shall take 
the oath. 



Those 
taking 
Holy 
Orders or 
university 



in any your highness's dominions, before he or they shall take upon 
him or them to receive, use, exercise, supply, or occupy any such 
archbishopric, bishopric, promotion, dignity, office, ministry, or 
service, shall likewise make, take, and receive the said corporal oath 
before mentioned upon the evangelist, before such persons as 
have or shall have authority to admit any such person to any 
such office, ministry, or service, or else before such person or 
persons as by your highness, your heirs or successors, by commis- 
sion under the great seal of England, shall be named, assigned, or 
appointed to minister the said oath. 

And that it may likewise be further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, that if any such person or persons, as at any time here- 
after shall be promoted, preferred, or collated to any such promotion 
spiritual or ecclesiastical, benefice, office, or ministry, or that by 
your highness, your heirs or successors, shall be promoted or 
preferred to any temporal or lay office, ministry, or service, shall 
and do peremptorily and obstinately refuse to take the same oath 
so to him to be offered ; that then he or they so refusing shall 
presently be judged disabled in the law to receive, take, or have the 
same promotion spiritual or ecclesiastical, the same temporal office, 
ministry, or service within this realm, or any other your highness's 
dominions, to all intents, constructions, and purposes. 

And that it may be further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
that all and every person and persons temporal, suing livery or 
<msUr U main out of the hands of your highness, your heirs or 
successors, before his or their livery or ouster U main sued forth and 
allowed, and every temporal person or persons doing any homage 
to your highness, your heirs or successors, or that shall be received 
into service with your highness, your heirs or successors, shall make, 
take, and receive the said corporal oath before mentioned, before 
the Lord Chancellor of England, or the lord keeper of the great seal 
for the time being, or before such person or persons as by your 
highness, your heirs or successors, shall be named and appointed to 
accept or receive the same. 

And that also all and every person and persons taking orders, 
and all and every other person and persons which shall be promoted 
or preferred to any degree of learning in any University within this 
your realm or dominions \ before he shall receive or take any such 

^ Extended in 5 Eliz. cap. z to all graduates, teachers, lawyers. C£ 
p. 304. 



ELIZABETH'S FIRST PARLIAMENT 17 

orders, or be preferred to any degree of learning, shall make, take, Chap. I 
and receive the said oath by this Act set fcwth and declared as is ^^Z^^ 
aforesaid, before his or their ordinary, eommissary, chancellor or shall take 
idce-chancellor, or their sufficient deputies in the said university. ^^ ' 

Provided always, and that it may be further enacted by the Those who 
authority aforesaid, that if any person, having any estate of*^^^^^^^ 
inheritance in any temporal office or offices, shall hereafter then 
obstinately and peremptorily refuse to accept and take the said^^l* 
oath as is aforesaid, and after, at any time during his life, shall 
willingly require to take and receive the said oath, and so do take 
and accept the same oath before any person or persons that shall 
have lawful authority to minister the same; that then every such 
person, immediately after he has so received the same oath, shall 
be vested, deemed, and judged in like estate and possession of the 
said office, as he was before the said refusal, and shall and may 
use and exercise the said office in such manner and form as he 
should or might have done before such refusal, anything in this 
Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. 

And for the more sure observation of this Act, and the utter Penalty for 
extinguishment of all foreign and usurped power and authority, |^^ f^l^ 
may it please your highness, that it may be further enacted by authority. 
the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons dwelling or 
inhabiting within this your realm, or in any other your highness's 
realms or dominions, of what estate, dignity, or degree soever he 
or they be, after the end of thirty days next after the determination 
of this session of this present Parliament, shall by writing, printing, 
teaching, preaching, express words, deed or act, advisedly, mali- 
ciously, and directly affiim, hold, stand with, set forth, maintain, or 
defend the authority, pre-eminence, power or jurisdiction, spiritual 
or ecclesiastical, of any foreign prince, prelate, person, state, or 
potentate whatsoever, heretofore claimed, used, or usurped within 
this realm, or any dominion or country being within or under the 
power, dominion, or obeisance of your highness, or shall advisedly, 
maliciously, and directly put in ure or execute anything for the 
extolling, advancement, setting forth, maintenance, or defence of 
any such pretended or usurped jurisdiction, power, pre-eminence, 
or authority, or any part thereof; that then every such person and 
persons so doing and offending, their abettors, aiders, procurers, 
and counsellors, being thereof lawfully convicted and attainted, 
according to the due order and course of the common laws of 

C 



i8 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. I this realm, for his or their first offence shall forfeit and lose unto 
your highness, your heirs and successors, all his and their goods 
and chattels, as well real as personal. 
Persons And if any such person so convicted or attainted shall not have 
Roods*to°*^ or be worth of his proper goods and chattels to the value of twenty 
the value pounds, at the time of his conviction or attainder, that then every 
peo^ty ®^^^ person so convicted and attainted, over and besides the for- 
tobeim- feiture of all his said goods and chattels, shall have and suffer 
prisoned, imprisonment by the space of one whole year, without bail or 

mainprize. 
Ecclesias- And that also all and every the benefices, prebends, and other 
**^.^®^*^ ecclesiastical promotions and dignities whatsoever, of every spiritual 
for offend- person SO offending, and being attainted, shall immediately after 
'"? ^^^ such attainder be utterly void to all intents and purposes, as though 
the incumbent thereof were dead ; and that the patron and donor 
of every such benefice, prebend, spiritual promotion and dignity, 
shall and may lawfully present unto the same, or give the same, 
in such manner and form as if the said incumbent were dead. 
Penalty for And if any such offender or offenders, after such conviction or 
off^*^e ^t^i"<ic^"» do eftsoons commit or do the said offences, or any of 
them, in manner and form aforesaid, and be thereof duly convicted 
and attainted, as is aforesaid ; that then every such offender and 
offenders shall for the same second offence incur into the dangers, 
penalties, and forfeitures ordained and provided by the statute of 
Provision and Prctmunire^ made in the sixteenth year of the reign 
of King Richard II. 
Penalty for And if any such offender or offenders, at any time after the said 
offfen^— ^^^®^d conviction and attainder, do the third time commit and do 
high the said offences, or any of them, in manner and form aforesaid, 

treason. ^^^ ^ thereof duly convicted and attainted, as is aforesaid ; that 
then every such offence or offences shall be deemed and adjudged 
high treason, and that the offender and offenders therein, being 
thereof lawfully convicted and attainted, according to the laws of 
this realm, shall suffer pains of death, and other penalties, for- 
feitures, and losses, as in cases of high treason by the laws of 
this realm. 
Within And also that it may likewi'.e piease your highness, that it may 

an offerer ^^ enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no manner of person or 
shall persons shall be molested or impeached for any of the offences 

peadied. aforesaid committed or perpetrated only by preaching, teaching, or 



EUZABETH'S FIRST PARLIAMENT 19 

words, unless he or they be thereof lawfully indicted within the Chap. I 
qnce of one half-year next after his or their offences so committed ; 
and in case any person or persons shall fortune to be imprisoned 
for any of the said offences committed by preaching, teaching, or 
words only, and be not thereof indicted within the space of one 
half-year next after his or their such offence so committed and 
d<Hie, that then the said person so imprisoned shall be set at 
liberty, and be no longer detained in prison for any such cause 
or offence. 

Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid. All things 
that this Act, or anything therein contained, shall not in any wise !^^J<^^ 
extend to repeal any clause, matter, or sentence contained or in i & 9 
specified in the said Act of repeal made in the said first and 2lJnf cTs 
second years of the reigns of the said late King Philip and Queen to con- 
Mary, as does in any wise touch or concern any matter or case ^"^^ *° 
of Prctmunire, or that does make or ordain any matter or cause 
to be within the case of PrcBmumre ; but that the same, for so 
much only as touches or concerns aay case or matter of PrcBmuntre^ 
shall stand and remain in such force and effect as the same was 
before the making of this Act, anything in this Act contained to the 
contrary in any wise notwithstanding. 

Provided also, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that Proviso 
this Act, or anything therein contained, shall not in any wise extend f*^'" ^o*« 
or be prejudicial to any person or persons for any offence or within a 
offences committed or done, or hereafter to be committed or done, ^5****^ 

time, 

contrary to the tenor and effect of any Act or statute now revived offend 

by this Act, before the end of thirty days next after the end of the ""^c"" 

session of this present Parliament ; anything in this Act contained now re- 

or any other matter or cause to the contrary notwithstanding. vived. 

And if it happen that any peer of this realm shall fortune to be Peers to 

indicted of and for any offence that is revived or made Prcemunire °^ *"^ ^^ 

' peers* 

or treason by this Act, that then he so being indicted shall have his 
trial by his peers, in such like manner and form as in other cases 
of treason has been used. 

* Provided always, and be it enacted as is aforesaid, that no manner No order, 
of order. Act, or determination, for any matter of religion or cause *^f j^f "^ 
ecclesiastical^ had or made by the authority of this present Parliament, made by 
shall be accepted, deemed, interpreted, or adjudged at any time **"' f f^'he 

* This and the following provisoes are annexed to the Parliament Roll tmsv^ 
lA four separftte tchedules. ^* 

C % 



20 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. I hereafter, to be any error, heresy, schism, or schismatical opinion ; 

any order, decree, sentence, constitution, or law, whatsoever the 

same be, to the contrary notwithstanding. 
Commis- Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
may^ad- ^^^ ^^^ person Or persons to whom your highness, your heirs or 
judge such successors, shall hereafter, by letters patent, under the great seal of 
here^ as England, give authority to have or execute any jurisdiction, power, 
are so or authority spiritual, or to visit, reform, order, or correct any errors, 
by^th^T heresies, schisms, abuses, or enormities by virtue of this Act, shall 
Scripture^ not in any wise have authority or power to order, determine, or 
four ^ adjudge any matter or cause to be heresy, but only such as hereto- 
general fore have been determined, ordered, or adjudged to be heresy, by 
or by^* ' the authority of the canonical Scriptures, or by the first four general 
Parlia- Councils, or any of them, or by any other general Council wherein 
Macnt^ the same was declared heresy by the express and plain words of the 
Convoca- said canonical Scriptures, or such as hereafter shall be ordered, 
*^°' judged, or determined to be heresy by the High Court of Parliament 

of this realm, with the assent of the clergy in their Convocation; 
anything in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding. 
How per- And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no person 
sons shall ^j. p^fgons shall be hereafter indicted or arraigned for any the offences 
dieted for made, ordained, revived, or adjudged by this Act, unless there be 
u^d"^15iis ^^^ suflScient witnesses, or more, to testify and declare the said 
Act offences whereof he shall be indicted or arraigned ; and that the 

said witnesses, or so many of them as shall be living and within this 
realm at the time of the arraignment of such person so indicted, 
shall be brought forth in person, face to face, before the party so 
arraigned, and there shall testify and declare what they can say 
against the party so arraigned, if he require the same. 
Those Provided also, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 

*ff"*d ^^^ ^^ ^^^ person or persons shall hereafter happen to give any 
shaU be relief, aid, or comfort, or in any wise be aiding, helping, or corn- 
judged forting to the person or persons of any that shall hereafter happen 
to be an offender in any matter or case of Pramunt're or treason, 
revived or made by this Act, that then such relief, aid, or comfort 
given shall not be judged or taken to be any offence, unless there 
be two sufficient witnesses at the least, that can and will openly 
testify and declare that the person or persons that so gave such 
relief, aid, or comfort had notice and knowledge of such offence 
committed and done by the said offender, at the time of such relief. 



EUZABETH'S FIRST PARUAMENT 21 

aid, or comfort so to him given or ministered ; anjrthing in this Act Chap. I 
contained, or any other matter or cause to the contrary in any wise 
notwithstanding. 

And where one pretended sentence has heretofore been given in The case 
the Consistory in Paul's before certain judges delegate, by the^^^®^^^ 
authority legatine of the late Cardinal Pole, by reason of a foreign wife : if 
usurped power and authority, against Richard Chetwood, Esq., and ^*\^^^^ 
Agnes his wife, by the name of Agnes Woodhall, at the suit of upholds 
Charles Tyrril, gentleman, in a cause of matrimony solemnized ^^ ^^^ 
between the said Richard and Agnes, as by the same pretended upholding 
sentence more plainly doth appear, from which sentence the said ^^[^. 
Richard and Agnes have appealed to the Court of Rome, which 
appeal does there remain, and yet is not determined: may it 
therefore please your highness, that it may be enacted by the 
authority aforesaid, that if sentence in the said appeal shall happen 
to be given at the said Coiut of Rome for and in the behalf of the said 
Richard and Agnes, for the reversing of the said pretensed sentence, 
before the end of threescore days next after the end of this session of 
this present Parliament, that then the same shall be judged and 
taken to be good and effectual in the law, and shall and may be 
used, pleaded, and allowed in any court or place within this realm ; 
anjTthing in this Act or any other Act or statute contained to the 
contrary notwithstanding. 

And if no sentence shall be given at the Court of Rome in the If no sen- 
said appeal for the reversing of the said pretended sentence before *^"^* ^ 
the end of the said threescore days, that then it shall and may be Rome, 
lawful for the said Richard and Agnes, and either of them, at any ^^^^ ^^^^ 
time hereafter, to commence, take, sue, and prosecute their said shall be 
appeal from the said pretended sentence, and for the reversing of PJ^£^^"'*^ 
the said pretended sentence, within this realm, in such like manner land. 
and form as was used to be pursued, or might have been pursued, 
within this realm, at any time since the twenty-fourth year of the 
reign of the said late King Henry VIII, upon any sentences given 
in the court or courts of any archbishop within this realm. 

And that such appeal as so hereafter shall be taken or pursued The sen- 
by the said Richard Chetwood and Agnes, or either of them, and ^"^* ^^^^ 
the sentence that herein or thereupon shall hereafter be given, shall be held 
be judged to be good and effectual in the law to all intents and ^ 
purposes ; any law, custom, usage, canon, constitution, or any other 
matter or cause to the contrary notwithstanding. 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Ukt pro 
viso in 
another 
case of 
appeal. 



Chap. I Provided also, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that 
where there is the like appeal now depending in the said Court of 
Rome between one Robert Harcoiut, merchant of the staple, and 
Elizabeth Harcourt, otherwise called Elizabeth Robins, of the one 
part, and Anthony Fydell, merchant-stranger, on the other part, that 
the said Robert, Elizabeth, and Anthony, and every of them, shall 
and may, for the prosecuting and trying of their said appeal, 
have and enjoy the like remedy, benefit, and advantage, in like maimer 
and form as the said Richard and Agnes, or any of them, has, may, 
or ought to have and enjoy ; this Act or anything therein contained 
to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. 



Edward 
VI's Act 
of Uni- 
formity 
repealed 
by Mary. 



Repeal of 
Mary's Act 
of repeat 



II. 

An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer 
AND Service in the Church and Administra- 
tion OF THE Sacraments. 

(i Elizabeth, cap. %.) 

[Transcr. Statutes of the Realm^ iv. pt. i. p. 355.] 

Where at the death of our late sovereign lord King Edward VI 
there remained one uniform order of common service and prayer, 
and of the administration of sacraments, rites, and ceremonies in 
the Church of England, which was set forth in one book, intituled : 
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of Sacraments, 
and other rites and ceremonies in the Church of England ; author* 
ized by Act of Parliament holden in the fifth and sixth years of our 
said late sovereign lord King Edward VI, intituled : An Act for the 
uniformity of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments; 
the which was repealed and taken away by Act of Parliament in the 
first year of the reign of our late sovereign lady Queen Mary, to the 
great decay of the due honour of God, and discomfort to the pro- 
fessors of the truth of Christ's religion : 

Be it therefore enacted by the authority of this present Parlia- 
ment, that the said statute of repeal, and everything therein 
contained, only concerning the said book, and the service, 
admmistration of sacraments, rites, and ceremonies contained 
or appointed in or by the said book, shall be void and of none 
effect, from and after the feast of the Nativity of St. John Baptist 



ELIZABETH'S FIRST PARLIAMENT 23 

next coming; and that the said book, with the order of service, and Chap. I 
of the administration of sacraments, rites, and ceremonies, with the gtj^^^ 
alterations and additions therein added and appointed by this VFs Book 
statute, shall stand and be, from and after the said feast of the ^^^*'°^" 

» ' mon 

Nativitj of St. John Baptist, in full force and effect, according to Prayer, 
the tenor and effect of this statute ; anything in the aforesaid ^JJ*|jJ^Ji^. 
statute of repeal to the contrary notwithstanding. tions and 

And further be it enacted by the queen's highness, with the JI^.^Sf ' 
assent of the Lords (xiir) and Commons in this present Parliament lished. 
assembled, and by authority of the same, that all and singular 
ministers in any cathedral or parish church, or other place within 
this realm of England, Wales, and the marches of the same, or 
other the queen's dominions, shall from and after the feast of the 
Nativity of St John Baptist next coming be bounden to say and 
use the Matins, Evensong, celebration of the Lord's Supper and 
administration of each of the sacraments, and all their common 
and open prayer, in such order and form as is mentioned in the 
said book, so authorized by Parliament in the said fifth and sixth 
years of the reign of King Edward VI, with one alteration or The altera- 
addition of certain lessons to be used on ^\tty Sunday in the year, ^*j Jjjj^^ 
and the form of the Litany altered and corrected, and two enjoined, 
sentences only added in the delivery of the sacrament to the 
communicants, and none other or otherwise. 

And that if any manner of parson, vicar, or other whatsoever Penalty 
minister, that ought or should sing or say common prayer men- ^^"^ "**"^ 
tioned in the said book, or minister the sacraments, from and form of 
after the feast of the Nativity of St, John Baptist next coming, Player or 
refuse to use the said common prayers, or to minister the sacra- tion of the 
ments in such cathedral or parish church, or other places as he sacra- 

. , . , ^ ments, or 

should use to minister the same, m such order and form as they be for speak- 

mentioned and set forth in the said book, or shall wilfully or |"^ S^*"'* 

obstinately standing in the same, use any other rite, ceremony, of Com 

order, form, or manner of celebrating of the Lord's Supper, openly ??" 

or privily, or Matins, Evensong, administration of the sacraments, 

or other open prayers, than is mentioned and set forth in the said 

book (open prayer in and throughout this Act, is meant that Definition 

prayer which is for other to come unto, or hear, either in common ^^ ' ^P^" 

Draver * 

diorches or private chapek or oratories, commonly called the ^ 
service of the Church), or shall preach, declare, or speak anything 
in the derogation or depraving of the said book, or anything 



34 THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. I therein contained, or of any part thereof, and shall be thereof 
lawfully convicted, according to the laws of this fealm, by verdict 
of twelve men, or by his own confession, or by the notorioiis 
evidence of the fact, shall lose and forfeit to the queen's highness, 
her heirs and successors, for his first offence, the profit of all his 
spiritual benefices or promotions coming or arising in one whole 
year next after his conviction ; and also that the person so con- 
victed shall for the same offence suffer imprisonment by the space 
of six months, without bail or mainprize. 
The And if any such person once convicted of any offence concerning 

a^^cond "^ the premises, shall after his first conviction eftsoons offend, and be 
offence. thereof, in form aforesaid, lawfully convicted, that then the same 
person shall for his second offence suffer imprisonment by the 
space of one whole year, and also shall therefor be deprived, ipso 
facto^ of all his spiritual promotions ; and that it shall be lawful to 
all patrons or donors of all and singular the same spiritual pro- 
motions, or of any of them, to present or collate to the same, as 
though the person and persons so offending were dead. 
The And that if any such person or persons, after he shall be twice 

a*third^ ^^^ convicted in form aforesaid, shaH offend against any of the 
offence. premises the third time, and shall be thereof, in form aforesaid, 
lawfully convicted, that then the person so offending and convicted 
the third time, shall be deprived, ipso /ac4o, of all his spiritual 
promotions, and also shall suffer imprisonment during his life. 
The And if the person that shall offend, and be convicted in form 

an offender ^i^oresaid, concerning any of the premises, shall not be beneficed, 
having no nor have any spiritual promotion, that then the same person so 
promo^ offending and convicted shall for the first offence suffer imprison- 
tion. ment during one whole year next after his said conviction, without 

bail or mainprize. And if any such person, not having any 
spiritual promotion, after his first conviction shall eftsoons offend 
in anything concerning the premises, and shall be, in form afore- 
said, thereof lawfully convicted, that then the same person shall 
for his second offence suffer imprisonment during his life. 
Penalty And it is ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that 

[nK wSnst ^^ *"^ person or persons whatsoever, after the said feast of the 
the said Nativity of St. John Baptist next coming, shall in any interludes, 
the stage P^^^^' songs, rhymes, or by other open words, declare or speak 
or else- anything in the derogation, depraving, or despising of the same 
where, or ^qq^^ or of anything therein contained, or any part thereof, or shall, 



ELIZABETH'S FIRST PARLIAMENT 25 

by open fact, deed, or by open threatenings, compel or cause, Chap. I 
or otherwise procure or maintain, any parson, vicar, or other for caus- 
minister in any cathedral or parish church, or in chapel, or in any ing any 

^i_ 1 * • 4 other form 

Other place, to smg or say any common or open prayer, or to ©f service 
minister any sacrament otherwise, or in any other manner and to be used, 
form, than is mentioned in the said book; or that by any of the ^temipt- 
said means shall unlawfully interrupt or let any parson, vicar, or ing the 
other minister in any cathedral or parish church, chapel, or any ®®"^*- 
other place, to sing or say oommon and open prayer, or to minister 
the sacraments or any of them, in such manner and form as is 
mentioned in the said book ; that then every such person, being 
thereof lawfully convicted in form abovesaid, shall forfeit to the 
queen our sovereign lady, her heirs and successors, for the first 
offence a hundred marks. 

And if any person or persons, being once convicted of any such Penalty 
offence, eftsoons offend against any of the last recited offences, g*^*„^j 
and shall, in form aforesaid, be thereof lawfully convicted, that offence, 
then the same person so offending and convicted shall, for the 
second offence, forfeit to the queen our sovereign lady, her heirs 
and successors, four hundred marks. 

And if any person, after he, in form aforesaid, shall have been Penalty 
twice convicted of any offence concerning any of the last recited offence 
offences, shall offend the third time, and be thereof, in form above- 
said, lawfully convicted, that then every person so offending and 
convicted shall for his third offence forfeit to our sovereign lady the 
queen all his goods and chattels, and shall suffer imprisonment 
during his life. 

And if any person or persons, that for his first offence concern- Penalty of 
ing the premises shall be -convicted, in form aforesaid, do not pay ^^^^"^^ 
the sum to be paid by virtue of his conviction, in such manner and his for- 
form as the same ought to be paid, within six weeks next after his ^'^**"'*- 
conviction ; that then every person so convicted, and so not paying 
the same, shall for the same first offence, instead of the said sum, 
suffer imprisonment by the space of six months, without bail or 
mainprize. And if any person or persons, that for his second 
offence concerning the premises shall be convicted in form afore- 
said, do not pay the said sum to be paid by virtue of his conviction 
and this statute, in such manner and form as the same ought to be 
];>aid, within six weeks next after his said second conviction ; that 
then every person so convicted, and not so paying the same, shall, 



26 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. I for the same second offence, in the stead of the said sum, saffer 
imprisonment during twelve months, without bail or mainprise. 
Every And that from and after the said feast of the Nativity of St John 

P^^**" Baptist next coming,. aU and every person and persons inhabiting 
church on within this reahn, or any other the queen's majesty's dominions, 
and hdy ^^^ diligently and faithfully, having no lawful or reasonable excuse 
days under to be absent, endeavour themselves to resort to their parish church 
censure of °^ chapel accustomed, or upon reasonable let thereof, to some usual 
the Church place where conmion prayer and such service of God shall be used 

to the °^ ^^ ^"^^ ^® ^^ ^^^» "P^^ every Sunday and other days ordained 
poor. and used to be kept as holy days, and then and there to abide 
orderly and soberly during the time of the common prayer, 
preachings, or other service of God there to be used and ministered; 
upon pain of punishment by the censures of the Church, and also 
upon pain that every person so offending shall forfeit for every such 
offence twelve pence, to be levied by the churchwardens of the 
parish where such offence shall be done, to the use of the poor of 
the same parish, of the goods, lands, and tenements of such offender, 
by way of distress. 
The And for due execution hereof, the queen's most excellent majesty, 

joined to"' ^^^ Lords temporal (sic\ and all the Commons, in this present Par- 
execute liament assembled, do in God's name earnestly require and charge 
with i\\\' ^ ^^ archbishops, bishops, and other ordinaries, that they shall 
gence. endeavour themselves to the uttermost of their knowledges, that the 
due and true execution hereof may be had throughout their dioceses 
and charges, as they will answer before God, for such evils and 
plagues wherewith Almighty God may justly punish His people for 
neglecting this good and wholesome law. 
The or- And for their authority in this behalf, be it further enacted by the 

fjj^j^'"^^ authority aforesaid, that all and singular the same archbishops, 
offenders bishops, and all Other their officers exercising ecclesiastical juris- 
censures Action, as well in place exempt as not exempt, within their dioceses, 
of the shall have full power and authority by this Act to reform, correct, 
^^ " and punish by censures of the Church, all and singular persons 
which shall offend within any their jurisdictions or dioceses, 
after the said feast of the Nativity of St. John Baptist next coming, 
against this Act and statute ; any other law, statute, privilege, liberty, 
or provision heretofore made, had, or suffered to the contrary not- 
withstanding. 
Power of And it is ordained and enacted by the authorihr aforesaid, that all 

justices to 



ELIZABETH'S FIRST PARUAMENT a? 

and every justices of oyer and terminer^ or justices of assize, shall Chap. I 
have full power and authority in every of their open and general pujjj^ 
sessions, to inquire, hear, and determine all and all manner of offences, 
offences that shall be committed or done contrary to any article 
contained in this present Act, within the limits of the commission 
to them directed, and to make process for the execution of the 
same, as they may do against any person being indicted before them 
of trespass, or lawfully convicted thereof. 
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that Bishops 

* • 

an and every archbishop and bishop shall or may, at all time and °^y J^*'^ 
times, at his liberty and pleasure, join and associate himself, by justices to 
virtue of this Act, to the said justices of oyer and terminer^ or to the *^"ces°^ 
said justices of assize, at every of the said open and general sessions 
to be holden in any place within his diocese, for and to the inquiry, 
bearing, and determining of the offences aforesaid. 

Provided also, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that Books of 
the books concerning the said services shall, at the cost and charges p^^^ 
of the parishioners of every parish and cathedral church, be attained be pro- 
and gotten before the said feast of the Nativity of St. John Baptist ^^^^^ 
next following ; and that all such parishes and cathedral churches, parishion- 
er other places where the said books shall be attained and gotten fJ[^' "*^. 

^ ° tiie service 

before the said feast of the Nativity of St. John Baptist, shall, used with- 
within three weeks next after the said books so attained and ^ ^®* 
gotten, use the said service, and put the same in ure according to after pur- 
this Act. ^^^^• 

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no Limit of 
person or persons shall be at any time hereafter impeached or other- **™® ^^^^ 

r r J r prosecut- 

wise molested of or for any the offences above mentioned, hereafter ing offen- 
to be committed or done contrary to this Act, unless he or they so ^^^'^ 
offending be thereof indicted at the next general sessions to be 
holden before any such justices of cyer and terminer or justices of 
assize, next after any offence committed or done contrary to the 
tenor of this Act. 

Provided alwajrs, and be it ordained and enacted by the authority Trial of 
aforesaid, that all and singular lords of the Parliament, for the third P^i^* 
offence above mentioned, shall be tried by their peers. 

Provided also, and be it ordained and enacted by the authority Chief 
aforesaid, that the mayor of London, and all other mayors, bailiffs, officers of 
and other head officers of all and singular cities, boroughs, and boroughs, 
towns corporate within this realm, Wales, and the marches of the no*'M«*lly 



a8 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. I same, to the which justices of assize do not commonly repair, shall 

visitedby ^^^^ ^^^ power and authority by virtue of this Act to inquire, bear, 

justices, and determine the offences abovesaid, and every of them, yeariy 

f^:^ ^r within fifteen days after the feasts of Easter and St Michael the 

inquire ot •' 

offenders. Archangel, in like manner and form as justices of assize and oyer 

and terminer may do. 
The Provided always, and be it ordained and enacted by the authority 

j-uS^'' aforesaid, that all and singular archbishops and bishops, and every 
tion to their chancellors, commissaries, archdeacons, and other ordinanes, 
bcfonT " having any peculiar ecclesiastical jurisdiction, shall have full power 
and authority by virtue of this Act, as well to inquire in their 
visitation, synods, and elsewhere within their jurisdiction at any 
other time and place, to take occasions (^V) and informations of 
all and every the things above mentioned, done, committed, or perpe- 
trated within the limits of their jurisdictions and authority, and to 
punish the same by admonition, excommunication, sequestration, 
or deprivation, and other censures and processes, in like form as 
heretofore has been used in like cases by the queen's ecclesiastical 
laws. 
But none Provided always, and be it enacted, that whatsoever person 
^^nfshed offending in the premises shall, for the offence, first receive 
more than punishment of the ordinary, having a testimonial thereof under 

once for ^^ g^^ ordinary's seal, shall not for the same offence eftsoons 

one * 

offence, be convicted before the justices: and likewise receiving, for the 
said offence, first punishment by the justices, he shall not for 
the same offence eftsoons receive punishment of the ordinary; 
anything contained in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding. 

Oma- Provided always, and be it enacted, that such ornaments of the 

the°diureh ^h^^^^' ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ministers thereof, shall be retained and be in 
and minis- use, as was in the Church of England, by authority of Parliament, 
ccmt^ue ^° ^^^ second year of the reign of Kmg Edward VI, until other 
as in order shall be therein taken by the authority of the queen's majesty, 

till further ^^^ ^^^ advice of her commissioners appointed and authorized, 
order. under the great seal of England, for causes ecclesiastical, or of the 

metropolitan of this realm. 
On any And also, that if there shall happen any contempt or irreverence 

contempt ^^ ^ ^g^^ jj^ ^^ Ceremonies or rites of the Church, by the misusing 
monies, of the Orders appointed in this book, the queen's majesty may, by 
enc<rTr- ^^ ^^^ advice of the said commissioners or metropolitan, ordain 
ther rites and publish such further ceremonies or rites, as may be most for 



ELIZABETH'S FIRST PARLIAMENT 99 

the advancement of God's glory, the edifying of His Church, and Chap. I 
the due reverence of Christ's holy mysteries and sacraments. ' 

•' ' and cere- 

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all laws, monies 
statutes, and ordinances, wherein or whereby any other service, ™^!^ j 
administration of sacraments or conunon prayer, is limited, estab- . 
lished, or set forth to be used within this realm, or any other the allowing 
queen's dominions or countries, shall from henceforth be utterly *^® "*J ^^ 

^ any other 

void and of none effect service 

made void. 



CHAPTER II 



THE DEPRIVATION OF THE BISHOPS* 



Dent 



HAP. II There were, in the sixteenth century, twenty-six sees 
^^\,Q. in England and Wales. When Queen Elizabeth came to 
e Par- the throne six of these sees were vacant through death — 
Oxford, Salisbury, Bangor, Gloucester, Hereford, Canter- 
bury ; and four more were void from the same cause before 
the end of 1558 — Rochester, Norwich, Chichester, Bristol. 
We have thus sixteen bishops to account for, as there was no 
fresh consecration until December, 1559. Watson, Bishop 
of Lincoln, came under the Queen's displeasure within the 
first month after her accession because of his incautious 
sermon preached at the funeral of Mary on December 14, 
1558. By order of the Privy Council he was confined to 
the house until the restriction was removed four weeks 
later, on January 19 ^. The case of Watson was the first 
warning to the bishops, and the beginning of twenty-five 
years of trouble and imprisonment for him. All the 
bishops, save Oglethorpe of Carlisle, refused to act at 
the Queen's coronation, and for this he appears to have 
been treated with rather more consideration than his 



^ Most writers have depended on 
Bishop Andrewes' Tortura Tortt) 146. 
He in turn depends on Godwin, 
whose facts appear to have been 
tradition rather than history so far 
as the bishops were concerned. We 
have thought it best to discard all 
modem authorities, and have made 
use of the State Papers, the Spanish 



ambassador, and Machyn's Diaty, 
We had put our notes together before 
seeing Messrs. Bridgett and Knox' 
Tmt Story of the Catholie Hwrard^, 
We have acknowledged in the notes 
what we have further learned from 
their book. 
' Privy CoMHcii Acts, Jan. 19, 

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THE DEPRIVATION OF THE BISHOPS 31 

brethren in the subsequent events of the year. Heath, Chap. II 
Archbishop of York, resigned his Chancellorship before the 
end of 1558, and Bourne, of Bath and Wells, was deprived 
of the Presidency of Wales in the following February, soon 
after Parliament began to sit^ This loss of office in 
Bourne's case was the second warning of what was to 
come. 

During the Parliament of 1559, the Bishops of Durham, The 
Peterborough, Bath and Wells, and St. David's were!'^^"^^. 
absent from one cause and another, and Heath wasment. 
appointed their proxy. Watson was absent through ill- 
health. Goldwell of St. Asaph was absent, and Thirlby 
of Ely was abroad as ambassador until April, when he 
attended the House of Lords at every sitting. In this 
way m'ne bishops only were actually present throughout 
the session, and these, as we might expect from what we 
have seen of Convocation, were continuous and consistent 
in their opposition to the course of ecclesiastical legisla- 
tion. It is impossible to withhold our admiration of their 
pertinacity. The speech of the Archbishop of York s^ainst 
the Supremacy Bill and the utterances of the Bishop of 
Chester against this and the Uniformity Bill have been 
preserved*. 

Meanwhile, during the slow progress of these bills The West- 
through both Houses, a diversion took place at the end ^i"*'®'* 
of March in the shape of a public disputation between ^i^q jq. 
representatives of the Old Learning and the New. This voives 
discussion may have been intended as an answer to thef°°lf. t 

^ the bishops 

protest of Convocation, or it may have been suggested by in trouble. 
the famous Oxford disputation which led to the condemna- 
tion of Cranmer and his fellows in Queen Mary's reign. 
It proved somewhat of a fiasco, and is chiefly important as 
giving the Elizabethan divines an opportunity of justifying 
the principle of the first sentence in Article XX \ It is 
also important to us in this inquiry, because it was the 
means of bringing three of the bishops into trouble. The 

^ Bridgett and Knox, 191 * See Strype, Ami, i. 74 and Appendix. 

* Collier, vi fli6; Stiype, Appendix, No. xvi. 



32 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. II representatives of the Old Learning engaged in it were 
Bishops White of Winchester, Bayne of Lichfield and 
Coventry, Scott of Chester, Watson of Lincoln, Doctors 
Cole, J. Harpsfield^ Chedsey, and Langdale. In the 
issue. Bishops White and Watson were committed to 
the Tower, and although it has often been said that 
they had threatened to excommunicate the Queen, we 
are not aware that any adequate proof of this assertion 
exists. It is, perhaps, scarcely conceivable that what was 
said in the debate was made the sole ground of their 
committal. Some words of the Spanish ambassador seem 
to grive a clue ; he says : * In the afternoon ' (i. e. after the 
debate was over) 'some of the bishops were summoned 
to the palace. ... I am told they will send the other 
six to the Tower ^.' The * six,' from the context, means 
the two other bishops and four doctors who took part 
in the debate. Thus we conclude that in this further 
conference at *the palace' fresh grounds of offence were 
given. A day or two later a special messenger was sent 
to the residences of the Bishops of Winchester and Lincoln 
' to peruse their studies and writings ^.' Does not this gfive 
a hint of the expectation of finding some treasonable 
compromise which might justify the high-handed act of 
sending two bishops to the Tower when as yet there 
was neither Supremacy nor Uniformity Act ? On the day 
after this messenger was dispatched, recognizances were 
taken of the Bishops of Lichfield, Chester, and Carlisle, 
and, with these, of three out of the four doctors. Now 
Oglethorpe of Carlisle had taken no part in the debate, 
and, as we have seen, was more in favour than the other 
bishops. It may therefore well seem to be the case 
that when the bishops were sent for *to the palace' 
Oglethorpe also committed himself for some reason un- 
specified. The condition of the recognizance was that 
Bayne, Scott, and Oglethorpe should appear before the 
Lords of the Council every day, and not depart from 

^ Spanish Calendar^ April 4, 1559. Yet see ' l\ Schiffanoya,' Vhtttian 
CaUndar, April 11. * Privy Council Acts, April 3. 






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THE DEPRIVATION OF THE BISHOPS 33 

London, Westminster, or the suburbs without licence. Chap, i 
Moreover they were all 'to pay such fine as should be 
assessed upon them for the contempt of them of late 
committed against the Queen s Majesty's order *.' We 
take 'order' here to mean the proposed settlement of 
religion as explained to them ' at the palace,' and not the 
transgression of any rule of debate or other enactment then 
existing ; or is it the proclamation of December 27 ? A few 
days later it was decided that the three bishops should during 
Parliament record their daily appearance before 'Lord 
Great Seal/ On May 11 Bayne was fined ^^333 6s. 8rf., 
Oglethorpe ;f25o, Scott 200 marks. They had all been 
assiduous at the same time in their attendance in the 
House of Lords, opposing the Church bills at every stage. 

When Parliament rose, the conformity of the bishops First pro- 
was one of the first things to be considered. Within two needing 

AfiTAinst th 

days the Spanish ambassador says ^ : ' The bishops are bishops 
ordered not to leave London without the Queen's consent, after May 
They say the oath will at once be proffered to them, ^ ^^^^ 
which they will not take, and that they will thereupon 
be deprived at one blow.' A few days later Grindal says : 
*It is therefore commonly supposed that almost all the 
bishops . . . will renounce their bishoprics K* Strype has 
a story that they were all called before the Queen, that 

1 they were found guilty of previous treasonable corre- 

spondence, and, although this seemed to be cleared by 

f the general pardon at the accession, it was determined to 

I administer the oath and so to deprive them if they refused ^. 
The date for this summons to the Queen's presence is 
given by Str)rpe as May 15, but his authority, TAe Hunting^ 

> of ike Roman Fox^ is, to say the least of it, suspicious ^. 
That book is too late a production for us to accept in 

* the absence of all contemporary evidence ; but at the same 
time it must be pointed out that the Spanish ambassador 

* Privy Council ActM^ April 4. ^ Strype, i. 139. 

i * CaUmdar^ May zo. See too Krw- * Bridgett and Kdox, 49, with 

Htm Cmkndur^ same date. references there given. 
I * ZuriA Lttkn, May ^. 

* D 

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I 



34 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. II does, as we have seen, appear to hint at an audience with 
the Queen on April 3. But, be this as it may, the next 
step seems to be fairly clear. A commission for ad- 
ministering the oath was required by the Supremacy 
Act\ and although it has been the fashion to say that 
such a commission does not exist, there can be no reason- 
able doubt that we possess it in the shape of the document 
which follows this chapter. It is well known that the early 
proceedings under the Supremacy Act are very hard to 
trace, and Sir Edward Coke half a century later complained 
of the way in which the records had perished or had never 
been engrossed *. Rymer, however, has printed the com- 
mission which we have copied ^, and a few moments' study 
of the names proves that it consisted of all the members 
of the Privy Council. Rymer gives * ex autographo ' as 
his authority, and states that the g^eat seal was attached 
to the parchment. It is possible that the document itself 
or a contemporary copy may yet be found. It is a curious 
thing that it has never been enrolled on the Patent Roll. 
Action Taking this commission as authentic, we find it to have 

"° ^^. * been issued on May 23. The deprivation of the bishops 
sionof extended over some months, and the proceedings prove, 
May 33. what we shall find to have been the case with the clergy, 
that opportunity was given again and again to reconsider 
a refusal. Bonner was deprived on May 30, as appears 
by an entry in his own handwriting *, which is confirmed 
by the fact that the temporalities were seized on June 2, 
and that the Spanish ambassador on June 19 notes that 
he had been deprived already. The ambassador says: 
* They have just begun to carry out the law against the 
bishops, and have in fact deprived the Bishop and Dean 
of London, casting them out of their Church.' He goes 
on to say: 'It appears now that they find a difficulty 
in giving legal form to the deprivation, as the doctors 
here say the bishops cannot be deprived for disobeying 
the law whose adoption and promulgation they have 

* See p. 14. ' Strypc, i. 138. * Strypc, L 138, corroborated by 

* Rymerf xv. 518, 519. ViwHan CaUmiar, p. 94. 



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THE DEPRIVATION OF THE BISHOPS 35 

always opposed and resisted, alleging that it cannot be Chap. li 
enforced according to the custom of the realm, as it is 
made in opposition to the whole ecclesiastical body ^/ 

After the deprivation of Bonner a pause took place before The oath 
a similar fate overtook the rest of the bishops. Whether *«°^«>^^ 

to justices 

the oath was pressed upon them in the meantime we do and judges 
not know, but during the next three weeks, it seems, the >» June, 
justices and other crown officers were called upon to swear 
allegiance in accordance with the terms of the commission 
of May 23. Stry pe, in his L ife of Sir T. Smith *, shows that, 
at all events in Essex, the justices were being tendered the 
oath as early as June 16. In the letter just quoted the 
Spanish ambassador says : * The judges of England . . . 
who have come here for the terms have refused to swear, 
and have gone to their homes, as they have not dared to 
press them about it.' We do not know any independent 
proof of such refusal, but the entry shows that the oath 
was being administered to laymen in high position during 
June. 

The bishops were again taken in hand on June 21. The 
There is some confusion in the names. Machyn's Diary ^^^°ps 

again 

has been the usual authority, and he is clearly in error, as examined. 
he speaks of the Bishop of LlandaiT (Kitchen) as deprived ; 
but Llandaff was never deprived, for he was the only one of 
the sixteen who took the oath, though when he consented 
to do so does not appear, Machyn also says that the 
Bishops of Carlisle, Chester, Lichfield, and another were 
likewise deprived. The three bishops mentioned may stand, 
as their names are separately attested, and Worcester 
(Pates) is almost certainly ' another/ as the temporalities 
were seized on June 30 ^. The Bishop of St. Asaph is as 
certainly, we believe, the one misnamed LlandaiT by 
Machyn. The Spanish ambassador has preserved an 
interesting account in a letter dated June 27 : ' Last week 
they summoned five bishops to the Council, and proffered 
them the oath with great promises and threats as well, but 

' Cal€fuUirSj June 19. 'A list of such dates is given in 

' Strype's Sir T. Smithy 59. Collier, vL asa, from the Register. 

D % 



36 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap, ii none of them would swear, and they were ordered yesterday 
to return to the house of the SheriflFof London, whither they 
brought also the bishops from the Tower, and again tried 
to persuade them to swear, but they would not. They were 
greatly insulted and mocked at, and at last were ordered 
not to leave London until after September, and to go no 
further away than Westminster under pain of ;f 500 each, 
and they had to find bail for this amount. The two were, 
taken back to prison, and both they and the others deprived 
of their preferments de factOy since by law the doctors are 
still of opinion that they cannot be deprived for refusing to 
swear to the laws of the country. They summoned the 
Bishop of Ely with the other five, and afterwards sent to say 
that he need not come until they sent for him again.' The 
ambassador s account supplements Machyn very usefully. 
The only discrepancy is that Machyn makes the five to 
have been deprived on the 21st and the two from the Tower 
on the 26th, whilst the ambassador assigns the deprivation 
of all seven to the later date, but his detailed account 
inclines one to defer to his authority ^. Watson, Bishop of 
Lincoln, was liberated on account of illness on July i, and 
White, Bishop of Winchester, on the 7th. There were two 
more as yet undeprived, Heath and Thirlby. These were 
finally examined and deprived on July 5 *. 

We have now accounted for eleven of the sixteen, bring- 
ing the story up to July 7, when one had taken the oath 
and ten had been deprived, but as yet there was no one of 
them in prison for refusing the oath. It is probable that 
the treatment of the bishops had caused some little 
commotion. On June 25 the Spanish ambassador wrote : 



Depriva- 
tions after 
July 7. 



' The Venetian Dispatch of June 
37 (Co/. 104) says that the bishops 
were *■ bound not to depart from Eng- 
land, and twt to preach or exhort 
whatever in public or private, and 
still less to write anything against 
the order and statutes of this Parlia- 
ment, nor to [give occasion to] in- 
surrection or any other scandalous 
act, under pom o/perpetttai imprison- 



mentf demandingsecurity and promise 
to be given by one for the other.* It 
also says that on June 96 they re- 
ceived orders where to dwell. At- 
tention is drawn to the words in 
italics, as throwing a light on what 
happened after. See below, pp. 144, 
199. 
' Machyn*s Diary, 



THE DEPRIVATION OF THE BISHOPS 37 

• I see the Queen and her councillors will be turned Chap, ii 
out and treated as they deserve, and that God will strike for 
His own cause.' As for the bishops, it is very likely that 
they turned their eyes on the King of Spain, and on 
July 12 the ambassador says: *The bishops hope more 
than ever in your Majesty.' How far they entertained such 
hopes is not clear, but it seems certain that neither Philip 
nor the ambassador did very much to encourage them. We 
have not traced any direct intervention on the King s part 
until five years later ^, though some hint of his desire to 
influence the Queen in their favour is noted in March, 1561. 
Meanwhile the five remaining prelates were deprived in the 
course of the next few months. Writing on August 13, 
^559 J the ambassador notes that * they have deprived the 
Bishops of St. David's and Exeter.' By an entry in a letter 
of Bishop Young of St. David's the actual day is proved 
to have been August 10 *. Tunstall, the aged Bishop of 
Durham, who had been a prelate for wellnigh forty years, 
had not been in London during the session of Parliament 
nor since the dissolution, but he was, as it seems, summoned 
in July, and entered the metropolis with sixty attendants on 
the 20th, proceeding, not to Durham House, but to a private 
residence in Southwark^ The other absentees, Morgan, 
Poole, and Turberville, were probably summoned at the 
same time. Turberville, as we have seen, was deprived on 
August 10; but Tunstall, apparently, was remanded in the 
hope of his consent to take the oath. On August 19 he 
writes to Cecil praying for an interview with the Queen, 
and in his letter deplores the present state of things 
which he sees in London, and expresses the hope that his 
own diocese may be spared a similar visitation *. On 
September 9 Tunstall was joined in commission with other 
bishops whose names are not given, for the consecration of 
the new primate, but no action was taken, perhaps owing to 
his refusal, or it may be owing to fresh delays in regard 
to the temporalities of the see of Canterbury. It is highly 

> Spanish Caiftfdar, Nov. Q^, 1564. ' Machyn's Diary, 

» S. P. Dom. Eliz. xi. 3a * S. P. Dom. Diz. vi. aa. 



38 THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 

AP. II probable that the design was to associate with Tunstall the 
Bishops of Bath and Wells, Peterborough, and Llandaff. 
Of this there is no record, the commission having a blank 
after Tunstall's name ^. He was finally deprived, says 
Machyn, on September 28. Bourne seems to have been 
allowed to go back to his see after Michaelmas, which date 
had been the limit of the restriction to town in the case of 
the other bishops. On October 18 letters patent were 
issued to four Somersetshire justices to tender the oath to 
him ^ but evidently he refused again, and was deprived soon 
after. It is by no means improbable that his case was 
reserved for the meeting of the ecclesiastical commissioners 
at London in the first week of November ^ and we shall 
not be far wrong in assigning the deprivation of the Bishop 
of Peterborough to the same period *. It is uncertain why 
Bourne's case was reserved so long, but we are inclined to 
think that there were hopes of his conformity, and also of 
Poole's : the latter was an old man. 

ith of We have thus accounted for the sixteen diocesan bishops. 

r of the Before the year ran out four of them were dead. Tunstall 

lops. 

died on November 18, very probably at the same house to 
which he came in July. There is no evidence to prove that 
he was with Parker at the time, an assertion which has 
often been made, but the archbishop-elect seems to have 
sealed up ' two small caskets ' which belonged to the bishop, 
acting thus, we may conjecture, in his capacity of ecclesias- 
tical commissioner ^. On the very same day Bayne died at 
Islington; Morgan on December 23; Oglethorpe in Chancery 
Lane on the last day of the year. Bayne and Oglethorpe 
were buried at St Dunstan's in the West '. Bishop White 
died on January I2, 1560. We shall see elsewhere what 
became of the eleven survivors ''. 

^ S. P. Dom. Eliz. vi. 41. Exeter temporalities were seized 

' Pat. X Eliz. Part a, m. 3, dors. ; Nov. 16. 

Rymer, xv. 545. • S. P. Dom. vii 39. 

' See p. 140. * These dates we get finom God- 

* The temporalities were seized win's D« Praesulibus AttgHag, 

Nov. II, but the date is not con- '^ See pp. 144, 19a. 
elusive as to the deprivation, for the 



THE DEPRIVATION OF THE BISHOPS 39 

Chap. II 



Commission to the Privy Council to administer 

THE Oath. 

[De Recipiendo Sacramentum Suprematus et de 

Intendendo.] 

R)ancr*s Feeder a^ vol. 15. 

Elizabetha Dei gratia Angliae Franciae et Hiberniae Regina The queen 
Fidei Defensor, &c. : praedilecto et fideli Consiliario nostro ^^^-^^ 

* conunis- 

Nicholao Bacon, Militi, Magni Sigilli nostri Angliae Custodi ; sioners. 

praedilectis et perquam fideli.bus Consanguineis et Consiliariis 

nostris, WiUielmo Marchioni Winton, Thesaurario nostro Angliae ; 

Willielmo Marchioni Northampton ; Henrico Comiti Arundellae, 

Domino Senescallo Hospitii nostri; Francisco Comiti Salopiae, 

Domino Praesidenti Concilii nostri in partibus borealibus ; Edwardo 

Derby, Francisco Bedford, et Willielmo Pembroke, Comitibus; 

ac praedilectis et fidelibus Consiliariis nostris Edwardo Domino 

Clynton, Magno Admirallo nostro Angliae ; Willielmo Domino 

Howarde de Effingham Hospitii nostri Camerario; Thomae 

Parry Militi Hospitii nostri Thesaurario ; Edwardo Rogers Militi, 

Contrarotulatori ; et Francisco Knolles, Militi, Vicecamerario 

dicti Hospitii nostri; Willielmo Cecill, Militi, Primario Secretario 

nostro; Ambrosio Cave, Militi, Cancellario Ducatus nostri 

Lancastriae; Willielmo Petre, Richardo Sakvile, et Johanni 

Mason, Militibus — salutem. 

Sciatis quod dedimus vobis octodecim, septemdecim, sexdecim, She 

qoindecim, quatuordecim, tresdecim, duodecim, undecim, decern, 3^°^"^ 

novem, octo, septem, vel sex vestrum (quorum vos praedictos to adminis- 

Costodem Magni Sigilli nostri, Marchionem Winton, Comitem Jj|l^^^**' 

Arundellae, Thomam Parry, Edwardum Rogers, Franciscum Oath 

Knolles, et Willielmum Cecill, semper unum esse volumus), 

plenam potestatem et auctoritatem recipiendi de omnibus et 

singulis Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, et aliis Personis Ecclesiasticis, to all 

ac aliis Offidariis, et Ministris Ecclesiasticis, cujuscumque status, ^^^^^ 

dignitatis, praeeminentiae, seu Gradus fuerint, seu eorum aliquis sons, 

fuerit, ac de omnibus et singulis judicibus temporalibus, Justiciariis, 



40 THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. II Majoribus, ac aliis Laicis seu temporalibus Officiariis et Ministris, 
andloall ^^ ^^ quibuscumque personis babendbus feoda seu vadia nostra 
lay office- infra Regnum nostrum Angliae, aut aliqua dominia nostra, quoddam 
hold^ sacramentum corporale super sacrosancta Evangelia, coram vobis 
the octodecim, septemdecim, sexdecim, quindecim, quatuordedm, tres- 

commi3- ^^cim, duodecim, undecim, decern, novem, octo, septem, vel sex 
sion. vestrum (quorum vos praedictos Custodem Magni Sigilli nostri, 

Marchionem Winton, Comitem Anindel^Thomam Parry, Edwardum 
Rogers, Franciscum Knolles, et Willielmum Cecill unum esse 
volumus), corporaliter per ipsos et eorum quemlibet praestandum, 
declaratum, et specificatum, in quodam Actu in Parliamento nostro 
apud Weslmonasterium vicesimo quinto Die Januarii Anno Regni 
nostri primo tento,edito, juxta vim formam et effectum ejusdem actus. 
£t ideo vobis octodecim, septemdecim, sexdecim, quindecim, 
quatuordecim, tresdecim, duodecim, undecim, decem, novem, octo, 
septem, vel sex vestrum (quorum vos praedictos Custodem Magni 
Sigilli nostri, Marchionem Winton, Comitem Arundell, Thomam 
Parry, Edwardum Rogers, Franciscum Knolles, et Willielmum 
The taking Cecill, unum esse volumus), mandantes quod Sacramentum prae- 
te t*' be *^^ dictum de omnibus et singulis Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, Personis, 
certified Officiariis, Ministris, ac aliis quibuscumque superius specificatis, 
cc!t ^^^' ^c de eorum quolibet, recipiatis ; Et cum ea sic receperitis, nos 
inde in Cancellariam nostram, sub Sigillis vestris, octodecim, 
septemdecim, sexdecim, quindecim, quatuordecim, tresdecim, duo- 
decim, undecim, decem, novem, octo, septem, vel sex vestrum 
(quorum vos praedictos Custodem Magni Sigilli nostri Marchionem 
Winton, Comitem Arundell, Thomam Parry, Edwardimi Rogers, 
Franciscum Knolles, et Willielmum Cecill unum esse volumus), 
sine dilatione certificetis. 
All the Mandantes autem universis et singulis Archiepiscopis, Ducibus, 

subjects to Marchionibus, Comitibus, Vicecomitibus, Episcopis, Baronibus, 
aid in the Militibus, Justiciariis, Majoribus, Vicecomitibus, Ballivis, et omnibus 

discharge 

of this com- ^^^^^ Officiariis, Ministris, et Subditis nostris quibuscumque, quod 
mission, vobis in Executione praemissorum intendentes sint, pariter et 

obedientes in omnibus, prout decet. 
Dated May In cujus rei Testimonium has Litteras nostras fieri fecimus 
* ^ Patentes, Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium vicesimo tertio 
Die Maii, Anno Regni nostri primo. 

Sub Magno Sigillo Angliae pendente a cauda pergamenae. 



/ 



CHAPTER III 

ARRANGEMENTS FOR A ROYAL VISITATION 

Having now traced out the deprivation of the bishops Chap. hi 
who refused the Oath of Supremacy as administered by the ^^"["ere 
privy councillors named in the writ of May 1x3, 1559, we as a body 
must go back to that date, and see what action was ^^^ ^^^^^' 
arranged to ensure the loyalty and religious uniformity of 
the clergy at large. Several weeks had to elapse before 
Midsummer Day, when the Prayer Book was to come into 
general use, and recusants would become liable to the 
penalties of the Uniformity Act. After the dissolution in 
May, the general body of the clergy, influenced doubtless 
by the attitude of the bishops, seem to have preserved 
a stubborn silence, awaiting the development of events. 
Thus on May 20, Cox, writing to Weidner, says of the 
clergy : * The whole body remain unmoved/ Three days 
later, Grindal tells Hubert that* it is commonly supposed 
that almost all the bishops and also many other beneficed 
persons will renounce their bishoprics and functions.' So 
too, on May 10, the Spanish ambassador, writing to his 
king, declares that * not a single ecclesiastic has agreed to 
what the Queen has done,' referring to the proceedings of 
the Parliament just described ^. Three weeks later Bishop 
Aquila informs the King that * the number and constancy 
of the Catholics frighten them [the Queen and Council], 
because they see that they have not been able to gain over 
a single man of them.' 

' So too the Venetian Dispatch. 



42 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. Ill 



Delibera- 
tion of 
Cecil and 
his ad- 
visers. 



In view of so much sullen reluctance, the deliberations 
of Cecil and his advisers must have been constant and 
anxious. From a reference in the letter of Grindal already 
quoted, it is just possible that some kind of proclamation 
or declaration of policy was made during May, for he 
says: 'During the prorogation of Parliament there has 
been published a proclamation {edictum) to banish the 
pope and his jurisdiction altogether, and to restore religion 
to that form which we had under Edward VI.* As the 
letter goes on to mention the Supremacy Oath and the use 
of the Prayer Book, it is more probable that the writer 
refers to the publication of the recent Acts : certainly no 
proclamation of the kind exists on the Patent Roll. The 
Acts of the Privy Council at this time have been lost. 
But, at all events, by May 28 it had been determined to 
undertake a general visitation of all the dioceses, and as 
well to establish a permanent ecclesiastical commission. 
In this action, of course, the authorities were employing 
the powers given them under the Supremacy Act. Under 
the date mentioned, Allen, writing to AbeP, announces 
that the visitation will shortly take place. He mentions the 
names of Coke, Goodrich, May, Cox, Haddon, Wroth, the 
Earl of Bedford, Lord Mountjoy, and Weston, who are * to 
be visitors, and also the Queen's commissioners for all 
ecclesiastical matters, with others added to them, so that 
they shall be in all fourteen.' This letter is important as 
drawing a clear distinction between the royal visitation of 
1559 and the permanent commission which lasted until 
1562, when it was renewed with some alteration of names 
and duties *. 

In planning the royal visitation, Cecil was consciously 

SLrof^on*^ copying the precedent set in the first year of Edward VI, 

when visitors went through the country, holding inquiries, 

and distributing the First Book of Homilies together with 

the Paraphrases of Erasmus, and, last but not least, the 



Scheme 



visitation. 



^ For, Cal.t May 38 ; cf. Churton*s Nowell, 39a. 
' See below, p. 174. 



ARRANGEMENTS FOR A ROYAL VISITATION 43 

Injunctions. Accordingly a set of Articles of Inquiry ^ Chap, hi 
were drawn up, which will be found at the end of this 
chapter, and the Edwardine Injunctions were revised and 
considerably enlai^ed. Both documents were complete 
by June 13, on which day Cecil says : * The Queen, on the 
advice of the Council, is determined to have a great 
visitation; whereupon the Injunctions and Articles of 
Inquiation are already formed.' A collation of the 
Injunctions with those of 1547 is appended, from which it 
will be seen that the first twenty-eight correspond very 
closely with the older series. The second half is either 
new, or incorporates enactments and regulations which had 
appeared since 1547. It will be observed that several 
minor insertions deal with the conduct of divine service, 
and give a hint of expected difficulty in this respect. Most 
noticeable is the Appendix on the Supremacy. We find 
from a draft of this last which exists in Cecil's writing^ 
that considerable care was taken with the wording, and the 
title of it is altered more than once. This Appendix proves 
that the oath was being much debated through the country, 
and the explanation given shows that it was thought politic 
to interpret the Supremacy Act as liberally as possible. 
Certainly the terms of the Act sound far more stringent 
than this authoritative exposition. The Injunctions con- 
clude with a ratification which contains these words : * All 
which and singular Injunctions the Queen's Majesty ^ 

ministers unto her clergy and to all other her loving 
subjects, straitly charging and commanding them to observe 
and keep the same upon pain of deprivation, sequestration 
of fruits and benefices, suspension, excommunication, and 
such other coercion, as to ordinaries . . . shall be seen 
convenient' These Injunctions are a very important 
document in the Elizabethan settlement, and form the 
invariable standard of discipline in the various matters 

' Many of these Articles of Inquiry of 1547. Cardwell, Docununtary 

are new, but the substance and, in Annais, i. 41. 
some cases, the wording of others ' S. P. Dom. £lliz. xv. 27. 

are taken from the similar articles 



44 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



The writ 
of visita- 
tion. 



Chap. Ill of which they treat for a long time to come. They were 
supplemented later by * Interpretations and further Con- 
siderations/ which appeared in 1560 ^. 

Articles of Inquiry and Injunctions being now ready, it 
remained to issue the writ of visitation under letters patent 
in accordance with the Supremacy Act. Cecil had given 
notice on May 29 to the Vice- Chancellor at Cambridge 
of the intended visitation of the University and Eton*. 
The Universities were to have visitors distinct from 
the diocesan visitors, and indeed (as the Cambridge and 
Eton writ, preserved at Lambeth, proves) the character of 
the University visitation was somewhat different from that 
of the dioceses. The Cambridge letters patent were dated 
June 20. On Midsummer Day, the very day that the 
Prayer Book was to come into use, letters patent were 
issued for the visitation of the Northern Province '. A long 
search for the writs which were, without doubt, issued for 
the Southern Province has so far proved unsuccessful ; there 
is nothing to be found amongst signed bills or on the 
Patent Roll. We may feel pretty safe in concluding that 
the date of all the letters patent was on or about June 24. 
On this point Strype has fallen into error, for in his Annals^ 
he gives various dates for the different writs of visitation, 
but reference to his authority, viz. the Register of the Dean 
and Chapter of Canterbury (i.e. Sede Vacante Roister 
for 1559 at Lambeth), shows that he confuses writs of 
inhibition to deans and chapters and similar documents 
which date to July and August, when the visitors were 
about to begin their work. 
Probable We take it, then, that letters patent were issued before 
^s7"ai°" J"'y» i^on^inating visitors for the various groups of dioceses 
method of into which England and Wales were divided for the 
visiution. purposes of visitation, which groups were six in all — one for 
the Northern, five for the Southern Province. Repre- 
sentative visitors must have met together after their 
nomination in order to settle some modus operandi. One 



* Strype, i. 213, where the text is 
given. 



• S. P. Dom. Eliz. iv. 33. 

• See below, p. 89. * Ann, I 167. 



ARRANGEMENTS FOR A ROYAL VISITATION 45 

of the chief matters discussed would be the manner of Chap, hi 
tendering the oath to the clergy, and here an important 
piece of information is given us in a paper written some- 
what later by Dr. Parker. He there speaks of * the form 
of a subscription which we devised to be used in the order 
of visitation^.' This form we possess in records of the 
visitation for North and South, in which it appears in 
substantially the same words, so that it is clear that the 
phrasing was settled by common conference before the 
visitation began. We reserve the document until it comes 
before us in the course of the visitation, but at this point 
it is material to notice that it was determined not to 
administer the Supremacy Oath pure and simple, but 
a summary farm of subscription to the settlement of religion 
as set out in the Supremacy Act^ the Uniformity Act, and 
the Injunctions. Supremacy, Prayer Book, Injunctions, 
therefore, were to be the three acknowledged bases of 
the settlement, and they continued to be so regarded 
until the final form of the Thirty-nine Articles took the 
place of the Injunctions in the form of subscription intro- 
duced by Whitgift in 1583, and adopted in the Canons 
of 1604*. 

The cloistered clergy had already commenced their Departure 
exodus. On June 19 Aquila writes : * The cloistered clergy ^^^}^^ 
here have already b^un to depart. They are being given clergy, 
alms for the purpose in your Majesty's name ^' Referring 
to these, perhaps, and to others of the clergy and laity, he 
had already said on May to : * An infinite number of people 
would leave the country, if they would let them, which they 



* Strype's Parktr, i 95. 

* The Interpretations, Advertise- 
ments, &c., seem only to explain or 
expand the Injunctions. The very 
document in which Whitgift sets 
forth the terms of subscription in 
1583 still refers to the Injunctions 
as binding (Reg. i Whitgift, fo. 97 a). 
In 1560 a set of articles were drawn 
up (Hardwick, ArfickSf cap. vi and 



Appendix iv) to be read by the 
clergy after institution, and on other 
occasions. Appended to these was 
a protestation to be subscribed by 
the clergy. At York the signatures 
are preserved in the Institution Book, 
and it is most likely that such sub- 
scription was demanded until the 
Subscription Act of 157 1. 
' Spanish CaUndar, p. 77. 



46 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. Ill will not^. This previous prohibition cannot be traced, 
owing to the unfortunate lacuna in the Privy Council Acts 
as already mentioned. The same writer says on July i of 
the secular clergy : * I know for certain that in the diocese 
of Winchester they have not received and will not take 
the oath, and that all is in confusion V We shall see, 
however, that in this diocese and elsewhere, with whatever 
reluctance, yet the oath was largely taken before the 
autumn passed, whilst even before the visitation began, the 
same Spanish ambassador had to confess: ^Heresy b 
recovering furiously all the credit it had lost for years 
past'.' The progress of the visitation will be traced in the 
next two chapters. 



I. 

The Royal Injunctions of 1559 collated with 

THOSE OF Edward VI*. 

[Transcr. from a contemporary print at the British 

Museum, 5155. a. 14(1).] 

These In- Thg queen's most royal majesty, by the advice of her most 

are to be honourable council, intending the advancement of the true honour 

observed of Almighty God, the suppression of superstition throughout all 

penalty by l^^r highness's realms and dominions, and to plant true religion to 

thequeen*s ^he extirpation of all hypocrisy, enormities, and abuses (as to her 

duty appertaineth), doth minister unto her loving subjects these 

godly Injunctions hereafter following. All which Injunctions her 

highness willeth and commandeth her loving subjects obediently to 

receive, and truly to observe and keep, every man in their offices, 

degrees, and states, as they will avoid her highness's displeasure, 

and pains of the same hereafter expressed. 

* Spanish Calendar^ p. 68. are additions to the series of 1547. 
' Ibid. 92. ' Ibid. 85. The numbers in the inner maiil^n refer 

* See above, p. 43. The marginal to that series. The omissions and sut>* 
analysis is ours. The parts in brackets stitutions are indicated in footnotes. 



ARRANGEMENTS FOR A ROYAL VISITATION 47 

1 I. The first is, that all deans, archdeacons, parsons, vicars, and Chap. Ill 
all other ecclesiastical persons shall faithfully keep and observe, and ^ ^jT" 
as far as in them may lie, shall cause to be observed and kept of other, ecdesias- 
all and singular laws and statutes made [for the restoring to the **^*^ t^V 
crown, the ancient jurisdiction over the state ecclesiastical, and serve the 
abolishing of all foreign power repugnant to the same *]. And ^^^^ *"' 
furthermore, all ecclesiastical persons having cure of souls shall and to 

to the uttermost of their wit, knowledge, and learning, purely P''^?*^^ ^^^ 
[and *] sincerely, and without any colour or dissimulation, declare, papal usur- 
manifest, and open four times every year at the least, in their P*'*^"- 
sermons and other collations, that [all usurped and foreign power ^' 
having no establishment nor ground by the law of God, [is, for ^ 
most just causes, taken away and abolished; and that therefore 
no manner of obedience [and '] subjection within [her '] highnesses 
realms and dominions is due unto [any such foreign power ^]. 
And that the [queen'^ '] power within [her '] realms and dominions 
is the highest power under God, to whom all men, within the same 
realms and dominions, by God's law, owe most loyalty and 
obedience, afore and above all other powers and potentates in 
earth. 

2 II. Besides this, to the intent that all superstition and hypocrisy a. Images, 
crept into divers men's hearts may vanish away, they shall not set ^^^^^^ ^'' 
forth or extol [the dignity of '] any images, relics, or miracles ; extolled, 
[but, declaring the abuse of the same ',] they shall teach that all 
goodness, health, and grace ought to be both asked and looked for 

only of God, as of the very Author and Giver of the same, and of 
none other. 

3 in. Item, that they, the persons above rehearsed, shall 3- Monthly 
[preach '*] in their churches, and every other cure they have, one ^^ \^ 
sermon every [month "1 of the year at the least, wherein they shall pitched, 

which 

purely and sincerely declare the word of God, and in the same g^jm j^,. 

^ as well for the abolishing and power and jurisdiction, 

extirpation of the Bishop of Rome, * was of. * or. ' his. 

his pretensed and usurped power ^ him. ' king*s. 

and jurisdiction, as for the establish- * for any superstition or lucre ; 

ment and confirmation of the king^s nor allure the people by any entice- 

authority, jurisdiction, and supre- ments to the pilgrimage of any saint 

macy of the Church of England and or image ; but, reproving the same. 

Ireland. ^* make or cause to be made. 

* Om. " quarter. 

' the Bishop of Rome's usurped 



48 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. Ill exhort their hearers to the works of faith, [as '] mercy and charily 

nouncT especially prescribed and commanded in Scripture; and that 

supcrsti- [the *] works devised by man's fantasies, besides Scripture (as 

^*°"' wandering [of"] pilgrimages, [setting up of candles*,] praying 

upon beads, or such like supersdtion), have not only no promise of 

reward in Scripture for doing of them, but contrariwise great 

threatenings and maledictions of God, for that they [being ^] things 

tending to idolatry and superstition, which of all other offences 

God Almighty doth most detest and abhor, for that the same most 

diminish His honour and glory. 

4. Each IV. Item, that they, the persons above rehearsed, shall preach in 

parson to , . . ^ , , 

preach, or ^^^^ o^" persons, once m every quarter of the year at least, one 
read a sermon, being licensed especially thereunto, as is specified here- 
once a * ^^^^^ ; or else shall read some homily prescribed to be used by the 
quarter, queen's authority every Sunday at the least, unless some other 

preacher sufficiently licensed, as hereafter, chance to come to the 

parish for the same purpose of preaching ^ 

5. When V, Item, that every holy-day through the year, when they have 5 
sermon ^^ sermon, they shall immediately after the Gospel openly and 
the Lord's plainly recite to their parishioners in the pulpit the Pater noster, the 

Praver 

&c. to'be ^reed, and the Ten Commandments, in English, to the intent that 
recited. the people may learn the same by heart ; exhorting all parents and 
householders to teach their children and servants the same, as 
they are bound by the law of God and conscience to do •. 

VI. Also, that they shall provide within three months next after 8 
this visitation [at the charges of the parish'], one book of the 
phrases to whole Bible of the largest volume in English; and within one 
andBiblfr- twelve months next after the said visitation, the Paraphrases of 
reading to Erasmus also in English upon the Gospel, and the same set up 
couraged. ^" some convenient place within the said church that they have 



6. The 
Bible and 
Para- 



» Om. 
« to. 



' offering of money, candles or 
tapers, to relics, or images, or kissing 
and licking of the same. 

* be. 

' This I Injunction is new, and in 
the place of one which required the 
removal of aU images, and the tapers 
or candles usually set before them, 
but expressly allowed *two lights 



upon the high altar before the sacra- 
ment, which, for the signification 
that Christ is the very true light of 
the world, they shall suffer to remain 
still.' It appears however from the 
Injunctions of 1549 (No. 3), and the 
subsequent Injunctions of Bishop 
Ridley, 1550 (No. a), that the per* 
mission had in the meantime been 
withdrawn. 
• Verbatim. 



ARRANGEMENTS FOR A ROYAL VISITATION 49 

cure of, whereas [the^] parishioners may most commodiously Chap. Ill 

resort mito the same, and read the same, [out of the time of 

common service "]. The charges of [the Paraphrases ■] shall be 

[by the parson or proprietary and parishioners borne by equal 

portions *] ; and they shall discourage no man * from the reading 

of any part of the Bible, either in Latin or in English, but shall 

rather * exhort every person to read the same with great humility 

and reverence, as the very lively word of God, and the especial 

food of man's soul, which all Christian persons are bound to 

embrace, believe, and follow, if they look to be saved; whereby 

they may the better know their duties to God, to their sovereign 

[lady the queen ',] and their neighbour ; ever gently and charitably 

exhorting them, and in [her'] majesty's name straitly charging 

and commanding them, that in the reading thereof, no man to 

reason or contend, but quietly to hear the reader. 

9 VII. Also, the said ecclesiastical persons shall in no wise ?• AH per- 

at any unlawful time, nor for any other cause, than for their f°"<f ex- 

honest necessities, haunt or resort to any taverns or alehouses, emplary 

1* 

And after their [meats •,] they shall not give themselves to drinking ^^** 
or riot, spending their time idly by day [and *•] by night at dice, 
cards, or tables playing, or any other unlawful game ; but at all 
times, as they shall have leisure, they shall hear or read some- 
what of Holy Scripture, or shall occupy themselves with some 
other honest [study, or '] exercise ; and that they always do the 
things which appertain to honesty, and endeavour to profit the 
commonwealth ; having always in mind that they ought to excel 
all other in purity of life, and should be [examples "] to the people 
to live well and Christianly. 
^ VIII. Also, that they shall admit no man to preach withfn any 8. All 
their cures, but such as shall appear unto them to be sufficiently {J^^^uly 
licensed thereunto by the [queen's majesty, or *"] the Archbishop licensed, 
of Canterbury or York, in [either of their provinces ",J or by the 
bishop of the diocese, [or by the queen's majesty's visitors ']. And 
such as shall be so licensed, they shall gladly receive to declare 

^ their. ' Om. ' which books. ' authorized and licensed thereto. 

^ rateably borne between the par- * comfort and. ' lord the king, 

son and approprietary and parish- ' his. * dinner or supper, 

ioners aforesaid, that is to say the '* or. ^^ an example, 

one half by the parson or proprietary, ^ king*s migesty. *' his province, 
and the other half by the parishioners. 



50 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. Ill the word of God at convenient times, without ' resistance or con« 

tradiction. [And that no other be suffered to preach out of his 

. own cure or parish, than such as shall be licensed, as is above 

expressed'.] 

9- Recu- IX. Also, if they do or shall know any man within their parish i 

S'de-^^ or elsewhere, that is a letter of the word of God to be r^d in 

nounced. English, or sincerely preached, or of the execution of these die 

[queen's '] majesty's Injunctions, or a fautor of [any usurped and 

foreign^] power, now by the laws of this realm jusdy rejected 

and taken away, they shall detect and present the same to the 

[queen's majesty, or to her*] council, [or to the ordinary*,] or 

to the justice of peace next adjoining. 

lo. Regis- X. Also, that the parson, vicar, or curate, and parishioners of i^ 

to'^be kept ^^^^7 parish within this realm, shall in their churches and chapels 

in a parish keep one book [of*] register, wherein they shall write the day 

^ ^^^ and year of every wedding, christening, and burial made within 

their parish for their time, and so every man succeeding them 

likewise; and also therein shall write every person's name that 

shall be so wedded, christened, and buried. And for the safe 

keeping of the same book, the parish shall be bound to provide 

of their common charges one sure coffer, with two lodss and keys, 

whereof the one to remain with the parson, vicar, or curate, and 

the other with the wardens of every parish church or chapel, 

wherein the said book shall be laid up. Which book they shall 

every Sunday take forth, and in the presence of the said wardens, 

or one of them, write and record in the same all the weddings, 

christenings, and burials, made the whole week before ; and that 

done, to lay up the book in the said coffer as before: and for 

every time that the same shall be omitted, the party that shall 

be in the fault thereof shall forfeit to the said church 3X. 4^, to 

be employed [the one half'] to the poor men's box of that parish, 

[the other half towards the repairing of the church ']. 

IT. Incum- XL Furthermore, because the goods of the Church are called i\ 

gfve'to^thc ^^ goods of the poor, and at these days nothing is less seen, than 

poor in the poor to be sustained with the same; all parsons, vicars, 

to°heir*°° pensionaries, prebendaries, and other beneficed men within this 

benefice, deanery, not being resident upon their benefices, which may 

dispend yearly 20/. or above, either within this deanery, or else- 

^ any. * the Bishop of Rome's pretensed 

' Om. ' king's. * king or. * or. 



ARRANGEMENTS FOR A ROYAL VISITATION 51 

where, shaU distribute hereafter among their poor parishioners, or Chap. Ill 
other inhabitants there, in the presence of the churchwardens, 
or some other honest man of the parish, the fortieth part of the 
fruits and revenues of [the said benefice ^ ;] lest they be worthily 
noted of ingratitude, which reserving so many parts to themselves, 
cannot vouchsafe to impart the fortieth portion thereof among the 
poor people of that parish, that is so fruitful and profitable unto 
them. 

16 XIL And, to the intent that learned men may hereafter spring 19. Incum- 
the more, for the execution of the premises, every parson, vicar, [^ "^pt^ 
clerk, or beneficed man within this deanery, having yearly toexhibi- 
dispend in benefices and other promotions of the Church 100/., **^"®'^ 
shall give [3/. 6^. 8</, in'] exhibition to one scholar [in any 

of the universities';] and for as many hundred pounds more 
as he may dispend, to so many scholars more shall give like 
exhibition in the University of Oxford or Cambridge, or some 
grammar school, which, after they have profited in good learning, 
may be partners of their patron's cure and charge, as well in 
preaching, as otherwise in executing of their offices, or may, when 
[time'] shall be, otherwise profit the conmionweal with their 
counsel and wisdom. 

1 7 XIII. Also, that [all '] proprietaries, parsons, vicars, and clerks, 13. Chan. 
having churches, chapels, or mansions within this deanery, shall houses 
bestow yearly hereafter upon the same mansions or chancels of to be 
their churches, being in decay, the fifth part of that their benefices, Jl^^i„. 
till they be fuUy repaired, and* shall always keep and maintain in cumbent 
good estate. 

i3 XIV. Also, that the said parsons, vicars, and clerks shall once 14. The 
every quarter of the year read these Injunctions given unto them, ^J^"" J^ ^e 
openly and deliberately before all their parishioners at one time, read reg^u- 
or at two several times in one day ; to the intent that both they ^' 
may be the better admonished of their duty, and their said 
parishioners the more moved to follow the same for theu- part 

19 XV. Also, forasmuch as by [laws^] established, every man 15. Tithes 
is bound to pay his tithes, no man shall by colour of duty omitted ^^^^ P*"^ 
by their curates, detain their tithes and so ' requite one wrong with 
another, or be his own judge ; but shall truly pay the same, as ' 

^ their said benefices. ' the same so repaired. 

' competent. ' Om. ^ a law. 

* need. * the. * redub and. * he. 

E 2 



52 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. Ill hath been accustomed, to their parsons, vicars, and curates, without 
any restraint or diminution ; and such lack and default as thej can 
justly find in their parsons and curates, to call for reformation 
thereof at their ordinaries and other superiors \ who, upon com- 
plaint and due proof thereof, shall reform the same accordingly. 
i6. All XVI. Also, that every parson, vicar, curate, [and stipendiary 21 

under priest',] being under the degree of a [master of art',] shall provide 
M.A. to and have of his own, within three months after this visitation, the 
Latin and ^^^ Testament both in Latin and in English, with [paraphrases 
English upon the same\] conferring the one with the other. And the 
Testoment bishops and other ordinaries by themselves or their officers, in 
and Para- their synods and visitations, shall examine the said ecclesias- 
p rases, ^^^j persons, how they have profited in the study of Holy 
Scripture. 

17. The XVII. Also, that the vice of damnable despair may be clearly 23 
clergy to j^ken away, and that firm belief and steadfast hope may be surely 
suiuble conceived of all their parishioners, being in any danger, they 
Scripture gj^g^j] \^2JTi and have always in a readiness such comfortable places 

for pas- * 

toral visi- and sentences of Scripture, as do set forth the mercy, benefits, and 

tation. goodness of Almighty God towards all penitent and believing 

persons ; that they may at all times when necessity shall require, 

promptly comfort their flock with the lively word of God, which is 

the only stay of man's conscience '. 

18. The XVIII. Also, to avoid all contention and strife, which heretofore 24 
substituted ^^^ nstii among the queen's majesty's subjects in sundry places 
for all pro- of her realms and dominions, by reason of fond courtesy, and 
save at challenging of places in [the •] procession ; and also that they may 
beating the the more quietly hear that which is said or sung to their edifying, 

they shall not from henceforth in any parish church at any time 
use any procession about the church or churchyard, or other 
place ; but immediately before [the time of communion of the 
Sacrament'',] the priests with other of the quire shall kneel in 
the midst of the church, and sing or say plainly and distinctly the 
Litany, which is set forth in English, with all the sufirages following, 
to the intent the people may hear and answer ; and none other 
procession or Utany to be had or used, but the said Litany in 

^ hands. of Erasmus. 

* chantry priest and stipendiary. ' Condensed from 93 Ed. VI. 

' Bachelor of Divinity. • Om. 

^ the Paraphrase upon the same * high Mass. 



ARRANGEMENTS FOR A ROYAL VISITATION 53 



English, adding nothing thereto, but as [it is now appointed ^]. And Chap. Ill 
in cathedral or collegiate churches the same shall be done in such 
places, and in such sort, as our commissioners in our visitation 
shall appoint. And in the time of the Litany, of the [common 
prayei: *,] of the sermon, and when the priest readeth the Scripture 
to the parishioners, no manner of persons, without a just and urgent 
cause, shall [use any walking in the church, nor shall '] depart out of 
the church ; and all ringing and knolling of bells shall be utterly 
forborne at that time, except one bell at convenient time to be rung 
or knolled before the sermon. [But yet for retaining of the 
perambulation of the circuits of parishes, they shall once in the year 
at the time accustomed, with the curate and substantial men of the 
parish, walk about the parishes, as they were accustomed, and at 
their return to the church, make their common prayers '.] 

XIX. Provided, that the curate in their said common perambula- 19* Roga- 
tions, used heretofore in the days of rogations, at certain con- observed 
venient places shall admonish the people to give thanks to God, in 

the beholding of God*s benefits, for the increase and abundance of 
His fruits upon the face of the earth, with the saying of the 103rd 
Psalm, ^Bentdic anima meay &c. At which time also the same 
minister shall inculcate these or such sentences : ' Cursed be he, 
which translateth the bounds and doles of his neighbour.' Or such 
other order of prayers, as shall be hereafter appointed \ 

XX. Item ^ all the [queen's *] faithful and loving subjects shall ao. Sun- 
from henceforth celebrate and keep their holy day according to gJ^Jbiy 
God's ^ will and pleasure ; that is, in hearing the word of God read observed, 
and taught, in private and public prayers, in knowledging their 
offences unto God, and amendment of the same, in reconciling 
themselves charitably to their neighbours, where displeasure hath 

been, in oftentimes receiving the communion of the very Body and 



^ our commissaries in our visita- 
tion shaU appoint. 

* Mass. ' Om. 

* New. 

* Ed. VI adds, ' Like as the people 
be commonly occupied the work-day, 
with bodily labour, for their bodily 
sustenance, so was the holy day at 
the first beginning godly instituted 
and ordained, that the people should 
that day give themselves wholly to 
God. And whereas in our time, 



God is more offended than pleased, 
more dishonoured than honoured 
upon the holy day, because of idle- 
ness, pride, drunkenness, quarrelling 
and brawling, which are most used 
in such dajTS, people nevertheless 
persuading themselves sufficiently to 
honour God on that day, if they hear 
Mass and service, though they under- 
stand nothing to their edifying : there- 
fore/ 
• king's. ^ holy. 



54 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. Ill 



21. Noto- 
rious 
sinners, 
&c., not to 
be ad- 
mitted to 
Holy Com- 
munion. 



22. Church 
cere- 
monies to 
be taught 
as obliga- 
tory. 

Shnnes, 
&c., to be 
removed. 



Blood of Christ, in visiting of the poor and sick, using aD soberness 
and godly conversation. Yet notwithstanding, all parsons, vicars, 
and curates shall teach and declare unto their parishioners, that they 
may with a safe and quiet conscience, after their common prayer 
in t|^ time of harvest, labour upon the holy knd festival days, and 
save that thing which God hath sent ; and if for any scrupulosity 
or grudge of conscience, men should superstitiously abstain from 
working upon those days, that then they should grievously offend 
and displease God. 

XXI. Also, forasmuch as variance and contention is a thing 26 
that most displeases God, and is most contrary to the blessed 
communion of the Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ, curates 
shall in no wise admit to the receiving thereof any of their cure 
and flock, [which be openly known to live in sin notorious without 
repentance, or ^] who hath maliciously and openly contended with 
his neighbour, unless the same do first charitably and openly 
reconcile himself again, remitting all rancour and malice, what- 
soever controversy hath been between them. And nevertheless, 
their just titles and rights they may charitably prosecute before 
such as have authority to hear the same. 

XXII. Also, that they shall instruct and teach in their cures, that 2S 
no man ought obstinately and maliciously to break and violate the 
laudable ceremonies of the Church, [commanded by public authority 

to be observed"]. 

XXIII. Also, that they shall take away, utterly extinct, and 25 
destroy all shrines, coverings of shrines, all tables, candlesticks, 
trindals, and rolls of wax, pictures, paintings, and all other monu- 



» Om. 

* £d. VI adds, ' by the king com- 
manded to be observed, and as yet 
not abrogated. And on the other 
side, that whosoever doth supersti- 
tiously abuse them, doth the same to 
the great peril and danger of his 
soul's health : as in casting holy 
water upon his bed, upon images, and 
other dead things, or bearing about 
him holy bread, or St. John's Gospel, 
or making of crosses of wood upon 
Palm Sunday, in time of reading of 
the Passion, or keeping of private 
holy days, as bakers, brewers, smiths. 



shoemakers, and such other do ; or 
ringing of holy bells; or blessing 
with the holy candle, to the intent 
thereby to be discharged of thebunien 
of sin, or to drive away devils, or to 
put away dreams and phantasies, or 
in putting trust and confidence of 
health and salvation in the same 
ceiiemonies, when they be only or- 
dained, instituted, and made, to put 
us in remembrance of the benefits 
which we have received by Christ. 
And if he use them for any other 
purpose, he grievously offendeth 
God.' 



ARRANGEMENTS FOR A ROYAL VISITATION 55 

ments of feigned miracles, pUgrimages, idolatry, and superstition, Chap. Ill 
so that there remain no memory of the same in walls, glass 
windows, or elsewhere within their churches and houses ; [preserv- 
ing nevertheless, or repairing both the walls and glass windows ^ ;] 
and they shall exhort all their parishioners to do the like within 
their several houses. 

29 XXIV. And that the churchwardens, at the common charge of 34. A pul- 
the parishioners, in every church shall provide a comely and honest prov^d^d 
pulpit, to be set in a convenient place within the same, [and to be 

there seemly kept '] for the preaching of God's word. 

30 XXV. Also, they shall provide and have within three months 95. An 
after this visitation, a strong chest with a hole in the upper part t^" g*^^^*^ 
thereof, to be provided at the cost and charge of the parish, having plied, and 
three keys, whereof one shall remain [with '] the parson, vicar, or Jl^^-^ ^ 
curate, and the other two in the custody of the churchwardens, or buted. 
any other two honest men, to be appointed by the parish from year G""^^ 

to year ; which chest you shall set and fasten [in a most convenient to*be so 
place ^] to the intent the parishioners should put into it their applied. 
oblations and alms for their poor neighbours. And the parson, 
vicar, and curate shall diligently from time to time, and especially 
when men make their testaments, call upon, exhort, and move their 
neighbours to confer and give, as they may well spare, to the said 
chest: declaring unto them, whereas heretofore they have been 
diligent to bestow much substance, otherwise than God commanded, 
upon pardons, pilgrimages, trentals, decking of images, offering 
of candles, giving to friars, and upon other like blind devotions, 
they ought at this time to be much more ready to help the poor and 
needy ; knowing that to relieve the poor is a true worshipping of 
God, required earnestly upon pain of everlasting damnation ; and 
that also whatsoever is given for their comfort, is given to Christ 
Himself, and so is accepted of Him, that He will mercifully reward 
the same with everlasting life. The which alms and devotions of 
the people the keepers of the keys shall at [all 'J times convenient 
take out of the chest, and distribute the same in the presence of the 
whole parish, or six of them, to be truly and faithfully delivered 
to their most needy neighbours ; and if they be provided for, then to 
the reparation of highways next adjoining, [or to the poor people of 

' Om. ' in the custody of. 

* to be set in a convenient place ^ near unto the high altar. 

within the same. 



56 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. Ill such parishes near, as shall be thought best to the said keepers of the 

keys *]. And also the moneys which rise of fraternities, guilds, and 

other stocks of the Church (except by the [queen's"] majesty's 
authority it be otherwise appointed) shall be put in the said chest, 
and converted to the said use; and also the rents of lands, the profit 
of cattle, and money given or bequeathed [to obits and diiges, and^j 
to the finding of torches, lights, tapers, and lamps, shall be con- 
verted to the said use ; saving that it shall be lawful for them to 
bestow part of the said profits upon the reparation of the said chiu-ch, 
if great need require, and whereas the parish is very poor, and not 
able otherwise to repair the same. 
a6. Con- XXVI. Also, to avoid the detestable sin of simony, because 3 a 
cerning buying and selling of benefices is execrable before God, therefore 
all such persons, as buy any benefices, or come to them by fraud 
or deceit, shall be deprived of such benefices, and be made unable 
at any time after to receive any other spiritual promotion ; and such 
as do sell them, or by any colour do bestow them for their own gain 
and profit, shall [use'] their right and tide of patronage and present- 
ment for that time, and the gift thereof for that vacation shall 
appertain to the [queen's *] majesty.. 
37. Homi- XXVII. Also, because through lack of preachers in many places 3. 
reacL*^ of the [queen's'] realms and dominions the people continue in 
ignorance and blindness, all parsons, vicars, and curates shall read 
in their churches every Sunday one of the Homilies, which are and 
shall be set forth for the same purpose by the [queen's'] authority, 
in such sort, as they shall be appointed to do in the preface of 
the same. 
s8. Con- XXVIII. Item, whereas many indiscreet persons do at this day 3' 
du™ re^ uncharitably contemn and abuse priests and ministers of the Church, 
spect for because some of them (having small learning) have of long time 
ihe c ergy. fj^yQ^j.^^ {^^^ phantasies, rather than God's truth ; yet forasmuch as 
their office and function is appointed of God, the [queen's '] majesty 
willeth and chargeth all [her ^] loving subjects, that from henceforth 
they shall use them charitably and reverently for their office and 
ministration sake, and especially such as labour in the setting forth 
of God's holy word. 
39. Regu- XXIX '. Item, although there be nO prohibition by the word of 

lations 

* Om. ' king's. are either new, or re-enactments of 

' lose. * his. customs and regulations later than 

^ From this point the Injunctions 1547. 



ARRANGEMENT^ FOR A ROYAL VISITATION 57 

God, nor any example of the primitive Church, but that the priests Chap. Ill 
and ministers of the Church may lawfully, for the avoiding of ^^^j^^^ 
fornication, have an honest and sober wife, and that for the same ing the 
purpose the same was by Act of Parliament in the time of our dear ^^^^^ 
brother King Edward VI made lawful, whereupon a great number clergy. 
of the clergy of this realm were then married, and so yet continue ; yet 
because there hath grown offence, and some slander to the Church 
by lack of discreet and sober behaviour in many ministers of the 
Church, both in choosing of their wives and indiscreet living with 
them, the remedy whereof is necessary to be sought : it is thought, 
therefore, very necessary that no manner of priest or deacon shall 
hereafter take to his wife any manner of woman without the advice 
and allowance first had upon good examination by the bishop of 
the same diocese, and two justices of the peace of the same shire, 
dwelling next to the place where the same woman hath made her 
most abode before her marriage ; nor without the good will of the 
parents of the said woman, if she have any living, or two of the next 
of her kinsfolks, or, for lack of knowledge of such, of her master or 
mistress, where she serveth. And before he shall be contracted 
in any place, he shall make a good and certain proof thereof to the 
minister, or to the congregation asseml^ed for that purpose, which 
shall be upon some holy day, where divers may be present And 
if any shall do otherwise, that then they shall not be permitted to 
minister either the word or the sacraments of the Church, nor shall 
be capable of any ecclesiastical benefice. And for the manner of 
marriages of any bishops, the same shall be allowed and approved 
by the metropolitan of the province, and also by such commissioners 
as the queen's majesty shall thereunto appoint. And if any master 
or dean, or any head of any college, shall purpose to marry, the 
same shall not be allowed, but by such to whom the visitation of the 
same doth properly belong, who shall in any wise provide that the 
same tend not to the hindrance of their house. 

XXX. Item, her majesty being desirous to have the prelacy and 30- The 
clergy of this realm to be had as well in outward reverence, as be iSd- ^ 
otherwise regarded for the worthiness of their ministries, and pe^y ap- 
thinking it necessary to have them known to the people in all ^^^ 
places and assemblies, both in the church and without, and thereby 
to receive the honour and estimation due to the special messengers 
and ministers of Almighty God, wills and commands that all 
archbishops and bishops, and all other that be called or admitted 



58 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. Ill to preaching or ministry of the sacraments, or that be admitted into 

any vocation ecclesiastical, or into any society of learning in either of 

the universities, or elsewhere, shall use and wear such seemly habits, 

garments, and such square caps, as were most commonly and orderly 

received in the latter year of the reign of King Edward VI ; not 

thereby meaning to attribute any holiness or special worthiness to 

the said garments, but as St. Paul writeth : Omnia decenUr et 

secundum ordinemfianL i Cor. 14 cap. 

31. Heresy XXXI. Item, that no man shall wilfully and obstinately defend 

not to be ^^ maintain any heresies, errors, or false doctrine, contrary to the 

main- faith of Christ and His Holy Spirit. 

XXXII. Item, that no persons shall use charms, sorceries, 
Charms, enchantments, witchcraft, soothsaying, or any suchlike devilish 
bdd ^^^' device, nor shall resort at any time to the same for counsel or help. 
33. Parish- XXXIII. Item, that no persons shall, neglecting their own 
ionersto parish church, resort to any other church in time of common 
their prayer or preaching, except it be by the occasion of some 

parish extraordinary sermon in some parish of the same town. 

"'^ * XXXIV. Item, that no innholders or alehouse-keepers shall use 

inns to sell to Sell meat or drink in the time of common prayer, preaching, 
in time of reading of the Homilies or Scriptures, 
worship. XXXV. Item, that no persons keep in their houses any abused 

35. Images, images, tables, pictures, paintings, and other monuments of feigned 
be kern ° miracles, pilgrimages, idolatry, and superstition. 

privately. XXXVI. Item, that no man shall willingly let or disturb the 

36. Pr^ch- preacher in time of his sermon, or let or discourage any curate or 
be dis- minister to sing or say the divine service now set forth ; nor mock 
turbed. qj. j^gj ^^ ^^ ministers of such service. 

37. Rash XXXVII. Item, that no man shall talk or reason of the Holy 
Swipture Scriptures rashly or contentiously, nor maintain any false doctrine 
forbidden, or error, but shall commune of the same, when occasion is given, 

reverently, humbly, and in the fear of God, for his comfort and 
better understanding. 

38. Or- XXXVIII. Item, that no man, woman, or child shall be other- 

derlv be~ 

haviour in ^*^ occupied in the time of the service, than in quiet attendance 
church. to hear, mark, and understand that is read, preached, and 
ministered. 

39. Of the XXXIX. Item, that every schoolmaster and teacher shall teach 
Prfm*er. ^ '^^ Grammar set forth by King Henry VIII of noble memory, 

and continued in the time of King Edward VI, and none other. 



ARRANGEMENTS FOR A ROYAL VISITATION 59 

XL. Item, that no man shall take upon him to teach, but such Chap. Ill 
as shall be allowed by the ordinary, and found meet as well for "j^ch- 
his learning and dexterity in teaching, as for sober and honest ers to be 
conversation, and also for right understanding of God's true 5^^^^ 
religion. 

XLI. Item, that all teachers of children shall stir and move them 41. Teach- 
to the love and due reverence of God's true religion now truly set chUdren. 
forth by public authority. 

XLU. Item, that they shall accustom their scholars reverently to 4a. Scrip- 

, , #. « . 1 i« 1 :i. ture to be 

learn such sentences of Scriptures as shall be most expedient to learnt by 
induce them to all godliness. ***^'^- 

XLIII. Item, forasmuch as in these latter days many have been 43- Irregii- 

lar priests 

made priests, being children, and otherwise utterly unlearned, not to be 
so that they could read to say Matins or Mass, the ordinaries admitted, 
shall not admit any such to any cure or spiritual function. 

XLIV. Every parson, vicar, and curate shall upon every holy 44- Ol 
day, and every second Simday in the year, hear and instruct all the \^ church, 
youth of the parish for half an hour at the least before evening 
prayer, in the Ten Commandments, the Articles of the Belief, and 
in the Lord's Prayer, and diligently examine them, and teach the 
Catechism set forth in the book of public prayer. 

XLV. Item, that the ordinary do exhibit unto our visitors 45- The 

, . , , - , ... cause of 

their books, or a true copy of the same, containing the causes religious 
why any person was imprisoned, famished, or put to death for suffering 
religion. certified. 

XLVI. Item, that in every parish three or four discreet men, 46. Over- 
which tender God's glory, and His true religion, shall be appointed ^u"ij°^t- 
by the ordinaries diligently to see that all the parishioners duly tendance 
resort to their church upon all Sundays and holy days, and there poin^^^^' 
to continue the whole time of the godly service ; and all such as 
shall be found slack or negligent in resorting to the church, having 
no great nor urgent cause of absence, they shall straitly call upon 
them, and after due admonition if they amend not, they shall 
denounce them to the ordinary. 

XL VII. Item, that the churchwardens of every parish shall f 7-. Inven- 

' ' '^ tones of 

deliver unto our visitors the inventories of vestments, copes, and church 

other ornaments, plate, books, and specially of grails, couchers, ^^^^^'^^^re 

legends, processionals, manuals, hymnals, portasses, and such like delivered. 

appertaining to their church. 

XL VIII. Item, that weekly upon Wednesdays and Fridays, not 48. Ser- 
vices for 



6o 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. Ill 

Wednes- 
day and 
Friday. 

49. Choral 
founda- 
tions to be 
kept. The 
service to 
be daily 
sung. A 
hymn to 
be al- 
lowed. 



50. Reli- 
gious dis- 
putation is 
forbidden. 



being holy days, the curate at the accustomed hours of service 
shall resort to church, and cause warning to be given to the 
people by knoUing of a bell, and say the Litany and prayers. 

XLIX. Item, because in divers collegiate and also some parish 
churches heretofore there have been livings appointed for the 
maintenance of men and children to use singing in the church, 
by means whereof the laudable science of music has been had 
in estimation, and preserved in knowledge ; the queen's majesty 
neither meaning in any wise the decay of anything that might 
conveniently tend to the use and continuance of the said science, 
neither to have the same in any part so abused in the church, that 
thereby the common prayer should be the worse understanded of 
the hearers, wills and commands, that first no alterations be made of 
such assignments of living, as heretofore has been appointed to the 
use of singing or music in the church, but that the same so remain. 
And that there be a modest and distinct song so used in all parts 
of the common prayers in the church, that the same may be 
as plainly understanded, as if it were read without singing ; and 
yet nevertheless for the comforting of such that delight in music, 
it may be permitted, that in the beginning, or in the end of 
common prayers, either at morning or evening, there may be 
sung an hymn, or suchlike song to the praise of Almighty God, 
in the best sort of melody and music that may be conveniently 
devised, having respect that the sentence of the hymn may be 
understanded and perceived. 

L. Item, because in all alterations, and specially in rites 
and ceremonies, there happen discords amongst the people, and 
thereupon slanderous words and railings, whereby charity, the 
knot of all Christian society, is loosed ; the queen's majesty being 
most desirous of all other earthly things, that her people should live 
in charity both towards God and man, and therein abound in 
good works, wills and straitly commands all manner her subjects 
to forbear all vain and contentious disputations in matters of 
religion, and not to use in despite or rebuke of any person these 
convicious words, papist or papistical heretic, schismatic or sacra- 
mentary, or any suchlike words of reproach. But if any manner 
of person shall deserve the accusation of any such, that first he 
be charitably admonished thereof; and if that shall not amend 
him, then to denounce the offender to the ordinary, or to some 
higher power having authority to correct the same. 



ARRANGEMENTS FOR A ROYAL VISITATION 6i 

LI. Item, because there is a great abuse in the printers of books, Chap. Ill 
which for covetousness chiefly regard not what they print, so Print- 
they may have gain, whereby ariseth great disorder by publication ing to be 
of unfruitful, vain, and infamous books and papers ; the queen's ^^^ 
majesty straitly charges and commands, that no manner of person penalty, 
shall print any manner of book or paper, of what sort, nature, 
or in what language soever it be, except the same be first licensed 
by her majesty by express words in writing, or by six of her privy 
council; or be perused and licensed by the archbishops of 
Canterbury and York, the Bishop of London, the chancellors 
of both universities, the bishop being ordinary, and the archdeacon 
also of the place, where any such shall be printed, or by two 
of them, whereof the ordinary of the place to be always one. And 
that the names of such as shall allow the same to be added in the 
end of every such work, for a testimony of the allowance thereof. 
And because many pamphlets, plays, and ballads be oftentimes 
printed, wherein regard would be had that nothing therein should 
be either heretical, seditious, or unseemly for Christian ears; her 
majesty likewise commands that no manner of person shall enter- 
prise to print any such, except the same be to him licensed by 
such her majesty's commissioners, or three of them, as be appointed 
in the city of London to hear and determine divers causes 
ecclesiastical, tending to the execution of certain statutes made 
the last Parliament for uniformity of order in religion. And 
if any shall sell or utter any manner of books or papers, being 
not licensed as is abovesaid, that the same party shall be punished 
by order of the said commissioners, as to the quality of the fault 
shall be thought meet. And touching all other books of matters 
of religion, or policy, or governance that have been printed, either 
on this side the seas or on the other side, because the diversity of 
them is great, and that there needs good consideration to be had of 
the particularities thereof, her majesty refers the prohibition or 
permission thereof to the order which her said commissioners 
within the city of London shall take and notify. According to 
the which her majesty straitly commands all manner her subjects, 
and especially the wardens and company of Stationers, to be 
obedient. 

Provided that these orders do not extend to any profane authors 
and works in any language, that have been heretofore commonly 
received or allowed in any the universities or schools, but the 



62 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. Ill same may be printed and used as by good order they were 

accustomed 

5a. Of LIL Item, although Ahnighty God is at all times to be honoured 

[n^worsWp ^^^^ ^ manner of reverence that may be devised; yet of all other 

and bow- times, in time of common prayer the same is most to be regarded; 

Hol*^ ^^ therefore it is to be necessarily received, that in time of the Litany, 

Name. and all other collects and common supplications to Almighty God, 

all manner of people shall devoutly and humbly kneel upon their 

knees and give ear thereunto ; and that whensoever the name of 

Jesus shall be in any lesson, sermon, or otherwise in the church 

pronounced, that due reverence be made of all persons young and 

old, with lowliness of courtesy and uncovering of heads of the men> 

kind, as thereunto does necessarily belong, and heretofore has 

been accustomed. 

53. All LIII. Item, that all ministers and readers of public prayers, 

^^^^ ^° chapters, and homilies shall be charged to read leisurely, plainly, 

tinctly. and distinctly ; and also such as are but mean readers shall peruse 

over before, once or twice, the chapters and homilies, to the intent 

they may read to the better understanding of the people, and the 

more encouragement to godliness. 



An admonition to simple men deceived by malicious. 

The Oath The queen's majesty being informed that in certain places of this 
of Supre- realm, sundry of her native subjects, being called to ecclesiastical 
plained ministry of the Church, be by sinister persuasion and perverse 
construction induced to find some scruple in the form of an oath, 
which by an Act of the last Parliament is prescribed to be required 
of divers persons for their recognition of their allegiance to her 
majesty, which certainly never was ever meant, nor by any equity of 
as in- words OF good sense can be thereof gathered ; would that all her 
^^tm"^ loving subjects should understand that nothing was, is, or shall be 
new, meant or intended by the same oath to have any other duty, 

allegiance, or bond required by the same oath, than was acknow- 
ledged to be due to the most noble kings of famous memory, King 
Henry VIII, her majesty's father, or King Edward VI, her majesty's 
brother, 
whilst And further, her majesty forbids all manner her subjects to give 

worts ^^^ ^^ credit to such perverse and malicious persons, which most 
are not to sinisterly and maliciously labour to notify to her loving subjects, 



ARRANGEMENTS FOR A ROYAL VISITATION 63 

bow by the words of the said oath it may be collected, that the Chap. Ill 

kings or queens of this realm, possessors of the crown, may ^ ^^^ 

challenge authority and power of ministry of divine offices in the as to the 

church ; wherein her said subjects be much abused by such evil- ^^^^^ ^^^ 

disposed persons. For certainly her majesty neither does nor ever 

will challenge any other authority than that was challenged and 

lately used by the said noble kings of famous memory, King 

Henry VIII and King Edward VI, which is and was of ancient 

time due to the imperial crown of this realm ; that is, under God to 

the sovereignty and rule over all manner persons bom within these 

her realms, dominions, and countries, of what estate, either 

ecclesiastical or temporal, soever they be, so as no other foreign 

power shall or ought to have any superiority over them. And if 

any person that has conceived any other sense of the form of the 

said oath shall accept the same oath with this interpretation, sense, 

or meaning, her majesty is well pleased to accept every such in 

that behalf, as her good and obedient subjects, and shall acquit 

them of aU manner penalties contained in the said Act against 

such as shall peremptorily or obstinately refuse to take the same 

oath. 

For tables in the church. 

Whereas her majesty understands that in many and sundry parts No altar is 
of the realm the altars of the churches be removed, and tables ^i^^^ 
placed for administration of the Holy Sacrament, according to the without 
form of the law therefor provided ; and in some other places the superJ 
altars be not yet removed, upop opinion conceived of some order vision. 
therein to be taken by her majesty's visitors ; in the order whereof, 
saving for an uniformity, there seems no matter of great moment, 
so diat the Sacrament be duly and reverently ministered ; yet for 
observation of one uniformity through the whole realm, and for 
the better imitation of the law in that behalf, it is ordered that no 
altar be taken down, but by oversight of the curate of the church, 
and the churchwardens, or one of them at the least, wherein no 
riotous or disordered manner to be used. And that the holy table The holy 
in every church be decently made, and set in the place where the ^V® 
altar stood, and there commonly covered, as thereto belongs, and where the 
as shall be appointed by the visitors, and so to stand, saving when altar stood, 
the conmiunion of the Sacrament is to be distributed ; at which the cete- 
time the same shall be so placed in good sort within the chancel, as ^^^^'^* 



64 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. Ill whereby the . minister may be more conveniently heard of the 
communicants in his prayer and ministration, and the communi- 
cants also more conveniently and in more number communicate 
with the said minister. And after the communion done, from 
time to time the same holy table to be placed where it stood 
before. 

Item, where also it was in the time of King Edward VI used to 
have the sacramental bread of common fine bread, it is ordered 
for the more reverence to be given to these holy mysteries, being 
the sacraments of the Body and Blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ, 
that the same sacramental bread be made and formed plain, tirithout 
any figure thereupon, of the same fineness and fashion round, 
though somewhat bigger in compass and thickness, as the usual 
bread and water, heretofore named singing cakes, which served for 
the use of the private Mass. 



Regula- 
tions for 
the sacra 
mental 
bread. 



The form of bidding the prayers to be used generally in 

this uniform sort. 

Ye shall pray for Christ's Holy Catholic Church, that is for the 
whole congregation of Christian people dispersed throughout the 
whole world, and especially for the Church of England and Ireland. 
And herein I require you most specially to pray for the queen's 
most excellent majesty, our sovereign lady Elizabeth, queen of 
England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, and supreme 
governor of this realm as well in causes ecclesiastical as temporal. 
You shall also pray for the ministers of God*s holy word and 
sacraments, as well archbishops and bishops, as other pastors 
and curates. You shall also pray for the queen's most honourable 
council and for all the nobility of this realm, that all and every of 
these in their calling, may serve truly and painfully to the glory 
of God and edifying of His people, remembering the account that 
they must make. Also ye shall pray for the whole Commons of 
this realm, that they may live in true faith and fear of God, in 
humble obedience and brotherly charity one to another. Finally, 
let us praise God for all those that are departed out of this life 
in the faith of Christ, and pray unto God that we have grace for to 
direct our lives after their good example, that after this life we with 
them may be made partakers of the glorious resurrection in the life 
everlasting. 



ARRANGEMENTS FOR A ROYAL VISITATION 65 

And this dotUy show the holy-days and fasting days, "^''' 

All which and singular Injunctions ^ the queen's majesty The rati- 
ministers unto her clergy and to all other her loving subjects, fhe\njunc- 
straitly charging and commanding them to observe and keep the tions. 
same upon pain of deprivation, sequestration of fruits and benefices, 
suspension, excommunication, and such other coercion, as to 
ordinaries, or other having ecclesiastical jurisdiction, whom her 
majesty has appointed, or shall appoint for the due execution of 
the' same, shall be seen convenient ; charging and commanding 
them tor see these Injunctions observed and kept of all persons 
being under their jurisdiction, as they will answer to her majesty 
for the contrary. And her highness's pleasure is, that every 
justice of peace being required, shall assist the ordinaries, and 
every of them, for the due execution of the said Injunctions. 



II. 

Articles of Inquiry, 1559*. 

[Transcr. from a contemporary print in the British 

Museum, 5155 a. 14 (i).] 

Injunctions given by the Queen's Majestt, 1559. 

First, whether any parson, vicar, or curate be resident continually i. Resi- 
upon his benefice, doing his duty in preaching, reading, and duly ^"^^' 
ministering the holy Sacraments. 

Item, whether in their churches and chapels all images, shrines, a. False 
all tables, candlesticks, trindals, or rolls of wax, pictures, paintings, ^^^^^ ^^ 
and all other monuments of feigned and false miracles, pilgrimages, 
idolatry, and superstition be removed, abolished, and destroyed. 

Item, whether they do not every holy-day when they have no 3« Lords 
sermon, immediately after the Gospel, openly, plainly, and distinctly 

^ The archbishops and bishops collated with the text of the In- 

aflerwards drew up ' Interpretations junctions here given in Cardwell's 

and further Considerations' of these Documeniaty AnnalSy i. 903-209. 

Injunctions for the better direction * See above, p. 43. 
of the clergy, which may be seen 



66 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. Ill recite to their parishioners in the pulpit the Lord's Prayer, the 
Belief, and the Ten Commandments in English. 

4. To bring Item, whether they do charge fathers and mothers, masters 
up youth, j^jjj governors of youth to bring them up in some virtuous study 

and occupation. 

5. Curates. Item, whether such beneficed men as be lawfully absent from 

their benefices do leave their cures to a rude and unlearned parson, 
and not to an honest, well learned, and expert curate, which can 
and will teach you wholesome doctrine. 

6. Reading Item, whether they do discourage any person from reading of 
tSres.^"^ any part of the Bible, either in Latin or English, and do not 

rather comfort and exhort every person to read the same at 
convenient times, as the very lively word of God, and the special 
food of man's soul. 

7. Taverns Item, whether parsons, vicars, curates, and other ministers, be 
an games, ^.qjjj^jqj^j haunters and resorters to taverns or alehouses, giving 

themselves to drinking, rioting, and playing at unlawful games, and 
do not occupy themselves in the reading or hearing of some part 
of Holy Scripture, or in some other godly exercise. 

8. Preach- Item, whether they have admitted any man to preach in their 
^"' cures, not being lawfully licensed thereunto, or have been licensed 

accordingly. 

9. Super- Item, whether they use to declare to their parishioners anything 

to the extolling or setting forth of vain and superstitious religion, 
pilgrimages, relics, or images, or lighting of candles, kissing, 
kneeling, or decking of the same images. 

10. Regis- Item, whether they have one book or register kept, wherein 
^®"* they write the day of every wedding, christening, and burying. 

11. Obe- Item, whether they have exhorted the people to obedience to 
dience. j^^ queen's majesty and ministers, and to charity and love one to 

another. 
I a. The Iiem, whether they have admonished their parishioners that they 

Sacrament, ought not to presume to receive the Sacrament of the Body and 
Blood of Christ, before they can say perfectly the Lord's Prayer, 
the Articles of Faith, and the Ten Commandments in English. 

13. Hos- Item, whether they be resident upon their benefices, and keep 
^' * ^* hospitality or no. And if they be absent and keep no hospitality, 

whether do they relieve their parishioners, and what they give 
them. 

14. Re- Item, whether proprietaries, parsons, vicars, and clerks having 



ARRANGEMENTS FOR A ROYAL VISITATION 67 

churches, chapels, and mansions do keep their chancels, rectories, Chap. Ill 
vicarages, and all other houses, appertaining to them in due 
reparations. 

Item, whether they do counsel or move their parishioners 15. Prayer 
rather to pray in a tongue not known, than in English, or put gLfi^^'**** 
tl^ir trust in any certain number of prayers, as in saying over 
a number of beads or other like. 

Item, whether they have received any persons to the communion 16. De- 
being openly known to be out of charity with their neighbours, or ?*™f*^ . 
defamed with any notorious crime, and not reformed. 

Item, whether they have provided and have a strong chest for 17. Poor 
the poor men's box, and set and fastened the same in a place of "®° ® 
the church most convenient. 

Item, whether they have diligently called upon, exhorted, and 18. Tesu- 
moved their parishioners, and especially when they make their ^^^^' 
testaments, to give to the said poor men's box, and to bestow that 
upon the poor which they were wont to bestow upon pilgrimages, 
pardons, trentals, and upon other like blind devotions. 

Item, whether they have denied to visit the sick, or bury the 19-. Sick 
dead, being brought to the church. 

Item, whether they have bought their benefices, or come to them ao. 
by fraud, guile, deceit, or simony. imony. 

Item, whether they have given open monition to their parishioners, ai. Adul- 
to detect and present to their ordinary all adulterers and fornicators, 
and such men as have two wives living within their parishes. 

Item, whether they have monished their parishioners openly aa. Church 
that they should not sell, give, nor otherwise alienate any of their ^^ ^ 
church goods. 

Item, whether they or any of them do keep more benefices and as. Many 
other ecclesiastical promotions than they ought to do, not having ^°^ ^^^ 
sufficient licences and dispensations thereunto, and how many there 
be, and their names. 

Item, whether they minister the Holy Communion any other a4. Com- 
wise than only after such form and manner as it is set forth by ™"°*®"- 
the common authority of the queen's majesty and the Parliament. 

Item, whether you know any person, within your parish or else- 25. Letters 
where, that is a letter of the word of God to be read in English, or ^^ preach- 
sincerely preached in place and times convenient. ios^* 

Item, whether in the time of the Litany or any other common a6. Goers 
prayer in the time of the sermon or homily, and when the priest ^hun^h. 

F 7, 



68 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. Ill 



97. Church 
money. 



98. Keep- 
ers of the 
church 
money. 
89. Con- 
tempt of 
priests. 
3a The 
king's 
grammar. 

31. The 
time of 
service. 
3a. Talk- 
ers in 
church. 

33. Here- 
sies. 



34. Drunk- 
ards. 

35. Adul- 
terers. 



36. Brawl- 
ers. 

37. Sor- 
cerers. 



38. Pul- 
pits. 

39- Re- 
sorters to 

other 

churches. 

40. Inn- 
holders. 



readeth the Scriptures to the parishioners, any person have departed 
out of the church, without just and necessary cause, or disturb the 
minister otherwise. 

Item, whether the money coming or rising of any cattle or other 
movable stocks of the church, and money given and bequeathed 
to the finding of torches, lights, tapers, or lamps, not paid 
out of any lands, have not been employed to the poor men's 
chest. 

Item, who hath the said stocks and monej in their hands, and 
what be their names. 

Item, whether any indiscreet person do uncharitably contemn and 
abuse priests and ministers of the church. 

Item, whether there be any other grammar taught in any school 
within this diocese than that which is set forth by the authority of 
King Henry the Eighth. 

Item, whether the service of the church be done at due and con- 
venient hours. 

Item, whether any have used to commune, jangle, and talk in 
the church in the time of the prayer, reading of the homily, preaching, 
reading, or declaring of the Scripture. 

Item, whether any have wilfully maintained and defended any 
heresies, errors, or false opinions, contrary to the faith of Christ 
and Holy Scripture. 

Item, whether any be common dnmkards, swearers, or blasphemers 
of the name of God. 

Item, whether any have committed adultery, fornication, or 
incest, or be common bawds, or receivers of such evil persons, or 
vehemently suspected of any of the premises. 

Item, whether any be brawlers, slanderers, chiders, scolders, and 
sowers of discord between one person and another. 

Item, whether you know any that do use charms, sorcery, 
enchantments, invocations, circles, witchcrafts, soothsaying, or any 
like crafts or imaginations invented by the devil, and specially in 
the time of women's travail. 

Item, whether the churches, pulpits, and other necessaries apper- 
taining to the same be sufficiently repaired, and if they be not, in 
whose default the same is. 

Item, whether you know any that in contempt of their parish 
church do resort to any other church. 

Item, whether any innholders or alehouse-keepers do use com- 



ARRANGEMENTS FOR A ROYAL VISITATION 69 

monlj to sell meat and drink in the time of common prayer, Chap. Ill 
preaching, reading of the homilies or Scripture. 

Item, whether you know any to be married within the degrees 41. Di- 
prohibited by the laws of God, or that be separated or divorced ^°'^^* 
without the degrees prohibited by the law of God, and whether any 
such have married again. 

Item, whether do you know any to have made privy contracts of 4a. Privy 
matrimony, not calling two or more witnesses thereunto, nor having ^°" ^ *' 
thereto the consent of their parents. 

Item, whether they have married solemnly, the banns not first 43« Hanns. 
lawfully asked. 

Item, whether you know any executors or administrators of dead 44« Exccu- 
men's goods which do not duly bestow such of the said goods as 
were given and bequeathed or appointed to be distributed among 
the poor people, repairing of highways, finding of poor scholars, 
or marrying of poor maidens, or such other like charitable deeds. 

Item, whether you know any that keep in their houses undefaced, 45. 
any images, tables, pictures, paintings, or other monuments of feigned *™^**- 
or false miracles, pilgrimages, idolatry, and superstition, and do adore 
them, and specially such as have been set up in churches, chapels, 
or oratories. 

Item, what books of God's Scripture you have delivered to be 46. Books, 
burnt, or otherwise destroyed, and to whom you have delivered the 
same. 

Item, what bribes the accusers, promoters, persecutors, ecclesias- 47- 
tical judges, and other the commissioners appointed within the ^"*^*- 
several dioceses of this realm have received by themselves, or other 
of those persons which were in trouble, apprehended, or imprisoned 
for religion. 

Item, what goods movable, lands, fees, offices, or promotions 48- Loss 
hath been wrongfully taken away in the time of Queen Mary's reign ^ ° *• 
from any person which favoured the religion now set forth. 

Item, how many persons for religion have died by fire, famine, 49- How 
or otherwise, and have been imprisoned for the same. Sirat 

Item, that you make a true presentment of the number of all the 5o- Certi- 
persons which died within your parishes since the feast of St. John ^^ ^^^^ 
the Baptist, which was in the year of our Lord God 1558, unto the 
same feast last past; making therein a plain distinct declaration 
how many men, women, and men children the same were, and the 
nauies of the men. 



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THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. Ill 

51. Secret 
Masses. 

5a. False 
rumours. 
Unlawful 
books. 



53. Patron. 

Tithes. 

Vacation. 



54. Min- 
strels. 



55. Litany 
in English. 



56. Dis- 
tinct read- 
ing. 



Item, whether you know any man in your parish secretly or ir 
unlawful conventicles say or hear Mass, or any other service pro- 
hibited by the law. 

Item, whether you know any person in your parish to be a 
slanderer of his neighbours, or a sower of discord between part) 
and party, man and wife, parents and their children, or that hatl 
invented, bruited, or set forth any rumours, false and seditious tales 
slanders ; or makers, bringers, buyers, sellers, keepers, or conveyon 
of any imlawful books, which might stir or provoke sedition, 01 
maintain superstitious service within this realm; or any aiders 
counsellors, procurers, or maintainers thereunto. 

Item, whether the church of your parish be now vacant or no 
who is the patron thereof, how long it hath been vacant, who dotl 
receive the tithes, oblations, and other commodities during the tim< 
of the vacation, and by what authority, and in what estate the saic 
church is at this time, and how long the parson or vicar hath hac 
that benefice. 

Item, whether any minstrels or any other persons do use to sin{ 
or say any songs or ditties that be vile or unclean, and especiallj 
in derision of any godly order now set forth and established. 

Item, whether the Litany in English, with the Episde and Gospe 
which was by the queen's highness's proclamation willed to be rea< 
to the people, were put in use in your churches ; and if not, win 
were the letters thereof. 

Item, whether the curates and ministers do leisurely, plainly, an( 
distinctly read the public prayers, chapters, and homilies as the] 
ought to do. 

God save the Queen. 



in 
559. 



CHAPTER IV 

THE ROYAL VISITATION OF THE NORTHERN 

PROVINCE, 1559 

We have seen the preparations for the royal visitation Chap, iv 
which was to ensure the settlement of religion through the ArraJJTe. 
country. It is presumed that everything was ready at mentscom 
some time in the month of July, when in all probability p^^^® " 
notices were sent round to the various archdeacons, &c., 
announcing the fact and date of the approaching visitation. 
The royal visitors, together with the permanent Ecclesias- 
tical Commission (which will be considered in a separate 
chapter for the sake of clearness ^), were now the possessors 
of all ecclesiastical jurisdiction until fresh bishops were 
appointed in December to take the place of those who had 
been deprived. The country had been mapped out into 
six districts for the purposes of the visitation, and the 
whole of the Northern Province was assigned to one set of 
visitors. It will be convenient to take this first, as we have 
an excellent report of what was done. 

The visitors for the north were Francis, Earl of Shrews- Names of 
bury. President of the Council of the North ; Edward, Earl ^^^^'"''^ 
of Derby ; Thomas, Earl of Northumberland, Lord Warden north, 
of the East and Middle Marches ; William, Lord Evers ; 
Henry Percy,Thomas Gargrave, James Croftes, Henry Gates, 
knights; Edwin Sandys, D.D.; Henry Harvey, LL.D.; 
Richard Bowes, Christopher Estofte, George Browne, 

» Sec below, Chap. VII. 



72 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. IV Richard Kingsmill, esquires. From the returns in the State 
Papers which give the names of those appointed lords 
lieutenant in the various counties ^ it appears that the 
noblemen on this and the other visitations held that or 
some similar office. They were not always in favour of 
the policy of the day, and, whether favourable or not, seldom 
took part in the work, their names being probably added 
in case of any disturbance, a contingency that did not 
occur in any known case. Of the rest, some were members 
of prominent county families : some were lawyers of posi- 
tion ; on every commission there were one or more divines 
known to be favourable to the settlement. In the northern 
visitation Shrewsbury was not only President of the 
Council of the North, but Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire ; 
Derby was Lord Lieutenant of Chester and Lancaster ; 
Northumberland, Warden of the East and Middle Marches, 
was Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland and the bishopric 
of Durham. Lord Evers and Henry Percy were captains 
respectively of Berwick and Norham Castle. Gargravc 
held the office of Vice-President of the Council of the 
North. The Lords Lieutenant of Cumberland and West- 
moreland are significant omissions from the list as being 
disaffected. The former was Henry, Earl of Cumberland ; 
the latter, Lord Dacres of Gilsland, about whom Bishop Best 
has bitter complaints to make ^. 
Part taken The minimum number of visitors who could act was two ; 
V.^^ but, as we find from the proceedings, those present at each 
named. place were usually three, and sometimes four. The noble- 
men do not appear to have sat in the north, with the 
single exception of Lord Evers, who was present at the 
session held in Durham Chapter House on September 23. 
This was due probably to the large amount of business 
referred from other parts of the diocese. The burden of the 
work fell upon the shoulders of Sandys, Harvey, Gargrave, 
and Gates, who seem to have been present in all parts 
of the province. A special letter ^ was sent to Browne and 

' S. p. Dom. Eliz. iv. 39, 30. « Ibid. xviu. 21. » Ibid. vi. la. 



VISITATION OF THE NORTHERN PROVINCE 73 

Elstofte on August 14, requiring their presence * in the circuit Chap, iv 
northward/ * at such time as the rest of the commissioners 
shall make their repair into the counties or diocese where 
you reside, and shall signify to you the time and place of 
their coming thither.' Accordingly we find that Estofte sat 
at Beverley on September la, and Browne was with the 
visitors in the dioceses of Chester and Carlisle during 
October. They are spoken of as chosen for their * knowledge 
of the common law of this realm.' 

The original commission of visitation was dated June 24. Issue of 
We find from records in the Southern Province that after y^"'^.?^ 
the visitors were appointed, an inhibition ^ was directed to 
the dean and chapter of each diocese. After reciting the 
terms of the commission with the names of the commis- 
sioners, the document inhibits the deans and chapters of the 
cathedrals, and all their registrars, officials, and ministers, 
from exercising any jurisdiction under penalty of contempt. 
It is natural to suppose that a similar notice was sent to the 
authorities of the four northern cathedrals. At all events 
the report, presently to be considered, shows that a special 
summons was addressed to the dean and chapter, or to the 
archdeacon, as the ease might be, in which the clergy and 
people were summoned to be present on a particular day at 
a specified place^ This was called the mandatory certificate, 
and at each new session evidence of its reception and pro- 
mulgation was the first thing demanded by the visitors. 

Before tracing the progress of the visitors, it may be well Summary 
to recall briefly the duties which they had to perform. ^I^^^ ^ 
Reference to the text of the letters patent will show the the visi- 
manifold details of these duties. Roughly, they may be *<^"- 
comprised under two heads: (i)The visitors were to act as 
spiritual judges taking cognizance of all moral offences, 
and granting probate of wills, &c. (2) They were to enforce 
the settlement of religion, the ' suscepta religio ' as it was 
called, and as it was set out in the Injunctions, and the 
Prayer Book of 1559, and established by the Act of 
Supremacy. With this in view they had power to deprive 

* Regist. Deao and Chapt Cant, at Lambeth, p. 4. 



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THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Narrative 
of the 
visitation. 



Chap. IV and Otherwise punish all recusant clergy; to institute to 
vacant benefices ; to restore all who had been unjustly 
deprived. Such large and ample powers merit, perhaps, the 
criticism of Collier^. 

We are fortunate in possessing a fairly full account of all 
that the visitors did in the Northern Province. The letters 
patent had directed' that Thomas Percy and John Hodges 
should act as registrars for the due record of all the proceed- 
ings. This duty was faithfully carried out, and the result 
can be seen in a volume at the Public Records Office •. 
The narrative, prefaced with the full commission, is chiefly 
in Latin, and is excellently written. It was used by Burnet ^ 
for the terms of the commission which CardwelH also 
copied. Strype* says: 'This commission I saw in the 
Queen's Paper House bound up in a volume in folio, con- 
taining all the Inquisitions and matters done and found in 
this large Northern Visitation.' 

The first place visited was St. Mary's, Nottingham, which 
was at that time in the diocese of York. The proceedings 
here are more or less typical of what went on at other 
places in the visitation. The account when translated is 
as follows : ' In the parish church of St. Mary in the town 
of Nottingham ^ in the diocese of York, Tuesday, August aa, 
in the year of our Lord 1559, and the first of the reign. 



Notting- 
ham. 



* vi. a6a. 

* See below, p. 9s. 

* The reference is S. P. Dom. EKz. 
vol. X. This contains 400 pages. 
Bound up with it at the end is a book 
of the recognizances of clergy and 
others, with notes of their discluu'^e. 
The contents of the report are as 
follows : — After the terms of commis- 
sion an account is given of the 
visitation of the four dioceses, 
pp. 1-108. Then come ' acta 
et processus habiti et facti coram 
commissariis antedicto tempore 
visitationis rcgiae in et per totam 
provinciam Eboracensem in causis 
beneficiatorum et restitutionis bene- 
ficii,'&c,pp. 121-905. In this section 



there occurs, on pp. 1B3 sqq., a Ust 
of institutions made by the visitors. 
At p. a 19 begins a summary of 
Deiection€s and Comperta, At p. 371 
occur the names of absentees from 
the visitation (infra, p. 83). 

* See Burnet, Hist, Rrf^ voL ii. 
Coll. Book 3, Num. 7. 

* See Cardwell, Documinitay 
Annals J L 347. 

* Strype, Ann, L z66. 

^ One or more (sometimes several) 
deaneries were represented at each 
place of visitation. The place was 
apparently determined by its relation 
to the archdeaconry, and by con- 
siderations of communication, and 
also by the size of the church. 



VISITATION OF THE NORTHERN PROVINCE 75 



On which date and place, prayers being ended, and the Chap, iv 
sacred word of God having been expounded to the people 
by the excellent man Master Edwin Sandys, D.D ^., the 
aforesaid Edwin, together with Thomas Gargrave, Henry 
Gates, knights, and Henry Harvey, LL.D., repaired to 
a place duly made ready {decenter ornatum) in the chancel 
of the same church, and they, taking their seats there, 
received with all humility and proper reverence and 
obedience the letters commissional of our aforementioned 
most illustrious lady the Queen confirmed with the great 
seal, and they caused the same to be read publicly by 
Thomas Percy, the abovesaid notary public, scribe and 
registrar. They then straightway undertook the task of 
executing the same out of reverence and honour for so 
great a princess, and judicially determined to proceed, in 
accordance with the force, form, and effect of the same, to 
give all effect to the law, and so far as their jurisdiction 
appertained. Thereupon one Master Robert Cressye, 
official of the Archdeacon of Nottingham, appearing in 
person, brought in a citatory mandate addressed to him on 
the part of the aforesaid lady the Queen for summoning 
and citing the clergy and peoples of the deaneries of 
Nottingham to undergo the royal visitation at that time, 
along with a certificate of its execution, &c., and names 
and titles of all and singular summoned in that behalf, and 
further requisitions under lawful oath. The aforesaid 
commissioners caused all who were cited to be publicly 
preconized by name, and pronounced contumacious all who 
were summoned, preconized, and who did not appear. 



^ Sandys seems to have preached 
at Nottingham, Southwell, York, 
Hull, Durham, Newcastle, Carlisle, 
Richmond, Kendal, Manchester. 
Pilkington preached at Halifax, All 
Saints' York, and Wigan. Scambler 
preached (for there was power to 
appoint deputies) at St Michael's 
York, Beverley, and Chester. These 
three men became bishops. At 
smaller places less eminent men 



were the preachers, e.g. R. Blunston 
at Blyth, R. Sewell at Auckland, 
J. Best at Northwich. The fiunous If 
Bernard Gilpin (see p. 80) gave the 
sermon at Alnwick, doubtless because 
of his personal popularity in the 
Durham diocese. In Sandys' /?#- 
mams there occurs a sermon very 
probably preached on this occasion 
at York, p. 235. 



76 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. IV * Thereafter, a learned exhortation having been addressed 
Retunia ^^^ ^^'^ ^^ ^^^ people by the aforementioned Master 
furnished Edwin Sandvs, they directed all the lay people, viz. the 
v^ardens Parishioners and churchwardens of any parish, after first 
&c. ' touching the most holy Gospels of God, that after dinner 
at two o'clock they should furnish in writing their detections 
and answers on the Articles of Inquiry, along with the 
royal Injunctions, then read and given to them. The 
aforesaid lord commissioners likewise directed with firm 
injunction the rectors, vicars, chaplains, curates, and 
men without cure, being present, all and singular, that 
they personally appear at the said hour and place, to 
exhibit letters of orders, dispensations, and all other instru- 
ments as concerns each, and to do further what justice 
and equitable reason shall persuade. When the hour 
arrived, the aforesaid churchwardens and parishioners ex- 
hibited their bills of detections, along with the inventories 
of their church goods. Next they made careful examina- 
tion of the condition, learning {doctrina\ and conversation 
of the clergy and ecclesiastical persons, examining each 
one by himself, letters of orders and other documents 
having been exhibited by them.' 

The order followed at Nottingham seems to have been 
copied at all other places in the visitation. The mass of 
business must have been enormous, and it is very difficult 
to understand how the commissioners dispatched the work 
that they had to do in the time that they allowed them- 
selves. It will appear a little farther on that in one 
diocese, at all events, they had to appoint deputies to 
conclude what they had only begun. 
Southwell. The next session was held, August 24, at Southwell 
Minster for the deanery of Newark, and then in the 
Chapter House for the collegiate church on August 25. 
At the latter place five prebendaries put in no appearance, 
viz. W. Mowse, G. Dudley, G. Lambe, R. Snell, W. Saxye. 
On August 26 and 28 Blyth and Pontefract were visited 
for the deaneries of Retford and Laneham, of Doncaster 
Halifax, and Pontefract respectively. At Halifax, on August 31, 



VISITATION OF THE NORTHERN PROVINCE 77 

another part of the deanery of Pontcfract was visited. Chap, iv 
The commissioners were at Otley September 4, when 
Boies, Vicar of Gresley, Wood, Vicar of Otley, Wrigley, 
Vicar of Kildwick, and Jennynges, Vicar of Bingley, denied 
the royal supremacy. This brings us to an interesting 
point. Denial of the royal supremacy was regarded as 
a most serious ofTence. The recognizance was always less 
(e.g. ;f200, Marley of Durham) when that was allowed. 
Here Boies is eventually bound in a recognizance of j^500 
to appear before the Queen's commissioners residing in 
London. Most of these cases were decided at York, to 
which place they were referred. This postponement and 
reconsideration was usually allowed each recusant, and 
some of them gave in during the interval. Of the Southwell 
recusants, the other three were to come up whenever called 
upon, the living in each case being sequestered. 

York was naturally a great centre, not only for the Procced- 
surrounding deaneries, but for the decision of cases referred JJ^ *' 
during the previous fortnight from the various places of 
session. Accordingly we find that the visitation was held 
at the Chapter House September 6-9, at All Saints' 
September 7, at St. Michael's September 8, and at the 
Consistory Court on the 8th and 9th, the work being 
divided between Gargrave, G«tes, Sandys, and Harvey. 
The cathedral chapter were summoned, and before those 
present Percy, the notary, read out * distinctly' the form 
of subscription. Mr. John Rokesby, a member of the 
Council of the North, acted as spokesman for the chapter, 
and, says the record, ' ipse bono spiritu ductus, ut pauci 
arbitrantur, voluntarie subscripsit.' The form of oath 
taken by him and the rest of the conformist prebendaries 
IS given in these words, which agree in general with the 
form used in the south : * We, the clergy of the Cathedral Form of 
and Metropolitical Church of York, whose names are ^^^ °*? ^ 
subscribed, do humbly confess and acknowledge the re- 
storing again of the ancient jurisdiction over the state 
ecclesiastical and spiritual to the crown of the realm, and 
the abolishing of all foreign power repugnant to the same. 



78 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. IV according to an oath thereof made in the late Paiiiament 
b^^n at Westminster the %yd day of January, in tfie 
first year of the reign of our sovereign lady Queen 
Elizabeth, and there continued and kept until the 8th 
day of May next after ensuing. We confess also and 
acknowledge the administration of the Sacraments, tiie 
use and order of divine service in manner and form as 
it is set forth in the book commonly called the Book 
of Common Prayer, &c., established also by the same Act, 
and the orders and rules contained in the Injunctions 
given by the Queen's Majesty, and exhibited unto us 
in the present visitation, to be according to the true 
word of God, and agreeable to the doctrine of the primitive 
Church. In witness whereof, and that the premises be 
true, we have unfeig^edly hereunto subscribed our names.' 
It will be seen, as pointed out in the last chapter, that 
this comprehensive form of subscription includes assent 
to the three crucial points, viz. the Supremacy Act, the 
Uniformity Act, and the Injunctions. The Uniformity 
Act was to be found at the beginning of the new Prayer 
Book as published in the preceding June, and so would 
be known to some extent. The Injunctions, however, 
had been presumably heard for the first time in their 
revised shape when Percy read them out in the morning 
of the day on which they were subscribed. The terms of 
the Supremacy Act had been in the mouths of all men. 
Depriva- Several of the York prebendaries put in no appearance 
tionsat 2^^ ^|j ^j^, J, Warren, Archdeacon of Cleveland, Alban 

York, 

Langdale, Arthur Lowe, J. Seaton, Peter Vannes, T. Arden, 
Geoffrey Morlaye, T. Clement, T. Cheston, G. Blithe. Four 
only of these, we shall find, were eventually deprived. Of 
those present two were deprived after repeated examination 
— G. Palmes and Roger Marshall ; two had their benefices 
and promotions sequestered — Geoffrey Downes and Robert 
Pursglove, Bishop Suffragan of Hull ; two were given a 
week to reconsider the matter, and were then ready to sign — 
Robert Bapthorp and G. Williamson. Reference to the list 
of those ultimately deprived shows which prebendaries 



VISITATION OF THE NORTHERN PROVINCE 79 

persisted in refusal and were extruded. At the Con- Chap, iv 
sistory Court on September 9, H. More, Rector of 
St. Martin's Micklegate, York, and T. Jeffrison, Vicar of 
Ledesham, had their livings sequestered and were bound 
over to appear when called upon. The remaining places 
and dates from the diocese of York were these : Hull, 
September II ; Beverley, 12th; Malton,i4th; Northallerton, 
1 5th. At the last of these, R. Salvyn, Rector of Hinderwell, 
refused subscription, and was referred to Durham on 
September ^3. 

The visitation of the diocese of Durham occupied what Diocese of 
was left of September. The first session was held at ^"rham. 
Auckland on September 21. All the recusants were 
remanded to meet the commissioners at Durham, in the 
Chapter House. A special case was that of Dr. Robert 
Dalton, Canon of Durham, Vicar of Billingham and of 
Norton, the holder of valuable preferment. He is reported 
to have said * That he believeth that he who sitteth in the 
seat of Rome hath and ought to have the jurisdiction 
ecclesiastical over all Christian realms.' Dalton was 
examined three times over, and was eventually deprived, 
together with Dr. Siggiswick, Vicar of Gainford. Dr. W. 
Bennet, Vicar of Aycliffe, and W. Whitehead, Vicar of 
Heighington, seem to have been deprived, but are not 
so traced in the Register. The Durham chapter were 
perhaps the most sturdy of all the cathedral chapters in 
resistance to the visitors. Dr. T. Robertson, the dean, was 
bound over in recognizances of ;^5oo to appear in London. 
The following prebendaries were sequestered and bound 
over to appear either in the north or in London: — 
J. Cranforth, Stephen Marley, J. Tuttyn, Nich. Marley, 
G. Bullock, Ant. Salvyn, G. Clife. The final list will show 
that seven were deprived. Six minor canons were likewise 
bound over, as was the master of the Grammar School, 
W. Thewlea At St. Nicholas', Durham, on the following 
day. Dr. Carter, Archdeacon of Northumberland, was 
deprived. On the 27th the visitors sat at St. Nicholas', 
Newcastle. The place of session on the last day of 



8o 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Carlisle. 



Chap. IV September was Alnwick. Here, in accordance with the 
liberty granted by the letters patent, the visitatorial powers 
were delegated to deputies * for sufficient reasons.' Those 
who acted were Sir J. Foster, Bernard Gilpin, B.D., and 
W. Harrison, elk. The Northumbrian clei^ seem to 
have been conformable, and there can be little doubt that 
in this attitude they were somewhat influenced by the 
example of Gilpin ^, who would be known to have subscribed 
himself, and whose position in the north would have great 
weight with the rest of the clergy. 

Diocese of The visitors began work in the diocese of Carlisle on 
October 3, after a week's rest from visiting, though not from 
travelling. The three places of meeting were the Chapter 
House, Carlisle, for the cathedral, on the 3rd ; the cathedral, 
for the deaneries of Carlisle and Allerdale, on the 4th ; 
Penrith parish church, for the deaneries of Cumberland 
and Westmoreland, on the 6th. There was very little 
oppositioa In the Chapter House Dean Salkeld signed, 
*voluntarie et bono animo,' with four canons and seven minor 
canons. The only apparent difficulty* was with Owen 
Hodgson, who was also Provost of Queen's College, Oxford. 
The visitation record does not mention him, but the 
earliest extant record in the Carlisle Register is tbe c''*^'' of 
his deprivation. 

Reference to the terms of the commission shows that the 



Appoint- 
ment of 
assessors. 



^ It appears from the life of Ber- 
nard Gilpin, quoted by Strype, Ann, 
i. 166, that on the second day of 
the D^ham visitation Gilpin had 
preached by special desire of the 
visitors, and that the subject assigned 
was the primacy of the Pope. The 
third and last day was that appointed 
for subscription. No one in the 
diocese was so well known or so 
highly respected as Gilpin : he was 
therefore first called upon to sub- 
scribe. There were, however, certain 
points which he scrupled, but * he con- 
sidered further that if he should 
refuse he should be a means to make 



many others refuse, and so con- 
sequently hinder the course of the 
word of God * ( Strype, I.e.). Doubt- 
less the subscription of this well- 
known Northumbrian earned with it 
the acquiescence of a very large 
number of the clergy in Durham 
diocese. 

* Subscription in the diocese of 
Carlisle was almost universal, but 
the assent was somewhat feigned, as 
a letter from the bishop shows (S. P. 
Dom. July 19, 1561 (18, No. ai)). 
Lord Dacres shielded those who 
secretly sympathized with the old 
regime. 



VISITATION OF THE NORTHERN PROVINCE 8i 

visitors had power to appoint assessors to help them in their Chap, iv 
work during the actual visitation, and also, if need were, 
to complete it after their departure. One such appoint- 
ment we have been able to trace. In a document extant 
in TunstalFs Register at Durham, Roger Watson, D.D., 
and Bernard Gilpin, D.D., receive commission from Sandys, 
Harvey, and Browne to undertake all visitatorial power 
throughout the diocese of Durham as deputies of the said 
visitors. The commission includes summarily all the 
duties comprised in the original letters patent, and may be 
revoked at pleasure. One Christopher Clayton is named 
as registrar, and a full report is to be made when asked for. 
The document was sealed with the visitors' seal, and bore 
date October 8. 

Gilpin, however, could not have begun his duties at once, Diocese of 
for we find him with the visitors when they began opera- C**^''*^''- 
tions for the diocese of Chester at Kendal on October 9, and 
at Lancaster on the 1 ath. A large part of the diocese as 
then constituted had already been visited three weeks earlier, 
viz. the deaneries of Richmond, Catterick, and Borough- 
bridge. The centre then selected had been Richmond, to 
which Sandys, Gates, and Harvey betook themselves from 
No''fhp.Ue^on, holding their session on September 18. 
N mg of importance occurred there, or at any other place 
\i the Chester diocese, until the commissioners came to 
Manchester on October 18 and 19. On the latter day they 
experienced slight opposition, when Richard Hart, a fellow 
of the Collegiate Church, refused to sign, and was cited to 
appear in London. Another, John Copage ^, absented * im- 
self. Next day another session was held at Northwich, and 
this proved to be the last, so far as the visitors proper were 
concerned. It appears from the returns of musters for 
1559 ^^^^ there was a great deal of sickness in England. 
The autumn weather had probably aggravated it, and so, 
* because of the plague raging both in the city of Chester and 
the surrounding districts,* surrogates were appointed, viz. 
Sir E. Fytton, E. Scambler, B.D., and W. Morton, Esquire. 

^ Perhaps the Cubbage of Sanders' list, p. aaS. 

G 



82 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. IV They sat at Tarvin on the 24th, and at Chester Cathedral 
on the 26th. They found a deplorable condition of things 
at the Cathedral. The see had been long vacant, and for 
two years there had been no dean. Of the prebendaries 
only two were resident. The church itself was so poor that 
even the servants of the cathedral could not be paid the 
wages due to them. It may be presumed that some of the 
non-resident canons appeared to answer their names : at 
all events no case of absence or refusal is noted. 
Conciu- Our review of the northern visitation is now as complete 

sion of the ^^ ^j^^ materials allow. We shall consider in a later chapter 

northern 

visitation, its formal conclusion, but as that expressly permitted causes 
actually in progress to be completed, and as there were 
perhaps delegates appointed for the purpose in every 
diocese, we may suppose that a good deal of arrears had to 
be dispatched by these delegates after the visitation proper 
was over. The visitors had detected a certain amount of 
recalcitrance ^, which is noted in the report, but on the whole 
there is nothing to show any general disaflfection of the 
people to the settlement of religion. Traces of local dis- 
content and individual opposition will be considered later'. 

^ Thus in the Detectumts ft Com" presentment is made elsewhere. In 

peria (f. 919), which are answers to one or two places it is said that the 

the Articles of Inquiry ^ we find a few Bible and prayer books belonging 

instances of reluctance to use the to the church in Edward's time had 

new prayer book. It must be remem- been burned. It might seem from one 

bered that these instances are gii^en or two of the notes g^ven above that 

on the oath of churchwardens and the new prayer book had not found 

parishioners. At St. Peter's, Notting- its way into some churches by the 

ham, the curate had not used the time the visitation began. Scarcity 

Lord's Prayer, Belief, or Ten Com- of prayer books on the borders ai 

mandments. This refers to the mini- Wales had been noted on June 95, 

mum of English prayer allowed by by Sir Hugh Poulet to Cecil, but two 

the proclamation of December, 1558. months had intervened since then. 

At Stoke the vicar had said no service ' It is material to notice that a 

since Midsummer. At Fishlake dis- good many livings are returned as 

turbance at prayers is noted. In vacant In the Dipcese of York: 

York Cathedral < the Gospel and Winthorpe, Edinge, Drayton, Fled- 

Epistle are so read that no man can borough, Thome, Campsall, Maltby, 

well understand.' At Raddifie the Darfield, Huddersfield, Drypool, 

clerg3rman ' does not read the Epistle Keyingham, EUerker, Raskel^ 

and Gospel with the Litany according Folkton, Lythe, Annesley, Bonyne, 

to the proclamation.' The same Aponborough,Hoveringham,X.entony 



VISITATION OF THE NORTHERN PROVINCE 83 

It remains now to add a list of the clergy who absented Chap, iv 
themselves from the visitation in the northern province. 
At this stage they were merely absentees, and were pro- 
nounced contumacious: we shall see what proportion of 
them eventually acquiesced in the changes. 



I. 

Names of Absentees from the Visitation \ 

[An astifisk dmoUs suhsequeni deprivaium,'] 

Diocese of York^. 



Name of Person, 
Apeleye, Robt. 
Arsleye, W. 
Askam, Anth. 

BambyCy T. 
BamCyT. 
Barton, Jas. 
Bagley, Robt 
Bcll,W. 
Besakell, J. 
Borrow, T. 



Name of Cure, 
Beckingham. 
South Scarle. 
Methley. 

Elmley. 

Sessay. 

Gringley. 

Attenborongh. 

Kirkbum. 

Mappleton. 

Holy Trinity, 



York, cur. 
BrodebentCyJas. Crofton. 
Brogden, W. Worposley and 

Birkin. 



Name of Person. 
Burgyn,]. 
♦Bury, W. 

Byas, Robt 



Calverd, W. 
Cayle, T. 
Cleving, Robt 
Cockeson, T. 
Coseleye, W. 

Cowper, W. 
Creton, Jas. 



Name of Cure. 
Mytton. 

Kirkby in Cleve- 
land. 
WighiU. 

Etton. 
Thormanby. 
Goodmanham. 
Tankersley. 
South Colling- 

ham. 
Saxton, cur. 
Bugthorpe. 



Crofte, Vincent Hemsworth. 



Stapleford, Scarrington, Edingley, 
Northdeston, Tuxford, Bawtry, East 
Retford, Stockwith, Sturton, Kirk 
Sandall,Wolley,Hickleton,St01ave's 
York, Bilborough, East Ralsey— 35 
in alL In the Diocese of Durham : 
Ashe, Whitburn, Heig^ington. In 
the Diocese of Carlisle : Skelton and 
Kirk Andrews. ' In the Diocese of 
Chester : Sandbach, Macclesfield 
(unserved for four years), Clitheroe. 
Thus, besides livings sequestered, at 
least forty-three are returned as 
vacant, or as the phrase is, * destituta 

G 



curato/ There is some reason for be- 
lieving that these lists for Carlisle 
and Chester are imperfect. 

^ We take it that the following 
list, which we have rearranged al- 
phabetically from the report, f. 371, 
&c., represents all clerical absentees, 
whatever the cause of their absence, 
from the visitation. 

' There were more than 600 clergy 
in the Diocese of York. A list of 159a 
g^ves 634 (Lambeth, Cart, Mise. xii.9). 
Thus perhaps a quarter of the total 
number were absent. 



84 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. IV Name of Person, Name of Cure, 

Dacye, J. Fockton. 

Dalisson, Roger. Clayworth. 

Dene, Reg. North Cave, cur. 

Diconson, Laur. Brotherton. 

Donnaye, Vin- Sutton, cur. 

cent. 

Durham, J. Foston, cur. 



EUys, Stephen 

(Ludimr.) 
♦Ellys, W. 

Ellys, W. 
Fishbom, R. 

Fishe, J. 
Fisher, G. 
Fisher, J. 
Fugall, T. 

Gamett, W. 
Gledle, Hugh. 
Gowland, J. 

Gowle, W. 
Green, J. 
Greyne, T. 

Hagger, J. 
Hall, T. 
Harde, R. 
Harrison, J. 
Harrison, J. 
Harte, W. 
Hay ward, R. 
Herling, E. 
Heworthe, J. 
Holmes, W. 
Hopkinson, T. 
Houghton, W. 
Huainson, Laur. 
Huntington, T. 
Huyson, J. 



Skipton. 

Hutton Crans- 

wick. 
Adlingileet. 

North Musk- 
ham. 
Broughton. 
Harworth. 
Welwicke. 
Lowthorpe. 

Crayke. 
Huddersfield. 
Ingleby Green- 

[how], cur. 
Roos, cur. 
Badsworth. 
Barwick, cur. 

Rothwell. 

Long Preston. 

Garton, cur. 

Halifax. 

Snaith, cur. 

Thornton. 

Sheffield. 

East Drayton. 

Huntington. 

Escrick. 

Owthome. 

Appleton. 

Rothwell. 

Aldwark. 

Swine. 



Nam* of Person. Neune of Cure. 
Jackson, Brian. Sandal Magna* 



Jake, J. 
Jakeson, J. 
*Jakeson, J. 
Johnson, Jas. 

Keyc, H* 

Lane, G. 
Lecetor, Oliver. 
Leither, T. 
Lodge, Geofi^ 
Luddington, T. 
Lyster, J. 

MacheU, Philip. 
Malberye, J. 

Malevery, H. 
Mallet, Fras. 
Markindale, T. 
Maxwell, Antb. 
Mershall, J. 
Mershall, J. 
Mershe, W. 
More, W. 
Mores, W. 
Myddelton, 
Robt. 

Newsome, J. 
Norfolk, J. 

Normavell, J. 

Nutte, W. 

Otbye, E. 
Otford, Robt. 
Oton, J. 
Owen, David. 



Topdiflfe. 
Acklam. 
Buhner. 
St Laurence, 
York, 

Scawby. 

South Wheatley. 

Bingham. 

All Samts, York. 

Normanton. 

Rolleston. 

Holme. 

Strensall. 
Halton, near 

Newark. 
Thumscoe. 
SwiUington. 
WUlerbye. 
Ainsby. 
Misterton. 
Kilnwick. 
Mattersey. 
Colston Bassett. 
Bishops Hull 
Crambe, cur. 



Hutton-Buscel. 
Monk-Frystone^ 

cur. 
Alston and 

Broughton. 
Rawmarsh. 

Terrington. 
Otterington. 
Egmanton. 
Stangrave. 



Peerson, J. Warsop. 

Percy, Alan. SpofTorth. 
Perpoincte, W, Cotgrave. 



VISITATION OF THE NORTHERN PROVINCE 85 



Name of Person, 


Name of Curt, 


Name of Person, 


Name of Cure, Chap. 


IV 


Pirkard, W. 


Rampton. 


Taylor, G. 


Methley, cur. 


• 


Poisegate, J. 


Salton. 


Taylor, W. 


BiidsalL 




Preston, T. 


cur. 


Teesdale, 


Thonnanby,cur. 




Prise, H. 


North Leverton. 


Marmaduke. 






Purkin, W. 


Goxhill, cur. 


Thompson, R. 
Thomley, J. 


Worksop. 




Raignold, }. 


Auboum, cur. 


Thurland, E. 


Clifton. 




Rayner, Ch. 


Kilbum, cur. 


Thurland, T. 


Cromwell and 




Richardson, J. 


Finningley. 




Gamston. 




Ringrose, Robt. 


South-Dalton. 


Thwaits, J. 


Kirkby. 




Robinson, 


Huggate. 


Turner, Robt. 


Brayton. 




Abraham. 




Twenge, Robt 


Welton. 




Rokebye, W. 


Marske. 


Tyndall, 


Gillingly. 




Rowlinge, Arth. 


Haworth, cur» 


Edmund. 






Rudde, J. 


Riston. 


Vaviier, T. 


Garforth. 




Sandforthe, Ch. 


Hawksworth. 








Shaw, H. 


Nidd. 








9 

Shipman, T. 


Thorpe in the 
Glebe. 


Ustler, Ch. 


Elvington. 




Sillcs, Peter. 


Sprotborough. 


Walker, R. 


Great Leake. 




Skelton, W. 


Hovingham, 


Walker, Roger. 


Klland. 






cur. 


♦Washington, T. 


Fledborough. 




Smythson, W. 


Upper Helms- 


Watson, T. 


Sherbum. 






ley. 


Waynehouse, J. 


Kirksmeaton. 




Snytall, R. 


Normanton. 


Westcrope, 


Salton. 




SowthiU, H. 


Kirkburton. 


Ralph. 






Stafford, 


Carlton. 


Wetherall, W. 


Epperstone and 




e 

Leonard. 






Laneham. 




Stalinge, Robt 


I^ngtoft. 


Wheatley, Jas. 


Barton. 




Stampe, £. 


Wressle. 


Widife, Anth. 


Kirkby in Ash- 




Standey, T. 


Dunnington. 




field. 




Stapleton, R. 


Ormesby. 


♦Wilson, T. 


Amcliffe. 




Stevenson, 


Speeton. 


Wood, R. 


Sandby. 




Martin. 




Wormmall, £. 


Bumholme. 




Stubbes, 


WidmerpooL 


Wright, T. 


Walkington. 




Edmund. 




Wyngrenc, 


Bole. 




Suell, Robt. 


Westlow. 


Edmund. 






Swane, T. 


Tadcaster. 








Symson, J. 


Hawnby. 


Yarrowe, Miles. 


Riccall. 





86 



THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. IV 



Diocese of Durham'^. 



Nanu of Person, Name of Cure, 
Barrowe, Anth. Warden, cur. 
*Baynes, Brian. Eaglesdiff. 
Bell, W. Middleton-m- 

Teesdale. 



CoUinwood, W. 
Crawforth, R. 

Daker, J. 

Ellison, Cuth- 
bert. 

Eltringham, 

Ralph. 

Foster, J. 
Foster, N. 

Halman, T. 
Halman, T. 
♦Hartbum, R. 
Hymners, G. 

Lakynby, Jas. 
Lewen, Gilbert. 



Lewes, Ch. 



Ford. 
Billingham, cur. 

Morpeth. 

Masindewe. 

Corbridge, cur. 

Edmundbyers. 
Brancepeth. 

Masindewe. 
Ponteland. 
Longnewton. 
Alnham. 

Stranton. 
Masindewe. 

(Master of 

St. Mary's 

Hospital.) 
Chollerton, cur. 



Name of Person, Name of Cure, 
Mawen, N. Warden, stip. 

Mershali, R. Corbridge. 



Ogle, T. 



Sheepwash. 



*Pas9e, R. BothaL 

Peterson, Robt Sockbnm, cur. 



Ranys, }. 

Rayne, G. 
Robinson, G. 

Sare, J. 
Sclbye, Oliver. 
Semer, J. 
Sheppard, W. 
Sparke, T. 
Stevenson, W. 



West SiMttle 
(warden). 
Cockfiekl, cur. 
Newbum. 

Elton, cur. 
Tynemouth. 
Stranton. 
Darlington, cur. 
Wolsingham. 
EaglesclifT, cur. 



Tesedale, Robt. Knaresdale. 
Thomson, T. Houghton. 
Trowtbecke, E. Morpeth, cur. 



Watson, J. 
Watson, W. 



Muggleswide, 

cur. 
Bedlington. 



Diocese of Carlisle *. 



Name of Person, Name of Cure, 

Barton, G. Clibum, cur. 

Barton, Hugh. Barton, cur. 

Bell, E. Denton. 

Benson, J. Dufton, cur. 



Name of Person, Name i^Cure, 
Bowman, Renwick, cur. 

Stephen. 
Brandlinge, Thursby. 

Ralph. 



* This list gives 35 absentees. 
There were some 180 clergymen in 
the diocese (Harl. MS. 594, f. 186). 

' The total number is 35 out of more 
than 100 clergy. Cf. Harl. MS. 595, 



C 85. Bishop Best speaks somewhat 
later (S. P. Dom. zviii. ai, July 19, 
1561) of the outward conformity of 
the clergy, but says * only fear 
maketh them obedient.' 



VISITATION OF THE NORTHERN PROVINCE 87 



NmtMt of Peratm, 


NmmtofCun, 


Name cfPirmm. 


NanuofCun, 


Chap. IV 


Burye, W. 


Marton. 


NevDl, G. 


Bolton. 




Crakinthorpe, 
MigheU. 


Kirkby-Thore. 


Nicolson, Jas. 
Nutthide, Robt. 


Ireby, cur, 
Kirkby-Thoro, 
cur. 




Dane, J. 


Greystoke. 


Place, R. 


Orton. 




DawsoDy Adam. 


Barton, stip. 


r 

Porter, W. 


Plumbland. 




Gargate, W. 


Warcop, cur. 


Ratclif, J. 


Crosthwaite. 




Harrison^ J. 
*Hodgeson, 


Bampton, cor. 
Skelton. 


Rivemey, T. 
Robinson, J. 


Kirk Andrews. 
Bowness. 




Hugh. 




Scales, J. 


Kirkoswald. 




Hogeson, R. 


Thursby, cur. 


Shaimd, Robt. 
Smythe, T. 


Shap, cur. 
Barton. 




Kirkebecke, J. 


Musgrave. 


J • 






Knyppe, E. 


Clibum. 


♦Thompson, 
Robt. 


Beaumont. 




Levagies, 


Crosthwaite, 


Threlket, 


Dufton. 




Launcelot 


stip. 


Roland. 
Towson, R. 


Hutton. 




Muircy, J. 


Burgh, cur. 


Twentyman, T. 


Orton, cur. 




Murrey, 


Crosthwaite, 


Vanes, Peter. 


Kirkby- 




Launcelot. 


stip. 




Stephen. 


- 



Diocese of Chester^. 



Natne of Person, 
Ambros, £li- 

zeus. 
Apowell, Hugh. 

Backehouse, J. 
Ballarde, Robt. 
Barker, W. 
Baven, R. 
Beckewith, Ch. 
Bell, Dd. 



Braithwayte, 
Mich. 



Name of Curt, 
Ormsldrk. 

Astbury. 

Aysgarth. 
Sephton. 
Arlesdon, cur. 
Whitegate. 
Bameston. 
Moor Monkton, 
cur. 

Whitbecke, ctnr. 






Name of Person, 
Brocke, Robt. 
Broke, Jas. 
Buckleye, T. 

Charleton, Alan. 
Charleton, W. 
Clarke, T. 
Collingwood,W. 
Copeland, Nic. 

Davison, Jas. 
Davye, T. 
Dickenson, £. 
Dickenson, T. 



Name of Cure, 
Aldingham. 
Wilmslow, cur. 
Cheadle. 

Tarporley. 
Bangor. 

Mobberley, cur. 
Christleton. 
Haile. 

Mobberiey. 
Backford. 
Little Ousebum. 
Aldingham, stip. 



^ The return gives 90 names of 
absentees, and as there were per- 
haps 950 clergy in the diocese (c£ 



Harl. MS. 594, f. 146) the propor- 
tion is higher than in Carlisle and 
Durham. 



88 



THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. 


IV Na99u ofPemm. 


Nmmt^Cun. 


NmmmtfPtnm. 


Nmtm^Cmm, 




DickesoQ, }. 


Wathe, cur. 


*ParcevaIl, Robt Ri^ey. 




Dickson, T. 


Wybunbury, 


Parr, R. 


Brigham. 






stip. 


Philipe, Ralph. 


Hanmer. 




DowsoQy W. 


Grintoo. 


Pirrey, E. 


Aldingham, stip, 




Ducks, Chas. 


St Mary, 


Planter Robt 


Swettenham. 






Chester. 


Pockeson, J. 


Famham. 




Dudley, Arthur. 


Malpas (rector 


Prestland, P. 


Soulby. 






(^a moiety). 


Redshawe, Robt Gt Ousebum. 




EUerkar, J. 


CundalL 


Robinson, J. 


Ashton. 




Gardener, Robt 


Aldingham, cur. 


Roper, H. 


Inceycur. 




Gascoyne, W. 


Stanley. 


Sell, Leon. 


Aldingham, stip. 




Graye, W. 


Kirkby on the 


Seller, Jas. 


Wathe. 






Moor. 


Sheppard, 


Davenham. 




Grindall, J. 


St Bees, cur. 


Simon. 






Halsall, H. 


Halsall, cur. 


Smyth, T. 






Halsall, R. 


HalsalL 


5Mi^,Bishopof, 


Wigan. 




Harris, R. 


H awkshead,cur. 


Stanley, T. 


Winwick* 




Hawson, J. 


Rochdale, cur. 


Stringer, W. 


Gosforthe. 




Helme, J. 


Patrick Bromp- 


Sudan, H. 


Barrow. 




' w 


ton; 


Swayne,.R. 


Goostree, cur. 




HiU, W. 


Malpas (rector 


Sympson, Ch. 


Kiricby-Fleet- 

ham. 
Hawkshead, stip. 




Hindmere, Reg. 


of a moiety). 
Wensley. 


Syngilton, T. 




Tac^eer, Fras. 




Tassye, T. 


WaUasey. 




J ^^O J 




Thomlinson, 


Askrigg. 




Kellett, Hugh. 


Hawksbead, 


Roger. 








stip. 


Tobman, W. 


Muncaster, cur. 




Kynsey, Robt. 


Barthomley. 


Towreson, W. 


Whicham. 




Ladd, Robt. 


Harrington. 


Tunstall, J. 


[W.] Tanfield. 




Lambe, G. 


Copgrove. 


Wadforthe, J. 


Kirklington. 




Langfellowe, R. 


Arkendale. 


Wainwrighte, 


Leyland. 




Lee,W. 


Gawsworth. 


Chas. 






Lemyng, T. 


Croston, 


Walker, J. 


PlemstalL 




Longleye, W. 


Prestwich. 


Walker, R. 


Kirby. 




Lowe, Arth. 


Stockport. 


Warde, R. 


Hawkshead, stip. 




Mershall, Robt. 


Aldburgh. 


Woddye, J. 


Ecdeston. 




Mollyneux, 


•* 

Walton. 


Wooddall, H. 


Brigham, [Four.] 




Anth. 




Woode, Math. 


Wybunbury. 




Morecrofte, E. 


Aikton. 


Wybram, W. 
Wyneslowe, 


Aldford. 
TattenhalL 




Nelson, Robt 


Prescott, cur. 


w 

Ralph. 






Olyver, J, 


Baddiley. 


Ylkins,- 


Bedale. 



VISITATION OF THE NORTHERN PROVINCE 89 



Chap. IV 



Restitutions of those previously deprived ^ in the 

Northern Province, 



Rtslond, 
Ant. Blake. 
W. Soorye. 
W. Denman. 
J. Rudd. 
W. Latimer. 
R. Baldwyn. 
T. Atkinson. 
W. Soorye. 
T. Whytbec. 
v Percival Wharton. 
J. Horleston. 
J. Adams. 
Ant. Blake. 
G. Taylor. 
W. Harrison. 
Marm. Pulleyn. 
£dw. Sandys. 
Ant Holgate. 
Chris. Sugden. 
Rob. Wisdom. 
OL Columben. 
T. Atkinson. 



Whiston. 

Sedbergh. 

Ordsall 

Preb. Durham. 

Kirby in Cleveland. 

S. Nich. Hosp.) Richmond. 

Elwick. 

Urswick. 

Hutton. 

Bridekirk. 

Archdn. Richmond. 

Hocherton. 

Doncaster. 

Buhner. 

Bothal. 

Ripley. 

Eversham. 

Bumsall. 

Newark. 

Setterington. 

Stainford. 

Ormside. 



Removed, 
J. Atkinson. 
T. Atkinson. 
Rob. Blunston. 
G. Bullock. 
W. Bury. 
W. Bury. 
G. Clife. 
T. Dobson. 
W. EUys. 
W. Gray. 
J. Hanson. 
T. Huddleston. 
J. Hudson. 
J. Jackson. 
Rob. Pates. 
Rob. Percival. 
J. Redman. 
R. Summerscale. 
J. Taversham. 
J. Thornton. 
Eliz. Umfrye. 
J. Yates.. 



n. 

Letters Patent directing the Northern 

Visitation of 1559 ^ 

[Transcn from S. P. Dom. Eliz. x. p. i.] 

Elizabetha Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, et Hibemiae Regina, The Queen 
Fidei Defensor, charissimis consanguineis et eonsiliariis nostris, ^^j^. 
Francisco Comiti de Salope Domino Presidenti Consilii nostri in sioners 

herein 



' This list is taken from the Report, 
f. lai, and the names are chiefly 
those of clergymen who had been 
deprived under Queen Mary, on 
the ground of their marriage. See 



- ,-_, named, 

the provision in the Commission, 

p. 9a. 

* This document is given in the 

Report, but is not to be traced in 

the Patent Rolls*. 



90 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. IV partibus borealibus, et Edwardo Comid de Darbia, ac charissimo 

consanguineo nostro Thomae comid Northumbriae Domino 

Guardiano sive custodi marchiarum nostranim de le Estmarche 

et Mydlemarche versus Scotiam, ac praedilecto et fideli nostro 

Willelmo Domino Evers; ac edam dilectis et fidelibus nostris 

Henrico Percy, Thomae Gargrave, Jacobo Crofles, et Henrico 

Gates milidbus : necnon dilecds Edwino Sandys, S.T.D., Henrico 

Harvy, LL.D., Ricardo Bowes, Christophoro Estofte, Georgio 

Browne, et Ricardo Eangsmyli Annigeris — salutem. 

It being the Quoniam Deus populum suum Anglicanum imperio nostro 

S"spread*true ^ubjecit, hujus regalis suscepd muneris radonem perfecte reddere 

religion and non possumus nisi veram religionem et sincerum numinis Divini 

she^deter^ cultum in omnibus regni nostri partibus propagaverimus : nos 

mines to visit igitur, reg^lis et absolutae pietads nostrae nobis in hoc regno 

t e realm; nostro commissae respectu, quoniam utrumque regni nostri statum, 

tarn ecclesiasdcum quam laicum, visitare et certas pietads et 

virtutis regulas illis praescribere consdtuimus, praefatos [here follow 

the names as above given] ad infrascripta, vice nomine et auctoritate 

nostris, exequendum, vos quattuor, tres, aut duo vestrum ad minimum, 

and deputes deputamus et substituimus ad visitandum igitur tam in capite quam 

(O tovisit^di ^^ nienibris Ecclesias Cathedrales Civiiates et Dioceses Eboracen. 

churches in Dunelmen. Carliolen. et Cestren., necnon quascunque alias col- 

Provhice^borh ^^&^^^s» parochiales, et prebendales ecclesias, ac loca alia ecclesiastica 

clergy and quaecunque, tam exempta quam non exempta, in et per easdem 

people; civiiaies et dioceses ubilibet constituta; clerumque et populum 

(a) to inquire earundem in eisdem degentem sive residentem ; deque statu 

of^churcher^ ecclesiarum et locorum hujusmodi, necnon vita, moribus, et con- 

and places, versadone, ac etiam qualitadbus personarum in ecclesiis et locis 

of the cler^- P^^^^^^ds, degendum sive ministrandum, modis omnibus quibus 

id melius aut efiQcacius poteritis, inquirendum et investigandum ; 

(3) to deprive criminosos ac susceptae religioni subscribere obsdnate et peremptorie 
recusant* "*^ recusanies, vel quocunque alio modo delinquentes atque culpabiles 
clerks, or to condignis poenis etiam usque ad beneficiorum, dignitatum, sive 
bv sea ^t™ officiorum suorum privationem, fructuumve, reddituum, et proven- 
tion, &c, in tuum ecclesiarum et locorum quibus praesunt sequestradonem — vel 
corr "^ Tih • Q^^"*cunque aliam congruam et competentem coercidonem, inclusive 

puniendum, et corrigendum, atque ad probadores viven<£ mores, 
modis omnibus quibus id melius et efficacius poteritis, reducendum ; 

(4) to grant Testamenta quoruncunque defunctorum infra loca praedictadeceden- 
pro a e o ^.^^ probandum, approbandimi, et insummandum; administrationes- 



VISITATION OF THE NORTHERN PROVINCE 91 

que bononim eorundem executoribus in eisdem testamentis Chap. IV 
nominatim committendom ; administrationesque insuper ac seque- ^^ig'^l^ 
stradones bonorum abintestato decedentium, in debita juris administra- 
forma expediendum, concedendum, et committendum ; compcrta ^^^^j^^^^J* 
quoque, tarn ezecutorum quam administratorum, et sequestratorum administra- 
quoruncunque, recipiendum, examinandum, et admittendum, ^c |^°° ["^ j**" 
insuper, eosdem executores, administratores, et sequestratores,omnes 
et singulos, acquietandum, relaxandum, et finaliter dimittendum; 
causasque instantiarum quascunque examinandum et finaliter ter- 
minandum ; contumaces autem et rebelles, cujuscunque conditionis ($> to restrain 
sive status fiierint, si quos inveneritis, tarn per censuras eccle- ^ousTnd™** 
siasticas quam personarum apprehensionem ac incarcerationem ac recalcitrant by 
recognitionum acceptionem, ac quaecunque alia juris regni nostri prisonmcnT' 
remedia compescendum; necuon Injunctiones praesentibus annexas or recog- 
personis in eisdem nominatis nomine nostro tradendum, aliasque '^^^^^ » 

: . . ^ ^ •..•** ^ •• (6) to deliver 

mjuncuones congruas et opportimas, vice et auctontate nostns eis the injunc- 
indicendum, et assignandum, poenasque convenientes in earum ^^ns annexed 
violatores infligendum et irrogandum ; Ecclesias etiam et alia loca necessary, 
dimissas vacare et pro vacantibus habendas fore decemendum et with suiuble 
dedarandum, pensionesque legitimas congruas et competentes ? . ^^ declare 
cedentibus vel resignantibus hujusmodi assignandum et limitandum ; all vacancies 
Praesentationes quoque ad benefida ecclesiastica quaecunque infra pensionno" 
dvitates ecclesias aut dioceses praedictasconstituta,durante visitatione the deprived ; 
nostra hujusmodi, si habiles fuerint et idonei, ad eadem admittendum, (®) *® receive 

presentations, 

ac in et de eisdem instituendum et investiendum cum suis juribus to institute, 
et pertinentiis universis, eosque in realem actualem et corporalem *nd to induct 
possessionem eorundem inducendum, et induci faciendum, atque visitation ; 
mandandum; necnon clericorum et benefidatorum quoruncunque, (9),toex- 
tam pro ordinibus quam beneficiis per eos adeptis, literas et^^^^^^ 
instrumenta exigendum et recipiendum, eaque diligenter exami- certificates of 
nandum et discutiendum, et quos non sufficienter munitos in ea ji^moving'' 
parte comperitis ab officio dimittendum, et pro sic non munitis doubtful cases; 
dedarandum et pronunciandum ; synodos quoque et capitula, tam ^^^ g^xi^' 
generalia quam spedalia cleri et populi hujusmodi, pro executione and chapters 
praemissorum aut reformatione quacunque, fadendum etconvocan- p^^^^i^^ *"^ 
dum; procurationes et synodalia ratione hujus nostrae visitationis (u) to' exact 
debitas petendum exigendum et levandum, ac etiam non solventes ^<:«? ^^y *^i* 

,. ^ 1 . . 11 1 visitation, to 

aut soude recusantes per censuras ecclesiasticas compellendum, censure and 
coercendum, et cogendum ; necnon contionandi potestatem hujus- commit re- 
modi personis concedendum quas ad hoc divinum munus sus- 



93 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. IV cipiendum aptas esse judicaveiitis ; incarceratos et vinculis com- 

f la^ toTcom- ^^^^^ ^^ religionis tarn antea licet nuliiier condempnatos, causis 

mission fit incarcerationis et condempnationis hojusxnodi prius examinatis et 

pmchera. pienarie discussis, examinandum discudendum ac in integrum, 

amine and justicia id suadente, restituendmn, deliberandum et extra prisonam 

restore in dimlttendum : necnon causas deprivationum examinandum et contra 

cases of un* ,. . , . . . » i. ... t 

lawful im- statuta et ordmationes hujus regni nostn Angliae vel juris eccle- 
prisonment. siastici ordinem deprivatos restituendum'; ae omnia et singula 
amine^and' ^^ ^^^^ ^^''^ hujusmodi visitationis seu reformationis vigorem 
restore in necessaria fuerint seu quomodolibet opportuna, etiam si verba 
STdbpri^-^" magis specialia de se exigunt et requirunt, Sciendum et expe- 
tion ; diendum — ^vobis tribus aut duobus vestnim, ut praefertur, de quorum 

fuU^ *° ^^^^ eminenti doctrina, morumque et consilii gravitate, ac in verbis 
action in all gerendis fide et industria plurimum confidimus, vices nostras corn- 
matters as mittimus, ac plenam in Domino, tenore praesentium, concedimus 
requires. facultatem, cum cujuslibet congruae et legitimae coercitionis 
potestate, et praeterea certos viros prudentes ac pios assignandi et 
nominandi, per quos de statu renun instruemini et quorum opera 
Power too is praesentes uteminr in omnibus causis ad banc visitationem nostram 
point asseT- spectantibus, quantum vobis convenire videbitur. Idem viri a vobis 
sors who shall commissariis assignati et nominati plenam potestatem habebunt, 

execute &I1 

orders and etiam post commissionis decessum et post finitum visitationis 

articles, even tempus, de omnibus articulis, ordinibus, et institutis ejusdem 
when the visi- . .^ ,. • . • j. -. • i 4. • J-*- 

ution is over visitationis mquirendi, et violatores eorum cujuscunque conditionis 
summoning fuerint conveniendi et examinandi, et omnes querelas, quatenus 
contravene ullum impedimentum aut ofTensionem nostrae visitationis con- 
them, and de- tinebunt, accipiendi et audiendi, et hujusmodi personas, offensiones, 
compUdnfs, ^^ querelas, conmiissariis nostris Londini residentibus, et ad 
remitting them ecclesiasticarum rerum reformationem designatis, praesentabunt et 
manenfcom- ^xhibebunt, illis viis et modis quibus hoc convenientissime vide- 
missioners in bunt fieri posse : Mandantes omnibus et singulis majoribus, vice- 
A?n 1 comitibus, justiciariis, et quibuscunque aliis officiariis, ministris, 

authoritiesare ^t subdiiis nostris, quatenus vobis in et circa praemissorum exe- 
bidden to cuiionem effectualiter assistant, auxilientur, et suffrajrentur. Ut 

assist in carry- 

ing out the insuper sagacitatis, diligentiae, factorumque vestrorum omnium 
premises. evidens et perpetuum specimen nobis posterisque nostris remaneat, 
of^all^Uiat^^^ inventaque et invenienda pro recordatorum defectu debitam re- 
shaU be done, formationem correctionemve non subterfugiant, aut e memoria 
iwblic^^^ prolabantur, nos suprema ac regali auctoritate nostra praedicta 
appointed, dilectos et fideles subditos nostros Thomam Percy et Johannem 



VISITATION OF THE NORTHERN PROVINCE 93 

Hoges, et eorum deputatos, per commissarios nostros approbandos Chap. IV 
notarios publicos preantea legitime existentium actorum, instru- ^^j^l^ "^^ 
inentorum, decretonim, sententianim, judicionun, censurarum, tants, who 
ceterorumque omnium et singulorum quae per vos vestrumve provJd^bv^ihe 
aliquem in visitatione hac nostra regia peragentur, judicabuntur, commis- 
decementur, fient, ferentur, et pronunciabuntur, scribas et re- **°"^'^ 
gistrarios nostros publicos et principales conjunctim et divisim 
ordinamus, nominamus, et constituimus, eisque officium et officia 
registrar! et scribae nostri publici, cum omnibus officia praedicta 
tangentibus, eorumque deputatis per dictos commissarios appro- 
bandis conjunctim et divisim damns, deputamus, assignamus, et 
decemimus per praesentes. 

In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Dated at 
Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium vicesimo quarto die J^^" june*^'"isiso. 
anno regni nostri primo. 



CHAPTER V 

THE SOUTHERN VISITATION, 1 559 

Chap. V In the absence of the official report, which has not 

Ou^ survived for the visitation of the Southern Provmce, the pre- 

materiais sumption is that the proceedings correspond very closely 

for the ^j|.j^ those which we have traced in the four northern 

Southern 

Visiution. dioceses. Some few particulars and allusions have been 
collected, and we are able to supply a list, not here of 
absentees, but of those who signed the form of acceptance 
in several dioceses. From these lists we shall be able 
in some cases to get an approximate estimate of those who 
at this stage embraced the new rigime^ though we shall 
not feel absolutely certain of the result, as it is highly 
probable that many benefices were vacant at the time 
of the visitation \ 
I. London, London, Norwich, and Ely were combined for the pur- 
^*dEi*^' poses of visitation. The letters patent may be understood 
to have been issued with those for the Northern Province, 
on or about June 24. Strype gives August %\ as the date, 
but he has confused a writ^ of the visitors bearing that 
date'and directed to the Court of Audience of Canterbury. 
The visitors appointed were Sir Nicholas Bacon, Thomas 
Duke of Norfolk, John Earl of Oxford, Francis Earl of 
Bedford, Thomas Lord Wentworth, Edward Lord North, 
Lord John Gray ; Thomas Parry, Ralph Sadler, Anthony 
Cook, Thomas Wroth, Thomas Smith, Edmund Wynd- 
ham, Christopher Heydon, William Woodhouse, Knights ; 

^ See above, p. 83, note 9. ' From Parker's Register. 



THE SOUTHERN VISITATION 95 

Richard Gooderick and Avinus Hopton, Esquires ; Chap, v 
Robert Home, D.D., Thomas Huyck, LL.D., John Salvyn, 
Lawyer. The same principle of choice is observable here 
as in the former commission. Sir Nicholas Bacon was 
Lord Keeper of the Great Seal ; the Duke of Norfolk, Earl 
Marshal, Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk, Suffolk, and the 
city of Norwich ; the Earl of Oxford was Lord Lieutenant 
of Essex, which was at that time in the diocese of London ; 
Lord North held the same office for Cambridgeshire. The 
Earl of Bedford was apparently added for political reasons, 
as being one of the most trusted of the Queen's counsellors. 
He was a great favourer of the Swiss reformers, and in the 
Zurich letters some of his correspondence is preserved. 
It must however be emphasized that the visitors do not 
as a rule appear to have been chosen on account of their 
religious opinions. The only exception is in the case of 
the divines who accompanied the visitors as preachers: 
they were in every instance in sympathy with the principles 
of the settlement. It was the business of the others to 
administer that settlement and to do nothing else. 

The places of session we can follow from the list of Places of 
signatories to which reference has been made, and Strype '«^*®" • 
has preserved some record of what was done in London. 
The proceedings began in the Chapter House of St. Paul's a, St 
on August II, and the report follows very closely the ^*"''^* 
procedure in the north. The cathedral clergy largely 
absented themselves when the Articles of Inquiry and the 
Injunctions were delivered. Next day, when subscription 
was demanded, John and Nicholas Harpsfeld, Willerton 
and others, refused to sign, and, their benefices being 
sequestered, they were remanded until the conclusion of the 
visitation. What then took place in r^ard to these and 
the absentees we shall see later. 

Proceeding from St. Paul's, the visitors sat at other b. in 
churches in London as centres for the various deaneries. London. 
Thus we find them at the Hospital of the Savoy, where 
one or two of the Prebendaries of St. Paul's seem to have 
changed their mind, and to have subscribed, a proceeding 



96 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. V which finds a parallel in other dioceses. Indeed it seems 
certain that every opportunity for signing was given to 
those who at first refused or hesitated. At the parish 
church of Clerkenwell the signatures were received of the 
clei^^ of Islington, Enfield, Edmonton, and other villages 
in North Middlesex. St. Margaret's Westminster, St. 
Bride's, St. Lawrence Jewry, St. Michael's Comhill, were 
the other places of session for Middlesex. The visitors 
reached the last-named church on St. Bartholomew's Eve, 
and there received the Inventory of the goods of St. Paul's 
Cathedral. For that part of the diocese of London which 
lay in Essex and Hertfordshire, sessions were held at 
Weald, Chelmsford, Stortford, Dunmow, Colchester. In 
this way the whole of the diocese of London was completed 
by about the end of August. The rapidity ,of the move- 
ments of the visitors suggests that they were very probably 
obliged to appoint assessors, or to reserve very largely for 
the Permanent Commissioners in November: they could 
not have done the work with any thoroughness in so short 
a time. The list of signatures gives rather over 400 names 
for the diocese of London. It has been calculated on 
a careful research ^ that there were some 800 clergymen in 
that diocese ; so that, speaking roughly, one half of the 
clergy subscribed when the visitors went round. It would 
seem that many of those who now refused or withheld 
subscription saw fit to change their minds in November, 
f. Norwich. The diocese of Norwich came next. Dr. Jessopp* 
computes that there were some six hundred clergymen 
of all kinds here resident. There were eighteen different 
sessions at Ipswich, Blythburgh, Beccles, Norwich Cathedral, 
St. Peter Mancroft Norwich, North Walsham, Walsingham, 
Lynn, SwafTham, Thetford, Bury. These occupied the 
greater part of September, for as one signatory has appended 
the date September 29 to his name in the first session at 
Bury, we are able to reckon backwards and forwards from 

* By the Rev. George Hennessy. parishes and chapelries. Many were 

* In a letter to the writer. A held in combination, 
return of parishes in 1593 gives i, i6a 



THE SOUTHERN VISITATION 97 

that day. There are rather over 500 signatures for the Chap. V 
whole diocese, which seems to indicate a more ready 
acceptance of the settlement 

The small diocese of Ely occupied the attention of the d. Ely. 
visitors during some part of October. Here the centres 
were Ely Cathedral, two sessions ; Cambridge, two sessions ; 
and another place not identified. There are ninety-eight 
signatures ; and as Bishop Cox gives, in a return made 
within the next year ^, 152 cures, of which many were vacant, 
this seems to be a high percentage. 

The next group of dioceses comprised Oxford, Lincoln, a- Oxford, 
Peterborough, Coventry, and Lichfield. The visitors were pg"gr-"' 
first, the following Lords Lieutenant, William Marquis of borough, 
Northampton for Northamptonshire, Henry Earl of Rutland Coventry 
for Rutland, Francis Earl of Huntingdon for Leicestershire, ^^\^ 
Oliver Lord St. John of Bletsoe for Bedfordshire, William 
Lord Willoughby, Sir Robert Tyrwhitt the younger. Sir 
E. Dymock, and Sir Francis Askew for Lincolnshire, 
Sir Ambrose Cave for Warwickshire (Lord Robert Dudley 
being omitted). Of other men of position were George 
Lord Zouche, Henry Lord Hastings eldest son of the Earl 
of Huntingdon, Sir Francis Knollys, Sir -WiHiam Cecil, 
Sir Richard Blount, Sir R. Thimelby, Sir Walter Mildmay, 
Sir Thomas Nevill of Holt, Sir Thomas Cock5m, Sir 
Robert Lane, Sir John Gascoigne. Besides these there 
were Jas. Harrington, Thos. Lucy, Thos. Marrow, E. 
Mountain, Edm. Brudenell, Robert Wingfield, Laurence 
Gresley, Esquires. Finally, Alexander Nowell, afterwards 
Dean of St. Paul's, and T. Bentham, afterwards Bishop of 
Coventry and Lichfield, were the only clerical representa- 
tives; whilst the lawyers were William Fleetwood and 
Dr. Stephen Nevinson. 

The visitors issued their writ of inhibition to the Deans 
and Chapters of the Cathedrals as guardians of the spiri- 
tualties, and to their registrars, ofHcials, and ministers, 
forbidding them to exercise any jurisdiction from the time 
of receiving the document This writ, preserved in the 

^ Add. MS. 5813, f. 7a 
H 



98 THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 

fiAP.v Roister of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury at 
Lambeth, is dated July 22, and Strjrpe has again confused 
this with the issue of the letters patent. A good many 
of the signatures for this visitation are preserved at 
Lambeth^. There is a possible loss of a portion of 
those belonging to the diocese of Lincoln, but the rest 
seem to be complete, for London, Oxford, Coventry and 
Lichfield '. The Peterborough subscriptions are not known 
to be extant. 

From a later diocesan return in the British Museum' 
there seem to have been about 500 parishes in the diocese 
of Coventry and Lichfield, represented by 351 signatures. 
In Oxford there were 195 parishes and 104 signatures. 
In Lincoln, about 1,160 parishes, for which we have imper- 
fect returns containing 343 names. 
Saiia^ For the rest of the dioceses of the Southern Province we 
^» have very few details ; something may possibly be gathered 
eter, f^^ ^^ Cathedrals in the Chapter Act and other books, but 

th and those we have been able to consult do not, with one impor- 

II 

mces- ^"* exception presently to be mentioned, contain much 

information. The western group of dioceses, viz. Salisbury, 
Bristol, Exeter, Bath and Wells, and Gloucester, were to 
be visited by the following: — ^William Earl of Pembroke, 
Lord Lieutenant of Somerset and Wilts ; Thomas Viscount 
Howard of Bindon, son of the Duke of Norfolk, recently 
ennobled, and a man of position in Dorset ; John Lord 
St. John ; George Lord Zouche ; James Lord Moutrye, 
Lord Lieutenant of Dorset ; Edmund Lord Chandos, Lord 
Lieutenant of Gloucestershire; Sir William Fitzwilltams, 
and Sir H. Nevill, Lords Lieutenant of Berkshire. The 
Lord Lieutenant of Devonshire and Cornwall was the 
Earl of Bedford, but his name occurs on two other com- 
missions, and in his place are Sir John St L^er, Sir 
Peter Carewe, Sir Richard Edgecombe, Sir Maurice 
Berkeley. Besides these there were Sir John Chichester, Sir 

^ Curiae MisctU. xiii. pt. a. See by the centres named and the ap- 

below, p. I iS. pearance of the subscription sheets. 

^ The completeness is suggested 'Fortheyeari563,inHarl.MS.595. 



THE SOUTHERN VISITATION 99 

William Wroughton, Sir John Thynne, Sir George Norton, Chap, v 
Sir Thomas Dyer, Sir John Pollard, and Sir Arthur 
Champion. Then there were Reginald Mohunt, John 
Mallet, and Humphry Coles, Esquires ; John Jewell, D.D., 
afterwards bishop of Salisbury; and the lawyers Henry 
Parry and William Lovelace. No signatures have been 
discovered for this visitation. At Salisbury, Wells, Glou- 
cester, and Bristol, there are no records in the Chapter Acts, 
so far as we can ascertain, save a mention here and there of 
the fact of visitation. In the Zurich letters, Jewel writing 
on August I, says : * I am on the point of setting out upon 
a long and troublesome commission for the establishment 
of religion. . . . The extent of my journey will be about 700 
miles, so that I imagine we shall hardly be able to return 
in less than four months.' In another letter written in 
November, and frequently quoted, Jewel shows that he 
reached London on October 31. He says: *We found 
everywhere the people sufficiently well disposed towards 
religion, and even in those quarters where we expected 
most difficulty. It is however hardly credible what a harvest, 
or rather what a wilderness of superstition had sprung up 
in the darkness of the Marian times. We found in all places 
votive relics of saints, nails with which the infatuated people 
dreamed that Christ had been pierced, and I know not what 
small fragments of the sacred cross. The number of witches 
and sorceresses had everywhere become enormous. The 
cathedral churches were nothing else but dens of thieves, 
or worse, if anything worse or more foul can be mentioned. 
If inveterate obstinacy was found anywhere, it was alto- 
gether among the priests, those especially who had once 
been on our side. They are now throwing all things into 
confusion, in order, I suppose, that they may not seem to 
have changed their opinions without due consideration. 
But let them make what disturbance they please: we 
have in the meantime disturbed them from their rank 
and office (illos de gradu et de sacerdotiis exturbavimus)/ 
Besides the view here given of the state of popular religion 
in the West of England, this letter is important as showing 

33094GA 



loo THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. V that some of the clergy, at all events, were ejected by the 
visitors; and we see that the deprived took pleasure in 
causing all possible trouble and confusion, as we shall find 
it to have been the case elsewhere ^. 
loute The route taken by the western visitors cannot be clearly 

f the traced. Jewel gives the names of the places in the following 
isitors. order : — Gloucester, Bristol, Bath, Wells, Exeter, Cornwall, 
Dorset, Salisbury. But as it has been recorded in his life 
that he was at Salisbury on Aug. lo, the itinerary is probably 
not given in its proper order. We find from a later entry 
in the Lambeth Reg^'ster that the visitors were at Wells on 
September 8. From the Exeter Chapter Acts we discover 
that they reached Exeter Cathedral late in September. In 
this book the record of proceedings is unusually full for that 
class of document. It says that the visitors, Sir Peter 
Carewe, Sir John St Leger, Sir John Chichester, Sir Arthur 
Champemowne, with John Jewel, Henry Parry, and William 
Lovelace, began the visitation in the Chapter House. They 
then proceeded to other churches in the city, and afterwards 
left for Barnstaple. They returned to Exeter on October 8, 
and the following day (Monday) proceeded with the visita- 
tion until Friday. After leaving on that day they sent back 
certain injunctions for the Cathedral, signed by Jewel and 
Parry only. These injunctions were a set of explicit 
instructions, thirty-three in number, for the due discharge of 
the duties of the various officials connected with the 
cathedral. Some such injunctions appear to have been 
given at every cathedral during the visitation of this 
year; and in the metropoHtical visitation of 1560, a further 
set was delivered by the archbishop. 
. Canter- Strype has made no mention of the visitation which 
^^^ dealt with the south-east of England, and comprised the 
Scinches- ' diocescs of Canterbury, Rochester, Winchester, and Chi- 
;r, Chi- chester. We have recovered the names of the visitors 
^^^' from a contemporary list preserved in Parker's Antiquities 
at Lambeth in manuscript ^. They were : — ^William Mar- 
quis of Winchester, Lord Treasurer, and Lord Lieutenant 

^ See below, p. 161. ' Lambeth MS. 959, t 494. 



THE SOUTHERN VISITATION loi 

of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight ; Henry Earl of Chap, v 
Arundel, Lord Steward, and Lord Lieutenant of Sussex 
and Surrey; Henry Earl of Hertford; Lord Cobham, 
Warden of the Cinque Ports and Lord Lieutenant of Kent. 
The Knights were Sir R. Sackville, Sir T. Cawerden, Sir 
H. Seymour, Sir W. Callaway, Sir T. Finch. The Esquires 
were T. Wotton, J. Carell, R. Kingsmill, E. Isack, Humphrey 
Hales, E. Boyse, R. Worsley. The rest were T. Beacon, 
Robert Weston, Robert Nowell, and Alexander Nowell. 
The last is described as Contionator, but as he occupied 
apparently the same office in the visitation of the Midlands, 
there must be a mistake in one or other place. The number 
of divines in this visitation is noticeable. 

For the visitation of Wales and the dioceses of Hereford 5- Welsh 
and Worcester, we have recovered nothing more than the y^^^^. 
names of the visitors. Welsh diocesan documents have ford and 
been badly kept, and in proof of this we may mention that Worces- 
St. David's alone has an episcopal raster for the period 
we are considering. Some of the bishops' certificates, 
however, still exist, but they are incomplete. The visitors 
for this group of dioceses were John Lord Williams, Presi- 
dent of the Council for Wales, Sir Hugh Palles, Sir Nicholas 
Arundel, Sir John Pott, Sir James Baskerville, Sir T. 
Russell ; also John Throgmorton, William Sheldon, Thomas 
Hobbey, and William Gerrard ; Dr. Davies and T. Yonge, 
divines; Dr. Roland Meyrick and Richard Pates (lawyers). 
Of these Dr. Davies became Bishop of St. Asaph, and 
Yonge of St. David's, whence he was translated to the 
Archbishopric of York. 

For the visitations of the Southern Province, as has been Signato- 
said, we have no official list of absentees like that given above "^ ^ ^^ 

_ ' , ,. 1 r^ o t f Southern 

for the northern dioceses *. Strype *, however, makes men- Visiu- 
tion of a list of signatures which he saw at Lambeth, but he ^®'"- 
did not make any use of it. We have found the documents 

1 See above, p. 83. visitation of 1560, but they belong to 

' Strype, Ann, i. 7a. In his life of the visitation of 1559, as is proved by 

Parker Strype was inclined to assign the institution books, and by the fact 

these signatures to the metropolitical that the date is given in one place. 



I02 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



:hap. V referred to, and note that they comprise at least the bulk of 
subscriptions made in two of the visitations for 1559, and 
represent the dioceses of London, Norwich, Ely, Coventry 
and Lichfield, Lincoln. From the appearance of the manu- 
script we are inclined to think that the signatures are 
nearly complete ^ It is at once apparent that a large pro- 
portion of the clergy did not sigi^ during the visitation, 
and it will be our business in subsequent chapters to see 
what was done with the recusants. 



Alphabetical List of Extant Subscriptions, 1559 *. 

I- Diocese of London. 

\Thg signaturta have been here rearranged in alphabetical order, A Jew 
signatories belong to other dioceses. Doubtful identi/icaiions are marked wiik 
a query. An asterisk denotes that the person was ultimately deprived,'] 



Name 0/ Person, Name of Cure, 
Alexander,Kobt. Hatfield Regis. 
♦Alford, J. 



Allaman, H. 

Allen, J. 
Allen, Robt. 
Alrad, J. (B.D.) 
Anderton, J. 

Andrew, J. 



Chaplain, Lin- 
coln's Inn. 
Bromley, cur. 
Chickney. 

St. Michaeli 
Bassishaw. 
Barkway. 



Name 0/ Person, 
Appryce, E. 
Apryse, Philip. 
Armour, J. 



Name of Cure, 



Ashebury, Ch. 



St. Dion Back- 
church. 
St. Michael, 
CrookedLane. 
Asheton,Robert Stondon, 
Atkynson, H. St Sepulchre. 
♦Atkynson, W. Shalford. 
Awdley, N. 



^ Lincoln is an exception. 

' The subscriptions are usually au- 
tog^ph signatures. Sometimes a 
proxy signs. The cure is not by any 
means always inserted. Remarks 
are sometimes annexed to the name. 
Thus articulis praedictis subscnpst, or 
omnibus et singtdis praemissis sub' 
scripsif is fairly frequent. Volens 
subscripsi or some such phrase is 
varyingly added. The addition ap- 
pears to be a matter of fashion, as it 
occurs regularly at some centres, 
seldom or else not at all in others. 
The first sheet or so in the Norwich 
diocese, for instance, exhibits no oc- 



currence of the words, whilst at 
St. Peter Mancroft and other places 
it is constant. In Ely it is found 
five times. In the group Lincoln, 
Oxford, Coventry, and Lichfield it is 
almost continuous. Other remarks 
are annexed very sparingly. The 
two most interesting may be quoted. 
Thus Edward Walker at Woodstock 
has recorded hie nomen meutn volens 
et non coactus subscn'boy veram in sacra 
religione a superis re/brmationem im- 
plorans. The date of Walker's in- 
stitution has not been ascertained. 
James Bibney at Chelmsford says 
ore non tantum sed ab inti$no corde. 



THE SOUTHERN VISITATION 



103 



Nmftt ofP€r9on, 


Nmm9€/Cwn, 


Nona ofPtraon, 


Nona of Cun, Chap. V 


Awgest, T. 


St Giles, cur. 


Bordman, £. 


Althome. 

(Formerly of) ^J^^^^;^ 


Ayrc,J. 


North Fam- 


Borough, R. 




bridge. 




Ardleigh. tions. 


Ayshton, J« 


Great Leighs. 


Bownell, J. 


St. James, cur. 


Bacon. Robt. 


Stanford-le- 


Braban, J. 




w 


Hope. 


Braker, H. 


Stanstead Ab- 

• • 


Bactar, J. 


St. Botolph's, 




bots. 


9 flT 


Aldgate. 


Bratchard, 


Aveley. 


Baker, J. 




Robt (B.D.) 




Baker, J. 


Little Canfield. 


Bredkerke, H. 


Abbot's Roding. 


Baker, J. 


Broomfield. 


Brett, Robt. 


St Giles, cur. 


Baker, R. 


St Olave's, Old 


Bretton, W. 


Hordon on the 




Jewry. 




Hill, cur. 


Balgayc, J. 




Brian, T. 


Preb. of St £li- 


Banks, £. 


St John's, Wal- 




zeu9^ 




brook. 


Brown, J. 


StMUdred, 


Barker, £. 


Great Braxted. 




Bread Street 


Barker, W. 


I^ngdon Hills. 


Brown, J. 


Walden. 


*Barslowe,Robt Braintree. 


Brown, T. 


St Mary, Col- 


♦Bartleton, T. 


Bishop Stort- 




chester. 




ford. 


Browne, Robt 


Fobbing. 


Baydyll, G. 


Widdington,cur. 


Bryggs, T. 


Gt Bromly. 


Baynbryg,Geof£ 


Bursted. 


♦Burton, Robt. 


Corringham. 


Beccham, T. 


Theydon Gar- 


Bury, R 


Stapleford Ab- 




non. 




bots. 


Bendall, J. 


Ware. 


Bushby, Hum. 


Fulboum, dioc 


Bennet, J. 


Netteswell. 


(LL.D.) 


Ely. 


Bentley, Ralph. 


St. Olave's. 


Busshe, N. 


Copford End, 


Besfeld, J. 


Colne-Earls. 




cur. 


Best, R 




Bycardyke, Mar- 


■ Horley, cur. 


Bealay,Gr^;ory. 


West Hanning- 


maduke. 






field, cur. 


Byeryll, R. 


Newport. 


Bewley, T. 


Wanstead. 


Bynonson, F. 


Little Thurrock. 


Bibney, Jas. 




Byrch, Ralph. 


?Dottilham,cur. 


Bingay, W. 




Byrch, T.» 


Witley. 


Bishop, W. 




Byrchley,Roger. 


Little Pamdon. 


Blackbome,£d- 


Boreham. 






mund. 




Calley, J. 


West Bardfield, 


Blakbum, }. 






cur. 


Blakhede, R. 


High Roding. 


Campyon, Syl- 


Gt. and Little 


Bland, Ch. 


Littlebury. 


vester. 


Henny. 


Bond,W. 


Little All- 


*Caston, 


St Mary's? cur. 




hallows, cur. 


Stephen. 






' Seeab 


ove, p. 3. 





"4 



Ciuv. V ymmm if Pi 



nons. 



Cilson. EL 



Danver. W. 
Oartiy. G. 

Da' 



RoiXL EjRiiti Asbcn. 



U, ^, 

Hoiy Tsmcy. 



OxafifisansBi 
OiamngCi 7. 
Quumef , Ed- 

imrmL 
ChapmaxL G. 
Giyk J. 

Capham.. R. 

r! 

J- 

Garke. Rofac Waldea. cor. 
GaytDn, Laxxr. 
Clayton, Ofiver. 
Clayton. Roger. 



DiLvysuOy R. 
J. 



Gicat St. Bar- 



Desham, Bald- Btadvdly cor. 



Dobsoii:* ^XT. 

DcdpoBC V. 
Dnnrff. T- 
Dyw.J. 

Dyer. W- 

EiSmoada^ Robe. 



IcfaninaiiL 



Whhe 
Sc Vcdaac 



Estobye, W. 



Coallcs, Robi. Bov. 



CokereII,G. 
Colbome. G. 
Coll, Leonard. 
CoUiar. N. 
Colnmhdl, R. 
Compton, N. 

Copland^ J. 
Copman, Albert. 

Copschef, J. 

CordaU, Walter. 
Cormoth, J. 
Comwayll, T. 
Cowke, W. 
Coxall, J. 
Croft, Brian. 

Daniel, £. 
Dannel, Robt. 



HaQiugbiiij. 



Moch Hadham, 



Fmgrxngbo. 
cnr. St. BoColph, 

Bishop^;mte. 
Latchingdon, 

cur. 
Cranford. 



Writtlc, cur. 



Hogb. 

•J- 



Peldon. 
Christ Church, 



cur. 



Fddf Lanr. 



Fennymore, J. 
Fisher, J. 

Flectt,\V. 
Forester, T. 

Forster, T. 
Frampton, J. 
Franklyn, T. 

Fraunds, J. 

Fraunds, T. 

Gardner, J. 
Garrard, Giles. 

Gaudyn, T« 



lindselL 

Wk^ford. 

Pveb^ofHopton. 

St. Bfargaret's, 

Lochbniy. 
St. John the 



car. 

St. Catherine 

Cree,car. 
Rickling. 
Ramsden-Bell- 

boose. 
Easthorpe. 

St. Mary Steyn- 

ings. 
Coggeshall, or 

ChishalL 
Matkshall. 

St. Mary Wool- 
noth. 



THE SOUTHERN VISITATION 



105 



Nmm ofPinon, 
Gaylly Ch. 

Giles, T. 
Glascoiloiy W. 
Glascok, T. 
Glyn, J.» 

Goodman, J. 
Gravener, W. 

Gray, W. 
GregiU, ]} 
Grening, Ch. 
Gruflyth, J. 
Gryffith, J. 

Gyl,R. 
Gyppes, W. 

Hale, J. 
Hale, W. 

Halewell, R. 
Hall, J. 
Hamet, J. 
Hapwode, R. 

Hardyn, W. 
Hardynge, W. 

Hannann, J. 
Harward, W. 

Harwood, W. 
Hatton, R. 
Hatton, Robt. 
Hawkar, H. 
Hawks, Robt. 
Henshaw, W, 

(twice). 
Hensworth, T. 
Henton, W. 
Herwood, W. 



NonuofCurt. 

StMary,White- 
chapeL 

St.W ? 

Barnston, cur. 

Doddinghurst. 

St. Christopher 
le Stocks. 

Clavering. 

St. Martin, Out- 
wich. 

St Peter, cur. 

Barking. 

Colne-Engain. 

Gt. Maplestead. 

Wicken- Bon- 
hunt. 

Layer-Mamey. 

Arkesden. 

Danbury. 
St. Mary Swin- 
foy. 



Woodham-Mor- 
timer, cur. 

East Hanning- 
field. 

Tollesbury. 

St. Anne's, Aid- 
gate. 

St. Swithin. 
Theydon Bois. 
North Shobury. 



West Mersea. 



Nam$ ofPtrson. 
Hodson, H. 
HoUonde, T. 
Holte, J. 
Hontington, J. 
Hopkinson, £. 
•Hopper, J. 
Horsnayle, J. 
Hoskyn, T. 

Houseman, J. 

How, W. 
Hughes, J. 
Hurst, Jas. 

Hycks, Jas. 
Hyll, J. 

HyU, R. 
Hyll, W. 

Ingham, see 
Yngham. 

Jackson, Ralph. 
Jackson, R. 
Jaclyn, Robt. 
James, Robt. 
Jenings, T. 

Jenyns, T. 
Jenkenson, W. 
Jerves, W. 

Johns, Geoff. 

Johnson, H. 
Joly, W. 
Jones, Walter. 
Jonson, E. 
Jonson, J. 



Nam4 of Curt, Chap. V 



Little Burstead. 



London 
subscrip- 
tions. 



Reed. 

Laver Magda- 
len. 

Master of the 
Temple. 

Harlow. 

St Michael le 
Queme, cur. 

Wyddial. 

St Olave's, Sil- 
ver Street 

Chingford, cur. 

East Homdon. 



Mashbury.. 
StanwelL 

St Michael, 
Wood Street 



Katty, J. 
Kemp, D. 
' See above, p. 3. 



All Saints, Mal- 
don. 

St Mary Wool- 
church. 

Mistley. 

Pentlow. 

Islington. 

Stevenage. 

St. Clement 
Danes. 

Wood Street 



io6 



THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. V NmmofPinon. NmmcfCun, 



London 
subscrip- 
tions. 



Ketill,R. 



Kichin, Ch. 
Kyng, J. 

Lacy, J. 
Lambe, Jas. 
Langhorn, W. 
Lawrence, Ed- 
mund. 
Laveroke, R. 
Law, Owen. 
Lawe, J. 

Lawson, W. 
Le Marynel, T. 
Ledem, G. 
Leder, J. 
Leder, R. 
Leghtoman, £. 
Leke, J. 
Lench, W. 

Lloyd, £. 
Lolly, R. 

Love, Philip. 

Lynch, W. 
Lyving, W. 



St Stephen, 
Coleman 
Street 

Anstey. 

Bocking. 

Elsenham. 
Wrabness. 



Rettendon. 
Lamboume. 
St Whittington 

Colle|;e, cur. 
St. Martin's,cur. 
West Tilbury. 

? Torche. 
Upminster. 

Frinton. 
Beauchamp- 

Roding. 
Little Bentley. 
St Edmund's, 

cur. 
St Martin's, 

Ludgate. 
Willingale. 
St. Bride's. 



Mackbraye, J. Shoreditch. 

•Madoc, Hugh. 

Madoc, Lewis. 

Mady, J. 

Mainwaring, R. South Ocken- 

don. 
Malan, Pat. 

Malet, H. St Martin. 

Mann, G. St. Michael's. 

Markyk, J. St Dunstan's, 

cur. 
Marsden, J. , cur. 



Nam€«tfPenotu 
MarshaJi,W. 
Martyn, T. 
Martyn, W. 
Mason, G. 

Mason, J. 
Mason, W. 
Maxon, H. 
Merriman, 

Ralph. 
Miller, W. 
Moke, T. 
More, GileSi 



HawkwelL 
Easterbory. 
Wendon parva. 
Bradwell joxta 



S. Fambridge. 

^ cur. 

St Peter lePoer. 

Little Baddow. 

St Catherine- 

Coleman. 
Hockley, cur. 



Mcxe, Miles. 

Morpeth, J. 

Mortlake, Robt. Foxearth. 

Mountague, T. St Pancras, cur. 

Mundye, W. 

Murffett, W. 



Nele,W. 
Neto, Hugh. 



Nettelt, T. 
Nevard, W. 



Bulphan. 

St Mary Mag- 
dalene, Milk 
Street 



(Clerk in) Col- 
chester. 
Nevell, Edmund. St Helen's, Lon« 

don. 



Neytol, J. 
Norryson, Jas. 

Nowglass, J. 
Nuthal, T. 

Osome, Robt 
OtweU, W. 

Par, Robt 
Parkars, Chas. 
Parker, J. 
Parker, Robt. 
Parker, T. 
Parys, T. 



Edmonton. 
St MichsLePs, 
ComhilL 

Beardon. 

St Leonard's. 
Widford. 

Gt. Bardfield. 
Pamdon. 

Little Bardfield. 
Benfleet. 



THE SOUTHERN VISITATION 



107 



Nmtn of Person. 


NanuofCurt. 


Nanu of Person. 


Name of Curt, Chap. ^ 


Pechen, Lam- 


Helmingham. 


RoUiff, T. 


London 
subscrip- 
Heybridge. tions. 


bcrt- 




Rowe, Robt. 


Pennel, W. 


Kirby. 


Rughsyche, 


Peyrson, E. 


St.Bartholomew 


Hum. 






the Less. 


Rust, W. 


Rayleigh. 


Pheron, Robt. 


St. Ethelburga. 


Rust, W. 


Felstead. 


Pinner, Jas. 


Rawieth. 


Ryche, W. 


Stebbing. 


Pokyse, J. 


St. Benet, Paul's 


Ryddysdall, J. 


St Austin's. 




Wharf, cur. 


Rylay, T. 


St. Andrew's, 


Poison, J. 


Cranford. 




Holbom. 


Ponder, Roger. 


Gt. Yeldham. 


Ryley, E. 


St. Andrew Un- 


Portar, J. 


All Saints, 




dershaft. 




Steynings. 


Rysshbroke, W. 


Walton-le-Soken. 


Poxleye, E. 


Gt.Wigborough. 






Preston, R. 


Layston. 


Sadler, J. 


Dunton- 


Purzaunt, J. 


Thaxted. 




Wayllet. 


Pynder, Ed- 




Saunderson, T. 




mund. 




Say, Robt. 
Semer, J. (Preb.) 




Kawdon, J. 


Little Waltham. 


Shepherd, W. 


Heydon. 


Rawlins, W. 




Sherbum, J. 


Gt. Warley. 


(Petty 




Shew, R. 




Canon.) 




Shirm, J. 


Buhner. 


Rawlyn, J. 


Faraham. 


Silvester, T. 


, cur. 


Reaz, Laur. 


St. James, Col- 


Simonds, Jas. 






chester, cur. 


(see below ^ 




Redfem, Anth. 


Chesterford 


Symond). 






parva. 


Smith, R. 


Wargrave. 


Richardson, 


Panfield. 


Smith, R« 


St.Peter's,West- 


Adam. 






Cheap. 


Richardson, 


Gt Oakley. 


Smyth, N. 




Adam. 




Smyth, Robt 


Thundridge. 


Richardson, J. 


St. Geoige, 


Smyth, Robt. 


Amwell. 




Eastcheap. 


Smythe, Alex. 




Richardson, 




Smythe, J. 


St. Osyth, Col- 


Robt 






chester. 


Robson, J. 


St. Clement, 


Sowdley, J. 






Eastcheap. 


Sprotte, Robt 




Robson, R. 


Fratmg. 


Squyer, J. 




Robson, T. 


, cur. 


Squyer, R. 


Gt. Barlyng. 


Robynson, G. 


Tottenham. 


Stanbancke, J. 


High Lavcr. 


Roger, R. 


Cole Abbey. 


Staworthe, J. 


Gt Stambridge. 


Rogerson, T. 




Stayns, £. 




Rothewell, Jas. 


Langenhoe. 


Stene, W. 





io8 



THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 



iP. V N4Mnu of Person, 


NmmeofCmt, 


NmmmtfPenom, 


NmmtfCmw. 


/ 


. Stokes, RobL 


Hackney. 


TonuKMii £• 


AUhaUows, 


1 


jrip- Stoks, Alex. 


Lans^, cor. 




LondonWalL \ 


r 


Stokton, Robt 


Coggeshall. 


Thystylthwayte, 


1 


f = 


Stone, L. 




Cyprian. 


1 


Tjc 


Store, W. 


Thondersley, 


Toftc, W. 


St John ff 






cur. 




Zachary, cur. 1 


• Ml 


Stretham, £d- 


Kdvedon. 


To[q;)om9 Anth. 


Elmdon. 1 ' 


■ ]^^^ 


mand. 




Trowell, Robt 


? Ashdon. | 




^Swadell, Tris- 


Preb. of Rug- 


Tull,J. 


Alresford. ] 


'— g 


tram. 


mere* 


Turner, £. 




^rr; 


♦Swadell, Tris- 




Tylncy, J. 




i"5J 


tram. 








J* 


♦SwadeU, Tris- 


Stepney (r.). 


Underwardy J. 


Ingatestone. 




tram. 










Swane, W, 


St. Magnus. 








Syddall, H. 


Walthamstow. 


Valle, P. 


Boxtfid. 

1 


Cm 


Symond, T. 


(Late of) Ret- 




r " 

• 




(see above, 


tendon, cur. 


Waklyn, J. 


1 


-gi 


Simonds). 




♦Walker, P. 


» 


£-j 


SympsoD, J. 


Gt. Stanmore, 


Walker, P. 


St Leonard's, ^ 


iS! 




cur. 




? Witham. 1 1 


■^im 


Sjrmpson, M. 




Walker, R. 


Stansted-Mont- \ 


lS» 


SympsoD, T* 


St Mary's, 




fishet. 1 


tic 




Honey Lane. 


Warbar, T. (Lu- 


1 


.iOc 


Symson, 


Vange. 


dimagister). 




hr 


Marband. 




Watson, J. 




^j: 


Symson, T. 


Little Hadham. 


Watson, Ralph. 


Heston. 


• I 


♦SymncU, R. 


Boxted. 


Weale, J. 


St MUdred, 
? Poultry. 


3 


Talbot, W. 


Manningtree 


Wells, J. 


StreathalL 






and Rainham. 


Welltham, P. 


• 




Tatem, Ch. 




Whitbroch, W. 






Taw, Edmund. 




♦White, T. 


Stunner. 




Taylor, Hugh. 


Woodham-Fer- 


White, W. 


Sheering. 






rers. 


Whiting, J. 


Wrington (co. 




Taylor, R. 


St. Mary 




Soul). 






Botolph. 


Whytlyn, 


St. Andrew's, 




Teyrre, Ralph. 


Little Leighs. 


Ralph. 


Holbom. 




Thomas, J. 


Stepney (v.). 


Widdowson, W. 


Chap.to Drapers 




Thomas, J. 


Prittlewell. 




of London. 




Thomas, 


Sible-Heding- 


Wilson, T. 


(Formerly of) 




Walter. 


ham. 




Langford. 




Thompson, R. 


St Leonard's. 


WUson,T. 


Little Gaddes- 




Thomson, Robt. 






den. 





THE SOUTHERN VISITATION 



109 



Name of Person. 
Wodthorpe, J. 
Woody Marma- 

duke. 
Woodley, W. 

Woollen, R. 
Worthynton, £. 

Wright, Arthur. 
Wryght, W. 
W^yldman, 
Geoff. 



Name of Cure. 

Stoke Newing- 

ton, cur. 
St. Laurence 

Pountney,cur. 

, cur. 

Ramsden- 

Crays. 
Homchurch. 
Little Ongar. 



Name of Person, Name of Cure. Chap. V 

Wyley, P. j^^ — 

Wynsehent, St Mary, Alder- subscrip- 

Alex. mary. tions. 

Yate, Alex. Bosvile Porcion. 

Yngham, Robt. Pelham Fur- 

neaux. 
Yonge, Hugh. Little Mundon, 

cur. 

The Vicar of St. 
Giles, Cripple- 
gate \ 



2. Diocese of Norwich. 



Name of Person, Name of Cure, 
Abadam, J. Kilverstone. 

Abftt, W. 
Adamson, Philip. 
Adran, J. 
Akers, J. 
Albon, J. 
Alem, Robt. 
Alen, J. 
Amgar, R. 
Andrew, Robt 
♦Appultoft, R. 
Armitage, T. 
Asche, W. 
Assheworth, 

Laur. 
Athowe, T. 

(twice). 
Atkynson, J. 
Augier, T. 
Awdley, Robt 
Aynesworth, G. 



Brooke. 

Aldeburgh, cur. 

Ofiflon. 

Heigham. 



Hollesley. 



Bacheler, £. 
Backhows, 
Raphael 
Badcok, H. 



Garveston. 



Name of Person, 
Bakelar, T. 

Balard, W. 
Banyard, T. 
Banystre, T. 
(plebanus). 
Barker, Adam. 

Barker, T. 
Bamage, Robt 
Bame, J. 
Barrett, J. 
Barrett, W. 
Battye, Ch. 
Baxter, W. 
Bayforth, W. 
Baymine, J. 
Baynbrigge, W. 

(Hypodidas- 

culus). 
Baynbriggs, T. 
Beare, J. 

Beccet, J. 
Bellowes, T. 



Name of Cure. 
StNicholas (? S. 

Elmham), cur. 
Ormesby. 



Canon of Nor- 
wich. 
Knoddishall. 
Stemfield. 

Preb. Norwich. 

St Margaret's. 

Worlingham. 
West Rudham. 



Newton Flot- 
man. 

Saxlingham- 
Nethergate. 



^ Sic He was W. Granger. 



no 



THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. V 

Norwich 
subscrip- 
tions. 



Nam4 0/ Person. 


NamtofCure. 


Nanu tf Ptrmm. 


HmtmufCm^. 1 


Bendrysche^ H. 




Byncks, Robt. 


1 


Bennett, R« 


Cretingham,cur. 


Byrd,H. 


J 


Benson, T. 


Holton. 


Bysshop, Gre- 


1 


Best, Robt. 




gory (twice). 




Beverley, Robt. 


St Mar/s, Bun- 
gay, cur. 


Bywell, J. 




Beverley, Robt 


Spixworth. 


Cachard, J. 




Blackburn, R. 




Calwer, N. 




Blamefield, Ste- 


Debenham. 


Carewe, Mat- 


Arch. Nor£. ; 


phen. 




thew. 




Boneham, R. 




Carter, H. 




Borrow, Ed- 




Carton, T. 




mund. 




Cawse, J. 




Bossall, Robt 


Ringshall. 


Chadwyck, J. 




Boste, W. 




Chane, J. 




Botswayne, W. 


Horham. 


(twice). 


' 


Bowman, Robt. 




Chapman, Ch. 


Lavenham. 


Bownes, Ed- 


Somerleyton. 


Chapman, W. 


Freston. 


mund. 




Churche, Nich. 




Bowrowe, R. 




Claiboume, T. 




•Bradley, Thur- 


Westfield. 


Clapton, Martin. 


1 


stan. 




Clay, J. 


Whatfield. 1 

1 


Brancker, W. 




Clegg, R. 




Bretland, T. 




Cobham, J. 




Brewerton, R. 


Wells. 


Codling, Robt 




Brightyre, J. 




Cokke, Jas. 




Broughton, J. 


Stradbroke. 


♦Cole, And. 




Browne, J. 


Wreningham. 


Colisman, W. 




Browne, J. 


Risby. 


Collyn, W. 




Brownsmyth, W. 


Styvekey. 


Collys, W. 




Bryggs, T. 




Company, R. 




Bukkes, J.(Ludi• 


m 


Coningford, J. 




magister). 




Conyers, T. 


Weybreadi cur. 


Bulhey, J. 


Bentley. 


Cooke, J. 




Bull, J. 




Cooke, R. 


• 


Bumam, Robt. 




Cooper, T. 




Burnett, R. 


Denver. 


Coote, W. 


Mendham. 


Burton, W. 




Corker, N. 




Burwyk, Jas. 




Corker, T. 




Burywey, W. 


Gorleston. 


Cornwall, H. 




Busshe, J. 


Filby. 


Cosyn, J. 




Busshe, J. 




Cotton, J. 




Bycher, W. 


Acton. 


Cowper, Walter. 


? Southacre. , 


Byckerdyck, J. 


Shipdham. 


Crample, Oliver 


Stonham-Aspal. 



THE SOUTHERN VISITATION 



III 



lOM. Na$ne of Cur$, 

Barrow. 

Mautby. 

Canoii,Norwich. 
r. Fordley. 
ph. 



-I 



Howe. 



Henstead. 
Felixstowe. 

und. Watlmgton. 

Bedfield. 

Lowestoft, cur. 
L Bage cum Buly. 
I. Hasketon« 
L Reepham. 

Hethersett. 

Iph. 

id. 1 Benchfield. 
nd. 

B.A.) 
n. 



V. 

r. 

s 

/. 

V. 



Pettistree, cur. 
Wilby. 



Flixton. 
;eofif. 

Glemsford, cur. 
gh. Acle. 

d- 

V. 



Name of Person, 

Farmer, ats Ox- 
ford, Matthew. 

Farquharson, 
see Pharkson. 

Farrold, Bernard. 

Fascet, Alex. 

Fawcet, W. (see 
below ^ Forset). 

Fawpect, Rey- 
nold. 

Fayrhayre^ J. 

Feltham, J. 

Fenne, G. 



NanuofCun. Chap. V 



Norwich 
subscrip- 
tions. 



Belstead. 



Feme, Stephen. East Dereham. 

Ferrer, J. 

Fisscher, J. 

Fletcher, R. 

Flynt, R. 

Ford, Ralph. 

Forset, Alex. 

(see above i 

Fawcet). 
Fox, J. 
Franch, T. 
Freeke, T. 
Frettwell, T. 
Fykays, W. 



Mutford. 

Woodbridge. 
Brockley. 



Reydon. 
Downham. 



Ufford. 



Gaisley, R. 

Galte, P. 

Garett, R. 

Gamett, R. 

Gartfolde, R. 

Gaytes, ais 
Yatts, T. 

Geme, Ch. 

Gerrard, W. 

Glasyer, Robt. 

Glowgate, Ed- 
mund. 

Goldbure, T. 

Goodfellay, W. 

Goodwyn, T. 

Goshawk, W. 



? Marhiey. 



? Cheadon. 

Stoke. 

Wethcrden. 



Brandeston. 



THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 



NamtqfPtraim. 


NmmofCr^ 


Nmmn^PtnoK. 


Nmmti^Cmt 


Gowlynge, J. 


Nactoa. 


Heyly, Hugh. 




Gouttrell, W. 


Buraham- 


Hey ton. Ralph. 






Norton. 


Hochynson, P. 


Battiiford, cor. 


Gowgh.J. 


BcnhalL 


Hogeson, T. 


Lound. 


Craunge, Gre- 




Hollwey, J. 




gory. 




Holt, AiloL 




Greet, W. 


Holbrook. 


Holtby, W. 




GreocJas. 


YelvertoD and 


Hongon, Anth. 






SuTlii^ham. 


Homse, N. (Lu- 


Southwold. 


Grewe, E. 




dimagijter). 




Gryflynsoo, 


Sweffling. 


Hossert, W. 


?Daccn»se. 


Chas. 




Houldam, W. 




Grymsby, W. 




HoveU,]. 




Gybbons. W. 


, cur. 


Howorthe, J. 


SwUland. 


Gybson, G. 




Howse, Robt. 




Gybson, J. 


Tatterset. 


Hubbaid, P. 


Dennington. 


Gybson, R. 




Hudson, R. 




Gyppe«,W. 




Hudson, W. 
(twice). 




Hall,T. 




Hughson, T. 




Halstyd, G. 




Hull,T. 


Thurston. 


Handcok, Jas. 


; Pentney, cur. 


Hunt, T. 




Handcok, J. 




Huwelt, Robt 


IJnstead, cur 


Harcoks, Ed- 




Hycss, Edmund 


Rushmere. 


mund. 




Hyll, H. 




Hardy, J. 




Hyll. T. 




Harlam, J. 




Hyltoa.J. 




Hartley, Ber- 


Roydon. 


Hyndmersbe, 




nard. 




Cuthbert. 




Hartley, Ber- 


(Without name 


Ide, W. 


? Debicdford. 


nard. 
Haryson, C. 


of cure.) 
Saxmundham. 


Inglott, Ed- 




Haryson,J. 




j 




Haryson, J. 


Colveston. 


Ynman. 




Haryson, R. 




Irby, Ambrose. 




Haryson, W. 








Hay, J. 




Jackson, E. 


West Harling. 


Hayle, T. 


Micklefield. 


Jackson, J. 




Hayton, W. 




James, W. {see 




Hede. J. 




also Edriche) 


cur. 


HdJyer.J. 


Moulton, cur. 


Jekler, Robt. 


AshilL 


Henyter, T. 




Jellow, Simon. 




•Heyber, 


HetbeL 


Joye, Ch. 


Colney with 


OUver. 






Eatlham. 



THE SOUTHERN VISITATION 



"3 



Ntam of Person, 


Nmm ofCun, 


Nami of Person, 


Name of Curt. Chap. \ 


Kempe, J. 




MarshaU, W. 


Norwich 
subscrip- 


Knolles, T. 




Martin, 


Kylbury, P. 


Hepworth. 


Gr^ory. 


tions. 


Kyrklye, Robt. 




Mason, T. 




Kyrkman, G. 


Tattington. 


Mathc, W. 
Matheus,01iver. 


Marlingford,cur. 


^Lache, R. 




Maund, T. 


Hockering. 


Lakers, W. 


Welbonie. 


Maydwell, J. 




Lambe, T. 




Melton, Alan. 


Tittleshall. 


Lamson, Jas. 


Leiston, cur. 


Merman, J. 


Theberton. 


Langley, J. 


Chevington. 


Merre, E. 


Tredisborth ? 


Langton, P. 




Merycoke, — . 


St. Margaret's. 


Lanman, J. 




Mody, W. 


Cockfield. 


X^ws, Geoff. 




Moley, R. 




Laynning, T. 


Stow-Bardolph. 


More, R. 


Rendham. 


I^egewyn, W. 


Sotterley. 


Morley, Robt. 


Brad well. 


l^man^T. 


Canon,Norwich. 


Morton, Robt. 




linchon, N. 


Brampton. 


Murake, Robt. 


Cratfield. 


Ixxrke, N. 


Uggeshall and 
Sutton. 


MyUer, N. 




l^fthowse, 




Neham, Robt 




Adam. 




Newton, Ralph. 


Beccles. 


Xokett, J. 




Nicholas, H. 




lx>ng, Stephen. 




Nicolls, Simon. 


Sprenton ? 


X^ngworth, J. 




Norton, J. 




Xove, Robt. 


• 


Nowelly, J. 




lovett, T. 


• 


Nudde, Robt. 


Pakefield. 


Lupton, T. 




Nuttall, Ch. 




Lyne, Barth. 




Nyells, Robt. 




Lynne, T. 








Lyster, Robt 


Bildeston and 
Alpheton. 


Oclcy, Roger. 


North Picken- 
ham. 


Lytton, G. 




Okam, see Raky. 




Mably, R. 
Maddock, W. 


Timworth, cur. 


Oxford, see 
Farmer. 




Madis, Gr^ory. 








Makyn, R. 




Pacher, R. 


Bradenham. 


Mannell, H. 


Preb., Norwich. 


Pachet, Robt 




Manus, R. 


Marlesford. 


Page, J. 


Stratford St. An- 


Manus, Robt. 






drew. 


Marcall, T. 




Page, J. 




Marke, R. 




Palmer, Am- 


Frettenham. 


Marser^T. 


Ampton. 


brose. 





114 



THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. V 

Norwich 
subacnp- 
tions. 



NamucfPi 
Palmer, T. 

(twice). 
Parke, H. 
Parker, N. 
Passefont, T. 
PatemosteTy 

Robt. 
Patteson, J. 
Peckc, J. 

Pecokc, T. 
Pedder, Meleus. 
Peell, Robl. 
Pepper, Roger. 
Percye, Alan. 



Person, Robt. 
Peyntour, Robt. 
Peyntour, W. 
Pharkson, T. 
Picto, Robt. 
Pott, J. 
Powle, Roger. 
Powie, T. 
Pratte, R. 
Prester, T. 
Proctour, J. 
Prowett, 

Stephen. 
Punder, T. 
Pye,T. 
Pyks, T. 



Nmtmt/Om. 



6u( 



BozhalL 
Rattlesden. 



Canon, Nor- 
wich. 
, cur. 



Earsham, Mnl- 
barton, and 
Cressingham. 



Flempton. 



Raben, Mat- Romlngton ? 

thew. 
Raby, Radaud. 
Raky, ais Okam, 

Miles. 
Randal, John. 
Randolf, Robt. 
Red wy eke, J. 
Reed, J. 
Reed, T. 



Peasenhall. 
St. James — 



? 



Renerl, J. 
Rioters, G. 
Rix,W. 
Robinson, Jas. 



Robinson, J. 

Robinson, Lan- 
celot 

Rodiester, £• 

Rod,W. 
ogeison, 1. 

Rogges, Fras. 

Rok,T. 

Ro^i^on, W. 

Radniyode,T. 

Rudde, J. 
Runce, R. 
Russell, Lanr. 
Russell, R. 
Rust,E. 
Ruston, Robt. 
Rycherdson, J. 
Rydyngs, T. 
Ryngcr,.H. 
Ryshetan, G. 



Nt 



Caibiooke, in 
inetiora 
Deanery, cur. 



Athelingtoii,cttr 
Ash-Boddng. 
Walingworth. 
Fakenham 
Panra. 



Needham. 
Henley, cur. 
AU Saints ? 



Sadler, T. 
Salebanke, W. 
Salter, W. 
Saltunstall, Gilbert. 
Sankey, J. 
Sdayter, Jas. 

(twice). 
Scorbrugg, J. 
Scot, J. 
Scott, J. 
Seanton, Robt. 
Searle, T. 
Selvin, J. 
Seman, Robt. 
Seman, T. 



Canon,Norwich. 



Twyford. 
Wickham* 
Maiket 



I 



THE SOUTHERN VISITATION 



P*nm 


NoHuo/CMn. 


Mp«^ft«p« 


mw« qfCMn. Chap. V 


T. 




Steuardson, P. 




\. 




Stevyns, Robt. 


Norwich 
subacrip- 


V. 




Stokya, J. 


lion>. "^ 


i,T. 


Kenton. 


Stokys,J. 


Down ham. 


tobt. 




Storer, Anth. 




bt. 


Hopton. 


(Liidiina~ 




.Jas. 


Hcnme and 


gistcr). 






Denham. 


Susanne, W. 




!> 




SwycarJ. 




rt. 




Symonds, H. 




J- 


WangfonL 


Symsone, J. 


Fressinglidd. 




Haricstead, cur. 


Symsune, J. 


Winston. 


T. 


Samstoof 






r. 




Tailer, J. 


Ranworth, cur. 






Tader, N. 








(Parvomm 








Moderator). 




t. 




•TaUer, R. 




[. 


CaiM)n,Norwich. 


(twice). 






Glembam. 


Tailer, T. 






Withersdale. 


TaJybut. H. 




:h. 




Tassell, Geoff. 




i. 




Thaxsler, Robl. 




tobt. 




Them byi thorp. 




H. 


Wymondbam, 


Edmund. 






cur. 


Thomson, Robt 


Westleton. 


,T. 




Thonieton, H. 






and Alcen- 


Thorp, W. 






bam. 


Throder, Ch. 
Thurlow, J. 




rtilo. 


Preb.,Nomicb. 


Thurston, G. 




Robt. 




Thurston, W. 
Thyrkctyll, 






Lackford. 


Robt. 




P. 


Bumbam- 


Thyriyng, N. 


Huntingfield, 




Tborpe. 




cur. 


I. 




Toller, J. 


Canon, Nor- 


[as. 


Washbrook. 




wich. 


R. 




Tryket,Stephen. 




Robt. 




Tudman, H. 


Canon,Norwich. 


■•■ 




Tugnye, W. 


Saxlinghain- 


1- 






Thorpe. 



ii6 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. V Namt of Person, Nana of Curt, 

Norwich ^ \^ «. 

subscrip- ^ urncr, Oeotf. 

lions. Twaytes, £. 



Tylney, Hugh. 

Underwood, J. 
Underwood, R. 

(twice). 
Urlkar, Roger. 
Urtaye, Robt. 
Uttlcy, W. 
Uxton, Robt 



Vicarary, J. 
VoUkyll, W. 

Vyncent, T. 

Walker, J. 
Walldon, T. 
Wallett, J. 
Wallrond, Robt. 
Walsingham, J. 
Walton, Robt. 
Wamoke, Jas. 

Waoter, Ed- 
mund. 
Ward, W. 
Warde, W. 
Wardman, H. 
Waren, Gilbert. 
Watling, J. 
Watson, J. 
Watson, T. 



Watts, Peter. 



Higham and 

Hardingham. 
Capel. 

Burgh-Castle. 
Arch., Norwich. 

Stradsett. 



Wereham and 
Stoke-Ferry. 

Great Liver- 
mere. 



Dallinghoe. 
Martlesham. 

Wolferton. 
Metfield, cur. 
Woolverstone. 
Whinbergh cum 
Westiield. 



Aldringham. 
Hemley, cur. 



Nmme<^Pi 
Webster, R. 



Nmmn^Om. 
Blazall and 

TonstalL 
Bnmhain. 



Hitcham. 
Bramfield. 



Bitchamwell,a]s 
Bysham All 
Saints. 

Sterston ? 



Webster, Robt. 

Whitby, T. 

Whyte,J. 

Whyttyngton, J. 

WhytweO, J. 

Wilkinson, 
Anth. 

Wilkinson, 
Robt 

Willens, T. 

Williams, Roger. 

Williamson, £. 

Willughby, J. Skeyton. 

Woode, Mat- 
thew. 

Woodyard,W. 

WydAam,T. 

Wyllett, Walter. 

Wyllson, H. 

Wyllson, J. 

WyUys,J. 

Wylson, Ch. 

Wylson, Hum. 

Wylson, J. 

Wylson, T. 

Wyncopp,Robt. Great Melton. 

Wynder, Jas. 

Wyngseans, R. 

Yatts, see 
Gaytes. 
Ynman, J. 
Yonger, Hum. 
Yonger, J. 
Yoyle, Fras. Oulton. 

The Rector of 
Titteshall (by 
proxy). 



Rendlesham. 
Great Barton. 



Stratford. 



THE SOUTHERN VISITATION 



117 



Chap. V 





3. Diocese of Ely. 


Ely sub- 
scriptions. 


Na$He ofPtrson, 


Nami'Of Cunt. 


Name cf Person. 


Name of Cure. 


Atkins, Walter. 


Lidlington. 


Gale, J. 




^ynsworthe, 




Gawber, G. 




Fras. 




Gegewycke, N. 




Ayscheby,Robt 


Tadlow. 


Goodwyn, H. 




Barton, R. 
Bland, R. 
Blande, £. 


Gospeller. 
Gransden. 


Hargrave, Robt. 
Harryson,Robt. 


Linton. 


Boninton, 
Edmund. 


Kingston. 


HiU, Ralph. 


Chelerley ? 




Hill, W. 


Subcanon, Ely. 


Boynton, T. 


St Andrew's, 


Holand, Robt. 


Great Shelford. 


Bretton, W. 
Brodley, W. 


Cambridge. 
Dullingham. 
Abington. 


HoweU, W. 
Hynd,T. 


Conington. 
Guisdon parva ? 


Brond, Simon. 
Burnett, R. 


Hilgay. 


Jhonsone,Jona8. 
Jyer . . ., John. 


Thriplow. 


Chapman, 


Registrar, Ely 






Robt. 


Dioc. 


Kent, Robt. 


Carlton cum 


Chekeiyng, 






Willingham. 


Robt 








Cherch, J. 




Latham, Ch. 




Christyan, J. 




Ledcr, J. 


Isleham. 


Cleike, J. 
Clough, T. 


Croydon. 
Caldecot. 


Leeds, E. 
Legh, Edmund. 




' 

Cooke, R. 
Crany, W. 


* 


Long, G. 


Elm with Em- 
neth. 


Crawforthe, W. 


Hauxton. 


Lorde, W. 
Lyddington, J. 


Hatley. 


Damer, 


Hockington. 






Emericus. 




Mare, H. 




Deane, And. 




Margeson, 




Dobyson, T. 


Bassingboume. 


Hugh. 




Etwold, J. 


Chesterton. 


Marshall, W. 
Marshall, 


Thetford. 


Folberin, J. 




Randall. 




(Hypodi- 




Mason, Anth. 




dasculus). 




Meij, J. 




Froste, W. 


Doddington. 


Middleton, J. 




Fynchc, J. 




Mores, W. 


Papworth, St. 


Fynkcl, H. 






Agnes. 



118 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. V 


Name of Person. 


Name of Cure, 


Name of Penctt, 


Nmmei^CHre. 


Ely sub- 
scriptions. 


Nappe, Simon. 
Neve, Marma- 


Sutton. 


Stanley, J. 


Haddenham, 
cor. 




duke. 




Stenett, N. 
Stethe,E. 


Hardwicke. 




Parkynson, T. 


Willingham. 








Parson, Robt. 


Sawston, cur. 


Tayler, W. 


. 




Parye, J. 


Landbeach. 


Taskworth, J. 






Pernby, T. 


Long Stow. 


Tharguy, Robt. 


Abmgton. 




Pernby, T. 


Hinxton. 


Trygamy, 


Heslyne? 




Peme, And. 


Dean of Ely. 


Griffin. 






Plandon, And. 


Fulboum All 
Saints, cur. 


Turner, W. 
Tye, Ch. 






Proctor, Robt. 




Tylfjard, J. 
Tylncy, J. 


Bottisham. 
Harlton. 




Redford, 


Easthallan? 








Aemerus. 




Umfrey, £d* 


Melbourne. 




Relff, J. 


Orwell. 


mund. 






Robynson, J. 




Ward,W. 


Gapton. 




Scargyll, Fras. 


Knapwell. 


Webster, R. 


Wendy. 




Scargyll, Fras. 


Shepreth. 


Wetwot, 






Sheffclde, T. 




Othirell. 






Smyth, G. 


Witchford. 


Whyte, T. 


Horseheath. 




Smyth, W. 




Wrightson, J. 


(Ludimagister, 




Speght, Jas. 






St. Albans). 




(Ludi- 




Wylkynson, T. 


Redboum. 




magister). 









Name of Person, 
Abbot, Robert. 
Allmark, R. 
Annullyng, J. 
Asplen, T. 

Bass, J. 
Bede, Robt. 
Bennett, R. 
Bower, Hum. 
Bridger, R. 
Briggs, R. 
Brivyll, T. 



4. Diocese of Oxford. 



Name of Cure, 



Salford. 



Drayton. 



Name of Person, 
Browne, Robt. 
Browne, T. 
Brownyng, W. 
Buknal, W. 
Bume, W. 

Chapman, J. 
Gierke, Alexr. 
Gierke, W. 
Coheney, T. 

Golman, H. 



Neune of Cure, 
Waterstock. 



Woolston. 



B- 



and 



Haseley. 



THE SOUTHERN VISITATION 



"9 



^Person, 


Natm €f Curt. 


Namt o/Per909u 


Natne o/Cun. 


/. 




Kyng, R. 




>bt. 


m 


Kyrkley, Robt. 




J. 




Lancaster, Am- 




ir. 




brose. 




• 


Chinnor. 


Lay, T. 




Robt. 








cy,W. 
A. 


Nuneham, cur. 


MalboDy 
Hamlet. 




ilde, 




Mastroder, 




• 




Edm. 
Mendons, Ph. 




iiii,W. 




Mcykoc, T. 




IS. 




Michell, Ch. 


Chastleton. 






Mitchell, J. 


Somerton. 


• 
iobt 




More, W. 
Moreson, T. 




W. 




Morleys, David. 




r, £. 


Swerford. 


Morys, — . 




latt. 
riffith. 




Norwood, Robt. 




ugh. 




ObeU,T. 




^alph. 




Osbom, W. 




W. 




Owsley, W. 




anr. 




Pope, W. 








Powell, W. 


Halton ? 


T. 


Broughton. 


Pryce, Lewis. 




Au- 




Pytts,J. 




1^1 J- 




Richard, P. 
Rodlay, J. 




'> 




Rothwell, W. 


Stoke Tahnage. 


J. 

V. 

J- 


Comwell. 


Sadleyer, H. 
Scott, Alan. 


Charlton. 




Sharpe, £dm. 






Shawe, J. 








Shevyn, Ralph. 








Slynger, Geoff. 




David. 




Spencer, R. 




Ralph. 




Standesche, 




de, 




Thurstan. 
Sthone, T. 





Oxford 
subscrip- 
tions. 



I20 



THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. V Namt ofPenon, 

-— Toimcys, T. 
Oxford ^ \ x%j 
subscrip- Towiiclcy,W. 

tions. Tylar, Hugh. 

Wade, J. 
Walker, £. 
Warner, J. 
Watson, J. 
Watson, R. 



Namt t/Curt, 
Halton, cur. 



HeyfonL 



Nmm qfPtnon, Nmmtg ofi 
Webbe, T. 

Wolff, Edxn. BrightweU 
Wydder, W. 
Wyllat, Ralph. 



Yate, J. 
Yate, Latir. 
Yonge, T. 



Bampton. 



5. Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield. 



Nmtm ofPnaom, Namt of Curt, 
AbcU, J. 
Adde, J. 
Alcocke, T. 
Aleyn, Gervase. 
Allen, Jas. 
Alpden, Robt. 
Alsop, J. 
Alsop) Robt 
Alsop, W. 
Ap Richart, 

Hugh. 
Asbelake, T. 
♦Asheley, W. 
Astley, W. 
Aston, Robt. 
Astyn, T. 
Atkyns, T. 
Averell, H. 
Awdley, J. 

Babyngton, W. 

Bache, J. 

Bacon, W. Standon. 

Badnall,T. 

Bagaley, Nidi. 

Bakewell, T. 

Baldwin, R. 

Banaster, W. 

Banrenson, J. 

Barbar, £dm. 

Barlowe> Alex. 



Namt qfPnmm, Namt of ( 
Barley, W. 
Barnes, T. 
Barnes, W. 
Barthylmew, 

Roger. 
Bate, Hugb. 
Baxter, H. 
Baxter, Ralph. 
Beche, W. 
Bees, W. 
Bennett, Edmi 
Bennett, £. 

Bennett, W. Holy T 

Coventr 
Bemereape, T. 
Bettreton, J. 
Blakemeyre, H. 
Blythe, W. 

Bolt, T. Preb.ofSt< 

Borthe, H. 
Bower, Ralph. 
Bowmne, R. 

Bowyer, And. Ashton. 
Bradocke, T. 
Bradshawe, J. 
Brett, Ralph. 
Brock, Ralph. 
Broke, Adam. 
Browyne, 

Sylvester. 



THE SOUTHERN VISITATION 



121 



I 



Na9H€ of Person, 
Bnine, Stephen. 
Bryan, W. 
Brymley, W. 
Bulter, J. 

Burton, T. 

Burtonton, 
£dm. 

Butler, T. 

Butterton, R. 

Byrd, T. 

Carlelley, Robt. 
Cartelle, W. 
Carter, W. 
Cartwright, J. 
Caryngton, 

Roger. 
Caterbanke, W. 
Cawappe, £. 
Cowappe, 

Ralph. 
Chapleyn, 

Thurstan. 
Chelton, Nieh.. 
Churchelcy, W. 
Clement, T. 
Clerke^ Ralph. 
Clerke, W. 
Cleyton, Nich. 
Cleyton, Ralph. 
Cliffe, R. 
Coke, Robt. 
Cole, J. 
Cooke, Robt. 
Copysette, 

Roger. 
Coton, T. 
Cowper, R. 
Crane, G. 
Crane, J. 
Crow, W. 
Cruse, J. 

Dauson, Ralph. 
Daygle, T. 



NameofCun, 



Nami of Person, 
Downam, T. 
Downe, Anth. 
Drakcoferd, T. 
Drury, Robt 
Dudley, Arthur. 
Dudley, Dion. 
Dycher, Jas. 
Dycher, J. 
Dyckenson, J. 

Dylke, T. 

Edwards, R. 
Eiton, T. 

Fell, R. 
Fenton, J. 
Fermer, T. 
Fildhows, R. 
Fletchur, E. 
Fliming, H. 
Foster, W. 
Fox, Jas. 
Fox, T. 
Frere, J. 
Fyldisend, W. 

Gainson, Robt. 
Ganull, G. 
♦Gardiner, T. 
Garlec, J. 
Garret, W. 
Gilbert, T. 
Godwyn, J. 
Goldsmith, 
Randolf. 
Golstun, T. 
Goosnell, T. 
Gosling, Geoff. 
Green, Ch. 
Green, £dm. 
Gyttyns, R. 

Haih, W. 
Halen, Robt. 



Name of Cure, Chap. V 



Kinnersley. 



Coventry 
and Lich- 
field sub- 
scriptions. 



Little £r<:all,ciu'. 

Pubis Derbien- 
sis moderator. 



Longford. 



123 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. V Nmtm of Pmon. t/mmo/Cmt. 

- Hancoks,!. 

Coventiy ' 

uidLich- HaraU,W. 
field sub- Harbarbard, R. 
scriptions. Hardinge, T. 

Hanys, T. 

Hatton, R. 

Hawea,E. 

Haystings, 
Bcnurd. 

Hensluun, H. 

Henson, Roger. 

Herod, G. 

Hether, W. 

Heydock, T. 

Heylyn, Robt. Petloa. 

Heyton, J. 



Heyward, J. 
Hilton, G. 
Hodson, Roger 
Hoggyns, R. 
Hollynshed, R. 
Holone, Edm. 
Holone, R. 
Holwey, J. 
Horton, Hum. 
Houghton, Roger. 
Howbyn, Laur. 
Howys, J. 
HuUey, T. 
Hulme, Robt. 
Hunt, T. 
Hussey, H. 
Hygdon, Robt. 
Hyggynsjj. 
Hyll,R. 

Jamys, E. 
Jobber, W. 
Jurden, E. 

•Key, R. 
Knyston,R. 



(Shiewibuiy 
School). 



Kyiaberieyns, 

Fras. 
Kyikbie, Barth. 

Lancashire, 

Robt. 
Lancashire, W. 
Lancutell, ab 

Hewster, 

Roger. 
Lane, J. 
Lane, J. 
Lane, Maitio. 
Lanebam, G. 
Langton, Fras. 
Larch, T. 
Lee,G. 
Lcson, Antb. 
Leveson, J. 
Leyke, T. 
Like,T. 
Lloyd, J. 
Longford, J. 
Lord, Griffith. 
Luter, Roger. 
Lydyatt, T. 

Lye, T. Wroxeter. 

Lyghtfoot, Hum. 
Lyngard, J. 
Madford, E. 
Mainwaring, J. 
Marler, T. 
MarriSjT. 
Marshall, J. 
Massy, Bernard. 
Massy, W. Chaplain. 

Mateson, Ralph. 
Mericke, Edm. 
Merton, W. 
Meyre, Nich. 
Miller, J. 
More, Robt. 
MorcW. 
Morehall,;. 



THE SOUTHERN VISITATION 



123 



Name of PnsoH, 
Noreton, J. 
^orysy Robt 
^ower, T. 
3iowTe, Robt. 

Nedham, J. 
Nicson, T. 
Norman, W. 
Nycholls, R. 
Nycools, J. 

Okeley, R. 
Olde, W. 
Ollerton, W. 
Orpc T. 
Otley, Roger. 
Otuwey, Robt. 

P • • • • I R. \Sic) 
Palmer, R. 
Parker, Ralph. 
Pendelton, W. 
Pendlebury, P. 
Pcnn, W. 
PciiLyii,W. 
Perseval, Jas. 
PerstcU, T. 
Pese, W. 
Port,R. 
Porter, W. 
Powes, W. 
Preston, T. 
Prod, W. 

Radoss, Ralph. 
Ravis, W. 
Richardson, W. 
Robyns, Hum. 
Roderaon, R. 
Roger, Laur. 
Rood, H. 
Roulcy, W. 
Rowbe, J. 
Rusheton, R. 
Russell, J. 



Nmrn of Curt, 



Milwich. 



Berrington. 



Sheldon. 



cur. 



Namt ofPfrmm. 
Rydavure, W. 
Ryder, T. 

Sadler, J. 
Sale,W. 
Sandford, Brian. 
Satten, Robt. 

Schepey, Hugh. 
Scherar, R. 
Sclater, W. 
Seele, W. 
Shaw, Ralph. 
Shelden, J. 
Sheldon, Hugh. 
Shelton, GeoiT. 
Sheppard, T. 
Sherard, A. 
Sherard, T. 
Sherman, T. 
Sherwyn, Robt. 
Shrygley, W. 
Silvester, Nich. 
Slany, R. 
Smyth, R. 
Smyth, T. 
Smyth, W. 
Smyth, W. 
Snape, R. 
Snowdon, W. 
Snowe, Nich. 
Stanbanke, W. 
Stanley, J. 
Stele, T. 
Stetten, H. 
Stevensone, 

Jas. 
Stynton, 

Reuben. 
Sutton, Robt 
Swetnam, T. 
Swettonham, 

Randolfl 
Symon, W. 



Nanu of Curt, Chap. V 

Swinnerton. ^ 

Coventry 

and Lich- 
field sub- 
scriptions. 



Preb.ofBubben- 
hall. 



Prcb. of- 



124 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. V Nam§ ofPeraon, 

Coventry . ; 

andLich- Tailyer,W. 

field sub- Tairleton, Robt 

scriptions. Tcmpol, Ralph, 

Todd, Nich. 
Torleton, W. 
Tott, J. 
Trylentcr, H. 
Tukyson, Hugh. 
Turner, £dm. 
Turner, G. 
Turner, J. 
Twysse, T. 

UnderhiH J. 
Underwood, T. 

Waikefyld, 
Stephen. 
Waite, R. 
Waker, Edm. 
Walkeden, W. 
Walker, Jas. 
Walker, R. 

Walker, T. 
Walker, W. 
Walter, R. 
Walton, J. 
Walton, W. 
Ward, J. 
Ward,R. 
Warton, R. 
Washington, W. 



Nams o/Cun, 



Ulvcton ? 



Preb. of Pipe 
Minor. 



Namt ofPtnoHn 
Walkys,R. 
Watson, Robt. 
Webb, G. 
Webb, Nidu 
Weddysbuigbe, 

Robt 
Welshaw, H. 
Wendlocke, R. 
Wering, Hum. 
Werynton, J. 
West, Leon. 
Wever, R. 
Whorwood, R. 
Wielde, R. 
Wightman, J. 
Wild,Edm. 
Wilkinson, Ch. 
Woddroff,Thur- 

stan. 
Wollaston, H. 
Wrexhay, W. 
Wright, J. 
Wrygley, Ralph. 
Wyclyn, W. 
Wydd, J. 
Wyldblod, J. 
Wyldy, Rory. 
Wylson, G. 
Wylson, R. 
Wylson, T. 
Wynne, J. 
Wytwyll, J. 

Yoppe, Nich. 



NmtmffCmt 



Walsall, cur. 



6. Diocese of Lincoln {imperfect). 



Name of Person. Nanu of Plact^tfc, 
Acton, T. 
Addams, T. 

Alcocke, R. Morcott. 

Allen, J. 
Alford, W. 
Andro, J. 



Natm of Person. Name of Pltux^tfc 
Arnolds, J. 
Ashwyn, J. 
Aspinall, Nich. 
Assheby, W. 
Atkynson, T. 
Ayslabye, J. 



THE SOUTHERN VISITATION 



NoHU o/Ptram. Namt of Curt. 

Bailsoms, Robt, 

Baikar Robt. Chalvey. 

Ban, Roger 

Bancroft, Jas. 

Baiikes,H. 

Bapster, J. 

Barbar, R. Arch. Bedford 

and Preb. of 
Liddington. 

Barker, Ph. 

Barlawe, Geoff. 

BartnuD, Robt. 

Battye, J. 

Bayly, Matt. 

Bayns, R. 

BBys,W. 

BccIec, Baith. 

Bedall,). 

Bell, T. 

Belief, P. 

Bennett, Nich. 

Bentey, W. 

BcDtley, ]. 

Bery.W. 

Bcrydge, W. 

Blands, GiUsert. 

Bolton, W. 

Botvltan, J. 

Bovell, H. 

Bowotrs, W. 

Boylston, Roger. 

Braye, J. 

Brettyn, Hum. Chonl vicar 
of Lincoln 
Cathedral. 

Briskowe, R. 

Browne, J. 

Browne, Robt. 

Browne, Walter. 

Bnll, W. 

Boson, E. 

Buttenrorthe, E. 

Bylclifre,Thurstan. 

Byngley, Robt. 



Natm i^Citn. Chi 



Vicar et Lincoln, tioni. 



Namt t^Ptmnt. 
Cantrell, W. 
Capperson, J. 
Cartwryght, T. 
Carvar, R. 
Caslyn, T. 
Catton, H. 
Chester, T. 
Cheyney, J. 
Chomley, E. 
Choyse, J. 
Chyese, W. 
aerke, J. 
Clerke, T. 
aerke, W. 
Clypsham, E. 
Cocket, G. 
Cocks, R. 
Cocks, W. 
Cdlynwood,T. 
Corker, W. 
Coshey, Ralph. 
Coton, Nich. 
Cotyer, Ralph. 
Cowper, T, 
Crakdl,W. 
Crofts, Robt 
Crake, T. 
Cudbatt, Ch. 
Cursson, G. 



Dalcyn, Ralph. 

Davy$on, Precentor of 

Roger. Lincoln Ca- 

thedral. 

Debank, ]. 

Dend, W. 

Denham, R. 

Dent, Robt. 

Dewsnapi W. 

Deyre,J. 

Digbie, Leon. 

Doiman, Edm. Chalfont St. Pe- 
ter and St. 
Giles. 



THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 



>. V Namtt^PtnoH. NamtpfOat. 



EgUte, R. 
Ellis, Percivil. 

EviDggam, ja«. 
Eyr.T. 



Farent, J. 
Fannar, J. 
Farmery, J. 
Feyiust, R. 
Fisbbom, Brian. 
Fisbbom, Ger- 

vaM. 
Fbvet, Ch. 
Forman, RobI, 
Forater, Giles. Preb-ofBigglet- 

wade. 
FotbeTgill,Roger. 
Foward, H. 
Fowne, Leon. 
Foxcroft, W 
Fretnan, Oliver. 
F reman, Robt. 
Fyssher, W. 
Fytto,J. 



Gamble, J. 
Cavyn, J> 
Goddall,;. 



Grace, Robt. 
Gray, R. 
Gray, T. 
Great, Robt. 
Great, W. 
Green, Nich. 
Green, R. 
Grenes. W. 
Grove, J. 
Gudwin, Ch. 



Ludenui peda- 
(Louth). 



Vicarof iincaln. 



Ntrnti^Ptnam. 

Hadcocke,R. 

Halmf, T- 

Halyday, Ch. 
Hammcrsley, T. 
Hancocke, T 
Harpham, T. 
Hanya,W. 
Haiwar,Nidi. 
Hawys, W. 
Haycon, R. 
Hayk, T. 
Helda,;. 
Herde,J. 

Hethcott, W. 
Hewet, T. 
Heyton, J. 
Hm,J. 
HiIl,R. 
HiU,T. 
Hobson, G. 
HocstOD, R. 
Hopkyii,R. 

Horwanns, W. 
Howion, Fru. 
Huddylston, W. 
Hudson, E. 
Hudson, H., 

junr. 
Hulme, Richard. 
Humfrey, Elisha. 
Hutchyn, H. 
Hyckcnan, Nich. 
Hyllins, W. 
Hylon, Hum. 
Hynman, jaa. 
Hynthton, H. 
Jareakc, W. 
Jenkynson, W. 
Johnson, G. 
Johnson, T. 
Johnson, W. 



Preb. of Slea- 
ford. 



Nottoo. 

Preb. Sanctac 
Cruci> [ah 
Spaldwick]. 



THE SOUTHERN VISITATION 



127 



Namg of Pimm, 
Kennes, Miles. 
Knolles, Edm. 
Knyght, Robt. 
Kyashe, T. 
Kyng, Gi^. 
Kyngston, W. 

Lambert, J. 
Langton, Robt. 
Lanmett, J. 
Laxe, Jas. 
Laynge, 

Dychard. 
Leasbie, T. 
Letherland, H. 
Lcyke, W. 
Lovett, T. 
Lygh, J. 

Mansfield, J. 
Marshall, J. 
Marson, Ch. 
Marston, T. 
Martin, W. 
Mathew, J. 
Matys, Robt. 
Maynman, J. 
Mericke, W. 
Metcalff, G. 
Midleton, J. 
Middleton, T. 
Monnson, G. 



Moreton, J. 
Morys, R. 
Motte, Robt. 
Mownforth, T. 
Myle, Hamlet. 
Mynteyng, R. 

Newby, Anth. 
Norreys, Robt. 
Northends, R. 
Nott . . . , Robt. 



Nanu of Curt, 
Melton. 



Blaby. 



Preb. of [Wd- 
ton] Payn- 
shall. 



Leicester. 



Nanu of Person, 
Obrey, J. 
Ofspryng, G. 
Oldman, J. 
Olverley, J. 
Orrell,W. 
Overton, Jas. 

Pagett, T. 
Papenry, Hugh. 
Parke, J. 
Parker, T. 
PeU, W. 
Penyngton, G. 
Perseval, J. 
Peychyll, J. 
Peyrson, H. 
Pollard, W. 
Pott, Ph. 
Powtrell, T. 
Presberi, H. 
Preston, J. 
Preston, Roger. 
Pullay, H. 



RatcliiTe, GeoiT. 

Ratlyns, Ch. Preb. of 

Brampton. 
Ravyn, G. 
Remyngton, W. 
Richardson, R. 
Robinson, £. 
Robinsonnes,R. 
Rod, W. 
Rods, T. 
Rypham, Robt. 



Nami of Curt, Chap. V 



Lincoln 
subscrip- 
tions. 



Salisbury, J. 



Sapcote, W. 

Saunderson, W. 
Savage, G. 



Chancellor of 
Lincoln Ca- 
thedral. 

Preb. Sexaginta 
Solidorum. 



laB 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Ni 



ofP^ 

h 
Sawar, R. 

Sawdin, J. 

Schcpcff R* 

Seym^NidL 
•>iiaiWy n. 
Smmicrlcyy G. 

KypWItJly 

Roger. 
Smeythman, T« 
Smyth, £. 
Sfnythy Frsuw 
SfDjTth, H. 
Smyth, J. 
Smyth, R* 
Smyth, T. 
SmythesoD, W« 
Smytheth, Edm. 
Sowre, Ellis. 
Spencer, R. 
Spenser, R. 
Standesche, J. 
Stevynsone, J. 
Stocker, W. 
Stocks, Nich. 
Storye, T. 
Sturge, Gilbert 
Sugden, Ch. 
Swetlad, T. 
Sympson, T. 
Symson, J. 
Symson, Pat 

Tailyer, G. 
Taylor, H. 
Tayler, J. 
Taylcr, R. 
Tayler, R. 

Tenand, R. 
Thoepe, W. 
ThirkeU, R. 



Thiikjuiy, 



Preb. of Milton* 



Preb. of Carlton 
cum Thurlby. 



xhomcys, X. 
Thorpe, T. 
Thnnnan, RobL 
Todd,W. 
Tomsoo, T. 
Tomsoo, T. 

Townraw^ W. 
Toyter, J. 
Tyndale, Hum. 
Tyrer,Edm. 
Tyson, J. 

Ufton, X. 

Waikefyld, 

Ralph. 
Walkwyd,;. 



Preb. of 
Bololph'sL 



Sl 



Lndensis Hypo- 
didasculos 



Waid,R. 

Wanl,W. 

Washington, T. 

Watmough, E. 
(and see 
Whatmo). 

Watson, J. 

Watson, Robt 

Webster, E. 

Webster, Robt 

Webster, T. 

Wellche, J. 

Wells, W. 

West, Edm. 

Westmills, J. 

Wethestall, 
Gilbert 

Whatmo, Hugh Prestwold 
{and see Wat- 
mough). 

Whelpdamell, J. 

Whitlock, R. 



THE SOUTHERN VISITATION 



129 



Nmrn 0/ Person, 
Whytlyn, Ralph. 
Wilcocks, R. 
Wittc, Roger. 
Wodhouse, J. 
Wollverston, 

£dm. 
Wond, T. 
Wright, J. 
Wright, J. 
Wright^ R. 



NamiofCun. 



Burton Overy. 



Nantg 0/ Person. 
Wright, T. 
Wylliams, J. 
Wylson, Jas. 
Wylson, W. 
Wythin, 
Cuthbert. 

Ylston, T. 
Yonge, J. 
Yonge, Robt. 



Name of Cure, Chap. V 

Lincoln 

subscrip* 

tions. 



CHAPTER VI 

VISITATION OF THE UNIVERSITIES, 1 559 

Chap. VI WRITS of Visitation for the two Universities were issued 

in June, 1559. The Oxford Commission does not appear 

Oxford ^^ have survived. The visitors were Sir T. Parry, Sir 

Visitation, J. Mason, Sir T. Smith, Sir T. Benger, Mr. R. Gooderick, 

" ^La k Mr. D. Master, Alex. Nowell, and David Whitehead. So 

scribed by ' ' 

Wood. the names stand in a contemporary MS. list which belonged 
to Parker \ but as Alex. Nowell was engaged upon the 
South-Eastem Visitation, according to the same list, it is 
scarcely probable that he acted at Oxford as well, though 
the dates of the respective visitations might have allowed 
him to serve on both. Wood in his Annals gives the name 
of Cox, and the correction is probable, as Cox had served 
in a similar capacity at Oxford before, under Edward VI. 
With regard to what the visitors actually did, we have 
gathered no information beyond that given in Wood's 
Annals. If wc may judge from the Cambridge writ which 
has survived, the purpose of the visitors was not wholly 
to press the oath, but as much to see to the general 
well-being of the University. We must remember that 
when Elizabeth came to the throne Oxford theology was 
thoroughly in sympathy with the Marian reaction. Thus 
in one of his letters Jewell tells us in May, 1559, just 
before the visitation : * at Oxford there are scarcely two 
individuals who think with us. . . . That despicable friar 
Soto and another Spanish monk, I know not who, have 
so torn up by the roots all that Peter Martyr had so 
prosperously planted that they have reduced the vineyard 

' Lambeth MS. 959, f. 494. 



VISITATION OF THE UNIVERSITIES 131 

of the Lord into a wilderness ^.* The Spanish monk Chaf. VI 
would seem to be John de Villa Garcia, Regius Professor 
of Divinity. To press the oath of supremacy very 
rigorously would have meant to turn out practically all 
the Heads of Colleges and the majority of the Fellows. 
Accordingly it was determined, as we gather from the 
result, to proceed gently, and to give those in authority 
every opportunity of conforming, or as Wood puts it, * to 
make a mild and gentle, not rigorous, reformation.' The 
visitors, according to the same authority, began work at 
the end of June. They restored those who had been 
unjustly ejected under Mary, but of whom we have found 
no list, and in turn deprived a certain number of those 
who scrupled the oath of supremacy. Their action does 
not appear to have been rigorous, for the University 
thanked the Queen for the moderation shown by the visitors. 

But who were actually deprived ? Wood needs careful Number of 
reading, which he has not always received, for Tiemey***?^^ 
and others have drawn up lists of the ejected, not noticing Oxford, 
that they are placing together the names of those whose 
deprivation occurred in subsequent visitations. We shall 
recur to Tierne/s names when we look at his list for the 
whole country, but as it regards Oxford a few criticisms 
may be made here. He does not notice that Wood* 
speaks of the deprived as ejected * about these times,' and 
so includes such names as Bnstowe, who was a pervert 
to Rome in 1566, and Nealc, who was ejected in 1570. 
He speaks of twenty-three Fellows of New College who 
'refused to subscribe to Queen Elizabeth's Injunctions.* 
This is inaccurate : some of them were ejected by Home 
a year or two later, and some later still for refusing to 
attend the College service. Several were ordained abroad ; 
another was ejected for refusing to take orders; another 
became a Doctor of Medicine in 1565. Of course from 
its Winchester connexion New College at that time was 
devoted to the old regime represented by Gardiner, and 
opposition to change was natural, but, as we read Wood, 

* Zurich Letters, i. 14. ' See Gutch's Wood, ii. 145. 

K 2 



132 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. VI we doubt very much whether more than five or six of 
the twenty-three were deprived by the visitors of i559- 
The same line of argument applies to others said to have 
been ejected at this time. Thus Coveney, President of 
Magdalen, was turned out because he was not in Orders ; 
Tresham was forced to resign his Canonry at Christ 
Church, but was allowed to retain the rectory of Bugbrook, 
Northants ; Smith held the Provostship of Oriel, but was 
bidden to vacate the Mai^aret Professorship of Divinity. 
We have not had access to the College records in order 
to make up a complete list of deprived Fellows, but until 
this is done we do not think it possible to prove that 
many were turned out in 1559. At the same time we 
do not imagine that those who assented to change did 
so willingly, for as Wood says : * many conformed for 
a certain time, till they saw how matters would be 
determined.' The deprivations by the visitors, which may 
be regarded as practically certain, will be found. at the 
end of this chapter, and the reader is referred for further 
annotation of Wood's list to a later chapter ^. 
The Cam- The Cambridge Visitation appears to have set to work 
v"1uti n ^^^^^^ \2ittT than the Oxford visitors, if Wood is not mixing 
up the date of the writ and the date of session. At 
Cambridge the visitors sat during some parts, at all events, 
of August and September, and the place of inquiry was 
King's College Chapel. Our authorities are C. H. Cooper's 
Annals of Cambridge, and Mr. Mullinger's University of 
Cambridge. We have been able to glean nothing more, 
save the writ directing the commission, which exists in 
copy at Lambeth, and is appended to this chapter. It 
will be seen that it is mainly educational. For the pur- 
poses of visitation, Cambridge was joined with Eton, 
and the visitors were Sir W. Cecil, Sir Anthony Coke, 
Mr. Walter Haddon, Dr. Parker, Dr. Bill, Dr. May, 
Mr. Wendy, Mr. James Pilkington, Mr. Robert Home. 
Parker, Bill, May, Pilkington, and Home were, of course, 
ecclesiastics; three of them became bishops, and May 

^ See below, p. 223. 



VISITATION OF THE UNIVERSITIES 133 

was elected to York in 1560. The tone of the University Chap. vi 
was very different to that at Oxford ^, and it is probable 
that no great amount of opposition was manifested. This 
will account for the brevity of the list of Cambridge 
deprivatiy though we do not feel quite certain of its com- 
pleteness. At the same time, almost as many heads of 
houses were deprived as at Oxford, and, though no special 
details have been traced of ejected Fellows, it is probable 
that a few were dispossessed by the visitors^. At Cam- 
bridge there are not as yet the same opportunities for. 
verifying the Fellows of Colleges as at Oxford. 



I. 

The Writ of Visitation for Cambridge 
AND Eton, June ao, 1559. 

[Transcr. Lambeth MS. 11 66, No. 3.] 

Elizabetha Dei gratia etc. dilecto ac fideli consiliario nostro The Queen 
Willelmo Cicello militi, Academiae nostrae Cantabrigiensis summo ^J^t^* ^^^ 
Cancellario ; ac dilectis nobis Antonio Coko militi, Matthaeo hereby 
Parkero Sacrae Theologiae Doctori; Willelmo Billo Sacrae *PP°^*^^ 
Theologiae Doctor!^ ac magno nostro eleemosynario ; Gualtero 
Haddono Armigero, Legum Doctori ac supplicum libellonim 
Magistro ; Willelmo Majo Legum Doctori ac Ecclesiae Cathedralis 
Divi Pauli Decano; Thomae Wendeo armigero, Medicinae 
Doctori, ac imi e Medicis nostris; Roberto Homo Sacrae 
Theologiae Professori ; Jacobo Pilkintono Sacrae Theologiae Pro- 
fessori — salutem. 

Cum a Deo Patre in lucem editi omnes et suscepti sumus ut Regarding 
Deiun auctorem omnium gloria afficiamus, prima omnium ciuu ^^^ ^^ 
debet esse ut quae sit Dei vera gloria intelligamus, atque earn true end of 
omnibus officiis et studiis persequamur ; e cognitione enim debet {^^' ^^d 
eflSorescere actio, quae, nisi certa scientia et vera in Deum fide the objects 
nitatur, complacita esse Deo nullo modo potest. Academiae autem yg^Jy"*" 
nostrae non modo seminaria, et fontes virtutum scientianimque, sed 
quasi metropolis quaedam sunt studionim, quae si non recte 
excolantur, in graves et pemiciosos errores omnes regni nostri 

^ See Mullinger's Untversity of Cambridge^ 167. 

* Cooper's Annals of Cambridge ^ ii. 154 ; MuUinger, 177. 



134 THE EUZABETHAN CLEEGY 

Chap. VI partes misere addocentur. Itaqae at ratio afiqaa ineitiii 

fontes literanim pargentoTy vitia corrigantor, pietaaqoe angcal 

appoints judicio Consfliarionim nostronun, ass^;iiavimiis gravisGmios 

{«rvi«tor. pjaedictos [names given] vos nowm, octo, septan, aex, qui 

out this qoatuor, tres oestrum ad minimum^ ddegatos nostroB comnuai 

^^mmis^ 2d ea quae in6a scribontur exequenda: ad visitandiim igii 

visiutioii capite et in membris tarn CoUeginm nostnim de Etoo, 

^S^"^ ^ Universitatem nostram Cantabrigiae, ac omnia et angnla Coi 

Eton in Aulas, Hospitia, et loca alia qnaecunqne ezercitio Ecdesi 

head and ^epotata, tam ezempta qaam non ezempta^ ibidem cons 

eorom Praepodtos, Magistros sive Custodes, ac sodos, scbc 

Their studentes, ministros et personas alias qaascnnqne in e 
duties are : « i • • «• m- 

(j^ to commorantes, deque statu locorum bnjusmodi, necnon studic 

inquire moribus, conversatione, ac etiam qualitatibus personaru 
life and eisdem degentium sive ministrantiom, modis omnibus quit 

learning of melius et efficadus poteritis inquirendum, et investigan 
all therein, ... , . i « m 

and to cnmmosos ac delinquentes, socordeSy ignavos, culpabiles, e 

correct qui susceptae jam emendate reKgioni subscribere obstina 

' peremptorie recusent, condignis paenis usque ad dignit 

enforce societatum, ac officiomm suonim privationem, aut stipend 

*?**'*^^P| proventuum, vel emolumentorum suonim quoruncunqu< 

pain of questrationem, vel quamcunque aliam congniam et compel 

depri- correctionem puniendum et corrigendum, atque probatiores v 

other pun- mores, modis omnibus quibus id melius et efficadus pc 

ishment ; reducendum ; contumaces, aut recusantes et rebelles, cujusci 

status et conditionis fiierint, siquos inveneritis, tam per cei 

ecclesiasticas, quam etiam incarcerationem ac recogniti 

receptationem, et quaecunque alia juris regni nostri re 

(3) to compescendum ; pecunias impendendas quotannis in exeqi: 

and divert convivia, aut in lectiones publicas vel privatas, aut in alia 

lavish ex- magis convenientes convertendum ; pecunias item in 

' collegio impendendas, ex fundatione ejusdem collegii, in chc 

transfer, if cantores, et alias impensas, ratione quotidiani servitii (ut v 

need be, ecclesiastici, si ita vobis commodum visum fiierit, ad alim< 

choral 

founda- sociorum vel scholasticorum ad philosophiam, vel alias 
tionstoa discendas, in eodem vel alio coUefiio constituendorum, 

better use ; o » 

/.N t^ mittendum ; Magistros, Praepositos, Praesidentes, Sodos, Le< 
remove all tam publicos quam privates, vel scholares quoscunque, illis 
members of ^^^iSt^os, non proficientes, statutis collegii vel commodo repv 
colleges ; et "bonarum literanim id exigentibus, expellendum, aut amovei 



VISITATION OF THE UNIVERSITIES 135 

et alium vel alios in ainotorum loco praeficiendum et substituen*- Chap. VI 
dum ; cessiones praeterea quoruncunque, praeposituras, roagisteria, 
praesidendas, gardianas, societatea, seu officia, in locis praedictis, ^pp\y 
habendum, coram vobis factas et ezhibitas auctoritate Testra their 
admittendum, eaque vacare et pro vacandbus decernere, et in loca ^ *^®* ' 
per cesslonem aut alio quovis modo vacantia, personas habiles et 
rdoneas subsdtoendum > cantarias, nominaque cantariarum, item (6) to 
sdpendiarios presbyteros, qui ad missas solummodo celebrandas change^all 
praeficiuntur, in quocunque collegio fimdatae fuerunt, et earum chantry 
fundadones mutandum, aliasque appellationes iUis imponendum, et (^j|^ . 
fnictus, redditus, et proventus dictanim cantariarum et sdpendiorum, 
ad schokirium exhibitionem assignandum ; et dictae universitatis (7) to 
nostrae, et collegioram ac aulanim incorporationes, fundationes, university 
statuta, ordinationes, privilegia, composidones, compotus, et alia *"d college 
munimenta quaecunque exigendum et recipiendum, eaque diligenter ' 

examinandum, et discutiendum ; formas officiorum divinorum, et (8) to 
disputationum, et publicarum Lectionum, colladones quoque college 
graduum et honorum, qui erudidonis ergo in studiosos confenmtur services, 
immutandum, et in commodiorem radonem instituendum ; necnon ^erc^es 
injuncdones, statuta, quae vobis pro commodiore ordine videbuntur *"d '^c- 

tures * 

idonea, personis in eisdem degendbus nomine nostro tradendum» et ' 

vice ac auctoritate nostris eis indicendum, et assignandum, poenas- prescribe 
que convenientes in eorum violatores infligendum, et irrogandum, injunctions 

and sta- 

statutaque, ordinationes, consuetudines, et composidones, si quas tutes ; 
compererids eisdem contrarias, sive repugnantes, tollendiun, et (10) to 
penitus annihilandum ; Item concionandi potestatem hujusmodi *^^^"^ 
personis concedendum, qUas ad hoc divinum munus suscipiendum r^^s ^^ 
aptas esse judicaveritis. impose the 

Juramentum insuper obediendae et fidelitatis nobis et heredibus ^thT™*^^ 
debitae, deque renundanda, renuenda, ac penitus abneganda, calling all 
extranea potestate quacunque, et quaecunque alia juramenta ex ^J^^^ 
statutis hujus regni praedicti requisita ab omnibus intra loca for the 
praedicta constituds exigendum et recipiendum ; congregadones et P*"!^*® » 
convocationes praepositorum, gardianorum, audiendum, et mini- 
strorum, hujusmodi, pro executione praemissorum, aut reformatione ('^) ^^ 

- . , • J ^ J . restore all 

quacunque faciendum, conciendum et convocandum ; magistros unjustly 
autem collegiorum et socios, qui propter religionem, aut aliam deprived, 
causam quamcunque minus legitimam, magisterio et societate sua mining all 
injuste privad fiierint, restituendum in integrum ; causas edam causes 
instandarum examinandum, et jure debito terminandum, ac omnia 



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R. Mors&aiL C!l Cl T. Dclman* AH SobIsl 

T. Fahner. GLancescer HaiT, T. Dciaaa^ All Sooii^ 

T. RcTnokis. Ot. C&l W. Knsir. Xcv. 

T. Sixmanc Trimnr. J» M^^kilL Nev. 

W. Wrqdt£« EoJicL R. Soxidi. Canaa of CIl CIl 



W. Trr^iim,, Casoa af CIl CIl 



J. de Villa Garda. Reg. Prat Div. 
J. Smith. yUiZ' f ^^ ^^• 

III. 

Cambridge Uxrv'ERsm Deprivations, 1559, 

Hmds ofHotKus. FiSams ofCoOfga \ 

G. Bollock, St. John's^ 

N. Carre, Magdalene. 

£. Cosyn, St. Catharine's^ 

W. Mossc, Trinity HaH 

T. Peacock, Queen's. 

T. Redman, JesosL 

W. Taylor, Christ's. 

J. Young, Pembroke. 

' For tome other Ozlbrd deprivatioiis, see pp. 324 and i^^, 
* No list bat been preserved, but see MuDiiiger, 177. 



CHAPTER VII 

THE FIRST ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION, 1 559-1 562 

Having traced the visitations of 1559 to their general Chap, vil 
Conclusion at the end of October, we must now go back in 
Order to seek for the origin of the permanent Ecclesiastical tj^n 5^' 
Commission which dates to the same year. It was a thing twcen the 
entirely distinct from the temporary vbitations, and its ^nd Uie°" 
relation to these has frequently been obscured by historians. Commis- 
It wiM be worth while to investigate the point, not only for **®"' 
the sake of our present purpose, but in order to throw what 
light we may upon the history of an important piece of 
ecclesiastical machinery. 

As we have already seen, powers were given under the The Su- 
Supremacy Act * by letters patent under the great seal of prcmacy 
England, to assign, name, and authorize when and as often as templates 
your highness, your heirs or successors shall think meet and such a 

convenient, and for such and so long time as shall please your commis- 
... , . *" , '^ ^ won. 

highness, your heirs or successors, such person or persons 

being natural bom subjects to your highness, your heirs and 
successors, as your majesty, your heirs and successors shall 
think meet to exercise, use, occupy and execute under your 
highness, your heirs and successors, all manner of jurisdic- 
tions, privileges and pre-eminences in any wise touching or 
concerning any spiritual or ecclesiastical jurisdiction within 
these your realms of England and Ireland, or any other 
your highness' dominions or countries ; and to visit, reform, 



139 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. VII redress, order, correct, and amend all such errors, heredes, 
schisms, abuses, offences, contempts, and enormities whatso- 
ever, which by any manner spiritual or ecclesiastical power, 
authority, or jurisdiction, can or may lawfully be reformed, 
ordered, redressed, corrected, restrained, or amended, to the 
pleasure of Almighty God, the increase of virtue, and the 
conservation of the peace and unity of this realm, and that 
such person or persons so to be named, assigned, authorized, 
and appointed by your highness, your heirs or successors, 
after the said letters patent to him or them made and 
delivered, as is aforesaid, shall have full power and authority, 
by virtue of this Act, and of the said letters patent, under 
your highness, your heirs and successors^ to exercise, use 
and execute all the premises, according to the tenor and 
effect of the said letters patent ; any matter or cause to the 
contrary in any wise notwithstanding.' 
First hint This scction of the Act, then, gave full power to consti- 
®^*^^. tute either visitations for temporary purposes, or more 
sion. permanent commissions, at the pleasure of the sovereign. 

A letter previously quoted from the State Papers^ dated 
May 28, 1559, or within a month of the passing of the 
Supremacy Act, shows that Cecil already contemplated the 
series of temporary visitations which we have traced, and 
also a permanent ecclesiastical commission. The letter 
is written by Edward Allen to Abel, and says that Coke, 
Gooderick, May, Cox, Haddon, Wroth, Weston, and Lords 
Bedford and Mountjoy 'are to be visitors and also the 
Queen's commissioners for all ecclesiastical matters, with 
others added to them, so that they shall be in all fourteen ^.' 
If we may consider the writer well informed, it is obvious 
from the sequel that changes took place both in the number 
and the names of those who actually served. But be that as 
it may, we find that on July 19 letters patent were issued 
under the great seal to nineteen persons who should act as 
the Queen's commissioners for the purpose of seeing the 
Supremacy and Uniformity Acts duly executed. It is dear 

^ For. Cal. May 28 ; cf. Churton*s NoweUy 398. See above, p. 4a. 



THE FIRST ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION 139 

from the terms of the commission that it was intended to Chap. VII 
be more permanent Thus the commissioners are to serve 
' from time to time, and at all times during our pleasure ' ; 
and mention is made not only of offences actually com- 
mitted, but of such as ' hereafter ' shall arise. 

A general glance at the duties of the commissioners gives Duties of 
the same impression of the permanent character of the^^^^®°*" 
Ecclesiastical Court thus erected. Briefly the duties are 
these. The commissioners are to inquire into the working 
of the Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity; to examine all 
seditious and heretical opinions and reports ; to investigate 
all cases of disturbance of church services, and irregularities 
of ministers therein ; to investigate and punish cases of 
mlful absence from church; to have full and universal 
ecclesiastical jurisdiction ; to restore all clergy unjustly 
deprived ; to determine all other moral or ecclesiastical 
oflfences. Most of these duties had been discharged by the 
temporary visitors, but it is set down more than once in the 
document appointing them that the powers of the visitors 
were to last durante visiiatiane nostra^ and their suspension 
is clearly contemplated where the writ speaks of delegating 
causes begun to other commissioners /£7.r/^;7////;» visitationis 
tempus. 

Another point comes out on comparing the writ of visita- Its special 
tion with that of the commission. The commissioners are connexion 
referred to prospectively in the former as * commissarii London. 
nostri Londini residentes et ad ecclesiasticarum rerum 
reformationem designati ^ ; ' and they are there regarded as 
a kind of final court for the reference of causes and com- 
plaints which have not been determined by the visitation. 
The names of the nineteen commissioners show that they 
were more or less by office or by residence connected with 
London. In this connexion, too, we notice that they had 
a special authority ' to inquire of and search out all ruleless 
men, quarrdlers, vagrants and suspect persons within our 
city of London, and ten miles' compass about the same 

^ See p. 99, and the Injunctions, p. 67. 



140 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Loss of 
records of 
the com- 
mission. 



Chap. VII city, and of all assaults and frays done and committed 
within the same city and the compass aforesaid.' 

Such, then, was the permanent commission issued on 
July 19, 1559. It had been contemplated ever since 
parliament rose, and its duties were general ecclesiastical 
jurisdiction over * any county, city, borough, or other place 
or places within this our realm of England,' whilst it had a 
particular jurisdiction within ten miles of London, and also 
formed a convenient final tribunal for cases referred by the 
visitors. How far can we trace its action ? It ought to be 
possible to follow its proceedings in detail, for explicit 
direction was given to appoint one John Sldnoer to register 
all ^ acts, decrees, and proceedings,' whilst an account of all 
fines and expenses was to be certified into the Exchequer. 
Unfortunately these records no longer exist. They must 
have been carelessly kept, but as Sir Edward Coke observed, 
half a century later, there was considerable n^Iect in the 
matter of recording^. After a protracted search in the 
Public Records, the British Museum, and the Lambeth 
Library we have failed to trace any official record drawn up 
by the Registrar, or to find the returns certified into the 
Exchequer. 

But although a detailed account of the early work of the 
commission exists no longer, a few allusions to it have been 
collected. In the book of recognizances mentioned above ^ 
a form of entry appears more than once to the effect that -^.jB. 
is to appear * before the Queen's Majesty's commissioners 
at London appointed for ecclesiastical matters, either in 
the Consistory of Paul's at London, or at such other 
place and places as the said commissioners shall fortune 
to sit and be in or about the said city of London between 
November 1st and 7th.' It seems clear, then, that the 
ecclesiastical commissioners had arranged to sit in London 
at the Consistory Court of St. Paul's or elsewhere at the 
beginning of November, in order to try the cases referred to 
them. This procedure must have been settled at some 
meeting held soon after their appointment in July or 

* See Stiypey Ann, L X3S. * See p. 74, note 3. 



It was to 
sit in 
November, 

1559- 



THE FIRST ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION 141 

August, and before the visitation of the dioceses actually Chap, vii 
began. After the commencement of these visitations the 
commissioners cannot have met together, as they were 
dispersed over England, for most of them were serving 
that summer as visitors in one or other of the temporary 
visitations. 

But before we trace out these allusions to the commis- Suspen- 
sioners' work in November, we must go back to the *\®"'°^*^^ 

visitations 

conclusion of the visitations. They all finished, it is pro- jn October, 
bable, about the end of October. Accordingly a writ was 
issued for the formal suspension of the powers of the 
visitors. Here again we have no trace of this document 
on the Patent Rolls, where we should naturally look for 
it, but there exists in the state papers a contemporary 
draft of it. This runs as follows : * Whereas upon divers 
urgent considerations us thereto moving, we directed our 
commission unto you, among others, this last summer, 
authorizing you thereby to visit, and publish certain our 

injunctions in the diocese of , which as we be informed 

ye have done accordingly : we now have thought it con- 
venient to will and require you to surcease from any further 
intermeddling therein, by force of our said commission, 
and that ye deliver your acts registered, together with the 
seal of jurisdiction in that behalf used, to our principal 
secretary, to be further ordered as we shall see cause, 
reserving nevertheless unto you power and authority to 
examine and determine all such matters only, and no others, 
as have been in your progress exhibited for redress of such 
disorders determinable by your commissioners^ as be unto you 
detected, in as ample and large manner as if our said com- 
mission had not been revoked.' The form here given is 
the preliminary draft of the actual writ of suspension, as 
seems evident from the fact that the sentences in italics have 
been added in Cecil's own handwriting. No date is found 
in the document. It is proved to refer to the visitation in 
question by the addition overleaf of the names of the chief 
commissioners in each group of dioceses. We may 
probably assign the writ of suspension to the latter end of 



142 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



writ issued 
to the 
commis- 
sion. 



Chap. VII October. The conclusion of cases actually in progress, 
which is here allowed, had been contemplated before the 
visitation began, and, as we have seen in the case of 
Durham, assessors had been appointed there on October 8 
for the determination of such cases. 

A new We have already stated that the commissioners were to 

try in November any cases referred to them. It had been 
the chief business of the visitors during the summer to get 
the subscription of the clergy to the settlement of religion. 
They had treated with special severity those wha had 
refused assent to the Royal Supremacy, and the bulk of 
the cases referred to the commissioners seem to have been 
those in which the parties had scrupled the supremacy. In 
the writ of July 19, which established the commission, 
nothing had been said specifically of administering the 
supremacy oath. Accordingly in view of the necessity of 
administering it, which now confronted the commissioners, 
fresh letters patent were issued on October 20, empowering 
them to take the oath of all archbishops, bishops, and 
other ecclesiastical persons, and other officers and ministers 
ecclesiastical^. The commissioners are those of July 19, 
with the addition of Cox, afterwards Bishop of Ely, and they 
seem under these letters patent to receive additional powers, 
not only to administer the oath in the cases of recusancy 
now referred to them, but as occasion may arise in the future. 
Certainly there was no idea of instituting a fresh taking of 
the oath from all sorts and conditions of clerics throughout 
the country, which might seem to be the natural meaning 
of the words employed. A very large number of the clergy 
had already taken the oath in the summary form provided 
by the visitors during the previous months, and it was quite 
unnecessary to refer them to the commissioners residing 
at London. We conclude therefore that provision was now 
made for the administration of the oath, first ta those referred 
by the visitors, and then in any cases which might arise. 

This being the state of the case, the commissioners met 
at London during the first week of November. Strype has, 

^ See p. 159. 



Proceed- 
ings in 



THE FIRST ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION 143 

as it appears to ns, mixed up the final session of the London Chap, vii 
nsttors and the November sessions of the commissioners. ' 

He refers us to Grmdal's Register as his authority for the 1559. 
account given of the clei^ examined and deprived in 
Kovember, but after searching the register we have found 
no mention of the proceedings which Strype has described, 
nor is there any such account in the archives of St. Paul's 
Cathedral. We reconstruct Strype's narrative as follows. 
The London visitor s^ as empowered by the writ ^, met at 
St. Paul's on November 3, to consider certain cases which 
they had postponed. They settled some of these, depriving 
Prebendaries Marshal, Murmere ^, Stopes, and Minor Canons 
Stubbs, Hawkes, and Wynyer, all of whom did not appear. 
Darbishire they referred to the commissioners. On the 
same day the commissioi^rs sat in the Consistory Court of 
St. Paul's, and b^an to consider the cases referred to them 
from the whole country. They appear also to have pre« 
conized all the clergy who had been absent in the London 
visitation. Appended to the visitation subscriptions are 
two lists of those who now signed. These include forty-six 
names, and amongst them are one or two recently appointed 
to livings, who perhaps had no earlier opportunity of 
signing. 

According to Str3rpe's authority the referred cases were The 
still given time to repent, and after a fortnight sentence was ^ecusante 
pronounced, when those who refused the oath tendered by 
the commissioners were finally deprived. There is no note 
given of the number. The Crown Presentations, however, 
fior November, 1559, appear to give evidence of considerable 
movement amongst the clergy at that time. Two con-* 
temporary lists of these exist ^ In that of the Lord Keeper 
there are no presentations between November ist and 7th, 
and from that date to the a4th there are seventeen, which 
is a large proportion when compared with a similar space 
of time elsewhere in the same list. The other list is that of 

^ See above, p. 9a. 

' Probably misread for Murren. 

' Lansdowne MS. 443 ; rf. p. 238 below. 



144 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. VII Lord Privy Seal. It records the appointment to two pre- 
bends after deprivation on the and and 5th, from which date 
to the end of the month there are thirty-five presenta- 
tions, the largest number for twenty-six days that we have 
noticed in that document. Of course it may be purely 
accidental that the numbers should be so high just in that 
month, but the fact deserves recording. 
Proceed- It is Very likely that some of the bishops were re-examined 
ingswith ^^ ^j^jg tinie, and that hopes were entertained at first of 
deprived their giving in, for no appointment had been made to some 
bishops, of the vacancies, though nominations had taken place to 
others in the summer. Probably Bourne and Poole were 
deprived by the commissioners in November. There is no 
satisfactory evidence that any of the deprived bishops were 
under special surveillance during the winter of 1559 and the 
earlier months of 1560. In custody or restraint they cer- 
tainly were not. At the same time the ecclesiastical com- 
missioners must have had their eye upon them from time to 
time. One clause in the commission directed that the 
commissioners were *to inquire, search out, and to brder, 
correct, and reform all such persons as hereafter shall or 
will obstinately absent themselves from church, and such 
divine service as by the statutes and laws of this realm is 
appointed to be had and used.' The punishment for 
offences herein was fine or imprisonment. It is not sur- 
prising therefore that Bonner found his way * by order of 
the commissioners ' into the Marshalsea within a week of 
Easter Sunday, 1560. This is the beginning of the long 
story of imprisonment, which ends only with the death of 
the last survivor, Bishop Watson, in 1585. Just after 
Ascension Day Watson and Pates were sent to the Tower, 
where they were joined on Whit Monday by Heath and 
Thirlby, and on June 18 by Turberville and Bourne. 
Bishop Scott was imprisoned in the Fleet on May 13. A 
list of state prisoners, which was drawn up in 1561, gives the 
dates of their committal ^. In the case of Scott and Bonner, 
it says that they were imprisoned by the commissioners. 

^ S. P. Dom. Eliz. xviii. z-5. 



THE FIRST ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION 145 

A letter of Jewel, dated May aa, 1560, says : * Bonner, . . . Chap, vii 
Pate, . . . and Watson are sent to prison for having obsti- 
nately refused attendance on public worship, and everywhere 
declaiming and railing against that religion which we now 
profess^.' Elsewhere the Zurich letters show that it had 
scarcely been safe for Bonner, and perhaps some of the 
others, to venture out into the streets, so great was the re- 
probation of their persecuting conduct in the previous reign. 
We have thus seen eight of the surviving ten Marian bishops 
placed in prison. Of the other two, Goldwell had gone 
into exile immediately after his deprivation in June, 1559, 
leaving the disposition of his affairs to his brother \ Bishop 
Poole too was never in prison, but was presently restricted 
within a circuit of three miles from London ^. His easier 
treatment was due probably to his age, for he is not without 
suspicion of having caused trouble. The eight imprisoned 
bishops continued under restraint until 1563. Those in the 
Tower were ' close and severally kept,' and that they were 
not let out in the meantime is evident from the fact that 
their names appear at intervals on the list of prisoners with 
the original date of committal appended to each one. 
There is however some slight proof of treasonable corre- 
spondence on the part of Heath, Thirlby, and Bonner in 
1562. This is found in the anonymous letter of a writer 
who had picked up some hints from one John Payne, the 
servant of Sir Francis Englefield, a gentleman who was under 
strong suspicion of secret and treasonable practices. The 
mysterious writer speaks as if Sir Francis were plotting 
abroad : ' He told me that the old laws should up again, 
and that divers good well-learned men do know it very well, 
as Dr. Heath, late Bishop of York, Dr. Thirlby, Dr. Bonner, 
Dr. Feckenham, late Abbot of Westminster, and that they 
all should take place again and that shortly ^.' 

To the bishops we will return again later. They were Other 
not alone in their imprisonment. There is an extant list of ^"f^S^" 
prisoners in the Fleet, written in 156a. The names are given time. 

^ Zurich Letters under date. See above too, p. 36, note. 
* S. P. Dom. iv. 71. ' See below, p. X79i * S. P. Dom. xxiii. 60. 

L 



146 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. VII of fourteen * prisoners for religion since the first year of the 
reign of Queen Elizabeth/ besides Bishop Scott. The most 
important were Nicholas and John Harpsfield, Drs. Cole 
and Darbishire, and Mr. Thos. Wood, who in 1558 had been 
elected bishop of some see unnamed^. Wood had pre- 
viously been placed in the Marshalsea by the commissioners. 
In the Tower were Deans Ramridge and Boxall, and Abbot 
Feckenham. There were among the fourteen a few clergy- 
men of inferior degree in prison, besides the bishops and 
doctors already mentioned. It is specified that some are 
there for 'disobeying the Queen's Majesty's Injunctions/ 
others for ' transgressing the Queen's Majesty's proceedings 
concerning religion/ one ' upon the Bishop of London's com- 
mandent/ others * for saying Mass/ Setting side by side 
the lists of prisoners in King's Bench, Marshalsea, Tower, and 
Fleet*, we find that there were some thirty in prison in 
July, 1561, all apparently for opposing the settlement of 
religion, but a few only are specified * by authority of the 
commissioners.* Now inasmuch as one of the lists just 
mentioned gives ten prisoners at that time in the Fleet, 
and another of 1562 ' assigns only fifteen to that prison for 
religious offences since the Queen's accession, it seems fair 
to conclude that those who were imprisoned in London 
for opposition to the new regime were so far not very 
numerous, and that choice was usually made of the more 
distinguished clergy, that their sufTerings might warn 
others. 

Conciu* We have thus traced the early history of the Ecclesiastical 

Commission as far as our scanty materials enable us to do 
so. We shall come to a fresh stage in its history in a later 
chapter*, when a new writ was issued, with somewhat 
enlarged scope, and a different procedure was adopted with 
regard to recusants. So far the commission cannot be 
accused of any very rigorous treatment on a lai^e scale. 

* Harl. MS. 360, f. 7. • S. P. Dom. xviii. 1-5. 

' 8. P. Dom. xviiL 5 and Harl. MS. 360, f. 7. 

* See below, Chap. X. 



THE FIRST ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION 147 

Chap. VII 
I. 

Writ for the Issue of the Permanent 
Commission, July 19, 1559. 

[Transcr. from Patent Roll i Eliz. pt. 9, m. 23 d.] 

Elizabeth, by the grace of God, &c., to the Reverend Father in I. Reasons 
God Matthew Parker nominated Bishop {sic) of Canterbury, and minion?" 
Edmond GrindaU nominated Bishop of London ; and to our right 
trusty and right well-beloved Councillor Francis Knowles, our Vice- 
chamberlain, and Ambrose Cave, Knights ; and to our trusty and The Queen 
well-beloved Anthony Cook, and Thomas Smith, Knights ; William ^** ^^"^ 
Bill our Almoner, Walter Haddon and Thomas Sackforde, Masters missioners. 
of our Requests; Rowland Hill and William Chester, Knights; 
Randall Cholmely and John Southcote, Sergeants at the Law; 
William Male, Doctor of Lawe ; Francis Cave, Richard Gooderick, 
and Gilbert Gerrard, Esqrs. ; Robert Weston and Huick, 

Doctors of Law, greeting. Where at our parliament holden at Despite 
Westminster the five and twentieth day of January, and there (jnifo^ity 
continued and kept until the of May then next following, and Su- 

amongst other things there was two Acts and Statutes made and a'Ss**^^ 
established, the one entided ' An Act for the uniformity of Common 
Prayer and Service in the Church and administration of the Sacra- 
ments,' and the other entitled * An Act restoring to the Crown the 
Ancient Jurisdiction of the state ecclesiastical and spiritual, and 
abolishing all foreign power repugnant to the ssCme,' as by the same 
several Acts more at large doth appear ; and where diyers seditious seditious 
and slanderous persons do not cease daily to invent and set forth h^ve been 
false rumours, tales, and seditious slanders, not only against us and uttered, 
the said good laws and statutes, but also have set forth divers seditious seditious 
books within this our realm of England, meaning thereby to move books 

J ^ ./.«•• • J J* ^ 1 • J published. 

and procure strife, division, and dissension amongst our loving and " 
obedient subjects, much to the disquieting of us and our people : 

Wherefore we earnestly minding to have the same Acts before Accord- 
mentioned to be duly put in execution, and such persons as shall commis-^ 
hereafter offend in anything contrary to the tenor and effect of sion is 
the said several Statutes to be condignly punished, and having JJ??^ ^ 
especial trust and confidence in your wisdoms and discretions, effect to 

L % 



148 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. VII have authorized, assigned, and appointed you to be our Com- 
7 missioners, and by these presents do give our full power and 
acte^uring authority to you or six of you, whereof you the said Matthew 
the ^ Parker, Edmond Grindall, Thomas Smith, Walter Haddon, Thomas 
pleasure. Sackforde, Richard Gooderick, and Gilbert Gerrard to be one 
II. Matters ^^o™ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ hereafter during our pleasure, to inquire as well 
to be in- by the oaths of twelve good and lawful men, as also by witnesses 
bytl^m. ^"^ ^U other ways and means you can devise for all offences, 
(i) To in- misdoers, and misdemeanours done and committed, and hereafter 
quire into jq y^ committed or done contrary to the tenor and effect of the 

the work- 
ing of the said several Acts and Statutes, and either of them ; and also of all 

Acts; ^jj^ singular heretical opinions, seditious books, contempts, con- 

(^l *® ^" spiracies, false rumours, tales, seditious misbehaviours, slanderous 
seditions, words or showings published, invented or set forth or hereafter to be 
o*^[nicms Published, invented or set forth by any person or persons against 
reports, us or contrary or against any the laws or statutes of this our 
*^* • realm, or against the quiet governance and rule of our people and 

subjects in any county, city, borough or other place or places 
within this our realm of England, and of all and every the coad- 
jutors, counsellors, comforters, procurers and abettors of every 
such offender ; and further we do give power and authority to you 
or six of you, whereof the said Matthew Parker, Edmond Grindall, 
Thomas Smith, Walter Haddon, Thomas Sackforde, Richard Goode- 
rick, or Gilbert Gerrard to be one from time to time hereafter 
during our pleasure, as well to hear and determine all the premises, 
(3) to in- as also to inquire, hear, and determine all and singular enormities, 
afl^c^s disturbance, and misbehaviour done and committed or hereafter 
of distur- to be done and committed in any church or chapel, or against any 
chu^^er- ^i^i^^^ service or the minister or ministers of the same, contrary to 
vices, and the laws and statutes of this realm. And also to inquire of, search 
ritSTof ^"^» ^"^ ^^ order, correct, and reform all such persons as hereafter 
ministers shall or will obstinately absent themselves from church and such 
t erem ; (jjyj^g service as by the laws and statutes of this realm is api>ointed 

vestigate ^^ ^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ' ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ £^^^ ^^^ grant full power and 
wilful ab- authority unto you and six of you, whereof you the said Matthew 
church ; Parker, Edmond Grindall, Thomas Smith, Walter Haddon, Thomas 
(5) to have Sackford, Richard Gooderick, or Gilbert Gerrard to be one from 
^"f ^^*^^^! time to time and at all times during our pleasure, to visit, reform, 
risdiction; redress, order, correct and amend in all places within this our 
realm of England all such errors, heresies, crimes, abuses, offences, 



THE FIRST ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION 149 

contempts, and enormities spiritual and ecclesiastical wheresoever, Chap. VII 
which by any spiritual or ecclesiastical power, authority, or jurisdic- 
lion can or may lawfully be reformed, ordered, redressed, corrected, 
restrained or amended to the pleasure of Almighty God, the increase 
of virtue and the conservation of the peace and unity of this our 
realm, and according to the authority and power limited, given 
and appointed by any laws or statutes of this realm. And also 
that you and six of you, whereof the said Matthew Parker, Edmond 
GrindaU, Thomas Smith, Walter Haddon, Thomas Sackfordc, 
Richard Gooderick or Gilbert Gerrard to be one, shall likewise 
have full power and authority from time to time, to inquire of and (6) to in- 
search out all ruleless men, quarrellers, vagrants and suspect ^i^J-^** 
persons within our city of London and ten miles' compass about orders in 
the same city, and of all assaults and frays done and committed L^^jon^ 
within the same city and the compass aforesaid. 

And also we give full power and authority unto you and six of (7) *o re- 
you as before, summarily to hear and finally determine according u,^ustiy 
to your discretions and by the laws of this realm all causes and deprived ; 
complaints of all them which in respect of religion or for lawful 
matriipony contracted and allowed by the same were injuriously 
de'prived, defrauded or spoiled of their lands, goods, possessions, 
rights, dignities, livings, offices spiritual or temporal; and them 
so deprived as before, to restore into their said livings and put 
them into possession, amoving the usurpers in convenient speed, as 
it shall seem to your discretions good by your letters missive or 
otherwise, all frustratory appellations clearly rejected. And further 
we do give power and authority unto you and six of you, whereof 
you the said Matthew Parker, Edmond Grindall, Thomas Smith, 
Walter Haddon, Thomas Sackforde, Richard Gooderick or Gilbert 
Gerrard to be one, by virtue hereof full power and authority, not 
only to hear and determine the same and all other offences and (B) to de- 
matters before mentioned and rehearsed, but also all other notorious o^her'*^ * 
and manifest advoutries, fornications, and ecclesiastical crimes and moral or 
offences within this oiu: realm, according to your wisdoms, con- jj^^i ^^^ 
sciences, and discretions ; willing and commanding you or six of fences ; 
you, whereof you the said Matthew Parker, Edmond Grindall, 
Thomas Smith, Walter Haddon, Thomas Sackforde, Richard 
Gooderick or Gilbert Gerrard to be one from time to time here- III. Me- 
after, to use and devise all such politic ways and means for the trial employed^ 
and searching out of all the premises as by you or six of you as 



ISO THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. VII aforesaid shall be thought most expedient and necessary. And 

upon due proof had and the offence or offences before specified, or 

all i^c«i^^ any of them sufficiently proved agamst any person or persons as by 

sary you or six of you by confession of the party, or by lawful witnesses, 

means ; ^^ ^^ ^^^ Other due means before you or six of you, whereof the 

said Matthew, Edmond, Thomas Smith, Walter Haddon, Thomas 

Sackforde, Richard Gooderick or Gilbert Gerrard to be one, that 

then you or six of you as aforesaid shall have full power and 

(9) to authority to award such punishment to every offender by fine, 

punish-"^ imprisonment, or otherwise by all or any of the wajrs aforesaid, and 

ment as to take such order for the redress of the same as to your wisdoms 

cxpedTent • *"^ discretions or six of you, whereof the said Matthew Parker, 

Edmond Grindall, Thomas Smith, Walter Haddon, Thomas 

Sackforde, Richard Gooderick or Gilbert Gerrard to be one, to 

(3) to sum- call before you or six of you as aforesaid, from time to time 

II 
oiTcndOT ^'^ ^^^ every offender or offenders, and such as by you or six of 

and sus- you as aforesaid, shall seem to be suspect persons in any of the 

nBoSsitc*^ premises. And also all such witnesses as you or six of you as 

witnesses ; aforesaid shall think to be called before you or six of you as 

aforesaid; and you and every of you to examine upon their 

corporal oaths for the better trial and opening of the premises* or 

any part thereof; and if you or six of you as aforesaid shall find 

(4) to im- any person or persons obstinate or disobedient, either in their 
whcTrcf sc ^PP^^^ before you or six of you as aforesaid at your calling and 
to come ; commandment, or else not accomplishing or not obeying your 

orders, decrees, and commandments in any thing touching the 
premises or any part thereof, that then you or six of you as 
aforesaid shall have full power and authority to commit the same 
person or persons so offending to ward, there to remain till he or 
they shall be by you or six of you as aforesaid enlarged and 
delivered. 

And further we do give unto you and six of you, whereof the 
said Matthew Parker, Edmond Grindall, Thomas Smith, Walter 
Haddon, Thomas Sackforde, Richard Gooderick or Gilbert Gerrard 
to be one, full power and authority by these presents, to take and 

(5) to re- receive by your discretion of every offender or suspect person to 
*^®'^* . be convicted and brought before you, a recognizance or recogni- 
ances zances, obligation or obligations to our use in such sum or sums 
!r ccf^**^ of money as to you or six of you as aforesaid shall seem con- 
venient, as well for their personal appearance before you or six 



THE FIRST ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION 151 

of you as aforesaid, as also for the performance and accomplish- Chap. VII 
ment of your orders and decrees in case you or six of you as 
aforesaid shall see it so convenient. And further our will and I^* Of 
pleasure is that you shall appoint our trusty and well-beloved John fee^' Vc. 
Skynner to be your Registrar of all your Acts, Decrees, and (i) a 
Proceedings by virtue of this commission, and in his default one registrar 
other sufficient person ; and that you or six of you as aforesaid stitute 
shall give such allowance to the same Registrar for his rwiins and appointed 

with 

his clerks, to be levied of the fines and other profits that shall rise allowance. 
by force of this commission and your doings in the premises, as 
to your discretions shall be thought meet; and fiirther our will 
and pleasure is, that you or six of you as aforesaid shall name (3) A 

receiver 

and appoint one other sufficient person to gather up and receive to ^e 
all such sums of money as shall be assessed and taxed by you or appointed 
six of you as aforesaid for any fine or fines, upon any person or ^nd so for 
persons for their offences, and that you or six or you as aforesaid by a^^ service 
bill or bills signed with your hands shall and may assign and appoint, 
as well to the said person for bis pains in receiving the said sums, 
as also to your messengers and attendants upon you for their tra- 
vail, pains, and charges to be sustained for us about the premises 
or any part thereof, such sums of money for their rewards as by 
you or six of you as aforesaid shall be thought expedient. Willing (3) All 
and conmianding you or six of you as aforesaid, after the time of to 5^°'^' 
this our commission expired, to certify into our Court of Exchequer certified 
as well the name of the said Receiver as also a note of such fines Exchequer 
as shall be set or taxed before you. To the intent that upon the and 
determination of account of the said Receiver, we be answered ^^ the 
of that, that to us shall justly appertain; willing and commanding auditors, 
also our auditors and other officers upon the sight of the said 
bills signed with the hands of you or six of you as aforesaid, to 
make unto the said Receiver due allowances, according to the said 
bills upon his account ; wherefore we will and command you our 
commissioners with diligence to execute the premises with effect, 
any of our laws, statutes, proclamations, or other grants, privileges 
or ordinances which be or may seem to be contrary to the premises 
notwithstanding. And more we will and command all and (^ ^^^ 
singular Justices of the Peace, Mayors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Constables, help in the 
and other our officers, ministers and faithful subjects to be aiding, execution 
helping, and assisting you, and at your commandment in the due premises, 
execution hereof as they tender our pleasure and will answer to 



152 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. VII the contrary at their utmost perils. And we will and grant that 
these our Letters Patents shall be a sufficient warrant and discharge 
lett«3*^^ for you and every of you against us, our heirs and successors, and 
patent all and every person or persons whatsoever they be of and for, 
sufficient ^^ concerning the premises or any parcel thereof, of or for the 
warrant, execution of this our commission or any part thereof. 
Dated July Witness the Queen at Westminster, the nineteenth day of July. 
»9> 1559- p^f ipsam Reginam. 



II. 

Writ of October ao, 1559, for administering 

THE Oath. 

{De Commissione ad Sacramentum ab Ecclesiasticis 

Rectpiendum^ 

[Patent Roll i Eliz. Part a, M. 3a d ; cf. Rymer, Foedera^ 

XV. p. 546.] 

The Queen Regina Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Matheo Cantuariensi, 

commis- Archiepiscopo ; ac, Reverendis in Christo Patribus Edmundo 

sioners. Londoniensi Episcopo, ac Ricardo Eliensi Episcopo; ac etiam 

dilectis et fidelibus Consiiiartis suis Francisco KnoUes, Militi, 

Vicecamerario suo, Ambrosio Cave, Militi, Cancellario Ducatus 

sui Lancastriae ; necnon dilectis et fidelibus suis, Anthonio Cooke, 

Militi, Thomae Smythe, Militi, Willielmo Byll, Sacrae Theologiae 

Doctori, ac Eleemosinario suo, Waltero Haddon, et Thomae 

Sackeford, Armigeris, Magistris Requisitionimi, Roulando Hill, 

Militi, Ranulpho Cholmeley, et Johanni Southcot, Servientibus ad 

Legem, Willielmo Maye, Legum Doctori, Francisco Cave, Ricardo 

Goodricke, Armigeris, Gilberto Gerrard, Attomato suo Generali, 

Thomae Huyk, et Roberto Weston, Legum Doctoribus, salutem : 

Certain Quandoquidem nos fideliter accepimus, quod in postrema 

ecclesias- yisitatione accepta per Commissionarios nostros per nos nuper 

persons in diversis regni nostri partibus assignatos, quaedam personae 

tSe"scttle- ecclesiasticae coram eis comparentes, qui ritus, ceremonia, ac 

mentof divina servitia infra dictum regnum nostrum et alia dominia 

thelate "* ^^ostra, per leges, statuta, et injunctiones nostras ordinata et provisa, 

visitation, observare recusabunt : 



THE FIRST ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION 153 

Nos igitur in animo habentes eorum reformationem, ne divinus Chap. VII 
ac venis Dei cultus, per tales perversos homines, in aliquo im- 
pediatur vel molestetur, ac in approbata pietate, sapientia, ^^ afore- 
prudentia, et circomspectione vestris plurimum confidentes, assig- said are 

r^ • » • ^ .J t • appointed 

navimus vos Commissionanos nostros, ac per praesentes damns vobis commis- 
decem et octo, decern et septem, sexdecim, quindecim, quatnor- sioners, 
dedm, tresdecim, duodedm, undecim, decem, novem, octo, septem, 
sex, quinque, et quatnor, vestrum (quorum vos praefatos Archie- of whom 
piscopum Cantuariensem, Episcopum Londoniensem, et Episcopum i^^^t 
Eliensem nnnm esse volnmus) plenam potestatem et auctoritatem (Arch- 

. . J. J ., . . V A 1 • • ••»-•• • * bishop of 

recipiendi de omnibus et smgulis Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, et canter- 
aliis personis ecclesiasticis, ac aliis officiariis et ministris ecclesia- ^^ry, 
sdcis, cujuscumque status, dignitatis, praeeminentiae, seu gradus LwidonJ^ 
fuerint, seu eorum aliquis fuerit, quoddam Sacramentum corporaliter Bishop of 

£«lv beinfir 

super sacrosancta Dei Evangelia, coram vobis aut quatnor vestrum q^^>^ shall 
(quorum vos praefatos Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem, Episcopiun administer 
Londoniensem, et Episcopum Eliensem unum esse volumus) supre- 
corporaliter per ipsos et eorum quemlibet praestandum, declaratum macy, as 
et specificatum in quodam Actu Parliamenti nostri apud West- {^ ^^ j^^e 
monasterium vicesimo quinto die Januarii anno regni nostri parlia- 
primo, tenti, edito, juxta vim formam et efiectum ejusdem Actus. ' 

Et ideo vobis, et quatuor vestrum (quorum vos praefatos Archie- 
piscopum Cantuariensem, Episcopum Londoniensem, et Episcopum 
Eliensem unum esse volumus) mandamus quod Sacramentum 
praedictum, de omnibus et singulis Arcbiepiscopis, Episcopis, ac to all arch- 
aliis personis, officiariis, et ministris ecclesiasticis quibuscumque bjshoM* 
superius specificatis, ac de eorum quolibet recipiatis, et cum ea sic and other 
receperitis, nos inde in Cancellariam nostram sub sigillis vestris ^{jc^*" 
vel quatuor vestrum (quorum vos praefatos Archiepiscopum persons, 
Cantuariensem, Episcopum Londoniensem, et Episcopum Eliensem ^hrper-^ 
unum esse volumus), sine dilatione certificetis, et si contingat formance 
praedictos, Archiepiscopos, Episcopos, personas, officiarios, sive chancery, 
alios Ministros nostros quoscumque superius specificatos, aut 
eorum aliquem, Sacramentum praedictum peremptorie et obstinato 
animo accipere recusare, tum et eorum recusationem et recusa- 
tiones et eorum cujuslibet, nos in Cancellariam nostram, sub 
sigillis vestris vel quatuor vestrum (ut praedictum est) sine dilatione 
certiores faciatis. 

Mandamus autem universis et singulis Arcbiepiscopis, Ducibus, All sub- 

iccts Arc to 

Marchionibus, Comitibus, Vicecomitibus, Episcopis, Baronibus, ;J^ssjg^ jn 



154 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. VII Militibus, Justiciariis, Majoribus, Vicecomitibus, Ballivis, et omnibus 

' aliis Officiariis, Ministris, et subditis nostris quibuscmnque, quod 

execution *.• • ^« . • ^ j ^ • ^ -^ *. 

of the vobis m executione praemissonim intendeDtes sint panter et 

premises, obedicntes in omnibus, prout decet. In cujus rci, &c. Teste 

Dated Regina apud Westmonasterium vicesimo die Octobris. 

October 

ao, 1559. ^^^ ipsam Reginam. 



III. 



Supplementary Lists of Signatures, 
November, 1559 ^ 



w 



Barkar, W. 
Barley, Oliver. 
Blakwyn, R. 
Blennerhas- 

set, E. 
Bridgwater, J. 
Brownhallf 

Roger. 



Cabt [. . .] Edm. 
Dowle, W. 
Hand[...]H. 

Hare, Edm. 
Hatkyns, W. 

Marshall, R. 
Mason, G. 

Price, Lewis. 

Rand, Robt. 



Branston and 
V^aiboys; sub- 
dean of Lin- 
coln ; canon 
and preb. of 
Louth. 

Mugginton. 



Appointed vicar 
oi Caley. 



Shtit[e], Robt. 



Stemple, T. 



Swyft, Nich. 



Professor of 
Theology: ap- 
pointed vicar 
of Cubbing- 
ton. 

LL.D. ; preb. of 
Marston St. 
Lawrence 
(Lincoln). 

BramshalL 



Taylboys, V^. Scrivelsby, and 

preb. of Nas- 
sington (Lin- 
coln). 

Thirland, T. Appointed rector 

of Fishtoft. 

Tucfeld, Emery. 



Vaughan, R. 
Whyt, Gabriel. 

Wood,W. 



Preb. of Leigh- 
ton Buzzard 
(Lincoln). 



^ From Cart. Miscell. Lambeth, xiii. pt. a. 



THE FIRST ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION 155 



(*) 



Chap. VII 



Benhere, Aug. 
Bernard, T. 
Byckley, T. 

Cottrell, J. 
Crosse, Aug. 

Dighton, Robt 

Fyssher, J. 

Gardiner, T. 
Godwyn, T. 

Harrison, W. 
Hilton, H. 



Domey. 



Milton. 



Lakin, T. 
Longland, J. 

Mainwar- 

ingg, R. 
Malet, H. 

Proctor, Jas. 

Samuell, W. 
Suddall, H. 

Thomson, J. 

Watson, Mich. 
West, R. 
Wryght, Walter. 



Drayton 
(Salop). 



Rotherfield 
Peppard. 



CHAPTER VIII 

THE METROPOLITICAL VISITATION OF I56O-I 

Chap, viii AFTER the proceedings of the ecclesiastical commissioners 
„ " in November, 1550, there seems to have been a breathing 

Settlement ,• • * i» • t * 

of sees in space allowed. At all events no special steps were taken 
theinterval to enforce Conformity to the settlement of religion, until 
March^^^ the Metropolitical Visitation, which began in the autumn 
1560. of 1560. Parker, who had already played so important 
a part in Church matters, was consecrated Archbishop of 
Canterbury on December 17, 1559. Four days later, the 
first batch of bishops were consecrated to fill vacant sees, 
viz. Grindal for London, Cox for Ely, Sandys for Worcester, 
Meyrick for Bangor. Bishops Barlow and Scory were 
confirmed the day before, the former in the bishopric of 
Chichester, and the latter in that of Hereford. On the 27th 
an important letter was written by Cecil himself to the 
Queen, on behalf of the council, on the present state of 
affairs. Amongst other things the Council advise ' that the 
governance of the Church be better seen unto and estab- 
lished, and the state ecclesiastical duly placed, and the care 
of all things thereto belonging remitted to the clergy, as in 
all your progenitors' times have been, preferring the credit 
and reputation thereof, as in all commonwealths well 
ordered ought to be ^.' This utterance of the council plainly 
shows that the so-called ' parliamentary ' character of the 
settlement of the Church was regarded by Cecil and his 

* S. P. Dom. vii. 73. 



THt: METROPOLITICAL VISITATION 157 

supporters as a matter of necessity only, and in no sense Chap.viii 
as ideal. The letter was also a tacit rebuke of the Queen, 
who had kept the sees vacant so long, and, as we shall see, 
did not nominate to the northern dioceses and some others 
until long after it was written. This protest bore some 
fruit, for on January ai, 1560, five more bishops were con- 
secrated — Young to St. Davids, Bullingham to Lincoln, 
Jewel to Salisbury, Davies to St. Asaph ; on March 24, 
Guest to Rochester, Berkeley to Bath and Wells, Bentham 
to Lichfield and Coventry. 

If the Supremacy Oath was at this time being tendered TheSupre- 
to any of the inferior clergy it must have been ministered "*^, 9^1*^ 

■^ ... notstnctly 

by the ecclesiastical commissioners, who alone had the tendered 
power so to do ; but we have found no record of oath during the 
taking during the winter of 1559-60. It seems possible, before the 
however, that some of the new bishops did now and again metro- 
associate themselves with the justices during the early PPv^*^f' 

"* Q J Visitation. 

months of 1560, in accordance with the provision to that 
cflTect in the Uniformity Act, and that cases came up under 
the Supremacy Act in which those who had scrupled the 
oath were willing to take it or were pressed to take it. Thus 
Dean Home of Durham, on February 18, 1560, says: 'Three 
prebendaries of the Cathedral Church of Duresme, Robert 
Dalton, Nicholas Marley, and John Cutting, doth refuse the 
oath, and I think Antony Salvine will do the same.' As 
a matter of fact these prebendaries had refused subscription 
in the visitation of the previous year, and this entry looks 
as if pressure were again being brought to bear upon those 
who had then refused. A letter written three years later, 
in speaking of this time, appears to prove that Barlow was 
trying to influence some recusant prebendaries at Chi- 
chester \ In the Zurich letters. Cox, Bishop of Ely, in an 
undated letter, which the editors assign to the beginning of 
1560, says : * The popish priests among us are daily relin- 
quishing their ministry, lest, as they say, they should be . 
compelled to give their sanction to heresies.' It is not 

' S. P. Dom. xi. 35, wrongly placed. 



158 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. VIII clear whether the reference is to those who had s^ed 

feignedly, or to those who had not taken the oath at alL 
State of On the whole, therefore, no very stringent means can be 
the North traced in the interval before the Metropolitical Visitation 
^ ^ ' now to be described. A note of * Bishops' uniformity ' in 
Cecil's memoranda of business, March 25 \ may suggest that 
the council had the question of uniformity, if not of the 
oath, before them. The state of the North was causing 
much anxious thought to those in authority. Dean Home 
had complained in his letter of February 18 about the 
grievous irregularities which existed in the diocese of Dur- 
ham. Cecil notes the vacancy of all the northern sees on 
April 6. On the lath, under the head of * Things necessary 
for the conservation of this realm in safety and good order,' 
he sets down ' that the realm may not be thus desolated for 
lack of bishops, but that some may be specially appointed 
to have charge thereof/ On May i he has another list of 
vacant bishoprics for consideration. For the present, 
however, the North was left to the care of the Council of 
the North, and the Deans and Chapters administered 
Church affairs as guardians of the spiritualities for the 
remainder of 1560, and well on into 1561, when severer 
measures had to be taken. 
Parker In the Southern Province Bishop Scory of Hereford may 

the* * * ^^ supposed to have contemplated a visitation of his diocese 
southern in the spring of 1560. His letters of the next year, to be 
bishops considered in their place, make it evident that there was 

from - 

visiting, ^ good deal of nonconformity, open or secret, amongst his 
May, 1560. clergy. On May 17, 1560, the archbishop, who was now 
considering a metropolitical visitation of the Southern 
Province, issued his inhibition to the Bishop of Hereford 
to proceed in his diocesan visitation *. Ten A^ys later , 
a similar prohibition was issued to the Bishop of London, 
and through him to the rest of the suffragan bishops of 
Canterbury *. 
His com- From this point until August no very definite information 
is forthcoming as regards Church affairs. The ecclesiastical 

» S. P. Dom. • Reg. aao b. » Ibid. 



THE METROPOUTICAL VISITATION 159 

commissioners sat at Lambeth in June and July ^, but we Chap.viii 
have no record of their proceedings. The Marquis of. ~7 
Winchester wrote somewhere about this time, asking the August, 
Council * to cause commission to be sent to Duresme for 'S^o. 
the execution of justice ^.' At last the archbishop's plans 
were ready for execution. On August 8 he issued 
five commissions, to Dr. Weston to visit the diocese of 
Coventry and Lichfield, and to the bishops of St. Davids, 
St. Asaph, Bangor, Bath and Wells to visit their respective 
dioceses as his commissaries ^ The visitors seem to have 
begun work in September and October, as appears from 
one or two entries in the Registers, but we have not found 
any general return*. The commissions which are given 
in Parker's Register are drawn up on a very close resem- 
blance to the Visitation Writ of June, 1559. The duties of 
the visitors are almost the same, but nothing is said 
specifically of administering the oath. Articles of Inquiry 
were drawn up and presented, and these too are to a large 
extent a reminiscence, though not a reproduction, of those 
of the previous year. 

On September 8 * a commission was directed by the Further 
Archbishop to Jewel for the visitation of the dioceses of ^P"*"**" 

^ -' sions, 1560. 

Salisbury and Bristol, but by a further writ of November 9 
Salisbury Cathedral was taken out of this commission and 
was intrusted for purposes of visitation to Dr. Cottrell, on 
the ground that visitation by the bishop would have 
interfered with the rights and liberties of the Cathedral 
Church. Commission was likewise given on December 3 to 
T. Powell for Gloucester, and on December 19 to T. Yale 
and another to visit the diocese of Peterborough. In this 
way provision was made for the visitation of nearly all the 
southern dioceses. In every case the visitation was under- 
taken by commission from Parker. We should have ex- 

^ So Stiype says. 934, commission is given to Stephen 

' S. P. Dom. xiv. 37. Nevinson and Alex. Nowell to 

' Reg. 314. punish all crimes detected in the 

* It seems clear that the Canter- late visitation, dated Nov. j i. 

bury visitation was over in Novem- * Reg. 315, 316. 

ber, 1560, as in Parker's Register, 



x6s THE ELIZASETSdJf CLESGT 

Omr.vm pected tiic iii fifiriiiBi tn Idbpc anriBctakEB^ at aB 



hut an SeptExnfacrii heanmnf iii'nirif YaifcLeedea^ycria- 
300, and Airx. 3i<Jiveil tn act en his ilyarf. oo. Ac ground 
diat he was hfnririF htndexed by 'ccrtan wflii iirnt cansts- 
These mav have hrm mnnrrtrti with a retom of die iD- 
health which, had trnohfcii him hi the eariy moBtits of I559> 
Other reasons may be auBguted ut Ae sfxcad of aiia> 
hap fifm, die bcghmmgs of treasooahfe coRcspoodeace 
with tomffL Rnmanwra, and the neoessrties of general siqier- 
vision ni die Chmch: — fii^tfm; which appear to have 
occupied die ecd e^mtfical armnuhHiirM iers atthg time> We 
have proof odierwise that Parker was not idle; for in Novem- 
ber, when the vfgtaffon was m progress, he scot round letters 
from r.amhrth to aH the bt^iops of the Sondiem Pn wince , 
directing them to fiinixA foil particolars about the 
numbers, condition, rcsdence. &c, of all d&e clergy in their 



Oi)ject We have now brooght down dus visitation to tbe end of 

^^ the year 1560. It is dear diat its object was to test the 
working of the Uniformity Act, to gnage die obedience of 
the clergy to the Injuoctiofis, and to bring to light and 
correct moral offiences amongst the clergy and the laity too. 
It was no part of the duty of these visitors to administer 
the Supremacy Oath. Returns were probably made in 
full, as a registrar was appointed to eadi commission^ but 
these have not survived. Strype has preserved a few 
detaik about Bath and Wells, from which we see that 
there was a good deal of nonconformity amongst the 
clergy, and a good deal of clerical absenteeism '. These 
cases were to be ' roundly dealt with,' and on the whole, 
as the Wells R^;ister is witness to very few cases of 
deprivation, it cannot be supposed that the recalcitrance of 
these clergy lasted very long. 
H^\v%\(A The metropolitical visitation was revived in 156 1 for 

Ihc 1 
tlon 



''ior^ some other dioceses — Worcester, February 18, Oxford, 



' Strype*s Parkgr, p. 94. The returns are at C C. C, Cambridge. 

* Stiypc'i Parker, p. 77. 




THE METROPOLITICAL VISITATION i6i 

April 04, Exeter, May 30, Hereford, July 14^; but here Chap, vi 11 
again we have no formal returns extant At Hereford 
Scory had considerable trouble, owing to the strenuous dioceses, 
opposition of the cathedral clergy, who were backed up ^^^^' ^ 
by the mayor and other justices of the peace. As theje^J^.* 
cathedral body were exempt from episcopal jurisdiction, 
the difficulties of the bishop were considerably increased. 
Perhaps it was with a view to tighten the reins of 
government that Scory appears to have designed a visita- 
tion of the diocese the year before. Two of his letters 
to Cecil throw an interesting light upon the condition 
of the diocese. On June 21 he makes a request that 
some impartial persons should be nominated to survey 
the bishopric, and lamenting the condition of the cathedral, 
he calls it * a very nursery of blasphemy, whoredom, pride, 
superstition, and ignorance *.' The date of the commission 
before given, viz. July 14, shows that action was soon to 
be taken, but it is not clear why it was so long delayed. 
The second letter, dated August 1 7 ^ and evidently before 
the commission got to work, gives some details of the 
proceedings of the 'popish justices,' who were reviving 
* abrogate fasts.' The bishop says : * I have brought the 
country to conformity of the laws herein by punishing 
of divers transgressors, yet the city being exempt from 
my jurisdiction remaineth as before. Mug, Blaxton, 
Arden, Gregory, Ely, Havard, that were driven out of 
Exeter, Worcester, and other places . , . have been so 
maintained, feasted, and magnified, with bringing them 
through the streets with torchlight in the winter, that 
they could not much more reverently have entertained 
Christ Himself. ... I am in this country a mere stranger, 
abhorred of the most part for religion, living among them 
not without danger. Among the worshipful of this shire 
there be not many favourers of true religion. If it was 
not for fear of the honourable house and council of the 



* Parker's Register, ff. 317-318. * S. P. Dom. xvii. 3a. 

' Ibid. xix. 34. 

M 



l62 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap.VIII 



Import- 
ance of 
Scofy's 
letters. 



Visitation 
of Eton. 



Proceed- 
ings of 
Homei 
June, 1561. 



marches the event should soon declare my writing herein 
to be true.' 

This correspondence of Scory is important, because it 
shows the considerable amount of latent opposition which 
existed in that district, as in some other parts of England, 
an opposition which was ready, on opportunity given, to 
declare itself. The letter shows also that the bishops 
were acting with ^the justices of oyer and terminer in 
accordance with the provisions of the Act of Uniformity. 

One more visitation was ordered on August 22, 1561, 
when Parker, Home, and Cook were commissioned to 
visit Eton. This was in consequence of the reported 
nonconformity of some of the Fellows, in addition to other 
irregularities. As the report of the previous visitation 
in 1559 is not extant, we are in the dark as to whether 
these Fellows had submitted at that time. The record 
of 1 56 1 still survives. Kirton, Ashbrook, Pratt, and 
Durston were deprived, as also was L^ge, a conduct 
The oath of supremacy was tendered in this case, two 
of the visitors being also ecclesiastical commissioners. 

The archbishop had not at this time commissioned any 
visitation of the dioceses of Winchester and Chichester. 
We have already noticed that Barlow had been concerned 
with enforcing uniformity amongst the Canons of Chichester 
Cathedral ^ Bishop Home of Winchester has given us in 
his correspondence with Cecil some account of what was 
being done in his diocese. He was occupied with a visita- 
tion in May and June, 1561, the inhibition of 1560 having 
now, it is presumed, lapsed. Writing to Cecil on June 8, 
he says that he has visited Surrey and a good part of 
Hampshire, and is going on to Southampton and the 
Isle of Wight. He says also: ^I have not found any 
repugning to the ordinances of the realm concerning 
religion, neither the ministers dissenting from the same, 
but conforming themselves as it was required of them, and 
in testification thereof have subscribed to the declaration 



* See above, p. 157. 



THE METROPOUTICAL VISITATION 163 

for uniformity of doctrine. Nevertheless I have found Chap.viii 
many absent, and many churches destitute of incumbents 
and ministers. . • . The absence of many proceedeth partly 
through the wilfulness of some who have purposely with- 
drawn themselves, or otherwise under colour absenting 
them, and partly under pretence that they serve noblemen. 
Against all which I mean to proceed as may seem best 
to appertain, meaning to have them come to me, my 
visitation ended. For the rest that I have to do, my hope 
is to find the like conformity, and namely in the ministers, 
as by the mutual consent in profession of doctrine and 
agreement of judgement, quiet and unity may increase and 
be preserved amongst us ^.' 

Another letter from Home, dated August 29, 1561 ^, Further 
shows that he was proceeding under the Uniformity Act, ^®" ®^ 
not this time in the matter of the clei^, but to enforce 
the conformity of the laity. He has 'joined with H. Sey- 
mour and Mr. Foster in a certain course of conformity.' 
He speaks of letters from the council which had * stricken 
no small terror into men's minds.' They specially con- 
cerned the breach of certain statutes, and so he explained 
these to the constables and tithing-men. As a result of 
the proceedings consequent on this action, he finds that 
people shift from one division to another where the dealing 
is less severe. The great noblemen of the county stir 
up disaffection against the bishop. The reference in this 
letter is very probably to church attendance as prescribed 
by the Act of Uniformity. During September, Home 
was engaged upon the visitation of those colleges in Ox- 
ford in which he was, by virtue of his office, the visitor. 

At this point we leave the metropolitical visitation of Summary. 
1560 and 1 56 1. Its main objects had been to secure 
uniformity, and to improve the state of the clergy. It 
brought to light a varying condition of affairs which may- 
be summed up in a sentence from a letter written by 
Home at Oxford in September, 1561, in which he speaks 

' S. P. Dom. xviL 93. ' Ibid. %ul 36. 

M 2 



l64 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. VIII of the Supremacy, the Prayer Book, and the Injunctions 
as 'commonly and everywhere almost through the realm 
received of all sorts \' The exceptions tn the rule were 
in such places as Hereford, where dis,ifFcction to the 
settlement was fostered by justices of th-* peace or the 
great noblemen of the district. This was the case, we 
shall find, in the Northern Province as well 

* S. P. Dom. xix. 56. 



CHAPTER IX 

NORTHERN COMMISSIONS DURING 1 56 1 AND 1 562 

No single bishopric was filled up in the Northern Chap. IX 
Province until 1561, and meanwhile the revenues of the 
sees, as one of the Zurich letters notes, *did gloriously ^^jj^^^.. 
replenish the Exchequer.* The returns of these sums during the 
have been preserved, entered under the * Foreign * Accounts ^*cancy 
of Elizabeth^. The deans and chapters were, of course, northern 
guardians of the spiritualities. A few words must be said dioceses, 
now of the state of conformity in the four dioceses of the 
north during the intervening period. The Duke of Norfolk, 
Lieutenant- General of the Forces of the North, writing to 
Cecil from Newcastle on January 10, 1560, speaks of *the 
altars still standing in the churches, contrary to the Queen's 
Majesty's proceedings. It would be well that her Majesty's 
commission should be addressed to the Dean of Durham, 
and such others as shall be thought meet^ authorizing them 
to see these matters reformed 2.' On February 16 he 
again urges the commission to the Dean of Durham, * to 
try spiritual causes which in many things run out of 
order ^' In the previous letter the writer speaks of the 
unavoidable delay of a commission of oyer and terminer, 
' of which there is great need.' It appears that this latter 
commission was appointed on July 20, 1560 *, by the Council 
of the North, and it would, by the terms of the Uniformity 
Act, deal with any questions of nonconformity which might 
arise. 

^ I.e. accounts foreign to the jurisdiction of the sheriff. 
' For. Cal. p. 573. * Ibid. p. 736. ^ Ibid, under date. 



i66 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

9 

Chap. IX From a note of Cecil's on March 25, 1560, which stands : 
* The two commissions, whereof one at Carlisle, the other 
at Newcastle: Dean of Durham in the commission V it 
seems as if some special commission were actually issued, 
though it is not entered on the Patent Roll. The Dean 
in a letter, quoted already, speaks as if the whole diocese 
were in a deplorable condition: 'the face of the church 
in these parts is so blemished with ignorance and licentious 
living, through want of a godly instruction, and due 
correction, that if there be not some speedy remedy found 
to instruct the consciences with knowledge in the true fear 
of God, and correct the lives of these libertines (I may well 
so term them) with severe discipline, they shall fall to 
barbarous atheism/ He also speaks of the administering 
of the oath to certain prebendaries of Durham, which again 
suggests the work of a commission. 
The sees In June, 1560, Dr. May was nominated to the Arch- 
il, ^* bishopric of York, but died before he was consecrated. 

filled up, . *^ 1 T> , 

1561. After some months Parker wrote very strongly to Cecil 
about the vacant sees, and recommended Dr. Young, 
Bishop of St. Davids, for York, and the Bishop of Rochester 
(Guest) for Durham ^ Nothing was done at the time, 
however, to supply the vacancies. Further evidence is 
given by the Marquis of Winchester on November i of 
the need of a special commission for Durham, and by 
Dean Home on November 16 of the dearth of competent 
clergy in the north. At last the bishops were appointed 
and consecrated — Pilkington for Durham and Best for 
Carlisle on March a, 1561, whilst Young was translated 
to York from St. Davids on February ao, and Downham 
was consecrated Bishop of Chester on May 4 of the same 
year. 

Issue of a It was now determined to proceed against the clergy 
^onT" ^^^ ^^^ evaded subscription to the settlement of re- 
administer ligion during the visitation of 1559, and had not yet 
^eoath, signed. Great irregularities had prevailed during the 
1561;^ vacancy of the sees, and at the beginning of 1561 a com- 

> S. P. Dom. xL 36. > Ibid. zii. 4a. 



NORTHERN COMMISSIONS 167 

mission ^ had been issued to the Earl of Rutland, the new Chap, ix 
Lord President of the North, to inquire into certain illicit 
congregations and conventicles, in the counties of York, 
Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Durham, 
In all probability these were maintained by what Strype 
calls the 'popish clergy.' Accordingly on May 5, 1561, 
fresh letters patent were issued te the chief civil and 
ecclesiastical authorities of the North to administer the 
oath of supremacy to the clergy^. Those on the com- 
mission were the Archbishop of York, the Earl of Rutland, 
the Bishops of Durham and Carlisle, Sir Henry Percy, 
Sir Thomas Gargrave, Sir Henry Gates, and certain others, 
including the Archdeacons of Brecon, Nottingham, and 
York. The preface recites the fact that in the last visitation 
'quaedam personae ecclesiasticae coram commissionariis 
nostris comparuerunt, quaedam contumaces scs^ absentantes 
et animo obstinato latitantes, quae ritus, cerimonias, ac 
divmum servitium infra dictum regnum nostrum et alia 
dominia nostra, per leges, statuta et munitiones nostras 
ordinata et provisa observare recusabant in animarum 
suarum grave periculum, et subditorum nostrorum fidelium 
periculosum exemplum.' The writ then follows the wording 
of that issued for the ecclesiastical commissioners on Oc- 
tober 20, 1559^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ restricts the administering of the 
oath to 'ecclesiastical persons, and other ecclesiastical officers 
and ministers dwelling, staying, or journeying within the 
province of York.' Here again we presume that the idea 
was not to administer the oath afresh to all ecclesiastics, 
but only to those who had refused subscription before. 

Two or three letters show how the terms of the Episcopal 
commission were executed. From these it appears that^*^**^®" 
the bishops undertook a visitation of their dioceses, and reports, 
administered the oath^. As four commissioners were 
required to administer, some of the lay members must 
have accompanied the bishop in each case. On July 19, i. Best. 

' Patent Roll, 3 Eliz. part iL own responsibility until the Act of 

■ See below, p. 17a. 1563, infra, p. 005. 

* They could not do this on their 



i68 THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 

Cmaf. IX 1561, Best tdls Cecil of his procecdii^ in the diocese of 
Carlisle. He speaks of having preached three times in the 
cathedral, when laige congregations met him. The common 
people affirmed they had been deceived, 'which also 
happened throughout all my visitation. The priests are 
wicked imps of antichrist, and for the most part very 
ignorant, and stubborn, past measure false and subtle: 
only fear maketh them obedient. Only three absented 
themselves in my visitation, and fled because they would 
not subscribe ; of the which two belong to my Lord 
Dacres, and one to the Earl of Cumberland. I have 
assigned days to them under deprivation.' He also ssys 
that twelve or thirteen churches on Lord Dacres' land have 
not been represented in the visitation. ' I do not meddle 
until I have some aid from the Council of the North. 
I doubt not by policy to make them obedient ^' Thus 
we see that the oath was administered, and was pretty 
generally taken, the recusants sheltering themselves under 
the protection of noblemen in that part who favoured the 
old regime. We also see that the bishops threatened the 
recalcitrant clergy with the Council of the North, a point 
to which we shall return. 

A. Pilking- Pilkington writes to Cecil on October 13, 1561 . The chief 
point in his letter is a complaint that he had been shorn 
of the powers of the palatinate, a fact which is otherwise 
attested. He did not r^^in the full powers for some time. 
He says : * The more I try the more grief I find. . . . Here 
needs rather power and authority to be given than to be 
taken away. . . • The people be rude and heady, and by 
these occasions more bold^.' He also alludes to the 
administration of the oath, but here in the case of a lay 
official, Sergeant Menel. A month later Pilkington writes 
again with the same complaint. He says : ' I do not see 
that they will be ruled without a great power. ... I am 
grown into such displeasure with them (the people), part 
for religion, and part for ministering the oath of the 
Queen's superiority, that I know not whether they like 

' S. P. Dom. xvil 91. ' Ibid. xx. 5. 



NORTHERN COMMISSIONS 169 

me worse or I them.' He also says that the refusers' Chap. IX 
names have been returned to the Lord Keeper. The 
letter concludes: 'The last day of my visitation a young 
priest being called with his churchwardens to take his oath 
as the rest, to present such things as were amiss accord- 
ing to the Queen's Injunctions, refused "on the ground 
that the Injunctions hang on further authority than he 
cannot allow, for that only the Pope has spiritual authority." 
This boldness the people grow into, because they see 
that such as refuse to acknowledge their due all^iance 
escape not only punishment, but are had in authority and 
estimation/ From this letter we may perhaps gather that 
the bishop was administering the oath to the recusant 
clergy, and that in addition to this all clergy and church- 
wardens were sworn to make returns for their parishes to 
articles of visitation. 

The episcopal visitations of 156 1 in the north must have General 

been very partially successful. As the returns of clerical ^^^^ ^^ 

, , the corn- 

recusancy which were to be made mto Chancery do not mission for 

survive, we cannot tell what proportion of those who 'S^i* 

refused in the royal visitation of 1559 signed in the 

episcopal visitation of 1561. Best, writing from Rose 

Castle on January 14, 1561, speaks of 'punishing and 

depriving . . . evil men which neither would do their office 

according to the good laws of this realm, nor acknowledge 

the Queen s Majesty's supremacy, neither yet obey me as 

ordinary . . . yet such men are put in authority ^.* 

On January 25 we have a letter from the Archbishop The laity 

of York, which seems to be written in his capacity as'*'^^^ ^ 

escape the 

President of the Council of the North. It has no reference oath, 
to the clergy, but is worth mentioning, as it shows that 
the laity in Yorkshire, at all events, had escaped the 
taking of the oath in very many instances. It will have 
been observed, perhaps, that the letters patent of May 5, 
1561, say nothing of the laity, and there is no special 
commission directing the administration of the oath to 

^ S. P. Dom. xzi. 13. 



I70 THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. IX lay officials within the survey of the Council of the Nordi, 
between the visitation of 1559 and the date of Archbishop 
Young's letter. For the palatinate of Chester thete mi 
such a commission issued on February aj, 1560 ^ It is, 
however, wtry iikdy that in some instructions for tbc 
Council of the North, which we have not seen, direction 
was given to tender the oath to the justices of the peace, 
mayors, and others. But at all events the archbishop in 
the letter above mentioned says that he finds *the said 
oaths were a strange thing unto the justices of peace in 
Yorkshire, and as divers of worship being present affirmed 
there was no such thing required nor given before. ... It 
seemed unto me there hath been some sinister practices 
touching that oath heretofore. . . . Wherefore for avokling 
of division and factions, and the setting forth of uniformity 
(under your correction), I think it good that a commissioo 
were directed into these parts to minister and receive 
the oath, as well of all justices of peace as of other 
ministers and officers of the laity. I am assured it would 
do much good, and be with all obedience and quietness 
received.* 
initruc- No commission appears to have been issued for this 

tions purpose during the remainder of the year 156a, but in 

Council of November lengthy instructions were issued to the Arch- 
thc North, bishop of York, as President of the Council of the North 
"^ * in succession to the Earl of Rutland. It is expressly 
stated that * Her Majesty's pleasure is that the said Lord 
President, or Vice-President, and Council shall aid, help, 
and assist all the bishops, ordinaries, and commissioners 
for matters of religion within the limit and jurisdiction 
of the said council, as well for the due observation and 
execution of all things set forth in the book of Common 
Prayer and administration of the sacraments, and in the 
Injunctions, as also for the apprehension and punishment 
of all singular persons as shall contemn or disobey the 
said bishops, ordinaries, or commissioners '/ Thus the 

* Pat. Ron, a Elix. pt. 7. » Cotton MS. Titus F. xiii. f. 249. 




NORTHERN COMMISSIONS ill 

bishops, with the assistance of the council, carried put Chap, ix 
the enforcement of the Uniformity Act, and the commis- 
sioners doubtless tendered the oath when occasion arose 
in the various dioceses. For the palatinate of Chester 
a special commission was issued on July 20, 1562, to try 
offences connected with religion. It was directed to Lord 
Derby and others. We possess, however, no information 
as to what was done in this commission, or by the Council 
of the North ^ 

Wc have thus reached roughly the end of 156a. With Summary 
the prospect of a parliament at the commencement of the °^ *?^^^ 
new year the authorities seem to have taken little trouble December, 
in the closing months of 1562 in the matter of uniformity ^s^a. 
and the taking of the oath. At all events we trace no 
reference in the State Papers and correspondence of the 
time to any fresh or more vigorous action. There are 
no letters from the bishops, and no fresh commissions. 
Reviewing, then, the proceedings up to the point reached, 
it seems that after the visitation of 1559 little was done 
in the north to enforce conformity until the bishops' 
visitations of 1561. The bishops appear to have then 
acted with vigour so far as the clet^ are concerned, in 
consequence of a new commission, and it seems probable 
that a good many of those who had refused conformity 
before, now gave in. Isolated instances of recusancy 
probably came before the Council of the North, whose 
powers were always at hand to back up the action of 
bishops and commissioners. 

^ No official reports of the Council are known. 



172 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. IX 

— Commission to administer the Oath in 

THE North. 

Contmissio ad Capiendum Sacramentum ab Ecclesiasticis 

in Pravincia Eborum. 

[Patent Roll, 3 Eliz. part 10, m. 34 dors. ; cf. Rymer's 

Feeder a^ xv. p. 611.] 

The Queen EuzABETHA Dei Gratia, Angliae, Franciae, et Hibemiae Regina, 

greets her pj^^j Defensor, &c., Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Thomae 

commis- t^ 

sioners. Eboracensi Archiepiscopo, Angliae Primati, Metropolitano ; ac prae- 

dilecto consanguineo et consiliario suo, Henrico Comid Rudandiae 

Praesidend Concilii sui in partibus borealibus; ac reverendis in 

Christo Patribus Jacobo Dunelmensi Episcopo, et Johanni Carlio- 

lensi Episcopo ; ac etiam dilecds et fidelibus subdids suis, Henrico 

Percy, Thomae Gargrave, et Henrico Gates, Milidbus; necnon 

dilectis sibi Johanni Vaughan, Christofero Estofte, Thomae Hajmes, 

Annigeris; Johanni Rokeby, Legum Doctori; Waltero Jones, Archi- 

diacono Brechon, Willelmo Daye, Archidiacono Nottinghamiae, 

Johanni Stokes, Archidiacono Eboracensi ; Thomae Layken, Ardum 

Magistro ; Roberto Pecock, et Willelmo Watson, Aldermannis civi- 

tads nostrae Eboraci — salutem. 

Certain ec- Quandoquidem nos fideliter accepimus quod in postrema visitatione 

D^ons nostra, nuper in diversis regni nostri partibus assignata, quaedam 

absented personae ecclesiasdcae coram commissionariis nostris companierunt, 

from^ttie^ quaedam contumaces sese absentantes et animo obsdnato ladtantes, 

last visita- quae ritus, ceremonias ac divinum servitium, infra dictum regnum 

**^°' nostrum et alia dominia nostra, per leges, statuta, et munitiones 

nostras, ordinata et provisa, observare recusabant, in animarum 

suarum grave periculum, et subditorum nostrorum fidelium periculo- 

sum exemplum : 

rhe afore- Nos igitur in animo habentes eorum reformationem, ne divinus 

m/Mioners ^^ verus Dei cultus per tales perversos homines in aliquo impediatur 

are there- vel molestetur, ac in approbata pietate, sapienda, pnidenda, et 

^^Tted circumspecdone vestra plurimum confidentes, assignavimus vos 

commissionarios nostros, ac per praesentes damns et concedimus 

vobis septemdecim, sexdecim, quindecim, quatuordecim, tresdecim, 

duodecim, undecim, decem, novem, octo, septem, sex, quinque, et 

quatuor vestrum (quorum vos praefatos Thomam Archiepiscopum 

Eboracensem, Henricum Comitem Rutlandiae, Jacobum Episcopum 



NORTHERN COMMISSIONS 173 

Dunelmensem, Thomam Gargrave, Militem, vel Walterum Jones Chap. IX 
unum esse volumus) plenam potestatem et auctoritatem capiendi et 
recipiendi de omnibus et singulis archiepiscopis, episcopiis, et aliis to ad- 
personis ecclesiasticis, et aliis oflSciariis et ministris ecclesiasticis, ^°J^^^ to 
infra provinciam Eboracensem commorantibus, degentibus, sive itine- all ecclesi- 
rantibus, cujuscunque status, dignitatis praeeminentiae, seu gradus ^^^3 
fuerint, seu eorum aliquis fuerit, quoddam sacramentum corporale in the 
super sacrosancta Dei Evangelia coram vobis aut quatuor vestrum provinccl 
(quoram vos praefatos Thomam Archiepiscopum Eboracensem, Hen- 
ricum Comitem Rutlandiae, Jacobum Episcopum Dunelmensem, 
Thomam Gargrave Militem, vel Walterum Jones, unum esse 
volumus) corporaliter per ipsos et eorum quemlibet praestandum, 
declaratum et specificatum m quodam Actu Parliament! nostri apud 
Westmonasterium vicesimo quinto die Januarii anno regni nostri 
primo habito tento edito, juxtavimformam et effectum ejusdem Actus. The com- 

Et ideo vobis et quatuor vestrum (quorum vos praefatos Thomam ^^ ^^^_ 
Archiepiscopum Eboracensem, Henricum Comitem Rutlandiae, tify the 
Jacobum Episcopum Dunelmensem, Thomam Gargrave Militem, vel ^^d refusal 
Walterum Jones, unum esse volumus) mandamus insuper quod sacra- of the 
menta praedicta de omnibus et singulis archiepiscopis, episcopis, et chancery, 
aliis personis, officiariis, et ministris ecclesiasticis quibuscunque 
superius specificatis, ac de eorum quolibet, recipiatis ; et cum ea sic 
ceperitis, nos inde in Cancellariam nostram sub sigillis vestris vel 
quatuor vestrum (quorum vos praefatos Thomam Archiepiscopum 
Eboracensem, Henricum Comitem Rutlandiae, Jacobum Episcopum 
Dunelmensem, Thomam Gargrave Militem, vel Walterum Jones, unum 
esse volumus) sine dilatione certificetis ; et si contingat praedictum 
archiepiscopum, episcopos, personas, officiarios, sive alios ministros 
quoscunque superius specificatos aut eorum aliquem, sacramentum 
praedictum peremptorie et obstinato animo accipere recusare, turn 
et eorum recusationem et recusationes, et eorum cujuslibet vos in 
Cancellariam nostram sub sigillis vestris vel quatuor vestrum (ut 
praedictum est) sine dilatione nos certiores faciatis. Mandamus 
quoque universis et singulis Archiepiscopis, Ducibus, Marchionibus, 
Comitibus, Vicecomitibus, Episcopis, Baronibus, Militibus, Justidariis, 
Majoribus, Ballivis, et omnibus aliis officiariis, ministris, et subditis 
nostris quibuscunque, quod vobis in executione praemissorum 
intendentes sint pariter et obedientes prout decet. 

In cujus rei, etc. Teste Regina apud Westmonasterium quinto 
die Maii. Per ipsam Reginam, 



A new 
com- 



CHAPTER X 

THE SECOND ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION, 1 562 

Chap. X RETURNING to the south a new point of departure comes 
before us in the issue of a second ecclesiastical commission 
in 1562. The writ is dated July 20, and is directed to the 

mission Archbishop of Canterbury and others, twenty-seven in all. 

in 156a. 'pjj^ commission is evidently intended to take the place of 
that which we considered in an earlier chapter, and which 
had been in existence for exactly three years. There had 
been nineteen members on the first commission, supple- 
mented on October 20, 1559, by the addition of the bishop- 
elect of Ely, Richard Cox. Many who had served before 
were included in the new list, whilst five had been removed 
by death, and with the addition of twelve new names 
the sum total was increased to twenty-seven. In 1559 
six at least had constituted an effective number; in 
1562 this was reduced to a necessary three. The reason 
of the new commission is probably not far to seek. A con- 
temporary Zurich letter from Cox to Peter Martyr, written 
on August 5, says : * There is everywhere an immense 
number of papists, though for the most part concealed ; they 
have been quiet hitherto, except that they are cherishing 
their errors in their secret assemblies. . . . The papists are 
wonderfully raising their spirits since the disorders in 
France.' About the same time Jewel writes : * The obstinacy 
of the papists is now greater than ever. They are depend- 
ing, it seems, upon the result of events in France.' The 
reference is to the events which followed the massacre of 
Vassy on March i, 1562. The massacre b^an the religious 



THE SECOND ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION 175 

wars in France, and, when these broke out, the papal Chap. X 
S3anpathisers in England expected to see England soon 
embroiled, and the religious policy of the last three years 
reversed. The fear of such a contingency seems to have 
led to the issue of the commission of July 20. 

It is highly probable that some exhibition of severity First pro- 
was made at once by the commissioners, and on Au- ^^®j**°^ 

' under the 

gust 6 they committed Dr. Chedsey, late Archdeacon of new corn- 
Middlesex, to the Fleet, and with him Dr. Antony Draycot, mission- 
formerly Archdeacon of Huntingdon, &c. The latter held 
preferment is so many dioceses, as the registers show, that he 
was widely known, whilst Chedsey was notorious as a member 
of the Westminster Disputation of 1559, for his attitude 
on which occasion he had already suffered. There was per- 
haps some talk at first of further proceeding against the im- 
prisoned bishops, as Parkhurst tells Bullinger on August 20 
that * the pseudo-bishops who are in the Tower will very 
soon render an account of their breach of faith (reddent 
rationem suae perfidiae), so I hear.' Perfidia may perhaps 
denote the secret correspondence hinted at above ^, but 
there is no proof that anything was now done so far as the 
bishops are concerned. One of the first proceedings of the 
commission was to send letters to the diocesan bishops^ 
bidding them set inquiries on foot as to the amount of 
recusancy in their dioceses. Thus Parkhurst writes in the 
same letter : * I received a letter from my Lord of Canter- 
bury four days ago : the substance of it is this, that I should 
diligently ascertain by every means in my power, though 
secretly, who and how many there are in my diocese who 
do not comply with the true religion. This is, I suspect, 
with the intention of punishing their breach of faith 
{perfidiae again) *.' 

Action seems to have been taken in accordance with Restraint 
these returns. There exists amongst the State Papers "^l^**" 
an undated list ^ of clerical and lay recusants, which is recusants, 
assigned by Strype to the year 156 1, but from internal 

^ See p. 145. ' Zutick Litters^ Aug. 90, 156a. 

' See below, p. 179. 



176 



THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. X evidence it cannot belong to a date earlier than August 6, 
1562, for Dr. Chedsey is in this list the most recent prisoner 
in the Fleet, and the day of his committal as already stated 
is accurately known. The list too, cannot be put much 
later than August, 1562, and thus we here discover an 
entirely fresh procedure in restraining recusants within 
bounds. These are classed in four divisions : (i) recusants 
which are abroad and bound to certain places ; (2) a list of 
certain evil-disposed persons of whom complaint hath been 
made, which lurk so secretly that processes cannot be 
served upon them ; (3) others fled as was reported over the 
seas ; (4) prisoners by order from the commissioners. A 
glance at the list shows that those restrained were usually 
people of some position, including Bishop Poole of Peter- 
borough and several deans and other dignitaries. Their 
bounds set prove that the idea was to keep them from those 
districts in which their influence was likely to be felt. In 
all some sixty persons are so restrained, and the majority of 
these are certainly clergymen. Of the * evil-disposed persons,' 
twelve appear to be clergymen. Seven clerics had fled * over 
the seas/ and of sixteen prisoners in the Fleet, Marshalsea, 
&c., twelve were in Orders. It must however be noted 
that the list is only of those under surveillance of the com- 
missioners ; nothing is said of the bishops in the Tower, nor 
is mention made of the lesser clerical and lay recusants who 
had perhaps been dealt with by the magistrates, by the 
Council of the North, and that of the Marches. Instances 
of such dealing, however, are more easily imagined than 
proved, for no returns exist of. imprisonment or fine as 
inflicted by justices or council during the early years of 
Elizabeth, so far as our knowledge extends. Later on in 
the reign we get ample material. 

Another interesting instruction for the commission of 
1562 may be mentioned, though it is beside our purpose to 
examine its execution here. We refer to the provision by 
which the commissioners were directed *to examine the 
rules and statutes of all ecclesiastical incorporations founded 
by her Highness' father King Henry VIII, or since, and 



Other 
duties of 
the new 
com- 
mission. 



THE SECOND ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION 177 

to certify her Highness of their enormities, t(^ther with Chap, x 
such orders as they think meet to be appointed, and made 
for the same incorporations, to the end her Majesty may 
thereupon alter or change the same orders, or make new 
according to a statute made in the first year of her Ma- 
jesty's reign.' 

We have thus brought down the outline of the history Summary 
of the ecclesiastical commission to the end of 1562, and of the com^ 
almost to the eve of Elizabeth^s second parliament, when missions, 
fresh l^slation was enacted which we may consider in '^^^'^ ^' 
a separate chapter. But before we leave the commissions 
which had now been at work for some three years, we may 
say of their proceedings that there is little proof at this stage, 
or indeed for the next year or two, of any very rigorous 
fining or imprisonment. Our conviction is that the com- 
missioners may have imprisoned some twenty-five people 
altogether, before 1563, whilst in the Exchequer records 
there is no existing proof of the receipt of the fines which 
were to be paid into the Exchequer^, although the Exchequer 
records seem to have been carefully kept at that time. In 
and after 1564 the cases brought before the commission were 
chiefly connected with the vestiarian controversy. Great 
changes were introduced in 1570 and 1571, after the excom- 
munication of the Queen, when the whole constitution and 
working of the ecclesiastical commission were altered \ 



' See p. 179. 

' The references to the Patent 
Rolls for other early Elizabethan 
commissions are xo Eliz. pt. 2, to 
the Archbishop of York, &c ; 13 Eliz. 
pt 7, for Lincoln and Peterborough ; 
14 Eliz. pt. 8, a fresh ecclesiastical 
commission issued to the Archbishop 
of Canterbury, &c. See too Watson's 
Patent Roll (so-called), for 15 Eliz. 
no. 39, an important series of com- 
missions for various counties; ibid. 



x6 Eliz., for other parts ; Pa|ent Roll, 
19 Eliz. pt. 12, for Province of York ; 
also ibid.,specialcommission for Nor* 
wich (see too Cotton MS. Titus B. Ill) 
and Durham, and 21 Eliz. pt. 7, for 
Wales. Lansdowne MS. 396, Cotton 
Vesp. F. ix., Cleop. F. ii. f. 139, may 
also be consulted for proceedings of 
the commissioners under Elizabeth. 
There are some returns at P. R. O. 
after about 1570. 



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Chap. X 



178 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

I. 

Official Abstract of the Writ of July ao, 156a. 

[Transcr. from S. P. Dom. Eliz. xxvi. 41.] 

Abstract of Heads of the Ecclesiastical Commission. 

First, authority is given unto them to put in execution two 
statutes made in the first year of the Queen's Majesty's reign, the 
one entitled An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer and 
Service of the Church and the Administration of the Sacraments; 
and the other entitled. An Act restoring to the Crown the ancient 
jurisdiction over the estate ecclesiastical and spiritual, and abolishing 
all foreign power repugnant to the same. 

2. Also to inquire of all heresies and seditious books, and such 
other contrary to the laws of the realm^ and the quiet government 
of the same, &c. 

3. Also to inquire of all enormities and misbehaviours, ftc, in 
any church or chapel, &c. 

4. Also to inquire, search Out, and correct all such as shall 
9bstinately absent themselves from the divine service. 

5. Also to redress, correct, and afnend all contempts and 
enormities ecclesiastical, which by ecclesiastical power may be 
corrected by censures ecclesiastical, deprivation, of such like. 

6. Also to inquire and search out all masterless men, quarrellers, 
and vagrant persons in London or within ten miles' coinpass. 

7. Also to hear and finally determine according to the laws of 
the realm, the causes and complaints of all such which in respect 
of religion or for lawful matrimony were deprived or spoiled of 
their living or goods, and to restore them, &c. 

8. Also to hear and determine all notorious adulteries, fornications, 
and ecclesiastical crimes. 

9. And thereupon commanding them to execute due punishment 
upon every offender in any of the premises by imprisonment, fine, 
or otherwise. 

10. And authority to take body bonds for appearance for 
observing these orders, &c. 

11. And also to examine the rules and statutes of all ecclesiastical 
incorporations founded by her Highness' father King Henry VIII, 
or since, and to certify her Highness of their enormities, together 
with such orders as they think meet to be appointed and 



THE SECOND ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION 179 

made for the same incorporations, to the end her Majesty may Chap. X 
thereupon alter or change the same orders, or make new accordmg 
to a statute made m the first year of her Majest/s reign. 

12. Also to tender and receive the oath appointed in the said « 
Act, entided, An Act for the restoring to the Crown the ancient 
jurisdiction, ftc, of all ecclesiastical persons^ and to certify the 
recusations into the Chancery, &c. 

13. And to allow the register and other travellers herein of 
commodity rising hereof. 

14. And to certify the fines into the Exchequer. 

11. 

Recusants which are abroad and bound to 

CERTAIN places ^ 

[Transcr. from S. P. Dom. EHz., Addenda xi. 45.] 

"^ Alexander Belsar, clerk, to remain in the town of 
2d ^hSttl Hanborough, in the county of Oxford, or within two 

miles' compass about the same. 

^d^pSS^ *Doctor Poole, late bishop of Peterborough, to 
^^qmrtiy, and remain in the city of London and suburbs, or within 
hiUwto toicr- UtatQ milcs' compass about the same. 

*Thomas Wyllanton, late chaplain to Doctor 
Stiff and not Bonuer, to remain in the counties of Middlesex or 
anicarned. Buckingham, or the city of London, and bound to 

appear once every term. 

*Robert Purseglove, late suffragan of HuU, and 
an^stiffin before an abbot or a prior, to remain in the town of 

Sdmation in Ugthorpe In the county of York, or within twelve miles' 

tbecoantnr. <, i 

compass about the same. 

*Roger Marshall, once prior of Sempringham, to 
^ JJ^jJJJ®** remain in the town of Newmarket or within six miles' 

compass about the same. 

*Thomas Seagiswick, Doctor of Divinity, to remain 
i^un^batnot jj^ ^^ io^Nii of Richmond, or within ten miles' compass 

about the same. 

^ An asterisk denotes ascertained deprivation. The spelling of proper 
names is retained. See the list, p. 252, and Strype, Awu u 941. 

N 7, 



i8o 



THE EUZABETHAS CLERGY 



Chap. X 



Hoc 

boni aadtobe 



Edward's tioie 
preached the 
trath eamesrl^, 
and DOW stiff m 
papiaCfT.aad 
Unakedi %'ery 
macfa £ood of 
hanaeft 



Aa ealeamed 
priest, bat vciy 
stabboni. 



Not ealearned, 
bat venr wiUal 
and steDborn. 



Very stabborn, 
and worthy to 
be looked onto. 



Wilfel Kbolara. 



An aalearned 
priest, very 
wiUttL 



Late a super- 
ttitioos monk 
of Mont Grace, 
and unlearned. 



Wilful scholara 
and not leamea 
in divinity. 



An unlearned 
priest 



^WiDiam Carter, Doctor of Dnrini^, hte ardideacoa 
of Northmnbeiland, to remain in the town of Thirsk 
in the county of York, or within ten niile^ compMS 
about the same. 

^Thomas ELarding, Doctor of Divinity, to remain in 
the town of Monkton Farleigh, in the county of 
Wiltshire, or sixteen miles' compass aboot the same, 
or within the town of Toller \^lielme in the comi^ of 
Dorset, or twenty miles' compass aboot the same. 

^Richard Dominick, clerk, late parson of Stratford, 
in the diocese of Salisbury, to remain in the town of 
East Knoyle in the county of Wiltshire, or within 
sixteen miles' ccnnpass about the same. 

William Boys, clerk, late parson of Gresley in 
Yorkshire, to remain in the town of Southwell, in the 
county of Nottingham, or within twenty-four miles' 
compass about the same. 

^David de la Hide, an Irishman, late scholar of 
Oxford, at his liberty, saving that be b restrained to 
come within twenty miles of either of the universities. 

Edward Bninbrough \ , , , ^ ^ ^ , 

•Robert Dawkes '^'". «*°'*" f °^'^°^'*' '"■ 

r^ o' \ Strained as before. 

George Simpson ) 

*Anthony Atkyns, clerk, late of Oxford, to remain 
within the counties of Gloucester or Shropshire. 

William Thules, .late schoolmaster of Durham, 
bound for his good behaviour in matters of religion, 
and restrained from the diocese of Durham. 

•Roger Thompson, clerk, restrained from the 
diocese of York and Durham. 

♦John Rastall 
Nicholas Fox 
Robert Davies 
William Giblett 
John Durham 

♦Richard Halse, late prebendary of Exeter, to re- 
main in the counties of Devon or Cornwall, the city of 
Exeter and within three miles of either of his late 
benefices always excepted. 



late scholars of Oxford, restrained 
from the universities, and bound for 
their quiet behaviour in matters of 
religion. 



THE SECOND ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION i8i 



Two stnbboni 
persons; divas 
processes being 
sent for them, 
are so sapported 
in Herefordshire 
that the same 
cannot be 
executed against 
them, and 
reported to be 
maintained by 
Mr. J. Skydn^re, 
Mr. Pie, and one 
William Lnson, 
a prebendary or 
Hereford. 

Unlearned, 
wealthy, and 
stiff. 



Chap. X 



*John Blaxton ) late prebendaries of Exeter, to re- 
* Walter Mugge j main in the county of Hereford. 



Unlearned. 



Unlearned. 



Learned, bnt 
wilfal and meet 
to be considered. 



Learned, settled 
in papistry. 



An anleamed 
pnest. 



These two are 
thought to 
behave them- 
selves very 
seditiously and^ 
contrary to their 
recognisances, 
secretly lurk in 
Lancashire, and 
are thought to 
be maintained 
there by rulers 
and gentlemen 
of that country. 



* Robert Dalton, clerk, late prebendary of Durham, 
to remain with the Lord Dakers of the north. 

*Nichola8 Marley, late prebendary of Durham, to 
remain in the bishopric of Durham, so as he come 
not within eight miles of Durham. 

"^Thomas Redman, late chaplain to the late bishop 
of Ely, to remain in the counties of York, Westmor- 
land, and Lancaster. 

* Henry Comberforde, late of Lichfield, to remain in 
the county of Suffolk, with liberty to travel twice 
every year into Staffordshire, allowing six weeks at 
every time of his travel. 

*John Ramridge, lately punished, bound to be quiet 
and to go to the service, and sureties bound for his 
appearance when he shall be called. 

* John Ceaton, Doctor of Divinity, to remain in the 
city of London, or within twenty miles' compass about 
the same. 

John Erie, clerk, late of Winton, to remain in the 
county of Southampton, so that he always gives notice 
at Hyde in the said county, where always he shall 
make his abode, so as he come not to the Trinity 
Church or college in Winton. 

*Lawrence Vawce, late warden of Manchester, to 
remain in the county of Worcester. 

Richard Hart, late one of the curates of Manchester 
aforesaid, to remain in the counties of Kent or Sussex. 



l83 



THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. X 



Meanly learned, 
bat of estimation 
in his ooantry. 



An unlearned 
priesL 



Ona that pre- 
tendeth a so- 
briety, bat yet 
stub 



tv, oa 
bom. 



One very stiff 
and 



Very pervene 
in religion. 



Annnleamed 
priest. 



Kot anleamed, 
snbtle, and stiff. 



Annnteamed 
priest. 



A man whose 
qualities are 
wellknown. 



Learned and 
ver]^ earnest in 
papistry. 



An unlearned 
priest. 



^Anthony Salvjn, late prebendary of Durham, to 
remain in the town of Kirkby Moorside, in the county 
of York, or elsewhere within the said county, the dty 
of York only excepted, so that he passeth not above 
five miles northward of Kirkby Moorside aforesaid. 

^Robert Manners, late parson of Watton at Stone, 
to remain in the town of Baldock in the county of 
Hertford, or within twenty miles' compass about the 
same. 

*£dmund Daniell, late dean of Hereford, to remain 
with the Lord Treasurer, or within twelve miles' 
compass of his house where he maketh his abode. 

*Thomas Hide, late schoolmaster of Winton, with 
the Lord Treasurer. 

^Robert Hill, late commissary at Calais, to remain 
in the town of Burton-upon-Trent, in the county of 
Staffordshire, or elsewhere within the said county. 

Nicholas Banester, to remain in the county of 
Lancaster, the town of Preston in Amoundemess 
always excepted. He was a schoolmaster at Preston. 

William Winck, late of Cambridge, to remain in 
Norfolk. 

"^Clement Burdet, late of Bath, to remain in Crondall 
in Hampshire, or else in Sonning in Berkshire. 

*Doctor Tresham, late of Oxford, to remain in 
Northamptonshire. 

*Albone Langdall, Doctor of Divinity, to remain 
with tlie Lord Montacute, or where his lordship shall 
appoint, and to appear within twelve days after 
monition given to the said Lord Montacute or his 
officers before the commissioners. • 

*John Porter, late parson of Crondall in Kent, to 
remain in Maidstone in the county of Kent, or the 
city of London or suburbs, or in any place within the 
said county of Kent, the city of Canterbury excepted, 
so that always he give intimation to the sheriff of 
Kent of his present abode. 



THE SECOND ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION 183 



Not altogeCber 
unleanied, bat 
very pervens* 



John Dale, late of Cambridge, to remain in the Chap. X 
town of Newmarket, or ten miles' compass about the 
same, saving towards London and Cambridge but 
four miles. 



Alan Cope 
William Lewes 



\ late scholars of Oxford. The said 
Cope is bound to appear once within 
fourteen days, and the said Lewes 
restrained from the universities, 
otherwise at liberty. 



Stephen Hopkyns, clerk, confessor (as he saith) to 
the bishop of Aquila, and a daily resorter unto him. 
He was delivered out of the Fleet by the Queen's 
Majesty*s express conmiandment to the Lord of 
Canterbury. 

Aitojfcther *Tristram Sw:adell. late Dr. Bonner's servant, and 

unlearned, bat 

yet very flttbUe. yet thought to be a practitioner for him. 



Thomas Dormer, late scholar of Oxford, restrained 
from the universities. 

Henry Johnson, clerk, late parson of Broadwas 
in Worcestershire, to remain in the county of 
Hereford 

Robert Shawe, late prebendary of Worcester, to 
remain in the county of Shropshire. 

Robert Shelmerden, clerk, to remain in the 
county of Northampton. 

William Burton, clerk, to remain in Oxfordshire. 

Henry Saunders, clerk, to remain in the county 
^of Warwick. 



Unlearned, 
atnbbom 
prieatx, late of 
the diocese of 
Worcester. 



{ 



Wilful scfaolarh 



Edward Atislowe ^ 
Walter Russell 
Robert Yonge 
Robert Fenne 
Rafif Keat 



late scholars of Oxford, restrained 
from the universities. 



Certain evil-disposed persons, of whom complaint 
hath been made, which lurk so secretly that process 
cannot be served upon them. 



i84 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. X 



•Philip Morgan, late of Oxford. 

♦John Arden, late prebendary of Worcester. 

Friar Gregory, alias Gregory Basset, a common 
^^aL>Te * I Mass sayer; one *Ely, late Master of St. John*s 

I College in Oxford; one *Haverde, late chaplain to 
\ Mres. Claurenciaulx. 



Are an. 

in Herefordshire, 



named. 



♦William Norfolk, late prebendary of Worcester. 

*Dr. Marshall, late Dean of Christ Church in Oxford, who hath 
had recourse to the Earl of Cumberland, and one Mr. Metcalf his 
brother-in-law, in Wensleydale in Yorkshire, as it is reported. 

♦Dr. Robinson, late Dean of Durham, is excused by his lameness, 
one thought to do much hurt in Yorkshire. 

♦One Morren, late chaplain to Dr. Bonner, wandereth in Cheshire, 
Staffordshire, and Lancashire very seditiously ; it is he that did cast 
abroad the seditious libel in Chester. 

Robert Grey, priest, who hath been much supported at Sir Thomas 
Fitzharbert's, and now it is said wandereth in like sort ; a man meet 
to be looked unto. 

""One Dr. Hoskyns, late of Salisbury, a subtle adversary. 

♦Baldwin Norton, late chaplain to the Archbishop of York. 

Item, we are informed that through the example of Sir Thomas 
Fitzharbert, John Sacheverell, and John Draycot, Esquires, being by 
us committed to prison and so remaining, and through the bearing 
and supporting of their wives, friends, kinsfolk, allies, and servants, 
a great part of the shires of Stafford and Derby are generaUy evil 
inclined towards religion, and forbear coming to church and 
participating of the sacraments, using also very broad speeches in 
alehouses and elsewhere, and therefore it may please your honours 
to have special regard unto these parts. 

Also certain others are fled, as is reported, over the seas. 

♦Dr. Bullock, late prebendary of Durham. 

♦Dr. Darbyshire, late chancellor to Dr. Bonner, and his kinsman. 

♦William Taylor, late chaplain to the Archbishop of York. 

♦John Hanson, late chaplain to Dr. Scott. 

♦John Parfewe, nephew to the late bishop of Hereford. 



THE SECOND ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION 185 

* Henry Henshawe, late rector of Lincoln College in Oxford. Chap. X 

*One Bovell, late prebendary of Southwell. 
(Signed) Edmund London, 

Richard Ely, 

Walter Haddon, 

T. Huycke. 

Prisoners in the Fleet, by order from us. 

Sir Thomas Fitzharbert, Knight. 
*Dr. Scott, late bishop of Chester. 
*Dr. Harpisfelde, late archdeacon of London. 
*Thomas Woode, late parson of High Ongar in Essex, and 
chaplain to Queen Mary. 
*Dr. Coole, late dean of Powles. 
Thomas Somerset, gent. 
*Dr. Draycot. 
*Dr. Chedsey. 

Prisoners in the Marshalsea, by order from us. 

*Dr. Bonner, late bishop of London. 
*John Symes, a priest of Somersetshire. 

Prisoner in the Coimter in the Poultry, by us as aforesaid. 
John Draycot, gentleman. 

Prisoners in the Counter in Wood Street, by order as aforesaid. 

Dr. Yonge. 

John Sacheverell, Esq. 

Thomas Atkinson, clerk, late one of the Fellows of Lincoln 
College in Oxford. 

•John Greete, a priest, late beneficed in Hampshire. 

In the King's Bench, by order as aforesaid. 

John Baker, clerk, late parson of Standford Rivers in Essex. 
(Signed) Edmund London, 
Richard Ely, 
William Chester, 
Gabriell Goodmayn, 
T. Huycke. 

Endorsed : — ^A list of Recusants* 



CHAPTER XI 

THE PENAL LAWS OF ELIZABETH'S SECOND 

PARLIAMENT, 1 563 

Chap. XI A NEW parliament met on January 12, 1563. From 
Fearof *^^ spccch then made by the Lord Keeper Bacon, the 
papal reasons which determined the Queen to call it were 
sympathy, declared to be partly the need of church discipline, partly 
the want of domestic legislation, and finally the fear of 
'the enemy as well here bred amongst us as abroad/ 
Now it is quite clear that the famous convocation which 
began to sit coincldently, and the new ecclesiastical com- 
mission not yet a year old, were perfectly competent to 
undertake all questions of necessary discipline. At this 
time, however, the religious wars in France, and the pro- 
ceedings of Mary Queen of Scots and the possibilities of 
a combination in which the King of Spain might join, 
made it imperative to stamp out any secret or open 
sympathy with the Romanists abroad. That the existing 
laws had not been sharply pressed is made evident by the 
Lord Keeper's words: *As heretofore the' discipline of 
the Church hath not been good, and again that the ministers 
thereof have been slothful, even so for want of the same 
hath sprung two enormities: the first is that for lack 
thereof every man liveth as he will without fear; and 
secondly many ceremonies agreed on, but the ornaments 
agreed thereon are either left undone or forgotten. As 
in one point, for want of discipline it is that so few come 
to service, and the Church so unreplenished, notwith- 
standing that at tiie last parliament a law was made for 



THE PENAL LAWS OF 1563 187 

good order to be observed in the same, but yet as Chap, xi 
appeareth not executed, therefore if it be too easy, let it 
be made sharper, and if already well, then see it executed.' 
The determination to introduce fresh penal laws was 
quickened by the discovery of a plot in favour of Mary 
Queen of Scots, wherein one item was treasonable corre- 
spondence with Bishop Goldwell at Rome 'to be mean 
to the pope for his aid in these conspiracies, with promise 
of restitution of religion within this realm of England for 
such his aid and help/ The general feeling of disquiet 
by reason of such action is illustrated by a petition of the 
Commons addressed to the Queen, in which it is said: 
' We fear a faction of heretics in your realm, contentious 
and malicious papists, lest they most unnaturally against 
their country, most madly against their own safety, and 
most treacherously against your Highness, not only hope 
for the woeful day of your death, but also lie in wait to 
advance some title under which they may revive their late 
unspeakable cruelty.' In consequence of all this, in an 
agre which knew no method of repression save penal 
statutes, the Commons concluded their petition in these 
terms : * Your subjects on their behalfs, for your Majesty's 
further assurance whereupon their own preservation wholly 
dependeth, shall employ their whole endeavours and wits 
and power to renew, devise, and establish the most strong 
and beneficial acts and laws of preservation, and surety 
of your Majesty, and of your issue, in the imperial crown 
of this realm, and the most penal, sharp, and terrible 
statutes ^.' 

Such being the temper of the Commons who delivered A new bm 
this petition on January a8, a bill seems to have been ^^^^^ *** 

*^ ^ ^ * surance of 

drawn withm the next fortnight, being at nrst described supremacy, 
as ' the bill against those that extol the Bishop of Rome 
and refuse the oath of all^iance.' The bill was read 
a second time on February 16, a third time on the 20th, 
when it was sent up to the Lords. As soon as it reaches 
the Lords, the bill receives the title which it afterwards 

^ See D'Ewes' Joumai for the chief fincts of the section. 



i88 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. XI retains : * the bill for the assurance of the Queen's Majesty's 
royal power over all estates and subjects within her 
dominions.' It was read a first time on February 25, 
a second on March i, when a proviso was debated and 
read twice. The last reading took place two days later, 
when this proviso and others annexed were read as custom 
demanded, and the whole bill was passed, receiving the 
royal assent on April 10. 
Compari- The ' Assurance of Supremacy Act ' is not a reproduction 
lEnrclp i ^^ ^^^ previous Supremacy Act Its purpose is narrower. 
The previous Act had repealed many Acts of Mary, reviving 
others of Henry VIII and Edward VI, and had annexed 
ecclesiastical jurisdiction to the Crown, and above all had 
given powers for ecclesiastical commissions. The present 
Act assumes all this, and as the first title of the bill in the 
Commons sets forth, is directed towards two spedal points 
which the first Act also contemplated : viz. (i) the repression 
of papal sympathy, (2) the tender and refusal of the oath of 
allegiance. 
Two chief On the question of papal sympathy this Act is, of course, 
points: much morc full and explicit than the first All who 

i Papal 

sympathy, "manifest such sympathy are liable to the penalties of 
praemunire as before, but the duty of searching and trying 
the offending parties is laid down far more elaborately. 
All justices now have power to take up such cases, re- 
mitting them to the Court of King's Bench. Thus a new 
court is commissioned to have the ultimate decision of 
these cases, for hitherto the King's Bench has had no 
matters of nonconformity referred to it- 
ii. Oath of The oath of allegiance is to be tendered far more widely 
aiicgUnce. ^y^^i^ in the first year. Then it was to be ministered to 
all ecclesiastical graduates on ordination, and 'every tem- 
poral judge, justice, mayor, and other lay or temporal 
officer and minister, and every other person having her 
Highness* fee or wages.' Now it is to be taken as well 
by all these, whether clerical or lay, as by all -lay graduates, 
schoolmasters, teachers, barristers, lawyers. The penalties, 
moreover, are more severe than formerly, for then the 



THE PENAL LAWS OF 1563 189 

refusal of the oath involved forfeiture of goods for life, Chap, xi 
but now praemunire, which in theory, at all events, meant 
imprisonment and total confiscation of property. A second 
refusal made the recusant liable to a traitor's death, whereas 
in the first Act the penalty was praemunire. 

The real sting of the Act was in a proviso, added, it The 
seems, by the Lords, which specified the persons to whom 'P®^*** 
the oath should be tendered again the second time three of the Act 
months after a first refusal under this Act, There were ^ regards 
five classes of such persons : — 

1. Such as had, have, or shall have, in the time of one 
of the reigns of the Queen's Majesty's most noble father, 
brother, or sister, or in the time of the reign of the Queen's 
Majesty, her heirs or successors, charge, cure or office in 
the Church. 

2. Such as had, have, or shall have any office or ministry 
in any ecclesiastical court, with the same specification 
of time. 

3. Such as shall wilfully refuse to observe the orders 
and rites for divine service, after they shall be publicly 
admonished by the ordinary. 

4. Such as shall openly and advisedly deprave the rites 
and ceremonies of the Church. 

5. Such as shall say or hear any private mass. 

Here too the recusants are to be certified into the Court The new 
of King's Bench as in the previous cases, but the penalty ^^ ^J^ 
is that of treason. The tendering of the oath, moreover, this Act. 
is facilitated by permitting the bishop to tender it to all 
ecclesiastics in his diocese. In the case of the laity, com- 
mission may be issued by the Lord Chancellor to administer 
the oath. Thus a moment's reflexion will show the entirely 
new stage which is commenced in the 'Assurance of 
Supremacy Act.' It really erects new machinery to en- 
force conformity by giving the bishops power to tender 
the oath on their own responsibility to ecclesiastics, and 
by permitting. the issue of local commissions in the case 
of the laity, so that, although the ecclesiastical commission 
in London still exists, it will be no longer necessary to 



igo 



THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 



Spiritual 
censures 
and the 
writ *<U 

tXCOtH' 

mMftutUo 
capimdo^ 



Chap. XI remit cases of nonconformity to it. In a word, a 

sentence of the Lord Keeper's speech is fdlowed out, in 
which he sajrs: 'in my opinion the device is good that 
in every diocese there be ofiicers appointed and devised 
as hath been thought good, to sit for redress of these and 
such like errors, twice or thrice a ytas^ till the faults be 
amended. In which well doii^ the head officers are to 
be borne withal and maintained, and laws to be made 
for the purpose.' The details of this proposed plan were 
not carried out now, but effect is given to the principle 
of local commissions and episcopal jurisdiction, which is 
the most important difference in this new Act 

The repressive policy of the parliament did not end 
with the ' Assurance of Supremacy Act' Spiritual censures 
were not forgotten. It is often assumed that conformity 
under Elizabeth was only enforced by parliament. This 
is not strictly true, for from the first the operation of 
spiritual censures had been contemplated. Thus in the 
Uniformity Act of 1559 it had been provided that every 
person should attend church on Sundays and holy days, 
under pain of censure of the Church, and a fine of one 
shilling to the poor. We have only noticed a few cases 
of such excommunication before 1563: Bonner at Paul's 
Cross, July a8, 1560, Heath and Thirlby in February, 1561 ^ 
Excommunication, however, had somewhat lost its ancient 
terrors, and was rarely inflicted at this time in any very 
severe form. According to the ancient law of the land, 
which dates back at least to the thirteenth century, it was 
customary, after sentence pronounced by the church 
authority, for the bishop to issue to the Court of Chancery 
a letter of request asking for a writ to be made out. In 
accordance with this notice the Court of Chancery then 
issued a writ de excommunicato capiendo or capias to the 
sheriflT, who then arrested and imprisoned the excommuni- 
cate person. Such procedure, which was intended of course 
only for grave cases, was cumbersome and tedious, and 
moreover often failed to gain its end, owing to the un- 

^ A few are given in Parker's Register. 



THE PENAL LAWS OF 1663 191 

willingness of the sheriflf to act upon the writs. The main Chap, xi 
defect in the old custom was that the writ to the sheriff 
was somewhat indeterminate, as it gave a direction to 
proceed without providing for any return to be made of 
the execution of the sentence, so that there was really 
no hold upon the sheriff at alL Such was the position, 
then, in 1563, and it is patent that, considering the back- 
wardness of sheriffs and such officials in the matter of 
uniformity, these writs were very likely to remain in- 
operative. It was determined to remedy this, and 
accordingly a bill was introduced 'for the execution of 
the writ De excommunicato cc^ndo! It was the outcome 
of debates in the upper house of convocation, which was 
then considering the question of discipline, and it appears 
to have been originally drafted by Archbishop Parker^. 
The bill was introduced in the House of Lords, and sent 
down by them to the House of Commons on March 29, 
where some changes were made, and the bill finally passed 
on April 9, receiving the royal assent next day. 

The most noticeable points in the Act are these. After The most 
describing: the reasons which called for the statute, direction i™P<>rtant 

points in 

is given that the writ be returnable into the King's Bench, the Act. 
Provision is then made for the issue of a capias^ as many 
times as may be necessary, in case the excommunicate be 
returned as non est inventus. Then when the excommunicate 
surrenders, imprisonment is to follow as specified in the 
original writ. Power, however, is reserved to the bishop 
who^ pronounced the excommunication to receive the 
submission of the excommunicate. In every case it is 
a sine qua non that the orig^inal writ to the sheriff should 
precisely contain the crime with which the person is charged. 
This last point and the direction for the return of the writ 
into the King's Bench seem to be the only strictly novel 
methods of procedure which the Act contains ^. Its im- 
portance for us lies in the fact that we have here an 
enactment which directs the record of all such cases of 

* Stxype, i. 308. 

s See Makower, Const HisL Ch, of England^ p. 45a. 



192 THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. XI excommunication^ in a quarter where it should not be hard 

for us to discover the returns. 
These two We have thus traced in the two Acts under conaderation 
Acts were ^ formidable addition to the penal l^islation of the reign. 
severely. Enough has been said to show that there was sufficient 
machinery to crush out all nonconformity, whether mani- 
fested by clergy or laity, but, as the sequel shows, these 
laws were designed to be rather in ierrorem than actually 
carried out. In this Elizabeth was following the policy of 
her father and brother, for savage as the penal laws were in 
their reigns, the actual number of those who suffered under 
them is not great It was Mary who revived the heresy 
Acts in 1554, and in the short space of four years put some 
290 people to death. Suffering and death were to come in 
Elizabeth's reign, but death not yet, whilst even the cases of 
suffering cannot be proved to have been very numerous in 
the first years after the passing of the Acts. But whether 
the Acta were meant to be in terrorem or no, the possible 
death penalty under the Supremacy Act occasioned the 
archbishop 'some pensive thoughts,' as Strype quaintly 
puts it. He wrote to his episcopal brethren b^ging them 
to be exceedingly careful about enforcing the oath, and 
not to tender it a second time without consulting him. 
Tiic im- In consequence of this, Bonner alone of the imprisoned 

prisoned bisjiQpg h^d the oath tendered to him. Some interval, 

bishops in *^ 

relation to however, elapsed before this was done, and it may be worth 

this legis- while to go back in order to pick up again the story of the 

bishops whom we left still in prison in the summer of 156a, 

committed to stricter custody, owing, it would seem, to some 

secret plotting or conference. Thus when the Act of 1563 

became law in April of that year, the bishops had been in 

Scott prison for about three years. Scott had in the interval 

escapes, managed to elude the vigilance of the commissioners, and 

had fled the country. At some time in 156a or 1563 he 

was released from the Fleet, and by the new plan of the 

commissioners was confined to a radius of twenty miles 

from Finchingfield in Essex ^. He was bound by recogni- 

* Above, p. 176. 



THE PENAL LAWS OF 1563 193 

zance^ and this was read out before the commissioners Chap, xi 
when his surety appeared at their summons : * The condition 
of this obligation is such that if Mr. Doctor Scott be forth- 
coming at all time and times, and do make his personal ap- 
pearance before the Queen's Majesty's commissioners^, &c.' 
His surety replied that he understood Scott to have died 
in London, May 6, 1563, and that the bishop had lived at 
Gosfield since the bond until April 22, 1563, when the 
Warden of the Fleet summoned him thither. May we 
suppose that Scott really was summoned to London at 
that time, and then made his escape ? It is known that he 
made his way to Belgium at some time and died at Louvain 
in 1565. His flight did an injury to the other prisoners, 
who were kept all the more severely in consequence. 

Another coincidence of date shows the probability of our Bonner 
theory concerning Bishop Scott and the oath. It is noted in ^ 
the Spanish Calendar, May 9, 1563, that Mast week a com- 
mission was issued to summon for trial four of the Catholic 
prisoners, two bishops of London and Lincoln (Watson) and 
two doctors, Cole and Storey.* The word * commission ' is 
probably inexact, but the allusion is valuable as showing 
that the ecclesiastical commissioners were considering the 
bishops and the oath at this time (May, 1563), but we have 
no further particulars. It may be presumed that Bonner 
was offered the oath now for the first time under the new 
Act, and that he was left in the Marshalsea for another 
year, as he is still there when we next hear of him. 
Probably Watson was selected as a representative of the 
bishops in the Tower, and remitted thither until Sep- 
tember, 1563. 

At some time in the spring or summer of 1563 the The 
Emperor Ferdinand interceded for the imprisoned bishops, ^"P**^*" 
but we do not possess his letter or the Queen's reply. In for the 
all probability the latter was favourable to a certain extent, bishops, 
and may have held out promises of some relief, but at all 
events an excuse for greater leniency now presented itself. 

In July, 1563, the plague broke out, and raged with great 

* S. P. Dom. XXXV. 3a 

o 



19+ THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

A p. XI severity. In consequence of this it was determined to 
release the six bishops in the Tower, but Bonner, appa- 
rently, was not set free from the Marshalsea. Liberated on 
September 6, Heath and Turberville were restricted to 
certain localities, as Bishop Scott had been before his 
escape. Pate may have been similarly restricted, but there 
is no evidence to prove it. He went abroad in any case, 
was present at Trent, and died in 1565. The other three 
set free from the Tower were, according to Stow, billeted on 
the bishops : Thirlby went to Parker, Bourne to Bullingham 
of Lincoln, Watson to Grindal. With these prelates they 
remained for the present. 

The release of the bishops took place on September 6, 
iS^S* On the a+th, when, presumably, the Emperor had 
heard of it, he wrote again to Elizabeth, asking for the 
concession of one church in each city for the Romanists. 
The letter was answered on November 3. The reply is 
of sufficient importance to quote here, as it seems to show 
the real reasons which prompted the Government to 
continue the imprisonment, reasons which contemporary 
writers confirm ^. After saying that she was glad to consider 
and allow all she could, the Queen continues : ' permagni 
enim res erat momenti tam benigne agere cum illis homi- 
nibus, qui tam insolenter palam contra leges nostras, contra 
quietem amantium et fidorum nostrorum subditorum, re- 
luctantes sese intentaverant. Inter quos hi praecipui etiam 
sunt qui regnantibus patre et fratre nostro, nobilissimis 
principibus, mente et manu, publice et contionibus et 
scriptis, cum ipsi essent non privati homines sed public! 
magistratus, eandem ipsam doctrinam aliis ultro oflfere- 
bant quam ipsi nunc tam obstinate rejiciunt. His tamen 
hominibus nos ad respectum postulati vestrae Majestatis 
nostra quidem gratia sed cum nostrorum non levi oflfensu 
pepercimus ^.* 

After refusing the request about the churches, which is 

* See Gierke's Fidtlisservi, &c, O. a. Catholic Hierarchy. 
This appears to be ignored by Messrs. ' For this correspondence see 

Bridgett and Knox, Trus Story oftht Strype, Ann, ii. 579. 



THE PENAL LAWS OF 1563 195 

followed by a defence of the settlement as authorized by Chap, xi 
the primitive and Catholic Church, the letter thus concludes : 
* Paucorum hominum privatam insolentiam nonnihil conni- 
vendo sanare concupivimus, ita eorundem hominum prae- 
fractas mentes et consimilium vel pares vel projectiores 
animos nimium indulgendo fovere atque alere nuUo modo 
possumus ^.* 

After some time it was determined to present the oath Bonner 
again to Bonner. The Marshalsea was in the diocese of *"V^*^^ 
Winchester, and there on April 26, 1564, Bishop Home ' 
again administered the oath '. The possibility of a traitor's 
death was now before Bonner, but he did not quail, and, as 
the subsequent return says, ' recipere aut pronunciare 
recusavit' The death penalty, however, which Henry VHI 
had exacted from the Carthusian monks was not inflicted. 
Bonner was committed again to the Marshalsea, where he 
died in 1569, after a further imprisonment of five years. Of 
that interval we have scarcely a detail. Bishop Andrewes 
has described the lenity of Bonner's lot during those years ®, 
but we have found no strictly contemporary evidence to prove 
this : rather the reverse, for in March, 1566*, he was more 
straitly imprisoned because of treasonable correspondence. 
This correspondence was very probably with the King of 
Spain, and perhaps through Englefield, that inveterate 
plotter, as the Spanish ambassador on January 28, 1566, 
speaks of the imprisoned bishops (i. e. Bonner and Watson) 
looking to the King for deliverance. 

And here a few words may be said of the other bishops. Sequel as 
Of those set at liberty in September, 1563, Heath retired to ^?^^^ 
his own house at Chobham, where he died in 1579. Tur- Marian 
berville is said to have died in 1570. Thirlby stayed with bishops. 
Parker at Bekesbourne or Lambeth, at the Council's expense, 
until he died in 1570. Three years before this event Cecil, 

' The Emperor's letter of Septem* refusal and the points raised, see Mr. 

ber 34 is preserved in Cotton MS. G. F. Cobb's tract in the Church 

Vesp. F. 3, f. 64. The Queen's answer Historical Society's publications, 

is in S. P., Foreign, Eliz.Nov. 3, 1563 ' Tortura Torti, 146, a.d. 1609. 

(Calendar, p. 5B1). * Spanish Calendar, January a6 

' For the circumstances of his and March, 1566. 

O % 



196 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. XI says the Spanish ambassador ^, scolded Parker for allowing 
• Thirlby and Boxall too much liberty. Bourne remained 
with BuUingham till 1566, was then transferred to his 
friend Dean Carewe of Exeter, and died September 10, 
1569. Watson's fate was the most tragic. He was trans- 
ferred after a short time from Grindal to Cox, and in 
January, 1566, to the Tower, for attempted correspon- 
dence with Spain, it may be surmised. He was still 
there in April, 1570. In 1574 he was shifted to the 
Marshalsea, where Bonner had died five years before. 
Under a bond he was then liberated, and taken to his 
brother's house. Here he seems to have engaged himself 
in some correspondence with other Romanists, and so in 
the summer of 1577 he was placed under Home's care by 
the Privy Council's order, who gave strict relations as to 
how he should be kept ^. From Home he was transferred 
to the Bishop of Rochester in 1579. Then began a corre- 
spondence between Watson and the Douay College, in 
consequence of which he fell under suspicion, and was 
removed to Wisbeach Castle in the fen country, where he 
died on September 27, 1584 ^ 

Thus we have traced all the Marian bishops to their death, 
save Poole. This bishop never had been in prison, but by 
the commissioners of 1562 he was restricted to London and 
a circuit of three miles. Some relaxation of this restriction 
must have taken place subsequently, for in 1564 the Bishop 
of Coventry and Lichfield says : ^ the abiding of Dr. Poole, 
late Bishop of Peterborough, in that shire with Bryan 
Fowler, Esquire, a little from Stafford, causeth many people 
think worse of the regiment and religion than else they 
would do, because that divers lewd priests resort thither, 
but what conference they have I cannot learn *•' He died 
in June, 1568. 

None of the bishops, then, suffered the extreme penalties 
of the Assurance of Supremacy Act, and, as we have shown. 



Bishop 
Poole. 



In review 

the 

A&surance 



' Spanish Calendar, Nov. i, 1567. out by Bridgett and Knox, op. cii, 

* P. C. RegisUr, ii. 346. * Below, p. 201. 

* Watson's fate has been worked 



THE PENAL LAWS OF 1563 197 

Bonner and Watson alone can be proved to have come at Chap. XI 
all under the direct operation of that Act. Their custody 
would have been probably less severe but for their corre- applied to 
spondence with foreign Romanists. The treatment of the a few cases 
rest of the clergy was somewhat similar, a few only being *^" ^' 
picked out as examples, for a warning to the rest. Of 
dignitaries we have only traced the cases of Drs. Cole and 
Storey before mentioned, and Dr. Palmes, late of Southwell 
and York. The returns into the King's Bench give one or 
two names of clergymen, prior to our limit in November, 
1564, who were certified for refusing the oath. Thus 
Dr. Palmes is certified by the Archbishop of York as having 
refused the oath when tendered in June, 1564^. A school- 
master of Macclesfield, named William Sutton, is also 
returned for a similar refusal in the previous year \ We 
have looked through the Coram Rege rolls for the time 
pretty carefully. They contain the refusal of Bonner and 
those mentioned (Palmes and Sutton), but we have not 
noticed any others before the end of 1564. It is certain 
that they cannot have been numerous. 

Nor is the case different, so far as the clergy are con- The same 
cerned, when we search the Coram Rege rolls to see the f^^,""'*®" 

r 1 A * , . . * f «TT holds good 

operation of the Act de excommunicato capiendo. We for the 
can only discover the case of a single clergyman returned other Act. 
under the Act between Trinity Term, 1563, and Hilary 
Term, 1565. This solitary instance was J. Lettock, clerk, 
of the diocese of Winchester. Within the same limits we 
have noticed about fifty cases of lay excommunicates so 
returned. The noticeable thing is that they are not so 
much from towns, but are dotted about over the country, 
very frequently in out of the way places ; and this gives 
the idea that the same course was pursued of picking out 
people here and there to serve as examples to the rest. 
It is frequently returned by the sheriff that the person 
*non est inventus.' Sometimes the sheriff is said not 
to have returned the writ as directed. In a very few 
cases imprisonment is spoken of. In most it does not 

' Coram Rege, laii. ' lb. laop. 



198 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. XI appear what was done. At all events our search seems 
to have proved that these severe acts were not pressed 
with drastic severity, as they certainly could have been 
if the evidence of reluctance given by the bishops to the 
Privy Council in November, 1564, is to be trusted \ 
A possible The position then is this : there are practically no cases 
tion for ^^ clerical excommunication under the Act in that behalf, 
clerical ac- whilst there are very few returns indeed of refusing the 
quiescence Qj^th. If the oath was at all widely tendered by the 
' bishops in 1563 and 1564 it must have been pretty readily 
taken. A paper which professes to be contemporary may 
perhaps supply a reason for such acceptance. The docu- 
ment, written by one E. Dennum from Venice to Cecil 
in April, 1564, purports to disclose to him certain plots 
and practices of the Romanist party on the Continent in 
secret correspondence with their friends in England. One 
item runs thus: *it was ordered for the better assurance 
of further intelligence to the see of Rome, to give licenses 
to any that shall swear to the supremacy due obedience, 
and allegiance to her, powers to dispense with the sacra- 
ments, baptism, marriage, and other ceremonies of our 
now established Church in England, that the parties so 
obliged may possess and enjoy any office, employment, 
either ecclesiastical, military, or civil, and to take such 
oaths as shall be imposed upon them, provided that the 
said oaths be taken with a reserve for to serve the mother 
church of Rome whenever opportunity serveth, and thereby 
in so doing the Act in Council was passed, it was no sin 
but meritorious until occasion served to the contrary, and 
that when it so served for Rome's advantage, the party 
was absolved from his oath^.' It is clear that if such 



^ Below y p. 900. 

^ The document is headed ' A list 
of several consultations amongst the 
Cardinals, Bishops, and others of the 
several orders of Rome now a con- 
triving and conspiring against her 
gracious Majesty and the established 
Church of England.* It then goes 
on : * Pius having consulted with the 



clergy of Italy, and assembling them 
together, it was by general consent 
voted that the immunity of the 
Romish Church and her jurisdiction 
is required to be defended by aU her 
princes as the principal Church of 
God. And to encourage the same, 
the council hath voted that Pius 
should bestow her grace's realm on 



THE PENAL LAWS OF 1563 



199 



p)olicy were adopted by those who objected to the Eliza- Chap. XI 
bethan rigime^ a large number of those compelled to take 
the oath under the new Act would be emboldened to make 
a feigned subscription. 

But to proceed. It will be remembered that this same The Privy 
' Assurance of Supremacy Act ' had given a special pro- pouncU 

T • r % -r^ r ;. \ inquire as 

mmence to Justices of the Peace who were directed to to the 
search out cases of papal sympathy and to certify them Justices, 
into the King's Bench. Under the Uniformity Act they ^^^* 
were not so commissioned, and it therefore became neces- 
sary to inquire into the character of the Justices of the 
Peace. Consequently in October, 1564, the Privy Council 
wrote round to all the bishops, asking them to certify those 
favourable and those unfavourable to the settlement, and 
also to send the names of any who were fit to be added 
to the commission of the peace. We are fortunate in 
being able to follow the bishops' returns in an important 
manuscript at Hatfield House ^ The return gives a very 
good general idea of the state of conformity throughout the 
country, though three of the Welsh dioceses and two of 
the English are wanting. *The dioceses reported to be 
most hostile to the government were those of the north 
and west: Carlisle, Durham, York, Worcester, Hereford, 
and Exeter were strong in opposition. . . . Where the towns 
are mentioned, these are found to be in nearly every case 



that prince who shall attempt to con- 
quer it. There was a council ordered 
by way of a committee, who contain 
three of the cardinals, two of the 
archbishops, six of the bishops, and 
as many of the late order of the 
Jesuits who daily increase and come 
into g^reat favour with the Pope of 
late, these do present weekly 
methods, ways, and contrivances for 
the Church of Rome, which hold the 
great council for the week following 
in employment how to order all 
things for the advancement of the 
Roman faith, some of these con- 
trivances coming to my hands by the 



help of the silver key be as follow.* 
The chief articles are quoted by 
Strype, i. 41a. He seems to have 
seen the form of the paper fn Stowe 
MSS. 155, f. a. It occurs also in 
MSS. Add. 4784, where the preamble 
is as quoted above. In both cases 
the MS. is stated to have been copied 
by King, dean and minister of Tuam, 
1656, from certain papers of CeciL 
In MS. Add. the date was 1565, but 
this has been altered to 1564 by a 
later hand. 

^ Lately edited for the Camden 
Society by Miss Bateson. 



200 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. XI more hostile to the government than the counties*.' The 
document of course does not profess to deal with the 
conformity of the clergy, but incidentally some information 
is given. Thus we find that some of the deprived clergy 
were still harboured in private houses, where they said 
Mass and confirmed the household and their friends in 
the old religion. So the Bishop of Worcester writes : 
'popish and perverse priests which, misliking religrion, 
have forsaken the ministry and yet live in corners, are 
kept in gentlemen's houses, and had in great estimation 
with the people, where they marvellously pervert the 
simple and blaspheme the truth.' The Bishop of Here- 
ford complains that his diocese is still suffering from 
the extruded clergy whom we have already noted there : 
* there be also in this diocese and county of Hereford 
divers fostered and maintained that be judged and 
esteemed some of them to be learned, which in Queen 
Mary's days had livings and offices in the Church, which 
be mortal and deadly enemies to this religion. Their 
names be Blaxton, Mugge, Arden, Ely, Friar Gregory, 
Howard, Rastall of Gloucester, Johnson, Menevar, Oswald, 
Hamerson, Ledbury, and certain others whose names 
I know not. These go from one gentleman's house to 
another, where they know to be welcome.' Scambler, 
Bishop of Peterborough, recommends that * the learned 
adversaries being ecclesiastical persons to be either banished 
or sequestered from conference with such as be fautors 
of their religion, or else the oath to be tendered to them 
forthwith, considering they have so little passed of the 
Queen's Majesty's clemency to them showed these six 
years, whereby it doth appear that they be more stubborn, 
and more encouraged than they were before. Item that 
the straggling doctors and priests who have liberty to stay 
at their pleasure within this realm do much hurt secretly 
and in corners, therefore it were good they might be 
called before the high commissioners, and to show their 
conformity in religion by subscribing or open recantation, 

* See Miss Bateson's preface. 



THE PENAL LAWS OF 1563 201 

or else to be restrained from their said liberty.* The Chap. XI 
Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, as we have seen, writes 
that * Doctor Poole, late bishop of Peterborough ... a little 
from Stafford causeth many people think worse of the 
regiment and religion than else they would do, because 
that divers lewd priests have resort thither, but what 
conference they, have I cannot learn.' 

The Bishop of Durham adds an interesting note : * There 
be two things in my opinion which hinder religion here 
much. The Scottish priests that are fled out of Scotland 
for their wickedness, and here be hired in parishes on the 
border because they take less wages than the other, and 
do more harm than other could or would in dissuading 
the people \ The other thing is the great number of 
scholars bom here about, now living at Louvain without 
license, and sending in books and letters which cause 
many times evil rumours to be spread and disquiet the 
people. They be maintained by the hospitals of the New 
Castle and the wealthiest of that town and this shire, as 
it is judged, and be their near cousinsJ 

One more point in the bishops' return may be noted. It No com- 
proves that no commission had as yet (October, 1564) been ™*ssion 
issued by the Lord Chancellor to administer the oath to lay under the 
suspects. The Bishop of Peterborough asks for such a com- Assurance 
mission to be issued, and so does the Bishop of Coventry and ^^ 
Lichfield. In the passage already quoted from the Bishop 
of Worcester's report, it seems that the oath needed pressing 
there amongst the deprived clergy, and elsewhere he gives 
the idea that it had not been widely taken by the justices. 

With the bishops' return in 1564 we have reached the Our limit 
limit that we had proposed to ourselves. In that year the ^^f^ched, 
question of conformity took a new turn with the vestiarian 155^, 
controversy, which we do not intend to follow out here. 

In the two following chapters we shall attempt to estimate 
the number of clergy deprived within the period under 
review for their refusal to accept the settlement of religion. 
After that we shall briefly review the results of our inquiry. 

* Names of these are given in Harl. MS. 594, f. 187. 



202 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. XI I, 

An Act for the Assurance of the Queen's Majesty's 
Royal Power over all Estates and Subjects 
WITHIN Her Highness' Dominions. 

[Transcr. from Statutes of the Realm, iv. pt i, 40*-] 

(5 Eliz. cap. I.) 

Forprotcc- I. For preservation of the Queen's most excellent Highness, her 
rcsam^'^^ heirs and successors, and the dignity of the Imperial Crown of this 
against realm of England, and for avoiding both of such hurts, perils, 
P*P ^. dishonours, and inconveniences as have before time befallen, as well 

usurpation ' 

recently to the Queen's Majesty's noble progenitors, Kings of this realm, as 

?^r*"^n ^^^ ^^^ whole estate thereof, by means of the jurisdiction and power 

of the see of Rome, imjustly claimed and usurped within this realm 

and the dominions thereof, and also of the dangers by the fautors of 

the said usurped power at this time grown to marvellous outrage 

and licentious boldness, and now requiring more sharp restraint and 

correction of laws than hitherto in the time of the Queen's Majesty's 

most mild and merciful reign, have been had, used, or established : 

Be it therefore enacted, ordained, and established by the Queen our 

sovereign lady, and the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the 

Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority 

any of the same, that if any person or persons dwelling, inhabiting, 

aid^and ^ ^^ resident within this realm or within any other the Queen's 

abet such dominions, seigniories, or countries or the marches of the same, or 

jurisdic*" elsewhere within or under her obedience and power, of what estate, 

tion after dignity, pre-eminence, order, degree or condition soever he or they 

1563 '* ^» ^^^^^ ^^^ '^^ ^^y ^^ April, which shall be in the year of our Lord 
God 1563, shall by writing, cyphering, printing, preaching, or 
teaching, deed, or act, advisedly and wittingly hold or stand with 
to extol, set forth, maintain, or defend the authority, jurisdiction, or 
power of the bishop of Rome, or of his see, heretofore claimed, 
used, or usurped, within this realm, or in any dominion or country 
being of, within, or under the Queen's power or obeisance, or by 
any speech, open deed, or act, advisedly and wittingly attribute any 
such manner of jurisdiction, authority, or pre-eminence to the said 
see of Rome, or to any bishop of the same see for the time 
being within this realm or in any of the Queen's dominions or 
countries ; that then every such person or persons so doing or 
offending, their abettors, procurers, and counsellors, and also their 



THE PENAL LAfVS OF 1563 203 

aiders, assistants, and comforters upon purpose, and to the intent to Chap. XI 
set forth further and extol the said usurped power, authority, or 
jurisdiction of any of the said bishop or bishops of Rome, and every whomso- 
of them, being thereof lawfully indicted or presented, within one ever pro- 
year next after any such offences by him or them committed, and shaU "^ 
being lawfully convicted or attainted at any lime after, according to involve 
the laws of this realm, for every such default and offence shall incur of prae^ 
into the dangers, penalties, pain, and forfeitures ordained and pro- munire. 
vided by the Statute of Provision and Praemunire made in the 
sixteenth year of the reign of King Richard the Second. 

2. And it is also enacted by the authority aforesaid, that as well Hence all 
Justices of Assize in their circuits, as Justices of Peace within the Q^faJt^ *" 
limits of their commission and authority, or two of every such or open 
Justices of Peace at the least, whereof one to be of the quorum, ^^^^^'^ 
shall have full power and authority by virtue of this Act in their 
Quarter or open Session to inquire of all offences, contempts, and shall have 
transgressions perpetrated, committed, or done contrary to the true jJJ^^fre^of 
meaning of the premises, in like manner and form as they may of such 
other offences against the Queen's peace, and shall certify ever}' and^certifv 
presentment before them, or any of them, had or made concerning the pre- 
the same, or any part thereof, before the Queen, her heirs and sue- fnlJ^Kini's 
cessors, in her or their Court commonly called the King's Bench, Bench 
within forty days next after any such presentment had or made, if p"n2ty 
the term be then open, and if not, at the first day of the full term 

next following the said forty-one days, upon pain that every of 
the Justices of Assize, or Justices of the Peace, before whom such 
presentment shall be made, making default of such certificate con- 
trary to the statute, to lose and forfeit for every such default £100 
to the Queen's Highness, her heirs and successors. 

3. And it is enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the Justices Where- 
of the King's Bench, as well upon every such certificate, as by Ki^!l»^ 
inquiry before themselves within the limits of their authorities, shall Bench 
have full power and authority to hear, order, and determine every ^^^^^j ,^3 
such offence, done or committed contrary to the true meaning of this in offences 
present Act according to the laws of this realm, in such like manner statute of 
and form, to all intents and purposes, as if the person or persons Prae- 
against whom any presentment shall be had upon this statute, had ™""*'*^- 
been presented upon any matter or offence expressed in the said 

statute made in the said sixteenth year of the reign of King Richard 
the Second. 



ao4 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. XI 

Further, 
the Oath 
of Supre- 
macy is to 
be taken as 
prescribed 
in I Eliz. 
cap. I, and 
by all in 
Orders, or 
to be 

ordained in 
univer- 
sities, 

and by all 

teachers, 

graduates, 

lawyers, 

and other 

legal 

officials, 

before 

admission 

to office. 



4. And moreover be it enacted bj the authority aforesaid, that as 
well all manner of persons expressed and appointed in and by the Act 
made in the first year of the Queen's Majesty's reign that now is, 
intituled 'An Act restoring to the Crown the ancient jurisdiction over 
the Estate Ecclesiastical and Spiritual, and abolishing all foreign 
powers repugnant to the same,' to take the oath expressed and set 
forth in the same, as all other persons which have taken or shall 
take Orders, commonly called Ordines Sacros or Ecclesiastical 
Orders, have been or shall be promoted, preferred or admitted to 
any degree of learning in any university within this realm or 
dominions to the same belonging, and all schoolmasters and public 
and private teachers of children, as also all manner of person 
and persons that have taken or hereafter shall take any degree 
of learning in or at Common Laws of this realm, as well outer 
barristers as benchers, readers, ancients in any house or houses of 
Court, and all principal treasurers, and such as be of the Grand 
Company in every Inn of Chancer>% and all attorneys, protho- 
notaries, and philizers towards the laws of the realm, and all manner 
of sheriffs, escheators, and feodaries, and all other person and 
persons, which have taken or shall take upon him or them, or have 
been or shall be admitted to any ministry or office in, at, or belong- 
ing to the comnrKMi or law, any other law or laws, or to or for the 
execution of them, or any of them, used or allowed, or at any 
lime hereafter to be used or allowed within this realm, or any 
of the dominions or countries belonging, or which hereafter 
shall happen to belong to the Crown or dignity of the same, 
and all other officers or ministers of or towards any Court what- 
soever, and every of them, shall take and pronounce a corporal 
oath upon the Evangelists before he or they shall be admitted, 
allowed, or suffered to take upon him or them, to use, exercise, 
supply or occupy any such vocation, office, degree, ministry, room, 
or service, as is aforesaid, and that in the open Court whereunto 
he doth or shall serve or belong, and if he or they do not or shall 
not serve or belong to any ordinary or open Court, then he or they 
shall take and pronounce the oath aforesaid in an open place before 
a convenient assembly to witness the same, and before such person 
or persons as have or shall have authority by conmion use or 
otherwise to admit or call any such person or persons as is afore- 
said to any such vocation, office, ministry, room, or service, or 
else before such person or persons as by the Queen's Highness, her 



THE PENAL LAWS OF 1563 205 

heirs or successors, by commission under the Great Seal of England Chap. XI 
shall be named or assigned to accept and take the same according 
to the tenor, effect, and form of the same oath verbatim, which is 
and as it is already set forth to be taken in the aforesaid Act made 
in the first year of the Queen's Majesty's reign. 

5. And also be it enacted by the authority of this present Bishops 
Parliament, that every archbishop and bishop within this realm and ^^^^ 

' ' *^ *^ minister 

dominions of the same, shall have full power and authority by the oath 

virtue of this Act to tender or minister the oath aforesaid to every ^° fcclesi- 

astics. 
or any spiritual or ecclesiastical person within their proper diocese, 

as well in places and jurisdictions exempt as elsewhere. 

6. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the Lord The Lord 
Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seal of England for the time Chancellor 
being, shall and may at all times hereafter by virtue of this Act, appoint 
without further warrant, make and direct commission or commissions *^?™™**" 

' sions to 

under the Great Seal of England to any person or persons, giving administer 
them or some of them thereby authority to tender and minister the ° 
oath aforesaid to such person or persons as by the aforesaid com- 
mission or commissions the said commissioners shall be authorized 
to tender the same oath unto. 

7. And be it also further enacted by the authority of this present A first 
Parliament, that if any person or persons appointed or compellable ^^^f^^ 
by this Act, or by the said Act made in the said first year to take the re- 
the said oath, or if any person or persons to whom the said oath by r"^"\ 
any such commission or commissions shall be limited and appointed prae- 
to be tendered as is aforesaid, do or shall at the time of the said ™""*^^- 
oath so tendered refuse to take or pronounce the said oath in 
manner and form aforesaid, that then the party so refusing and being 
thereof lawfully indicted or presented within one year next after any 

such refusal, and convicted or attainted at any time after, according 
to the laws of this realm, shall suffer and incur the dangers, penalties, 
pains and forfeitures ordained and provided by the Statute of 
Provision and Praemunire aforesaid made in the sixteenth year of 
the reign of King Richard the Second. 

8. And furthermore be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that Recusancy 
all and every such person and persons having authority to tender ^.^^^^ 
the oath aforesaid, shall within forty days next after such refusal or into King's 
refusals of the said oath, if the term be then open, and if not then ^^^^^ 

at the first day of the full term next following the said forty days, penalty. 
make true certificate under his or their seal or seals of the names, 



ao6 THE EUZABETHAS CLERGY 

Chap. XI places, and degrees of the persoo or persons so refosii^ the same 
oath, before the Qaeen, her heirs or successors^ in her or their Court 
commoo] J called die King^s Bench, upon pain that eiTcrj of the said 
persons having such anthoritj to tender the sad oadi making 
defank of soch certificate, diall for every soch delanh forfeit £ioo 
to the Qneen*s Highness, her heirs or socoessors^ And that the 
The sheriff of the coontj where the said Coart, common!^ caBed the 

,i^ti have ^°^' Bench, shall for die time be holden, shall or may bj virtne 
power to of this Act empanel a jorr of the same coontj, to enqoire of and 
a'fmyto ^P<'° ^verj such refusal and refusals, which jnry shall or may, upon 
iiKinire every such certificate and other evidence to them in that bdialf to 
y^ fa^i^ be given by virtue of this Act, proceed to indict die person and 
persons so offending in soch sent and degree, to all intents and pur- 
poses, as the same jury may do of any offence or offences against 
the Queen's Majesty's peace, perpetrated, committed, or done within 
the same coonty, of and for the which the same jory is so empanelled. 
For rq>eti- 9. And for stronger defence and maintenance of this Act, it is 
pmrkL Norther ordained, enacted, and established by the authority aforesaid, 
oflences that if any such offender or offenders as is aforesaid, of die first 
Aurora P**^ ^^ branch of this statute, that is to say by writing, cjrphering, 
second printing, preaching or teaching, deed or act, advisedly and wittingly 

\heMh ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^ tJXoX, set forth, maintain or defend, die 
the penalty authority, jurisdicdon, or power of the bishop of Rome, or of his see, 
hi«h '° heretofore claimed, used, or usurped ^^nthin this realm, or in any 
treason, dominion or country, being of, within, or under the Queen's power 
or obeisance, or by any speech, open deed, or act, advisedly and 
wittingly attribute any such manner of jurisdiction, authority, or 
pre-eminence to the said see of Rome, or to any bishop of the same 
see, for the time being, within this realm, or in any the Queen's 
dominions or countries, or be to any such offender or offenders 
abetting, procuring, or counselling or aiding, assisting, or comfort- 
ing, upon purpose and to the intent to set forth ftuther and extol 
the said usurped power, authority, or jurisdiction, after sudi 
conviction and attainder as is aforesaid, do eftsoons commit or 
do the said offences, or any of them, in manner and form afore- 
said, and be thereof duly convicted and attainted, as is aforesaid ; 
and also that if any the persons above named and appointed by 
this Act to take the oath aforesaid, do after the space of three 
months next after the first tender thereof, the second time refuse to 
take and pronounce, or do not take or pronounce the same in form 



THE PENAL LAWS OF 1563 207 

aforesaid to be tendered, that then every such offender or offenders Chap. XI 
for the same second offence and offences, shall forfeit, lose, and 
suffer such like and the same pains, forfeitures, judgements, and 
execution, as is used in cases of high treason. 

10. Provided always, that this Act nor an3rthing therein contained. The 

nor any attainder to be had by force and virtue of this Act, shall P«"*^^y ^^ 

' "^ ' not to 

not extend to make any corruption of blood, the disheriting of any descend to 
heir, forfeiture of dower, nor to the prejudice of the rieht or title of ^^*" ""^ 

' r J o successors. 

any person or persons other than the right or title of the offender 
or offenders during his, her, or their natural lives only. And that it 
shall and may be lawful to every person and persons to whom the 
right or interest of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, after the 
death of any such offender or offenders, should or might have 
appertained, if no such attainder had been, to enter into the same 
without any ous/er U main^ to be served in such sort as he or they 
might have done if this Act had never been had nor made. 

11. Provided also, that the oath expressed in the said Act made The oath 
in the said first year shall be taken and expounded in such form interpreted 
as is set forth in an admonition annexed to the Queen's Majesty's as the • 
injunctions, published in the first year of Her Majesty's reign, that J!j^^^in°"* 
is to say, to confess and acknowledge in her Majesty, her heirs and 
successors, no other authority than that was challenged and lately 

used by the noble King Henry the Eighth and King Edward the 
Sixth, as in the said admonition more plainly may appear. 

12. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this Act This Act 
shall be openly read and published at every Quarter Sessions by pubi^ghg^i 
the Clerk of the Peace, and at every Leet and law day by the at stated 
Steward of the Court, and once in every term in the open HaU pieces*" 
of t^^jy house and houses of Court and Chancery at the times 

and by the persons thereunto to be limited and appointed by the 
Lord Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seal for the time being. 

1 3. And be it further enacted, that every person which hereafter All officers 
shall be elected or appointed a Knight, Citizen, or Burgess or Baron ?f ^?"^ 
of any of the Five Ports, for any Parliament or Parliaments hereafter take the 
to be holden, shall from henceforth before he shall enter into the °**^ before 

' entenng 

Parliament House, or have any voice there, openly receive and pro- office, 
nounce the said oath before the Lord Steward for the time being or 
his deputy or deputies for that time to be appointed, and that he 
which shall enter into the Parliament House without taking the 
said oath shall be deemed no Knight, Citizen, Burgess, nor Baron for 



2o8 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. XI that Parliament, nor shall have any voice, but shall be to all intents, 

constructions, (and) purposes as if he had never been returned nor 

elected Knight, Citizen, Burgess or Baron for that Parliament, and 

shall suffer such pains and penalties as if he had presumed to sit in 

the same without election, return, or authority. 

No 14. Provided always, that forasmuch as the Queen's Majesty is 

^5^^*^ , otherwise sufficiently assured of the faith and loyalty of the Temporal 

take the Lords of Her Highness' Court of Parliament, therefore this Act nor 

oath. anything therein contained, shall not extend to compel any temporal 

person, of or above the degree of a Baron of this realm, to take or 

pronounce the oath above said nor to incur any p)enalty limited by 

this Act for not taking or refusing the same, anything in this Act 

to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. 

Alms to 15. Provided and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, 

recuMnts jjjj^j charitable giving of reasonable alms to any of the offender or 

malicious offenders above specified, without fraud or covin, shall not be taken 

**^* or interpreted to be any such abetment, procuring, counselling, 

aiding, assisting or comforting, as thereby the giver of such alms 

shall incur any pain, penalty, or forfeiture appointed in this Act 

Peers f6. Provided also and be it enacted by the authority of this 

tobc tried P^^^'^^ Parliament, tliat if any peer of this realm shall hereafter 

by peers, offend contrary to this Act, or any branch or article thereof, that 

in that and all such cases and case they shall be tried by their 

peers, in such manner and form as in other cases of treasons 

they have used to be tried, and by none other means. 

Provision 1 7- Provided also further and be it enacted, that no person shall 

that second \^ compelled by virtue of this Act to take the oath above mentioned, 

tendering 

of oath at or upon the second time of offering the same, according to the 

^ °"^^ . form appointed by this Statute, except the same person hath been, 

astics is, or shall be an ecclesiastical person, that had, hath, or shall have 

formerly jj^ ^^^ ^jj^g ^f qp^ ^f jjj^ reigns of the Queen's Majesty's most 

or now in o ^ j ^ 

oflHce ; to noble father, brother, or sister, or in the time of the reign of the 

those who Queen's Majesty, her heirs or successors, charge, cure, or office in 
Prayer the Church, or such person or persons as had, hath, or hereafter 

Book af^er gj^j^]] jj^^^ ^^^y office or ministry in any Ecclesiastical Court of this 

admoni- ' ' ' 

tion ; to realm, under any archbishop or bishop in any the times or reigns 

h^^^M^*^ aforesaid ; or such person or persons as shall willingly refuse to 

observe the orders and rites for divine service, that be authorized 

to be used and observed in the Church of England, after that he 

or they shall be publicly by the ordinary or some of his officers 



THE PENAL LAWS OF 1563 ^09 

for ecclesiastical causes admonished to keep and observe the same, Chap. XI 
or such as shall openly and advisedly deprave, by words or writings 
or any other open &ct, any of the rites and ceremonies at any time 
used and authorized to be used in the Church of England ; or that 
shall say or hear the private Mass prohibited by the laws of this 
realm, and that all such persons shall be compellable to take the 
oath upon the second tender or offer of the same, and incur the 
penalties for not taking of the said oath, and none other. 

1 8. And forasmuch as it is doubtful whether, by the laws of this No 
realm, there be any punishment for such as kill or slay any person ^^^J^ 
or persons attainted in or upon a praemunire, be it therefore enacted to be 

by authority aforesaid, that it shall not be lawful to any person or ^ve*in ' 
persons to slay or kill any person or persons in any manner accordance 
attainted, or hereafter to be attainted of, in, or upon any praemunire r^ovisions 
by pretence, reason, or authority of any judgement given, or hereafter of this Act 
to be given, in or upon the same, or by pretence, reason, or force of ^t° JfLj 
any word or words, thing or things contained or specified in any legislation, 
statute or law of provision and praemunire, or in any of them, any 
law or statute, or opinion or exposition of any law or statute to 
the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: saving always the due 
execution of all and every person and persons attainted or to be 
attainted for any offence whereupon judgement of death now is or 
ought to be, or hereafter may lawfully be given by reason of this 
statute or otherwise ; and saving always all and every such pains 
of death or other hurt or punishment as heretofore might with- 
out danger or law be done upon any person or persons that shall 
send or bring into this realm or any other the Queen's dominions, 
or within the same shall execute any summons, sentence, excommu- 
nication, or other process, against any person or persons from the 
bishop of Rome for the time being, or by or from the see of 
Rome or the authority or jurisdiction of the same see. 

1 9. Provided always and be it enacted by the authority Those 
aforesaid, that no person or persons shall hereafter be indicted S^l^'V 
for assisting, aiding, maintaining, comforting, or abetting of abetting 
any person or persons for any of the said offences in extolling, ^^® *^ 
setting forth, or defending of the usurped power and authority victed after 
of the bishop of Rome, unless he or they be thereof lawfully ^"^ ^"*^ 
accused, by such good and sufficient testimony or proof, as by the 

jury by whom he shall so be indicted shall be thought good, lawful, 
and sufficient to prove him or them guilty of the said offences. 



2IO THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. XI 

II. 

An Act for the due Execution of the Writ 
De Excommunicato Capiendo. 

[Transcr. from Statutes of the Realm, iv. pt. i, p. 451.] 

(5 Elizabeth, cap. 23.) 

* '• Forasmuch as divers persons offending in many great crimes 

the Act. SLnd offences appertaining merely to the jurisdiction and deter- 

The writ mination of the ecclesiastical courts and judges of this realm, are 

municato many times unpunished for lack and want of the good and due 

capiendo execution of the writ de Excommunicato capiendo directed to the 
has been 

much sheriff of any county for the taking and apprehending of such 

neglected offenders, the great abuse whereof as it should seem iiath grown for 

by shenfis, , , .... , . . , . , i 

as being that the Said wnt is not returnable mto any court that ought have 
unreturn- the judgement of the well executing and serving of the said writ 

able into •' ,.^ , , /. J^ , . , , , , r i 

any court, according to the contents thereof, but hitherto have been left only 

to the discretion of the sheriffs and their deputies, by whose 

negligence and defaults for the most part the said writ is not 

executed upon the offenders as it ought to be, by reason whereof 

such offenders be greatly encouraged to continue their sinful and 

criminal life, much to the displeasure of Almighty God, and to the 

great contempt of the ecclesiastical laws of this realm : 

hS a> 3- 2. Wherefore for the redress thereof, be it enacted by the 

Se^writ^ Queen's most excellent Majesty, with the assent of the Lords 

Every writ spiritual and temporal and the Commons in this present parliament 

be retm-n^ assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and 

able into after the first day of May next coming every writ of Excom- 

Bench'* municaio capiendo that shall be granted and awarded out of the 

after high court of Chancery, against any person or persons within the 

days *^ realm of England, shall be made in the time of the term, and 

returnable before the Queen's Highness, her heirs and successors, 

in the Court commonly called the King's Bench in the term next 

after the Teste of the same writ, and that the same writ shall be 

made to contain at the least twenty days between the issuing and 

the return thereof. And after the same writ shall be so made and 

sealed, that then the said writ shall be forthwith brought into the 

said Court of the King's Bench, and there in the presence of the 

justices shall be opened and delivered of record to the sheriff or 



THE PENAL LAWS OF 1563 211 

other officer to whom the serving and execution thereof shall Chap. XI 
appertain, or to his or their deputy or deputies. And if afterwards 
it shall or may appear to the justices of the same court for the 
time being, that the same writ so delivered of record be not duly 
returned before them at the day of the return thereof, or that any 
other default or negligence hath been used or had in the not well 
serving and executing of the said writ, that then the justices of the 
said Court shall and may, by authority of this Act, assess such 
amerciament upon the said sheriff or other officer in whom such and the 
default shall appear, as to the discretion of the said justices shall ^j^^JJ ^ 
be thought meet and convenient, which amerciament so assessed amerced 
shall be estreated into the Court of Exchequer, as other amerciaments returainjr 
have been used. the writ. 

3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the The writ 
sheriff or other officer to whom such writ of Excommunicato returned 
capiendo or other process by virtue of this Act shall be directed, shall without 
not in anywise be compelled to bring the body of such person or Qf^fe "°" 
persons as shall be named in the said writ or process into the said excom- 
Court of the King's Bench at the day of the return thereof, but shall ™"°*cate. 
only return the same writ and process thither, with declaration briefly 

how and in what manner he hath served and executed the same, to 
the intent that thereupon the said justices may then further therein 
proceed, according to the tenor and eflfect of this present Act. 

4. And if the said sheriff or other officer to whom the execution %S 4-7» Of 
of the said writ shall so appertain, do or shall return that the in\2eof 
party or parties named in the said writ cannot be found within his non est in- 
bailiwick, that then the said justices of the King's Bench for the fij^(^l-^ 
time being, upon every such return, shall award one writ of capias shall be 
against the said person or persons named in the said writ of ^^ King's 
Excommunicato capiendo, returnable in the same court in the term Bench, 
time, tw^o months at least next after the Teste thereof, with a pro- ^^unj^iolrr" 
clamation to be contained within the said writ of capias, that the to the local 
sheriff or other officer to whom the same writ shall be directed, in {Jlr^f the 
the full County Court or else at the general Assizes and goal- surrender 
delivery to be holden within the said county, or at a Quarter gj^^^Q^. 
Sessions to be holden before the justices of peace within the same municate, 
county, shall make open proclamation ten days at the least before J^^° * 
the return, that the party or parties named in the said writ shall, remain in 
within six days next after such proclamation, yield his or their [^Jf g^t^ 
body or bodies to the gaol and prison of the said sheriff or other writ 

P 2 



212 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. XI such officer, there to remain as a prisoner according to the tenor 
and effect of the first writ of Excommunicato capiendo, upon pain 
the shenfi* ^^ forfeiture of ten pounds. And thereupon after such prodama- 
maldng tion had, and the said six days past and expired, then the said 
sheriff or other officer to whom such writ of capias shall be 
directed shall make return of the same writ of capias into the said 
Court of the King's Bench, of all that he hath done in the execution 
thereof, and whether the party named in the said writ have yielded 
his body to prison or not 
£\o for- 5. And if upon the return of the said sheriff it shall appear, that 

ot"*^^ - ^^ party or parties named in the said writ of capias^ or any of them, 
ing upon have not yielded their bodies to the gaol and prison of the said 
^aJ?"* sheriff or other officer, according to the effect of the same pro- 
clamation, that then every such person that so shall make default, 
shall for every such default forfeit to the Queen's Highness, her 
heirs and successors, ten pounds, which shall likewise be estreated 
by the said justices into the said Court of Exchequer, in such 
manner and form as fines and amerciaments there taxed and 
assessed are used to be. 
A second 6. And thereupon the said justices of the King's Bench shall 
th^^™*^ also award forth one other writ of capias against the person or 
issued in persons that so shall be returned to have made default, with such 
" like proclamation as was contained in the first capias and a pain of 

with (jao twenty pounds, to be mentioned in the said second writ and pro- 
penalty, clamation, and the sheriff or other officer to whom the said writ of 
second capias shall be so directed shall serve and execute the said 
second writ in such like manner and form as before is expressed 
for the serving and executing of the said first writ of capias. And 
if the sheriff or other officer shall return upon the said second 
capias^ that he hath made the proclamation according to the tenor 
and effect of the same writ, and that the party hath not yielded his 
body to prison according to the tenor of the said proclamation, that 
then the said party that so shall make default, shall for such his 
contempt and default forfeit to the Queen's Highness, her heirs and 
successors, the sum of twenty pounds, which said sum of twenty 
pounds the said justices of the King's Bench for the time being 
shall likewise cause to be estreated into the said Court of Exchequer 
in manner and form aforesaid. 
A third 7* And then the said justices shall likewise award forth one other 

capias may t ^yrit of capias against the said party, with such like proclamation and 



THE PENAL LAWS OF 1563 213 

pain of forfeiture as was contained in the said second writ of capias, Chap. XI 
and the sheriff or other officer to whom the said third writ of capias . 
shall so be directed, shall serve and execute the said third writ of gary, be 
capias in such like manner and form as before in this Act is ex- issued 

with ^90 

pressed and declared for the serving and executing of the said first penalty, 
and second writs of capias. And if the sheriff or other officer to ?"^ ?^ 
whom the execution of the said third writ shall appertain do make with £ao 
return of the said third writ of capias, that the party upon such Penalty in 
proclamation hath not yielded his body to prison according to the 
tenor thereof, that then every such party for every such contempt 
and default shall likewise forfeit to the Queen's Majesty, her heirs 
and successors, other £20, which sum of £20 shall likewise be 
estreated into the said Court of the Exchequer in manner and 
form aforesaid. And thereupon the said justices of the King's 
Bench shall likewise award forth one writ of capias against the 
said party with like proclamation and like pain of forfeiture of £20. 
And that also the said justices shall have authority by this Act 
infinitely to award such process of capias with such like pro- 
clamation and pain of forfeiture of £20 as is before limited against 
the said party that so shall make default in yielding of his body to 
the prison of the sheriff, until such time as by return of some of 
the said writs before the said justices it shall and may appear that 
the said party hath yielded himself to the custody of the said 
sheriff or other officer according to the tenor of the said pro- 
clamation. And that the party upon every default and contempt 
by him made against the proclamation of the said writs, so infinitely 
to be awarded against him, shall incur like pain and forfeiture 
of £20, which shall likewise be estreated in manner and form 
aforesaid. 

8. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that §§ 8-10. 
when any person or persons shall yield his or their body or bodies \^^^t 
to the hands of the sheriff or other officer, upon any of the said surrender, 
writs of capias, that then the same party or parties that shall so surrender 
yield themselves, shall remain in the prison and custody of the |s made, 
said sheriff or other officer, without bail, baston or mainprize, J^nVshall 
in such like manner and form to all intents and purposes as he follow, 

as directed 

or they should or ought to have done, if he or they had been j^ ^i,^ 

apprehended and taken upon the said writ of Excommunicah original 

^ . , writ. 

cc^tenao, 

9. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if 



214 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. XI 

The theriff 
»hall forfeit 
/40 for A 
false 
return. 



Bwhops 
inny re- 
ceive the 
Kubmission 
f>f excom- 
municates 
who shall 
certify into 
Chancery, 
and re- 
ceive the 
usual 
sheriffs 
writ. 



§§ XI-I3- 
Certain 

provisoes, 

«fC. 

In jurisdic- 
tions 
exempt 
signifUavit 
by mitti'' 
miis shall 
be issued 
to chief 
oflficer, 
who shall 
proceed 
as the 
sheriffs 
above. 



any sheriff or other oflScer by whom the said writ of cafiids or any 
of them shall be returned as is aforesaid, do make an untroe return 
upon any of the said writs, that the party named in the said writ 
hath not yielded his body upon the said proclamations or any of them, 
uliere indeed the party did yield himself according to the effect 
of the same, that then every such sheriff or other oflScer, for every 
such false and untrue return, shall forfeit to the party aggrieved and 
damnified by the said return the sum of forty pounds, for the which 
sum of forty pounds the said party aggrieved shall have his recovery 
and due remedy by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in 
any of the Queen's courts of record, in which action, bill, plaint, 
or information, no essoin, protection, or wager of law shall be 
admitted or allowed for the party defendant 

10. Saving and reserving to all archbishops and bishops and 
all others having authority to certify any person excommunicated, 
like authority to accept and receive the submission and satisfaction 
of the said person so excommunicated in such manner and form 
heretofore used, and him to absolve and release, and the same to 
signify as heretofore hath been accustomed to the Queen's Majesty, 
her heirs and successors, into the high court of Chancery,, and 
thereupon to have such writs for the deliverance of the said person 
so absolved and released from the sheriff's custody or prison, 
as heretofore they or any of them had, or of right ought or might 
have had, anything in this present statute specified or contained to 
the contrary in anywise notwithstanding, 

11. Provided always, that in Wales, the counties palatines of 
Lancaster, Chester, Durham, and Ely, and in the Cinque Ports, 
being jurisdictions and places exempt, where the Queen's Majesty's 
writ doth not run, and process of capias from thence not returnable 
into the said Court of the King's Bench, after any significavit being 
of record in the said Court of Chancery, the tenor of such stgnificavit 
by mittimus shall be sent to such of the head ofiicers of the said 
county of Wales, counties palatines, and places exempt, within 
whose oflfices, charge, or jurisdiction the offender shall be resident, 
that is to say to the chancellor or chamberlain for the said county 
palatine of Lancaster and Chester ; and for the Cinque Ports to the 
lord warden of the same ; and for Wales and Ely and the county 
palatine of Durham to the chief justice or justiciar there. And 
thereupon every of the said justices and officers to whom such 
tenor of significavit with mittimus shall be directed and delivered, 



THE PENAL LAWS OF 1563 215 

shall by virtue of this statute have power and authority to make Chap. XI 

like process to the inferior oflScer and officers to whom the 

execution of process there doth appertain, returnable before the 

justices there at their next sessions or courts, two months at least 

after the Tes/e of every such process, so always as in every 

degree they shall proceed in their sessions and courts against 

the offenders as the justices of the said Court of King's Bench 

are limited by tlie tenor of this Act in term times to do and 

execute. 

13. Provided also and be it enacted, that any person at the The 

time of any process of capias aforementioned awarded, being in j^^g^f^^. 

prison or out of this realm in the parts beyond the sea, or within remitted 

age, or of non sanae memoriae, or woman covert, shall not *" certain 
o » » » cases. 

incur any of the pains or forfeitures aforementioned which shall 
grow by any return or default happening during such time of non- 
age, imprisonment, being beyond the sea, or non sanae memoriae, 
and that by virtue of this statute the party aggrieved may plead 
every such cause or matter in bar of and upon the distress or 
other process that shall be made for levying of any of the said 
pains or forfeitures. 

13. And that if the offender against whom any such writ of It is 
Excommunicato capiendo shall be awarded, shall not in the same tha^^evenr 
writ of Excommunicato capiendo have a sufficient and lawful writ issued 
addition according to the form of the statute first of Henry the Instance ' 
Fifth in cases of certain suits whereupon process of exigent are shall 
to be awarded, or if in the significavit it be not contained that the ugu^*" 
excommunication doth proceed upon some cause or contempt specifica- 
of some original matter of heresy, or refusing to have his or their offence 
child baptized, or to receive the Holy Communion as it commonly 
is now used to be received in the Church of England, or to 
come to divine service now commonly used in the said Church 
of England, or error in matters of religion, or doctrine now received 
and allowed in the said Church of England, incontinency, usury, 
simony, perjury in the Ecclesiastical Court, or idolatry, that then 
all and every pains and forfeitures limited against such persons 
excommunicate by this statute by reason of such writ of Ex- 
communicato capiendo wanting sufficient addition, or of such 
significavit wanting all the causes aforementioned, shall be utterly 
void in law, and by way of plea to be allowed to the party 
aggrieved. 



2i6 THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. XI 1 4. And if the addition shaU be with a nuper of the place, then 
in every such case at the awarding of the first capias with pro- 
addition clamation according to the form aforementioned, one writ of 
of a toiper^ proclamation (without any pain expressed) shall be awarded into 
tio^with- ^^^ county where the offender shall be most commonly resident 
out penalty at the time of the awarding of the said first capias, with pain in the 
nei'^bmir- same writ of proclamation to be returnable the day of the return of the 
hood. said first capias with pain and proclamation thereupon, at some one 
such time and court as is prescribed for the proclamation upon the 
said first capias with pain. And if such proclamation be not made 
in the county where the offender shall be most commonly resident 
in such cases of additions of nuper, that then such offender shall 
sustain no pain or forfeiture by virtue of this statute for not yielding 
his or their body according to the tenor aforementioned, anything 
before specified to the contrary hereof in anywise notwithstanding. 



CHAPTER XII 

THE DEPRIVED CLERGY: ESTIMATES OF HISTORICAL 

WRITERS 

The evidence of the bishops' registers in regard to the Chap, xil 
deprived clergy is certainly the most trustworthy help '. 
to an estimate of the numbers that we are likely to get in modem 
in the absence of a direct official return. It may not histories 
however be without interest to examine the figures which num^r 
have come down to us in printed books from a period deprived, 
more or less contemporary. The numbers given by such 
writers as Dean Hook, Archdeacon Perry, Mr. Froude, 
Mr. Hore, and Mr. Lane vary very little, with the exception 
of the last-named, who speaks of an estimated 400 clergy 
deprived, but on what proof it does not appear. None of 
these writers, who otherwise vary from 177 to 19a, make it 
clear within what limits the assessment is made. Does it 
for instance refer to the visitation of 1559, or to subsequent 
action as well ? It is, at all events, clear that their ultimate 
authority is Strype, who wrote about 1720. This historian 
refers to three calculations, at which we will glance. 

First comes the evidence of D'Ewes' Journal. Strype Strypc's 
says ^ referring to D'Ew^s * : * ty a calculation then (i.e. in *^''" *'^^* ' 
Elizabeth's reign) taken of all the clergy in the land, *' ^ *^' * 
of 9,400 ecclesiastical persons settled in their several pro- 
motions, but 177 left their livings rather than to renounce 
the pope and change their idolatrous Mass for the use 
of the English liturgy.' D*Ewes, who wrote his Journal 
of all the Parliaments of Elizabeth in 1631, is not a con- 
temporary writer, and it will be pretty clear a little later 
that he depended for his numbers in this question on 

* Ann, i. 73. * Journal^ p. 23. 



2i8 THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. XII Camden, who published the first volume of his Annals of 

Queen Elizabeth in 1615. 
ii- Cotum Strype's second reference is to a Cotton MS. : * in one 
c^io^f"* ^^ ^^ volumes of the Cotton Library (Titus C. 10), wfaidi 
17a. iU. volume seemeth once to have belonged to Camden, the 
Camden, whole number of the deprived is digested in this cata- 
logue : — 

Bishops 14 

Deans 13 

Archdeacons 14 

Heads of Colleges 15 

Prebendaries 50 

Rectors of Churches . . . .80 
Abbots, Priors, and Abbesses. . . 6 

In all 192 



Compari- 
son of this 
list with 



Camden in his Annals little varies; only reckoning 
twelve deans and as many archdeacons.' We have dis- 
covered the folio referred to, and find that it is part of 
Camden's MS. collection which he got together as material 
for his works. The leaf in question consists chiefly of 
some remarks by a Romanist upon Elizabeth's religious 
policy, and at the foot in another hand, apparently, there 
comes in this short list which looks like a memorandum, 
and has no connexion with the rest of the MS. The 
numbers are bracketed together, and endorsed as * abdicati 
primo ingressu E. R.' It will be noticed that the dignitaries 
are out of all proportion to the inferior clergy. But that 
is not the main point : the document is almost clearly 
Camden's memorandum written at the beginning of the 
seventeenth century for the estimate contained in his 
Antiquities^ and, in proof of date, on the other side of the 
page is a reference to matters in Ireland for the year 1607. 
The * E. R.' too gives the idea that the writer was writing 
when Elizabeth's reign had passed : otherwise regni would 
probably have been used instead of those initials. 

Before going on to Strype's third reference we may fitly 
complete Camden's evidence. The nearly contemporary 



THE DEPRIVED CLERGY 



219 



translation of his Annals runs thus : * but certes as them- 
selves have certified, in the whole kingdom wherein are 
numbered 9,400 ecclesiastical dignities {promotianes ecclesi- 
asticae) they could find but eighty pastors of the Church, 
fifty prebendaries, fifteen rectors of the college, twelve 
archdeacons, and so many deans, six abbots and abbesses, 
and all the bishops that were then in seance and were 
fourteen in number^.' These figures, added up, give a 
total of 189, which is the number most frequently cited 
by recent historians. It will be observed that it differs 
from the Cotton MS. memorandum by three only, the 
Annals subtracting one dean and two archdeacons, but 
otherwise agreeing with the memorandum. 

But where did Camden get his estimate from, whether 
it should be 19a or 189? He refers it to * themselves,' 
which may mean the Romanist party or the ejected clergy. 
Camden, therefore, had seen some list which he quotes, 
and such a list is to be found in the seventh book of 
Nicolas Sanders' De Visibili Monarchia^ which was pub- 
lished at Louvain in 157 1. Sanders had lectured at 
Oxford under Mary as Professor of Law and of Divinity. 
He was deprived, or resigned, when Elizabeth came to 
the throne, and went abroad with Sir Francis Englefield, 
who supplied him with frequent help until the book men- 
tioned was published. A transcript of the larger part of 
his list will be found at the end of this chapter. The 
list gives some Scotch and Irish names, but after deducting 
these the result is as follows and in the order here given : — 



Chap. XII 

that in 

Camden's 

Annals. 



Origin of 
Camden's 
list in 
Sanders' 
De Visibai 
Monorchia, 



Bishops .... 
Heads of Religious Houses 
Deans . 
Archdeacons . 
Heads of Colleges . 
Prebendaries . 
Priests . 



6 
10 
12 

47 
90 



In all 194 



' Hearne's Camden^ i. 47. 



220 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. XII This list of Sanders we fully believe to be the soarce 
of all the enumerations quoted so far. The ten deans 
are immediately followed by three Irish deans, who might 
readily be included by a rapid counter. The same careless 
counting added in two Irish archdeacons, so making the 
archdeacons fourteen in all. The forty-seven prebendaries 
were perhaps raised to fifty as a round number. Sanders 
goes on to say that others canons had been deprived too. 
The ninety priests were probably reduced to eighty, 
because it was clear that some four or five had been 
reckoned twice by Sanders, and the deduction of these 
would give about eighty in alL D'Ewes' estimate of 177 
very likely came from the same list in Sanders by his 
own calculation of the figures, or more probably from 
Camden, after deducting the abbess and prioress men- 
tioned, and the fourteen bishops, perhaps, whom he does 
not specially name. But perhaps the most convincing 
thing to show the mutual interdependence of the lists is 
the fact that in every one of them the number of bishops is 
wrong. It ought to be fifteen, and the error can be traced 
to Sanders list, in which Morgan of St David's is omitted. 
Gierke's Sanders' seventh book, in which his list occurs, was 
^"*'^*™ ^^ attacked by Bartholomew Gierke, under the superinten- 
dence of Cecil and Parker. His work, dated 1573, is 
named Fidelis servi subdito infideli respansio. The list 
comes in for some examination. The writer finds fault 
with Sanders first of all for representing the bishops and 
others as enduring prison and death in prison. He says : 
'vincula certe credo aliquos (si carceres vincula appelles) 
minime sapienter subiisse quod Romani primatus opinio- 
nem tenacius retinerent, verum mortem aliquos perpessos 
esse ob asserendum summi pastoris primatum, nunquam 
adhuc intellexi, nee te audisse suspicor. . . . Fuerunt 
fortasse aliqui, dum in carcere essent, vita functi: iidem 
etiam naturae, credo, cessissent si non fuissent incarcerati ^' 
With regard to the numbers in the list Clerke makes a 
very important criticism : ^ multi hie quasi exules et relegati 

> O. a. 



THE DEPRIVED CLERGY 221 

a te recitantur qui hodie apud nos vivunt ct valent, et non chaf. XI I 
modo proborum civium sed Protestantium etiam piorum 
munere funguntur. . . . De numero qui alioqui valde exilis 
esset ita laborasti ut quos interserueris minime curares, 
et ne chartas satis implere minime videaris nee presbyteris 
parochialibus, nee clericis, nee ludimagistris supersedisti. 
Et inter eos etiam quosdam recensuisti qui nunquam ejecti, 
nunquam exules erant. Eorum hie nomina adderem, nisi 
odiosum esse cognoscerem, et illis valde ingratum qui 
indies tibi et tuae monarchiae male precantur^.' 

The sum of Gierke's charge, then, is that the list isjustifica- 
both misleading and inaccurate. These charges are justi- ^»onof»"c^ 
fied ; for to begin with, Bonner was the only bishop who 
at the time of writing (1571) had died in prison, and in 
any case not one of the persons named had lost his life 
for refusing to abjure the pope. Some were put to death 
after, e.g. Laurence Vaux, but not until some time after 
the De Visibili Monarchia was published. We do not feel 
sure how far Gierke is right in saying that some of 
Sanders' deprived or exiled were still in possession of 
English benefices in 1571. Sanders' inaccuracy, however, 
is further evident in that he gives a few names twice over. 
But the matter is scarcely worth pursuing in detail, for 
Roman Gatholic writers allow that Sanders was not always 
careful. Thus Mr. Bridgett says of Sanders* report to 
Gardinal Morone which is in the Vatican Archives^: 
' Sanders tells of what he had himself seen, and what he had 
ascertained from the relation of others. There are a few 
inaccuracies in his narrative, as there will always be if a 
man tries to write down from memory and without the 
assistance of any documents the public events of which he 
has been an eye-witness, or in which he has been an actor.' 
The reference, of course, is not to the list which we are 
now considering, but the admission proves that Sanders was 
not always careful. Rishton, the continuator of Sanders' 

' P. 4. Gierke was writing of course Protestant feeling. See the article 
after the Bull of Exconunuuication of on Gierke in Did. Nat. Biog, xi. 45. 
1570, which stirred up a great deal of ' Trut Story ^ &c., pref. x. 



222 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Chap. XII De SchismaU AftgUco^ is still more careless in the matter 
under consideration, and both from him and the admissions 
of Mr. Bridgett we gather that the Romanists at Douay 
and Louvain were somewhat inexact in regard to dates and 
numbers. 

iii. Cardi- Strype's third list is thus given : ' the answerer to the 

^ "' English Justice (supposed to be Cardinal Allen) mentions 
the deprived after this reckoning, viz. fourteen bi^ops 
(and in Ireland the Archbishop of Armagh, and an un- 
certain number of other bishops there), three elects, CMie 
abbot, four priors or superiors of religious convents, a dozen 
deans, fourteen archdeacons, above threescore canons of 
cathedral churches, not so few as an hundred priests, 
fifteen heads or rectors of colleges in Oxford and Cam- 
bridge, and above twenty doctors of divers faculties that 
fled the realm, or were in the realm imprisoned/ This is 
Strype's summary of a page from Ad Persecutares Anglos, 
The earliest form of this book was written about 1583, in 
criticism of a defence of Elizabeth's recent religious policy, 
entitled The Execution of Justice in England, The page 
in question is transcribed at the end of this chapter. 
Strype has omitted from his summary the 'two other 
Knglish prelates, the one now dead and the other still 
surviving at Rome,' spoken of by the * Answerer.' These 
must have been either Scott or Pate, who died in 1565, 
and Gold well, who died at Rome in 1585. The three 
elects will be Thos. Wood ^, who must have been nomi- 
nated to one of the sees still vacant in November, 1558, 
and probably Reynolds, Dean of Exeter, nominated to 
Salisbury. Goldwell of St. Asaph had been nominated 
to Oxford on November 9, 1558. 

Origin of But we find that this list also is dependent upon 

AH' 

J. ^"' Sanders. The latter wrote in 157 1, and the 'Answerer' 
has, it appears to us, simply taken his figures, bringing 
them down to 1583, and thus presenting a total of some 
247. Thus the original (but erroneous) number of fourteen 
bishops is allowed to stand. To these Allen has added 

* ' Priest and elected a bishop.* Fleet Prisoners in Harl. MS. 360, C 7. 



THE DEPRIVED CLERGY 223 

two exiled bishops, although he forgets a third ; and he Chap. XII 
gives further three bishops elect, who are almost certainly 
included among the canons^ and so are numbered twice 
over. The deans, archdeacons, and heads of colleges are 
those of Sanders. The canons and priests tnay have 
increased to the number given by 1583, but it is far from 
likely. The list, however, despite its inaccuracy, is valuable 
as showing that after twenty-five years* experience of the 
penal laws, the Romanists on the Continent were unable to 
prove anything like the wholesale ejection and punishment 
which some suppose to have taken place. I. W., Priest^ 
in his English Martyrology, printed in 1 608, gives twenty- 
one as the total number of those executed for religion 
between 1570 and 158a. Amongst these will be Allen's 
plurimos martyrio coronatos. He mentions no single martyr 
in Elizabeth's reign before 1570. 

Having now examined Strype's three authorities, which The list in 
seem to resolve themselves into one, we must look at T**^™^'*,. 

Doddy and 

a modem enumeration which has been very frequently its origin, 
quoted, and owing to its form has been twisted into 
a great deal more than it warrants upon examination. 
It is given in the appendix to Tierney s Dodd, vol. ii. 
no. xliv. It was made up by Tierney from the * Lives of 
Clergymen' in Dodd's second folio volume. Tierney 
appears to have added a very few names that we have not 
noticed in Dodd. But what is Dodd*s authority? He 
states it to be chiefly Anthony k Wood, Worthington's 
Catalogue of Martyrs ^, J. Bridgwater's Concertatio Ecclesiae 
Catholicae in Atiglia^ 1588. The last is the chief authority 
of Dodd. But here again through Bridgwater we are 
thrown back on Sanders, for just where Sanders gives no 
initial, there we find the same absence of initial in Dodd. 
So then the advance of Dodd over Sanders is simply this, 
that he has added some biographical details. Tierney then 
made the list more useful by a fresh classification and 
alphabetical arrangement. It is in the final shape given 
by Tierney that the list has been so much used of late 

' This book we have not been able to discover. 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Criticism 
of Ticr- 
uey'% list 



Chap. XII years by Roman Catholics. Their point is that the list 
containing about 2co names is evidently an enumeration 
of the higher clergy only — ergo an indefinite number of 
parish clergy who resigned, or were deprived, must be 
added in order to reach the sum total. 

Fault must be found with Tiemey at the outset for 
the misleading setting of his list. Twice over he speaks 
of those represented as opposing the Reformation at the 
beginning of Elizabeth's reign, and, taken in connexion 
with the text which the list is intended to illustrate, this 
might be supposed to refer to deprivations under the 
Supremacy Act of 1559. On examination, however, it is 
clear that names are given of those who were deprived 
or resigned long after. Thus Bristow, Fellow of Exeter, 
was not deprived until 1570. Zone, apparently a layman, 
was not ejected from his Cambridge professorship until 
about 156 a. Some, e.g. Atslow, were never ordained at all. 
Others, e.g. Bavant, Stopes, Shaw, Wiggs, Meredith(b. 1547)1 
were ordained abroad, after leaving England. Then again 
the register of the University of Oxford makes it clear 
that some of the Fellows of Colleges who are mentioned 
took degrees after 1559, and so by the terms of the two 
Supremacy Acts must have allowed the Queen*s supremacy'. 
Thus Appleby proceeded M.A. in 1563, E. Atslow in 1560, 
Fitzsimons 156a. Alan Cope and R. Fenn proceeded B.C.L. 
in 1560, L. Atslow and T. Barrel BA. in the same year. 
A few of those mentioned by Tierney, e.g. GiflTord, are not 
in the Oxford register at all, and yet are referred to 
Oxford. Thus without going through the names more in 
detail here it will be seen that there are grave reasons for 
doubting their entire accuracy. At the best, the list gives 
the names of those who * opposed the Reformation,' not at 
the beginning, but during the first twelve years of the reign *. 
General Our general conclusion then is that the existing lists 

conclusion mainly depend on Sanders, who drew up his record in 1571, 

about the , . . , , , 

lists. ^^'^ ^^ ^" inaccurate and exaggerated way gave the names 

' Above, pp. 16 and 304. of the deprived, see Mr. Jos. Gillow's 

' For biographical details of many LiUrary and Biographical History, 



THE DEPRIVED CLERGY 225 

of all he knew or had heard of amongst the clergy and Chap. Xll 
laity who had got into difficulties with the ecclesiastical 
authorities during those years. It will be necessary to 
try and get behind Sanders in order to compile a list 
from strictly contemporary authorities for the years 1558- 
1564. 

I. 

The List of Nicolas Sanders, 1571. 

[Transcr. from De Vtsibili Monarchia^ p. 688.] 

[This list occurs in the seventh book of the De Vistbili Monarchta, 
The general thesis of this particular book is * Pontificem Romanum 
semper fuisse totius Ecclesiae Primatem/ and two-thirds of the whole 
treatise are devoted to working this out. It must be allowed that 
Sanders adopts a very comprehensive method when he concludes 
the argument of the seventh book with these words : * Re igitur ab 
initio mundi repetita, universam et Patriarcharum ab Adamo usque 
ad Mosen, et Levitici generis sacerdotum ab Aarone usque ad 
Christum, et Pontificum Romanorum successionem a D. Petro usque 
ad Pium Quintum, qui nimc Romae in Petri Cathedra sedet, ordine 
perpetuo continuatam, velut sub unum Lectoris aspectum in hoc 
septimo libro subjiciam ' (p. 321). The list itself occurs in a section 
which is thus headed : ' Quot et quanti tum espicopi tum alii, tam 
ecclesiastici quam nobiles et illustres in Anglia, Hibernia, et Scotia 
viri, dignitatem, fortunas, patriam, libertatem, ac denique vitam, 
Elizabetha apud Anglos regnante, atque haeresim profitente, 
amiserint, ut ne cogerentur Pontificis Romani Primatum abjicere 
atque abjurare ' (p. 686). Then follows a page of history in which 
the English Reformation is described from this point of view, and 
the list succeeds on p. 688. We omit references to Scotland and 
Ireland, and the names of the laity given at the end.] 

Qui autem pro Apostolicae Cathedrae Principatu confitendo, vel 
in vinculis domi, vel in exilio foris, partim usque ad mortem 
perstiterunt, partim usque ad hodiernum diem detinentur, hi sunt : 

i. Episcopi Angli aut in vinculis, aut exilio vita defuncti. 

Edmundus Bonnerus, Londinensis ; Joannes Vitus, Vintoniensis ; 
Cuthbertus Tonstallus, Dunelmensis; Oglethorpus, Carleolensis ; 
Pateus, Vigorniensis; Bajmus, Lichfeldensis; Thurlebeus, Elyensis ; 

Q 



226 THE EUZABETHAS CLERGY 

Chap. XII Polos, Petrobariensis; Banms, Raihomeiwis; Scoctus, Ccstiiensis, 
in ezilio defiiDCtixs. 

iL Episcopi Angli adhnc in costodia detenti, ant exnks, sed 
saperstites. 

Hethns, Eboracensis ArcfaiqNSCOpas ; Watsonns, Lincolniensis ; 
Troblefildns, Exoniensis; Thomas GoldweEiis,Asapbensis, Romae 

exulat. 

iiL Religiosoram ordinnm Archimandritae, et Priores . . . ob 
fidem suis sedibos polsi. 

D. Feknamns, Monacbomm D. fienedicd Abbas in carcere ad- 
hue agit; Mauritius Chaceus, Cartusianorum Prior, cam sois 
omnibus Brugis in exOio agit ; Wllsonus Cartusianonim de Monte 
Gratiae Prior; Catharina Palmera, Monialium D. Brigittae 
Abbatissa cum Hugone Huberto ejasdem ordinis generafi 
Confessore, ac reliquis fratribus et sororibus suis locum exilii sui 
prope Antuerpiam in Brabantia sortitur; Elizabetha Cresnera, 
Monialium D. Dominici Priorissa cum suis apud Brugenses agit ; 
Franciscani per inferiorem Germaniam dispersi in exiHo agunt; 
Richardus SheDeus Ordinis D. Joannis in Anglia Prior, cum firatre 
suo Jacobo ejusdem ordinis milite, in exilio agit 

iv. Decani Cathedralium in Anglia Ecclesiarum. 

D. Henricus Coins, Ecclesiae Londinensis; D. Edmundus 
Scuardus, Ecclesiae Vintoniensis ; D. Reginaldus, Ecclesiae Exo- 
niensis; Robertsonus, Dunelmensis ; Setholandus, Vigomiensis; 
D. Joannes Ramrigius, Lichfeldiensis ; D. Joannes Harpsfildus, 
Nordovicensis ; Henricus Joliffus, Bristoliensis ; D. Joannes Box- 
ollus, Vindelisoriensis ; Daniel, Herfordensis. 

V. Archidiaconi vel vincti, vel exules. 

D. Nicolaus Harpsfild, Cantuariensis ; D. Dracottus, Eboracensis ; 
Richardus Petreus, Bokingamiae; D. Chedseus Middlesexiae ; 
Marvinus, Surriensis; Fitz Jacobus, Bathonensis; D. Albanus 
Langdalus de Lewis; Taylerus, Cicestriensis ; Hodsonus, Lin- 
colniensis; Joannes Hansonus, Richmundensis ; Robertus Per- 
cevallus, Ceslriensis ; Robertus, Monensis in Wallia. 

vi. Studiosorum CoUegiis, vel in Oxonio, vel in Cantabrigia 
Praefecti, partim vincti et vita defuncti, partim exules. 

Belserus, Collegio D. Joannis in Oxoniensi Academia; Elius, 



THE DEPRIVED CLERGY 227 

ejus successor in eodem Collegio ; Slithurstus, Collegio S. Chap. XII 
Trinitatis; Henricus Henshaus,Lincolniensi Collegio; D. Georgius 
BuUocus, Collegio S. Joannis in Cantabrigia ; D. Joannes Yongus, 
Collegio Penbrukensi ; Edmundus Cosin, Collegio S. Catharinae ; 
Thomas Pecok, Collegio Reginae; Gulielmus Taylerus, Collegio 
Christi; Thomas Redmannus, Collegio Jesu; Thomas Bayleus, 
Collegio de Clare ; Laurentius Vausaeus, Collegio Mancestriensi ; 
Gulielmus Martialis, Aulae S. Albani ; Joannes Smithaeus, Collegio 
Regali in Oxonio ; Hodgesonus Collegio Reginae in Oxonio. 

vii. Canonici Cathedralium Ecclesiarum, ob sedis Apostolicae 
Primatum vel in custodia defuncti, vel adhuc vincti, aut 
exules. 

Hillus Ecolesiae Cantoariensis Canonicus ; Ardenus, 
Mauritius Clenok, Palmus, D. Setonus, D. Mortonus, Henricus 
Bouel in Ecclesia Suthwellensi ejusdem dioceseos — Ecolesiae 
Eboraoensia; D. Thomas Darbisherus^ Willertonus, Cosinus, 
Moruinus — Ecolesiae Londinensis ; Thomas Hidus, Langrigius, 
Bilsonus — Ecdesiae Vintoniensis ; Saluinus, Dantonus, Tutinus, 
NicolausMarley — Ecolesiae Dunelmensis; D. Faucetus, Robertus 
Mannerus, Gulielmus Wilsus, Thomas Villenis — Ecolesiae Lin- 
colniensis ; Thomas Wilsonus, Gulielmus Colinwod — Ecolesiae 
Cestriensis; D. Heskinus^ Cancellarius, D. Thomas Hardingus, 
Thesaurarius, Ricardus Dominicus, David Powellus, Faulerus — 
Ecdesiae Sarisburiensis ; Joannes Bicardikus, Edouardus 
Cratfordus, Gilbertus Burnfordus, Egidius Capellus, Joannes 
Hemingus^ Huchinsonus — Ecdesiae Bathonensis ; Bemundus 
Cancellarius^ Edouardus Godsaluus, Thomas Stapletonus — Ec- 
desiae Cicestriensis ; Thomas Nutom, Joannes Blaxtonus, 
Gualterus Muggus — Ecdesiae Exoniensis ; Ricardus Ludbius — 
Ecdesiae Herefordensis ; Harcoitus — Ecdesiae Nordovi- 
censis; Gulielmus Dalby, Cancellarius Ecdesiae Bristoliensis ; 
D. Ricardus Smithaeus, D. Treshamus — Ecdesiae Oxoniensis ; 
Morganus Philippus Praecentor Ecdesiae Menevensis. 

Non sic autem res accipienda est, velut hi soli Ecclesiarum 
Cathedralium Canonici quos hoc in loco ascripsi, ob sedis Romanae 
confessionem, patria, opibus, liber tate, aut vita privati fuerint. 
Nee enim dubito quin alii praeterea valde multi banc laudem meriti 
sint. Sed illos ego recensui quos aut ipse noveram, aut ab aliis 
hac dignitate motos esse acceperam. Presbyteri vero Parochiales, et 



228 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

Cmaf. XII alii clerici qui ob retinendae Sedis Apostolicae commnnionfin, vd 

^~^ in vinculis defiincti, vel adhuc vincti, vel in exOhmi ire coacd sunt, 

multo difficilius enumerari possont Sed tamen ne Qrdo ipse, si 

pemitus praetermittatur, injuriam sibi factam exisdmet, eos hie 

adjungam de quibus me audire contigit. 

viii. Presbyteri in carcere aut defiincti, aut adhuc detenti, ob 
Primatus confessionem. 

Edouardus Williamsonus, Guliehnus Sotton, Gretus, Hartus, 
Joannes Cubbidgus, Woddus, Jonsonus, Ramseius, Georgius 
London. 

ix. Presbyteri beneficiis suis exuti aut in exilio degentes ob 
Primatus Romani confessionem. 

Clemens Burdettus, Edmundus HargaUus, Thomas Davys, 
Gregorius Bellus, Laurentius Webbus, Robertus Painus, [Nicolaus 
Langrigius,] Ricardus Adamus, Joannes Peritonus, Thomas Cranus, 
Ricardus Wodlock, Ricardus Jacobi, Thomas Haukins, Crocus, 
Grangenis, Gulielmus Giblettus, Coquus, Hugo Tenant, Thomas 
Palmerus, Thomas Atkinsonus, Pilus, Colinus, Redus, Durstonus, 
Edouardus Chamberus, Simon Bellostus, Kingus, Rogerus Bobettus, 
Robertus Jonus, Joannes Fezardus, Gulielmus Shepardus, Ricardus 
Bisshop, Joannes Berwikus, Martinus, Antonius Wilkinson, Court- 
millus, Ricardus Prattus, Gulielmus Atkinsus, Heiwardus, Harperus, 
Josephus, Joannes Feltonus, Stephanus Markus, Joannes Oliverius, 
Gulielmus Greshoppus, Thomas Kirtonus, Edouardus Brumbrogus, 
Henricus Alwayus, Joannes Rastellus, Cuthbertus Vauxeus, Ed- 
mundus Brunus, Georgius Storeus, Gulielmus Smitheus, Grenwellus, 
Clemens, Petrus de Southwarmborough, Edouardus Taylerus, 
Gulielmus Woddus, Knightus, [Joannes Rastellus,] Joannes 
Danisterus, Havardus, Thomas Fremannus, Philippus, Joannes 
Fuccius, Anthonius Gardinettus, Joannes Bradshaus, Miniuerus, 
Robertus Kentus^ Jaksonus, Henricus Gillus, Joannes Redshaus, 
Alanus Chenerie, Ricardus Wistus, Leonardus Stopius, Joannes 
Dalus, Edmundus Lysterus, Joannes Boltonus, Thomas Hamedinus, 
Henricus Pius, David de Skenthrist, Tomsonus. 

Eos praeterea qui honestum locum in CoUegiis utriusque 
Academiae sortiti, et eodem ob fidem Catholicam per hos duodecim 
annos, ejecti sunt, non minus trecentis fuisse vere dixerim^ quos hie 
singulos recensere nolui^ partim ne taedio lectorem afficerem, 
partim quia difficulter nomina singulorum addiscerem. Quos 



THE DEPRIVED CLERGY 229 

tamen aut publice legendo aliis praeivisse aut insignem literarii Chap. XII 

honoris gradum quandoque ascendisse intellexi, non putavi 

praetermittendos* 

X. Professores. 

Nicolaus Sanderus, qui tanquam Regius Professor Jus Canonicum 
suo jure in Oxonio publice praelegit^ ei loco et muneri ob fidem 
conservandam renundans. 

Gulielmus Zonus in Cantabrigia juris civilis Regius Professor. 

Georgius Ethrigius linguae Graecae in Oxonio Professor . . . 

xi. Doctores S. Theologiae ob fidem, aut beneficiis privati, aut 
exules. 

D. Babingtonus, D. Carterus, D. Sedgius, D. Nicolaus Mortonus, 
D. Carolus Parkerus, D. Ricardus Hallus, D. Gaspar Heiwoddus, 
D. Gulielmus Alenus, D. Thomas Stapletonus. 

xii. Juris civilis et canonici Doctores aut in vinculis defuncti, aut 
adhuc vinctiy aut exules. 

D. Joannes Storaeus, D. Ricardus Micheus, D. Edmundus 
Windam^ D. Joannes Pauleus, D. Gulielmus Knottus^ D. Audoenus 
Ludovicus hodie in Duacensi Academia Regius Professor, D. 
Thomas Butlerus, D. Ricardus Vitus. 

xiii. Doctores Artis Medicae in confessione Romani Primatus 
constantes. 

D. Joannes Fricrus pater in carcere mortuus, D. Joannes 
Frierus filius exulat Patavii, D. Nicolaus Carrus, Thomas Vavasenis, 
D. Joannes Clemens exul, D. Ricardus Smitheus, D. Edouardus 
Atslous. 

xiv. Licentiati Theologiae. 

Ricardus Bemardus, Gulielmus Wilsus, Thomas Dormannus, 
Ricardus Fleming, Gregorius Bellus, Joannes Martialis, Nicolaus 
Quemerford, Gulielmus Pomrellus, Thomas Darellus, Ricardus 
Bristous, Joannes Whitus. 

XV. Ludimagistri, ob Primatus confessionem officio suo abdicati. 

Fremannus S. Pauli in Urbe Londinensi, Joannes Harrisius in 
Bristoliensi, Benedictus in Sarisburiensi, Gulielmus Gooddus in 
Wellensi, Plumtreius in Lincolniensi, Joannes Fennus apud 
memoriam S. Edmundi, Joannes Potzus in Leicestrensi, Thomas 
Ivisonus in civitate Dunelmensi. 



230 THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 

CfiAi'. XII xvi. Magistri Musices, officio sue ob Primatus coiifessioiiein ejecti. 

Sebastianus in Cathedrali Ecclesia Londineiisiy Thomas in 
Metropoli Eboracensi, Prestonus in oppido VindeUsoriensL 

Omitto studiosonim plane maximam multitudinem qui ob 
Primatus Romani confessionem, partim rapd stmt in vincula, 
partim in exilium acti, partim suis collegiis ejecti. Caetemm ne 
soli clerici videantur istam in fide profitenda constantiam tennisse, 
commemorabuntur etiam aliquot Illustrium Laicorum exempla in 
eodem gencre. 

[62 names follow (p. 702) of men, 15 of women, 14 of funilies 
who left the countr}'.] 

II. 

The Summary in Ad Persecutores Anglos^ p. 56. 

After comparing the recent sufferings for religion widi those 
of Mary's reign the writer goes on: *Nos vero istis talibus, 
quatuordecim simul Episcopos opponimus, eosque excellentes et 
tanto munere dignissimos, et quos ipse libelli author paulo ante, 
animo licet pessimo, magnis laudibus in coelum extulit (et certe 
quoad eruditionem et sanctitatem nullis Europae Episcopis era^it 
inferiores) ; qui omnes suis honoribus exuti, plerique etiam in car- 
cerem conjecti, maximisque injuriis affecti fuerunt, una cum eximio 
illo confessore Archiepiscopo Armachano Hiberniae Primate, multis- 
que aliis ejusdem insulae episcopis. Opponimus deinde duos alios 
ejusdem dignitatis Praesules Anglos, alterum jam mortuum, alterum 
Romae adhuc superstitem; tres quoque designates Episcopos 
vita jam functos; quibus addimus Venerandum Abbatem West- 
monasteriensem ; quatuor religiosorum conventuum priores, tresque 
integros conventus fortunis omnibus spoliates, et vel in ergastula 
detrusos vel e regni finibus exterminates. Addimus deinde duodecim 
Decanos spectatae eruditionis, qui in Cathedralibus Angliae Ecclesiis 
secundas ab Episcopis obtinent; Archidiaconos quatuordecim; 
Canonicos Cathedralium Ecclesiarum supra sexaginta ; Sacerdotes 
vero plus quam centum, omnes bono loco et existimatione, superioris 
Principis temporibus, ut alios omittam sacerdotes plurimos nostri 
hujus exilii creatos, et postea martyrio coronatos. Quibus adjicimus 
quindecim Rectores Collegiorum Oxoniensis Academiae et Canta- 
brigiensis, viros magnae certe in iis Academiis et in ipsa Republica 
authoritatis, quorum prudentia et pietate commoti precipui quique 



THE DEPRIVED CLERGY 231 

omnium scientiarmn professores et Doctores in diversis facultatibus Chap. XII 
supra viginti, vel cum iUis, vcl non ita multo post eorum exemplum 
secutiy religionis causa partim in aliis regionibus peregrinantur 
exules, partim domi in carceribus detinentur vincti/ 



III. 

The Summary in J. Bridgwater's Concertatio 

Ecclesiae Anglicatiae (1588). 

[This list is printed on the fly leaf.] 

EcclesiasHci, 

Cardinalis anus. Decani Ecclesiarum Cathedra- 

Archiepiscopi tres martyres. lium, 13. 

Episcopi consecrati 14 martyres. Archidiaconi, 14. 

Episcopi electi tres. Canonici Cathedralium Eccle- 

Abbas unus. siarum, supra 6a 

Priores religiosorum conven- Sacerdotes maxima ex parte 

tuum, 4. illustres aut nobili loco nati, 350. 
Conventus integri^ 4. 

Acadtmici. 

Kectores Collegiorum^ 1 5. Doctores Medicinae, 8. 

Doctores Theologiae, 45. Ludimagisti, 8. 

Licentiati Theologiae, 12. Magistri Musices, 3. 

Doctores Juris, 15. 

[Saeculares, 257, etc. ; Feminae, loi, etc. ; Martyres, no.] 

IV. 

The List of Dodd (1737) as corrected by Tierney 

(1839). 

[Tierney's Dodd^ vol. 11. App. xliv.] 

' An imperfect catalogue of Deans, Archdeacons, and Chancellors 
who opposed the Reformation in the beginning of Queen Eliza- 
beth's reign. 

-^^^^- Holland, Seth, Worcester. 

Boxall, John, Windsor. Joliff, Henry, Bristol 

Cole, Henry, St. Paul's. ' Ramridge, John, Lichfield. 

Daniel, Richard, Hereford. Stuart, Edmund, Winchester. 



232 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. XII Archdeacons. 

Fitz James, John, Bath. 
Hanson, John, Richmond. 
Harpsfield, John, London. 
Harps6eld, Nich., Canterbury. 
Hodgson, Dr., Lincoln. 
Langdale, Alban, Lewes. 
Mervyn, Edward, Surrey. 
Perceval, Robert, Chester- 
Peter, Richard, Buckmgham. 
Roberts, Dr., St. David's. 



Chancellors. 

Bremund, John, Chichester. 
Bumford, Gilbert, Wells. 
Dalby, William, Bristol 
Draycot, Anthony, Lichfield. 
Heskins, Thomas, Sarum. 
Martin, Thomas, Winchester. 
Story, John, Oxford. 



An imperfect catalogue of the Heads of Colleges, Fellows, Pre- 
bendaries, and other dignified Ecclesiastics who opposed the 
Reformation in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign. 

Heads of Colleges, 
Baily, Thomas, Clare Hall, Camb. Marshal, William, Alban Hall, 



Baker, Philip, King*s Coll., Camb. 

Belsire, Alex., St John's, Oxford. 

Bullock, George, St. John's, Camb. 

Chedsey, William, Corp. Christ., 
Oxford. 

Cole, Arthur, Magd. Coll., Ox- 
ford. 

Cosins, Edmund, Catherine Hall, 
Oxford. 

Coveney, Thomas, Magd. Coll., 
Oxford. 

Dugdale, James, Univ. Coll., 
Oxford. 

Ely, William, St. John's Coll., 
Oxford. 



Oxford. 
Moss, William, Trin. [Hall], 

Camb. 
Neale, John, Exeter Coll., Oxford. 
Palmer, Thomas, Glo'ster Hall, 

Oxford. 
Peacock, Thomas, Queen's Coll., 

[Camb.]. 
Philips, Morgan, St. Mary's Hall, 

Oxford. 
Redman, Thomas, Jesus ColL, 

Oxford. 
Slythurst, Thomas, Trin. Coll., 

Oxford. 
Smith, John, Oriel Coll., Oxford. 



Gervase, James, Merton Coll., Taylor, William, Christ's Coll., 



Oxford. 



Camb. 



Henshaw, Henry, Lincoln Coll., Wright, William, Balliol Coll., 



Oxford. 



Oxford. 



Hodgson, Dr., Queen's Coll., Young, John, Pembroke Hall, 
Oxford. Camb. 

Fellows of Colleges in Oxford, 

Appleby, Ambrose, Merton. Bramston, Thos., St John's. 

Atkins, Anthony, Merton. Bursthard, John, New. 

Atslow, Edward, New. Catagre, John, New. 

Atslow, Luke, New. Cope, Alan, Magdalen. 



THE DEPRIVED CLERGY 



233 



Darrel, Thomas, New. 
DawkeSi Robert, Merton. 
Doleman, Thomas, All Souls. 
Dorman, Thomas, All Souls. 
Fenn, Jas., C.C.C. 
Fenn, Robert, New. 
Fitzsimons, Leond., Trinity. 
Fowler, John, New. 
Giffard, Robert, Merton. 
Hyde, David, Merton. 
Ingram, John, New. 
Knott, William, New. 
Marshal, John, New. 
Meredith, Jonas, St. John*s. 
Noble, John, New. 



Potts, John, Merton. 
Poyntz, Robert, St John's. 
Rastal, John, New. 
Scott, Thos., Trinity. 
Shaw, Henry, St. John's. 
Shelley, Richard, New. 
Sheprey, William, C.C.C. 
Stapleton, Thos., New, and Preb. 

of Chichester. 
Stopes, Leon., St. John's. 
White, Richard, New. 
Wiggs, William, St. John's. 
Windon, Ralph, St. John's. 
Windsor, Miles, C.C.C. 
Wright, John, Magdalen. 



Chap. XII 



The reader may judge how defective this catalogue is, from 
what is observed by Mr. Wood, the Oxford historian. He tells us 
that twenty-three Fellows of New College only refused to subscribe 
to Queen Elizabeth's Injunctions. As for the nonconformists in 
other colleges, we have no satisfactory account of them : and still 
less of the number that opposed the Reformation in the University 
of Cambridge. 



Prebendaries, 



Allen, Wm., York. 
Arden, John, York. 
Bicherdyk, John, Wells. 
Bilson, Richard, Wells. 
Blaxton, — , Christ Church, 

Oxford. 
Bovel, Henry, Southwell. 
Capel, Giles, Wells. 
Collingwood, Wm., Chester. 
Cratford, Edward, Wells. 
Dalton, — , Durham. 
Derbyshire, Thos., St. Paul's. 
Dominick, Rich., Sarum. 
Faucet, — , Lincoln. 
Fowler, — , Sarum. 
Godsalve, Edward, Chichester. 
Harcourt, — , Norwich. 
Harding, Thomas, Sarum. 



Henning, John, Wells. 
Hill, — , Canterbury. 
Hutchinson, Robert, Wells. 
Johnson, Robert, York. 
Langridge, — , Winchester. 
Lilly, George, St. Paid's. 
Ludbyt Richard, Hereford. 
Mannors, Robert, Lincoln. 
Marley, Nicholas, Durham. 
Morton, Nicholas, York. 
Powel, David, Sarum. 
Salvin, — , Durham. 
Tresham, Wm., Ch. Ch., Oxford. 
Tute, — , Durham. 
Villiers, Thomas, Lincoln. 
Willerton, — , St. Paid's, London. 
Wills, Wm., Lincoln. 
Wilson, Thomas, Chester. 



234 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. XII 



Other dignified Ecclesiastics. 



Barret, John, D.D., Carmelite. 
Bavant, John, D.D., Professor. 
Bell, Gregory, Licentiate Div. 
Bernard, Richard, D.D. 
Bristowe, Richard, Lie. Div. 
Browborough, Edward, D.D. 
Butler, Thos., D.D. 
Carter, William, D.D. 
Davison, — , D.D. 
Fleming, Richard, D.D. 
Hall, Richard, D.D. 
Hart, — , Legum Doctor. 
Haywood, Caspar, D.D. 
Lewis, Owen, Legum Professor. 
Mather, — , D.D. 
Matthews, — , D.D. 
Michy, Richard, Legum D. 
Neale, Thomas, D. Professor. 
Nicholson, Richard, D.D. 
Palmer, George, Lqgum D. 
Parker, Charles, D.D. 
Parol, John, Legum D. 
Paul, John, Legum D. 
Pendleton, Henry, D.D. 



Pomrel, William, Licentiate D. 

Quemerfbrd, Nicholas, Lie Div. 

Sanders, Nicholas, L^am Pro£ 

Seaton, John, D.D., Professor. 

Sedge, — , D.D. 

Sedgwick, Thomas, D.D., Pro- 
fessor. 

Smith, Richard, D.D., Vice- 
Chancellor, Oxford. 

Tempest, Robert, L^[um Doctor. 

Tenant, Stephen, D.D. 

Vaux, Cuthbert, Lie Div. 

Vaux, Richard, D.D. 

Walley, Robert, D.D. 

Webb, Laurence, Legum D. 

Weedon, Nicholas, D.D. 

White, John, T>.T>. 

Williamson, — , D.D. 

Windham, Edmund or William, 
D.D. 

Wood, Richard, D.D. 

Zoon, William, Legum D., Pro- 
fessor. 



Superiors of Religious Houses and Schools. 



Bennet, — , Master of Salisbury 

School. 
Chauncey, Maurice, Prior of the 

Carthusians at Sheen, with hb 

monks. 
Feckenham, John, Abbot of 

Westminster and twenty-eight 

monks. 
Fenn, John, Master of School at 

St. Edmundsbury. 
Fox, Stephen, Guardian of Fran- 
ciscans at Greenwich, with his 

friars. 



Freeman, — , Master of St. Paul's 
School. 

Good, Wm., Master of School at 
Wells. 

Harris, John, Master of School at 
Bristol. 

Hubert, Hugh, Confessor of Sion 
House. 

Hyde, Thomas, Master of Win- 
chester School. 

Iveson, Thomas, Master of School 
at Durham. 



THE DEPRIVED CLERGY 



235 



Palmer, Catherine, Abbess of Sion. 

Peryn, William, Prior of Domi- 
nicans in Smithfield, with his 
friars. 

Plumtree, — , Master of School 
in Lincoln. 



Potts, John, Master of School in Chap. XII 
Leicester. 

Shelley, Sir Richard, Prior of 
St. John's of Jerusalem. 

Vaux, Laurence, Warden of 
Manchester Coll. Church. - 



*To these [concludes Tiemey] may be added many more of 
less note, whose names I have met with in private records.' 



of the 
registers 
is neces- 



CHAPTER XIII 

THE DEPRIVED CLERGY I EVIDENCE OF REGISTERS 

Chap. XIII The main puq)ose we have had before us in this inquiry 
A«TZ1« has been to discover the number of the clergy who were 

An inves- o^ 

tigation deprived during the first six years of Elizabeth's reign 
for refusing to acquiesce in the settlement of religion. 
We have seen from a survey of the extant lists and 
sary- estimates that the traditional numbers are unsatisfactory: 

can we reach a more precise conclusion? At this point, 
then, we turn to the episcopal registers, which do not 
seem to have been systematically consulted with the special 
purpose of getting out such a list for all the dioceses of 
England and Wales. This search we have now completed, 
thanks to the kind help of the bishops' registrars, who in 
all cases gave us free and ready access to the documents 
that we wished to see. 
Nature and But what did we expect to find? It is well known that 
extent of ^j^^ jjg^g ^f institutions to vacant benefices have been 
evidence. Carefully kept in most dioceses from the thirteenth or 
fourteenth century onwards. The entries do not merely 
give the name of the clerk instituted, but in most cases 
that of his predecessor as well, and the cause of the vacancy, 
whether per mortem naturalem A.B. nltimi et immediati 
incumbentis^ or per cessionem^ or per resignationem^ or per 
deprivationem. The last is sometimes varied by per 
amotionem or destitutionemy or else by the combination 
of two of these three nouns. It was, then, from the entries 
in which deprivation was assigned as the reason of vacancy 
that we hoped to make up a full list of all who, from 
whatever cause, were deprived in the period under review. 



THE DEPRIVED CLERGY 237 

►r eleven of the twenty-five English and Welsh dioceses Chap.XIII 
the sixteenth century we were able to obtain complete 
ts, which will be found at the end of the chapter. Else- 
lere we were not so fortunate. Thus the records required 
ve disappeared entirely in the dioceses of Bristol, Bangor, 
andaff^ St. Asaph. At Lincoln there is a lamentable 
p from 1547 to 1595. At York the usual register 
pears to be wanting for the critical years t 55 8 to 1565, 
which latter year it begins, but is in a bad state of 
eservation. Happily the lacuna is made up to some 
tent by two books of institutions, the one labelled 1547- 
53, the other 1553-1571. In the latter, however, there 
a gap from September, 1558, to May 24, 1561. At 
orcester there is a curious omission of all entries between 
Dvember, 1563, and the year 1571. At Ely there is no 
:ord between June, 1559, ^"^ October, 1562. The same 
true of Carlisle between November, 1558, and 1561. 
)r the remaining extant lists the commencing dates are 
follows: Durham, May 22, 15^0; Hereford, February 3, 
60; Salisbury, May 7, 1560; Winchester, March 26, 1561. 
At first sight, then, we have no very sufficient reward Supplc- 
r the labour of our search, if we can only present com- ^^J^^ 
ete lists for the following eleven dioceses : Bath and at Lam- 
ells, Canterbury, Chester, Chichester, Exeter, Gloucester, beth, and 
>ndon, Norwich, Peterborough, Rochester, and St. Davids, certmcates 
it we can supplement the lists from other sources, and Crown 
A so approach completeness. For the gaps in Hereford, P/^^n^- 
disbury, and Winchester, due to the vacancy of the sees, 
* have full sede vacante information at Canterbury, so 
at those three dioceses are rendered complete. From 
e same source we can make up similar omissions during 
e period of vacancy for those dioceses which have no 
gister extant, viz. Bangor, Bristol, Lincoln, Llandaff, 
:. Asaph. We hoped to find some aid in the bishops' 
rtificates at the Public Record Office, but where they 
vered the years with which we are concerned, the in- 
rmation was so meagre that we gained little. At this 
)int we turned to the lists of Crown presentations for 



irfi THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 

Ct9At Xltt KItzabeth'f retgn preserved amoogst the Lansdowne MSS. 

These zppe^T to have been taken from die Patent RolK. 

and are very numerous. The Crown had in its <nm r^ht 

a very large amount of patronage, and rlainwH also to 

present to all livings in episcopal gift during the vacancjr 

of the see. In this way the Crown presented to some 

.03 vacant benefices between the banning of the re^n 

and Lady Day, i.0i, when all the sees except Bristol 

and Gloucester (April 19, 1562) had been filled up. From 

March 2,5, 1561, to July 18, 1563, a similar period, the 

number of Crown presentations falls to 543. The value 

of this very full list consists in the fact that, in at least 

half the cases, the name of the predecessor and the reason 

of vacancy are fully stated. Accordingly we were able to 

make very useful additions of institutions, or at all events 

presentations, for the dioceses where the registers fail us, 

and to find the particulars of many deprivations. 

The list of From the materials thus described we first drew up 

deprived ^ catalogue of all those who, for whatever cause, were stated 

frfmih*:%c by these returns to have been deprived. In order to 

combined ensurc its completeness we added in all names of persons 

materia ». ^^^^ j^y SandcTs to have been deprived \ It seemed to 

us that in this way we should approximate to the extreme 

possible number of those ejected from their cures during 

the early years of Elizabeth. 

Thiji lijit Reflexion, however, will at once show that this extreme 

"*^^r*i upward limit cannot fail to be fallacious. The number 

careful '■ 

pruning, is 480^ Are we to assert that so many were actually 
deprived for refusing to conform to the settlement of 
religion? Assuredly not It does not, for instance, follow 
from an entry of institution in any register post depriva-- 
tionem A,B, that the said A.B. was deprived for Roman 
sympathies. Of course the probability of such a cause 
would be somewhat high in the first year or two of the 
reign, but it lessens as time goes on ; and, as is well known, 
the deprivations, in and after 1564, were mainly of puritan 
clergy. Again, there may have been a long gap between 

^ For his list see above, p. aas. * See the lists in the Appendix, p. q$2. 



THE DEPRIVED CLERGY 



239 



privation and institution, so that some institutions Chap.xiii 
) or 1560 may have occurred after deprivation that 
Feet in the reign of Mary. In fact from the visitors* 
of 1559, and elsewhere^, we find that many livings 
en vacant for some time *. Then, again, in the list 
les given by Sanders in 1571, very slight inspection 
that some of his deprived were never clergymen 
others conformed at first, and afterwards (sometimes 
ifter) saw fit to change their opinions. In fact his 
atains some whom we now should call perverts \ 
to say, after an acquiescence which may or may 
ve been feigned, they at last renounced the Church 
7land for union with Rome. Other names given 
nders we cannot verify from the registers, though 
loubtless correctly belong to the years 1 558-1 564. 
clear, then, that having found the extreme possible Method 
r of deprived clergymen warranted by our evidence, °^ '^ 
re now to eliminate from this total those wrongfully 
id, either as being improperly designated by Sanders 



the return of 1564, p. 245. 
above, p. 83. In this connexion 
r Archbishop Sandys to Cecil 
nay be quoted (MSS. Add. 
', 949). He refers to the 
)f York. * Oftentimes where 
e 1,000 or 1,500 people in a 
here is neither parson nor 
t only a stipend of £'j or £^ 
ite. And because that is too 
ind a man in these days, such 
re commonly (lacuna) for 
of that extremity served 
ith a (lacuna) or the curate 
:zt parish. This is (lacuna) 

inconvenience throughout 
ole realm (lacuna) more 

in these parts.' 
>d deal of capital has been 

Bishop Cox* return for Ely 
Eis quoted by Strype {Parker^ 
in which the Bishop says, 
ida sane et deploranda hujus 
ts fades,' etc. This return 



is in the British Museum (Add. 
MSS. 5813, f. 105 (85). It givesthirty- 
four benefices as vacant out of 159. 
The next return of 1563 (Harl. 594, 
f. 196) shows that of 199 parishes 
mentioned in Ely diocese only nine- 
teen are vacant. Of these nineteen 
one is on lease, two vacant post mor- 
tem, and the remainder * for exility of 
the living.' The fact is that * exility 
of living* was a very general cause of 
vacancy, and is often so noted at the 
time, e.g. C.C.C. returns for Bath 
and Wells, 1561. See further, p. 945. 
The lament of Cox in 1561 does not 
mean that this diocese or any other 
was unserved by clergy, rather it 
refers to the 53 (not 57) incumbents 
who were non-resident, so that 53 + 
34 benefices had no resident clergy- 
man. His list immediately appended 
by him to his complaint shows that 
there were 103 priests and seven 
deacons belonging to the diocese. 



240 THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 

Cha^XIII as clergymen, or as havii^ been deprived after 1564. In 
Ibis way we subtract twenty-four, whose names are given 
below ^ in our third list Of the remaining 456 there are 
about eighty that we cannot identify for certain \ It is im- 
possible to judge the proportion of these eighty that should 
be included within our six years. Striking them all off for 
the moment as uncertain we still have about 376. Of these 
there arc 108 italicised in our first list below' who 
acquiesced at first, and then were deprived, either for per- 
version to Rome or some other fault. For maldi^ such 
a distinction we have a certain amount of evidence, and 
if our materials were fuller the 108 would be augmented. 
Thus we have the lists of signatures alluded to above, 
which prove that in five dioceses some at all events signed 
in J 5.59 and were deprived later. Then Canon Dixon has 
kindly drawn our attention to the diocesan returns of 1561, 
which refer to the southern province only. These lists, 
preserved at C. C. C, Cambridge, are very full and give 
the names of incumbents, and often furnish other particulars. 
From these names and particulars we find that at least 
thirty-five of the 108 referred to above were in possession 
of their benefices in that year. These then must have 
acquiesced at firsts as did the signatories of 1559; and 
if we had these signatures and returns complete for all 
the dioceses and not for some only, it is at all events 
probable that we should find amongst the residuum a large 
number who signed and conformed and were then deprived. 
Besides the signatures and returns we have the Register 
of the University of Oxford, which shows that some of the 
deprived took degrees in the University after May, 1559, 
and therefore by the terms of the Supremacy Act and 
the Assurance of Supremacy must have acknowledged the 
supremacy, the Injunctions, and the Prayer Book. Some 
of the Cambridge men, too, we can similarly distinguish 
by the aid of Cooper's Athenae Cantabrigienses, The net 
result, then, from these various sources of information is 
to show that at the very least some 108 conformed to the 

^ See p. 969. ' See p. a66. ' See p. 259. 



THE DEPRIVED CLERGY 241 

settlement, and were afterwards, but before November, 1564, Chap.xiii 
deprived of their benefices. 

We have thus eliminated or distinguished a large pro- Objections 
portion of the 480. We must now anticipate one or two ^P"" , 

* , sidered : 

objections that may be made to our deductions. It will i. in com- 
be said, for instance, that on our own confession the pieteness 
registers are imperfect, and that a full return of deprivations registers. 
in Wales, in Bristol, and in the large diocese of Lincoln, 
would bring up our 480 to a much higher figure. No 
doubt the extreme limit we have reached would have to be 
raised, but we much doubt whether the increase would 
be large. In this connexion it is interesting to notice that 
despite all the prophecies of wholesale deprivation which 
were made in the first half of 1559^, no contemporary 
proof exists of the fulfilment of such predictioa Stapleton 
and other Romanist writers of the time make no point of 
wholesale deprivation 2. Indeed, so far as we have noticed, 
Sanders in 157 1 was the first to take up the question of 
numbers, and we have seen all that his utmost vigilance 
was able to effect '*. There is, then, no tradition that 
a large number left their benefices in the early years of 
the reign, either generally or in the dioceses where the 
registers fail us. It may be mentioned too that the 
returns of 1561 show remarkably few vacant benefices 
in Wales, and few in proportion in Lincoln, though more 
in Bristol*. This would scarcely be the case if a large 
number of incumbents had been turned out for refusing 
to conform. In the admitted difficulty* of finding suitable 
clergymen to fill vacant posts at that time, it is very 
noticeable that so few benefices are returned as void. 
But even if we could grant that the gross number of 
deprived should be raised considerably, a reduction would 
still have to be made. Thus, it must be repeated, we have 
the visitation signatures of only five dioceses, and these 

^ See above, p. 41. out of 954, Lincoln 38 out of 797. 

* See, however, the note on p. 951. Compare with these London 67, Pe- 

* Cap. xii. terborough 90 out of 950, Worcester 

* The actual numbers are : Bangor 98 out of 199. 

3, St. Asaph o, Llandaff 9, Bristol 38 * See Strype, ^mm. i. 189. 

R 



242 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap.XIII not quite perfect ; the signatures in the remaining dioceses 
""" would certainly in like manner include some on our list 
who would, by the fact of signing, be proved to have 
acquiesced at the b^inning of the reign. It must further 
be remembered that the C. C. C. returns of 1561 do not 
extend to the province of York ; a like return for the four 
northern dioceses would probably reveal the names of some 
still in possession who now are returned as deprived. 

Another objection, sometimes made*, is based on the 
very large number of ordinations which appear in Parker's 
register during the first year or two of his primacy. It 
is argued that such an excessive number of deacons and 
priests would have been needless had not the vacancies 
been very numerous. The supposition is, we presume, 
that all these candidates for ordination had titles in the 
Canterbury and perhaps the London dioceses. The diffi- 
culty, however, may be soon dismissed, for an examination * 
of the names given shows that many of the newly ordained 



ii. The 
large 
number 
of men 
ordained. 



' For instance by the late Mr. 
Pocock, Guardian y November, 189a. 

'* Parker appears to have delegated 
ordination to one of his suffragans, 
usually Berkeley of Bath and Wells, 
or Bullingham of Lincoln : indeed 
from his register he cannot be proved 
to have ordained priests and deacons 
certainly as far as 1570, whatever the 
reason may be. There are 239 cases 
of ordination as deacon, priest, or 
deacon and priest between Decem- 
ber aa, 1559, and January, 1563. As 
a rule the number ordained on each 
occasion is not large. The difficulty 
relates to the great ordination in 
March, 1560, when there were lao 
deacons, 37 priests, 6 deacons and 
priests. Parker himself was to have 
ordained on March 3, according to a 
notice in English preserved in the 
Register at Lambeth (f. ai9). On 
March 10 he commissioned Bulling- 
ham to act for him. Now in no case 
is the diocese appended to a name in 
the list of those ordained on that date, 



and the assumption of Mr. Pocock 
and others is based on this silence. 
We have rearranged all the names in 
alphabetical order, and thus discover 
that the diocese is affijced to at least 
eleven of these deacons when ordain- 
ed as priests on some subsequent oc* 
casion next month or later in the year. 
Most of these eleven belong to dioceses 
in which there was as yet no bishop, 
for on March 10, 1560. there were only 
eleven bishops in possession of sees. 
At the same time it must be allowed 
that one or two of the eleven belong to 
Bangor and London, for which dio- 
ceses there were bishops consecrated 
in Dec. 1559. But further, we make 
out that nineteen of the deacons or- 
dained in March, 1560, were instituted 
to benefices in all parts of England 
before 1563, and that for a few of the 
priests ordained on that occasion the 
diocese is specified in previous lists, 
when they were ordained deacons in 
the February or December preceding. 



THE DEPRIVED CLERGY 243 

deacons and priests served their first cures in distant Chap.xiii 
dioceses. In a word, the ordinations at Lambeth were 
not merely for Canterbury, nor yet for London, but for 
all parts of England. And indeed had so large a number 
of ordination candidates been forthcoming for just one or 
two dioceses, how could this be reconciled with the known 
difficulty already alluded to of finding suitable candidates, 
a difficulty which is mentioned more than once by Strype ? 

It will perhaps be objected too that our list contains no i". The 
names of unbeneficed clergy, and that the omission is ^^^^g 
serious. * Curates * in our modern sense of the word were 
not numerous in the sixteenth century, and therefore in 
any case the number deprived could not have been large. 
In the returns of 1561 it is quite the exception to find 
vacancies where a cure was served or assisted by a 
stipendiary curate. At all events we have found no tradi- 
tion or hint in contemporary writers of any deprivation 
amongst the unbeneficed clergy. 

A more important objection is that resignation may iv. The 
frequently have been prompted by unwillingness to accept ^^^^jjj. 
the new r/gime. It is very easy to assert this motive, and of resigna- 
its disproof involves no little labour. We have gone fairly *^°° ^f'" 

consc* — 

into all available evidence, with the result that the con- ^^^ 
tention vanishes. First of all, in glancing through the 
writings of Sanders, Dorman, Rastall, Stapleton and others 
who were active contemporary writers in opposition to the 
Elizabethan settlement, we have not noticed any assertion 
of the kind, beyond that contained in Sanders' list already 
quoted \ In the next place, after making a careful alpha- 

^ Sanders, D^ VisUnli Monarchia^ Dorman's Dtsproof^ 1565 ; Rastalfs 

157 1, answered byG. Acworth, DeVi" Confutation of a Semton pronounced 

stbUi Romanarvkia, 1573, and by Bar- iy M. Juill^ 1564. Rastall was 

tholomew Gierke, Fidilis servisubdito attacked by W, Fulke in a book 

infidiU responstOf 1573 (produced entitled D. Heskins, D. Sanders, and 

under the superintendence of Lord M. Rastall^ accounted three pillars and 

Burleigh and Archbishop Parker; Archpatriarchs of the Popish Syna- 

see above, p. aao) ; Dorman's Proof gogue . . . overthrown and detected of 

of certain Articles in Religion, 1564, their several blasphemous heresies, 1^19' 

answered by Alex. Nowell in his On the fly-leaf of this last work 

Reproof, 1565, and vindicated in occurs a useful (but imperfect) list 

R % 



conscience 



244 '^tiE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 

CuAP.XlIl betical list of nearly all the extant institutions between the 
years 1559 ^^^ ^5^3 ^ ^5^A^ wc do not notice that any of 
those who resigned appear^, for certain, on the contem- 
porary lists of recusants given above, or on the subsequent 
list of Sanders ^ ; nor are they, generally speaking we believe, 
men known to have disliked the settlement. But we are 
able to go a little farther. It has been stated, in reliance, 
we presume, on the difficulty of disproving the assertion, 
that this supposed number of those who resigned for 
conscience sake was considerable \ If this be so, the number 
of resignations during Elizabeth's early years ought to be 
out of all proportion to those of the last years of Mary. 
This is the fairest and perhaps the easiest method of com- 
parison in order to settle the question. We have taken for 
our purpose some four or five dioceses in different parts of 
England, and the result, on a review of the whole comparison, 
is that the average annual number of resignations in these 
dioceses at the end of Mary's reign was 73 J, and during the 
early years of Elizabeth 53 ; so that on the whole the 
resignations are fewer under the altered state of affairs *. In 
order to insure the point, we had a calculation made of all 
the presentations on the Patent Rolls for 1556, 1557, and 
1559 to ^5^3 *• The list embraces presentations to Crown 
benefices throughout all England, but the cause of vacancy 

of books published abroad and which we cannot trace amongst 

directed against the Elizabethan those who resigned. 

settlement. The list notes which ' For these lists see pp. 179 and 

have been as yet answered. Staple- 335. 

ton's earliest work was The Fortrtss ' The statement has frequently 

of the Faith, IS^S* It was followed been made, and quite recenUy it has 

by the Counterblast, directed against been repeated in a correspondence 

Home I See note, p. 251. in the Manchester Guardian^ No- 

' There is a difficulty, of course, vember, 1897. 

in regard to the identification of such *■ For the figures see the com- 

common names as Wood, Smith, &c. parative table, p. 345. 

It is possible that some of those who ^ The calculation was made by the 

bear such familiar titles in Sanders' Rev. George Hennessy, author of 

catalogue ought to be identified with the Novum Repertorium ParachuUe 

their namesakes on our list of insti- Londinense, Mr. Hennessy has made 

tutions. The assertion of the text is lists of all the Patent Roll institutions 

borne out, however, by the large from the earliest times. See below, 

number of unusual names in Sanders p. 247. 



THE DEPRIVED CLERGY 



245 



IS not always stated. The average ascertained resignations Chap.XIII 
for 1556 and 1557 are 9J, and for the first five years of 
Eh'zabeth 8. But once more: there exists in the Public 
Records Office a list^ of vacant benefices which internal 
evidence assigns to the year 1564. In this the reason of 
vacancy is generally but not always given. From the list 
we reckon that out of 427 benefices void at that time, 140 
were so propter exilitatem\ 141 per mortem ; 26 per ces* 
sionem ; 36 only per resignationem ; 3 were sequestered. 
The remaining 81 have no reason whatever assigned for 
vacancy. We submit, therefore, that in face of all this com- 
bined evidence from official returns, in addition to the 
argument from the silence of contemporary writers, the 
assertion of any extensive resignation for conscience sake 
must be finally abandoned. 

COMPARATIVE TABLE OF INSTITUTIONS^ 



Year ending 
March 35. 


Causes of Vacancy, 


Total, 


Death, 


Resignation. 


Other causes. 


1557. 
Bath and Wells... 

Canterbury 

Durham , 


15 
8 

8 

31 

73 

10 

23 
5 

49 
79 


12 
8 

3 

41 
34 

2 

15 
I 

21 

32 


2 
7 

5 
23 

2 
8 

8 
25 


29 

23 
II 

77 
130 

14 
46 

6 

78 

136 


London 


Norwich ,,, 


1558. 
Bath and Wells... 
Canterbury 


Durham 


London 


Norwich 



* The reference is S. P. Dom. Eliz. 
Addenda xii. 108. The list shows 
(what was noted above, p. 239) that 
propter exiliiatem was a constant 
reason of vacancy at this time. 

* See above, p. 244. We have 
reckoned these numbers from the 



bishops* registers to Lady Day in 
each year. We have not counted 
institutions in which particulars 
of the vacancy are omitted. Under 
the head of 'other causes' will be 
chiefly comprehended deprivation 
and cession. 



TOE tUZdBZT^AS CLEXGT 









Ba^asdWfi^.. 



Xonidi 62 

Baib and Wcli* ... 13 

CasMihaj 39 

Dcrtuun 4 

Lockdm ^ 

Norwich 57 



Bath and Wells.. 

Canterbury 

Durham 

London 

1563. 

Hath and Wells.. 

Canterbury 

Durham 

I»ndon 



1564- 
Uath and Wells ,. 

Canterbury 

Durham 

Londm 



THE DEPRIfED CLERGY 



PalnH Eoll firtsatialio 


I! far Iht tufioff of Exgland. 


i 


^1 


^■! 


■^1 


? 
















March as, 1556, lo Mardi 34, 1557. on account of 


10 


.0 


<; 


166 


191 


1SS7 


155a 


16 


1 






367 


Nov. 17, 1558, to Nov. 16, 1559 „ 


33 


3 


6 


I7<) 




'559 


i5fc 


30 


'■* 


48 


m 


333 


■560 


'561 


i4 


a 


1 


\ti 


■*> 


,. 1561 


'5&« 


-> 


1 


.<» 


lof, 


■as 


„ 1563 


1563 


JO 


s 


a 


?)i 


P.S 


.. . 1563 


■564 


7 


« 


' 


.5 


lit 



All available evidence, therefore, upon which we have Conciu- 
been able to lay our hands seems to give 480 as the total ^°"* 
ascertainable number of deprivations from all causes be- 
tween November 17, 155*), and the same day of that month 
in 1564. Of this number twenty-four have to be subtracted 
as having been improperly introduced. Of the remainder 
at least 108 can be proved to have acquiesced in the settle- 
ment for a longer or shorter period ; and 35 of these 108 
were in possession of their benefices as late as 1561, Of 
the 348 now remaining, 80 are given on Sanders' authority, 
and cannot be certainly identified in the registers, though 
doubtless some of the names arc accurate enough. Thus, 
the list comes fairly below 300, and of these an uncertain 
proportion were, in all probability, deprived for other 
offences than refusal to acknowledge the settlement of 
religion. On the w4iole, then, we cannot believe that many 
more than 200 were deprived for such refusal within the 
limits that we have taken. It is, of course, disappointing 
that we cannot give an exact number, but we have at all 
events shown that when Elizabeth came to the throne no 
wholesale turning out of the clergy took place. Com- 
paratively few were deprived at once. The majority 
acquiesced in the settlement, at all events outwardly, and 
a proportion of these seem to have changed their attitude, 
and to have been ejected as time went on. 



CHAPTER XIV 

SUMMARY OF THE INQUIRY 

Chap. XIV We have now completed our survey of the first six years 
Facts es- ^^ Elizabeth's reign from the special point of view proposed, 
tabiished : We have examined the relation of the clergy to the settle- 
ment of religion during that period, and have attempted to 
estimate the number of those deprived for their refusal 
to conform. It may be convenient to sum up in a few 
short paragraphs the chief facts that, we hope, have been 
established. 
Initial i. At the outset of the reign, the clergy, as a body, were 

hostility of jjQstiie to any change in the existing state of affairs so far 

the cler&ry. 

* as the Church was concerned. This hostility was shown by 
the protest of Convocation, and by the resolute opposition 
maintained by the bishops in parliament 
The basis ii. The Supremacy and Uniformity Acts which were 
of the before parliament during the spring of 1559, together with 
1559- ' ^^^ revived and amended Edwardine Injunctions, formed 
the basis of the settlement which was ready by Midsummer. 
Under the Supremacy Act the Privy Council were em- 
powered to administer an oath admitting the supremacy, 
and for refusing to take this oath the bishops, with one 
exception, were, in conformity with the Act, deprived. 
Royal iii. Meanwhile under the same Act a royal visitation of- 

Visitation, \yQxh provinces was arranged, and a summary form of oath 
was prepared by the visitors, in which the Supremacy, the 
Prayer Book, and the Injunctions were sworn to. This oath 
was administered throughout the country during August, 
September, and October, 1559. We have a list of absentees 
in the North, and a list of those who took the oath survives 



SUMMARY OF THE INQUIRY 249 

for five dioceses in the South. These seem to prove that Chap. XIV 
nearly half the clergy absented themselves from the visita- 
tion. Very few, however, were deprived by the visitors in the 
North. There is no evidence for the number then ejected in 
the South, except a vague reference in one of Jewel's letters. 

iv. A permanent ecclesiastical commission, erected in First ec- 
accordance with the Supremacy Act, began its work, clesiasticai 
apparently, in the first week of November, 1559. It took gj^^ ^g. 
cognizance at that time of all cases of refusal to acknowledge tobiished, 
the settlement which had been referred to it by the visitors. ^^^^' 
This was the first work of the commissioners, and they 
continued to meet at intervals until July, 156a, when afresh 
commission was named. They were entrusted with all 
manner of spiritual jurisdiction, but no record of their 
proceedings exists, save in fragments and allusions. They 
do not appear to have carried out their powers of punish- 
ment and deprivation with much rigour, and from the 
surviving lists of prisoners it is certain that very few 
people, either clerical or lay, were imprisoned in London 
on account of religion by this commission. Some, however, 
were by them placed in custody, including eight of the 
deprived bishops. 

V. What proportion of those who evaded subscription Metro- 
during the visitation of 1 559 were induced by the com- P?l'^*^ 

^ ^^-^ -^ visitation 

missioners and other authorities to take the oath in the of the 
months that followed cannot be ascertained. The impression South, 
left is that no great diligence was used to enforce subscription. ^^ 
The metropolitical visitation of 1560, continued into 1561, 
did not administer the oath, but inquired into the working of 
the Uniformity Act, bringing pressure to bear on those who 
ignored that Act. On the whole a tolerable state of con- 
formity was discovered in the province of Canterbury. 

vi. In the North the sees were vacant until I56i,and noVisiution 
effort was made to tender the oath after October, i559-?f^^f 
Meanwhile in May of that year a commission was issued 1561. ' 
to the Council of the North to deal with those who had not 
taken the oath in 1559. An episcopal visitation therefore 
tendered the oath in conjunction, probably, with some of 



aso 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Chap. XIV 



New ec- 
clesiastical 
commis- 
sion, July 
ao, 156a. 



Penal 
Statutes of 

1563. 



Sanders' 
list of the 
deprived. 



the Council of the North. It was probably only partially 
successful, and in 1562 the Council was constituted a kind 
of ecclesiastical commission for the North, but we have no 
record of its proceedings, 

vii. So far there had been more show of vigour than of 
rigour. In the middle of 156a fears were aroused by the 
condition of affairs in France. Disorders in that country 
seems to have raised hopes in the minds of those who had 
signed reluctantly, and of those who had evaded the oath 
so far. Many of the deprived clergy were celebrating Mass, 
&c., in private. Hence a new commission was issued in 
July, 1562, with new procedure, viz. restraint and surveil- 
lance, but still proceedings were mainly in terrorem. 

viii. Thus the new commission failed to awe the recal- 
citrant clergy. In 1563 there was much fear of papal 
sympathy. A new parliament acknowledged that the penal 
laws had not been pressed. Hence the Assurance of Su- 
premacy Act was passed, and marks a new stage. The oath 
could now be applied by more elaborate local machinery 
to those already deprived, as well as to those in office. 
Recusancy was after a second refusal to incur a traitor's 
death. The bishops might administer the oath to the 
clergy without assessors, and spiritual censures were made 
more sure by the de excommunicato capietido Act. There 
were however no deaths under the Assurance Act for some 
time to come. It was hoped that the cases of imprisonment 
inflicted by these two acts would prove a deterrent suffi- 
ciently strong to render the extreme penalty needless. On 
the whole the operation of the severe penal laws of 1563 
was not rigorously pressed, nor were any local commissions 
for the execution of the Act issued before November, 1564, 

ix. Looking back over the first six years of the reign 
there is no contemporary evidence of the number of the 
clergy who were actually deprived during the period. An 
attempt was made by Nicholas Sanders to draw up such 
a list in 1571. This list exhibits many inaccuracies. To 
it, however, may be traced all subsequent attempts to 
estimate the deprivations. As Sanders' catalogue is inac- 



SUMMARY OF THE INQUIRY 



251 



curate it is necessary to abandon it and the calculations Chap, xiv 
derived from it ^. 

X. A complete search of all extant episcopal registers Evidence 
and other official documents proves that the extreme ascer- ° ^^^^ 
tainable number of the clergy deprived far all causes be- 
tween November 17, 1558, and November 17, 1564, is about 
400. To these may be added eighty more whose names 
are preserved by Sanders, but are not to be identified in 
official authorities. From this extreme possible number, 
480, large deductions have to be made. Against such 
subtraction must be set a certain proportion to be added 
for those dioceses where the registers fail us. On a review 
of the whole evidence it is impossible to conclude that many 
more than aoo were deprived within the period contem- 
plated (1558-1564). 



^ Since the note on p. 243 was 
written, we have read through An 
Addiiion with an Apology to the causes 
of burning of PauCs Churchy prefixed 
to Pilkington's Confutation^ iS^S- 
The Addition says ^some [clergymen] 
they deprive from their livings, some 
they commit to prison/ At the end 
of the volume certain Romanist 
questions are propounded and 
answered. In the fourth of these 
it is stated : ' the bishops be in prison 
and put from all their livings, and 
a great number of the clergy have 
lost all their livings.' Pilkington in 
his answer to the questions does not 
notice the point of numbers. The 
sentence in the Addition would go 



to prove that the ' great number ' is 
more or less rhetorical. With the 
lapse of half a century the ' some * of 
the Addition was still further multi- 
plied. Parsons in his Three Con- 
versions of England, 1603, speaks of 
the ejected clergy as ' a multitude of 
learned witnesses, not to speak of in- 
finite others of less degree' (p. 964). 
His authority is the list of Sanders. 
The Supplication of the Lay Catholics 
to the King's Majesty^ i^4» quoted in 
the Appendix to The Fiery Trial of 
GocTs Saints, 161 2, says: 'about 1,000 
of them abandoned their livings 
rather than they would change their 
refigion.' 



[Note : For Bishop Stanley of Sodor and Man see the remarks of Prof W, E, 
Collins * The English Reformation ' p. 65 noU. See too above, p. 88.] 



APPENDIX I 



■♦•- 



Lists of Clergymen deprived, 1558-1564, 



FIRST LTSTK 



A PP. I 



Name with daU of successor. 



/. Abowen 


. R. 64 


R. Adams 


S.R.60 


/. Alford . 


. R.64 


W. Allen, 


S. 


T. Alston . 


. R.63 


Simon Anderson 


. R.61 


Griflfin ap David 


. R. 62 


Amb, Appleby . 


S. 


R. AppUtoft . 


. R.61 



Cure and daU of instUtUioH, 

Mount Bures, Lon. 63. 

Sparsholt, Win. 

Stondon, Lon.' 

Prin. St. Mary's Hall, Ox. ' 

East Langdon, Cant. 45. 

Hingham, Norw. 56. 

Stowe, Her. 52. 

Fell, of Merton ColL, Ox.* 

Offton, Norw. 56*. 



* This list contains the names of all those known to have been deprived 
for any reason whatever during these six years. Those in italics are proved, 
on the evidence given in the footnotes, or by the date of their institution 
annexed in the second column, to have acquiesced in the settlement for 
a longer or shorter period. The date in the fii-st column refers to the year 
in which the successor was instituted. 

Abbreviations used : — 

R. = Diocesan Register. Cf. p. 236. 

S. 59 =1^ Signed in 1559. Cf p. loa. 

Abs. 59 = Absent from the Visitation, 1559. C£ p. 83. 

S. B Sanders. Cf. p. 825. 

C. C. C. ~ The Corpus Christi returns. Cf. pp. 160, 040. 



Rest. 
Res. 
Fasti \ 
Aih, \ ' 

Gutch * 
Boase ■ 
A AT. B, « 

' S. 59. 

* B.A. 60; M.A. 63. 



Restored. Cf p. 74. 
Resigned. 

Wood's Fasti and Athenae (Bliss). 

His edition of Wood's Annals, 
Register of Oxford University^ vol. L 
Dictionary of National Biography, 

' Res. 1560; ordained abroad 61 or 6a. 

" S. 59. 



LISTS OF CLERGYMEN DEPRIVED^ 1558-1564 253 



Nanu with date of successor. 

T. Arden . . . . R. 61 

R.63 
R.61 



Nick. Aspinall 


. R.64 


W. Assheley . 


. R.63 


Ant. Atkins 


S. 


J. Atkinson 


. R.59 


T. Atkinson 


S. R. 59 


JV. Atkinson . 


. R.63 


F. BaHngton 


S. R. 63 


T. Bailey 


S. 


/. Baker . 


. R.60 


P. Baker . 


S. 


J. Balkeye 


R. 


N. Bamford 


. R.64 


W. Barrett 


. R.61 


R. Barslow 


. R.62 


/. Bartlett 


. R.61 


G. Barton . 


. R.61 


Rob. Barton 


. R.63 


W. Barton 


. R.61 


G. Basset . 


. R.60 


Ralph Bayne. . 




G. BeU . 


. S.R. 


A. Belsire 


S. 


£. Benigfeld 


. R.62 


/. Bent 


. R.63 


L. Bilson . . . 


. R.62 



Curt and date of insiituiion. 

Preb. Ill Wore. 58. 

Preb. Bartonshaw, Her. 59. 

Hartlebury, Wore. 

Preb. York, 56. 

Stepney, Lon. 62. 

Moreton Corbett, C. and L. 39 *. 

Fell. Merton Coll., Ox. * 

Whiston, Yk. 54. 

Sedbergh, Ch. 54. 

Shalford, Lon. ' 

Hols worthy, Ex. 62 *. 

Master Clare, Camb. 58 *. 

Stamford Rivers, Lon. 53 *. 

Prov. King's, Camb. 59. 

Hargrave, Norw. 56. 

Fenny Bentley, C. and L. 

Bentley, Lieh. 61. 

Longford, 56. 

Braintree, Lon. 56^. 

Stortford, Lon. 56 ". 

St. Swithin, Lon. 

? Holies worth, Ex. 63. 

Corringham, Lon. 58 •. 

Snitterfield, Wore. 57. 

Sowton, Ex. 

Bishop of Gov. and Lieh. 54. 

Beaulieu, W^in. 55. 

East Ilsley, Sar. 54. 

Pres. St. John's Coll., Ox. 55. 

IV Canon of Ch. Ch. 

R. Hanborough ^^ 

Preb. St. Endellion, Ex. 

Tieheneote, Pet. 56 ". 

Preb. Sarum ". 

Preb. Winton. 

Preb. Wells. 

Kingsworthy, Win. 58. 



App I 



* S. 59. • Dep. 59 (Gutch, ii. 137, 146). » S. 59. C.CC. 61. 

^ D.D. 60. Extra hoc rcgnum Angliae sine licentia regia fugit (Reg.)* 
» See Mullinger, ii. 177, at Douay. • S. 59. '' S. 59. CC.C. 61. 

■ S. 59. • S. 59. ^^ Gutch, ii. 143. Died as Rector, 1567. 

" C.CC. 61. " Called by Tiemey, R. Bilson. 



a54 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Art, I Nam* with dak of mieet$tor. 

J. Blaxton . . . S. R. 59 



R. Blunston 


, . . R.59 


R, Blythman , 
R. Bolbelt or Be 


. R.61 
}bbet. . R.64 


£. Bonner • 


• . 59 


G. Bourne 


. R.60 


H. Bovell . 


S.R.62. 


J. Bowen . 


R. 


J. BoxaU . 


R.60.S. 


T. Bradley 

R, Brambarougi 

T. Bramston 


. R.64 
1 . R. 63. S. ? 

S. 


T. Bromhedd , 


. R.60 


J. Bryckebecke, 
becke 


or Byrte- R. 63 


T, Buckmaster , 


. R.63 


G Bullock 


• • Xv* ^. 


T. Burbank 


. R.64 


C. Burdctt 


S.R.60 


G. Bumford 


R.61.S. 


W. Burton 


. . . R.59 


W. Burye . 
/?. But tell. 


. . . R.59 
. R.63 


T, Byam . 


. R.62 


J Byckerdyke 
T. Byrche 


R. 59. S. 
. R.62 


R, Calner . 


. R.60 


R. Carr, LL.D 


. . R.59 


R. Carrier 


. . • R.64 


H, Carter . 


. R.62 


W. Carter, D.D 


S.R.61 


S, Caston . 


. . • R.64 


Dominic Chane 


. R.61 



Cure amd date ofmMHitdkm. 

Archd. Brecon, 54. 
Preb. Ex. 
Bratton, Ex. 
Ordsall, Yk. 54. 
Preb. Wells *. 
Donhead St. Mary, Sar. 
Cokeley, Norw. 63- 
6p. of London, 54. 
Bp. Bath and Wells, 54. 
Preb. Southwell, 59. 
See Abowen. 
Dean of Windsor, 57. 
Preb. Bath and Wells. 
Tudingham, Norw. 54*. 
Cherington, 48 '. 
Fell. St John s, Ox. * 
Hawkesbury, Gl. 56. 
Gt Canfield, Lon. 45 ^ 

Twickenham, Lon. 62. 

Master St. John's, Camb. 54*. 

Preb. Sarum. 46'. 

Englefield, Sar. 42. 

Preb. Bath and Wells, 54. 

Braddon, Pet. 44. 

St. Nich. Hospital, Richmond *. 

Cokeley, Norw •. 

Preb. Brondesbury, Lon. 6o'®. 

Preb. Ely and Wells ? 

St. Laurence, L of W., Win. 

Scole, Norw ". 

Mast. Magd. Coll., Camb. 46. 
Preb. Chulmleigh, Ex. 
Hastingley, Cant 57. 
Denton, Norw. 54 ^'. 
Arch.Northumberland,Durh. 58". 
Little Stambridge, Lon. 58 ". 
Winnall, Win. 



* M. A. 60. • S. 59. C.C.C. 61. » CC.C. 61. * B.A. (»2 

(Gutch, ii. 145). » Abs. in 61. C.C.C. • Also Munden, Line, and 

Preb. Durh. (see Mullinger, ii. 177). ' B.A. 60. • Abs. 59. 

• C.C.C. 6r. " C.CC. 61. " S. 59. ^ S. 59. C.C.C. 61. 

" Dep. 59. " S. 59. C.CC. 6r. 



LISTS OF CLERGYMEN DEPRIVED, 1558-1564 255 



Natm with daU of successor. 



W. Chedsey, D.D. 


S. R. 59 




R.60 




R.59 


W.Chell . 


. R. 58 


A. Chenerie 


• • Oa 


T. Chyddalton . 


. R. 62 


R. Clare afs Dominick . R. 60 


Ant. Gierke, B.D. 


. R.63 




R.60 


R. Clif, D.D. . 


R. 


Rob. Coates 


. R. 62 


And. Cole . 


. R.64 


H. Cole . 


S. R. 59 




R.59 


T. Collyer 


. R.59 


/. Colly ns. 


. R. 62 


Rob. Collyns . 


S. R. 60 


J. Collinson 


. R.60 


T. Coltesmore . 


. R.61 


J. Colvyer . 


. R. 62 


R. Conwaw 


. R. 62 


J. Cook . 


. S.?R.62 


W. Cook . 


. . R.59 


R. Coplet 


. R. 62 


£dm. Cosyn . 


S. 


Rob. Cosyn 


. . R.59 




R.60 


R. Cotton . 


. R. 62 


T. Coveney, M.B. 


S. 


T. Cradocke 


. R.61 


E. Cratford als St 


ratford . S. R. 




R.61 


T. Crofle . 


. R. 62 


H. Cumberford 


. R.61 




R.60 




R.60 



Curt and date of institutioM, 

Pres. Corp. Christ., Ox. 58. 
Archd. Middlesex, Lon. 56. 
Preb. IV Ox. 57. 
Precentor, Her. 54 \ 

Worfield, Cov. and Lich. 

Stratford Tony, Sar. 54 \ 

Preb. Sar. 

Preb. Firle, Chich. 50. 

East Dean, Chich. 58. 

? Lanynton, Chich. 60. 

Boldon, Dur. 41. 

Great Haukesley, Lon. Ap. 59. 

Sculthorpe, Norw *. 

Dean, St. Paul's, 56. 

Wrotham, Cant. 58. 

Uppingham, Pet 54. 

Inkpen, Sar.* 

Preb. VI Cant 54. 

Eccles. Norw. 41. 

Poynings, Chich. 

Hilston, Yk. 

Lodding^on, Pet. 53. 

? Cliddesden, Win. 

Preb. Kilsby, Line. 54*. 

Walton on the Hill, Win. 

Mast. Cath. Hall, Camb. 53 ^ 

Preb. Mora, Lon. 59. 

Treasurer, Lon. 58. 

Braughing, Lon. Dec. 59 '. 

Pres. Magd. Coll., Ox. • 

Widford, Lon. 

Preb. Bath and Wells. 

Lydeard St. Lawrence, Bath and 

Wells. 
Lanteglos, Ex. 58 *°. 
Norbury, Cov. and Lich. 
Precentor, Cov. and Lich. 55. 
Yelvertoft, Pet. 



App. I 



1 Dep. 59. • Cf. S. P. Dom. Eliz. xviii. 7. ■ Res. 59. ♦ S. 59. 

C.C.C. 61. » C.C.C. 61. • Longland rest ' Res. 59. 

■ C.C.C 61. • Gutch, ii. 14a. Deprived for not being in orders; 

Blozam, iv. 137. *• C.C.C. 61. 



356 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Apf. I Name wiik daU of 

W. Dalbyc 
R. Dalton (Dr.) 

Emeric Dande . 
£dm. Daniel . 



T. Darbyshire . 



T, Barrel. 
Rob. Davyes 
T. Dceuys , 
Rob. Dawks 
T. Dobeson 
T. Doleman 
R. Dominick 
T. Dorman 
Geoff. Downe 
Ant. Dray cot 



R. Dniry . 

/, DugdcUe 

Mich. Dunning 
R. Durdane 
— Durston 



S.R.60 
S. R.60 
R.60 
. R.64 
. R.60 

R.59 

S. R.58 

. R.60 

S.R.60 

R.60 

R.60 

s. 

R.62 

s. 

s. 

R.59 

s. 

s. 

R.6I 

s. 

R.60 
R.60 
R.6I 
R.60 
R.60 
R.60 
R.60 
. R.59 

S. R-61 

R. 

. R.59 

. R.61 

S. 



Dd, Edwards . . . R. 64 
Jas. Ellis . . . . R.62 



Cure and date ofinsHiution, 

Preb. and Chanc, Bristol, 5S. 
Preb. VII Dur.41. 
Billingham, Dur. 44. 



j Oakington, Ely, 59. 
] Preb. V Wore. ^ 
I Kingsland, Her. 58. 

Dean, Her. 58'. 

Archd. Essex, Lon. 58. 

Preb. Tottenham, London, 43. 

St. Magnus, Lon. 

Fulham, Lon. 

Fell. XewCoU., Ox.» 

Shen field, Lon. Apr. 59 *. 

R. Hardwick*. 

Fell Merton Coll., Ox. • 

Austwick, Ch. 

FelL All Souls Coll., Ox. ■ 

See Clare. 

Fell. All Souls Coll., Ox. 54 '. 

Preb. Morton, Gl. 

Chanc, C. and L. 

Preb. Longdon, C. and L. 56. 

Wirksworth, C. and L. 

Checkley, C. and L. 

Preb. Bedford Major, Line 39. 

Archd. Hunts, Line. 43. 

Cottingham, Pet. • 

Kettering, Pet. 

Preb. North Newbald, \Tc. 

Preb. Bamby, 58. 

Master Univ. Coll., Ox. 58 •. 

Archd. St. Albans, Lon. 57. 

Preb. Milton EccL, Line. 58. 

Shalford, Win. 57 ^°. 

? J. Durston, Fell. Oriel, 34. 

Master at Eton ". 

Llandegla, St. Asaph's ". 
Chiddingfold, Win. 



* Called also /?. Daniel ; but cf. Le Neve, i. 477. * Dep. 55 

' B.A. 60. * a 59. C.C.C. 61. ■ B.D. 59. Dep. 62. Boasc 

• Dep. 59. ' ? Dep. 59. Burrows. • Dep. 59. Burrow: 

• Dep. 61. Boase. " C.CC. 61. " Dep. 61. *=* C.CC. 61. 



LISTS OF CLERGYMEN DEPRIVED, mo-l^i 257 



Nami With date 0/ stteotssor, 

£. Elmsley . . . R. 62 
IV.Elye . . . S.R.63 

R.61 



Rob, Eyre . 



. R.64 



Cure and date ofinstituiion, 

Llandowror, St. Dd's. 
Pres. St. John's Coll., Ox. 59 \ 
Norton, Cant. 56. 
Freckenham, Cant. 58. 
Upton Lovell, Sar. 48*. 



App. I 



J. Farler . 


. R.63 


Wonsington, Win. 


R, Fawcett 


. R. 60 


Preb. Cant. ' 




R.60 


Lyminge, Cant 59. 




S. 


Preb. Line * 


Rob. Fawcett . 


. R.64 


Shalford with Bromley, Win. 57*. 


Jos. Fenn . 


S. 


Fell. Corp. Christ. Coll., Ox. • 


Rob, Fenn 


S. 


FelLNewColl.,Ox.' 


J. Feiard . 


s. 


Donhead St. Mary, Sar. 58. 


J. Fit! James , 


S. R. 60 


Archd. Taunton, Bath and Wells. 




R.64 


Chew Magna and Dinder, Bath 
and Wells, 54. 


Leon, Fitzsimof 


ts , . S. 


Fell. Trin. Coll., Ox. • 


— Fowler . 


• . . d. 


Preb. Sar. • 


y. Fowler , 


. • • d. 


Fell. New CoU., Ox. " 
Wonston, Win. 60. 


Ant Gardinet 


. • . d. 


? Ant. Garnet, Master of Balliol, 
60-63. 


J, Gardyner 


. R.62 


Willoughby, C. and L. 48". 


Oliver Gamell 


. R.60 


Graine, Cant. 


R. Gatskall 


. . . R.63 


Purley, Sar. 54. 


Jos, Gervase 


s. 


Warden, Merton Coll., Ox. " 


Rog. Gifford" 


s. 


Fell. Merton Coll., Ox. 


Hugh Glasier 


. . . R.59 


Preb. Cant 


J. Glasyer 


. R.60 


Archd. Her. 57. 




R.62 


Freshwater, Win. 49. 
Erwarton, Norw. Dec. 59. 


£. Godshalfe 


S. R. 63 


Preb. Ferring, Chich. 

? Stoke Dawbom, Win. 61. 


T. GoldweU 


. R.59 


Bp. St. Asaph. 


W.Good . 


. R.63 


Middle Chmnock, Bath and Wells, 
56". 




S. 


Master of School at Wells. 



" Dep. 63. FasHt 153. * C.C.C. 61. • Dep. 60. Ath. 807. 

* CC.C. 61. • See Durdame. • B.A. 60. ' B.C.L. 60. 

' B.A. 60. M. A. 6a. * t same as next '® M.A. 60. Trans 

mare. C.C.C, 61. " S. 59. " D.C.L. 60. " Tiemey wrongly, 

Rob,\ cf. Boase, i. a^a. ^ Resigned 60! 

S 



353 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



App. I Nanu wiik daU of 



J. Goodman 


. R.60 


Roland Gosnell 


. R.60 




R.62 


J. Crete . 


S.R.60 


Hugh Hall 


. R.62 


J. Hall 


• R.64 


R. Halse . 


. R.6o 




R.60 




R.60 


T. Handcock . 


. R.63 


J. Hanson or Hansom S. R. 59 




R.60 


— Harcourt 


• • d. 


T. Harding 


S. R. 59 




R.59 




R.59 


J. Hargravys . 


. R.62 


£. Harman . 


. R.60 


J. Harpsfeld 


. R.61 




S. R. 59 




R.60 




R.60 


Nich. Harpsfeld 


S. R. 59 




R.59 




R.60 




R.59 


J. Harris . 


S. 


J.Harris*, 


S. 


J. Harrison 


. . R.S9 


T. Harvye 


. R. 64 


Oliver Haver . 


. R.60 


T. Haward 


S. R. 59 


Chr. Hawkes . 


. R.61 


Nich. Heath . 


. R.60 


H. Henshaw . 


S. 


R. Hertbom 


. R.62 


T. Heskyns 


S. R. 59 


Fras. Hiberden 


. R.61 


Rob. HiU . 


S. 




R.60 



Cure Qttd dtUe t^tMsmuiioHm 

Dean, Bath and Wells^ 53 >. 
Oldbury, Her. 39. 
Tenbury, Her. 55. 
Wootton St. Lawrence, Win. 

Hamstall Ridware, C. and L. 

Wooler, Dur. 61. 

Preb. Ex. 

Broad Clyst, Ex. 

Thurlestone, Ex. 

Parley, Sar. 63. 

Archd. Richmond, Ch. 54*. 

Rochdale, Ch. 

Preb. Norw. 

Treasurer, Sar. 55. 

Bishopstone, Sar. 

Preb. Win. 54. 

Blackburn, Ch. 

Ashley, Win. 

Preb. Ex. 58. 

Archd. Lon. 54. 

Preb. Mapesbury, Lon. 58. 

Dean Norw. 58. 

Archd. Cant. 54. 

Preb. IV Cant 58. 

Saltwood, Cant 

Preb. Harleston, Lon. 54. 

Master of school at Bristol. 

Archd. Stow, Line 54*. 
Hendon, Lon. 62. 
Burgh, Norw. 58*. 
Llandilo Fawr, St Dd's. 54. 
Bircholt, Cant. 
Archbp. Yk. 55. 
Rect Line. ColL, Ox. 58. 
Long Newton, Dur. 55. 
Chanc. Sar. 58'. 
Bishopstone, Chich. 55. 
Preb. Cant. 
Old Romney, Cant. 57. 



^ Dep. 60. Turner restored. ' Abs. 59. 

z6o. Douay D. 141. * Elmer rest t 



Cooper, 419. 



* Not ordained. Dodd 
» S. 59. • Dep. 59 




LISTS OF CLERGYMEN DEPRIVED, 1558-1564 259 



Nmmg wUh daU of tMcctsaof^ 



Giles Hillings . 



Owen Hodgson 

Hugh Hodshon 

— HoUand 
Seth Holland 
/. Hopper, 
J. Howell . 
P. Howell . 
T. Huddleston 
Hugh Hudson 
J. Hudson. 
Maur. Hughes 
G. Hunter 
Rob. Hutchyns, or 

inson 
Hugh Huchonson 
r. Hybbots 

Dd. Hyde 
T.Hyde . 



R.60 

R.58 

. R.61 

R.61 

. R.59 
R.60 
. R.61 
S.R.61 
. R.61 
S.R.60 
. R.6a 
R.60 
. R.62 
. R.59 
. R.62 
. R.59 
R.60 
. R.60 
Hutch- 

S.R.60 
. R. 68 
. R.59 

. . o* 

. R.61 

R.60 

S. 



J. Jakeson . 
G. Indolen 
H. Johnson 

H.Joliffe . 

— Jones . 
Geoff. Jones 

Griff. Jones 
J. Kerrell . 

' Ab8.59. 
« R. GiU rest. 
' S. 59. Abs. 



Cun mnd date o/msMtUion, 

Lydd, Cant. 58. 

Preb. Win. 

Preb. St Decumans, Bath and 

Wells. 
Skilgate and Winsford, Bath and 

Wells, 43. 
Archd. Line. 59. 
Preb. Langford Manor, Line 57. 
Skelton, Carlisle ^ 
Prov. Queen's Coll., Ox. 58. 
Preb. Combe IX Bath and Wells'. 
Dean Wore. 57. 
Reed, Lon. 56 '. 
Manordivy, St. Dd's. 
Locking, Bath and Wells, ? 59. 
Hockerton, Yk. 
Titchwell, Norw. 47. 
Doncaster, Yk. 
Goring, Chich. 58. 
Preb. Leighton EccL, Line 58*. 
Preb. Henstridge, Bath and Wells. 

St. Oswald, Dur. 
WiUersey, Gl. • 
Inckberge, Wore. 59. 
Fell. Merton CoU., Ox. • 
Preb. Norton Epis., Line. 55. 
Preb. Win. 54. 
Master of Win. Sehool, 52. 



App. I 



S ? R. 59 Bulmer, Yk.^ 

R. 61 Preb. Fittleworth, Chich. 

R. 61 Broadwas, Wore. 48. 

R. 61 Kinwarton, Wore. 

S. R. 59 Dean, Bristol, 54. 

R. 60 Preb. IV Wore. 42. 

R. 63 Yatton, Bath and Wells. 

R. 64 White Notley, Lon. 38 •. 

St Mary Woolehureh. 

R. 64 Kilken, St Asaph *. 

R. 60 Priston, Bath and Wells, 58. 

• ? the same as the next » S. 59. C.C.C. 61. 

• CCC 6x. • Dep. 59. Aih. i. 456. » Abs. 59. 

CC.C. 61. • C.C.C. 61. 

S 2 



26o 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



App. I 



Name with date ofsucctsaor. 


Cun and dmU ofinstihdkm. 


R, Key 


• 


. R.62 


Condover, C. and L. 52 '. 


G. Kiddcdl 


• 


. R.63 


Preb. Oxton, S'well, 60. 


T. King . 


• 


S.R.61 


East Camel, Bath and Wells, 
after 41. 


T. Kingeston . 


• 


. R.60 


Aldham, Lon. 






R.60 


St. Anne and St. Agnes, Lon. 


J. Knight . 


• 


. R.60 


Gt. Chart, Cant. 58. 






R.61 


Preb. Ipthome, Chich. 58. 


R, Locke . 


• 


. R.64 


Gimingham, Norw. 31 •. 


J, Laiken . 


• 


. R.64 


Master Jesus ColL, Camb. 62. 
Duxford St. Peter, Ely ». 


G. Lambe. . 


• 


. R.62 


Preb. North Leverton, S'well, 59. 


J. Lamb . • 


• 


. R.60 


Kentisbere, Ex. 54. 


Alban Langdale, 


D.D. 


S. R. 59 


Archd. Chichester, 55. 






R.59 


Buxted, Chich. 


J« Langland 




. R.62 


Trowbridge, Sar. 59. 


Peter Lanridge . 




S. R. 59 


Preb. Win. 


Alban Latwicke 




. R.63 


Merowe, Win.* 


J. Lawrence 




. R.64 


Archd. Wilts, Sar. 54. 


J. Lawson . 




. R.61 


Eastry, Cant. 58. 


J. Leder . 




. R.61 


Nevendon, Lon. 57. 


E, Legge . 




. R.64 


Wigmore, Her. 60. 


71 Lenge . 




. R.63 


Over Stowey, Bath and Wells, 6a 


J, Lewett . 




. R.64 


Selmeston, Chich. 61. 


J. Lloyd ? See J. Prycc 


• 




A. Loft house . 




. R.62 


Sedgefield, Dur. 60. 


J, Lovell . 




. R.64 


Ramsey, Lon. 6a 


Arth. Lowe 




. R.63 


Preb. Fridaythorpe, Yk. 54. 


H, Maddock . 




. R.64 


Shellow Bowells, Lon. 54'. 


T. Makinge 




. R.62 


Bepton, Chich. 18 (sic). 


W. Maneley 




. R.62 


Hamstall Ridware, C. and L. 57. 


Rob. Mannors . 




S. 


Preb. Line [Ketton 58.] 


Nich. Marley . 




S. R. 61 


Preb. IX Dur. 41. 






R.60 


Pittington, Dur. 58. 


J. Marshall 




S. 


Fell. New Coll., Ox. 


R. Marshall, D.D 


• • 


. R.62 


Westboume, Chich. 






R.61 


Preb. Neasden, Lon. 






R.59 


Dean Ch. Ch., Ox., 53. 


W. Marshall . 


• 


S. 


Prin. Alban Hall, Ox. 47. 


' S. 59. 


S.S9. 


C.CC. 6x. 


» Res. 63. * CCC. 61. 


• s. 59. 










LISTS OF CLERGYMEN DEPRIVED, 1558-1564 261 



NoMU with date of successor, 

W. Massenger . . . R.60 

R.62 
T. Mawndevil . . . R. 61 
— Mere . . . . R. 62 



£dm. Mervyn 

T. Moorefylde 
H. Morgan 
J. Morren . 



Rees Morrice 



W. Mosse, D.C.L. . 



S. R. 59 

R.60 

. R.63 

. R.60 

. R.60 

R.60 

R.60 

R.60 

R.60 

. R.62 

S. 



W. Moyle . 


. R.60 


W. Mugge 


S. R. 61 




R.60 


/. Noble . 


S. 


H. Nonnan 


. R.62 


W. Northfolkc . 


. R.61 


Baldwin Norton 


. R.62 


T. Nutcombe . 


S.R.60 



Owen Oglethorpe, D.D. . R. 60 

R.59 
G. Ottwayc . . .R.60 



T. Packard 

G. Palmer, LL.D. . 

T. Palmer 
J. Parfay . 

E. Parratt . 
R. Pate . 



. R.61 

R.60 

S. R. 59 

R.59 

S. 

. R.62 

R.60 
. R.62 
. R.59 

R.59 



Curt with date ofinstituihn, 

Preb. Holywell, Lon. 57. 

Preb. Cons, per Mare, Lon. 57. 

Preb. Gates, Chich. 

Chislet, Cant. 

Archd. Surrey, Win. 54. 

Sutton, Win. 

Little Sampford, Lon. 44 \ 

Bp. St. Dd's. 54. 

Preb. Wedland, Lon. 58. 

Copford, Lon. 58. 

St Martin's Ludgate, Lon. 58. 

Asheldean, Lon. 

Orsett, Lon. 

Llangunllo, St. Dd's. 

Llanghan, 62. 

Master Trin. Hall, Camb. • 

Reg. Prof. Civil Law, Ox. 54. 

St. Leonard's Shoreditch, Lon. 56 

Preb. Ex. 

Newton St. Cyres, Ex. 57. 

Fell. New Coll., Ox.» 
Reigatey Win. 57. 
Hanbury, Wore. 
Preb. Langtoft, Yk. 59. 
Downham, Lon. 50 ^ 
Subdean, Ex. 

Bp. Carlisle, 57. 
Romald Kirk, Ch. 41. 
South Weld, Lon. Feb. 59. 

Preb. Baigham, Chich. 

Rype, Chich. 56. 

Preb. North Muskham, S'welL,58. 

Preb. Wetwang, Yk. 58. 

Prin. Glo'ster Hall, Ox. 58. 

Preb. Moreton Parva, Her. 56. 

Cradley, Her. 

Preston, Cant. 58. 

Bp. Worcester, 55. 

Bothal, Dur. 



App. I 



» Abs. in C.C.C. 61. 
* C.C.C. 61. 



' Aih, ii. Z4a 



' B.A. 59. Dep. 69. 



THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 



f.l Nmtm wHk iati ef 

" Rob. Payne 

T. Peacock 

lEAssL Pcarcc 
Rob. Penevall . 

y# Pffy€ • • • 
J« Pcryn • • • 
W. Petrose 
J. Philips . 
Morgan Pbilipi 



D. Pole . 

W. Pamrel 

J. Porter • • . 

R. Porter . 

J. Potts . 

Rob. ap Powell 

Pod. PoyntM 

R. Pratt . 

/. Precy , 

J. Pryce (? or Lloyd). 

H^. PuUeyn . 

Rob. Pursglove 

Ralph Pyckeringe . 
Nick, Qfiemerford^ . 
J. Ramridge 

R. Ramsey 



S. 

. R.S9 

S. 

. R.63 

S.R.? 

R.S9 

. R.63 

. R.59 

. R.59 

S.?R.59 

. R.61 

R.6a 

R.60 

R-59 

S. 

. R.59 

R.59 

S. 

• R.60 

. R.59 
S. 

s. 

. R.60 

s. 

s. 
. R.63 
. R.59 

. R.62 



R.60 

R.6I 
R.63 

s. 

R.58 

s. 

R.6I 

R.60 



Fell New ColL, Ox. 47-59. 

R. Saham Toney, 5S-63. 

Preh. VII Ely, 56- 

Pxcs. Qoeens* CoIL, Camb. 561 

Hampstead Marshall^ Sar. 

Archd. Cb. 54^ 

Ripley, Yk. 

Titcfafieki,Win.58*. 

Plymoatb,Ez. 

Wrocfaam, Cant. 5& 

Llangan, St. Dayid% 54. 

Preb. Ex. 

Preb.Ex. 

Harberton, Ex. 53'. 

Precentor, St. Dd's. 54. 

Prin. St. Mary Hall, Ox. 

Bp. Pet 57. 

Wadenboe, Pet. 

B.A. New ColL, Ox. 58 *. 

Crundale, Cant 

Archd. Bucks. 54. 

Fell. Merton ColL, Ox.* 

Master of School in Leicester. 

Preb. Hewyd, St Dd's. 

FelL St John's, Ox.* 

Master at Eton^ 

Preb. Warminster, Sar. 61. 

Preb. Llanywith, St Asaph, 5c 

Famsfield, York. 

Billsthorp, Yk. 61. 

Sufiragan Bishop of HulL 
Preb. Oxten, S'well, 58. 
Archd. Notts, Yk. 53. 
Shustoke, C. and L. 



Archd. Derby, C. and L. 58. 
Dean, C. and L. 
Longford, C. and L. 
Quennington, GL 46. 



» Ab«. 59. • C.C.C. 6x. » Abs. C.CC. 61. 

• M.A 6fl, Wood. Dep. 63, Gutch, ii. 150. • M. A 60. 

* B.A.6S. 



* AtkriX. 
' Dep 



USTS OF CLERGYMEN DEPRIVED, 1568-1564 263 



• vIB^^^^v vWVvV l9VBpv V^v ^^^U^M^^^^^^W • 


Cun mnd tUUt ofmsHhtHoH, 


W. Ramsey a!k Slatter S?R.62 


Timberscombe,BathandWells,54. 


J.RastaU. 


S. 


Fell New Coll., Ox. 49 *. 


Mich. Raymond 


. R.60 


Kemerton, Gl. 41 ? 


T. Raynar 


R.59 


Ashton Favell, Line. 


J. Redman 


R.59 


Edersham, Ch. 


T. Redman 


S. 


Master Jesus ColL, Camb. 59*. 


R.Redworik . 


. R.64 


Farley, Win. 60 ». 


R.Reed . 


S. 


Fell. Ex. ColL, Ox. ♦ 


J.Reve .... 


R.63 


Aitamon, Ex. 58 '. 


^^^. Reynolds^ D.D. 


. R.59 


Preb. Milton Eccl., Line. 55. 




R.60 


Farley, Win. • 


T. Reynolds 


, R.60 


Dean, Ex. 55. 




R.60 


Holsworthy, Ex. 




S. 


Warden of Merton Coll., Ox. 45. 


^^^. Richards . 


. R.63 


East Brent, Bath and Wells, 60. 


G. Roberts 


S. 


Ardid. St. Dd's. 




R.59 


Archd. Anglesey, Bangor, 58. 


T. Robertson, D.D. . 


R.59 


Dean, Dur. 57. 


J. Robinson 


. R.63 


Shustoke, C. and L. 36. 


Giles Saintbarbe 


R.60 


Chilton Cantelow, Bath and Wells, 


Lancelot Salkeld 


R.59 


55* 

Dean, Carlisle, 53. 


R.Salvyn 


. R.61 


Hinderwell, Yk. 


Ant Salwyn 


S.R.59 


Prcb. XI Dur. 58. 




R.60 


Sedgefield, Dur. 58. 


Nich. SanderSy LL.D. 


. 


FelL New CoU., Ox. 50 ^ 


Cuth. Scott 


• 


Bp. Chester, 56. 




R.59 


Bccford, Yk. 49. 


T.Scott .... 


s. 


FelL Trin. ColL, Ox. • 


T. Securis 


R.63 


North Stoneham, Win. 58. 


W. Senden 


. R.6I 


Iden, Chich. 


J. Sergeant 


. R.6I 


Peper-Harrow, Win. 


J. Seton, D.D. . 


S.R.59 


Harting, Chich. 




R.60 


Preb. Ulleskelf, Yk. 54. 


/. Sewell .... 


R.63 


Strumpshaw, Norw. 55 •. 


Rob. Shawe 


R.61 


Naunton, GL 59. 




R.6I 


Preb. VI Wore. 58. 


Rob. Sbelmerdine . 


R.61 


Morton Bagot, Wore. 




R.62 


Spemall, Wore. 


• Rca. 60. « Dcp. 


59. 


» C.C.C.61. * ac.L.Feb.59. 


Dep. 59, Boaae. * C. 


C.C. 6x. 


• C.C.C. 61. ^ Res. 59. 


■ Proctor, 6a * S. 59. 







App. I 



a64 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



I 



Nmm wHk dmU €f 


frfrrrffrrr. 


Cmn mmd itOe efinttJ^Okm, 


Simon Sbeparde 


. R.64 


Preb. Wakham, Chid* 


W. Shifrey . 


S. 


FclL CC.C, Ox.» 


T. Sigiswicke, D.D. . 


R.60 


Stanhope, Ehir. 58. 




S.R.6I 


R^. Prot Div., Camb. 57. 


T. Slany . 


. R.62 


Preston, Cant. 57. 


Slatter, ue Ramsey. 






T. Slsthant 


S.R.59 


Pies. Trin, CoIL, Ox. 56. 




R.60 


Canon, St Geo., Wbidsor, 54. 


J. Smcite • 


. R.6I 


Preb. Ex. 57. 


/. Smith , 


. R«62 


Treasurer, Chich. 55. 
Piov. Oriel ColL, Ox. 50 •. 


R. Smith . • 


• Oa 


Vice-Chanc, Ox. 




R.60 


Reg. Pro£ Div., Ox. 




R.59 


Preb. VIII Ox. 54. 




R.63 


Preb. Twyford, I-on. 54. 


T« Snarpon • 


• R.64 


Wedmore, Bath and Wells, 59. 


Simon Southcrue 


. R.60 


Hinton, GL 


Tristram Spackman . 


. R.6I 


Nateley-Scuies, Win. 


W. Squier 


Ra 64 


Cricket-Thomas, Bath and \Vell& 


T. Stafford 


. R.62 


Westfield, Chirh. 58. 


J.Standish 


• R-59 


Archd. Colchester, Lon. 58. 


/as. Stanley 


. R.63 


Washbrook, Norw. • 


T. Staplcton . 


S.R.63 


Preb. Woodhom, Chich. 




S. 


Fell. New ColL, Ox. 


/. Stephenson . 


. R. 62 


Preb. Tachbrook, C. and L. 58 *. 


Kdm. Steward . 


S. R. 59 


Dean, Win. 54. 




R.60 


Preb. Offley, C. and L. 34. 


J. Stomeinge . 


. R. 64 


Clanfield, Win. 


Rob. Stoopes . 


. R. 56 


Preb. Sneating, Lon. 56. 




R.62 


Barkstede, Norw. 


L. Slopes . 


S. 


Fell. St John's ColL, Ox.* 


Stratford, see Cratfor 


d. 




R. Summerscall 


. R.59 


Bumsall, Yk. 


W. Sutton 


S. 


Master at Macclesfield. 


Tristram Swaddle . 


. R.60 


Preb. Rugmere, Lon.* 




R.62 


Stepney, Lon. 58. 


W Sylvester . 


. R.60 


Preb. Wistow, Yk. 41. 


J. Symes . 


. R.60 


Yeovil, Bath and Wells. 


/C, Symnell 


. R.61 


Boxted, Lon. 55 '. 


H, Symondes . 


. R. 62 


Hendon, Lon. Feb. 59 *. 



* -<4/A. i. 668. B.A.60. • Res. 64. ' S. 59. C.C.C. 61, 

* Ordained abroad. Fasii^ 154. * S. 59 (three times). 

• CC.C. 61. 



*S.59. 
^S.59. 



LISTS OF CLERGYMEN DEPRIVED, 1558-1564 265 



Name with daU of successor. 


Cure and date oftnsHtuHon. 


Edm. Tarvcr . 


. R.61 


Cudworth, C. and L. 


J. Taversham . 


. R.59 


Newark, Yk. 


— Taylor . 


. R.59 


Archd. Lewes, Chich. 


R. Taylor. 


• R.59 


Westwick, Norw. 55 *. 


Rob. Taylor . 


. R.61 


Maresfield, Chich. 


Roger Taylor . 


. R.63 


Kettilberston, Norw. 56*. 


Tristram Taylor 


. R.63 


Stawleigh, Bath and Wells, 60. 


W. Taylor 


S. R. 59 


Master Ch. Coll., Camb. 57. 




R.61 


Preb. South Muskham,S'well, 59. 




R.59 


North Burton, Yk. 57'. 




R.60 


Preb. Fenton, Yk. 58. 


T.Thirlby . 


• • • 


Bp. Ely, 54. 


Rob. Thompson 


S. R. 62 


Beaumont, Carlisle. 


J. Thorneton . 


. R.62 


Twickenham, Lon. 49. 




R.59 


Settrington, Yk. 


W. Thurbane . 


. R.59 


Wrotham, Cant. 58. 


J. Towton 


. R.60 


Preb. VI II Dun* 


W. Treshes 


. R.60 


Preb. Middleton, Chich. • 


W. Tresham, D.D. 


. R.60 


Chanc, Chich. 




R.60 


Preb. Asgarby, Line. 41. 




S.R.60 


Preb. II Ox. 46? 




R.59 


Bugbroke, Pet. 42. 


Cuth. Tunstall . 


. R.61 


Bp. Dur. 30. 


Jas. Turbcrville 


. R.60 


Bp. Ex. 55. 


Elizeus Umfrye 


. R.64 


Stanford, Yk. 


T. Valence 


. R.64 


Preb. Bracklesham, Chich. 


W. Valentine . 


. R.59 


Harrowden, Pet. 58. 


Cuth. Vaux^ . 


S. 


• 


Law. Vaux 


s. 


Warden Manch. Coll. Church ^ 


T. VUliers . 


s. 


Preb. Line * 


W. Wakelyn . 


. R.59 


Alresford, Win. • 


P. Walker 


. R.62 


Tendring, Lon. Oct. 59 *^ 


And. Warbreton 


. R.62 


Charlecote, Wore. 


T. Washington . 


. R.62 


Fledborough, Yk.'» 


T. Watson 


. R.60 


Bp. Line. 57. 


I^iir. Webb, LL.D. . 


s. 


Ordained 57 ". 


J. White, D.D. . 


S.R.6I 


Bp. Win, 56. 



App. I 



* ? S. 59. • S. 59. C.CC. 61. » Abs. 59. * J. Cuttinge 

on Pat. Roll. » Probably the followinjg. • MA. Ox. 60. ^ Ath, 

i. 384. ■ G. Dodds rest • CC.C. iSi. *® S. 59. Abs., CC.C. 61. 
" Abs. 59. w Res. 59. 



THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 



App. I NatMi tpUk doit cfmctntor, 

R. White .... 
T. White . 
y. Whyteheare . 
R. Whitley ? . 
R. Willanton or WOleiton 



W. Willi . 
J.WiUon . 
T.Wilson. 

R. Windam 
R. Wingfiild 

T.Wood . 



W. Wood . 

W. Wright, S.T.B. . 

/. Wylton 

J. Yates . 
T. Yaxley . 

J. Yonge, D.D. . 
W, Zone , 



S. 
. R.63 
. R.63 
. R.60 

S.R.59 

R.60 

S. 

. R.61 

S. 

R.62 

S. 

. R.63 

. R.60 
R.59 
R.60 
S.R.60 
S. R. 59 
. R.63 

. R.59 
. R.62 

R.64 

S. R. 59 

R.59 

S. 



Fcfl. New ColL, Ox. * 
Stunner, Lon. 58'. 
Portsea, Win. • 
Sedlescombe, Chich. 
Preb. St. Pancra^ Lon. 5S. 
Harringay, Lon. 
Preb. Line [Hongate] 56 ^ 
Aldrington, Chich. 
Preb. Ch.» 
Amcliffe,Yk. 
Fell. St. John's CoH, Ox.* 
Gt. Henney, Lon. 63. 
Langford, Sar.^ 
Preb. XI Cant 
High Ongar, Lon. 
Harlington, Lon. 54. 
Newtimber, Chich. 54. 
Master BaU. ColL, Ox. 55. 
Widford, Lon. 61. 

Ormside, Carlisle. 
East Donyland, Lon. 55. 
Wyvenhoe, Lon. 54. 
Master Pemb. Coll., Camb. 53. 
Preb. I pars bor., Ely. 

Reg. Prof. Civ. Law, Camb. 61 '. 



SECOND LIST. 

Names given on Sanders' Authority but not 

certainly identified ^ 



Name, 
H. Always . 

S. Bellost 
T. Bennet 
R. Bernard or Bemer . 



Cure and date of instiiMtiOH, 

? S. Bellyster, M.A. Oxon. 43. 
Master of Salisbury SchooL 
? (i) R. Barnard, M.A. Oxon. 57. 
Or (2) Preb. Wells, 51. 



> B.A. 60. Dep. 64. ' S. 59. Abs. C.C.C. 61. 

* C.C.C. 61. * Abs. 59. • Dep. 59. 

* t layman. 

* Suggested identifications are marked with a query. 



» CC.C. 61. 
» CCC. 61. 



LISTS OF CLERGYMEN DEPRIVED, 1668-1564 267 



Name, 



J. Berwick . 
R. Bishop . 
J. Bolton 
J. Bradshaw 
J. Bremund . 
£dm. Brown 
J. Bursthard 

Giles Capel . 

J. Catagre . 
£. Chamber . 

— Clement . 
Alan Cope . 

— Courtmill . 
T. Crane 

— Crook 

J. Cubbidge . 

J. Dale . 

J. Danister . 

— Davison, D.D. 

J. Fenn . 

J. Felton 
R. Fleming . 
J. Fox . 
T. Freeman . 



— Giblct 



— cm . 

— Grenville . 

— Greshop . 

— Hamden . 
£dm. Hargat 

— Harper . 



Cure and daU ofinsiUution, 

? MA. Oxon. 56. 
? MA. Oxon. 47. 

? B A. Oxon. 64. 
Chancellor, Chich.^ 

Fell. New Coll., Ox. 

Preb. Bath and Wells [White 

Lakington]. 
Fell New Coll., Ox. • 
B.D. Oxon. 58. Master at Eton ? 

FeU. Magd. Coll., Ox. » 

?N. Crane, Vicar of Deptford, 
Roch. 62. 



App. I 



Master of School at St. Edmunds- 
bury. 



? Preb. of Shipton, Sar. 63. 
Master of St. Paul's School. 
PDenford, Pet. 61. 

?W. Giblet, Fell New Coll. 

49-6©. 
Ord. Douay, 80. 



J. Greshop, M.A. 58. 



' Sanders has Bemundus. J. Beaumont was sixth Prebendary of West- 
minster, after 1560. ' In possession, 1564. ' B.C.L. 6a Or- 
dained abroad after 60 {Ath.). * t And. Davison. FasH^ lai. 



968 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Atr. 1 Namg, 

J. Hart, LL.D.* . 
T. Hawkins . 
Caspar Haywood, D.D. 
J. Heming . 



T. Iveson 



K. Jacoby . 
Rob. Jones . 

— Joseph 

Owen Lewis . 
G. London • 
K. Ludby 
Edm« Lyster 

St. Marks . 

— Mather, D.D. 

— Matthews, D.D 

— Miniver . 
Nich. Morton 

K. Nicholson, D.D. 
W. Nott 

J. Oliver 

C. Parker, D.D. 

H. Pendleton, D.D 

J. Periton 

J. Pile . 

H. Pius 

T. Plumtree . 

Dd. Powell . 

J. Redshaw . 

— Sedge, D.D. 
W. Shepard . 
W. Smith . 
G. Story 

E. Taylor . 



Cwvt and daU €f 



? FelL Merton CdL, Ox.* 
Preb. Bath and WeOs. 



Master of School at Durfaam. 
? St Ge<»ge, Yorky 62. 



Legum Prof.' 
? B.D. Ox. 39. 
Preb. Hereford. 



? FclL Ex. Coll., Ox. B.D. 59. 



Preb. York. 



Fell. New ColL Ox. 



Of B.N.C., Ox. 



Master of School in Lincoln. 
Preb. Salisbury. 



? Fell. Or. Coll., Ox. 49, 



^ Ordained abroad (Dodd). ' Ordained abroad, 61 {Aik, 663) 

' Ordained abroad (Gutch, iL 145). 



LISTS OF CLERGYMEN DEPRIVED, 1558-1564 269 



Name. 

H. Tenant ^ . 
— Thompson 

Rob.Walley, D.D.« 

J. White 

Ant. Wilkinson . 

Edm. or W. Windham, 

R. Wist 

R. Wood, D.D. . 

R. Woodcock 



D.D 



Cun and daU ofiKstiiuHon, 



App. I 



THIRD LIST. 
Names improperly included in the Period. 

Name. Curt and daU oftnsHtuHon, 

Fell. New Coll., Ox. » 
FeU. New Coll., Ox.* 

EaglesclifTe, Durh. 55 '. 
Fell. Ex. Coll., Ox. 67 *. 
LL.D. of New Coll., Ox.' 

Preb. Twyford, Lon. 54 •. 
Canon, St. Geo. Windsor, 43. 
Pres. Magd. Coll., Ox. 55. 
Preb. Chester, 57 •. 

Prof. Greek, Ox. 48 ^\ 

Fell. ? New Coll., Ox. " 

Preb. York, 56". 

Preb. St. Paul's [Cantlers] ^». 

Chancellor, Winch. " 
Colebrook, Ex. ** 
Fell. St. John's, Ox." 

> Tiemey gives Stephen Tenant, D.D. So Douay Diary, 4. • T, Walley 
was Proctor, 1563. B.C.L. 6a. • M.A. 60. M.D. 65. • B.A. 60. 

M.A.65. * A lajrman (Reg.). 'M.A. 6a. Res. 69. ^ Not in orders. 
■ Died 1558 (Boase). • Died 60 (Le Neve). >• A layman {D.NB.). 

" A layman (Gutch, ii. 145). " Died 59 (Cooper). » Of. 

Bonner's Reg. f. 469. Lilly died in 59. ^* D.C.L. 55. A layman. 

" C.CC. 61, aet. sixteen years. ^* B.A. 69. 



E. Atslow . 
L. Atslow . 


S. 
S. 


B. Baynes . 
R. Bristowe 
T. Butler . 


. R.61 
S. 
S. 


Arth. Cole 

W. Collingwood 


. R.63 

R.60 

S. 

S. 


G. Etheridge . 


S. 


J. Ingram . 


S. 


R. Johnson 


S. 


G.Lilly . 


S. 


T. Martin . 
R. Marton 
Jonas Meredith 


S. 

. R.62 

S. 



370 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Arr. I Nam€, 

R. Micby, or Mitch (Cooper), 
LL.D S. 



J. Neale 

H« Shaw • 
R« Shelley 
J. Story . 

R. Tempest, LL.D. . 

Nich. Weedon, D.D., 

or Wcndon (Cooper) 
W. Wigges 
M. Windsor 
J. Wright . 



Cun oMddmUpfimsiihdkm, 
(No paiticulan given '.) 

Rect Ex. CoH, Ox. 60'. 

FelL St John's, Ox. » 
FelL New ColL, Ox. • 
ChanceDor, Ox.* 

(No partictdars given*.) 

Archd. Suff. 59 ^ 
Preb. Nor. 61. 
FelL St John's, Ox. • 
FelL CCC Ox. • 
FelL Magd. ColL, Ox. 53 *•. 



* A Uynum? * M.A. 60. Dep. 7a ' FmsH^ 186. RA. 66. 

M.A. 70. * Gutch, ii 145. B^ 65. Dep. 67. * A civilian 

{Ath. i. 386). • A Uynum. ^ Res. 70. ■ BJV. 66. • B.A. 63. 

M.A. 66. ^ B.D. 65. Dean of Divinity 1560, 1564-66. R. of Horsington, 
1580. Bloxam, iv. 136. 



APPENDIX II 



■♦♦■ 



List of Institutions after Deprivation, 1558-1564. 

Note : — The Jblhwing Ksis art takgH from ikg extant eptseopai registers, App. II 
supplemented in certain eases by other contemporary official documents as *~~~ 
noted. The date annexed is that of institution. In the case of the deprived 
it was not always possible to ascertain this. The persons deprived are 
printed in italics. Those in brackets were designated ultimus incumbens 
in the register, and their identification has been made from Crown 
Presentations or other mentions in the register. 

DIOCESE OF BANGOR. 

I. Dignitaries. 

J. Salisbury, 59. | Archd. of Anglesey. | G. Roberts^ 58. 

II. Inoumbents. 
(The register does not exist.) 



DIOCESE OF BATH AND WELLS. 



Gilb. Berkeley, 60. 
W. Turner, 60. 
J. Lancaster, 60. 
H. Sommer, 60. 
R. Hughes (rest.)> 60. 
Griffin Williams, 60. 
£dm. Edwards, 61. 
J. Pratt, 61. 
H. Parry, 64 ? 



I. Dignitaries. 

Bishop. 
Dean. 

Archd. Taunton. 
Preb. Ilton. 
Preb. Henstridge. 
Preb. Combe VIII. 
Preb. Combe IX. 
Preb. St. Decuman's. 
Preb. Haselbeare. 



Gilb. Boumey 54. 
J. Goodman^ 53. 
J. Fih James f 54. 
/. Boxall. 
Rob. Hutchyns. 

S, Holland. 
Giles HilUngy 54. 
Gilb. Bum/ardf 55. 



272 



THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 



AfK II ? 

? 

T. Ellitdchoolmaster), 

63. 
K. Argentine, 64. 



? 
Preb. Dinder. 
Preb. Combe IV. 

Preb. Combe VI. 



£• CToifivdm 
\ Bart. Bfyiktman. 



J. Coles, 60. 
K. Plompton, 60. 
T. Maifter, 60. 
W. Woodroff, 61. 

J. Cowche, 61. 
J. Leage, 61. 
Kog. Cocks, 61. 
T. Snarpon, 62. 
P. Jones, 62. 

Fras. Newton,D.D.,63. 
W. Bennett, 63. 
J. Lambert, 63. 
J. Fishepoolc, 63. 

T. Kingman, 63. 
J. Bodie, 64. 
G. Spaggott, 64. 
Sampson Newton, 64. 

Amitus Mctforde, 64. 



II. Inoiimbeiits. 

Priston. 

YeoviL 

Chilton Cantelow. 

Lydeard St. Lawrence. 

Cossington. 

Skilgate and Winsford. 

East CameL 

Locking. 

Timberscombe. 

East Brent 
Middle Chinnock. 
Over Stowey. 
Stawleigh. 

Yatton. 
Burnet. 

Wedmore Vicarage. 
Chew Magna and Din- 
der. 
Cricket-Thomas. 



/. KereU, 5«. 

/. Symes, 47. 

[Giles SainOarbe, 55.] 

E. Cratforddb Strat- 
ford t 

Bart. Bfytkman t 

Giles HilHngs, 42. 

T.Kingf after ^i. 

P. Howell f 

[W. Ramsey dts Slat' 
ter.] 

[Robt. Richards^ 60.] 

[W. Good, S(>''\ 
[T. Lenge, 6a] 

[ Tristram Tail lour, 

6a] 

[ — Jones, 1 

[T Snarpon, 59.] 
[/. Fits James, 54.] 

IV, Squier, 



DIOCESE OF BRISTOL. 



G. Carcwe, 59 (rest.). 
Arth. Sawle, 60. 



I. Dignitaries. 

Dean. 

Preb. I and Chancellor. 



H, Joliffe, 54. 
W, Dalbye, 58. 



II. Inoumbents. 
(The Register does not exist.) 




INSTITUTIONS AFTER DEPRIVATION, 1558-1564 273 



App. II 



DIOCESE OF CANTERBUR V. 



J. Butler, 59. 
T. Becon, 59. 
£. Geste, 59. 
J. Bale, 60. 
Alex. Nowell, 60. 
H. Goodricke, 60. 



I. Dignitaries. 

Preb. VII. 

IV Preb. 

Archd. Canterbury. 

XI Preb. 
VI Preb. 

XII Preb. 



Hu^A G/asierf 42. 
Ntck, Harpsfeld, 58. 
Nick, Harpsfeid, 54. 
T. Wood, 54. 
Rob, CoieynSf 54. 
R, Fawcett, 54. 



And. Peerson, B.D., 59. 
J. Steward, 6a 
Alex. Nowell, 60. 
J. Hardyman, 60. 
And. Peerson, 6a 
W. Painter, 60. 
W. Awchar, 6a 
Adr. Waterdale, 60. 
Robt. Carrier, 61. 
J. Appleby, 61. 
P. Lymiter, 61. 
Jas. Perce, 63. 
W. Russell, 62. 
J. Gunyer, 63. 



II. Inomnbento. 

Wrotham. 

Old Romney. 

Saltwood. 

Lydd. 

Great Chart. 

Graine. 

Lyminge. 

Crundale. 

Bircholt. 

Norton. 

Eastry. 

Chislet. 

Preston. 

East Langdon. 



[H. Cole, 58.] 
Rob. Hill, 57. 
Nick. Harpsfeld. 
Rob. Hill, 58. 
/. Knight, 58. 
Oliver Gamell. 
R, Fawcet, 59. 
y. Porter, 
Christ, Hawkes, 
W. Elye, B,D,, 56. 
J, Lawson, 58. 
— Mere, 
T, Slany, 57. 
T, Alston, 



DIOCESE OF CARLISLE. 



Sir T. Smith, 59. 
J. Best, 6a 



I. Dignitaries. 
Dean. 

Bishop. 



Lancelot Scdkeld, rest, 

53. 
Owen Oglethorpe, 57. 



T. Atkinson, 59 *. 
H. Dacre, 61. 
H. Haselhead, 62. 



II. Inonmbenta. 

Ormside. 

Skelton. 

Beaumont. 



/ Yates\ 
Hugh Hodshon, 
Rob, Thompson, 



^ Restored by the visitors, August, 1559. 
' No means of finding date exists at Carlisle. 

T 



274 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Afp.II 



DIOCESE OF CHESTER. 



Rob. Rogers,? 
Chris. Goodman, 59 \ 
W. Birche, 60. 
W. Downhan, 61. 



I. Dignitariee. 

Archd. Chester. 
Archd. Richmond. 
CardL at Manchester. 
Bishop. 



Rod. PersevaH 54. 

/. HoHSOfh 54- 

? 
Cuthbert Scoii^ 56. 



R. Baldwyn, 59 \ 

£. Sandys, D.D., 59 ^ 
W. Soorye, 59 \ 
W. Soorye, 59 *. 
J. Best, 59*. 
— Huntingdon, 60. 
J. Hilton, 62. 



II. Immmbents. 

St. Nicholas' Hbspttal, 

Richmond. 
Edersham. 
Sedbergh. 
Austwick. 
Romald-Kirk. 
Rochdale. 
Blackburn. 



W, Burye. 

/. Redman, 

T, Atkinson, 

T. Doheson, 

Owen Oglethorpe^ 41. 
J, Hanson, 
J, Hargravys, 



DIOCESE OF CHICHESTER. 



R. Tremayne, 59. 

E. West, 59. 
Aug. Bradbury, 6a 
R. Wright, 60. 
David Spenser, 61. 
E. Foster, 61. 
Edm. Weston, LL.B., 

61. 
J. Richardson, 61. 
Aug. Bradbridge, 62. 
Laur. Nowell, 63. 
Chris. Lancaster, 63. 
W. Overton, 63. 
R. Kytson, 64. 
Robt. Erewakers, 64. 



I. Dignitaries. 
Archd. Chichester. 

Archd. Lewes. 
Chancellor. 
Preb. Middleton. 
Preb. Fittleworth. 
Preb. Ipthome. 
Preb. Gates. 

Preb. Bargham. 
Treasurer. 
Preb. Ferring. 
Preb. Firle. 
Preb. Woodhom. 
Preb. Bracklesham. 
Preb. Waltham. 



Alban Longdate^ DJ)., 

55. 
T, Tayler^ 58 

W. Tresham^ 59. 

W, Tresham^ 59. 

G. Indolen, 

/. Knight, 

T. Mawndevil. 

T, Packard. 
J. Smythy 55. 
E, Godshalfe, 
Anth. Gierke^ 50. 
T. Stapleton, 
T, Valence, 
Simon Shefarde, 



' Restored by the visitors, August, '559^ 
' Bishop of Carlisle, 1560. 



INSTITUTIONS AFTER DEPRIVATION, 1558^1564 275 



R. Famden, 59. 
Aristotle Webbe, 59. 
G. Forbes, 59. 
J. WeUs, 60. 
Rob. Norman, 60. 
£. Tyckerydal ? 6o. 
W. Harward, 60. 
T. Blewet, 60. 
J. Bucke, 60. 
Fras. Coxe, 60. 
T. Trencham, 60. 
Rob. Browne, 60. 
T. Molder, 61. 
F. Sharp, 61. 
J. Inglishe, 61. 
T. Mawdsley, 61. 
J. Soresby, 61. 
R. Byrddocke, 62. 
J. Igulden, MA., 62. 
H. Wilsha, 62. 
T. Mawdisley, 63. 
Robt Parrys, 64. 



II. laonmbeiiits. 

Buxted. 

Barcombe. 

Harting. 

Rodmell. 

East Dean. 

Newtimber. 

Cowfold. 

Rogate. 

Rype. 

Horsted-Keynes. 

Sedlescombe. 

Goring. 

Iden. 

Bishopstone. 

Aldrington. 

Maresfield. 

Poynings. 

Westfield. 

Bepton. 

Westboume. 

* Michynge.' 

Selmeston. 



App. II 



A, LcmgdaU. 

? 
y. Setan. 

? 
Ant. Gierke, 58. 
W. Wood, 54. 

? 

? 
T. Packarde, 56. 

? 
R. Whitley t 
Maur, Hughes, 58. 
W, Senden, 
Fras. HiberdeHy 55. 
/. Wilson, 
Rob. Taylor. 
T, Cottesmore t 
T. Stafford, 58. 
T. Makinge, 18. 
R. Marshall. 

? 
J. Lewett. 



DIOCESE OF CO VENTR Y AND LICHFIELD. 



Laur. Nowell, 59. 
£. Leeds, 60. 
T. Walkenden, 60. 
T. Bentham, 6o. 
T. Yale, 60. 
Aug. Bameker, 62. 



I. Dignitaries. 

Archd. Derby. 
Precentor. 
Preb. Longdon. 
Bishop. 
Preb. Offley. 
Preb. Tachbrook. 



J. Ramridge, 58. 
H. Comberford, 55. 
A. Draycott, 56. 
R. Bayne, 54. 
E. Steward, 34. 
J. Stephenson, 58. 



J. Hyron, 60. 
£. Lyngarde, 61. 
P. Morweyn, 61. 
P. Morwyng, 61. 
T. Bolte, 61. 
H. Baxter, 62. 
Hum. Blarney, 62. 



II. Inpumbents. 

Wirksworth. 

Crudworth. 

Longford. 

Norbury, 

Checkley. 

Condover. 

Worfield. 

T 2 



Anth. Draycott. 
Edm. Tarver, 
J, Ramridge. 
H. Comberford. 
A, Draycott, 
R. Key, 52. 
T. Chyddalton, 45. 



37^ 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



App. II T. Hancoke, 63. 
T. Bradshawe, 62. 
Thrustan TylestoB,63. 
Nich. Haighe, 63. 
Robt. Woodhouse, 64. 



Wilioaghby. 
Hamstall Ridware. 
Moreton Corbett 
Shustoke. 
Fenny Bentley. 



/. Gardyner^ 48. 
Hugh Hall. 
[IV. Asskelgy, ^] 
Ralph Pydterimgi. 
Nich. BatmbfonL 



DIOCESE OF DURHAM. 



Rob. Home, D.D., 59. 
J. Rudd, 59. 
J. Henshaw, 59. 
Adam Sheppard, 60. 
T. Sampson ', 60. 
W. King, 61. 

T. Horton, 61. 
Jas. Pilkingtonj D.D., 
61. 



I. Di^piitaries. * 

Dean. 
Preb.X. 
Preb. XI. 
Preb. VIII. 
Preb. VII. 

Archd. Northumber- 
land. 
Preb. IX. 
Bishop. 



Dr. T. Robertson^ 57. 
G. Bullock^ 54. 
Ant. Sahvyn^ 58. 
/. Taw ton *, 41. 
R. Dalton^ 41. 
W. Carter, 58. 

Nich. Martey, 41. 
Cuthbert TunstaU^ 30. 



W. Harrison', 59. 
Edm. Bene, 60. 
G. Clif, B.D., 60. 
Adam Lofthouse, 60. 
Roger Watson, D.D., 

60. 
W. Garnet, LL.B., 61. 

£. Bancke, 62. 
Ralf Skynner, 62. 
T. Pentland, 62. 
Rob. Rollie, ? 
Adam Ecke, 64. 



II. Inoumbents. 

Bothal. 

Stanhope. 

Billingham. 

Sedgefield. 

Pittington. 

Eaglescliffe. 

Long Newton. 

Sedgefield. 

S. Oswald, Durham. 

Boldon. 

Woler. 



Rob. Pace or Pates. 
Dr. T. Sigiswiche, $& 
Dr. Robt. DaltM, 44. 
Ant. Sahuym, 58. 
Dr. Nich. MarUy, s& 

Brian Baynes (^»i.)y 

55. 
R. Hertbom, 55. 

A. Lofthouse, 60. 

Hugh HochonsoH^BJD. 

R.Clif,DJ).^Ai. 

J. Hall, 61. 




' J. TutUng on Pat RoU. * Verbi Dei Minister. 

' Restored by the visitors, August, 1559. 



INSTITUTIONS AFTER DEPRIVATION, 1558-1564 277 



DIOCESE OF EL K 



App.II 





I. Dignitaries. 




£. Gascon, 59. 


Preb. VII. 


T. PeaciKki 56. 


T. Barwicke, 59. 


Prcb. 


? 


Rob. Wisdom, 59. 


Archd. Ely. 


/. BoxcUl^ 56. 


J. Ebden, 59. 


Preb. VII. 


J.Byckerdikeyres.llY^ ? 


J. Pory, 60. 


Preb. I pars bor. 


/. Yange, 54. 


Rob. Wisdom, 60. 


Dean and Preb. I. 


/. Boxaii, 54. 


R. Cox. 


Bishop. 

II. InoumbemU. 


T. Thirlby, 54. 


Dr. LaunceJot Ridley, 


Stretham and Thet- 


[W. Marshal!, s. S9^ 


59. 


ford. 




Geo. Chatbourne, 64. 


Duxford St. Peter. 


J.Laiken. 


Vincent Goodwyne,64. 


Oakington. 


Emeric Dande^ 59. 


DIG 


>CESE OF EXE7 


^ER. 




I. Dignitaries. 




R. Tremayne, 6a 


Preb. Cutton. 


J, Blaxt(m^ 56. 


Rob. Fyssher, 60. 


Preb. 


R, Halse, 


W. AUey, 60. 


Bishop. 


Jos, TurberviiU^ 55. 


Gregory Dodds, 60. 


Dean. 


T, Reynolds, 55. 


R. Gammon, 6a 


Subdean. 


T. Nutcombe, 58. 


R. Argentyne, D.D.,6i. 


Preb. 


/. Harps/eld, 58. 


J. Smyth, LL.D., 61. 


Preb. 


W, Mu^^e, 


Rob. Williams, or 


Preb. 


Morgan Philips, 


Goldsmith, 61. 






E. Reley, B.D., 61. 


Preb. 


J, Blaxton. 


R. Bagnall, 61. 


Preb. 


J, Smerte, 57. 


T. Hooper, 61. 


Preb. 


/. Huntington^ 6a 


Edm. Morecrofte, 62. 


Preb. 

II. InoQmbenta. 


Morgan PhiUps. 


Ralph Newton, 59. 


Plymouth. 


/. Peryn. 


W. Rawson, 59. 


Preb. Chulmleigh. 


R, Carr. 


R. Holland^ 6a 


Broad Clyst. 


R. Halse. 


T. Kent, 60. 


Holsworthy. 


T, Riynolds, DJ). 


J. Hopkyns, 60. 


Harberton. 


Morgan Philips, 53. 


J. Tuttley, 60. 


Thurlestone. 


R. Halse. 


Chris. Bodlegh, 60. 


Newton St. Cyreft. 


Walt. Mugge, 57. 



[I 



278 THE 


FT17ARFTHAN Q 


\FJtfrr 


Aot. DiOoo, 60. 
J. HuiitiiigTy, 6a. 
T. Carter, 60. 
U. Redi]ige,62. 
W. Lannder, 6x | 
Raiph Uortopm6x < 
£.Reiey,63. 
Eobt. Bracher, 63. 
G. Bartony63» 


CoieORMK. 

Laxite^sOBL 

Preh. SC Eaddfioo. 

AltanuH. 

Anstef and ' BiasyeL' 

fioiswoitiiy. 


ELMawtam. 
EdmuBm^fiU. 


DIOCESE OF GLOUCESTER. 


Waiter Jones, 59w 
J. Lytiegn»ier6a 


PrrfkV. 


GB^.IMmmg. 


R. Hoot, 59. 
R. Wairety 60. 
H Qg^ Kerlce, 6ol 

W. linsemm, 6a 
Hogh Evance, 6i. 
J* Rogers, 65. 


WiDexsey. 

Hanrioesbnry. 

Hxntoo. 

Nanotoo. 

Clieni^:tao. 


7. MyUtis* 
JLAmugy. 
TBrmmktid^^ 
BiidL Rmj mmdf 41 ? 
Smms Sfstfiicnw'. 


DIOC 


ESE OF HERE! 


ORD. 


Walter Jones, 5S. 
H. Rlize, 58. 
Rob. Crowley, 60. 
]. ap. Owen, 62. 
Ralf Griffin, 62. 


L IHsBlteriss. 

Dean. 

Ardi. HereBonL 

Prd>. Moiefon Parva. 
II. Xneonbenta. 


R. DanUi, 58. 

y. (7Aiof«rr, 57. 

TArdem,^ 

J.Parfi^,^ 


T. Taylor, 59. 
T. Grenewichy 60. 
R. Sherar, 60. 
W. Mappe, 62. 
Hugh ap. Rice, 62. 
K. Palfrey, 64. 


Kingsland. 

Cradky. 

Oldbory. 

Tenboiy. 

Stowe. 

Wigmoie. 


J. Parfar. 
Roland Canutt^ 39. 
RoUmd Gasmell^ 55. 
[Griffin ap.David^ 52. 
£". Legge^ 6a 



Extra hoc regnum AngUae sine licentia regis fngit. 




INSTITUTIONS AFTER DEPRIVATION, 1558'15€4 279 



DIOCESE OF LINCOLN. 



App. II 





I. Dignitaries. 




J. Longland, 59. 


Preb. of Kilsby. 


IV. Cook, 54. 


J. Aylmer, 59. 


Archd. Stow. 


y. Harrtson, 54. 


Nich. BolliDgham, 59. 


Arcbd. Lincoln. 


Owen Hodgson, 59. 


J. Longland, 59. 


Archd. Bucks. 


R. Porter^ 54. 


R. Barber, 59. 


Archd. Beds. 


Mich. Dunning, 58. 


W. Bill, 59. 


Preb. of MUton Ec- 
desia. 


Rob. Reynolds^ 55. 


R. Gill, 60. 


Preb. of Leigfaton £c- 
desia. 


G. Hunter, $8. 


Nich. BuUingham, 60. 


Bishop. 


T. Watson, 57. 


J. Watson, 60. 


Preb.Langford Manor. 


Owen Hodgson, 57. 


Chris. Shorthouse, 60. 


Preb. of Asgarby. 


W. Tresham, 41. 


T. Goodwin, 60. 


Preb. Bedford Major. 


Ant. Draycot, 39. 


Rob. Beaumont, 60. 


Archd. Hunts. 


Ant. Draycot, 43. 


T. Lark, 61. 


Preb. of Norton Epis- 
copi. 

II. Inomnbento. 


r. Hide, 55 ^ 


J. Lunde, 60. 


Munden. 


G. BuUoke. 


R. Barnes, 60. 


Houghton. 


? 


W. Fishe, 61. 


Moulton. 


? 


R. Stevenson, 61. 


Aylton (? Elton). 


? 


T. Godwyne, 62. 


Lutterworth. 


? 


(There 


is a large gap in the R« 


^ter.) 



DIOCESE OF LLANDAFF. 

(The Register does not exist) 



DIOCESE OF LONDON. 



J. Hodgkins, 59. 
W. Alley, 59. 
W. May, 59. 
J. Veron, 59. 



I. Dignitaries. 

Pieb. Harlesden. 
Preb. St. Pancras. 
Dean. 
Mora* 



A^. Harpsfield, 54. 
R. Willanton, 58. 
H. CoU, 56. 
Robt. Cousyn, 54. 



^ Act Book gives Gervaie Fishboume, March 98, 1559^ p. m. 



28o 



THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 



App. II J. Mullens, 59. 
J. PuUeyn, 59. 
£. Grindal, 59. 
David Padye, 56. 
W. Saxey, 6a 
Alexr. Nowell, 60. 
T. Watts, 6a 
T. Cole, 60. 
J. Pilkington, 6a 
T. Penny, 60. 
D. Kempe. 
Alex. Nowell, 6a 
T. Cole, 60. 
Nich. Fleming, 61. 
J. Atherton, 63. 

M. Hutton, 63. 
Robt. Greenacres, 63. 



Archd. London. 
Archd. Colchester. 
Bishop. 
Sneating. 
Treasurer. 
Archd. Middlesex. 
Preb. Totenhall. 
Arch. Essex. 
Preb. Mapesbury. 
Preb. Newington. 
Archd. St Albans. 
Preb. WUdland. 
Preb. Rugmere. 
Preb. Neasdon. 
Preb. Consumpta per 

Mare. 
Preb. Brondesbury. 
Preb. Twyford. 



/. HarpsJUld^ 54. 
/. Standish, 58. 
E. Banner^ 53. 
RobU Stoapes^ 56. 
RobU Cosen^ 58. 
W. Cheds^^ 56. 
T. DarbysMf^ 43. 
T. Darbyshire, 58. 
/. Harpsfield^ 58. 
/ Boxhall^ 58. 
/ Dugdale, 57. 
/. MorrtHy 58. 
Tristram Swaddle, 
R, Marshal. 
W, MassengoTy 57. 

T, By amy 60. 
Arth, CoUy 54. 



II. Inoiunbents. 



T. Cole, 59. 
T. Horton, 6a 
£. Layfeld, 60. 
J. Pulleyn, 60. 
J. Vcron, 60. 
H. Zulley, 60. 
J. Stather, 60. 
R. Harrington, 60. 
Robt. Foster, 60. 
£. Brichell, 60. 
N. Karvile, 6a 
J. Dane, 60. 

W. Hande, 60. 
W. Marshe, 60. 
W. Bretton, 60. 
T. Sympson, 61. 
J. Wylton, 61. 
Chris. Rame, 61. 
R. Laverock, 61. 
W. Lyvinge, 61. 
W. Leaper, 62. 
T. Woode, 63. 



High Ongar. 
St. Magnus. 
Fulham. 
Copford. 

St. Martin's, Ludgate. 
Harlington. 
Asheldam. 
Harringay. 
Stamford Rivers. 
Orsett. 
South Weld. 
St. Leonard's, Shore- 
ditch. 
Aldham. 

St. Anne and St Agnes. 
Keldon. 
Stortford. 
Widford. 
Boxted. 
Nevendon. 
St. Swithin. 
Braintree. 
Twickenham. 



r. Wood, 54. 

T, Darbyshire. 

T. Darbyshire, 
y. Morren^ 58. 
/. Morrtn, 58. 

T. Woody 54. 
J, Morren, 
R. Willerton. 
/. Baker, 53. 
/. Morren. 

G, Ollwaye, Feb. 59. 

W. Afoyle, 56. 

R. Kifigeston, 55. 
R. Kingestoru 
/. Baker, 47. 
/. Bartlett, 56. 
T Cradocke. 
R, Symnell, 55. 
/. Leder, 57. 
G. Barton. 
Robt. Barslowe, 56. 
/. Thometon, 49. 



>TITUTIONS AFTER DEPRIVATION, 1558-1564 281 



Aspinall, 62. 
lisbury, 62. 
Qtte, 62. 
Foster, 62. 
ilson, 62. 
sston, 62. 
acock, 62. 
pn, 62. 
ckmaster, 62. 
ewhouse, 62. 
irvyc, 62. 
. Phillips, 63. 
yndehed, 63. 
lorreys, 63. 
1 Evans, 63. 
ilmer, 63. 
iman, 63. 
ynson, 63. 
stWilloughby,63. 
lite, 64. 
ens Hart, 64. 
i Richardson, 64. 
ering, 64. 
etts, 64. 
Lwrence, 64. 
llpot, 64. 
sginald, 64. 
erke, 64. 



Stepney. 

Tendring. 

Gt. Horkesley. 

Corringham. 

East Donyland. 

Reed. 

Downham. 

Braughing. 

Twickenham. 

Shenfield. 

Hendon. 

Stunner. 

Shalford. 

Twickenham. 

Little Sampford. 

Widford. 

Great Canfield. 

Great Henny. 

Great Stanmore. 

Shellow-Bowels. 

Little Stambridge. 

White Notley. 

Standon. 

Wivenhoe. 

Hendon. 

Stepney. 

Ramsey. 

Mount- Bures. 



Tristram Swaddell^lZ, App. II 

P. Walker, Oct. 59. 

Robt. CoateSf Ap, 59. 
Rob, Burtofiy 58. 
T. Yaxley, 55. 
/. Hopper^ 56. 
Baldwin NortoHy 50. 
R. Cotton, Dec, 59. 
T. Wood. 

Robt, Davyes, Ap. 59. 
H. Symondes, Feb. 59. 
T. White, 58. 
W. Atkinson, Sep. 59. 
71 Buckmaster, 62. 
T. Moorejylde, 44. 
/. Wylton, 61. 
/. Bryckebecke, 45. 
R. Wingfield, 62. 

Hugh Maddock, 54. 
Steph. Caston, 58. 
Geoff. Jones, 38. 
/. Allforde, 59. 
T. Yaxley, 54. 
71 Harvye, 62* 
AVrA. Aspinall, 62. 
/. Lovell, 60. 
/. Abowen, 63. 



DIOCESE OF NOR WICH. 



isbury, 60. 



I. Dignitaries. 
I Dean. 



I /. Harpsfield, 58. 



1st, 59. 
)rth, 60. 
hnson, 60. 
^e, 60. 

. Wemnouthe, 61. 
ingfilde, 61. 
wlye, 61. 
incocke, 62. 



II. Inoumbento. 

Westwick. 

Burgh. 

Scole. 

Eccles. 

Offton and Little Bricett 

Langford. 

Hingham (Berroughe). 

TttchwelL 



R. Taylor, 55. 
Oliver Haver, 58. 
R. Calner. 
J. Collinson, 41. 
R. Appletoft, 56. 

Simon Anderson, 56. 
Hugh Hudsonne, 47. 



THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 



J. Porter, 62. 
Nich. Locke, 62. 
T. Warwick, 63. 
Edm. Reve, 63. 
J. Benston, 63. 
J. Mychelfield, 63. 
R. Bobbett, 63. 
Jas. Lyng, 64. 
W. Woode, 64. 
Laur. Ydverton, 64. 



Denton. 



Stmmpshaw. 

Haigiave. 

Kettilsbei ston. 

Washbrook. 

Cokeley. 

Gimingfaam. 

Tudingham. 

Skulthorpe. 



H. Carter^ 54. 
Rob. Siopes. 
J, Seweilf 55. 
/. Balkeyty 56. 
Roger Tttyhr^ 56. 
Jas. Stanley^ 54. 
RobU Buttdl. 
R, Lacke^ 31. 
TkurstoH Bradley, 54. 
And. Cole. 



G. Carew, 59. 
T. Kent, 59. 
R. Bankes, 59. 
R. Bankes, 59. 
J. CalfhiU, 6a 



DIOCESE OF OXFORD. 



I. Dignitaries. 

Dean. 
4th Preb. 
6th Preb. 
8th Preb. 
2nd Preb. 

II. Inoombenttf. 



R. Marshall, DJ)^ 53. 
AUx. Belsiriy 46. 
W. Chedsey^ DJ)., 54- 
R. Smyth, DJ).^ 54. 
W. Tresham, ? 46. 



(The Register notes no deprivations.) 



DIOCESE OF PETERBOROUGH. 



Edm. Seamier, D.D., 

59. 
W. Latimer, D.D., 59. 



Ralph Phillip, 59. 
W. Yale, 59. 
Geoff. Parishe, 59. 
Bernard Brandon, 

D.D., 59. 
W. Archbold, 59. 
Gilb. Leybome, 6a 
W. Todde, 60. 
W. Walkenden, 60. 



I. Dignitaries. 
Bishop. 

Dean. 

II. Inotmibents. 

Bradden. 
Harrowden. 
Wadenhoe. 
Uppingham. 

Bugbrooke. 
Cottingham. 
Kettering. 
Telvertoft. 



D. Pole, 57. 

/. Boxall, DJ)., 57. 



W. Burton, 44. 
[W. Valenfyne, m 
Bp, Pole. 
T. Collyer, 54. 

W. Tresham,DJ).,^2, 
Ant. Draycot. 
Ant. Draycot. 
H. Comberford. 



INSTITUTIONS AFTER DEPRIVATION, 1558-1564 283 



W. Thorpe, 61. 
W. HoweU, 61. 
T. Stronghenkin, 62. 
W. Cuthbarte, 62. 
R. Russell, 63. 



Cottesmore. 

Dingley. 

Desborough. 

Loddington. 

Tilkencote. 



? 
? 

? 
R. ComvaWj 53. 
/. Bent, 56. 



App. II 



DIOCESE OF ROCHESTER. 

I. Dignitariea. 

(None.) 



R. Lovelace, 60. 
J. Dawlyn, 60. 



11. Inoumbeiito. 

* Mapescombe.' 
Lullingstone. 



? 

? 



DIOCESE OF ST. ASAPH. 
I. Dignitaries. 



Rob. Whettell, 59. 
R. Davys, 60. 
T. Smythe, 60. 


Preb. of Llanyfydd. 
Bishop. 

? Preb. of Llansant- 
ffi*aid. 

II. Inoambeato. 


L/. Parfue, 56.] 
T. Goldwell, 54. 

? 


David Yale, 64. 
T. Breieton, 64. 


Uandegla. 
Kilken. 


David Edwards. 
Griff, Jones, 


DIOC 


ESE OF ST. DA 


vins. 




I. Bignitaries. 




T. Young, 59. 
— Constantine, 59. 
T. Young, 6a 
W. Leche, 60. 
W. Downham, 60. 


Precentor. 

Archd. Brecon. 

Bishop. 

Preb. of Hcwyd. 

Arch. St. David's. 

II. Inouxiibeiiito. 


Morgan Philips^ 54. 
/. Blaxtony 54. 
H, Morgan^ 54. 
Rob. ap, Powell, 

? 


— Vaughan, 59. 
J. ap. Owen, 59. 
T. Lloyd ap. Jones, 60. 


Llangan. 
Llandilo Fawr. 
Manordivy. 


/. Philips, 54. 
T, Haward^ LLJB^ 54 
/. Hoell. 



^ 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



II 



6z. 
62. 



Roh. 
Ralph 



iCMvJM 



SarycTydi. 



DIOCESE OF SALISBURY. 



T. TaiMTHtfrr, 59. 




r. UmrJimg, 5S- 


H. Parry. 59. 


Chancdkir. 1 


THtskjns^^ 


Aith. SaDe, 59. 


f 


J.BUckaUm, 






J.B^xmlL 


J. Jewd, 60. 


Bishop. 


J.O^om,^ 


W. Bcnett, 63. 


Prdx ^ aimiRSter. 


J. Prtcy^ 61. 


H. Seciirys,64. 




T. Bmrbamk^ 4fi. 


Giles Lawrence, 64. 


Aidid. Wilts. 
II. InmimlMnta. 


J. Lmwrmct, SA^ 


J. Dysleyc S9. 


Bishopstone. 


T. Harding. 




East nsley. 


G.Bdl,^ 


Hanmet Hayde, 6a 


Stratford Tooy. 


R. Clare idiDmith< 

CM 


J. Hoaseman, 6a 


EngleMd. 


54- 
CUm. Bwrdett^ 42. 


T. Wcbbc, 62. 


Trowbridge. 


J. Langlamdy Y^ 


J. Greenway, 62. 


Inkpen. 


/. CoUjns. 


T. Handcodc, 63. 


Puiicy. 


R. Gaiskeii^ 54. 


T. Flint, 63. 


Hampstead MarshalL 


Edm.Pearce. 


T. Mountayne, 63. 


Purley. 


r. Hamdcacky 63. 


W. Moseley, 64. 


Dunhead St. Mary. 


Roger Bdbelt. 


Godfrey Cobtn. 


Upton LovelL 


Robi.Eyre^^ 



SOUTHWELL MINSTER. 



G. Ackworth, 59. 
Goddard Kiddall, 60. 
G. Powes, 61. 
Walter Jones, 62. 
J. Taverham, 62. 
J. Pratt, 63. 



Preb. North Mnskham. 
Preb. Oxten. 
Preb. South Mnskham. 
Preb. Nonnanton. 
Preb. North Leverton. 
Preb. Oxten« 



G. Palmer^ 58. 
Rob. Pursglcve^ 58. 
W. Tt^Uar^ 59L 
H, Bovell^ 59. 
G. Lambe^ 59. 
G. Kiddall, 6a 



INSTITUTIONS AFTER DEPRIVATION, 1558-1564 a^ 



DIOCESE OF WINCHESTER. 



App. II 





I. Dignitaries. 




W. Overton, 58. 


Preb. 


Rob. Hyll. 


T. Langlcy, 59. 


Preb. I. 


Peter Lanridge. 


J. Warner, M.D., 59. 


Dean. 


Edm. Steward^ 54. 


J. Watson, 59. 


Archd. Surrey. 


Edm. Mervyn, 54. 


Walt Wright, 59. 


Preb. 


T. Harding. 


Mich. Pennigar, 6a 


Preb. 


T. Hyde, 56. 


Rob. Home, 61. 


Bishop. 


/. White, 56. 


J. Ebdenne, 62. 


Preb. VII. 
II. Incumbento. 


Lour. Bilsan, 51. 


W. Wakflyn, 59. 


Alresford. 


W. Wakelyn. 


J. Coxe, 59. 


Compton. 


? 


Mich. Pennygar, 59. 


Crawley. 


? 


Rob. Leybome, 60. 


FaUcy. 


Rob. Reynolds. 


H. Parry, 60. 


Sutton. 


Edm. Marvyn. 


J. AbraU, 60. 


Sparsholt. 


R. Adams. 


G. Leyccter, 60. 


Wootton St. Lawrence. 


J. Crete. 


J. Cook, 60. 


Ashley. 


E. Harmon. 


T. Lancaster, 61. 


Sherfield-English. 


W. Baker. 


J. Lacock, 61 • 


WinnalL 


Dominic Chane. 


W. Weke, 61. 


Nateley-Scures. 


Tristram Spackeman 


R. Robarts, 61. 


Katerington. 


? 


Rob. Vaser, 61. 


Shalford. 


R. Durdame, 57. 


Mt Standley, 61. 


Great Bookham. 


? 


R. Clere, 61. 


Peper-Harow. 


/. Sergeant, 58. 


R. Skynner, 63. 


Reigate. 


H. Norman, 57, 


? 62. 


Walton on the Hill. 


Rob. Coplet. 


J. Evanne, 62. 


Chiddingfold. 


Jos. Ellis. 


J. Champion, 62. 


Freshwater. 


J. Giasyery 49. 


J. Warweke, 62. 


Beaulieu. 


Greg, Bell, 55. 


Nich. Fox, 62. 


Wootton, I. of W. 


? 


J. Archarde, 62. 


St. Lawrence, L of W. 


T. Byre he. 


J. Alen, 62. 


Cliddisdon. 


J. Cooke. 


J. Cardele, 63. 


Titchfield. 


/. Perye, 58. 


R. Elys, 63. 


Mickleham. 


? 


G. Hanssard, 63. 


Merowe. 


Alban IMwicke. 


Nich. Sawe, 63. 


Portsea. 


J. Whyteheare. 


W. Hyde, 63. 


North Stoneham. 


T. Securis, 58. 


Robt. Leyboume, 63, 


* Wonsington.' 


/. Farler. 


Steph. Chescome, ? 63. 


King's Worthy. 


Laurence Bilson, 58. 


J. Turck, 64. 


Farley. 


R. Redworth, 6a 


Hugh Traybonne, 64. 


Shalford with Bromley. 


Robt. Fawcett, 57. 


J. Abrall, 64. 


Clanfield. 


/. Stameinge. 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Arp n 



ST. GEORGES, WINDSOR. 



G. Whstboroe, $9. 

EdJiL Jolmsofi, 6a 
G. Carewe, 6a 



: CanoOi 



W.CkOMij,^ 
TSlytim^^ 
ArtiL(Me,4y, 
/ A^M//, 57- 



DIOCESE OF WORCESTER^. 



I. 



£« Sandys, 59. 


Bishop. 


R. Paie, 5S. 


J. Pedderi 60. 


Dean. 


Setk HolUmdy 57. 


Aug. BrodebridgCi 6a 


Preb.IV. 


[H.Jalife,^\ 


Rob. Avify 60. 


Preb.V. 


Edm.Dat^eiL 


T. Herte, 61. 


Preb.1. 


W. Norfolk, 5& 


Liberiuf Bierd, 61. , 


Preb. III. 


T. Arden, 5& 


T. Norley, 61. 


Preb.X. 


W. TunUmU, 58. 


T. Norl^, 61. 


Preb. VI. 
II. Xneombents. 


Rob. Show, 58. 


Ntch. Jackson, 61. 


Kinwarton. 


H, Johnson, 


W. Tomlynson, 61. 


Hanbury. 


W. NorthfoUu. 


Nich. Shepherd, 61. 


Hartlebury. 


T.Arden, 


K. Barnes, 61. 


Broadwas. 


H. Johnson^ ^ 


J. Pcder, B.D., 61. 


Snitterfield. 


W, Barton, 57. 


Rob. Cleyficld, 61. 


Morton*Bagot 


Rob, Shdmerdyne, 51 


T. Penford, 63. 


Spemall. 


Rob, Shelmerdyne. 


Nich. Smyth, 62. 


Charlecote. 


And. Warbreton. 


T. Gierke, 62. 


Kenwarton. 


H.Johnson. 


Dl 


'OCESE OF YOR 


K. 




I. Dignitaries. 




Roger Askame, 59. 


Peb. of Wetwang. 


G. Palmer^ 58. 


Fras. Newton, 59. 


Preb. of North New- 
bald. 


[R. Drury ?] 


J. Stokes, 60. 


Arch. York. 


G, Palmer^ 43. 


T. Young, 60. 


Archbishop. 


Nich, Heath, 55. 


Kdm. Scambler, 60. 


Preb. of Wistow. 


\W, Sylvester, ii.} 


T. Wilson, 60. 


Preb. of Fenton. 


W, Tc^lor, 58. 



* There is a gap in the Registers between 1563 and 1570. 




INSTITUTIONS AFTER DEPRIVATION, 1558^1564 287 



G. Bullen, 6a 


Preb, of UUeskelf. 


/. Setim^ 54. 


W. Day, 61 \ 


Arch. Notts. 

• 


Rodf, Pursg/ove, 53. 


T. Thackhaxn, 62. 


Preb. Langtoft. 


BeUdwin Norton^ 59. 


R. Maister, 63. 


Preb. Fridaythorpe. 
II. Inoimibenttf. 


Arth. Lowe^ 54. 


Oliver Columben, 59'. 


Stanford. 


Eliz, Umfrye, 


Chris. St^den, B.D., 

59 •• 
Ant. Blake, 59'. 


Newark. 


J, Faversham. 


Doncaster. 


J, Hudson, 


Ant. Blake, 59 ■• 


Whiston. 


J, Atkinson* 


Ant. Holgate, 59'. 


Bumsall. 


R, SummerscalL 


W. Denman, 59*. 


Ordsall. 


Rob, Blunston. 


Rob. Wisdom, 59 «. 


Settrington. 


J, Thornton, 


T.Atkinson, 59'. 


Elwick. 


G. Clife, 


G. Tailor, 59*. 


Bulmer. 


J,Jakeson, 


Marm. PuUeyn, 59*. 


Ripley. 


Rob, Persivall, 


J. Adams, 59*. 


Hockerton. 


T, HuddUston. 


Kich. Halgh, 59. 


North Burton. 


[IV, TaiUor, 57.] 


T. D«on, 59*. 


Etton. 


? 


T. Reader, 59. 


Beeford. 


[Cuthbert Scott, 49.] 


T. Lakyn, 59. 


Bolton. 


? 


Fras. Scarthe, 61. 


Hinderwell. 


[R. Salvyn.] 


Rob. Pole, 62. 


Kirby in Cleveland. 


W. Bury, 


T. Smythe, 62. 


Hilston. 


J, Colvyer, 


Ralf Bylby, 62. 


Fledborough. 


T. Washington, 58. 


J. Sye, 62. 


Famsfidd. 


W. Pulleyn. 


Ant. Toppam, 62. 


Amcliffe. 


T. Wilson, 



App. II 



^ Presented by the Crown, December 23, 1559. 

' Restored during the Northern Visitation of August and September, 
1559* See S. P. Dom. Eliz. x. 



APPENDIX III 

Institutions after Deprivation, November i8, 

1564-1570- 

App. Ill Note : — This list amiains the nanus ofthost who wen inslUuied afitr d^rwmtioH 
""^ to about the beginmng of 1570. As we tooh out such entries when the 

Registers are extant^ U seemed that the list might be use/til Jbr other inqmries, 
and accordingly we inserted it here. 

DIOCESE OF BATH AND, WELLS. 



J. Brydgwater, 66. 


Poriock. 


Rob. Brodu^ 33. 


W. Jones, 67. 


Cucklington. 


Chris. Dewe^ 58. 


R- Woodfall, 69. 


Christon. 


R. Sckore^ 65. 


DIOCE 


SE OF CANTER 


\BUR Y. 


J. Shepard, 65. 


Godmersham. 


T. King. 


Chris. Yaxle, 65. 


Horsley. 


R, Dtutiel, 49. 


H. Delbricke, 66. 


Orpington. 


Maur. Clenockcy 57. 


W. Lesley, 67. 


St. John's Thanct 


/. Wood, 63. 


T. KneU, 69. 


Lyminge. 


W. Hawkins. 


DIOi 


ZESE OF CHES'i 


^ER. 


Rob. Hebblethwayt,65. 


Croft. 


AnL Green, 58. 


W. Langley, 69. 


Prestwich. 


W, Langley (su). 


DIOCL 


ISE OF CHICHE 


STER. 


Anth. Garrawaye, 66. 


Iford. 


Rob. Hoiloway, 


T. Northoll, 66. 


Stopham. 


— Martin. 


W. Miller, 66. 


Wartling. 


Peter Horsey. 


Tim. Grene, 66. 


Birdford. 


W. ElUot. 


Roger Hale, 66. 


Horsted Magna. 


Fras, Coze, 6a 


J. Peverill, 67. 


Bodiham. 


R. Symons. 


St Chatfeilde, 67. 


Pett. 


W. Garret, 60. 


W. Hawkins, 67. 


Oving. 


IV. Smith. 


W. Wright, 68. 


Crawley. 


Roger Hall. 



INSTITUTIONS AFTER DEPRIVATION, 1564-1570 289 



DIOCESE OF CO VENTR Y AND LICHFIELD. 



App. Ill 



Robt. Wodeharne, 65. 


Fenny Bentley. 


Nick. Bambford. 


T. Dabenen, 66. 


Stretton le Dale. 


G. Greamef 


T. Barnes, 66. 


Uttoxeter. 


Arth, Blunt, 62. 


R. Astlyn, 67. 


Leamington Priors. 


H. Stevens^ 63. 


Hugh Asburie, 67. 


Elford. 


T. More, 62. 


Hum. Steile, 67. 


Madeley. 


Ralph Hales, 57. 


E. Sandes, 70. 


Tatbury. 


Edm. Barber. 


H. Smythe, 70. 


Solihull. 


J. Bavand. 


Robt Aston, 70. 


Standen. 


? 


DIOCESE OF DURHAM. 


T. Marshall, 64. 


Hartwisle. 


Nlch. Crawhall. 


Ralph Graye, 65. 


Welpington. 


W. Restley, 56. 


T. Benyon, 65. 


Embleton. 


T. Palmer. 


Ralph Levir, 66. 


Archd. Northumber- 
land. 


W. Kynge, 58. 


J. Mackbrey, 66. 


Billingham. 


G. Clyfy 60. 


Leon. Pilkington, 67. 


Preb. VI L 


W. Byrche, 62. 


Ralph Levir, 67. 


Preb. IV. 


W. Tod. 


R. Longworth, D.D., 


Preb. VIII. 


T. Levir, 63. 


67. 






T. Gierke, 67. 


Barwick. 


/. Blackhall 


W. Duxfield, 70. 


Mitford. 


Roger Venie, 61. 


L 


^lOCESE OF EL ] 


Y. 


W. Lucas, 69. 


Carlton and Willing- 
ham. 


Rob. Kent. 


Rob. Holbome, 70. 


Elsworth. 


Phil. Baker, D.D. 


Rob. Willan, 70. 


Little Wilbraham. 


J. Walker. 


DIO 


CESE OF EXE 7 


^ER. 


T. PhiUips, 65. 


Seaton. 


T. Mychell, 6a 


£. Relie, 65. 


Stockleigh Pomeroy. 


R. Argentine, 61. 


T. Washington, 66. 


Michaelstow. 


R. Aldridgey 63. 


Chr. Bodlegh, 66. 


Subdean. 


T. Nutcombe. 


P. Buggens, 67. 


Awton Giflford. 
U 


Rob. Lougher, 62. 



290 



THE ELIZABETHAN CLERGY 



Apr III 



DIOCESE OF HEREFORD. 

Robt. Phillis, 70. | Pembridge. | Phil. Baker [ ? 66]. 



DIOCESE OF LONDON. 



W. Thometon, 64. 
Robt. Brecher, 65. 
J. Cardynall, 65. 
W. Womocke, 65. 
J. White, 65. 
Robt. Heron, 66. 
Bart. Busfield, 66. 
J. Orvice, 66. 
Thurstan Shawe, 66. 
W. Burde, 66. 
J. F'rampton, 66. 
Chr. Knight, 67. 
J. Smith, 67. 
A. Semper, 66. 
W. Lyvinge, 67. 
R. Mathewe, 67. 
T. Mortyboyes, 67. 

T. Dunne, 67. 
R. Porder, 68. 
W. Aylewarde, 68. 
J. Hedlam, 68. 
T. Clough, 68. 
J. Beryman, 68. 
Rob. Hudson, 68. 
Nich. Nichols, 68. 
R. Smith, 68. 
J. Douglas, 68. 
J. Sympson, 69. 

W. Chapman, 70. 
W. Womocke, 70. 



Broomfield. 

Langham. 

Gestingthorp. 

Olton Beauchamp. 

Barkeway. 

Aveley. 

St. Christopher Stocks. 

Terling. 

Theydon on the Hill, 

Chishall Magna. 

Cressing. 

Steeple. 

Norton, nr. Baldock. 

St. Mary Stannings. 

St. Mary Abchurch. 

St. Michael Comhill. 

St. Alphage Cripple- 
gate. 

Shenfield. 

St. Peter Comhill. 

St.Leonard Shoreditch. 

Braughing. 

Elmedon. 

Shelley. 

Yeldham Magna. 

St. Martin Pomeroy. 

St. Margaret Pattens. 

Northwolde. 

St. Botolph Bishops- 
gate. 

Black Notley. 

Gestingthorp. 



W. Ferynge^ 63. 
Otto RumpelU^ 46. 
Chr. Hill, 59. 
Chr. HiU, 48. 
71 Chambers, 64. 
R. Bradshaw. 
J.^Lythall, 64. 
T. Carwardyn, 60. 
Chr. Threadare, 59. 
W. Pulleyn, 54. 
/. Calyty 51. 
Hugh. Joanes, 60. 
T. Serlbye, 6a. 

J. OWgOHy 64. 

G. Barton, 61. 
/. Philpott, 63. 
Robt. Sheriff, 64. 

W. Newhouse, 62. 
J. Gough, 60. 
Nich. Daniels, 63. 
W. Lyon, 62. 
Ant. Toppam, 54. 
R. Hatton, 58. 
G. Raynolds, 63. 
G. Barton, 60. 
Nich. Standen, 66. 
J. Cormett, 53. 
E. Turner. 

T. Daukes, 64. 
J. Cardinall, 65. 



DIOCESE OF NOR WICH. 



Cuthbert Hyndmer,65. 
R. Gaseley, 65. 
R. Tenett, 66. 



Reydon. 
Beddingham. 
Carlton Colville. 



Leon. Howlett, 61. 
Rob. Randall. 
J. Gough, 6a 



INSTITUTIONS AFTER DEPRIVATION, 1561-1570 291 



W. Daglas, 67. 

W. Baldwyne, 67. 

T. Howlett, 68. 

J. Treman, 68. 

H. Bancke, 68. 

Jas. Eache, or Conyers, 

68. 
H. Hutchinson, 68. 
G. Conyers, 68. 
W. Hattonne, 68. 
Steph. Nevinson, 69. 
Jas. Love, 69. 
R. Twynne, 69. 
W. Hombye, 69. 
R. Fortune, 69. 
J. Kiffen, 70. 
J. Park, 70. 


Walpole. 

Brandeston. 

Groton. 

Bentley. 

Gt. Finborough. 

Wickham-Skeith. 


R. Bowling. 
W. Goodfellow. 
H. Browne. 
Peter Welles. 
[Gtlb. Alcock.] 
J. Evans. 


Henley. 

Bintree. 

Stody. 

Stiffkey. 

East Harling. 

Hopton. 

Rogdon. 

Reedham. 

Stanstead. 

Lackford. 


T. Ridinges. 
R. Walker. 
W. Nation (sic). 
W. Frost. 
71 Moore. 

? 
T. Tie. 
Rob. Barney. 
J. Cofnbes. 
J. Helme. 


Die 


KESE OF OXFO 


RD 


Rob. Scholfelde, 69. 


Hard wick. 


Griffin Gough. 


DIOCES 


E OF PETERBO 


ROUGH. 


Peter Conwey, 65. 
T. Palmer, 66. 
R. Rayner, 66. 
T. Sharrocke, 67. 


Alderton. 
Merebashbie. 
Southwich. 
Badby Newenham. 


? 

? 

?6o. 
?6i. 


DIOCl 


"iSE OF ROCHEii 


;ter. 


Nich. Bishoppe, 65. 
W. Darell, 65. 


Stoke. 
Cowling. 


Robi. Cragge, 61. 
E. Haydon. 


DIOCL 


'SE OF ST. DA I 


yiD'S^. 


Phil. Sidney (Scholar), 

65. 
T. ? 65. 


Preb. Llangunlo. 

Castle Emleyn. 

* The book ends 1565. 
U 2 


T. Bulkley. 
J. Butler. 



App. Ill 



THE EUZABETHAN CLERGY 



Krr. in 



DIOCESE OF SALISBUR Y. 



£dm« Becke, 65. 


Inkpen. 


/. Greenway^ 61. 


J. William, or Gonter, 


Wookey. 


Roger Griffith^ 55. 


65. 






J. Pycrsc, 65. 


Newbury. 


? 


T. Davye, 65. 


Whaddon. 


/. CareU. 


Jas. Procter, 65. 


Malmesbury St PaoL 


y. Skinner, 


Nich. Rogers, 65. 


Donhead St Mary. 


y. Fezarde^ 55. 


DIOCE. 


SE OF WINCHESTER. 


Bernard Blacher, 65. 


Klftfield. 


W, Hinckersfield. 


R. Foxe, 65. 


Hursley. 


y Hynton. 


T. Ladlowe, ? 66. 


Farley. 


W. Smythe. 


R. Wythcn, 66. 


Ewhurst 


Aristotle IVehb, 


Dl 


'OCESE OF YOL 


IK. 


G. Aplebie, 65. 


TickhiU. 


Rob. Elden, 


Chr. Harrison, 65. 


Bossall. 


Ant. Grene^ 62. 


T. Robinsone, 65. 


Kirk-Sandall. 


Lancelot Tailor. 


J. Overton, 66. 


Yedingham. 


C. Cherleson^ 59. 


Peter Challoner, 66. 


Stainton. 


T. Holden. 


W. Waistnes, 67. 


Headon. 


y Swynscoe, 61. 


W. Crake, 67. 


Folkton. 


y Thompson, 62. 


J. Wilson, 68. 


Ilkey. 


y Pullen, 54. 


G. Mitchell, 68. 


Cowesby. 


Ant. Grene, 47. 


J. Chetam, 69. 


Colwick. 


Oliver Haywoode. 



INDEX 



-♦4- 



abs.= absentee, 1559. 
rec s recnsant. 

Ch. «= Christopher. 
R. « Richard. 



ABBREVIATIONS. 

dep. a deprived. inst. « instituted. 

sig. = signatory, 1559. 

£. = Edward. H. Henry. J. « John. 

T.= Thomas. W.«= William. 



A. 



Abadam, J., si|;., 109. 

Abbot, Rob., sig., 118. 

Abell, J., sig., lao. 

Abowen, J., dep., 252, 281. 

Abrall, J., inst, 285. 

Abftt, W., sig., 109. 

Acworth, George, writer, 243; inst, 

284. 
Acton, T., sig., 124. 
Ad Persecuiores Anglos, its account of 

deprivations, 222, 230. 
Adams, J., restored, 89, 287. 

— R., dep., 228, 252, 285. 

— T., sig., 124, 
Adamson, Philip, sig., 109. 
Adde, J., sig., 120. 
Adran, J., sig., 109. 
Akers, J., sig., 109. 
Albon, J., sig., 109. 
Alcock, Gilbert, dep., 291. 

— R., sig., 124. 

— T., sig., 120. 
Aldridge, R., dep., 289. 
Alem, Rob., sig., 109. 
Alexander, Rob., sig., 102. 
Alford, J., sig., 102 ; dep., 252, 281. 

— W., sig., 124. 
Allaman, H., sig., 102. 
Allen, Gervase, sig., 120. 

— James, sig., lao. 

— T.> sig., 102, 109, 124; inst, 285. 

— Rob., sig., 102. 

— W., dep., 229, 233, 253. 
Alley, W., inst, 277, 379. 



AUmark, R., sig., 118. 

Alms ; the clergy to give part of their 

revenues to the poor, 50. 
Alms-boxes to be placed in churches, 55. 
Alpden, Rob., sig., 120. 
Alrad, t., dg., 102. 
Alsop, J., sig., 120. 

— Rob., sig., 120. 

— W., sig., 1 20. 
Alston, T., dep., 252, 273. 
Altars, removal of, 63. 
Always, H., dep., 228, 266. 
Ambros, Elixeus, abs., 87. 
Amgar, R., sig., 109. 
Anderson, Simon, dep., 252, 281. 
Anderton, J., sig., 102. 
Andrew, J., sig., 102, 124. 

— Rob., sig., 109. 
AnnuUyng, J., sig., 118. 

Ap David, Griffin, dep., 252, 278. 
Apeleye, Rob., abs., 83. 
Apowell, Hugh, abs. 87. 

— Rob., dep., 262, 283; see also 
Powell 

ap Owen, J., inst., 278, 283. 
Appleby, Ambrose, M.A., 224; dep., 
233> 352. 

— G., inst, 292. 

— J., inst., 273. 

Appletoft, R., sig., 109 ; dep., 253, 281. 
Appryce, E., sig., 102. 

— Hugh, inst, 378. 

— Philip, sig., 102. 

Ap Richaxt, Hugh, sig., I30. 
Archarde, J., inst, 285. 
Archbold, W., inst., 383. 



394 



INDEX 



Arden, T., dep., 78, 161, 337, 355, 378, 
386; larking in Herefordshire, 184, 
200, 333. '[N^., called also /okn 
Arden.; 

Argentine, R., inst., 373, 377; dep., 
389. 

Armitage, T., sig., 109. 

Armour, J., sig., I03. 

Amoldi, J., fig., 134. 

Aisleye, W., ab«., 83. 

Anindel, H., £. of. Visitor for the 
Soath, 1 01. 

— Sir Nicholas, Visitor for the Sooth, 

lOI. 

Asbnrie, Hugh, inst., 389. 
Asche, \V., sig., 109. 
Ashebary, Ch., sig., io3. 
Asheby, Rob., sig., 117. 

— W., sig., 134. 
Ashelake, T., sig., 130. 

Ashley, W., sig., i3o; dep., 353, 376. 
Ashton, J., sig., 103. 

— Rob., sig., 102. 
Assheworth, Lanrence, sig., 109. 
Ashwyn, J., sig.. 134. 
Askam, Anthony, abs., 83. 

— Roger, inst., 386. 

Askew, Sir Francis, Visitor for the 
South, 97. 

Aspinall, Nicholas, sig., 124; inst., 381 ; 
dep., 253, 281. 

Asplen, T., sig., 118. 

* Assurance of Supremacy * Act, its pro- 
visions, 188 ; compared with the 
Supremacy Act, 188 ; the teit, 303. 

Astley, \V., sig., i3o. 

Astlyn, K., inst., 389. 

Aston, Kob., sig., I30 ; inst, 389. 

— T., sig., 1 20. 
Atherton, J., inst., 380. 
Athowe, T., sig., 109. 

Atkins, Anthony, dep., 136, 333, 353; 
restricted to bounds, 1 80. 

— T., sig., 1 30. 

— Walter, sig., 117. 

— W., dep.. 338. 
Atkynson, H., sig., 102. 

— /., sig., 109; dep., 89, 253, 387. 

— T.,dep., 80, 238, 253, 374 ; restored, 
^1 273, 387; imprisoned, 185; sig., 
134. 

— W., sig., 103 ; dep., 353, 381. 
AUlowe, Edward, rec, 183, 334; M.A., 

334 ; Dr. of Medicine, 339 ; deprived 
of Fellowship, 233, 269. 

— Luke, B.A., 1560, 334; deprived of 
Fellowship, 232, 269. 

Angier. T., si^^., 109. 
Averell, H., sig., 120. 
Avis, Rob., inst, 286. 



Awcliar, W., inst, 373. 
Awdley, J., sig., i3o. 

— N., sig., 103. 

— Rob., sig., 109. 
Awgest, T., sig., 103. 
Aylewarde, W., inst, 39a 
Aylmer, J., inst, 379. 
Aynsworthe, Frands, sig., 117. 

— G., sig., 109. 
Ayre, J., sig., 103. 
Ayslabye, J., sig.,134. 

B. 

Babington, Dr. . . . , dep.. 339. 

— F., dep., 353, 378. 

— W., sig., 1 3a 
Badie, J., sig., 120. 
Bacheler, E., sig., 109. 
Backehouse, J., abs., 87. 

— Raphael, sig., 109. 

Bacoo, Sir Nicholas, his Protestant 
leaning, 3 ; Visitor for the Soath, 94, 

95- 

— Rob., sig., 103. 

— W., sig., 1 30. 
Bactar, J.,sig., 103. 
Badcok, H., sig., 109. 
Badnall, T., sig., 120. 
Bagaley, Nicholas, sig., iso. 
Bagiey, Rob., abs., 83. 
Ba^nall, R., inst, 277. 
Baily, Matthew, sig., 135. 

— T., dep., 327, 333, 353. 
Baitsoms, Rob., sig., 135. 
Bakelar, T., sig., 109. 

Baker, J., sig., 103; rec., 185; dep.. 
353, 380, 385. 

— P., dep., 353, 389, 390. 

— R., sig., 103. 

— Rob., sig., 125. 
Bakewell, T., sig., 130. 

Baldwyn, R., sig., i3o; restored, 89, 
374. 

— W., inst, 391. 
Bale. J., inst, 373. 
Balgaye, J., sig., 103. 
Balkeye, J., dep., 353, 283. 
Ballard, Rob., abs., 87. 

— W., sig., 109. 

Bamford, N., dep., 353, 376, 389. 
Ban, Roger, sig., 135. 
Banester, Nicholas, rec., 183. 

— T., sig., 109. 

— W., sig., 1 30. 
Bancroft, James, sig., 135. 
Bangor, Bishop of; se$ Meyrick, R. 

— diocese, records of, 337. 
Bank, £., inst, 376. 

— H., inst, 391. 



INDEX 



295 



Banks, E., sig., 103. 

— H., sig., 125. 

— R., inst, 283. 
Banrenson, J., sig , 120. 
Banyard, T., sig., 109. 
Bapster, J., sig., 125. 
Bapthorpe, Rob., sig., 78. 

Barber, Edmund, sig., 120; dep., 289. 

— R., sig., 125; inst., 279. 
Barker, Adam, sig., 109. 

— E., sig., 103. 

— Philip, sig., 1 25. 

— T., sig., 109. 

— W., sig., 103, 154; abf., 87. 
Barley, Oliver, sig., 154. 

— W., sig., 120. 

Barlowe, Alexander, sig., 120. 

— Geoffrey, sig., 125. 

— William, Bishop of Chichester, con- 
firmed, 156 ; his efforts for the oath, 

157. 

Bamage, Rob., sig., 109. 

Barnard, £., inst., 284; see also Ber- 
nard. 

Bambye, T., abs., 83. 

Bame, J., sig., 109. 

— T., abs., 83. 
Bameker, Aug., 275. 
Barnes, R., inst., 279, 286. 

— T., sig., 120; inst, 289. 

— W., sig., 120. 
Barney, Rob., dep., 291. 
Barrett, J., sig., 109; dep., 234. 

— W., sig., 109 ; dep., 253. 
Barrowe, Anthony, abs., 86. 
Barslowe, Rob., tig., 103; dep., 253, 

280. 
Barthylmew, Roger, sig., 1 20. 
Bartleton, T., sig., 103. 
Bartlett, t., dep., 253. 
Barton, G., abs., 86 ; inst, 278 ; dep., 

2.«i3, 280, 290. 

— Hugh, abs., 86. 

— Tames, abs., 83. 

— Rob., sig., 117 ; dep., 253, 281. 

— W., dep., 253, 286. 
Bartram, Rob., sig., 125. 
Barwicke, T., inst., 277. 
Baskerville, Sir James, Visitor for the 

South, 10 1. 
Bass, J., sig., 118. 
Basset, Gregory, lurking in Hereford, 

184, 200 ; dep., 253, 278. 
Bate, Hugh, sig., 120. 
Bath and Wells, Bishop of; sa Bourne, 

G. ; Berkeley, G. 

— diocese, visitation of, 1560, 159, 160. 
deprivations and institutions in, 288. 

Battye, Charles, sig., 109. 



Bavant, John, rec., 224; dep., 234, 

289. 
Baven, R., abs., 87. 
Baxter, H., sig., 120; inst, 275. 

— Ralph, sig , 120. 

— W., sig., 109. 
Baydyll, G., sig., 103. 
Bay forth, \V , sig., 109. 
Baymine, J., sig., 109. 
Baynbryg, Geoffrey, sig., 103. 

— W., sig., 109. 
Baynbriggs, T., sig., 109. 

Bayne, Ralph, Bishop of Coventry and 
Lichfield, opposes Supremacy Act, 
&c., 5, 8 ; entangled in the public 
disputation, 32 ; is deprived, 35, 225, 

353, 275- 
Baynes, Brian, dep., 86, 269, 276. 

— R., sig., 125. 
Bays, W., sig., 125. 

Beacon, T., Visitor for the South, loi. 
Beare, J., sig., lop. 
Beaumont, Rob., mst, 279. 
Beccham, T., sig., 103. 
Beche, W., sig, 120. 
Becke, Barth., sig., 125. 

— Edm., inst., 292. 
Becket, J., sig., 109, 
Beckewith, Ch., abs., 87. 
Becon, T., inst., 273. 
Bedall, J., sig., 125. 

Bedford, Francis, Earl of, Visitor for 

the South, 94. 95, 98. 
Bede, Rob., sig., 118. 
Bees, W., sig., 120. 
Bell, David, abs,, 87. 

— E., abs., 86. 

— Gregory, dep., 228, 229, 234, 253, 
284, 285. 

— T., sig., 125. 

— W., abs., 83, 86. 
Beller, P., sig., 125. 
Bellost, Simon, dep., 228, 268. 
Bellowes, T., sig., 109. 

Belsire, Alex., dep., 136, 226, 232, 253, 

282 ; restricted to bounds, 179. 
Bemund, J., see Bremund. 
Bendall, J., sig., 103. 
Bendr3rsche, H., sig., tio. 
Bene, Edm., inst, 276. 
Benedict, . . . , dep., 229. 
Benger, Sir T., Oxford Visitor, 130. 
Bcnhere, Aug., sig., 155. 
Benigfeld, E., dep., 253, 278. 
Bennett, Edm., sig., 120. 

— E., sig., 120. 

— J., sig., 103. 

— Nich., sig., 125. 

— R., sig., no, 118. 

— T., dep., 234. 



296 



INDEX 



Bennett, W., sig., ijo; dq>., 79 ; tost^ 

372, 284. 
Benson, J., al»., 86. 

— T., Bg, no. 
Beo&ton, J,t ioA., 283. 
Bent, J., dep., 353, 383. 
Bentey, W., «g., 135. 

Bentham, T., Bishop of Cofcntiy and 
Lichfield, Visitor fat the Sooth, 97 ; 
consecrated bishop^ 157; inst., 375. 

Bentler, J^ sig., 135. 

— Ralph, sig., 103. 
Benyon, T., insL, 389. 

Berkeley. Gilbert, Bishop of Bath and 
>\'ells ; consecrated, 157, 371. 

— Sir Maurice, Visitor for the Sooth, 
98. 

B^ard, Rob., dep., 339, 334, 266. 

— T., sig., 155 ; and see Barnard. 
Bemereape, T., sig., I30. 
Berwick, J., dq>., 338, 367. 
Bery, W., sig., 1 35 ; and see Bory. 
Berydge, W., sig., 135. 
Beryman, J., inst., 390. 
Besakell, J., abs., 83. 

Besfeld, J.,sig., 103. 

Best, J., Bishop of Carlisle, preaches 
for the Visitors, 75 noU\ consecrated, 
166, 373; commissionerfor the North, 
167 ; bis visitation of Carlisle, 168, 
169; insL, 373, 374. 

— R., sig., 103. 

— Rob., sig., no. 
Bcttrcton, J., sig., i3o. 
Bctts, \V., insL,38i. 
lieverley, Rob., sig., no. 
lieulay, Gregory, sig., 103. 

— r., sig., 103. 

]5iblc, the, to be set up in chorches, 48 ; 
reading thereof to be encouraged, 49. 

Bibliography of the Supremacy con- 
troversy, 243 ftcte, 351 note, 

Bibney, James, sig., 103. 

Bierd, Libcrius, inst., 386. 

Bill, Dr. W., Cambridge Visitor, 133 ; 
ecclesiastical commissioner, 147; inst., 
279. 

Bilson, Laurence or Richard, dep., 337, 

233» 353. 3«5- 
Bingay, W., sig., 103. 

Birch, Ralph, sig., 103. 

— T., sig., 103 ; dep., 3 mte, 354, 385. 

— W., inst, 274; dep., 289. 
Byrchley, Roger, sig., 103. 
Bishop, Gregory, sig., no. 

— Nicholas, inst., 291. 

— R., dep., 328, 267. 

— W., sig., 103. 

Bishops, deprivations of, 30, 330 ; in 
the Parliament of 1559, 31 ; imprison- 



ment o^ 144, 145. 175. 193-195; 

coosecnitioo of the new, iip, 157, 

166; vacant sees, 157, 158, 165, 166; 

their rdease from prisoo, 19^ 194. 
Bladier, Bernard, inst, 393. 
Blackbome, Edm., sig., 103. 

— J-, ng- >03- 

— R,, sig., iia 

Bladchall, J., dep., 389. 
Blakhede, K., sig., 103. 
Blake, Anthony, restored, 89, 387. 
Blakemeyxe, HL, sig., 130. 
BUkwyn, R-, sig., 154. 
Blameield, Stephen, sig., iiou 
Bland, Ch., sig., 103. 

— E., sig., n7. 

— R^sig., 117. 
Blands, Gibiscit, ag., 135. 
Blarney, Hum., insL, 375. 

Blaxton, J., dep., 161, 337, 333, 354, 
377, 378, 383, 384; icstnuned to 
bounds, 181 \ lurking in Hereford, 
300. 

Blennerhasset, £., sig., 154. 

Blewet, T., inst., 375. 

Blithe, G., aba., 78. 

Blount, Sir R., Visitor for the South, 97. 

Bolton, J., depu, 328, 367. 

Blunston, R., preaches for the Visiton, 
75 note ; dep., 89, 354, 387. 

Blunt, Arthur, dep., 389. 

Blythe, W., sig., 1 30. 

Blythman, B., dep., 354, 373. 

Bobett, or Bolbett, Roger, dep., 328, 
254, 284; inst, 282. 

Bodie, J., inst., 373. 

Bodlegh, Ch., inst., 277, 289. 

Bolte, T., sig., 120; inst., 375. 

Bolton, W., sig., 135. 

Bowlton, J., sig., 125. 

Bond, W., sig., 103. 

Boneham, R., sig., iia 

Boninton, Edm., sig., 117. 

Bonner, Edm., Bishop of London, 
opposes Supremacy Act, &c f, 8; 
is dep., 34, 335, 254, 280; impris- 
oned, 1^4, 145, 185, 193, 194; sus- 
pected of treason, 145, 195 ; excom- 
municated, 190; refuses the oath in 
prison, 195 ; dies, 195. 

Bordman, £., sig,, 103. 

Borough, R., sig., 103. 

Borrow, EduL, sig., no. 

— R., sig., no. 

— T., abs., 83. 
Borthc, H., sig., 120. 
Bossall, Rob., sig., no. 
Boste, W., sig., 1 10. 
Botswayne, W., sig., no. 

Bourne, Gilbert, Bishop of Bath and 



INDEX 



297 



Wells, deprived of Presidency of 
Wales, 31 ; absent from Parliament 
of 1559) 31 ; returns to his see, 38 ; 
is dep., 38, 144, 226, 254, 271 ; im- 
prisoned, 144; restricted to bounds, 
194, 196 ; dies, 196. 

BonsAeld, Barth., inst., 290. 

Bovell, H., sig., 125 ; rec, 185; dep., 
2i7» 333, 254, 284. 

Bower, Humphrey, sig., 118. 

— Ralph, sig., 12a 

Bowes, R., Visitor for the North, 71. 
Bowling, R., dep., 291. 
Bowman, Rob., sig., no. 

— Stephen, abs., 86. 
Bownme, R., sig., 120. 
Bownell, J., sig., 103. 
Bownes, £dm., sig., no. 
Bowoirs, W\, sig., 125. 
Bowyer, Andrew, sig., 120. 

Boxall, J., imprisoned, 146 ; dep., 226, 

231, 254, 271, 277, 280, 282, 284, 

286. 
Boylston, Roger, sig., 125. 
Boynton, T., sig., 117. 
Boys, W., rec, 77 ; restricted to bounds, 

180. 
Boyse, E., Visitor for the South, loi. 
Brahan, J., sig., 103. 
Bracher, Rob., inst., 278, 290. 
Brad bridge, Aug., inst., 274, 286. 
Bradbury, Aug., inst., 274. 
Bradley, Thurstan, sig., no; dep., 254, 

282. 
Bradocke, T., sig., 120. 
Bradshaw, J., sig., 120 ; dep., 228, 267, 

290. 

— T., inst, 276. 
Braithwayte, Michael, abs., 87. 
Braker, H., sig., 103. 
Bramborough, R., dep., 254, 278. 
Bramston, T., dep., 232, 254. 
Brancker, W'., sig., no. 
Brandlinge, Ralph, abs., 86. 
Brandon, Bernard, inst., 282. 
Bratchard, Rob., sig., 103 
Braye, J., sig., 125. 
Bredkerke, H., sig., 103. 
Bremund, J., dep., 227, 232, 267. 
Brcreton, T., inst., 283. 
Bretland, T., sig., no. 

Brett, Ralph, sig., 120. 

— Rob., sig., 103. 

Bretton, W., sig., 103, 117 ; inst., 280. 

Brettyn, Humphrey, sig., 125. 

Brewcrton, R., sig., no. 

Brian, T., sig., 103. 

Brichell, E., inst., 280. 

Bridger, R., sig., 118. 

Bridgwater, J., his account of numbers 



deprived, 223, 231 ; inst, 288 ; sig., 

154- 
Briggs, R., sig., n8. 

Brightyre, J., sig., no. 

Briskowe, R., sig., 125. 

Bristol diocese, records of, 237. 

Bristowe, R., dep., 131, 224, 229, 234, 

269. 

Brivyll, T., sig., 118. 

Brock, Ralph, sig., 120. 

— Rob., abs., 87 ; dep., 288. 
Brodeboite, James, abs., 83. 
Brodley, W., sig., 117. 
Brogdcn, W., abs., 83. 
Broke, Adam, sig., 120. 

— James, abt., 87. 
Bromhedd, T., dep., 254, 278. 
Brond, Simon, sig., 117. 
Broughton, J., sig., no. 
Brown, Edm., dep., 228, 267. 

— George, Visitor for the North, 71-73. 

— H., dep., 291. 

— J., sig., 103, no, 125. 

— Rob., sig., 103, 118, 125; inst., 

275. 

— T., sig., 103, 118. 

— Walter, sig., 125. 
Brownhall, Roger, sig., 154. 
Brownsmyth, W., sig., no. 
Brownying, W., sig., 118. 
Browyne, Sylvester, sig., 120. 
Brudenell, Edm., Visitor for the South, 

97. 
Brunborough, or Browborough, Edm., 

rec, 180; dep., 228, 234. 
Brune, Stephen, sig., 121. 
Bryan, W., sig., 121. 
Bryckebeche, J., dep., 254, 281. 
Bryggs, T., sig., 103, no, 
Brymley, W., sig., 121. 
Bucke, J., inst, 275. 
Buckmaster, T., inst, 281 ; dep., 254, 

281. 
Buggens, P., inst, 289. 
Bukkes, J., sig., no. 
Buknal, W., sig., 118. 
Bui hey, J., sig., no. 
Bulkley, T., abs., 87 ; dep., 291. 
Bull, J., sig., no. 

— W.,sig., 125. 
BuUen, C, inst., 287. 
Bullingham, N., Bishop of Lincoln, has 

charge of Bourne, 194, 196; inst., 

279. 
Bullock, G., rec, 7^; dep., 89, 136, 

226, 232, 254, 27^ 279; is abroad, 

184. 
Bulter, J., sig., 121. 
Burbanic, T., dep., 254. 
Borde, vSt., inst., 290. 



298 



INDEX 



Hnrdett, Clemoit, lec., 183 ; dq>., aaS, 

354» 284- 
Borgyn. J., ab§., 83. 

Bamam, Rob., sig., no. 

Btinie, W., sijr., 118. 

Bomett, R., fig., no, 117. 

Bornford, G., dq>., 337, 353, 354, 271. 

Bantbard, J., dq>., 333, 367. 

Bnrton, Rob., sig., 103. 

— T., sig., 131. 

Barton, \V., sig., no; rec., 183; dep., 

354, 283 
Bartonton, £dm.,sig., isi. 
Borwyk, James, sig., no. 
Buy, R., sig., 103. 

— W., abs., 87 ; dq>., 83,89, 354, 374, 
387. 

Bnrvwey, W,, sig., na 
Bosoby, Hamphcry, sig., 103. 
BnsoD, £., sig., 135. 
Basshe, J., sig., no. 

— W., sig., 103. 

Batler, J., inst., 373 ; dep., 291. 

— T.. si^., 131 ; dep., 339, 334, 369. 
Bmtell, K., dep. , 354, 383. 
Butteiton, R., sig., I3i. 
Batterwoithe, £., sig., 135. 

Bjram, T., dep., 354, 380. 

Byas, Rob., abs., 83. 

Bycher, W., sig., no. 

Byckerdyke, J., sig, no; dep., 337, 

333» 254. ^7. 

— Marmadoke, sig., 103. 

Byeryll, R., sig., 103. 
Byckley, T., sig., 155. 
Bylby, Ralph, inst, 387. 
Bykliffe, Thorstan, sig., 135. 
Byncks, Rob., sig., no. 
Byngley, Rob., sig., 135. 
Bynonson, F., sig., 103. 
B3rrd, H., sig., no. 

— T., sig., 131. 
Byrrdocke, R., inst, 375. 
Bywell, J., sig., no. 



Cabt. . ., Edm., sig., 154. 

Cachard, J., sig., no. 

Calfhill, J., inst, 382. 

Callaway, Sir W., Visitor for the South, 
loi. 

Galley, J., sig., 103 ; dep., 390. 

Calner, R., sig., no; dep., 354, a8i. 

Calson, R., sig., 104. 

Calverd, \V., abs., 83. 

Cambridge University endorses the five 
articles, 1559, 3! visitation of, 44, 
133 ; writ for the same, 133. 

Camden^s account of numben dep., 218. 



CampyoD, Sylvester, sig., 103. 
Canterbury, Ardibisliop of; iceParirer, 
M. 

— diocese. Visitation of, 1560^ 160; 
deprivations and institutions in, 373, 
388. 

Cantrell, W., sig., 135. 

Capel, Giles, dep., 337, 333, 367. 

Capon, J., dep., 384. 

Capperson, J., sig., 135. 

Cardele, J., inst, 285. 

Cardjmall, J., inst, 390; dep.^ 390. 

Carell, J., Visitor for the Sooth, lot ; 

dep., 393. 
Carewe, G., Dean of Bristol and Oxford, 

has charge of Bourne, 196 ; inst., 

373, 383, 386. 

— Matthew, sig., 1 10. 

— , Sir Peter, V isitor for the South, 98, 

100. 
Carlelley, Rob., sig., I3t. 
Carlisle, Bishop of ; see Oglethorpe, O. ; 

Best, J. 

— diocese. Visitation o^ 1561, 168; 
recusancy in, 109 ; records of, 337 ; 
deprivations ana institutions in, 373. 

Carre, N., dep., 136 ; Dr. of Medicine, 

330. 

— . R., dep., 354, 377. 
Carrier, R., inst, 373 ; dep., 354. 
Cartell, W., sig., 131. 
Carter, H., sig., no; dep^ 354, 383. 
— , T., inst, 278. 

— , \V., sic;., 121; dep., 79, 339, 334, 
354, 270 ; restricted to bounds, xbo. 
Catagre, J., dep., 136, 232, 267. 
Carton, T., sig., no. 
Cait Wright, J., sig., 121. 

— T., fig., 125. 
Carvar, R., sig., 125. 
Carwardyn, T., dep., 390. 
Caryngton, Roger, sig., I3i. 
Caslyn, T., sig., 135. 

Caston, Stephen, sig., 103 ; dep., 354, 
381. 

Catechism to be taught in church, 59. 

Caterall, Stephen, sig., 104. 

Caterbankc, W., sig., I3i. 

Catton, H., sig., 135. 

Cave, Sir Ambrose, Visitor for the 
South, 97 ; ecclesiastical commis- 
sioner, 147. 

— , Francis, ecclesiastical commissioner, 

Cawappe, £., sig., I3i. 

— , Ralph, sig., 131. 

Cawerden, Sir T., Visitor for the Sooth, 

lOI. 

Cawse, J., sig., no. 
Cawseon, Anthony, sig., 104. 



INDEX 



299 



Caylc, T., aU., 83. 

Cecil, Sir W., Visitor for the South, 97 ; 

Cambridge Visitor, 13a. 
Chace, or Channcey, Maurice, prior,dep., 

226, 234. 
Chadfounte, Charles, sig., 104. 
Chadwyck, J., sig., no. 
Challouer, Peter, inst., 292. 
Chamber, £., dep., 228, 267. 

— T., sig., 104. 
Chambers, T., dep., 290. 
Champion, or Champemowne, Sir 

Arthur, Visitor forthe South, 99, 100. 
Champion, J., inst., 285. 
Chandos, Edmund, Lord, Visitor forthe 

South, 98. 
Chane, Dominic, dep., 254, 285. 

— J-, sig., no. 

Channey, Edmund, sig., 104. 
Chapleyn, Thurstan, sig., 121. 
Chapman, Ch., sig, no. 

— G., sig., 104. 

— J., sig., 118. 

— Rob., sig., 117. 

— W., sig., no; inst., 290. 
Charleton, Alan, abs., 87. 

— W., abs., 87. 
Chiitboume, G., inst., 277. 
Chatfeilde, Stephen, inst., 288. 
Chedsey, W., engaged in the public 

disputation, 32, 175 ; dep., 130, 226, 

^3^) 255}28o, 282, 286; imprisoned, 

»75, 185. 
Chekeryng, Rob., sig., 117. 
Chell, W., dep., 255, 278. 
Chelton, Nich., sig., 121. 
Chenerie, Alan, dep., 228, 255. 
Cherleson, C, dep., 292. 
Chescome, Stephen, inst., 285. 
Chester, Bishop of; w^ Scott, Dr. Cuth- 

bert ; Downnam, W. 

— cathedral, state of in 1559, 82. 

— diocese, deprivations and institutions 
in, 274, 288. 

Chester, T., sig., 125. 

— Sir William, ecclesiastical com- 
missioner, 147. 

Cheston, T., abs., 78. 
Chetam, J., inst, 292. 
Cheyney, J., sig., 125. 
Chichester, Bishop of ; see Barlow, W. 

— diocese, deprivations and institutions 
in, 274, 288. 

Chichester, Sir John, Visitor for the 

South, 98, 100. 
Chomley, E., sig., 125. 

— Randall, ecclesiastical commissioner, 

147. 
Choyse, J., sig., 125. 

Chnityan, J., iig., n7. 



Chyddalton, T., dep., 255, 275. 
Chyese, W., sig., 125. 
Chyld, J., sig., 104. 

— Roger, sig., 104. 

Church, the, her independence of the 
Crown asserted, 3 ; Crown rights 
under the Supremacy Act, 7, 13, 14 ; 
Church goods, the goods of the poor, 

50. 
Church, J., sig., 117. 

— Nich., sig., no. 
Churcheley, W., sig., 121. 
Churches, repairs to, 51. 
Claiboume, T., sig., no. 
Clapham, R., sig., 104. 
Clapton, Martin, sig., no. 

Clare, alias Dominick, R., rec., 180; 

dep., 227, 233, 255, 284. 
Clarke, Alexander, sig., n8. 

— Ant., dep., 255, 274, 275. 

— J., sig., 104, n7,i25. 

— Ralph, sig., 121. 

— Rob., sig., 104. 

— T., abs., 87; sig., 125; inst., 281, 
286, 289. 

— W., sig., 118, 121, 125. 
Clay, J., sig., no. 
Cleyfield, Rob., inst., 286. 

Clayton, Ch., Registrar to Visitors' 
deputies, 81. 

— Laurance, sig., 104. 

— Nich., sig., 121. 

— Oliver, sig., 104. 

— Ralph, sig., 121. 

— Roger, sig., 104. 
Cl^g, R., sig., no. 
Clement, . . ., dep., 228, 267. 

— J., Dr. of Medicine, 229. 

— T., sig., 121 ; abs., 78. 
Clenok, Maurice, dep., 227, 288. 
Clerke, B., writer, 220. 

dc^'eji the, on Elizabeth's accession, i , 
248 ; opposed to reform, 2,3; their 
stubborn attitude, 41 ; cloistered 
clergy leave the country, 45 ; disci- 
pline of, 49, 65 ; to give alms to the 
poor, 50; to be respected, 56; their 
marriage, 57 ; their apparel, 57 : 
numbers of deprived, 217 ^/ seq.^ 236 
etseq.f 249, 251 note. 

Cleving, Rob., abs., 83. 

Clife, G., rec., 79 ; inst, 276 ; dep., 89, 
287, 289. 

— R., sig., 121 ; dep., 255, 276. 
Clough, T., sig., 117 ; inst, 29a 
Clynton, W., mst., 278. 
Clypsham, E., sig., 125. 

— Martin, sig., 104. 
Coates, Rob., dep., 255, 281. 
Cobham,Loitl,Visitor fortheSouth, loi. 



30O 



INDEX 



Cobham, J., sig., no. 
Cobin, (jiofircj, tmt, 284. 
Cocket, G., fig., 125. 
Cocks, H., lig., 125. 

— Rog., insL, 272. 

— \V., fig., 125. 
Cockeion, T., abs., 83. 

Cockyn , Sir T., Visitor for the South, 97. 
Coke, Sir Anthony, Cambridge Visitor, 

132. 

— Rob., sig., no, 121. 
Coker, Roger, sig., 104. 
Cokerell, G., sig., 104. 
Cokke, James, sig., no. 
Colboroe, G., sig., 104. 

Cole, Andrew, sig., no; dep., 255, 
282. 

— Arthur, dep., 232, 267, 280. 

— H., engaged in the pabUc disputation, 
32 ; imprisoned, 146, 185 ; dep., 226, 
23i» 355» 373, 279; proceedings 
against, 197. 

— J., sig., 121. 

— T., inst., 280. 

Coles, Humphrey, Visitor for the South, 
99. 

— J., inst., 272. 

— Rob., sig., 104. 
Colin, . . . dep., 228. 

— W., sig., no. 
Colisman, W., sig., no. 
Coll, Leonard, sig., 104. 
Colliar, N., sig., 104. 
Collier, T., dep., 255, 282. 
Collyns, J., dep., 255, 284. 

— Rob., dep., 255, 273. 

Colynson, J., inst, 281 ; dep., 255, 281. 
Collynwood, T., sig., 125. 

— W., abs., 86, 87; dep., 227, 233, 
269. 

Collys, W., sig., no. 

Colman, H., sig., 118. 

Coltesmore, T., dep., 255, 275. 

Columbcll, R., sig., 104. 

Columben, Oliver, restored, 89, 287. 

Colvyer, J., dep., 255, 287. 

Combes, J., dep., 291. 

Commissioners, ecclesiastical, power 
to appoint, 7, 14, 137; as judges of 
heresy, 20; commission of May 23, 
J559> 34; to control the press, 61 ; 
the First Commission, 42, 137 ; its 
duties, 139, 148 ; its headquarters in 
London, 139; proceedings of first 
commission, 140; proceedings with 
regard to Supremacy Oath, 142, 153, 
157; text of the commission, 147; 
the Northern commissions, 165 ; Se- 
cond Commission, 174; abstract of 
its duties, 178. 



CommonioD, Holy, admittance to^ 54. 
Company, R., sig., no. 
Compton, N., sig., 104. 
Conal, W., sig., 119. 
Coningford, J., sig., no. 
Constantine, . . . , insL , 283. 
Conwaw, R., dep., 255, 383. 
Conwey, Peter, mst., 291. 
Conyers, G., inst., 291. 

— T., sig., no. 

Cook, Sir Anthony, Visitor for the 
South, 94; ccclCTJastical commisp 
sioner, 147 ; Etoo Visitor, 162. 

— J., sign I'o; insL, 285; dqx, 255, 
285. 

— R., sig., no, 117, 121. 

— W., dep., 279. 
Cooper, T., sig., no. 
Copage, J., abs., 81. 

Cope, Alan, rec, 183; B.CX., 1560, 

224; dep., 232, 267. 
Coote, W., sig., no. 
Copland, J., sig., 104. 

— Nicholas, abs., 87. 
Coplet, R., sig., 255, 285. 
Copman, Albert, sig., 104. 
Copschef, J., sig., 104. 
Copysette, Roger, sig., 121. 

Coram Rege Rolls searched for pro- 
ceedings against recusants^ 197. 
Cordall, Walter, sig., 104. 
Corker, N., sig., no. 

— T.,sig., no. 

— W., sig., 125. 
Cormett, J., dep., 29a 
Cormoth, J., sig., 104. 
Cornwall, H., sig., no. 

— T., sig.. 104. 
Cory, Robert, sig., 119. 
Coscleye, W., abs., 83. 
Coshey, Ralph, sig., 125. 

CosjTi, £dm., dep., 136, 227, 232, 

^55- 

— J., sig., no. 

— Robert, dep., 227, 255, 279, 280. 
Cotton, J., sig., 1 10. 

— Nicholas, sig., 125. 

— R., dep., 255, 281. 

— T., sig., 121. 

Cottrell, Dr , Visitor of Salisbury 

Cathedral, 159. 

— J., sig., 155. 
Cotyer, Ralph, sig., 125. 

Council of the North, the, its powers 
of dealing with recusancy, 168^ 170. 
Courtmill, . . ., deprived, 228, 267. 
Coveney, T., sig., 118; dep., 132, 232, 

355. 
Coventry and Lichfield, Bishop of, iu 

Bayne, Ralph ; Bentham, T. 



INDEX 



301 



Coventry and Lichfield, diocese, nomber 
of parishes, 98 ; depriyations and 
institutions in, 275, 289. 

Cowche, J., inst., 272. 

Cowke, W., sig., 104- 

Cowper, R., sig., 121. 

— T., sig., 125. 

— Walter, sig., no. 

— W., abs., 83. 

Coxe, Francis, inst., 275 ; dep., 288. 

— J., inst, 285. 

— Richard, Bishop of Ely, his Parlia- 
mentary sermon, 3; Oxford Visitor, 
130; ecclesiastical commissioner, 142 ; 
consecrated bishop, 156, 277 ; a letter 
of his quoted, 157; has cbaige of 
Watson, 196. 

Coxall, J., sig.. 104. 
Cradocke, T., dep., 255, 280. 
Cragge, Rob., dep., 291. 
Crake, W., inst., 292. 
Crakell, W., sig., 125. 
Crakinthorpe, Mighell, abs., 87. 
Crample, Oliver, sig., no. 
Crane, G., sig., 121. 

— J., sig., 121. 

— ? Nich., dep., 267, 

— Thomas, dep., 228, 267. 
Cranforth, J., rec, 79. 
Crany, W., sig., 117. 

Cratford, alias Stratford, E., dep., 227, 

333. 255, 272. 
Crawforth, R., abs., 86. 

— W., sig., 117. 
Crawhill, Nich., dep., 289. 

Cresner, Elizabeth, prioress, dep., 226. 
Cressye, Robert, officer of the Arch- 
deacon of Nottingham, 75. 
Crcton, James, abs., 83. 
Crickett, T., inst., 272. 
Croft, Brian, sig., 104. 

— T., dep., 255, 278. 

— Vincent, abs., 83. 

Croftes, Sir James, Visitor for the 
North, 71. 

— Robot, sig., 125. 
Crook, . . ., dep., 228, 267. 
Crosier, J., sig., in. 
Crosley, T., sig., iii. 
Crosse, Aug., sig., 155. 

— W., sig., III. 
Crow, W., sig., 121. 
Crowes, Laurence, sig., in. 
Crowley, Rob., inst., 278. 

Crown lights over the Church by the 
Supremacy Act, 7, 13, 14; presenta- 
tions, 238. 

Cruke, T., sig., 125. 

Cruse, J., sig., 121. 

Cnbbidge, J., dep., 228, 267. 



Cumberford, H., dep., 3 note, 255, 275, 
282 ; restricted to bounds, 181. 

Cumberland, Henry, E. of, not appoint- 
ed a Visitor, 72 ; shelters recusants, 
168, 184. 

Cundall, Ralph, sig., in. 

Curates, deprivations of, 243. 

Cursson, G., sig., 125. 

Curtes, Robert, sig., in. 

Cuthbert, Cb., sig., 125. 

— W., inst., 283. 

D. 

Dabenen, T., inst., 289. 
Dacre, H., inst, 273. 

— J., abs., 86. 

Dacres of Gilsland, Lord, not appointed 
a Visitor, 72 ; shelters recusants, &c., 
HonoU, 168. 

Dacye, J., abs., 84. 

Daddesburye, Hugh, sig., in. 

Dakyn, Ralph, sig., 125. 

Dalby, W., dep., 227, 232, 256, 272. 

Dale, E., sig., in. 

— J., rec, 182 ; dep., 228, 267. 
Dalisson, Roger, abs., 84. 

Dalton, Rob., dep., 79, 233, 256, 276 ; 

rec, 157 ; restricted to bounds, 181. 
Damer, Emericus, sig., 117. 
Dande, Emeric, dep., 256, 277. 
Dane, J., abs., 87 ; inst., 2S0. 
Daniel, Edm. {or R.), sig., 104 ; rec, 

182 ; dep., 226, 231, 256, 278, 286, 

288. 

— J-, sig., n9. 
Daniels, Nich., dep., 290. 
Danister, J., dep., 228, 267. 
Dannel, Rob., sig., 104. 
Danton, . . ., dep., 227. 
Danver.W., sig., 104. 

Darbishire, T., imprisoned, 146; dep., 

227, 233, 256, 280; is abroad, 184. 
Darby, G., sig., 104- 
Darlaye, J., sig., in. 
Darrel, T.,B.A., 1560, 224; dep., 229, 

333, 256. 

— W., inst., 291. 

Davies, R., Bishop of St Asaph ; con- 
secrated, 157, 283; Visitor for the 
South, 1 01. 

— R., sig.. III. 

— Rob., sig., 104; rec, 180; dep., 
256, 281. 

— Thomas, dep, 228, 256. 

— W., sig., 119. 

Davison, Dr. . . , dep., 234. 267. 

— James, abs., 87. 

— R., sig., 104. 

— Roger, sig., 125. 



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INDEX 



DaTj, E^ng., 119. 

— Rob., sig., 104. 

— T^ abi., 87 ; sig., 192. 

Dawkes, Rob., dep., 136, 253, 356; 
restricted to bounds, 180. 

— T., dcp., 290. 
Dftwlyn, J^ iost, 383. 
Dftwson, Adam, abs., 87. 

— Ralph, sig., 1 31. 

— W., sig. III. 

Day, Wifliam, CommisaioDer for the 

North, 172 ; inst, 387. 
Daygle, T.,sig., 121. 
Dead, prayers for the, 64. 
Deane, Andrew, sig., 117* 

— J., sig., 104. 

— Keginald, abs , 84. 
DebaiSc, J., sig., 125. 

— Rob., sig., up. 

de la Hide, David, rec., 180. 
Delbrickc, H., inst, 288. 
Dcnd, W., sig., 125. 
Denham, £., letter from, 198. 

— R., »ig.f "5- 

Denman, W., restored, 89, 287. 

Denny, Edmund, sig., 11 1. 

Denston, W., sig., iii. 

Dent, Rob., sig., 125. 

Denton, J., rcc.p 3 note, 

Derby, Edward, Earl of, Visitor for the 

North, 71, 72. 
Dcsham, Baldwin, sig., 104. 
Dewc, Ch., dep., 288. 
D'Ewes, Simon, his account of deprived 

clergy, 217. 
Dewsnap, W., sig., 125. 
Deyre, J, sig., 125. 

— P., sig., III. 
Dickenson, E., abs., 87. 

— J., sig., 121. 

— Lanr., abs., 84. 

— T., abs., 87. 
Dickson, Ch.. sig., iii. 

— J., abs., 88. 

— R., sij:j., HI. 

— Rob., sig., HI. 

— T., abs., 88 ; inst., 287. 
Digbie, Leonard, sig., 125. 
Dighton, Rob., sig., 155. 
Dillon, Anthony, inst., 278. 
Dobson, T., dep., 89, 256, 274. 

— AV ,sig., 104. 
Dobyson, T., sig., 117. 
Dodds, Gregory, inst., 277. 
Dodpont, v., sig., 104. 
Dolman, T., dep., 136, 233, 256. 
Dominick, R. ; see Clare. 
Donatson, R., sig., in, 112. 
Donell, T., sig., 104. 
Donnaye, Vincent, abs., 84. 



Doimddey, W., dg., 119. 
Dorman, Edra., ng., 133. 

— T., dep., 136, 229, 333, 243, 356. 
Dormer. T., rec., 18^ 

Dosyn, H., sig., 1 19. 
Doi^las, J., inst, 29a 

— W.,inst, 391. 
Dowle, W., sig.,154. 
Downabi, W., sig., in. 
Dowiie, Anthony, sig., 121. 
Downes, Geoffirey, lec., 78; dep., 356, 

378. 

— T., sig.. III. 
Downham, T., sig., I3i. 

— W., Bishop ofCbester, coo s ecr a te d , 
166 ; inst, 374, 283 

Dowsoo, R., sig.. III. 

— W., abs., 88. 
Drakcoferd, T., sig., I3i. 

Draycot, Anthony, imprisoned, 175, 
185; dep., 226, 333, 356, 375, 379, 
282. 

— J., assists recusants, 184; impriioiied, 
184, 185. 

Drory, R., sig., I3i ; dep., 356, 386. 

Dryng, T.,sig., 126. 

Dncks, Ch., abs., 88. 

Dudley, Arthur, abs^, 87 ; tig., 121. 

— Dion., sig., 121. 

— G., abs., 76. 

— Lord Rob., opposes Umfonntty Act, 
8 ; not appointed a Visitor, 97. 

Dngdale, James, dep., 332, 256, 280. 
Dukker, Ralph, sig., in. 
Dumont, P., sig., in. 
Dunche, Andr^, sig., iii . 
Dunne, T., inst., 290. 
Dunning, Mich., dep., 256, 379. 
Durdane, R., dep., 256, 385. 
Durham, Bishop of; see Tonstall, C; 
Pilkington, James. 

— diocese, recusancy in, 157, 165, i(J6, 
169, 199 ; visitation of, 168, 109; re- 
cords of, 237 ; deprivations azid in- 
stitutions in, 276, 289. 

Durham, J., abs., 84; rec., 180. 
Durston, . . ., dep., 228, 256. 
Duxfield, W., inst., 289. 
Dycheffelde, Roger, sig., 119. 
Dycher, James, sig., 121. 

— J., sig., 121. 

Dye, Edmund, sig., in. 
Dyer, J., sig., 104. 

— Ralph, sig., 126. 

— Sir T., Visitor for the South, 99. 

— W., sig., 104. 
Dylke, T., sig., 121. 

Dymock, Sir £., Visitor for the South, 

97. 
Dysleye, J., inst., 284. 



INDEX 



303 



E. 



Eache, or Conyers, Jas., inst., 291. 
Ebden, J., inst., 277, 285. 
Ebbs, T., sig.. III. 
Ecke, Adam, inst, 276. 
Eckersall, W., sig., ill. 
Edderych, T., sig., iii. 

— <iiias James, W.,8ig., iii. 
Edgecombe, Sir R-, Visitor for the 

South, 98. 
Edlyngstm, W., sig,, 119. 
Edmonds, Rob., sig., 104. 
Educational duties of Uniyersity Visitors, 

134- 
Edwards, David, dep., 256, 283. 

— £Ulm.| inst., 271. 

— R., sig., 121. 

— W., sig., III. 
Eglate, R., sig., 126. 
Eiton, T., sig., 121. 
Eland, E., sig., 104. 
Elden, Rob., dep., 292. 
Elizabeth's ecclesiastical policy, 2, 4, 

7, 156; its mild character, 192. 
Ellcrkar, J., abs., 88. 
Elliot, W., dep., 288. 
Ellis, H., inst., 278. 

— James, dep., 256, 285. 

— Percival, sig., 126. 

— R., inst., 285. 

— Stephen, abs., 84. 

— T., inst, 272. 

— W., abs., 84 ; dep., 8g ; sig., iii. 
Ellison, Cuthbert, abs., 86. 
Elmyn, J. , sig., 1 1 1 . 

Elmsley, E., dep., 257, 284. 
Elsley, £., sig., 11 1. 
Eltringham, Ralph, abs., 86. 
Ely,fiishopof; j^^ Thirl by, T.; Cox,R. 

— diocese, number of cures in 1559, 97 * 
records of, 237 ; deprivations and 
institutions in, 277, 289 ; state of, in 
1561, 2y^note'^. 

Ely, William, dep., 161, 226, 232, 257, 

273 ; lurking in Herefordshire, 184, 

200. 
Emerson, Geofirey, sig., ill. 
Ems, Alexander, sig., iii. 
Englefield, Sir Francis, a friend of 

Sanders, 219. 
Enssken, Stephen, sig., 104. 
Erasmus' Paraphrases to be set up in 

churches, 48. 
Erewakers, Rob., inst., 274. 
Erie, John, rec., 181. 
Estofte, Ch., Visitor for the North, 71, 

73; Commissioner for the North, 

172. 
Estobye, W., sig., 104. 



Ethridge, G., dep., 229, 269. 

Eston, J., sig., 126. 

Eton, Visitotion of, 1559, 44, 133; 1561, 

162. 
Eton, Ch., sig., 104. 
Etwold, J., sig., 117. 
Eudus, Hugh, sig., ill. 
Evanne, J., inst., 285. 
Evans, Griffith, inst, 281. 

— Hugh, sig., 104 ; inst., 278. 

— J., dep., 291. 

Evers, W., Lord, Visitor for the North, 

71,7a. 
Evett, James, sig., 119. 

Evinggam, James, sig., 126. 

Excommunication of recusants, 190, 

197, 198 ; ancient law of, 190 ; the 

bill providing for execution of writs, 

191, 210. 
Exeter, Bishop of, see Turberville, 

James. 

— diocese. Visitation of, 1561, 161 : 
recusancy in, 199; deprivations and 
institutions in, 277, 289. 

Exhibitioners to be supported by the 

clergy, 51. 
Eyre, Rob., dep., 257, 284. 

— T., sig., 120. 

F. 

Famma, Edmund, sig., in. 

Parent, J., sig., 126. 

Farewell, W., sig., in. 

Farler, J., dep., 257, 285; cp. Fowler, J. 

Farmar, J., sig., 126. 

— alias Oxford, Matthew, sig., in. 

— T., sig., 121. 
Farmery, J., sig., 126. 
Famden, R., inst., 275. 
Farquharson ; see Pharkson. 
Farrold, Bernard, sig., in. 
Farthing, J., sig., 104. 
Fascet, Alexander, sig., in. 
Faucet, Dr. . . ., dep., 227, 233. 

— R.. dep., 257, 273. 

— Rob., dep., 257, 285. 

— \V., sig.. Ill ; and set Fonet 
Fawpect, Reynold, sig., in. 
Fayrhayre, J., sig., ni. 
Feckenham, J., Abbot of Westminiiter, 

opposes Supremacy Act, 5 ; suspected 
of treason, 145; imprisoned, 146; 
dep., 226, 234. 

Feld, lAurance, sig., 104. 

Fell, James, sig., 119. 

— R., sig., 121. 
Feltham, J., sig., in. 
Felton, J., dep., 228, 267. 
Fenne, G., sig., in. 



yn 



LVDEX 



Feme. Jaxnet, 'lep., 333. 157. 

— J., 'iep., 220* 234. a^- 

— fc<-,K.. rec, ri' ; ElCL., Ij6g, 
134; 'iep., 2.^.v 2s;. 

F'Sin^mr^ris. J,, 11^,1^4. 

FeRtr.n. J^ «if., n:. 

fertinnr.ti :nc taiciwor, intenedcs for 

riu; -,unr,rs, ic, ir,^ ifj^ 
Faring, A.. :n!iL, 2:^1 ; der^ , 290. 
Ferrui, '•,tephrn, »^j„ iti. 

F*«T^. J.. iUr-. lit. 

l*jTna. k-, lifj. 12^ 

FestAfi, J . 'iftp ,22^.. 257. a<>j. 

FiW.-*c^% k., a^., 121- 

Finch. rsir T., Visitor for the Sostli, xci 

FUhit, J., 4i>i.. ^4. 

— W^ injt., 279. 
Fifthhoni, Brian, szg., 126. 

— Oervaje, «jf., 126. 



ah;!.. 



FUh«r, G., aU., ^4. 

— J., aM., S4 ; *ig.. 104. 1 1 1. 155. 

— RoL, iR.*r.. 2' 



« * 



— U'.. «|f , ri9, 126. 
Fiihpr»*-*1, J., tnit., 272. 
FitzhftTbcrt, Sir T., 

1^4; imprutoiicd, 28s. 
Fit2 JaiMi, J^rfcp., 22<^, 232, 257, 271, 

272. 
Fitzsimons, Lrooard, dep^ 233, 257. 
FitzwilliaiM, Sir W., Visitor for the 

Fl«tt, \V., %ijj., 104. 

Fkrt wryyl , W ., Visitor for the Soath, 97. 

FlcTninjj, li., si^j , 121. 

— Nicholas, ifiHt., 2^0. 

— H.,'Vp., 229, 234, 267. 
flct^,r,ur, K., s;;;., 121. 

— H., ^iJ^, III. 
flint, K., li^:-, III. 

— T., ir.it, 2 84. 
Flivri, f.'hnrlcs, sij:^., r2<S. 
foH^rii., J., si^., 117. 
Forhc^, ^>., in»t., 275. 
Forrl, kalj»h, sijj., ill. 
ForcHt'-r, I'., sij,;., 104. 
Korman, koh , sig., 126. 

Forvrt, Alexander, si^j., ill ; a«^/ j« 

Fawcct. 
Forstcr, (iilefi, Mg., 126. 

Fortune, k., inst., 291. 

F<>»tcr, . . ., assists Bishop Home, 163. 

— K., inst., 274. 

— Oeoffrey, inst., 281. 

— Sir J., deputy for the Visitors, 80. 

— J., nbs., h6. 

— kob., sijj., 119; inst., 280. 
"- \V., sij^., I 21. 
Fothcrgill, kogcr, sig., 126. 



i 



Fowari. H., b^* ijfi, 
Fowier, d^ 2^3, 257. ^ 

— Eriaa. juaei i es Ssocp Toa^t^ x^ 

Fovse. Letuxan. sg^ 1261. 
Fox, Jas^ s^.. 121. 

— jSaq,, III; dep^ u*, 2«7. 

— yichr/uis, rK-. i*c ; msL, x*f . 

— Pw, LiBt., 292. 

— Scg^hfn, dep^ 234- 

— T.. Hg., 121. 
Foxcrsr, W_ si;^ , 1 26. 
Ftamptoc. J.. »i^.. 104 : inst, 290. 
Frasch, T-, ag^ in, 
Fran'tLlyiL, T.t ag^ 104. 
Fratmcxs, J^ ssg^ 104. 

— T., iig., IQ4. 
Frceke, T., Kg., in. 
Freman, Oliver, sig^ x j6. 

— kob^ sig.. 126. 

— T., dep-, 22% 229, 254, 267. 
Frere, J., sxg, 121. 
Frettwell, T., ^^ in. 

Friar, J. (£uhcr ud son% Dn. ot 

Meflicxne. 229. 
Fro«, \V, sig., 117; depLy 291. 
Fn^l, T., abs-, 84. 
Fydell, r. Haroooxt aod Robim, 22. 
Fjkavs, W., sig., in. 
Fylduend, \V., sig.. 121. 
Fynchc, K sig., 117. 
Fynkel, H., sig.. n7. 
Fj-tto, J., sig., 1 26. 
Fytton. Sir E., surrogate for the 

Visitors, 81. 

G. 

Gaisley, R., sig., in. 
Gainson, kobert, sig., 121. 
Gale, Ch., sig., 105. 

— J., sig., 117. 
Galte, P., sig., in. 
Gamble, J., sig., 126. 
Gammon, R., inst., 277. 
GanuU, G., sig., 121. 
Gardiner, E., sig., 119. 

— J , sig., 104 : dep., 257, 276. 

— kob., abs., 88. 

— T.,sig., 121, 155. 

Gardinet, Anthony, dep., 228, 257. 

Gargate, \V.,abs., 87. 

Gargrave, Sir T., Visitor for the North, 

7>» 72, 75, 77 ; Commissioner for the 

North, 167. 
Garlec, J., sig., 121. 
Gamell, Oliver, dep., 257, 273. 
Gamett, R., sig., in. 

— W., abs., 84 ; inst., 276. 
Garrard, Giles,, sig., 104. 



INDEX 



3P5 



Gamwa3re, Anthony, inst, a88. 
Garett, R., sig., iii. 

— W., sig., lai ; dep., a88. 
Gartfolde, R., sig., iii. 
Gascon, E., inst., 277. 

Gascoigne, Sir J., Visitor for the South, 

97. 

— W., abs., 88. 

Gaseley, R., inst., 290. 

Gates, Sir H., Visitor for the North, 
71, 72, 75, 77, 81 ; Commissioner for 
the North, 167. 

Gatskall, R., dep., 257, 284. 

Gaudy n, T., sig., 104. 

Gavyn, J., sig., 126. 

Gawber, G. , sig., 117. 

Gaytes, alias Vatts, T., sig., ii i. 

Gegewycke, N., sig., 117. 

Gerne, Ch., sig., 112. 

Gerrard, Gilbert, ecclesiastical com- 
missioner, 147. 

— W., Visitor for the South, loi ; 
sig.. III. 

Gervase, James, dep., 232, 257. 

Geste, E., inst., 273. 

Gibbon, \V., sig., 119. 

Gybbons, W. , sig., 112. 

Giblett, W., rec, 180; dep., 228, 267. 

Gibson, G., sig., 112. 

— J., sig., 112. 

— R., sig., 1 12. 

Gifford, Rob., rec, 224; dep., 233, 257. 
Gilbert, T., sig, 121. 
Giles, Laurence, sig., 119. 

— T., sig., 105. 

Gill, H ,dcp., 228, 267. 

— R., sig., 105 ; inst., 279. 

Gilpin, Dr. Bernard, preaches for the 
Visitors, 75 note, 80 noie\ deputy for 
them, 80, 81. 

Glascoikn, W., sig., 105. 

Glascok, T., sig., 105. 

Glasier, Hugh, dep., 257, 273. 

— J., dep , 257, 278. 285. 

— Rob , sig., III. 
Glave, Matthew, sig., 119. 
Gledle, Hu^h, abs., 84. 

Gloucester diocese, visitation of 1560, 
159 ; deprivations and institutions in, 
278. 

Glowgate, Edm., sig., 1 1 1. 

Glyn, J., sig., 105. 

GoddalU J., sig., 126. 

Godshalfe, E., dep., 227, 233, 257, 274. 

Godwyn, J., sig., 121. 

— T.,sig., 155. 
Goldbure, T., sig., iii. 
Goldsmith, Randolf, sig., 121. 

Gold well, T., Bishop of St. Asaph, 
absent from Parliament of 1559, 31 ; 



is deprived, 35, 226, 257, 283 ; leaves 
England, 145 ; his treason at Rome, 
187 ; dies, 222. 

Golstun, T., sig., 121. 

Good, W., dep., 229, 234, 257, 272. 

Goodfellow, W., sig., iii ; dep., 291. 

Goodman, Ch., inst., 274. 

— J., sig., 105; dep., 258, 271. 
Goodmayn, Gabriel, ecclesiastical 

commissioner, 185. 
Goodricke, H., inst., 273. 

— R., Visitor for the South, 95 ; Oxford 
Visitor, 130; ecclesiastical commis- 
sioner, 147. 

Goodwyn, Ch., sig., 126. 

— n.. sig., 117. 

— T., sig., Ill ; inst., 279. 

— Vincent, inst., 277. 
Goshawk, W., sig., iii. 
Gosling, Geoffrey, sig., lai. 

— J., sig., III. 

Gosnell, Roland, dep., 258, 278. 

— T., sig., 121. 

Gough, Griffin, sig., 119 ; dep., 291. 

— Hugh, sig., 119. 

— J., sig., 112 ; dep., 290. 
Gouttrell, W.,sig., 112. 
Gowland, J., abs., 84. 
Gowle, W., abs., 84. 
Grace, Rob., sig., 126. 
Granger, C, dep., 228. 

— W., sig., 109. 
Graunge, Gregory, sig., iia. 
Gravener, W., sig., 105. 

Gray, J., Lord, Visitor for the South, 94. 

— Ralph, inst., 289. 

— Rob., sig., 126; rec, 184. 

— T., sig., 126. 

— W., abs., 88; dep., 89; sig., 105. 
Greame, G., dep., 289. 

Great, Rob., sig., 126. 

— W., sig., 126. 

Green, Anthony, dep., 292. 

— Ch., sig., 121. 

— Edm., sig., 121. 

— James, sig., 112. 

— J., abs., 84. 

— Nicholas sig., 126. 

— R., sig., 126. 

— Tim., inst., 288. 
Greenacres, Rob., inst., 280. 
Grcenway, J., inst., 284 ; dep., 292. 
Grcnewich, T., inst., 278. 
CJrencs, W., sig., 126. 
Greete,J.,rec., 185; dep., 228,258,285. 

— W., sig., 112. 

Gregill, J., rec, 3 note\ sig., 105. 
Gregory, . . ., dep., 161. 
Grening, Charles, sig., 105. 
Grenville, . . .,dep., 228, 267. 



3o6 



INDEX 



Greshop, W., dcp., aaR, 267. 

Gresley» Laurence, Visitor for the 

South, 97. 
Grewe, E., sig., 11 a. 
Greyne, T., abs., 84. 
Griffin, Ralph, sig., 119; inst., 278. 
Griffynson, Ch., sig., iia. 
Griffith, J., sig., 105. 

— Roger, dep., 292. 

Grindall, Edm., Bishop of London, 
consecrated, 156 ; has charge of 
Watson, 194; inst, a8o. 

— J., abs., 88. 
Grove, J., sig., ia6. 
Grymsby, W., sig., iia. 

Guest, £dm., Bishop of Rochester, 

consecrated, 157. 
Guild-funds to be put in the ahns- 

boxes, 56. 
Gunyer, J., inst, a 73. 
Gyppes, W., sig., 105, 1 1 a. 
Gyttyns, R., sig., 121. 

H. 

Hadcocke, R., sig., 126. 
H addon, Walter, Cambridge Visitor, 
132 ; ecclesiastical commissioner, 147. 
Hagger, J., abs., 84. 
Haighe, Nicholas, inst., 276, 287. 

— W., sig., 121. 
Hale, J., sig., 105. 

— Roger, inst., 288. 

— T., sig., 112, 119, 126. 

— W., sig., 105. 
Halen, Rob., sig., 121. 

Hales, Humphrey, Visitor for the South, 
loi. 

— Ralph, dep., 289. 
Halewell, R., sig., 105. 
Hall, Hugh, sig., 258, 276. 

— J., sig., 105 ; dep., 258, 276. 

— R., dep., 229, 334. 

— Roger, dep., 288. 

— T., abs., 86; sig., 112. 
Halman, T.. abs., 86. 
Halme, T., sig., 126. 
Halsall, H., abs., 88. 

— R., abs., 88. 

Halse, R., rec. 180; dep., 258, 277. 

Halstyd, G., sig., 112. 

Halyday, Ch., sig., 126. 

Hamdcn, T., dep., 228, 268. 

Hamerson, . . . , rec, in Hereford, aoo. 

Hamet, J., sig.. 105. 

Hammerslcy, T., sig., 126. 

Hand, . . . , H., sig., 154* 

Hande, W., inst, 280. 

Handcok, James, sig., 112. 

— J., sig., iia ; inst., a8i. 



Handcocke, T., sig., ia6; inst., 276, 

a84 ; dep., 358, 284. 
Hancoks, J., sig., 122. 
Hanson, J., rec, 1S4; dep., 85^ aa6, 

232, 258, 274. 
Hanssard, G., inst., 385. 
Hapwode, R., sig., 105. 
Harall, W., sig., laa. 
Harbarbard, R., sig., laa. 
Harcoks, Edm., sig., iia. 
Harcourt, . . . , deprived, 227, 233, 258. 
Harde, R., abs., 84. 
Hare, Edm., sig., 154. 
Harding, T., sig., 122 ; rec, 180; dep., 

227, 223, 258, 284, 285. 

— W., sig., 105. 
Hardy, J., sig., 11 a. 
Hardyman, J., inst, 273. 
Hargatt, Edmund, dep., 228, 268. 
Hargrave, Rob., sig., 117. 
Hargravys, J., dep., 258, 274. 
Harlam, J., sig., 112. 

Harley, T., sig., 119. 
Harman, E., dep., 258, 385. 

— J., sig., 105. 

Harper, . . . , dep., 228, 268. 

Harpham, T., sig., 126. 

Harpsfeld, J., engaged in the pablic 
disputation, 32 ; abs., 95 ; imprisoned, 
14O; dep., 226, 232, 258, 277, 280, 
281. 

— Nicholas, abs., 95 ; imprisoned, 
146; dep., 226, 232, 258, 273, 279. 

Harrington, James, Visitor for the 
South, 97. 

— R., inst, 280. 

Harris, J., dep., 229, 234, 258. 

— R., abs., 88. 

— T., sig., 122. 

— W. sig., 126. 
Harrison, Ch., inst, 292. 

— G., sig., 112. 

— J., abs., 84, 87; sig., 112; dep., 
258, 279. 

— R., sig., 112. 

— Rob., sig., 117. 

— W., deputy for the Visitors, 80; re- 
stored, 89, 276 ; sig., iia, 155. 

Hart, J., dep., 234, 268. 

— R., rec, 81 ; restricted to bounds, 
181 ; dep., 228. 

— Reubens, inst., 281. 

— T., inst, 286. 

— W., abs., 84. 

Hartbum, R., dep., 86, 258, 276. 

Hartley, Bernard, sig., 112. 

Harvey, Dr. H., Visitor for the North, 

7i.72»75»77, 81. 

— T., inst, 281 ; dep., 258, a8i. 

Harwar, Nich., sig., ia6. 



INDEX 



307 



1, W., sig., 105 ; inst., 275. 

d, W., sig., 105. 

ad, H., inst.. 273. 

\, H., Lord, Visitor for the 

.97- 

ird, sig., laa. 

;, W., sig., 154. 

Augustine, sig., 119. 

ig., 105, 12a ; dcp., 290. 

.sig., 105. 

Icp., 391 ; inst., 291. 

or Haward,T., dep., 161, 258, 

183 ; lurking in Hereford, 184, 

Dliver, dep., 258, 281. 
yn, J., sig., 119. 
£., sig., 122. 

ig., 117. 
iig., 126. 

,H.. sig., 105. 

, Chr., dep., 258, 273. 

, sig., 105. 

s, T., dep., 228, 268. 

nst., 288 ; dep., 288. 

, J., abs., 88. 

,sig., 112. 

, R., sig, 126. 

Hanmct, inst., 284. 

T., Commissioner for the North, 

d, J., sig., 122. 

bs., 84. 

k1, Caspar, dep., 228, 229, 234, 

T, dep., 292. 

Nicholas, Archbishop of York, 

es Supremacy Act, &c., 5, 8 ; 

s Chancellorship^ 31 ; in the 

ment of 1559, 31 ; is deprived, 

16, 258, 286 ; imprisoned, 144; 

:ted of treason, 145 ; excom- 

ated, 190 ; restricted to bounds, 

dies, 195. 

., sig., 112. 

, J., inst., 290. 

\, sig., 126. 

, J., sig., 112. 

J., abs., 88 ; dep., 291. 

, or Henning, J., dep., 227, 

168. 

n, H.. sig., 122. 

«r, H., rec., 185; dep., 227, 

1. sig., 119. 
St., 276. 
sig., 105. 

Roger, sig., 122. 
rth, T., sig., 105. 

W., sig., 105. 
, T., sig., 112. 



Herde, J., sig., ia6. 

Hereford, Bishop of; sa Scory, T. 

— diocese, recusancy in, X57, loi, i6a, 
164, 199 ; visitation of, 161 ; records 
of, 237 ; deprivations and institutions 
in, 276, 290. 

Heresy, how to be determined, 20. 

Herling, £., abs., 84. 

Herod, G., sig., 122. 

Heron, Rob., inst, 290. 

Hertford, H., £. of. Visitor for the 

South, loi. 
Heskyns, T., dep., 227, 232, 258, 284. 
Hethcott, W., sig., 126. 
Hether, W.,8ig., 122. 
Hewett, Rob., sig., 112. 

— T., sig., 126. 
Heworthe, J., abs., 84. 
Heyber, Oliver, sig., 112. 
Heydock, T., sig.. 122. 

Heydon, Sir Christopher, Visitor for 
the South, 94. 

— E., dep., 291. 
Heyly, Hugh, sig., 112. 
Heylyn, Rob., sig., 122. 
Heyton,.J., sig., 122, 126. 

— Ralph, sig., 112. 

— W., sig., 112. 

Hiberdcn, Fras., dep., 258, 275. 
Hill, Ch., dep., 290. 

— H., sig., 112. 

— T., sig., 105, 126. 

— Ralph, sig., 117. 

— R., sig., 105, 122, 126. 

— Rob., rec, 182 ; dep., 227, 233, 258, 
273» 285. 

— Sir Rowland, ecclesiastical commis- 
sioner, 147. 

— T., sig., 112, 126. 

— W., abs., 88 ; sig., 105, 117. 
Hillings, Giles, dep., 259, 271, 272. 

— W., sig., 126. 
Hilton, G., sig., 122. 

— H.. sig., 155. 

— J., sig., 112; inst, 274. 
Hinckersfield, W., dep., 292. 
Hindmere. Reg., abs., 88. 

Hobbey, T., Visitor for the South, lOi. 

Hobson, G., sig., 126. 

Hocston, R., sig., 126. 

Hodges, J., Registrar to the Northern 

Visitors, 74. 
Hodgkins, T., inst., 279. 
Hodgson, Hugh, abs., 87; dep., 136. 

337, 259» a7.V 

— Owen, dep., 80, 226, 232, 258, 279. 

— R., abs., 87. 

— T., sig., 112. 
Hodson, H., sig., 105. 

— J., sig., 119. 



X 2 



HodsOD. Roger, lig., iia. 
Hoggyns, K. , sig., 1 1 1. 
Holbome. Kob., inst., 1S9. 
HoHen, T., dep., 19). 
Holgale, Anthonjr, reuored, 89. 3S7. 
Holland, R., inst., 177. 

— Kob., lig., 117. 

— Seth, dep., 496, 331, 159, 171, )S6. 

— T.. «g., 105. 
IIollowsj, K., dep., 388. 
Hollwcy, J., sig., III. 
HoIlyosheU. K., sig., 



Howell, P., dep., 359, 37a. 
W,, sit;, 117: inst., 183. 

*lfti, Leon., dep., ago. 






, W., 



.,84. 



Holone, Kdm.. sig., 
— R.,sig., ua. 
Holt, Arloi, sig.. 



— W., iig., II J. 
Hombye, W., loit., 191. 



Hon 
HoiM 



■„ N., sig., 
, Peter ' 



Hoisnayle, I., sig., 10?. 
Horton, Humphrey, aig., uj. 

— T.,iiiiil., 376, 380. 
Hoitopp, Kaliih, inst., 37B. 
HorwBj-ms, \V,, sig., 136. 
Horwood. J, I sig., 9. 
Hoskyn, T., s!g., 105, 
Hoskyns, . . . , rcc, 1 84. 
Houcit, W., sig., [I3. 
HoDghton, Roger sig,, 133. 

— W., abs., 84. 
Honldam, W., sig., 113. 
Houseman, J., sig., 105 ; Init, 184. 
Hovell, J., Big., III. 

How W., sig.. OS 

Howard, T., Viscount, Visitor for the 

South, 98. 
Howbyn, l^urence, lig., i)3. 
Howell, J., dep., 359, 183. 



Hov 



in, Fia 



. "E-. 



HoUbv, W., sig., in. 

Holw^y, J.,5ig., ia». 
Homilies, the reading of, 48, 56. 
Hongon, Anthony, sig., II3. 
Hooper, T., insL, 377. 
Hoplcyn, R.. sig., I}6. 
Hopliyns, J., inst., 377. 

— Stephen, rec, 183. 
Hopkinson, E., sig., 105, 

— T., abs., 84. 

Hopper, J., sig., 105; dep., i<;9t 181, 

Hopton, Avinus, Visitor for the South, 
9S- 

Horleslon, J., restored, 89. 

Home, Rot>., Bishop of Winchester, 
Visitor for ihe South, 95 ; Cambridge 
Visitor, ija ; Eion Visitor, 163 ; hia 
letters quoted, 16), 163 1 tenders the 
Oath to UoDuer, 195 ; instituted, 376. 



Howys, J., s . 

Huainson, Laurence, abi., 84. ^ 

HuLonk, J. sig., 119- 

Hubboid, P .sig., iij. 

Holiert, Hugh., confessor, exiled, 136, 

134- 
Huddleston, T., dep., 89, 359, 387. 

Hudson, E., sig., 116. 

- H. (junr.), sig., laS. 
-Hugh, dep., 3.:9, iSi. 
-J., dep., 89, 3^9, 187. 

-R., sig., 113. 

- Rob., in - - - - 



-W.. sig., 11 3. 

lughes, J., sig., I 



Hughes, j 

— Maurice, dep., 359, 375. 
-R„ inst,, 17.. 
Hughs-n, T., sig., 113. 
Hull, T.,^g., 113. 
Hulley, T., sig., H3. 
Huli.i-', k.,5lg., 136. 

— Rub., si(;„ U3. 
nnnifri:)', IJi^ha, sig., 136, 
Hunt, K., inst,, 378. 

_T„sig.,IW,.J3. • 

Hunter, U., dep., 339, 379. 
Huntingdon, . . . , inst., 374. 

— Francis, E. of. Visitor for the Soath, 
97- 

— U sig., 105 ; inst., 378. 

— T., ab5.,84. 
Hnnl. James, sig., 105. 
llussey, II., sig., 133. 
Hotchyn, H.,sig., 136. 
Hutchinson, H.,insl.. 391. 

— Hugh dep, isa. ^1^ 
-P sig. 

— Rob., dep,, 317, 333, »59, 371. 
Hulton M., in«t,, 180. 

Huyck, Dr. l".. Visitor for the SoDtb,9S \ 
eucWaiticai commissioner, 147, 185. 

Huyson, J., abs., 84. 

Hybboli, T., dep-, asg, 376, 

Hycess, J^m,, sig., 1 1}. 

HyckmBn,Nich.,siE,, laS. 

Hydis, James, iiii;., 105. 

Hyde, David, lieji.. 333, 359. 

_ T., rec., 181 ; dep., 317, 134, 159, 
179. ^^h- 

— \V., inst,, 885. 
Ilygdon, Rob., sig , 133. 
Hyggyiis,J.,sig., 133. 



INDEX 



309 



Hylon, Humphrey, dg., i a6. 

Hymners, G., abs., 86. 

Hynd, T., sig., 117. 

Hyndehed, W., inst., 281. 

Hyndmer, or Hyndmershe, Cuthbert, 

sig.y 112 ; inst., 290. 
Hynman, James, sig., ia6. 
Hynthton, H., sig., 126. 
Hynton, J., dep., 292. 
Hyron, J., inst., 275. 

I. 

Idc, W., sig., 112. 

Ifel, J.,sig., 119. 

Ignlden, J., inst., 275. 

Images, reverence of, to be discouraged, 

47» 58. 
Imprisonment under the Religious Acts, 

144-146, 150, i75-i77» 185. 

Indolen, G., dep., 259, 274. 

logham, Rob., sig., 109. 

Inglishe, J., inst, 275. 

Ingiott, £dm., sig., 112. 

Ingram, J., dep., 233, 269. 

* Injunctions,* the, of 1559, 43, 45, 46. 

Inman, J., sig., 116. 

— W., inst., 281. 

Institutions, lists of, kept from early 
times, 236 ; after deprivations, 238 ; 
under Mary and Elizabeth, compared, 
244-247. 

Irby, Ambrose, sig., 112. 

Isack, £., Visitor for the South, loi. 

Iveson, T., dep., 229, 234, 268. 

J. 

Jackson, . . . , dep., 228. 

— Brian, abs., 84. 

— E., sig., 1 12. 

— J., abs., 84; sig., 112; dep., 89, 
259, 287. 

— Nich., inst., 286. 
' — Ralph, sig., 105. 

— R., sig., 105. 
Jaclyn, Rob., sig., 105. 
Jacoby, R., dep., 228, 268. 
Jagger, Francis, abs., 88. 
Jake, J., abs., 84. 
James, E., sig., 122. 

— Rob., sig., 105. 

— W., sig., 112 ; see also Edriche. 
Jareake, W., sig., 126. 
Jeffrison, T., rec, 79. 

Jekler, Rob., sig., 112. 
Jellow, Simon, sig., 112. 

{enkinson, W., sig., 105, 126. 
ennynges, . . . , Vicar of Bingley, denies 
Royid Supremacy, 77. 



Jennynges, T., sig., 105. 

Jerves, W., sig., 105. 

Jevans, David, sig., 119. 

Jewell, J., Bishop of Salisbury, Visitor 
for the South, 99, 100; his letters 
quoted, 99, 100, 130, 145, 174; con- 
secrated bishop, 157 ; inst., 284. 

Jobber, W., sig., 122. 

Johns, Geoffrey, sig., 105. 

Johnson, . . . , dep., 228. 

— Edm., inst., 286. 

— G., sig., 1 26. 

— H., sig., 105; rec, 183 ; lurking in 
Hereford, 200 ; dep., 259, 286. 

— James, abs., 84. 

— Jonas, sig., 117. 

— Ralph, sig., 1 19. 

— R., inst., 281. 

— Rob., dep., 233, 269. 

— T., sig., 126. 

— W., sig., 126. 

Joliffe, H., dep., 226, 231, 259, 272, 286. 

Joly, W., sig., 105. 

Jolybrande, Nich., sig., 119. 

Jone, . . . , Cambridge Professor, ejected, 

224. 
Jones, . . . , dep., 259, 268, 272. 

— Geoffrey, dep., 259, 281. 

— Griff., dep., 260, 283. 

— Hugh, dep., 290. 

— Morgan, inst, 284. 

— P., inst., 272. 

— Rob., dep., 228 ; inst, 284. 

— Walter, Commissioner for the North, 
172 ; sig., 105 ; inst., 278, 284. 

— W., inst, 288. 
Jonson, E., sig., 105. 

— J., sig., 105. 

Joseph, . . . , dep., 228, 268. 
Joye, Charles, sig., 112. 
Jurden, E., sig., 122. 
Jyer.. ., J., sig., 117. 

K. 

Katty, J., sig., 105. 
Keat. Raff, rec., 183. 
Kellett, Hugh, abs., 88. 
Kempe, D., sig., 105 ; inst, 280. 

— J., sig., 113. 
Kennes, Miles, sig., 127. 

Kent, Rob., sig., 117 ; dep., 228, 289. 

— T., inst., 277, 282. 
Kerke, Hugh, inst., 278. 
Kerrell, J., dep., 260, 272. 
Ketill, R., sig., 106. 
Keye, H., abs., 84. 

— R., sig., 122 ; dep., 260, 275. 
Kiddall, Goddard, inst., 284 ; dep., 260, 

284. 
Kiffen, J., inst, 291. 



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INDEX 



King, Gregory, sig., 137. 

— J.,«^., 106. 
--K.,sig., 119. 

— T., dcp., 328, a6o, 373, a88. 

— W., inst., 276 ; dep., 289. 

King's Bench cognizant of non-con- 
formity, 188, 203, 205 ; of excom- 
munications, 191, 211. 

Kingman, T., inst, 172. 

Kingsmill, K., Visitor for the North, 72 ; 
for the South, loi. 

Kingeston, T., dep., 259, 28a 

— W., sig., 127. 
Kynsey, Rob., abs., 88. 
Kirkebecke, J., abs., 87. 
Kirkbie, Baith., sig., 122. 
Kirklye, Rob., sig., 113, 119. 
Kyrkman, G., sig., 1 13. 
Kirton, T., dcp.. 228. 

Kitchen, Antony, Bishop of Llandaif, 
opposes Supremacy Act., &c, 5, 8; 
takes the oath, 35. 

— Ch., sig., 106. 

Kneeling, regulations respecting, 6a. 
Knell, T., inst., 288. 
Knight, Ch., inst., 390. 

— J., dep., 228, 260, 273, 274. 

— Rob., sig., 127. 
Knyppe, £., abs., 87. 
Knyston, R., sig., 122. 
Knollys, £dm., sig., 127. 

— Sir Francis, Visitor for the South, 
97 ; ecclesiastical commissioner, 147. 

— T., sig., 113. 

Knott, W.,dep., 136, 229, 233. 
Kyashe, T., sig., 127. 
Kylbury, P., sig., 113. 
Kymberleyns, Fras , sig., 122. 
Kytson, R., inst., 274. 

L. 

Lache, R., sig., 113; dep., 260, 282. 

Lacock, J., inst., 385. 

Lacy, J., sig., 106. 

Ladd, Rob., abs., 88. 

Ladlowe, T., inst., 293. 

Laifeld, E., inst., 280. 

Laiken, J., dep., 277. 

— T., sig., 155 ; Commissioner for the 
North, 173. 

Lakynby, Tames, abs., 86. 

Lakers, W., sig., 113. 

Lambe, G., abs., 76, 88 ; dep., 360, 384. 

— James, sig., 106. 

— L, dep., 360, 378. 

— T.,sig., 113. 

Lambert, J., sig., 137 ; inst., 373. # 
Lamson, James, sig., 113. 
Lancashire, Rob., sig., 133. 

— W., sig., 133. 



Lancastell, alias Hewster, Roger, sig., 

133. 

Lancaster, Ambrose, sig., 119. 

— Ch., inst., 374. 

— L, inst, 371. 

— T., inst., 384, 385. 
Lane, G., abs., 84. 

— J., sig., 133. 

— Martm, sig., 133. 

— Sir Rob., Visitor for the South, 97. 
Laneham, G., sig., 133. 

Langdale, Dr. A., engaged in the public 
disputation, 33 ; abs., 78 ; restrictcMi 
to bounds, 183 ; dep., 336, 333, 360, 

274» 275. 
Lang£ellowe, R., abs., 88. 

Langhom, W., sig., T06. 

Langland, J., dep., 360, 384. 

Lw^gley, J., sig., 113. 

— T., inst., 385. 

— W., inst., 388 ; dep., 388. 
Langridge, Nicolas, dep., 338. 

— Peter, dep., 337, 333, 369, 385. 
Langton, Fras., sig., 13a. 

— P., sig., 113. 

— Rob,, rig., 137. 
Lanman, J., sig., 113. 
Lanmett, J., sig., 137. 
Larch, T., sig., 133. 
Laik, T., inst., 379. 
Larvile, N., inst., 380. 
Latham, Ch., sig., 117. 

Latimer, W., restored, 89 ; inst., 383. 
Latwicke, Alban, dep., 360, 385. 
Launder, W., inst., 378. 
Laverock, R., sig., 106 ; inst., 380. 
Law, Owen, sig., 106. 

— J., sig., 106. 
Lawrence, £dm., sig., 106. 

— Giles, inst., 384. 

— J., dep., 260, 384. 

— R., inst., 381. 

Laws, Geoffrey, sig., 1 13. 
Lawson, J., dep., 360, 373. 

— W., sig., 100. 
Laxe, Yames, sig., 137. 
Lay, T., sig., 119. 
Laynge, Dychard, sig., 137. 
Laynning, T., sig., 113. 
Leage, J., inst., 373. 
Leaper, W., inst., 380. 
Leasbie, T., sig., 137. 
Leche, W., inst, 383. 

Ledbury, .... rec., in Hereford, 300. 

Ledem, G., sig., 106. 

Ledcr, J., sig., 106, 1 1 7 ; dep., a6o, 380. 

— R., sig., 106. 
Lee, G., sig., 133. 

— W., abs., 88. 

Leedes, . . . , Visitor of Canterbury, 160. 



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Leedes, E., sig., 117 ; inst., 275. 
Lcgewyn, W., sig., 113. 
Legge, £., dep., 260, 278. 
I^h> Edm., sig., 117. 

— J., sig., 127. 
Leghtoman, £., sig., 106. 
Leicester, G., inst., 285. 

— Oliver, abi.» 84. 
Leither, T., abs., 84. 
Leke, J., sig., 106. 
Leman, T., sig., 113. 

Le Marynel, T., sig., 106. 
Lemyng, T., abs., 88. 
Lench, W., sig., 106. 
Lenge, T., dep., 260, 272. 
Lesley, W., inst., 288. 
Leson, Anthony, sig., 122. 
Letherland, H., sig., 127. 
Lettock, J., excommunicated, 197. 
Levagies, Launcelot, abs., 87. 
Leveson, J., sig., 122. 
Levir, Ralph, inst., 289. 

— T., dep., 289. 
Lewen, Gilbert, abs., 86. 
Lewes, Ch., abs., 86. 

— Owen, dep., 229, 234, 268. 

— W., rec., 183. 
Lewett, J., dep., 260, 275. 
Leybome, Gilbert, inst., 282. 

— Rob., inst., 285. 
I^eyke, T., sig., 122. 

— W.. sig., 127. 

Licensing of preachers, 49; printing, 

61. 
Like, T., sig., 122. 
Lilly, G., dep., 233, 269. 
Linchon, N., sig., 113. 
Lincoln, Bishop of; ste Watson, T., 

Bullingham, N. 

— diocese, number of parishes, 98 ; 
records of, 237 ; deprivations and 
institutions in, 279. 

Linsecum, W., inst., 278. 
Litany, regulations concerning, 52. 
Littlegrome, J., inst., 278. 
Llandaff, Bishop of; ue Kitchen, An- 
thony. 

— diocese, records of, 237. 
Lloyd, E., sig., 106. 

— J., sig., 122. 

— ap Jones, T., inst., 283. 

Locke, Nicholas, sig., 113; inst., 282. 

Lodge, Geoffrey, ab«., 84. 

Lofthouse, Adam, sig., 113; inst., 276 ; 

dep., 260, 276. 
Lokett, J., sig., 113. 
Lolly, R., sig., 106. 
London, Bishop of; see Bonner, Edm. ; 

Grindall, Edm. 

— diocese, number of clergy in 1559, 



96; deprivations and institutions in, 

279, 290. 
London, George, dep., 228, 268. 
Long, G., sig., 117. 

— Stephen, sig., 113. 
Longford, J., sig., 122. 
Longland, J., sig., 155; inst., 279. 
Longleye, W., abs,, 88. 
Longworth, J., sig., 113. 

— R., inst, 289. 
Lord, Griffith, sig., 122. 

— W., sig., 117. 
Lougher, Rob., 289. 
Louvain, recusants at, 193, 200. 
Love, James, inst, 291. 

— Philip, sig., 106. 

— Rob., sig., 113. 
Lovelace, R., inst., 283. 

— W., Visitor for the South, 99, 100. 
Lovell, J., dep., 260, 281. 

Lovett, T., sig., 113, 127. 

Lowe, Arthur, abs., 78, 88; dep., 260,287. 

Lucas, W., inst., 289. 

Lucy, T., Visitor for the South, 97. 

Ludby, R., dep., 227, 233, 268. 

Luddington, T., abs., 84. 

— J., sig., 117. 
Lunde, J., inst., 279. 
Lupton, T., sig., 113. 

Luson, \^., Preb. Hereford, supports 

recusants, 181. 
Luter, Roger, sig., 122. 
Lydyatt, T., sig., 122. 
Lye, T., sig., 122. 
Lyghtfoot, Humphrey, sig., 122. 
Lymiter, P., inst, 2^3. 
Lynch, W., sig., 106. 
Lyne, Bartholomew, sig., 113. 
Lyng, James, inst., 282. 
Lyngarde, £., inst., 275. 

— J., sig., 122. 
Lynne, T., sig., 113. 

Lyon, W., inst., 281 ; dep., 290. 
Lysby, J., inst., 290. 
Lyster, Edm., dep., 228, 268. 

— J., abs., 84. 

— Rob., sig., 113. 
L3rthall, . . . , dep., 290. 
Lytton , G. , sig. ,113. 

Lyving, W., sig., 106; inst., 280, 290. 

M. 

Mably, R., sig., 113. 
Mackbrey, J., sig. , 106 ; inst, 289. 
Machell, Philip, abs., 84. 
Madford, E., sig., 122. 
Maddock, Hugh, sig., 106; dep., 260, 
281. 

— Lewis, sig., 106. 

— W., sijg;., 113. 



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INDEX 



Madis, Gregory, sig., ii^ 

Mady, J., sig., io6. 

Magistrates empowered to enforce use 
of Prayer-book, 37; their powen 
voder penal laws of 1563, 188, 199, 
203. 

Mainwaring. ]., sig^ 122. 

— R,, sig.. 106, 155. 
Maister, R., inst, 287. 

— T., inst., 272. 
Makyn, R., sig., 1 1 3. 

— T., dep., 260, 275. 
MaUn, Patrick, sig., 106. 
Malbcrye, J., abs., 84. I 
Malbon, Hamlet, sig., 119. 

Malet, Fras , abs., 84. ■ 

— H., sig., 106, 155. . 

— J., Visitor for the Sonth, 99. ' 
Malevery, H., abs., 84. j 
Mandeville, T., dep., 268, 274. | 
Maneley, W., dep., a6o. 
Mann, G., sig^ 106. 
Mannell, H., sig., 113. 
Manners, Rob., rec., 182 ; dep., 227, 

233, 260. 
Mansfield, J., sig., 127. 
Manns, R., sig., 113. 

— Rob., sig., 113. 
Mappe, \V., inst., 278. 
Marcall, T., sig., 113. 
Mare, H., sig., 117. 

— Nicholas, sig., 122. 
Margeson, Hugh, sig., 117. 
Marke, R., sig., 113. 

— Stephen, dep., 228, 268. 

Markyk, J., sig., 106. 

Markindale, T., abs., 84. 

Marler, T., sig., 122. 

Marley, Nicholas, rec, 79, 157; re- 
stricted to bounds, 181 ; dep., 227, 
233» 260, 276. 

— Stephen, rec, 79. 
Marris, T., sig., 122. 
Marrow, T. , Visitor for the South, 97. 
Marsden, J., sig., 106. 
Marser, T., sig., 113. 
Marshall, J., abs., 84; sig., 122, 127; 

dep., 136, 229, 233, 260. 

— Randall, sig., 117. 

— R., abs., 80; rec, 184; dep., 136, 
260, 275, 280, 282 ; sig., 154. 

— Rob., abs., 88. 

— Roger, rec, 78, 179. 

— T., inst., 289. 

— W., abs., 84; inst., 280; sig., 106, 
113, 117; dep., 227, 232, 260, 277. 

Marson, Oh., sig., 127. 
Marston, T., sig., 127. 
Martin, . . . , dep., 228, 288. 

— Gregory, sig., 113. 



Martin, F., sig., 106 ; dep., 233, 269^ 

— W., sig., 106, 127. 
Marton, R., dep., 269, 278. 

Martyr, Peter, his work at Oxford, 130 ; 

letter to, 1 74. 
Mary, Queen of Scots, plots in her 

£aToar hasten the Penal Laws^ 187. 
Mason, Anthony, sig., 117. 

— G., sig., 106, 154. 

— Sir J., Oxford Visitor, 130; sig., 
106. 

— T., si^., 113. 

— W., sig., 106, 

Mass, the doctrine o( in 1554 and 

I559» 3- 
Massenger, W., dep., 261, 280. 

Master, D., Oxford Visitor, 130. 

Mastroder, Edm., sig., 119. 

Massy, Bernard, sig., 122. 

— W., sig.. 122. 
Mateson, Ralph, sig., 122. 
Mathe, W., sig., 113. 

Mather, Dr. . . . , dep., 234, 268. 
Mathew, J., sig., 127. 

— Oliver, sig., 113. 

— R., inst, 290. 

Matthews, Dr. . . . , dep., 234, 268. 

Matys, Rob., sig., 127. 

Maund, T., sig., 113. 

Mawdsley, T., inst, 275. 

Ma wen, N., abs., 86. 

Maxon, H., sig., 106. 

Maxwell, Anthony, abs., 84. 

May, W., Cambridge Visitor, 132 ; 

ecdesi^tical commissioner, 147; 

inst, 279; nominated Archbishop of 

York, 166. 
Maydwell, J., sig., 113. 
Maynman, J., sig., 127. 
Meij, J., sig., 117. 
Melton, Alan, sig., T13. 
Mendons, Philip, sig., 119. 
Menel, Sergeant, takes the oath, 168. 
Menevar, . . ., rec, in Hereford, 200; 

dep., 228, 268. 
Mere, . . . , dep., 261, 273. 
Meredith, Jonas, dep., 233, 269; 

ordained abroad, 224. 
Mericke, Edm., sig., 122. 

— \V.,sig., 127. 
Merman, J., sig., 113. 
Merre, E., sig., 113. 
Merriman, Ralph, sig., 106. 
Merton, W., sig., 122. 

Mervyn, Edm., dep., 226, 232, 261, 

285. 
Merycoke, . . . , sig., 113. 
Metcalf, . . . , assists .recusants, 184. 

— G., sig., 127. 
Meyhoc, T., sijg^., 119. 



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Meyrick, Roland » Bishop of Bangor; 
Visitor for the Soath, loi ; conse- 
crated, 156. 

Michy, R., dep., 229, 234, 270. 

Middlcton, J., sig., 117, 127. 

— Rob., abs., 84. 

— T., sig., 127. 

Mildmay, Sir Walter, Visitor for the 

South, 97. 
Miller, j.. sig., 122. 

— N.,sig., 113. 

— \V., sig., 106 ; inst., 288. 
Miracles, reverence of, to be discouraged, 

47- 
Mitchell, Charles, sig., 119. 

— G,, inst., 292. 

— J., sig., 119. 

— T., dep., 289. 
Mychclfield, J., inst., 282. 
Mody, W., sig., 113. 

Mohunt, Reginald, Visitor for the South, 

99. 
Moke, T., sig., 106. 
Moldcr, T., inst., 275. 
Moley, R., sig., 113. 
MoUyneux, Anthony, abs.^ 88. 
Monnson, G., sig., 127. 
Montacute, Lord, opposes Supremacy 

Act. &c., 5, 8; a recusant put in his 

care, 182. 
Moore, T., dep., 291. 
Moorefylde, T., dep., 261, 281. 
More, Giles, sig., 106. 
More, H., rec, 79. 

— Miles, sig., 106. 

— R., sig., 113. 

— Rob., sig., 122. 

— T., dep., 289. 

— W., abs., 84 ; sig., 119, 123. 
Morecrofte, Edm., inst., 277, 

— E., abs., 88. 
Morehall, J. , sig., 122. 
Moreton, J., sig., 123, 127. 
Morgan, H., Bishop of St. David's, 

summoned to London, 37 ; dep., 261, 
383. 

— Philip, rec., 184. 
Morland, Martin, inst., 284. 

M or ley, Lord, opposes Uniformity Act, 
8. 

— Geoffrey, abs., 78. 

— Rob., sig., 113. 
Morleys, David, sig., 119. 
Morpeth, J., sig., 106. 
Mortlake, Rob., sig., 106. 

Morren, J., lurks in Cheshire, 184; dep., 

3 notey 227, 261, 280. 
Morris, . . ., sig., 119. 

— Rees, dep., 261, 284. 

— R., sig., 127. 



Morris, Rob., sig., 123. 

— W., sig., 117; abs., 84. 
Moreson, T., sig., 119. 

Morton, Nicholas, dep., 227, 329, 333, 
268. 

— Rob., sig., 113. 

— W., Surrogate for the Visitors, 81. 
Mortyboyes, T., inst, 290. 
Morweyn, P., inst., 275. 

Moseley. W., inst., 284. 

Mosse, \V., dep., 136, 233, 361. 

Motte, Rob., sig., 127. 

Mountague, T., sig., ic6 ; inst., 284. 

Mountain, £., Visitor for the South, 

97- 
Moutrye, James, Lord, Visitor for the 

South, 98. 

Mower, T., sig., 123. 

Mownforth, T., sig., 127. 

Mowre, Rob., sig., 122. 

Mowse, W., abs., 76. 

Moyle, W., dep., 261, 280. 

Mugge, Walter, dep., 161, 327, 361, 
277 ; restricted to bounds, 181 ; lurk- 
ing in Hereford, 300. 

MuUins, J., inst, 280. 

Mundye, W., sig., 106. 

Murake, Rob., sig., 113. 

Murffett, W., sig., 106. 

Murrey, J., abs., 87. 

— Lancelot, abs., 87. 
Music in churches, do. 
Myle, Hamlet, sig.., 127. 
Mynteyng, R., sig., 127. 

N. 

Nappe, Simon, sig., 118. 
Neale, J., dep., 131, 232, 370. 

— T., dep., 334. 

— W., sig., 106. 
Nedharo, J., sig., 123. 
Neham, Rob., sig., 113. 
Nelson, Rob., abs., 88. 
Neto, Hugh, sig., 106. 
Nettelt, T., sig., 106. 
Nevard, W., sig., 106. 
Neve, Marmaduke, sig., 118. 
Nevell, Edm., sig., 106. 
Nevill, G., abs., 87. 

— Sir H., Visitor for the South, 98. 

— Sir T., Visitor for the South, 97. 
Nevinson, Dr. Stephen, Visitor for the 

South, 97 ; of Canterbury, 160 ; 

inst, 291. 
Newby, Anthoney, sig., 127, 
Ncwhouse, W., inst., 281 ; dep., 290. 
Newsome, J., abs., 84. 
Newton, Francis, inst., 272, 386. 

— Ralph, sig., 113 ; inst., 377. 



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INDEX 



NewtoD, SunpMm, init, 372. 
Neytol, J., Bg., 106. 
Nicholas, H., tAg., 113. 
Ntcboli, J., tig.» 123. 

— Nicholas, inst., 390. 

— R., sig., 133. 

— Simon, sig., 113. 
Nicolson, James, abs., 87. 

— R., dcp., 334, a68. 
Noble, J., dep., 333, 361. 
NicsoD, T., ng,, 133. 

Norfolk, T., Duke o^ Visitor for the 

Sooth, 94, 95. 
Norfolk, J., abs., 84. 

— W., rec, 184; dep., 361, 386. 
Norley, T., inst., 386. 
Norman, H^ dep., a6i, 385. 

— Rob., inst,, 375, 
-— W., sig., 133. 
NonDavefl, J., abs., 84. 
Norreys, James, inst., 381. 

— Rob., sig., 137. 
Nonyson, James, sig., 106. 

Nortn, E., Ix>r(l, opposes Uniformity 
Act, 8; Visitor for the South, 94, 

95- 
Northampton, W., Marqois of, Visitor 

for the South, 97. 
Northends, R., sig., 137. 
Northoll, T., inst., 388. 
Northumberland, T., Earl of, Visitor 

for the North, 71, 73. 
Norton, Baldwin, rec., 184; dep., 261, 

381, 287. 

— Sir George, Visitor for the South, 
90. 

— J., sig., 113. 

Norwich diocese, number of clergy in 
1 559, 96 ; deprivations and institutions 
in, 381, 290. 

Norwood, Rob., sig., 119. 

Nolt, Rob., sig., 127. 

— W., dep., 268. 

Nottingham, proceedings of the Visitors 

at, 74. 
Nowell, Alex., Visitor for the South, 

97, loi ; Visitor for Oxford, 130; 

Visitor of Canterbury, 160; inst., 

373, 380. 

— I^ur., inst, 274, 375. 

— Rob., Visitor for the South, loi. 
Nowelly, J., sig., 113. 
Nowglass, T., sig.y 106. 

Nudde, Rob., sig., 113. 
Nutcombe, T., 227, 261, 277, 389. 
Nuttall, Ch., sig., 113. 

— T., sig., 106. 
Nutte, W., abs., 84. 
Nutthide, Rob., abs., 87. 
Nyells, Rob., sig., 113. 



O. 



Oath of Supremacy, firom wImmi 
quired, 14-16, 39, 40, 188-9, ^^ '• 
Its form, 15, 45, 77: tendered to the 
Bishops, 33 ; tendered to the Kagis- 
trates,&c., 35, 170; official explana- 
tion of, 63 ; not pressed at Oxford, 
131 ; powers of the Ecclesiastical 
Commissioaers, 143, 153, 157; the 
Northern commisdon, 167, 173 ; 
tendered to the laity, 169, 170, 188, 
189, 30I ; feigned sobscriptioos, 198. 

Obeli, T.,ag., 119. 

Obrey, J., sig., 127. 

Odcy, Roger, sig., 113. 

Ofepryng, G., sig., 137. 

Ogle, T., abs., 86. 

Oglethorpe, Owen, Bishop of Carlisle ; 
opposes Supiemacy Act, &a, 5, 8; 
at the Coronation, 30; his recog;ni- 
zances taken, 33 ; is fined, 33 ; is 
deprived, 35, 335, 361, 373, 374; 
dies, 38. 

Okam ; see Raky. 

Okeley, R., sig., 133. 

Oldc, W., sig., 133. 

Oldman, J.^ sig., 137. 

Oliver, J., abs., 88 ; dep., 338, 368. 

OUerton, W., sig., 133. 

Olverley, J., sig., 127. 

Ordinations, number of Archbishop 
Parker's, 242. 

Ornaments, Church, orders r^arding, 

28, 54» 59- 
Orpe, T., sig., 123. 
Orrell, W., sig., 127. 
Orvyce, J.jinst., 290. 
Osbom, W., sig., 119. 
Osome, Rob., sig., 106. 
Oswald, rec., in Hereford, 200. 
Otbye, E., abs., 84. 
Otford, Rob., abs., 84. 
Otley, Roger, sig., 123. 
Oton, J., abs., 84. 
Ottwaye, G., dep., 261, 280. 

— Rob., sig., 123. 
Otwell, W., sig., 106. 
Overton, James, sig., 127. 

— J., inst., 392. 

— W., inst., 374, 385. 
Owen, David, abs., 84. 
Owgan, J., dep., 390. 
Owsley, W., sig., 119. 

Oxford, J., Earl of. Visitor for the South, 

94, 95- 
Oxford diocese, number of parishes, 98 ; 

visitation of, 156 1, 161; deprivations 

and institutions in, 383, 391. 

Oxford University endorses the five 



INDEX 



315 



articles, 1559, 3; Visitation of, 130, 
163; opp^ed to reform, 130. 
Oxford, M. ; see Farmer. 



P. 



P. . ., R. {sic), rig., 123. 

Pacher, R., sig., 113. 

Pachet, Rob., sig., 113. 

Packard, T^ dep., 361, 274, 275. 

Padye, David, inst., 280. 

Page, J., sig., 113. 

Pagett, T., rig., 127. 

Painter, Rob., sig.. 114. 

Painter, W., rig., 114; inst., 273. 

Palfrey, R., inst., 278. 

Palles, Sir Hugh, Visitor for the Sooth, 

lOI. 

Palmer, Ambrose, sig., 113. 

— Catherine, abbess, dep., 226, 235. 

— George, dep., 234, 201, 284, 286. 

— H., inst., 281. 

— R., sig., 123. 

— T., sig, 114; inst, 291 ; dep., 136, 
228, 232, 261, 289. 

Palmes, G., rec, 78 ; proceedings 

against, 197 ; dep., 227. 
Papal Supremacy, doctrine of, in 1559, 

3 ; to be preached against, 47 ; pen> 

alties for holding, 188. 
Papists ; see Recusants. 
Papenry, Hugh, rig., 127. 
Parfay, J.,rec., 184; dep., 261, 278, 283. 
Parishe, Geoffrey, inst., 282. 
Parke, H., sig., 11 4. 

— !•> wg-» 127 ; inst., 291. 
Parker, Charles, dep., 229, 234, 268. 

— T., sig., 106. 

— Matthew, Archbishop of Canter- 
Inmr; archbishop^lect, 38; Cam- 
bridge Visitor, 132; consecrated 
archbbhop, 156; his activity, 160; 
Eton Visitor, 162; scrupulous of 
enforcing penalties, 192 ; his ordina- 
tions, 242. 

— N., sig., 114. 

— Ralph, sig., 123. 
-— Rob., sig., 106. 

— T., sig., 106, 127. 
Parkers, Ch., sig., 106. 

Parkhurst, J., Bishop of Norwich ; Letter 

from, 175. 
Parkynson, T., sig., 118. 
Parr, R., abs., 88. 

— Rob., sig., 106. 
Panrntt, £., dep., 261. 

Parry, H., Visitor for the South, 99, 100; 
inst., 271, 284, 285. 



Parry, Sir Thomas, Visitor for the South, 

94; Oxford Visitor, 130. 
Parrys, Rob., inst., 275. 

— T., rig., 106. 
Parson, Rob., sig., 118. 
Parul, J., dep., 234. 
Passe, R., dep., 86. 
Passefont, T., sig., 114. 
Paternoster, Rob., sig., it 4. 

Pate, R., Bishop of Worcester ; opposes 
Supremacy Act, &c., 5, 8 ; is deprived, 
35> 325, 261, 286; imprisoned, 144, 
145 ; dies, 222. 

Pates, R., Viritor for the South, loi. 

— Rob., dep., 89, 276. 
Patteson, J., rig., 114. 
Paul, J., dep., 229, 234, 270. 
Payne, Rob., dep., 228, 202. 
Peacock, R., inst.. 281. 

— Rob., Commissioner for the North, 
172. 

— T., dep., 136, 227, 232, 262, 277; 
sig., 114. 

Pearce, £dm., dep., 262, 284. 

— J., inst., 292. 
Peerson, And., inst., 273. 

— E^ sig., 107. 

— H., sig., 127. 

— J., abs., 84. 

— Rob., sig., 114. 
Pechen, Lambert, sig., 107. 
Pecke, J., sig., 114. 
Pedder, J., inst., 286. 

— Meleus, sig., 114. 
Peell, Rob., sig., 114. 
Pell, W., sig., 127. 

Pembroke, W., E. of. Visitor for the 
South, 98. 

Penal enforcement of Liturgical enact- 
ments, 3, 8, 23-27; of Supremacy 
Act, 15-18 {see also Imprisonment); 
penal laws of 1563, 186. 

Pendlebury, P., rig., 123. 

Pendleton, H., dep., 234. 

— W., rig., 123. 
Penford, T., inst , 286. 
Pcnn, W., sig., 123. 
Pennel, W., sig., 107. 
Pennigar, Michael, inst., 285. 
Penyngton, G., rig., 127. 
Penny, T., inst, 280. 
Pentland, T., inst., 276. 
Pepper, Roger, sig., 114. 
Percy, Alan, abs., 84; sig., 114. 

— Sir Henry, Visitor for the North. 71, 
72 ; Commisrioner for the North, 
167. 

— James, inst, 273. 

— T., Registrar to the Northern Viritors, 

74, 75, 77. 



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INDEX 



Periton, J., dep., 228, a68. 
Perkyn, W., sig., 123. 
Pemby, T.. sig., 118. 
Peme, Andrew, sig., 118. 
Perpoincle, W., abs., 84. 
Perseval, James, sig., 123. 

— J., sig., 127. 

— Rob., dep., 88, 89, 226, 232, 262, 
274, 287. 

Perstell, T., sig., 123. 
Perye, J., dep., 262, 285. 
Pcryn, J., dep., 262, 277. 

— \V., dep., 235. 
Pesc, W., sig., 123. 
Peter, R. ; see Porter, R. 
Peterborough diocese, Visitation of, 1 560, 

159; deprivations and institutions in, 

282, 291. 
Peterson, Rob., abs., 86. 
Petrose, W., dep., 262. 
Pevcrill, J., inst , 288. 
Pharkson, T., sig., 114. 
Pheron, Rob., sig., 107. 
Philip V does not assist the Catholics, 

37. 
Phillip, Ralph, abs., 88 ; inst^ 282. 

Phillips, Geoffrey, insL, 28 1. 

— J., dep., 262, 283. 

— Morgan, Bp. of St. David's ; absent 
from Parliament, 1559, 31 ; dep., 37, 
227, 232, 262, 277, 283. 

— T., inst.. 289. 
Phillis, Rob., inst., 290. 

Phil pot, J., inst., 281 ; dep., 290. 

Pickard, \V., abs., 85. 

Pickering, Ralph, dep., 262, 276. 

Picto, Rob., sig., 114. 

Pile, J., dep., 228, 268. 

Pilkington, James, Bishop of Durham ; 
preaches for the Visitors, 75, note\ 
Cambridge Visitor, 132; consecrated 
bishop, 166; Commissioner for the 
North, 167 ; his letters to Cecil, 168 ; 
inst, 276, 280. 

— Leon., inst., 289. 
Pinner, James, sig., 107. 
Pirrey, E., abs., 88. 

Pius, Henry, dep.. 228, 268. 

Place, R., abs., 87. 

Plandon, Andrew, sig., 118. 

Plante, Rob., abs., 88. 

Plompton, R., inst., 272. 

Plumtree, T., dep., 229, 234, 268, 

Pockeson, J. , abs., 88. 

Poiscgate, J., abs., 85. 

Pokyse, J., sig., 107. 

Pole, or Poole, D., Bishop of Peter- 
borough; abs. from Parliament, 
^559f 31 t summoned to London, 37 ; 
^cp., 38, 144, 226, 262, 282 ; 



restricted to London, 145, 179, 196; 

dies, 196. 
Pole, Rob., inst., 287. 
Pollard, Sir J., Visitor for the South, 

99- 

— W., sig., 127. 

Poison, J., sig., 107. 

Pomrel, W., dep., 229, 234, 262. 

Ponder, Roger, sig., 107. 

Pope, api^fds to, under Supremacy Act, 

21-2; his designs against England, 

198, note^. 
Pope, W., sig., 119. 
Porder, R., inst., 290. 
Port. R., sig., 1 23. 
Porter, J., sig., 107; rec., 182; inst, 

282; dep., 26a, 273. 

— R., dep., 226, 232, 262, 279. 

— W., abs., 87; sig., 123. 
Pory, J., inst., 277. 

Pott, Sir J., Visitor for the South, loi. 

— J., sig., 114. 

— Philip, sig., 127. 

Potts, J., dep., 229, 233, 235, 262. 
Powell, David, dep., 227, 233, 268. 

— Roger, sig., 1 14. 

— T., sig., 114; Visitor of Gloucester, 

I5Q- 

— W., sig., 11^ \ see also Ap. Powell. 

Powes, W., sig., 123. 
Powlye, J., inst., 281. 
Powtrell, T., sig., 127. 
Poxleye, E., sig., 107. 
Po>'nt2, Rob., dep., 233, 262. 
Pratt, J., inst, 271, 284. 

— R., sig., 114; dep., 228, 262. 
Prayer-book ; its revision, 2 {see also 

Uniformity Act) ; Magistrates to en- 
force its usage, 9 and note, 26-7 ; 
reluctance to use, 82, note ^ ; accepted 
generally in 1 560, 1 64. 

Preachers, licensing of, 49, 135 ; for the 
Visitors, 75, 95. 

Preaching ; see Sermons. 

Precy, J., dep., 262, 284. 

Presberi, H., sig., 127. 

Prester, T., sig., 114. 

Prestland, P., abs., 88. 

Preston, . . . , choirmaster, dep., 230. 

— J., sig., 127. 

— R., sig., 107 ; inst., 281. 

— Roger, sig., 127. 

— T., abs., 85 ; sig., 123. 
Price, H., abs., 85. 

— J., dep., 262. 

— I^wis, sig., 119, 154. 

Primer, Edward VTs, to be used, 58. 
Printing forbidden except by licence, 6 1 . 
Processions in chnrch abolished, 52. 
Proctor, James, sig., 155 ; inst, 292. 



INDEX 



317 



Proctor, J., sig., 114. 

— Rob., sig., 118. 
Prod, W., sig., 133. 
Prowett, Stephen, sig., 114. 

Public worship, enforced attendance at, 

26. 
Pnllay, H., sig., 127. 
Pulleyn, J., inst., 380 ; dep., 292. 

— Marmadnke, restored, 89, 287. 

— W., dep., 263, 287, 290. 
Pulpits to be placed in churches, 55. 
Punder, T., sig., 114. 

Purkin, W., abs., 85. 

Pursglove, Rob., rec, 78 ; restricted to 

bounds, 179 : dep., 262, 284, 287. 
Purzaunt, J., sig.. 107. 
Pychyll, J., sig., 127. 
Pye, T., sig., 11 4. 
Pyks, T., sig., 114. 
Pynder, £dm., sig., 107. 
Pytte, J., sig., 115. 



Q. 

Quemerford, Nich., dep., 229, 334, 
262. 



R. 



Kaben, Matthew, sig., 1 1 4. 

Ha by, Radaud, sig., 114. 

Radoss, Ralph, sig., 123. 

Raignold, J., abs., 85. 

Raky, alias Okam, Miles, sig., 114. 

Rame, Ch., inst, 280. 

Ramridge, J., imprisoned, 146; dep., 

226, 231, 262, 275 ; restricted to 

bounds, 181. 
Ramsey, . . . , dep., 228. 

— R., dep., 262, 278. 

— alias Slatter, W., dep., 363, 272. 
Rand, Rob., sig., 1 54. 

Randal, J., sig., 114. 

— Rob., dep. , 290. 
Randolf, Rob., sig., 114. 
Ranys, J., abs., 86. 

Rastall, J., rec, 180; dep., 328, 333, 

263 ; writes, 343. 
Ratclifife, Geoffrey, sig., 137. 

— J., abs , 87. 
Ratlyns, Ch., sig., 137. 
Ravis, W., sig., 1 23. 
Ravyn, G., sig., 127. 
Rawdon, J., sig., 107. 
Rawlyn, /., sig., 107. 
Rawlins, W., sig., 107. 
Rawson, W., inst., 277. 
Raymond, Mich., dep., 363, 278. 
Rayne, G., abs., 86. 

Rayner, Ch., abs., 85. 



Rayner, R., inst., 291. 

— T., dep., 263. 
Reader, T., inst., 287. 
Reaz, Laurence, sig., 107. 
Recusants, given every opportunity to 

sign, 77,96, 143; restricted to certain 
bounds, 176; list of. 179; feeling of 
the country against, 187 ; the Penal 
laws of 1563, 186; proceedings 
against, 197 ; harboured in the coun- 
try, 80 note, 168, 184, 196, 200. 

Redfem, Anthony, sig., 107. 

Redford, Aemerus, sig., 1 18. 

Redinge, H., inst., 278. 

Redman, J., dep., 89, 263, 274. 

— T., dep., 136, 227, 232, 263; re- 
stricted to bounds, 181. 

Redshaw, J., dep., 228, 268. 

— Rob., abs., 88. 
Redworth, R., dep., 263, 285. 
Redwyckc, J., sig., 114. 
Reed, J., sig., 114. 

— R., dep., 228, 263. 

— T., sig., 114; inst, 281. 
Reginald, H., inst., 281. 

Registers, parish, regulations concerning, 

50- 
Reley, E., inst., 277, 278, 289. 

Relff, J., sig., 118. . 

Relics, reverence of, to be discouraged, 

Remyngton, W., sig., 127. 
Renerl, J., sig., 114. 
Restley, W., dep., 289. 
Reve, £dm., inst, 282. 
-— J., dep., 263, 278. 
Reynolds, G., dep., 290. 

— Rob., dep., 263, 279, 285. 

— T., dep., 136, 222, 226, 263, 277. 
Rich, Lord) opposes Uniformity Act, 8. 

— W., sig., 107. 
Richard, P., sig., 119. 
Richards, Rob., dep., 263, 272. 
Richardson, Adam, inst., 281 ; sig., 

107. 

— J., abs., 85; sig., 107, 114; inst, 
274. 

— R., sig., 127. 

— Rob., sig., 107. 

— W., sig., 123. 
Ricters, G., sig., 114. 
Ridinges, T., dep., 291. 
Ridley, Launcelot, inst., 277. 
Ringrose, Rob., abs., 85. 
Riverney, T., abs., 87. 

Rix, W., sig., 114. 

Roberts, G., dep., 226, 232, 371. 

— R., inst, 285. 

Robertson, T., rec, 79, 184 (here called 
Robinson\ dep., 226, 263, 276. 



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INDEX 



Robps, Humphrey, tie., 123. 
Robinson, Abraham, abs., 85. 

— E., sig., 127. 

— G., abs., 80 ; sig., 107. 

— James, sig., 114. 

— J.,ab8.,87,88; sig., 114, 118 ; dep., 
263, 376. 

— Lancelot, sig., 114. 

— T., inst, 392. 
Robinsonnes, R., sig., 137. 
Robson, J., dg., 107. 

— R., sig., 107. 

— T., sig., 107. 

Rochester, Bishop of; see Gnest, £dm. 

— diocese, Visitation of, 1560, 160 ; 
deprivations and institutions in, 283, 
391. 

Rochester, £., sig., 114. 
Rod, W., sig., 114, 137. 
Roderaon, K., sig., 133. 
Kodlay, }., sig., 119. 
Rods, T., sig., 137. 
Roger, Laurence, sig., 133. 

— R., sig., 107. 
Rogers, J., inst., 378. 

— Nich., inst., 293. 

— Rob., inst, 374. 
Rogerson, T., sig., 107, 114. 
Rogges, Francis, sig., 114. 
Rok, T., sig., 114.* 

Rokeby, John, Commissioner for the 
North, 173. 

— W., abs., 85. 

Rokesby, J., Member of the Council for 

the North, 77. 
RoUie, Rob., inst., 276. 
Rood, H., sig., 123. 
Roper, H., abs., 88. 
Rothewell, James, sig., 107. 

— W, sig., 119. 
RotlifF, T , sig., 107. 
Rouley, W., sig., 123. 
Rowbe, J., sig., 123. 
Rowe, Rob., sig., 107. 
Rowghton, W., sig., 114. 
Rowlinge, Arthur, abs., 85. 
Ruckwode, T., sig., 114. 

Rudd, J., abs , 85; restored, 89; sig., 

114; inst, 276. 
Rughsyche, Humphrey, sig., 107. 
Rumpell, Otto, dep., 290. 
Runce, R., sig., 1 14. 
Rushbroke, W., sig., 107. 
Rushton, G., sig., 114. 
—-R., sig, 123. 
Russell. J., sig., 123. 

— Laurance, sig., 114. 

— R., sig., 114 ; inst, 283. 

— Sir T., Visitor for the South, loi. 

— Walter, rec., 183. 



Russell, W., inst., 273. 
Rust, £., sig., 114 ; inst, 281. 

— W., rig., 107. 
Ruston, Rob., rig., 114. 

Rutland, H., £. of, Vbitor for the Sooth, 
97 ; Commissioner for the North, 167. 
Rydavure, W., rig., 123. 
Ryddysdall, J., sig., 107. 
Ryder, T., rig., 123. 
Rydyngs, T., sig., 114. 
Rylgr, £., rig., 107. 

— H., inst., 286. 

— T., sig., 107. 
Rynger, H., rig., 114. 
Rypham, Rob., rig., 137. 

S. 

Sacheverell, J., asrists recusants, 184; 

imprisoned, 184, 185. 
Sackforde, T., eccleriastical commis- 

sioner, 147. 
Sackville, Sir R., Viritor for the South, 

loi. 
Sadler, J., sig., 107, 133. 

— Sir Ralph, Viritor for the South, 94. 

— T., rig., 114. 
Sadleyer, H., sig., 119. 
Saint, Nicholas, sig., 128. 

St. Asaph, Bishop of; tu Davies, R.; 
Goldwell, T. 

— diocese, Viritation of, 1560, 159; 
records of, 237 ; deprivations and 
institutions in, 283. 

Saintbarbe, Giles, dep., 263, 272. 
St. David's, Bishop of; see Morgan, H. ; 
Young, T. 

— diocese, Visitation of, 1560, 159; 
deprivations and institutions in, 283, 
291. 

St. John, J., Lord, Visitor for the South, 
98. 

— Oliver, Lord, Visitor for the South, 

97. 
St. Leger, Sir J., Visitor for the South, 

98, 100. 

Sale, W., sig., 123. 

Salebanke, W., sig., 114. 

Salisbury, Bishop of ; su Jewell, J. 

— Cathedral virited by Dr. Cottrell, 

— diocese. Visitation of, 1560, 159; 
records of, 237; deprivations and 
institutions in, 284, 293. 

Salisbury, J., rig., 127; inst., 371, 281. 

— R., inst., 381. 

Salheld, Lancelot, sig., 80 ; dep., 263, 

273- 
Salle, Arthur, inst., 284. 

Salter, W., sig., 114. 



INDEX 



319 



Saltanstall, Gilbert, sig., 114. 

Salvyn, Anthony, rec., 79, 157 ; re- 
stricted to bounds, i8a; dep., 227, 
333» 363, 377. 

— J., Visitor for the Soath, 95. 

— R., rec, 79 ; dep., 363, 287. 
Sampson, T., inst, 376. 
Samuell, W., sig., 155. 

Sanders, Nicolas, his acconnt of the 
deprived clergy, 319, 325; his history, 
219; dep., 329, 234, 363. 

Sandford, Brian, sig., 133. 

— Ch., abs., 85. 

Sandys, Edwin, Bishop of Worcester; 
Visitor for the South, 71, 73, 75-77» 
81: restored, 8^, 374; consecrated 
bishop, 156, 28^. 

— E., inst, 289. 
Sankey, }., sig., 1 14. 
Sapcote, W., sig., 127. 
Sare, J., abs., 86. 
Satten, Rob., sig., 123. 
Saunders, H., rec, 183. 
Saunderson, T., sig., 107. 

— W.,sig., 127. 
Savage, G., sig., 137. 

— J., sig., 138. 
Savyer, Ralph, inst., 384. 
Sawar, R., sig., 128. 
Sawdill, J., sig., 128. 
Sawe, Nicholas, inst., 285. 
Sawle, Arthur, inst, 272. 
Saxey, W., abs., 76; inst., 280. 
Say, Rob., sig., 107. 

Scales, J., abs., 87. 

Scambler, Edm. , Bishop of Peterborough, 
preaches for the Visitors, 75, note\ 
surrogate for them, 81; inst., 282, 
386. 

Scargyll, Francis, sig., 118. 

Scarthe, Francis, inst., 387. 

Schepey, Hugh, sig., 133. 

— R., sig., 128. 
Scherar, R., sig., 123. 
Scholfelde, Rob., inst., 291. 
Schore, R., dep., 288. 
Scorbnigg, J., sig., 114. 

Scory, J., Bishop of Hereford, confirmed, 
156; his projected visitation, 158, 
161 ; his letters quoted, 161. 

Scotch priests take low wages, 30i . 

Scott, Alan, sig., 119. 

— Cuthbert, Bishop of Chester ; opposes 
Supremacy Act, &c., 5, 8; in the 
Parliament of 1559, 31 » is entangled 
in the public disputation, 33, 33 ; is 
dep., 35, 236, 363, 274, 287; im- 
prisoned, 144, 185; escapes, 192 ; is 
restricted to bounds, 192 ; escapes to 
Belgium, 193; dies, 193, 233. 



Scott, J., sig., 114. 

— T., inst., 381 ; dep., 333, 363. 
Seanton, Rob., sig., 114. 
Searle, T., sig., 114. 

Seaton, John, rec., 78; restricted to 
bounds, 181 ; dep., 337, 334, 263, 
375, 387. 

— W., sig., 115. 

Sebastian, ...» choirmaster, dep., 230. 
Securys, H., inst, 284. 

— T., dep., 263. 285. 

Sedge, Dr. . . . , dep., 229, 334, 368. 
Sedgwick, T., dep., 79, 334, 364, 376 ; 

restricted to bounds, 179. 
Seele, W., sig., 133. 
Sclbye, Oliver, abs., 86. 
Sell, Leon, abs., 88. 
Seller, James, abs., 88. 
Selvin, J., sig., 114. 
Seman, Rob., sig., 114. 

— T.,sig., 114. 

Senden, W., dep., 363, 375. 
Sergeant, J., dep., 363, 385. 

— T., sig., 115. 
Serlbye, T., dep., 390. 

Sermons, regulations concerning, 47. 
Sewell, J., sig., 115 ; dep., 363, 383. 

— R., preaciies for the Visitors, 75 
note; abs., 85. 

— W., sig., 128. 
Seyllank, Hugh, sig., 128. 
Seymour, Sir H., Visitor for the South, 

loi ; assists Bishop Home, 163. 

— J., abs., 86 ; sig., 107. 
Shakylton, T., sig., 115. 
Shalhld, Rob., abs., 87. 
Sharp, Edm., sig., 119. 

— F.,inst, 275. 

— Rob., sig., 115. 
Sharrocke, T., inst, 291. 

Shaw, H., abs., 85; dep., 333, 370; 
ordained abroad, 334; sig., 138. 

— J., sig., 119. 

— Ralph, sig., 133. 

— Rob., sig., 115; rec, 183; dep., 
263, 278. 286. 

— Thurstan, inst., 290. 
Shears, Giles, inst., 284. 

Sheffield, Lord, opposes the Uniformity 
Act, 8. 

— T., sig., 118. 
Sheldon, Hugh, sig., 133. 

— J., sig., 133. 

— W., Visitor for the South, 101. 
Shelley, Sir R., Prior, dep., 326, 333, 

335» 270. 
Shelton, Geoffrey, sig., 1 33. 
Shelmerdine, Rob., rec, 183 ; dep., 386. 
Sheppard, Adam, inst, 376. 

— James, sig., 115. 



INDEX 



Sheppard, J., inst., 388. 

— Nicholas, inst., 386. 

— T., sig., 123. 

— W.,abs.,86; sig.,io7;dep., 3a8, a68. 
Sheprcy, W., dcp., 233, 264. 
Sherar, R., inst., 278. 

Sherard, A., sig., 123. 

— T., sig., 1 23. 
Sherbroke, Cuthbert, sig., 115. 
Sherburn, J., sig., 107. 
Sheriff, Rob., dcp.. 290. 
Shennan, J., sig., 115. 

— T., sig., 123. 
Shrygley, W.,sig, 123. 
Sherwyn, Rob., sig., 123. 
Shevyn, Ralph, sig., 1 19. 
Shew, R., sig., 107. 
Shipman, T., abs.. 85. 
Shirm, J., sig., 107- 
Shorthouse, Ch., inst., 279. 
Shrewsbury, Francis, Earl of, opposes 

Supremacy Act, &c., 5, 8 ; Visitor for 

the North, 71, 72. 
Shate, Rob., sig., 154. 
Sidney, Philip, inst., 291. 
Sifton, W., sig., 115. 
Silles, Peter, abs., 85. 
Silvester, Nicholas, sig., 123. 

— T., sig., 107. 

— W., dcp., 264, 286. 
Simmerley, G., sig., 128. 
Simony, penalties for, 56. 
Simp>son, Ch., abs.. 88. 

— George, rec., 180. 

— J., abs., 85; sig., 108, 115, 128; 
inst., 290. 

— Mar band, sig., 108. 

— M., sig., 108. 

— Pat, sig., 128. 

— T.. sig., 108, 128 ; inst., 280. 
Singleton, T., abs., 88 ; sig., 115. 
Skarlett, J., sig, 115. 
Skelton, J , sig., 115. 

— W., abs., 85. 
Skenthrist, David de, dep., 228. 
Skinner, J., Registrar to Ecclesiastical 

Commi.-^sion, 140, 151. 

— J., dep., 292. 

— Ralf, inst., 276. 

— R., inst., 285. 
Skoyle, J.,sig., 115. 

Skydmore, J., supports recusants, 181. 
Skypp, R.,sig., 115. 
Skypwith, Roger, sig., 128. 
Slany, R., sig., 123. 

— T., dep., 264, 273, 
Slater, James, sig., 114. 

— W., sig., 123. 

Slatter, W ; see Ramsey, W. 
Slynger, Geoffrey, sig., 119. 



Slithmst, T., dcp., 136, 227, 232, 264, 

285. 
Smart, J., dcp., 264, 277. 
Smethe, R., sig., T15. 
Smeythman, T., sig., 128. 
Smith, Alexander, sig., 107. 
--Ch.,sig., 115. 

— £dm., sig., 128. 

— E., sig, 128. 

— F., sig., 1 28. 

— Fras., sig., 128. 

— G., sig., 118. 

— H.. sig., 115, 128 ; inst, 389. 

— J, sig., 107, 115, 128; inst, 277, 
290; dep., 132, 136, 232, 364, 274. 

— Nicholas, sig., 115; inst., 286. 

— R., sig., 107, 123, 128; dcp., 136, 
227, 234, 264, 282. 

Smyth, R., Dr. of Medicine, 229. 

— Rob., sig., 107, 115. 

— Sir T., Prayer-book conferences at 
his house, 2 ; Visitor for the South, 94 ; 
Oxford Visitor, 130; ecclesiastical 
commissioner, 147 ; inst, 273. 

— T., abs., 87, 88; sig., 123, 128; 
inst., 283, 287. 

— W., sig., 107, 118, 123; dcp., 228, 
269, 288, 292. 

Smythson, W., abs., 85; sig., 128. 

Snape. R., sig., 123. 

Snarpon, T., dep., 364, 372 ; inst., 372. 

Snell, R., abs., 76. 

Snowdon, W., sig., 123. 

Snowe, Nicholas, sig., 123. 

Snytall, R., abs., 85. 

Soidor, Bishop of, abs., 88, 251 note. 

Somerset, T., imprisoned, 185. 

Sommer, H., inst, 271. 

Soorye, W., restored, 89, 274. 

Soresby, J., inst., 275. 

Sotheran, H., sig., 115. 

Soto, his work at Oxford, 1 30. 

Southcote, J., ecclesiastical commis- 
sioner, 147. 

Southcrue, Simon, dep., 264, 278. 

South warmborough, P. de, dep., 228. 

Southwell Minster, deprivations and 
institutions, 2S4. 

Southwell, T., sig., 115. 

Sowdley, J., sig., 107. 

Sowre, Ellis, sig., 128. 

Sowthill, 11. , abs., 85. 

Spackman, Tristram, dep., 264, 285. 

Spaggott, G., inst, 272. 

Spark e, T., abs., 86. 

Speght, James, sig., 118. 

SpeUs, . . . , sig., 115. 

Spenser, David, inst., 274. 

— Milo, sig., 115. 

— R., sig., 119, 128. 



INDEX 



321 



Sprotte, Rob., sig., 107. 
Spnrgyn, Rob., sig., 115. 
SpyiJc, J.,sig., 115. 
Squyer, J., sig., 107. 

— R., sig., 107. 

— W., dep., 264, 272. 
Stacy, J., sig., 115. 
Stafford, Leon., abs., 85. 
Stalinge, Rob., abs., 85. 
Stampe, £., at^., 85. 
Stanbancke, J., sig., 107. 

— W.,sig., 123. 
Stanclyff, P., sig., 115. 
Standen, Nich., dep., 290. 
Standish, J., sig., 128 ; dep., 264, 280. 

— Thmstan, sig., 119. 
Standley, M., inst., 285. 
Stanely, T., abs., 85. 
Stanley, H., sig., 115. 

— James, sig., 115 ; dep., 264, 282. 

— J., sig., 118,123. 

— T., abs., 88, 251 note, 
Stapleton, R., abs., 85 ; sig., 115. 

— Rob., sig., 115. 

— T., dep., 136, 227, 229, 233, 264, 274. 
Starker, Emericas, sig., 115. 
Stather, J., inst., 280. 

Staworthe, J., sig., 107. 
Stayns, E., sig., 107. 
Steile, Humphrey, inst., 289. 
Stele, T., sig., 123. 
Stemple, T., sig., 154. 
Stene, W.,sig., 107. 
Stenett, N., sig., 118. 
Sterne, Edm., sig., 115. 
Stethe, E.,sig., 118. 
Stetten, H., sig., 123. 
Stevens, H., dep., 289. 
Stevyns, Rob., sig., 115. 
Stevensone, James, sig., 123. 

— J., sig., 128 ; dep., 264, 275. 

— Martin, abs., 85. 

— R., inst, 279. 

— W., abs., 86. 

Steward, Edm., dep., 226, 231, 264, 

375» 285. 

— J., inst., 273. 
Steuardson, P., sig., 115. 
Sthone, T., sig., 119. 
Stocker, W., sig., 128. 
Stocks, Alexander, sig., 108. 

— Nicholas, sig., 128. 

Stokes, J., sig., 115 ; Commissioner for 
the North, 172 ; inst, 286. 

— Rob., sig., 108. 
Stokton, Rob., sig., 108. 
Stomeinge, J., dep., 264, 285. 
Stone, L., sig., 108. 

Stopes, Leon., rec, 224 ; dep., 228, 233, 
264. 



Stopes, Rob., dep., 264, 280, 282. 
Store, W., sig,, 108. 
Storcr, Anthony, sig., 115. 
Storey, G., dep., 228, 269. 

— J., proceedings against, 197; dep., 
229, 232, 27a 

— T., sig., 128. 
Stratford ; see Cratford. 
Stretham, Edm., sig., 108. 
Stringer, W., abs., 88. 
Stronghenkin, T., inst., 283. 
Strype*s aathorities for the numbers de- 
prived, 217, 222. 

Stabbes, Edm., abs., 85. 
Sturge, Gilbert, sig., 128. 
Stynton, Reuben, sig., 123. 
Suddall, H., abs., 88; sig., 108, 155. 
Sugden, Christopher, restored, 89, 287 ; 

sig., 128. 
Summerscale, R., dep., 89, 264, 287. 
Sunday, observance of, 53. 
Superstition rife in the S. W. of England, 

1559, 99- 

Supremacy Act, the {see also * As- 
surance of Supremacy Act '), 4-7 ; its 
various titles, 4, 6 ; its provisions, 7 ; 
text of, 9 ; records of proceedings 
under, 34 ; is liberally interpreted, 43. 

Susanne, W., sig., 115. 

Sutton, Rob. sig., 123. 

— W., proceedings against, 197 ; dep., 
228, 264. 

Swadell, Tristram, sig., 108 ; restricted 
to bounds, 183 ; dep., 264, 280, 281. 
Swane, T., abs., 85. 

— W., sig., 108. 
Swayne, R., abs., 88. 
Swetlad, T., sig., 128. 
Swcttonham, I^dolf, sig., 123. 

— T., sig., 123. 
Swycar, J., sig., 115. 
Swyft, Nicholas, sig., 154. 
Swynscoe, J., dep., 292. 
Sye, J., inst., 287. 

Symes, J., rec, 185 ; dep., 264, 272. 
Symnell, R., sig., 108 ; dep., 264, 280. 
Symon, W., sig., 1^3. 
Symond, T., sig., 108. 
Symonds, H., sig., 115; dep., 264, 
281. 

— James, sig., 107. 
Symons, R., dep., 288. 

T. 

Tailboys, W., sig., 154. 
Tailfurth, J., sig., 124. 
Talbot, W., sig., 108. 
Talybut, H., sig., 115. 
Tarrleton, Rob^ sig., 124. 



INDEX 



Tmrrer, Edm., dep^ 365, 275. 
Taskworth, J., fig., 118. 
Tatselly GeoJfTrejr, s%., 115. 
Tassye, T., abi., 88. 
Tatem, Ch., tig., 108. 
Taverham, J., init, 384. 
TaTenham, J., dep., 89, 265, t%*j. 
Taw, Edm.y tig., io8. 
Tajlor, E., dq>., 338, 369. 

— G., abt., 85 ; restored, 89, 387 ; w^^ 

138. 

— H., sig., 138. 

— Hagh, fig., 108. 

— Jm wg., 115, "8. 

— Lancelot, dep., 293. 

— N., fig., 115. 

— R., fig., 108, 115, 138; dep., 336, 
365, 381. 

— Rob., dcp., 365, 275. 

— Roger, dep., 365, 383. 

— T., fig., 115; init, 378. 

— Triftram, dcp., 365, 373. 

— W., abf., 85; fig., 118, 134; dep., 
136, 337, 333, 365, 384, 386, 387; is 
abroad, 184. 

Teacherf to be duly qualified, 59. 
Teefdale, Marmadnke, abf., 85. 

— Rob., abs., 86. 
Tempeft, Rob., dep., 334, 270. 
Tempol, Ralph, rig., 1 24. 
Tenant, Hugh, dep., 338, 369. 

— R., sig., 128. 

— Stephen, dep., 334, 269 note^, 
Tenett, R., inst., 390. 

Teyrre, Ralph, sig., 108. 
Thackham, T., inst, 287. 
Thacpe, W., sig., 128. 
Thaxter, Rob., sig., 115. 
Thembylthorp, sSm., sig., 115. 
Thewles, W., Master of Durham School, 

79; restricted to bounds, 180. 
Thimelby, Sir R., Visitor for the South, 

97. 
Thirkell, R., rig., 128. 

Thirkylby, Simon, sig., 128. 

Thyrkctyll, Rob., rig., 115. 

Thirland, T., sig., 154. 

Thirlby, T., Bishop of Ely ; opposes 

the Uniformity Act, 8 ; in the rarlia- 
. ment of 1559, 3^ J dep., 36, 225, 265, 

377; imprisoned, 144; suspected of 

treason, 145 ; excommunicated, 190 ; 

restricted to bounds, 194, 195 ; cues, 

J95. 
Thomas, J., rig., 108. 

— Walter, sig., 108. 
Thomlinson, Roger, abs., 88. 
Thompson, £., sig., 108, 128. 

— J.» »»fi:-» 155 ; acp-> 292. 

— R., sig., 108 ; abs.y 85. 



Thompson. Rob., sig., 108, 115; al&, 
87; dep., 265, 273. 

— Roger, rec., 180; dep^ 338. 

— T., aba., 86; sig., 128. 
Thorn, . . . , choirmaster, dep., 33a 
Thomeysy T., sig., 138. 
Thomley, J., absL, 85. 
ThometoD, H., sig., 115. 

— 1., dep., 89, 380, 387. 

— W., inst., 390. 
Thorpe, T., sig., 138. 

— W., rig., 115 ; inst, 383. 
Thieadare, Ch., dep., 390L 
Threlket, Roland, abs^ 87. 
Throder, Ch., sig., 1 15. 
Throgmorton, J., Visitor for the Soith, 

loi. 
Thurbane, W., dep., 365. 
Thurguy, Rob., sig., 118. 
Thurland, £., abs., 85. 

— T., abs., 85. 
Thurlow, J., sig., 115. 
Thurman, Rob., sig., 138. 
Thurston, G., sig., 115. 

— W., sig., 115. 

Thynne, Sir J., Viator for the South, 

99. 
Thyrlyng, N., rig., 115. 
Thystylthwayte, Cyprian, sig., 108. 
Thwaites, £., sig., 116. 

— J., abs., 85. 
Tie, Ch.,rig., 118. 

— T., dep., 391. 

Tiemey, . . . , his work criticised, 131, 
3 24 ; his account of numbers depriired, 
223. 

Tithes, payment of, 51. 

Tobman, W., abs., 88. 

Todd, Nicholas, rig., 134. 

— W., sig., 138; inst, 383; dep., 
389. 

Tofte, W., sig., 108. 

Toller, J., sig., 115. 

Tomlynson, W., inst., 386. 

Toppam, Anthony, rig., 108; inst, 387; 

aep., 290. 
Torleton, W., rig., 124. 
Tott, J., rig.,124, 
Touneys, T., rig., 120. 
Towneley, W., sig., 120. 
Townrawe, W., sig., 128. 
Towreson, W., ahi., 88. 
Towson, R., abs., 87. 
Towton, J., rec, 79; dep., 337, 365, 

276. 
Toyler, J., sig., 128. 
Traybonne, Hugh, inst., 285. 
Treman, J., inst., 291. 
Tremayne, R., inst, 274, 277. 
I Trencham, T., inst., 275. 



INDEX 



323 



Tresham, W., dcp., 133, 136, aa;, 233, 
365, 374, 279, 283. 

Trowell, Rob., sig., 108. 

Trowtbecke, £., abs., 86. 

Trygamy, Griffin, fig., 118. 

Tryket, Stephen, sig., 115. 

Trylenter, H., sig., 124. 

Tucfeld, Emery, sig., 154. 

Tuddenham, J., sig., 115. 

Tudman, H., sig., 115. 

Tugnye,W., sig., 115, 116. 

Tukyson, Hugh, sig., 124. 

TuU, J., sig., ic>8. 

Tnnstall, Cuthbert, Bishop of Durham ; 
absent from Parliament of 1559, 31 » 
37 ; summoned to London, 37 ; com- 
missioned to consecrate new primate, 
37 ; dep., 38, 225, 265, 276 ; dies, 38. 

— J.J abs., 00. 

Turberville, James, Bishop of Exeter ; 

opposes Supremacy Act, &c., 5, 8; 

dep., 37, 226, 265, 277 ; imprisoned, 

1 44 ; released, and restricted to bounds, 

194; dies, 195. 
Turck, T., inst., 285. 
TumbJl. W., dep., 286. 
Turner, Edm., sig., 124. 

— £., si^., 108 ; dep., 290. 

— Geofirey, sig., 116, 

— G., sig., 124. 

— L, sig., 124. 

— Kob., abs., 85. 

— W., sig., 118 ; inst, 271. 
Tute, . . . , dep., 233. 
Tuttley, J., mst, 277. 
Tuttyn, J. ; see Towton, J. 
Twenge, Rob., abs., 85. 
Twentyman, T., abs., 87. 
Twynne, R., inst., 291. 
Twysse, T., sig., 124. 
Tyckerydal, £., inst, 275. 
Tylar, Hugh, sig., 120. 
Tylestan, Thrustan, inst, 276. 
Tylcard, J., sig., 118. 
Tyhiey, Hugh, sig., 116. 

— J«> sig., 108, 118. 
Tyndall, Edmund, abs., 85. 

— Humphrey, sig., 128. 
Tyrer, Edmund, sig., 128. 

Tyrril v. Chetwood and Woodhall, 21. 
Tyrwhitt, Sir Rob., Visitor for the 

South, 97. 
Tyson, J., sig., 128. 

U. 

■ 

Ufton, T., sig., ia8. 
Umfrey, Edm., sig., 118. 

— Elizeus, dep., 89, 265, 387. 
Underbill, J., sig., 124. 



Underward, J., sig., 108. 
Underwood, J., sig., 116. 

— R., sig., 116. 

— T., sig., 124. 

Uniformity Act, the, 7; its various 
titles, 8; its provisions, 8; text of, 
22 ; proceedings under, 160, 163, 
165, et seq. 

Universities, the {tee also Cambridge 
and Oxford), Visitation of, 44, 130. 

Urlkar, Roger, sig., 116. 

Urtaye, Rob., sig., 116. 

Ustler, Ch., abs., 85. 

Uttley, W., sig., 1 16. 

Uxton, Rob., sig., 116. 

V. 

Valle, P., sig., 108. 
Vane, or Vanncs, Peter, abs., 78, 87. 
Vaser, Rob., inst., 285. 
Vassy, Massacre of, its effect in Eng- 
land, 174. 
Valence, T., dep., 265, 274. 
Valentine, W., dep., 265, 282. 
Vaughan, . . . , inst, 283. 

— T., Commissioner for the North, 172. 

— K., sig., 154. 

Vaux, Cuthbert, dep., 228, 234, 265. 

— Laurence, rec., 181 ; dep., 227, 235, 
265; put to death, 221. 

Vaux, R., dep., 234. 
Vavasour, T., abs., 85 ; Dr. of Medi- 
cine, 229. 
Venie, Roger, dep., 289. 
Veron, J., inst., 279, 280. 



Vicarary, J., sig., 116. 
ilia Garcii 
dep., 136. 



sig., no. 
, J. de, at 



Oxford, 131 ; 



Villiers, T., dep., 227, 233, 265. 
Visitation, the MetropoUtical, 1 560-1, 

156. 

•» Royal, arrangements for, 41 ; the 
scheme founded on that of i Edw. VI, 
42 ; articles of inquiry, 65 ; Visitation 
of the Northern Province, 71 ; method 
of procedure, 73; duties of the 
Visitors, 73, 90-92; letters patent 
appointing the Visitors, 89 ; proceed- 
ings of the Southern Visitors, 94 ; of 
the Universities, 44, 130 ; writ for the 
Cambridge Visitation, 133 ; duties of 
the Visitors, 134; conclusion of visi- 
tation, 141. 

Vollkyll, W., sig., 116. 

Vyncent, T., sig., 116. 

W. 

Wade, J., sig., 1 20. 
Wadforthe, J ., abs., 88. 



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INDEX 



Wmikefyld, Ralph, ug., laS. 

— Stephen, fig., 1 34. 
Wainwrighte, Ch , a^ii., 88. 
Waistnes, W., inst, 39a. 
Waite, k.,iig., 134. 
Waker, Kdm., ug., 134. 
Waklyn, J.^iig.y 108. 

— W., dcp., 365, 385 ; Init, 285. 
Walkeriden, T., inst, 375. 

— W.y ftig., 1 34 ; inst, 38a. 
Walker, £., fig., I30. 

— Tamet , ug., 1 34. 

— J. , alM., 88 ; fig., 1 16 ; dep,, 289. 
P., fig., 108; aep., 365, 381. 

— k., abf., 85, 88; fig., 108, 134; 
dep., 391. 

— Roger, abf., 85. 

— T.,»ig., 134. 

— W., fig., 134. 
Walkwyd, J., fig., 138. 

Walkvs, R.,sigM I34* 
Walloon, T., fig., 116. 
Wallelt, T.,fig., 116. 
Walley, Kob., dep., 354, 269. 
Wallrond, Rob., fig., 116. 
Walfinghaxn, J., fig., 116. 
Walter, R., Kig., 134. 
Walton, J., fig., 134. 

— Rob., fig., 116. 

— W., fig., 134. 
Wamoke, Jamef, fig., 116. 
Waoter, Edm., fig., 116. 
Warbar, T., sig., 108. 
Warbrcton, Andrew, dcp., 365, 386. 
Ward, J., fig., 124. 

— R., abf., 88; fig., 134, 138. 

— W., fig., 116, 118, 128. 
Wardman, H., fig., 116. 
Warner, J., fig., i3o; inft., 385. 
Warren, Gilbert, fig., 116. 
Warren, T., abf., 78. 

Warret, K., inst., 378. 
Warton, R., fig., 134. 
Warwake, J., inft., 285. 

— T.,inft., 383. 

Wafhington, T., dep., 85, 265, 387; 
fig., 138; inft., 389. 

— W., fig., 134. 
Waterdalc, Adr., inft, 373. 
Watling, T., fig., 116. 

Watmougo, E., sig., 138 {and see 

Whatmo). 
Watfon, J., abs., 86; sig., 108, 116, 

1 30, 138; inst, 379, 285. 

— Michael, sig., 155. 

— Ralph, hig., 109. 

— R., sig. , 1 30. 

— Rob., sig., 134, 138. 

— Dr. Roger, depnty for the Visiton, 
81 ; inst, 276. 



Watson, T., Bbhop of Linooln, the fint 
bishop to snfiier, 30 ; nol in FiriianMnt 
of 1559, 31 ; eatangled in the public 
dispatation, 32 ; dc^, 226, 365, 279; 
released from prison, 36 ; imprisoned, 
144, 145, 193, 106; restricted to 
bounds, 194. 196; nis death, 144, 196. 

— T., aba., 85; sig., 116. 

— W.. abs., 86 ; Commiwonrr for the 
North, 172. 

Watts, Peter, sig., 116. 

— T., bst, 280. 
W^a3mehonse, J., abs., 85* 
Weale, J., sig., 108. 

Webbe, Aristotle, inst., 275 ; dep., 292. 

— a, sig., 124. 

— Laorence, dep., 228, 234, 365. 

— Nich., sig., 124. 

— T., sig., 120; inst, 284. 
Webster, E., sk;., 128. 

— R., sig., 11^ 118. 

— Rob., sig., 116, 128. 

— T., sig., 128. 
W^eddysbiughe, Rob., sig., 124. 
Weedon, Nicholas, dep., 234, 270. 
Wekc, W., inst., 285. 

Wellche, J., sig., 128. 

W>lls, J., sig., 108 ; inst., 275. 

— Peter, dcp., 291. 
Welshaw, H., sig., 124. 
Welltham, P., sig., 108. 
Wemnouthe, Nich., inst, 281. 
Wendlocke, R., sig., 1 24. 
Wendy, T., Cambridge Visitor, 132. 
Wentworth, T., Lord, Visitor for the 

Soath, 94. 
Wering, Humphrey, sig., 124. 
Werynton, J., sig., 124. 
West, Edm., sig., 138. 

— E., inst., 374. 

— Leonard, sig,, 1 34. 

— R.. sig., 155. 
Westcrope, Ralph, abs., 85. 
Westmills, J., sig., 138. 
Westminster, Abbot of; see Fecken- 

ham, J. 
Weston, Edm., inst., 374* 

— Rob., Visitor for the South, 101 ; 
ecclesiastical commissioner, 147 ; 
visits Coventry and Lichfield, 159. 

Wetherall, W., abs., 85. 
Wethestall, Gilbert, sig., 128. 
Wetwot, Othivell, sig., 118. 
Wever, R., sig., 124. 
Wharton, Lord, opposes Uniformity 
Act, 8. 

— Percival, restored, 89. 

Whatmo, Hugh, sig., 128 {find ste 

Watmongh). 
Wheatley, James, abs., 85. 



INDEX 



325 



Whelpdarnell, J., sig., 138. 
Whettell, Rob., inst., 283. 
Whitbroch, W., sig., 108. 
Whytbee. T., restored^ 89 ; sig., 1 16. 
White, Gabriel, sig., 154. 

— J., Biahop of Winchester ; opposes 
Supremacy Act, 5; entangled in 
public disputation, 32 ; released from 
prison, 36 ; dies, 38 ; is deprived, 
225, 229, 234, 265, 285. 

— J>« sig., 116; inst, 281, 290; dep., 
369. 

— R., dep., 229, 233, 266. 

— T., sig., 108, 118; dep., 266, 281. 

— W., sig., 108. 

W"hitehea3, David, Oxford Visitor, 130. 

— W., dep,, 79. 
Whyteheare, J., 266, 385. 
Whithome, G., inst, 286. 
Whiting, J., sig., 108. 
Wliitlock, R., sig., 128. 
Whitley, R., dep., 266, 275. 
Whyteyn, Ralph, sig., 108, 129. 
Whyttynton, J., sig., 116. 
Whytwell, J., sig., 116. 
Whorwood, R., sig., 124. 
Wiclife, Anthony, abs., 84. 
Widdowson, W., sig., 108. 
Wielde, R., sig., 1 24. 

Wiggs, W., dep., 233, 270; ordained 

abroad, 224. 
Wightman, J., sig., 134. 
Wilcocks, R., sig., 129. 
W'ild, Edm., sig., 124. 
Wyldblod, J., sig., 124. 
Wyldman, Geoffrey, sig., 109. 
Wyldy, Rory, sig., 124. 
Wilkinson, Anthony, sig., 116; dep., 

228, 269. 

— Ch., sig., 134. 

— Rob., sig., 116. 

— T., sig.. 118. 
Willan, Rob., inst., 289. 
Willens, T., sig., 1 16. 

Willantan, or Willerton, R., rec, 95 ; 

dep., 327, 333, 366, 279, 380. 
Wyllanton, T., rec., 179. 
William, or Gonter, J., inst., 393. 
Williams, Griffin, inst., 371. 

— T., Lord, Visitor for the South, loi. 

— J., sig., 139. 

— or Goldsmith, Rob., inst., 377. 

— Roger, sig., 1 16. 

Williamson, £., sig., 116; dep., 338, 

234- 

— G., sig., 78. 

Willis, J., sig., 116. 
Willoughby, W., Lord, Visitor for the 
South, 97. 

— Baptist, inst., 381. 



Willoughby, T., sig., 116. 

Wills, or Wells, W., sig., 1 38 ; dep., 327, 

220. 333, 366. 
W'ilsha, H., inst., 275. 
Wilson, Ch., sig., 116. 

— G., sig., 124 ; inst., 281. 

— H., sig., 116. 

— Humphrey, sig., 116. 

— J., sig., 116, 129; dep., 266, 275; 
inst, 292. 

— R., sig., 124. 

— T., abs., 85; sig., 108, 116, 124; 
dep., 227, 233, 266, 287; inst, 386. 

— W., sig., 139. 

' Wilton, J., dep., 366, 381 ; inst, 380. 
Winchester, Bishop of ; see White, J. 

— diocese. Visitation of, 163, 163 ; 
records of, 337 ; deprivations and 
institutions in, 385, 393. 

— W., Marquis of, opposes Uniformity 
Act, 8 ; Visitor for the South, 100. 

Winck, W., rec, 182. 
Windham, Sir Edm., Visitor for the 
South, 94. 

— Edm.,^r W.,dep., 329, 334, 269. 

— or Windon, Ralph, dep., 233, 306. 
Windsor, Miles, dep., 233, 366, 370. 
Wingfield, R., dep., 366, 381; inst, 

381. 

— Rob., Visitor for the South, 97. 
Wisdom, Rob., restored, 89, 377, 387. 
Wist, R., dep., 338, 369. 

Witte, Roger, sig., 1 39. 
Wolff, Edm., sig., I30. 
Wollaston, H., sig., 1 34. 
Wollverston, Edm., 139. 
Womocke, W., inst., 290. 
Wond, T., sig., 129. 
Wood, . , ., rec., 77. 

— J., dep., 288. 

— Marmaduke, sig., 109. 

— Matthew, abs., 88 ; sig., 116. 

— R., abs., 85 ; dep., 234, 269, 

— T., imprisoned, 146, 185; bishop 
elect, 333 ; dep., 338, 366, 373, 380 ; 
inst., 380. 

— W., sig., 154 ; dep., 338, 366, 375 ; 
inst., 383. 

Wooddall, H., abs., 88. 
Woddye, J., abs., 88. 
Woodfall. R., inst, 388. 
Wodehame, Rob., inst., 389. 
Woodhonse, J., sig., 139. 

— Rob., inst., 376. 

— Sir W., Visitor for the South, 94. 
Woodley, W., sig., 109. 
Woodlodc, R., dep., 338, 369. 
Woodroff, Thurstan, sig., 134. 

— W., inst., 373. 



373 
» J*» 



Woodthorpe, J., sig., 108. 



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INDEX 



Woodyaid, W., lig., ii6. 
Woollen, R., lig^ 109. 
Worcefter, Bishop of; su Pate, R. ; 
Sandyi, Edw. 

— diocese, Visiution of, 1561, 161; 
recusancy in, 109 ; records of, lyj i 
deprivations and institutions in, a86. 

Wonnmall, £., abs., 85. 

Worsley, R., Visitor for the Sooth, loi. 

Worth, J., inst, 381. 

Worthynton, E., sig., 100. 

Wotton. T.. Visitor for the Sonth, loi. 

Wrcxhay. W., sig., 134. 

Wright, Arthur, sig.. 109. 

— r, sig., 134. 139; dcp., 333, 37a 

— K., sig.. 129; inst., 374. 

— T.. abs., 85; sig., 139. 

— Walter, sig., 155 ; inst., 385. 

— W., sig., 109 ; dep., 136, 333. 366; 
inst., 388. 

Wrightson, J., sig., 118. 
Wriglcy, . . ., rec., 77. 

— Ralph, sig., 124. 

Wroth, Sir T., Visitor for the Sooth, 

94. 
Wroughton, Sir W., Visitor for the 

South, 90. 
Wybram, W.. abs., 88. 
Wyckham, T., sig., 1 16. 
Wyclvn, W., sig., 134. 

^yda» J. 8lg., 124- 
Wydder, W., sig., 1 30. 
Wylcy, P., sig., 109. 
Wyllat, Ralph, sig.. 130. 

— Walter, »ig„ 116, 
Wyncopp, Rob., sig., 116. 
Wynder, James, sig., 116. 
Wyneslowc, Ralph, abs., 88. 
Wyngrene. Edm., abs., 85. 
Wyngseans, R., sig., 116. 
Wynne, J., sig., 124. 
Wynsehcnt, Alexander, sig., 109. 
Wythin, Cuthbcrt, sig.. 139. 

— R., inst., 393. 
Wylwyll, J., sig.. 134. 



Y. 

Yale, DaTid, inst, 383. 

— T., Visitor of Peterboroogfa, &c., 
159. 160 ; inst, 375. 

— W., inst, 383. 
Yanowe, Miles, aba., 85. 
Yate, Alemmder, sig., 109. 

— T., sig., 120. 

— Laurence, sig., 130. 
Yates. J., dep., 89, 366, 373. 
Yatts, see Gaytes. 

Yaxlc, Ch., inst, 388. 
Yaxley, T., dep., 366, 381. 
YclvertOTi, Laurence, inst, 383. 
Ylkins, . . ., abs., 88. 
Ylston, T., sig., 139. 
Yonge, Hugh, sig., 109. 

— J., sig., 139; dcp., 136, 337, 332, 
366. 377. 

— Rob., rec, 183 ; sig., 139. 

— T., Bishop of St Dayid's, and Arch- 
bishop of York ; Visitor for the South, 
lox ; instituted, 383, 386. 

— T., sig., 1 30. 

Yonger, Humphrey, sig., 1 16. 

Yoppe, Nicholas, sig., 134. 
York, Archbishop of; su Heath, N. ; 
Yonge, T. 

— diocese, livings vacant in 1559, 83 
note^; recusancy in, 199; records of, 
237 ; deprivations and institutions 
in, 286, 393 ; want of clergy in, 239 

Yorkshire, the oath shirked in, 169, 

170. 
Yoyle. Francis, sig^ 1 16. 

Z. 

Zone, W., dep., 229, 234, 2(J6. 
Zouche, George, Lord, Visitor for the 

South, 97, 98. 
Zulley, H., inst., 280. 



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