offered himself visibly and in the Mass being likewise both Priest and Sacrifice offereth himself invisibly by the common Minister of the Church who in the name and stead of the whole faithful Congregation offereth and presenteth as he bid and commanded by Christ The Representation and Commemoration of Christ's Death and Passion said and done in the Mass is called the Sacrifice Oblation Roffen or Immolation of Christ Non rei veritate as learned Men do write sed significandi Mysterio It is in giving Thanks unto the Father Bristollen as Christ did himself at his Supper taking the Bread and Wine into his hands and with the words of Consecration consecrating the same and then making presentation of the very Body and Blood of Christ unto God the Father in the Name of the Church in the memory of Christ's most painful Passion and Death suffered upon the Cross and so worthily receiving the same and with giving thanks again for the same at the latter end as the Gospel saith Hymno dicto but what this Hymn or Prayer was I find no mention Meneven The Oblation and Sacrifice of Christ mentioned in the Mass is a memorial of Christ's only Sacrifice upon the Cross once offered for ever Vnica enim Oblatione perfectos effecit in perpetuum eos qui sanctificantur Heb. 10. Dr. Cox The Oblation of the Sacrifice of Christ in the Mass is the Prayer the Praise the Thanksgiving and the remembrance of Christ's Passion and Death Dr. Tyler There is no Oblation speaking properly but some Ancient Doctors and the use of the Church calleth the receiving of it with the Circumstances then done an Oblation that is to say a Memorial and Remembrance of Christ's most precious Oblation upon the Cross Quest 4. Wherein consisteth the Mass by Christ's Institution Answers Cantuarien THe Mass by Christ's Institution consisteth in those things which be set forth in the Evangelists Matth. 26. Mark 14. Luke 22. 1 Cor. 10 11. Eboracen The Mass by Christ's Institution consisteth in the Consecration and Oblation of the very Body and Blood of Christ with Prayer Thanksgiving and Receiving of the same as appeareth in the Evangelists Matth. 26.27 Mark 14. 15. Luke 22. 23. John 6. 1 Cor. 10 11. Acts 2. London Worcester Hereford Norvicen Cicestren Assaven I think it consisteth principally in the Consecration Oblation and Receiving of the Body and Blood of Christ with Prayers and Thanksgiving but what the Prayers were and what Rites Christ used or commanded at the first institution of the Mass the Scripture declareth not Dunelm The Mass by Christ's Institution consisteth in those things which be set forth by the Evangelists Mat. 26. Mark 19. Luke 22. and Paul 1 Cor. 10 11 12. and Acts 2. with humble and contrite Confession the Oblation of Christ as before the Receiving of the Sacrament giving of Thanks therefore and Common Prayer for the Mystical Body of Christ The Mass by Christ's Institution Sarisburien consisteth in those things which be set forth in the Evangelists Matth. 26. Mark 14. Luke 22. 1 Cor. 10 11. Acts 2 and 13. It consisteth in these things which be set forth Matth. 26. Mark 19. Luke 22. 1 Cor. 10.11 Acts 2. Lincoln The Mass by Christ's Institution Elien consisteth in those things which be set forth in the Evangelists Matth. 26. Luke 22. and 1 Cor. 10.11 and Acts 2. The Mass by Christ's Institution Covent Litchfield only expressing the Form of Christ by the Scripture consisteth in the taking of the Bread and giving thanks to God the Father in the Benediction and Consecration in the receiving or distribution and receiving of them to whom the distribution is made by the hands of the Priest as the Eldest Authors affirme in the renewing of the memory of our Redemption by an undoubted Faith and for that to give most humble thanks so calling to remembrance as often as it is thus done the inestimable benefit of our Redemption What Thanks that Christ gave before this most holy Action or what Thanks that he gave after it by the general words of Matthew Hymno dicto are not expressed Chap. 24. So that there appeareth both before this most Holy Action and also after to be a certain Ceremony appointed by Christ more than is expressed Moreover 1 Cor. 11. by the Doctrine of the Apostle it behoveth every Man to be wise and circumspect that he receive not this most blessed Sacrament unworthily and unreverently not making difference betwixt the receiving of the most blessed Body of Christ and other Meats The Mass by Christ's Institution consisteth in Consecrating Carliolen Offering Receiving and Distributing of the blessed Body and Blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ according to that he himself did willed and commanded to be done This we have manifested by the Evangelists St. Paul and St. Luke in the Acts. But because Christ was after his Resurrection long with his Disciples communicating and treating of the Kingdom of God what should be done here to come thither it may be well thought that whatsoever he or his Holy Spirit left with the Apostles and they with others after which also the whole Universal Congregation of Christian People useth and observeth most ancient and holy Doctors in like form noteth may likewise be said and taken as of Christ's Institution I am not able to say Roffen that the Mass consisteth by Christ's Institution in other things than in those which be set forth in the Evangelists Matthew Mark and Luke in the Acts and 1 Cor. 10. 11. As I take it the Mass by Christ's Institution Bristollen consisteth in those Things and Rites which be set forth unto us in the 26th of St. Matthew the 14th of St. Mark and the 22 of St. Luke and also as mention is made in the first Epistle to the Corinthians Chap. 10. and 11. and Acts 11. any other Institution I read not of by Scripture Meneven Christ's Institution compriseth no more in the Mass than the Communion of the Body and Blood to be ministred and received under both kinds of Bread and Wine according as is declared by the Evangelists Mat. 26. Mark 14. Luke in the Acts 2. Dr. Cox The Mass by Christ's Institution consisteth in Thanksgiving to the Father in distributing of the Body and Blood of Christ to the Congregation to have the Death and Passion of Christ in remembrance and in the end to laud and praise God Dr. Tyler In giving of Thanks to God the Father and blessing and breaking it and reverently receiving the Holy Sacraments with all such Rites and Circumstances as Christ did in both the kinds Quest 5. What time the accustomed Order began first in the Church that the Priest alone should receive the Sacrament Answers Cantuarien I Think the use that the Priest alone did receive the Sacrament without the People began
46. Anne r. Elizabeth 6th r. 4th p. 396. l. 44. for was so r. so was p. 412. l. 6. for five r. free EDWARDUS SEXTUS ANGLIAE GALLIAE HIBERNIAE REX R White sculp HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE Natus 12 Octob 1537. Regnare cepit 28 Januarij 15â—7 Obijt 6. to Julij 1553. Printed for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crowne in S. t Pauls Church yard The Second Part OF THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF THE Church of England BOOK I. Of the Life and Reign of King Edward the Sixth EDward the Sixth King of England of that Name 1547. was the only Son of King Henry the 8th by his best beloved Queen Jane Seimour or St. Maur Daughter to Sir John Seimour who was descended from Roger St. Maur that married one of the Daughters and Heirs of the Lord Beauchamp of Hacche Their Ancestors came into England with William the Conqueror and had at several times made themselves considerable by the Noble Acts they did in the Wars * 1537. Oct. 12. Edward VI. born He was born at Hampton-Court on the 12th day of October being St. Edward's Eve in the Year 1537. * The Queen died on the 14th say Hall Stow Speed and Herbert on the 15th saith Hennings on the 17th if the Letter of the Physicians be true in Fullers Church Hist p. 422. Cott. libr. and lost his Mother the day after he was born who died not by the cruelty of the Chyrurgeons ripping up her Belly to make way for the Princes Birth as some Writers gave out to represent King Henry barbarous and cruel in all his Actions whose report has been since too easily followed but as the Original Letters that are yet extant shew she was well delivered of him and the day following was taken with a distemper incident to Women in that condition of which she died He was soon after Christened the Arch-bishop of Canterbury And Christned and the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk being his God-fathers according to his own Journal though Hall says the last was only his God-father when he was Bishopped He continued under the charge and care of the Women till he was six years old and then he was put under the Government of Dr. Cox and Mr. Cheek The one was to be his Preceptor for his Manners and the knowledge of Philosophy and Divinity The other for the Tongues and Mathematicks And he was also provided with Masters for the French and all other things becoming a Prince the Heir of so great a Crown His disposition He gave very early many indications of a good disposition to Learning and of a most wonderful probity of mind and above all of great respect to Religion and every thing relating to it So that when he was once in one of his childish diversions somewhat being to be reached at that he and his Companions were too low for one of them laid on the floor a great Bible that was in the Room to step on which he beholding with indignation took up the Bible himself and gave over his play for that time He was in all things subject to the Orders laid down for his Education and profited so much in Learning that all about him conceived great hopes of extraordinary things from him if he should live But such unusual beginnings seemed rather to threaten the too early end of a Life that by all appearance was likely to have produced such astonishing things He was so forward in his learning that before he was eight years old he wrote Latine Letters to his Father who was a Prince of that stern severity that one can hardly think those about his Son durst cheat him by making Letters for him He used also at that Age to write both to his God-father the Arch-bishop of Canterbury and to his Unkle who was first made Viscount Beauchamp as descended from that Family and soon after Earl of Hartford It seems Q. Catherine Parr understood Latin for he wrote to her also in the same Language But the full Character of this young Prince is given us by Cardan who writ it after his death and in Italy where this Prince was accounted an Heretick so that there was nothing to be got or expected by flattering him and yet it is so Great and withal so agreeing in all things to Truth that as I shall begin my Collection of Papers at the end of this Volume with his words in Latin Collection Number 1. so it will be very fit to give them here in English Cardanes Character of him All the Graces were in him He had many Tongues when he was yet but a Child Together with the English his natural Tongue he had both Latin and French nor was he ignorant as I hear of the Greek Italian and Spanish and perhaps some more But for the English French and Latin he was exact in them and apt to learn every thing Nor was he ignorant of Logick of the Principles of natural Philosophy nor of Musick The sweetness of his temper was such as became a Mortal his gravity becoming the Majesty of a King and his disposition suitable to his high degree In sum that Child was so bred had such Parts was of such expectation that he looked like a Miracle of a Man These things are not spoken Rhetorically and beyond the truth but are indeed short of it And afterwards he adds He was a marvelous Boy When I was with him he was in the 15th Year of his Age in which he spake Latin as politely and as promptly as I did He asked me what was the Subject of my Books de rerum Varietate which I had dedicated to him I answered That in the first Chapter I gave the true cause of Comets which had been long enquired into but was never found out before What is it said he I said it was the concourse of the light of wandring Stars He answered How can that be since the Stars move in different Motions How comes it that the Comets are not soon dissipated or do not move after them according to their Motions To this I answered They do move after them but much quicker than they by reason of the different Aspect as we see in a Christal or when a Rain-bow rebounds from the Wall for a little change makes a great difference of place But the King said How can that be where there is no Subject to receive that Light as the Wall is the Subject for the Rain-bow To this I answered That this was as in the Milky-way or where many Candles were lighted the middle place where their shining met was white and clear From this little tast it may be imagined what he was And indeed the ingenuity and sweetness of his disposition had raised in all good and learned Men the greatest expectation of him possible He began to love the Liberal Arts before he knew them and to know them before he could use them and in him
had yet received of him only 300000 Crowns but he had good security for the rest and the Merchants were bound to pay him 100000 lib. Sterling and therefore he demanded a little more time of them All this was printed soon after at Strasburgh by the English there in a Book which they sent over to England in which both the Address made by the Commons in Parliament and this Answer of the Emperour 's to the Towns is mentioned And that whole Discourse which is in the form of an Address to the Queen the Nobility and the Commons is written with such gravity and simplicity of Stile that as it is by much the best I have seen of this time so in these publick Transactions there is no reason to think it untrue For the things which it relates are credible of themselves and though the sum there mentioned was very great yet he that considers that England was to be bought with it will not think it an extraordinary price In that Discourse it is further said that as Gardiner corrupted many by Bribes so in the Court of Chancery Common Justice was denied to all but those who came into these Designs Having thus given an account of what was done in the Parliament I shall next shew how the Convocation proceeded The Proceedings of the Convocation Bonner being to preside in it as being the first Bishop of the Province of Canterbury appointed John Harpsfield his Chaplain to preach who took his Text out of the twentieth of the Acts verse 20 Feed the Flock He run out in his bidding Prayers most profusely on the Queens Praises comparing her to Deborah and Esther with all the servilest flatteries he could invent next he bid them pray for the Lady Elizabeth but when he came to mention the Clergy he enlarged in the praises of Bonner Gardiner Tonstal Heath and Day so grosly that it seems the strains of flattering Church-men at that time were very course and he run out so copiously in them as if he had been to deliver a Panegyrick and not to bid the Beads In his Sermon he inveighed against the late Preachers for not observing Fasts nor keeping Lent and for their Marriages which he severely condemned Weston Dean of Westminster was presented Prolocutor by the lower House Disputes concerning the Sacrament and approved of by Bonner Whether any of the Bishops that had been made in King Edwards time sat among them I do not know But in the lower House there was great opposition made There had been care taken that there should be none returned to the Convocation but such as would comply in all points But yet there came six Non-compliers who being Deans or Arch-Deacons had a right to sit in the Convocation These were Philpot Archdeacon of Winchester Philips Dean of Rochester Haddon Dean of Exeter Cheyney Arch-deacon of Hereford Ailmer Arch-deacon of Stow and Young Chanter of St. Davids Weston the Prolocuter proposed to them on the 18th of October that there had been a Catechism printed in the last year of King Edwards Reign in the name of that Synod and as he understood it was done without their consents which was a pestiferous Book and full of Heresies There was likewise a very abominable Book of Common Prayer set out it was therefore the Queens pleasure that they should prepare such Laws about Religion as she would ratifie with her Parliament So he proposed that they should begin with condemning those Books particularly the Articles in them contrary to the Sacrament of the Altar and he gave out two questions about it Whether in the Sacrament upon the Sanctification of the Bread and Wine all their substance did not vanish being changed into the Body and Blood of Christ and Whether the natural Body of Christ was not corporally present in the Eucharist either by the Transubstantiation of the Elements into his Body and Blood or by the Conjunction of Concomitance as some expressed it The House was adjourned till the 20th on which day every Man was appointed to give in his Answer to these Questions All answered and subscribed in the affirmative except the six before mentioned Philpot said whereas it was given out that the Catechism was was not approved by the Convocation though it was printed in their name it was a mistake for the Convocation had authorised a number of Persons to set forth Ecclesiastical Laws to whom they had committed their Synodal Authority So that they might well set out such Books in the name of the Convocation He also said that it was against all order to move Men to subscribe in such points before they were examined and since the number of these on the one side was so unequal to those on the other side he desired that Dr. Ridley Mr. Rogers and two or three more might be allowed to come to the Convocation This seemed very reasonable So the lower House proposed it to the Bishops They answered that these persons being Prisoners they could not bring them but they should move the Council about it A Message also was sent from some great Lords that they intended to hear the Disputation so the House adjourned till the 23d There was then a great appearance of Noblemen and others The Prolocutor began with a Protestation that by this Dispute they did not intend to call the Truth in doubt to which they had all subscribed but they did it only to satisfie the objections of those few who refused to concur wtih them But it was denied to let any Prisoners or others assist them for it was said that that being a Dispute among those of the Convocation none but Members were to be heard in it Haddon and Ailmer foreseeing they should be run down with clamour and noise refused to dispute Young went away Cheyney being next spoke to did propose his Objections that St. Paul calls the Sacrament Bread after the Consecration that Origen said it went into the Excrement and Theodoret said the Bread and Wine did not in the Sacrament depart from their former Substance Form and Shape Moreman was called on to answer him He said that St. Paul calling it Bread was to be understood thus the Sacrament or Form of Bread To Origens Authority he answered nothing but to Theodoret he said the word they render Substance stood in a more general signification and so might signifie accidental Substance Upon this Ailmer who had resolved not to Dispute could not contain himself but said the Greek Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 could not be so understood for the following words of Form and Shape belonged to the Accidents but that only belonged to the Substance of the Elements Upon this there followed a Contest about the signification of that word Then Philpot struck in and said the occasion of Theodorets writing plainly shewed that was a vain Cavil for the Dispute was with the Eutychians whether the Body and humane Nature of Christ had yet an Existence distinct from the Divine
writ a Letter full of severe expostulations and threatnings for his Apostacy but it had no effect on him It is of an extraordinary strain full of Life in the Thoughts and of Zeal if there is not too much in the expressions The Night before her Execution she sent her Greek Testament which she had always used to her Sister with a Letter in the same Language in which in most pathetick Expressions she sets out the value that she had of it and recommended the study and practice of it earnestly to her She had also composed a very devout Prayer for her Retirements and thus had she spent the last moments of her Life She expressed great tenderness when she saw her Husband led out first but soon overcame it when she considered how closely she was to follow him He had desired to take leave of her before he died but she declined it since it would be rather an encrease of Grief than any addition of Comfort to them She said she hoped they would shortly meet and be united in a happier State and with a setled Countenance she saw them bring back the beheaded Body to the Chappel where it was to be buried When she was brought to the Scaffold which was raised for her within the Tower to prevent the compassion which her dying more publickly might have raised she confessed she had sinned in taking the Queen's Honour when it was given her she acknowledged the Act was unlawful as was also her consenting to it but she said it was neither procured nor desired by her She declared that she died a true Christian and hoped to be saved only by the Mercy of God in the Blood of Christ She acknowledged that she had too much neglected the Word of God and had loved her self and the World too much for which that punishment had come justly to her from God but she blessed him that had made it a means to lead her to Repentance Then having desired the Peoples Prayers she kneeled down and repeated the 51 Psalm Then she undressed her self and stretched out her Head on the Block and cried out Lord into thy hands I recommend my Spirit and so her Head was cut off EFFIGIES IANAE GRAIAE HENRICI VIII PRONEPTIS EX SORORE R. White sculp Nata 1537. cc Guildfordice Dudley Conjugata 1553. Maij Regina Declaritur 1553 Iul 10. Capite Plectitur 1553 4. Feb 12. Printed for Richd. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Pauls Church yard The Earl of Devonshire and the Lady Elizabeth The Lady Elizabeth unjustly suspected for Plotting came to be suspected of the Plot as if the rising in the West had been set on by the Earl with design if it had succeeded to have married the Lady Elizabeth and put her in the Queen's Room Wiat did at his death clear them of any occasion to his Confederacies Yet the Queen who was much alienated from her Sister upon old Scores was not unwilling to find a pretence for using her ill so she was made a Prisoner And the Earl of Devonshire had upon the account formerly mentioned offended the Queen who thought her kindness ill requited Many deserve proceedings when she saw he neglected her and preferred her Sister so he was again put into Prison Sir Nicholas Throgmorton was also charged with that same Guilt and broughr to his Trial which lasted Ten hours But was acquitted by the Jury Upon which they were cast into Prison and severely Fined some in 2000 l. and some in a 1000 Marks This was fatal to his Brother Sir John who was cast by the Jury upon the same Evidence that his Brother had been acquitted But he protested his innocence to the last Sir John Cheek had got beyond Sea finding he was also suspected and sought after and both Sir Peter Carew and he hoping that Philip would be glad at his first admission to the Crown of England to shew Acts of Favour went into Flanders where upon assurances given of Pardon and Mercy they rendered themselves But upon their coming into England they were both put into the Tower Carew made his escape and was afterwards employed by Queen Elizabeth in her Affairs in Ireland Cheek was at this time discharged but upon some new Offence he was again taken in Flanders in May 1556. and was prevailed upon to renounce his Religion and then he was set at liberty but was so sadly affected at the unworthiness of that Action that it was believed to have cast him into a Languishing of which he soon after died There was a base Imposture set up at this time of one that seemed to speak from a Wall with a strange sort of voice Many seditious things were uttered by that voice which was judged of variously Some called it the Spirit of the Wall The Imposture of the Spirit in the Wall Some said it was an Angel that spake And many marvellous things were reported of it But the matter being narrowly enquired into it was found to be one Elizabeth Crofts a Girle who from a private hole in the Wall with the help of a Whistle had uttered those words She was made to doe Pennance openly at Pauls for it But by the account then Printed of it I do not find any Complices were found except one Drake to whom no particular Character is added So it seems it was a Trick laid Betwixt these two for what purpose I cannot find Sure enough in those Times it was not laid to the charge of the Preachers of the Reformation Which I the rather take notice of because of the Malignity of one of our Historians who has laid this to the charge of the Zuinglian Gospellers tho all the proof he offers for casting it on them is in these words For I cannot consider this but as a Plot of theirs And sets it up in opposition to the notorious Imposture of the Maid of Kent mentioned in the former Volume and sayes Let not the Papists be more charged with that since these were now as faulty The two instructions to the Bishops Col. Number 10. The Nation being now settled the Queen did next give Instructions to the Bishops to proceed to visit the Clergy according to some Articles which she sent them which will be found in the Collections In those after a long and invidious Preamble of the disorders that had been in the time of King Edward she commanded them to execute all such Ecclesiastical Laws as had been in force in her Father's Reign That the Bishops should in their Courts proceed no more in the Queen's Name That the Oath of Supremacy should be no more Exacted of any of the Clergy That none suspect of Heresie should be admitted to Orders That they should endeavour to repress Heresie and punish Hereticks That they should suppress all naughty Books and Ballads That they should remove all married Clergy men and separate them from their Wives but for those that renounced their Wives they might put
him being taken according to what he was at his Death differ much from that which I have put in my former Volume Those who compared modern and ancient Times found in him so many and excellent qualities that they did not doubt to compare him to the greatest of the Primitive Bishops not only to the Chrysostomes Ambroses and Austines but to the Fathers of the first Rate that immediately followed the Apostles to the Ignatius's Policarps and Cyprians And it seemed necessary that the Reformation of this Church which was indeed nothing else but restoring of the Primitive and Apostolical Doctrine should have been chiefly carried on by a Man so eminent in all Primitive and Apostolical Vertues And to those who upbraided the Reformed with his Fall it was answered That Liberius whom they so much magnify had fallen as foully upon a much slighter Temptation only out of a desire to reenter to his See from which he had been banished and that he persisted much longer in it But now I shall give account of the rest that were burnt this year On the 27th of Jan. Tho. Wirtle a Priest Bartlet Green a Gentleman Tho. Brown John Tudson and John Went three Tradesmen Isabel Foster Others suffered on the like account and Joan Warne having all been presented because they came not to Church Articles were put to them and upon their Answers they were all condemned and burnt in Smithfield at the same Stake And on the 31st of that Month John Lomas and four Women were burnt at Canterbury They were presented because they came not to Confession whereupon Articles being given them they were found guilty of Heresie and burnt in one Fire In the beginning of March two Women were burnt at Ipswich Three Tradesmen were burnt in Salisbury on the 24th of March. On the 29th of April Robert Drakes a Priest William Tyms a Deacon and four Tradesmen that were sent out of Essex because they came not to Church were condemned and all burnt together in Smithfield John Hanpole and Joan Booek were burnt at Rochester on the first of April and on the second John Hallier a Priest was burnt in Canterbury Six Tradesmen were sent up from Colchester and the Bishop of London who had hitherto kept his Prisoners for some time to see if he could prevail with them growing weary of that fruitless labour and becoming by many Acts of cruelty less sensible of those affections which belong to humane Nature did without any more ado exhibit the Articles to them and they answering in the way he accounted Heresie he gave them time to consider if they would recant till the Afternoon but they continuing in the same mind he condemned them and sent them back to Colchester where they were all burnt in one Fire On the 15th of May he gave yet a more astonishing instance of his barbarity Laverock an old Criple a Man of sixty eight years old and Jo. Ap-price a blind Man were upon the like account condemned and burnt in the same Fire at Stratford-le-bow they comforting one another that they were now to be freed of their lameness and blindness The day after three Women were burnt in Smithfield another blind Man with a Tradesman were burnt at Glocester this Month. On the 21st of the Month three were burnt at Beckles in Suffolk On the 6th of June four Men were burnt at Lewis in Sussex Another was burnt there on the 20th and one was burnt at Leicester on the 26th But on the 27th of June Bonner made an unheard of Execution of thirteen whereof eleven were Men and two Women all burnt in one Fire in Stratfordle-Bow He had condemned in all sixteen but by what Intercession I do not know three of them were preserved by a Warrant from Cardinal Pool It seems Bonner thought it not worth the while to burn those singly and therefore sent them in such droves to the Stake but whether the horror of this Action or the discontent because the Cardinal had saved some of them wrought on him I know not the latter being the more likely he burnt no more till April next Year The 30th of June three were burnt at Bury in Suffolk A strange barbarity at Gernsy of burning a Child born in the Fire On the 16th of July three Men were burnt at Newberry But this July there was done in Gernsey an Act of as great inhumanity as ever was recorded in any Age. A Mother and her two Daughters were burnt at the same Stake and one of them a married Woman big with Child when she was in the Fire the violence of it bursting her Belly a Boy fell out into the Flame that was snatched out of it by one that was more merciful than the rest but after they had a little consulted about it the Infant was thrown in again and there was literally baptized with Fire There were many Eye-witnesses of this who attested it afterwards in Queen Elizabeths time when the matter was enquired into and special care was taken to have full and evident Proofs of it For indeed the Fact was so unnatural that a Man must either be possessed with a very ill opinion of the Actors or be well satisfied about the number and credibility of the Witnesses before he could believe it But Lies and Forgeries are seldom made of Actions done in the Face of the Sun and before so great an Assembly as was present at this Therefore complaint being made of it to Queen Elizabeth the Dean of Garnsey was put in Prison for it and afterwards he and nine more that were all accessary to it took out their Pardons So merciful was the Government then to pardon an Action of such a monstrous nature because done with some colour of Law since it was said the Mother was condemned to be burnt and no exception was made of her Belly On the 18th of July two Women and one Man were burnt at Greenstead On the first of August Joan Wast a blind Woman was burnt at Darby On the 8th of September one was burnt at Bristol and another in the same place on the 25th of that Month. On the 24th four were burnt at Mayfield in Sussex On the 27th a Man and a Woman were burnt at Bristol And on the 12th of October a Man was burnt at Nottingham And thus ended the burning this Year those that suffered were in all eighty five All these Persons were presented as suspect of Heresie and were required to answer the Questions that the Bishop put to them which related to the Corporal Presence in the Sacrament the necessity of Auricular Confession or the Sacrifice of the Mass and upon the Answers they made were condemned to the Fire But none of them were accused of any violence committed on the Persons of any Church-man or of any affront put on their Religion and all their Sufferings were meerly for their Conscience which they kept as private as they could so that it rather appeared in their abstaining from the
they should not be made necessary parts of Worship that they should not be too many nor dumb and vain nor should be kept up for gain and advantage These were the Arguments used on both sides But the Reformed being superiour in number the Bill passed in the House of Lords the Archbishop of York the Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Shrewsbury the Viscount Mountacute the Bishops of London Worcester Ely Coventry Chester and Carlisle and the Lords Morley Stafford Dudley Wharton Rich and North and the Abbot of Westminster dissenting By this Act the new Book was to take place by St. John Baptist's day Another Act passed That the Queen might reserve to her self the Lands belonging to Bishopricks as they fall void giving the full value of them in Impropriated Tithes in lieu of them To this the Bishops dissented on the 7th of April when it passed in the House of Lords But when this came to the Commons there was great opposition made to it Many had observed that in Edward the 6th's time under a pretence of giving some Endowments to the Crown the Courtiers got all the Church-Lands divided amongst themselves so it was believed the use to be made of this would be the robbing of the Church without enriching the Crown After many days Debate on the 17th of April the House divided and 90 were against it but 133 were for it and so it passed On the 5th of May another Bill passed with the like opposition It was for annexing of all Religious Houses to the Crown After that there followed some private Acts for declaring the deprivation of the Popish Bishops in K. Edward's Time to have been good When they were restored by Q. Mary the Sentences passed against them were declared to have been void from the beginning and so all Leafes that were made by Ridley Poinet and Hooper and the Patents granted by the King of some of their Lands were annulled It was particularly remembred in the House of Commons that Ridley had made the confirming of these Leases his last desire when he was going to be tied to the Stake The ground on which the Sentences were declared void was because the Parties had appealed though in the Commission by virtue of which the Delegates deprived them they were impowered to proceed notwithstanding any Appeal To this not only the Bishops but the Marquess of Winchester and the Lords Stafford Dudley and North dissented It shews the great Moderation of this Government that this Marquess notwithstanding his adhering to the Popish Interest in the House of Lords was still continued Lord Treasurer which employment he held fourteen Years after this and died in the 97th Year of his Age leaving 103 issued from his own Body behind him He was the greatest instance of good Fortune and Dexterity that we find in the English History who continued Lord Treasurer in three such different Reigns as King Edward's Queen Mary's and Queen Elizabeth's were There was a Subsidy and two Tenths and two Fifteenths given by the Parliament with the Tonnage and Poundage for the Queen's Life and so on the 8th of May it was dissolved There were three Bills that did not pass in the House of Commons Bills that were proposed but not passed but upon what account they were laid aside it does not appear The one was for the Restoring of the Bishops that had been deprived by Q. Mary There were but three of these alive Barlow Scory and Coverdale the first of these had resigned and the last being old had no mind to return to his Bishoprick So perhaps it was not thought worth the while to make an Act for one Man's sake especially since there were so many vacant Bishopricks in the Queen's hands and more were like to fall The other Bill was for the restoring of all Persons that were deprived from their Benefices because they were married This the Queen odered to be laid aside of which Sands complained much in his Letter to Parker But yet the Queen took no notice of the Laws formerly made against their Marriage and promoted many married Priests particularly Parker himself There was no Law now in force against Clergy-mens marrying for Queen Mary had only repealed the Laws of Edward the 6th which allowed it but had made none concerning that Matter So there was nothing but the Canon Law against it and that was resolved to be condemned by continuing that Article of Religion concerning the Lawfulness of their Marriage among those that should be set out The next Bill that came to nothing was a new Act for giving Authority to 32 Persons to revise the Ecclesiastical Laws and digest them into a Body it was laid aside at the second Reading in the House of Commons and has slept ever since The Bishops refuse the Oath of Supremacy When the Parliament was over the Oath of Supremacy was soon after put to the Bishops and Clergy They thought if they could stick close to one another in refusing it the Queen would be forced to dispence with them Vita Parkeri and would not at one stroke turn out all the Bishops in England It does not appear how soon after the Dissolution of the Parliament the Oath was put to them but it was not long after for the last Collation Bonner gave of any Benefice was on the 6th of May this Year The Oath being offered to Heath Arch-Bishop of York to Bonner of London Thirleby of Ely Bourn of Bath and Wells Christopherson of Chichester Bain of Litchfield White of Winchester and Watson of Lincoln Oglethorpe of Carlisle Turbervile of Exeter Pool of Peterburgh Scot of Chester Pates of Worcester and Goldwell of St. Asaph they did all refuse to take it So that only Kitchin Bishop of Landaff took it There was some hope of Tonstall so it was not put to him till September but he being very old chose to go out with so much Company more for the decency of the thing than out of any scruple he could have about the Supremacy for which he had formerly writ so much They were upon their refusal put in Prison for a little while but they had all their Liberty soon after except Bonner White and Watson There were great Complaints made against Bonner that he had in many things in the prosecution of those that were presented for Heresy exceeded what the Law allowed so that it was much desired to have him made an Example But as the Queen was of her own nature Merciful so the Reformed Divines had learned in the Gospel not to render Evil for Evil nor to seek Revenge and as Nazianzen had of old exhorted the Orthodox when they had got an Emperor that favoured them not to retaliate on the Arrians for their former Cruelties So they thought it was for the honour of their Religion to give this real demonstration of the Conformity of their Doctrine to the Rules of the Gospel and of the Primitive Church by avoiding all Cruelty and
the Church till they met in a Convocation yet they soon after prepared them And for the present they agreed on a short Profession of their Doctrine which all Incumbents were obliged to read and publish to their People This will be found in the Collection Coll. Num. 11. copied from it as it was then printed In the Articles made in King Edward's Reign which I have put in the Collection the Reader will find on the Margent the differences between those and these marked In the third Article the explanation of Christ's descent to Hell was left out In that about the Scriptures they now added an enumeration of the Canonical and Apocryphal Books declaring that some Lessons were read out of the latter for the Instruction of the People but not for the confirmation of the Doctrine About the Authority of the Church they now added That the Church had power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and had Authority in Controversies of Faith but still subordinate to the Scripture In the Article about the Lord's Supper there is a great deal left out for instead of that large refutation of the Corporal Presence from the impossibility of a Bodies being in more places at once from whence it follows that since Christ's Body is in Heaven the Faithful ought not to believe or profess a Real or Corporal Presence of it in the Sacrament In the new Articles it is said That the Body of Christ is given and received after a Spiritual manner and the means by which it is received is Faith But in the Original Copy of these Articles M.SS. C. Cor. Christ Cant. which I have seen subscribed by the hands of all that sat in either House of Convocation there is a further addition made The Articles were subscribed with that Precaution which was requisite in a matter of such consequence for before the Subscriptions there is set down the number of the Pages and of the Lines in every Page of the Book to which they set their hands In that Article of the Eucharist these words are added Christus in Coelum ascendens corpori suo immortalitatem dedit naturam non abstulit Humanae enim naturae veritatem juxta scripturas perpetuo retinet quam in uno definito loco esse non in multa vel omnia simul loca diffundi oportet Quum igitur Chistus in Coelum sublatus ibi usque ad finem Soeculi sit permansurus atque inde non aliunde ut loquitur Augustinus venturus sit ad judicandum vivos mortuos non debet quisquam fidelium Carnis ejus Sanguinis realem corporalem ut loquuntur praesentiam in Eucharistia vel credere vel profiteri In English thus Christ An Explanation of Christ's Presence in the Sacrament when he ascended into Heaven made his Body Immortal but took not from it the nature of a Body For still it retains according to the Scriptures the verity of a humane Body which must be always in one definite place and cannot be spread into many or all places at once Since then Christ being carried up to Heaven is to remain there to the end of the World and is to come from thence and from no place else as says St. Austin to judg the Quick and the Dead None of the Faithful ought to believe or profess the real or as they call it the corporal Presence of his Flesh and Blood in the Eucharist But this in the Original is dasht over with minium yet so that it is still legible â—uâ— 't is suppresseâ— The Secret of it was this The Queen and her Council studied as hath been already shewn to unite all into the Communion of the Church and it was alleaged that such an express definition against a Real Presence might drive from the Church many who were still of that Perswasion and therefore it was thought to be enough to condemn Transubstantiation and to say that Christ was present after a Spiritual manner and received by Faith to say more as it was judged superfluous so it might occasion Division Upon this these words were by common consent left out And in the next Convocation the Articles were subscribed without them of which I have also seen the Original This shews that the Doctrine of the Church subscribed by the whole Convocation was at that time contrary to the belief of a Real or Corporal Presence in the Sacrament only it was not thought necessary or expedient to publish it Though from this silence which flowed not from their Opinion but the Wisdom of that Time in leaving a Liberty for different Speculations as to the manner of the Presence some have since inferred that the chief Pastors of this Church did then disapprove of the Definition made in King Edward's Time and that they were for a Real Presence For the Translating of the Bible it was divided into many Parcels The Pentateuch was committed to William Alley Bishop of Exeter The Books from that to the second of Samuel were given to Richard Davis who was made Bishop of St. Davids when Young was removed to York All from Samuel to the second Book of Chronicles was assigned to Edwin Sandys then Bishop of Worcester From thence to the end of Job to one whose Name is marked A. P. C. The Book of the Psalms was given to Thomas Bentham Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield The Proverbs to one who is marked A. P. The Song of Solomon to one Marked A. P. E. All from thence to the Lamentations of Jeremy was given to Robert Horn Bishop of Winchester Ezekiel and Daniel to Bentham From thence to Malachi to Grindal Bishop of London The Apocripha to the Book of Wisdom was given to Barlow Bishop of Chichester and the rest of it to Parkhurst Bishop of Norwich The Gospels Acts and Epistle to the Romans were given to Richard Cox Bishop of Ely The Epistles to the Corinthians to one marked G. G. I know not to whom the rest of the New Testament was assigned All these Allotments I gather from the Bible it self as it was afterwards set out by Parker What Method they followed in this Work I cannot discover unless the Rules afterwards given in King James his Time when the Translation was revived Coll. Num. 10. were copied from what was now done which Rules for the curiosity of the thing I shall put in the Collection as I copied it from B. Ravis's Paper They were given with that care that such a matter required There were many Companies appointed for every parcel of the Scripture and every one of a Company was to translate the whole Parcel then they were to compare these together and when any Company had finished their Part they were to communicate it to the other Companies So it is like that at this Time those several Bishops that had undertaken the Translation did associate to themselves Companies with whose assistance they perfected it afterwards and when it was set out at the end
convenient to use such Speech as the People may understand Answers Cantuarien I Think it convenient to use the Vulgar Tongue in the Mass except in certain secret Mysteries whereof I doubt Eboracen It were convenient to use such Speech in the Mass as the People might understand London Hereford Cicestren Worcester Norvicen Assaven To have the whole Mass in English I think it neither expedient neither convenient Dunelm It is convenient that the common Latin Tongue to these West parts of Christendom be used in the Mass being the Common-Prayer of the whole Church namely in the Mysteries thereof lest rude People should vilely prophane the Holy Mysteries thereof by contempt Nevertheless certain Prayers might be in the Mother Tongue for the instruction and stirring of the Devotion of the People as shall be thought convenient Lincoln St. Paul would all things in the Congregation and Publick Assembly so to be spoken that they might edify and in such a Language that the People present might say Amen to our Thanksgiving And long after the Apostles times all the People present did answer the Priest he speaking in a Language that they did understand like-as the Clark or Boy doth now answer as he is taught in a Language that he understands not Cypri habet de Cons distinct 1. Ca. Quando Elien It was so used in Dalmatia in St. Hierom's time and in Sclavonia in Cyril's time who making suit to the Court of Rome for the same and the Matter being debated in the Consistory and having many Adversaries suddenly there was heard a Voice as it were from Heaven Omnis Spiritus laudet Dominum omnis Lingua confiteatur ei Whereupon Cyrillus had his Petition granted him Elien Haec jam mea est Opinio sed sic ut auditis melioribus cedam Carliolen This Question was deeply searched and tried for in the most excellent and of highest memory King Henry the Eighth his time by the best Clarks of his Realm in his presence and then and there concluded and upon that same by Proclamation commanded That Holy Scripture should not be evulgate in English Yet after it was otherwise seen and provided for Therefore therein I would wish that were most to the quiet edification of Christian People and shall submit my self to my Superiors and Betters submitting mine Understanding to their Judgments I think it not only convenient that such Speech should be used in the Mass as the People might understand Roffen but also to speak it with such an audible Voice that the People might hear it that they be not defrauded of their Own which Saint Paul teacheth to belong to them and also that they may answer as Cyprian saith the People did in his days Habemus ad Dominum Nevertheless as concerning that part that pertaineth to the Consecration Dionise and Basil moveth me to think it no inconvenience that part should be spoken in silence If the Mass should be wholly in English Bristollen I think we should differ from the Custom and Manner of all other Regions therefore if it may stand with the King's Majesty's Pleasure I think it not good to be said all in English Per me Paulum Episcopum Bristollensem Quest 10. When the Reservation of the Sacrament and the hanging up of the same first began Answers THe Reservation of the Sacrament began I think Cantuarien six or seven hundred Years after Christ The hanging up I think began of late time Polidore Virgil doth write Lincoln that Innocentius the Third decreed the Sacrament to be kept to be in a readiness for the Sick And Honorius the third confirmed the same adding that it ought to be reserved in loco singulari mundo signato Commanding also the Priests that they should often instruct the People reverently to bow down at the Elevation-Time and when it is born to the sick As for the hanging up of the Sacrament over or setting it upon the Altar is of a later time not yet received in divers places of Christendom Some Questions with Answers made to them by the Bishops of Worcester Chichester and Hereford The Question What or wherein John's Fasting giving Alms being Baptized or Receiving the Sacrament of Thanks in England doth profit and avail Thomas dwelling in Italy and not knowing what John in England doth The Answer Worcester Chichester Hereford THe distance of place doth not lett nor hinder the Spiritual Communion which is between one and another so that John and Thomas wheresoever they be far and sundry or near together being both lively Members of Christ receive either of others Goodness some Commodity although to limit what or wherein is unsearchable and only pertaineth to the Knowledg of God The Question Whether the said Acts in John do profit them that be in Heaven and wherein The Answer Luc. 15. Gaudium est in Coelo super uno peccatore poenitentiam agente c. The Question Whether it lieth in the said John to defraud any Member of Christ's Body of the benefit of his Fasting Alms-Deeds Baptism or Receiving of the Sacrament and to apply the same benefit to one Person more than to another The Answer Charity defraudeth no Man of any such benefit that might come to him and it lieth in God only to apply the same and not in any Man otherwise than by desire and prayer but the better the Man is the more available his Prayer is to them for whom he especially prayeth The Question What thing is the Presentation of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Mass which you call the Oblation and Sacrifice of Christ and wherein standeth it in Act Gesture or Words and in what Act Gesture or Words The Answer The Presentation c. standeth in such Words Prayers Supplications and Actions as the Priest useth at the Mass having the Body and Blood of Christ there present in the Sacrament The Question Is there any Rite or Prayer not expressed in the Scripture which Christ used or commanded at the first Institution of the Mass which we be now bound to use and what the same be The Answer That Christ used Rites and Prayers at the Institution and Distribution of the Sacrament the Scripture declareth But what Rites and Prayers they were we know not but I think we ought to use such Rites and Prayers as the Catholick Church hath and doth uniformly observe The Question Whether in the Primitive Church there were any Priests that lived by saying of Mass Mattins and Even-song and praying for Souls only And whether any such state of Priesthood be allowed in the Scripture or be meet to be allowed now The Answer There were Priests in the Primitive Church which preached not but exercised themselves in Prayer for the Quick and the Dead and other Spiritual Ministrations in the Church and accustomably used common Prayers both Morning and Evening and such state of Priesthood is not against the Scripture The