Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	church_n	england_n	king_n	3,741	5	3.7730	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B10268	The reformation of the Church of Ireland, in the life and death of George Browne some time Arch-bishop of Dublin, being the first of the Romish clergy that adhered here in Ireland, to the reformation of the Protestant Church of England; being then reformed within this realm of Ireland. Anno 1551.	Ware, Robert, d. 1696.; Browne, George, d. 1556.	1681 (1681)	Wing W851A; ESTC R230801	18,741	24

same When the Liturgy of ●he Church ●f England ●as first read 〈◊〉 Dublin King Henry the 8th deceasing and his hopeful Offspring King Edward the 6th succeeding within a short space after his Royal Fathers Death that hopeful Prince by the Advice of his Privy Council began to consider what good Effects the Translation of the holy Bible had done also how much it had enlightened the Understanding of his Subjects they altered the Liturgy Book from what King Henry had formerly printed and established causing the same to be printed in English commanding the same to be read and sing in the several Cathedrals and Parish Churches of England for the common Benefit of the Nobility Gentry and Commonalty and that his Subjects of Ireland might likewise participate of the same Sweetness he sent over Orders to his Vice Roy Sir Anthony St. Leger then being Lord Deputy of that Nation that the same be forthwith there in Ireland observed within their several Bishopricks Cathedrals and Parish Churches which was first observed in Christ Church at Dublin on the Feast of Easter 1551. before the said Sir Anthony George Browne and before the Mayor and Bayliffs of Dublin John Lockwood being then Dean of the said Cathedral The Translation of the Copy of the Order for the Liturgy of the Church of England to be read in Ireland runs as follows EDWARD by the Grace of God c. K. Edvvards Order for the Liturgy of the Church of England to be read in Ireland WHereas our Gratious Father King Henry the 8th of happy memory taking into consideration the Bondage and heavy Yoak that his true and faithful Subjects sustained under the Iurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome as also the Ignorance the Commonalty were in how several fabulous Stories and lying Wonders misled our Subjects in both our Realms of England and Ireland grasping thereby the means thereof into their hands also dispensing with the Sins of our Nations by their Indulgences and Pardons for Gain purposely to cherish all evil Vices as Robberies Rebellions Thefts Whoredoms Blasphemy Idolatry c. He our Gratious Father King Henry of happy memory hereupon dissolved all Priorys Monastrys Abbeys and other pretended Religious Houses as being but Nurseries for Vice and Luxury more then for sacred Learning He therefore that it might more plainly appear to the World that those Orders had kept the light of the Gospel from his People He thought it most fit and convenient for the Preservation of their Souls and Bodies that the holy Scriptures should be Translated Printed and placed in all Parish Churches within his Dominions for his faithful Subjeccts to encrease their Knowledge of God and of our Saviour Iesus Christ We therefore for the general Benefit of our well-beloved Subjects Vnderstandings when ever assembled or met together in the said several Parish Churches either to pray or to hear Prayers read that they may the better joyn therein in Vnity Hearts and Voice have caused the Liturgy and Prayers of the Church to be translated into our Mother Tongue of this Realm of England according to the Assembly of Divines lately met within the same for that purpose We therefore Will and Command as also Authorize you Sir Anthony St. Leger Knight our Vice-Roy of that our Kingdom of Ireland to give special notice to all our Clergy as well Archbishops Bishops Deans Archdeacons as other our Secular Parish Priests within that our said Kingdom of Ireland to perfect execute and obey this our Royal Will Pleasure accordingly Given at our Mannor of Greenwich Febr. 6. in the Fifth year of our Reign E. R. To our trusty and well-beloved Sir Anth. St. Leger Knt. our Chief Governour of our Kingdom of Ireland Several Collections from Anthony Martin formerly Bishop of Meath An Assembly called on this Order of King Edwards BEfore Proclamations were issued out Sir Anthony St. Leger upon His Order called an Assembly of the Archbishops and Bishops together with other of the then Clergy of Ireland in which Assembly he signified unto them as well His Majesties Order aforesaid as also the Opinions of those Bishops and Clergy of England who had adhered unto the Order saying that it was His Majesties Will and Pleasure consenting unto their serious Considerations and Opinions then acted and agreed on in England as to Ecclesiastical matters that the same be in Ireland so likewise celebrated and performed Sir Anthony St. Leger his Arguments with George Dowdall Armachanus Sir Anthony St. Leger having spoken to this effect George Dowdall who succeeded George Cromer in the Primacy of Armagh stood up who through his Romish Zeal to the Pope laboured with all his power and force to oppose the Liturgy of the Church that it might not be read or sung in the Church saying then shall every illiterate fellow read Service or Mass as he in those days termed the word Service Sir Anthony his reply to George Dowdall To this Saying of the Archbishops Sir Anthony replyed No your Grace is mistaken for we have two many illiterate Priests amongst us already who neither can pronounce the Latine nor know what it means no more than the Common people that hear them but when the people hear the Liturgy in English they and the Priest will then understand what they pray for Gerge Dowdall to Sir Anthony Upon this Reply George Dowdall bade Sir Anthony beware of the Clergies Curse Sir Anthony to Geo. Dovvdall Sir Anthony made answer I fear no strange Curse so long as I have the Blessing of that Church which I believe to be the true one The Archbishop again said Can there be a truer Church than the Church of Saint Peter George Dovvdall's Reply the Mother Church of Rome Sir Anthony's Return Sir Anthony returned this answer I thought we had been all of the Church of Christ for he calls all true Believers in him his Church and himself the Head thereof George Dovvdall The Archbishop replied and is not St. Peters the Church of Christ Sir Anthony Sir Anthony returned this Answer St. Peter was a Member of Christ Church but the Church was not St. Peters neither was St. Peter but Christ the Head thereof Then George Dowdall the Primate of Armagh rose up George Dovvdall leaves the Assembly and several of the Suffragan Bishops under his Jurisdiction saving only Edward Staples then Bishop of Meath who tarried with the rest of the Clergy then assembled on the Kalends of March according to the old stile 1551. but if we reason as from the Annunciation of our Lady which was the 25th of March it was 1550. Sir Anthony then took up the Order Geo. Brovvne his Speech upon King Edvv. Order and held it forth to George Browne Archbishop of Dublin who standing up received it saying This Order good Brethren is from our Gracious King and from the rest of our Brethren the Fathers and Clergy of England who have consulted

the holy Trinity of the Blessed Virgin Mother of God of St. Peter The form of their Confession to their Popish Priest of the holy Apostles Archangels Angels Saints and of all the holy Host of Heaven shall and will be always obedient to the holy See of St. Peter of Rome and to my holy Lord the Pope of Rome and his Successors in all things as well spiritual as temporal not consenting in the least that his Holiness shall lose the least Title or Dignity belonging to the Papacy of our Mother Church of Rome or to the Regality of St. Peter I do vow and swear to maintain help and assist the just Laws Liberties and Rights of the Mother Church of Rome I do likewise promise to confer defend and promote if not personally yet willingly as in ability able either by Advice Skill Estate Mony or otherwise the Church of Rome and her Laws against all whatsoever resisting the same I further vow to oppugn all Hereticks either in making or setting forth Edicts or Commands contrary to the Mother Church of Rome and in case any such to be moved or composed to resist it to the uttermost of my power with the first convenience and opportunity I can possible I count and value all Acts made or to be made by Heretical Powers of no force or worth or to be practised or obeyed by my self or by any other Son of the Mother Church of Rome I do further declare him or her Father or Mother Brother or Sister Son or Daughter Husband or Wife Uncle or Aunt Nephew or Neece Kinsman or Kinswoman Master or Mistress and all others nearest or dearest Relations Friend or Acquaintance whatsoever accursed that either do or shall hold for the time to come any Ecclesiastical or Civil above the Authority of the Mother Church or that do or shall obey for the time to come any of her the Mother Churches Opposers or Enemies or contrary to the same of which I have here sworn unto so God the Blessed Virgin St. Peter St. Paul and the holy Evangelists help c. The condition of Ireland ●n Anno 1538. ●ow the Na●ives begged ●oreign Powers against K. Henry His Highness Vice-Roy of this Nation is of little or no Power with the old Natives therefore your Lordship will expect of me no more than I am able This Nation is poor in Wealth and not sufficient now at present to oppose them It is observed that ever since His Highness's Ancestors had this Nation in possession the old Natives have been craving Foreign Powers to Assist and Rule them and now both English Race and Irish begin to oppose your Lordships Orders and do lay aside their National old Quarrels which I fear will if any thing will cause a Foreigner to invade this Nation that will I pray God I may be a false Prophet yet your good Lordship must pardon mine opinion for I write it to your Lordship as a Warning Dublin May 1538. Your humble and true Servant George Browne To the Lord Privy Seal with speed Upon the Feast of St. John Baptist following the said George Browne seized on one Thady ô Birne one of the Order of St. Francis A Letter found in a Friers Pocket who had Papers from Rome as follows being sent to the Lord Privy Seal by a Special Messenger My Son ô Neal THou and thy Fathers were all along faithful to the Mother Church of Rome His Holiness Paul now Pope The Bishop of Metts Letter to stir up O Neal. and the Council of the holy Fathers there have lately found out a Prophecy there remaining of one St. Laserianus an Irish Bishop of Cashell wherein he saith That the Mother Church of Rome falleth when in Ireland the Catholick Faith is overcome Therefore for the Glory of the Mother Church the Honour of St. Peter and your own Secureness suppress Heresie and his Holiness's Enemies for when the Roman Faith there perisheth the See of Rome falleth also therefore the Council of Cardinals have thought fit to encourage your Country of Ireland as a sacred Island being certified whilst the Mother Church hath a Son of worth as your self and of those that shall succour you and joyn therein As much as to say England not safe whilst Popery is admitte● in Ireland that she will never fall but have more or less a holding in Britain in spight of fate Thus having obeyed the Order of the most sacred Council we recommend your Princely Person to the holy Trinity of the Blessed Virgin of St. Peter St. Paul and of all the heavenly Host of Heaven Amen Romae 4 Kalend. May 1538. Episcopus Metensis Upon further Examinations and searches made The Frier his punishment and how he died before his execution this Thady ô Birne was pillar'd and confined a prisoner until His Highness's further Order for his Tryal but News coming over that he must be Hanged he made himself away in the Castle of Dublin on the Eve of the Feast of St. James yet his dead Corps was carried to the Gallows Green and hanged up and after there buried but it was said by the Regester of St. Francis Monastry of Dublin that they brought him from thence and buried him in that Monastry Anno 1541. K. H. 8th turneth the Priory of the Blessed Trinity into a Deanery George Brown having enjoyed the See of Dublin seven years or thereabouts King Henry the 8th upon the Dissolution of the Abbeys Priorys and Monastrys here in Ireland changed the Priory of the Blessed Trinity of Dublin into a Deanery and Chapters since which Mutation it hath generally bore the Name of Christ Church Upon this Alteration as it appears upon Record this Cathedral consisted of a Dean and Chapters The alterations upon this mutation of K. H. 8th vid. James Ware ●e Antiqui●atibus de Praesulibus Hiberniae a Chanter a Treasurer six Vicars Chorals and two Singing Boys allowing to them two 45 l. 6 s. 8 d. English durante bene placito which Sum his Daughter Queen Mary confirmed for ever having confirmed the Deanery yet with Alterations as she was a Romanist This Cathedral continued after this said form though not in Popery even until King James his days who then altered all what King Henry and his Daughter had done and upon this second Alteration he constituted a Dean a Chanter a Chancellor a Treasurer three Prebends six Vicars Chorals and four Singing Boys What altera●ions King ●ames made ●n this Cathedral ordering likewise that the Archdeacon of Dublin should have a Place in the Quire and a Vote in the Chapters As for a further Description of this Cathedral we shal omit it having reserved the same for a large Narrative of the said Cathedral in a Book which is ready for the Press entituled The Antiquities of the City of Dublin which wanteth only the Liberality of Lovers of Antiquities and Learning to contribute to the Cuts which are intended for the