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A32784	The true subiect to the rebell, or, The hurt of sedition, how greivous it is to a common-wealth written by Sir Iohn Cheeke ... ; whereunto is newly added by way of preface a briefe discourse of those times, as they may relate to the present, with the authors life.	Cheke, John, Sir, 1514-1557.; Langbaine, Gerard, 1609-1658.	1641 (1641)	Wing C3778; ESTC R18562	48,490	89

was content upon equall termes to reason the matter with Mr Cheeke and so he did fairely and friendly in his first letters The Professor was not willing to desert the cause and quitt the feild having so Honorable an adversary hee answers the Chancellour once and againe freely I confesse and as the BP thought boldly Long was the cause bandyed betwixt them the one pleading ancient right the other present possession But at last Mr Cheeke was content to submit to that one unanswerable argument of the Chancellours Authority Yet his rules and practise had taken such deep root in his Auditours that by them it was propagated through this whole Kingdome and that we English-men now speak Greek and are able to understand one another when no body else can this we must acknowledge to be a speciall effect of Mr Cheekes rare ingeny Which could not long be contained within the narrow precincts of the Vniversity that famous King HENRY the VIII thought it fit to call this great light of learning out of the shadow and so he did Iulij X. 1544. and to his custodie he then committed the most precious jewell of the Kingdome the young Prince EDWARD being at that time not full seven yeares of age Here was such a happy concurrence of sweetnesse and ingenuity that it was no very hard matter for the Master to imbue the tender yeares of his Scholar with so deep a tincture of Piety and good letters as render'd him the glory of his owne times and the miracle of ours What unspeakable progresse he made under this Directour of his Studies he that makes a doubt of Cardans testimony may be confirmed from those many noble reliques of his industry and sufficiency both in Greek and Latine written with his owne hand which are still preserved in his Majesties Library at S. Iames And what a fit and happy choyce the King made in such a Tutor for such a Schollar I cannot better expresse then in the words of that learned Antiquary Iohn Leland who dedicated one of his books to Mr Cheeke with this L'envoy Ad libellum ut Ioanni Checo Grantano placere studeat Si vis Thespiadum Choro probari Fac ut consilio libelle nostro Facundo studeas placere Checo Quem Pandioniae colunt Athenae Et quem Roma colit diserta multúm Quem Rex Maximus omnium supremùsque HENRICVS reputans virum probatum Spectatúmque satis reconditeque Censorem solidum eruditionis EDVARDVM bene filium suúmque Haeredem puerum illi ad alta natum Sic concredidit utriusque lingua Flores ut legeret venustiores Exercens facili manum labore Ut CHRISTI imbiberet suäve nectar Felicem arbitror hunc diem fuisse Tanto Discipulo dedit Magistrum Qui talem c. I suppose it may be truely said that under God M. Cheek was a speciall instrument of the propagation of the Gospell that Religion which we now professe in this Kingdome For he not only sowed the seeds of that Doctrine in the heart of Prince EDWARD which afterwards grew up into a generall Reformation when he came to be King but by his meanes the same saveing truth was gently instilled into the Lady ELIZABETH by those who by his procurement were admitted to be the Guides of her younger Studies Such were first William Grindall a hopefull young Scholar of S. Iohns in Cambridge whom being destitute of other meanes of subsistance M. Cheek took into his service Anno 1544. and soone after preferr'd him to the Lady ELIZABETH with whom he continued as long as he lived in good favour and likeing and the losse of him was by Mr Cheekes meanes presently supplyed in Roger Ascham who had formerly been his Scholar in the Colledge and Successour in the Orators place in the Vniversity A man deare unto him for similitude of studies but more for his zeale to the true Religion Which was so precious with our Author that no man was great in his books but such as were well affected to Gods Even in HENRY the VIII time his friends and familiars were most of those worthy men which proved Reformers in King EDWARDS dayes and either Martyrs or Exiles in Queene MARIES His forreigne acquaintance were Sleidan Melancthon Sturmius Bucer Camerarius Coelius Peter Martyr and others great Scholars and good Protestants And the Crowne was no sooner on King EDWARDS head Ianuary XX VIII 1547. and the Gospell set at liberty but many of these men came and others were sent for to help forwards that great worke of the Reformation in England when the young King was well setled in his Throne and began to be skilled in the art of reigning he thought fit to make choyce of such men for the nearest attendance upon his person as he knew to be best affected to it therefore amongst others admitted M. Cheek to be one of his Privy Chamber This accrue of honour to her sonne made his learned mother the Vniversity a suiter to him for protection in those stormy times who in her letters to him gives him such an elogie as I cannot omitt without guilt of concealment This it is Ex universo illo numero Clarissimorum virorum Clarissime Chece qui ex hac Academia in Rempublicam unquam prodierunt Tu unus es quem semper Academia prae universis alijs praesentem complexa est absentem admirata est quam Tu vicissim plusquam Vniversi alij praesens ornaveras absens juvas About this time he took so much leasure as either to pen or publish severall learned and usefull Tracts both for Church and State And as his merits so his Princes favour were ever in progression In the yeare 1551 after the treaty about the Match with France when his Majesty was pleased to make a doale of honours amongst his deserving Subjects M. Cheek was not forgotten he with his Brother in Law Secretary Cecill and others were then Knighted This was but a foundation upon which the gratefull Prince had a purpose to erect higher preferments had not the hand of Providence so soone snatch'd him a way into another Kingdome to invest his temples with a more glorious Crowne This was done Iuly VI 1553. Not long after he had called Sr Iohn Cheeke to sit at the helme of State the Councell Boord In this common losse of so good a King He good man had more then a common share The tide of the times must now turne and he must either row with it or be in danger to perish in it And so he was for his zeale to Religion transporting him a litle beyond his loyaltie to his lawfull Soveraigne he was one of those among the Councell who could have been content the Lady IANE'S title to the Crowne should have been thought better then the Lady MARIE'S And for this He amongst others was clapt up in Prison Iuly XXVII Here he was stripp'd of the greatest part of his honours and all his fortunes but his person

dogged doings Libros omnes exurunt inquit indignantes se ab alio quàm ab ipso suo spiritu doctos videri Miserum est cernere Bibliothecas non ignobiles ab execranda Secta hoc modo aboleri They think scorne of any other Spirit to seem learned then of their own fanaticall braines Antonius Corvinus saith also in his book against them Anabaptistarum furor optimos quosque authores ac vetustissima venerandae antiquitatis exemplaria absumpserunt in Bibliotheca Osnaburgensi I could bring out a great number of like testimonies from Oecolampadius Zuinglius Bullinger Calvin and Philip Melancthon with other of the most notable writers of our age concerning this ungracious violence of these chimney Preachers and bench-Bablers but let these two rehearsed at this time suffice Thus far Iohn Bale in his declarations upon Lelands iournall to King EDWARD the VI 1549. But to returne I conceive the very sight of these barbarous insolencies committed upon those Treasuries of good Letters Books and Libraries could not but impresse in serious apprehensions a deep contemplation of the approaching funeralls of most kindes of Learning make them take their long leaves of the Universitie And so they did insomuch that at Oxford their publique Schooles were converted into a private gardenpiot their publique Treasurie robbed their monies and muniments embesel'd wasted as does more largely appeare by the preface to a royall Grant of MARIES to that Vniversity in the first of her Raigne Regina omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint salutem Gravissimorum hominum testimoniis ad aures nostras perlatum est ac certissimis quibusdam rationibus nobis quasi ob oculos positum nostram illam Academiam quae Oxonii sita est alterum totius regni lumen olim bonarum literarum omnium celeberrimum emporium sic temporum injuriâ afflictam esse ut penè inculta jaceat inopiâ harum retum quibus dignitas omnis sustinetur adeo oppressam esse ut extincta jam penè quodam quasi squallore contabuisse videatur Publicas enim illius Scholas in quibus olim fiebat statis quibusdam solennibus diebus frequens discentium concursio vastatas in privaros hortos conversas Publicum thesaurum direptum ornamenta publica ablata publica vectigalia it a tenuia imò it a ferè nulla esse accepimus ut neque publicis usibus aliquâ exparta sufficiant neque publicarum causarum defensioni injuriis propulsand is respondeant Nos igitur Academiam illam quâ contemptâ desertâ nec orthodoxa fides defendi nec in rebus controversis veritas erui nec certè in Repub justitia administrari potest penè oppressam jacentem erigere atque excitare illiusque squallorem depellere inopiam nostrâ munificentiâ sublevare ad regium munus nostrum perrinere existimantes ut posthac habeat quo suas Scholas erigat erectas teneat perpetuis ut speramus futuris tem poribus se suaque privilegia adversus quarumcunque injuriarum procellas defendat c. And though this might perswade with some that to be a Schollar was none of the greatest curses yet I doe not see that the people were hearty friends with learning all Q. MARIES daies nor in the beginning of Queene ELIZABETH What a learned ministery shall we thinke they had under Queen MARY when many were made Priests being children and otherwise utterly unlearned so they could read to say Mattens and Masse And how can wee expect it should be much bettur in the first of Q. ELIZABETH when some Ministers because they were but meane Readers are injoyned to peruse over before once or twice the Chapters and Homilies to the intent they might read to the better understanding of the people And what estimate shall we make of their discretion when it was thought very necessary that no priest or Deacon should take to his wife any manner of woman without the advice and allowance first had upon good examination by the Bishop of the Diocesse two Iustices of the Peace What rare Preachers shall we imagine they had in the Vniversitie at that time when M● Tavernour of Water-Eaton high Sheriffe of Oxfordshiere came in pure charitie not ostentation and gave the Schollars a Sermon in St Maryes with his gold chaine about his neck and his sword by his side beginning with these words Arriving at the Mount of Saint Maries in the stony Stage where I now stand I have brought you some fine Biskets baked in the oven of Charitie and carefully conserved for the Chickens of the Church the Sparrowes of the Spirit the sweet Swallowes of Salvation By this we may guesse what a dearth of learning there was till it pleased God good Queen ELIZABETH to redeeme it from poverty contempt by granting new and ample Charters to the Vniversity of Cambridge and passing severall Statutes in Parliament That of Provision and others very beneficiall for the maintenance of Schollars and reducing the Clergy of this Kingdome to that lustre which they had in the daies of her royall Father when that high and Honourable Court of Parliament gave them this testimony that the body Spirituall now being usually called the English Church alwaies hath been reputed and also found of that sort that both for knowledge integritie and sufficiencie of number it hath been alwaies thought and is also at this houre sufficient and meet of it selfe without the intermedling of any exteriour person or persons to declare and determine all causes of the Law Divine or of spirituall learning and to administer all such offices and duties as to their roomes Spirituall doth appertaine For the due administration whereof and to keep them from corruption and sinister affection the Kings most noble Progenitors and the Ancestors of the Nobles of this Realme have sufficiently endowed the said Church both with Honour and Possessions Indeed nothing more certaine then that this one Kingdome of England has in all ages produced as many nay more learned men in all Professions then any other Nation in the world besides witnesse the severall Catalogues of our ancient Authors their works No better reason for it then the liberall maintenance of Schollars in the Universities and the faire preferments in the Church Take away these and what can be expected but the whole Nation will be quickly over-run with beggery and barbarisme Then that definition of a Schollar will prove too Catholique a silly fellow in black So true has that of the Historian ever been nihil à quoquam expeti nisi cujus fructus antè providerit And sublatis studiorum pretiis etiam studia peritura ut minùs decora By all the Lawes of God may not a man as freely dispose of his estate io the endowment of a Church or Colledge as to any lay person or Corporation The donations of Kings and