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A43528	Ecclesia restaurata, or, The history of the reformation of the Church of England containing the beginning, progress, and successes of it, the counsels by which it was conducted, the rules of piety and prudence upon which it was founded, the several steps by which it was promoted or retarded in the change of times, from the first preparations to it by King Henry the Eight untill the legal settling and establishment of it under Queen Elizabeth : together with the intermixture of such civil actions and affairs of state, as either were co-incident with it or related to it / by Peter Heylyn.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.; Heylyn, Peter, 1599-1662. Affairs of church and state in England during the life and reign of Queen Mary.	1660-1661 (1661)	Wing H1701_ENTIRE; Wing H1683_PARTIAL_CANCELLED; ESTC R6263	514,716	473

concurred not with them in the monstrous Doctrine of Ubiquity and their device of Consubstantiation Insomuch that Peter Martyr telleth us of a friend of his in the Dukedom of Saxony that he was generally hated by the rest of Country-men for being hospitable to some few of the English Nation who had been forced to abandon their native soil And it is further signified by b Ph. Melancthon with no small dislike in an Epistle of this year that many of those rigid Luthe●ans could find no other name but the Devils Martyrs for such as suffered death in England in defence of Religion so that they seemed to act the part of Diotrephes in St John not only prating against us with malicious words and refusing to receive the brethren in the day of their trouble but forbidding and condemning them that would But John Alasco and his company had been lately there where they spoke so reprochfully of Luther the Augustan Confession the Rites and Ceremonies of their Churches as rendred them uncapable of any better entertainment than they found amongst them And by the behaviour of these men coming then from England the rigid Lutherans passed their judgement on the Church it self and consequently on all those who suffered in defence thereof For stopping the course of which uncharitable censures it was thought fit by some of the Divines in Embden that Archbishop Cranmers book about the Sacrament should be translated into Latin and forthwith published in Print which was done accordingly Some of the Lutherans had given out on the former ground that the English had deservedly suffered the greatest hardships both at home and abroad because they writ and spake less reverently of the blessed Sacrament and it was hoped that by the publishing of this book they would find the contrary The like course taken also at Geneva by the English exiles by publishing in the Latin tongue a discourse writ by Bishop Ridley on the self same Argument to the end it might appear unto all the world how much their brethren had been wronged in these odious calumnies An. Reg. Mar. 6º An. Dom. 1558 1559. BUt in the middest of all these sorrowes I see some hope of comfort coming by the death of Queen Mary whose Reign polluted with the blood of so many Martyrs unfortunate by the frequent insurrections and made inglorious by the loss of the Town of Calais was only commendable in the brevity or shortnesse of it For now to bring it to an end a dangerous and contagious Feaver began to rage in most parts of the land insomuch that if the whole Realm had been divided into four parts three parts of the four would have been found infected with it so furiously it raged in the month of August that no former plague or pestilence was thought to have destroyed a greater number so that divers places were left void of Justices and men of worth to govern the Kingdom At which time died also so many Priests that a great number of Parish Churches in divers places were unserved and no ●urats could be gotten for mony Much corn was also lost in the field for want of labourers and workmen to get it in both which together seemed to threaten not onely a spiritual but a temporal famine though God so ordered it that by the death of so many of the present Clergy a door was opened for the preaching of sounder Doctrine with far less envy and displeasure from all sorts of people than it had been otherwise Nor were the heats of the disease abated by the coldness of the winter or the malignity of it mitigated by medicinal courses It took away the Physicians as well as the Patients two of the Queens Doctors dying of it not long before her and spared not more the Prelate than it did the Priest insomuch that within less than the space of a twelvemonth almost the one half of the English Bishops had made void their Sees which with the death of so many of the Priests in several places did much facilitate the way to that Reformation which soon after followed This terrible disease together with the said effects which followed on it and the Queens death which came along with it though not caused by it may seem to have been prognosticated or foretold by a dreadful tempest of thunder hapning on the 11th of July near the Town of Nottingham which Tempest as it came through two Towns beat down all the Houses and Churches the Bells were cast to the outside of the Church-yard and some sheets of Lead four hundred foot into the field wri●hen like a pair of gloves The River of Trent running between which two Towns the water with the mud in the bottom was carried a quarter of a mile and cast against the trees the trees plucked up by the roots and from thence cast twelve-score paces also a child was was taken forth of a mans hand and by the fury of it carried an hundred foot two spears length from the ground and so fell down broke its arm and dyed Five or six men thereabouts were slain and neither flesh nor skin perished at what time also there fell some Hailstones that were fifteen inches about c. But neither that terrible disease nor this terrible tempest nor any other publick signe of God's displeasure abated any thing of the fury of the Persecution till he was pleased to put an end unto it by the death of the Queen It was upon the tenth day of November that no fewer than five at once were burned at Canterbury The Cardinal and the Queen both lying on the bed of sickness and both dying within seven days after It had been prayed or prophesied by those five Martyrs when they were at the stake that they might be the last who should suffer death in that manner or on that occasion and by Gods mercy so it proved they being the last which suffered death under the severity of this persecution Which Persecution and the carriage of the Papists in it is thus described by Bishop Jewel You have saith he imprisoned your brethren you have stript them naked you have scourged them with rods you have burnt their hands and arms with flaming torches you have famished them you have drowned them you have summoned them being dead to appear before you out of their graves you have ripped up their buried carcases burnt them and thrown them out upon the Du●ghil you took a poor Babe falling from its mothers womb and in most cruel and barbarous manner threw it in●o the fire By all which several ways and means the Martyrs in all parts of the Kingdom amounted to the number of two hundred seventy seven persons of all sorts and sexes But more particularly there are said to have perished in these flames five Bishops twenty one Divines eight Gentlemen eighty four Artificers one hundred Husbandmen Servants and Labourers twenty six Wives twenty Widows nine Virgins two Boys and two Infants the one springing

refused to do their sentence was pronounced by the Prolocutor in the name of the rest in which they were deolared to be no members of the Chruch and that therefore they their patrons and followers were condemned as Hereticks In the reading whereof they were again severally asked whether they would turn or not to which they severally answered read on in God's name for they were resolved not to turn And so the sentence being pronounced they were returned again to their several prisons there to expect what execution would ensue upon it And execution there was none to ensue upon it ●ill the end of the Session of Parliament then next following because till then there was no saw in force for putting Hereticks to death as in former times During which interval they excrcited themselves in their private studies or in some godly meditations wr●●ing consolatory Letters unto such of their friends as were reduced by the iniquity of the times to the like extremity amongst which as they understood their dear brother Mr John Hooper Bishop of Glocester to have been marked out for the slaughter so that intelligence revived in Bishop R●dley's thoughts the remembrance of that conterove●sie which had been between them concerning the Episcopal habit in the time of King Edward There is no question to be made but that they had forgotten and forgiven that quarrel long before yet Ridley did not think he had done enough if he left not to the world some testimony of their mutual charity as well as their consent in doctrine such as might witness to the world that they maintained the spirit of unity in the bond of peace Concerning which he writes to him in this manner following viz. But now dear Brother forasmuch as I understand by your books which I have but superficially seen that we throughly agree and wholly consent together in those things which are the grounds and substantial points of our Religion against the which the world so furiously rageth in these our dayes however in times past in ce●ain by-matters and circumstances of Religion your wisdom and my simplicity I must confesse have a little jarred each of us following the aboundance of his own spirit Now I say be assured that even with my whole heart God is my witnesse in the bowels of Christ I love you in the truth and for the truths sake which abideth in us as I am perswaded and by the Grace of God shall abide in us for ●ver more And because the world as I perceive brother ceaseth not to play his pageant and busily conspireth against Christ our Saviour with all possible force and power Exalting high things against the knowlege of God Let us join hands together in Christ as if we cannot overthrow yet to our power and as much as in us lyeth let us shake those high Altitudes not with carnal but with spiritual weapons and withall brother l●t us prepare our selves to the day of diss●l●tion by that which after the short time of this bodily affliction by the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ we shall triumph together with him in eternal glory Comforted with reciprocal letters of this holy nature they both prepared themselves for death in which Hooper had the honour to lead the way as being more in B●nner's eye when the Act past for reviving the Statutes before mentioned in the case of Heresie But Hooper having led the way and many ●ther godly and religious men following the same tract which he had made it came at last unto the turn of these reverend Prelates to pass through the same 〈◊〉 to the Land of Promise In order whereunto a Commission is directed from the Pope to Dr. James Bro●ks Bishop of Glocester by which he is authorized as Subdelegate to his Holiness to proceed in the cause of ●homas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury The like Commission is directed to Dr Martin and Dr Story to attend the business as delegated thereunto by the King and Queen before whom convented in St Mary's Church on the 12th of September he did his reverence to the two Doctors as Commissioners for the King and Queen but could not be perswaded to shew any respect to the Bishop of Gl●ceste● because commissionared by the Pope He had before abjur'd the Popes supremacy in the time of King Henry and would not now submit unto it in the Reign of Queen Mary desiring the Bishop not to interpret it an affront to his person to whom otherwise he should gladly pay all due regards had he appeared in any other capacity than the Popes Commissioner Not being able to remove him from that resolution they propounded to him certain Articles concerning his having been twice maried his denyal of the Pope's supremacy his judgement in the point of the blessed Sacrament his having been declared an Heretick by the late Prolocutor and the rest of the Commissioners there assembled To all which Articles he so answered as to deny nothing of the charge in matter of fact but only to stand upon his justification in point of Doctrine The whole proceeding being summed up he is cited to appear before the Pope within 80 dayes To which he said that he was most willing so to do if the King and Queen would please to send him And so he was returned to the prison from whence he came and there kept safe enough from making any journy to Rome remaining in safe ●●stody till he was brought out to suffer death of which more hereafter On the 28th of the same month comes out another Commission from the Cardinal Legate directed to John White Bishop of Lincoln James Brooks Bishop of Glocester and John Holyman Bishop of Bristow or any two of them inabling them to proceed to the degradation of the other two Bishops if they retracted not those doctrines for holding which they had been formerly de●lared to be Hereticks But they couragiously adhering to their first opinions and otherwise expressing as little reverence to the Substitutes of the Cardinal Legate as Cranmer had done to the Commissioners of the Pope the sentence was pronounced upon them to this effect that is to say That forasmuch as the said Nichosas Ridley and Hugh Latimer did affi●m maintain and stubbornly desend certain opinions and Heresies contrary to the Word of God and the received faith of the Church as first In denying the true and natural body of Christ and his natural blood to be in the Sacrament of the Altar 2. In affirming the substance of bread and wine to r●main after the words of the consecration And 3. In denying the Masse to be a lively sacrifice of the Church for the quick and the dead and by no means could be reduced from the same that therefore they said John of Lincoln James of Glocester and John of Bristol did adjudge and condemn them the said N. Ridl●y and H. Latimer as Hereticks both by word and deed to be degraded from the degree of a Bishop from Pries●hood and all