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A45326	The life & death of that renowned John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester comprising the highest and hidden transactions of church and state, in the reign of King Henry the 8th, with divers morall, historicall and political animadversions upon Cardinall Wolsey, Sir Thomas Moor, Martin Luther : with a full relation of Qu. Katharines divorce / carefully selected from severall ancient records by Tho. Baily ...	Hall, Richard, 1535 or 6-1604.; Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547. Testamentum.; Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657?	1655 (1655)	Wing H424; ESTC R230	97,933	254

taken as undoubtedly true si●cere and perfect which Marriage carrying with it the soveraign imfortunity of all second Marriages being compleated the same Parliament enacted a Statu●e which declared the establishment of the Kings succession in the imperiall Crowne to be upon the issue which he was to have by the present Queene Anne ratifying whatsoever the foresaid Archbishop of Canterbury had decreed and disinheriting the issue which the King had by the foresaid Lady Katharine from all title to the foresaid Crowne and Government or that if any person of what state and condition soever shall by writing printing or any exteriour Act or Deed procure or doe any thing to the prejudice slander disturbance or de●ogation of the said Matrimony or the issue growing of the same every such person shall be deemed and adjudged as an high Traitour and suffer such punishment as in case of high Treason is provided and for the better keeping of this Act the Kings Majesty together with his Counsellours of their owne authority framed an O●th upon the breaking up of this Parliament which was upon the 30. day of Ma●ch and tendred it the same day to all the Lords both spirituall and temporall as likewise to all the Commons and was to be tendred to whom the Commissioners for the same purpose should call before them the words of which Oath were these viz. Ye shall swear to beare Faith Truth and all Obedience onely to the Kings Majesty and to his heires of his body and of his most dear and entirely beloved wife Queen Anne begotten and to be begotten and further to the heires of our Soveraigne Lord according to the limitation made in the Statute for surety of his succession in the Crown of this Realm mentioned and contained and not to any other within this Realme nor to any other forraign Authority or Potentate whatsoever and in case any Oath be made or hath been made by you to any person or persons that then ye doe repute the same as vaine and annihilate and that to your cunning wit and utmost endeavours ye shall observe keep maintain and defend the said Act of Succession all the whole effects and intents thereof and all other Acts and Statutes made in confirmation and for ex●cution of the same or any thing therein contained and this ye shall do against all manner of persons of what estate dignity degree or condition soever they be and in no wise do or attempt nor to your power suffer to be done or attempted directly any thing or things privily or openly to the let hindrance danger or derogation thereof or if any part of the same by any manner of meanes or any manner of pretences So help you God and all his Saints and the holy Evangelist Which Oath all the Lords both spirituall and temporall took except the Bishop of Rochester who absolutely refused it So the Parliament was ended But The said Bishop had not been 4 daies quiet within his Palace of Rochester but a Letter came to him from the Archbishop of Canterbury together with other of the Commissioners willing him personally to appear before them in the said Archbishops house by a certain day expressed within the Letter all excuses set a part And CHAP. XIX 1. The Bishop of Rochester summoned to appear before the Archbishop of Canterbury 2. Sir Thomas M●or and Dr. Wilson committed for refusing the Oath 3. The Bishop of Rochester sent to the Tower for the same cause 4. A Parliament is called wherein the Bishops imprisonment was voted lawfull 5. The Supremacy of the Church conferred upon the King c. by Act of P●●liament absolutely and w●●●out the fo●mer clause 6. An Act 〈◊〉 Parliament making i● treason to deny the King to be supreme head of the Church NOw was the thing come to passe which was no●hing terrible to him because it was foreseen wherefore he first makes his Will and leaves severall L●gacies to divers persons and uses as to Michael house in Cambridge where he received his Education to St. Iohns Colledge to the Poore to some of his 〈…〉 to all his Servants whom he leaves weeping behinde him whiles the rest followed him lam●nting his condition in his journey towards Lambeth Passing thorough the City of Rochester there were a mult●tude of p●ople gathered together both citizens and countreymen to whom he gave his benediction riding by them all the while b●●eheaded some crying that they should never see him again others denouncing woes unto them that were the oc●asions of his troubles others crying out against the wickednesse of the times and all of them lamenting and bewailing that wh●ch was their miserie and his glory Thus he passed on his way till he came to Sutors hill twenty miles from Rochester on the top whereof he rested himself descending from his horse and causing to be brought before him such victuals as he had caused to be brought thither for that purpose he said he would now make use of his time and dine in the open aire while as he might after which dinner he chearfully took his horse and came to London the same night The day of his appearance being come he presented himselfe before the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth the Lord Audely Chancelour of England Thomas Cromwell the Kings Secretary and the rest of the Commissioners authorised under the great Seale of England to call before them whom they pleased and to tender unto them the foresaid Oath then sitting at Lambeth where at the same tune the Bishop met with Sir Thomas Moore who welcomed and saluted the Bishop in these termes Well met my Lord I hope we shall meet in Heaven to which the Bishop replyed This should be the way Sir Thomas for it is a very strait gate we are in There had been Doctor Wilson sometime the Kings Confessor who together with Sir Thomas Moore had both of them refused the Oath a little before the B●shops coming for which the Knight was committed for the present to the custody of the Abbot of Westminster as the Doctor had been formerly committed to the Tower of London at which time also the Clergie of London were warned to appeare about the same businesse who all of them took the Oath at the same time Then was it that the B●shop of R●chester was called before the Archb●shop c. who putting the B●sh●p in remembrance of the Act which was made by the late Parliament wh●ch had provided an O●th to be administred to all persons within this R●alm concerning the establ●shment of the Succession c. how all the Lords both spirituall and temporall had taken the said Oath onely himself excepted how grievo●sly his Majesty was offended with him therefore how he had g●ven strict charge to himself and the rest of the Commissioners to call him before them and to tender unto him the Oath once more presented unto him the Oath laying it before him and demanded of him what he would say thereto the good man p●rusing

rising though as different as the two Poles between themselves both against him the one discovering the other aggravating his offences yet though sometime he had a better friend for he proved such a constant enemy to the last that he became a Martyr for the former and such a b●tter adversary sometimes to the first as he became afterwards the second 's footstoole to her Throne yet neither of them gave him thanks which rendred his venome guilty of the nature of the Spiders thus to be intangled within his own web Cardinall Campe●●●s perceiving the King disposed to discontentment takes his leave of his Maje●●y and suddenly departs the Realme after that he had made his abode here in this kingdome neere upon the space of one yeare who was no sooner gone but a sodaine rumour 〈◊〉 how that he had carried with him vast ●ummes of money of the other Cardinalls ●ut of the Realme for at that time Cardinall Wolsey wa● suspected to 〈◊〉 the Land by ●eason of the Kings displeasure insomuch that 〈…〉 after and overtaken at Callis where when they had searched 〈…〉 they scarce found so much money about him as would serve to defray his ordinary charges to Rome This the Cardinall Campeius took heavily and thereat was m●rvailously discontented which search for treas●●e was but a colour for the thing which the King aimed at was the instrument which contained the sentence of Divorce which Campeius had shewed unto the King in case he had seen cause to put the same in ex●cution which if the King had sound out it is supposed he would have made good play therewith but he was deceive● of his purpose Howsoever in the 22. yeare of the Kings reigne a Parliament was summoned to begin at London the 3. day of November and in the year of our Lord 1529. and accordingly Writs were directed to all the Counties c. but withall private Letters were sent to the most potent men directing them whom they should choose which Letters there were few or none durst disobey so that there was a Parliament filled to the Kings hearts desire And The regulations of all abuses of the Clergy were referred to the house of Commons where s●vere complaints against the whole Clergy as well as against particular Clergie-men were daily presented whereof some the house of Lord● 〈◊〉 into consideration and some they 〈◊〉 wh●ch when the Bishop of Rochester perceived he spake as followeth My Lords here are certaine Bills exhibited against the Cl●●gy wherein there are complaints made against the 〈◊〉 id●●nesse rap●ciry and cruelty of Bishops Abbots Priests and their Officialls But my Lords Are all vitious all idle all ravenous and ●ruell Priests or Bishops And for such as are such are there not laws provided alrea●y against such Is there any abuse that we do● not seek to rectifi● or can there be such a 〈◊〉 as that there shall be no 〈…〉 their owne and 〈◊〉 where they have no a●●hority to correc● If w● be not 〈◊〉 in our Lawes let each man suffer for his d●linquency or if we have not power did 〈◊〉 with your assistance and we shall 〈…〉 much the Good as the Goods of the Church that is look●d after Truly my Lords how this may sound in your 〈◊〉 I cannot tell but to me it appeares no otherwise than as if our holy Mother the Church were to become a bondmaid and new brought into servility and 〈◊〉 and by little little to be quite banished out of those dwelling places which the piety and liberality o● our forefathers as most 〈◊〉 Benefacto●s have conferred upon ●er otherwise to what tendeth these 〈◊〉 and curious Petitions of the Commons To no other intent or purpose but to bring the Clergie into contempt with the Laity that they may s●ize their Patrimony But my Lords beware of your selves and your 〈…〉 now on fire teach us to beware our own disasters where●ore my Lords I will tell you plainly what I think that except ye resist manfully by your authorit●●● this violent heap of mischiefs offered by the Commons you shall see all obedience first drawn f●om the Cle●gie and secondly from your selves 〈◊〉 if you 〈◊〉 into the true causes of all these mischiefs which reign among them you shall finde that they all arise through want of Faith This Speech p●eased and displeased divers of the house of Peeres 〈…〉 were severally inclined or adicted to ●orward or 〈◊〉 the K●ngs design●s among the which none 〈…〉 thereto but onely the 〈…〉 B●t when the Commons heard of this Speech they conceived so great displeasure against the Bishop that they forthwith sent their Speaker Mr. Audeley to complaine on him to the King and to let his Highnesse understand how grievously they thou ●h● themselves injured ther●by so as to be so highly charged for lack of Faith as if they had been Infidells or Hereticks c. The King therefore to satisfie the Commons sent for my Lord of Rochester to come before him being come the King demanded of him why he spake in such sort the Bishop answered that being in counsel he spake his minde in defence of the Church whom he saw daily injured and oppressed by the common people whose office it was not to judge of her manners much lesse to reform them and therefore he said he thought himself in conscience bound to defend her in all that lay within his power neverthelesse the King wished him to use his words more temperately and that was all which gave the Commons littl● satisfaction CHAP. XIV 1. The demand of all the small Abbies within the Land for the Kings use 2. The Bishop of Rochester opposeth the demand in the Convocation house 3. The mindes of the Clergie before ready to condescend to the proposition● altered thereupon 4. The Bishop of 〈◊〉 escaped very narrowly from being poysoned at his dinner 5. How he escaped another danger from the shot of a cannon 6. His departure from the place to Rochester IMmediately hereupon the foresaid demand for all the small Abbeys and Monasteries within the Land of the value of two hundred pound land and under to be given to the King was revived and the pretence for such demands of the Clergie was in recompence of the great charges and expences which the King was 〈◊〉 concerning the Divorce which he was put upon by the false and double dealing of the Cardinall and his Clergie and therefore it was said to be all the reason in the world that the Clergie should satisfie the King againe for the great expences he had been at and this was urged with such ●impor●unity as if the businesse had been called upon by sound of Drummes and T●umpets In conclusion they all agreed that cert●ine of the Kings Counsell should make demands hereof to the Co●vocation of the Cl●rgy which was performed with such a terrible shew of the Kings displeasure 〈◊〉 them if they y●ilded not to his 〈◊〉 that divers of the Convocation sea●●ing the Ki●gs indign●tion and

them so solemne an oath and protestation falling into disputation with the Bishops how farre a temporall Princes power was over the Clergie but the Bishops soon disputed them into having nothing else to say but whosoever would refuse to condescend to the Kings demands herein was not worthy to be accounted a true and loving subject nor to have the benefit of such a one After which nothing could prevaile for then the Clergie answered with unanimous consent and full resolution that they neither could nor would grant unto the King the Suprem●cy of the Church without those conditionall words quantem per legem Dei licet and so the Orators departed relating unto the King all that had passed who seeing no other remedy accepted it with that condition granting unto the Clergie a pardon for their bodies and goods paying him ●00000 l. which was paid every penny CHAP. XVII 1. How Campeius related the whole businesse of the Divorce unto the Pope and was blamed for the same 2. The King send● two Doctors of the Civil law with private C●mmissions to treat with the Pope about the Divorce 3 The Pope solemnly ratifies the Marriage 4. The Sentence it self BUt we cannot well go on with our History except we fi●st arive our discourse within the gates of Rome to observe what account Cardinall Campeius had given unto the Pope of all these proceedings which was no otherwise than what had passed directly here in England which being related to his Holinesse by the Cardinall the Pope blamed him exceedingly for that he had not over-ruled Queen Katharine to have waved her Appeale whereby the businesse might have been determined within the Kings own Dominious for which cause-●ake he sent him thither So sl●ppery is the g●ound whereon M●nisters of state do set their feet in any busin●ss● that his businesse would doe right well to make a separation between them by his definitive sentence the Pope demanded to see their Commission and Authority which they had to treat with him they answered that the Ki●g was by this time grown somewhat unruly and that therefore what they did they did it upon their own score and for the love-sake which they bare unto the common good of the 〈◊〉 Church and for the peace and unity-●ake thereof Then the Pope demanded of them to see the Certificate under the B●sh●ps 〈◊〉 whereby it might appeare that they had so consented to which they answered that they had no such certificate for the present but that they expected such a certific●te daily to come unto them together with a Commission to treat with his Holinesse Whereupon his Holinesse bad them expe●t All this while the King was framing a new Model of a Church and sent these men over on purpose if it were p●ssible to retard all proceeding at Rome untill such time as by a new court of Judicature under a new Supremacy the Marriage should have been adjudged 〈◊〉 b●fore the Popes 〈◊〉 of Ratification which was feared should have made it good All which policies and workings here in England you must not imagine them of Rome to be ignorant of Wherefore the Pope takes the best and most substantiall advise that could be given him and calls unto him not onely his Cardinalls c. but the most able Canonists and Divines that could be heard of and consults with the most famous Universities procuring the censures of the most famous men that had written of this case among the rest the two books of the before-mentioned D● Tunstall Bishop of London and this out Dr. Fisher Bishop of Rochester of which ●ast book if you will believe that reverend and famous Clerk Alphonso de castro it is said of him to be the most excellent and learned of all other works and at last after diligent examination of the businesse 〈◊〉 himself in his Tribunall seat and open consistory by assent and counsel of his 〈◊〉 the Card●●al● pronounced this definitive 〈◊〉 in the cause The words begin as followeth Clemens papa septimus Christi nomine invocato in throno justitiae pro tribunali sedentes c. which in English is thus Pope Clement the seventh We invocating the name of Christ and having for our Tribunall the Throne of Iustice and the glory of the Almighty God onely before our eyes by this our definitive Sentence which by the counsell and assent of our venerable Brethren the Cardinalls of the holy Church of Rome assembled before us in consistory we doe in these Writings pronounce decree and declare in the cause and causes lawfully devolved upon us and the See Apostolique by an Appeal brought before us of our welbeloved Daughter in Christ Catharine Queen of England from the judgements of the Legates deputed by and sent from us and the see Apostolique between the foresaid Queen Catharine and our welbeloved Sonne in Christ Henry the eight the most illustrious King of England upon the validity and invalidity of the Matrimony between them contracted and consummated and upon other matters more largely deduced in the acts of such like cause or causes and committed to our Son Paulus Capissuchus then Dean of the Causes of our h●ly Palace and in his absence to our reverend Father Symoneta B●shop of Pausa●ia supplying the place of one of our Aud●tors of 〈◊〉 said Palace to be heard intrust●d and in our Consistory to be repor●ed and by them to us and the said 〈…〉 and maturely discuss●d du●●ng the time of the matter 〈…〉 that the Matrimony co●tract●● 〈◊〉 the sa●d Queen Catharin● and K. Henry of England with all 〈…〉 of the same was and is Cano●●call and of good force and that they may and ought to enjoy to them their due effects and that the ●ss●e between them heretofore born or hereafter to be born was and shall be l●gitimate and that the ●oresa●d King Henry ought is and shall be ●ound and obliged to cohabit and dwell with the said Queen Catharine his lawfull wife and to entreat her with all Husbandly aff●ction and Kingly honour and that the said King Henry is condemned and by all remedies of Law is to be restrained and c●mpelled as we do condemn constraine and compell him to accompl●sh and ●ulfill all and singular the premises ●ff●ctually and that the molestat●o●s and r●fusalls by the foresaid King Henry by any manner of wayes made to the said Queene Catharine touching the in●alid●ty of the s●id Matrimony and alwaies from the beginning were unlawfull and 〈◊〉 and that perpetuall silence 〈◊〉 all the foresaid matters and 〈…〉 of the said Matrimony 〈…〉 unto the said Henry and 〈…〉 it and that the said King Henry of England be condemned and we doe condemn him in the expences lawfully made before us and our said Brethren in such case on the behalf of the said Queen Catharine the Taxation of which Expences we reserve to our selve till another time So we have pronounced This was published in the Palace of Rome in open consistory the 23. of March in

the year of our Lord God 1534. Two men must be thanked for this Wolsey and Fisher and these two men must be met withall whereby they may receive their payment for the first we leave him to his owne story or some others on his behalf The second is the subject of my pen and how they found out him the following Chapter must relate CHAP. XVIII 1. The various rumour of the people concerning the Divorce 2. The History of the Holy maid of Kent 3. Div●rs persons of quality executed as traitors concerning her and the Bishop of Rochester c. convicted of misprision of Treason for the same cause 4. A new Parliament called 5. The Marriage between the King and Queen Katharine pronounced null by Archbishop Cranmer 6. A new Oath made and tendred to both houses of Parliament c. all take it excepting the Bishop of Rochester AT the time when the Kingdome began to be divided when the King was about to make the Divorce between him and his wife as the first act of his Supremacy and to talk too busi●● some in favour of the King but most of the Queen it happened that one Elizabeth Barton a young maiden borne in Kent at a plac● called Court at Street declared unto sundry persons that she had lately received certain Visi●ns and Revelations concerning the Kings proceedings in this matter of D●vorce and as sh● thought they came from God and often falling into a trance she would declare how that the K●ngs 〈◊〉 away his wife would be a m●anes to bring in 〈…〉 Land and that 〈…〉 〈…〉 his wife should never have co●fo●t in any other that whatsoever he did yet the daughter of this Q●een should reign and bec●use he deprived 〈◊〉 mother the 〈◊〉 Cathol que Church of so many chi●dren all his child●●n should die 〈◊〉 and himselfe comfortlesse leaving an ●●nominious name and fame 〈◊〉 him to the w●rlds end To this and the like 〈◊〉 she would ●tter words which were too wonderfull to proceed ordinarily from so simple a reputed woman First she communicated these V●sions c. to one M Richard Mayster Parson of Aldington in Kent whose Penitent she was This Al●ington advised her to go to Mr. Edward Bocking Dr. of D●vinity and a Monk of Christ-church in Canterbury a man that was ●amous both for Learning and Devotion who sent for one Mr. Iohn Deering another Monk of the same house all these advised her to go● to the Archbishop of Canterbu●y Doctor Warham and to take his adv●se therein and to follow his direction who as it was conceived being conscious of the great ill-w●ll of the people which he had drawn upon h●mself by being so great a furtherer of the D●vorce and of the inevitable changes and alterations in R●ligion which he then saw evidently to ensue ●●rough his so much compliance with the King shortly after discoursed with this Maid died of grief After whose departure from this life the King by vertue of his Supremacy appointed ●ranmer to be Archb●shop of Canterbury This womans fame did so spread it self abroad over the whole Kingdome as that she was resorted unto by multitudes of p●ople and called by them the holy Maid of K●nt whose vertues were exceedingly ex●olled by the preachings of Mr. Henry Gold Bachelour in Divinity and a learned man Father Hugh Rich Warden of the ●riars Observants in Canterbu●y and Richard Risby of the same house and having gone her Perambulation to the Charter-house of London and Sheane thence to the Nunnery of Sion and thence to the Friars of Richmond Canterbury and Greenwich at last she came to the King himself and before him declared her minde fully and plainly with whom as she had quiet audience so she had peaceable departure at last she came unto the Bishop of Rochester Dr Iohn Adeson his Chaplain and Dr. Thomas Bell sometimes the Queenes Chaplaine who as a rarity admitted her to come before them to heare what she would say as all men else had done and now and not till now was this businesse looked upon as a matter of dangerous consequence the Kings Counsel were call'd together to consult about it who were divided amongst themselves concerning her some were for letting her alone as knowing not what to make of her others were for rigour and cruelty to be shewed against her in the end forbearance was laid aside and severity was to take its place which sentenced it to be a traiterous conspiracy between the Maid and some that were chief of the Clergie to bring the King and his Government into contempt and hatred with his people whereby to encourage them to tumults and insurrections wherefore the King sent for his Judges and certain others which were servient to the Law and propounded the case unto them acquainting them with that which every one had done desiring to know their opinions therein who sitting in long consultation at last they made result that Elizabeth Barton Edward Bockings Iohn Deering Monks Richard Maysters Henry Gold Priests Hugh Rich and Richard Risby Friars Minors where all by the Law in case of high Treason that my Lord of Rochester Dr. Adeston Dr. Abel c. b●cause they were not the fi●st contrivers of the Matter but concealers of the Thing were on●ly in the case of misprision of Treason viz. losse of Goods and imprisonment of their Bodies during the Kings pleasure and thus the King got the opinion of the Judges but not so home it was conceived as he expected This being done all the forementioned persons opin'd to be within the case of high Treason were attached and carried to Lambeth before the new Arch-bishop Cranmer where after they had been examined by him others of the Commissioners and charged with Treason Fiction and Hypocrisie Fa●sehood Dissimulation and Conspiracy Tumults Rebellion and Insurrection they were all sent to the Tower Thus the King got the parties into prison Which being done The King called a Parliament in the 25 year of his reigne to be held at Westminster upon the 15. day of Ianuary where they were all attainted of high Treason the Maid judged to b● hanged and head●d at Tyburne the rest to be hanged and qu●rtered alive the Bishop of Rochester Dr. Ad●son Dr. Abel Thomas Register to the Archdeacon of Cant. and E●ward Thwaites Gent. convicted of misprision of Treason of which conviction being it was no more the Bishop of Rochester for that time got himself cleared paying unto the King three hundred pounds A little before this Parliament sate the Archbishop of Canterbury Cranmer had decreed which decree was made at Dunstable that the foresaid marriage solemnized between the King and the Lady Katharine was clearly and absolutely against the Lawes of Almighty God and that it ought to be accepted reputed and taken as of no value or effect but utterly void to all intents and purposes and that the Marriage which was to be had and solemniz●d between the King and the Lady Anne Bullein ought to be