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cause_n	bishop_n	church_n	england_n	1,563	5	6.0318	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09000	The life off the 70. Archbishopp off Canterbury presentlye sittinge Englished, and to be added to the 69. lately sett forth in Latin. This numbre off seuenty is so compleat a number as it is great pitie ther shold be one more: but that as Augustin was the first, so Mathew might be the last	Stubbes, John, 1543-1591, attributed name.; Joscelyn, John, 1529-1603, attributed name.	1574 (1574)	STC 19292A; ESTC S114022	30,512	96

The life off the 70. Archbishopp off Canterbury presentlye Sittinge Englished and to be added to the 69. lately Sett forth in Latin. This numbre off seuenty is so compleat a number as it is great pitie ther shold be one more but that as Augustin was the first so Mathew might be the last Imprinted M.D.LXXIIII HISTORIOLA A litle storne of the actes and life of Mathew now Archbishoppe of Canterb. NOwe sithens we haue declared many thinges which we thought specially worthye of rehersall concerning thestate off corpus Christi coll and the actes of certaine masters therof ▪ it remaineth that we drawe out the narratiō a litle longer for the fore said Mathew Parker his sake of whom we haue hitherto spoken those things which he onely did for the amplyfying and commoditie off the said colledge off the which he was mayster But his praise was not shut vppe onely wythin those walls but he being called from thence to other functions in the cōmon wealthe at the last did beare the highest office of the Ecclesiasticall ministerie for he was the archbischoppe of Canterburye Therfore in his hystorie because his fame was more renowmed then any of the maysters of whom we haue made mention we will staye a litle longer and repeate the course of his life euen from his cradell He was borne in that famous citie of theaft Angles which ys called Norwitche in the yeere of the incarnatiō of our lorde a thowsand fyue hundreth foure the sixt daye of the moneth of August of honest parēts citezens his father called williā and his mother Alice who caused his childhode to be instructed in thelements of grammer as the coustome was then in the citye to frame the witts of children within their owne house till he was xviij yeeres olde At wihich tyme being Past his Childhode his mother riddeth him of her house his father being dead and sent him to Cambridge to th entent that the foundation of learning beinge already laid by the knowledge of grammer he might finishe the rest of the building in lerning the arts Therfore in corpus Christi coll he was sustained at the first wholly by his mothers charges of the which after a fewe monethes she being eased he was chosen into the number of those scollers which are called bibleclarkes of the especiall duetye which they execute He traueiled in logicke and Philosoph●e first in S· Maries hostell the title and gouernment wheroff partained then to corpus Christi coll vntill it ceased to be an house of learning for schollers In these kindes of studye whē he had spent three yeres and a litle more before the fourth was fully complete he was made bachelor of arte and three yeeres after that mayster off Arte and fellowe besides off corpus coll being first ētred in all the rites of holye orders But nowe he being very well and perfectly instructed in the libera●l sciēces he applied all his mynde to the studye of diuinitie and to the readinge of the volūes of th'ecclesiasticall fathers and that so earnestlye that in shorte space of tyme he bestowed his labor not vnprofitablye in this behalfe for after the space of foure or fiue yeeres he issuing frō his secret and solitarie studie into open practise in the common welthe preached euerie where vnto the people wih greate commendation and that in the most famōs cities and places of this realme by the auctoritie of king Henry the viij by whose lettres patentes this was graūted vnto hī togither with the licence of the. Archb. of Canterbury In executing of this fūctiō of preaching he gained this commoditie that the fame of him came vnto the eares of king Henry whervppon he being called into the kings courte was ther first made chapleyne to Queene Anne while she liued afterward to king Hēry the viij and last off all to Edward the vj. when he Ruled the common wealth All which prīces bestowed on him very large and plentifull Rewards for his diligence for by fauor off Queene Anne he was made deane off Stoke neere vnto Clare in suffolke by the liberalitie off king Henrye ther was geuē vnto him a Prebend off the new erection in the churche off Elye when he was now Bachelor off diuinitie after when he had clymed to the degree off doctorshippe by the kings letters off commendation he was made master off corpus Christi colledge where he had spent his youth in lerning Edward the sixt not interior to his father in bountifull and liberall nature in rewarding with free giftes the seruice off suche as partained vnto him gaue him also his desert in the seconde yeere off his raigne the deanerye off Līcolne and the prebēd off coringhā in the same churche He had besides by the gifte off the coll where he was mayster a benefice in the diocesse off Elye called Landbeache neere vnto Cambrydge further at this tyme he retayned and safelye held the deanrye off Stoke against all the importunate suit and complaints off diuers that labored for it vntill the first yeere off Edward the sixt when by a statute made at that tyme he was constrained to leaue that preferment receyuing notwithstanding in recompence a yeerely summe off 40. pounds out off the kings common treasorie But the case was so that at his first comming thither he was the author off building a scoole within the coll off Stoke and off the apointing a yeerly stipend vnto the scoolemaster to the ēde that the youthe mought be ther instructed in grammer and in the whole studye off humanitie whervpō by and by ther repaired thither on heapes the sonnes aswell off noble as meane mē so that it grieued him aboue all thīges either him selfe to forsake that goodlye compaigny off youthes or that it shuld be seuered and dispersed againe althoughe that by his trauaile he had prouided before that the scoole shold haue some assurāce although weake and vnstedfast But cōcernīg the promotions wherwih the boūty as I haue said ▪ off H●nrye the father and Edward the sonne had largely enriched him he reaped off them very pleasant fruite vntill the hard and troublesome tymes off Queene Mari● In the seconde yeere off whose raigne he was dispossessed off all his goodes not enioying any eyther cōmoditie or yeerely stipend The which extreame calamitie was cōmon vnto him with almost all the Bishoppes off England and other ministers off the churche for many causes and pointes of Religiō and especially for that one that they had maried wiues the which was lawfull to the ministers off the church by the statutes off king Edward the sixt established in two seuerall parliamentes and by the eternall word off God aboue which for any mortall man to presume it is bothe extreame madnes into●erable pride ● permitteed and specially for auoyding off whoredome commanded by S· Paule for this cause therfore he being depriued off all thinges which he had attained to by the bountye off his lordes he lurked