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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

secreatlye for those yeeres wherin Queene Marie raigned within the house off one off his frendes leading a poore life whithout any mans aide or succour and yet so well contented with his lotte that in that pleasant rest and laisure off his studye he wold neuer in respect off him selfe haue desired any other kinde off life the extreame feare off danger onelye excepted wherin he liued with all good men and tha● not without som cause ▪ for from the beginning off the raigne off Queene mary vntill the end ther off very many Good men were burned not for murther ● theft whoredome or any other cryme But onely for ther manifest constancie in the Religion off Christe and ther open professing off the name off Christ against the Pope and all his confederates Whose deathe very gloriouslye to ther praise wil be remembred togither with the crueltye off that tyme off all posteritie for euer But that saynig off the Prophet is full off cōfort that God chideth not allwaies nether kepeth his wrath for euer and that off the Philosophers also is true that nothing violent is perpetuall For at this tyme queene mary died when she had reigned allmost sixe yeeres at which tyme God shewed his iustice to all that were afflicted and his iudgementes to those which had suffred wronge for Elizabeth the sister off Marie a ladie off singulare wisdome and mildnes expelled out off her realme the bondage off Rome restored the pure doctrine off the gospell licensing the people to reade the scriptures and calleth them all home into ther countrye which had willinglye banished themselues before At wich tyme she preferre● hī for whose praise this historie is compiled to the dignitie off tharchbishoprick off Canterbury wh●● he a litell before had crept out off his lurking hole into the open sight off the world with his wife whom he wold not dismisse all the tyme off Queene Marye a womā very chast and well manered and that did greatly reuerence hir husband off whom he begatt three children wheroff those two which are onely aliue his care is to haue them instructed in all liberall lerning partlye in thuniuersitye and sōetymes at home in his house But how vnwillinglye ●e tooke vppon him this whither yow call yt burthen or dignitie off the Archbishoprick refusing yt often times whē yt was profered ther conscience can witnes which haue not least to doo in the gouernment off the common wealth and suche as are in especiall fauor with the Queenes highnes But when he had once taken vpon him this chiefe cure and charge off the Christian flocke how wisely he behaued him therin for thos yeeres that are past with generall allowance consent and fauour off all Good men how discretly also in so great diuersitie and dissention off iudgementes how vprighly and sincerely in other mens matters and controuersies with how great gentilnes and patience in other mens wrath and displeasure with what forbearing and sufferaunce towardes the euill that he might winne them with what godlines in reconciling the stomakes off gentilmen and determining ther controuersies how lothe he was that contumeliously they should drawe eche other into the law lastly how often his voice was hard to sound owt off the holy pulpittes as well off his cathedrall church as the churches off other meane townes and villages especially in this his old age in his weake and crazed state off bodie in the middest off so great busines and in thes contagious and pestilent times ▪ all thes thinges I will leaue as matters vntouched because ther are verie many which without me by the vew off his manners and tried trade off his life are able to report thes and many thinges moo But yt ys impossible that I an howshold witnes occupyinge my selfe in the setting forth off so great praises should obteine credit what soeuer I am notwithstanding that I speake the truth in differently and wold not applie my selfe to gaine the fauour off men by flattery Therfore I will passe to the declaration off thos thinges wherin I may easely auoid the infamous blemishe off flatterie for that ther are many which can witnes with me that he deserued no smale commendation because that after he had visited his diocese through owt by him selfe and not by any substitute and which was more of his owne charges for that he freely remitted to all the parishes the sum̄es off ther procurations which they should haue pa●d him for visitinge the diocese that noble and famous palace off his sea off Cāterbury by long cōtinuance off time decaied rotten consumed with fire and almost laid euen with the ground in all the buildinges theroff he reūed builded ● fully restored and beautified yt with this faire and glorious shew wherin yt now florisheth not feared from this enterprise either by the infinite labour and trauaile neither dissuaded by the want off necessarie thinges which should haue bene left him off his predecessors nor by the dearth off the tyme nor by the wages off the laborers which were merueiloussly increased nor by any other lettes or hinderan̄ces But ●at he fully finished yt in the yeere off the incarnatiō off our lord 1564. the sixt yeere off the reigne off Queene Elizabeth and in the 6● yeere off his age and the fifte off his consecration In the which yeere he also endeuored to repaire the quires off thos churches which were lately come into his possession off which sort he had very many in his diocese partly by the exchaunge off auncient possessions off the Archbishoprick made betwene kinge Henry the eight and Tho. Archbishopp off Canterbury his predesessor partly for an other exchange off the possessions off the Archbishoprick by a statute established for the same purpose in the first yeere off Queene Elizabeth before he obteined the Sea. The charges off which building besides the yerely reparations off other howses grew to the summe off a thousand foure ●ūdreth powndes and somewhat more The which he did the rather for that he had heard that hall off the palaice within his remembrance singular and famous for the largenes theroff to haue bene honored in the yeere off our saluatiō 1519. by the presence as well off Charles the fifft emperour as off Henry the eight king off that name with his wife Katherine whom the Emperor came then to see being his aunt This hall thos princes then occupied with all the troupe off ther garde and retinue so that for all the princes affaires for triumphes and feastes the vpper part theroff was appointed for the Emperor Charles and the nether part for Henry the king But the chefest cause that he coueted to preserue the magnificence off that hall was for the memory off the coronation off kinges and Queenes very offten times celebrated in that place and the installinge off Archbishopps his predecessors which they commonly call inthronization to whose sumptuous feastes ther hath bene very great resort as well