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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

wronge to those other by giuing them a name in any part common with Idolatrous priests them I say who euen at the first were called immediatly to the holy mynistrie off the glad tydinges off our saluacion reuealed nowe againe more cleerlie in these last dayes especyally the profession and institution off that preisthode beinge so contrary to the callinge off this mynistrie as Antechrist to Christ and Baal to the lyuing god Besides this epithete secular how contrarie is it to the function off a spirituall pastor a minister off the worde off God and breaker off the bread off lyfe where out off the Roman clergie shall a man finde suche a title for the minister off the worde as to call him a minister secular What els did cause Demas to steppe from the ministerye but presens seculum And what an heape off iniuries are done to the ministers off the glorious gospell off Iesus Christe to call them Regular Priestes or secular preistes still that haue shaken it off and haue happelye disgraded themselues by takyng vpon them a farre better degree then theroff to call them priestes secular which weare neuer other then ministers off the worde off god And euen he whome he himselfe calleth minister yet because he shoulde not disgrace whearin me thinkes the violence is offred rather to the Gospell then to the minister that ignomimous Priesthoode off Baal and shame there stayned garmentes with his fater garmente that therefore he must also be disguised with this Popishe addition and profaned epithite off secular Perhappes th● spirite which was in Caiphas his monthe ād made hī prophecye vnware was also in his penn that wrote this booke in callinge them secular whome indeade th●s presens seculum and the honors theroff hath made to worldlye and bewitched to the greate ruthe off manye good Christian hartes I beseeche God with his so●rte to open theire eyes that theye maye see and be hartelye sorye so to haue made so manye so sorye Which I yet hoope for and then we shall be gladd togithere I am almoste caryed a waye There lurkeeh yet a further daunger vnder these wordes Minister secular For thoughe in the darke daies or off those men that weare consecrate or rather execrate to that most vile vnholye sacrifice it had some reason to call the Massinge Prieste a priste secular thereby to make distinction betwene him and the onlye spirituall regular yet in this tyme off the Gospell to call one that was godlye called to the blissed and highe office in Godes Church off preachinge the Gospell off the Lorde Iesus who also did neuer vowe to sacrifice that blasphemous oblation and Idoll but was moued onlye to aduance the kingdome off God by preachinge his word to call such one I saye and in these dayes a Minister secular besides the other open euilles this also lurketh dangerouslye that yt maye be probablye thoughte there is nourished some reuerente estimation off the regular and easelye to be implied that it mighte be lawefull enoughe euen in the Church off God to haue Ministers also regulars Elles what need this distinction off secular Minister nowe the other beinge iustly gone and banished And this Church off Englande allowinge no man deuised order off regular ministerie The verye entertayninge off these badde names off Poperye is not good and it is strange that anye gospeller shoulde delighte in them and heere theye are not vsed without further perill For thoughe the tymes be such and so enriched with knoweledge as A numbre off childrē woulde not vouchsafe to laughe at manye off these dotinge toyes yet there be also to manye that cannot and to to manye that will not discerne betwene counterfaited drosse and righte drugges but so it be in gilded boxe and haue the name off some holesome spice written on it all is one with them euen to the losse off there healthes euerlastinge and deathe hoth off bodye and soule Whear againste though I be not so learned a Phisicio● as to prescribe anye excellente receipte or soueraigne triacle but leaue that to be done by some Galene ye thoughte I neuerthe lesse to do the parte off an honest Apothecarye whoe beinge not able to tell the remedie will yet warne off the poyson The Lorde off all health preserue the sounde from all infections and restore the infected to there soundnes againe giuinge them pacience in the meane tyme like good patients to suffer such medicine as shal be applied to remedye off there contagious disease with the remembraunce off this that noe medicine is so holesome as that which bringeth greatest sorrowe and that the woundes off a brother or freende are sweeter then the softe pillowes of an enemye * Poope holye As the course of his liffe hathe declared for he gott therby a benefice or two * He that Preacheth euery where preach● ▪ no where * Charges liuinges enoughe for one man But he shewed betymes what game he loued Paule sayethe they seke there owne not the thinges which belonge to Christe Iesus Philip. ● 21 * A good conscience * what is to glory in their shame which Paule speakethe off if this he not * Worldly 〈…〉 c * To 〈…〉 vnto hym to be prof●table vnto others * Yow shot at a Good mar●●e * The beare that cōeth vnwillingly to the stake is willingly caryed frō it * men may easely tell how often wher the nombre is but smale * What greater aduersarie then a mans owne conscience * Antony thought he had greatly pleasured Tully because he killed him not vniustly * Ys it tyme to build your seeled howses and not tyme to build the howse off god Ag● * Turne mine eyes frō 〈…〉 ▪ with much adoo the kinge was excepted from the Archbishops seruice * A worthy studie for a bishopp might ●e not well haue said o quanta patimur * whose God is ther belly Phil. 3.19 * He that knoweth the will off his Mayster and doth it not shall bee beaten with many stripes Paul reioyced not off those whome he had baptised but the false Aposteles as for him ●e saye●h yowe are my glory and my ioy to the. Thesalonians whom he won to the Gosp. * Aes you haue sett youre bias so runneth your bowle The day willtri By his heapinge vpp of liuīge by hauinge of charges without doinge of dewtie by sumptuous feastinge by great coste in brauiti● and Lordly pompe as is before declared * you shall bee better consydered no doubte * The Pharises did the like in the hē of their garmentes The worlde laughethe at it * God be mercyfull vnto him if it be possible lest he finde him beatinge his fellowe seruaunts His Father was an honest poore man a scourer or Calender off worsteddes of Norwich so Knowne and taken * O deepe diuinitie tharchbishope hath three keies because Christ saied pas●● pas●● Nay rather because he locketh vp the Kingdōe of heauē soe fast by holdinge out of ministers that might preache the worde and keapinge in of idell and ignoraunt that can doe nothinge that hardlie doth anie mā enter thearī The chaplaynes trauiled and the Bishopes brought forthe ▪ * Let men iudge whether he did so much good by br●gīge in that transla●iō as harme by stayinge the Gene●●● * And youe harde it beinge without him els howe knewe youe it And that he was a blacke bishopbe to the churche off Englande Glory vnto god and cōfusion to his enemyes which perseuer in their wickednes This hellish Austen is he that in a preface to an english Bible latly printed is forsooth called sa●●te Austen 〈…〉 Archiepis●opaller 〈…〉 and alm●st as it w●ll i● selfe 〈…〉 broad 〈…〉 prouince