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A45581	A briefe view of the state of the Church of England as it stood in Q. Elizabeths and King James his reigne, to the yeere 1608 being a character and history of the bishops of those times ... / written ... by Sir John Harington ..., Knight.	Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612.; Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.	1653 (1653)	Wing H770; ESTC R21165	84,945	232

verified indeed in the Kings Majesty that now is who was then unborn and hath since so happily united these Kingdoms yet least that which I would make in him a Prophecy others will take in me for flattery I will proceed to the next or rather I should say to another for of the two next I need add nothing my Authour having testified by both their Epitaphs that they lived and died well Doctor Thomas Cooper I intend therefore to speak next of Dr. Cooper because of Bishop Herne and Bishop Watson I cannot add any thing upon sure ground for of the former times I have either Books of stories or relation of my Fathers that lived in those dayes but or these that lived in the first twenty yeeres of the Queens Raign when I was at school or at the University I could hear little yet at my first coming to the Court I heard this pretty tale that a Bishop of Winchester one day in pleasant talk comparing his Revenue with the Arch-bishops of Canterbury should say your Graces will showe better in the Rack but mine will be found more in the Manger upon which a Courtier of good place said it might be so in diebus illis But saith he the Rack stands so high in sight that it is fit to keep it full but that may be since that time some have with a provideatur swept some provender out of the Manger and because this Metaphor comes from the Stable I suspect it was meant by the Mr. of the Horse To come then to Bishop Cooper of him I can say much and I should do him great wrong if I should say nothing for he was indeed a reverent man very well learned exceeding industrious and which was in those dayes counted a great praise to him and a chief cause of his preferment he wrote that great Dictionary that yet bears his name his Life in Oxford was very commendable and in some sort Saint-like for if it be Saint-like to live unreprovable to bear a cross patiently to forgive great injuries freely this mans example is sampleless in this age He maried a Wife in Oxford for that speciall just cause I had almost said onely cause why Clergymen should mary viz. for avoiding of sin Melius est enim nubere quam uri yet was that his very hard hap that she proved too light for his gravity by many grains or rather many pounds At the first he winkt at that with a Socraticall and Philosophicall patience taking or rather mistaking the equivocating counsel of Erasmus Ecchoe Quid si mihi veniat usu quod his qui incidunt in uxores parum pudicas parumque frugiferas Feras At qui cum talibus morte durior est vita vita wherein I observe in the two Ecchos how in the first Feras signifies either the verb suffer or that Nown wild beasts or shrews In the latter vita signifieth the Nown life or the verb shun or eschew so he good man construed Feras Vita suffer during life and I should take that vita Feras shun shrews But this Fera whom his Feras made Feram committed wickedness even with greediness more then was in power of flesh and blood to bear wherewith being much afflicted having warned his Brother privatly and born with him perhaps 70. times seven times In the end taking him both in a place and fashion not fit to be named that would have angred a Saint he drave him thence not much unlike as Tobias drove away the spirit Asmo●eus for that was done with a Roste and this with a spit It was high time now to follow the Counsel Dic Ecclesiae so as all Oxford knows her Paramor was bound from her in a bond of one hundred pound but they should rather have been bolts of an hundred pound The whole University in reverence of the man and indignity of the matter offered him to separate his wife from him by publique authority and so to set him free being the innocent party But he would by no means agree thereto alledging he knew his own infirmity that he might not live unmarried and to divorce and marry againe he would not charge his conscience with so great a scandall After he was Bishop mad Martin or Marprelate wrote his book or rather Libell which some playing with Martin at his own weapon answered pleasantly both in Ryme and Prose as perhaps your Highnesse hath seen or I wish you should see for they are short and sharp But this Bishop with authority and gravity confuted him soundly whereupon Martin Madcap for I think his cap and head had like proportion of wit replying and anabaptized his bastard book by the name of Work for the Cooper and had not the wisdome of the State prevented him I think he and his favourers would have made work for the Tinker And so much of Bishop Cooper though I could adde a report that a great Lord dying in his time bequeathed him a great Legacy but because I have not seen his last testament I cannot precisely affirm it William Wickham This Bishop my Authour professeth to reverence for his names sake and his predecessors sake and I much more for his own sake and his vertues sake About the yeere 1570. he was Vice-provost of Eaton and as the manner was in the Schoolmasters absence would teach the schoole himselfe and direct the boyes for their exercises of which my selfe was one of whom he shewed as fatherly a care as if he had been a second Tutor to me He was reputed there a very milde and good natured man and esteemed a very good Preacher and free from that which St. Paul calleth Idolatry I mean covetousnesse so that one may say probably that as the first William Wickham was one of the richest Prelates that had been in Winchester a long time and bestowed it well so this was one of the poorest and endured it well He preached before the Queen at a Parliament I think the last time that ever he preached before her and indeed it was Cygnea vox sweetest being neerest his end which if I could set down as he delivered were well worth the remembring But the effect was this that the Temporalities of Bishopricks and Lands of Colledges and such like were from the beginning for the most part the graces gifts and Almes of Princes her Majesties progenitors that for some excesses and abuses of some of them they had been and lawfully might be some quite taken away some altered some diminished and that accordingly they were now reduced to a good mediocrity for though there were some farre greater Bishopricks in France Spaine and Germany● yet there were some also lesse and meaner even in Italy But yet he most humbly besought her Majesty to make stay of them at least in this mediocrity for if they should decay so fast in thirty yeeres to come as they had for thirty yeeres past there would hardly be a Cathedrall Church found in good repaire within England

Soveraign and preferrer the last spirituall comfort she took in this World I hope to her eternall comfort and after that he not onely joyned with the other Lords for the proclaiming of King James but on St. James his day following did set the Crown on his head and anointed him with Oyl and so having first seen the Church setled under a religious King and the Crown established in a hopefull succession he fell into a Palsey to which he had been formerly subject and with no long or painful sickness he yielded to nature deserving well this Epitaph written by a young Scholar of Oxford who was with me at the writing hereof Candida dona tibi Whyt●gifte sunt nomen omen Candidior a tuis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dedit Nomen habes 〈◊〉 inscriptum nunc ergo lapi●●o Et sto●● pro meritis redditur alba 〈◊〉 Doctor Richard Bancroft Upon the death of Arch-bishop Whiteguift divers worthy men were named in the vacancy His Majesty not after the manner of some Princes seeking to keep that vacant but rather hastning to fill that The Bishops of Durham and Winchester were as it were voce populi made competitrs with the Bishop of London rather by their eminence of merit and Learning then by any known desire or endeavour of them or their friends Wherein methinks by the way envy it self cannot but gratulate the Church of England that is so furnished with learned Bishops as if choyce had been to be made not by a judicious Prince but by the fortune of a lot among those three and many more beside that could not have fallen amiss But his Majesty had long since understood of his writing against the Genevising and Scotizing Ministers and though some imagined he had therein given the King some distaste yet finding him in the disputations at Hampton Court both learned and stout he did more and more increase his liking to him So that although in the common rumour Thoby Matthew then Bishop of Durham was likest to have carried that so learned a man and so assiduous a Preacher qui in concionibus dominatur as his emulous and enemy wrote of him yet his Majesty in his learning knowing and in his wisdom weighing that this same strict charge Pasce oves mes feed my sheep requires as well a pastorall courage of driving in the stray sheep and driving out the infectious as of feeding the sound made especiall choyce of the Bishop of London as a man more exercised in affaires of the State I will add also my own conjecture out of some of his Majesties own speeches that in respect he was a single man he supposed him the fitter according to Queen Elizabeths principles of state upon whose wise foundations his Majesty doth daily erect more glorious buildings But I lose labour to repeat these things to your Highnesse better known then to my selfe I should onely speak of the former times Of his beginning therefore and rising I will boldly say that which I would I might as truly of all that follow in this Treatise viz. that he came to all his preferments very clearly without prejudice or spoile of his Churches He was Tutor in Cambridge to the Lord Cromwell who had cause to wish and as I have heard hath wisht he had staid with him longer though he were sharp and austere My Lord Chancellor Hatton made speciall choyce of him to be his Examiner Est a liquid de tot Graiorum millibús unum a Diomede legi By his means Queen Elizabeth came to take knowledge of his wisdome and sufficiency He both wrote as I touched before and laboured earnestly by all good means for the suppressing of the fantasticall Novellists After the strange and frantick attempt of Hacket and his fellows which practice though the branches thereof were easily cut off yet was it thought to have a more dangerous and secret root But for these his travels as the Queen and State favoured him so the seditious Sectaries to use Judge Pophams word that would not have them call'd Puritanes they l say no lesse maligned-him in Libels and Rimes for they were void of reasons laying the imputation of Papistry unto him some of them were punished in the Starchamber namely one Darling the last Starchamber day in Queen Elizabeths time was sharply censured And it is no wonder if they lov'd him not for indeed he had stoutly opposed their chiefest darlings As for the imputation of Papistry which they lay on all men that crosse their designes he is so free from it that I can truly affirme the greatest blow the Papists received in all Queen Elizabeths time came from his hand or at least from his head For having wisely observed the emulation ambition and envy that lurked in the minds of their secular Priests and the Jesuits one against another he found the means by the same policy and with the like spirit that St. Paul set the Pharisees against the Sadduces to set the Priests against the Jesuits Watson against Parsons Impar congressus but yet thereby he so divided their languages as scantly they can understand one another as yet These things acted before the King your fathers happy entry I thought good to touch though more sparingly then my particular affection his just deserts do give me occasion Of his late imployments of his great care in setting forward and setting forth all his Majesties godly proceedings though I know much yet if I should say all I know perhaps it is lesse then your Highnesse knowes therefore I will conclude with that which the truth rather then my kindnesse enforceth me to say that no Bishop since I can remember hath been counted more vigilant in looking to his charge Ne quid Ecclesia detrimenti capiat Of the Bishops of London and first of Bishop ELLMER MY purpose in this work from the beginning and my promise to your Highnesse being to adde to this Author a supply of some matters that he purposely omitted writing in the latter yeers of Queen Elizabeth and my relation being to write plainly without feare or favour of those I doe write I will proceed confidently as I have begun in which I perswade my selfe I have some advantage of the Author himselfe for freedome of speech both in the time and many other circumstances For he was no foole that gave that rule Mitissima sors●est Regnorum sub Rege novo Againe I being a Lay-man am not so obnoxious to their apprehensions that may be offended with that I shall say as he was being a Churchman Thirdly I lived in a place where I might know many things without enquiry which had been scarce safe for him in that time to enquire after Lastly he writes to the world publiquely and I but privately to your Highnesse Therefore I will proceed quoad sciam poteroque The first Bishop of London I have to write of is Mr. John Elmer of whom my Author hath spoken-too little and I perhaps shall seem to say too much yet

intended to name Stapletons stay and for that cause invited the Arch-bishop in good kindness to see it and requested him for the more credit and as it were blessing to the house that his grace would give it the foresaid name But when the Arch-bishop had fully beheld it and in his Judgement found it fitter for a Lord Treasurer of England then for a Knight of York-shire He said to him would you have me call this intended House Stapletons Stay Nay rather let me say to you stay Stapleton for if you go forward to set up this House it will pull you down How often a man loses a friend with a jest and how grievous it is for a mans vanity to be crost in the humour This speech of my Lords that I should think intended friendly uttered faithfully and applyed even fatherly unto him he took in so deep disdain and despite that howsoever he smothered it for the present from that time forward he sought a mean to revenge it And wanting neither wit to devise nor courage to execute his design he found out or at least he supposed he had found a stratagem not onely to wreak this scorn on the good Bishop that mistrusted nothing but also to make the old mans purse pay for the finishing of the new house He acquaints him with an Officer in my Lords house some malecontent that had been denyed a Lease These two devise that when my Lord should lie next at Doncaster where the Hostess of the house having been formerly I suppose Mistriss Sands Maid was bold sometimes to bring his Lordship a Cawdle to his Beds side for in charity I may surmise no worse Sir Robert should also by chance come and host at the same house This bad Wife and her good man are made partakers and parties of this stratagem her part was but a naked part viz. to slip into my Lords Bed in her smock mine Hoast must sodainly be jealous and swear that he holds his reputation though he be but a poor man more dear then that he can indure such an indignity and thereupon calls Sir Robert Stapleton brings him to the Bishops Chamber in his Night-gown takes them in bed together with no small exclamation The Knight that acted his part with most art and leaft suspition takes great pains to pacifie the Hoast conjures all that were admitted to secresie and silence and sending all to their Lodgings without tumult asketh of my Lord how this came to passe The Bishop tells him with a great Protestation that he was betrayd by his man and his Hoast little suspecting the Knight to be of the Quorum The Knight sooths him in all he said condoles the great mischance is sorrowfull for the danger and carefull for the honour of the Bishop and specially the Church Proh superi quantum mortalia pecior a caecae Noctis habent ipso sceleris molimine Miles Creditur esse pius The distressed Archbishop distrusting no fraud in him asketh his advise in this disaster and following his counsel from time to time gives the Hoast a peece of money the false Officer a Farm and the Knight for his travail in this matter many friendly recompences But when he found after all this smoothing and soothing that he grew so bold at last to presse him beyond all good manner for the good Mannour of Soothwell then he found that in sooth all was not well and was even compell'd too late to that he might much better have done much sooner viz. To complain to the Lords of the Councel and to his ancient and dear friend the Earl of Leicester for whose Father he had almost lost his life by whose help he got them call'd to the Star-chamber Ore tenus where they were for this conspiracy convicted fined and imprisoned The fame or rather the infamy of this matter specially before their conviction was far and diversly spread according as the Reporters favoured or disfavoured either and the friends of each side had learned their tale so perfect that many long time after held the first impression they had received notwithstanding the censure and sentence in the Starr-chamber Part whereof being that the Knight should publickly acknowledge how he had slandered the Arch-bishop which he did in words conceived to that purpose accordingly yet his friends gave out that all the while he carried a long Whetstone hanging out at the Pocket of his sleeve so conspicuous as men understood his meaning was to give himself the lie which he would not in another matter have taken of any man But thus the Bishop had a Conquest which he had no great comfort of and lived but few years after it and the Knight had a foile that he would not seem much daunted with and lived to have part of his fine releast by his Majesties clemency but yet he tost up and down all his life without any great contentment from Wiltshire into Wales and thence to the Isle of Man a while to Chelsey but little to York-shire where his stay should have been so that of this story I could collect many documents both for Bishops and Knights but that I shun prolixity in a matter no way pleasing Howbeit because one P. R. or R. P. for he can turn his name as Mountebank turns his Capp in his Epistle before the Resolution a Book much praised by Sir Edwin Sand hath a scoffe after his manner at this Hostess of Doncaster I would pray him but to peruse the Life of St. Bernard not that of their lying Legend but that which unworthily perhaps goeth among his most worthy works written by William Abbot in five Books There he shall find in the third Chapter of his first Book how that same maidenly Saint was subject to the like manner of scandall first of a young woman lying by him in naked bed half a night when himself was not 30 year old and yet we must believe he toucht her not and next of his Hostess also offering three timesin one night to come to his Bed and he crying out each time Latrones Latrones Theeves Theeves which our Bishop had much more cause to have cryed and had he but remembred it as I doubt not but he had read it he might peradventure have dissolved the pack with it To utter mine own conceit franckly if Parsons conjecture were true that by humane frailty this Prelate had in his younger dayes been too familiar with this woman which is said to passe but as a veniall sin among those of his Profession yet was the Knights practise very foul and the Lords censure very just that condemned him for I heard Judge Anderson a learned and stout Judge condemn one for a Rape upon the Oath of a Woman notwithstanding the man affirmed and the Woman denyed not but she had often in former times yielded her self to his lust because it seemed she had repented that course of life in betaking her to a Husband So my Lord if he had once