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A30331	A continuation of reflections on Mr. Varillas's History of heresies particularly on that which relates to English affairs in his third and fourth tomes / by G. Burnet ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1687 (1687)	Wing B5771; ESTC R23040	59,719	162

himself was expected he professed himself a Lutheran and took a Wife whom he had seduced while he was in Germany and had entertained ever after as a Concubine 1. Cranmer did not set out his Catechism till about two years after his 2. Somerset and He were always in a very perfect Friendship 3. He had married his Wise before he came out of Germany and had owned it to King Henry It is true upon the Act of the six Articles he had sent her over to Germany so that all he did at this time was only to bring her over again and to own her more publickly XLIII I pass over what he says here of Latimers Degradation having reflected on that formerly he says The Duke of Sommerset set two men about the King for his Education the one was Richard Croc and the other was John Cheek a Libertin that every day gave new cause of Scandal But 1. These who were trusted with the Education of King Edward were no other than those that his Father had set about him ever since he was six Year old as is set down by that young King in the Iournal of his own Life writ with his own hand 2. Our Author it seems knows both their Names and their Characters alike for he whom he calls Croc was Cox and for Sr. Iohn Cheek he was not only one of the learnedest but was esteemed one of the vertuousest Gentlemen of his Age he was indeed prevailed on thro fear to sign an Abjuration of his Religion in Queen Mary's days but that did so strike him that he not only went out of England quickly and made an open Retractation of what he had done but was so affected with the sense of it that he could never overcome it but fell into a Languishing of which he soon after died XLIV He says that Bucer avowed to the Duke of Northumberland that he did not believe all that was said of Jesus Christ in the New Testament 1. Sanders who very probably made this Story said it was to the Lord Paget that Bucer said this but now the man is changed 2. If this had been said to the Duke of Northumberland it is very probable that when he declared his Aversion to the Reformed Religion and to the Preachers of it at his death this which was beyond all other things would have been mentioned 3. Or at least when Bucer's Process was made and his Body burnt this would have been very probably made use of if the Lye had been then made 4. No man of that Age writ with a greater sense of the Kingdom of Christ than Bucer did in the Book on that subject which he writ for King Edward's use XLV He tells us that on the fourth of November 1547. at London a new form of Religion was set up which as to the Doctrine was almost the same with Calvinism but they retained the Rites and the exterior of Lutheranism they appointed all the Church-Lands of England to be annexed to the Crown and never to be again dissolved from it they also appointed that there should be a new form of Administring the Sacraments different from the Roman that Bishops and Priests should be ordained by this Form that Images which were yet held in reverence in some places for the Miracles that had been wrought before them should be taken away and the Kings Arms put in their stead that the Roman Missal should be abolished and that the Sacrament should be given in both kinds and in fine that the Divine Offices and above all the Canon of the Liturgy should be said only in English tho the Irish and Welsh who were almost as numerous as the English understood that Langage no more than they did the Latin And thus by a Revolution that will appear almost incredible to those who know perfectly the Genius of the English Nation they peaceably changed their Religion under a Minority without any Opposition Here much patience is requisite to read or examin such a confusion of matters as Mr. Varillas gives us all at once But 1. The new form of Religion was not set out till five year after this in the year 1552. 2. The Church-Lands were never annexed to the Crown but Mr. Varillas's mistake is that those Chantry-Lands that had not been suppressed by King Henry were indeed given to King Edward by an Act that passed not the fourth of November but the fourteenth of December 1547. 3. The new form of Administring the Sacraments was not set out till the fifteenth of Ianuary 1549. 4. The new form of Ordinations was not set out before the year 1550. 5. Images were ordered to be all removed by an Order from the Council the eleventh of February 1548. 6. There was never an Order made for setting up the King's Arms in the Churches tho it was done in most places 7. Our Author had said that a new form of Administring the Sacraments different from the Roman was appointed and now as in a new Article he tells us that the Roman Missal was abolished but this is one of the Indications from which we may measure his profound Judgment 8. He puts at the end that the Sacrament was appointed to be given in both kinds whereas this was done first of all in an Act that past the twentieth of December 1547. 9. He very learnedly makes a distinction between the Divine Offices and the Canon of the Liturgy tho as they are in themselves one and the same thing they are likewise used promiscuously in England 10. The Law for the Service in English did not extend to Ireland and care was taken to put it quickly into Welch 11. It seems he knows the estimate of our Numbers as well as he does other things who says the Welch and Irish are as many almost as the English whereas they are not perhaps above the tenth man to the English 12. Thus we see his fruitful fourth of November 1547. which he had made so productive is stript of all and not any one of all those great Changes belongs to it But to comfort Mr. Varillas a little I will tell him that the Parliament that enacted one or two of the things he names was indeed opened the fourth of November 1547. but it is long after a Parliament is opened before an Act is passed and thus it appears that all that sudden change was a Dream of our Author XLVI He says There were five Bishops London Winchester Duresm Chichester and Worcester and some of the most learned in the House of Commons that opposed these things but yet as soon as they were decreed they complyed and professed the new Religion There were many of the other Bishops that opposed them as well as those five nor did they ever concur with that which he calls the new Religion for they were all turned out of their Bishopricks before the year 1552. in which the Articles of our Religion were agreed on and set out by Authority So that if

so that Princess Mary was considered not only as the Presumptive but as the necessary Heir of the Crown But at this time the Prince of Spain lost his Wife and Charles the fifth comforted himself with the hopes of uniting England to his other Dominions by marrying his Son to her so that Emperour resolved to protect her and sent Vargas both to entreat and if that prevailed not to threaten Somerset in case he gave any further disturbance to her upon which he was forced to let that matter fall All this is so false that the Emperour set on a Treaty of Marriage for the Princess with the Prince of Portugal of which I gave an account in my History but since that time a Volum of Original Letters has been sent me by the Heirs of Sr. Philip Hobby who was then Ambassadour in the Emperours Court in which I find more particulars relating both to this Marriage and to the Princesses permission for having Mass in her House There is one Letter dated the 19. of March 1550. signed by all the Council in which they write that since the Infant of Portugal was only the Kings Brother they give up the Treaty for the Match yet the Emperour insisted on the Proposition that he had made so there is another Original Letter dated the 20. of April thereafter in which they desire to hear all the particulars that related to the Infant of Portugal and in that they write That as for the Lady Mary 's Mass they had formerly connived at it but now stricter Laws were made they had connived so long hoping that at last she would be prevailed upon but that a diversity of Rites in matters of Religion was not tolerable therefore they would grant her no Licence yet they would connive at her a little longer but She abused the young Kings Goodness for she kept as it were open Church both for her Servants and Neighbours They therefore conclude wishing that the Emperour would give her good Advice in this matter This Letter of which I had the Original long in my hands is signed by ten Privy Councellours and will be I suppose a little better believed than the quotation that Mr. Varillas sets on his Margin of Vargas's Negotiation and all this was transfacted after the Duke of Somersets Disgrace LI. He tells us a long story of the methods that the Admiral used to compass the Marriage of the Queen Dowager and the ways he took to engage his Brother Somerset to consent to it Somerset moved it to the King who consented to it likewise so that the Marriage was made up in hast and without any solemnity Mr. Varillas knows this matter as he does other things notwithstanding the shew he makes by citing on the Margin the Relation of that Intrigue which is another of his Impostures for by the Articles that were objected to the Admiral which are in print and of which the Original is yet extant in the Council Book it appears that the Admiral had first courted the Kings Sister Elisabeth and that failing in this design he afterwards married the Queen Dowager so secretly that none knew of it and so indecently that if she had become with Child soon after the marriage there would have been a great doubt whether the Child should have been accounted K. Henry's or His that he kept the Marriage long secret he prevailed with the King to write to the Q. Dowager and with his Brother to speak to her in his Favour and when all this was done then the Marriage was declared So that all his Fictions of Somerset's design of marrying his Daughter to the King and of the Remonstrances that the Admiral made to his Brother as well as his Citation are manifestly false LII He sets out the common story of the Dutchess of Somerset's Disputing the Place with the Q. Dowager and as if it had been a great Affair he spends two Pages arguing both their Pretensions He reckons up the Duke of Somersets Dignities 1. He was the Kings Governour 2. He was Regent of the Kingdom 3. He was Protector of the English Nation a dignity inferiour to none of the other which was not much inferiour to the Dictatorship among the Ancient Romans and on the other hand the Admiral was the second Office of the Crown and a Charge for Life So that here was as he thought a Section fit to be copied out by those who would treat of Precedence But 1. I have shewed fully that all this quarrel of Precedence among the Ladies seems a Fiction for it is not mentioned in all that time 2. The Offices of state in England do not communicate any Honour to the Wife So that the Queen Dowager had either still her rank of Queen Dowager or she was only a Baroness her Husband the Admiral being only a Baron As the Dutchess of Somerset had only the rank of a Dutchess 3. It is clear that the Q. Dowager retained her rank and was mentioned in all the publick Prayers even before the Kings Sister 4. All those three places that Mr. Varillas gives Somerset were but one single Office and held by one single Patent for to be Protector and Regent is the same thing in England His comparing the Protectors Dignity to that of the Roman Dictators is another stroke of his ill-will to the Crown of England for among the Romans all other Offices ceased when there was a Dictator so if this were in the English Law here were a short way of Dethroning our Kings 5. The Admiral is far from being the second Office of the Crown for it only has the Precedence of all those that are of the same rank so that the Admiral was only in rank the first Baron of England and tho the great Navyes that have been built since that time have made it indeed the first Office as to the real value of it yet it was but an ordinary elevation when there were no Royal Fleets 6. The Admiral 's charge is forfeitable as well as any other in England and of this a remarkable Instance appeared in the year 1673. 7. The true occasion of the Quarrel between the Brothers was that tho the Protector was Governour of the King's person yet these two trusts had been sometimes divided so the Admiral pretended to be made the Governour of the King's person and this gave his Brother just cause of Jealousy He had engaged all that were about the King in his Interests and had once got the young King to write a Letter to the Parliament recommending it to them The Protector was twice willing to be reconciled to him after great Quarrellings but his Ambition was incurable Now since all this Process and the Articles against the Admiral are printed from the Original Records it is like Mr. Varillas to falsify this matter as he does LIII He tells a long Story of a Sermon of Latimers in which he named the Admiral as one that disturbed the Regency and this