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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

Normans whose posterity continued in great prosperity till the days of her Majesty who for peace for plenty for glory for continuance had exceeded them all that had lived to change all her Councellours but one all officers twice or thrice some Bishops foure times onely the uncertainty of succession gave hopes to Forreiners to attempt fresh invasions and breed feares in many of her Subjects of new Conquest the onely way then said he that is in pollicy left to quase those hopes and to asswage these feares were to establish the succession He noted that Nero was specially hated for wishing to have no Successor that even Augustus was the worse beloved for appointing an ill man to his Successor and at last insinuating as farre as he durst the neernesse of bloud of our present Soveraigne he said plainly that the expectations and presages of all writers went Northward naming without any circumlocution Scotland which said he if it prove an errour yet will it be found a learned errour When he had finished this Sermon there was no man that knew Q. Elizabeths disposition but imagined that such a speech was as welcome as salt to the eyes or to use her own word to pin up her winding sheet before her face so to point out her Successor and urge her to declare him wherefore we all expected that she would not onely have been highly offended but in some present speech have shewed her displeasure It is a principle not to be despised Qui nescit dissimulare nescit regnare she considered perhaps the extraordinary auditory she supposed many of them were of his opinion she might susspect some of them had perswaded him to this motion finally she ascribed so much to his yeares to his place to his learning that when she opened the window we found ourselves all deceived for very kindly and calmly without shew of offence as if she had but waked out of some sleepe she gave him thanks for his very learned Sermon Yet when she had better confidered the matter and recollected her selfe in private she sent two Councellours to him with a sharp message to which he was glad to give a patient answer But in this time that the Lords and Knights of Parliament and others were full of this Sermon a great Peere of the Realme that was then newly recovered of an impediment in his hearing I would he did heare no worse now being in great liking of the Archbishop for this Sermon prayed me to prove my credit with his Grace to get a Copy thereof and to use his name if need were alledging that impediment which caused though he were present that he carried away little of it I did so and withall told how my selfe had stood so incommodiously by meanes of the great presse as I heard it not well but was faine to take much of it on trust on others mens reports who varyed so as some I was sure did him wrong The Archbishop welcom'd me very kindly and made me sit with him a pretty while in his Lodging but in fine he told me plainly he durst give no Copy for that Sir John Fortescue and Sir John Wolley as I remember had beene with him before from the Queene with such a greeting as he scant knew if he were a prisoner or a free man and that the speech being already ill taken the writing might exasperate that which already was exulcerate so he denyed my suit but in so loving a fashion as from that time to his end I did greatly honour him and laid up in my heart many good lessons I learned of him and it was not long ere the Queen was so well pacified that he went downe with the Presidency of Yorke in the vacancy halfe against his will committed to him Till afterward the Lord Burleigh now Earle of Exeter of whose courage fidelity and religious heart the Queen had great assurance was made the Lord President But to returne to this Archbishop as he was in place so was he in learning and especially in reading not second to any in his time insomuch as in Cambridge long since he was one of the chosen disputants before the Queen and a Jesuit 26. yeares since disgracing our English students as neglecting and not reading the fathers excepts this Matthew Hutton and one famous Matthew more and of this Hutton he saith Qui unus in paucis versare patres dicitur who is one of those few that searcheth the fathers for matters of the world I can say but that that is known to the world his eldest sonne is a Knight of faire living and now or lately Sheriffe of Yorkeshire and a man of very good reputation One other Sonne he had that had an ill life brought to a worse end his name was Luke Hutton so valiant that he feared not men nor Laws and for a robbery done on St. Lukes day for names sake he died as bad a death I hope with a better mind then the Theef of whom St. Luke writes that he bad our Saviour if he were Christ to save himself and him The Arch-bishop herein show'd the constancy and severity worthy of his place for he would not endeavour to save him as the world thought he easily might deserving herein the praise of Justice which Eli wanted that was too indulgent of his Sonnes voices and having hereby no blot but such as may sort him with the great Monark of this last age King Philip with two famous Warriors of the old Romans Manlius and Brutus and with the highest Priest even Aaron His own death was more happy then his life to die Satur annorum full of years and to see and leave peace upon Israel Doctor Thoby Matthews The praises of a friend are partiall or suspicious of strangers uncertain and not iudicious of courtly persons complementall and mannerly of Learned and wise men more pretious of a Prince most cordiall and comfortable but of an adversary though often dangerous yet never undeserved what exceptions then can be taken to his just prayses whom friends commend strangers admire Nobles imbrace the Learned affect and imitate his Soveraigns have advanced and even his enemy and emulous cannot chuse but extoll and approve For Edmond Campion in his Pamphlet of the ten reasons which the Catholiques count an Epitome of all their Doctrine labouring to prove that the Fathers were all Papists to give the uttermost credit he can to his assertion saith that Thoby Matthew confest to him so much Pertentavimus saith he aliquando familiariter Thobiam Mattheum qui nunc in concionibus dominatur quem propter bonas artes virtutum semina dileximus We did once in familiar sort sound Thoby Matthews opinion he that now domineers in your Pulpits whom for his good learning and seeds of vertue we esteemed c. This then is the testimoniall of their Champion concerning his excellent guifts 27 yeers since if this commendation were then due as indeed except it had been very due that

wizards to which kind of men that age was much affected concerning the new Prince who was after Henry the 8th of his incest ious marriage of the decay of his off-spring that he should pull down what the Kings had builded which no marvell if the Bishop being by Sirname a King mistrusted to pertaine also to his buildings I heard by one Flower of Phillips Nortor who said he saw Henry the seventh in this country that this Bishop would wish he paid above the price of it so it might have been finished for if he ended it not it would be pulled downe e're it were perfected As for the later predictions or rather postfictions since this Bishops death I willingly omit concerning the Successors of this Bishop as things worthier to be contemned then condemned written by Cole-prophets upon whited walls which the Italian calls the paper of fooles Muro bianco charta di matio of which sort many have beene made as well by our owne Country men as others but the best I remember was this written by an English gentleman since the three and fortieth yeare of Queen Elizabeth on the Church wall with a Charcole O Church I waile thy woofull plight Whom King nor Cardinal Clark nor Knight Have yet restored to ancient right Subscribed Ignoto Whereunto a Captaine of an other Country wrot this for the comfort of this Church and I wish him to prove a true prophet though perhaps he dyed rather a Martyr Be blythe faire Kirk when Hempe is past Thine Olive that ill winds did blast Shall flourish greene for aye to last Subscribed Cassadore But to proceed in this sad story and leave this pleasant poetry to pursue truths and eschue fictions to imbrace reason and refuse rime it is most apparent that after the death of this Oliver King his Successors Cardinall Adrian Cardinall Woolsey Bishop Clerke and Bishop Knight all succeeded in five and thirty yeares of which the first two were supposed to poyson themselves the third to be poysoned by others the last survived to see the death or at least the deadly wound of this Church for while the builders were ready to have finisht it the destroyers came to demolish it yet to give the Devill his right as the Proverb is it is said that the Commissioners in reverence and compassion of the place did so far strain their Commission that they offered to sell the whole Church to the Town under 500 Marks But the Townsmen fearing they might be thought to couzen the King if they bought it so cheap or that it might after as many things were be found conceal'd utterly refused it whereupon certain Merchants bought all the glasse Iron Bells and Lead of which Lead alone was accounted for as I have credibly heard 480 tun worth at this day 4800 But what became of these spoiles and spoylers Desit in hac miki parte fides neque credite factum Aut si credetis facti quoque credite paenam For I may well say Non possum quin exclamem But in a word soonafter the sellers lost their heads the buyers lost their goods being laid up in the great Treasury of Antichrist I mean drowned in the Sea from whence as some write by the Devills power he shall recover all lost treasures for the maintaining of his unmeasurable guists Thus speedily it was pull'd down but how slow it hath risen again I may blush to write Collections have been made over all England with which the Chancel is covered with blew slate and an Alms house built ex abundantia but the whole body of the Church stands bare ex humilitate The rest of the money never coming to the Townsmens hands is laid up as I suppose with that money collected for Pauls Steeple which I leave to a melius inquirendum And thus the Church lies still like the poor Traveller mentioned in the 10 of Luke spoiled and wounded by theeves The Priests go by the Levites go by but do nothing Onely a good Samaritan honest M. Billet worthy to be billited in the new Jerusalem hath powr'd some Qyl in the wounds and maintained it in life In so much as a wealthy Citizen of London hath adventured to set his Tomb there whom I commend more worthily then the Senate of Rome did thank Karra at his return from Cannas quod de salute reipublicae non desperasset for it seems this honest Citizen did not despair of the reedifying this Church that gave order to be richly entomb'd therein and thus much be said of this last Church of Bath Bishop Barlow The next I am to write of is Bishop Barlow of whom my Authour in this Book saith little in the Latin Treatise there is somewhat more and I will add a word to both Bath as I have noted before is but a title in this Bishoprick so as for many years Bath had the Name but Wells had the game but yet that one may know they be Sisters Your Highness shall understand that this game I speak of which was one of the fairest of England by certein booty play between a Protector and a Bishop I suppose it was at Tictak was like to have been lost with a why not and to use rather another mans word then mine own to explain this Metaphor thus saith the latine Relation of him He was a man no less godly then learned but not so markable in any thing as in his fortunate off-spring for which Niobe and Latona might envy them happy in his own Children more happy in their Matches to let passe his Sonnes of whom one is now Prebend in Wells and esteemed most worthy of such a Father He had five Daughters whom he bestowed on five most worthy men of which three are Bishops at this hour the other for their merit are in mens expectation designed to the like dignity hereafter Howbeit saith he in one thing this Prelate is to be deemed unfortunate that while he was Bishop his Sea received so great a blow losing at one clap all the Rents and Revenues belonging to it Thus he and soon after he tells that for his Mariage he was deprived and lived as a man banisht in Germany Here is his praise here is his dispraise If he were deprived for a lawfull Act no marvel if he be deprived for an unlawful sith then my Authour compares his felicity with that of Niobe I will also compare his misfortune with Peleus making Ovids verse to serve my turn in changing but a word or two Faelix Natis faelix conjuge Barlow Et cuisi demas spoliati crimina templi Omnia contiger ant hoc tanto crimine sontem accepit profugum patria Germanica tellus But God would not suffer this morsell to be quite swallowed but that it choaked the feeders to say nothing in this place but how the Protector was foretold by a Poet that he should lose his head Aestatis sedes qui sacras diruis aedes pro certo credes quod