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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

that fatall fce the line of life did lose And in the belly of the earth as earth shee did him close 21. The Prince may plaine his death the Realm his lack may rue All men may say O Winchester most worthy wight adue 22. The poor may plaine and pine whose lacks he did relieve His Servants may lament their Lord which Lordly did them give 23. The Bishops may behold a Bishop then bereft A perfect Priest a shield of faith a mirrour of them left 24. His foes if any were that first did wish him gone In length of time and lack of life too late his loss will mone 25. O Pastor past this Pilgrims pain in earth thine Acts do live In skies thy vertues written are all penns thee praise shall give 26. Which after all these heaps of kap a happy life hast led And in the happiest hap of all in fame and love art dead The same answered verse for verse by an Ill-willer of the said Bishop 1. THe Devils in Hell do dance this Realm and we may joy Since they have got and we forgone the cause of our Annoy 2. Though death hath wipt out life yet death cannot outrace His wicked works usurped state nor faults of his deface 3. A Gardner such he was as spoiled so our plants That Justice withered mercy dy'd and we wrong by their wants 4. A Stev'n in name a Fox in fact a Bishop but in Weeds A faithless man full fraught with frauds as deem him by his deeds 5. A partiall Judge in Judgement seat of parties great respect A blinded eye a closed eare a hand with bribe infect 6. A heart to harm and not to help his lust was laid far low A mind with malice over-whelm'd of God nor man no awe 7. A fained fickle friend and false that right could never bid A courage every storm cast down and praise puft up with pride 8. Of fowle reports and slanderous bruts he nourisht up the brood His wrongs to pardon or to passe revenge and rage withstood 9. A tri'd untruth in trust As tongues well try'd have told A mouth that breath'd more odious lies then It ' upbraid am bold 10. Scant Natures Child by birth sure Satans sonne in right Which rule maintain'd with sword fire and measur'd all by might 11. Ambitious clyming Cliffe had ravisht so his mind As he was sotted drunk therein and fortune made him blind 12. The smell of prisons misery felt his pride did greatly pall He bare his staffe so staggeringly as each change seem'd a fall 13. In all these turns of joy and woe he turned with the best And never left the surer side till breath did leave his brest 14. From Widow course and Orphans crie his end him cannot save Though that have rid kim of his raigne unworthy rule to have 15. Who can give thanks and joy enough that we have scapt this syre This monstrous man this bloody beast when most we did desire 16. When yeeres had fram'd him fit for Hell and pride so high had set As God nor man nor self he knew and might with mischiefmet 17. And when the envy and the hate he wan of every wight And falshood florisht in his Fort and wrong had wrong outright 18. And when he gloried most in pomp in honour and in health And by affection conquered all and wallowed all in wealth 19. And in the Office that he bare to rule above the Queen So cruel and so merciless scarce ever man was seen 20. Then God that most just Judge lifes line to part was pleas'd The Earth his Carrion corps hath caught the Devil his soulhath seiz'd 21. The Prince his death may please this Realm his life doth rue All men may well his birth-day ban this cursed wretch that knew 22. The poor may plain and pine for none be would relieve His men may joy his death was such his Goods were his to give 23. Good Bishops may beware this Ravener them bereft This popish-priest this shield of wrong a warning for them left 24. His friends if any were that wisht him longer ruigne With length of time might cause have caught too late his rule to plain 25. O thou devourer of the good thy wrongs in earth do dwell Thy cruel thirst of guiltless blood now must thou quench in hell 26. Which in the world of deadly hurts most burtfull life didst lead And now with Englands common jay in shame and hate art dead Which of these wrote truest I will not take upon me to judge left I should be thought partiall but that saying appeares true Scribit in Marmore laesus Therefore I will conclude against all partiall Poets with two verses of Horace Falsus honor juvat et mendax infamia terret Quem nisi mendosum mendacem Doctor John White He was born of a worshipfull house and in the Diocess of Winchester and became after Warden of Winchester thence for his great learning and vertuous life prefer'd to the Bishoprick of Lincoln and after upon the death of Stephen Gardner made Bishop of Winchester wherefore of him I may say his fame did well answer his name and so would all men say how contrary soever to him in Religion but for one black Sermon that he made yet for the colour is may be said he kept decorum because that was a Funerall Sermon of a great Queen both by birth and mariage I mean Q. Mary But the offence taken against him was this His Text was out of Eccles. 4. 2. Laudavi mortuos magis quam viventes faliciorem utroque judicavi qui nec dum natus est And speaking of Queen Mary her high Parentage Her bountifull disposition Her great gravity Her rare devotion praying so much as he affirmed that her knees were hard with kneeling Her Justice and Clemency in restoring Noble Houses to her own privat losse and hindrance And lastly her grievous yet patient death He fell into such an unfaigned weeping that for a long space he could not speak Then recovering himself he said she had left a Sister to succeed her a Lady of great worth also whom they were now bound to obey for saith he melior est Canis vivus Leone mortuo I hope so shall raign well and prosperously over us but I must say still with my Text Laudavi mortuos magis quam viventes for certain that is Maria optimam partem elegit thus he at which Queen Elizabeth taking just indignation put him in prison yet would proceed no further then to his deprivation though some would have made that a more haynous matter He was a man of austere life and much more mortified to the World than his Predecessor Gardiner who was noted for ambitious but vet to his Prince very obsequious But if Doctor White had had a true propheticall spirit he might have urged the second part of his Text Sed faeliciorem utroque judicavi qui nec dum natus et for that may seem

did yeeld in those many points of Popery 1. Supremacy 2. The marriage of some Ministers 3. The Sacrament in both kinds 4. Removing Images 5. Justification But now for his sharp persecuting or rather revenging himselfe on Cranmer and Ridley that had in King Edwards daies deprived him his too great cruelty cannot be excused Lastly the plots he laid to entrap the Lady Elizabeth his terrible hard usage of all her followers I cannot yet scarce think of with charity nor write of with patience My father onely for carrying a Letter to the Lady Elizabeth and professing to wish her well he kept in the Tower 12 moneths and made him spend a thousand pounds ere he could be free of that trouble My mother that then served the said Lady Elizabeth he caused to be sequestred from her as an heretick insomuch that her own father durst not take her into his house but she was glad to sojourne with one Mr. Topcliff so as I may say in some sort this Bishop persecuted me before I was born Yet that I speak not at all in passion I must confesse I have heard some as partially praise his clemency and good conscience and namely that he was cause of restoring many honourable houses overthrown by King Henry the eighth and in King Edwards minority The Duke of Norfolke though Mr. Fox saith that Gardiner made him stay long for his dinner one day yet both he and those descended of him were beholding to him with the house of Stanhops and the Lord Arundell of Warder and I have heard old Sir Matthew Arundell say that Bonner was more faulty then he and that Gardiner would rate at him for it and call him asse for using poor men so bloodily and when I would maintain the contrary he would say that my father was worthy to have lain in prison a yeer longer for the saucy sonnet he wrote to him from out of the Tower which sonnet both because it was written in defence of Queen Elizabeth and because if I be not partiall it is no ill Verse for those unrefined times and toucheth the matter I enforce I will here set down presupposing that in the eleven moneths before he had sent him many Letters and Petitions full of reason that could not prevaile for his liberty The distressed prisoner writeth this Rime 1. At least withdraw your cruelty or force the time to work your will It is too much extremity to keep me pent in prison still Free from all fault voyd of all cause Without all right against all lawes How can you doe more cruell spight Then proffer wrong and promise right Nor can accuse nor will acquight 2. Eleven moneths past and longer space I have abid your divellish drifts While you have sought both man and place and set your snares with all your shifts The fault lesse foot to wr ap in wile With any guilt by any guile And now you see that will not be How can you thus for shame agree To keep him bound you can set free 3. Your chance was once as mine is now to keep this hold against your will And then you sware you know well how Though now you swearve I know how ill But thus the world his course doth passe The Priest forgets a Clerke he was And you that then cry'd justice still And now have justice at your will Wrest justice wrong against all skill 4. But why doe I thus coldly plaine as if it were my cause alone When cause doth each man so constraine as England through hath cause to moane To see your bloody search of such Whom all the Earth can no way touch And better were that all your kind Like hounds in hel with shame were shrind Then you had might unto your mind 5. But as the stone that strikes the wall sometimes bounds back on th' hurlers head So your foule fetch to your foule fall may turn and noy the brest that bred And then such measure as you gave Of right and justice look to have If good or ill if short or long If false or true if right or wrong And thus till then I end my Song But to shew a pattern what partiality can paint in his praise and what ill will can pervert to reproach I will adde an Elegie in English also written by one Mr. Prideaux in commendation and the same answered in execration of the same Bishop 1. THe Saints in Heaven rejoyce this earth and we may waile Sith they have won and we have lost the guide of our availe 2. Though death hath loosed life yet death could not deface His worthy work his stayed state nor yet his gifts of grace 3. As Gardner was his name So Gardned he his life With justice and with mercy both to 'stroy the weeds of strife 4. A Steven in Religion stout a Bishop by his acts A faithfull man most free from fraud as witnesse be his facts 5. A Judge most just in judgement seat of parties no regard An Eye to see an Eare to heare a hand that shunn'd reward 6. A heart to help and not to harm his will was wisdomes law A minde that malice could not move such was of God his awe 7. A faith in friendship firm and fast a mount the right to raise A Spright ' not pall'd with slanderous bruits nor puft with pride by praise 8. Not light of credit to reports revenge he never sought But would forgive and did forget the wrongs that were him wrought 9. A truth so tri'd in trust as tongue could never taint Nor earst was heard in guilefull wise a lie with lips to paint 10. Though Natures child by birth yet vertues heir by right Which held his height so madestly as measure master'd might 11. Ambitions climing cliffe could never move his minde Nor fortune with her fawning cheer his heart did ever blind 12. Nor Misery which most he felt or prison might him pall But bare his minde in levell so as change could be no fall 13. In all these turns of joy and woe he turned to the best And held him to the tried truth which now hath won him rest 14. From foes deface and envies bell his end hath made him free And pluckt him from this wicked world too worthy here to be 15. Who can give tears enough to plaino the losse and lack we have So rare a man so soon bereft when most we did him crave 16. When age and yeers had made him ripe and surely had him set To know himselfe and weeld the world and right with mercy met 17. And when of envy and of hate the conquest he had wonne And falsehood forc'd to fly his fort and right his race to run 18. And when of glory and of grace he wonne the palm and price And conquered all affections force with wisdoms good advice 19. And in the office that he bare and service of his Queen So choice a man to serve her call scarce anywhere was seen 20. Then death

Winchester In the mean season a crew of mutinous souldiers a forlorne hope untertook to surprize one of the twelve fortresses of our faith I mean one of twelve Articles of the Creed and ere men were aware they had entred by a Postern corrupted a Watchman or two thrown down a battlement and set up their Colours of white and black black and blew had been fitter for them publishing a book in print that Christ descended not into Hell The alarum was taken by many faithfull servitors of the Militant Church but many were not found fit for this enterprize for that was whispered nay rather publisht in the enemies Camp that some cowardly souldiers of our side had made a motion to have this Fort or part thereof rased because there was thought to be perill in defending of it for so Campian writes confidently that Cheyney Bishop of Gloucester had affirmed to him how it had been moved in a Convocation at London Quemadmodum sine tumultu penitus eximatur de symbolo how without many words it might be taken out of the Creed wholy But I leave Erasmus eccho to answer it oly True it is there was a hot shot one Mr. Browghton no Cannonere for he loves no Cannons but that could skill of such fireworks as might seem to put out hell fire this hot braine having with a Petard or two broken open some old dore tooke upou him with like Powder out of some Basilisk as I think to shoot Hades quite beyond Sunne and Moon such a Powder-work against all Divinity and Philosophy as was never heard of alwaies excepting the powder-treason Then this learned Bishop like a worthy leader that I proceed in this metaphor with a resolute Troop not of loose shot but gravis armaturae arm'd to proofe out of Christs armorie the old and new Testament Fathers Doctors Schoolmen Linguists encounters these Lanzbezzadoes casts down their Colours repaires up the raines beautifies the battlements rams up the mynes and makes such ravelings and counter-searfes about this Fort that now none of the Twelve may seem more impregnable Their great Inginere before mentioned upon griefe of this repulse is gone as I heare to teach the Jewes Hebrew God send him to scape Hades at the end of his journey Yet in the heat of these skirmishes there happened an accident worthy to be remembred and I think by the very devise of the divell This Bishop preaching at Pauls Crosse upon this Article of the Creed and there proving by authority irrefragable that hell is a place prepared for the Divel and his angels that it is beneath in corde terrae and that Christ descended into it Satan that knew all this to be true and was sorry to remember it and wisht that none of the Auditors would believe it raised a sudden and causelesse feare by the fraud or folly of some one auditor This feare so incredibly possest not onely the whole multitude but the Lord Major and other Lords there that they verily believed Pauls Church was at that instant falling down whereby such a tumult was raised as not onely disturbed their devotion and attention but did indeed put some of the gravest wisest and noblest of that assembly into evident hazard of their lives as I have heard of some of their own mouthes The Bishop not so dismayed himselfe sympathizing in pitty rather then feare of their causelesse dismay after the tumult was a little pacified finished his Sermon upon which accident some favourers of that opinion make themselves merry with this story that at least that which they could not confute they might seem to contemn Of EELY Doctor Martin Heaton OF Eely I have not much to say yet in a little I may be thought by some to say too much which I will adventure rather then your Highnesse shall blame me for saying nothing I was among others at Bishop Cox his funerall being then either Batcheler or a very young Master of Arts but some yeeres after we thought it would have proved the Funerall of the Bishoprick as well as of the Bishop Something there was that had distasted the Queen concerning Bishop Cox in his life time either his much retirednesse or small hospitality or the spoyl he was said to make of woods and Parks feeding his family with powdred venison all which I know not how truly was suggested to her against him in his life time and remembred after his death For our opinion of him in Cambridge we held him a good scholler and a better Poet then Doctor Haddon who call'd him Master whether as having been his scholler or servan't I know not but among his Poems is extant a Distick written to B. Cox Vix Caput attollens e lecto scribere carmen Qui velit is voluit scribere plura vale which Verse being but even a sick Verse he answered ex tempore as they tell with this Te magis optarem salvum sine carmine fili Quam sine te salvo carmina multa Vale As for his Church of Eely it seemed he had no great love there to have his monument defaced within twenty yeeres as this Authour writes so as remembring his good beginning one may say of him coepisti melius quam desinis But to let him rest I must confesse that it was held for one of the blemishes of Queen Elizabeths Virgin raigne First to keep this Sea of Eely vacant so long after Bishop Coxes death and after to take away so large a portion from it as is generally spoken yet that I may both speak my conscience and shew my charity as well to my deceased Soveraigne as to the reverend Bishop yet living I will say this First I could wish it had not been so and that the occasion of such a scandall between the Crown and Miter had been taken away Secondly I doe say for the Queen she did no new thing and it is held a principle of State that whatsoever there is a president for is lawfull for a Prince I consider further that Eely was a Bishoprick of none of the first erections but many yeeres after the conquest so as England stood christned without a Bishoprick of Eely from Augustine the Monk above five hundred yeeres It was a place also that the Crown had been jealous of for the strength of it having sometime held out the Conquerour as our writers affirm and King Henry the third a wise and fortunate Prince said it was not fit for a Cloyster man and of late yeeres Mooreton undertook to hold it against Richard the third for Henry the second Adde hereunto that though it was vacant in name yet the profits thereof may seem to have been perhaps more charitably and honourably imployed then before to relieve the poore distressed King of Portugall who was call'd by some Schollers Bishop of Eely which is lesse scandalous then for Jeffrey Plant agenet to hold the Bishoprick of Lincoln for seven yeeres without consecration the Sea being kept voyd seventeen