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B10268	The reformation of the Church of Ireland, in the life and death of George Browne some time Arch-bishop of Dublin, being the first of the Romish clergy that adhered here in Ireland, to the reformation of the Protestant Church of England; being then reformed within this realm of Ireland. Anno 1551.	Ware, Robert, d. 1696.; Browne, George, d. 1556.	1681 (1681)	Wing W851A; ESTC R230801	18,741	24

same When the Liturgy of ●he Church ●f England ●as first read 〈◊〉 Dublin King Henry the 8th deceasing and his hopeful Offspring King Edward the 6th succeeding within a short space after his Royal Fathers Death that hopeful Prince by the Advice of his Privy Council began to consider what good Effects the Translation of the holy Bible had done also how much it had enlightened the Understanding of his Subjects they altered the Liturgy Book from what King Henry had formerly printed and established causing the same to be printed in English commanding the same to be read and sing in the several Cathedrals and Parish Churches of England for the common Benefit of the Nobility Gentry and Commonalty and that his Subjects of Ireland might likewise participate of the same Sweetness he sent over Orders to his Vice Roy Sir Anthony St. Leger then being Lord Deputy of that Nation that the same be forthwith there in Ireland observed within their several Bishopricks Cathedrals and Parish Churches which was first observed in Christ Church at Dublin on the Feast of Easter 1551. before the said Sir Anthony George Browne and before the Mayor and Bayliffs of Dublin John Lockwood being then Dean of the said Cathedral The Translation of the Copy of the Order for the Liturgy of the Church of England to be read in Ireland runs as follows EDWARD by the Grace of God c. K. Edvvards Order for the Liturgy of the Church of England to be read in Ireland WHereas our Gratious Father King Henry the 8th of happy memory taking into consideration the Bondage and heavy Yoak that his true and faithful Subjects sustained under the Iurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome as also the Ignorance the Commonalty were in how several fabulous Stories and lying Wonders misled our Subjects in both our Realms of England and Ireland grasping thereby the means thereof into their hands also dispensing with the Sins of our Nations by their Indulgences and Pardons for Gain purposely to cherish all evil Vices as Robberies Rebellions Thefts Whoredoms Blasphemy Idolatry c. He our Gratious Father King Henry of happy memory hereupon dissolved all Priorys Monastrys Abbeys and other pretended Religious Houses as being but Nurseries for Vice and Luxury more then for sacred Learning He therefore that it might more plainly appear to the World that those Orders had kept the light of the Gospel from his People He thought it most fit and convenient for the Preservation of their Souls and Bodies that the holy Scriptures should be Translated Printed and placed in all Parish Churches within his Dominions for his faithful Subjeccts to encrease their Knowledge of God and of our Saviour Iesus Christ We therefore for the general Benefit of our well-beloved Subjects Vnderstandings when ever assembled or met together in the said several Parish Churches either to pray or to hear Prayers read that they may the better joyn therein in Vnity Hearts and Voice have caused the Liturgy and Prayers of the Church to be translated into our Mother Tongue of this Realm of England according to the Assembly of Divines lately met within the same for that purpose We therefore Will and Command as also Authorize you Sir Anthony St. Leger Knight our Vice-Roy of that our Kingdom of Ireland to give special notice to all our Clergy as well Archbishops Bishops Deans Archdeacons as other our Secular Parish Priests within that our said Kingdom of Ireland to perfect execute and obey this our Royal Will Pleasure accordingly Given at our Mannor of Greenwich Febr. 6. in the Fifth year of our Reign E. R. To our trusty and well-beloved Sir Anth. St. Leger Knt. our Chief Governour of our Kingdom of Ireland Several Collections from Anthony Martin formerly Bishop of Meath An Assembly called on this Order of King Edwards BEfore Proclamations were issued out Sir Anthony St. Leger upon His Order called an Assembly of the Archbishops and Bishops together with other of the then Clergy of Ireland in which Assembly he signified unto them as well His Majesties Order aforesaid as also the Opinions of those Bishops and Clergy of England who had adhered unto the Order saying that it was His Majesties Will and Pleasure consenting unto their serious Considerations and Opinions then acted and agreed on in England as to Ecclesiastical matters that the same be in Ireland so likewise celebrated and performed Sir Anthony St. Leger his Arguments with George Dowdall Armachanus Sir Anthony St. Leger having spoken to this effect George Dowdall who succeeded George Cromer in the Primacy of Armagh stood up who through his Romish Zeal to the Pope laboured with all his power and force to oppose the Liturgy of the Church that it might not be read or sung in the Church saying then shall every illiterate fellow read Service or Mass as he in those days termed the word Service Sir Anthony his reply to George Dowdall To this Saying of the Archbishops Sir Anthony replyed No your Grace is mistaken for we have two many illiterate Priests amongst us already who neither can pronounce the Latine nor know what it means no more than the Common people that hear them but when the people hear the Liturgy in English they and the Priest will then understand what they pray for Gerge Dowdall to Sir Anthony Upon this Reply George Dowdall bade Sir Anthony beware of the Clergies Curse Sir Anthony to Geo. Dovvdall Sir Anthony made answer I fear no strange Curse so long as I have the Blessing of that Church which I believe to be the true one The Archbishop again said Can there be a truer Church than the Church of Saint Peter George Dovvdall's Reply the Mother Church of Rome Sir Anthony's Return Sir Anthony returned this answer I thought we had been all of the Church of Christ for he calls all true Believers in him his Church and himself the Head thereof George Dovvdall The Archbishop replied and is not St. Peters the Church of Christ Sir Anthony Sir Anthony returned this Answer St. Peter was a Member of Christ Church but the Church was not St. Peters neither was St. Peter but Christ the Head thereof Then George Dowdall the Primate of Armagh rose up George Dovvdall leaves the Assembly and several of the Suffragan Bishops under his Jurisdiction saving only Edward Staples then Bishop of Meath who tarried with the rest of the Clergy then assembled on the Kalends of March according to the old stile 1551. but if we reason as from the Annunciation of our Lady which was the 25th of March it was 1550. Sir Anthony then took up the Order Geo. Brovvne his Speech upon King Edvv. Order and held it forth to George Browne Archbishop of Dublin who standing up received it saying This Order good Brethren is from our Gracious King and from the rest of our Brethren the Fathers and Clergy of England who have consulted

upon the 13th of the same Month was by Queen Mary made Chancellor of Ireland and upon the 25th of the said September he received this Letter from the Queen directed to Thomas Lockwood the Dean of Christ Church it being an antient custome formerly to recommend the Archbishop whensoever constituted for that See to the Prior of that said Cathedral Queen Maries Letter to the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church in Dublin to receive the Archbishop of Dublin honourably and with due respect Copia vera ex Libro nigro Sanctae Trinitatis Dublinii MARY the Queen TRusty and wellbeloved VVe greet you well and forasmuch as the Right Reverend Father in God our Right trusty and wellbeloved Counsellor the Archbishop of Dublin being lately chosen for that See repaireth speedily to that our Realm of Ireland as well to reside upon the Cure of his Bishoprick which now of long time hath been destitute of a Catholick Bishop as also to occupy the Office of our High Chancellor of that our Realm albeit we have good hopes ye will in all things of your selves carry your selves towards him as becometh you yet to the intent he might the better govern the Charge committed unto him to the Honour of Almighty God and for the remain of our Service VVe have thought fit to require and charge you that for your part ye do reverently receive him honour and humbly obey him in all things as appertaineth to your Duties tending to Gods Glory our Honour and the Common weal of that your Realm whereby ye shall please God and do us acceptable Service Given under our Signet at our Mannor of Greenwich the 25th of September in the second and third years of our Reign To our trusty and well beloved the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral of Christ Church within our Realm of Ireland I have here inserted this Letter upon two accounts first as being a Record remaining in the Cathedral This decides the Controversie between the Dean and the Archbishop lately set on foot secondly because there hath been some discourse of late whether the Archbishop of Dublin had power herein or whether it was upon King Henrys Mutation made a Denery as Whitehall Chappel is and no Chathedral but by this Letter it shews it is both still a Cathedral and subject to the Archbishop of Dublin George Browne lived not long after the Consecration of this Hugh Corwine yet I have amongst my Manuscripts a Writing of a Papist who would fain have persuaded the world Geo. Brovvne's Death and a Popish aspersion wiped off that this George Browne dyed through Joy having had a Bull from the Pope to be restored to his See of Dublin which must needs be false upon this account of Sir James Wares who writeth these very words of him in his Book titled De Praesulibus Hiberniae pag. 120. 1554. Circa id tempus Georgius Browneus quod conjugatus esset per Dowdallum Archiepiscopum Armachanum alios Delegatos ex Authoritatus est otherwise the Pope if he had granted such a Bull must likewise have dispensed with his Marriage it being contrary to the Romish Tenents for Bishops to marry Having related thus much of George Browne and of Ecclesiastical matters during his life we shall proceed a little further concerning a short Sermon of his preached unto the people in Christ Church upon the first Sunday after Easter anno 1551. being a Copy of the same given to Sir James Ware Knight by Anthony Martin late Bishop of Meath who formerly was Tutor to the said Sir James Ware when he was a Student in Trinity Colledge Dublin The TEXT Psal 119. Ver. 18. Open mine eyes that I may see the wonders of thy Law THe wonders of the Lord God have for a long time been hid from the children of Men Let the Reader consider the old manner of Preaching and compare it to these days Geo. Brovvne sheweth how Rome hath absconded the truth of the holy Gospel from the people How Rome will have false Teachers to delude us This Prophecy is fulfilled by the Sectaries that are now in the Church amongst us wihich hath hapned by Rome's not permitting the common people to read the holy Scriptures for to prevent you that you might not know the comfort of your Salvation but to depend wholly on the Church of Rome they will not permit it to be in any tongue but in the Latin saying that Latin was the Roman tongue But the wonderful God inspired the holy Apostles with the knowledge of all Languages that they might teach all people in their proper Tongue and Language which caused our wise King Kenry before his death to have the holy Scriptures transcribed into the English Tongue for the good of his Subjects that their eyes may be opened to behold the wondrous things out of the Law of the Lord. But there are false Prophets at this instant and will be to the end of the World that shall deceive you with false Doctrines expounding this Text or that purposely to confound your understandings and to lead you captive into a wilderness of Confusion whom you shall take as your friends but they shall be your greatest enemies speaking against the Tenents of Rome and yet be set on by Rome these shall be a rigid people full of fury and envy But to prevent these things that are to come observe Christ and his Apostles Let all things be done with decency with mildness and in order fervently crying unto God Open thou mine eyes that I may behold the wondrous things out of thy Law then should ye rightly keep the Law and the Prophets It is the part of a Prince to be wise K. Hen. 8th his providence to provide for his Son Edvvard before his death for he hath a great Charge to Rule and Govern a Nation Your late King foreseeing Rome and her Pope's intentions how that he intended to enslave his Subjects and to keep them in the state of ignorance consulted with the Learned of his Realm knowing that Youth might quickly be wrought on therefore he prepared before his death a wise and Learned sort of Counsellors for his Sons Overseers not trusting to one or two but to several that he might the better Rule his people whose eyes the Lord God Almighty hath opened betimes to behold his wondrous works By the word eyes is meant our understanding Though the words of my Text be plainly thus Open thou mine eyes the meanest of you that hear me have eyes but the true meaning of the words is Endue us with understanding for a Fool hath eyes and sees men women beasts birds and other things but yet wants understanding So when we say Open thou our eyes we desire the Lord God to instruct and teach us the knowledge of his Laws How the Papists eyes be blinded in worshiping Images When you were lately led in blindness your eyes beheld the Images that then stood in several of the Monasteries

herein and compared the holy Scriptures with what they have done unto whom I submit as Jesus did to Caesar in all things just and lawful Geo. Brovvne's Speech wrought on several of the Irish Bishops and Clergy to adhere to Protestanism Vid. Plura cum Ja. Waraeo in Praesul Hib. Sir Anthony recalled and Sir James Crofts made Lord Deputy of Ireland George Dovvdall deprived of the Title of Primacy of all Ireland and George Browne though Archbishop of Dublin enjoying that Title A president shewing how it lies in Kings to expulse and to Constitute Archbishops or Bishops making no question why or wherefore as We own Him our true and lawful King After this several of the meeker or most moderate of the Bishops and Clergy of Ireland cohered with George Browne the Archbishop of Dublin amongst whom Edward Staples Bishop of Meath who was put out from his Bishoprick for so doing in Queen Mary's days on the 29th of June 1554. John Bale who on the second of February 1552. was Consecrated Bishop of Ossory for his fidelity and afterwards by Queen Mary expulsed Also Thomas Lancaster Bishop of Kildare who was at the same time put from his Bishoprick with several others of the Clergy being all expulsed upon Queen Maries coming to the Crown When these passages had passed Sir Anthony was in a short time after recalled for England and Sir James Crofts of Herefordshire Knight placed Chief in his stead who began his Government from the 29th of April 1551. Sir James Crofts upon his coming over endeavoured much for the perswading of George Dowdall to adhere to the Order aforesaid but Dowdall being obstinate his Majesty and the Learned Privy Council then of England for his perversness upon the 20th of October following took away the Title of Primate of all Ireland from him and conferred the same on George Browne then Archbishop of Dublin and to his Successors by reason that he was the first of the Irish Bishops who embraced the Order for Establishing of the English Liturgy and Reformation in Ireland which place he enjoyed during the remainder of King Edward's Reign and for a certain time after as you shall know further in it due course and place Alterations following one after another even upon this Reformation of the Church of England and the Title of Primacy being disposed of as we have already mentioned unto George Brown aforesaid some Writers saying that George Dowdall was banished others that he was not but went voluntary of his own will yet not to dispute the case another Archbishop was consecrated in lieu of him though then living by which it was then held lawful as also that constituting of Archbishops and Bishops was in the power of Kings and not in the power of Popes or of the Bishop of Rome which would be much to the Abasement of the Powers of the Crown of England ever to resign or to acknowledge to the contrary Hugh Goodacre consecrated Archbishop of Armagh though George Dovvdall was living Hugh Goodacre Bachelour of Divinity was consecrated Archbishop of Armagh by the said George Browne together with John Bale Bishop of Ossory already mentioned in Christ Church in Dublin on the second of February Anno 1552. Thomas Bishop of Kildare and Eugenius Bishop of Down and Connor assisting him yet notwithstanding Hugh Goodacres Consecration George Browne then held the Title of Primacy of all Ireland K. Edvvard's Death alters what hath been done before This Reformation and Alteration having not time to settle or to take root it was soon quashed and pulled down by that lamentable loss of that hopeful Prince King Edward the Sixth who died at Greenwich the 6th of June 1553. The Lady Jane Gray and Q. Mary contend for the Crown Upon King Edward's Decease the Council having met to consult together upon the Affairs of these Dominions as also how they might confirm and establish what they had already ordered and enacted as well in Ecclesiastical matters as Temporal a Division soon sprung up some being for the Choice of the Lady Jane Gray others for Queen Mary at last upon conclusion Mary the Kings Sister was voted Queen upon the Proposals and Promises which she made to the Council to confirm all that had been perfected by her Father King Henry the 8th and her Brother King Edward and his Honoured Council Q. Mary recalls what K. H. and K. E. had done After she had been crowned and enthroned she for the space of three or four months seemed moderate to the Protestant Reformers yet all that while combining with Rome and her Emissaries but having accomplished her Designs she revoked her fair Promises which with Papists is a Rule esteeming it no sin to break Contracts or Covenants with Hereticks and Protestants numbred with such sort of people especially with Papists these promises vanished and then began the Romish Church not only to undo what King Henry and his Son King Edward had reformed but to prosecute the Reformers and Reformed with Fire and Faggot Sir James Crofts recall'd and G. Dovvdall restored But to our purpose upon the 11th of November Anno 1553. she recalled Sir James Crofts and sent over Sir Anthony St. Leger Lord Deputy into Ireland This Sir Anthony had not been half a year Chief Governour of Ireland before Queen Mary revoked the Title of Primacy from George Browne expulsing Hugh Goodacre out of the Archbishoprick of Armagh and recalling George Dowdall to his See and restoring him to the Primacy of all Ireland as formerly which Title hath ever since stood firm in Armagh without any Revocation either by Queen Elizabeth or by any of her Successors George Browne upon this Revocation was by George Dowdall expulsed George Browne by George Dowdall expulsed and not thought fit to continue in his See of Dublin as being a married man and it is thought had he not been married he had been expulsed having appeared so much for the Reformation in both these former Kings days upon the expulsing of this George Browne all the Temporalities belonging to the Archbishoprick were disposed of unto Thomas Lockwood then Dean of Christ Church in Dublin It having been an antient Custom ever upon the Translation or Death of any of those Archbishops to deposite the Temporalities into the hands of the Priors formerly of that Cathedral when it was a Priory and called by the name of the Cathedral of the Blessed Trinity And it is observable the last Prior became the first Dean upon the alteration as aforesaid The See of Dublin after this Expulsion lay vacant for two years or thereabouts until Hugh Corrin alias Corwine was placed therein Hugh Corwine succeeded G. Browne in the Archbishoprick of Dublin This Hugh was borne in Westmorland a Doctor of the Law being formerly Archdeacon of Oxford and Dean of Hereford he was consecrated Archbishop of Dublin in the Cathedral of St. Pauls in London on the 8th of September Anno 1555. He after