for the same which being done by him we require you that he may have the Pall to be used for the purpose aforesaid Given under our Signet at our Honour of Hampton Court the eight and twentieth day of Septemb. in the tenth year of our Reign of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the six and fortieth In obedience to this Letter the Body of the Queen of Scots was taken up the eleventh of October following in the year of our Lord 1612. and translated to Westminster where we shall leave Her and return to our succession of the Bishops of Peterburgh Howland having been Bishop here the space of 15 years died at Castor and was buried in his own Cathedral at the upper end of the Quire And there succeeded 49. THOMAS DOVE Who was Dean of Norwich and Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth who had so good esteem of him for his excellency in preaching reverend aspect and deportment that she was wont to call him The Dove with silver wings He entred upon his Bishoprick in the year 1600. and continued therein the space of 30 years During which time he was like S. Paul's Bishop a lover of Hospitality keeping a very free house and having always a numerous Family yet was he so careful of posterity that he left a fair estate to his Heirs He died upon the 30 of August 1630. in the 75 year of his age and lieth buried in the North cross Isle of the Church Over his body was erected a very comely Monument of a long quadrangular form having four corner pilasters supporting a fair Table of black Marble and within the pourtraiture of the Bishop lying in his Episcopal habit At the feet on the outside were these Inscriptions Si quaeras viator quo hospite glorietur elegans haec mortis domus ipsa prose loquetur ipsa pro illo quae ideo loqui didicit ut sciant illi qui eò ingratitudinis inhumaniter obriguerunt ut in manes in urnas saevire studeant non defuturam saxis linguam quae doceat de mortuis bene loqui Vindex hoc pium marmor sacros cineres tegit sanctiorem memoriam protegit Charissimum utrumque pignus redituri Domini Reverendissimi in Christo Patris Thomae Dove quem novit Waldenum Ecclesiasten doctissimum Nordovicum Decanum vigilantissimum haec ipsa Ecclesia Episcopum piissimum cui postquam trigint a annis magno cum honore praefuisset ad magnum illum animarum Episcopum transmigravit Bonus pastor translatus ab ovibus in terris ad Agnum in coelis quocum regnabit in secula Hoc me loqui voluit Gulielmus Dove Equ Aur. Optimi hujus patris filius natu-maximus honoris pietatis ergo Carmine non pous est sat sat praestabit abunde Si sat flere potest officiosus amor Vixt Epitaphium sibi Te sprevisse Poeta Quam facile poterit qui bene vixit Abi. Atque abeo durum est numeris aptare dolorem Atque aequo lachrymas currere posse pede Me muto tibi non poterunt monumenta deesse Vivum quem soboles tam numerosa refert Hoc addam Hic illa est senio argentata Columba Davidis coelos hinc petit ille suos Dixi Musa loquax tanto non apta dolori Si non flere satis nostra silere potest But this Monument was in the year 1643. levelled with the ground so that Bishop Dove's Epitaph in stead of Marble must now live in paper 50. WILLIAM PEIRSE Being Canon of Christs Church in Oxford and Dean of Peterburgh was made Bishop after the death of Dove and installed Nov. 14. A man of excellent parts both in Divinity and knowledge of the Laws very vigilant and active he was for the good both of the Ecclesiastical and Civil State and had he continued longer in this See he would have rectified many things then amiss But he was translated to the Bishoprick of Bath and Wells after two years presidency at Peterburgh 51. AVGVSTINE LINDSELL Was Dean of Lichfield and upon the translation of Peirse made Bishop of this Diocess being elected December 22. 1632. and installed by Proxy Febr. 25. following He was a man of very great learning and gave sufficient evidence thereof to the Church by setting forth that excellent edition of Theophylact upon S. Paul's Epistles which work will make his name worth live be honoured among all learned Divines Foreign and Domestick In his time the Parsonage of Castor was annexed to the Bishoprick to be held in Commendam which was effected by W. Laud Archbishop of Canterbury as he left recorded in his Diary When he had been Bishop here the space of two years he was translated to Hereford and shortly after ended his life to the greatloss of the Church of England 52. FRANCIS d ee Was taken from his Deanry of Chichester and made Bishop here being elected April 9. 1634. and in May 28. following installed by Proxy He was a man of very pious life and affable behaviour After he had with much diligence and honesty meekness and hospitality gloriously shined in his Ecclesiastical Orb here the space of four years and six months he died much lamented October 8. 1638. bequeathing by his will towards the reparation of his Cathedral Church the summ of an hundred pounds and lieth buried in the upper part of the Quire near to his Episcopal Seat 53. JOHN TOWERS Being Dean of this Church ascended the other step and was made Bishop after the death of Dee being installed March. 8. 1638. He enjoyed his Bishoprick in peace a very little while for presently great dissensions arose betwixt the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland which occasioned the Bishops attendance upon the King both in the North at York and at London in time of Parliaments that which was convened April 13. 1640. and dissolved May 5. following the Convocation sitting by the Kings express Commission until May 29 wherein the new Canons were made and that also which began the same year November 3. and was of a far longer continuance On August 5. this year the great Commission for draining the Fenns began to be holden at Peterburgh the Commissioners sitting in the Bishops great Hall until the 11. of the same month the determinations therein being since known by the name of Peterburgh Law On the third of November following a new Parliament began to sit Bishop Towers according to his place giving attendance there In the year following arose great opposition against Bishops as to their Office and power in having Votes in Parliament insomuch that many of them apprehending their insecurity in attending upon the House much opposition meeting them in the way some of them to the number of twelve drew up a Protestation against all such Laws Orders Votes Resolutions and determinations as in themselves null and of none effect which in their absence from December 27. 1641. had passed or should afterwards pass during the time of their forced absence from
say Semen Ecclesiae the Seed or Corn of the Church Which I find word for word in very old French in a short Glossary upon unusual English words in the antient Charters or in the Laws of King Alred Alfrid Edward and Knute Chirchesed vel Chircheomer vel Chircheambre un certein de ble batu R checun hume devoyt au ceus de Bretuns e de Englis a le Eglise le jur seint Martin Mes pus le venue de Normans c. donewint sulum la velie ley Moysi ratione primitiarum sicun lein truve en le lettris Cnut Kilenveya a Rome c ' est dit Chirchesed quasi semen Ecclesiae The Letter it self is in Ingulphus but it was not sent adsummum Pontificem as Fleta says but to the Archbishops and Bishops and all the Nation of England as he was coming from Rome 1031. wherein he desires them that before he arrived in England all the dues which by ancient Laws were owing to the Church might be paid and after the rest he mentions the tenths of the fruits in August and in the feast of St. Martin the first-fruits of the seeds called Kyrkset So his Letter concludes Et in Festivitate Sancti Martini primitiae seminum ad Ecclesiam sub cujus parochia quisque degit quae Anglice Kyrkeset nominatur Ingulph p. 61. Edit Oxon. c. This description of their Lands and Goods concludes with a Customary of their Tenants Villani Cottarii and Sochemanni in every Mannor belonging to the Church Which while the King held in his hand he gave away as Mr. G. observes the Mannor of Pithtesle for the same summ of money which the late Abbot had given him to confirm it Deo Sancto Petro Monachis sigillo authoritate regia And the person to whom the King granted it it may be further observed was one imployed to take the forenamed account of the Estate of the Church viz. Richard Basset or Bassed This Abbot was commemorated upon the 10. of November on which it appears by the Kalander was Depositio Johannis de Says Abbatis Anniversarium Henrici Talbot c. HENRICVS de Angeli His story is told more perfectly by Hugo in this manner He was first of all Bishop of Soissons and afterward made a Monk and Prior of Cluni and then Prior of Savenni After which because he was Cosin to the King of England and the Count of Aquitain the same Count gave him Abbatiam Sancti Johannis Angeli from whence he took his denomination And he being crafty cunning and ingenious afterward got the Archbishoprick of Besenscun but staid there no more than three days For he had not yet enough but got the Bishoprick de Senites where he staid about seven days And out of this preferment as well as that of Besenscun the Abbot of Cluni got him expelled He got therefore being never quiet to be Collector of Peter-pence in England Where he obtained this Abbey of Burch by pretending he was very old past labour and toil unable to bear the Wars and Troubles of his own Country and would quit his Abbey there of St. John de Angeli and that by the advice of the Pope and the Abbot of Cluni and would here take up his rest There was another thing also that had a great stroke in his preferment for besides he was near of kin to the King and that the forenamed discourse seemed to have truth in it he was the principal Witness to make Oath in a difference between the Kings Nephew the Duke of Normandy and the Daughter of the Count of Anjoy Upon all these scores the Abby was bestowed upon him in the year mentioned by Mr. G. So John Abbot also in his Chron. MS. An. MCXXVIII Henricus Abbas Andagavensis precibus optinuit à Rege Henrico Abbatiam Burgensem What Walter of Witlesea saith of Spectres seen that year he came to the Abby he had out of Hugo who saith Hoc non est falsum quia plurimi veracissimi homines viderunt audierunt cornua He staid one year in the Monastery and received homage and money of the Milites and of the whole Abbey but did not the least good for he sent and carried all to his Abbey beyond Sea whither he went by the Kings licence And having staid there a whole year he returned hither and said he had absolutely quitted his other Abbey for good and all as we speak The same year came Petrus Abbot of Cluni into England and was honourably received by the Kings command in all the Monasteries Particularly here at Burch whither he came to see Henry who complemented him highly and promised he would procure the Abbey of Burch to be made subject to that of Cluni with which hopes Peter went home The next year Henry got together a great summ of money and went beyond Sea again where the King then was Whom he made believe that he was commanded by the Abbot of Cluni to come and resign his Abbey of St. John de Angeli to him and then he would return free from that care into England So he went thither and there staid till the Feast of St. John Baptist And the next day after the Monks chose another of their own body into his place and installed him singing Te Deum and doing all other things necessary for that end expelling Henry by the help of the Count of Anjoy with great disgrace and detaining all that he had there Where he had done no more good than in other places all the five and twenty years that he had governed them Being thus cast out he went to Cluni where they kept him prisoner the Abbot and Monks being very angry with him saying he had lost the Abby of St. John by his folly Nor would they let him stir out of Doors till by his craft he again deceived them with promises and Oaths that if they would permit him to return into England he would subject the Abbey of Burch to them and as Hugo's words are ibi construeret Priores Secretarios Cellerarios Camerarios omnia commendaret in manibus eorum intus foris By which agreement he got into England whither the King also returned out of Normandy Unto whom Henry came and accused the Monks of Burch to him very heavily though with out any truth in order to his end of subjecting them to Cluni The King in great anger sent for them to Bramtun where a Plea was managed against them with so much art that the King was almost deceived But God stept in to help them by the Counsels of the Bishops there present particularly Lincoln and the Barons who understood his fraud Yet he would not desist but being thus defeated indeavoured to make his Nephew Gerardus Abbot of Burch that what he could not do by himself might be effected by him All which made the lives of the Monks very uneasie till the King at last understood his knavery
of it But seeing what a great business this restauration was like to prove he returned to Winchester to make preparation for so great a design And first he made his address to God by fervent prayers to encline the hearts of King Edgar and his Queen and Nobles that he might have them so propitious as to contribute their assistances to this work And being one time at his prayers the Queen had secretly gotten behind the door to listen what it was that Athelwold prayed and suddenly she came forth upon him telling him that God and her self had heard his prayers and from thenceforth she began to solicite the King for the reparation of this Monastery to which the King assenting applied himself thereunto until he had finished the same which was in the year 970. The Monastery thus re-edified King Edgar desirous to see it went thither with Dunstane then Archbishop of Canterbury and Oswald Archbishop of York attended also with most of the Nobility and Clergy of England who all approved and applauded both the place and work But when King Edgar heard that some Charters and Writings which some Monks had secured from the fury of the Danes were found he desired to see them and having read the priviledges of this place that he had a second Rome within his own Kingdom he wept for joy And in the presence of that Assembly he confirmed their former priviledges and possessions the King Nobles and Clergy offering large oblations some of lands some of gold and silver At this glorious assembly the name of the place was changed from Medeshamsted to Burgh and by reason of the fair building pleasant situation large priviledges rich possessions plenty of gold and silver which this Monastery was endowed withal there was an addition to the name as to be called Gildenburgh though in reference to the dedication it hath ever since been known by the name of Peterburgh Malmsbury would have the nomination of the place Burgh to be from Abbot De gestis Pont. lib. 4. Kenulphus his enclosing the Monastery with a Wall as shall be noted hereafter but our Peterburgh Writers are not of his mind but place it here Writers say that in those days this Monastery was of so high account that what person soever came thither to pray whether King Lord Bishop or Abbot he put off his shoes at the gate of the Monastery and entred barefoot And the Covent there was very much had in esteem that if any of them travelled into any of the neighbouring parts they were received with the greatest respect and reverence that could be The Monastery thus restored King Edgar was mindful of the government also by Abbots as it had anciently been and there was appointed 8. ADVLPHVS He being Chancellor to King Edgar changed his Court life for a Monastical in this place the reason of which change was this He had one only Son whom he and his Wife dearly loved and they used to have him lie in bed betwixt them but the Parents having over night drunk more wine than was convenient their Son betwixt them was smothered to death Adulphus the father being sadly affected with this horrid mischance was resolved to visit S. Peter at Rome after the manner of a penitentiary for absolution imparting his intent to Bishop Athelwoldus who disswaded him from it telling him it would be better if he would labour in the restauration of S. Peters Church in this place and here visit him Adulphus approving this advice came with King Edgar to Burgh where in the presence of the King and the rest of that Convention he offered all his wealth put off his Courtly Robes and put on the habit of a Monk and ascended to the degree of Abbot in the year 972. In those days the whole Nasee or Country adjoyning and which is now known by the name of Burgh-soke was all a woody and solitary place until this Abbot Adulphus cut down woods built Mannors and Granges and let the Lands to farm for certain Rents so that the people increasing and as yet no Churches built amongst them they came to Peterburgh to receive the Sacraments and to pay their Church-duties which continued for many years after And although in the days of Turoldus Abbot Churches and Chappels began to be built the said Turoldus distributing the Lands of the Monastery to those Knights who desired to serve God at home yet still the Church of Peterburgh received the whole revenue until the time of Abbot Ernulfus Anno 1112. when there were assigned to the respective Ministers of Churches and Chappels certain revenues for their maintenance as due to their service saving to the Church of Burgh two parts of the predial Tythes of those Knights and saving the burial of See in Ernulphus the said Knights their wives and children in the Church of Burgh and also a certain portion of the Knights estates for the maintenance of their wives and children Saving also to the Church of Burgh from the Churches so built certain pensions which being imposed upon them in their first endowments or collations by this Church many of them have continued unto and been paid in these our days to the Bishop or Dean and Chapter as they were assigned by King Henry the Eighth as shall be declared hereafter Adulphus was present at the dedication of the Church of Ramsey in the year 974. After that this Abbot Adulphus had happily governed this Monastery about the space of twenty years Henry of Pightly saith Codex Ramis in manu H. Cromwell Armig. fol. 58. thirty one he was translated to the Archbishoprick of York there to succeed Oswaldus then deceased Some say he was translated to the Bishop of Worcester And in the place of Adulphus there came 9. KENVLPHVS Who was made Abbot in the year of our Lord 992. and was highly honoured far and near for his wisdom and piety many coming to him from several parts Bishops Abbots Priests and Monks as to another Solomon to hear his wisdom And by reason of his great fame for his learning he is supposed to have been a Writer and is therefore by Pitseus inserted into his Catalogue of English Writers though what he wrote is not extant or evident by his or any other testimony that I have met with This Abbot Kenulphus enclosed the Monastery of Burgh with a Wall a great part whereof is yet standing Having continued B. Godwyn Abbot here about thirteen years he was translated to the Bishoprick of Winchester Anno 1006. for the procurement whereof he is charged with Simony His successor in this Monastery was 10. ELSINVS Or Elsius Of whom I find no glorious Character recorded by Writers save this if it may be so accounted that he was very inquisitive after Reliques with which he was very industrious to inrich his Monastery And because Swapham and Wittlesey the compleatest Historians of this place have punctually set down a bedrole of his Reliques the Reader I hope will
I find not any Papal election ratification confirmation or any other writing whereby the Pope contributed any thing to the establishment of any Abbot either to the Convent or any other persons but all was from the King alone who either himself nominated the person or accepted of such a one as the Monks elected whom he ratified and confirmed in the Abbey But now and I suppose through the succumbency of Q. Mary and K. Philip to the Roman Chair this David was presented unto and confirmed in this Bishoprick by Paul the fourth Pope of that name whose Letters in the behalf of Bishop David were as followeth First for his nomination or presentation Paulus Episcopus servus servorum Dei Dilecto filio Davidi Pool Petriburgen salutem Apostolicam benedictionem Apostolatus officium nobis meritis licet imparibus ex alto commissum quo Ecclesiarum omnium divina dispositione praesidemus utiliter exequi coadjuvante Domino cupientes solliciti corde reddimur solertes ut cum de Ecclesiarum ipsarum regiminibus agitur committendis tales eis in pastores praeficere studeamus qui populum suae curae creditum sciant non solum doctrina verbi sed exemplo boni operis informare commissasque sibi Ecclesias velint valeant auctore Domino salubriter regere foeliciter gubernare dudum siquidem provisiones Ecclesiarum omnium tunc vacantium in antea vacaturarum ordinationi dispositioni nostrae reservavimus decernentes extunc irritum inane si secus super hiis per quoscunque quavis auctoritate scienter vel ignoranter contingeret attemptari Postmodum vero Ecclesia Petriburgensis cui bonae memoriae Johannes Episcopus Petriburgensis dum viveret praesidebat per obitum ejusdem Johannis Episcopi qui extra Romanam curiam debitum naturae persolvit pastoris solatio destituta nos vacatione hujusmodi fide dignis relationibus intellecta ad provisionem ejusdem Ecclesiae celerem foelicem de qua nullus praeter nos hac vice se intromittere potuit sive potest reservatis decreto obsistentibus supradictis ne Ecclesia ipsa longae vacationis exponatur incommodis paternis sollicitis studiis intendentes post deliberationem quam de praesiciendo eidem Ecclesiae personam utilem fructuosam cum fratribus nostris habuimus diligentem Petriburgensem seu alterius civitatis vel dioeceseos legum Doctorem de legitimo matrimonio procreatum in aetate legitima constitutum quem charissima in Christo filia nostra Maria Angliae Franciae Regina illustris nobis per suas literas commendavit cui apud nos de munditia honestate morum spiritualium providentia temporalium circumspectione aliisque multiplicum virtutum donis fide digna testimonia perhibentur direximus oculos nostrae mentis Quibus omnibus debita meditatione pensatis de persona tua nobis eisdem fratribus ob tuorum exigentiam meritorum accepta eidem Ecclesiae de ipsorum fratrum consilio auctoritate Apostolica providemus teque illum Episcopum praeficimus pastorem curam administrationem ipsius Ecclesiae tibi in spiritualibus temporalibus plenè committendo in illo qui dat gratias largitur praemia confidens quod dirigente Domino actus tuos praefata Ecclesia per tuae diligentiae laudabile studium regetur utiliter prospere dirigetur ac grata in eisdem spiritualibus temporalibus suscipiet incrementa Jugum igitur Domini tuis impositum humeris prompta devotione suscipe curam administrationem praedictas sic exercere studeas sollicitè fideliter prudenter quòd Ecclesia ipsa gubernatori provido fructuoso administratorigaudeat se commissam tuque praeter aeternum retributionis praemium nostram Apostolicae benedictionem gratiam exinde uberius consequi merearis Dat. Romae apud Sanctum Petrum Anno Incarnationis Dominicae Millesimo Quingentesimo Quinquagesimo sexto nono Kal. Aprilis Pontificatus nostri Anno secundo The other Letters were to the Church of Peterburgh for the reception of David for their Bishop and were as followeth Paulus Episcopus servus servorum Dei dilectis filiis Vniversis Cathedralis Ecclesiae Petriburgens salutem Apostolicam ben Hodie Ecclesiae Petriburgen tunc per obitum bonae memoriae Johannis olim Episcopi Petriburgen extra Roman curiam defuncti pastoris solatio destitut de persona dilecti filii electi Petriburgen nobis fratribus nostris obsuorum exigentia meritorum accepta de fratrum eorundem consilio Apostolica autoritate providimus ipsumque illi in Episcopum praefecimus pastorem curam administrationem ipsius Ecclesiae sibi in spiritualibus temporalibus plenarie committendo prout in nostris inde confectis literis plenius continetur Quocirca universitati vestrae per Apostolica scripta mandamus quatenus eundem Davidem electum devote suscipientes debita honorificentia prosequentes ei fidelitatem debitam nec non consueta servitia jura sibi à vobis debita exhibere integre studeatis alioquin sententiam sive poenam quam idem David electus rite tulerit in rebelles ratam habebimus faciemus auctore Domino usque ad satisfactionem condignam inviolabiliter observari Dat. Romae apud Sanctum Petrum Anno Incarnationis Dominicae Millesimo quingentesimo quinquagesimo sexto nono Kal. Aprilis Pontificatus nostri Anno secundo Jo. Mathe B. Jens Jo. Csyrinus p. m. Jo. Gunnos Larengus Jo. Bapt. Capata Ant. Gibert Tortura Torti pag. 146. To these Letters was affixed the Common Seal of Lead But as peremptory as they were they could not secure David in his Bishoprick from the just Authority of the Q. Eliz. who in the second year of her Reign ejected him and placed another in his room What became of him after his ejectment let the late Learned and Reverend Bishop Andrews be the Informer for the Author of a Romish Pamphlet I mean Bellarmine having charged those times with cruelty that such Bishops as were deposed by Queen Elizabeth were yet more hardly used and died in misery The Bishop gives us account of them and particularly of this our David in these words Polus Petriburgensis summa comitate habitus liber semper Principis beneficio in agro suo matura aetate decessit His Successor in the Bishoprick was 47. EDMVND SCAMBLER Whom some will have to have been first a Secular Priest which we will not stand upon He was when he was nominated to this Bishoprick but Batchelor in Divinity as appeareth by the Queens Letter to the Church for his Election bearing date November 11. and second of her Reign 1560. He was Authorized to hold in Commendam with his Bishoprick of Peterburgh a Prebendary in York and another in Westminster for the space of three years by Commission from the Queen bearing date May 13. Anno Eliz. 3. And from Matthew Archbishop of Canterbury bearing the same date But he was made Bishop something before February some
say January 16. being the year of our Lord 1560. What he was for Learning and integrity of Religion in the now reformed Church of England wherein he was a Bishop may appear by these Doctrinal Articles which in his first Episcopal Visitation he prescribed to the Dean and Prebendaries of his Church requiring their subscription thereunto For as yet the general Articles of the Church of England were not formed until about two years after Jan. 29. 1562. B. Scamblers Articles were these 1 Sacra Scriptura in se continet omnem doctrinam pietatis ex qua sufficienter error convinci possit veritas stabiliri 2 Symbolum Nicaenum Athanasii quod communiter Apostolorum dicitur continent brevissime articulos fidei nostrae sparsim in Scripturis ostensos qui istis non crediderint inter veros Catholicos non sunt recipiendi 3 Ecclesia Christi est in qua purum Dei verbum praedicatur sacramenta juxta Christi ordinationem administrantur in qua clavium autoritas retinetur 4 Quaevis Ecclesia particularis autoritatem habet instituendi mutandi abrogandi caeremonias ritus Ecclesiasticos modo ad decorem ordinem aedificationem fiat 5 Christus tantum duo sacramenta expresse nobis commendat Baptisma Eucharistiam quae conferunt gratiam rite sumentibus etiamsi malus sit Minister non prosunt indigne sumentibus quamvis bonus sit Minister 6 Laudandus est Ecclesiae mos baptizandi parvulos retinendus 7 Coena Dominica non est tantum Symbolum benevolentiae Christianorum interse sed magis Symbolum est nostrae redemptionis per Christi mortem nostrae conjunctionis cum Christo ubi fidelibus vere datur exhibetur Communio corporis sanguinis Domini 8 Sacramentum Eucharistiae ex usu Primitivae Ecclesiae neque servabatur vel elevabatur vel adorabatur 9 Missa quae consuevit a sacerdotibus dici non erat a Christo constituta sed a multis Romanis Pontificibus confirmata nec est Eucharistia ex se sacrificium propitiatorium sed recordatio sacrificii semel peracti 10 Scholastica transubstantiatio panis vini in corpus sanguinem Christi probari non potest ex sacris literis 11 Non omne peccatum mortale seu voluntariò perpetratum post baptismum est irremissibile peccatum in Spiritum Sanctum 12 Post acceptum Spiritum potest homo peccare ac denuo resipiscere neque sine peccato vivit quamvis regeneratio in Christo imputetur 13 Justificatio ex sola fide est certissima doctrina Christianorum 14 Elizabetha Regina Angliae est unicus supremus gubernator hujus regni omnium dominiorum regionum suarum quarumcunque in rebus causis Ecclesiasticis quam temporalibus 15 Verbum Dei non prohibet foeminarum regimen cui obediendum est juxta ordinationem Dei 16 Romanus Pontifex nullam habet jurisdictionem in hoc regno Angliae nec alia quaecunque potestas extranea 17 Leges civiles possunt Christianos propter flagitia morte punire 18 Christianis licet ex jussu Principis bella gerere ex justa causa propria possidere 19 Doctrina scholasticorum de Purgatorio invocatione Divinorum nullum habet fundamentum ex verbo Dei 20 Praeceptum Dei est ut quae leguntur in Ecclesia illa lingua proferantur quae ab Ecclesia intelligatur 21 Absque externa legitima vocatione non licet cuiquam sese ingerere in aliquod ministerium Ecclesiasticum vel seculare 22 Matrimonium inter Christianos legitime juxta verbum Dei initum contractum est indissolubile nec per traditiones hominum unquam vellendum 23 Coelibatus nulli hominum statui praecipitur neque injungitur ministris Ecclesiae ex verbo Dei Haec omnia vera esse publice docenda profiteor eaque juxta datam mihi facultatem eruditionem tuebor docebo Hancque meam confessionem manus meae subscriptione testificor contrariamque doctrinam abolendam esse judico detestor By these Articles it may appear that Bishop Scambler was no friend to the Church of Rome nor they to him and whether it was for these Articles or some other Book which he published I find him recorded in the Roman Index of Books prohibited and branded with the Title of Pseudoëpiscopus But his name and memory are the more honourable by that name of Infamy which the Papists might cast upon the Worthies of our English Church Scambler having been Bishop here the space of twenty three years was translated to Norwich whither he that would know the residue of his life end burial or Epitaph must follow him it being without the Climate of our story But whilst he was at Peterburgh he empaired the honour priviledges and revenues of his Bishoprick passing quite away the Hundred of Nassaburgh with the whole Liberties thereof The Goal The Mannor of Thirlby The Mannor of Southorpe c. to the Queen from whom the Earls of Exeter enjoy them to this day As if King Henry had not taken away enough the Bishop himself would pass away more Scambler being translated to Norwich there succeeded 48 RICHARD HOWLAND Who was Master of S. John's Colledge in Cambridge and made Bishop here March 16. 1584. being the 27 year of Queen Elizabeth We have not much to say of him his parts or actions but shall enlarge this Paragraph of his being Bishop here with the story of Mary Queen of Scotts her death at Fotheringhay Castle and burial in the Cathedral Church of Peterburgh The whole progress of her life and actions from her first arrival in England May 16. 1568. to her coming to Fotheringhay with her several places of removal and several keepers is so largely related by Mr. Vdal Mr. Saunderson and others who have wrote her story that I shall remit the Reader to them and content my self with her death and burial Upon the seventh day of February 1586. eighteen years from her first arrival The Commissioners for her execution came to Fotheringhay the Earls of Shrewsbury Kent c. and Thomas The Earl of Shrewsbury was George Talbot and E. Marshal of England The Earl of Kent was Henry Grey Andrews of Sheriff of Northamptonshire for that year By these the Queen of Scotts understanding that the Lease of her life was not long to last only one day longer she seemed not dismayed with the Message but told the Commissioners she did not think that Queen Elizabeth would have consented to her death but since it was so she would most gladly embrace it and in order thereunto desired of the Commissioners the benefit of her Clergy that her Confessor might come to her which the Commissioners denying propounded the Bishop or Dean of Peterburgh which the Queen of Scotts refused The Commissioners being departed she gave order for her Supper at the time whereof she drank to her servants and comforted them because she saw them much
Title Plena Taxatio Maneriorum Abbatis Conventus de bonis eorum temporalibus spiritualibus facta per venerabiles Patres Wynton ' Lincoln ' Episcopos Autoritate sedis Apostolicae per XXIV Juratos Quorum XII Clerici XII laici Anno Domini M. CC. Nonagesimo sexto Then follows the value of the several Mannors and the Tenths to be paid out of them after this manner Manerium de Burbury taxatur ad 20 l.  5 d. Reditus villae Burgi taxatur ad 22 l. 6 s. 8 d. Gunthorp taxatur ad 13 l. 6 s. 8 d. Eye taxatur ad 9 l. 6 s. 5 d. ob Baelasis cum Appendiciis taxat ad 4 l. 6 d. Manerium de Sutton taxatur ad 6 l. 2 s.  Cujus Decima est 40 s.  ob Decimae 44 s.   Decima 8 s. 4 d.  Decima 18 s. 7 d. ob q. Decima    Decima    And so it proceeds with the rest several of which as Botolbrigg Fletton Alwalton c. have no Tenths rated There had been one before this in the 53. of Henry 3. which is stiled Taxatio Magistri Constantini Domini Gydonis de Maneriis Burgi facta c. In which Burghberry the Town of Burgh the Market and Fair is taxed at one hundred and eight Pound eight Shillings cujus Decima est 10 l. 16 s. 9 d. ob And so the rest are higher rated than in the foregoing and the Tenths both of Fletton and Alwalton are put in Then was granted as I find in another place Fol. CCCLXIX a tenth of all Ecclesiastical Benefices Rents and Profits by the whole Clergy for two years by the licence of the Pope and the consent of the Archbishops to the use of Prince Edward for his expences apud Acon or Ptolomais which he went to relieve There was another four years after in the year 1273. When by the command of the Pope the Churches of England were taxed according to an equal value by the Bishop of Norwich Here particularly is an account of what he did in Nasso-Burgh under this title Estimationes Ecclesiarum Vicariarum in Nasso-Burgi facta per Domin Norwicens Episcopum An. M CC. LXXIII This is quoted out of the Chronica Domini Will. Paris Prioris An. D. 1273 and from thence we may gather that he who built the Chapel before named was a writer also and composed the Annals of this Church if not of England and perhaps other Countries as Abbot John did I can find little more of William de Wodeford besides that which Mr. G. hath collected only it is said in an old Record that An. 27. Edw. 1. and An. quarto Domini Will. de Wodeford Robert de Watervil and John Spournel did homage and fealty to him on the Feast of St. Stephen for Land held by them in Overton Wodeford and Kynesthorp Nor do I meet with more than the mention of the Hospital of St. Leonard's which it appears had Friers and Lands belonging to it by a Deed of Agnes Pudding Fol. CCXLI. who for the health of her Soul gave to God and St. Peter together with her body eight acres of arable Land two of which she held de fratribus Hospital Sancti Leonardi de Burgo to whom she reserved one penny to be paid out of that Land in die Apostolorum Petri Pauli annuatim pro omni servitio Which whether it was different or no from the Hospituarium Burgi which had the Chapel of All Saints belonging to it I do not know But I find that Will. de Saresbury Son of Symon de Saresbury or Salesbury granted and confirmed sixpence per an which his Father had given to that Hospital to maintain a Lamp in that Fol. 287. Chapel ad sustinendam ibi Lampadem in Capella omnium Sanctorum ad honorem Dei perpetuo duraturam I take this to be the same with Hospital Leprosorum extra Burgum mentioned in the foregoing Taxation which was taxed at six pound and paid no Tenths There is still a Well near the Spittle which is called St. Leonara's Well whose water hath been thought Medicinal He dyed this year as the MS. Chron. Joh. Abbatis tells us in which there is a magnificent Character given of his Successor Godfrey of Crowland An. MCCXCIX obiit Dominus Willielmus Abbas Burgi Cui successit Dominus Godfridus vir magnificus ingentis industriae in temporalibus tractandis His memory was celebrated on the second of September which is noted in the Kalendar to be the day of his death and the Anniversary of John of Gresham GODEFRIDVS de Croyland The most memorable thing that I meet with in the beginning of this Abbots Government is a Grant made by the Abbot and Convent of Burgh to the Abbot and Convent of Sulebi that the said Abbot and Convent of Sulebi might without any impediment enter into the Mannor of Adington parva and its appurtenances to have and to hold the said Mannor to themselves and Successors for ever Which Mannor Richard Son of Gervase de Bernack sometimes held of Humfrey de Bassingburn who held it of the Abbot of Burgh per servitium feodi unius militis For which Grant the Abbot and Convent of Sulebi granted on their part that they would pay to the Abbot and Convent of Burgh the yearly Rent of six Shillings and eight Pence of Silver at the Feast of Easter in their Mannor of Castre and that they would facere soctam ad curiam from three Weeks to three Weeks at Castre c. They also granted that every Abbot of Sulebi after this present however he succeeded should pay upon every vacancy to the Church of Burgh ten Marks of Silver in the name of a relief within eight days after he was made Abbot of Sulebi The Abbot of Burgh also notwithstanding this grant and agreement was to receive homage scutage and all Royal services from the aforesaid Tenement for ever c. Dat. apud Burg. S. Pet. die Sabbati in vigilia Paschae An. Domini Millesimo Trecentesimo Et anno Regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Henrici vicesimo Octavo I find also many homages done to him An. 28. Edwardi I. An. ejus primo on the next Sunday after the Epiphany for Lands held of him in several places And the like in the following years one or two of which I think fit to set down On the Feast of Thomas the Martyr as he is called An. Edw. 33. Rob. Domer did him homage for an Estate he held of him in Eston near Rockingham and the Acquietance the Abbot gave him is Recorded at large in these terms Pateat per presentes quod nos Godfridus Abbas de Burg Sancti Petri pardonavimus ad instantiam Johannis de Hotot de gratia nostra speciali Roberto fil her Domini Joh. Domer milit quinquaginta solidos pro relevio suo de morte dicti Domini Johannis Vxoris suae pro dimid feodi