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A07116	A defence of priestes mariages stablysshed by the imperiall lawes of the realme of Englande, agaynst a ciuilian, namyng hym selfe Thomas Martin doctour of the ciuile lawes, goyng about to disproue the saide mariages, lawfull by the eternall worde of God, [and] by the hygh court of parliament, only forbydden by forayne lawes and canons of the Pope, coloured with the visour of the Churche. Whiche lawes [and] canons, were extynguyshed by the sayde parliament ...	Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575.; Morison, Richard, Sir, d. 1556, attributed name.; Ponet, John, 1516?-1556, attributed name.	1567 (1567)	STC 17519; ESTC S112350	311,635	404

to expende and to expound the lawes of the realme in suche preiudiciall maner as he doth I would faine knowe how he can glose that Acte of Parliamente made in the .xxxij. yere of that noble Kyng Henry the eighte whiche is not as yet repealed but confirmed a newe for some parte thereof concernyng the prohibitions of the Leuiticall Lawe and standeth in sure force at this very daie wherein is plainly expressed that no reseruation or prohibition Goddes Lawe except shall trouble or empeche any mariage without the saied Leuiticall degrees And that all suche bee lawfull persones to contracte whiche bee not prohibited by Gods lawe to marrie I thinke this man can not saye that priestes mariages bee within suche degrees Ergo thei ought not to be troubled or impeched as this Lawe commaundeth And where this doctor writeth in th ende of his .ix. Chapiter full learnedly bee ye suer R. ij specially for a greate maister of the Chauncerie that the two actes in Kyng Edwardes daies aucthorisyng priestes mariages doeth not take a waie the penalties of the Canon lawe whiche assertion for the like how far it may be extended let wise menne iudge But if thei did he saieth yet could not the priestes take any aduauntage by them longer then thei did continue And he addeth his reason because saith he the auncient lawes of the churche as sone as the saied two statutes were taken awaie came straight in force againe Further saieth he for that thei were neuer extinguished but only for a time shadowed and brought a slepe And this he saieth is the opinion of the chief Doctors of the Ciuill lawe Now Master Ciuilian if ye had alledged this opinion as of suche as be learned and beareth good hartes to their owne naturall lawe of the realme your saiyng had been better proued in my conceite And I doubt muche whether it bee true that ye saie that the beste Ciuilians agréeth with you I thinke if it were searched there might be found as good Ciuilians comparable with those whom ye note to bee the chief Doctors of the Ciuill that bee not in your iudgemente in this your gaye booke And whether ye haue any manne learned in the temporall lawe that will ioyne in this opinion with your chief doctors in the Ciuill Lawe I would yet wishe eu●n those though ye haue craftly trained them into suche opinion by the odiousnes of this cause of the poore priestes yet to aduise thē well for suche causes might arise to them selues in compasse of seuen yeares in the like cases that peraduenture thei would wishe not to haue it so vniuersally concluded as ye conclude it But sir yet let me aske you a question by the occasion offred of that Lawe of Kyng Henrie Anno. xxcij where it is determined in lawe wherof I thinke ye cannot shewe the like in this realme since Brute came first into England and ye knowe that it is a great wonder to your wit for thinges to come in law that fewe menne hath seen the like example before tymes I meane I saie for the nature of precontractes whiche by that statute bee vtterly voide if a second contract followeth and bee consummated with bodely knowledge Ye knowe that this acte for precontractes is repealed againe Anno secundo Edwardi sexti and restored to that force as once it was and so long before continued many hundreth yeres What do ye entend with such mariages as at this daie be a great meiny in Englande which began and were aduailable by force of that act seyng this act is now repealed Whether maie ye dissolue suche marriages and pronounce them nought seyng ye saie the ●orce of the olde Canons yea the force of a statute lawe too is in strength againe and debarryng euery man to vse that kinde of second contractyng for hereafter When ye haue well answered this one question I thinke suche as bée learned in the law could deuise more of suche kinde to set your gaie witte on worke And if ye list ye maie read that suche equitie was prouided for in the first yere of Kyng Edwarde the sixte in the .xj. Chapiter concernyng the peaceable enioiyng of mennes interestes geuen by acte before though afterward followeth a repeale by the Kynges letters patentes of the saied actes the parties might pleade the said actes repealed for there grauntes so enioyed by lawe I praie you cōsider whether these rules of the lawes folowing might not haue place in this cause where it is saied Factum legitimum retractari non debet licét casus postea eueniat quo nō potuit inchoari A facte that was once lawfull ought not to bee called into question againe although afterwardes there happen somethyng that myght hinder the beginnyng of it Et multa prohibentur fieri que facta tamen tenent Many thynges are prohibited to be doen whiche when thei once bée doone must yet stand Indultum a iure beneficium non est alicui auferendum A benefite graunted by law must be taken from no man If any cause might be reduced to the equitie of these lawes I thinke the cause of Matrimonie beyng Gods ordinaunce ought to bée indissoluble and not to be retracted Moreouer if these mariages aforesaied ought not to bee dissolued but muste enioye the benefite of that statute when it so stode though it be repealed for hereafterward why should that act of repeale made in the first yere of our soueraigne Ladie the Quéenes maiestie Quéene Marie takyng a waye only but the libertie for Priestes to marrie for hereafter impeache or hinder those lawfull mariages of priestes before aucthorised by as good lawe and as often tymes before these daies seen more then king Edwardes repeale cā or ought molest these mariages for their maner of contractyng Furthermore if vpon repeale of actes as ye do saie your slepyng Canons should therby be straight waie in force watching and wakyng to shewe their face to byte and barke as the ordinaries in some places would haue them I doubt whether al the Quéenes highnes subiectes should haue so quiet reste in their beddes as thei would wishe and as their forefathers before tyme prouided for them selues by kepyng this slepyng tye dogge in his kenell not to come to farre a broode for bityng And because this Ciuilian deliteth to skoure his wit in lawest I desire his resolution in one doubt rising by occasion of his forsaied determination whiche is that all Ecclesiasticall persons lieth open to the old Canons of the Churche by reason of this acte of repeale Kyng Edwarde in his first yere made a statute repealyng all maner actes before his tyme made for punishement of Heresies as well the acte of King Richarde the seconde made in his first yere the act of Henrie the .v. made in his second yere the actes of Kyng Henrie the eight made in his xxv yere the act of .vj. articles made in the .xxxj. yere one other act made in the .xxxv. yere concernyng qualification of the

.27 b. compareth the scripture to a nose of waxe .100 c. Pius pope his opinion of priestes mariages .198 c. Plagues notable .130 Popes decrees not aboue princes lawes Fol. 5. pag. 1. a. the causer of dissention betweene the Greke Churche and Latine .55 c. he is Luminare maius .67 d bounde to acknowledge his wyfe .200 a. one disanulles the other doth graunt .204 c. called Antichrist by the byshop of Duresine .214 diuers of them byshoppes and priestes sonnes .313 Pope Sergius purged by Aldelme of his fornication .200 b. Popes matters .33 pag. 158. Pontificall of Rome falsely brought in for the Pontificall of England .183 a. 185. a Polidorus iudgement of forced chastitie .262 b. Pontificall bookes .282 Pretence of Martins booke Fol. 2. pag. 1. b. Prelates discretion in tyme of the pope Fol. 4. pag. 1. b. Priestes maryed vniustly entreated .2 a. leafe 4. pag. 1. a. Fol. 13. pag. 2. a. their mariages to be defended as a cause publique Fol. 7. pag. 2. b. continued maryed .1000 yeres Fol. 15. pag. 1. b. massyng priestes pag. 25. b. haue ordered .26 d. maryed priestes in estimation .30 a. 60. a. maryed in the Primatiue Churche .42 b. vncontinent priestes a shame to the Cleargie .31 a. Priestes had wyues and sayde Masse .41 c. maryed not to be seperated .59 c. their contractes iustifiable by lawe .67 a. and some maryed after order .76 c. their incontinencie excused .84 b. 85. b. 86. a. not reformable by lawes .87 c. whose maryages yet more punished then fornication .88 a. and clarkes incontinent may not be put to open penance .89 b. nor their immunities to be iudged of .91 c. priestes laye heauie burdens on other mens neckes .68 c. Priestes offendyng seldome repentyng .82 d. who by vowe renounce mariage not fornication .93 d. and beyng incontinent maye not by othe abiure incontinencie .93 d. forbidden certayne women in their houses .94 a. their crownes .108 a 110. priestes chyldren slaundered to bryng famine into the Realme .125 c. 133. a. their mariages honourable by Iustinian .197 the forbiddyng whereof was not before Siritius tyme .230 d. 258. yet after resumed their wyues agayne .194 for in orderyng they make no promise to renounce maryage .182 b. the prohibition of it was not the Apostles doctrine .153 c. Prayer fastyng holyday and chastitie not forbidden but the hypocrisie of them .166 a. Primatius denieth that all may take the gyft generally .141 c. Profession of priestes denied by them to be made .282 Profession of religious in young age .310 Prosper a byshop maryed .271 Phileas byshop maryed .349 Priestes marying without consent of their byshops depriuable .357 Pascall pope complayneth of kyng Henrie .300 Pascall offereth to dispense with the kynges promises 301. Pope meetyng with the kyng at Gisors .301 Popes craft towardes the kyng for commyng into Englande .301 Papall court burdenous to the Realme and infamous .302 Q Queene Marie in her Commission charged the ordinarie to execute no canons agaynst the lawes of the Realme .175 a. R Rabanus fled out of his order .292 Richarde Archb. of Cant. decrees agaynst concubines .317 Richarde the kyng taken prisoner .321 Rome what store of harlottes it hath .202 b. Rigour of discipline to be moderated .273 Remigius Archbyshop at .xxij. yeres .347 Restitutus byshop of London maryed .348 Redmayn Iohn Doctour● opinion .352 Rodulph Archbyshop of Cantorburie .304 Robert byshop of Lincolne maryed .307 S Sampsom byshop of worceter his testimonie agaynst his sonne .298 Separations of maryages hurtfull to the common wealth .181 a. Scriptures and Doctours compared .73 b. Scripture ought to haue preeminence .74 a. Scripture most certayne iudge by Athanasius .100 c. Scriptures and Christe must be iudge .246 a. Simon Magus disciples .80 c. Semel malus semper presumiter malus .106 c. Seritius pope first decreed continencie .152 a. Seritius first forbad maryage .230 d. 258. c. Sinesius byshop elect woulde not consent to leaue his wyfe .274 b. Simonie .283 Si non caste tamen caute .329 b. Sole lyfe a rare gyft which all can not take .65 b. 136. d. Sodomiticall sinne publique .285 Spanishe heretiques .115 a. Statutes of the Realme corrupted by Martin .169 a. Statute of Queene Marie or repeale but for afterwarde .171 d. Statutes made by kynges not to be reuoked by popes .178 a. Statutes chaungeable for tyme and place .205 a. Single lyfe why so much forced .276 Saxon rules of priestes .346 Scottishe lawes .350 T Tertullian of seconde maryages .163 d. Thinges neuer done are not therfore vnlawfull to be done .253 a. Thomas de Aquino his counsayle to a clarke y● cannot cōtayne .206 a. Thurstone Archbyshop of yorke repelled of the munckes .312 Theophilact counsayleth to mary for auoydyng fornication .138 b. Thurstone Archbyshop brake his fayth with the kyng .303 V Virginitie not so necessarie as the ministerie Fol. 7. pag. 1. a. 276. Uirginitie compared with Matrimonie Fol. 18. pag. 1. c. Fol. 18. pa. 2. c. d. Uirginitie aboue our reache .146 c. Uirginitie vrged by the fathers .276 Votum simplex et solemne .104 c. 231. c. 242. Votaries not to mary howe it is lawfull or vnlawfull or expedient .142 v. Vnius vxoris vir expounded pag. 32. a. pag. 61. a. Uotaries mariages alowed by Austen .207.209 d. by Cyprian ibidem by Hierome .208 c. by Gelasius .209 a. by the counsayle at Orleans .210 b. Uowes perfourmable must come from the gyft of God .147 d. 148. a. what circumstaunce they shoulde haue .149 howe they shoulde be made .236 Uowes solemne be of the Churches constitution .229 d. Uirginitie howe it is defined .342 Uirginitie ought to be otherwise qualified .343 W William Archbyshop of Canterburie .289.307 Williams decree agaynst maryed priestes helde not .308 Wattune Abbey .310 Waltham Abbey turned to reguler chanons .319 Writers of Louane to Malapart .335 Wyues many to one man .350 FINIS ¶ Imprinted at London by Richarde Iugge printer to the Queenes Maiestie Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis

there remained nothyng to them of right hauyng the helpe of the Kyng and his Nobles thei fell to supplication wherein thei besought the Bishop that the persones receiued in might bee expelled out of their Churches and that thei whiche were expelled might bee restored While this man of God was doubtyng and musyng in hym self and gaue no answere to the said request a merueilous matter chaunced that was neuer heard of before will ye sée The forme or Image of Christes bodie grauen in stone and nailed on a crosse set vp in somewhat an higher parte of the house expressed the voice of man and putte them all to silence that were present and saied God forbidde that this should bee doen God forbidde that this should bee doen ye haue iudged well ye should doe ill to change it At whiche voice the Kyng and all the aunciente men there were afraied almoste to death and therevpon made the house to ryng by their loude shoutyng and praisyng of GOD. By this meanes writeth Polidore the Monkes retained the vniuste possession Lib. vi by the helpe of God or rather saieth he by the helpe of man and the Priestes put backe for that time But yet thus was not the matter ended An other Councell was holden at Winchester and an other miracle there wrought that is the ioystes brake and the plaunchers fell doune sodainlie while the matter was in examination But holie Dunstane and all his friendes escaped well enough but verie many of the residue there slaine by that miracle This was doen about the yere of our Lorde ix hundred fiftie nine Thus the Priestes loste their Churches but yet kepte still their wiues till Hēry the firste his daies after the Conqueste Wherevpon is coumpted in Fabian that Priestes had wiues in Englande by the space of a thousande yeres and adde after Christes incarnatiō But then Monkes wer in suche estimation that Odo beyng Bishoppe of Winchester and elected Archbishoppe of Canterburie to take that See the more hololie professed hym self firste a Monke as in Polycronicon is rehearsed lib. vi where Treuisa the translater reproueth that fonde superstition seyng that neither Christe neither his Apostles were Monkes or Friars saith he Yea wée reade in storie that Ihon the .xiij. Pope of Rome graunted a decree at the request of kyng Edgar and by the instigation of the foresaid three Monkishe Bishoppes vidz Dunstan Ethelwolde Oswold that no secular Priest should be eligible to these Sees but onely professed Monkes as by his decree appeareth Thus we see in storie that Dunstan with the helpe and assistaunce of his twoo sworne brothren Ethelwolde Bishop of Winchester and Oswald Bishop of Worcester all three verie Monkes and therefore fauoured the multiplication of Monkes did put it yet to the choise of the Priestes whether thei would forsake their wiues or their benefi●es And also were contented to haue it reasoned in presence of the Kyng and his nobles And for no want of good matter were wrought twoo notable miracles to put it quite out of doubte Beside all this the stories make no mention of any separation that was made at that tyme for Priestes had wiues til Anselmus daies as is aforesaid who was Archebishop of Canterburie eight score yeres after Of whose doynges Polidore writeth thus Sed illud in primis non magis iustè quam piè egit ꝙ aliquos de religione malè meritos aut contra fas iusque sacerdotia consequutos partim desecrandos partim ipsis sacerdotijs priuandos decreuit Verum cum bonam illorum partem postea poenituisset misericordia motus pari studio apud pōtificem rem egit vt ad pristinam dignitatem ritè restituti fuerint that is But this with the firste did the saied Anselme bothe iustly and godly that though he had decréed some certain whiche had plaied euill partes in Religion or that had gotten their benefices againste bothe lawe and right some to be degraded some to be depriued yet when a greate number of them did repente them afterwarde he was moued with mercie and laboured diligētly to the bishop of Rome that thei should bee restored again to their former roumes and dignities We reade furthermore by the record of Nauclerus storie writer Nauclerus that whē that nicromancer Hildebrand called Gregorie the vij as heady as he was as extreme as he is reported to be did after long deliberation put it euer to the election and choise of the priests whether thei would chose And ●ow importune soeuer he was vpon Tharchebishop of Mogunce to execute his cōmaundement yet perceiuyng saieth Nauclerus how lōg that custome had preuailed for priestes to liue with their wiues he vsed suche moderation to geue them half a yeres respite to aduise them selues yea a whole yere to waigh the matter before he would require of thē what thei would chose of this offer made vnto thē But in th ende as Mattheus Parisiensis writeth Anno dn̄i 1074. Sacerdotes vxoratos a diuino officio amouit nouo exēplo vt multis visum est inconsiderato preuidicio cōtra sanctorū patrū sententiam vt validius vxoratos sacerdotes puniat laicis interdixit ne missas eorū audirent decimas ●tiā debitas igne iussit concremari that is he remoued maried priestes frō ministratiō vsyng therin a strāge exāple as many thought an inconsiderate preiudice against the iudgemente of holy fathers and furthermore for that he would vse more rigor against maried priestes he forbadde that any laie man should heare their Masses and decréed also that their tithes due vnto them should be set on fire charitablie you may be sure Of whiche holy father although D. Marten in his boke speaketh muche goodnes by the witnesse of Platina Sigibert Beno yet Sigibert a storie writer sheweth his holines full out And one Beno which was a Cardinall in this said Pope his daies and therfore a more trustie witnesse for his eyes then Platina for his eares who folowed a good while after recordeth how prodigiouse a man he was in his wilfull doynges all the tyme of his life how spitefully he entreated Hēry themperor the .iiij. of that name Thus master Chauncelour with your officers and Councelers ye see what examples the Priestes haue for the maner how they haue béen ordred before times whē their predecessours had not half so good lawe besides gods lawe nor so cleare light as thei haue at these daies Vpon contemplation of your doynges so farre repugnaunt whether I might vse interpellation expostulation or accusatiō I leaue it to your owne iudgement I haue made the maior let other men make the minor and let your owne consciences conclude vp the argumente But what shall I saie Shall I saie as Barnard saith facitis hec quia potestis Ad Eugenium sed vtrum etiam debeatis questio est Shall I saie also with hym Ad honorem quibusque suum gradumque conseruandum positi estis non

at Saint Austines de anno 1005. saying further his olde schole vearse Qnia quod noua testa capit inueterata sapit Addyng moreouer Proh dolor iste modus viuendi inter religiosos pessimus ita a primaeuis temporibus monachis inoleuit quod vsque ad hoc tempus succidi non possit Vtinam faeditatis exemplo vicinos non inficiant Alas this most euyll trade of lyuyng emongest the religious hath so since the begynnyng continued in the munckes that vnto this day it cannot be cut of woulde to God by their fylthy example they infected not their next neyghbours This is no newe complaynt of any late muncke For Abbot Tritenhem wrytyng of a very auncient and learned muncke Rabanus Maurus such a one as he saith Quod nec Italita similem nec Germania peperit aequalem That neither Italie had his lyke nor Germanie brought foorth his matche And he lyuyng in perpetuall studiyng of scriptures gouernyng his munckes by the space of xxiiij yeres accordyngly they were so leude towardes hym in displeasure that they sayde he was to much addicted to the scriptures and neglected the worlde The deuyll thus workyng in them saith he to be sclaundered in that thyng wherein they ought to haue ben edified Wherevpon he beyng offended gaue place to their anger woulde dwell no longer with them but forsoke his monasterie for euer after and went to the emperour Lewes who dyd frendly entertayne hym and in conclusion was made Archbyshop of Mense And yet these munckes helde them selues in most estimation of the worlde to the intollerable iniurie of all other of the cleargie more honest in lyfe though they made not so much of their paynted sheathe and better learned then them selues vntyll such time as almightie God had reuealed their detestable hypocrisie at the full and their beastly sodomiticall life in most of them founde by inquisition in kyng Henrie the eyght his dayes and therfore were by the iust iudgement of God iustly suppressed some of their houses restored to them from whom they had so long agaynst all iustice deteyned them Thus somewhat out of the principall purpose haue ben strayed to note the sequele of their foresayde professions which in hypocrisie they do so much aboue all reason extoll Nowe as this Anselme aforesaid was tyl his lyues ende earnest to force his decree yet he preuayled but a litle for Henrie the kyng hym selfe was agaynst hym and wylled that the priestes shoulde kepe both their wyues their churches as they dyd in Lanfranckes dayes for hym selfe testifieth in his epistle to the Prior his brethren at Canterburie Epist. 77. cent 3. though yet in his rigour he contempned the kynges commaundementes as he euer vsed ouermuche seueritie agaynste the kynges of his time in other matters the most part of his life not onlye standyng ouerthwartlye in the matter of inuestitures Edm. lib. 4. and for the Bishoppes homage making for their temporalties as alwayes frowardly resistyng the kynges reasonable requestes As where he desired to consecrate one Richarde electe of London at Chichester nye at hande where they were and for more speede in the considerations of the wayghtynesse of his seruice presently to be put vpon hym he denyed hym but woulde needes consecrate hym at his owne chappell at Pagham And also when he desired hym to consecrate the electe Abbot of saint Austines eyther in his owne monasterie eyther in the kynges chapell at the request of the kyng and diuers of his brethren the byshoppes that were then Lib. 4. woulde for none of them all be moued from his seuere determination but woulde needes consecrate him at Lamhith where he was at hostage So wylfull a man in all his doynges sauyng the reuerence of his learnyng that though he sawe that it was nothyng expedient for the moste part of the cleargie of Englande to be thus depriued from their ministerie beyng so many in number insomuche that pope Pascall wrytyng to hym sayth that in England there is so great a multitude of priestes sonnes that welnygh the greater part and the better part of the cleargie is of this sort and condition Epist. 31. cent 4. Edm. lib. 4. whereby the Churche myght haue ben better serued and the more soules saued by an infinite number In which epistle Pascall the pope wylled yet to consider the necessitie of the tyme and commoditie of the Churche and so referred the matter to his wysedome and religious carefulnesse which he thought to be in hym but all in vayne for he proceeded without all entreatie to all rigour and seueritie with barbarous extremitie was yet by Gods prouidence somewhat restrayned by Anselmes second absence out of the Realme for three yeres togethers and more so that his decree was much contempned for that many priestes resumed agayne their wyues And though Anselmes austeritie in lawe gaue the prince in those dayes to vse his corrections and mulctes of money in his necessitie for maynteynyng his warres in Normandie aswell imposed vppon them whiche were not chargeable as chargeable for breaking that lawe And their churches miserablie charged by such exactions vpon the priestes by the kinges officers and for that they were not able or woulde not pay they were drawen to pryson there tormented Whiche extremitie caused two hundred priestes at once wearyng their albes and other priestlye vestmentes on barefoote to resort to the kynges palace crying with one voyce vpon the kyng for mercie afterwarde sued to the Queene for her pitie who wept at their miserie but durst not vse any intercession for them Whervpon Anselme from beyonde the seas wrytyng to the kyng Henrie dyd much blame hym as saying that all maner of corrections and forfaytures of all suche shoulde appertayne to the Byshoppes and in their default to the Archbyshoppes but no tyme belonged to the kyng He than beyng vnder the popes wynges thus wrote as euer vpon the pope Anselme bare hym selfe bolde and euer redy to make his vages to his succour As he dyd in Wylliams dayes rayse then a great trouble as Wylliam Malmesbury writeth Magnis vtrinque motibus magnis consultationibus actum eratque ratiocinatio regis huiusmodi Consuetudo regni mei est a patre meo instituta vt nullus preter licentiam regis appelletur papa Qui consuetudines regni tollit potestatem quoque coronam regni violat qui coronam mihi aufert inimicitias infidelitatē in me agit This matter was done with great sturres on both sydes and with great consultations And this was the kynges reason It is a custome in my realme and so constituted from my father that none shoulde be appealed vnto or called pope besydes the kynges licence He that destroyeth the customes of the Realme doth also dishonor and dissolue the auctoritie and crowne of the Realme He that taketh the crowne from me intendeth enmitie and infidelitie agaynst me Wherevpon Anselme reasoned to the contrary with tu es Petrus c. concludyng

prince lyke hym in repressyng the wronge exactions vsed in the Realme and that gouerned his subiectes more wyselye in peace and quietnes none that dyd more reuerence ecclesiasticall persons and that better maynteyned the poore or the religious by his expences and that after his death he saith by and by sprong vp all wicked men disturbers of peace murderers and robbers with al kynd of mischiefes Which princely qualities saith Wylliam of Malmesburie he gote by his education brought vp and instructed in all the seuen liberall sciences Which education was in the vniuersitie of Cambridge saith Thomas Rudborne so that his learnyng was a great cause of the wyse gouernyng of the Realme He hadde worthyly the name of Beuclarke whom his father Wylliam the conquerour purposed to haue preferred to a Byshopricke Scala chron and therefore caused hym to be instructed in learnyng whiche turned as muche to the commendation of the father for that he iudged a Byshop ought to be learned and that not only blood and other corporall ornamentes commended so muche the partie a man to be of that vocation as prudence gotten by learnyng and knoweledge In whiche his knowledge the sayde Henrie toke so much delectation VVil. Mal. and founde the fruite therof so necessarie in gouernement that he was wont to saye Rex illiteratus Asinus coronatus a Kyng vnlearned is an Asse crowned This man so wel vsyng his gouernement to Gods pleasure that Henrie Huntyngton who lyued in his dayes testified that God caused his fame to be spread through the whole worlde and that he gaue hym three special gyftes wisdome ryches and victorie in such aboundaunce that he excelled saith he all his predecessours Edm. lib. 6. Some proofe of his graces good qualities may be considered partly occasioned to be remembred by this foresayde archbishop Rodulph who at a certaine coronation of the kynges newe wyfe Atheleida daughter to Godefride duke of Lorayne in the xxi yere of his rayne the sayde Rodulphus beyng thexecutor of the solempnitie at masse and at the alter in his pontificalibus castyng his eyes behynde hym and seyng the sayde kyng syttyng on an hye throne with the crowne on his head he went in a great haste from the alter vp to the kyng whom he knewe was not crowned by hym or his predecessour At whiche sodayne commyng the kyng reuerentlye rose vp to hym and the byshop asked who had put on that crowne on his head The kyng with a sad countenaunce aunswered that he had no great care therof and therfore he sayde with a modest voyce that it was out of his remembraunce Ueryly saith the byshop whosoeuer put it on dyd it not by any ryght and as long as it standeth vpon thyne head I wyll not go any farther in ministration To whom the kyng did aunswere If not ryghtly as you saye it be put on do you that which you knowe most to be done with iustice ye shall haue me no gaynesayer in any thyng Wherevpon the byshop lyfted vp his handes to take of the crowne frō his head the kyng as redy to vnlose the lase vnder his chynne wherewith his crowne was stayed on his head the lordes perceauyng that attempt they all with a loude voyce cryed vppon the byshop to spare the kyng and to suffer the kyng styll to weare it on his head in that solempnitie Which thyng the byshop at length permitted and standyng there neare the kyng crowned he began the Gloria in excelsis the quyer folowyng he afterwardes retyryng to the aulter agayne Further to amplifie the quiet spirite wisedome and modestie of this kyng in this fact I shall not neede but leaue it to the reader to iudge what benefite this king had by his learnyng To note the vntimely importunitie of this Rodulphus what his wisdome or wylfulnes was I also leaue it to the readers iudgement but I woulde the reader speciallye to beare in remembraunce whether as it is sayde before after Anselmes death the byshoppes after Rodulphes death were not iustly moued to be suiters to the kyng to haue their Archbyshop otherwyse chosen then out of the munckes coate whose wordes be these as the Saxon chronicle doth report them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anno. 1123. Then spake the byshoppes betweene them selues and sayd that they neuer more would haue any man of munkes order to be Archbyshop ouer them for they neuer alowed nor loued munckes rulyng and the kyng graunted that to them Nowe to ende the storie of this tyme to set out before your eyes the marueylous wisedome that this kyng gathered by his learnyng in his youth It is written in common historie that the kyng came from Normandie into Englande which was a great cause of mirth and ioy that the people made for his prosperous returne But the next day after certayne of his sonnes daughter and neece with other very many of the nobilitie men women and chyldren and some of the cleargie folowing hym in the seas by misfortune were all drowned as before is sayde except one poore base man which escaped to tell the misfortune Which heauy casualtie many men dyd much maruayle at and were very sorowfull But yet were they sooner pacified vpon the kynges example when they sawe hym whom it dyd moste respecte to beare it with so manly a mynde referryng it with a quiet gesture and voyce to the equitie of gods iudgementes which no man can resist For as comfortyng hym selfe sayth the storie he sayde with a lowly spirite As the Lorde pleased so was it done be the name of the Lorde therefore blessed for euermore Amen Thus farre haue we enlarged the matter vpon reheasyng the tyme of Rodulph when this kyng dyd raigne whose godly qualities ought to be had in memorie for the notabilitie thereof for euer to the settyng out of Gods glorie to the commendation of learnyng the fruite whereof this prince shewed so maruelously VVilliam Chro. Ceno Mart. an 1132 After this Rodulph folowed William aforesayde in whose dayes almost all London was brent by the fire of Gilbert Becket This William renewed the same lyke constitution of Anselme in his tyme Pag. 217. by the helpe of the popes legate Ioannes Cremensis a priest Cardinall who after he had ben very costly and chargeably enterteyned with gyftes and rewardes and after that brought honorably to Canterburie and there on Easter day sang the hye masse at Christes aulter and after his great progresse goyng from byshop to byshop Chro. Saxo. Pet Burgēs from abbey to abbey and commyng after that about the natiuitie of our Ladye to London kept his councell there in which the legate dyd commaunde that Anselmes decree should be obserued better then it was but all preuayled not sayth the Saxonicall storie and he afterwarde departed home to Rome with shame enough In this mans dayes Chro. Ioren in anno 1135. Robert Bloet muncke of Euesham byshop of Lincolne had a sonne named Simon whom he made deane