to his Sea This Bishop sensible of the consumptionous state of his body and finding physick out of the Kitchin more beneficiall for him then that out of the Apothecaries shop and speciall comfort from the Cordialls she provided him did not onely himself connive at her Heresie as he termed it but also protected her during his life from the fury of others Some will say this his curtesie to her was founded on his kindenesse to himself But however I am so far from detaining thanks from any deserved on just cause that I am ready to pay them where they are but pretended due on any colour 8. Sussex smarted more than all the forenamed Counties together In the Diocess of Chichester under John Christopherson Bishop of Chichester This man was well learned and had turned Eusebius his Ecclesiasticall History into latine Anno. Dom. 1553-1554 with all the persecutions of the Primitive Christians What he translated in his youth he practised in his age turning Tyrant himself and scarce was he warme in his Bishoprick when he fell a burning the poor Martyrs Ten in one fire at a Fox pag. 2003. pag. 2024. Lewis and seaventeen others at severall times in sundry places 9. In the Diocess of Canterbury In the Diocess of Canterbury Cardinal Poole appeared not personally active in the prosecution of any to death Whilest others impute this to his statelinesse not stooping to so small matters we more charitably ascribe it to his favouring of the Protestant party having formerly lost the Papacy under that imputation But seeing it is a true Maxime which an heathen man layeth down it is enough for a private man that he himself do no wrong but a publique person must provide that those under him do no injury to others I see not how the Cardinal can be excused from the guilt of that innocent blood which Thornton his Suffragan and Harpsfield his Arch-Deacon shed like water in and about the City of Canterbury 10. The Diocess of Rochester containing the remainder of Kent was of small extent In the Diocess of Rochester But that stock must be very little indeed out of which the ravenous Wolfe cannot fetch some prey for himself Morris the Bishop played the tyrant therein being the first in Queen Maries dayes that condemned a woman Margery Polley by name to be burnt for religion with many moe who at Dartford or Rochester sealed the truth with their lives 11. Crosse we the Thames to come into Middlesex In the Diocess of London under Bonner and Essex the Diocess of London under Bishop Bonner whom all generations shall call Bloody St. Paul b 1 Cor. 15. 32 mentioneth his fighting with beasts at Ephesus after the manner of men which some expound his encountering with people men for their shape and sex but beasts for their cruell mindes and manners In the same sense we may say that Lion Tiger Wolfe Bear yea a whole forest of wilde beasts met in Bonner killing two hundred in the compasse of three yeers And as if his cruelty had made him Metropolitan of all England he stood not on distinction of Diocesses but martyred all wheresoever he met them Thus Mr. Philpot belonged to Gardiners Jurisdiction and often pleaded in vain that Bonner was none of his Ordinary yet Bonner Ordinary or Extraordinary dispatch'd him who cared not whence men came but onely whither he sent them No sex quality or age escap'd him whose fury reached from John Fetty a lad of eight yeers old by him scourged to death even unto Hugh Laverock a Creeple sixty eight yeers old whom he caused to be burnt 12. * quer for he is not in B. Godwins catologue Dr. Story Dean of Pauls must not be forgotten Under Dr. Story being under Bonner a most cruell persecutour Was not this false Herauldry cruelty on cruelty Well So it seemed good to Divine Providence as conducing most to the peace of the Church that one place rather then two should be troubled with such damnable Tyrants Bonner persecuted by whole-sale Story by Retail the former enjoyned the later attended the execution What Bonner bade Story beheld to be performed Yea sometimes he made cruel additions of his own invention As when he caused a faggot to be tossed in the face of Mr. Denlie the Martyr when he was ready to be burnt How he was rewarded afterwards for his cruelty by Gods blessing in due place 13. Under the same Torrid Zone of persecution but a little more temperate lay Norfolke In the Diocess of Norwich and Suffolke in the Diocess of Norwich Bishop Hopton was unmercifull in his Visitations but Downing the Chancellour plai'd the Devill himself enough to make wood deare in those parts so many did he consume to ashes whose several examinations are at large set down in the Book of Martyrs 14. Elie Diocess Cambridge-Shire succeeds In the Diocess of Elie. whose Bishop Dr. Thyrlby was a learned discreet and moderate man witnesse his meek behaviour at the degrading of Arch-Bishop Cranmer shedding plentifull tears thereat But can water and fire weeping and burning come from the same person Surely so it did here for afterwards he singled out John Hullier as the Representative for all the Protestants in his Diocess whom he caused to be burnt at Cambridge The shedding his blood was as giving carnest of his zeal in the Popish cause though afterward he made no farther payment in this kinde justly offending the Protestants for doing so much yet scarcely pleasing the Papists because he did no more As for the execution of William Woolsey and Robert Pigot in this Diocess Thurlby was no whit interested therein but the guilt thereof must be shared betwixt Dr. Fuller the Chancellour and other Commissioners 15. In Peterborough Diocess consisting of North-hampton-shire In the Diocess of Peterborough and Rutland I finde but one John Kurde a Shooe-maker burnt at Northhampton But this his death I cannot charge on the account of David Poole the Bishop as consenting thereunto because William Binsley Batchelour of law and Chancellour of Peterborough was onely his active Prosecutor 16. Lincolne Diocess is next In the Diocess of Lincolne the largest of the whole Kingdome containing Lincolne Leicester Huntington Bedford and Buckingham besides parts of Hartford and Warwick-shires Now according to the rules of proportion who could expect otherwise but the moe men the moe Martyrs The greater the Province the more grievous the persecution But it fell out the clean countrary finding but one Martyr in all that space of ground a * Fox Volum 3. pag. 706. Merchants servant burnt at Leicester Frivolous is their reason who impute this to the disposition of White Bishop of this Diocess the first half of Queen Maries Reign whom they behold as poetically given of more phansie then fury which vented it self in verses more pleased to lash the Hereticks with a Satyr then suck their blood by destructive courses As little
the English at this present had not injured his Holinesse by any personall offence against him the Pope by Interdicting the whole Realme discovered as much emptinesse of Charity as plenitude of Power But some will say his bounty is to be praised that he permitted the People some Sacraments who might have denied them all in rigour and with as much right yea 't is well he Interdicted not Ireland also as a Countrey under King Johns Dominion deserving to smart for the perversnesse of their Prince placed over it 10. But after the continuance of this Interdiction King John by name excommunicated a year and upwards 1209. the horrour thereof began to abate 10. Use made ease and the weight was the lighter born by many shoulders Yea the Pope perceived that King John would never be weary with his single share in a generall Burden and therefore proceeded Nominatim to excommunicate him For now his Holinesse had his hand in having about this time excommunicated Otho the German Emperour and if the Imperiall Cedar had so lately been blasted with his Thunderbolts no wonder if the English Oak felt the same fire He also Assoiled all English subjects from their Allegiance to King John and gave not onely Licence but Incouragement to any Forreigners to invade the land so that it should not onely be no sinne in them but an expiating of all their other sinnes to conquer England Thus the Pope gave them a Title and let their own swords by Knight-service get them a Tenure 11. Five years did King John lie under this sentence of Excommunication Yet is blessed with good successe under the Popes curse in which time we find him more fortunate in his Martiall Affairs 1210. then either before or after 11. For he made a successefull voyage into Ireland as greedy a Grave for English Corps as a bottomlesse Bag for their Coin and was very triumphant in a Welsh Expedition and stood on honourable termes in all Foraine Relations For as he kept Ireland under his feet and Wales under his elbow so he shak't hands in fast friendship with Scotland and kept France at arms end without giving hitherto any considerable Advantage against him The worst was not daring to repose trust in his Subjects he was forced to entertain Forainers which caused his constant anxiety as those neither stand sure nor go safe who trust more to a staffe then they lean on their legs Besides to pay these Mercenary Souldiers he imposed unconscionable Taxes both on the English Clergy especially and Jews in the Kingdom One Jew there was of b Mat. Paris in Anno 1210. pag. 229 Bristoll vehemently suspected for wealth though there was no cleer Evidence thereof against him of whom the King demanded ten thousand Marks of silver and upon his refusall commanded that every day a Tooth with intolerable torture should be drawn out of his head which being done seven severall times on the eight day he confessed his wealth and payed the fine demanded who yeelding sooner had sav'd his teeth or stubborn longer had spar'd his money now having both his Purse and his Jaw empty by the Bargain Condemn we here mans cruelty and admire heavens justice for all these summes extorted from the Jews by temporall Kings are but paying their Arrerages to God for a debt they can never satisfie namely the crucifying of Christ 12. About the same time The Prophesie of Peter of Wakefield against K John one Peter of Wakefield in Yorkshire a Hermit 1212. prophesied that John should be King of England 13. no longer then next Ascension-day after which solemn Festivall on which Christ mounted on his glorious Throne took possession of his heavenly Kingdom this Oppose of Christ should no longer enjoy the English Diadem And as some report he foretold that none of King Johns linage should after him be crowned in the Kingdom Anno Regis Joh. 13. The King called this Prophet an a Fox Martyr pag. 229. Idiot-Knave Anno Dom. 1212. which description of him implying a contradiction the King thus reconciled pardoning him as an Idiot and punishing him as a Knave with imprisonment in Kors-Castle The fetters of the prophet gave wings to his prophesie and whereas the Kings neglecting it might have puft this vain Prediction into wind men began now to suspect it of some solidity because deserving a wise Princes notice and displeasure Farre and neer it was dispersed over the whole Kingdom it being b Cominaeus faith that the English are never without some Prophesie on foot generally observed that the English nation are most superstitious in beleeving such reports which causeth them to be more common here then in other Countries For as the Receiver makes the Thief so popular credulity occasioneth this Propheticall vanity and Brokers would not set such base ware to sale but because they are sure to light on chapmen 13. Leave we the person of this Peter in a dark Dungeon 14. and his credit as yet in the Twilight 1213. betwixt Prophet and Impostor to behold the miserable condition of King John King Johns submission to the Pope perplexed with the daily preparation of the French Kings Invasion of England assisted by many English Male-contents and all the banish'd Bishops Good Patriots who rather then the fire of their Revenge should want fuel would burn their own Countrey which bred them Hereupon King John having his soul battered without with forrain fears and foundred within by the falsenesse of his Subjects sunk on a sudden beneath himself to an act of unworthy submission and subjection to the Pope For on Ascenision Eve May 15. being in the town of Dover standing as it were on tip-toes on the utmost edge brink and labell of that Land which now he was about to surrender King John by an Instrument or Charter sealed and solemnly delivered in the presence of many Prelates and Nobles to Pandulphus the Popes Legat granted to God and the Church of Rome the Apostles Peter and Paul and to Pope Innocent the third and his Successours the whole Kingdom of England and Ireland And took an Estate thereof back again yeelding and paying yeerly to the Church of Rome over and above the Peter-pence a thousand Marks sterling viz. 700. for England and 300. for Ireland In the passing hereof this ceremony is observable that the Kings Instrument to the Pope was * Both Instruments for the present were but sealed with Wax and the next yeer solemnly embossed with mettall in the presence of Nicholas the Popes Legat. sealed with a seal of Gold and the Popes to the King which I have beheld and perused remaining amongst many rarities in the Earl of Arundels Library was sealed with a seal of Lead Such bargains let them look for who barter with his Holinesse alwayes to be losers by the contract Thy silver saith the c Isai 1. 22. The Rent never paid the Pope nor demanded
6. Rex dilecto sibi in Christo Archidiacono Glouc. 25 Salutem 1241 Significavimus etiam viva voce exposuimus Magistro P. Rubeo Nuncio Domiin Papae quod non est intentionis nostrae nec etiam volumus aliquatenus sustinere quod vel viros Relligiosos vel Clericum aliquem ad contributionem faciendam ad opus Domini Papae compellant Et ideo vobis mandamus inhibentes districte ne ad mandatum ip sius Magistri Petri vel suorum viros religiosos seu Clericos ad contributionem praedictam faciendam aliqua censura Ecclesiastica compellatis Scituri quod si secus egeritis nos contra vos tanquam perturbatorem Pacis Ecclesiasticae quam conservare tenemur modis quibus expedire viderimus procedemus Teste Rege apud Glouc. 11. die Iunij The King to his beloved in Christ the Archdeacon of Glocester Greeting We have signified also by word of mouth have declared to M r. P. Rubeus Nuncio to the Lord the Pope that it is not our intention nor will we any wayes endure it that they shall compell Religious Men or any Clerk to make a contribution to supply the occasions of the Lord the Pope And therefore we command you strictly forbidding that at the command of the same M r. Peter or any of his officers you compel not any Religious Men or Clerks by any Ecclesiasticall censures to make the aforesaid Contribution Knowing that if you do otherwise we shall proceed against you by means we shall think fit as against the Disturber of the Peace of the Church which we are bound to preserve Witnesse the King at Glocester the 11. of Iune By the way a Nuncio differed from a Legate almost as a Lieger from an extraordinary Ambassodour who though not so ample in his power was as active in his progging to advance the profit of the Pope his Master 23. This Instrument acquainteth us with the Method used by him in mannaging his money matters A free-forced gift Such as refused to pay his demands were proceeded against by Church Censures suspension excommunication c. The cunning Italian to decline to odium imploying the Archdeacons to denounce the same in their respective Iurisdictions Yet this went under the notion of a voluntary contribution Anno Dom. 1241 as free as fire from Flint forced with Steel and strength out of it Anno Regis Henrici 3. 25 24. Whereas the King counted himself bound to preserve the Peace of the Church Spoken like a King the words well became his mouth They seem to me to look like DEFENDER OF THE FAITH as yet but in the Bud and which in due time might grow up to amount to as much For though every Christian in his calling must keep the peace of the Church Kings have a coercive power over the disturbers thereof 25. This Royal resolution Say and do best to resist the oppressing of his Subjects was good as propounded better if performed I find no visible effect thereof but we may believe it made the Popes Mil go the slower though it did not wholy hinder his grinding the faces of the Clergy This Patent is dated from Glocester more loved of King Henry then London it self as a strong and loyal City where he was first crowned and afterwards did often reside 26. Amongst the thousands of pounds which the Pope carried out of England A Pension given by the Pope to an English Earile I meet onely with three hundred Marks yearly which came back again as a Private Boon bestowed on an English Knight Sir Reginald Mohun by Pope Innocent the fourth then keeping his Court at Lyons in France And because these are vestigia sola retrorsum it will not be amisse to insert the whole Story thereof as it is in an ancient French Manuscript pertaining to the Family of the Mohuns Quant Sire Reinalda voit Ceo faitz il passa a la Court de Rome que adonques fuist a Lions purconfirmer ratifer sa novelle Abbay a grand honor de liu a touz joues fuist en la Courte le deniergne en quaresme quant lenchaunce loffice del messe Laetare Ierusalem al quen jour lusage de la Court este que la poistoille doa a plus valiant a plus honorable home qui puit estre trovez en la deste Courte une Rose ou une floretta de fin or donquez ilz sercherent tote le Courte entroverent Cesti Reinald pur le plus noble de tou te la Courte a oui le Pape Innocent donna Celle rose ou florette dor la Papa lui Damanda quil home il fuisten son pais il respondi simple bacheleri bean fitz fetz la pape Celle rose on florette unquez ne fuist donez fo rs an Rois ou an Dukes an a Countese pour ceo nous voluns que vous sons le Counte de Est Ceo est Somerset Reinald respondi Aist O Saincts piere ieo nay dout le mom meinteyner lapos soille donques lui dona ducent mariz per annum receiver sur Cantee saint Paule de Londres de ces deneires d'Engleterre pour son honor mainteyner de quen donna il reporta Bulles que enquore aurent en plomps c. en semblement odue moltes dis aultres bulles confirmatione de sa novelle Abbay de Newham a pres quen jour il porta la rose ou florette en les armes It is as needless as difficult to translate this Bull verbatim being of base obsolete and ill-pointed French sufficeth it that this is the summe thereof The Pope used on the Lords day called Laetare Ierusalem solemnly to bestow a consecrated Rose on the most Honorable persons present at Masse with his Holinesse Enquiry being made the Rose was conferred on Sir Reginald Mohun as the best extracted in the present Congregation But seeing that Rose used alwayes to be given to Kings Dukes and Earles at least the lowest form of Coronetted Nobility in that Age his Holinesse understanding the same Sir Reginald to be but a plain Knight Bachelour created him the Earle of Est that is saith this Bull of Somerset and for the better support of his Honour he allowed him three hundred Marks out of the pence of England understand the Peter-Pence as the most certain Papal Revenue in the Land By this Bull the same Sir Reinald was made a Count Apostolick whereby he had the Priviledges to appoint publick Notaries and to legitimate Bastards on some Conditions King Henry the third was so far from excepting against this Act that he highly honoured him And yet Master Camden sometimes a In his Brit. in Somersetshire acknowledgeth sometimes denieth b In his Eliz. in the case of Count Arundel There are rich who make themselves poor him for an English Earle Not that I accuse him as inconstant to himself but suspect my self not well attaining his meaning therein 27.
Pope must either abate of his Traine or finde his Officers other waies of subsistance 37. Secondly By his Annates for Annates so called because they were the intire Revenues of one Yeare in the nature of first Fruits which the Bishops and inferiour Clergie paid to the Pope We have no light concerning the latter but can present the Reader with an exact account what every Bishop in England new elected or translated to a See paid at his entrance to his Holinesse BISHOPRICK paid a This Catalogue was extracted our of Bishop Godwin Canterbury 10000. F. Besides for his Pall 5000. F. London 3000. F. Winchester 12000. D. Elie 7000. D. Lincolne Coventrey and Lichfield 1733. D. Salisbury 4500. * This standeth for Crown Cr. Bath and Wells 430. D. Exeter 6000. D. Norwich 5000. D. Worcester 2000. F. Hereford 18000. F. Chichester 333. F. Rochester St. Davids 1500. F. Landaffe 700. F. Bangor 126. F. St. Asaph 126. F. Yorke 10000. D. Besides for his Pall 5000. D. Durham 9000. F. Carlisle 1000. F. In this account F stands for Florenes being worth 4s 6d in our English money D for single Duckets sufficiently known for 8 shillings Lincolnes not being valued I behold as a meeâ— casual omission in this Catalogue but can render a reason why Rochester not rated who being accounted as Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury and antiently in his Donation may be supposed valued in the high valuation of his Patron That Bath and Wells then so high in Wealth should be so low in first Fruits whereat my b Quod miror Godw in his Catalogue of Bishops p. 447 By appea's Authour wonders plainly shows that Favour was fashionable as in all other Courts so in the Court of Rome The rest of the English Bishopricks were not in being before the Reformation 39. Thirdly by Appeals The Pope having learn'd this policy from the Councill of Jethro to Moses * Exod. 18. 22. every Great thing they shall bring unto thee but every Small matter they viz the 70 Elders shall Judge reserved to himself the definitive sentence in all high Controversies which brought no small profit unto him 40. Fourthly By King Athelwolth's Pension by K. Athelph's Pension given by him to the Pope Anno 852. whereof largely before A distinct payment from Peter pence with which some confound it as stinted to three hundred c See Sir Henry Spelman's Councils p. 353. By his Dispensations Marks whereas the other were casual and increased according to the number of Houses 41. Fiftly for Dispensations Oh the charity of the Pope to lay heavy Burdens on mens consciences without command from God's Word too heavy for them to bear but then so mercifull he was for Money to take them off again thus Licences to marry within degrees forbidden for Priests base Sonnes to succeed their Fathers in a Benefice and a hundred other particulars brought yearly a Nemo scit into the Papal Treasury 42. Sixtly By Indulgencies Indulgencies are next though I know not how essentially distinguished from Dispensations nor dare warrant the distinction that the former was against the other above Canon Law As when Abbeys and other places were freed from Episcopal Jurisdiction and many other Priviledges and Exemptions both personal and conventual 43. Seventhly By Legatine Levies by Legatine Levies these though not Annuall yet came almost as often as the Pope's needs or covetousnesse would require them 44. Eighthly By Mortuaries Mortuaries due at the death of great Prelates though I finde not in what manner and proportion they were paid 45. Ninthly By Pardons Pardons He saveth his credit the best who makes no conjecture at the certainty of this Revenue And though the Pope as then too politick openly to confesse his profit by granting so since be too proud publickly to bemone his losse by stopping of these Pardons yet is he secretly and sadly sensible of a great emptinesse in his Treasure thereby 46. Tenthly By Peter-pence Peter-pence succeed granted by Ina King of the West Saxons to Pope Gregory the second Anno 626. It was a peny paid for every Chimney that smoaked in England which in that Hospitall Age had few smoaklesse ones the device of Cypher Tunnels or mock-Chimneys meerly for uniformity of building being unknown in those dayes Indeed before the Conquest such onely paid Peter-pence who were worth * See Spelman's Council p 625. thirty pence in yearly revenue or half a marke in goods but afterwards it was collected generally of all solvable Housekeepers and that on most heavy penalties 47. Now though none can tell what these amounted to To what they amounted yet conjecture may be made by descending to such proportions which no rational man will deny Allowing nine thousand Parishes abating the odde hundreds in England and Wales a hundred houses in every Parish two chimneys in every house one with another it ariseth unto a yearly summe of seven thousand five hundred pounds Here I say nothing of the intrinsecal value of their Peny worth two pence in our Age. 48. Eleventhly By Pilgrimages Pilgrimages follow many persons of quality going yearly to Rome somtimes perchance with bare feet but never with empty hands But the Pope's principal harvest was in the Jubile which of late recurred every five and twenty years when no fewer than two hundred thousand strangers have been counted at Rome at once Of these more than the tenth part may be justly allowed English it being alwaies observed that distance encreaseth devotion and the farthest off the forwardest in Will-worship of this nature 49. Twelfthly By Tenths we conclude with Tenths and on what Title they were paid to the Pope largely hereafter 50. Here we speak not of the accidentals All cannot be truly counted as Legacies bequeathed by the deaths of Princes and great Persons and other Casualties and Obventions Sixtus the fourth being wont to say that a Pope could never want Money while he could hold a Pen in his hand understand him to grant general Indulgencies though Luther's holding a pen in his hand hath since much marred his Mart herein Now certainly Demetrius could tell better what was gotten by making * Acts 19. 27. silver Shrines for Diana than S. Paul himself and while some Protestants compute the Papal profit to be a hundred and fifty thousand pounds per annum some more some lesse but all making it above the King's Revenues they doe but state his Income at randome 51. Onely Polidore Virgil Polidore Virgil Collector of the English Peter-pence if alive and willing were able to give a certain account of the Peter pence a good guesse at the rest of Papall Revenues knowing them as well as the Begger knows his dish as holding the Bason into which they were put being Collector general of Peter pence all over England But this Italian was too proud to accept them as gratuities in which nature they were first given
Bonehomes or good men being also Eremites brought over into England by Richard Earl of Cornwall in the Reign of King Henry the third his Brother So styled not exclusively of other Orders but eminently because of their signall goodnesse Otherwise the conceit of the u Iohn Owen Epigrammist admiring that amongst so many Popes there should be but five Pious lies as strongly here That amongst so many Orders of Fryers there should be but one of Good men But indeed the Apostle himself makes a Good man a degree above a Righteous man w Rom. 5. 7â— For scarcely for a Righteous man will one die yet peradventure for a Good man some would even dare to die 25. These Bonehomes Their rich Revenues though begging Fryers the poorest of Orders and Eremites the most sequestred of begging-Fryers had two and I believe no more Covents in England absolutely the richest in all the Land Monks onely excepted the one in Asheridge in Buckingham shire now the Mansion of the truly Honorable E. of Bridgewater where I am informed more of a Monastery is visible this day than in any other house of England It was valued at the dissolution yearly at four hundred forty seven pounds eight shillings halfpeny The other at Edington in Wiltshire now known for the hospitality of the Lady Beuchampe dwelling therein Valued when dissolved at five hundred twenty one pounds twelve shillings halfpeny It seems that these Fryers though pretending to have nothing nec in proprio nec in communi would not cast their Caps I should say their Coules at rich Revenues if bestowed upon them but contentedly not to say cheerfully imbrace the same 26 I am affraid I have wronged the Crouched Fryers in their seniority Crouched Fryers who about the same time if not before the Bonehomes viz 1244 came over into England with the Pope's Authentick and this unusuall priviledge That none should reprove their Order or upbraid them or command them under pain of x Mâ—â— Park in Anno 1244. Excommunication They carried a Crosse some say on their Staves others on their Backs called in French a Crouch and justly might they be angry if their Propernesse were debased into Deformity on the same mistake whereon Edmund Crouch-back Brother to King Edward the first y Jo. Harding one of the comliest men alive is mis-represented to Posterity for Crooked-back'd meerly for assuming the Crosse on Him in the Holy Warre The place of Crouched-Fryers in London still retaineth their name 27. Soon after Fryers of the Sack Bethlemites one year viz 1257 produced two new Orders so that I know not how to martiall their Priority except to avoid Contests they will be pleased discreetly to use the Expedient betwixt the Company of Merchant Taylors and Skinners in London to take their precedency yearly by turns Both of them were fixed in Cambridge The first the Brethren De Poenitentiâ Iesu otherwise Brethren of the Sack whose Cell since is turned into Peter-house The other Bethlemites dwelling somewhere in z Mas. Park in Anno 1257. Trumpington-street and wearing a Starre with five Rayes on their backs But their Starre proved but a Comet quickly fading away and no more mention found of them in English Authors 28. I will conclude with the Robertines Fryers Robertines confounded by a Weavers Fun. Mon. p. 143. some distinguished by b Rein. de Ben. Apost p. 166. others from Fryers Trinitarians These owe their originall to one Robert Flower son of Took Flower who had been twice Major of Yorke the name lately remaining in that City who forsaking the fair lands left him by his Father betook himself to a solitary life about the Rocks in Niddsdale in Yorke-shire and it seems at Knaresborough the first and last House was erected for his Order c In his Hist in anno 1239. Matthew Paris reports that his Tomb abundantly cast forth a Medicinall Oyle which possibly might be the dissolving of some Gums used about his body and other naturall causes may be assigned thereof 29. For mine own eyes have beheld in the fair Church of Ilminster in Somersetshire Sweating moisture out of Tombs no Miracle the beautifull Tomb of Nicholas Wadham of Myrefield Esquire and Dorothy his Wife Founders of the uniform Colledge of Wadham in Oxford out of which in Summer sweats forth an unctious moisture with a fragrant smell which possibly an active fancy might make soveraign for some uses being nothing else than some bituminous matter as by the colour and scent doth appear used by the Marbler in joyning the chinks of the stones issuing out chiefly thereabouts 30. So much of Monks and Fryers Why so various the number of Monks as great being the variety amongst Historians about their number as amongst Criticks in reckoning up the Originall Languages and the difference almost proceedeth on the same account for as the miscounting of Dialects for Tongues causlesly multiplieth the number of those Languages So many mistaking graduall for specificall differences amongst Orders have almost doubled their true number on that misprision Master d Acts Mon. p. 260. Fox in the Reign of King Henry the third reckoneth up no fewer than an hundred and two Male-Orders of Monks and Fryers no Nuns being cast into the account but therein he confineth not himself to such as onely were extant in England but taketh in the whole compasse of Christendome therein to make up his Catalogue We have work enough upon our hands to insist upon such Orders as found footing in our Land especially the most principall of them For other inferiour Orders I purposely omit besides the grand ones of Templers and Hospitallers because largely handled in my Holy Warre As the Order of the Blessed Mary of reward which Mr. Lambert confoundes with the Crouched and Trinitarian Fryers for which my e Rein de Apost Benedict in Ang. p. 162. Author falls foul with his memory affirming these to be three distinct Orders Habitu fine constitutionibus Distinctions enough of all conscience to diversifie them and therefore greater the wonder that Mr. Lambert's pen should leap over this treble ditch to confound them into one Order 31. The aforesaid f Idem Author also chargeth him A Catholick causlesse accusation of Mr. Lambert as if he made his perambulation about Kent as done meerly out of spightfull designe to disgrace the Romish Religion never mentioning any Convent without mocking at them adding moreover That his Book contains fabulas ineptas crassa mendacia Mean time he advances Iohn Stow to the skies though confessing him farre inferiour to Mr. Lambert in learning for his sedulous distinguishing of those Orders and concludeth that Stow's Antiquities of London for the worth and truth thereof have often passed the Presse whilst the other his Description of Kent underwent the hand of the Printer no more than once Nor stops he here but useth so slovenly an expression it is
Sisters sixty 2. Priests thirteen 3. Deacons four 4. Lay-brethren eight In all Eighty five Where by the way know we must reckon seventy two Disciples which the n Luke 10. 1. Evangelist makes but just seventy and also put in S. Paul for the thirteenth Apostle or else it will not make up the summe aforesaid but it is all even with discreet persons be it over or above it This Order constantly kept their Audit on All-Saints Eve October 31 and the day after All-Souls being the third of November they gave away to the poor all that was left of their annual Revenue conceiving otherwise it would putrifie and corrupt if treasured up and be as heinous an offence as the Jews when preserving Manna longer than the continuance of one day These Brigetteans had but one Convent in England at Sion in Middlesex built by King Henry the fifth but so wealthy that it was valued yearly worth at the dissolution o Th WalsinghaÌ„ ut priù◠One thousand nine hundred forty four pounds eleven shillings eight pence farthing 41. No Convents of Nuns in England more carfully kept their Records than the Priory of Clarkenwell Spcel's Catal. of Religious Houses p. 793. to whose credit it is registred That we have a perfect Catalogue of their Prioresses from their foundation to their dissolution defective in all other Houses according to the order following viz 1. Christiana The Prioresses of Clerkenwell 2. Ermegard 3. Hawisia 4. Eleonora 5. Alesia 6. Cecilia 7. Margery Whatvile 8. Isabell 9. Alice Oxeney 10. Amice Marcy 11. Denys Bras 12. Margery Bray 13. Joan Lewkenor 14. Joan Fullham 15. Ratherine Braybroke 16. Luce Attwood 17. Joan Viene 18. Margaret Blakewell 19. Isabell Wentworth 20. Margaret Bull. 21. Agnes Clifford 22. Katherine Greene. 23. Isabell Hussey 24. Isabell Sackvile Had the like care continued in other Convents it had contributed much to the clearnesse of Ecclesiasticall Historie 42. Sir Thomas Challoner Tutour as I take it to Prince HENRY not long agoe built a spacious House within the Close of that Priory A good exchange upon the Frontispiece whereof these Verses were inscribed not unworthy of remembrance Casta fides superest velatae tecta Sorores Ista relegatae deseruere licèt Nam venerandus Hymen hic vota jugalia servat Vestalémque focum mente fovere studet Chast Faith still stayes behinde though hence be flown Those veyled Nuns who here before did nest For reverend Marriage Wedlock vows doth own And sacred Flames keeps here in Loyall brest I hope and believe the same may truly be affirmed of many other Nunneries in England which now have altered their properity on the same conditions 43. So much for the severall dates of Monks and Fryers Exactnesse in dates not to be expected wherein if we have failed a few years in the exactnesse thereof the matter is not much I was glad to finde so ingenuous a passage in Pitzeus so zealous a Papist with whom in this point I wholly concurre He speaking of the different Aeraes of the coming in of the Augustinians into England thus concludeth In r Pitz. in Indice Illust Angl. script p 974. tantâ sententiarum Varietate veritatem invenire nec facile est nec multùm refert The best is though I cannot tell the exact time wherein every Counter was severally laid down on the Table I know certainly the year wherein they were all thrown together and put up in the bagge I mean the accurate date of their generall dissolution viz Anno One thousand five hundred thirty and eight on the same signe that Sanders observeth a grand providence therein That Jesuits began beyond the Seas at the very same time we will not higgle with so frank a chapman for a few months under or over but taking his Chronology herein de bene esse one word of the name of that Order first premising a pleasant story 44. A Countrey-man A pleasant story who had lived many years in the Hercinian woods in Germany at last came out into a populous City demanding of the people therein What God they did worship It was answered him They worshipped Jesus Christ Whereupon the wilde Wood man asked the names of the severall Churches in the City which were all called by the sundry Saints to whom they were consecrated It s strange said he that you should worship JESUS CHRIST and he not have one Temple in all your City dedicated unto him But it seems Ignatius Loyola Founder of this new Order finding all other Orders consigned to some SAINT or other whence they take their denomination intended at last peculiarly to appropriate one to JESUS That as at that holy name every knee should bow So all other Orders should doe homage and submit to this his new one of Jesuits 45. Here Jesuats different from Jesuits had not better eyes than mine own made the discovery being beholden to M. Chemnitius therein I had never noted the nice difference betwixt JESUATS and JESUITS so neer in name though not in time but it seems in nature distinguished The former began at Siena in Italy in the year 1366 of whom thus Sabellicus Colligebantur ab initio domesticatim simplici habitu amicti multâ innocentiâ pietate viri victum sibi labore operâ quaeritantes Apostolici ab initio Clerici nuncupati Hi neque sacris initiantur neque celebrant Missarum solemnia tantùm orationi vacant Jesuati ab eo dicti quòd Jesu Regis summi frequens sit nomen in illorum ore c. Men of much innocence and piety were gathered in the beginning from house to house cloathed in poor habit and seeking their own livelyhood with labour and pains called from the beginning Apostolicall Clerks These neither were entred into Orders neither did celebrate the solemnity of Masses but onely bestowed themselves in prayer therefore called Jesuats because the name of Jesus was so frequent in their mouthes But it seems these Iesuats sunk down in silence when the Iesuits appeared in the world the former counting it ill manners in likeness of name to sit so near to those who were so farr their betters 56. All Orders may be said eminently extant in the Iesuits to and above the kinde Jesuits the best buttresses of the Romish Church the degree thereof and indeed they came seasonably to support the tottering Church of Rome For when the Protestants advantaged with Learning and Languages brought in the Reformation Monks Fryers were either so ignorant as they could not so idle as they would not or so cowardly that they durst not make effectual opposition as little skill'd in Fathers lesse in Scripture and not at all versed in Learned Languages As for the Franciscans I may say of them they were the best and * See Cent. 14. pag. â—40 worst schollars of all Fryers The best as most sublime in School-Divinity worst for if before their entrance into that Order they knew not
married to Tho Howard Duke of Norfolk who dwelt therein and which from him was called the Dukes-Place No ingenuous soul will envy so Honourable a person the accommodation of so handsome an habitation onely some perchance will bemoan that the Lords-Place for so in their and g Gen. 38. 17. Jacob's language they called the Church whither alone the numerous neighbour-inhabitants repaired for publick service should be so destroyed that the people were for many years left Church-lesse till their wants b viz. An Dom. 1621. very lately were supplied by the re-edifying thereof out of the ruines by the charity of others I am sure none of the Heirs of Him who demolished the same Of the suppression of the Order of Observant Friers and a preparatory for the dissolution of all the rest IT is the practise of advised Physicians Observant Friers why first falling under King Henry's displeasure in purging of long corrupted bodies where the ill humours may prescribe peaceable possession for many years to proceed not violently all at once but gently by degrees The same course was embraced by King Henry in dissolving of Abbeys gradually and therefore the lesse visibly to work their subversion so to avoid the danger of a sudden and extreme alteration And first He began with the Minorities or Franciscan-Observant-Friers whose chief seats were Greenwich and Canterbury Two motives mainly incensed Him against this Order One because two of their most eminent Fathers Hugh Rich Prior of a Covent in Canterbury and Richard Risby had tampered with Elizabeth Barton aliàs the holy maid of Kent and were convicted and executed with her for high Treason A second because this Order generally manifested most contumacie and contempt against the King in the matter of Queen Katharine's divorce inveighing both in their sermons a Sanders de Schis Anglic. lib. 1. pag. 81. and disputations against the unlawfulness thereof especially Elston and Payton two famous Friers in London A great b Idem pag. 80. Papist beholds it as ominous and a prognostick of sad successe that the Lady afterward Queen Elizabeth just eleven moneths before had been Christened in these Friers Church in Greenwich as if Her baptizing therein portended That those Friers should soon after be washed away from this their Covent 2. Hereupon Totally and finally dissolved in the year of our Lord 1534 the aforesaid whole Order of Friers-Observant were suppressed and Augustine-Friers substituted in their places Nor were these Observants like the Canon-Regulars in the last Chapter disposed of in other Foundations but totally and finally banished out of all Religious Societies For King Henry his smiles complemented the former out of their Houses by their own willing condescension whilst His frowns outed these as Delinquents by a violent expulsion Yea probably some of them had been expelled their lives as well as their livings two hundred of them being at once imprisoned had not Sir Tho c Sanders p. 89. Wriotheslie their great friend and favourer seasonably interceded for them to the King on hopes of some of their future conformity to His Majesties desires 3. Immediately after The Supplication of Beggars with the Sense thereof a famous Petition called the Supplication of Beggars came into publick view It was made some years before by one Mr. Simon d Fox Monum vol. 2. pag. 279. Fish a Gentleman of Grays-Inne and solemnly presented by George Eliot an English-Merchant and entertained by King Henry for a great rarity Though indeed the same long since had been tendred Him by Queen e Idem ibidem Anna Bollen and the King acquainted with the passages therein So that possibly this Supplication might first come from some neer His Majesty as contrivers thereof And as Moses f Exod. 2. 8. was sent to be nursed unto her who though generally unknown was indeed his own Mother which bare him so Petitions may sometimes be recommended back to the same power that first framed them Great ones delighting not onely for the greater solemnity but also for their better security to transferre their intentions to be other intreaties their private designes finding more acceptance when passing under the notion of a publick desire The effect thereof was to complain how a crew of strong puissant counterfeit-holy idle beggars and vagabonds by their luxurie starved a number of needy impotent blinde lame and sick people which otherwise might comfortably be maintained As also to discover the foul enormities and filthy conversation used amongst those pretended pious Fraternities as the same is set forth at large in the Book of Martyrs whither we remit the Reader 4. Onely a word of the Geometry The Geometry Arithmetick and Chronology of the Author thereof Arithmetick and Chronologie used by the Author of this Supplication For his Geometry I conceive he faileth not much in proportion when in measuring the content of this Kingdome he affirmeth That they had got into their hands more than the third part of all the Realm But whereas he auditeth the Revenues of the Friers in England besides their lands to amount yearly to Four hundred thirty thousand three hundred thirty and three pounds allowing their quarteridge to arise out of Fifty two thousand Parishes he highly over-reacheth their number not compleating g See Cambd. Brit. in his division of Brit. pag. 162. Ten thousand Indeed the Papists tell us of Ten thousand Churches in England destroyed all in one year Millia dena unus Templorum destruit annus Yet these being Conventual not Parochial Churches adde nothing to the former computation Yea should all the Chappels of Ease in this Land be admitted to take a new degree and to commence Churches in this catalogue it would not make up the number But it is given to Beggars sometimes to hyperbolize to make their case the more pitifull and indeed if we defalk a third part of that summe yet still vast was the remainder of such Friers revenues But whereas the said Authour of this Supplication saith That four hundred years past these Friers had not one peny of this money Quare whether he be not mistaken in his Chronologie and whether some of the same profits accrued not to the Benedictines before the Conquest 5. In answer to this The Anti-supplication of the souls in Purgatorie an Anti-supplication was made and set forth by Sir Thomas More extant amongst his other works called The Supplication of the souls in Purgatory The scope whereof is to presse the continuation of those lands given to pious uses for the good of the deceased and that they might not be aliened without danger of Sacriledge In this Supplication pleasant dallying and scoffing are so intermixt with complaints that the Authour thereof discovereth himself more Satyrist than Saint in his expressions So hard it is for an Actor so to devest himself of himself as not to vent some of his own humours with the property of that person whom he is to
contrivances of their neighbours houses as intending therein some designe for themselves Colledge Founder Benefactors Means I. Doway Colledge in Flanders founded 1569. Thence for fear of the wars removed to Rhems in France about 1508. where Henry the third King of France did patronize and protect them And some twenty years after brought back hither again Philip the Second King of Spaine All the Recusants in England A pension out of the King of Spains Treasury which being sometimes but badly paid the Scholars are fain to feed on patience 2. A yearly collection from the Catholicks of England 3. Sale of Masses Rich mens mortuaries which also are the staple maintenance of all other Colledges Number Rectour Eminent Schollars Uncertain but numerous For here they do not pick and choose for wit or wealth as in other Colledges but they receive all that come unto them 1. William Allen afterwards Cardinal a principal procurer and advancer of this foundation He died 1594. 2. Tho. Worthing'on of an ancient family in Lancashire Rectour 1609. 3. Matthew Kelison a North-Hamptonshire man Rectour 1624. Note That whereas the government of all other English Colledges belongs to Jesuits this only is ruled by Secular Priests D r. Web whom they brag to be the best Casuist in the world He lived to sing his Miss of Jubile having been a Priest full fifty years Colledge Founder Benefactour Means 2. Colledge of Rome founded 1579. Gregory the 13. Pope exhibited maintenance first to six then to fourteen at last to threescore Scholars therein to the yearly value of foure thousand Crowns Owen Lewes Referendary Apostolical was a principal promoter thereof The Welsh Hospital in Rome founded and endowed many hundred yeers since by Cadwallader King of Wales for Welsh pilgrims with the rich lands thereof conferred by Pope Gregorie the 13. on this Colledge They have at Frescata which is the Popes Sommer house lying some ten miles East of Rome three or four farmes where corne for the Colledge and other provision groweth Number Rectour Eminent Scholars One hundred at the least But Italian aire not well agreeing with English bodies they bury yearly ten or twelve of their fresh-men Note that whereas Anno 1576 there were but thirty old Priests remaining in this Realm these two Colledges alone within few years sent above three hundred Priests into England 1. D. Maurice He was removed out of his place for being too favourable to his Countritrimen the Welsh 2. Ferdinando a Neapolitan Jesuite succeeded him 3. Robert Persons Rectour for twenty three years from 1587. to 1610. where he died 4. Thomas Fitzherbert one of great age and parentage Rectour 1623. Francis Monfort who Anno 1591. being to depart the Colledge for England took his farewell of Pope Clement the eighth with so passionate a latin a Extant the continuation of Sanders de Schis Angl. pag 119. Image of â—oth Churches pag. 330. Sanders de Schism Angl. pag. 365. Oration that it fetch'd tears from the tender heart of his Holiness This Monfort some moneths after was executed in England Colledge Founder Benefactours Means 3. Colledge of Valladolit in Old Castile founded 1589. Anno Regin Eliza. 8. Philip the second Anno Dom. 1566. King of Spain Dona Luysa de Caravaial a rich widow Ladie in Spain gave all her estate being very great to this Colledge and came over into England where she died Lands they have not purchased much in Spain being loth the Spaniard should take notice of their wealth but great sums of mony they have at use in Brabant As also with English Factours in Spain perverted to their perswasion they have a great stock in trading Number Rector Eminent Scholars They are fewer now than formerly ever since the Spanish Court was removed by Philip the Third from Valladolit to Madrid Father Walpoole if not Rectour was principall actour herein about the year 1605. When by pretending to have gained Mr. Pickering Wotton son and heir to Lord Wotton to the Romish Church he got above a See this forgery at large in Lewes Owen his Running Register p. 59 to whom I am much beholding for my instructions in this subject five hundred pound to his Colledge  Know that S r. Francis Inglefield Privie Councellour to Queen Mary forsaking his fair Estate in Bark-shire in the first of Queen Elizabeth fled beyond the Sea He afterwards was a bountifull benefactor to the Colledge at Vaâ—â—â—dolit Yea he is beheld by the English Papists as a Beuefactor Generall to their Nation for the priviledges he procured them from Pope Gregory the thirteenth whereof hereafter He lieth buried in this Colledge and his Grave is shewen with great respect to Travellers of our Country coming thither Colledge Founder Benefactours Means 4. Colledge of Sivil founded 1593. Philip the second King of Spain Our English Merchants and Factours there residing even often against their own wills to secure themselves from the searchers in the Inquisition So that it is a Nemo scit what here is gotten for a Ne noceant They have a Box in every ship sailing to the West-Indies Upon it is the picture of S nt Thomas Becket on the Octaves of whose day this Colledge forsooth was first founded and into it through an hole in the lid thereof Merchants put in their devotion The key of this not Christmas but all-the-year-ong box is kept by the Rectour of the Colledge who only knoweth to how much this money amounteth Number Rectour Eminent Scholars * Cunning conveyances to pass over the seas Here expect not of me a discovery being no Spie by my profession of the cunning contrivances whereby these Jesuits pass and repass the seas without any detection yea suspicion of them Sometimes under the protection of a Pass procured from some Lords of the Privie Councell for a young Gentleman to go over into France with two or three of his Serving-men to learn the language Sometimes they shuffle themselves into the company of an Embassadour or his meniall servants and so cover their private falsehood under his publick Faith Many English Gentlewomen intended for Nunns are first vailed before their going beyond seas under pretence of travelling to the Spaw for their healths In their return for England these Jesuits have found the farthest way about for them the nearest way home For out of France or Spain first they will sail into the Low-Countries and thence into England and so coming immediately out of Protestant parts escape without any or with easie examination And yet these curious Engineers who flie so high and carry their conveyances so farr above all common discovery have sometimes one of their wheels or strings broken and then down they fall into Newgate or some other prison notwithstanding all their verbal and real equivocations Colledge Founder Benefactours Means 5. Saint Omers in Artois founded about the year 1596. Philip the second who gave them a good annuity for whose soul they say every day a Mass and every
pursued by the Scholars p. 62. ¶ 15. whereupon be interdicteth the university ¶ 17. but at the Bishops intercession ¶ 19. and the Scholars solemn penâ—ance ¶ 20. 〈◊〉 is reconciled ibidem John OVER ALL carryeth the Kings Professours plâ—oe from Mr. Wotton Hist. of Camb. p. 125. ¶ 20. Dean of St. Pauls b. 10. p. 7. gives King James an account of Lambeth Articles p. 13. his death p. 86. ¶ 10. OXFORD Vniversity if not founded restored by King Alfred C. 9. ¶ 30. the Armes of the Vniversity â— 40. the Scholars there of harshly used by King William â—he Conquerour b. 3. p. 6. ¶ 16. killed the brother of Otho the Popes Legate p. 61. ¶ 13. for which â—e interdicteth the Vniversity p. 62. ¶ 17. till the Scholars make their solemn submission ¶ 20. the great and suddain alterations therein in the Reign of Q. Mary b. 8. p. 7 8 9. a strange Mortality Anno 1577. aâ— the Assizes b. 9. p. 109. ¶ 22. counted by â—aunders a greâ—â— miracle ¶ 24. though a natural cause be assigned thereof ¶ 25. discontents therein about innovations b. 11. p. 141 ¶ 18 c. P. APALL what it iâ— with the my steries thereof C. 7. ¶ 38. PANDULPHUS his proud 〈◊〉 b. 3. p. 53. ¶ 22. Katharine PAR marryed to King Henry the eighth b. 3. p. 243. ¶ 48. her enemies 〈◊〉 against 〈◊〉 defeated by Gods providence ¶ 49 50 the form of publick prayer for her b. 7. p. 374 â—â—letter of Edward the sixth while Prince unto her p. 423 424. PARISHES in England first divided by Pope Honourâ—â—â— 7. ¶ 68. Matthew PARKER almost looseth his own life to convert the Rebells b. 7. p. 394. ¶ 7. made Archb. of Cant. b. 9. p. 60. ¶ 23 most legally consecrated ¶ 25 c. in defiance of all Popish Calumnies ibidem his death p. 108. ¶ 17. and defence against Mr. Prin ¶ 18. see Bennet Coll. Margaret PARKER the Arch-bishop his exemplary wife b. 9. p. 108. ¶ 19. St. PATERN a pattern for all Bishops C. 6. ¶ 10. St. PATRICK falsly reported living and dying at Glassenbury C. 5. ¶ 18 19 20. a distinct person from Sen Patrick ¶ 20. St. PAUL by a Poeticall Hyperbole onely made to preach in Britain C. 1. ¶ 8. PAULINUS his death C. 7. ¶ 79. The PAX what it was and the original thereof Hist of Walt. p. 17. in the third Item PEADA first Christian Prince of Mercia C. 7. ¶ 83. PELAGIUS a Britan by birth C. 5. ¶ 1. his principal Errours ¶ 3. condemned by many Councels under the name of his Scholar Caelestius ibid. PEMBROOK HALL in Cambridge founded by Mary de St. Paul Hist. of Camb. p. 41. PEMBROOK Colledge in Oxford founded b. 11. ¶ 41 42. John PENRY with others executed for libelling against the Bishops b. 9. p. 223. ¶ 6. Rob. PERSONS Jesuit cometh over into England b. 9. p. 114. ¶ 41. his three strange escapes p. 118. ¶ 44 45. returns to Rome ¶ 46. Master of the English Colledge there p. 86. the Secular priests bitterly complain of him p. 233. ¶ 30. St. PETER he never preached in Britain not withstanding Persons his arguments to the contrary C. 1. ¶ 7. PETER-Pence first granted to the Pope by King Ina C. 8. ¶ 13. amounting at least to seven thousand five hundred pounds per ann b. 15. p. 197. ¶ 46 47. PETER-HOUSE founded by Hugo Balsham Subprior of Ely Hist of Camb. p. 12. ¶ 44. endowed many years after by the same Hugo when Bishop of Ely p. 30 31 32 33. St. PETROCK captain of the Cornish Saints C. 6. ¶ 11. J. PHILPOT stoutly defendeth the truth in the convocation b. 8. ¶ 22. against railing Weston ¶ 23. sealeth it with his blood ¶ 24. John PIERCE Arch-bishop of York his death and commendation for exemplary temperance b. 9. p. 223. ¶ 9. Thomas PIERCY Earle of Northumberland his Rebellion against Q. Elizabeth b. 9. p. 83. ¶ 15. in maintenance of Popery ¶ 16. routed by the Queens forces ¶ 17. beheaded at York ¶ 19. James PILKINTON the false report of ten thousand pound given with his daughter b. 5. p. 253. ¶ 55. the truth thereof b. 9. p. 109. ¶ 21. his death ibidem Pope PIUS the fourth his letter and proposalls to Q. Elizabeth b. 9. p. 68. ¶ 40. Pope PIUS the fifth his sentence declaratory against Q. Elizabeth b. 9. p. 93. PLAYERS prohibited by proclamation of King Edward the sixth b. 7. p. 391. Thomas PLAYFER his ranting Epitaph Hist of Camb. p. 158. ¶ 40. PLEGMUND of an eminent Eremitâ— made Arch-bishop of Canterbury C. 9. ¶ 43. consecrateth seven Bishops in one day C. 10. ¶ 4. PLUNDER whence derived and when first used in England b. 11. p. 196. ¶ 33. Reg. POOLE Cardinall why so much favoured by Q. Mary b. 8. ¶ 39. Godfather to â— Tremelius ¶ 40 consecrated Archb. of Cant. ¶ 41. his dry Sermon of the Pall ibid. reconcileth England unto Rome ¶ 42. his death b. 8. S. 3. ¶ 49. well inclined to be a Protestant ¶ 50. leaveth all his estate to Italians 51. Chancellour both of Cambridge and Oxford Hist of Camb. p. 135. ¶ 53. Sr. Tho. POPE vide Trinity Colledge Oxford The POPE in England in his Rising improveth his power on five sorts of Princes C. 10. ¶ 2. The POPE in England in his Reigning a conjectural estimate of his yearly revenues in England b. 5. p. 197. The POPE in England in his Ruine how his usurped power at the abolition thereof was restored to several persons to whom it did belong b. 5. ¶ 199. All PREACHERS for a time inhibited by a Proclamation of King Edward the sixth b. 7. p. 388 389. PREMUNIRE-statute why made b. 4. p. 145. the form thereof p. 146 c. why so named p. 148. ¶ 35. Thomas PRESTON Master of Trinity Hall Queen Elizabeth her Scholar History of Camb. p. 139. ¶ 2. John PRESTON his great favour at Court b. 11. ¶ 6. imployed in a double conference ¶ 35 36. temporizeth with the Duke of Buckingham ¶ 43 44. his death and buriall ¶ 66. William PRIN b. 11. p. 152. ¶ 56. accused for libelling against Bishops ¶ 57. his plea rejected p. 152. ¶ 6â— and answer refused ¶ 63. his speech on the Pillory ¶ 73. and behaviour therein ¶ 74. good employment in his exile 75. brought book with triumph p. 172. ¶ 32. False PROPHECYES a great trade driven with them in Abbeys Hist of Abb. p. 333. ¶ 11. PROPHECYINGS in England how ordered b. 9. P. 121. ¶ 2. their inconveniences p. 122. ¶ 3. Arch-bishop Grindal his large letter to Q. Elizab. in their defence p. 123 c. PROVISIONS of the Pope their nature b. 3. p. 8. and b. 4. p. 115. ¶ 25. redressed by a statute ¶ 26. yet complained of many years after p. 147. ¶ 43. PSALMS of David by whom translated into English meeter b. 7. p. 406. ¶ 31. the mean doing thereof endeavoured to be defended ¶ 32.