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A62991	Historical collections, out of several grave Protestant historians concerning the changes of religion, and the strange confusions following in the reigns of King Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary and Elizabeth : with an addition of several remarkable passages taken out of Sir Will. Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire, relating to the abbies and their institution.	Touchet, Anselm, d. 1689?; Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686.	1686 (1686)	Wing T1955; ESTC R4226	184,408	440

thereof Some of the Lutherans had given out on the former ground That the English had deservedly suffered the greatest Hardships both at home and abroad because they Writ and Spake so irreverently of the Blessed Sacrament Thus Dr. Heylyn concerning the Lutherans detesting an English Protestant Nothing occurring more in this Queens Reign as to these matters of Religion we will now give an Account of the years when these Changes were made with an Addition of some works of Piety done by Her and in Her time IN the First year of this Queens Reign All Bishops that had been deprived in the time of King Edward the Sixth were restored to their Bishopricks and the new removed Also this year on the Twenty seventh of August the Service was sung in Latin in St. Paul's Church The Pope's Authority being likewise by Act of Parliament restored in England and the M●…ss Commanded in all Churches to be used In her Second year the Realm is Absolved and Reconciled to the Church of Rome and First Fruits and Tenths restored to the Clergy In her Third year Eight hundred English Protestants sorsook the Kingdom who fell into great Confusions amongst themselves being in other Countries In her Fourth year Monasteries were be gun to be re-edified In her Fifth year great endeavors were used by Sectaries to raise Sedition by Seditious Books and unlawful Meetings or Conventicles In her Sixth year She built Publick Schools in the University of Oxford Which being decayed in tract of time and of no beautiful Structure when they were at the best were taken down In place whereof but upon a larger extent of Ground was raised that Goodly and Magnificent Fabrick which we now behold Works of Piety The Queen restored a great part of the Abbey-Lands that were in her Possession In her First year Sir Thomas white then Mayor Erected a College in Oxford called S. John's College He also Erected Schools at Bristow and Reading and gave Two thousand pounds to the City of Bristow to purchase Lands the profits whereof to be employed for the benefit of young Clothiers In her Third year died Sir John Gresham late Mayor of London who Founded a Free-School at Holt in Norfolk and gave to every Ward in London Ten pounds to be distributed to the Poor Also to Maids-Marriages Two hundred pounds Cuthbert Tunstal Bishop of Durham Erected a goodly Library in Cambridge storing it with many Excellent both Printed and Written Books He also bestowed much upon Building at Durham at Alnewick and at Tunbridge Thus Sir Richard Baker Here you have had a short View of the great Zeal and Piety that was in this Nation during the Reign of this Queen And this delivered from the mouths of her Enemies the most zealous Protestants This Account being here ended we will now proceed to relate what Changes were made as to Religion in Queen Elizabeths time Wherein the Scene was totally Altered She following the Example of her Father and Brother in going on with the Destructions and Confusions begun by them The Last Part Of these HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS Concerning A Fourth Change of Religion Made for POLITICK ENDS And of the Occurrences concerning it In the Reign of Queen Elizabeth A Preamble BEfore we begin this Queens Reign we will following Dr. Heylyn's order first make a Relation out of him of the various Fortunes of her Mother Anne Boleign of whom thus he writes in his History of Reformation pag. 86. Anne Boleign from her tender years was brought up in the Court of France Who returning into England was preferred to be Maid of Honor to Queen Catherine In whose Service the King falls in Love with her But so long concealed his Affections that there was a great League contracted betwixt her and the young Lord Peircy Son to the Earl of Northumberland But that being broken off by the endeavors of Cardinal Wolsey and the King laboring for a Divorce from Queen Catherine that he might Marry her that also was sought to be obstructed by the Cardinal Which being understood by Mrs. Anne Boleign she seeks all ways for his destruction and prevailed so far with the King that he was presently Indicted and Attainted of a Praemunire and not long after by the Counsel of Thomas Cromwel who had sormerly been the Cardinals Solicitor in his Legatine Court envolves the whole Clergy in the same Crime with him And by perswasion of this man he requires of the said Clergy to acknowledge him for Supreme Head on Earth of the Church of England and to make no new Canons and Constitutions not to Execute any such when made by his consent And having thus brought his own Clergy under his Command he was the less solicitous how his matters went in the Court of Rome concerning his Divorce Whereupon he privately Marries Mistris Anne Boleign And a long time after to wit Three or Four Months after the Birth of the Princess Elizabeth began a Parliament in which the Kings first Marriage was declared Unlawful and the Succession of the Crown settled upon His Issue by this Second Marriage An Oath being devised in maintenance of the said Succession and not long after Moor and Fisher were Executed for refusing to take that Oath The New Queen being thus settled and considering that the Pope and She had such different Interests that they could not subsist together She resolved to suppress his Power what she could But finding that the Pope was too well entrenched to be dislodged upon a sudden it was advised by Cromwel to begin with taking in the Outworks first which being gained it would be no hard matter to beat him out of his Trenches In order whereunto a Visitation is begun in which a diligent Enquiry was to be made into all Abbey's Priories and Nunneries within the Kingdom an Account of which Visitation and the D●…ssolution of Abbeys hath been formerly given in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth But the New Queen for whose sake Cromwel had contrived that Plot did not live to see this Dissolution For such is the uncertainty of Humane Affairs that when she thought her Self most Secure and free from Danger She became most obnoxious to the ruine prepared for Her It had pleased God upon the Eighth of January to put an end unto the Calamities of the Virtuous but unfortunate Queen unto whose Bed she had succeeded The News whereof she entertained with such contentment that she caused her self to be apparelled in lighter Colours than was agreeable to the season or the sad occasion Whereas if she had rightly understood her own Condition She could not but have known that the long Life of Queen Catherine was to be her best preservation against all changes which the King 's loose Affections or any other Alteration in the Affairs of State were otherwise like to draw upon her But this Contentment held not long For within Three Weeks after She fell in Travail in which she miscarried of a Son to the extreme discontent of the

the preservation of my Life than the profit of my Living Wherefore after I had weighed as many dangers as I could remember and was perswaded that to depart the Realm was the safest way I could take I resolved to take the benefit of a happy Wind to avoid the violence of a bitter Storm And knowing that the Actions of Those who go beyond Seas though their intent be never so good and dutiful were yet evil thought of I presume to write this Letter to your Majesty and in it to declare the true causes and reasons of this my departure I here take God and his Holy Angels to witness that I would not have taken this course if I might have staied still in England without danger of my Soul and peril of my Life And though the loss of Temporal Commodities be so grievous to Flesh and Blood that I could not desire to live if I were not comforted with the remembrance of his Mercy for whom I endure all this who endured ten thousand times more for me yet I assure your Majesty that your Displeasure would be more unpleasant to me than the bitterness of all my Losses and greater grief than the greatest of my Misfortunes The Earl having written the foregoing Letter and leaving it behind him to be delivered to the Queen after his departure attempted to have passed the Seas without License for the which he was committed to the Tower and condemned to pay Ten thousand Pound Fine for his contempt and to remain Prisoner at the Queens pleasure Thus Stow. This short Relation of these Severities may make it easily conceived what endeavours there were then used totally to extirpate Catholick Religion in England Thus you have had a short view of the state of Religion in this Queens Reign An Account of the Years in which these Changes in Religion were made IN her First year she being resolved upon an Alteration of Religion as knowing well that her Legitimation and the Pope's Supremacy could not stard together called a Parliament which totally complied with her Designs in order to such a Change But the Convocation of the Clergy which accompanied this Parliament totally opposed it and thereupon were deprived of their Ecclesiastical Benefices a company of Ignorant and Illiterate Men being Substituted in their places which gave occasion to the Calvinists or Presbyterians to obtain great Ecclesiastical Preserments here By which they have continually labored to supplant and undermine the Church of England It was the Second year of her Reign before any Protestant Bishops were elected The main cause for keeping the Episcopal Sees so long vacant was that in the mean time the best Flowers might be culled out of them Aid this year was sent to assist the Rebels in Scotland against their Lawful Queen The Presbyterians seeing Episcopal Government settled begin to play their Game The Bishops being thus settled begin the next year to make Laws and to compose Articles of Religion and to exact a Conformity to them upon which they find great oppositions from the Presbyterians In her Fourth year she was solicited by Pope Pius to send her Orators to the Council of Trent which she refused to do The Emperor also writ to her to desist from these Alterations of Religion and to return to the Ancient Catholick Faith of her Predecessors In her Fifth year the Articles of Religion were agreed on in the Convocation In her Sixth year she would have Married the Earl of Leicester to the Queen of Scots Calvin dies this year and Cartwright the great promoter of Presbytery retires out of England upon a discontent to Geneva In her Seventh year the Calvinists began first to be called Puritans Dr. Heylyn In her Eighth year the Government of the Church by Archbishops and Bishops was Confirmed And for this we are beholding to Boner the late Bishop of London who being called up to take the Oath of Supremacy by Horn of Winton refused to take the Oath upon this account because Horn's Consecration was not good and valid by the Laws of the Land Which he insisted upon because the Ordinal Established in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth by which both Horn and all the rest of Queen Elizabeths Bishops received Consecration had been Repealed by Queen Mary and not restored by any Act of Parliament in the present Reign which being first declared by Parliament in the Eighth of this Queen to be Casus Omissus or rather that the Ordinal was looked upon as a part of the Liturgy confirmed in the First year of this Queen They next Enacted and Ordained That all such Bishops as were consecrated by it in time to come should be reputed to be lawfully Consecrated Baker In her Eleventh year there arose a Sect openly condemning the received Discipline of the Church of England together with the Church-Liturgy and the very Calling of Bishops This Sect so mightily encreased that in the Sixteenth year of her Reign the Queen and Kingdom was extreamly troubled with them In the same Sixteenth year were taken at Mass in their several Houses the Lord Morley's Lady and her Children the Lady Gilford and the Lady Brown who being thereof Endicted and Convicted suffered the penalties of the Laws In her Twentieth year the severe Laws against Roman Catholicks were Enacted In her Twenty third year a Proclamation was set forth That whosoever had any Children beyond Sea should by a certain day call them home and that no Person should harbour any Seminary Priest or Jesuit At this time also there arose up in Holland a certain Sect naming themselves The Family of Love In a Parliament held the 26th year of her Reign the Puritan party laboured to have Laws made in order to the destroying of the Church of England and the setting up of their own Sect. In her Twenty eighth year the Queen gave a special Charge to Whitgift Archbishop of Canterbury to settle an Uniformity in the Ecclesiastical Discipline which lay now almost a gasping And at this time the Sect of Brownists derived from one Robert Brown did much oppose the Church of England In her One and Thirtieth year the Puritan-Flames broke forth again In her Thirty sixth year the Severity of the Laws were Executed upon Henry Barrow and his Sectaries for condemning the Church of England as no Christian Church Thus Sir Rich. Baker Here is an End of this Work Wherein I hope there is full Satisfaction given concerning the Alterations of Religion which have been made by Publick Authority in the Reigns of these Kings and Queens with a sufficient discovery of the Actings of the Presbyterians in this Nation and the ground of multiplying other Sects Here ends the Historical Collections AN APPENDIX CHAP. I. A Word concerning the Doctrins and Practices deserted by this Nation in these Changes of Religion NOw for a close to this Work I will add here in the first place one thing which I conceive deserves well to be taken notice of which is this to wit

or Persons of what Estate Degree or Condition soever he or they be shall at any time after the First day of May willingly and wittingly eat any manner of Flesh after what manner or kind or sort it shall be ordered dressed or used upon any Friday or Saturday or upon any of the Ember-days or upon any day in the time commonly called Lent nor upon any such other day as is or shall be at any other time hereafter commonly excepted and reputed as a Fish-day within this Realm of England wherein it hath been commonly used to eat Fish and not Flesh Upon pain that every Person eating any manner of Flesh upon any of the said Days or Times prohibited by this Act shall forfeit for the said first offence Ten shillings and also suffer Imprisonment for the space of Ten days And during the time of his or her said Imprisonment shall abstain from eating of any manner of Flesh. Thus far the Act. Little or Nothing hath been hitherto done in this King's Reign as to Religion but pulling down and destroying Wherefore it is now time to Establish something Which is here done by that which immediately follows CHAP. IV. Of the Administring the Communion and of the Composing a Book of Common-Prayer Of which thus writes Dr. Heylyn page 57. SOme Bishops and others were Appointed by the King's Command to Consult together about one Uniform Order of Administring the Holy Communion in the English Tongue Who so ordered it That the whole Mass should proceed as formerly in the Latin Tongue even to the very end of the Canon and the receiving of the Sacrament by the Priest himself Which being ended they were to begin with an Exhortation in the English Tongue directed to all those that did intend to receive the Communion Which Exhortation began with these words Dearly Beloved in the Lord ye coming to this Holy Communion c. Thus Dr. Heylyn concerning this strange medly in the Divine Service But notwithstanding the setting forth of this Uniform Order of Administring the Holy Communion yer there did arise a marvellous Schism and variety of Factions in Celebrating the Communion Service and Administring of the Sacrament and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church For some allowed of the King's proceedings others dissemblingly and patchingly used some part of them Many contemned them all Moreover it is observed in the Register-Book of the Parish of Petworth that many at this time affirmed that the most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar was of little worth So that in many places it was irreverently used and cast out of the Church and many other great Enormities committed Which they seconded by oppugning the Established Ceremonies as Holy-Water Holy-Bread and divers other Rites of the Seven Sacraments And yet these were not all the mischiefs which the time produced For in pursuance of this Schism many of those that had been licensed to Preach appeared as active in Preaching against the King's proceedings as many of the unlicensed Preachers had been found to be Thus Dr. Heylyn concerning these Confusions Upon this it was advised that a Publick Liturgy should be drawn and confirmed by Parliament which was accordingly done Now here it is to be observed that those who had the directing of this Business were before hand resolved that none but English Heads and Hands should be used therein lest otherwise it might be thought and perhaps objected That they rather followed the Example of some other Churches or were swayed by the Authority of those Forein Assistants than by the Word of God Certain it is that upon the very first reports of a Reformation here intended Calvin had offered his Assistance to Archbishop Cranmer as himself confessed But the Archbishop knew the man and refused the offer And it appears in one of Bishop Latimer's Sermons that there was a report about this time of Melancthon's coming But it proved only a report And though it was thought necessary for the better seasoning of the Universities in the Protestant Reformed Religion that Bucer and Peter Martyr should be invited to come over yet the Archbishop's Letter of Invitation sent to Bucer was not written till the 12th of October at which time the Liturgy then in hand being the chief Key of the Work of Reformation was in a very good forwardness and must be compleatly finished before he could so settle and dispose his affairs in Germany as to come for England And though Peter Martyr being either more at leisure or more willing to accept of the Invitation came many months before the other yet neither do we find him here till the end of November when the Liturgy had been approved of Nor was it likely that they would make use of such a man in Composing a Liturgy wherein they were resolved to retain a great part of the ancient Ceremonies who being made Canon of Christ's Church in Oxford and frequently present at Divine Service in that Church could never be prevailed with to put on the Surplice Thus Dr. Heylyn concerning the ground of setting out a Book of Common-Prayer CHAP. V. Of the Suppression of Chantries and other Foundations Whereof Dr. Heylyn gives this following Account page 60. WE must now attend the King's Commissioners dispatched into every Shire to take a Survey of all Colleges Free Chappels Chantries and Brotherhoods according to the return of Commissions it would be no difficult matter to put a just Estimate and Value on so great a Gift Or to know how to parcel out proportion and divide the Spoyl betwixt all such as had before in hope devoured it In the first place as lying nearest came in the Free Chappel of St. Stephen originally Founded in the Palace at Westminster reckoned for the Chappel-Royal of the Court of England The whole Foundation consisted of no fewer than Thirty eight Persons to wit One Dean Twelve Canons Thirteen Vicars Four Clerks Six Choristers besides a Verger and one that had charge of the Chappel There was likewise a certain number appointed for the officiating of the daily Service Gentlemen of the Chappel they were commonly called As for the Chappel it self together with a Cloyster of curious Workmanship built by John Chambers one of the Kings Physicians and the last Master of the same they are still standing as they were the Chappel having been since fitted and employ'd for a House of Commons in all times of Parliament Thus Dr. Heylyn concerning this Chappel At the same time also fell the College of St. Martins scituated in the City of London not far from Aldersgate first founded for a Dean and Secular Canons in the time of the Conqueror This College was surrendred into the Hands of King Edward the Sixth who after gave the same to the Church of Westminster and they to make the best of the Kings Donation ordered That the Body of the Church with the Quire and Isles should be Leased out for Fifty years excepting out of the said Grant the Bells Lead Stone Timber Glass

at that time in special favor o●… known aversness to the Earl of Leicester and consequently no friend to the Puritan Faction This obstactle must be removed one way or other This Office Burchet undertakes and does it upon this opinion That it was Lawful to assassinate any man who opposed the Gospel But he mistakes the man and stabs one Hawkins desperately with a Ponyard conceiving him to be Hatton But by the terror of a Proclamation and the Execution of this Burchet they were restrained from practising any further at the present But what they durst not do directly and in open sight they found a way to act Obliquely and under disguise of setting up another Church of Strangers in the midst of London Many of the Low-country men had fled their Country and setled their Dwellings in the Ports and Sea Towns of England and good numbers of them at London For these there must be a Church in London And for this purpose a Suit is made by their Friends in Court for the obtaining of it And that they might proceed in setting up their Presbytery and New Forms of Worship they obtain not only a connivence or Toleration but a plain Approbation of their Acting in it This likewise gave the First Beginning to the now Dutch Churches in Canterbury Sandwich Yarmouth Norwich and some other places in the North to the great animation of the Presbyters and to the discomfort of all such who were of Judgment to fore-see the sad consequents of it With like felicity they drove on their designs in Jersey and Gernsey introducing their Discipline by degrees into all the Villages Furthered therein by the Sacrilegious avarice of their several Governors out of a hope to have the spoyl of the Deaneries to engross all the Tythes to themselves and then put off the Ministers with some sorry Stipends as in fine they did It was also thought fit That Snape and Cartwright the great Supporters of the Cause in England should be sent unto them to put their Churches in a posture and settle the Discipline amongst them in such Manner and Form as it was practised at Geneva Grindall's being Translated from the See of York unto that of Canterbury gave great h●…pes to the Presbyterians who soon found how plyant he was like to prove to their expectation Which happened accordingly he seeking in all things to promote their designs and making great Alterations in the Church of England A Breach happened betwixt him and Leicester that mighty Patron and Protector of the Puritan Faction occasioned by his denying at the Earl's request to Alienate his House and Mannor of Lambeth that it might serve for a Retiring-place to that mighty Favourite And hereunto he did contribute further by refusing to grant a Dispensation to Marry One that was neer of Kindred to him This Leicester thought he might command and was exceedingly vexed not to find obedience in one who had been raised by him and depended on him Upon which ground all passages which before where shut against his enemies were now left free and open for them Whereupon they acquainted the Queen what a neglect there was of the Publick Liturgy in most parts of the Kingdom what ruin and decay of Churches what Innovations made already and what more projected by which She would be eased in time of all Cares of Government and find the same to be transferred to the Puritan Consistories Thus Dr. Heylyn concerning the sad state of the Church of England CHAP. XX. A further Relation concerning Cartwright and other Presbyterian Ministers and how they laboured to set up Presbytery in this Nation Dr. Heylyn pag. 290. CArtwright having setled the Presbytery in Jersey and Gernsey first sends back Snape to his old Lecture at Northampton there to pursue such Orders and Directions as they had agreed on And afterwards put himself into the Factory at Antwerp and was soon chosen for their Preacher The news whereof brings Travers to him who receives Ordination if I may so call it by the Presbytery of that City and thereupon is made his Partner in that Charge They easily perswaded the Merchants to admit the Discipline And they endeavoured it the rather that by their help they might effect the like in the City of London whensoever they should find the times to be ready for them The like they did also in the English Church at Middleborough the chief Town in Zealand in which many English Merchants had their constant Residence To which Two places they drew over many of the English Nation to receive admission into the Ministry in a different Form from that which is allowed in the Church of England Some of them following the Example of Cartwright himself renounced the Orders which they had from the hands of Bishops and took a new Vocation from those Presbyters and others there admitted to the rank of Ministers who never were ordained in England Not to say any thing of such as were Elected to be Elders or Deacons in those Forreign Consistories that they might serve the Churches in the same capacity at their coming home And now at last they are for England where Travers put himself into the Service of the Lord Treasurer Burleigh by whose recommendation he is chosen Lecturer of the Temple-Church which gave him opportunity for managing all affairs that concerned the Discipline with the London-Ministers Cartwright applies himself to the Earl of Leicester by whom he is sent down to Warwick and afterwards made Master of an Hospital of his Foundation In the chief Church of which Town he preached when he pleased making it his business to promote the Discipline and to undermine the Church of England But this was not done all at once or in the first year only after his Return but by degrees as opportunity was offered to them Yet so far he prevailed in the first year only that a Meeting of Sixty Ministers out of the Counties of Essex Cambridge and Norfolk was held at a Village called Corkhill where Knewstubs who was one of the Number had the Cure of Souls Which Meeting was held May the 8th Anno 1582 there to Confer about some passages in the Common-Prayer-Book as what might be tolerated in it and what refused The like Meeting was held at the Commencement in Cambridge then next ensuing Thus Dr. Heylyn concerning these proceedings of the Calvinists It would be too tedious to relate all the particulars in the carrying on this business And therefore for this I remit the Reader to the History it self CHAP. XXI The Queens Resolution of maintaining Episcopal Government and the great Opposition that was made against it Dr. Heylyn pag. 302. THe Queen was resolved to hold Her Prerogative Royal at the very height and therefore would not hearken to such Propositions as had been made in favour of the Puritan-faction by their great Agents in the Court though She had been many times sollicited in it She acquaints Whitgift Archbishop of Canterbury that She