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A43528	Ecclesia restaurata, or, The history of the reformation of the Church of England containing the beginning, progress, and successes of it, the counsels by which it was conducted, the rules of piety and prudence upon which it was founded, the several steps by which it was promoted or retarded in the change of times, from the first preparations to it by King Henry the Eight untill the legal settling and establishment of it under Queen Elizabeth : together with the intermixture of such civil actions and affairs of state, as either were co-incident with it or related to it / by Peter Heylyn.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.; Heylyn, Peter, 1599-1662. Affairs of church and state in England during the life and reign of Queen Mary.	1660-1661 (1661)	Wing H1701_ENTIRE; Wing H1683_PARTIAL_CANCELLED; ESTC R6263	514,716	473

made 〈◊〉 Purple silke and Gold garnished with the like girdle he is girt withall thereby showing him to be Duke of Cornwall by birth and not by Creation A cap of the same velvet tha●●is 〈◊〉 is of furred with ●●mines with Laces and a button and Tassells on the Crown thereof made of Venice Gold A Garland or a little Coronet of Gold to be put on his head together with his Cap. A long golden verge or Rod be●okening his Government A ring of Gold also to be put on the third finger of his left hand whereby he was ●o declare his Marriage made with equity and Justice But scarce were these prov●sions ready but the Kings sicknesse brought a stop and his death shortly af●er put an end to those preparations the expectation of a Principality being ther●by changed to the pos●ession o● a Crown For the King having long lived a voluptuous life and indulgent too much unto his Pallate was g●owne so corpulent or rather so over●grown● with in unweildly bur●hen of flesh that he was not able to go up staires from one roome to another but as h● was hoised up by an Engine Wh●ch filling his body with ●oule and foggy humours and those humours falling into his leg in which 〈…〉 ancient and uncured ●ore they there began to settle to an inflamation 〈…〉 both waste his Spirits and increase his passions In th● m●ddest of 〈…〉 it was not his least care to provide for the safet● of his S●n and preserve the succession of the Crown to his own Posterity At such time as he had married Queen Ann Bollen he procured h●s daughter Mary to be declared 〈◊〉 by Act of Parliament the like he also did by his daughter Elizabeth when he ha● married Queen Jane S●imour setling the Crown upon his issue by the said Queen Jane But having no other issue by her but Prince Edward only and none at all by any of his following wives he thought it a high point of Pr●dence as indeed it was to establish the Succession with more stayes then one and not to let it rest on so weak a staffe as a childe of little more then nine yeares of age For which cause he procured an Act of Parliament in the 35th yeare of his Reign in which it is declared that in default of issue of the said Prince Edward the Crowne should be entailed to the Kings daughter the Lady Mary and the Heires of her body and for default thereof to the Kings daughter the Lady Elizabeth and the heires of her body and for lack of such issue to such as the King by his Letters Patents or his Last Will in Writing should Limit So that he had three children by three severall wives two of them borne of questionable Marriages yet all made capable by this Act of having their severall turnes in the succession as it after proved And though a threefold cord be not easily broken yet he obtained further power for disposing the Crown if their issue failed whereof being now sick and fearing his approaching end he resolved to make such use in laying down the State of the succession to the Crown Imperiall as was more agreeable to his private passions then the Rules of Justice which appeared plainly by his excluding of the whole Scottish Line descended from the Lady Margaret his eldest sister from all hopes thereof unlesse perhaps it may be said that the Scottish Line might be sufficiently provided for by the Marriage of the young Queen with the Prince his Son and that it was the Scot● own fault if the match should faile This care being over and the Succession setled by his Last Will and Testament bearing date the 28th of December being a full moneth before his death he began to entertaine some feares and Jealousies touching the safety of the Prince whom he should leave unto a factious and divided Court who were more like to serve their own turns by him then advance his interest His brother-in-Law the Duke of Suffolk in whom he most confided died not long before the kindred of Queen Jane were but new in Court of no Authority in themselves and such as had subsisted chiefly by the countenance which she had from him As they could contribute little to the defence of the Princes person and the preservation of his Right● So there were some who had the Power and who could tell but that they also had the will to change the whole frame of his design and take the Government to themselves Amongst which there was none more feared then the Noble Lord Henry Earle of Surrey the eldest son of Tho●as Howard Duke of Norfolk strong in Alliance and Dependance of a Revenue not inferiour to some forreign Kings and that did derive his Pedigree from King Edward the first The Earle himselfe beheld in generall by the English as the chiefe Ornament of the Nation Highly esteemed for his Chivalry his Affability his learning and whatsoever other Graces might either make him amiable in the eyes of the people or formidable in the sight of a jealous impotent and way-ward Prince Against him therefore and his Father there were Crimes devised their persons put under an Arrest their Arraignment prosecuted at the Guild Hall in London where they both received the sentence of death which the Earle suffered on the Tower Hill on the 19. of January the old Duke being reserved by the Kings death which followed within nine dayes after for more happy times Which brings into my minde a sharp but shrewd Character of this King occurring in the writings of some but more common in the mouthes of many that is to say that be never spared woman in his lust nor man in his anger For proofe of which last it is observed that he brought unto the block two Queens two Noble Ladies one Cardinall declared of Dukes Marquisses Earles and the sons of Earles no fewer then twelve Lords and Knights eighteen of Abbots and Priors thirteen Monks and Religious Persons about seventy seven and many more of both Religions to a very great number So as it cannot be denied that he had too much as all great Monarchs must have somewhat of the Tyrant in him And yet I dare not say with Sir Walter Rawleigh That if all the patterns of a mercilesse Prince had been lost in the World they might have been found in this one King some of his Executions being justifiable by the very nature of their Crimes others to be imputed to the infelicity of the times in which he lived and may be ascribed unto Reasons of State the Exigences whereof are seldom squared by the Rule of Justice His Infirmity and the weaknesse which it brought upon him having confined him to his bed he had a great desire to receive the Sacrament and being perswaded to receive it in the easiest posture sitting or raised up in his bed he would by no meanes yield unto it but caused himselfe to be taken up placed in his chaire

unnatural proceedings against his Brother and somewhat must be done for his restoring to their good opinions though to the prejudice of the Publick Upon this ground he caused a Proclamation to be Published in the beginning of May Commanding that they who had inclosed any Lands accustomed to be common should upon a certain pain before a day signed lay them open again Which so encouraged the rude Commons in many Parts of the Realm that without Expecting the time limitted by the Proclamation they gathered together in a riotous and tumultuous manner pulled up the Pales flung down the Banks and filled the Ditches laying all open as before For which some of them had been set upon and sl●in in Wiltshire by Sir William Herbert others suppressed by force of Armes conducted by the Lord Gray of Wilton as were those in Oxfordshire and some again reduced to more moderate and sober courses by the perswasion of the Lords and Gentlemen as in Kent and Sussex But the most dangerous commotions which held so long as to Entitle them to the name of Rebellions were those of Devonshire and Norfolk places remote from one another but such as seemed to have communicated Counsels for carrying on of the design The first of these in Course of time was that of Devonshire began as those in other places under pretence of throwing open the enclosures but shortly found to have been chiefly raised in maintainance of their old Religion On Whitson-Munday June the tenth being next day after the first exercising of the Publick Liturgi● Some few of the Parishioners of Samford Courtney compelled their Parish-Priest who is supposed to have invited them to that compassion to let them have the Latine Mass as in former times These being seconded by some others and finding that many of the better sort were more like to engage in this quarrel then in the other prevailed with those which before had Declared onely against Inclosures to pretend Religion for the cause of their coming together And that being done they were first Headed by Humphry Arundel Esquire Commander of St. Michaels Mount and some other Gentlemen which so increased the Reputation of the Cause that in short time they had made up a Body of ten thousand men Of this Commotion there was but little notice taken at the first beginning when it might easily have been crushed the Lord Protectour not being very forward to suppress those Risings which seemed to have been made by some incouragement from his Proclamations In which Respect and that his good fortune now began to fail him when the mischief did appear with a face danger and could not otherwise be redressed but by force of Arms in stead of putting himself into the Head of an Army the Lord Russel is sent down with some slender Forces to give a stop to their Proceedings But whether it were that he had any secret instructions to drill on the time or that he had more of the States-Man then the Souldier in him or that he had not strength enough to encounter the Enemy he kept himself aloofe as if he had been sent to look on at a distance without approaching near the danger The Rebels in the mean time increasing as much in confidence as they did in numbers sent their Demands unto the King Amongst which one more specially concerned the Liturgie which therefore I have singled out of all the rest with the King's Answer thereunto in the words that follow It was demanded by the Rebels That for as much as we constantly believe that after the Priest hath spoken the words of Consecration being at Mass there Celebrating and Consecrating the same there is very really the Body and Blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ God and Man and that no substance of Bread and Wine remaineth after but the very self-same Body that was born of the Virgin Mary and was given upon the Cross for our Redemption therefore we will have Mass Celebrated as it was in Times past without any man communicating with the Priests for as much as many presuming unworthily to receive the same put no difference between the Lord's Body and other kind of meat some saying that it is Bread both before and after some saying that it is profitable to no man except he receive it with many other abused Terms To which Demand of theirs the King thus Answered viz. That for the Mass I assure you no small study nor travail hath been spent by all the Learned Clergy therein and to avoid all contention it is brought even to the very use as Christ left it as the Apostles used it as the holy Fathers delivered it indeed somewhat altered from that to which the Popes of Rome for their Lucre had brought it And although saith He ye may hear the contrary from some Popish evil men yet Our Majesty which for Our Honour may not be blemished and stained assureth you that they deceive abuse you and blow these Opinions into your heads to finish their own purposes But this Answer giving no content they Marched with all their Forces to the Siege of Exeter carrying before them in their March as the Jews did the Ark of God in the Times of old the Pix or Consecrated Host borne under a Canopie with Crosses Banners Candlesticks Holy-Bread and Holy-Water c. But the Walls of Exeter fell not down before this False Ark as Dagon did before the True For the Citizens were no less gallantly resolved to make good the Town then the Rebels were desperately bent to force it To which Resolution of the Citizens the natural Defences of the City being round in Form scituate on a rising Hill and environed with a good Old Wall gave not more Encouragement then some insolent speeches of the Rebels boasting that they would shortly measure the Silks and Sattens therein by the length of their Bows For fourty days the Siege continued and was then seasonably raised the Rebels not being able to take it sooner for want of Ordnance and the Citizens not able to have held it longer for want of Victuals if they had not been Succoured when they were One fortunate Skirmish the Lord Russel had with the daring Rebels about the passing of a Bridg at which he slew six hundred of them which gave the Citizens the more Courage to hold it out But the coming of the Lord Gray with some Companies of Almain-Horse seconded by three hundred Italian-Shot under the Command of Baptista Spinoli put an end to the Business For joyning with the Lord Russel's Forces they gave such a strong Charge upon the Enemy that they first beat them out of their Works and then compelled them with great Slaughter to raise their Siege Blessed with the like Success in some following Fights the Lord Russel entereth the City on the sixth of August where he was joyfully received by the half-starved Citizens whose Loyalty the King rewarded with an encrease of their Privileges and giving to their Corporation the Manour

Miles Partridge on whom also passed the Sentence of Death but the certain Day and Time of their Triall I have no where found Most probable it is that they were not brought to their Triall till after the Ax had done its part on the Duke of Sommerset which was on the twenty third of January because I finde they were not brought to their Execution till the twenty sixth of February then next following the two first being then beheaded and the two last hanged at what time they severally Protested taking God to witness that they never practised Treason against the King or against the Lives of any of the Lords of his Council Vane adding after all the rest that his Blood would make Northumberland's Pillow uneasie to him None of them less lamented by the Common People then Sir Miles Partridge against whom they had an old Grudge for depriving them of the best Ring of Bells which they had at that time called Jesus-Bells which winning of King Henry at a Cast of Dice he caused to be taken down and sold or melted for his own Advantage If any Bell tolled for him when he went to his Death or that the sight of an Halter made him think of a Bell-Rope it could not but remember him of his Fault in that Particular and mind him of calling upon Christ Jesus for his Grace and Mercy But in the mean time Care is taken that the King should not be too apprehensive of these Misfortunes into which his Uncle had been cast or enter into any Enquiries whether he had been cast into them by his own Fault or the Practises of others It was therefore thought fit to Entertain him frequently with Masks and Dancings brave Challenges at Tilts and Barriers and whatsoever Sports and Exercises which they conceived most pleasing to him But nothing seemed more delightfull to him then the appearing of His Lords and others in a General Muster performed on the twenty third of December in Saint James his Fields At what time sitting on Horse-back with the Lords of His Council the Band of Pensioners in compleat Arms with four Trumpeters and the King's Standard going before them first appeared in sight each Pensioner having two Servants waiting on him with their several Spears Next followed in distinct Companies of one hundred apiece the Troops of the Lord Treasurer Paulet the Duke of Northumberland the Lord Privy Seal the Marquess of North-hampton the Earl of Pembroke and the Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports a Trumpet and a Standard carried before each Troop fourty of the Duke of Northumbeland's Men and as many of the Earl of Pembroke's having Velvet Goats upon their Harness with these were mingled in like Equipage as to the Trumpets and the Standards the distinct Troops of the Earls of Rutland and H●ntington and the new Lord Darcy consisting each of fifty Horse and Rancked according to the Order and Precedency of their several Lords All which rode twice before the King by five in a Ranck all excellently well Armed and bravely Mounted to the great Contentment of the King the Delight of the People and as much to the Honour of the Nation in the Eye of all such Strangers as were present at it But then the Lords of England were Lords indeed and thought it not consistent with a Title of Honour to walk the Streets attended by a Lacquie onely and perhaps not that The Particulars of which Glorious Muster had not been specified but for supplying the Place of Musick as the Solemn Reception of the Queen Regent did before betwixt the two last Acts of this Tragedy to the last whereof we shall now come and so end this year Two Moneths had passed since the Pronouncing of the Fatal Sentence of Condemnation before the Prisoner was brought out to his Execution In all which time it may be thought that he might easily have obtained his Pardon of the King who had passed the first years of His Reign under his Protection and could not but behold him with the Eye of Respect as his●nearest Kinsman by the Mother But first his Adversaries had so possessed the King with an Opinion of his Crimes and Misdemeanours that he believed him to be guilty of them as appears by his Letter to Fitz-Patrick for which Consult the Church Historian Lib. 7. fol. 409 410. wherein he Summarily repeateth the Substance of the Charge the Proofs against him the Proceedings of the Lords in the Arraignment and his Submiss Carriage both before and after the Sentence They also filled his Ears with the Continual Noise of the Unnatural Prosecuting of the late Lord Admiral inculcating how unsafe it was to trust to the Fidelity of such a Man who had so lately washed his Hands in the Blood of his Brother And that the King might rest himself upon these Perswasions all ways were stopped and all the Avenues blocked up by which it might be possible for any of the Duke's Friends to finde access either for rectifying the King's Opinion or obtaining his Pardon So that at last upon the twenty second of January before-remembred the King not being sufficiently possessed before of his Crimes and Cruelties he was brought to the Scaffold on Tower-Hill Where he avouched to the People That His In●tentions had been not onely harmless in regard of particular Persons but driving to the Common Benefit both of the King and of the Realm Interrupted in the rest of his Speech upon the suddain ●ear of a Rescue by the coming in of the Hamlets on the one side a●d the Hopes of a Pardon which the People conceived to have been brought him by Sir Anthony Brown who came speedily galloping on the other he composed himself at last to make a Confession of his Faith heartily praying for the King exhorting the People to Obedience and humbly craving Pardon both of God and Man Which said he chearfully submitted his Head to the stroke of the Ax by which it was taken off at a Blow putting an end thereby to his Cares and Sorrows Such was the End of this Great Person whose Power and Greatness may be best discerned by this following Style used by him in the Height of his former Glories that is to say Edward by the Grace of God Duke of Sommerset Earl of Hertford Viscount Beauchamp Baron Seimour Uncle to the King's Highness of England Governour to the King's Highness Person Protectour of all his Realms Dominions and Subjects Lieutenant General of His Majestie 's Armies both by Sea and Land Lord High Treasurer and Earl Marshal of England Captain of Isles the of Garnsey and Jarsey and Knight of the most Honourable Order of the Garter As to his Parts Person and Abilitie there needs no other Character of him then what was given in the beginning and may be gathered from the Course of this present History More Moderate in carrying on the Work of Reformation then those who after had the Manageing and Conduct of it as one that in himself was