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B01850	The history of the reformation of the Church of England. The second part, of the progress made in it till the settlement of it in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth's reign. / By Gilbert Burnet, D.D.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1681 (1681)	Wing B5798A; ESTC R226789	958,246	890

the Emperor conceive at last a jealousie of him and he writ for him to come and clear himself Then he refined it higher for having left Orders with the Officers whom he had made sure to him to follow with the Army in all the hast they could he himself took Post with as small a Train as his Dignity could admit of and carried one of those corrupted Secretaries with him but on the way he complained of pains in his side so that he could not hold on his Journey but sent forward his Secretary who gave such an account of him that it together with his coming so readily a great part of his way in so secure a manner made the Emperor now lay down all his former distrusts The Emperor writ to Trent and to many other Places that there was no cause of fear from Maurice And Maurice to colour the matter more compleatly had sent his Ambassadors to Trent and had ordered Melancthon and his other Divines to follow them slowly that as soon as the safe Conduct was obtained they might go on and defend their Doctrine Upon their coming to Trent and proposing their desires Proceedings at Trent that all might be again considered the Legates rejected the Proposition with much scorn The Emperors Ambassadors and Prelates pressed that they might be well received The Arch-bishop of Toledo shew'd how much Christ had born with the Scribes and Pharisees and that in imitation of him they ought to leave nothing undone that might gain upon them So it was resolved that the Council should make a Protestation that the usage they gave them was out of Charity which is above all Law since it was against the Decretals to have any Treaty with professed Hereticks At the same time the Imperialists dealt no less earnestly with the Ambassadors from the Protestant Princes not to ask too much at once but to go on by degrees and assured them they had a mind to lessen the Popes greatness as much as they had The Ambassadors first step was to be for obtaining a safe Conduct They excepted to that which the Council had given as different from that the Council of Basil had sent to the Bohemians in four material Points The first was That their Divines should have a decisive Voice 2. That all Points should be determined according to the Scriptures and according to the Fathers as they were conformable to those The third That they should have the exercise of their Religion within their own Houses 4. That nothing should be done in contempt of their Doctrine So they desired that the safe Conduct might be word for word the same with that of Basil But the Legates abhorred the Name of that Council that had endeavoured so much to break the Power of the Popedom and had consented to that extraordinary safe Conduct only to unite Germany and to gain them by such compliance to be of their side against the Pope Yet the Legates promised to consider of it The Ambassadors were received in a Congregation which differed from a Session of the Council just as a Committee of a whole House of Parliament differs from the House when set according to its Forms They began their Speech with this Salutation Most Reverend and most Mighty Fathers and Lords they added a cold Complement and desired a safe Conduct At this time the Pope hearing that the Emperor was resolved to bring on the old designs of some Councils for lessening his greatness and that the Spanish Bishops were much set on it united himself to France and resolved to break the Council as soon as it was possible and therefore he ordered the Legates to proceed in the decision of the Doctrine hoping that the Protestants would despair of obtaining any thing and so go away So the safe Conduct they had desired was not granted them and another was offered in its room containing only full security for their Persons Upon this security such as it was Divines came both from Wirtenberg and the Town of Strasburg But as they were going on to treat of Matrimony the War of Germany broke out and the Bishops of the Empire with the other Ambassadors immediately went home The Legates laid hold on this so readily that though the Session was to have been held on the second of May they called an extraordinary one on the 28th of April and suspended the Council for two years An Account of the Council of Trent And being to have no other occasion to say any thing more of this Council I shall only add that there had been a great expectation over Christendome of some considerable event of a General Council for many years The Bishops and Princes had much desired it hoping it might have brought the differences among Divines to a happy composure and have setled a Reformation of those abuses which had been long complained of and were still kept up by the Court of Rome for the ends of that Principality that they had assumed in Sacred things The Popes for the same reasons were very apprehensive of it fearing that it might have lessened their Prerogatives and by cutting off abuses that brought in a great Revenue to them have abridged their Profits But it was by the cunning of the Legates the dissensions of Princes the great number of poor Italian Bishops and the ignorance of the greatest part of the other so managed that in stead of composing differences in Religion things were so nicely defined that they were made irreconcilable All those abuses for which there had been nothing but practise and that much questioned before were now by the Proviso's and Reservations excepted for the Priviledges of the Roman See made warrantable So that it had in all Particulars an Issue quite contrary to what the several Parties concerned had expected from it and has put the World ever since out of the humour of desiring any more General Councils as they are accustomed to call them The History of that Council was writ with as much Life and Beauty and Authority as had been ever seen in any humane Writing by Frier Paul of Venice within half an Age of the time in which it was ended when the thing was yet fresh in Mens Memories and many were alive who had been present and there was not one in that Age that engaged to write against it And a Judgment of the Histories of it But about forty years after when Father Paul and all his friends who knew from what Vouchers he writ were dead Pallavicini a Jesuit who was made a Cardinal for this Service undertook to answer him by another History of that Council which in many matters of Fact contradicts Father Paul upon the credit as he tells us of some Journals and Memorials of such as were present which he perused and cites upon all occasions We see that Rome hath been in all Ages so good at forging those things which might be of use to its Interests that we know not how to

and to be contented with my Death which I am most willing to suffer And let us now joyn in Prayer to the Lord for the preservation of the Kings Majesty unto whom hitherto I have always shewed my self a most faithful and firm Subject I have always been most diligent about his Majesty in his Affairs both at home and abroad and no less diligent in seeking the common Commodity of the whole Realm upon this the People cried out it was most true unto whose Majesty I wish continual health with all felicity and all prosperous success Moreover I do wish unto all his Counsellors the Grace and Favour of God whereby they may rule in all things uprightly with justice unto whom I exhort you all in the Lord to shew your selves obedient as it is your bounden Duty under the pain of condemnation and also most profitable for the preservation and safeguard of the Kings Majesty Moreover for as much as heretofore I have had Affairs with divers Men and hard it is to please every Man therefore if there have been any that have been offended or injured by me I most humbly require and ask him forgiveness but especially Almighty God whom throughout all my Life I have most grievously offended and all other whatsoever they be that have offended me I do with my whole Heart forgive them Then he desired them to be quiet lest their Tumults might trouble him and said Albeit the Spirit be willing and ready the Flesh is frail and wavering and through your quietness I shall be much more quieter Moreover I desire you all to bear me witness that I die here in the Faith of Jesus Christ desiring you to help me with your Prayers that I may persevere constant in the same to my lives end Then Dr. Cox who was with him on the Scaffold His Death put a Paper in his Hand which was a Prayer he had prepared for him He read it on his Knees then he took leave of all about him and undressed himself to be fitted for the Axe In all which there appeared no change in him only his Face was a little rudier than ordinary he continued calling Lord Jesus save me till the Executioner severed his Head from his Body Thus fell the Duke of Somerset a Person of great Vertues And Character eminent for Piety humble and affable in his greatness sincere and candid in all his Transactions He was a better Captain than a Counsellor had been oft successful in his undertakings was always careful of the Poor and the Oppressed and in a word had as many Vertues and as few faults as most great Men especially when they were so unexpectedly advanced have ever had It was generally believed that all this pretended Conspiracy upon which he was condemned was only a forgery For both Palmer and Crane the chief Witnesses were soon after discharged as were also Bartuile and Hamond with all the rest that had been made Prisoners on the pretence of this Plot. And the Duke of Northumberland continued after that in so close a friendship with Palmer that it was generally believed he had been corrupted to betray him And indeed the not bringing the Witnesses into the Court but only the Depositions and the Parties sitting Judges gave great occasion to condemn the Proceedings against him For it was generally thought that all was an Artifice of Palmers who had put the Duke of Somerset in fears of his Life and so got him to gather Men about him for his own preservation and that he afterwards being taken with him seemed through fear to acknowledge all that which he had before contrived This was more confirmed by the death of the other four formerly mentioned who were executed on the 26th of February and did all protest they had never been guilty of any design either against the King or to kill the Lords Vane added That his Blood would make Northumberland's Pillow uneasie to him The People were generally much affected with this Execution and many threw Handkerchiefs into the Duke of Somersets Blood to preserve it in remembrance of him One Lady that met the Duke of Northumberland when he was led through the City in Queen Maries Reign shaking one of these Bloody Handkerchiefs said Behold the Blood of that worthy Man that good Unkle of that excellent King which was shed by thy malicious practise doth now begin apparently to revenge it self on thee Sure it is that Northumberland as having maliciously contrived this was ever after hated by the People But on the other hand great notice was taken that the Duke of Norfolk who with his Son the Earl of Surrey were believed to have fallen in all their misery by the Duke of Somersets means did now out-live him and saw him fall by a Conspiracy of his own Servants as himself and his Son had done The Proceeding against his Brother was also remembred for which many thought the Judgments of God had overtaken him Others blamed him for being too apt to convert things Sacred to his own use and because a great part of his Estate was raised out of the Spoils of many Churches and some late Writers have made an Inference from this upon his not claiming the Benefit of Clergy that he was thus left of God not to plead that Benefit since he had so much invaded the Rights and Revenues of the Church But in this they shewed their ignorance For by the Statute that Felony of which he was found guilty was not to be purged by Clergy Those who pleased themselves in comparing the events in their own times with the Transactions of the former Ages found out many things to make a parallel between the Duke of Somerset and Humphrey the good Duke of Glocester in Henry the 6th's time but I shall leave the Reader in that to his own observation Now was the Duke of Northumberland absolute at Court all Offices being filled with those that were his Associates The Affairs of Germany But here I stop to give a general view of Affairs beyond Sea this year though I have a little transgressed the bounds of it to give an account of the Duke of Somersets Fall all together The Siege of Magdeburg went on in Germany But it was coldly followed by Maurice who had now other designs He had agreed with the French King who was both to give him assistance and to make War on the Emperor at the same time when he should begin Ferdinand was also not unwilling to see his Brothers greatness lessened for he was pressing him not without threatnings to lay down his Dignity as King of the Romans and thought to have established it on his Son All the other Princes of Germany were also oppressed by him so that they were disposed to enter into any alliance for the shaking off of that Yoke Maurice did also send over to try the inclinations of England if they would joyn with him and contribute 400000 Dollars towards the expence of a