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A45581	A briefe view of the state of the Church of England as it stood in Q. Elizabeths and King James his reigne, to the yeere 1608 being a character and history of the bishops of those times ... / written ... by Sir John Harington ..., Knight.	Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612.; Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.	1653 (1653)	Wing H770; ESTC R21165	84,945	232

peace at home give heart to the enemy abroad Among the surveyors of these first Leaders that past so many pikes the first in time and the highest in place was Doctor Matthew Parker who as by this Author is noted having lost all his Livings for his marriage now being made Archbishop of Canterbury dissembled not his marriage as Cranmer in King Henry the eighths time was found to doe which because some have taken occasion to note with too black inke to exclude him from the reputation of a rubricated Martyr and have cited the testimony of his sonnes widdow yet living that she was carried in a trunk and by misfortune almost stifled by being set by an ignorant Porter with her head downward which tale goes very current among the Papists I can truly affirme that this is a meere fiction for I have examined the Gentlewoman her selfe being of kin to my wife and a Rogers by name and she hath sworn to me she never reported nor ever her selfheard of any such misfortune But now though this Arch-Bishop Parker dissembled not his Marriage yet Queen Elizabeth would not dissemble her dislike of it For whereas it pleased her often to come to his house in respect of her favour to him that had been her Mothers Chaplain being once above the rest greatly feasted at her parting from thence the Arch-bishop and his Wife being together she gave him very speciall thanks with gratious and honourable termes and then looking on his Wife and you saith she Madam I may not call you and Mrs. I am ashamed to call you so as I know not what to call you but yet I do thank you It is true she misliked Marriage in Bishops and was not very forward to allow that in some of the Layety for I knew one of good place about her that had contracted himself to a rich Widdow and yet would not adventure to marry her till he had gotten the Queen to write for that which he had obtained before to the intent that the Queen reputing that as her benefit might not dislike with her own act But for Clergy men caeteris paribus and sometime imparibus too she prefer'd the single man before the married Of Arch-bishop Edmond Grindal Of Mr. Edmond Grindal whereas my Authour writes he was blind I have heard by some that knew somewhat in those dayes that he kept his house upon a strange occasion the secret whereof is known to few and the certainty is not easie to find out but thus I was told that There was an Italian Doctor as I take that of Physick that having a known Wife a Lyar yet bearing himself on the countenance of some great Lord did marry another Gentlewoman which to do now is by most godly Laws since made fellony This good Arch-bishop not winking at so publick a scandall convented him for that and proceeded by Ecclesiasticall censures against him Letters were presently written from this great Lord to the Arch-bishop to stop the proceeding to tolerate to dispense or to mitigate the censure but the Bishop remained still unmoved and unmoveable when no subjects intreaty could be found to prevail they intreat the Soveraign to write in the Doctors behalf but this John Baptist not only persisted in his Non licet habere eam but also in a reverent fashion required an account of her Majesties faith in that she would seem to write in a matter that if sh were truly informed was expresly against the word of God The Queen in a gracious disposition was purposed to have yielded an account in writing but the great Lord not onely disswaded her from that as too great an indignity but incensed her exceedingly against him whereupon he was privately commanded to keep his house where because he was sometime troubled with sore eyes his friends gave out he was blind But if he were blind that was like to the soothsayer Tiresias that foresaw and told Pentheus ruine as Qvid writes Et veniet nec enim dignabere numen honore Meque sub his tenebris nimium vidisse quereris For that Lord that so persecuted this Prelate about his Physitians two wives dying twenty years since left two Wives behind him that can hardly be yet agreed which was his lawfull Wife and so much for Arch-Bishop Grindall Doctor Whiteguift Upon the decease of Arch-bishop Grindall the State desirous to have a learned and discreet person in so eminent a place and the Queen resolved to admit none but a single man choyce was made of Doctor Whiteguist then Bishop of Worcester a man in many respects very happy and in the best Judgements very worthy He was noted for a man of great learning in Cambridge and he was grown to his full ripeness of reading and judgement even then when those that they called Puritans and some meerely define to be Protestants scar'd out of their wits did begin by the plot of some great ones but by the Pen of Mr. Cartwright to defend their new discipline Their indeavour as was pretended was to reduce all in show atleast to the Purity but indeed to the poverty of the primitive Churches These Books of Mr. Cartwright not unlearnedly written were more learnedly answered by Doctor Whiteguift Both had their reward For Mr. Cartwright was by private favour placed about Coventry where he grew rich and had great maintenance to live on and honoured as a Patriarck by many of that Profession Doctor Whiteguift was made Bishop of Worcester and there having a great good report of Houskeeping and governing the Marches of Walles he was as my Authour hath told called unto Canterbury While he was Bishop of Worcester though the revenew of that be not very great yet his custom was to come to the Parliament very well attended which was a fashion the Queen liked exceeding well It hapned one day Bishop Elmer of London meeting this Bishop with such an orderly Troop of Tawny Coats and demanding of him how he could keep so many men he answered it was by reason he kept so few women Being made Arch-bishop of Canterbury and of the privy Councel he carried himself in that mild and charitable course that he was not onely approved greatly by all the Clergy of England but even by some of those whom with his pen he might seem to have wounded I mean these called Puritans of whom he won divers by sweet perswasions to conformity In the Star-chamber he used to deliver his sentence in a good fashion ever leaning to the milder censure as best became his Calling He was a great stay in Court and Councel to all oppressions of the Church though that current was some time so violent as one mans force could not stop that He founded an Hospitall in or nigh Croyden and placed poor men therein in his own life time and being grown to a full age that he might say with St. Paul Bonum certamen certavi cursum confeci c. he was so happy as to give to his

intended to name Stapletons stay and for that cause invited the Arch-bishop in good kindness to see it and requested him for the more credit and as it were blessing to the house that his grace would give it the foresaid name But when the Arch-bishop had fully beheld it and in his Judgement found it fitter for a Lord Treasurer of England then for a Knight of York-shire He said to him would you have me call this intended House Stapletons Stay Nay rather let me say to you stay Stapleton for if you go forward to set up this House it will pull you down How often a man loses a friend with a jest and how grievous it is for a mans vanity to be crost in the humour This speech of my Lords that I should think intended friendly uttered faithfully and applyed even fatherly unto him he took in so deep disdain and despite that howsoever he smothered it for the present from that time forward he sought a mean to revenge it And wanting neither wit to devise nor courage to execute his design he found out or at least he supposed he had found a stratagem not onely to wreak this scorn on the good Bishop that mistrusted nothing but also to make the old mans purse pay for the finishing of the new house He acquaints him with an Officer in my Lords house some malecontent that had been denyed a Lease These two devise that when my Lord should lie next at Doncaster where the Hostess of the house having been formerly I suppose Mistriss Sands Maid was bold sometimes to bring his Lordship a Cawdle to his Beds side for in charity I may surmise no worse Sir Robert should also by chance come and host at the same house This bad Wife and her good man are made partakers and parties of this stratagem her part was but a naked part viz. to slip into my Lords Bed in her smock mine Hoast must sodainly be jealous and swear that he holds his reputation though he be but a poor man more dear then that he can indure such an indignity and thereupon calls Sir Robert Stapleton brings him to the Bishops Chamber in his Night-gown takes them in bed together with no small exclamation The Knight that acted his part with most art and leaft suspition takes great pains to pacifie the Hoast conjures all that were admitted to secresie and silence and sending all to their Lodgings without tumult asketh of my Lord how this came to passe The Bishop tells him with a great Protestation that he was betrayd by his man and his Hoast little suspecting the Knight to be of the Quorum The Knight sooths him in all he said condoles the great mischance is sorrowfull for the danger and carefull for the honour of the Bishop and specially the Church Proh superi quantum mortalia pecior a caecae Noctis habent ipso sceleris molimine Miles Creditur esse pius The distressed Archbishop distrusting no fraud in him asketh his advise in this disaster and following his counsel from time to time gives the Hoast a peece of money the false Officer a Farm and the Knight for his travail in this matter many friendly recompences But when he found after all this smoothing and soothing that he grew so bold at last to presse him beyond all good manner for the good Mannour of Soothwell then he found that in sooth all was not well and was even compell'd too late to that he might much better have done much sooner viz. To complain to the Lords of the Councel and to his ancient and dear friend the Earl of Leicester for whose Father he had almost lost his life by whose help he got them call'd to the Star-chamber Ore tenus where they were for this conspiracy convicted fined and imprisoned The fame or rather the infamy of this matter specially before their conviction was far and diversly spread according as the Reporters favoured or disfavoured either and the friends of each side had learned their tale so perfect that many long time after held the first impression they had received notwithstanding the censure and sentence in the Starr-chamber Part whereof being that the Knight should publickly acknowledge how he had slandered the Arch-bishop which he did in words conceived to that purpose accordingly yet his friends gave out that all the while he carried a long Whetstone hanging out at the Pocket of his sleeve so conspicuous as men understood his meaning was to give himself the lie which he would not in another matter have taken of any man But thus the Bishop had a Conquest which he had no great comfort of and lived but few years after it and the Knight had a foile that he would not seem much daunted with and lived to have part of his fine releast by his Majesties clemency but yet he tost up and down all his life without any great contentment from Wiltshire into Wales and thence to the Isle of Man a while to Chelsey but little to York-shire where his stay should have been so that of this story I could collect many documents both for Bishops and Knights but that I shun prolixity in a matter no way pleasing Howbeit because one P. R. or R. P. for he can turn his name as Mountebank turns his Capp in his Epistle before the Resolution a Book much praised by Sir Edwin Sand hath a scoffe after his manner at this Hostess of Doncaster I would pray him but to peruse the Life of St. Bernard not that of their lying Legend but that which unworthily perhaps goeth among his most worthy works written by William Abbot in five Books There he shall find in the third Chapter of his first Book how that same maidenly Saint was subject to the like manner of scandall first of a young woman lying by him in naked bed half a night when himself was not 30 year old and yet we must believe he toucht her not and next of his Hostess also offering three timesin one night to come to his Bed and he crying out each time Latrones Latrones Theeves Theeves which our Bishop had much more cause to have cryed and had he but remembred it as I doubt not but he had read it he might peradventure have dissolved the pack with it To utter mine own conceit franckly if Parsons conjecture were true that by humane frailty this Prelate had in his younger dayes been too familiar with this woman which is said to passe but as a veniall sin among those of his Profession yet was the Knights practise very foul and the Lords censure very just that condemned him for I heard Judge Anderson a learned and stout Judge condemn one for a Rape upon the Oath of a Woman notwithstanding the man affirmed and the Woman denyed not but she had often in former times yielded her self to his lust because it seemed she had repented that course of life in betaking her to a Husband So my Lord if he had once