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A45326	The life & death of that renowned John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester comprising the highest and hidden transactions of church and state, in the reign of King Henry the 8th, with divers morall, historicall and political animadversions upon Cardinall Wolsey, Sir Thomas Moor, Martin Luther : with a full relation of Qu. Katharines divorce / carefully selected from severall ancient records by Tho. Baily ...	Hall, Richard, 1535 or 6-1604.; Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547. Testamentum.; Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657?	1655 (1655)	Wing H424; ESTC R230	97,933	254

Divinity than had all the learned Fathers of the Church and the Divines of Spaine and England together with the See Apostolick that were in you● Fathers time by whose authority this Marriage was approved confirmed and dispens●● with as good and lawfull Truly Sir m● Soveraign Lord you rather ought to make 〈◊〉 a matter of conscience than to make any such scruple in so clear and weighty a matter b● bringing it in question than to have any the least scruple in your conscience and there●fore my advise is that your Majesty with all speed lay aside those thoughts and for any perill that may happen to your soule thereby let the guilt rest on mine And this is all that can be said by the loyallest of Subjects and whether I have said well herein or other wise I shall not refuse to answer any man in you behalf whether it be privately or publickly and I doubt not but there are as many worthy and learned men within your ●Kingdome which are of my opinion as on the contrary if they might be permitted to speak with freedome who hold it a very p●rilous and unseemly thing that any such thing as ● Divorce should be spoken of to which side I rather advise your Majesty to incline than to the other whereat the King replied not on● word for whiles there was so faire a beauty in his eye his eares must needs be stopped with the blackest wool So he departed suddenly and never looked favourably upon the Bishop from that time forward CHAP. VII 1 The Cardinal brought into a peck of troubles by reason of this Soruple 2. The King declares himself for Anne of Bullein and declines the Queens company 3. The Cardinalls s●cret complotting to break off the match with Anne Bullein THe King resolving to go thorough stitch with his work makes it a publique businesse And now the Cardinals hic labor was become hoc opus for the same thing which was hitherto but secretly handled among the Bishops was now made the common subject of discourse to the whole Kingdome And a convention hereupon was had not onely of the Bishops but of all the noted and famous Divines of both the Universities Cathedrals and Religious houses within the Realme at the Cardinals house at We●minster where the said businesse was debated argued and consulted many daies together but the subject was too knotty for such tooles to work upon and the knot too hard for their untying wherefore they dissolved of themselves without dissolution and now the Cardinals hoc opus began to be impossible and voluntas regis to 〈◊〉 so high as if to that nothing were impossible for now the King begins to puff and blow and to sweare MOTHER of God he will have ●●r declaring it openly to all the world whereupon from more and more he becomes altogether to decline his Katharine's company and to delight himself wholy in the Courtships of his new Mistress In the mean time the Cardinall Wolsey walks the round within his owne Chamber and with his bitten nailes teares ou● these words by piece-meales from his mouth WE WILL HAVE NONE OF THIS ANNE BULLEIN for we m●st conceive him wonderfully perplexed having otherwise designed au allianco for his M●ster with the French King by this Divorce if he could have had his will so to have revenged himself upon the Emperour and we cannot imagine the distressed Queen to be otherwise than implacably as well as necessitously bent to employ all her engines to work together with his ruine her owne preservation O the just and secret workings of the Almighty who often buries us in the 〈◊〉 pits which we dig for others Yet most wonderfull it is to consider what countermines he had laid if it had been possi●le to have blown up the Kings resolution in his new choice able to have level'd any fortification of a minde that had been but compos'd either of Honour Wisdome Honesty or Shame not of what was altogether wilfullnesse For first hearing a common fame of the incontinency of this Ann of Bullien he sends forth spies in every corner to learne out who had or who could hear of any that had bin familiar with her At last intelligence was brought him that for a certeine Sir Thomas Wiat had carnall knowledge of her whereupon providing himself with sufficient inst●uction he sends for Sir Thomas Wiat and tells him how thus and thus it appeares that he had bin oftentimes familiar with the Lady Anne Bullein and that for ce●teine the King was at this time resolv'd to marry her assoone as ever the sentence of divorce should be pronounced and therefore out of the great love which he ever bare unto him and care which he had of his welfare he thought good to acquaint him with what danger he was in whereby he might avoid it by acquainting the King with what was truth lest afterwards such a thing should come to the Kings eare and then it would not be all the land nor all the life he had in England that could give his Majesty satisfaction for concelment of a businesse of so high concernment The Knight replied Sir I thank you for the great love and sound advice which hath been alwaies exercised in my affairs But reverend Sir if the King be so in love with her as you say he is and the world takes notice of him to be I think I cannot be in greater danger than in acquainting the King with such a business If you cannot prove it s●id the Cardinall you say well it is a hard matter to prove that said the Kn● it is a harder matter to answer the concealment said the Cardinall of a thing that is so much divulged as this is and besides in this case you can hardly suffer but you must finde many friends in the other you will suffer pitilesse and will will finde no man to speak in your behalf in this you will be but ingenuous in the other p●ccant wherefore I advise you of two evils to choose the least Sir Thomas Wiat by these perswasions was resolved to confesse all upto the King which he plainly did and with great feare told him that she was no fit wife for him if he w●re free the King commanded him to speak no more upon his life ●nor to acquaint any else with what he had told him so blinde is fate Nor would the Cardinall attempt to batter so strong a Tower with one Piece but he procured a Reserve of Engines which he thought could not faile for he had notice given him how that for certain the said Anne Bullein was really contracted to the Lord Henry Percy Son and Heire to the Earl of Northumberland then a servant waiting upon the Cardinall whom he immediately caused to appear before him and by his ow● confession finding the report to be true and selemnly performed he sent for the Countesse of Wilt shire mother to the said Anne Bullein and hearing what she could say to the

mans ruine and for a most vil● and abominable Incest committed with her owne brother condemn'd and accused to be worthy of death by her owne fath●r together with divers others of her own kindred and the Nobility then sitting in judgement who not long before were her Idolaters and she their Idoll whereupon she was executed at Tower hill her head being stricken off of whose losse the King himself took such sorrow that the very next day after she was dead he mourned for her in a Wedding garment Next to the Queen we will call to minde M. Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury who of his own power without any other warrant or authority pronounced the sentence of Divorce between the King and Queene being calculated to the height of that Meridian and afterwards called this holy man before him and cast him into prison for refusing the two new Oaths the one of the Kings new Marriage the other of the new Supremacy from whence he was never delivered till death rid him of all worldly 〈◊〉 This Archbishop lived till he was condemned for a traitour because he spred certain seditious Libels amongst the people and assisted the Duke of Nort●umberland in his Rebellion in the behalf of the Lady Iane against his lawfull Soveraigne But forasmuch as this was done in Qu●en Mary her daies and the Clergie had somewhat else to say to him they burned him as a Heretique As for Mr. Rich the Kings Soliciter and the Dequoy to this good man who gave such strange and injurious testimony against him at his arr●ignment he lived to be deposed from all his high places and preferments and fell into deep disgrace not onely with the King his Master but with those who afterwards sate at the stern in the young Kings time insomuch that affiction brought him to understand and the knowledge of himself to true repentance so that it is to be believed that he escaped without any further punishment than the clipping of his wings whilest he was alive and the singing of his qody when he was dead for his dead body being laid into a coffi● seared imbalmed c●rtain candles that were set upon the hearse through the watchers negligence or absence fell downe and took hold first on the cloaths and then upon the coffin till at length came unto the se●rcloaths that before any man could come unto the rescue the fire was pre●●y onward in his way to have deceived the worms Lastly we shall conclude with Mr. Cromwell a shrewd enemy to this good man and a great Agent in this businesse a man in whose behalf the Archb●shop of Canterbury thus writ in his behalf in his Letter to the King after his troubles had beginning viz. A man that was so advanced by your Majesty whose surety was onely by your Majesty who loved your Majesty no lesse than God who studied alwaies to set forward whatsoever was your Maj●sties will and pleasure who cared for no mans displeasure to serve your Maiesties who was such a servant in my judgement in wisdome diligenc● faithfulnesse and experience as no Prince in this Realm ever had the like who was so vigilant to preserve your Maiesty from all treasons that few could be so secretly conceived but he detected the same in the beginning such a man that if the noble Princes of memory King John Henry the second Richard the second had had such a Councellour about them I suppose they should never have been so treacherously abandoned and overthrowne as those good Princes were Who shall your Grace trust hereafter if you mistrust him Alas I bewaile and lame●t your Grace's chance herein I wot not whom your Grace may trust c. And for this fidelity ability and good service advanced successively to the d●gnities of the Master of the Rolls Biron Lord Privy Seale Knight of the G●rter Earle of Essex Lord high Chamberlaine of England and higher than all this V●car generall of the Church of ENGLAND by vertue of which Office he took place above them who were Metropolitanes of all England and yet notw●thstanding he was arrested at the Councell ●●ble of high Treason by the Duke of Norfolke when he least suspected any such desig●e committed to the Tower brought ●hence unto the Hill and without being permitted to plead for himselfe there beheaded without any more adoe But the strangest thing of all is that he that was the King● Vicegerent in spirituall causes should be accused for an Heretique and that made one of the causes of his death and that that was such a great enemy to the Catholiqu●s kicking downe all the Religious houses of the L●nd and grinded the Religious together with the rubb●sh under his feet should at his death openly profess● that he would die in the Catholick faith Thus we see Gods justice in the d●struction of the Churches enemies who knowes but that he may help her to such friends though not such as may restore her her own Jewells yet such as may heale her of her Wounds And who knowes but that it may be aff●cted by the same name sithenc● the Almighty hath communicated so great a secret unto mortalls as that there should be such a salve made known to them whereby the same weapon that made the Wound shou●d work the Cure Oliva Vera is not so hard to be construed Oliv●rus as that it may not be believed that a Prophet rather than a Her●uld gave the Common F●ther of Christendom● the now Pope of Rome Innocent the tenth such Ensignes of his Nobility viz. ● dove holding an Olive branch in her mouth since it falls short in nothing of being both a Prophesie and fulfilled but onely his Highnesse running into her armes whose Emblem of innocence beares him already in her mouth FINIS Stat. King Rich. 2. ● Bils in his true difference between Christian Antichri●●ian Rebellion part 3. pag. 243. 244. Hol. in his second volume of the last edition p● 309. b. line 66. Holins ib. pag. 310. line 2. Ibid. p. 30. a. line 11. Ibid. pag. 310. a. l. 11. Ibid. pag. 310. a. l. 14. Ibid. pag. 311. a. l. 2. Ibid. pag. 311. a. l. 9. Annotations upon the R●●m 〈◊〉 cap. 13. 2. An. in 1 Pet. cap. 2. 13. Bell. li. de ●aic●s c. 10. 11. of Dr. Keilison in his Survey printed 1603. p. 480. Tract 3. sect 5. written by I. Brer●ly An. 1608. Exo. 22 28 Act. 23. 5. Eccl. 10. 20 Rom. 13. 2. Rom. 13. 5. Hol. vol 3. An. Eliz. 26. p. 1358 Ib. p. 1360. b. line 26. Ib l. 26. Ib. l. 35. Ib. l. 40. Ib. l. 53. 54. c. Holi●s ubi supra p. 1170. 2. l. 35. 36. Goodwin in his Catalogue of Bishops Hol. ubi supra p. 1170. l. 15 As the Suffolk people S●ow in his Annals p. ● 1046. S●ow An printed 1592. p. 1039. and 1045. Stow. An. p. 1046. Stow. An. p. 1047. Stow. ubi supra pag. 1039. p. 1058.