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A67593	Historical collections of the church in Ireland during the reigns of K. Henry VIII, Edward VI and Q. Mary wherein are several material passages omitted by other historians concerning the manner how that kingdom was first converted to the Protestant religion and how by the special providence of God, Dr. Cole, a bloody agent of Q. Mary was prevented in his designs against the Protestants there : set forth in the life and death of George Browne, sometime Archbishop of Dublin, who was the first of the Romish clergy in Ireland that threw off the Popes supremacy and forsook the idolatrous worship of of [sic] Rome : with a sermon of his on that subject.	Ware, Robert, d. 1696.; Browne, George, d. 1556.	1681 (1681)	Wing W848; ESTC R12362	15,456	22

decency with mildness and in order servently crying unto God Open thou mine eyes that I may behold the wondrous things out of thy Law then should you rightly keep the Law and the Prophets It is the part of a Prince to be wise for he hath a great Charge to Rule and govern a Nation Your late King foreseeing Rome and her Pope's intentions how that he intended to inslave his Subjects and to keep them in the state of ignorance consulted with the Learned of his Realm knowing that Youth might quickly be wrought on therefore he prepared before his death a wise and Learned sort of Counsellors for his Sons Overseers not trusting to one or two but to several that he might the better Rule his people whose eyes the Lord God Almighty hath opened betimes to behold his wondrous works Though the words of my Text be plainly thus Open thou mine eyes the meanest of you that hear me have eyes but the true meaning of the words is Endue us with understanding for a Fool hath eyes and sees men women beasts birds and other things but yet wants understanding So when we say Open thou our eyes we desire the Lord God to instruct and teach us the knowledge of his Laws When you were lately led in blindness your eyes beheld the Images that then stood in several of the Monasteries and Churches until they were removed yet all this while were your understandings blinded because ye believed in them and placed your trust in them Suppose an Artist or Workman make an Image either of Man or Woman and at last a Clergy man of Rome give it such a name calling it St. Peter or St. Paul or St. Mary or St. Anne must not that man though he behold his own handy work and knows in his heart that it was his own work blind and void of and understanding of the Law of God and of the wondrous things that are contained in the Law of the Lord Yes surely he must be blind and void of Reason and of the true Faith that would worship the same The Workman carved the Eyes but these Eyes see not he likewise carved the Ears but they hear not the Nose and it smells not the Mouth and it neither breaths nor speaks the Hands they feel not the Feet but they stand st●●k still How therefore can your prayers be acceptable unto this Image that sees you not approaching towards it that hears you not when you pray to it that smells not the sweet smells be they of Myrrhe or Frankincense burning before it How can it absolve you when the mouth is not able to say Thy sins are forgiven thee And if you place a certain sum of Money in the palm of the hand of that Image come you again to morrow the Money it is true shall find a customer but the Image never the wiser who took it and if you desire to have it come unto you it cannot without help therefore the Workman that made this Image is as blind as deaf as dumb and as void of sense as the Image it self and so be ye all that put your trust in them Therefore of late new Artificers by springs have made artificial ones which for a certain time shall move and ye shall believe it to be real and certain But beware good people for they be but lying wonders purposely that ye may break the Law of God And thus hath the Devil devised a lying wonder that ye may be deluded to break the Law of the Lord which is Thou shalt not make unto thy self any Graven Image O Lord open thou our Eyes our Ears and our Understanding that we may behold the wondrous things that are in thy Law The Law of God is an undefiled Law Oh! why should we be so wicked then as to defile that Law which the Almighty God hath made so pure without blemish Jesus came to fulfil the Law and not to abolish the Law But there are a new fraternity of late sprung up who call themselves Jesuits which will deceive many who are much after the Scribes and Pharisees manner Amongst the Jews they shall strive to abolish the truth and shall come very near to do it for these sorts will turn themselves into several forms with the Heathen an Heathenist with Atheists an Atheist with the Jews a Jew and with the Reformers a Refomade purposely to know your intenations your minds your hearts and your inclintions and thereby bring you at last to be like the fool that said in his heart there was no God These shall spread over the whole World shall be admitted into the Council of Princes and they never the wiser Charming of them yea making your Princes reveal their hearts and the secrets therein unto them and yet they not perceive it which will happen from falling from the Law of God by neglect of fulfilling of the Law of God and by winking at their sins yet in the end God to justifie his Law shall suddenly cut off this Society even by the hands of those who have most succour'd them and made use of them so that at the end they shall become odious to all Nations They shall be worse than Jews having no resting place upon the Earth and then shall a Jew have more favour than a Jesuite Now to arm you all good Christians against these things that are to come lest ye be led into temptation Cry unto the Lord your God and heartily pray that he would be so merciful unto you as to open the eyes of your understanding that you may behold the wonders and pleasantness that is in his Law Which God of his mercy grant that you may all do Thus concluding with the Acts and Deeds of this Reverend Father we shall end with Queen Maries Designs how she intended to have persecuted the Protestants in Ireland but by Providence prevented as you shall further know by this following Relation being averred by several sufficient persons as well Ecclesiastical as Civil Qu. Mary having dealt severely with the Protestants in England about the latter end of her Reign signed a Commission fo● to take the same course with them in Ireland and to execut● the same with greater force she nominates Doctor Cole one of the Commissioners sending the Commission by this Doctor who in his Journey coming to Chester the Mayor of that City hearing that Her Majesty was sending a Messenger into Ireland and he being a Churchman waited on the Doctor who in discourse with the Mayor taketh out of a Cloak-bag a Leather Box saying unto him Here is a Commission that shall lash the Hereticks of Ireland calling the Protestants by that title The good Woman of the House being well affected to the Protestant Religion and also having a Brother named John Edmonds of the same then a Citizen in Dublin was much troubled at the Doctors words but watching her convenient time whilst the Mayor took his leave and the Doctor complementing him down the stairs she opens the Box and takes the Commission out placing in lieu thereof a Sheet of paper with a Pack of Cards the Knave of Clubs faced uppermost wrapt up The Doctor coming up to his Chamber suspecting nothing of what had been done put up the Box as formerly The next day going to the Waterside wind and Weather serving him he sails towards Ireland and landed on the Seventh of October 1558. at Dublin then coming to the Castle the Lord Fitz Walters being Lord Deputy sent for him to come before him and the Privy Council who coming in after he had made a Speech relating upon what account he came over he presents the Box unto the Lord Deputv who causing it to be opened that the Secretary might read the Commission there was nothing save a pack of Cards with the Knave of Clubs uppermost which not only startled the Lord Deputy and Council but the Doctor who assured them he had a Commission but knew not how it was gone then the Lord Deputy made answer Let us have another Commission and we will shuffle the Cards in the mean while The Doctor being troubled in his mind went away and returned into England and coming to the Court obtained another Commission but staying for a wind at the waterside news came unto him that the Queen was dead and thus God preserved the Protestants in Ireland This being a Copy of Richard Earl of Cork his Memorials as also of Henry Vsher sometime Lord Primate of Armagh being also entred amongst Sir James Wares Manuscripts who hath often heard the late James Vsher Nephew to the said Henry and also Primate of Armagh avert the same and wondred that Mr. Fox had not inserted it in his Acts and Monuments there is yet living a reverend Father of the Church Henry now Lord Bishop of Meath who can affirm this Relation from the said James Vsher late Lord Primate of all Ireland Upon the recalling of the Lord Fitz Walters into England Queen Elizabeth who succeeded her Sister dscoursing with the said Lord concerning several passages in Ireland amongst other discourses he related the aforesaid passage that had hapned in Ireland which so delighted the Queen that Her Majesty sent for the good Woman named Elizabeth Edmonds but by her Husband named 〈…〉 gave her a Pension of Forty pound durant● vitae for saving 〈◊〉 Protestant Subjects of Ireland FINIS George Cromer then Arch bishop of Armagh The form of their Confession to their Popish Priest

pardon my opinion for I write it to your Lordship as a Warning Dublin May 1538 Your humble and true Servant George Browne To the Lord Privy Seal with speed Upon the Feast of St. John Baptist following the said Geo●ge Browne seized on one Thady ô Brine one of the Order of ●t Francis who had Papers from Rome as follows being sent to the Lord Privy Seal by a Special Messenger My Son ô Neal THou and thy Fathers were all along faithful to the Mother Church of Rome His Holiness Pau● 〈◊〉 P●●e and the Council of the holy Fathers there have la●ely found out a Prophecy there remaining of one St. Lac●rianus an 〈◊〉 Bishop of Cashell wherein he saith That the Mother Church of Rome falleth when in Ireland the Catholic faith is ov●●●●me Therefore for the Glory of the Mother Church the Honour of St. Peter and your own Secureness suppress Heresie and his Holiness's Enemies for when the Roman Faith there perisheth the See of Rome falleth also therefore the Council of Cardinals have thought fit to encourage your Country of Ireland as a sacred Island being certified whilst the Mother Church hath a Son of worth as your self and of those that shall succour you and joyn therein that she will never fall but have more or less a holding in Britain in spite of fate Thus having obeyed the Order of the most sacred Council we recommend your Princely Person to the holy Trinity of the Blessed Virgin of St. Peter St. Paul and of all the heavenly Host of Heaven Amen Romae 4 Kalend. May 1538. Episcopus Metensis Upon further Examinations and searches made this Thade ô Birue was pillor'd and confined a prisoner until His Highness's further Order for his Tryal but News coming over that he must be Hanged he made himself away in the Castle of Dublin on the Eve of the Feast of St. James yet his dead Corps was carried to the Gallows Green and hanged up and after there buried but it was said by the Register of St. Francis Monastry of Dublin that they brought him from thence and buried him in that Monastry George Brown having enjoyed the See of Dublin seven years or thereabouts King Henry the 8 th upon the Dissolution of the Abbeys Priorys and Monastrys here in Ireland changed the Priory of the Blessed Trinity of Dublin into a Deanery and Chapters since which Mutation it hath generally bore the Name of Christ Church Upon this Alteration as it appears upon Record this Cathedral consisted of a Dean and Chapters a Chanter a Treasurer six Vicars Chorals and two Singing Boys allowing to them two 45 l. 6 s English durame bene placito which Sum his Daughter Queen Mary confirmed for ever having confirmed the Deanery yet with Alterations as she was a Romanist This Catheral continued after this said form though not in Popery even until King James his days who then altered all what King Henry and his Daughter had done and upon this second Alteration he constituted a Dean a Chanter a Chancellor a Treasurer three Prebends six Vicars Chorals and four Singing Boys ordering likewise that the Archdeacon of Dublin should have a Place in the Quire and a Vote in the Chapters As for a further Description of this Cathedral we shall omit it having reserved the same for a large Narrative of the sald Cathedral in a Book which is ready for the Press entituled The Amiquities of the City of Dublin King Henry the 8 th deceasing and his hopeful Offspring King Edward the 6 th succeeding within a short space after his Royal Fathers Death that hopeful Prince by the Advice of his Privy Council began to consider what good Effects the Translation of the holy Bible had done also how much it had enlightened the Understanding of his Subjects they altered the Liturgy Book from what King Henry had formerly printed and established causing the same to be printed in English commanding the same to be read and sung in the several Cathedrals and Parish Churches of England for the common Benefit of the Nobility Gentry and Commonalty and that his Subjects of Ireland might likewise participate of the same Sweetness he sent over Orders to his Vice Roy Sir Anthony St. Leger then being Lord Deputy of that Nation that the same be forthwith there in Ireland observed within their several Bishopricks Cathedrals and Parish Churches which was first observed in Christ Church at Dublin on the Feast of Easter 1551. before the said Sir Antbony George Browne and the Mayor and Bayliffs of Dublin John Lockwood being then Dean of the said Cathedral The Translation of the Copy of the Order for the Liturgy of the Church of England to be read in Ireland runs as follows EDWARD by the Grace of God c. Whereas our Gratious Father King Henry the 8th of happy memory taking into consideration the Bondage and heavy Yoak that his true and faithful Subjects sustained under the Iurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome as also the Ignorance the Commonalty were in how several fabulous Stories and lying Wonders missed our Subjects in both our Realms of England and Ireland grasping thereby the means thereof into their hands also dispensing with the Sins of our Nations by their Indulgenses and Pardons for Gain purposely to cherish all evil Vices as Robberies Rebellions Thefts Whoredoms Blasphemy Idolatry c. He our Grations Father King Henry of happy memory hereupon dissolbed all Priors Monastrys Abbeys and other pretended Religious Houses as being but Nurseries for Vice or Luxury more than for sacred Learning He therefore that it might more plainly appear to the World that those Orders had kept the light of the Gospel from his People he thought it most fit and convenient for the Preservation of their Souls and Bodies that the holy Scriptures should be Translated Printed and placed in all Parish Churches within his Dominions for his faithful Subjects to encrease their knowledg of God and of our Saviour Iesus Christ We therefore for the general Benefit of our well-beloved Subjects Vnderstandings when ever assembled or met together in the said several Parish Churches either to pray or to hear Prayers read that they may the better joyn therein in Vnity Hearts and Voice have caused the Liturgy and Prayers of the Church to be translated into our Mother Tongue of this Realm of England according to the Assembly of Divines lately met within the same for that purpose We therefore Will and Command as also Authorize you Sir Anthony S. Leger knight our Vice-Roy of that our kingdom of Ireland to give special notice to all our Clergy as well Archbishops Bishops Deans Archdeacons as others our Secular Parish Priests within that our said Kingdom of Ireland to perfect execute and obey this our Royal Will and Pleasure accordingly Given at our Mannor of Greenwich Febr. 6. in the Fifth year of our Reign E. R. To our trusty and well-beloved Sir Anth. St. Leger Knight our Chief Governour of our Kingdom of Ireland