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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

himselfe wholly to sensuality 6. Laies his whole trust in the C●rdinall Wolsey's character 7. His solicitation for the Bishoprick of Toledo afterwards for the Papacy is r●fused both ABout this time it was that Luther an● wered the Kings Book wherein he used such scur●ilou● railing against the King as is not to be m●ntioned far beneath the appro●ement of a sanctified spirit and the dignity of a sacred person Whereupon This Bishop in vindication of the Kings honour and defence of the truth w●it an Apologie whereby he rebuked the Authors vilany and abuse of a P●ince of so great dignity the title of which Book was A defence of the King of England 's assertion of the Catholique Faith against Martin Luther's Book of the Captivity of Babylon which Book he dedicated to his deare friend and old acqu●intance Dr. West Bishop of Ely Shortly afterwards he writ another book intituled A defence of the holy order of Priesthood against Martin Luther Upon the Quinquagesima Sunday which was in the yeare of our redemption 1525. this holy and most learned Bishop preached a most excellent Sermon at S. Paul's Crosse where Cardinall Wolsey Legate a latere with eleven Bishops great resort of the Nobility and G●ntry were present which was performed with such fe●veney of faith zeal● to the Catholique Church and force of arguments grounded upon Scripture that one Robert Barnes an Augustin Friar and five more infected with Lutheranism were thereby converted and abjured their Errors and for their Penance stood openly at St. Paul's Crosse. Upon the Octaves of the Ascension he preached also another most admirable Sermon in the presence of the Cardinall and all the Bishops c. wherein he shewed himself a most stout and zealous Champion and Defender of his Faith ta●ing no l●sse the severall curers of soules with n●glig●nce than the people with levity About this time ●rose out of Lather's Schoole one O●colampadius like a mighty and fierce Giant who as his Master had gone beyond the Church went beyond his Master or else it had been impossible he could have been reputed the better Scholler who denied the reall preseuce him this worthy Champion sets upon and with five bookes like so many smooth stones taken out of the River that doth always run with living water slays the Philistine which five books were written in the year of our Lord 1526. at which time he had governed the See of Rochester twenty years which books of his nor any other of his books that he ever writ were ever answered About this time it was that the King left off the Kingly Occupation as they called it wherein he had governed this Realme with great wisdome and moderation whereby he became as all wise Kings doe aim at beloved at home and feared abroad and addicted himself wholy to sensuall pleasure and delight leaving the Ministry of his state wholy to the disposition of the Cardinall who was a man though but meanly and obs●urely borne yet of an excellent wit voluble speech quicknesse of memory haugh●inesse of courage well bred sufficiently learned and one that knew how to behave himself among persons of the greatest rank and quality and that in businesses of greatest weight and importance who besides that he was Arch bishop of York and Bishop of Winchester at the same time and Abbot of S. Alb●ns and had the B●shopricks of Bath Woroester and Hereford in Farm at small rents the Incumbents being Strangers and continually living in their owne countries whereby he might dispose of all presentations and promotions of those Bishopricks as freely as if they had been his own and was Legat● à latere whereby he might convocate the Clergy at his pleasure besides what he received from Italy by reason of his dignity of Cardinall he was also Lord Chancelour of England whereby in a manner he formerly ruled all under the King also in matters temporall and to g●ve him his due he so beh●ved himselfe in Government that he won from all wise men great praise for his indifferency to all sorts of people whether they were rich or poore onely his fault was that he governed himself the worst of all for all this was not sufficient except he was more and more was nothing except he was most of all For The Arch-bishoprick of Toledo in Spaine being void he made meanes unto the Emperour Charles the fifth and to that purpose procured the Kings Letters whereby that great dignity might be conferred upon him but the Emperour noting his ambition would in no wise condescend thereto That failing it happened that Pope Leo the tenth died whereby the Papacy became void then he bestirred himself exceedingly together with all his friends and besides his own Master the King of England he made means unto the King of France who upon certain grounds moving him thereto took great paines in his behalfe but all was disappointed by the Emperor who had so wrought with the Conclave of Cardinalls that they elected Cardinall Hadrian one who formerly had been Tutor to the Emperour for their Pope a man of singular and rare Vertue and Learning CHAP. VI. 1. The Revenge which the Cardinall took again●● the Empero●● for withstanding his ambition● 2. The Scruple which he put into the Kings head concerning Queen Katherine This Scruple the ruine of the Clergie 3 The King is fallen in love with Anne Bullein 4. Her Character 5. The King resolved to go thorough-stitch with the Div●rce 6. The Kings dealing with Fisher in that behalfe Fisher's answer to the King THis lay boyling in the Cardinals stomach so hot that he never rested till he had set variance between the King his Master and the Emperour which he performed by causing the King to enter into a strict league and amity with the King of Fr●nce whereby the Emperours occasions were much hindred and to aff●ont him the more together with the feare of a blind Prophesie which was told him viz. that a woman should be the confusion of him and fearing it might be the Queen Katherine in regard she was Aunt unto the Emperour whom he thus purposed to ma●gne he began to set the straw on fire that was under her bed by putting a new Scruple into the Kings head of marrying his Brothers Wife wherefore taking his opportunity when he saw the King best disposed he fell into discourse with him of the great unhappinesse that was befalne the nation and how great a pity it was he had not issue M●l● to succeed him in the Crown of England whereat the King began to stare upon him but answered him not a word while the Cardinall proceeds to tell him that there might be a way found out how with Gods blessing he might have plenty whereat the King began to thrust his thumbs under his girdle and to cry Hob man hoh lawfully begotten Cardinall lawfully begotten Yet lawfully begotten replied the Card. I speak no more than what I am able to make good and justly whereupon he

the deed interprets the true meaning of the abused places of Scripture explicates the true and wholsome meaning of the words pardons and indulgence ju●tifies the holy use thereof acquaints them with the great displeasure that might justly ensue at the hands both of Almighty and of the Kings if so wicked a fact should passe unpunished tells how great a discredit it would be to the University that never had such a spot upon her breast before and a● length moved the Author though unknown to ● world ● and conf●ssion of his sinne that he might be forgiven which if he would performe within a time prefixed he assured him in Gods name but if the contrary such remedy sh●uld proceed against him as is provided in such like cases in Gods holy Chu●ch by Christ himselfe viz. to be cut off●like rotten Members from the Body of Christs Church by the censure of Excommunication which not being performed at the time prefixed on the delinquents part he called another Convocation where there was a great Assembly and fearing the infection of others by the obstinacy of one he betook him to his last remedy and taking the Bill of Excommunication in his hand he began to read it but when the words began to sit heavy upon his tongue according to the weight of the sentence the fire of Love as if within some Limbeck or beneath a Baln●o Mariae kindling within his breast sent such a stream up into his minde ●s suddenly distilled into his eyes which like an overflowing● viol reverberates the stream back againe to the heart till the heart surcharged sends these purer spirits of compassion out at his mouth which could onely say that he could read no further Good God! into what compassion did the mildnesse of such a nature strike the beholders who were all of them by this time mollified into the same affection insomuch that they all left off without any further proceedings in the Excommunication for that time Neverthelesse a third day being appointed for the same purpose time having brought on the day there was a great multitude of people where the Chancellour with a heavy countenance declared how that no tidings could be heard either of the person or his Repentance wherefore now seeing there was no other remedy he thought it necessary and expedient to proceed and so arming himselfe with a severe gravity as well as he could he pronounced the terrible Sentence from the beginning to the end which being done with a kinde of passionate compassion he threw the Bill unto the ground and lifting up his eyes to Heaven sate downe and wept Which gesture and manner of behaviour both of his minde and body struck such a ●ea● into the hearts of all his hearers and spectators that many of them were af●aid the ground would have opened to have swallowed up the man but that they hop'd he was not there But did all these teares fall to the ground were none of them botled up whereby they might become the wine of Angells Certainly men may repent as well as weep by proxie Teares have their voices in the Parliament with God and the same God that washeth us so clean with the Laver of Regeneration by the Faiths of others may by the prerogative of his mercy call us for the rep●ntance sake of other men For So it appeared by this D●linquent who having not the grace as yet bestowed upon him of repentance so many repenting for him he became repentant For Not long after this miserable wretch it se●mes b●ing taken notice of by the alteration of his countenance and other changes in the disposition of his minde whether he was there in presence or had onely heard with what solemnity so terrible a Sentence was pronounced against him to be the man forsaking the U●ive●s●y his body carried his minde when it sound no sanctuary as he supposed with the superintended of Ely a man too much taken notice of to be too great a favourer of Luthers Doctrine Dr. Goodrich by name where no lesse the dismall manner of proceeding than the thing it self would never out of his minde where notwithstanding he became a domestique servant to the said Dr. Goodrich and had unfolded his mind unto them concerning the premises yet they never coul● perswade him otherwise but that he had most grievously offended Almighty God in that particular openly detesting the deed as a thing that was both unadvisedly and wickedly performed insomuch that his minde could never be at rest untill such time as with his own hands in the self-same place where the former sentence was written he had blotted out his sin and that together by fixing upon the place thi● other sentence which carried healing in every word Delicta juventutis mea ignorantias ne memineris Domine Remember not Lord my sinnes nor the ignorances of my youth subscribing thereunto his name Peter de Valence who was a Norman by birth from whence he came to Cambridge to be a Student and remained there till he had committed this fact whereupon he was absolved and became a Priest There is a great deale of difference in the consideration which Catholiques doe use when they pronounce this terrible sentence over that which the Lay-chancellours had with us when they excommunicated for every threepenny matter which was the reason that in the end the people made not a threepenny matter of their Excommunications Thus imploying his time so need●ully required in healing the sore Brest of such a Nurse it happened that in the year 1525. The Wilkinson Dr. in Divinity who wasthe second Ma●st●r of Queens Colledge departed this life whereby the Mastership of that Colledge became void and in regard that the Chancellour of the University had no house belonging to him as he was Chancellour the Fellowes of that Colledge with unanimous consent chose him to be their Master which he thankfully accepted of whereby he became the third Master of that house continuing there the space of three yeares and odde moneths CHAP. III. 1. The Recreation of Bishop Fisher. The erection of Colledges 2. The Lady Margaret dies and leaves him her Executor 3. The high E●comium which he bestowes upon her in his Funerall Sermon made at the solemnities of her interrement 4. His faithful● behaviour in so great a trust reposed in him 5. His great love unto that Colledge 6. The praise-worthinesse of the Vniversity of Cambridge THat this good man sojourned in those parts during the time he made it his recreation to overlook the work of Christ-Colledge which was then not fi●ished which the Lady Margaret had endowed wi● maintenance for one Master 12. Scho●lars Felowes and 47. Disciples for ever to be brought up as the words of her Will make mention in Learning Vertue and Cunning the which Colledge she onely lived to see finished and so took sanctuary in the holy of holies the celestiall Ierusalem after the dissolution of so faire a Temple of the holy Ghost as was

sort of people to be so like the Nature of Islanders changeable and desirous of Novelties and how Luthers Doctrine was now come from private whisperings to open proclamations whereby all authority either of Pope or Emperour King or Bishop or any superiority whatsoever was much vilified and debased a new way of Salvation found out a neerer readier and cheaper way to Heaven propounded and liberty of conscience promised to all that were Believers in his Gospell all thinking him a brave fellow and who but Luther that cared neither for Pope nor Emperour this holy Prelate began to looke about and bestir himselfe and questionlesse had out-rid the storme had not his hand been taken from the steerage and the head Pilot when the poor fishers head w●● off wilfully cast away the Ship For Hereupon this good Bishop first acts the part of a good Chancellour and set all right in that University in generall especially in those Colledges whereof he had peculiar jurisdiction where he took an occasion to provide in the Statutes that the Fellows of those Houses should so order their Studies as that the fourth part of them might be Preachers so that as soon as one was gone abroad another should be ready to succeed in his place that if it were possible the young Cubbe might be catch'd at his first arrivall Then he returned to his pastorall charge at Rochester and there setting his owne Diocesse in good order he fell to Writing and diligent Preaching procuring others whose abilities were best known unto him to doe the like but perceiving the disease to grew desp●rate as it had done in Saxony and other parts of Germany and the rest of the Physitians not so ready to set thereto their helping hands as the necessity of the cause required he not onely called for help from the King but by his perswasions and at his instance the King himselfe set upon the head of all those mischiefs and wrote a book against Luther intituled An asser●on of the seaven Sacraments against Martin Luther So learned and so worthy a piece as that thereby he worthily deserved the title of D●f●nder of the Faith Which upon that occasion was given unto him by Leo the tenth then Pope of Rome which book was supposed by divers to be written by my Lord of Rochester whereupon he obtained leave from the King that he might goe to Rome as it is conceived to take farther order concerning the settlement of those affaires and having obtained leave likewise of his Metropolitan and disposed his houshold and ready to set forward in that expedition all was dashed by reason of a Synod of Bishop● together with a Synod of the whole Cleargy which was then called by Cardinall Wolsey by reason of his power Legantine lately conferred on him by the Pope which stop to his designe he bare with lesse reluctancy because he hoped that much good to the Church might happily be wrought thereby but in the end perceiving the Synod rather to be made a concourse whereby to 〈◊〉 unto the world the great authority wherein the Cardinall was invested and that he might be seen sitting in his Pontificality than for any great good that was intended he spake as followeth Bishop Fisher his Speech in the Synod MAY it not seem displeasing to your Eminence and the rest of these Grave and Reverend Fashers of the Church that I speak a few words which I hope may not be ou● of season I had thought that when so many learned men as substitute for the Cleargy had been drawn into this body that some good matters should have been propounded for the benefit and good of the Church that the s●andals that lye so heavy upon her men and the disease which takes such hold on those advantages might have been h●reby at once removed and also remedied who hath made any the least proposition against the ambition of those men whose pride is so offensive whiles their profession is bunnility or against the incontinency of such as have vowed Chastity how are the goods of the Church wasted the Lands the Tithes and other Oblations of the devo●● an●●stors of the people to the great scandall of their posterity wasted in super sluos ri●tous expences kew can we exbort our Flo●ks to fly the pomps and vanities of this wicked world when we that are Bishops set our mindes on nothing more than that which we forbid if we should teach according to our doing how absurdly would our doctrines sound in the eares of those that should hear● 〈◊〉 and if we teach 〈◊〉 thing and doe another who believeth our report which would seem to them no otherwise than as if we should throw downe with one hand what we built with the other we prtach Humility Sobriety contempt of the world c. and the people perceive in the same m●n that preach this D●ct●ine Pride and Haughtinesse of wind● excesse in Apparrell and a resignation of our selves to all worldly pomps and vanities and what is this otherwise than to set the people in a stand whether they shall follow the sight of their owne eyes or the beli●fe of what they 〈◊〉 Excuse me reverend Fathers seeing herein I blame no man more than I doe my self for sundry times when I have setled my selfe to the care of my Flock● to visite my Diocesse to governe my Church to answer the enemies of Christ suddenly there hath come a message to me from the Court that I mu●● attend such a triumph receive 〈◊〉 an Embassadour what have we to doe with Princes Courts if we are in love with Majesty is there a greater excellence than whom we serve if we are in love with stately buildings are there higher roofes than our Cathedrals if with Apparell is there a greater ●rnament than that of Pristhood or is there better co●pany than a Communion with the Saints Truly most reverend Fathers what this vanity in temporall things may worke in ●ou I know not but sure I am that in my selfe I finde it to be a great impediment to Devotion wherefore I think it necessury and high time it is that we that are the heads should begin to give example to the inferiour Cl●argy as to these particulars whereby we may all the better be conformable to the Image of God for in this trade of life which we now leade neither can there be likelihood of perpetuity in the same state and condition wherein we now stand or safety to the Cleargy A●te● that he had uttered these and many other such like words to this effect with such a gravity as well became him they all seem'd to be astonished by their silence and the Cardinalls state to become him not so well seeingm CHAP. V. 1. Luther's rayling against the King 2. Fisher writ●th in the Kings behalfe 3. The effect of a Sermon which he preached at S. Pauls crosse 4. Occolampadius his Doctrine and beginning Fisher opposeth him 5. The King leaveth off all care of Kingly government gives