Apocrypha was read in Churches viz. about sixty Chapters for the first lesson from the 28. of September till the 24. of November Canonicall Scripture is alone appointed to be read in the Scotch Liturgy one day alone excepted viz. All Saints day when Wisdome the 3 and Ecclesiasticus the 14 are ordered for Morning and Evening Praier on the same token there wanted not such who said that those two Chapters were left there to keep possession that all the rest might in due time be reintroduced Secondly The word Priest therein declined The word Priest often used in the English Liturgy gave offence to many in so much that c Cartwright in his Admonition 3. cap. 1. division one writeth To call us Priests as touching our office is either to call back again the old Priesthood of the Law which is to deny Christ to be come or else to keep a memory of the Popish Priesthood of abomination still amongst us besides we never read in the New-Testament that the word Priest as touching office is used in the good part Whereupon to prevent exception it was mollified into Presbyter in the Scotch Rubrick 97. The names of sundry Saints omitted in the English Scotch Saints inserted into the Kalender are inserted into the Scotch Kalender but only in black letters on their severall daies according to the form following January February March 11 David King 13 Mungo Bishop in Latin Kentigernus 18 Colman 11 Constantine the 3. King 17 Patrick 20 Cutbert April May. June 1 Gilbert Bishop 20 Serfe Bishop  9 Columba July August September 6 Palladius  18 Ninian Bishop 25 Adaman Bishop October November December  16 Margaret Queen 27 Ode Virgin 4 Droftane Some of these were Kings all of them Natives of that Countrey Scotch and Irish in former ages being effectually the same and which in probability might render them to the favor of their countrey-men some of them as Coleman c. zealous opposites to the Church of Rome in the celebration of Easter 98. But these Scotch Saints were so farr from making the English Laturgy acceptable Alterations of Addition in the Scotch Liturgie that the English Liturgy rather made the Saints odious unto them Such the Distasting alterations in the Book reduceable to 1. Additions 2. Omissions 3. Variations 4. and Transpositions To instance in the most materiall of the first kinde 1. In the Baptisme these words are inserted d Fol. 106. pag. 2. Sanctifie this fountain of water thou which art the Sanctifier of all things Which words are enjoyned to be spoken by the Minister so often as the water in the Fount is changed which must be at least twice a moneth 2. In the Praier after the Doxologie and before the Communion this Passage expunged by the English Reformers out of our Liturgy is out of the Ordinary of Sarum inserted in the Scotch Praier Book And of thy almighty c fol. 102. pagina 1. goodnesse vouchsafe so to blesse and sanctify with thy word and holy word these thy gifts and Creatures of Bread and Wine that they may be unto us the body and blood of thy most dearly beloved Sonne from which words saith the Scotch Author all f Bayly in his Canterburians Self-conviction pag. Papists use to draw the truth of the Transubstantiation 3. He that Celebrateth is injoyned to cover that which remaineth of the consecrated Eleents with a faire linen Cloth or Corporall g fol. 103. pag. 2. a word unknown to vulgar Eares of either Nations in other sense then to signify an under-officer in a foot Company and complained of to be purposely placed here to wrap up therein all Romish superstition of Christs Carnall Corporall presence in the Sacrament 4. In the Praier for the State of Christs Church Militant these words are added And h folio 98. pagina 1. we also blesse thy holy name for all those thy servants who having finished their course in faith doe now rest from their labours And we yeeld unto thee most high praise and hearty thanks for the wonderfull grace and vertue declared in all thy Saints who have been the choice vessells of thy grace and the lights of the world in their severall generations most humbly beseeching thee that we may have grace to follow the example of their stedfastnesse in thy faith and obedience to thy holy commandements that at the day of the generall Resurrection we and all they which are of the mysticall body of thy Sonne may be set on his right hand and hear that his most joyfull voice Come yee blessed c. 99. Amongst the Omissions none more complained of than the deleting these words The most materiall omission in the delivery of the bread at the Sacrament Take i fol. 103. pag. 2. and eat this in remembrance that Christ dyed for thee and feed on him in thine heart by faith with thanksgiving A passage destructive to Transubstantiation as diverting Communicants from Carnall Munducation and directing their Soules to a spirituall repast on their Saviour All which in the Scotch Liturgy is cut off with an Amen from the Receiver The Variations and Transpositions are of lesse moment as where the money gathered at the offer ory distributable by the English Liturgy to the poor alone hath a moyety thereof assigned the Minister therewith to buy him books of holy Divinity and some praiers are transposed from their place and ordered elsewhere whereat some doe take no small exception Other smaller differences if worth the while will quickly appear to the curious perusers of both Liturgies 100. Pass we now from the constitution of the book The discontented condition of the Scorch Nation when the Liturgy was first brought unto them to the condition of the Scotch Nation in this unhappy juncture of time when it was imposed upon him For it found them in a discontented posture and high Royalists will maintain that murmuring and muting against Princes differ only in degree nor in kinde occasioned on severall accounts 1. Some years since the King had passed an Act of revocation of Crown Lands aliened in the minority of his Ancesters whereby much land of the Nobility became obnoxious to forfeiture k The Kings declaration at large pag. 6. And though all was forgiven again by the Kings clemency and nothing acted hereby to the prejudice of any yet it vexed some to hold that as remitted by the Kings bounty wherein they conceived themselves to be before unquestionably estated 2. Whereas many formerly in Scotland were rather Subjects than Tenants rather Vassalls than Subjects Such the Land-lords Princely not to say Tyranniolly power over them the King had lately freed many from such dangerous dependence Especially in point of payment of Tythes to the Lords of the Erection equivalent to our English lay Impropriators but allowing the Land lords a valuable consideration according to the purchases l Idem pag. 9. of that Countrey whereby the
gathered together to live under one Roof because their Company would be Cheerfull in Health and Needfull in Sicknesse one to another Hence these two words though contrary to sound signifie the same Monasterium Coenobium A place containing men living Alone In common For though they were sequestred from the rest of the World yet they enjoyed mutuall Society amongst themselves And again though at solemn times they joyned in their Publick Devotions and Refections yet no doubt they observed howers by themselves in their Private Orisons Of these some were Gardeners like Adam Husbandmen like Noah caught Fish with Peter made Tents with Paul as every man was either advised by his Inclination or directed by his Dexterity and no Calling was counted Base that was found Beneficiall Much were they delighted with making of Hives as the Embleme of a Covent for Order and Industry wherein the Bees under a Master their Abbot have severall Cells and live and labour in a regular discipline In a word they had hard hands and tender hearts sustaining themselves by their labour and relieving others by their Charity as formerly hath been observed in the Monks of Bangor 3. Take a tast of their Austerity who lived at Vall Rosine The discipline of British 〈◊〉 under S. David since called Minevea in Pembroke-shire under the Method of S. David They were raised with the crowing of the a 〈◊〉 Hist Eccl. Angl. p. 40. Cock from their beds and then betook themselves to their prayers and spent the rest of the day in their severall calling when their task was done they again bestowed themselves in prayers meditations reading writing and at night when the heavens were full of starres they first began to feed having their temperate repast to satisfie hunger on bread water and herbs Then the third time they went to their prayers and so to bed till the circulation of their daily employment returned in the Morning A spectacle of virtue and continence who although they received nothing or any thing very unwillingly of others yet were so farre from wanting necessaries that by their pains they provided sustenance for many poor people Orphans Widows and Strangers 4. Here as we cannot but highly commend the integrity of their Hearts herein Superstition unawares occasioned by them so we must withall bemoan that what in them was intentionally good proved occasionally evill hatching Superstition under the warmth of their Devotion For though even these as yet were free from humane Ordinances and Vows yet Will-worship crept in insensible in the next Age Tares are easier seen grown than growing and error and vitlousnesse came in by degrees The Monks afterwards having sufficiency turned lazie then getting wealth waxed wanton and at last endowed with superfluity became notoriously wicked as hereafter shall appear Thus as Pliny reporteth of the GAGATE-stone that set a fire it burneth more fiercely if water be cast on but is extinguished if oyle be poured thereupon So the zeal of Monastick men was inflamed the more with the bitter water of affliction whilst in prosperity the oyle of plenty quenched their piety So ill a Steward is humane corruption of outward happinesse oftner using it to the Receivers hurt than the Givers glory Of Superstition which was the fundamentall fault in all Abbeys THis was one main fault in all English Abbeys Abbeys built on the sand of superstition that the Builders did not dig deep enough to lay the Foundation as grounded on the foundred and mouldring bottome of superstition For every Monastery was conceived a magazine of merit both for the Founder his Ancestors and Posterity And although all these Dotations did carry the title of pure Alms yet seriously considered they will be found rather forced than free as extorted from men with the fear of Purgatory one flash of which fire believed is able to melt a miser into charity yea which is worse many of their foundations had their morter tempered with innocent blood For which we may conceive afterwards they sped never a whit the better To give some instances of many 2. Wolpher Peterborough Abbey founded to expâ—ate murder King of the MERCIANS having murdered Wolphald and Rufine his own Sons with cruell and barbarons Immanity because they had devoted themselves unto Christ and embraced his Religion afterwards turning Christian himself b Cambd. Brit. in Northampton-shire MiddletoÌ„ being on the same occasion Idem in Dorceâ— to wash away the stain of his impiety built that famoâ—s Abbey since known by the name of Peterborough 3. King Athelstance drowned his brother Edwine having put him into a little Wherry or Cockboat without any tackling or furniture thereunto to the end he might impute his wickedness to the waves and afterwards as a satisfaction to appease his Ghost built the fair Abbey of Middleton in Dorset-shire 4. To joyn to these two houses of Monks So also the Nunnery of Ambresbury one of Nuns such society hath not been unacceptable Aelfrith second Wife to King Edgar having contrived the death of Edward her Son-in-law King of England murdered him by a company of Hacksters and Villains at her appointment at Corfe-Castle in Dorset-shire to pave the way for the Succession of her Son Etheldred to the Crown afterwards built the stately Nunnery of c Harpsfield Hist Eccl. Angl. saec 10. p. 188. Ambresbury with some other religious Houses 5. It is confest Suspitious therein might be a great fault herein that wilfull murder may be pardoned in Christ and they who deny it are guilty as much as lies in their power of a worse soul-murder in their uncharitable opinion Yet this we say that all the chantings of the Monks and Nuns in their Covents could not drown the noise of innocent blood And if these Founders of Abbeys thought that their murder could be expiated by raising such beautifull buildings their most polished marble and costly carved pieces were in the expression of the Prophet but d Ezck. 22. 28. dawbing over their damnable sins with untempered morter But though Abbeys long since have been demolished we leave their Founders to stand or fall to their own Maker when his all-seeing Eye hath discerned betwixt the Errours of their Judgment and Integrity of their Affections endevouring that which they conceived was to the glory of God and advance of true Religion Of the severall Orders of Monks and Nuns in England SO much of the Superstition of the Founders An heap of Monkish Orders in England come we now to their Superstition and other notorious sins who lived in these foundations But first we will premise their severall Orders Herein we pretend not to any criticall skill For though every Minister of God's Word whereof I am the meanest is a spirituall Herald to derive and deduce the Pedigrees and Genealogies of any Institution which hath its Originall in God's Word yet they are not bound not to say it is a learned Ignorance to be skilled in the
some Purposes at the day of his Birth in which respect he may sue out his Liveries for the Dukedome of Cornwall and this perchance may somewhat mend the matter 59. But enough of this matter Conclusion with prayer which some will censure as an Impertinency to our Church-History and scarcely coming within the Church-yard thereof My Prayers shall be that each University may turn all Envy into generous yea gracious yea glorious Emulation contending by laudable means which shall surpasse other in their Serviceablenesse to God the Church and Common-wealth that so Commencing in Piety and Proceeding in Learning they may agree against their two generall Adversaries Ignorance and Profanenesse May it never be said of them what Naomi e Ruth 1. 12. said of her self that she was too old to bear Sons may they never be superannuated into Barrennesse but like the good Trees in Gods Garden They shall still bring forth Fruit in their old age they shall be fat and flourishing 60. Seasonably Sigebert erected an University at Cambridge 632 thereby in part to repair the late great Losse of Christianity in England when the year after Edwine Edwine King of Northumberland slain King of Northumberland was slain in f Beda Eccles Hist lib. 2. cap. 10. Battel by Cadwald King of VVales and Penda King of the Mercians After whose Death his whole Kingdome relapsed to Paganisme and Paulinus Arch-Bishop of York taking with him Queen Ethelburge returned into Kent and there became Bishop of the then vacant Church of Rochester Mortified man he minded not whether he went up or down hill whilest he went on strait in his Calling to glorifie God and edifie others sensible of no Disgrace when degrading himself from a great Arch-Bishop to become a poor Bishop Such betray much Pride and Peevishnesse who outed of eminent Places will rather be Nothing in the Church then any thing lesse then what they have been before 61. After the death of King Edwine The unhappy year his Kingdome of Northumberland was divided into two parts Anno Dom. 632 both petty Kingdomes 1. Bernicia reaching a Camden's Brit. pag. 797. from the River Tees to Edenburgh Frith whereof Eanfrith was King 2. Deira whence say some Deirham or Durham lay betwixt Tees and Humber whereof Osrick was King These both proved Apostates from the Christian Faith and God in his justice let in Cadwald King of the Britans upon them who slew them harassed their Countrey 633 and made a lamentable Desolation within the compasse of one year without respect to Age or Sex untill Oswald bred and brought up in Scotland next of the Bloud-Royall came to be King of Northumberland whom God sent to redeem that miserable Country from the hands of their Enemies and many eminent Victories he obtained 62. The fatall year A lost year well found wherein so many Outrages were committed on the Apostate Northumberlanders by Cadwald King of the Britans is detested by all Saxon Chronologers And therefore all the Annalists and writers of Histories in that Age by joynt-consent universally resolved to damn and drown the Memoriall of that Annus infaustus as they call it Vnlucky year but made so by Vngodly men Yea they unanimously b Bede Eccles Hist lib. 2. c. 1. agreed to allow those two Apostate Kings no yeares reign in their Chronicles adding the time subtracted from them to Oswald their Christian Successour accounting him to have reigned c Idem lib. 3. cap. 9. nine yeares which indeed were but eight of his own and one of these Historians their Adoption Yet is it no news even in Scripture it self to bury the reign of Tyrants under the Monument of a good Prince succeeding them Thus when Ehud is d Iudg. 3. 30. said to have judged the land fourscore year those eighteen e Vers 14. yeares are included wherein Eglon the Moabite oppressed Israel 63. Amongst the many Victories atchieved by this Oswald A victory given from heaven one most remarkable was gained by him near Hexam in Northumberland 635 against the Pagans against whom he erected the Standard of the Crosse in a place which time out of mind was called Heafen-feld Haledon at this day by a Prolepsis not answering the name thereof untill this time Hence a Poet writing the life of Oswald Tunc primum scivit causam cur nomen haberet Heafen-feld hoc est coelestis campus illi Nomen ab antiquo dedit appellatio Gentis Praeteritae tanquam belli praesaga futuri Then he began the reason first to know Of Heafen-feld why it was called so Nam'd by the Natives long since by foresight That in that field would hap an heavenly fight Thus it is generally reported that the place nigh Lipsick where the King of Sweden got one of his signal Victories was time out of mind termed by the Dutch f Swedish Intelligencer Gots Acre or Gods ground And thus as Onesimus and Eutychus were so called from their Infancy but never truely answered their Names till after the g Philem. v. 11 Conversion of the one and Reviving of the h Acts 20. 12. other so Places whether casually or prophetically have Names anciently imposed upon them which are sometimes verified many Ages after 64. About this time Honorius the Pope sent his Letter to the Scotch Nation Pope Honorius his ineffectual letter advising them to an Uniformity with the Church of Rome in the Celebration of Easter His main Reason is thought to have more of State then Strength humane Haughtinesse then holy Divinity in it Namely he counselleth them Ne paucitatem suam in extremis terrae finibus constitutam sapientiorem omnibus Christi Ecclesiis aestimarent This is that Honorius of whom Leo the second Anno Dom. 635 his Successour complaineth in his a Tom. 2. Decret Epist ed. Romae 1591. pag. 654. Epistle to the Bishops of Spain Flammam haertici dogmatis non ut decuit Apostolicam authoritatem incipientem extinxit sed negligendo confovit By his negligence he did countenance the heretical Opinions meaning of the Monothelites then beginning afresh to spring up again which he ought to have suppressed Thus he who could stickle about the Ceremony of keeping Easter could quietly connive at yea interpretatively consent to the depraving of the Doctrinall part of Religion But his Letter to the Scotch took little effect who kept their Easter not one Minute the sooner or later for all his writing unto them 65. In a better Work Birinus converts the VVest-Saxons to the faith and with better Successe was Birinus employed an Italian by Birth sent over by Pope Honorius for the Conversion of the remainder of England and to that purpose that his Preaching belike might be the more powerfull made a Bishop before his b Bede lib. 3. cap. 7. coming over by Asterius Bishop of Genoa Here I am at a losse Bishop of what Where was his Diocese or
put on a civil account Good policie Injunction 23. to avoid contention about places Indeed peoples pride herein consisted in pretended humility which the Injunction at large termeth a fond Courtesie For in a mock-practise of the Apostles * Rom. 12. 12. precept in honour preferring one another they strained courtesie to goe last Where by the way I conceive that accounted the highest place which was next the Crosse bearer or next the Priest carrying the Host Quaere whether in the 24 Injunction labouring in time of Harvest on Holy-daies and Festivals relateth not onely to those of Ecclesiasticall constitution as dedicated to Saints or be inclusive of the Lords day also Mr. Calvin in his Letter to the Lord * pag. 187 188. Protector Mr. Calvin dissents disliketh the praying for the dead and this is one of those things which he termed tolerabiles ineptias Englished by some tolerable fooleries more mildly by others tolerable unfitnesses In requital whereof Bishop Williams was wont to say That Master Calvin had his tolerabiles morositates And thus moderately did our first Reformers begin Moderation 〈◊〉 farre as the subject they wrote on would give them leave for as carefull Mothers and Nurses on condition they can get their Children to part with knives are contented to let them play with raitles So they permitted ignorant people still to retain some of their fond and foolish Customes that they might remove from them the most dangerous and destructive Superstitions Come we now to give in a List of such principall Books which in the Reign of this King and His Father The Protestant Library as Preparatory to and Introductive of Reformation And to bring them high enough we will begin with HEN 7th Prayers printed by the Commandements of the moost hye and vertuous Princesse our lyege Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Quene of England and of France and also of the right hye and moost noble Princesse Margarett mother to our Soveraign Lord the King c. without the year when printed HEN 8th The Institution of a Christian man contayneng the Exposition of the Commune Crede of the seaven Sacraments of the ten Commandements and of the Pater noster and the Ave Maria Justification and Purgatory London by Tho Barthelet 1537. A necessary Doctrine and Erudition for any Christen man set furthe by the Kynges Majestie of England c. London by Tho Barthelet 1543. HEN 8th Henry the eighth his Epistle to the Emperour Christen Princes and all true Christen men desiring peace and concord amonges them Against the power of the Pope and concerning a Generall Councell London by Tho Barthelet 1538. A Protestation made for the most mighty and most redoubted King of England c. and his hole Counsell and Clergie wherein is declared that neither His Highnesse nor His Prelates neyther any other Prince or Prelate is bound to come or send to the pretended Councell that Paul Bishop of Rome first by a Bull indicted at Mantua a Citie in Italy and now alate by an other Bull hath proroged to a place no man can telle where London by Tho Barthelet 1537. Articles devised by the Kinges Highnes Majestie to stablishe Christen quietnes and unitie amonge us and to avoyde contentious opinions which Articles be also approved by the consent and determination of the hole Clergie of this Realme Lond Tho Barthelet 1536. Injunctions to the Clergie 1536. M. Sc. Articles devised by the holle consent of the Kinges most honourable Counsayle His Graces licence opteyned thereto not only to exhorte but also to enfourme His loving Subjects of the trouth London Tho Barthelet 1533. Orarium seu libellus Precationum per Regiam Majestatem Clerum Latinè editus Ex officina Richard Graftoni 1545. Pia Catholica Christiani hominis institutio Londini apud Thomam Barthelet 1544. Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarū ex authoritate primum Regis Hen 8. inchoata deinde per Regem Edw 6. provecta c. Londini ex officina Jo Day 1571. EDW 6th Injunctions given by the most excellent Prince Edward the sixt by the grace of God King of England France and Ireland Defendor of the Fayth and in yearthe under Christ of the Church of England and of Ireland the Supreeme Hedde to all and singuler His loving Subjects aswell of the Clergie as of the Laietie By R. Grafton 1547. Articles to be enquired of in the Kynges Majesties visitation By Rich Grafton Cum privilegio Communion book translated into French for Jersey and Garnesey 1553. EDW 6th The Booke of Common-Prayer and Administration of Sacraments c. London 1549. 1552. The forme and manner of making and consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons 1552 1549. The Copie of a Letter sent to all those Preachers which the Kings Majestie hath licensed to preach from the Lord Protectors Grace and others of the Kinges Majesties most Honourable Councell The 23 of May 1548. Catechismus brevis Christianae disciplinae summam continens omnibus ludimagistris authoritate Regiâ commendatus Londini 1553. Articuli de quibus in Synodo Londinensi 1552. ad tollenda◠opinionum dissensionem consensum verae religionis firmandum inter Episcopos alios eruditos atque pios viros-convenerat Regia similiter authoritate promulgati Londini The Primer or Booke of Prayers translated out of Hen the 8 ths Orarium London by Rich Grafton 1547. Certain Sermons viz the first part of the Church Homilies appointed by the Kinges Majestie to be read everie Sonday and Holy day c. 1549 1547. A Primer or Booke of private Prayer c. in the 7 yeare of Ed 6. Ex officina Wilhelmi Seres 1552. The order of the Communion with the Proclamation London by Rich Grafton 1548. Q. MARIE The Primer in Latin and English after the use of Sarum London 1555. Edm Bonners Catechisme 1555. with Homelies composed by H. Pendleton and Jo Harpesfield London 1555. These are the principall State-books which that Age produced not mentioning such as numberlesse which private persons set forth onely I cannot as yet recover the Lord Cromwell's Catechisme except it be concealed under another name amongst the Books aforementioned 4. Come we now to the Liturgie which in the Reign of K. Henry the eighth was said or sung all in Eatine save only the Creed Pater noster and ten Commandements put into English by the Kings command Anno 1536. Nine years after viz 1545 the Letanie was permitted in English and this was the farthest pace which the Reformation stept in the Reign of King Henry the eighth Ann. Dom. 1547. But under His son King Edward the sixt a new form of Divine worship was set forth in the vulgar Tongue which passed a threefold purgation The first Edition of the Liturgie or Common-Prayer The 2 d Edit of the Liturgy or Common-Prayer The 3 d Edit of the Liturgy or Common-Prayer In the first year of King Edward the sixt it was recommended to the care
mile of this City runneth partly by partly through it but contributeth very little to the strengthning thereof 5. The Rebels encamped or rather enkennelled themselves on Moushold-Hill whereon Mount-Surry a fair House of the Dukes of Northfolk whence they had free egresse and regresse into Norwich as oft as they pleased One Coigniers a Vicar in the City they had for their Chaplain and were so religiously rebellious that prayers Morning and Evening were read amongst them Mean time so intolerable was their insolence that now they sent up such Demands to the King to which He neither would in honour nor could in justice condescend Yet the King constantly chequered His comminations with Proclamatians of pardon which the Rebels scorn'd to accept 6. As for Thomas Cod Major of Norwich and others of the Gentry detained prisoners in Ket's camp they were admitted to the counsels of the Rebels for the better credit thereof If Ket were present they were no better than herbe John in the pottage and had no influence on their consultations But if he happily chanced to be absent then they were like S. Johns wort so soveraign for soars and against the plague it self and did much mitigate the fury of their mischievous Decrees Mean time great plenty was in Kets camp where a fat sheep was sold for a groat but penury and misery in all other places 7. Doctor Matthew Parker afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury getting up into the Oake of Reformation preached to their Rebels of their duty and allegiance But the Oake as soon as the Auditory would embrace his Doctrine yea his life was likely to be ended before his Sermon Arrows being shot at him had not Coigniers Kets Chaplain seasonably yet abruptly set the Te Deum during the singing whereof the Dr. withdrew to sing his part at home and thank God for his great deliverance 8. William Par Marquesse of Northhampton Aide sent to suppresse the Rebels but more acquainted with the witty than the warlike part of Pallas as compleat in Musick Poetry and Courtship with many persons of honour as the Lords Sheffield and Wentworth Sir Anthony Denny Sir Ralph Sadlier Sir Thomas Paston c. is sent to quell this Rebellion They were assisted with a band of Italians under Malatesta their Captain whereof the Rebels made this advantage to fill the Countrey with complaints that these were but an handfull of an armfull to follow driving on the designe to subject England to the insolence of Foraigners 9. Now The Lord Russell conqueror Lord Marquiss conquered though neither wisdome nor valour was wanting in the Kings Souldiers yet successe failed them being too few to defend Norwich and oppose the Rebels Insomuch that the Lord Sheffield was barbarously butcher'd S r Tho Corwallis taken prisoner and the City fired by the Rebels which probably had been burnt to ashes had not the clouds commiserating the Cities calamity and melting into tears quenched the flames and thus the Marquesse fain to quit the service returned to London 10. Then was John Dudley Earle of Warwick The Lord Gray and Earle of Warwick come with new supplies with such Forces as were intended for Scotland sent to undertake the Task The Marquesse of Northhampton attended him to trie whether he could be more fortunate in following than he had been in leading Coming to Norwich he easily entred the City and entertained the Rebels with many sallies with various successe here too long to relate but generally the Earle of Warwick came off with the better 11. Now the Rebels impregnable in some sort if still keeping Moushold-Hill whereon the Earles Horse could doe small service deserted it of their own accord and came down into Dussin-dale Here their superstition fancied themselves sufficiently fenced by the virtue of an old prophecie Hob Dick and Hick with clubs and clouted shoon Shall fill up Dassin-dale with blood of slaughtered bodies soon It hath ever been charged on the English as if they alwaies carried an old Prophesie about with them in their pockets which they can produce at pleasure to promote their designes though oft mistaken in the application of such equivocating Predictions as here these silly folke were deluded For it being believed that Dussin dale must make a large and soft pillow for Death to rest thereon these Rebels apprehended themselves the Upholsters to make who proved onely the stuffing to fill the same 12. The Earle glad that the enemy had quitted the Hill fell with all his forces upon them and here happened a most bloody Battle The Rebels disputed the ground with their naturall Logick as I may term it down-right blows without much military Discipline Here one might have seen young Boyes timely Traytours plucking the arrows wherewith they were wounded out of their own flesh and giving them to those of their owne party to shoot them back againe July 27. Here some thrust through with spears wilfully engaged their Bodies the deeper thereon onely striving to reach out their revenge on those who wounded them But at last rage was conquered by courage number by valour Rebellion by Loyalty and in the fight and pursuit two thousand at the least were slain 13. Remarkable was Divine Providence in preserving the captive Gentlemen of the Countrey whom the Rebels coupled together and set them in the front of the Fight Now although it be true what David saith * 2 Sam. 11. 25. The sword devoureth one as well as another yet so discreetly did Captaine Druery charge the Van of the Rebels that most of these innocent Prisoners made their escape The last litter of Kets kennell stifly standing out and fortifying themselves accepted of pardon on the Earls promise it should be assured unto them 14. On the nine and twentieth of August a solemn Thanks-giving was made in Norwich for their deliverance Aug. 6. and is annually continued Indeed this City being betwixt weaknesse and strength â—s taxed for wavering at the time betwixt Loyalty and Revolt though to give the Citizens their due many expressed their fidelity to their Prince as farre as they durst for fear of destruction Yet better had it been had Norwich been weaker to be quitted or stronger to be defended whose mongrell strength exposed it to the greater misery 15. Robert Ket was hanged on Norwich Castle The legal 〈◊〉 of the Rebels William his brother on Windham Steeple Nine others on the Oake of Reformation which never till then brooked the name thereof Amongst these Miles a cunning Cannoneer was much lamented because remorse kept him from doing much mischief to which his cunning did enable him Thus by Gods blessing on Mans endevours both these Rebellions were seasonably supprest That of Devon-shire did openly avouch the advancing of Popery the other was suspected secretly fomented by some Papists who stood behinde the curtain but ready to step on the stage had Successe of the Designe but given them the Cue of Entrance As for the Rebellion at the same
instructed Him in the French Tongue How great and sudden His proficiency in Learning was will appear by this Letter written with His own hand to His Father when about eight years old And although some may cavill this Letter not to be the Princes but Cheeke's or Cox's in the Prince yet the very matter and style will attest it the genuine Issue of His infant-Genius LIterae meae semper habent unumâ— Argumentum His 〈◊〉 his King-Fâ—ther Rex Nobilissime See it in Sir Tho. Cottons Libr. atque Pater Illustrissime id est in omnibus Epistolis ago tibi gratias pro beneficentia tua erga me maxima si enim saepius multo ad te literas exararem nullo tamen quidem modo potui pervenire officio literarum ad magnitudinem benignitatis tuae erga me Quis enim potuit compensare beneficia tua erga me Nimirum nullus qui non est tam magnus Rex ac nobilis Princeps ac tu es cujusmodi ego non sum Quamobrem Pietas tua in me multo gratior est mihi quod facis mihi quae nullo modo compensare possim sed tamen adnitar faciam quod in me est ut placeam Majestati atque praecabor Deum ut diù te servet incolumem Vale Rex Nobilissime atque Pater Illustrissime Hatfeldiae vicessimo septimo Septemb Majestati tuae observantissimus Filius EDVARDUS Princeps With the increase of His Age Another to Qu. Katharine Parre His Writing was improved both in the Letter Matter and Phrase thereof as appeareth by what He wrote in Latine some moneths after to His Mother-in-Law Queen Katherine Parre in thankfulnesse for the New-yeares-gift the Kings and Her own Picture She had sent unto Him One may charitably believe that so Learned a Lady understood the Letter without an Interpreter but sure it is She communicated the same to the King who joyfully accepted thereof d d in Sir Tho. Cotton's Library whence I transcribed it QVod non ad te jamdiu scripserim Regina illustrissima atque Mater charissima in causa fuit non negligentia sed studium Non enim hoc feci ut nunquam omnino scriberem sed ut accuratiùs scriberem Quare spero te futuram contentam gavisuram quod non scripserim Tu enim velles me proficere in omni honestate Pietate quod est signum insignis diuâ—urni tui Amoris erga me atque hunc amorem multis beneficiis mihi declarasti praecipuè hac strena quam proximè ad me misisti in qua Regiae Majestatis tua effigies ad vivum expressa continetur Nam plurimum me delectat vestras Imagines Abscentium contemplari quos lubentissimè videre cupio praesentes ac quibus maximè tum Naturâ tum Officio devinctus sum Quamobrem majores tibi gratias ago ob hanc strenam quà m si misisses ad me preciosas vestes Aurum caelatum aut quidvis aliud Eximium Deus tuam Celsitudinem quam me brevi visurum spero servet incolumem Hartfordiae decimo Januarii Filius Celsitudini tuae obsequentissimus EDVARDUS Princeps Now our hand is in A Letter to the Earle of Hartford but one Letter more but in date some moneths before the last to His Unckle Earl of Hartford and we have done For if Papists superstitiously preserve the Fingers Teeth yea Locks of Haire of their pretended Saints wonder not if I prize the smallest Reliques of this gracious Prince never as yet presented to publique view NAtura movet me ut recorder tui Avuncule Charissime etsi negotia tua impediunt te ne videas me ideo de literas ad te quae literae forent testimonium Recordationis meae quam habeo de te Quòd si haberem ullum melius monumentum Benevolentiae meae erga te quam literae sunt illud ad te mitterem Puto autem te accepturum literas meas bene non pro bonitate literarum sed pro Benevolentia scriptoris Et tu non eris adeo laetus in accipiendis literis à me ut ego gaudebo si intellexero te in bonam partem accepisse illas quod puto te facturum Optimè valeas in Christo Jesu Hunsdoniae octavo Novemb E. Princeps Such was the Piety of this young Prince An instance of His piety that being about to take down something which was above his reach one of His Play-fellows proffered Him a bossed plated Bible to stand upon and heighten Him to take what He desired Perceiving it a Bible with holy Indignation He refused it and sharply reproved the Offerer thereof it being unfit He should trample that under His feet which He was to treasure up in His head and heart How many now adaies unable in themselves to atchieve their own wicked ends make Gods Word their Pedestall that standing thereon they may be not the holier but the higher and the better advantaged by abusing a piety to attain their own designes 13. When Crowned King And an extraordinary one of the prevalency of His Prayer His goodnesse increased with His greatnesse constant in His private devotions and as successfull as fervent therein witnesse this particular Sir John Cheeke His School-Master fell desperately sick of whose condition the King carefully enquired every day At last his Physitians told Him That there was no hope of his life being given over by them for a dead man No saith King Edward he will not die at this time for this morning I begg'd his life from God in my Prayers and obtained it which accordingly came to passe and he soon after against all expectation wonderfully recovered This was attested by the old Earle of Huntingdon bred up in his Childhood with King Edward unto Sir Thomas Cheeke still surviving about 80 years of age 14. He kept an exact Account His exact Diary written with His own hand and that a very Legible one of all Memorable accidents with the accurate Date thereof No high Honour was conferred Bishoprick bestowed State Office disposed of no old Fort repaired no new one erected no Bullion brought in no great Summes sent forth of the Land no Ambassadours dispatched hence none entertained here in a word no matter of moment transacted but by Him with His own hand it was recorded Whose Notes herein though very particular are nothing triviall though short not obscure as formerly we have made use of some of those which concern our History 15. Whilst in health His good Aâ—chery and quick wit His body was no lesse active in exercise than His minde quick in apprehension To give one Instance of both together One day being shooting at Butts a manfull and healthfull Pastime wherein He very much delighted He hit the very mark The Duke of Northumberland being present and as I take it betting on His Side Well shot my Liege quoth he But you shot nearer the mark returned the King when you shot
into the Congregation 4. Here I omit many animosities The Senate of Frankford interpâ—se for Knox. and intermediate bickerings betwixt the opposite parties especially at one conference wherein D r. Cox is charged to come with his inartificial argument ab authoritate Ego b Tr. of Fr. pag. 40. volo habere I will have it so In fine Knox his party finding themselves out-voted by D r. Cox his new recruits out of England got one voice on his side which was louder and stronger then all the rest I mean the authority of the Senate of Frankford interposing on his behalf and M r. Iohn Glauberg principal procurer of their Congregation as is aforesaid publiquely professed that if the reformed order of the congregation of Frankford were not therein observed c Tr. of Fr. pag. 43. As he had opened the Church-door unto them so would â—e shut it againe 5. The wringing of the nose saith wise d Pro. 30. 33. Agur bringeth forth blood so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife Mr. Knox accused of high treason and departs from Frankford See here the Coxan party depressed embrace a strange way to raise themselves and accuse Knox to the State for no less than high treason against the Emperour in an English book of his intitled An admonition to Christians first privately preached in Buckingham-shire and now publiquely printed to the world Eight places therein were laid to his charge the seven last may well be omitted the first was so effectuall to the purpose wherein he called the Emperour no less an enemy to Christ then was Nero. Strange that words spoken some yeers since in another land and language against the Emperour to whom Knox then owed no natural allegiance though since a casual and accidental one by his removall into an imperiall City should in this unhappy juncture of time be urged against him by exiles of his own religion even to no lesse than the indangering of his life But what said Rachel of Leah a Gen. 30. 8 With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister and I have prevailed with great rather than good wrestlings Such too often is the badnesse of good people that in the heat of passion they account any play to be fair play which tends to the overturning of those with whom they contend Hereupon the State of Frankford as an Imperial Town highly concerned to be tender of the Emperours honour willed Knox to depart the City who on the 25 th of March March 25. to the great grief of his friends 1556. and followers left the Congregation 6. After the departure or rather the driving away of M r. Knox Officers chosen in the new modell Congregation D r. Cox and his adherents clearly carried all and proceeded to the election of officers in their Congregation But first for fit title for him that was to take charge of their souls then for a proper person for that title 1. Bishop though first in nomination was b Troubles of Frankford pag. 31. declined as improper because here he had no inspection over any Diocess but onely a cure of a Congregation on which very account M r. Scorie though formerly Bishop of Chicester when preacher to the Congregation of Emden took upon him the title of Superintendent 2. Superintendent was here also waved as the same in effect onely a bad Latine word instead of a good Greek 3. Minister also was mislik'd for the principal Preacher though admitted to signifie his assistants perchance as a terme of too much complyance with the opposite party 4. Pastour at last was pitched upon as freest from exception most expressive of the office and least obnoxious to offence Then was M r. Whitehead c Ibid. pag. 52. chosen their Pastour yet so as two Ministers foure Elders and foure Deacons were joyned to assist him And because this was then aswell an Universitie as a congregation of the English M r. Horne was chosen Reader of the Hebrew M r. Mullings of the Greek and M r. Traherne was made Lecturer of Divinity In this-new modell'd Congregation I finde no office by name assigned unto D r. Cox more honour for him to make all than to be any officer who was vertually influent upon all and most active though not in the doctrinal in the prudential part of Church-government 7. As for the oppressed Congregation so their opposites stile themselves it was headed by William Whittingham Whittingam heads the opposite partie one though of less authority yet of as much affection to the cause as Knox himself This partie continued their dislike of the Liturgie calling it the d Ibid. pag. 40. Great English Book offended it seems with the largeness thereof And they affirmed may the report lie on the reporters to avouch it how Cranmer Arch-Bishop of Canterbury did present a book of prayer Q. Marie 4. an hundred times more e Ibid pag. 43 perfect than the Liturgie used in King Edwards dayes yet the same could not take place because he was matched with so wicked a Clergie in Convocation with other enemies Besides this their old grudge against the Common Prayer they were grieved afresh in this election of new officers in the English Congregation that their old officers were neither legally continued nor fully discharged nor friend-like consulted with nor fairely asked their consent but no notice at all taken of them In a word never arose there a greater murmuring of the Grecians against the f Acts 6. 1. Hebrews because their widdows were neglected in their daily ministration than here an heart-burning in the Wittingamian against the other party for the affront offered to their old officers Arbitration refused by the party of Dr. Cox in this new election 8. Here a moderate motion was made that the difference might be compremised Anno Dom. 1556. and referr'd to Arbitrators Anno Regin Mar. 4. which should be equally chosen on both sides To this D r. Cox his party would in no wise consent Whether because those pretended Arbiters would be no Arbiters but parties and widen the wound by dressing of it or because being already posesd of the power they would not divest themselves of the whole to receive but part again from the curtesie of others However this party lost much reputation by the refusall For in all controversies that side recusant to submit it self to a fair arbitration contracts the just suspition either that their cause is faulty or the managers thereof froward and of a morose disposition In fine as when two swarmes of bees daily fight in the same hive the weakest grow so wise as to seek themselves a new habitation so here Whittingam and his adherents resolve to depart and to seek their severall providences in another place 9. But alas these two sides had a sad parting-blow The two parties put asunder The oppress'd Congregation complained that instead of their Vale they had a
dear brother the Lord Jesus every day more and more bless thee and all that earnestly desire his glory Geneva October 1582. Thine Beza often using another mans hand because of the shaking of my own We must not let so eminent a letter pass without some observations upon it See we here the secret sympathy betwixt England and Geneva about discipline Geneva helping England with her prayers England aiding Geneva with her purse 20. By the Colledge of Bishops here mentioned by Beza Geneva's suit was coldly resented we understand them assembled in the last Convocation Wonder not that Geneva's wants found no more pitty from the Episcopal party seeing all those Bishops were dead who formerly exiles in the Marian dayes had found favour and relief in Geneva and now a new generation arose having as little affection as obligation to that government But however it fared with Geneva at this time sure I am that some years a Vide pag. 1602. parag after preferring her petition to the Prelacie though frequent begging makes slender alms that Common-wealth tasted largely of their liberality 21. Whereas mention is made Why the rigorous pressing of subscription was now remitted of the heat of some abated this relateth to the matter of subscription now not pressed so earnestly as at the first institution thereof This remissnesse may be imputed partly to the nature of all laws for though knives if of good metall grow sharper because their edge thinner by using yet laws commonly are keenest at the first and are blunted in process of time in their execution partly it is to be ascribed to Arch-Bisshop Grindals age and impotency who in his greatest strength did but weakly urge conformity partly to the Earle of Leicester his interposing himself Patron General to non-subscribers being perswaded as they say by Roger Lord North to undertake their protection SECTION V. To DANIEL HARVEY Esq High Sheriff of Surrey I am sufficiently sensible of the great distance and disproportion betwixt my meanesse and your worth as at all other times so now especially whilst you are a prime Officer in publick employment Despairing therefore that my pen can produce any thing meet for your entertainment I have endeavoured in this Section to accommodate you with Company fittest for your Converse being all no meaner then Statesmen and most of them Privie Councellours in their severall Letters about the grand businesse of Conformity God in due time bless you and your Honorable Consort with such issue as may be a Comfort to you and a Credit to all your relations 1. VEry strongly Leicester though at the Councel table Politickly complying with the rest of the Lords A forme of Discipline considered of by the Brethren in a solemn Synod with the severall Decrees thereof and concurring alwayes with their results when sitting in Conjunction with them when alone engaged his Affections in favour of the Non-conformists and improved his power at this time very great with the Queen to obtain great liberty for them Hence it was that many Bishops Active in pressing subscription in their Diocess when repairing to Court were checkt and snibt by this great favourite to their no small grief and discouragement Heartned hereat the Brethren who hitherto had no particular platforme of discipline amongst themselves as universally owned and practised by their party began in a solemne Councell held by them but whether at Cambridge or London uncertain To conclude on a certain forme as followeth in these their decrees faithfully translated out of their own latine Copie The Title thereof videlicet These be the things that do seem may will stand with the peace of the Church The Decrees LEt no man though he be an Vniversity man offer himself to the Ministery nor let any man take upon him an uncertain and vague Ministery a a Under Mr. 〈◊〉 hand 〈◊〉 of the â—spand 〈◊〉 by 〈◊〉 Bancrofi his dangerous positions pag. 46. though it be offered unto him But such as be called to the Ministery by some certain Church let them impart it unto that Classis or conference where of themselves are or else to some greater Church-assembly and if such shall be found fit by them then let them be commended by there letters unto the Bishop that they may be ordained Ministers by him Those ceremonies in the Book of Common-Prayer which being taken from Popery are in controversie doseem that they ought to be omitted and given over if it may be done without danger of being put from the Ministery But if there be any imminent danger to be deprived then this matter must be communicated with the Classis in which that Church is that by the judgement thereof it may be determined what ought to be done If subscription to the Articles of Religion and to the Book of Common-Prayer shall be again urged it is thought that the Book of Articles may be subscribed unto according to the statute thirteenth Elizabeth that is unto such of them only as contain the sum of Christian faith and doctrine of the Sacraments But for many weighty causes neither the rest of the Articles in that Book nor the Book of Common-prayer may be allowed no though a man should be deprived of his Ministery for it It seemeth that Church-wardens and Collectors for the poor might thus be turned into Elders and into Deacons when they are to be chosen Let the Church have warning fifteen dayes before of the time of Election and of the Ordinance of the Realm but especially of Christs Ordinance touching appointing of Watchmen and overseers in his Church who are to fore-see that none offence of scandall do arise in the Church and if any shall happen that by them it may be duly abolished And touching Deacons of both sorts Videlicet men and women the Church shall be monished what is required by the Apostle and that they are not to chuse men of Custome and of Course or for their riches but for their faith zeal and integrity and that the Church is to pray in the mean time to be so directed that they make choice of them that be meet Let the names of such as are so chosen be published the next Lords day and after that their duties to the Church and the Churches towards them shall be declared then let them be received into the Ministery to which they are chosen with the generall prayers of the whole Church The Brethâ—en are to be requested to ordain a distribution of all Churches according to these rules in that behalf that are set down in the Synodical Discipline touching Classicall Provinciall Comitiall or of Commencements and assemblies for the whole kingdome The Classes are to be required to keep acts of memorable matters which they shall see delivered to the Comitiall assembly that from thence they may be brought by the Provinciall assembly Also they are to deal earnestly with Patrones to present fit men whensoever any Church is fallen void in that Classis The Comitial
soever under the degree of a Bishop or Dean at the least doe from henceforth presume to preach in any popular Auditory deep points of Predestination Election Reprobation or of the Universality Efficacy Resistibility or Irresistibility of GODS grace but leave those themes rather to be handled by the Learned men and that moderately and modestly by way of Use and Application rather than by way of Positive Doctrines being fitter for the Schools than for simple Auditories 4. That no Preacher of what title or denomination soever from henceforth shall presume in any Auditory within this Kingdome to declare limit or bound out by way of Positive Doctrine in any Lecture or Sermon the Power Prerogative and Jurisdiction Authority or Duty of Sovereign Princes or otherwise meddle with matters of State and the differences between Princes and the People than as they are instructed and precedented in the Homilies of Obedience and the rest of the Homilies and Articles of Religion set forth as before is mentioned by publique Authority but rather confine themselves wholly to those two heads of faith and good life which are all the subjects of the antient Sermons and Homilies 5 That no Preacher of what title or denomination soever shall presume caussesly or without invitation from the Text to fall into bitter investives and undecent railing speeches against the persons of either Papists or Puri tans but modestly and gravely when they are occasioned thereunto by the Text of Scripture free both the Doctrine and the Discipline of the Church of England from the aspersions of either Adversaries especially where the Auditory is suspected to be tainted with the one or the other infection 6. Lastly that the Archbishops and Bishops of the Kingdome whom His Majestie hath good cause to blame for their former remisness be more wary and choice in their licensing of Preachers and revoke all Grants made to any Chancellour Official or Commissary to passe Licences in this kinde and that all the Lecturers throughout the Kingdome of England a new body severed from the antient Clergy as being neither Parsons Vicars nor Curates be licensed henceforward in the Court of Faculties but onely from a Recommendation of the party from the Bishop of the Diocese under his hand and seale with a Fiat from the L. Archbishop of Canterbury a Confirmation under the Great Seal of England And that such as doe transgresse any one of these Directions be suspended by the Bishop of the Diocesse or in his default by the Archbishop of the Province ab Officio Beneficio for a year and a day untill his Majestie by the advice of the next Convocation shall prescribe some farther punishment 5. No sooner were these the Kings Declarations dispersed into every Diocesse Various censures on the Kings Letters but various were mens opinions thereof Some counted it a cruell act which cut off half the preaching in England all afternoon-ermons at one blow Others thought the King did but Uti jure suo doing not onely what in justice He might but what in prudence He ought in this juncture of time But hear what I have heard and read in this case Objections Answers 1. Christ grants Ministers their Commission Go teach all Nations S. Paul corroborates the same Preach the word be instant in season out of season Man therefore ought not to forbid what God enjoyns 2. This is the way to starve soules by confining them to one meale a day or at the best by giving them onely a messe of milk for their supper and so to bed 3. Such as are licensed to make Sermons may be intrusted to choose their own Texts and not in the Afternoons to be restrained to the Lords Prayer Creed and ten Commandements 4. In prohibiting the preaching of Predestination man makes that the forbidden fruit which God appointed for the tree of life so cordial the comforts contained therein to a distressed conscience 5. Bishops and Deans forsooth and none under their dignity may preach of Predestination What is this but to have the word of God in respect of persons As if all discretion were confined to Cathedral men and they best able to preach who use it the least 6. Papists and Puritans in the Kings Letters are put into the same ballance and Papists in the prime scale first named as preferred in the Kings care chiefly to secure them from Invectives in Sermons 7. Lecturers are made such riddles in the Kings Letters reduceable to no Ministerial function in England Whereas indeed the flower of piety and power of godlinesse flourished most in those places where such Preachers are most countenanced 1. Ministers if commanded not at all to speak or teach in the name of Jesus are with the Apostles to obey God rather than man But vast the difference betwixt a total prohibition and as in this case a prudential regulation of preaching 2. Milk catechetical Doctrine is best for babes which generally make up more than a moyety of every Congregation 3. Such restraint hath liberty enough seeing all things are clearly contained in or justly reducible to these three which are to be desired believed and performed 4. Indeed Predestination solidly and soberly handled is an antidote against despair But as many ignorant Preachers ordered it the cordial was turned into a poyson and therefore such mysteries might well be forborn by mean Ministers in popular Congregations 5. It must be presumed that such of necessity must be of age and experience and may in civility be believed of more than ordinary learning before they attained such preferment Besides Cathedrall Auditories being of a middle nature for understanding as beneath the University so above common City and Country Congregations are fitter for such high points to be preached therein 6. The Kings Letter looks on both under the notion of guilty persons Had Puritans been placed first such as now take exception at their post-posing would have collected that the King esteemed them the greatest offenders 7. Lectures are no creatures of the Church of England by their original like those mixed kinds little better than monsters in nature to which God as here the State never said multiply and encrease and therefore the King had just cause to behold them with jealous eyes who generally supplanted the Incumbents of Livings in the affections of their Parishioners and gave the greatest growth to Non-conformity These Instructions from His Majestie were not pressed with equall rigour in all places seeing some over-active Officials more busie than their Bishops tied up Preachers in the Afternoon to the very letter of the Catechisme questioning them if exceeding the questions and answers therein as allowing them no liberty to dilate and enlarge themselves thereupon 6. Expect not of me a particular account of the politick intricacies touching the Spanish Match A needlesse subject waved or no Match rather First because Spanish and so alien from my subject Secondly because the passages thereof are so largely and publickly in print
terrorem it might have become the Bishops t d mediate for a mitigation thereof Let Canvâ—s be rough and rugged Lawn ought to be soft and smooth Meekness Mildness and Mercy being more proper for men of the Episcopall Function 69. Two dayes after 30 Mr Burton his words on the Pillory three Pillories were set up in the Palace-yard or one double one and a single one at some distance for Mr. Prinne as the chief offender Mr. Burton first suffered making a long speech in the Pillorie not entire and continued but interrupted with occasionall expressions But the main intent thereof was to parallel his sufferings with our Saviours For at the first sight of the Pillory Me thinks said he I see Mount-Calvary whereon the three Crosses were erected If Christ was numbred amongst Theeves shall a Christian think much for his sake to be numbred amongst Rogues And whereas one told an Halberter standing by who had an old rusty Halbert the Iron whereof was tacked to the staffe with an old crooked nail What an old rusty weapon is this Mr. Burton over-hearing them answered It seems to be one of those Halberts which accompanied Judas when Christ was betrayed and apprehended 70. His Eares were cut off very close Severall censures on his behaviour so that the Temporall or Head Artery being cut the blood in abundance streamed down upon the Scaffold all which he manfully endured without manifesting the least shrinking thereat Indeed of such who measured his minde by his words some conceived his carriage farre above others though using the same scale suspected the same to be somewhat beside himself But let such who desire more of his character consult with his printed life written with his own hand though it be hard for the most Excellent Artist truely to draw his own Picture 71. Dr. Bastwick succeeded him Mr. Bastwick his Speech making a Speech to this effect Here are many spectatours of us who stand here as Delinquents yet am I not conscious to my self of the least trespasse wherein I have deserved this outward shame Indeed I wrote a Book against Antichrist the Pope and the Pope of Canterbury said it was written against him But were the Presse open unto us we would scatter his Kingdome and fight couragiously against Gog and Magog There be many here that have set many daies apart on our behalf let the Prelates take notice thereof and have sent up strong prayers to God for us the strength and fruit whereof we have felt all along in this cause In a word so farre am I from fear or care that had I as much blood as would swell the Thames then visible unto him his face respecting the South I would lose every drop thereof in this cause 72. His Friends much admired and highly commended the erection of his minde triumphing over pain and shame Many Men many mindes making the one easie the other honourable and imputed the same to an immediate Spirituall support Others conceived that anger in him acted the part of patience as to the stout undergoing of his sufferings and that in a Christian there lyeth a reall distinction betwixt Spirit and Stomach Valour and Stubbornnesse 73. Mr. Prinne concluded the sad sight of that day Mr. Prinne his Speech and spake to this purpose The cause of my standing here is for not bringing in my Answer God knoweth my conscience beareth witnesse and my Councell can tell for I paid them twice though to no purpose But their cowardise stands upon Record And that 's the reason why they did proceed and take the cause pro confesso against me But rather then I would have my cause a leading cause to the depriving of the Subjects liberties which I seek to maintain I choose to suffer my body to become an example of this punishment 74. The censure was with all rigour executed on him His behaviour at the censure and he who felt the most fretted the least commended for more kindly patience than either of his Predecessours in that place So various were mens fancies in reading the same letters imprinted in his face that some made them to spell the guiltiness of the Sufferer but others the cruelty of the Imposer Of the latter sort many for the cause more for the man most for humanity sake bestowed pity upon him and now all three were remanded 〈◊〉 their former Prisons and Mr. Prinne as he returned by water to the Tâ—â—er made this Distick upon his own stigmatizing S. L. Stigmara maxillis referens insignia Laudis Exultans remeo Victima grata Deo Not long after they were removed Mr. Prinne to Carnarvan-Castle in Wales Dr. Bastwicke and Mr. Burton the one to Lancaster-Castle the other to Lanceston in Cornewall 75. But it seems these places were conceived to have Their removall either too little of Privacy or too much of Pleasure The two latter therefore were removed again One to the Isle of Scilly the other to the Isle of â—ernezey and Mr. Prinne to Mount Orgueile-Castle in Jersey This in vulgar apprehensions added breadth to the former depth of their sufferings scattering the same over all the English Dominions making the Islands thereof as well as the Continent partake of their patience And here we leave them all in their Prisons and particularly Mr. Prinne improving the Rocks and the Seas good Spirituall Husbandrie with pious meditations But we shall heare more of them hereafter at the beginning of the Parliament 76. Next came the Bishop of Lincoln to be censured in the Star-chamber A preparative to the censure of the Bishop of Lincoln and something must be premised preparative thereunto After the great Seal some ten yeares since was taken from him he retired himself to Bugden in Huntingdonshire where he may be said to have lived in a publick privacie So many his Visitants hospitall his house-keeping it being hard to say whether his Table were more free and full in dyet or discourse indeed he had a plentifull estate to maintain it besides his purchased Land The revenues of his Bishoprick and Deanery of Westminster out of which long since he had been shaken if not fastned therein by the Letters Patents of King James His Adversaries beheld him with envious eyes and one great Prelate plainly said in the presence of the King that the Bishop of Lincoln lived in as much pompe and plenty as any Cardinall in Rome for Dyâ—t Musick and attendance They resolved therefore to humble his height the concurrence of many matters ministring occasion thereunto 77. Sir John Lambe Dean of the Arches formerly a Favourite of Lincoln feâ—cht off from being prosecuted in Parliament The Bishop his discourse at the table with Sir John Lamb. and knighted by his means with Dr. Sibthorp Allen and Burden two Proctors as I take them were entertained at the Bishops talk at Bugden where their table was the discourse generall of those dayes against Puritans The Bishop advised them
to take off their heavy hand from them informing them that his Majesty inâ—ended to use them hereafter with more mildnesse as a considerable party â—â—ing great influence on the Parliament without whose concurrence the 〈◊〉 could not comfortably supply his necessities adding moreover that 〈◊〉 Majesty had communicated this unto him by his own mouth with his â—â—â—tions hereafter of more gentlenesse to men of that opinion 〈◊〉 Some yeers after upon the deniall of an Officialls place in Leicester 〈◊〉 which notwithstanding Informed against him in the Star-chamber he carried in despight of the Bishop Sir John â—â—â—be fell foul with his old Friend and in revenge complained of him for â—evealing the Kings secrets concredited to his privacy Hereupon Atturney Noy was employ'd to put the same into an Information in the Star-chamber unto which Bishop Williams by good advise of counsell did plead and demurre as containing no matter fit for the cognizance of that Court as concerning words spoken of matters done in Parliament secrets pretended to be revealed by him a Privy Counsellor and Peere of Parliament and therefore not to be heard but in that High-Court This Demurrer being heard argued by Counsell Pro and Con in open Court for two or three hours the Lord Keeper and other Lords there present finding no cause nor colour to overrule it was referred to Judge Richison who lately having singded his Coat from blasts at the Court by him to be smothered who in a private Chamber presently after dinner over-ruled the same in a quarter of an houre 79. The Demurrer thus rendred useless in the Bishops defence Deserteth his intents of compounding with the King he used what means he could by the Lord Weston a proper person because Treasurer to meddle in money matters to compound with his Majesty but his Majesty resolved to have the Bishops answer and confession of his fault before he would compound with him Whereupon the Bishop quitting all thoughts of composition resolved to weather out the Tempest of his Majesties displeasure at open sea either out of confidence of the strength of his tackling his own innocence or skill of his Pilots who were to steere his suit having the learnedst Counsel of the Land by whose advise he put in a strong plea which likewise being argued and debated in open Court came at last to 70. His Eares were cut off very close Severall censures on his behaviour so that the Temporall or Head Artery being cut Anno Dom. 1637 the blood in abundance streamed down upon the Scaffold Anno Regis Caroli 13 all which he manfully endured without manifesting the least shrinking thereat Indeed of such who measured his minde by his words some conceived his carraige farre above others though using the same scale suspected the same to be somewhat beside himself But let such who desire more of his character consult with his printed lite written with his own hand though it be hard for the most Excellent Artist truely to draw his own Picture 71. Dr. Bastwick succeeded him Mr. Bastwick his Speech making a Speech to this effect Here are many spectatours of us who stand here as Delinquents yet am I not conscious to my self of the least trespasse wherein I have deserved this outward shame Indeed I wrote a Book against Antichrist the Pope and the Pope of Canterbury said it was written against him But were the Presse open unto us we would scatter his Kingdome and fight couragiously against Gog and Magog There be many here that have set many daies apart on our behalf let the Prelates take notice thereof and have sent up strong prayers to God for us the strength and fruit whereof we have felt all along in this cause In a word so farre am I from fear or care that had I as much blood as would swell the Thames then visible unto him his face respecting the South I would lose every drop thereof in this cause 72. His Friends much admired and highly commended the erection of his minde triumphing over pain and shame Many Men many mindes making the one easie the other honourable and imputed the same to an immediate Sprituall support Others conceived that anger in him acted the part of patience as to the stout undergoing of his sufferings and that in a Christian there lyeth a reall distinction betwixt Spirit and Stomach Valour and Stubbornnesse 73. Mr. Prince concluded the sad sight of that day Mr. Prince his Speech and spake to this purpose The cause of my standing here is for not bringing in my Answer God knoweth my conscience beareth witnesse and my Councell can tell for I paid them twice though to no purpose But their cowardise stands upon Record And that 's the reason why they did proceed and take the cause pro confesso against me But rather then I would have my cause a leading cause to the depriving of the Subjects liberties which I seek to maintain I choose to suffer my body to become an example of this punishment 74. The censure was with all rigour executed on him His behaviour at the censure and he who felt the most fretted the least commended for more kindly patience than either of his Predecessours in that place So various were mens fancies in reading the same letters imprinted in his face that some made them to spell the guiltiness of the Sufferer but others the cruelty of the Imposer Of the latter sort many for the cause more for the man most for huâ—anity sake bestowed pity upon him and now all three were remanded 〈◊〉 their former Prisons and Mr. Prinne as he returned by water to the Tâ—â—er made this Distick upon his own stigmatizing S. L. Stigmara maxillis referens insignala Laudis Exultans remeo Victima grata Deo Not long after they were removed Mr. Prinne to Carnarvan-Castle in Wales Dr. Bastwicke and Mr. Burton the one to Lancaster-Castle the other to Lanceston in Cornewall 75. But it seems these places were conceived to have Their removall either too little of Privacy or too much of Pleasure The two latter therefore were removed again One to the Isle of Scilly the other to the Isle of Gernezey and Mr. Prinne to Mount Orgueile-Castle in Jersey This in vulgar apprehensions added breadth to the former depth of their sufferings scattering the same over all the English Dominions making the Islands thereof as well as the Continent partake of their patience And here we leave them all in their Prisons and particularly Mr. Prinne improving the Rocks and the Seas good Spirituall Husbandrie with pious meditations But we shall heare more of them hereafter at the beginning of the Parliament 76. Next came the Bishop of Lincoln to be censured in the Star-chamber A preparative to the censure of the Bishop of Lincoln and something must be premised preparative thereunto After the great Seal some ten yeares since was taken from him he retired himself to Bugden in
brought out of the Tower to the Scaffold which he ascended with a chearfull countenance as rather to gain a Crown then lose an Head imputed by his friends to the clearedness by his foes to the seardeness of his Conscience The Beholders that day were so divided betwixt Bemoaners and Insulters it was hard to decide which of them made up the major part of the company 69. He made a Sermon-Speech Anno Dom. 1645. taking for his Text the two first verses of the â—â— Chap. of the Epistle to the Hebrews Let us run with patience the raâ—e which is â—et before us Looking unto Jesus the Author and finisher of our saith And pâ—acheth hâ—owâ— saneral sermon who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross despising the shame and is set down at the right hand of the throâ—e of God Anno Regis Carol. 21. Craving leave to make use of his notes for the infirmity of his aged memory he dilated thereon about half an hour which discourse because common as publickly printed we hear forbear to insert For the main He protested his own innocence and integrity as never intending any subversion of Laws and Liberty no enemy to Parliaments though a mistaker of some miscarriages and a Protestant in Doctrine and Discipline according to the established laws of the land Speech ended He betook himself a while to his prayers and after wards prepared himself for the fatal stroak 70. S r John Clotworthy a member of the House of Commons being present interrogated him concerning his assurance of Salvation Questioned about the assurance of his salvation and dieth and whereon the same was grounded Some censured this interruption for uncivill and unseasonable as intended to râ—ffle his soul with passion just as he was fairly folding it up to deliver it into the hands of his Redeemer But the Arch-Bishop calmly returned that his assurance was evidenced unto him by that inward comfort which he found in his own soul Then lying down on the block and praying Lord receive my Soul the Executioner dexterously did his office and at one blow severed his Head from his Body Instantly his face ruddy in the last moment turned white as ashes confuting their falsehoods who gave it out that he had purposely painted it to fortifie his cheeks against discovery of fear in the paleness of his complexion His corps were privately interred in the Church of Alhalâ—ows Barking without any solemnity save that some will say He had in those dayes a fair Funeral who had the common-Common-Prayer read thereat 71. He was born Anno 1573 of honest parents at Reading in Bark-shire His birth in Reading breeding in Oxford a place for the position thereof almost equally distanced from Oxford the Scâ—â— of his breeding and London the principal stage of his preserment His Mother was Sister to S r William Web born also at Reading Salter and Anno 1591 Lord Majon of London Here the Arch-Bishop afterwards built an Almshouse and endowed it with two hundred pounds per annum as appeareth by his own Diaâ—y which if evidence against him for his faults may be used as a witness of his good works Hence was he sent to S t Johns Colledge in Oxford where he attained to such eminency of learning that * * Dr Heylin in his last â—dition of his Microcolm one since hath ranked him amongst the greatest Scholers of our Nation He afterwards married Charls Blunt Earl of Devon-shire to the Lady Rich which proved if intended an advantage under his feet to make him higher in the notice of the world a covering to his face and was often cast a rubb in his way when running in his full speed to preferment till after some difficulty his greatnesse at the last made a shift to stride over it 72. In some sort He may be said to have served in all offices in the Church He chargeth thorough all Church preserments from a Common-Souldier to a kinde of General therein There was neither Order Office Degree nor Dignity in Colledge Church or Vniversity but he passed thorough it 1. Order Deacon Priest Bishop Arch-Bishop 2. Office Scholer Fellow President of S t Johns Colledge Proctor and Chancellor of Oxford 3. Degree Batchelor and Master of Arts Batchelor and Doctor of Divinity 4. Dignity Vicar Prebendary of Stanford Parson of Ibstock Prebendary of Wesiminster Arch-Deacon of Huntington Dean of Colchester Bishop of S t Davids in Wales Bath and Wells and London in England and finally Arch-Bishop of Canterbury It was said of D r George Ablot his Predecessor that he suddenly started to be a bishop without ever having Pastoral charge whereas this man was a great Traveller in all Cliâ—â—aâ—es of Church-prefermen sufficient to acquaint him with an experiment knowledge of the conditions of all such persons who at last were subjected to his Authority 73. He is generally charged with Popish inclinations Charged unjustly to be a Papist and the story is commonly told and beleeved of a Lady still alive who turning Papist and being demanded of the Arch-Bishop the cause of her changing her religion tartly returned My Lord it was because I ever hated a â—oud And being desired to explain her meaning herein I perceived said she that your Lordship and many others are making for Rome as fast as â—eâ—â— and therfore to prevent a press I went before you Be the tale true or false take Papist for a Trent-Papist embracing all the derisions of that councel and surely this Arch-Bishop would have been made Fewel for the â—ire before ever or that perswasion Witness his book against Fisher wherein he giveth no less account of his sincerity then ability to defend the most dominative points wherein we and the Papists dissent 74. However most apparent it is by severall passages in his life Yet endeavouring a recoâ—ciliation betwixt Rome and England that he endeavoured to take up many controversies bewixt us and the Church of Rome so to compremise the difference and to bring us to a Viâ—nity if not Contiguity therewith an impossible designe if granted lawfully as some every way his equals did adjudge For composition is impossible with such who will not agree except all they sue for and all the charges of their suite be to the utmost farthing awarded unto them Our reconciliation with Rome is clogged with the same impossibilities She may be gone to but will never be met with such her â—ride or as Peevishness not to stir a step to obviate any of a different Religion Rome will never so farr un-Pope it self as to part with her pretended Supremacy and Infallibility which cuts off all possbility of Protestants Treaty with her if possibly without prejudice to Gods glory and the truth other controversies might be composed Which done England would have been an Island as well in Religion as Scituation cut off from the continent of Forâ—aign Protestant Churches in a singular posture by it self hard to be
incurrat ne memorati Cancellarius Universitas divisim vel conjunctim clam vel palam aliquid ordinet vel statuat edita vel statuta bujusâ—â—di observet vel servari faciat in praejudicium nostrae jurisdictionis seu archidiaconi nostri Eliensis nobis specialiter inconsultis non praebentibus assensum hujusmodi statutis vel etiam statuendis decernimus enim irritum inane quic quid contra hanc nostram prohibitionem à quoquam ipsorum fuerit attemptatum Ad hac quia jurisdictio dicit archidiaconi à jurisdictione praefati Cancellarii tam ratione contractuum quà m personaruÌ„ ac etiam causarum liquidò est distincta ac constet utrumque esse nobis immediatè subjectum nolumus ipsum Archidiaconum vel suam familiam Cancellario praedicto in aliquo subesse nec ipsum Cancellarium vel suam familiam in alique subesse Archidiacono memorato Sed uterque virtute propriae potestatis suam propriam familiam corrigat ipsam ad juris regulas reducendo It a quòd si necessarium fuerit superioris auxilium in hiis de quibus ecclesia judicat ad nos vel ad officialem nostrum recursus habeatur Salva nobis successoribus nostris potestate addendi detrahendi corrigendi mutandi vel minuendi in posterum sicut nobis ipsis visum fuerit expedire Data Acta anno Domini MCClxxvj apud Dunham in octabis beati Michaelis 14. Now seeing this is the most ancient Composition in this kind we meet with it will not be amiss to dwel a while thereon with our observations the rather because it mentioneth Cambridge not as an University modernly modelled but of an ancient constitution First University equivoâ—al We finde in the Preface of this Instrument the word University within the compass of three lines used in two senses 1. For the generality of Mankind to whose notice this Deed may attain 2. For Scholars from all Countries studying the latitude of learning in one grand Society in which acception as formerly we have observed out of a great b Camden in Oxfordshire p. 38. Antiquary it began first to be used in the reign of King Henry the third Now Bishop Balsham termeth Cambridge nostram our University First because probably therein he had his education Secondly because it was scited in as surrounded with his Jurisdiction Thirdly because lately in the founding of Peter-house it had largely tasted of his benefaction Secondly The Officers thereof Behold here the compleat body of an University with the Chancellour at this present Robert de Fulburne the Head the Regents and Scholars the Heart the officers the Hands and Feet thereof Of the latter this composition expresseth by name 1. Bedels and those two in number with the Virges or Wandes since in many yeers grown up to be Staves and these two doubled into four at this day Some conceive Bedellus so called quasi Pedellus à pedo signifying that ceremonious Staffe which they manage in their hands whilest others with more probability derive it from Beades Praiers in old English it being a principal part of his office to give publique notice of all conventions for Academical devotion 2. Scriptores writers well known to all 3. Illuminatores such as gave light and lustre to Manuscripts whence our english to limne by colouring and gilding the initial and capital letters therein essential ornaments in that age men then being more pleased with babies in books than children are 4. Stationarii publickly avouching the sale of Staple-Books in standing shops whence they have their names as opposite to such circumforanean Pedlers ancestors to our modern Mercuries and Hawkers which secretly vend prohibited Pamphlets All other officers are included in this Deed under the generical name of Mancipia whence our word Manciple confined since by custome to signify the provider of victuals for several Colledges takes its denomination 15. But what should be the sense of Glomerelli and Magister Glomeriae so often occurring in this instrument we must confess our selves Seekers therein Quaere what meant by Magister Glomeriae as not satisfyed with what learned Caius conjectureth therein For c Hist Cantab. lib. 2. pag. 124 he maketh him senior Regent to collect and count the suffrages in all Congregations As if so called à glomerando from going round about the Regent-house to that purpose or from gathering their votes commonly written and to take up less room and to be the better taken up glomerated i. e. rolled and roundled up in a piece of paper But d Hist Cautab libâ— pag. 129 elsewhere the same Author tells us that our University-Orator at this day succeeds to the ancient office of Magister Glomerdae whose place it is to entertain Princes and Peers coming thither and to pen publique Letters on all occasions of importance Whatever he was it appears by this composition that he kept Courts and had cognisance of causes of Scholars under his jurisdiction But seeing so great an Antiquary as Sir Henrie e See his Glossarie in G. Spelman concludes all herein with a quaere his doubts having more learning than other mens determinations let it suffice us to know that the original of this word seems barbarous his office narrow and topical confin'd to Cambridge and his certain use at this day antiquated and forgotten 16. Now whereas this Bishop The Bishop accused of presumption herein towards the close of this composition thundereth forth his Excommunication against the Chancellour and whole University if presuming to infringe the same in prejudice of his Jurisdiction some will conceive his presumption or profaneness rather herein incurred ipso facto that heavy censure which he denounceth on others Considering the former Priviledges indulged some hundreds of years since by several Popes to this University Honorius primus anno Dom. 624. Feb. 20. Sergius primus an Dom. 689. May. 3. Authoritate f See it exemplified at large in Caius de Antiq Cantab. lib. 1. pag. 58. omnipotentis Dei districtius inhibemus sub poena excommunicationis quam veniens in contrarium ipso facto incurrat ne quit Archiepiscopus Episcopus Archidiaconus aut eorum officiales seu visitatores generales aut speciales à sede Apostolica deputati audeat in aliquem Academicum suspensionis vel excommunicationis seu interdicti sententias inferre c. Presentium g Express'd largely in the same Author pag. 60. authoritate decrevimus ut nulli Archiepiscope vel Episcopo aliive Ecclesiasticae personae vel Seculari liceat Universitatem vestram aut aliquem vestrum suspendere seu excommunieare vel quolibet sub interdicto ponere absque summi Pontificis assensu vel ejus speciali Mandato c. How durst the Bishop of Ely notwithstanding the promisses interpose his power in University matters Is it not ridiculous for the man to pretend bounty in bestowing a remnant on him to whom his Master formerly had given the whole
else after it was found out was in the night time to keep him in in the day time if then seised on to send the sick a See Camdens Brit. in Shropshire man though in his clothes to bed there to lie still but not sleep for four and twenty hours Nothing else have I to observe of this sicknesse save that I find Forrainers call it the English sweating as first arising hence whilest diseases more sinfull though it may be not so mortall take their names from our neighbouring Countries Andrew Perne 1551 2 Vice-Chan 6 Edward Hauford Thomas Yade Nicolas Robinson Proct. VVilliam Gill Major Doct. Theol. 1 Iur. Civ 1 Medic. 2 Bac. Theol. 3 Mag. Art 22 Bac. Leg. 3 Bac. Art 42 37. Martin Bucer ended his life and was buried in St. Maries severall Authours assigning sundry dates of his death Several dates of Bucers death Martin Crusius part 3 a Which may probably intimate his death one the same Annal. Suev lib. 11. cap. 25 makes him to die 1551. on the second of February Pantaleon De Viris Illustribus Germaniae makes him expire about the end of April of the same year Mr. Fox in his Reformed Almanack appoints the 23. of December for Bucer his Confessourship A printed table of the Chancellours of Cambridge set forth by D r. Perne signeth March the tenth 1550. for the day of his death Nor will the distinction of old and new-style had it been then in use help to reconcile the difference It seems by all reports that Bucer was sufficiently dead in or about this time 38. b In his Examen of Iohn Fox his Saints Kalenoar for Decemb. pag. 330. Persons the Iesuite A loud lie of a lewd Iesuite tell us that some believed that he died a Iew meerly I conceive because he lived a great Hebrician citing Surius Genebrand and Lindan ask my fellow if I be a lier for this report Sure I am none of them were near him at his death as M r. Bradford and others were Who when they admonished him in his sicknesse that he should arme himself against the assaults of the Devil he answered that he had nothing to do with the Devil because he was wholy in CHRIST And when M r. Bradford came to him and told him that he must die he answered Ille ille regit moderatur omnia and so quietly yeelded up his soul What good man would not rather die like a Iew with Martin Bucer then like a Christian with Robert Persons He was a plain man in person and apparell and therefore at his own request privately created Doctour without any solemnity a skillfull Linguist whom a great c Vossius in Thesi de statu animae separatae Critick of a palate not to be pleased with a common gust stileth Ter Maximum Bucerum a commendation which he justly deserved Edwin Sands 1552 3 Vice-Chanc 7 Regin Mariae 1 Thomas Gardiner Henry Barely Proct. Thomas VVolf Major Doct. Theol. 4 Bac. Theol. 16 Mag. Art 19 Bac. Art 48 39. The Lady Mary after her Brothers death having Q. Iane was Proclaimed Queen Marie secretly passeth into Suffolk came 5. miles off to S r. Robert Huddlestons were she heard Masse Next day Sr. Robert waited on her into Suffolk though she for the more secresy rode on Horse-back behind his servant Iuly 11 12 which servant as I am most credibly Informed lived long after the Q. never bestowing any preferment upon him Whether because for getting him whose memory was employed on greater matters or because she conceived the man was rewarded in rewarding his Master Anno Regin Mariae 15 Indeed she bestowed great boons on S r. Robert and amongst the rest the Stones a Cajus Hist Acad. Camb. of Cambridge Castle to build his house at Salston Anno Dom. 155â—â—3 Hereby that stately structure anciently the ornament of Cambridge is at this day reduced next to nothing 40. Iohn Dudley Duke of Northumberland came to Cambridge with his Army and a Commission to apprehend the Lady Mary D r. Sandys preacheth before the Duke of Northumberland At night he sent for Doctor Sandys the Vice-Chancellour and some other Heads of Houses to sup with him he enjoyned the Vice-Chancellour to preach before him the next day The D r. late at night betake himself to his prayers and study desiring God to direct him to a fit Text for that time His Bible opens at the first of Ioshua and though he heard no voice with S t. Augustine Tolle lege a strong fancy enclined him to fix on the first words he beheld viz. Verse the sixteenth And they answered Ioshua saying All that thou commandest us we will doe and whithersoever thousendest us we will go A fit Text indeed for him as in the event it proved to whom it occasioned much sanctified affliction However so wisely and warily he handled the words that his enemies got not so full advantage against him as they expected 41. Next day the Duke advanced to Bury with his Army The Dukes retrograde motion whose feet marched forward Iulie 17 18 whilest their minds moved backward He hearing that the Country came in to the Lady Mary and proclaimed her Queen returned to Cambridge with moe sad thoughts within him then valiant Souldiers about him Then went he with if he sent not for the Major of the Town and in the Market place proclaimed Queen Mary The beholders whereof more believed the grief confessed in his eyes when they let down teares then the joy professed by his hands when he cast up his cap. The same night he was arrested of high Treason by Roger Slegge Sergeant at Armes even in Kings Colledge which is fenced with priviledges moe then any other Foundation in the University Here Oxford-men will tell us how their University would not surrender up b Brian Twine Antiq Acad. Oxon. 263. Robert Stillington Bishop of Bath and VVells when in the Reign of King Edward the fourth convict of high Treason but stood on their Academicall immunities But Cambridge is sensible of no priviledges inconsistent with allegiance accounting in the first place Gods service perfect freedome and next to it 19 Loyalty to her Sovereign the greatest Liberty As for the Duke though soon after he was set at liberty on the generall Proclamation of pardon yet the next day he was re-arrested of high Treason by the Earle of Arundel at whose feet the Duke fell down to crave his mercy a low posture in so high a person But what more poor and prostrate then pride it self when reduced to extremity 42. Behold we this Duke as the mirrour of humane unhappinesse Read and wonder at humane uncertainty As Nevill Earle of VVarwick was the Make-King so this Dudley Earle of Warwick his title before lately created Duke was the Make-Queen He was Chancellour of the University of Cambridge and also Senescallus High-Steward as I take it
Muses Preston with the Graces adorning his Learning with comely carriage gracefull gesture and pleasing pronunciation Cartwright disputed like a great Preston like a gentile Scholler being a handsome man and the Queen upon parity of deserts alwaies preferred propernesse of person in conserting Her favours Hereupon with Her looks words and deeds She favoured Preston calling him Her Scholler as appears by his Epitaph in Trinity Hall Chappell which thus beginneth Conderis hoc tumulo Thoma Prestone Scholarem Quem dixit Princeps Elizabetha suum Insomuch that for his good disputing and excellent acting in the Tragedy of Dido She bestowed on him a Pension of * See Mr. Hatchers MS of the Fellows of Kings Gol. 1553. 20 li. a year whilst Mr. Cartwright faith my Author received neither reward nor commendation whereof he not onely complained to his inward friends in Trinity-Colledge but also after Her Majesties neglect of him began to wade into divers Opinions against Her Ecclesiasticall Government But Mr. Cartwright's followers who lay the foundation of his disaffection to the discipline established The same disavowed by his followers in his conscience not carnall discontentment credit not the relation Adding moreover that the Queen did highly * See his Life lately set forth by Mr. Clarke commend though not reward him But whatever was the cause soon after he went beyond the Seas and after his Travell returned a bitter Enemy to the Hierarchy John Stokes Vicecan Ann. Dom. 1564-65 Thomas Bing Thomas Preston Proct. Christopher Fletcher Major Ann. Regi Eliz. 7. Doct. Theol. 2. Doct. Medic. 1. Bac. Theol. 1. Mag. Art 46. Bac. Leg. 02. Art 86. Rob Beaumond Roger Kelke Vicecan 1565-66 Nich Shepheard Edward Deering Proct. Alex Ray Major 8. Doct. The. 4. Leg. 1. Med. 4. Mag. Art 45. Bac. Leg. 01. Art 86. Rich Longworth Vicecan 1566-67 Christoph Lindley John Dawbeny Proct. Tho Kimbold Major 9. Doct. The. 0. Leg. 2. Med. 1. Bac. Theol. 4. Mag. Art 59. Bac. Leg. 02. Med. 01. Art 118. John Whitgift The Factions in Trinity-Colledge Master of Pembroke-Hall July 4. is made Master of Trinity Colledge which he found distempered with many Opinions which Mr. Cartwright lately returned from beyond Seas had raised therein and on a Sunday in Dr. Whitgift's absence Mr. Cartwright and two of his Adherents made three Sermons on one day in the Chappell so vehemently inveighing against the Ceremonies of the Church that at Evening Prayer all the * Sir George Paul in Whitgifts life p. 9. Schollers save three viz Dr. Leg Mr. West Whitakers his Tutour and the Chaplain cast off their Surplices as an abominable Relique of Superstition 3. Whitgift was Master of the Colledge Whitgift and Cartwright clash in the Schools and the Queens Cartwright but Fellow thereof and the Lady Magarets Professour of Divinity Great clashing was now in the Schools when one Professour impugned the other afferted the Church-Discipline in England Cartwrights Followers would fain have it believed that the Emulation was inflamed betwixt them because Whitgifts Lectures and Sermons were not so frequented whilst all flockt after Cartwright insomuch that when he preached at St. Maryes the Clerk thereof was fain to take down the windows of the Church Yea Mr. Cartwright did not onely oppose the matter but also the manner and method of Mr. Whitgifts Lectures as may appear by what afterwards was printed by both the one Objecting what is thus Answered by the other * in the Defence of the Answer to the Admonition p 14. Tho Cartwright * Whitgift ib. p. 25. John Whitgift They which have heard Mr. Doctour read in the Schools can tell that he being there amongst learned men never used to reduce the contrary Arguments of the Adversaries to the places of the fallacious and yet that was the fittest place for him to have shewed his knowledge in because there they should have been best understood Touching my reading in the Schools which you here opprobriously object unto me though I know that the University had a farre better opinion of me than I deserved 1566-67 and that there were a great many which were in all respects better able to doe that Office than my self 9. yet I trust I did my duty and satisfied them What Logick I uttered in my Lectures and how I read I referre to their judgments who surely if they suffred me so long to continue in that Place augmented the Stipend for my sake and were so desirous to have me still to remain in that Function reading so unlearnedly as you would make the world believe I did may be thought either to be without judgment themselves or else to have been very carelesse for that exercise The result of the difference betwixt them is this Ann. Dom. 1567-68 that leaving the Controversie it self to the Judgment of others if Cartwright had the better of it in his learning Ann. Regi Eliz. 9. Whitgift had the advantage in his temper and which is the main he had more power to back if fewet people to follow him John Young 1568-69 Vicecan 10. John Wells Edm Rokery Will Lewin Proc Roger Slegg Major Doc The. 5. Juris 6. Medi. 2. Bac. The. 22. Mag. Art 62. Prac in Chir. 01. Bac Leg. 02. Art 86. Nich Carre Fellow of Pembroke Hall a great Restorer of Learning in this University wherein he was Professour of Greek first as Substitute to Sir John Cheek in his absence then in his own capacity discharging the Place 15 years afterwards resigning the same and commencing Doctor of Physick this year ended his life to the great grief of all godly and learned men he was buried in St. Gyles Church beyond the Bridge under a handsome Monument with this Epitaph Hic jaceo CARRUS Doctos doctissimus inter Tempore quos fovit GRANTA diserta meo Tam mihi Cecropiae Latiae quam gloria Linguae Convenit Medicae maximus Artis honos Non ego me jacto sed quas Academia laudes Attribuit vivo mortuus exce fruor Et fruar O Lector procul absit turba profona Aeterno violans busta sacrata Deo John May Vicecan 1569-70 Thomas Aldrich Ruben Sherwood Proc 11. Miles Prance Major Doc Theol. 03. Leg. 02. Medic. 01. Bac. Theol. 14. Mag. Art 055. Prac. in Med. 001. Bac. Leg. 004. Art 114. Amongst the Doctors of Divinity Whitgifts commencing Doctor John Whitgift Master of Trinity-Colledge took his degree answering the Act and publickly maintaining in the Commencement-house for his * Sir Geo. Paul in his Life p. 5. Position Papa est ille Anti Christus John Whitgift Vicecan 1570-71 Will Bingham Hugo Bellot Proct. William Foxton Major 12. Doc. Leg. 1. Med. 1. Mag. Art 071. Prae. in Med. 001. Bac. Art 113. WHitgift now armed with Authority as Vice-Chancellour Whitgift summons Cartw who gives in a List of his Opinions summoneth Cartwright to give an
more than they are able whereby their gifts become suckers impairing the root of the Foundation Sir Iohn his gift was so left at large for the disposall thereof that it became a gift indeed and really advanced the good of the Colledge 29. This Colledge continued without a Chappell some years after the first founding thereof A Chappell added after some years untill at last some good mens charity supplied this defect Some have falsely reported that the now-Chappell of the Colledge was formerly a Stable whereas indeed it was the Franciscans antient Dormitory as appeareth by the concavities still extant in the walls places for their severall reposure But others have complained that it was never ceremoniously consecrated which they conceive essentiall thereunto whilst there want not their equalls in learning and religion who dare defend that the continued series of Divine duties Praying Preaching administring the Sacrament publickly practised for more than thirty yeares without the least check or controul of those in Authority in a Place set apart to that purpose doth sufficiently consecrate the same 30. It is as yet but early daies with this Colledge A Childes prayer for his Mother which hath not seen sixty yeares yet hath it been fruitfull in worthy men proportionably to the Age thereof and I hope it will daily increase Now though it be onely the place of the Parents and proper to him as the greater to blesse his c Heb. 7. 6. Childe yet it is the duty of the Child to Pray for his Parents in which relation my best desires are due to this Foundation my Mother for my last eight years in this University May her lamp never lack light for the oyle or oyle for the light thereof Zoar is it not a little one Yet who shall despise the day of small things May the foot of sacriledge if once offring to enter the gates thereof stumble and rise no more The Lord blesse the labours of all the Students therein that they may tend and end at his glory their own salvation the profit and honour of the Church and Common-wealth Iohn Iegon Vicecan 1596-97 William Moon Richard Sutton Proct. 39. Robert Wallis Major John Iegon Vicecan 1597-98 Nathaniel Cole William Rich Proct. 40. James Robson Major 31. The young Schollars conceiving themselves somewhat wronged by the Townsmen CLUB LAW acted in Clare-Hall the particulars whereof I know not betook them for revenge to their wits Ann. Dom. 1597-98 as the weapon wherein lay their best advantage Ann. Regi Eliz. 39. These having gotten a discovery of some Town privacies from Miles Goldsborrough one of their own Corporation composed a merry but abusive Comedy which they call'd CLUB-LAW in English as calculated for the capacities of such whom they intended spectatours thereof Clare-Hall was the place wherein it was acted and the Major with his Brethren and their Wives were invited to behold it or rather themselves abused therein A convenient place was assigned to the Townsfolk riverted in with Schollars on all sides where they might see and be seen Here they did behold themselves in their own best cloathes which the Schollars had borrowed so livelily personated their habits gestures language lieger-jests and expressions that it was hard to decide which was the true Townsman whether he that sat by or he who acted on the Stage Sit still they could not for chasing go out they could not for crowding but impatiently patient were fain to attend till dismissed at the end of the Comedy 32. The Major and his Brethren soon after complain of this libellous Play to the Lords of the Privie Councell Complain'd of by the Townsmen to the Councell Table and truly aggravate the Scollars offence as if the Majors Mace could not be played with but that the Scepter it selfe is touched therein Now though such the gravity of the Lords as they must maintain Magistracy and not behold it abused yet such their goodness they would not with too much severity punish Wit though waggishly imployed and therefore only sent some slight and private check to the principall Actors therein 33. There goeth a tradition How declined many earnestly engaging for the truth thereof that the Townsmen not contented herewith importunately pressed That some more severe and publick punishment might be inflicted upon them Hereupon the Lords promised in short time to come to Cambridge and because the life in such things is lacking when onely read they themselves would see the same Comedy with all the properties thereof acted over again the Townsmen as formerly being enjoyned to be present thereat that so they might the better proportion the punishment to the fault if any appeared But rather than the Townsmen would be witnesses again to their own abusing wherein many things were too farre from and some things too near to truth they fairly fell off from any farther prosecution of the matter 34. Upon the death of William Cecill Lord Burghly Robert Earle of Essex made Chancellour Robert Devereux Earl of Essex was chosen Chancellour of the University Comming to Cambridge he was entertained in Queens Coll where the Room he lodged in is called Essex Chamber to this day and where the pleasant Comedy of LELIA was excellently acted before him Robert Soame Vicecan 1598-99 William Boise Randal Woodcock Proct. 40. John Yaxley Major Iohn Iegon Vicecan 1599-600 Iohn Goslin Geo 41. Mountain Proct. Ieremy Chase Major Iohn Duport Vicecan 1600-â—â— Rob Naunton Tho 42. Morison Proct. Iohn Ienkinson Major Sir Robert Cecill principall Secretary of Estate Ann. Dom. 1600-01 was chosen Chancellour of the University Ann. Regi Eliz. 42. and did greatly befriend it on all occasions Sir Robert Cecill chosen Chancellour He was afterward Earle of Salisbury and Lord Treasurer of England Will Smith Vicecan 1581-2 Richard Trim John Forthenho Coll Trin Proct. 43. Edward Potto Major John Cowell Vicecan 1682-3 Nathaniel Wiburn Edward Barwel Coll Christi Proct. 44. Hen Jackson Major 35. King IAMES removed by many small journeys and great feastings from Scotland to London 1592 3. Alwaies the last place He lodged in Ann. Reg. Jac. 1. seemed so compleat for entertainment that nothing could be added thereunto K. James his matchlesse Entertainment at Hinchinbrooke And yet commonly the next Stage April 27. exceeded it in some stately accession Untill at last His Majesty came to Hinchinbrooke nigh Huntington the House of Master Oliver Cromwell where such His reception that in a manner it made all former entertainments forgotten and all future to despair to doe the like All the pipes about the house expressed themselves in no other language than the severall sorts of the choisest wines The Entertainer being so rich a Subject and the Entertained so renowned a Sovereign altered the nature of what here was expended otherwise justly censurable for prodigality to be deservedly commended for true
not unusefull to be inserted 1. Sir Robert Hales Lord Treasurer of England slain in the tumult of Tyler Anno 1380 in the fourth of K. Richard the second At which time 2. Next him Sir John Long-strother I say next proximus at longo qui proximus intervallo siding with the House of Lancaster he was taken prisoner in Teuxbury Battail Anno 1471 and by King Edward the fourth put to death in cold blood contrary to the promise of a Prince who had assured his life unto him 3. Sir Thomas Dockwray is the next not of all but in our discovery A person of much desert expending himself wholly for the credit and profit of his Priory as who re-edified the Church out of its ruine finishing it Anno 1504 as appeareth by the Inscription over the Gate-house yet remaining 4. Sir William Weston succeeds of whom before dissolved this List on the very day of the dissolution of this Priory 5. Sir Thomas Tresham was the first and last of Q. Mary's re-erection There goeth a tradition that Q. Elizabeth in consideration of his good service done to Her self in Her Sister Q. Mary whom he proclaimed and Their Titles being shut out of doors together both were let in again at once though to take place successively allowed him to be called Lord Prior during his life which was not long and the matter not much deriving no power or profit unto him Here I purposely omit Sir Richard Shelley which family I finde of remark for worship and antiquity at Michel-Grove in Sussex He bare a great enmity to Q. Elizabeth especially after She had flatly denied Philip King of Spain whither Shelley was fled to consent to his abiding there and to his quier receiving his rents out of England However the Spanish King imployed him in an Honorable Ambassy unto Maximilian King b Cambd. Eliz. Anno 1563. of the Romans weating the high title of Prior of the Order of St. c Idem in Anno 1560. p. 46. John ' s in England A Prior without a Posterior having none un-under him to obey his power nor after him to succeed in his place We behold him only as the wry-stroak given in by us out of courtesie when the game was up before 5. The Site of the Priory of S. Iohn's was lately the possession of William Earl of Exeter Cecil the present owner of this Priory whose Countess Eliz Druery was very forward to repair the ruin'd Quire thereof Doct. Ios Hall preached at the solemn Reconciling thereof on S. Stephen's day 1623 taking for his Text Hag. 2. 9. The glory of the latter house shall be greater than of the former saith the Lord of Hosts At this day though coarctated having the side-Iles excluded yet so that their upper part is admitted affording conveniencies for attention it is one of the best private Chappels in England discreetly embracing the mean of decency betwixt the extreams of slovenly profaneness and gaudy superstition and belongeth at this present to the truly noble Thomas as Earle of Elgin SECTION VII TO THOMAS DOCKWRAY of Bedford-shire Esquire I Finde Sir THOMAS DOCKWRAY one of the last Lord Priors of our English Hospitallers To say you are descended from him would fix a stain on your Extraction seeing none might marry who were of his Order But this I will say and justifie that you Both are descended from the same Ancestour as by authentick Records doth most plainly appear Besides some conformity may be seen in your commendable inclinations He was all for * * Stow Survey of London pag. 483. building of a fair Church according to the devotion of those dayes Your bountifull hand hath been a great sharer in advancing of this Church-History Now although his stately Structure of the strongest stone had the hard hap to be blown up almost as * * Stows Surv. of Lond. ut priùs soon as it was ended this of yours a frailer Fabrick as but of Paper-walls may be Gods blessing have the happinesse of a longer continuance Of English Nunneries beyond the Seas THus were all Monks Fryers Why no Pensions paid to outed Votaries by Qu. Eliz. and Nunnes totally routed by the coming in of Qu. Elizabeth I finde not that any Pensions were allowed to those Votaries who at this time were outed their Covents though large Annuities were assigned to such who were ejected their Monasteries Colledges or free Chanteries in the Reigns of King Henry the eighth and Edward the sixt whereof this may seem the reason because now caveat ingressor He or She might beware who entred an Abbey be it at their own perill seeing they formerly had so fair a warning though indeed some of them who had no friends to help them were left in no very good condition and died in much want and distresse 2. But now in the beginning of this Queens Reign Detained pensions paid to old Fryers and Nunnes a complaint did arise That Pensions were detained from many ejected out of Abbeys in her Father and Brother his Reigne who being poor old and impotent and repairing to the Queens Officers for their Pensions were instead of money paid with ill language and affronts Her Majesty possessed with the truth hereof took strict order both that their Arrears for the time past should be satisfied and their Aunuities for the time to come effectually discharged which much advanced her honour in pecuniary matters 3. Hence grew the Proverb crossed in the daies of her successours As sure as Exchequer pay Chequer pay the best of payments For all who in this Queens Reign had summes due unto them from the Treasurie had no other trouble than to tell them there and take them thence Thus it came to passe that by Her maintaining of the Exchequer the Exchequer maintained Her having money at most credit at all times on the reputation of so good a Pay-Mistresse insomuch that She was not onely able to lay down Her stake but also to vye ready silver with the King of Spaine when He notwithstanding both His Indies was fain to go on Bare board 4. As for Popish Religious persons flying out of England at the coming in of this Queen The onely stump of an old tree our pen shall follow them as fast as it can with convenient speed We begin with the Nunnes partly because the courtesie of England alloweth the first place to the feeblest Sex but chiefly because they seem still to continue an entire body and successively an immortall corporation being with the Carthusians the onely stump that remaineth of the huge tree which once overspread and shadowed our whole Nation 5. May the Reader be pleased to remember The progresse of Nunnes from Sion to Lisbone that King Henry the fifth founded one Abbey of Nunnes at Sion in Middlesex peopling it with Brigetine Nunnes and Fryers and another at Sheine in Surrey overagainst it so ordering it that all the day long alternately when the Devotions of the one
ended the other should begin that nothing should interrupt their Prayers though the Thames did divide their Persons Both those Covents dissolved by King Henry the eight were as aforesaid restored by Q. Mary and re-dissolved by Q. Elizabeth The Sion Nunnes though Clementia Thresham a principall amongst them could not go with them for sicknesse dying soon after and buried at Rushton in Northampton shire conveyed their persons and most portable Treasure beyond the Seas to Zurick Zey in Zealand thence to Macklin in Brabant thence to Roan in Normandy but found no certain place of abode till they came to Lisbone in Portugall 6. For here they had a daily Pension of five Crowns from the King of Spaine The revenue and wealth of the Lisbone Nunnes and wheat more than sufficient whilst Lisbone was His and I doubt not but the present King of Portugall performeth the same they have Vine-yards Olive-fields Corn-grounds and Houses to the value of four hundred * Every Milrey is twelve shillings six pence sterling Mil-reis a year which was the Portion of a Portugese sole Heire to her wealthy Father who becoming a Religious Sister in this Covent conveyed her inheritance unto it So that by their boxes in Indian and Brasilean ships sale of Masses and other perquisites they are said yearly to lay up six hundred pounds 7. Indeed A price of blood their first portion they began with a good bank and hereon hangs a story worth reporting When Doctor Lopez a Iew-Portugall undertook to poison Queen Elizabeth he would not to shew himself a Iew indeed doe his work till in some sort secured of his wages The summe * Tho. Robinson pag. 9. promised him was deposited with these Nunnes whilst as yet they lived at Roan in Normandie But Lopez his designe failing the same halter which bereaved him of life endowed these Nunnes with a livelyhood For the King of Spaine either out of scrupulosity not to resume the same into his Treasurie as the price of blood or out of liberality conferred those moneys on the Nunnes which since they have well house-wived and increased 8. We need not repeat what we have formerly said of the Brigetine Nunnes first founded by Briget Queen of Swedeland having Fryers permitted to live under the same roof though disjoyned with walls for their better consolation Their Confessour and Abbesse Some thirty years since Father Ioseph Foster was their Confessour having two other Priests and a Lay Brother to assist him whose names I am lesse carefull to insert because they change them as often as snakes their skins both what they took at the font and fetcht from their Fathers truly called by what they are not known and commonly known by what they are not truly called Elizabeth Preston about that time was Abbesse who being outed as in disgrace with Father Foster Barbara Wiseman succeeded in her place 9. Such as desire further satisfaction herein The Anatomi of the Nunnes of Lisbone may consult the Anatomie of the English Nunnerie at Lisbone made by Thomas Robinson published by authority and lately reprinted I confesse it may seem cruelty to cut up the living and the best of mortalls would winch to purpose if diffected alive But very much of truth is believed in his Discovery telling us of a grate betwixt those Fryers and Nunnes sometimes so churlish as to divide them sometimes so charitable as consenting to be drawn up and so to admit them to a mutuall society so that if the Fryer calleth the Nunne cometh incontinently at his command I have heard since that their Covent of late hath casually been burned down which if so I doubt not but they are able to rebuild it as gaining more by water the gratuities of Merchants than they have lost by fire Bruxells Nunnerie THey are of the Order of S. Benedict Bruxells Nunnerie and yet solely under the inspection of the Iesuits which seems improper seeing it would sound like truer construction that Benedictine Nunnes should be subject to Benedictine Monks The truth is that at the first founding hereof the Iesuiticall activity got the start of the Benedictine dulnesse and these men of lasting mettall as good at length as at hand keep the advantage which once they have gotten Indeed no Nunnes come hither but such as are transported by the Iesuits speciall recommendation and therefore it is but equall they should dresse and prune the Vines of their own planting I assure you the place is too costly for my Daughter to be entred there seeing they receive * Lewis Owen his running Register p. 102. none into their Abbey and habit unlesse she have a thousand pound or two for her Portion 2. The Abbey is very rich Their great wealth having purchased whole Manours and Lordships in Brabant with many thousand of pounds at use in the Lombards and elswhere all which the English Iesuits doe dispose of Father Gardiner and Father * English-Spanish pilgrim pag. 72. Walgrave aliàs Flower were Anno 1630 their Overseers being some sixty English Damosells under their Abbesse then the Sister of the Aunt to the present Earl of Northumberland Cambray Nunnerie DON Carlos de Colmna Governour of the City and Countrey of Cambray for the King of Spaine Cambray Nunnerie and sometimes Ambassadour for England was so allured with the beauty or affected with the piety of our English Women that as it is generally reported he gave them a Cloyster within this City where now they live and have an English Congregation erected according to the Order of S. Benedict Lately they had no lands purchased though possibly since they may be endowed Gravelin Nunnerie THe Family of the Gages at Furle in Suffex were their principall Benefactors whereof John Gage Privie Counsellour Grà velin Nunnerie as I take it to Q. Mary deserted the land and his own large estate at the beginning of Queen Elizabeth as appears by certain Tablets to be seen in their Church Yet are they the poorest of all Forraign Convents being the discalceated Nunnes of the Order of S. Clare Size cinque are sent to Bruxells persons Nobly born or richly dowried Quatur tray to Lisbone or Cambray receiving those of a middle rank whilst Duce ace yea Ames ace are sent to Gravelin the Almes-basket of other Covents Cum nemini obtrudi potest itur ad c. Such who come over with empty hands must be Nunnes at Gravelin with naked feet 2. Here I purposely omit the Nunnes of Lovaine in Brabant because not speaking pure English Nunnes of Lovaine why omitted and scarcely medietatem lingue being a Hodge-podge of Dutch and English and the former at this day most numerous Yea oftentimes the two Nations here strive for Superiority and though nature inclineth me in this contention to favour my Countrey women yet I conceive it better to leave them alone to agree with themselves and proceed to the Jesuitesses jesuitesses THese began at Luke or Liege about