a firm Purpose to conform himself thereunto and so continue to proceed from time to time shewing himself a sober and fruitful Hearer and Learner This whole Preface for the Antiquity and Usefulness of it and to preserve as much as we can of the Writings of this most Reverend Man I have transcribed and placed in the Appendix The Edition in the Year 1540 had a remarkable Frontispiece before it Which because it is somewhat rare both in regard of the Antiquity and Device of it I will relate In the upper â—art thereof you see King Henry VIII sitting in State guarded on each hand of him with the Lords Spiritual and Temporal holding in his right Hand a Bible closed which he delivered unto Arch-bishop Cranmer being on his Knee in the Name of the rest of the Bishops all which stood at his right Hand bare-headed their Mitres lying up-the Ground in token of their Acknowledgment of the King's Supremacy and this Motto issuing out of the King's Mouth Haec praecipe doce Holding also in his left Hand another Bible stretched towards the Lords Temporal and delivered to one whom I suppose to be intended for the Lord Crumwel at the head of them standing on the left Side and this Word coming out of the King's Mouth towards them Quod justum est judicate and this Ita parvum audietis ut magnum and this A me constitutum est decretum ut in Vniverso Imperio Regno meo homines revereantur paveant Deum Viventem Among these Nobles is the Figure of one on his Knees and these Words issuing out of his Mouth Verbum tuum Lucerna pedibus meis Over the King's Head is the Figure of God Almighty sitting in the Clouds with these Words coming out of his Mouth in a Scrole towards the right Hand Verbum quod egredietur de me non revertetur ad me vacuum sed faciet quaecunque volui And in another Scrole towards the Left with his Hand pointing to the King Ecce servum qui faciet omnes voluntates meas Underneath the Bishops there is another Figure representing Arch-bishop Cranmer his Coat of Arms by him with the distinction of a Crescent He stood with his Mitre on his Head and dress'd in his Pontificalibus his Chaplain behind him and a Priest with a Tonsure kneeling before him in the posture of a Candidate for Priests Orders and having his Hand stretched out to receive the Bible offered him by the Arch-bishop and out of his Mouth this Scrole Pascite qui in vobis est gregem Christi On the other Side opposite to the Arch-bishop and underneath the Lords Temporal stood another Person whom I conjecture to be the Lord Crumwel with his Shield by him blank without any bearing and out of his Mouth came Diverte a malo sequere pacem persequere In the lowest part of this Fronticepiece you have the resemblance of a Priest preaching out of a Pulpit before a great Auditory of Persons of all Ranks Qualities Orders Sexes Ages Men Women Children Nobles Priests Souldiers Tradesmen Countrymen Out of the Mouth of the Preacher went this Verse Obsecro igitur primum omnium fieri obsecrationes orationes postulationes gratiarum actiones pro omnibus hominibus pro regibus c. Implying the Benefit accruing to Princes by the Peoples Knowledg of the Scriptures namely That it taught them to obey and pray for them And out of the Mouths of these Hearers of all sorts issued Vivat Rex Vivat Rex and out of the Mouths of the Children God save the King denoting the great Joy the People conceived for the enjoyment of God's Word and the preaching thereof and their Thankfulness to the King for his Permission of the same In the middle stood the Title of the Bible which was this The Bible in English that is to say The Contents of all the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament with a Prologue thereunto made by the Reverend Father in God Thomas Arch-bishop of Canterbury This is the Bible appointed to the Use of the Churches Printed by Richard Grafton Cum Privilegio ad imprimendum solum An. Dom. MDXL. CHAP. XXXIV Arch-bishop Cranmer compassionate towards Sufferers for Religion AS he had a great Love and Value for the eminent Professors and Patrons of the Gospel so he bare a most compassionate Spirit towards those that suffered for the sake of it It made a very greaâ— Impression upon him when he heard that Sir Iohn Cheke had been taken up and Indicted soon after Queen Mary's access to the Crown namely in the Month of August which was the next Month after And not knowing wherefore he was Indicted whether for his meddling in the Lady Iane's Business or for his Zeal in promoting Religion he earnestly desired Sir William Cecyl to inform him whether If for the former Considering as he said he had been none of the chief Doers in that Matter he hoped he should have been one of them that should have partaken of the Queen's Favour But if it were for the latter viz. his earnestness in Religion if he suffer for that said he Blessed is he of God that suffereth for his sake howsoever the World judg of him For what ought we to care for the Iudgment of the World when God absolves us But wishing most passionately withal That some means might be used for the Relief of him and the Lord Russel who it seems was clap'd up for the same Cause And indeed as our Arch-bishop was in the time of King Edward he was the same under King Henry that is the common Patron as far as he might or dared of such Priests who were drawn into Trouble for professing or preaching that Gospel So he shewed himself to Turner before-mentioned And in the Year 1533 or 1534 I find him in a Commission for the relieving of another that had been most straitly and rigorously handled by Stokesly then Bishop of London and his Chancellor His Name was Thomas Patmore Parson of Hadham in Hertfordshire a Learned and Godly Man who had by them been condemned to Imprisonment for Life together with the loss of his Benefice and Goods because he had perswaded his Curat to marry a Wife and being privy to his Marriage did nevertheless suffer him to officiate in his Church And because he had preached certain Doctrines at Cambridg as laying little stress upon the Pope's Curse and that we are saved only by God's Mercy and that all that are saved are saved by Faith and that it is against God's Law to burn Hereticks This poor Man after three Years close Imprisonment in Lollards-Tower by the Means of his Friends who put up frequent Petitions to the King and the Lady Ann Bolen was at last released and obtained of the King a Commission to our Arch-bishop to whom were joined Audley Lord Chancellor and Crumwel Secretary of State to enquire into his Injuries and unjust handling and to determine
Mannor was not given to Christ-Church till after the Year 1400. Thomas Goldstone a Prior of that Church and a great Builder built the Mannor-house for a Mansion for the Priors and a Chappel annexed and a new Hall adjoining to the Dormitory and divers other Edifices there as we learn from the History of the Priors of Canterbury lately published To which we may add a Record in that Church to direct us in the Computation of the Time Viz. Anno Dom. 1508. In vigiliis S. Marci Capella dedicatur in Manerio de Lyvyngsborn procurante Thoma Goldston At the Dissolution this was alienated and given to Gage and from him it came to Arch-bishop Cranmer and his Successors And the Bargain was confirmed by Act of Parliament Anno Henr. 34. The Arch-bishop as he had opportunity preferred Learned and Pious Men in his Diocess in the Benefices of his Church and such who freely preached against the Pope and his Superstitions against Images and the Worship of them The chief of these were Nic. Ridley afterwards Bishop of London whom he made Vicar of Herne and Prebend of Canterbury and Iohn Scory afterwards Bishop of Chichester whom he made one of the six Preachers Michael Drum and Lancelot Ridley worthy Men were two more of the Six These he preferred and divers others about through his Diocess that set the Abuses of Popery open before the Peoples Eyes in their Sermons This so angred the Men of the old Religion and particularly some of his own Church in Canterbury that they detected them to the Arch-bishop by articling against them for their Doctrine This they did this Year when the Arch-bishop visited his Church And about two Years after they did so again as shall be taken notice of in due Season About this time it was that Serles and Shether two of the Six Preachers of Canterbury were by the Arch-bishop's Censure put to Recantation for some unsound Passages they had preached Which made them such Enemies to the Arch-bishop and such Contrivers of his Ruin by devising and drawing up a great number of Articles against him if they could have accomplished their Design as shall be seen hereafter under the Year 1543. It was observed of Shether at this time that after the pronouncing his Recantation or Declaration he added these words Good Christians I take God to record that I never preached any thing to you in my Life but the Truth And so in short gave himself the Lie and overthrew all the Recantation he had made before The latter end of the Year there was a Convocation Wherein one of the Matters before them was concerning the procuring a true Translation of the New Testament Which was indeed intended not so much to do such a good Work as to hinder it For having decried the present Translation on purpose to make it unlawful for any to use it they pretended to set themselves about a new One But it was merely to delay and put off the People from the common use of the Scripture As appeared plainly enough in that the Bishops themselves undertook it And so having it in their own Hands they might make what delays they pleased For in the third Session a Proposition was made for the Translation and an Assignation to each Bishop of his Task As Matthew to the Arch-bishop of Canterbury Mark to the Bishop of Lincoln Luke to Winton Iohn to Ely and so of the rest But the Arch-bishop saw through all this And therefore in a Sessions that followed after told the House from the King to whom I suppose he had discovered this Intrigue that the Translation should be left to the Learned of both Universities This was a Surprize to the Bishops who all except Ely and S. David's protested against it and began to undervalue the Sufficiency of the Universities as much decayed of late and that they were but young Men and that the greatest Learning lay in the Convocation-men But the Arch-bishop roundly said that he would stick by his Master's Will and Pleasure and that the Vniversities should examine the Translation Bishops Consecrated May 29 being Sunday William Knight was Consecrated Bishop of Bath and Wells by Nicolas Bishop of Rochester by Virtue of the Arch-bishop's Letters to him assisted by Richard Suffragan of Dover and Iohn Suffragan of Bedford in the Chappel of the said Bishop of Bath's House situate in the Minories without Aldgate September the 25 th Iohn Wakeman late Abbot of Teuksbury was Consecrated the first Bishop of Glocester by the Arch-bishop Edmond Bishop of London and Thomas Bishop of Westminster assisting Iohn Chambre B. D. was Consecrated first Bishop of Peterburgh Octob. 23. in the Cathedral Church of Peterburgh in the Presbytery there by Iohn Bishop of Lincoln Thomas Bishop of Ely and William Bishop of Norwich by Commission from the Arch-bishop February the 19 th Arthur Bulkeley in the Chappel of Iohn Incent LL. D. Dean of St. Paul's by Iohn Bishop of Sarum by virtue of Letters Commissional from the Arch-bishop William Bishop of St. David's and Iohn Bishop of Glocester assisting Robert King another Abbot and Titular Bishop Reonen Suffragan to the Bishop of Lincoln was this Year Consecrated Bishop of Oxford The Date or his Consecrators I cannot assign the Act being omitted in the Arch-bishop's Register He was first a Monk of Rewly a Priory without Oxford of the Cistertian Order Then Abbot of Bruerne in Oxfordshire After Abbot of Thame of which he was also called Bishop and lastly of Oseney Both which he surrendred to the King at the dissolution of Monasteries This Man when Suffragan preached at S. Mary's in Stamford where he most fiercely inveighed against such as used the New Testament In Q. Mary's Reign he was a persecutor of the Protestants and died 1557. CHAP. XXIV The King's Book revised THE Arch-bishop was this Year among other things employed in the King's Book as it now was called that is The Erudition of any Christian Man spoken of before For the King was minded now to have it well reviewed and if there were any Errors and less proper Expressions to have them corrected and amended And so to have it recommended unto the People as a compleat Book of Christian Principles in the stead of the Scripture which upon pretence of their abuse of the King would not allow longer to be read Accordingly a Correction was made throughout the Book and the correct Copy sent to Cranmer to peruse Which he did and added his own Annotations upon various Passages in it at good length And had it not been too long I had transcribed it wholly out of a Volume in the Benet-College Library But for a taste take this that follows In the Title under his own Hand was this written Animadversions upon the King's Book Vpon the Chapter of Original Sin For the first Offence of our Father Adam No Man shall be damned for the Offences of Adam
Ireland and all other his Highness Dominions And that with my Body Cunning Wit and uttermost of my Power without Guile Fraud or other undue Means I shall observe keep maintain and defend all the King's Majesty's Stiles Titles and Rights with the whole Effects and Contents of the Acts provided for the same and all other Acts and Statutes made and to be made within the Realm in and for that purpose and the Derogation Extirpation and Extinguishment of the usurped and pretended Authority Power and Jurisdiction of the See and Bishop of Rome and all other Foreign Potestates as afore And also as well his Statute made in the said 28 th Year as his Statute made in the Parliament holden in the 35 th Year of the King's Majesty's Reign for Establishment and Declaration of his Highness Succession and all Acts and Statutes made and to be made in Confirmation and Corroboration of the King's Majesty's Power and Supremacy in Earth of his Church of England and of Ireland and all other his Grace's Dominions I shall also defend and maintain with my Body and Goods with all my Wit and Power And thus I shall do against all manner of Persons of what State Dignity Degree or Condition soever they be and in no wise do nor attempt nor to my Power suffer or know to be done or attempted directly or indirectly any thing or things privily or apertly to the let hindrance damage or derogation of any of the said Statutes or any part thereof by any manner of Means or for or by any manner of Pretence And in case any Oath hath been made by me to any Person or Persons in Maintenance Defence or Favour of the Bishop of Rome or his Authority Jurisdiction or Power or against any the Statutes aforesaid I repute the same as vain and adnichilate I shall wholly observe and keep this Oath So help me God and all Saints and the Holy Evangeles And then after this Oath followed the Prayers before the Benediction of the Pall and the Ceremonies of delivering it CHAP. XXX The Arch-bishop Reformeth the Canon Law OUR Arch-bishop seeing the great Evil and Inconvenience of Canons and Papal Laws which were still in Force and studied much in the Kingdom had in his Mind now a good while to get them suppressed or to reduce them into a narrower Compass and to cull out of them a set of just and wholsome Laws that should serve for the Government of the Ecclesiastical State And indeed there was great need of some Reformation of these Laws For most of them extolled the Pope unmeasurably and made his Power to be above that of Emperors and Kings Some of them were That he that acknowledged not himself to be under the Bishop of Rome and that the Pope is ordained of God to have the Primacy over the World is an Heretick That Princes Laws if they be against the Canons and Decrees of the Bishop of Rome be of no Force That all the Decrees of the Bishop of Rome ought to be kept perpetually as God's Word spoken by the Mouth of Peter That all Kings Bishops and Noblemen that believe or suffer the Bishop of Rome's Decrees in any thing to be violated are accursed That the See of Rome hath neither Spot nor Wrinkle And abundance of the like which the Arch-bishop himself drew out of the Canon Laws and are set down by the Bishop of Sarum in his History Therefore by the Arch-bishop's Motion and Advice the King had an Act past the last Year viz. 1544. That his Majesty should have Authority during his Life to name thirty two Persons that is to say sixteen Spiritual and sixteen Temporal to examine all Canons Constitutions and Ordinances Provincial and Synodal and to draw up such Laws Ecclesiastical as should be thought by the King and them convenient to be used in all Spiritual Courts According to this Act tho it seems this Nomination hapned some time before the making of the same the King nominated several Persons to study and prepare a Scheme of good Laws for the Church Who brought their Business to a Conclusion and so it rested for a time The Archbishop being now to go down into Kent to meet some Commissioners at Sittingborn went to Hampton-Court to take his leave of the King There he put him in mind of these Ecclesiastical Laws and urged him to ratify them So the King bad him dispatch to him the Names of the Persons which had been chiefly left to Cranmer's Election and the Book they had made This care he going out of Town left with Heth Bishop of Rochester So that these Laws by the great Pains of the Arch-bishop and some Learned Men about him were brought to that good Perfection that they wanted nothing but the Confirmation of the King And there was a Letter drawn up ready for that purpose for the King to sign It was directed to all Arch-bishops Bishops Abbots Clerks Dukes Marquesses Earls Barons Knights and Gentlemen and all others of whatsoever Degree his Subjects and Liege-men Giving them to understand That in the room of the corrupt Laws Decrees and Statutes that proceeded from the Bishops of Rome which were all abolished he had put forth by his Authority another Set of Ecclesiastical Laws which he required to be observed under pain of his Indignation The Copy of this Letter may be read in the Appendix But whatsoever the Matter was whether it were the King 's other Business or the secret Oppositions of Bishop Gardiner and the Papists this Letter was not signed by the King I have seen the Digest of these Ecclesiastical Laws in a Manuscript in Folio fairly written out by the Arch-bishop's Secretary with the Title to each Chapter prefixed and the Index of the Chapters at the beginning both of the Arch-bishop's own Hand In many places there be his own Corrections and Additions and sometimes a Cross by him struck through divers Lines And so he proceeded a good way in the Book And where the Arch-bishop left off Peter Martyr went on by his Order to revise the rest in the Method he had begun And in the Title De Praescriptionibus the greatest part of the seventh Chapter is Martyr's own writing viz. beginning at this word Rumpitur which is in Pag. 248. of the printed Book Lin. 23. and so to the end of the Chapter So that this Manuscript I conjecture was the first Draught of these Laws prepared in the Reign of King Henry and revised in the Reign of King Edward his Successor when P. Martyr was appointed by that King's Letters to be one of those that were to be employed in this Work who was much at this Time with the Arch-bishop In this Draught were several Chapters afterwards added partly by Cranmer and partly by Martyr There was yet a latter and more perfect Draught of these Laws as they were compleated and finished in King Edward's Reign This Draught fell into the
his Charge appointed him hoping the Change of Air might help him He made a shift to travel thither leaving his dear Colleague sick behind him But Fagius still declining in his Health ardently desired Bucer's Company Who on the fifth of November came to Cambridg And ten Days after Fagius deceased aged about forty five Years to the extraordinary Loss of that University and the Grief of all pious Men that wished well to Religion and which was most to be lamented before he had given any Specimen of his Learning and Abilities in England though he had already given many to the World all shewing what a Master he was in Hebrew and Rabbinical Learning His published Labours of this nature all within the space of six Years may be seen in the Appendix Which I have placed there for the preserving the Memory of that Learned Professor which our University of Cambridg was once honoured with The good Arch-bishop troubled at the sudden Death of this Learned Man from whom he had promised himself some great Good to accrue to the University sent a Letter November the last unto his sorrowful Companion Bucer desiring him among other things as from him to comfort Fagius's Widow and to let her know that he had sent her by the Carrier seven and twenty Pounds which was part of the Stipend due out of the Exchequer to her Husband Which although it were not yet pay'd into Cranmer's Hands yet he thought good to send her the Money so soon that it might be some alleviation of her present Sorrow There were fifty Pounds due for his Readings reckoning from Lady-day last when his Pension began but three Pounds were disbursed for Charges in taking out the Patent and twenty Pounds the Arch-bishop had sent him before Bucer above all lamented the loss of his Mate and wrote a sorrowful Letter ad Fratres Symmystas to his Brethren and fellow-Ministers in Germany upon this Subject And in a Letter to P. Martyr then at Oxon he not only complained of this heavy Loss but as if himself were like to follow him of several things that made him uneasy at Cambridg where he was now placed as of the want of a convenient House of a Body impatient of Cold which the Time of the Year made him begin to feel need of Necessaries That the Letters Patents were not yet signed for his Salary and the slow and uncertain paiment of his Pension But Cranmer out of that high respect he had for him was not wanting in his diligence in due time to make all easy to him and to have so useful and grave a Man well provided for But the next Year the last Day of February he followed his Companion to the other World But not before he had made himself and his Learning known to the University Which to qualify him to moderate at the publick Disputations at the Commencement had given him the Degree of Doctor as a peculiar Honour done him without the common Rites and Forms ordinarily used in those Cases Yet he chose to do his Exercises responding the first Day of the Commencement and opposing the second with great Learning and no less Satisfaction of the University CHAP. XIV Peter Martyr disputes in Oxford being Challenged thereunto THE Papists in both Universities were resolved to try the Metal and Learning of their new Professors being exceedingly nettled at their coming and offended at their Readings PETRUS MARTYR VERMILIUS S.S. Theologiae apud Oxonienses â—rofessor Regius Natus Florentiae Sept. 8 Anno MD Obijt Nov 12. MDLXII Being come to the Chair he gently told his Adversaries in a modest Speech to them That he refused not to dispute but that at that time he came to read and not to dispute And so themselves yielding to it he proceeded to his Lecture which he performed with much constancy and undauntedness without the least disturbance of Mind or change of Countenance or Colour or hesitation in his Speech notwithstanding the Murmur and Noise of the Adversaries Which got him much Credit and Applause As soon as he had done his Reading the Adversaries began to make loud Cries that he should Dispute and especially Smith the Champion But he modestly refused it and said He would do it at another time and that he was not then prepared because they had so studiously concealed the Propositions to be disputed of and had not propounded them publickly according to the accustomed manner and that he knew nothing of them till that very Day But they told him He could not be unprepared who had read so much of the Lord's Supper whatsoever Arguments they propounded in this Matter They still rudely urging him he said He would do nothing in such a Matter without the King were first made privy to it especially when the thing tended to Sedition Moreover for a lawful Disputation it was requisite he said that certain Questions be propounded Judges and Moderators constituted and publick Notaries be present that might impartially and faithfully write down the Arguments and Speeches on both Sides In fine the Matter came to that pass that fearing a Tumult the Vice-chancellor decided the Controversy after this manner That both P. Martyr and Smith with some Friends should meet in his House and should appoint the Propositions to be disputed of the Time the Order and Manner of Disputation And so the Vice-chancellor the Beadle making him way went to the Pulpit where the Professor was and took him by the Hand and led him down through the Crouds to his own House his Friends going along with him and among the rest Sidal and Curtop then vigorous Defenders of the Truth but after in Q. Mary's Days revolting Smith also and his Friends Cole Oglethorp and three more repaired to the Vice-chancellor where it was agreed after some jangling That Martyr should observe the same Order in Confuting as he did in Teaching and abstaining from strange barbarous and ambiguous Words wont to be used in the Schools he said he would use only Carnaliter and Corporaliter Realiter and Substantialiter because the Scripture useth only the words Flesh and Body Res or Substantia And so it was agreed and the Day set was the fourth of May ensuing And it was agreed also on both Sides That all this whole Matter should be signified to the Council that they might have Cognizance of the thing And by them the Day of the Disputation was appointed when some from the King as Judges and Keepers of Peace would be present at it The Papists reported falsly That he having appointed the Time of the Disputation to be ten Days hence in the mean time got the Magistrates acquainted with this Affair that they might stop and forbid it which they did indeed proroguing it till some Months after the first Challenge And that afterwards when the Professor saw his Opportunity he provoked to a publick Disputation offering to dispute of his Questions formerly propounded and thought
Year 1557 the Exiles here printed it with this Title Defensio c. a Thoma Cranmero Martyre scripta Ab Authore in Vinculis recognita aucta Before it is a new Preface to the Reader made as it is thought by Sir Iohn Cheke relating to the Arch-bishop and this his Book shewing how well-weighed and well-thought on this Doctrine of the Sacrament was before he published it and that he let it not go abroad till he had diligently compared and pondred all Scriptures and Ancient Authors and confirmed it at last by his Blood In the body of the Book the places where any Enlargements are are signified by an Hand pointing thereunto In the Margent is often to be found this word Object with certain Numbers added Which Numbers shew those Places which Gardiner under the Name of Marcus Antonius did endeavour to confute The very Original these English Exiles here at Embden kept as a great Treasure among them and as a Memorial of the Holy Martyr Besides this the Arch-bishop fully intended to have his Vindication of his Book impugned by Gardiner put into Latin also but he lived not to see that done But care was taken of this Business among the Exiles Insomuch that both Sir Iohn Choke and Iohn Fox were busied about it at the same time But the former surceased and left the whole Work to Fox then at Frankford after he had finished the first part In this Piece done by Cheke Iohn a Lasco had an hand for he put in the Latin School-Terms instead of more pure good Latin which Cheke had used And it was judged fit that such Words should be used where the ABp in his English had used them And this Cheke and A Lasco themselves wrote to Fox Fox undertook the rest by the Incitation and Encouragement of P. Martyr and of Grindal and Pilkington both Bishops afterwards Who gave him Directions for the translating and as Doubts occurred concerning the Sense of certain Matters in the Book as he met with them he consulted with these Men for their Judgments therein Grindal in one Letter bad him write a Catalogue of all Passages by him doubted of and send it to him Fox finished his Translation in the Year 1557 before Iune For which he had a Congratulatory Letter from Grindal who was his chief Assistant and Counsellor herein The Work was dispatched to the Press at Basil I suppose and when one Part was printed the Censors of the Press thought it would be better to defer an Argument of that Nature to better Times the Controversy having been bandied up and down so much already But Froscover undertook the printing of the whole Book Fox would do nothing of himself but leaving himself to the Judgment of his Learned Brethren to commit the Work now to Froscover or no Queen Mary's Death and the return of the Exiles I suppose stopped further progress in this Matter The Original Manuscript under Fox's own Hand in very cleanly elegant Latin I have lying by me It bears this Title De totâ Sacramenti Eucharistiae causa Institutionum Libri V. Autore D. THOMA CRANMERO Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi Quibus Stephani Garneri Episcopi Wintoniensi SMYTHI Doctoris Theologi impugnationibus respondetur And that I may bring here together all that relates to Cranmer as to this Matter of the Sacrament I must not omit what I saw in the Benet-Library There is a thin Note-book of this Arch-bishop's with this Title wrote by his own Hand De re Sacramentaria which I verily believe are his Meditations and Conclusions when he set himself accurately to examine the Sacramental Controversy and fell off from the Opinion of the Carnal Presence The Notes consist of nothing but Quotations out of ancient Ecclesiastical Authors about the Lord's Supper interlined in many Places by the Arch-bishop's Pen. On the top of some of the Pages are these Sentences writ by himself being Doctrines provable out of the Sentences there produced and transcribed Panis vocatur Corpus Christi Vinum Sanguis Panis est Corpus meum Vinum est Sanguis meus figurativae sunt locutiones Quid significet haec figura Edere carnem bibere sanguinem Mali non edunt bibunt corpus sanguinem Domini Patres Vet. Testamenti edebant bibebant Christum sicut Nos Sicut in Eucharistia ita in Baptismo presens est Christus Contra Transubstantiationem After this follow these Writings of the Arch-bishop's own Hand which Arch-bishop Parker elsewhere transcribed for his own Satisfaction Multa affirmant crassi Papistae seu Capernaitae quae neque Scriptura neque ullus Veterum unquam dixerat Viz. Quod Accidentia maneant sine subjecto Quod Accidentia panis vini sunt Sacramenta non panis vinum Quod Panis non est figura sed accidentia panis Quod Christus non appellavit panem corpus suum Quod cum Christus dixit Hoc est corpus meum pronomen Hoc non refertur ad panem sed ad corpus Christi Quod tot corpora Christi accipimus aut toties corpus ejus accipimus quoties aut in quot partes dentibus secamus panem Thus having set down divers Assertions of Papists or Capernaites as he stiled them which neither Scripture nor Ancient Fathers knew any thing of his Notes proceed to state wherein Papists and Protestants disagree Praecipua Capita in quibus a Papisticis dissentimus Christum Papistae statuunt in pane nos in homine comedente Illi in comedentis ore nos in toto homine Illi Corpus Christi aiunt evolare masticato vel consumpto pane Nos manere in homine dicimus quamdiu membrum est Christi Illi in pane statuunt per annum integrum diutius si duret panis Nos in homine statuimus inhabitare quamdiu Templum Dei fuerit Illorum Sententiâ quod ad realem praesentiam attinet non amplius edit homo quam bellua neque magis ei prodest quam cuivis animanti Thus God made use of this Arch-bishop who was once of the most violent Asserters of the Corporal Presence to be the chiefest Instrument of overthrowing it But this good Work required to be carried on after Cranmer's Death For great Brags were made of Gardiner's second Book and it was boasted that none dared to encounter this their Goliath P. Martyr was thought the fittest Man to succeed Cranmer in this Province to maintain the Truth that began now to shine forth He overcome by the Solicitation of Friends composed a Book against Gardiner as was said before and printed it at Zurick Wherein I. He defended the Arguments of our Men which had been collected together and pretended to be confuted by Gardiner's Book II. He defended those Rules which Cranmer had put forth in his Tract of the Sacrament III. He maintained those Answers whereby the Arguments of the Adversaries were wont to be refuted And IV. He asserted the just and
Synodal Authority unto them committed And moreover he desired the Prolocutor would be a Means unto the Lords that some of those that were Learned and the publishers of this Book might be brought into the House to shew their Learning that moved them to set forth the same and that Dr. Ridley and Rogers and two or three more might be Licensed to be present at this Disputation and be associate with them But this would not be allowed The last thing we hear of concerning our Arch-bishop in this King's Reign was his denial to comply with the new Settlement of the Crown devised and carried on by the domineering Duke of Northumberland for the Succession of Iane Daughter to Gray Duke of Suffolk whom he had married to one of his Sons This he did both oppose and when he could not hinder refused to have any hand in it First he did his endeavour to stop this Act of the King He took the boldness to argue much with the King about it once when the Marquess of Northampton and the Lord Darcy Lord Chamberlain were present And moreover he signified his desire to speak with the King alone that so he might be more free and large with him But that would not be suffered But if it had he thought he should have brought off the King from his Purpose as he said afterward But for what he had said to the King the Duke of Northumberland soon after told him at the Council-Table That it became him not to speak to the King as he had done when he went about to disswade him from his Will To the Council the Arch-bishop urged the entailing of the Crown by K. Henry upon his two Daughters and used many grave and pithy Reasons to them for the Lady Mary's Legitimation when they argued against it But the Council replied That it was the Opinion of the Judges and the King 's Learned Counsel in the Law that that Entailing could not be prejudicial unto the King and that he being in possession of the Crown might dispose of it as he would This seemed strange unto the Arch-bishop Yet considering it was the Judgment of the Lawyers and he himself unlearned in the Law he thought it not seemly to oppose this Matter further But he refused to sign Till the King himself required him to set his Hand to his Will and saying That he hoped he alone would not stand out and be more repugnant to his Will than all the rest of the Council were Which words made a great Impression upon the Arch-bishop's tender Heart and grieved him very sore out of the dear Love he had to that King and so he subscribed And when he did it he did it unfeignedly All this he wrote unto Queen Mary To which I will add what I meet with in one of my Manuscripts When the Council and the chief Judges had set their Hands to the King's Will last of all they sent for the Arch-bishop who had all this while stood off requiring him also to subscribe the same Will as they had done Who answered That he might not without Perjury For so much as he was before sworn to my Lady Mary by King Henry's Will To whom the Council answered That they had Consciences as well as he and were also as well sworn to the King's Will as he was The Arch-bishop answered I am not judg over any Man's Conscience but mine own only For as I will not condemn their Fact no more will I stay my Fact upon your Conscience seeing that every Man shall answer to God for his own Deeds and not for other Mens And so he refused to subscribe till he had spoken with the King herein And being with the King he told the Abp that the Judges had informed him that he might lawfully bequeath his Crown to the Lady Iane and his Subjects receive her as Queen notwithstanding their former Oath to King Henry's Will Then the Arch-bishop desired the King that he might first speak with the Judges Which the King gently granted And he spake with so many of them as were at that time at the Court and with the King's Attorney also Who all agreed in one that he might lawfully subscribe to the King's Will by the Laws of the Realm Whereupon he returning to the King by his Commandment granted at last to set his Hand From the whole Relation of this Affair we may note as the Honesty so the Stoutness and Courage of the Arch-bishop in the management of himself in this Cause against Northumberland who hated him and had of a long time sought his Ruin and the Ingratitude of Q. Mary or at least the Implacableness of Cranmer's Enemies that the Queen soon yielded her Pardon to so many of the former King's Council that were so deep and so forward in this Business but would not grant it him who could not obtain it till after much and long suit And that it should be put into two Acts of her Parliament to make him infamous for a Traitor to Posterity that he and the Duke of Northumberland were the Devisers of this Succession to deprive Q. Mary of her Right Which was so palpably false and untrue on the Arch-bishop's part But this was no question Winchester's doing through whose Hands being now Lord Chancellor all these Acts of Parliament past and the wording of them Finally I have only one thing more to add concerning this matter Which is that besides the Instrument of Succession drawn up by the King's Council Learned in the Law signed by himself and 32 Counsellors and dated Iune 21 according to the History of the Reformation there was another Writing which was also signed by 24 of the Council And to this I find our Arch-bishop's Name Herein they promised by their Oaths and Honours being commanded so to do by the King to observe all and every Article contained in a Writing of the King 's own Hand touching the said Succession and after copied out and delivered to certain Judges and Learned Men to be written in Order This Writing thus signed with the other Writing of the King being his Devise for the Succession may be seen in the Appendix as I drew them out of an Original CHAP. XXXV The King dies THE good King made his most Christian departure Iuly the 6 th to the ineffable loss of Religion and the Kingdom being in aâ—â— likelihood by his early Beginnings to prove an incomparable Prince to the English Nation It was more than whispered that he died by Poison And however secretly this was managed it was very remarkable that this Rumour ran not only after his Death but even a Month or two before it Reports spred that he was dead For which as being rash Speeches against the King they studiously took up many People and punished them Before his Father K. Henry had him his only Son lawfully begotten it was 28 Years from his first entrance upon his Kingdom And
greatest Blemishes of his Life For now the Popish Party thinking what a piece of Glory it would be to gain this great Man to their Church used all Means all Arts as well as Arguments to bring him to recant They set the Doctors of the University upon him He was entertained at the Dean of Christs-Church his Lodging There they treated him with good Fare They got him to Bowls with them They let him have his Pleasure in taking the Air. Sometimes they accosted him with Arguments and Disputations Sometimes by Flatteries Promises and Threatnings They told him The Noble-men bare him good Will that his Return would be highly acceptable to the King and Queen That he should enjoy his former Dignity in the Church or if it liked him better he should lead a quiet Life in more privacy And that it was but setting his Name in two Words in a piece of Paper They told him the Queen was resolved to have Cranmer a Catholick or no Cranmer at all That he was still lusty and strong and might live many a Year more if he would not willingly cut off his own Life by the terrible Death of Burning He rejected these Temptations a long while but at last was overcome and yielded The Recantation I shall not repeat it being to be seen at large in Fox It was signed by his Hand The Witnesses thereunto were two or three who had been exceedingly busy in tampering with him One Sydal a great Professor in the last Reign and Iohn and Richard two Spanish Friars The Doctors and Prelats caused this Recantation speedily to be printed and dispersed When the Queen saw his Subscription she was glad of it but would not alter her Determination to have him burned by the instigation as I suppose of Pole the Legat. The Writ for which was sent down by Hethe Lord Chancellor in the latter end of February under the Broad Seal It was charged upon his Converters that they were negligent in procuring his Life from the Queen But the true Reason was the Queen was resolved not to grant it She privately gave Instruction to Cole to prepare a Sermon to preach at his Burning And several Lords and other Justices of the Peace in those Parts were ordered to attend there with their Servants and Retinue to keep Peace and to see him Executed Cole coming with his Errand to Oxon visited him in the Prison and asked him if he stood firm to what he had subscribed This was the Day before his Execution but saying nothing to him of his determined Death The next Day being the Day he was to be burned viz. March 21. he came again and asked him if he had any Money And having none he gave him certain Crowns to bestow to what Poor he would and so departed exhorting him to Con-Constancy But the disconsolate Arch-bishop perceived to what this tended and being by and by to be brought to S. Mary's where Cole was to preach there openly to confess what he had more privately subscribed he resolved with himself to disburden his Conscience and to revoke his Recantation And he prepared a Prayer and a Declaration of his Faith which he drew up in writing and carried it privately along with him to make use of it when he saw his Occasion The manner how he behaved himself after Cole's Sermon and how he delivered his last Mind and with what Bitterness and Tears he did it and how he was pulled down by the Scholars Priests and Friars with the greatest Indignation at this their Disappointment and how he was led out of the Church forthwith to the Place of Burning over against Baliol College and how he there first put his right Hand into the Flames to be consumed for that base Subscription that it made and how his Heart was found whole and unconsumed in the Ashes after he was burnt These and the rest of the Particulars of his Martyrdom I might leave to Fox and other Historians from him to relate Yet because it is not convenient so briefly to pass over such a remarkable Scene of his Life being his last appearance upon the Stage of this World I shall represent it in the Words of a certain grave Person unknown but a Papist who was an Eye and Ear-Witness and related these Matters as it seems very justly in a Letter from Oxon to his Friend Which is as followeth But that I know for our great Friendship and long-continued Love you look even of Duty that I should signify to you of the Truth of such things as here chanceth among us I would not at this time have written to you the unfortunate End and doubtful Tragedy of T. C. late Bishop of Canterbury Because I little pleasure take in beholding of such heavy Sights And when they are once overpassed I like not to reherse them again being but a renewing of my Wo and doubling my Grief For although his former Life and wretched End deserves a greater Misery if any greater might have chanced than chanced unto him yet setting aside his Offences to God and his Country and beholding the Man without his Faults I think there was none that pitied not his Case and bewailed his Fortune and feared not his own Chance to see so noble a Prelat so grave a Counsellor of so long-continued Honour after so many Dignities in his old Years to be deprived of his Estate adjudged to die and in so painful a Death to end his Life I have no delight to increase it Alas it is too much of it self that ever so heavy a Case should betide to Man and Man to deserve it But to come to the matter On Saturday last being the 21 th of March was his Day appointed to die And because the Morning was much Rainy the Sermon appointed by Mr. Dr. Cole to be made at the Stake was made in S. Mary's Church Whither Dr. Cranmer was brought by the Mayor and Aldermen and my Lord Williams With whom came divers Gentlemen of the Shire Sir T. A Bridges Sir Iohn Browne and others Where was prepared over against the Pulpit an high Place for him that all the People might see him And when he had ascended it he kneeled down and prayed weeping tenderly which moved a great number to Tears that had conceived an assured hope of his Conversion and Repentance Then Mr. Cole began his Sermon The sum whereof was this First He declared Causes why it was expedient that he should suffer notwithstanding his Reconciliation The chief are these One was for that he had been a great cause of all this Alteration in this Realm of England And when the Matter of the Divorce between King Henry VIII and Queen Katharine was commenced in the Court of Rome he having nothing to do with it set upon it as Judg which was the entry to all the Inconveniences that followed Yet in that he excused him that he thought he did it not of Malice but by the Perswasions and
belief And these were in my heart as my Lord Bp. Hethe of Worcester can testify Neither was I commanded thus to speak but even of mine own free wil. And then he went to his prayers and dyed NUM LXXIV Archbishop Cranmers Letter to the Queen sueing for his pardon in the Lady Janes business MOst Lamentably mourning and moaning himself unto your Highnes Thomas Cranmer although unworthy either to write or speak unto your Highnes yet having no person that I know to be mediator for me and knowing your pitiful ears ready to hear al pitiful complaints and seeing so many to have felt your aboundant clemency in like case Am now constrained most lamentably and with most penitent and sorrowful heart to ask mercy and pardon for my heinous folly and offence in consenting and following the Testament and last Will of our late Soveraign Lord K. Edward VI. your Graces brother Which wel God he knoweth I never liked nor any thing grieved me so much that your Graces brother did And if by any means it had been in me to have letted the making of that Wil I would have done it And what I said therin as wel to the Councel as to himself divers of your Majesties Councel can report but none so wel as the Marquess of Northampton and the L. Darcy then Lord Chamberlain to the Kings Majesty Which two were present at the Communication between the Kings Majesty and me I desired to talk with the Kings Majesty alone but I could not be suffered and so I failed of my purpose For if I might have commoned with the King alone and at good leisure my trust was that I should have altered him from his purpose but they being present my labor was in vain Then when I could not dissuade him from the said Will and both he and his Privy Councel also informed me that the Judges and his learned Counsil said that the Act of entayling the Crown made by his Father could not be prejudicial to him but that he being in possession of the Crown might make his Wil therof This seemed very strange unto me But being the sentence of the Judges and other his learned Counsil in the Lawes of this realm as both he and his Counsil informed me methought it became not me being unlearned in the Law to stand against my Prince therin And so at length I was required by the Kings Majesty himself to set to my hand to his Wil Saying that he trusted that I alone would not be more repugnant to his Wil then the rest of the Councel were Which words surely grieved my heart very sore And so I granted him to subscribe his Wil and to follow the same Which when I had set my hand unto I did it unfainedly and without dissimulation For the which I submit my self most humbly unto your Majesty acknowledging mine offence with most grievous and sorrowful heart and beseeching your mercy and pardon Which my heart giveth me shal not be denyed unto me being granted before to so many Which travailed not so much to dissuade both the King and his Councel as I did And wheras it is contained in two Acts of Parlament as I understand that I with the Duke of Northumberland should devise and compass the deprivation of your Majesty from your royal Crown surely it is untrue For the Duke never opened his mouth to me to move me any such matter Nor his heart was not such toward me seeking long time my destruction that he would ever trust me in such a matter or think that I would be persuaded by him It was other of the Councel that moved me and the King himself the Duke of Northumberland not being present Neither before neither after had I ever any privy communication with the Duke of that matter saving that openly at the Councel table the Duke said unto me that it became not me to say to the King as I did when I went about to dissuade him from his said Will Now as concerning the state of religion as it is used in this realm of England at this present if it please your Highnes to licence me I would gladly write my mind unto your Majesty I wil never God willing be author of Sedition to move Subjects from the obedience of their Heads and Rulers Which is an offence most detestable If I have uttered my mind to your Majesty being a Christian Queen and Governor of this Realm of whom I am most assuredly persuaded that your gracious intent is above al other regards to prefer Gods true word his honor and glory if I have uttered I say my mind unto your Majesty then I shal think my self discharged For it lyes not in me but in your Grace only to se the Reformation of things that be amisse To private subjects it appertaineth not to reform things but quietly to suffer that they cannot amend Yet nevertheles to shew your Majesty my mind in things appertaining unto God methink it my duty knowing that I do and considering the place which in time past I have occupied Yet wil I not presume therunto without your Graces plesure first known and your Licence obtained Wherof I most humbly prostrate to the ground do beseech your Majesty and I shal not cease daily to pray to Almighty God for the good preservation of your Majesty from al Enemies bodily and ghostly and for the encrease of al goodnes heavenly and earthly during my life as I do and wil do whatsoever become of me NUM LXXV Cardinal Poles Instructions for his Messenger to the Queen Instructions for Master Thomas Goldwel MAster Goldwel After ye have made my most humble Salutations with al due reverence to the Queens Highnes on my behalf and presented my Letters to the same then pleasing her Grace to hear your Commission given by me and to understand the cause why I do send you to her ye may expound the same in that form that followeth First of al Seeing that the whole cause of my sending you to her Highnes at this time is grounded upon the request that her Grace maketh unto me in her letters sent me these dayes past from the Emperors court dated in London the xxviij of October in the Latine tongue Wherunto her G. doth demand answer of me in two points One is touching the difficulty she feareth by signes she seeth already touching the renouncing of the title of the Supremacy of the Church in her Realmes when it shal be put forth in the Parlament Which signes be that wheras her Majesty already hath caused to be put forth to the Parlament the abolishing of those lawes which concerned the annullation of the Legitimate matrimony of the gracious Lady the Queen Mother to her G. the same passing the Upper house and put forth to the Lower albeit in the effect they would not refuse to aggree to al that might make to the establishing of the right of her G. to the Crown yet they did not gladly
shal not only do a right charitable and a meritorious deed but also therbie throughlie satisfie and recompence your said Orator for the said lease so surrendred at the request of your highnes said dere father Although the said Orator hath lost in forbearing of the same above M. mark for the space of these eighteen yeres and above corn being at such a price as it hath byn And finallie bynde both hym and al his during thair lyves dailie to pray unto Almighty God for the most prosperous estate of your Majestie in moche honour and felicitie to indure NUM CIV A Prologue or Preface made by THOMAS CRANMER Late Archbishop of Canterbury to the holy Bible COncerning two sundry sorts of people it seemeth much necessary that something bee said in the entrie of this Book by way of a Preface or Prologue Wherby hereafter it may bee both the better accepted of th m which hitherto could not wel bear it and also the better used of them which heretofore have misused it For truly some there are that be too slow and need the spurr some other seem too qâ—ick and need more of the bridle Some loose their game by shorâ— shooting some by overshooting Some walk too much on the left hand some too much on the right In the former sort be al they that refuse to read or to hear read the Scripture in the vulgar tongue much worse they that let also or discourage the other from the reading or hearing thereof In the Latter sort bee they which by their inordinate reading undiscrete speaking contentious disputing or otherwise by their licentious Living slander and hinder the word of God most of al other wherof they would seem to bee greâ—test furtherers These two sorts albeit they bee most far unlike the one to the other yet they both deserve in effect like reproch Neither can I well teâ—l whether of them I may judg the more offendor him that doth obstinately refuse so godly and goodly knowledg or him that so ungodly and so ungoodly doth abuse the same And as touching the former I would mervail much â—hat any man should bee so mad as to refuse in darkness Light in hunger Food in cold Fire For the word of God is Light Lucerna pedibus meis Verbum tuum Thy Word is a Lanthorn unto my feet It is food Non in solo pâ—ne vivit homo sed in omni verbo Dei Man shal not live by bread onely bâ—t by everâ— word of God It is fire Ignem veni mittere in terram quid vâ—lo nisi ut ardeat I am come to send fire on the earth and what is my desire but that it be kindled I would mervail I say at this save that I consâ—der how much custome and usage may do So that if there were a people as some write De Cymmerijs which never saw the sun by reason that they be siâ—uated far toward the North-Pole and be enclosed and overshadowed with high mountaines it is credible and like enough that if by the power and will of God the mountains should sink down and give place that the light of the Sun might have entraunce to them at the first some of them would bee offended therewith And the old Proverb affirmeth that after tillage of corn was first found many delighted more to feed of mast and acornes wherewith they had been accustomed then to eat bread made of good corn Such is the nature of custome that it causeth us to bear all things well and easily wherewith we have been accustomed and to bee offended with all things thereunto contrary And therefore I can well think them worthy pardon which at the coming abroad of Scripture doubted and drew back But such as wil persist stil in their wilfulness I must needs judg not only foolish froward and obstinate but also peevish perverse and indurate And yet if the matter should bee tryed by Custome wee might also too alledge custome for the reading of the Scripture in the Vulgar tongue and prescribe the more auntient custome For it is not much above one hundred years agoe since Scripture hath not bâ—en accustomed to bee read in the vulgar tongue within this realm and many hundred years before that it was translated and read in the Saxons tongue which at that time was our mother tongue whereof there remain yet divers copies found lately in old Abbies of such antique maner of writing and speaking that few men now been able to read and understand them And when this language waned old and out of common usage because folk should not lack the fruit of reading it was again translated into the newer Language whereof yet also many copies remain and bee daily found But now to let pass custome and to weigh as wise men ever should the thing in his own nature Let us here discuss what it availeth Scriptuâ—e to bee had and read of the Lay and Vulgar people And to this question I intend here to say nothing but that was spoken and written by the noble Doctor and most moral Divine S. Iohn Chrysostome in his third Sermon De Lazaro albeit I wil be something shorter and gather the matter into fewer words and less room then he doth there because I would not bee tedious Hee exhorteth there his Audience that every men should read by himself at home in the mean dayes and time between Sermon and Sermon to the intent they might both more profoundly fix in their minds and memories that hee had said before upon such texts whereupon he had already preached and also that they might have their minds the more ready and better prepared to receive and perceive that which he should say from thenceforth in his Sermons upon such texts as hee had not yet declared and preached upon Therefore saith he there My common usage is to give you warning before what matter I intend after to entreat upon that you your selves in the mean dayes may take the book in hand read weigh and perceive the sum and effect of the matter and mark what hath been declared and what remaineth yet to bee declared So that thereby your mind may be the more furnisht to hear the rest that shal bee said And that I exhort you saith hee and ever have and wil exhort you that you not only here in the Church give ear to that that is said by the Preacher but that also when yee bee at home in your houses yee apply your selves from time to time to the reading of holy Scriptures Which thing also I never liâ— to beat into the ears of them that bee my familiars and with whom I have private acquaintance and conversation Let no man make excuse and say saith hee I am busied about matters of the common-wealth I bear this office or that I am a crafts man I must apply mine occupation I have a wife my children must be fed my household must be provided for Briefly I am a man of the
Edition of the Bible Antiq. Brit. in Vit. Craum The Preface to the Bible made by the ABp The Contents â—hereof No. CIV The Frontice-piece of Cranmers Edition of the Bible His Affection and Compassion towards Professors of the Gospel Particularly for Sir Iohn Châ—kâ— a Prisoner And the Lord Russel A Patron to such as preached the Gospel in K. Henry's Days Fox His Succour of afflicted Strangers in K. Edward's Days * Ad vos ceu in Asylum portum tutissimum sub Sanctissimi Regis alas confluebant Germani Galli Hispani Itali Poloni Scoti 〈◊〉 illic Deo suo in Fidei libertate servirent quam ipsis patria ingrata negabat Gualt Praes ante Hom. in Prior. D. Paul â—p ad Cor. No. CV England harborous of Strangers Anglos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 esse non nego peregrinorum habiti sunt admiratores Humfrid de Nobilit In lib. de Nobilitat p. 253. The ABp's Favour to Foreigners Unjustly charged with Covetousness His words to Cecyl upon this Charge Reduced as he feared to stark beggary before his Death Some Account of his House-keeping Retrenches the Clergies superfluous House-keeping His pious Design therein Others charged him with Prodigality Humble and Condescending Peaceable and Mild. His Speech upon the News of Wars abroad Unacquainted with the Arts of Court-flattery Would never crouch to Northumberland He and Ridley fall under the Duke's Displeasure Ridley's Lamentation Bold and undaunted in God's Cause Falsly charged with Cowardice and too much Flexibility Abâ—l Râ—diâ—â—â—vus Three Conversions Of Ardent Affections Inter Foxii MSS Cranmer compared with Card. Wolsey Osiander's Character of the ABp Epist. Dedicat ante Harmon Evangelic And Peter Martyr's Ep. Dedicat. ante librum de Eucharist Balt's Character of the ABp In Centur. The difficult Times wherein Cranmer lived A lying Character of this ABp by a laâ—â— French Author Varillas his History of Hereticks Allen's Calumny of the ABp Sincere and modest Def. of Engl. Catholicks p. 45. Wiped off Cleared from his Charge of Apostacy Saunders Falshoods of the ABp De Schism Aug. In his Book of the Three Conversions Parsons his Complements to the ABp In his Kalendar K. Edward's Journal Simleri Orat. in Obit P. Mart. Pa. 107. Fox in behalf of Cranmer Jo. Fox against Hierom. Osorius p. 338. The Conclusion Sir W. H. MSS. Sir W. H. MSS. Sir W. S. MSS. Sir W. H. MSS. Cranm. Reg. Cranm. Reg. Cleopatra E. 6. Cleopatra E. 5. Cotton Libr. Cleop. E. 6. p. 172. Cott. Librar Cleop. E. 6. p. 165. Cotton Libr. Cleop. E. 6. p. 181. * The Preamble to this Act may be read in the History of the Reformation Part I. p. 145. Cleopatra E. 5. * From whence came Shaxton Bp. of Sarum and Skip Q. Annes Chaplain and Bp. of Hereford Cleopatra E. 6. p. 232. Cleop. F. 1. p. 261. Cleop. F. 2. p. 124. C C.C.C. MS. Miscel. G. Cleopatra F. 1. p. 88. Cleop. F. 1. p. 91. Cleopatra E. 5. p. 192. This was writ with the ABps own hand Al the rest of the Letter was his Secretaries Cleopatra E. 5. ABp Cranm. Regist. ABp Cranm. Regist. Cleopatra E. 5. p. 327. Cleopatra E. 5. p. 371. Ex Dudithiâ— Orationib Opuscul * Aphorismorum de consideratione Eucharistiae Cleopatra E. 5. Cleopatra E. 5. p. 36. Cleop. E. 5. The ABp of Cant. Bp. Davys Archb. Cant. ABp Cant. Bp. Davyes ABp Cant. Bp. Davyes Mr. Cocks ABp Cant. Bp. Davyes ABp Cant. * Where is this distinction found The King's note * Now since you confess that the Apollystys Apostles did occupate the one part which you now confes belongeth to Princes how can you prove that Ordering is only committed to you Bishops The Kings Note †Ubi hoc The Kings Note ABp Cant. Bp. Davyes Mr. Cocks ABp Cant. ABp Cant. Bp. Davyes ABp Cant. ABp Cant. Bp. Davyes ABp Cant. Bp. Davyes Cleopatra E. 5. p. 111. Cleopatra E. 5. p. 326. MSS. C. C. CC. Miscellan D. MSS. C.C.C.C Miscellan D. MSS. C. C C C. intit Synodalia Dr. Legh Foxij MSS. * Heresie * The Erudition of a Christian man Cotton library Vespas D. 18. * But these are not the words of Erasmus but S. Paul Rom. XIII 8 * In the Book of The Erudition c. MSS. SrW.H Daius Cicestrensis Aschamij Epp. Becons Reports MSS. C.C.CC Miscellan D. DeConsâ—er di 4. Non ratione Domino proprie Siquts De Catechumenis Siqui Vencrabilis Baptizand Ex MSS. C.C.C.C. Miscellan D. Sr. W.H.MSS. Buceri Scripta Angliâ— P. Martyriâ— Opera Foxij MSS. Fâ—xij MSS. Gen. 17. E MSto privato Sr. W.H.MSS. Sr. W.H.MSS. Foxij M.S.S. Privati MS. Sr. W. H. M.S.S. Sr. W. H. MSS. Sr. W. H. MSS. Sr. W. H. MSS. Sir W. H. M.SS. Sir W. H. M.S.S. Sr. W. H. MSS. Sr. W. H. MSS. Sr. W. H. MSS. MSS. C. C.C.C Vol. intit Epist. Viror illustr Ex Bibliotheâ— C.C.C.C. G. Haddon Ex Bibliothec. C. C.C C. Sr. W. H. MSS. Foxij MSS. Sr. W. H. MSS. Sir W. H. MSS. Sir W. H. MSS. Sr. W.H.MSS. MSS. D. Wil. Petyt MSS. D. Wil. Petyt Sr. W.H.MSS. Foxij MSS. Sir W.H.MSS. Foxes Acts. Mar. 3 Joh. 4. Mat. 10. 2 Cor. 1â— Titus B. â— Letters of the Martyrs Cotton Library Titus B. 2. Regist. Eccles. Christ. Caâ—t Foxij MSS. Foxij MSS. Foxij MSS. â—oxes Acts. Registr Eccles Cant. Registr Eccles Cant. Ex Balaei Centâ—â—â—ijs Martyrs Letters Foxij MSS. Foxij MSS. Foxij MSS. 1 Iâ—an 2. Matt. 10. Psal. 2. 1 Joan. 2. Heb. 13. Cotton Library Titus B. 2. C. C. C C. Libr. Synodalia Foxij MSS. Sir W. H. MSS. An. 1563. Sr. W. H. MSS. SirW H.MSS Sr. W. H. MSS. Levit. 27. Levit. 27. Gen. 47. †Quid per hanc notam Quaere Dan. 5. Josue 7. 2 Macch. 5. 3 Macch. 9. 3 Macch. 4. 1 Cor. 9. Mat. 10. Deut. 25. 1 Cor. 7. 1 Tim. 3. Gal. 4. Acts 2. Act. 5. 2 Macc. 1.3 9. SirW H.MSS An. 1553. sr W.H. MSS. Sir W. H. MSS. Sr. W. H. MSS. SirW H. MSS. Sir W. H. MSS. Sr. W.H.MSS. SirW H.MSS Sr. W. H. MSS. Sr. W.H.MSS. Psal. 119. a. Mat. 4. a. Luke 12. â— S. Chrysostom The conclusion of the former part The Kings Highness hath allowed the Scripture as necessary for us The conclusion of the latter part Psal. 50. Sir W. H. MSS. Sir W.H.MSS. Sr. W.H.MSS. Sr. W. H. MSS. Sir W. H. MSS.