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

THE LIFE DEATH OF THAT RENOWNED JOHN FISHER Bishop of Rochester Comprising the highest and hidden Transactions of Church and State in the reign of King Henry the 8th with divers Morall Historicall and Politicall Animadversions upon Cardinall Wolsey Sir Thomas Moor Martin Luther with a full relation of Qu Katharines Divorce Carefully selected from severall ancient Records by THO. BAILY D. D. Vivit post funera virtus LONDON Printed in the yeare 1655. The Right reverend father in God Iohn Fisher B of Rochester John Fisher was his name of whom you read Like John the Baptist this John lost his head Both y● sharpe axes stroake theyr body's feeles Both theyr heads danc'd of by light payrs of heeles Read but this booke this Fisher through and then You 'l finde a fisher not of fish but men THE LIFE DEATH OF THAT RENOWNED JOHN FISHER Bishop of Rochester Comprising the highest and hidden Transactions of Church and State in the reign of King Henry the 8th with divers Morall Historicall and Politicall Animadversions upon Cardinall Wolsey Sir Thomas Moor Martin Luther with a full relation of Qu Katharines Divorce Carefully selected from severall ancient Records by THO. BAILY D. D. Vivit post funera virtus LONDON Printed in the yeare 1655. To my honoured Kinsman Mr. Iohn Questall Merchant in Antwerp SIR THere are but three reasons inducing an Author to dedicate his Book to any one man rather than to another The first is the patronage of his Work under the shelter of some o're-spreading tree whose armes may happily receive the suppliant under his protection and defend it from the stormes of persecution The second is a willingnesse in the Author to expresse a Gratitude by Dedication by reason of some former Courtesies received And the third is a fitnesse in the person to whom he dedicates his book whereby his dedication may become suitable to such a Patronage The first I never affected as never believing that the estimation of any Patron could be o● sufficient authority to dignifie the patronage if it had not that within it selfe to make it acceptable according to that expression of the Father of the English Poets v●z I never knew that a Generalls Oration could make an Army either stand or fall but look how much habituall valour each man hath in himself so much in act it shews The Second I alwaies loved viz. to be gratefull to my friends and where such love and gratitude cannot otherwise goe or stand upon their owne legs on any ground they shall both creep on paper wherefore most worthy Cousin having received so great a benefit at your hands beyond the Seas as in my low condition not onely at once to relieve the Father in his necessity but also to adde so bountifull a hand in the bringing up of that child which by you● speciall charity is now able to live of it selfe to you onely do I dedicate this book as an acknowledgement of all your loving kindnesses Nor is the dedication of the History of this renowned Bishop and Cardinall elect to your selfe altogether improper for you being a Merchant your selfe he being a Merchants Son whereby it may appeare that men of your profession do not altogether bring home together with your Gold from Ophir Apes and Peacocks feathers but sometimes Iewels of Divine verity and highest estimation Thus with my prayers to God for you and your continuance in his Grace and Favour till you reach his Glory I take leave to rest Your most faithfull Servant and poore Kinsman T. B. The Life and Death of the most renowned John Fisher sometimes Bishop of Rochester CHAP. I. 1. The Time and Place of his Birth 2. How suitable both his Names were with his Condition 3. His comparison unto John the Baptist. 4. His temperance in Dyet and retirement of Life 5. His Education and Preferment 6. The countesse of Richmond the Kings Mother her great desire of winning him to her service 7. The great good deeds which she performed by his perswasion AT the time when as the Starres of Heaven frowned upon the Nation to behold Innocence swaying the Scepter of this Land so misbecomingly in the seven and thirtieth year of the Reign of the most Noble though unfortunate King Henry the sixt and in the year one thousand 〈◊〉 hundred fifty and nine after the time that a Virgin Daughter had produced her Father and a Creature her Creator when the blessed Vine sprang from the same Grape it bare and the root of Iesse shot from the Spring the Divine Providence brought forth under succour whose after growth made it soon known unto the world how worthily he received the two Names which both his Christendome and his Parents had bestowed upon him within the Collegi●t Church and town of Beverly scituate within the Province of York about eight score miles distant Northwards from the head City of the Nation viz. of Iohn and FISHER of Iohn being so like unto Iohn the Baptist who was twice baptized First with Water Secondly with Blood as by the first he was named Iohn so by the second he deserved to be stiled Iohn the Baptist having so fitly sympathized with the fore-runner of his Saviour by his following Christ that as like unto the others head became both Fountaine and their senselesse Trunkes streamers of Blood whiles the Spectators eyes became Rivers of W●●●● The first his Head was beg'd of King Herod at a banquet of Wine by a Psaltresse or woman dancer by the like light paire of heels the second Iohn of whom we treat his head was beg'd of King Henry whilst he was banquetting and making merry at his house of Hanworth The first was beheaded on the Birth day of King Herod the second was beheaded on the Birth day of King Henry having that very day compleated the just age of five and forty yeares And as the Holy finger of Saint Iohn the Baptist which pointed to the Lambe when he said Ecce Agnus Dei was miraculously preserved from corruption for a long space of time after his martyrdome so the head of this most blessed martyr wherewith he so de●cended and that so manfully the holy Catholick Church and Head of his Mother was by the like miracle preserved from corruption a long time after it was stuck up upon the Bridge of London with a fresh and lively colour untill such time as by commandement from the King it was taken downe and conveyed away from the sight of Men. The first made a Wildernesse his habitation The second turned his Pala●● into a Wildernesse and place of solitude so Austerely curbing his wanton appetite with the most spare and Lessian dyet as that he made his Refection to be his Locufts and so cooling his infrequent Pleasures with sighs and sa●cing them with so many Tears as that he made the selfe same bitter sweetings his wilde Honey the first wearing only a Girdle but the second contiually a Shirt of courser haire Only in this

said a few prayers which were not long but fervent and devout which being ended he laid his head down on the middle of a little block where the Executioner being ready with a sharp and heavy Ax cut asunder his slender neck at one blow which bled so abundantly that many wondred to see so much blood issu● out of so slender and leane a body As concerning the Head the Executioner put it into a bag and carried it away with him meaning to have set it on the Bridge that night as he was commanded The Lady Anne Bullein who was the chief cause of this holy mans death had a certain desire to see the head before it was set up whereupon being brought unto her she beheld it a space and at last contemptuously said these or the like words Is this the head that so often exclaimed against me I trust it shall never do no more harm with that striking it upon the mouth with the back of her hand hurt one of her fingers upon a tooth that stuck somewhat more out than the rest did which finger after grew sore and putting her to pain many dayes after was nevertheless cured at last with much difficulty But after it was healed the mark of the hurt place remained to be seen when her own head was not to be seen upon her shoulders This may seem strange as a rare example of cruell boldness in that sex which by nature is fearfull and cannot behold such spectacles and therefore argueth no doubt a wonderfull malice which she by likelihood bare to the holy man living that could thus cruelly use his head being dead Then the Executioner stripping the body of his shirt and all his clothes he departed thence leaving the headless carkasse naked upon the Scaffold where it remained after that sort for the most part of that day saving that one for pity and humanity sake cast a little straw over his privities about eight of the clock in the evening commandment came from the Kings Commissioners to such as watched about the dead body for it was still watched with many halberds weapons that they should cause it to be buried Whereupon two of the watchers took it upon a holbert between them and so carried it to a Church-yard there hard by called Alh Barkin where on the Northside of the Church hard by the wall they digged a grave with their halberds and therein without any reverence tumbled the body of this holy Prelate all naked and flat upon his belly without either shirt or other accustomed thing belonging to a christian mans buriall and so covered quickly with earth And this was done on the day of St. Albane the Pro●omartyr of England being Tuesday the 22. of Iune in the year of ou● redemption 1535. and in the 27. year of the Kings reigne after he had lived full threescore and sixteen years nine moneths and odde daies The next day after his burying the head being parboyled was pricked upon a pole and set on high upon London Bridge among the rest of the holy Carthusians heads that suffered death lately before him And here I cannot omit to declare unto you the miraculous sight of this head which after it had stood up the space of fourteen dayes upon the bridge could not be perceived to wast nor consume neither for the weather which then was very hot neither for the parboyling in hot water but grew daily fresher and fresher so that in his life-time he never looked so well for his cheeks being beautified with a comely red the face looked as though it had beholden the people passing by and would have spoken to them which many took for a miracle that Almighty God was pleased to shew above the course of nature in this preserving the fresh and lively colour in his face surp●ssing the colour he had being alive whereby was noted to the world the innocence and holinesse of this blessed Father that thus innocently was content to lose his head in defence of his Mother the holy Catholique Church of Christ wherefore the people coming daily to see this strange sight the passage over the bridge was so stopped with their going and coming that almost neither cart nor horse could passe and therfore at the end of fourteen daies this Executioner was commanded to throw downe the head in the night-time into the R●ver of Thames and in the place thereof was set the head of the most blessed and constant Martyr Sir Thomas Moore his Companion and fellow in all his troubles who suffered his passion the 6. day of Iuly next following And touching the place of his buriall in Barkin Church yard it was well observed at that time by divers worthy persons of the nations of Italy Spain and France that were then abiding in the Realme and more diligently noted and wrote the course of things and with lesse fear and suspition then any of the Kings subjects might or durst doe that for the space of seaven yeares after his buriall there grew neither leaf nor grasse upon his grave but the earth still remained as bare as though it had been continually occupied and trodden When by common fame this bloudy Execution was blown and spread abroad straight way the name of King Henry begun to grow odious among all good people not onely in his own Realm at home but also among all forreign Princes and Nations abroad through Christendome insomuch that Paul the third then Pope of Rome with great grief signified these doings by severall Letters to all the Christian Princes openly detesting the outrage of King Henry in committing such a wicked and manifest injury not onely against the freedome and priviledge of the Church of Rome but also against the whole state of Christs universall Church for the which in short space after he pronounced the terrible sentence of Excommunication against him Likewise the most noble and christian Emperour Charles the fifth at such time as Sir Thomas Moore was beheaded and word th●●eof brought to him sent speedily for Sir Thomas Eliot the Kings Embassadour there 〈◊〉 with him and asked him whether he heard any such newes or no who answered him that he heard no such thing yes said the Emperour it is true and too true that Sir Thomas Moore is now executed to death as a good Bishop hath lately been before and with that giving a sigh said alas what meant the K. to kill two such man for said he the Bishop was such a one as for all purposes I think the King had not the like agai●●● in all his R●alm neither yet was to be matched through Christendome so that said he the King your Master hath in killing that Bishop killed at one blow all the Bishops in England And Sir Thomas Moore said he was well known for a man of such profound wisdome cunning and vertue that if he had been towards me as he was towards the King your Master I had rather have lost the best City in all