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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30331	A continuation of reflections on Mr. Varillas's History of heresies particularly on that which relates to English affairs in his third and fourth tomes / by G. Burnet ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1687 (1687)	Wing B5771; ESTC R23040	59,719	162

raise himself ●as prevailed on by the same Ambition ●●w to betray his Master so he went ●●mself as soon as King Edward ex●●ed to give Queen Mary notice of 〈◊〉 design that was laid against her ●●d he made such hast that he came to ●●nsden two hours before the body of ●orse so he being well known to those 〈◊〉 kept her was admitted to her and he not only warned her of her dange● but he found a way to convey both 〈◊〉 and himself away Some body in Charity to Mr. Var●●las should have told him that the● was at present a Iesuite in great cred●● in a certain Court of Europe that is 〈◊〉 neally descended from this Petre yet 〈◊〉 comfort him tho those of that Orde● are not much celebrated for their gre●● readiness to forgive I am confident 〈◊〉 Petre will think him below his wrat 〈◊〉 notwithstanding this injury that he do the memory of his Ancestor I dare n●● say his Grand-Father lest he finds o●● as he did in the case of the L. Darn●● that he was his Great Grand-father 〈◊〉 will not call this an irreparable Inju●● to use Mr. Varillas's terms in the case King Henry the Seventh for I do n●● think that he is capable of doing 〈◊〉 Irreparable injury to any body But 〈◊〉 return to Petre he had been long S●●cretary of State both to King Her● and King Edward and so was n●● Northumberland's Secretary 2. 〈◊〉 was always esteemed a Protestant a●● was a vertuous and sincere man if was a Catholick he was a very bad on for his Family to this day feels what a great Estate he made out of the Abbey Lands 3. He continued stile with Northumberland and was one of those who signed the Letter to Queen Mary in the pretended Q. Iean's Name ordering her to lay down her pretensions 4. He was removed from his Office of Secretary as soon as Q. Mary came to the Crown and here I lose sight of him and do not know what became of him afterwards or when it was that the Family was raised to the dignity of being Peers of England 5. It was the Earl of Arundel that sent Queen Mary the notice of her Brothers Death and of the design then on foot against her for she was then within half a days journey of London on her way to see her Brother and it seems that Northumberland durst not venture on so hardy a thing as the seising on her but he intended to make her come as it were to see her Brother and so to get her to throw herself into his hands LXVII He says Northumberland had four things for him King Edward's Testament the Publick Treasure the Army and the Fleet but Queen Mary went to Norfolk where She knew how much he was hated for his having sold Bulloigne to the French But I have already shewed that the Settlement of the Crown was not done by Testament but by Letters Patents And as at that time there was no Fleet nor standing Army at all so there was scarce any Money in the Treasury 2. The Duke of Northumberland was indeed much hated in Norfolk but not for the business of Bulloigne but besides the general Considerations that had rendred him odious to the whole Nation he had subbued the Insurrection of Norfolk of the Commons against the Gentry and had been very severe in his Military Executions 3. Q Mary did not go to Norfolk she went indeed very near it but she staied still in Suffolk LXVIII Mr. Varillas tells us that the Earles of Derby Essex and Hastings were not Inferiour in any respect to those who had married the Lady Jean Gray's Sisters so they declared for Q. Mary on two conditions the one was that She should never marry a Stranger and the other that She should make no change in matters of Religion but tho Q. Mary was absolutely resolved to observe neither of these yet since there are few Examples of those who would lose a Crown rather than not promise the things which they neither can nor will observe She promised all that was asked of her upon which those three Earles being perswaded that they had provided sufficiently for Calvinism took the Field with their Friends and having assured all people that they had received a full Security for the established Religion they quickly brought together an Army of 15000. men Our Author is always unhappy when he comes to particulars for 1. the Earl of Derby was a zealous Papist and had protested in Parliament against all the Changes that had been made 2. He had no hand in the re-establishing of Queen Mary for the business was done before there was any occasion of raising the remote Counties 3. There was no Earl of Essex at this time for that Title was bestowed on none from Cromwels fall till the exaltation of Queen Elisabeth's Favorite to it 4. There was no Earl of Hastings the Earl of Huntingtons Son carries the Title of Lord Hastings and our Author had bestowed on him L. Iean Gray's Sister 5. The Earl of Sussex was the person that did the greatest service of all to the Queen who is not so much as named by Mr. Varillas 6. It was the People of Suffolk and Norfolk that asked those assurances of the Queen in the matters of Religion but it does not appear that any of the Nobility made any such demands 7. Nor is there any mention made of their asking any Assurances of her that she should not marry a Stranger 8. The care that our Author uses here in setting forth Queen Mary's Dissimulation and her granting of Promises that she never intended to observe and the general Reflection that upon that he makes on Crowned Heads looks as if he had a mind to cover the Infamy of some late Violations of Promises and Oaths by shewing that this has been the way of Crowned Heads at all times and perhaps this is to be a part of the Panegyrick but since Mr. Varillas had taxed the zealous Catholicks of England as Imprudent for laying down Arms upon King Henry's word why might not he have put the same Censure here on those zealous Protestants who took up Arms upon Queen Mary's word since as he sets out the matter they had less reason to trust her than the other Rebels had to trust her Father LXIX He tells us that Northumberland marched against her with some old Troops that he had ready fancying that She was but 15000. strong but he found She was 30000. strong two parts of three of his Army refused to fight and some went over to the Queen with flying Colours so he was forced to return to London reckoning that he was still Master of the City and the Fleet but at his return he found the Gates shut upon him and that the City had declared against him whose Example was followed by the Fleet. So seeing all was lost he rendred himself upon discretion ten dayes after he had crowned Jean of Suffolk This Section

he begins here with the pretended Sentence against Latimer Bishop of Vigorne and Scherton Bishop of Sarisbery who were as he says not only degraded but condemned to perpetual Imprisonment for having spoke somewhat against the six Articles 1. It is perhaps to descend too low to tell him that he ought to have named those Sees Worcester and Salisbury and that the latter of those Bishops was not Scherton but Shaxton for the marking such small faults looks like a want of more material ones 2. These two Bishops were never degraded but of their own accord they resigned their Bishopricks within three days after the Act of the six Articles had passed and it was some time after that before they were put in prison upon an Accusation relating to the six Articles and not for Latimer's having eat meat on a Good Fryday as our Author reports it in another place having forgot what he had said here For it is a very hard thing to remember Lies especially when the number of them is so excessively great XVI Upon Wolsey ' s fall he tells us that the King cast his eyes upon Thomas Cromwel to be his chief Minister who was a Gentleman of quality upon which he tells us that the Family of the Cromwels was very Antient and had already produced some that had been raised to the Chief Imployments in the State and so he goes on to make a Parallel between the late Protector and King Henry's Minister only he will not in this place examin whether the one descended from the other or not One would wonder how it falls out that Mr. Varillas is so constantly mistaken even in the most obvious matters There is not one that writ in that time on those Affairs that does not take notice of the meanness of Cromwel's birth for his Father was a Black-smith and his base extraction is particularly mentioned in the Act that condemned him 2. He is the first of his name that is spoken of in our Story for the Family was so far from being antient that it was not known before him 3. Oliver Cromwel was no way related to him and indeed not so much as by being originally of that name being descended from an Antient Family in Wales of the Ap William's at this time the Welchmen beginning to take Sirnames who before went only by the name of some Eminent man among their Ancestors with the Addition of Ap before it this Ap Williams having received great Obligations from Cromwel he made choice of his name 4. Our Author says true here that Cromwel succeeded Wolsey in the chief Ministry but yet he contradicts himself for he had said elsewhere that by Anne Bullens means Cranmer was raised at this time to the Dignity of being the first Minister but he grows old and it seems his Memory decays all the rest of his Character of Cromwel and the projects that he puts in his head are a continuation of the Romance XVII Mr. Varillas will here rise above the Vulgar and give a representation of the state of the Monasteries in England he tells us They had acquired the property of two thirds of the Kingdom and among the other effects of the power of the Clergy he mentions this that the Popes had many officers in England for levying the Peterpence who had such an Influence over the Clergy that they had the main stroak in our Parliaments by which means it was that tho the King of England was as to the outward appearance Master of his Kingdom yet in effect he was far from it and that as King Henry had a mind to 〈◊〉 off this yoke so Cromwel suggested to him the method in which it might be done and among other things ●●nce the chief resistance that the Crown had met with in Parliament had always come from the Monks he propos'd to the King the seising on their Revenues One would think that Mr. Varillas had intended to prepare an Apology for King Henry's seising on the Abbey Lands for if they had two thirds of the Kingdom if they were influenced by Italian Ministers and if they had always opposed the designs of the Crown in Parliament here were very powerful reasons for suppressing them 2. It is generally believed that the Abbey Lands might be one third of England but no body ever carried the estimate of their wealth to so invidious a height before Mr. Varillas as to imagin that they were Masters of two thirds of the Nation And as for that Interest that he pretends that some Italians have had in them and the Opposition that they gave the Crown in Parliament these are either Fictions of his own or of some Author as bad as himself if any such can be found In the times of King Iohn and of his Son Henry the Third the Italians oppressed England severely but they were far from doing it by the Interest they had among the Monasteries for it appears by Matthew Paris how much they complained of that Tyranny which was in a great measure repressed when England came to have Kings who had more spirit so that Edward the first and Edward the third made such effectual Laws that after their time we find no evidences of any great stroke that Italian Officers had in England XVIII He represents the dissolution of the Monasteries as carried on by a Project of Cromwels who got a great party among the Monks to sign a Petition to the King for which he cites on the Margin the expositive or Preamble of it in which they set forth their real unhappiness tho they seemed to be happy that they could not bear the hardness of their condition and therefore they implored the King's Favour that they might live as other Englishmen free from the constraint of Vows and the Tyranny of the Court of Rome and they added that if the King would grant this Petition they prayed him to accept a free Surrender of all their Goods and Lands This he says was sent from House to House and it was looked on as the Master-piece of the Reformation Mr. Varillas has a mind to demonstrate to all the World that he knows nothing of English Affairs For 1. there was never any such Petition made 2. I have published almost three hundred of the Surrendess of which the Original Deeds are yet extant and these were all of one form but were not in one writing as he dreams the Preamble of all is the same That they have deliberatly of certain knowledg and of their own proper motion and for some just and reasonable Causes that did especially move their Souls and Consciences freely and of their own accord given and granted to the King c. 3. It is plain our Author knew nothing of the General Visitation that was made of all the Monasteries of England and of the Discoveries that were made of the most horrid of all Vices that God had punished with Fire and Brimstone from