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CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 OF 
 
 MATTHEW    PARKER,    D.I), 
 
 AlK  HBISIIOr  OF  CANTERBURY. 
 
 COMPniSING 
 
 LETTERS   WRITTEN   UY   ^VND   TO   HIM,    FROM   A.D.    1535, 
 TO   HIS  DEATH,   A.D.    1576. 
 
 y      EDITED   FOR 
 
 JOHN  BRUCE,  ESQ. 
 
 •    AND   THE 
 
 REV.  THOMAS  THOMASOX   TEROWNE,  M.A. 
 
 FELLOW  OF  CORPUS  CIIRISTI  COLLEGE,  CAMBniDGF. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE  : 
 
 PRINTED  AT 
 
 THE   UNIVERSITY   PRESS. 
 
 M.DCCC.LIII. 
 
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INTRODUCTUKV    NOTICE, 
 
 It  is  not  tlcomcd  necessary  to  introduce  the  Correspondence 
 of  Arclibishop  Parker  to  the  members  of  the  society  which 
 bears  his  name,  by  any  lengthened  or  express  biography. 
 To  consider  his  career  in  detail,  would  be  to  write  the  ec- 
 clesiastical history,  and  indeed  no  small  portion  also  of  the 
 literary  history,  of  the  most  important  part  of  the  reign  of 
 Queen  Elizabeth.  Such  a  work,  however  valuable,  would  be 
 foreign  to  the  purpose  of  the  Parker  Society  ;  the  design  of 
 which  is  to  furnish  materials,  rather  than  treatises ;  to  publish 
 authorities,  rather  than  to  draw  conclusions. 
 
 But,  in  truth,  although  not  in  the  form  of  an  express 
 biography,  this  volume  contains  within  itself  what  is  really 
 and  truly  a  Life  of  Archbishop  Parker.  In  what  esteem  he 
 was  held  by  Archbishop  Cranmer  and  others  of  the  Reformers 
 of  the  English  church',  by  what  steps  he  rose  to  the  arcli- 
 bishoprick,  how  he  exercised  the  authority  of  that  exalted 
 office,  what  difficulties  he  had  to  encounter,  and  by  what 
 spirit  the  whole  tcnour  of  his  life  was  animated,  these  things — 
 
 1  One  interesting  proof  of  this  esteem,  the  MS.  of  which  was 
 searched  for  in  vain  when  the  early  portion  of  the  Correspondence 
 went  to  press,  may  find  a  place  here.  It  is  a  letter  from  Latimer  to 
 Parker,  which,  having  escaped  from  its  old  place  of  deposit,  has 
 lately  been  added  to  the  Library  of  the  British  Museum,  where  it 
 stands,  Additional  MS.  19,400,  No.  21.  It  was  probably  written  in 
 153o,  when  Parker  was  chaplain  to  Anne  Boleyn. 
 
 '•'Mine  own  good  master  Parcare,  salutem.  And  as  yet  I  have  de- 
 vised nothing,  nor  yet  will,  till  I  have  spoken  with  the  King's  grace, 
 and  have  passed  through  the  next  parliament.  And  then,  what  I 
 shall  alter  and  change,  found  and  confound,  you  shall  not  be  ignorant 
 thereof.  Vale,  and  do  as  master  Latjuier  shall  move  you  to  do. 
 Ostende  teipsum  mundo;  delitescere  diutius  nolito;  operate  bonum  dum 
 tempus  hdbest  veniet  iiox  quando  nemo  poterit  operari.  Xotum  est  quid 
 pote^,  fac   non  minus  velis  quam  potes.    Vale.     Tuus, 
 
 H.  LATYiiER,  of  Worcester. 
 
 To  his  ice.U-beluVed,  nuisiei'  Pavcare,  chaplain  to  the  Queen's  good  grace." 
 
VI  INTRODUCTORY    NOTICE. 
 
 which  arc  the  essence  of  his  biography — all  appear  clearly 
 in  the  present  volume,  written  unmistakeably  by  his  own 
 pen,  and  by  the  pens  of  his  correspondents.  No  one  who 
 will  take  the  trouble  to  peruse  the  following  pages  will  need 
 any  biographer  to  instruct  him  farther  as  to  the  character,  or 
 as  to  the  opinions,  of  Archbishop  Parker. 
 
 Some  few  facts,  principally  relating  to  his  early  and  his 
 domestic  history,  were  registered  by  the  Archbishop  himself 
 in  a  small  roll  of  parchment,  which  is  preserved  with  peculiar 
 care  in  Corpus  Christi  College,  Cambridge.  These  auto- 
 biographical memoranda,  not  being  of  the  character  of  Corre- 
 spondence, could  not  find  a  place  in  the  body  of  the  present 
 volume,  but  they  are  necessary  to  be  read  in  connection  with 
 the  Letters,  and  tend  to  complete  the  information  which  they 
 contain.     The  memoranda  are  as  follows^ : — 
 
 "In  the  Year  of  our  Lord  1504,  on  the  6th  of  August,  letter 
 G  and  F^,  Matthew  Parker  was  born  at  Norwich,  in  the 
 parish  of  Saint  Saviour;  and  was  brought  up  in  the 
 parish  of  All  Saints  near  Fye-bridgo  gates,  and  edu- 
 cated in  the  parish  of  Saint  Clement  near  Fye-bridge, 
 under  William,  his  father,  who  lived  to  a.d.  1516,  and 
 to  the  48th  year  of  his  age;  Alice,  his  mother,  who 
 lived  to  A.D.  1553,  and  to  the  83rd  year  of  her  age. 
 
 .  2   (Thomas  Benis,  Bachelor  of  Theology,  rector  of  St  Cle- 
 
 ^     ment's,  and  partly  by  Eichard  Pope,  priest. 
 2.  ,      2.  William  Prior,  clerk,  of  the  church  of  St  Benedict. 
 
 ^3  ( W.  Love,  priest        )  ^f  g^  Stephen's,  severe  teachers. 
 
 (R.  Manthorp,  clerk) 
 4.         4.  William  Neve,  an  easy  and  kind  schoobnaster. 
 
 YEAR 
 
 1522.      Sth  of  September,  about  the  l7th  year  of  my  age^,  sent  to 
 
 1  The  original  Latin  in  which  these  entries  arc  made,  is  printed 
 in  the  Appendix,  No.  I.  p.  481. 
 
 2  The  Dominical  Letter. 
 
 3  StrjTDG,  in  the  body  of  his  work,  (Bk.  i.  c.  1,  p.  8),  gives  1520 
 as  the  date  of  Parker's  going  to  Cambridge.  This  is  certainly  wrong. 
 Parkei-'s  own  autobiographical  roll  gives  "A°.  1522,  8°.  Septembr. 
 circa  a*^\  setatismese  17;"  but  this  must  be  a  mistake  for  1521,  for 
 he  was  born  in  August  1504,  and  would  therefore  have  been  in 
 his  18tb,  not  his  17th  year,  in  September  1522.  Moreover,  at  the 
 foot  of  a  document  written  by  Stephen  Gardiner  (Parker  ISISS., 
 C.  C.  Coll.,  Camb.,  cvi.  art.  15,  p.  63,  Orig.),  there  is  this  note,  ap- 
 parently in  Parker's  handwriting:   '•'Hoc   anno  in  fosto  Nativitatis 
 
 He  was 
 
 instructed 
 
 in  reading 
 
 in  %\Titing 
 
 in  singing 
 
 V,in  gi-annnar 
 
INTRODUCTORY    NOTICE.  vtt 
 
 TEAR 
 
 Cambridge  (by  the  help  of  Mr  Bunjjo,  of  the  parish  of 
 St  George,  but  at  my  mother's  expense) ;  and  in  Corpus 
 Christi  College,  under  a  tutor,  Robert  Cowpcr,  a  Master  of 
 Arts,  but  of  small  learning,  instructed  in  dialectics  and 
 philosophy;  partly  in  Saint  Mary's  Hostel,  and  partly  in 
 [Corpus]  Christi  College. 
 
 1522.<    In   the  month   of  March    elected    a    Bil)lc-clerk    of   Corpus 
 Christi  College. 
 
 1525.      Admitted  Bachelor  of  Arts. 
 
 1520.      22nd  of  December.     Made  Sub-deacon  under  the  titles  of 
 Barnwell,  and  the  Chapel  in  the  fields,  Norwich. 
 
 1527.      20th  of  April.     Made  Deacon, 
 
 1627.      15th  of  June.     Made  Triost. 
 
 1527.      Oih  of  September.    Elected  a  Fellow  of  Corpus  Christi  Collogo. 
 
 1527.5    3rd.  Created  Master  of  Arts. 
 
 Granchester  1 
 
 iBeachfLandbcach]    2    „      , 
 
 1533.      On  the  first  Sunday  in  Advent  ]^^  tenet's  Church         ^"l^^^^ 
 entered  on  the   office  of        ^Cambridge]        (  '^  /''  ,, 
 
 nreachinf^.  Ur\-     i  \       \   ,  Advent^, 
 
 prcatuuj^.  (Madmgley,  and  4 
 
 ^      Barton.  '  5 
 
 1535.      30th  of  March.     Called  to  the  Court  of  Queen  Anno". 
 1535.      14th  of  July.     Made  Bachelor  of  Divinity. 
 1 535.     4th  of  November.     Promoted  to  the  deanery  of  Stoke  Claro 
 by  Queen  Anne,  in  the  27th  year  of  Henry  VHI. 
 
 1537.  1st  of  March.     Called  to  the  court  of  the  King,  and  made 
 
 chaplain  of  Henry  VHI. 
 
 1538.  1st  of  July.     Created  Doctor  of  Divinity. 
 
 1542.      27th  of  May.     Presented  to  the  rectory  of  Ashen  in  Essex. 
 1541.8    28th  of  October.     Installed  into  the  second  prebend  in  the 
 
 church  of  Ely,  by  collation  of  Henry  VIII. 
 1544.     4th  of  December.     Elected  Master  of  Corpus  Christi  College 
 
 by  commendatory  letters  of  Henry  VIII. 
 1544.      30tli  of  April.     Resigned  the  rectory  of  Ashen. 
 1544.      1st  of  May.    Presented  to  the  rectory  of  Burlingham,  Norfolk. 
 
 beatce  Marioe  M.  P.  accessit  Cantabrigiam."  Now  the  festival  in 
 question  falls  on  the  8th  of  September,  but  the  date  of  Gardiner's 
 document  is,  "Anno  Domini  millesimo  quingentesimo  vicesimo  primo." 
 
 4  i.  c.  1522-3. 
 
 5  Probably  this  should  be  3rd  of  July,  1528. 
 
 6  The  figures  1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  hero  seom  to  intimate  the  order  of 
 Parker's  first  five  sermons,  of  which  the  first  four  were  preached  on 
 the  Sundays  in  Advent,  the  fifth  on  Christmas- day,  which  fell  that 
 year  on  a  Sunday. 
 
 "^  Anne  Boleyn. 
 
 s  This  date  is  printed  in  the  chronological  order  in  which  it  stands 
 in  the  original  MS. 
 
VIU  INTRODUCTORY    NOTICE. 
 
 YEAR 
 
 1544.^  25th  of  January.  First  elected  to  the  office  of  Vice-Chan- 
 collor  of  Cambridge. 
 
 1545.  22nd  of  September.  Presented  to  the  rectory  of  Land- 
 beach. 
 
 1547.  1st  of  April.  Resigned  the  deanery  of  Stoke  in  obedience 
 to  an  Act  of  Parliament. 
 
 154S.2  7th  of  February.  Elected  a  second  time  to  the  office  of 
 Vice-Chancellor  of  Cambridge. 
 
 1550.  1st  of  October.  Resigned  the  rectory  of  Burlingham  St  An- 
 drew's. 
 
 1552.  1st  of  June.  Presented  to  the  prebend,  ^y  the  illustrious 
 of  Coringham     ^  I  Pi-ince  Edward  the 
 
 1552.      8th  of  June.      Nominated  to  the  deanery  (  gj^th. 
 of  Lincoln  ^ 
 
 1552.     9th  of  July.     Installed  into  the  prebend  aforesaid. 
 
 1552.     30th  of  July.     Elected  dean  of  Lincoln. 
 
 1552.      7th  of  October.     Installed  into  the  deanery  in  person, 
 
 1553. of  December.    Resigned  the  office  of  Master  of  Coi-pus 
 
 Christi  College  to  Laurence  Moptyd,  whom,  under  con- 
 straint, I  had  myself  chosen  as  my  successor. 
 
 1554.  2nd  of  April.  Deprived  of  my  prebend  in  the  Church  of  Ely, 
 and  deprived  of  my  rectory  of  Landbeach,  to  which  church 
 I  procured  to  be  presented,  William  Whalley,  canon  of 
 Lincoln,  whom  I  chose  as  my  successor,  and  he  was  insti- 
 tuted on  the  30th  of  September, 
 
 1554.  21st  of  May.  Despoiled  of  my  deanery  of  Lincoln,  as  also 
 on  the  same  day  of  my  prebend  of  Coringham  in  the  same 
 Church,  to  which  Mr  George  Pierpoint  was  presented  by 
 virtue  of  an  advowson  of  the  same  granted  [to  me]  by  the 
 bishop  of  Lincoln,  J.  Taylor.  The  deanery  was  conferred 
 upon  Francis  Malet,  Doctor  of  Divinity,  by  Queen  Mary. 
 
 After  this  I  lived  as  a  private  individual,  so  happy  before  God  in  my 
 conscience,  and  so  far  from  being  either  ashamed  or  dejected,  that 
 the  delightful  literary  leisure  to  which  the  good  providence  of  God 
 recalled  me  yielded  me  much  greater  and  more  solid  enjoyments, 
 than  my  former  busy  and  dangerous  kind  of  life  had  ever  afforded 
 me.  What  shall  befal  me  hereafter  I  know  not :  but  to  God,  who 
 cares  for  all  men,  who  will  one  day  reveal  the  secrets  of  the  hearts, 
 I  commit  myself  wholly,  and  my  good  and  virtuous  wife,  with  my 
 two  very  dear  children.  And  I  beseech  the  same  most  merciful  and 
 almighty  God  that  for  the  time  to  come  we  may  so  bear  the 
 reproach  of  Christ  with  unbroken  courage  as  ever  to  remember 
 that  here  we  have  no  continuing  city,  but  may  seek  one  to  come 
 by  the  grace  and  mercy  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ ;   to  whom  with 
 
 ^    i.e.  1544-5.  2   ie.  1548-y 
 
INTROnUCTOIlY    NOTICK.  IX 
 
 tlio    Tatlior    niui  tho   Ih>Iy    (Jhi)st   l»o  nil    liouour   ami    <loinlrjion. 
 Anion. 
 
 2iMh  of  OctolMT,  A.l).  1554. 
 
 And  Btill  on  this  (Ith  of  August,  a.d.  1657,  I  porscvcro  in  tho  samo 
 constancy,  supportotl  by  tho  ijraco  and  goodness  of  my  Lord  and 
 Saviour  Jesus  Christ ;  by  whoso  inspiration  I  have  completed  a 
 metrical  version  of  tho  Psalter  into  tho  vulgar  tonguo.  And  I  havo 
 written  a  defence  of  the  marriage  of  priests  against  Thomas  Martin. 
 
 V^rd  of  Fibniari/,  a.d.  1552[5?]. 
 
 Hitherto  so  happy  before  God  and  content  with  my  own  lot  havo  I 
 lived,  as  neither  to  envy  my  superiors,  nor  despise  my  inferiors, 
 directing  all  my  efforts  to  this  end:  to  servo  Cod  in  a  pure  con- 
 science, and  to  bo  neither  despised  by  those  above  mo  nor  feared 
 by  those  beneath  me. 
 
 Uth  of  October,  a.d.  155G. 
 
 And  I  still  live  happy,  contented  with  my  lot,  trusting  in  the  testimony 
 of  my  conscience  in  tho  Lord,  relying  on  his  word,  waiting  for  the 
 redemption  of  my  body  through  Christ  my  Saviour. 
 
 Sermons. 
 
 TEAR 
 
 1.534.       Before  tho  bishop  of  Ely;  at  his  visitation,  at  Balsham. 
 1535.       Before  tho  lady  Elizabeth^,  at  Ilundeston. 
 1535.       Before  King  Henry  VIH.,  at  tho  Court,  on  the  third  Sunday 
 in  Lent,  from  the  Epistle. 
 
 1539.  Before  prince  Edward. 
 
 1540.  Before  the  lady  Elizabeth,  at  Hatfield. 
 
 1548.       Before  King  Edward,  at  the  Court  at  Westminster,  on  the 
 third  Sunday  in  Lent,  from  the  GospeH. 
 
 8  Afterwards  Queen  Elizabeth ;  she  and  her  sister  Mary  at  this 
 time  resided  at  Hunsdon  palace,  Hertfordshire,  under  tho  care  of 
 Lady  Bryan. 
 
 *  Archbishop  Cranmer's  summons  to  Parker  to  preach  this 
 sermon,  is  printed  below,  p.  40.  Parker  does  not  include  in  this  list 
 his  sermons  preached  at  St  Paul's  Cross.  Besides  the  summons  to 
 preach  there,  printed  in  the  Correspondence,  p.  39,  there  is  another 
 addressed  to  him  by  Archbishop  Cranmer  in  Additional  MS.  Brit. 
 Mus.  19,400,  No.  2.  It  is  dated  Sth  January,  1550,  and  informs 
 him  that  he  had  been  appointed  by  the  Council  to  preach  "at  Paul's 
 Cross,  on  Sunday,  the  IGthday  of  March."  Cranmer  adds, "  wherefore 
 I  pray  you  purely  and  sincerely  to  set  forth  God's  word  there,  and 
 to  exhort  your  audience  to  their  due  obedience  to  his  majesty's 
 highness's  laws  and  statutes,  and  to  unity  and  charity  among  them- 
 selves, as  appertaineth.'* 
 
 [park,  cor.] 
 
 b 
 
[1547.] 
 
 In  the  43rd  year 
 of  ray  age. 
 
 In  the  28th  year 
 of  her  age. 
 
 K  INTRODUCTORY    NOTICE. 
 
 TEAB 
 
 1651.  Before  his  Majesty  King  Edward,  in  Lent,  that  is  to  say  on 
 alternate  Wednesdays,  viz.  on  the  9th,  23rd,  and  25th  of 
 March,  my  colleague  being  Mr  Harlow  i,  bishop  of  Hereford. 
 1559.       Before  our  sovereign  lady  Queen  Elizabeth  twice  in  Lent. 
 
 'A.D.  1547,  24th  June,  I  married  Margaret, 
 daughter  of  Robert  Harlston,  of  Mat- 
 tishall  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  gentle- 
 man, who  was  born  a.d.  1519,  Sunday- 
 letter  B,  on  the  23rd  June,  in  which  year 
 the  festival  of  Corpus  Christi  fell  on  the 
 Eve  of  St  John  Baptist. 
 1570.  This  Margaret,  my  most  dearly  beloved  and  virtuous  wife, 
 lived  with  me  some  twenty-six  years,  and  died  right 
 Christianly  on  the  l7th  of  August,  1570,  about  eleven 
 o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  and  lies  buried  in  the  Duke  of 
 Norfolk's  chapel  at  Lambeth. 
 [1548.]     She  bore  me  a  son,  John,  a.d.  1548,  on  the  5th  of  May, 
 
 Sunday  letter  G,  at  six  in  the  morning. 
 1566.      He  married  Joanna,  daughter  of  the  bishop  of  Ely^,  on  the 
 
 28th  of  January. 
 [1550.]    In  the  year  1550,  on  the  27th  of  August,  Sunday  letter  E, 
 at  eleyen  o'clock  at  night,  I  had  born  to  me    another 
 son,  Matthew,  who  departed  this  life  on  the  8th  of  Janu- 
 ary, the  same  year. 
 [1551.]     In  the  year   1551,  on  the  first  of  September,  between  two 
 and  three  in  the  afternoon,  Sunday  letter  D,  I  had  a 
 third  son,  Matthew,  born  to  me. 
 1569.      He  married  Frances,  daughter  of  the  bishop  of  Chichester 3,  • 
 
 on  the  29th  of  December. 
 [1556.]     In  the  year  1556,  on  the  12th  of  September,  between  seven 
 and  eight  in  the  evening,  I  had  a  fourth  son,  Joseph,  born 
 to  me,  who  died  in  the  same  year. 
 [1559.]     On  the  17th   of  December,  in  the  year  1559,  I  was  conse- 
 crated archbishop  of  Canterbury. 
 
 Alas !  alas  !  O  Lord  God,  for  what  times  hast  thou  kept  me.  Now 
 am  I  come  into  deep  waters,  and  the  flood  hath  overwhelmed  me. 
 O  Lord,  I  am  oppressed,  answer  for  me,  and  strengthen  me  with 
 thy  free  Spirit :  for  I  am  a  man,  and  have  but  a  short  time  to 
 live,  and  am  less,  &c.     Give  me  of  thy  sure  mercies,  &c. 
 
 John  Parker,  bom  on  the  5th  of  May,  1548,  married  Joanna  Cox, 
 
 bom  on  the  1st  of  April,  1551,  of  whom  he  had 
 Margaret,  born  at  Lambeth,  on  the  21st  of  March,  1568. 
 
 1  No  df  ubt  Harley,  consecrated  Bishop  of  Hereford,  May  26, 1553 ; 
 
 deprived,  1554. 
 
 2  Bishop  Cox.  8  Bishop  Barlow. 
 
INTRODl  CTORY     NOTUK.  XI 
 
 Matthew,  his  lioir,  at  Canterhury,  on  tlui  l*Jth  of  Mhv,  1.'*70. 
 Jano,  born  at  hambetli,  on  tho  lUtli  of  March,  1571. 
 Richarc),  horn  at  Canterhury  (?)  on  the  20th  of  May,  1577. 
 James,  horn  at  Bekesborne,  on  tho  30ih  of  May,  1585  [?]. 
 John,  h»)rn  in  tho  Islo  of  Kly,  on  tho  4th  of  May,  1589. 
 Elizabeth  ami  John  died  chiKiren." 
 
 Tho  last  eight  of  thcso  entries  were  made  by  somo 
 other  person  than  tho  Archbishop,  who  died  at  Lambctli  on 
 the  17th  Afay,  1575,  exactly  one  month  after  tho  last  letter 
 wo  have  printed.  That  letter,  according  to  his  wish,  was 
 probably  the  last  he  was  called  upon  to  write  (p.  477). 
 His  body  was  interred  in  the  private  chapel  of  Lambeth 
 palace,  on  tho  south  side  of  the  communion-table,  under  a 
 monument  erected  by  himself,  close  to  the  place  where 
 he  used  to  kneel  in  prayer.  During  the  Great  Rebellion 
 not  only  tho  original  monument  was  removed,  but  even 
 the  body  of  the  archbishop  was  taken  from  its  resting 
 place  and  treated  w^ith  shameful  indignity.  Archbishop  San- 
 croft,  on  the  suggestion  of  Sir  William  Dugdale,  and  under 
 the  authority  of  an  order  of  the  House  of  Lords,  brought 
 back  into  the  archiepiscopal  chapel  the  bones  of  his  vener- 
 able predecessor,  from  the  place  whither  they  had  been 
 ignominiously  thrown,  and  set  up  again  the  original  monu- 
 ment erected  to  his  memory.  Archbishop  Sancroft  also  com- 
 memorated the  removal  and  restoration  in  an  inscription 
 which   still   remains'*. 
 
 One  other  document  which  it  seems  desirable  to  include  in 
 the  present  volume,  although  not  ranging  under  the  title  of 
 Correspondence,  relates  to  the  archbishop's  application  of  the 
 revenues  of  his  see.  When  Parker  succeeded  to  the  archi- 
 episcopate,  arrangements  were  made  with  reference  to  the 
 temporalities  of  the  see  which  considerably  reduced  the 
 income  of  its  possessor.  Although  of  his  own  nature  a  lover 
 of  hospitality,  and  far  from  disinclined  to  maintain  the  dig- 
 nity of  his  position,  he  was  consequently  unable  to  make  the 
 
 4  See  the  inscription  and  many  particulars  of  Parker's  interment 
 and  the  disturbance  of  his  remains,  in  Strype's  Parker,  Book  iv. 
 chap.  xliv.  Strype  also  published  the  archbishop's  Will,  Appendix, 
 Book  IV.,  No.  c.  An  inventory  and  appraisement  of  his  eflfects,  com- 
 municated by  William  Sandys,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  was  printed  in  the  ArcliKC- 
 logia,  Vol.  XXX.  p.  1. 
 
 h2 
 
XH  INTRODUCTORY    NOTICE. 
 
 splendid  display,  especially  upon  public  occasions,  for  which 
 Cardinal  Pole  (who  received  a  large  pension  in  addition 
 to  the  ordinary  income  of  the  see)  and  others  of  his  prede- 
 cessors had  been  remarkable.  This  occasioned  rumours  of 
 Parker's  penuriousness.  During  his  Hfetime  he  satisfactorily 
 vindicated  himself;  and,  in  a  MS.  which  is  now  in  Lambeth 
 Library,  his  son  John  has  left  on  record  what  appears  to 
 be  an  ample  refutation.  The  falsehood  of  the  accusation 
 is  indeed  too  obvious  for  any  one  now  to  dwell  upon  it,  but 
 the  answer  of  the  archbishop's  son,  although  not  needed 
 for  the  purpose  for  which  it  was  designed,  contains  in  a 
 brief  space  information  of  such  value  respecting  the  revenues 
 of  the  see,  and  the  means  with  which  the  archbishop  was 
 able  to  perform  his  many  acts  of  liberality,  that  we  think 
 it  right  to  print  the  paper  as  it  stands: — 
 
 The  true  Estate  of  the  ArchhishopricJc  of  Canterbury ^ 
 tempore  Matthcei  Parker  Archiepiscopi. 
 
 The  yearly  revenue  about  3128  Z.  By  fines  for  leases,  wardships, 
 et  quo  quomodo,  communibus  annis,  300?.,  in  toto  3428  Z. 
 
 The  certain  yearly  disbursements  in  fees  to  certain  officers,  pen- 
 sions to  curates,  to  two  hospitals,  &c.,  800  Z. ;  household  achates  i  com- 
 munibus  annis,  1300Z. ;  wages  and  liveries  to  household  servants  and 
 retainers,  300  Z.; — 2400  Z. 
 
 So  is  there  a  remainder  towards  these  particular  disbursements, 
 1028  Z. 
 
 He  christened  with  the  Queen  and  duke  of  Norfolk,  Edwardus 
 Fortunatus,  the  lady  Cecilia  her  son,  and  gave  above  100  Z.  2 
 
 His  entertainment  of  the  Queen  at  Canterbury  and  other  houses, 
 with  his  gifts  to  her  and  the  lords  and  ladies,  above  2000  Z. 
 
 At  Canterbury  he  gave  besides,  in  rewards  to  the  Queen's  offi- 
 cers of  household,  500  crowns,  1701. 
 
 His  foundations  of  fellowships  and  scholarships  at  Cambridge, 
 yearly  sermons,  and  to  the  poor  at  Mattishall  for  ever,  in- 
 crease of  perpetual  fees  and  commons  at  Benet  College,  had 
 stood  him  in  2000  Z. 
 
 The  purchase  of  the  soil  of  the  University  street  and  buildings 
 on  either  sides,  cost  him  5001, 
 
 1  Provisions. 
 
 2  The  Lady  Cecilia  was  a  sister  of  the  king  of  Sweden,  and  wife 
 of  Christopher,  Margrave  of  Baden.  The  christening  alluded  to  took 
 place  in  1565. 
 
INTRODUCTORY    NoTICK.  xHl 
 
 IIo  gave  to  Glovor,  alias  Somorsot,   a  lioraM,   for  a  pcdigrco  of 
 
 tho  ancient  nobility,  100/. 
 Ho  gavo   to    Aloxiuulci*  Nevilo  for  writing    the    story   of  Kelt's 
 
 rebellion,  entilleil  Norwicus,  100/.  3 
 Also  silver  ami   gilt  plato  to  IJcnut  College,   to  Caius  College,  to 
 
 Trinity  Hall,  abont  400/. 
 Ho  gavo  to  Tiiomas  Doyly,  Esq.,  that  married  one  of  his  nieces, 
 
 in  money  and  money's  worth,  300/. 
 To  another  niece,  married  to  Jo.  Heth,  gent.,  that  was  worth  to 
 
 their  purse  [by  an  advowson]  500/. 
 To  his  niece  Clerk,  &c.,  300/. 
 To   Sir  Thomas  Josseline's  brother,  an  antiquary  in  his  house, 
 
 who  wrote  this  history,  Dc  Antiquitato  Britannica)  ecclesicc,  a 
 
 prebend  worth  30/.  per  annum,  and  procured  for  him  300/. 
 He  expended   upon  repairing  of  his   palace  at   Canterbury,  his 
 
 chief  lodging,  being  burnt  in    Archbishop   Cranmer's  time, 
 
 and  upon  his  other  houses,  chancels,  &c.,  to  about  2G00/.  * 
 
 This  paper  gives  but  little  idea  of  the  eminent  value  of 
 the  archbishop's  patronage  of  literature,  and  none  of  his  own 
 personal  labours  as  an  author.  These  are  points  to  which 
 there  are  frequent  allusions  in  the  volume  now  published ; 
 and  it  was  our  intention  to  enter  freely  upon  both  of 
 them  in  the  present  Introduction ;  but  the  Correspondence  has 
 extended  to  a  length  very  far  beyond  what  was  anticipated, 
 and  has  thus  deprived  us  of  the  opportunity  of  doing  so. 
 The  former  point  is  one  which  would  especially  repay 
 inquiry,  and  it  is  also  one  as  to  which  there  can  fortunately 
 be  no  difference  of  opinion.  The  archbishop's  labours  as  the 
 first  publisher  of  the  materials  for  English  History,  acquired 
 for  him  the  respect  even  of  the  historian  Gibbon. 
 
 The  same  necessity  for  compressing  this  Introduction 
 within  the  briefest  limits  has  led  to  the  exclusion  of  an 
 intended  Catalogue  of  all  the  Letters  to  or  from  the  Arch- 
 bishop, notices  of  which  have  come  to  light  during  the  compi- 
 lation of  the  present  volume,  without  our  being  able  to  recover 
 the  letters  themselves.  We  have  printed  all  the  letters  of 
 the  archbishop  with  which  we  are  acquainted,  but  there  are 
 probably  many  others  scattered  abroad  which  have  escaped 
 our  inquiries.     Letters  have  turned  up  from  time  to  time  in 
 
 ^  De  furoribus  Norfolciensium  Ketto  duce.  4to.  Bynneman,  1575. 
 *  Lambeth  MS.  959,  art.  46.     The  paper  is  inserted  in  a  copy  of 
 Parker's  Antiquitates. 
 
XIV  INTRODUCTORY    NOTICE. 
 
 quarters  where  their  existence  was  never  suspected,  and  the 
 publication  of  the  present  volume  will  doubtless  lead  to  the 
 production  of  others. 
 
 In  a  few  instances  letters  alluded  to  by  Strype  will  not 
 be  found  in  the  present  volume.  There  are  two  causes 
 of  their  omission.  In  some  cases,  Strype  has  been  found  to 
 have  been  mistaken  in  the  authorship  or  in  the  address,  as 
 where  a  letter  written  by  Bishop  Bonner  was  by  him  sup- 
 posed to  have  been  addressed  to  Parker  instead  of  to  Dr 
 Edmunds ;  in  other  cases,  letters,  alluded  to  by  Strype  as 
 being  in  certain  repositories,  are  not  now  to  be  found  either 
 there  or  in  any  other  place  to  which  we  have  had  access. 
 
 It  is  perhaps  scarcely  necessary  after  recent  investiga- 
 tions respecting  Strype's  mode  of  publication,  to  remark 
 that,  in  cases  where  our  text  of  a  letter  published  by  Strype 
 differs  from  his,  even  where  words  and  sentences  appear  in 
 the  present  volume  which  do  not  occur  in  Strype,  it  should 
 not  be  taken  for  granted  that  the  present  publication  is  in 
 error.  Our  desire  has  been  to  print  the  letters  correctly, 
 without  encumbering  the  page  with  references  to  the  mistakes 
 of  others. 
 
 It  would  be  unjust,  as  well  as  uncourteous,  were  we  to 
 conclude  without  pointing  out  to  the  Members  of  the  Parker 
 Society,  how  much  they  are  indebted  to  the  Master  and  Fel- 
 lows of  Corpus  Christi  College,  Cambridge,  for  the  very 
 great  facility  of  access  they  have  given  us  to  the  Parker 
 MSS.  The  same  kindness  has  been  shewn  us  by  the  Bench- 
 ers of  the  Inner  Temple,  with  reference  to  the  Petyt  MSS., 
 and  indeed  by  all  the  other  possessors  of  MSS.,  to  whom  we 
 have  found  it  necessary  to  apply. 
 
CON  T  E  N  T  S. 
 
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 I. 
 II. 
 
 HI. 
 IV. 
 V. 
 
 VI. 
 VII. 
 VIII. 
 
 IX. 
 X. 
 XI. 
 
 XII. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 XIV. 
 XV. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 XVII. 
 XVIll. 
 
 XIX. 
 
 XX. 
 
 XXI. 
 
 XXII. 
 XXIII. 
 
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 XXV. 
 
 XXVI. 
 XXVII. 
 XX  VIII. 
 
 r 
 
 ir»34-.'»,  23rd  March. ...John  Skypp  to  Matthew  Porker 
 
 —  *J3rd  Marili....The  same  to  the  same   
 
 IMo,     23rd  March. ...Sir  Jolin  Cheke  to  the  same 
 
 _       lUh  Oct Henry  VIII.  to  the  same  
 
 —  -Ith  Nov Queen   Anno   Boleyn   to  the   Bishop  of 
 
 Norwich    
 
 1537,     4th  Nov Tliomas  Lord  Cromwell  toMatthewParker 
 
 lo37-8,  13th  Feb John  Skypp  to  the  same 
 
 loliO,       Answer  to  Articles  of  Accusation  sent  to 
 
 the  Lord  Audley  aj^ainst  M.  Parker  by 
 Mr  G.  Colt  and  other  of  Clare  Town.. 
 
 —  11th  May John  Skypp  to  ^Matthew  Parker 
 
 —  23rd  Nov Matthew  Parker  to  Dr  Stokes 
 
 1544,  2oth  May Henry  VIIL  to  the  Dean  and  Prebendaries 
 
 of  Stoke 
 
 —  14th  Nov Queen   Katherine  Parr  to   Dr  Matthew 
 
 Parker 
 
 —  30th  Nor Henry  VIII.   to  the  Fellows  of  Corpus 
 
 Christi  College,  Cambridge 
 
 1544-5,  2Gth  Jan John  Mere  to  Matthew  Parker   
 
 —  24th  March  ...Queen  Katherine  Parr  to  the  Dean  and 
 
 Fellows  of  Stoke 
 
 1545,  27th  March  ...Bishop  Gardiner  to  Dr  Matthew  Parker 
 
 and  Dr  Thomas  Smith 
 
 —  3rd  April Dr  Parker  to  Bishop  Gardiner 
 
 —  23rd  April   ...Bishop  Gardiner  to  Dr  Matthew  Parker... 
 
 —  8th  May   Dr  Matthew  Parker  to  Bishop  Gardiner 
 
 —  12th  May Bishop  Gardiner  to  Dr  Matthew  Parker... 
 
 —  iGth  May The  Lords  of  the  Council  to  the  same  ... 
 
 —  21st  August... Thomas  Smith  to  the  same   
 
 —  ■  ...Dr  Matthew  Parker  to   the   Council   of 
 
 Queen  Katherine  Parr  
 
 1545-6, 16th  Jan King  Henry  VIII.  to  Dr  Matthew  Parker 
 
 —  26th  Feb Queen  Katlierine  Parr  to  the  Chancellor 
 
 and  Vice-Chancellor  of  Cambridge    ... 
 
 1546,  — —     Dr  Matthew  Parker's  Minute  of  an  inter- 
 
 view with  King  Henry  VIII 
 
 1547-8,   —    Feb John  Mere  to  Dr  Matthew  Parker 
 
 —  29th  Feb Sir  Anthony  Denny  to  the  Commissioners 
 
 for  the  suppression  of  Colleges  
 
 —  13th  March.... William  May  to  Dr  Matthew  Parker 
 
 5th  May Archbishop  Cranmer  to  the  same  
 
 7th  June Sir  John  Cheke  to  the  same 
 
 A  or. 
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 1548, 
 
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 24 
 27 
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 CONTENTS. 
 
 LETTER 
 
 XXIX. 
 
 1548- 1 
 
 XXX. 
 
 _ 
 
 XXXI. 
 
 1550, 
 
 XXXII. 
 
 — 
 
 XXXIII. 
 
 1550 
 
 XXXIV. 
 
 
 
 XXXV. 
 
 
 
 XXXVI. 
 
 1551, 
 
 XXXVII. 
 
 
 
 XXXVIII. 
 
 — 
 
 XXXIX. 
 
 1552- ; 
 
 1553, 
 
 XL. 
 
 1558, 
 
 XLI. 
 
 — 
 
 XLII. 
 
 __ 
 
 XLIII. 
 
 __ 
 
 XLIV. 
 
 1558-1 
 
 XLV. 
 
 _ 
 
 XLVI. 
 
 
 
 XLVII. 
 
 
 
 XLVIII. 
 
 XLIX. 
 
 L. 
 
 LT. 
 
 Lll. 
 
 Llll. 
 
 LIV. 
 LV. 
 LVI. 
 
 LVII. 
 
 LVIII. 
 
 LIX. 
 
 LX. 
 
 LXI. 
 
 LXII. 
 LXIII. 
 LXIV. 
 
 LXV. 
 LXVI. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 9, 17th  Feb Archbishop    Crannier    to    Dr    Matthew 
 
 Parker  40 
 
 4th  March.  ...Bishop  Thirleby  to  the  same 41 
 
 ...Martin  Bucer  to  the  same 41 
 
 •                 ...The  same  to  the  same 42 
 
 1,    —  Feb The  same  to  the  same 42 
 
 12th  Feb Archbishop  Cranmer  to  the  same  43 
 
 9th  March.  ...Sir  John  Cheke  to  the  same 4-t 
 
 25th  July Bishop  Ridley  to  the  same    45 
 
 13th  Dec The  Lords  of  the  Council  to  the  same  ...  4G 
 
 ■  Matthew  Parker  and  Walter  Haddon  to 
 
 the  Guardians  of  the  children  of  Martin 
 
 Bucer  4C 
 
 3,  6th  Feb Sir  John  Cheke  to  Dr  Matthew  Parker...  48 
 
 20th  August... Queen  Mary  to  Bishop  Gardiner    54/i. 
 
 25th August... Bishop   Gardiner    to   the    University  of 
 
 Cambridge  5Gn. 
 
 9th  Dec Sir  Nicholas  Bacon  to  Dr  Matthew  Parker  49 
 
 Between  9th) 
 
 &20^1D      >  Dr  Matthew  Parker  to  Sir  Nicholas  Bacon  50 
 
 20th  Dec The  same  to  the  same  52 
 
 30th  Dec Sir  William  Cecil  to  Dr  Matthew  Parker  53 
 
 9,  4th  Jan Sir  Nicholas  Bacon  to  the  same  53 
 
 1st  March Dr  Matthew  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil  54 
 
 1st  March The  same  to  Sir  Nicholas  Bacon 57 
 
 21st  March. ...  Sir  William  Cecil  to  Dr  Porie,  Dr  Matthew 
 
 Parker,  and  Mr  Edward  Leeds    G3 
 
 —  21st  March.  ...Sir  T.  Smith  to  Dr  Porie,  Dr  Matthew 
 
 Parker,  and  Mr  Leeds  C4 
 
 1559,     30th  April . . .  .Dr  Edmund  Sandys  to  Dr  Matthew  Parker  65 
 
 —  5th  May    Sir  William  Cecil  to  the  same 67 
 
 — -      17th  May Sir  Nicholas  Bacon  to  the  same  68 
 
 —  19  th  May Sir  Nicholas  Bacon  and  Sir  William  Cecil 
 
 to  the  same 68 
 
 —  28th  May Lord  Keeper  Bacon  and  Sir  William  Cecil 
 
 to  the  same 69 
 
 •^      28th  June Dr  Matthew  Parker  to  Queen  Elizabeth .  09 
 
 — =        —    June Lord  Keeper  Bacon  to  Dr  Matthew  Parker  71 
 
 —  8th  August.. ..Archbishop  Parker  and  others  to  the  Uni- 
 
 versity of  Cambridge 71 
 
 -rr-      24th  August... The  Lords  of  the  Council  to  Archbishop 
 
 Parker  and  Bishop  Grindal 72 
 
 —  27th  August... Archbishop  Parker  to  the  Lords  of  the 
 
 Council 73 
 
 —  28th  August. ..The  Lords  of  the  Council  to  Archbishop 
 
 Parker  74 
 
 —  7th  Sept The  same  to  the  same  75 
 
 —  9th  Sept Sir  Nicholas  Bacon  to  the  same 70 
 
 —  23rd  Sept The  Lords  of  the  Council  to  the  same  ...  76 
 
 —  27th  Sept The  same  to  the  same  77 
 
 —  2nd  Oct Sir  W.  Cecil  to  the  same 77 
 
 —  5th  Oct The  same  to  the  same   78 
 
 —  .  Archbishop  Parker  and  others  to  Queen 
 
 Elizabeth 79 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 XVII 
 
 rrTTKit 
 LWII. 
 LWllI. 
 
 LMX. 
 
 LXX. 
 
 LXXI. 
 
 LWII. 
 LXX  111. 
 
 LXX  IV. 
 LXXV. 
 
 LXXVL 
 
 LXXVIL 
 
 LXXVIH. 
 LXXIX. 
 LXXX. 
 LXXXI. 
 
 LXXXIL 
 
 Lxxxin. 
 
 LXXX  IV. 
 LXXXV. 
 LXXXVL 
 
 Lxxxvn. 
 
 LXXXVIIL 
 
 LXXXIX. 
 
 XC. 
 
 XCL 
 
 XCIL 
 
 xcin. 
 
 XCIV. 
 
 XCV. 
 XCVL 
 
 xcvn. 
 
 XCVIll. 
 XCIX. 
 
 c. 
 
 CI. 
 
 cu. 
 
 CIIL 
 
 1'k7J,  inth  Oft Sir  FruueiH  Knollys  to  Arehl.i*h(.|)  Parktr  W 
 
 —  loth  Oct Arrhlii-nhoj)  TftrkiT  ftijil  fuur  other  bUhups 
 
 tt)  (iiupn  i:ii/.;ibclh     97 
 
 —  l*Gtli  Oi't Queen   Elizul»etl>  to  tlie  Lord  Trcaaurer 
 
 and  the  Barons  of  tlie  Lxfhe«iuer  101 
 
 —  *Jiul  Nov The  Lords  of  the  ('ouncil  to  ArchbUhop 
 
 Turker  103 
 
 —  I'lid  Nov Sir  Thonms  Piirry  and  Sir  William  Cecil 
 
 to  the  same 104 
 
 —  Gth  Nov Archliislioj)  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil...  lOo 
 
 —  9lh  J<lov The  Lorda  of  the  Council  to  Archbiahoi) 
 
 Parker  and  the  rest  of  the  Ecclesiastical 
 
 Coninjlssioners 10,> 
 
 —  ISth  Nov Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil  loG 
 
 —  23rd  Dec Archbishop    Parker   and   others    to    the 
 
 President  and  Chapter  of  E.xeter 107 
 
 1559-GO,  27th  Feb Sir  William  Cecil  to  Archbishop  Parker  108 
 
 1500,    2tith  March  ...Archbishop  Parker  to  Dr  Nicholas  Heath, 
 deprived  archbishop  of  York,  and  other 
 
 deprived  bishops 109 
 
 —  —    April Archbishop  Parker  to  Warham  St  Leger  113 
 
 —  3rd  May    Bishop  Young  to  Archbishop  Parker 114 
 
 —  27th  May  Archbishop  Parker  to  Bishop  Grindal  ...  11.3 
 
 —  30th  May  The  Lords  of  the  Council  to  Archbishop 
 
 Parker  117 
 
 —  Gth  June Sir  William  Petre  to  the  same 118 
 
 —  14th  July The  same  to  the  same 118 
 
 —  17th  July Marquis  Winchester  to  the  same 119 
 
 —  24th  July Lord  Keeper  Bacon  to  the  same 120 
 
 —  loth  August... Archbishop  Parker  to  Bishop  Grindal  ...  120 
 
 —  4th  Sept The  Lords  of  the  Council  to  Archbishop 
 
 Parker  121 
 
 —  Gth  Sept Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  Edward  Warner  122 
 
 —  16th  Oct The  same  to  Sir  William  Cecil 123 
 
 —  24th  Oct Bishop  Sandys  to  Archbishop  Parker 124 
 
 —  ISth  Nov Archbishop  Parker  to  Bishop  Grindal 127 
 
 —  20th  Nov The  same  to  Dr  Yale 128 
 
 —  .  Archbishop  Parker  and  other  Bishops  to 
 
 Queen  Elizabeth  129 
 
 1560-1,  22nd  Jan Queen  Elizabeth  to  Archbishop  Parker  and 
 
 others 132 
 
 —  loth  Feb Archbishop  Parker  to  Bishop  Grindal  ....  134 
 
 loGl,    13th  April The  same  to  Lord  Thomas  Howard 1.3G 
 
 —  16th  April Richard  Cheney  to  Sir  William  Cecil 138/1. 
 
 —  18th  April  ....Bishop   Richard    Davies   to    Archbishop 
 
 Parker   137 
 
 —  after  IGth  April,  Sir  William  Cecil  to  the  same 1.38 
 
 —  22nd  May  Flacius  Illyricus  to  the  same 139 
 
 —  21st  June Thomas  Seckford  to  the  same  142 
 
 —  24th  June  ......Queen  Elizabeth  to  the  same 142 
 
 —  1st  July  Archbishop  Parker  to  Bishop  Grindal 143 
 
 (shortly  after   ) 
 
 —  loAfi   T     „       ^  The  same  to  Dr  Nicholas  Wotton 144 
 
 toOtii  June    ...) 
 
XVlll 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 LETTER 
 
 CIV. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 1561,  2nd  July Archbishop  Parker  to  the  Sheriff  of  Ox- 
 
 ford  and  Berks  145 
 
 .Order  of  Queen  Elizabeth  prohibiting  the 
 
 residence  of  women  in  Colleges 146 
 
 11th  August... Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil  147 
 
 12th  August  ...Sir  "William  Cecil  to  Archbishop  Parker...  148 
 
 22nd  August... Queen  Elizabeth  to  the  same 149 
 
 —    August... Bishop  Cox  to  the  same   151 
 
 1st  Sept Archbishop  Parker  to  Bishop  Grindal  ...  152 
 
 1st  Oct The    same    to   Archdeacons    and   other 
 
 Ecclesiastical  officers 153 
 
 24th  Oct The  Lords  of  the  Council  to  Archbishop 
 
 Parker  154 
 
 —  14th  Dec The  same  to  the  same   155 
 
 —        Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil.  156 
 
 —        John   Fox   to   Archbishop    Parker    and 
 
 Bishop  Grindal  160 
 
 1561-2,  1st  Jan Sir  William  Cecil  to  Archbishop  Parker.  161 
 
 —  25th  Jan Archbishop  Parker  to  the  Provost  and 
 
 Fellows  of  Eton  College  162 
 
 —  —    Jan Sir  William  Cecil  to  Archbishop  Parker .  163 
 
 —  12th  Feb Queen  Elizabeth  to  the  same  163 
 
 —  13th  March  ...Archbishop  Parker  and  Bishop  Grindal 
 
 to  Sir  William  Cecil 165 
 
 —  21st  March  ...Archbishop  Parker  to  Mr  Nevenson  165 
 
 1562,     2nd  May The  same  to  the  Barons  of  the  Exchequer  166 
 
 —  28th  Oct The  same  to  Sir  William  Cecil   170 
 
 —  about  Nov.  ...The  same  to  Lord  Keeper  Bacon   171 
 
 1562-3, 23rd  Feb Sir  William  Cecil  to  Archbishop  Parker.  172 
 
 —  27th  Feb The  same  to  the  same 172 
 
 CV.  —      9th  August 
 
 CVI.  — 
 
 CVII.  _ 
 
 CVIII.  — 
 
 CIX.  — 
 
 ex.  — 
 
 CXI.  — 
 
 CXII.  — 
 
 CXIII. 
 CXIV. 
 
 cxv. 
 
 CXVI. 
 CXVII. 
 
 CXVIII. 
 CXIX. 
 CXX. 
 
 CXXI. 
 CXXII. 
 CXXIII. 
 CXXIV. 
 
 cxxv. 
 
 CXXVI. 
 CXXVII. 
 
 1563, 
 
 CXXVIII.  — 
 
 CXXIX.  — 
 
 cxxx.  — 
 
 cxxxi.  — 
 
 CXXXJI.  — 
 
 CXXXIII.  — 
 
 CXXXIV.  — 
 
 CXXXV.  — 
 
 CXXXVI.  — 
 
 CXXXVII.  — 
 
 CXXXVIII.  — 
 
 CXXXIX.  — 
 
 CXL.  — 
 
 CXLI.  — 
 
 CXLII.  — 
 
 CXLIII.  — 
 
 16th  June 
 
 before  Mid 
 
 summer 
 
 26th  June 
 
 shortly  after  U^chbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil .  173 
 14th  April     ) 
 
 s  or  y  a   er  ) -j-j^g  gg^jjjg  ^^  ^^^^1  of  his  Suffragan  Bishops  174 
 14th  April     ) 
 
 16th  May Queen  Elizabeth  to  Archbishop  Parker..  175 
 
 ..Bishop  Jewel  to  the  same 176 
 
 I  Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil.  177 
 
 ..The  Lords  of  the  Council  to  Archbishop 
 
 Parker  178 
 
 28th  June    ...The  same  to  the  same 179 
 
 9th  July   The  same  to  the  same 180 
 
 23rd  July Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil.  182 
 
 1st  August  ...  Sir  William  Cecil  to  Archbishop  Parker.  183 
 
 1st  August  ...Queen  Elizabeth  to  the  same  184 
 
 6th  August  ...Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil.  185 
 
 22nd  August.  The  same  to  the  same   186 
 
 25th  August .  Sir  William  Cecil  to  Archbishop  Parker.  187 
 
 27th  August .  Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil.  187 
 
 4th  Sept Lord    Robert    Dudley    to    Archbishop 
 
 Parker  190 
 
 6th  Sept Archbishop    Parker    to    Lord    Robert 
 
 Dudley 190 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 XIX 
 
 LKTTKU  I'AUK 
 
 CXLIV.  \:m,    7th  Sf|)t Archl.islK.p  Purker  to  sir  Willlum  Cecil,  liil 
 
 CXLV.  —      loth  Sept Tiie  Lords  of  the  Council  to  ArchbiMhop 
 
 Parker 192 
 
 CXLVI.  _       10th  Sept Dr  Thirlehy  to  the  smno  19:) 
 
 CXLVII.  —       20th  Sept Anhhishop  Parker  to  Dr  Thirleby    193 
 
 CXLVIII.  —       20th  Sept The  same  to  Sir  William  Cecil  194 
 
 CXLIX.  —       2;Jril  Sept The  Lordu  of  the  Council  to  Archbishop 
 
 Parker  195 
 
 CL.  _      3rd  Oct Bishop  Grindal  to  the  same    196 
 
 CLI.               —       —  Oct Archbishop  Parker  to   Sir  George  Ho- 
 ward    107 
 
 CLII.  —      20th  Nor The  same  to  Sir  William  Cecil   197 
 
 —      29th  Dec Act  of  General  Assembly  of  the  Church 
 
 of  Scotland  205 
 
 CLIII.  _        Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  CecU.  199 
 
 CLIV.  1503-4,  2nd  Jan Bishop  Grindal  to  Archbishop  Parker  ...  201 
 
 CLV.  —      Gth  Feb Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil.  202 
 
 CLVI.  —      20th  Jan The  same  to  the  same   203 
 
 CLVII.  —      10th  Feb Scottish  Ministers  to  Archbishops  Parker 
 
 and  Young   205 
 
 CLVII  I.  -       18th  March  ...Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil.  207 
 
 CLIX.  1504,     14th  April   ...The  same  to  the  same   209 
 
 CLX.  —      7th  May    ]Master  and   Wardens   of  the   Skinners' 
 
 Company  to  Archbishop  Parker 210 
 
 CLXI.  ^      14th  May Queen  Elizabeth  to  the  same  212 
 
 CLX  1 1.  —      ^^^°"'  ^"'^  ^^iArchbishop  Parker  to  Bishop  Cheney. ...  213 
 
 About  end  of) 
 
 J.      .,  fThe  same  to  Mr  Drury 213 
 
 —  3rd  June  The  same  to  Sir  William  Cecil   214 
 
 —  23rd  June The  Lords  of  the  Council  to  Archbishop 
 
 Parker  217 
 
 —  6th  July  Walter  Haddon  to  the  same 218 
 
 —        Archbishop  Parker  to  Lady  Bacon 219 
 
 —        Bishop  Pilkington  to  Archbishop  Parker  221 
 
 1564-5, 15th  Jan Sir  William  Cecil  to  the  same 223 
 
 —  25th  Jan Queen  Elizabeth  to  the  same 223 
 
 —  30th  Jan Archbishop  Parker  to  Bishop  Grindal  ...  227 
 
 —  7th  Feb John  Fox  to  Archbishop  Parker 230 
 
 —  20th  Feb Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  John  Holt  and 
 
 others,  inhabitants  of  Rochdale  231 
 
 —  —    Feb The  same  to  Mr  Byron 232 
 
 —  3rd  March    ...The  same  to  Sir  William  Cecil   233 
 
 —  8th  March The  same  to  the  same  234 
 
 —  14th  March Sir  William  Cecil  to  Archbishop  Parker.  235 
 
 —  24th  March.  ...Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil.  236 
 1505,     7th  April The  same  to  the  same  237 
 
 —  9thApril The  same  to  the  same  238 
 
 —  A])0ut  Easter.  The  same  to  the  same  239 
 
 —  30th  April The  same  to  the  same  240 
 
 —  12thMay The  same  to  Bishop  Grindal  242 
 
 —  3rd  June Dr  Sampson  to  Archbishop  Parker   243 
 
 —  4th  June Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil.  244 
 
 CLXIIL  — 
 
 CLXIV.  — 
 
 CLXV.  — 
 
 CLXVI.  — 
 
 CLXVIl.  — 
 
 CLXVIIL  — 
 
 CLXIX. 
 
 CLXX. 
 
 CLXXL 
 CLXXII. 
 CLXXIII. 
 
 CLXXIV. 
 
 CLXXV. 
 
 CLXXVL 
 CLXXVII. 
 CLXXVIII. 
 
 CLXXIX. 
 
 CLXXX. 
 
 CLXXXL 
 CLXXXIL 
 CLXXXIII. 
 CLXXXIV. 
 
 CLXXXV. 
 
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 CONTENTS. 
 
 LETTER 
 
 CLXXXVI. 
 
 1505, 
 
 CLXXXVII. 
 
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 CLXXXVIII. 
 
 — 
 
 CLXXXIX. 
 
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 CXC. 
 
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 CXCI. 
 
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 CXCII. 
 
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 CXCIII. 
 
 15G5-G, 
 
 CXCIV. 
 
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 cxcv. 
 
 
 
 CXCVI. 
 
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 CXCVII. 
 
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 CXCVIII. 
 
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 CXCIX. 
 
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 cc. 
 
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 CCI. 
 
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 ecu. 
 
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 CCIII. 
 
 __ 
 
 CCIV. 
 
 — 
 
 ccv. 
 
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 CCVI. 
 
 1566, 
 
 CCVII. 
 
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 CCVIII. 
 
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 CCIX. 
 
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 ccx. 
 
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 CCXI. 
 
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 CCXH. 
 
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 CCXIII. 
 
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 .    CCXIV. 
 
 
 
 ccxv. 
 
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 CCXVT. 
 
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 CCXVII. 
 
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 CCXVIII. 
 
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 CCXIX. 
 
 
 
 ccxx. 
 
 >_ 
 
 CCXXI. 
 
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 CCXXII. 
 
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 CCXXIII. 
 
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 CCXXIV. 
 
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 CCXXV. 
 
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 CCXXVI. 
 
 
 
 CCXXVII. 
 
 1566-7, 
 
 CCXXVIII. 
 
 1507, 
 
 CCXXIX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 4th  June Archbishop  Parker  to  Dr  Sampson  244 
 
 4th  June The  same  to  Earl  of  Huntingdon  245 
 
 8tli  Dec The  same  to  Sir  William  Cecil  245 
 
 13th  Dec The  same  to  the  same  24Cn. 
 
 19th  Dec Bishop  Parkhurst  to  Archbishop  Parker.  247 
 
 29th  Dec Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil.  248 
 
 Bishop  Geste  to  Archbishop  Parker 250 
 
 Dean  Nowell  to  Archbishop  Parker 251 
 
 ,  4th  Jan Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil.  251 
 
 24th  Jan The  same  to  the  same 253 
 
 29th  Jan The  same  to  Sir  William  Cecil  254 
 
 The  same  to  the  Duke  of  Norfolk 255 
 
 0th  Feb Bishop  Sandys  to  Archbishop  Parker  ...  256 
 
 7th  Feb Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil.  257 
 
 12th  Feb The  same  to  the  same  258 
 
 12th  Feb The  same  to  the  same   259 
 
 20th  Feb The  same  to  the  same  260 
 
 9th  March Archbishop  Parker  and  Bishop  Grindal 
 
 to  the  same 261 
 
 12th  March Archbishop  Parker  to  the  same 262 
 
 19th  INIarch Bishop  Davies  to  Archbishop  Parker  ....  265 
 
 20th  March Archbishop  Parker  and  Bishop  Grindal 
 
 to  Sir  William  Cecil  267 
 
 25th  March Archbishop  Parker  to  the  same 269 
 
 26th  March The  same  to  the  same 269 
 
 28th  March The  same  to  Bishop  Davies    270 
 
 28th  March The  same  to  Sir  William  Cecil 271 
 
 28th  March The  same  to  Bishop  Grindal  272 
 
 3rd  April The  same  to  Sir  William  Cecil 275 
 
 4th  April The  same  to  the  same 276 
 
 12th  April The  same  to  the  same  277 
 
 24th  April Bishop  Davies  to  Archbishop  Parker  ....  279 
 
 28th  April Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil.  280 
 
 3rd  May Bishop  Cox  to  Archbishop  Parker 281 
 
 27th  May Dr  Walter  Haddon  to  the  same 282 
 
 5th  June  Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil.  283 
 
 6th  June The  same  to  Dr  Walter  Haddon    284 
 
 27th  June The  same  to  Lord  Abergavenny    285 
 
 18th  July The  same  to  Matthias  Flacius  Hlyricus, 
 
 John  Wigand,  and  Matthias  Judex 286 
 
 22nd  July The  same  to  Sir  William  Cecil  289 
 
 20th  Nov The  same  to  the  same  290 
 
 21st  Dec The  same  to  the  same 290 
 
 24th  Dec Archbishop  Parker  and  other  Bishops  to 
 
 Queen  Elizabeth 292 
 
 2Gth  Dec Archbishop  Young  to  Archbishop  Parker  29 In. 
 
 Richard  Grafton  to  the  same  295 
 
 5tb  March Archbishop  Parker  to  the  Warden  of  All 
 
 Souls'  College,  Oxford 296 
 
 26th  March  ...Archbishop  Parker  and  others  to  the 
 Warden  and  Fellows  of  All  Sovils'  Col- 
 lege, Oxford    297 
 
 8th  April Dr  John  Caius  to  Archbishop  Parker  ...  298 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 XXI 
 
 LETTrU 
 
 CCXXX. 
 CCXXXI. 
 
 i:»07,     lOth  April 
 
 middle  of  year 
 
 CCXXX  II. 
 CCXXXllI. 
 CCXXXIV. 
 CCXXXV. 
 CCXXXVI. 
 
 CCXXXVII. 
 CCXXXVIII. 
 
 ccxxxix. 
 
 CCXL. 
 CCXLI. 
 
 CCXLII. 
 CCXLIll. 
 CCXLIV. 
 
 CCXLV. 
 
 CCXLVI. 
 
 CCXLVII. 
 
 CCXLVIII. 
 
 CCXLIX. 
 
 CCL. 
 
 CCLI. 
 
 CCLII. 
 
 CCLIII. 
 
 CCLIV. 
 CCLV. 
 CCLVI. 
 CCLVIT. 
 CCLVIII. 
 CCLIX. 
 
 CCLX. 
 
 CCLXI. 
 
 CCLXII. 
 
 CCLXIII. 
 
 CCLXIV. 
 
 CCL  XV. 
 
 CCLXVI. 
 CCLXVII. 
 CCLXVIII. 
 
 1507 
 1568. 
 
 1568. 
 
 1569, 
 
 Arcliliishop    TarkfT    nnd    otlu-ni    to    t\w 
 
 Wanlon  i.f  All  Souls*  CoIU-kp,  Oxford  .'JOO 
 Lord  Leii'OHter  and  Sir  Williuin  Cci-il  to 
 
 Archbishop  Tarkcr IJOl 
 
 Lordn  of  the  Ctmiicil  to  the  samo  3ir2n, 
 
 ard  July    Archbishop  Tarker  to     •     •     •     •       ...  ;j<« 
 
 rjth  Auj? The  same  to  Sir  William  Cecil    30.'J 
 
 I'Jth  Sept Sir  William  Cecil  to  Archbishop  Parker.  305 
 
 5th  Oct Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil .  305 
 
 27th  Oct Sir  Robert  Wingtieldand  others  to  Arch- 
 bishop Parker 300 
 
 before  Nov.  ...Archbishop  Parker  to  Bishop  Griudal  ...  308 
 
 31st  Dee The  same  to  Sir  Gilbert  Cerrard    308 
 
 8,  6th  Feb The  same  to  Lady  Bacon 3(X) 
 
 3rd  March    ...Sir  Henry  Sydney  to  Archbishop  Parker.  316 
 25th  March.. ..Archbishop  Parker  to  Frederic  II L,  Elec- 
 tor Palatine 317 
 
 29th  March.  ...The  same  to  Sir  "SVilliam  Cecil 318 
 
 3rd  May Earl  of  Warwick  to  Archbishop  Parker...  319 
 
 12ih  May Archbishop  Parker  to  the  Warden  of  All 
 
 Souls'  College,  O-xford 320 
 
 13th  ^Liy Queen  Elizabeth  to  Archbishop  Parker...  321 
 
 21st  May Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil...  322 
 
 24th  May The  same  to  Bishop  Grindal 323 
 
 1st  June The  same  to  the  Warden  of  All  Souls' 
 
 College,  Oxford 324 
 
 11th  June The  same  to  Sir  William  Cecil 324 
 
 2l6t  June The  same  to  Sir  Gilbert  Gerrard  325 
 
 4th  July The  same  to  Sir  William  Cecil 327 
 
 5th  July The  Lords  of  the  Council  to  Archbishop 
 
 Parker  328 
 
 7th  July Order  of  the  Privy  Council  327n. 
 
 14th  July Archbishop  Parker  to  the  Lords  of  the 
 
 Council 330 
 
 19th  August. ..The  same  to  Sir  William  Cecil    331 
 
 16th  Sept Immanuel  Tremellius  to  Archbp.  Parker  332 
 
 22nd  Sept Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil  333 
 
 5th  Oct The  same  to  the  same   334 
 
 5th  Oct The  same  to  Queen  Elizabeth 337 
 
 '               The  same  to  3Ir  Serjeant  Manwood  338 
 
 9,4th  Jan Archbishop   Parker  and    others  to    Sir 
 
 William  Cecil 343n. 
 
 16th  Jan Antonius  Corranus  to  Archbishop  Parker  339 
 
 17th  Jan Queen  Elizabeth  to  the  same  340 
 
 22nd  Feb Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil .  341 
 
 25th  March.... The  same  to  the  Bailiffs  ofLydd 342 
 
 13th  April.  ...Archbishop  Parker  and  other  Ecclesiasti- 
 cal Commissioners  to  Sir  William  Cecil  343 
 
 6th  May Archbishop  Parker  to  Bishop  Grindal  ...  345 
 
 16th  May The  same  to  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  York  347 
 
 18th  May The  same  to  Sir  William  Cecil    348 
 
 20th  May Archbishop  Parker  and  Bishop  Grindal 
 
 to  the  Vice-Chancellor  and  Heads  of 
 
 Houses  at  Cambridge  318 
 
xxu 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 LETTKR 
 
 CCLXIX. 
 
 15C9, 
 
 CCLXX. 
 
 — 
 
 CCLXXI. 
 
 
 
 CCLXXII. 
 
 — 
 
 CCLXXIII. 
 
 — 
 
 CCLXXIV,  15G9-70, 
 
 CCLXXV. 
 
 1570, 
 
 CCLXXVI. 
 
 — 
 
 CCLXXVII. 
 
 — 
 
 CCLXXVIII. 
 
 — 
 
 CCLXXIX. 
 
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 CCLXXX. 
 
 — 
 
 CCLXXXI. 
 
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 CCLXXXII. 
 
 — 
 
 CCLXXXIII. 
 
 1570-1, 
 
 CCLXXXLV. 
 
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 CCLXXXV. 
 
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 CCLXXXVI. 
 
 — 
 
 CCLXXXVII. 
 
 — 
 
 CCLXXXVIII. 
 
 1571, 
 
 CCLXXXIX. 
 
 — 
 
 CCXC. 
 
 CCXCI. 
 
 — 
 
 CCXCII.  — 
 
 CCXCUI.  — 
 
 CCXCIV.  — 
 
 CCXCV.  1571-2, 
 
 CCXCVI.  — 
 
 CCXCVII. 
 
 1572, 
 
 CCXCVIII. 
 
 — 
 
 CCXCIX. 
 
 — 
 
 ccc. 
 
 
 
 CCCI. 
 
 — 
 
 CCCII. 
 
 — 
 
 CCCIII. 
 
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 CCCIV. 
 
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 cccv. 
 
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 CCCVl. 
 
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 CCCVII. 
 
 CCCVllI. 
 
 — 
 
 CCCIX. 
 
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 cccx. 
 
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 3rd  June Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  "William  Cecil...  350 
 
 1st  July    The  same  to  the  same    351 
 
 9th  August  ...The  same  to  the  same  352 
 
 24th  Sept Sir  William  Cecil  to  Archbishop  Parker .  354 
 
 6th  Nov The  Lords  of  the  Council  to  the  same  ...  355 
 
 8th March Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil.  358 
 
 30th  March  ...The  same  to  tlie  same   359 
 
 1st  April  The  same  to  the  same  361 
 
 3rd  April The  same  to  the  same   363 
 
 4th  May  The  same  to  the  same  365 
 
 7th  May Thomas  Keyes  to  Archbishop  Parker 366n. 
 
 26th  May  Archbishop  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil.  366 
 
 25th  August. ..The  same  to  the  same  368 
 
 2nd  Nov The  same  to  the  same  370 
 
 27th  Dec The  same  to  Queen  Elizabeth 371 
 
 8th  Jan The  same  to  Sir  William  Cecil   375 
 
 21st  Jan The  same  to  the  same  377 
 
 2nd  Feb The  same  to  the  same  378 
 
 6th  Feb The  same  to  the  same  378 
 
 17th  Feb The  Lords  of  the  Council  to  Archbishop 
 
 Parker  and  Lord  Cobham 379 
 
 4th  June  Archbishop  Parker  to  Lord  Burghley  ...  381 
 
 7th  June  Archbishop  Parker  and  other  Ecclesias- 
 tical ComntMssioners  to  Churchwardens 
 
 and  others   382 
 
 17th  June Archbishop  Parker  to  Lord  Burghley   ...  384 
 
 17th  June The  Lords  of  the  Council  to  Archbishop 
 
 Parker  and  Bishop  Sandys    384 
 
 20th  August... Queen  Elizabetli  to  Archbishop  Parker.  386 
 22nd  August.. Order  of  the  Earl  of  Arundel  for  supply 
 
 of  Deer  to  Archbishop  Parker 387 
 
 16th  Dec Archbishop  Parker  to     •        *         ♦     ...  388 
 
 2nd  Jan The  same  to  Bishop  Parkhurst   389 
 
 13th  Jan Archbishop  Parker  and  other  Ecclesias- 
 tical Commissioners  to  the  Duchess  of 
 
 Suffolk  390 
 
 19th  May Archbishop  Parker  to  Lord  Burghley  ...  391 
 
 22nd  May The  same  to  Bishop  Barnes 392 
 
 31st  May  Archbishop  Parker  and  others  to  Lord 
 
 Burghley 393 
 
 2nd  July  Archbishop  Parker  to  the  same  394 
 
 8th  July   The  same  to  the  same   395 
 
 17th  August.. The  same  to  the  same  396 
 
 25th  August  ...The  same  to  the  same 397 
 
 16th  Sept The  same  to  the  same  398 
 
 6th  Oct The  same  to  the  same 400 
 
 9th  Oct Archbishop  Parker  and  other  Ecclesias- 
 tical Commissioners  to  Bishop  Park- 
 hurst   401 
 
 29th  Oct Archbishop  Parker  to  Bishop  Sandys    ...  402 
 
 2nd  Nov The  same  to  Bishop  Parkhurst  403 
 
 5th  Nov The  same  to  Lord  Burghley 404 
 
 7th  Nov The  same  to  Lord  Burghley  and  the  Earl 
 
 of  Leicester 405 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 XXIll 
 
 1512, 
 
 IKTTF.B 
 CCCXl. 
 
 CCCXII. 
 CCCXIII. 
 CCCXIV. 
 
 cccw. 
 
 CCCXVI. 
 CCCXVII. 
 CCCXVllI. 
 
 CCCXIX. 
 
 C(  c'xx. 
 
 CHH'XXI. 
 (C  ex  XI I. 
 CCCXXIII. 
 
 cccxxiv. 
 
 CC(  XXV. 
 CCCXXVI. 
 CCCXXVII. 
 CCCXXVIII. 
 CCCXXIX. 
 CCCXXX. 
 
 CCCXXXI.        — 
 
 CCCXXXII. 
 
 CCCXXXIII. 
 
 CCCXXXIV. 
 
 CCCXXXV. 
 
 CCCXXXVI. 
 
 CCCXXXVII. 
 
 CCCXXXYIII 
 
 CCCXXXIX. 
 
 CCCXL. 
 
 CCCXLI. 
 
 CCCXLII. 
 
 CCCXLIII. 
 
 CCCXLTV. 
 
 CCCXLV. 
 
 CCCXLVI. 
 
 CCCXLVII. 
 
 CCCXLVIII. 
 
 CCCXLIX. 
 
 CCCL. 
 
 CCCLI. 
 
 CCCLII. 
 
 CCCLIII. 
 
 CCCLIV. 
 
 CCCLV. 
 
 CCCLVI. 
 
 CCCLVII. 
 
 CCCLVIII. 
 
 CCCLIX. 
 
 CCCLX. 
 
 8th  Not The  unmc  to  I.onl  HurKliloy 
 
 —  13th  Nov Tho  Bntno  to  tho  Biiino 
 
 —  'J'Jml  Nov Tho  wimo  to  tho  unino    
 
 —  l.'Uh  Deo Tho  same  to  tlio  same    
 
 —  iMst  Di'o Tho  name  to  tho  naiuo    
 
 —  'i.'ith  Dor Tho  Haine  to  tho  nanio    
 
 1571*-.'},  Uinl  Jan Tho  huiuc  to  lii-shop  PurkhurHt 
 
 —  Uth  Jan Tlie  sanjo  to  tlio  Karl  of  SuHHox   
 
 —  l'4th  Feb Tho  wuno  to  Uisliop  rarkhurst 
 
 —  JJni  Marrli  ...Tho  sanio  to  tlio  same 
 
 —  iL'tli  March  ...The  sanio  to  Lord  IJurghley  
 
 1673,    [)t\\  April The  same  to  tho  same 
 
 —  U.")th  April  ...Tho  same  to  tlie  .same 
 
 —  l?7th  April   ...The  same  to  tho  same 
 
 —  l)th  May   Tlio  same  to  the  same 
 
 —  5th  June The  same  to  the  same 
 
 —  15th  June The  same  to  the  same 
 
 —  15th  June The  same  to  Queen  Elizabeth  
 
 —  l!)th  June The  same  to  tlie  same 
 
 —  5th  July    Archbishop  Parker  and  other  Ecclesia.sti- 
 
 cal  Commissioners  to  the  Vice- Chan- 
 cellor of  Cambridf^e    
 
 Gth  July    Archbishop  Parker  and  Bishop  Sandys  to 
 
 some  other  Bishop 
 
 —  15th  July Archbishop  Parker  to  Lord  Burghley  ... 
 
 —  18th  July  The  same  to  the  same  
 
 —  23rd  July  The  same  to  the  same  
 
 —  27th  July  The  same  to  the  same  
 
 —  17th  August. ..The  same  to  the  same    
 
 —  11th  Sept Lord  Burghley  to  Archbishop  Parker   ... 
 
 —  11th  Sept Archbishop  Parker  to  Lord  Burghley    ... 
 
 —  3rd  Nov The  same  to  the  same   
 
 —  7th  Nov The  same  to  the  same   
 
 —  9th  Nov The  same  to  the  same   
 
 —  11th  Nov The  same  to  the  same    
 
 —  13th  Nov The  same  to  the  same    
 
 —  15th  Nov The  same  to  the  same  
 
 —  24th  Nov The  same  to  Bishop  Sandys 
 
 —  5th  Dec The  same  to  Mr  John  Boys 
 
 —  30th  Dec The  same  to  Lord  Burghley 
 
 —         The  same  to  the  same   
 
 1573-4,  13th  Jan The  same  to  the  Vidame  of  Chartres 
 
 1574,     25th  March.  ...The  same  to  Mr  Matchett    
 
 —  17th  May The  same  to  Bishop  Parkhurst    
 
 —  12th  June The  same  to  the  Earl  of  Sussex  
 
 —  14th  June The  same  to  Bishop  Parkhurst   
 
 —  19th  June The  same  to  Lord  Burghley     
 
 —  19th  June The  same  to  the  same    
 
 —  23rd  June The  same  to  the  same   
 
 —  2Gth  June The  same  to  the  same   
 
 —  26th  June The  same  to  the  same   
 
 —  SOth  June The  same  to  the  same   
 
 —  13th  August.. .The  same  to  the  same   
 
 'AUK 
 
 4mt 
 
 407 
 HH) 
 411 
 412 
 
 41.{ 
 •II.'. 
 
 4i<; 
 
 -IMi 
 417 
 418 
 420 
 422 
 423 
 424 
 427 
 427 
 428 
 429 
 
 4.33 
 
 4.34 
 43G 
 437 
 440 
 441 
 441 
 444 
 444 
 445 
 447 
 447 
 44S 
 449 
 449 
 451 
 452 
 453 
 453 
 455 
 45G 
 457 
 458 
 459 
 4G0 
 4G1 
 4G2 
 4G2 
 403 
 4G4 
 4G5 
 
XXIV 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 LKTTER  PAGE 
 
 CCCLXI.  1574,  2nd  Oct Archbishop  Parker  to  the  Earl  of  Sussex  466 
 
 CCCLXII.  —  7th  Oct The  same  to  the  same   467 
 
 CCCLXIII.  —  23rd  Nov The  same  to  Lord  Burghley    467 
 
 CCCLXIV.  —  25th  Nov The  same  to  Dr  Robert  Norgate    469 
 
 CCCLXV.  1574-5,  9th  Jan The  same  to  Lord  Burghley 469 
 
 CCCLXVI.  —  24th  Jan The  same  to  Peter  Dathenus   471 
 
 CCCLXVII.  —  18th  Feb The  same  to  Lord  Burghley    472 
 
 CCCLXVIIL  —  17th  March.. ..The  same  to  Archbishop  Grindal  474 
 
 CCCLXIX.  1575,  11th  April....The  same  to  Lord  Burghley    477 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 I.  1604-59,      Archbishop  Parker's  Autobiography  481 
 
 II.  1559,     30th  March.. ..Dr  Matthew  Parker  to  Sir  William  Cecil  485 
 Index 487 
 
C0RlM:si»OM)EiNCK 
 
 or 
 
 ARCHBISHOP    PARKER. 
 
 I. 
 
 JOHN  SKYPP  TO   MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 l'3ni  March,  1634—5.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Caiub.  cviii.  art.  o.  p.  73.  Orig. 
 
 Mr  Parker,  I  commend  me  heartily  unto  you.  Our  Master  Betts 
 friend  Master  Betts^  is  departed  out  of  this  world.  And  the  Amie  itoi'?y"a 
 Queen's  grace  commanded  me  to  write  unto  you  to  the  intent  si>cak  with 
 
 ^  .  *'  .  Parker. 
 
 that  ye  should  come  up  and  speak  with  her  with  all  the 
 speed  that  ye  can.  I  would  ye  might  come  before  Easter ; 
 but  if  ye  cannot,  I  pray  you  in  any  wise  to  be  here  in  the 
 week  after,  and  then  shall  ye  know  further  of  her  pleasure. 
 Thus  fare  ye  well.  From  Hampton  Court,  the  Tuesday 
 after  Palm  Sundays 
 
 Your, 
 
 JOHN  SKIPPE. 
 
 To  my  friend  Mr  Parl-er  of  Benet 
 College  this  he  delivered  with 
 speed. 
 
 [1  He  was  a  Fellow  of  Corpus  Christi  College,  and  chaplain  to 
 Queen  Anne  Boleyn,  in  which  office  Parker  succeeded  him.] 
 
 [2  The  following  note  is  appended  to  this  letter,  apparently  by  the 
 archbishop  :  "  Hie  J.  Skyp  erat  ab  eleemosinis  Reginaj  Anna?,  postea 
 episcopus  Herefordensis,  et  tandem  moritur  in  ajdibus  suis  Londini." 
 There  is  also  adiled  to  this  and  the  next  letter  by  a  subsequent  hand  the 
 date  "  1533."  We  have  assigned  them  to  the  year  1535,  as  a  period  more 
 consistent  with  other  facts  in  the  biography  of  Parker.  It  appears 
 from  his  autobiographical  memoranda,  that  he  did  not  take  upon  him 
 the  office  of  a  preacher  until  the  first  Sunday  in  Advent  in  1533,  and 
 that  on  the  30th  March,  1535,  probably  the  day  on  which  he  received 
 these  letters,  he  was  "  summoned  to  the  court  of  queen  Anne."  See 
 Appendix,  No.  I.] 
 
 [park,  cor.] 
 
JOHN  SKYPP  TO  MATTHEW   PARKER. 
 
 [1535. 
 
 Being  uncer- 
 tain as  to  the 
 delivery  of 
 his  former 
 letter,  Skypp 
 writes  again 
 to  summon 
 Parker  to 
 court. 
 
 Bring  a  long 
 gown;  that 
 shall  be 
 enough. 
 
 II. 
 
 JOHN  SKYPP  TO  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 23rd  March,  1534—5.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cviii.  art.  5.  p.  73.  Orig. 
 
 Master  Parker,  I  commend  me  heartily  unto  you.  I 
 sent  you  a  letter  by  a  carrier,  but  whether  it  shall  be  deli- 
 vered or  not  I  cannot  tell.  Therefore  I  write  again  pray- 
 ing you  that  ye  will  be  at  the  court  as  shortly  after  Easter 
 as  ye  can,  for  the  Queen  will  see  you ;  and  for  as  much  as 
 Mr  Betts  is  departed,  I  think  her  mind  is  to  have  you  to 
 her  chaplain.  I  pray  you  resist  not  your  calling,  but  come 
 in  any  wise  to  know  further  of  her  pleasure.  Bring  with 
 you  a  long  gown,  and  that  shall  be  enough  until  ye  shall 
 return  to  Cambridge.  We  shall  be  this  Easter  at  Richmond ; 
 we  remove  thither  this  same  day.  Thus  fare  ye  well.  From 
 Hampton  Court,  the  Tuesday  after  Palm  Sunday. 
 
 Your, 
 
 JOHN  SKYPPE. 
 
 III. 
 
 SIR  JOHN  CHEKE  TO  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 
 Old  favour 
 shewn  by 
 Parker  to 
 Cheke. 
 
 A.  D.  1535.1     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxir.  art.  134.  p.  405.  Orig. 
 
 AuDEO  equidem  pro  veteri  tuo  erga  me  favore  familiariter 
 
 impetrare,  vir  honestissime,  ut  tantum  petitioni  mese  honestae 
 
 tribuas   quantum  commodo  tuo  facere  potes.     Hoc  in  causa 
 
 est.      Accepimus  et  constans  apud  nos  fama  est  de  nobilis- 
 
 QueenAnne  slmsB  Reginse  magnificcntia,   quae,  cum  immensum  quendam 
 
 putation  for    modum  erga  studiosos  late  patuit,  nunc  sit  adaucta  multum  et 
 
 liberality  vp  t« 
 
 amplmcata   quod  ad  compendu  nostri    primo    quoque    anno 
 reditum  dissolvendum  spectat.     Intelleximus  autem  nuper  in 
 
 towards 
 students. 
 
 [1  It  seems  probable  that  this  letter  was  addressed  to  Parker  at 
 court.  He  was  summoned  thither  as  we  have  seen  to  become  chap- 
 lain to  queen  Anne  on  the  30th  of  March,  1535,  and  he  took  possession 
 of  the  deanery  of  Stoke  in  November  of  the  same  year.  See  Appen- 
 dix, No.  I.  Strype,  in  his  life  of  Cheke,  places  this  letter  under 
 "ann.  1540,  et  seq.,"  but  in  his  life  of  Parker  he  assigns  it  to  1534.] 
 
1535.]  SIR   .TOIIN  CIIRKG    T<)   MAirilKW    I'AllKI'll.  8 
 
 SO  reccpisso  Koginam  hoc  iit  fiicorct,  ct  promisisso  ut,  si  qui 
 tenui  in  ro  ct  in  cgcstato  positi,  (pioruin  prjv?tcrca  nioruin  in- 
 gcniiit«'i3  et  candor  alicpiis   ingcnii   priulucerct  ad  virtutis  ct 
 litcrarum    stadia,    libcntcr    so    illoruin    non)ino    dissoluturani 
 atquo   illoruin    nomine    pcrscripturam,    modo    illi   siji^nirtcatio  f^heoniy 
 detur  aliqua  vol  per  D.   Skippnni   vol  aliquem  ex  vobis  qui  J;;,),';;,^'"^'"' 
 clarissinKT3  Kogina)  a  sacris  cstis,  qualom   so  gcrat  ct  qualem  ^I;>;[;'^;^^  „f 
 fio  ostcndat  moribus  ac  cruditionc.      Jam   vero  cum  nos  ha-  '«^"^''»«'^"«- 
 beamus  apud  nos  adolcsccntulum   htcnitum  ct  honcstum,  qui 
 ct  rcrum  cognitiono  abundat  ct  intcgritato  morum,  qui  vcnis- 
 set  in  sociorura   numcrum  ad  tempus  Paschatis  nisi  quod  ex 
 hoc  a?re  exirc  non  potuit   ct  pccuniam  istam  nequibat  habere 
 cxpcditam,  D.  Billum^,  multum  a  to  desidero  ct  require  ut  Buiunabicto 
 
 ,.  .  ,    -.^        •  />  11  1  .  have  his  ftl- 
 
 aliqua  via  ad  Kogmam  perteratur  esse  adolcscentulum  gravi  Ifj^^jf^lJij'.*' 
 paupcrtate   oppressum,  cui  iter  ad  victum   suum  interclusum  J^^Ht^o/"'" 
 est,  quod  colligcre  certam  pccuniam  nequeat,  quam  numerare  ""^"^y- 
 ante  debeat  quam  societatcm  inire  posset.      Quod  si  cures  pro 
 tua  humanitate  faciundum,  facies  rem  valde  piam  et  sanctam 
 quod  promoves  ad  studia  et  bonas  hteras  cos  quibus  pauper- 
 tatis    malum    in^ravescit.      Id    si    ante   Omnium   Sanctorum  "e  is  to  be 
 
 O  recommend- 
 
 feceris,  dupliciter  demereberis  nos  tibi,  et  quod  ilium  in  locum  ^u^n/\f  pos. 
 suum  curabis  restitui,  et  quod  ahi  dabis  ansam  in  ejus  locum  An-^sinS'^ 
 quem  nunc  habet  veniendi.     Est  enim  solenne  nobis  ad  fes-  '^^^* 
 tum  Sanctorum  Omnium  creare  novos  discipulos  qui  in  vacua 
 corum  loca  veniant  quos  ante  hoc  tempus  abiisse  hoc  munere 
 cognoverimus.      Ergo   hoc  facto   nos   dupUcem   reportabimus 
 commoditatem,  et  tu  una  ex  re  duplicem  rapies  laboris  tui 
 fructum.     Me  autem  in  infinitum  tibi  devinctum  habes.    Vale. 
 Cantabrigiae.     Pridie  Michaelm. 
 
 Tuus  si  quid  potest, 
 
 JOANNES  CHEEKUS. 
 
 Generoso  viro  MattJieo  ParTcaro, 
 RegincB  a  sacris. 
 
 [2  William  Bill,  afterwards  Dean  of  Westminster,  &c.] 
 
 1—2 
 
4   HENRY  VIII.'S  WARRANT  FOR  A  DOE  FOR  M.  PARKER.  [1535* 
 
 IV. 
 
 HENRY  Vni'S  WARRANT  FOR  A  DOE  FOR 
 MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 
 11th  October,  1535.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  4.  p.  8.  Grig. 
 
 Henry  E.^ 
 
 By  the  King. 
 
 We  will  and  command  you  forthwith,  upon  the  sight  of 
 these  our  letters  and  bj  warrant  of  the  same,  that  ye  de- 
 liver, or    cause    to  be  delivered  unto  our  trusty  and  well- 
 beloved  Matthew  Parker,  chaplain  to  our  dearest  wife  the 
 One  doe  of     Qucon^,  or   to  the  brinffer  hereof  in  his  name,  one  doe  of 
 
 season  to  be  o  ' 
 
 MShew'°   season,  to  be  taken  of  our  gift  within  our  forest  of  Waye- 
 
 Ko'the^^  bridge,  any  restraint  or  other  commandment  heretofore  had 
 
 Queen.         ^^  made  to  the  contrary  hereof  in  anywise  notwithstanding. 
 
 Given  under  our  signet  at  our  city  of  Salisbury,  the  11th 
 
 day  of  October,  in  the  27  th  year  of  our  reign. 
 
 To  the  Master  Forester  of  our  forest 
 of  Weyhridge,  and  in  his  absence 
 to  his  deputy  or  deputies  there  and 
 to  any  of  them. 
 
 V. 
 
 QUEEN  ANNE  BOLEYN  TO  THE  BISHOP  OF  NORWICH. 
 
 4th  November,  1535.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cviii.  art.  6.  p.  74.  Copy. 
 
 Anna,  Dei  gratia  Regina  Anglise  et  Franciae  ac  domina 
 HiberniaB,  reverendo  in  Christo  patri  Richardo  permissione 
 divina  Norwicen.  episcopo,  ejus  ve  in  absentia  vicario  suo  in 
 spiritualibus  generali,  seu  alio  [sic]  cuicunque  jurisdictionem 
 episcopalem  ejusdem  pro  tempore  habenti,  salutem.  Ad  deca- 
 natum  ecclesiae  nostras  coUegiatse  sancti  Johannis  Baptistae  de 
 The  deanery  Stoko^  luxta  Clare  vestrse  Norwicensis  dioceseos  mode   per 
 
 of  the  eolle-  «'  ,      ,  ^ 
 
 imoki'vS  mortem    naturalem   magistri  Robert!   Shorten  ultimi  decani 
 
 Sh'of  ^^    ibidem  vacantem,  et  ad  nostram  collationem  sive  presentatio- 
 
 shorton.       Hom  plcuo  juro  spectautcm,  dilectum  nobis  in  Christo  magis- 
 
 trum  Matheum  Parker,  sacras  theologiae  baccalarium,  capel- 
 
 \}  The  king's  stamp.]  P  Anne  Boleyn.] 
 
 [3  This  had  been  formerly  a  Benedictine  prioiy,  but  was  now  a 
 
 college  of  secular  priests.      See  Strype's  Parker,  Book  I.  c.  2.  pp.  15, 
 
 16.  Oxf.  1821.1 
 
1535.]   QUEEN  ANNE  BOLEYN  TO  THE  UISIIOI*  OF  NORWICH.       5 
 
 lanura  nostrum  vobis  prcscntanuis  intuitu   cliarltatis,  ron;antc.s  Matthew 
 
 »  '  .  I'iirktr  to  bo 
 
 ut  cundoni  uiagistruui  Mathouui  ad  dccanatuui  prcdictuni  [',|^.'^^!|JJ*^^*^ 
 aduiittere,  ipsumquo  dccanum  in  codcm  canonico  institucro 
 cum  suis  juribus  ct  pcrtinentibus  univcrsis,  cctcraquc  pcra- 
 gcro  qua)  vestro  in  hac  parte  incumbunt  officio  pastorali 
 velitis  cum  favoro.  In  cujus  rci  testimonium  magnum  sigil- 
 liim  nostrum  prcscntibus  apponi  fecimus'*.  Datum  apud 
 castellum  domini  niei  de  AVindesore,  quarto  die  Novcmbris 
 anno  regni  dicti  domini  mci  Regis  llcnrici  octavi  vicesimo 
 septimo.     Anno  Domini  1534  ^ 
 
 Per  warrantum  sub  Signeto. 
 
 VI. 
 
 THOMAS  LORD  CROMWELL  TO  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 A.D.  1537.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  CoU.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  129.  p.  393.  Orig. 
 
 In  my  right  hearty  manner,  I  commend  me  unto  you. 
 And  whereas,  for  the  honest  report  of  your  learning  in  holy 
 letters  and  uncorrupt  judgment  in  the  same,  I  have  appointed  pomte/by 
 
 .  1  .  .«  /»  1  Cromwell  to 
 
 you,  among  others,  to  occupy  the  room  oi  a  preacher  one  "occujiy  the 
 day  at  Paul's  Cross;  these  be  as  well  to  signify  unto  you  preacher  at 
 that  the  said  day  limited  for  you  is  the  seventeenth  Sunday  after  on  jje  17th  ^ 
 Trinity    Sunday,    being    the    23rd   day   of   September   next  g;|'jy'p*^.='"2 
 coming,  as  also  to  require  you  that  ye  fail  not  to  be  there  *<^"^^^''- 
 the  same  day,  preparing  in  the  mean  time  with  such  pure 
 
 [•*  At  the  foot  of  this  letter  is  the  following  copy  of  the  certificate 
 of  composition  for  firstfruits  : 
 
 Decanatus  Collegii  Dioccsis  Norvicensis. 
 
 divi  Johannis  Baptis-  Memorandum :     quinto  die   Novembris 
 
 toe    do    Stoke    juxta  anno  Regis  Henrici  VIH.  xxvii°,  Matheus 
 
 Clare  in  com.  Suff.  Parker  Clericus  composuit  coram  Thoma 
 
 Crumwell    Armigero,   primario    Secretario 
 
 Domini     regis     ac     magistro     Rotulorum 
 
 Curia3   Cancellariai  Domini  Regis  pro    pri- 
 
 mitiis   dicti  decanatus    secundum   formam 
 
 statuti  de  concessione  primitiarura  editi  ct 
 
 provisi. 
 
 Per  JoHAXNEM  Hales.] 
 [5  This  date  is  by  the  same  hand  as  the  rest  of  the  letter.     It 
 should,  however,  bo  1535,  (see  App.  No.  I.)  which  agrees  with  the 
 27th  of  King  Henry  VHL] 
 
THOMAS  LORD  CROMWELL  TO  MATTHEW   PARKER. 
 
 [1537. 
 
 Parker  sum- 
 moned to 
 court  to  be 
 appointed 
 chaplain  to 
 Henry  VIII. 
 
 sincereness  truly  to  open  the  word  of  God  at  the  said  day  as 
 I  may  thereby  take  occasion  to  think  the  report  made  of  you 
 to  be  true ;  whereby  ye  shall  not  only  do  a  right  good  deed, 
 but  also  to  minister  unto  me  thankful  pleasure,  which  I  shall 
 not  fail  to  requite  as  occasion  may  thereunto  serve  ^  And 
 thus  fare  ye  well. 
 
 Your  friend, 
 
 THOMAS  CRUMWELL. 
 
 To  my  loving  friend  Master  ParJcer, 
 Dean  of  Stoke  college  in  Suffolk. 
 
 VII. 
 
 JOHN  SKYPP  TO  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 13th  February,  1537—8.   Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  17.  p.  62.  Orig. 
 
 Right  worshipful  Mr  Dean,  I  commend  me  heartily 
 unto  you.  These  my  letters  shall  be  to  certify  you  that  the 
 King's  grace  hath  not  forgotten  you,  but  hath  you  perfectly 
 in  his  remembrance,  and  also  willeth,  that  you  at  your  con- 
 venient leisure  repair  unto  the  court,  not  only  to  be  admitted 
 chaplain  unto  his  grace  2,  but  also  at  your  coming  thither  to 
 know  further  of  his  pleasure.  This  he  willed  me  to  signify 
 unto  you.  He  appointed  you  no  certain  day,  wherefore 
 sith  you  were  minded  before  to  be  here  about  Mid-Lent.  I 
 think  it  best  that  you  persevere  in  your  purpose.  Thus  fare 
 ye  well.       From  Westminster,  the  13th  day  of  February. 
 
 Your, 
 
 JOHN  SKYPPE3. 
 
 To  the  right  icorshipful  Mr  ParTcer, 
 Dean  of  Stoke  college. 
 
 \}  Strype  under  the  date  1537  says  :  "About  this  time,  if  not  be- 
 fore, our  Parker  was  sent  for  up  by  the  lord  Crumwell  to  take  a  turn 
 at  Paul's  Cross."  The  date  assigned  to  the  17th  Sunday  after  Trinity, 
 proves  that  this  letter  was  written  in  1537.] 
 
 [2  "1537.  1°  Martii.  Vocatus  ad  aulam  regis,  et  factus  capellanus 
 Henrici  VIH."     Autobiog.  Mem.  App.  No.  I.] 
 
 [3  The  words  "  quondam  episcopus  Hereforden.",  are  added  by 
 another  hand.  Dr  Skypp  was  elected  bishop  of  Hereford  24th  Octo- 
 ber, 1639.     He  died  30th  March,  1552.] 
 
1539.]         ANSWER  TO  AUTICLES  OK  ACCUSATION,  &C.  7 
 
 Vlll. 
 
 ANSWER  TO  ARTICLKS  OF  ACCUSATION  SENT  TO  TIIK 
 LORD  Al'DLKY,  LORD  CHANCELLOR,  AGAINST  M.  PAR- 
 KER ]\Y  Mli   G.  COLT  AND  OTHER  OF  CLARE  TOWN. 
 
 Probably  A.D.  1W0«.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Canib.  cviii.  art.  38.  p.  iCO. 
 Orig.  draft  of  Uie  Answer. 
 
 The  manner  as  that  used  the  resurrection,  with  the  cere- J«t  art^, 
 
 '  That  he  ridl- 
 
 monies  appertaining/  to  the  same,  teas  but   a  pageant  ^J'lI,on1e« 
 or  an  interlude.  °'^'*'- 
 
 Upon  Easter  Monday  I  had  this  text  of  St  Taul  to  "^^o^^" 
 my  theme,  .Si  consurrea-istis  cum  Christo  quoi  sursum  sunt 
 sapite,  ^c. ;  at  what  time  I  moved  them  to  consider  spiritually 
 what  was  meant  by  their  procession  on  Easter  morning,  when 
 they  followed  the  quire  about  the  church  with  Christus  resur- 
 qens.     I  said  that  it  was  an  open  protestation  of  their  faith  Tmemeanins 
 
 ^.  •,.-,-.,..  1  •/.       of  Easter  pro- 
 
 to  believe  that  Christ  died  for  their  sins,  and  rose  again  for  cesbioiu. 
 their  justification,  and  that  the  ceremony  of  such  following  in 
 their  procession  was  to  declare  and  testify  openly  to  the  world 
 that  they  would  henceforth  follow  Christ  in  their  conversation ; 
 that  as  Christ  once  died,  and  died  no  more,  that  so  would 
 they  cease  and  die  to  sin,  no  more  to  live  therein,  and  as  he 
 rose  from  death  to  life,  that  so  would  they  rise  to  a  new 
 life;  and  without  this  meditation  and  purpose  their  procession, 
 with  the  solemnities  thereof,  was  to  them  but  a  vain  pageant 
 whereof  they  had  no  profit. 
 
 The  cross  that   Christ  died   on    was   no    holier    than  the  2nd  art. 
 
 7.7        7  7  .  T     7  That  he  de- 
 
 crosses  which  the  thieves  died  on.  niedthe 
 
 hohness  of 
 the  cross. 
 
 Upon  Relic-Sunday  I  declared  to  them  what  were  the  true  bespon- 
 relics  which  we  should  worship,  and  moved  them  not 
 to  put  their  trust  and  affiance  in  the  holiness  and  virtue  of 
 men's  bones  and  coats,  whereof  we  have  no  certainty  whe- 
 ther they  were  the  relics  of  saints  or  no;  and  I  said,  that 
 be  it  in  case  that  they  were  so  as  we  have  been  made  beheve,  ^ve  should 
 
 «  not  worship 
 
 as  if  we  had  indeed  some  pieces  of  Christ's  cross,   yet  to  JJl  ^°^!j  °^j 
 forget  the  mystery  of  Christ's  cross,   and   fall  to   the  wor-  nnSr^of 
 
 the  cross. 
 
 [*  Lord  Audlcy,  who  is  here  mentioned,  was  so  created  on  the 
 29th  November,  1538.] 
 
8  ANSWER  TO  ARTICLES  OF  ACCUSATION,   &C.         [1539. 
 
 shipping  of  the  tree  of  his  cross,  was  a  superstitious  wor- 
 ship, and  reproved  of  St  Ambrose  de  ohitu  Theodosii  *,  which 
 saith  thus:  Invenit  Helena  tifulum,  regem  adoravit,  non 
 lignum  utique,  nam  hie  Gentilis  est  error  et  vanitas  i?npi- 
 orum.  Sed  adoravit  ilium  qui  pependit  in  ligno  scriptus 
 in  titulo. 
 
 '*  Alii  qui  aanctiores  se  ostendere  {?)  volunt  partem 
 fimbrice  aut  capillorum  alligant  et  suspendunt.  O  impietas  ! 
 majorem  sanctitatem  in  suis  vestimentis  ostendere  volentes 
 quam  in  came  Christi ;  ut  qui  corpus  ejus  manducans  sana- 
 tus  non  fuerit  fimbrice  ejus  sanctitate  salvetur,  ut  desperans 
 de  misericordia  {?)  Dei  confidat  in  vestimentis ^. 
 
 Thl^ife^Iid    -^^^  J^ing,  with  the  money  that  he  gathered  of  his  commons, 
 kviedmlney  hought  peace  with  other  realms, 
 
 of  the  com- 
 
 JTeaceof other         In  ths  insurrection  time^  I  considered  the  resort  of  sol- 
 REspoN-   <3iers  and  of  divers  other  to  the  town  of  Clare,  being  one 
 ^^^"       of  the   most   people  in  that  quarter  of  Suffolk,   and  there- 
 upon I  thought  it  then  most  expedient  to  go  thither  to  courage 
 their  hearts  with  God's  word  to  serve  their  prince  in  with- 
 standing such  traitors  as  was  then  risen,  and  in  my  sermon  I 
 inveighed   against  sedition,   and  declared  the  authority  of  a 
 prince,  and  what  commodities  every  realm  enjoyed  by  such 
 authority  instituted    by    God.     And,   among    other,    I    en- 
 treated   of   peace,    what    a    benefit  it   was,    by   the  means 
 whereof  we  had  the  quiet  fruition  of  our  lives,  goods,  and 
 lands,  and  thereby  moved  them,   with  good  and  ready  wills 
 to  pay  their  taxes  which  was  to  be  levied  to  some  support- 
 ation  of  such  charges  as  our  peace  was   bought  with,   and 
 ThattheKing  Said   thus,    "  Think   you  that   our  prince  can  maintain  and 
 fend  his  peo-  dcfcud  US  iu  SO  lonoj  continual  peace  a'xainst  foreiorn  realms 
 
 pie  without  °  *■  °     .  .      ,       , 
 
 jj^^^'S      Without  charges  and  expenses  ?  and  wliat  is  this  little  which 
 
 whicn  should 
 be  cheerfully 
 
 ^'^  [1   Originally  written  "  Chrysostom."   See  Opera.  Ambros.  n.  1210. 
 
 ed.  1690.] 
 
 [2  These  words  "Alii  qui  sanctiores,"  &c.,  are  not  a  continuation 
 of  the  quotation  from  St  Ambrose,  nor  has  it  been  discovered  whence 
 they  are  taken.  The  sentence  is  left  incomplete  by  the  wearing 
 away  of  the  bottom  of  the  leaf  in  the  MS.] 
 
 P  The  allusion  is  to  the  Pilgrimage  of  Grace,  and  the  rising  in 
 Lincolnshire  under  the  prior  of  Barlings.] 
 
1539.]  JOHN  SKY rr  td  .mattiilw  iaiikkh.  9 
 
 is  required  of  you  compiired  to  tho  rest  of  your  goods  wli'nh 
 yo  do  peaceably  enjoy,  or  coinpiired  to  tho  char<:;e3  that  y(jur 
 prince  is  at  lor  your  protection  and  defence,  &c."  '. 
 
 IX. 
 
 JOHN  SKYIT  TO  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 
 llth  May,  probably  10Jy^     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxix.  art.  13. 
 p.  3G.    Orig. 
 
 I  COMMEND  mc  heartily  unto  you,  thanking  you,  beside  Parkers ow 
 other  vour  kindness,  for  your  last  letters,  wherein  I  perceive  IiiiiRcnttinn- 
 that  the  old  and  busy  diliorence  in  your  new  busy  matters  con-  Those  of  the 
 
 «  o  "^  •/  convocation 
 
 tinueth  still  amongst  you.     We  of  the  Convocation,  by  the  th°"r"ro" 
 reason  of  long  absence  from  you,  are  decayed  in  quickness  ^<^^"fi*- 
 of  wit,  and  so  are  become  more  dull  and  slow  in  our  pro- 
 ceedings.    Ye  bo  hot  and  hasty :    we  be   cold   and   tardy. 
 AVe  think  that  a  great  quantity   of  our  qualities  would  do 
 much  good  amongst  you,  and  a  httle  portion  of  your  quali- 
 ties were  enough  for  us.     Yq  are  so  prudent  and  expert  in 
 all  things  that  ye  need  never  to  use  deliberation  though  your 
 matters  were  greater  than  they  be,  but  we,  for  lack  of  your 
 properties,  are  fain  to  respect  and  consult  in  all  matters  that  They  are  fain 
 we  entreat  of.      Therefore,  sccino:  this  diversity  between  us  con^K''" 
 
 11  11  1      1.  1        allmattrra 
 
 and  you,  ye  cannot  blame  us  though  we  proceed  diversely.  J.*'^;  ^^'^y 
 Fare   ye  well.      I  shall  make  an  end  of  my  letter  another 
 time.     From  Westminster,  the  llth  day  of  May. 
 
 J.   SK. 
 To  the  FigJit  Worshipful  Mr  Doctor 
 Parker,  Dean  of  Stoke. 
 
 [^  In  Parker's  handwriting  is  added:  "These  articles  objected 
 were  thus  answered  by  M.  P.,  and  sent  to  the  lord  chancellor,  which 
 heard,  ho  blamed  the  promoters,  and  sent  word  that  I  should  go  on 
 and  fear  not  such  enemies."] 
 
 [5  Wilkins,  Concilia,  ni.  845.] 
 
10 
 
 MATTHEW   PARKEK   TO   DR   STOKES. 
 
 [1539. 
 
 X. 
 
 Dr  Stokes 
 come  from 
 Norwich  to 
 reside  at 
 Clare. 
 
 Parker  pre- 
 sumes that  at 
 his  leisure  he 
 will  go  abroad 
 and  preach, 
 than  which 
 there  can  be 
 no  better  ser- 
 vice to  God 
 and  the  com- 
 monwealth. 
 
 Parker  has 
 done  his  best 
 to  perform 
 the  same  of- 
 fice since  his 
 first  coming 
 into  that 
 country.     He 
 now  urges  Dr 
 Stokes  to 
 support  him 
 therein. 
 
 MATTHEW  PARKER  TO  DR  STOKES,  FRIAR  AUSTIN. 
 
 23rd  November,  probably  1539  or  1540.     Tarker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cviii. 
 art.36.  p.  IGl.     Orig.  draft. 
 
 In  my  hearty  manner,  Mr  Doctor,  I  commend  me  unto 
 you.  And  this  shall  be  to  signify  unto  you,  that  forasmuch 
 as  ye  informed  me  that  ye  be  come  from  Norwich  to  be  here 
 resiant  at  Clare,  I  thought  it  convenient  to  write  thus  much 
 following  unto  you :  which  I  do  of  no  other  mind  but  of 
 charity  and  of  zeal  toward  the  glory  of  God  in  his  word ; 
 secondly,  of  my  duty  toward  my  prince,  and  of  love  towards 
 his  subjects  in  this  quarter  for  their  quietness  and  conten- 
 tation,  so  far  as  God's  truth  may  bear  it ;  and  finally,  of  a 
 mind  considering  your  own  behoof  and  cause. 
 
 Sir,  I  presuppose  that  at  your  leisure  otherwlyles  ye 
 shall  hereafter  be  occasioned  to  go  abroad  to  preach  and  to 
 speak  your  judgment  as  time  and  place  shall  serve  you  : 
 which  endeavour  of  your  party,  as  of  all  other  in  this  behalf, 
 I  cannot  only  favour  and  commend,  but  as  my  little  power 
 shall  serve  me,  so  shall  I  do  my  best  to  set  it  forward  at  all 
 times  and  occasions,  knowing  that  there  can  be  no  better 
 service  to  God  than  sincerely  to  declare  his  will  and  pleasure, 
 no  sacrifice  more  acceptable  than  to  convert  the  hearts  of  his 
 reasonable  creatures  in  true  faith  and  knowledge  unto  him, 
 and  no  ways  better  can  we  deserve  of  the  commonwealth, 
 than  by  our  diligence  to  continue  the  commons  in  a  quiet 
 subjection  and  obedience  toward  their  governors,  and  to  fur- 
 ther love  and  peace  among  themselves;  which  duty  belonging 
 to  the  minister  of  God's  word  I  have  done  my  best  to  per- 
 form, since  my  first  coming  into  this  country,  and  have  be- 
 stowed some  labour  about  it,  and  do  yet,  according  to  my 
 vocation,  intend  to  continue  by  the  help  of  God,  &c. 
 
 Now,  Sir,  my  only  purpose  to  you  at  this  time  is  to  re- 
 quire you,  if  that  my  foresaid  endeavour  hitherto  seem  allow- 
 able unto  you,  of  your  party,  with  that  gift  and  talent  of 
 doctrine  committed  to  your  dispensation,  to  further  it  and  to 
 set  it  forward,  and  to  attemper  your  speech  in  such  wise 
 that  ye  may  be  thought  to  consider  rather  the  truth  than 
 
1jo9.]  MATTHKW    rAKKKU    Tl)    I)U   STOKES.  11 
 
 private  affection  and  custom.  It'  yo  should  go  about  to  sugilP 
 and  to  decay  the  truth  which  I  havo  (I  trust  and  am  assured) 
 spoken,  and  I  again  should  labour  to  use  invections  against 
 you,  wo  should  learn  our  audiences  but  envy,  discord,  and 
 dissension;  wo  should  offend  God  to  abuse  our  office  of  peace 
 to  the  slander  of  otlier,  and  consume  our  time  in  matters  of 
 controversy  of  our  own,  when  otherwise  it  should  be  spent  in 
 edification  of  those  to  whom  we  speak ;  wo  should  by  our  dis- 
 agreement cause  a  roar  and  a  schism  in  the  people,  and  cause 
 a  murmur  and  parts-taking  among  themself ;  which  inconve- 
 niences to  foresee  aforehand,  and  to  provide  for  the  avoiding 
 of  them,  it  were  meet  wo  should.  For  many  times  of  such 
 small  sparks  rise  great  commotions  in  the  people,  which  once 
 risen  is  not  so  easily  ceased  and  stayed  again. 
 
 Ye  know  what  diligence  our  sovereign  lord   the  Kinf]j''s  mso,  to  fur- 
 
 jrrace  bestoweth  daily  to  reduce  his  people  committed  to  his  Kingsi.ur- 
 p  V  i.     1  ^  ^  j),)se  of  re- 
 
 charge from  their   manifold  blindness  and  superstitions  they  ^^,;X7,^[jf 
 
 were  in  to  the  truth  and  right  worship  of  God  ;  it  were  meet  fllKibiilfdness 
 for  us  that  be  speakers  to  the  people  to  further  his  most  godly  fi^l^"''^"^'" 
 purpose,  not  with  covert  inventions  to  labefact  the  credence 
 of  the  people,  and  so  to  hatch  privy  rebellion  and  ill-will  to 
 his  proceedings,  not  with  ambiguous  sophistication  to  fortify 
 their  misframed  judgments.  Ye  know  of  late  what  dangers 
 hung  over  the  whole  realm  by  wilful  opinions  and  sturdy  dis- 
 obedience blown  into  them  by  secret  dissimulation  of  some 
 certain  incomers,  who  hath  now  their  deserved  reward  accord- 
 ing to  their  privy  malice.  Peradventure  some  there  be  that 
 uill  be  glad  and  desire  to  hear  you  allow  their  old  trade,  and 
 superstition,  and  papistical  dregs,  whereby  in  very  deed  ye 
 sliould  do  some  great  pleasure ;  but  then  again  ye  should  dis- 
 honour God  in  abusing  that  office  which  without  all  outward 
 respects  should  denounce  the  truth,  ye  should  work  against 
 your  prince's  purpose,  ye  should,  in  conclusion,  work  utter 
 destruction  of  that  mad  and  wilful  people  both  in  their  souls 
 and  bodies,  which  should  take  courage  by  your  words  to  utter 
 the  more  boldly  their  ill-willing  [?]  hearts,  and  so  to  speak 
 their  own  confusion  to  be  taken  in  their  words  and  have  their 
 deserving  judged  upon  them.    I  think  it  were  meet,  seeing  we 
 
 [^  "  To  sugill,"  sugillarey  to  bruise;  to  defVime  or  slander.  The  word 
 is  again  used  by  Parker  in  this  letter  and  also  in  a  subsequent  letter  to 
 Sir  William  Cecil :    "  If  it  bo  openly  impugned  or  secretly  sugilled."] 
 
12  MATTHEW  PARKER  TO  DR  STOKES.  [1539, 
 
 see  the  people  so  much  bent  to  their  customed  inventions,  to 
 
 give  them  no  maintenance  by  our  quahfications  to  continue 
 
 By  proceed-   them  stiU  therein.    I  would  desire,  Mr  Doctor,  that  we  should 
 
 mg  in  the  ' 
 
 MParfff  proceed  eadem  regula  ut  simus  Concordes,  ut  eodem  spiritu 
 ambulemus,  ut  uno  ore  f/lorificemvs  Deum  et  Patrem  Domini 
 nostri  Jesu  Christi.  In  so  doing  our  dihgence  and  spending 
 our  time  we  should  do  good  service  to  God,  and  to  our  prince, 
 
 towards        and  to   our  country.      I  know  that  certain  hath  had  some 
 
 whom  some  «' 
 
 pjjp'l'^ada  grudge  toward  me.  The  ground  thereof  and  the  cause  I 
 know  very  well.  Notwithstanding,  I  stand  not  in  such  de- 
 spair of  the  obedience  of  the  people  in  this  quarter,  but  that, 
 with  good  and  discreet  caUing  on,  they  might  be  soon  ap- 
 peased and  more  indifferently  hear  that  which  some  time  was 
 intolerable  unto  them.  I  would  be  loth  now  that  any  man 
 should  enter  to  imbecile  the  thing  which  they  be  toward,  con- 
 cerning the  obedience  of  God's  word,  and  the  causes  which 
 the  King's  highness  hath  most  like  a  christian  prince  taken  in 
 
 Before  his     hand  to  sct  forth.      Now  before  your  beginninff  ye  may  take 
 
 beginning,  ...  «/  o  o   «/  •/ 
 
 hfm^oin'?^^  dehberation  with  yourself  to  ponder  the  weight  of  my  con- 
 ?onJdera-  sideratious.  "  Had  I  wist"  is  too  late.  And  as  concerning 
 bSn/r5ad7  that  whatsocver  I  have  at  any  time  said  and  divulged,  I  will 
 himself^  by  God's  grace  justify  at  all  times  and  before  any  indifferent 
 andSim(t  ludge  defend  it  to  my  uttermost  power,  which  I  doubt  not 
 
 niesofap-       *^,,,,  .         *'        ,  ,  ^.  .  <,, 
 
 proved  au-  to  do  both  by  scripturc,  by  the  testimonies  of  the  most  ap- 
 proved authors  in  Christ's  church,  and  by  the  Articles  and 
 Injunctions  of  the  King's  setting  forth.  As  for  the  bishops* 
 determinations,  I  know  that  there  remaineth  the  agletts^  set- 
 ting on,  and  therefore  I  purpose  not  to  stay  certainly  upon 
 that,  although  yet  whatsoever  I  have  spoken  I  could  justify 
 it  sufficiently  by  that  which  I  read  there.  Howbeit  I  will 
 neither  use  that  book  to  prove  or  disprove  as  by  the  author- 
 ity of  that,  until  I  see  it  have  his  full  perfection;  which  yet 
 
 Parker  offers  I  kuow  it  lackcth.    But  if  in  casc  report  should  be  made  unto 
 
 also  to  give  ^  ••■ 
 
 tion  irfiateT  J^^  *^^*  ^  should  tcach  that  thing  whereunto  your  judgment 
 iepoTs°^  should  not  agree  (for,  as  for  so  much  as  I  spake  this  other 
 klr-sSh-  day  at  Clare  you  allowed  it  and  justified  it  to  myself  of  your 
 e'Jfoneous.  own  accord  undesired  of  my  part,)  I  will  then  require  thus 
 much  of  you,  to  suspend  your  determination  until  ye  know 
 the  truth  by  myself,  that  we  may  so  dispute  the  cause  pri- 
 
 [1  *•' Agletts :"  carved  tags  or  ornaments.     Fr.  Aigulettes.  Here  it 
 is  equivalent  to  finishing  touches,  the  last  revise  ] 
 
1539.]  MATTHEW    TAUKKIl   TO   DIl  STOKES.  13 
 
 vatdy  betwixt  u.s  to  searcli  out  tlic  triitli,  that  tlicrciipoii 
 either  I  may  sco  sufKcient  learning  of  your  part  to  agree  unto 
 your  judgment,  or  else  if  I  bring  the  same  of  my  party,  you 
 to  consent  to  the  truth  ami  you  to  agree  to  my  judgment. 
 
 My  request,  Mr  Doctor,  I  ensure  you   (as  God  knoweth  Thwrr*^ 
 
 .1  \       •  1  n  f  •    1  /•  f)ui»H  not 
 
 my  secret  heart)  nsctli  not  of  my  icar  either  of  your  person  n..r!,  r..M, 
 or  learning,  that  vc  could  or  should  hinder  my  poor  estimation  ^'■>'^H'lr.l 
 among  my  neighbours,  which  for  the  better  credence  of  God's  ;];^~^J^"' 
 word  in  mo  1  will  endeavour  myself  to  defend,  otherwise  not 
 greatly  careful  therefore,  but  could  refer  all  things  to  God's 
 judgment ; — it  is  not  for  my  person's  sake  that  I  require  you 
 to  this,  but  it  is  the  cause's  sake,  God's  sake,  and  the  people's 
 true  and  peaceable  instruction  that  I  regard.  It  is  to  cut 
 away  all  occasion  from  seditious  and  tumultuous  people ;  it  is 
 for  the  more  quietness  of  both  our  parties  that  we  should, 
 without  let  or  interruption  of  bye  matters,  cffectuously  go 
 forward  with  the  principal  purpose  of  the  office  and  vocation 
 taken  upon  us,  in  converting  and  reversing  the  hearts  of  the 
 fathers  into  [sic]  their  children,  and  the  unbelievers  to  the 
 wisdom  of  the  just,  to  make  the  people  ready  for  the  Lord,  to 
 preach  the  gospel  to  the  poor,  to  heal  the  broken  in  heart,  to 
 preach  deliverance  to  the  captive,  and  sight  to  the  blind,  to 
 preach  the  acceptable  year  of  the  Lord^ : — these  ought  to  bo 
 our  matters,  not  our  own  fame,  lucre,  and  pre-eminence,  and 
 fancies.     It  were  but  foolishness  to   brawl  for  these  before  '^vhich  win 
 
 not  be  jiro- 
 
 wise  audience;  and   wisdom  were  it,  not  the  one  to  desire  ."TJ"'*^^^ ''y    , 
 
 '  '  ^  their  per-onal 
 
 to  glory  over  the  other,  the  one  to  labour  to  win  sporis^  of  conteution. 
 the  other,  and  to  allure  the  people's  minds  and  fancies  to 
 ourself  with  depraving,  sugiUing,  and  noting  the  other.  As 
 for  my  part,  I  trust  in  God's  grace  I  shall  bear  all  personal 
 injuries  and  slanders  well  in  worth,  as  hitherto  I  have  done ; 
 I  could  else  have  promoted  some  to  their  displeasure.  But  if 
 the  injury  or  slander  redoundeth  to  the  word  of  God,  to  the 
 majesty  of  that,  or  to  the  decay  of  my  prince's  authority  and 
 lawful  ordinances,  or  to  the  disturbance  or  commotion  of  the 
 commons,  I  will  never  for  friendship  suffer  that,  but  will  do 
 my  uttermost  to  revenge  it. 
 
 I  would  write  many  more  things  unto  you,  but  my  leisure 
 will   not   suffer   me.     But  thus  shortly    to   conclude,    If  ye 
 should  go  about,  Mr  Doctor,  to  get  you  a  name,  to  hurt  the 
 2  Luc.  [3  Spurs.] 
 
14  MATTHEW   PARKER   TO   DR  STOKES.  [1539. 
 
 ifDrstokes  truth    of  scripture,    to    deprave   or  hinder  that  reformation 
 
 calls  in  ques-  .  /^  \  ^ 
 
 tnuh'of        which  the  King's  highness  purposeth  in  matters  of  our  reU- 
 h'imifrs'thr  gio^j  or  to  raise  any  schisure^  or  murmur  in  the  people  of 
 [ntenS'by    this  countrv,   now  metely  in   good  stay   and  toward  in  the 
 Parker"n'ust  acccptation  of  tho  truth,  under  any  open  or  colourable  insinu- 
 oppose  im.   ^^j^j^^  verily  ye  cannot  so  secretly  do  it  but  it  will  brast  out. 
 It  shall  not  so  soon  come  to  my  knowledge,  but  I  will,  accord- 
 ing to  my  duty,  present  it  immediately  2.      If,  as  I  have  bet- 
 to  dedare"th^e  ^^^  trust  iu  your  wisdom,   circumspection,  and  conscience,  ye 
 ker'w^iHo^n  ii^teud  truly  and  rightly  to  declare  the  verity,  to  the  edifica- 
 handswith    ^jQjj  q£  ^j^g  klug's  subjccts,  I  wlU  thou  promise  to  join  hands 
 "with  you  the  best  I  can;   and  to  further  you  therein  ye  shall 
 use  me  at  all  times  at  your  commandment.     Of  this  condition 
 shall  our  friendship  consist  and  stand  betwixt  us,  and  of  no 
 other  intend  I  with  no  man,  as   I   would  no  man  should  in 
 no  other  respect  bear  his  friendship  to  me.      And  thus  the 
 Holy  Ghost  be  with  you.     At  Stoke  college,  this  23rd  day 
 of  November. 
 
 Your  to  his  power. 
 
 MATTHUE  PARKER. 
 
 Addressed, 
 To  Doctor  StoJcesK 
 
 [1  i.e.  schism.] 
 
 [2  It  seems  that  Dr  Stokes  neglected  this  wamiDg,  and  took  a 
 course  which  ended  in  his  imprisonment.  There  is  extant  (Parker 
 MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cnn.  art.  37.  p.  167.)  a  letter  of  his  to 
 the  Lord  Priyy  Seal,  in  which  he  styles  himself,  "your  simple  pri- 
 soner, friar  Stokes,"  and  in  which  this  passage  occurs :  *'  Also  your 
 lordship  is  formed  that  I  should  preach  against  the  dean  of  Stoke. 
 Truly,  my  lord,  I  commend  him  by  name  in  my  sermon  for  the  de- 
 claring of  certain  verities  the  Sunday  before  me.  And  I  did  preach 
 indiflferently,  as  all  the  parish  will  testify,  but  and  the  word  of  God 
 did  touch  him  I  cannot  do  thereto  p]."] 
 
 p  There  is  added  in  Parker's  hand :  "  He  was  an  Austen  friar, 
 and  prior  in  the  Austens  at  Norwich,  and  doctor  of  diYinity  at  Cam- 
 bridge."] 
 
1544.]  IIKNKY    Mil.    TO   TUK   DEAN   OF  STOKB.  15 
 
 XL 
 
 IIEXRY  VIII.  TO  Tin:   DKAN   AND   rUKIiKNDAKIKS 
 
 OF  STOKE. 
 
 2:.th  May.  1544.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Cnmb.  cxiv.  art.  llV..  p.  387.     Orig. 
 
 IlENfiY  R.*  By  the  King. 
 
 Trusty  and  wcll-bclovcd,  wc  greet  you  well.   And  whereas 
 between   us  and  the  Emperor,  upon  provocation  of  manifold 
 injuries  eoniinitted  by  the  French  king  unto  us  both  particu- The  Kmpcror 
 larly,  and  for  his  confederation  with    the  Turk  against  tlie  vni  h-lxe 
 whole  commonwealth  of  Christendom,  it  is  agreed  that  each  vade  France 
 
 ,  .  .   ,     ,  .  .  .  •"  several 
 
 ot  US  apart,  ni  person,  with  his  puissant  army,  in  several  parts  party 
 
 this  summer,  shall  invade  the  realm  of  France  ;    wo  let  you 
 
 wit  that  having  not  yet  appointed  so  great  a  number  for  that 
 
 purpose  as  is  necessary,  upon  the   good  opinion  wc  have  of 
 
 you   with   earnest  goodwill   to   seo   us   furnished    as   to   our  uiencnnand 
 
 honour  appertaineth,   we   have   appointed   you  to   send  the  to  send  to  the 
 
 /»    /•  1  1        /»  ^  p  1  1  royal  army 
 
 number  of  four  able  footmen,  whereof  one  to  be  an  archer,  f«urabie 
 
 footmen,  one 
 
 furnished  with  a  good  bow  in  a  case,  with  twenty-four  arrows  [.he^r\n"/,he 
 in  a  case,  a  good  sword  and  a  dagger ;  and  the  rest  to  be  ^^'^  i^'Umen. 
 billmen,  having,  besides  their  bills,  every  of  them  a  good 
 sword  and  a  dagger,  to  be  levied  of  your  own  servants, 
 tenants,  and  others :  foreseeing  that  if  any  other  man  hav- 
 ing tenants  within  your  manors  or  lordships,  be  by  our  letters 
 appointed  to  make  us  any  men,  he  shall  have  the  preferment 
 of  the  making  of  the  same  his  tenants  to  serve  us  in  this 
 army ;  not  failing  to  have  your  said  men  in  such  a  readiness, 
 furnished  with  coats  and  hose  of  such  colours  as  is  appointed 
 for  our  vanguard,  as  they  fail  not  to  be  at  our  town  of 
 Sandwich,  the  8th  day  of  June,  where  order  is  taken  for 
 their  transportation  accordingly.  Given  under  our  signet,  at 
 our  palace  of  Westminster,  the  25th  day  of  May,  the  36th  year 
 of  our  reign.  And  our  further  pleasure  is,  that  in  any  wise 
 you  send  us  the  said  number,  being  all  picked  and  able  men,  as  Tobeaii 
 ye  tender  the  advancement  of  our  affairs,  and  for  the  contrary 
 thereof  will  be  put  to  the  loss  of  their  conduct  and  harness^. 
 
 To  our  trnsty  and  icell-heJoveclj  ihe  Dean 
 of  our  college  of  Stol-e  in  SuffolJc,  and 
 the  prebendaries  of  the  same, 
 
 [*  The  King's  stamp.] 
 
 [5  Henry  VIII.  invaded  France  in  July  1554,      He  laid  siege  in 
 
16        Q.   KATIiERINE   PARR   TO   DR  MATTHEW   PARKER.        [1544. 
 
 xir. 
 
 QUEEN  KATHERINE  PARR  TO  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 
 14th  November  1544.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  3.  p.  7.    Orig, 
 
 By  the  Queen. 
 
 Kateryn  the  quene.  K.  p.  Trusty  and  well-beloved, 
 we  greet  you  well.  And  whereas  by  credible  report  we  are 
 informed  that  the  bailiwick  of  our  college  of  Stoke  is  now 
 void  to  dispose  as  you  and  certain  other  there  shall  think  it 
 meet  and  convenient :  we  therefore  heartily  desire  you,  at 
 Queen  Ka-  the  contcmplation  of  these  our  letters,  to  give  the  same  office 
 recommends  uuto   our  wcll-beloved  Randall  Radclyff  the  bearer  hereof, 
 
 Dr  Parker  to  i      mi       /»      i 
 
 "addtff  ^"^  "^*"  already  the  goodwill  of  three  of  those  that  have 
 interest  in  the  granting  of  it.  So  that  there  rests  no  farther 
 cSiege^o^f  travail  for  him,  your  good  will  once  obtained,  the  which  at 
 stoke.  ^j^jg  Q^j.  ga^rnest  request,  we  doubt  not  but  that  you  will  shew 
 and  declare  effectuously,  confirmable  to  our  desire  in  this 
 behalf,  according  to  the  expectation  that  we  have  hitherto 
 conceived  in  you.  Given  under  signet  at  my  lord  the  King's 
 majesty's  palace  of  Westminster,  the  14th  of  November,  the 
 36th  year  of  his  majesty's  most  noble  reign. 
 
 To  our  trusty  and  well-heloved  doctor 
 Parker,  Dean  of  our  College  of 
 Stole. 
 
 aupoi 
 dall  Radclyff 
 to  the  vacant 
 office  of  bai- 
 
 XIII. 
 
 HENRY  VIII.  TO   THE  FELLOWS   OF  CORPUS  CHRISTI 
 COLLEGE,  CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 30th  November,  1544.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  2.  p.  5.  Grig. 
 
 Henry  R.^  By  the  King. 
 
 Trusty  and  well-beloved,  we  greet  you  well.  And 
 whereas  it  is  come  to  our  understanding  that  your  master  aiid 
 governor 2  either  lieth  now  at  the  extreme  point  of  death,  or 
 
 person  to  Boulogne,  which  suiTendered  on  the  13th  September  fol- 
 lowing.    State  Papers  of  Henry  VIII.  x.  22.  68.] 
 
 [1  The  king's  stamp.] 
 
 [2  Dr  William  Sowode  was  master  of  the  College  from  1623  to 
 his  death  on  the  28th  November,  1544.  Masters'  Hist,  of  Corpus 
 Christi  College,  pp.  74—84.  ed.  Lamb.] 
 
1')! }.]      iiENKY  vm.  TO   riiK  1  i:i,i.()\vs  ok  c.  c.  ( oi.i,.  17 
 
 is  already  departed  out  of  this  transitory  life,  by  occasion 
 thereof  yo  bo,  or  shortly  aro  liko  to  bo,  destitute  of  a  good 
 head  and  i:::overiior ;  we,  therefore,  for  the  zeal  and  love  wo 
 bear  to  tho  advancement  of  good  letters,  desiring  to  seo  you 
 furnished  of  such    a   governor  as   in  all  points   may  seem  Kin^iicnry 
 
 ^  *  »'  \  III.  rttfiiii- 
 
 worthy  of  that  room,  have  tlioujjht  trood  by  these  our  letters  ","'"!''"•„ 
 to  commend  unto  you  our  wcll-heloved  eha|)lain,  doctor  n.a'n  mnTi* 
 Tarker,  a  man  as  well  for  his  approved  learning,  wisdom,  and  {;;^"'»  ""^"' 
 
 niasti-r- 
 
 honesty,  as  for  his  sinijular  grace  and  industry  in  bringing  I.u»chm°[' 
 up  youth  in  virtue  and  learning,  so  apt  for  the  exercise  of 
 tho  said  room,  as  it  is  thought  very  hard  to  find  tho  like  for 
 all  respects  and  purposes.  Wherefore,  like  as  our  trust  is 
 that  at  the  contemplation  of  us  ye  will  with  one  assent  con- 
 descend to  elect  him  for  your  head  whom  we  have  judged 
 worthy  for  that  office^,  so  we  doubt  not  that  by  the  accom- 
 plishment of  this  our  pleasure  yc  shall  have  cause  to  think 
 yourselves  furnished  of  such  a  master  as  appertaineth.  Given 
 under  our  signet,  at  our  palace  of  AVestminstcr,  the  last  day 
 of  November,  the  36th  year  of  our  reign. 
 
 To  thefeUows  of  Corpus  Christi  Col- 
 lege tcithin  our  University  of  Cam- 
 hridge. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 JOHN  MERE  TO  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 
 2Gth  January,  1544— o  *.  Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  c vi.  art.  150.  p.  418*.  Orig. 
 
 Right  worshipful,  in  most  hearty  wise  I  have  me  com- 
 mended unto  your  worship,  certifying  the  same  that  it  hath 
 pleased  the  University  to  choose  you  unto  the  office  of  the  The  univer- 
 Vice-chancellor,  and   Mr  proctors  be  very  desirous  to  have  bmige  has" 
 
 ^  •'  .  elected  Dr 
 
 you  at  home  for  to  be  admitted.      Doctor  Smith  gave  over  I'arkcr  yice- 
 
 •^ ,  ^  o  chanctllor. 
 
 his    office  on  Saturday  at  iv.  of  the  clock,    and   you    were 
 chosen  on  Sunday  at  iii.  of  the  clock.      Doctor  Ridley  and  course  of  the 
 Doctor   Standysh    were    named  unto  the    office,  and   it   wasThecand.- 
 thought     that     there    hath    been    labouring    for    them    this 
 
 [3  Parker  was  accordingly  elected  and  admitted  master  on  tho 
 4th  of  December.] 
 
 \}  The  voting  paper  appended  to  the  letter  bears  date,  1544.] 
 
 r  -)  2 
 
 [park.  cor. J 
 
18 
 
 JOHN   MERE   TO   DR  MATTHEW   PARKER.  [1544-5. 
 
 Who  were 
 present  at  the 
 election. 
 
 Parker's 
 presence  re- 
 quired at 
 Cambridge. 
 
 se'nnight  or  fortnight ;  but  very  suddenly,  even  on  the  Sun- 
 day, all  the  labouring  for  them  was  turned  unto  very  impor- 
 tune labour  for  Mr  Atkinson  vice-provost^  ;  but  he  came 
 nothing  nigh  you.  Some  suppose,  and  I  think  also,  that  it 
 came  not  of  himself;  for  on  the  Saturday  after  dinner  he 
 wished  very  heartily  that  ye  might  be,  trusting  that  ye  will 
 be  good  master  unto  him  this  year ;  for  on  Friday  last  past 
 he  obtained  his  grace  to  go  forth  doctor.  There  was  no 
 doctor  of  Divinity  present  but  D.  Glyn ;  but  in  the  law, 
 doctors  Poynt,  Smith,  Busby,  and  Harvey.  In  physic, 
 both  doctor  Walkers,  doctors  Blyth  and  Hatcher.  It  was 
 a  very  great  house ;  the  number  of  regents  were  four  score 
 and  xviii.2 
 
 Ash- Wednesday  draweth  nigh^  therefore  it  were  very 
 meet  that  there  were  an  officer  for  admissions  :  and  besides 
 that,  the  keys  of  the  common  hutch  and  the  seal  of  office  be 
 sealed  up  in  a  purse,  that  no  man  can  come  by  them,  whatso- 
 ever should  need,  until  ye  be  admitted. 
 
 I  delivered  your  letters  and  tokens  unto  my  lords  of 
 Chichester'*  and  Westminster ^  who  received  them  very  thank- 
 fully. Your  letters  directed  unto  my  lord  of  Worcester^  I 
 brought  home  again,  for  he  was  gone  in  unto  Worcester- 
 shire or  I  came  there.  I  delivered  also  your  letters  and 
 token  at  Mr  Tanner's,  but  I  have  got  none  answer,  but  I 
 look  daily  for  to  have.  I  cannot  altogether  excuse  myself 
 of  negligence,  though  there  were  much  slackness  in  Mr  Ca- 
 nerner[?].  I  would  most  heartily  desire  you  to  be  so  good  as  to 
 know  who  receiveth  the  feofydye  of  West  Walton  in  Marsh- 
 lands, and  to  pay  him  xxx.cZ.  for  Mr  parson  Saunders,  and 
 I  shall  repay  it  at  your  return  with  hearty  thanks. 
 
 I  pray  you  have  me  commended  [to]  Mr  Baker  both 
 young  and  old,  to  your  brother  Thomas,  with  all  their  wives'^. 
 
 [1  Of  King's  College.] 
 
 p  From  the  voting  paper  it  appears  that  the  votes  were,  for  Dr 
 Parker  79,  for  Dr  Ridley  5,  for  Dr  Standysh  8,  and  for  Mr  Atkinson  6. 
 In  all,  98.] 
 
 [3  The  18th  February  1544 — 5,  was  Ash-Wednesday.] 
 
 [4  Doctor  Day.     He  was  provost  of  King's  College,  Cambridge.] 
 
 [5  Doctor  Thirleby.] 
 
 [6  Nicholas  Heath.] 
 
 ["  jSIr  Baker  the  elder,  here  alluded  to,  married  Dr  Parker's 
 mother  after  the  death  of  her  first  husband.     The  vounfrer  Mr  Ba- 
 
1544-5.]         JOHN   MEIIE   TO   DU  MATTHEW    rAIlKEIl, 
 
 19 
 
 Scribbled  in  haste,  as  appearcth,  2(Uli  January,  by  tlio  band 
 of  yours  to  command.  Deus  te  servet :  per  cujus  filium, 
 nt  rebus  ex  seutentia  fjestis  corpore  pariter  ac  animo  cito 
 iiohis  redeas  incolumis  percupide  optarem,  pt'ecaOorque 
 assidue. 
 
 JOHN  MERE8. 
 
 2o  the  riijht  xcorsliipful  Mr  doctor 
 ParkeVy  Vice-chancellor  of  Cam- 
 bridge elect f  this  be  dilivercd  at 
 Noricich. 
 
 XV. 
 
 (iUEEN  KATIIERINE  TARR  TO  THE  DEAN  AND  FELLOWS 
 OF   STOKE. 
 
 2-lth  March  15U—5.  Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  12G.  p.  391.    Grig. 
 
 By  the  Queen. 
 Kateryn  the  Quene.  K.  P.  Trusty  and  wcll-bc- 
 loved,  we  greet  you  well.  And  forasmuch  as  your  manor  or 
 farm  of  Chipley  in  the  county  of  Suffolk  lieth  in  you  to  let 
 and  set  at  your  will  and  pleasure,  and  that  the  same  is  very 
 commodious  for  our  well-beloved  Edward  Waldegrave,  ser- 
 vant to  our  most  dear   and   entirely  beloved  son  the  lord  The  Queen 
 
 "       ^  ^  recoinmenu^ 
 
 prince^;  these  therefore  shall  be  heartily  to  desire  and  pray  J^^*[^ ^^'^'" 
 
 servant  to  the 
 
 kcr,  who  was  a  son  of  that  marriage,  was  afterwards  the  archbishop's  for'^a^ea^n 
 treasurer.    Parkci^'s  hrother  Thomas,  here  also  alluded  to,  was  a  citi-  reversion  of 
 
 '  '  the  manor  or 
 
 zen  of  Norwich,  and  served  the  office  of  mayor  of  that  city.]  farmofchip- 
 
 [8  John  Mere  filled,  successively,  various  offices  in  the  University,  Suffolk. 
 of  which  ho  was  "  a  hearty  lover,"  and  a  considerable  benefactor.  He 
 died  in  1558.  Parker  was  one  of  the  overseers  of  his  will,  and  re- 
 ceived a  legacy  of  books  worth  205.  Mrs  Parker  was  remembered  with 
 two  gowns,  valued  at  20s.,  and  their  son  John,  probably  Mere's  god- 
 son, was  left  a  silver  cup,  valued  at  Si.  Os.  3d. — Masters's  Hist.  Corp. 
 App.  p.  46.  ed.  1753.] 
 
 [9  Edward,  afterwards  sir  Edward  Waldegrave,  and  an  officer  in 
 the  household  of  princess  Mary.  He  was  one  of  the  persons  who  were 
 charged  by  the  privy  council  of  Edward  YI.  to  see  to  the  use  of  the 
 communion  service  and  discontinuance  of  the  mass  in  Mary's  establish- 
 ment, and  suffered  imprisonment  for  not  enforcing  these  orders.  After 
 the  accession  of  Queen  Mary  he  received  considerable  preferment,  but 
 on  the  accession  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  was  again  committed  to  the 
 Tower,  and  died  there  on  the  1st  September,  1561. — Collins's  Peerage, 
 cd.  Brydges,  iv.  237.] 
 
 o o 
 
20      Q.  K.   PAIIR   TO   THE   DEAN  AND   FELL.   OF   STOKE.    [1544-5. 
 
 you  to  make  a  good  and  sufficient  lease  in  reversion  of  the 
 same  unto  the  said  Edward  at  this  our  earnest  request :  so 
 that  he  may  enjoy  the  effect  of  our  desire  (after  the  term 
 expired  of  one  Henry  Hutton  now  farmer  there)  in  as  large 
 and  ample  manner  as  the  same  Henry  now  holdeth  it,  and 
 for  so  many  years  as  you  at  the  contemplation  hereof  can 
 find  in  your  heart  to  bestow  on  him  for  our  sake.  Wherein 
 you  shall  not  only  acquire  to  yourself  a  farmer  well  reported 
 of  for  his  honesty  and  good  behaviour,  but  also  minister  unto 
 us  grateful  occasion  to  have  your  kind  conformity  thankfully 
 in  our  remembrance,  whensoever  opportunity  shall  serve  us 
 to  do  you  pleasure.  Given  under  our  signet  at  my  lord  the 
 King's  majesty's  palace  of  Westminster,  the  24th  of  March, 
 the  36th  year  of  his  said  majesty's  most  noble  and  pros- 
 perous reign. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 BISHOP  GARDIXER  OF  WIXCHESTERi  TO  DR  MATTHEW 
 PARKER  AND  DR  THOMAS  SMITH. 
 
 27tli  March,  15452.     Parker MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cvi.  art.  157.  p.  437.  Orig. 
 
 He  has  After  my  right  hearty  commendations.     I  have  received 
 
 Smith's  let-    the  Icttors  of  you,  master  Smith,  and  heard  the  request  of 
 
 tersonthe  ,  .        ,  .  ^  n  '^n    a 
 
 subject  of      this   bearer  conccrnmo'  the  order   of  such   wilful  persons  as 
 
 provision  for  o  _  ^ 
 
 i7^.^  would  frowardly  break  and  dissolve  the  charitable  purpose  of 
 those  cooks,  that  have  among  themselves  agreed  by  policy  to 
 provide  for  their  own  release,  and  the  succour  of  other 
 He  would  decayed.  Wherein  as  ye,  master  Doctor  Smith,  have  in  the 
 present  Vice-  tlmo  of  your  offico  takcu  a  good  order  in  the  matter,  so  I 
 continue  his  now  dcsiro  Tou  both  to  take  the  pains  to  travail  together  as 
 
 predecessor's  i      ii  •  n  ^  •  p     ^  mi 
 
 poodorderin  tJie  caso  shall  roquire  for  the  contmuance  of  the  same.    There 
 
 the  matter.  /■         ^ 
 
 be  small  corrodies^  in  Cambridge  for  cooks  decayed,  and  as 
 great  likelihood  of  their  decay  as  in  any  other  place.  They 
 may   indeed   endure    longer  with  their  small  labour,  but  so 
 
 {}  This  letter  is  written  by  the  bishop  in  his  capacity  of  Chan- 
 cellor of  the  university,  to  Dr  Parker,  the  then  vice-chancellor,  and 
 Dr  Smith,  his  immediate  predecessor  in  that  office.     See  Lett.  XIV.] 
 
 [2  There  is  written  on  the  letter  in  another  hand :  "  procanccl- 
 lario  D.  Parker,  a°.  1544.   IMar.  27.] 
 
 [3  "  Corrody,"  a  pension  in  money,  or  an  allowance  in  moat  or 
 clothing,  generally  charged  on  the  revenues  of  a  religious  house.] 
 
1545.]         Ul».  (JAllDINini   TO    DK  I'AUKllU   AND   DIl  SMITH.  21 
 
 much  loss  do  thov  jratlier  for  the  smalliiess  of  tlio  >va<:c3  and 
 gain  ;  which  if  they  perceive  not  presently,  it  shall  be  well 
 dono  to  bring  them  to  conformity,  and  to  interrupt  the 
 greediness  of  them  that  would  abuse  the  occasion  of  such 
 possessions  as  they  have  to  their  privuto  advantage,  with  the 
 detriment  of  other.  Herein  I  pray  you  do  what  yo  can, 
 and  the  authority  that  wanteth  shall  be  supplied  hereafter. 
 
 blaster  Vice-clianccllor,   1   have   been   informed   that  the  hc im*  wm 
 
 infoTinul, 
 
 Youth  in  Christ's  Collef]'©,  contrary  to  the  mind  of  the  master  that  the 
 
 •  ^  O     '  «/  youth  of 
 
 and  president,   hath  of  late  played  a  tra<;cdy  called  Pamma-  [j'l'.'ll^,; 
 
 hrist's  Col- 
 
 chius,  a  part  of  which  tragedy  is  so  pestiferous  as  were   in-  i^'pe^tifcmu? 
 tolerable.      I  will  give  no  credit  to  the  information  but  as  I  KmaS«' 
 shall  hear  from  you,  wherein  I  pray   you  that  I  may  shortly  i^'maJe^^c 
 by  you  know  the  truth.      If  it  be  not  so,  I  will  be  glad:  and  S!"^ 
 if  it  be  so,  I  intend  further  to  travail,  as  my  duty  is,  for  the 
 reformation  of  it.      I  know  mine  office  there,  and  mind  to  do 
 in  it  as  much  as  I  may.    Acquiring  you  therefore  that,  in  such 
 matters  of  innovation  and  disorder,  I  may  be  diligently  adver- 
 tised from  you  from   time  to  time.      And  so  fare  you  well. 
 At  London,  the  xxviith  of  March. 
 
 Your  lovino:  friend, 
 
 STE.  AVINTON. 
 
 To  my  loving  friend  Mr  Vice-chan- 
 cellar  of  Camhridrjc,  and  to  Mr 
 Doctor  Smith  there,  and  to  either 
 of  them. 
 
 XVII. 
 
 DR  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  GARDINER  OF  WINCHESTER. 
 
 3rd  April,  154j.     Parker  :MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cvi.  art.  1^9.  p.  443.  Grig,  draft. 
 
 After  my  duty  of  lowly  commendations  to  your  honour-  Aflcrthe 
 able  good  lordship,  pleaseth  it  you  to  be  informed,  that  after  I  Gardimrs  '' 
 received  your  lordship  s  letters,  I  made  the  more  exact  inquiry  had  made 
 of  the  tragedy  late  played  in  Christ's  College:  and  thus  1  find  [rH^'^^V-ffiy 
 that,  where  your  lordship  was  informed  that  the  youth  of  the  {^'SV" 
 house  played  this  foresaid  tragedy  against  the  mind  of  the  J^°J|^^'^*j_^^^ 
 master  there  and  president,  the  president  himself,  with  whom  pjlj^pnce^f '" 
 I  conferred  in  this  cause,  shewed  me  that  it  was  not  so ;   for  andThe^" 
 he  alleged  that  it  cost  the  College  well  nigh  twenty  nobles,  SepreVi^uI* 
 
present. 
 
 22  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  GARDINER.  [1545. 
 
 omission  of    allowcd  by  the  master  and  the  company.     And  where  there  is 
 
 able  passages,  inspersed  throughout  the  tragedy  both  slanderous  cavillations 
 
 and  suspicious  sentence,  therefore,  as  I  am  credibly  informed, 
 
 they  used  this  foresight,  by  the  advertisement  of  the  master 
 
 and  seniors,  to   omit  all  such  matter  whereby  offence  might 
 
 No  person     justly  have  risen ;  and  hitherto  have  I  not  seen  any  man  that 
 
 present,  had  ^as  proscnt  at  it  to  shew  himself  grieved,  albeit  it  was  thought 
 
 expressed  ■»■  , 
 
 diSsfied.  ^^^'^^  *i"^®  ^^^  labour  might  have  been  spent  in  a  better 
 Parker  not  handled  matter.  Arid  forasmuch  as  I  was  not  present  myself 
 at  their  playing,  I  have  learned  of  others  the  cause  to  stand 
 thus  in  these  points  aforesaid.  And  thus  Almighty  God  long 
 preserve  your  honourable  estate  in  health  and  honour,  to  his 
 pleasure  and  furtherance  of  our  common  wealth,  with  hke  good 
 zeal  as  hitherto  with  thanks  we  be  bound  to  acknowledge 
 your  lordship  to  have  done.  At  Cambridge,  this  Good- 
 Friday. 
 
 Your  bound  orator, 
 
 by  duty  to  command, 
 
 MATTHUE  PARKER. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  and  my 
 singular  good  lord,  the  lord  of 
 Winchester. 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 BISHOP  GARDINER  OF  WINCHESTER  TO  DR  MATTHEW 
 
 PARKER. 
 
 23rd  April,  1545.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  CoU.  Camb.  cvi.  art.  158.  p.  439.  Grig. 
 
 Master  Vice-chancellor,  after  my  hearty  commendations, 
 
 having  commodity  to  send  this  bearer  my  chaplain  to  the 
 
 University,  I  have  thought  good  to  signify  further  my  mind 
 
 unto  you   concerning  the   examination  of  the  truth  of  the 
 
 Gardiner  has  matter  of  the  tragedy  played  in  Christ's  College,  whereof  I 
 
 respecting     havo  heard  more  than  I  heard  before,  and  have  heard  so 
 
 the  t''agedy 
 
 gayedat      much  that  I  think  it  necessary  for  my  discharge  to  travail 
 College.        yf\i\^  yQu  to  attain  the  knowledge  of  the  very  truth,  and  fur- 
 ther to  do  therein  as  the  case  shall  require.     And  to  the 
 intent  it  may  appear  that  howsoever  youth  either  of  frailty, 
 lightness,  or  malice  would  abuse  their  gifts,  we  that  be  heads 
 
1545.]      iHsiior  (;aki>inkk  to  iju  mattiikw  rAiiKiiii.  2.'J 
 
 and  rulers  over  them  shouUl  not  be  seen  either  by  sulVeninco 
 or  ncjrhi'cneo  to  bo  bhimc worthy  of  their  fault,  I   will  and  iicrcquireth 
 require  you  tliat  upon  reeeipt  ot  these  my  letters  yo  assemble  .>-H.ini,i.-ti.e 
 tho  masters  and  i)residents  of  tho  Collefijes  with  tho  doctors  of  I'f'v'',"'* 
 
 1  O  wild  tlic 
 
 the  University,    and  declaring   unto   them    this    matter,    to  '//,"K.''tna?of 
 
 require  them  to  assist  you  in  tho  trial  of  the  truth  concerning  !ll„l"i„J.^ 
 
 the  said   tragedy,  and  that  by   duo  examination  of  such  as 
 
 were  there  it  may  be  truly  known  what  was  uttered,  and  so 
 
 by  their  judgment  approved  for  good,  which   by   tho  order 
 
 established  by  the  King's  majesty  in  this  church  is  reproved, 
 
 or  by  them  reproved  which  by  the  King's  majesty  is  allowed. 
 
 I  have  heard  specialities,  that  they  reproved  Lent  fastinf];s,  what  he  hai 
 
 .,,,.,  » 1  1'  1  hearil  wus 
 
 all  ceremonies,  and,  albeit  the  words  ot  sacrament  and  mass  si>ctiaiiy  con- 
 
 (leiiuied  in 
 
 were  not  named,  yet  the  rest  of  the  matter  written  in  that  ^h*-' ^^^'^y- 
 tragedy  in  tho  reproof  of  them  was  expressed.  And  if,  as 
 you  wrote  to  me,  they  left  out  somewhat  unspoken,  it  should 
 appear  that  the  rest  being  spoken  was  upon  a  judgment  by 
 consideration  and  deliberation  allowed:  which  if  it  be  true  is  a 
 lamentable  case,  and  such  as  hath  not  chanced,  that  such  as 
 by  the  King's  majesty's  privileges  and  supportation  be  there 
 preserved  in  quiet  to  learn  all  virtue,  should  presumptuously  a  presump- 
 
 ,  1  T  .  /.!•  .•  "^    tuous  mock 
 
 mock  and  scorn  the  direction  of  their  prince  in  matters  of  ami  scorn  of 
 
 A  ^  the  direction 
 
 religion.  I  touch  only  herein  the  truth  of  obedience ;  for  I  f,[!JJai|'Jro? 
 esteem  such  offenders  for  unlearned  and  ignorant,  unmeet  to  ""eion. 
 discern  what  is  truth  in  the  matter.  But  if  tho  King's  ma- 
 jesty's directions  be  not  obeyed  there,  and  by  us  dissembled, 
 how  shall  we  charge  the  rudeness  abroad  that  may  allege 
 their  example  for  pretence  of  their  fault  ?  This  matter  is 
 greater  than  were  expedient  to  be  true,  and  is  more  certainly 
 reported  unto  me  than  of  likelihood  can  bo  totally  false.  It 
 is  not  the  fault  of  us  that  be  heads  to  have  in  the  number 
 some  naught,  until  we  pass  over  their  fault  and  suffer  it  un- 
 punished.     If  I  could  have  leisure  to  come  myself,   I  would  if  he  had 
 
 ,.,/,,.  1      •  I  .1  leisure  he 
 
 not  spare  to  come  thither  lor  this  purpose,  beino^  the  special  would  per- 
 
 ^  .  .  .  sonally  come 
 
 pomt  of  my  charge.      In  mine  absence,  I  require  the  aid  of  iJ^J.^^er  to^ 
 you  to  know  by  your  examination  the  truth  of  the  matter.  ^<=  ""*""• 
 Wherein  I  pray  you  use  the  assistance  of  the  master,  presi- 
 dents, and  doctors,  as  afore.     And  as  wild  wanton  liberty 
 sometime   brasteth    out  in   youth  to  their   reproach,    so   let 
 soberness  and  gravity  appear  in  us  requisite  for  the  execution 
 
24 
 
 BISHOP  GARDINER  TO   DR  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 
 [1545. 
 
 nuietiy 
 fewer  privi 
 leges  than 
 Cambridge 
 
 of  our  charge.  Many  hath  of  late  repined  at  the  King's 
 majesty's  munificence  in  our  privileges  and  otherwise,  and  let 
 not  us  give  cause  that  they  should  justly  so  do.  Our  obe- 
 dience should  be  example  to  all  other  in  public  directions, 
 without  occasion  of  all  slander.  If  learning  should  now  be 
 an  instrument  to  stir  up  dissension,  and  trouble  the  common 
 quietness,  their  opinion  should  be  confirmed  which  not  many 
 years  past  have  laboured  to  prove  in  books  printed  in  Eng- 
 lish that  the  Universities  be  the  corruption  of  the  realm. 
 Jj'/ofJJ^yg^  Oxford  liveth  quietly  with  fewer  privileges  than  we  have; 
 there  be  that  would  we  had  as  few  as  they.  I  intreat  this 
 offence  only  worldly,  because  the  capacity  of  the  offenders 
 seemeth  to  stretch  no  farther.  And  he  that  regardeth  not 
 his  obedience  to  his  prince,  regardeth  not  much  his  obedience 
 to  God  and  his  truth  which  he  hath  offended  in  the  other. 
 Wherefore,  I  pray  you,  let  us  by  due  examination  find  the 
 fault  where  it  is,  and  so  purge  ourself ;  and  what  ye  shall 
 find  herein,  I  pray  you  advertise  me  with  diligence.  And  so 
 fare  ye  well.     At  London  the  23.  of  April. 
 
 Your  loving  friend, 
 
 STE.  WINTOX. 
 To  I\faster  Vice-chancellor  of 
 the  University  of  Cambridge. 
 
 XIX. 
 
 In  compli- 
 ance with 
 the  last  let- 
 ter from  Bp 
 Gardiner, 
 Parker  had 
 made  further 
 inquiry  as  to 
 the  offence 
 said  to  have 
 been  given 
 by  tho  per- 
 formance of 
 the  tracedy 
 at  Christ's 
 College. 
 
 DR  MATTHEW   PARKER  TO  BISHOP  GARDINER  OF 
 WINCHESTER. 
 
 8tli  May,  1545.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cvi.  art.  IGO.  p.  445.  Orig.  draft. 
 
 Pleaseth  it  your  honourable  lordship,  after  my  due  com- 
 mendations, to  know  that,  according  to  your  commandment  in 
 your  last  letters,  I  have  used  the  wisdom  of  the  doctors  and 
 presidents  of  all  the  Colleges  of  the  University,  for  the  trial  of 
 the  truth  concerning  the  tragedy,  and  thus  was  it  agreed 
 among  us  that  every  president  should  assemble  their  com- 
 panies to  know  what  they  heard  and  wherewith  they  were 
 offended,  and  so  to  declare  so  much  as  they  found,  whereupon 
 I  might  make  answer  to  your  lordship,  what  was  uttered 
 
1545.]  Dll    MATrilKW    TAKKKIl    TO    lUSIIOI'   GAIIDINKU.  25 
 
 tlioro.     The  answer  of  them  all  after  their  ex:unin;itioii  at  our  Thrtniwrr 
 
 I  -,,,,.  .  ,       ,  ,  "f  nil  Ihc 
 
 next  mcctins:  was,  that  none  of  all  their  companies  declared  <<'||«k«^ »i«. 
 
 O  '  *      _  (hut  lintic 
 
 unto  them  tluit  they  were  otVendod  with  any  thin;',  that  now  <<«^'««;i 
 they  remember  was  then  spoken.      Very    many,   whether  of ';'),7;'^;;J 
 purpose  or  of  chance,   were  absent:    which   can  depose  no- !lH.';f,|!,';y 
 thinjr.      Moreover    to   a    further    trial    what    was  uttered   1  ^•''"•^"''^■"'*- 
 thought   good    to    send    to    your   lord>hip   a   book   of   theirs, 
 noted  and  cancelled  all  that  was  unspoken,  the  rest  uttered. 
 Which  book  was  delivered  me  in  presence  of  the  master  and  t^jc  »K.nk  of 
 all  the  fellows  of  Christ's  Collei]:e,  whom  I  convented  pcrso- rcvisi.<n.ytiis 
 
 ^  *  inasttT  and 
 
 nally  for  the  search  of  the  truth.      Among  whom  I  found  by  [■"^rj^'l*  (^,,. 
 inquisition   not  above  two  that  were  oflfcnded,   of  the  which  'j',',fGr"i'intr. 
 Mv  Scot*   being  one  declared  that  he  was  neither  agreeable  Mr scot of 
 to  the  plavins:  at  the  first,   nor  pleased  with  it  when  it  was  i(Be.''ij',.  "^ 
 
 1       »/       rf  '  1  (iardiiier's 
 
 played,  but  offended  in  such  points  as  he  shewed  me  he  hath  informant. 
 already  declared  to  your  lordship. 
 
 With  the  deposition  of  the  which  ^Ir  Scot  to  your  lord- 
 ship (known  to  them  before  I  conferred  with  them)   I  per- The  momi>ers 
 
 •        1       '  /.     ,  1  1  •  1  T  1    ofChrisis 
 
 ceived  some  of  the  company  to  be  much  grieved.      Insomuch  ciiepe nuuti 
 that  there  is  now  risen  since  our  examination  another  matter  J^j^j's  ^j^^- 
 betwixt  them,  whereof  I  had  the  hearing  with  the  assistance  Slcramse 
 of  Mr  doctors  Wigan,  Lockwood,  and  Wendy.     Whereas,  of  quenSe!^" 
 words  of  displeasure  spoken  betwixt  themselves  at  home,  Mr 
 Scot  feared  unquietncss  by  certain  of  them,  and  came  to  me 
 for   his  aid,  I  called  them  together  to  know  their  griefs,  and 
 purposed  with  the  assistance  aforesaid  to  have  made  a  quiet- 
 ness betwixt  them:  and  in  their  challeno;ino^  one  another  there 
 was  uttered  by  Mr  Crane  and  'Mr  Green  wall,  players  of  the 
 foresaid  tragedy  and  fellows  of  the  house,  that  the  said  Mr 
 Scot  should  say  at  such  time  as  the  master  and   company 
 consulted  together  for  the  playing  of  the  said  tragedy,  that 
 the  said  tragedy  was  throughout  poison,  and  therefore  liked 
 not  that  it  should  be  played.     Whereto  should  the  said  Crane 
 answer,   that   they  intended  not  but    to  rebuke   the    pope's 
 usurped   power.      Whereto  should  Scot  answer,    that  under 
 that  pretence  they  would  destroy  all  godliness.      Which  last 
 words  Mr  Scot  affirmed  he  said,  but  not  the  first,   but  said 
 thus,  that  the  book  was  throughout  poisoned.      With  the  ad- 
 
 [^  Strype  supposes  this  to  be  the  Scot  who  was  made  Bishop  of 
 Chester  under  Queen  Mary. — Life  of  Parker,  Book  i.  c.  5.] 
 
20  DIl   MATTHEW   PARKER  TO  BISHOP   GARDINER.  [1545. 
 
 vice  of  the  foresaid  assistance  I  caused  their  very  words  ^  to 
 be  written  by  their  own  hands;  which  I  send  to  your  lordship 
 to  be  considered  what  weight  is  in  them ;  and  in  the  mean 
 time  we  have  them  all  bound  with  surety  to  be  forthcoming, 
 till  such  time  as  we  shall  hear  again  from  your  lordship  and 
 know  your  pleasure.  Thus  your  lordship  see  the  unquietness 
 of  some  of  that  company  among  themselves,  beside  the  out- 
 ward vexation  now  of  late  risen  of  a  townsman  against  our 
 privileges,  of  which  it  may  please  your  lordship  to  be  informed 
 by  these  letters  of  the  University.  And  thus  the  Holy  Ghost 
 preserve  your  lordship  in  honourable  estate  to  his  pleasure. 
 At  Cambridge  in  Benet  College  this  8th  of  May. 
 
 Your  orator  at  commandment  there, 
 
 MATTHWE  PARKER. 
 
 To  tlie  right  honourable  and  my  singular 
 good  loi'd,  my  lord  of  Winchester. 
 
 [1  The  following  copy  of  "the  very  words"  is  appended  to  the 
 letter  in  the  MS. 
 
 Anno  1545''.  8°  Maii. 
 In  the  presence  of  Matthew  Parker,  Vice-chancellor,  Dr  Wigan, 
 Dr  Lockwood,  Dr  Wendy :  these  words  spoken,  underneath  written,  by 
 the  parties  following. 
 
 I,  John  Crane,  do  say,  that  Mr  Scot  did  affirm  the  tragedy  of 
 Pammachius  to  be  throughout  poison,  about  the  xvith  day  of  January. 
 
 Joim  Craist:. 
 
 Witnesseth  that  I,  Nicholas  Greenwall,  heard  him  say  that  the 
 tragedy  was  all  throughout  poison  :  xvith  day  of  January. 
 
 Nicholas  Ghenewall. 
 
 And  whereas  wo  said  that  our  intent  was  to  pluck  down  the 
 pope's  usurped  power,  he  answered,  that  under  that  pretence  wo 
 would  speak  against  all  goodness. 
 
 John  Crake. 
 IMathew  Parker. 
 Edward  "Wigon. 
 Henry  Lockewod. 
 Thomas  Wendey.] 
 
1545.]        IIISIIOI'  GAIIDINKU  TO   DU   MATTIIKW    I'AItUKIl.  27 
 
 XX. 
 
 lUSIIOr  GAUDINEK   OF    WINCIIKSTEU   To    M:    mvttmi.w 
 
 rAlUvEK. 
 
 ll»th  May,  l^o.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Cuinl).  cvi.  art.  IGl.  i>.  4 1'J.   OriK- 
 
 ^[astek  Vice-chancellor,  after  my  licarty  coinmeiulation?,  Hoh.T.rorriv- 
 I  pcrccivo  by  your  letters  which  I  havo  received  with  the  itttii»*Mtt. 
 book  of  the  tragedy,  that  yo  havo  assembled  the  sago  of  the  tiu.  iM«ciy 
 rniversity  to   know   by   their  inniiisition   severally    in    their 'ij»"rti»>nt 
 
 v  •>  1  V  IK)  in.'iii  It 
 
 houses  what  was  uttered  that  might  and  ought  to  offend  godly  "«*^^"^*^ 
 ears  in  tho  playing  of  the  same  at  Christ's  College.     Wherein, 
 as  a}>poaroth  by  your  letters,  report  was  made  unto  you  that 
 no  man  is  offended.      And  yet,  perusing  tho  book  of  the  tra- 
 gedy which  ye  sent  me,  I  find  much  matter  not  stricken  out,  Muchoflcn- 
 all  which  by  the  parties'*  own  confession  was  uttered,  very  in^'thT 
 naught,  and  on  the  other  part  something  not  well  omitted; 
 where  allowing  and  rejecting  should  proceed  of  judgment, 
 and  that  to  be  taken  for  true  which  was  uttered,  and  that  for 
 untrue  which  they  note  as  untrue  to  be  omitted  and  left  un- 
 spoken.    So  as  this  book  declareth  the  parties  to  havo  double 
 offended,  both  in  denying  that  is  true  and  also  approving  that 
 is  false,  as  in  some  part  by  their  notes  doth  appear.      And 
 indeed  in  tho  tragedy  untruth  is  so  maliciously  weaved  with 
 truth,  as  making  the  bishop  of  liome,  with  certain  his  abuses, 
 the  foundation  of  the  matter,  the  author's  reproach  whereof 
 is  true,  so  many  abominable  and  detestable  lies  be  added  and 
 mingled  with  the  other   truth  as  no    Christian  ears  should 
 patiently  hear,  and  cannot,  in  the  process  of  the  matter,  be 
 without  a  marvellous  alteration,  other  than  was  now  used,  be^ 
 dissevered  asunder.     By  mean  whereof,  where  all  other  proof  The  book  an 
 failcth  there,  the  book  maketh  an  undoubted  proof  of  their  j!"i^Tof  the 
 lewdness  to  me  here,  and  that  which  so  many  of  the  Univer-  thepuyers. 
 sity  being  present  heard  and  offended  them  not  so  deeply  but 
 it  is  now  worn  out  and  they  be  no  longer  offended,  the  same  is 
 by  exhibition  of  the  book  so  notified  unto  me,  and  so  grieveth 
 me,  being  absent,  as,  how  soon  soever  I  forget  the  offence 
 upon  their  reconciliation,  I  shall  hardly  of  a  great  while  forget 
 the  matter.      And   if  open  and   notorious   faults  which   the  if  open /md 
 
 notorious 
 
 [2  The  word  be  is  thus  repeated  in  the  MS.  evidently  by  mistake.] 
 
28  BISHOP  GARDINER  TO   DR  MATTHEW   PARKER.        [1545. 
 
 faults  com-    offenders  in  pomp  and  triumph  so  utter  as  tliey  would  have 
 
 muted  111  111  tJ  ^ 
 
 tHumTbe    °^^^  know  them  and  mark  them,  shall  from  henceforth  with- 
 
 Th^ls^smaii  out   all   reformation   be  neglected   and  forgotten,    or   so    by 
 
 condensation  silcncc  hiddcu  as  tlioj  shall  not  appear  to  be  corrected,  there 
 
 Cte"*        is  small  hope  of  conservation  of  good  order,  and  a  marvellous 
 
 boldness  given  to  offenders,  the  means  of  reformation  thus 
 
 taken  away.     Wise  men  have  noted  truly  that  it  is  caput 
 
 audacice  impunitatis  sj^es,  which   must   needs  grow   where 
 
 open  faults  be  thus  neglected  and  pretermitted,  wherein  they 
 
 be  chiefly  to  be  blamed  that  forbear  to  make  report  of  that 
 
 they  have  heard  when  they  be  required,     I   would  not  be 
 
 over  curious,  unless  the  crime  were  notable,  to  bring  to  light 
 
 his  fault  that  himself  hath   used   means    to   hide   from   the 
 
 world.      But,  if  the  offender  be  so  destitute  of  all  fear  and 
 
 shame  as  these  players  were,   why  should  any  man  forbear, 
 
 when  they  walk  in  the  street  naked,  to  point  them   with  his 
 
 finger  and  say,  There  they  go  ? 
 
 Many  things         I  hear  mauv  things  to   be  very  far  out  of  order,  both 
 
 out  of  order  i        •         i        tt     •  •  i  ii        •         i        /->.    11  ^  i> 
 
 intheuni-    oDcnly  m  the  University  and  severally  in  the  Colleges,  whereof 
 
 versity.  it/  ./  ^  J  O      ' 
 
 I  am  sorry,  and  amongst  other  in  contempt  of  me  the  deter- 
 The  Chan-     minatlou  of  the  pronunciation  of  certain  Greek  letters  agreed 
 
 ceilorsde-  •••  C3 
 
 '^/.'llL"^*'°"    i^^to  by  the  authority  of  the  whole  University,  to  be  violate 
 
 of  the  pro-  t/  t/  »<  ' 
 
 ofcSn"     ^^^  broken  without  any  correction  therefor.      The  matter  is 
 
 Greek  letters 
 
 noli 
 
 to. 
 
 attended  low  and  the  contempt  so  much  the  more.     I  was  chosen  Chan- 
 cellor to  be  so  honoured  (although  above  my  deserts)  of  them, 
 and  I  have  given  no  cause  to  be  despised.      I  will  do  that  I 
 He  challenges  cau  for  the  maintenance  of  virtue  and  good  order  there,  and 
 
 attention  to  .  „ 
 
 hisotiice.  challenge  again,  of  duty,  to  be  regarded  after  the  proportion 
 not  of  my  qualities  but  mine  office.  Requiring  you,  Master 
 Vice-chancellor,  to  communicate  these  my  letters  with  the 
 masters,  presidents,  and  doctors,  and  on  my  behalf  to  desire 
 them  gravely  to  consider  of  what  moment  the  good  order  of 
 youth  is,  and  to  withstand  the  lewd  li[cenc]e^  of  such  as  have 
 neither  shame,  nor  fear  of  punishment  and  correction.  The 
 lesson  of  obedience  would  be  well  taught  and  practised,  and  I 
 will  be  more  diligent  to  know  how  men  profit  in  it  than  1 
 
 The  bishop    havo    bccu.     I    have  showed   the  whole  Council    the   words 
 
 lias  shewed 
 
 *'ok^n^b*      spoken  by  blaster  Scot,  from  whom  ye  shall  shortly  receive 
 toThf^^^'   answer  in  that  matter.     And  as  touching  those  that   were 
 Council.       chief  players  in  the  tragedy  I  hear  very  evil  matter,  and  I 
 [1  Part  of  this  word  has  beon  torn  away  with  the  seal.] 
 
1545.]        BISHOP  CJAUniNKR   TO   nil    MATTHKW    I'AItKKR.  20 
 
 pray  you  call   tlinn   unto  you  aiul   know    uliothor  tlioy  will  n^echict 
 acknowltHliro  ami  confess  their  fault  or  no;  ami  to  signify  the '►•••umm..nrti 
 samo  unto  nio  :   and  so   faro   vo  well.      At  London  iho   l-ll»  l;;t!iVuuu- 
 of  May. 
 
 Your  loving  friend, 
 
 STE.  WINTOX. 
 
 To  my  loving  fn'end  ^fast^r  Vice- 
 
 rhiinci  Ilor  «>/*  (\iiiihi'itJii(  . 
 
 XXL 
 
 THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  DR  ^LVTTHEW  PARKER. 
 16th  May,  15-15.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cvi.  art.  iGi.  p.  453.  Orig. 
 
 After  our  hearty  commendations,   we  have  considered  hJconlTier- 
 
 ,  ,  1         . ,,      ,  111  '■'*  ^^^  w  ords 
 
 such   words   as  vou   sii^nihcd   to    vour  chancellor,    our   very  spoken  by 
 
 .*'"."  *'    master  Sc()t 
 
 good  lord  the  bishop  of  Winchester,  to  have   been  spoken  by  J"^''^"^'^® 
 one   Mr   Scot  touching   a  certain  tragedy  played  in  Christ's  fStV' 
 College,  and  think  it  right  expedient  that,  calling  the  parties  ^""^g'^- 
 before  you,  ye  should  admonish   them  to   endeavour  them- 
 selves so  to  employ  their  wits  and  studies  in  knowledge  of  chanc-cuor 
 
 1  •  1  Til  11      1  '       '      ^         ^  •  to  call  the 
 
 that  is  Ejood,  true,  and  wholesome,  as  all  that  is  indeed  poison,  parties  before 
 
 P  .  ^  nim  and 
 
 either  in  learning  or  manners,  be  expelled  and  put  out,  and  •^,*J^"^°'*'* 
 no  such  matter  cither  in  play  or  earnest  to  bo  moved  or 
 meddled  with  as  should  offend  the  laws  and  quiet  of  this 
 realm,  so  as  you,  that  there  be  assembled  and  under  tho 
 King's  majesty's  special  protection  be  maintained  to  live 
 quietly  for  the  increase  of  virtue  and  learning,  do  also  in 
 your  manner  and  behaviour  practise  rest  and  quietness,  and 
 eschew  all  occasions  that  might  impeach  the  same.  Wherein 
 ye  that  be  heads  and  governors  must  have  such  special  euro 
 and  care,  as,  if  any  misorder  be  among  the  youth,  ye  reform 
 it  from  time  to  time,  and  do  that  may  be  for  your  discharge 
 in  that  behalf.  And  thus,  discharging  the  said  master  Scot,  charging 
 noted  to  have  spoken  the  said  words,  to  do,  for  reformation  do.  for  the ' 
 
 --  II  •  11  .,.  «,  .  -,  refonnation 
 
 of  those  that  have  misused  themselves  m  playing  of  the  said  "'"ha^i^jhl'if™' 
 tragedy,    as   to   your  wisdoms  shall    be    thought    requisite.  I5ju°i{f|'' 
 
assail  hi: 
 enemies. 
 
 30       THE   LORDS  OF  THE   COUNCIL  TO  DR  M.  PARKER.       [1545. 
 
 And  thus  we  bid  you  right  heartily  well  to  fare.    From  St 
 James,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1545. 
 
 Your  loving  friends, 
 
 T.  WRIOTHESLEY.        J.  RUSSELL. 
 STE.  WINTON.  WILLM.  PAGET. 
 
 To  our  very  loving  friends  the  Vice- 
 chancellor,  masters  of  Colleges,  doc- 
 tors and  jDroctors  of  the  University 
 of  Cambridge, 
 
 XXII. 
 
 THOMAS  SMITH  TO  DR  ISIATTHEW  PARKER. 
 21st  August,  1545.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cvi.  art.  183.  p.  493.  Grig. 
 
 Right  worshipful,  I  have  me  commended  unto  you.    You 
 
 shall  understand  that  letters  is  comen  from  the  King's  Council 
 
 The  King      to  mv  lord  ^      The  tenor  whereof  is  that  the  Kinor^s  highness 
 
 intendeth  to     .,,„.,  i  i         i-i  i  • 
 
 intendeth^  with  an  army  royal  and  a  like  and  puissant  navy, 
 by  the  grace  of  God,  with  all  speed  to  assail  and  repulse  his 
 He  desires  to  cuomies.     To  the  which  thins:  it  is  his  grace's  pleasure  and 
 
 be  helped  by  i         i     i        i  •  ,  ,  •  -i 
 
 prayers  and    clesiro    to    bo    holpod    With    pravors   and    processions    made 
 
 processions  ^  *■  i:       «/  J. 
 
 I'^riit^y'if''  throughout  his  realm,  and  warning  thereof  to  be  severally 
 Cambridge,  giyen  iu  ovcry  diocese.  Wherefore  methinks  you  should  do 
 very  well,  if,  as  at  such  times  in  like  cases  you  were  wont, 
 you  did  continue  weekly  your  general  processions  in  the  Uni- 
 versity of  Cambridge.  There  was  at  no  time  more  need  of 
 common  and  hearty  prayer  than  now. 
 
 Jesu  keep  you.     At  Downham,  the  21.  day  of  August. 
 
 Your, 
 
 THOMAS  SJilYTH. 
 
 To  the  right  worshipful  Mr  doctor  Par  Jeer, 
 Vice-chancellor  of  the  University  of  Cam- 
 bridge, or,  in  his  absence,  to  his  deputy 
 there. 
 
 [1  Goodrich,  Bishop  of  Ely,  ^vhose  Chancellor  Smith  was  when  he 
 wrote  this  letter.  See  Strype's  Life  of  Sir  Thomas  Smith,  p.  19.  Oxf. 
 1820.] 
 
 [2  This  intention  was  never  carried  out.  In  1544,  as  we  have 
 before  remarked,  (p.  15,  n.  5),  Henry  VHI.  laid  siege  to  Boulogne, 
 with  an  "  army  royal,"  from  July  to  September,  and  on  the  14th  of 
 the  latter  month  received  its  surrender  in  person.     To  aid  in  the  re- 
 
1545.]   DU  M.  TARKER  TO  THE  COUNCIL  OF  (JUKEN  K.  PARR.     'U 
 
 XXIII. 
 
 DR   MATTIIHW  rAUKEU  TO  TIIK  COUNCIL   OF  QUEEN 
 KATIIKKINK   TAKK. 
 
 A.D.  154."..     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Caml..  (  vm.  art.  23.  p.  ll'7.    Ori^'.  <lraft. 
 
 Jesus. 
 Pleasetii    it    your  honourable    estates,    after    my    duo 
 recommendations  to  tho  same,  to  bo  advertised,  that  wlicre, 
 for  tho  discharge  of  my  governance  of  tho  Queen's  grace* 
 college  of  Stoke  in   Suffolk,  committod   to   my   trust,   I   have  parkorhM 
 liithcrto  done  my  best  diligence  to  employ  that  her  grace[\sj  li'ii'.Kfnc1.  to 
 foundation  not  only  agreeably  thereto,  but  have  also,  of  late,  college  of 
 improved  tho  state   thereof  somewhat  above  the  first  institu- «^'y ''•I'" 
 tiontono  small  cost  and  charge;  and,  moreover,  have  hitherto '^"j^i';]^, ^p. 
 resisted  such  suit  for  surrender  as  might  (by  the  occasion  ea1fons'?dr ' 
 offered)  have  been  both  beneficial  to  me  for  the  present  com-  ^""^"'^"• 
 modity,  as  for  a  liberal  pension  with  good  assurance  to  have 
 been  obtained ;  and  yet,  weighing  my  duty  to  God  and  to 
 the  Queen's  grace,  in  such  respects  as  it  may  please  your 
 worshipful  wisdom  to  peruse  here  following,  I  have  not  given 
 place.     But  now,  perceivins:  the  continuance  to  be  in  danojer,  itscommu- 
 
 ^  ^  ®  .  .  .  .      ance  being 
 
 and  not  to  be  staved  by  my  ability ^  I  thouf^ht  it  good  inn"*'"     . 
 
 *  J  t/  *         .  .  danger,  and 
 
 time  to  make  my  refuge  to  your  worships,  and  to  givo  your  "^^^.J^^y 
 wisdoms  occasion  to  consult  (as  ye  do  in  other  matters  per-  ^ksugood 
 taining  to  the  Queen's  honour  and  commodity)  what  ye  shall  JKu^n's 
 think  meet  to  be  done  in  this  said  case.  determine 
 
 The  suppression  thereof  cannot  be  great  advancement  to  to  be  done. 
 
 iT'-n*  1111'  1  7  11  The  ineome 
 
 the  Kings  majesty,  the  lands  being  but  ccc/.  and  altogether  of jhecouege 
 
 annum  in 
 spiritual 
 
 covcry  of  Boulogne,  the  French,  in  the  year  following,  scoured  the  rents, 
 channel  with  their  fleet,  and  did  considcrablo  damage  on  tho  shores 
 of  England.      The  intention  hero  alluded  to,  was  probably  announced 
 with  the  view  of  inspiriting  the  people  of  England  in  tho  unwonted 
 naval  circumstances  in  which  the  kingdom  was  then  placed.] 
 
 [3  "In  this  same  year  [1545],  being  tho  37th  of  tho  king,  all 
 colleges,  chantries,  hospitals,  &c.,  were  granted  by  parliament  to 
 him.  This  act  struck  full  at  Stoke  College,  which  caused  the  dean 
 to  bestir  himself,  if  it  were  possible,  to  prevent  tho  dissolution  of  a 
 place  which  he  had  laid  out  so  much  of  his  pains  about  to  make  it 
 useful  for  the  service  of  the  king,  the  church,  and  commonwealth." — 
 Strype's  Parker,  Ek.  i.  c.  6.  Tho  College  was  dissolved  in  tho  1st 
 year  of  Edward  VI.] 
 
32        Dll  PARKER   TO   THE   COUNCIL   OF   QUEEN  K.  TAIIR.     [1545. 
 
 The  house  in  (cxccpt  a  vcrv  little)  standing  in  spiritual  rents.     The  house 
 
 the  midst  of     ^  /     .  i  ,  ,  ,  ,       ,  •  n 
 
 the  Queen-s    standeth  SO  that  her  grace  s  tenants  be  round  about  it,  as  well 
 
 tenants,  who  ,      «-'  ,  ,         ^  ' 
 
 have  the  ad-  to  bo  rcfrcshcd  witli  alms  and  daily  hospitality  as  is  there 
 
 vantage  of  ,/  i  j 
 
 Sy'aiui'"   kept,  as  to  be  instructed  with  God's  word  of  certain  of  her 
 
 fonhelr      grace's  orators  doing  the  same;  beside  the  commodity  that 
 
 children.       ^j^^  chlldcr  of  hcr  grace's  tenants  and  farmers  fully  enjoy  by 
 
 their  teaching  and  bringing  up,  as  well  in  grammar  as  in 
 
 singing  and  playing,  with  other  exercises  and  nurtures  meet 
 
 for  their  ages  and   capacities ;  being  there  sundry  teachers 
 
 attending  upon  their  instructions  in  the  same,  the  number  of 
 
 '  which  scholars  with  other  honourable  and  worshipful  children 
 
 amount^      *     *     *, 
 
 stoke  the  Morcover,  it  may  please  your   honourable  wisdoms   to 
 
 Queen's  only         ..  ,  it  »      •  i      i  ^ 
 
 college  in      call  to  rcmembrauce,  that  her  grace  Deing  lady  and  patroness 
 
 that  country,  .  C  o  ./  l 
 
 whence  she    iji^t  of  that  oue  ]n  that  country  where  her  grace's  honourable 
 
 draws  part  of  t/  o 
 
 her  revenue,  revonues  in  somc  part  lieth,  and  the  house  being  situate  as 
 it  is,  and  so  competently  furnished  with  lodgings,  for  the  en- 
 tertaining of  her  grace's  Council  at  their  repair  down,  I  trust 
 ye  will  expend  whether  in  this  respect  it  were  not  convenient 
 
 It  is  therefore  some  stay  to  be  made  therein,   as  heretofore  have  been  re- 
 
 useful  as  a  .  *' 
 
 FdSr^fnr    <^eived  there  at  some  survey   the  most  part    of  her  grace''s 
 
 wwthey'  Council  viii.  days  together  with  the  resort  of  the  most  part 
 
 Sarnie's    of  hor  farmers  and  tenants  to  the  same,  and  have  been  en- 
 
 tenants.  ^gj-j^r^jj^gj  thoro  without  cost  or  charge  of  the  Queen's  grace's 
 
 coffers,   in  such   wise  as  was  to  the   contentation   of    them 
 
 (worshipful  as  they  were  at  that  time):  which  expense,  so  by 
 
 us  gladly  sustained,  I  report  of,  not  for  any  other  cause  but 
 
 to  some  little  testification  of  our  ready  goodwill  and  service 
 
 to  the  Queen's  highness  and  her  Council,  and  to  declare  no 
 
 less  readiness  of  service  to  remain  in  us  hereafter  to  our 
 
 abihties  in  the  same. 
 
 These  things  Morcovcr,  whatsocvor  your  excellent  wisdoms  shall  thus 
 
 st^^ted  by  .        '  «^  .  ,  .  ,  .  _ 
 
 t^fe'hifoS^a-  ^^   otherwise   more  prudently    consider   in  the   premises,   I 
 
 Quee"n,?nd    thought  it  to  be  to  tho  discharge  of  my  duty  and  conscience, 
 
 !naybe7ug-   to  siguify  uuto  you,  as  officers  under  God  and  the  King,  to 
 
 l^s^edtothe  pj.Qyi(je  f^j.  i\^q  presorvatiou  of  the  Queen's  honour  on  this 
 
 behalf,  to  the  pleasure  of  God  and  relief  of  her  poor  orators 
 
 and  tenants,  by   suggesting  such  or  like  respects,  and  to  the 
 
 Queen's  grace,  for  information  of  the  King's  majesty,  who  at 
 
 [1  A  line  is  here  unfortunately  lost  by  the  bottom  of  the  leaf 
 being  cut  off.] 
 
1.V15.]    DU  M.  rAKKKK    TO  TIIK    COLNtlL   Ol     Ql  l.KN    K.   I'AKH.    'i*3 
 
 tho  contemplation  of  lier  fjjraco's  suit,  I  doubt  not  will  bo 
 good  and  gracious  lord.  As  I  liavo  of  lato  inado  supplica- 
 tion to  tbo  Queen's  hifj^hncss  by  myself,  with  declaration  of 
 these  considerations  aforesaid,  it  may  please  your  worshipful 
 goodness  to  pursue  the  same,  as  your  opportunity  shall  serve 
 you,  whereby,  beside  tho  discharge  of  your  conscience,  I  trust 
 it  shall  redound  to  God's  honour  in  especial,  to  whose  merci- 
 ful tuition  I   most  humbly  commit  your  honourable  estate'-'. 
 
 p  Tho  result  of  Parkci's  intcrforonco  on  behalf  of  liis  collogo  of 
 Stoke,  will  bo  seen  in  the  following  letter  from  sir  Anthony  Denny  to 
 tho  couunissioners  for  the  sui)pression  of  such  establishments,  ap- 
 pointed in  the  succeeding  reign.  This  letter  occurs  in  Parker  MSS. 
 C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cviii.  art.  IG.  p.  Of). 
 
 "  Besides  most  hearty  conmiendations.    For  that  heretofore  I  have  sir  Anthony 
 been  a  suitor  to  the  King,  our  lato  sovereign  lord  deceased,  on  the  bct"n"I suTtor 
 behalf  of  Mr  Parker,  dean  of  Stoke,  whose  honest  and  virtuous  using  vii^^o'i^be- 
 of  that  college  much  also  moved  the  same  lato  King,  in  such  wise  as  Pa/kef  whose 
 his  majesty  clearly  resolved  to  permit  the  same  to  remain  undissolved;  *"'^'p',j"^a\ 
 I  am  much  at  this  present  stirred  to  require  you  to  be  favourable  to-  J^[j'^\\^' 
 wards  him.      And  albeit  that  I  mean  not  to  have  tho  said  college  to  remain  un- 
 
 ...  ,.,,  .  ,  /.  ..  dissolved. 
 
 endure  m  his  former  plight,  knowing  that  of  necessity  it  must  now  sir  Anthony 
 ensue  the  course  of  others,  being  in  like  state  :  yet  that  it  might  seem  to  the  com-" 
 good  unto  you  to  consider  tho  man's  worthiness  above  tho  common  emti'.icr  Dr" 
 sort :  and  that  as  ho  in  all  points  hath  shewed  himself  not  like  to  tho  worthiness, 
 rest,  so  likewise  to  bo  esteemed,  and  accordingly  rewarded  to  his  -Se'ihe 
 deserts ;  that  is,  in  having  an  honest  and  convenient  pension.  Which  ^^"j^n^"" 
 althouG:h,  pcradventure,  it  shall  seem  the  greater,  vet  mnv  the  Kin^^'s  and  to  reward 
 
 ,  ,  '         ,.      ,  ,     ,  ,  .  ^"^  ,  hunwuhan 
 
 majesty  be  soon  thereof  discharged   by  redemption  of  some  other  honest  and 
 spiritual  promotion,  and   the   man  nevertheless    worthily  advanced,  wnsion  until 
 Thus  much  I  have  thought  good  to  write  in  his  commendation  and  w^^ad-" 
 favour,  whose  worthiness   I   much   esteem   and  tender.       Trusting  ^'*°*^- 
 thereby,  both  for  his  desert's  sake,  and  this  my  simple  contemplation, 
 yo  will  rather   have  respect  towards  him,  as  the  cause  and  person 
 require;   and  my  thankfulness  for  the  same  may  deservedly  ensue. 
 Fare  ye  n^ht  heartily  well :    from  mv  house  at  Cheshunt,  the  last  of  29thFebni. 
 
 17   V  1-,-  '  ary,  1547-8. 
 
 February,  lo4/. 
 
 "Your  own  assured, 
 
 "A.   Dnx.NY." 
 To  the  right  worshipful  and  my  very  assured 
 friendsy     Mr  Bacon,    Mr  Oosnold,    and 
 others  of  the  King's  commissioners  in  the 
 county  of  Suffolk. 
 
 Beneath  this  letter  Parker  has  written :  "  Sir  Anthony  Denny, 
 knight,  one  of  the  privy  chamber  to  King  Henry,  and  after  to  King 
 Edward."] 
 
 r  n  3 
 
 [park,  cor.] 
 
34  Du  M.  Parker's  aiinute  of  an  interview       [1546. 
 
 XXIV. 
 
 DR  MATTHEW  PARKER'S  MINUTE  OF  AN  INTERVIEW 
 WITH  KING  HENRY  VIII. 
 
 A.D.  154G.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cviii.  art.  84.  p.  457.  Orig. 
 
 The  repair  up  of  M.  Parker  and  W.  May,  after  survey,  to 
 the  King's  Majesty. 
 
 King  Henry  Memoraudum.   That  where  certain  officers  in  the  court  and 
 
 suaded  to      others  then  in  authority  under  the  King,  importunately  suing 
 
 unfvcrlr -^^   to  him  to  have  the  lands  and  possessions  of  both  Universities 
 
 surveyed,      survcyod,  they  meaning  afterwards  to  enjoy  the  best  of  their 
 
 lands  and  possessions  by  exchange  of  impropered  benefices  and 
 
 such  other  improved  lands,  certain  friends  of  the  University, 
 
 perceiving  the  sequel  like  to  turn  to  a  mischief,  sued  to  the 
 
 King  for  avoiding  the  great  charges  that  should  be  sustained 
 
 therein,  not  to  send  any  of  his  costly  officers  to  that  purpose ; 
 
 Acommis-    aud  thercupou  sent  his  commission  to  Matthew  Parker,  then 
 
 hereupon  to  Vicc-chancellor,  to  John  Redman,  master  of  Trinity  College, 
 
 others,         and  to  William  May,  master  of  the  Queens'  College,  to  survey 
 
 them,  and  to  make  report  to  his  highness  what  [was]  the  state  of 
 
 the  revenues,  and  what  number  were  sustained  therewith  ^ 
 
 [1  The  following  is  the  commission : 
 
 Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cviii.  art.  82.  p.  448.    Orig. 
 
 Br  THE  King.     Trusty  and  well  beloved,  wo  greet  you  well,  and 
 
 let  you  wit  that  where  as  our  most  loving  and  obedient  subjects,  in 
 
 this  our  last  session  of  parliament,  have  freely  given  and  granted  unto 
 
 us  full  power  and  authority  to  order,  alter,  change,  and  reform  all  the 
 
 Dr  M.Parker,  Colleges,  Hospitals,  Chantries,  and  Free  Chapels,  within  this  our  realm 
 
 Vice-chan-  o  * 
 
 ceiior,  Dr  of  England,  and  other  our  dominions,  or  otherwise  to  use  the  samo 
 Dr^Ta*>%  '^"  at  our  pleasure,  as  in  the  act  made  for  that  purpose  more  at  length 
 commission-  ^lay  appear :  We  minding  to  take  such  direction  therein  as  shall  bo 
 to  the  honour  of  God,  the  increase  of  good  learning,  and  the  common 
 wealth  of  this  our  realm ;  and  considering  that  the  good  establish- 
 ment of  the  Colleges  of  our  Universities  of  Oxford  and  Cambridge, 
 wherein  the  great  number  of  the  youth  of  this  our  realm  is  nourished 
 and  educated  in  the  exercise  of  all  kinds  of  good  literature,  is  specially 
 to  be  provided  for ;  have  resolved  to  take  such  undelayed  order  with 
 the  same,  as  may  both  encourage  the  students  to  continue  their  studies, 
 and  also  answer  to  the  special  trust  and  confidence  committed  unto  us 
 by  our  said  subjects.  And  forasmuch  as  we  know  you  to  bo  men  of 
 notable  virtue,  learning,  and  knowledge,  have  therefore  appointed  you, 
 
 ers 
 
I.'IIk]  wnii  KiN(j  iiKNiiv  viii.  n5 
 
 \\  liii'li  said  coiiiinissiuiiers,  whh  llie  \iv\[)   oi'  two  clerkH  of  tli<-  ;;' 
 
 augmentation  court,  cngrus.sed  particularly  the  particular  po-  _^^" 
 
 sessions  of  the  University,  Colleges  and  other  spiritual  lands  i;!,'',uuoa 
 there.     In  the  end,  the  said  cuminissioners  resorted  up  to  Ilauij)- '""" 
 ton  Court  to  present  to  the  Kinir  a  brief  8uinmarv[?l  written  xMcrommu- 
 
 ,-,,  /I'l  t         ^      •  »         -i  »i(.iur»  pre 
 
 in  a  fair  sheet  of  vellum  (which  very  book  is  yet  reserved  m  Mutnu 
 
 ^    ^      ^  »'    ^     ^  *'  RUMiiiiary  of 
 
 the  college  of  Corpus  Ciiristi-)   describing  the   revenues,   1-ho  [[|j; 'j^-^Jl")* »" 
 reprises,   the  allowances,  and   number   and  stipend  of  every 
 College.      AN'hich  book  the  King  diligently  perused;  and  in  a 
 certain  admiration  said   to  certain  of  his  lords  which  stood  by,  his  remark* 
 
 1111111  •       1  •  1  UuTcon : 
 
 that  he  thought  he  had  not  in  his  realm  so  many  persons  so 
 honestly  maintained  in  living,  by  so  little  land  and  rent :  and 
 where  ho  asked  of  us  what  it  meant  that  the  most  part  of 
 Colleges  should  seem  to  expend  yearly  more  than  their  reve- 
 nues amounted  to ;  we  answered  that  it  rose  partly  of  fines 
 for  leases  and  indentures  of  the  farmers  renewing  their  leases, 
 
 and  by  these  our  letters  give  unto  you  full  power  and  authority,  not  to  call  J>eforc 
 ouly  to  call  before  you  the  masters  and  heads  of  every  of  the  Colleges  heads  and 
 and  other  houses  endowed  with  any  manner  of  possessions  within  that  colleges  and 
 our  University  of  Cambridge,  and  also  such  and  as  many  other  the  Cambridge ; 
 officers  and  fellows  of  any  of  the  said  houses,  as  to  you  shall  be  thought 
 meet  and  convenient ;  but  also  to  peruso  all  and  every  their  Foun- 
 dations, Statutes,  and  Ordinances,  and  as  well  by  examinations,  as  by 
 all  other  ways  and  means  that  you  shall  think  good,  to  learn  the  very  to  ascertain 
 truth,  how  the  same  Foundations,  Statutes,  and  Ordinances  bo  ob-  statutes  are 
 served,  of  what  values,  kinds,  and  natures  tho  whole  possessions  be  whatistiie 
 which  belong  to  every  such  College,  Chantry,  or  other  house  of  the  possession.^" 
 sorts  aforesaid,  and  in  what  shires  the  same  do  lie,  with  the  deduc-  thcy'ue"'^ 
 tions  upon  tho  same,  tho  names  of  the  founders  and  other  things 
 which  your  wisdoms  shall  think  meet  to  be  signified  to  us  touching 
 tho  state  of  every  such  house.      And  of  all  the  premises  to  make  unto 
 us  a  certificate  fair  written  in  parchment,  subscribed  with  your  hands, 
 with  all  goodly  speed  and  diligence.     Eftsoons  desiring  and  praying  To  return  a 
 you,  and  nevertheless  commanding  you,  to  use  in  the  doings  hereof,  Th^/e^f  with 
 such   a  dexterity  as  may  bo  to  your  discharges  in  conscience  and  '^  ^'"'^' ' 
 answer  to  tho  special  trust  which  we  have  reposed  in  you.     Given 
 under  our  signet  at  our  Honour  of  Hampton  Court,  the  IGth  of  Janu-  i<jth  January, 
 ary,  in  the  37th  year  of  our  reign. 
 
 To  our  trusty  and  well-beloved  Doctor  Parker, 
 Vxce-chancellor  of  our  University  of  Cam- 
 bridge,  and  to  our  trusty  and  well-beloved 
 chaplains  Dr  Redman  and  Dr  May,  and 
 to  every  of  them.'] 
 
 [2  Parker  MS.  cviii.  art.  83.     Nasmyth's  Catalogue.] 
 
 3 2 
 
3G     DR  M.  Parker's  minute  of  an  interview,  &c.    [1546. 
 
 partly  of  wood  sales  :  whereupon  he  said  to  the  lords,  that 
 pity  it  were  these  lands  should  be  altered  to  make  them 
 worse ;  (at  which  words  some  were  grieved,  for  that  they 
 disappointed  lapos  quosdam  hiantes).  In  fine,  we  sued  to  the 
 King's  majesty  to  be  so  gracious  lord,  that  he  would  favour 
 us  in  the  continuance  of  our  possessions  such  as  they  were, 
 and  that  no  man  by  his  grace's  letters  should  require  to  per- 
 mute with  us  to  give  us  worse.  He  made  answer  and 
 smiled,  that  he  could  not  but  write  for  his  servant5[?]  and 
 others,  doing  the  service  for  the  realm  in  wars  and  other 
 t^"force"thein  ^^^^^^j  t)ut  ho  Said  he  would  put  us  to  our  choice  whether  we 
 no  further,  ghould  gratify  them  or  no,  and  bade  us  hold  our  own,  for 
 after  his  writing  he  would  force  us  no  further.  With  which 
 words  we  Avere  well  armed,  and  so  departed ^ 
 
 [^  From  the  following  letter  of  Queen  Katherine  Parr,  it  seems 
 that  the  University  had  applied  to  her  to  intercede  for  them  with  the 
 King  in  this  matter. 
 
 26th  February  1545-6.  Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cvi.  art. 
 200.  p.  508.     Copy. 
 
 To  our  right  trusty,  dear,  and  well  beloved,  the  Chancellor  and 
 Vice-chancellor  of  my  lord  the  King's  Majesty's  University  of  Cam- 
 bridge, and  to  the  whole  said  University  there. 
 
 Your  letters  I  have  received,  presented  on  all  your  behalfs  by 
 Mr  Doctor  Smith,  your  discreet  and  learned  advocate.  And  as  they 
 be  Latinly  written,  which  is  so  signified  unto  me  by  those  that  be 
 learned  in  the  Latin  tongue,  so  (I  know)  you  could  have  uttered  your 
 desires  and  opinions  familiarly  in  your  vulgar  tongue,  aptest  for  ray 
 intelligence :  albeit  you  seem  to  have  conceived  rather  partially  than 
 truly  a  favourable  estimation  both  of  my  going  forward  and  dedica- 
 tion to  learning,  which  to  advance,  or  at  the  least  conserve,  you  by 
 your  letters  move  me  diversly,  shewing  how  agreeable  it  is  to  me, 
 being  in  this  worldly  estate,  not  only  for  mine  own  part  to  be  studious, 
 but  also  a  maintainer  and  a  cherisher  of  the  learned  state,  by  bearing 
 me  in  hand  that  I  am  endued  and  perfected  with  those  qualities  and 
 respects  which  ought  to  be  in  a  person  of  my  vocation.  Truly  this 
 your  discreet  and  politic  document  I  as  thankfully  accept  as  you  de- 
 sire that  I  should  embrace  it.  And  for  as  much  (as  I  do  hear)  all 
 kind  of  learning  doth  flourish  amongst  you  in  this  age,  as  it  did 
 amongst  the  Greeks  at  Athens  long  ago,  I  desire  you  all  not  so  to 
 hunger  for  the  exquisite  knowledge  of  profane  learning,  that  it  may 
 be  thought  the  Greeks'  University  was  but  transposed,  or  now  in 
 England  again  renewed,  forgetting  our  Christianity,  since  their  ex- 
 cellency only  did  attain  to  moral  and  natural  things :  but  rather  I 
 gently  exhort  you  to  study  and  apply  those  doctrines  as  means  and 
 
1547-8.]        [.lOllN    MKIli:]    TO    I)U   MA'lTiniW    rAKKKK.  37 
 
 XXV. 
 
 DU   M 
 Febnmn,  1M7— v^.     TarKfr  MSS.  C.  C.  Cull.  i'.Auh.  cvi.  art.  i:>'J.  p.  lUi'.    Orig. 
 
 IxiGiiT  worshipful,  it  may  please  you  to  understand  that 
 the  election  was  on  Tuesday  at  12  of  the  clock;  and  then 
 coming  to  the  schools,  the  regents  all  in  manner  appeared 
 to  be  in  sundry  minds ;  but  doctor  Blyth  coming  with  divers 
 of  his  friends,  and  in  the  mean  time  proceeding  to  election,  ye 
 were  chosen  (as  it  mav  here  appear  by  this  scrutiny")  almost  Parker h.n 
 
 apt  degrees  to  the  attaining  and  setting  forth  the  better  Christ's  reve- 
 rent and  most  sacred  doctrine:  that  it  may  not  be  laid  against  you  in 
 evidence,  at  the  tribunal  seat  of  God,  how  you  were  ashamed  of 
 Christ's  doctrine :  for  this  Latin  lesson  I  am  tauglit  to  say  of  Saint 
 Paul,  noji  me  pudct  evangcUi;  to  the  sincere  setting  forth  whereof  (I 
 trust)  universally  in  all  your  vocations  and  ministries  you  will  apply 
 and  confonn  your  sundry  gifts,  arts,  and  studies,  to  such  end  and 
 sort,  that  Cambridge  may  bo  accounted  rather  an  University  of  divino 
 philosophy  than  of  natural  or  moral,  as  Athens  was.  Upon  the  confi- 
 dence of  which  your  accomplishment  to  my  expectation,  zeal,  and 
 request,  I  (according  to  your  desires)  have  attempted  my  lord  tho 
 King's  Mujosty,  for  tho  stablishment  of  your  livelihood  and  posses- 
 sions; in  which,  notwithstanding  his  Majesty's  property  and  interest, 
 through  the  consent  of  the  high  court  of  parliament,  his  highness 
 being  such  a  patron  to  good  learning,  doth  tender  you  so  much,  that 
 he  will  rather  advance  learning  and  erect  new  occasion  thereof,  than 
 to  confound  those  your  ancient  and  godly  institutions :  so  that  learn- 
 ing may  hereafter  justly  ascribe  her  very  original,  whole  conservation, 
 and  sure  stay  to  our  Sovereign  Lord,  her  only  defence  and  worthy 
 ornament:  the  prosperous  estate  and  princely  government  of  whom 
 long  to  preserve,  I  doubt  not  but  every  of  you  will  with  daily  invo- 
 cation call  upon  him,  who  alone  and  only  can  dispose  all  to  every 
 creature.  Scribbled  with  the  hand  of  her  that  prayeth  to  tho  Lord 
 and  immortal  God,  to  send  you  all  prosperous  success  in  godly 
 learning  and  knowledge.  From  my  Lord  the  King's  Majesty's  manor 
 of  Greenwich,  the  2Gth  of  February. 
 
 Katery>'  the  Quene  K.  P.] 
 
 [2  From  a  comparison  of  the  handwriting  of  this  letter  with  that 
 of  Letter  XIIL,  there  can  bo  little  doubt  that  it  was  written  by 
 Mere.] 
 
 p  The  paper  referred  to  is  pasted  below  the  letter  in  the  MS., 
 
38  [JOIIN  mere]   to   DR  MATTHEW   PARKER.         [1547-8. 
 
 KmoT*"^'  ^'^^«^i^*"i**  consensu.  Many  long  for  your  coming  and  most 
 HT^preSnce  morc  wishing  that  yc  will  iu  any  wise  take  it.  Mr  — ^ 
 Cambridge'  would  had  you  to  supper  on  Thursday,  for  it  was  a  play ; 
 on  Friday  likewise  a  tragedy,  and  then  very  earnestly  he 
 wished  you.  lie  had  at  his  drinking,  which  was  with  joles 
 of  fresh  salmon,  &c.,  doctors  Redman,  Glyn,  Hatcher,  Mr 
 Sands,  Grindal,  the  minor  proctor,  masters  Pilkington,  Chris- 
 topherson,  Gonell,  Aylond^ 
 
 XXVL 
 
 WILLIAM  MAY  TO  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 13th  March  [1547— 8 3. J    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cvi.  art.  184.  p.  493.   Orig. 
 
 Parker's  de-  ^^^  VicE-CHANCELLOR,   accordiug   to   your   promlsG  we 
 
 theVrd"?of ^  here  look  for  your  device  touching  the  order  of  your  Uni- 
 sUySeT  versity.  And  doubt  you  not  but  all  things  shall  be  donemode- 
 Loiidon.  rately  and  in  due  order.  Your  sickness  is  sufficient  licence 
 ?si.mcS"^  and  dispensation  for  you  to  receive  absque  scandalo  that 
 li^fStin^      meat  which  is  most  meet  for  you.     Mr  Mere,  bearer  hereof, 
 
 can   herein   sufficiently  instruct  you.     Thus  fare   you   well. 
 
 Written  at  London,  the  13  day  of  March. 
 
 Y^our  loving  friend, 
 
 WILLIAM  MEY. 
 To  Mr  Doctor  Par  Jeer,   Vice-chancellor 
 of  Cambridge,  give  these, 
 
 and  is  inscribed:  "Forma  scnitinii  a^.  1547,  7^  Febniarii  de  officio 
 procancellarii."  It  bears  the  names  of  Dr  !Madew,  master  of  Clare 
 Hall,  Dr  Bill,  master  of  St  John's,  Dr  Parker,  and  Mr  Ainsworth, 
 master  of  St  Peter's.] 
 
 [1  This  name  has  been  erased  in  the  MS.] 
 [2  The  rest  of  the  letter  is  wanting  in  the  MS.] 
 [3  Parker  was  Vice-chancellor  in  1545,  and  again  in  1548.  (Dr 
 Lamb's  collection  of  Letters,  &c.  p.  lxix.)  This  letter  seems  con- 
 nected with  the  royal  visitation  of  the  L'niversity  of  Cambridge,  which 
 took  place  in  1549,  but  was  determined  upon  as  early  as  the  4th  April, 
 1548,  (ibid.  p.  102).  Dr  May,  the  writer  of  this  letter,  had  been 
 master  of  Queens'  College,  Cambridge.  He  was  now  one  of  tho 
 masters  of  requests  to  Edward  VL,  and  in  1549  was  one  of  the  royal 
 visitors  of  the  Universitv.] 
 
ITjIS.]  AUCimiSllUl*  CUANMEU   TO    DU   M.    I'AUKEn.  39 
 
 XXVII. 
 
 AKCIIBISHOP  CRANMEIl  TO  DU  MATTHEW  rAHKKU. 
 5th  Mttv,  1M3.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Comb,  cviii.  art.  2i).  p.  1 11.    Ori^. 
 
 I  COMMEND  mo  unto  you;   si<];nifyin<;  that  tho  lord  Pro-Thdorti 
 tcctor,  conccivinfr  eood  opinion  of  vour  wisdom,  Icarninj]',  and  .s.imr..tr..-M 
 earnest  zeal   which   vou   bear   to   the  scttinfx  forth  of  God's ''f''/'' 
 
 ►  ~  uri-.iiti  ;it 
 
 word  among  tho  people,  hath,  by  tho  advice  of  tho  council,  inV4*,J'jui; 
 appointed  you  to  preach  one  sermon  at  Paul's  Cross  in  Lon-  "*'*^ 
 don,  on  Sunday,  being  the  22nd  day  of  July  next ;  not  doubt- 
 ing but  that  you  will  purely  and  sincerely  set  out  the  holy 
 scriptures,  so  as  God's  glory  may  be  advanced,  and  tho 
 people  with  wholesome  doctrine  edified.  These  therefore 
 shall  be  to  require  you  to  prepare  yourself  ready  in  the  mean 
 season  to  supply  the  day,  time,  and  place  to  you  appointed 
 accordingly ;  foreseeing  that  you  present  yourself  unto  the 
 dean  of  Paul's  rcsiant  at  his  house  in  Paul's  church-yard,  or 
 unto  his  deputy  there,  the  Saturday  before  noon  that  you 
 shall  preach,  or  at  the  least  to  signify  then  unto  him  by  your 
 letters,  or  some  sure  messenger,  that  you  will  not  fail  to 
 preach  the  Sunday;  because  the  Cross  must  in  no  wise  be  The  cross 
 
 disappointed  or  destitute  of  a  preacher.      Thus  heartily  fare  *'^ebedls- 
 •'^  -^^  *  *  appointed. 
 
 you  well.    From  my  manor  of  Lambeth,  the  5th  day  of  May.  othMay,i548. 
 
 Your  loving  friend, 
 
 T.  CANT. 
 
 To  tJie  rigid  icorsli'ipful  —  Parfcer, 
 Vice-chancellor  of  Cambridge. 
 
 XXYIII. 
 
 SIR  JOHN  CHEKE  TO  DR  MATTUEW  PARKER. 
 
 7th  June,  1518.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxix.  art.  26.  p.  SO.    Orig. 
 
 Mr  Doctor,  after  most  hearty  commendations.     I  am  as  choke  is  diii- 
 
 J'l*  •  y      ^      ^c  ~r  iii«  •  iii  gentonbehalf 
 
 diligent  m  your  behalf  as  1  would  be  in  mine  own,  and  labour  of  i-arker  at 
 
 o  «'  '  whose  hands 
 
 as  sore  that  ye  may  think  yourself  to  have  found  some  kind  ^jj^^f^gnd. 
 of  friendship  at  my  hand,  as  I  think  indeed  I  have  received  *'"''• 
 at  yours.      When  the  commission  is  once  come  out,  you  and 
 
'*  no  pension 
 ary  better 
 ordered" 
 Parker. 
 
 40  SIR  JOHN  CIIEKE  TO  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER.   [1548-9. 
 
 The  pensions  youFS  sliall  bc  tliG  first  to  wliom  pcnsions  shall  be  appointed, 
 
 be'lKrst"  ^^^  ^°^  y^^^^   P^^^   ^  *^^^*'   ^^  ordered  that   no  pensionary 
 granted,  and  i^g^^^j.1^     Tlio  timo  is  Hot  now  long.      Within  this  sevennight 
 than  or  little  more,  it  is  thought  ye  shall  be  dispatched.      Where- 
 fore ye  need  not  much  now  to  accumber  yourself  with  any 
 unquietncss  of  delay,  thinking  that  rateably  ye  shall  be  dis- 
 7th  June,      patchcd  with  the  best  and  soonest.      Fare  ye  well,  the  7th 
 of  June.     From  Westminster. 
 
 Yours  assured, 
 
 JOAN.  CHEKE. 
 
 To  tJie  right  worsJiipful  Mr  Doctor 
 Parker^  Master  of  Benet  College, 
 in  Cambridge. 
 
 XXIX. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  CRANMER  TO  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 
 17th  Feb.  1548—9.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  130.  p.  395.    Grig. 
 
 I  COMMEND  me  heartily  unto   you,   signifying  that  my 
 
 lord  Protector'*s  grace,  having  good  opinion  of  your  learned 
 
 The  lord       kuowlcdge  and  godly  zeal  in  the  advancement  of  God's  word, 
 
 somlrseThas  hatli  hj  the  advice  of  the  council  specially  appointed  you  to 
 
 rR-Ta^rker  to  Drcach  oue  sermon  before  the  Kind's  majesty's  person,   the 
 
 preach  before  ^,  .     ,    ri         i  /^    t  •        o  t-iti  ^I^  x 
 
 King  Edward  third  oundaj  01  Lent  now  coming^.  Avhereiore  1  pray  you 
 Sient^then^  ^^  ^^®  mcau  soasou  to  prepare  yourself  in  a  readiness  for  the 
 coming.  purpose,  and  to  repair  unto  the  court  against  the  day  ap- 
 pointed to  satisfy  the  office  whereunto  you  are  called  accord- 
 ingly. Thus  heartily  fare  ye  well.  From  my  manor  of 
 ar^  Ss™.'    Lambeth,  this  17th  of  Febi-uary,  anno  1548. 
 
 Your  loving  friend, 
 
 T.  CANT. 
 
 To  my  loving  friend  Doctor  ParJcer, 
 Master  of  Benet  College,  in  Cam- 
 bridge, 
 
 [1  Parker  had  granted  to  him  a  pension  of  £40  per  annum  out  of 
 the  revenues  of  Stoke  ] 
 
 [^   24th  March,  1548—9.] 
 
1550.]  BISIIOr  TIlIULlillY   TO   I)K   M.   TAKKKR.  -U 
 
 XXX. 
 
 BISHOP  THIRLEBY  OF  WESTMINSTER  TO  DR  M.  PARKER. 
 4th  Marvh,  154S— 9.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  (.'oil.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  123.  p.  aSQ.    Orix- 
 
 After  my  right  hearty  commendations  to  you.     Where 
 my   lord   of   Canterbury  his  grace  hatli   appointed   you    to  nrParkcru 
 preach  before  the  King's  majesty  the  third  Sunday  of  this  i'r.'i'ir«i>'m- 
 Lcnt,  and  hath  written  unto  you  for  tlic  same  purpose^  and  ',!;|;;";,|\-','^ 
 yet  hath  received  no  answer  from  you  again ;  this  shall  be  ^',',rcTioul*'^ 
 to   desire   you    both   to  prepare  yourself   to  accoraphsli    his  '•'^^'^^^• 
 request,   and  also  to  advertise  his  grace  by   your  letters  of 
 your  determination  herein.      Thus   I  bid  you  heartily  fare- 
 well.     From  Westminster,  the  fourth  day  of  March,  1548.       4th  March, 
 
 *'  1548^9. 
 
 Your  assured  friend, 
 
 THOMAS  AYESTM. 
 To   the   right    worshipful    and  my 
 very  lovimj  friend  master  Doctor 
 Parler,  JIaster  ofBenet  College^ 
 in  Cambridge. 
 
 XXXI. 
 
 MARTIN  BUCER  TO  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 Probably  A.D.  1550.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Cantab,  cxix.  art.  22.  p.  G7.  Grig. 
 
 S.  D.      Profuit    mihi  ilia  ad  ic,  eximic  D.  Doctor,  de- 
 ambulatio,    tametsi  te  non   licuerit   convenire.      Yolebam,    sisuceris 
 otium  fuisset  tibi,  de  communi  professione  nostra  coUoqui,   et  cS^wiUi 
 audire  tuum  consiHum  de  rite  raodcrandis  meis  pra3lectionibus.  to  have  in:. 
 
 IT  •'•  1  •  advice  re- 
 
 Prandendum  hodie  mini  est  apud  necessarium  meum  Scher- ^»'^''""f^  ^'"^ 
 
 i  N^v/iiv^i.     proper  ar- 
 
 betum  unde  non  longa  via  est  ad  tuum  collegium.      Si  itaquc  ifuSu?w°^ 
 vacaret  D.  T.  de  prandio,  volente  Domino,  eum  convenirem.  \viiicaiion 
 Do  sumendo  prandio  apud  te  cum  uxore  die  Mercurii,  cum  Sin|etha'l"* 
 amicitice    sinorularis  sit  bencficium  non  opus  erat  id  a  nobis  he'amniis" 
 
 wife  willac- 
 
 orare.    Si  volet  Dominus  Hbcntcr  tibi  morem  geremus  et  in  hac  ^i'^  p-^rvcrs 
 
 o  invitation  to 
 
 re  et  in  rebus  verorum[*?]  ofliciorum.      Opto  D.  Opt.  valeas.    S'jmon^" 
 
 WedncsdAV 
 
 M.  BUCERUS,  totus  tuus. 
 
 Pereximio  TheoJogo  D.  D.  JTattheo 
 ParJcero,  siio  in  Domino  Patrono 
 ohservando  et  charissimo. 
 
 [3  See  preceding  letter.] 
 
42       MARTIN  BUCER  TO  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER.    [1550-1. 
 
 XXXII. 
 
 MARTIN  BUCER  TO  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 Trobably  A.D.  1550.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Cantab,  cxix.  art.  22.  p.  C7.    Grig. 
 
 Buoer  thanks         s.  D.   Summas  habeo,  vir  clariss.  D.  T.  gratias  pro  bona 
 
 Parker  for  ...  o  i 
 
 an^mitauon,  protoctione[?]  reditui  meo  et  invitatlone  ad  ccenam,  quam  li- 
 he'wmlid^'^  bens  inviserem  si  me  non  quidam  bonus  Germanicus,  qui  ad 
 aoceptbut  me  Londino  venit,  remoraretur.  Si  ei  tamen,  ut  umbrse  meaa, 
 friend ha^^"  locus  slt,   veniomus.     Eruditus  et   humanus  cst...^diu  regis 
 
 come  to  him         ...  a   •.  r\    .  i 
 
 fromLondon.  mmister  luit.     Upt.  vale. 
 
 If  there  will  ^ 
 
 huS/he  Deditus  tibi  in  Domino, 
 
 will  come. 
 
 M.  BUCERUS. 
 Clainss.  Theologo  D.  D.  ParTcero 
 patrono  suo  et  amico  summo. 
 
 XXXIII. 
 
 MARTIN  BUCER  TO  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER  2. 
 February,  1550—1.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Cantab,  cxix.  art.  23.  p.  G8.    Grig. 
 
 t^h"?oan  of'*"         S.  D.  Oro  D.  T.  clarissime  D.  Doctor,  ut  des  mihi  x.  coro- 
 tobereprid    natos  mutuo,  uno  tamen  mense  reddam,  bona  fide.    Opt.  vale. 
 
 in  a  month. 
 
 D.  T.  deditiss.  in  Domino, 
 
 MARTINUS  BUCERUS. 
 tamen  peraegre  scripsi^. 
 
 Clariss.  vlro  D.  D.  Matthceo  Par- 
 Tcero'^ domino  ac  fratri  in 
 Christo  charissimo. 
 
 [1  A  word  here  has  baffled  all  attempts  to  decipher  it.] 
 
 [2  The  following  words  are  written  at  the  foot  of  the  letter  in 
 Parker's  hand:  "  Scriptum  novissimum  omnium  quod  scripsit  D. 
 Bucerus  paulo  ante  mortem  ejus."] 
 
 [3  Bucer  died  Feb.  28,  1550 — 51.] 
 
 [4  It  is  Barckero  in  the  MS.,  but  the  address  is  not  in  Bucer's 
 handwriting.] 
 
15501.]  ARCiinisiior  cuanmer  to  du  mattiiew  i-aukeii.   13 
 
 XXXIV. 
 
 AUCHBISlIOr  CKANMEU  TO  DR  MATTIIKW  PAUKER. 
 12th  February,  loOO— 1.  Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Canib.  cxiv.  art.  124.  p.  391.  Orig. 
 
 I  COMMEND  me  heartily  unto   you.     And   wlicrcas  the  Parker  up. 
 King's  majesty,  by  the  advice  of  his  most  lionourablo  council,  y.^;;y;';',J*"^^'/™ 
 hath  appointed  you  to  preach  one  sermon  before  his  highness'  ',;|',//j;;i',-;'^:;l 
 person  at  the  court,  upon  Sunday  the  22nd  of  March  next  ""'• 
 cominir,  beinir  the  Gth  Sunday  in  Lent,  and  hath  commanded 
 me  to  signify  unto   you  his  grace's  pleasure  in  this  belialf ; 
 this  therefore  shall  be  to  require  you  to  put  yourself  in  a 
 readiness   in   the  mean   time  to  satisfy   the   day   and   place 
 to  you  appointed,  according  to  the  King's  majesty's  expecta- 
 tion, and  not  to  fail  in  any  wise.     Thus  heartily  fare  ye  well. 
 From  my  manor  at  Lambeth,  the  12th  of  February,  1550.      ify'^iwoT' 
 
 Your  loving  friend, 
 
 T.  CAXT. 
 To  mij  loving  friend  Mr  Doctor 
 Parker. 
 
 XXXV. 
 
 SIR  JOHN  CIIEKE  TO  DR  MATTIIEW  PARKER. 
 9th  March,  1550—1.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxix.art.  25.  p.  79.    Orij,'. 
 
 I  HAVE  dehvered   the  University   letters  to  the  King's 
 majesty  ^  and  spoken  with  the  lords  of  the  council,  and  with  sirj.cheke 
 my  lord  of  Canterbury,  for  mistress  Bucer.      I  doubt  not  but  Kinl' Edward 
 
 [^  The  rough  draft  of  this  letter  is  preserved,  Parker  MSS.  C.  C. 
 Coll.  Camb.  cvi.  art.  1G4.  p.  461.  After  speaking  in  the  strongest 
 terms  of  the  benefit  conferred  by  King  Edward  on  the  University  by 
 Bucer's  appointment  to  be  professor  there,  and  of  the  loss  which  they 
 had  sustained  by  his  death,  the  Univei'sity  add :  "  Tum  autem 
 propter  magnum  amorem  nostrum  in  excellentissimum  virum  D. 
 Bucenim,  optimam  ejus  uxorem,  liberos  et  totam  doctissimi  hominis 
 familiam  Majestati  tusc  commendamus.  Huic  egregio  patre-familias 
 orbato?,  libcralitatis  tua)  munificentiam.  Academic  eruditissimo  doc- 
 tore  dcstitutje,  prudentirc  tuaj  subsidium,  prostrati  coram  serenitato 
 tiia  poscimus  et  efflagitamus."] 
 
44  SIR  JOHN   CIIEKE   TO   DR  MATTHEW   PARKER.      [1550-1. 
 
 council, and  sliG  sliall  be  wcll  and  worthily  considered  ^      The  University 
 
 archbisliop  "^  *> 
 
 If  of  the  ^^^^^  "^^  ^o\\Q  SO   great  honour  to  Mr  Bucer,  as  honesty  and 
 worship  to  themselves,   the  which  if  they  would  continue  in, 
 
 C'ran 
 behalf 
 widow  of 
 Bucer. 
 
 Honour  done  as  thcy  ccasc  not  to  complain,  they  might  be  a  great  deal 
 vcrslt"'in      better  provided  for  than  they  think  they  be.      But  now  cora- 
 shewnlo"'    plaining   outright  of  all   other  men,   and   mending   little   in 
 /mwrnent!"'*  themselvcs,  make  their  friends  rather  for  duty  toward  learn- 
 ing than  for  any  desert  of  the  students,  shew  their  good  wills 
 to  the  University.     Howbeit  if  they  would  have  sought  other 
 to  recover  or  to  increase  the  good  opinion  of  men,  they  could 
 not  have  devised  wherein  by  more  duty  they  might  worthily 
 be  commended  than  in  following  so  noble  a  man  with  such  tes- 
 timony of  honour  as  the  child  ought  to  his  father,  and  the 
 lower  to  his  superior.     And  although  I  doubt  not  but  the 
 King''s  majesty  will  provide  some  grave  learned  man,  to  raain- 
 Bucer-s excel- tain  God's  truo  learning  in  his  University,  yet  I  think  not  of 
 all  learned  men  in  all  points  ye  shall  receive  M.  Bucer's  like, 
 whether  ye  consider  his  deepness  of  knowledge,  his  earnest- 
 ness in  religion,  his  fatherliness  in  life,  his  authority  in  know- 
 ledge.     But  what  do   I  commend  to   you   M.   Bucer,   who 
 Parkers       kuow  him  bcttor,  and  can  praise  whom  you  know  trulier.      I 
 
 knowledge  of  .  '  ^         ^         ^  *' 
 
 him.  would  wish  that  that  is  wantmg  now  by  Mr  Bucer''s  death, 
 
 that  men  would  by  diligence  and  wisdom  fulfil  in  themselves, 
 and  that  they  hear  praised  in  others  labour  to  obtain  them- 
 selves ;  whereof  I  think  ye  be  a  good  stay  to  some  unbridled 
 young  men,  who  have  more  knowledge  in  the  tongues  than 
 experience  what  is  comely  or  fit  for  their  life  to  come. 
 
 Bucer'sbooks         I  pray  you  let  Mr  Bucer's  books  and  scrolls  unwritten 
 
 to  be  secured  x        ./      c/  ^  ^  i  i  i  • 
 
 for  the  King,  be  scut  UD  aud  savcd  for  the  luno;  s  maiestv,  that  he  choosmo; 
 
 if  he  chooses  ^  o  v        o  ^  o 
 
 to  have  them,  gucji  ^s  shall  Hko  him  best,  may  return  the  other  without 
 delay ;  except  mistress  Bucer  think  some  other  better  thing  to 
 be  done  with  them,  or  she  should  think  she  should  have  loss 
 by  them,  if  they  should  not  be  in  her  ordering. 
 
 cheke-s  I  do  Hot,  Mr  Parker,  forget  your  friendship  shewed  to  me 
 
 anxiety  to  .  '  O        ./     ^  r 
 
 serve  Parker,  aforctime,  and  am  sorry  no  occasion  serveth  me  to  shew  my 
 good  will ;  but  assure  yourself  that  as  it  lieth  long  and  taketh 
 root  deep  in  me,  so  shall  the  time  come,  I  trust,  wherein  ye 
 shall  understand  the  fruit  thereof  the  better  to  endure  and 
 
 [1  See  a  letter  from  archbishop  Cranmer  to  mistress  Bucer,  Orig. 
 Letters,  Eng.  Ref.  First  Series.  No.  XVI.  p.  27.  Park.  Soc.  See  also 
 No.  CLXXX.  p.  363  of  the  same  volume.] 
 
1550-1.]     sill   JOHN   CIIKKK    TO    DK    M ATTllKW    rAKKnil.  45 
 
 surolicr  to  tuko  place.  Which  may  as  well  shortly  bo  as  ho 
 doferred,  but  good  occasion  is  all.  Tho  Lord  keep  you,  and 
 grant  tho  University  so  much  increase  of  learning  and  godli- 
 ness, as  thcso  causes  may  compel  tho  unwilling  men  to  bo 
 ashamed  not  to  do  for  them.  From  Westmcstcr,  1551.  yt^t^M>mh, 
 5.  Ed.  the  !)th  of  March. 
 
 Yours  assured, 
 
 JOAN.  CIIEEKE. 
 To  his  loving  friend  Mr  D.  Par- 
 ker, Master  of  Bend  College  in 
 Cambriilge. 
 
 XXXVI. 
 
 BISHOP  RIDLEY  TO  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 2oih  July,  15ol.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  133.  p.  401.    Grig. 
 
 M.vsTER  Doctor,   I  wish  you  grace  and  peace.      Sir,  I 
 pray  you  refuse  not  to  take  a  day  at  the  Cross :  I  may  have,  JJi^'g^^p'; 
 if  I  would  call  without  any  choice,  enow,  but  in  some,  alas !  I  "o°Jik/fa^ 
 desire   more  learning,   in   some  a  better  judgment,   in  some'crii"'* 
 more  virtue  and  godly  conversation,   in   some  more  soberness 
 and  discretion.      And  ho  in  whom  all  these  do  concur  shall  His  peculiar 
 
 gualincations 
 
 not  do  well  to  refuse  (in  my  judgment)  to  serve  God  in  that  (!^[.J^*^^'- 
 place ;  of  the  which  number  by  cause  I  take  you  to  be, 
 therefore  (leaving  at  this  time  to  charge  you  with  answering 
 for  the  contrary  to  the  King  and  his  council)  I  must  charge 
 you  to  take  a  day,  as  ye  will  answer  for  the  contrary  on  to 
 Almighty  God,  at  your  own  peril.  If  the  day  appointed  be 
 thought  not  commodious  for  you,  I  shall  appoint  another  for  it; 
 but  if  I  should  discharge  you  for  that  place  for  the  time  here- 
 after, in  good  faith  my  conscience  should  accuse  me,  and  tell 
 me  that  I  should  rather  go  about  to  satisfy  your  request^ 
 (whom  the  truth  is  as  your  kindness  hath  bound  me  I  would 
 be  glad  to  gratify)  than  to  set  forth  God's  cause.  Thus  fare 
 ye  well.      From  my  house  at  London — and  I  pray  you  com- 
 
 [2  Strypo  states  that  Ridley  had  sent  to  Parker,  July  22,  to  ask 
 him  to  preach  at  the  Cross,  but  that  ho  decHncd,  and  earnestly  de- 
 sired to  be  excused.] 
 
4G     matth;eus  parkerus  et  gualterus  haddonus  [1551. 
 
 Sbo  coml'"' ™^^^  ["ig]  to  mistress  Parker »,  wliom,  although  I  do  not 
 SrS  ^"^  know,  yet  for  the  fame  of  her  virtue  in  God  I  do  love — the 
 ^•-•^"-        25  of  Julj. 
 
 Yours  in  Christ, 
 
 NICOLAS  LONDON. 
 
 XXXVIL 
 
 THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 
 13th  December,  1551.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  15.  p.  61.  Orig. 
 
 Parker  sum-  After  oup  hearty  commendations.     Whereas  the  King's 
 
 KkigEdiiard  J^^j^sty  hath  willed  us  to  send  for  you  to  confer  with  you 
 di^ancfgu^e  ^^^  ^^^^  J^ur  opiuiou  lu  Certain  things  touching  his  highness* 
 SSnSg"  service :  these  are  to  pray  you  upon  the  sight  hereof  to  put 
 KhitS-^^  yourself  in  a  readiness  to  make  your  repair  hither  unto  us 
 
 as  soon  as  ye  conveniently  may  for  the  purpose  aforesaid. 
 
 Whereof  we  pray  you  fail  not,  and  so  bid  you  farewell. 
 ie^SfP'  From  Westminster,  the  13th  of  December,  1551. 
 
 Tour  loving  friends, 
 
 WINCHESTER,   NORTHUMBERLAND,    J.  BEDFORD, 
 
 PENBROKE, 
 
 T.  CHEYNE,  W.  CECILL. 
 
 To  our  loving  friend  Doctor  ParJcer. 
 
 XXXVIIL 
 
 MATTH^US  PARKERUS  ET  GUALTERUS  HADDOXUS  BU- 
 CERI  PUPILLORUM  TUTORIBUS  ET  CURAT0RIBUS2. 
 
 A.D.  1551.    Epistolae  Tigurinae,  Parker  Societat.  auspiciis  editae.    8vo.  1848.  p.  239. 
 
 Bucerwhen  CuM  D.  Martiuus  Buccrus,  optima}  memoriae  pater,  quas- 
 
 dying,  com-  .  .-^  .  n  t    ' 
 
 miuedcertain  (Jam  ultimse  voluutatis  particulas,  monens  ndei  nostras  com- 
 
 [1  Parker  was  married  on  24th  June,  1547,  to  Margaret,  daughter 
 of  Robert  Harleston,  of  ^Matsall  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  gentleman.] 
 
 [2  The  persons  addressed  were  Ulric  Chelius  and  Conrad  Hubert. 
 Letters  from  them  relating  to  the  administration  of  Bucer's  estate 
 
1551.]  UUCEUI  ruriLLOKt'M  tutouiuis  kt  chuatouihus.      17 
 
 miscrit,  ct  cxccutorcs  instituorit:    nus   omnibus   adhihitis   Jc  ^,'*  *"> «'», 
 rebus,  quantum  tcMupus  ct  causa  fcrobant,  tantum  in  co  pro-  .";"J;|;;",:,"'"' 
 grossi  sumus,  ut  ct  nuineribus  nostris  ct  consciontiis  non  dubi-  l.'^i'JliloJ,. 
 tomus  C3S0  satisfactum.     (^>uocl  si  ubcrius  vcstra;  dominationcs 
 cognosccrc    vclint,    ex   scparatis  bonorum   partibus   inspcctis 
 facile  intucbimini.      Nunc  vcro  (luoniam  ilia  vobiscum  futura  fhey  have 
 est,  potcstatcm  nostram  in  illam  transfudimus :  ncc  enim  dubi- 
 tamus  quia  ct  mater  libcros  amare  velit,  ct  uxor  viri  volunta- 
 tcm  suprcmam  inviolate  sit  conservatura.      Itaque  illam  una  s^nlTinirKh. 
 cum  omnibus  bonis,  ct  toto  hoc  munere  administrandi  testa-  ""Jom'im-mr 
 racnti,  vobis  repriuscntamus,  et  cum  nos  dilif'cntiis  nostris  ad  uVsVhtate  to 
 
 -  ,  tlie  i-are  of 
 
 suramum  usi  smius,   vcstra?  subscquantur,  et  totam   banc   op- the  ptrsons 
 timi   et  exccllentissirai  viri  D.   Buccri  voluntatem  nrmam  ct  «»'-»rK'mK 
 
 \ 
 
 thfir  author- 
 ity toliiufr"* 
 willow,  who 
 is  al><>ut  ti> 
 
 them  to 
 
 ratam  in  omncs  partes  custodiant :  quod  et  nos  fccimus,  quan-  nu^{!j?s'!iJ„,i 
 tum  potuimus,   et  vos  idem  facturos  esse  cognoscimus.     Reli-  '"''"'''*"-'• 
 qua,  si  qua)  per  so  consideranda  sunt,  in  minutis  rationibus 
 apparebunt  quas  ad  hoc  ipsum  perpolivimus ;  ut  totam  hanc  f^aJdedTS*"* 
 rem,  quantum  festinatio  uxoris  D.  Buceri  sinebat,  vobis  expli-  [li^of'J^.e' 
 catissimam  rclinquercmus.      Yalete  in  Christo,  optimi  domini.  Se  wldow"*^ 
 In  Anglia,  Cantabrigiee,  anno  D.  1551.  ^'"""°*' 
 
 Vestrarum  dominationum  amantes, 
 
 MATTHiEUS  PARKERUS, 
 GUALTERUS  IIADDONUS. 
 
 INSCRIPTIO. 
 
 Carissimis  dominis  Tutorihus  et 
 Curatoribus  PupiUorum  D.  Mar- 
 tini Buceri.     Argentorati. 
 
 Summa  totalis  ultra  res  non  venditas  ncc  a?stlmatas  ut  in 
 dorso 380  Lib.  xx. 
 
 IN  DORSO. 
 
 Ratio  eorum  qua?  non  vendita  sed  domum  revecta  sunt. 
 
 Duo  tapetia  viridia.  2  longa  pulvinaria  plumis  plena. 
 Rubrum  tegmen.  Omnia  vasa  stannea  ponderant  xxiiii.  lib. 
 5  oUae  aeneae.  Ahenum  magnum.  8  opercula  cuprea.  Mor- 
 tarium.  3  vasa  cuprea  ad  radendum  apta.  2  ollse  cuprea:. 
 4  lecti  superiorcs  plumei.      3  cervicalia  majora  et  6  minora. 
 
 occur  in  Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  ciix.  arts.  29  and  30,  and  in 
 Epist.  Tigurinrc,  p.  241.  The  Parker  MS.  cxix.  contains  also  a  copy 
 of  Bucer's  will,  and  several  letters  from  his  widow.] 
 
48      SIR  JOHN  CHEKE  TO  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER.  [1552-3. 
 
 4  pulvinarla.  5  tegmina.  2  rubra,  rcliqua  viridia.  2  panni 
 virides  ad  operienda  scamna.  26  paria  linteaminura.  20 
 mappa}.  21  manutergia.  30  mantilia.  Nigra)  cistaB  2 
 itincrationibus  accommodata.  3  longae  toga3.  2  tunicae  in- 
 teriores  breviores,  una  pelle  subducta.  2  paria  caligarum, 
 3  diploides.     Pallium. 
 
 XXXIX. 
 
 SIR  JOHN  CHEKE  TO  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 
 Gth  February,  1552—3.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cvi .  art.  304.  p.  600. 
 
 Regrets  the  J  AM  sorrj  to  SGG  the  lightuGss  of  jouug  heads,  who  be- 
 
 ySung  heads.  causG  they  have  attained  to  some  learning  be  bold  to  abuse 
 their  wits,  and  pass  the  bounds  of  honesty.  If  learning 
 teach  not  soberness  to  young  men,  obedience  in  subjects,  ho- 
 nesty in  all  degrees,  what  should  we  do  with  learning,  see- 
 ing we  have  knowledge  enough  of  our  self,  without  study 
 and  school,  to  do  ungraciously  ?  But  as  you  shall  not  be  the 
 last  that  shall  find  such  unthankfulness  of  unexperienced 
 scholars,  so  have  ye  not  been  the  first,  and  therefore  do 
 Parker  will  wlscly  lu  bearing  soberly  such  headlong  rashness  as  over- 
 beadngso-"^   throweth  the  user.      I  am  glad  ao^ain  to  see  him  called  home, 
 
 berlv  such  o  o  ' 
 
 JSmes?      ^^  ^^  ^®  truly  called,  and  do  not  dissemble  with  necessity  to 
 
 overcome  the  time.     But  you  shall  easily  perceive  that  by  his 
 
 demeanour  and  company,  according  whereunto  you  shall  do 
 
 well  to  order  him. 
 
 letting  all  But  you  must  Ict  all  toward  wits  understand,   that  when 
 
 unXstrncf    they  go  beyond  learning  to  defame  learning,  that  they  must 
 
 they  go  be-    not  bo  favourcd  for  their  own  learning,  but  punished  iustly 
 
 vond  learning  ^  o'  i  d  t/ 
 
 iea?nfn"^     for  othcr  mcu's  learning.     Wherefore  I  am  glad  to  see  not 
 b'e^fe^SSed?^  only  the  success  of  this,  but  also  trust  it  will  be  an  example 
 for  other  hereafter,  how  they  presume  too  much  on  them- 
 selves, and  venture  further  than  their  learning  and  wits  can 
 honestly  lead  them. 
 Trusts  to  The  anchor  of  my  suit  resteth  much  in  you,  whereof  I 
 
 commune 
 
 with  Parker  trust  at  Loudou  to  commune  with  vou.      Thus  with  my  wife's 
 
 in  London.  «  v 
 
1.J.j2-3.]       sill    JOHN    <  IlKKK    TO    DK    MATTllLW    I'AKkKIl, 
 
 49 
 
 and  iiiino  hearty  commcmlations  to  you  aiul  your  wife,  I  hicl 
 you  farewell  in  the  Lord.  From  Chockstoke,  the  (jlli  of 
 February,  155l>.      7  Kd.  G.  ^•£,r?''^">- 
 
 Yours  assured, 
 
 JOAN.  CHEEK. 
 
 To  the  rhjht  worshipful  Mr  D.  Par. 
 leery  Dean  of  Lincoln^  at  Cum- 
 bridge. 
 
 XL. 
 
 SIR  NICHOLAS  BACON,    AFTERWARDS    LORD  KEEPER, 
 TO  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 
 9th  December,  13oS.    Lambeth  MS.  959.  No.  29.  Grig. 
 
 After  my  rif^lit  hearty  commendations.      These  are  to  Lord  Keeper 
 
 '  °    ,  ,      "^  .  ,  .  Bacon  re- 
 
 signify   unto   you,   that  tor  certam   matters   touchmo:    your- n"«ts Parker 
 
 O        •/  •'         '  O      ^  to  repair  to 
 
 self,  which  I  trust  shall  turn  you  to  good,   I  would  wish  that  J;"ruin"ma?' 
 you  should  repair  hither  to  London,  with  as  convenient  speed  InitSn^xir- 
 as  you  can,  where  you  shall  find  me  at  Burgeny-house,  in 
 Paternoster-row  ^  if  it  be  not  over-long  or  you  come.    And 
 if  it  chance   that  I  be  returned    into   Suffolk  before  your 
 coming,   then   I   would   you  should  make   your  repair  unto 
 my  brother-in-law.   Sir  AVilliam  Cecil,  the  Queen's  secretary,  if  Bacon  be 
 declaring  unto  him  that  I  appointed  you  to  wait  upon  him,  Parker-s  ar- 
 te know  his  pleasure  touchinor  such  matters  as  he  and  I  did  '"rfiiairto 
 
 ^  ^  O      _       ^  Sir  u  lUiam 
 
 talk  of  concerning  you.     Thus  wishing  you  well  to  do,  I  bid  ^^"'• 
 you  heartily  farewell.      Written  the  9th  of  December,  1558.  oth  Decem- 
 
 ber   1558. 
 
 By  yours  assuredly, 
 
 N.  BACON. 
 To  the  right   icorshipful  and  my 
 very  friend  Mr  Doctor  Parker^ 
 give  these,  in  haste. 
 
 [1  Burgeny  or  Bergavenny  House,  the  London  residenco  of  the 
 earls  of  Abergavenny,  is  described  by  Stowe  as  "  one  great  house  built 
 of  stone  and  timber"  standing  "  at  the  north  end  of  Ave  Mary  Lane." 
 (Stowe's  Survey,  ed.  Thorns,  p.  127.)  Sir  Nicholas  Bacon  ultimately 
 purchased  and  rebuilt  Shelley  House  in  Noble  Street,  Aldersgatc, 
 which  was  thenceforth  named  Bacon  House.  (Pennant's  Lond.  ed. 
 1813,  p.  331.)  Bacon's  residence  in  Suflfolk,  afterwards  referred  to, 
 was  at  Redgrave.] 
 
 [park,  cor.] 
 
50         DR  MATTHEW   PARKER  TO  SIR  NICHOLAS  BACON.     [1558. 
 
 XLI. 
 
 DR  MATTHEW  PARKER  TO  SIR  NICHOLAS  BACON. 
 
 Between  9th  and  20th  December,  1558.     Lambeth  MS.  959.  art.  31.   Orig.  draft. 
 
 Acknow-  Right  worshipful,    after   my    duty    of   commendations. 
 
 ledges  the  . 
 
 receipt  of      Whcrc  of  lato    I   received  your  letters  to  this  effect,  that 
 
 IJicon  s  letter  .  •' 
 
 Jember'^Tsss  ^  should  rcpair  up  unto  you  at  London,  upon  occasion,  as 
 
 ye  wrote,  which  may  turn   me   to  good,  so   judged    by   a 
 
 late  conference  with  the  right  worshipful  Sir  William  Cecil, 
 
 secretary  to  the  Queen's  majesty,  of  long  time  my  special 
 
 good    friend  and  master.       Ye    shall  understand    that    my 
 
 Parker  in  ill  quartauo  hath  so  much  distempered  the  state  of  my  health, 
 
 that  without  apparent  danger  1  cannot  as  yet  commit  myself 
 
 to   the  adventure  of  the  air,   as  by  divers  assayes  I  have 
 
 attempted  of  lato  to  my  greater  pain  and  further  hinderance ; 
 
 whereupon,  if  your  opportunity  might  so  serve,  I  would  most 
 
 heartily  pray  your  worship  to  signify  so  much.     And  further 
 
 Heisofthe    yct  in  Confidence  of  your  old  good  heart  to  me,  I  would  be  a 
 
 Swh^isir    suitor  to  you,  as  I  was  once  to  Sir  John  Cheke,  my  entire 
 
 was  desirous  good  fricud  aud  patron,  to  the  said  Sir  William   Cecil,  that 
 
 lacon^aiis    "^^^^^  ^^  ^^^  dcslrous,  by  his  mediation,  to  do  me  good  (as 
 
 ^^-  here   you  use  to  call  it),  even  as   I   was   then   framed    in 
 
 mind,  so  am  I  at  this  day :  I  would  be  inwardly  heavy  and 
 
 He  would  be  sorry   that   his  favourable  affection  should  procure  me  any- 
 
 favo^urofhis  thiuoj  abovo  tlic  rcach  of  mine  ability,  whereby  I  should  both 
 
 friends  pro-       ,.   ,  ^  ,^  ,      ,.  .  ,  '^  . 
 
 cured  him     dishouest  mysclf,  and  disappoint  the  expectation  of  such  as 
 
 anything  .  . 
 
 tbmfy!''^  may  think  that  in  me  which  I  know  is  not ;  but  specially  I 
 might  clog  and  cumber  my  conscience  to  God-ward,  before 
 whom  I  look  every  day  to  appear  to  make  mine  answer, 
 which  I  think,  and  as  I  trust,  is  not  far  off.  Notwithstand- 
 ing, though  I  would  most  fain  wear  out  the  rest  of  my  life 
 in  private  state,  yet  concerning  that  very  small  talent  cre- 
 dited unto  me,  I  would  not  so  unthankfully  to  God  ensue  my 
 quiet,  that  I  could  not  be  content  to  bestow  it,  so  it  were 
 there  whither  my  heart  and  conscience  afore  this  time,  and 
 He  wishes  for  daily  yct  doth  incline  me :  I  mean,  to  be  no  further  abled,  but 
 moreilhan     by  the  revcnuc  of  some  prebend  (without  charge  of  cure  or 
 
 the  revenue         *;  *■  -in  -,'  ^     n  i 
 
 bend"Wthat  ^^  govcrnment)  to  occupy  myself  to  dispense  God  s  reverend 
 Scc'.^ryhim-  '^oi'tl  amongst   the  simple  strayed   sheep  of  God's  fold,  in 
 
1  "ioS.]      nil  M.VTTIII'W    I'AKKKll   TO   SIR   NICIIOI«\S   IIACON.  51 
 
 poor  destitute  p;irislu\s  ;iiul  cures,  moro  meet  for  my  dceaved  M-ifin.iu 
 voice,  and  siiuul  (luiihtv,  tn:iiun  thcatneal  and  threat  audience:  ^''^'i*  ^ 
 
 '  *  «•  ^  iii(iiiK«(  the 
 
 wliich  walk  and  wish  I  would  to  bo  nigh  tho  (iiiartcrs  wliero  ,',\7>,"J.,1';,'*p 
 we  both  were  born,  by  occasion  wlicreof  I  nii«;ht  have  oppor-  .^llJ;!";"" 
 tunlty   to   wait  other-while  on  you   at  llcdgravc,   whither  I  ','';„i'  ;  i ' 
 have  vowed  my  first  journey,  immediately  upon  my  strength  tiun  any**  "^' 
 
 111  '  f  /••11  a/»  thfufrical 
 
 recovered,  by  tho  occasion  of  your  friendly  reciuest  ot  your  an.i  Knai 
 
 •^  "  .  audience 
 
 letters  yo  sent  me.     And  if  I  might  bo  yet  bolder  with  you, 
 as   I  was   with   tho  said    Sir   John   Cheke,    to   discloso   my 
 desire,  of  all  places  in  England  I  would  wish  to  bestow  most '>'";'."  p'"»<^ 
 my  time  in  the  University,  the  state  whereof  is  miserable  at  I',*^.];^';"l;',ivc 
 this  present,  as   I   liavo  had  intelHgencc  from  time  to  time  "ersu^ V,"' 
 thereof.      And  if  in  any  respect  I  could  do  service,  as  a  weak  ^"^"^"^s^^' 
 member  of  tho   commonwealth,  1   think  I   might  do  it  with 
 them,  having  long  acquaintance  and  some  experience   in  tho 
 doings  thereof;  which  judgment  had  the  said  Sir  John  Cheke 
 towards  me  ;  and  therefore  to  set  me  on  work,  had  once,  by 
 tho  fiivour  of  the  said  Mr  Secretary,  procured  to  have  me 
 named  to  the  worship   [sic]    of  Trinity    College,    which  yet 
 chanced  not  to   that  eflfect,  God   otherwise  determining  tho 
 matter  in  his  providence.     But  to  tell  you  my  heart,   I  had 
 rather  have  such  a  thing  as  Benet  College  is  in  Cambridge,  «ith"such 
 
 '^  "^  '^        a  thing  as 
 
 IJenet  Col- 
 lege," worth 
 20  nobles, 
 rather  than 
 
 least.  Now,  sir,  yo  may  see  herein  yet  my  ambition  in  on^^n^h^ 
 writing  thus  much ;  but  I  shall  pray  you  to  accept  tho  circum-  *°^*^^'*- 
 stances,  which  ye  may  better  insinuate  to  Mr  Secretary  than 
 I  dare  be  bold,  by  my  rude  letters,  to  molest  his  favourable 
 goodness,  or  yet  prescribe  to  your  and  his  worship,  wisdom 
 and  prudence.  In  conclusion,  at  the  reverence  of  God,  I  pray 
 you,  either  help  that  I  bo  quite  forgotten,  or  else  so  ap- 
 pointed, that  I  bo  not  entangled  now  of  now  with  tho 
 concurre  [sic]  of  tho  world,  in  any  respect  of  public  state 
 of  living ;  whereby  I  shall  have  an  unfeigned  signification  of 
 your  very  good  will  to  me  indeed,  and  bo  bound  to  pray 
 for  you  during  my  hfe. 
 
 Some  of  your  scholars  at  Cambridge,  enjoying  the  benefit 
 of  your  liberal  exhibition,  have  sent  your  worship  now  their 
 letters ;  some  be  sick  and  absent. 
 
 Thus  reposing  tho  quiet  of  my  mind,  and  having  good 
 hopo  in  your  friendliness  to  the  considerations  aforesaid,  I 
 
 4 2 
 
 a  living  of  twenty  nobles  by  tho  year  at  the  most,  than  to  fj^^*?.!  coi 
 dwell  in  tho  deanery  of  Lincoln,  which  is  two  hundred  at  the  ^'  "'*^'" 
 
52         DR  MATTHEW  PARKER   TO   SIR  NICHOLAS  BACON.       [1558. 
 
 wish  you  a  full  recovery  of  your  health,  and  a  continuance  of 
 God's  grace  and  favour,  with  all  your  family. 
 
 Your  beadsman  to  command, 
 
 M.  1\ 
 
 To  the  right  toorshipful  and  my  sin- 
 gular good  master  and  friend,  Mr, 
 Bacon,  at  Burgeny  house. 
 
 XLII. 
 
 DR  RUTTHEW  PARKER  TO  SIR  NICHOLAS  BACON. 
 
 20th  December  1558.    Lambeth  MS.  959.  No.  31  b.     Orig.  Draft. 
 
 Excuses  his  Right  worshipful,  with  my  thankful  duty  of  commenda- 
 
 long  letter  .  ^-.         .  ^  •    i  mi  t 
 
 sent  to  Bacon  tions.    Hearing  01  your  sickness  still  to  occupy  you,  1  was 
 unwSiL^  ^^  right  heartily  sorry  that  I  molested  you  with  so  long  a  letter, 
 into  which  fault,  for  that  I  will  not  fall  again  at  this  present, 
 I  shall  use  the  fewer  words.      Sir,  if  I  may  know  at  what 
 time  I  might  in  your  return  down,  wait  on  your  worship  at 
 Will  meet     Burgouy,    or    at   Newmarket  \    I  will    by  God's    grace    so 
 at^Bu"r|eny"  appolut  mysclf  to  bo  there  first,  the  rather  for  that  I  would 
 market.        not  give  occasion  to  have  your  journey  either  protracted,  or 
 yet  diverted  out  of  the  right  line  thereof.     In  the  mean  time 
 I  shall  beseech  God  to  restore  your  strength,  that  ye  may 
 the  sooner  be  restored  to  the  commonwealth,   which  in  this 
 apparent  necessity  of  worthy  persons,  I  fear,  feeleth   God's 
 hand  in  this  his  visitation  to  be  burdenous.      I  would  wish  ye 
 were  not  much  stirring  abroad  in  the  distemperance  of  the 
 air,  so  contrarious  to  the  state  of  men's  bodies,  once  pierced 
 with  this  insolent  quartane,  as  experience  sheweth.     I  think 
 the    spring-time  as  in   natural    respects   must   be   expected, 
 though  Almighty  God  be  bound  to  no  time.     Thus  I  heartily 
 20th  Decern-  commend  you  to  his  gracious  protection,  this  20th  of  De- 
 cember. 
 
 Your  most  bounden  assuredly  to  command, 
 
 M.  P. 
 
 [1  Parker  probably  continued  up  to  this  time  still  resident  in 
 that  place  of  seclusion  to  which  he  retired  during  the  reign  of  Mary. 
 In  March  1558-9  he  had  returned,  as  we  shall  see,  to  Cambridge.] 
 
1558.]  SIK    WII.I.IAM    <IH  II.   TO    nU  MATTHKW    I'AHKKIl. 
 
 XLIII. 
 
 Mli   WILLIAM   CIXIL    To   V\l   MATTHEW  rAKKF.Il. 
 •Mi\\  December,  \:>:>H.     I.ambeth  MS.  O^VJ.  art.  .'JO.    Orig. 
 
 Aftku   mv  lic.irtv  commendations.     Tlio   Queen's  luirli-  r..rkrrium- 
 ness,  mmdinjr  presontlv  to  use  your  service  in  certain  matters  «.i'«ri.. 
 
 O    *  *  •  ^        ^  London 
 
 of  importance,  hath  willed  mc  so  to  signify  unto  you,  to  tlic  end  [Jl^y^lJj,?" 
 you  should  forthwitli,  uj^on  the  sight  hereof,  put  yourself  in  »«'^"^^«- 
 order  to  make  your  indelayed  repair  hither  unto  London; 
 at  which  your  coming  up  1  shall  declare  unto  you  her 
 Majesty's  further  pleasure,  and  the  occasion  why  you  are 
 sent  for;  and  hereof  praying  you  therefore  in  no  wise  to 
 fail,  I  bid  you  well  to  fare. 
 
 From  Westminster,  the  30th  of  December,  1558.  .vihPewm- 
 
 ber,  l^KAi. 
 
 Your  loving  friend, 
 
 W.  CECILL. 
 
 XLIV. 
 
 SIR   NICHOLAS  BACON  TO  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 4th  January,  1553—9.     Lambeth  MS.  959.  art.  31  a.    Orig. 
 
 After  hearty  commendations.    These  are  to  signify  unto  Bacon  pm 
 
 T/»       1  1      n     1  misos  that 
 
 vou,    that   ye  may  assure  vourself,  that  you  shall  have  any-  Parker  shaii 
 
 ^  J  V  ^  '  J  J      have  any- 
 
 thing that  I  can  do  for  you  touching  the  request  of  your  Jjo'J-^r'';^;^" 
 letters,  or  any  other  matter  being  in  my  power.  I  do  think  Je^i^^ll^  **'' 
 that  ye  have  received  or  this  a  letter  from  Mr  Secretary, 
 willing  you  to  come  up  immediately,  if  your  health  will  suffer, 
 for  certain  weighty  matters  touchino^  the  Queen's  service;  so  He  must 
 as  I  trust,  by  your  presence,  all  things  to  your  own  conten-  '[.'^'j' 
 tation  shall  come  the  better  to  pass.  If  this  letter  be  not 
 come  to  your  hands,  and  therewith  you  be  not  able  to  come, 
 it  shall  be  behoveful  for  you  to  signify  so  much,  because  I 
 have  been  willed  also  to  haste  your  coming  up.  Thus  right 
 heartily  fare  ye  well.     Written  the  4th  of  January,  1558.      4th  January-, 
 
 By  yours  assuredly, 
 
 N.  BACON. 
 
 come  to  town 
 is  licalth 
 allow. 
 
54         DR  MATTHEW  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL.     [1558-9. 
 
 XLV. 
 
 Parkerdriven 
 to  Cambridge 
 by  inability 
 to  maintain  a 
 double  charge 
 elsewhere. 
 
 He  writes  to 
 Cecil,  who 
 has  accepted 
 the  Chancel- 
 lorship of  the 
 University, 
 as  to  the 
 practices  of 
 several  of  the 
 Colleges  to 
 avoid  the  an- 
 ticipated 
 changes. 
 
 Sends  hira 
 the  prece- 
 dents of 
 Queen  Mary's 
 reign. 
 
 DR  MATTHEW  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAISI  CECIL. 
 1st  March,  1558—9.     S.  P.  O.  Domestic.    Orig. 
 
 lliGHT  worshipful,  my  duty  presupposed.  Being  hither 
 driven  by  divers  necessities,  as  not  able  by  otherwhere  dwell- 
 ing to  maintain  a  double  charge,  secret  advertisement  is 
 brought  on  to  me,  which  I  thought  meet  to  be  put  to  your 
 consideration,  the  rather  now  upon  your  acceptation  of  the 
 highest  office  here  for  the  stay  of  the  University  ^  I  hear 
 that  divers  Colleges  be  much  disordered,  as  well  in  their  pos- 
 sessions as  in  other  respects  not  so  maintained  as  were  left  to 
 them  of  late.  They  were  awhile  in  fear  by  a  visitation  to  be 
 answerable  ;  they  have  now  gotten  an  intelligence  of  no  visita- 
 tion to  be  purposed.  Upon  full  passing  of  the  primacy  they 
 [gathered  the  sequel^].  Some  masters  be  about  to  resign  to 
 their  friends  chosen  for  their  purpose,  peradventure  to  slide 
 away  with  a  gain.  Queen  Mary,  immediately  upon  her  quiet, 
 gave  out  authority  to  the  Chancellor  (Bishop  Gardiner).  He 
 forthwith  sent  his  chaplain  (Watson)  with  instructions  to  every 
 College,  and,  as  then  I  could  gather,  to  report  to  him  in  what 
 state  every  College  stood  in ;  and  further,  peradventure  upon 
 cause,  to  have  the  masters  and  others  assured  de  coram  sis- 
 tendo,  et  interim  bene  gerendo  until  a  further  order.  The 
 copies  of  these  letters  I  send  to  your  mastership^,  if  ye  desire 
 
 [1  Sir  William  Cecil  accepted  the  Chancellorship  of  Cambridge 
 by  a  letter  dated  19th  February,  1558—9.  See  Peck's  Desid.  Curios. 
 II.  edit.  1779.  The  draft  of  the  original  letter,  corrected  by  Sir  W. 
 Cecil,  is  in  the  State  Paper  Office.] 
 
 [2  The  words  within  brackets  are  supplied  from  Strype's  Parker, 
 Lib.  I.  chap,  ix.,  the  original  being  mutilated  in  this  place.  The 
 meaning  is,  that  on  the  passing  of  the  act  of  supremacy,  the  masters 
 of  Colleges  alluded  to  anticipated  their  ejection  if  they  refused  the 
 oath  of  supremacy.] 
 
 [3  The  following  are  the  copies  of  letters  inclosed.  These  copies 
 are  both  in  the  State  Paper  Office  under  their  respective  dates. 
 
 QUEEN  MARY   TO   BISHOP    GARDINER. 
 
 Mary  the  Queen,     Right  Reverend  Father  in  God,  Right  Trusty, 
 
 and  Right  Well-beloved,  we  greet  you   well.      And  where  amongst 
 
 divers  other  inconveniences  and  misorders,  brought  in  and  set  forth 
 
 in  that  our  University  of  Cambridge,  one  of  the  greatest  and  chief 
 
1558-9.]        1>U    MATTHEW    I'ARKBK   to   SIII   WILLIAM   CLCIL.       55 
 
 to  know  the  precedent.  1  would  bo  loth  in  the  first  entry  of 
 your  offico  Colleges  should  sustain  hurt  by  any  sleight,  you 
 
 occasion  of  many  of  tbo  said  niisorders,  is,  that  without  suflicicnt  autho- 
 rity, only  upon  tho  sensual  minds  and  ra«h  determinations  of  a  few 
 men,  the  ancient  statutes,  foundations,  and  ordinances  of  the  whole 
 University,  tho  Colleges,  and  other  places  of  students,  have  been 
 much  altered,  broken,  and  almost  utterly  subverted  :  whereby  not 
 only  the  last  wills  of  many  good  men  have  been  broken,  and  many 
 wise,  politic,  and  godly  ordinances,  confirmed  by  j)arliaments,  and  by 
 sundry  our  progenitors,  fondly  and  irreverently  contcnuied,  but  tho 
 conscience  of  many  honest  men,  which  by  their  oaths  were  bound  to 
 tho  observation  of  tho  said  statutes  and  foundations,  have  boon  much 
 encumbered ;  and  youth  loosely  and  insolently  brought  up,  to  tho 
 great  discredit  of  the  Univci-sity,  and  no  small  hindoranco  of  tho 
 common  wealth  of  all  our  realm. 
 
 We  therefore,  knowing  it  our  bounden  duty  to  Almighty  God,  to 
 whose  only  goodness  wo  acknowledge  ourself  called  and  placed  in  tho 
 royal  estate  of  this  realm,  to  travail  by  all  the  ways  wo  may,  that  his 
 glory  and  holy  will  being  truly  declared  to  all  our  subjects,  he  may  of 
 all  sorts,  in  their  several  vocations,  be  reverently  feared,  served,  and 
 obeyed;  have  thought  good  for  a  beginning,  to  wish  that  tho  examples 
 hereof  may  first  begin  in  our  Universities,  where  young  men,  and  all 
 sorts  of  students,  joining  godly  conversation  with  their  studies  in 
 learning,  may  after,  as  well  by  their  doings  as  by  their  preachings, 
 instruct  and  confirm  the  rest  of  our  subjects,  both  in  the  knowledge 
 and  fear  of  Almighty  God,  in  their  due  obedience  towards  us,  our  laws, 
 and  all  others  their  superiors,  and  in  their  charitable  demeanours  to- 
 wards all  men.  And  because  we  know  that  where  order  is  not  kept, 
 all  things  grow  to  confusion,  we  therefore  have  thought  good  to  will 
 and  require  you  our  Chancellor,  and  all  others  the  heads  and  gover- 
 nors of  tho  Colleges,  and  other  houses,  that  both  yourselves,  for  your 
 own  parts,  do  exercise  your  offices,  and  live,  and  cause  all  scholars, 
 students,  servants,  ministers,  and  others  living  under  you,  of  what  sort, 
 state,  or  condition  soever  they  be,  to  live  and  frame  themselves,  their 
 studies,  conversations,  and  manner  of  living,  in  such  form  and  order, 
 as  by  tho  ancient  statutes,  foundations,  and  ordinances  of  that  our 
 University,  and  of  the  Colleges  and  others,  is  to  you  severally  appoint- 
 ed, which  statutes  and  foundations  we  will  to  be  inviolably  kept  and 
 observed,  according  to  the  ancient  foundations  and  ordinances  of  tho 
 founders,  and  grants  of  our  progenitors. 
 
 And  therefore  do  eftsoons  require  and  charge  you  our  Chancellor, 
 whom  wo  do  authorize  by  these  presents  for  that  purpose,  to  see  tho 
 same  well  and  truly  observed,  as  you  will  answer  for  the  contrary; 
 notwithstanding  any  injunctions  or  new  ordinances  made,  set  forth,  or 
 delivered  by  any  visitors  or  others  sithence  the  death  of  our  father  of 
 most  worthy  memory,  King  Henry  tho  Eighth,  (whom  God  assoyl,)  or 
 
^6        DR  MATTHEW  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL.      [1558-9. 
 
 not  understanding:  the  likelihood.  The  rest  of  the  matter  I 
 commit  to  your  prudent  foresight.  God  grant  so  good  luck 
 of  your  election  that  the  University  may  joy  to  be  raised  and 
 restored,  none  otherwise  than  your  zeal  thereunto  hath  been 
 long  perceived,  ut  amputetur  malevolis  omnis  occasio  impro- 
 1st  Marcii.     hUatis  ct  querulationis.      Primo  Martii. 
 
 Your  bounden   orator, 
 
 M.  V} 
 
 If  your  mastership  shall  intend  any  thing,  D.  Cole  hath 
 both  counterpanes  of  the  whole  states  of  every  college  so 
 found  at  the  last  visitation. 
 
 To  the  rigid  ivorshipful  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  Secretary  to  the  QueerCs 
 Majesty. 
 
 any  other  new  device  to  the  contrary  thereof.  Given  under  our  sig- 
 net at  our  manor  of  Richmond,  the  20th  of  August,  the  first  year  of 
 our  reign. 
 
 BISHOP  GARDINER  TO  THE  UNIVERSITY  OF 
 CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 Doctissimis  viris  Vice-Cancellario  et  Senatui  Cantabrigiensi. 
 
 Quam  multse  causse  sint  (viri  doctissimi)  quaj  animum  meum,  ut 
 ad  vos  hoc  potissimum  tempore  accederem,  permoverent,  totidem 
 fere  occurrunt  impedimenta,  quae  corpus  in  vobis  adsit,  justissime  pro- 
 hibent.  Interim  autem,  dum  occasionem  capto  commodiorem,  qua 
 vos  ipse  inviserem ;  hunc  Sacellanum  meum,  vobis  non  omnino  igno- 
 tum,  et  mihi  notissimum,  cujus  fidem  perspectam  et  exploratam  habeo, 
 mandare  volui,  eidemque  demandare,  ut  meo  nomine  referat,  quae  vos 
 ex  me  cuperem  intelligere :  cui  ut  credatis,  oro,  et  bene  valete.  Lon- 
 dini  ex  sedibus  meis,  octavo  calend.   Septembr.  1553. 
 
 Vester  Cancellarius, 
 
 Steph.  Winton.,  Cancell.] 
 
 \}  Indorsed  in  a  contemporary  hand,  "  1^  Martii,  1559.  Dr  Parker 
 to  Mr  Secretarie."] 
 
1558-9.]    nu  mm  iiikw  iwiikeu  to  sir  nkiiolam  ijacon.    57 
 
 xi.vr. 
 
 DR    MATTHEW  PARKER  TO  SIR  NICHOLAS   BACOX. 
 1st  March,  i:Kr.S— 9.      Lambeth  MS.  959.  No.  37.    Orig.  or  Draft  in  rarker'thaiul. 
 
 HiuiiT  honourable,  mv  duty  presupposed.      It  is  an  old-  ibtfiuiido 
 said  proverb,  xdn   qms   doUt^   ilndein   et   manuin  jrer/uenter  t^^^umUc 
 habet,  beseeching  you,  for  God's  sake,  tho  rather  to  bear  the  '^«»»«»- 
 importunity  of  this  my  handwriting,  supposing  that  this  may 
 bo  one  of  tho  last  solicitations  that  I  shall  molest  you  with. 
 
 Sir,   your  signification   uttered   to  mo  at  my  first  coming 
 to   YOU   at   London,  concerning  a  certain  office  ye  named  to  Parker  had 
 me,  did  hold  me  m   such   carefulness  all   my   time  ot  bcmf;  M»>t  to  Lon 
 
 ....  don. 
 
 there,  with  the  recoursing  [sic]   of  a  dull  distcmperance  set 
 in  my  head  by  the  dregs  of  my  quartane  and   as  yet  not 
 remedied,  whereby   I   had  no  disposition  to  my  book,  beside 
 some  other  displeasant  cogitations  concerning  the  state  of  this 
 time,  made  me  to  have  so  little  joy  of  my  being  at  London, 
 as  I  had  never  less  in  my  life ;  most  glad  when  my  back  was 
 turned  thereunto.     But,  to  come  nigher  to  my  intent  of  writ- 
 ing, I  shall  pray  to  God  ye  bestow  that  office  well ;  ye  shall  o^ji'"!^^"" 
 need  care  the  less   for  the  residue.     God  grant  it  chanceth  aJchbUhop" 
 neither  on  arrogant  man,  neither  on  fainthearted  man,  nor  on  J"'^if^he 
 covetous  man.     Tho  first  shall  both  sit  in  his  own  light,  and  armgant  /" 
 shall  discouraire  his  fellows  to   join  with  him  in  unity  of  doc-  hearted  man. 
 
 ^  •    1  !•  11  1         /»•/•!  °^  ^  covetous 
 
 trine,  which  must  be  their  whole  strength ;  for  if  any  heart-  man. 
 burning  be  betwixt  them,  if  private  quarrels  stirred  abroad 
 be  brought  home,  and  so  shall  shiver  them  asunder,  it  may 
 chance  to  have  that  success  which  I  fear  in  the  conclusion 
 will  follow.  The  second  man  should  be  too  weak  to  commune 
 with  the  adversaries,  who  would  be  the  stouter  upon  his 
 pusillanimity.  The  third  man  not  worth  his  bread,  profitable 
 for  no  estate  in  any  Christian  commonwealth,  to  serve  it 
 rightly. 
 
 For  my  part,  I  pray  God  I  never  fall  into  his  indignation, 
 and  wisdom  it  were  not  for  a  subject  to  deserve  his  prince''s  barker's  anx- 
 
 J  i^  lety  not  to 
 
 displeasure,  and  sorry  would  I  be  to  discontent  Mr  Secretary  gf^n'S 
 and  you;  for  whose  worshipful  favours  I  count  myself  more^"'"- 
 bound  to  pray  to  God,  and  to  wish  well  to,   than  for  all  the 
 men  in  the  realm  beside.      I  speak  it  sincerely,  without  flat- 
 tery ;  for  though  I  have  httle  wit,  yet  I  can  discern  betwixt 
 
58      DR   MATTHEW   PAllKER   TO   Sill  NICHOLAS  BACON.     [1558-0. 
 
 but  if  they 
 will  not  re- 
 strain their 
 overmuch 
 good  will 
 towards  him, 
 he  shall  dis- 
 like them 
 both. 
 
 His  disquali- 
 fications for 
 the  arch- 
 bishopric k. 
 
 His  poverty : 
 only  £30.  in 
 his  purse 
 when  he  came 
 to  London. 
 
 Unpopularity 
 of  Bishop 
 Hopton  of 
 Norwich,  on 
 account  of 
 his  dying  in 
 debt. 
 
 Parker's 
 bodily  infir- 
 mity arising 
 out  of  an 
 accident, 
 •when  flying 
 by  night  in 
 the  reign  of 
 Queen  Mary. 
 
 men  who  delight  to  bo  flattered,  and  who  not,  though  I 
 would  not  consider  how  dishonest  it  were  for  me  to  use  it. 
 But,  sir,  except  ye  both  moderate  and  restrain  your  over- 
 much good  will  in  the  former  respects  to  me-ward,  I  fear,  in 
 the  end,  I  shall  dislike  you  both,  and  that  your  benevolences 
 should  by  occasion  of  my  obstinate  untowardness  jeopard  me 
 into  prison ;  yet  there  shall  I  bear  you  my  good  heart,  which 
 I  had  rather  suffer  in  a  quiet  conscience,  than  to  be  intruded 
 into  such  room  and  vocation,  wherein  I  should  not  be  able  to 
 answer  the  charge  to  God  nor  to  the  world,  wherein  I  should 
 not  serve  the  Queen's  honour,  which  I  would  wish  most  heartily 
 advanced  in  all  her  wise  and  godly  proceedings  ;  nor  yet 
 should  I  live  to  the  honour  of  the  realm,  and  so  finally  should 
 but  work  a  further  displeasant  contemplation  to  my  good 
 friends  who  preferred  me. 
 
 This,  this  is  the  thing  that  make  me  afraid,  my  lord, 
 though  I  passed  not  on  mine  own  shame  and  rebuke;  and 
 therefore,  by  God's  favour,  and  your  good  helps,  I  never 
 intend  to  be  of  that  order,  better  or  worse,  higher  nor  lower  ; 
 j^on  omnia  possumus  omneSy  et  tutissimum  est  ut  quisque 
 hanc  artem  exerceat  in  qua  educatus,  et  ad  quam  natura 
 homines  formavit.  And  as  for  other  furnishments,  I  am  too 
 far  behind.  When  I  came  first  up  to  London  I  had  thirty 
 pounds  in  my  purse,  not  ten  shillings  more,  whereof  I  have 
 wasted  a  good  part ;  and  if  I  were  placed,  as  some  of  my 
 friends  wish  to  me,  what  would  that  do  to  begin  or  to  furnish 
 my  household,  &c.  ?  I  hear  how  the  citizens  of  Norwich  pray 
 for  the  soul  of  their  last  bishop^ ;  for  when,  upon  his  depar- 
 ture, they  seized  his  goods,  to  answer  his  debts  to  them, 
 straightway  came  the  Queen's  officers,  and  discharged  them 
 all,  which  yet  were  not  able,  for  all  his  spare  hospitality,  to 
 pay  half  that  he  owed. 
 
 Furthermore,  to  come  to  another  consideration  of  a  fur- 
 ther imperfection,  which  I  would  have  dissembled  to  you  and 
 others,  but  it  cannot  be,  but  must  open  it  to  you,  my  assured 
 good  master  and  friend,  in  secrecy,  whose  old  good  will 
 maketh  me  the  less  abashed  to  be  so  homely  with  you  at  this 
 time.  In  one  of  my  letters  I  made  a  httle  signification  of  it, 
 but  peradventure  ye  did  not  mark  it.      Sir,  I  am  so  in  body 
 
 [1  Dr  John  Hopton,  chaplain  to  Queen  Mary,  Bishop  of  Norwich, 
 1554 — 1558.] 
 
1558-9.J    uii  MATTHEW  i-aukku  to  sin  Nicholas  bacon.     59 
 
 hurt  ill! J  deca}0(.l,  coram  Deo  non  nientiory  that  whatsoever 
 my  ability  wore,  either  of  worldly  furnitiiro  or  inward  quality, 
 and  though  my  heart  would  right  fain  servo  my  sovereign 
 lady  the  Queen's  majesty,  in  more  respects  than  of  mine 
 alleiriance,  not  forgettinjr  what  words  her  ffraco'*s  mother  said  ^\'»'«t  *«««• 
 
 t^  '  o  o  o  ^  giHfii  Anne 
 
 to  mo  of  her,  not  six  days  before  licr  apprehension,  yet   tliis  J';'!'-/!,,':^"* 
 my  painful  infirmity  will  not  suffer  it  in  all  manner  servings,  luu",',,','^' not 
 Flying  in  a  night,  from  such  as  sought  for  me  to  my  peril,  f!rr..hi?lp 
 I  fell  otV  my  horse  so  dangerously,  that  1  shall  never  recover '"'^^"^^"'"""' 
 it ;  and  by  my  late  journey  up,  and  my  being  there  at  Lon- 
 don not  well  settled,  it  is  increased  to  my  greater  pain.      I 
 am  fain  sometime  to  be  idle,  when  I  would  be  occupied,  and 
 also  to  keep  my  bed,  when  my  heart  is  not  sick. 
 
 This  was  one  cause  why  I  was  importune  to  you  for  that  suitabJenoM 
 room  whereof  I  made  mention  in  my  former  letters,  by  the  a°nfc^a"«i 
 which  1  might  bo  abled,  by  the  portion  oi  that  stipend,  in 
 this  mine  impoverishment  to  wear  out  my  hfe  tolerably,  and 
 should  not  by  that  be  occasioned  to  come  up  to  any  convo- 
 cations, as  having  no  voice  in  that  house ;  and  pcradventurc 
 being  there,  I  might  be  a  mean  for  the  fewer  matters  of  dis- 
 turbance to  come  up  to  ^Ir  Secretary,  now  chancellor  there, 
 to  molest  him  more  than  should  need,  whose  gentle  affability 
 might  provoke  some  inconsiderate  men  not  to  regard  his  other 
 greater  affairs.  And  yet  though  I  were  so  placed,  I  would 
 not  forswear  London,  or  the  court  either,  at  times,  as  could 
 stand  with  my  ability  and  health  of  body,  if  my  service 
 could  be  any  ways  acceptable,  and  were  agreeable  to  the 
 proportion  of  my  capacity. 
 
 Sir,  because  I  may  not  dissemble  with  you,  I  have  told 
 you  all.  Now  do  with  me  what  ye  will.  I  may  be  ashamed  to 
 spend  so  many  words  in  a  cause  private  of  myself,  but  yet, 
 because  ye  must  be  partner  of  some  lack  if  I  answered  not 
 the  expectation,  I  could  no  less  do  but  make  you  privy 
 beforehand.      I  pray  you  think  not  that   the   prognostication  Parker  not 
 
 i»-»r      -ir'i         i-i^T  T\  •  1      •  1  1  o        T  influenced 
 
 01  Mr  Michael  JNostre  Dame  reiojneth  in  my  heaa^    I  esteem  bypn.phe- 
 
 O  •/  clesof^os- 
 
 tradamus  or 
 any  one  else. 
 
 [2  Nostradamus  was  beUeved  to  threaten  the  world  with  peculiar 
 evils  in  1559  and  1560.  Parker  probably  specially  alludes  to  a  book, 
 published  about  this  time  in  English,  by  Day,  and  entitled  "  An  excel- 
 lent treatise,  shewing  such  perillous  and  contagious  infirmities  as  shall 
 insue  1559  and  1560,  with  the  signes,  causes,  accidents,  and  curation, 
 for  the  health  of  such  as  inhabit  the  7.  8.  and  9.  climate.     Compiled 
 
CO       DR  MATTHEW  PAKKER   TO   SIR  NICHOLAS  BACON.     [1558-9. 
 
 that  fantastical  hotch-potch  not  so  well  as  I  credit  Lucian's 
 book,  De  veris  narrationihus ;  nor  yet  all  other  vain  pro- 
 phecies of  Sonds  more  than  I  regard  Sir  Thomas  Morys  book 
 of  *'  Fortune''s  Answers  upon  the  chance  of  three  dice  casting'." 
 I  would  I  saw  no  more  cause  to  fear  the  likehhood  of  God's 
 wrath  deserved  for  dissolute  life,  to  fall  upon  the  realm,  by 
 the  evidence  of  his  true  word,  and  by  God's  old  practices ; 
 and  yet  no  man  considereth  his  ire  already  begun  dum  non 
 shut  vivos  dolosos  dimidiare  dies  suos.  I  shall  pray  to 
 God  to  defend  you  and  your  family,  and  that  ye  may  revolve 
 in  mind  Christ's  serious  admonition,  "  Quid  proderit  homini, 
 si  totum  mundum  lucretur,  si  animcB  sum  detrimentum  pa- 
 tiatur"  Matt.  xvi.  Et,  *'  Non  in  ahundantia  cujusquam,  est 
 vita  hominis  ex  Mis  quce  possidet^  Luke  xii. 
 
 Sir,  my  duty  ^^  heart  maketh  me  bold  with  you,  not 
 otherwise  meaning  before  God,  but  thanking  him  many  times 
 that  Mr  Secretary  and  you  may  have  the  domgs  of  things  in 
 this  greedy  world,  and  that  ye  have  so  good  credit  and 
 ready  access  to  the  Queen's  majesty  to  comfort  her  good 
 inclination :  whom  I  beseech  the  God  of  heaven  to  preserve 
 with  her  council,  yea,  and  with  the  seniority  of  her  spiritual 
 ministers  also,  against  whom  I  see  a  great  charge  set  before 
 them,  to  overcome  that  must  specially  go  through  their  hands 
 by  diligent  watching  upon  the  unruly  flock  of  the  English 
 people,  if  they  were  not  so  much  acloyed  with  worldly 
 collections,  temporal  commissions,  and  worldly  provisions.  I 
 On  Parker's  spcak  this  the  rather  in  this  respect  which  I  thought  good 
 London,  he    to  Dut  to  vour  undcrstandino'.     At  my  last  beinor  at  London, 
 
 saw  books  J:  t/  o  v  o  ' 
 
 whose  object  J  heard  and  saw   books  printed,   which   be  spread   abroad, 
 
 was  to  prove  ^    ^  *■  ^  ^       *■  ' 
 
 cannot'bT^  whoso  authors  be  ministers  of  good  estimation :  the  doctrine 
 ^hriItian'"*of  tho  ouc  Is  to  prove,  that  a  lady  woman  cannot  be,  by 
 
 land,  and 
 
 fuffora  ^"^  by  Maister  IMicbael  Nostradamus,  doctor  in  physicke,  and  translated 
 Je"t  to\^ii^  into  English  at  the  desire  of  Laurentius  Philotus  Tyl.  Mense  Martii." 
 who?n he'^  (Herbert's  Ames,  ii.  630).] 
 
 tvmiT^His  \}  '^he  reference  seems  to  be  to  some  book,  popularly,  but  erro- 
 abhorrenceof  neouslv  attributed  to  Sir  Thomas  More.     He  wrote  or  contributed  to 
 
 such  doc-  •' 
 
 trines.  a  book  published  with  the  title  of  "  The  Boke  of  the  fayre  gentyl- 
 
 woman  that  no  man  sliulde  put  his  tniste  or  confydence  in  :  that  is  to 
 say,  Lady  Fortune  :  flaterynge  euery  man  that  coueyteth  to  have  all, 
 and  specyally  them  that  trust  in  her,  she  deceyueth  them  at  laste," 
 (l2mo.  Robert  Wyer),  but  there  is  nothing  in  that  book  which  justifies 
 Parker's  allusion.] 
 
1558-9.]     Die  MAI  TIll.W    I'AUkllK    io   Sill  NIC1IULA8   llACON.       CI 
 
 God's  word,  a  govornor  in  a  Christian  realm.  And  in  another 
 book  going  abroad,  is  matter  set  out  to  prove,  that  it  is 
 lawful  for  every  private  subject  to  kill  his  sovereign,  ferro, 
 I'cueno,  (juocunK^ue  moiio,  if  he  think  him  to  bo  a  tyrant 
 in  his  conscience,  yea,  and  worthy  to  have  a  reward  for 
 his  attempt:  twhornii  cum  ista  hncrem^.  If  such  principles 
 bo  spread  into  men's  heads,  as  now  they  bo  framed  and 
 referred  to  the  judgment  of  the  subject,  of  the  tenant,  and 
 of  the  servant,  to  discuss  what  is  tyranny,  and  to  discern 
 whether  his  prince,  his  landlord,  his  master,  is  a  tyrant,  by 
 his  own  fancy  and  collection  supposed,  what  lord  of  the 
 council  shall  ride  quietly  minded  in  tho  streets  among  des- 
 perate beasts  ?  what  master  shall  bo  sure  in  his  bed- 
 chamber ?  It  is  the  surest  way  for  every  man  to  serve 
 God  truly  in  his  vocation,  to  deserve  the  rather  his  protec- 
 tion :  and  then  both  the  devil  and  man,  foreign  and  intestine, 
 shall  have  their  malices  retorted  upon  themselves  again.  But 
 thus  goeth  the  devil  about  to  dull  the  heroical  stomachs  of 
 princely  men  to  do  good  in  their  turn  of  time,  to  serve  God 
 and  the  commonwealth.  They  say  that  the  realm  is  full  of 
 Anabaptists,  Arians,  Libertines,  Free-will  men,  &c.,  against 
 whom  only  I  thought  ministers  should  have  needed  to  fight 
 in  unity  of  doctrine.  As  for  the  Ilomish  adversaries,  their 
 mouths  may  be  stopped  with  their  own  books  and  confessions 
 of  late  days.  I  never  dreamed  that  ministers  should  be  com- 
 pelled to  impugn  ministers.  The  adversaries  have  good  sport 
 betwixt  themselves  to  prognostick  the  likelihood.  Some 
 protestants  peradventure,  perceiving  how  men  nip  them,  to 
 aisable  them  to  keep  any  learned  men  in  house  to  confer 
 with,  to  beat  down  these  seditious  sects,  if  any  incon- 
 venience for  want  of  preaching  shall  fall,  some  may  chance 
 to  say  a  verse  of  David"'s  Psalter,  Lcetahitque  Justus,  cum 
 viderit  vindictam,  et  manus  suas  lavahit  in  sanguine  pec- 
 catoris,  as  not  caring  for  their  assurances,  who  abase  them 
 so  low :  and  some  peradventure  have  cast  already  their  start- 
 ing shifts,  and  make  provision  against  all  adventures.      Well, 
 
 [2  Parker  alludes  to  Knox's  "  First  Blast  of  the  Trumpet  against 
 the  monstrous  regiment  of  women,"  (IGmo.  Genev.  1.558),  Christopher 
 Goodman's  "How  superior  Powers  ought  to  be  obeyed  of  their  sub- 
 jects," (16mo.  Genev.  1558),  and  other  similar  publications,  sufficiently 
 well  known.] 
 
more  ac- 
 knowledge 
 his  duty  to 
 Bacon. 
 
 02       DR  MATTHEW   PARKER  TO  SIR  NICHOLAS  BACON.    [1558-9. 
 
 I  pray  God  all  be  conscience  to   God,  that  is  sometime  so 
 
 pretended.      Men  be  men,  yea,  after  the  school  of  affliction, 
 
 men  be  men.     Hypocrisy  is  a  privy  thief  both  in  the  clergy 
 
 He  would     and  in  the  laity.      To  make  an  end  of  such  conference,  which 
 
 miwuT""  I  would  gladly  have  told  you  presently,  but  I  could  not  wait 
 
 Bacon  on  this  ,^.'^.  i  •  ^    ^         ^     ^ 
 
 subject,  but    SO  much  leisure  m  you  and  opportunity ;  and  loath  I  was  to 
 
 could  not  *'  *^  ^  II. 
 
 leiltii^  have  begun  my  tale  and  not  to  have  ended  it  by  reason  of 
 interruption  by  others. 
 
 But  as  for  the  principal  occasion  of  my  writing,  how- 
 soever it  may  dislike  you,  yet  shall  I  evermore  acknowledge 
 my  duty  to  you,  yea,  though  now  ye  give  me  quite  up.      I 
 
 As  to  the      reverence  you  so  much,  that  I  had  rather  ye   disliked  me 
 
 archbishop-  ii'  •   -i  t  it 
 
 rick,  Parker  utterly  bctimcs.  With  your  less  repentance,  rather  than  ye 
 or  other  of  my  loving  friends  should  bear  any  envy,  or  any 
 displeasant  unthankfulness,  and  so  too  late  to  repent  for  your 
 commending  of  me  of  a  persuasion  in  an  appearance  and  not 
 surely  grounded,  to  be  seen  when  experience  should  have 
 shewed  the  trial.  And  therefore  I  write  it  to  you  in  time 
 again,  after  the  signification  of  my  very  first  letters  to  pre- 
 vent you,  for  I  know  ye  may  with  a  few  words  remedy  all 
 the  towardness  yet  concluded. 
 
 And  think  not,  I  pray  your  honour,  that  I  seek  mine 
 
 He  does  not  private  gain,  or  my  idle  ease.     Put  me  where  ye  will  else; 
 
 seek  gain  or    ■*•  ,        °  *'  ^ 
 
 ease.  Any-   and  if,  as  far  as  my  power  of  knowledge  and  of  health  of 
 
 where  but  in  '  t/     r  O 
 
 tehop'dck  body  will  extend,  I  do  not  apply  myself  to  discharge  my 
 deavour?odo  ^^^^y,  Ict  mc  be  thrust  out  again,  like  a  thief.  I  thank  God 
 his  duty.  ^^  conscience  condemneth  me  not,  that  I  have  been  aforetime 
 any  great  gatherer;  and  now  for  the  upholding  of  two  or 
 three  years  more  of  life,  to  heap  unproportionably,  I  count 
 it  madness;  and  more  than  this  purpose,  by  God's  grace,  I 
 dare  promise  nothing :  and  as  for  such  few  folks  which  I 
 may  leave  behind  me,  they  shall  not  say  by  me,  I  trust, 
 that  happy  be  these  children  whose  fathers  goeth  [sic]  to  the 
 devil  for  their  sake.  Your  lordship  knoweth  with  what 
 patrimony  I  began  the  world  with,  and  yet  have  hitherto 
 lived  with  enough ;  yea,  when  all  my  livings  were  taken  from 
 me,  yet  God,  I  thank  him,  ministered  to  me  sufficiently  above 
 the  capacity  of  my  understanding  or  foreseeing.  And  thus 
 commending  your  good  lordship  to  that  merciful  governance, 
 I  pray  your  honourable  wisdom  to  put  this  scribbling  out 
 of  the  way,  from  every  man's  sight  and  intelligence. 
 
15jS-9.]       DR  MATTHEW   PARKRIl  TO  SIR  NICHOLAS  BACON.    C3 
 
 Kiirht  honourable,  after  my  duty  of  commendations  toThuinur 
 your  lordship,  I  am  bold  now  to  send  to  you  a  fancy  of  my  J;;;^;^'",,., 
 head,  expressed  in  these  low  leaves;  which  if  1  had  compact  j;:*;.7;|';;*]f 
 in  a  letter,  it  would  have  seemed  ovorlong,  and  being  com- I'el.'JAr' '*'*'* 
 prised  in  leaves,  may  ajipoar  to  bo  but  a  very  little  book  of 
 one  sheet  of  paper  ;  which  yet  1  so  devised,  upon  consideration 
 of  your  business,  which  will  not  suffer  you  to  bo  long  de- 
 tained in  matters  impertinent,  and  therefore  ye  may  turn 
 in  the  leaf  and  read  it  at  divers  leisures,  if  your  lordship 
 shall  vouchsafe  tho  reading.  And  thus  wishing  you  joy  of 
 heart,  which  I  feel  to  be  a  great  treasure  in  this  world,  as 
 the  want  a  grievous  torment,  I  pray  God  preserve  your 
 honourable  goodness,  with  my  good  lady  your  wife.  If  yo 
 see  ought  in  my  quire  worth  reformation,  ye  know  I  am  dis- 
 ciplinable, and  have  read,  quod  meliora  sunt  vulnera  dili- 
 cjentiSf  quam  fraudulenta  oscula  odentis :  wherefore  reserv- 
 ing mine  unreasonable  determination,  as  ye  shall  know,  I 
 shall  yield  myself  whole  [sic]  conformable  to  your  honour, 
 \ihiy  quomodOy  quando^  aliquid,  vel  tandem  nihil.  Of  an  oc- 
 casion lately  ministered,  I  have  sent  my  letters  to  Mr  Secre- 
 tary concerning  another  matter.     Primo  Martii.  ist  March. 
 
 Your  assured  orator, 
 
 M.  r. 
 
 XLYIL 
 
 SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL   TO  DR    TORIE,    YICE-CIIAXCELLOR, 
 DR  MATTHEW  PARKER,  XSD  UR  EDW.VRD  LEEDS. 
 
 2l3t  March,  1558—9.   Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  CoU.  Camb.  cxviii.  art.  22.  p.  411.  Orig. 
 
 QuoNiAM  absum  ipse  Academia,  neque  per  ca3teras  occu- 
 pationes  meas,  quod  vos  scitis,  vacare  mihi  his  rebus  licet, 
 non  putavi  alienum,  qu?e  ipse  propter  absentiam  procurare 
 non  possum,  vicaria  in  illis  opera  vestra,  qui  prajsentes  estis, 
 et  diligentia  uti.  In  quo  peropportune  accidit,  vos  mihi  hoc 
 tempore  dari,  quibus  banc  causam  committendo  Academia? 
 curam  qure  mihi  credita  est,  non  mode  non  negligere,  sed 
 optimam  ejus  rationem  habere  videri  possum.     Contentio  nes-  Adi>putehas 
 
 •  11*  i^ii"-r-i*  arisen  re- 
 
 cio  qua?  de  electione  quadam  inter  Prefectum  Collegu  llegma?  spectingan 
 
64 
 
 SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL   TO   DR   POllIE,    &C.  [1558-9. 
 
 between  the 
 I'residentand 
 Ft  Hows  of 
 (jueeiis'  Col- 
 lege, Cam- 
 bridge. 
 
 Both  parties 
 have  intreat- 
 ed  Cecil  to 
 put  it  to  rest. 
 
 He  requests 
 l)r  Porie  and 
 the  others  to 
 determine  the 
 question,  and 
 restore  peace 
 to  the  Lni- 
 versity. 
 
 21  March, 
 155i. 
 
 et  Socios  quosdam  ejusdem,  proximis  his  diebus  exorta  est. 
 Haic  sedandae  meam  operam  utraque  pars  multis  verbis  im- 
 ploravit.  Ego  vero  neque  per  absentiam  possum,  neque  per 
 negotia  licet  mihi  de  hac  re  cognoscere.  Nolo  tamen  com- 
 mittere,  propter  earn  spem,  quam  Academia  apud  me  depo- 
 suit,  ut,  aut  innocentia  alicujus  injuste  opprimatur,  aut  audacia 
 videatur  defend!.  Quapropter  optimum  esse  duxi  huic  causae 
 V03  dare  cognitores,  quos  scio  et  propter  solertiam  vestram 
 posse,  et  velle  etiam  propter  bonitatem,  earn  ita  statuere,  ut, 
 et  Academia  sibi  pacem  peperisse  et  hii  qui  litigarunt  justi- 
 tiam  consecuti  videantur.  Dedi  seorsum  literas  ad  utramque 
 partem  quibus  significavi  sententiam  illis  in  hac  causa,  a  vobis 
 esse  expectandam.  A  vobis  igitur  magnopere  contendo  ut  et 
 istam  litem  diligenter  audiatis,  et  quid  in  ea  decernendum 
 putetis  mihi  per  literas  vestras  mature  velitis  renuntiare. 
 Bene  valete.     Ex  Aula,  xxi°  Marcii  1558. 
 
 Amicus  charissimus, 
 
 GUL.  CECILIUS. 
 
 To  my  assured  loving  friends  3Ir 
 Doctor  PoriCf  Vice-chancellor  of 
 the  University  of  Cambridge,  Mr 
 D.  Parker,  and  Mr  Edward 
 Leeds, 
 
 XL  VIII. 
 
 SIR  T.   SMITH    TO    DR    PORIE,    VICE-CHAXCELLOR,  DR 
 MATTHEW  PARKER,  AND  MR  LEEDS. 
 
 21st  March,  1558—9.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  CoU.  Camb.  cxvin,  art  23.  p.  413.  Grig. 
 
 S^a^h^ir^  -^GERRiME  quidcm  fero  quod  in  eo  collegio  in  quo  pri- 
 jj{ ',J.',^,ch"f^  mum  educatus  et  quasi,  ut  ita  dicam,  fere  natus  fuerim^  hse 
 rmilhS'^  sunt  exortse  controversiae ;  per  quassi  quidem  leges  et  statuta 
 Sr^'*'''"'   collegii  fuerint  non  ad  aequum  et  bonum,  sed  at  jus  strictum 
 
 Sed  id  me 
 
 should  have  ,  -i ,  .  ,  ,  •    • 
 
 arisen.         exactss,  alteram  necesse  est  partem  exactum  in. 
 
 rursus  consolatur  quod  ad  vos  ut  audio  refertur  causa  tota, 
 
 \}  According  to  Stn-pe,  Sir  Thomas  Smith  entered  at  Queens* 
 College  in  the  14th  or  15th  year  of  his  age,  and  was  made  Fellow  there 
 when  only  19  years  old.     See  Strype's  Sir  T.  Smith,  pp.  6,  10.      Oxf. 
 
 1820.] 
 
1558-0.]  sm  T.  SMITH  to  dk  roiiiK,  &c.  C5 
 
 (jui  componcro  potius  per  jiMjuitatoin,  quain  ad  cxtrcnuini  cam  <'."m.iihi  \,y 
 intorqucro  velitis.  Quid  sciitiam  in  tola  causa,  Gasconus  |,'';[,*';';i'',p. 
 amicus  mcus,  qui  idem  ct  leges  ct  statuta  nostri  Collcgii  novit,  'I',;!;,;'/.'''"'"'' 
 Optimo  potest  muTare.  Vos  oro  ut  irquum  bonumquo  sec-  ,'.' '.!»',';', "<1^ 
 tantes,  id  spectctis  (juod  Collegium  illud  non  imminucro,  Bcd  iH^Vn»,ic't'o 
 authontato  vestra  nossit  auirere.  IJcno  valcte.  Loncimi  xxi  tu.nr.«,H.t. 
 Martii.      Anno  Ke^rni  Klizabctluu  primo.  nn.uiatut« 
 
 n  I  of  Ihc  t  ol- 
 
 Amicus  vestcr, 
 
 T.  SMITIIUS. 
 
 To  the  rii/ht  worshipful  and  mtf  loving 
 J'riends^  Mr  Doctor  Porie,  ]'ice- 
 chancdlor  of  Cambridge,  Mr  Doctor 
 Parker,  and  Mr  Lteds, 
 
 XLIX. 
 
 DR  EDMUND  SANDYS  TO  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 
 30th  AprU,  1559.    Lambeth  MS.  959.  No.  41.  Orig. 
 
 Salutem  in   Christo.     Ye  have  rifrlitiv  considered  that  The  times 
 
 ~         "  given  to 
 
 these  times  are  given  to  taking  and  not  to  giving,  for  ye  have  takmg,not 
 
 o  O  O  O'  J  giving. 
 
 Stretched  forth  your  hands  further  than  all  the  rest 2.      They  {^^^^J^^ 
 never  ask  us  in  what  state  we  stand,   neither  consider  that  bod"."*"^ 
 we  want;  and   yet  in  the  time  of  our  exile  were  we  not  so  condition  of 
 
 1  1  1  -r»         T  1      11  1*  the  returned 
 
 bare  as  we  are  now  brought.     But  1  trust  we  shall  not  hnger  exiles. 
 here  long,  for  the  parliament  draweth  towards  an  end.      The  King  Ed 
 
 ,  ,         ,  «  .  .  ,  1  .    1  •  ,     •       wanVs  second 
 
 last  book  of  service  is  gone  through  with  a  proviso  to  retain  service-book 
 
 o  O  1  'gone 
 
 the  ornaments  which  were  used  in  the  first  and  second  year  through/ 
 
 w  with  a  proviso 
 
 of  King  Edward,  until  it  please  the  Queen  to  take  other  order  Jj^naJiienJ]'^ 
 for  them.     Our  gloss  upon  this  text   is,  that   we  shall  not  How  that 
 be  forced  to  use  them,  but  that  others  in  the  meantime  shall  strueo. 
 not  convey  them  away,  but  that  they  may  remain  for  the 
 Queen. 
 
 After  this  book  was  past,  BoxalP  and  others  quarrelled  oj^Jf^^tions  to 
 
 *  •«•  theServicc- 
 
 with  it,  that  according  to  the  order  of  the  scripture  we  had  ^^''• 
 not  gratiarinn  actio;    "for,"   saith  he,   *' Dominus  accepit 
 
 [2  During  the  reign  of  Queen  Mary,  Parker,  being  married,  was 
 deprived  of  all  his  preferments.] 
 
 [3  Dr  Boxall,  Dean  of  Peterborough,  had  been  one  of  the  Secre- 
 taries of  State  and  of  the  Privy  Council  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Mary.] 
 
 r  -I  5 
 
 [park.  cor. J 
 
6G  DR  EDMUND  SANDYS  TO   DR  MATTHEW   PARKER.        [1559. 
 
 jyanoii,  gratias  acjit,  but  in  the    time    of    consecration  we 
 
 give  no  thanks."    This  he  put  into  the  Treasurer's  head,  and 
 
 into   Countie  de  Feror's^  head,   and  he  laboured  to  ahenate 
 
 the  Queen's  Majesty  from  confirming  of  the  act,  but  I  trust 
 
 they  cannot  prevail.     Mr  Secretary  is  earnest  with  the  book, 
 
 and  we  have  ministered  reasons  to  maintain  that  part. 
 
 Bill  for  SU--  The  bill  of  supreme  government  of  both  the  temporalty 
 
 premacy  is  o  ^^^    clcrgy  passoth   witli  a  proviso   that  nothing    shall  be 
 
 judged  heresy  which  is  not  condemned  by  the  canonical  scrip- 
 
 The  Queen  on  turcs  and  four  general  councils.     Mr  Lever  wisely  put  such  a 
 
 wuf noulke  scruple  in  the  Queen's  head  that  she  would  not  take  the  title 
 
 sSpreme"^     of  suprcmo  head.     The  bishops,  as  it  is  said,  will  not  swear 
 
 Bifuo  restore  unto  it  as  it  Is,  but  rather  lose  their  livings.      The  bill  is  in 
 
 their\h^ngs'!  hand  to  restore  men  to  their  livings ;   how  it  will  speed  I 
 
 know  not.      The  parliament  is  like  to  end  shortly,  and  then 
 
 Theprotes-    yfQ  shall  Understand  how  they  mind  to  use  us.    We  are  forced, 
 
 taats  forced  •       i         •  /»     i        i     • 
 
 conSion  of  t^^o^gh  tho  vain  bruits  of  the  lymg  papists,  to  give  up  a  con- 
 whichls  now  Session  of  our  own  faith,  to  shew  forth  the  sum  of  that  doc- 
 tToS!'^^^'^^"    trine  which  we  profess,  and  to  declare  that  we  dissent  not 
 
 amongst  ourselves.     This  labour  we  have  now  in  hand  and 
 
 purpose  to  publish  it  so  soon  as  the  parhament  is  ended.     I 
 
 wish  that  we  had  your  hand  unto  it. 
 
 Ye  are  happy  that  ye  are  so  far  from  these  tossings  and 
 
 griefs,  alterations  and  mutations;  for  we  are  made  weary 
 Sremo'S^  with  them.  But  ye  cannot  long  rest  in  your  cell.  Te  must 
 more°K*  ^®  removod  to  a  more  large  abbey,  and  therefore  in  the 
 *^^^^'"         mean  time  take  your  pleasure,  for  after  ye  will  find  but  a 
 
 little. 
 Marriage  of  Nihil  est  statutwii  clc  coujugio  sacerdotimi,  sed  tanquam 
 
 beVinkfd  a^,  velictum  ill  TYiedio.     Lever  was  married  now  of  late.     The 
 
 not  establish-  -.  r    •  mi        •    i  •       i  i  i«   t       •      i         i 
 
 edbyiaw.  Quoeu  s  Majcsty  will  wink  at  it  but  not  stabhsh  it  by  law, 
 which  is  nothing  else  but  to  bastard  our  children.  Others  [sic] 
 things  another  time.  Thus  praying  you  to  commend  me 
 to  your  abbesses  I  take  my  leave  of  you  for  the  present. 
 Hastily  at  London,  April  ult.  1559. 
 
 Your, 
 
 E.  SANDYS. 
 To  the  rigid  morsliipful  Master 
 Doctor  Parler,  at  Cambridge. 
 
 \}  The  Count  de  Feria,  ambassador  from  Spain.] 
 
1550.]        SIU    WII.I.IAM    I  Kt'll.   TO    1»U    MATTIIKW    i'AUKLK.  07 
 
 1.. 
 
 SIU   WIIJJAM   CECIL  TO   Ml   MATTIIKW   PAKKKK. 
 6th  May,  LVM).     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Cainb.  cxvm.  art.  JI.  p.  409.  Orig. 
 
 Aftbu  my  very  hearty  commendations.      Forasmucli  as  two  rrcmtiy 
 1  am  credibly  informed  that  tlic  two  vounc:  men  lately  chosen  i«'w,of 
 to    bo    fellows  in   tho  (^>ueens'  College  bo  both  forward  in  K.,lV'*;\''* 
 learning,  and  also  well  minded  in  the  service  of  God,  so  as  f ".'mkli  m  the 
 by  their  admission  into  tho  same  house  our  common  cause  of  g^""^ 
 religion  shall  no  whit  be  impaired  or  hindered :   and  for  that 
 also  I  understand  by   Sir  Thomas  Smith  that  Mr  Peacock,  ThePmid«it 
 
 •  .  •/•11  •I!  •         of  (Queens' 
 
 now  rresident   of  the  said  Collcoje,   is  fully   minded  to  rrive  *'""'«  «'^^ 
 
 °  »'  o^         ri->if{n  to  Dr 
 
 over  his  interest  and   title  in   the  same  to  Dr  ^lav,  which  ^'y.  which 
 
 V  '  IS  highly 
 
 thing   I  like  very  well,    I    have   therefore    sent   down    my  app'o^«*- 
 Icttcrs  for  their  admission  accordingly.    And  to  the  intent 
 that  as  in  the  beginning  of  this  matter   I    made  you   par- 
 taker of  the  pains   for   the  understanding  thereof,  so  finally 
 to  participate  with  you  the  determination  of  the  same,  I  have 
 sent  you  a  copy  of  the  said  letters  inclosed  herein,  whereby  copiesof 
 you  shall  perceive  what  I  have  done  therein.     I  doubt  not  closed, 
 but  as  the  young  men  by  their  admission  shall  think  them- 
 selves benefited,   so  shall  the  other  part    who  moved  some 
 doubt  therein,  by  changing  of  the  blaster,  avoid  all  such  in- 
 convenience as  was  supposed  would  have  ensued;  and  they  all  Hopeof quiet 
 
 V        .  .  '    .   ,  '' ,  from  this  ar- 
 
 together  henceforth   live  in   more  quiet  than  hitherto  they  rangement, 
 have  done. 
 
 And  thus  I  bid  you  heartily  farewell.      From  the  Court, 
 the  5th  day  of  May,  1559. 
 
 Your  assured  loving  friend, 
 
 W.  CECILL. 
 
 To  mfj  assured  loving  friend  Mr 
 Doctor  Parker. 
 
G8 
 
 SIR  NICHOLAS  BACON  TO  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER.      [1559. 
 
 A  resolution 
 made  in  tlie 
 Queen's  pre- 
 sence that 
 Parkershould 
 be  Archbi- 
 shop. 
 
 Parker's  de- 
 scription of 
 the  required 
 Archbishop 
 in  his  last 
 letter  appHes 
 to  himself. 
 
 LT. 
 
 SIR  NICHOLAS  BACON  TO  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 
 17th  :May,  15o9.     Lambeth  MS.  959.  art.  32.  Orig. 
 
 That  before  this  time  I  have  not  sent  you  answer  to 
 your  last  letters,  the  cause  hath  been  for  that  I  could  by  no 
 mean  understand  to  what  end  the  matter  mentioned  in  those 
 letters  would  certainly  grow  unto  :  but  perceiving  this  day,  by 
 a  resolution  made  in  the  Queen's  highness  presence,  that  your 
 friends  shall  very  hardly  deliver  you  of  the  charge  written  of 
 in  the  same  letters,  I  thought  it  good  to  make  you  privy 
 thereunto  ;  and  therewith  to  advise  you,  to  commit  to  the 
 judgment  of  your  friends  your  abihty  and  disability  to  serve 
 where  and  when  you  shall  be  called.  If  I  knew  a  man  to 
 whom  the  description  made  in  the  beginning  of  your  letter 
 might  more  justly  be  referred  than  to  yourself,  I  would  prefer 
 him  before  you ;  but  knowing  none  so  meet,  indeed  I  take  it 
 to  be  my  duty  to  prefer  you  before  all  others,  and  the  rather 
 also  because  otherwise  I  should  not  follow  the  advice  of  your 
 own  letter.  The  rest,  which  is  much,  I  defer  until  our  next 
 meeting.  It  is  like  that,  or  it  be  long,  you  shall  receive  let- 
 ters subscribed  by  me  and  others  jointly.  Thus  right  heartily 
 fare  you  well.     From  the  Court,  the  17th  of  May,  1559. 
 
 Your  assuredly, 
 
 N.  BACON. 
 
 To  the  right  worshipful  and  my 
 very  friend  Mr  Doctor  Par'ker, 
 give  this. 
 
 LIT. 
 
 SIR  NICHOLAS  BACON  AND  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL   TO  DR 
 MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 
 19th  May,  1559.     Lambeth  MS.  959.  art.  33.  Orig. 
 
 After  our  hearty  commendations,   these  be  to   signify 
 
 Parker  is      unto  vou,  that  for  ccrtaiu  causes,  wherein  the  Queen's  Ma- 
 summoned  to  «'  ,  ^ 
 
 KecSurt  j^s^y  intendeth  to  use  your  service,  her  pleasure  is,  that  you 
 should  repair  up  hither  with  such  speed  as  you  conveniently 
 
1359.]       SIR   NU.   HAtt)N,   v*S:C.   TO    DK  MATTHKW    rAIJKIlIt.  GO 
 
 may  ;   uiul  at  your  comini;  up,  you  shall  uudcrstaud  the  rc>t. 
 Tlius  riglit  heartily  faro  yo  well. 
 
 From  the  Court,  tho'lDth  of  May,  1559. 
 
 Your  loving  friends, 
 
 N.  BACOX. 
 W.  CKCILL. 
 
 To  the  rujht  irorsliipjul  iitul  our 
 very  fruiul  Mr  Doctor  Purhiry 
 (five  t/tesc  iritlt  speed. 
 
 ijir. 
 
 LORD   KEErER  BACON  AM)   SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL  TO  DR 
 MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 
 2Sth  May,  1559.     Lambeth  MS.  959.  art.  04.  Ori^'. 
 
 After  our  hearty  commendations.  AVhere  before  this 
 time  we  directed  our  letters  unto  you,  declaring  thereby  that 
 for  certain  causes  wherein  the  Queen's  Majesty  intendeth  to  Parker  is 
 
 ...  ....  'Ill  •  again  siim- 
 
 use  your  service,  you  should  repair  hither  with  all  convenient  monedto 
 speed,  whereof  we  have  as  yet  received  none  answer:  and,  a'^^^^j^^^  rt»- 
 thercfore,  doubting  lest  by  the  default  of  the  messenger,  the 
 letter  be  not  come  to  your  hands,  we  have  thought  good 
 again  to  write  unto  you,  to  the  intent  you  should  understand 
 her  highness'  pleasure  is,  that  you  should  make  your  repair 
 hither  with  all  speed  possible.  Thus  right  heartily  farewell. 
 From  the  Court,  the  28th  day  of  May,  1559. 
 
 Your  loving  friends, 
 
 N.  BACON,  C.  S. 
 W.  CECILL. 
 
 LTV. 
 
 DR   MATTHEW  PARKER  TO  QUEEN  ELIZABETH. 
 Probabl?  June,  1559.     Lambeth  MS.  959.  art.  35.     Grig.  Draft. 
 
 Pleaseth  it  your  most  honourable  Majesty  to  be  gracious 
 lady  to  my  poor  suit,  which  at  this  time  extreme  necessity 
 
70  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER  TO  QUEEN  ELIZABETH.        [1559. 
 
 Parker  un- 
 derstands 
 that  the 
 Queen  has 
 favourable 
 0{)inion  of 
 hi  in  con- 
 cerning the 
 archbishop- 
 rick  of  Can- 
 terbury. 
 
 Intreats  her 
 to  discharge 
 him  of  that 
 office,  which 
 requires  a 
 man  of  more 
 wit,  learnmg, 
 virtue,  and 
 experience, 
 than  himself. 
 
 Parker's  old 
 obligation  to 
 the  Queen's 
 mother  con- 
 strains him 
 to  be  the 
 Queen's 
 beadsman. 
 
 He  regrets  his 
 inability  in 
 knowledge 
 and  outward 
 sufficiency  to 
 do  the  Queen 
 service  ac- 
 cording to  her 
 expectation, 
 
 compellcth  mc  to  make,  both  in  respect  of  my  constrained 
 conscience  to  Almighty  God,  as  also  in  the  regard  of  my 
 duty  which  I  owe  to  your  noble  estate  and  most  high  autho- 
 rity. So  it  is,  most  gracious  and  sovereign  lady,  where  I 
 have  understanding  of  your  most  favourable  opinion  toward 
 me,  your  grace's  most  simple  subject,  concerning  the  arch- 
 bishoprick  of  Canterbury  ;  in  consideration  whereof,  I  ought, 
 and  do,  acknowledge  my  most  bound  duty,  to  be  a  faithful 
 orator  for  your  grace  during  my  life.  Yet  calling  to  exami- 
 nation my  great  unworthincss  for  so  high  a  function,  which 
 mine  disabihty  I  might  allege  at  length  in  particularity,  but 
 for  molesting  your  grace's  most  weighty  affairs,  I  am  bold 
 thus,  by  my  writing,  to  approach  to  your  high  estate  reve- 
 rently on  my  knees,  beseeching  your  honour  to  discharge  me 
 of  that  so  high  and  chargeable  an  office,  which  doth  require 
 a  man  of  much  more  wit,  learning,  virtue,  and  experience, 
 than  I  see  and  perfectly  know  can  be  performed  of  me,  wor- 
 thily to  occupy  it  to  God's  pleasure,  to  your  grace's  honour, 
 and  to  the  wealth  of  your  loving  subjects,  beside  many  other 
 imperfections  in  me,  as  well  for  temporal  ability  for  the  fur- 
 nishing thereof  as  were  seemly  to  the  honour  of  the  realm, 
 as  also  of  infirmity  of  body,  which  will  not  suffer  me  to  attend 
 on  so  difficult  a  cure,  to  the  discharge  thereof  in  any  reason- 
 able expectation. 
 
 And  where,  most  gracious  lady,  beside  my  humble  duty 
 of  allegiance  to  your  princely  dignity,  I  am  otherwise,  for 
 the  great  benefits  which  sometime  I  received  at  your  grace's 
 honourable  mother's  benevolence  (whose  soul  I  doubt  not 
 but  is  in  blessed  felicity  with  God)  most  singularly  obliged, 
 above  many  other,  to  be  your  most  faithful  bedesman,  both 
 in  thanking  Almighty  God  for  his  fatherly  protection  hitherto 
 over  your  noble  person,  and  also  furthermore  to  pray  for  the 
 continuance  of  your  fortunate  reign  in  all  godly  prosperity ; 
 I  am  right  sorry,  and  do  lament  within  myself,  that  I  am  so 
 basely  qualified  inwardly  in  knowledge,  and  outwardly  in 
 extern  sufficiencies,  to  do  your  grace  any  meet  service  as 
 I  would  wish  could  be  acceptable,  and  to  your  grace's  expec- 
 tation :  assuring  your  noble  estate,  that  in  any  other  smaller 
 vocation,  under  the  degree  of  such  chargeable  offices,  and 
 more  agreeable  to  my  infirmity,  if  it  shall  be  so  seen  to  your 
 high  wisdom,  and  merciful  liberality,  I  shall  endeavour  myself 
 
1559.]      mi  MATTiiKU'  r.vitKnii  to  uibkn  ki.izauktii.        71 
 
 to  attciul  thereon  to  my  uttermost  power ;   referring  yet  my-  j",','„[^[;", 
 self  wholly  to  your  grace's  plo:isuro,  rather  than  by  just  alio-  jJj^^urT' 
 gation  of  mino  unworthiness   tho   loyal  duty   of  my   faithful 
 heart  should  bo  any  ways  suspected  to  your  reverend  Majesty. 
 
 Your  Grace's  poor  subject, 
 
 MATTHEW  rAlJKKK'. 
 
 LV. 
 
 LORD  KEEPER  BACON  TO  DR  MATTHEW  PARKER. 
 
 Probablj  June,  \5o9.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  10.  p.  12: 
 
 Oriff. 
 
 re- 
 solution come 
 
 The  former  resolution  concerninG:  you  is  now  confirmed  a  second 
 
 ^    *  solution  c-.. 
 
 by  a  second,    and  if  you  bo  not  already  sent  for  to  como  [.'[.r'^.haii'be 
 
 hither,   it  will  not  be  long  or  you  shall.      I  meant  before  I  Archbishop. 
 
 understood  thus  much,   to  have  had  you  this  night  at  supper 
 
 at  my  house,  for  the  matter  of  your  letters  delivered  to  mo 
 
 by  one  that  sued  for  a  7ie  exeat  rennum,  which  at  my  return  onesuwito 
 
 *  y  '  v  the  Keejicr 
 
 to  London  he  shall  have;  but  being:  countermanded  by  thef'"-arkj 
 
 '  &  ^  ^  ^  •/  exeat  reijnum 
 
 Queen,  I  must  intreat  you  to  take  pain  with  my  wife  to  pass  j^fi^'°*^  ^'*'^- 
 away  a  shrewd  supper.      Written  in  haste  from  the  Court  by 
 your  assuredly, 
 
 N.  BACON. 
 
 LVI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  (ELECT)  AND  OTHERS  TO  THE 
 L^^IVERSITY  OF  CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 8th  August,  1559.     Peck's  Desid.  Curios.  Lib.  vii.  No.  10.  from  a  MS.  of 
 Koger  Gale. 
 
 Understanding  that  you  be    presently   destitute    of  a-rheomccof 
 preacher  commonly  called  the  University  preacher,  and  con-  rrcac*hcr'^ 
 sidering  the  great  necessity  of  that  function,  we  have  thought  thccwiS* 
 
 good  with  all  convenient  expedition  to  provide  for  the  furnish-  misMoncrs 
 
 f  ^  ^  order  .in  inr 
 
 ing  of  that  room.      Wherefore  we  desire  and  likewise  require  ^^^'fj®. 
 
 \}  The  signature  and  the  greater  part  of  the  preceding  line  are 
 now  lost.     They  are  printed  here  as  given  in  Burnet's  Hist.  Reform.] 
 
The  lack  of 
 academical 
 degrees  dis- 
 pensed with 
 on  this  oc- 
 casion. 
 
 8th  Aug. 
 
 72    AKCHB.  TARKEIl  TO  THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  CAMBRIDGE.    [1559. 
 
 you,  that  forthwith  upon  receipt  of  these  our  letters,  you 
 proceed  to  the  election  of  such  a  learned  and  discreet  person 
 as  may  perform  his  duty  in  this  case  to  the  honour  of  the 
 University  and  discharge  of  your  conscience.  And  though 
 we  are  loth  to  recede  from  the  disposition  and  order  of  your 
 honourable  founders,  yet  in  respect  of  extreme  necessity 
 (which  in  itself  implieth  dispensation  with  all  laws)  we  will 
 and  do  supply,  with  our  authority,  the  lack  of  such  degrees, 
 as  peradventure  may  want  in  such  a  person  as  you  shall 
 otherwise  think  meet  for  this  room  by  your  due  consents ;  so 
 that  degrees  of  school  shall  in  this  case  be  no  lack,  in  consi- 
 deration of  your  small  number  and  weak  state  (which  God 
 increase).  And  your  good  examples  and  discreet  wisdoms 
 we  trust  will  herein  be  a  good  furtherance  and  great  help. 
 From  London,  this  eighth  of  August,  1559. 
 
 Your  loving  friends, 
 
 MATTHEUE,  {elect.)  CANT. 
 WALTER  HADDON. 
 PvOBEPvT  HOFvXE. 
 
 LVIL 
 
 THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER 
 AXD  BISHOP  GRINDAL,  ELECT. 
 
 24th  August,  1559.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  14.  p.  53. 
 
 After   our   very  hearty   commendations   to  your  good 
 Dr  Smyth,  of  lordships.     Whorcas  Doctor  Smyth  ^  of  Oxford,  having:  pre- 
 
 Oxford,  pre-  .     ^     .  n      i       i  i  •  r^         i         i     i        i       i  i 
 
 paring  to  flee  parsd  to  havc  flod  the  realm  into  Scotland,  hath  been  taken 
 
 into  Scot-         *■  ' 
 
 land,  has 
 been  taken 
 in  the  North. 
 
 \}  This  Dr  Smyth  had  been  formerly  "  Master  of  Whittington  Col- 
 lege, and  Reader  of  Divinity  in  Oxford."  In  Edward  Vlth's  reign 
 (1547),  Cranmer  persuaded  him  to  recant  at  Paul's  Cross  the  popish 
 errors  which  he  had  professed  publicly  in  the  University,  as  well  as  by 
 two  books  which  he  had  written.  In  1549,  however,  we  find  him  violently 
 opposing  the  Archbishop  on  the  subject  of  the  marriage  of  priests,  and 
 obliged  to  flee  into  Scotland  to  escape  the  consequences  of  his  turbu- 
 lence. Under  Mary  ho  conformed  to  the  restored  faith,  and  distin- 
 guished himself  in  the  proceedings  at  Oxford  against  Cranmer, 
 Latimer,  and  Ridley.  The  cause  of  the  present  letter  was  his  refusal 
 to  take  the  oath  of  supremacy.      His  scruples  were  removed  by  the 
 
1550.]       IA)UI>S   OF    illK   COI'NCII.  TO   Alii  llll.  lAUKKIl,  &C.       73 
 
 in  the  north  parts  uml  sent  hither  unto  us,  wo  havo  thoui^ht 
 gO(Kl  to  send  him  to  your  lordships,  praying  tlio  aarao  to  use  JJf^};^*^;,'" 
 such   niciisurcs  as  you   think  meet  to  pcrsuado  him  to  ho  an  jlf;,^,;",;  f,";;„. 
 oheditMit   siihjoct,   and    to   oml)raco   the  doctrino   ostahlishcd;  ;'.;';  *',';,',*"' 
 ^hereunto  if  ho  shall  shew  himself  conforniahlo,  then  wo  pray  'iui"him"io 
 you  to   Signify  tho   same  unto  us,  to  the  ena  wc  may  cause 
 bands  [sic]  to  he  taken  of  him  for  his  good  continuance  therein. 
 Otherwise,  if  he  be  obstinate  and  will  not  shew  himself  as  he  Ji!|^?;,"[,';.!" 
 ought,  then  wo  pray  you  to  let  us  also  understand  from  you  roi,',u.!riith 
 the  same,  to  tho  end  order  may  bo  given  for  his  further   pro-  fuVthVpro- 
 cecding  with,  according  to  tho  laws.      And  thus  wc  bid  your  "^'^  '"^'* 
 good  lordships  right  heartily  farewell. 
 
 From  Hampton  Court, \hc  24th  of  August,  1559.  \l'l^''^' 
 
 Your  Lordships*  assured  loving  friends, 
 
 ^y.  NORTH,    arundel.    f.  Bedford. 
 
 F.  KNOLLYS.  W.  CECILL. 
 
 To  our  vcnj  good  lords,  the  Archbishop 
 of  Canterburf/  and  the  Bishop  of 
 London,  elect. 
 
 LVIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  rARKEK,  ELECT,  TO  THE  LORDS  OF 
 THE  COUNCIL. 
 
 27th  August,  [15j9.]  Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.Camb.  cxix.  art.  42.  p.  110.  Draft. 
 
 Pleaseth  it  your  honours   to  be  advertised,  that  upon  The  Arch 
 
 •^  .  bishop  and 
 
 your  letters  sent  to  my  lord  of  London  and  me,  with   the  S^jJ^'"" 
 delivery  of  the  party,  Dr  Smyth,  whom  they  concerned,  we  ^jth^o^ 
 spent  some  time  with  him  in  conference ;  and  what  partly  by  fSJoment 
 our  allegations,   and  he  more  prcssly  weighing  the  form   of  ScoaThof 
 the  oath  of  tlie  Queen's  ^lajesty's  supremacy  by  the  exposi-  '"^''^^'°*''^- 
 
 Archbishop  and  the  Bishop  of  London,  and  himself  and  some  others  as 
 his  sureties,  were  bound  for  his  future  good  conduct.  Subsequently 
 he  contrived  to  get  released  from  his  bonds  and  fled  to  the  conti- 
 nent. There  are  two  lettere  of  his  to  Parker  (Parker  MS.  CXIX. 
 art.  43),  and  on  the  margin  of  the  first  Parker  has  noted  :  *  Notwith- 
 standing this  earnest  promise  and  bond,  yet  this  good  father  fled  into 
 Paris.  Such  was  his  faith.'  He  was  made  Dean  of  St  Peter's  at 
 Douay,  and  died  in  15G3.  See  Strype's  Cranmcr,  Book  ii.  c.  7,  and 
 Strype's  Parker,  Book  i.   c.  10.] 
 
74      ARCHB.   PARKER   TO   THE   LORDS   OF   THE   COUNCIL.     [1559. 
 
 tion  inserted  in  the  injunctions,  he  is  contented  to  take  it,  as 
 lie  saith,  with  a  full  persuaded  conscience :  and  saith  further, 
 that  if  he  had  so  understanded  it  afore,  as  he  seeth  cause  at 
 this  present,  he  would  never   have  departed  from  Oxford. 
 SuTedara'^  ^^^  ^°^'    *^  ^^^^  declaration  of  his  conformity,  I  offered 
 cmrfomiiy.   ^^^  *^  considcr  the  form  of  subscription  which  we  devised  to 
 be  used  in  the  order  of  visitations;  whereunto  he  hath,  as 
 your  lordships  see,  subscribed  gladly.     Now,  it  may  please 
 your  honourable  wisdoms  to  signify   your  further  pleasure, 
 how  he  shall  be  demeaned :  and  thus  committing  your  honour- 
 able   estates  to  the   protection  of  Almighty  God,  with  the 
 assurance  of   my   service  and  prayers,    I   cease   further  to 
 molest  your  honourable  affairs. 
 f7^  A"s-  At  Lambeth,  this  27th  of  August. 
 
 Your  humble  orator, 
 
 MATTH.  C. 
 
 LIX. 
 
 THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP 
 PARKER,  ELECT. 
 
 28th  August,  1550.     Lambeth  MS.  959.  No.  38.     Orig. 
 
 After  our  right  hearty  commendations  to  your  lordship. 
 By  your  letters  of  the  27th  of  this  month,  we  understand  at 
 good  length  your  travail  taken  with  Doctor  Smyth,  for  the 
 which  we  heartily  thank  you.      And  forasmuch  as  it  appear- 
 eth  unto  us  both  by  your  said  letters  and  by  the  said  Smyth'^s 
 own  subscription  also,  that  he  is  brought  to  good  terms  of 
 The  Arch-     couformity,  we  pray  your  lordship  to  take  good  bonds  of  him 
 bon^df  fo?     ^^^  ^^^  repair  unto  Oxford,  and  there  to  make  open  declara- 
 Spa^to^^    tion  of  this  his  conformity  in  open  presence  before  the  visitors 
 ^J'ma&JiSS  there,  unto  whom  we  have  directed  our  letters  for  that  pur- 
 er hf/^Jiin"    pose,  to  the  end  that  by  this  means  other  may  the  rather  be 
 ormity.       brought  to  follow  the  said  Smyth's  example.     And  so  we  bid 
 your  lordship  right  heartily  well  to  fare.     From  Hampton 
 28th  Aug.      Court,  the  28th  of  August,  1559. 
 
 Your  lordship'*s  loving  friends, 
 
 E.  CLYNTON.  W.  CECILL. 
 
 THO.  PARRY.         N.  WOTTON. 
 
1559.]     TUB  LORDS  or   THE  COUNCIL  To  AU(  IIU.  I'AIIKKU.       75 
 
 lA'. 
 
 THK   LORDS    OF     TIIK    COUNCIL  T(^   AKCIIIHSIIOP 
 PAKKER,  ELECT. 
 
 7th  September,  LV.'J.     Vnrker  ^L^S.  ('.  C.  Coll,  Canih.  cxiv.  nrt.  *J2.  p.  77.  Orip. 
 
 After   our  very  hearty    commendations   to    your  good  Anthony 
 lordship.      Where    one   Anthony   Atkins,   fellow    of   Morton  '[^nrrtuu-.i 
 College   in    Oxford,   having   been   called    before   the   visitors  ^^l.,','''.'!^ ;,*"** 
 there,  hath  not  only  refused   the  service   set  forth,  but  also  fc":!.*;';;;!'** 
 
 n)itte<l  tu  the 
 
 har- 
 
 used  such  lewd  language  as  we  have  thought  meet  to  commit  xowrr 
 him  for  the  same  to  tho  Tower,  the  particularities  of  which 
 his  misdemeanour  shall  appear  to  your  lordship  in  a  schedule 
 sent  unto  you  herewith ;  we  have  thought  good  to  pray  your 
 lordship  to  send  at  such  time  as  you  shall  think  convenient 
 for  the  said  Atkins  unto  you  (wherein  we  have  already  taken  xhc  Arch- 
 order  with  the  lieutenant  that  he  shall  be  brouMit  before  you  send  For  him 
 
 ,^,  *  and  use  such 
 
 when  vou  shall  call  for  him),  and  to  use  with  him  such  per-  persuasions 
 
 *  -^  ^  1  as  may  move 
 
 suasions  as  your  lordship  thinketh  meet,  to  move  him  to  be  confomwbie 
 conformable,  and  also  to  understand  of  the  lord  chief  justice 
 (if  the  attorney  and  solicitor  be  not  at  London)  what  his 
 offence  weigheth  unto  in  law.  And  what  you  shall  do  herein 
 we  pray  your  lordship  to  signify  unto  us^  And  thus  we  bid 
 your  good  lordship  right  heartily  farewell.  From  Hampton  7th sept. 
 Court,  the  7tli  of  September,  1559. 
 
 Your  good  lordship''s  assured  loving  friends, 
 
 W.  XORTIT. 
 
 THO.  PARRY.     G.  ROGERS.     F.  KNOLLYS. 
 
 WILLIAM  PETRE,   S.  N.  WOTTON. 
 
 [1  In  a  list  of  "recusants  which  are  abroad  and  bound  to  certain 
 places,"  printed  by  Strypo  in  his  Annals  of  the  Reformation,  under  tho 
 date  15G1,  there  occurs  "Anthony  Atkins,  clerk,  late  of  Oxford,  to 
 remain  within  tho  counties  of  Gloucester  and  Salop:"  and  in  tho 
 margin  is  added,  "A  learned  priest,  very  wilfal."  Strj'pe's  Annals, 
 Vol    I.  Part  T.  p.  412.     Svo.  Oxf.  1824.] 
 
76  SIR  NICHOLAS  l^ACON   TO  AUCIIB.   PARKER.  [1559. 
 
 LXI. 
 
 SIR     NICHOLAS    BACON     TO     ARCHBISHOP    PARKER, 
 ELECT. 
 
 9th  September,  15o9.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  40.  p.  125.    Orig. 
 
 Bacon  sends  I  SEND  youF  gracG  the  TOjal  assGiit,  sealed  and  delivered 
 
 tfide^tion  '^it^i'^  ^^^  hours  after  the  receipt  thereof,  wishing  unto  you 
 bfisho?'       ^s   g^o^  success  therein  as  ever  happed  to   any  that  have 
 received  the  like.      And  as  to  the  prolonging  of  my  return, 
 Away  from    it  fares  by  me  as  it  doth  by  a  bird  that  hath  scaped  out  of 
 
 the  court  .  i«i  •  i  n  ft 
 
 Bacon  is  like  the  Cage,  which  tastmg  the  sweetness  of  liberty  never  returns 
 ofthrf  T"  unforced.      Thus  with  thanks  for  your  letter  I  leave  any 
 
 further  to  trouble  you. 
 9  Sept.  1559.  From  Redgrave,  9th  September,  1559,  by  your  grace's 
 
 assuredly, 
 
 N.  BACON. 
 
 LXII. 
 
 THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP 
 PARKER,  ELECT. 
 
 23rd  September,  1559.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  25.  p.  81. 
 
 Mathewe,  After  our   vcry    hearty   commendations  to   your  good 
 
 Howe? CO.     lordship.     Whereas  one  Mathewe,  vicar  of  Howe  in  Kent, 
 
 Kent,  com-  •*•  -         ^•  t  •  i  y  •  •    ^  'jl 
 
 mittedtothe  y^as  for  ccrtaiu  disorders  in  that  his  parish,  committed  by  us 
 
 a  good  time  past  to  the  Marshalsea,  we  have  thought  good 
 
 to  pray  your  lordship   to  send  for  the  said  Mathewe  unto 
 
 The  Arch-     you,  and  if  you  shall  find  him  a  conformable  man  and  meet 
 
 for  him,  and  to   be  rotumed  to  his  cure,  and  sorry  also  for  his  former 
 
 set  him  at  .  , 
 
 b^/iSfbra-  ^^u^^'  ^^^^  ^®  P^^y  J^^^  lordship  to  cause  him  to  be  set  at 
 **''^-  liberty  and  sent  home  to  his  benefice  :   otherwise,  if  he  shall 
 
 appear  unto  your  lordship  one  not  meet  to  be  at  liberty,  then 
 we  pray  your  lordship  to  send  him  back  to  the  Marshalsea, 
 and  to  signify  unto  us  what  you  shall  do  herein.  And  thus 
 we  bid  your  lordship  heartily  farewell.  From  Hampton 
 23  Sept       Court,  the  23rd  of  September,  1559. 
 
 Your  good  lordship's  loving  friends, 
 
 W.  NORTH.     ARUNDEL.     THO.  PARRY. 
 G.  ROGERS.     F.  KNOLLYS.     W.   CECILL. 
 
 To  our  very  good  lord  the  Archbishop 
 of  Canterbury,  elect. 
 
 1559. 
 
1550.]    THK  LDuns  or  tiik  corNcii.  t<»  au<  iiii.  rAiiKiii.     77 
 
 lAIII. 
 
 THE  LORDS  OF  THK  COUNCIL  TO  ARCIIBISIIOP 
 I'AKKKK,  KLKCT. 
 
 27th  September,  LV.O.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Comb.  cix.  art.  3.  p.  Gl.     OnV- 
 
 Aftkk   our   right   hearty   coinnicndations  to   your   good 
 
 lordship.      Wo  by  the  advice  of  Mr  Ahiioncr  havo  sent  unto  xho  Ard.- 
 
 you  tlio  Bishop  of  Durham*    dcsirinjj  vou   to  appoint  a  fit  rrtdvr  " 
 y       ,        f       X.  ^  1  1  •      •  u.«h<p  Ton- 
 
 chamber  for   lum  and  one  man   to  attend  upon  him  in  your  ^lainuohu 
 
 .  .  ,  home  under 
 
 house  near  unto  you  ;  so  that  (at  times  to  you  seemmg  con-  r»traint- 
 venient)  you  may  havo  conference  witli  him  in  certain  points 
 of  rehi^ion  wherein  lie  is  to  be  resolved.  And  durino:  the 
 time  he  shall  remain  with  you,  to  have  a  vigilant  eye  that  no 
 man  have  access  unto  him,  but  yourself  and  such  as  you  shall 
 appoint ;  and  that  he  have  meat,  drink  and  all  things  neces- 
 sary as.  to  him  appertain  :  for  the  which  you  shall  be  assured 
 to  be  satisfied  with  thanks.  And  thus  most  heartily  fare  you 
 well.      From  Hampton  Court,  the  27th  of  September,  1559.    2rth  sc;.t. 
 
 Your  Lordship's  assured  loving  friends, 
 
 E.  CLYNTON.     W.  HOWARD. 
 THO.  PARRY.  G.  ROGERS.   F.  KX0LLY3.  W.  CECILL. 
 
 To  ovr  vertf  good  lord  the  Archbishop 
 of  Canttrhuryy  ( hct. 
 
 LXIV. 
 
 SIR  W.   CECIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER,  ELECT. 
 2nd  October,  ir.'O.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cix.  art.  5.  p.  G7.    Orig. 
 
 My  good  Lord,  the  contents  of  your  yesterday's  letters 
 I  have  imparted  to  her  Majesty  and  others  of  her  Majesty's  Hope  of 
 council.     It  is  much  liked  the  comfort  that  ye  give  of  the  tow^dn'^s. 
 Bishop  of  Durham's  towardness,  wherein  I  pray  God  ye  be 
 
 [1  Cuthbert  Tonstal.  Strypo  says  of  him  tliat  he  "  died  in  tlio 
 Archbishop's  house  at  Lambeth  in  Xovcmber  following  (i.  c.  in  No- 
 vember 15G0),  being  eighty-five  years  of  age.  But  before  his  death, 
 by  the  Archbishop's  means  he  was  brought  off  from  papistical  fancies." 
 Strype's  Parker,  B.  i.  c.  x.  p   94.] 
 
78      SIR  W.  CECIL  TO  ARCHB.  PARKER,  ELECT.      [1559. 
 
 not  deceived.  It  is  meant,  if  he  will  conform  himself,  that 
 both  ho  shall  remain  bishop  and  in  good  favour  and  credit ; 
 otherwise  he  must  needs  receive  the  common  order  of  those 
 which  refuse  to  obey  laws.  Good  my  Lord  travel  herein 
 S^*"^*       ^^  y^  °^^y  ^^^^^  speed.     2  October. 
 
 Yours  assuredly, 
 
 W.  CECILL. 
 
 To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God  the 
 Archbishop  of  Canterbury ,  elect. 
 
 I 
 
 LXV. 
 
 SIR  W.   CECIL  TO  ARCHBISKOP  PARKER,  ELECT. 
 
 5th  October,  1559.    Parker  MSS,  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cix.  art.  4.  p.  Qo.    Grig. 
 
 My  good  Lord,  the  Queen's  Majesty  is  very  sorry  that 
 
 ye  can   prevail   no  more    with  Mr  Tonstal,    and  so    am   I, 
 
 I  assure  you ;  for  the  recovery  of  such  a  man  would  have  fur- 
 
 Tonstai's       tliercd  the  common  affairs  of  this  realm  very  much.      Her 
 
 pension  to  be  __.  iiti  iiii  ti  t  t^i 
 
 proportioned  Maicstv  would  that  ho  should  have  liberty  to  send  to  Durham 
 
 to  his  con-  , 
 
 formity.  fQj.  dischargo  of  his  household.  And  further  ye  may  say  to 
 him  that  I  trust  her  Majesty  will  be  pleased  to  appoint  him 
 some  convenient  pension  in  consideration  of  his  reverend  age, 
 which  shall  also  be  the  larger  as  his  conformity  shall  give 
 occasion. 
 
 I  mean  to  send  Mr  Almoner  in  the  afternoon  to  you  with 
 a  determination  of  the  Queen's  Majesty  concerning  some 
 good  order  for  the  placing  of  all  the  bishops  now  void  in  the 
 realm,  and  other  like  promotions  ecclesiastical,  now  void  and 
 in  her  Majesty's  disposition.  Things  be  more  untoward  than 
 I  can  suddenly  rectify,  but  by  hope  of  God's  goodness  I  com- 
 fort myself.     And  so  take  my  leave. 
 
 6th  Oct.  From  Westminster,  the  5  of  October,  1559. 
 
 Your  Lordship's  assured  friend, 
 
 W.  CECILL. 
 
 To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God  the 
 Archbishop  of  Canterburyy  elect. 
 
1551).]        Alit  liM.  I'AUKKK   AND   OTIIEIUS   TO   Q.  lilA/.MW.Ml.        79 
 
 lAVI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PAUKKK  AND  OTHIiUS  TO  QUEEN 
 KLI/AllETH. 
 
 1W9.     rarkcr  MSS.  C.  C\  Coll.  Cunib.  cv.  art.  11.  p.  l'i>l.     Copy. 
 
 To  tho  (Queen's  most  excellent  Majesty. 
 
 We  knowing:    vour    gracious   clomencv,   and  consi Jcrino' The  whicm 
 the  necessity  of  the  matter  that  we  have  to  move,  the  one  "k«-«' Vv ''»« 
 doth  encourage   us,  and  tho  other  compel  us   (as  before)  to  |;;\|Jf;^;,-,",'"[,y 
 make  our  humble  petition  unto  your  higlmess,  and  to  renew  on/,enl!!^i!^ 
 our  former  suit,  not  in  any   respect  of  selfwill,  stoutness,  or  aLm""*''* 
 striving  against  your  Majesty  (God  we  take  to  witness) ;  for  ""' 
 ¥rith   David  wo  confess   that  we  are  but  as    Canes   mortui 
 ant  puUces  in  comparison  :  but  wo  do  it  only  for  that  fear 
 and  reverence,  which  we  bear  to  the  Majesty  of  the  Almighty 
 God,  in  whose  hands  to  fall  it  is  horrible  ;  for  it  lieth  in  his 
 power  to  destroy  for  ever,  and  to  cast  both  body  and  soul 
 into    hell- tire  ;    and  lest  in  giving  just  oticnco  to  tho   little 
 ones,  in  setting  a  trap  of  error  for  the  ignorant,  and  in  dig- 
 ging a  pit  for  the  blind  to  fall  into,  we  should  not  only  bo 
 guilty  of  the  blood  of  our  brethren,  and  deserve  the  wrath- 
 ful   vce    and   vengeance  of  God,    but    also   procure   to  our 
 reclaiming  consciences  the  biting  worm  that  never  dicth,  for 
 our  endless  confusion.      For  in  what  thing  soever  we  may 
 serve  your  excellent  Majesty,  not  offending  the  Divine  Ma- 
 jesty of  God,  we  shall  with  all  humble  obedience  be  most 
 ready  thereunto,  if  it  be  even  to  the  loss  of  our  lives ;  for  so 
 God  commandeth  us,  duty  requireth  of  us,  and  we  with  all 
 conformity  have  put  in  proof.      And  as  God  through  your 
 gracious    government   hath    delivered   unto    us    innumerable 
 benefits,  which  we  most  humbly  acknowledo'e,  and  with  due  xhcy  doubt 
 
 •^  ^  not  that,  un- 
 
 reverence  daily   give  him   thanks,  so  wo  do  not  doubt  but ''«''•«"'l.'h.^r 
 ,  ^      .  ^  .  .  .  .  Majesty  will 
 
 that  of  his  mercy  he  will  happily  finish  in  your  Majesty  that  ',',',1''^'/,^^    i. 
 good  work,  which  of  his  free  favour  he  hath  most  graciously  ch^eh.- 
 begun ;    that  following  the  worthy    examples  of    tho  godly 
 princes  which  have  gone  before,  ye  may  clearly  purge  the 
 polluted  church,  and  remove  all  occasions  of  evil.     And  for  They  h.ive 
 so  much  as  we  have  heretofore  at  sundry  times  made  petition  made iH^ntion 
 to  your  Majesty,  concerning  the  matter  of  images,  but  at  no  j»^  "'^«er  of 
 time  exhibited  any  reasons  for  the  removing  of  the  same ; 
 
reasons 
 for  their  ro- 
 moval,  which 
 they  now 
 adduce. 
 
 80  AKCHBISHOP  PARKER  AND   OTHERS  [1559. 
 
 now,  lest  we  should  seem  to  say  much  and  prove  little,  to 
 allege  consciences  without  the  warrant  of  God''s  word,  and 
 unreasonably  require  that,  for  the  which  we  can  give  no 
 gi'/iiTg'^""^  reason,  we  have  at  this  time  put  in  writing,  and  do  most 
 humbly  exhibit  to  your  gracious  consideration  those  authori- 
 ties of  the  Scriptures,  reasons,  and  pithy  persuasions,  which 
 as  they  have  moved  all  such  our  brethren,  as  now  bear  the 
 office  of  bishops,  to  think  and  affirm  images  not  expedient  for 
 the  church  of  Christ,  so  will  they  not  suffer  us,  without  the 
 great  offending  of  God,  and  grievous  wounding  of  our  own 
 consciences  (which  God  deliver  us  from),  to  consent  to  the 
 erecting  or  retaining  of  the  same  in  the  place  of  worshipping. 
 And  we  trust  and  most  earnestly  ask  it  of  God,  that  they  may 
 also  persuade  your  Majesty,  by  your  regal  authority,  and  in 
 the  zeal  of  God,  utterly  to  remove  this  offensive  evil  out  of 
 the  Church  of  England,  to  God's  great  glory,  and  our  great 
 comfort. 
 
 REASONS    AGAINST    IMAGES    IN    CHURCHES. 
 
 Certain  reasons  which  move  us  that  we  cannot  with  safe 
 consciences  give  our  assents  that  the  images  of  Christ, 
 &c.  should  be  placed  and  erected  in  churches. 
 
 The  words  of        First,  the  words  of  the  commandment,  "  Thou  shalt  not 
 
 the  com-  '  ' 
 
 mandment.  make  to  thysclf  auy  graven  imaged"  &c.  Exodixx.  And  the 
 same  is  repeated  more  plainly,  Deuteron.  xxvii.,  Maledictus 
 homo  quifacit  sculptile  et  conflatile  etc.  ponitque  illud  in 
 ahscondito.     Et  dicet  omnis  popuhis  Amen  ^ 
 
 In  the  first  place  these  words  are  to  be  noted,  Thou 
 shalt  not  make  to  thyself,  that  is,  to  any  use  of  religion. 
 
 In  the  latter  place  these  words,  And  setteth  it  in  a  secret 
 place,  for  no  man  durst  then  commit  idolatry  openly. 
 
 So  that,  conferring  the  places,  it  doth  evidently  appear, 
 that  images  both  for  use  of  religion  and  in  place  of  peril  for 
 idolatry  are  forbidden, 
 
 God,  knowing  the  inclination  of  man  to  idolatry,  sheweth 
 the  reason  why  he  made  this  general  prohibition  :  Ne  forte 
 errore  deceptus  adores  ea  et  colas. 
 
 This   general  law  is   generally  to  be  observed,  notwith- 
 standing that  peradventure  a  great  number  can  not  be  hurt 
 by  them ;    which  may  appear  by  the  example  following. 
 1  Exod.  XX.  2  Deut.  xxvii. 
 
IjjIK]  to   QlliEN    KLIZAUETII.  81 
 
 The  viilli  of  Dcuteroii.  (iod  forbad  tlio  poojdo  to  join 
 their  children  in  marriage  with  strangers,  adding  the  reason, 
 Quia  si'ilt wet  /ilium  tuum  ue  ,st'<iu<ifttr  me^. 
 
 Moses  was  not  deceived  by  Jethro's  daughter,  nor  IJooz 
 by  Kuth  being  a  woman  of  Moab. 
 
 And  vet  for  all  that  the  iieneral  law  was  to  be  observed, 
 "Thou  shah  join  no  marriages  with  them."  And  so  likewise, 
 '•  Thou  shalt  not  make  to  thyself  any  graven  image,  &c." 
 
 The  ivth  of  Deuteronomy  God  giveth  a  special  charge 
 to  avoid  images,  where  it  is  written,  "Beware  that  thou  for- 
 get not  the  covenant  of  the  Lord  thy  God  which  ho  made 
 with  thee,  and  so  make  to  thyself  any  graven  image  of  any 
 thinjx  which  the  Lord  hath  forbidden  thee.  For  the  Lord 
 thy  God  is  a  consuming  fire,  and  a  jealous  God.  If  thou 
 have  children  and  nephews,  and  do  tarry  in  the  land,  and 
 being  deceived  do  make  to  yourselves  any  graven  image, 
 doing  evil  before  the  Lord  your  God,  and  provoke  him  to 
 anger ;  I  do  this  day  call  heaven  and  earth  to  witness  that 
 ye  shall  quickly  perish  out  of  the  land  which  ye  shall  pos- 
 sess. Ye  shall  not  dwell  in  it  any  long  time,  but  the  Lord 
 will  destroy  you,  and  scatter  you  amongst  all  nations*,"  &c. 
 
 yotQ  what  solemn  obtestations  God  useth,  and  what 
 grievous  punishments  he  threateneth  to  the  breakers  of  the 
 second  commandment. 
 
 In  the  tabernacle  and  temple  of  God  no  image  was  by 
 God  appointed  openly  to  be  set,  nor  by  practice  afterward 
 used  or  permitted,  so  long  as  religion  was  purely  observed. 
 So  that  the  use  and  execution  of  the  law  is  a  good  interpreter 
 of  the  true  meaning  of  the  same. 
 
 If  by  virtue  of  the  second  commandment  images  were 
 not  lawful  in  the  temple  of  the  Jews^  then  by  the  same  com- 
 mandment they  are  not  lawful  in  the  churches  of  the  Chris- 
 tians. For  being  a  moral  commandment,  and  not  ceremonial, 
 (for  by  consent  of  writers  only  a  part  of  the  precept  of  ob- 
 serving the  Sabbath  is  ceremonial)  it  is  a  perpetual  command- 
 ment, and  bindeth  us  as  well  as  the  Jews. 
 
 The  Jews  by  no  means  would  consent  to  Herod,  Pilate,  thcj 
 or  Petronius,  that  images  should  be  placed  in  the  temple  at  J'e  H'an  k*-^ 
 Hierusalem,  but  rather  offered  themselves  to  the  death  than  j;|^^;fi^  »;f '''S 
 
 cws 
 ouKi  railer 
 
 the  temple. 
 
 3  Deut.  vii.  [4].  <  Deut.  iv.  [23 — 27].  ^  ExcJ.  xx.  [4]. 
 
 [park.  cor. J 
 
82 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  AND  OTHERS 
 
 [1559. 
 
 God's  Scrip- 
 ture against 
 the  use  of 
 images. 
 
 Testimonies 
 of  the  book 
 of  Wisdom. 
 
 to  assent  unto  it^ :  who,  besides  that  they  are  commended  of 
 Joscphus  for  observing  the  meaning  of  the  law,  would  not 
 have  endangered  themselves  so  far  if  thej  had  thought  images 
 had  been  indifferent  in  the  temple  of  God ;  for,  as  St  Paul 
 saitli,   Quid  templo  Dei  cum  simulacris'^ ? 
 
 God's  Scripture  doth  in  no  place  commend  the  use  of 
 images,  but  in  a  great  number  of  places  doth  disallow  and 
 condemn  them. 
 
 They  are  called  in  the  book  of  Wisdom  the  trap  and 
 snare  of  the  feet  of  the  ignorant  \ 
 
 It  is  said  the  invention  of  them  was  the  beginning  of 
 spiritual  fornication;  and  that  they  were  not  from  the  be- 
 ginning, neither  shall  they  continue  to  the  end*. 
 
 In  the  xvth  chapter  it  is  said,    Umbra  picturce  labor 
 
 1  Joseph.  Antiquit.  Lib.  xvii.  cap.  8. ;  Lib.  xvni.  cap.  5.  et  15. 
 ["  KaretrKeva/cei'  be  6  ^acriXevs  [^Hpa>di]sj  vrrep  tov  nvXoiVos  tov  fxcyaXov  tov 
 vaov  dvddrjfia  Koi  Xcav  TroXvreXes,  derov  ;^pv(reov  fieyav.  KoiXvei  de  6  pofios 
 eiKOVcov  T€  dvao-rdo-eis  eVtJ/oeTi/  koi  rivoiv  ^cocop  dvadeaets  eTnTrjdcvea-dat  toIs 
 ^lovv  KOT  avTov  7rpoT]pT]fievois.  *  cocrre  CKeXcvov  ol  <ro(pi(rTa.\  tov  derou 
 Karaanav  koL  yap  et  tls  av  yevoiTO  klpBvpos  tw  els  ddvarop  dpaKeipievcd, 
 TToXv  rfjs  ev  rw  ^fjp  rjhoprjs  XvaireXecTTepap  (paivecrBat  rfjv  TrpoTedeipeprjv 
 dpeTTjv  VTT  avTov,  roTs-  eVi  acnT-qpla  Koi  (j)vXaKfj  tov  iraTpiov  fxeXXi^aovcn  re- 
 XevTap,  Blo.  to  didiop  tov  enaLvelaOai  (Pijfxrjp  KaracrKevaaafiepovs  ep  re  Tols 
 pvp  eTraive6^(rea6at  koi  to7s  ecronepois  deipLpr^pLovevTop  KaToXme^p  top  ^Iop.'  " 
 — Flavii  Josephi  Antiq.  Jud.  Lib.  xvii.  cap.  6.  Tom.  i.  p.  843.  ed. 
 Havercampi,  1726. 
 
 "UiXaTos  6e  .  .  .  eVt  KaToXixret  tcop  vop-cop  rcov  ^lovBdiKap,  fla-ecPprjac 
 TrpoToixas  Kato-apos,  at  Tals  arjuaiais  TTpoarjaav,  elcray6p.epos  els  Trjv  TroXip^ 
 (Ikopcop  TTOLTjaiP  dirayopevovTOs  "qp-i-P  tov  popov  .  .  .  .  oi  de  ['louSaloi]  exrei 
 eypaxraPf  /caret  7vXr]6vv  naprjaap  els  Kai(rdpeiav,  iKeTeiap  TTOiovpevoi  eTrl 
 TToXXas  7]pepas,  enl  peTaOeaei  tcop  elKOPoap  ....  ttoXip  be  Ta>v  'lovbaiau 
 iKeTeia  ;^p6)^leJ/a}I/,  dno  crvpOrjpaTos  TrepLO-Trjcras  tovs  aTpoTLcoTaSt  ijneiXei 
 BdpaTOP  eTTid^aeLv  ^rjpiap  eK  tov  o^ecoy,  el  pr]  7ravadp.epoi  6opv^elp  enl  to. 
 oi/ceia  aTTLOLev.  ol  be  Trprjvels  pl-^aPTes  eavTovs,  Kal  yvppovvTes  Tas  a-(f)ayasy 
 Tjbovfj  be^ecrOai  tov  OdvaTov  eXeyop,  rj  ToXp-rjaeip  ttjp  cocpiap  Trapa^TjcreaBai, 
 T(op  popcovy  K.T.X." — lb.  Lib.  xvm.  cap.  3,  pp.  875,  6. 
 
 "  UavTaTraari  be  oXiyov  ;^poi'oi'  bieXdoPTos,  AcopLTai  peapiaKOi  .  .  ,  Kai- 
 crapos  dpbpidpTa  KopLiadvTes  els  Trjv  tcop  ^lovbaiav  avvaycoyrjp  dvearqaav. 
 TOVTo  acpobpa  top  ^ypimvav  Tvapu>^vve^  KaToXvcnp  yap  tcop  naTpicop  avTov 
 pupcov  ebvpaTO,  dpeXXT)T\  brj  npus  IIovTrXiop  TLeTpcopiop,  i]yepcop  be  Trjs  2vpias 
 ovTos  j)p,  irapayipeTai,  koi  KaraXeyeL  tcop  AcopiTcop.  6  be  ovk  i)ttop  enl  tcj 
 npaxOePTL  ;(aX67rJ7i'aff,  Ka\  yap  avTos  eKpipep  dae^eiap  ttjp  tSp  ippop-cuv 
 TTapdlSacnp,  Tols  nTrocrrao'i  tcop  Acopircop  avp  opyfj  tovto  eypaxfre,  K.r.e."— 
 lb.  Lib.  XIX.  cap.  G.  p.  94G.] 
 
 2  2  Cor.  vi.  [16].  3  Sap.  xiv.  [ll].  p  lb.  xW.  12,  13.] 
 
1559.]  TO  QUEEN  EUZABETII.  83 
 
 .s/;jf  /*n/(V»\    Item:   "  Thoy  arc  worthy  of  dcatli,  l)oth  tliat 
 
 put  tlioir  trust  in  them,   ami  that  make  them,  and  that  lovo 
 
 tliem,  and  that  worship  thcm^" 
 
 The  Tsahns  and  Trophets  are  full  of  like  sentences.  ofihfPi«im« 
 
 And  liow  can  wo  then  praise  the  thin<j:  wliich  (lod's  Spirit  •'''•^'' 
 
 doth  always  dispraise  ? 
 
 Furthermore,  an  imairo  made  by  a  father  (as  appearcth  Tho nnt  m- 
 
 ^  ,     •  ,  V  I  X  vc-niion  of 
 
 in  the  same  iilace)  for  the  memorial  of  his  son  departed,  was  ''".ik'-^  and 
 the  tirst  invention  of  images  and  occasion  of  idolatry*^.  woutry. 
 
 lIow  much  more  then  shall  an  imao^o  made  in  the  memory 
 of  Christ,  and  set  up  in  the  place  of  religion,  occasion  the 
 same  offence  ? 
 
 Images  have  their  origin  and  beginning  from  the  heathen,  imaRcshare 
 and  of  no  ffood  jrround^.    Therefore  they  can  not  be  profitable  from  the 
 
 ~  O  «/  1  ^    ^  heathen,  and 
 
 to   Christians.      Whereunto   Athanasius    agreeth,    writing  of  [Jj<j^^'"^^^^"- 
 images  against  the  Gentiles,  thus  :  y)  twu  e'MXwv  evpeais  ouk  SuSms. 
 ciTT   ayauou  uW   airo  KciKta^  yeyove,  to  ve  ryjv  cipx^jv  tiyov 
 KQKtjv  €1/  ovdevi  TTore  koXov  KpiOeitj,  iXov  ov  (pavXov^. 
 
 St  John  saith'" :  *'  My  little  children,  beware  of  imajrcs.'*  saint  John 
 
 •^  '  O  saith,  Beware 
 
 But  to  set  them  in  churches,  which  are  places  dedicated  to  "^'Jfy,!, 
 the  service  and  invocation  of  God,  and  that  over  the  Lord's  y^^a 
 table,  being  the  highest  and  most  honourable  place,  where  u n^to b^ 
 most  danger  of  abuse  both  is  and  ever  hath  been,   is  not  to  rh"m° 
 beware  of  them  or  to  fly  from  them,  but  rather  to  embrace 
 and  receive  them. 
 
 Tertullian,  expounding  the  same   words,    writeth    thus ;  |«y^J'^»°  o" 
 FilioU,  [inquit,]  custodite  vos  ah  idolis.     Non  jam  ah  ido-  ^°^'^^- 
 lolatria,   quasi   ah   officio,   sed  ah   idolis,   id   est,  ah  ipsa 
 effiijie  eorimi^K 
 
 Imao:es  in  the  church  either  serve  to  edify  or  to  destroy:  images  in 
 
 o     .  .  .  ...  the  church 
 
 if  they  edify,  then  is  there  one  kind  of  edification  which  the  o'/J^t^o  f^^ 
 
 5  Sap.  XV.  [4.] 
 
 [0  The  words  of  Wisd.  xv.  G  are :  *"'  Both  they  that  make  them, 
 they  that  desire  them,  and  they  that  worship  them,  are  lovers  of  evil 
 things,  and  are  worthy  to  have  such  things  to  trust  upon."] 
 
 7  Sap.  xiv.  [15.] 
 
 8  Euseb.  Ecclcsiast.  Ilistor.  Lib.  vii.  cap.  18.  [cos  cIkos  ra>v  na- 
 XatcGi/  dnapacPvXdKTais  ola  (rcorripas  iOviKj]  avvqOeia  Trap*  eavrot?  tovtov 
 Tipav  (ica)66t(ov  tov  Tporrov. — Euseb.  Hist.  Paris.  lGo9.  Tom.  i.  p.  265. J 
 
 9  Athanas.  contra  Gentcs.  [Op.  Tom.  i.  p.  S  c.  Paris.  1G27.] 
 
 10  1  John  V.  [21]. 
 
 11  Tertull.  do  Corona  Milit.  ^Opp.  fo.  Basil.  1528,  p.  4G.5.] 
 
 6—2 
 
 but 
 
 them 
 
 •hiirches, 
 
 I  over  the 
 
 Loni's  table, 
 
84  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  AND  OTHERS  [1559. 
 
 Scriptures  neither  teach  nor  commend,  hut  always  disallow : 
 if  they  destroy,  they  are  not  to  be  used ;  for  in  the  church 
 all  things  ought  to  be  done  to  edify  ^ 
 A  stumbling-         Tho  commandmcnt  of  God  is :   *'  Thou   shalt  not  lay  a 
 
 block  ovi>;ht  .  " 
 
 not  to  be  laid  s^mjitjlincrblock  or  stone  before  the  blmd^"" 
 
 before  the  O 
 
 Se^si'inpTe '^'  ^^^f  **  Curscd  is  he  that  maketh  the  blind  wander  in  his 
 edteopk"^"  way^"  The  simple  and  unlearned  people,  who  have  been  so 
 long  under  blind  guides,  are  blind  in  matters  of  religion,  and 
 inclined  to  error  and  idolatry.  Therefore  to  set  images 
 before  them  to  stumble  atS  or  to  lead  them  out  of  the  true 
 way,  is  not  only  against  the  commandment  of  God,  but  de- 
 serveth  also  the  malediction  and  curse  of  God. 
 
 The  use  of  images  is  to  the  learned  and  confirmed  in 
 knowledge  neither  necessary  nor  profitable ;  to  the  super- 
 stitious, a  confirmation  in  error  ;  to  the  simple  and  weak,  an 
 occasion  of  fall,  and  very  offensive  and  wounding  of  their  con- 
 sciences :  and  therefore  very  dangerous. 
 
 For  saith  St  Paul:  "  Offending  your  brethren,  and  wound- 
 ing  their  weak  consciences,  ye  sin  against  Christ^."  And, "  woe 
 be  to  him  by  whom  offence  or  occasion  of  fall  cometh.  It 
 were  better  that  a  millstone  were  tied  about  his  neck,  and  he 
 cast  into  the  sea,  than  to  offend  one  of  the  little  ones  that  be- 
 lieve in  Christ^." 
 An  answer  to         And  whcro  objection  may  be  made  that  such  offence  may 
 
 the  objection,  t;  «/  ^ 
 
 ftnce  mav^be  ^®  takcu  away  by  sincere  doctrine  and  preaching ;  it  is  to  be 
 b^^fi^ceTe^    answered,   that  that  is  not  sufficient,  as  hereafter  more  at 
 prSiTig"^  large  shall  be  declared.    And  though  it  should  be  admitted 
 as  true,  yet  should  it  follow  that  sincere  doctrine  and  preach- 
 ing should  always,  and   in  all  places,  continue  as  well   as 
 images.     And  so,  that  wheresoever  an  image  to  offence  were 
 erected,   there  should    also   of  reason  a   godly  and   sincere 
 preacher  be  continually  maintained :  for  it  is  reason  that  the 
 remedy  be  as  large  as  is  the  offence,  the  medicine  as  general  as 
 the  poison.    But  that  is  not  possible  in  the  realm  of  England, 
 if  images  should  generally  be  allowed ;  as  reason  and  experi- 
 ence may  teach. 
 An^rgimient        As  good  magistrates,  which  Intend  to  banish  all  whoredom, 
 good'magL   ^0  drive  away  all  naughty  persons,  especially  out   of  such 
 
 trales. 
 
 1  1  Cor.  xiv.  [26].        ^  Levitic.  xix.  [14j.        3  Dgut.  xxvii.  [18]. 
 
 4  Sap.  xiv.  [ll].     Muscipula)  pcdibus  insipientium. 
 
 5  1  Cor.  viii.  [12].  6  Matt,  xviii.  [6]. 
 
Ijj:).]  to   lilKEN    ELI/.AUETII.  85 
 
 places  as  bo  suspected  ;  oven  so  imafjes  being  merctrircji^  for  i|";j7jj 
 lliat  tlio  worshipping  of  them  is  called   in  the  proj  hets  forni- 
 cation and  adultery,  ought  to  bo  banished,  and  especially  out 
 of  churches,  which  is  the  most  suspected  place,  and  where  the 
 spiritual  fornication  hath  been  most  committed. 
 
 It  is  not  expedient  to  allow  and  admit  the  thing  which  is 
 hurtful  to  the  greatest  number.  Hut  in  all  churches  and  com- 
 monwealths, the  ignorant  and  weak  arc  the  greatest  number, 
 to  whom  images  aro  hurtful  and  not  profitable. 
 
 And  where  it  is  commonly  alleged  that  imajjcs  in  churches  ''"•'kt"''' 
 do  stir  up  the  mind  to  devotion,  it  may  be  answered  that,  dt.'""uou.'" 
 contrariwise,  they  do  rather  distract  the  mind  from  prayer, 
 hearing  of  God's  word,  and  other  godly  meditations;  as  wo 
 read  that  in  the  council-chamber  of  the  Lacedromonians  no 
 picturo  or  imago  was  suffered,  lest,  in  consultation  of  weighty 
 matters  for  the  common  weal,  their  minds,  by  the  sight  of 
 the  outward  image,  might  be  occasioned  to  be  withdrawn,  or 
 io  wander  from  the  matter. 
 
 The  experience  also  of  this  present  time  doth  declare  that 
 tliose  parts  of  the  realm  which  think,  and  are  persuaded,  that 
 God  is  not  offended  by  doing  outward  reverence  to  an  image, 
 do  most  desire  the  restitution  of  images,  and  have  been  most 
 diligent  to  set  them  up  again,  llestitution  therefore  of  them  xhercstitu- 
 by  common  authority  shall  confirm  them  more  in  their  error,  imagts  shaii 
 
 •  *  ^  connrm  mea 
 
 to  the  danger  of  their  souls,  than  ever  they  were  before ;   for  {",^f"°n'gJJ 
 as  one  man  writeth  :  NUdL  mar/is  est  certuni  quam  quod  ex  ^Jii!'' 
 dubio  factum  est  certtim. 
 
 The  profit  of  images  is  uncertain,  the  peril  by  experience  The  profit  of 
 
 r  o  '  1  «/  i  ^        lUKifjcs  IS  un- 
 
 of  all  ages  and  states  of  the  church  (as  afore)  is  most  certain.  ^Smost^ 
 The  benefit  to  be  taken  of  them  (if  there  be  any)  is  very  *^'^°- 
 small.      The  danger  ensuing  of  them,   which  is  the  danger  of 
 idolatry,  is  the  greatest  of  all  other. 
 
 Now  to  allow  a  most  certain  peril  for  an  uncertain  profit, 
 and  the  greatest  danger  for  the  smallest  benefit  in  matters  of 
 faith  and  religion,  is  a  tempting  of  God,  and  a  grievous  offence. 
 
 PROOFS    OUT     OF     THE    FATHERS,    COUNCILS    AND    HISTORIES. 
 
 First,  it  is  manifest  that  in  the  primitive  Church  images  ["echCSl'' 
 were  not  commonly  used  in  churches,  oratories,  and  places  of  n'^r^.^dT^ 
 assembly  for  religion,  but  thev  were  jrenerally  detested  and  t^hc  warn  of" 
 
 11  1-  11  i"  n    ■  i-ii   thon  wasob- 
 
 abnorrcd,  insomuch  that  the  want  ot  imagery  was  ooiected  jertedtothe 
 
 .     .  .  O      ./  J  Christians. 
 
 to  the  Christians  for  a  crime. 
 
8G 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  AND  OTHERS 
 
 [1559. 
 
 Origcn. 
 Arnobius. 
 
 Zophyrus. 
 
 Ircnapus. 
 
 Lactantius. 
 
 Augustine. 
 
 Orlgen  reporteth  that  Celsus  objected  the  lack  of  images^ 
 Arnobius  saith  also  that  the  Ethnics  accused  the  Christians 
 that  they  had  neither  altars  nor  images  2. 
 
 Zephyrus,  in  his  commentary  upon  the  Apology  of  Ter- 
 tuUian,  gathcreth  thus  of  Tertullian"*s  words  :  Qui  locus 
 persuadendi  frigeret  penitus,  nisi  perpetuo  illud  teneamuSf 
 Christianos  tunc  temporis  odisse  maxime  statuas  cura  suis 
 ornamentis,  etc.  ^ 
 
 Irena)U3*  reproveth  the  heretics  called  Gnostici,  for  that 
 they  carried  about  the  image  of  Christ  made  in  Pilate's  time 
 after  his  own  proportion  (which  was  much  more  to  be  es- 
 teemed than  any  that  can  be  made  now),  using  also,  for  de- 
 claration of  their  affection  towards  it,  to  set  garlands  upon 
 the  head  of  it. 
 
 Lactantius  affirm eth  plainly,  Quod  non  est  dubium  quin 
 religio  nulla  sit,  ubicunque  simulachrum  est^.  If  Christians 
 had  then  used  images,  he  would  not  have  made  his  proposition 
 so  large. 
 
 Saint  Augustine  commendeth  Varro  the  Roman  in  these 
 words :    Qumn  Varro  existimaverit  castius  sine  simulachris 
 
 1  Contra  Celsum,  Lib.  iv.  [The  following  is  perhaps  the  passage 
 referred  to  :  "  Mera  ravra  be  6  KeXcros  (^rja\v  r^ias  ^(ofiovs  /cat  ayaXfMaTa 
 Koi  vews  IdpvcrOai  (pevyeiv." — Contra  Cels.  Lib.  Till.  c.  17.  In  Lib.  vir. 
 c.  62,  these  words  of  Celsus  in  reference  to  the  Christians  are  quoted : 
 " ovK  av€)(0VTai  vea>s  opcovres  koX  ^(opovs  koi  dyaXfiaTa"  0pp.  Studio 
 Carol.  Delarue,  Paris.  1733,  Vol.  i.  pp.755,  738.] 
 
 [2  In  hac  enim  consuestis  parte  crimen  nobis  maximum  impietatis 
 affigcre,  quod  neque  aides  sacras  venerationis  ad  officia  construamus, 
 non  Deorum  alicujus  simulachrum  constituamus,  aut  formam :  non 
 altaria  fabricemus,  non  aras,  &c. — Arnob.  Disput.  ady.  Gentes,  Lib. 
 Sextus,  ad  init.  libr.,  p.  189.  Lugd.  Batav.  1651.] 
 
 [3  The  precise  words  of  Zephyrus  are,  "  Qui  locus  persuadendi 
 frigeret  penitus  hoc  tempore  (quanquam  ex  abundantia  haic  ad  plebem 
 dicta  sunt)  nisi  perpetuo  illud  teneamus,  Christianos  tunc  temporis 
 odisse  maxime  statuas  cum  suis  ornamentis,  et  in  fundendis  precibus 
 quemhbet  sibi  angulum  ut  in  coelum  suspicerent  satis  esse  putasse." 
 Tertulliani  Opera.  Paris.  1566.  8vo.  Vol.  ii.  p.  674.] 
 
 4  Lib.  I.  cap.  24.  [Gnosticos  so  autem  vocant :  etiam  imagines 
 quasdam  quidem  depictas,  quasdam  autem  et  de  reliqua  materia  fa- 
 bricatas  habent,  dicentes  formam  Christi  factam  a  Pilato,  illo  in  tem- 
 pore quo  fuit  Jesus  cum  hominibus.  Et  has  coronant,  et  proponunt 
 eas  cum  imaginibus  mundi  philosophorum,  &c. — Iren.  adv.  Hceres. 
 Lib.  I.  cap.  24.,  sub  fin.,  cap.  p.  102.    Oxf  1702.] 
 
 6  Divin.  Institut.  Lib.  ll.  cap.  19.  [cap.  18.  Vol.  i.  p.  229.  Lugd. 
 Batav.  1660.] 
 
1551).]  TO   Ql  KEN    KLIZAnKTII.  87 
 
 observari  rtliifionem,  (/uis  mm  vidct  (juantuin  upprajtiiumn- 
 verit  veritati^?  So  that  not  only  by  M.  Varro's  judgment 
 but  also  by  St  Aui^ustinc's  approbation,  the  most  j)iiro  and 
 chaste  observation  ot'  rchi^ion,  and  nearest  the  truth,  is  to  bo 
 >vithout  images.  Tlio  samo  St  Auguatino  in  another  place  n.ia. 
 hath  these  words :  Plus  valcnt  simulachra  ad  curvandam 
 iii/tlicem  aniniatn  <ptam  ad  docendam"^. 
 
 And  upon  the  same  psalm  lie  movcth  this  question :  Qui- 
 vis  piter  itno  quan'is  hestia  scit  non  esse  JJcum  quod  videt^ 
 Cur  ejyo  sjyiritus  sanctus  toties  monet  cavoulum  quod  omncs 
 sciunt  ? 
 
 Saint  Augustine  answercth  :  Quoniam  quum  poniintur  in 
 tempiis  et  semd  incipiunt  adorari  a  multUudinCy  stathii  nas- 
 citur  sordidissimus  affcctus  erroris^.  This  place  of  St  Augus- 
 tine doth  well  open  how  weak  a  reason  it  is  to  say,  Images 
 are  a  thing  indifferent  in  chambers,  ergo  in  churches.  For  The  aitcra- 
 the  alteration  of  the  place,  manner,  and  other  circumstances,  piacc,  man- 
 doth  alter  oftentimes  the  nature  of  the  thing:.     It  is  lawful  to  other circum- 
 
 o  ^     stances,  doth 
 
 buy  and  sell  in  the  market,  but  not  so  in  churches.      It  is  fJi'^'^fhc"' 
 lawful  to  eat  and  drink,  but  not  in  churches.     And  therefore  [^Jngl""^^'^® 
 
 6  Do  Civit.  Dei,  Lib.  iv.  cap.  31.  [Quapropter  cum  solos  dicit 
 [Varro]  animadvertisse,  quid  csset  Dcus,  qui  cum  credcrcnt  animam 
 mundura  gubernantem ;  castiusquo  cxistimat  sine  simulachris  obscr- 
 vari  religionem,  quis  non  videat  quantum  propinquaverit  veritati? — 
 Tom.  V.  p.  30  n.  Taris.  1541.] 
 
 "  In  Psal.  cxiii.  [Plus  enim  valent  simulacra  ad  curvandam  infeli- 
 ccm  animam  quod  os  habent,  oculos  habent,  aures  habent,  iiarcs 
 habcnt,  manus  habent,  pedes  liabent,  quam  ad  corrigendam  quod  nou 
 loquentur,  non  vidobunt,  non  audient,  non  odorabunt,  non  coutrecta- 
 bunt,  non  ambulabunt. — Tom.  yiii.  p.  285  e.] 
 
 [*  Quis  puer  interrogatus  non  hoc  certum  esse  respondeat,  quod 
 simulachra  gentium  os  habent  et  non  loquentur,  oculos  habent  ct  non 
 videbunt,  et  csetera  qua)  divinus  sermo  contexuit?  Cur  ergo  tanto- 
 pere  spiritus  sanctus  curat  scripturarura  plurimis  locis  hcec  insinuaro 
 atque  iuculcare  veluti  inscicntibus,  quasi  non  hominibus  apertissima 
 siut  atque  notissiraa,  nisi  quia  per  speciem  membrorum  significat 
 quam  naturaliter  in  animantibus  viventem  videre,  atquo  in  nobis 
 ipsis  sentire  consuevimus  ?  Quanquam  ut  illi  asserunt  in  signo  aliquo 
 fabrefacto  atque  eminent!  collocato  suggestu,cum  adorari  atque  hono- 
 rari  a  multitudine  cceperit,  parit  in  unoquoque  sordidissimum  erroris 
 atVectum,  ut  quoniam  in  illo  figmcnto  non  invenit  vitalcm  motum, 
 credet  numen  occultum,  cffigiem  tamen  viventi  corpori  similem, 
 seductus  forma,  et  commotus  authoritate  quasi  sapientium  institu- 
 torum  obsequentiumque  turbarum,  sino  vivo  aliquo  habitatoro  esse 
 non  putat.— Tom.  vm.  p.  285  a,  b.] 
 
88  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  AND  OTHERS  [1559. 
 
 saith  St  Paul ;  An  non  hahetis  domos  ad  edendum  ac  biben- 
 dum?     Ail  ecclesiam  Dei  contemnitis^ ?  etc. 
 
 Many  other  actions  there  be  which  are  lawful  and  honest 
 in  private  place,  which  arc  neither  comely  nor  honest  not  only 
 in  churches,  but  also  in  other  assemblies  of  honest  people. 
 
 Tertiiiiian.  TertuUiau  saith  he  used  sometimes  to  burn  frankincense 
 
 in  his  chamber  which  was  then  used  of  idolaters,  and  is  yet 
 in  the  llomish  churches ;  but  he  joineth  withal :  Sed  non 
 eodem  ritu,  nee  eodem  hahitu,  nee  eodem  apparatu,  quo  agi- 
 tur  apud  idola"^.  So  that  images  placed  in  churches  and  set 
 in  honorabili  sublimitate,  as  Saint  Augustine  saith,  and 
 especially  over  the  Lord's  table,  which  is  done,  using  the 
 words  of  Tertullian,  eodem  ritu  et  eodem  hahitu^  which  the 
 Papists  did  use,  especially  after  so  long  continuance  of 
 abuse  of  images,  and  so  many  being  bhnded  with  supersti- 
 tious opinion  towards  them,  can  not  be  counted  a  thing  indif- 
 ferent, but  a  most  certain  ruin  of  many  souls. 
 
 Epiphanius.  Epiphauius,  iu  his  Epistle  to  John  Bishop  of  Hierusalem, 
 
 which  epistle  was  translated  out  of  the  Greek  by  St  Hierom, 
 being  a  likelihood  that  St  Hierom  misliked  not  the  doctrine 
 of  the  same,  doth  write  a  fact  of  his  own  which  doth  most 
 clearly  declare  the  judgment  of  that  notable  learned  bishop 
 concernincr  use  of  images  in  churches.  His  words  are 
 these  :  Quiim  venissem  ad  villam  quce  dicitur  Anablatha,  vi- 
 dissemque  ibi  prceteriens  lucernam  ardentem,  et  inter rogassem, 
 quis  locus  esset,  didicissemque  esse  ecclesiam  et  intrassem 
 nt  orarem  :  inveni  ibi  velum  pendens  in  foribus  ejusdem 
 ecclesice  tinctum  atque  depictum  et  habens  imaginem  quasi 
 Christi  vel  sancti  cujusdam.  Non  enim  satis  memini  cujus 
 imago  fuer it.  Quum  ergo  hoc  vidissem,  in  Ecclesia  Christi 
 contra  authoritatem  Scripturarum  hominis  pendere  ima- 
 ginem, scidi  illud,  et  magis  dedi  consilium  custodibus  ejus- 
 dem loci  ut  pauperem  mortuum  eo  obvolverent  et  efferrent, 
 etc.  Et  paulo  post :  Nunc  autem  misi  quod  potui  reperire, 
 et  precor  ut  jubeas  presbyteros  ejusdem  loci  suscipere  velum 
 a  latore  quod  a  nobis  missum  est,  et  deinceps  prcecipere  in 
 Ecclesia  Christi  istiusmodi  vela,  quce  contra  religionem 
 nostram    veniunt,    non    appendi.     Decet   enim   honestatem 
 
 1  1  Cor.  XI.  [22]. 
 
 2  De  Coron.  Milit.  ["  si  me  odor  alicujus  loci  offenderit,  Arabiae 
 aliquid  incendo,  sed  non  eodem  ritu,  nee  eodem  habitu,  nee  eodem 
 appnratu,  quo  agitur  apuJ  idola."     0pp.  fo.  Basil.  1528,  p.  465.] 
 
1551>.]  TO  m  HKN  eli/aiu:tii.  89 
 
 titttin  /nine  nut^fis  Imlnt't'  solicitmiimui,  lit  .srrn/iulositateni 
 toUat  </mv  imiitfiut  est  Kcvleaia  Cliristi  ct  j><>jntit\s  (jni 
 tlhi   cniliti   ^•J/;l^    ttc.^ 
 
 Out  of  this  placo  of  Epiphaniua  divers  notes  arc  tu  bo 
 observed. 
 
 1.  First,   that  bv  the  iiuliiniont  of  this  ancient  father  to  N"'<-* «> »»« 
 
 ••  .  ,  .  .  i.l>Mrv«-«l  out 
 
 permit  images  in  churches  is  against  the  authority  of  the  ",fa\'4**/**'' 
 Scriptures,  meaning  against  the  Second  Commandment :  Thou  i-p'p^*"'"*- 
 shall  not  make  to  tiiyself  any  irraven  imago,  etc. 
 
 2.  Secondly,  that  Kpiphanius  doth  reject  not  only  graven 
 and  molten,  but  also  painted  images :  forsomuch  as  ho  cut- 
 teth  in  pieces  the  imago  painted  in  a  vail  hanging  at  tho 
 church-door,  what  would  ho  have  done  if  he  had  found  it 
 over  the  Lord's  table? 
 
 3.  Thirdly,  that  he  sparcth  not  the  imago  of  Christ,  for 
 no  doubt  that  imago  is  most  perilous  in  the  church  of  all  other. 
 
 4.  Fourthly,  that  he  did  not  only  remove  it,  but  with  a 
 veliemency  of  zeal  cut  it  in  pieces,  following  the  example  of 
 the  good  king  Ezochias,  who  brake  tho  brazen  serpent  and 
 burnt  it  to  ashes. 
 
 5.  Last  of  all,  that  Epiphanius  thinketh  it  the  duty  of 
 vigilant  bishops  to  be  careful  that  no  such  kind  of  painted 
 images  be  permitted  in  the  Church. 
 
 Serenus,  Bishop  of  Massilia,  broke  down  images  and  de- 
 stroyed them  when  he  did  see  them  begin  to  be  worshipped. 
 
 Gregory  the  First  permitted  images  to  be  had,  but  with 
 all  earnestness  did  forbid  them  to  be  worshipped '. 
 
 Experience  of  the  times  since  hath  declared  whether  of 
 these  two  sentences  were  better.     For  since  Gregory's  time,  ^12°^^  ^^^ 
 
 3  Epiphanius  in  epist.  ad  Johan.  Episcopum  Ilierosolymit.  [ad 
 fin.  epist.,  0pp.  p.  631.  BasiL  1542.  "  Pra^teroa  quod  audivi  quosdam 
 murraurare  contra  me,  quia  quando  simul  pergebamus  ad  sanctum 
 locum,  qui  vocatur  Bethel,  ut  ibi  coUectam  tecum  ex  more  eccle- 
 Biastico  facerem,  et  venissem  ad  villam,  &c."] 
 
 4  Gregor.  in  registro  Epist.  [fol.  ccccxiv.  lib.  vii.  epist.]  109  [Paris. 
 lo2l.  Tho  title  of  the  letter  is  :  "Gregorius  Screno  cpiscopo  Masilincn. 
 De  imaginibus  in  ecclesiis  non  constriiigendis."  The  passage  referred 
 to  is:  "Prseterea  indico  dudum  ad  nos  pervenisse  quod  fraternitas 
 vestra  quosdam  imaginum  adoratores  aspiciens,  easdem  ecclesiaj 
 imagines  confregit  atque  projecit:  et  quidem  zelum  vos  no  quid  manu 
 factum   adorari    possit    habuisso    laudavimus ;    sed    frangero   easdem 
 
 imagines  non  debuisse  judicamus Tua  ergo  fraternitas   et  ea[s] 
 
 servarc,  et  ab  earum  adoratu  populum  prohibere  debuit."] 
 
90 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  AND  OTHERS 
 
 [1559. 
 
 images. 
 
 Valens  and 
 Theodosius. 
 
 the  images  standing,  the  West  Church  hath  been  overflowed 
 with  idolatry  notwithstanding  his  doctrine.  Whereas  if  Sere- 
 nus's  judgment  had  universally  taken  place,  no  such  thing 
 had  happened.  For  if  no  images  had  been  suffered,  none 
 could  have  been  worshipped,  and  consequently  no  idolatry 
 committed  by  them. 
 Histories  and         To  rccito  the  proccss  of  liistorics  and  councils  about  the 
 
 councils.  _  ••■ 
 
 matter  of  images  would  require  a  long  discourse:  it  shall  be 
 here  sufficient  briefly  to  touch  a  few. 
 
 It  is  manifest  to  them  that  read  histories  that  not  only 
 The  East       empcrors,   but  also  divers  and  sundry  councils  in  the   East 
 
 Church  con-  ^  «^ 
 
 abSii^h^"**  Church,  have  condemned  and  abolished  images  both  by  de- 
 crees and  example. 
 
 Petrus  Crinitus  De  Honesta  Disciplina,  libro  ix.*^  ca.  9^ 
 ex  libris  AugustaHbus  haec  verba  transcripsit.  Valens  et 
 Theodosius  Augusti  Lnperatores  prcefecto  prcetorio  ad  hunc 
 modum  scripsere.  Quum  sit  nobis  cura  diligens  in  rebus 
 oinnibus  superni  numinis  religionem  tueri,  signum  Salvatoris 
 Christi  nemini  quidem  concedimus  coloribus,  lapide,  aliave 
 materia  fingere  insculpere  aut  pingere,  sed  quocunque  repe- 
 ritur  loco  tolli  jubemus  :  gravissima  poena  eos  mulctando  qui 
 contrarium  decretis  nostris  et  Imperio  quicquam  tentaverint^. 
 
 Leo  the  Third,  a  man  commended  in  histories  for  his 
 excellent  virtues  and  godliness,  who  (as  is  judged  of  some 
 men)  was  the  author  of  the  book  De  re  militari,  being  trans- 
 lated out  of  the  Greek  by  Sir  John  Cheke,  and  dedicated  to 
 your  most  noble  father,  by  public  authority  commanded  abo- 
 Hshing  of  images,  and  in  Constantinople  caused  all  the  images 
 to  be  gathered  together  on  a  heap,  and  burned  them  to  ashes-. 
 
 [1  "  Sed  libitum  est  verba  ex  libris  Augustalibus  referre :  quo  id 
 totum  melius  innotescat,  quoniam  et  Valens,  &c."  FoL  Paris,  1520. 
 Lugd.  1585,  pp.  278,  9.] 
 
 [2  Goldastus  in  his  work  entitled  Imperialia  Decreta  de  Cultu 
 Imaginum  (Franc.  1608,  pp.  16 — 18)  gives  the  following  extracts  from 
 Leo's  decree,  published  at  Constantinople,  a.d.  726.  "  Joannes  Da- 
 mascenus  in  actis  Stephani  et  sociorum  ejus  hcec  ex  edicto  refert : 
 Cum  ad  decimum  jam  Imperii  annum  Leo  Isauricus  Imperator  per- 
 venisset,  accita  et  coacta  Senatorum  classe,  absurdum  illud  et  impium 
 evomuit:  Imaginum  picturas  formam  qttamdam  idolonim  retinere,  in- 
 quiens,  neque  iis  cidtum  adhihendum  esse,  ne  alioqid  Dei  loco  impnidentea 
 idola  veneremur.  Et  paulo  post  hajc  ipsius  Edicti  verba :  Non  autem 
 hue  special  mea  sententia,  ut  ece  prorsus  deleaniur,  sed  hoc  aio,  sublipiiore 
 loco  eas  coUocandas  esse,  ne  ore  quisquam  eos  contingaty  atque  ita  quo- 
 
 Leo  the 
 
 third. 
 
 J 
 
loji).]  TO  Ql'KKN   KLIZAHKTII.  01 
 
 Constantino  tho  Fifih,  \m  son,  assembled  a  council  of  tho  ronfunnn. 
 bishops  of  tho  Kast  Church,  in  which  council  it  was  decreed 
 as  fullowcth  :  **  It  is  not  lawful  for  them  that  bcliovo  in  (Jod 
 through  Jesus  Christ  to  have  any  iujages,  neither  of  the  Cre- 
 ator nor  of  any  creatures,  set  up  in  temples  to  be  worshipped, 
 but  rather  that  all  images  by  tho  law  of  God,  and  for  tho 
 avoiding  of  uftenco,  ought  to  bo  taken  out  of  churches-'." 
 
 Which   decree   was   executed    in   all    places   where    any 
 images  were,  cither  in  Greece  or  in  Asia. 
 
 But    in    all    these    times    the    bishops    of  Rome,    rather  Thr  biihopi 
 
 *  ,        oflU.me 
 
 mamtainmg  tho  authority  of  Gregory,  than  weigliing,  like  «"<>««•<» 
 Christian  bishops,  tho  peril  of  tho  church,  always  in  their 
 assemblies  allowed  images.  And  no  marvel,  for  soon  after 
 Gregory's  days  they  aspired  to  that  supremacy  which  Gre- 
 gory himself  callcth  antichrist ian,  and  therefore  must  needs 
 defend  the  proposition  then  which  they  hold  now,  that  the 
 Church  of  Home  could  not  err. 
 
 Xot  long   after,    tlie   bishops  of  Rome,   practising   with 
 
 dammodo  rebus  honore  dignis  contumeliam  inferat."  Goldastus  sub- 
 joins several  testimonies  to  tlie  effect  that  Leo  caused  images  to  bo 
 burned.  The  following  is  one  :  "Regino  Prumiensis  Chronic.  Lib.  i. 
 Anno  DCLV.  Leo  Augustus  ad  pejora  progressus  est ;  ita  ut  compcl- 
 loret  omncs  Constantinopolim  habitantes,  tam  vi  quam  blandimentis, 
 Sanctorum  imagines  deponere,  et  quascunquo  inveniro  potuit,  in 
 media  civitate  concremavit."] 
 
 [3  This  Council  was  held  at  Constantinople  in  tho  year  754.  "  Its 
 Acts  and  dehberaiions  have  all  perished,  or  rather  been  destroyed  by 
 tho  patrons  of  image-worship  ;  except  so  much  of  them  as  the  Second 
 Niceno  Council  saw  fit  to  quote  for  the  purpose  of  confuting  them  in 
 their  sixth  Act."  (Soames's  Mosheim,  Vol.  II.  p.  loG,  note.)  Tho 
 exact  words  above-cited  have  not  been  met  with  in  the  6th  Act  of 
 the  Second  Nicene  Council,  but  the  following  quotations  of  the  decrees 
 of  the  Constantinopolitan  Council  taken  from  that  Act  are  similar  in 
 substance:  "  arravrfs  yjfiels  ol  to  rrji  UpooavuTjs  a^ito^a  TrepiKfififvoi, 
 ofiocfxiiVdis  opi^ofifv,  aTTOiSXr^Tov  (ivai  Koi  dWorpiav  Koi  ((BdeXvyp-^vrju  e<  rfjs 
 ruiV  Xpicmavcjv  eKKKrjcrias  naaav  eiKoua  €k  navroias  vXrjs  Ka\  xpcofiarnvpyi- 
 KTJs  T(ov  ^coypa(P(ov  KaKorexvias  neTroiTjfjieinjv."  "  MrjKeTi  roXfiau  avBpoiirov 
 Tou  oiov8i]7roTc  eniTTjdeveiv  to  toiovtov  acrf^es  Koi  dvoaiov  i7riTi]8(Vfj.a.  6 
 be  To\p.u>v  dno  tov  napoirros  KaraaKevaaai  ciKova,  tj  TrpocTKVin^crai,  rj  aTrjaai 
 fv  iKKkrjcna,  rj  iv  ibicoTUCco  oi/co),  r*  Kpvyj/'ai,  et  [ifv  eVt'cTAcoTros-,  tj  Trpfa^ir- 
 TfpoSj  T]  biaKovos  flfv,  KaOaipeicrdco-  el  de  fxavd^oov  rj  Xat/cof,  ava0€p.aTi^€- 
 (r0<Of  Koi  To7s  ^aa-iXiKols  vojjiots  vnevdwos  ta-To),  Ss  tuairricos  tcov  tov  Qeov 
 TrpaypLaroiv,  koi  c;^^p6s'  tcov  narpiKau  boy^aTOiv." — Harduin.  Coll.  Concil. 
 Tom.  IV.  pp.  415,  417,  Paris,  1714.  See  also  Goldastus  Imp.  Deer. 
 de  cult.  Imag.  pp.  43,  44.] 
 
92 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  AND  OTHERS 
 
 [1559. 
 
 The  second 
 
 Nicene 
 
 Council. 
 
 Never  thing 
 made  more 
 division  or 
 mischief  in 
 the  church 
 than  the  con- 
 troversy 
 about  images. 
 
 Thirasius,  patriarch  of  Constantinople,  obtained  of  Irene  the 
 empress  (her  son  Constantino  being  then  young),  that  a 
 council  was  called  at  Nice,  in  the  which  the  Pope's  legates 
 were  presidents ;  which  appeared  well  by  the  fruits.  For  in 
 that  council  it  was  decreed  that  images  should  not  only  be 
 permitted  in  churches,  but  also  worshipped'.  Which  council 
 was  confuted  by  a  book  written  by  Carolus  Magnus  the 
 emperor,  the  book  yet  being  extant,  calling  it  a  foolish  and 
 an  arrogant  council  2. 
 
 Soon  after  this  council  arose  a  sharp  contention  between 
 Irene  the  empress  and  her  son  Constantino,  the  emperor, 
 who  destroyed  images.  And  in  the  end,  as  she  had  afore 
 wickedly  burned  the  bones  of  her  father-in-law,  Constantino 
 the  Vth,  so  afterwards  unnaturally  she  put  out  the  eyes  of 
 her  own  son  Constantino  the  Vlth. 
 
 About  which  time,  as  Eutropius  writeth,  the  sun  was 
 darkened  most  terribly  for  the  space  of  seventeen  days,  God 
 shewing  by  that  dreadful  sign  how  much  he  misliked  those 
 kind  of  proceedings^. 
 
 To  bo  short,  there  was  never  thing  that  made  more 
 division  or  brought  more  mischief  into  the  church  than  the 
 
 1  Concil.  gen.  To.  2.  [Harduini  Collectio  Concil.  Tom.  lY.  pp. 
 1 — 525.  "  Credentes  in  unum  Deum  in  Trinitate  collaudatum,  hono- 
 rabiles  ejus  imagines  salutamus.     Qui  sic  non  habent,  anathema  sint 
 
 Nos  venerandas  imagines  recipimus.    Nos  qui  non  ita  sentiunt 
 
 anathemati  subjicimus.  His  qui  accipiunt  sacrse  scripturse  dicta  adver- 
 sus  idola  in  yenerandas  imagines,  anathema.  Ei  qui  non  salutat 
 Banctas  imagines,  anathema,  &c." — Tom.  IV.  p.  483.  Paris,  1714.] 
 
 [2  The  following  is  the  Title  of  the  book  referred  to :  Opus  in- 
 lustrissimi  et  excellentissimi  seu  spectabilis  viri,  Caroli  Magni,  nutu 
 Dei,  regis  Francorum,  Gallias,  Germaniam,  Italiamque,  sive  harum 
 finitimas  provincias  domino  opitulante  regentis,  contra  Synodum,  quce 
 in  partibus  Grsecise,  pro  adorandis  imaginibus  stolide  sive  arroganter 
 gesta  est.  Item,  Paulini  Aquileiensis  Episcopi  adversus  Felicem  Urge- 
 litanum  et  Eliphandum  Toletanum  Episcopos  libellus.  Quae  nunc 
 primum  in  lucem  restituuntur.  Anno  salutis  m.dxlix.  8vo. 
 Supposed  to  have  been  printed  at  Paris  by  Bernard  Torresano.  The 
 words  "stolide  sive  arroganter"  on  this  title-page  are  probably  alluded 
 to  in  the  text.] 
 
 3  Lib.  de  Rep.  Rom.  2.3.  ["  Obtenebratus  est  autem  sol  per  dies 
 septendecim.  Et  non  dedit  radios  sues,  ita  ut  errarent  naves  maris, 
 omnesque  dicerent,  quod  propter  obcaicationem  Imperatoris  sol  obcaj- 
 catus  suos  radios  retraxerit." — Eutropii  Insigne  volumen,  quo  Rom. 
 Hist.  Univ.  describitur,  &c.,  Lib.  xxiii.  p.  333.   Basil,  1532.] 
 
Ijji).]  TO  Ul  KEN  KUZAHKTII.  'J3 
 
 controversy  of  images.  \\y  reason  whereof  not  only  the 
 Kast  Church  was  divulod  from  tho  West,  and  never  since 
 juTfcctly  reconciled,  hut  also  tho  empire  was  cut  asunder  and 
 divided,  and  the  gate  opened  to  tho  Saracens  and  Turks  to 
 enter  and  overrun  a  great  piece  of  Christendom. 
 
 Tho  fault  whereof  most   justly  is  to  he  ascrihcd  to  those  J"  »»ho'n  t''* 
 
 ''  •>  fmiK  )•  to  be 
 
 patrons  of  images  who  could  not  ho  contented  with  the  »»<^^"iKti. 
 example  of  the  primitive  Church,  heing  most  simple,  and 
 sincere,  and  most  agreeahlc  to  tho  Scripture,  (for,  as  Tcr- 
 tuUian  saith,  Quod  prinium,  verum ;  quod  posterius,  adtil- 
 terinum*,)  hut  with  all  extremity  maintained  the  use  of  images 
 in  churches,  whereof  no  profit  or  commodity  did  ever  grow 
 to  the  Church  of  God.  For  it  is  evident  that  intinite  millions 
 of  souls  have  heen  east  into  eternal  damnation  by  the  occasion 
 of  images  used  in  places  of  religion.  And  no  history  can 
 record  that  ever  any  one  soul  was  won  unto  Christ  by  having 
 of  imajjes. 
 
 But   lest  it  miijht   appear   that  the  West   Church   had  The  west 
 
 •         1  1  11.  •      •  .        Church  has 
 
 always  generally  retamed  and  commended  imanjes,  it  is  to  be""ta'*''vs 
 noted  that  in  a  council  holden  in   Spain,  called   Concilium »"'»»;«. 
 Eliberinum,  the  use  of  images  in  churches  was  clearly  pro- 
 hibited in  this  form  of  words  :  Placuit  in  Ecclesiis  picturas 
 esse  noil  dehere,  ne  quod  colitur  aut  adoratur,  in  parietihus 
 depitujatur^. 
 
 But   this  notwithstanding:,  experience  hath  declared  that  BUnd  books 
 
 .  .  .    .  and(iumb 
 
 neither   assemblinoj  in  councils,   neither  writinojs,  preachings,  schooi-mas- 
 
 O  '  n    '     I  o    '  ters  prevail 
 
 decrees,  making  of  laws,  prescribing  of  punishments,  hath  "V'itt'el!'b")ks 
 holpen  again [st]  images  to  the  which  idolatry  hath  been  com-  l^n^^'^^''^" 
 mitted,  nor  against  idolatry  whiles  images  stood.  For  these 
 blind  books  and  dumb  schoolmasters  (which  they  call  lay- 
 men's books)  have  more  prevailed  by  their  carved  and 
 painted  preaching  of  idolatry,  than  all  other  written  books  and 
 preachings  in  teaching  the  truth  and  the  horror  of  that  vice. 
 
 Having  thus  declared  unto  your  Highness  a  few  causes  of  Theyhe^ch 
 
 many,   which  do   move  our   consciences  in  this  matter,   we  "'« to  strain 
 1         1  TT'  1  i  1      1 1  •  *'^^'"  '"""y 
 
 beseech  your   Highness  most  humbly  not  to  strain  us  any  farther. 
 
 *  Contra  Praxeam.  [0pp.  TertuU.  fo.  Basil,  1528,  p.  418.  Tho 
 exact  words  are,  "  Quo  perseque  adversus  universas  hpcrcses  jam  hinc 
 pra?judicatum  sit,  id  esse  verum  quodcunque  primum  :  id  esse  adultc- 
 rum  quodcunque  posterius."] 
 
 5  Concil.  Gen.  To.  2.  [Concil.  Eliberit.  in  Concil.  Stud.  Labbei. 
 Lut.  Tar.  1671 — 2,  can.  xxxvi.  Tom.  i.  col.  974.] 
 
94  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  AND  OTHERS  [1559. 
 
 further ;  but  to  consider,  that  God's  word  doth  threaten  a 
 terrible  judgment  unto  us,  if  we,  being  pastors  and  ministers 
 in  his  Church,  should  assent  to  the  thing  which  in  our  learn- 
 ing and  conscience  we  are  persuaded  doth  tend  to  the  confirm- 
 ation of  error,  superstition,  and  idolatry,  and  finally,  to  the 
 ruin  of  the  souls  committed  to  our  charge,  for  the  which  we 
 must  give  an  accompt  to  the  Prince  of  pastors  at  the  last 
 nor  to  be  of-  dav^     Wc  prav  your  Majesty  also  not  to  be  oiFended  with  this 
 
 fended  with  "^  i   im  i  •    i        h  -i  ^   ^^^      -      ' 
 
 their  plain-  Qur  plainuess,  and  liberty,  which  all  good  and  Christian  princes 
 speech:  havo  cvor  takcu  in  good  part  at  the  hands  of  godly  bishops. 
 Saint  Ambrose  writing  to  Theodosius  the  emperor,  useth 
 these  words:  Sed  neque  imperiale  est  libertatem  dicendi 
 negare,  neque  sacerdotale,  quod  sentiat,  non  dicer e^.  And 
 again :  In  causa  vero  Del,  quern  audies,  si  sacerdotem  non 
 audies,  cujus  majore  peccatur  periculo  ?  Quis  tibi  verum 
 audehit  dicer e,  si  sacerdos  non  audeat^  ? 
 
 These,  and  such  like  speeches  of  St  Ambrose,  Theodosius, 
 
 and  Valentinianus,   the  emperors  did  always  take  in  good 
 
 part;  and  we  doubt  not  but  your  Grace  will  do  the  like,  of  whose 
 
 not  only  clemency,  but  also  beneficence,  we  have  largely  tasted. 
 
 but  to  refer  We  beseoch  your  Majesty  also  in  these,  and  such-like 
 
 this  and  other  .  ^*',..  /. 
 
 religious       controversies  of  religion,  to  refer  the  discussment  and  de- 
 
 controver-  o         ' 
 
 Jynodof      ciding  of  them  to  a  synod  of  your  bishops,  and  other  godly 
 bishops.       learned  men,  according  to  the  example  of  Constantinus  Mag- 
 nus, and  other  Christian  emperors ;   that  the  reasons  of  both 
 parts   being   examined  by  them,  the  judgment  may  be  given 
 uprightly  in  all  doubtful  matters. 
 
 And  to  return  to  this  present  matter,  we  most  humbly 
 beseech  your  Majesty  to  consider,  that  besides  weighty  causes 
 in  policy,  which  we  leave  to  the  wisdom  of  your  honourable 
 councillors,  the  establishing  of  images  by  your  authority 
 shall  not  only  utterly  discredit  our  ministries,  as  builders  of 
 the  things  which  we  have  destroyed,  but  also  blemish  the 
 fame  of  your  most  godly  brother,  and  such  notable  fathers 
 as  have  given  their  lives  for  the  testimony  of  God's  truth, 
 who  by  public  law  removed  all  images. 
 
 The  almighty  and  ever-Uving  God  plentifully  endue  your 
 Majesty  with  his  spirit  and  heavenly  wisdom,  and  long  pre- 
 serve your  most  gracious  reign,  and  prosperous  government 
 
 1  Heb.  xiii.  [17].   1  Pet.  v.  [4]. 
 
 2  Epist.  li.  5,  Epist.  29.  [Op.  Tom.  III.  p.  133.    Basil,  1527.] 
 *  Ibidem. 
 
 J 
 
Ijji).]  TO  QUEEN   ELIZABETH.  95 
 
 over  us,  to  tlio  advancement  of  Wis  glory,  to  tlio  ovcrtlirow  of 
 superstition,  and  to  the  benctit  and  comfort  of  all  vour 
 Ilighness's  loving  subjects. 
 
 Anien^. 
 
 [*  In  tho  book  ontitlod  "  Tlio  Iluntiiii;  of  the  Romish  Fox  an<l  tlio 
 Quenching  of  Sectarian  Firebrands. ..  collected  by  Sir  James  Ware, 
 Knight... and  published  by  Uobert  Ware,  Rent."  (Dublin.  1<;83.  8vo,) 
 the  consiileration  of  tho  (luestion  respoctini;  tho  removal  of  images 
 from  churches  in  Enijland,  is  said  to  havo  been  intluenced  by  an  im- 
 portant letter  to  archbishop  Parker,  of  whidi  we  havo  not  been  ablo 
 to  find  either  the  original  or  a  copy.  Its  contents  arc  thus  stated  : 
 "This  alteration*  stirred  up  tho  malignity  of  several  of  the  Romish 
 clercv  then  lurking  and  wandering  in  that  city  ;   so  that  a  via  fraus  nafraus 
 
 ,  ,  ,  .  ,      .,./.     1         ^r    •  .1  concocte.1  at 
 
 was  contrived,  purposely  to  calumniate  and  vilify  her  Majestv  s  cndea-  iMcc-atiicdrai 
 vours   lor   tho    reformation    of  tho   Protestant   Church    of  England,  church  in 
 There  was  one  Richard  Leigh,  who  had  been  formerly  of  the  priory  Richard  ^ 
 of  that  cathedral,  who  at  this  time  undertook  to  work  this  intended  ^^'^*^' 
 fraud,  or  protended  miracle.   Tho  better  to  contrive  this  his  purpose, 
 ho  prepared    a  sponge,  and  tho  night  before  tho  Sunday  following, 
 (her  Majesty's  Vice-roy  being  to   come  to  that  cathedral  with  his 
 attendants),  this  Romish  impostor  placed  tho  same  in  a  bowl  of  blood, 
 to  soak  up  the  same.     Early  in  the  morning  Richard  Leigh  came, 
 and   watching  his  opportunity,  brought    a  stool  with  him   to   stand 
 on,  and  in  that  cathedral  there  being  an  image  of  marble  of  Christ 
 standing  with  a  reed  in  his  band,  and  tho  crown  of  thorns  carved  on  An  image  of 
 
 ,  .       ,  ,       ,  ,  1       ,  ,         .  .      1         1  •  1  •  the  Saviour  is 
 
 his    head,    ho  placed   the  sponge  over  tho  images  head,   within  a  made  to 
 hollow  of  tho  crown  ;  tho  sponge,  being  swollen   and  heavy  with  the  **^^ 
 blood  that  it  soaked,  begun  to  yield  forth  the  same,  which  ran  through 
 the  crevices  of  the  crown  of  thorns,  and  truckled  down  the  face  of  this 
 image.     The  people  did  not  perceive  the  same  at  the  first ;  but  whilst 
 her  Majesty's  Vice-roy  was  at  service,  together  with  the  archbishop  of 
 that  diocese,  Doctor  Hugh  Corwin  by  name,  and  the  rest  of  that 
 Privy  Council,   this  impostor    with  his   associates  cried  one  to  tho 
 other,   *  Behold,   our  Saviour's  imago  sweats  blood !'    several  of  tho 
 common  people  (wondering  at  it)  fell  down  with  their  beads  in  their 
 hands  and  prayed  to  the  image.      This  report  caused  a  number  of 
 people  to  gather  together  to  behold  this  miracle  ;  this  impostor  all 
 tho  while  saying,  *  How  can  he  choose  but  sweat  blood  whilst  heresy 
 is  now  como  into  his  Church.'      Tho  news  hereof  disturbed  the  Lord 
 of  Sussex,  the  archbishop,  and  tho  rest  of  her  Majesty's  Privy  Coun- 
 cil of  that  realm :  so  that  they  hastened  out  of  the  quire,  fearing  some 
 harm.    When  they  came  out,  they  beheld  several  people  upon  their  Constema- 
 knees,  thumping  of  their  breasts,  crying  out,  Mca  culpa,  mea  maxima  people. 
 culpa,    Christopher  Sedgrave,  one  of  tho  aldermen,  and  mayor  of  that 
 
 [*  The  Binging  of  the  Litany  in  English  in  the  cathedral  of  Christchurch  in 
 Dublin.] 
 
96 
 
 SIR  FRANCIS  KNOLLYS  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 [1559. 
 
 LXVII. 
 
 Edward 
 Clumber, 
 beneficed 
 near  Abing- 
 ton. 
 
 Detection  of 
 the  fraud  by 
 archbi.shop 
 Curwen. 
 
 His  sermon 
 thereon. 
 
 And  letter 
 to  the 
 archbishop 
 of  Canter- 
 bury. 
 
 SIR  FRANCIS  KNOLLYS  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 13th  October,  1559.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  224.  p.  609.  Grig. 
 
 My  good  lord  and  reverend  father  in  God,  where  as  this 
 bearer  Edward  Chamber  hath  been  before  the  visitors  at 
 Abington   (being  in  those  parts  beneficed),    and    hath  been 
 
 city,  although  he  had  been  at  English  service,  drew  forth  his  beads 
 and  prayed  with  others  before  this  image.  Hugh,  archbishop  of 
 Dublin,  being  displeased  at  this  change,  caused  a  form  to  be  brought 
 out  of  the  choir,  and  then  bade  the  sexton  of  that  cathedral  to  stand 
 thereon,  and  search  and  wash  the  image  to  see  if  it  would  bleed 
 afresh  ;  the  sexton  standing  upon  the  form,  and  perceiving  the  sponge 
 within  the  hollow  of  the  image's  head,  cried  out,  Here's  the  cheat : 
 which  being  brought  down  was  shewn  unto  the  idolizers,  who  were 
 much  ashamed,  and  some  of  them  cursed  Father  Leigh  and  three  or 
 four  others,  who  had  been  the  contrivers  of  this  cheat.  The  punish- 
 ment that  the  archbishop  inflicted  on  these  impostors  was,  to  stand 
 upon  a  table  with  their  legs  and  hands  tied  for  three  Sundays,  with 
 the  crime  written  upon  paper  and  pinned  to  their  breasts.  Afterwards 
 they  w^ere  imprisoned,  and  so  banished  that  realm. 
 
 "  The  Sunday  following  Hugh  archbishop  of  Dublin  preached  before 
 her  Majesty's  Lieutenant  and  that  Council,  and  before  these  impostors, 
 who  were  placed  on  a  table  before  the  pulpit ;  choosing  this  text, 
 *  And  therefore  God  shall  send  them  strong  delusions,  that  they 
 should  believe  lies.'  2  Thessalon.  ii.  11.  This  text  falling  out  so  pat, 
 and  these  impostors  standing  in  the  view  of  all  the  spectators,  con- 
 verted and  reformed  above  an  hundred  persons  of  that  city,  who 
 vowed  they  would  never  hear  mass  any  more. 
 
 "  The  archbishop  of  Dublin  wrote  this  relation,  and  to  this  effect, 
 to  his  brother  archbishop  of  Canterbury,  Matthew  Parker,  who  was 
 at  this  time  very  joyful  at  the  receipt  hereof,  by  reason  that  the 
 clergy  were  at  this  present  debating  whether  the  images  should  stand 
 in  the  churches  or  no,  the  Queen  herself  being  then  indifferent  whe- 
 ther to  have  images  or  to  destroy  them.  This  letter  being  shewed 
 unto  her  Majesty,  wrought  on  her  to  consent  for  throwing  of  images 
 out  of  the  churches,  together  with  those  texts  of  Scripture  as  the 
 archbishop  of  Canterbury  and  other  divines  gave  her  for  the  demo- 
 lishing of  them. 
 
 "  Upon  the  tenth  of  September,  anno  1559,  Hugh  archbishop  of 
 Dublin  caused  this  image  to  be  taken  down,  although  he  had  caused 
 the  same  to  be  set  up  at  his  coming  into  that  see,  being  formerly  pulled 
 down  by  his  predecessor  George  Browne,  in  the  reign  of  King  Edward, 
 which  the  said  Hugh  specifies  in  his  letter  to  the  archbishop  of  Can^ 
 terbury."  pp.  86—91.] 
 
ir>5l>.]      sin    ntAN(  IS    KNOl.I.YS    TO    AIK  Ml».    I'AllKKIt,    KI.F.CT.     97 
 
 hy  thoin  respited  for  his  subscription  until  tlio  !2(Jtli   of  this 
 month,  at  what  time  they  have  aj>pointcd   liini  to  meet  thcni 
 at  Windsor,   1   shall  dcsiro  your   lordship   for  charity's  sake, 
 that  either  vou  will  now  in  this  mean   time  travail  with  this '^"f ''\n»o 
 bearer  to  satisfv  his  conscience  your  self,  or  else  to  appoint '''""\'f 
 him  to  some  learned  man  that  may  do  the  same,  and  against  l.'„V,  V.'. m'iIo 
 the  said  visitors  come  to  Windsor,  you  will  signify  unto  them  oTh'rtlln'' 
 your  opinion  for  their  dealing  with  him,  as  to  your  wisdom  liib"-n|i'iion^ 
 shall  seem  most  convenient.       And  thus  wishing  you  pros-  Kimiiy* 
 
 o    */  I     ^        wijilitiitho 
 
 perity  in  all  godliness,  namely*  in  your  good  enterprise  |j[[*'^J?^';'J\''^n 
 against  the  enormities  yet  in  the  Queen's  closet  retained 2,  SiVy*j',^'his 
 (although  without  the  (Queen's  express  commandment  these  aKiml't Se 
 toys  were  laid  aside  till  now  a  late),  I  shall,  with  my  hearty  In 
 commendations,  commit  you  and  us  all  to  the  mighty  protection  cull^iii! 
 of  the  living  God.     From  the  Court,  13th  of  October,  155[9.] 
 
 Yours  to  command, 
 
 F.  KXOLLYS. 
 To  the  right  reverend  Father  in 
 God,  archbishop   elect  of  Can- 
 terbury ^  (jive  this. 
 
 ciioniiitics 
 
 the 
 Qiufii's 
 
 LXVIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER,  ELECT,    AND    FOUR  OTHER 
 BISHOPS  ELECT,  TO  QUEEN  ELIZABETH. 
 
 [About  15th  October,  1559 3. ]    Parker MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxxi.  art.  30.  p.  381. 
 
 Most    humbly    sheweth    your    excellent   Majesty,    your 
 lowly  orators  and  loving  subjects  we  underwritten,  that  like 
 as  your  most  noble  father  of  immortal  memory,  King  Henry  Henry  viir. 
 the  Vlllth,  and  your  most  godly  and  noble  brother,  Kino:  \"i.  muX 
 
 -r^  1  1       1        f-T   1       •         1      •  •  1  11-1         1  1  tendered  the 
 
 Edward  the  \  Ith,  in  their  princely  zeal  which  they  bare  to  adyance- 
 
 [1  i.  0.  especially.] 
 
 p  A  crucifix  and  lighted  tapers,  which  Parker  advised  the  Queen 
 to  remove,  though  without  success. —  Strypc's  Parker,  Bk.  i.  c.  9. 
 Vol.  I.  p.  92.] 
 
 [3  There  is  mention  in  this  paper  of  the  rents  duo  at  the  last 
 past  Michaelmas,  that  is,  doubtless,  on  the  29th  September,  1559. 
 The  next  paper,  dated  26th  October,  1559,  distinctly  alludes  to  this 
 memorial,  and  is  in  the  nature  of  an  answer  to  it.] 
 
 LrARK.  COR.J 
 
08   ARCHBISHOP  PARKER,  ELECT,  AND  FOUR  OTHER   [1559. 
 
 learning  by 
 cherishing 
 students  and 
 encouraging 
 ministers. 
 
 The  same  is 
 trusted  of 
 Queen 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 And  that  she 
 will  therefore 
 stay  a  pro- 
 posed ex- 
 change which 
 is  thought  not 
 meet  to  jiro- 
 ceed,  for 
 reasons  ready 
 to  be  stated. 
 
 Offer  on  be- 
 half of  the 
 bishops  of 
 the  province 
 of  Canter- 
 bury to  give 
 one  thousand 
 marks  yearly 
 for  their 
 lives  in  lieu 
 of  the  pro- 
 posed ex- 
 change. 
 
 If  such  offer 
 is  declined. 
 
 the  state  of  Christ's  faith  did  much  tender  the  advancement 
 of  learning  by  cherishing  of  students  and  encouraging  of 
 ministers,  whereby  they  were  the  more  able  to  do  their 
 duties  to  God,  and  to  serve  the  necessity  of  the  realm,  by 
 which  their  royal  and  princely  affection  they  purchased  per- 
 petual fame  and  praise,  as  well  within  their  own  realms  as 
 throughout  all  Christendom :  so  we  trust  undoubtedly  that 
 your  Grace,  being  endued  with  the  benefits  of  knowledge  far 
 above  any  of  your  noble  progenitors,  will  be  inclined  no  less 
 to  the  maintenance  of  learning  for  the  setting  forth  of  Christ's 
 true  rehgion,  now  for  want  of  sufficient  ministers  in  great 
 jeopardy  of  decay.  In  respect  whereof  we  trust  that  your 
 Highness'  gracious  disposition  will  yet  stay  and  remit  this 
 present  alteration  and  exchange^  (as  we  suppose  in  our 
 consciences  under  reformation  of  your  great  wisdom),  not 
 meet  to  proceed  for  the  inconveniences  thereof  now  partly 
 perceived  like  to  ensue,  and  upon  such  good  grounds  and  rea- 
 sons as  we  could  particularly  describe  in  writing  if  your  High- 
 ness' pleasure  were  to  admit  us  to  the  declaration  of  the  same. 
 
 And  yet,  lest  we  should  appear  not  to  consider  your 
 Highness'  manifold  and  great  charges  daily  sustained,  in  most 
 humble  wise  we  five  underwritten,  for  us  and  the  province  of 
 Canterbury,  do  offer  to  give  unto  the  same  yearly  amongst 
 us  one  annual  pension  of  one  thousand  marks  during  our 
 lives  and  continuance  in  the  bishopricks  for  and  in  consideration 
 of  the  exoneration  of  the  said  exchange. 
 
 How  be  it,  most  gracious   sovereign,   as  most   obedient 
 
 [1  "  The  late  parliament  had  made  an  act  to  enable  the  Queen 
 upon  the  vacation  of  any  bishoprick  to  convert  the  temporal  revenues, 
 or  part  thereof,  unto  herself,  settling  in  exchange  church-lands  in 
 lieu  thereof,  such  as  impropriations  formerly  belonging  to  monasteries 
 dissolved  and  tenths,  taking  into  her  own  hands  good  old  lordships 
 and  manors  for  them.  The  inequality  of  which  exchanges  was,  that 
 to  these  impropriations  were  oftentimes  considerable  charges  annexed 
 by  necessary  reparations  of  houses  and  chancels,  and  yearly  pensions 
 payable  out  of  them.  And  tenths  would  often  fall  short  and  be  un- 
 paid by  reason  of  the  poverty,  or  inability,  or  death  of  the  poor 
 curates  and  ministers.  Nor  could  the  bishops  hare  any  good  title 
 to  them,  it  being  doubtful  whether  they  could  be  alienated  from  the 
 crown,  being  by  Act  of  Parliament  given  to  it." — Strype's  Parker, 
 Bk.  I.  c.  9.] 
 
1550.]  BISHOPS  ELECT,  TO  QUKBN  EMZAnKTIf.  99 
 
 Bubiccts  in  truo  and  lowly  allcfiianco  of  our  licarts,  wo  buo  «'»«•'  . 
 and  pray,  that  if  this  our  said  supphcation  Bhall  not  bo  ;';;"'';,'"J'''' 
 thoupjht  meet  to  take  pbcc,  that  yet  your  llifi^hncss  would 
 condescend  favourably  to  pcruso  these  our  petitions  following: 
 which  wo  bo  persuaded  to  bo  grounded  upon  natural  equity, 
 godly  conscience,  and  good  conformity  for  most  part  of  them 
 to  tho  act  passed. 
 
 1.  First,    that   the    vicarages    of    inipropried    benefices  Th«t  tho  ^ 
 appointed   in  exchange  may    bo   mado   just   livings   for   the  ' 
 incumbents  of  the  same.      And  that  the  chancels  and  mansion  ^.;;;,.^„^^  ,^' 
 houses  decayed  might  bo  considered  by  survey  to  some  rea-  "\*MRl"In.i 
 sonable  proportion  of  allowance  in  tho  exchange.                         inamarn'on 
 
 2.  Item,  that  yearly  pensions  payable  may  be  reprised  H'I"«^*rcd. 
 out  of  the  parsonages  set  over  in  cxchano^e,  and  that  yearly  pensions 
 
 *        .  o  O    7  ^  J    jiayable,  may 
 
 distributions,  with  the  charges  of  church-books,  &c.,  may  be '^^I)'»''sf'* 
 
 '  o  '  '  •/  on  the  par- 
 
 allowed  such  as  the  Injunctions  bind  the  rectories  withal.  m"?^n«- 
 
 3.  Item,  that  where  the  manrcd'^  with  tho  manors  is  S  m'anred 
 withdrawn    from    us,   that  we  be  not    hereafter   importably  £^n*lhe' 
 charged  with  the  setting  forth  of  men  to  war.  notXrge<i 
 
 ?T  ••/•  1  11  1  ^'^^  setting 
 
 4.  Item,  that  perquisites  of  courts  and  woods,  sales  and  men  for  the 
 other  such  casual  profits,  may  be  parcels  of  the  extent  of  the  J^^J/f^™. 
 manors,  and  that  consideration  may  be  had  for  the  equivalent  lH.lSion"for 
 recompence  of  the  same,  and  that  allowance  may  be  made  of  S"?'<£."^ 
 procurations  and  synods  payable  at  the  visitations  of  per- 
 sonages impropriate,  and  also  allowance  for  the  mesne  profits 
 
 after  the  death  of  the  incumbent  to  the  next  successor,  so 
 charged  in  the  first-fruits  and  tenths,  which  mesne  profits 
 were  translated  by  act  of  parliament  from  the  bishop  to  the 
 successor  of  the  benefice  from  the  death  of  his  predecessor. 
 
 5.  Item,  that  fees  to  keepers  of  parks  and  woods  not  Aisofor 
 
 ,  *  *  parks  and 
 
 yet  valued  be  not  reprised  out  of  the  value  of  the  manors,  ^o«^ 
 and  that  the  said  parks  and  woods  may  be  also  valued ;  and 
 that   corn,   sheep,  fowl,  and  fish,  with  carriages  and   other 
 commodities,  may  remain  for  hospitality  to  the  bishops. 
 
 6.  Item,  that  the  patronage  appendant  to  the  manors  That  the 
 
 ■•■  o  1  X  patronage 
 
 [2  That  is  "man-rent,"  the  obligation  by  tenure  of  personally  serving 
 the  feudal  superior  in  time  of  war,  or  of  providing,  as  in  the  case  of 
 these  bishops,  a  certain  number  of  armed  men  as  substitutes.  The 
 nature  of  man-rent  is  illustrated  by  a  curious  document  printed  in 
 Scott's  Border  Minstrelsy ;  see  his  Poetical  Works,  ii.  144.   Edit.  1S33.] 
 
 7—2 
 
100   ARCHBISHOP  PARKER,  ELECT,  AND  FOUR  OTHER   [1559. 
 
 roT.w"nS  exchanged  may  be  reserved  to  the  bishop'*s  see,  and  that  the 
 ^e're^enSuo  hishops  of  tho  new  crccted  churches  may  give  the  prebends 
 the  bishops.  ^£  those  churches  as  in  other  is  used,  the  rather  to  maintain 
 
 learned  men  and  preachers. 
 That  there  be         7.     Item,  if  any  of  the  tenths  and  rectories  be  evicted 
 
 compensation  '^ 
 
 Jnd'reVtories'  ^^^'^  ^^  ^7  ordcr  of  kw,  that  then  recompence  may  be  made. 
 ThatTrrears  ^'      I^cm,  that  WO  may  have  remedy  by  law  to  recover 
 
 be^fecovere7  ^^®  tcuths  denied  or  delayed,  as  well  as  when  they  were 
 
 parcels  of  the  revenues  of  the  crown,  before  which  assurance 
 
 no  exchange  can  reasonably  pass. 
 
 That  no  rents  9.  Item,  that  uo  rcuts  be  returned  for  spiritual  posses- 
 be  returned        ,  i«ii  .!•  i  rn/»  i 
 
 for  spiritual   sious  which  be  paid  into  the  exchequer  Tnor I  for  annual  rents 
 
 possessions.  *■  a  i.         j 
 
 temporal  reserved  nomine  decimce. 
 ncksbe'dT  ^^'     ^^^^>  ^^^*  bishopricks  may  be   discharged   of  all 
 
 arrS'of  ^  arrearages,  of  subsidies  and  tenths,  and  other  incumbrances 
 riudngthe"'^  passed  in  the  days  of  the  predecessors  and  in  times  of  vacation, 
 plyinrfirst-  ^^^l  that  for  tho  first  year  of  our  fruits-paying  to  be  dis- 
 fruits.  charged  of  subsidy,  as  before  time  hath  been  used. 
 
 That  the  new         n.     Item,  that  it  may  please  your  Highness  to  continue 
 
 erected  sees  ''  «/     i  t/  o 
 
 be  continued,  ^he  ncw  crcctcd  sccs  fouudcd  upon  great  considerations  by 
 your  noble  progenitor  the  said  King  Henry,  and  that  the 
 benefice  of  Clyffe  may  be  annexed  to  the  see  of  Rochester, 
 and  from  the  see  of  Chester  the  benefice  late  annexed  there- 
 unto be  not  dismembered,  in  consideration  of  the  exility  of 
 the  bishopricks. 
 Si^ion^of  12.      Item,  we  most  humbly  desire  your  Majesty  that  in 
 
 exp?ncesV  considcration  of  our  chargeable  expectation,  and  for  the  bur- 
 they^beT  dcu  of  ucccssary  furniture  of  our  houses,  and  for  the  discharge 
 cd7eth"e  of  the  great  fees  paid  before,  and  at  the  restitution  of  tem- 
 rentdueat    poralitlcs,  to  suffcr  US  to  eujoy  the  half-year's  rent  last  past 
 
 the  previous     ^  ,  *'    "^  "^  '■ 
 
 and  that""^'  ^^  IMichaclmas,  and  that  our  first-fruits  may  be  abated  and 
 fbateSi''^  distributed  into  more  years,  for  the  better  maintenance  of 
 ovei'moS^  hospitality  :  and  that  we  may  be  put  to  our  own  surety  at 
 ^^^^'  the  composition  of  our  fruits.     Which  gracious  favour  in  the 
 
 latter  premises  if  your  Highness  do  not  shew  towards  us,  we 
 shall  not  dare  enter  our  functions  whereto  your  grace  hath 
 nominated  us,  being  too  importable  else  for  us  to  bear.  All 
 which  petitions,  most  redoubted  sovereign  lady,  we  make  to 
 your  Highness,  not  in  respect  of  any  private  worldly  advance- 
 ment or  temporal  gain  (as  God  knowcth  our  hearts),  but  in 
 respect    of   God's    glory,    Christ's   faith   and  religion,   your 
 
I.mD.]  msiIOl'S   IIKIT,   TO   IJIKKN   EI.IZAWKTII.  101 
 
 Grace''s  honour  and  (.li;icluir«;o  of  ^our  conscience  to  all  llio 
 >vorkl,  and  lor  the  honourable  report  of  ^  our  nobility,  and  to 
 tho  comfort  of  the  realm'. 
 
 Your  Highness'  most  humble  orators, 
 
 MATTIITK,   elect  Cant.^ 
 EDM.,   elect   London^. 
 KIClIAUl).  elect  Ely*. 
 WILL'MUS,  elect  Ciccstrcn.^ 
 JOHN,  elect  of  Hereford*^. 
 
 LXIX. 
 
 QUEEN  ELIZABETH  TO  THE  LORD  TREASURER  AND 
 THE  BARONS  OF  THE  EXCHEQUER. 
 
 2Gth  October,  lood.     S.  P.  O.  Domestic,  vii.  19.     Grig.  Draft. 
 
 By  the  Queen. 
 Right  trusty  and  right  well-bcloved  cousin  and  trusty 
 and  rifrht   vrell-beloved,   we   greet   you  well.     AVhereas   theThcarch- 
 
 o  ,  .  bishop  and 
 
 archbishop  elect  of  Canterbury  and  the  otlier  elect  bishops  of  ^JJ'^''^^]^^'' 
 London,  Ely,  Hereford,  and  Chichester  remain  unconsecrateds  eome'"ra"Jd, 
 by  reason  that  the  exchange  is  not  finished  betwixt  us  and  SarS 
 them,  for  certain  temporalities,  according  to  the  power  given  "Eillfof"^' 
 us  by  a  statute  in   the   last  Parliament,  whereby  we  be  in- witirthe  "^ 
 formed  the  state  ecclesiastical  in  the  province  of  Canterbury  mains  un- 
 and  the  rest  of  the   said  dioceses  remaineth  without  govern- 
 ment ;  our  pleasure  is  that  ye  shall  with  all  expedition  pro- 
 ceed to  finish  the  said  exchange.    And  for  that  it  is  informed  The  treasurer 
 
 and  barons 
 
 [1  This  letter  has  no  date.  "  It  could  not,"  says  Strype,  "  bo 
 writ  before  August,  in  which  month  Parker's  election  was  made  by 
 tho  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Canterbury."  "  In  tho  contriving  of  this," 
 he  adds,  "tho  Archbishop  was  chief,  and  the  address,  I  suppose,  was 
 drawn  up  by  his  hand  and  head."] 
 
 [2  Archbishop  Parker,  elected  1  August,  1550,  consecrated  17tli 
 December,  1559.] 
 
 [3  Bishop  Grindal,  elected  26th  July,  1559.] 
 
 [^  Bishop  Cox,  elected  28th  July,  1559.] 
 
 [5  Bishop  Barlow,  elected  1559.] 
 
 [G  Bishop  Scory,  elected  15th  July,  1559.] 
 
 ["  The  term  "  unconsecrated"  only  applies  to  the  archbishop  and 
 the  bishops  elect  of  London  and  Ely.  The  other  two  elect  bishops 
 "  being  bishops  before  needed  no  consecration  but  were  confirmed  in 
 their  new  bishopricks."    Strype's  Parker,  Bk.  ii.  c.  2,  p.  12G.] 
 
102    QUEEN  ELIZABETH   TO   THE   LORD  TREASURER,  &C.   [1559. 
 
 to^finbhthl  ^^»  upon  the  behalf  of  the   said  five  bishops,  that  ye  have 
 I'iih'SP      already  in  our  name  assigned  for  us  certain  of  the  temporali- 
 expedition.    ^j^g  ^£  ^-^^  g^-j  ijisijopricks,  whoroof  part  be  such  sort  that 
 nSt  uj  be""^^^  the  same  truly  shall  not  be  able  to  keep  their  hospitahty, 
 d"etfrh?'tire    bciug  hcrctofore  by  their  predecessors  assigned  and  reserved 
 LnSe"^     for  the  same  purpose,  whereby  the  meaning  of  the  act  of 
 maintenance*^  parliament  should  be  frustrate ;  we  think  it  very  convenient, 
 taiity,         and  so  are  pleased,  that  ye  should  have  consideration  hereof, 
 ?oth°e"fovour-  ^^^  cxtend  nothing  against  them  by  this  exchange  contrary 
 onhTaaof  *^  *^®  favourable  meaning  of  the  act  of  parliament,  and  that 
 parliament,    ^^le  excliango  may  be  such  as  they  may  have  in  spiritualities 
 an  equal  just  value  to  the  temporaUties  which  shall  be  re- 
 ceived from  them ;  using  therein  such  valuations  as  ye  shall 
 find  hath  been  commonly  answered  to  their  predecessors  upon 
 their  accounts.     And,  finally,  our  pleasure  is  that  ye  shall 
 proceed  to  the  accomphshing  of  this  exchange  with  all  speed 
 possible,  having  consideration  specially  to  forbear  such  things 
 as  tend  to  the  help  and  maintenance  of  their  hospitality,  and 
 to  proceed  to  the  like  exchange  with  the  rest  of  the  bishop- 
 ricks  that  be  richly  endowed,  as  York,  Winchester,  Durham, 
 Bath,  Sarum,  Norwich,  and  Worcester,  so  as  upon  the  election 
 of  men  meet  for  those  rooms  the  same  may  be  placed  with 
 convenient  speed. 
 Snuob?'^*         ^And  further,  where  there  is  answerable  unto  us  at  the 
 the^rSh^^     feast  of  Michaelmas  last  past  the  whole  year's  revenue  of  the 
 thtSrshSps    archbishoprick  of  Canterbury,   the   bishopricks  of  Hereford 
 and  Chichester ;  we  be  pleased  that  the  bishops  elect  of  the 
 same  shall  have  the  moiety  of  the   same,  as  of  our  reward, 
 towards  the  maintenance  of  their  charges.     And  where  there 
 is  also  to  be  answered  to  us  but  the  one  half-year's  rent  of 
 the  bishopricks  of  London  and  Ely,  we  be  pleased  likewise  to 
 grant  such  a  quantity  of  the  same,  as  shall  amount  to  the 
 moiety  of  the  whole  year's  revenue  of  the  same  several  two 
 bishopricks. 
 
 And  these  our  letters  shall  be  your  sufficient  warrant  and 
 discharge  in  this  behalf.  Given  under  our  signet  at  our 
 palace  of  Westminster,  the  26th  day  of  October,  in  the  first 
 year  of  our  reign^. 
 
 [1  This  paragraph  is  wholly  in  the  handwriting  of  Sir  William 
 Cecil.] 
 
 P  The  result  of  this  exchange,  so  far  as  related  to  the  arch- 
 bishoprick of  Canterbury,  is  thus  stated  in  a  memorandum  in  Lam- 
 
155Q.]       LOUDS  OF  THE  COINCIL  '1(»  AH.  I'AHKKU,   KLRCT.      103 
 
 lAX. 
 
 Tin:  LOUDS  or  tiik  council  to  AKCIIULSIIOI' 
 rAKKKK,  KLECT. 
 
 2nd  Norember,  IWO.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Comb.  cxiv.  art.  :'G.  p.  83.  Orig. 
 
 Attkr   our   right  hearty   cominciulations   to   your   good 
 lordship.      Whcrc;is   Peter    Lanfjriiio    and    John    Eric,    lato  ret" LanR. 
 l>rcbcndary  and  peti-canon  of  the  cathedral  church  of  Win-  ■^,"*^'|,J^'rl,'>„r 
 Chester,  do  now  remain  in  the  prisons  of  the  I>ench  and  Mar-  |l''"\H"',I'j!'|,'i' 
 shalsea,  where  they  be  somewhat  touched  with  sickness ;   wo  iJ'*"**^*'* 
 liavo  given  order,  upon  their  humble  suits,  to  the  keepers  of 
 the  said  prisons  that  thev  shall  be  brouirht  unto  you,  requir-  f"^ ♦"♦'?'' 
 ing  you  upon  their  coming  to  take  bonds  of  them  with  sureties  |^^t'^!  ['»,;.■  ^ 
 for  their  good  behaviour  and  certainty  of  place  of  abode,  in  lurelus  an.i 
 form  as  hath  been  formerly  adjusted  for  others  of  their  sort,  ''^''^*-' ^•'""• 
 and  otherwise  to  use  your  discretions  towards  them.      Thus 
 faro  you  right  heartily  well.     From  Westminster,  the  second  2nd  Nov.  iw) 
 of  November,  1559. 
 
 Your  very  loving  friends, 
 
 TEXBROKE. 
 W.  HOWARD. 
 THO.  TARRY.  G.  ROGERS.  F.  KXOLLYS.  W.  CECILL. 
 AB.  CAVE.  ED.  SAKEVYLE. 
 
 To  our  very   good  lord  the   arcli- 
 hishop  of  Canterbury  elect, 
 
 beth   MS.    959,   inserted    in    the  printed   life    of    Matthteus,    in    a 
 copy   of  archbishop   Parker's   lives    of  the   archbishops    of  Canter- 
 bury.     The  memorandum  is  in  the  handwriting  of  Sir  John  Parker, 
 the  archbishop's  grandson :    "  When  the  said  Matthew  came  to  bo  Mode  and 
 archbishop,  by  virtue  of  an  act   of  parliament,  touching  exchange  eSa'iiKe^  ^ 
 of  lands  with  Bishops,  anno  Reginaj  Elizabethce  primo,   there  was  the  an?h-^'' 
 taken  from  the  See  of  Canterbury  of  the  temporalities,  consisting  of'^came? 
 of  manors,  scitcs   of  priories,  dominical   lands,  parks,  &c.,  in  Kent,  ^"^• 
 Sussex,  and  Salop,   to  the  clear  yearly  value  of  12S2Z.  6s.  8c?.,  for 
 which  was  returned  over,  in  recompence,  the  tenths  of  the  diocese 
 of   Canterbury,  of  478?.   10s.  C^c?.,  and   in  parsonages   impropriate 
 357?.  155.  ll^c?.,  and  in  annual  rents  447?.  9s.  G^c?.,  so  that  by  these 
 valuations,  the  recompence  was  set  down  to  exceed  the  lands   taken 
 by  34s.  5\d.,  as  before  in  particulars  is  written.     The  Queen  of  her 
 favour  gave  unto  him  of  the  Michaelmas  rents,  1590,  [sic,  for  1559], 
 1235?.  9s.  7c?."    The  figures  printed  are  those  in  the  MS.,  but  it  is  evi- 
 dent there  is  some  shght  mistake  in  them.] 
 
104    T.  PARRY  AND   \V.  CECIL  TO  ARCIIB.  PARKER,  ELECT.  [1559. 
 
 LXXL 
 
 SIR  THOMAS  PARRY  AND  SIR  WILLLUI  CECIL  TO 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER,  ELECT. 
 
 2nd  November,  1559.  Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  287.  p.  795.   Grig, 
 
 After  our  right  hearty  commendations.      The  Queen's 
 Mr  Boxaii  to  Majcsty's  ploasurc  is  that  ye  proceed  with  ^Ir  Boxall,  whom 
 
 be  deprived  J        %j  l  ^1       I  ' 
 
 r/he'VciS  ^®  ^^"^^  "^^^  1^^>  according  to  the  form  of  the  statute  and 
 rath'lff  con-  your  commissiou,  offering  him  the  oath ;  which  if  he  shall 
 formity.  rcfuse  to  tako,  her  Highness'  pleasure  is,  ye  then  proceed  to 
 the  deprivation  of  all  his  livings  according  to  the  tenor  of  the 
 said  statute,  giving  undelayed  and  sufficient  order  to  other 
 the  commissioners  of  several  circuits  within  the  which  any 
 part  or  parcel  of  his  livings  lieth,  that  he  be  no  more 
 molested  or  troubled  for  not  appearance,  or  any  other  cause 
 whatsoever  growing  by  reason  of  his  said  Hvings  or  their 
 particular  visitations,  nor  bound  or  driven  to  further  answer 
 for  any  matter  rising  by  occasion  thereof.  Which  her  High- 
 ness' pleasure  we  pray  and  require  you  to  put  in  execution 
 as  soon  as  ye  conveniently  may.  And  so  we  bid  you  right 
 heartily  farewell.  From  the  Court,  this  second  of  November, 
 1559. 
 
 Your  loving  friends, 
 
 2  Nov.  1559. 
 
 THO.  PARRY. 
 
 W.  CECILL. 
 
 In  proceeding 
 with  him,  to 
 
 Postscript.      We  do  also  require  you  in  proceeding  with 
 have  in  re-     him  to  havo  iu  romombrance  what  place  he  hath  had  in  this 
 
 mem  bran  ce  *■ 
 
 hi'formedy   commonweal,  and  to  have  regard  thereunto  ^. 
 
 held. 
 
 To  my  lord  of  Canterbury  Ms  good 
 grace  he  these  delivered. 
 
 {}  This  postscript  is  in  the  handwriting  of  Sir  W.  Cecil.  Dr 
 Boxall,  as  stated  at  p.  Qo,  had  been  a  Secretary  of  State,  and  one 
 of  the  Privy  Council  during  the  reign  of  Queen  Mary.  He  was  also 
 dean  of  Peterborough,  Norwich  and  Windsor.  Being  a  man  of  a 
 mild  and  amiable  disposition,  he  had  abstained  from  all  participation 
 in  the  cruelties  of  the  ^larian  period.  It  will  appear  hereafter  that 
 Archbishop  Parker  treated  him  with  due  consideration  and  courtesy.] 
 
'arkf-r  i« 
 iiuu-ti  coin- 
 
 1559.]    Aiitiin.  rAKKKK,  i:i.i:rT,  to  sik  wii.mam  (  i.ni..    105 
 
 LXXll. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PAKKKIi,  KLKCT,  TO  SIR   WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 Cth  NoYembcr,  15^1).    S,  P.  ().  Dumeatic,  IMU.     Ori|^. 
 
 Sill, 
 
 Wo   wero   this  other  day  with  tho  Queen's  Majesty,   in  i- 
 whoso   jrracious  words  wo  took    much   comfort,   but   for  the  f-.M.^'iV.'>"the 
 principal   cause  not  yet  fully   resolved,   and  thereupon    her  ;;,;';;;,*;;;;'*^ 
 Grace  dismissed  us,  sliewing  to  us  tliat  she  would  speak  a^ain  ',;[„'va,ofthe 
 with   us  as   upon  Saturday  last,  if  she  sent  us  so  word,  which  hiT^chliS'.''" 
 her  Highness  have  done.     Therefore,  because  tho  matter  is 
 in  good  towardncss,  we  would  wish  wo  wero  called  for  again 
 to  continue  our  humble  supplication  to  the  linishment  and  stay 
 of  that  offendicle^  the  more  speed  would  be  bad  therein,  for 
 that  some  fear  danger  is  like  shortly  to  arise  thereof,  as  by 
 letters  which  this  morning  I  have  sent  to  my  lord  of  London, 
 at  whoso  hands  your  worship  may   desire  to  have  them,  I 
 perceive. 
 
 God    keep   us   from    such   visitation  as  Knox  have   at- 
 tempted in  Scotland  ;  the  people  to   be  orderers  of  things. 
 Thus  in  most  haste  I  commend  you  to  God's  good  grace  ;  c  Nov.  iwa. 
 this  Gth  of  ^sovember. 
 
 Your  orator, 
 
 ISIATTH.  EL.  CANT. 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  William 
 Cecil,    Secretary   to   the    Queens 
 Majesty, 
 
 LXXIIL 
 
 THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER 
 AND  THE  REST  OF  THE  ECCLESIASTICAL  COMMIS- 
 SIONERS. 
 
 9th  November,  1559.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  IG.  p.  56.   Ori^. 
 
 After  our  very  hearty  commendations  to  your  lordship. 
 AVhere  as  Dr  Carter  and  Dr  Seo:2;iswick  havinoj  refused  before  nr  carter  and 
 our  very  2:ood   lord    the  Earl  of  Westmoreland  and   other  ^'^^  having 
 
 *       o  refused  the 
 
 commissioners   in  the  north  parts  to   receive  the  oath  and  "^'H,"!!*"- 
 
 JT  premacy, 
 
 p  The  "  oflFendiclo  "  hero  referred  to  was,  in  all  probability,  tho 
 crucifix  in  the  Queen's  chapel,  the  subject  of  the  letter,  No.  LXVI.J 
 
lOG       LORDS  or   THE   COLNCIL   TO   AB.  PARKER,   ELECT.     [1559. 
 
 service  by  law  established,  were  by  them  bound  to  appear 
 personally  before  us;  we  have  thought  good  upon  their 
 ^e  remitted  appearance  here  to  send  them  to  your  lordship,  praying  you 
 Talker.  ^^  proceed  further  with  them  according  to  the  qualities  of 
 their  faults  and  the  laws  provided  in  that  behalf.  Whereof 
 we  pray  your  lordship  not  to  fail.  And  so  we  bid  you 
 heartily  farewell.  From  Westminster,  the  9th  of  November, 
 1559. 
 
 Your  lordship's  assured  loving  friends, 
 
 W.  NORTHT.       E.  CLYNTON.        W.  HOWARD. 
 THO.  PARRY.    G.  ROGERS.   F.  IvNOLLYS.  W.  CECILL. 
 AB.  CAVE. 
 
 To  our  very  good  lord  the  arch- 
 bishop of  Cajiterhunj,  elect,  and 
 the  rest  of  the  Commissioners. 
 
 LXXIV. 
 
 Bishop  Tun- 
 stall's  exe- 
 cutors. 
 
 His  funeral. 
 
 AECHBISHOP  PARKER,  ELECT,  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 18th  November,  1559.     S.  P.  O.  Domestic.    Orig. 
 
 My  lord  of  Durh[am]^  hath  one  of  his  executors  here, 
 the  other  is  in  the  [No]rth,  where  also  is  his  testament.  This 
 executor  saith  that  his  mind  was  to  be  homely  and  plainly 
 buried.  Consider  you  whether  it  were  not  best  to  prescribe 
 some  honest  manner  of  his  interring,  lest  it  might  else  be 
 evil  judged  that  the  order  of  his  funeral  were  at  the  council's 
 appointment 2,  not  known  abroad  that  the  handling  of  it  were 
 only  at  his  executors'  liberality. 
 His  chief  I  have  sealed  up  two  small  caskets,  wherein  I  think  no 
 
 up  by  the      great  substance,  either  of  money  or  of  writino^s.     There  is 
 
 archbishop.     ^  . 
 
 one  roll  of  books  which  he  purposed  to  deliver  to  the  Queen, 
 which  is  nothing  else  but  King  Henry's  Testament^  and  a 
 book   Contra  communicationem  utriusque  speciei,  and  such 
 
 [^  Cuthbert  Tonstall,  bishop  of  Durham,  having  refused  to  take 
 
 the   oath   of  supremacy,  had  been  committed  to  the   archbishop's 
 
 house  at  Lambeth.     He  died  there  in  November,  1559.     Strype's 
 
 Parker,  Bk.  i.  c.  10,  p.  94.     See  above  Letters  LXIII.  LXIV.  LXV.] 
 
 P  He  was  buried  in  the  parish-church  of  Lambeth.] 
 
 [s  Bishop  Tonstall  was  one  of  the  executors  of  King  Henry  VHI.] 
 
1550.J      ARC'Iin.  PAllKEK,   KI.IK  T,  TO  Sill    WII.I.IAM   CECIU       107 
 
 matter.  His  body  by  reason  of  hw  sudden  departure  cannot 
 bo  long  kept.  Thus  Jesus  preserve  you.  This  18th  of  No- 
 vember. 
 
 Your  bcadinan, 
 
 M.  KL.   ('. 
 
 To    the    liitjht    llonounihlt     Mr 
 Secrttary. 
 
 LXXV. 
 
 ARCIIBISIIOr  PARKKR  AND  OTHERS  TO  THE  PRESIDENT 
 AND  CHAPTER  OF  EXETER. 
 
 23rd  December,  1559.     "NVilkins'a  Concilia,  iv.  201,  from  Ilcg.  Dec.  et  Cap. 
 Kxuu.  Lib.  111.  to.  Wo. 
 
 After  our  hearty  commendations  unto  you.      Whereas  Letters  of  the 
 
 .  ..  •     f  11  Coininission- 
 
 Tvo  the  Queen's   jlaiestv  s  commissioners  are  miormcd  that  ^rs  for  vi.ita- 
 
 ^  -^         J  tion  for 
 
 her  Hif^hncss's  late  visitors  directed  their  letters  to  you  for  the  reformation 
 
 O  t/  of  (lisorcters 
 
 reformation  of  certain  disorders  used  in  your  cathedral  church,  ^"J  EycS"^'^ 
 which  being  of  late  sent,  might  peradvcnture  be  accepted  of 
 small  force,   because  their  commission  in  some  part  is  deter- 
 mined ;  we  have  therefore  thouo:ht  good  by  these  our  letters  conflrmcd  by 
 
 1  •  1  n    ^^^  i  •  •  the  Kccle- 
 
 to  Will  and  require  you  to  obey,   fulfil,  and  put  in  execution  ^^^^';'^^^ 
 all  and  singular  the  causes  mentioned  in  the  said  letter,  and  j,'"  p|;,p,e 
 also  quietly  permit  and  suffer  such  congregation  of  people  as!"^,^ 
 shall  be  at  any  time  hereafter  congregated  together  in  the  JliyX 
 said  church,  to  sing  or  say  the  godly  prayers  in  the  morning,  rm?p^r^it- 
 and  other  times  set  forth,  used  and  permitted  in  this  Church  chureh  of 
 
 .  '  .  England. 
 
 of  England,  to  the  laud  and  praise  of  his  honour  and  glory, 
 without  any  of  your  contradiction  to  the  contrary,  and  that 
 to  be  done  in  the  most  commodious  and  convenient  place  in 
 the  said  church,  whether  it  be  in  the  choir  or  elsewhere  ;  as 
 you  and  every  of  you  will  answer  to  the  same  at  his  peril. 
 And  thus  fare  you  well.  From  London,  this  23rd  of  De- 
 cember, 1559. 
 
 Your  loving  friends, 
 
 MATT^E^y  cant.       will.  mey. 
 
 EDM.  LONDON.      THOMAS  IIUYCK*. 
 
 To  our  loving  friends,  the  president 
 and  chapter  of  the  cathedral 
 church  of  St  Peter  in  Exon,  and 
 to  every  of  them. 
 
 [^  The  circumstances  which  gave  rise  to  this  letter  appear  in  "\ViI- 
 kins's  Concilia,  iv.  201,  as  derived  from  the  register  of  the  Dean  and 
 
 Mowed 
 mble 
 or  to 
 
108  SIR  WILLIAM   CECIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER.        [1559. 
 
 LXXVI. 
 
 SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 27th  February,  1559— GO.    Petyt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  47.  fol.  379.  Grig. 
 
 Becommen-  It  niaj  plcasG  jouF  gracG,  this  bearer  Sir  Roger  North, 
 
 Lenuiccnfe  soii  and  heir  to  the  Lord  North  ^  being  to  me  well  known, 
 tosiriiogcr   hath,  in  consideration  of  his  evil  estate  of  health,  and  the 
 
 North. 
 
 danger  that  might  follow  if  he  should  be  restrained  to  eating 
 of  fish,  prayed  me  to  be  mean  to  your  grace  to  dispense  with 
 him  therein :  I  doubt  not  but  your  grace  shall  of  others  also 
 well  understand  how  requisite  it  is  for  the  preservation  of  his 
 health  that  he  be  dispensed  withal.  And  thus  I  take  my 
 leave  of  your  grace.  From  Westminster,  this  27th  of  Feb- 
 ruary, 1559. 
 
 Your  grace's  to  command, 
 
 W.  CECILL. 
 
 Your  grace  seeth,  notwithstanding  my  earnest  conference 
 with  you  in  these  matters,  I  am  in  probable  cases  moved  to 
 relent. 
 
 Chapter  of  Exeter.  The  Queen's  visitors  had  enjoined  upon  the  dean 
 and  chapter  the  reading  of  morning  prayer  in  the  choir,  at  six  o'clock 
 daily.  The  people  attended  the  service  "  reverently  "  in  great  num- 
 bers, and  "  for  their  greater  comfort  and  better  stirring  up  of  their 
 hearts  to  devotion,  appointed  amongst  themselves  at  every  such 
 meeting  to  sing  a  psalm,  and  all  together  with  one  voice  to  give 
 praise  unto  God,  according  to  the  use  and  manner  of  the  primitive 
 church."  The  clergy  of  the  cathedral  deemed  this  practice  to  be  an 
 irregularity,  and,  as  it  was  said,  not  only  "  scoffed  and  jested  openly  at 
 the  godly  doings  of  the  people,"  but  "  molested  and  troubled  them/* 
 and  "  very  uncourteously "  forbade  them  the  use  of  the  choir.  In  a 
 letter  dated  the  16th  December,  1559,  the  Queen's  visitors  rebuked  the 
 president  and  chapter,  during  the  vacancy  of  the  deanery,  for  their 
 opposition  to  the  pious  feelings  of  the  people,  "  which  of  all  others 
 should  most  have  rejoiced  thereat,  and  should  have  encouraged  the 
 people  to  go  forward,"  and  the  visitors  charged  the  president  and 
 chapter  to  see  that  their  vicars,  and  others  their  priests,  should  not 
 only  "leave  their  frowardness,"  but  that  they  should  "aid  and  assist 
 the  people  in  these  tlieir  godly  doings."  The  letternow  printed  was 
 written  by  the  ecclesiastical  commissioners  to  enforce  the  directions 
 of  the  Queen's  visitors.] 
 
 [1  Sir  Roger  became  the  second  Lord  North  on  the  death  of  his 
 father,  in  December,  15G4,  and  survived  until  December,  1597.  (Dug- 
 dale's  Baronage,  ii.  394.)] 
 
1500.]  AlUim.    I'AKKKU   TO   DU   NM  II.  IIK.V'III,   &C.  109 
 
 LXXVII. 
 
 AUCIIRISIIOP    rVRKKR    TO    DR   NICHOLAS    IIKATH,    DK- 
 rUIVKD  AUCIIIUSIIOP  OF  YOUK,  AND  OTIII'R  DKIMlIVKI) 
 
 Bisiiors. 
 
 2Cth  Manh,  1500.      The  Hunting  of  the  Komith  Fox,  bj  Kobcrt  ^Vn^p.    8vo. 
 Dublin,  1083.  pp.  111_119». 
 
 It  is  tho  pride,  covetousncss  and  usurpation  of  tlio  bishop  Th*  pride. 
 of  Home,    and   of   liis    predecessors,   which    hath    made  the  »>''i'<.i'  -f 
 princes  of  tho  eartli  to  defend  their  territories  and  their  privi-  p^'mwihe 
 leges  from  that  wicked  Babylon  and  her  bishop ;  and  whereas  Kf  u-mrjl 
 you  and  tho  rest  of  the  late  expulsed  bishops  have  scandalized  himf^"'" 
 our  reformed  clerjrv  within  these  her  ^yiajesty's  realms,  that  tj.c  cxpeiicd 
 
 •    1  ,  1  •         •"  r^^      '  1    1  •        *  1  -11  bishop*  have 
 
 we  yield  no  subjection  unto  Lhrist  and  his  Apostles,  we  yield  "f^-^"^.'/,',^  ^ 
 more  than  ye  fiithers  of  the  llomish  tribe  do ;  for  wo  honour  ^."{;fp*{]!,"' 
 and  adore   Christ   as  the  true  Son   of  God,  equal   with  hisJ^^^yS"" 
 Father  as  well  in  authority  as  in  majesty,  and  do  make  him  hL^aposSi'S.'* 
 no  foreigner  to  the  realm,  as  you  members  and  clergy  of  the 
 church  of  Kome  do ;  but  we  profess  him  to  be  our  only  Maker  n^^J.^p^'f^h^ 
 and  lledeemer,   and  ruler  of  his  Church,    not  only   in  this  !"„ ",',',? J J!^'*^ 
 realm,  but  also  in  all  nations,  unto  whom  princes  and  preachers  cln'rchto 
 are  but  servants ;  the  preachers  to  propose,  the  princes  to  ^^'^"^^ 
 execute,  Christ's  will  and  commandments,  whom  you,   and  all 
 that  desire  to  bo  saved,  must  believe  and  obey,  afrainst  all 
 councils  and  tribunals  who  do  dissent  from  his  word,  whether 
 regal  or  papal. 
 
 The  Apostles  we  reverence  and  obev,  as  the  messengers  The uke of 
 
 ^^  the  rev6r6Ticc 
 
 from  Christ,  and  do  receive  their  writinors  with  exacter  obe- pa'^i  f?  t''e 
 
 .         °  .  Apostles. 
 
 dience  than  Romanists  do ;  for  we  will  not  permit,  as  Rome 
 and  her  clergy  do,  any  to  dispense  against  the  Scriptures. 
 
 p  Ware  gives  the  following  account  of  this  letter.  "Anno  1560. 
 This  year  Matthew  Parker  having  received  from  the  expulsed  arch- 
 bishop of  York  and  tho  rest  of  the  popish  bishops,  a  letter  terrifying 
 of  tho  reformed  bishops  and  clergy  of  the  Church  of  England,  with 
 curses  and  other  threatcnings,  for  not  acknowledging  the  papal  tri- 
 bunal ;  this  worthy  father,  consulting  with  her  Majesty  and  tho 
 Council,  shewed  tho  same  with  the  following  answer  prepared  upon 
 tho  receipt  thereof,  which  extremely  pleased  her  Majesty,  and  the 
 reformed  party  of  her  Council.  After  which  her  Majesty  purged  her 
 Council  from  all  suspected  persons  bending  towards  the  bishop  of 
 Rome  or  his  usurpations." — pp.  110 — 111.] 
 
110     AUCHB.  PARKER  TO  DR  N.  HEATH,  DEPRIVED   [1560. 
 
 The  word  of 
 God  is  re- 
 c-eived  by  the 
 Church  of 
 Kngland 
 from  the 
 Apostles,  and 
 tlie  papal 
 errors  held  in 
 detestation. 
 
 "We  own 
 Councils 
 called  by  the 
 help  of  re- 
 ligious 
 princes,  but 
 we  own  no 
 subjection  to 
 papal  tribu- 
 nals. 
 
 St  Peter 
 claimed  no 
 subjection. 
 Witness  St 
 Cyprian. 
 
 We  will  never  say  with  Pighius^;  "the  Apostles  wrote  cer- 
 tain things,  not  that  their  writings  should  be  above  our  faith 
 and  religion,  but  rather  under." 
 
 AVe  confess  the  Apostles  were  men  allowed  of  God,  to 
 whom  the  Gospel  should  be  committed,  and  therefore  we 
 receive  the  AVord  from  them,  not  as  the  word  of  man,  but  as 
 it  is  truly  the  Word  of  God ;  assuring  ourselves  it  is  God's 
 power  to  save  all  who  believe.  Thus  doth  our  Reformation 
 detest  your  Romish  errors  and  heinous  presumptions,  which 
 makes  your  Romish  writers  and  popes  to  add,  alter,  and 
 diminish,  nay  also  to  dispense  with  the  words  that  Christ 
 himself  spake,  as  well  as  the  writings  of  the  Apostles. 
 
 We  shall  and  do  own  such  councils  as  the  Church  of 
 Christ  was  wont  to  call,  by  the  help  of  her  rehgious  princes ; 
 and  do  and  shall  own  brotherly  concord  and  communion,  so 
 long  as  they  make  no  breach  in  faith  or  Christian  charity ;  but 
 as  touching  subjection  and  servitude,  take  ye  heed  lest  ye 
 commit  treason  against  the  laws  of  her  Majesty's  realms ;  for 
 we  owe  them  none.  The  blessed  angels  profess  themselves  ^ 
 to  be  fellow-servants  with  the  saints  upon  earth ;  what  are  ye 
 or  your  bishop  of  Rome  then,  who  (with  your  tribunals  and 
 jurisdictions)  would  be  rulers  and  lords  over  the  inheritance 
 of  Christ? 
 
 Reverend  sirs,  consider  how  St  Peter  claimed  no  subjec- 
 tion ;  which  St  Cyprian,  by  these  his  words  thus  translated, 
 saith :  **  Peter  whom  the  Lord  made  first  choice  of,  and  on 
 whom  he  built  his  Church,  when  St  Paul  after  strove  with 
 him  (for  circumcision)  did  not  take  upon  him,  nor  challenge 
 any  thing  insolently  or  arrogantly,  neither  advanced  he  him- 
 self as  chief,  or  like  one  unto  whom  emperors,  kings  or 
 princes,  should  be  subject ^" 
 
 1  Pig.  Hierar.  Lib.  i.  cap.  2.  ["  Non  quidem  ut  scripta  ilia  prse- 
 essent  fidei  religionique  nostra?,  sed  subessent  potius."  Col.  1538. 
 fol.  6.] 
 
 2  Rev.  xxii.  [9.] 
 
 [3  Cyprian  ad  Quirlnum  (Quintum)  "Nam  nee  Petrus,  quern 
 primum  Dominiis  elegit,  et  super  quern  cedificarit  ecclesiam  suam, 
 cum  secum  Paulus  de  circumcisione  postmodum  disceptaret,  yindica- 
 vit  sibi  aliquid  insolenter  aut  arroganter  assumpsit,  ut  diceret  se  pri- 
 matum  tencre  et  obtemperari  a  novellis  et  posteris  sibi  potius  opor- 
 tere." — Cypriani  Opera,  ed.  Paris.  172G.  p.  127.] 
 
15G0.]     AUCIin.  OF  YORK,  AND  OTHER  DKIMIIVK I)  lUSIIOI'S.       1  1  1 
 
 Because  yo  bo  so  earnest  with  us  of  tho  Roformod  Church 
 of  those  her   Majesty's  dominions,   for  subjection    to  foreign 
 tribunals,  to   coiifuto  you  aiul   your  errors,  j)ray  behold  and 
 sec  how  vro  of  tlie  Church  of  llnirland,  reformed   l)y  our  late  T»>r /-himh 
 Iving  Edward  and   his  clergy,  ami  now  by  her  Majesty  and  y.l;7;;,'vi*'. 
 hers  reviving  tho  same,   havo  but  imitated  and  followed  the  ,*/aV,o,/u''' 
 examj)les  of  the  ancient  and  worthy  fathers. 
 
 IVay,  sirs,   resolve  us,    what   tribunals  did  St  Cyprian  P'^ y';v"''»- 
 
 •/    '  »  '  •'    i  tlOIl   fl)lloM« 
 
 and  tho  eighty  bishops  of  Cartliage  acknowledge,  when  he  ;If';,""/X«. 
 said,    C/iristus  unus  et  solus  halnt  poteMatem  dc  actu  nostra  ^^'^^^'"''"' 
 judicandi :  and  again,  l^])iscopus  ab  alio  judicari  non  potest: 
 and  again  lie  likewise  saith,  E.vpectemus  unlvcrsi  judicium 
 Christi*/ 
 
 Wq  further  entreat  you,  beforo  yo  censure  our  Reforma- 
 tion and  her  Majesty,  to  collect  what  tribunals  abroad  did 
 Polycrates,  and  tho  bishops  of  Asia  with  him,  acknowledge, 
 when  ho  replied  to  the  bishop  of  Rome,  then  threatening  to 
 excommunicate  him  and  the  rest  of  his  bishops,  Aon  turhabor 
 lis  qu(v  terrcndi  gratia  objiciuntur  ? 
 
 What  tribunals  did  St  Augustine  and  the  two  hundred  st  Augustine, 
 and  sixteen  bishops  acknowledge,  when  they  decreed  that 
 none  appealing  over  seas  (to  tribunals  abroad)  should  be 
 received  to  the  communion  within  Africa;  and  when  they 
 repelled  the  bishop  of  Rome,  labouring  to  please  [place  ?]  his 
 legates  a  latere  within  their  province,  and  willed  him  not  to 
 bring  fumosum  seculi  ti/phum,  that  smoky  pride  of  tho 
 world  into  the  Church  of  Christ^  ? 
 
 Thus  far  have  we  imitated  these  fathers  by  our  Reform-  wchave 
 ation,   and  denying  of   unlawful  demands,    which  be  proud  fJfJol^Kfsh 
 and  usurpal  of  the  bishops  of  Rome  to  demand  from  us  of  Jjif^^^j^n j*^*]  „f 
 the  clergy  within  these  her  Majesty's  dominions  :  nay,  not  only  dcmdf 
 them,  but  our  predecessors  the  British  bishops  of  old  within  ^'^""^' 
 
 [•*  St  Cyprian's  Sentences  in  the  Council  of  Carthago.  "  Ilabcat 
 omnis  cpiscopus  pro  licentia  libertatis  et  potestatis  suoo  arbitrium  pro- 
 prium,  tamque  judicari  ab  alio  non  possit  quam  nee  ipso  potest 
 alteriim  judicare.  Scd  cxpcetemus  universi  judicium  Domini  nostri 
 Jesu  Christi,  qui  unus  ct  solus  habct  potestatem,  et  prasponendi  nos  in 
 ecclesicc  suas  gubernatione  et  do  actu  nostro  judicandi." — Cypriani 
 Opera,  ibid.  p.  330.] 
 
 5  August.  Concil.  African,  cap.  29  et  105.  [Concil.  Afric.  cap.  G.  in 
 Crabb.  Concil.  Col.  Agrip.  1551.  i.  517.] 
 
112  AIICIIB.  PARKER  TO   DR  N.  HEATH,  DEPRIVED         [1560. 
 
 tills  realm ;  for  what  tribunals  did  they  ever  own,  when  Au- 
 gustine came  hither  from  Rome,   when  they   replied,    they 
 owed  him  none,  and  would  not  be  subject? 
 HefoSra^  I,  and  the  rest  of  our  brethren  the  bishops  and  clergy  of 
 
 Sration  of  *^®  realm,  supposed  ye  to  be  our  brethren  in  Christ ;  but  we 
 iSTho^"''^  be  sorry  that  ye,  through  your  perverseness,  have  separated 
 yourselves  not  only  from  us,  but  from  these  ancient  fathers, 
 and  their  opinions ;  and  that  ye  permit  one  man  to  have  all 
 the  members  of  your  Saviour  Christ  Jesus  under  his  sub- 
 jection :  this  your  wilful  opinion  is  not  the  way  to  reduce 
 kings,  princes,  and  their  subjects  to  truth,  but  rather  to 
 bhndfold  them  and  the  whole  Church,  and  so  lead  them  into 
 utter  darkness :  for  as  Gregory  saith,  Ecclesia  universa  cor- 
 ruit,  si  unus  universus  cadit^. 
 Opposition  What   was  it  occasioned   the  Romish  writers    to   write 
 
 caused  by  the 
 
 "iTrisdicMon    agaiiist  the  Bishop  of  Rome  ?     What  was  it  caused  Luther, 
 
 tffe'wSoVof  Calvin,  and  other   orthodox   clergymen,  to  renounce   Rome 
 
 ^^'"^*         and  her  church,  but  this  thing  called  the  bishop  of  Rome's 
 
 tribunal?     Several  learned  men,  from  the  first  time  that  the 
 
 Bishops  of  Rome  began  to  demand  tribute  and  to  set  up  a 
 
 tribunal,   have   written   that  that    very   thing   caused  those 
 
 bishops  to  forget  their  Maker  and  also  their  Redeemer :   yet 
 
 by  these  your  demands  of  us  to  own  Rome  and  her  tribunal, 
 
 you  forget  your  duties  to  God,  with  your  father  the  bishop 
 
 of  Rome ;  for  his  usurping  of  a  tribunal  to  make  all  nations 
 
 subject  to  his  beck,  hath  caused  him  and  his  successors  ever 
 
 since  to  forget  the  living  God. 
 
 These  bishops         Yo  his  foUowcrs  and  acknowledo^ers  partake  of  this  sin 
 
 partake  in  .  . 
 
 the  errors  of  also,   and  have  occasioned  the  bishops  of  Rome  to  fall  into 
 
 the  bishops  ^ 
 
 of  Rome,  thcse  crrors ;  for  ye  have  made  it  sacrilege  to  dispute  of  his 
 fact,  heresy  to  doubt  of  his  power,  paganism  to  disobey  him, 
 and  blasphemy  against  the  Holy  Ghost  to  act  or  speak 
 against  his  decrees :  nay,  that  which  is  most  horrible,  ye 
 have  made  it  presumption  in  any  man  not  to  go  to  the  devil 
 
 1  Gregor.  Lib.  Yi.  Epist.  24.  [The  words  of  St  Gregory  are:  "Sci- 
 tis  enim  quanti  non  solum  haeretici,  sed  etiam  hseresiarchoe  de  Con- 
 stantinopolitana  ecclesia  sunt  egressi.  Et  ut  de  honoris  vestri  injuria 
 taceam,  si  unus  episcopus  vocatur  universalis,  universa  ecclesia  cor- 
 ruit ;  si  unus  universus  cadit.  Sed  absit  hoec  stultitia,  absit  haec 
 levitas  ab  auribus  meis." — Greg.  Opera,  fol.  cccxcvii.  edit.  Paris.  1618; 
 p.  409.  edit.  1533;  p.  196.  Vol.  ii.  edit.  1542.] 
 
l.'dO.]    Aitcmi.  or  Y<»KK,  AND  oriiKii  nr.i'Hivii)  hisik.i's.    113 
 
 after  liim  without  anv  gnuli^in^  :  which  U  so  hhiiincful  ami 
 80  sinful  a  subjection,  that  Lucifer  himself  never  dcniandtd 
 the  like  from  his  shives  in  heU. 
 
 Consider  therefore  of  these  things;  and  it  shall  be  the 
 continual  prayers  of  our  reformed  Church  to  convert  )'o 
 all  to  the  truth  of  God's  Word,  to  obedience  to  your  sove- 
 reign Lady  Elizabeth  our  (^>aeen,  which  in  so  doing  ye  glorify 
 Christ,  and  the  Kternal  God  which  is  in  heaven,  and  is  solely 
 the  chief  and  absolute  ruler  of  i>rinces. 
 
 Your  faithful  brother  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTIILW  CANTUARIEXSIS. 
 .}farch  20,  15G0. 
 
 LXXVITL2 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  WARIIAM  ST  LEGER,  ESQ. 
 
 Aiiril,  1500.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  2-li.  p.  GG2.      Orig.  Draft 
 in  Parker's  hand. 
 
 In  my   right  hearty  manner  I  commend  me  unto  your 
 -worship,  and  thank  you  for  your  so  friendly  and  ready  re-  Acknow- 
 membrance  of  your   money  sent ;  which  yet  I  would   irladly  tho^cce^|.t 
 
 "  .  1  of  money 
 
 have  forborne  for  a  loncrer  time  rather  than  ye  should  have  s^"M'.>/''e 
 had  any  damage  by  collecting  it  so  instant  upon  your  day. 
 Ye  have  so  gently  used  me  from  time  to  time  in  this  first 
 assay  of  your  friendship,  that  ye  have  given  me  good  cause 
 to  requite  you,  if  it  may  lie  in  my  power.  And  furthermore 
 concernins:  you,  that  I  have  not  foro'otten  your  request  forihcarch- 
 
 °    *^  ,  /.I  .  bishop  has 
 
 the  preferment  of  that  young  gentleman  ot   whom  ye  write ;  "ot  f'"-t,'«'ttcn 
 
 for  the  pre- 
 
 [2  This  letter  was  written  in  reply  to  one  from  Mr  Warham  St  a^mfng" 
 Leger,  or  Sentleger,  as  he  wrote  his  name,  dated  12th  April,  15G0,  g^"''^'""*"- 
 (Parker  MSS.  cxiv.  art.  240.  p.  CGI,)  in  which  he  remitted  the  arch- 
 bishop 30/.,  the  remainder  of  "fourscore  and  ten  pounds,"  apparently 
 money  borro«ved.  Mr  St  Leger  was  the  eldest  surviving  son  of  Sir 
 Anthony  St  Leger,  K.  G.,  by  his  wife  Agnes,  niece  of  archbishop 
 Warham.  He  succeeded  to  the  family  seat  at  Ulcombe,  in  the 
 county  of  Kent,  on  the  12[h  March,  1558 — 9,  on  the  death  of  his 
 father,  Sir  Anthony,  and  was  serving  sheriff  for  Kent  at  the  time 
 when  he  wrote  this  letter.  Ho  was  knighted  in  1505,  and  was  killed 
 in  Ireland  in  1599.    (Ilastcd's  Kent,  ii.  423  )] 
 
 r  1  S 
 
 [fatik.  cor. J 
 
114  AllClIB.   PAIIKEII   TO    WAUIIAM  ST   LECiER,  ESQ.       [15G0. 
 
 SO  that  when  he  and  you  shall  see  your  opportunity,  I  shall 
 with  right  good  will  accomplish  all  that  shall  serve  that 
 purpose.  And  thus  wishing  you  a  full  recovery  of  your 
 distemperance  S  I  commend  you  to  the  grace  and  protection 
 of  God  as  myself. 
 
 LXXIX. 
 
 Thinks  the 
 
 archbishop 
 
 for  his 
 
 friendly 
 
 forewarning 
 
 concerning 
 
 his,  the 
 
 bishop's,  con 
 
 templated 
 
 translation. 
 
 Thanks  his 
 friends  for 
 their  good 
 will,  but 
 althoufjh  the 
 other  places 
 are  more 
 honourable 
 and  much 
 more  profit- 
 able, he  will 
 not  accept 
 them. 
 
 BISHOP  YOUNG  OF  ST  DAVID'S  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 3rd  May,  15C0.    Lambeth  MS.  959.  No.  41.  Orig. 
 
 After  most  humble  commendations.  It  may  please  your 
 grace  to  be  advertised,  that  I  have  received  your  letters 
 containing  your  friendly  advertisement,  or  forewarning,  con- 
 cerning my  settling  where  I  am,  or  translating  into  other 
 places;  which  thing  well  considered  maketh  me  to  think  that 
 one  of  mine  acquaintance  who  hunteth  much  for  his  own  further 
 advancement,  more  than  for  my  better  settling,  and  much 
 desireth  my  place,  hath  by  his  instruments  practised  therein 
 and  begun  that  thing.  And  some  in  authority,  being  my 
 friends,  hearing  of  such  preferment  towards  me,  and  meaning 
 good  unto  me,  peradventure  do  set  forward  the  same ;  unto 
 whom,  for  their  good  will,  I  accompt  myself  most  bounden. 
 But  for  the  matter,  although  the  other  places  are  more 
 honourable  and  much  more  profitable  than  this  wherein  I  am 
 settled,  I  will  in  no  wise  for  divers  considerations  accept  them, 
 otherwise  than  I  shall  be  thereunto  enforced  upon  mine  alle- 
 giance, which  I  trust  shall  not  happen  unto  me,  considering 
 my  simple  qualities  and  the  great  number  of  worthier  men 
 for  those  rooms  and  offices.  I  beseech  your  grace  weigh 
 the  matter  well,  and  stand  my  good  lord  therein ;  and 
 Mr  Gwynne,  who  hath  Thomas  Clement's  prebend,  upon  com- 
 munication had  with  him  concerning  that  matter,  having  due 
 consideration  of  your  grace's  pleasure  and  my  Lord  Keeper's  in 
 that  behalf,  is  content  to  go  from  the  same,  so  that  he  may 
 have  up  his  bonds  entered  for  the  first-fruits.  1  trust  your 
 grace  or  my  Lord  Keeper  will  help  that  to  pass,  considering 
 he  enjoy eth  it  not.     If  Mr  Serjeant  Rastell,  or  Mr  Warner, 
 
 [1   He  had  excused  himself  from  waiting  on  the   archbishop  in 
 person,   in  consequence  of  having  a  fever.] 
 
ir)0O]   lusiiop  YOi'No  OF  ST  David's  to  aiu  hi;,  imikik.    115 
 
 >\ill  bestow  ono  hour  with  such  diligence  therein  as  they  did 
 many  days  for  Clement,  it  would  well  como  to  pass  without 
 molesting  of  your  grace.  Apd  thus  resting  for  your  pleasure 
 and  determination  concerning  your  visitation,  I  commit  your 
 grace  to  the  Almighty.  From  my  house  at  Abergwillic,  the 
 third  of  Mav,  1500. 
 
 Your  grace's  to  command, 
 
 THOMAS  MKNEVEN. 
 
 To  the  most  Jinrnnd  FutJur  in 
 God,  and  my  special  good 
 Lardy  wi//  Lord  of  Cantcrhunj, 
 his  tjrace'^. 
 
 LXXX. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  TARKER  TO  BISHOP  GRINDAL. 
 27th  May,  15G0.    Keg.  Parker,  I.  fol.  220  b. 
 
 Matth.tius,  pcrmissione  divina  Cantuariensis  archiepisco- 
 pus,  totius  Angliic  primas  ct  metropolitanus,  vcnerabili  con- 
 fratri  nostro  domino  Edmundo,  eadem  permissione  Londonicnsi 
 cpiscopo,  Ycstrove  vicario  in  spiritualibus  gencrali  ofhciali 
 principali,  sive  commissario  cuicunquo,  salutcm,  et  fratcrnam 
 in  Domino  charitatcm.      Licet  compcrtum  habcamus  tarn  de  ^"I'l'^b^*^". 
 
 .   .  .  .   ,  .  ^  I)ri>scnj)tivc 
 
 jure,  quam  de  laudabili  ac  diu  legitimcque  pra?scripta  consuetu-  ["("e^ard,- 
 dine,  pra?dccessoribus  nostris  Cantuariensis  scdis  archiepiscopis,  canuKfy 
 pro  tempore  successive  existentibus,  licuisse,  ac  nobis,  qui  Dei  Sroughout 
 miseratione  in  eadem  sede  sumus  collocati,   pra3rogatiYa  me-  of  camer"''^ 
 tropolitica  sedis  praedicta)  licere,  et  liberum  esse,  univcrsum 
 populum  sub  finibus  nostras  Cantuariensis  provincia)  degentem 
 ad  voluntatis  nostra?  arbitrium  visitare,  et  quos  a  via  Domini, 
 ac  a  vera  pietate  et  religione  deviantes  invenerimus,  ad  debi- 
 tam  rcformationis  normam  redio:ere  et  reducere;  tamcn  cum  Rmonac- 
 
 '^  count  of  tnc 
 
 aures  nostra3  non  sine  magno  nostro  dolore,  crcbris  ac  lachry-  p,"^"«y  "f 
 
 O  '  J      the  cltrgy, 
 
 [2  Sir  John  Parker,  son  of  the  archbishop,  adds  a  note  on  the 
 original  MS.  :  "  I  could  never  find  of  any  other  bishop's  letters  to  re- 
 fuse a  better  bishoprick  for  worse,  by  his  own  accord."  But  bishop 
 Young  did  not  continue  constant  in  his  refusal.  On  the  27th 
 Januan-,  1560—1,  ho  was  translated  to  the  sec  of  York,  in  whicli  ho 
 died  on  the  26th  June,  156S.] 
 
 8—2 
 
116  ARCIIB.   PARKER   TO   BISHOP   GRINDAL.  [1560. 
 
 and  the  com.  mosls  clcrl  nostrao  Cantuariensis  provinciae  claraoribus  perso- 
 
 j>l;iint  of  the  *  ^ 
 
 P  ■opL^'ofthe  J^ucrunt  ac    personant,   quod   nedum    clerus,  sed    et  populus 
 
 such  Si-    universus  assiduis  visitationibus  2^  procurationum  exactionibus 
 
 aSilhop    immodicis,  ac  ca3teris  oncribus  ita  preinantur,  ut,  in  maximum 
 
 hi'svisiuaon  sui  status  ac  ministerii  scandalum,  vix  habeant  quo  victum  et 
 
 t^menicnt    YGStitum  suos  tcneaiitur  [sic]  ;  nos  igitur  (sicuti  tenemur)  cleri 
 
 ac  ministrorum  dicta3  nostrae  Cantuariensis  provinciae  prementi 
 
 necessitati  obviare  ex  animo  cupientes,  ac  quietem  et  tranquil- 
 
 litatem  totius  provinciae  nostrae,  a  comnium  ubilibet  in  eadem 
 
 dcgentium,   proesertim   in  hoc   tam   negotioso    anni  tempore, 
 
 summe  curantes,   visitationem  nostram  metropoliticam  hujus- 
 
 modi  in  et  per  totam  provinciam  nostram  Cantuariensem  incho- 
 
 andam  etexercendam  usque  in  aliudterapus,quo  eandem  commo- 
 
 bilh(fphas     dius  exercere  possimus,   duximus    deferendam.     Et  quia  ad 
 
 s'evJrLi  onus  uostrum  nuper  pervenerat  auditum,  quod  nonnulli  venerabiles 
 
 bysho^pA^o-    confratres  nostri  provinciae  nostrae  Cantuariensis  episcopi  suffra- 
 
 pose  to  visit  .      ,  ,  ,.  .  ,.  .    . 
 
 within  their   (ranci  clcrum  et  populum  dioecesmm  suarum  propediem  visitare 
 
 dioceses.  °  -  -,  ,  •  .,t  -i  •  t 
 
 proponunt  et  mtendunt,  vobis,  ac  illis   omnibus  et  smgulis, 
 
 hlforbX"    ^^  causis  praedictis,  et  aliis  nos  in  hac  parte  special! ter  mo- 
 
 sofunlie""    ventibus,  sub  niodo  et  forma  subscriptis  duximus  inhibendum. 
 
 tempt*5^°""    Quocirca  fraternitati  vestras  tenore  praesentium  committimus 
 
 et  mandamus,  quatenus,  receptis  praesentibus,  cum  omni  qua 
 
 fieri   poterit  matura   celeritate,    omnibus  et  singulis    venera- 
 
 bilibus   confratribus    nostris,  episcopis  suffraganeis   provinciae 
 
 nostrae  Cantuariensis  vice  et  auctoritate  nostris  inhibeatis,  (qui- 
 
 bus  nos  etiam  tenore  pra3sentium  sic  inhibemus) ;  ne  a  tempore 
 
 inhibitionis  hujusmodi,  eis  aut  eorum  alicui  in  hac  parte  fiendao 
 
 ecclesias  suas  cathedrales,  aut  civitates  vel  dioeceses  suas,  cle- 
 
 rumve  aut  populum  in  eisdem  degentem  sive  residentem  visitare, 
 
 sen  visitari  facere  conentur,  aut  illorum  aliquis  conetur,  sub  poena 
 
 contemptus  illis  et  eorum  cuilibet  infligenda,  donee  et  quousque 
 
 hibitlTh'"'     aliud  a  nobis  habuerint  in  mandatis.    Vobis  etiam,  confrater 
 
 Lol!dSn"from  antcdlcte,  tenore  praesentium  inhibemus,  ac  per  vos  officiariis 
 
 vis?"un(ier°  et  ministris  vestris  quibuscumque  sic  inhiberi  volumus  et  man- 
 
 thesaine  ,  .7  ... 
 
 penalty.  damus,  uo  a  tempore  receptioms  praesentium,  ecclesiam  vestram 
 cathcdralem,ac  civitatem,  vel  dioecesimLondoniensem  praedictam 
 clerumque  aut  populum  in  eisdem  degentem  sive  residentem  vi- 
 sitare, seu  visitari  facere  conemini,  aut  illorum  aliquis  conetur, 
 sub  poena  praedicta,  donee  et  quousque  aliud  a  nobis  habueritis 
 in  mandatis;  salvis  tamcn  vobis  et  illis,  ac  vestris  et  eorum 
 officiariis,  et  ministris  quibuscumque  omnimodis  jurisdictionis 
 
1j(I0.]  Aiuin?.  lAKKKii  TO  insiior  (jkinpai..  117 
 
 vcstnu  spiritiKiHs  et  ecclcsiaslica^  cxcrciliis,  in  ct  j>or  lotus 
 civitatcs  ct  diavcscs  vcstnts  respective  (visitatiouihus  onliiiariis 
 eanimlein  iluntaxat  oxceptis)  prtoscntibus  Uteris  nostris  iiihil)i- 
 toriis  in  aliquo  non  obstantilms.  In  cujiis  rei  tcstiinoniiini 
 sigillum  nostrum  pra^scntihus  apponi  fmnuis.  Dat.  vicesiino 
 septimo  dio  inensis  Maii,  anno  Domini  1500,  et  nostroc  consc- 
 crationis  anno  prinio'. 
 
 hXXXl 
 
 TIIK  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 30th  May,  150X     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  30.  p.  99.  OnV 
 
 After  our  very  hearty  commendations  to  your  good  Lord- 
 ship.     AVhere  there  is  presently  void  in  the  reahn  of  Ireland  ti.c 
 the  archbishoprick  of  Armagh  and  the  bishoprick  of  ]\Ieath",  A'rn.Th\nd 
 the  Queen's  Majesty  would  have  your  Lordship  to  consider  of  "f Mean. 
 
 ^  -  ^'"8  vacant, 
 
 some  meet  men  to  be  preferred  to  the  same,  to  the  end  that  «he  yuccn 
 
 i-  '  aeMre>rar 
 
 her  Highness  understanding  from  you  who  you  think  meet  for  '""■«""' 
 
 arch- 
 
 rkcr 
 
 iiitiul  to  lirr 
 
 this  purpose,  she  may  collate  the  same  unto  them  accordingly,  d-'prcfcmir 
 And  thus  praying  your  Lordship  we  may  understand  shortly  [upxloL. 
 what  you  shall  do  herein,  we  bid  you  right  heartily  farewell. 
 From  Greenwich,  the  30th  of  May,  15G0. 
 
 Your  good  Lordship's  assured  loving  friends, 
 
 W.  ^O^YARD. 
 TIIO.  PxMUlY.  G.  IIOGERS. 
 
 WILLIAM  rETKE.  S.^        ED.  SAKEVYLE. 
 
 [1  There  is  on  the  archiepiscopal  register  (I.  220  b.)  an  entry  of 
 a  special  inhibiiion  to  the  same  cftect  as  the  above,  dated  on  the 
 17th  ^L1y,  loGO,  and  addressed  to  John  [Scory],  bishop  of  Hereford.] 
 
 [^  The  see  of  Armagh  was  filled  up  in  1502  by  the  nomination 
 of  Dr  Adam  Loftus,  that  of  Mcath  in  the  year  following,  by  the  like 
 nomination  of  Dr  Hugh  Brady.  Ware's  Works  concerning  Ireland, 
 cd.  Harris,  l.  94.  15G.] 
 
 [3  That  is,  "  Secretary."] 
 
118  SIR   WILLIAM   TETRE   TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER.        [15C0. 
 
 Parker  ap- 
 ]u)inted  on  a 
 cominissiou 
 to  settle 
 statutes  for 
 Christchurch, 
 Oxford. 
 The  bishop 
 of  Ely  un- 
 derstands 
 the  matter 
 well. 
 
 LXXXII. 
 
 SIR  WILLIAM  PETRE  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 6th  June,  1500.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  214.  p.  579.     Grig. 
 
 It  may  please  your  grace  to  receive  hereinclosed  a  com- 
 mission from  the  Queen's  Majesty  addressed  to  your  grace  and 
 others  for  the  consideration  of  the  statutes  for  the  college  called 
 Christchurch  in  Oxford.  My  Lord  of  Ely^  understandeth 
 well  this  matter,  and  although  I  be  named  in  this  commission, 
 yet  for  that  I  shall  not  be  able  to  attend,  I  pray  your  grace 
 to  take  order  therein  with  such  others  of  this  commission  as 
 be  in  London.  I  understand  it  is  necessary  and  shall  be  a 
 good  deed.  And  thus  I  leave  to  trouble  your  grace.  From 
 Greenwich,  this  6th  of  June,  1560. 
 
 Your  grace'*s  assured 
 to  command, 
 
 WILLIAM  PETRE.    S. 
 
 LXXXIIL 
 
 "Articles" 
 transmit- 
 ted from 
 Germany, 
 sent  by  the 
 Queen  to 
 Parker  for 
 consideration. 
 He  is  also  to 
 consider  what 
 answershould 
 be  given  as 
 to  certain 
 books  which 
 the  writers 
 desire. 
 
 SIR  WILLIAM  PETRE  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 14th  July,  1560.   Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  217.  p.  587.    Grig. 
 
 It  may  please  your  grace  to  receive  herewith  a  letter 
 and  Articles^  inclosed  sent  of  late  from  certain  learned  men 
 of  Germany,  which  her  Majesty  prayeth  you  to  consider,  to 
 the  intent  you  may  better  make  such  speedy  answer  to 
 the  messenger  as  shall  be  convenient.  And  for  the  books 
 which  they  desire,  her  Majesty  also  prayeth  your  grace  to 
 consider  what  may  be  meet  to  be  answered  therein,  and  to  be 
 at  the  Court  to-morrow  or  upon  Tuesday,  where  you  shall  by 
 
 [1  Bishop  Cox,  who  had  been  dean  of  Christchurch.] 
 [2  Strype  speaks  of  these  as  "Articles  of  Religion,  as  it  seems  "  the 
 object  being  "to  propound  an  accommodation  for  union  among  all 
 that  professed  the  Gospel."  After  mentioning  this  letter  of  Petre  he 
 adds,  "  I  am  sorry  I  can  give  no  more  account  of  so  material  an  oc- 
 currence." (Bk.  II.  c.  4.  1. 17G.)j 
 
l'>t.O.]        >\n    will  MM    rKTKK    TO   AUCIIIUSIIOP    PAUKKH.  Ill) 
 
 liiT   Majostv  uiuK'r>(aiul  her  furlhor  pleasure   herein,      liciu 
 CJreenwich,  this  14th  of  .Inly,  ir)(;0. 
 
 Your  graco'8  assured 
 to  my  power, 
 
 WILLIAM    PKTIM:.     S. 
 
 LXXXIV. 
 
 MARQUIS  OF  WINCirESTERS  TO  ARCIIBISIIOP  PARK1::U. 
 17th  Julv,  1500.     Tarker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Canib.  cxiv.  nrt.  41.  p.  127.     Orig. 
 
 My    most   hearty    commendations   remembered  to    your 
 grace.     These  shall  be  to  give  you  knowledge  that  having  h.x.  moved 
 moved   tlio   Queen's   Highness   to   have    some  preachers  ap-toiuve 
 pointed  in  the  bishopricks  that  be  not  filled,  that  is,  York  to  f/;^.';;4"^![;',V'" 
 have  three,  Durham  two,  and  Winchester  two,  to  be  appointed,  [li,"y^,1,e,, 
 as   I  said  to  her  grace,   by  the  dean  and  chapter  of  every  J^;'[J;'7J;j '"*= 
 diocese;   whereunto  her  Highness  made  answer,  that  I  should 'natl*'' ""'"' 
 take  your  grace's  advice  therein,  and  to  accept  such  as  ye 
 should  name  to  that  charge;  which  I  shall  gladly  do,  and  allow 
 to  every  of  them  for  their  pains  and  charge  between  this  and 
 ^lichaelmas  xl  marks.     And  as  your  grace  shall   think  best 
 to  be  done  herein,  let  me  understand  it  by  your  letter ;  and  I 
 sliall    shew   the  Queen  your   grace's    advice,    and  take  her 
 Majesty's  resolute  answer  thereof,  and  proceed  therein  with 
 your  grace's  letters  to  the  parties  the  best  I  can'*.     Thus  fare 
 ye  heartily  well.      Written  the  17th  of  July,  1560. 
 
 Your  grace's  loving  friend, 
 
 W^INCHESTER. 
 
 [3  Sir  H.  Paulet  was  Earl  of  Wiltshire,  from  Jan.  19th,  1550,  to 
 Oct.  12th,  1551.  On  the  latter  day  ho  was  created  Marquis  of  Win- 
 chester.] 
 
 [^  Dr  Bill,  then  dean  of  Westminster,  wrote  to  the  archbishop 
 from  the  court,  the  18th  of  July,  15G0,  on  the  same  subject.  "  I  spake," 
 he  says,  "with  Sir  William  Peters  for  preachers  to  bo  sent  into  such 
 dioceses  as  lacked  bishops.  He  answered  that  my  Lord  Treasurer 
 [Lord  Winchester]  should  take  order  with  your  grace,  as  well  for  tho 
 stipend  as  for  the  persons,  supposing  that  there  were  certain  pre- 
 bendaries in  Winchester  able  to  supply  that  diocese  if  your  grace 
 
120       LORD   KEEPER   BACON   TO   AIICIIBISIIOP   PARKER.       [15G0. 
 
 LXXXV. 
 
 LORD  KEEPER  BACON  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 24th  July,  15G0.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Carab.  cxiv.  art.  38.  p.  123.  Grig. 
 
 The  Queen  I  HAVE,  sincc  mv  coming  to  the  Court,  heard  of  Mr  Peter 
 
 means  to  »  ./^  O 
 
 bethon^^"""  ^^^*'  ^^®  Queen's  Majesty  meaneth  on  Monday^  next  to  dine 
 neTu'^  at  Lambeth ;  and  although  it  shall  be  altogether  of  her  provi- 
 sion, yet  I  thought  meet  to  make  you  privy  thereto,  lest, 
 other  men  forgetting  it,  the  thing  should  be  too  sudden.  If 
 this  determination  change  ^  whilst  I  remain  here  you  shall 
 have  word  of  it.     Written  in  haste  this  24th  of  Julv,  1560, 
 
 by 
 
 your  grace'*s  assuredly, 
 
 N.  BACON.     C.  S. 
 
 LXXXVI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  GRIXDAL  OF  LONDON. 
 
 15th  August,  1560.     Grindal's  Register,    fo.  7. 
 
 After  our  right  hearty  commendations.  Whereas,  occa- 
 constrained  sloncd  by  tho  great  want  of  ministers,  we  and  you  both,  for 
 \vLtoFmt    tolerable  supply  thereof,  have  heretofore  admitted  unto  the 
 
 nijters,  the  .    .  i  •  /» 
 
 ^ijShopshave  miuistry  sundry  artificers  and  others,  not  traded  and  brought 
 artificers  ^P  ^^  learning,  and,  as  it  happened  in  a  multitude,  some  that 
 edtersonYS  ^^^^^  ^f  basc  occupations :  forasmuch  as  now  by  experience  it 
 the  ministry,  j^  ^^^^  ^^^^  g^^j^  manner  of  men,  partly  by  reason   of  their 
 
 former  profane  arts,  partly  by  their  light  behaviour  otherwise 
 Such  persons  and  trade  of  life,  are  very  offensive  unto  the  people,  yea,  and 
 offensive  to    to  tho  wlsc  of  thls  realm  are  thousjht  to  do  great  deal  more 
 
 the  people,  °  ° 
 
 thoufihtto  ^^"^^  ^^^^  good,  the  Gospel  there  sustaining  slander;  these 
 harmThan     ^hall  bo  to  dcslre  and  require  you  hereafter  to  be  very  cir- 
 
 good. 
 
 liked  them.    And  then  two  others  to  be  appointed  in  to  the  North  for 
 
 the  bishoprick  should  suffice,  and  those  to  bo  taken  in  the  same 
 country,  if  any  notable  preachers  dwelled  in  those  parts." — Parker 
 MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  308.  p.  845.  Orig  ] 
 
 [1   Monday  next  after  the  24th  July,  1560,  was  the  29th.] 
 [2  The  Queen  dined  at  Lambeth  on  or  about  July  29th,  on  her 
 way  from  Greenwich  to  Richmond.     Sec  Strype's  Parker,  Bk.  ir.  c.  3. 
 I.  171.1 
 
IjGO.]  Alum;,  i'.vkki  i:  m  itiMi<ti'  «.iiiM>Ai,  oi   London.     IJI 
 
 ruinspcct  in  julmitlini'  anv  ti>  llio  ininistrv,  and  only  to  allow  iiui,..,. ..,.., 
 sniMi  as,  liavini'  jjood  testinionv  of  tncir  honest  conversation,  r.'rr rr,|.,.r.-.i 
 navo  been  trailed  and  exercised  in  Icarninc:,  or  at  tho  least  "">'"•''' 
 
 f^'  ii.iiii»tr>  In 
 
 have    spent  their   time    with   teaciiing   of  children,  excliidint^  [•^'|'t",mrh''„ 
 all  others  which  liavo  been  brou<^ht  up  and  sustained  them-  \u!,7J'Lu- 
 selves    either  by  occupation   or    other  kinds  of  life  alienated  imV;'!.u:'," 
 from   learninti'.      This   wo  pray  you   diliijently  to   look  unto,  .*i-^tt '..V 
 
 1^1  ,        .     ^        "^     •'  ,  ,  .         learning. 
 
 and  to  observe  not  only  in  your  own  person,  but  also  to  sig- 
 nify this  our  advertisement  to  other  of  our  brethren,  bishops 
 of  our  ])rovince,  in  as  good  speed  as  ye  may  :  so  that  you 
 and  they  may  stay  from  collating  such  orders  to  so  unmeet 
 persons,  unto  such  time  as  in  a  convocation  we  may  meet  until  the  M.b- 
 together,  and  liave  further  conference  thereof.  Faro  ye  mnSn-M  i 
 heartily  well.  From  our  house  at  Lambeth,  tho  15th  of 
 August,  by  your  loving  brother, 
 
 MATIIEWE  CANTUR. 
 
 convocaiion. 
 
 Lxxxvir. 
 
 THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP 
 PARKER. 
 
 4th  September,  15G0.    Tarker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.art.  23.  p.  79. 
 
 After   our  right  hearty  commendations   to  your  good 
 Lordship.      Where  Sir   Edward  Warner,  Knight,  lieutenantTheLiei.tr- 
 of  the  Tower,  hath  made  request  unto  us  that  such  prisoners  Tower  has^ 
 
 1*1  1*1  •  1     i»  desired  por- 
 
 as  remam  in  his  charge,  havinoj  been  committed  from  your  mi=«">n  for 
 
 o    '  o  •/  the  j)risoiicrs 
 
 Lordship   and   others  for  ecclesiastical  causes,  may   be   suf-  ^"""'"'/t^'* 
 
 r  '  %/  for  ccclesias- 
 
 fered  to  come  together  at  their  meals  to  two  several  tables;  [odinc'at" 
 forasmuch  as  for  our  part  we  see  no  cause  but  that  they  may  Seiordrof 
 well   enough  so  do,  unless  you  shall  know  some  occasion  to  remu"ti?e' 
 the  contrary,  we  have  thouo^ht  meet  to  refer  the  considera-  tionofihe 
 
 I  J;  Til-  •  •  ouestion  to 
 
 tion  thereof  unto  your  Lordship,  praying  you,  in  case  you  jjj'^^,^^'^' 
 think  as  we  do,   that  the  said  prisoners  may  be  suffered  to 
 come  to  two  tables  without  inconvenience,  that  then  you  do  by 
 your  letter  signify  unto   the  said  lieutenant  of  the  Tower^ 
 that  he  do  suffer  them  so  to  do,  prescribing  nevertheless  this 
 
 [3  The  archbishop's    letter   to   the  lieutenant  of    the    Tower  is 
 printeil,  No.  LXXXVIIL] 
 
122   THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHB.  PARKER.  [loGO. 
 
 order  unto  him,  that  Dr  Heath,  Dr  Boxall,  Dr  Pates,  and  Dr 
 Fcckenham,  be  admitted  in  one  company  to  one  of  the  tables, 
 and  to  the  other  table,  Dr  Thirleby,  Dr  Bourne,  Dr  Watson,  and 
 Dr  Turbervile' ;  or  if  you  shall  not  think  fit  that  this  liberty 
 be  given,  then  may  you  signify  unto  us  your  opinion  therein, 
 to  the  intent  we  may  answer  the  said  lieutenant  thereafter. 
 And  so  we  bid  your  good  Lordship  right  heartily  well  to 
 fare.     From  Windsor,  the  4th  of  September,  1560. 
 
 Your  good  Lordship's  assured  loving  friends, 
 
 W.  NORTIIT.  E.  CLYNTON. 
 
 T.  PARRY.  W.  CECILL. 
 
 ED.   SAKEVYLE. 
 
 LXXXVIIL 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  EDWARD  WARNER,  THE 
 LIEUTENANT  OF  THE  TOWER. 
 
 Cth  September,  [15C0.]  Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  24.  p. 80.  Grig. 
 
 Draft. 
 
 The  arch-  After  my  Hght  hearty  commendations.     Where  upon 
 
 imer^fered'to  my  advertisement  sent  to  certain  of  the  Council  concerning  the 
 Th^rTberty    further  liberty  of  your  prisoners,  and  for  their  most  comfort 
 
 fortheecclG-  •  i  i  ,      i,  ,  i      i  11 
 
 siasticai        to  bo  associatcd  together,  ye  shall  understand  that  they  have 
 
 prisoners  in  o  '    «/  ^  •/ 
 
 The^coJncii  ^ddresscd  their  letters  of  answer  again  to  me  referring  the 
 
 themaue7?o  ordcr  partly  to  my  consideration.     Whereupon  if  ye  do  con- 
 
 buhoR,^'      join  at  one  table  together  Mr  Doctor  Heath,  Dr  Pates,   Dr 
 
 direcuonlto  Fcckenham,   Dr  Boxall,  to   be   of  one   society,  and  Mr  Dr 
 
 nantofthe    ThiHeby,   Dr   Bourne,    Dr  Watson,  and  Dr  Turbervile,   of 
 
 an  other,  I  think  as  this  combination  prescribed  will  not  offend 
 
 them,  and  as  I  trust  may  be  done  without  inconvenience,  so 
 
 it  may  be  your  warrant,  as  knoweth   Almighty    God,    who 
 
 evermore  preserve  us  all.     At  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this  6th 
 
 of  September. 
 
 Your  loving  friend. 
 
 [^  The  persons  enumerated  were  amongst  the  principal  authori- 
 ties of  the  preceding  reign  who  refused  to  conform  to  the  ecclesiastical 
 changes  under  Elizabeth.  Dr  Heath  had  been  archbishop  of  York 
 and  Lord  Chancellor,  Dr  Boxall,  Secretary  of  State,  Dr  Pate,  bishop 
 of  Worcester,  Dr  Thirleby,  bishop  of  Ely,  Dr  Bourne,  bishop  of 
 Bath  and  Wells,  Dr  Watson,  bishop  of  Lincoln,  Dr  Turbervile,  bishop 
 of  Exeter,  and  Dr  Feckenham,  abbot  of  Westminster.] 
 
IjGO.]        Altt'HUISllOP   I'AKKliU  TO  Sill    WILLIAM    t  trll..  123 
 
 1    \\\1X. 
 
 ARCliniSIIOP  PAUKIill  TO  SIU   WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 IGth  October,  [15<k»J.    S.  I*.  O.  DoineaUc,  15G0.     Orig. 
 
 Aftbr  salutations  in  Christ  to  your  Honour.     This  shall  i-.rk.ri.. 
 
 *'  trial,  th.it 
 
 bo  instantly  to  dosiro   you  to   make   rciiuest  to  tho   (Queen's  -'-....  i.:st...p« 
 Majesty    that    some    bishops    might   bo    appointed   into   the  {h^Noru" 
 ^'orth.     You  would  not  bolicyo  nic  to  tell  how   often  it  is 
 rocjuired  of  divers  men's  hands,  and  how  the  people  there   is  J^^-^.^l^'i^Jll^i 
 offended  that  they  be   nothing   cared    for.      Alas,  they   be  ^^i^^^or"' 
 people  rude  of  their  own  nature,  and  tho  more  had  need  to  bo 
 looked  to  for  retaining  them  in  quiet  and  civility.    I  fear  that 
 whatsoever  is  now  too  husbandly  saved  will  be  an  occasion  of  TJicirrude 
 
 ^  ^  nature. 
 
 further  expenco  in  keeping  them  down,  if  (as  God  forfend)  fj;'/!'"/'^^" 
 they  should  be  too  much  Irish  and  savage  :    peradventure  lilueh'iVi^' 
 Terence  counselleth  not  amiss:  pecuniam  in  loco  negligere'^'^^^^^' 
 summum  interdum  lucrum.     I  know  the  Queen's  Ilighness's 
 disposition  to  be  graciously  bent  to  have  her  people  to  know 
 and  fear  God  ;  why  should  other  hinder  her  good  zeal  for 
 money  sake,   as  it  is  most  commonly  judged?      If  such  as 
 have  been  named  to  York  and  Durham  bo  not  acceptable,  or 
 of  themselyes  not  inclined  to  be  bestowed  there,  I  would  wish 
 that  some  such  as  be  placed  already  were  translated  thither. 
 And  in  mine  opinion,  if  you  would  have  a  lawyer  at  York, 
 tho  Bishop  of  St  David's,  Dr  Young^,  is  both  witty,  prudent,  Persons su^. 
 and  temperate,  and  man-like.    Tho  Bishop  of  Rochester^  were  thcanh 
 
 n   1  1  -lA       1  -1  1  •  1  bishoprickof 
 
 well  bestowed  at  Durham,  nigh  to  his  own  country;  where  X"v'^-^l'^. 
 
 '         o  ^  ./    »  bishoprifk 
 
 their  two  bishopricks  might  be  more  easily  proyided  for,  and  of'J^'irK? 
 less  inconvenience  though  they  for  a  time  stood  yoid.     And 
 if  to   the  deanery   of   Durham  to  join    with  him   were  Mr 
 
 [2  Dr  Thomas  Young,  Bishop  of  St  David's,  was  translated  to  the 
 archbishoprick  of  York  on  tho  27th  January,  15G0 — 1.  Dr  May, 
 dean  of  St  Paul's,  had  been  nominated  for  that  see,  but  died  in 
 August,  loGO.      Strype's  Grindal,  p.  38.  fol.  edit.] 
 
 [3  Dr  Edmond  Gliest,  consecrated  Bishop  of  Rochester,  24th 
 March,  1558 — 9,  was  translated  to  Salisbury,  24th  December,  1571, 
 was  born  at  Affcrton,  in  Yorkshire.  (Strype's  Parker,  Bk.  ii.  c.  2. 
 I.  127.)  Dr  Pilkington  was  appointed  to  the  see  of  Durham  on 
 the  present  vacancy,  20th  Februaiy,  15G0 — 1.] 
 
124  AIICIIBISIIOP   PAllKEll   TO   Sill   WILLIAM   CECIL.         [1560. 
 
 Skinner'  appointed,  whom  I  esteem  learned,  wise  and  expert, 
 I  think  yc  could  not  better  place  them.     Now  if  either  of 
 them,  or  any  of  us  all,  should  be  feared  to  hurt  the  state  of 
 pouu"i^^'    our  churches  by  exercising  any  extraordinary  patesing^  for 
 
 inighibe 
 bouiui  to 
 Wave-  their 
 
 ixHuuito       packing  and  purchasing,  this  fear  might  sure  be  prevented. 
 
 ilurchesin    Wc  liavo  old  preccdcnts  in  law  practised  in  times  past  for  such 
 
 iio  worse  case  .  .liiii  i*  -i 
 
 than  they      Dartics  suspocted,   to   be   bound  at  their   entry   to  leave  the 
 
 found  them.     ^^  ,  .  i-i/.i  i 
 
 churches  in  no  worse  case,  by  their  defaults,  than  they  found 
 
 them,  and  then,  what  would  you  have  more  of  us?      I  have 
 
 Parker  will    aforctlmo  wearied  you  in  this  suit,  and  till  I  see  these  stranpje 
 
 continue  his  .  .  •iriii  ii  •  t/» 
 
 importunity  (lelavs  determined,  1  shall  not  cease  to  trouble  your  time.      If 
 
 until  this  "^  .         .  »^ 
 
 anSd'*'^^  ye  hear  me  not  for  justice  sake,  for  the  zeal  ye  must  bear  to 
 Christ's  dear  souls,  importunity  shall  win  one  day  I  doubt 
 not ;  for  I  see  it  hath  obtained  even  a  judicihiis  iniquis, 
 quanto  magis  a  misericordihus.  Thus  concluding,  I  shall 
 offer  my  prayer  to  God  that  ye  may  find  grace  in  your  soli- 
 citations to  the  Queen's  Majesty  for  the  comfort  of  her  people, 
 and  discharge  of  her  own  soul.  At  Lambeth,  the  16th  of 
 October. 
 
 Your  to  my  uttermost  power, 
 
 MATTIIUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  Right  Honourable  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  Knight,  principal  Secretary  to 
 the  Queen's  Majesty. 
 
 xc. 
 
 BISHOP  SANDYS  OF  WORCESTER  TO  ARCHBISHOP 
 PARKER. 
 
 24th  October,  1560.    Petyt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  47.  fol.  376.    Grig. 
 
 My  duty  remembered,  I  thank  your  grace  for  your  large 
 Sandys         Icttcrs ;  but  I  am  often  put  to  a  doubtful  interpretation  by 
 
 doubts  the  ^  ^       ^  /•        i  A 
 
 i^sof    reason  of  your  sundry  dark  sentences,  hard  to  scan  lortb.   As 
 
 mean 
 
 Tarker's  dark 
 sentences, 
 
 {}  Ralph  Skinner  was  appointed  dean  of  Durham  on  this  recom- 
 mendation.    He  died  in  15G3.      Strype's  Annals,  Bk.  i.  c.  i.  515.] 
 
 [2  This  word  is  clearly  thus  written  "patesing."  Circumstances 
 in  the  life  of  Richard  Pates,  bishop  of  Worcester,  during  the  reign  of 
 Queen  Mary,  render  it  any  thing  but  uncharitable  to  inquire  whether 
 the  word  may  not  have  contained  an  allusion  to  that  prelate.] 
 
Ik 
 
 l.")()().]     in*.   SANDYS  or    U'OUCKSTKIl   Tn   AIH  IIM.   l*AICKi;il.        1  J.*l 
 
 I  (.loiibt  not  of  c([uity  at  your  IkiikIs,  so  Ikivo  I  at  all  times 
 assured  myself  of  your  frieiulsliip. 
 
 In  Northfolk  ami  Anion's  deprivation,  truth  is,  I  neither  nn'r»r«fio»i 
 followed  atVection,  nor  sought  my  private  gain.      I  w;is  right  i'',',''..,'J^Jl;;;j' 
 sorry  that  they  compelled  mo  to  do  as  they  deserved  I  should  |I!,'rMri'',"y  or 
 {\o,  and  their  displacing  can  no  way  profit  mo.    Only  I  sought  '""*"'«•*'"• 
 therein  tho   vantage  of  Christ's  church.    Thoy  liavc  bragged, 
 but    I    never   thought    they   should  find  so   much   favour  at 
 your  hands.      I  know  your  nature  in  shewing  of  humanity, 
 which   I  never  misliked.      And  as  I  judge  yours  to  be  good, 
 so  I  think  ve  will  not  utterly  condemn  all  Germanical  natures.  "Oermanicai 
 
 •  •  nnturf*. 
 
 For  Germany  liath  brou«r]it  fortii  as  f^jood  natures  as  Knfxland 
 hath.  And  if  ye  mean  of  us  which  were  strangers  in  Ger- 
 many for  a  time,  sure  I  am  there  be  some  of  us  that  bo 
 neither  big-hearted  nor  proud-minded,  but  can  in  all  simplicity 
 seek  the  kins:dom  of  Christ.  And  most  sure  I  am  that 
 there  be  of  us  which  have  given  you  no  offence,  but  have 
 offended  others  in  defending  of  you,  and  have  favoured  you 
 and  your  authority  so  much  as  any  your  other  friends  have 
 done.  And  for  my  part,  I  am  right  glad  that  ye  know  from 
 whence  it  cometh  that  Canterbury  is  misliked.  If  ye  know 
 truly,  sure  I  am  I  shall  not  be  blamed.     If  ye  follow  suspi-  san.i>x 
 
 •       *  M       1  1         •        -1  :r-         .     ,.  7  Ihmksl'arker 
 
 cions,  ye  may  easily  be  deceived.     £t  si  liceat  pace  et  6o?ia  i"<^''"£'*' »" 
 
 *  •'  *  ■*  besusjiiciou*. 
 
 cum  venia  tua  dicei-e,  soles  aliqiiando  nimium  in  earn  de- 
 cUnare  partem.  And  many  probable  collections  may  cause 
 prudent  men  sometimes  to  conclude  indirectc.  As  when  ye 
 think  or  suspect  that  my  letters  of  answer  written  unto  you 
 ■were  first  expended  by  my  Lord  of  London,  and  so  sent 
 down.      Certainly  he  never  see  \sic'\  them,      I  have   at  no  sandys's 
 
 "  I'll  •  letter  was  not 
 
 time  so  distrusted  either  your  good  will,   or   yet  mine  own  first  submit- 
 
 ,«'  O  .  .  ted  to  the 
 
 •wit,  that  I  durst  not  write  unto  you  without  such  perusing  V'''^']''°^ 
 
 '  •/  i  o  London. as 
 
 of  my  letters  beforehand.  JlxS'"^" 
 
 Truth  is,  I  wrote  a  letter  to  my  chancellor,  which  then 
 Tvas  at  London,  requiring  him  to  certify  your  grace  fully  con- 
 cerning my  visitation.  The  letter  "written  unto  you,  whereof 
 I  made  mention,  was  inclosed  in  his  letter.  He  returned  or 
 the  letter  was  delivered.  His  friend  at  London,  to  whose 
 hands  it  came,  sent  down  the  letter  again  to  my  chancellor, 
 and  yours  enclosed.  This  is  most  true.  Neither  was  I  at 
 that  time,  neither  am  I  at  this  time,  either  so  delicate  or  soft 
 in  body,  either  so  tender  in   ear,   but  that  I  could  and   can 
 
120         BP.  SANDYS  OF   WORCESTER  TO  ARCIIB.  PARKER.     [15G0. 
 
 gladly  receive  vulnera  amantis,  yet  methink  quod  amantis 
 
 est  vulnerare  delinquenteSf  and  not  to  burthen  the  blameless. 
 
 sandyss  For  as  concerning  my   visitation,  wherewith  your   grace 
 
 Parkei'.I*con-  secmed  so  much  offended,  and  that  therein  I  sought  my  com- 
 
 Sea'irof      modlty,   before  I  was    lukewarm    in  place :    first,   I  visited 
 
 pinfwa!"to   with  your  consent ;   I  proceeded   orderly,  according  to  laws 
 
 j^s|ob>of      ^^^  injunctions;   I  innovated  nothing;   I  was  altogether  led 
 
 by  laws ;  what  sobriety  I  used,  let  the  adversary  report ;  I 
 
 redressed,  as  I  could,  disorders,  and  punished  sin ;  and  my 
 
 private  gain  was  £24.  loss;  I   gained  only  in  doing  some 
 
 piece  of  duty,  and  that  with  my  great  travail ;  those  sharp 
 
 letters  whereof  I  spake  I  have  put  out  of  the  way,  because 
 
 I  would  neither  hereafter  see  them,  nor  remember  them. 
 
 Parker  had  Where  vour  grace  burdeneth  me,  that  I  should  think  that 
 
 accused  liim  . 
 
 winTa^Jour'"  ^^^  ^^7  ^^  somothmg  to  win  a  favour  against  another  day  ; 
 
 arfotherday."  Hiethiuk,  I  am  surc,  I  wrote  no  such  matter.     That  were  too 
 
 His  answer,  unadvised;  fop  I  am  persuadcd  that  neither  you  nor  I  shall 
 find  favour  at  that  day.  Ye  bid  me  live  and  leave  off  talking. 
 Sir,  in  my  best  life,  I  confess  with  Paul,  quod  primus  sum 
 peccatorum ;  yet  I  hope  quod  nemo  de  me  queri  possit,  except 
 malice  overturn  truth.  I  have  testimonium  conscientice,  that 
 my  chief  study  is,  that  my  life  hinder  not  my  preaching.  And 
 I  trust  my  adversary  cannot  be  so  impudent  as  to  open  mouth 
 against  me.  My  Lord  of  Hereford  and  I  be  neighbours,  and 
 we  often  meet  and  confer  by  reason  of  council-matters  here, 
 and  commissions  directed  unto  us.  I  have  brotherly  monished 
 him  of  such  things  as  I  saw  in  him,  or  heard  of  him ;  he 
 hath  promised,  when  occasion  shall  serve,  to  do  the  like  to  me. 
 
 stateof  the  How  his  folks  go  I  carmot  well  tell,  but  I  assure  you  mine 
 
 Venple  m  his  <-)  «/ 
 
 diocese.  gQ  so  sobcrly  and  decently  as  they  offend  no  piece  of  the 
 Queen's  Majesty's  injunctions.  For  if  I  be  under  the  yoke, 
 such  as  pertain  to  me  shall  draw  in  the  same  yoke  with  me. 
 And  for  my  preaching  and  theirs,  I  trust  it  is  altogether  to 
 edify  and  to  win,  using  ohsecro,  and  not  jubeo.  And  I  thank 
 God  the  people  hear  me  and  believe  me,  and  the  chief  com- 
 
 ^db-aiew'^'  ^^^*  *^^^^  ^  ^^^®  ^^'  *^^^  *^®y  universally  favour  me.  I  speak 
 not  of  such  as  will  never  receive  the  truth,  or  favour  honesty. 
 And  for  the  better  utterance  of  the  food  for  the  soul,  I  am 
 forced  largely  to  feed  the  body.    Without  loaves  people  do  not 
 
 Spends  all     foUow  tho  word.      I  SDcnd  all  and  more.     If  I  were  on  an 
 
 the  revenue  i 
 
 and'morT^'  ^vcu  board,   as  I  was  at  the  beginning,  such  joy  have  I  of 
 
15G0.]    Ul*.  SANDYS  t)l'    U'OUCi:STKIt  TO   AUCIIII.   I'AUKl.lt.         127 
 
 this  utlico,  tluit  I  cuiiKl  wisli  to  bo  di:<|mtched  ;  and  1  havo 
 often  wrestled  with  myselt*  in  keeping  it  thus  long.  If  God's 
 cause  were  not,  I  should  soon  bo  at  a  point. 
 
 Sir,  to  niako  an  end  of  luy  babbhng,  I  shall  pray  you 
 not  to  misliko  or  cut  off  a  hcartv  well-willor  without  cause, 
 but  to  continue  my  tjood  lord  and  friend  as  yc  were  wont. 
 Quo  amore  te  aniari,  qiiihus  verbis  crtja  te  Jistis  siiniy  qua  fi^'p^^^lj 
 benevolentia  te  semper  sum  prosecutus^  utinam  cv(jui  ipse 
 scireSt  atquc  Hie  nority  qui  ahditu  covdium  scrutatur.  If  I 
 bo  any  thing,  I  am  yours,  and  that  unfcigncdly.  And 
 although  ye  liavo,  as  yo  know,  put  me  to  sore  pinches  and 
 danger  of  too  heavy  displeasure,  yet  could  I  never  bo  per- 
 suaded that  your  good  will  was  alienated  from  me.  If  I  havo 
 been  earnest  in  matters  of  conscience,  I  trust  yo  will  not  mis- 
 like  mo  therein.  When  God's  cause  cometli  in  hand,  I  forget 
 what  displeasure  may  follow.  In  all  other  things,  yc  know, 
 I  could  ever  bo  guided  by  you.  As  I  followed  mine  own 
 conscience,  so  condemned  I  no  others.  Thus,  as  I  thanked 
 you  for  your  long  letters,  I  pray  pardon  for  mine.  The  Lord 
 Jesus  preserve  you  to  the  great  profit  of  his  Church.  At 
 Ilartlebury,  October  24th,  1560. 
 
 Your  grace's  in  Christ, 
 
 ED.  WIGORN. 
 To  the  rlfflit  honourable  my  Lord 
 of  Canterbury  his  grace. 
 
 XCI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  GRIND AL  OF  LONDON. 
 
 18th  November,  15G0.     Parker  Kepf.  I.  225  a. 
 
 After  my  right  hearty  commendations  to  your  lordship 
 premised.    This  shall  be  to  desire  and  require  you,  for  certain  Korcrrt»in 
 
 ^  ^  ^  .  consiiiera- 
 
 considerations  conducent  to  the  general  reformation  of  the  •j""*,!""*'*^' 
 clergy  of  the  province  of  Canterbury,  to  certify  me  on  this  oVS^*''"" 
 side  the  first  day  of  February  next  ensuing,  or  so  speedily  as  u^^uhop  is 
 you  may  conveniently,  of  the  names  and  surnames  of  all  and  tho*l'rch'  ^*^ 
 singular  deans,  archdeacons,  chancellors,  chaunters,  and  otliers  the  na'tncs  of 
 
 •1  .  ,.        .  .  1        T       1        1  1  •    1  II      1        all  the  clcrjjy 
 
 havmg   any  dignity  in  your  cathedral  church,   with   all  the  ofhiscaihe- 
 
128     AKCllB.  PAKKEIl   TO    BISHOP   GRIXDAL   OF  LONDON.     [15G0. 
 
 dral  and 
 (luK-ese  ; 
 liow  many 
 are  rtsident 
 
 prebendaries  of  the  same.  And  also  of  all  and  singular  par- 
 sons and  vicars  within  your  diocese;  and  how  many  of  them 
 be  resident ;  and  where  the  absent  do  dwell  and  remain ;  how 
 many  of  them,  as  well  of  your  cathedral  church  as  of  others 
 beneficed  in  your  diocese,  be  neither  priests  nor  deacons; 
 Seifcmirrand  "otlng  also  tlio  namcs  of  all  such  as  be  learned  and  able  to 
 able  preach  ;  and  which  of  them  being  already  licensed  do  preach 
 accordingly.  And,  finally,  how  many  of  them  <lo  commonly 
 keep  hospitality.  And  thus  trusting  of  your  lordship's  good 
 diligence  herein,  I  wish  you  most  heartily  well  to  fare.  From 
 my  manor  of  Lambeth,  the  18th  of  November,  1560. 
 
 Your  loving  brother, 
 
 MATTHEWE  CANT. 
 
 To  the  right  reverend  father  in  God 
 the  bishop  of  London\ 
 
 how  many 
 are  neither 
 
 whieh  of 
 them  are 
 to  preach  and 
 are  licensed 
 to  <lo  so ; 
 and  ho>v 
 many  keep 
 hospitality. 
 
 XCII. 
 
 Malicious 
 persons  ap- 
 jieal  to  the 
 archbishop's 
 court  unjust- 
 ly,!© the  great 
 vexation  of 
 their  ordina- 
 ries and 
 neighbours. 
 
 The  awh- 
 bishop  orders 
 that  all  ap- 
 peals shall  be 
 recorded,  and 
 that  proctors 
 shall  make 
 oath,  that,  as 
 far  as  they 
 know,  the 
 cause  pre- 
 tended is 
 true. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  DR  YALE  HIS  CHANCELLOR. 
 
 20th  November,  15G0.    Parker  Reg.  J.  fol.  225  a. 
 
 I  COMMEND  me  unto  you.  And  being  informed  that  divers 
 malicious  persons,  abusing  as  well  their  bishops,  and  their 
 officers  as  others  their  ordinaries,  do  surmise  untrue  griefs 
 and  injuries  to  be  done  to  them  by  their  bishops  and  other 
 ordinaries,  and  thereupon  do  appeal  and  get  from  you  inhi- 
 bitions and  citations,  to  the  great  vexation  and  trouble  both 
 of  their  ordinaries,  and  also  of  their  neighbours,  the  Queen'*s 
 Majesty's  poor  subjects,  and  especially  in  causes  of  correction 
 and  reformation  of  their  evil  lives  and  manners.  For  the 
 redress  whereof,  we  will  and  charge  you,  that  upon  your 
 acceptation  of  any  such  appeal,  you  cause  an  act  to  be  made 
 of  it  in  the  records  of  your  court,  specifying  all  circumstances 
 thereof,  and  withal  you  take  a  corporal  oath  of  all  such 
 proctors  as  shall  exhibit  the  same,   that  as  far  as  he  doth 
 
 [1  "Memorandum,  that  there  was  sent  a  letter  of  this  tenour  to 
 every  bishop  of  the  province  of  Canterbury."  Another  letter  of  a 
 similar  effect,  with  the  addition  of  requiring  the  ages  of  the  incum- 
 bents to  be  stated,  occurs  in  Parker's  Keg.  I.  280  a.] 
 
15C0.]     AIUIIM.    rAKKl-U  TO   DR   YAI.K,   HIS   (  IIANCKLI.OIl.        129 
 
 know  or  boliovc,  tlic  t^ricf  or  cAuso  proti'iidod  i.s  true  and 
 just ;  causing  also  tho  sanio  proctor  to  exhibit  his  proxy,  and 
 to  inako  himself  j>artv  to  prosocnto  tho  sarno  cause,  as  well 
 as  to  a])|)cal ;  so  that  it'  tho  party  appealed  bo  cited,  and  do 
 appear  at  day  and  place  appointed,  that  forthwitli  lio  bo  dis-  Jif,"','',^""^ 
 missed,  with  such  charges  as  tho  law  in  that  case  doth  bear,  ,V,',|!,..'/,',*]'[,,e 
 unless  tho  i>arty  appeaiinu;  tlien  presently  do  prosecute  liis  ull'.'.'.illii* 
 appeal  with  effect;  and  that  in  every  one  of  your  inhibitions*"**"*^ 
 you  do  appoint  a  reasonable  day  certain  to  tho  party  ap- 
 pealing to  prosecute  his  appeal ;  which  if  he  then  do  not 
 effectually,  you  to  remit  the  cause  again  to  tho  first  court 
 "with  charjres  reasonable,  cuttini'  off  in  all  matters  frivolous 
 and  frustratory  delays,  and  finishing  all  causes  with  such 
 expedition  as  in  any  wise  the  laws  may  suffer ;  any  style  or 
 iisairc  in  anv  of  your  courts  used  to  the  contrary  notwith- 
 standing.  And  if  these  notes  practised  shall  seem  sufficient 
 remedy  for  the  said  abuses,  after  a  trial  I  would  have  you  to 
 frame  the  effect  thereof  in  form  of  law,  by  me  to  be  autho- 
 rised for  a  perpetual  rule  to  be  observed  in  your  courts. 
 And  thus  fare  you  well.  From  my  manor  of  Lambeth,  tho 
 20th  of  JNTovember,  anno  1560. 
 
 To  Mr  Dr  YaJe,  mij  diet  net  II  or  and 
 Judge  of  my  court  of  audience-. 
 
 XCIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  AND  OTHER  BISHOPS  TO  QUEEN 
 ELIZABETH. 
 
 Ascribed  to  A.D.  loGO^.    Petyt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  47.  fol.  542.     Draft  in 
 Parker's  handwriting. 
 
 Most  redoubted  Sovereign, 
 
 As  our  suit  is  simple,  so  in  most  lowly  reverence  we  be- 
 seech your  Majesty  graciously  to  accept  the  same.     "We  wish 
 
 [-  "  Memorandurn,  that  a  letter  of  the  like  tenour  was  sent  to  Mr 
 Doctor  Weston,  dean  of  the  arches,  of  the  same  date."  Park.  Reg. 
 I.  225.] 
 
 [3  It  is  very  diflBcult  to  determine  the  exact  date  of  this  letter. 
 
 r  -  9 
 
 [park.  cor. J 
 
130 
 
 AIICIIB.  PARKER  AND   OTHER  BISHOPS 
 
 [1560. 
 
 Queen  Kl'zi- 
 lieth  miracu- 
 lously pre- 
 served, in 
 order  to 
 restore  the 
 sincerity  of 
 the  gospel. 
 
 The  writers 
 will  pray  that 
 she  may  be 
 armed  with 
 constancy. 
 
 And  will 
 themselves 
 labour  in 
 their  voca- 
 tions with 
 the  comfort- 
 able assur- 
 ance of  the 
 Queen's 
 favour. 
 They  have 
 devised  or- 
 ders for 
 uniformity  in 
 ministration, 
 which  they 
 trust  she  will 
 not  disap- 
 prove, al- 
 though no 
 opportunity 
 for  soliciting 
 a  synod  for 
 their  full 
 determina- 
 tion lias  yet 
 occurred. 
 
 your  Highness  all  manner  benediction  from  God  our  heavenly 
 Father,  so  to  proceed  in  your  godly  enterprise  as  ye  have 
 blessedly  begun  and  hitherto  continued ;  doubting  nothing  in 
 your  earnest  zeal  to  God  ward,  but  that  ye  will  bear  in  con- 
 tinual remembrance  to  advance  his  honour  in  your  govern- 
 ment, as  he  hath  miraculously  preserved  your  estate  to 
 restore  again  the  sincerity  of  his  religion.  We  shall  pray 
 to  God,  the  God  of  hosts,  to  arm  your  princely  heart  with 
 constancy  in  the  same.  We  know  how  maliciously  the  adver- 
 sary envieth  your  doings,  how  he  compasseth  subtilly  to 
 pervert  your  gracious  affection  to  the  same,  [for  Satan  is 
 no  slugger,  nor  Judas  no  sleeper^];  but  we  trust,  that  he 
 whose  cause  it  is,  and  who  hath  begun  this  notable  work  in 
 you,  shall  perform  it  to  the  glory  of  God,  to  your  eternal 
 fame  and  renown,  to  the  establishing  of  your  reign  in  all 
 prosperity  and  wealth,  and  to  the  comfort  of  the  whole 
 Christian  world,  which,  as  may  appear  daily  at  eye^,  labour- 
 eth  universally  to  be  disburdened  from  that  old  tyrannical 
 yoke,  and  to  aspire  to  Christian  liberty,  which  we  now,  by 
 God's  mercy  and  your  authority,  do  peaceably  enjoy.  Only 
 our  care  shall  be  to  labour  in  our  vocations,  that  this  incom- 
 parable benefit  of  God  be  not  turned  in  your  subjects  to 
 carnal  liberty.  Our  travail  shall  be  the  more  comfortable 
 herein  to  us,  being  assured  of  your  Majesty's  favour  to  con- 
 tinue towards  our  endeavours. 
 
 In  trust  whereof,  according  to  our  duty  of  vigilancy  over 
 your  loving  people,  we  have  of  late  in  our  consultations  de- 
 vised certain  orders  for  uniform  and  quiet  ministration  in 
 religion.  We  trust  your  gracious  zeal  towards  Christ's  re- 
 ligion will  not  improve^  our  doings,  though  such  opportunity 
 of  time  hath  not  offered  itself  as  yet  to  be  suitors  to  your 
 princely  authority  to  have  a  public  set  synod  to  the  full 
 determination  of  such  causes. 
 
 Some  considerations  Avould  lead  to  tho  conclusion  that  it  was  written 
 a  little  later  than  15G0,  but  it  has  been  usually  ascribed  to  that  year, 
 and  the  reasons  to  the  contrary  are  not  sufficiently  demonstrative  to 
 warrant  an  interference  with  tlie  old  ascription.] 
 
 [1  These  words  are  an  addition  in  the  handwriting  of  Bishop  Cox.] 
 
 [2  At  eye,  i.  e.  at  a  glance.] 
 
 [•^  To  improve  in  the  sense  of  improbare,  to  disapprove.] 
 
15G0.]  TO  Ql'EKN   KLIZADBTll.  101 
 
 Furthorinore,  most  sovcrci«;ii  I^ady,  as  in  most  loyal  obo- 
 dicnco  and  duty  of  allogianco  to  your  lliglmcss,  wo  thought  it 
 our  parts  for  our  pastoral  ofticc,  to  bo  solicitous  in  that  cause 
 which  all  your  loving  subjects  so  daily  sigh  for  and  niorningly 
 in  their  prayers  desire  to  appear  to  their  eyes.  ^Marriage  univrr^i 
 we  all  wish  to  see  vour  jrodlv  afTcction  inclined  to,  whereby  theoucrn 
 vour  noble  blood  mi":ht  bo  continued  to  rei^n  over  us  to  our  ^'""- «« 
 great  joy  and  comfort,  whereby  the  great  fears  of  ruin  of  this 
 your  ancient  empire  might  bo  prevented,  the  destruction  of 
 your  natural-born  subjects  avoided,  AVo  cannot  but  fev  this 
 continued  sterility  in  your  Highness'  person  to  be  a  great 
 token  of  God's  displeasure  toward  us.  Tiic  greatest  part  of 
 your  most  assured  faithful  subjects  secretly  rejoiccth  with 
 thanks  to  God,  to  see  your  reign  hitherto  so  prosperous,  the 
 rather  for  the  establishing  of  God's  pure  religion  again 
 amongst  us,  but  all  your  natural  subjects  in  general  most 
 effectuously  do  crave  at  your  hand  to  see  you  entered  into 
 the  blessed  state  of  wedlock,  whereby  your  Highness'  cstab-  Advantafre^ 
 
 '  "^     "^  o  which  would 
 
 lishment  and  their  assurance  might  be  fully  concluded:  the  f^^y^' t^^e- 
 hollow-hearted  subject  feedeth  his  hope  only  in  this  delay. 
 
 AVe  do  not  herein,  right  godly  Lady,  as  counsellers  in 
 poUcy,  but  as  Christ's  ministers  in  vigilancy,  loquentes  ad 
 cor,   and   burdeninoj   your   ^lajesty's   conscience   in   charity ;  The  writers 
 
 ,'         .  •       .,  .     .  f  /'  do  not  advise 
 
 which  IS  a  case  mcident  to  our  mmistry,  evermore  lavourably  ascounsciiers 
 
 *'  ,"111  policy,  but 
 
 heard  of  princes,  and  faithfully  observed  of  pastors ;  that  is  J^in[![|^*i\nd 
 to  say,  to  regard  the   continuance   of  sincerity  in  doctrine,  ^^^ySa^ 
 unity  in  common  Christian  charity,  and  safety  of  realms  by  ^^^^^' 
 godly  succession  in  blood.      For  the  which,  with  honour  be  it 
 spoken,  your  Majesty  hath  to  account  before  the  just  Judge, 
 if  ye  pretermit  the  ordinary  godly  means  appointed  by  God's 
 wisdom  uttered  in  his  word. 
 
 Our  affections  of  true  heart  toward  your  Majesty  in  this 
 case  of  importance  could  utter  many  other  weighty  con- 
 siderations, but  that  with  words  we  will  not  be  tedious  to 
 your  prudent  contemplation.  But  this  we  may  say ;  until  wo 
 shall  see  that  fortunate  day  arise,  we  shall  never  repose  our- 
 selves to  minister  in  our  offices  comfortably,  in  perfect  joy 
 and  quiet  of  heart. 
 
 Thus  beseeching  your  gracious  disposition  to  interpret 
 our  true  and  faithful  hearts,  as  we  most  sincerely  before 
 Almighty  God  mean  the  same,  we  shall  continue  to  be  your 
 
132      AIICII13.  PARKER   AND  OTHERS   TO  Q.  ELIZABETH.        [15G0. 
 
 Highness"'  daily  bedesmen,  the   Scarae  eternal  God   to  endue 
 you  with  all  grace,  virtue,  and  honour.      Amen. 
 
 Your  faithful  orators, 
 
 M.  CANT. 
 E.  LONDON, 
 li.  ELY. 
 
 XCIV. 
 
 It  is  provided 
 by  act  of  par- 
 liament, that 
 the  Queen 
 in  ay  talvc 
 further  order 
 in  any  rite  or 
 ceremony 
 appointed  in 
 the  Book  of 
 Common 
 Trayer. 
 
 Wherefore, 
 understand- 
 ing that  the 
 chapters  for 
 lessons  may 
 be  supplied 
 •with  other 
 chapters 
 tending  more 
 to  editication, 
 
 and  that  ia 
 sundry 
 churches 
 there  is  such 
 lack  of  rever- 
 ence towards 
 their  comely 
 keeping  as 
 causeth  of- 
 fence, 
 
 QUEEN  ELIZABETH  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  AND 
 OTHERS. 
 
 22nd  January,  15G0— 1.     Regist.  Parker.  Vol.  1.  fol.  215  a. 
 
 By  THE  Queen. 
 Elizabeth, 
 Most  reverend  father  in  God  right  trusty  and  right 
 well-beloved,  right  reverend  father  in  God  right  trusty  and 
 well-beloved,  trusty  and  right  well-beloved,  and  trusty  and 
 well-beloved,  we  greet  you  well.  Letting  you  to  understand, 
 that  where  it  is  provided  by  act  of  parliament,  holden  in  the 
 first  year  of  our  reign,  that  whensoever  we  shall  see  cause  to 
 take  further  order  in  any  rite  or  ceremony  appointed  in  the 
 Book  of  Common  Prayer,  and  our  pleasure  known  therein, 
 either  to  our  commissioners  for  causes  ecclesiastical,  or  to  the 
 metropoHtan,  that  then  eftsoons  consideration  should  be  had 
 therein.  We  therefore  understanding  that  there  be  in  the 
 said  book  certain  chapters  for  lessons  and  other  things 
 appointed  to  be  read,  which  might  be  supphed  with  other 
 chapters  or  parcels  of  scripture,  tending  in  the  hearing  of 
 the  unlearned  or  lay  people  more  to  their  edification ;  and 
 that  furthermore  in  sundry  churches  and  chapels  where 
 divine  service,  as  prayer,  preaching  and  ministration  of  the 
 sacraments  be  used,  there  is  such  negligence  and  lack  of 
 convenient  reverence  used  towards  the  comely  keeping  and 
 order  of  the  said  churches,  and  specially  of  the  upper  part, 
 called  the  chancels,  that  it  breedeth  no  small  oifence  and 
 slander  to  see  and  consider,  on  the  one  part  the  curiosity  and 
 
1  jGO-1.]     Q.  ELIZAnKTII  TO  AHCIIIJ.  I'AHKKK  ANI>   nllli:its.      133 
 
 costs  bestowed  by  all  sorts  of  men  upon  their  private  Ijouscs, 
 
 and  on  the  other  part  the  unclean  or  negli<rcnt  order  and  spare- 
 
 keepiuLij  of  the  liouso  of  prayer,   by  perniittini^  opm  deray-^ 
 
 and  ruins  of  coverings,  walls  and  windows,  and  by  api)ointiii^'  f,„i,i  .1,,, 
 
 unmeet  and  unseemly  tables  with  foul  clotlis  for  the  commu-  Tllf,'/'"^ 
 
 nion  of  tiio  sacraments,  and    irenerally  leaving   the   ])lacc   of  Lmii  n'."7!,'r- 
 
 prayers  desolate  of  all  cleanliness  and  of  meet  ornaments  for 
 
 such  a  place,  whereby   it  might  bo  known  a  place  provided 
 
 for  divine  service;   have  thought  good  to   require  you,  our 
 
 commissioners   so   authorised   bv    our   great   seal    for   causes  «''<'Q''<'on 
 
 *  ^  ^  ri(|(urc!i  ll>c 
 
 ecclesiastical,  or  four  of  vou,  whereof  wo  will  you,  Matthew,  ^-^'j-*'"*- 
 
 '  •  '  •'  '  '   lii-al  cum 
 
 archbishop    of    Canterbury,      lldmund,     bishop    of    1-ondon,  |;^;'J^",';^'^*'° 
 William  Bill,  our  almoner,   and  Walter  lladdon,   one   of  the  u^Hli^obi 
 masters  of  our  requests,  to  be  always  two,  to  peruse  the  order  ''""^*^' 
 of  the  said  lessons  throughout  the  whole   year,  and  to  cause 
 some  new  calendars  to  be  imprinted,  whereby  such  chapters 
 or  parcels  of  less  edification  may  be  removed,  and  other  more 
 protitable  may  supply   their  rooms ;   and  further  also  to  con- 
 sider, asbecometh,  the  foresaid  great  disorders  in  the  decays  of 
 churches,  and  in  the  unseemly  keeping  and  order  of  the  chan- 
 cels, and  such  like,  and  according  to  your  discretions  to  deter- 
 mine upon  some  good  and  speedy  means  of  reformation,  and,  torcforrnthe 
 amonsrst  other  thinffs,  to  order  that  the  tables  of  the  com- ^'|j"^^|'" ^^'l 
 
 O  o    '  chai>eN ;  and 
 
 mandments  may  be  comely  set  or  hung  up  in  the  east  end  of  ^|y,"J'';;,\„p, 
 the  chancel,   to  be   not   only  read  for  edification,  but  also  to  Kabies'of 
 give  some  comely  ornament  and  demonstration  that  the  same  m^ut^wt 
 is  a  place  of  religion  and  prayer  ;  and  diligently  to  provide,  "''" 
 that  whatsoever  ye  shall  devise,  either  in  this  or  any  other 
 like  point,  to  the  reformation  of  this  disorder,  that  the  order  t*^^  f/fo""*- 
 
 1  '  ^  '  tion  to  be  of 
 
 and  reformatLon  be  of  one  sort  and  fashion,  and  that  the  ^"^^f^^l  ^"** 
 things  prescribed  may  accord  in  one  form  as  nigh  as  ye  may ; 
 specially  that  in  all  collegiate  and  cathedral  churches,  where 
 cost  may  be  more  probably  allowed,  one  manner  to  be  used  ; 
 and  in  all  parish-churches  also,  either  the  same,  or  at  the  least 
 the  like,  and  one  manner  throughout  our  realm:  and  further,  we 
 will  that  where  we  have  caused  our  Book  of  Common  Service 
 to  be  translated  into  the  Latin  tongue,  for  the  use  and  exer- 
 cise of  such  students  and  other  learned  in  the  Latin  tongue, 
 we   will  also  that  by   your  wisdoms  and  discretions  ve  pre-  to  prescribe 
 
 ^       •'  *  1  order  for 
 
 scribe  some  good  orders  to  the  collegiate  churches,  to  which  ^'Jr^jjJ^f 
 
134     Q.  ELIZABETH  TO  ARCIIB.  PARKER  AND  OTHERS.     [1560-1. 
 
 which  have    wG  havG  permitted  the  use  of  the  divine  service  and  prayer  ia 
 
 been  permit-  ^   *  ^  it/ 
 
 ted  to  have    i\^q  Latin  tonffuc,  in  such  sort  as  ye  shall  consider  to  be  most 
 
 divine  service  O        '  v 
 
 in  Laiia.  meot  to  bo  usod,  in  respect  of  their  companies,  or  of  resort  of 
 our  lay  subjects  to  the  said  churches,  so  that  our  good  purpose 
 in  the  said  translation  be  not  frustrated,  nor  be  corruptly- 
 abused,  contrary  to  the  effect  of  our  meaning.  And  for  the 
 publication  of  that  which  you  shall  order,  we  will  and  require 
 you,  the  archbishop  of  Canterbury,  to  see  the  same  put  in  exe- 
 cution throughout  your  province,  and  that  you,  with  the  rest  of 
 our  commissioners  before  mentioned,  prescribe  the  same  to 
 the  archbishop  now  nominated  of  York  ^  to  be  in  like  man- 
 ner set  forth  in  that  province,  and  that  the  alteration  of  any 
 thing  hereby  ensuing  be  quietly  done,  without  shew  of  any 
 innovation  in  the  church.  And  these  our  letters  shall  be 
 your  sufficient  warrant  in  this  behalf.  Given  under  our 
 signet  at  our  palace  of  Westminster,  the  two  and  twentieth 
 of  January,  the  third  year  of  our  reign. 
 
 To  tJie  most  Reverend  father  in  God, 
 our  right  trusty  and  right  iceU-he^ 
 loved  Matthew,  archbishop  of  Can- 
 terbury ;  the  Eight  Reverend  father 
 in  God,  our  right  trusty  and  well- 
 beloved  Edmund,  bishop  of  London ; 
 and  to  the  rest  of  our  commissioners 
 for  causes  ecclesiastical. 
 
 xcv. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  GRIKDAL  OF 
 LONDON. 
 
 loth  February,  1560—1.     Parker  Reg.  Vol.  I.  fol.  228  a. 
 
 Matth^us,    permissione   divina   Cantuariensis   archiepi- 
 
 scopus,    totius  Anglia3    primas    et    metropolitanus,  yenerabili 
 
 confratri  nostro  domino  Edmundo,  eadem  permissione  Londo- 
 
 niensi  episcopo,  salutem  et  fraternam  in  Domino  charitatem. 
 
 hL%d!SSed  ^^^  serenissima  domina  nostra  Ehzabetha,  Dei  gratia  Anglia9 
 
 [1  Archbishop  Thomas  Young,  before  mentioned,  translated  from 
 St  David's  to  York,  27th  January,  loGO — 1.] 
 
15G0-1.]  AIK  lin.    PAIIKER  TO  DISIIOP  GUISDAI..  135 
 
 rrancio)  ct  llibcrniiu  rogina,  fidoi  dofensor,  etc.  per  litcras  !'*!'":•'!■^ 
 Buas  inissivas  datas  apud  Wcstmonastcriuin  22do  dio  mens;  ;^ 
 
 Januarii  ultimo  pi\Tteritt),  anno  roLi^ni  sui  tcrtio,  nobis  ac  fratcr- 
 nitati  vcstro[:o?],  et  allis  coiiiinissariis  suis  ad  causas  ccdcsiastl- 
 cas  decidondas  per  litcras  suaa  rcgias  patcntcs  magno  sigillo 
 Angliiu  sigillata:^  deputatis  ct  assignatis,  inter  alia  dedcrit  in  |';,"""I"";'.'."* 
 mandatis,  quatenus  nos  ad  Dei  optinii   niaxinii  gloriani  illus- o!,;,',',^,'^',„''„. 
 trandara  ct  ccclcsia)  Anglicana?  honorem,  et  ad  tollcndum  dia-  "* 
 sensioncs  et  controversias  inter  subditos  diotiu  domina^  rcgina:), 
 et  consensum  vcr:v  religionis  tirniandum,  jiixta  tenorein  cujus- 
 dam  statiiti  in  parliamcnto   Anglioo  tcnto  apud  Westmonastc- 
 riuin,  anno  primo  rcgni  ejusdcm  domina?  nostra?  regina?  editi, 
 quadam    decreta   sivc  ordinationes,    correctiones,    intcrprcta- 
 tiones,  seu  reformationcs  eoncipereraus  et  faceremus  ;  ac  nobis  "J^^^^JJ  !;|;\!;* 
 ^lattbajo,  arcbiepiscopo    Cantuariensi   antedicto,    per  easdcm  Sat'ionT 
 litcras  suas  missivas  firmiter  pra?cipicndo  mandaverit,  quatcnus 
 decrcta,  ordinationes,  correctiones,  seu  reformationcs  prrcdictas 
 in  et  per  totam  provinciam  nostram  Cantuariensem  publicari 
 et  exccutioni  demandari  laccrcmus,  prout  in  litcris  rcgiis  missi- 
 vis  antedictis,  (quarum  tenores  pro  hie  insertis  haberi  volumus,) 
 inter  alia  latins  continctur  et  describitur ;    Nos  vero,  affec- 
 tantes   ex   animo   cjusdem   domina?   nostra)   regina)   Uteris   et 
 mandatis  obtemperare,  volcntesque  pro  nostro  erga  suam  ccl- 
 situdincm  re^iam  officio  demandatis  et  concreditis  nobis  a  sua 
 cclsitudinc  nc^otiis  omnem  nostram  curam  et  solertem  adlii- 
 bere  diliijentiam,  fraternitati  vestra)  ex  parte  suje  regiae  maics-  Jhearch 
 
 ^,  ,    ,  ^  .  bishop  thcre- 
 
 tatis  firmiter  pra}cipiendo  mandamus,   quatcnus  receptis  prae-  JJ|!j°"  "t'|'^' 
 sentibus,  cum  omni  qua  poteritis  celeritate  et  matura  diligentia,  L,'!ld|^n"with 
 ordinationes,  correctiones,  seu  reformationcs  Kalendarii,  simul  pubfishlhe 
 cum  tabulis  prfficeptorum  Dei,  per  nos  et  alios  regies  commis-  formatio"ff 
 Earios  auctoritate  et  viojoro  dictarum  literarum  suarum  rcffiarum  and  scuinj* '^' 
 missi  varum,  juxta  for  mam  statuti  praidicti  factas,  conceptas,  et  commami- 
 stabilitas,  quorum  excmplaria  in  papiro  impressa  vobis,  pra?-  ""/JnJ^// ^:'J, , 
 sentibus  anncxa,  transmittimus,  omnibus  et  singulis  vcnerablli-  loThrsufiva- 
 bus  confratribus  nostris  provincial  nostra)  Cantuariensis  coepi-  o'rih'etr!]-'' 
 scopis,    et  ecclesia)  nostra)  Christi  Cantuariensis   suffraganeis  canterbury, 
 publicctis    et   declaretis,   eisque    et  eorum   cuilibet   ex  parte 
 dominae  nostrae  reginae  firmiter  prsecipiatis,  quatenus  ipsorum 
 singuli  in  suis  cathedralibus  ecclesiis,  necnon  civitatum  ct  dioe- 
 cesiura  suarum  parocbianis  ecclesiis,  ordinationes  seu  reforma- 
 tioncs Kalendarii  et  tabulas  prseceptorum   Dei  proedictas,   in 
 
130 
 
 ARCIIB.  PARKER   TO   BISHOP  GRINDAL.  [1560-1. 
 
 rh.irRiiiK' 
 lliciii  to  sec 
 that  ttic 
 same  be  in- 
 violul)ly  ob- 
 served. 
 
 omnibus  ct  per  omnia,  juxta  pr?3scriptum  literarum  regia- 
 rum,  inviolabiliter  observari  ct  perimpleri  sedulo  ct  accurate 
 curcnt  cum  cffectu,  ct  fieri  non  postponant ;  sicquc  a  vobis, 
 frater  charissimc,  in  ccclcsia  vcstra  cathedrali,  ac  in  ct  per 
 civitatem  et  dioecesem  vestram  Londoniensem  per  omnia  fieri  et 
 perimpleri  volumus  et  mandamus.  Datum  in  manerio  nostro 
 de  Lambeth,  decimo  quinto  die  mensis  Februarii,  anno  Do- 
 mini 1560,  et  nostras  consecrationis  anno  secundo. 
 
 XCVI. 
 
 Application 
 for  a  dispen- 
 sation to 
 allow  a  child 
 of  13  or  14 
 years  of  age 
 to  hold  a 
 benefice,  de- 
 clined.    Tlie 
 statute  re- 
 serves "cases 
 unwont"  to 
 the  prince. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  THOMAS  HOWARD  ^ 
 13th  April,  15G1.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  p.  165  b.     Orig.  Draft. 
 
 After  my  hearty  commendations  to  your  Lordship.  Con- 
 cerning your  request  for  the  behoof  of  your  servant,  who 
 desireth  his  child  of  thirteen  or  fourteen  years  of  age  to  be 
 abled  by  dispensation  to  take  the  cure  of  the  rectory  of  Broad- 
 way, your  Lordship  shall  understand  that  the  statute  made  in 
 the  21st  of  King  Henry  VIII.  permitteth  me  not  to  dispense 
 with  any  one  to  have  cure  of  soul,  being  not  at  all  within  any 
 order  and  being  mere  lay :  for  to  dispense  with  such  one  to 
 take  benefice  is  one  of  the  cases  unwont,  and  appertaineth  to 
 the  prince  only  ;  and  if  that  this  young  student  had  a  dispen- 
 sation for  the  delay  of  his  orders-taking,  yet  he  were  not 
 freed  with  for  his  laity,  and  the  bishop  might  repel  him  at 
 his  institution  and  so  should  [he]  bestow  his  cost  but  in  vain. 
 Thus,  being  sorry  that  I  cannot  effectuously  satisfy  your  Lord- 
 ship's request  in  this  matter,  I  wish  your  Lordship  as  well  to 
 fare  as  myself.     At  my  manor,  this  thirteenth  of  April. 
 
 To  tlie  riglit  liononrdble  and  Jus  loving 
 friend,  the  Lord  Thomas  Howard,  he 
 it  delivered. 
 
 [1  Probably  the  second  son  of  Thomas,  first  Viscount  Howard  of 
 Bindon,  and  afterwards  himself  third  Viscount  Howard  of  Bindon,  and 
 K.  G.      (Dugdalo's  Baronage,  ii.  274.)] 
 
13(jI.]  km  1IAK1>    UAMKS   in    AIllllll.  rAKKKIl.  137 
 
 XUVll. 
 
 BISIIOr  KICIIAKD    DAVIRS  OF  ST  ASAIMI   TO  AKCII- 
 BlSlIOr  rAKKKK. 
 
 18th  April,  1561.    rnrkcr  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  rxiv.  nrt.  187.  p.  515.    Oripr. 
 
 It  may  please  your  i^ood  Graco  to  bo  advertised,  that 
 meaning  with  all  expedition  to  havo  accomplished  your 
 Grace's  advico  and  commandment  touching  ray  translation,  I  thc  writer 
 
 o        n/  took  his  joiir- 
 
 adventured,  being  scarce  recovered  (as  now  appeareth),  to  take  '/y,^,,',''*"!;'* 
 my  journey  towards  London,  and  after  one  day's  labour  I  was  pulufhi*/""'"' 
 cast  down  again  by  the  way  on  Wednesday  last,  not  able  further  but  wal'""' 
 to  travel.      Most   humbly   therefore   beseeching   your   Graco  Vum-v^  .m  ^ 
 that  like   as   heretofore   you   have   extended   your   gracious 
 favour  and  goodness  towards  me,  so  now  you  would  vouch- 
 safe to  weigh  my  case  accordingly.      My  state  of  healtli  is  so 
 doubtful  that  I  can  determine   nothing  but  as  God  will.      I 
 fear  the  hasty  proceeding  of  my  successor ^  elect  (not  fully  "'s["^'^';i;'' 
 belike  understanding  my  state)  may  be  prejudicial  not  only  |^^[n >••*'"*'' 
 to  me  but  to  us  both,  unless  your  Grace's  wisdom  do  foresee 
 the  same,  whcreunto  I  refer  the  state  of  me  and  my  matters 
 to  be  further  declared  to  your  Grace  by  this  bearer.      Thus 
 committing  the  same  to  the  tuition  of  Almighty  God.      From 
 Wrexham,  the  18th  of  April,  loGl. 
 
 Your  Grace's  most  humble, 
 
 RICHARD  ASSAPIIEN. 
 
 [2  Bishop  Thomas  Davies,  who  was  not  appointed  until  2nd  April, 
 ir>G2,  was  this  bishop's  successor.  It  seems  as  if  the  successor  elect 
 here  alluded  to  must  have  been  some  other  person.  The  writer  ac- 
 complished his  translation  to  St  David's  on  21st  May,  li3Gl.] 
 
138  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL  TO  ARCIIB.  PARKER.  [15G1. 
 
 XCVIII. 
 
 SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 After  iGth  April,  laGL     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  181.  p.  50G. 
 
 Grig. 
 
 Cecil  sends  a  I  BESEECH  your  GracG  considcr  of  this  poor  man's  merry 
 
 pie  request"  slmple  rcQuest^     Indeed  it  is  not  his   shame   to  lack,  and 
 
 ofChenev,  ^  -^ 
 
 afterwards 
 
 [1  The  request  alluded  to  is  contained  in  the  following  letter,  on 
 which  the  present  letter  of  Sir  William  Cecil  is  indorsed : 
 
 RICHARD  CHENEY  TO  MR  SECRETARY  CECIL. 
 
 iGth  April,  15G1.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  180,  p.  505.  Grig. 
 
 Because  it  pleased  your  mastership  so  gently  to  come  and  offer 
 me  your  hand  upon  the  leads  at  the  Court,  somewhat  before  Easter, 
 these  shall  be  most  heartily  to  thank  you,  desiring  you  to  be  a  help 
 that  more  preachers  may  be  sent  abroad ;  for  everywhere  there  is 
 messis  multa  sed  operarii  paucit  imo  paucissimi.  I  find  a  priest  upon  my 
 10^.  benefice  of  Halford  in  Warwickshire,  because  I  would  go  abroad 
 and  do  some  good  where  no  preacher  coraeth.  My  priest  hath  Idl. 
 out  of  my  10/.  10s.,  and  I  live  there  of  the  residue.  I  remember 
 that  when  I  preached  before  the  Queen's  Majesty  rudely  after  the 
 country  fashion,  I  spake  of  the  Queen's  takers,  but  or  I  came  home 
 again  from  London  then,  they  had  taken  a  quarter  of  my  wheat,  which 
 I  would  take  money  for  if  I  might  get  it,  and  so  would  other  poor 
 men  w^hcre  I  dwell.  The  hope  whereof  caused  me  to  take  my  journey 
 to  Oxford,  where  I  communed  with  certain  learned  men  touching  the 
 true  pronunciation  of  the  Greek  tongue,  who  stifiiy  defended  the 
 usual  manner  of  pronouncing.  Beware,  learned  masters,  (said  I) 
 that  while  you  wilfully  go  about  to  defend  an  untruth  in  this  matter, 
 you  fall  not  into  such  an  inconvenience  as  I  once  knew  a  bishop  do. 
 They  would  needs  know  how  and  wherein.  I  sat  once  (said  I)  at 
 table  with  a  bishop  that  did,  as  you  now  do,  defend  the  untrue  pro- 
 nunciation of  this  Greek  letter  H.  And  after  that  I  had  declared 
 many  absurdities  that  followed  thereof,  I  desired  him  to  considcr  a 
 few  words  written  in  the  27th  of  St  Matthew.  He  immediately  called 
 for  the  New  Testament  in  Greek.  I  appointed  him  a  line  or  two  in 
 the  place  as  before.  He  read,  among  other,  these  four  words,  'HXct 
 *HXet  \ayLa  aa^axOavi,  making  false  Greek,  but  true  English,  pro- 
 nouncing plainly  /  lie,  I  lie.  Let  this  be  a  warning  for  you,  learned 
 masters,  said  I,  for  fear.  There  were  in  company  then  the  Com- 
 missary, Doctor  Babington,  Doctor  Wright,  Archdeacon  of  Oxford, 
 the  Provost  of  Oriel  College,  with  other.  So  we  made  an  end  of  this 
 matter  merrily  at  the  Bear,  on  the  Annunciation-even  last:  and 
 D.  Babington  gave  me  your  old  tutor's  book  of  this  matter,  which  I 
 
1501.]  slU   WILLIAM  CECIL  TO  ARrilD.  PAUKER.  139 
 
 thcroforo  l\)r  God's  Bako  lot  him  bo  holpcil.      I  cannot  with  [J,*^^^"f, 
 
 leisuro  do  for  him,  hut  whatsoever  your  Grace  will  dcviso  for  *' 
 
 mo  to  do  I  will  not  forbear.      Your  (iraco's  at  command.  .^V.r.anai.t 
 
 itir  writrr  b* 
 
 W.  CICCILL.      "'■»'-* 
 
 XCIX. 
 
 FLACIUS   ILLYKICUS  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PAKKEU. 
 22nd  Mav,  L'.Gl.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  C*mb.  cxix.  art.  47.  p.  127.    Orij?. 
 
 Salutbm  a  Domino  Jesu,  unico  piorum  servatorc.    Amen. 
 
 Hevcrcndo  in  Domino  Pater;  cum  statuisscmus  mittcre  a  nt  per«on 
 istuc  homincm  idoncum  accipiendorum  vetcrum  monumentorum  Sv^*!'* 
 fijratia,  qua?  nobis  R.  M.  ante  annum  per  tuas  litcras  pollicita  mirnmnenu 
 est,  putavi  me  etiam  scparatim  aliquid  ad  1.  V.  rat.  scribcrc  ^'m  by  the 
 debcre.  Eo  enim  studio  vetcrum  monumentorum,  procscrtim  throuph  the 
 qua3  obscuratam  Ecclesiac  veritatem  illustrare,  et  pontificiam 
 tyrannidem  redarguere  possint,  feror,  ut  non  possim  non  in- 
 stare  ac  urgere,  ubi  modo  sese  aliqua  spes  bene  gercnda3  in 
 
 never  saw  before,  because  I  dwell  in  a  comer  whore  I  see  nothing; 
 but  I  feel  that  I  am  worse  by  40^  within  this  two  years  than  I  was 
 before,  such  hath  been  my  late  gains.  The  cause  hath  been  my 
 gentle  and  loving  friends,  who  have  four  or  five  times  called  me  to 
 London,  and  offering  me  a  bishoprick ;  but  I  cannot  think  myself 
 ■worthy  so  high  a  room  ;  and  as  for  the  prebend  of  Westminster,  it 
 were  more  meet  for  one  that  would  be  resident  upon  it,  as  I  intend 
 not  to  be,  and  therefore  I  shall  receive  but  10^  by  year.  I  began  first 
 in  mine  youth  at  the  Court,  but  I  intend  to  make  an  end  in  mine  ago 
 at  the  cart,  at  my  circumcised  benefice.  But  what  do  I  trouble  your 
 mastership  with  this  homely  letter  in  the  midst  of  your  weighty  and 
 manifold  affairs?  I  trust  you  will  bear  with  my  rudeness  and  help  mo 
 also,  that  where  I  lost  16?.  by  year  before  the  Queen's  Majesty's  visit- 
 ors at  Aylesbury,  and  half  a  year's  rent  to  boot,  without  recompence, 
 I  may  somewhat  bo  recompensed  by  your  goodness,  as  my  trust  is. 
 Or  if  your  pleasure  be  that  I  only  shall  bo  a  leeser  [loser]  in  these 
 days,  that  had  more  conference  with  the  learned  men  of  the  contrary 
 side  in  Queen  Mary's  time  than  many  other  had,  I  will  hold  me  content 
 with  40/.  loss.  Thus  I  bid  your  Mastership  most  heartily  farewell. 
 From  Halford,  in  the  south  edge  of  Warwickshire,  this  IGth  of  April, 
 1561. 
 
 RYCIIARD  CHEXY. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Mr  Cecily 
 Secretary  to  the  Queen's  Afajetity, 
 at  the  Court,  give  this.] 
 
 iL 
 
140 
 
 FLACIUS  ILLYRICUS  TO  ARCHB.  PARKEK. 
 
 [1561. 
 
 Rare  manu- 
 Ecripts  should 
 be  brought 
 together  into 
 well  known 
 places. 
 
 Bale  had 
 said  that  he 
 possesse<l 
 many  an- 
 cient MSS. 
 
 Sends  a  dis- 
 putation 
 concerning 
 Original 
 Corruption 
 and  Free 
 Will. 
 
 Sends  ex- 
 tracts from 
 Mat.  Paris, 
 whose  chro- 
 nicle the 
 archbishop 
 had  not  been 
 able  to  find. 
 
 hac  parte  rei  offcrat,  ctlamsi  minus  decore  id  faccre  videar. 
 lVa)terquam  igitiir  quod  et  optamus  ct  expectamus  promissa 
 monumenta,  valdc  utile  esset  tuam  llev.  P.  id  agere  ut  et  istic 
 in  vestro  re^no  ct  in  Scotia,  ex  locis  rcmotioribus  et  i^nobi- 
 lioribus,  in  ccrta  quocdam  et  illustriora  coraportarentur,  omnes 
 libri  manuscripti  et  qui  rariores  esse  existiraarentur,  aut 
 etiam  quorum  nomina  plane  ignorarentur ;  quorum  quidem 
 non  adeo  infinitus  esset  futurus  numerus,  nequc  adeo  immensos 
 sumptus  ea  res  postularet.  Non  etiara  haberent  quod  civitates 
 quererentur  se  libris  spoliari,  cum  eis  omnia  impressa  et  etiam 
 manuscripta  monumenta  patrum  et  aliorum  scriptorum,  quae 
 alioqui  extant,  relinquerentur.  Quo  vero  eo  facilius  libro- 
 rum  historioe  ecclesiasticre  utilium  conquisitio  fieri  possit, 
 mitto  indicem  quondam  quasi  generalem.  Baleus  coram  mihi 
 narravit,  se  multa  admodum  vetera  monumenta  habere,  quae 
 utile  esset  post  ejus  mortem  in  publicas  bibliothecas  regni 
 retrahi,  sicut  et  aliorum  monumenta.  Nam  praeterquam 
 quod  in  privatorum  aedibus  facile,  prsesertim  succedentibus 
 indoctis  haeredibus,  intereant,  et  jam  non  sunt  istiusmodi  res, 
 toti  regno  ac  Ecclesiae  necessarise,  privati  juris  aut  possessionis 
 proprisB,  sed  publici.  Utinam  autem  vacaret  aliquando  ipsi  coram 
 inspicere  ac  perlustrare  omnes  istic  veteres  codices,  ut  multas 
 bibliothecas  in  Germania  et  Italia  perspexi,  sperarem  me 
 multa  utilia  vobis  et  nobis  reperire ;  et  inter  alia  etiam  meum 
 Catalogum  Testium  Yeritatis  egregie  augere  posse.  Sed  nee 
 valetudo,  nee  tempus,  nee  denique  sumptus  ad  tantam  peregri- 
 nationem  et  conatum  suppetunt.  Ut  vero  vicissim  tuae  R.  P. 
 et  Reg.  M.  meum  humile  studium  ac  officium  declarem  et  pro- 
 bem,  mitto  muneri  disputationem  de  Originali  Corruptione 
 et  Libero  Arbitrio  ante  annum  coram  nostris  illustrissimis  prin- 
 cipibus  habitam,  contra  quondam  qui  humanarum  virium  arbi- 
 trium  potentiamque  plane  papistico  more  modoque  extoUebat, 
 et  Deo  in  conversione  et  renovatione  cooperari  volebat :  qui 
 quidem  error  nimia  incrementa  a  morte  Lutheri  per  quosdam 
 in  nostris  Ecclesiis  sumpsit.  Quos  in  ea  re  secum  sentire, 
 Lovanienses  in  suo  prime  tomo,  Lindanus  et  Osius  in  suis 
 prolixis  voluminibus,  abunde  testantur :  tametsi  id  et  res  ipsa 
 multo  clarius  loquatur.  Quoniam  etiam  proxime  tua  ampl. 
 indicavit  Matthei  Paris  chronicon  apud  vos  non  reperiri, 
 mitto  excerpta  ejus  quae  dudum  per  quondam  amicum  fueram 
 consecutus.    Multa  enim  in  hisce  ipsis  paucis  coropendio  dicun- 
 
1501.]  ILAtirS   II.I.VKH  IS   TO   AIH  nil.    PAllKKK.  I   11 
 
 tiir,  quju  a  vestrU  hoininibus  lei:i  utile  est.      Mitto  ctiani  brc-  Ai.o«ii.tor 
 vein  indicem  corum  qiuu  Keg.  M.  cominunicare  possem,  b'l  ea  'J,^//,i'X" 
 habere  cuperet  vi  suuiptus  in  (Jcscriptioncm  cxtMiiphiriuin   quiu  •^"•«*' 
 nobis  rolinipiercntiir   faccro   vcllot  :    ncquo  enini   prorsus  vc- 
 lim  hisce  scriptis  carcre,   qute  niagno  laboro   ac   sumptu  sum 
 nactus.      Curavenun   uliin,  toniporo  Interim,  cum  omnes  Gcr- 
 numioju    Ecclesia'    institutis    cum    Anticliristo   conciliationibus 
 corruilura)  videbantur,  dedicari  tuo  antecessori  incum  librum  a\*o^,u 
 
 ,.,,.,  .      .  -  hi.  book  lie 
 
 De  r  ide ;  qucm  an  unquam  accepent  ignore,  ac  forte  ncc  tua  *•■"'«• 
 quidom  P.  cum  vidit.  (^ucm  idco  mitto,  ut  ca  do  illo  suum 
 niilii  judicium,  si  modo  ci  vacaverit,  pcrscribat.  Cupio  cnim  do 
 tantis  rebus  eruditissimorum  virorum  judicia  cognoscerc.  IL'uc 
 jam  ad  T.  V.  P.  forte  paulo  prolixius  pcrscripsi,  quam  ad  tarn 
 occupatum  tantajque  dignitatis  virum  a  me  fieri  dccuisset,  spe- 
 rans  cam  bcnigne  ac  Christiane  omnia  in  mcliorem  partem 
 accept u ram  esse. 
 
 Incidit  vero  adhuc  aliquid  quod  tua  C.   bcnigne  audiet. 
 Johannem   Tilium,   Galium,   Episcopum    Engolisinensem,    qui  SVof  An- 
 cdidit  Canones  Gra^cos  cum  suo  nomine,  et  Caroli  Magni,  con-  f^^"^^!"' 
 tra  idolatriam  imaginum  non  expresso  suo  nomine,  procul  dubio  coSk  of ' 
 vol  do  nomine  saltern  nosti.      Dicitur  favcre  puriori  religioni.  biy'pa?kcr*" 
 Habet  is  multa  Vetera  prajsertim  autem  Concilia:   lorte  liaud  a descnpuon. 
 difiiculter   ab    eo   tua   P.   descriptionem    eorum    exemplarium 
 nancisci  posset,  et  nostro  huic  institute  accommodare.     Extant 
 Koinae  quidam  boni  codices,  ut  inclusa  scliedula  testatur.      Eos 
 vos  potentiores  ac   nummatiores  baud  difficulter  per  amicos 
 dcscribi  curare  possetis.     Xos  quidem  earn  rem  exploravimus,  mss.  at 
 scd  sumptus,  et  tam  potentes  intercessores,  ut  res  postulabat, 
 habere  nequimus.      Tua   vero  Pat.   publicae  utilitatis  gratia, 
 omnino   aliquid  ejusmodi  conetur.      Nam   Anastasium  extare 
 valde  profecto  operae  pretium  esset.      Dominus  Jesus  regat 
 tuam  V.  P.  suo  Sancto   Spiritu,   ad  gloriam  nominis  sui  et 
 Ecclesiie  utilitatem,  Amen.      Jenae,  22  Maii,  1561. 
 
 T.  y.  P.  Stud. 
 
 MATTHIAS  FLACIUS  ILLYRICUS. 
 
 Eeverendissimo  in  Christo  Patri  ac 
 Domino  D.  MattJueo,  archiepi- 
 scopo  Cantuariensi  suo  Domino 
 plurimuni  cohndo. 
 
142 
 
 THOMAS  SECKFORD   TO  AIICHB.  PARKER. 
 
 [1561. 
 
 The  arch- 
 bishop is  re- 
 quested to 
 subscribe  a 
 presentation 
 to  a  prebend 
 in  the  cathe- 
 dral of  Nor- 
 wich, in  the 
 Q  ueen's  gift. 
 
 THOMAS  SECKFORD  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 21st  June,  15G1.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  251.  p.  G91.    Grig. 
 
 My  very  good  Lord,  it  may  like  your  Grace  to  under- 
 etand  that  where  a  prebend  is  lately  fallen  void  within  the 
 cathedral  church  of  Norwich  which  is  in  the  disposition  of 
 the  Queen's  highness ;  because  I  know  that  i\Ir  \yendon,  now 
 archdeacon  of  Suffolk,  is  a  very  fit  and  sufficient  person  to 
 receive  the  preferment  thereof  (as  one  of  your  Grace's  own 
 chaplains  well  know),  I  am  therefore  bold  to  pray  your  Grace 
 to  subscribe^  your  name  to  his  bill  of  presentation.  And  I 
 shall  be  glad,  as  heretofore  I  have  been,  to  do  your  Grace 
 any  service  that  in  me  shall  lie.  From  the  Court,  this  xxi. 
 day  of  June,  1561. 
 
 Your  Grace'*s  to  command, 
 
 THOMAS  SEKF0RD2. 
 
 To  the  most  Reverend  father  and  his 
 singular  good  Lord,  my  Lord  of 
 Canterbury  his  grace. 
 
 CI. 
 
 QUEEN  ELIZABETH  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARI^R. 
 
 24th  June,  1561.    Regist.  Parker.  Vol.  I.  fol.  231  a. 
 
 By  the   Queen. 
 Most    Reverend   father   in    God,    we   greet    you    well. 
 Although  we  know  there  needeth  no  means  to  provoke  you 
 Necessity  for  to  further  the  re-edifying  of  the  church  of  St  Paul's^  in  our 
 
 rebuilding  .  ^_.,  i«i  ii«  n    /->,\      '      ' 
 
 St  Paul's.  City  01  London,  being  the  same,  both  in  respect  of  Christian 
 religion  and  for  the  honour  of  our  realm,  a  right  necessary 
 work  to  be  finished  and  that  with  speed,  whereby  the  use  of 
 
 [I  The  word  "  subscribed  "  is  written  at  the  bottom  of  this  letter, 
 perhaps  as  a  note  of  the  archbishop's.  But  the  appointment  was  a 
 very  improper  one.  Archdeacon  Wendon  was  not  in  orders,  and  is 
 described  as  going  about  in  15G5  "in  a  cloak  with  a  Spanish  cape, 
 and  a  rapier  by  his  side."  Shortly  afterwards  he  betook  himself  to 
 Louvaine,  and  Avas  returned  in  1576  in  a  list  of '"  fugitives  over  sea 
 contrary  to  the  statute  of  13  Eliz."  Strype,  Bk.  ii.  App.  Xo.  L] 
 [2  Master  of  Requests  to  Queen  Elizabeth.] 
 [3  St  Paul's  was  destroyed  by  lightning  on  the  4th  June,  1561.] 
 
1501.]  (iUEEN  ELIZAIIETII   To  AIU  IIH.  I'AIIKKH.  143 
 
 pra^-er  and  diviuo  Borvico  may  bo  restored,  and  the  fame  and 
 renown  by  such  a  work  duly  recovered,  yet  to  join  our  autho-  Thcrch. 
 
 •    I  •  1  1         Ml  1  1         •  bUhop  au- 
 
 rity  with  vour  devotion  and  irood  will,   wo  do  authorise  you  "''V'**^*" 
 
 »  ►  n  '  J  o.llifj  a  con- 
 
 by  way  of  any   nuinncr  of  usual   or   other   good  conference  1[,'.';"/||U 
 ifith  tho  bishops  of  your  province,  and  tho  principal  members  *"'"*'• 
 of  tho   clergy  thereof,  to  doviso  upon  some  contribution   of 
 money  and  relief  to  bo  levied  and  collected  of  the  same  clergy, 
 wherein  we  mean  neither  to  prescribe  to  you  tho  manner  of 
 levying,  nor  the  sum  to  be  contributed,  but  refer  tho  samo  to 
 your  wisdom,  and  tho  consideration  of  so  great  a  work  ;  and 
 if  you   shall  think   meet  to  bo  informed  therein,  upon  any  t^^Xg^'^" 
 special  doubt,  then  to  resort  to  our  council,  who  in  that  behalf  [■."^!''f'.j'"y 
 shall  give  you  knowledge  and  advice  of  that  which  shall  be  ^i-"-'^'^""'^'- 
 convenient.      Given  under  our  signet  at  our  manor  of  Green- 
 wich, tho  24th  of  June,  tho  third  year  of  our  reign. 
 
 To  the  liiffht  Ixevercjid  father  in  God 
 the  archbishop  of  Canterbury. 
 
 CII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  GRINDAL  OF  LONDOX. 
 
 1st  July,  15G1.    Resist.  Parker.  Vol.  I.  fol.  231  a. 
 
 After  my  right  hearty  commendations  unto  your  Lord- 
 ship premised ;  having  received  tho  Queen's  Majesty's  letters, 
 the  tenor  whereof  I  send  to  you  herewith,   I   have  thought  Bi>hop  orin- 
 
 !/•  11  Ti  t>  ^  -sr*  1  cial  on  con- 
 
 good,  for  the  better  accomplishment  of  her  Maiesty's  pleasure  fcrcncewith 
 
 o  /  ^  '■  ^  ^         *i         ir  Ills  clergy,  to 
 
 herein,  to  require  your  Lordship,  that  not  only  upon  con-  [.^^^"nbuti.m 
 
 ference  with  the  clergy  of  your  diocese,  you  do  resolve  your-  Smuitngof 
 
 selves  upon  such  reasonable  imposition  and  contribution  to  be  ^'^^"**- 
 
 collected    and    answered    of   our    said    clergy,    towards    the 
 
 re-edifying  of  the  church  of  Paul's,  as  may  seem  correspondent 
 
 to  their  several  states  and  preferments  in  living;  but  also 
 
 that  you  do  with  all   convenient  speed  sio:nify  the  tenor  of  Ai^tosig 
 
 lA  -tr-  -11  ,•!  n        y        nifvthetcnor 
 
 the   Queen's  Maiesty's   said   letters    to   tho    residue    of   the  ofthcgucen-s 
 
 <l         tJ  letter  lo  the 
 
 bishops  of  my  province,  requiring  them  to  do  the  hke  in  "r|^hVprlJ-°'" 
 their  several  dioceses:  doing  your  lordship  further  to  under- t^||,';^ry!EhaT 
 stand  that  I  think  this  rate  to  be  the  least  that  will  be  [hrulTe?  **° 
 accepted,  that  the  clergy  of  your  diocese  of  London  should 
 
144 
 
 ARCHB.  PARKEIl   TO  BISHOP  GRINDAL. 
 
 [1561. 
 
 The  arch - 
 bishoj)  thinks 
 the  clergy  of 
 London 
 sliould  pay 
 the  twentieth 
 part  of  their 
 {)r()motion.s, 
 and  those  of 
 other  dio- 
 ceses the 
 thirtieth 
 part. 
 
 pay  and  contribute  the  twentieth  part  of  their  spiritual  pro- 
 motions, and  the  clergy  of  every  other  diocese  of  my  pro- 
 vince, being  not  in  their  first-fruits,  to  pay  the  thirtieth  part, 
 and  they  which  be  in  their  first-fruits  to  pay  only  the  for- 
 tieth part  of  their  said  promotions,  according  to  the  rate 
 taxed  in  the  Queen's  Majesty's  books ;  always  provided,  that 
 stipendiaries  and  curates,  and  all  such  beneficed  men  which 
 by  order  of  the  statute  pay  no  first-fruits,  be  not  in  any  wise 
 charged  herein,  unless  it  be  by  your  good  persuasion ;  and 
 that  as  well  your  Lordship  for  yourself,  as  also  all  other  my 
 brethren  the  bishops  of  my  province,  by  your  commandment, 
 to  send  me  your  and  their  resolute  order  and  answer  herein 
 with  such  convenient  speed  as  you  and  they  may.  And 
 thus  fare  you  most  heartily  well.  From  my  manor  of  Croy- 
 don, the  first  day  of  July,  1561. 
 
 Your  loving  brother, 
 
 MATTHEWE  CANTUAR\ 
 
 To  the  rigJit  reverend  father  in  God 
 the  bishop  of  London  give  these. 
 
 cm. 
 
 Dr  Wotton, 
 dean  of  Can- 
 terbury, has 
 recommend- 
 ed Mr  Rush 
 to  be  teacher 
 in  the  gram- 
 mar school 
 at  Canter- 
 bury. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER   TO  DR  NICHOLAS  WOTTON  i. 
 
 Shortly  after  30th  June,  1561.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  216. 
 p.  283.     Orig,  Draft. 
 
 My  commendations  presupposed  to  your  honour.  "Where 
 ye  sent  unto  me  this  man  Mr  Rush  to  be  considered  for  his 
 ability  and  aptness  to  be  teacher  in  the  grammar  school  at 
 
 [1  The  MS.  is  the  rough  draft  of  the  archbishop's  answer  to 
 Dr  Wotton's  letter  to  him,  dated  the  last  day  of  June,  1561,  solicit- 
 ing that  Mr  Rush  might  be  appointed  to  the  mastership  of  Canterbury 
 school.  It  appears  from  Dr  Wotton's  letter,  on  the  fly-leaf  of  which 
 the  archbishop's  answer  is  written,  that  Mr  Rush,  after  being  edu- 
 cated for  seven  or  eight  years  at  Canterbury  school,  had  been  main- 
 tained by  him  at  Oxford  for  seven  years  more,  and  had  since  been  for 
 seven  or  eight  years  a  fellow  of  Magdalene  College  in  that  University. 
 He  ultimately  became  one  of  the  Queen's  chaplains,  and  a  prebendary 
 of  Canterbury.      Strype's  Parker,  Bk.  iv.  c.  3.] 
 
t  M 
 I'.iiil..  lobt 
 
 l'>(il.]      Alt!  nil.  rvi:Ki:it   lo  Dii  Mt  imi  \s  wotton.  ll.'J 
 
 Canterbury,  I  have  some  tasto  how  meet  ho  Is  hy  lils  letter 
 written  to  me,  the  eopy  whereof   1  do  senil  to  you,   referring 
 the  juilnjment  thereof  to  yourself.      And   if  yo  will   further 
 send  for  Mr  dean  of  Taul's  to  expend  thereby  how  wortliv  h(' t^^'*"''* 
 were  to  bo  commended  for  such  a  room,   I  think  it  would 
 well,  a3  your  honour  and  I  wish  for  our  lioncsties  a  convenient  n;',''',iii' 
 man  in  that  room,  such  a  one  as  mif:;ht  truly  teach  tiic  youth  whHh'r'rho 
 tho  commodity^,   lest   else  it  mi^iit  chance  them   to   unlearn  worthy'of' 
 again  that  hath  been  wrongly  taught  them.      So  would  there  oiiicc. 
 be  good  advisement  in   the  first   admission.      A'ani    turjnus 
 ejicitur  tiurim  non   aihnittitur  hosi)CS.      I  have  granted  him  Tiicarch- 
 my  licence  to  preach,  which  office  I  think  ho  will  competently  fj^lXi'to  * 
 perform.      And   thus   I   commend   you   to   Almighty   God  as  '"''"''''■ 
 mvself. 
 
 CIV. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  THE  SHERIFF  OF  OXFORD 
 AND  BERKS. 
 
 2nd  July,  loGl.     Parker  Reg.  I.  231  b. 
 
 After  my  right  hearty  commendations  premised.      For- 
 asmuch as  within  the  diocese  of  Oxford^  there  is  no  convenient  There boinir 
 
 no  prison  for 
 
 prison  for  such   clerks  convict  as  shall  be  committed  to  the  ^'i"''^uh"n 
 custody  of  the  ordinary,  I  have  thought  good  to  request  your  ofolc'rorT 
 friendship  in   this   behalf,   that  you  will  vouchsafe  to   permit  m^'^^liuo 
 such  prisoners  as  shall  be  charged  withal  within  the  same  fobesafeiy 
 
 ,.  ,  /.11  •  ••1  i-\     fl       1      kci)t  in  hi> 
 
 diocese,  to  be  safely  kept  in  your  common  jail  at  Oxford ;  jail  at  ox- 
 wherein  like  as  you  shall  do  me  a  friendly  turn  so  will  I  be 
 ready  to  requite  the  same  upon   occasion  ministered.     And 
 thus  fare  you  heartily  well.     From  my  manor  of  Croydon 
 the  second  of  July,  1561. 
 
 To  the  ti'OJ'shijiful  Mr  Fahyan, 
 slienff  of  the  county  of  Oxford 
 and  BerkSf  give  these. 
 
 P  This  and  the  preceding  word  have  some  appearance  of  being 
 crossed  out.] 
 
 [3  The  see  of  Oxford  was  vacant  from  1557  to  1567,  and  during 
 that  portion  of  the  period  which  fell  within  the  archiepiscopato  of 
 Parker,  was  administered  bv  him." 
 
 r  1  10 
 
 [P.VRK.  COR.J 
 
14G  ORDER  OF   Q.  ELIZABETH   PROHIBITING,   &C.         [1501. 
 
 cv. 
 
 The  Queen 
 
 considering 
 that  the 
 palaces  and 
 nouses  of 
 cathedra U 
 were  built 
 for  societies 
 of  learned 
 men. 
 
 and  under- 
 standing that 
 of  late 
 various  oc- 
 cupiers there- 
 of being 
 married,  keep 
 private  house- 
 nolds  with 
 their 
 families. 
 
 her  Majesty 
 commandeth 
 that  no  liead 
 or  member 
 of  any  college 
 or  cathedral, 
 shall  have  his 
 wife  to  abide 
 with  him 
 therein, 
 
 on  pain  of 
 forfeiting  all 
 ecclesiastical 
 promotions. 
 
 f)th  August, 
 15G1. 
 
 ORDER  OF  QUEEN  ELIZABETH  PROHIBITING  THE  RESI- 
 DENCE OF  WOMEN  IN  COLLEGES. 
 
 9th  August,  15G1.    Petyt  MS.  No.  47.  fo.  373.     Grig. 
 
 Elizabeth  R. 
 
 The  Queen's  Majesty,  considering  how  the  palaces  and 
 houses  of  cathedral  churches  and  colleges  of  this  realm  have 
 been,  both  of  ancient  and  late  time,  builded  and  enclosed  in 
 severalty  ^  to  sustain  and  keep  societies  of  learned  men  pro- 
 fessing study  and  prayer,  for  the  edification  of  the  Church 
 of  God,  and  so  constantly  to  serve  the  commonweal ;  and 
 understanding  of  late,  that  within  the  houses  thereof,  as  well 
 the  chief  governors  as  the  prebendaries,  students,  and  mem- 
 bers thereof,  being  married,  do  keep  particular  household 
 with  their  wives,  children,  and  nurses;  whereof  no  small 
 offence  groweth  to  the  intent  of  the  founders,  and  to  the 
 quiet  and  orderly  profession  of  study  and  learning  within  the 
 same ;  hath  thought  meet  to  provide  remedy  herein,  lest  by 
 sufferance  thereof,  the  rest  of  the  colleges,  specially  such  as 
 be  so  replenished  with  young  students  as  the  very  rooms  and 
 buildings  be  not  answerable  for  such  families  of  women  and 
 young  children,  should  follow  the  hke  example :  and  there- 
 fore expressly  willeth  and  commandeth,  that  no  manner  of 
 person,  being  either  the  head  or  member  of  any  college  or 
 cathedral  church  within  this  realm,  shall,  from  the  time  of  the 
 notification  hereof  in  the  same  college,  have,  or  be  permitted 
 to  have,  within  the  precinct  of  any  such  college,  his  wife,  or 
 other  woman,  to  abide  and  dwell  in  the  same,  or  to  frequent 
 and  haunt  any  lodging  within  the  same  college,  upon  pain, 
 that  whosoever  shall  do  to  the  contrary  shall  forfeit  all  eccle- 
 siastical promotions  in  any  cathedral  or  collegiate  church 
 within  this  realm.  And  for  continuance  of  this  order,  her 
 Majesty  willeth,  that  the  transcript  hereof  shall  be  written  'in 
 the  book  of  the  statutes  of  every  such  college,  and  shall  be 
 reputed  as  parcel  of  the  statutes  of  the  same.  Given  under 
 our  signet,  at  our  town  of  Ipswich,  the  ninth  of  August,  the 
 third  year  of  our  reign. 
 
 [1  "  Enclosed  in  severalty," — i.  e.  so  enclosed  as  to  be  in  a  state 
 of  complete  separation.] 
 
 I 
 
ir)Gl.]  AliCnU.  rAKKtll   to  sir    WII.I.IAM    Ct(  II..  1  17 
 
 C\  I. 
 
 AUCIIBISHOr   rAKKl.U   TO   SIK  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 llth  August,  [15GL]     S.  1'.  O.  l>i)inestic.     Orig. 
 
 Upon  hearinj:  of  a  Diet  for  conference  of  learned  men  r^rucrhcar- 
 appointed  in  France',  I  wislied   that   Mr  Martyr,  or  Calvin,  J? [^^.J'^'*^ '" 
 or    both,   could  be   procured   tliither;   they   were  as  able  to  iVr^orV-'aKm 
 stand  in  defence  of  a  truth,  assisted  by  liim  whoso  causo  it  is,  cou^,i'bf 
 as  the  adversaries  striving  against  God,  et  adrersus  Christum,  a'uTnT' 
 once  should  have  any  great  cause  to  glory  ;  ista  prima  coitio 
 si  bene  successerit,  vielius  sperandum  de  cetero.      \\q  be 
 careful  to  re-edifv  a  decayed  temple,  which  is  a  good  deed ; 
 if  we  all  were  as  careful  to  help  the  re-edifying  of  so  great 
 a  church  as  Franco  is  to  Christ  again,  beside  tho  commodity 
 which  should  redound  to  that  realm,   it   could  not  but  turn  to 
 our  own  quiet  at  home,   to  have  more  friends  in  conjunction 
 of  religion ;   which  is  of  more  force  to  bind  amity  durable  in 
 men's  hearts,  than  all  extern  worldly  policies  whatsoever.   God  Great  ad vant- 
 
 •/    i  ^  ^  age  lo  hiig- 
 
 grant  that  as  God  sheweth  us  of  his  part  continual  experience  }'^,ei;pread 
 of  his  favour,  we  deserve  not  by  our  continual  indurate  negli-  unl'i?^"^"'" 
 gence  to  be  forsaken.  ^""'*' 
 
 Tlie  examination  of  yonder  lady  of  Lincoln^  is  returned,  Theexamina- 
 whereof  I  think  ye  have  heard.      In  mine  opinion,  but  that  of'{;-ncih!^ 
 honour*  is  marvellously  exalted,  it  were  honourable  to  God  [ir ^''" '*'' 
 
 rncd.     Hut 
 for  her  sta- 
 
 t  were 
 well  she  were 
 
 she  were  chastised  in  Bridewell  for  example,  and  if  my  lord  tlon, 
 hath  given  her  frailty  any  just  occasion  of  forgetting  her  chasS'in 
 duty,  he  were  well  worthy  to  be  thoroughly  chidden,  for  his 
 correction,  of  the  council.  But  yet  now,  thus  ceasing  from  this 
 hot  zeal,  God  preserve  your  affection  still  careful  for  promoting 
 his  word ;  which  your  pain  will  be  once  remembered  in  resur- 
 rectione  justorum.  Which  God  grant  may  be  joyful  to  us 
 all,  though  hero  we  be  in   heaviness  and  affliction,  by  the 
 
 \}  A  conference  between  Roman  Catholics  and  Protestants  was 
 held  at  Poissy  in  August  and  September,  loGL] 
 
 [3  There  was  no  Earl  of  Lincoln  at  this  time.      It  does  not  ap- 
 pear to  what  particular  "  lady  of  Lincoln"  the  passage  alludes.] 
 
 \}  The  original  has  "honor  honor  is,"  &c.] 
 
 10—2 
 
148  ARCIIB.  PAllKE II   TO   SIR    WILLIAM   CECIL.  [1561. 
 
 consideration  of  men's  evil  doings.     At  Lambeth,  this  11th  of 
 August. 
 
 Your  [honour's]  alway  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTII.  CANTUAR. 
 
 I  would  God  the  Apology*  had  been  scattered  in  France 
 before  this  conference  had  begun. 
 
 To  the  Right  Honourable  Sir  Wil- 
 liam Cecil,  Icnight,  principal  sec- 
 retary to  the  Queens  majesty^ 
 at  the  Court. 
 
 CVII. 
 
 SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 12th  August,  1561.     Petyt  MS.  No.  47.  fol.  372.    Orig. 
 
 The  Queen  YouR  Grace  shall  understand,  that  I  have  had  hitherto 
 
 offended  with  i  z-x  ,       ■»  r    •  /» 
 
 the c-iergy^on  a  troublosome  progress,  to  stay  the  Queen  s  Majesty  trom 
 Kaviou'rT/  daily  offence  conceived  against  the  clergy,  by  reason  of  the 
 foufand^"^"  undiscreet  behaviour  of  the  readers  and  ministers  in  these 
 ^^^^'^'  countries  of  Suffolk  and  Essex.  Surely  here  be  many  slender 
 ministers,  and  such  nakedness  of  religion  as  it  overthroweth 
 She  is  very     mv  Credit.     Her  Majesty  continueth  very  evil  affected  to  the 
 
 evil  affected  «/  ,  .      *^  "^  . 
 
 Smatrimon  ^tato  of  matHmouy  in  the  clergy.  And  if  [I]  were  not 
 in  the  clergy,  therein  very  stiff,  her  Majesty  would  utterly  and  openly  con- 
 Forhersatis-  demu  and  forbid  it.     In  the   end,   for  her  satisfaction,  this 
 
 faction,  the  '  ' 
 
 bXre\*^hit-  injunction  now  sent  to  your  Grace  is  devised 2.  The  good 
 has beeS^'  ordcr  thcrcof  shall  do  no  harm.  I  have  devised  to  send  it 
 in  this  sort  to  your  Grace  for  your  province;  and  to  the 
 archbishop  of  York  for  his ;  and  to  the  Chancellors  of  the 
 two  Universities  for  their  charge ;  so  as  it  shall  not  be  pro- 
 mulged  to  be  popular. 
 
 [1  Jewel's  Apology  was  written  in  the  year  15G1,  and  "sent  to 
 Secretary  Cecil  for  his  judgment  and  the  Queen's  approbation." 
 (Strype's  Parker,  Bk.  11.  c.  6.)  It  was  published  in  the  following 
 year.] 
 
 [2   See  No.  CV.,  printed,  p.  14G.] 
 
nut 
 buriic. 
 
 1501.]  MK    WIM.IAM    (  i;rlL    iO    AIJMIU.    rMtKKll.  110 
 
 Tlio  bi->>ho|>  of  Xorulcli^  is  hlamcd  cvon  of  tlic  best  sort  Th«-i)i.(,oi. 
 for  his  remissness  in  ordering  his  elerpy.  He  wiiiketh  at  •''•'"•••>  ^-f 
 schismatics  and  anabaptists,  as  I  am  informed.      Surely  I  sec  v-w., .  ,, 
 
 »  •'  nihil-    >r  I 
 
 <:;reat  variety  in  ministration.      A  surplice  may  not  bo  borne  [[|y,',,„^^ 
 here.      And  the  ministers  follow  the  folly  of  the  people,  call- 
 ing  it  charity   to  feed   their   fond   humour.      Oh,  my  Lord, 
 what  shall  become  of  this  time? 
 
 Tho   Lady   Katharine   (Jrey^   is   known   to  be   bie:  with '-a^iy  K»th». 
 
 •  *'  -^  rinc  Ore y 
 
 child    by    tho   carl   of   Hertford.      Sho   is   committed  to  the  [^X""ji^., 
 Tower,  and  ho  sent  for  home.     Slic  saith  she  is  married. 
 
 I  beseech  your  Grace  deviso  of  somo  meet  master  for  St  ''«'*«" 'o^ 
 
 •  recommend 
 
 John's  College  in  Cambridge*,  and  write  to  mo  therein,  so  as  st'7ohn/"' 
 I  may  shew  vonr  letter  to  the  Queen's  Majesty.  From  Small-  calnbridKe 
 bridge,  12tir  August,  15(>1.  ISj'.''"'"''' 
 
 Your  Grace's  at  commandment, 
 
 W.  CECILL. 
 To  the  archbishop  of  Canterbury's 
 (jood  f/race. 
 
 CVIII. 
 
 QUEEN  ELIZABETH  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 2l»nd  August,  1501.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  7.  p.  21. 
 
 ]>Y  TiiK  Queen. 
 Elizabeth  R. 
 Most  reverend   father  in    God,   right  trusty  and  right 
 well-beloved,  we  greet  you  well.     AVe  hear  that  the  fellows  51/"^!,'°^,^^.^. 
 of  our  College  of  Eton  next  Windsor,  without  our  assent,   or  j;';!;;^^^,^ 
 without  our  pleasure  therein  by  them   sought,  have  chosen  ql^^n-!  '*'* 
 
 s  as- 
 sent. 
 
 [^  Bishop  John  Parkhurst,  l.'GO — 1575.] 
 
 [^  Tho  stolen  marriage  of  Katharine,  sister  of  Lady  Jane  Grey, 
 with  Echvard,  Earl  of  Hertford,  eldest  son  of  tho  Protector  Somerset, 
 is  a  well  known  incident  in  the  reign  of  Elizabeth.  Tho  Earl  was  at 
 this  time  in  France,  but  returned  and  shared  his  wife's  imprisonment 
 in  the  Tower.] 
 
 [5  The  Mastership  was  vacant  by  the  promotion  of  James  Pilking- 
 ton  to  the  see  of  Durham,  ^Larch  15G0-1  :  it  was  given  to  his  brother 
 Leonard  Pilkin'rton.'' 
 
150  QUEEN  ELIZABETH  TO  ARCHB.  PARKER.  [1561. 
 
 onc^  to  be  their  provost,  of  whom  there  is  dispersed  very  evil 
 
 fame.     And   for  that   you   and  others  have  had  heretofore 
 
 commission  to  visit  the  same  College,  as  a  member  of  our 
 
 Parker  is      Collcire  iu  Cambridge 2,  which  yet  continueth  :    Our  pleasure 
 
 eoininission-  O  o      '  •/     ^  ^  i 
 
 to  Eton''^''^  is,  that  you  shall  have  good  consideration  hereof,  and  taking 
 with  you  such  other  our  commissioners  as  speedily  may  be 
 had  for  such  a  purpose,  repair  to  our  said  College  and  visit 
 the  state  of  the  same :  and  to  examine  the  authority  of  this 
 rash  election,  and  to  make  also  a  good  scrutiny  of  the  quality 
 of  this  pretended  provost,  using  the  matter  in  such  sort  as 
 whatsoever  ye  shall  duly  find  in  the  said  pretenced  election 
 
 and  to  use     not  iustifiablo  by  law,  or  by  laudable  usao^e  of  that  house, 
 
 the  matter  in  «'  J  ^  %)  O 
 
 tSwhat-'^^  that  the  same  be  severely  reformed,  and  the  persons  found 
 fuSfiabifin  therein  faulty  committed  to  receive  due  punishment.  The 
 be'Svireiy""  ^^st  of  the  ordcr  of  that  College  we  require  you  to  see  re- 
 duced to  the  best  for  the  honour  of  Almighty  God  and 
 increase  of  learning.  And  of  your  doing  we  require  adver- 
 tisement^  Given  under  our  signet  at  Lea,  the  22  nd 
 of  August,  in  the  third  year  of  our  reign. 
 
 To  our  most  Reverend  father  in  God, 
 our  right  trusty  and  rigid  ivell- 
 beloved,  the  archbishop  of  Canter- 
 bury, primate  of  all  England, 
 
 \}  The  provost  whose  election  was  complained  of  was  Richard 
 Bruerne,  B.D.,  Hebrew  Professor  at  Oxford.  The  election  is  said  to 
 have  been  tumultuous  and  irregular.  The  new  provost  prevented 
 ejection  by  resigning.] 
 
 [2  That  is,  King's  College,  Cambridge.] 
 
 [3  Strypo  has  printed  some  considerable  extracts  from  the  report 
 made  by  Parker  and  his  fellow  commissioners,  bishop  Home  of 
 Winchester,  and  Sir  Anthony  Cook  (Strype's  Parker,  Bk.  n.  c.  7), 
 which  he  professes  to  have  derived  from  the  original  report  in  the 
 "  Paper  Office."  No  such  document  can  now  be  found  in  the  State 
 Paper  Office,  nor  has  it  been  discovered  elsewhere.  There  are  some 
 minutes  of  the  Visitation  preserved,  Parker  MS.  cxiv.  art.  8.  p.  23.] 
 
 I 
 
tttidontK  it  ii 
 vtry  rcaixjii- 
 nblc, 
 
 15C1.]        lusiior  CDX  OF  ki.y  to  auciih.  rAiiKin.  l.*)! 
 
 CIX. 
 
 BISIIOl*  cox  OK  KLY   TO   AUCIIHISlloP   TAKKEK. 
 —  August,  1.^01.     PetYt  MS.  No.  47.  fol.  378.    Oriff.  Draft. 
 
 Salutem  in  Christo.    1  received  of  late  from  your  Grace  nairpwived 
 
 ,.         ^  ,  the  or.l.r  for 
 
 bv  my  lord  of  Loiulon,  a  copy  of  an  edict  from   the  ()iicen*s  p^"""''  *'*« 
 
 •     _     •'  _  '  W  ^        ^  ^  not  til  riin«ln 
 
 Majesty  concerning  priests*  wives  not  to  remain  in  colleges  or  i.'^j'ji;!,','^^;'!; °' 
 cathedral  churches.      Truly   methlnkcth  it  very  reasonable,  For  place  oi 
 that  places  of  students  should  bo  in  all  quietness  among  them- 
 selves,  and   not   troubled   with   any  families  of  women  and 
 babes.      lUit,  when  I  consider,  on  the  other  part,  concerning 
 cathedral  churches,  I  mused  upon  what  fjjround  or  information  imt  forcathc- 
 
 '  ,  ^  *-'   ,      ,  drals  it  is  not 
 
 that  should  be  so  ordained,  forasmuch  as  it  is  not  needful,  but  "tt'ifui.  but 
 
 '  '  very  nu^er- 
 
 at  this  present  very  miserable,  and  sounding  contrary  to  the  '''^''^■• 
 ordinance  of  the  Holy  Ghost  in  the  scriptures  of  God.      In 
 cathedral   churches  ye  know  the  dean  and  prebendaries  have 
 largo  and  several  houses,  one  distant  from  another,  and  if 
 their  wives  be  driven  out,  I  suppose  ye  shall  seldom  find  in  Deans  and 
 most    of    the    churches   either   dean   or   prebendary   resient  «>" "« 'on- 
 
 ^  ,  .  ,  R*-'^  reside  in 
 
 there.     It  is  also  miserable,  for  that  in  some  churches  there  V''^'/ '^^'^'^ 
 
 .  .     .  drals. 
 
 is  not  past  one  or  two  there  dwelling,  and  have  small  living 
 beside  their  prebend.      Now  if  their  families  be  hurled  out 
 suddenly,  it  seemeth  a  poor  reward  for  their  preaching  and 
 godly  travail  hitherto.     There  is  but  one  prebendary  conti-  oniy  one 
 nually  dwellino:  with  his   family   in  Ely   church.      Turn  him  continually 
 
 •/  O  t/  «/  ^  residing  with 
 
 out,  doves  and  owls  may  dwell  there  for  any  continual  house-  Ji*/[i";j[^'.'" 
 keeping.      It  is  miserable  that  the  poor  man's  family  should  n^irabie'' 
 be  turned  out ;  and  miserable  that  such  a  number  of  houses  shoLuTbe 
 should   be  left  desolate.      God   mercifully   provided  for    his  HpLTided 
 clergy  among  his  people  in   ^loses's  time ;  neither  married  mTdcrVh"*''^ 
 bishop,  priest,  nor  Lcvitc,  was  unprovided  for  living  and  house,  they  were"^** 
 Ye  will  sav,  that  time  was  Jewish.     Nav,  God  saw  that  such 
 marriage  was  natural,  and  as  St  Paul  saith,  honourable,  and  Marriarc  in- 
 to forbid  or  deface  marriage  is  the  doctrine  of  devils.      And  st  Paui. 
 therefore  the  Holy   Ghost  gave  a  general  rule  to  deacons, 
 priests,  and  bishops,  that  they  should  be  the  husbands  of  one 
 wife,  keeping  hospitality,  bringing  up  their  family  virtuously ; 
 wherebv    thev    mi^ht   be    counted    worthier   for    an    hij^jher 
 government  in  Christ's  Church.     Albeit  of  late  years,  fond 
 
152  BISHOP   cox   OF   ELY   TO  AKCIIB.  PARKER.  [loGl. 
 
 Blind  devo-    and  blind  devotion  In  the  Latin  Church  hath  marvellouslv 
 
 tion  m  the  _  ^  •' 
 
 hL""rStcd  pel' verted   this  godly  ordinance,  with  forbidding  that  which 
 oriiinanci.     ^^^d  madc  frcc,  and  with  separating  of  them  whom  God  hath 
 joined. 
 
 Mcthink,    I   can   neither  doubt  nor  distrust,   but  if  the 
 He  cannot     Quecn's   tcndcr,   merciful,   and  zealous  heart  towards  God's 
 
 douln  that  if      *•  '  ' 
 
 wer^m'^ved,  truth  wcrc  humblj  and  gently  moved  in  this  case,  she  would 
 aUowThe'  bear  with  my  poor  man,  and  some  others  this  winter :  and  I 
 t^J'this''"  ^*  trust  would  hereafter  suffer  two,  three,  or  four,  to  remain  in 
 suffer  t'wo,     sucli   vast    Cathedral   churches,    as  have    rooms    plenty    and 
 
 three,  or  four,  ...  ,..  ,  "it 
 
 to  remain  in  sevcral.      \N  hat  reioicmof  and  leerino^  the  adversaries  make  ! 
 
 such  cathe-  .     .  . 
 
 ?(Sm^*^^'^  IIow  the  godly  ministers  are  discouraged,  I  will  pass  over, 
 and  so  leave  you.      Dominus  Jesus,  &c. 
 
 ex. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  GRIXDAL  OF  LONDON. 
 
 1st  September,  16G1.     State  Paper  Office,  Dom.  Eliz.  Vol.  xix.  No.  41.     Copy 
 
 or  draft. 
 
 After  my  right  hearty  commendations  unto  your  good 
 Lordship.  Albeit  of  late  receiving  the  Queen's  Majesty's 
 letters  touchino^  contribution  and  relief  toward  the  re-edifvinc: 
 of  the  cathedral  church  of  St  Paul,  to  be  levied  and  gathered 
 of  the  clergy  of  my  province,  I,  for  the  better  accomplish- 
 ment of  her  Majesty's  pleasure  in  that  behalf  sent  my  letters 
 unto  your  Lordship ^  and  required  you  that  upon  conference 
 with  the  clergy  of  your  diocese  of  London,  ye  should  resolve 
 yourselves  upon  some  reasonable  contribution  to  be  paid  and 
 conferred  by  them  towards  the  re-edifying  of  the  same  church, 
 The  former  and  did  y ou  to  understand  what  rate  I  thought  were  best ;  yet, 
 ins  contribu.  forasmuch  as  in  the  proportion  of  the  same  rate,  respect  seem- 
 
 tiontothe  ,t  /.  •  i 
 
 rcbuiidin^^  of  eth  rather   had   to   other   dioceses  of  mv   provmce  than  to 
 
 St  P.-iul  s  IS  f      r 
 
 ofheSSecses  J^urs,  whcrcas  of  congruence  and  reason  your  clergy,  above 
 SdilJf.Vhc  others,  ought  to  shew  their  benevolences  in  contributing  to 
 Skh  ought  the  re-edifying  thereof,  it  being  their  cathedral  and  head 
 moVehber"'^  church ;  I  havo  therefore,  upon  due  consideration  thereof, 
 otHers.         thought  it  mcct  that  all  beneficed  men  within  your  diocese  of 
 
 [1   See  before,  Letter  GIL  p.  143.] 
 
I.-Jtil.]   AUfllll.  rAUklill    TO    UIMlol'   ».i;lM>AI.   (»1     I.(>NI)t)N.      153 
 
 Loiulon  beinu;  not  in  firstfruits,  of  what  value  soever  the'r 
 beneticos  anil  spiritual  livings  bo,  shall  pay  and  contribute  the 
 JOlh  part  of  their  several  proniutions,  and  they  which  be  ytt  ~  ' 
 
 in  firstfruils,  the  oOth  part  of  their  spiritual  livings,  according ,^ 
 
 to  the  rate  and  value  taxed  in  the  Queen's  Majesty's  books.  lMi.«t!X' 
 And  fi)r  curates  and  stipomliarics,  because  it  is  meet  that  every  lmi",h!ii' 
 man   which  hath  anv   living  bv  the  church,    in    your  diocese  rr.ni,  the 
 especially,  should  according  to  his  ability  contribute  in  this  their  .|.intu«i 
 behalf,  I  think  the  least  rate   that  can   be  accepted  at  their  J|'.'^''" 
 hands  is  2cV.  Gil.  of  every  of  thcin  ;   tjio  payment  whereof,  as  [.'J/^^;^.^^,, 
 it  cannot  much  burthen  them,  being  so  small  a  sum,  so  it 
 shall  declare  their  good  wills  amongst  the  rest,  to  the  further- 
 ance of  such  a  commendable  work.     Thus  praying  your  Lord- 
 ship with  all  convenient  speed  to  put  this  in  execution ^  I  bid 
 you  most  heartily  well  to  fare.    From  my  manor  at  Lambeth, 
 the  tirst  day  of  September,  15(3L 
 
 Your  loving  brother, 
 
 MATTHEW  CAXTUARIEX. 
 
 CXI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP   PARKER  TO  ARCHDEACONS  AND  OTHER 
 ECCLESLVSTICAL  0FFICERS3. 
 
 1st  October,  15C1.    Tarker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxxii.  art.  7.  p.  3.     Copy. 
 
 After   my  hearty    commendations.      These  shall   be   to 
 desire  and  require  you,  for  certain  urgent  considerations  to 
 
 ['^  The  bishop  of  London  communicated  the  contents  of  this  letter 
 to  "  tho  dean  of  Paules,"  in  a  letter  dated  tlic  Gth  September,  a  copy 
 of  which  is  contained  in  the  same  MS.  whenco  we  have  derived  tho 
 archbishop's  letter.  The  bishop's  letter  to  the  dean  had  reference 
 only  to  tho  "peculiar  and  exempted  churches"  within  the  dean's 
 jurisdiction.  Other  letters  were,  no  doubt,  written  to  make  tho 
 Queen's  "pleasm^e,"  and  the  archbishop's  "advice  and  command- 
 ment," known  to  the  rest  of  the  clergy.] 
 
 [3  Strype  speaks  of  this  as  a  letter  to  the  archdeacons.  There 
 is  nothing  however  in  the  MS.  to  shew  to  whom  it  was  addressed,  and 
 the  blank  which  has  never  been  filled  up  in  the  original  makes  it 
 probable  that  it  was  a  form,   copies   of  which  were  to  be  sent   to 
 
154  ARC'HB.  PARKER  TO  ARCHDEACONS,   &C.  [loGl, 
 
 certify  mc,  so  speedily  as  you  may,  of  all  and  singular  par- 
 sons, vicars,  and  curates  within  your  ,  and  how  many 
 of  them  be  resident;  and  where  the  absent  do  dwell  and 
 remain ;  how  many  of  them  be  neither  priests  nor  deacons, 
 noting  the  names  of  all  such  as  be  learned  and  able  to  preach ; 
 wliether  married  or  unmarried ;  of  what  degree ;  and  which 
 of  them  (being  already  licensed  to  preach)  do  preach  accord- 
 ingly; and  finally,  how  many  of  them  do  commonly  keep 
 hospitality:  and  that  your  certificate  in  that  behalf  be  con- 
 ceived and  made  according  to  the  form  herein  inclosed.  And 
 thus  trusting  of  your  dihgence  herein,  I  wish  you  well  to  fare. 
 From  my  manor  of  Lambeth,  the  1st  of  October,  A°.  1561. 
 
 Your  loving  friend, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 CXII. 
 
 THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 24111  October,  15G1.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C,  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  20.  p.  GO.     Grig. 
 
 SSh?^^         After   our   most  hearty  commendations   to   your  good 
 thathlmay   lo^'clship.     Wc  scud  uuto  you  by  the  bearer  hereof,  William 
 ^or^cSf  I^ise,  who  having  been  committed  to  the  Tower  for  the  breach 
 suprera^y?    of  the  Quccn's  Majcsty's  laws,  and  disturbing  of  the  state 
 divers  ways,  seemeth  now  unto  us  very  humble  in  all  respects, 
 saving  in  the  recognising  of  the  Queen's  Majesty's  superiority 
 by  oath,  according  to  the  laws  of  the  realm ;  and  yet  therein 
 seemeth  not  unwilling  to  be  instructed  by  some  learned  man ; 
 and  because  we  would  be  glad  he  might  be  reduced  to  order 
 therein,  we  have  thought  meet  to  pray  your  lordship  to  let 
 him  remain  in  your  house  between  this  and  the  20th  of  No- 
 vember next,  and  to  take  some  pains  with  him,  as  your  com- 
 modity and  leisure  will  serve,  in  procuring  to  instruct  liim  and 
 bring  him  to  conformity  by  your  good  counsel  and  teaching. 
 
 various  official  persons,  the  space  left  being  filled  in  with  the  word 
 diocese,  deanery,  archdeaconry  or  the  like  as  the  case  might  be. 
 See  Strype's  Parker,  Bk.  ii.  c.  5.      See  also  above,  Letter  XCI.] 
 
1  '>(;i.J       Tin:  LOKDS  OF  TIIK  COUNCIL  TO  ARCilU.  rAUKEU.     l/)5 
 
 And  ot*  that  you  sliall  lliul  to  tolluw  of  your  travel  herein  wc  Jfl^',*",*;, 
 pray  you  wo  may  ho  ailvortiscd  hy  tlio  said  tinio  or  before,  jfj;',.";'!!!! 
 to  the  intent  that  upon  knowlcdcjo  tlicrcof  wo  may  cause  puch  „Vi"rruiihe 
 further  order  to  ho  taken  with  liim  as  shall  ho  convenient*.  tiari-.uiL 
 And  so  wo  bid  your  lordship  heartily   farewell.      From   St 
 Jameses,  the  21th  of  October,  loOl. 
 
 Your  good  lordship's  most  assured  loving  friends, 
 
 N.  BACON,  C.  S.      WINCIIESTKU.      W.  NOUTIIT. 
 E.  CLYNTON.  \V.  IIOWAlll). 
 
 AV.  CECILL. 
 AB.  CAVK. 
 WILLM.  PETRI:,  S.       JOHN  MASONE. 
 
 To  oiir   vfrif  good   lord   ihc  arch- 
 bishop of  Canterbury. 
 
 CXIII. 
 
 THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 14th  December,  15G1.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Carab.  cxiv.  art.  18.  p.  Go.     Orig. 
 
 After  our  most  hearty   commendations   to   your   good 
 lordship.     L^nderstanding  from  you  that  William  Rise  here-  Wiiiiam  Rise 
 tofore  committed  to  vour   custody  is  not  yet  persuaded  tobeenper- 
 
 " .  «'  •/  1  ^  suadcd  to 
 
 receive  the  oath  appointed  by  statute  for  the  acknowledging  ^^e'cwn^'s'* 
 of  the  Queen's  Majesty's  authority :  we  have  resolved  that  he  '"PbeTeturn' 
 shall  be  returned  to  the  Tower,  for  which  purpose  we  have  T!)weJl"' 
 
 [1  On  the  fly-leaf  of  this  letter  is  the  following  acknowledgment 
 apparently  in  the  archbishop's  handwriting : 
 
 Ho  acknowledgcth  Queen  Elizabeth,  under  God,  to  have  tho  sove- 
 reignty and  rule  over  all  manner  persons  born  within  her  realms, 
 dominions,  and  countries,  of  what  estate,  either  ecclesiastical  or  tem- 
 poral, soever  they  be;  so  that  no  other  foreign  power  shall  or  ought 
 to  have  any  superiority  over  the  said  persons  spiritual  or  temporal. 
 
 WILLM.  RICE. 
 Strypc  asserts  upon  the  authority  of  this  acknowledgment  that  tho 
 archbishop  succeeded  in  bringing  Rise  to  conformity,  but  he  takes  no 
 notice  of  the  second  letter  from  the  Council  to  the  archbishop,  tho 
 next  in  the  present  collection.  Perhaps  that  letter  with  its  order  for 
 his  committal  to  the  Tower  induced  Rico  to  make  the  above  acknow- 
 ledgment.     See  Strype's  Parker,  Bk.  ii.  c.  9.] 
 
156       THE  LORDS  OF  THE   COUNCIL  TO  ARCHB.  PARKER.     [1561. 
 
 'v>Tltten  the  letter  inclosed  to  the  lieutenant,  praying  your 
 lordship  to  send  the  same  together  with  the  body  of  the  said 
 Kise  unto  him,  of  whose  further  custody  your  lordship  is  for 
 this  time  discharged.  And  thus  we  bid  your  good  lordship 
 most  heartily  farewell.  From  Westminster,  the  14th  of  De- 
 cember, 1561. 
 
 Your  good  lordship''s  most  assured  loving  frieuds, 
 
 N.  BACON,  C.  S. 
 PENBROKE. 
 G.  ROGERS. 
 AB.  CAVE. 
 
 To   our  very  good  lord  the  arch- 
 hisliop  of  Canterhury. 
 
 E.  CLYNTON. 
 W.  CECILL. 
 
 CXIV. 
 
 Parker  la- 
 ments to 
 Serceive  the 
 ueen's 
 feeling  to- 
 wards the 
 clergy. 
 
 Was  in  a 
 horror  at 
 words  she 
 spake  con- 
 cerning God 
 holy  ordi- 
 nance of 
 matrimony. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 loGl.    Petyt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  47.  fol.  374.    Parker's  Grig.  Draft. 
 
 Sir,  Yesterday,  attending  upon  the  Queen's  Majesty  to 
 know  if  her  Highness  had  any  especial  matter  to  appoint  me, 
 I  perceived  her  affection  to  be  such  toward  the  state  of  her 
 clergy  that  I  can  but  lament  to  see  the  adversary  so  to  pre- 
 vail, who  either  envieth  the  quiet  government  of  her  time, 
 which  is  now  at  a  good  point,  with  some  labour  and  diligence 
 of  our  parties,  or  else,  who,  under  colours  of  dissimulations, 
 labour  to  undermine  the  state  of  religion,  and  to  intervert,  or 
 rather  subvert,  the  Gospel  of  Christ  and  the  liberty  of  his 
 holy  word.  "Whose  devices  I  doubt  not  but  he  qui  habitat 
 in  coelis  deridebit  et  subsannabit  in  tempore.  Nam  Deus 
 est  qui  custodit  veritatem  in  seculum  seculi. 
 
 I  was  in  an  horror  to  hear  such  words  to  come  from  her 
 mild  nature  and  christianly  learned  conscience,  as  she  spake 
 concerning  God's  holy  ordinance  and  institution  of  matrimony. 
 's  I  marvelled  that  our  states  in  that  behalf  cannot  please  her 
 Highness,  which  we  doubt  nothing  at  all  to  please  God's 
 sacred  Majesty,  and  trust  to  stand  before  God's  judgment 
 seat  in  a  good  conscience  therewith,  for  all  the  glorious  shine 
 
loGl.]  AKCHn.   PAllKKIl   TO  SIU    WIM.IAM   <  IM  II..  1  .'T 
 
 of  counterfeited  cluistity.  And  it  is  a  wonder  to  nio  that  her 
 lliglmess  is  so  incensed  by  our  adversaries,  that  all  tho  world 
 must  understand  her  displeasure  atjainst  us.  A\' hereby  our 
 credits  bo  little,  our  doings  ((iod's  service  and  hers)  shall 
 take  less  etTect  among  her  subjects,  to  her  own  dis([uiet  of 
 crovernnicnt.  I  never  heard  or  read,  but  that  all  manner  rrincr»di.i 
 princes,  as  well  Christian  as  profane,  did  evermore  cherish  j^^l^I'JJJ^/, 
 their  ecclesiastical  state,  as  conservators  of  religion,  by  the  *'*^*^'- 
 which  the  people  bo  most  strongly  knit  together  in  amity, 
 their  hearts  stayed  and  won  to  (Jod,  their  obedience  holdcn 
 under  their  governors,  and  wo  alono  of  our  time  openly 
 brought  in  hatred,  shamed  and  traduced  before  the  malicious 
 and  ignorant  people,  as  beasts  without  knowledge  to  God- 
 ward,  in  using  this  liberty  of  his  word,  as  men  of  cftVenato 
 intemperancy,  without  discretion  or  any  godly  disposition 
 worthy  to  serve  in  our  state.      Insomuch  that  the  Queen's  thc  Queen 
 
 XT'     ^  ^  1  ex^lr^s^eda 
 
 Highness    expressed    to    me    a    repentance    that    we    were  [{;»|^'"};\"'* 
 thus   appointed    in    office,    wishing    it   had   been   otherwise.  |J,^[f >,^'^J^'^* 
 Which  inclination  being  known    at  large  to   Queen   Mary's  S'^J.^''^^ 
 clergy,  they  laugh  prettily  to  see  how  the  clergy  of  our  time  S«!^* '" 
 is  handled,   and   what  equity  of  laws  be  ministered  to  our 
 sort.      But  by  patience  and  silence  we  pass   over,  &;c.   and 
 leave  all  to  God.      In  the  mean  time  wo  have  cause  all  to  be 
 utterly  discomforted  and  discouraged. 
 
 Her  Majesty  moreover  talked  of  other  manner  Injunctions 
 that  shall  hereafter  follow.      I  trust  God  shall  stay  her  heart,  she  talked 
 as  his  ffrace  hath  moved  her  to  begin  godly  this  good  work  injunction* 
 
 O  O         O         «/  o  th.it  were 
 
 (which  we  take  to  be  God's,  and  not  hiijiis  seculi)  and  so  to^°f'*"°'^- 
 proceed,  and  so  to  finish.  I  doubt  nothing,  though  these 
 cestus  hmnani,  conceived  upon  untrue  reports,  break  some- 
 time from  her,  that  her  Majesty  will  well  advise  her  doings, 
 and  will  use  Theodosius'  days  of  deliberation  in  sentence- 
 giving,  in  matters  of  such  importance.  I  would  be  sorry  that 
 the  clergy  should  have  cause  to  shew  disobedience,  with 
 oportet  Deo  ohedire  mar/is  qiiam  hominibus.  And  what  T^e  cicrgy 
 instillers  soever  there  be,  there  be  enough  of  this  contemned  shrink  from 
 
 '  O  defending 
 
 flock,  which  will  not  shrink  to  offer  their  blood  to  the  defence  f^^ruy.* 
 of  Christ's  verity,  if  it  be  either  openly  impugned,  or  secretly 
 suggilled^ 
 
 Alas,  what  policy  is  this?     To  drive  out  hospitality  in 
 [}  Defamed.     See  p.  11,  n.  l.J 
 
158  ARCHB.    PARKKR   TO  Sill   WILLIAM   CECIL.  [15G1. 
 
 cathedral  churches,  to  drive  out  preachers  in  the  head  cities  ; 
 Impolicy  and  which  bciiio:  wcU  instructcd,  the  rest  of  the  country  is  better 
 
 Jianlslup  of  ^  *  .  •'  ^ 
 
 ti.eexciu-      ruled  in  obedience.      And  to  tarry  in  cathedral  churches  with 
 
 sion  of  the  «/ 
 
 riij'rKy'fmnf  ^^^^  <^P^^  ^^^  rcbukcful  scparatious,  what  modest  nature  can 
 iimises.^'^'^'''*  abide  it,  or  tarry  where  they  be  discredited  ?  Horsekeepers* 
 wives,  porters',  pantlers**,  and  butlers'  wives,  may  have  their 
 cradles  going,  and  honest  learned  men  cxpulsed  with  open 
 note,  who  only  keep  the  hospitality,  who  only  be  students 
 and  preachers,  who  only  be  unfeigned  orators,  in  open  prayers, 
 for  the  Queen's  Majesty's  prosperity  and  continuance ;  where 
 others  say  their  back  pater-nosters  for  her  in  corners.  The 
 extern  discipline  of  this  injunction  might  have  been^  so 
 ordered,  that  both  abuses  might  have  been  reformed  or  pre- 
 vented, and  yet  our  estimation  preserved  for  our  office  sake ; 
 Parker  re-     whlch,  for  my  part,  I  would  I  had  never  entered,  and  may 
 
 pents  having  i»tiii  i  itm 
 
 accepted  his  rue  the  time  to  be  the  head,  to  whom  resorteth  daily  and 
 
 office.  .  '  .  •^       . 
 
 hourly  such  complaints  as  I  send  you  herewith^,  some  copies 
 
 having  of  this  argument,  divers  others.     I  have  neither  joy 
 
 He  has  no     of  housc,  land,  or  name,  so  abased  by  my  natural  sovereign 
 
 iand°  or"""' '  orood  lady  I  foF  whosB  scrvice  and  honour  I  would  not  think 
 
 name.  r  . 
 
 it  cost  to  spend  my  life ;  to  the  contentation  of  whose  desire 
 and  commandment  I  have  earnestly  travailed,  or  else  some 
 things  might  peradventure  have  been  worse.  And  where  I 
 have,  for  the  execution  of  her  laws  and  orders,  purchased  the 
 Hehisac-     hatred   of  the  adversaries,    and   also,   for   moderating  some 
 
 quired  tlie  ^,  •!•/*»  i  i  i  ipt 
 
 hatred  of  the  thiu^s  indiTierent,  have  procured  to  have  the  loul  reports  of 
 
 adversaries,  ^  *       ,  .  ^ 
 
 and  foul       some  Protestants,  yet  all  things  thus  borne  never  discomforted 
 
 reports  of  . 
 
 s!iKi?*'™®»  so  I  might  please  God  and  serve  her  Highness.     But 
 SeaS'the  ycstcrday's  talk,    with   such  earnest  forcing   that   progress- 
 hunting  Injunction  made  upon  the  clergy  with  conference  of 
 no  ecclesiastical  person,   have  driven  me  under  the  hatches, 
 and  dulled  me  in  all  other  causes,  mourning  only  to  God  in 
 He  prays       amaritucUne  animce  mece,  ut  dicam  cum  Sara,  ''  Peto,  Do- 
 
 God  to  take  '  '  ' 
 
 the'woJid.^    wii?ie,  lit  de  vinculo  improperii  hvjus  ahsolvas  me,  aut  certe 
 
 desuper  terram  eripias  me^  ". 
 St  Jerome's  St  Hicromo's  rhctoric   recourseth   to   my  mind,   writinc^ 
 
 opinion  in  .  ,  */  '  a 
 
 favour  of  the  ^d  Occaiium  lu  a  causc  not  unlike:  ''  Nonne  leqisti  ah  apo- 
 
 marriiige  of  %/  j. 
 
 the  clergy. 
 
 [1  'n)e,"  inorig.] 
 
 p  Whose  letter  or  complaint  was  enclosed  does  not  appear.     It 
 may  have  been  that  from  the  bishop  of  Ely,  printed  before,  No.  CIX.J 
 [3  Tobit  iii.  13.] 
 
 some 
 
 ant 
 
 endeavour 
 
 to 
 
 Queen 
 
lofil.]  AlUIIll.    PAUKHK   TO   Sill    WIl.I.IAM    1  K(  11..  159 
 
 stolo,  unittjt  luroriit  rinim  assumi  in  sdcerdotium,  ct  rem  nan 
 
 tempora  lif/iniri  ?  ^^c Qui  sunt  fidei  candidati,  ne  tixorcji 
 
 diicantt  ne  hone.'ftii  juiujant  matrimonia,  sed  de  rcpnblica 
 JUatonis  protniscuas  tLvon\^,  communes  libci'OS  habeant, 
 immo  caveant  qualecumque  vocabtdum  conjugis,  ne  postquam 
 in  Christo  credidcrint,  noccat  eis  quod  a/iquando,  non  con- 
 cubinaSf  nee  mentrices,  sed  ujrores  Uabeant. , , . Scrijdum  est, 
 inquit,  **  Beatus  vir  cui  non  imputavit  IJominus  peccatum,*' 
 arbitror  quod  possumtis  et  nos  huic  cantico  aliquid  adjun- 
 gere:  beatus  vir  cui  non  imputabit  Dominium  vjrornn...Nuni 
 ignorabat  apostolus  tenjiversationes  nostras?  Qui  dixit 
 **unius  u.roris  virum,'*  ipse  mandavit  irreprehensibileui,sobri- 
 nni,prndentem,  ornatum,  hospitalern,  doctoi'on,  modesttimj  ^c. 
 Ad  ha^c  omnia  claudimus  oculos,  solas  videmus  iixores^," 
 Et  August inus,  "  Quod  a  Domino  benedictum  est,  cur  soi''f!,{\^J^,ll^^ 
 didum  et  contaminatum  opus  a  quibusdam  asseritur,  nisi^^*'''^ 
 quia  tpsi  Deo  maiius  quodammodo  infertur  ?,,.Quando  enim 
 displicet  opus,  rcprelienditur  auctor..,,Deus  dicitur  loqui 
 et  dubitas ?  Deus  benedixit  et  reprobas  ?...Quis  audet  Del 
 inventum  reprobare,  et  quod  nunquam  alicui  obfuit  nisi 
 adversario  veritatis,  ^-c — Qua  ergo  ratione  accusatur  quod 
 minime  obesse  probatur  ?...Et  ut  aliquid  de  apostolis  dica- 
 tur,  quod  ad  robur  pertinet  causce,  certe  S.  Johannes  cas- 
 timonicB  fuit  cuMos,  condiscipxdus  autem  ejus,  id  est  Sa7iC' 
 tus  Petrus,  vxorem  habuisse  cognoscitur,  et  primatum  vt 
 acciperet  inter  apostolos  non  ei  obstitit  generatio  filiorum  ? 
 Quomodo  ergo  condemnandum  putatur  quod  non  impedit 
 merita,  ^c.^  F" 
 
 Et  Chrysostomus^,  "  Oportet  episcopum  unius  uxoris,  ei^'^tom 
 Sf-c.  Cur  7ion  dLvit  oportet  episcopum  angelum  esse,  nullm 
 humance  infirmitati  vitiove  subjectum  ?  Quia  perpaucos 
 liujusmodi  inveniri  fas  ei'at,  episcopis  autem  ^;Zi(ri?rtw 
 opus  fuit,  qui  per  singulas  civitates  magistri  astituerentur. 
 Sed  Paulus  alibi  dicit,  volo  omnes  esse  sicuti  et  meipsum, 
 id  est,  continentioi,  scilicet,   ratione.      Igitur,  ?ie  in   angus- 
 
 [^  Hieronymi  Opera,  Epist.  ad  Oceanum,  i.  411 — 424.  edit.  Val- 
 lars.  Yen.  1766—1771.] 
 
 p  Lib.  Qurcstion.  Vet.  et  Xovi  Test.  Augustini  Opera,  xvi.  pp. 
 56S— 576.  cd.  Bassani,  1797.] 
 
 y  In  1  Epist.  ad  Timoth.  cap.  3.  Horn.  x.  Opera,  Basil,  1547. 
 Tom.  V.  pp.  1480,  1481.] 
 
IGO 
 
 ARCIIB.    PARKER   TO   SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL. 
 
 [1561. 
 
 The  clerpy 
 fitablished  by 
 God's  word 
 and  their 
 own  con- 
 sciences will 
 bear  the  re- 
 proach of 
 Christ. 
 
 turn  nimis  earn  concluderet  rem,  si  exactissimam  virtutem 
 eocpetisset,  idcirco  moderatiore  admonitione  maluit  uti,  ne 
 ex  desperatione  perfectce  illius  inveniendce  virtutis  ecclesice 
 sine  episcopis  essent,  4^c." 
 
 To  conclude  infinite  such  places  with  St  Hierome,  Non 
 sunt  tanti  virgines,  quanti  necessarii  sunt  sacerdotes^,  whose 
 affections  with  the  honesty  of  the  cause  allowed  in  God's 
 word,  shall  stablish  my  conscience  with  others,  ut  portemus 
 prohrum  Christi  cum  gaudio,  respticientes  in  authorem  et 
 consummatorem  Jesum,  qui  j^foposito  sibi  gaudio  sustinuit 
 crucem,  confusione  contempta. 
 
 cxv. 
 
 Fox  has 
 lately  found 
 in  the  register 
 of  the  bishop 
 of  London, 
 that  a  certi- 
 fied copy  of 
 the  cele- 
 brated dispu- 
 tation of 
 Cranmer, 
 Ridley,  and 
 Latimer  at 
 Oxford,  was 
 exhibited  in 
 the  convoca- 
 tion house, 
 10  Mariae. 
 
 JOHN  FOX  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  AND  BISHOP 
 GRINDAL  OF  LONDON. 
 
 1561 2.    Additional  MS.  Brit.  Mus.  19,400.  art.  50.    Orig. 
 
 Reverendissimo  domino  Matthgeo  Archiepiscopo  Cantu- 
 ariensi,  et  Domino  Edmundo  Episcopo  Londinensi. 
 
 Reverendissimi  in  Domino  antistites,  salutem.  Reperi 
 nuper  in  registro  ecclesice  Londinensis,  illustrem  disputationem 
 illam  D.  Cranmeri,  D.  Ridlei  et  D.  Latimeri  cum  theologis 
 Oxoniensibus,  sub  sigillo  ejus  universitatis  et  subscriptione  no- 
 tariorum  per  Hugonem  ^Vestonum  et  quosdam  jurisconsultos 
 exhibitam  esse  in  aede  convocationis,  quas  primo  Marine  anno, 
 sub  Bonero  episcopo,  celebrata  est.  Continebantur  pra3terea 
 sub  eodera  sigillo  et  alia  nescio  quae  scripta,  non  indigna  for- 
 tassis  cognitione,  si  quo  modo  comparari  possent.  Nos  hacte- 
 nus  in  iis  pervestigandis  fancti  diligentia  nostra  sumus :  ea 
 quum  nil  profecit,  opus  est  auctoritate  vestra.      Compellatus 
 
 [1  Hieronymi  Opera,  n.  291,  edit.  Vallars.  Venet.  1766 — 1771.] 
 [2  The  first  English  edition  of  the  Martyrology  was  published  in 
 1662.  This  letter  having  been  written,  as  we  may  judge  from  the 
 place  whence  it  is  dated,  whilst  some  portion  of  that  work  was  passing 
 through  the  press,  has  been  assigned  to  the  year  preceding.  The  copy 
 of  the  Disputation  to  which  this  letter  refers,  was  probably  found  and 
 used  by  Fox.      The  very  same  copy  is  now  Harleian  MS.  3642.] 
 
1'>G1.]   J.  FOX   'n>   AKl  lin.    rAllKKIt    am*    lUSIIOP   (JUINDAI..        I'll 
 
 super  ca  re  D.  Inccntus  ju'liiarius   rcspundit,   vcl  in  m-'inibus //^',J^[j;|'/ 
 Hunori  hrorero  ejus  disputntionis  acta,  vcl    ponos  rovcrcndis-  uX\^li^*^ 
 siimiin    (.lomimiin     iirchiepiscopum     Cantimricnscm    custodlri :  i;."„',',',"i',f,,i,., 
 prorsu3  scse   liabero  nogat.      Atijuo  sic  hiibct  liujus  (|uidciii  imV'i.ui'i.,,. 
 iiegotii  suniina.      (^>uod  supcrcst,  fiiciot  sublimitas  vcstra,  ca  bury, 
 in  ro  quod  videbitur,   sivo  ansain  banc  a  nio  prjfbitain  vobis  Thc«rch. 
 arripicndiim,   sivo  nogligendam  jmtius   cxistiinctis.      Mca    sic  ?/7a!luu!at» 
 quidem  fort  scntcntia,   lit  vix  aliud  esse  putcm,  in  quo  rcvc-  llJjj'n.'In/ 
 ronda  vostra  cclsitudo   vol  pia^  ilh>rum  niomoria'  ])his  tribucro,  wm,'ilu,r'' 
 vcl   publicis   studiis   inipcnsius   jrratiticari,    maixisvo    bonoruin  .".'iM-tcTthc 
 voluntati  satistaccrc  potent,  quaui  si  cura  ct  auctontato  vcstra,  tt...M?ino8t 
 
 luce  qiia^  a  doctissimis  illis  cpiscopis  disputata  gcstaqtio  sint  bi^h..)... 
 0  iatcbris  alicpiando  vindicari  posteritatiqiio  conscrvari  (jucant. 
 Opto  pra\stantcm  rcvcrcntiam  vcstram  diu  in  Cbristo  Horcro 
 (piam  fclicissiine.  E  pistrino  nostro  typograpbico.  Vcstra) 
 cclsitudinis  in  Cbristo  obscrvantissimus, 
 
 JOAN.  FOXUS. 
 
 Iiererendissimo  D.  Matthcco,  arcJiie- 
 2)iscopo  Cnntuarii  nsi,  et  D.  Ed- 
 mundo  episcopo  Londincnsi. 
 
 CXVI. 
 
 SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 ]st  January,  lo6l—2.     Lambeth  MS.  doO.  No.  3G.  Grig. 
 
 I  HUMBLY  thank  your  grace  for  a  heap  of  things  wherc- 
 •s^-ith  you  have  gladded  me.  First  and  last,  your  good  will 
 and  opinion  of  me ;  secondly,  your  beneficial  reward  ;  thirdly, 
 this  last  book,  the  Apolofry.    Surely  for  my  ffood  meaninor  to  if  it  were  not 
 
 r         1  1  rX      ^  ^  i  i  /•  •        •        .   for  niaintain- 
 
 lurthcr  the  cause  of  God's  church,  whereoi  you  are  a  prmcipal  ingoous 
 
 .       .      ''  .  .         church,  Cecil 
 
 minister,  I  trust  you  doubt  not ;   and  if  it  were  not  for  main-  ^,'!"''*.""^ 
 
 '  v  '  abide  in  his 
 
 taining  thereof,  before  God  I  this  write,  I  would  not  con-  l',>^o'iK"e 
 tcntcdly  abide  in  this  service,  to  have  a  thousand  pound  a  month. ''*^' 
 month. 
 
 This  Apology  ^  cometh  to   me  in  fjood  season,   as  your  rubiication 
 
 r         o^  to  >  J  of  Jewel's 
 
 Apolog)-; 
 
 [3  Jewel's  Apology,  first  printed  in  Latin,  with  the  date  of  'ir,G2. 
 Sec  a  copy  of  the  title-page  prefixed  to  the  reprint  pubUshed  by  the 
 Parker  Society.     Jewel's  Works,  Vol.  in.  1S4S.] 
 
 r  '        1  11 
 
 [pakk.  cor. J 
 
1G2  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL   TO  ARCHB.  PARKER.         [1561-2. 
 
 published  in   Grace  shall  sec  by  a  letter  received  out  of  France  this  morn- 
 
 {•oou  seaxiii.  •/ 
 
 ing   from  our   ambassador,    which   when    you   have   read    I 
 beseech  your  grace  to  return.      You  may  see  how  he  would 
 mingle  policy  and  religion  together.      Surely  he  is  wise  and 
 a  good  servant  in  this  time. 
 "c"nti  "''^"'  This  book  is  negligently  printed,  and  the  margin  would  [sic] 
 
 piinuii.  have  had  the  common  places  marked.  I  mean  to  send  five 
 or  six  into  France,  and  as  many  into  Scotland.  I  forgat 
 yesterday  to  send  an  acquittance,  which  herewith  now  I  send. 
 From  Westminster,  the  first  of  January,  1561. 
 
 Your  grace^s  at  command, 
 
 W.  CECILL. 
 
 CXVII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  THE  PROVOST  AND  FELLOWS 
 OF  ETON  COLLEGE. 
 
 25th  January,  [15G1-2J.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  311.  p.  833. 
 Parker's  Orig.  Draft. 
 
 Whereas  understanding  is  given  ^  that  this  bearer,  Mr 
 The  arch-      Smith,  Mastcr  of  Arts,  is  desirous  to  be  placed  in  fellowship 
 
 bishop  re-         .  /.  i  •      t      i  /  •11 
 
 Mr"sTni^h^for  '^^  Jour  collcge,  for  that  it  lieth  to  your  charge  most  specially 
 election  as  a  ^q  cousidcr  wliat  mcet  persons  ye  should  elect  to  join  with 
 
 fellow  of 
 Eton. 
 
 you  in  the  good  governance  of  that  house  to  the  honour  of 
 God  and  to  the  expectation  of  the  Queen's  Majesty.  This  is 
 therefore  to  present  him  unto  your  examinations  to  expend 
 how  meet  he  shall  be  for  your  company,  praying  you  the 
 rather  at  the  contemplation  of  our  letters  to  associate  him 
 unto  your  number  if  his  qualities  can  agree  with  the  order  of 
 your  statutes.  And  thus  I  wish  you  well  to  fare.  At  Lam- 
 beth this  25th  of  January  ^. 
 
 V 
 
 \}  The  understanding  alluded  to  is  contained  in  a  letter  addressed 
 by  William  Day,  provost  of  Eton,  to  the  archbishop,  and  in  which  his 
 recommendation  of  "William  Smith  of  Cambridge"  is  solicited. 
 Parker  MS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  311.] 
 
 [2  The  letter  of  the  provost  of  Eton  alluded  to  in  the  foregoing 
 note  is  dated  "23rd  January,  1561."] 
 
15C1-2.]       sill    WILLIAM   CKtlL  TO   AUCIIH.  I'ARKI  It.  103 
 
 CXVIII. 
 
 SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL  TO  AUCIIBISIIOr  PARKER. 
 January,  1501— 1».    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  lamb.  cv.  art.  38.  p.  3C3.  Orlg. 
 
 It  may  plcaso  your  grace  (hy  this  included''  you  shall  f,;;'^,^''* 
 understand  the  matter)  my  lords  pray  your  grace  to  cause  ]!^'llZu^ 
 the  collection  to  bo  copied  out  with  all  speed,  and  to  return  l^^'umr 
 the  original  witii  all  speed  to  us,  for  my  lords  mean  to  return  [hlTw^nJiL 
 this  original  to  the  president  of  Wales,    thereby  to  try  out 
 the  writers,  because  their  hands  might  be  sought.     January, 
 1561. 
 
 Your  grace's  at  command, 
 
 W.  CECILL. 
 
 CXIX. 
 
 QUEEN  ELIZABETH  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 12th  February,  15GI— 2.    Tarker  Reg.  fol.  20G  a. 
 
 Elizabeth,  Dei  gratia,  Anglioe,Francia?,etIIibernia2  regina, 
 fidei  defensor,  etc.  prrcdilecto nobis  ac  rcvcrcndissimo  in  Christo 
 patri  ac  domino,  domino  Mattha?o,  miserationc  divina  Cantuari- 
 cnsi  archicpiscopo,  totius  AnglicT  primati  et  metropolitano,  salu- 
 tcm.   Volentes  certis  de  causis,  quod  barones  nostri  de  scaccario  xheQucon 
 
 ^  desiring  that 
 
 [3  The  document  alluded  to  was,  "a  paper  book  cast  abroad  in  the 
 city  of  Chester,"  which  the  council  of  Wales,  "  considering  that  the 
 same  tended  to  sedition,  and  contained  matters  contrary  to  the  Queen's 
 Mnjesty's  laws  and  proceedings  set  forth  for  religion,"  sent  to  the 
 Privy  Council.  It  consisted  of  a  set  of  "  Questions,'*  which  were 
 afterwards  answered  by  bishop  Pilkington,  and  which  arc  to  be  found, 
 together  with  his  answers  to  them,  in  the  Parker  Society's  edition  of 
 his  works,  pp.  617,  &c.  They  are  there  stated  to  have  had  the  same 
 author  as  the  "Addition,  with  an  Apologie  to  the  causes  of  brinnynge, 
 &c."  and  are  appended  to  the  bishop's  Confutation  of  that  Addition. 
 They  were  however  published,  as  appears  from  the  date  of  this  letter, 
 some  six  months  before  the  sermon  which  called  forth  the  Addition 
 was  preached  ;  St  Paul's  hiiving  been  burned  on  the  4th,  and  the 
 sermon  preached  on  the  8th,  of  June,  15G1.  See  Pilkington's  Works, 
 p.  481,  notes.     Park.  Soe.  Ed.] 
 
 11—? 
 
IGl 
 
 QUEEN  ELIZABETH   TO  AIICIIB.  PARKER.  [1561-2. 
 
 the  barons  of 
 the  exche- 
 quer should 
 be  certified 
 what  hospi- 
 tals and 
 schools  there 
 are  within 
 the  diocfse  of 
 Canterbury, 
 
 with  the 
 situations 
 and  posses- 
 sioiu  thereof. 
 
 The  arch- 
 bishop is 
 commanded 
 to  make  a 
 return  there- 
 of under  his 
 seal. 
 
 per  vos  certiorentur,  quot  ct  quae  hospitalia  et  scholoe  scparatim 
 fuerint  infra  diojcesim  et  jurisdictiones  vestras  Cantuarienses 
 tarn  in  locis  cxeinptis  quain  non  exemptis,  et  per  qua?  nomina 
 eadein  hospitalia  et  scliolai  vocitentur  et  nuncupentur,  quibusque 
 in  comitatibus  et  villis  et  parochiis  ilia  et  eorum  quodlibet  situ- 
 antur  et  existant,  ac  qua)  hospitalia  eorundem  separatim  fund- 
 antur  et  usitantur,  et  possessiones  eorundem  expenduntur  ad 
 et  pro  subsidio  et  levamine  pauperuin ;  denique  quae  schola 
 aut  scholse  earundem,  vel  possessiones  et  reventiones  inde  vel 
 earundem  alicujus,  impra3sentiarum  sustentantur  et  manutenen- 
 tur  in  dia3cesi  vestra  prredicta,  tam  in  locis  exemptis  et  non 
 exemptis,  una  cum  nominibus  earundem,  et  illius  uniuscuj us- 
 que ;  Yobis  mandamus,  quod  tam  diligenti  indagine  scrutatis 
 registris,  et  aliis  archivis  vestris  praemissa  tangentibus,  quam 
 aliis  viis  et  modis,  quibus  maxime  yideritis  expedire,  quicquid 
 inde  inveneritis,  prsedictis  baronibus  nostris  apud  Westmo- 
 nasterium  a  die  Paschse  in  unum  mensem  proximum  futu- 
 rum  distincte,  luculenter,  et  aperte,  absque  omissione  aliqua, 
 sub  sigillo  vestro  authentico,  in  pergameno  fideliter  scriptum 
 et  redactum,  certificetis,  remittentes  una  cum  dicto  certificatorio 
 vestro  hoc  breve.  Teste  Edwardo  Saunders  militeS  apud 
 Westmonasterium,  duodecimo  die  Februarii,  anno  regni  nostri 
 quarto  ^, 
 
 \}  The  lord  chief  baron  of  the  exchequer,  1659 — 1577.] 
 [2  The  archbishop's  return  to  this  writ,  made  on  the  3rd  May, 
 1562,  is  printed  hereafter  under  that  date.  Strvpe  has  presumed 
 that  a  considerable  delay  intervened  between  the  receipt  of  the  writ 
 and  the  archbishop's  instructions  to  his  commissary,  or  official,  to  pre- 
 pare a  return,  which  will  be  found  under  the  date  of  21st  March, 
 1561 — 2,  and  has  inferred  from  that  circumstance,  that  the  matter 
 was  "  not  over  acceptable  to  the  archbisliop."  But  Strype  has  placed 
 this  writ  in  February  1561,  not  in  1561 — 2,  and  has  not  considered 
 that  such  writs,  when  issued  between  term  and  term,  were  tested  on 
 the  last  day  of  the  preceding  term.  The  12th  of  February,  the  day 
 on  which  this  writ  bears  teste,  was  the  last  day  of  Hilary  Term,  but 
 the  writ  may  have  been  issued  some  time  after  that  day.] 
 
15G1-2.]  AUiiin.  I'AitKr.u  and  iip.tnuNUAi.  to  siu  w.  ckcii..  \G'j 
 
 C\\. 
 
 ARCIiniSIIOP  PAKKKK    AND   lUSIlOP   r.PvFN'nAL   OF 
 LONDON    TO   SIU    WILLIAM   CI-X'IL. 
 
 13th  Marth  i:>Gl-l».     S.  T.  ().  Domestic.     Ori>c. 
 
 AiTKU  our  rii^ht  hearty  commendations.  Wc  liavo 
 tlioiiiiht  it  {rood  to  siLrnlfv  unto  vou,  that  it  is  very  necessary 
 the  dean,  prohcndarlos,  and  ministers  of  the  church   of  Here-  Parkpran.t 
 
 '    »  ...  (Jrindal  »<>- 
 
 ford  were  aijain  under  the  rule  and  ohedienco  of  their  bishop\  j'^'t«''5 
 as  by   letters   of  like  authority  from   the  late   most  famous  [!l"V.l!ho!M,f 
 prince,    King    Henry    the    Eighth,    more   plainly    appeareth.  Jlluu.c'''* 
 May  it  therefore  please  you  to  be  a  mean  to  the  Queen's  thLtcu J." 
 Majesty  for  her  Highness'  letters  to  authorise  the  now  bishop 
 to  visit  the  same  church  from  time  to  time  as  occasion  shall 
 serve.   Whereby  that  church  shall  be  purged  of  many  enormi- 
 ties, and  God's  glory  greatly  advanced.      Thus  we  take  our 
 leave,  committing  you  to  God's  protection.      From  Lambeth, 
 this  13th  of  .March,  15G1. 
 
 Your  assured  loving  friends, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 EDM.  LONDON. 
 
 To  the  rigid  honourdble  Sir  William 
 Cecily  kniffhf,  the  Queen*s  Majes- 
 ty s  j^i'incipal  Secrctari/. 
 
 CXXL 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   MR  NEVENSON,  COMMISSARY 
 OF  THE  CITY  AND  DIOCESE  OF  CANTERBURY. 
 
 21st  March,  loGl-2.     Tarker  Keg.  I.  23G  a. 
 
 I  COMMEND  me  unto  you  ;  and  having  received  the  Queen's 
 Majesty's  writ  (the  copy  whereof  I  send  you  herewith),  I  will 
 and  require  you,  for  the  better  accomplishment  of  her  Majesty's  7^l^\''^^r 
 pleasure  therein,  that  within  one  month  at  the  furthest  next  o'j^ll'to 
 after  Easter,   you  do  certify   me  distinctly   in  writing,  how  {un'roThei' 
 many  several  hospitals  and  schools  there  be  within  my  diocese  ffiit,"iti 
 of  Canterbury,  and  the  peculiar  jurisdictions  within  the  same,  I'heQu'^n-s" 
 
 >rinted, 
 
 -XIX. 
 
 rc- 
 
 [3  Dr  John  Scor}%  bishop  of  Chichester,  deprived  by  Queen  Mary,  No.  c: 
 as  bishop  of  Hereford  from  1559  to  1585.] 
 
ICG 
 
 AUCHB.   PARKER  TO   MR  NEVENSOX.  [15G1-2. 
 
 and  by  what  names  the  same  hospitals  and  schools  are  called, 
 according  to  the  tenor  and  effect  of  the  said  writ.  Thus 
 trusting  of  your  diligence,  and  that  you  will  not  fail  herein,  1 
 wish  you  well  to  fare.  From  my  manor  of  Lambeth,  the  21st 
 day  of  March,  1561. 
 
 CXXII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  THE  BAROXS  OF  THE 
 EXCHEQUER. 
 
 2nd  May,  15G2.    Parker  Reg.  I.  237  b. 
 
 HoNORABiLiRus  virls  dominis   baronibus   curiae  scaccarii 
 illustrissimae  in  Christo  principis  et  dominae  nostras  dominas 
 Elizabethae,  Dei  gratia  Angliae,  Francia3,  et  Hibernia?  Reginae, 
 fidei  defensoris,  etc.,  et  ejusdem  curiae  thesaurario,  ac  caeteris 
 in  eadem  a  consiliis,  Mattha?us,  permissione  divina  Cantuariensis 
 archiepiscopus,  totius  Angliae  primas  et  metropolitanus,  salutem 
 in  Domino  sempiternam,  ac  fidem  indubiam  prsesentibus  adhi- 
 in  obedience  bcri.     Breve  supradictae  dominae  nostras  reginae  praesentibus 
 be"fore^Hnt.'  ^^^^^xum  nupor  cum  ea  qua  decuit  obedientia,  reverentia,  et 
 tKrch^^'^'  subjectione  humiliter  recepimus  exequendum,  cujus  vigore  pa- 
 uiris^an^c-    ^Itcr  ct  auctoritate,  babita  diligenti  inquisitione  de  et  super 
 hospftaisand  contcutis  iu  brovi  vestro  prasdicto,  nomina  omnium  et  singulo- 
 dioc°sl/   ^'^  rum  hospitalium  et  scholarum  infra  dioecesim  et  jurisdictiones 
 nostras  Cantuarienses  existentium,  ac  statum  eorundem,  qua- 
 tenus  per  inquisitionem  hujusmodi  comperire  et  invenire  potui- 
 mus,    in   schedula   praesentibus    annexa,    describi   fecimus   et 
 mandavimus.     Et  sic  breve  regium  praedictum,  quantum  in 
 nobis  fuit  aut  est,  debite  sumus  executi.     In  cujus  rei  testimo- 
 nium sigillum  nostrum  praesentibus  apponi  fecimus.    Datum  in 
 manerio   nostro  de   Lambeth  secundo  die  mensis  Mali,  anno 
 Domini  15G2,  et  nostra?  consecrationis  anno  tertio. 
 
 The  Lazar 
 house  of  St 
 Lawrence, 
 by  Canter- 
 bury. 
 
 Hospitale  leprosorum  sancti  Laurentii  juxta  Cantuar. 
 
 It  was  first  founded  by  one  Hugo,  the  second  abbot  of 
 St  Augustine  in  Canterbury,  and  by  the  same  first  foundation 
 there  was  appointed  a  relief  for  leprous  people.  And  after- 
 ward there  was  appointed   a   woman  under  the  name  of  a 
 
l0G2.]  ARCIIU.  i'AUKEU  Tt)  TIIK  UAUON3  OF  TIIK  KXtllEUlEU.  1C7 
 
 prioress,  and  corUiii  poor  women  called  sisters,  who  [were] 
 ilioro  placed  by  the  abbot  of  St  Augustine  for  the  time  being, 
 liaviijg  no  certainty  of  the  number  of  the  sisters,  and  they 
 luid  the  revenues  of  the  house,  which  amounteth  to  xxxj/.  by 
 the  year ;  and  the  same  is  taxed,  and  paycth  the  perpetual 
 tenth.  There  be  at  this  j)rcsent  only  two  poor  sisters,  and  do 
 receive  only  forty  shillini^s  by  year,  paid  by  the  farmer  there. 
 The  hospital  is  lamentably  misused,  by  reason  of  a  lease  made 
 by  the  prioress  and  sisters  of  the  said  hospital  to  one  Sir 
 Christopher  llalos.  Knight,  which  lease,  as  it  is  now  said,  is 
 come  to  one  Mr  Trappes  of  London. 
 
 Hasp  I  tale  de  Ilarhaldowne  prope  Cant.  I^iu^^l^^ 
 
 ilown,  iic;ir 
 
 It  is  of  the  foundation  of  the  lord  archbishop  of  Canter-  ^'^»t"i'"^y- 
 bury,  and  there  be  placed  sixty  poor  people,  men  and  women, 
 and  they  have  there  corrodies  by  the  lord  archbishop  for  the 
 time  being,  of  perpetual  alms.      Item,  They  be  not  charged 
 with  the  taxation  of  the  tenths. 
 
 Ilospitale  sancti  Johannis  Baptistce  extra  muros  civitatis  ^^''^^^^ 
 
 walls  of  Can- 
 It  is  of  the  like  foundation  and  order,  that  the  hospital  oi^^^^^^^- 
 
 Harbaldown   is.     Referatur  pro  ulteriori   declaratione   ad 
 
 reverendissimum, 
 
 Ilospitale  j^ctiiperum  sacerdotum  civitatis  Cant,  ^TiS'^u. 
 
 of  the  city  of 
 
 It  is  of  the  foundation  and  patronage  of  the  archdeacon  ^^"'*^^^'^"'i- 
 of  Canterbury.  It  was  ordained  for  the  relief  of  poor  and 
 indigent  priests,  and  to  be  relieved  of  the  revenues  of  the 
 house.  There  is  a  master  of  the  said  hospital,  videlicet,  one 
 Mr  Bacon,  a  temporal  man,  who  is  not  resident,  neither  mak- 
 eth  any  distribution.  The  hospital  house  is  marvellously  in 
 ruin  and  decay.  It  is  taxed  to  the  perpetual  tenth,  and 
 payeth  xxii^.  xcZ.  ob. 
 
 Ilospitale  in  cioitate  Cant,  vocatum  Maynerd's  Spittell.     5^^>,"f,'^'\"^ 
 
 the  city  of 
 
 It  is  of  the  foundation  of  the  mayor  and  commonalty  of  ^a°«"bury. 
 the  city  of  Canterbury,  and  they   be  endowed  by  their  gift 
 with  as  much  lands  and  old  houses  as  be  worth  by  the  year 
 
1G8  AIICIIB.  PARKER   TO   THE   BARONS  [15G2. 
 
 five  marks,  and  not  above.  There  be  placed  in  the  said 
 hospital  seven  poor  people,  men  and  women,  by  the  mayor 
 and  commonalty,  and  have  no  other  relief  besides  the  said 
 revenues,  but  only  the  said  five  marks,  and  the  alms  of  the 
 town.     They  be  not  taxed  to  the  tenth. 
 
 £?bn[r'e"^m  Hospitale  de  Esthridge  Cantuar. 
 
 Canterbury. 
 
 It  is  of  the  foundation  of  the  lord  archbishop  of  Canter- 
 bury. There  is  a  master  presented  by  the  lord  archbishop, 
 and  is  instituted  and  inducted,  «&c.  It  is  appointed  by  the 
 foundation,  that  the  same  should  relieve  poor  people  vagrant, 
 that  is  to  say,  to  have  lodging  and  fire  for  a  night,  two,  or  three, 
 at  the  good  discretion  of  the  master.  There  are  competently 
 furnished  at  this  day  eight  beds  for  poor  men  in  one  cham- 
 ber, and  three  beds  in  another  chamber  for  women.  And 
 the  people  resorting  are  reheved  according  to  the  foundation 
 in  good  reasonable  order.  The  said  hospital  is  taxed  to  the 
 perpetual  tenth,  and  payeth  yearly  xlviis,  xcZ.  ob. 
 
 ^t°Bartho"o-        HospUaU  saucti  BartholoMcei  prope  villam  Sandwic. 
 
 mew,  near 
 
 It  is  of  the  first  foundation  of  one  Sir  John  Sandwich, 
 Knight,  and  now  of  the  foundation  of  the  mayor  and  common- 
 alty of  the  town  of  Sandwich.  And  by  the  said  mayor  there 
 are  placed,  from  time  to  time,  the  number  of  twelve  brothers 
 and  four  sisters,  who  are  reheved  only  of  the  revenues  of  the 
 said  hospital,  amounting  to  the  yearly  value  by  estimation  of 
 xU.  The  said  hospital  is  charitably  used  to  God's  glory,  and 
 the  same  surveyed,  from  time  to  time,  by  the  mayor  of  Sand- 
 wich, and  kept  in  godly  order.  It  is  not  taxed  to  the  per- 
 petual tenth. 
 
 ^"ii'in^^'     Hospitale  infra  villam  Sandwic.  vocatum  Elhjs  hospital. 
 
 Sandwich. 
 
 It  was  first  founded  by  one  Thomas  Ellys,  and  it  is  now 
 of  the  foundation  and  patronage  of  the  mayor  and  j urates  of 
 the  same.  There  be  placed,  for  term  of  life,  eight  brothers 
 and  four  sisters,  and  they  are  relieved  by  alms  and  the  reve- 
 nues of  the  said  hospital,  amounting  to  xul.  by  year.  The 
 hospital  is  very  charitably  ordered,  and  surveyed  bj  the 
 mayor.      It  is  not  taxed  to  the  tenth. 
 
15G2.]  or  Tin;  1  \t  HMiiKH.  109 
 
 llospitale  divi  Jif/tmiuis,  vocatitm  .S7  ./(>/in\s  hou.sc  <>f'        sejohnt 
 
 *  hcM|ltUl. 
 
 S(iii(hric/i.  .s*iid*ich. 
 
 This  house  is  charitably  roiiiulcil,  inaintaiiiccl,  and  pro- 
 vided by  the  mayor  and  jurates,  and  tliey  have  no  posscs- 
 bions,  and  there  are  rcHcvcd  twelve  poor  people,  etc. 
 
 Ifospitale  sancti  Dartholomcci propc  Ilijthe.  il'MaruL'io 
 
 St  Marlh 
 mew,  iii-ar 
 IlytlK- 
 
 It  is  of  the  foundation  of  TTauiond,  bisliop  of  Rochester, 
 in  the  time  of  Kdward  the  Third.  There  are  according  to 
 tlie  foundation  thirteen  poor  people,  who  arc  relieved  by 
 alms,  and  by  the  revenues  of  the  said  hospital,  amounting  to 
 the  sum  of  viii/.  by  year,  with  the  charges.  The  said  hos- 
 pital is  taxed  to  the  tenth,  and  payeth  vii^.  iif^. 
 
 Ilospitale  sancti  Johannis  de  Illth.  iros,.iiaiof 
 
 -*  St  John  of 
 
 Hylhc. 
 
 It  is  only  founded,  ordered,  and  charitably  maintained 
 by  the  jurates  and  commonalty  of  the  said  town,  and  there 
 are  kept,  and  daily  maintained,  eight  beds  for  the  needy  poor 
 people,  and  such  as  are  maimed  in  the  wars.  The  said  hos- 
 pital is  endued  with  so  much  lands  as  do  amount  to  vi^.  by 
 the  year.      It  is  not  taxed  to  the  tenth. 
 
 Domits  pauperum  apud  Wye,  vocata  Le  almshouse,         '^'Zi^^"' 
 
 Wye. 
 
 It  is  without  any  foundation,  permitted,  maintained,  and 
 upholden  by  Sir  Thomas  Kempe,  Knight,  only  upon  his  cha- 
 ritable zeal ;  and  there  do  live  certain  poor  people  of  alms, 
 &c.      It  is  not  charged  with  any  tenth. 
 
 Domus  leprosorum  apud  Bohhinge.  atBlJbS^ 
 
 It  is  of  the  gift  and  foundation  of  George  Clyiford,  gent., 
 of  charity.  There  arc  harboured  none  but  poor  lazar  people, 
 who  beg  for  their  hving.     It  is  not  charged  with  any  tenth. 
 
 The  declaration  of  schools  luithin  the  diocese  of  Canterbury. 
 
 First,  There  is  at  Canterbury,  within  the  metropolitical  f^^^l^^'^' 
 church  there,   a  grammar-school  by    the    Queen's  Majesty's  Canterbury, 
 
170  AllCIIB.PAIlKEU  TO  THE  BARONS  OF  THE  EXCHEQUER.  [15G2. 
 
 foundation.  The  schoolmaster  liath  by  the  year  xxL,  the 
 usher  xl.     It  is  not  taxed  nor  charged  with  the  tenth. 
 
 Wye,  Item,  There  is  at  Wye  a  grammar-school,  of  the  Queen's 
 
 Majesty's  foundation,  newly  erected,  videlicet,  sithen  the  dis- 
 solution of  the  college  there;  and  the  schoolmaster  receiveth 
 yearly  xuiL  \is.  viiicZ.      It  is  not  charged  with  the  tenth. 
 
 Maidstone,  Item,    There   is  a  school  erected  by  the  charge  of  the 
 
 mayor  and  commonalty  of  the  town  of  Maidstone,  and  have 
 purchased  of  the  King  certain  lands,  to  that  intent,  amounting 
 to  ix^.  \is.  viiicZ.      It  is  not  charged  with  the  tenth. 
 
 Tenterden.  Itcm,  Thcro  Is  a  grammar-school  at  Tenterden,   erected 
 
 by  certain  parishioners  there,  who  have  of  charity  enfeoffed 
 certain  lands  to  the  value  of  x^.  by  the  year.  And  by  the 
 feoffment  the  schoolmaster  is  to  be  elected  by  the  vicar 
 there  for  the  time  being.     It  is  not  charged  with  the  tenth 
 
 CXXIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 [28th  October,  15G2'.]     S.  P.  O.  Domestic.     Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Parker  hav- 
 ing some 
 weeks  before 
 had  certain 
 guests  sent  to 
 him  to  be 
 kept  in  se- 
 crecy, in- 
 quires whe- 
 tner  it  be  the 
 Queen's  plea- 
 sure that  he 
 should  still 
 prepare  a 
 table  for 
 them,  which 
 he  finds 
 chargeable 
 in  this  hard 
 year. 
 
 Hopes  his 
 house  will 
 not  be  made  a 
 hostry. 
 
 After  my  hearty  commendations  to  your  honour. 
 Where  ye  sent  me  certain  guests,  for  four  or  five  days  to  be 
 used  in  secrecy,  now  well  nigh  four  or  five  weeks  ago  ;  I 
 would  understand  therefore  whether  it  be  the  Queen's  plea- 
 sure I  should  still  prepare  for  them,  being  neither  secret  in 
 themselves  nor  refusing  open  resort  of  others  to  their  table, 
 which  I  find  in  this  hard  year  chargeable,  as  they  look  to  be 
 entertained ;  and  although  Mons.  de  la  Haye  be  a  right 
 honest  gentleman,  yet  other  of  his  resorters  and  chamber- 
 fellows  be  very  nice,  dainty,  and  imperious,  as  I  am  informed. 
 I  trust  that  your  wisdom  will  consider  that  my  house  shall 
 not  be  made  an  hostry  for  all  times  and  for  all  comers  which 
 may  live  of  themselves,  and  at  times  may  betake  to  such 
 entertained  guests  as  necessity  may  require  for  the  state  of 
 the  realm.      Otherwise  I  trust  ye   will  not  cause  me  to  be 
 
 [1  The  letter  is  indorsed,  "28th  October,  1502."] 
 
1502.]  AIM  IIH.    IVVUKKK   TO   Sill    WII.I.IAM   rH  II,.  171 
 
 *               *            I  refer  voii 
 
 * 
 
 « 
 
 ^ 
 
 ^              ^v                rr                ^.c 
 
 ^ 
 
 •5V 
 
 <*« 
 
 well  conformable. 
 
 Your  liDiioiir'd  alwa^'s, 
 
 MATTII.  CA>'TUAK. 
 To  the  riijht  honourable  Sir  Wilh'am 
 Cecily  kniijht  ♦  •  ♦ 
 
 CXXIV 
 
 AUClIBISIIOr  PAKKER  TO  LOKD  KEEPER  BACON. 
 
 [About  November,  15C2.J     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  223.  p.  COl. 
 Parker's  own  draft. 
 
 Aftbr  my  right  hearty  commcntlations  to  your  good 
 lordship.     This  is  to  certify  the  same,  that  I  and  others  have  xhcarch- 
 
 *^  .  .  ,  .     bishop  and 
 
 diversely  travailed  with  Doctor  Baxterville,  partly   for  his  {'J^',^",^^'® 
 conformity  hereafter,  and  for  some  satisfaction  of  his  oversight  ktn'iue.  of" 
 passed  by  him ;   and  I  am  in  good  trust  and  opinion  that  he  for,S*there 
 will  unfeignedly  shew  himself  a  good  obedient  subject.   Where-  '^ «°°^  *'°i'*'' 
 upon   it   may  please   your  good  lordship,  the  rather  at  the 
 contemplation  of  my  letters,  to  e.vtend  your  favour  to  him  for  ^^*^'^,"nf,, 
 his  further  discharge,  doubting  not  but  he  will  see  good  cause  Slschlrge/" 
 to  be   a  faithful  orator  for  the  Queen's  Highness,  and  shew 
 himself  thankful  to  your  honour  and  to  others  that  hath  pro- 
 cured him  such  a  discharge^.     And  thus  having  nothing  else 
 to  your  lordship,   I  commend  the  same   to  the  protection  of 
 Almighty  God  as  myself. 
 
 [2  Mutilated.] 
 
 [3  The  draft  of  tliis  letter  is  written  upon  the  fly-leaf  of  one  ad- 
 dressed to  tl)C  archbishop  by  "Richard  Sackville,"  dated  the  20th 
 November,  lo62.  It  appears  from  Richard  Sackville's  letter,  that 
 "Doctor  Baskervyle"  was  received  into  favour  "  on  his  humble  sub- 
 mission and  promise  not  only  of  his  own  good  conformity,  but  also 
 hereafter  to  use  his  diligence  and  travail  to  bring  others  from  their 
 like  error  wherein  he  hath  been  in."  (Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll. 
 Camb.  cxiv.  art.  222.  p.  599.)J 
 
172 
 
 sill   WILLIAM  CECIL  TO  ARCHB.  T>\iiKER. 
 
 [1562-3. 
 
 cxxv. 
 
 SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 23rd  February,  loG2— 3.    Vetyt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  47.  fol.  573.   Grig. 
 
 It  may  please  your  Grace.     Monsieur  le  Baron  de  la 
 
 Fcrte,  one  of  the  hostages  here  for  the  French  King,  requir- 
 
 sir William    cth  liccnce  of  the  Queen's  Majesty  to  eat  flesh  in  his  house 
 
 Cecil  applies  .         .  .  o        j 
 
 for  a  Lent      ^his  tiuio  of  Lcut  I  which  althouffh  for  order's  sake  I  do  not 
 
 Jicence  icjr  '  O 
 
 laFerTe^one  ^luch  allow,  yct  bocauso  ho  is  one  of  those  that  is  best 
 hosuigS''"''^  aifected  to  religion,  and  a  stranger,  I  have  thought  good  to 
 recommend  it  to  your  Grace,  praying  the  same  that  you  will 
 do  herein  that  you  shall  think  may  conveniently  be.  And  so 
 I  humbly  take  my  leave.  From  Westminster,  the  23rd  of 
 February,  1562. 
 
 Your  Grace's  humbly  to  command, 
 
 W.  CECILL. 
 
 To  my  lord  of  Canterhury's  Grace. 
 
 CXXVI, 
 
 sir  W^illiam 
 Cecil  applies 
 for  a  restrict- 
 ed Lent 
 licence  for 
 "the  lord  of 
 Lethington," 
 ambassador 
 from  Queen 
 Mary  of 
 Scotland. 
 
 SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 27th  February,  15G2— 3.     Petyt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  47.  foL  572.   Grig. 
 
 My  very  good  lord.  The  lord  of  Lethington,  lately 
 sent  to  the  Queen's  Majesty  from  the  Queen  of  Scots,  desireth 
 to  have  the  use  of  flesh  this  Lent.  And  because  he  is  a 
 stranger  come  in  this  charge,  I  heartily  pray  your  Grace  to 
 consider  of  it,  for  his  satisfaction  therein.  Marry  I  trust  you 
 will  order  it  with  as  much  restraint  and  limitation  of  days, 
 with  the  manner  thereof  for  himself  and  his  only,  as  is  meet 
 for  the  example's  sake.  And  so  I  bid  your  Grace  heartily 
 farewell.  From  the  Court,  the  27th  of  February,  1562. 
 Your  Grace's  at  command, 
 
 \y.   CECILL. 
 
 I  beseech  your  Grace  be  not  too  light-handed  in  licences 
 to  every  person. 
 
 To  my  lord  of  Canterhury*s  Grace. 
 
I't),).]  Mu  IIM.   rvKKKK    T«>   SIU    WII.I.lA.M    «  \a  II.  1  "i  .  i 
 
 C'WVll. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PAUKKU  TO   SIK  WILLIAM  CKCIL. 
 
 Shortly  after  1 1th  April,  15G3'.     Pctvt  MS.  Inner  Tcmplo,  No.  47.  fol.  3'JG  l». 
 Orijfimil  ilrafl. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 In  consideration  of  vcstcrniiihfs  talk,  callinjj  to  rcmcm- 
 branco  [what]  the  4ualitios  of  all  my  brethren  bo  in  oxpc- 
 rienco  of  our  convocation  societies,  I  sec  some  of  them  to  boPr"^^''.  . 
 
 »)l^h()|l  tliinks 
 
 j)le}ii  ritJiarum,  hac  attpic  iliac  effluunty  although  iiulced  the  e,','".^*'/^"^ 
 (^hicen's  Majesty  may  have  good  cause  to  bo  well  contented  "^"„"lon"" 
 with  her  choice  of  the  most  of  them,  very  few  excepted,  amongst  o'nm  bre"" 
 whom  I  count  mvl  self  I.  And  furthermore,  though  wo  havc/Sr?«M- 
 done  amoniist  ourselves  little  in  our  own  cause,  yet  1  assure  unstai.ii-,  yet 
 vou  our  mutual  conterences  have  taui^iit  us  such  experiences,  r««v,nt()be 
 
 •  .  ronitiit  with 
 
 that  I  trust  we  shall  all  be  the  better  in  c^overnancc  for  here-  ^er  choice  of 
 
 after.      And  where  the  Queen's  Highness  doth  note  rac  to  bo 
 
 too  soft  and  easy,  I  think  divers  of  my  brethren  will  rather  ^hc  Queen 
 
 •  '  *'  ^       tliinks  the 
 
 note  me,  if  they  were  asked,  too  sharp  and  too  earnest  in  (."^^^''^I^f  Xs 
 moderation,  which  towards  them  I  have  used,  and   will  still  Ihfik'mm 
 do,  till   mediocrity   shall   be  received  amongst  us.     Though  I"/rncI^'' *"'* 
 toward  them  qui  for  is  sunt  I  cannot  but  shew  civil  affability,  rhaiuoif- 
 and  yet,  I  trust,  inclininc;  to  no  great  cowardness,   to  suffer  muIi  mcdio- 
 
 *  .  "'ty  he 
 
 wilful  heads  to  escape  too  easily.      Sed  ista  parevf/a.  established. 
 
 I  have  thouixht  to  use  this  kind  of  writins^  to  my  brethren  He  thinks  of 
 already  departed  home,   not  to  recite  the   Queen's  Maiesty's  .''^^""'"t''^ 
 
 V  I  ^  J        ^        inclosed  form 
 
 name,  which  I  would  not  have  rehearsed  to  the  discouragement  [{J^ni  who 
 of  the  honest  Protestant,  nor  known  too  easy,  to  the  rejoice  too  home^'^oVe- 
 much   of  the  adversaries,   her   adversaries   indeed.       I   had  us" onhe 
 rather  bear  the  burthen  myself,  to  sustain  the  note  of  what  nam  "to  the 
 thev  both  will,   than  the  good  cause  should  be  touched,  like  mentoh'ro- 
 
 "■  .        '-'  .  testaiits,  and 
 
 to   fproducel    much  quiet   obedience.     Whereupon  though  I  joy  of  the 
 
 LA  -J^  ^    ^  A  -^  adversaries. 
 
 shall  thus  write,  as  having  no  warrant  in  writing,  to  stay  full 
 execution  of  the  imperial  laws,  as  it  may  be  so  far  forced, 
 yet  if  the  jeoparding  of  my  private  estimation  may  do  good, 
 that  the  purpose  itself  be  performed  that  the  Queen  would 
 
 [1  This  letter  appears  to  have  been  written  shortly  after  the 
 rising  of  the  parliament  and  convocation,  the  former  of  which  rose 
 on  the  10th,  and  the  latter  on  the  14th  April,  loG3.] 
 
174 
 
 ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM   CECIL. 
 
 [i5G3. 
 
 cvcTrscorl*  ^^^^  done,  it  shall  suffice,  I  think.  If  ye  shall  allow  this 
 device,  I  pray  your  honour  to  return  it  me  again  with  your 
 corrections  as  ye  shall  think  meet\ 
 
 rc'ctioiis  of 
 his  draft. 
 
 CXXVIII, 
 
 The  arch- 
 bishop urges 
 jirudcnce  in 
 the  execution 
 of  the  recent 
 act  for  the 
 establishment 
 of  the 
 Queen's  au- 
 tliority  over 
 her  ecclesias- 
 tical subjects. 
 
 Refusal  of 
 the  re(iuired 
 oatli  to  be 
 reported  to 
 the  arch- 
 bishop. 
 
 not  to  be 
 tendered  a 
 second  time 
 without  the 
 archbishop's 
 authority. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  EACH  OF  HIS  SUFFRAGAN 
 BISHOPS. 
 
 Shortly  after  14th  April,  15G3.    Petyt  MS.  No.  47.  fol.  324.    Draft  corrected  by 
 Sir  William  Cecil. 
 
 To  my  loving  brother,  &c.  After  my  right  hearty  com- 
 mendations to  your  lordship.  This  is  upon  good  and  deliberate 
 considerations  to  require  you,  as  also  upon  your  obedience  to 
 charge  you,  to  have  a  very  grave,  prudent  and  godly  respect 
 in  executing  the  act  of  the  establishment  of  the  Queen^s  au- 
 thority over  her  ecclesiastical  subjects,  late  passed  in  this  par- 
 liament 2.  And  that  if  upon  very  apparent  cause  your  lord- 
 ship shall  be  as  it  were  compelled,  for  the  wilfulness  of  some 
 of  that  sort,  to  tender  the  oath  mentioned  in  the  same  act, 
 the  peremptory  refusal  whereof  shall  endanger  them  in  pre- 
 munire,  that  immediately  upon  such  refusal  of  any  person  ye 
 do  address  your  letters  to  me,  expressing  the  disorders  of 
 such  one  who  is  fallen  into  such  danger,  and  that  ye  proceed 
 not  to  offer  the  said  oath  a  second  time,  until  your  lordship 
 shall  have  my  answer  returned  again  to  you  in  writing. 
 Which  upon  your  declaration  of  the  behaviour  of  such  wilful 
 recusants,  shall,  I  trust,  extend  to  the  punishment  and  abolish- 
 ment of  such  corrupt  members,  if  reason  and  clemency  will 
 not  convince  their  wilful  error  and  stubborn  ignorance.   Pray- 
 
 p-  The  original  is  in  some  places  so  altered  and  interlined,  that  it 
 is  scarcely  possible  to  read  it  with  any  certainty.  The  letter  'v\'hich 
 follows  is  printed  from  the  original  draft  here  mentioned,  as  inclosed 
 to  Sir  William  Cecil.  It  was  rctm-ned  to  the  archbishop  corrected  by 
 Sir  W.  Cecil,  in  his  own  hand.] 
 
 [2  This  was  the  first  act  passed  in  the  session  of  the  parliament 
 which  had  just  closed.  By  the  4th  section,  the  oath  of  supremacy 
 was  to  be  taken  by  all  persons  on  ordination,  and  by  the  5th  section, 
 the  bishops  were  empowered  to  tender  the  oath  to  all  ecclesiastics. 
 A  first  refusal  entailed  the  penalties  of  a  premunire,  and  a  second 
 those  of  high  treason.] 
 
1563.]        AIICIID.  PAUKRIl  TO  HIS  SITl  UA(JA\   HISIIOPS.  17') 
 
 ing  your  lordship  also  not  to  interpret  mine  advertisement,  as  fj,';*',^;'"^^ 
 tondinij:  to  shew  niyseh'  a  patron  for  tho  casing  of  such  evil-  imcrpret^t 
 licarted  subjects,  which  for  divers  of  tlieni  do  bear  a  perverse 
 stomach  to  tho  purity  of  Christ's  religion,  and  to  tho  state  of 
 tlio  realm  thus  by  (lod's  providence  quietly  reposed,  and 
 which  also  do  envy  tho  continuance  of  us  all  so  placed  by 
 tho  Queen's  favour,  as  wo  be :  but  only  in  respect  of  a 
 fatherly  and  pastoral  care,  which  must  appear  in  us  which 
 bo  heads  of  tho  Hock,  not  to  follow  our  own  private  affections 
 and  heats,  but  to  provide  coram  Deo  et  hominihits,  for  saving 
 and  winning  of  others,  if  it  may  be  so  obtained. 
 
 And  1  also  pray  you  to  assure  and  persuade  yourself,  that 
 this  manner  of  my  sudden  writing  at  this  time  is  grounded 
 upon  great  and  necessary  consideration,  for  the  weal  and 
 credit  of  us  that  are  governors  in  tho  church  under  tho 
 Queen's  Majesty,  and  yet  for  divers  respects  meet  to  be  kept  JJ^Jj^'^'J^I" 
 secret  to  yourselves,  as  I  doubt  not  but  your  wisdoms  will  '^''■'' 
 easily  see  and  judged 
 
 •ret. 
 
 CXXIX. 
 
 QUEEN  ELIZABETH  TO  ARCHBISHOP  TARKER. 
 ICth  May,  15G3.     Lambeth  MS.  959.  No.  47.    Contemporary  abstract. 
 
 Elizabeth,  &c.      To  all  men,  &c.      Know  ye  that  of  our 
 special  grace,  certain  knowledge,  and  mere  motion,  and  by  the 
 advice  of  our  council,  we  have  given  and  granted  full  autho-  gr'InS'uMhe 
 rity,   power  and  licence,   and  by  these   &c.  unto  the   most  '^'^'^^'•'^'''^^'i'' 
 Reverend  Father  in  God,  Matthew  archbishop  of  Canterbury, 
 full  authority  &c.,  that  he,  during  his  life,  may  lawfully  and  }|jf,,f"I,'p^ 
 without  question,  loss,  damage,  forfeiture,  or  other  penalty,  rn*Hi/Si'icc. 
 retain  and  keep  in  his  service,  from  time  to  time,  by  way  of 
 retainers,  over  and  besides  all  such  persons  as  daily  attend  above "fs 
 upon  him  in  his   household,   and  to  whom  he   giveth   meat,  servanu^ 
 drink,  livery,  fee  or  wages,  and  also  over  and  besides  all  such 
 persons  as  shall  be  under  him  in  any  office,   of  any  steward- 
 ship,   understewardship,    baliffwick,   keeper    of    park-houses, 
 warrens,  or  other  game  of  venerie,  pheasants,  partridges,  and 
 
 [3  The  last  paragraph  was  added  by  Sir  William  Cocil  ] 
 
17G 
 
 QUEEN  ELIZABETH  TO  ARCHB.  PARKER. 
 
 [1563. 
 
 forty  persons,  other    fowls 
 
 Renilenien  or 
 
 yeomen,  to 
 
 whom  he 
 
 may  give  his 
 
 livery  badge, 
 
 not  being 
 persons  en- 
 tered on  the 
 cheque  roll 
 of  the 
 Queen's  ser- 
 vants. 
 
 of  what  kind  soever,  &c.,  the  number  of  forty- 
 persons,  gentlemen  or  yeomen,  though  they  be  tenants  to  us, 
 or  resiant  within  our  honours,  &c.,  io  give  at  his  pleasure  his 
 Hvery-badgo  or  cognizance,  &c.,  to  do  unto  liim  their  ser- 
 vice, &c.  The  said  persons  to  be  reputed,  taken  and  accepted, 
 by  virtue  of  this  our  grant  and  licence,  to  all  instructions, 
 constructions,  and  intents,  as  of  the  daily  attendants  on  the 
 said  archbishop  in  his  household,  &c.  Provided  that  this 
 our  grant  shall  not  extend  unto  him  to  take  or  retain  into  his 
 service  any  of  our  servants  being  named  in  our  cheque-roll, 
 nor  any  other  being  sworn  or  retained  to  serve  us  as  our  said 
 servant,  &c.  And  furthermore  we  have  pardoned  and  re- 
 leased to  the  archbishop  all  and  every  trespass,  act  or  acts 
 of  retainer  heretofore  had,  or  any  contempt,  violation,  or  for- 
 feiture, &c.  perpetrated  or  done  sithence  the  first  of  January- 
 last  past,  contrary  to  any-  act  of  retainers,  &c.  In  witness, 
 &c.,  16th  day  of  May,  in  the  5th  year  of  our  reign. 
 
 cxxx. 
 
 Sends  a  Ro- 
 man dispen- 
 sation for 
 one  Harvee, 
 a  serving 
 man,  to  hold 
 a  prebend, 
 with  request 
 for  the 
 archbishop's 
 opinion  as 
 to  its  legality. 
 
 Case  of  Cha- 
 fin,  who  had 
 married  two 
 sisters,  still 
 before  the 
 delegates. 
 Would  they 
 would  decree 
 
 BISHOP  JEWEL  OF  SALISBURY  TO  ARCHBISHOP 
 PARKER. 
 
 IGth  June,  1563.     Lambeth  MS.  959.  art.  45. 
 
 After  my  most  humble  commendations.  Unless  necessity 
 forced  me,  I  would  be  loth  to  trouble  your  Grace  further,  as 
 knowing  the  troubles  ye  have  already.  Yet,  forasmuch  as 
 your  Grace  is  sacra  anchora  unto  me  and  others,  I  shall 
 humbly  beseech  your  Grace  to  bear  with  me.  The  bearer 
 hereof  will  exhibit  unto  your  Grace  a  Eoman  dispensation 
 under  lead  for  one  Harvee,  prebendary  of  my  church.  1  be- 
 seech your  Grace  to  advertise  me  whether  it  will  stand  good 
 in  law  or  no,  and  whether  the  party  may  enjoy  it,  not  having 
 nor  using  priestly  apparel,  but  in  all  respects  going  as  a 
 serving  man,  or  no. 
 
 Chafin  that  hath  married  two  sisters,  upon  his  appeal  from 
 your  Grace  and  me,  hangeth  still  before  the  delegates,  and, 
 as  much  as  I  can  perceive,  is  not  likely  to  take  any  great  hurt 
 at  their  hands.     I  would  they  would  decree  it  were  lawful  to 
 
l.')(J3.]    mSllOl*  JKWKI.  OF  SALISmitY   TO   AfUIIH.   I'AltM.U.       177 
 
 marry  two  sisters,  so  shouKl  tho  world  bo  out  of  doubt.  As  ['J**(",',;^»" 
 now  it  is  |>:ist  away  in  a  niorkcry.  D.  IlewiiU  [)roniiacd  "r'aLVbt.""* 
 mo  1  shouKI  have  it  renjittcd  witli  expenses. 
 
 Touching  my  hist  K'tters,  and  namely  touchinpj  one 
 *  *  eharde,  a  person  within  my  diocese,  I  beseech  yourdraeo 
 to  shew  mo  vour  advice  accordiniilv,  as  1  liavc  hundjlv  re- 
 (piosted  your  Grace.  Thus  1  beseech  your  Graco  to  tender 
 my  suits,  and  wish  the  same  most  heartily  well  to  fare.  I'rom 
 my  poor  house  in  Sarum,  IG  Junii,  15(j3. 
 
 Your  Grace's  most  humbly  assured, 
 
 JO.  SAU. 
 To  the  vwst  reverend  Fathvr  in  Cod,  my 
 very  good  lord,  mi/   lord  archbishop 
 of  Canterbury's  (jruce,  be  these  deli- 
 vered. 
 
 CXXXI. 
 
 ArvCIIBISlIOP  PARKER  TO   SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 [Before  Midsummer,  1503.]    Lansd.  MS.  vi.  art.  52.    Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 For  that  I  intend  by  God's  jrrace  to  visit  my  diocese  Jhc  arch- 
 
 J  n  •/  bishop  in- 
 
 shortly  after  Midsummer,  thoroughly  thereby  to  know  the  state  }f,"  j-^pj'^ 
 thereof  myself  personally,  and  to  take  order  among  them  ;  I  JCife^rcreJf, 
 would  gladly   the  Queen's  Majesty  would  resolve  herself  in  rer^onaiiy. 
 our  books  of  Homilies,  which  I  might  deliver  to  the  parishes  "uc^n'wou^d 
 as  I  go^  &c.     And,  for  that  I  am  altoojether  spoiled  of  my  theVookV 
 venison,   1   am   compelled   nnpudcntly  to   crave  a  couple  oiBepsfora 
 bucks  at  your  hand,  not  as  thinking  that  ye  have  any  parks  b?icCt'o 
 in  Kent,  but  doubtinoj  not  but  that  ye  may  with  half  a  word  shame  of  his 
 to  your  iriends  soon  speed  my  request;  and  as  1  crave  oi  your  should  not 
 
 •^  r  J  M  »  J  have  to  bid 
 
 honour,  so  I  intend  to  assay   my  lord  Kobert^  and  other  of  Ii''* "«'8^- 
 
 '  •/  •/  '  bours  to  a 
 
 my  friends,  to  avoid  the  shame  of  my  table,  if  I  should  not  p'^'*''^^^^*'- 
 have  to  bid  my  neighbours  to  a  piece  of  flesh,  where  most 
 part  of  my  brethren  be  better  furnished  in  this  provision  than 
 
 [^  Tho  second  hook  of  Homilies,  which  is  hero  referred  to,  was 
 settled  at  tho  convocation  of  January  1562 — 3,  and  was  printed  with 
 tho  date  of  1503.  It  remained  unpubhshed,  awaiting  tho  Queen's 
 approval,  for  many  months.] 
 
 [2  Lord  Robert  Dudley,  afterwards  Earl  of  Leicester.] 
 
 [park,  cor.] 
 
His  success 
 in  <\ic]\  re- 
 iiiests  with 
 
 178  ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL.  [l5G3. 
 
 I  am.  And  If  I  durst  as  boldly  speak  to  the  Queen's  Ma- 
 jesty, for  taking  away  my  Broyle^  in  Sussex  to  recompense  me 
 with  iii.  or  iiii.  bucks  in  her  park  at  Canterbury,  as  I  did  find 
 'iuccn  Anne  gracc  in  Quccn  Anne's  favour  in  such  like  requests,  I  would 
 offer  my  suit.  Marry  because  I  doubt  in  these  days  whether 
 bishops  or  ministers  may  be  thought  worthy  to  eat  venison,  I 
 will  hold  me  to  my  beef,  and  make  merry  therewith,  and 
 pray  for  all  my  benefactors,  &c. 
 
 Your  honour  must  pardon  importune  beggars. 
 
 Your  at  all  times, 
 
 MATTH.  CANTUAR. 
 
 In  fine,  I  wish  your  honour  of  much  joy  of  God's  good 
 gift  of  late  sent  to  you  to  cheer  your  family ;  ecce  sic  henedi- 
 citur  homo,  &c. 
 
 To  tlie  right  honourable  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  knight,  principal  Secretary 
 to  the  Queen's  Majesty. 
 
 CXXXII. 
 
 THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 26th  June,  1563.     Additional  MS.  Brit.  Mus.  19,  398.  art.  U.     Grig. 
 
 After  our  very  hearty  commendations  to  your  Grace ^. 
 Whereas  we  understand  that  according  to  such  order  as  ye 
 received  from  the  Queen's  Majesty,  ye  have  directed  your 
 letters  to  all  the  bishops  of  your  province  for  the  levying  of 
 a  contribution  of  the  clergy  within  the  same  towards  the 
 re-edifying  of  the  church  of  Paul's  according  to  certain  rates 
 The  works  at  limited  iu  that  behalf,  so  it  is  that  at  this  present  the  works 
 
 St  Paul's  are  .  .  ^ 
 
 want?f '^  ^°'  ^^  *^®  ^^^^  church,  bemg  one  of  the  most  notable  monuments 
 
 funds.  q£  ^}jjg  realm,  which  hitherto  with  great  diligence  and  hke 
 
 success  have  been  prosecuted,  are  now  compelled  to  cease, 
 
 [1  A  park  near  Lewes  in  Sussex,  which  formerly  belonged  to  the 
 see  of  Canterbury.] 
 
 [^  Struck  out  in  the  original,  and  "1"  written  over,  as  if  intended 
 for  "  lordship."] 
 
15C3.J    THE   LORDS  OF   TIIK  COUNCIL  TO   AIKHII.  PAUKKIl.     J  70 
 
 and  soino  jKirt  of  tlio  roof  tliercof  to  stand  bare  and  iinco- 
 Ycred,  for  want  of  lead  and  present  money  to  sustain  tho 
 cliar<^cs  of  such  a  work,  not  only  to  tho  decay  of  tho  j)laco 
 uncovered,  but  also  to  some  note  and  slander  in  the  si^ht  of 
 tho  world;  these  are  therefore  to  require  your  lordship  forth-  "nirarch 
 
 .  l)l»li«m  la 
 
 with,   with  all  dillircnce,  acoordlnir  to  the  rate  of  the  hook  of  ""•"•';•"• ' 
 tenths   or   subsidies  to  collect  all  the  arrearajres  of  the  said '■''"'*'*"" 
 
 rth« 
 
 ion 
 
 to 
 iuuren 
 
 contribution  remainin£^  unpaid,  as  well  of  all  tho  dignities  and  l,','l'!,nu'ii 
 prebends   of  your  cathedral  church  as   of  all   other  spiritual"'""""*^ 
 promotions   within   your   diocese   of    Canterbury,    which    for 
 exility  aro  not  exempted  from  tho  said  contribution  by  your 
 former  letters,  and  to  pav  tho  same  unto   the   treasurers   of  ^"'^ ''■y  **** 
 
 '  Ik  b:iiiu-  over  ti 
 
 the    same   works    of  Paul's  at   or   before   the    first   day    of  [1;.^,;'^'}^ 
 August  next;  taking  such  order  for  those  that  will  deny  or  icxt"*^"*' 
 refuse  the  payment  thereof  according  to  the  said  rate  before 
 limited,  as  to  your  wisdom  shall  seem  good.      And  thus  we 
 bid  your  grace  right  heartily  well  to  fare.      From    Green- 
 wich, the  2Gth  day  of  June,  1563. 
 
 Your  good  lordship's  assured  loving  friends, 
 
 N.  BACOX,  C.  S.  W.  IS^ORTHT. 
 
 ARUNDEL.  PENBROKE.       R.  DUDDELEY. 
 
 E.  CLYNTOX.        AY.  HOWARD.     F.  KNOLLYS. 
 
 W.  CECILL. 
 
 To  our  very  good  lord  the    arch- 
 bishop  of  Canterhury. 
 
 CXXXIII. 
 
 THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL,  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 2Sth  June,  15G3.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  CoU.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  19.  p.  67. 
 
 After  our  right  hearty  commendations  to  your  lordship.  The  arch- 
 Forasmuch  as  the  Queen's  Majesty  hath   presently  occasion ''e^'«'i  by 
 to  use  the  service  of  some  discreet  person,  learned  in  the  civil  I°„'e^Sn 
 law,   to  be  assistant  unto  the  marshal  of  the  town  of  X^ew-  ;i-|Tiw?to^ 
 haven 3,   for  the  ordering  of  such  matters  as  may  happen  to  Newjuv^n. 
 
 [3  i.e.  Havre  do  Grace,  at  this  time  in  possession   of  the  English 
 under  the  Earl  of  Warwick,  but  besieged  by  the  French.   The  marshal 
 
 12—2 
 
180      THE  LORDS  OF   THE   COINCIL   TO   ARCHB.  PARKER.   [1563. 
 
 fall  in  question  there:  we  have  thought  meet  to  pray  your 
 lordship  to  think  upon  some  fit  person  that  for  his  wisdom 
 and  learning  may  be  meet  for  this  purpose,  and  to  let  us 
 understand  your  opinion  therein,  to  the  end  that  the  party 
 whom  you  shall  think  meet  for  this  service  may  be  further 
 communed  withal  and  sent  over  to  the  said  town  with  conve- 
 nient speed,  where  he  shall  have  such  allowance  and  enter- 
 tainment assigned  unto  him  as  shall  be  fit  for  one  of  his  sort 
 and  haviour.  And  so  fare  your  good  lordship  right  heartily 
 well.     From  Greenwich,  the  28th  of  June,  1563. 
 
 Your  good  lordship's  assured  loving  friends, 
 
 W.  NORTIIT. 
 ARUNDEL.        PEMBROKE.         R.  DUDDELEY. 
 E.  CLYNTOX.  W.  HOWARD. 
 
 G.  ROGERS.       F.  KXOLLYS.        W.  CECILL. 
 
 To  our  very  good  lord,  the  arclibishop 
 of  Canterbury. 
 
 CXXXIV. 
 
 THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 9th  July,  1563.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxxii.  art.  9.  p.  287.    Grig. 
 
 After  our  very  hearty  commendations  to  your  good  lord- 
 ship. The  Queen's  Majesty,  upon  certain  good  considerations 
 moving  her  to  understand  in  some  part  the  state  of  your  dio- 
 cese, hath  commanded  us  to  write  unto  your  lordship  with  all 
 speed  possible,  and  thereby  to  require  the  same  to  make 
 answer  by  writmg  distinctly  to  us  of  all  these  articles  fol- 
 lowing : — 
 
 First,  How  many  shires  or  counties  your  diocese  doth 
 contain,  or  into  how  many  it  doth  extend  ? 
 
 Second,  Into  what  manner  of  regiments  the  same  is  divided; 
 whether  the  same  be  into  archdeaconries,  deaneries,  or  such 
 like ;  and  how  many  the  same  be,  with  their  distinct  names ; 
 who  occupieth  those  rooms  at  this  present ;  and  where  they 
 are,  to  your  understanding  ? 
 
 alluded  to  was  Edward  Randolph,  the  same  whose  humanity  on  the  sur- 
 render of  the  town,  is  commemorated  by  Stowe  in  a  passage  in  his 
 Annales,  ed.  Howes,  p.  656.] 
 
15G3.]     THE   LORDS   OF   THE  COrSCII,  To   AIJCIIU.  I'AltKIllt.      IMl 
 
 Thirdly,  What  oxeinpt  or  peculiar  i>laccs  arc  within  tho 
 circuit  of  your  ilioceso,  where  you  havo  not  full  jurisdiction 
 as  onlinary,  and  what  the  names  thereof  be,  and  who  hath 
 tho  ordinary  jurisdiction  thereof  at  this  present? 
 
 Fourtldy,  How  many  cluirches  arc  within  every  sucli  arch- 
 deaconry, deanery,  or  other  reujimcnt ;  which  bo  parochial ; 
 liow  many  of  them  havo  parsons,  vicars,  or  curates ;  and 
 where,  as  the  parislies  are  so  large  as  they  have  divers  chapels 
 of  ease,  which  have  or  ought  to  liavc  curates  or  ministers  in 
 them,  to  certify  how  many  bo  of  that  sort  in  every  sucli 
 parish,  with  the  names  of  tho  towns  or  hamlets  where  tho 
 same  cliurches  or  cliapels  arc  so  situate? 
 
 Fifthly,  How  many  households  arc  within  every  parish,  or 
 within  any  such  member  of  any  parish,  that  hath  such 
 churches  and  cliapels  of  ease  ? 
 
 Sixthly,  and  lastly,  AVlicresocver  any  exempt  places 
 be  within  the  circuit  of  your  diocese,  wherein  you  have  no 
 such  jurisdiction,  as  you  can  presently  make  sufficient  answer 
 to  these  former  Articles,  her  Majesty  would  that  you  should  in 
 writing  copy  out  so  much  of  the  substance  of  these  five  former 
 articles  as  shall  seem  convenient  for  the  purpose,  and  with 
 speed  send  to  such  persons  as  have  the  jurisdiction  of  those 
 exempt  places,  or  their  deputies,  residing  next  unto  you, 
 willing  and  commanding  them  in  her  Majesty's  name  forth- 
 with to  send  distinct  answers  thereunto,  to  be  sent  cither  to 
 yourself,  or  by  you  to  be  sent  to  us. 
 
 And  because  the  greater  part  of  these  former  Articles  is 
 such  as  we  doubt  not  but  ye  are  by  means  of  your  visitations 
 able  to  cause  sufficient  certificate  to  be  made  unto  us  with 
 speed,  we  require  your  lordship  to  use  therein  all  the  dili- 
 gence that  you  can,  and  not  to  defer  any  time  therein,  but 
 either  by  this  messenger,  or  within  two  or  three  days  at  the 
 farthest,  to  return  us  answer.  And  for  some  such  part 
 thereof  as  speedily  you  cannot  certify,  without  conference  had 
 with  your  chancellors,  commissaries,  archdeacons,  deans,  or 
 other  inferior  officers,  our  like  earnest  request  is,  that  you  do 
 procure  information  thereof  without  delay  of  time ;  and  to 
 command  in  her  Majesty ""s  name  the  like  to  be  done  by  all 
 others,  having,  as  above  is  said,  any  exempt  jurisdictions  ;  so 
 as  her  ^lajesty  may  be  amply  and  certainly  satisfied  herein. 
 
182   THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHB.  PARKER.  [1563. 
 
 And  so  fare  your  good  lordship  right  heartily  well.      From 
 Greenwich,  the  9th  of  July,  15G3. 
 
 Your  lordship''s  assured  friends  ^ 
 
 T.  JSrOKFOLK. 
 PENBROKE.  E.  DUDDELEY. 
 
 W.  CECILL. 
 
 cxxxv. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 23rd  July,  loG3.    Lansd.  MS.  vi.  art.  02.     Grig. 
 
 After  my  hearty  commendations  to  your  honour.  Con- 
 sidering and  understanding  none  otherwise  but  by  common 
 The  kin-dcm  report  of  the  same,  in  what  state  the  realm  now  standeth  in, 
 Srstres^eti  by  molostod  univorsally  by  war,  and  particularly  at  London  by 
 f^mfn^'"'  pestilence,  and  partly  here  at  Canterbury  by  famine,  the 
 people  wanting  their  necessary  provision,  as  is  reported  unto 
 The  arch-  nio,  I  thought  it  good  upou  my  private  consideration  to  call 
 eiho^ned^'t^he  upou  the  mayor  and  his  commonalty  on  Friday  last,  to  meet 
 of  Canter-     with  mo  at  the  cathedral  church,  where  I  did  myself  exhort 
 
 bury  to  . 
 
 ST'wint  ^^^°^  ^^^^  pi'a.yer,  &c.  And,  for  hereafter,  have  appointed 
 bJSlplrt^^  them  Fridays  so  to  be  used  with  prayer  and  preaching,  and 
 forjhatpur-  ;^Xondays  and  Wednesdays  in  their  parish- churches,  prescribing 
 that  common  prayer  that  was  appointed  in  the  Guise''s  time 
 Marvels  that  (alterinsr  a  few  words  in  the  same).      Sir,  this  I  have  done, 
 
 he  has  re-  ^  .°,    .  .         ...  ,  n  ■,-  ^ 
 
 ceivednoad-  not  eniommg  the  like  to  the  rest  of  my  diocese,  nor  to  the 
 
 vertisement  .  . 
 
 ord^ef  whTch  ^^^^  ^^  ^^7  provluce,  for  want  of  sufficient  warrant  from  the 
 
 coiSnicate  pi'incc  or  couucil,  whcrcof  I  do  marvel  that  I  have  no  adver- 
 
 hVJro'sScef  tisement.     And  although  ye  may  say,  we  by  our  vocation 
 
 should  have  special  regard  of  such  matter,  yet  because  we  be 
 
 holden   within  certain  limits  by  statutes,   we  may  stand  in 
 
 doubt  how  it  will  be  taken  if  we  should  give  order  herein ; 
 
 and  therefore  do  not  charge   the  rest  of  my  diocese   with 
 
 injunction,  as  leaving  them  to  their  own  liberty,  to  follow  us 
 
 Thinks  such  in  the  city  for  common  prayer  if  they  will.     If  I  had  your 
 
 necessary. 
 
 [1  Many  of  the  original  returns  to  these  Articles  are  to  be  found  in 
 tho  Harleian  IMSS.  That  of  archbishop  Parker  is  in  Harl.  MS.  594. 
 fo.  G3.] 
 
15G3.]  AIUIIU.    I'AKKKK    TO   MU    WILLIAM   t'KClL.  183 
 
 warrant,  I  wouKl  iliroct  my  precepts,  as  I  think  very  neccs- 
 siiry,  to  oxorciso  the  said  public  prayers.  And  thus,  putting; 
 80  much  to  your  consideration,  as  I  am  sure  otherwise  fully 
 occupied,  I  wish  you  the  asbistance  of  (Jod  in  all  good  counsel. 
 From  my  house  at  Hekcsbourne,  this  23rd  of  July,  l!')G'J. 
 
 Your  honour's  always, 
 
 MATTIIUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  rlijht  honourahle  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  knifjht^  princijml  Secretari/ 
 to  the  Queen  a  Mujiati/. 
 
 CXXXVI. 
 
 SIR  WILLIAM  CFXIL  TO   ARCHBISHOP   PARKER. 
 Ist  August,  loG3.     Parker  MSS.C.  C.  Coll.  Canib.  cxiv.  art.  212.  p.  57:5.     Orig. 
 
 It  may  please  your  grace.     Before  I  received  a  letter  Before  the 
 
 •'     ^  •  °  receipt  of  the 
 
 from  you,  I  had  of  mine  own  head  moved  my  lord  of  London  arthbishopji 
 
 ^^  ,  ,  ^  letter.  Sir  W. 
 
 to  bethink  himself  of  some  formular  of  common  prayer  ;  who  ,^'|^i[.Jlhe 
 
 of 
 n  to 
 
 hath  so  done.     Which  I  have  as  I  could  hastily  perused,  and  I'nnllll 
 for  your  grace's  further  authority  I  have  procured  you  the  [omrof'' 
 Queen's  Majesty's   letter,    which    I   send   herewith   to    your  lu-'ViId  prr^*^ 
 grace,  and  wish  that  some  haste  were  used,  so  it  be  well  samlioned 
 
 »  '  by  the 
 
 advised.  Queens 
 
 letter. 
 
 On  "Wednesday  last  a  compact  was  made  by  my  lord  of 
 Warwick,  havino'  authority  so  to  do,  to  deliver  Newhaven,  Ne«haven 
 
 .   .  «  .      .  surrendered 
 
 "with  certain  conditions  of  permission  of  the  possession  for  us  of\vaf^^k 
 of  eight  days  to  carry  away  all  our  own  2.      This  necessity 
 the  plague  brought,  which  was  inevitable. 
 
 Your  grace's  at  command, 
 
 W.  CECILL. 
 
 [2  The  Earl  of  Warwick  surrendered  Xewhaven  under  articles 
 dated  2Sth  July,  1563.  Many  English  soldiers  died  there  of  the 
 plague,  and  the  infection  was  thought  to  have  been  brought  thence 
 into  England.] 
 
184 
 
 QUEEN  ELIZABETH   TO   ARCHB.  PARKER. 
 
 [1503. 
 
 CXXXVII. 
 
 It  having 
 pleased  Al- 
 niiglity  God 
 to  visit  the 
 reahn  with 
 contagious 
 sickness,  it  is 
 thought  that 
 prayer  and 
 fasting  ought 
 to  be  more 
 effectually 
 used: 
 
 the  Queen 
 therefore 
 commands 
 general  obe- 
 dience to 
 such  orders 
 thereon  as 
 the  arch- 
 bishop shall 
 devise. 
 
 QUEEN  ELIZABETH  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 1st  August,  loG3.   Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  C.  p.  15.     Orig. 
 
 By  the  Queen. 
 
 Elizabeth  R. 
 
 Most  reverend  father  in  God,  right  trusty  and  right  well 
 beloved,  we  greet  you  well.  Like  as  Almighty  God  hath  of 
 his  mere  grace  committed  to  us,  next  under  him,  the  chief 
 government  of  this  realm  and  the  people  therein ;  so  hath  he, 
 of  his  like  goodness,  ordered  under  us  sundry  principal  mi- 
 nisters, to  serve  and  assist  us  in  this  burden.  And  therefore 
 considering  the  state  of  this  present  time,  wherein  it  hath 
 pleased  the  Most  Highest,  for  the  amendment  of  us  and  our 
 people  to  visit  certain  places  of  our  realm  with  more  conta- 
 gious sickness  than  lately  hath  been ;  for  remedy  and  miti- 
 gation thereof  we  think  it  both  necessary  and  our  bounden 
 duty  that  universal  prayer  and  fasting  be  more  effectually 
 used  in  this  our  realm.  And  understanding  that  you  have 
 thought  and  considered  upon  some  good  order  to  be  pre- 
 scribed therein,  for  the  which  ye  require  the  application  of 
 our  authority  for  the  better  observation  thereof  amongst  our 
 people ;  we  do  not  only  commend  and  allow  your  good  zeals 
 therein,  but  do  also  command  all  manner  our  ministers  eccle- 
 siastical or  civil,  and  all  other  our  subjects,  to  execute,  follow, 
 and  obey  such  godly  and  wholesome  orders,  as  you,  being  pri- 
 mate of  all  England,  and  metropolitan  of  this  province  of 
 Canterbury,  upon  godly  advice  and  consideration,  shall  uni- 
 formly devise,  prescribe,  and  publish  for  the  universal  usage 
 of  prayer,  fasting,  and  other  good  deeds  during  the  time  of 
 this  visitation  by  sickness  and  other  troubles.  Given  under 
 our  signet  at  our  manor  of  Richmond,  the  1st  day  of  August, 
 the  fifth  year  of  our  reign. 
 
 To  tlie  most  reverend  Father  in  God  our 
 rigid  trusty  and  right  tcell  beloved  the 
 archbishop  of  Canterbury  and  primate  of 
 all  England'^, 
 
 [1  The  form  of  prayer  referred  to  in  this  letter  is  printed  in  the 
 Tolurae  of  "  Liturgies  and  occasional  Forms  of  Prayer,  set  forth  in  the 
 reign  of  Queen  Elizabetli,"  8vo,  1847  (Parker  Society),  p.  478,  and 
 also  in  "The  Remains  of  archbishop  Grindal,"  8vo,  1843,  p.  81.] 
 
15G3]         Aiiriin.  r.viiKi:u  to  siit  william  cKcir..  185 
 
 CWWIII. 
 ARCIiniSIIOr  PAUKKU  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 Gth  Aupist,  [i:.G;!.l     LiuhJ.  MS.  M.  art.  CO.     Ori^'. 
 
 IlAviN(i     received    tlio    Queen's    Majesty's    letters    pro- 
 cured hy  your  honour,   for  which  I  thank  you,   I  received  Thcarpii- 
 also    therewith    the    formular   of  public  ]>raver  and   fasting  iH-m^Vrht. 
 
 *  *         *  .      form  of 
 
 diliijentlv   devised   bv   my   lord  of  London-,  ike,  and    as    it  i'f'«y«r.an.i 
 
 O  tt  w  •  ...  rctiinuMl  It 
 
 seemcth,   perused  by  you,   as  your  hand  inspersed  in  divers  *'"'''"••"- 
 
 rctiirticil  It 
 to  (he 
 
 parts   doth    testify.      I    received    it  on    Thursday    last,    and  i'"'"*^^'- 
 returned   it  to  the  printer   on  this  Friday  morning,   but  yet 
 being  so  bold  to  alter  some  parts  thereof,  not  yet  in  substance 
 and   principal  meaning,   but  in  the  circumstances :    videlicet,  ofrenccgrowt 
 because  I  see  offence  grow  by  new  innovations,   and  I  doubt  t'on.""°'** 
 whether  it  were  best  to  change  the  established  form  of  prayer  The  formu- 
 appointed  already  by  law  in  this  alteration  of  prayer  for  ^  ^^.\j^^'^f  ^^^ 
 time,  as  the  formular  would  infer  all  the  whole  service  in  the  re.^,-",'the 
 body  of  the  church,  which  being  once  in  this  particular  order  £feh[ ^^^ 
 devised,  we  do  abolish  all  chancels,  and  therefore  the  Litany  ruSi''""''' 
 with  the  new  psalms,  lessons,  and  collects,   may   be  said  as  is  tSfore" 
 Litany  is  already  ordered,   in  the  midst  of  the  people ;   and 
 to  be  short,  I  have  no  otherwise  altered  the  book,   but  to 
 make   it  draw,   as  nigh  as  can  be,  to  the  public  book  and 
 orders  used,  &c.     I  wish  that  the  collects  had  been  shorter,  The,^^'^'*^ 
 
 '  '  too  long. 
 
 and  I  fear  the  service  to  be  too  long  for  our  cold  devotions. 
 Delike  they  meant  to  have  the  people  to  continue  in  prayer 
 till  four  in  the  afternoon,  and  then  to  take  their  one  meal; 
 but  all  things  agree  not  everywhere.  Thus  the  Lord  pre- 
 serve your  honour.      At  Canterbury,  this  6th  of  August. 
 
 Your  honour's  assured, 
 
 MATTH.  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  ilie  right  honourable  Sir  William  Cecily 
 l-night,  principal  Secretary  to  the  Queen's 
 Majesty. 
 
 [2  Bishop  Grindal.] 
 
186  ARCHB.   PARKER   TO  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL.  [loG3. 
 
 CXXXIX. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 22nd  August,  [15G3.]     Lansd.  MS.  vi.  art.  70.     Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Being  here  and  would  be   loth  to  be   idle,   and  there- 
 upon having  consideration  as  well  of  these  quarters  for  the 
 common  quiet  among  the  people,  as  respecting  the  common 
 service  of  the  better  sort  toward  the  Queen's  Highness  and 
 her  affairs,  I  find  them  all  in  so  good  order  that  I  do  rejoice 
 The  arch-      thcrcin ;  as  for  my  ecclesiastical  persons,  I  deal  with  them 
 whose iTands  indifferently,  that  I  find  also  obedience  in  them.     Now,  Sir, 
 S ardibi°hop  with  spying  and  searching  I  have  found  out  by  very  credible 
 remainf  ^^^^  information,  among  other  things,  in  whose  hands  the  great 
 notable  written  books  of  my  predecessor  Dr  Cranmer  should 
 remain,   the  parties  yet  denying  the    same,  and  thereupon 
 SiH'fSer  ^Gspair  to  recover  them,  except  I  may  be  aided  by  the  coun- 
 toprocuri""^  cil's  Icttcrs  to  obtaiu  them.      I  pray  your  honour  to  procure 
 
 the  same. 
 If  he  could 
 recover  tliem. 
 
 their  letters  to  authorise  me  to  inquire  and  search  for  such 
 t^be  afte/-'"'  monumeuts  by  all  ways  as  by  my  poor  discretion  shall  be 
 Queen's  com-  thought  good,   whcthcr  it  be  by  deferrino:  an  oath  to   the 
 
 niandment,  P  °         .        .  ,      .  ,      ,.  o  rr^i  •  •  ,. 
 
 he  would  as   partics,  or  Viewing:  their  studies,  &c.      ihis  opportunity  oi 
 
 much  rejoice    ^  .  ,      >  ^        -r  ii»it  it  i 
 
 as  in  restoring  mformatiou  bcmff  such,  I  would  wish  I  could  recover  these 
 
 an  old  chan-  o  ' 
 
 ^^^-  books  to  be  afterward  at  the  Queen's  commandment;  I  would 
 
 as  much  rejoice  while  I  am  in  the  country  to  win  them,  as  I 
 would  to  restore  an  old  chancel  to  reparation.  Because  I  am 
 not  acquainted  with  the  style  of  the  council's  letters  in  this 
 case,  I  send  you  no  minute,  trusting  that  your  goodness  will 
 think  the  labour  well  bestowed  to  cause  the  clerk  of  the 
 council  to  devise  the  form.  And  thus,  hearing  of  the  likeli- 
 hood of  the  plague  to  be  in  beginning  in  some  places  here- 
 about, and  yet  my  own  house,  thanks  be  to  God,  in  good 
 quiet,  I  wish  the  Queen'*s  family  to  be  defended  by  God'^s 
 hand.     At  my  house  from  Bekesbourne,  this  22nd  of  August. 
 
 Your  honour's  assured, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANT. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  William  Cecil, 
 Jcnightj  principal  Secretary  to  the  Queen's 
 Majesty,  at  the  Court. 
 
15G3.]  SIK   WU.l.lAM  CECIL  TO  ARCIIU.   rAIlKlIIt.  187 
 
 CXL. 
 
 SIR    WILLIAM    CKCIL   TO   AKClllUSIIOr   rAUKEK. 
 •JJilh  Aui?u8t,  KAiii.     iMS.  Rejf.  Brit.  Mu«.  7  H.  xi.  ful.  5.     Orig. 
 
 ^Iay   it  please  your  grace,   I   thank   tlio  saino  for  your 
 letters.     I  am  glad  that  you  have  heard  of  such  hid  treasures,  u"j,ui,iha*i" 
 as  I  take  the  books  of  the  holy  archbishop  Cranmcr  to  be;  i!,'rh?)p"h« 
 I  have  of  late  recovered  of  his  v-ritten  books  five   or  six,  hLnVeasurw 
 
 »*iTii/»  ^r-iTii*  T«  1  -XT  as  the  l)<>ok» 
 
 which    I    had   of  one  mv  Herd   from   Lmcoln.      lour   grace  <>f i".iy anh- 
 
 *-'  bisliop  Cran- 
 
 writeth  to  have  letters  from  the  council,  but  to  whom  they  "'^^^ 
 should  bo  written,  or  who  the  persons  of  whom  the  writings 
 should  be  demanded,  your  grace's  letter  maketh  no  mention. 
 And  therefore,  knowing  no  such  earnestness  here,  or  care  of 
 such  matters,  I  forbear  to  press  the  council  therewith,  speci- 
 ally being  not  able  to  render  them  an  account  who  hath  the 
 writings.      But  upon  advertisement  thereof  I  will  not  fail  but  i^^e"?oroh. 
 procure  such  letters.     From  Windsor,  where  we  are  yet  in  jf^'^^'j^s  ^J^Ji 
 health,  thanked  be  Almighty  God.      On  Tuesday  the  Spanish  Znlled- 
 ambassador  died  here,  within  two  miles,  of  a  burning  ague.  ^""'""^^^^ 
 25th  August,  1563. 
 
 Your  grace's  at  commandment, 
 
 W.  CECILL. 
 
 CXLI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 27th  August,  1563.    Lansd.  MS.  vi.  art.  71.     Grig. 
 
 Where   of  late   I   made   a  request  by  letters  to  your 
 honour,  for  the  obtaining  of  the  council's  letters  in  that  cause 
 opened  unto  you,  now  I  would  be  a  suitor  to  the  Queen's  Parkersoiu 
 Majesty,  by  your  favourable  furtherance,  for  the  behoof  of  the  guUSvj  u 
 town  of  Sandwich,  concerning  her  Highness'  Hcence  as  well  to  dTai7ami 
 the  dean  and  chapter  for  their  alienation,  or  rather  a  lease  in  canterbury 
 fee-farm,  of  a  rude  acre  of  ground  belonging  to  their  church,  Sj,"^^ 
 -whereon  the  town  would  build  a  grammar-school ;  Mr  Man-  fn'l^^dwrch. 
 wood  being  so  well  disposed  thereto,  that  he  is  fully  deter-  to^^'ninJ^^^' 
 mined  to  give  to  that  foundation  £20  by  year  impcrpetuum  Ts^JS.''"'''* 
 
188 
 
 ARCHB.  PARKER   TO  SIR   WILLIAM    CECIL. 
 
 [1563. 
 
 whiih  Mr 
 Maiiwood  is 
 williiif,'  to 
 endow. 
 
 The  Queen's 
 zeal  for 
 learning 
 evidenced  by 
 her  restora- 
 tion, on 
 I'arker's  re- 
 quest, of  the 
 stipend  of  the 
 schoolmaster 
 of  Stoke 
 College. 
 
 Mr  Man- 
 wood's  liber- 
 ality a  rare 
 example  in  a 
 man  of  his 
 vocation. 
 
 The  bishops 
 being  no 
 longer  able  to 
 make  liberal 
 foundations, 
 such  men  as 
 Manwood 
 and  Cecil 
 must  lay  to 
 their  hands. 
 
 The  arch- 
 bishop gives 
 account  of  a 
 visit  paid  by 
 him  to 
 Sandwich, 
 and  his  recep- 
 tion there. 
 
 of  his  own  possessions  presently.  The  dean  and  chapter 
 (whom  I  have  particularly  solicited)  be  'well  Avilling  of  their 
 grant,  staying  only  at  the  Queen's  licence ;  the  to'tvn  itself 
 wholly  bent  to  the  erection ;  ]Mr  Manwood's  land  ready  for 
 assurance.  The  opportunity  being  such,  1  doubt  not  of  the 
 Queen'*s  Majesty's  good  and  gracious  assent,  as  I  have  learned 
 by  experience  by  my  own  suit  to  her  Highness  for  the  recovery 
 of  the  stipend  of  the  schoolmaster  at  Stoke  College,  per- 
 ceiving then  her  godly  zeal  to  the  furtherance  of  learning, 
 yea  in  that  case,  where  the  stipend  went  out  of  her  own 
 coffers.  This  rare  example  of  so  godly  foundation  in  Mr 
 Manwood,  a  man  of  his  vocation ^  who  be  commonly  judged 
 rather  to  employ  all  their  abilities  to  their  own  posterities 
 than  to  such  common  respects ;  and  he  being  not  without 
 issue  (and  is  daily  like  to  have  more),  might  have  followed 
 the  common  example,  in  leaving  the  gains  of  his  time  to  his 
 offspring ;  and  therefore  I  would  wish  his  purpose  were 
 favoured,  both  for  example  to  others,  as  also  to  put  away  the 
 common  judgment  which  runneth  upon  such  as  be  of  his 
 calling.  I  take  it  to  be  a  motion  of  God,  in  consideration 
 that  we  poor  bishops  be  not  now  able  to  succeed  our  prede- 
 cessors in  their  so  liberal  foundations.  Now  you,  such 
 as  you  be  and  as  Mr  Manwood  is,  must  lay  hand  to  the  fur- 
 therance of  such  pubHc  endowments,  or  else  ye  be  not  like  to 
 leave  to  your  successors  which  ye  have  received  of  your 
 ancestors. 
 
 For  that  I  would  have  a  view,  partly  of  the  ground  and 
 situation  thereof,  and  for  other  causes,  I  this  last  Sunday 
 morning  rode  thither  from  my  house,  and  was  there  by  seven 
 of  the  clock ;  the  rather  so  soon,  to  prevent  their  civihty  of 
 receiving  (as  the  manner  is),  and  partly  to  be  present  at  their 
 whole  service.  But  in  the  first  consideration  they  prevented 
 rae ;  for,  though  the  morning  was  very  foul  and  rainy,  yet  I 
 found  the  mayor  and  his  jurats  ready  at  the  town-gate  to 
 accompany  me  to  my  lodging,  and  so  to  the  church,  being 
 men  of  honest  civihty,  and  comely  grave  personages  of 
 good  understanding  ;  their  streets  (as  they  might  be  for  the 
 
 [1  Mr  Man"woocl,  afterwards  Sir  Roger  Manwood,  chief  baron  of 
 the  exchequer,  a  great  benefactor  to  Sandwich.  A  licence  was  granted 
 in  conformity  with  Parker's  application,  and  Manwood's  free-school 
 still  exists.] 
 
IjtI.'J.]  Ala  in».  PAivKr.K  to  siu  wii.i.iam  (  r.cii,.  189 
 
 Btniitncss  of  them)  clean  aiul  nut  much  savoury-;  their  ser- 
 vice  sung  iu  iijood  distinct  harmony  and  quiet  devotion  ;  tho 
 sinsjini:  men,  beini;  the  mavor  and  tho  jurats,  with  tho  head 
 men  of  tho  town,  phiccd  in  tlie  (juiro  fair  and  decent,  in  so 
 good  order  as  I  could  wish.  My  auditory  great  and  atten- 
 tive to  hear,  and  also  to  understand  tho  (^>ucen's  pleasure 
 in  publication  of  the  general  prayer  and  fast :  tliat  I  sec  not 
 hut  the  Queen's  Majesty  shall  have  of  them  good  subjects  and 
 true  orators.  And  furthermore,  upon  the  erection  of  this 
 school,  her  Highness  shall  have  a  number  of  young  tender 
 hands  lit't  up  in  prayer  for  her  Highness'  prosperous  reign. 
 
 Tlie  stranjrcrs  there '  being  very  crodly  in  the  Sabbath- state  of  the 
 dav,    and   busy  in  their   work  on  the  week-day,   and   their  r'^/'^V"* 
 
 k  '  «/  •/  '  WK-h.  nii<l 
 
 quietness  such  as  the  mayor  and  his  brethren  have  no  causes  [11^^^^"'*'*' 
 of   variances   coming    before   them.      As  for   other   disorders 
 reformable  by  ecclesiastical  laws,   I  have  before  now  deputed 
 their  minister  (a  grave  learned   man)  to   exercise  (by  mine  Parker  ai- 
 
 ^    .    ^  '  ^    "^  lows  their 
 
 autlioritv)   ecclesiastical  censures,   as   he  shall  see  cause,   as '"'"''';*^^''«« 
 
 1  '  '  '  exercise  ec- 
 
 hitherto  little  hath  been  spied.  cic.si.i.t.cai 
 
 By  all  the  premises  aforesaid  considered,  I  mean  to  com- 
 mend the  town's  request  to  the  Queen's  fiivour,  so  laudably 
 behaving  themselves  as  I  see  them,  and  partly  to  express  to 
 you  some  part  of  my  joy  which  I  have  here  by  them  in  this 
 outward  corner  of  my  diocese,  and  therefore  I  pray  your 
 lionour  help  them.  In  so  doing  mercedem  reportahis  a  Do- 
 mino in  resurrectione  justorum;  which  God  of  his  mercy 
 make  joyful  to  the  Queen's  Highness  and  to  us  all.  From  my 
 house  at  Bekesbourne,  this  27th  day  of  August,  1563. 
 
 Your  honour's  assured, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  JVilliam  Cecily 
 Inight,  principal  Secretary  to  the  Queen's 
 Majesty,  at  the  Court. 
 
 [2  Sandwich  was  at  that  time  an  important  fishing-town,] 
 [3  Several   hundred   Walloon  manufacturers,  driven    from  their 
 native  country  by  the  cruelty  of  the  Spaniards,  were  permitted  by 
 Queen  Elizabeth  to  take  up  their  abode  at  Sandwich  in  loGl.J 
 
 censures. 
 
190 
 
 LORD  ROBERT  DUDLEY  TO  ARCHB.  PARKER. 
 
 [1563. 
 
 The  Queen 
 having  liad 
 
 CXLII. 
 
 LORD  ROBERT  DUDLEY  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 4th  September,  [loGS.]    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  61.  p.  193.    Grig. 
 
 My   Lord,    the  Queeii"*s   Majesty  being   abroad   hunting 
 
 in^huming     y^stcrday   in    the  forest,   and   having    had   very   good    hap 
 
 arChbishop     beside  great  sport,  she  hath  thought  good  to  remember  your 
 
 wfufheVown  graco  with  part  of  her  prey,  and  so  commanded  me  to  send 
 
 you  from  her  Highness  a  great  and  a  fat  stag  killed  with  her 
 
 own  hand^     Which  because  the  weather  was  woght  [sic]  and 
 
 the  deer  somewhat  chafed  and  dangerous  to  be  carried  so  far 
 
 without  some  help,    I    caused   him  to  be   parboiled  in   this 
 
 sort  for  the  better  preservation  of  him ;  which  I  doubt  not 
 
 but  shall  cause  him  to  come  unto  you  as  I  would  be  glad  he 
 
 should.     So  having  no  other  matter  at  this  present  to  trouble 
 
 your  grace  withal,  I  will  commit  you  to  the  Almighty,  and 
 
 with   my  most  hearty  commendations   take   my   leave.      In 
 
 haste,  at  Windsor,  this  4th  of  September. 
 
 Tour  grace's  assured, 
 
 R.  DUDDELEY*. 
 
 To  my  very  good  lord  the   arcJihisJiop 
 of  Canterbury  his  grace. 
 
 which  Lei- 
 cester had 
 had  par- 
 boiled. 
 
 CXLIIL 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  ROBERT  DLTDLEY. 
 6th  September,  [1563.]  Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  p.  193  b.    Grig,  draft. 
 
 After  my  right  hearty  commendations  to  your  good 
 lordship.  Having  received  your  letters  expressing  the  Queen's 
 Majesty's  gracious  remembrance  to  her  poor  subject  with 
 brante  part  of  her  hunting  in  the  forest,  I  was  replenished  with 
 much  joy  at  her  favourable  benevolence,  wishing  to  her  High- 
 ness all  grace  and  felicity  as  in  my  prayer  shall  be  unfeign- 
 edly  remembered  for  her  Highness,  beseeching  your  lordship 
 
 [1  Originally  Avritten  "bowe,"  wliich  was  afterwards  struck  out, 
 and  "  hand"  substituted.     It  has  been  printed  "  bow-hand. "J 
 P  Created  Earl  of  Leicester  29  September,  1563.] 
 
 Tarket's  joy 
 at  the 
 Queen's  re 
 mem 
 of  him 
 
1j(>3.]       AKcim.  r.MJKi.ii    r<»  i  ni;n  noHEli'i   Di  mi  /k.  T  i 
 
 in  my  name  to  present  to  her  Majesty  my  boundcn  duty  of 
 lowly  thanks  with  bettor  terms  and  more  eonvcnicnt  words 
 than  1  can  well  devise  hy  my  letters,    wherein  your  lordship 
 shall  doubly  bind  mo  both  for  this  kind  of  friendship,  as  also  knllllwiu^. 
 for  that  your  lordship  did  so  providently  cause  tlic  deer  to  bo  TnrTn'nbfrt 
 preserved  in  se:\son,   if  the   whot   [sic]   weather  would  have    "'  '^ 
 permitted  it.     And  thus  oftcring  your  lordship  my  good  heart, 
 I  commend  the  same  to  Almighty  (lod  as  myself.      From  my 
 little  house  at  IJekesbourno,  nigh  to  Canterbury,  this  Cth  of 
 September. 
 
 Your  lordship's  loving  friend, 
 
 M.  C. 
 
 To  thr  rhjht  honourahle  my  lord  liohert 
 Dudleij  of  the  Queens  Majesti/'s  prh'ij 
 council. 
 
 CXLIV. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 7th  September,  15C3.    MS.  Reg.  Brit.  Mus.  7  B.  xi.  fo.  3.     Parker's  draft. 
 
 "Where  I  did  write  to  your  honour  to  procure  the  coun- 
 cirs  letters  for  the  obtaining  of  certain  ancient  written  books 
 of  the  lord  Cranmer,  and  behke  did  not  express  particularly  J;"^J^''^*j'^ 
 either  to  whom  these  letters  should  be  directed,  or  the  persons  ar^Vbisho?*^ 
 of  whom  they  should  be  demanded,  your  honour  shall  under-  fhTJvilh'cs^o? 
 stand  that  the  party  to  whom  belongeth  these  books  sued  to  Il^Sfng^ihe 
 me   to  recover  them  out  of   Dr  Nevison's  hands,   in  whose  ^"^^' 
 study  the  owner  plainly  avouchetli  that  he  saw  them  with  his 
 own  eyes  there,  and  who  did  after  that  require  them  of  him, 
 beins:  conveyed  awav  from  him  the  said  owner,  but  the  said 
 Nevison  denieth  to   have   them.      And   I  am   persuaded   he 
 would  do  the  same  to  myself,  if  I  should  de[mand]  them,  and 
 thereupon  desired  to  have  the  counciFs  letters  which  he  might 
 the  better  regard,  either  directed  to  me  to  require  them  of 
 him,  or  else  to  him  to  deliver  them  to  me,  being  none  of  his 
 own  but  usurped  in  secrecy,  for  the  which  I  have  made  much 
 long  inquiry  till  now  the  party  who  oweth  them  denoted  so 
 much  to  me.      I  refer  the  consideration  of  this  my  desire, 
 either  to  be  satisfied  by  the  means  of  such  letters  aforesaid. 
 
192  AUCIIB.  PARKER  TO   SIR  WILLIAM   CECIL.  [1563. 
 
 or  else  by  yourself  privately,  as  your  gentle  prudence  shall 
 think  best.  Indeed  the  matter  is  of  earnest  importance  and 
 need  ***  your  help  if  gratitude  *  the  said  Nevison  to  me 
 were  not  to  seek^ 
 Help  forward  Finally,  I  pray  your  honour  once  again,  help  forward  Mr 
 Tmem  ^°°*^  Manwood's  good  intent,  as  conscience  with  the  reason  of  your 
 office  may  conveniently  bear  it.     7  th  September. 
 
 CXLV. 
 
 The  lords  of 
 the  council 
 
 house. 
 
 THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 15th  September,  1563.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  27.  p. 87.    Grig. 
 
 After  our  most    hearty   commendations  to    your  good 
 hrvracceded  lordship.    Wo  havo  upon  suit  made  unto  us  by  the  doctors, 
 
 to  the  request         ^  *■        ^  -^  <^  ' 
 
 b^  andDr^'^"  prisouors  in  the  Tower,  to  be  removed  from  thence  to  some 
 be°removed  othor  couvenient  place,  for  their  better  safeguard  from  the 
 T?weJ^to  present  infection  of  the  plague,  resolved  that  Dr  Thirleby 
 lesreiposld  and  Dr  Boxall  shall  be  placed  in  your  lordship's  house,  in 
 of  the  plague,  such  convoment  lodging  as  your  lordship  shall  think  meet, 
 having  each  of  them  one  servant  to  attend  upon  them.  And 
 bSouo'  therefore  we  require  your  lordship  to  receive  them  into  your 
 fnto'hfs^^^'"  house,  and  so  to  use  them  as  is  requisite  for  men  of  their 
 sort,  foreseeing  that  there  be  no  other  access  or  conference 
 with  them  than  you  think  meet,  considering  for  what  causes 
 they  be  restrained  from  their  liberty.  And  for  the  charges 
 of  their  commons  (during  the  time  of  their  abode  with  you) 
 we  think  good  that  they  do  satisfy  your  lordship  for  the 
 same  according  to  reason.  And  so  we  bid  your  good  lord- 
 ship most  heartily  farewell.  From  Windsor,  the  15  th  of 
 September,  1563. 
 
 Your  good  lordship's  most  assured  loving  friends, 
 
 F.  BEDFORD.     PENBROKE.     R.  DUDDELEY. 
 E.  CLYNTOjS^.  W.  HOWARD. 
 
 WILLIAM  PETRE.  S.     F.  KNOLLYS.     W.  CECILL. 
 
 N.  WOTTON. 
 
 [1  The  MS.  has  been  a  little  cut  in  the  binding.  Perhaps  this 
 last  passage  should  be  read,  "and  needed  not  your  help  if  gratitude  in 
 the  said  Nevison  to  me  were  not  to  seek. "J 
 
i  *0o.]         Dit  TmuLiinY  TO  Aiuiiaisiioi'  i'aukiiu.  193 
 
 CXLVI. 
 i>;:  TiiirvM'.HY,  dkimjivkd  nisiiop  of  klv,  to  arcii- 
 
 IiLSIIOl*  riUKKU. 
 iCth  Septetuber,  i;.0  I.     AJJitionul  MS.  Ilrit.  Mu*.  lU,  .TJS,  art.  I '.     Vr\:;. 
 
 YovR  grace  knowctli  the  proverb,   "an  unbidden  guest 
 'wotteth   not  where   to  sit."      Aliliou<:h   wo   bo  unbidden,  yet  nrThirUby 
 we  are    not  unappointed,   Mr   lioxall   and   I   bo   assigned  to  \^'^^ ; 
 remain  with  vour  grace,  how  long,  or  in  what  condition,  In!;;,m„,siii» 
 think  you  shall   know  by   the  lords  of  tho   Council's   letter,  bbhop.''' 
 which  our  keepers  will  bring  with  us.      1  mind  to  bring  with 
 me  all  my   family   of  the  Tower,  that  is,  my  man   and  my 
 boy  ;  for  when  I  told  my  bov  that  I  would  leave  him  behind  Thiricbypro- 
 me,  he  made  earnest  suit  to  take  him  with  me,  saying,  that  n^n'kSdboy. 
 lie  doubted  not,  since  by  your  means  he  came  to  me  into  the 
 Tower,  that  by  your  good  contentation  he  might  go  with  me 
 out  of  the  Tower.      Therefore  unless  your  grace  shall  com- 
 mand the  contrary,  1  mind  to  bring   him  with  me,  although 
 1  alone  should  be  comer  enou2:h  to  you.     I  doubt  what  ways  Hedoubts 
 
 o  «/  V       winch  way 
 
 we  may  come  without  danger  of  the  plague  to  your  grace,  J.of,y/a7i 
 all  the  places  in  the  way  being  so  sore  infected,  yet  they  say  Sl'^eing^^ 
 need  maketh  the  old  wife  to  trot.      1  pray  God  to  bring  us  iile^iagJ'c'''' 
 well  to  you,  and  to  preserve  your  grace  to  his  pleasure.    From 
 the  Tower,  the  16th  of  September,  15G3. 
 
 Your  grace's  to  command, 
 
 THOMAS  THYRLEBY. 
 
 To  my  lord  of  Canterbury 
 his  grace. 
 
 CXLVII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER   TO  DR   THIRLEBY. 
 
 20th  September,  15G3.     Additional  MS.  Brit.  IMus.  19,  OOS.  art.  4G.     Talker's 
 original  dralt. 
 
 Sir,   as   an   unbidden   guest,   as  ye   write,  knoweth  not 
 where  to  sit,  so  a  jruest  bidden  or  unbidden,  being:  content  ir^'^^^f"' 
 
 '  C  '  o  with  what 
 
 with  that  which  he  shall  find,  shall  deserve  to  be  the  better '^j'^^j  *^^y 
 welcome.      If  ye  bring  with  you  your  man  and  your  young  to^tJ^Jh^"'^ 
 
 1Q  more  we 
 
 l_FAnK.  COR.J 
 
194 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  DR  THIRLEBY. 
 
 [1563. 
 
 querlstcr  too,  ye  shall  not  be  refused ;  and  if  your  com- 
 panion in  journey  can  content  himself  with  one  man  to  attend 
 upon  him,  your  lodgings  shall  the  sooner  be  prepared.  Your 
 fiSSght,  best  way  were  to  Maidstone  the  first  night,  and  the  next 
 hither.  I  would  wish  your  coming  were  the  sooner  afore 
 night,  that  such  as  shall  come  with  you  being  once  dis- 
 charged of  their  charge,  may  return  that  night  to  Canter- 
 bury, two  miles  oiF,  to  their  bed.  And  thus  God  send  you 
 a  quiet  passage  :  the  20th  of  September,  1563. 
 
 Their  best 
 wav  will  be 
 to  Maidstone 
 the 
 
 and  thence 
 to  the 
 
 archbishop's 
 the  next. 
 
 CXLVIII. 
 
 Dr  Thirleby 
 has  written 
 to  the 
 archbishop 
 that  the 
 council  have 
 appointed 
 him  and  Mr 
 Boxall  to  re- 
 main in  the 
 house  of  the 
 archbishop. 
 
 For  fear  of 
 the  plague, 
 Parker  pro- 
 poses to 
 place  them 
 for  a  time  in 
 an  unoccu- 
 pied house 
 not  far  from 
 his  own  resi- 
 dence. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 20th  September,  1563.    Lansd.  MS.  vi.  art.  75.     Grig. 
 
 I  UNDERSTAND  by  Icttcrs  sent  to  me  from  Dr  Thirleby  ^ 
 that  the  council  hath  appointed  himself  and  Mr  Boxall  to 
 remain  with  me  in  house,  under  what  conditions  he  writeth 
 that  I  shall  know  by  their  letters,  which  their  keeper  shall 
 deliver  unto  me  at  their  repair  hither,  which  is  purposed  upon 
 Wednesday  next.  Pleaseth  it  your  honour  to  signify  to  the 
 honourable  council,  that  I  trust  it  may  stand  with  their  plea- 
 sure, if,  for  the  fear  that  my  household  is  in  of  them  thus 
 coming  from  a  contagious  air,  I  do  place  them  in  the  town 
 not  far  from  my  house  here  at  Bekesborne,  in  an  house  at 
 this  present  void  of  a  dweller,  till  such  time  as  they  were 
 better  blown  with  this  fresh  air  for  a  fourteen  days.  For 
 their  provision,  I  shall  see  to ;  and  for  jeopardy  of  the 
 custody  of  their  persons,  I  am  surely  persuaded  of  the  one 
 not  to  disappoint  your  expectations,  as  for  the  other  I  know 
 not  so  well  his  nature ;  whereupon,  if  ought  should  chance  in 
 the  mean  time,  till  I  receive  them  to  myself,  I  trust  the 
 council  will  rather  bear  with  me  in  avoiding  the  danger  of 
 infection  as  may  be  feared,  than  for  their  behoof  endanger 
 
 [1  Dr  Thomas  Thirleby  was  the  bishop  of  Ely,  deprived  on  the 
 accession  of  Queen  Elizabeth  for  refusing  to  take  the  oath  of  supre- 
 macy. He  and  Mr  Secretary  Boxall  lived  together  in  archbishop 
 Parker*s  houses  at  Lambeth  and  Beaksbourne  for  several  years.  Dr 
 Thirleby  died  at  Lambeth  on  the  26th  August,  1570,  and  was  buried 
 in  the  middle  of  the  chancel  of  Lambeth  church.] 
 
1563.]     Auciinisiior  rAUKEu  to  siu  wiujam  tKcn..         195 
 
 my  whole  family.      1  moan  not  in  respect  of  my  own  person 
 to  repino  at  such  aj^pointinoiit,  nor  yet  woiiUl  I  bo  tlioui^ht 
 slack  to  gratify  mine  old  accpiaintanco  (so  far  as  my  faith  to 
 (uhI  and  his  word,  and  mine  alloi^ianco  to  my  prince  and  her 
 •'overnment  mav  hoar  with  it),  nor  I  mean  not  to  allcf'o  the  ii'^houMf 
 smaller  room  of  my  house  already  pestered,  having  not  many  J;;; 
 under  a  hundred   persons  uprising  and   down-lying  therein, "'}',' 
 liosido  divers   of  my  family   which    for  straitness  of  lodging  lun 
 ho   other  where  abroad ;   but  if  any  peril  should  arise  the  h^in. 
 country  here  would  make  much  exclamation,  for  I  see  they 
 bo  wonderfully  afraid  of  all  such  as  como  from  London.      I 
 thought  it  good  therefore  to  signify  thus  much  to  your  honour 
 afore  hand,  praying  the  same  to  bo  a  mean  that  my  doings 
 may  bo  taken  to   the  best.     And  thus  I  leave,  wishing  you 
 God's  favour  as  to  myself,  this  20th  of  September. 
 
 Your  honour's  assuredly, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  right  Jionourahle  Sir  WiUiam  Cecil, 
 hnight,  principal  Secretary  to  the  Queen's 
 Majestg. 
 
 CXLIX. 
 
 THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 23rd  September,  1503.    MS.  Keg.  Brit.  Mus.  7  B.  xi.  fol.2.  Orig. 
 
 After  our   very   hearty   commendations   to   your  good 
 lordship.     Being  given  to  understand,  that  certain   written 
 books,  containing  matters  of  divinity,  sometime  belonging  to  written 
 archbishop    Cranraer,   your  lordship's  predecessor,  are  come  ardunshop 
 
 _^^.  -.  Craniner  in 
 
 to  the  hands  of  JJr  INevison,  bemg  very  necessary  to  be  seen  thch.yidsof 
 at  this  time  :  we  have  somewhat  earnestly  written  to  the  said  Yv'"^'^. . 
 
 '  •/  iltlivcreil  to 
 
 Mr  Nevison,  to  deliver  those  books  unto  your  lordship.     And  JlJ^hoj? 
 like  as  we  doubt  not  he  will  forthwith  deliver  the  same  unto 
 you,  considering  they  are  for  so  good  a  purpose  required  of 
 him,  so  if  he  shall  deny  the  delivery  thereof,  we  think  meet  if  ho  refuse, 
 that   your   lordship,   by   your  own  authority,   do   cause  his  be'^M.i.iht, 
 
 1  .  if,  ,  ,  .    ,       1  -1,1       amithebooks 
 
 studv,  and  such  other  places  where  tou  thmk  the  said  books  t<.  be  taken 
 
 »  .  *  "^  into  the 
 
 do  remain,  to  be  sought :  and  if  the  same  books   may   be  cusJ^','^°p*^ 
 
 13 — 2 
 
196   THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  AIICHB.  PARKER.  [1563. 
 
 found,  to  take  them  into  your  lordship's  custody  ^  And 
 thus  we  bid  your  good  lordship  most  heartily  farewell.  From 
 Windsor  Castle,  the  23rd  of  September,  1563. 
 
 Your  good  lordship's  most  assured  loving  friends, 
 
 N.  BACON,  C.  S.         W.  NORTHT.       PENBROKE. 
 R.  DUDDELEY.         E.  CLYNTOX.     F.  KNOLLYS. 
 WILLIAM  PETRE,  S.  W.  CECILL. 
 
 To  my  lord  of  Canterbury's 
 good  grace. 
 
 CL. 
 
 BISHOP  GRINDAL  OF  LONDON  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 3rd  October,  1563.     Lambeth  MS.  959.  art.  43.     Orig. 
 
 The  province         Please  it  your  graco,  your  whole  province  is  shrewdly 
 troubled  by    troubled  at  this  present  by  exacting  a  remnant  of  the  last 
 
 the  exaction  .  . 
 
 Sf  thTSst^"^  subsidy.  There  is  a  blind  clause,  which  I  understand  not,  in 
 subsidy.  ^YiQ  grant  of  the  said  subsidy  an.  4  et  5  Phil,  et  Marice,  that 
 if  by  exility  or  decay  of  benefices,  &c.  any  arrearages  be, 
 they  are  to  be  answered  the  next  year.  I  would  that  Doctor 
 Bennett,  Doctor  Harvey,  and  such  like  that  were  then  in  the 
 convocation,  were  called  to  expound  their  meaning. 
 
 If,   because  the  Queen's  Majesty,  at  your  grace's  suit, 
 
 pardoned  the  components,    that  sum  be   now    cast  into  the 
 
 The  arch-      arrearages,  it  were  an  unreasonable  matter.     If  your  grace 
 
 bishop  soil-  o      '  ^  ^  t/  o 
 
 toelsl°the^  could  help  to  ease  your  province  it  were  well  done.     If  your 
 EiSon.  gi'ace  also  sent  for  Godfrey,  he  might  open  some  matter. 
 
 On  INIonday  afternoon  I  intend  to  see  your  grace  on  my 
 repairing  hither  from  London.  God  keep  your  grace.  3rd 
 October,  1563. 
 
 Your  grace's  in  Christ, 
 
 EDM.  LONDON. 
 
 \}  The  valuable  volumes  referred  to,  Avhich  are  theological  com- 
 monplace books  of  archbishop  Cranmer,  are  now  amongst  the  Royal 
 MSS.  in  the  British  Museum,  7  B.  xi.  and  xii.  The  letters  here  pub- 
 lished relating  to  them  are  prefixed  to  the  former  of  the  two  volumes.] 
 
 J 
 
15C3.J  AUiUM.  I'AKKliU    TO  SlK   OKOIUiK    IIOWAIlD.  lUl 
 
 CIJ. 
 
 ARCiiuisiior  rAi:Ki:u  to  mk  cikougk  iiowakd. 
 
 [October,  K'.W.]    Torkcr  MSS.  C.  C.  Ci.ll.  ('umb.  cxiv.  art.  I'.Jl.  p.  C-':». 
 Orijf.  draft. 
 
 AiTKii  my  lioarty  conimcntlations  to  your  worship.    Having 
 of  late  received  vour  letters  of  coinmeiidation  of  Mr  Heard,  Thcarch- 
 
 -.r'  -  ^>,  .*  ,        .        ,  .        ,.,.  f  .         I>i»h(ip  think* 
 
 V  icar  of  Greenwich,  lor  lus  dihirencc  shewed  there,   I  perceive  f-jv<)..raiiiy  of 
 
 '  P'  '  *  Mr  IkarU, 
 
 further  by  your  said  letters,  that  he  hath  insinuated  himself  (Vre'J^iJj^.,, 
 to  your  worship  to  bo  in  good  credit  with  mc :  and  that  there-  iJ^It-riTM 
 fore  ye  need  not  much  to  crave  my  help  toward  his  prefer-  huluiran"" 
 ment.     Indeed,  I  think  him  to  be  studious,  and  by  outward  'iHi'for'il'i'im 
 demeanour  modest :   and  performing  in  deed  so  much  as  ho  iVoward.*^"' 
 seemeth  in  wortl  to  profess.      I  judge  him  worthy  to  be  con- 
 sidered with  competent  living,  but  yet  not  meaning  to  advance 
 him  so  far  to  place  him  by  my  letters  of  commendation  as  to 
 that   room  he   sued  to  mo  for,  and  thereupon  so  dismissed 
 liim,   without  my  answer  to    you   then,    yet  now  have  per- 
 formed the  same,  praying  your  worship  to  take  it  in  good 
 part :    wishing  to  you  God's  grace  and  his  protection  as  to 
 mvself-. 
 
 CUT. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 20th  November,  1,:G3.     Lansd.  :MS.  vi.  art.  81.     Grig. 
 
 It  may  please  your  honour  to  understand,  that  I  have  rrcfcrmont 
 great  cause  most  humbly  to  give  the  Queen's  Majesty  thanks  'blsho^s'^'^^''' 
 for  the  favour  shewed  toward  my  request  for  the  preferment'^  '''"'*'"■ 
 of  my  chaplain^,  and  so  likewise  I  heartily  thank  your  honour 
 
 [-  The  draft  of  this  letter  is  written  under  a  letter  from  Sir  George 
 Howard  to  the  archbishop,  dated  the  11th  October,  15G3.  Sir  George 
 recommends  his  "friend"  Mr  Beard,  whom  ho  terms  "our  vicar  of 
 Greenwich,"  to  the  favour  of  the  archbishop.  He  describes  Mr  Beard 
 as  having  "used  himself  at  Greenwich,  like  a  godly,  diligent,  and 
 learned  pastor."] 
 
 [3  The  preferment  here  alluded  to  was  a  prebend  in  Canterbury 
 cathedral,  vacant  by  the  death  of  bishop  Bale,  and  the  person  for 
 whom  it  was  obtained  was  Andrew  Picrson,  chaplain,  almoner,  and 
 
198 
 
 AllCHB.    I'AUKER  TO  SIR   WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 [1563. 
 
 Sir  W.  Cecil 
 had  written 
 on  behaliof 
 his  cousin, 
 B.irnaby 
 Goofje,  who 
 had  entered 
 into  a  eon- 
 tract  of  ma- 
 trimony with 
 a  young  gen- 
 tlewoman, 
 whose 
 parents  al- 
 lege a  pre- 
 contract. 
 
 "What  the 
 archbishop 
 had  done, 
 and  would 
 do. 
 
 Bale's  MSS. 
 promised  to 
 the  arch- 
 bishop for 
 money. 
 
 Informality 
 in  the  grant 
 to  the  arch- 
 bishop's 
 chaplain. 
 
 for  your  instancy  therein,  as  by  your  letters  I  understand ; 
 ■wherein  yc  write  for  your  cousin  and  servant  Barnaby  Googe, 
 to  have  his  matter  heard  according  to  law  and  equity. 
 Which  matter  as  yesterday  I  have  examined  avisedly,  having 
 not  only  the  young  gentlewoman  before  me,  to  understand  of 
 herself  the  state  of  the  cause,  who  remaineth  firm  and  stable 
 to  stand  to  that  contract  which  she  hath  made,  as  also  her 
 father  and  mother,  whom  I  find  the  most  earnest  parents 
 against  the  bargain  as  I  ever  saw.  In  fine,  I  have  seques- 
 tered her  out  of  both  their  hands  into  the  custody  of  one 
 Mr  Tufton,  a  right  honest  gentleman,  until  the  precontract 
 which  is  by  her  parents  alleged  for  one  Leonard's  son,  a 
 pronotary,  be  induced ;  but  they  may  give  occasion  to  bring  it 
 into  the  Arches  to  spend  money ;  howbeit  I  mean  to  dull  that 
 expectation,  and  to  go  plane  et  summarie  to  work,  to  spare 
 expences,  which  rich  Leonard  and  the  wilful  parents  would 
 fain  enter,  to  weary  the  young  gentleman,  peradventure  not 
 superfluously  monied  so  to  sail  the  seas  with  them^ 
 
 Concerning  the  old  antiquities  of  Mr  Bale,  I  have  be- 
 spoken them,  and  am  promised  to  have  them  for  money  if 
 I  be  not  deceived. 
 
 Furthermore,  as  I  was  writing  this  letter  of  thanks  to 
 you,  with  the  premises,  was  brought  to  me  a  donation  by  the 
 Queen's  Highness's  great  seal  for  my  chaplain  aforesaid;  which 
 being  not  in  such  order  passed  as  both  by  law,  custom,  and 
 statute  of  the  house  is  required,  I  pray  your  honour  most  in- 
 stantly to  procure  it  to  be  agreeably  reviewed.  It  will  work 
 a  subversion  of  order  in  the  church,  and  a  breach  of  statute, 
 besides  other  inconveniences  which  were  too  long  to  write.  I 
 would  the   clerks  would  better  consider  the  order   of  such 
 
 one  of  the  executors  of  archbishop  Parker,  a  man  whom  he  much 
 patronized.  The  General  Index  to  Strype  furnishes  references  to  his 
 many  employments  and  preferments.] 
 
 [1  Barnaby  Googe  was  at  this  time  in  his  23rd  year.  The  dedica- 
 tion of  his  first  work,  a  translation  of  The  First  Three  Books  of  the 
 Zodiack  of  Life,  by  Palingenius,  is  dated  "  decimo  Martii  anno  Christi, 
 1560,  cetaiis  nostrce  XX."  (Brydges'  Cens.  Lit.  ii.  212).  During  1563  he 
 published  his  collection  of  Eclogues,  and  was  appointed  a  gentleman- 
 pensioner  to  the  Queen.  Of  Leonard,  his  opponent  in  this  dispute, 
 Strype  says  that  John  and  Thomas  Leonard  had,  in  1550,  a  grant  of 
 the  ofiice  of  Pronotary,  or  Clerk  of  the  Crown,  for  certain  counties, 
 for  their  lives.    (Strypc's  Parker,  Bk.  ii.  c.  17.)] 
 
lot).].]         Auciin.  r.vuKEU  m  mk  william  cecil.  lliO 
 
 privy  seals.      1   sent  your  honour  an  instrument  of  an  insti- 
 tution used,  imnieiliately  after  tho  departure  of  tho  said  lialo ; 
 but  beliko,  and   as  it   is   rc'imrted,  tho   <,)ucen's  Majesty    had 
 granted  it  two  days  before  his  departure,  which   httle  error 
 l)eradventure  also  might  be  hurtful  to  tho  party  to  come  into  ,V*^;*^Kf,^Vd 
 that   prebend   which    was   not  void,   although   tho  great   seal  J;y.,'J.';;,^„ 
 beareth  date  after  the  decease,      liut  I  pray  your  honour  be  lu,-, 'Jau.!'" 
 not  displeased  to  reform  this  instrument,  that  it  may  pass  by 
 presentation  as  it  ought.      Having  thus  much  troubled  your 
 afl'iiirs,  I  commend  your  honour  to  God's  grace  as  myself,  this 
 Saturday  at  uight,  being  the  2()th  of  November. 
 
 Your  honour's  to  my  power, 
 
 MATTIIUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  n'<jht  honourable  Sir  William  Cecil, 
 kni(/hf,  principal  Secretary  to  the  Queen's 
 Majesty. 
 
 CLIIL 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   SHI  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 [Ascribed  to  10C3.]    Lansd.  MS.  vi.  art.  89.     Orig.  in  Parker's  own  hand. 
 
 I  PRAY  you  lay  not  this  aside,  but  rather  brcn  it,  read 
 or  unread,  at  your  pleasure. 
 
 Sir,  after  my  right  hearty  commendations.  I  cannot  bo 
 quiet  till  I  have  disclosed  to  you,  as  to  one  of  my  best  willing 
 friends,  in  secrecy,  mine  imperfection,  which  grievcth  me 
 not  so  much  to  utter  in  respect  of  my  own  rebuke,  as  it 
 grieveth  me  that  I  am  not  able  to  answer  your  friendly  re- T^rkers Rrief 
 
 D  «/  t/  from  a  con- 
 
 port  of  me  before  time,  whereby,  to  my  much  grief  of  heart,  i';i,'^"Rc1'ency 
 I  pass  forth  my  life  in  heaviness,  being  thus  intruded,  not-  o'^J^if 
 withstanding  my  rcluctation  by  oft  letters  to  my  friends,  to 
 be  in  such   room  which   I   cannot  sustain   agreeably  to  the 
 honour  of  the  realm,  if  I  should  be  so  far  tried.      The  truth 
 is,  what  with  passing  those  hard  years  of  Clary's  reign  in  f.y^  r^tjrwi 
 obscurity,  without  all  conference  or  such  manner  of  study  as  g^'^^ YiarJ-s 
 now  might  do  me  service,  and  what  with  my  natural  viciosity  SjottJTin 
 of  overmuch  shamefastness,  I  am  so  babished  [sic]  in  myself,  fcrnS'"*' 
 that  I  cannot  raise  up  my  heart  and  stomach  to  utter  in  talk  au^iSiuriy 
 
200 
 
 AllCIIB.    PAKIvER  TO   SIR   WILLIAM    CECIL. 
 
 [15G3. 
 
 to  (leal  with 
 straiiiiers. 
 
 He  entreats 
 Cecil  to  help 
 hi  111  to 
 '*  shadow  his 
 cowardness." 
 
 He  can  man- 
 age his  eccle- 
 siastical 
 business. 
 
 but  beyond 
 that  can  do 
 nothing. 
 
 His  infirmi- 
 ties and  the 
 business  of 
 his  diocese 
 occupy  him 
 entirely. 
 
 The  bishop 
 of  Aquila 
 having  de- 
 sired a  con- 
 ference on 
 religious  sub- 
 
 wltli  other,  which  (as  I  may  say)  with  my  pen  I  can  express 
 indifferently,  without  great  difficulty.  And,  again,  I  am  so 
 evil  acquainted  with  strangers,  both  in  their  manner  of  utter- 
 ance of  their  speech,  and  also  in  such  foreign  affairs,  that  I 
 cannot  win  of  myself  any  ways  to  satisfy  my  fancy  in  such 
 kind  of  entertainment,  and  ye  know  caput  artis  est  decere 
 quod  facias,  et  inf elicit  er  eveniunt  quoi  tentes  invita  Minerva, 
 et  satius  dicunt  qui  confidentius  audent.  Whereupon  this  is 
 to  require  you,  for  all  loves,  to  help  me  to  shadow  my  cow- 
 ardness till  better  may  be,  and  to  decline  from  me  such  oppor- 
 tunities wherein  I  should  work  a  lack  to  my  promoters  and  a 
 shame  to  myself. 
 
 As  for  the  ordering,  overseeing,  and  compassing  common 
 matters  ecclesiastical,  in  synod  or  out  thereof,  among  mine 
 acquainted  familiar  brethren,  I  doubt  not  but  with  God''s 
 grace  and  help  of  counsel  to  serve  somewhat  that  turn  within 
 the  realm ;  and  there  my  stomach  will  stand  by  me,  to  do  so 
 far  as  these  exulceratissima  tempora  will  suffer  or  the  unruly 
 affections  of  men  can  be  won ;  but  if  ye  drive  me  out  of  this 
 course,  wherein  I  have  only  been  brought  up,  as  traded  in  a 
 little  experience  of  smaller  matters  at  the  university,  ye  shall 
 drive  me  utterly  out  of  conceit,  and  then  can  I  do  nothing. 
 I  perceive,  what  for  bodily  and  painful  griefs  with  which  I  am 
 oft  molested  and  vexed,  not  yet  known  or  complained  of  to 
 many  folks,  and  partly  with  answering  all  such  interpellations 
 as  be  made  to  me  from  my  brethren  in  the  whole  province  in 
 their  causes  of  resolutions,  and  other  such  matters  eccle- 
 siastical, my  study  is  done,  my  life  belike  must  be  spent  in 
 actione,  wherein  I  am  content  to  serve  to  my  uttermost  power, 
 wishing  yet  redemptionem  corporis  hujus  in  respects  aforesaid, 
 rather  than  much  joying  in  the  dehght  of  my  state  ;  wherein  my 
 desire  is  to  please  God,  to  serve  my  loving  prince  and  natural 
 country,  and  to  content  as  I  may  my  godly  friends ;  and  thus, 
 praying  your  goodness  to  keep  patience  with  me,  in  full  con- 
 fidence of  your  christian  affection,  qui  possit  compati  infirmi- 
 tatihus  aliorum,  I  commend  your  honour  to  God  as  myself. 
 
 After  I  had  thus  far  brought  forth  my  letter,  this  came 
 into  my  head  as  followeth.     "Where  the  bishop  of  Aquila^  de- 
 
 \}  If  this  alhision  be,  as  is  probable,  to  the  Spanish  ambassador 
 whoso  death  is  mentioned  at  p.  187,  this  letter  must  hare  been  written 
 some  time  before  the  25th  August  loG3.    See  Hoarne^s  Camden,  1. 103.] 
 
1503.]         Aiiriiii.  PAUKi:u  TO  sill  wii.i.iam  i  i;rn..  201 
 
 sired  conforonco  it  were  well  ho  were  satisfuMl;  and  as  ho  doth  1^J^*'JJ 
 prudontly  judge,  that  it  might  bo  sinistrally  taken  either  me  urirTlh.r 
 to  go  to  him,  or  him  to  come  to  me,  so  I  think  for  us  to  meet  mim'^'n* 
 together  at  your  house,  it  were  neither  good  to  your  famo  or  wnunK 
 mine  :  and  strangely  it  would  bo  eonstrucd  among  the  light 
 brethren  in  divers  respects.  Furthermore,  yo  know  that  ho 
 should  come  pnrmcditatus,  and  I  taiKjuani  novus  hosj)es  to 
 his  matters  unprepared,  and  so  the  nuitcii  the  more  unequal ; 
 besides  that  my  books  should  not  bo  nigh  to  mo  to  avouch  au- 
 thority where  it  should  need.  If  therefore  your  honour  think 
 it  good  that  he  were  advertised  to  confer  with  mc  scriptOy  I 
 would  then  be  ready  in  answering  him  again  candidc  et  sue- 
 cincte;  and  this  way  my  stomach  and  audacity  would  servo 
 mc,  doubting  not  by  God's  help  but  to  answer  liim  reasonably 
 with  his  own  authors,  for  any  alteration  in  religion  stablished 
 in  the  realm.  And  if  in  the  end  of  our  conference  he  would 
 wish  the  originals  of  his  writinsrs  to  be  remitted  to  him  aijain, 
 to  avoid  any  suspicion  that  might  run  upon  him  amongst 
 his  own,  it  might  so  be,  that  none  should  know  of  our  confer- 
 ence but  yourself  to  be  lionovarius  Judex  betwixt  us.  And 
 thus  with  long  writing  I  trouble  your  spare  time,  praying  you 
 to  pardon  all. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  William  Cecily 
 'Secretary  to  the  Queen's  Majesty. 
 
 CLTV. 
 
 BISHOP  GRINDAL  OF  LONDON  TO  ARCHBISHOP  P.VEKER. 
 2nd  January,  1563—4.    Petyt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  47.  fol.  525.  Orig. 
 
 I  SENT  your  grace's  books-  yesterday  to  my  lord  of  Ely,  Jj^ho/l-.-m 
 who    returned   me   them    this   day   with   some    notes   of  his  ^V:n-"cmn 
 opinion.      It    were    good    we    had   a   time   of  some   further  CrbiSop """ 
 conference.  ^°^' 
 
 If  the  communion  be  ministered  in  Paul's,  it  will  be  done 
 so  tumultuously  and  gazingly,   by  means  of  the  infinite  raul- 
 
 ['-  A  proposed  form  of  thanksgiving  for  the  diminution  or  cessa- 
 tion of  the  plague.  See  Liturgical  Services  of  Q.  Elizabeth,  Park. 
 Soc.  ed.  pp.  508^518.] 
 
at  Paul's. 
 
 202  lil'   GIUNDAL   OF  LONDON   TO  AKCIIB.  PAUKER.     [1563-4. 
 
 l!1521)7a"^'    titude  that  will  resort  thither  to  see,  that  the  honesty  ^  of  the 
 cim.mK^  action  will  be  disordered.     And  therefore  I  think  it  still  good 
 to  remain  in  suspense  till  we  talk  with  more. 
 God  help  your  grace;   2"^  Januarii,  1563. 
 Your  grace's  in  Christ, 
 
 EDM.  LONDON. 
 
 I  send  your  grace  herewith  also  a  temporal  man's  draft 
 for  two  statutes  to  be  considered. 
 
 CLV. 
 
 The  arch- 
 bishop's fears 
 for  the  coun- 
 try in  case  of 
 a  French 
 invasion. 
 
 Want  of  in- 
 formation. 
 
 Inability  of 
 the  lord 
 Warden  to 
 aid  or  com- 
 fort the 
 people. 
 
 Disposition 
 of  Bale's 
 prebend  at 
 Canterbury. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 6th  February,  15G3— 4.     Lansd  MS.  vii.  art.  50.    Orig. 
 
 After  my  hearty  commendations  to  your  honour.  Sir,  I 
 must  request  the  same  to  be  an  instant  mean  (for  special  re- 
 spect of  our  country  here)  to  the  Queen's  Majesty  and  her 
 Council.  I  assure  your  honour,  I  fear  the  danger,  if  it  be 
 not  speedily  looked  to,  will  be  irrecuperable.  If  the  enemy 
 have  an  entry,  as  by  great  considerations  of  our  weakness 
 and  their  strength,  of  their  vigilancy  and  our  dormitation 
 and  protraction,  is  like,  the  Queen's  Majesty  shall  never  be 
 able  to  leave  to  her  successor,  that  which  she  found  delivered 
 her  by  God's  favourable  hand.  Posts  and  letters  with  re- 
 quests be  sent,  but  little  return  is  made,  as  I  hear,  and  small 
 aid  and  comfort  cometh  to  my  lord  Warden,  a  good  gentle- 
 man and  meaneth  honourably,  but  what  can  a  man  do  more 
 than  may  be  done  by  a  man  almost  destitute  of  men,  money, 
 and  armour,  &c. 
 
 Furthermore,  where  I  sued  by  mediation  of  your  honour, 
 to  obtain  Doctor  Bale''s  prebend  for  my  chaplain,  and  obtained 
 it  at  the  Queen's  liberality  ^  at  what  time  of  my  suit  I  was 
 certainly  informed  and  persuaded  that  Mr  Tamworth's  ad- 
 vowson  was  for  Mr  Goodrik's  prebend ;  now  I  perceive  that 
 it  was  general  for  the  next  avoidance,  which  being  bestowed 
 as  before,  doth  prejudice  the  said  advowson.  AVhereupon  I  be- 
 seech your  honour,  that  ye  would  prefer  the  said  advowson 
 again  to  the  Queen''s  Highness  to  have  it  renewed  for  the 
 
 [1  Honestc,  Orig.] 
 
 [2  See  before,  Letter  CLIL,  p.  197.] 
 
 m^ 
 
I 
 
 I 
 
 1")C3-I.1      AUt'iiii.  pauki:k   io  sik  wij.i.iam  (II  II  .  203 
 
 next  turn  lioroaftcr,  whuli  is  no  more  cost,  but  licr  favourahlo 
 grant  to  l»o  tho  sauio  tliut  onco  was  granted,  to  take  plai-e  at 
 the  next  turn,  seoinfjj  it  was  of  lato  otherwise  at  her  froo 
 favour  bestowed;  wherein  MrTainworth  sliall  r<'joicc  to  have 
 his  grant  take  jilace,  and  1  and  my  ('haj)lain  cause  to  j)ray 
 for  your  honour,  not  to  sulTer  our  possession  to  bo  reversed. 
 And  thus  I  conunit  your  honcnir  to  (lod's  protection  this  (Uh 
 of  February,  from  my  palace  at  Cantcrl)ury,  15();3. 
 
 This  afternoon  is  my  lord  Cobhani^  gone  to  Dover  as  a 
 naked  man,  without  strength  of  men. 
 
 I  put  it  to  your  consideration  what  were  best  to  bo  done  y''''»' "• '»« 
 
 I  •/  (lone  with 
 
 with   my  two  guests  which  yo  sent  mc'*,   in   this  time  and  [ll^^^^l^^' 
 country,   in  such  vicinity;  although  I  judgo  by  their  words  ?i4?of"nvi." 
 that  they  be  true  Englishmen,  not  wishing  to  bo  subject  to 
 tho  governance  of  such  insolent  conquerors. 
 
 Your  honour's  assured, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  tJie  right  hononrahJe  SirWiUiam  Cecily 
 lni(jlity  princijjiil  Secretary  [<o]  the 
 Queen's  Majesty. 
 
 sion. 
 
 CLVI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM   CECIL. 
 
 20th  January,  [loG3— ij.     Lansd.  MS.  vii.  art.  66.     Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 For   that   the   country  hero  is  in  much  perplexity  and  Alarm  at  a 
 
 •^  .  threatened 
 
 fear,  doubting  what  may  follow  of  the  preparation  they  hear  French  inva- 
 of,  made   by  the  French,   I  thought  good  to  write  to  your 
 honour  privately.     How  small  so  ever  my  skill  is  in  such 
 causes,  I  trust  ye  will  bear  with  it,  in  respect  of  my  zeal  to 
 my  country.      Indeed  the  fear  riseth  upon  consideration  that  state  of  the 
 
 •'  •'  ^  castles  on  the 
 
 Dover  Castle,  AValmer  and  Deal  Castles,  Queenborough  Castle,  "^^^ 
 be  as  forsaken  and  unregarded  for  any  provision,  the  country 
 destitute  of  the  lord  Warden,  or  of  a  lieutenant  to  whom  in 
 such  straits  men  might  resort  to ;   the  people  but  feeble  and 
 unarmed,  and  commonly  discomforted.      This  day  I  sent  my 
 
 [3  William  Brooke,  lord  Cobliam,   was  at  this  time  lord  Warden 
 of  the  Cinquo  Ports.] 
 
 [•t  Thirleby  and  Boxall,  sec  Xos.  CXLV— CXLVm.] 
 
204 
 
 ARCIIB.   PAUKEK  TO  Sill   WILLIAM   CECIL.         [1563-4. 
 
 Rumour'  in 
 the  islo  of 
 ThaneL 
 
 He  fears  the 
 wealthy  peo- 
 ple will  re- 
 move from 
 the  country. 
 
 State  of 
 Dover. 
 
 Information 
 needed,  and 
 morejustices. 
 
 Mr  Edward 
 Boyes  recom- 
 mended. 
 
 The  arch- 
 bishop's 
 chaplains 
 shall  comfort 
 the  people 
 in  their  ser- 
 mons. 
 
 man  Into  Thanct  to  Sir  ITcnry  Crisp,  who  standeth  in  much 
 doubt,  lie  hath  understanding  of  a  French  pinnace  to  have 
 searched  as  far  as  the  Thames  mouth,  to  know  how  the 
 Queen's  ships  be  appointed.  lie  thinketh  they  be  hke  to  land 
 in  Sheppey,  to  keep  the  Queen's  ships  within  the  Thames, 
 and  not  to  come  forth ;  whereupon  they  may  be  the  bolder  to 
 arrive,  &c.  If  the  country  be  not  comforted,  I  fear  that 
 some  folks  of  wealth  will  be  removing  their  household  and 
 substance,  upon  which  example  more  may  do  the  like.  But 
 that  I  repose  my  whole  trust  and  confidence  (next  to  God)  in 
 the  Queen's  Majesty's  carefulness  and  your  prudent  foresiglit 
 toward  this  quarter,  I  see  no  great  trust  in  the  furniture  of 
 men,  munition,  or  artillery ;  I  would  else  be  carried  with  mis- 
 trusts of  the  worst,  as  other  men  be  most  commonly.  I  also 
 sent  another  messenger  to  Dover  to  the  lieutenant.  The 
 people  in  the  town,  as  he  reported,  be  amazed,  and  have 
 their  hearts  cold,  to  hear  of  no  preparation  toward  this  feared 
 mischief.  Though  you  see  fully  all  manner  of  proceedings 
 and  can  note  the  furthest  sequel  of  them,  yet,  in  my  opinion, 
 it  were  not  amiss,  though  some  participation  of  advice  pro- 
 ceded  into  these  quarters,  to  spread  them  abroad,  to  the  stay 
 of  the  people ;  for  to  whom  to  go,  upon  whom  to  stay,  they 
 know  not.  We  have  too  few  justices;  betwixt  Canterbury 
 and  Dover  none.  I  would  Mr  Edward  Boyes  were  one, 
 whom  I  take  to  be  an  honest,  staid  gentleman,  &c.  Some 
 of  our  justices  go  to  the  term,  and  a  few  remain.  I  pray 
 your  honour  send  me  some  information  by  this  my  servant, 
 not  for  that  I  can  see  any  abihty  in  myself  to  do  service  that 
 way,  yet  I  could  cause  my  neighbours  to  trust  well,  and  cause 
 my  chaplains  to  comfort  the  people  in  their  sermons  in  the 
 poor  villages,  and  this  is  the  best  we  can  do  in  our  skill. 
 Beseeching  God  to  assist  the  Queen's  Majesty  and  all  your 
 circumspections,  ita  maturare  consilia  vestra  that  peace  and 
 verity  may  still  reign  amongst  us  in  our  days.  From  my 
 house  at  Bekesborne,  this  20th  of  January. 
 
 Your  honour's  assured. 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  tlie  right  honourable  Sir  William  Cecil, 
 hnightf  j^;r/«c//9«Z  Secretary  to  the 
 Queen* s  Majesty,  at  the  Court. 
 
15G3-4.]      SCOTTISH  MINISTKUS  To  AUCIIH.  I'AHKKH,  &C.        205 
 
 CI.MI. 
 
 SCOTTISH  MINISTERS  TO  ARCIiniSIIOrS  PAUKKR    AND 
 
 YOUNG. 
 
 loth  Fel.riiiirv,  i:>(i3— 4.     rurkor  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  rxiv.  art.  'Jo'J.  p.  r,Cu. 
 
 OrlK. 
 
 Mr  John  Spottiswood,  supcrintcndant  of  tlio  Lothian, 
 M.  John  Knox  and  Jolin  Craif;,  ministers  of  Eilinbnrf^h,  to 
 the  most  Ivcvercnd  fathers  in  God,  the  archbisliops  of  Canter- 
 bury and  Y[ork]',  desire  tlie  perpetual  increase  of  the  Holy 
 Spirit,  &c. 
 
 Because  tliat  in  the  jxeneral  assembly  of  the  Church  of  IntheRprl«•• 
 Scotland   begun  at  Edinburgh   the   25th  of  December  15G3,  SJh'SSh"* 
 and  there  continued  certain  days,  after  it  [was]  complained  JS"'^"' 
 by    our   brother  John  JKiron,   minister    of    Christ  Jesus  his  •'"^""?"?" 
 
 «/  ('(>ni)>iainou 
 
 Evangilc  upon  Anne  Goodacro  sometimes  his  wife,  that  he  |l';i',,'^""e! 
 after  groat  rebellion  shewn  unto  him,  and  after  divers  admo-  m*s,Ti'ieV 
 nitions  given  as  well  by  himself  as  by   others  in  his  name,  ^' "^"""°"' 
 that  she  should  in  no  wise  depart  from  this  realm  nor  from 
 his  house  without  his  licence,   hath  not  the  less  stubbornly 
 and  rebelliously  departed,  separated  herself  from  his  society,  ff,p,n!l-'r8cif 
 loft  his  house,   and  withdrawn  herself  from  this  realm,  as  the  aml'lieparted 
 said  John's  complaint   more  fully   doth  proport :   the   whole  I'hVr^M.poii 
 assembly,   as  well  of  the  nobility  as  of  the  superintendants,  dirccu>u'thi^ 
 ministers   and  commissioners   of  Churches,   gave  to  us  com- 
 mandment and  charge,  as  by  this  other  act-  your  wisdom 
 
 [1  TliG  edge  of  tho  original  letter  being  much  worn  away,  some 
 words  and  lettci*s  are  supplied  from  conjecture :  these  are  inserted 
 between  [  ].] 
 
 [2  The  following  is  the  act  alluded  to,  which  is  Parker  MS.  cxiv. 
 art.  210.  p.  669. 
 
 "At  Edinburgh  the  29th  day  of  December,  1503.  Tho  same  day 
 anent  the  request  and  supplication  given  in  the  general  assembly  by 
 John  Baron,  minister  of  the  kirk  of  Cawston,  bearing  in  etfoct  how 
 Anne  Goodacro  being  his  married  wife,  had  of  her  own  wickedness 
 and  evil  counsel  departed  from  his  house  here  in  Edinburgh,  in  June 
 last  bypast,  without  his  licence  (he  being  in  the  Calston,  shortway 
 from  this  town),  towards  tho  realm  of  England,  notwithstanding  his 
 letters  directed  unto  her,  requiring  and  charging  her  to  remain,  not- 
 withstanding also  the  requests  of  divers  brethren  to  whom  he  also 
 had  written  to  request  and  charge  her  in  his  name  to  remain  to  his 
 returning;  not  the  less  the  said  Anno  had  departed  out  of  this  realm 
 
206         SCOTTISH  3IINISTERS  TO   ARCHB.  PARKER,  &C.     [15G3-4. 
 
 to  request 
 the  eeclPhias- 
 tical  authori- 
 ties of 
 Kngland 
 to  summon 
 the  said  Anne 
 to  appear  in 
 the  consis- 
 tory of  Edin- 
 burgli  on  the 
 ()()th  day  after 
 summons. 
 
 They  there- 
 fore apjieal 
 to  the  arch- 
 bishops to 
 charge  her  to 
 appear  before 
 the  Session 
 of  Edinburgh 
 on  the  2oth 
 May  then 
 next,  to  an- 
 
 more  clearly  may  perceive,  humbly  to  request  and  pray  you, 
 whom  God  of  his  providence  and  mercy  hath  erected  as  prin- 
 cipals in  Ecclesiastical  jurisdiction  within  the  realm  of  Eng- 
 land, that  it  would  please  you,  and  either  of  you,  within  your 
 jurisdictions,  to  cause  by  public  edicts,  or  else  personally  ap- 
 prehended summon  charge  and  warn,  the  foresaid  Anne  to 
 compere  before  the  said  Superintendants,  Ministers  and  Ses- 
 sion of  Edinburgh,  in  their  Consistory,  the  sixtieth  day  after 
 your  summons.  We  therefore,  in  the  name  of  the  Eternal  God, 
 of  his  Son  Jesus  Christ,  and  as  ye  desire  sin  to  be  punished, 
 and  us  your  fellow-servants  in  Christ  Jesus  to  serve  you  or 
 any  of  you  in  the  like  case,  most  humbly  require  you  to  cause 
 your  edicts  to  be  pubhshed  in  all  such  places  as  you  know 
 them  to  be  exp[edient],  charging  the  said  Anne  to  compere 
 before  the  Session  of  Edinburgh,  in  the  accustomed  place  of 
 their  assembly,  the  25th  day  of  May  next,  to  come  to  ans[wer] 
 by  herself  and  not  by  her  procurator,  to  such  crimes  as  shall 
 
 towards  England,  to  his  great  grief  and  heart's  sorrow :  and  there- 
 fore most  humbly  requested  the  most  honourable  privy  council  there 
 assembled,  with  the  rest  of  the  nobility,  the  superintendants,  ministers, 
 commissioners  of  provinces  and  kirks,  to  give  unto  him  their  advice, 
 counsel,  and  direction,  by  what  means  he  might  be  at  liberty  from 
 the  foresaid  wicked  woman,  according  to  the  precise  rule  of  God's 
 word,  as  at  more  length  was  contained  in  the  said  John's  supplication. 
 The  assembly  ordained  letters  to  be  directed  to  the  archbishops  of 
 Canterbury  and  York,  in  name  of  the  whole  assembly,  subscribed  by 
 the  superintendant  of  Lothian,  John  Knox,  M.  John  Craig,  ministers 
 of  Edinburgh,  and  the  scribe  of  the  assembly,  requesting  them,  vicissi- 
 tudinis  causa,  that  they  should  cause  edicts  to  be  proclaimed  in 
 either  of  their  bounds,  or  personal  citation  to  be  executed  against  the 
 said  Anne  Goodacre,  that  she  should  compere  before  the  superinten- 
 dant of  Lothian  and  Session  of  the  kirk  of  Edinburgh,  the  sixtieth 
 day  after  their  citation  or  edicts  execution,  by  her  self  and  not  by  her 
 procurator,  to  answer  to  such  things  as  the  said  John  Baron,  her  hus- 
 band, should  lay  to  her  charge,  and  further  to  answer  as  law  will;  with 
 certification  that  if  she  compere  not  the  said  day  and  place,  the  said 
 superintendant  and  session  will  proceed  and  minister  justice  against 
 her  at  the  said  John's  instance,  according  to  God's  word,  &c.  Given 
 in  the  general  assembly  of  the  kirk  of  Scotland  and  fourth  session 
 thereof,  day,  year,  and  place  foresaides. 
 
 Extracted  out  of  the  Register  of  the  said  general  assembly  by  me, 
 John  Gray,  scribe  to  the  same  ;  quilk  I  testify  by  this  my  subscription 
 and  signet  accustomed. 
 
 Jx.  Gray ."] 
 
15G3-4.]    SCOTTISH  mimsteus  to  auciiii.  i'aukkh,  &c.     207 
 
 1)0  laid  to  her  char«;e  by  her  s:i'ul  luisband  and  hy  us,  for  her  f,7,rui"a!7nd 
 rebellious  departinc:^,  and  otlier  crimes  that  may  bo  suspected  llZlll!^ 
 to  have  ensued  thereupon  :  >vith  certification  to  her  that  if  she  i,  ImMIc" 
 compere  not  tlie  said   day   and   place,   wo  will  pr(>ceed  and 
 minister  justico  at   [the]   said  John's  instanco  according  to 
 God's  word.     Further,  wo  most  humbly  desire  you  to  remit  to  ,^,^["[^ 
 us,  upon  the  expcnces  of  the  said  John,  complaincr,  this  our  *" 'iuh'ihc 
 Act  of  the  General  Assembly,  together  with  your  edicts  orrC'.rX*"* 
 summons    duly   executed    and    indorsed    in    authentic    form,  .lo  Jthw 
 Which  doing  as  wo  doubt  not,  you  shall  please  the  Internal 
 God  and  discharge  that  part  of  your  godly  office,  so  shall  you 
 bind  us  to  the  liko  or  greater  service,  when  soever  it  shall 
 please  you  or  any  pastor  within  that  realm  to  charge  any  of 
 us.     And  thus  we  desire  the  Lord  Jesus,  that  great  and  only 
 pastor  of  the  slicep,   so  to  rule  your  hearts  and   ours  that 
 [we]  with  one  mind  and  one  mouth  may  unfcignedly  seek  tho 
 advancement  of  [his]  name,  the  comfort  of  his  troubled  flock, 
 the  maintenance  of  virtue  and  suppression  of  vice,  that  it  will 
 so  please  him  to  bless  our  common  labours  in  this  his  last  har- 
 vest by  the  power  of  his  Holy  Spirit,  that  in  the  same  his  glory 
 may  be  illustrated,  his  chosen  edified,  and  our  consciences  dis- 
 charged. Amen.  From  Edinburgh,  the  tenth  of  February,! 5G3. 
 
 Your  loving  brethren  in  Christ  Jesus  and  fellow-servants 
 in  his  holy  Evangile, 
 
 "We  understand  that  the  wicked  and  rebellious  woman, 
 after  her  unlawful  departing  from  her  husband,  remained  for 
 a  season  at  York. 
 
 M.  JO.  SPOTTISWOOD,  Superintendant  of  Lothoano. 
 JQIIX  KNOX,  Minister  of  Christ  Jesus  his  holy  Evangill. 
 JOnX  CRAIG,  Minister  of  Chrisfs  Evangil. 
 
 JX.  GRAY. 
 
 CLVIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 ISth  March,  15G(}— 4.     Lansd.  5IS.  vii.  art.  CG.  Orig. 
 
 After  my  right  hearty  commendations  to  your  honour. 
 Whereas  ye  refer  the  consideration  of  my  lord  of  St  Asaph's* 
 
 [1  Dr  Thomas  Davies,  bishop  of  St  Asaph,  loG2— 1573.] 
 
208 
 
 AUCHB.  PAKKEIl  TO  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL.  [1563-4. 
 
 Cecil  bad 
 referred  to 
 the  arch- 
 bishop the 
 oousiilcration 
 of  an  appli- 
 cation of  tho 
 bishop  of  St 
 A  s  iph  for  a 
 licence  to 
 hold  a  Ii\ing 
 in  commen- 
 dam. 
 
 Its  necessity. 
 
 Poverty  of 
 the  clergy. 
 
 Urges  the  ap- 
 pointment of 
 a  bishop  of 
 Llandati". 
 
 Fear  of  the 
 plague. 
 
 suit  to  me,  how  meet  and  convenient  it  were :  I  understand 
 that  to  tho  maintenance  of  his  hospitaUty  it  were  needful 
 for  him  to  obtain  so  much  favour  for  the  commendam  of 
 his  small  benefices  at  the  Queen's  Majesty's  hand,  for  her 
 warrant  to  the  faculties,  which  grace  is  such  as  commonly 
 heretofore  hath  been  granted,  when  livings  were  better  and 
 victuals  cheaper.  And  though  these  commendams  seem  to 
 be  a  kind  of  appropriation,  yet  the  inconvenience  may  be 
 thought  less  than  that  the  order  of  godly  ministers  in  that 
 function  should  be  brought  to  contempt  for  lack  of  reasonable 
 necessaries,  which  though  before  God  it  make  no  great 
 matter,  nor  honest  ministers  need  not  to  be  abashed  within 
 themselves  to  expend  no  more  than  they  may,  yet  the  world 
 looketh  for  port  agreeable,  and  wise  grave  men  think  there 
 is  done  already  enough  toward  that  state,  for  bringing  super- 
 fluity to  moderation,  &c. 
 
 I  trust  ye  do  remember  to  prefer  some  one  to  the  diocese 
 of  Llandaff^  and  also  therewith  to  restore  his  house  to  him 
 again.  How  little  soever  we  do  severally  in  our  dioceses,  it 
 is  a  good  stay  in  divers  respects  to  the  insolent  affections  of 
 the  people. 
 
 I  pray  God  to  preserve  the  Queen's  Majesty  and  her 
 court,  this  variable  time  of  God's  visitation.  It  is  feared  here 
 in  Canterbury  that  the  plague  will  take  some  root  now  in 
 the  spring,  by  reason  that  I  am  informed  [there]  are  of  late 
 certain  infected  departed  therein  and  more  be  in  danger. 
 Thus  wishing  to  your  honour  God's  favour  and  protection, 
 I  cease  to  write.  From  my  house  at  Bekesborne  nigh  to 
 Canterbury,  this  18th  of  March,  1563. 
 
 Your  honour's  alway, 
 
 MATTHUE   CAXTUAR. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  hnight,  principal  Secretary  to 
 the  Queens  3Iajesty.    At  the  Court, 
 
 \}  The  reason  of  this  request  is  not  understood.  Kitchen,  bishop 
 of  LlandafF  is  said  to  have  lived  until  31st  October,  1566,  and  it  is  not 
 known  that  ho  was  deprived  of  his  see.  No  new  bishop  was  appoint- 
 ed until  1567.] 
 
advice  there- 
 on. 
 
 1504.]  AKCIin.  I'AUKEIl  TO  SIR   WILLIAM   CK.ril,.  l^OQ 
 
 CLIX. 
 
 AKClIlUSlIOr   TAKKKll   TO   SIR    WILLIAM   ClXTL. 
 nth  April,  K%G4.    S.  I'.  ().  PomMtir,  l.'»04.     OriK-* 
 
 Sir, 
 Where  of  lato   was  sent  to  mo  thcso  letters  enclosed^  n.- irrh. 
 
 .  „  •/•IT'       I'l  'I'lP  Mild* 
 
 to  such  ctioct  as  your  honour  may  perceive,  for  that  1  am  in  t.^r  um 
 doubt  how  agreeable  it  were  for  mo  to  satisfy  such  request,  H", ';"^^j. 
 I  am  bold  to   pray  your  honour  to  impart  your  counsel   to  |iV;;',|,V'x^. 
 me,  the  rather  for  that  it  may  seem  to  touch  the  state  and  [.'t.n^/h! 
 order  of  the  realm. 
 
 The  request,  in  my  opinion,  is  strange,  for  that  this  obj.-ction. 
 vicissitudo  is  used  at  the  request  of  them  which  agniso  one  the^Tch  ^ 
 superior  governor  as  subjects  of  one  realm  or  empire ;  and  is 
 also  used  where  the  abode  or  continuance  of  the  party  to  be 
 called  is  certainly  known,  in  whoso  territory  the  party 
 continueth.  And  doubtful  it  is  to  me  by  what  authority 
 these  requesters  do  exercise  their  conference,  for  they  make 
 no  mention  of  their  warrant  or  commission.  And,  further, 
 I  take  that  the  party  is  not  bound  to  obey  any  such  com- 
 mandment of  the  archbishops  in  England  to  appear  in  Scot- 
 land, the  case  as  it  is.  And  some  doubt  may  rise  whether 
 they  go  about  to  practise  a  precedent  by  our  assents  to 
 divorce  the  parties,  and  to  license  the  innocent  to  marry 
 again.  Further,  it  may  be  considered  how  it  may  be  taken 
 at  the  Queen  Majesty's  hand  for  us  to  command  any  resiaunt 
 within  her  dominions  to  appear  before  any  foreign  power  out 
 of  the  realm.  Beside,  that  the  example  may  be  dangerou?, 
 if  in  evil  times  the  like  practice  might  be,  and  thereby  to 
 jeopard  the  indemnity  of  the  godly  where  extreme  princes 
 be,  or  evil  prelates  reign,  to  desire  to  torment  the  poor 
 Protestants.  Now,  if  they  require  justice,  it  might  as  well 
 here  as  there  be  ministered  of  us  by  the  Qucen^s  laws, 
 which  I  trust  do  not  much  differ  from  God's  word  well 
 understanded. 
 
 I  am  bold  to  write  to  your  honour  my  fancies,  whereto  But  he  sub- 
 
 .  *        .  "^  .     mits  to  the 
 
 I  yet  do  incline ;  notwithstanding  ready  to  redress  my  cogi-  {bJ^reuJy. 
 
 [2  Parker's  original  draft  of  this  letter  is  Parker  MS.  cxiv.  art. 
 211.  p.  571.] 
 
 [3  The  letter,  No.  CLVII,  printed  before  at  p.  20o,  with  the  inclo- 
 sure  appended  as  a  note.] 
 
 r  -1  1^ 
 
 [PARK.  COR. J 
 
210  ARCIIB.    PARKIiR    TO  Sill   WILLIAM    CECIL.  [1564. 
 
 tations,  if  your  wisdom  in  respect  of  gratification    of  such 
 
 neighbourhood  as  is  now  betwixt  us  (I  mean  England  and 
 
 Scotland)  may  think  it  convenient.      If  it   were    a    matter 
 
 private  I  would  not  trouble  your  other  affairs,  but  seeing  it 
 
 may  be  drawn  to  a  greater  importance,  I  will  stay  till  I  may 
 
 hear  from  you ;  praying  you,  as  your  opportunity  will  serve, 
 
 to  return  your  advice. 
 
 buho'^'^has  ^   ^^^   ^^   ^^^®    '^^   ^^^   declare   the  cause   to   my   lord 
 
 wS7h?iord  Marquess^  being    here  with   me,  who  very  honourably   did 
 
 fhereonrwho  auswcr  that  ho  also  would  help  to  some  certain  resolution  at 
 
 hSiSip'!^''^'^  his  repair  to  the  Court.      And  thus  I  wish  your  honour   all 
 
 grace  and  felicity  as  to   myself.     From  my  house  at  Bekes- 
 
 borne,  nigh  to  Canterbury,  this  14th  of  April. 
 
 Your  honour's  alway, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 To  the  right  lionourdble  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  knight,  principal  Secretary  to 
 the  Queen's  Majesty.    At  the  Court. 
 
 CLX. 
 
 THE  MASTER  AND  WARDENS  OF  THE   SKINNERS* 
 COMPANY  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 7th  May,  15G1.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cviii.  art.  Go.  p.  415.    Orig. 
 
 With  all  humbleness.     It  may  please  your  good  grace  to 
 
 understand,  that  where  one  Sir  Andrew  Judd,  late  knight 
 
 judd  hS    ^"^  alderman  of  the  city  of  London,  did  appoint  your  humble 
 
 ^"ammar-      besecchers,    the    master   and    wardens    of   the   Company    of 
 
 TiSidge     Skinners  in  London,  governors  of  a  certain  grammar-school 
 
 JSlhTS-"  in  the  town  of  Tunbridge,  in  the  county  of  Kent,  by  the  said 
 
 pany  goli^r-    Sir  Audrow  builded  and  erected,  yet  through  sundry  occasions 
 
 much  trouble  hath  for  these  four  or  five  years  happened  to 
 
 the  said  governors  for  the  defence  thereof  in  the  Queen's 
 
 Majesty's    Court   of  Wards   and   Liveries:    and   in   quieting 
 
 thereof  it  is  thus  ordered  by  the  master  and   council  of  the 
 
 said  Court  of  Wards  and  Liveries,  that  the  said  governors  shall 
 
 the  Court  of  staud  bouud  in  a  thousand  marks  to  stand  to  the  good  order 
 
 ed  them  to     of  vour  Qvsicc,  aud  ]\Ir  Nowell,  the  dean  of  PauPs,  for  the 
 
 stand  to  such  c/  &  ' 
 
 [1  Of  Northampton,  who  was  connected  with  Kent  by  relationship 
 to  lord  Cobhani.] 
 
 nors, 
 
15(>4.]     MAST  BUS  AM)   WAUDKN!*,   &C.   TO  AIK  IIH.  rAUKIJt.      211 
 
 nppointinj;  of  tlio  rules  aiul  orders  iu.   i..,   _.,vcrmncnt  of  the  rujcfonei 
 Wild  school  and  scholars  there:  and  for  the  linishini'  thereof ;•••'"•»"•'» 
 there  are   certain   orders  written   and  perused   by   the  said  Im^'.Vi.J!.'*' 
 right  worshipful  master  dean  of  Paul's,  as  by  his  handwriting;  l-rllpoMHi 
 may  appear,   beseeching  your  grace  to  peruse  the  same  ac-  mw'.',' '/?,*'* 
 cording  to  your  godly  wisdom,  and  upon  the  allowing  thereof  i.i  till'm^ 
 to  subscribe  the  sumo  with  your  grace's  liand',   that  thereby 
 your  humble  beseechers  may  come  to  quietness.      And  thus 
 your  humble  beseechers    shall    daily  pray  to  God    for    tho 
 prosperous  estate  of  your  grace  in  honour  long  to  continue. 
 From   London  the  seventh  day  of  ^lay,  1504.      Your  most 
 humble  beseechers. 
 
 by  me  WYLUf.    FLETCHER, 
 by  me  THOMAS  BANNESTEli. 
 by  me  THOMAS  ALLEN, 
 by  me  THOMAS  STAllKY. 
 bV  me  J  HON  METCAAVFFE. 
 
 To  the  rUjht  honourable  lord,  the  lord 
 archbishop's  grace  of  Canterbury, 
 be  this  delivered. 
 
 [2  The  "orders"  for  Tunbridgo  school  are  preserved  in  the  article 
 immediately  preceding  this  letter  (Parker  MS.  cviii.  G4.)  They  ex- 
 hibit a  variety  of  alterations  and  additions  both  in  the  handwriting 
 of  Nowcll,  to  whom  they  were  first  submitted,  and  also  in  that  of 
 Parker.  At  the  end  of  them  there  are  the  autograph  subscriptions  of 
 the  dean  and  archbishop,  and  also  a  memorandum  written  by  tho 
 archbishop.     They  are  as  follows  : 
 
 *•  These  articles,  touching  the  school  at  Tunbridge,  I  have  perused 
 and  do  like  them  well. 
 
 Alexander  Nowell. 
 
 These  articles,  perused,  approved,  and  subscribed  to,  by  the  most 
 reverend  father  in  God,  Matthue,  archbishop  of  Canterbury,  primate 
 of  all  England  and  metropolitan,  and  by  the  right  worshipful  Alexan- 
 der Nowell,  dean  of  the  Cathedral  Church  of  S.  Paul  in  London,  the 
 l'2ih  day  of  May,  in  the  year  of  our  sovereign  Lady  Elizabeth,  of 
 England,  France,  and  Ireland,  Queen,  defender  of  the  faith.  Sec,  tho 
 sixth. 
 
 Memorandum.  That  in  tho  parliament  in  a°  domini  1572,  et  oP 
 Regime  [?]  Elizabetha?,  8  Maii,  a°  14  ejus,  wherein  passed  an  act  for 
 the  better  and  further  assurance  of  certain  lands  and  tenements  to  tho 
 maintenance  of  the  free  grammar-school  of  Tunbridge,  in  the  county 
 of  Kent ;  which  statute  is  not  in  print."] 
 
 14—2 
 
212  QUEEN   ELIZABETH   TO  ARCIIB.   PARKER.  [1.564. 
 
 CLXI. 
 
 QUEEN  ELIZABETH  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 14th  May,  15G4.     Tarker  :MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  5.  p.  13.  Grig. ^ 
 
 By  the  Queen. 
 Elizabeth  R. 
 Most    reverend  father  ia  God,  right  trusty  and  right 
 The  Queen    well-belovcd,  wc  greet  you  well.     Because  we  intend  for  the 
 
 desirinsthat  T  i  i     /•  i        i  •  /. 
 
 a  French      houour  01  US  and  our  realm,  and  lor  the  better  increase   of 
 
 ambassailor 
 
 received'' ho^*  auiitj  bctwixt  US  aud  the  French  king,  that  an  ambassador 
 
 shSof"^    whom  the  said  king  sendeth  to  us,  named  Mens""  de  Gonour, 
 
 (hicfhhir"*  of  his   privy  council  and  order,  should  be  well   received  and 
 
 toTreen'-"    couducted  to   US,   we  have  ordered  that  the  sheriiSf  of  that 
 
 county  with   the   officers   of  our  ports  shall   attend  him  at 
 
 Dover,  and  that  the  said  sheriff  shall  conduct  him  throucrh 
 
 She  wills  that  the  shire  until  he  shall  come  to  Greenwich.     And  nevertheless 
 
 bishopshouid  ^e  will  that  he  should  be  received  by  you  at  Canterbury,  or 
 
 arSc?''    i^  i^  ^^^^^^  ^®  thought  meeter,  at  your  house  at  Bekesbourn, 
 
 Bekesbourn,  ^Tid  there  lodgcd,  and  so  from  thence  the  sheriff  to  take  the 
 
 thouKe  ^    charge  of  his  conduction.     Wherefore  we  require  you  to  have 
 
 ere  o(  ge  .  consideration  hereof,  and  to  use  the  said  ambassador  with  all 
 
 the^Jrch-"^'   courtesy  meet  for   the  place  that  he  holdeth,  not  meaning 
 
 ^ar^'^S^f^°  thereby  that  you  should  neglect  the  place  that  you  hold  in 
 
 i^ohuhfthe    our  Church,  nor  that  you  should  receive    him    but  at    the 
 
 entry  of  your  church   or  house,  nor  to  conduct  him  further 
 
 than  the  limit  of  the  said  church  or  house.     Given  under  our 
 
 signet  at   our  manor  of  Richmond,  the   14  th  of  Mav,   the 
 
 sixth  year  of  our  reign. 
 
 To  the  most  reverend  fatlier  in  God  our 
 right  trusty  and  right  ivell-heloved 
 the  archbishop  of  Canterbury. 
 
 [1  The  original  draft  of  this  paper,  in  the  handwriting  of  Sir 
 WilJiam  Cecil,  is  in  the  Domestic  Correspondence  in  the  State  Paper 
 Office.] 
 
l.'i(M.]  AIU  Un.  I'AKKKIl  To  HI'.  HIEYNEY  01    (iLOtt'ESTEK.      213 
 
 CLXII. 
 
 AUCIIBISHOP   PARKKIl    TO    lUSIIor    CIIEYNEY    OF 
 
 GLOL'CKSTKR"^. 
 
 [About  the  end  of  April,  15C4.1     Tarkor  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Caml).  cxiv.  art.  98. 
 p.  3i:>.   Ori^'.  Druft. 
 
 AiTKii  my  liearty  commendations  to  your  lorcl:?lnp.   Where  Tho»r.h- 
 1  am  sued  unto  by  a  certain  honourable  T)ersona<rc  to  extend  »m'|  >iiiio  on 
 my  favour  toward  one  llumfrcy  Dclamorc,  parson  of  Kemis-  {i","jj,'I)r^y 
 worth-',  that  1  would  quality  liim  or  else  sustain  him,  in  that  i,V^{i^7,fI*,f 
 his  said   bcnetice,  which  your  lord>hip  upon  some  suggestion  lo't.^uVat? 
 seemeth  to  challcngo  to  bestow  otherwhere,  this  is  to  pray  Inan'in'h?. 
 the   same  to    tolerate    the  poor  old  man  in  his    possession,  ''^****'°  ' 
 belike  not  like  long  to  continue  by  his  sickly   age  in  any  of 
 liis   small   livings.      Whereby  I   shall  give  you   thanks,  and 
 also  cease  otherways  to  devise  for  his  defence. 
 
 To  my  lord  of  Gloucester. 
 
 CLXIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  MR  DRURY. 
 
 Probably  about  the  end  of  April,  loC4*.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv. 
 art.  99.  p.  315.    Orig.  Druft. 
 
 Mr    Drury,    I    commend    me    unto    you.      Where    this  Mr  Drur^- to 
 bearer,  farmer  of  a  parsonage  in    Gloucestershire,   sueth  to  irp^^cat'on 
 
 ctTtain  btiie- 
 
 [2  The  draft  of  this  letter  is  written  upon  the  blank  leaf  of  a  letter,  «tfs  in  oiou- 
 
 cestcrshirc- 
 
 dated  the  27th  April,  15G4,  and  addressed  to  the  archbishop  by  Ed- 
 mund, lord  Chandos,  in  which  ho  prayed  the  archbishop's  favour  to 
 the  bearer,  "who  is  like,"  continued  lord  Chandos,  "  to  lose  his  bene- 
 fice of  Kemisford  through  suit  of  his  enemies,  unless  your  grace  extend 
 your  favour  to  the  poor  man,  in  consideration  that  ho  is  both  an 
 honest  man,  my  poor  neighbour,  and  also  a  favourer  of  true  religion, 
 being  preferred  to  some  of  his  livings  by  bishop  Latimer,  to  whom  also 
 lie  was  allied.  And  whatsoever  the  law  is  in  his  case  1  cannot  deter- 
 mine, but  this  I  am  sure  of,  that  it  is  pity  to  put  a  man  of  his  years 
 from  his  living."  This  letter  is  dated  "  from  Bloundesden,  my  poor 
 house,  the  27th  of  April,  1564."] 
 
 [3  So  written.  It  should  be  Kemisford  as  in  lord  Chandos's 
 letter  quoted  in  the  note  next  above.] 
 
 [^  The  draft  of  this  letter  is  written  upon  the  same  leaf  as  tho 
 preceding  addressed  by  the  archbishop  to  the  bishop  of  Gloucester. 
 
214 
 
 ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  MR  DRLRY. 
 
 [15Gi 
 
 have  one  other  benefice  and  a  chapel  to  be  united  together, 
 this  is  to  require  you,  if  upon  the  understanding  of  the 
 matter  yo  shall  see  cause  to  give  out  such  an  unition,  to 
 grant  it. 
 ISV!?rthe  Furthermore,  I  would  that  Tncent^  should  send  me  word, 
 \ia?ehorn.  ^^^^^  scarcli  of  liis  books,  who  is  the  patron  of  Warehorn. 
 I  gave  it  last  belike  by  lapse. 
 
 CLXIV. 
 
 The  arch- 
 bishop re- 
 ports his  re- 
 ception of 
 the  French 
 ambassador. 
 
 M.  de  Gonour 
 of  a  good 
 gentle  na- 
 ture. 
 
 His  attend- 
 ants very 
 inquisitive. 
 
 He  arrived  on 
 Friday  at  two 
 o'clock. 
 
 Conferred 
 with  the 
 archbishop, 
 the  bishop  of 
 Constance 
 acting  as  in- 
 terpreter. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 3rd  June,  15G1.    S.  P.  O.  Domestic.    Orig. 
 
 After  my  right  hearty  commendations  unto  your 
 honour.  Although  I  know  ye  need  not  to  be  informed  of 
 the  natural  disposition  of  the  Frenchmen,  late  made  our 
 friends,  yet  I  thought  it  not  amiss  to  write  thus  much  unto 
 your  honour  concerning  these  men,  being  here  with  me. 
 Which  though  it  be  of  no  great  importance,  yet  I  had  rather 
 ye  blamed  my  superfluity  in  writing,  than  of  negUgence  to 
 express  my  considerations.  I  note  this  gentleman.  Mens,  de 
 Gonour,  to  be  outwardly  of  a  good  gentle  nature,  and  me- 
 think  I  espy  that  he  hath  schooled  his  young  gentlemen 
 attending  upon  him  to  note  and  mark  not  only  the  tract  of 
 our  country,  but  also  curiously  to  search  the  state  of  our 
 doings  [and]  the  order  of  our  rehgion,  as  the  most  of  them 
 were  very  inquisitive  therein.  He  coming  unto  me  by  Friday 
 at  two  of  the  clock,  and  therefore  had  the  longer  day  to 
 spend,  to  give  him  some  occasion  of  conference,  after  his 
 reposing  in  his  chamber,  I  walked  in  my  garden  under  the 
 sight  of  his  eye,  as  talking  familiarly  with  my  neighbours  the 
 gentlemen  of  the  country.  He  shortly  after  came  down  unto 
 us  into  the  garden,  and  brought  especially  with  him  the 
 bishop  of  Constance,  as  interpreter  betwixt  us ;  who  appear- 
 eth  to  be  a  good,  soft-natured  gentleman.      The  substance  of 
 
 Mr  Drury,  to  whom  it  was  addressed,  filled  from  time  to  time  many 
 offices  ill  connection  with  the  ecclesiastical  courts  and  transactions  of 
 his  time.     In  15G2 — 3,  he  was  the  archbishop's  ''Commissary  for  the 
 Faculties."      Strype's  Parker,  Bk.  ii.  c.  xii.] 
 [1  John  Incent,  the  archbishop's  registrar.] 
 
i 
 
 15C4.]         Aiu  nil.  i*\iJKi:u  to  sik  wii.i.iam  i h  ii..  215 
 
 hi:4    iiu]uisitioii    was    iiiucli   for   tho   order  aiul    using  of  our 
 religion ;  tho  particularities    whereof  I  discoursed  unto  liini. 
 Ho  noted  much  and  dcH<;hted  in   our  mediocrity-,   charf:jini^  n^r .ubj^fti 
 tho  (icnevians  and  the  Scottish  of  going  too  far  in  extremities.  iou'I'^'.'**'* 
 
 I  perceive  that  thoy   thought,   before   their  coming,  wo 
 liad  neither  stattis  preces,  nor  choice  of  days  of  abstinence,  as  s.r^ic^of 
 Lent,  ikc.f  nor  orders  ecclesiastical,  nor  persons  of  our  profcs-  .'imni.""" 
 sion  HI  any  regard  or  cstunation,  or  of  any  ability,  amongst 
 us.     And  thereupon,  part  by  word  and  partly  by  some  littlo 
 supertluity  of  faro  and  provision,  I  did   beat  that  plainly  out 
 of  their  heads.    And  so  they  seemed  to  be  glad,  that  in  minis- 
 tration of  our  Common  Prayer  and  Sacraments  wo  use  such 
 reverent  mediocrity,  and  that  we  did  not  expel  inusick  out  of 
 our  quires,   telling  them  that   our  musick  drowned  not  tho 
 principal  regard  of  our  prayer.     They  were  inquisitive  of  the  Application 
 abbeys  suppressed:  and  after  they  knew  they  were  converted  nucsofihe 
 to  the  maintenance  of  canons  and  preachers,  both  keeping  abbeys, 
 hospitality  and  preaching  God's  word,  and  employed  to  the 
 maintenance  of  grammarians  and  of  headmen,  with  other  dis- 
 tributions to   the   poor  villages  yearly,  with  a  portion  also 
 appointed  to  the  repairing  of  the  ways,  Scc,  they  wished  tho 
 like  to  be  universally  concluded. 
 
 They  have  also  understanding  of  my  prisoners  here;  and  nrsThirichy 
 in  that  respect  I  noted  unto  them  the  Queen's  clemency  and  *° 
 mercy  towards  them,  for  the  preservation  of  them  from  the 
 plague,  and  for  the  distribution  of  them  among  their  friends. 
 They  seemed  to  be  grieved  that  they  were  so  stiff  not  to 
 follow   the  prince's  religion.     I  do  smell  by  them  that  the 
 young  gentlemen  were  well  advertised  to  see  to  their  beha- 
 viour  within    the   realm.       For   understanding   immediately  Behaviour  of 
 upon  their  departure  by  mine  officers  of  their  behaviour,  I  uor-s atiemi- 
 could  not  charge  them  either  with  word  or  deed,  or  purloin- ' 
 ing  the  worth  of  one  silver  spoon :  somewhat  otherwise  than 
 I  did  doubt  of  before. 
 
 As  I  perceived  them  to  be  curious  and  inquisitive,  so  I  Parker  ap- 
 
 .  /••  i  •••••11  J  ointcdsoine 
 
 appointed  some  of  mine  own  to  be  as  inquisitive  with  them,  ix-rsonsto 
 
 *  *  ^  ^  iiuiinrcas  to 
 
 to  understand  their  state  in  the  country.    Some  of  them  were  i.-ja,''j|!'^  °^ 
 frank  to  note  much  more  misery  reigning  amongst  them  than 
 was   commonly  known  abroad  with  us.      And  because  they 
 much  noted  the  tract  of  this  country  in  the  fair  plains  and 
 
 [2  Moderation.] 
 
216  ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  SIR   WILLIAM    CECIL.  [15G4. 
 
 downs  so  nigh  the  sea,  and  to  mark  the  strength  we  were  of, 
 a?mmin'^'^  in  a  Httle  vain  brag  (iinpriestly  ye  may  say)  I  thought  good 
 SnaUon.'^  to  havo  a  pioco  of  mine  armoury  in  a  lower  chamber,  nigh  to 
 my  court,  subject  to  their  eyes ;  whereby  they  did  see  that 
 some  preparation  we  had  against  their  invasion,  if  it  had  been 
 so  purposed.  And  so  some  of  them  expressed,  that  if  a 
 bishop  hath  regard  of  such  provision,  beUke  other  had  a  more 
 care  thereabout.  And  so  they  talked,  as  I  learned  by  them 
 that  were  their  companions. 
 
 For  the  days  of  our  abstinence,  I  informed  them  that  we 
 "were  more  rehgious  in  that  point  than  they  be ;  and  though  I 
 ^fifhluppe?"  made  them  a  fish  supper  on  Friday  night,  I  caused  them  to 
 n?ghC'*''^  understand  that  it  was  rather  in  the  respect  of  their  usage  at 
 home  than  for  that  we  used  so  the  Friday  or  other  such  fast- 
 ing days,  which  we  observe  partly  in  respect  of  temperance 
 and  part  for  policy,  not  for  any  scrupulosity  in  choice  of 
 cdto^them""  days.  I  signified  unto  them  that  we  had  both  bishops  and 
 priests,  married  and  not  married,  every  man  at  his  liberty, 
 with  some  prudent  caution  provided  for  their  sober  contracting 
 and  conversation  afterward ;  they  did  not  disallow  thereof. 
 In  fine,  they  professed  that  we  were  in  religion  very  nigh  to 
 them.  I  answered  that  I  would  wish  them  to  come  nigher 
 to  us,  grounding  ourselves  (as  we  do)  upon  the  apostolical  doc- 
 trine and  pure  time  of  the  primitive  Church.  They  were 
 contented  to  hear  evil  of  the  pope,  and  bragged  how  stout 
 they  had  been  aforetimes  against  that  authority.  But  I  said, 
 our  proceedings  here  in  England  always  were  not  in  words, 
 as  in  Edward  the  Third's  days  See.  the  pope  could  never  win 
 again  at  our  hands  that  then  he  lost  in  open  field  concerning 
 provisions,  &c. 
 
 Sir,  the  ground  of  their  repair  hither  I  know  not  cer- 
 tainly, but  it  may  be  that  this  ambassador  may  be  a  great 
 stay  in  his  country  for  the  better  supposing  of  us  hereafter  : 
 Bishop  of     what  thereof  may  follow  must  be  left  to  God.      This  bishop 
 
 Constance  •/  i^ 
 
 p"rSentt?ihe  ^^^wod  me  that  he  intended  to  present  unto  the  Queen'*s  Ma- 
 FrenchVans- JGsty  Hierouimus  Osorius'  epistle,  translated  and  printed  by 
 Epi°ue°of''^  his  procurement  (as  he  said)   into  French  ^     I  asked  what 
 
 ed  to  them 
 the  state  of 
 our  clergy. 
 
 Osonus. 
 
 [1  The  epistle  of  Hieronymus  Osorius,  bishop  of  Silvas,  in  Algarve, 
 was  a  Latin  letter  addressed  to  Queen  Elizabeth,  with  a  view  to  her 
 conversion  to  Roman  Catholicism.  Some  statements  in  it  were  so 
 offensive,  that  Iladdon  was  encouraged,  if  not  employed,  to  publish  an 
 
15(M.]  AIM  lin.   I'AKKKU    T»)   8IU    WII.I.IAM    (•!;(  IL.  217 
 
 was  Ills  lueaiiin;^ '/  lie  answered,  because  it  expressed  so 
 well  tlio  Queen*8  Majesty's  graces  and  gifts,  ike.  I  told  liirn 
 that  I  thoui^ht  tlio  (^iioi'ii  could  take  more  ])Iea8ur(>  to  rca<l 
 it  well  iu  Laliu  t)ian  in  Frcncli,  and  that  so  iio  nii<^'lit  have 
 better  gratified  the  C^Hiccn's  Highness  with  causing  Mr  I  lad- 
 don's  answer  thereto  to  be  translated,  for  oft  copying  thereof 
 could  be  no  pleasure  to  tlie  (^)ueen's  Majesty,  the  matter  being 
 so  bad.  lie  had  not  heard  of  any  answer  thereto,  and  thoro- 
 foro  1  gave  him  a  book  for  tlio  ambassador  and  him  to  read 
 by  the  way.  If  yo  disHkc  the  bishop's  intendment  yo  may 
 dissuade  him. 
 
 Yo  may  think  that  I  am  cither  vainly  idle,  or  that  I 
 think  you  have  too  nmch  spare  time,  thus  to  trouble  you. 
 lUit  I  commit  altogether  unto  your  gentle  consideration  to 
 gatlier  of  these  things  as  ye  think  good.  And  thus  avoiding 
 further  discourse,  I  commit  you  to  God,  as  myself. 
 
 -  The  grief  of  a  distempered  head  made  me  to  indite  my 
 writing,   as  ve  sec.      I  would  fain  know  what  is  meant  or  what  is  the 
 
 ®.  •  .  archbishop 
 
 determmed  concernmj;  my  two   o;uests  sent  to  me,  because  I  f" '''>  w't^^  _. 
 
 O  J  t)  ^  ^     Thirlfby  and 
 
 intend,  God  willing,  now  shortly"  to  repair  to  Lambeth.      This  ^^^|',"hing' 
 country  is  very  dear  to  dwell  in.      This  third  of  June.     From  j^Iifbeth'? 
 my  house  at  Bckesbornc. 
 
 Your  honour's  always, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANT. 
 
 To  tlie  right  honourable  Sir  William  Cecily 
 l'ni(jht,  2)rincipal  Secretar'/  to  the  Queen's 
 Majesti/,  and  of  her  Privy  Council.  At 
 the  Court. 
 
 CLXV. 
 
 THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 23rd  June,  1564.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  28.  p.  89.    Oris. 
 
 After  our   right   hearty  commendations  to   your  good 
 lordship.     We  have  received  your  letters  containing  the  suit  The  Jords  of 
 
 ■I  •'  o  the  couucil 
 
 answer.     Osorius  replied,  and  Iladdon's  rejoinder,  left  imperfect  at  his 
 death,  was  finished  by  Foxe  the  jMartyrologist.] 
 
 [^  This  concluding  paragraph  was  written  by  Parker's  own  hand.] 
 
218      THE   LORDS  OF   THE   COUNCIL   TO  ARCHB.  PARKER.     [1564. 
 
 JuIm^pIS^'^  of  Mr  Boxall  to  be  removed  to  some  other  place  from  your 
 Air  Moxaii  for  lorclslup's  liousc,  witli  tlic  causcs  alleged  on  his  behalf.  And 
 I'ayker'l''"'"  forasffiuch  as  one  Doctor  Scott,  sometime  bishop  of  Chester, 
 firoun/of  iu  rccelving  favour  upon  his  own  bond  and  the  bond  of  his 
 Them'iscon-  frionds,  hath  withdrawn  himself,  without  regard  had  either  of 
 Scott,  late     his  own  bond  or  the  danger  of  his  friends,  and  therein  hath 
 
 bishop  of  'ii  /»  /•I/-  ■%  r     '  ^ 
 
 Chester,        Committed  the  act  oi  contempt  ot  the   Queens  Majesty*,  a 
 
 re^aVd^Sis  "^^ttor  mucli  notod  and  many  ways  evil  reported  unto  us,  we 
 
 fSnes  the    ^^^^  ^^^  ^^^  thoreforo  conveniently  accord  to  ]Mr  Boxall's  suit, 
 
 Smp^y  i-ith  seeing  the  former  lenity  and  gentleness  used  to  others  in  his 
 
 aitpreSt?^^  case  hath  so  freshly  wrought  a  lack  of  consideration  in  the 
 
 person  of  the  said  Scott,  which  Mr  Boxall  being  a  wise  man 
 
 can  consider ;  and  so  may  your  lordship  hereby  report  unto 
 
 him  what  doth  move  us  to  answer  you  in  form  as  we  do. 
 
 Nevertheless,   for   the  better  preservation  of  his  health,  we 
 
 pray  your  lordship   (as  we  doubt  not  you  will  also  of  your- 
 
 self)  that  he  may  be  as  much  aided  by  benefit  of  place  to 
 
 lodge  in  your  house,  and  by  access  of  physicians  when  he 
 
 shall  need  them,  as  shall  be  fit  for  remedy  of  health  by  your 
 
 lordship's  good  considerations  of  him.      And  thus  fare  your 
 
 good    lordship   right   heartily   well.      From   llichmond,   the 
 
 23rd  of  June,  1564. 
 
 Your  lordship's  assured  friends, 
 W.  NORTHT.  R.  DUDDELEY. 
 
 ^Y.  HOWARD. 
 G.  ROGERS.  W.   CECILL. 
 
 CLXVI. 
 
 WALTER  HADDON  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 Gth  July,  loG4.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  242.  p.  GG3.  Orig. 
 
 Parker's  for-  Yetus   Collcga  tuus  ct  famiUaris,  vir  consideratissimus, 
 
 mercolleague  -^•■11  ^  ^ 
 
 has  been       receus  est  cum  Re^ma  colloquutus,  et  quemadmodum  spero 
 
 reconciled  to  .      .  ^  •■■  -*•  ^ 
 
 *,.^^,<SK'n''l'-     plenissime  reconcdiatus.     Calfhillus-  coram  Reojina  concionem 
 
 Calfhill  h.is     ^  .  .  ,  * 
 
 FnTudSur  habuit  plane  militarem,  in  qua  tantum  ex  omni  parte  fuit 
 therojai"  offcnsiouis,  quautum  nee  ego  libenter  commemorare  possum, 
 nee   tibi   jucundum  erit   ad  audiendum.      Plus   moderationis 
 
 [1   Soo  Letter  XIX.  of  this  Collection,  with  the  notes  there.] 
 
 [2  This  word  is  crossed  out  in  the  MS.  apparently  by  a  later  hand.] 
 
 presence. 
 
15G4.]  WALTER   HADDON   TO   AKi  IIM.  lAIlKKIl.  219 
 
 rcquirit  llegiiKP  privsentia,  vcncrationis  ali(iukl  ainpliiis,  ct 
 vcrecundia\  Nunquam  in  illo  loco  quisquam  minus  satisfecit, 
 i\\iOi\  niajoreni  ex  co  dolorcni  omnibus  attulit,  quoniam  admo- 
 dum  est  illis  artibus  instruetus,  quaa  illius  thoatri  cclebritas 
 postulat.  Sod  ncscio  quomodo  fiistus  optimoruni  ingcnioruni 
 fero  pcstis  est  nisi  medltationo  rerum  cclcstium  condoccfiat. 
 Nisi  mansuetiores  spirit  us  postliac  concionatorcs  ad  aulain 
 attulerint,  metuo  no  multum  ex  coruni  tcmoritato  damni 
 religio  sit  acceptura. 
 
 Do  peregrinationc  regali  dies  est  indictus  ad  viccsimum  J 
 hujus  mensis,  et  itineris  descriptio  Stamutbrdiam  versus  est ;  {jr.^l.uo U* 
 sed  est  adhuc  certi  nihil,    liegina  prandct  hodio  cum  I).  Sack-  dmcuon'of 
 vdlo.      >ihd   est  aliud  novi.      Deus  to  scrvct,  tuaquc  omnia. 
 Tridie  Nonas  Julii,  15G-4**. 
 
 Tuus  beneficia[rius] 
 
 et  benevolentissimus, 
 
 G.   IIADD^ 
 
 luiaot  i« 
 tixpd  for  the 
 
 CLXVII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LADY  BAC0N3. 
 
 loC4.    Prefixed  to  "An  Apologia  or  Answer  in  Defence  of  the  Church  of 
 
 Englande,  with  a  briefe  and  plaine  declaration  of  the  true  Religion  professed 
 and  used  in  the  same."     Svo.  Lond.  ljG4. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable,  learned,  and  virtuous  Lady  A.  B., 
 M.  C.  wisheth  from  God  grace,  honour  and  felicity. 
 
 ^Iada^i, 
 According  to   your  request   I  have   perused  your  stu- The  arch- 
 dious  labour  of  translation,  profitably  employed  in  a  right  pm.scd  uiy 
 commendable  work  ;  whereof  for  that  it  liked  you  to  make  me  a  translation, 
 
 .  ,  .         *  which  ha:j 
 
 jud^e,  and  for  that  the  thine:  itself  hath  sinsjularlv  pleased  mv  pit-i-wihu 
 
 Jo'  O^^  O*!  u    jiulpnient. 
 
 judgment,  and  delighted  my  mind  in  reading  it,  I  have  riglit  hisiilind!'^^'* 
 heartily  to  thank  your    ladyship,  both  for  your  own  well- 
 thinkino:  of  me,  and  for  the  comfort  that  it  hath  wrouMit  me. 
 But,  far  above  these  private  respects,  I  am  by  greater  causes 
 enforced,  not  only  to  shew  my  rejoice  of  this  your  doing,  but 
 
 [3  Anna,  wife  of  Sir  Nicholas  Bacon,  and  mother  of  Francis 
 Bacon.  She  was  the  second  of  the  learned  daughters  of  Sir  Anthony 
 Cooke.] 
 
220 
 
 AUCHli.  PAHKEK   TO   LADY   BACON. 
 
 [1564. 
 
 Bishop  Jewel 
 and  the  arch- 
 bishop liave 
 perused  the 
 translation, 
 and  allowed 
 it  without 
 alteration : 
 
 which  has 
 not  j)roc(.'ed- 
 ed  from  any 
 dissembling 
 affection  for 
 the  transla- 
 tor. 
 
 but  of  sincere 
 truth  and 
 understand- 
 ing. 
 
 By  her  la- 
 bour on  this 
 work,  she  has 
 deserved  well 
 of  the  Church 
 of  England, 
 has  defended 
 her  native 
 tongue,  done 
 honour  to 
 her  sex,  and 
 pleasure  to 
 the  author. 
 
 also  to  testify  the  same  by  this  my  writing  prefixed  before 
 the  work,  to  the  commodity  of  others,  and  good  encourage- 
 ment of  yourself. 
 
 You  have  used  your  accustomed  modesty  in  submitting  it 
 to  judgment ;  but  therein  is  your  praise  doubled,  sith  it  hath 
 passed  judgment  without  reproach.  And  whereas  both  the  chief 
 author  of  the  Latin  work  and  I,  severally  perusing  and  con- 
 ferring your  whole  translation,  have  without  alteration  allowed 
 of  it,  I  must  both  desire  your  ladyship,  and  advertise  the 
 readers,  to  think  that  we  have  not  therein  given  any  thing  to 
 any  dissembling  affection  towards  you,  as  being  contented 
 to  wink  at  faults  to  please  you,  or  to  make  you  without  cause 
 to  please  yourself;  for  there  be  sundry  respects  to  draw  us 
 from  so  doing,  although  we  were  so  evil-minded,  as  there  is 
 no  cause  why  we  should  be  so  thought  of.  Your  own  judg- 
 ment in  discerning  flattery,  your  modesty  in  misliking  it,  the 
 laying  open  of  our  opinion  to  the  world,  the  truth  of  our 
 friendship  towards  you,  tke  unwillingness  of  us  both  (in  re- 
 spect of  our  vocations)  to  have  this  public  work  not  truly  and 
 well  translated,  are  good  causes  to  persuade,  that  our  allow- 
 ance is  of  sincere  truth  and  understanding.  By  which  your 
 travail,  Madam,  you  have  expressed  an  acceptable  duty  to  the 
 glory  of  God,  deserved  well  of  this  Church  of  Christ,  honour- 
 ably defended  the  good  fame  and  estimation  of  your  own 
 native  tongue,  shewing  it  so  able  to  contend  with  a  work  ori- 
 ginally written  in  the  most  praised  speech ;  and,  besides  the 
 honour  ye  have  done  to  the  kind  of  women  and  to  the  degree 
 of  ladies,  ye  have  done  pleasure  to  the  author  of  the  Latin 
 book,  in  delivering  him  by  your  clear  translation  from  the 
 perils  of  ambiguous  and  doubtful  constructions,  and  in  making 
 his  good  work  more  publicly  beneficial ;  whereby  ye  have 
 raised  up  great  comfort  to  your  friends,  and  have  furnished 
 your  own  conscience  joyfully  with  the  fruit  of  your  labour,  in 
 so  occupying  your  time ;  which  must  needs  redound  to  the 
 encouragement  of  noble  youth  in  their  good  education,  and  to 
 spend  their  time  and  knowledge  in  godly  exercise,  having 
 delivered  them  by  you  so  singular  a  precedent.  Which  your 
 doing,  good  Madam,  as  God  (I  am  sure)  doth  accept  and  will 
 bless  with  increase,  so  your  and  ours  most  virtuous  and 
 learned  sovereign  lady  and  mistress  shall  see  good  cause  to 
 commend ;  and  all  noble  gentlewomen  shall  (I  trust)  hereby  be 
 
1504.]  Aucmi.  rAUKiK   lo  i.vdy  iiAroN.  221 
 
 allured  from  vain  dcliglita   to  tloin-;?*  of  nioro  perfect  j^lory. 
 Ami  1  for  my  part  (as  occasion  may  servo)  shall  exhort  other 
 to  take  profit  by  your  work,  and  follow  your  example ;   whoso 
 success  I  beseech   our  licavenly  Father  to  bless  and  prosper. 
 And  now  to  the  end  both  to  acknowledge  my  good  approba- 
 tion,  and   to  spread   the  benefit   more  largely,  where  your 
 ladyship  hath   sent  mo  your  book  written,  I  have  with  most 
 hearty  thanks  returned  it  to  you  (as  you  sec)  printed,  know-  ^IIuH^Ium 
 ing  that  I  have  therein  done  the  best,  and  in  this  point  used  Z]llC\',l  '" 
 a  reasonable  policy  ;   that  is,  to  prevent  such  excuses  as  your  air..i.iy 
 modesty  would  have  made  in  stay  of  publishinnr  it.      And  thus  lur muAwty 
 
 *  V  1  .*5  ^  >hniil<l  have 
 
 adyshi 
 M.  C. 
 
 at  this  time  I  leave  further  to  trouble  your  good  ladyship.        "^ubhlhm 'it 
 
 CLXVIII. 
 
 BISHOP  riLKINGTON  OF  DURHAM  TO  ARCHBISHOP 
 PARKER. 
 
 Trobably  A.D.loG-t.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.189.  p.  519.  Orig. 
 
 Gratia  ct  par.      Comintj  into  Lancashire,  divers  honest  Rocomnien- 
 
 ■f  ^  O  '  datum  of 
 
 men  of  Kachcdale  required  me  to  commend  to  your  grace  ^v'p^'t^t"^' 
 George  Hargrevcs  to  be  their  vicar.  Your  grace  knew  the  i'^h'Se"^ 
 same  a  minister  long  ago  in  Ely,  if  ye  remember  him. 
 Surely  the  man  is  in  years  ancient,  in  manners  blameless,  in 
 zeal  earnest,  in  labour  painful,  in  preaching  of  a  good  gift 
 and  knowledfje.  I  cannot  tell  where  ye  should  have  a  fitter 
 man,  out  of  the  University,  to  take  so  great  a  charge  with  so 
 small  a  living. 
 
 There  was  one  Wright,  once  of  S.  John's,  now  dwelling  (^n'M Sa 
 by  Iladley  in  SulTolk,  where  he  married  D.  Tailor's  wife,  "t'"^"- 
 and  having  a  little  benefice  in  an  evil  air,  for  recovering  his 
 health  desired  me  to  help  to  place  him  northward.  My  lord 
 of  London  knows  him  well,  and  surely  if  he  will  take  it  (as  I 
 think  he  will  not)  he  is  as  meet  a  man  also.  Another  sort  of 
 the  parish  would  have  a  young  priest  unlearned,  and  for 
 nothing  but  friendship.  These  other  two  be  fit  men,  and 
 except  ye  know  any  better,  ye  may  well  bestow  it  on  them  ; 
 but  surely  all  things  considered,  I  think  Hargrevcs  the  fittest 
 man. 
 
At 
 
 burn 
 
 a  faiUastic.il 
 
 if  not  lunatic 
 
 incumbent. 
 
 222       BP.  PILKIXGTON  OF  DURHAM  TO  AIICIIB.  PARKER.     [1564. 
 
 Among  many  other  things  that  be  amiss  hero  in  your 
 n'fhcrcis  great  cures,  ye  shall  understand  that  in  Blackburn  there  is 
 a  fantastical  (and  as  some  think  a  lunatic)  young  man,  which 
 says  he  has  spoken  with  one  of  his  neighbours  that  died  four 
 year  since  or  more.  Divers  times  he  says  he  has  seen  him,  and 
 talked  with  him,  and  took  with  him  the  curate,  the  school- 
 master, and  other  neighbours,  which  all  affirm  that  they  see  him 
 too.  These  things  be  so  common  here,  and  none  of  authority 
 that  will  gainsay  it,  but  rather  believe  and  confirm  it,  that 
 every  one  believes  it.  If  I  had  known  how  to  have  examined 
 it  with  authority,  I  would  have  done  it.  It  is  too  lament- 
 able to  see  and  hear  how  neghgently  they  say  any  service 
 there,  and  how  seldom.  I  have  heard  of  the  commission  for 
 ecclesiastical  matters  directed  to  my  lord  of  York,  &c. ;  but 
 because  I  know  not  the  truth  of  it,  I  meddle  not.  Your  cures, 
 all  except  Rachedale,  be  as  far  out  of  order  as  the  worst  in 
 all  the  country.  The  old  vicar  of  Blackburn,  Roger  Linney, 
 resigned  for  a  pension,  and  now^  Whalley  has  as  evil  a  vicar 
 as  the  worst,  and  there  is  one  come  thither  that  has  been 
 deprived,  and  changes  his  name,  and  now  teaches  school  there, 
 
 Sendmen7  ^^  ^^^^  ^^  mako  them  worse.  If  your  grace's  officers  lust 
 they  might  amend  many  things.  I  speak  this  for  the  amend- 
 ment of  the  country,  and  that  your  grace's  parishes  might  be 
 better  spoken  of  and  ordered.  If  your  grace  would,  either 
 yourself  or  by  my  lord  of  York,  amend  these  things,  it 
 were  very  easy.  One  little  examination  or  commandment  to 
 the  contrary  would  take  away  all  these,  and  more. 
 
 Bishop  of  The  bishop  of  Man^  lies  here  at  ease,  and  as  merry  as 
 
 Man  as  merry  ^  '  %/ 
 
 as  Pope  Joan.  Pope  Joau.  Tho  bishop  of  Chester  ^  has  compounded  with 
 ch?strr"has  ™y  ^^^^  ^^  York  for  his  visitation,  and  gathers  up  the 
 lisvuiS- ^^^^y^  by  his  servant;  but  never  a  word  spoken  of  any 
 visitation  or  reformation :  and  that,  he  says,  he  does  of 
 friendship,  because  he  will  not  trouble  the  country,  nor  put 
 them  to  charge  in  calHng  them  together.  I  beseech  you  be 
 not  weary  of    well-doing ;    but  with  authority  and    counsel 
 
 [1  Something  has  been  here  cut  oif  the  bottom  of  the  page,  but 
 whether  it  is  a  line  of  the  letter  or  the  address  is  uncertain.] 
 
 [2  Bishop  Thomas  Stanley,  deprived  by  Queen  !Mary  and  restored 
 by  Elizabeth  ;  he  died  in  1570.] 
 
 [3  Bishop  Downman,  1561  to  1577.] 
 
 [^  That  is,  the  visitation  fees.] 
 
 com 
 for  his 
 Uon. 
 
15G4.]     HP.  PlI.KINCiTON  OF   nntllAM   TO   Ala  Mil.  I'AHKIiU.       223 
 
 help  to  amend  that  is  amiss.  Thus,  after  my  commendations 
 I  am  bold  boldly  to  write,  wishini^  f^ood  to  my  country  and 
 tho  furtherance  of  God's  glory.  If  Mr  Hill  had  been  at  home, 
 I  would  have  written  more  particularly  to  him.  (iod  bo  mer- 
 ciful unto  us,  and  grant  tit  lifn're  currat  Kvanfjeliiim.  Vale 
 in  Christo,    Cras  prqfeclurus  Diinelmiam,  volente  Domino. 
 
 Tuus,  J  A.   Ai'i/eX/xci/. 
 To  the  lionounibli-  and  nirnnd  my 
 lord  archbishop  of  Canterbury. 
 
 CLXIX. 
 
 SIR  WILLIAM   CECIL  TO  AIlCIIBISIIOr  PARKER. 
 15th  January,  1504—5.    Petvt  MS.  inner  Temple,  No.  47.  fol.  Go.    Orig. 
 
 It  may  please  your  grace.      I   do  send  herewith  a  form  sir  w  cccii 
 of  a   letter,    which  at  the   beojinninfj  to   write  the   same  I  archbi>j,op 
 
 '  O  o  the  form  of  a 
 
 thought  should  have  been  meet  for  to  have  procured  from  Jl',egu^J|"t„ 
 the  Queen's  ^lajesty   to  your  grace,   but  after  that   I   had  hlst-[)n'l^dcra- 
 caused  it  to  be  new  written,   I  misliked  the  same  chiefly  for  cccu  doubts 
 length.      But  yet,  before  1  would  alter  anything,   I  thought  not  too  long, 
 meet  to  remit  it  to  your  grace's  consideration,  praying  the 
 same  to  alter  or  abridge  any  part  thereof.     The  next  doubt  ^"Jni^n^f" 
 I  have  is,  whether  the  Queen's  Majesty  will  not  be  provoked  gSlo'find 
 to  some  offence  that  there  is  such  cause  of  reformation,  and  'Scf,  rausV 
 whether  she  will  not  have  more  added  than  I  shall  allow,  ilon.^  "'"** 
 Upon  your  grace's  correction  hereof  I  will  follow  your  ad- 
 vice.     15th  January,  15G4:. 
 
 Your  grace's  at  command, 
 
 W.  CECILL. 
 To  my  lord  of  Canterbury's  good  grace. 
 
 CLXX. 
 
 QUEEN  ELIZABETH  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 25th  January,  1564 — 5.    Lansdowne  MS.  viii.  art.  6.     Contemporary  copy. 
 
 Most  reverend  Father  in  God,  &c.      AVe  greet  you  well. 
 Like   as  no   one  thingr,  in  the  government  and  charge  com- ^*'^'*^'"R'n 
 
 O'  o  O  govenimcnt 
 
 mitted  unto  us  by  the  favourable  goodness  of  Almighty  God,  ^ore"tTthe 
 doth  more  profit  and  beautify  the  same  to  his  pleasure  and  Kuie"^ 
 
224  QUEEN   ELIZABETH   TO  ARCHB.  PARKER.  [1564-5. 
 
 ^'m^crnorsf  acccptatioD,  to  our  comfort  and  ease  of  our  government,  and, 
 ofuie'pcopil.  finally,  to  the  universal  weal  and  repose  of  our  people  and 
 than  unity,  countnos,  than  unity,  quietness,  and  concord,  as  well  amongst 
 the  public  ministers  having  charge  under  us,  as  in  the  multi- 
 tude of  the  people  by  us  and  them  ruled ;  so,  contrariwise, 
 in'mhiisTers  ^ivcrsity,  Variety,  contention,  and  vain  love  of  singularity,  either 
 mustTceds  ^^  our  mittistcrs  or  in  the  people,  must  needs  provoke  the 
 liSSs*i.ie^  displeasure  of  Almighty  God,  and  be  to  us,  having  the  burden 
 discmnVon-  of  government,  discomfortable,  heavy,  and  troublesome ;  and, 
 nors.and      finally,   Hiust  necds  brinff  danger  of  ruin  to  our  people  and 
 
 bring  danger  «^  '  i   ,  ^  i     • 
 
 tiiV^'Slio     country.      Wherefore,  although  our  earnest  care  and  inward 
 
 el'rnSS?  dcsirc  hath  always  been,  from  the  beginning  of  our  reign,  to 
 
 She"       provide  that  by  laws  and  ordinances  agreeable  to  truth  and 
 
 bTgovfrned^  justicc,  aud  consonant  to  good  order,  this  our  realm  should 
 
 oKr^and    be  directcd  and  governed,  both  in  the  ecclesiastical  and  civil 
 
 fouowing      policy,  by  public  officers  and  ministers  following,  as  near  as 
 
 possibly  might  be,  one  rule,  form,  and  manner  of  order  in  all 
 
 their  actions,  and  directing  our  people  to  obey  humbly  and 
 
 live  godly,  according  to  their  several  callings,  in  unity  and 
 
 concord,  without  diversities  of  opinions  or  novelties  of  rites 
 
 and  manners,    or  without  maintenance  or  breeding  of  any 
 
 contentions  about  the  same ;  yet  we,  to  our  no  small  grief 
 
 yet,  to  her     ^ud  discouifort  do  hear,  that  where,  of  the  two  manner  of 
 
 grief  she  has  '  " 
 
 heard,  that    governments  without  which  no  manner  of  people  is  well  ruled, 
 
 the  ecclesiastical  should  be  the  more  perfect,  and  should  give 
 
 example  and  be  as  it  were  a  hght  and  guide  to  allure,  direct, 
 
 and  lead  all  officers  in  civil  policy;  yet  in  sundry  places  of 
 
 for  lack  of     our  realm  of  late,  for  lack  of  regard  given  thereto  in  due 
 
 aidSoS    *^°^^'  ^y  ^^^^  superior  and  principal  officers  as  you  are,  being 
 
 the  primate  and  other  the  bishops   of  your  province,   with 
 
 sufferance   of  sundry  varieties    and    novelties,    not    only    in 
 
 crept  imo      opinions  but  in  external  ceremonies  and  rites,  there  is  crept 
 
 the  church     ^^^  brought  into  the  church  by  some  few  persons,  abounding 
 
 more  in  their  own  senses  than  wisdom  would,  and  delighting 
 
 ESiis-  ^it^^  singularities  and  changes,  an  open   and  manifest    dis- 
 
 dhSsit7of    order  and  offence  to  the  godly  wise  and  obedient  persons,  by 
 
 .sSiy'in"   diversity  of  opinions  and   specially  in  the  external,  decent, 
 
 ceremonies,    and  lawful  ritos  and  ceremonies  to  be  used  in  the  churches, 
 
 so  as  except  the  same  should  be  speedily  withstand,  stayed,  and 
 
 reformed,   the  inconvenience  thereof  were  like  to  grow  from 
 
 place  to  place,  as  it  were  by  an  infection,  to  a  great  annoy- 
 
15G4-5.]  (JUKKN    EI.l/AnETII    To    AIUIIII.   IVIIKKU.  225 
 
 ance,  trouble,  aiul  tlcfonnity  t«)  the  rest  of  the  whole  body  of 
 tlic  realm,  and  thereby  impair,   deface,  and  ilisturb  Christian 
 charity,    unity,   and   concord,   hv\w^  tho  very   bands   of  our 
 reliirion  ;   which  we  do  so  much  dcsiro  to  increase  and  continue 
 amongst  our  people,  and  l>y  and  with  which  our  Lord  (jod, 
 bcini;  tho  (Jod   of  peace  and  not   of  dissension,    will  continue 
 his    blessings    and    graces    over    us    and    his     people.      And 
 although  wo  liavc  now  a  good  while  heard  to  our  grief  sundry 
 reports   hereof,  hoping   tliat  all    cannot   be    true,    but   rather 
 mistrustini'   that  the  adversaries  of  ti-utli  miirht  of  their  evil 
 disposition  increase  tho  reports  of  the  same  :  yet  we  thought,  ^/^^''^Y'lha 
 until  this  i)rcsent,  thatbv  the  reirard  which  vou,  bcinir  the  pii-  ^'''■'TX.^ 
 mate  and  metropolitan  would  have  had  hereto  according  to  your  [^j^V-'aJch- 
 officc,  with  tho  assistance  of  the  bishops  your  brethren  in  their  biSop*?""^ 
 several  dioceses,  (having  also  received  of  us  heretofore  charge 
 for  tho  same  purpose.)   these  errors,  tending  to   breed  some 
 schism  or  deformity  in  tlie  church,  should  have  been   stayed 
 and   appeased.      But   perceiving   very   lately,    and   also    cer-  ['"liVTcsam 
 tainly,   that  the  same  doth  rather  begin  to  increase  than  to  fn^lJ'cSl'" 
 stay  or  diminish.   We,  considering  the  authority  given  to  us 
 of  Almighty  God  for  defence  of  the  public  peace,  concord, 
 and  truth  of  this  his  Church,  and  how  we  are  answerable  for 
 the  same  to  the  seat  of  his  high  justice,   mean  not  to  endure 
 or  suffer  anv  lonofcr  these  evils  thus  to  proceed,  spread,  and  ^^c  has    - 
 increase  in  our  realm,  but  have  certainly  determined  to  have'"'?*^^" 
 
 '  t/  such  divcr- 
 
 all  such  diversities,  varieties,  and  novelties  amongst  them  of"'"" 
 the  clergy  and  our  people  as  breed   nothing  but  contention, 
 offence,   and  breach  of  common  charity,  and  are  also  against 
 the  laws,  good  usages,  and  ordinances  of  our  realm,  to  be 
 reformed  and  repressed  and  brought  to  one  manner  of  uni- ^''""R''^^'' 
 formity  through  our  whole   realm  and   dominions,  that    our  *^7miiy. 
 people  may  thereby  quietly  honour  and  serve  Almighty  God 
 in  truth,    concord,    peace,   and    quietness,    and   thereby    also 
 avoid  the  slanders  that  are  spread  abroad  hereupon  in  foreign 
 countries. 
 
 And  therefore,  "We  do  by  these  our  present  letters  require,  J,"^!'"'^J',''^ 
 enjoin,    and    straitly   charge    you,   being    the    metropolitan,  \l\^^^^'^Xy 
 according  to  the  power  and  authority  which   you  have  under  |,',e£'iro,« 
 us  over  the  province  of  Canterbury,  (as  the  like  we  will  order  ucaUfllreST 
 for  the  province   of  York.)   to   confer   with  the  bishops  your 
 brethren,  namely  such  as  be  in  commission  for  causes  ccclesi- 
 
 [I'AKK.  COR. J 
 
22G  QUEEN   ELIZABETH   TO  ARCIIB.  PARKER.         [1564-5. 
 
 astical,  and  also  all  other  head  officers  and  persons  having 
 jurisdiction  ecclesiastical,  as  well  in  both  our  Universities^  as 
 in  any  other  places,  collegiate,  cathedral,  or  whatsoever  the 
 same  be,  exempt  or  not  exempt,  either  by  calling  to  you 
 from  thence  whom  you  shall  think  meet,  to  have  assistance  or 
 conference,  or  by  message,  process,  or  letters,  as  you  shall  see 
 to  ascertain   most  Convenient,  and  cause  to  be  trulv  understand  rsicl  what 
 
 what  vane-  _      ^  ^  ^  «'  u       j 
 
 in theden'*^?,  Varieties,  novelties  and  diversities  there  are  in  our  clergy  or 
 amongst  our  people  within  every  of  the  said  jurisdictions, 
 either  in  doctrine  or  in  ceremonies  and  rites  of  the  Church, 
 or  in  the  manners,  usages,  and  behaviour  of  the  clergy  them- 
 selves, by  what  name  soever  any  of  them  be  called.     And 
 
 Sd\°o^^°'    thereupon,  as  the  several  cases  shall  appear  to  require  reform - 
 
 foSy""'"  3'tion,  so  to  proceed  by  order,  injunction,  or  censure,  accord- 
 ing to  the  order  and  appointment  of  such  laws  and  ordinances 
 as  are  provided  by  act  of  Parliament,  and  the  true  meaning 
 thereof,  so  as  uniformity  of  order  may  be  kept  in  every 
 church,  and  without  variety  and  contention. 
 
 And  for  the  ^nd  for  thc  time  to  come,  we  will  and  straitly  charge 
 
 time  to  come  '  ./  o 
 
 thirnone^be  J^^  ^^  provide  and  enjoin  in  our  name,  in  all  and  every  places 
 an?^office^''  of  your  proviuce,  as  well  in  places  exempt  as  otherwise,  that 
 but  such 'a?^  none  be  hereafter  admitted  or  allowed  to  any  office,  room, 
 dis^posedto  cure,  or  place  ecclesiastical,  either  having  cure  of  souls,  or 
 order,  without  curo,  but  such  as  shall  be  found  disposed  and  well 
 
 admittlnce  ^^^  advlsodly  glvon  to  common  order ;  and  shall  also, 
 S  maVXhi'^  before  their  admittance  to   the  same,   orderly  and  formally 
 
 the  same. 
 
 {}  The  answer  of  the  Vice- Chancellor  of  Cambridge,  Richard 
 Beaumont,  Master  of  Trinity  College,  to  the  letter  addressed  to  him 
 by  the  archbishop,  in  accordance  with  the  above  requisition,  is  pre- 
 served, Parker  MS.  cvi.  art.  337,  p.  G27.  Ho  states  that  he  had 
 called  the  Heads  of  Houses  together,  and  requested  them  to  make 
 enquiry  in  their  several  Colleges  and  report  to  him;  and  he  thus 
 gives  the  result  of  the  investigation :  "  All  things  touching  the  said 
 three  points  are  in  good  order,  save  that  one  in  Christ's  College,  and 
 sundry  in  St  John's,  will  be  very  hardly  brought  to  wear  surplices, 
 and  two  or  three  in  Trinity  College  think  it  very  unseeming  that 
 Christians  should  play  or  be  present  at  any  profane  comedies  or 
 tragedies.  But  touching  the  substance  of  religion  now  generally 
 agreed  upon,  I  know  none  that  impugneth  any  part  thereof,  unless  it 
 be  two  or  three  suspected  papists,  which  yet  lurk  in  one  or  two  Col- 
 leges, and  shall,  I  trust,  bo  revealed  ere  it  be  long."  The  letter  is 
 dated  27th  Feb.  1504.] 
 
15G4-5.]  QIKEN   ELIZADKTII   To   AllCIIII.  lAUKEK.  L'27 
 
 promise  to  use  and  oxorciso  the  same  office,  room,  or  place, 
 to  the  honour  of  God  [and]  the  edification  of  our  people  under 
 their  charge,  in  truth,  concord,  and  unity  ;  and  also  to  ob- 
 serve, keep,  and  maintain  such  order  and  uniformity  in 
 all  the  external  rites  and  ceremonies,  botii  for  the  Church 
 and  for  their  own  ])ersons,  as  by  laws,  good  usages,  and 
 orders,  are  already  allowed,  well  provided,  and  established. 
 And    if    any    superior  officers   shall   bo    found  hereto   disa-  s«;p<Tinr 
 
 •-  »  ^  ^  olhct-r*  found 
 
 greeable,  if  otherwise  your  discretion  or  authority  shall  not  ll'.^'IfrnHlrt^ 
 servo  to  reform  them,*  Wo  will  that  you  shall  duly  inform '"'*'" ^""■•"• 
 us  thereof,  to  the  end  we  may  give  indelayed  order  for  the 
 same ;  for  wo  intend  to  liavc  no  dissension  or  variety  grow 
 by  suft'ering  of  persons  which  maintain  dissension  to  remain  in 
 authority;  for  so  the  sovereign  authority  which  we  have  under 
 Almighty  God  should  be  violate  and  made  frustrate,  and  we 
 might  bo  well  thouirht  to  bear  the  sword  in  vain. 
 
 And  in  tho  execution  hereof  we  require  you  to  use  all  /J.^SriiSlTm 
 expedition  that,  to  such  a  cause  as  this  is,  shall  seem  ncces-  her«Sf!"'""°" 
 sary,  that  hereafter  we  be  not  occasioned,  for  lack  of  your 
 diligence,  to  provide  such  further  remedy,  by  some  other 
 sharp  proceedings,  as  shall  percase  not  be  easy  to  be  borne 
 by  such  as  shall  be  disordered :  and  therewith  also  we  shall 
 impute  to  you  the  cause  thereof. 
 
 Indorsed.  25th  January,  15G4. 
 
 To  the  archbishop  of  Cantevhiirij, 
 from  the  Queens  Majesfij. 
 
 CLXXI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  GRINDAL  OF  LONDON. 
 oOth  January,  15G4— 5.     Tarker's  Kep^.  I.  253  a. 
 
 After  my  hearty  commendations  to  your  good  lordship. 
 Where  the  Queen's  Majesty,  the  25th  day   of  this  present  The  arch- 
 month,  addressed  unto  me  her  letters,  very  seriously  and  at  rccci^wiifie 
 '  .  .  '       ./  »/  Queens  let- 
 
 great  length  discoursed,  in  her  godly  zeal  much  desirous  to  \7jS'no 
 see  unity,  quietness,  and  concord  amongst  the  public  ministers  hc^iJL*'''''' 
 of  her  realm,  and  the  people  of  the  same ;   and  also  declaring 
 on  the  contrary  part,  that  diversity,  variety,  and  contention 
 hath  been  very  discomfortable  and  heavy  unto  her  Highness ; 
 
 15—2 
 
228        AKCIIB.  PARKER   TO   UP.   GRINDAL  OF   LONDON.      [1564-5. 
 
 which  diversity  being  not  rcdrcst,  must  bring  danger  of  ruin 
 to  her  people  and  country ;  the  inconvenience  whereof  her 
 Highness  foreseeing  at  the  beginning  of  her  reign,  did  there- 
 fore provide  laws  and  ordinances  to  stay  and  knit  her  people 
 in  unity,  without  diversities  of  opinions  or  novelties  of  rites 
 and  manners,  breeding  but  strife  and  contention  ;  and  that  now 
 of  late,  for  lack  of  regard  of  us,  the  bishops,  notwithstanding 
 the  earnest  weight  of  words  charged  upon  us  by  her  High- 
 ness and  the  states  of  the  realm,  for  due  execution,  sundry 
 varieties  and  novelties  in  opinions  and  in  external  ceremonies 
 and  rites,  by  a  few  persons  delighting  in  vain  singularities 
 and  changes  be  crept  in,  by  whom  Christian  charity,  the 
 band  of  good  religion,  is  impaired  and  defaced,  to  the  great 
 dishonour  of  Almighty  God ;  and  furthermore,  where  her 
 Highness  hath  oft  heard,  to  her  great  grief,  sundry  reports 
 hereof,  in  which  consideration  yet  her  Majesty  of  her  gracious 
 affection  standeth  in  some  mistrust  that  the  adversaries  of 
 truth  might  of  their  evil  dispositions  increase  the  said  reports; 
 nevertheless,  her  Highness  of  late  perceiving  certainly  that 
 the  same  misorders  begin  ^  rather  to  increase  than  to  dimi- 
 nish ;  and  further,  her  Highness,  in  consideration  of  her 
 authority  given  her  of  God  for  defence  of  concord  and  truth 
 in  this  Church  of  England,  professing  that  she  cannot  endure 
 or  suffer  any  longer  these  evils  to  proceed  and  increase  in  her 
 realm,  hath  certainly  determined  to  have  all  such  diversities 
 and  novelties,  against  the  laws,  good  usages,  and  ordinances  of 
 the  realm,  to  be  expelled^,  and  to  have  uniformity  throughout 
 the  whole  realm,  to  the  honour  of  God,  to  the  unity  of  the 
 people,  and  so  to  avoid  the  slanders  that  are  spread  hereof  in 
 foreign  countries. 
 
 Whereupon  her  Majesty  hath  straitly  charged  me,  accord- 
 ing to  such  power  and  authority  as  I  have  under  her,  to  have 
 consideration  of  the  same  in  such  form  as  by  her  said  letters 
 is  expressed,  and  to  understand  of  every  person  having  any 
 jurisdiction  ecclesiastical,  as  well  in  both  Universities,  as  in 
 other  places  exempt  whatsoever,  what  varieties  be  used  either 
 in  doctrine  or  in  ceremonies  and  rites  of  the  Church,  or  in 
 the  manners,  usages,  and  behaviours  of  the  clergy  them- 
 selves, and  to  seek  the  reformation  of  the  same. 
 
 [1  Beinge,  Park.  Hog.]  ['-  Expressed,  ibid.] 
 
1504-5. 1     ARCIIH.    rAllKKIl   TO    HI*.    (.IIINDM,  Ol"    I.ONHuN.        229 
 
 And,  t'lirihor,  hor  commaiulinont  i'^,  tli.it  none  lieroafKT 
 1)0  ail  mi  t  toil  to  any  oWxcc  or  room  ccclosiasticaK  but  Kuch  as 
 shall  bo  cHsposcil  to  follow  common  order,  and  shall  also  be- 
 fore their  admittance  orderly  and  formally  promise  to  use 
 themselves  in  truth,  concord,  and  unity,  and  to  keep  such 
 order  and  uniformity  in  all  tho  external  rites  and  ceremonies, 
 both  for  the  Church  and  their  own  persons,  as  by  laws,  good 
 usages,  and  orders,  already  are  provided. 
 
 Moreover,  her  Majesty  expresseth  her  pleasure  to  be, 
 none  such  as  maintain  disordered  dissension  to  remain  in 
 authority,  whcrehv  her  sovereii^n  autliority  miiiht  be  made 
 frustrate,  and  might  be  thought  to  bear  the  sword  in  vain. 
 
 Finally,  her  Majesty  straitly  chargeth  me  to  inform  her 
 Highness  of  all  such  as  be  not  rcformable,  and  to  refer  them 
 to  her  further  order ;  or  else,  for  lack  of  my  diligence  herein, 
 her  Highness  shall  be  compelled  to  provide  further  remedy, 
 by  some  other  sharp  proceedings,  as  shall  percasc  not  be  easy 
 for  them  to  bear.  In  which  case  her  Highness  also  saith, 
 that  she  shall  impute  to  me  the  cause  thereof. 
 
 These   thinixs   thus    considered,   for    tlic    performino'   mv  Fonhepor- 
 
 -  ^  ^  .  .  formance  of 
 
 duty  to  Almighty  God,  in  declaration  of  mine  allegiance  and  g^Sms 
 obedience  to  her  princely  authority,   and  to  avoid  her  heavy  sovereign, 
 indignation,   I  do  by   these  my  letters  desire  your  lordship, 
 and  in  her  name  straitly  charge  you,  to  expend  and  execute  ^^^  •^J.'^^J^  ^f 
 the  premises;   and  also  to  signify  the  same  with  charge  to  J-^^JJ^I^i'J [jj^ 
 the  rest  of  our  brethren  in  my  province,  that  they  inviolably  l-g'^riVyThr 
 see  the  laws  and  ordinances  already  stablished  to  be  without  oS  to  the 
 delay   and   colour  executed   in  their  particular  jurisdictions,  [frethre.i?n 
 with  proceedino:  ajjainst  the  offenders  by  the  censures  of  the  bishop-s 
 
 *  O      O  ...  .  l>r()vinco. 
 
 Church  &c.,  and  such  as  be  incorrigible  to  send  up  hither  the  sending  up 
 
 '  or  IHTstjns  in- 
 
 causes    and   demerits    of  those    persons;    as    they    the    said  ['^'^fi5^'_^ '° 
 bishops  to  charge  their   inferiors  having  any  jurisdiction,  to  ^"*^"i'' 
 do  the  same.      And  also,  that  you  and  they  severally  calling 
 the  most  apt  crave  men  to  confer  with  in  your  and  their  dio-  an^i  certify- 
 
 1       C  *  ing  what 
 
 cese,   to    certify   me    what  varieties   and  disorder   there    be,  dolSnelrr 
 either  in  doctrine  or  in  ceremonies  of  the  Church   and  be-  ^i^i'ln^'hl 
 haviour   of  the   clergy    themselves,    by    what  names    soever  [^he  i-Jt'diy 
 they  be  called.     AVhich  certificate  to  be  returned  by  the  last  February. 
 day   of  February  next  to  come  at  the  farthest.      And   that 
 you  and  they  thereof  fail  not,  as  ye  and  they  will  answer  to 
 
230        ARCIIIJ.  PAUKEK   TO  BP.    GUINDAL  OF   LONDON.      [1564-5. 
 
 the  contrary  at  your  and  their  peril.      From  my  house  at 
 Lambeth,  the  30th  day  of  January,  1564. 
 
 Your  loving  brother, 
 
 MATTIIEU  CANTUR. 
 
 CLXXII. 
 
 Fox  applies 
 to  the  arch- 
 bishop for  a 
 renewal  o£ 
 his  Lent 
 licence. 
 
 Fis  infirmi- 
 ties betoken 
 that  he  shall 
 not  live  long. 
 If  the  arch- 
 bishop wishes 
 his  Fox  to 
 die,  this  Lent 
 may  despatch 
 him ;  if  he 
 thinks  his 
 health 
 valuable  to 
 the  common- 
 wealth, Fox 
 begs  that  his 
 necessity 
 may  be  con- 
 sidered. 
 
 JOHN  FOX  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 7th  February,  1564—5.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  198,  p.  537. 
 
 Salutem  et  vitam  in  Christo  SBternam.  Pro  rara  ac 
 singular!  hac  naturae  tuas  mansuetudine,  qua?  semper  mihi  in 
 te  placuit,  (MatthsGe  Episcoporum  decus  ac  sidus  eximium,) 
 rogo  etiam  atque  etiam  sublimitatem  tuam,  ut  banc  ipsam, 
 quam  superioribus  his  annis  hactenus  mihi  concesseris  quad- 
 ragesimalem  vescendi  licentiam,  hac  etiam  quadragesima 
 renovare  velis :  eandemque  ut  quam  diatissime  mihi  possis 
 concedere,  precor.  Ita  me  amet  Christus  Dominus,  nullum 
 fere  est  cibi  genus  tam  delicatum  quod  non  fastidiat  stomachi 
 mei  delicatior  infirmitas,  etiam  quum  exquisitissima  mihi  pa- 
 rantur.  Unde  suspicor  non  valde  longam  mihi  aBtatem  super- 
 esse^  Si  velis  Foxum  tuum  mori  cito,  facile  me  conficiet 
 h93c  quadragesima.  Sin  putes  salutem  meam  Christo  et  re- 
 publica  dignam,  rogo  amplitudinem  et  charitatem  tuam,  ut 
 infirmitati  meas,  vel  necessitati  potius  (qua  nulla  esse  major 
 possit)  in  hac  concedenda  licentia  concedat  aliquid.  Dominus 
 Jesus  mansuetissimam  pietatem  tuam  diu  nobis  et  reip. 
 Christianae  superstitem  esse  velit.      Londini,  7  Februar. 
 
 Tuus  in  Christo, 
 
 JOA.  FOXUS. 
 
 Reverendissimo  D.  MattJiceo 
 archiepiscopo  Cant. 
 
 [1  Fox  lived  until  1587.  This  and  other  similar  applications  were 
 occasioned  by  a  recent  enactment  of  the  legislature,  enforcing  the 
 Lent  fast.      Strype's  Parker,  Book  ii.  c.  25.] 
 
I 
 
 1564-5.]  AKl  llli.    I'AKKl.U    lO   MU    JOHN    HUl.T,   &C.  231 
 
 CLXXIII. 
 
 AIlCIIBlSllor  PAKKKR  TO  SlU  .lOILX    lloLT  AND  ()TI1I:KS, 
 I.MIABITANTS  OF  UOCllDALi:. 
 
 21>U»  Fcbnmrv,  loG4— 5.     Parkor  MSS.  C.  C.  Cull.  Cuinb.  cvni.  art.  73,  p.  435. 
 
 Aktkk  my  hearty  coinineiulations.  Fonisnuicli  as  I  have  TUmnh. 
 hitlicrto  labouretl,  ot'  <rood  will  and  zeal  which  1  bear  to  the  Jmiluu*^ 
 Youth    ot    vour  parisli  and  count v,  to   procure  a  <rrammar-  Kranmiar- 
 
 *  .  *  .  .  .  M  hcM.l  t<l  be 
 
 school  to  be  erected  and  established  within  vour  i)ari.sh,  and',;''!''.';" 
 
 •/  i  Itnrli.l  ill-, 
 
 for  that  it  should  take  good  etYcct,  this  is  to  jjray  your  wor-  Ii;,''„^."jl*„tic 
 ships  to  bo  as  helps  to  the  finishing  of  the  same ;   that  is,  one  lu'ij-'i'llilr! 
 way,   to   consider  by   your  prudence   what  the   charges  will  IXrvadoS* 
 amount  to  for  the  building  of  the  school-house  over  and  be-  cmmecu^ 
 vond  the  benevolences  to  bo  shewed  of  the  parishioners  there,  subject  and 
 
 •  ,  ,  1  /»  report  to  him 
 
 and  that  I  miglit  be  informed  by  your  letters  of  the  same  as  t'>';rt-on. 
 speedily  as  you  could,  thinking  that  if  you  would  appoint 
 two  or  three  or  four  trusty  men  to  be  as  overseers  of  the 
 building  there,  and  the  fit  placing  of  the  said  school,  which 
 as  yet,  I  think,  might  be  well  set  within  some  part  of  the 
 vicar's  ground,  not  much  to  his  discommodity.     And,  further, 
 ye  shall  understand  that  towards  some  help  of  the  said  build- 
 ing, 1  took  order  with  Mr  Byron  that  such  money  as  remain 
 in  his  hands  unpaid  to  the  vicar  and  curates  there  should  be 
 employed  that  way-.      And  further,  whereas  I  sent  a  centre  The  arch- 
 plat  for  length  and  breadth  of  the  said  school,  and  hearing  JnraVian 
 now  the  likelihood  of  greater  resort  of  scholars  than  I  sun-  )'«>c<i  bund- 
 
 *-'  ,  ,  \     )iig.  but  as 
 
 posed,  ye  shall  do  well  to  extend  it  further  in  leno'th  than  is  f^.^- '"^■^'■=' 
 
 X  '     V  O  there  is 
 
 proportioned ;  and  as  for  either  chimneys  or  planchcr^  to  be  ofa  l-Sr 
 at  this  time  builded,  for  that  it  may  amount  to  excessive  "SaR%e 
 charge,  ye  may  spare  that  cost  till  that  hereafter  some  good  extSonIn 
 men  of  the  division  may  increase  the  same  with  other  furni-  "'^  " 
 
 [2  The  rectory  of  Rochdale  in  Lancashire,  wliich  had  come  to  the 
 see  of  Canterbury  by  exchange  with  the  crown  in  archbisliop  Cran- 
 mer's  time,  was  let  to  Sir  John  Byron,  one  of  the  conditions  being 
 that  he  should  pay  the  vicar  a  certain  stipend.  This  lie  had  neglected 
 to  do,  and  legal  proceedings  were  consequently  instituted  against 
 him  by  archbishop  Parker.  The  matter,  however,  was  subsequently 
 arranged  amicably,  on  condition  of  the  payment  named  in  this  letter. 
 See  Strype's  Parker,  Book  ii.  c.  26.] 
 
 p  Plancher:  planchier,  cornice.] 
 
232 
 
 ARCllB.  PARKER   TO  SIR  JOHN   HOLT,   &C.  [1504-5. 
 
 tures  belonging.  And  thus  wishing  you  all  to  do  well,  I 
 commend  you  to  the  grace  of  God  as  myself.  At  my  manor 
 of  Lambeth,  this  xx.  of  February. 
 
 To  ilie  ivorslupful  and  my  loving  friends 
 Sir  Jo.  Holt,  Jcnight,  Charles  Ratlif, 
 Charles  Howel  and  Edward  Butter- 
 worthy  gentlemen,  at  Rochdale. 
 
 CLXXIV. 
 
 Tl-e  arch- 
 bishop 
 desires  the 
 erection  of 
 the  school  at 
 Kochdale 
 to  go  for- 
 ward. 
 
 He  Inquires 
 what  money 
 is  in  the 
 hands  of 
 Mr  Byron  to 
 be  employed 
 that  way, 
 and  what 
 help  m,>y  be 
 expected 
 from  the 
 parish. 
 
 A.RCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  MR  BYRON. 
 
 [—  February,  15G4— 5.J     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cviii.  art.  74,  p.  436. 
 
 Grig.  Draft. 
 
 After  my  hearty  commendations,  gentle  Mr  Byron.  For 
 that  I  desire  the  school  to  go  forward  at  Rochdale,  I  would 
 be  glad  to  hear  from  you,  as  well  what  sums  ye  have  in  your 
 hands  remaining  of  the  stipend  of  the  vicar  and  curates  un- 
 paid, which  shall  be  employed  that  way,  saving  to  the  vicar 
 now  thereat  from  the  time  of  his  incumbency  his  portion  due, 
 as  also  what  good  help  may  otherwise  be  perceived  of  any  of 
 the  parish  and  country  agreeably  to  such  expectation  as  I 
 was  partly  put  in  by  you  and  of  others,  whereby  I  shall  the 
 rather  travail  hereafter  to  extend  further  my  good  will  to  the 
 same,  and  see  cause  to  give  you  thanks  accordingly.  And 
 thus,  with  commendations  to  Sir  John  Byron ^  your  father,  I 
 commend  you  to  the  grace  of  God  as  myself. 
 
 Your  friend, 
 
 M.  CAXT. 
 
 \}  Sir  John  Byron,  grantee  of  Newstead,  and  also  the  possessor 
 of  the  old  family  seat  of  Clayton  in  Lancashire.  The  Mr  Byron  to 
 whom  this  letter  was  addressed,  was  probiibly  the  fourth,  but  only 
 surviving  son  of  Sir  John,  himself  knighted  at  a  subsequent  period, 
 and  grandfather  of  the  first  Lord  Byron.] 
 
of 
 ArtulM  fur 
 
 i»ir 
 nam 
 Cciil. 
 
 15G4-5.]       AKcnu.  rAKKEK  to  mu  wiii.iv.M  I  1.1  II,  233 
 
 CIAW. 
 
 AlirillilSllOr   TAIiKKU    TO    SIU   WILLIAM   CliCIL. 
 art!  MunhJl^Crl— .'..]     I.nn»d.  MS.  viii.  ort.  1. 
 SlU, 
 
 I  send  your  honour  a  book  of  articlo3,  partly  of  old  ^^ll^^ 
 agreed  on  amongst  us,  and  partly  of  late  these  three  or  four  iVe '/udi 
 days  considered,  which  be  cither  in  piipcrs  fasted  on,  as  ye  win'" 
 SCO,  or  new  written  by  secretary  hand.  IJecauso  it  is  the 
 first  view,  not  fully  digested,  I  thought  good  to  send  it  to 
 your  honour  to  peruse,  to  know  your  judgment,  and  so  to 
 return  it,  that  it  may  be  fiiir  written  and  presented.  Tho 
 devisers  were  only  the  bishops  of  London,  AVinchester,  P^ly, 
 Lincoln  and  myself*. 
 
 This  day  in  the  afternoon  wc  bo  agreed  to  have  confer-  a  conference 
 
 •i-mr-^i  -irxT  1  ^     (*  ^  /»i        this  dav  with 
 
 ence  with  Mr  bampson,  Jlr  Humphrey,  and  tour  other  ot  the  >ainp>on  ana 
 
 ^  '  .  .^  Humphrey  at 
 
 mmisters  in  London,  to  understand  their  reasons  kc,  if  your  Lambeth, 
 honour  will  step  over  to  us,  as  it  please  you. 
 
 To  be  prescribed  in  preaching,  to  have  no  matter  in  con-  lobenre- 
 troversy  in  reliiiion  spoken  of,  is  thoun^ht  far  unreasonable,  av"  dmat- 
 
 •     ,,  •  1  .  P  1      •       1         1  1  .     tersofcon- 
 
 specially  seeinjj  so  many  adversaries  as  by  their  books  plenti- troversyin 
 
 t-  */  O  J  </  r  preailiing  is 
 
 fully  had  in  the  court  from  beyond  the  sea,  do  impugn  the  Je^o'^'^^jul'" 
 verity  of  our  relitrion. 
 
 I  pray  you  in  tola  hac  causa^  ne  nimium  tendas  funi- 
 culum  ;  and  furthermore,  I  must  earnestly  pray  your  honour 
 to  obtain  a  private  letter  from  the  (Queen's  Majesty  to  my  Letters *o- 
 lord  of  London,  to  execute  laws  and  injunctions;   which  hetheg.ie^n 
 saith,  if  he  be  so  charged,  he  will  out  of  hand  see  reformation  onmiai. 
 
 .  .  iTginR  htm 
 
 in  all  London;  and  ve  know  there  is  the  most  disorder,  and  ^» <^;"^'^f^  . 
 
 '  •  '  the  laws  and 
 
 injunctions. 
 
 [2  Tho  Articles  hero  referred  to  aro  published  by  Strypo  in  tho 
 Appendix  to  his  Parker,  Book  ii,  No.xxviii.  (Vol.  III.  p.  84,  Svo.cd.), 
 under  the  title  of  "  Ordinances  accorded  by  the  archbishop  of  Canter- 
 bury, &c.,  in  his  province."  As  afterwards  altered  and  published 
 under  tho  title  of  "  Aduertismcnts,  partly  for  due  order  in  tho 
 publique  administration  of  common  prayers  and  usingc  tho  holy 
 sacramentes,  and  partly  for  the  apparell  of  all  persons  ecclesiasticall," 
 they  may  bo  seen  in  Hearnc's  Camden,  i.  xxxii.,  and  in  Cardwell's 
 Documentary  Annals,  i,  287.  The  bishops  above  alluded  to  as  having 
 assisted  the  archbishop  in  tho  compilation  of  these  Articles  were, 
 Grindal,  Ilorne,  Cox,  and  Bullingham.J 
 
234 
 
 ARCHB.  PARKER   TO  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL.  [1564-5. 
 
 then  is  the  matter  almost  won  thorough  the  realm.      I  pray 
 you  earnestly,  expcditely  to  procure  these  letters,  for  he  is 
 now  in  a  good  mood  to  execute  the  laws,  and  it  will  work 
 much  more  than  ye  would  think  &c.     This  third  of  March. 
 Your  honour's, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  rigid  honourable  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  hnightf  principal  Secretary  to 
 the  Queen* s  Majesty. 
 
 CLXXYI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 8th  March,  [loG4_5.]     Lansd.  MS.  viii.  art.  2. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 The  arch- 
 bishop  sends 
 to  Sir  Wil- 
 liam Cecil 
 the  Book  of 
 Ordinances 
 subscribed  by 
 the  bishops, 
 that  he  may 
 obtain  the 
 Queen's  au- 
 thorisation 
 thereof. 
 
 Racket  stir- 
 red up  by 
 "Withers, 
 about  the 
 University 
 windows. 
 
 Sampson  and 
 Humphrey 
 remain  im- 
 movable. 
 
 I  send  your  honour  our  book  which  is  subscribed  to  by 
 the  bishops  conferrers,  which  I  keep  by  myself.  I  trust  your 
 honour  will  present  it  upon  opportunity  which  ye  can  take  in 
 removing  offences  that  might  grow  by  mine  imprudent  talk.  If 
 the  Queen's  Majesty  will  not  authorise  them,  the  most  part 
 be  like  to  lie  in  the  dust  for  execution  of  our  parties,  laws 
 be  so  much  against  our  private  doings.  *'  The  Queen's  Ma- 
 jesty, with  consent,  &c."  I  trust  shall  be  obeyed. 
 
 I  send  you  a  letter  sent  to  me  of  the  racket  stirred  up 
 by  Withers,  of  whom  ye  were  informed,  for  the  reformation 
 of  the  university  windows,  but  I  hear  nothing  done  against 
 him.  My  lord  of  Norwich^  hath  got  him  a  commission  to  good 
 purpose,  scilicet.  I  have  sent  for  him,  but  if  you  the  coun- 
 cil lay  not  your  helping  hand  to  it,  as  ye  once  did  in  Hooper's 
 days,  all  that  is  done  is  but  to  be  laughed  at. 
 
 This  afternoon  came  Mr  Sampson  and  Mr  Humphrey, 
 which  brought  me  my  copies  of  Bucer  and  Martyr's  letters,  sed 
 illi  antiquum  retinent  immohiles.  They  would  go  home  again 
 to  Oxford.  I  told  them  that  they  must  tarry.  If  the 
 Queen's  Majesty,  or  you  of  the  council,  would  send  for  them, 
 ye  may,  or  if  my  lord  of  Leicester,  their  chancellor,  will  proceed. 
 I  can  do  no  good.  Better  not  to  have  begun,  except  more 
 be  done.     All  the  realm  is  in  expectation.     Sapieiiti  pauca, 
 
 [1  Bishop  Parkhurst.] 
 
15(11-5.]  AKi  lin.  I'AKKi:i{    H»   Mil    \VII.II\M    (Kill..  2M5 
 
 '\' our  honour  principally  li.uli  ln'gun,   hiu  interest  nt  tili'jnui  ' 
 /lilt.      if  this  ball  shall  bo  tossed  unto  us,  and  then  havo  no 
 authority  by  tho  Queen's  Majesty's  hand,  wo  will  set  still.      I  '*"•'•"""»>• 
 nmrvel  that   not  six  words  wore   spoken    from    tho   (^hiccn's 
 Majesty  to  my  lord  of  London,  for  uniformity  of  his  Lomlon, 
 as  himself  told  me;  if  tho  remedy  is  not  by  letter,  I  will  no  if  not  .up 
 
 •Z  ^    •'  '  .  ^  |.i.rti-<l  (h« 
 
 more  strive  against  tho  stream,  fume  or  chide  who  will.    Thus  '»'«;''>»'«h<.j. 
 
 r>  '  will  III!  more 
 
 the  Lord  be  with  you.      For   that   I  am  not  like  to  como  to  [{"Vu?*!?,?.'*' 
 the  sermon   to-morrow,  as  in  a  grudge  of  an  ague,  I  send 
 thus  to  your  honour.      ]^^or  pure  pity  I  took  home  to  dinner 
 with  mo  Mr  dean  of  Paul's  yesterday  ;   ho  was  utterly  dis- 
 mayed ^      God  send  us  of  his  grace.     This  8th  of  March. 
 
 Your  honour's, 
 
 MATTIL  CANT. 
 7b  the  right  honourahle 
 
 Sir  Williatn  Cecil,  knight. 
 
 CLXXVIL 
 
 SIR  WILLLVM   CECIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 14th  March,  1561—5.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  CoU.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  109,  p.  o47. 
 
 It  may   please  your   grace.     The   Queen's   Majesty,  at  xiic  Queen 
 the  humble  suit  of  the  warden  of  Winchester,  is  pleased  to  v^tui  iiW 
 
 *■  AVcdnesday 
 
 dispense  with  the  scholars  there,  in  like  sort  as  she  hath  for  {yjjj^tgy 
 the  Universities  of  Cambridge'  and  Oxford,  touching  the  ob-  !j,;[!',^^s'at* 
 servation  of  Wednesday  made  a  fish-day  by  politic  constitution,  [n^lic'^unt- 
 It  may  please  your   grace  according  to  her  ^lajesty's  will  so  camSge 
 to  give  out  your  dispensation  for  the  said  College.    And  so  I ''" 
 most  humbly  end.     From  Westminster,  the  14th  of  March, 
 1564. 
 
 Your  grace's  humbly  to  command, 
 
 W.  CECILL. 
 
 [2  A  letter  of  dean  Newell,  dated  on  this  same  8th  March,  explains 
 this  allusion  to  a  sermon  of  his,  which  gave  offence  to  the  Queen. 
 See  Strype's  Parker,  Bk.  ii.  App.  No.  29.  (iii.  94.  8vo.  ed.)] 
 
 [3  The  Cambridge  dispensation  was  granted  by  Parker.  A  letter 
 of  thanks  to  him  on  that  occasion  occurs  in  Parker  MS.  cxiv.  art. 
 202,  and  is  printed  in  Stripe's  Parker,  Bk.  ii.  App.  No.  32.  It  is 
 dated  undecimo  Calendas  Decembris,  1564.] 
 
230 
 
 AUCHD.  PARKER   TO   SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL.  [1564-5. 
 
 CLXXVIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR   WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 24th  INIarch,  [1504—5.]    Lansd.  MS.  viii.  art.  4. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Suggests  a 
 meeting  of 
 lord  Leices- 
 ter and  Cecil 
 with  the 
 bishop  of 
 L(  nilon  and 
 himself  at 
 tiie  lord 
 Keeper's. 
 
 I  would  ye  had  not  have  stirred  istam  camarinam,  or 
 else  to  have  set  on  it  to  some  order  at  the  beginning.  This 
 delaying  works  daily  more  inconvenience,  et  ohfirmatiores 
 fiunt.  If  it  be  purposed  to  have  some  of  these  earnest  men 
 afore  the  whole  body  of  the  council  to  the  end  only  to  be  foul 
 chidden,  verba  tantum  et  prceterea  nihil  and  I  doubt 
 "whether  it  will  work  to  a  quietness,  the  deformities  to  be 
 openly  intreated.  All  men  be  not  one  man''s  children.  If 
 my  lord  of  Leicester  and  your  honour  would  consult  with  my 
 lord  keeper  how  to  deal  in  this  cause  to  do  good  and  to  pacify 
 the  Queen's  Majesty,  I  think  ye  shall  spend  a  piece  of  your 
 afternoon  well.  If  your  honour  shall  think  good  to  have  my 
 lord  of  London  and  me  to  meet  you  there  at  my  lord  keeper's, 
 I  leave  it  to  your  prudence.  Peradventure  your  wisdoms  shall 
 take  some  occasions  of  our  informations  to  treat  this  cause 
 with  less  offence :  for  that  we  now  know  the  whole  state 
 and  complexion  of  the  causes  and  the  parties. 
 
 Withers   is  come  to  me  cum  magna  confidentia,  vultu 
 senatorio.    I  pray  your  honour  send  the  complaint  sent  of 
 him.      I  see  not  the  best  to  send  for  disordered  men  hither, 
 Not  only  gar-  whcro,  aftcr  thov  spy  how  the  game  goeth,  redduntur  multo 
 
 mcnts,butall  ^  .  t     i  •    i        i  °        ,     °     .  .       , 
 
 i^^'tesarenow  perfractioves.     I  think  that  non  solum  jam  periculum  verti- 
 
 question.       f^i^.  ^'^  ritihus  vestium  tantummodo,  sed  omnium  rituum  in 
 
 universum,  and  therefore  prudence  would  be  taken. 
 
 I  pray  your  honour  signify  to  me  what  ye  think.     This 
 24th  of  March. 
 
 Your  honour's, 
 
 Withers  is 
 come  to 
 town. 
 
 MATTIL  CANT. 
 
 To  the  right  Jionourahle 
 
 jSir  William  Cecil,  Jcnight. 
 
15tj4-5.]  AliClIU.    I'AKKI.U     r«»   SMI    WIIIIAM    rlHII..  237 
 
 CI-.\\I.\. 
 
 AKCIIlilSIIor   TAliKKR   TO   Sill   WILLIAM   CIX'IL. 
 7th  April  [15tJo.J     Lau8»l.  MS.  xix.  No.  1. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 The  talk,  as  I  am  informed,  is  much  increased,  and  un- xhp  tain .« 
 restful  thev  bo,  and  I  alone  tliey  say   am  in  fault.      For  as  «r<aM.i  «n.i 
 
 •/  •'  _  all  tli<-  f.iult 
 
 for   the  Queen's   Majesty's    part,    in    my    expostulation   with  {'/HJeweh!* 
 many  of  them  I  signify  their  disobedience,  wherein,  because  ''"'"'*' 
 they  see  the  danger,  they  cease  to   impute  it  to  her  Majesty, 
 for  thev  sav,  but  for  my  callin<i:  on,  she  is  indifterent.    Asj'ain,  itiss^idthu 
 most  of  them  dare  not  name  your  honour  in  this  tragedy,  for  'v'''"'^^*?"' •• 
 
 v  O       •/  '  Ci'fil  is  not 
 
 many  must  have   your  help  in  their  suits,  &c.      My  lord  of  j{;^j'|,^^^[|j'/^f 
 London  is  their  own,  say  they,  and  is  but  brought  in  against  Jheir'owu: 
 his  will.    1  only  am  the  stirrer  and  the  incenser.    And  my  lord  fiuVp^.r 
 of  Durham   will   be  against  us  all :  and  will  give  over    his  e:'tir'ci'>"with 
 bishopric  rather  than  it  shall  take  place  in  his  diocese.      Now 
 my  lord  of  Leicester,  they  say,   shall  move  and  obtain   the 
 Queen's  Maiestv,  and  this  thino'  is  now  done  in  his  absence,  ^-ord  Lc\<xir 
 
 ^  J         -  '  J3         ^  ^  '  tcr  1-i  to 
 
 and  Mr  Cole  is  now  at  the  Court  in  his  hat  and  short  cloak,  "»'»«7a/c- 
 
 '  versa  I  of 
 
 which  will  overthrow  all  this  attempt :  and  such  twitell-twaytel  SJ'h-Jh'^f; 
 there  is  much.    For  my  part,  I  have  and  do  hojia  consclentla  'i^iue.^" 
 whatsoever   I   do.     I   regard  God's   honour   and   the  public 
 quiet.      I  wish  obedience  to  the  Queen's  Highness  and  to  her 
 laws  :   the  greatest  estimation  her  Highness  can  have  amongst 
 us.      If  this  matter  shall  be  overturned  with  all  these  great 
 hopes,  &c.,  I  am  at  point  to  be  used  and  abused :   nam  scio 
 nos  episcopos  in  Jauic  usum  positos  esse.     We  be  the  stiles 
 over  which  men  will  soonest  leap  over.     And  if  we  be  thus 
 backed,  there  will  be  fewer  Winchesters,  as  be  desired.     But 
 for  my   part,  so  that  my  prince  may  win  honour  either  by  thc  arch- 
 standing  or  relenting,  I  will  be  very  gladly  lapis  ojfensionis.  iingiobea 
 *S'<^(^   interim,   cum  Dominus  sit   miJd  adjutor.  non  timebo  f*'^*^^^^** 
 
 •^  '  ^  j>nnce  may 
 
 quod  mihi  faciat  homo.      And  thus  I  am  bold  to  open  into  ^'"'^""o"''. 
 your  bosom  such  my  weak  cogitations ;   but  truly  not  amazed 
 nor  danked ;  frcmat  inundus,  mat  ccelum  :  and   thus   1    be- 
 
238 
 
 ARCHB.  PARKER   TO  SIR  WILLIAM   CECIL. 
 
 [1565. 
 
 seech   God  to   frame   us   all   to   his   honour.       This   7th  of 
 April. 
 
 Your  honour's, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 I  would  yet  wish  to  understand  what  likelihood  there 
 might  be  of  this  great  expectation. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  W.  Cecily 
 Jcnight,  one  of  the  Queen's  Majesty's 
 privy  council. 
 
 CLXXX. 
 
 ARCPIBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 9th  April,  1565.    Lansd.  MS.  viii.  No.  46. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 The  arch- 
 bishop sends 
 to  Sir  W. 
 Cecil  as 
 Chancellor  of 
 Cambridge, 
 some  notes 
 aboutlicences 
 to  preach, 
 gianted  by 
 that  Univer- 
 sity, which 
 he  considers 
 to  be  inform- 
 al, as  not 
 running  in 
 the  name  of 
 the  Chancel- 
 lor. 
 
 According  to  your  request,  I  return  to  you  some  part  of 
 my  University  notes  concerning  preaching.  Your  honour  had 
 need  look  to  it,  it  will  else  grow  to  much  inconvenience.  I 
 take  all  the  licences  hitherto  in  this  form  of  Withers^  to  be 
 naught,  for  they  be  not  according  to  the  laudable  custom 
 hitherto  used.  Your  name  as  their  Chancellor  not  prefixed 
 (which  authority  ye  were  best  to  keep  still :  so  may  the 
 better  choice  be  made).  And,  to  say  a  truth,  seeing  their 
 letters  patent  be  granted  but  agreeably  to  their  privileges,  &c., 
 it  is  a  weak  hole  for  them,  for  that  bull  of  Episcopus  Ostiensis 
 is  long  ago  dead 2.  But  for  my  diocese,  except  I  see  your 
 name  prefixed,  they  shall  not  be  received. 
 
 I  cannot  tell  what  Mr  Vice-chancellor's  experience  hath 
 brought  up  to  inform  your  honour  more  than  those  my  notes 
 declare.  But  they  leave  out  of  their  licences  such  words  as 
 be  in  the  bulla  of  Hostiensis,  whereto  their  style  doth 
 allude. 
 
 I  take  it  that  though  sometime  the  University  seal  goeth 
 out  by  the  name  of  the  Vice-chancellor,  yet  it  is  not  rightly 
 
 V-  See  before,  Letters  CLXXVI.  and  CLXXVIII.] 
 [2  A  bull  of  Julian,  bishop  of  Ostia,  addressed  to  bishop  Fisher, 
 Chancellor  of  Cambridge,  whereby,  under  the  authority  of  popo 
 Alexander  VL,  the  bishop  of  Ostia  granted  to  the  Chancellor  power 
 to  license  twelve  preachers  under  the  University  seal.  Strype's 
 Parker,  i.  3R3.  Svo.  ed.J 
 
i«clllMd. 
 
 15G5.]         Aiirini.  paiikkh  to  siii  wii.i.iam  «  i:<  it..  239 
 
 tlono,  for  tho  incorporation  is  to  the  "  Chancellor,  mastcr.s,  and  ''/"r'jy'* 
 scliohirs."     Such  stylo  wore  litter  for  tho  seal  of  oflicc.    And  **'•*•> 
 I   tiiink    bishop    Kochcatcr,    for   tho    weight   of  tho   matter, 
 would  have  it  pass  in  his  name,  and  I  tliink  not  without  some 
 trial  or  crcdihlo  information  of  tho  worthiness  of  the  party. 
 
 In  my  opinion  it  wcro  well  dono  that  they   had  a  form  at  r,.,.f 
 proscribed  of  their  licences,  and  so  expressed  in  the  proctors'  ik-i-I 
 book,  and  by  a  grace  established,  with  the  annulling  of  all 
 licences  passed  before. 
 
 If  they  abuse  so  much  tho  Queen's  grant  te  vivente  what 
 will  they  do  hereafter?  All  tho  ordinaries  in  their  licences 
 do  insert  such  words:  quamdiu  nobis  placncr it ^  ct  dum  lau- 
 dahiliter  te  <jessi'rii>\  Sec,  and  they  simply  hand  over  head 
 admit  all  without  revocation.  The  Lord  be  with  you.  This 
 0th  of  April,  1565. 
 
 Your  honour's  assuredly, 
 
 MATTII.  CANT. 
 
 I  pray  you  forget  not  Lewsam^  advocation. 
 
 To  the  riff  Jit  honoiirahle  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  knight,  principal  secretary  to 
 the  Queen's  Majesty, 
 
 CLXXXI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 [About  Easter,  15Go.]     Lansd.  MS.  viii.  art.  48. 
 
 Sir, 
 This  appointment*  of  Sampson  and  Dr  Humphrey  is  not  ^'\^^Je'^"'^ 
 appointed  by  me ;   by  whom  I  know  not  ;   either  by  my  lord  Xrch'^t*  ^'* 
 of  London  or  by  my  lord  mayor.      And  if  these  solemn  ser- ^?hJr by um 
 mons  should  stay  for  want,  now  after  so  short  a  warning,  it  Lonlioiror 
 would  raise  a  marvellous  speech.     I  pray  you  advertise  the  mayor 
 Queen's  Majesty. 
 
 [3  Lewisham,  co.  Kent.] 
 
 [•*  To  preach  at  Paul's  Cross.  This  letter  prohably  alludes  to 
 sermons  intended  to  be  preached  there  at  Easter  loOo.  It  seems  to 
 have  preceded  tho  examination  of  Sampson  and  Humphrey  on  the 
 29th  April,  loGo,  referred  to  in  Parker's  next  letter.  Easter  Sunday 
 in  1565  was  the  22nd  April,] 
 
240  AIUIIIJ.   PAKKEK   TO   SIR    WILLIAM    CECIL.  [1565. 
 
 The  arch-  J   tliink    mv    lord    .of  liochcster^    will  keep   his   day  of 
 
 hishoj)  thinks  «/  ,    .  . 
 
 the  bishop     preacliinir,  for  or  else  he  would  have  sent  me  word  in  time  to 
 
 of  Hochc^lcr    1  &' 
 
 vMii  keep  his  jiave  provided  some  other ;  for  I  sent  him  word  since  he  was 
 hurt,  and  returned  no  nay  to  me,  whereby  I  conclude  that  he 
 will  keep  it. 
 
 ffm'Iisonand         ^  would  Sampsou  and  Humphrey  had  been  peremptorily, 
 
 haTbee.Tpi.t  at  thc  first,  put  to  the  choice,   either  conformity  or  depart ; 
 
 a*t 'first?''""'''  but  they  abuse  their  friends'  lenity,  on  whom  they  trust.    God 
 
 either  to  con-  ,  .   ,  , 
 
 termor        bc  With  your  honour. 
 
 Your  honour's. 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable 
 
 Sir  William  Cecily  knight. 
 
 CLXXXII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 SOth  April,  [15G5.]    Lansd.  MS.  yiii.  art.  47. 
 
 Sir, 
 sanipsoTiand         Yesterday  I  Called  ou  Mr  Sampson  and  Dr  Humphrey 
 
 Humphrey  />•  ^       p  ^  n       i  •  x  ,/ 
 
 bemg^before  for  conformity,  and  after  some  words  of  advertisement,  I  did 
 Sh'Tpru!*"^  peremptorily  will  them  to  agree,  or  else  to  depart  their 
 imndedof'  placcs.  I  showcd  them  these  were  the  orders  which  they 
 tocon*fOTm  to  must  obscrvo ;  to  wear  the  cap  appointed  by  Injunction,  to 
 loje their" °  wcar  uo  hats  in  their  long  gowns,  to  wear  a  surplice  with  a 
 non-regent  hood  in  their  quires  at  their  Colleges,  according  to 
 the  ancient  manner  there,  to  communicate  kneeling  in  wafer- 
 bread. 
 They  said  lu  fiuc,  they    Said  their  consciences  could  not  agree  to 
 
 offices. 
 
 their  con- 
 
 sciences       these  orders,  and  they  required  some  respite  to  remove  their 
 
 could  not  pp         T  1        1  T  1  1        •        •/»        1      •        1  •  • 
 
 agree  to  the    stuiT.      I  auswcred,  that  I  would   signify  their  determination 
 
 required  o        */ 
 
 orders.  ^q  ^ho  Quccu's  Majcsty,  and  what  time  should  be  granted 
 them  to  remove  they  should  be  informed.  Mr  Sampson 
 declared,  that  by  the  death  of  Mr  Bruerne,  their  receiver, 
 there  was  a  great  sum  of  money  of  the  College  to  be  an- 
 swered at  the  said  Bruerne's  hands.  Mr  Humphrey  alleged,  for 
 that  he  had  divers  noblemen's  sons,  he  trusted  to  have  a  time, 
 
 [1  Bishop  Geste,  1559--1571.] 
 
!')()').]  AK<  nil.    I'AIJKIK     iO    MK    WII.I.IA.M    tl  «  IL.  241 
 
 requesting  imkh  to  be  spared  uf  the  extremity  of  losing  his 
 living. 
 
 It   may  i>leaso  your  lionour  to   inform  the  (,|ueen\s   Ma-  ';,;;'',.',' 'J^, 
 josty,  to  umlerstaiul  her  pleasure  how  they  shall  be  dealt  with,  ',;;|;;|.li'l;';'i'i,e 
 whether   to   tolerate   them   or    to    provide   others.       As   the  *^'"*^^" 
 deanery  is  at  her  Ilii^hness'  disposition''^,  and  the  presidentship 
 of   Magdalen -'    at    the   election    of   tlie   College,    upon    what 
 ground  and  how  to  proceed   1   am  in   doubt.      If  it  be   the 
 Queen's  Majesty's   pleasure  that  1  write  letters  to   both  Col- 
 leges, that  they  may  not  be  reputed   or  accepted  there  in 
 their  rooms,  or  enjoy  any  commodity,  I  shall  do  her  com- 
 mandment.     Kesign  1  tliink  they  moan  not;  judicially  to  bo 
 deprived,   against   ^Ir  Sampson   my   jurisdiction   (after    long 
 j>leading)  might  serve,  yet  so  it  cannot  upon  Dr  Humphrey  ; 
 but  it  is  to   be  expended  by  the  bishop  of  Winchester  their 
 visitor.     As  I  mav  learn  by  your  honour  the  Queen's  pleasure  J^i'^^^^',, 
 
 •  J    >1  ^  I  bishop  will 
 
 I  shall  do,  being  right  sorry  that  they  be  no  more  tractable.    {^J^en^pf^. 
 Because  I  am  not  yet  after  my  distemperancc  well  settled,  Hght's^^^ 
 I  come  not  personally,  but  write  thus  much  to  your  honour,  Jnore^iact-* 
 praying  you  to   have  your  furtherance  as  may  stand   with  ^ 
 the  Queen's  contentation  and  order  of  her  laws.     Thus  God 
 keep   your  honour  in  grace  and  health.     This   last  day  of 
 April. 
 
 Yours  alway, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 I  was  informed  yesterday  that  Turner  of  Wells*  hath 
 enjoined  a  common  adulterer  to  do  his  open  penance  in  a 
 square  priest's  cap.  If  it  be  true,  this  is  strange  toying  with 
 the  prince's  pleasure  and  injunctions.  You  of  the  council 
 know  what  ye  have  to  do. 
 
 To  the  rlgJit  hoiiourahJe  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  kni(jht,  jyrincipal  secretary  to 
 the    QueeiCs  Majesty. 
 
 [2  The  deanery  of  Christ  Church,  Oxford,  bold  by  Dr  Sampson.] 
 [3  Oxford,  held  by  Dr  Humphrey.] 
 
 \}  Dr  William  Turner,  dean  of  Wells,  a  well-known  theological 
 and  botanical  writer.] 
 
 r  -I  16 
 
 [park.  COR.J 
 
242  ARCHB.  PARKER   TO   BP   GRINDAL  OF   LONDON.         [1565. 
 
 CLXXXIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  GRINDAL  OF  LONDON. 
 12th  May,  1505.    Parker  Reg.  I.  254  a. 
 
 After  my  hearty  commendations  to  your  good  lordship. 
 ilformefrot'^  ^^^  ^^^^^  ^^^  Quocn's  Majosty  is  informed  of  divers  undiscreet 
 crelt  preich-  preachcrs,  who  be  thought  to  be  hcensed  partly  by  my 
 ^"'  letters,  partly  by  others  of  our  brethren,  of  which  preachers 
 
 moreSels  ^^vcrs  havc  deceivod  our  expectations ;  whereupon  for  the 
 inchorS  better  instruction  of  her  subjects,  her  Highness  commanding 
 for  nSncel  tho  samo,  it  is  meet  that  we  should  take  for  hereafter  a  more 
 diligent  choice  of  such  as  shall  sue  for  such  licences.  In  the 
 mean  time,  this  is  to  pray  and  require  your  lordship  to 
 Curates  to     siffuifv  to  tho  rcst  of  our  brethren  in  my  province,  to  charge 
 
 suffer  none  to      o        t/  ./    i  '  O 
 
 vi>t1[?onhe  ^^^^^  curates  to  suffer  none  to  preach  in  their  cures  by  virtue 
 S'i'es'*^^  ^  of  my  licences  bearing  date  before  the  first  day  of  April  last 
 th?is?o?'^^  past ;  which  order  I  find  to  have  been  used  in  my  predecessors' 
 pS!^'^'  days,  as  in  bishop  Cranmer''s  I  have  to  shew,  who  upon  such 
 wasta^ke"    occasiou  was  Compelled  twice  or  thrice  in  his  time  to  call  in 
 
 SGVGrsl  tiincs 
 
 inarch-       his  Hccnces  before  granted,  with  addition  partly  of  certain 
 
 bishop  Cran-  i       i  i  t  i       i  p        t     • 
 
 mersdays.  clauscs,  and  partly  bonds  not  to  disturb  the  state  oi  religion 
 stablished  by  public  authority;  notifying  also  that  such  as 
 shall  desire  to  be  admitted  by  my  licence  or  theirs,  being 
 
 Licences  will  meet    for   the   same,   shall  be  received  again  without   any 
 
 be  renewed  to  '  ^  o  ^       ^  t/ 
 
 meet  persons,  difficulty  or  any  great  charge  for  their  licences,  bringing  in 
 their  old.  Furthermore,  this  is  also  to  require  you,  in  the 
 Queen's  Majesty's  name,  that  the  officers  of  the  ordinaries 
 ^Sm"an?ther  §^^^  chargo,  that  no  curate  be  admitted  to  serve,  coming  out 
 admitfcd^to'^  of  any  other  diocese,  except  he  bring  the  letters  testimonial 
 iIttTrs'\e!t?"*  from  the  ordinary  where  he  did  before  serve.  And  also, 
 his Tati  Sr"""  that  they  be  advertised  that  such  ministers  as  be  not  of  grave 
 MiSersnotand  coustaut  abode  let  not  out  their  benefices  without  the 
 benefices       cousont  of  tho  Ordinary,  to  foresee  all  unhonest  parties,  as 
 
 without  con-       ,  ,  «/  .  .  ,  f, 
 
 o^nlr^^^    divers  have  deceived  the  Queen's  subjects  in  taking  sums  of 
 money  for  their  leases,  and  afterward  dishonestly  departed 
 from  their  places,   to  a  manifest  fraud  of  their  said  farmers. 
 From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this  12th  of  May,  1565. 
 Your  loving  brother, 
 
 MATT.  CANTUK. 
 To  the  riglit  reverend  father  in  God 
 and  my  loving  brother ^  the  bishop  of 
 London,  give  these. 
 
15C5.]  1>K  SAMPSON    TO   AIU  IIIJ.    rAUKEIl.  243 
 
 CLXXXIV. 
 
 1>K   SAMPSON   TO   AUCliniSHUi*  TAKKKIl. 
 ;{ril  June,  l,'.(k'.     Tctyt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  47.  fol.  323.    Orig. 
 
 Kbvkrendissimb,  S.      .My  lumiljlc  thanks  to  your  grace 
 premised.      !>}'  these  letters   inclosed  your  favourahle  com-  J'.'|„?,",',„ 
 mcndinix   of  my  cause   to   the  chapter  of  Christ  Church   in  w,Vi,'("iln,t 
 Oxon  is  well  witnessed  to  have  had  with  them  just  regard.  UViaifof" 
 And  now  as  my  necessity  compelleth    me  to  crave  further  in-on  favour- 
 
 .  ,  /•      M-  1  1  ablyrccvived. 
 
 aid,  so  your  hicihty  to  grant  my  last  cncouragcth   me   to 
 
 make  this  second  request  fur  the   same.      The   honourable  f'"'""'  v*" 
 
 1  Huntingdon 
 
 earl  of  Huntingdon*  hath  moved  at  my  suit  Mr  Secretary,  [',;X1'S- 
 that,  without  assignment   of  place,  I  might  go  and  abide  at  lilay  b^^Li""' 
 mine  own  liberty,  where  I   may  by  seeking  find  some  com-  ^'^'^^' 
 modious  settling  for   me   and  my   poor   family.      lie    hath 
 promised  to  become  for  me  a  favourable  mediator  herein  to  [;^^il,i^,jf,  (^ 
 the  Queen's  ^lajcsty,  if  that  in  this  behalf  he  might  receive  j!^mj,"s^n-s 
 from  your  grace  some  letter  of  commending  this  my  humble  i>arkcf°w  '^ 
 suit  to  him,  whereupon,  as  upon  a  meet  ground,   he  might  bchair. 
 the  better  build  his  mediation  to  her  Highness.      I  think  my 
 said  lord  of  Huntingdon  doth  certify  your  grace  of  the  truth 
 hereof   by   this   bearer.      The  equity   of  the  thing  and  my  JJ'ii'treaud* 
 urgent  necessity  considered,  of  their  own  condition,  will  move, 
 I  trust,  your  goodness  to  add  this  second  salve  to  my  misery, 
 which  I  do  humbly  desire.      The  Lord  Jesus  direct  you  by 
 his  mighty  Spirit  to  do  in  your  calling  that  best  pleaseth 
 him.      London,  3  Junii,  1565. 
 
 Yours  to  command  in  Domino, 
 
 THO.  SAMPSOX. 
 
 To  the  most  reverend  father  in  God, 
 the  lord  archbishop  oj  Cantcrhury. 
 
 \}  Henry  Hastings,  third  earl  of  Huntingdon  of  that  creation,  a 
 well-known  nobleman  of  strong  protcstant  feelings.] 
 
 ill 
 write  on  his 
 
 tu  do  so. 
 
 IG— 2 
 
244 
 
 ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL. 
 
 [1565. 
 
 CLXXXV. 
 
 The  arch- 
 bishop thinks 
 Cecil  would 
 do  a  right 
 gootl  deed  to 
 be  suitor  to 
 the  (jueen  for 
 Sampson  to 
 be  at  liberty. 
 
 Such  clemen- 
 cy, even  if 
 abused,  will 
 produce  ef- 
 fect in  rea- 
 sonable men. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO    SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 4tli  June,  1505.    Petyt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  47.  fol.  322.     Grig.  Draft  in 
 Paiker's  hand. 
 
 After  my  right  hearty  commendations  to  your  honour. 
 Where  I  understand  that  Mr  Sampson  Heth  still  at  suit  for 
 his  favourable  placing  out  at  his  own  liberty,  without  note 
 of  committing  him  as  prisoner  to  any  place,  your  honour 
 should  do  a  right  good  deed  in  mine  opinion  to  be  suitor  to 
 the  Queen's  Highness  for  her  favour  therein.  Her  pleasure 
 being  thus  executed  upon  him  for  example  to  the  terror  of 
 others,  might  yet  be  mollified  to  the  commendation  of  her 
 clemency  ;  whereunto  her  Highness  is  incHned  both  godly 
 and  naturally  to  all  persons  indifferently.  And  as  your 
 honour  is  the  common  refuge,  to  be  a  sohcitor  to  the  Queen's 
 ]\Iajesty  in  our  causes,  so  ye  shall  do  a  good  act  to  continue 
 herein.  Which  favour  shewed,  if  it  should  be  abused  by 
 the  wilfulness  of  some  fond  heads,  yet  God''s  cause  in  reason- 
 able men  may  be  pitied.  And  thus,  with  the  offer  of  my 
 prayer,  and  most  humble  recommendations  to  the  Queen's 
 Highness,  I  take  my  leave  of  your  honour.  From  my  house 
 at  Canterbury,  this  4th  of  June,  1565. 
 
 The  arch- 
 bishon  has 
 complied 
 with 
 
 Sampson's 
 request. 
 He  earnestly 
 prays  Samp- 
 son to  con- 
 form. 
 
 Time  and 
 reading  will 
 
 CLXXXVI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  DR  SAMPSON. 
 
 4th  June,  1565.    Petjt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  47.  fol.  323  b.     Grig.  Draft  in 
 Parker's  hand. 
 
 Mr  Sampson,  after  my  hearty  commendations.  I  am 
 glad  that  my  letters  written  in  your  behalf  to  the  church 
 took  such  effect  as  ye  desired.  And  as  ye  have  not  deserved 
 the  same  in  your  government  (the  contrary  to  my  under- 
 standing), so  again  I  have  written  my  letters  to  obtain  your 
 other  request :  praying  you  viscerihus  Jesii  Cliristi  to  salve 
 again  this  great  offendicle  risen  by  your  dissent  from  the 
 course  of  the  gospel.  Remember  what  obedience  so  great 
 liberty  of  the  whole  doctrine  of  Christ  granted,  requireth  at 
 our  hands.     I  am  persuaded  that  time  and  indifferent  reading 
 
1565.]  AU(  im,   I'AIiKKIl     It)    I>U  SA.Ml'.snS.  215 
 
 on  vour  lurtv,  will  I'ivo  cause  to  join  airain  to  our  commu-  i«rinit Mm 
 nion ;    I    moan   not   in   tloctrino,    but    in   this   matter  of  this  J,';,';,[';,V',"|J 
 ecclesiastical  policy.      And  thus  wishinjij   you  and  all   others  £||jVand.' 
 well  as  to  myself,  I  end  my  letters.     "Written  at  Canterbury, 
 this  4th  of  June,  15G5. 
 
 CLXXXVII. 
 
 ARCIIRISlIOr   r.MiKKR   TO  THE  EARL    OF  IIUNTINGDOX. 
 
 4lli  Juno,  A'Ai-K     Potyt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  47.  fo.  32'2.     Parker's  Orii;.  Draft. 
 
 ArTBK   my   rii^ht   hearty    commendations    to   your  good 
 lordship.      I  perceive   your    <rood   zeal   continue  still  towards  i.or.i  ii.mt- 
 
 i,.  ,  *»  1  111*1  •  injjilnn's  ical 
 
 poor  afflicted  men,  as  for   whom  your  lordship  do  now  write,  towanu 
 
 I  '  .....  .        afflicted  men 
 
 rity  it  is  that  the  cause   of  Christ's  relii^ion  is  thus  far  hin-^""^""- 
 
 «  <^  1 1  nil  PS. 
 
 dered  by  timorous  spiced  conscience,   although  too  wide  con-  !,g'^n^f,,in; 
 science  in  the  sinews  of  Christ's  religion  is  not  commendable.  tnnoloZ 
 According   to  your  desire  I  have   written  to   Mr  Secretary,  s!-ienU^""' 
 movinff  him  to  be  a  mean  to  the  Queen's  Ilifrlmcss,  which  I  bishoVh.T3 
 
 Ml  *       1      1  /•  /•     •  T  •         written  to 
 
 trust  he  will  be.      And  thus  for  want  of  time  I  cease  to  write  the  secretary 
 
 as  requested. 
 
 any  longer  to  your  honour,  which  God  long  continue  to  your 
 own  heart's  desire.  From  my  house  at  Canterbury,  this  4th 
 of  June,  1565. 
 
 I  pray  your  lordship  upon  your  occasion  to  commend  me  Desires  to  be 
 
 .,  11PT'  -11         ^        p         ^  '  coininended 
 
 heartily  to  my  lord  oi  Leicester,  with  thanks  tor  his  warrants  v'"'** 
 
 •'  "^  Leicester. 
 
 of  late  sent  unto  me. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  and  my 
 rerij  good  lord,  the  earl  of 
 Huntingdon. 
 
 CLXXXVIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  TARKER  TO   SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 [8th  December,  loCo.]    Lansd.  MS.  viii.  art.  49. 
 
 I  RETURN  to  your  honour  again  your  letters,  by  which  cecii.  as 
 may  be  understanded  ^  that  ve  have  there  ready  to  execute  cambri.iRe. 
 
 •'  "  "^  has  the  ma- 
 
 \}  The  orders  for  the  enforcement  of  uniformity  in  clerical  habits 
 occasioned  great  dissension  at  Cambridge.  The  circumstances  arc 
 fully  detailed  in  Strype's  Annals,  i.  cap.  44,  and  in  his  Parker,  Book  iii. 
 cap.  3.  The  present  letter  has  reference  to  that  dissension.  So  also  has 
 another  letter,  written  five  days  afterwards,  which  occurs  in  the  same 
 
24G  ARCIIB.  PAKKER   TO  SIH   WILLIAM   CECIL.  [1565. 
 
 jorityofihe  jour  orJcrs  of  the  best  sort  and  of  the  most  part,  excepting  a 
 
 ready  to  exe-  few  CatiUnes,  who  by  sufferance  will  infect  the  whole.  Where- 
 cute  his  '  'I 
 
 orders.  upon,  whcrc — King  Edward's  statutes  stablished  by  his  council 
 delivered  them  by  his  visitors,  the  same  now  by  the  Queen's 
 Majesty's  visitors  returned  to  them,  your  orders  of  late  with 
 consent  of  the  body  of  the  University,  the  Queen's  Highness"* 
 pleasure  sent  to  them  by  my  letters — you  their  Chancellor,  of 
 the  privy  council  and  in  such  place  and  credit  as  ye  be,  will 
 
 "Wherefore     suffcr  SO  much  authoritv  to  be  borne  under  foot  by  a  brasr- 
 
 Parker  hopes      .  .  ....  . 
 
 afio'^w  Ku-  o^"o   brainless  head  or  two,  m  mine  opinion  your  conscience 
 birneuITder^  ^^  ncvcr  bc  excusablc.     I  pray  your  charity  pardon  my 
 bS^^nl      plainness.   Ex  intimo  corde,  exjoura  conscientia,  coram  Deo  et 
 hSToftwo.   Christo  ejus,  I  speak.    AVe  mar  our  religion ;  our  circumspec- 
 tions so  variable  (as  though  it  were  not  God's  cause  which  he 
 will  defend)  maketh  cowards  thus  to  cock  over  us.     I  do  not 
 like   that   the  commissioners'   letters   should    go   to   private 
 Colleges,   specially  after  so   much  passed.     I  must  say,  as 
 Demosthenes  answered  what  was  the  chief  part  in  rhetoric, 
 the  second,  the  third ;  "  Pronunciation,"  said  he ;  so  say  I, 
 Execution  of  Executiou,  exccution,  execution  of  laws  and  orders  must  be  the 
 the  first  and  first  and  the  last  part  of  good  governance ;  although  I  yet 
 good  govern-  admit  modcrations  for  times,  places,   multitudes,  &:c.     And 
 hereafter,  for  God's  love,  never  stir  any  alteration,  except  it 
 be  fully  meant  to  have  them  established ;  for  or  else  we  shall 
 hold  us  in  no  certainty,  but  be  ridiculous  to  our  adversaries, 
 contemned   of  our  own,    and   give   the   adventure    of  more 
 dangers ;  and  thus  ye  must  pardon  my  boldness.     For  mine 
 own  part  I  repose  myself  in  silentio,  et  m  spe;  etfortitudo  mea 
 DominuSy  howsoever  the  world  fawneth  or  fumeth. 
 Yours  in  Christ  our  Lord, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 To  the  riglit  JionourahJe  Mr  Secretary. 
 
 MS.  as  the  above  (Lansd.  MS.  No.  viii.  art.  50),  but  does  not  seem  of 
 sufficient  importance  to  be  printed  in  the  text.  It  is  addressed  "  To  the 
 right  honourable  Mr  Secretary,"  and  runs  thus :  "  Sir,  For  that  I  think 
 your  honour  to  be  in  the  midst  of  your  doings  for  the  University,  I 
 send  you  a  private  letter,  which  you  may  return  again,  I  see  there  is 
 strange  delay  amongst  the  wiser  sort.  Men  be  men.  God  keep  your 
 honour.  This  13th  of  December.  Your  honour's  alway,  Matth. 
 Cantuar."] 
 
1565.1    Bl*  rAUKIIlUST   t»l-    NoKWRII    K)   AIU  IIH.   I'AKKhlt.      247 
 
 CLXXXIX. 
 
 insiior  rAKKin'RST  of  nokwumi   to  Aiiciip.isiior 
 
 rAUKliU. 
 19th  December,  15G:>.  ParkiT  MSS.  C.C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  172.  p.  485.  OriK- 
 
 ;My  duty  premised  unto  your  good  grace.     It  may  please  Twomemhm 
 the  same  to  bo  advertised,  that  of  late  I  have  called  before  «-r^^'t»uirch 
 me  Thomas  Bateman  and  Cornelius  Vanderstad,   two  of  the  ixcommum- 
 
 f.»U-it  there, 
 
 strancjers  excommunicate  at  Sandwich  by  their  minister  there.  »»"t'>«^"'»» 
 They  appear  unto  me  to  bo  very  willing  to  be  restored  to  the  llai'.m.'*'***" 
 church  again,  and  humbly  to  crave  the  benefit  of  absolution,  hurst'^.h^iu" 
 "Wherefore,  if  it  mij^ht  stand  with  your  j]:racc's  pleasure  either  bi'hop  to  ab- 
 
 ,        ,  ,  ,  .  ,.     ,      .  1  .solve  them 
 
 to  absolve  them  by  proxy,  in  respect  ot  their  jjrcat  travel  and  b>  pmxy.or 
 charges,  or  else  to  permit  me  upon  their  humble  submission  t^^o  so. 
 (their  folhes  acknowledged)  to  do  the  same,  they  were  much 
 bound  unto  your  grace  therefore  :  but  in  the  mean  season  I 
 have  charged  them  not  to  repair  to  any  place  of  common 
 prayer  with  the  rest  of  the  congregation,  nor  yet  to  presume 
 to  the  Lord's  table,  till  I  be  further  advertised  of  your  grace'^s 
 pleasure.      And   I   have   given  the    like   charf]jc   to   AVilliam  t^o  others 
 
 *  O  O  chari,'cd  to 
 
 Brand  and  Komanus  de  Backere,  which  pretend  absolution,  till  )p7t"'rlTeIt'i^'' 
 I  see  their  letters  testimonial  in  that  behalf.  LSlioL 
 
 As  touching  the  poor  vicarage  of  Xorth  Elmham,  I  had 
 conferred  the  same  before  the  coming  of  your  grace's  clerk, 
 unto  one 2  Denny,  being  of  mine  own  patronage,  trusting 
 therefore  your  grace  "will  have  consideration  of  this  bringer 
 some  other  way  as  shall  seem  to  you  best. 
 
 [1  On  the  9th  Jan.,  1566,  a  letter  of  thanks  was  written  by  the 
 niinisters  and  elders  of  the  church  of  Sandwich  to  the  archbishop, 
 acknowledging  that  through  the  interposition  of  his  authority,  four 
 excommunicate  members  of  their  church,  two  of  whom  were  tho 
 above-named  William  Brand  and  Rom  anus  de  Backere,  had  been 
 reconciled  after  public  penance,  and  sundry  others  belonging  to  tho 
 samo  faction  after  the  reading  of  a  document,  a  copy  of  which  is 
 enclosed.  The  writers  state  that  they  had  furnished  these  persons 
 with  a  testimonial  of  their  restoration,  and  also  intimate  that  tho 
 disaflected  at  Sandwich  were  wont  to  resort  to  Norwich,  and  give 
 trouble  there.      See  Parker  MS.  cxix.  arts.  S3,  85,  pp.  235,  241.] 
 
 [2  There  is  a  blank  space  here  in  the  MS.] 
 
North  Elm- 
 ham  in  the 
 pift  of  the 
 bishof)  of 
 Norwich. 
 He  lias  re- 
 coivcd  the 
 
 i)art  of  the 
 Jibic  ap- 
 pointed to 
 him  to  revise. 
 
 248     BP  PARKHURST  OF  NORWICH   TO  ARCHB.  PARKER.     [1565. 
 
 I  have  received  that  part  of  the  Bible  appointed  to  me^ 
 and  will  travel  therein  with  such  diligence  and  expedition  as 
 conveniently  I  may.  And  thus  I  leave  your  grace  to  the  pro- 
 tection of  Almighty  God.  From  Norwich,  this  19th  of  De- 
 cember, 1565. 
 
 Your  grace's  most  bounden. 
 
 JOHN  NORWIC. 
 
 To  the  most  reverend  father  in  God, 
 my  very  good  lord,  the  archbishop 
 of  Canterbury's  grace. 
 
 cxc. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 29th  December,  1565.     S.  P.  O.  Domestic.     Orig. 
 
 The  arch- 
 bishop has 
 had  much 
 ado  with  the 
 quarrels  of 
 GonviUe 
 Hall. 
 
 Controversy 
 between  the 
 master  and 
 Clarke  and 
 Dethick, 
 compounded 
 by  Parker 
 and  Grindal. 
 
 Fresh  con- 
 trover>y. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I  have  had  very  much  ado  with  the  quarrels  of  Gonville 
 Hall  from  time  to  time.  The  truth  is,  both  parties  are  not 
 excusable  from  folly.  At  the  first  controversy  betwixt  the 
 master  2  and  one  Clarke  and  Dethick,  my  lord  of  London  and 
 I  so  compounded  the  matter,  that  we  perceived  it  very  need- 
 ful to  the  quiet  of  that  society  to  remove  both  Dethick  and 
 Clarke  from  their  fellowships.  Dethick,  after  a  year,  made 
 suit  to  me  to  have  a  room  again  in  the  College.  Upon  his 
 importunity  I  was  importune  upon  the  master  to  accept  him, 
 with  condition  of  my  promise  that  if  by  him  any  trouble 
 should  arise,  I  would  take  him  from  him  again.  TVhich  pro- 
 mise made  me  to  receive  him  into  my  house,  after  this  last 
 expulsion  by  the  master  and  more  part  of  the  company. 
 From  that  they  do  appeal  to  your  honour.  I  cannot  see  how 
 rightly  they  can  do  it,  or  how  your  Vice-chancellor  can  deal 
 in  order  with  their  College  matters.     The  parties  sued  to  me  ; 
 
 [}  This  was  in  preparation  for  the  publication  of  what  is  called  the 
 Bishops'  Bible,  published  in  1568.  The  portion  of  the  work  revised 
 by  bishop  Parkhurst  consisted  of  the  apocryphal  books  of  Ecclesiasti- 
 cus,  Susannah,  Baruch,  and  Maccabees.] 
 
 [2  The  celebrated  Dr  Caius.] 
 
Mr  Wtlluin 
 r'rrtl  ■• 
 luiiuvllor. 
 
 15G5.]  AHCIIH.    rAHKKIJ    To   Slli    W  Il.I.IAM    «  I*  II..  249 
 
 I  promised  them   to  deal  witli   the   muster   to  obtain   of  him 
 moro  commodity   than    I  tako   them   worthy  to  have ;  only  [ 
 restitution    to  their  fello\vshii>s  I  would  nut   move.     Wherein  iv.tv.r. 
 
 '  \  I,  w.'if  what 
 
 I  SCO  good  cause;  for  if  they  he  there,  there  will  ever  tronlilc  i>..iM'«bir. 
 arise.      Theso  fellows  have  divers  drifts  they  shoot  at,  which 
 I   think   good    to   ho  dis^ippointed.      1   see   the  faction  hath 
 laboured   very   much   in   this  matter.      Although  I  see  over 
 much  rashness  in  tho  master  for  cxpellinc:  fellows  so,  so  duly  Themancr 
 
 *  over  ra»h  Id 
 
 &c.,  he  hath  been  well  told  of  it,  as  well  of  mv  lord  of  London  c-xi^iimK 
 
 as  by  myself;  and  surely  the  contemptuous  behaviour  of  these 
 
 fellows  iiath  much  provoked  him.      Tho  truth  is,  I  do  rather  l^J-arrwu" 
 
 bear  with  the  oversiirht  of  the  master  (bcinj;  no  ojreater  than  nw">V."7of 
 
 ft  •  '    I 
 yet  I  see)  in  respect  of  his  good  done  and  like  to  be  done  in  »ion[:'by  him 
 
 ,  -  II'  '111  /•  /»        1  aj*  founder 
 
 the  Colleojo  by  him,  than  with  the  bras:  of  a  fond  sort  ot  an^  ixnefac- 
 
 ^  y  .  ®  lor. 
 
 troublous  factious  bodies.  Founders  and  benefactors  be  very 
 rare  at  these  days ;  therefore  I  do  bear  the  less  with  such  as 
 would  (but  in  a  mere  triumph)  deface  him,  and  respect  more 
 that  conquest  than  any  quiet  in  the  house ;  and  the  rather, 
 for  I  think  that  if  this  matter  be  ended,  there  will  arise  no 
 more  trouble  in  such  kind  there,  for  the  master  hath  firmly 
 assured  me  to  do  nothing  in  such  innovations,  but  partly  with 
 my  knowledge  and  approbation  first,  and  other  of  his  friends. 
 But  undoubtedly  in  my  opinion,  compiitans  omnibus  circum- 
 stantiis,  I  think  it  nothinor  meet  to  have  them  restored  ag^ain,  Hethinksthe 
 
 '  o  O  '  fellows 
 
 what  other  commodities  so  ever  they  may  have  of  favourable  b^'reluS, 
 departing.      If  your   honour  will   hear  their  challenges,  ye  Kurabie 
 shall  hear  such  commerouse^  trifles  and  brabbles,  that  ye  shall  the^V^r- 
 be   weary.      And  I  would  not  wish   particular  Colleges   (in 
 these  times)  should  learn  to  have,  by  forced  appellations,  a 
 recourse  to  your  authority  as  Chancellor,  for  the  presidents' 
 sake  hereafter.      And  again,  I  would  not  have  your  time  so 
 drawn  from  better  doings  in  the  weighty  causes  of  the  realm. 
 Scholars'  controversies  be  now  many  and  troublous ;  and  their  S,o7S"°S- 
 dehght  is  to  come  before  men  of  authority  to  shew  their  wits  ^' 
 &c. ;  and  I  cannot  tell  how  such  busy  sorts  draw  to  them  some 
 of  the  graver  personages  to  be  doers,  an  ex  sinceritate  et  ex 
 bona    conscientia   nescio.     My    old    experience    there  hath 
 taught  mo  to  spy  daylight  at  a  small  hole.     Thus  ye  hear 
 ray  fancy,  which  I  pray  your  honour  to  take  in  good  worth. 
 To  write  much  more  my  dull  deaf  head  will  not  sufter  me.     I 
 L^  cumbrous.] 
 
 troversics. 
 
250  ARCHB.   rARKEU   TO  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL.  [1565. 
 
 pray  you  if  any  offence  be  taken  for  my  not  oft  attending, 
 and  to  come  over  the  reumatike  Tempsis^  answer  for  me. 
 Thus  God  be  with  your  honour,  this  29th  December,  1565. 
 
 Yours  assuredly, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  Tcnightf  principal  secretary 
 to  the  Queen's  Majesty. 
 
 CXCI. 
 
 Explains  tlie 
 
 BISHOP   GESTE   OF   ROCHESTER  TO  ARCHBISHOP 
 PARKER. 
 
 Probably  A.D.  1565.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  162.  p.  465.    Orig. 
 
 Bishop  Geste  My  duty  humbly  presupposed  to  your  grace.  These  be 
 arSshop  to  do  the  same  to  understand  that,  at  the  last,  I  have  sent 
 th'e  b°J!,^k''of   your  grace  your  book  again  with  such  notes  and  advertise- 
 
 Psalmswhich  "^  .  n  i         •  t  i  i  n  .i  t     i  i 
 
 he  has  re-     mcuts  that  for  my  business  I  could  well  gather.     1   beseech 
 
 vised-  ''  ° 
 
 your  grace  that  when  you  have  read  them  that  I  might  have 
 them  again,  for  Mr  Secretary  would  see  them.  If  your  grace 
 will  have  me  to  amend  them  I  am  at  your  commandment.  I 
 will  be  with  your  grace  upon  Friday  to  know  your  mind  and 
 to  have  the  book.  I  have  not  altered  the  translation  but 
 wiikh^h?h°ad  where  it  giveth  occasion  of  an  error,  as  in  the  first  Psalm  at 
 EureviiSon"  the  beginning,  I  turn  the  preterperfect  tense  into  the  present 
 tense,  because  the  sense  is  too  hard  in  the  preterperfect  tense. 
 Where  in  the  New  Testament  one  piece  of  a  Psalm  is  re- 
 ported, I  translate  it  in  the  Psalm  according  to  the  translation 
 thereof  in  the  New  Testament,  for  the  avoiding  of  the  offence 
 that  may  rise  to  the  people  upon  diverse  translations.  Where 
 two  great  letters  be  joined  together,  or  where  one  great 
 letter  is  twice  put,  it  signifieth  that  both  the  sentences  or  the 
 words  be  expounded  together.  Thus  trusting  that  your 
 grace  will  take  in  good  part  my  rude  handling  of  the  Psalms, 
 I  most  heartily  bid  the  same  well  to  fare  in  Christ. 
 
 Your  grace's  to  his  poor  power, 
 
 [EDM.  R0FFEN.2] 
 
 [1  Thames.] 
 
 [2  The  signature  is  partly  worn  away.     It  is  here  supplied  from 
 
15(>">.]  DliAN   NOWKLL  TO    AIU  lUJ.  rAIlKEU.  251 
 
 CXCII. 
 
 DEAN  NOWELL  TO  AKCIIBISIIOr   PARKER. 
 TroUMy  nbuut  A.D.  1:hJ\     Tarkrr  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb,  cxiv.  art.  328.  p.  913. 
 
 My  lord  of  Loiuloii  shewed  mo  tliat  lie  delivered  a  note 
 of  mine  unto  your  grace  touching   Innocentius  111.  hi.s  judg- JJ.'/^'j'»J,','"J^ 
 nient  of  consecration,  that  it  should  not  be  in  these  words,  [,X"mu/° 
 Hoc  est  corpus  ineimi,    but  in  some  blessing   going  before ;  [fre'Slu of 
 which  the  said  Innocentius  should  say  in  his  book  De  ojjicio  ^"''**'^'*'"°"- 
 Missce,  parte  3,  cap.  6,  vel  4  parte,  cap.  14^;  and  that  Scotus  sootu.hiu 
 
 i  .  ^^.       .  ^  o       1         11     1  1         iM         the  like. 
 
 in  4  ^'iitcntuinnn  Distinct.  8,  qu.  3  should   liavc  the  like. 
 
 Mv  lord  of  London  told  me,  your  j];race  had  these  books,  and  r->rkrri*wid 
 
 •  '    w  o  ^  »  to  have  tlii-Mi 
 
 I  would  resort  to  your  graco  some  time  this  day  to  be  J;^'^^-,,  ^.j„ 
 certified  hereof,  for  I  dare  trust  no  report  of  the  places  of  ^^,'J/^'£!* 
 authors,  unless  I  do  myself  sec  the  originals,  such  wranglers  thTr'S  he 
 have  I  to  do  with,  and  so  unsure  are  men's  notes  of  the  re,"or?w\th° 
 place  of  the  authors,  by  their  fault,  or  the  printcr'^s.  Thus  the  originals, 
 ceasing  to  trouble  your  grace,  I  commend  the  same  to 
 Almighty  God,  who  ever  preserve  your  grace  and  all  yours. 
 
 Your  grace's  to  command, 
 
 ALEXANDER  NOWELL. 
 
 To  the  right  rererend  father  in  God, 
 the  lord  archbishop  of  Canterbury 
 his  good  grace,  give  these. 
 
 CXCIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 4th  January,  1565 — G.    Lansd.  MS.  viii.  No.  70. 
 
 Sir, 
 No  sooner  than  yesterday,   I   was  informed   of  certain  Dr  caius  i 
 articles    charged    upon    Dr  Caius,    not    only    sounding    and  AUie'ism. 
 savouring    atheism,   but  plainly    expressing   the    same,   with 
 
 the  copy  of  this  letter  in  Dugdale's  Life  of  bishop  Gesto,  (Lond.  8vo. 
 1840.  p.  141).  The  book  of  Psalms  was  bishop  Gcste's  part  in  the 
 Bishops*  Bible.] 
 
 [3  The  words  referred  to  by  dean  Nowell  were  used  by  bishop 
 Jewel  in  his  Reply  to  Harding's  Answer.  Sec  the  Parker  Society's 
 edition  of  Jewel's  Works,  i.  789.] 
 
252  ARCIIB.   PARKER  TO  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL.  [1565-6. 
 
 further  shew  of  a  perverse  stomach  to  the  professors  of  the 
 gospel,  of  the  which  if  I  were  credibly  persuaded,  I  would 
 take  him  tanquam  ethnicum  et  puhlicanum,  and  would  not 
 vouchsafe  him  within  my  house. 
 
 There  is  a  difference  betwixt  the  frailty  of  a  man's  mu- 
 tability,  and  a   professing    of  plain    impiety.       Sir,   in  my 
 The  arch-      opinion  it  were  good  if  it  can  be  indifferently  testified  before 
 
 bishop  thinks      *■  .  ,,  .  ''  •      t/v 
 
 if  this  were  Mr  Vice-chancellor,  Dr  llutton,  and  one  other  mdifferent 
 cEceUor''^  man,  so  sent  to  by  your  letters  to  know  a  truth,  so  to 
 fnd"noX'r,  suspond  him,  whatsoever  order  ye  intend  to  take  with  the 
 to  suIpeS'^  fellows  of  the  house ;  and  if  it  should  fall  out  that  they  could 
 
 be  well  testified,  I  would  wish  a  better  in  his  place  to  govern 
 
 the  house,  and  he  to  hold  him  in  his  foundership  if  he  will. 
 
 I  hke  not  the  stones  builded  by  such  impiety  &c. 
 
 At  the  first   stir  of  this  matter  betwixt  them\  hearing 
 
 what  then  they  alleged,  I  saw  good  cause  earnestly  to  blame 
 What  he  in-  the  Said  Caius,    blamino:    also  the  said   fellows.     But  Caius 
 
 tended  to  .  . 
 
 tlfefeumv/  ^^^  th^ii  SO  framed  that  he  did  commit  the  final  end  to 
 peaie"d°fwm  ^J  dispositiou.  Whcrcupon  I  shall  shew  your  honour  what 
 as'ThL°cS'  I  intended,  if  the  fellows  had  not  proceeded  from  me  as 
 trusting  to  win  the  conquest  of  their  restitution,  which  they 
 perceived  I  would  not  grant.  For  I  spied,  so  long  as  he  was 
 master  there,  and  they  fellows,  there  should  be  maintained 
 but  continual  brawling,  and  the  rather  for  that  their  appel- 
 lation was  not  lawfully  made,  nor  orderly  prosecuted,  and  the 
 drift  was  (as  I  judged)  for  Dethick  to  continue  such  stifllers^ 
 in  the  College  of  his  pupils,  to  win  him  in  time,  by  hook  or 
 crook,  the  master's  room  &c. 
 
 For  the  ending  of  their  controversies,  I  thought  good  to 
 cause  a  writing  indented  to  be  made  betwixt  them,  whereby 
 the  fellows  should  appear  willingly  to  depart  from  their 
 fellowships,  but  yet  to  have  one  year's  profit  for  their 
 idtimum  vale,  to  be  borne  for  Spensor  of  Caius'  own  purse, 
 for  the  other  two  of  the  College,  and  that  the  master  should 
 express  to  discharge  them  of  the  note  of  expulsion  and  the 
 crime  of  perjury  to  their  hindrance  afterwards.  And  further, 
 I  meant  within  the  compass  of  that  year  to  have  bestowed 
 Dethick  in  some  benefice,  and  the  other  two  in  some  other 
 
 \}  See  before.  Letter  CXC.  p.  248.] 
 
 [2  Sticklers  ;    an  East  Anglian  form  of  the  word.      Forby's  Glos- 
 sary, II.  235.] 
 
1565-G.]        AlilllH.    I'AUKKU    Tt>  SIK    U  ll.l.l AM    <  I  i  II  .  U63 
 
 fellowships  in  other  Collof^os.  IJut  hccauso  they  liked  not  of 
 this  as  trusting  of  further  frieiulahip  otherwhere,  1  gave 
 them  over. 
 
 Mv   K>rel  of  Lincoln^  desired  inc  to  bo  a  suitor  to   your  n.h..,, ..r 
 
 •  ^       ^  ).li...lri 
 
 honour  to  obtain  licenco  that  his  guest  Mr  IJourno*  might  be  ;;•[•- 
 at  his  own  house  which  he  hath  here  in  London,  for  the  par-  ,' 
 
 lianient  time,   being    sutHciently   bound   to   bo  quiet,    and  to  ;. „,  ,.^ 
 
 return  again  with  him  or  otherwise  when  the  said  bishop  \uuv*"i^'^ 
 should  repair  home,  because  his  own  lodjiin^  here  at  Lam- mg  umg 
 bcth  13  too  strait.  It  yo  think  that  we  by  the  commission 
 may  do  it,  wo  shall  not  wish  it  to  be  moved  to  the  Queen's 
 Majesty  or  tlio  council,  praying  your  honour  to  grant  his 
 desire.  And  thus  1  commit  your  honour  to  the  grace  of  God 
 as  myself.     This  4th  of  January,  1565. 
 
 Your  honour's  always, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  Tl^illimn 
 Cecily  knightj  j^^^'^^'P^^^  secretary 
 to  the  Queen's  Majesty. 
 
 CXCIV. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 24th  January,  15GJ— G.     Lansd.  MS.  viii.  No.  73. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I  return  to  you  your  book  again,  and  thank  you  for  the  Thanks  him 
 
 *'  *'  .  O  '  ^  for  the  siRht 
 
 sight  thereof.     I  account  it  much  worth  the  keeping,  as  well  ^[s^of^Jl," 
 for  the  fair  antique  writing  with  the  Saxon  interpretation,  as  [^'Je[,f;.iiha 
 also  for  the  strangeness  of  the  translation,  which  is  neither  ^eutim"' 
 the  accustomed  old  text,  neither    St  Jerome's,   nor  yet  the 
 Septuaginta. 
 
 I  had  thought  to  haye  made  up  the  want  of  the  begin-  ^f^^{l^°' 
 ning  of  the  Psalter,  for  it  wanteth  the  first  psalm,  and  three  *-a°""8- 
 yerses  in  the   second  psalm,   and  methouglit  the  leaf  going 
 before  the  xxvith  psalm  would  haye  been  a  meet  beginning 
 
 [3  Bishop  Bullingham,  loGO — 1570.] 
 
 [*  Dr  Bourne,  the  deprived  bishop  of  Bath  and  Wells.] 
 
254  ARCHB.  PARKER   TO   SIR   WILLIAM   (  ECIL.        [1d(jO-G. 
 
 before  the  whole  Psalter,  having  David  sitting  with  his  harp 
 or  psaltery,  decachordo  vel  or/dochordo,  with  his  ministers 
 with  their  tiibis  ductilibus  et  cymhalis  sonoris,  &c.,  and  then 
 fuVfn  Ijp-'  the  first  psalm  written  on  the  back  side :  which  I  was  in  mind 
 Fng'JlfrtioSs^'  to  have  caused  Lylje  to  have  counterfeited  in  antiquity,  &c., 
 cldilfis  also  but  that  I  called  to  remembrance  that  ye  have  a  singular 
 artificer^of    artificer  to  adorn  the  same,  which  your  honour  shall  do  well 
 
 the  same  ,  ,  /»«ii  itmi 
 
 kind.  to  have  the  monument  nnished,  or  else  I  will  cause  it  to  be 
 
 j^tJi"nthe  ^0^6  ^^^  remitted  again  to  your  library  ;  in  the  riches  whereof, 
 
 oPs^di^^'°"  videlicet  of  such  treasures,  I  rejoice  as  much  as  they  were  in 
 
 easures,      jjjjne  q^q^     Sq  ^hat  they  may  be  preserved  within  the  realm, 
 
 and  not  sent  over  by  covetous  stationers,  or  spoiled  m  the 
 
 poticaries*  shops. 
 
 And  thus  I  leave,  wishing  you  to  sing  in  our  Lord,  m 
 spiritu  et  veritate,  as  ever  David  did,  or  as  I  wish  to  myself. 
 This  24th  of  January,  1565. 
 
 Your  honour'*s  alway, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 cxcv. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 29th  January,  1565—6.    Lansd.  MS.  viii.   Xo.  74. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I  am  about  to  devise  for  preachers  in  Lent  before  the 
 
 Queen's  Majesty.      I  perceive  by  some  men's  judgments  I 
 
 shall  fail  of  divers,  fearing  the  like  sequel  of  reproof  as  is  by 
 
 ShoTbeing  insultation  oft  rehearsed  of  the  adversaries.    I  would  wish  the 
 
 fhkeS^''   dean  of  Paul's  to  be   one:  whom,  if  the   Queen's  Majesty 
 
 SS^dl'an  shall  not  like  after  her  accustomed  manner  to  favour  and  to 
 
 oijy^but  he    give  him  hearing,  he  shall  be  hardly  entreated  to  occupy  the 
 
 occupy  the    placc.      I  would  your  honour  could  understand  the  Queen's 
 
 place  unless     *    ,  ....  iit-ii  n  ir 
 
 the  Queen     Hiorhness  inclination :  whereby  I  miojht  thereafter  move  Mr 
 
 will  favour  ...  .        . 
 
 him  and      de^LTi  at  his  beinoj  ^[th.  me,  whom  I  have  invited  to  dinner  on 
 
 give  nim  o  ' 
 
 Rearing.       Thursday  next. 
 
 If  the  papists  be  angry  (though  in  a  flattery  they  dissem- 
 ble to  win),  and  the  poor  protestants  discouraged,  it  will 
 make  an  universal  disliking,  and  kindle  grudging  and  secret 
 vain  talking.      Taut  I  est  in  tarn  factioso  secvlo  equahilitO' 
 
15G5-C.]       AU(  nil.  rAUKKii  tj)  siii  \\  ii.iia.m  (im  II,.  255 
 
 tfin  servare.      God  l>K>s  lu-r  lliLrlines.s  Iodl,'  to  rcii^n  over  us 
 ill  jHice  et  veritate. 
 
 At  my  hoiiso,  this  I'lUh  of  January,  IjGj. 
 
 Your  lionoiir's  always, 
 
 MATTII.   CANT. 
 
 To  ilii  rhjilt  lionourahlf  Sir  W'illimii 
 Cecil,  knifjht,  principal  stcrctari/  to 
 iht   (hniii's  Majesti/. 
 
 CXCVI. 
 
 ARCIIDISIIOr  PARKER  TO  THE  DUKE   OF   NORFOLK \ 
 
 [January,  15Go— C]     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  37.  p.  117. 
 Parker's  Original  Draft. 
 
 After  my  hearty  commendations  to   your  good  grace. 
 This  is  to  signify  to  the  same,  that  I  have  of  very  late  writ- 
 
 [1  This  is  the  reply  to  a  letter  addressed  to  the  archbishop  by 
 the  Duke  of  Norfolk  from  Norwich,  on  the  28th  December,  1565, 
 (MS.C.  C.  Coll. Camb.  cxiv.  art.  36, p.  llo),  in  which  he  stated,  "since 
 my  coming  home  the  strangers  hath  been  suitors  to  me  for  my 
 letters  to  you  for  the  having  of  a  church,  whereupon  I  talked  with 
 my  lord  bishop  and  others  of  the  city,  by  whom  I  hear  as  well  of 
 their  good  order  in  religion,  as  also  of  their  honest  conversation, 
 which  I  think  my  lord  bishop  hath  satisfied  you  as  well  of  that  as 
 their  desire  in  the  having  a  church,  wherein  I  pray  you  stand  their 
 good  lord  ;  for  here  be  churches,  I  know,  that  be  void,  that  upon  your 
 letters  to  the  bishop  and  the  mayor  they  will  take  present  order." 
 The  duke  added  in  a  postscript,  "  I  have  sent  your  grace  a  note  of 
 the  like  that  was  granted  them  in  King  Edward's  days."  There  is 
 also  in  the  same  volume  of  MSS.  (cxiv.  art.  170,  p.  481),  a  letter 
 from  the  bishop  of  Norwich  to  the  archbishop  on  the  same  subject, 
 dated  27th  December,  15G5,  in  which  ho  states  that  "  the  minis- 
 ter of  the  strangers  with  the  whole  congregation  are  petitioners 
 to  bo  admitted  to  some  church  within  the  city,  where  they  may 
 resort  to  hear  the  word  of  God,  according  to  their  former  manner  in 
 the  town  of  Sandwich."  The  bishop  adds  that  he  had  moved  Mr 
 Mayor  therein,  and  found  him  "somewhat  strange,"  which  occasioned 
 his  application  to  the  archbishop.  The  strangers  alluded  to  were 
 refugees  from  the  Low  Countries,  a  portion  of  those  who  settled  at 
 Sandwich.  They  were  assigned  a  church  in  Norwich,  which  they  still 
 occupy.] 
 
256  ARCHB.  PAUKEll  TO   THE   DUKE   OF  NORFOLK.      [1565-6. 
 
 bSmlftlas  t^^  ^J  letters  to  my  lord  of  Norwich  to  grant  unto  the 
 Sol'wir''''  strangers  a  vacant  church  within  the  city,  wherein  I  think 
 grant'SV"*  thoy  havc  some  store ;  and  have  further  requested  his  lordship 
 ySr"^     to  know  your  pleasure  and  advice,  whereby  the  citizens  may 
 
 churcli  in  "^  .11  1  •        i       •  1       ,  *^ 
 
 Norwich,      bo  the  sooner  induced  to  this  desire ;  and  then  his  ordinary 
 
 where  they  «/ 
 
 havesome     authority  shall  suffice  to  take  order  with  them,  as  well  for  the 
 
 ^js^ordinary  form  of  their  public  prayers,   as  otherwise  for  the  state  of 
 
 Srang^witir  ^eligiou,  and  for  their  discipline  whereby  that  church  may 
 
 thei" forms    l^vo  lu  tho  moro  perfect  quiet,  wishing  that  they  might  be 
 
 dLc[p?ine!'"'^  persuaded  to  recede  as  little  as  might  be  from  common  order 
 
 of  prayers  and  administration  of  the  sacraments,  as  is  used  by 
 
 authority  in  the  realm.     And  if  hereafter  any  cause  shall  be 
 
 seen  for  any  further  help  of  my  party  it  shall  be  ready  at  all 
 
 times,  as  God  knoweth,  to  whose  merciful  tuition  I  recommend 
 
 your  grace  as  heartily  as  myself. 
 
 CXCVII. 
 
 BISHOP  SANDYS  OF  WORCESTER  TO   ARCHBISHOP 
 PARKER. 
 
 6th  February,  1565—6.  Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  CoU.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  155.  p.  453.  Grig. 
 
 My   duty  remembered.     According    unto    your    grace's 
 
 letters  of  instructions  I  have  perused  the  book  ^  you  sent  me, 
 
 Bishop  San-  and  with  good  dilierence  (having  also  conference  with  some 
 
 dys  returns  O   ^  O  \  C3 
 
 the°mbie°^  others)  considered  of  the  same  in  such  sort  I  trust  as  your 
 
 forVSu^iT,    grace  will  not  mislike  of.     I  have  sent  up  with  it  my  clerk, 
 
 rectionsand'  whoso  haud  I  usod  lu  Writing  forth  the  corrections  and  mar- 
 
 noTel!"^       ginal  notes.     If  it  shall  please  your  grace  to  set  over  the 
 
 book  to  be  viewed  by  some  one  of  your  chaplains,  my  said 
 
 clerk  shall  attend  a  day  or  two  to  make  it  plain  unto  him 
 
 how  my  notes  are  to  be  placed.     In  mine  opinion  your  grace 
 
 Slhe'^pSp^r  ^^^^^  ^^  ^^^^  ^°  make  the  whole  Bible  to  be  diligently  sur- 
 
 proceedingin  voycd  by  somo  Well  learned  before  it  be  put  to  print,  and 
 
 onhe'tmns-  also  to  have  skilful  and  diligent  correctors  at  the  printing  of 
 
 latioa. 
 
 [1  The   books  of  Kings  and  Chronicles  were  revised  by  bishop 
 Sandys  for  the  Bishops'  Bible.] 
 
1565-6.]     BP  SANDYS  OF  WORCESTEK   TO  AIU  Mil.  rAUKEH.      257 
 
 it,  tliat  it  may  be  done  in  such  perfection  tli.it  tlie  mlvcrsaries 
 can  have  no  occasion  to  quarrel  with  it.  N\  hiih  thing  will 
 rcduire  a  time,  sed  sat  cito  si  s<it  hoie.  The  tetters  forth  of  <>„riran«u. 
 this  our  coninion  translation  followed  Munstcr  too  much,  who  j^'|||;j;"''«» 
 doubtless  was  a  very  negligent  man  in  his  doings,  and  often 
 swerved  very  much  from  the  Hebrew.  Thus  trusting  that 
 your  grace  will  take  in  good  part  my  travails  wherein  wanted 
 no  good  will,  I  commend  the  same  to  the  grace  of  the  Al- 
 minhtv  God.  From  mv  house  at  Worcester,  this  (^th  of 
 February,  15C)5. 
 
 Your  grace's  in  Christ  at  command, 
 
 ED.  WIG0RX.2 
 
 CXCVIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 7th  February,  15C5—G.    Lansd.  MS.  via.  art.  7G.   Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 I  SEND  you  here  these  letters  inclosed  to  consider.      Loth  Thearch. 
 I  would  be,  after  so  lone:  tarriance  for  Llandaff,  the  Queen's  letters  wi.ich 
 
 p  throw  doubt 
 
 Majesty  should  be  deceived,  and  her  good  people  not  well  "".^.^'^"^J. 
 appointed.      Although  Doctor  Lewes,  and  two  or  three  other  S,Siop,!j^\ 
 such,  have  informed  me  of  him^,  which  caused  nic  to  write  as"^^'*""^^' 
 I  did ;  and  these  letters  have  stayed  me  to  think  for  instru- 
 ments of  his  commendams,  ^c.     Marrv,  as  for  Banojor,  if  the  MrHeweta 
 
 -^  '  o       '  fu  person 
 
 Queen's  Majesty  had  sought  a  great  way  to  supply  that  room  [;|'j|oprick 
 there  were  not  a  fitter  than  this  Mr  Ilewet,  whom  I  know  my-  nn/*^X'' 
 self,  and  dare  upon  mine  own  credit  to  commend,  rather  than  .m'mieTbT" 
 
 the  earl  of 
 
 [-  Bishop  Sandys  of  Worcester,  1559 — 1570.  A  fragment  of  an- 
 other letter  from  bishop  Sandys  to  archbishop  Parker  occurs  in 
 Parker  MSS.  C.C.Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  157,  p.  455.  It  reads  thus: 
 *'  My  duty  remembered.  With  humble  thanks  for  the  book  you  sent 
 me,  whereof  I  like  very  well.  The  writer  hath  learnedly  travailed  in 
 it,  and  the  setting  forth  of  it  cannot  but  do  good.  Your  grace  should 
 much  benefit  the  church  in  hastening  forward  the  Bible  which  you 
 have  in  hand.   Those  that  we  have  bo  not  only  false  printed,  but  also 
 
 give  great  otlence  to  many  by  reason  of  the  diversity  in  reading '* 
 
 The  remainder  is  lost.] 
 
 [3  The  person  alluded  to  was  Dr  Hugh  Jones,  ultimately  bishop 
 of  LlandaflF.      This  appears  from  a  future  letter.] 
 
 [park.  cor. J 
 
258  ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL.        [15C5-6. 
 
 Doctor  Ellis,  having  been  aforetimes  sheriff  of  the  shire,  nei- 
 ther being  priest  nor  having  any  priestly  disposition.  I  had 
 rather  for  my  party  dissent  from  my  lord  of  Pembroke's 
 request,  than  to  commend  a  doubtful  man  to  the  Queen's 
 Highness,  on  whom,  as  yet  persuaded,  I  would  be  loth  to  lay 
 my  hands  on.  lie  may  otherwise  do  good  service.  And 
 thus  I  thought  good  in  time  to  put  to  your  consideration  the 
 premises,  wishing  your  honour  God''s  assistance  as  to  myself. 
 From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this  7th  of  February,  1565. 
 
 Your  always  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  tJie  rigid  Jwnonrahle  Sir  William  Cecil, 
 knight,  principal  secretary  to  the  Queen's 
 Majesty ;  at  the  court. 
 
 CXCIX. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 12th  February,  \oQo-(j.    Lansd.  MS.  viii.  art.  77.    Grig, 
 
 Sir, 
 The  arch-  My  lord    of   Pembroke's    secretary    and    your   servant 
 
 bishop  has  */  .  '^       .     .  . 
 
 cedSre  Mownt  wcro  with  me  with  your  letters  requesting  timber  and 
 vood/t'o  It  fii'ewood  for  your  salt-works,  as  may  be  borne.  I  have 
 la\Mvo?ks\n  satisfied  your  request  for  part,  and  have  this  morning  taken 
 whicVi?e  order  who  shall  attend  upon  him,  and  to  have  forty  oaks  and 
 el  ^How^"^'  twenty  or  thirty  acres  of  wood.  The  rest  ye  may  be  sped 
 bishop  has     at  Mr  Dean's  and  Mr  Rolfe's.     I  doubt  not  but  you  have 
 
 tompliecl  .  .         .  rt  . 
 
 with  it.        ^q\\  considered  the  likelihood  of  the  matter.      I  shall  wish 
 
 it  good  success,  better  than  I  do  know  the  like  took  place 
 
 Su  answered  ^t)out  a  thirty  ycars  past  in  my  country,  about  ^Valsingham 
 
 in  Norfolk,    ^jj^^  from  whcuce  came  to  Norwich  by  cart  great  plenty,  so 
 
 that  the  price  of  the  bushel  fell  from  IQd.  to  Qd.      But  after 
 
 experience  they  ceased  of  their  buying,  and  fell  to  their  old 
 
 salt  again,  three  pecks  whereof  went  farther  than  a  bushel  of 
 
 that  white  fair  fine  salt. 
 
 pubhc^uiii  If  the  wood  in  Kent  should  be  much  wasted  with  such 
 
 thedestnlc-    salt-making,  as  it  hath  been  by  Dover  pier,  and  otherwhere 
 
 which  will    by  saltpetre  making,  and  then  planting  many  strangers  about 
 
ir>G5-G.]      Aiicnn.  i'aukku  to  siii  w  ii.i  iam  (  i  (  ir. 
 
 2j9 
 
 .U  till' 
 
 •  of 
 
 r  l.nv«  II, 
 
 tho  sea-coasts,  havins^  p^ocnl  storo  of  tliciii  at  S.iiuhvicli  and 
 Norwich,  it  would  bo  doubted  of,  what  good  would  coino  to 
 the  coMinioinvcaltli  tiiercby. 
 
 lUit    if   Almii^hty    God    giveth    it    good    success   in    that  "" '"">• 
 
 country,  and  then  if  tho  (^^ueen's   Majesty  of  her   princely  ;  , 
 
 liberahty,   and  my  lords  tho  gainers  would  convert  part  of;,  '  "  ""^ 
 that  gain  to  tho  repairing  and  maintaining  of  Dover  haven,  1.,).;"/'.-/ 
 that   were   indeed   to   tho   trrcat  honour   and  wealth  of  the  that  *. 
 
 °  lii(lie«l 
 
 realm.  b"^*^^**  bcmiit 
 
 And  thus,  your  honour,  sco  my  bolt  for  tho  love  1  bear 
 to  the  country.  Thus  wishing  to  your  honour  as  much  grace 
 from  God  as  to  myself,  I  take  my  leave.  At  my  house  in 
 Lambeth,  this  12th  of  February,  15(J5. 
 
 Your  always  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTII.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  right  honour  able  Sir  William  Cecil, 
 knight,  principal  secretary  to  the  Queen's 
 Majisty. 
 
 cc. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARlvEIl  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 12th  February,  [loGo—G].     Lansd.  MS.  vin.  art.  78.    Grig. 
 
 I  AM  about  to  make  ready  the  instrument  of  Hugh  Jones'  Thearch- 
 
 ^  .  ,  ^  bishop  hears 
 
 commendam  to  be  at  Llandaff,  notwithstandino^  the  last  letters  ^^^'^^.^-w 
 sent  to   your  honour:  for  I  yet  hear  better  of  the  party.  J^JI^^'a"/' 
 Since  which  time  I  have  conferred  with  some  wise  men  partly  Liamiafff 
 of  the  same   country;  who   in  respect  of  good  to  be  done 
 there  in  that  diocese,  they  wish   no   AVelshman  in  Banjjor.  i^ '« ^^^'^d 
 They  band  so  much  together  in  kindred,  that  the  bishop  can  ap,Sted"to*' 
 do  not  as  he  would  for  his  alliance  sake.     I  am  desired   of  ^^"8°'- 
 some  well  affected  of  that  country  to  have  a  visitation,  and  to 
 set    order    there,   such    as    whosoever  should    come   to   the 
 bishoprick  should  be  fain  to  prosecute  it.     I  hear  that  diocese  That  diocese 
 
 i  i  much  out  of 
 
 to  be  much  out  of  order,   both  having  no  preaching  there,  °'^"- 
 and  pensionary  concubinary  openly  continued,  notwithstanding 
 liberty  of  marriao^e  granted.     If  I  thought  the  Queen's  Ma-  MrHorie. 
 
 "  O       O  O  ^  tlie  (jucen's 
 
 jesty  would  allow  her  own  chaplain  !Mr  Ilerle  to  be  placed  ^Ij^'^^^jj^ 
 there  hereafter,  I  would  join  him  with  some  others  learned  to  forUangor. 
 
 17—2 
 
260 
 
 ARCIIB.  PARKER  TO   SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL,  [1565-6. 
 
 At  present 
 warden  of 
 Manchester. 
 
 Cecil's 
 master, 
 
 oM 
 Mr 
 
 go  through  the  diocese;  and  I  think  Mr  Herle  to  be  a  grave 
 priestly  man,  and  should  well  furnish  the  office  with  com- 
 mendam  of  his  livings  which  he  hath  now,  though  he  should 
 give  over  Manchester,  where  he  now  can  have  little  rest. 
 
 If  it  would  please  your  honour  to  send  me  some  little 
 signification  of  your  mind  in  these  causes,  I  would  frame  my- 
 self thereafter.  I  am  now  instantly  sued  unto  to  have  such 
 a  commissary  there  as  can  be  proved  to  keep  openly  three 
 concubines,  as  men  of  good  reputation  offer  to  prove. 
 
 Your  old  master  Mr  Marley's  dispensation  shall  be 
 JlnSion"^'*"  sp®^  accordingly  after  the  accustomed  manner ;  so  hath  other 
 f^^^^  dispensations  been  beforetimes  stayed  in  the  Chancery,  and 
 to  be  as  warrant  to  us  to  pass  the  faculties  according  to  the 
 statutes,  otherwise  doubted  of  whether  they  be  available 
 against  quarrellers  in  any  other  prince's  days.  Jesus  be 
 with  you.      This  12th  of  February. 
 
 Your  honour's  alway, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  right  Tionourahle  Sir  William  Cecil, 
 Jcnight,  principal  secretary  to  the  Queens 
 Majesty. 
 
 CCL 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 26th  February,  15G5— G.    Lansd.  MS.  riii.  art.  80.    Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 SfScupird"         ^^^  Dean  of  Paul's,  for  that  he  is  thoroughly  occupied 
 J,fanah?r"  against  Dormant   hath  long  before  now  prayed  to  be  dis- 
 blSaJged  charged  this  Lent,  and  so  he  is  like  to  be.     AVhereupon  Mr 
 ing"thu^^'^^'^'  Dean  of  Exeter*  shall  supply  to-morrow,  the  rather  for  that 
 
 Lent.  lit/ 
 
 [1  Dorman  was  one  of  the  answerers  to  bishop  Jewel.  In  1565 
 he  published  a  book  entitled  "  A  Proof  of  certain  Articles  in  Reli- 
 gion denied  by  Mr  Jewell."  Xowell  replied  in  the  same  year  with 
 "  A  Reproof  of  a  book  entitled  '  A  Proof,  &c.'"  Dorman  immediately 
 rejoined  with  a  "  Disproufe  of  M.  Xowelles  Reproufe,"  and  Nowell  was 
 now  busy  in  the  preparation  of  an  answer  entitled  "  A  Continuation 
 of  the  Reproof  of  Mr  Dorman's  Proof,"  published  in  1566] 
 
 [2  Dr  Carey,  dean  of  the  Queen's  chapel  and  also  of  Exeter.] 
 
1505-0.]        Alt(  IIU.  I'AltKKK   TO   Silt    WILLIAM    •  I. (II..  201 
 
 Mp  Ciibbos   liiitli    foully   (.IcfamcHl   him    to    bo    altor^etlhT    un-nr«nr.rey 
 
 °  I",  tupply  hl« 
 
 learntHl.      Iiuleod  ho  hath  been  very  sick  of  late,  but  yd  1  p***""- 
 trust  ho  shall  occupy  tho  ilay:   because  I  licar  not  the  con- 
 trary from  him  ;  and  if  all  chances  should  so  hap,  I  liavc  ap- 
 pointed my  chaplain  Mr  Hicklcy^  (o  bo  ready,    for  all  such  "^J'/.'J'iiJ^to 
 wants,  as  well  of  him  as  other :  for  I  have  sent  to  divers,  but  '"'*'*' 
 thoy  return  me  no  answer  whether  they  shall  como  or  no. 
 
 I  have  altered  but  a  few  of  vour  first  bill,  but  removed  <'"'"»p 
 
 •'  |>olnlnici)U. 
 
 Mr  Perno\  and  appointed  either  my  lord  of  Ely*  or  Peter- 
 borough'^ to  occupy  one  day.  And  thus  I  commit  your  ho- 
 nour to  God's  good  grace  as  myself. 
 
 I  think,  all  things  accounted,  I  shall  allow  your  judgment 
 for  Bangor  toward   Mr  Kobinson";    whom   tho  country   doth  bwhopa<'.,,„i. 
 much  desire,  and  be  much  afeard  either  of  Ellis  or  Ilcwett ;  itobmlljnfor 
 very  stout  men,  so  only  commended,   and  prceterea  gwoacZ  m' preference 
 vwres  episcopales  nihiL     This  2Gth  February.  Hewett. 
 
 Your  honour's, 
 
 MATTII.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  r'ujht  honourable  Sir  William  Cecily 
 I'jiigJit,  principal  secretary  to  the  Queen's 
 ^[ajesty. 
 
 ecu. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  AXD  BISHOP   GRIXDAL 
 TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 9th  >Larch,  loGj— C.    Lansd.  MS.  viii.  art.  82.    Grig. 
 
 Being   informed  by  this  bearer  John  Bodlcy,  that  upon  cedi  has 
 his   late  suit  to  you  for  the  renewing  of  his  privilege  with  to  the'^lrch- 
 longer  term,  for  the  reimprintino:  of  the  late  Geneva  Bible^  ijish..,. an 
 
 by  Bodley 
 
 [3  Warden  of  Merton  College,  Oxford,  and  afterwards  bishop  of 
 Chichester,  1585 — 1596.] 
 
 [•*  Master  of  Peter  House,  Cambridge.] 
 
 [5  Bishop  Cox.]  [G  Bishop  Scambler.] 
 
 [7  Nicholas  Robinson,  bishop  of  Bangor,  1506 — 1584.] 
 
 [^  The  Geneva  translation  of  the  Bible  was  first  printed  in  1560 — 1, 
 under  the  authority  of  a  special  licence  from  Queen  Elizabeth  to 
 Bodley,  which  gave  him  the  solo  privilege  of  printing  that  translation 
 
2G2  ARCIIB.  PARKER  AND  BP  GRINDAL  TO  SIR   W.  CECIL.  [1565-6. 
 
 foJriim^'^^  by  him  and  his  associates  set  forth,  you  suspended  to  give 
 Ecnevl^^'**  your  furtherance  until  you  had  heard  our  advice. 
 ^'^'^'  So  it  is,  that  we  think  so  well  of  the  first  impression,  and 
 
 review  of  those  which  have  sithence  travailed  therein,  that  we 
 Theyrecom    wisli  it  would  please  you  to  be  a  mean  that  twelve  years' 
 
 niendlhata     ,  ii*^  -i-m  ^    ^  •  • 
 
 further  term  longer  term  may  be  by  special  privilege  granted  him,  in  con- 
 
 granudto     sidcratiou  of  the  charges  by  him  and  his  associates  in  the 
 
 first    impression,    and   the  review   sithence    sustained.     For 
 
 though  one  other  special  Bible  for  the  churches  be  meant  by 
 
 It  will  not  at  us  to  be  sct  forth,  as  convenient  time  and  leisure  hereafter  will 
 
 all  hinder  the 
 
 fd'tobe'St'^'  Permit:  yet  shall  it  nothing  hinder,  but  rather  do  much  good, 
 
 S^chS.'^^  to  have  diversity  of  translations  and  readings.     And  if  his 
 
 licence,  hereafter  to  be  made,  go  simply  forth  without  proviso 
 
 of  our  oversight,  as  we  think  it  may  so  pass  well  enough,  yet 
 
 They  will      shall  we  take  such  order  in  writino:  with  the  party,  that  no 
 
 take  order       .  .  t  •  i       i    • 
 
 that  noun-    imprcssion  shall  pass  but  by  our  direction,  consent,  and  advice. 
 
 prcssion  *■  r  */  '  ' 
 
 £hed\w^h^  Thus  ending  we    commend   you  to   Almighty   God.     From 
 Lambeth,  this  9th  of  March,  1565. 
 
 out  their 
 concurrence 
 
 Your  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 EDM.  LONDON. 
 
 To  the  Jionourahle  Sir  William  Cecil, 
 hugJitf  principal  secretary  to  the  Queen's 
 Majesty. 
 
 ccin. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 12th  March,  loCo— G.     Lansd.  MS.  viii.  art.  S3.   Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 The  arch-  I  AM  mucii  astouied,  and  in  great  perplexity  to  think 
 
 piexityby     what  eveut  this  cause  will  have  in  the  proceeding:  to  an  end. 
 
 reason  of  ^  i  o 
 
 want  of  sup-  Whoro   I  havc  endeavoured  mvself  to  enforce  the  Queen's 
 
 port  in  his  _  f  ^       ^ 
 
 tSpr^ur?    Majesty's  pleasure  upon  all   my  brethren,  and  have  desired 
 
 uniformity. 
 
 for  seven  years  from  Sth  Jan.  loGO — 1.  It  seems  doubtful  whether 
 Bodley's  privilege  was  renewed  at  this  time  as  advised  in  this  letter. 
 See  Anderson's  Annals  of  the  Eng.  Bible,  ii.  324 ;  Strype's  Parker, 
 Bk.  m.  cap.  6.  i.  413,  8vo.  ed.] 
 
1")(>5-G.]  AKtI!l».    rAUKKIl    TO  SIK    WII.MAM    (lit  II  .  2G3 
 
 that  otlicr3  should  not  himlcr  8uch  procccdinc^s  by  Bccrct 
 aiding  and  conilbrting,  I  sco  my  service  but  dt'loatcd  :  and 
 then  again  othcrwhiles  dulled  by  variable  considerations  of 
 the  state  of  times,  and  of  doubtfulness  in  disc()ura<;ing  some 
 good  protestants  if  this  order  should  bo  vehemently  prose- 
 cuted. 1  have  stayed  upon  such  advertisements ;  but  I  ahvay 
 perceived  much  hurt  might  come  of  such  tolerations  (the 
 parties  hardened  in  their  disobedience),  and  at  the  last  the 
 Queen's  Majesty's  displeasure,  to  see  liow  her  commandment 
 take  little  elTect,  where  yet  order  for  all  other  men's  aj)parcl, 
 and  laws  for  abstinence,  so  much  forced  and  well  set  to,  may 
 induce  an  obedience,  howsoever  a  great  number  may  bo 
 offended ;  and  therefore  they  who  think  that  disorder  of  our 
 state  were  as  soon  reformed  if  we  had  like  helps,  seem  to 
 mo    to  speak    reasonably.      I  have  written  to  the  Queen's  ?"«•'"««** 
 
 *  ^  *-  letter  to  the 
 
 Majesty,  as  you  see.      I  pray  your  honour  use  your  oppor-  ^re^ntSon 
 tunity.     And  where  once  this  last  year  certain  of  us  consulted  on'oliunity. 
 and   agreed  upon  some  particularities  in  apparel  (where  tho 
 Queen's  Majesty's  letters  were  ycry  general),  and  for  that  by 
 statute  we  be  inhibited  to  set  out  any  constitutions  without 
 licence  obtained  of  the  prince,  I  sent  them  to  your  honour  to 
 be  presented ;  they  could  not  be  allowed  then,  I  cannot  tell  of 
 what   meaning ;  which   I  now   send  again,    humbly   praying  fhTo'dilfan- 
 that  if  not  all  yet  so  many  as   bo  thought  good,  may  be  ^^reS-be 
 returned  with  some  authority,  at  the  least  way  for  particular  allthoTuy.^ 
 apparel :  or  else  wo  shall  not  be  able  to  do  so  much  as  the 
 Queen"*s  Majesty  expectcth  for,  of  us  to  bo  done.     And  surely 
 if  I  draw  forward,  and  others  draw  backwards,  what  shall  it 
 avail,  but    raise  exclamations  and  privy   mutterings  against 
 your   honour   and  against  me,   by  whom  they   think  these 
 matters  be  stirred  ?     I  see  how  other  men  get  their  heads 
 out  of  the  collar,  and  convey  the    envy  otherwhere.      But 
 undoubtedly  I  cannot  but  think  tho  Queen's  Majesty  is  un- 
 worthily dealt  with,  thus  to  be  resisted.      And  yet  I  see  the  of  tliroi? 
 wilfulness  of  some  men  such,  that  they  will  offer  themselves  p°°^"^ 
 to  lose  all,  yea,  their  bodies  to  prison,  rather  than  they  will 
 condescend.      And  if  I  should   this  attempt,   and   have    no 
 more  warrant  and   help,    I    miglit,   after  much  stirring,   do 
 little  in  the  end,  but  hurt.     I  have  written  and  written  oft,  LonJon^ruie 
 that  a  few  in  London  rule  over  this  matter.  mat'tcr.^ 
 
 For  the  sermons  at  the  Spital,  some  persons  appointed  n,^S^for  the 
 
2G4  ARCIIB.   PARKER   TO   SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL.        [1565-6. 
 
 spitaiser-  shall  bc  (lisappointecl,  and  others  placed,  as  is  promised  me, 
 Mr  Dr  Cole  and  Mr  Teny  were  named  there*,  but  I  dare  not 
 adventure  to  commend  them  for  conformable ;  and  thus 
 sending  this  messenger  to  your  honour,  whom  I  have  made 
 privy  of  my  doings,  I  cease  further  to  write.  Saving  that  I 
 must  say  this  much  more,  that  some  lawyers  be  in  opinion, 
 that  it  is  hard  to  proceed  to  deprivation,  having  no  more 
 warrant  but  the  Queen's  Majesty's  only  word  of  mouth. 
 Preachers  be-  I  have  bccn  auswcrcd  by  some  certain,  since  my  return 
 Quien  with-  homo,    that   some   of   your    preachers    preached    before  the 
 
 out  tippets.  ,-«r«  •!  •  Til 
 
 Queen  s    Majesty    without  tippet,   and  had  nothing  said   to 
 them  for  it. 
 Seal  the  This  letter,  if  your  honour  think  it  tolerable,  I  pray  you 
 
 deiuerit.      seal  it  up  and  deliver  it.     I  hope  by  the   bearer  to   hear 
 some  good  answer.     This  12th  of  March. 
 
 Your  honour's  alway, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 Sir,  in  our  book  of  articles,  the  fourth  chapter,  littera  K, 
 
 Sequestration  '  .  .  ,      ^.         .  ^ 
 
 dl"r?va\'ion  ^®  madc  the  pain  sequestration,  and  not  deprivation.  For 
 for'^nrn'S?.  that  mucli  depriving  with  new  fruiting,  will  be  taken  i7i 
 hSJ '"     malam  partem, 
 
 *Yesterday  the  lord  mayor  sent  me  such  word  :  this  day 
 cityautho-  came  the  chamberlain  and  another  from  him  to  signify  that  it 
 ha'fl- those  would  be  hard  to  get  any  other ;  and  therefore  they  wished 
 some  others   to    have   thoso    two,  with  the   bishop   of   Durham^   or   Mr 
 
 as  jireachers  ^        /-\  ^ 
 
 cross"''^  Beaumont 2.      I  told  them  the  Queen's  pleasure  resolutely,  and 
 
 The  arch-  if  they  would  seek  to  her  Majesty  to  be  dispensed  with,   I 
 
 hibitTthem,  could  Hot  assure  them  to  speed,  and  so  left  them  to  their 
 
 thenftouie  consultatiou,  charginfi;  them  yet  that  they  should  not  suffer 
 
 Queen.  ,,  \  ^  -     ^  ,         ^       - 
 
 the  days  to  be  unoccupied,  so  to  derive  an  envy  and  mut- 
 tering against  their  sovereign^. 
 
 To  the  rigid  lionourdble  Sir  WilUam  Cecil, 
 Tcniglit,  principal  secretary  to  the  Queen's 
 Majesty. 
 
 [1  Bishop  Pilkington.] 
 [2  Master  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge.] 
 
 [3  This  paragraph  was  added  as  a  postscript,  with  reference  to  the 
 passage  relating  to  Dr  Cole  and  Mr  Peny.] 
 
loG5-G.]    UP  n.wiES  of  si  david's  to  ai:(  mm.  i*ai{Kkk.      2G5 
 
 CCIV. 
 
 BISHOP  DAVIES  OF  ST  DAVID'S  TO  ARCHBISHOP 
 PAUKKIl. 
 
 lath  March,  15(k\— G.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  175.  p.  i'Xi.    Or'n^. 
 
 rLKASKTii  it  your  «^r;ne  to  bo  advertised  that  I  received  Thfbuhop 
 
 .  .  ,      ,  t    .,   11.1  11  •  1  ha*  rifi  ivtd 
 
 that  piece  ot  the  Bible  which  your  jrraco  hath  coinmittcd  to  ^''-i-om  ii 
 mo  to  be  rccoirnised,  the  fourth  day  of  March  last ;  and  your  »«•«''«<>  i«> 
 grace's  letters  dated  the  sixth  of  December,  I  received  eight  r«;^ '»'""• 
 days  before  I  received  tho  portion  of  the  Bible.      I  am  in 
 hand  to  perform  your  request,  and  will  use  as  much  diligence 
 and  speed   as   I   can,  having  small  help  for  that  or  for  the 
 Welsh  Bible.     Mr  Salisbury*  only  taketh  pain  with  me. 
 
 For   all   such    old  monuments  as  we  had,  Mr  Secretary  secretary 
 hath    them  two  years   ago ;   some  he    had  of  ^Ir  Chanter,  the  biSp-s 
 and  some   of   me,    which  we    had  of  our  own    store ;     but  men  J-Two* 
 in  the  library  of  St  David'*s  there  is  none  at  all.      He  had  N'^ne  in  the 
 
 '^  .  library  of  St 
 
 of  me    Giraldi'.s    Cauibrensis,   a   Chronicle   of   England  tho  i>avids. 
 author    unknown,    and     Galfrldus    Monumetensis.       What 
 books  he  had  of    Mr  Chanter,    I  do   not  remember.      One  a  notable 
 notable  story  was  in  the  Chronicle;    how  after  the   Saxons  tamed m the 
 
 *        ,  ,  ,  ,  Chronicle 
 
 conquered,  continual  war  remained  betwixt  the  Britons  (then  ^^\  cecir*" 
 inhabitants  of  the  realm)  and  the  Saxons,  the  Britons  being 
 Christians,  and  the  Saxons  pagans.     As  occasion  served  they 
 
 [^  Tho  "Mr  Salisbury"  mentioned  in  this  and  a  subsequent  letter 
 (p.  271)  was,  according  to  his  own  account  of  himself,  "  a  seeker 
 for  antiquities."  He  has  been  thought  to  be  the  same  person  who 
 was  afterwards  bishop  of  Man,  but  tho  bishop's  christian  name  was 
 "  John,"  whilst  that  of  Salisbury  the  antiquary  was  "  William." 
 Strypo  says  that  a  William  Salisbury  was  joined  with  J.  Waley,  in 
 a  patent  for  the  exclusive  printing  of  Bibles  and  religious  books  in 
 Welsh,  for  the  term  of  7  years.  (Annals,  cap.  xxxvii.  i.  ii.  88,  8vo. 
 ed.).  His  reputation  as  an  antiquary  having  become  known  to  arch- 
 bishop Parker,  he  sent  to  bishop  Davies  an  ancient  MS.,  requesting 
 his  opinion  of  it  with  that  of  Mr  Salisbury.  The  bishop's  report 
 will  be  found  in  the  present  letter ;  Mr  Salisbury's  occurs  in  the 
 same  volume  of  Parker's  MSS.  (cxiv.  art.  174,  fol.  491).  He  took 
 great  pains  upon  the  subject,  and  framed  an  alphabet  from  tho 
 characters  used  in  the  MS.,  but  was  unable  to  decipher  them.  In 
 his  answer  Mr  Salisbury  sent  the  archbishop  facsimiles  of  certain 
 characters  used  in  various  fragments  of  ancient  charters  of  donation 
 in  the  possession  of  the  bishop  of  St  David's.] 
 
bishop ; 
 
 266       UP  DAVIES   OF  ST  DAVID's  TO  ARCIIB.  PARKER.      [1565-6. 
 
 sometimes  treated  of  peace,  and  then  met  together,  communed 
 together,  and  did  eat  and  drink  together.  But  after  that  by 
 the  means  of  Austen  the  Saxons  became  Christians  in  such 
 sort  as  Austen  had  taught  them,  the  Britons  would  not  after 
 that  neither  eat  nor  drink  with  them,  nor  yet  salute  them, 
 proving  the  bocausc  they  corrupted  with  superstition,  images,  and  idolatry, 
 doctrine  in    tho  truc  rcli^ion  of  Christ,  which  the  Britons  had  reserved 
 
 the  British  o  ' 
 
 St  AuStine!  P^^®  amoHg  them  from  the  time  of  king  Lucius. 
 mai^ec"ha-  ^^  ^^^  ^^^  quire  of  strango  charects,  ]\Ir  Salisbury  doth 
 
 poSupon  declare  unto  your  grace  how  Uttle  we  could  do  in  it.      Be- 
 burS?/  ^^'^'  cause  I  found  in  this  one  word  '  Sion'  two  letters  like,   and 
 yet  not  placed  both  together,  as  '  i '  and  *o'  is  in  *  Sion,'  I 
 gave  it  over,  committing  it  to  Mr  Salisbury. 
 
 Pleaseth  it  your  grace  now  to  understand  the  state  of 
 Earls  of       Llandewibrcfv.      The  earls  of  Pembroke   and   of  Leicester 
 
 Pembroke  *J 
 
 hSve^i^re-^''"  have  wrlttcu  to  me  four  letters  in  the  behalf  of  Mr  Bo  wen, 
 
 Liandewi-     ^^^  t^oy  thomselves  have  presented  him  by  a  vowson  which 
 
 coumerSed  assurcdly  is  counterfeit  and  void  of  truth,  having  to  it  neither 
 
 brmer  ^     the  bishop's  liaud  (which  he  never  omitted,  so  far  as  hitherto 
 
 I  have  seen  of  his  writings,  to  add  to  his  seal),  nor  chanter  or 
 
 canons'  hands ;  yea,  the  chapter  seal  seemeth  by  such  sodering 
 
 and  patching  as  it  hath,  to  be  artificially  set  to,  and  taken  from 
 
 some  old  writing.      When  I  received  the  earls'  three  former 
 
 letters,  I  stayed  to   answer  till  I  might  understand  of  Mr 
 
 Gwynne'^s  consent  to  surrender  up  his  collation,  thinking  to 
 
 use  a  way  both  to  gratify  the  earls  and  avoid  prejudice  by 
 
 accepting  of  a   counterfeit  vowson,   that  is,  the  incumbent's 
 
 consent  attained,  to  give  it  by  my  collation  to  the  disposition 
 
 of  the  earls.      At  the  return  of  the  incumbent,   I  could  not 
 
 get  him   to  give  over,  for  he  thought   his  title  good,  and 
 
 which  not     Bo  wen's  vowson  nouo:ht.      In  this  doinoj  cometh  the  fourth 
 
 being  con-  o  o 
 
 thebi'iiKn!!^  letter  of  the  earls  jointly  in  one,    marvelling  of  the  delay, 
 
 bythe''e"d?  accuslug  mo  of  iujustico,  suspecting  me  of  practice  meeter  to 
 
 and"iSer   bo  Icft  to  mo  to  cousidor  of,  than  to  be  expressed.     I  have 
 
 ^^'"^"        answered  to  the  earls,  together  with   the   earl    of  Arundel, 
 
 which   also   wrote    one   letter,   at   length   declaring  what   I 
 
 meant  to  do    if    I  had  been  at  liberty,   and   what  I  meant 
 
 to  stand  in,  that  is,   the  counterfeit  vowson ;  signifying  unto 
 
 them  my  simplicity  and  true  dealing  afore  God  and  man, 
 
 which  if  it  please  them  to  try,  I  shall  never  be  confounded. 
 
 I  do  also  signify  unto  them  (as  I  do  now   to   your  grace), 
 
>riii4tiiiii 
 
 lldlrti  nil 
 hair  of* 
 
 c-iirinorant*. 
 
 1505-6.]     in»  DAViKS  or  st  i^vvin's  to  Aiicun.  iakkkh.      207 
 
 tluii  tliort*  is  another  vowsoii  oxliihitcd  unto  mo  in   l)ili:ill"  ot" 
 S.uniiol  Fiirrar,  son  to  bishoj)  Fiirrar,  niiirtyr,  i^ranteil  Hcven  |"^*[; 
 ^imrs  before   Howon's  vowson  by  tho  said  bishop,    his  hand  ITtt'Jt^hi'^ 
 and  seal  bcini:^  to  tlio  sumo,  and  tho  chapter  seal  fair,   C'»n-  ""'">'• 
 fosscd  by  my  lord  of  York's  grace,  having  not  only  priinani 
 et  proximamy   but  also  quanicufK/ite   unam   advacationenu 
 Which  although  I  am  not  at  liberty  to  admit,  partly  because 
 of  my    former    collation,    and    partly    because   of   a    caveat 
 entered  for  the  title  that  tho  carls  doth  defend,  yet  in  con- 
 science   I    cannot    work   nothing    to   the    prejudice    thereof, 
 which  I  should   do   if  I   should  and   might  admit  tho   earls' 
 title.      Mr  Doctor  Aubrey  and  others,  insatiable  cormorants  J1',^,\'[,7J, 
 in   my  diocese,   using  Bowen  for  an  instrument  that  should  ISi"***'*" 
 have  nomen  sine  re,  do  work  all  this,  and  so  odiously  set  me  [hJ. 
 forth,   because  they  have   not  all  their  will,   that    I,   whoso 
 innocency  God   doth    know,  am   by   their   report   made   tho 
 wickedest   man    alive.      I    have    poured   my    complaint  unto 
 your    grace    because    I    have    not    many    places    of   refuge. 
 Almighty  God  preserve  your  grace.     19  Martii,  15G5.    Your 
 grace's  to  command, 
 
 RICHARD  MENEVEN.^ 
 
 ccv. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  AND   BISHOP  GRIXDAL 
 
 TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 20th  March,  1505 -G.     Lansd.  MS.  viii.  art.  SG.     Ong. 
 
 After  our  right  hearty  commendations  to  your  honour,  courseaijreed 
 This  is  to  signify  that  we  have  consulted  how  to  proceed,  In  ordl-J"?^ 
 whereby  we  may  have  your  allowance  or  disallowance.      We  fomiity  m 
 
 1  p  i'i  1  1-1-I  •  1  1  vestinenu. 
 
 nave  coniorred  with  some  learned  in  the  law,  in  what  degrees 
 to  treat  this  matter. 
 
 1.     First,  we  mean  to  call  all  manner  of  pastors  and  i.  m  can  the 
 
 [1  Richard  Davics,  bishop  of  St  David's,  15G1 — 1581.  Joshua, 
 Judges,  and  Ruth,  were  tho  books  of  the  Biblo  tho  translation  of 
 which  underwent  his  revision.] 
 
 cicrcy  to- 
 gether. 
 
268    ARCHB.  PARKER  AND  BP  GRINDAL  TO  SIR  W.  CECIL.    [15G5-6. 
 
 curates  within  the  city   of  London,   to  appear  before  us  at 
 Lambeth  in  the  chapel  there,  and  to  propound  the  cause,  and 
 say  something  to  move  them  to  conformity,  with  intimation 
 of   the    penalty   which  necessarily   must    ensue  against   the 
 recusants. 
 2.^  To  inquire         2.      Itcm,  after  the  general  propositions  made  (as  afore) 
 wi!iS)f[-^^    to  the  whole  number,  we  intend  particularly  to  examine  every 
 form.  Qf  them,  whether  they  will  promise  conformity  in  their  minis- 
 
 trations and  outward  apparel,  stablished  by  law  and  Injunc- 
 tion, and  testify  the  same  by  subscriptions  of  their  hands. 
 3.  Tosuspend         3.      Item,  it  is  intended  presently  to  suspend  all  such  as 
 
 such  as  refuse  i  t/  i 
 
 cSifSiUy,    refuse  to  promise  conformity  in  the  premises,  and  also   to 
 
 thei/Imng^  pronouuce   sequestration  of  their    ecclesiastical  livings    from 
 
 after  the  day  of  our  Lady  next,  being  now  at  hand.     And 
 
 after    such    sequestration,    if  they  be  not  reconciled  within 
 
 three  months,  to  proceed  to  deprivation  of  their  Hvings  by 
 
 due  form  of  law. 
 
 maUon°of^7ie        ^'     Item,  we  may  make  an  infymacion^  for  the  sarcenet 
 
 tfppluo       tippet,  to  such  as  may  wear  it  by  act  of  Parliament,   anno 
 
 ?e°ar  irunder  24  H.  VIII.,  aud  to  none  other,  if  this  shall  be  thought  good. 
 
 I/h.  VIII.  5.     In  fine,  we  think  very  many  churches  will  be  desti- 
 
 5.  Vervmany  .  ii  -n^  ^  i* 
 
 churches  will  tuto  for  scrvico  this  Laster,  and  that  many  will  forsake  their 
 
 be  destitute       .    .  .  .       .  .  .    » 
 
 at Ser''^     Hviugs,  and  live  at  printing,  teaching  children,  or  otherwise 
 
 as  they  can. 
 
 What  tumult  may  follow,  what  speeches  and  talks  be  like 
 
 to  rise  in  the  realm,  and  presently  in  the  whole  city  by  this, 
 They  trust     we  Icave  it  to  your  wisdom  to  consider.      We  trust  that  the 
 
 the  Queen  ^  •'       ^ 
 
 will  send       Queen's  Majesty  will  send  some  honourable  to  join  with  us 
 
 some  person     ^^  J        i/  J 
 
 tSS'in  the^  two,  to  authorize  the  rather  her  commandment  and  pleasure, 
 two  bishops,  ^g  ^Q^j.  jjQjjQui.  signified  unto  me  was  purposed.  And  thus, 
 praying  you  to  consult  with  whom  your  wisdom  shall  think 
 most  meet,  that  we  may  be  resolved ;  and  that  on  Friday,  the 
 monl!ito™'  parties  summoned  for  their  appearance  on  Saturday  following 
 nexrsa°Sr-^^  at  oue  of  the  clock,  order  may  be  taken.  Or  else  after  those 
 ^^'  two  holy  days 2  on  Tuesday  at  afternoon,  at  furthest.    And  thus 
 
 [1  Confirmation.] 
 
 [2  Sunday,  the  fourth  Sunday  in  Lent,  and  Monday  the  25th 
 March,  Lady-Day.  The  20th,  on  which  this  letter  was  written,  was 
 Wednesday.  It  appears  from  subsequent  letters,  that  the  meeting 
 was  finally  appointed  for  Tuesday  the  26th  March.] 
 
1505-6.]   ARCIin.  TARKEU  AM)  Ml'  (i  ICIM>.M    'H  »  MU  W.  I  Kril,.    209 
 
 WO  bid  your  lionoiir  well  to  faro.      From  my   liuuso  at  I.aiii- 
 beth,  tho  20th  of  .March,  15G5. 
 
 Your  loving  friends, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAll. 
 EDM.  LONDON. 
 
 To  the  rujht  honournhU'  Sir  Williatn 
 Cecily  knight,  ])rincij)(tl  seerctdrj/ 
 to  the  Queens  Majesty. 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 CCVI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 25th  March,  15G6.    Lansd.  MS.  ix.  art.  33.  Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 I   AM  in  good  hope  that  to-morrow  my  good  lords,  my  j^^J^^'^^"/^^'* 
 lord  keeper,  my  lord  marquess,  and  your  honour,  will  be  here,  ^^^.'^'^xor- 
 which  will  work  a  thorough  establishment  of  order  :  to  avoid  i.^ "'ecT; 
 hereafter  any  longer  delaying  of  all  our  parties.     If  I  might  The  mSg 
 surely  trust  thereto,  I  would  so  prepare  an  evil  dinner  against  on  the  mor- 
 
 •  IT  111  •  -1  '■°^- 
 
 your  commg,  or  else  1  would  have  more  assistance  with  my 
 lord  of  London  and  myself.  I  pray  your  honour  let  me  be 
 informed  by  this  my  messenger  whereto  I  may  trust.  And 
 thus  I  bid  your  honour  well  to  f\ire  as  myself,  in  all  grace 
 and  virtue.      This  our  Lady-day. 
 
 Your  loving  friend, 
 
 MATTE.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  William  Cecil, 
 knight,  and  principal  secretarg  to  the 
 Queens  Majtsty. 
 
 CCVIL 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 2Gth  March,  15GG.     Lansd.  MS.  ix.  art.  35.    Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 I  MUST  signify  to  your  honour  what  this  day  we  have  done  SJenie""* 
 in  the  examination  of  London  mmisters.     Sixty-one  promised 
 
 with  the 
 
270 
 
 ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM   CECIL. 
 
 [1566. 
 
 London  min 
 istfis 
 
 conformity;  nine  or  ten  were  absent^;  thirty-seven  denied,  of 
 which  number  were  the  best,  and  some  preachers  ;  six  or  seven 
 convenient  sober  men,  pretending  a  conscience,  divers  of  them 
 but  zealous,  and  of  Httle  learning  and  judgment.  In  fine,  we 
 did  suspend  them,  and  sequester  their  fruits,  and  from  all  man- 
 ner ministry,  with  signification  that  if  they  would  not  reconcile 
 themself  within  three  months,  then  to  be  deprived.  They 
 shewed  reasonable  quietness  and  modesty,  otherwise  than  I 
 looked  for.  I  think  some  of  them  will  come  in  when  they 
 shall  feel  their  want,  specially  such  as  but  in  a  spiced  fancy 
 hold  out ;  some  of  them  no  doubt  were  moved  in  a  conscience, 
 which  I  laboured  by  some  advertisements  to  pacify,  but  the 
 wound  is  yet  green ;  it  is  not  felt  as  I  think  it  will  hereafter. 
 Some  of  them  alleged  they  were  in  fruits,  and  would  have  had 
 some  toleration  or  discharge  of  payment ;  I  answered,  I  could 
 not  so  dispense,  and  left  them  to  their  own  suit.  Thus  your 
 honour  hath  all  worth  the  writing.  I  pray  your  honour 
 move  my  lord  of  London  to  execute  order.  My  lord  of  Ely 
 fhJt^rLon°°  ^^^  write  me  a  letter,  wherein  he  did  signify,  that  if  London 
 ?eform"d,aii  ^^^c  Tcformed,  all  the  realm  would  soon  follow,  as  I  beheve 
 
 the  realm         xt.«    „„.^« 
 
 would  soon    the  same. 
 
 follow.  ^^^.^  26th  of  March,  1566. 
 
 Your  honour's  alway  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 To  tlie  rigid  7i  on  our  able  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  principal  secretary  to  the 
 Queen's  Majesty. 
 
 Pray  move 
 my  lorii  of 
 London  to 
 execute 
 order. 
 Bishop  of 
 
 CCYIIL 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  DAYIES   OF 
 ST  DAVID'S. 
 
 28th  March,  1566.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxir.  art.  176.  p.  495. 
 Draft  in  Parker's  hand. 
 
 Thankstothe         Salutem  111  Ckristo.      I  thank  your  lordship  for  your 
 
 bishop  and 
 
 MrsaibDury  retum  of  answor  to  my  former  letters,  which  I  do  consider 
 
 [1  Amongst  the  absentees   was  Miles  Coverdale.     His  letter  of 
 excuse  addressed  to  Dr  Robinson,  the  archbishop's  chaplain,  for  the 
 
15G(».]      AUrilll.  TAUKI  H    TO    HP  DWIKS   OF  BT  DAVId's.  271 
 
 uccordinfflv,   ami  sluill   not  molest   you  for  licroaftor,  scoine  fwpa'm 
 your  store   is  othcrwlicro  bestowed.     I  prav  you  thank  Mr  y|^«w»ikcui 
 Salisbury,  whoso  full  writinix  his  conjectures  I  liko  well;  and 
 as  for  decyphering  my  «juiro  in  such  a  stran<^o  charect,   it 
 shall  bo  reserved  to  soino  other  opportunity  to  bo  considered. 
 As    for   thoso   charccts    wherein    sonic   of    vour   records   of ''^"•'•^*f»c" 
 donations  bo  written,  whereof  ho  sent  a  whole  lino  written,   it  fi,''!,''^|,i"by 
 is  the  speech  of  the  old  Saxon,  whereof  I  have  divers  books  iJI^  S'Sr'' 
 and   works,  and   have   in  my   house  of  them  which  do  well  ^uXh\s\w^ 
 understand  them.  in, ixmim? 
 
 !Xow  concerninj;  vour  benefice  for   which  vour  lordship  un.icmund 
 have  so   many  letters  and  requests,  whoso  requests  for  that  ;f,' J;; '!"''■""■ 
 you  do  not  out  of  hand  gratify  (which,  as  ye  write,  of  justice  i'ia,"'u.iJ»,re. 
 and  without  prejudicing  of  others  yo  cannot  do),  in  my  judg-  bishop ad^'' 
 ment  in  such  suits  I  would  wish  your  lordship  to  follow  right  i,it(u,Iwo 
 and  equit>',  and  make  vour  answer  accordingly :   which  if  it  amiwiiiiiy, 
 
 .,,,  .,  *  .  ,.  X     T  .  and  c-(>minit 
 
 Will  not  be  received,  commit  vour  credit  to  bod,  et  z'cri^a^  »>•«  credit  to 
 
 *'  God. 
 
 liberahit.  What  thougli  yc  shall  bo  strangely  reported,  con- 
 scia  mens  recti  f am cc  mendacia  ridet.  And  better  shall  ye 
 finally  satisfy  wise  men,  noblo  men,  and  rightwise  men,  by  a 
 constancy  to  truth  and  justice,  than  to  be  tossed  up  and 
 down  at  pleasures  of  others  (for  the  time  so  informed) ; 
 e.rpertus  loquor,  and  therefore  I  so  write,  of  my  goodwill 
 toward  your  lordship,  which  I  do  commit  to  the  tuition  of 
 Almighty  God  as  myself.  From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this 
 28th  of  March,  1566. 
 
 CCIX. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL 
 
 2Sth  March,  15GG.     Lansd.  MS.  ix.  art.  3G.     Grig. 
 
 I  TRAY  your  honour  to  peruse  this  draft  of  letters,   and  The  nook  of 
 
 f  .  ^        ,  .  Advertise 
 
 the  Book  of  Advertisements^  with  your  pen,  which  I  mean  to  S^o? a** 
 send  to  my  lord  of  London.      This  form  is  but  newly  printed,  senuher^ 
 
 with,  sent  to 
 .  .  Cecil  for  his 
 
 information  of  the  archbishop,  is   in  the  Lambeth  MSS.  9o9,  art.  correction. 
 58,  and  has  been  printed  in  the  edition  of  his  Remains,  published  by 
 the  Parker  Society,  p.  532.] 
 
 [2  The  letter  inclosed  is  printed  at  p.  272.     The  Book  of  Adver- 
 tisements has  been  mentioned  at  p.  233,  Letter  CLXXV.l 
 
272 
 
 AKCllB.   PARKER   TO  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL. 
 
 [1566. 
 
 The  Queen 
 will  liave 
 J'arker  assay 
 what  he  can 
 do  for  order 
 by  his  own 
 authority. 
 
 Some  of  the 
 recusants 
 begin  to  re- 
 pent. 
 
 For  the  most 
 part  they  are 
 mere  igno- 
 rant and  vain 
 heads. 
 
 and  yet  stayed  till  I  may  hear  your  advice.  I  am  now  fully 
 bent  to  prosecute  this  order,  and  to  delay  no  longer,  and  I  have 
 weeded  out  of  these  articles  all  such  of  doctrine,  &c.,  which 
 peradventure  stayed  the  book  from  the  Queen's  Majesty's 
 approbation,  and  have  put  in  but  things  advouchable,  and,  as  I 
 take  them,  against  no  law  of  the  realm.  And  where  the  Queen's 
 Highness  will  needs  have  me  assay  with  mine  own  authority 
 what  1  can  do  for  order,  I  trust  I  shall  not  be  stayed  here- 
 after, saving  that  I  would  pray  your  honour  to  have  your 
 advice  to  do  that  more  prudently  in  this  common  cause  which 
 must  needs  be  done. 
 
 Some  of  these  silly  recusants  say  now  that  they  thought 
 not  that  ever  the  matter  (in  such  scarcity  of  ministers)  should 
 have  been  forced,  and  some  begin  to  repent ;  and  one  of  them 
 was  with  me  this  day  to  be  admitted  again  to  his  parish, 
 and  now  promiseth  conformity,  whom  I  repelled  till  I  had  him 
 bound  with  two  good  sureties  of  his  own  parish,  and  so  I 
 have,  and  he  now  saith  that  there  will  come  more  to  that 
 point,  whom  I  will  so  order.  For  as  for  the  most  part  of  these 
 recusants,  I  would  wish  them  out  of  the  ministry,  as  mere 
 ignorant  and  vain  heads.  The  sooner  (as  I  think)  this  deter- 
 mination be  known  abroad,  the  sooner  shall  the  speech  cease, 
 and  the  offence  assuage,  and  more  peace  and  order  to  follow. 
 Thus  Almighty  God  keep  your  honour  in  all  grace,  as  myself. 
 From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this  28th  of  ^March,  1566. 
 
 Your  honour's  assuredly, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  riglit  honourable  Sir  William  Cecil, 
 knight,  one  of  the  Queen's  Majesty's 
 privy  council. 
 
 Qcyi. 
 
 The  bishop 
 knows  what 
 offence  is 
 taken  at  the 
 want  of  uni- 
 formity in 
 service  and 
 apparel. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  GRINDAL. 
 
 28tb  March,  15G6.     Regist.  Parker.  I.  fol.  256  b. 
 
 TtiGHT  well  beloved  brother,  after  my  right  hearty  com- 
 mendations in  our  Saviour  Christ.  Whereas  you  do  well 
 know  what  offence  is  taken,  for  that  divers  and  sundry  of 
 the  state  ecclesiastical  be  so  hardly  induced  to  conformity  in 
 
 I 
 
15G0.]  ARt  Jill.  I'AUKKii  TO  nisiiop  GKiNi>Ar..  '^y^ 
 
 adiniiiistration  of  public  prayers  and  sacraments,  and  m  oui- 
 Trard  apparol  ai^rceablo,  in  re<;ard  of  order,  for  them  to  wear, 
 notwitlistandinj;  established  and  other  orders  and  ordinances 
 prescribed  in  the  same;  in  which  disorder  appeareth  (as  is 
 commonly  interpreted)  a  manifest  violation  and  contempt  of  in  mntrmpt 
 the  Queen's  Majesty's  authority,  and  abusing  her  princely  «i"«.ir.au. 
 clemency,  in  so  long  bearing  with  the  same  without  execution 
 of  condign  severity  for  their  due  correction,  if  the  laws  were 
 extended  upon  them.  And  whereas  the  whole  state  of  the 
 realm,  by  act  of  Parliament  openly  published,  doth  most 
 earnestly  in  God's  name  rccpiiro  us  all  to  endeavour  ourselves, 
 to  the  uttermost  of  our  knowledge,  duly  and  truly  to  execute 
 the  said  laws,  as  we  will  answer  before  God.  })y  the  which 
 act  also   wo  have   full   power   and  authority  to  reform,  and  pe bishop* 
 
 ^  t/  '  have  powtr 
 
 punish   by  censures  of  the   church,   all  and  singular  persons  ['^>J;^\^  J,', 
 which   shall   offend.     And    whereas    also    the    Queen''s   most  •'"^"^"*- 
 excellent  ^lajcsty,  now  a  year  past  and  more,  addressed  her  The  Queen  a 
 Ilifrhness*  letters   enforcino'   the    same    charge,   the  contents  chkrgcdupon 
 
 ^  °  .       .  °  the  bishops 
 
 whereof  I  sent  unto  your  lordship  in  her  name  and  authority,  the  duty  of 
 
 •^  ■i  "      enforcing 
 
 to  admonish  them  to  obedience,  and  so  I  doubt  not  but  your  obedience, 
 lordship  have  distributed  the  same  unto  others  of  our  bre- 
 thren  within  this  province  of  Canterbury;   whereupon  hath  There  ha? 
 ensued  in  the  most  part  of  the  realm  an  humble  and  obedient  humhiecon- 
 
 i^  forinity,  save 
 
 conformity,  and  yet  some  few  persons,  I  fear  more  scrupulous  p"^'JJs/lu 
 than  godly  prudent,  have  not  conformed  themselves;    per- fjlem °ir- 
 adventure  some  of  them  for  lack  of  particular  description  of  iTJkofp^- 
 orders  to  be  followed,  which   as   your  lordship   doth  know,  sc.'^iaion'^of 
 
 "  ,  .  .      ordtrs  t«»  be 
 
 were  agreed  upon   among   us  long  ago,   and   yet  in  certain  followed, 
 respects  not  published.      Now   for  the  speedy  reformation  of  |fo>- the  re- 
 
 *  *■  I  V  formation  of 
 
 the  same,  as  the  Queen's  Highness  hath   expressly  charged  \^^l^^'JI^: 
 both  you  and  me,  of  late  being  therefore  called  to  her  pre-  !j|;i';i4'\he 
 sence,  to  sec  her  laws  executed,  and  good  orders  decreed  and  lilc  gSJ^nT 
 observed,  1  can  no  less  do  of  my  obedience  to  Almighty  God,  injunctions 
 •of  my  allcfjiance  to  her  princely  estate,  and  of  sincere  zeal  to  aisothe' 
 
 ^        ,      ^  •  ^•*..  ,..  ii'ii     orders  in  the 
 
 the  truth  and  promotion  of  Christian  religion  now  established,  books  no* 
 
 i  ^      O  sent. 
 
 but  require  and  charge  you,  as  you  will  answer  to  God,  and 
 to  her  Majesty,  to  see  her  Majesty's  laws  and  injunctions 
 duly  observed  within  your  diocese,  and  also  these  our  con- 
 venient orders  described  in  these  books  at  this  present  sent 
 unto  your  lordship.  And  furthermore,  to  transmit  the  same 
 books  with  your  letters   (according  as  hath  been  heretofore 
 
 r  "         -,  18 
 
 [park.  cor. J 
 
274 
 
 ARCIIB.  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  GRINDAL. 
 
 [1566. 
 
 They  have 
 called  ihe 
 J>()ii(lon 
 cler^'y  before 
 them. 
 
 and  suspend- 
 ed all  minis- 
 ters refusing 
 conformity, 
 with  pre- 
 sent seques- 
 tration and 
 future  depri- 
 vation ; 
 
 whereby 
 they  trust 
 all  conten- 
 tion may 
 at  last  be 
 supi'.ressed. 
 
 used)  unto  all  others  of  our  brethren  within  this  province,  to 
 cause  the  same  to  be  performed  in  their  several  jurisdictions 
 and  charges.  And  where  we  have  of  late  the  2Gth  day  of 
 this  present  month  of  March,  called  before  us,  according  to 
 the  Queen's  Majesty's  commandment  in  this  behalf  signified, 
 all  manner  of  parsons,  vicars,  and  curates,  serving  within  tho 
 city  of  London,  and  have  commanded  divers  of  them  in  [sic] 
 their  obedience,  who  have  considered  their  duties  in  this 
 behalf;  so  have  we  also  from  this  day  forth  suspended  all 
 ministers  expressly  refusing  conformity,  from  their  public 
 ministration  whatsoever,  and  have  also  denounced  sequestra- 
 tion of  all  the  fruits  of  their  livings  so  long  time  as  they 
 shall  remain  in  this  disobedience ;  signifying  further,  that  if 
 within  the  space  of  three  months  from  thence  next  ensuing 
 this  advertisement,  either  any  of  them  do  attempt  to  ojffend 
 in  the  like  disobedience,  and  be  therefore  convicted  by  the 
 notorious  evidence  of  the  fact,  or  shall  continue  without 
 reconciUng  of  themselves,  and  promising  and  subscribing  their 
 conformity  to  the  laws  and  orders  agreeable,  to  be  then 
 dei^rived  ipso  facto  of  all  their  spiritual  promotions;  in  which 
 case  it  may  be  lawful  in  due  order  of  law  to  all  patrons  and 
 donors  of  all  and  singular  the  same  spiritual  promotions,  or 
 any  of  them,  to  present  or  collate  to  the  same,  as  though  the 
 person  or  persons  so  offending  were  dead ;  after  which  like 
 sort  all  other  ordinaries,  after  notice  given  unto  all  persons 
 within  their  jurisdictions  of  the  laws,  injunctions,  and  other 
 orders  established  for  the  same  conformity,  I  think  will  follow 
 in  order  the  same  example ;  whereby  we  trust  all  contention 
 and  just  offence  amongst  the  Queen's  subjects  may  at  the  last 
 be  suppressed,  peace  and  quietness  in  unity  of  doctrine  and 
 uniformity  of  extern  behaviours  recovered,  the  Queen's 
 Majesty's  authority  reverenced,  her  laws  obediently  regarded, 
 to  the  promotion  of  the  truth  of  the  gospel,  and  to  the  glory 
 of  Almighty  God ;  to  whom  for  this  time  I  commit  you  in  all"* 
 grace  and  virtue  as  myself.  From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  the 
 28th  day  of  March,  1566. 
 
 Your  loving  brother, 
 
 MATTHEW  CANTUAR.i 
 
 [^  A  letter  to  the  same  effect  addressed  to  the  Dean  of  Booking 
 is  entered  on  Parker's  Register,  i.  257,  and  similar  letters  to  the 
 incumbents  of  other  peculiar  jurisdictions  within  the  province  of 
 Canterbury.] 
 
F.lKstCT 
 
 I>rf.ii-hcr«  at 
 'auls  Ci«M«. 
 
 15CC.]  AIlClllJ.    lAKKEK   TO  MK    WII.I.IAM    i  lA  II,.  275 
 
 ccxr. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SHI  WH.LIAM  CKCIL. 
 
 ard  April  [l.'.GGj.     Laiisd.   MS.  ix.  art.  37.     Orig. 
 
 AViiBiiK  your  honour  would  bo  informed  of  tho  prcadicrs 
 of  these  sermons  of  solemnity,  vc  shall  understand,  that  for 
 Good  Friday  shall  the  dean  of  Exeter  ;  tho  Monday,  Dr  Beau- 
 mont ;  the  Tuesday,  ono  Mr  Young,  chaplain  to  my  lord  of  ^'' 
 London ;  for  the  third  day  my  lord  mayor  sent  to  mc 
 l>raying  to  mo  to  obtain  of  Mr  Becon  (who  they  hear  shall 
 preach  at  tho  cross  this  next  Sunday)  to  supply  that  day.  I 
 promised  that  I  would  move  him  to  satisfy  their  desire,  or 
 elso  the  day  like  to  be  void,  for  possibly  they  can  get  none 
 other.  1  said  that  I  would  rather  than  the  day  should  bo 
 void,  to  raise  a  speech,  that  Mr  Beaumont  should  divide  his 
 Monday  matter  to  Wednesday  ;  and  hitherto  I  can  signify  no 
 more. 
 
 I  am  complained  to  that  Crowley ^  and  his  curate  gave  a  ISrlo  the 
 great  occasion  of  much  trouble  yesterday  in  his  church,  for  c'iJwicJamr 
 expelling  out  of  his  church  divers  clerks^  which  were  in  their  forulmmg 
 surplices  to  bury  a  dead  corse,  as  customably  they  use,  and  church  diver* 
 as  they  say  my  lord  of  London  did  before  prescribe  them  to  tcm>in«a 
 wear  surplices  within  the  churches.      To-morrow  we  intend  to  i^'t<?'j.'" 
 
 r  surplices. 
 
 hear  the  cause,  and  if  wc  find  the  deserts  of  them  to  be  such 
 as  they  gave  such  occasion  of  tumult  in  a  people  so  gathered 
 together,  I  trust  the  Queen's  ^Lijesty  nor  the  council  shall 
 think  any  severity  in  us,  or  lack  of  prudence,  in  considering 
 the  time.  Thus  in  our  Lord  I  bid  your  honour  well  to 
 [fare],  this  third  of  April. 
 
 We  provide  as  we  can  for  some  parishes  destitute,  but 
 [cannot]  supply  the  most  part  vacant.  Some  be  peevish,  ^^"""^^ 
 some  froward,  [some]  fearful,  and  some  would  fiiin  slip  in 
 with  honesty :  to  whom  we  [shew]  such  affability  as  wc  may, 
 not  yet  suffering  our  authority  and  constancy  to  seem  to  fear, 
 or  to  be  more  desirous  of  them  than  we  move  them  to  their 
 
 [2  Incumbent  of  St  Giles's,  Cripplcgate ;   remembered  as  a  poet 
 and  a  printer,  as  well  as  a  divine.] 
 
 [3  It  seems  from  tho  next  letter   that  the  persons  meant  were 
 choristers.] 
 
 1S_^> 
 
 Sute  of  feel- 
 ing in  various 
 
276  ARCIIB.  PAllKER   TO  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL.  [1566. 
 
 own  commodity,  but  specially  to  the  people's  quiet,  to  obe- 
 dience of  laws,  &c,,  and  we  have  conferred  to  that  end. 
 
 Your  honour's  in  haste,  as  ye  see,  written, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  rigid  lionourahle  Sir  WiUlam  Cecil, 
 knight,  one  of  the  Queen's  Majesty's  iwlvy 
 council,  and  principal  secretary  to  her 
 Highness. 
 
 CCXII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 4th  April,  [loGGJ.    Lansd.  :MS.  ix.  art.  38.    Grig. 
 
 Account  of  If   your  honour  have  leisure  to  hear  of  our  doing  with 
 
 theecciesias-  Crowley  this  aftcmoon,  and  with  one   Sayer  the  alderman's 
 
 wuh  Crowley  tlcputy,  and  the  singers.     We  found  that  Crowley  quarrelled 
 
 lajerf^'"'^    first  with  the  singing  men  for  their  ''  porters'  coats,"  and  said, 
 
 that  he  would  shut  the  doors  against  them,  and  so  far  was 
 
 the  deputy  charged  with  such  words.     In  the  examination  of 
 
 Crowley  fell  out  many  fond  paradoxes  that  tended  to  ana- 
 
 Crowley's      baptistical  opinions,  to  have  a  motion  in  conscience  to  preach 
 
 opinions  .        ,  .  i  i       xt      •  t  •         in         •   i  . 
 
 trndin-to     m  his  church  (beins:  not  deprived)  without  extern  vocation, 
 
 those  of  the  .  .  . 
 
 anabaptists,  ^nd  saying,  as  pastor  he  would  resist  the  wolf  if  he  can, 
 meaning  the  surplice  man.  We  asked,  whether  he  would 
 resist  a  minister  so  sent  to  them  ?  He  said,  that  till  he  was 
 discharged,  his  conscience  would  so  move  him,  whereupon  he 
 desired  to  be  discharged.  I  seeing  his  desire,  I  did  even 
 presently  discharge  him  of  his  flock  and  parish.      Then  he 
 
 ?e^d?fr[ved°  flcd  to  this,  that  he  would  be  deprived  by  order  of  law;  which 
 
 lAvvV'^^^^^  I  told  him  was  to  say,  that  he  would  be  deprived,  and  yet 
 not  deprived.  He  seemed  that  he  would  have  had  the  glory 
 to  be  committed  to  prison,  rather  than  he  would  grant  to 
 suffer  such  a  wolf  to  come  to  his  flock,  but  I  dulled  his  glory. 
 
 Is  charged  to  But  Tct,  for  some  Severity,  and  in  suspense,  we  charo^ed  him 
 
 keep  his  i  i  •     i  i  i  i     i         i  •  i       ? 
 
 ^irde  .u"'^     to  keep  his  house,  and  bound  the  deputy  in  one  hundred  pounds 
 
 Srap^^'^     to  be  ready  at  calling  when  the  Queen^s  council  should  call  for 
 
 pearance.      either  of  thcm,  to  judge  of  their  doings.     The  deputy  seemeth 
 
 to  be  an  honest  man,  yet  poradventure  too  much  leaning  from 
 
 the  surplice ;  he  protested  that  he  threatened  the  singing  men 
 
1j()G.]         Aunm.  PAiiKKn  to  siii  wii.i.iam  ( i;t  il.  277 
 
 to  set  tliom  last  l»y  llio  fVct,  if  they  wouKl  l>rcak  tlio  peace.  IW 
 Ills  tale  there  was  a  i\n\d  uproar  among  them,  but  tlie  hinging 
 men  shrank  away,  and  thoy  then  fell  to  quietness  with  shrewd 
 stomachs.  Teradvcnturo  your  honour  may  tliink  wo  have 
 done  too  little,  but  yet  the  suspense  and  secret  prison  is 
 some  terror,  and  1  doubt  that  few  will  think  it  too  much. 
 And  so,  at  length,  my  lord  of  London  and  I  dismissed  them 
 all  with  our  Advertisements,  in  tlieir  obedience.  1  [)ray  your 
 lioiiour  pardon  the  babbling.      This  4  th  of  April. 
 
 Your  honour's  alway, 
 
 MATTir.  CANT. 
 
 2o  the  honourable  Sir  William  Cecil, 
 kni(/ht,  principal  secretary  to  the 
 Queens  Majesty. 
 
 CCXIIL 
 
 ARCHBISHOP   PARKER   TO   SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 [12th  April],  15GG.    Lansd.  MS.  ix.  art.  30.     Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I  RECEIVED  your  letters  yesterday  afternoon,  sitting  ia 
 commission  with  Doctor  Lewes,  Mr  Osbourne,  and  Dr  Drurie, 
 about  brabbling  matters,  as  this  whole  week  I  have  done,  and 
 fully  tired  with  the  importunity.  And  whereas  I  was  minded 
 to  have  come  this  day  unto  the  court,  my  health  faileth  me 
 that  I  cannot,  but  am  compelled  to  keep  my  bed. 
 
 Your  honour  desireth  to  know  whether  there  were  six  cedi  had 
 hundred  persons  rcadv  to  the  communion,   and  came  unto  aknowwhe- 
 
 1  1    /•  1      1     "    T  1  nil  thertiiNiper- 
 
 church,  and  found  the  doors  shut,      ihese  reporters  make  e.r  son*  came  to 
 
 '  *  a  church  to 
 
 musca  elephantem.     My  lord  of  London  can  best  answer  for  p^lcam"'' 
 
 his  own  jurisdiction ;   but  this  I  can  say,  that  where  I  have  S.^'simt. 
 
 sent  divers  days  three  and  four  of  my  chaplains  to  serve  in  the 
 
 greatest  parishes,  what  for  lack  of  surplice  and  wafer-bread, 
 
 they  did  mostly  but  preach.     And  one  of  my  chaplains  serv- 
 
 incj  the  last  Sunday^  at  a  parish,  and  beino^  informed  that  <^9«  9.^  ^r»''>- 
 
 ~  ^  ^  *^  ^  o  ers  chaplain* 
 
 divers  communicants  would  have  received,  the  table  made  all  "f/nlKt 
 ready  accordingly,   while  he  was  reading   the  passion,   one  ^Sx^^l^^'^^ 
 
 \}   7th  April,  the  sixth  Sunday  in  Lent.] 
 
278 
 
 ARCHB.  PARKER   TO  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL. 
 
 [1566. 
 
 table,  and 
 uliilst  lie  was 
 read i lip,  a 
 jiarishioner 
 drew  from 
 the  tabic  the 
 cup  and 
 bread,  and 
 thus  "  the 
 minister  de- 
 rided, the 
 ))e<)ple  disap- 
 jiointed." 
 Ctuireh  ward- 
 ens will  not 
 provide  sur- 
 plice nor 
 wafer-bread. 
 I'arkcr  can 
 do  no  more. 
 He  has  call- 
 ed on  the 
 bishop  of 
 London. 
 
 They  had 
 forewarned 
 Cecil  that 
 many  parish- 
 es would  be 
 unserved. 
 
 The  Queen 
 willed  Parker 
 to  imprison 
 these  precise 
 folk. 
 
 Parker  could 
 do  no  less 
 than  impri- 
 son Crowley. 
 
 No  help  from 
 the  bishop  of 
 London 
 because  of 
 his  Lent 
 Sermon. 
 
 man  of  the  parish  drew  from  the  table  both  cup  and  the 
 wafer-bread,  because  the  bread  was  not  common,  and  so  the 
 minister  derided,  and  the  people  disappointed.  And  divers 
 churchwardens  to  make  a  trouble  and  a  difficulty,  will  provide 
 neither  surplice  nor  bread.  As  for  mine  own  peculiars,  four- 
 teen or  fifteen  be  all  in  order.  Some  did  refuse,  but  now 
 they  be  induced,  and  they  be  counted  sortly  learned  with  the 
 best  of  them,  as  one  Cole  of  Bow  church,  and  one  Beddell  of 
 Pancras.  And  I  can  do  no  more,  nor  can  promise  any  more ; 
 my  age  will  not  suffer  me  to  peruse  all  the  parishes.  And  I 
 have  meetly  now  called  on  my  lord  of  London,  who  is 
 younger  and  is  nigher  them,  and  have  vacant  priests  in  his 
 church,  and  he  did  send  me  word  by  his  letters  on  Wednesday 
 at  night,  that  there  should  need  but  preachers,  for  other 
 might  be  appointed  to  serve  the  cures.  And,  for  the  supply- 
 ing of  the  cures,  your  honour  knoweth  that  my  lord  of  Lon- 
 don and  I  in  our  letters  jointly  signified  that  there  would  be 
 many  parishes  unserved  ^  and  many  speeches  would  arise,  and 
 much  resistance  would  there  be.  And  such  difficulty  did  my 
 letters  unto  the  Queen's  Majesty  signify.  And  at  my  first 
 speech  with  the  Queen's  Highness  (being  the  second  Sunday 
 in  Lent^)  I  answered,  that  these  precise  folk  would  offer  their 
 goods  and  bodies  to  prison,  rather  than  they  would  relent. 
 And  her  Highness  willed  me  to  imprison  them. 
 
 As  for  Crowley's  imprisonment  into  his  own  house,  I 
 have  signified  unto  your  honour  by  my  former  letters,  and 
 my  lord  of  London  who  was  with  me  sitting  can  shew  you  of 
 his  behaviour,  that  I  could  do  no  less.  For  the  mayor  sent 
 unto  me  to  examine  the  cause  of  a  stir  moved  by  him  in  his 
 church ;  and  he  answered  plainly  that  he  would  not  suffer 
 the  wolf  to  come  to  his  flock ;  and  therefore  to  stay  his  resist- 
 ing we  committed  him.  The  next  Sunday  I  sent  Mr  Bickley 
 to  preach  in  his  parish,  and  they  heard  him  quietly,  and  a 
 minister  thither  sent  was  received  with  his  surplice,  &c. 
 
 All  this  week  I  have  little  assistance  of  my  lord  of  Lon- 
 don because  of  this  day  sermon,  and  he  may  be  now  spoken 
 unto  to  see  to  his  charge.  I  have  talked  with  new  coming 
 preachers  to  London,  moving  to  sedition,  and  have  charged 
 them  to  silence.  I  have  some  in  prison,  which  in  this  quarrel 
 fell  to  open  blows  in  the  church.  And  yesterday  I  have  had 
 [1   See  before,  p.  2G8.]  p  The  10th  of  March,  15G5— 6.] 
 
15(»().]         Aiunn.  r.viiKKii  to  sir  wii.ijam  (  ik  ir..  279 
 
 many  of  my  lord  of  Lomloirs  parishca'  cliurclnvarilcns  and 
 others,  and  have  perused  their  doings;  and  must  I  do  still  all  ••Mmtido 
 things  alono  ?  I  am  not  able,  and  must  refuse  to  promise  to  4i.,iU'"** 
 do  that  I  cannot,  and  is  another  man's  charge.  1  do  but 
 marvid  that  I  must  bo  charged  to  see  and  judge  of  all 
 preachers  in  London,  and  the  care  committed  unto  mo  only, 
 as  though  the  burden  must  be  laid  on  my  neck,  and  other 
 men  shall  draw  backward.  All  other  men  must  win  honour 
 and  defence,  and  I  only  shame  to  be  so  vilely  rejiorted.  And 
 yet  I  am  not  weary  to  bear,  to  do  service  to  God  and  to  my 
 prince ;   but  an  ox  can  draw  no  more  than  ho  can. 
 
 It  is  no  great  inconvenience  though  some  parishes  want 
 in  London.  London  is  no  grange.  They  may  go  otherwhere. 
 l>ut  these  precise  men,  for  all  their  braj;  of  six  hundred  commu-  Thwe precise 
 
 ^  ^  ^  men  nrofw» 
 
 nicants,  do  profess  openlv,  that  they  will  neither  communicate  ^^•^'''•^y*''* 
 
 '  i-  I  »'  '  %/  not  come  to 
 
 nor  come  in  the  church  where  either  the  surplice  or  the  cap  tjierethe 
 is,  and  so  I  know  it  is  practised.      To  all  other  particulars  of  ^j^ij."^"' 
 your  letters  I  have  before  written  my  letters,   and  ye  have 
 my  lord  of  London  who  can  tell  you  of  them  all.    Surely  this 
 matter   is  strangely   handled.      God  send  us  of  his  grace ; 
 whereunto  I  commend  your  honour  as  myself. 
 This  Good  Friday,  15G6. 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 To  the  rigid  Jiononrahle  Mr  Secretary. 
 
 CCXIV. 
 
 BLSIIOP  DAVIES  OF  ST  DAVID'S  TO  ARCHBISHOP 
 PARKER. 
 
 21th  April,  15CG.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  173.  p.  4S9.    Orig. 
 
 I  MOST  humbly  thank  your  grace  for  your  comfortable  Thanks  for 
 letters  of  the  28th  of  March  last ',  wherein  I  found  such  grave  MaJch. 
 godly  counsel,  that  if  I  had  been  far  weaker  than  I  was,  yet 
 was  it  able  to  make  me  strong  to  go  forward  in  all  true  and 
 upright  dealing.  I  found  also  in  the  same  letters  experience 
 of  the  truth  of  that  which  the  wise  man  saith,  vena  vitcc  os 
 justi*. 
 
 P  See  before,  p.  271.]  [4  Prov.  x.  11.] 
 
with  II 
 vision  of  I 
 j)orli>in  of 
 the  Bible. 
 
 280       ur  DAViES  OF  ST  David's  to  archb.  parkeu.       [15GG. 
 Well  forward         J  am  wcll  forwai'd  in  the  recoojiiisinoj  of  that  part  of  the 
 
 with  tlif  re  ^  O  O  1 
 
 Bible  that  your  grace  hath  committed  unto  me^      I  will  bj 
 the  help  of  God  finish  it  with  as  much  speed  as  I  can.      I 
 bestow  for  the  performance  of  the  same  all  such  time  as  I 
 can  spare  from  such  affairs  as  will  suffer  no  delays. 
 re^Smp^'  ^J^i'  Gwynne  the   bearer  hereof  hath  his  hands   full  to 
 
 ijamiewi-  ajjgwer  for  Llandcwibrefy,  whereof  I  wrote  to  your  grace 
 afore.  Quare  impedit  is  intended  of  the  one  part,  and  the 
 office  for  the  Queen's  ^lajesty  to  make  it  a  college  of  the 
 other  part ;  which  office  is  now  brought  in,  as  I  am  advertised, 
 to  Mr  Osbourn's  office,  and  is  so  imperfect  and  insufficient  in 
 law,  that  it  would  be  easily  avoided  if  it  were  not  that  every 
 title,  be  it  never  so  simple,  shall  be  taken  to  the  best  for 
 the  Queen.  Beseeching  your  grace  to  help  the  suit  of  this 
 bearer  in  the  church's  behalf  as  occasion  may  serve.  Thus 
 Almighty  God  preserve  your  grace.  From  my  house  at 
 Abergwylly,  the  24:th  of  April,  1566. 
 
 Your  grace's  in  Christ  to  command, 
 
 BICHARD^MENEVEN. 
 
 CCXV. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR   WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 2Sth  April,  loGG.     Lansd.  :MS.  ix.  art.  40.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 It  is  the  The  Queen'*s  Majesty  willed  my  lord  of  York  to  declare 
 
 Queen  s  plea-  . 
 
 theVniir^'for  ^^^  plcasuro  detorminately  to  have  the  order  to  go  forward. 
 
 go  fonvanl    ^  trust  hcr  Highucss  hath  devised  how  it  may  be  performed. 
 
 ij^dcspair?''  I  utterly  despair  therein  as  of  myself,  and  therefore  must  sit 
 
 fiirth"er  aid.  Still,  as  I  havo  now  dono,  alway  waiting  either  her  toleration, 
 or  else  further  aid.  Mr  Secretary,  can  it  be  thought,  that  I 
 alone,  having  sun  and  moon  against  me,  can  compass  this 
 difficulty  ?  If  you  of  hcr  Majesty's  council  provide  no  other- 
 wise for  this  matter  than  as  it  appeareth  openly,  what  the 
 
 The  council    scQucl  will  be  liovresco  vel  i^eminiscendo  conitare.     In  Kins: 
 
 mtertercd  in  -^^  </  o 
 
 HmMcTand    Edward's  days  the   whole  body  of  the  council  travailed  in 
 JJn'parker"'''  Hoopcr's  attempt.     My  predecessor,  Dr  Cranmer,  labouring 
 
 alone  hope  to 
 
 '"^^•'^'^^-  [1   See  before,  p.  267,  n.  1.] 
 
 ^. 
 
15G0.]  AKCIin.  rAKKKIl   to  SlU   WII.MAM   <  i;«  IF..  281 
 
 in  vain  witli  bishop  I'arrar,  the  council  took  it  in  hand  ;    and 
 Bhiill   I   hope    to    do    that    tho    (^>uccn's    Alajcsty    will   liavo 
 dono?      AVhat  I  hear  and  soo,   wliat  complaints   bo   brou^^ht 
 unto  nic,  I  shall  not  report  ;   how  I  am  used  of  many  men's 
 hands.      I  commit  all  to  Ciod.     If  1  die  in  the  cause  (malice  so  *''»''<^  ■ 
 far  prevailing:)  I  shall  commit  my  soul  to  God  in  a  good  con- 
 science.    If  the  (^>ueen's   Majesty  bo  no  more  considered,   I 
 shall  not  marvel  what  be  said  or  dono  to  me.      If  you  hear 
 and  sec  so  manifestly  as  may  bo  seen,  and  will  not  consult  in  '|«>'"<i'» 
 time  to  prevent  so  many  miseries,  tSrc,  I  have  and  do  by  this  J,';i^;iV.'utt 
 presence  [sic]  discharge  my  allegiance,   duty,  and  conscience  '^^''* 
 to  vou  in  such  places  as  ye  be.      I  can  promise  to  do  nothinn:,  ""^  *'-^" 
 
 •  i  *  1  r?'  |irninise 
 
 but  hold  me  in  silence  within  mine  own  conscience,   and  make  "okli"?  **"' 
 my  complaints  to  God,  ttt  exsurgat  Deus  et  jiuUcet  causam  "'*""" 
 istam  :  ille,  ille  qui  comprchendit  sapientes  in  astutia  ipso- 
 j'um.     Tlius  God  be  with  your  honour.     Almighty  God  pre- 
 serve the  Queen's  Majesty.      This  2Sth  of  April,  15GG. 
 
 Your  honour's  in  Christ, 
 
 MATin.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  rifjht  honourohle  Sir  William  Cecil, 
 knight,  one  of  the  Queens  Mujeatg's  pvivij 
 council. 
 
 CCXVI. 
 
 BISHOP  cox  OF  ELY  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 3rd  May,  15G6.     Addiiional  MS.  Brit.  Mus.  19,400.  art.  18.     Grig. 
 
 Salutem  in  Christo  Jesu.  I  thank  your  grace  for  your 
 sundry  letters.  Your  grace''s  last  I  received  by  Jugg,  one 
 of  the  Queen'*s  ^lajesty's  printers,  wherein  I  perceive  your 
 travail   and   zeal,    and   some    grief  that   thino^s   proceed   not  That  thiiurs 
 
 •     1     1  1  •    1      •  ^  11  1    i'  1  proiei  ,1  not 
 
 ri^'htly,  which  is  too  much  to  be  lamented  tor  such  respects  '^•^''"'^  't 
 
 o         ••  '  _  i  to;)  nuifh  to 
 
 as  your  grace  with  other  considereth  rightly.    Quod  Dominus  i>e  lamented. 
 dixit  Josnce,  hoc  tihi  dictum  puta:  '' Confovtare  et  esto  robus- 
 tus.    Noli  metuere  et  noli  timere  quoniam  tecum  est  Dominus  Be  not  afraid. 
 Deus  tuus,  ^•c.^''     Time  and    truth   shall  put   folly    to   fl'g^^t.  J*]^,^and^ 
 Interim,  inodis  omnibus  enitendum,  ne  nostra  heroina  fran-^^^l^^^^^'* 
 gatur    animo   eiut   offendatur    ad   verrucas   jmzicorum,    ac 
 
282 
 
 BISHOP  COX  OF   ELY   TO  ARCIIB.  TARKER.  [1566. 
 
 Fotin  \eit  the  tnterea   ad   multorum   tiibera  conniveat.     Male  saniis  est 
 
 Qucon  should 
 
 The'Str**  ^^(>strorum  zeluSj  at  papistarum  deliria  quavis  peste  nocen- 
 r'roustantsis  ^^orG.  I  tnist  jouF  gFRce  is  well  forward  with  the  Bible ^  by 
 mad.  hut  that  ^.j^'g  \;\mc.     I  pcrccivc  the  greatest  burden  will  he  upon  your 
 
 of  jiapists  is 
 
 K^e^*'''" *  neck  touchino^  care   and  travail.      I   would  wish   that   such 
 
 lopes  t 
 he  Bib 
 well  forward. 
 
 the'lirbiels    usual  words  that  we  Enorlish  people  be  acquainted  with  mifrht 
 
 well  forward.       ...  .        .  ,      .        /.  ,  i  ,.  n        ^  , 
 
 The  burden    still   remain  in   their  form   and  sound,   so   far   forth  as  the 
 Parker.        Hcbrcw  will  wcll  bear.     Inkhorn  terms  to  be  avoided.      The 
 
 The  transla- 
 
 be Imo^com-  translation  of  the  verbs  in  the  Psalms  to  be  used  uniformly  in 
 
 wor"ds and''  o^c  touso,  &c.     Aud  if  ye  translate  honitas  or  Qnisericordia, 
 
 uSrliS^      to  use  it  likewise  in  all  places  of  the  Psalms,  &c.   God  send 
 
 this   good  travail  a  blessed  success,  et  Dominus  Jesus  pie- 
 
 tatem    tiiam    nobis    diutissime    servet    incolumem.       From 
 
 Somersham,  3  Maij,  1566. 
 
 Your  grace's  assured, 
 
 EICIIARD  ELY. 
 
 CCXVII. 
 
 DR   WALTER   HADDON  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 27th  May,  1566.     S.  P.  O.  Domestic,  1566.     Grig. 
 
 Etsi   non  placet   ad  te  sine  argumento  scribere,  tamen 
 
 inanes   tibi  potius    literas  mittam  quam   nuUas,    quoniam   in 
 
 altero  mea  culpa  est  sane  nulla,  in  altero  esse  fortasse  potest 
 
 aliqua.     Video  tibi  negotium  ab  ecclesiasticis  quibusdam  ex- 
 
 of^fhlnon^^  hiberi,  nam  usque  ad  has  regiones  quasdam  illorum  scripta  per- 
 
 have^imd?    manavorunt,  partim  solato  [sic]  sermone  comprehensa,  partim 
 
 jnt(!.^heiow  vorsicuUs  coagmontata ;  quibus  mirum  est  principi  tarn  aperte 
 
 It  is  astonuh-  detrahi  et  communem  optiraarum  constitutionura  authoritatem 
 
 ingthat  they  ,  ■^  .  ... 
 
 o''?ni^fhs  conveUi^,  praesertim   cum  res  ipsas,  ut  sunt,  arbitrarias  esse 
 
 {Sri'nd'^  confiteantur.      Sed  nimirum  talis  omnium  temporum  conditio 
 
 tffity^n'  ^L^it,  ut  sues  secum  errores  importaverint ;  testis  est  ilia  prin- 
 
 iSt.'"'^'^'  ccps  omnium  Ecclesia  quam  Dominus  noster  Jesus  Christus  et 
 
 inhentefhe  deiudo  ApostoU  administravcrunt,  qure  sues  Iscariotas  et  Si- 
 
 r'rcdecessors.  moucs  Magos  habuit  I  itaque  nos,  in   quos  exitus  sasculorum 
 incurrerunt,  recusare  non  possumus  quin  zizania  cum  triticis 
 
 [1  The  four  Gospels  and  the  Acts  of  the  Apostles  were  revised  hy 
 bishop  Cox.] 
 
 [2  MS.  '  combelli.'] 
 
 I 
 
1500.]  nn   WALTER   IIAPDON   TO   Aliriin.  I'AIIKKII.  283 
 
 in   Kcclosiii   noniuiiuiuain   occurrant.       J>i:il)(iliis   in   oiiuiia   so 
 vortit,  lit  oiiino8  uil  so  illiciat.      Tii,   bona  conscicntia   Irctiis,  vuknum- 
 publicain    authoritatcra   ct   Ecclcsiao    concordiam   tuero   sicut  j;:;;,'^;^',''^^ 
 faois,  ct  otlicio  pcrfiiiu-tus  do  suoccssii  refer  ad  Dcum,  in  cujus ''■^"'*'*^"**- 
 manu    non    solum    corda    priiicipuin    inclusa   sunt,   scd   ctiain 
 populorum  cranium.    Cum  hue  dcscendercmus,  magni  de  rebus 
 novis  su^^urri;  nunc  riirsus  obmutuerunt.     ^'alc.    IJrugis,  sexto 
 Gilendas  Junias,  1  jG(j. 
 
 Tuus  deditissimus, 
 
 GUALT.  IIADDON. 
 
 To  mil  honourable  very  good  Jordy  vuj 
 loriVs  grace  of  Canterbury. 
 
 CCXYIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 5th  June,  loCG.     S.  V.  O.  Domestic,  15C6.    Grig. 
 
 Whereas  my  lord  of  Sussex  did  write  unto  me  to  have  The  Eari  of 
 my   recommendations  to   your  honour    of   his   chaplain   Mr  mi"i'l!^st"o"f 
 Ivush  for  the  obtainino:  of  a  prebend  in  Canterbury  church^  rarkers 
 I  thank  vou  tliat  ye  did  somcthincr  refer  his  suit  to  my  con- 'i''""''-^'' 
 
 ♦  •'  O  •^  Kiish  to  a 
 
 tcntation,  for  having  such  in  that  society  of  whom  I  might  {^anSur'l. 
 rejoice.      I  have  now  good  hope  of  this  man,  that  if  your  ous'ln.t"*'" 
 lionour  do  commend  him    to  the   Queen's   Majesty  he  shall  Luerance. 
 lionestly  deserve  that  favour,  I  trust,  in  that  behalf;  for  he 
 is  studious,  and  by  reading  shall  come  to  good  constancy  of 
 judgment.      I  see  his  quality   of  utterance  to  be  ready  and 
 apt,  and  as  I  hope  he  shall  do  good  service  in  that  church 
 hereafter.      I  would  wish  I  had  no  worse  hereafter  obtruded 
 to  me  than  he  is  like  to  be. 
 
 I  send  your  honour  letters  sent  me  from  Mr  Haddon^  send^  a  letter 
 
 *  IromHaddon, 
 
 [3  Perhaps  the  same  person  mentioned  in  Letter  CIIL,  printed  at 
 p.  144.  In  a  letter  amongst  the  Parker  MSS.  (cxiv.  art.  55.  fol.  171), 
 the  carl  of  Sussex  requested  the  archbishop  to  recommend  the  same 
 person,  then  become  Dr  Rush,  for  the  deanery  of  York.  This  was 
 on  the  7th  February,  15G6 — 7.] 
 
 [^  The  letter  preceding  this.] 
 
284 
 
 ARCIin.   PAIlKKll   TO  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL. 
 
 [15G6. 
 
 from  which 
 Cecil  may 
 see  I  he 
 activity  of 
 the  noncon- 
 formists.    It 
 justifies  the 
 answer  given 
 to  them. 
 Fears  wiiat 
 will  ensue  if 
 greater  seve- 
 nty be  not 
 used,  and 
 personaf^es  of 
 reputation  do 
 not  ex))ress 
 greater  dis- 
 content. 
 The  bishop  of 
 London  feels 
 by  experience 
 tlie  marks 
 and  bounds 
 of  tlicse  Rood 
 sprites,  which 
 but  for  him 
 might  have 
 been  sup- 
 pressed five 
 or  six  years 
 ago. 
 
 nie  Queen 
 had  thought 
 that  the  an- 
 swering 
 would  only 
 breed  con- 
 tention. 
 
 by  the  which  ye  may  see  how  they  ply  their  matters ;  so 
 that  I  think  yet  no  cause  of  repentance  given,  that  some 
 answer  is  made  them,  as  well  in  respect  of  our  own  honestv 
 (who  do  wear  this  apparel)  as  in  regard  of  the  cause  as  it 
 toucheth  both  the  prince  and  the  realm.  And  surely,  sir, 
 if  there  be  not  some  more  severity  extended,  and  some 
 personages  of  reputation  expressing  a  more  discontentation 
 toward  such  disorderly  doings,  it  will  breed  a  cease  one  day 
 in  governance.  And  now  my  lord  of  London  by  experience 
 feeleth  and  seeth  the  marks  and  bounds  of  these  good 
 sprights,  which,  but  for  his  tolerations  &c.,  had  been  suppres- 
 sed for  5  or  6  years  ago,  and  had  prevented  all  this  unquiet- 
 ness  now  taken,  and  both  his  reputation  better  saved  and  my 
 poor  honesty  not  so  foully  traduced.  Thus  trusting  that  the 
 Queen's  Majesty  is  put  out  of  doubt  (that  the  answering 
 might  breed  but  contention)  by  your  good  solicitation  to  urge 
 how  necessary  it  is  that  her  good  subjects  should  be  healed 
 again  which  are  wounded  by  their  fond  preaching  and 
 writing,  I  commend  your  honour  to  the  tuition  of  God,  as 
 myself.    From  my  house  at  Croydon,  this  5th  of  June,  1566. 
 
 Your  honour's  assuredly, 
 
 MATTII.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  right  honour  able  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  knight,  principal  secretary 
 to  the  Queen's  Majesty. 
 
 CCXIX. 
 
 Beceiptof 
 It  Iter,  No 
 
 CCXVIJ. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  DR  WALTER  HADDON. 
 
 [About  6th  June,  15G6  ]     Petyt  MSS.  Inner  Temple,  Xo.  47.  fol.  327. 
 Parker's  draft. 
 
 I  HAVE  received  your  letters,  wherein  et  amice  et  graviter, 
 you  do  both  comfort  my  travail  taken  in  the  stablishing  of 
 order  and  concord  in  our  church,  as  ye  do  godly  admonish 
 me  to  go  on  to  do  mine  office,  and  to  refer  the  success 
 thereof  to  God.  As  I  am  alway  persuaded  to  receive  apt 
 letters  elegantly  written  which  comcth  from  your  pen,  so  I 
 rejoice  to  see  in  you  so  much  grave  Christian  philosophy.    Ye 
 
ly.aiul 
 orwioh. 
 
 1. ')()(>.]  AKt  IIM.   rAUKlill    lO    I»U   WAI.IIIU    llAl»l»l)N.  285 
 
 may  well  marvel  of  tho  bt)Klncs3  of  tlicso  men  ecclesiastical, 
 advanciiiL:  themselves  so  far  to  insult  against  tho  prince,  and 
 j)ublic  authority  of  laws,  »S:c.,  and  not  to  bo  ashamed  to  put 
 their  fancies  in  public  print.      Lamentable  it  is  that  some  of  t'"-;' "«'•« 
 
 I  I  Ik   I'U  com- 
 
 these  light  heads  bo  much  comforted  of  such  whoso  authority  ';;;,'",.''„''',„. 
 should  bo  bent  to  repress  them.      Tho  boldness  of  their  book  """">• 
 imprinted  caused  some  examination  to  be  set  forth,  which  here  jirml'.,J.„. 
 I  send  you  to  expend'.     Indeed  all  things  bo  not  so  answered  i^^^L!"^^"" 
 as  their  writing  deserved,  but  yet  more  was  considered  what 
 became  such  which  hatli  taken  in  hand  to  mako  answer,  than 
 what  they  deserved.      And   I  am  deceived   if  a  little   bo  not  ^ '•"'?'» 
 enouirh  to  satisfy  wise  and  learned  men  in  these  controversies,  "^t-^fy  *•>* 
 And    thus    signify   to    you,   that   with    the  assistance  of  the  JroVcrsy.'''' 
 (>uecn's  Majesty's  council   we   have  dispersed   a   few  of  tho  a  few  of  the 
 heads   of  them,   some  to  tho   bishop   of  Winchester,  some  to  iH-rsea 
 
 *■  auioiifjxt  Ihe 
 
 Eh',  and  some  to  Xorwich,   to  school   them,   or  else   at  the  'v^'^'V^f 
 least  to  have  them  out  of  London,  till  wc  sec  cause  to  restore  J. 
 them  their  liberty.      I  commend  you  to  God,  with  my  com- 
 mendations to  my  lord  Montague,  to  ^Ir  Dene,  and   to  Dr 
 Abre^. 
 
 At  Crovdon  this  *   * 
 
 ccxx. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  TAIIKER    TO  LOUD  ABERGAVENNY3. 
 
 27th  June,  loGG.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  80.  p.  253. 
 Parker's  own  draft. 
 
 After  my  hearty  commendations  to  your  good  lordship. 
 Concerning  the  demand  of  your  letters  claiming  a  right  in  the 
 
 [^  The  books  referred  to  were,  "  A  Declaration  in  the  name  and 
 Defence  of  certain  Ministers  in  London,"  put  forth  by  the  noncon- 
 formists, and  a  reply  entitled,  ''A  Brief  Examination,  for  the  time,  of 
 a  certain  Declaration  lately  put  in  print  in  the  name  and  defence  of 
 certain  ministers  in  London  refusing  to  wear  the  apparel  prescribed 
 by  the  laws  and  orders  of  the  Realm."] 
 
 [2  Aubrey.] 
 
 [^  This  letter  is  in  reply  to  one  written  to  the  archbishop  from 
 *'  Earydge  the  20th  day  of  Juno,"  and  signed  "Henry  a  Burgaucnny." 
 The  writer  states :  "  having  a  good  title  unto  the  stewardship  of  the 
 liberties  of  Canterbury,  as  parcel  of  mine  inheritance,  this  may  be  to 
 
286 
 
 ARCHB.  PARKER  TO   LORD  ABERGAVENNY. 
 
 [1566. 
 
 '-ori  Aber-  officG  of  sto Wardship  of  my  liberties,  as  I  would  have  wished 
 ti-uuH.i  the  ^^  ^^^®  heard  before  this  time  your  claim,  whereby  I  might 
 of^K'S  have  the  sooner  resolved  your  lordship,  so  upon  this  sudden, 
 ardibiJhop,  in  the  very  end  of  the  term,  your  letters  coming  to  me  to 
 w*itii/hir"  "  Croydon,   beine  thereby  the  further  from  my  counsel,  I  am 
 
 foun^el  and  /  i  i        i   i  •  i 
 
 send  an        not  rcady  to  make  your  lordship  such  answer  as  were  meet, 
 
 answer.  *'  .  . 
 
 pcradventure.  But  I  will  confer  with  my  counsel,  and  there- 
 upon return  my  answer  to  your  lordship  so  shortly  as  I  may 
 by  God's  grace,  which  I  wish  to  your  lordship  as  to  myself. 
 From  my  said  house  at  Croydon,  this  27th  of  June,  1566. 
 
 Your  lordship's  loving  neighbour, 
 
 MATTH.  CANTUAR. 
 
 CCXXI. 
 
 Thinks  for 
 a  present  of 
 their  com- 
 jnentaries. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  MATTHIAS  FLACIUS  ILLYRICUS, 
 JOHN  WIGAND,  AND  MATTHIAS  JUDEX. 
 
 18th  July,  [15G6'J.  "Conspectus  supellectilis  epistolicae  et  literariae  manu  exa- 
 ratae,  quae  exstat  apud  Jo.  Christophoruin  Wolfiuni,  pastorem  ad  D.  Cathar. 
 Hamburgensero."     Hamburgi.  8vo.  173G.  pp.  6 — 9. 
 
 Perquam  mihi  grata  est,  religiosi  viri,  haec  pia  humani- 
 tas  vestra,  qua  redditi  mihi  sunt  nuper  a  vobis  per  fidum  quen- 
 dam  nuntium  commentarii  vestri,  unde  faciliorem  mihi  vestro 
 
 require  your  lordship  that  I  may  have  it  at  your  grace's  hands  accord- 
 ing to  my  right.  Therefore  I  would  be  very  loth  to  bring  any  suit 
 against  your  grace,  or  against  any  of  yours,  if  I  may  have  it  otherwise, 
 for  I  am  determined  to  see  what  the  law  will  say  unto  it."  Parker 
 MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  77.  p.  245.  The  writer  was  Henry 
 Nevill,  baron  Bergavenny,  1535 — 1586.] 
 
 [1  It  is  very  diflScult  to  determine  the  date  of  this  letter.  Bale 
 died  27th  September,  1563  :  it  cannot  therefore  bo  earlier  than  1564. 
 But  the  place  of  date  does  not  agree  with  what  is  known  of  Parker's 
 movements  in  the  July  of  that  or  the  following  year.  It  does  agree 
 with  them  in  1566,  in  which  year  it  is  therefore  placed,  but  with  con- 
 siderable doubt,  especially  as  there  is  reason  to  think  that  Matth. 
 Judex,  one  of  the  persons  to  whom  it  is  addressed,  was  not  then 
 alive.  But  the  same  reason  applies  to  any  other  year  after  Bale's 
 death.  Either  the  archbishop  was  not  informed  of  the  death  of 
 Judex,  or  the  address,  which  is  stated,  not  copied,  by  Wolfius,  was 
 inserted  without  due  consideration.] 
 
1566.]    AIU  nil.  I'AUKLU  TO  MATT.  I  I^CIUS  ILLYIUCIS,  &C.     287 
 
 nomine  clcdi>ti3   tlefensioncin  :   siqui   postliac  falso  doctrinain, 
 quam  prutitoiulni,  calumnlabuntur.      (^uain  (juidein  doctrinani 
 ct  tidem  vcstram,  quomodocuiHiuo  ex  parte  ciiiictis  non  placet: 
 tamcn  aperte  protiteor,  ingenue  V03  sinccreque  fecisso,  (jiiod 
 tiiui  pleno,  tarn  cumulate,   tarn  sine  omni  fuco  et  ambiguitato 
 mcntcin    et    scntentiain    vcstram    indicastis.      (^uibus    tamcn 
 opinionibus   vestris   diiigcntcr   considcratis,    non  possum  non  Jf;;'^^,';  ^*''* 
 dolere,  quod   aliqua  sit   in  pra?cipui3   reiigionis  controversiis  !','',Vu-r*ir^a 
 inter  nos  disscnsio,   utrosquo   pni^sertim   instructos  una  scrip- 1,',' «'h?,m''*' 
 tur;o  regula,   uno  ctiam    aniini  ardoro   ductos,   et   restituendi  scT\|Vt'.u« « 
 veritatem,  ct  a  tinibus  Christi  ecclcsioe  quam  procul  extermi- 
 nandi  omncm  crrorcm  ct  mendacium.      O  quanta  hie  occasio 
 lapsus  pra^bctur  bonis  !   Quantum  hie  probriis  et  raalcdictis  ab 
 hostibus  vexatur  ipsa   evangclii  restitutio !     Utinam  quidcm 
 alter  altcri,  scdatis  atfoctibus,  patienter  magis  ct  attcnte  aus- 
 cultaro  vellet,  et  neuter  ita  lavcret  sentcntia;  ut  faccrct  banc 
 publicam   religionis  causam,  materiam  gloriie,  ambitionis,  dis- 
 sensionis ! 
 
 Quod  ad  pra:cipuam  illam  causam  attlnet,  ob  quara  vcnit  Jpj'he^,^,'], 
 doracsticus  Tester  tabellarius,  ad  vos  scilicet  dcferendi  causa  fhcJ^cTsfn- 
 ejusmodi  vetcrum  commentaries,  qualcs  obtinerc  a  nobis  spe-  ukinjmxr 
 ravistis  ;   cognoscite,   quo   diligcntior  fui,    ut   desidcrio  vestro  leriau'fo™'^ 
 hac  ex  parte  picne  satistacerem ;  vel  potius,  ut  laborem,  quem  menuries. 
 ad  magnum  univcrsa3  Christiana)  ecclesia?  commodum  sumiti?,  f-*'"*^* '"  ^is 
 
 .....  ...  .  »lcsirc  of 
 
 juvarem ;  co  infelicius  mihi  res  ex  animi  mei  sententia  adhuc  ^l^^^ 
 successit :    et   ubi    reposucram    maximam    spem    nancisccndi 
 quod  cupcrem,  ibi  jam  omni  prorsus  spe  privor.    Atqui  postea-  j'^ff^^^rKe 
 quam  plurimos  plurimis,  et  locis  et  viris,  frustra  misissem  nun-  romc"of* 
 ties,  tandem  animarcr  ad  recuperandum   D.  Balei  libros,  quos  butln  hu  * 
 (ut  dicebatur)  spes  esset  acquirendi,  si  periculum  ipse  face-  of  aiw'^vaiue. 
 rem:  didici  igitur  tandem,  inquisitione  facta,  ad  cuius  manus  jiesireti to 
 
 o  '        ^  1        _  >'  have  them, 
 
 post  ejus  fugam  ex  Hj hernia  hi  pervencrc.     Quorum  cum  t/'^.r^f^^J'^'® 
 ingens  acervus  ad  me  perfercbatur,  reperi  baud  dubie  nuUos,  ed^iohlm  oa 
 mea  sententia,  vel  dignos  vetustate  vel  argumenti  ad  vcstrum  j'far/'"^* 
 institutum  commodi  ac  utilis.     Quos  tamcn  cum  vidissct  vcster 
 Xigerus,  una  cum  meis  et  aliorum  complures,   multum  juvaro 
 posse  dicebat.      Ilabet  igitur,  hac  conditione,  ut  intra  annum 
 transmittantur. 
 
 Quod  si  sit  apud  vos  nostra}  nationis  scriptorum  tam  locu-  J^^/n  tC" 
 pies   quasi    instrumcntum    et   apparatus   quam   mcntio    fit   in  fe^KnTion- 
 vcstro  catalogo,  arbitror  superesse  vobis  multo  plurcs  dc  nostris  Sltl'iJ^^e,' 
 
288     ARCIIB.  PARKEK  TO  MATT.  FLACIUS  ILLYRICUS,  &C.    [15GG. 
 
 iiXruian  fiuam  sint  rursus  in  toto  Angliae  regno,  quorum  sit  apud  nos 
 Sgumi!  certa  intelligcntia  atque  cognitio :  sive  hoc  sit,  quod  quidam 
 volunt  gratificari  vobis  in  lioc  utili  conatu,  et  ex  privata  qua- 
 dam  oftensione  non  respiciunt  publicum  ecclesiae  bonum,  sive 
 quod  quidam  haec  se  possidere  neminem  conscium  esse  velint. 
 Atque  ita,  ut  canis  in  pra^sepi,  nee  ipsi  fruuntur,  nee  ex  his 
 fructus  ad  alios  redire  sinunt.  Regina?  porro  Majestatis 
 bibliotheca  non  ea  possidet,  per  quae  hoc  munus,  quod  exigi- 
 tur,  praestare  queat,  id  quod  mihi  retulit  is  qui  illius  curator 
 et  custos  praeficitur.  Atque  ita  se  res  habet  ut  vestra3  petition], 
 sicuti  vellem,  non  satisfaciam,  licet  (priusquam  experientia 
 eram  edoctus)  certo  credidi  me  vestram  causam  plus  juvare 
 TheCoUefies  potuisse.    Corte  Acadomio},  etquaecunque  fuerunt  religiosorum 
 
 and  religious    •"■  ,  -^  -^  o 
 
 dps^'ofierr^  sedificia,  prius  diripiebantur  quam  animadvertebatur  quantum 
 SKion?""  incommodi  rediturum  esset  ecclesise  Christi  ex  hac  librorum 
 Therapists    claudcstina  direptione  et  jactura.     Papistse  autem  nihil  exhi- 
 
 liave  burned  /»  ■■      .  . 
 
 writers  tiiat    bcbuut .'  pencs  Quos  (fertur)  cum  essent  huiusmodi  monumenta, 
 
 macle  against  r  n.  \  /  o  » 
 
 vigiiiu?'  ^^'  *1"^  ^®^  maximam  doctrinae  suae  partem  labefactarent,   bonos 
 
 quosdam  authores  commisere  igni,  invidentes  mundo  horum 
 
 iuspectionem,  id  quod  mihi  constat  de  Vigilii^  libris  quibus  sic 
 
 abusi  sunt. 
 
 urSth'lnd         Plura   scripsissem  de  his  rebus,  et  de  hoc  tam  molesto 
 
 S'.atfonTfrom  onere,  attamen  fructuoso,  quod  suscipitis  in  componenda  hac 
 
 greater'''     liistoria,  nisi  quod,  partim  morbo  partim  aliis  rebus  sic  impe- 
 
 length.         (^[qy^  ut  his  cogltationibus  libere,   quod  cuperem,  yacare  non 
 
 concedatur.    Sunt  qui  in  historia  vestra  authorum  quorum  vos 
 
 nudam  tantum  commemorationem   facitis,  ipsa  verba  recitata 
 
 Some  people  csso  desidcraut.     Quod  etsi  in  historia  tam  grandi  sit  laborio- 
 
 think  the  .    .  ,  ,         .       .  ,  .... 
 
 very  words    sum,  ct  viris  multfB  lectiouis  usum  non  pro3oet ;  tamen  initiatis 
 
 of  the  writers  .,.,,..,,  it  •         • 
 
 should  i:e      non  nihil  lucis  sit  allaturum,  et  contra  malcdicos  magni  etiam 
 
 quoted  in  ...  . 
 
 their  history,  futurum  momenti.  Sed  huic  deinceps  prospicere  sit  vestraB 
 prudentiae  cogitatio.  Mitto  vobis  viginti  angelatos,  significa- 
 tionem  grati  mei  erga  vos  animi,  quam  boni  consulatis  rogo. 
 Interim  precor  ut  adsit  vobis  Sanctus  Dei  Spiritus,  perpetuus 
 adjutor  conatus  vestri.     In  Christo  valcte,  18  Julii,   Croidoni. 
 
 Vestri  studiosus, 
 
 MATTFLEUS  CANTUAR. 
 
 [1  Vigilius,  an  African  bishop  of  the  sixth  century.     His  works 
 were  published  under  the  editorship  of  Chilllet,  in  1665,  4to.] 
 
15GC.]         Aitciiu.  rAKKi:ii  it)  siit  wili.iam  ri:<  il.  289 
 
 ccxxir. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP   rVIIKKR   TO   SHI   WH.LIAM    CKCH.. 
 22nd  July,  \5GG.     S.  T.  ().  Dt.mcsUc,  ISCG.     Orij,'. 
 
 Sir, 
 According   to  the  Queen's  Majesty's  pleasure  and  your 
 advertisement,  you   shall   receive  a  form  of  prayer*,  which  J^|*,'[,'^||:„j, 
 after  ye  liavc   perused  and  judged  of  it,  it  shall  he  put  in 'p,^l'ye"lor 
 j>rint   and    puhlished    immediately.      It   may    bo   that    some  tumof^^**' 
 praver  of  thanks  be  added,  or  else  inserted  in   the  prefiico  coumrfJi 
 
 *i  !•  •/^iii/»  1  invadi-tl  by 
 
 some  short  advertisement,  to  give  God  thanks  for  our  so  long  the  Turk*, 
 restful  peace,  which  is  an  argument  that  may  justly  upbraid, 
 peradventure,  our  ingrate  forgetfulness.  As  ye  like  or  dislike 
 we  shall  proceed.  Thus  God  preserve  the  Queen's  Alajesty 
 with  her  whole  Court,  and  send  a  prosperous  return  home 
 hither  again. 
 
 From  my  house  at  Croydon,  this  22nd  of  July,  1566,  at 
 4  of  the  clock  afternoon. 
 
 Your  honour's  alway, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  hnight,  principal  secretary  to  the 
 Queen's  Majesty,  and  one  of  her  privy 
 council. 
 
 [Indorsed  by  successive  postmasters.] 
 
 U^  at  Waltham  Cross,  the  23rd  of  July,  about  9  at  night. 
 R'^  at  Ware,  the  23rd  of  July,  at  12  o'clock  at  night. 
 R**  at  Croxton,  the   24th  of  July,  between  7  and  8  of 
 the  clock  in  the  mornins:. 
 
 [1  "  A  form  to  be  used  in  common  prayer,  every  Sunday,  Wed- 
 nesday, and  Friday,  tlirough  the  wliole  realm  :  To  excite  and  stir  all 
 godly  people  to  pray  unto  God  for  the  preservation  of  those  Chris- 
 tians and  their  countries  that  are  now  invaded  by  the  Turk,  in  Hun^rary 
 or  elsewhere.  Set  forth  by  the  most  reverend  father  in  God,  Mat- 
 thew, archbishop  of  Canterbury,  by  the  authority  of  the  Queen's 
 Majesty."  See  it  in  "Liturgical  Services  set  forth  in  the  reign  of 
 Queen  Elizabeth,"  Parker  Society,  p.  52 7. J 
 
 [park.  COR.] 
 
290  ARCHB.    PARKER   TO   SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL.  [1566. 
 
 CCXXIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 2Gth  November,  156G.    S.  P.  O.  Domestic.     Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 I  UNDERSTAND  that  the  Queen's  Majesty  hath  bestowed 
 The  arch-      Chichester   deanery  upon  Mr  Curteys,  whereof  I  am   glad, 
 derstTmirng    not  kuowmo^  whother  the  prebend  in  my  church  be  granted, 
 
 that  Chiches-        ,.,t  it         'i         •!  ^  r       r-,  n         i'i  c 
 
 ter deanery  -vvhich  i  would  wish  Cither  to  Mr  Curtcvs  lor  his  better  fur- 
 has  been  ,  «' 
 
 ^orDr  niture,  or  else  to  Mr  Bickley,  who  hath  done  service  and  is 
 citsSr^'"  roady  to  continue,  and  is  both  honest  and  well-learned.  If  it 
 Kiscathe'c"ra)  bo  othcrwhcre  purposed,  yet  I  would  it  should  pass,  not  by 
 ?oM?cu?-     collation   but    by    presentation,    as   it   ought   by  order  and 
 
 leys  or  Mr 
 
 Bickley.  StatutC. 
 
 The  Bible  Sir,  I  have  distributed  the  Bible  in  parts  to  divers  men. 
 
 among  divers  I  am  dcslrous,   if  vo  could  spare  so  much   leisure  either  in 
 
 men.     He  is  '  ^  r 
 
 desjrousjhat  moming  or  evening,  we  had  one  Epistle  of  St  Paul  or  Peter 
 
 revise  one  of 
 the  Epistles. 
 
 revise  one^of  Qp  Jamcs  of  your  pcrusing  ^,  to  the  intent  that  ye  may  be 
 
 one  of  the  builders  of  this  good  work  in  Christ's  Church, 
 although  otherwise  we  account  you  a  common  paterne-  to 
 Christ's  blessed  word  and  religion.  Thus  God  keep  your 
 honour  in  health.     From  my  house,  this  26th  of  November. 
 
 Your  honour's, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  right  lionourabU  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  principal  secretary  to  the  Queen's 
 Majesty. 
 
 CCXXIV. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   SIR  WILLIA^I  CECIL. 
 
 21st  December,  [15G6J.     S.  P.  O.  Domestic.     Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 Asks  the  loan         I  PRAY  your  houour  to  causo  your  clerk  to  seek  up  the 
 2f  Artick^.     Book  of  Articles  which  were  subscribed  by  all  the  professors 
 Kiizabeih  by  of  thc  cospel  ncwlv  arrivcd  from  beyond  the  sea,  which  book 
 
 the  Marian  o      r  J  «/  ' 
 
 exueson       ^g^g  prcscntcd  to  tlic  Quccu's  Majesty;  I  would  gladly  have  it 
 
 [1   Sir  "William  Cecil  does  not  appear  to  have  complied  with  this 
 request.] 
 
 [2  Patron.] 
 
IjCG.]  AUl  lll».    rvUKKU   To   MK    WlI.I.lAM    tKCIL.  201 
 
 for  two  or  three   davs,   uiul  then  1  would  not   fail  to  return  «»»«•'"«"'" 
 
 »  to  KnKUu«L 
 
 it  again. 
 
 Tho  worKl   is  full  of  ofl'enccs  and  displeasure  contained. 
 As  yesterday,  certain  of  us  tho  bishops  were  with  the  (Queen's 
 Highness,  and  beliko  informed  that  some   of  us  liavo  put  in  T»iofj.irm 
 the  bill  of  religion  into  tho  parliament''  witliout  knowledge  or  [\7,'''.';,VJ}*e 
 assent  of  her  Highness,  as  wo  were  bidden  to  ask  of  thcni  my  lhi.''i,''ii.',r'* 
 brethren,  and  so  to  report  again*.      For  my  party,  I  knew  [m^|«7i.v'° 
 nothing  thereof,   in  tho  Nether  House   how   it   camo  in,   nor  hor"knr'w° 
 heard  it    read    in   tlic   Upper   House,    and    so    most   of   my 
 brethren  do  answer  for  any  knowledge  thereof     Your  pre- 
 sence   with    tho    Queen's    Majesty    wantcth ;    whereby    her 
 Highness    may    bo    the   moro   disquieted   with   informations, 
 although    graciously   her  Highness  uttered   that   she   would 
 give   no   hght  credence  to  reports,  and   lamented   much  the 
 dulness  of  praying  in  her  court  and  of  fasting  ;  and  I  added, 
 the  great  negligence  of  having  God's  word  the  last  Sunday. 
 Her  Majestv  is  not  disliking:  of  the  doctrine  of  the  book  of  ^hedoesnot 
 
 .     .  .  .  .     .  .  dislike  the 
 
 religion,  for  that  it  containeth  tho  religion  which  she  doth  documeof 
 
 [3  The  bill  here  alluded  to  was  for  confiimation  and  subscrip- 
 tion of  tho  Articles  of  15G2 — 3.  It  will  be  found  mentioned  in  tbo 
 next  letter.] 
 
 [^  The  answer  returned  seems  to  have  satisfied  the  Queen  that 
 the  bishops  had  not  introduced  tho  bill  in  question,  as  appears  from 
 the  following  letter: 
 
 DR  YOUNG,  ARCHBISHOP  OF  YORK,  TO  ARCHBISHOP 
 
 PARKER. 
 
 27th  December,  IJCG.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  142.  p.  421.     Orig. 
 
 It  may  please  your  grace  to  be  advertised  that  yesterday  I  was 
 with  the  Queen's  Majesty,  and  returned  answer  of  our  doings  by  her 
 commandment,  with  our  brethren  the  bisbops,  and  also  excused  your 
 absence  by  reason  of  your  sickness;  wberewith  berlligbness  seemed 
 to  be  satisfied.  I  moved  also  tbc  otber  matter  (whereof  we  talked 
 upon  Friday)  touching  open  signification,  &:c.,  but  that  would  not  be, 
 as  I  shall  declare  unto  your  grace  to-morrow  in  the  parliament-house, 
 at  which  time  this  session  shall  end,  as  it  is  now  determined  and 
 pronounced  by  her  Majesty.  I  have  also  sent  unto  your  grace  by  my 
 servant  the  bearer  tho  £vii.  allotted  for  my  portion. 
 
 From  Canon  Row,  this  Sunday,  at  3  of  the  clock,  the  26th  of 
 December,  1566. 
 
 Your  grace's  loving  brother, 
 
 Tho.  Ebob.] 
 19—2 
 
202  ARCHB.   PARKEIl   TO  Sill  WILLIAM   CECIL.  [1566. 
 
 \hemrn.'ier"^  opcnlj  profcss,  but   tliG  manner   of  putting   forth  the  book. 
 
 fJrtii"'"*''  Thus  I  cease,  wishing  your  honour  full  restitution  of  your 
 health,  of  joy  and  quiet  of  mind,  constancy  to  endure  in 
 patience,  with  rightwise  Lot.  Isenim  ociilis  et  aiiribus  Justus 
 cum  hahitaret  inter  illos,  quotidie  animam  justam  iniquis 
 illorum  factis  excruciahat.  Sed  dahit  Deus  olim  hiis 
 mellora ;  et  novit  Dominus  pios  e  tentatione  eripere,  ^c;  to 
 whose  merciful  protection  I  commend  your  honour  as  myself. 
 From  my  house,  this  21st  of  December. 
 
 Your  honour's  alway, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  Inightj  one  of  the  Queen's 
 Majesty's  privy  council. 
 
 ccxxv. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  AXD   OTHER  BISHOPS  TO 
 QUEEN  ELIZABETH. 
 
 24th  December,  15GG'.     S.  P.  O.  Domestic.    Orig. 
 
 To  THE  Queen's  most  excellent  Majesty. 
 
 Most  humbly  beseecheth  your  most  excellent  Majesty, 
 your  faithful,  loving,  and  obedient  subjects,  the  archbishops 
 and  bishops  of  both  the  provinces  within  this  your  Majesty's 
 realm,  whose  names  are  hereunder  written ;  that  it  would 
 please  your  Highness,  according  to  your  accustomed  benignity, 
 to  have  gracious  consideration  of  their  humble  suit  ensu- 
 Abiiiiateiy  ing  I — Whcrcas  a  bill-  hath  lately  passed  in  your  Majesty's 
 
 [1  It  appears  from  a  draft  of  this  paper  in  the  Library  of  St  Jolin's 
 College,  Cambridge,  which  contains  various  interlineations  by  arch- 
 bishop Parker,  that  it  was  "Exhibited  to  the  Queen's  Majesty,  the 
 24th  Dec.  a^.  loG6."J 
 
 p  The  bill  here  alluded  to  is  described  by  Dewes  as  a  "  Bill  with 
 a  Little  Book  printed  in  the  year  1562,  (which  was  the  fourth  or  fifth 
 year  of  her  iSIajesty's  reign)  for  the  sound  Christian  religion."  It  was 
 brought  into  the  House  of  Commons  on  the  6th  December,  1566,  and 
 passed  on  the  13th.  On  the  next  day  it  was  taken  up  to  the  House 
 of  Lords,  where  it  was  stayed  by  the  commandment  of  the  Queen, 
 who  considered  that  the  initiation  of  a  bill  affecting  religion  by  the 
 commons  was  an  infringement  of  her  ecclesiastical  supremacy.      The 
 
niMig 
 riiriiiiiv 
 Mitlriiw 
 
 l.'Dfi.]    Anriiii.  rAiiKTit  and  ohikks  t<>  (j.  i:i.iZAni:Tii.     203 
 
 lower  liDUsi'  of  parli.imoiit  coni'.'rniiii;    iiiilt"«>rinit  v   in  <lncii-liio.  i..w,rhfiui 
 aiui  continiuition  of  ci  rtuiii  Articles  agreed  upon  by  the  whole  '^ 
 clergy   of  this  your  Majesty's  realm  in  tho  lato  convocation  TtZwllt' 
 called    tOLTOther    by    conunaiulineiit    of   your    Majesty's   writ ''"*'• 
 accustomed,   and   thereby  holdeii    in    tho   fifth    year  of  your 
 .Majesty's  most  happy  rei^Mi  :    which   bill  was  lately  exhibited 
 to   your  Ili«;hness''   upper   house   of  parliament,  with    special 
 recommendation  as  well  at  the  first  delivery  thereof,  as  aiiain 
 of   late   by   recommendation    renewed    from    the   said   lower  haiiTcn 
 house,  ami  thereui)on  was  once  read  in  tho  said  upper  house:  to"i7u- (..."'Ic 
 SO  It  IS  tliat  we  understand   that  the  lurther  readme:  ot   the  »ihc''' "• 
 
 ~      ^  ciitniiK-rxla- 
 
 said  bill  in  your  upper  house  is  stayed  by  your  ^I'^^jcsty's  ||','^'^';^»'j;'.  ,j,^ 
 
 special  commandment.     Whereupon  we  your  Highness**  hum-  If 'i',"^j. * *^^°'"' 
 
 ble  and  faithful  subjects  think  ourselves  bound  in  conscience 
 
 as  well  to  the  sacred  majesty  of  Almighty  God,  as  in  respect 
 
 of  our  ecclesiastical  office  and  charge  toward  your  Highness 
 
 and   loving  subjects  of  your  realm,  to  make  our  several  and 
 
 most  humble  suit  unto  your  Majesty,  that  it  may  please  the  Thearch- 
 
 1  1         *^'ii'iii       "        1  /•  -HT    •  bishops  and 
 
 same  to  o'rant  that  the  said  bill,  by  order  irom  your  Majesty  bishops  ,>ray 
 may  be  read,  examined  and   judged   by  your  Hiirhncss'  said  "^ «"o*'«'*  ^o 
 
 »  '  J        O  V      «/  O  proceed,  and 
 
 upper  house,  with  all  expedition;  and  that  if  it  be  allowed  of  ^^^.^^i^'^'Ji^^^'y 
 and  do  pass  by  order  there,  it  would  please  your  Majesty  to  '■">^'^'"^- 
 give  your  royal  assent  thereunto.     The  reasons  that  enforce  Reasons: 
 us  to   make  these    humble  petitions  are   these.      First,   the  ist  it  touch, 
 matter  itself  toucheth  the  glory  of  God,  the  advancement  of  SGi^*^"'^ 
 true  reliirion,  and  the  salvation  of  Christian  souls,  and  there- 
 fore  ought  principally,  chiefly,  and  before  all  other  things,  to 
 besought.     Secondly,  in  the  book  which  is   now  desired  to  ^nd-^y^^^^ 
 be  confirmed,  are  contained  the  principal  Articles  of  Christian  eCnlams""* 
 religion  most  agreeable  to  God's  word  publicly  sithens  the  .^ciiRiin  °^ 
 beginning  of  your   Majesty's  reign  professed,   and   by   your  cfoT^word° 
 Highness'    authority    set    forth    and    maintained.       Thirdly,  ^rd  Errors 
 
 O  •  •'      maintained 
 
 divers  and  sundry  errors,  and  namely  such  as  have  been  in  J^^;,^''^/'"he 
 this  realm  wickedly  and  obstinately  by  the  adversaries  of  [,;'^rr'eh,  con- 
 the  Gospel  defended,  are  by  the  same  Articles  condemned.  '^"""*^ 
 
 bill  was  afterwards  revised  and  carried  in  1571,  by  stat.  13  Eliz.  c.  2. 
 Judging  from  that  statute,  it  would  seem  that  the  object  of  the  bill 
 was  to  enforce  subscription  of  tho  Articles  of  15(32 — 3,  which  consti- 
 tuted the  "  Little  Book"  referred  to  in  Dewes's  account  of  the  act, 
 and  the  "Book"  alluded  to  in  this  and  tho  preceding  letter.  See 
 Dewes's  Journals  of  Parliament,  pp.  132,  133.] 
 
20i        ARCIIB.  PARKER  AND   OTHERS  TO   Q.  ELIZABETH.     [1566. 
 
 4th  It  shall  Fourthly,  the  approbation  of  these  Articles  by  your  Majesty 
 establish       shall  bo  a  very  jrood  mean  to  establish  and  confirm  all  your 
 
 unity.  ,  .  .  ,  . 
 
 Highness'  subjects  in  one  consent  and  unity  of  true  doctrme, 
 to  the  great  quiet  and  safety  of  your  Majesty  and  this  your 
 realm  :  whereas  now,  for  want  of  a  plain  certainty  of  Articles 
 of  doctrine  by  law  to  be  declared,  great  distraction  and  dis- 
 sension of  minds  is  at  this  present  among  your  subjects,  and 
 daily  is  like  more  and  more  to  increase,  and  that  with  very 
 great  danger  in  pohcy,  the  circumstances  considered,  if  the 
 said  Book  of  Articles  be  now  stayed  in  your  Majesty's  hands, 
 fat^bSUdT^^  (^5  ^^^  forbid)  rejected.  Fifthly,  considering  that  this 
 ionsKie??h?  matter  so  narrowly  toucheth  the  glory  of  God,  the  sincerity 
 whomuT''"  of  religion,  the  health  of  Christian  souls,  the  godly  unity  of 
 S'heToS.  your  realm,  with  the  utihty  thereof,  and  the  dangers  on  the 
 contrary,  we  thought  it  our  most  bounden  duties,  being  placed 
 by  God  and  your  Highness  as  pastors  and  chief  ministers  in 
 this  Church,  and  such  as  are  to  give  a  reckoning  before  God 
 of  our  pastoral  office,  with  all  humble  and  earnest  suit  to 
 beseech  your  Majesty  to  have  due  consideration  of  this 
 matter,  as  the  governor  and  nurse  of  this  Church,  having 
 also  an  account  to  render  unto  Almiorhtv  God,  the  Kinoj  of 
 kings,  for  your  charge  and  office.  Thus,  most  gracious 
 Sovereign  Lady,  your  said  humble  subjects,  moved  with  the 
 causes  above  rehearsed,  besides  divers  others  here  for  brevity 
 sake  omitted,  beseech  your  most  excellent  Majesty,  that  this 
 our  petition  may  take  good  effect,  as  the  weightiness  of  the 
 cause  requireth,  and  that  before  the  end  of  this  present 
 session  of  parliament.  And  we,  according  to  our  most 
 bounden  duties,  shall  daily  pray  to  God  for  the  preservation 
 of  your  Majesty  in  honour,  health,  and  prosperity,  long  to 
 
 reign. 
 
 MATTHUE,  APvCHB.  OF  CAXT. 
 TIIO.  EBOR.  ARCHBUSSHOPPE. 
 EDM.  LO^'DOX.  X.  LTXCOLX. 
 
 JA.  DURESME.  KI.  MENEVEN. 
 
 ROB.  WINTOX. 
 WILLMUS.  CICESTREX. 
 
 JO.  HEREF.  THOMAS  COVEX.  &  LICH. 
 
 RICHARDE  ELY.  WILL.   CESTREX. 
 
 ED.  WIGORX.  THOMAS  ASSAPHEX. 
 
 XICOLAUS  EPUS.   BAXGOR. 
 
15GG.]  ltILlI\RI»   CJRAFTON    To    AKCIin.   IVMIKFII.  295 
 
 CCXXVI. 
 
 IlK'HArvl)   GRAFTON   TO  AUCIIIUSlIOr   rAIlKKR. 
 Ascribed  to  A.D.  l.'.(;i;.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Cumb.  cxiv.  art.  aW.  p.  9.'»J. 
 
 TiiKSK   arc   to  cortify  your   grace,    that   concerning   my 
 book  of  Guido^  I  have  soucjht  for  it  but  I  cannot  find  it;  but  J^^^^f  , 
 to   my  remciubranco  I   delivered  it  to  Mr  Keyes-,  to  wliom  h>/^."/J,',"'.'" 
 also  I  will  send  for  it,  and  your  grace  shall  shortly  see  it.       ^^^ 
 
 And  for  the  matter  of  Lucv,  that  Eleutherius  sent  Eluanus  Mi«.ionof 
 and  Meduinus  unto  liim  that  Ins   Uritons  might   receive   the  toi-u^iu*. 
 faith  of  Christ;   concerning  their  two  names  they  are  added 
 by  Mr  Keyes,  but  where  ho  found  it  I  know  not,  but  I  will 
 learn  of  him  and  certify  your  graced      The  rest  of  the  story 
 of  Lucy  is  in  Fabian*,  in  his  iii.  book  and  lix.  chapter. 
 
 And  for  the  man  that  your  grace  moved  me  of  for 
 the  alteration  of  the  place  of  the  book ;  so  soon  as  I  came 
 from  your  grace  I   went  home  to  his  house,  who  dwelleth  Robert  ca'.cy 
 
 *  O  the  printer 
 
 right  at  the  back  gate  of  my  lord  of  London's  house,  and  aJi^^j^rre,}'^ 
 there  I  was  answered  by  his  wife  that  he  is  abroad  in  the  fogiiii?/a"*^ 
 country,  she  knoweth  not  where,  neither  can  she  tell  when  Sm^!° 
 he  will  return.      But,  enquiring  further,  I  have  learned,  that 
 he   beins   accused    to    have   been   the    beadle   and   c^atherer 
 together  of  a  number  to  sundry  places  to  hear  mass,  he  was 
 Bent  for  to  the  commissioners,  and  thereupon  is  fled  and  gone; 
 but  I  think  it  will  not  be  long  but  I  shall  hear  of  him.     His 
 name  is  Robert  Caley,  printer ^      And  no  farther  to  trouble 
 
 P  Guido,  that  is.  Guide  de  Columna,  is  referred  to  by  Grafton  in 
 his  Chronicle.] 
 
 [2  "  Caius,  the  antiquarian,  I  suppose."  Strype's  Parker,  Bk.  ra. 
 c.  14.] 
 
 [3  The  archbishop's  question  seems  to  have  had  reference  merely 
 to  the  names  given  to  the  pretended  papal  missionaries,  said  to  have 
 been  sent  to  the  imaginary  king  Lucius.  The  names  here  stated  are 
 assigned  to  them  by  Geoffrey  of  Monmouth,  whence  Mr  Keyes,  or 
 Caius,  no  doubt  derived  them.] 
 
 [*  Fabyan's  Chronicle,  p.  38.  edit.  1811.] 
 
 [5  Robert  Caley's  printing  was  confined  to  the  reign  of  Queen 
 Mary.  During  that  time  he  printed  several  well-known  works  of 
 Gardiner,  Fockenham,  Harpsfield,  and  other  divines  in  favour  with 
 the  court.      Herbert's  Ames,  ii.  828.] 
 
 J 
 
296  RICHARD  GRAFTON   TO  ARCHB.   PARKER.        1566-7.] 
 
 jour  grace,  these  are  most  humblj  to  beseech  the  same  that 
 if  any  of  my  copy  be  perused,  though  it  be  the  less,  yet  that 
 this  bringer  may  receive  the  same,  because  the  printers  stay 
 for  lack  of  copy.  And  thus  God  Almighty  long  prosper  and 
 preserve  your  grace. 
 
 Your  grace's  humble  orator, 
 
 KICIIAUD  GPtAFTOX. 
 To   the    ri(jht    reverend  father   in   God, 
 my  lord  archbishop  his  grace  of  Can- 
 terbury. 
 
 CCXXVIL 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER   TO  THE  WARDEN  OF  ALL  SOULS* 
 COLLEGE,  OXFORD  1. 
 
 5th  March,  1566 — 7.     Gutch's  "Collectanea  Curiosa,"  II.  274,  from  the  Archives 
 of  All  Souls'  College. 
 
 Whereas  having  information  of  certain  plate  reserved  in 
 Information  Jour  CoUego,  whorcat  divers  men  justly  be  offended  to  remain 
 gu^nlf^file  ill  such  superstitious  fashion  as  it  is  of,  I  moved  you,  Mr 
 tiousTaSn  Warden,  to  declare  to  the  company  of  that  fellowship,  for 
 AH  Souls''^  avoiding  all  suspicion  of  superstition,  that  the  said  plate 
 the  arch-      should   bc  dcfaccd,   put    into    some    mass,    for   your   house, 
 
 bishop  moved  ,  -^  v  ' 
 
 the  warden  to 'thereof  it  mav  have  need  hereafter,    and  so   safely  to    be 
 
 melt  It  into  a  «/  '  •/ 
 
 fiture^use^of  couservcd  iu  your  treasury ;  for  that  I  have  not  heard  what 
 the  College;  ^^^  have  douo,  by  these  my  letters  I  do  require  you  to  make 
 he  now  re-     a  pcrfcct  iuveutorv  containinof  the   form  and  fashion  of  the 
 
 quires  him  to        /  i       i      "     i  i  i    /»     i  •  />     i      • 
 
 return  an  in-  gaid  plato,  aud  also  the  number  and  fashion  of  their  vestments 
 
 ventory  of  ^  ^ 
 
 IndVelt-'^     and  tunicles  which  serve  not  to  use  at  these  days ;    and  if 
 nients,         ^^^^  ^^  their  company  peremptorily  deny  to  do  as  is  reason- 
 ably requested,  then  you  to  send  up  their  names  and  reasons 
 with  the       whereon  they  stand,  and  that  the  said  persons,  two  or  three 
 
 names  of  anv      «,•,  •/»!  i  '   y        ^  ••! 
 
 fellows  of  the  of  them,   if  there  be  so   many,  to   come  up   with  the  said 
 
 College  who  '  *^  .  T         . 
 
 refase  to  eon-  causcs  aud   roasous  to  kuow  further  discretion  in  the  same 
 
 cur  m  what 
 
 is  reasonable,  jxiattcr  ;  and  this  I  require  you  to  do  without  further  molest- 
 ation, which  else  may  ensue.  And  so  I  bid  you  farewell. 
 From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this  5th  of  March,  1566. 
 
 Your  friend, 
 
 .ALVITHEW  CANT. 
 
 [1  Dr  Richard  Barber,  Warden  of  All  Souls,  1565 — 1571  j 
 
15C7.]      ARCllll.  IVVKKKIl  AM)  OTHERS  T<>  TIIK  WARDEN, &C.   207 
 
 CCXXMII. 
 
 ARCllBISIIOP  r.VKKKK    AND   OTHERS,  TO  TIIK  WAKDKN 
 AND  FELLOWS  OF  ALL  SOFLS'  COLLEGE,  OXFORD. 
 
 26lh  March,  15(;7.     (iiitch'*  "  roUeoUnoa  Curioga,"  II.  275,  from  the  Archive* 
 of  All  Souls'  CoUejjc. 
 
 After  our  hearty  commendations.  Whereas  understanding 
 is  given  that  you  do  retain  yet  in  your  College  divers  monu- 
 ments  of  superstition,    which   hy  public   orders   and   laws  of  The  wnnien 
 this  realm  ouirlit  to  bo  abolished  as  deroojatory  to  the  state  oi  ared.rfcuHi 
 religion  publicly  received,  part  whereot  be  in  this  schedule  J"„;^;{',;J^"^!,'.r"* 
 inserted-  expressed ;    this  is  therefore   to   will  you,  [and]   in  li^i",,'^'"'/"^. 
 the  (Queen's  Majesty's  name  to   command   you,   immediately  ^numf"at*ed 
 upon  the  next  repair  of  any  common  carriage,  or  otherwise '"***'"*^^"'*^' 
 at  your  own   advice,  that  you   send  up   hither    unto    us   at 
 Lambeth,  wholly  and  entirely,  every  thing  and  things  in  this 
 present  schedule  annexed,   to  be  presented  to  the   Queen's 
 Majesty's  commissioners  ;  whereby  we  may  take   such   order 
 and  direction  therein  as  shall  appertain   to  your  honour,  to 
 the  fulfilling   of  the   Queen's   laws   and  orders,  and  to   our 
 discharoje  and   yours:   willins:   that   vou   Mr  Warden,  within  The  warden 
 
 ,      ^        r  ,  .  J^   ,  ,  "  ,  .  .    ,     is  also or.Ur- 
 
 ten  days  after  the  receipt  of  these  letters,  do  repair  up  with  *^'*/;^'■^»;;|"■ 
 some  copy  of  your  statutes,  and  bring  with  you  Mr  Humph.  bj"n'*^f;g'wiih 
 Brookesby  and   also    Mr  Foster,  to  the  intent  we  may  have  fck'e^by 
 their  reasons  for  better  information  and  for  satisfying  of  their  Foie!.'^' 
 consciences,  if  it  may  be.      AVilling  you  all  and  every  one  of 
 
 [2  The  "  Schedule"  ran  as  follows  : 
 "Three  mass-books,  old  and  new,  and  two  portuisses. 
 Item,  8  grailes,  7  antiphoners,  of  parchment  and  bound. 
 Item,  10  processionals,  old  and  new. 
 
 —  ,  2  hymnals. 
 
 —  ,  an  old  manual  of  prayer. 
 
 —  ,  an  invitatory  book. 
 
 —  ,  2  psalters  in  *  *  and  one  covered  with  a  skin. 
 
 —  ,  a  great  pricksong  book  of  parchment. 
 
 —  ,  one  other  pricksong  book  of  vellum,  covered  with  a  hart's  skin. 
 
 —  ,  5  other  of  paper,  bound  in  parchment. 
 
 —  ,  the  founder's  mass-book,  in  parchment,  bound  in  board. 
 Item,  in  Mr  Mills's  hand,  an  antiphoner  and  a  legend. 
 
 Item,  a  portuisse  in  his  hand,  in  two  volumes,  a  manual,  a  mass- 
 book,  and  a  processional."] 
 
208  ARCIID.  PARKER  AND  OTHERS  TO  THE  WARDEN,   &:C.      [1567. 
 
 you  not  to  fall  hereof,  as  you  will  answer  to  the  contrary  at 
 your  peril.  And  thus  we  bid  you  well  to  fare.  At  Lambeth, 
 26  Mar.  15G7. 
 
 Your  loving  friends, 
 
 MATTHEW  CANT. 
 EDMUND  LONDON. 
 F.  KNOLLS. 
 A.  CAVE. 
 
 CCXXIX. 
 
 DR  JOHN  CAIUS  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 8th  April,  1567.     Parker  ^ISS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  293.  p.  815.     Grig. 
 
 In  most  humble  manner  my  duty  considered.  Of  late  I 
 sent  your  grace  your  book  of  Oxford^  by  Mr  Dethick, 
 together  with  a  letter  shewino^  such  duties  as  Mr  Dethick 
 received  here  and  none[?]  did  pay.  Now  I  send  you  by 
 Dr  Pory  the  answer  to  the  said  Oxford  book,  desiring  your 
 grace  most  heartily  not  to  let  it  be  copied  at  any  man's 
 hand,  for  that  it  is  not  yet  so  planned  as  I  would  have  it, 
 and  trust  of  more  matter  at  your  grace's  hand.  Your  grace's 
 judgment  I  much  desire,  and  Mr  Haddon's  and  Mr  Secretary 
 CeciPs,  who  be  men  of  wit  and  skill,  and  close  also  if  your 
 grace  so  require  them.  Your  man  Mr  Joscleyn  I  fear  will 
 shew  it  to  everybody,  and  give  out  copies  ante  maturitatem, 
 and  do  little  good  in  it  himself.     I  beseech  your  grace  re- 
 
 [1  A  small  work  entitled  "  Assertio  Antiquitatis  Oxoniensis  Aca- 
 demice,"  written  by  Thomas  Caius,  Registrary  of  the  University  of 
 Oxford,  and  presented  by  him  to  the  Queen.  A  copy  of  it  appears  to 
 have  come  into  Parker's  hands  through  Cecil,  and  as  it  contained 
 some  reflections  upon  the  sister  University  of  Cambridge,  the  arch- 
 bishop forwarded  it  to  Dr  John  Caius,  the  celebrated  antiquary,  and 
 Master  of  Caius  College,  Cambridge,  with  a  request  that  he  would 
 vindicate  the  honour  of  his  University.  The  result  was  the  drawing 
 up  and  publication  of  his  book  ''De  Antiquitate  Cantabrigiensis 
 Academise,"  the  rough  draft  of  which  was  sent  up,  with  the  above 
 letter,  for  the  archbishop's  inspection.  See  Strype's  Parker,  Bk.  iii. 
 c.  .18.] 
 
l.'G7.]  Ml  JOHN   CAIUS  TO  AIU  lin.   PAIIKEH.  29f> 
 
 member  what  I  wrote  to  you  in  that  matter  heretofore.  I  am 
 sorrv  that  the  book  is  no  better  written  for  vour  grace.  I 
 liavo  so  much  business  that  I  myself  cannot  write,  nor  scantly 
 liavo  leisure  to  confer  it  with  the  original ;  and  voung  men 
 now-a-days  bo  so  negligent,  that  they  caro  for  nothing.  I 
 beseech  your  grace  therefore  to  pardon  it,  and  to  think  that 
 my  desire  is  that  it  should  bo  much  better  than  it  is,  if  well  it 
 could  bo  brought  to  pass  in  tanti^'  ncfjotiis ;  trusting  to  givo 
 your  grace  one  in  print,  if  upon  the  reading  thereof  your  graco 
 shall  think  it  worthy  tho  printing-:  for  as  your  graco  said, 
 it  is  troublesome  writing  out  of  copies,  and  commonly  they  bo 
 depraved  in  writing.  I  wholly  commit  it  to  your  grace's 
 pleasure,  and  trust  no  man  shall  see  it  until  I  hear  further  of 
 your  grace's  pleasure.  View  it  again  I  would  before  it 
 should  bo  printed,  for  that  many  things  be  roughly  left  for 
 want  of  leisure,  and  haste  to  satisfy  your  grace.  In  the 
 order  of  the  prelates  I  submit  myself  unto  your  grace  as  well 
 as  in  other  things.  The  names  of  the  noble  men  I  know  not, 
 which  were  requisite  to  be  known,  as  hereafter  at  more 
 leisure  I  mind  to  do.  Because  all  things  should  be  the 
 readier  to  your  grace  I  have  put  to  every  pagina  his  num- 
 ber. If  anything  your  grace  will  note,  the  number  is  ready 
 to  tell  the  place.  If  anything  your  grace  will  have  altered, 
 note  it  seorsum  for  avoiding  diversity  of  styles.  Some  things 
 that  your  grace  thought  best  should  be  put  out,  were  by  the 
 writer  put  in  before  I  was  aware,  and  therefore  remain,  but 
 so  that  what  your  grace  will  have  done  with  them  shall  be 
 done.  I  would  have  put  them  out  again  but  for  blotting  the 
 book  and  disgracing  the  same  to  the  eye.  I  have  not  bound 
 it  as  is  meet  for  your  grace,  because  I  would  your  grace  by 
 the  rudeness  thereof  should  have  no  pleasure  to  shew  it  to 
 others  but  those  who  I  desire  should  see  it.  I  shall  desire 
 your  graco  to  save  it  well,  and  that  I  may  have  it  again 
 when  Tour  grace  have  done,  for  that  the  original  is  not  so 
 good  as  it,  nor  so  plain,  for  many  things  amended  since  it 
 was  last  written,  which  for  want  of  leisure  I  could  not 
 transfer  into  the  original.  And  thus  submitting  not  onlv  my 
 book,  but  myself  also  unto  your  grace,  I  shall  pray  God  for 
 
 [2  Tho  book  was  printed  in  tho  next  year,  1.'68,  without  the 
 author's  name.  Archbishop  Parker's  copy,  probably  the  presentation 
 copy  promised  above,  is  in  the  Library  of  Corpus  Christi  College.] 
 
300 
 
 DR  JOHN   CAIUS  TO  ARCIIB.  PARKER. 
 
 [1567. 
 
 your  prosperity  and  long  health  to  your  pleasured      From 
 Cambridge,  this  8th  of  April,  15G7. 
 
 By  your  grace's  own, 
 
 CAIUS. 
 To  tlie  rigid  honourahle  and  my  singular 
 good  lord,  my  lord's  grace  of  Canter- 
 bury. 
 
 ccxxx. 
 
 Order  for  J. 
 Mallockeand 
 three  other 
 fellows  of  All 
 Souls'  to  ap- 
 pear forth- 
 with before 
 the  ecclesias- 
 tical com- 
 missioners, 
 to  answer 
 such  mat- 
 ters as  shall 
 be  brought 
 against  them. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  AND  OTHERS  TO  THE  WARDEN 
 OF  ALL  SOULS'  COLLEGE,  OXFORD. 
 
 19th  April,  15G7.     Gutch's  "  Collectanea  Curiosa,"  II.  277,  from  the  Archives  of 
 
 the  College. 
 
 After  our  hearty  commendations.  For  divers  weighty 
 causes  us  specially  moving,  we  do  will  and  command  you  in 
 the  Queen's  Majesty's  name,  all  excuses  and  delays  set  apart, 
 that  immediately  upon  receipt  of  these  presents  you  will  and 
 command  by  authority  hereof  in  the  Queen's  Majesty"'s  name, 
 J.  Mallocke,  R.  Braye,  bachelor  of  law,  Rob.  Franklin,  and 
 Steph.  Brill,  fellows  of  your  house,  that  they  and  every  of 
 them  do  forthwith  upon  such  monition  given,  personally 
 appear  before  us  or  other  our  colleagues,  her  Highnesses  com- 
 missioners appointed  for  causes  ecclesiastical,  at  Lambeth,  to 
 answer  unto  such  matter  as  shall  there  be  brought  against 
 them  and  every  of  them,  and  that  after  their  appearances 
 there  to  be  made,  they  do  from  time  to  time  attend  and  not 
 depart  without  our  special  licence  ;  and  hereof  we  require  you 
 not  to  fail.      Given  at  Lambeth,  19  April,  1567. 
 
 Your  friends, 
 
 MATTHEW  CANT. 
 EDM.  LONDON. 
 THO.  YALE^ 
 
 [1  On  the  fly-leaf  of  this  letter  the  archbishop  has  written  the 
 following  note : 
 
 "  Parhamontuni  tcntuni  tempore  Regis  Rich.  2'.  apud  Cantabri- 
 giam,  ut  in  carta  Regis  Henr.  VI.  apparet  in  hbro  M^  INIere,  fo.  23.  b. 
 
 Et  hoc  apparet  factum  a".  12  Rich.  2\  a^.  1388,  ut  in  registro  W*. 
 Courtney,  archiep'.  fol.  28G.  At  hie  archiepiscopus  hospitatus  est  in 
 du^.  Carmelorum,  Cant.,  14  Octob'."] 
 
 [-   On  the  23rd  April,  1567,  Richard  Barber,  LL.D.,  John  Mai- 
 
15G7.]  I.OKI)   I.KICESTKR,  &C.   TO  AUCIIH.  rvitKIlIl.  .']0 1 
 
 CCXXXI. 
 
 LORD  LKICKSTER  AND  Sill  WILLIAM   CKCIL  TO  AIICII- 
 lUSIIOP  I'AKKKU. 
 
 Prubably  about  tho  niuIiUo  of  tlu«  vcar  1 '»C7.     S.  I*.  (),  DoniCHtic     Draft  corrected 
 tlirou,:;hout  l>v  Sir  William   Ccril. 
 
 AiTKK   our  riirht  lioartv  couuncnilations   to  your  jrraco.  T^'^-'^'y^t 
 Whereas  we  uiulerstaiul  that  tlic  huly   St  Loc,  wiilow"^,  hav- '/['^"^'^"y^''^^^^ 
 ing  retained  a  schoolmaster  in  her  hou<o,  nauieJ  Harry  Jack-  i"IIrfjiu"c, 
 
 Oxfor.l. 
 
 locko,  RiclKinl  nray,  Hacholors  of  Laws,  R.  Foster,  A.M.,  and  R.  l'^l'l!:i;;XuU 
 Skrimsham,  student  of  law,  appeared  before  archbishop  Parker,  WaUer  [jJ^.J,"!)!!.!!",. 
 Haddon,  Thomas  Yale,  and  William  Danvers,  LL.D.,  who  mado  tho  e«i  by  the 
 
 '  '  kaiii  tutor. 
 
 followinij:  order:  "That  upon  their  returning  homo  unto  All  Souls 
 College,  the  said  Richard  Barber  tlien  shall  call  the  whole  fellowship 
 then  present  within  the  College  together,  and  upon  the  common  con- 
 sent of  all,  or  the  greater  part  of  the  said  fellowship,  so  gathered, 
 shall  cause  to  bo  defaced  and  broken  such  church-plate  as  is  in  their 
 College  or  custody,  appertaining  to  tho  use  of  tho  church  or  chapel, 
 except  six  silver  basons,  with  their  ewers  or  crewets,  one  tabernacle  gilt 
 with  two  leaves  set  with  stones  and  pearls,  two  silver  bowls,  a  silver 
 rod,  and  three  processionals.  Item,  that  they  send  up  to  the  said 
 commissioners  their  two  books  of  the  Epistles  and  Gospels,  reserving 
 unto  themselves  tho  images  of  silver  of  the  same  defaced  in  manner 
 aforesaid/*  The  warden  was  also  enjoined  to  charge  all  fellows  who 
 were  discontented  with  this  order  to  appear  before  tho  commissioners 
 within  ten  days,  and  "from  time  to  time  to  causo  every  of  tho  said 
 fellowship  or  College  misreporting  or  gainsaying  this  order  to  appear 
 before  the  said  commissioners  within  ten  days." — Gutch's  Collect. 
 Curios.  II.  279.] 
 
 P  The  lady  St  Loe,  to  whom  this  letter  relates,  was  tho  cele- 
 brated founder  of  tho  noble  families  of  Cavendish  and  Newcastle, 
 and  tho  builder  of  Hardwick  and  Chatsworth.  She  was  daughter  of 
 John  Ilardwick,  of  Hardwick,  in  the  county  of  Derby.  Her  first  hus- 
 band was  Robert  Barley,  of  Barley,  in  the  same  county.  She  was 
 married  secondly  to  Sir  William  Cavendish,  by  whom  she  had  a  largo 
 family.  Iler  third  husband,  to  whom  she  was  married  in  1559,  was 
 Sir  William  St  Loe,  captain  of  the  guard  to  Queen  Elizabeth.  Tho 
 slanders  of  Mr  Jackson  did  not  prevent  her  marrying,  as  a  fourth 
 husband,  George,  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  whom  she  survived.  Sir  William 
 St  Loe  died  soon  after  tho  year  1565,  and  in  15G7  the  Earl  of  Shrews- 
 bury became  a  suitor  for  the  hand  of  tho  wealthy  widow,  (Retrosp. 
 Rev.  2d  Ser.  ii.  325.)  Their  marriage  took  place  probably  soon  after 
 9th  February,  1567—8  ;  certainly  before  October,  1568.  As  the  slan- 
 der of  Mr  Jackson  seems  to  have  related  to  a  pretended  contract  of 
 matrimony  (see  note  below),  this  enquiry  may  have  had  some  connec- 
 tion with  the  intended  marriage  between  Lady  St  Loe  and  the  Earl  of 
 Shrewsbury.] 
 
302  LORD  LEICESTER,   &C.   TO  AUCIIB.   PARKER.  [1567. 
 
 son,  sometime  a  scholar  of  Merton  College  in  Oxford,  for  the 
 teaching  and  bringing  up  of  her  son,  findeth  herself  much 
 troubled  and  disquieted  with  certain  slanderous  reports  which 
 The  arch-  he  liath,  as  we  are  informed,  published  of  her  abroad.  And 
 Sfoirhim"  ^^^  *^^^^  ^^®  ^^^^  ^^^y  ^^^^  always  been  known  and  reputed 
 the  mauer."^  of  honcsty,  virtue  and  good  fame,  these  be  to  pray  your  grace, 
 upon  such  information  as  this  bearer  shall  give  you  on  the 
 said  lady's  behalf,  to  call  him  before  you,  and  to  cause  the 
 matter  to  be  fully  heard  and  examined  with  that  speed  that 
 may  be,  either  by  yourself  (if  your  leisure  may  serve)  or  by 
 calling  some  such  as  the  Queen's  Majesty's  solicitor,  Mr 
 Onssley,  and  Mr  Peter  Osborn  of  the  exchequer,  or  such  other 
 of  the  ecclesiastical  commissioners  as  you  shall  think  meetest, 
 that  the  said  lady's  good  fame  may  be  preserved,  as  we  think 
 she  hath  deserved.  And  if  it  shall  be  duly  proved  that  the 
 said  Jackson  hath  unjustly  defamed  her,  to  her  reproof  and 
 discredit,  then  we  pray  your  grace  to  provide  that  he  may 
 receive  such  open  and  meet  punishment  as  he  shall  deserved 
 For  surely  such  kind  of  slanders  as  we  have  heard  that  he 
 hath  reported  are  not  to  be  overpassed  without  some  notable 
 punishment". 
 
 [^  His  punishment  was  further  enforced  by  the  following  letter 
 to  the  archbishop  of  Canterbury,  the  draft  of  which  is  also  in  the 
 State  Paper  Office: 
 
 "  Whereas  we  be  informed  that  you,  with  others,  which  you  have 
 called  unto  you,  have  diligently  examined  the  slanderous  pretended 
 contract,  devised  in  subtle  and  infamous  wise,  by  one  Henry  Jackson, 
 against  our  [trusty]  and  wellbeloTed  servant  the  lady  St  Lowe,  who 
 [hath]  lived  in  our  court  and  to  the  world  in  very  good  [repute]  and 
 credit.  And  because  it  is  meet  that  for  example  such  a  slanderous 
 device  should  not  escape,  but  be  severely  punished,  we  will  and  re- 
 quire you  (calling  so  many  of  our  commissioners  for  the  ecclesiastical 
 causes  as  you  shall  think  meet,  informing  them  of  the  truth  of  the 
 case  as  it  is,  and  as  by  examination  you  find)  to  proceed  forthwith  to 
 the  extreme  punishing  of  the  said  Henry  Jackson,  by  any  manner  of 
 corporal  coercion,  chastisement,  or  punishment,  openly  or  privately, 
 as  to  your  discretions  upon  the  examinations  of  the  truth  of  the  cause 
 shall  be  thought  by  you  most  convenient.  Wherein  our  pleasure  is, 
 you  shall  use  all  convenient  speed  that  you  may,  that  our  said  servant 
 may  be  restored  to  her  good  name  and  fame.  And  these  our  letters 
 shall  be  your  sufficient  warrant  for  the  doing  thereof.     Given,  &c."] 
 
 [2  In  an  indorsement,  which  is  very  much  defaced  by  damp,  this 
 paper  is  said  to  be  a  "  copy  of  the  Earl  of  Leicester  and  the  Secre- 
 tary*s(?)  letter  to  the  archbishop  of  Canterbury  for  the  lady  St  Loe." 
 
15()7.]  Alien U.    I'AHKKIl  TO  .  303 
 
 CCXXXII. 
 
 AllCHBlSllor   PAUKKll  TO  . 
 
 3rd  July,  10G7.    Tarkcr  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  y'i->.  p.  889. 
 Turker**  Orig.  Draft. 
 
 1  AM  complained  unto  by  Jane  Grigby,  wife  of  Justinian 
 Grigby,   >Ybo   was  bound  by  recognisance  to  cobabitato  witb  J!lho[,''!lM 
 tbis  wife,  and  to  renounce  tbo  company  of  one  Thomas  Pegson  piaimM't',  i,y 
 and  bis   wife,  wbicb   ncitbcr,  as  1  am   informed,  is  observed,  aiimsijulu- 
 
 ii'i  •  1      1         /»        »  11  11  /»      1        man  Origby. 
 
 >>  hereupon  to  avoid  the  turther  trouble  and  charge  of  the 
 parishioners  coming  up  hither,  I  would  ye  sent  for  such  as  JZuhlTimi 
 can  make  fiiith  in  their  depositions  upon   their  oaths,  which  jiSaa'' 
 when  ye  have  returned  I  shall  proceed  accordingly.     I  would  *J^or  such 
 also  yo  enquired  how  reasonably  tbis  bis  wife  useth  herself,  t»nni«ke 
 and  if  she  bo  not  in  tault  of  the  breach  of  this  order.      And  ^',\;S'thc" 
 thus  fare  ye  well.      From  my  bouse  at  Lambeth,  this  third  t'SprSd. 
 of  July,  1567^ 
 
 CCXXXIIT. 
 
 AKCIIBISIIOP  PARlvER  TO  SIR  WILLLLM  CECIL. 
 12th  August,  15G7.     S.  P.  O.  Domestic,  Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 Expecting  the  Queen's  pleasure  by  your  letters  in  what 
 particularity  I  might  deal  with  the  bishops  and  deans  of 
 cathedral  churches,  I  have  information  from  Canterbury 
 church  and  of  the  dean  there ^,  of  whom  so  great  information 
 was  made,  that  he  had  sold  and  divided  such  a  huge  quantity 
 of  plate  worth  1000  pound,  and  vestry  ornaments,  &c.  It  is  cantS/J^^ 
 no  great  marvel  thouujli  Pope  liildebrand's  sprite  walkcth  Kn^  s<°i.i 
 
 /••111  111  •      1  .  and  divided 
 
 furiously  abroad  to  slander  the  poor  married  estate,  seems:  .^i"<>''-  o/ 
 
 •^  ^  '  O  plate  and 
 
 vcsiry  orna- 
 
 The  mention  of  Mr  Onsslcy.  that  is,  Onslow,  as  the  Queen's  solicitor  ™«'^'*- 
 fixes  the  date  of  the  letter  as  being  subsequent  to  27tli  June,  1566, 
 which  was  the  day  of  his  appointment.] 
 
 [3  This  letter  was  written  in  consequence  of  an  application  to  the 
 archbishop  by  arcluleacon  Thomas  Cole,  dated  from  out  of  Essex, 
 2Sth  Jmie,  15G7,  and  made  at  the  instance  of  "divers  gentlemen  in 
 Kent,"  and  especially  of  a  brother  of  the  woman's  husband,  who  were 
 anxious  to  sec  the  woman  righted.  Parker  MS.  cxiv.  Art.  321,  p.  SS7.] 
 
 [•*  The  dean  to  whom  this  letter  relates  was  Dr  Thomas  Godwin, 
 afterwards  bishop  of  Bath  and  Wells.  lie  was  instituted  to  the 
 deanery  on  10th  March,  1566—67.    Todd's  Deans  of  Canterbury,  p.  35.] 
 
304  ARCHB.   PARKER  TO  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL.  [1567. 
 
 credit  is  so  ready  to  believe  the  worst ;  sed  qui  habitat  in 
 broken  ilbte  c«^^^'<^  irridchit  eos.  The  broken  plate  and  bullion  found  in 
 of  the^^h^"'  the  church  he  with  consent  of  all  the  chapter  have  converted 
 ll'S.n^.fi-/.,  to  the  church  use  only,  not  one  penny  divided,  partly  for  a 
 fhc  a'luou'n't    stock,  as  most  necessary,  partly  in  buyino;  some  plate  for  the 
 
 for  the  use  of  -  ...  ^      .  x    U1  xl,  ^    1  11 
 
 the  church,    fumishing  01  the  common  table;  the  whole  was  sold  came 
 but  to  £243.  \\s.  6d.,  the  rest  which  remaineth  is  not  >vorth 
 half  an  hundredth  mark :  and  this  is  all  they  have.     As  for 
 church  stuff,  nothing  stirred,  but  such  as  it  is,  is  rotting  in 
 their  custody,  of  no  great  value.     Peradventure  it  might  be 
 said  Mr  dean  Wotton  would  never  have  done  so  much,  forsooth 
 hShS'di"r  this  plate  had  been  sold  by  his  and  the  common  consent,  if 
 and'ljopes'as^  somc  mon  of  tho  chaptor  would  have  granted  thereto ;  and  as 
 arge  a^  any.  ^^^  dividcnds  of  plato  and  copes  beforetimes,  Dr  Wotton  had  his 
 portion  as   large  as  any  other  had,  and  at  his  house  was 
 reserved  some  plate   as   portion  of  that   old   dividend   had 
 TiI'omL       betwixt  them.     Mr  Thomas  Wotton  may  be  asked.     There 
 woiton-       ^^g  j^Q^  jg£j.  jj^  ^i^Q  church  at  my  coming  the  tenth  penny  of 
 the  plate    and  ornaments  which  were  left  there  at  Mr  Dr 
 Wotton's    coming    thither.      I    would   it   were    indifferently 
 credited  to  understand,  whether  the  married  sort  or  the  vir- 
 ginal pastors  had  done  most  spoil  in  the  church  ;  though  fault 
 have  been  in  both. 
 coiiSe^'iate         -^^^  ^^  ^^"  ^^^  Souls'  Collego  plate,  is  turned  whole  and 
 v^hliKbe-  reserved   as   bullion   among  them,   their   church-books   only 
 tS.°^       turned  out  of  the  way.     There  may  be  roaring  and  rooking 
 in  the  realm  by  new  devised  visitations,   but  I  fear  it  will 
 Tvork  but  a  disquiet  in  the  commonwealth.     I  would  we  all 
 proceeded  in  godly  quiet,  with  thanks  to  God  for  our  peace  : 
 wonders  doth  no  good,  and  yet  meet  to  stop  covetous  bellies. 
 TheyJ^o^^e^not  Surcly  they  love  not  the  Queen's  Majesty  sincerely  that  still 
 he^r°heid '"^°  do  beat  iuto  her  head  such  untrue  tales,  to  bring  all  her  clergy 
 untrue  tales.  ^^  g^^j^  g^  kuown  displcasuro  without  cause.    Deus  misereatur 
 nostri,  S^c,  lit  cognoscamus,  ^-c.    Thus  God  keep  your  honour 
 in  all  grace  and  health  as  myself.      This  12th  of  August. 
 
 Your  honour's, 
 
 M.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  rigid  honourable  Sir  William 
 Cecily  I'iu'ght,  principal  secretary 
 to  the  Queen's  Majesty. 
 
1567.]         SIR  wn.i.iAM  ri:(iL  to  aim  iiii.  paiekkij.  ^05 
 
 CCXWIV. 
 
 SIK   WILLIAM  CECIL  TO  AllCIiniSIIOP  rAUKKIl. 
 12th  September,  i:.07.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  218.  p.589. 
 
 It  inav  iilcasc  vour  crraco  to  receive  mv  luimMo  thanks  Thv.v»f„r 
 
 »       *  •  ^  *  ;iil\  IK-  how 
 
 for  vour  care  taken  in  the  discreet  advice  ^iven  to  mo  con-  '"Miiwo* 
 corning  the  appeasing  of  the  iinprofitablo  rash  controversy 
 newly  raised,   upon   the  article  of  the  descent  of  Christ  to 
 helP. 
 
 I  am  much  troubled  with  tho  Queen's  Majesty ""s  earnest- xhc Qncen u 
 
 .       .  '1111  fnticfil  to 
 
 ness  to  liave   certain    commissioners   in  the   whole  realm   to  api'^'nit  com- 
 
 iiii>^i')tior«  to 
 
 inquire  of  the  waste  of  the  whole  clcrirv-;   for  so  she  is  also  "■M"'fi'>f 
 much  thereto  enticed.     I  do  what  I  can  [to]  delay  the  cxecu-  ScSrgy. 
 tion,    fearing    that   hereby    the    clergy    shall    receive    great 
 blemish  in  opinion ;  and  so  I  mean  to  defer  it  as  I  can. 
 
 From  my  house  in  Westminster,  the  12th  of  September, 
 1567. 
 
 Your  grace's  at  command, 
 
 W.  CECILL. 
 To  the  most  reverend  father  in  God, 
 the   archbishop   of  Canterhurfs 
 good  grace. 
 
 ccxxxv. 
 
 ArxCIIBISIIOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 5th  October,  loG7.     S.  P.  O.  Domestic,  Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 I  HAVE  considered  the  contents  of  your  letters,  and  think 
 that  it  is  graciously  considered  that  the  bishop  of  Oxford^  The  bishop 
 elect  should  have  a  helper,  a  coadjutor  in  his  such  impotency.  eicit should 
 
 have  a  c-oad- 
 ri    />,      .,  jutor  in  his 
 
 I    Cecil  was  concerned  in  the  matter  as  Chancellor  of  the  Univcr-  impotency. 
 sity  of  Cambridge,  where  the  controversy  arose.] 
 
 [2  That  is,  the  waste  that  some  of  the  clergy  were  said  (l»y  tlieir 
 enemies,  according  to  Stiype)  to  make  in  church-property  by  long 
 leases,  &c.  In  1571  an  act  of  parliament  was  passed  to  prevent  the 
 evil.] 
 
 [3  Bishop  Hugh  Curwen,  or  Coren,  elected  to  the  see  of  Oxford, 
 26th  September,  1567.  He  lived  only  until  October  in  the  following 
 year.] 
 
 r  1  20 
 
 [PARK.  COR. J 
 
30G 
 
 AllCnn.  PARKER   TO   SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL. 
 
 [1567. 
 
 bugticsted 
 
 What  the 
 coadjutor 
 should  be. 
 
 As  for  such  as  be  named  by  bim,  the  first  two  and  the  third 
 
 man  whom    your  honour  nameth,   I  cannot  much  allow   of 
 
 Objections  to  them,  bcino',  I  fear,  of  such  inclination  that  neither  they  will 
 
 the  persons  '  o'  '  J 
 
 serve  God  in  good  religion  nor  do  their  duty  to  the  prince ; 
 their  contemplations  be  otherwhere  set.  I  must  say  to  you, 
 that  it  is  my  daily  prayer  for  such  not  to  be  put  in  place  of 
 coadjutors.  And  as  for  the  other  three,  they  have  no  such 
 livelihood  of  their  own  to  be  put  to  such  travail,  and  there- 
 fore not  to  be  stayed  for  the  purpose  as  it  is  intended.  It 
 were  the  best  that  this  coadjutor  were  ad  omnem  effectum 
 coadjutor,  as  well  to  preach  as  to  confirm  children,  and  to  give 
 orders  in  that  diocese,  if  any  such  could  be  found.  Where 
 your  honour  writeth  that  his  election  is  orderly  passed  with 
 Jf'ox^foni''^  the  Queen's  Majesty's  royal  assent,  so  I  think  it  will  not  be 
 his"?iection  forgotten  that  he  must  come  hither  by  himself  or  his  pro- 
 the  ardf-"*  ^^  curator,  before  he  be  stablished ;  for  both  order  and  law  and 
 bishop.  ^1^^  King's  letters  patents  in  the  erection  of  that  church  and 
 bishoprick,  exempteth  him  not,  either  from  oath  or  profession 
 to  the  see  of  Canterbury ;  for  his  election,  or  rather  postula- 
 tion,  is  but  to  be  presented  to  the  Queen's  Highness  to  have 
 her  royal  assent,  and  after  that  to  be  sent  hither  for  his 
 confirmation  in  the  jurisdiction  spiritual.  The  archbishop  of 
 York  so  passed,  and  the  bishop  of  Chichester,  Hereford,  and 
 St  David,  went  that  way.  Thus  your  honour  hath  mine 
 opinion  ;  committing  the  same  to  the  tuition  of  God  as  myself, 
 this  5th  of  October,  1567. 
 
 Your  honour's  alway, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 To  tJie  rigid  honourable  Sir  William  Cecily 
 Tcniglit,  principal  secretary  to  the  Queen's 
 Majesty, 
 
 CCXXXVI. 
 
 SIR  ROBERT  WINGFIELD  AND  OTHERS  TO  ARCHBISHOP 
 
 PARKER. 
 
 27th  October,  15G7.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  237.  p.  G47.  Grig. 
 
 Our  humble  commendations  and  duties  remembered  unto 
 you^*  grace.     Great  necessity  doth  occasion  us  to  write  unto 
 
I 
 
 1507.]  SIR  U.  WlNUriELD  AND  OTIIKUS  TO  AUCIIU.  rAUKMIl.    307 
 
 you  for  one  Master  Lawrence,  a  late  i)reacher,  of  whom  wc '.*"""*»•«' 
 liavo  good  cxperienco  bot!i  for  Ijis  modesty,  faultless  life,  and  r,;'J^*,"', 
 sound   doctrine;   who   hath    been   well  exercised  amongst   us  l,';,t',!T'K' 
 this  tlvo  or  six   years  with   «^rcat  diligence.      IIo  commonly  Ir.m'.'n.yth© 
 preached  twice  every  Sunday  ;  and  many  times  on  the  work-  xliu. .«.*"*" 
 in<;  days  if  there   chanced   any  marria<rcs  or  funerals:  and  "■•*'* '''"/ 
 
 ^  »  •  ri  j.,.iit  ,111.1  i«f 
 
 that  he  did  of  his  own  charge,  never  taking  anything,  as  his  |i|j;"«  ^''^'*<' 
 enemies  cannot  accuse  him  neither  of  that  nur  yet  of  anything 
 else  justly  worthy  of  reproach.      And  so  we  testified  unto 
 your  grace's  visitors,  and  desired  them  that  ho  might  con- 
 tinue his  preaching    still,  for  wc  knew  very  well   that   wo 
 should   have  great  need  of  him.      And  now  wo  see  it  more 
 evident,  for  hero  is  not  one  preacher  in  a  great  circuit,  viz.  "f, *');!,!,[',!",,„ 
 from  lilythburgh  to  Ipswich,  which  is  twenty  miles  distant  and  "f^rinu« 
 ten   miles  in   breadth  along  by  the  sea-coast ;  in  the  which  ^*  ^*^' 
 circuit  ho  was  wont  to  travel. 
 
 Thus  we   have  thought  good  to  certify  your   grace  of  JJJa'^y'Jh'Jt" 
 the  necessity   of  our  country,   and   the   diligence   and  good  Hi^ch.m 
 behaviour  of  this  man,   trusting  that  your  grace  will  either  SeTther 
 restore  him  again,  or  else  send  us  some   other  in  his  room,  IS,'" '"^°" 
 the  which  we  most  heartily  desire,  commending  the  same  to 
 Almighty  God,  who  preserve  your  grace.     Dated  the  27th 
 of  October,  a°  15G7. 
 
 Your  grace's  to  command, 
 
 ROBERT  AVIXGFELD.     AVYLLYAM  CAXNDYSII. 
 WYM.  IIOPTOX.  THOMAS  FELTON. 
 
 THOMAS  COLBYN,  of  Beckles. 
 
 THOMAS  PLAYTER^ 
 
 To  the  rhjlit  reverend  father  in  God  and 
 our  good  lord,  the  lord  archbishop  of 
 Canterbury  his  good  grace. 
 
 [1  Above  these  signatures  there  is  pasted  on,  apparently  from  ano- 
 ther letter,  "  Your  grace's  at  commandment,  Ro.  Hopton.'*] 
 
 20—2 
 
808     ARCUB.  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  GRINDAL  OF  LONDON.    [1567. 
 
 CCXXXVII. 
 
 Pish  op  Grin- 
 dal  to  certifjr 
 the  names  of 
 all  persons 
 haN'inf,'  spiri- 
 tual promo- 
 tion within 
 his  diocese, 
 
 how  many 
 resident, 
 where  the  ab- 
 sents dwell, 
 how  many 
 ministers  or 
 deacons,  and 
 how  many 
 no  priests  or 
 deacons ; 
 also  how 
 many  be 
 learned,  how 
 many])reach- 
 ers,  and  how 
 many  keep 
 liospitality. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  GRINDAL  OF  LONDON. 
 
 Before  November,  1507.    Parker  Regist.  I.  200  a. 
 
 After  my  right  hearty  commendations  unto  your  lord- 
 ship premised.  These  shall  be  to  desire  and  require  you,  for 
 causes  good  and  urgent,  to  certify  me  in  writing  distinctly, 
 on  this  side  the  first  day  of  the  next  Michaelmas  term,  the 
 names  and  surnames,  degrees,  and  reputed  age  of  all  and 
 singular,  as  well  your  dean,  archdeacons,  dignities,  and  pre- 
 bendaries within  your  cathedral  church,  as  of  all  and  singular 
 others  any  ways  beneficed,  or  having  any  spiritual  promotion 
 within  your  said  diocese,  and  how  many  of  them  be  resident 
 upon  their  said  spiritual  promotions,  and  where  and  in  what 
 place  and  calling  the  absents  do  dwell,  how  many  of  all 
 such  be  ministers  or  deacons,  and  how  many  no  priests  or 
 deacons;  noting  also  who,  and  how  many  of  the  foresaid  be 
 learned,  and  able  to  preach,  and  how  many  be  licensed 
 thereto,  and  by  whom  they  be  so ;  and  finally,  how  many  of 
 them  do  keep  hospitality  upon  their  benefices  within  their 
 said  diocese,  with  a  like  note  of  all  vacant  benefices,  and  the 
 names  of  such  as  do  receive  the  fruits  thereof.  Thus  not 
 doubting  your  lordship's  speedy  diligence  herein,  I  wish  you 
 well  to  fare.      From  my  manor  of  Lambeth,  this,  etc. 
 
 CCXXXVIII. 
 
 The  arch- 
 bishop, on 
 Sir  G.  Ger- 
 rard's  re- 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   SIR    GILBERT  GERRARD. 
 
 31st  December,  15G7.    Parker  MSS,  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb,  cxiv.  art.  259.  p.  717. 
 
 After  my  hearty  commendations.  I  satisfied  your  desire^ 
 to  write  to  the  company  of  Merton  College  not  to  proceed 
 against  Mr  Latham  in  deprivation  without  I  understood  the 
 
 [1  In  Parker  MS.  cxiv.  art.  256.  p.  711,  there  is  a  letter  from  Sir 
 Gilbert  Gerrard,  who  then  filled  the  office  of  attorney- general,  to  the 
 archbishop,  dated  29th  December,  1567,  on  behalf  of  Latham,  to  which 
 this  is  an  answer.  Latham  had  been  a  fellow  of  Merton,  "divers 
 years,"  and  desired  to  continue  in  his  fellowship  without  entering  into 
 any  profession,  which  was  contrary  to  the  statutes.] 
 
15(j7.]        AlU  nil.  PAUKEU   TO   Sill  lilLMKIir   (JI'IIH Ai:  1». 
 
 :]{)3 
 
 «  .1.  Uml 
 
 lllll'll  to 
 
 M.ft.m  lol- 
 
 causc.      All   tho  fellows   of   the  houso,  one'   excepted,  li.ivc 
 irrittcn  to  me.  that  thev  bo  able  to  char;;o  liim  with  crimes  f!',l'',Z\o 
 worthy  expulsion,  amongst  which  they  offer  to  prove  one  not  'I'^ulut 
 worthy  to  bo  named.      I  willed  their  messengers  not  to  deal  i 
 that  way  against  him  to  the  disabling  of  him  otherwise,  and  i^; 
 if  they  could  prove  his  perjury,   1   remitted  them   to   tliem-  **;;;„'„[,% 
 selves  ;   I  would  not  intermeddle.      But  I  think  Mr  Latliam  'i!!,);'^^'" 
 should  do  most  for  himself  to  enjoy  his  dispensation  of  taking 
 orders,  and  so  keep  reasonable  countenance  in  honesty,  than 
 to  stand  to  tho  uttermost.     And  better  it  were  he  gave  place  l!J,^\^^!^^.'r 
 of  his  own  accord,  than  to  depart  with  the  note  of  expulsion.  oi^n'acLJil 
 And  thus  imparting  my  advice,  as  I  did  to  himself  privately, 
 I  commit  your  worship  to  God*s  grace  as  myself.     This  last 
 of  December. 
 
 Your  loving  friend. 
 
 am 
 
 IT 
 
 riita 
 
 CCXXXIX. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER   TO  LADY  BACON 3. 
 
 Gth  February,  i;iG7-^.     Tetyt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  47.  fol.  00.  Talker's  Draft 
 
 or  Copy. 
 
 Madam, 
 My  hearty  salutations  to  your  ladyship  presupposed,  in 
 Christo  scrvatore  et  judlce.     I  understand  that  ye  use  other- 
 whiles  to  bo  a  good  solicitor  to  ray  lord  your  husband  in  the  Ladynicon 
 causes  of  the  poor  for  justice,  &c,  and  I  doubt  not  that  ye  cuorVher 
 remember  the  Christian   duty   ve  bear  to   him,   as   "well   in  the  causes  of 
 
 "       •■  '  the  poor. 
 
 respect  of  conscience  to  Almighty  God,  as  for  his  honourable 
 
 estimation  and  fame  to  the  world ;    et   hoc  est  esse,  juxta 
 
 divinam    ordinationem,    vere    adjutorium    salutare    coram 
 
 Adam  datum  a  Deo,  tempore  vanitatis  nostrce.    Upon  which 
 
 ground  I  thought  good,  now  in  the  end  of  the  terra,  after  my 
 
 lord's  angry  business  nigh  defrayed,  to  write  a  few  vrords  to 
 
 you.     To  my  lord  I  perceive  I  may  not  write,  except  the}"  xhcarch- 
 
 •'A  «/  '  1  »/  |,j^i,p.,  there- 
 
 be  w^acen^i^^zma ;  and  therefore  I  shall  stay  ray  hand.      ^Mv  foreapj.iw 
 
 •*  '  J  J  *     to  her,  as  he 
 
 lord,  as  by  his  few  lines  written  to  me  in  answer  to  my  '^!?,\p"jo\he 
 friendly  letters,  doth  say  he  hath  conceived  that  he  thought  |-rom''^)^n 
 not  to  have  heard   at  my  hands  before  I  had  spoken  with  ec.l^a'^hard 
 
 answer,  sent 
 
 [2  The  MS.  leaves  it  uncertain  whether  this   word  is  'one,*  or 
 *  none.'] 
 
 [3  See  before,  Letter  CLXVH.  p.  219.] 
 
310  ARCIIB.   PARKER  TO  LADY  BACON.  [1567-8. 
 
 verbally  by  a  himself :   and  not  so  contented,  but  sent  rae  a  hard  answer 
 
 jervant,  wlu) 
 
 ofthfinaucr  ^^  ^o^d  bj  mj  man  yet  extern  to  us  both,  whom  I  wished 
 thira^^"  not  to  have  known  any  inkhng  of  our  private  deaUngs ;  so 
 privately,  I  say,  written  of  my  party,  that  I  tell  you  tho 
 Parker  ha-s  truth,  coraiTi  Dco  sevvatorc  meo^  the  talk  not  opened  nor  con- 
 j.y^jjereven  ferrcd  within  any  signification  to  my  yoke-fellow,  though 
 ^■'^'^-  yet,  I  trust,  not  so  great  a  day-body  and  without  God's  fear, 
 
 but  can  consider  both  reason  and  godliness.  Yet  I  have  kept 
 my  grief  within  myself  from  her :  not  as  to  have  you  think 
 that  such  a  matter  were  to  be  much  regarded,  howsoever  it 
 be  taken  of  such  two  as  we  may  be  esteemed,  but  that  I  have 
 used  friendship  toward  my  lord  in  all  points,  whatsoever  he 
 conceiveth.  But  I  am  sorry  he  can  so  soon  conceive  dis- 
 pleasantly  against  me,  not  deserved,  I  say,  and  to  abide  thereby 
 not  deserved.  For  I  meant  not  only  prudently,  but  chris- 
 tianly,  godly,  and  friendly,  howsoever  it  be  taken.  The  testi- 
 mony of  my  conscience  shall  make  me  take  this  his  storm 
 quietly  to  Godward,  rather  offering  him  in  my  prayers  to 
 God,  than  careful  of  any  submission  as  having  offended,  which 
 I  intended  not,  as  faulty  ^ 
 
 In  his  conceiving,  as  he  writeth,  for  to  have  suspended  my 
 such  writing,  till  I  had  heard  from  him,  or  spoken  with  him,  &c., 
 whobr?u"ht  y^  ^^^^^  understand  that  the  party  who  came  up  with  the 
 fhe  duk?or  duke's  grace's  letters,  resorted  to  me  a  little  before  dinner,  and 
 Ba°con  resort-  showcd  me  iu  hls  talk,  that  he  was  appointed  to  come  again 
 alittie^before  that  aftcmoon,  to  have  received  his  letters  to  the  duke's  grace 
 saiThe  was    in  answcr,  &c.     Whereupon  I  thouojht  the  time  present  such 
 
 appointed  to  i/»iiti»  ^  •  !•• 
 
 call  upon      as  that,  before  he  should  write  to  his  errace,  to  put  to  his  wis- 
 
 Bacon  that  .  .  .  . 
 
 afternoon  to  (Jom  aud  considcration  so  much  as  I  did  write.      For,  after 
 
 retreat  \'ci  nn  ' 
 
 wEeupon  *^^^  time,  it  had  been  too  late  to  speak  with  himself,  who  at 
 t^^iScon  a''^^  that  afternoon  had  no  leisure,  if  I  had  come  to  him ;  and  yet 
 ISSerS    sending  my  letters  bv  that  messenger,  nor  making  him  privv 
 
 by  him  be-  /•  .1  j-  o  "  " 
 
 fore  he  an-       01   tllO   SCndinf]^,    &C. 
 
 swered  the 
 
 ■O' 
 
 rtuke.  But,  concerning  the  matter  itself,  forsooth,  I  am  sure  I 
 
 Bacon  co-n-   did  SO  rcasonablv  write,  that  if  he  had  been  the  prince  of  the 
 
 plains  of  the  .  ^^^'^■^•T•■t^  •  •  i 
 
 contents  of  rcalm,  or  1  but  his  chaplain,  I  might  have  written  privately, 
 ■^Hes^Ihat  if  ^^  ^  ^^^'  -^^^  where  he  findeth  lack  in  me  that  I  did  so 
 fe'the^'^  write,  peradventure  I  might  find  some  lack  in  him  for  not 
 ?'ari^rh"?  Staying  his  displeasure  till  he  had  known  what  great  cause  I 
 mig'htTave^  had  to  writc,  yea  much  more  than  I  did  write,  both  in  con- 
 
 [1  fawtie,  in  Orig.] 
 
15G7-8.]  AIM  IU».  PAUKI'Il    Tt)    l.ADV    llA(i»N.  Mil 
 
 sclenco  and  in  good  love  of  friendship.   Madam,  bo  not  offended  J^^ltu^S^^ 
 with  my  plainness,  as  tijough  I  would  make  comparison  with  ly""  i^^*^ 
 him.      I  know    his  ofl'uo,  I   know    his  gifts  of  Ciod,   and   his 
 place,  and  yet  may  Matthew  Tarker  write  privately  to  Nicho- 
 las Bacon  in  matter  of  good  friendship  without  offence.      In 
 all  humility  of  heart  I  will  not  stick  to  submit  myself  to  his 
 page   of  his  chamber,   and    will    bo   admonished   by  him   in 
 reason,  though  ho  were  mine  enemy ;   and  again,  in  doing 
 mine  othce  to  God,  and  mv  duty  of  friendship  to  them  Avhom 
 I  will  sincerely  love  and  honour.     1  will  not  be  abashed  to  say 
 to  my  prince  that  I  think  in  conscience,  in  answering  to  my 
 charging.      As   this  other   day    I    was   well   chidden   at   my  J',',*' ,1','.^^^ 
 prince's  hand ;  but  with  one  ear  I  heard  her  hard  words,  and  I'y  the"'^'^*" 
 with  the  other,  and  in  my  conscience  and  heart,  I  heard  God.  *^""'"' 
 And  vet  her  Iliirhncss  beinc:  never  so  much  incensed  to  be 
 offended  with  me,  the  next  day  comins:  by  Lambeth  bridire  !'"t«Ji<'<^o'"- 
 
 '  ./  O       «      ^  O      ing  the  next 
 
 into  the  fields,  and  I  according  to  duty  meeting  her  on  the  tJX'th"^'' 
 bridge,  she  gave  me  her  very  good  looks,  and  spake  secretly  fng^Jl^onhir, 
 in  mine  ear,  that  she  must  needs  countenance  mine  authority  t'^^flcoks"" 
 before  the  people,   to  the  credit   of  my  service.      AVhereat  iicople. 
 divers  of  mv  arches  then  beinor  with  me  peradvcnturc  mar-  Peradvcnture 
 
 *  O  1  "somebody 
 
 veiled,  &c.    Where  peradvcnturc  somebody  would  have  looked 
 over  the  shoulders,  and  slyly  slipt  away,  to  have  abashed  me  i^odcL 
 before  the  world,  &c. 
 
 But  to  enter  the  matter  of  late.      I  sent  my  visitors  into  {"fv^t^r"' 
 Norwich,  Dion's  country  and  mine,  to  set  order  and  to  know  N„Sk"^ 
 the  state  of  the  country,  whereof  I  heard,  of  credible  and  of  ,n"anVhur 
 worshipful  persons,  that  Gehazi  and  Judas  had  a  wonderful  hv^'xTlhat 
 haunt  in  the  countrv,  that  Quid  viiltis  mild  dare?  had  so  nu.chVrc- 
 
 ,  Mil"  1  o-  •  1  11  vailed  that 
 
 much  prevailed  there  amone:  the  Simomans,  that  now  to  sell  i^^^^^y  t»''"g 
 
 ^  o  '  ^  was  set  up  t( 
 
 and  to  buy  benefices,  to  fleece  parsonages  and  vicarages,  that  "^*^- 
 omnia  erant  venalia.  And  I  was  informed  the  best  of  the 
 country,  not  under  the  degree  of  knights,  were  infected  with 
 this  sore,  so  far  that  some  one  knight  had  four  or  five,  somo 
 other  seven  or  eisjht  benefices  clouted  together,  fleecinfr  them 
 all,  defrauding  the  crown's^  subjects  of  their  duty  of  pray- 
 ers, somewhere  setting  boys  and  their  serving-men  to  bear 
 the  names  of  such  livings.  Understanding  this  enormity, 
 how  the  gospel  was  thus  universally  pinched,  to  the  discou- 
 raging of  all  good  labourers  in  God's  harvest,  I  meant  to 
 
 •}  *cr/  in  Oiig.] 
 
 would  have 
 al)a.shed  him 
 before  the 
 
312  ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  LADY  BACON.       [15G7-8. 
 
 [J^^|^e^^)_^''a.  inquire  of  it,  Sec.  In  such  inquisition  was  presented  at  Nor- 
 th^^lJe'iord-  wich,  that  my  lord  had  set  a  serving  man  not  ordered,  a  mere 
 SSTmire"^  laj-body,  in  the  face  of  the  whole  city,  to  be  a  prebendary 
 P?eiSiar\'*  of  tho  church  there,  and  that  he  had  another  at  home  at  his 
 liraiThere!^  houso,  auothor  prebendary ;  and  bearing  themselves  great 
 hadanothr  undcr  mv  lord's  authority,  despised  mine,  to  be  at  the 
 at  hoMK-        church  s  visitation,   &c. 
 
 both  of  whom 
 
 kerN'^aut'h'-  ^^^^^  matter  hath  been  long  tossed  among  that  people  of 
 
 ker'.s  autho-  O  O 
 
 rity  ovtr 
 
 them,  and 
 
 refused  to 
 
 appear. 
 
 these  two  places  thus  used,  which  I  knew  not  of  till  my 
 visitors  came  home  again,  and  inquiring  of  them  first  of  the 
 The  visitors  Cathedral  church,  &;c.,  I  was  informed  of  these  two,  of  whom 
 tiieecircura-  I  told  mv  lord  liimsolf  what  was  spoken,  who  not  remember- 
 
 stances  to         ^  ^    *'  ^ 
 
 Parker,  who  ^^0^  their  namos,  I  ceased  of  talk,  and  yet  he  seemed  not  well 
 
 cominunica-  O  '  '  t/ 
 
 Econ!"vho  content  that  they  should  not  do  their  duties.  My  commis- 
 inemberThe  sioucrs,  unkuowiug  to  me,  when  they  were  at  the  church, 
 perTcnsaUu^  chargcd  tho  deau  &c.  to  pay  them  no  rent  of  their  prebends 
 till  they  had  shewed  good  cause  to  me  of  their  absence. 
 cbargedThI  After  tho  visitation,  Smythe,  one  of  them,  came  thither  and 
 no  pavMilenu^  was  douied  his  money,  and  after  came  one  of  them  to  me  for 
 they^'bhewid  a  letter  of  release.  When  I  perceived  what  he  was,  and 
 foTtheS-  perceiving  that  yet  he  had  honest  learning,  I  moved  him  to 
 Smythe,  one  enter  Order  to  avoid  the  speech  of  the  world,  and  not  to  live 
 
 oftl\em,ap-  ^ 
 
 l^^ed  to^par-  go  coutrary  to  laws,  and  so  to  honest  that  small  number  of  the 
 the^facfs"id?  church  besides,  being  but  six  prebendaries  though  they  were 
 resfgn  h'i^  ^°  all  at  homo,  where  one  could  hardly  be  spared,  not  so  well  as 
 rpeSon!'^"  in  churches  where  be  forty  or  fifty  prebends.     After  many 
 words  he  answered  me,  that  though  he  had  been  brought  up 
 in  some  profane  learning,  yet  in  scripture  he  had  no  know- 
 ledge, and  thereupon  would  not  enter  into  the  ministry.      He 
 thereupon  asked  further  my  counsel.   I  told  him  that  I  thought 
 it  best  for  him,  for  the  necessity  of  life,  after  his  service  spent 
 with  my  lord,  reserving  some  pension,  to  resign  it  to  such  an 
 one  as  were  able  to  do  good  in  that  church.    He  told  me  that 
 certain  had  oifered  him  well,  but  he  hked  not  their  judgments. 
 Heconse-      In  fine,  he  thought  good  to   gratify  the  whole  city  and  to 
 agreed  to      rosio^n  it  to    Mr  Walker,   who    was  desired  for  his  gift  of 
 
 gratify  the  o  •    o 
 
 whole  city  by 
 resigning,'' to 
 
 preaching  to  continue  there  in  the  city,  and  so  to  be  from  the 
 wh>^yvas^iel  danger  of  7ion  residens  from  a  little  benefice  he  hath  in  the 
 
 sired  to  con- 
 tinue there 
 for  his  gift  of 
 
 country,  whither  he  must  be  fain  else  to  go  and  leave  the  city 
 p"reSig!°'  destitute;  for  such  kinds  of  informations  be  now  readily  made 
 
 which  he 
 
 could  not      and  heard  in  the  King's  Bench,  as  I  heard  this  other  day  of 
 
 Ibi 
 
ir)G7-8.]  AU(  IIM.   lAUKKIl    TO    I.ADY    MACRON.  313 
 
 a  very  honest  in:in  keeping;  at  his  greater   bcnefico  a  very  ;^h'T*'«'.''^. 
 j^ood  liouso,  13  charged  with  non  resideiis  by  a  promoter  from 
 his   less  bcnefieo,  not  yet  far  off  from  his  other,  for  every 
 month's  absence  £10. 
 
 This  Sniytho  had  my  letters  of  release  to  the  dean,   to  ]?|J'|[7;j^", 
 receive  his  payment  after  what  time  lie  resigned  his  prcbond  r;i;Vl'.'',,''che 
 upon  a  pension  of  .£5  assured  by  the  church.      Upon  which  'ti.i!','iuki''of 
 vacation  the  duke's  grace  did  write  to  my  lord  in  Mr  Walker's  jiiic.rto  tile 
 favour.      This  party  travelled  hither  with  his  letters,   but  he  oiVix-hnifof 
 
 *     .      *  ^  ,  '  Mr  Walker. 
 
 could  not  be  admitted.      The  cause  was  answered  that  Smythe  xhekocKr 
 was  bound  to  my  lord   to  pay  £5  pension  of  his  prebend  to  i-<'n<irm  me 
 
 urr<iiiifi*iiic;nt 
 
 a  sister's  son  of  my  lord's  studvino:  at  Cambridge.    The  party  »»*^^i«"«-- 
 
 V  t       n  n  It/    Smythe  vnu 
 
 told  me  that  my  lord  made  the  answer  himself,   and  that  was  [^'"ay'J)?'™ 
 the  let.     When  I  heard  it,   I  was   sorry  to   hear  it  of  him,  .'.'"tl'.'f'h';,'" 
 (jui  /(tnuni   liahct    in   coniu,   as   I    think   it   will    be  in  the  iS^^lmot 
 green-yard  ^  a  common-place  shortly  of  the  preachers  there.  IIudyTnl!  aV' 
 I  excused  the  matter  as  well  as  I  could,  who  told  me  the 
 usage  of  this  kind  of  doing  in  all  the  country,  and  marvelled  "^J^^^J^f/^J"^ 
 that  they  which  favour  the  gospel  should  so  use  it,  with  divers  p^ri!^.!."^ 
 words  more,  whereby  I  gathered  the  sequel  what  was  like  to 
 follow  of  his  repulse. 
 
 In  this  very    article   of  time,   retaining   this  Walker  at  ^\^^1^,'r7,l"^ 
 dinner  in  my  house  of  purpose,   I  in  dinner-time  did  write  to  loXe^k*!!!" 
 my  lord  my  letters,  only  to  put  the  matter  to  his  wisdom  and  Sa'tler'iirhis 
 consideration,  without  any  of  the  hard  circumstances  of  the  wnsCiTra" 
 cause,  how  it  was  like  to  be  taken,  saving  only  of  my  lord  of  vam'.  " 
 Norfolk's  pleasuring,  &c.,  who  I  am  sure  would  have  taken  it 
 thankfully  to  have  sped,  and  so  made  it  known  amongst  his 
 friends  in  the  city,  which  should  have,  I  doubt  not,  promoted 
 the  credit  of  the  gospel,  for  his  grace  to  be  the  motioner  and 
 bringer  into  the  church  and  into  that  city  such  a  preacher, 
 whereby  the  people  of  the  city  might  have  received  joy  and 
 gladness,  and  the  enemies  of  the  gospel  disappointed  of  their 
 triumphing  on  that  preacher,  if  he  had  sped  at  the  duke's 
 request,  &c. 
 
 But  all  this  would  not  serve,  for  the  mcsscnjrer  said,  this  ah  he  wo-  id 
 £d  pension  was  the  stop  and  let,  &c.  Marry,  he  told  me,  ;,\\'kVshoi.id^ 
 that  my  lord  would  answer  the  duke's  grace  that  he  should  vac^nl'Ine"' 
 be  sure  of  the  next  vacant  room  when  it  chanced  there.      1  '^'"'^ 
 
 \}  The  '  grccn-yard'  was  a  place  near  the  bishop's  palace  at  Xor- 
 wicb,  where  sermons  were  commonly  preached.] 
 
content. 
 
 314  ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  LADY  BACON.  [1567-8. 
 
 pray  God  send  my  lord  many  joyful  years  to  continue  both  in 
 
 life  and  in  office,  till  that  day  and  time,  but  I  think  this  offer 
 
 rarkerwishes  would  havc  bccn  taken  in  time,  and  I  wish  I  had  borne  this 
 
 he  had  taken  ^  ' 
 
 Ikfn'^jion"'    ^^  pension  of  mine  own  purse,  that  the  common  slanderous 
 t^hlTsiandS-^*  speech  might  have  been  stayed,  where  I  fear  it  will  by  this 
 whlcTthisin-  doing  be  further  wondered  at.     But  it  may  be  said,   "  Let 
 c^oncT      such  as  talk  of  it  remedy  it  if  they  can."      Oh,  madam,  God 
 stayed.         is  tlic  rewardcr  of  all  good  doings,  and  reformer  of  all  dis- 
 orders.     I  see  this  country  so  much  without  remorse  of  con- 
 science in  this  outrage,  that  the  stones  will  speak  of  it,  if  it  be 
 not  reformed. 
 an?rT°^tif  ^^  ^^  ^°^^  ^®  ^^o^J  ^'^^^  ^^  ^^r  my  plainness,  I  fear  not 
 
 pi5nni,he  Almighty  God.    Deus,  tdtionum  Deus,  will  be  content.     Yea, 
 Gocfwiu  be   ^^^  ii'^  ^ill  ask  account  of  me,  if  I  hold  my  peace,  when  both 
 my  lord  and  I  shall  stand  dreadfully  before  his  chancery,  and 
 therefore  I  will  not  so  covet  the  favour  of  man  to  displease 
 God. 
 
 And  surely,  Madam,  I  could  no  less  do  of  tender  heart 
 to  his  estimation.  And  loth  would  I  be  that  his  example 
 should  be,  alleged  for  divers  spoilers  in  that  country  of  the 
 ministry,  the  office  of  man*'s  salvation,  the  office  of  Christ's 
 crucified  mysteries,  howsoever  the  carnal  princes  of  the  world 
 do  deride  God  et  omnia  sacra.  Sed  qui  habitat  in  coelis 
 irridehit  eos.  For  God's  love,  Madam,  help  you,  tayiquam 
 una  caro  cum  viro  tuo,  sed  amho  Cliristi  membra  charissima, 
 to  help  to  eliminate  out  of  his  house  this  offendicle,  ut  ne 
 2)onat  maculam  in  gloria  senectutis  suce.  Labi  et  falli  Jiu- 
 manum,  sed  perseverare  durum,  I  will  not  write  that  I  hear 
 reported,  nor  will  credit  all  tales.  Fie  on  the  world,  to  carry 
 God's  good,  elect,  and  principal  members  of  his  kingdom,  so 
 to  be  drowned  in  the  dregs  of  this  mortality,  not  to  regard 
 What  shall    these  so  chief  causes.     What  shall  be  hoped  for  in  friendship, 
 
 be  hoped  for    ^  i  i  ' 
 
 if  true  friend-  jf  the  advertisinfj  of  one  another  in  true  faithful  friendship, 
 
 snip  stirs  up  O  A  ' 
 
 and  to  Godwards,  shall  stir  up  enmity  and  disliking?  Let 
 the  blind  world  say,  "  Suaviora  sunt  fraudulenta  oscula 
 odientis,  quam  vulnera  dilirjentis."  Let  the  wise  man  say 
 contrary,  "  Quam  meliora  sunt  vulnera  diligentis,  quam 
 fraudulenta  oscula  odientis.*'  I  am  jealous  over  my  lord's 
 conscience,  and  over  his  honourable  name.  It  may  become 
 my  office  to  bimward,  though  he  be  great  in  office,  to  hear 
 the  voice  of  a  poor  pastor  ;  for  there  is  one  which  saith,  Qui 
 
 enraitv; 
 
th 
 
 1507-8.]  AKi nil.  rAUKKIl   TO   LADY    IIACON.  315 
 
 fos  ainlit,  me  audit ;  qui  vos  spernit^  vie  spcruit ;  qui  voa 
 taiujit^  tawjit   pupilUtm  oculi  mei ;  as  contcinptiblo  soever 
 tho  vain  world  cstecmeth  us.     I   have  alway  joyed  in  my  J^f.^J"",!^^ 
 lord,  alway  honourably  reported  him.    I  have  in  good  j)lacc5»,  H'l;;,'.".*',' 
 and   before   tho  most  honouniblo,   compared  him   with  More  d,"',mniw' 
 and  Audeley  for  their  clonuenco,  wit,  and  learning  in  law ;  I'utwil'K*" 
 With    bishop    Goodrick    for    his    sinceritv    towards     lusticc.  •••nty  t.. 
 Althouirh  they  all  had  their  faults,  which  God  keep  from  my  i-xik.n. 
 lord  and  mo ;  the  first  imbrued  with  papistry  ;  tho  second  '^Y,|[.,[''are"' 
 omnino  passim  et  ah  omnibus  ;  tho  third  a   dissembler  in  '"^"i'""*^'' 
 friendship,  who  used  to  entertain  his  cvil-willers  very  courte- 
 ously, and  his  very  friends  very  imperiously,  thinking  thereby 
 to  have  the  rule  of  both,  whereby  he  lust  both.      For  while 
 his  cvil-willers  spread  how  he   would  shake  up  his  acquaint- 
 ance,   they   gathered  thereby   the    nature  of  his  friendship 
 toward  his  old  friends ;   and  therefore  joyed  not  much  of  his 
 glorious   entertaining,  and   his   friends   indeed  joyed  less   in 
 him,  for  such  his  discouragement  that  they  felt  at  his  hands. 
 Exjyertus  loquor,  S^-c. 
 
 Now  what  will  be  judged  of  many  of  tho  world,  which  what  win  ho 
 peradventure  love  neither  of  us,  if  it  may  be  heard,  how  we  iw<f now  fli^ 
 two,  m  that  place  that  we  be  in  by  God  s  providence  and  the  ''"s? 
 Queen's  fiivour,  both  professing  God's  verity  as   we  do,  so 
 long  conjoined  as  we  have  been,  now  to  fall  at  square,  so  nigh 
 to  tall  into  our   earthly    pit,   he  to   contemn   me,    I   to    bo 
 dulled  in  my  contentation  toward  him  ?    What  will  this  work 
 in  the  commonwealth,  and  specially  if  it  should  break  out, 
 upon  what  ground  this  grief  is  conceived  and  taken?  I  would 
 bo  loth  to  break  friendship  with  any  mean  body,  much  less 
 with  my  lord ;  and  yet  either  king  or  Cccsar,  contrary  to  my 
 duty  to  God,  I  will  not,  nor  intend  not,  God  being  my  good 
 Lord.      It  is  not  the  solemnity  or  commodity  of  mine  oflico 
 that  I  so  much  esteem :  I  was  sorry  to  be  so  accumbered,  but 
 necessity  drave  mc ;  and  what  fiite  shall  thrust  me  out,  susquc 
 deque  fero.      I  am  grown  now  into  a  better  consideration  by  rarkcristoo 
 mine  age,  than  to  be  afcared  or  dismayed  with  such  vain  ter-  rmeli! S.d' 
 riculaments  of  the  world.      I  am  not  now  to  learn  how  toi^lm"^"''* 
 tawn   upon  man,  cujus  spintus  in  narihus  ejus;  or  that  1 
 have  to  learn  how  to  repose  myself  quietly  under  God's  pro- 
 tection against  all  displeasure  of  friends,  and  against  all  malig- 
 nity of  the  enemy.     I  have  oft  said  and  expended  that  verse, 
 
31G  ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  LADY  BACON.       [1567-8. 
 
 Cadeni  a  latere  tuo  mille,  ^c.  In  this  mind  I  trust  to  live  and 
 die.  Here  I  will  not  answer  as  a  Paynim  did  to  a  Paynim,  Cur 
 haheam  eiim  pro  ^jrincipe,  qui  me  non  liahet  j^ro  senator e. 
 But  while  I  live  I  will  pray  for  my  lord,  that  all  grace  and 
 good  fortune  may  assist  him  in  himself  and  in  his  posterity ; 
 and  shall  be  as  glad  and  ready  to  the  duty  of  godly  friend- 
 ship to  him,  if  it  may  be  reasonably  taken,  as  any  one  what- 
 soever with  whom  he  is  best  pleased  and  least  provoked 
 with,  as  any  one  that  fawneth  most  upon  him  for  his  office 
 sake,  or  for  his  virtue,  to  my  power. 
 
 And  thus  reposing  myself  in  bona  et  constante  conscientia 
 in  this  brittle  time,  I  commit  your  ladyship  to  God,  as  myself. 
 Sends  a  copy  Bocause  ye  be  alter  ipse  to  him,  iinus  spiritus,  una  carOy  I 
 to  Bacon."  make  you  judge,  and  therefore  I  transmit  the  yerj  copy  of 
 my  letter  sent  to  him,  to  expend  the  rather  of  my  writing, 
 whereby  ye  may  take  occasion  to  work  as  God  shall  move 
 you.  And  thus  I  leave.  From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this 
 6th  of  February,  1567. 
 
 Your  friend  unfeigned  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 CCXL. 
 
 SIR  HENRY  SYDNEY  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 3rd  March,  1567—8.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  104.  p.  331.  Grig. 
 
 nefmjvls^'^'  I  THANK  your  good  gracc  most  humbly  for  my  great 
 bishop  for  a  choer  yesterday,  and  signify  the  same  that  the  chiefest  matter 
 for  his  son     whcroin  I  had  to  move  your  grace  was  for  a  licence  to  be 
 
 Philip. 
 
 granted  to  my  boy  Philip  Sidney  ^  who  is  somewhat  subject 
 
 [1  The  future  Sir  Philip  Sydney  was  born  on  the  29th  November, 
 1554.  This  letter  contains  one  of  the  earliest  notices  of  him. 
 The  mention  of  Dr  Cooper  as  his  tutor  is  a  new  fact  in  his  bio- 
 graphy. It  was  probably  Dr  Thomas  Cooper,  subsequently  bishop  of 
 Lincoln,  and  afterwards  of  Gloucester,  the  translator  of  Lanquet's 
 Chronicle,  compiler  of  the  Thesaurus,  and  author  of  the  Admonition 
 in  reply  to  Martin  Marprelate ;  he  was  also  one  of  Parker's  executors 
 and  preached  his  funeral  sermon.  A  letter  from  him  to  archbishop 
 Parker  occurs  in  Addit.  ISIS.  Brit.  Mus.  19,  398,  art.  42.  It  is  without 
 date,  but  accompanied  some  controversial  composition  which  had  been 
 previously  submitted  to  Sir  William  Cecil,  perhaps  the  manuscript  of 
 
1507-8.]        6IH  HENRY  SYDNKY    TO  AIICIIIJ.   PAHKKIt.  H? 
 
 to  sickness,  for  eating  of  tlosli  this  Lent,  (or  which  I  thon 
 forgot  to  speak  unto  }ou;  and  have  therefore  now  thought 
 good  to  doiiiro  your  grace  to  grant  unto  him  the  said  hcenco 
 in  what  sort  may  seem  best  unto  you,  so  as  ho  may  liavo 
 with  him  Mr  Doctor  Cooper,  who  is  his  tutor.  And  thus  I 
 liumbly  take  my  leave.  From  Durham  House,  this  Wednes- 
 day the  third  of  March,  15(j7.  Your  grace's  most  humblo 
 to  commaud, 
 
 H.  SYDNEY. 
 
 CCXLI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  FREDERIC  III.  ELECTOR 
 PALATINE. 
 
 2otii  March,  15C3.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxix.  art.  5.  p.  10. 
 Grig,  draft. 
 
 FuiT  apud  me,  illustrissime  princeps,  a  to  missus  Dominus 
 Immanuel,  consiliarius  tuus,   vir  admodura  probus  ct  doctus,  Has  received 
 mihique  ex  diuturna  ohm  consuetudine  ita  cognitus  :   a  quo  et  The  elector 
 
 .     ,  .      .  /->!    1    •         T     •  T  9  M  •  Palatine, 
 
 accepi  humamssimas  Celsitudims  tuae  hteras%  pro   quibus  in- ^^ntby  I'ar- 
 
 .  X  ,.,..  .  ker's  old  ac- 
 
 gcntcs   habeo   gratias.       Insuper    didici    quanta  sis    cura   ct  l^eS"^ 
 
 the  littlo  book  entitled  "An  Answer  in  defence  of  the  truth  against 
 the  Apology  of  Private  Masse,"  published  London,  1502,  lOmo.  (Seo 
 Wood's  Athena?,  ed.  Bliss,  i.  612.)  Another  letter  from  Cooper  to 
 Parker  occurs  in  Parker  MS.  cxiv.  art.  306.  p.  839.  It  bears  date 
 4  Jan.  1568,  and  relates  to  some  appointment  lately  received  by  tho 
 writer  through  Parker's  influence  with  the  Earl  of  Leicester.  Possi- 
 bly this  was  tho  Vice-Chancellorship  of  Oxford,  which  the  Earl  of 
 Leicester,  Chancellor  of  the  University,  bestowed  upon  Dr  Cooper. 
 See  Strj'pe's  Parker,  Book  iv.  c.  4,  and  App.  No.  xc.  iir.  295.  8vo.  ed.] 
 [2  The  letter  referred  to  remains  amongst  the  Parker  MSS.  (cxix. 
 art.  4.  p.  9,)  and  is  dated  12th  February,  1567 — 8.  It  commends  to 
 Parker  Emmanuel  Tremellius,  who  was  about  to  visit  England  on  tho 
 business  of  the  Elector  Palatine.  The  prince  alluded  to  was  Frederic 
 III.,  a  great  friend  to  the  Protestants  both  in  France  and  the  Low 
 Countries.  Tremellius  was  an  old  acquaintance  of  Parker;  see  note 
 under  a  letter  from  him  to  Parker,  dated  16th  September,  156S. 
 There  are  three  other  MSS.  of  his  in  the  Parker  collection ;  an  early 
 letter  to  Parker  in  cxix.  art.  91 ;  a  bond  given  by  him  on  receiving 
 a  grant  of  a  prebend  "in  ecclesia  Argentina,"  cviii.  art.  61;  and  a 
 translation  by  him  of  the  Epistles  to  the  Galatians  and  the  Ephesians 
 from  the  Syriac  into  Latin,  cccxl.  art.  1 .] 
 
318  ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  FREDERIC  III.        [1568. 
 
 nllThV^"'^  solicitudine  ut  evangelium  Christi  apud  raulta  Europae  regna 
 fdrt\?e  **  ^'^'^^  e  maximis  superstitionum  tcnebris  jam  collucens,  adhuc  magis 
 ^°^''^  ■  ac  magis  ad  vitupcrationcm  omnium  eorum  qui  ei  male  favent, 
 vigeat.  Pro  hac  eximia  amplitudinis  tua?  virtute  ac  generosa 
 erga  Christum  constantia  Deo  gratias  agimus,  quantum  possu- 
 Sfcifthm  to  ™us  maximas.  Jam  pro  virili  dedimus  operam  (ut  semper 
 amrST'     dabimus)  grato  officio  non  deesso  rerum  tuarum  procurationi, 
 
 always  do  so.      ,  .  />         •  i  i  ,  •  i  /v>    •  •    • 
 
 ubi  opus  fuerit,  ad  quae  vestra  meum  equidem  omcium  requiri 
 
 valde  jucundura   mihi  fuit,    utcunque  forte  eventus   non  sit 
 
 secutus    secundum  expectationem.      Hoc    igitur    in   present! 
 
 Gj)Tto"he°  nobis   super  est,   ut   a  Deo   semper   assiduis   precibus   vestro 
 
 h!\KS  nomine  contendamus  ut  rebus  turbulentis  eam  pacem  det  quo 
 
 bicsoine"""    vestra  Celsitudo  cum  omnibus  evangelii  fautoribus  plurimum 
 
 affairs,  that  i  •  i  •    •  i     i  • 
 
 peace  in       et  nuuc  ct  pcrpctuo  gaudcat ;  quod  quidem  mmime  dubitamus 
 
 of  t^^e^'os^fei'  ^^^  i^™  ^J^^  causa  agitur. 
 
 may  rejoice.         Lambcthi  prope  Londinum,  25°  Martii,  anno  Christi  1568. 
 
 Tuae  celsitudini  deditissimus, 
 
 MATTH^US  CANTUAR. 
 
 CCXLII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP   PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 29th  March,  [15G8.]    Lansd.  MS.  x.  art.  41.  Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 For  the  next  Wednesday  sermon  was  doctor  BuUingham^ 
 mSfo'r      prepared,  for  Mr  Freke^  had  given  it  over  to  me   by  his 
 Paul's  Cross,  jettors    afore,    and   now  I  hear  that  the  dean  of  PauPs   is 
 appointed  thereto ;  whereupon  I  mean  that  the  said  doctor 
 Bolingham  shall   supply  Good   Friday  in  the   stead  of  the 
 bishop  of  Winchester^;  whose  health  will  not  suffer  him. 
 I   understand   ye   bear   your   favour   to   Mr  Blont   the 
 JomSdect  bearer  of  this.     I  pray  you  further  him  to  this  benefice ;  I 
 for^a  bene-    ^^.^g^  j^q  ^j]^  behavc  hlmsclf  honestly :   I  like  his  learning 
 well,  whom  I  have  heard  now  twice  to  judge  of  him.     It  is 
 doubt  whether  the  incumbent  be  dead,  but  is  like,  as  I  hear, 
 shortly. 
 
 [1  Afterwards  bishop  of  Gloucester  and  Bristol.] 
 
 [2  Afterwards  bishop  of  Rochester,  and  subsequently  of  Norwich.] 
 
 P  'Bishop  Home.] 
 
loG8.]  AUCIUI.   PAIIKKK   TO  SlU   WILLIAM   CKC  IL.  319 
 
 Sir,  ^hcrc  tho  Queen's  Highness  will  reserve  Canterbury  '^' 
 prebends  for  her  chaplains,  it  shall  bo  as  it  plcaso  her  ;  but 
 I  pray  your  honour  to  consider  how  tho  ehurch  standeth,  that  !r,ai'.i«iiu. 
 foroii^ncrs    and  noblemen   passinj^  that   way,  may  find  con- cm^'of  ihat 
 venient  number  at  homo  to  olVer  them  a  dinner,  &c.,  for  if 
 many  of  them  should  bo  absent  and  have  their  whole  profits, 
 as  many  of  late  havo  obtained,  the  rest  should  be  too  much 
 hindered  in  their  hospitality,  and  thcrcforo  will  make  thorn 
 to  absent  themselves,  as  upon  this  occasion  some  of  them  bo 
 now  about  to  depart.      They  hear  that  doctor  Nevison  will 
 sue  for  his  whole  profits  absent,  and   ^Ir   Frekc  will  do  tho 
 like ;    which   I   would  think  not  expedient.      Mr   Sentleger, 
 Mr  Boleyn,  and  ^Mr  Dorel  be  thus  preferred,  which  is  enough 
 and  too  much.      I  put  this  to  your  consideration. 
 
 From  my  house,  this  2l)th  of  March. 
 
 Your  honour''s  alway, 
 
 MxVTTII.  CANT. 
 
 To  iJie  rujlit  lionourahh  Sir  WiUkim 
 Cecily  knigJffj  principal  secretary 
 to  the  Queen's  Majesty. 
 
 CCXLIII. 
 
 A^IBROSE  EARL  OF  WARWICK  TO  ARCHBISHOP 
 PARKER. 
 
 3rd  May  [probably  loCS.]    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  CoU.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  1^.  p.  1S3. 
 
 My   very  good  lord,   after   my    hearty   commendations. 
 Whereas  this  bearer,  my  servant,  hath  printed  divers  of  my 
 lord  of  Salisbury  his  book  touching  the  Defence  of  tho  Apology  Jj^^o""^^ 
 of  England*,  the  charge  whereof  will  turn  to  his  great  bin-  i^^^'^/l^c 
 derance  if  he  may  not  utter  them ;   this  shall  be  heartily  to  ^^^'"ey- 
 pray  your  good  grace  the  rather  for  my  sake,  if  you  shall  so  bishop'^is" 
 
 .1  •     1      •,  ,       .  .     .  .  />  1  !■  t  -  rcquf-stcd  to 
 
 tnmk.  it  meet,  to  tyrant  an  injunction,  lor  the  speedier  sale  of  cnjoinituron 
 
 '-'  o  '  1  evcrv  niinis- 
 
 them,  that  every  minister  may  be  bound  to  have  one.      In  J^^^yo  ^^^^e 
 
 r*  The  Defence  of  the  Apology  was  first  published  in  1567. 
 The  date  "Anno  1567,  27  Octobris"  stands  upon  the  title-page. 
 The  book  was  printed  by  Ileury  Wykes.] 
 
320       AMBROSE  EARL  OF  WARWICK  TO  ARCIIB.  PARKER.   [1568. 
 
 doing  whereof  your  grace  shall  pleasure  the  poor  man  very 
 much,  and  I,  ceasing  at  this  present  any  further  to  trouble 
 the  same,  commit  you  to  the  keeping  of  Almighty  God. 
 From  the  Court,  the  3rd  of  May. 
 
 Your  grace's  most  assured  to  command, 
 
 A.  WARWICK ^ 
 
 CCXLIV. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  THE  WARDEN  OF  ALL  SOULS' 
 COLLEGE,   OXFORD. 
 
 12th  IMay,  15G8.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  2G5.  p.  731.   Parker's 
 
 draft. 
 
 Mr  Warden,  whereas  I  am  informed  that  where  of  late 
 Parker  writes  ye  wcro  with  Mr  Heneage^  signifying  to  him  that  the  farm 
 a  widow  of    which  hath  been  so  loud  sued  for  is  now  in  division,  and  that 
 
 an  old  tenant  .  ■,     ^  »  i  ^  ■,  •  ^  •        ^  i 
 
 coit'i^""'^'  y^  mformed  mm  you  would  not  stand    agamst   his  friend, 
 
 Kr  a"rf.fSai  ^leithcr  diroct  nor  indirect.      This  is  therefore  once  again  to 
 
 of  a  lease,      roqucst  you  and  other  of  the  company  to  shew  your  good 
 
 wills  unto  this  said  gentlewoman,  the  rather    for   that  she 
 
 offereth  more  commodity  to  your  College  than  other  doth^, 
 
 and  for  that  she  is  contented  to  accept  it  as  ye  yourself  shall 
 
 [1  The  signature  together  with  the  two  preceding  words  is  by  a 
 different  hand,  perhaps  that  of  the  earl  himself,  the  rest  of  the  letter 
 being  written  by  an  amanuensis.] 
 
 [2  Sir  Thomas  Heneage,  who  at  this  time  had  written  to  the 
 archbishop  in  favour  of  Mrs  Foster,  a  widow,  who  had  been  lessee 
 of  the  farm  of  Salford,  under  All  Souls'  Coll.  Oxford.  The  lease  had 
 now  fallen  in,  and  she  was  desirous  of  obtaining  a  renewal,  whereas 
 the  College  meditated  dividing  the  farm  and  letting  it  pass  into  other 
 hands.  Sir  Thomas's  letter,  which  is  dated  11  May,  1568,  is  in  Parker 
 MS.  cxiv.  art.  263.  p.  725.] 
 
 [3  Sir  T.  Heneage  writes :  "  The  poor  widow  is  content  to  take 
 it  at  their  hands  as  they  will  let  it,  paying  double  her  accustomed 
 rent  for  the  whole  fiirm,  or  else  as  much  as  she  doth  now  pay  for 
 the  one  half  thereof,  and  as  much  money  as  hath  been  accustomed 
 to  be  paid  for  the  fine  of  the  whole,  although  it  be  but  a  reversion 
 for  fourteen  years  that  they  can  make  any  grant  of  at  this  time."  A 
 second  letter  of  his  to  the  archbishop  on  the  same  subject,  dated  30th 
 May,  1568,  is  in  Parker  MS.  cxiv.  art.  264.  p.  727.] 
 
1568.]ARriiD.rAUKKi{  lo  nii:  waudkn  ok  all  souls*  coll.  321 
 
 tliink  it  most  moot  for  tlio  advancement  of  your  farm  and 
 of  your  tenants  i\wn\  Anil  being  therefore  tlius  advertiBed 
 of  your  inclination,  1  have  thus  written  my  letters  as  afore- 
 timcs.  And  thus  1  bid  you  well  to  fare.  From  my  house  of 
 Lambeth,  this  12th  of  May. 
 
 Vour  loving  friend. 
 
 CCXLV. 
 
 QUEEN  ELIZABETH  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 13th  May,  156S.     Lansd.  MS.  xciv.  art.  19.     Contemporary   Minute  compared 
 with  Parker  Keg.  I.  270  b. 
 
 By  the   Queen. 
 
 Most  reverend  father  in  God,  right  trusty  and  right  well 
 beloved,  wc  greet  you  well.      Forasmuch  as  we  do   under- Great  and 
 
 ,       ,  ,  1  1    M  •        •     i        ii  •  1  unusual  re- 
 
 stand  that   there  do  aaily  repair  into  tins  our  realm  great  pairofstran- 
 
 ff  *■  o  gers  into 
 
 numbers  of  strangers  from  the  parts  beyond  the  seas,  other-  England, 
 wise  than  hath  been  accustomed,  and  the  most  part  thereof 
 pretending  the  cause  of  their  coming  to  be  for  to  live  in  this 
 our  realm  with  satisfaction  of  their  conscience  in  Christian 
 religion,  according  to  the  order  allowed  in  this  our  realm;  and 
 doubting  lest  that  among  such  numbers,  divers  may  also  resort 
 into  our  realm  that  are  infected  with  dangerous  opinions  some  of 
 contrary  to  the  fiiith  of  Christ's  church,  as  anabaptists  and  ^  ^nfected 
 
 ^  ^  ^  *■  ^  with  danger- 
 
 such  other  sectaries,  or  that  be  guilty  of  some  other  horrible  oi's  opm.ons, 
 
 '  o  J  contrary  to 
 
 ^crimes  of  rebellion,  murder,  robberies,  or  such  like,  committed  chusu^ °^ 
 by  them  in  the  parts  from  whence  they  do  come ;  to  which 
 kind  of  people   we   do  no  wise  mean  to  permit  any  refuge 
 within  our  dominions.     Therefore   we    do   will  and  require  The  arch- 
 you  to  give  speedy  order  and  commandment  to  the  reverend  ordered  to  di- 
 
 ►  o  i  t/      ^  ^  ^        rect  the 
 
 father  in  God  the  bishop  of  London,   and  all  other  ordinaries  S^'.^nj^n^an^ 
 of  any  places  where  you  shall  think  any  such  confluence  of  nanJs?to'" 
 strangers  to  be  within  your  province,  that  without  delay  par-  inqu^riS"re"' 
 ticular  special  visitations  and  inquisition  be  made  in   every  s[r^ange?s. 
 parish   for  this   purpose  requisite,  of  all  manner  of  persons  to  the 
 being  strangers  born,  of  what  country,  quahty,  condition,  and  ['1;^''.^^^'^,^^^ 
 estate,  they  be,  with  the  probable  causes  of  their  coming  into 
 this  our  realm,  and  the  time  of  theu*  continuance,  and  in  what 
 
 r  -I  21 
 
 [park,  cor.] 
 
322  QUEEN  ELIZABETH   TO  ARCIIB.  PARKER.  [1568. 
 
 sort  thoy  do  live,  and  to  what  churches  they  do  resort  for 
 exercise  of  their  religion,  with  such  other  things  requisite  in 
 this  case  to  be  understand  for  the  worthiness  of  their  continu- 
 ance in  this  our  realm:  and  thereupon  to  cause  perfect  regis- 
 ters to  be  made  and  so  to  continue,  and  to  give  advertisement 
 to  our  justices  and  ministers  of  our  lay  power  to  proceed 
 speedily  to  the  trial  of  such  as  shall  be  found  suspected  of  the 
 foresaid  crimes,  or  otherwise  that  shall  not  be  conformable  to 
 such  order  of  religion  as  is  agreeable  with  our  laws,  or  as  is 
 permitted  to  places  specially  appointed  for  the  resort  of  stran- 
 gers to  the  exercise  of  religion  in  the  use  of  common  prayer 
 and  the  sacraments;  and  in  all  other  things  we  will  and 
 require  you  to  use  all  good  diligence  and  provision  by  the 
 means  of  the  bishops  and  ordinaries  under  you,  as  well  in 
 No  manner  placcs  cxcmpt  as  othcrwise,  that  no  manner  of  strangers  be 
 "o  be  suKd  suffered  to  remain  within  any  part  of  our  dominions  in  your 
 the  Queens    provlucc,  but  such  as  shall  be  known  or  commonly  reported 
 
 dominions        *  «  .      .  .  ,  i«  i 
 
 but  such  as    to  be  of  Christian  conversation,  and  meet  to  hve  under  our 
 
 be  of  Chris-  ^  ^  '    ^  ^ 
 
 sauon'"^"'   pi'otection,  according  to  the  treaties  of  intercourse  betwixt  us 
 and  other  princes  our  neighbours. 
 
 Given  under  our  signet,  at  our  manor  of  Greenwich,  the 
 13th  day  of  May,  1568,  the  tenth  year  of  our  reign. 
 
 CCXLVI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 21st  May,  1568.    Lansd.  MS.  x.  art.  47.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Upon    consideration    of    our    brittle   time    of  tarriance, 
 
 dum  sumiis  in  mundo  operemur  bonum,  et  opera  illorum 
 
 Cecil  is  soli    sequuntur  illoSf   ^c.     I  pray   your  honour  to  help  in  this 
 
 [n  a  cause*"  ^'  cause,  whicli  I  would  have  craved  your  counsel  in,  if  this  day 
 
 explainetl  ^Y   ,       ,         ■,  •         i         o  /^i  mi  •  •         t    • 
 
 an  inclosed    had  takcu  in  the  Star  Chamber.     The  purpose  is  contained  in 
 
 paper.  ,       ,  .  . 
 
 the  letter  herein  inclosed  ^  My  desire  is  that  they  might  be 
 penned  in  such  form  as  that  my  lords  of  the  council  would 
 subscribe  to  them,  that  they  might  be  delivered  to  the  justices 
 at  their  next  meeting,  trusting  that  it  will  do  good ;  the  charge 
 
 [1  The  following  note  is  written  upon  the  letter :  "  For  the  making 
 of  the  river  to  Canterbury  navigable."] 
 
♦.  l>«» 
 
 15()8.]  AKl  IIU.  I'AKKEU    TO   SIK    WILLIAM    (El  IL.  323 
 
 will  amount  to  tiftccn  huiulrcHl  pounds,  as  is  thought:    which  t^*- »*»,'*! 
 is   too  groat,  except  they  bo  aided.      Aa  vuur  honour  sliull 
 think  jxood  so  shall  my  servant  attend  your  ploabure.      And  ,,,,.,;;;;» in 
 thus  I  pray  (iod  preserve  your  honour  in  grace  and  healtli, 
 this  lUst  of  May. 
 
 Your  honour's  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTII.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  ri(jht  honourable  Sir  William  Cecily 
 kttitjht,  principal  secretary  to  the  Queen's 
 Majeatif. 
 
 CCXLVII. 
 
 ARClIBISIIOr   TARKER  TO   BISHOP  GRINDAL    OF 
 LONDON. 
 
 24th  May,  1563.     Parker  Keg.  I.  270  b. 
 
 After  my  right  hearty  eommendations  unto  your  good 
 lordship    premised.      AVhereas  I   have    of  late   received  the  The  arch. 
 
 *        *     ,  .      .  bishop  ha< 
 
 Queen's  Majesty's  most  honourable  letters  missive,  the  true  [.""^n^/J;* 
 tenor  whereof  hereafter  ensucth  :   "  Most  reverend  father  in  ^ayf /^*^ 
 God,"  Sec,  [as  before  printed,  No.  ccxlv.  p.  321.]    These  shall  JTm^S^no. 
 be  therefore  in  the  Queen's  Majesty's  name  to  will  and  require  *=^**'^-^^*- 
 your  lordship,   that  having  regard  (as  I  doubt  not  but  you 
 will)  to  the  execution  of  the   Queen's  Majest\''s  said  letters  "^  t*^"^f°™ 
 
 ''  ^  ^  ...  retuiircs  the 
 
 within  your  own  diocese,  you  do  also  forthwith  signify  the  JondJ,n°[o 
 tenor  thereof  to   all   and   singular   my   brethren,    the   other  sa.'^'and  to 
 bishops  and  other  ordinaries  within  my  province,  where  you  tenof'thcr^f 
 shall  think  any  confluence  of  strangers  to  be ;   willing  and  bishops'..^ 
 commandins:  them,  and  every  of  them,  in  the  Queen'^s  ^la- ofcauter- 
 
 o  "^  '-  bury. 
 
 jesty's  name,  without  delay  to  cause  the  tenor  of  her  Ma- 
 jesty's said  letters  to  be  executed  through  every  of  their 
 several  dioceses  and  jurisdictions,  as  well  in  places  exempt  as 
 not  exempt,  as  to  them  and  every  of  them  shall  appertain. 
 And  thus  I  bid  your  lordship  most  heartily  well  to  fare  as 
 myself.  From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  the  24th  of  May, 
 1568. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  and  my  loving 
 brother,  the  bishop  of  London,  give 
 these. 
 
 21- 
 
Parker  writes 
 asjatn,  urging 
 the  College 
 to  comply 
 with  the  re- 
 commenda- 
 tion on  behalf 
 ofMrsFobter. 
 
 324  ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  THE  WARDEN  OF  ALL  SOULS'  COLL.  [1568. 
 
 CCXLVIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  THE  WARDEN  OF  ALL  SOULS* 
 COLLEGE,  OXFORD. 
 
 1st  June,  15G8.   Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  205.  p.  729.     Parker's 
 
 Draft. 
 
 I  AM  much  ashamed  to  write  so  oft  in  a  matter  belonging 
 to  your  College,  but  that  I  see  they  be  worshipful  that  be 
 suitors  to  you  and  may  do  your  College  pleasure  if  they  be 
 gratefully  considered  ;  and  also  for  that  this  gentlewoman,  ^Mrs 
 Foster,  desireth  nothing  to  the  College  hinderance,  but  much 
 to  the  advancement  of  the  same,  as  offering  forty  mark  but 
 for  a  part  of  that  she  sueth  for,  and  threescore  pound  for  a 
 fine^;  so  that  as  I  have  been  alway  answered,  your  tenants  may 
 be  preferred  as  you  list  yourself,  which  hitherto  hath  been 
 made  the  chief  stay  for  not  granting.  "Whereupon  for  that 
 your  friends  hath  been  fed  with  hope  of  their  reasonable 
 request  by  the  doubtful  and  variableness  of  your  answers,  I 
 would  now  at  the  conclusion  give  you  counsel  to  protract  the 
 time  no  longer,  so  to  drive  the  poor  gentlewoman  and  her 
 friends  to  be  at  further  charge,  as  she  hath  sustained  hitherto 
 the  charge  well  nigh  of  forty  pounds  so  that  your  College 
 might  have  been  preferred,  and  she  at  less  charge,  whereof 
 I  pray  you  have  consideration.  And  thus  I  bid  you  well  to 
 fare.    From  my  manor  at  Croydon,  this  first  day  of  June,  1568. 
 
 Your  loving  friend. 
 
 Parker  soli- 
 cits for  his 
 steward  a 
 lease  of  a 
 farm  of  the 
 Queen's  in 
 Suffolk,  for- 
 merly let  at 
 £4,  but  now 
 at  £50  per 
 annum. 
 
 CCXLIX. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 11th  June,  [I0G8].    S.  P.  O.  Domestic,  1508,     Orig. 
 
 Whereas  Mr  Colby,  my  steward,  a  gentleman  of  a  very 
 honest  nature  and  grateful  to  his  friends,  would  fain  be  a 
 suitor  to  the  Queen's  Highness  by  your  mediation,  for  a  farm 
 lying  just  to  a  piece  of  his  land  in  Suffolk  ;  which  farm  was 
 once  let  (as  he  saith)  for  four  pounds  yearly,  but  now  drawn  up 
 
 [^  On  the  back  of  this  draft  the  archbishop  has  noted :  "  Mistress 
 Foster  offcreth  £>  Ix  fine  and  xl  mark  rent,  for  £xx  before ;  leaving 
 almost  two  third  parts  for  the  tenants."] 
 
15C8.]  ARClin.    I'AUKKU   TO  SIR   WII MAM   (  i;(  II,.  325 
 
 to  tho  yearly  rent  of  fifty  poiimls,  wiruli  yet  for  llio  coniniodity 
 of  tho  nigliiiess  ho  wouM  bo  ^lad  to  he  fanner  there  and  pay 
 that  rent.  Ho  secmeth  to  bo  abashed  to  crave  your  favour 
 by  himself,  hut  lio  can  consider  by  whom  ho  is  pleasured 
 with  thankfulness.  Sir,  I  seo  so  much  lionesty  in  him  that  I 
 cannot  less  do  but  commend  his  suit  to  you,  referring  yet 
 this  and  all  other  such  requests  to  your  wisdom  and  discretion. 
 1  am  nuich  careful  for  tho  success  that  may  rise  to  tho 
 (Jueen's  person  and  tho  realm  by  the  arrival  of  tho  Scottish 
 Lady*.      I   fear  iiuod  bona  Iie(/i)ia  nostra   aurihus   /f/;>»m  Parkcr\fear 
 
 .  '^  (III  the  arrival 
 
 tenet.      1  trust  in  bod  vc  have  amonjjst  yourselves  well  con- "f  Mary 
 
 •■  o         %/  giutn  of 
 
 suited.  God  grant  tho  event  of  your  counsel  to  bo  prosper-  ^\;'!i7,|j 
 ous.  As  it  cannot  ho  but  that  many  eyes  bo  set  wide  open 
 upon  the  Queen's  Highness,  to  note  her  behaviour  and  go- 
 vernance, so,  in  mine  opinion,  nothing  hath  chanced  cxternly 
 to  her  Majesty  wherein  her  prudcnco  shall  be  more  marked 
 and  spied;  which  God  rule  to  his  glory  and  to  her  own  safe- 
 guard, whereto  my  prayer  shall  bend. 
 
 It  had  become  me  to  have  done  my  duty  of  coming  to 
 the  Court,  but,  in  good  taith,  I  carry  about  me  such  a  casual 
 body,  vexed  with  tho  stone,  that  I  cannot  do  as  I  would. 
 Thus  I  wish  to  your  honour  all  felicity  in  God.  From  my 
 house  at  Croydon,  this  11th  of  June. 
 
 Yours  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTH.  CAXT. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  William  Cecily 
 knight,  principal  secretary  to  the  Queen's 
 Highness,  aiid  one  of  her  privy  council; 
 at  the  Court. 
 
 CCL. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  GILBERT  GERRARD^. 
 
 21st  June,   [15CS].      Parker  MSS.   C.   C.  Coll.   Camb.    cxiv.  art.   258.   p.   715. 
 Parker's  Draft. 
 
 I  MARVEL  much  that  the  fellows  of  Merton  College  should  ^.^e' Mu.i!;"' 
 be  so  much  grieved  with  one  order  we  made  for  three  only  cou'eRc'are 
 
 di:>^tisttcd 
 
 [2  Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  hiiulcd  at  Workington  on  the  IGth  May, 
 1568.] 
 
 [3  Sir  Gilbert's  letter,  to  which  this  is  an  answer,  is  tlated  from 
 London,  June  21st,  15G8.    It  is  in  Parker  MS.  cxiv.  art.  258.  p.  713.  J 
 
32G  ARCIIB.  PARKER   TO  SIR   GILBERT   GERRARD,        [1568. 
 
 with  a  recent  prlcsts  to  be  wltliin  the  Colleo'e,  whereunto  they  be  all  form  [sicl 
 
 or.ier,  that        |  .  11/.  /.11 
 
 there  should  bj  statutc,  and  amongst  the  number  ot  twenty  of  them  that 
 thi^coir'^e'"  ^^^  three  are  disposed  to  serve  the  realm  in  that  holy  minis- 
 try, but  would  in  idle  pleasures  wear  out  their  lives.  I  can- 
 not of  conscience  favour  them  therein.  And  of  late  hearing 
 of  a  bye-statute  they  had,  that  none  of  the  younger  fellows 
 might  be  priests,  I  dispensed  with  them  in  that  statute, 
 whereby  they  might  the  better  come  to  their  number  of 
 three.      They  ought  all  to  be  ^  and  so  the  nigher  to 
 
 onephy-  be  divincs.  There  is  one  physician  amongst  them  tolerated 
 Itedforthe  for  tho  reading  of  Linacre's  lesson  within  their  house,  which 
 Linacre's      else  should  bo  to  the  more  shame  of  the  house  if  outward 
 
 lecture. 
 
 students  should  read  it.  I  am  sorry  that  Latham  ^  should 
 deceive  mine  expectation  to  abhor  the  ministry,  being  one  of 
 the  ancients,  to  give  good  example  to  the  house ;  but  because 
 I  hear  their  warden  shall  shortly  come  home^  he  shall  take 
 order  amongst  them.  I  think  ye  should  be  Latham's  better 
 friend  to  move  him  to  the  ministry,  for  whom  ve  might  soon 
 provide.  And  I  am  sorry  that  this  matter  being  of  this  con- 
 gruence I  cannot  pleasure  your  request  as  else  I  would. 
 Evils  that  Surely,  ^Ir  Attorney,  if  there  be  no  preachers  to  maintain 
 there  be  no  ChHst's  rcligion,  to  move  the  subjects' hearts  in  persuasion  of 
 obedience  to  the  prince,  and  the  tenants  to  their  landlords, 
 neither  Westminster  Hall  will  long  continue  nor  outward  force 
 will  rule  the  matter :  in  which  consideration  methink,  where 
 founders  hath  bestowed  their  cost  to  bring  them  up  that  way, 
 to  deceive  God  and  the  world,  I  think  it  not  reasonable.  And 
 thus,  pinched  at  this  time  with  a  shrewd  fit  of  the  stone,  I 
 wish  you  God's  grace  and  health  as  to  myself.  From  my 
 house  at  Croydon,  this  21st  of  June. 
 
 Your  loving  friend. 
 
 o 
 
 [1  A  word  here  has  baffled  all  attempts  to  decipher  it.] 
 [2  The  bearer  of  the  letter  of  Sir  Gilbert  Gerrard  to  the  arch- 
 bishop.     Latham  now   professed  to  be  studying  for  the  law.      See 
 before.  Letter  CCXXXVIIL] 
 
 [3  Mann,  the  warden,  had  been  sent  as  the  Queen's  ambassador 
 into  Spain.] 
 
ir>("!S.]  AKCIin.    rAKKKIt   TO   sill    WM.I.IAM   Cl-l  11..  ^27 
 
 ecu. 
 
 ARCHRISIIOP  rARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 4th  Julv,  f  l5Gf<J.     S.  v.  ().  DonuMtif.     Orip. 
 
 Sir, 
 I   wouM)   prav   your   honour  to  pcruso  anil  to  correct  Thmrch 
 these  letters^,  which  may  be  anjain  engrossed,  and  if  some  of « inur to »» 
 
 .  .  .     "^  ®  ^  .         .  »tKnfd  by  the 
 
 tlio  council  will  subscribe  to  them,  I  trust  it  will  turn  to  some  councu. 
 good.     The  princes  beforetimes,  as  Henry  the  od  in  his  31st 
 
 [*  The  letter  alluilod  to  related  to  tho  preservation  of  ancient 
 M-ritings.  It  exists  in  tho  followini;  forni  in  Parker  MS.  cxiv.  art. 
 1*2.  p.  49  :  "Whereas  tho  Queen's  Majesty,  having  like  caro  and  zeal 
 as  divers  of  her  progenitors  have  had  before  times  for  tho  conserva- 
 tion of  such  ancient  records  and  monuments,  written  of  tho  state 
 and  aflairs  of  these  her  reahns  of  Enghmd  and  Ireland,  which  here- 
 tofore were  preserved  and  recorded  by  special  appointment  of  certain 
 of  her  ancestors,  in  divers  Abbeys,  to  be  as  treasure-houses,  to  keep 
 and  leave  in  memorj'  such  occurrents  as  fell  in  their  times.  And  for 
 that  most  of  the  same  writings  and  records  so  kept  in  the  monas- 
 teries are  now  come  to  the  possession  of  sundiy  private  persons,  and 
 so  partly  remain  obscure  and  unknown :  in  which  said  records  be 
 mentioned  such  historical  matters  and  monuments  of  antiquity,  both 
 for  the  state  ecclesiastical  and  civil  government.  Whereupon  we  of 
 the  Queen's  Majesty's  priv}'  council,  knowing  her  express  pleasure  ia 
 tho  same,  have  thought  good  to  write  these  our  letters  to  all  and  sin- 
 gular her  subjects  within  her  realm  of  England,  to  notify  her  pleasure: 
 which  is,  that  the  most  reverend  father  in  God  and  our  very  good 
 lord  the  archbishop  of  Canterbury  should  have  a  special  care  and 
 oversight  in  these  matters  aforesaid.  And  thereupon  we  will  and 
 require  you,  that  when  the  said  archbishop  shall  send  his  lettei-s,  or 
 any  of  his  learned  deputies,  having  these  our  letters,  and  requesting 
 to  have  the  sight  of  any  such  ancient  records  or  monuments  written, 
 being  in  your  custody,  that  you  would  at  tho  contemplation  of  these 
 our  letters  gently  impart  the  same.  Not  meaning  liercby,  in  tho 
 use  of  such  books  for  a  time,  to  withdraw  them  from  your  right  and 
 interest  unto  them,  but  after  a  time  of  perusing  of  the  same  upon 
 promise  or  hand,  to  make  restitution  of  thorn  again  safely  into  your 
 hands,  to  be  safely  kept  hereafter,  so  as  both  when  any  need  shall 
 require  resort  may  be  made  for  the  testimony  that  may  be  found 
 in  them,  and  also  by  conference  of  them  the  antiquity  of  the  state  of 
 these  countries  may  be  restored  to  the  knowledge  of  the  world.  In 
 which  your  doing  ye  shall  not  only  shew  yourself  grateful  subjects  to 
 the  Queen's  Majesty,  your  natural  prince,  but  also  shall  minister 
 friendly  occasion  to  us  to  give  you  thanks,  as  opportunity  shall  serve, 
 in  any  of  your  causes,    as  may  rise  upon  the  report  of  the  said 
 
328  ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL.  [1568. 
 
 year,  caused  all  the  chronicles  to  be  searched  concerning  the 
 superiority  over  Scotland;  they  were  by  certain  delegates 
 perused  and  drawn  in  articles,  reporting  the  books  where  they 
 were.  It  were  good  such  records  should  remain,  &c.  In 
 story  it  is  reported  that  the  prince  of  the  realm  by  right  is 
 not  Dominus  Hibernice,  but  Rex  Hihernioe.  It  were  pity  such 
 records  should  be  spoiled.  If  ye  think  this  motion  good,  I 
 am  content  to  set  some  of  my  men  in  work ;  and  if  this 
 opportunity  be  not  taken  in  our  time,  it  will  not  so  well  be 
 done  hereafter.  Thus  I  wish  your  honour  grace  in  good, 
 and  good  success  in  your  journey,  and  a  good  successor  in 
 Yorki. 
 
 From  my  house  at  Croydon,  this  4th  of  July. 
 
 Your  honour's  evermore  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTH.  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  rigid  lionouraMe  Sir  William  Cecily 
 Jc7iig]it,  principal  secretary  to  the  Queens 
 Majesty. 
 
 CCLII. 
 
 THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 5th  July,  1568.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  CoU.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  31.  p.  101.     Grig. 
 
 After  our  right  hearty  commendations  to  your  good 
 lordship.  Where  of  late  we  caused  divers  gentlemen  of 
 Cheshire  to  be  committed  to   ward  for  their  disobedience  in 
 
 archbishop.  And  thus  we  bid  you  well  to  fare.    From  Howard  Place, 
 the  seventh  of  July,  1568. 
 
 N.  BACON,  C.  S.  T.  XORFFOLKE.  W.  NORTHT. 
 
 R.  LEYCESTER.  W.   HOWARD. 
 
 W.   CECYLL." 
 
 There  is  both  a  printed  and  written  copy  of  the  above  letter 
 amongst  the  Parker  MSS.  The  latter  may  perhaps  be  the  original, 
 though  the  signatures  have  been  cut  off.  The  former  has  the  follow- 
 ing attestation  subscribed:  Facta  collatione  hujus  script!  cum  origi- 
 nali,  in  custodia  suprascripti  reverendissimi  patris  existente,  per  me 
 Johannem  Incent,  notarium  publicum,  ejusdem  reverendissimi  patris 
 registrarium  principalcm,  concordat  cum  eadem.      J.  Incent.] 
 
 \}  Archbishop  Thomas  Young  died  2Gth  June,  1568.] 
 
nm- 
 iiiKlrtl  to 
 
 irJohn 
 orth. 
 
 1568.]  THE  LORDS  OF  TIU:  COUNCIL  TO  AUCIIM.  PARKER.  329 
 
 refusing  to  answer  upon  their  oath  before  the  bishop  of  Chester  ffiJit^fJ';. 
 unto  sucli  matter  and  articles  as  was  objected  against  them  :  ^",!^/jJ"^\u'i 
 albeit  all   the  rest  of  the  said  persons  have  since  tiiat  time,  ('h,-I.'i!yi.,wn 
 upon  their  humble  submission  and  otVer  to  reform  themselves  ^' 
 and  to  answer  unto  the  said  articles  before  the  said  bishop,  ^^^ 
 been  set  at  liberty,  and  sent  down  to  him  for  that  purpose 
 into  that  country  ;  yet  Sir  John  South  worth  only  amouf'st  the  nmong^t 
 rest  refusing  to  follow  that  order,  hath  been  still  continued  in  ^;y|,'^X.' 
 ward  hitherto.      And  forasmuch   as  he  now  also  in   the  end  '/.fl'tu'dT  *'''*' 
 hath  submitted  himself,  and  olVored  to  answer  upon  his  oath 
 unto  the  said  articles,  as  by  his  said  submission  (the  copy 
 whereof  we  send  unto   you   herewith)   you   may   at   better 
 length  perceive,   and  only  desircth  that  ho  may  not  be  com- 
 pelled to  do  the  same  either  before  the  said  bishop  of  Chester, 
 or  before  the  archbishop  of  York  (now  deceased),  upon  some 
 mistrust  which  it  sccmeth  ho  hath  conceived  that  he  should 
 not  find  such  indifference  at  the  said  bishop's  hands  as  were  but  sir  John 
 
 ,         ,    .  .  Southworth 
 
 convenient ;  we  liavc  thouirht  meet  to  pray  your  lordship  to  n^t  consider- 
 
 ^  X        t/      ^  1  jng  (ji.^t  he 
 
 call  the  said  Sir  John  Southworth  before  you  and  the  rest  of  .si>oui.i  find 
 
 «/  iin|)artiahty 
 
 the  commissioners  for  causes  ecclesiastical,  and  upon  his  cor-  iheS-^"''' 
 poral  oath  to  examine  him,  and  cause  him  to  answer  unto  qu^t«i1J^ 
 such  matter  as  shall  be  herewith  sent  you.      Which  if  you  .nSat'ion"*' 
 shall  find  him  to  do  willingly  and  obediently,  as  by  his  sub-  ro'thecSTn- 
 mission  he  offcreth,  we  pray  your  lordship  we  may  be  adver- 
 tised thereof  by  your  letters,  to  the  intent  that  if  we  shall 
 find   sufficient   cause   thereto,   we   may   be   means   unto   the 
 Queen's  ^lajesty  for  his  further  enlargement.      And  of  his 
 doings  and  behaviour,  together  with  his  depositions,  and  the 
 whole  circumstance  of  that  shall  have  passed  in  this  his  cause 
 before  you,  we  pray  your  lordship  we  may  receive  full  cer- 
 tificate in  due  form  from  you,  to  the  intent  we  may  cause  the 
 same  to  be  notified  unto  the  said  bishop  of  Chester,  which  for 
 divers  good  considerations  we  think  very  necessary.    And  so 
 we  bid  your  good  lordship  right  heartily  well  to  fare. 
 
 From  Greenwich,  the  5th  of  July,  1568. 
 
 Postscript.  "We  suppose  it  shall  be  well  done  that  your 
 lordship  and  the  rest  of  the  commissioners  do  deal  with  the 
 said  Sir  John  Southworth  only  for  his  answering  unto  the 
 matters  that  are  already  objected  against  him-,  thinking  it 
 
 [2  The  charges  against  him  will  bo  seen  in  the  form  of  submis- 
 sion appended  to  the  next  letter,   p.  330.     lie  at  first  refused,  but 
 
330      THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCIIB.  PARKER.     [15G8. 
 
 better  that  for  other  things  touching  his  conscience  he  be 
 rather  procured  to  be  won  by  persuasion  and  good  informa- 
 tion than  by  process  or  other  open  manner  of  deahng. 
 
 Your  good  lordship's  assured  loving  friends, 
 
 NOUFFOLK.  W.  NORTHT. 
 
 R.  LEYCESTER.    E.  CLYNTON.     W.  HOWARD. 
 
 W.  CECILL. 
 To  our  very  good  lord  tlie  archbishop 
 of  Canterbury. 
 
 CCLIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  THE  LORDS  OF  THE 
 COUNCIL. 
 
 14th  July,  [I0G8].    S.  P.  O.  Domestic.     Grig. 
 
 It  may  please  your  honours  to  understand  that  this  day, 
 
 being  the  14th  of  July,  I  have  had    Sir  John  Southworth 
 
 Sir  John       here  with  me,  according  to  your  lordships'  order.     I  offered 
 
 hasbler*^   him  the  form  of  submission  prescribed  by  your  honours^;  he 
 
 before  the 
 
 afterwards  consented  to  sign  the  submission.  In  the  next  year  (1569), 
 however,  he  was  taken  up  and  committed  to  the  custody  of  the 
 bishop  of  London,  and  afterwards  of  the  dean  of  St  Paul's.  See 
 Strype's  Parker,  Bk.  iii.  c.  19.] 
 
 [1  The  form  of  submission  which  was  returned  attached  to  Parker's 
 letter,  is  as  follows : 
 
 "  The  submission  of  Sir  John  Southworth,  knight,  made  the  — 
 of  July,  1568. 
 
 "  Where  I,  Sir  John  Southworth,  knight,  forgetting  my  duty 
 towards  God  and  the  Queen's  Majesty,  in  not  considering  my  due  obe- 
 dience for  the  observation  of  the  ecclesiastical  laws  and  orders  of  this 
 realm,  have  received  into  my  house  and  company,  and  there  relieved, 
 certain  priests,  who  have  not  only  refused  the  ministry,  but  also  in  my 
 hearing  have  spoken  against  the  present  state  of  religion  established 
 by  her  Majesty  and  the  states  of  her  realm  in  parliament ;  and  have 
 also  otherwise  misbehaved  myself  in  not  resorting  to  my  parish- 
 church  at  common  prayer,  nor  receiving  the  holy  communion  so  often 
 times  as  I  ought  to  have  done :  I  do  now  by  these  presents  most 
 humbly  and  unfeignedly  submit  myself  to  her  Majesty,  and  am 
 heartily  sorry  for  mine  offences  in  this  behalf,  both  towards  God  and 
 her  Majesty.  And  do  further  promise  to  her  Majesty  from  hence- 
 forth to  obey  all  her  Majesty's  laws  and  ordinances  set  forth  by  her 
 Majesty's  authority  in  all  matters  of  religion  and  orders  ecclesiastical, 
 and  to  behave  myself  therein  as  becometh  a  good,  humble,  and  obe- 
 
 I 
 
in 
 the 
 
 15G8.]        Anciin.  ivvukku  to  tiik  puivy  councii..  331 
 
 refused  to  submit  biin^elt'  to  any  such  subscription ;    his  con-  "';*'^^*|JJJ 
 scionco  cannot  servo  bin\   in   most  points  of  that  order.      He  ;;;,';;;;;|[* 
 offcreth  to  promise  not  to  rccoivo  or  sustain  any  such  dia- [.V;,;'"'"^  ^' 
 ordered  persons  as  heretofore  ho  hath  sustained  and  holpen. 
 Ho  further  seouioth  to  desire  tliut  he  may  bo  suffered  to  livo 
 accordinsr  unto   bis   conscionco,   and   dosireth   much   to  have  "••  '»«*«« 
 licence  to  cro  over  sea.     The  consideration  of  all  such  suits  I"ver»r«. 
 refer  to   vour  honourable  wisdoms,  which   I  beseech   God   to 
 assist  to  do  what  may  please  him  and  may  be  safety  to  tho 
 Queen's  Highness  and  to  the  state  of  the  realm.      From  my 
 house  at  Croydon,  this  foresaid  14th  day  of  July. 
 
 Your  honours'  to  command, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  most  honourable  my  very  good 
 lords,  the  lords  of  the  Queen's  Majesty* s 
 pn'ry  council.  Be  it  delivered.  At  the 
 Court. 
 
 CCLTY. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 lath  August,  [15GSJ.     S.  P.  O.  Domestic.    Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 After  my  hearty  commendations.      I  am  informed  that 
 one  of  my  brethren  late  bishop  of  Chichester  ^  should  be  de-  pi>^op"f 
 parted.     If  [sic]  when  the  Queen's  pleasure  shall  be  to  appoint  •^|'»'^';' 
 another,  I   pray  you  remember  her  chaplain  Mr  Curteys  to  [J.a,';^!, 
 
 tc<l. 
 irtcys 
 icens 
 i.iin, 
 
 dient  subject,  and  shall  not  impugn  any  of  the  said  laws  and  ordi- 
 nances by  any  open  speech,  or  by  writing  or  act  of  mine  own,  nor 
 wiUingly  suffer  any  other  in  my  company  to  offend  therein,  whom  I 
 may  reasonably  let  or  disallow;  nor  shall  assist,  maintain,  relieve  or 
 comfort  any  person  living  either  out  of  this  realm  without  the  Queen's 
 Majesty's  licence,  or  within  this  realm,  being  commonly  known  to  bo 
 an  offender  against  tho  said  laws  and  orders  now  established  for 
 godly  religion,  as  is  aforesaid.  And  in  this  doing  I  firmly  trust  to 
 have  her  Majesty  my  gracious  good  lady,  as  hitherto  I  and  all  other 
 her  subjects  have  marvellously  tasted  of  her  mercy  and  goodness.'*] 
 
 [2  Bishop  William  Barlow,  bishop  of  Chichester,  1559 — 1568.  Tho 
 person  recommended  by  the  archbishop,  Dr  Richard  Curteys,  was 
 ultimately  appointed  to  the  vacant  see,  but  not  until  April  1570.] 
 
332 
 
 ARCIIB.  PARKER  TO  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL. 
 
 [1568. 
 
 edTJTh?^'  ^^^^^  office.  The  choice  is  not  great  otherwhere,  and  he 
 vacant  see.  feeing  an  honcst  learned  man,  I  would  trust  that  he  should 
 well  supply  it,  to  God's  honour,  and  to  the  Qiieen''s  content- 
 ation.  He  is  now  but  a  poor  man  and  wanteth  living ;  his 
 age  is  competent.  I  would  be  loth  it  should  fall  upon  one 
 such  body  as,  I  am  informed  by  his  friends,  make  suit  for  it. 
 Complaints  'We  of  this  ordcr  learn  by  experience  what  rule  Gloucester^ 
 ofGiouce^ter.  makoth  in  his  people.  He  is  so  old  that  he  would  bring  his 
 people  to  his  contemplations,  which  he  laboureth  to  do,  but 
 spyeth  that  he  shall  never,  and  thereupon  wisheth  he  were 
 discharged,  which  he  hath  pretended  a  long  time.  But  he 
 meaneth  another  thing.  At  this  very  present  time  I  have 
 little  else  to  write,  and  must  make  an  end  the  sooner,  for  the 
 unreasonable  rheum  and  catarrh  that  hath  this  four  or  five 
 days  unreasonably  reigned  upon  me.  From  my  house  at 
 Lambeth,  this  19th  of  August. 
 
 Your  honour's  loving^  friend, 
 
 MATTH.  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  rigid  honourable  Sir  WiUlam 
 Cecil f  Jcnight,  principal  secretary  to 
 the  Queen's  Majesty.    At  the  Court. 
 
 CCLV, 
 
 IMJIANUEL  TREMELLIUS  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 Tremellius 
 understands 
 from  letters 
 of  the  bishop 
 of  London, 
 that  his  let- 
 ters sent  by 
 ambass;idors 
 from  the 
 churches  in 
 Flanders  had 
 not  been 
 delivered. 
 His  great  re- 
 gret. 
 
 IGth  September,  1568.   Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  300.  p.  827.  Orig. 
 
 Reverendissime  Domine,  patrone  benignissime.  Ex 
 Uteris  reverendissimi  Londinensis  intelligo  meas  literas  tua9 
 celsitudini  non  esse  redditas,  quas  per  Flandricae  ecclesise 
 secundos  legates  miseram.  Ob  quam  rem  sane  vehementer 
 doleo.  Videor  enim  vestrarum  celsitudinum  et  beneficiorum 
 immemor  omnia  silentio  sepelivisse.  Cum  tamen  re  vera  nee 
 obHtus  sim,  nee  unquam  oblivioni  sim  traditurus,  ego  summopere 
 cupio  ut  C.  T.  jubeat  inquiri  de  memoratis  Flandricae  ecclesiae 
 secundis  legatis,  et  cognoscat  quid  de  illis  Uteris  egerint,  quas 
 
 [1  Bishop  Cheney,  see  before,  pp.  138,  213.] 
 
15G8.]  IMMANIEL  TIlEMELI.irs  TO  AIUIIU.  I'AIIKKH.  333 
 
 a  mo  aJ  C.'V.,  ml  Ptunlmiin  Londinonscm  ct  ad  I).  I  Itiiriciim 
 Kiiolliuin  i>crferondas  acooporuiit.  Nam  cos  Lomlinum  tutu 
 porvonisse  aiulio. 
 
 Libri  mci  priutcr  expocUtioncm  meam  adhuc  scrvantur  a  ,',';*  I^;;*^''^*^ 
 typographo:  iU  iit  ab  co  doccptus   alios   nolens   dcccpcrim.  "'"'*"'"*^ 
 Promittlt   quidcin   intra  sex  soptlinanas  prodituros  esse  libros 
 sed    nescio   lumi   toties   doceptiis   credcro  ct   aliis    proiuittcro 
 audeam.      Cum    prodierint   non   committaiii    ut    crga    C.   T.  ^^^^^"ub- 
 habcar  ingratus.    Uxor  C.  T.  rcvereiiter  salutat  ct  iinmortales  llm*"lhllw 
 
 11,  •  T^  .  .•  J      /^  1     ri>        T  ,  himself  CTate- 
 
 habct  gratias.      Kogat   ctiam   una   mccum   ut  C.  1.  dignctur  fuHoParkcr. 
 optimam  dominam  una  cum  utroque  filio  nostris  verbis  salu- <«««  from 
 
 *  .        -"^  ,  his  wife  to 
 
 tare.     In  hoc  mercatorum  strcnitu  plura  scribcrc  non  possum,  I'arkL-r  hu 
 
 ^  ^  ^         ^        '  wifcandtoiu. 
 
 ct  C.  T.  ore  ut  brcvitatem  boni  consulat.  Data  occasiono 
 scribam  copiosius.  Deus  ac  Pater  coolestis  tuam  celsitudincm 
 cum  tota  familia  quam  diutissimc  incolumcm  conservct.  Fran- 
 cofurdi,  1(J  Soptcmbris,  1568.      Kaptim. 
 
 T.  celsitudini  addictisslmus, 
 
 IMANUEL  TREMELLIUS^ 
 
 ReverencUssimo  D.  D.  Matthceo  ParJcero, 
 archiejDiscopo  Cantuariensi  et  totuts  An- 
 (jl'ue  primati,  domino  ac  patrono  meo 
 ckmentiasimo.     Lambeth,  in  Anrjlla^. 
 
 CCLVI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  TARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 22nd  September,  [15G8J.    S.  P.  O.  Domestic.     Grig. 
 
 Salvtem  in   Christo.      Sir,   I  have  received  your  letter, 
 and  shall  perform  that  your  desire  concerning  Mr  AVelles,  Mr  weiiei. 
 when  he  cometh  to   me  or  any  of  his  factors.      I  hear  his 
 knowledge  and  honesty  to  be  well  reported. 
 
 [2  Trcmellius  was  a  converted  Jew  ;  a  very  learned  man.  During 
 the  reign  of  Edward  VL  ho  and  his  wife  were  received  with  great 
 favour  in  England.  Ho  was  for  several  years  teacher  of  Hebrew  at 
 Cambridge,  and  at  that  place  Parker  became  acquainted  with  him. 
 On  the  accession  of  Mary,  Tremellius  retired  to  the  continent,  and 
 at  the  date  of  this  letter  was  professor  of  Hebrew  at  Heidelberg.] 
 
 [3  Note  by  the  archbishop :  rec.  20  Novemh.  1568.] 
 
334  ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL.  [1568. 
 
 So  after  much  toil  of  the  printer,  and  some  labours  taken 
 
 of  some  parties  for  the  setting  out  and  recognising  of  the 
 
 The  revision  English  Biblc,  we  be  now  come  to  a  conclusion  for  the  sub- 
 
 fish  Bible"     staucc  of  the  book.     Some  ornaments  of  the  same  be  3"et 
 
 completed.      ,      ,  .  .  -,  ,       i  •  •  mi     •      i 
 
 lacking ;  praying  your  honour  to  bear  m  patience  till  it  be 
 Thearch-  ^^lly  ready.  I  do  mean,  by  God's  grace,  if  my  health  will 
 t'dtSmthe  serve  me  better  than  it  is  at  this  time,  to  present  the  Queen's 
 Si?Qu^m^  Highness  with  the  first,  as  soon  as  I  can  hear  her  Majesty  to 
 hears tiie  has  bo  como  to  Hamptou  Court,  which  we  hear  will  be  within 
 
 come  to  .  •iT«i/^i 
 
 Hampton  eight  or  niuo  days,  which  (jrod  prosper,  and  send  to  your 
 honour  grace  and  health  as  I  wish  to  myself.  From  my 
 house  at  Lambeth,  this  22nd  of  September. 
 
 Your  honour's  loving  friend, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  hnight,  principal  secretary  to 
 the  Queen's  Majesty.     At  the  Court. 
 
 CCLVII. 
 
 Parker's 
 
 ARCHBISHOP   PA.RKER   TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 5th  October,  [1568].    S.  P.  O.  Domestic.    Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 After  my  right  hearty  commendations  ;  I  was  in  purpose 
 heakh  is       to  havc  offcrod  to  the  Queen's  Highness  the  first-fruits  of  our 
 
 such, that  he  .  ,  O 
 
 vemur^to'^"  -^^bo^^s  lu  tho  recognisiug  the  Bible,  but  I  feel  my  health  to 
 SewTduion  ^®  s^^^  *^^*  ^s  yet  I  dare  not  adventure.  Whereupon  for 
 °o  JhlQue'e^n:  that  I  would  uot  have  the  Queen's  Highness  and  your  honour 
 
 to  be  long  delayed,  nor  the  poor  printer,  after  his  great 
 sendsTcopy  chargcs,  to  be  longer  deferred,  I  have  caused  one  book  to  be 
 presen"  °    bouud    as    yo    soe,  which   I  heartily  pray   you   to   present 
 
 favourably  to  the  Queen's  Majesty,  with  your  friendly  excuse 
 
 of  my  disability  in  not  coming  myself, 
 t"^' the  Queen,         I  have  also  Written  to  the   Queen's  Majesty,  the  copy 
 asndsacopy.  whcrcof  I  havo  Sent  you^  the  rather  to  use  your  opportunity 
 
 of  dehvery,  if  your  prudence  shall  not  think  them  tolerable. 
 ?no^teoP"'^^         And  because  I  would  you  knew  all,  I  here  send  you  a 
 those  who     j^Q^g   ^Q  signify   who   first   travailed   in   the   divers   books 2, 
 
 [1  The  letter  inclosed  is  printed  Xo.  CCLYIIL  p.  337.] 
 
 [2    The  following  is  the  List  of  the  Revisers  of  the  several  books 
 
15(38.]  AllCIin.   I'AUKBR  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CKCIL.  335 
 
 though  after  thorn  some  other  perusing  was  had  ;   tho  letters  I'„'V»i"Jver'«i 
 of  their  named  be  pifi-tly  atlixcJ  in  tho  end  of  their  books  ;  '•""'^ 
 
 iiicloseil  ill  this  letter,  ami  still  reinaiiiini,'  with  it  in  tho   State  Taper 
 Uffico : 
 
 Tho  sum  of  tho  Scrij>turo  . 
 
 Tho  Tahles  of  Christ's  lino 
 
 Tho  Ari;uinent  of  the  Scriptures  .      ,.    ^         r.,      ,»    ,       t 
 
 „,.      r     .  i>     ♦•        •   *     *i         u   1     nil       I  ^1-  Cant.  ^Abp  rarker.J 
 1  ho  first  rretace  into  tho  whole  Bible  *-      *  •' 
 
 Tho   Preface  into  tho  Psalter 
 
 The  Preface    into  tho  New   Testament 
 
 Exodus   }  ^^'  ^^"^-    ^^^^  Parker.] 
 
 Leviticus  )    Cantuariac.  [?  Andrew  Picrson,  prebend  of  Can- 
 
 Numerus  j    terbury.] 
 
 Deuteronomium }  W.  Exon.   [Bp  Alley.] 
 
 Josuas  ^ 
 
 JudiCUm  ^        ,r  rx,        -r^         .  -I 
 
 ,,     ,  >  R.  Mcneven.  [Bp  Davies.J 
 
 Regum,  1,2.  J 
 
 Regum,  3,  4.  |  ^^   Wigovn.    [Bp  Sandys.] 
 
 Paralipomcnon,  1,  2.  j  ^  ^   ^  "^    -" 
 
 Job       .      "l    Cantuarice.    [?  Andrew  Pierson,  prebend  of  Can- 
 Pro  verbia  j    terbury.] 
 
 Ecclesiastes  |  Cantabrigia;.  [Andrew  Pome,  Master  of  Peter- 
 Cantica      .  j   House,  and  dean  of  Ely.] 
 Ecclesiasticus 
 
 p.  *     "  I  J.  Xorwic.  [Bp  Parkhurst.] 
 
 Maccabeorum  J 
 Esdras        .  a 
 
 T  h*  *   >  W.  Cicestren.  [Bp  Barlow.] 
 
 Sapientia   .  J 
 
 Esaias       .        .  ] 
 
 Hierimias         .  >  R.  Winton.   [Bp  Home.] 
 
 Lamontationes  J 
 
 p.     .  ,      >  J.  Lich.  and  Covent.    [Bp  Bentham.] 
 
 Propheto)  I  j,j   London.   [Bp  Grindal.] 
 minores     j  l   r  j 
 
 Matthteusj  jj   j,^^^    [Abp  Parker.] 
 INIareus      j  *■      r  j 
 
 J  ,  V  Ed.  Peterb.   [Bp  Scambler.] 
 
336 
 
 ARCHB.   PARKER   TO  SIR  WILLIAM   CECIL. 
 
 [1568. 
 
 Ihenfuu?"  wiiich  I  thought  a  policy  to  shew  them,  to  make  them  more 
 
 othenlcrus-    cliligcnt,  as  answerable  for  their  doings.      I  have  remembered 
 With  the  Ob-  you  of  such  observations  as  my  first  letters  sent  to  them  (by 
 
 scrvations 
 in  his  first 
 
 the  r?vi.se"rs^"  things  havo  scapod,  which  may  be  lawful  to  every  man,  cum 
 vice.^*"  ^^    bona  venia,    to  amend   when   they   find  them;    non  omnia 
 
 your  advice)  did  signify  \     It  may  be  that  in  so  long  a  work 
 
 \   M.  Cant.   [Abp  Parker.] 
 
 J-  N.  Lincoln.    [Bp  Bullingliam.] 
 
 Acta  Apostolorumj  ^   j.,.^^^.^    \;r^Cox:\ 
 Ad  Romanos  .      .  ;  l   i  j 
 
 1  Epistola  Corin. }  D.  "Westmon.   [Dr  Gabriel  Goodman.] 
 
 2  Epistola  Corin.  ^ 
 Ad  Galatas     .     . 
 Ad  Ephesios 
 Ad  Philippenses. 
 Ad  CoUossenses 
 Ad  Thessalon.     . 
 Ad  Timotheum  . 
 Ad  Titum      .     . 
 Ad  Philemon 
 Ad  Ilebreos 
 Epistolce  CanonicsG 
 Apocalipsis 
 
 This  list  does  not  entirely  agree  with  the  letters  of  their  names 
 partly  affixed  "by  the  revisers"  at  the  end  of  their  books.  Those 
 letters  are  as  follows:  At  the  end  of  Deuteronomy,  W.  E.  ;  of  the 
 Second  Book  of  Samuel,  R.  M.  ;  of  the  Second  Book  of  Chronicles, 
 E.  W. ;  of  Job,  A.  P.  C. ;  of  Psalms,  omitted  in  the  archbishop's 
 enumeration  just  printed,  T.  B. ;  of  Proverbs,  A.  P.  C.  ;  of  Song  of 
 Solomon,  A.  P.  E. ;  of  Jeremiah,  R.  W.  ;  of  Daniel,  T.  C.  L. ;  of 
 Malachi,  E.  L. ;  of  the  Second  Book  of  Maccabees,  J.  N. ;  of  the  Acts 
 of  the  Apostles,  R.  E. ;  of  Romans,  R.  E. ;  of  1st  Corinthians,  G.G.] 
 
 \}  Observations  respected  of  the  translators : 
 
 First,  to  follow  the  common  English  translation  used  in  the 
 churches,  and  not  to  recede  from  it  but  where  it  varieth  manifestly 
 from  the  Hebrew  or  Greek  original. 
 
 Item,  to  use  sections  and  divisions  in  the  texts  as  Pagnine  in  his 
 translation  useth,  and  for  the  verity  of  the  Hebrew  to  follow  the  said 
 Pagnine  and  Munster  specially,  and  generally  others  learned  in  the 
 tongues. 
 
 Item,  to  make  no  bitter  notes  upon  any  ioxi^  or  yet  to  set  down 
 any  determination  in  places  of  controversy. 
 
 Item,  to  note  such  chapters  and  places  as  contain  matter  of 
 genealogies,  or  other  such  places  not  edifying,  with  some  strike  or 
 note,  that  the  reader  may  eschew  them  in  his  public  reading. 
 
 Item,  that  all  such  words  as  sound  in  the  old  translation  to  any 
 
15C8.]  AUCIin.    PAUKER   TO  SIR    WIM.IAM    CECIL.  337 
 
 possumus  omnes.  Tho  printer  hixih  honestly  done  his  dili- 
 gence;  if  your  honour  would  obtain  of  the  (Queen's  Iliirhncsa 
 that  this  edition  might  be  licensed  and  only  conunended  in  j;;m*Jif, 
 public  reading  in  churches,  to  draw  to  one  uniformity,  it  fj,';';:;;;^^;;' 
 were  no  great  cost  to  the  most  parishes,  and  a  relief  to  him  ;',[.'„';';Mj,h 
 for  his  great  charges  sustained.  The  psalters  might  remain  o;/,'',','',',!?!,*! 
 in  quires,  as  they  bo  much  multiplied,  but  where  of  their  own  iirihurdlrt. 
 accord  they  would  use  this  translation. 
 
 Sir,  1  pray  your  honour  be  a  mean  that  Juggo  only  may  i;|^^^°";,^,.e 
 have  the  preferment  of  this  edition  ;  for  if  any  other  should  ;;,;■•;;  ^^yl^l^ 
 lurch  him  to  steal  from   him  these  copies,  he  were  a  great  *^'^'"" " 
 loser  in  this  first  doing.     And,  sir,  without  doubt  he  hath 
 well  deserved  to  be  preferred :   a  man  would  not  think  that 
 he  had  devoured  so  much  pain  as  he  hath  sustained.     Thus  I 
 wish  your  honour  all  grace,  virtue,  and  health,  as  to  myself. 
 From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this  fifth  of  October. 
 
 Your  honour'^s  loving  friend, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  Inight,  principal  secretari/  to 
 the  Queens  Majesty,  and  one  of  her 
 privy  council,  be  it  delivered. 
 
 CCLVIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  QUEEN  ELIZABETH. 
 
 [5th  October,  15G3.]     S.  P.  O.  Domestic.     Copy  inclosed  in  the  preceding. 
 
 After  my  most  lowly  submission  to  your  Majesty,  with 
 my  hearty   rejoice  of  your  prosperous  progress  and  return. 
 Pleaseth  it  your  Highness  to  accept  in  good  part  the  endeavour  presents  to 
 and  diligence  of  some  of  us  your  chaplains,  my  brethren  the  fhjncw^'^ 
 bishops,  with  other  certain  learned  men,   in  this  new  edition  of'ihe"Bibie. 
 of  the  Bible.    I  trust  by  comparison  of  divers  translations  put 
 forth  in  your  realm,  will  appear  as  well  the  workmanship  of 
 
 offence  of  lightness  or  obscenity,  be  expressed  with  more  convenient 
 terms  and  phrases. 
 
 The  printer  hath  bestowed  his  thickest  paper  in  the  New  Testa- 
 ment, because  it  shall  bo  most  occupied.] 
 
 00 
 [park.  roR.] 
 
338 
 
 ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  QUEEN  ELIZABETH. 
 
 [1568. 
 
 Workman- 
 ship of  the 
 lirintcr  and 
 circuinspec- 
 tioii  of  the 
 revisers. 
 
 No  unneces- 
 sary altera- 
 tion. 
 
 Prays  that  it 
 may  be 
 licensed  for 
 reading  in 
 churches. 
 
 Parker's  ad- 
 ditions. 
 
 This  only  a 
 
 necessary 
 
 treasure. 
 
 the  printer,  as  the  circumspection  of  all  such  as  have  travailed 
 in  the  recognition.  Amonoj  clivers  observations  which  have 
 been  regarded  in  this  recognition  one  was,  not  to  make  it 
 vary  much  from  that  translation  which  was  commonly  used 
 by  public  order,  except  where  either  the  verity  of  the  He- 
 brew and  Greek  moved  alteration,  or  where  the  text  was,  by 
 some  neglifjence,  mutilated  from  the  original.  So  that  I  trust 
 your  loving  subjects  shall  see  good  cause  in  your  Majesty's 
 days  to  thank  God  and  to  rejoice,  to  see  this  high  treasure  of 
 his  holy  word  so  set  out  as  may  be  proved  (so  far  forth  as 
 mortal  man's  knowledge  can  attain  to,  or  as  far  forth  as  God 
 hath  hitherto  revealed)  to  be  faithfully  handled  in  the  vul- 
 gar tongue ;  beseeching  your  Highness  that  it  may  have  your 
 gracious  favour,  licence,  and  protection,  to  be  communicated 
 abroad,  as  well  for  that  in  many  churches  they  want  their 
 books  and  have  long  time  looked  for  this,  as  for  that  in  cer- 
 tain places  be  publicly  used  some  translations  which  have  not 
 been  laboured  in  your  realm,  having  inspersed  divers  prejudi- 
 cial notes,  which  might  have  been  also  well  spared.  I  have 
 been  bold  in  the  furniture  with  few  words  to  express  the  in- 
 comparable value  of  this  treasure.  Among  many  things 
 good,  profitable,  and  beautiful  ye  have  in  possession,  yet  this 
 only  necessary ;  whereof  so  to  think  and  so  to  believe  mak- 
 eth  your  Majesty  blessed,  not  only  here  in  this  your  govern- 
 ance, but  it  shall  advance  your  Majesty  to  attain  at  the  last 
 the  bliss  everlasting,  which  after  a  long  prosperous  reign  over 
 us,  Almighty  God  send  you,  as  certainly  He  will,  for  cherish- 
 ing that  jewel  which  He  loveth  best,  of  which  is  pronounced 
 that,  Quomodocunque  coeliun  et  terra  transibunt,  Verbum 
 tamen  Domini  manebit  in  eternum.  God  preserve  your  High- 
 ness in  all  grace  and  felicity. 
 
 CCLIX. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER   TO  MR  SERJEANT  MANWOOD^ 
 
 Probably  I0G8.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Canib.  cxiv.  art.  279.  p.  769. 
 
 After  my  hearty  commendations.     To   the   answer   of 
 
 [1  Manwood   was  appointed  Serjeant  on   23rd  April,  1567.     His 
 letter,  to  which  this  is  an  answer,  bears  date  4th  January.] 
 
1568.J        AKCIIH.   rAUKEIl  TO   Mil  SKItJKANT  MANWOOD.  039 
 
 vour  letters-  I  would  now  nrav  you  to  refer  tlio  irift  of  this  nwiine'tn 
 benofico,  litter  my  tirst  gratilyinjjj  to  your  request,  to  my  own  fyf'f*? 
 disposition.      1  would    sonio    such   a   ono    as    ini<:ht  (h)   more  I"" '"'*'•-'" 
 
 I  f^  l.u  I « rum. 
 
 good  in  that  quarter.  I  was  deceived  in  tliat  lease  contirming,  i\,';,'';;,i','i7 
 which  were  meet  to  bo  dissolved,  if  law  would  bear  it '.  koU'i'.""' 
 
 If  you  will  gratify  (as  of  your  own  j)rocuring)  your  usher 
 and  there  presently  to  dwell,  I  shall  be  content. 
 
 And  thus  wishing  you  many  good  years,  1  leave  you   to 
 God. 
 To  mtf  irorshi])/nl  friend 
 
 Mr  Serjeant  Manwood. 
 
 CCLX. 
 
 ANTOXIUS  CORRANUS  TO  ARCHBISHOP  TARKER. 
 IGth  January,  i:>(;8-l».     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Cull.  Cainb.  cxiv.  art.  3'M.  p.  033. 
 
 S.  P.  PER  Christum  unicum  servatorem,  &c. 
 Intellexi,   presul    prscstantissime,   libcros    tuos    discere  Has  under 
 
 -^    ......  ,.  .  ..  st<K)cl  that 
 
 Gallicum  idioma,  studium   ccrte  ffencrosa   luventute  dijirnum,  r^rkers 
 
 '  C5  "^       .  °  .      children 
 
 pra3sertim  hoc  nostro  tempore  quo  sajpo  sa?pius  cum  extcris  leam French, 
 horainibus  versari  coguntur ;  etiam  illi  qui  a  negotiis  maxime 
 abhorrent.     Ilanc  ob  causam  illis  mitto  duos  libcllos*  Gallico 
 
 [2  Tho  letter  alluJod  to  is  in  Parker  MS.  cxiv.  art.  278.  p.  7G7. 
 It  is  a  request  from  Serjeant,  afterwards  Lord  Chief  Baron,  Man- 
 wood — the  same  person  who  is  mentioned  before  (p.  187)  in  con- 
 nection with  his  foundation  of  Sandwich  School — for  tho  living  of 
 Old  Romney,  in  Kent,  to  be  given  to  Nicholas  Jones,  his  brother's 
 son-in-law,  for  whom  ho  had  asked  it  on  tho  last  occasion  of  its 
 being  void,  but  had  been  refused  on  the  ground  that  his  relative  was 
 neither  in  holy  orders  nor  of  any  University.  He  hopes  now  for  better 
 success  because  Jones  has  been  for  two  years  studying  at  Cambridge.] 
 
 [3  Serjeant  Manwood  in  his  letter  says :  "  The  thing  is  by  lease 
 conferred  by  your  grace,  let  out  for  seven  years,  or  thereabout,  to 
 come,  at  the  clear  yearly  rent  of  £lO."] 
 
 [^  The  books  alluded  to  were  :  "  Epistre  et  amiable  Remonstrance 
 d'un  Ministre  do  I'Evangile  de  notre  redempteur  Jesus  Christ  envoyeo 
 aux  Pasteurs  de  I'Eglisc  Flamengue  d'Anvers,  lesquelz  so  nomment 
 do  la  Confession  d'Augsbourg,  les  exhortant  a  Concorde  et  amitie  avec 
 les  autrcs  Ministres  de  TEvangile."  12mo.  1567;  and  **Lettro  envoyeo 
 a  la  Maieste  du  roy  des  Espaignes,  &c.  nostre  sire;  par  laquelle  un 
 sien  treshumblo  subject  lui  rend  raison  de  son  departement  du 
 Royaume  d'E5paigne,et  presentc  a  sa  IMajeste  la  confession  des  princi- 
 paux  poiuctz  de  nostre  Religion  Christienne:  luy  monstrant  les  griefves 
 
 0  9 o 
 
340       ANTONIUS  CORRANUS  TO  ARCHB.  PARKER.   [1568-9. 
 
 Jeuicrefore  scrmoiic  a  mc  conscriptos  in  gratlam  Antuerplcnsis  ecclesiae, 
 book^  wSen  ^^  ^"''^  pastorls  munere  fungi  coeperam,  cum  novse  istso  tra- 
 uilnkofTerinR  goedio)  cxortcTO  fuerunt.  Ta,  vir  pra^stantissime,  pro  tuo  can- 
 a°  Ant^en'i*' dore,  hoc  munusculum  tuis  liberis  missum  aequi  bonique  con- 
 fTrs'tdlfiei-''  sules.  Conveni  hisce  diebus  D.  Episcopum  Londinensera,  et 
 minister.       pro  sua  ercra  me  et  alios  pereo^rinos  humanitate,  singulis  tri- 
 
 Kavourand      ^  .  ,.  m  •      i         i  .  ° 
 
 liberality      mcstribus  aliQuot  coronatos  mini  dandos  statuit.      Ejro  certe 
 
 shewn  to  the  ^  ^  O 
 
 gerl'Kbi-^""  cuperem  aliqua  in  re  vobis  ac  vestro  regno  inservire  posse, 
 shopGnndai.  ^^^  quando  non  datur  facultas,  animi  propensionem  atque 
 affectum  erga  vos  suscipietis.  Servet  te  Deus  incolumem, 
 presul  amplissime,  suique  Spiritus  dona  tibi  magis  ac  magis 
 adaugeat  ad  gloriam  suara.  Yale.  Londini,  16  Januarii,  anno 
 1568. 
 
 Tibi  ex  animo  deditissimus, 
 
 ANTONIUS  CORRANUS^  HISPALLENSSIS. 
 
 AmpUssimo  presidi,  D.  arcJiiepiscopo 
 Cantuariensi,  D.  milu  plurimum  oh- 
 servando. 
 
 CCLXI. 
 
 QUEEN  ELIZABETH  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 17th  January,  1568—0.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  CoU.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  10.  p.  43.  Grig. 
 
 By  the  Queen. 
 Elizabeth  R. 
 
 Most  reverend  father  in  God,  right  trusty  and  right 
 well-beloved,  "we  greet  you  well.  Where  we  are  in- 
 formed that  2  JS^ewton,  one   of  the  prebendaries  of 
 
 persecutions  qu*endurent  scs  subjets  du  Pais  has  pour  maintenir 
 la  dito  Religion  et  le  moyen  duquel  sa  Majeste  pourroit  user  pour  y 
 remeder."   ]2mo.  1567.] 
 
 [}  Antonio  del  Corro,  a  learned  Spaniard,  preacher  to  the  Spanish 
 congregation  in  London,  and  afterwards  divinity  reader  in  the  Temple. 
 See  Strype's  Parker,  Bk.  iii.  c.  xx. ;  Strype's  Grindal,  Bk.  i.  c.  xiii.  ; 
 Wood's  Athena),  ed.  Bliss,  i.  578  ;  and  a  letter  of  Parker,  dated 
 17  March,  1574—5,  printed  hereafter.] 
 
 p  A  blank  is  left  here  in  the  MS.  The  Christian  name  of  the 
 deceased  prebendary  was  Theodore.  Strype's  Parker,  Bk,  ii.  c.  ii. 
 Among  the  Parker  MSS.  cxiv.  art.  11.  p.  45,  is  a  letter  from  lord 
 Leicester  which  relates  to  this  transaction.  It  appears  that  the 
 deceased  and  the  dean  of  Winchester  were  brothers  of  Frances,  wife 
 of  William  Brook,  lord  Cobham,  and  that  the  new  arrangement  was 
 
ir)()8-l).]      liiiirN  liUZAiiKTii  TO  Alu  nil.  rAiJKiJi.  341 
 
 that  our  cathedral   church   of  Cantcrhury,  is  lately  departed  ,^,V^r!^'''' 
 out  of  tliis  world  to  (lod's  mercy,  wo   let  you   wcto  that  for  |<,'^\„',',^"'**' 
 certain  considerations  U3  ppccially  movinr^,  wc  have  resolved  I'l'.'.'.l'ul'"'''' 
 to  bestow  tho  said  prebend  now  void  upon   our  well-beloved 
 doctor  Newton,  now  dean  of  Winchester,  and  brother  to   the 
 lato  prebendary  deceased.      For  which  purpose  if  tho  same  yj.';^';;;;,,,  . 
 bo  merely  of  our  own  jrift,  wc  shall  cause  our  presentation  or '''"""■*  ^:'^'' 
 other  grant  to  be  hereafter  made  forth   in  form  accustomed.  ],','',''ii'\',' ',!!*„„ 
 15at  in  case  it  bo  in  your  gift  and  disposition,  wo  require  you  ffT,H-!.|y..r :, 
 to  be  content  to  bestow  it  upon  him  at  this  time,  and  for  re-  iJ»x-,Vow"'' 
 compense  thereof  we  aro  i>leased,   and  by  these  our  letters  Niwt..n.  on » 
 
 .  1111  1/«  /•!  jiroiiu.sf  of 
 
 do  promise  you,  that  you  shall  have  the  preferment  of  the  f'  «v"'« '»»«? 
 next  prebend  after  this  that  shall  happen  to  fixll  void  there  of  {ha7»hau°" 
 our  gift,  to  bestow  upon  whom   you  will.     Given   under  our^"*"^"'*^ 
 signet,  at  our  honour  of  Hampton  Court,   tho  17th  day  of 
 January,  the  11th  year  of  our  reio:n,  15G8. 
 
 To  the  most  reverend  father  in  God  our 
 right  trusti/  and  right  well-beloved 
 the  archbishop  of  Canterbury^  metro- 
 l^olitan  of  all  England. 
 
 CCLXII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 22nd  February,  [1603— 9].    S.  P.  O.  Domestic.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 Tills  poor  plain  man  comcth  to  me  and  signifieth,  that  by 
 the  counsel  of  a  stranger  whom  he  hath  kept  in  his  house,  and  rarker  sends 
 by  his  own  cost  and  industry,  Fhel  hath  found  out  the  makins:  poorman. 
 
 :.  ,     .  ,  /.,,.,  -         ...         ,     °   who  has  dis- 
 
 ot  brimstone,  whereof  he  brincreth  an  assay  ;  and  saith  further  coverwi  the 
 
 C5  .  •'    '  ^     .        making  of 
 
 that  the  stuff  where  he  jrathereth  it,  on  the  shore  of  Whit-  iTimstone 
 
 o  '  from  stiift 
 
 Stable,  is  so   fat,    that   it   will  yield  so  well  that  it  will  rise  f^f.^h'ol'cTt 
 to  a  good  commodity,  and  nothing  so  chargeable  as  hath  been  ^^'^'^'^'^''^ 
 somewhere  proved  to  be.    I  thought  it  good  to  send  him  first 
 to  your  honour  to  understand  the  cause ;  praying  you  to  deal 
 
 made  by  tho  Queen  "  at  tho  suit  of  lady  Cobham,"  and  was  urged 
 upon  Parker  by  lord  Leicester  as  an  opportunity  of  pleasing  not 
 only  the  Queen,  but  lady  Cobham,  and  '*  sundry  tho  friends  and 
 kinsfolks"  of  tho  dean.] 
 
342  ARCHB.  PARKER  TO   SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL.         [1568-9. 
 
 with  the  simple  man,  that  he  may  be  well  relieved  for  his 
 truth.  Thus  I  commit  your  honour  to  God's  tuition  as  myself. 
 From  my  house,  this  22nd  of  February. 
 
 Your  honour's  alway, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  William  Cecil, 
 knight,  principal  secretary  to  the  Queen*s 
 Majesty,  and  of  her  privy  council. 
 
 CCLXIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  THE  BAILIFFS   OF  LYDD. 
 
 25th  March,  [lo69J.     Gent.  Mag.  Vol.  LXXIV.,  p.  IIHO,  from  Orig.  then  in  the 
 possession  of  Robert  Cobb,  Esq.,  of  Lydd. 
 
 Whereas  I  understand  that  Dr  Hardiman  is  yet  among 
 
 you,  by  whose  behaviour  as  you  have  been  much  slandered 
 
 and  evil  edified  ^  so  I  doubt  of  his  quietness  to  ensue  among 
 
 the  parishioners  there ;  whereupon  this  is  to  require  you  to 
 
 DrHardi-      commaud  him  immediately  to  depart  your  town,  and  not  to 
 
 Lydki/is^to"  make  his  resort  thither  to  the  further  disquiet  of  the  town. 
 
 to  depart      Aud  if  you,  Mr  Bailiff,  shall  perceive  any  trouble  by  him,  I 
 
 trouifiefome  ^^^^^^^^^  J^'^i  ^^  the  Qucou'^s  Majcsty's  name,  to  apprehend 
 
 IfendeKd    ^im,  and  cause  him  to  be  brought  hither  to  make  his  answer. 
 
 pSin  ^°     Seeing  that  he  hath  dishonoured  God,  and  abused  his  vocation, 
 
 and    hath    much    misused    my   favour   long    borne    to   him, 
 
 specially  in  respect  to  the  commodities  and  profits  of  you  all, 
 
 [1  In  the  same  place  whence  this  letter  has  been  derived,  there  is 
 a  long  letter  from  the  "bailiffs,  jurats,  commons,  churchwardens,  and 
 sworn  sidesmen"  of  Lydd,  appealing  to  the  archbishop  in  reference  to 
 "  the  evil  disposition,  lewd  behaviour,  and  ungodly  incontinent  life  of 
 John  Ilardyman,"  D.D.,  their  vicar.  They  accuse  him  "first  and 
 principally"  with  having  "  denied  his  wife  (whom  he  daily  keepeth)  to 
 be  his  own  wife,  but  hath  said  she  is  the  wife  of  one  John,  late  his 
 man,"  and  that  he  married  her  for  fear  of  Parker's  displeasure.  There 
 were  other  charges  of  personal  incontinency  and  profligacy.  This 
 letter  of  the  bailiffs  and  jurats  is  said  to  have  been  dated  in  August, 
 1568.  It  does  not  appear  what  immediate  notice  Parker  took  of 
 their  application.] 
 
15C9.]         ARCIIIJ.   I'ARKKR   TO    IIIK   UAILIFFS  OF   I.Y1»I».  .'^43 
 
 l>eing  my  neighbours  and  of  my  dioceso,  I  account  him  worthy 
 of  no  further  toleration.     And  thus  I  bid  you  well. 
 From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this  25th  of  March. 
 
 Your  loving  friend, 
 
 MATIIUH  CAXTUAR. 
 
 To  viff  loving  friends,  Mr  Bailij}'  of  the 
 toirn  of  Ltfddy  itnd  to  the  Jurats  of 
 the  same. 
 
 CCLXIV. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  AND  OTHER  ECCLESIASTICAL 
 COMMISSIONERS  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 13th  April,  \5G0'.     Lansd.  MS,  x.  art.  43. 
 
 Sir, 
 The  last  term  informations  were  given  unto  us,  as  com- 
 missioners to  the  Queen's  Ilii^hness  for  causes  ecclesiastical,  information 
 
 '~'     .  ...      Riven  to  the 
 
 of  divers  misdemeanours  as  well  in  manners  as  in  doctrine  in  ecclesiastical 
 
 CO  m  mission - 
 
 the  society  of  Benet  College,   alias  Corpus  Christi  in  Cam-  dersmconms 
 bridge ;  for  examination  whereof  we  directed  our  letters  of  icge.^cam-'" 
 commission  to  the  Vice-chancellor  and  some  others  the  heads  ^"'^^'^' 
 of  the  University ;  who  then  seemed  somewhat  to  stay  the 
 execution  of  our  said  commission,  fearing  (as   they   said)  to 
 prejudice  their  privileges  ;  whereupon  Mr  Vice-chancellor  sent 
 his  letters  by  their  bedell   to    you,  whom   then  it  pleased  They  issued  a 
 therein  to  be  informed  bv  our  opinions,  which  then  we  siff-  to  visit,  the 
 
 1  "  I  1  /•  11        lawfulness  of 
 
 nmed  unto  you  by  our  letters,  the  copy  whereof,  word  by  ^^'^5^^** 
 word,  is  herein  inclosed ^  which  as  resolution  you  returned  to 
 
 [2  Tho  date  of  IStli  April,  1568  is  assigned  in  a  contemporary 
 indorsement,  but  it  appears  from  the  inclosuro  that  the  letter  was 
 written  shortly  after  the  4th  January,  15G8 — 9.] 
 
 P  The  inclosuro  runs  as  follows :  "  It  may  please  you  to  be  adver- 
 tised, that  our  opinion  is,  that  tho  Queen's  Majesty's  commission  for 
 causes  ecclesiastical  doth  extend  and  may  be  executed  upon  persons 
 rcsiant  within  either  of  the  Universities,  or  within  any  other  privileged 
 place  within  the  realm,  by  virtue  of  tho  words  'in  places  as  well 
 exempt  as  not  exempt.'  And  that  the  Yicc-chanccllor  of  the  Univer- 
 sity of  Cambridge,  and  others  which  arc  joined  with  him  in  commis- 
 sion from  the  commissioners  here,  may  safely,  without  prejudice  of  the 
 liberties  of  the  same  University,  proceed  to  the  execution  of  tho  said 
 commission.      Yet,  notwithstanding,  we  think  it  not  amiss,  for  avoid- 
 
344  ARCHB.  PARKER  AND   OTHER  ECCLESIASTICAL        [1569. 
 
 They  sum- 
 mon the 
 parties  to 
 London. 
 All  appear 
 save  btallard. 
 
 The  Vice- 
 chancellor 
 stayed  the 
 execution  of 
 an  order  for 
 him  to  ap- 
 pear at 
 Lambeth. 
 
 The  commis- 
 sioners mar- 
 vel at  such 
 an  attack 
 upon  their 
 authority, 
 and  submit 
 the  matter  to 
 Sir  William 
 Cecil  as 
 Chancellor. 
 
 the  Vicc-cliancellor  by  the  bedell.  Afterward,  we  having  in- 
 telligence that  the  Vice-chancellor  proceeded  not  to  the  exe- 
 cution of  our  said  commission,  we  revoked  the  same,  and 
 advocated  the  said  cause  to  our  own  examination;  to  the 
 debating  whereof  the  most  part  of  the  said  society,  being 
 parties  to  the  said  matter,  voluntarily  appeared  at  Lambeth 
 and  submitted  themselves  to  be  ordered.  One  Stallard, 
 Bachelor  of  Art,  and  principal  party  in  the  said  business, 
 remaining  still  at  Cambridge,  we  sent  for,  by  our  letters  and 
 commandment,  the  execution  of  the  which  our  commandment 
 the  Vice-chancellor  stayed,  commanding  the  said  Stallard  not 
 to  appear  before  us,  and  withal  withstood  a  search  for  sus- 
 pected books  by  us  decreed  to  be  made  in  the  said  College, 
 removing  such  as  we  had  appointed  for  the  same,  and  caused 
 a  search  to  be  by  such  and  in  such  manner  as  he  devised, 
 unsealing  the  door  that  we  for  that  purpose  caused  to  be 
 sealed ;  which  his  doings  the  said  Vice-chancellor  answereth 
 by  his  letters,  alleging  it  never  heard  that  any  extra- 
 ordinary and  foreign  authority  had  intermeddled  to  call  any 
 from  the  University ;  which  his  doings,  and  terms,  we  marvel 
 not  a  httle  at,  having  in  fresh  memory  our  continual  pro- 
 ceedings in  this  commission  since  the  first  time  of  it,  and 
 that  we  have  from  time  to  time  called,  as  occasion  served, 
 out  of  both  the  Universities,  and  have  had  always  to  this 
 present,  appearance,  humbly,  without  any  denial  or  contradic- 
 tion, and  have  done  therein  (as  we  trust)  good  service  to 
 God,  the  Queen,  and  the  realm,  removing  by  authority  of 
 our  said  commission,  out  of  both  Universities,  divers  stubborn 
 papists,  and  head  adversaries  of  God's  true  religion,  to  the 
 number  of  forty  and  more,  and  some  of  them  sent  to  us  by 
 order  of  the  privy  council,  as  may  appear  by  our  records. 
 
 ing  all  scruples,  that  the  said  Vice-chancellor  and  the  others  associate 
 with  him  do  declare  by  protestation,  that  their  meaning  in  the  execu- 
 ting of  the  said  commission  is  not  to  prejudice  any  the  liberties  of  the 
 said  University,  but  only  to  shew  their  obedience  unto  the  authority 
 of  the  Queen's  Highness  committed  to  the  said  commissioners.  From 
 Lambeth,  this  fourth  of  January,  15G8.  MATTH.  CANTUAR. 
 EDMUND   LONDON.     TIIO.  YALE.      TIIO.  WATTES. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  William  Cecil,  hnight, 
 one  of  the  Qiieeiis  Majesty's  privy  council,  and 
 Chancellor  of  the  University  ofCamhi  idgc.] 
 
1501).]  COMMISSIONEIIS   TO  SIK    U  11. I.I  AM   (  KCIL.  345 
 
 The  denial  of  wiruh  authority  now»  after  so  long  time,  in  tlio 
 Universities,  >vo  take  it  too  inudi  to  prcjutlico  the  credit  of 
 onr  said  tornier  doin«:^s,  and  to  deroi^att?  tlio  authority  of  tho 
 Queen's  lligliness'coininission  conunitteil  unto  us  by  authority 
 of  parliament;  yet  for  that  the  Vice-chancellor  for  his  year 
 and  time  is  your  deputy,  before  any  ways  wo  call  him  in 
 question  for  his  doings,  wo  tliought  it  convenient  to  mako 
 your  honour  privy  thereof,  and  to  expect  your  further  mind 
 herein  at  our  next  meeting,  which  wo  hope  shall  be  upon 
 ^londay  next  at  Lambeth.  And  thus  wc  commend  you  to 
 Almighty  God. 
 
 ISrATTITUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 EDM.   LONDOX. 
 
 THOMAS  YALE. 
 
 AVILLM.   DRURYE. 
 
 To  the  r'ujht  honourable  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  kni(jht,  one  of  the  Queen's 
 Mcijesty's  privt/  council,  and  Chan- 
 cellor of  the  University  of  Cambridge. 
 
 CCLXV. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  GRINDAL  OF  LONDOX. 
 Gth  May,  1560.    Parker  Reg.  I.  fol.  27S  a. 
 
 After  my  hearty  commendations  unto  your  good  lord- 
 ship premised.      I   have    of  late   received   (as  your   lordship 
 knoweth)  commandment  from  the  Queen's  Highness,  and  her  Thearch- 
 honourable  privy  council,  to  take  order  for  a  certain  view  to  rJ^eh-«ir4m- 
 be  had,  and  with  speed  certitied,  of  armour   to  be  provided  for  a  view  to 
 by  the  clergy  of  the  provmce  of  Canterbury,  according  to  ^[jj^j^'M^ro^ 
 the  proportion  and  rate  prescribed  and  used   in  the  time   of  ^'f^^f^^'g^j^' 
 the  reign  of  the  late  King  and  Queen,  King  Philip  and  Queen  rSe^""""* 
 Mary,  which  rate  and   proportion  is  to    these  letters  in  a  thilcolr'"^*** 
 schedule  annexed'  ;  these  arc  to  will  and  require  your  lord-  Ma^y!*" 
 
 [1  Tho  schedule  was  as  follows : 
 
 "  Whereas  the  lords  of  the  Queen's  Majesty's  most  honourable 
 privy  council  have  given  commandment  for  tho  provision  of  armour 
 and  other  furniture  by  the  clergy  of  this  realm,  according  to  such 
 order  and  rates  as  was  used  in  the  time  of  the  late  King  Philip  aud 
 
SiG  ARCIIB.  TARKER  TO  BP  GRINDAL  OF  LONDON.        [1569. 
 
 uSshop  of  ^^ip  to  give  order,  as  well  to  the  clergy  of  your  own  diocese, 
 m,uire<i'to    for  tlic  rcady  performance  of  the  same,  as  also  to  signify  the 
 foAhesame,  Said  commandmcnt  to  the  residue  of  my  brethren  the  other 
 bishops  of  my  province  of  Canterbury,  willing  and  command- 
 ing them,  and  every  of  them  forthwith   to  accomplish   her 
 Highness'  said  commandment  in  every  their  several  dioceses 
 and  jurisdictions,  as  to  them  and  their  bounden  duties  apper- 
 certifying  the  taiueth,  and   the  same  view  by  them  and  every  of  them  so 
 
 names  of  per  '  ^  ^  t'  v  ^ 
 
 abiewifh^^'  taken  according  to  the  said  rate  and  proportion,  speedily  to 
 
 vSir^^      certify  unto  me  at  Lambeth,  with  the  names,  surnames,  and 
 
 promotions  of  all   that,  according   to    the  said  schedule,  be 
 
 chargeable  with  any  such  provision.     And  thus  I  bid  your 
 
 Queen  Mary,  the  several  rates  and  order  then  used  in  that  behalf  are 
 hereafter  particularly  specified  ;  videlicet : 
 
 That  every  one  of  the  clergy  having  lands,  or  possessions  of 
 estate  of  inheritage  of  freehold,  shall  provide  and  find,  and  be  charge- 
 able with,  armour,  horses,  and  other  furniture,  in  such  sort,  and  in 
 manner  and  form,  as  every  temporal  man  is  charged  by  reason  of  his 
 lands  and  possessions,  by  virtue  of  the  statute  made  in  the  fourth  and 
 fifth  years  of  the  reigns  of  the  late  King  Philip  and  Queen  Mary. 
 
 Item,  That  every  one  of  the  said  clergy,  having  benefits,  spiritual 
 promotions  or  pensions,  the  clear  value  whereof,  either  by  themselves 
 or  joined  together,  do  amount  to  the  clear  yearly  value  of  xxxl.  or 
 upwards,  shall  be  bound  and  charged  to  provide,  have,  and  maintain 
 armour,  and  other  provision  requisite,  according  to  such  proportion 
 and  rate,  as  the  temporality  are  bound  and  charged  by  the  said 
 statute,  by  reason  of  their  moveable  goods. 
 
 Item,  If  any  of  the  clergy  of  this  realm  have  both  temporal  lands 
 and  possessions,  and  also  spiritual  promotions,  he  shall  be  charged 
 with  armour  and  other  provision  according  to  the  greatest  rate  of  one 
 of  them,  and  not  with  both. 
 
 Observations  in  rating  of -the  proportion  of  armour. 
 
 I.  First,  The  bishop  to  rate  himself  amongst  the  temporality  for 
 lands. 
 
 II.  Secondly,  To  rate  the  dean  and  prebendaries,  as  the  tempo- 
 rality, for  goods  from  xxxZ.  upwards. 
 
 III.  Item,  To  rate  the  whole  diocese  in  like  sort. 
 
 IV.  Item,  To  account  such  as  be  resident  within  the  diocese 
 under  the  sum  of  xxxZ.,  and  yet  having  benefices  or  pensions  else- 
 where, to  make  up  the  same  sum  or  upwards,  to  be  rated  there  among 
 the  supplies. 
 
 V.  Item,  To  rate  every  incumbent  where  he  is  resident,  and  every 
 ordinary  chaplain  not  resident,  in  the  diocese  where  he  serveth." 
 
15C0.]       AKCIin.  rAUKKIl   to   up  (.UINDAI.  ()1     LONDON.  .'M7 
 
 lordship  most  heartily  well  to  fare  a3  myself.  From  my 
 house  at  Lambeth,  the  Gth  of  May,  a  thous;ujd  fivo  hundred 
 threescore  and  nine'. 
 
 CCLXVI. 
 
 AUCimiSlIor    rAKKEU  to   the  DKAX  and  CIIArTKR 
 
 OF  YORK. 
 
 IGth  Mny,  lOGD.    Parker  Keg.  I.  fol.  278  b. 
 
 AiTER  my  most  hearty  commendations  premised.  Where- 
 as in  tlio  time  of  the  late  Kinc:  Philip  and  Queen  Marv  there  i"V"^'^"^ 
 was  a  certain  proportion  and  rate  prescribed  and  used,  for  jV^porlion 
 armour  to  be  found  and  maintained  by   the   clergy  of  this  LnmiulTo  lic"^ 
 realm  of  England,  which  rate  and  proportion  is  mentioned  Cnh^dt^riy. 
 and  described  in  a  schedule  therein  inclosed,  I  have  of  late 
 received  commandment    from  the  Queen'^s  Majesty  and  her  J^hop'^hL 
 honourable  privy  council,  for  a  certain  view  to  be  had,  and  [.ommand- 
 with  speed  certified,  of  the  said  armour  to  be  provided  by 
 
 mcnt  for  a 
 view  of 
 
 the  clergy  of  my  province  of  Canterbury  according  to  the  armmir 
 rate  and  proportion  contained  in  the  schedule  above   men-  province, 
 tioned ;   wherein  like  as  I  have  mven  order  for  the  due  and  "V'"f  ^,Xf" 
 
 '  o  order  for  the 
 
 speedy  accomplishment  of  the  Queen'*s  Majesty's  said  com-  ^commends 
 mandment  throughout  my  province,  so  I  thought  convenient  !.ha,S.\hl? 
 to  give  you  advertisement  thereof;  wishing  you  to  have  due  rick  bemT 
 reojard  for  the  like  view  to  be  had,  and  with  all  convenient  the  same  for 
 
 1  '  r>      ^        ^  ^  •  /'irii  ^^^  province 
 
 speed  certified,  throughout  the  provmce  of  lork,  where  youof^o^k, 
 have  charge  and  jurisdiction  during  the  vacation  of  the  archi- 
 episcopal  see  there ;  and  the  same  view  so  taken  to  certify  to  and  to  certify 
 
 A  A  ...  •'to  the  privy 
 
 the  honourable  privy   council  with  speed  convenient.      And  <^""ncii. 
 thus  I  bid  you  most  heartily  well  to  fare.      From   my  house 
 at  Lambeth,  the  16th  of  May,  15G9. 
 
 [1  A  similar  letter,  without  the  schedule  annexed,  was  addressed  by 
 the  archbishop  to  the  commissary  general  of  the  diocese  of  Chichester, 
 dated  the  19th  May,  15G9.     Park.  Reg.  I.  193  a.] 
 
account  of 
 benefices 
 taxable  to 
 armour. 
 
 348  AIICIIB.   PARKER  AND   BP   GRINDAL  [1569. 
 
 CCLXVII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM   CECIL. 
 18th  May,  [15G0J.     Lansd.  MS.  xi.  art.  54.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 Godfrey's  J  HAVE  pcruscd  Godfrcy"'s  book  for  benefices  of  xxxli 
 
 account  of  l  «/  ^    ^ 
 
 and  upward  taxable  to  the  provision  of  armour ;  the  rate  is 
 of  small  importance  to  that  which  shall  be  certified  from 
 every  ordinary,  beside  that  it  is  in  many  respects  imperfect. 
 For  some  taste  I  send  your  honour  a  view  of  mine  own 
 diocese,  which  is  like  to  be  my  certificate ;  some  considerations 
 I  have  added,  to  express  what  is  to  be  followed,  and  have 
 sent  to  some  of  my  brethren  (where  I  think  it  will  be  taken) 
 some  copies  for  their  better  expedition,  not  as  prejudicing 
 their  own  inventions,  but  shewing  mine  if  they  like  it ;  if  any 
 thing  were  to  be  further  considered,  if  you  inform  me  1  shall 
 follow  it. 
 Lever  com-  ^[j'  Lcvcr^  shcwcth  his  ffricf  in  the  evil  orderins:  of  the 
 
 plains  of  the  ^  ,  °  ^  ^ 
 
 lherh°ome     ^ouse  .*   it  wcrc  pity  that  the  church,  being  so  far  ofi",  should 
 
 Hospital.      ^rQi  \yQ  Q^t  Qf  good  order.      He  saith  that  he  hath  complained 
 
 to  the  bishop,  but  it  is  not  considered.      Thus  I   wish  your 
 
 honour  God's  grace  as  to  myself.     From  my  house,  this  18th 
 
 of  May. 
 
 Your  honour's  alway, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  knight,  principal  secretary  to 
 the  Queen's  Majesty. 
 
 CCLXVIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  AND  BISHOP  GRINDAL  OF  LON- 
 DON TO  THE  VICE-CHANCELLOR  AND  HEADS  OF 
 HOUSES  AT  CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 20th  May,  loGO.    Strype's  Annals,  i.  ii.  SG,  on  the  authority  of  Rev.  T.  Baker,  B.D. 
 
 hiS^tSffe^         Understanding   of  the  good  and   godly   affection  that 
 unheLuy  to  divers  of  your  University  bear  to  the  knowledge  of  the  He- 
 
 \}  Thomas  Lever,  the  celebrated  preacher.  Notwithstanding  his 
 nonconformity  he  retained  the  mastership  of  Sherborne  Hospital 
 until  his  death.  The  bishop  to  whom  complaint  was  made  was 
 Pilkington.] 
 
15G9.]     TO  Tin:  vuk-ciianckllou,  &c.  at  CAMiutiixii:.    319 
 
 brow  tongue,  wherein  origlnully   (nv  the  more  p.irL  was  writ-  iXtoT' 
 ton  tho  word  of  God  ;  to  the  gratify- ing  of  tho  same,  iis  wo  "'  '•*' 
 have  in  our  former  letters  c(uninend(Hl  our   trusty   and  well- 
 beloved  Kodolplius  ('.iv;dlerius,  otherwise  ealled  Mr  Anthony,  ll'^f^p'^nj 
 so  now  we  send  him   unto  you  ;  a  man  whom  wc  have  afore-  Kutl^'iui. 
 timo  not  only  known  in  tlio  same  University*,  hut  also  have  llnui.** 
 seen  good  testimony  of  his  learning  in  tho  said  tongue;   and 
 having  more  expcricneo  of  his  good  zeal  to  cxcrciso  his  said 
 talent  toward  all  sueh  as  be  desirous  to  be  partakers  of  the 
 same ;  whereupon  this  is  to   pray  and  require  you  to  accept  {o7c«.^,!h1m 
 him  as  his  worthiness  for  his  learning  and  diligence,  as  we  mpnu*''"' 
 trust,  shall  deserve  ;   wliereby  you  shall  not  only  yourselves  lilafrSrve. 
 receive  the  fruit  to  your  own  commendations,  but  also  give  us 
 occasion  to  devise  for  your  further  commodity,  as  Almighty 
 God  shall  move  us,   and   our  ability  upon  any  occasion  shall 
 further  hereafter  serve.      And  thus  wishing  to  you  the  grace 
 of  God  to  direct  your  studies  to  his  glory  and  to  the  profit 
 of  the   commonwealth,   wo  bid  you  all   heartily  well  to  fare. 
 From  Lambeth,  this  20th  of  May. 
 
 Your  loving  friends, 
 
 MATTIIUE  CANTUAR. 
 EDM.   LONDON. 
 
 To  ovr  loving  friends  Mr  Vice-chancellor 
 of  Camhridfje,  and  the  heads  of  the 
 same. 
 
 p  Anthony  Rodolph  le  Chevalier,  the  person  alluded  to,  was  a 
 French  protestant,  celebrated  for  his  knowledge  of  Hebrew.  He  came 
 to  England  several  times  as  a  refugee.  On  tho  first  occasion,  which 
 was  during  the  reign  of  Edward  VL,  ho  taught  Hebrew  at  Cambridge, 
 and  was  also  French  tutor  to  the  princess,  afterwards  Queen,  Elizabeth. 
 This  letter  refers  to  the  period  of  his  second  residence  in  England. 
 In  consequence  of  the  recommendation  contained  in  it,  he  appears  to 
 have  been  again  appointed  to  teach  Hebrew  at  Cambridge.  There  wo 
 find  him  on  the  oth  of  September,  loG9,  on  which  day  he  wrote  a 
 letter  (which  is  preserved,  Parker  MS.  cxix.  art.  87.  p.  243)  to  the 
 archbishop,  complaining  amongst  other  things  of  his  stipend  being 
 diminished.  He  shortly  afterwards  returned  to  his  native  country ; 
 but  escaping  a  third  time,  on  the  occasion  of  the  massacre  of  St  Bar- 
 tholomew, he  died  at  Guernsey,  when  again  on  his  w^ay  to  England,  in 
 1572.] 
 
supply  the 
 
 vacant 
 
 bishopricks. 
 
 350  ARCHB.  PARKER   TO   SIR  WILLIAM   CECIL.  [1569. 
 
 CCLXIX. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 Srd  June,  [loGO].     Lansd.  MS.  xi.  art.  67.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 In  mine  opinion  the  Queen's  Majesty    hath    done   gra- 
 pJfp?sc^t"o    ciously  to  purpose  to  furnish  the  places  now  vacant  of  her 
 watchmen ;    the   times   be  dangerous,   and  require  prudent, 
 speedy,  and  vigilant  foresight.    Once  at  the  request  of  my  lord 
 of  Leicester,  when   the  Queen''s  Majesty   was  at   Hampton 
 Court,  I  tituled  to  him  my  phantasy,  from  the  which  I  do  not 
 much  disagree  at  this  time,  except  that  where  I  doubted  how 
 ^ommcndtd  ^^^  Aylmcr  could  be  accepted,  I  passed  him  over ;  but  I  think 
 for  London.   QQ^^r^i^iy  ^\^q  Quecu's   Highucss  should   have  a   good,  fast, 
 earnest  servitor  at  London  of  him,  and,  I  doubt  not,  fit  for  that 
 busy  governance,  specially  as   these  times  be,  when  papists 
 (the   Queen's  mortal  enemies,  pretend  what  men  will)  have 
 Jiiifof  York,  gotten  such  courage;  and  I  think  my  lord  of  London  as  fit  for 
 York,  a  heady  and  stout  people,  witty  but  yet  able  to  be 
 dealt  with  by  good  governance,  as  long  as  laws  can  be  exe- 
 cuted and  men  backed.     If  the  Queen's  Highness  and  her 
 realm  will  be  well  served  she  must  bear  with  some  manners 
 &geis"°^   of  men ;  men  cannot  be  angels ;  and  yet  I  trust  disciplinable, 
 ckrgy  are      aud  soon  roformed  (I  speak  of  our  sort),  if  they  be  reasonably 
 and'soon  ^'  considcrcd  of  in  themselves,  and  not  by  others'  gav  reports, 
 
 reformed.  ^,  \        -r  n  •  m    - 
 
 lor  the  most  part  unanswered.    It  it  were  sumcient  to  accuse, 
 ■who  should  be  innocent  ?    To  discourse  particularly  the  cause 
 of  my  judgment  toward  these  other  parties,  it  were  too  long; 
 but,  generally,  for  that  I  think  them  meet  in  such  considera- 
 tions as  move  me,  but  as  the  Queen's  Majesty  shall  allow  in 
 d?es^beftTat  thom  all.     Mr  Curteys  might  do  better  to  be  nigher  to  serve 
 chapiaini^''"  the  court,  than  as  yet  to  be  removed  far ;  it  is  hardly  thought 
 thollght  of.    of,  so  mean  chaplains  to  be  toward  the  prince  &c.     Thus  I  cease, 
 commending   your   honour  to   God's  tuition,   with   my  most 
 humble  acknowledging  my  duty  of  commending  the  Queen's 
 ]\Iajesty  to  God  in  my  prayers.     From  Croydon,  this  Srd  of 
 
 Your  honour's  always, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAK. 
 
 To  the  right  hononrahle  Sir  William  Cecil, 
 knight,  principal  secretary  to  the  Queen's 
 Majesty,  and  one  of  her  privy  council. 
 
15(il>.]  ARClin.   PARKER  TO  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL.  351 
 
 CCLXX. 
 Auciiiusiior  rAui;i:u  to  sir  william  <  r.crL 
 
 1st  July,  L'KW.    Lansil.  MS.  xi.  art,  6\).    Orih'. 
 Sill, 
 
 WiiBKKAS  this  otiicr  day  at  the  Arches  a  question  was  <'-'.!•  t,.,„ 
 »'     ,  .  *      .  ujx.ti  .1  (Ill- 
 
 moved,   whether  Mr  Tilney    mi«rht    bo  dispensed   with,    and  i;<"^«"<">. 
 
 '  JO  1  '  tile  M  oriUry 
 
 doubt  was  made  who  might  do  it,  your  honour  saying  that  the  ^VuVrl'miRi.t 
 (^>ueen's  Majesty  may  do  as  much  as  the  pope,  and  saying  i\"c"il«"l!c; 
 further,  that  1  might  do  it,  and  why  not  the  (^)ueen  &c.?  buhl^J might 
 
 For  that  your  honour  should   not  mistake  my    words,  wh'y*i",Tt'th« 
 cither  to  arrogate  to  myself  above  my  measure,  or  to  derogate 
 the  Queen's  ^lajesty's  authority,  which  in  all  respects,  as  God 
 and  laws  may  bear,  I  would  as  well  have  defended  as  I  would 
 wish  mine  own  life  regarded,  whereupon  I  thought  good  to 
 put  to  your  consideration  (privately)  some  of  my  cogitations. 
 I  will  not  dispute  of  the  Queen's  absolute  power,  or  preroga- 
 tive roval,  how  far  her  Ili<rhness  may  do  iu  followintr  the 
 lloman  authority,  but  I  vet  doubt,   that  if  any  dispensation  r'arkpr 
 should  pass  from  her  authority  to  any  subject,  not  ad  vouch-  ^^"^f^%  g^. 
 able  by  laws  of  her  realm  made  and  stablished  by  herself  and  to'i° "bj^ot 
 her  three  estates,  whether  that  subject  be  in  surety  at  all  not'w'ai^^t- 
 times  for  afterward:  specially  seeing  that  there  be  parliament  the*^ufcbc 
 laws  precisely  determining  causes  of  dispensations.     Wherein,  times. 
 as  I  have  heard  say.  King  Henry  himself  did  use  that  authority 
 in  some  of  his  own  private  causes.    The  prince  may  dispense  in 
 omnibus  caslbus  insolltls,  where  the  archbishop's  authority 
 is  shut  up  by  the  words  of  the  statute.      If  these  cases  had 
 their  right  course,  the  prince  may  grant  them,  but  yet  by  a 
 warrant  to  the  office  of  Faculties,  under  that  law  to  pass.    And 
 whereas  somebody  may  say,  that  the  bishop  of  Canterbury 
 can  dispense,  I  think  for  myself,  I  take  some  heed  not  to  ^'^jjff,^  jf^^  ^^ 
 extend  my  sleeve  beyond  mine  arm,  nor  to  use  much  ready  srcSliyond 
 talk  i/i  medio  magnatorum,  which  make  me  to   sit  sometime  *^"*^""' 
 mute  and  hear  others;  and  yet  I  think  to  this  day  I  have  not 
 absolutely  granted  any  casus  insolitus,  if  they  be  weighed, 
 but  leave  them  to  my  prince,  as  I  ought.      It  is  one  thing  to 
 discuss  what  is  done,  in  order  or  out  of  order,  and  commonly 
 hand  over  head,  and  what  is  safely  and  surely  done  by  war- 
 rant of  law.     During  the  prince's  life  who  will  doubt  of  any-  pAndVilfe 
 thing  that  may  pass  from  that  authority  ?     But  the  question  SJlTbrof  any 
 
352 
 
 ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 [1569. 
 
 thing  that 
 may  pass  by 
 tliat  authori- 
 ty ;  but  the 
 question  is, 
 what  will 
 stand  sure  in 
 all  times? 
 
 Change  made 
 by  the  printer 
 in  the  In- 
 junctions as 
 to  the  mar- 
 riage of  the 
 clergy. 
 
 The  lawyers 
 keep  their 
 old  trade. 
 
 is,  what  will  stand  sure  in  all  times,  by  the  judgment  of  the 
 best  learned  ?  And  here  I  am  offended  with  some  lawyers, 
 who  make  the  Injunctions  of  the  prince  in  her  own  life  not  to 
 be  of  such  force  as  they  make  a  Koman  law  written  in  the 
 same  or  like  case  ;  exempli  causa,  I  urge  the  Injunction  upon 
 all  ministers,  when  their  case  come  in  question,  whether  they 
 be  capable  of  any  ecclesiastical  living,  if  they  marry  not  in 
 such  due  form  as  yet  I  think  is  godly  prescribed,  specially  if 
 the  words  of  the  Injunction  (which  were  once  a  disjunctive 
 but  by  the  printer  made  a  copulative,  viz.  that  the  parties 
 marriable  must  be  so  allowed  by  two  justices  of  the  peace 
 or  [and]  by  the  ordinary).  It  is  said  to  me,  that  the  omission 
 or  contempt  of  this  maketh  them  not  incapable.  Marry  if  there 
 be  any  Koman  law  that  forceth  deprivation,  then  is  the 
 danger  seen,  but  not  afore. 
 
 Sir,  I  think  these  lawyers  keep  but  their  old  trade,  and 
 not  regard  much  the  imperial  laws  of  the  prince,  and  yet 
 these  new  cases  of  marrying  have  no  other  direction  in  law 
 beforetimes,  but  by  Injunction  for  this  present  time.  But  I 
 enter  now  a  sea  of  perplexities,  and  give  your  honour  occa- 
 sion to  think  in  such  emergents,  and  thereby  to  pray  you  to 
 take  in  good  part  and  plain  sense,  that  I  did  bluntly  speak 
 this  other  day  to  you  before  my  lord-keeper,  as,  at  that  sud- 
 den, wanting  time  and  place  to  have  opened  further  my 
 mind ;  and  in  such  narrow  points  to  tread  in,  I  am  ready  to 
 be  informed  to  judge  otherwise,  if  I  may  see  reason  and 
 learning  to  lead  me. 
 
 I  think  I  make  you  weary.  God  keep  you  in  all  grace 
 as  myself.      From  my  house,  this  first  of  July. 
 
 Tour  honour's  assuredly, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 CCLXXI. 
 
 The  printer 
 Binneman 
 seeks  a  privi- 
 lege fur 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 9th  August,  [15G9.]     Lansd.  MS.  xi.  art.  62.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 I  AM  still  sued  unto  by  the  printer  Binneman  to  entreat 
 your  honour  to  obtain  for  him  a  privilege  for  printing  two  or 
 
15G9.]  AlRlin.   PAUKKIl   TO   SIU    wn.l.IAM   CECIL.  353 
 
 three  usual   books  for   gramuiariaus,   as   Terence,    Virgil,   or  ,';[','{J[J^**° 
 Tally's  Omcos,  &c.     Ho  fcareth  that  ho  shall  sustain   *,n'eat  :K .'r*^ 
 loss  of  his  printed  books  of  tho  lottery.      I  think  ho  should  l^ivommSlu. 
 do  this  thin*;  aptly  cnou<;h,  and  better  cheap  than  they  may 
 bo  bought   from  beyond   tho   seas,  standing  tho   paper  and 
 goodness  of  his  print ;  and  it  were  not  amiss  to  set  our  own 
 countrymen  on   work,   so  they  would   bo  diligent,  and  tako 
 good  correctors,      llo  hath  brought  mc  a  little  piece  of  his 
 workmanship  in  a  trial,  which  he  desireth  to  be  sent  to  your 
 honour,  to  see  the  form  and  order  of  his  print. 
 
 I  wrote  to  you  in  my  last  letters  to  borrow,  but  for  a  week  ,\^,i*||J;'f,,';'f 
 or  two,  your  book  of  ^lattliew  Paris'  story.     I  would  be  loth  f.^ru."^^* 
 to  bo  importune,  but  I  would  turn  it  to  the  commodity  of  our 
 own  country  ;  as  for  in  other  works  every  man  is  doing,  but 
 these  are  but  in  few  men''s  hands,  and  be  testimonies  not  to 
 be  lost,  and  time  would  be  taken. 
 
 I   had   thoun:ht  that   the    Queen's   Majesty    would  have  pouRhi the 
 
 O  ^  J         «/  Queen  would 
 
 resolved  in  the  appointing  of  the  vacant  rooms  before  her  [;*e  vSl"'' 
 progress.     There  cannot  be  too  many  watchmen,  which  Lati-  SJlmcrs'"" 
 mer  was  wont  to  say  ;  and  that  there  is  one  diligent  watch-  ">'"«'• 
 man  ever  resident,  which  never  ceaseth  to  walk  about  for  his 
 preys'.  What  an  infamy  hath  he  stirred  now  up  of  Cambridge,  Sf.J'S 
 for  that  unnatural  filthincss  there  too  much  known  and  blazed  ^^■"'^"^•s<^- 
 abroad,  in  this  great  liberty  of  marriage !     Good  men  lament, 
 the  adversary  laughcth.     I  hear  that  Fulke's  head  shall  bo 
 stroken,  and  made  master  of  that  house,  &c.2 
 
 I  am  at  this  day  occupied  with  all  tho  wits  I  have,  to  per-  caseofmar- 
 
 "  ^         ,  *■  riagp  of 
 
 suade  to  Gerard  Danct  and  his  sister-german,  that  their  con-  ^j^icr^cnilln. 
 tractino:  for  man  and  wife,  and  having  had  two  children 
 betwixt  them,  and  she  now  great  with  the  third,  that  it  is  sin 
 to  be  repented  of.  Thus  the  devil  locketh  up  men's  hearts  in 
 outrage.  Before  God,  I  know  not  what  to  do  with  them,  and 
 how  to  deal.  I  would  I  had  your  counsel.  I  examine  as 
 secretly  as  I  can,  and  yet  it  is  abroad.  I  have  spent  a  whole 
 afternoon  with  the  sister,  but  all  in  vain.  They  have  con- 
 tinued this  ten  or  twelve  years.  Six  year  ago  I  thought  I  had 
 won  the  brother  in  secret  communication  from  his  lewdness, 
 and  so  he  promised  me,  but  it  falleth  out  otherwise.   I  marvel 
 
 [1  Prayes,  in  Orig.] 
 
 [2  Sec  Strvpc's  Parker,  Bk.  m.  c.  xxiii.] 
 
 r  1       '  23 
 
 [park,  cor  J 
 
354  ARCIIB.  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL.  [15G9. 
 
 of  their  mother.  Thus  this  watchman  the  devil  watcheth 
 and  wandcreth,  &c.,  to  shame  God's  word,  to  shame  their 
 house,  &c.  God  preserve  your  honour  in  all  grace,  and 
 defend  us  all  from  the  assaults  of  the  enemy.  From  my 
 house,  this  ninth  of  August. 
 
 Your  honour's  alway, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  William  Cecilf 
 Inightf  principal  secretary  to  the  Queen*s 
 Majesty. 
 
 CCLXXII. 
 
 SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 24th  September,  1560.  Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Canib.  cxiv.  art.  213.  p.  577.   Grig. 
 
 It  may  please  your  grace.  Although  I  know  that  upon 
 The  Queen ^^  the  Queou's  Majcsty's  motion  by  her  Majesty's  favourable 
 be^favou?-  letters  to  your  grace  in  the  behalf  of  Sir  Henry  Lee,  knight  \ 
 Henf?Lee,  J^u  wiU  shcw  him  all  manner  of  favour  in  a  cause  referred 
 referredto  to  your  grace,  that  reasonably  may ;  yet  to  shew  to  your 
 cedi  desires  graco  how  heartily  I  do  love  Sir  Henry  Lee  for  many  good 
 favour  for     causos,  I  am  bold  to  cause  mine  own  letters  to  wait  upon  those 
 
 Sir  Henry  n    ^  -k  r    •  i     ^  i  mi 
 
 Lee  as  his  eld  of  her  Maiestv,  and  do  most  heartily  beseech  your  grace  to 
 
 friend,  whom  ^  J        tl  '      ^  ^  t/  ^     *'  o    ^ 
 
 loves.^'^^'^^  let  it  appear  by  his  end  in  this  cause,  that  if  her  Majesty's 
 letters  had  not  provoked  your  favour  towards  him,  as  I 
 know  they  shall,  as  far  as  reason  will  permit  your  grace,  yet 
 mine  might  have  had  such  grace  of  commendation  for  him, 
 being  my  dear  friend,  as  he  should  think  that  I  am  in  that 
 credit  with  your  grace,  that  he  and  others  think  me  to  be. 
 And  so  assuring  myself  at  all  times,  I  end. 
 
 From  Windsor,  the  24th  of  September,  1569. 
 
 Your  grace's  at  command, 
 
 W.   CECILL. 
 
 [1   Sir  Henry  liCC,  of  Quarcndon,  in  the  county  of  Bucks,  K.  G  ,  a 
 great  favourite  of  Queen  Elizabeth.] 
 
1509.]     THE   LORDS  OF  TIIU   COUNCII,  TO  AllCIia.  l*AKKnil.     355 
 
 CCLXXIII. 
 
 THE  LOllDS  OF  Tin:  COUNCIL  TO  AUCIIBLSIIOr  rAKKEK. 
 (ith  November,  l^G'J.     Pot) t  MS.  Iinier  Temple,  No.  17.  fol.  IS.    Orig. 
 
 After   our   very    hearty    coinmcndations  to   your    good 
 lordship.     The  Queen's  Majesty  of  late  in  conference  with  us  J|;,*;;^j'|;^"'" 
 upon  the  state  of  this  her  rcahn,  among  other  things  meet  to  iJle'eafl-oV 
 bo  reformed,  is  moved  to  think,  that  universally  in  the  eccle-  ^JtSru v, 
 siastical  government  the   care   and   diligence,   that  properly  umrnn  Imiii 
 bclonireth  to  the  otlico  of  bishops  and  other  ecclesiastical  pre- lur subjecu 
 
 ^  .  ^  .  •*  forbear  to 
 
 lates  and  pastors  of  this  church  of  England,  is  of  late  years  rp'Tj  to  their 
 so  diminished  and  decayed,  as  no  small  number  of  her  sub-  i^^i'^r^'ics. 
 jects,  partly  for  lack  of  diligent  teaching  and  information, 
 partly  for  lack  of  correction  and  reformation,  arc  entered 
 either  into  dangerous  errors,  or  into  a  manner  of  hfc  of  con- 
 tempt or  hbcrty,  without  use  or  exercise  of  any  rites  of  tho 
 church,  openly  forbearing  to  resort  to  their  parish-churches, 
 where  they  ought  to  use  common  prayers,  and  to  learn  the 
 will  of  God  by  hearing  of  sermons,  and  consequently  receive 
 the  holy  sacraments.  Of  the  increase  of  which  lamentable 
 disorders  her  Majesty  conceiveth  great  grief  and  offence,  and 
 therefore  hath  expressly  charged  us  to  inquire  tho  truth 
 hereof  by  all  good  means  possible,  and  to  provide  speedily  for 
 the  reformation  and  remedy  hereof.  Whereupon,  according  thc  lords  of 
 to  her  ^lajcsty's  charge,  and  as  we  find  it  very  requisite  of  !ipoi^c'"nsi.' 
 our  own  duties,  as  well  towards  Almighty  God,  as  to  her  Ma- 
 jesty and  our  country,  wc  have  entered  into  a  further  con- 
 sideration hereof ;  and  though  we  find  a  concurrency  of  many 
 causes,  whereupon  such  general  disorders  and  contempts  have 
 of  late  years  grown  and  increased,  (the  remedy  whereof  wc 
 mean  to  seek  and  procure  by  as  many  other  good  means  as 
 we  can)  yet  certainly  we  find  no  one  cause  hereof  greater,  find  no  one 
 
 /     */  ^  */  ^  ^  o  '  cause  hereof 
 
 nor  more  manifest,  than  an  universal  oversi2:ht  and  negliffcnce  '."""^V'"-^"!' 
 
 '  O  O     O  fest  Itian  ihc 
 
 (for  less  we  cannot  term  it)  of  the  bishops  of  the  realm,  who  llegiiimc  of 
 have  not  only  peculiar  possessions  to  find,  provide  and  main- ^'^'*"'*'°'"' 
 tain  ofllicers,  but  have  also  jurisdiction  over  all  inferior  minis- 
 ters, pastors,  and  curates,  by  them  to  inquire,  or  be  informed, 
 of  these  manner  of  contempts  and  disorders,  and  by  teaching 
 and  correction  to  reform  them ;  or  if  the  offenders  should  for 
 any  respect  appear  incorrigible,  thereof  to  make  due  informa- 
 
 23—2 
 
OOG     THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHB.  PARKER.  [1569*  ^ 
 
 tion  to  her  Majesty,   as  the  supreme  governor  under  God  of 
 the  whole  realm.      And  surely  though  we  know  that  some  of 
 the  bishops  of  the  realm  are  to  be  more  commended   than 
 some  other  for  preaching,  teaching,  and  visiting  of  their  dioceses, 
 yea  and  for  good  hospitality  and  other  good  examples  of  life, 
 yet  at  this  time  doubting  that  a  great  part  of  the  realm  in 
 sundry  places  is  touched  with  the  infection  of  these  disorders, 
 though  some  more,  some  less,  and  (as  we  fear)  no  bishoprick 
 They  there-    fujly  {^qq  ;  '^ve  havo  therefore  necessarily  concluded  to  notify 
 {TeJM^esty's  *^  Gvory  ono  of  the  bishops  alike  this  her  ^lajesty's  careful- 
 her  rlihn'''^  i^GSS  and  dcsiro  to  have  her  realm  herein  reformed,  and  for 
 lbrm?d!^nd  that  purposB  at  this  present  to  seek  the  understanding   of 
 toTnquirJ"    cvory  dioccso  in  certain  points  hereafter  following.     [And] 
 therefore  we  will  and  require  your  lordship,  in  her  Majesty's 
 name,  that  first  [ye  will]  earnestly  conceive  and  thankfully 
 allow  of  this  her  Majesty's  godly  d[isposition],  and  next  that 
 you  do  circumspectly,  and  as  quietly  as  you  may  (with  [out 
 any]  manner  of  proceeding  likely  to  breed  public  offence), 
 enquire,  or  [cause  to  be]  enquired  by  such  as  are  faithful  offi- 
 cers and  not  dissemblers,  what  [persons]  they  be,  and  of  what 
 hi^enoPre"^  quality,  degree,  and  name,  that  have  not  of  late  t[ime]  resorted 
 theirtiadsh-  ^^  their  paHsh-churches  within  your  diocese,  or  have  not  used 
 aSow'iong  the  [common]  prayers  according  to  the  laws  of  the  realm,  or 
 fSornef      havo  not  at  [usual]  times  received  the  holy  sacrament;  and 
 how  long  they  have  [forborne].     And  further  also  we  require 
 to  be  advertised,  what  ecclesiastical  pubUc  officers  you  have 
 wha/ecde"r  uuder  your  lordship  in  your  diocese,  who  they  be,  what  their 
 therebe^Jr^'^^  uamos  and  degrees,  ordained  to  see  to  the  execution  of  the 
 to'tifeVx°ecu-  laws  and  orders  of  the  church.      Likewise   what   preachers 
 £""softhl    you  have  properly  for  the  more  part  conversant  with  your- 
 Aisowhat     self  in  household,  and  what  other  preachers  residing  abroad 
 fflr^earefand  lu  your  diocose,  aud  what  ecclesiastical  livings  every  of  them 
 they  have,     hath,  with  the  values  thereof,   or  what  other  stipends  they 
 have,   wherewith  they  have  any  maintenance  or  sustentation 
 to  continue  in  their  functions.     Likewise,  we  require  you  by 
 authority  of  these  our  letters  to  confer   with  the  dean  and 
 chapter  of  your  cathedral  church,  and  with  the  heads  of  any 
 other  collegiate  church  in  your  diocese,   or  with  any  other 
 persons  having  any  pecuhar  jurisdiction  within  your  diocese, 
 and  cause  them  to  certify  distinctly  by  writing,  what  number 
 of  prebendaries,   canons,  and  preachers  they  have  which  do 
 
15G0.]    ini:  loKDs  or   iiii:  loiNrii    to  aim  iin.  r\KKi:u.    o.'T 
 
 rcs'ulo    wilhlii    the   s«i"ul   tliurclios  aiul  juiisirutions,   and   liuw  whatmim- 
 iimny  do  not  rcs'ulo,   and   how  many  of  tlicni  do  uso  and  not  >MM.V.,r.«. 
 uso  to  preach,  and  what  bo  their  names  and  de^rrecs,  and  in  i-r.... h, r.. m 
 
 *  '  o  '  i-.itlii.lrnl  Aiiil 
 
 like  sort  tlio  names  and  degrees  of  thorn  that  have  any  sus-  [Y,'j;;.';;|^'' 
 tcntation  in  their  cliurches  to  preacli,  and  yet  do  not  reside 
 nor  do    preach.      And   likewise   wo  desiro  to  bo  advertised  \vh«t 
 
 11  1  1-1  1  thurchwi  «r« 
 
 what  chnrches  or  places  onhunod   to  have  common  prayer,  ^",.l..fru. 
 arc  by  any  means  presently  void  of  curates,  and  in  whose  j*^[^'j'^ ''"^ 
 defiiult  the  same  happeneth,  and  in  what  sort  you  think  tho 
 same  may  be  best  remedied.      And  whilst  you  shall  be  occu- 
 pied in  the  inquisition  hereof,  wherein  wc  would  have  you  uso 
 all  good   diligence,  wc  heartily  and  earnestly  require  your  Tiioarch- 
 lordship,  as  vou  will  be  accounted  worthy  of  your  callino:,  toaiuarcm 
 employ  all  your  care  and  industry  in  procurino:  more  diliojent  '>i.)ri- <iii.K<?nt 
 preaching  and  teaching  within  your  diocese,  as  well  by  your- 
 self as  by  all  others  having  the  gift  to  preach,  and  therein  to 
 uso  all  charitable  means  by  diligent  instruction  and  fixithful 
 teaching  and  example  of  life,  to  stay  the  good,  faithful  and 
 obedient  subjects  in  their  duties,  and  to  induce  and  persuade 
 others   to  return  from  their  disorders  and  errors,  so  as  all 
 parties  may  observe  their  duties  in  the  public  and  open  ser- 
 vice of  Almighty  God  according  to  his  ordinance,  and  as  by 
 the  common  order  of  the  realm  is  for  God's  honour  estab- 
 lished.     And  whatsoever  3'our  lordship  shall  think  meet  and  And  what  he 
 
 ,-,,,  ,  i»i/»  r         ^  •  thinks  neoes- 
 
 necdtul  to  be  c:rantca  or  devised  tor  your  further  assistance,  s-^ry  for  his 
 
 o       ^  *  '  further  as- 
 
 thereof  to  advertise  us,  whom  you  shall  find  ready  to  aid  and  ti'prJ'i'^  ^^ 
 satisfy  you  as  far  forth  as  we  shall  find  in  our  powers  reason-  emmci'rwho 
 able,  either  by  ourselves  or  by  means  to  her  Majesty,  whom  theiri^wcr. 
 we  perceive  earnestly  disposed  to  have  the  glory  of  God  in- 
 crease, by  the  due  reverence  of  all  her  subjects  in  his  service, 
 according  to  his  blessed  word  and  commandment.      And  thus 
 wc  bid  your  good  lordship  well  to  fare.      From  Windsor,  the 
 Gth  of  November,  15G0. 
 
 Your  lordship's  loving  friends, 
 
 N.  BACON,  C.  S.  W.  HOWARD. 
 
 F.  BEDFORD.  R.  SADLER. 
 
 E.  CLYNTON.  F.  KNOLLYS. 
 
 W.  NORTHT.  WA.  JMILDMAY. 
 
 R.  LEYCESTER.  W.  CECILL. 
 
 Postscript.    We  pray  your  lordship  not  to  delay  the  an- 
 
358     THE   LORDS  OF  THE   COUNCIL  TO  ARCHB.  PARKER.     [1569. 
 
 swering  to  us  with  speed  the  names  of  the  recusants  to  come 
 to  church,  without  delaying  for  the  rest,  and  to  procure  the 
 hke  certificates  of  these  matters  from  the  bishopricks  of  Chi- 
 chester and  Oxford  now  vacant,  and  to  that  end  to  send  them 
 a  copy  of  these  our  letters,  with  special  charge  to  see  the 
 same  accomplished. 
 
 CCLXXIV. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 8ch  March,  [15G9— 70].    Lansd.  MS.  xii.  art.  So.     Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 DrPorey  Where  I  liavc  this  two  or  three  years  moved  Dr  Porey 
 
 desires  to  .  .  i«it/»ii  ii 
 
 resign  his  to  rcsign  up  his  mastcrship,  whom  i  lound  always  very  loth 
 to  M^r"Aid-^^  so  to  do,  yet  with  calling  on  I  so  persuaded  him  since  Christ- 
 fuiieSrin  ™^s,  that  hc  was  content,  and  went  down  to  that  effect,  look- 
 ship'^f  Cor-  ing  that  he  should  have  returned  again  to  Lambeth,  &c.  I 
 foiieg^e?''^^  perceive  now  that  his  joy  is  gone,  and  maketh  means  to  resign 
 whfch"thf '    up  all  his  Uvings,  as  well  Westminster  as  Lambeth,  having  no 
 
 archbishop  iii  /ii«i  \i 
 
 recommends,  morc,  and  sccmeth  to  be  content  (as  by  his  letters  to  me)  he 
 would  resign  up  Westminster  prebend  to  his  successor  in  his 
 mastership  at  Cambridge,  Mr  Aldrich,  senior  proctor,  whom 
 I  know  to  be  an  honest  young  man,  learned  in  all  the  tongues, 
 and  also  in  French  and  Italian,  and  is  I  trust  like  to  do  ser- 
 vice in  the  realm  hereafter;  whereupon  if  it  would  please  your 
 honour  to  prefer  this  resignation  to  the  Queen's  Majesty  with 
 favour,  I  doubt  not  but  it  should  be  well  bestowed.  I  have 
 SnMofidy  ^^^*  ^^  ™y  ^^^J  Stafford,  that  if  your  honour  shall  like  of  it, 
 s^^k  a^g^d  she  may  also  for  the  love  of  her  son,  who  is  in  that  College, 
 Tp^provL?^"^  speak  some  good  word,  but  yet  not  without  your  favour  and 
 contentation.  I  have  been  judged  to  look  to  be  his  executor, 
 as  though  I  stayed  him  in  his  mastership  in  hope  of  such 
 expectation.  The  truth  is,  he  is  but  a  poor  man,  and  in 
 good  faith  I  look  not  to  be  advantaged  five  shillings  by 
 him,  nor  shall  be  either  his  executor  or  supervisor,  if  God 
 should  take  him  to  his  mercy  ;  but  he  may  Hve  and  spend 
 all  he  hath  as  far  as  I  know.     Thus  the  Lord  preserve  you 
 
15(iO-70.]      Aunin.  rAUKKu  to  sir  wh.liam  cijcii  .  159 
 
 in  all  •jraco  and  goodness.      From  my  house  at  Lambetli,  this 
 8ih  of  March. 
 
 Your  lionour's  always  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTIIUE  CANTUAU. 
 
 2o  tJn  ritjht  honoitrabh'  Sir  Willutm  ( VcwV, 
 kni(jhty  principui  stcntary  to  the  Queen's 
 Majesty. 
 
 CCLXXV, 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 30th  Jlarch,  [1570].    Lansd.  MS.  i.xiii.  art.  80. 
 
 Whereas  your  honour  wrote  to  nic  your  thanks  for  Sir  sir  wuiiam 
 Uenry  Lee^  I  have  to  give  you  thanks  for  your  gentle  ac- ti>ank«i  the 
 ceptation    of   my   good   Tvill.      When    the    Queen's    ^Majesty  f;^'^u"'^on. 
 wrote  to  me  in  his  favour,  and  your  honour  followed  in  the  SJ  lIj^'' 
 same  request,  I  could  no  less  do,  of  duty  to  her  Highness  and 
 of  humanity  towards  you,  [than?]  to  do  as  I  have  done ;  and 
 yet  ye  may  be  sure  not  against  justice  (I  trust),  nor  against 
 my  conscience ;  only  supplying  by  equity  where  extremity  of 
 law  might  have  moved  matter.  Sec. 
 
 AVhere  your  honour  writeth  to  me  to  have  mine  opinion  successor  to 
 for  the  successor  of  my  lord  of  London-,  although  I  have  London, 
 boldly  written  my  judgment,  yet  at  this  present  I  think  this: 
 that  her  Majesty  can  have  none  of  such  as  be  in  place  of 
 bishops  to  begin  new  game  again  for  fees  and  fruits,    and 
 therefore  I  think,  except  it  were  the  bishop  of  Hereford ^  in  no  bishop 
 
 ^  .  ^  will  take  It 
 
 respect  for  changing  one  misery  for  another,  else  he  or  any  f.^^/hTiof*^ 
 other  would  not  take  it ;  for  as  the  poet  saith,  Negotiorum  ""<^f"^^- 
 vim  qui  sihi  velit  conipararc,   navem    {Londinensem\    4c. 
 Haic  duo  comparate.     Beside  that  most  of  them  be  not  fit  j;;°/^f^he.n 
 for  that  place.     For  though  many  of  them  be  too  weak  to  fiJi'on?'^' 
 
 [1  See  Letter  CCLXXII.  p.  354.] 
 
 [2  Bishop  Grindal  was  elected  archbishop  of  York  11th  April, 
 1670.  His  promotion  had  no  doubt  been  determined  upon  before 
 the  date  of  this  letter.] 
 
 [3  Bishop  John  Scory,  1559— 15S5.] 
 
5G0 
 
 ARCIIB.  PARKER   TO  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL. 
 
 [1570. 
 
 Dean  of  York 
 not  meet. 
 
 Provost  of 
 Eton  the 
 meetest. 
 
 Dean  of 
 Westminster 
 too  severe. 
 
 Bishoprick  of 
 Oxford,  Mr 
 Cooper  can- 
 not nave. 
 Mr  Westfal- 
 ing  has  no 
 house. 
 
 Mr  Bicklev 
 would  well 
 serve  the 
 turn. 
 
 Inconveni- 
 ence of 
 delay. 
 
 use  themselves  in  such  popularity,  yet  I  think  divers  of  them 
 not  to  be  able  to  use  their  place  and  the  time,  with  their 
 easiness  of  nature,  as  were  convenient.  Although,  surely, 
 sir,  I  must  needs  say  of  them,  they  be  as  notably  well  learned 
 and  well  occupied  as  any  prince  in  Europe  hath.  As  for  the 
 dean  of  York^  whom  I  take  to  be  a  very  honest,  quiet,  and 
 learned  man,  so  I  think  him  not  meet  for  that  place.  As  for 
 !Mr  Provost  of  Eton  2,  in  all  respects  I  think  him  meetest  for 
 that  room,  and  I  think  the  Londoners  would  take  him  better 
 than  the  dean  of  Westminster^,  whom  though  I  judge  to  be  a 
 sad  grave  man,  yet  in  his  own  private  judgment  perad venture 
 too  severe. 
 
 As  for  Oxford  bishoprick,  Mr  Cooper*  as  dean  cannot 
 have  it,  nor  the  University  can  well  forbear  him.  Mr  AVest- 
 falings  is  a  wise  sober  man,  but  because  he  is  but  a  prebend- 
 ary and  not  master  of  a  College,  he  is  peradventure  the  less 
 meet,  because  the  bishoprick  wanteth  a  house.  And  for  that 
 Mr  Bickley  ^  is  master  of  a  house  and  keepeth  thereby  a  port 
 of  worship,  I  think  he  would  well  serve  the  turn,  and  I  know 
 that  he  is  disciplinable,  and  will  be  ruled  by  counsel,  and  is  of 
 his  nature  both  sincere  and  stout  enough,  and  apt  to  govern. 
 I  speak  not  this  of  partiality  because  he  is  my  chaplain,  for  I 
 do  but  hurt  him  howsoever  the  world  take  such  things  for 
 great  preferments,  but  I  weigh  more  my  duty  to  the  Queen's 
 Majesty  in  her  service,  and  to  the  commonwealth,  than  the 
 respect  of  men's  quiets,  &c.  But  this  is  an  odious  argument 
 of  writing  in  such  comparisons,  but  I  know  to  whom  I  write. 
 
 Certainly  her  Majesty  should  do  prudently  to  be  at  a  point 
 in  these  two  matters,  the  delay  whereof  will  work  more  dis- 
 pleasure to  the  see  of  York  than  she  heareth  of.  I  am  now 
 preparing  to  repair  into  Kent,  mine  own  diocese,  where  I  have 
 not  been  a  good  while,  and  I  am  looked  for,  and  I  trust  shall 
 do  some  service  there.     If  these  persons,  which  are  to  be 
 
 [1  Matthew  Hutton,  15G7 — 15S9.] 
 
 [2  William  Day,  1561 — 1595.] 
 
 [3  Gabriel  Goodman,  150 1 — IGOl.] 
 
 [^  Thomas  Cooper,  dean  of  Christ-church,  1567 — 1570.] 
 
 [^  A  canon  of  Christ-church,  Oxford,  1561 — 1585;  bishop  of 
 Hereford,  1585 — 1601.] 
 
 [6  Thomas  Bickley,  warden  of  Mcrton  College,  Oxford,  1569 — 
 1585.] 
 
1570.]  ARClin.   TAliKKU    TO   SIR    WII.I.IAM   CKllI..  3G1 
 
 confirmed  somo,  ami  somo  to  bo  consecrated,  were  to  bo 
 placed  bcro,  it  would  save  them  much  charge,  or  else  they 
 must  como  to  mo  to  Canterbury^.  I  pray  your  lionour  to 
 obtain  tho  licenco  and  favour  of  her  Majesty  hereunto.  1 
 know  no  particular  matter  to  hear  of  her  Highness  why  I 
 should  much  need  to  como  personally.  And  thus  I  wish  your 
 honour  as  well  in  God  as  myself.  From  my  house  at  Lam- 
 beth, this  30th  of  March. 
 
 Your  honour's  assured, 
 
 MATTIIUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  r'ujht  honourohle  Sir  WiUkim  Cecily 
 hiiffht,  principal  secretarf/  to  the  Queens 
 Majestf/j  and  one  of  her  privy  council. 
 
 CCLXXVI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 1st  April,  [1570].     Lansd.  MS.  xii.  art.  SO.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 If  I  had  known  so  much  particularity  in  the  Faculty 
 matter,  as  I  am  now  informed,  I  should  have  written  more 
 particularly,  where  to  general  words  I  wrote  but  generally, 
 but  yet  offered  my  book  particularly  to  be  viewed,  which 
 also  shall  be  recorded,  and  sent  so  soon  as  time  will  serve. 
 You   shall   understand   that    Brooks   cominor  to   me  for  the  Brooks an- 
 
 o  ,         plieil  to  the 
 
 prebend  of  Ricall  in  York  church,  I  shewed  difficulty  to  him,  f^rRvilT 
 unless  my  lord   of  London  could  be   contented.      The  said  {heS^^rai 
 Brooks  signified  unto  me  that  my  lord  of  Leicester  sent  him  rJfJrredth?^ 
 to  me  for  my  hand,  and  said  that  his  honour  would  prefer  it  ?he lifSpof 
 to  the  Queen's  Majesty,  and  said  also,  that  my  lord  of  London 
 favoured  him  in  that  suit,  whereupon   I  subscribed.     I  after- 
 ward learned  that  my  lord  of  Leicester  should  tell  him,  that 
 her  Majesty  had  appointed  it  to  the  bishop's  devotion,  and 
 I  thereupon  rested,  &c.     After  that,  I  was  informed  that  this 
 Bycall  was  granted  in  vowson  to  one  Mr  Ilamond  of  York- Rymi  grant- 
 
 ["  Archbishop  Grindal  was  confirmed  in  the  sec  of  York  on  the 
 22nd  Mav,  1370,  in  the  cathedral  at  Canterbury.] 
 
362 
 
 AUCHB.  PARKER  TO  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL. 
 
 [1570. 
 
 Hammond, 
 who  designed 
 to  put  in  liis 
 child  of  14. 
 The  arch- 
 bishop ap- 
 plied to  for 
 a  dispensa- 
 tion. 
 
 Letter  of  tlie 
 dean  of  York 
 thereon. 
 
 A  certain 
 nobleman 
 Llord  Lei- 
 cester] sup- 
 ports the 
 application. 
 
 Parker 
 refused  the 
 dispensation ; 
 w  hich  was 
 very  badly 
 taken. 
 Noblemen 
 must  be 
 answered 
 with  reason. 
 
 The  lords  of 
 the  council 
 who  have 
 reouired  the 
 bi»nops  to 
 procure  more 
 diligent 
 preaching, 
 ought  to  be 
 satisfied  with 
 Parker's  re- 
 fusal. 
 
 shire,  which  known,  my  lord  of  London  earnestly  requested 
 me  not  to  grant  my  dispensation  to  any  child,  and  shortly 
 after,  i\Ir  dean  of  York  wrote  to  me  in  these  form  of  words  : 
 "  I  understand  that  suit  shall  be  made  to  your  grace  by  one 
 Mr  Hamond  of  Yorkshire,  that  his  son,  a  boy  of  tender  age, 
 and  little  learning  and  discretion,  may  be  dispensed  withal  to 
 receive  a  prebend  in  this  church  that  was  Dr  Spencer's,  called 
 Ricall.  The  prebend  is  a  very  good  one,  and  meet  for  a 
 preacher.  This  country  is  much  destitute,  and  standeth  [in] 
 need  of  preachers.  The  father  that  sueth  for  it  is  a  great 
 rich  man,  and  filius  hujus  seculi.  Therefore  I  beseech  your 
 grace  let  him  not  abuse  your  authority  to  bring  his  purpose 
 to  pass,  and  then,  I  doubt  not,  but  it  shall  be  bestowed  upon 
 a  preacher."  Shortly  after  were  delivered  me  letters  from  a 
 certain  nobleman  to  grant  my  dispensation  for  the  said  child, 
 yet  honourably  written  thus,  *'if  you  shall  think  it  meet." 
 I  stayed  of  my  grant.  And  if  your  honour  think  that  noble- 
 men must  be  thus  satisfied,  I  refer  it  to  your  conscience. 
 Noblemen  must,  and  I  trust  will,  be  answered  with  reason. 
 If  any  would  not,  I  refer  all  to  Almighty  God,  who  is  the 
 true  nobleman  indeed ;  and  if  any  nobleman  hath  found  any- 
 thing, I  would  he  well  viewed  the  seal,  whether  it  be  not 
 counterfeited,  for  I  know  what  I  have  done.  And  if  I  be 
 sifted  never  so  narrowly,  yet  shall  it  not  be  found  that  I 
 have  given  dispensations  of  ecclesiastical  livings  to  bishops' 
 sons,  neither  six,  nor  three,  to  my  remembrance. 
 
 And  whereas  in  your  letters  which  your  honours  of  the 
 privy  council  in  the  Queen's  Majesty's  name  have  earnestly 
 required  us,  "  and  we  will  be  accounted  worthy  of  our  calling, 
 to  employ  all  our  care  and  industry  in  procuring  more 
 diligent  preaching  and  teaching,  in  staying  the  obedient 
 subjects  in  their  duties,  and  to  induce  others  from  their 
 disorders  and  errors,  to  the  service  of  Almighty  God,  and  to 
 the  good  governance  of  the  realm  ^ :"  methink  seeing  your 
 nobihties  do  agree  to  God  in  this  request,  we  should  satisfy 
 you  especially  ;  as  for  all  others,  cadant  a  latere  tuo  mille  et 
 decern  millia,  S;c.;  ad  me  non  approjnnqiiabit.  Sunt  enim 
 quidam,  quos  si  quid  juves  pluma  levior  gratia,  si  quid 
 offendas  plumbeas  iras  ge\j^unt'\.     Good  Mr  Secretary,  take 
 
 [•  See  letter  of  6th  November,  1569,  printed  before.  No.  CCLXXHI. 
 p.  357.] 
 
1570.]  AKCIIB.  PARKER  TO  SIR   WILLIAM  CECIL.  3G3 
 
 no  grief,  as  these  words  were  written  to  you ;  but  I  write 
 coram  Deo  in  amaritudine  antmcB  mcce,   doubting  not  but 
 that  your  honour  hath  far  better  contemplations.      I  have  a  Parkcr  has 
 long  time  offered  in  convocation  to  my  brethren  to  procure  in'^/nvoLa- 
 the  dispatchment  of  this  offensive  court.     I  have  signified  the  "•'aI"'".''^'-' 
 
 *■  o  ottensive 
 
 same  to  your  honours.    For  I  have  more  grief  thereby  than  j!^'"uij"/s 
 gain,  and  I  would  it  were  wholly  suppressed,  as  reason  and 
 statute  would  bear  withal,  or  else  committed  to  some  other, 
 that  could  do  it  with  better  discretion,  as  I  am  sure  there  are 
 many,  for  so  divers  profess  in  their  open  sermons,  and  utter  Divers  pm- 
 the  same  in  their  private  letters.      But  I  know  you  be  never  to'manie  it 
 without  business  for  the  state  of  the  commonwealth,  to  whom 
 we  shall  join  our  aid,  though  not  in  great  doings,  but  yet  in 
 earnest  prayers  that  you  may  have  God  in  your  eyes,  how- 
 soever some  noblemen  will  be  men.     And  therefore  here  I 
 cease,  wishing  your  honour  to  God  as  myself.      From  my 
 house  at  Lambeth,  this  first  of  April. 
 
 Your  loving  friend  in  our  Saviour, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 I  should  have  written  this  letter  myself,  but  being 
 acrased,  my  head  would  not  bear  it.  And  for  that  ye  should 
 be  informed  of  all  specialties,  I  have  sent  Dr  Drury,  who 
 hath  been  my  officer  for  these  nine  years. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  knight,  principal  secretary  to 
 the  Queen's  Majesty. 
 
 CCLXXVII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 3rd  April,  [1570J.    Lansd.  MS.  xii.  art.  79.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 Your  honour  shall  be  advertised,  that  where  this  after-  F-'f  ^''^l?" 
 
 '  bishop  being 
 
 noon   or  to-morrow  I   was  minded   to    have   taken  bond  of  [^{^"g^^J^J^^f 
 Bomelius  shortly  to  have  departed  the  realm,  according  to  SlS'thV^ 
 such  purpose  as  hath  been  a  good  time  in  me  toward  him,  wduen^he^ 
 and  not  disliked  by  certain  of  her  Majesty's  council,  as  Sir  leueTs! 
 
364  ARCHB.  PARKER   TO  SIR   WILLIAM  CECIL.  [1570. 
 
 whrdrare      William  Fytzwilliams  told  mc  from  my  lord-keeper  and  from 
 
 forexaml"*  jo^ ;    to  prcvcnt  this  my  doing,  this  Bomelius  this  morning 
 
 "^t'on.        gpjjj.  Yi\s  wife  to  mc  with  these  letters  enclosed  ^ :  and  because 
 
 the  contents  be  of  high  importance,  I  thought  it  the  best  to 
 
 send  him  to  your  honours  of   the  council,   where   ye  may 
 
 examine  him  most  sufficiently.     What  he  hath  to  say  I  know 
 
 n^t,  but  I  fear  that  the  devil  is  busy  in  mischief.      It  were 
 
 good  ye  knew  it,  and  the  more  I  suspect  mahce,  hearing  but 
 
 yesterday  of  a  mischievous  intended  practice  (if  it  be  true) 
 
 for  poisoning  of   her  Majesty's  ships   in  the  ordinance   and 
 
 victual.      I   see   Judas    non  dormit,   and    some   spite    hath 
 
 reached  to  myself,   but  this  last   term,   where   quidam  filii 
 
 fnlhe^hoi-^  Beliall  did  gouge   my   poor  barge  in   divers  places  in  the 
 
 paTker's       bottom,  that  if  it  had  not  been  spied,  I  was  like  to  have 
 
 ^arge.  drenched  in  the  midst  of  the  Thames  (no  great  loss,  yet  of 
 
 such  one  as  I  am) ;  but  I  would  have  been  sorry  my  family  to 
 
 have  perished,   or   that  such   incircumcisi  Philistei   should 
 
 have  gloried  to  insult,  with  uhi  est  Deus  eorum,  S^c.     I  shall 
 
 sicSt"be  but'  V^^Y  still  to  God  for  the  protection  of  you  all.      If  this  man's 
 
 Sjpredi?'"  secrecy  be  but  an  astrological  experience  or  prediction,  it  is 
 
 S^  '^   ^  the  less,   but    I  fear  further  of   some  conspiracy.      Before 
 
 Easter  I  gave  him   liberty  to  be  an  open  prisoner  in  the 
 
 King's  Bench,  where   before  he  was  a  close  prisoner,  but  I 
 
 charged  the  keeper  that  he  should  practise  no  more  upon  the 
 
 Queen's  subjects.     Whether  any  practitioner  hath  resorted  to 
 
 Scrence'fn  ^Im  (as  mauy  have  a  wonderful  confidence  in  him  and  in  his 
 
 his  magic. 
 
 [1  Bomelius,  a  foreign  physician  and  astrologer,  acquired  great 
 reputation  in  London,  but  rather  amongst  the  people  than  at  court. 
 His  letter  on  the  present  occasion,  which  is  still  preserved  (Lansd. 
 MS.  XII.  art.  84),  professed  to  disclose  some  evil  impending  over 
 England.  Sir  William  Cecil,  instead  of  having  the  man  before  the 
 privy  council,  as  suggested  by  Parker,  wrote  to  him  for  further  infor- 
 mation. On  the  7th  April,  1570,  Bomelius  replied  by  sending  a 
 judgment  upon  the  Queen's  nativity,  and  a  portion  of  a  book  written 
 by  himself,  in  which  he  endeavoured  to  shew  that  great  changes  hap- 
 pened in  kingdoms  every  500  years,  and  argued  danger  from  the  lapse 
 of  that  period  since  the  Norman  Conquest.  Cecil,  thinking  perhaps 
 that  his  astrology  was  not  more  accurate  than  his  chronology,  took 
 no  further  notice  of  his  predictions,  whereupon  at  the  end  of  a  month 
 ho  wrote  again  (Lansd.  MS.  xii.  art.  73)  wishing  for  a  licence  to 
 transfer  his  services  to  Russia,  which  was  probably  granted.] 
 
1570.]  AUrini.  TAKKKil    TO   Slli    WILLIAM    t  lUlL.  ,'iG5 
 
 iiuit;ic)  I  know  not.  \Vh;it  ho  hath  to  utter  yo  may  learn. 
 Sub  irnmi  hipide  scorpio  latet,  yet  of  timiili  mater  non  flet, 
 1  am  thus  boUl,  penulventuro  more  suspicious  than  I  noeil ; 
 but  I  retVr  all  to  voiir  wisiloni.  I'ruin  my  house,  this  tlnnl 
 of  April. 
 
 Vour  honour's  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTlinC  CANTUAIJ. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  William 
 Ctcily  knight y  principal  secretary  to 
 the  Queen's  J/<7yV»s7//,  and  one  of 
 her  priry  council. 
 
 CCLXXVIII. 
 
 ARCIIDISIIOr  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 4th  May,  luTO.     S.  T.  O.  Domestic.    Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 I    UNDERSTAND  bv  the  wardcH  of  Manchester  Collefre  ^  ^y-ir'ien  "f 
 viho  being   very   weary   to   continue  that  College  with  such  ^^i;^;?';,^  ^.^ 
 incumbrance  as  he  hath  had  thereby,  and  hath  no  hope  to  be  irranresu,,on 
 relieved  hereafter  of  his  trouble,  except  he  betrayeth  that ''' 
 college  with  giving  over  a  lease  of  the  best  land  it  hath,  and 
 he  being  now  desirous  to  relinquish  it   to   her  Majesty's  dis- ^'^^[^^^1.^  it 
 position,  to  be  converted  to  some  College  in  Cambridge,  who  !"i^*ann^"' 
 might    hereafter   send    out   some   preachers   to   inhabit   that  ciik-geTn^ 
 quarter,  and  also  by  the  rest  of  the   revenue   maintain  some   '""  "  ^^' 
 students.      If  it  please  your  honour  to  move  her  Highness  to 
 this  alteration,  I  think  you  should  do  a  o:ood  deed ;  and  where  Thcarch- 
 
 w  O  '  bislu)|>  siifj- 
 
 you  were  brought  up  for  the  first  beginning  of  your  study  in  ^iP'\V''c«Si 
 St  John's  College,  1  think  you  should  shew  yourself  a  good  u.nuv'.T" 
 benefiictor,  to  turn  this  land  thereto,  with  what  condition  of  hTrown"^ 
 order  as  might  seem  best  to  your  wisdom.    And  thus  wishing  JohiS"  ^^ 
 you  as  much  grace  to  Godward  as  to  myself,   I  commit  you 
 
 [-  The  ^varden  was  a  Mr  Herle,  mentioned  before  in  Parker's 
 letter  of  the  12th  February,  15G5 — 6.  (p.  259.)  His  conduct  as 
 warden  was  inquired  into  some  years  afterwards,  and  was  not  thought 
 altogether  blameless.      See  Strype's  Parker,  Bk.  iv,  c.  ii.] 
 
3GG 
 
 ARCIIB.  PARKER  TO  SIR   WILLI.V3I   CECIL. 
 
 [1570. 
 
 to  hi3  protection.     From  mj  house  at  Canterbury,  this  fourth 
 of  May. 
 
 Your  loving  friend  in  God, 
 
 MATTIIUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  William 
 Cecil,  knighty  principal  secretary  to 
 the  Queens  Majesty  ^  and  one  of  her 
 privy  council. 
 
 CCLXXIX. 
 
 The  arch- 
 bishop whils 
 remedying 
 disorders  in 
 his  diocese, 
 has  been 
 sued  to  by 
 Keyes,  for- 
 merly the 
 sergeant 
 porter. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM   CECIL. 
 2Gth  May,  [1570].     S.  P.  O.  Domestic.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 After  mj  right  hearty  commendations.  Where  I  am 
 in  travaihng  here  about  divers  disorders  in  my  diocese, 
 specially  of  those  persons  that  live  either  incontinently  or  in 
 fashion  of  a  divorce  asunder  from  their  wives,  there  was 
 offered  unto  me  a  suit  from  him  that  was  sometime  serjeant 
 porter.    In  his  letters,  the  copy  whereof  I  send  your  honour^ 
 
 [}  The  letter  which  was  enclosed  ran  as  follows :  "  Most  reverend 
 father  in  God.  For  that  all  men  are  bound,  which  anv  kind  of  way- 
 is  troubled  in  conscience,  to  seek  all  means  possible  for  the  ease 
 thereof,  hath  moved  me  at  this  time  to  trouble  your  grace,  protesting 
 before  God  he  lives  not  that  hath  a  more  unquiet  conscience  than  I 
 have.  God  of  his  mercy  make  your  grace  a  mean  to  persuade  that 
 the  Queen's  Majesty  may  extend  her  mercy  towards  me,  that  accord- 
 ing to  God's  law  I  may  live.  I  trust  your  grace  will  take  it  in  good 
 part  that  I  am  here  constrained  by  conscience  to  charge  you,  I  being 
 one  of  your  flock,  to  say  that  you  are  bound  in  conscience  to  move 
 the  Queen's  Majesty  and  the  honourable  council  that  I  may  live 
 according  to  the  laws  of  God  with  my  wife.  I  will  here  omit  what 
 great  grief  it  is  to  me  to  have  occasion  to  make  this  suit  to  your 
 grace,  I  being  under  so  gracious,  so  merciful,  and  so  godly  a  prince, 
 and  have  written  so  many  letters  to  this  end,  and  have  opened  my 
 case  sundry  times  to  the  honourable  council.  Alas,  what  shall  I  say 
 or  think  ?  Sure  I  must  think  that  her  grace  doth  not  know  that  we 
 are  man  and  wife.  Here  I  might  allege  divers  sentences  out  of  God's 
 book  to  move  your  grace,  what  danger  it  is  to  a  Christian  man's  soul 
 to  live  from  his  wife,  nor  I  dare  not  here  say  what  danger  they  do  run 
 
1570.]  AIU'llll.   I'AUKEIl  Tt)  SIH    WILLIAM   CKCII  '\G7 
 
 n herein  ho  chargcth  ino,  as  of  my  pastoral  ollicc,  to  liolp  for 
 redress  of  his  case.      Whereupon  tliis  is  to  pray  your  honour  |'^'J{7,**'^'' 
 in  the  way  of  conscience  to  move  tho  matter  to  tho  (^>uecn'8  S.'ru*;^. 
 Highness,  whereby  lier  Majesty  may  have  godly  consideration  r,'.'!"!,!," 
 and  prudent  respect  for  her  policy^.      1  trust  her  Highness  yut-I'u.'" 
 will   graciously  consider  tho  quiet  of  her  poor  subject's  con- 
 science, us   may  stand   with   (Jod's  law,  the  respect  whereof 
 maketh  me  to  bo  a  solicitor,  as  my  duty  bindeth  mc. 
 
 Furthermore,   in  searching  for  disordered  persons,  I  am 
 informed  of  one  gentleman,  called  Culpepper,  who  hath  "lar- 'J^n^ ^."j^lr*?^ 
 ricd  the  sister  of  Leonard  Dacrcs,  tho  rebcP,  and  whether  ;',',^[.Vi;}Jl^'',. 
 
 nanl  I>:utp<, 
 the  rebel, 
 
 into  at  God's  haiul  that  doth  keep  man  ami  wife  asunder  ;  for  I  do 
 know  that  all  Scriptures  arc  so  well  known  to  your  grace,  that  it 
 were  mere  folly  for  mo  to  take  upon  me  to  rccito  any.  Also  I  do 
 omit  to  open  tho  whole  circumstance  of  my  marriage,  for  that  I  do 
 think  it  is  not  altogether  unknown  to  your  grace,  I  being  twice 
 examined  before  my  lord  of  London ;  but  so  sure  as  there  is  a  living 
 God,  so  sure  we  be  man  and  wife  before  him.  I  fear  I  am  too 
 tedious  to  your  grace,  wherefore  I  will  end,  desiring  God  of  his 
 mercy  to  put  into  tho  Queen's  Majesty's  heart,  by  your  grace's  means, 
 that  if  my  long  imprisonment  and  punishment,  which  hath  been  almost 
 five  years,  be  not  thought  suflicient  for  my  presumptuous  act,  that  I 
 might  live  the  rest  of  my  life  in  prison  with  my  wife,  according  to 
 God's  law ;  which  to  do,  God  is  my  judge,  only  for  conscience  sako  I 
 had  rather  do,  than  to  live  with  this  liberty  that  I  now  have.  Thus, 
 leaving  to  trouble  your  grace  any  further  at  this  time,  I  wish  you  long 
 life,  with  much  increase  of  honour,  most  humbly  beseeching  your 
 grace  to  give  mo  leave  to  wait  upon  you  to  utter  my  troubled  con- 
 science at  large  by  mouth;  and  if  this  be  not  a  truth  which  I  havo 
 ■written  to  your  grace,  I  wish  to  be  punished  in  example  of  all 
 others.  From  Sandgate  Castle,  this  7th  of  May,  1570.  One  of  your 
 grace's  poor  and  humble  flock,  to  command  during  life,  THOMAS 
 KEYES."] 
 
 [2  Thomas  Keyes,  the  sergeant  porter  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  who  is 
 here  alluded  to,  was  the  person  who  married  Lady  Mary  Grey,  sister 
 of  Lady  Jane  Grey.  He,  as  Sir  William  Cecil  remarked,  "was  the  big- 
 gest"' and  she  "the  least"  person  of  all  tho  court.  (Lansd.  MS.  cii.  art. 
 6G).  The  fate  of  Keyes  subsequent  to  his  marriage  has  been  unknown 
 to  the  writers  upon  that  period.  They  do  not  seem  to  havo  even 
 known  his  christian  name  correctly.] 
 
 [3  Leonard  Dacrcs,  "Dacres  of  the  crooked  back,"  as  he  was 
 termed  by  INLary  Queen  of  Scots,  was  an  active  participator  in  tho 
 rebellion  of  1509.  Ho  was  the  second  son  of  William  Lord  Dacrc  of 
 Gillesland.      After  an    unsuccessful  endeavour   to    defend    Xaworth 
 
3G8  AIICHB.  PARKER  TO  SIR   WILLIAM  CECIL.  [1570. 
 
 you  have  taken  order  with  him  I  know  not ;  but  hearing  that 
 is  making      \^q  makcth  awav  his  thinojs  to  make  as  much  money  as  he 
 
 away  his  «/  o  t/ 
 
 dSiorre-  ^^^'  ^^^  doubting  of  the  sequel,  being  otherwise  noted  not  to 
 TOmmunion.  roceive  the  communion,  I  have  at  all  adventures  sent  for  him 
 fent'for'wm-  to  appear.      If  he  do  allege  any  order  taken  of  him  by   the 
 
 council,  then  I  shall  the  sooner  dismiss  him,   or  else  I  will 
 
 have  him  bound  to  be  forthcominor. 
 
 o 
 
 outVa^cU'by  I  ^™  1^®^^  stoutly  faccd  out  by  that  vain  official  who  was 
 
 Official.  declared  to  have  slandered  ]\lr  Morris  and  some  justices  of 
 the  peace,  and  purpose  to  examine  the  foul  slander  of  Morris, 
 according  to  the  request  of  your  letters.  The  official  seemeth 
 to  discredit  my  office,  for  that  I  am  but  one  of  the  com- 
 mission, and  have  none  other  assistants  here ;  and  therefore 
 it  would  do  good  service  if  the  commission  I  sued  for  to  be 
 renewed  were  granted.  There  be  stout  words  muttered  for 
 actions  of  the  case,  and  for  dangerous  premunires,  and 
 specially  tossed  by  his  friends,  papists  only,  where  the  better 
 subjects  do  universally  cry  out  of  his  abuses.  If  I  had  some 
 advice  from  you  I  should  do  the  better.  And  thus  wishing 
 your  honour  God's  grace  as  to  myself,  I  commit  the  same  to 
 his  protection.  From  my  house  at  Canterbury,  the  26th  of 
 May. 
 
 Your  honour's  loving  friend  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTHUE  CAXTUAR. 
 
 To  the  rigid  lionourable  Sir  William 
 Cecily  l-iiight,  principal  secretary  to 
 the  Queens  ^lajestijy  and  one  of  her 
 privy  council. 
 
 CCLXXX. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 25tli  August,  [1570J.    S.  P.  O.  Domestic.     Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 After  my  hearty  commendations  in  Christ.      I  should 
 have  written  to  your  honour   afore   this   time,  but  it   hath 
 God^J'S'^  pleased  Almighty  God,  whose  will  is  always  the  best  and 
 
 Castle,  he  fled  into  Scotland,  and  thence  to  the  Low  Countries,  where 
 he  died  in  1573.] 
 
 1 
 
1570.]  ARnin.  PAIIKEK    TO  sill    WII.I.IAM    ri  rlf..  3G9 
 
 must  bo  oboycil,  to  oiTer  unto  ino  some  matter  of  pj^ticnco',  [JjJ'IJ^-,^ 
 
 and  foolish  frail  nature  troublcth  mo  yot  so,  tluit  I  liavo  much  jlj^'ll^'e^*' 
 
 a»lo  with   myself  to   gather   my   wits  and  memory  to<;eth(T; 
 
 but  I  thank  God  that  yet  it  hath  j»leased  his  merey  to  .suti'cr 
 
 my  poor  faith  to  prevail  a^^ainst  natural  considerations,  and 
 
 my   hope  to  bear  quietly  the  wants  of  my  small  household 
 
 eommoilities. 
 
 Tho  causo  of  my  writing  is  partly  of  the  motion  of  the  fj,',,'^,'";/^^^ 
 friends  of  Mr  Dr  Tliirlebv,  who   (as  himself  desireth)  would  *''•*'"?•, 
 wish  in  this  his  great  sickness  to  be  removed  from  my  house  [,7,'fncndK* 
 to  his  friends,  for  better  cherishing  and  in  hope  of  his  recovery^. 
 I   would  grant  no  further  but  the  choice   of  three  or   four 
 largo    chambers    within    my   house,    except    you   can    agree 
 thereto,  and  for  this  cause  this  messenger  cometh  to  your 
 honour  to  know  the  Queen's  ^fajcsty's  pleasure  ;   which   un- 
 derstanded,  in  circumstances  as  they  shall  be  prescribed,   so 
 they  shall  be  followed,  if  it  please  Almighty  God  to  continue 
 me  any  further  in  life,  having  somewhat  ado  to  keep  myself 
 upon  my  foot.      1  thought  by  his  presence  (being  both  of  us 
 much  of  an  age)   to  learn  to  forsake  the  world  and  die  to 
 God ;  and  hereto  I  trust  to  incline  myself,  what  length  or 
 shortness  of  life  soever  may  follow. 
 
 I  fear  the  recovery  of  the  bishop  of  London  ^  who  as  I  Jf7 SoT 
 hear  is  fallen  back  to  his  fits  again.  dangerou.iy 
 
 ^Ir  Wattes  and  I  in  our  conference  seemed  to  wish  these 
 persons  in  the  new  necessary  commission*;  I  call  it  necessary,  fo/^fne"^"^ 
 for  I  hear  now  of  late  of  more  massing  than  hath  been  heard  '^^«">'"'*=*'^" 
 of  this  seven  years.  Ye  may  allow  of  these  or  of  any  other 
 whom  your  wisdom  shall  think  meet  either  to  remove  or  to 
 add.  And  thus  I  beseech  your  honour  to  have  most  humbly 
 my  commendations  of  prayers  to  her  Majesty,  wishing  tho 
 
 [1  Mrs  Parker,  the  archbishop's  wife,  died  on  tho  17th  August, 
 loTO.  She  was  interred  in  the  Duke's,  that  is  the  Duke  of  Norfolk's 
 chapel,  on  the  north  side  of  old  Lambeth  church.] 
 
 [-  Dr  Thirleby  died  on  the  2Gth  August,  the  day  after  the  date  of 
 this  letter.] 
 
 P  Bishop  Sandys,  tho  new  bishop  of  London,  translated  from 
 Worcester  2nd  June,  1570.] 
 
 [^  Probably  the  ecclesiastical  commission.  "  These  persons"  seems 
 to  refer  to  some  inclosed  list  of  persons.  No  such  list  has  been 
 found.] 
 
 |_PARK.  COR. J 
 
370  ARCIIB.  PARKER  TO  SIR   WILLIAM   CECIL.  [1570. 
 
 same  a  prosperous  return  with  all  her  court,  and  to  you  with 
 your  whole  family  God's  favour  and  protection  as  to  myself. 
 From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this  25th  of  August. 
 
 Your  honour's  alway  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  William  Cecily 
 IcnifjJtt,  principal  secretary  to  the  Queen's 
 Majesty  J  and  one  of  her  privy  council. 
 
 CCLXXXI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 2nd  November,  1570.    S.  P.  O.  Domestic.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I  PRAY  you  let  me  use  your  favour  and  counsel.     In  the 
 
 late  commission  for  causes  ecclesiastical,  one  clause  escaped  in 
 
 the  writing,   as  in  this  libeP,  which  I  must  needs  impute  to 
 
 myself  and  writers  :  and  with  your  help  I  would  cause  it  to 
 
 Suggestions    bo  ncw  Written,  if  your  honour  would  obtain  that  it  miojht  be 
 
 for  altera-  .  ® 
 
 SesiasUcai  sigi^^d  by  licr  Majesty's  hand.  As  for  the  great  seal,  may  soon 
 provosfo'f""  be  put  to.  In  this  renovation  I  would  wish  Mr  Day,  pro- 
 ■\vest'mimte°r,  vost  of  Etou^  to  be  a  commisslouer  for  some  causes  necessary, 
 Bromley  and  and  rIso  would  wish  Mr  dean  of  Westminster^  to  be  of  the 
 braham,       Quorum,  aud  SO  miojht  Thomas  Bromley'^  and  Thomas  Wilbra- 
 
 esqs.,  pro-  a,  '  o  t^ 
 
 posed  as  com- 
 missioners, 
 
 [}  TliG  following  was  the  clause  above  referred  to :  "  to  be  one, 
 that  then  you,  or  three  of  you  as  aforesaid,  shall  have  full  power  and 
 authority  to  order  and  award  such  punishment  to  every  oflfender,  by 
 fine,  imprisonment,  or  otherwise  by  all  or  any  of  the  ways  aforesaid, 
 and  to  take  such  order  for  the  redress  of  the  same,  as  to  your  wisdoms 
 and  discretions,  or  three  of  you,  whereof  you  the  said  archbishop  of 
 Canterbury,  or  you  bishops  of  London,  Winton,  Ely,  Rochester, 
 Chichester,  and  Dover ;  or  you  the  said  Anthony  Cooke,  Thomas 
 Smith,  Henry  Xeville,  Thomas  Goodwin,  Walter  Iladdon,  Thomas 
 Seckford,  Gilbert  Gerald,  David  Lewis,  Thomas  Yale,  and  Thomas 
 Wootton,  &c."] 
 
 [-  Dr  William  Day,  provost  of  Eton,  dean  of  Windsor,  and  ulti- 
 mately bishop  of  Winchester,  1595—1596.] 
 
 [3  Dr  Gabriel  Goodman,  dean  1561 — 1601.] 
 
 [■'  Afterwards  lord-chancellor.] 
 
1570.]  AIICIIII.  PAUKKU   TO  Sill    WILLIAM   (KC  II  l71 
 
 ham*,  esquires.  And  because  Mr  Marven  of  Chichester  dioceso 
 .is  written  "  Marten,"  and  no  such  body,  I  would  have  him 
 more  truly  written,  which  they  say,  in  the  commission,  cannot 
 bo  altered  but  in  the  (Queen's  presence.  And  finally,  I  would 
 think  good  some  proviso  were  in  the  end,  that  neither  Win- 
 chester comn»issioners,  Chichestir  commissioners,  or  of  Can- 
 terbury, should  deal  in  causes  out  of  their  dioceses,  to  avoid 
 confusion  amongst  us,  if  the  Queen's  pleasure  were  so  expressed. 
 If  these  particularities  may  bo  thought  good  unto  your 
 lionour,  upon  your  answer  1  would  cause  the  book  to  be  new 
 written  again  and  sent  you,  to  use  your  opportunity  especially 
 to  the  Queen's  Highness.  And  thus  God  preserve  your 
 honour.    From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this  second  of  November. 
 
 Your  honour's  evermore  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  Sir  Williaiti  Cecily 
 knight,  principal  secretary  to  the  Queen's 
 Majesty,  and  one  of  her  pnvy  council. 
 
 CCLXXXII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   QUEEN  ELIZABETH. 
 27th  December,  [1570.]     S.  P.  O.  Domestic.     Orig. 
 
 Most  humbly  submitting  myself  to  your  excellent  Ma- 
 jesty, I  crave  your  pardon  of  this  my  boldness,  praying  your  ,^JJ7"^* 
 Highness  not  be  offended  with  my  plainness  herein  uttered,  '''^''i°esi 
 which  I  open  in  most  secret  wise  to  yourself  in  conscience,  by 
 Almighty  God,   to  whose  sacred  Majesty  at  his  fearful  and 
 reverend  judgment  we  all  shall  once  stand.     The  insufficiency  insumdencv 
 
 11  f  -11  1   •   1  ^   of  speech  an.l 
 
 of  my  speech,  the  weakness  of  my  mmd,  have  hitherto  stayed  ^^^^"hTve^ 
 me,  not  in  person  to   say   much,   partly  in  consideration  of  ff^J^*^\'J^ 
 mine  own  un worthiness,   and  partly   in   fear   of  displeasure,  J^'^n!" 
 whereunto  wiUingly   and  wittingly  I  would  not  fall,  to   win 
 the  whole  realm.     I  have  very  seldom  purged  myself  to  your 
 Highness  of  whatsoever  information  hath  been  made,  refer- 
 
 [5  A  distinguished  lawyer,  at  this  time  attorney-general  of  tho 
 court  of  wards.] 
 
 24—2 
 
 J 
 
ARCIIB.  PARKER  TO   QUEEN  ELIZABETH. 
 
 [1570. 
 
 Has  been  in- 
 foniunl  that 
 it  has  been 
 taken  iin- 
 kiiully  that 
 his  counsel 
 alleged  his 
 title  to  the 
 wood  of 
 Loniibeach. 
 
 Meant  to 
 restore  it  to 
 the  disposi- 
 tion of  the 
 crown. 
 
 When  he 
 first  came 
 into  Kent,  he 
 
 grayed  Sir 
 Richard 
 Sackville  to 
 be  a  mean  to 
 procure  him 
 a  lease  of 
 Charing,  the 
 house  of  his 
 predecessors. 
 
 He  procured 
 a  lease  for 
 himself,  and 
 intended  to 
 set  up  iron 
 mills. 
 
 ring  mine  innocency  to  Almighty  God,  and  to  your  good 
 nature  and  credit,  wherein  I  have  reposed  myself  quietly. 
 
 I  have  been  informed  that  some  unkindness  might  have 
 been  thought  in  me,  for  that  my  learned  counsel  hath  (by 
 commandment)  opened  before  your  Highness'  officers  what 
 could  be  alleged  for  the  title  of  that  unlucky  wood  of  Long- 
 beach.  0  Madam !  I  never  meant  to  shew  any  wilfulness  or 
 ingratitude  to  your  Highness,  of  whom  I  have  received  all 
 that  I  have  (as  God  knoweth),  in  heart.  I  was  called  into 
 your  court  of  exchequer  (after  three  or  four  years'  quiet  pos- 
 session, serving  the  country  there  with  wood  of  the  fall  of 
 forty  or  fifty  pounds  by  year,  as  hath  been  used  by  my  pre- 
 decessors) to  answer  by  what  title  I  have  holden  the  same. 
 I  never  meant,  as  God  knoweth  my  conscience,  to  make 
 havoc  thereof,  to  improve  it  to  the  benefit  either  of  wife  or 
 children  (if  it  hath  been  so  judged),  but  to  reserve  and  to 
 restore  it  again  to  the  disposition  of  the  crown,  or  in  extreme 
 necessity  for  casualty  of  fire  falling  on  some  of  my  houses,  to 
 use  somewhat  to  the  re-edifying,  as  certain  of  your  officers 
 hath  known  my  purpose. 
 
 The  truth  is,  your  Highness  may  be,  I  fear,  compassed 
 therein;  as  once  I  saw  the  likelihood.  It  pleased  Sir  Richard 
 Sackville,  when  I  was  at  my  first  coming  in  Kent,  to  come  to 
 me  as  to  visit  me ;  he  moved  to  communication,  and  I,  as  an 
 unexpert  man,  prayed  him  to  be  a  mean  to  your  Highness 
 that  I  might  be  your  farmer  and  tenant  in  rent  to  the  house 
 of  Charing,  sometimes  my  predecessors',  being  decayed  and 
 very  ruinous,  which  I  would  have  repaired;  and  being  as  it 
 were  in  the  midst  of  the  diocese,  I  would  sometimes  have  dwelt 
 there,  to  the  stay  and  comfort,  I  trust,  of  that  stout  people 
 of  that  country,  as,  at  this  day,  God  be  praised,  the  whole 
 shire  is  both  quiet,  reverently  obedient,  and  in  conscience  ready 
 to  serve  both  in  body  and  goods,  and  I  trust  will  so  continue. 
 He  upon  the  disclosing  of  my  desire,  to  prevent  me,  sued  to 
 your  Highness  for  the  lease  thereof  to  himself,  and  charged 
 your  Highness  with  some  reparations,  and  intending,  as  I  was 
 credibly  informed,  in  this  wood,  being  very  nigh  to  that  house 
 of  Charing,  to  erect  up  certain  iron  mills ;  which  plague,  if  it 
 should  come  into  that  country,  I  fear  it  would  breed  much 
 grudge  and  desolation ;  to  the  avoidance  whereof,  my  friends 
 and  learned  counsel  advised  me  to  shew  my  interest,  being 
 
1570.]         Aiu  im.  r.MtKi-it  to  qi-ben  bli/ahktk.  .')73 
 
 called   thereto;   not  iiiiiMiii;r    by    thii   speech   (most   iiracioiis  J"i'f7'«T' 
 
 ^        ''  .         ^       .  .  ,  '''in.  I'«rkrr 
 
 lailv)  to  irainsay  voiir  i)K'asuro  or   title,   eitiicr  in  this  or  in  r"**."''*'!!?' 
 anything  that  your  Highness  hath  given  mo,  whereof  I  an- [".^i'.^^.'Jy'"* 
 swer  the  fruits,  the  tenths,  and  subsidies,  whicli  canio  to  my  lluC'^ma. 
 SCO  (iis  tliey  inform  me)  by  several  value,  and  being  no  mem- 
 ber of  the  manor  of  Westwoll,  which  is  of  the  rent  of  i^20 
 by  year,  now  in  this  late  exchange,  among  other  things  of 
 the  sum  of  ono  thousand  pounds,  rccumpen.sL'd  in  a  rectory  of 
 JC'20  by  year. 
 
 And  whereas  your  Majesty  may  be  informed  that  the 
 late  exchange  is  but  penny  for  penny,  some  wise  men  think, 
 that  of  four  or  five  hundred  marks  which  might  bo  increased, 
 your  revenues  not  augmented  so  many  shillings ;  although 
 now  I  hear  that  by  the  lease  that  may  be  of  this  wood,  a 
 better  rent  is  advanced  to  the  crown,  which  yet  if  it  had 
 pleased  you,  might  have  been  much  more  to  your  possessions 
 beneticial,  if  it  had  been  so  sought;  except  your  Highness 
 meaneth  of  your  princely  liberality  this  way  to  advance  the 
 service  of  some  other  of  your  subjects  so  beneficially,  where- 
 unto  I  am  ready  to  submit  myself  in  all  that  I  have  in  any 
 title  whatsoever  :  protesting:  here  before  your  Highness,  know-  Parker  u 
 
 1  '  1      11    T    1  1  ready  totarry 
 
 ins:   vour  pleasure,  mvselt  and  all  I  have  to  be  at  your  com- o"" '^"^^k° ''.^ 
 
 O     t,  1  '         1/  «/  vocation  at 
 
 mandment,  to  tarry  or  to  forego  the  vocation  your  Highness  ^^Z^^re^'^ 
 hath  called  me  unto,  better  content  for  myself  to  live  with  the 
 tenth  part,  than  with  the  whole,  if  it  may  be  to  the  glory  of 
 God,  and  to  the  honour  and  quiet  governance  of  your  realm. 
 And  whether  in  this  place,  wherein  your  Highness  hath  set 
 me  in  (more  lamenting  mine  un worthiness  than  rejoicing  in 
 the  solemnity  thereof)  1  have  had  too  much  worldly  joy,  God 
 knoweth,  bearing  yet  all  manner  of  griefs  and  obloquies  for 
 doing  justice  and  your  commandment  with  very  good  will ; 
 at  which  place  some  learned,  some  of  other  private  respects,  His  office 
 
 1      1         1    •    1  much  object- 
 
 do  SO  much  bear  at,  that  they  conclude  plamly  in  doctrine  ^p^-r^d^obc 
 and  hold  in  aflfection,  quod  arcldepiscoporum  nomina  simxill]''^^YJ^^ 
 cum  muneribus  suis  et  officiis  sujit  aholenda ;  which  practice 
 when  they  have  brought  about  (as  in  your  Majesty's  time  of 
 your  gracious  consideration  I  doubt  not  of),  that  this  room 
 should  be  either  too  low  abased  or  quite  abolished,  I  think 
 your  Highness''  council  should  have  too  much  ado,  beside  their 
 other  great  affairs,  in  staying  of  the  unruliness  of  some  part 
 of  the  ministers  for  religion,  and  in  some  others  of  the  laity 
 
374 
 
 AIICIIB.  PARKER  TO   QUEEN  ELIZABETH, 
 
 [1570. 
 
 Wonderful 
 iiiipovcrish- 
 ment  of  the 
 clergy. 
 
 Its  effect  on 
 religion 
 
 as  evidenced 
 in  the  Uni- 
 versity of 
 Cambridge. 
 
 for  their  insolent  living,  and  standing  the  insatiableness  of 
 many  patrons  in  the  giving  of  their  benefices  in  these  times, 
 considering  the  wonderful  impoverishment  of  the  most  of  the 
 clergy,  partly  by  the  great  and  interminable  exactions  of 
 these  arrearages  for  tenths  and  subsidies,  many  paid  afore  by 
 their  predecessors,  and  yet  called  for  again,  even  from  your 
 fathcr'*s  days.  I  see  them  in  such  extreme  poverty,  that,  of 
 pure  conscience,  I  am  driven  to  forbear  of  my  ancient  rights 
 to  ease  them  of  their  burthens,  for  the  better  maintenance  of 
 Christ's  holy  religion,  which  as  it  may  be  choked  with  over- 
 much in  unconscionable  men's  hands,  so  it  will  fall  to  ground 
 amongst  beggars,  which  shall  set  their  whole  care  and  force 
 of  mind,  not  to  study  but  to  live,  which  at  this  day  experi- 
 ence sheweth  it ;  as  in  your  University  of  Cambridge  not  two 
 men  in  the  whole  able  or  willing  to  read  the  lady  Margaret's 
 lecture,  although  preachers  they  have  many,  but  I  fear 
 divers  of  small  consideration. 
 
 Thus  praying  your  Majesty,  at  the  reverence  of  God, 
 patiently  to  hear  these  words  of  your  poor  priest  and  well- 
 meaning  chaplain,  referring  altogether  to  your  grace's  con- 
 templation, as  I  see  how  Almighty  God  worketh  in  your 
 heart  far  above  much  wisdom  of  the  world,  whose  Majesty  in 
 you  thus  oftentimes  appearing,  I  do  reverence  with  lowly 
 humility,  referring  all  to  your  divine  prudence,  how,  in  what, 
 or  when  your  Highness  will  have  me  obedient,  secundum 
 Deum  et  Jesum  Christum  servatorem  nostrum;  to  whose 
 fatherly  protection  I  will  never  cease  in  prayer  to  commend 
 your  Majesty  in  soul  and  body ;  which  God  long  preserve, 
 Amen.      From  Lambeth,  this  27th  of  December. 
 
 Your  Majesty's  most  bounden  orator, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  Queen*s  most  excellent  Majestij. 
 
1570-1  ]        AUCIin.   PAllKUIi    TO  sill    UIMJAM    <  ECIL.  ^75 
 
 CCLXXXIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKKU  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CKCH.. 
 
 8th   Jammrv,   i:.:0— 1.      Trtvt   MS.    Innrr   Temple,  No.  47.    fol.  6.'!.      Prtrkcr'i 
 
 tlr.ilt. 
 SlK, 
 
 WiiKKK  upon  the  return  of  my  lord  of  London*  from  the  a  nu«iion 
 court  wo  had  communication  of  the  communion  bread,  and  ";.I'!^.V*V*h«. 
 he  seeminj;  to  si»xnify  to  me  tliat  your  lionour  did  not  know  euMmuinioo- 
 of  any  rule  passed   by   law  in  the   Communion-book  that  it  IV'ihtmhop 
 may  be  such  bread  as  is  usually  eaten  at  the  table  with  other  wl't<iuVi«t 
 meats,  &c.  ;   I  thought  it  good  to  put  you  in  remembrance, 
 and  to  move  your  consideration  in  the  same.    For  it  is  a  matter 
 of  much  contention  in  the  realm  :  where  most  part  of  protest- 
 ants  think  it  most  meet  to  be  in  wafer-bread,  as  the  injunc- 
 tion  prescribcth  ;   divers  others,    I  cannot  tell  of  wliat  spirit, 
 would  have  the  loaf-bread,  &c.    And  hereupon   one  time  at  a 
 sessions  would  one   Master  Fogg  have  indicted  a  priest  for 
 usinf;  wafer-bread,  and  me  indirectly  for  charfjinor  the  wafer- 
 bread  by  injunction  :  where  the  judges  were  Mr  Southcoots 
 and  Mr  Gerrard,  who  were  greatly  astonied  upon  the  exhibit- 
 ing  of  the   book.      And  I  being  then  in  the   country,   they 
 counselled  with  me,  and  I  made  reasons  to  have  the  injunction 
 prevail. 
 
 First,  I  said,  as  her  Highness  talked  with  me  once  or 
 twice  in  that  point,  and  signified  that  there  was  one  proviso 
 in  the  act  of  the  uniformity  of  Common  Prayer,  that  by  law 
 is  granted  unto  her,  that  if  there  be  any  contempt  or  irreve- 
 rence used  in  the  ceremonies  or  rites  of  the  Church  by  the 
 misusing  of  the  orders  appointed  in  the  book,  the  Queen's  ^heoup^nhas 
 Majesty  may,  by  the  advice  of  her  commissioners,  or  metro-  ^(J^"*new 
 politan,  ordain  and  publish  such  further  ceremonies,  or  rites,  ^rtixe^^ 
 as  may  be  most  for  the  reverence  of  Christ's  holy  mysteries  iJi^^e'^Tcmi^^ 
 and  sacraments,  and  but  for  which  law  her  Hicrhness  would  t'hdll;'e"xfst° 
 
 .  ing. 
 
 not  have  airreed  to  divers  orders  of  the  book.    And  bv  virtue 
 
 o 
 
 of  which  law  she  published  further  order  in  her  injunctions  Andbyvirtue 
 both  for  the  communion-bread 2,  and  for  the  placing  of  the  s^hJ^JcK" 
 
 order  about 
 \}   Bishop  Sandys.]  bread  in  the 
 
 [2  Queen  Elizabeth's  Injunctions  of  1559  directed,  that  the  sacra-   "J"°*^*""* 
 mental  bread  should  be  similar  to  the  "  singing  cakes,  which  served 
 for  the  use  of  the  private  mass,"  but  "  somewhat  bigger."] 
 
376  ARCIIB.  PARKER  TO   SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL.        [1570-1. 
 
 tables  within  the  quire.     They  that  like  not  the  injunctions 
 
 force  much  the  statute  in  the  book.     I  tell  them  that  they  do 
 
 evil  to  make  odious  comparison  betwixt  statute  and  injunction, 
 
 and  yet  I  say  and  hold,  that  the  injunction  hath  authority  by 
 
 proviso  of  the  statute.      And  whereas  it  is  said  in  the  rule, 
 
 that  ''  to  take  away  the  superstition  which  any  person  hath 
 
 or  might  have  in  the  bread  and  wine,  it  shall  suffice  that  the 
 
 nibdc  "^it     bread  be  such  as  is  usually  to  be  eaten  at  the  table  with  other 
 
 waicon^''^'  meats,  &c. ;"  "  it  shall  suffice,"  I  expound,  where  either  there 
 
 pS-ken  ^      wanteth  such  fine  usual  bread,  or  superstition  be  feared  in  the 
 
 wafer-bread,  they  may  have  the  communion  in  fine  usual  bread  : 
 
 which  is  rather  a  toleration  in  these  two  necessities,  than  is  in 
 
 plain  ordering,  as  is  in  the  injunction. 
 
 This  I  say  to  shew  you  the  ground  which  hath  moved 
 
 me  and  others  to  have  it  in  the  wafer-bread ;  a  matter  not 
 
 Hke^common  gi'^atly  material,  but  only  obeying  the  Queen's  Highness,  and 
 
 slcrament!^^  foi'  that  the  most  part  of  her  subjects  disliketh  the  common 
 
 bread  for  the  sacrament.    And  therefore,  as  her  Highness  and 
 
 you  shall  determine,  I  can  soon  alter  my  order,  although  now 
 
 quietly  received  in  my  diocese,  and  I  think  would  breed  some 
 
 In  the  court  yarlanco  to  alter  it.     I  hear  also  that  in  the  court  you  be 
 
 they  be  come  ^  t/ 
 
 b"read."^"^^  come  to  the  usual  bread.  Sir,  the  great  disquiet  babbhng 
 that  the  realm  is  in  in  this  matter  maketh  me  thus  long  to 
 babble,  and  would  be  loth  that  now  your  saying  or  judgment 
 should  so  be  taken  as  ye  saw  a  law  that  should  prejudice  the 
 injunction. 
 
 Sir,  I  thank  your  honour  for  your  prudent  secrecy,  that 
 you  did  use  toward  that  party  that  laboureth  to  know  who 
 did  write  letters  to  the  Queen  to  signify  such  innovation.  He 
 saith  he  is  promised  to  know,  &c.  It  would  breed  but 
 unkindness,  and  therefore  I  left  him  in  his  suspense,  as  in  my 
 last  long  letter  I  would  I  had  spared  one  word  written  which 
 might  work  unkindness,  but  that  I  say  your  wisdom  will 
 rather  make  charity  than  break  it. 
 
 If  this  unhandsome  weather,  or  my  casual  body,  shall 
 defer  the  longer  my  duty  of  coming  to  the  Queen,  I  pray  you 
 ease  it  with  some  word.  And  thus  God  make  you  strong. 
 This  8  th  of  January. 
 
1570-1.]        AUCIIU.   I'AUKKIl   T(»   Sill   WILIJAM    CKllI..  377 
 
 CCLXXXIV. 
 
 AKCHBISIIOI'  rAUKi:il  TO   SIR    WILLIAM   CLCIL. 
 
 21st  January,  [l^iT^V—l.]    S.  V.  O.  Doincstic.     Orif,'. 
 
 I  AM  ashamed  to  write  thus  oft  to  your  honour,   though 
 necessity   driveth   me  ;   but  hereafter   I   will   write  scldomcr. 
 Whereas  her  Iliizhness  and  vour  honour  would  have  had  some  TheQ«««n 
 apt  speech  concerning  that  question  :  iui  j>n')icipifjus  sit  jwtius  ,'jy//l',',,['*^;*' 
 resistendinn  (juam  ohediendum   in  rebus  adiaphoris?    I  am  JiJ^.Vt'.m «» to 
 informed   that  no   such   matter   was  applied.      I    fear    qiwd  lhr,'.Mnw/" 
 aliqiiid  mofistri  alunt  ct  suas  res  agimt.    I  doubt  quod  quia  [ci'lom-Jto 
 inaqis  diliqunt  nloriam  hominum  quam  qloriam  Dei,  timent  argued 
 
 ,,  f  7         .»»  f  .  »  amongst  the 
 
 pleuem,    nam  ])alani  de   tllo    loqui   noLunt  propter   metum  {^"^'^"^ 
 Judeorum,  et  propter  PJinriseos  nan  confitentin\  cSc      If  this  {",1^'t'""'^*!,^.^ 
 matter  be  thus  begun,  and  slily  with  a  flourish  passed  over,  "p'J.Vie'd^but 
 I  think  it  will  breed  that  inconvenience  that  Mr  Mullyns  (as  1  IhJpyJdS 
 am  informed)  should  openly  tell  the  precisians  that  her  High-  s'L^piS' 
 ness'  sword  should  be  compelled  to  cut  off  this  stubborn  mul-  J-jlf;"^",. 
 titude,  which   daily   growcth.      Your  honour   moved   me    to  Slhls***''""' 
 write  to  him,  and  so  1  did,  as  here  I  send  you  the  copy  ;  you  muuSc. 
 can    tell   how  well  he  followed  your  counsel  or  mine  ;  but 
 surely,  Sir,  it  is  a  matter  of  great  importance;   and  thus  I 
 leave  the  contemplation  thereof  to  your  wisdom.      I  see  how 
 I  may  be  heard  amongst  them  in  their  sermons  before  her 
 Majesty  this  Lent.      I  would  your  honour  would  return  their 
 names,  but  I  trust  that  which  one  will  not,  one  other  shall, 
 for  it  is  high  time.      This  21st  of  January. 
 
 Your  honour's  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  rigid  hononrahle  Sir  William  Cecily 
 Inighty  principal  secretary  to  the  Queen  s 
 Majesty y  aud  one  of  her  privy  council. 
 
378 
 
 ARCIIB.  PARKER   TO   SIR   WILLIAM  CECIL.        [1570-1. 
 
 CCLXXXV. 
 
 Dr  Bulling- 
 
 ham's 
 
 preaching. 
 
 The  Queen 
 should  have 
 the  best. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 2nd  February,  1570—1.    Tetyt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  47.  fol.  54  b.     Tarker's 
 
 draft. 
 
 Salutem  in  Christo.  I  was  glad  to  hear  of  your  good 
 recovery  :  God  grant  it  may  long  [sic].  Sir,  this  other  day 
 Dr  Bullingham^  preached  in  my  chapel  in  my  hearing,  whom 
 1  take  to  be  an  honest  true-meaning  man ;  but  because  I  did  * 
 credit  others  much  commending  him,  I  once  preferred  him 
 before  her  Majesty,  but  I  intend  hereafter  not  to  do  so  again. 
 I  would  her  Highness  had  the  best.  In  him  I  perceive  neither 
 pronunciationem  aulicam  nor  ingenium  aulicum ;  not  meet 
 for  the  court ;  and  therefore  I  appointed  Dr  Young  of  Cam- 
 bridge^ to  supply  his  room,  and  warned  he  is;  and  what  will 
 fall  out  for  the  other  I  yet  know  not,  because  they  may  alter 
 their  days ;  and  therefore  send  I  your  honour  another  copy  when 
 your  pleasure  shall  be  so  to  use  it.  The  bishop  of  Galloway^ 
 have  sent  to  me  to  speak  with  me.  I  have  appointed  to- 
 morrow, though  not  fully  recovered.  I  think  on  Monday  or 
 Tuesday,  if  your  honour  think  it  so  good,  I  mind  to  come  to 
 the  court.  And  thus  in  our  Lord  I  desire  your  honour  well 
 to  fare  as  myself,  and  fully  to  be  recovered.  From  my  house, 
 this  second  of  February,  1570. 
 
 Your  lordship's  always  in  Christ, 
 
 M.  C. 
 
 CCLXXXVI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  SIR  WILLIAJM  CECIL. 
 
 6th  February,  1570—1. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Petyt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  4'! 
 draft. 
 
 fol.  506.     Parker's 
 
 Sends  form  As  YOU  dosirod,  I  scud  vou  here  the  form  of  the  bread 
 
 ofsacamen-  "  '  ^    y  i/»  iii/»t 
 
 filmed '^'      used,  and  was  so  appointed  by  order  of  my  late  lord  of  Lon- 
 biSpGrin-^  ^^^  ^^^  myself,  as  we  took  it  not  disagreeable  to  the  injunc- 
 
 dal  and  the 
 
 archbishop.  [-1  Afterwards  bishop  of  Gloucester,  1581 — 1598.] 
 
 [2  Master  of  Pembroke  Hall ;  bishop  of  Rochester,  1578—1605.] 
 [3  One  of  the   Scottish   commissioners  for  the  release  of  Mary 
 Queen  of  Scots.] 
 
l.')70-l.]        AUtllU.  I'AUKKIl  'Hi   Sill   WILLIAM   CK(  M..  ll'J'J 
 
 tion.  And  how  so  inany  cliurclics  bath  of  hito  varied  I  can- 
 not tell ;  except  it  bo  llio  practice  of  the  common  adversary 
 tho  devil,  to  nuiko  variance  and  dissension  in  the  sacrament  of 
 unity.  For  where  wo  be  in  one  uniform  doctrine  of  tho 
 same,  and  so  cut  olT  much  matter  of  variance  which  tho 
 Lutherans  and  Zuinjrlians  do  hatefully  maintain,  yet  because  wo  n«inKin 
 will  have  some  matter  of  disscnsiou,  we  will  quarrel  in  a  small  ;<'»<'""t'" 
 
 '  1  to  tile  kai-ra- 
 
 circumstanco  of  the  same,  neither  regarding  (Jod  in  his  word,  Jll'ilrrVnn'l''* 
 who  earnestly  driveth  us  to  charity,  neither  regarding  the  love  turlle'ofiiS' 
 and  subjection   wo  should  bear  to  our  prince,  who  zealously  '^'"*' 
 would  wish  tho  devout  administration  of  the  sacrament,  nor 
 yet  consider  what  comfort  we  might  receive  ourselves  in  tho 
 said  sacrament,  if  dissension  were  not  so  great  with  us.      Sir,  Ji[Ji'fy tJr '° 
 I  pray,  help  to  pacify  it,  whether  by  proclamation  or  by  any 
 other  way,  as  in  wisdom  of  governance  you  sec   sometimes 
 things  must  bo  forced  or  remitted. 
 
 And  because  you  may  not  nor  cannot  reasonably  be  idle,  of''a'Se^'°" 
 yet  you  must  for  a  better  health  remit  your  earnest  business,  Schbishop''* 
 and  thereupon  I  send  you  here  a  triiie  which  I  found  out  writ  Knch"''* 
 in  old  French.     It  is  marvel  but  that  you  have  seen  it,  not- 
 withstanding I  think  everybody  hath  not. 
 
 But,  sir,  as  I  came  yesterday  from  you  I  was  informed  K*aceu2dTf 
 that  one  nobleman  in  England  should  impute  it  to  my  doing  £',^1 
 that  the  cross  is  brought  into  the  chapel  again,  so  that  I  per-  th^y"L?3 
 ccive   they   will   load   me   with   envy;    but  certainly  1  never '^  *^* 
 knew  of  it,  nor  yet  in  good  iaith  I  think  it  expedient  it  should 
 be  restored.      And  therefore  1  think  est  modus  in  reluSi  c^c, 
 not  too  much  to  exasperate  my  heart. 
 
 And  thus  I  commit  your  honour  to  God  as  myself,  this 
 6th  of  February,  1570. 
 
 CCLXXXVII. 
 
 THE  LORDS  OP  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER 
 AND  LORD  COBIIAM^. 
 
 17th  February,  1570—1.    Tarker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  29.  p.  9o.  Orig. 
 
 After    our   hearty    commendations    to    your    lordships. 
 Where  the  Queen's  Majesty  hath  determined  for  divers  neces- 
 
 {}  Lord  warden  of  the  cinque  ports  ;  see  before,  p.  203.] 
 
has  called  to 
 remembrance 
 
 380  THE  LORDS  or  THE  COUNCIL  TO       [1570-1. 
 
 havimMie'ier-  ^^^J  g^^cat  causGS  conccming  the  state  of  the  realm  to  have  a 
 
 hI)\Tapariia- pai'liamcnt  holdcn  at  Westmmster  this  next  April,  and  for 
 
 April ,"'''''     that  purpose  her  Majesty's  writs  are  directed  to  the  sheriffs  of 
 
 every  shire  to  cause  proclamation  thereof  to  be  made,  so  as 
 
 there  may  be  knights  chosen  in  every  shire,  and  citizens  and 
 
 burgesses  in  every  city  and  borough,  according  to  the  laws 
 
 and  good  customs  of  the  realm:  upon  some  deliberation  had  by 
 
 her  Majesty  with  us  concerning  the  due  execution  hereof,  her 
 
 Majesty  hath  called   to    her  remembrance   (which  also   we 
 
 think  to  be  true)  that  though  the  greater  number  of  knights, 
 
 citizens,    and   burgesses    for    the   more    part    are   duly   and 
 
 fliaceTc^rf"^  ordcrly  chosen ;   yet  in  many  places  such  consideration  is  not 
 
 mSiTo'''  usually  had  herein  as  reason  would,  that  is,  to  choose  persons 
 
 son°abFe^to   able  to  ffive  good  information  and  advice  for  the  places  for 
 
 information  which  thcv  are  nominated,  and  to  treat  and  consult  discreetly 
 
 and  advice.  t/  '  y 
 
 upon  such  matters  as  are  to  be  propounded  to  them  in  their 
 assemblies.      But  contrariwise  that  many  in  late  parliaments 
 (as  her  Majesty  thinketh)  have  been  named,  some  for  private 
 respects  and  favour  upon  their  own  suits,  some  to  enjoy  some 
 immunities  from  arrests  upon  actions  during  the  time  of  the 
 parliaments,  and  some  other  to  set  forth  private  causes  by 
 sinister   labour   and  frivolous   talks   and   arguments,    to  the 
 prolongation  of  time  without  just  cause,  and  without  regard  to 
 the  public  benefit  and  weal  of  the  realm ;  and  therefore  her 
 Majesty   being   very  desirous  to  have  redress  herein,  hath 
 charged  us  to  devise  some  speedy  good  ways  for  reformation 
 hereof  at  this  time,  so  as  all  the  persons  to  be  assembled  in 
 this  next  parliament  for  the  cities,  shires,  and  boroughs,  may 
 be  found  (as  near  as  may  be)  discreet,  wise,  and  well-dis- 
 posed according  as  the  intention  of  their  choosing  ought  to 
 wherlS^"^^   be.     And  therefore,  as  we  have  thought  meet  to  give  know- 
 ledge hereof  to  such  as  we  think  both  for  their  wisdoms,  dis- 
 positions, and  authorities  in  sundry  counties  in  the  realm  can 
 and  will  take  care  hereof,  so  have  we  for  this  purpose  made 
 i,K^iwnand    spcclal  choicc  of  your  lordships,  requiring  you  in  her  Ma- 
 arcdiScSr  j^s*^y's  name  to  consider  well  of  these  premises,  and  to  confer 
 wit'h'tS"^      with  the  sheriff  of  that  shire  of  Kent  by  all  such  good  means 
 prmc?pa?Jer-  as  you  shall  tliiuk  meet,  and  with  such  special  men  of  liveli- 
 counuesand  hood  aud  worship  of  the  same  county  as  have  interest  here- 
 in, and  in  like  manner  with  the  head  officers  of  cities  and 
 boroughs,  so  as  by  your  good  advice  and  direction  the  per- 
 
1570-1.]  AKCIIM.    I'AKKKR    AND    I,OIlI>  COIIIIA.M.  .'iftl 
 
 sons  to  bo  chosen  may   bo  well  qualified  with  knowlodj^o,  dis-  ;{J^',^*,^y, 
 crction,  and  modesty,  and  meet  for  those  places.     And  in  so  ■;'/^^^'*\he 
 doing  your  lordships  sliull  give  just  occision  to  havo  her  Ma-  .'T!I.Tml,Ir 
 jesty  heroin  well  satisfieJ,  the  realm  well  served,  and  the  time  IjT.a'iinlni. 
 of  tlio  assembly  (which  cannot  bo  but  chargeablo  with  huig 
 continuance)   to  ho  both  profitably   and  speedily  passed   over 
 and  ended,  and  finally  the  counties,   cities,  and  boroughs  well 
 provided  for.      And  so  wo  bid  your  lordships  heartily  fare- 
 well.    From  Westminster,  the  17th  of  February,  1570. 
 
 Your  lordships'  assured  loving  friends, 
 
 N.  BACOX,  C.  S.  W.  NOIITIIT. 
 
 T.  SUSSEX.     F.  BEDFORD.     K.  LEYCESTER. 
 E.  CLYXTOX.  W.  II()^VARD. 
 
 JAMYS  CliOFT.  ^y.  CECILL. 
 
 To  our  very  good  lords  the  archhisJiojj  of 
 Canterbury  and  the  lord  Cohham. 
 
 to  in 
 
 the  Article. 
 
 CCLXXXVIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  TARKER  TO  LORD  BURGIILEY^. 
 
 4th  June,  loTl.     Petyt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  47.  fol.  So.     Parker's  draft. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I  HAVE  considered  what  your  honour  said  to  me  this  day  ^"i^ITSne 
 concerning  St  Augustine's  authority  in  the  Article ^  in  the  ^efj^ed 
 first  original  agreed  upon ;  and  I  am  advisedly  still  in  mine 
 opinion  concerning  so  much  wherefore  they  be  alleged  in  the 
 article ;  and  for  further  truth  of  the  words,  besides  St  Austen, 
 both  he  in  other  places,  and  Prosper  in  his  "  Sentences  wrote 
 of  Austen"  {Senten.  338  and  339),  doth  plainly  affirm  our 
 opinion  in  the  Article  to  bo  most  true,  howsoever  some  men 
 vary  from  it. 
 
 Sir,   I  am  about  to  spend  this  week  in  examination  of  i^a^'^'-'fo 
 
 ^  SI 
 
 5JH.'ml  tlio 
 
 [1  SirWilliam  Cecil  was  created  Baron  Burghley  on  25th  February, 
 1570 — 1.] 
 
 [2  The  allusion  is  to  the  29th  Article,  which  was  now  printed  for 
 the  first  time.  The  passage  referred  to  as  in  St  Augustine  will  bo 
 found  in  his  Tract,  in  Joan.  xxvL  Opera,  Tom.  ix.  col.  230.  Ed.  B-isil. 
 15G9,  and  those  in  Prosper,  in  Sententke  ex  opcribus  D.  August.  Ed, 
 Paris.  1671.  p.  128.] 
 
382  ARCHB.  PARKER  AND   OTHER  ECCLESIASTICAL        [l57l. 
 
 week  in 
 iTiination 
 
 ^If  Masters  Goodman,  Lover,  Sampson,  Walker,  Whiborno,  Gouff, 
 Lever"an('i     ^nd  siicU  othors.    I  would  bc  glad  that  the  bishops  of  Winton, 
 tan"'^"""    Ely,  Worcester,  and  Chichester,  being  all  commissioners,  join 
 with  me.     My  lord  of  Sarum  hath  promised  to  stand  by  me. 
 I  doubt  whether  the  bishop  of  London  would  deal  with  me  to 
 that  effect  to  suspend  them,  or  deprive  them,  if  they  will  not 
 assent  unto  the  propositions  inserted.      Howsoever  the  world 
 will  judge,  I  will  serve  God,  my  prince,  and  her  laws,  in  my 
 conscience,  as  it  is  high  time  to  set  up  it  [sic],  and  yet  1 
 would  be  glad  to  be  advised,  to  work  prudently,  rather  to 
 edification  than  destruction. 
 DiS'tphne.  ^^  ^^  ^^^^  please  her  Majesty  to  grant  our  Book  of  Disci- 
 
 pline, I  will  labour  to  put  it  in  print  for  further  instruction. 
 Si  non  iDlacet,  faciei  Dominus  quod  bonum  est  in  oculis  suis. 
 For  my  part,  I  am  at  a  point  in  these  worldly  respects,  and 
 yet  shall  be  ready  to  hear  quid  in  me  loquatur  Dominus. 
 And  thus  committing  your  honour  to  Almighty  God,  I  wish 
 you  the  same  grace  as  I  would  have  myself.  From  Lambeth, 
 4th  of  June,  1571. 
 
 CCLXXXIX. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  AND  OTHER  ECCLESIASTICAL 
 COMMISSIONERS  TO  CHURCHWARDENS  AND  OTHERS 
 NOT  TO  SUFFER  UNLICENSED  PERSONS  TO  MINISTER. 
 
 7th  June,  1571.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  CoU.  Camb.  cxxi.  art.  37.  p.  481.     Grig. 
 
 To  all  and  every  the  Queen's  Majesty's  officers,  church- 
 wardens ^  sidemen,  swornmen,  and  others,  having  any  govern- 
 ment or  oversight  for  the  time  being,  of  or  in  any  church, 
 chapel,  or  parish  within  the  province  of  Canterbury. 
 
 Where  the  Queen's  Majesty  being  very  careful  for  the 
 good  government  of  her  realm  and  dominions  in  all  godly  and 
 wholesome  religion  agreeable  to  the  word  of  God ;  and 
 being  very  desirous  to  have  both  the  laws  and  orders  well 
 and  faithfully  observed  and  her  loving  subjects  reposed  in 
 godly  quiet,  concord,  and  unity,  and  specially  in  matters  of 
 
 [^  *  Churchwarden'  in  MS.  In  this  and  other  places  some  obvious 
 corrections  havo  been  made  from  the  printed  copies.  Parker  MSS. 
 cvi.  art.  298,  and  cxxi.  art.  36.] 
 
1571.]  COMMISSIONKKS  TO   CIIURCIIWAIIDENS,  &C.  383 
 
 religion  :  ^\'o  uiulernainetl,  of  her  Majesty's  commission  ccclo- 
 siastieal  with  other  our  associates,  as  our  duty  is,  advisedly 
 consideriiii^  licr  good  zoal  worthy  to  take  place,  to  the  honour 
 of  God,  and  the  godly  (juiet  of  her  suhjccts,  liavo  thouglit 
 good  to  signify  thus  much,  and  also  to  charge  you  and  every 
 of  you  whom  it  may  concern.  And  tliereforo  wo  will  and 
 require  you,  and  in  the  (^)iicen's  Majesty's  name  straitly 
 charge  and  command  you  and  every  of  you,  that  in  no  wise 
 ye  sufter  anv  parson  or  minister  to  minister  any  sacrament,  ^''t-*'^^"""' 
 
 V  •      1  _  J  '  iiiiiii>ifr  tube 
 
 or  say  any  public  prayers,  in  any  your  cliurclies,  chapels,  or  *""Ji'^{Vi',,y 
 other    place    appointed  for   common    prayers,  in   any   other  ^y^ubi"!' ""^ 
 order,  manner,  or  sort,  than  only  according  to  the  prescription  cxce,TAc- 
 of  the  book  of  Common  Prayers  and  the  Queen's  Majesty's  nVei'jof.k'of 
 
 1  ii'ii'i  111'  111  •  •  iv        Conimon 
 
 laws  published  m  that  belialt.      And  that  m  no  wise  ve  sutler  I'rayer. 
 
 *  .  _  *  ,      Nor  any  per- 
 
 any  person  publicly  or  privately  to  teach,  read,  or  preach  in  '[!'^J"t,n„ 
 any   the   said   churches,   parishes,   cliapels,  private  houses,  or  o'j.^fireac^''' 
 other  places,  unless  such  be  licensed  to  preach,  read,  or  teach,  ntlm^dtted 
 by  the  Queen's  Highness'  authority,  the  archbishop  of  Can- May  last  ** 
 terbury  his  licence,  or  by  the   licence  of  the   bishop   of  the 
 diocese.     And  that  he  be  such   a  minister  as  is  licensed  to 
 preach  after  the  first  of  May  last,  and  not  removed  from  the 
 ministry  by  us,  or  any  other  lawful  authority.     And  that  you 
 have  a  diligent  care  in  the  accomplishment  of  this  her  High- 
 ness' service  and  ])leasure  by  us  thus  to  you  declared,  as  you 
 and  every   of  you   will   answer   to   the  contrary.      Given  at 
 Lambeth  in  the  county   of  Surrey,   the  7th  of  June,   in  the 
 year  of  the  reign  of  our  sovereign  lady  Elizabeth-  &c.  the 
 thirteenth. 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR.  EDWINUS  LONDON. 
 
 KOB.  WINTON.  RICHAIIDE   ELY. 
 
 NIC.   AVIGOKN.  KIC.   CICKSTKEN. 
 
 GABRIELL  GOODMAN.  THO.  BROMLEY. 
 
 THOMAS  WYLSON.  G.  BROMLEY. 
 
 PET.  OSBORNE.  THO.  YALE. 
 RYCHARDE  WENDESLEY.  JOHN  MERSHE. 
 
 [2  "by  the  grace  of  God  of  England,  France,  and  Ireland,  Queen, 
 [Defender  of  the  Fuitb,  &c."  in  printed  copy.] 
 
384 
 
 ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  LORD  BUROHLEY. 
 
 [1571. 
 
 ccxc. 
 
 The  Inns  of 
 Covirt,  re- 
 duced to 
 better  order 
 about  reli- 
 gion two 
 years  ago,  do 
 now  again 
 
 §row  very 
 isordered. 
 
 Cecil  is  re- 
 quested to 
 obtain  a  let- 
 ter thereon 
 from  the 
 council  in  the 
 form  in- 
 closed. 
 
 ATICHBISHOP  PAKKER  TO  LORD  BURGIILEY. 
 
 17th  June,  1571.     Lansd.  MS.  xiii.  art.  07.     Orig. 
 
 Right  honourable,  whereas  I  am  credibly  informed  that 
 the  houses  of  court  being  about  two  years  sithence  reduced 
 to  better  order  concerning  religion,  by  means  of  a  decree  or 
 ordinance  made  by  your  lordship  and  others  the  lords  in  the 
 Star  Chamber,  touching  the  correction  of  the  same  houses  for 
 sundry  their  contempts  and  obstinacy  in  that  behalf,  do  now 
 of  late  grow  again  very  disordered  and  licentious  in  over  bold 
 speeches  and  doings  touching  religion,  used  by  some  of  the 
 same  houses  without  controlment,  which  happeneth  (as  I  take 
 it)  for  want  of  due  execution  and  observation  of  your  lord- 
 ships' said  decree  and  ordinance,  the  same  not  having  been 
 so  effectually  and  severely  considered  of  by  the  ancients  and 
 governors  of  the  same  houses  as  were  convenient.  These  are 
 therefore  to  desire  your  lordship  to  obtain  a  letter  of  the 
 effect  here  inclosed^  from  my  lords  of  the  council  to  the 
 commissioners  ecclesiastical ;  and  by  virtue  thereof,  and  of  the 
 commission,  I  hope  there  will  be  some  better  order  and  reform- 
 ation therein  to  the  furtherance  of  religion.  And  so  I  bid 
 your  lordship  most  heartily  well  to  fare.  From  Lambeth, 
 the  17th  day  of  this  present  June,  1571. 
 
 Your  lordship's  assured  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTHUE  CATs^TUAR. 
 
 CCXCI. 
 
 THE  LORDS  OF  THE  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER 
 AND  BISHOP  SANDYS  OF  LONDON. 
 
 17th  June,  1571.    Petyt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  47.  fol.  38.    Contemporary  copy 
 
 or  draft. 
 
 Order  in  the  After  our  hcartv  commendatious.     There  was  an  order 
 
 Star  Chamber  ^  *' 
 
 of'sundry'oT  ^^^^^^  ^^  ^^®  ^^^^  Chamber  about  two  years  sithence^  by  the 
 
 [1  Seo  the  next  document.] 
 
 [2  The  order  was  dated  20th  May,  15G9. 
 
 A  copy  of  it  is  in  the 
 
1571.]     LOUDS  OK  TIIK  COUNCIL  TO  ARCIIH.  rAIlKEIl,   &C.     385 
 
 lords  of  tlio  privy  council,   your  lordships,  tlio  judges,   and  ^^^ 
 others  there,  for  the  putting  out  of  commons,  expulsion,  and  K"^",,[,';;yV 
 reformation    of   sundry    the    corrupt    and    perverse   sort   in  '"""'** 
 religion,  in  the  inns  of  court,   and   for  the  restraint  of  that 
 sort  to  be  preferred  to  tho  degrees  and  callings  there.  Where- 
 upon letters  were  directed  from  us  to  tho  benchers  and  gover- 
 nors of  the  same  houses  for  tho  execution  thereof  accordinfjlv, 
 as  by  tho   said  order  and  letters  more  at  largo  appeareth. 
 Nevertheless  we  arc  now  of  late  credibly  informed,  that  the  P'" '*^"'"*"^ 
 said  benchers  and  governors  have  been  somewhat  remiss  and  j^.VuVoa'h.^e 
 careless  in  the  execution  of  the  said  order  and  letters,  and  [Su'l'/and 
 chietlv    in    that    thcv   have   sithcncc   received  ajjain    certain  oifit™ 
 persons  tliere  thereby  expulsed  or  put  out  of  commons,  and 
 preferred  othersomo  to  degrees  and  callings  there,  contrary 
 to  the  true  meaning  of  the  said  order  and  letters. 
 
 We  do  hereby  require  your  lordships,  that  you  and  such  JJ',f,;y^nj 
 others  of  the  commissioners  ecclesiastical  there  as  your  lord-  bi'/^?'- them" 
 ships  shall  think  most  meet,  will  carefully  peruse  and  consider  bem-his'^ 
 the  said  order,  and  thereupon  to  call  before  you  such  of  the  tt.mk  mtest, 
 benchers  or  governors  of  the  said  houses  as  you  shall  think  f^a^I.anV'^ 
 
 /•  11  /v  !•  ^•     '  11  !•  ^        ^     '         >nake  such 
 
 fittest  and  best  afiected  m  relif^ion,  and  by  their  o^ood  advice  f-j^her order 
 
 o       _  ••  o  as  they  shall 
 
 and  furtherance  to  search    and  sift  out  the  manner  of  the  ^^i"'''?'"" 
 
 venient. 
 
 execution,  breach,  and  observation  of  the  said  order  and 
 letters,  and  thereupon  to  take  such  order,  as  well  for  the 
 reformation  of  that  that  hath  or  may  be  done  contrary  to 
 I  the  true  meaning  of  the  said  order,  as  also  to  make  such 
 further  order  and  orders  against  the  corrupt  and  obstinate 
 sort,  both  in  the  said  houses  of  court,  and  also  in  the  houses 
 of  chancery,  as  to  your  good  considerations  shall  from  time  to 
 time  be  thought  convenient.  Wherein  as  occasion  shall  serve, 
 upon  your  advertisement,  our  good  assistance  shall  be  always 
 ready  in  that  behalf.  And  so  fare  you  heartily  well.  From 
 Westminster,  the  17th  day  of  June,  1571. 
 
 Your  loving  friends,  &c. 
 
 same  volume  of  MSS.  whence  the  present  document  is  derived,  fol. 
 47.     Six  persons  were  ordered  by  it  to  be  excluded  from  commons.] 
 
 [park,  cor.] 
 
386        QUEEN  ELIZABETH  TO  ARCHB.  PARKER.      [1571. 
 
 CCXCII. 
 
 QUEEN  ELIZABETH   TO   ARCPIBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 20th  August,  1571.    Petyt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  47.  fol.  50.     Orig. 
 
 By  THE  Queen. 
 Elizabeth  E. 
 Most  reverend  father  in  God,   right  trusty  and  right 
 Svi?g^"     well-beloved,  we  greet  you  well.     Where  we  required  you,  as 
 KbIsiX     the  metropolitan  of  our  realm,  and  as  the  principal  person  in 
 regwdM  uie  our  commissiou  for  causes  ecclesiastical,  to  have  good  regard 
 of^uniform"   that  such  uuiform  order  in  the  divine  service  and  rules  of 
 service,        the  church  might  be  duly  kept,  as  by  the  laws  in  that  behalf 
 is  provided,  and  by  our   Injunctions  also  declared   and  ex- 
 plained ;     and    that    you    should    call    unto    you    for    your 
 assistance  certain  of  our  bishops,  to  reform  the  abuses  and 
 disorders    of   sundry    persons    seeking    to    make    alteration 
 andhehaving  therein :  we  understandinor  that  with  the  help  of  the  reverend 
 
 proceeded  ^  hd  r 
 
 thfhiVo?  fathers  in  God,  the  bishops  of  Winchester  and  Ely,  and  some 
 
 wlncSlr'^^  other,  ye  have  well  entered  into  some  convenient  reformation 
 
 fa"«efimhop  of  things  disordered,  and  that  now  the  said  bishop  of  Ely  is 
 
 re%k°edto     by  our  commaudmeut  repaired  into  his  diocese,  whereby  you 
 
 shall  want  his  assistance :  we  minding   earnestly  to  have  a 
 
 perfect  reformation   of  all  abuses,  attempted  to  deform  the 
 
 uniformity  prescribed   by  our  laws  and  Injunctions,  and  that 
 
 none  should  be  suffered  to  decline  either  on  the  left  or  on  the 
 
 right  hand  from  the  direct  line  limited  by  authority  of  our 
 
 said  laws  and  Injunctions,  do  earnestly  by  our  authority  royal 
 
 will  and  charge  you,  by  all  means  lawful,  to  proceed  herein 
 
 th?Quera"   as  you  havo  begun.     And  for  your  assistance   we  will,   that 
 
 to  proS^''  you  shall,  by  authority  hereof,  and  in  our  name,  send  for  the 
 
 be^^n'^and     bishops  of  Loudou  and  Sarum^,  and  communicate  these   our 
 
 td^^e'n'dfo"    letters  with  them,   and  straitly   charge   them  to  assist   you 
 
 of  London     from  time  to  time,  between  this  and  the  month  of  October, 
 
 and  Sarum,  i         -n  n      ^  '  •   •  /» 
 
 and  to  charge  to  do  all  manner  ot  thmo^s  requisite  to  reform  such  abuses  as 
 afore  are  mentioned,  in  whomsoever  ye  shall  find  the  same. 
 And  if  you  shall  find  in  any  of  the  said  bishops  (which  we 
 trust  ye  shall  not)  or  in  any  other  whose  aid  you  shall 
 require,  any  remissness  to  aid  and  assist  you,  if  upon  your 
 
 [1  Bishops  Sandys  and  Jewel.     The  latter  died  on  the  23rd  Sep- 
 tember, 1571.] 
 
 them  to  as 
 sist  him, 
 until  the 
 month  of 
 October. 
 
1571.]  QIEEN  BUZABKTII    TO  ARCIin.    I'AUKI.It.  387 
 
 iidmonit*u)ii  tho  saino  shall  not  l)0  amended,  wo  chargo  you  to 
 advertise  us ;  for  wo  mean  not  that  any  persons,  liaving  credit 
 hy  their  vooatioii  to  aid  you,  sliouUl  for  any  respect  forbear, 
 to  bocouio  remiss  in  tliis  service,  tending  to  the  observation 
 of  our  hiws,  injunctions,  and  commandments.  Given  at  our 
 uKuior  of  Hatfield,  tho  twentieth  day  of  August,  in  tho  13th 
 vear  of  our  reij'n. 
 
 To  our  most  reverend  father  in  Cod,  our 
 n'lfht  trusttf  and  r'ujht  well-helovcd  the 
 archbishop  of  Canterbury,  metropoli- 
 tan and  primate  of  ad  England. 
 
 CCXCIII. 
 
 ORDER  OF  HENRY  EARL  OF  ARUNDEL  FOR  SUPPLY  OF 
 DEER  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 
 22nd  August,  1571.     Lambeth  MS.  959.  art.  1,     Orig. 
 
 Deliver  unto  the  most  reverend  father  in  God,  my  very 
 good   lord  the    archbishop  of  Canterbury,   upon  his  grace's 
 letters,   such   and   so    many   deer    of  season   in  winter  and  ^Jsho^o 
 summer  yearly,  as  his  grace  shall  write  for  2,  and  this  shall  be  licc^oTs^S 
 your  sufficient  warrant  therefore.      And  if  it  shall  please  him  Tul-hvlixTa^ 
 to  hunt  at  any  time,  I  will  you  make  him  such  game  as  ye  for",  and  if  he 
 
 •^  ,  °  *        will  hunt, 
 
 would  do  unto  me.    Fail  not  hereof  as  ye  tender  my  pleasure,  game  is  to  be 
 
 •^  *^    ^  made  htm. 
 
 At  Nonsuch,  the  22nd  of  August,  1571. 
 
 Your  master, 
 
 ARUNDELL. 
 
 To  Robert  Gavell,  Iceeper  of  the  great  pari: 
 at  Nonsuch,  and  to  Roger  Marshall, 
 and  to  one  of  them,  and  all  other  keep- 
 ers of  the  park  of  Nonsuch  for  the  time 
 being. 
 
 [2  On  the  back  of  this  warrant,  granted  by  Henry  Fitzalan,  the  last 
 Earl  of  Arundel  of  that  family,  the  archbishop  has  written  the  follow- 
 ing form  of  letter  to  be  used  on  these  occasions :  "  Whereas  it  hath 
 pleased  my  very  good  lord  the  Earl  of  Arundel,  in  his  honourable 
 liberality,  as  by  the  letter  of  his  own  handwriting  may  appear,  to 
 grant  unto  me,  Matthew,  archbishop  of  Canterbury,  such    deer  as 
 
 25—2 
 
388 
 
 ARCHB.   PARKER  TO 
 
 [1571. 
 
 CCXCIV. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO 
 
 ICth  December,  [probably  1571'].    Harleian  MS.  C990.  art.  49.    Orig. 
 
 kimrnV^s^ro  After    mj   right    hearty  commendations   to  your  good 
 
 bifhop-s'  lordship,  with  hke  thanks  for  the  great  favour  and  gentleness 
 YoTk.''^  shewed  unto  my  poor  lances  at  York,  being  right  glad  that 
 your  lordship  is  prosperously  returned.  And  whereas  I  have 
 been  long  in  requiting  your  good  will  in  bestowing  this 
 ^nty^priS?'  ^^itt^^  story  upon  me,  I  send  the  same  story  to  your  lordship 
 Ms^Tent^by  i^  pfint,  somewhat  more  enlarged  with  such  old  copies  as  I 
 LddJJifti     had  of  other  of  my  friends,  praying  your  lordship  to  accept 
 
 shall  be  written  for  by  me  the  said  Matthew ;   this  is  to  pray  you  to 
 
 appoint  to  this  my  messenger  a of  this  season,  wherein  ye  shall 
 
 do  me  thankful  pleasure.     At  Lambeth,  this  —  in  the  year  of  our 
 Lord  God  — 
 
 M.  C. 
 
 To  my  loving  friend  the  keeper  of  the  park 
 at  No7isuch,  or  to  his  deputy  there.] 
 
 [1  Three  circumstances  are  stated  in  this  letter  which  lead  towards 
 a  conclusion  as  to  its  date  and  the  person  to  whom  it  was  addressed, 
 but  do  not  fix  either  of  them  :  1.  The  favour  and  gentleness  shewn  to 
 the  archbishop's  "  poor  lances"  at  York.  This  probably  refers  to  the 
 military  service  of  the  archbishop's  tenants  by  knight's  service  in 
 the  army  of  the  south,  sent  to  York  to  assist  in  suppressing  the  rebel- 
 lion of  1569.  2.  The  person  addressed  is  one  who  "prosperously 
 returned"  from  the  north.  The  southern  army  was  under  the  com- 
 mand of  the  Earl  of  Warwick  and  Lord  Clinton.  Lord  Hunsdon 
 was  in  London  at  the  time  the  rebellion  broke  out,  but  posted  down 
 in  all  haste  to  his  command  at  Berwick.  The  Earl  of  Sussex,  who 
 had  the  command  in  chief  of  the  Queen's  army,  had  been  for  some- 
 time resident  at  York.  3.  The  person  addressed  had  lent  the  arch- 
 bishop a  MS.,  which  he  returned  with  a  copy  in  print  "  somewhat  more 
 enlarged  with  such  old  copies  as  I  had  of  other  of  my  friends." 
 This  may  have  been  the  Chronicle  of  Matthew  Paris,  published  in 
 1571.  That  book  was  "  enlarged"  from  several  MSS.,  and  espe- 
 cially from  a  MS.  lent  to  the  archbishop  by  Henry  Earl  of  Ainindel. 
 MSS.  were  also  lent  him  for  that  publication  by  Sir  Henry  Sydney, 
 Edward  Aglionby,  and  Sir  "William  Cecil,  but  no  peer  has  yet  been 
 found  mentioned  as  the  lender  of  a  MS.  on  that  occasion,  except 
 the  Earl  of  Arundel,  who  certainly  was  not  at  York  in  1569.] 
 
1571.]  AHCIID.   r.VUKIilt  TO 3fi0 
 
 it  in  good  part.  Aiul  thus  I  wisli  your  lordsliip  as  well  to 
 prosper  in  all  j^raco  and  goodness  ixs  myself.  From  my  liouso 
 at  Lambetli,  this  Kith  of  December. 
 
 Your  lordship's  loving  friend  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAU. 
 
 CCXCV. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  PARKHURST  OF 
 NORWICH. 
 
 2nd  January,  1571—2.    Tiirkhurst  Epp.  Camb.  Univ.  Libr.  MS.  Ee  ii.  34.  art.  39. 
 fol.  GG  b.     Copy. 
 
 Salutem  in  Christo.     Where  your  lordship  writeth  that  Thearch 
 Tou   would  know   mine  opinion,  partly  for  certain  preachers  to'a  f|uestron 
 which  be  in  your  country  ;   I  take  it,  that  neither  your  lord-  ^■•^'^^«'" 
 
 •  .  ,      .  prcdchers. 
 
 ship  nor  myself  can,  without  great  partiality,  set  them  a  work 
 to  trouble  the  commonwealth,  and  the  state  of  good  religion, 
 "whatsoever  they  talk.  And  therefore  you  may  use  your 
 authority  as  you  think  good,  not  meaning  to  write  in  their 
 favour. 
 
 And  whereas  you  find  by  experience  that  some  parishes 
 will  not  be  brought  out  of  their  own  parishes,  being  able  to 
 find  a  sufficient  curate,  I  think  they  speak  reason.      For  it  is  it  is  intended 
 
 111  11*  1111  bythecanona 
 
 not  intended  by   our  canons   that  every thmfj   should    be   so  tf'^t  every 
 
 J  nJ  fs  ^  thing  shall 
 
 precisely   kept,    but   for   the  most  part,   and  as  occasion  of  J^j.f^^^'}  *^ 
 edification  should  require.      And  thus  I  wish  your  lordship  a  *''^''^'''""^- 
 prosperous  year  following.     From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this 
 2nd  Jan. 
 
 Your  loving  brother, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
390      ARCIIB.  PARKER  TO  THE  DUCHESS  OF  SUFFOLK.    [1571-2. 
 
 The  eccle- 
 siastical 
 commission- 
 ers having 
 sent  for  one 
 Brown, 
 chajilain  to 
 the  duchess 
 ofSut!olk, 
 she  would 
 not  suffer 
 him  to 
 come  to 
 them,  claim- 
 ing that  he 
 resided  in 
 a  privileged 
 place. 
 
 CCXCVI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  AND   OTHER  ECCLESIASTICAL 
 CO^miSSIONERS  TO  THE  DUCHESS  OF    SUFFOLK. 
 
 13th  January,  [1571-2.]     Petyt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  47.  fol.  507.    Grig. 
 
 "Whereas  upon  just  cause,  and  according  to  the  trust 
 that  her  Majesty  hath  put  us  in,  we  sent  for  one  Brown, 
 your  grace's  chaplain^  (as  he  saith),  by  a  messenger  of  her 
 Majesty's  chamber  appointed  for  that  purpose ;  we  are  given 
 to  understand  that  your  grace  would  not  suffer  him  to  come 
 unto  us,  alleging  a  privileged  place  for  his  defence.  Our 
 commission  extendeth  to  all  places,  as  well  exempt  as  not 
 exempt,  within  her  Majesty's  dominions,  and  before  this  time 
 never  by  any  called  into  question.  We  are  persuaded  that 
 your  grace  knowing  the  authority  of  our  commission,  and 
 how  straitly  we  are  charged  to  proceed  in  redressing  dis- 
 orders, will  not  stay  your  said  servant,  contrary  to  the  laws 
 of  this  realm,  but  will  send  him  unto  us  to  answer  such 
 matter  as  he  is  to  be  charged  withal.  We  would  be  loth  to 
 use  other  means  to  bring  him  to  his  answer,  as  we  must  be 
 forced  to  do,  if  your  grace  will  not  like  hereof.  Thus  we  bid 
 your  grace  heartily  farewell.  From  Lambeth,  this  13th  of 
 January. 
 
 Your  loving  friends, 
 
 GABKIELL  GOODMAN.     J^ATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 RICHARDE  WENDESLEY.  ED.  LONDON. 
 
 B.  MONSON. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  the  duchess 
 of  Suffolk f  her  grace. 
 
 \}  The  person  mentioned  is  said  by  Strype  (Book  iv.  chap.  G,) 
 to  have  been  Robert  Brown,  the  originator  of  the  sect  called  Brown- 
 ists.  Strype  erroneously  supposed,  on  the  authority  of  this  letter, 
 that  Brown  was  domestic  chaplain  to  the  duke  of  Xorfolk.  It  would 
 seem  from  the  address  that  it  was  to  the  well-known  duchess  of  Suf- 
 folk, Kathcrine,  widow  of  Charles  Brandon,  that  the  person  sent  for 
 stood  in  that  relation.] 
 
1572.]  AUfllH.    I'AKKKH    T(»    I,(»UI>   III  IK;  III.i:  Y.  301 
 
 ccxcvft. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKKR  TO  LORD  BURCJIILEY. 
 
 null  Miiy,  157J.     Laiisd.  MS.  xv.  art.  31.     Ori^'. 
 SlK, 
 
 Bkcausb  your  lordship  writcth   to  mo   in  secret,  and  bo  J.'^h'p/J.piic. 
 your  own  secretary,  so  I  write  again.      This  case  of  murder  h'trcrirrmn 
 is  not  only  himcntablo  and  detestable,  but  omino.snin.    I  have  u'J!*   "'***' 
 marked  the  state  of  this  neutral  jjovernmcnt.      I  look  for  no 
 other  end  but  that  is  very  likely.      1  have  framed  myself  to 
 bo  carried  away  with  the  floods,  when  they  shall  arise.     This 
 Machiavel  jrovernment  is  strange  to  me,  for  it  brinjjeth  forth 
 strange  fruits.      As  soon  is  the  papist  favoured  as  is  the  true  p'^^^f^ucwn 
 protestant.     And  yet  forsooth  my  levity  doth  mar  all.    When  11' fSe  p?,!!'*' 
 the  true  subject  is  not  regarded  but  overthwarted,  when  the  ^"^^ 
 rebel  is  borne  with,  a  good  commonwealth,  scilicet.  When  the 
 faithful  subject  and  officer  hath  spent  his  wit  to  search,  to  find, 
 to  indict,  to  arraign,  and  to  condemn,  yet  must  they  be  kept 
 still  for  a  fair  day  to  cut  our  own  throats.    Why  is  Barker  2,  B^^erlnd 
 &c.  spared,  &c.  ?     Is  this  the  way  to  rule  English  people  ?  sJlL-ed? 
 But  it  deserveth  to  be   counted  clemency.      0  cruelty,    to 
 spare  the  professed  enemy,  and  to  drive  to  the  slaughter  her- 
 self and  her  best  friends!      0  subtle   dissimulation    of  the 
 enemy  !    For  myself,  I  shew  you  truly,  I  delight  not  in  blood. 
 Yea,  if  I  had  not  been  so  much  bound  to  the  mother,  I  would  ni^^^n^o'^ 
 not  so  soon  have  granted  to  serve  the  daughter  in  this  place,  {"  AniS'""'^ 
 and  if  I  had  not  well  trusted  to  have  died  or  this  time,  your  wouid"n()t^ 
 honours  should  have  sent  thrice  for  me  before  I  would  have  ed  to  serve 
 
 Elizabeth  in 
 
 returned  from  Cambridge.  Alas,  my  lord,  ye  see  and  have  i^^t  place, 
 seen  a  long  time  what  they  seek.  Think  you  that  men  mark 
 not  your  governance  ?  Think  you  not  that  it  is  perceived  that 
 when  her  Majesty  hath  truly  determined  and  spoken,  ye  over- 
 throw not  what  is  purposed  ?  Let  us  be  quite  out  of  estima- 
 tion, and  of  no  credit,  and  let  us  (if  we  can  make  anything  to 
 colour  others)  be  objected  to  envy,  be  put  to  peril,  yea,  cast 
 away.  Think  you,  that  this  way  you  among  yourself  shall 
 escape  ?      0  my  lord,  is  it  glory,  riches,  or  life  that  I  seek  in 
 
 [2  Barker  was  one  of  the  witnesses  whose  examinations  brought  to 
 light  the  treason  of  the  duke  of  Norfolk.  He  was  a  gentleman  in  the 
 duke's  seryice.] 
 
392 
 
 ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 [1572. 
 
 Could  be  bet- 
 ter content 
 to  live  with 
 one  man  than 
 witli  forty. 
 
 Elizabeth 
 will  be 
 strangely 
 chronicled. 
 
 Burgh  ley 
 professed  that 
 he  was  at  his 
 wits'  end. 
 
 this  cause,  that  I  now  in  t^is  age  dissemble  and  stand  in  fear, 
 and  not  of  God,  qui  potest  et  animam  et  corpus' perdere  in 
 gehennam  ?  No,  I  could  be  better  content  to  live  for  myself 
 with  one  man  only  than  with  forty.  I  see  and  hear  of  the 
 market-folks  only  how  the  game  goeth.  I  must  needs  re- 
 verence your  great  pains,  wit,  and  diligence;  I  must  needs  con- 
 fess the  princely  heart  of  her  Majesty ;  but  I  fear  qui  te 
 beatum  dicunt  ipsi  te  decipiunt,  I  see  honour  and  glory  is 
 daily  sought,  I  pray  God  send  plenty  thereof;  but  I  see  that 
 this  cause  is  supernatural,  in  God's  hand,  his  wrath  is  de- 
 served, &c.  Ille  Deus  in  cujus  manu  sunt  corda  principum 
 will  arise,  and  in  the  mean  time  harden  her  heart  to  work  his 
 purpose,  and  deserved  vengeance  of  us  and  of  our  posterity. 
 For  the  earnest  zeal,  and  for  my  manifold  duties'  sake,  I  fear 
 her  Highness  shall  be  strangely  chronicled,  and  I  would  it 
 were  amended.  I  have  and  will  pray,  nought  else  can  I  do, 
 but  in  sile7itio  et  in  spe  continue.  One  thing  in  this  hurly- 
 burly  I  pray  your  honour  to  let  me  speak  to  you.  I  am 
 informed  credibly,  that  in  your  letters,  some  of  them,  ye  profess 
 that  ye  be  at  your  wits'  end.  Sir,  howsoever  it  be,  let  the 
 world  know  no  such  thing.  Some  friends  be  not  secret.  Blaze 
 they  will  to  win  credit.  Now  or  never  we  must  set  out  a 
 good  countenance,  and  surely  so  I  comfort  such  faithful  as 
 come  lamentably  dejected  to  me.  We  shall  never  be  at  peace 
 and  quiet  till  that  homo  peccati  have  that  is  justly  deserved. 
 In  7nora  periculum.  French  princes  will  dissemble  and  de- 
 ceive to  win  their  purposes.  Bet  Deus  tihi  intellectum,  ^c. 
 I  pray  you,  my  lord,  be  not  angry  with  me  :  nam  aliquando 
 et  olitor  opportuna  loquitur. 
 (Indorsed)  19th  May,  1572. 
 
 CCXCVIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  BARNES   OF 
 CARLISLE. 
 
 22nd  :May,  1572.    Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxiv.  art.  144.  p.  422. 
 
 Salutem  in  Christo,     Upon  the  receipt  of  your  letters^ 
 concerning    your   young  man  to  be  a  notary,    I    use    this 
 
 [1  The  draft  of  the  present  letter  of  the  archbishop  is  written 
 
1572.]        AUCIIM.    I'AKKKK    lO    UP  IJARNES  OF  CARLISLK.  393 
 
 order,  to  refer  the  iibility  of  any  such  to  one  or  two  of  the  ||;'^''Py](^ 
 
 arches  to  judge  of  them  ;  which  I  did  enjoin  your  man,  who  •;"•"* 
 
 cominix  to   mo   without  any  such    testimony,   1  remitted  him  ;;' 
 ai'-ain   to  your  lordsliip.      What  cause  I  have  to  deal  circum- [,'i!;.',;.| ', 
 spectly  in  that  court  I  could  sh[ew]  you  but  for  length.    And  '.If'./.".!,""., 
 thus  beiniT  (rlad  otherwise   [to]    pleasure  you,  I  commit  your  i>i^ ability, 
 lordsliip  to  CJod  i\s  myself.    From  my  house  at  Lambctli,  this 
 l>2nd  of  Mav. 
 
 •  >iir  lo  b« 
 ,t.trv    he 
 ail 
 
 CCXCIX. 
 
 ARCIIBISIIOr  rARKER   AND  OTHERS   TO   LORD 
 BURGIILEY. 
 
 31st  May,  1572.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll,  Camb.  cxviii.  art.  39.  p.  G37.  Orig. 
 
 Your  honour  requested  us  two  archbishops,  the  bishop  of  i.oni  BurRh- 
 London,  and  the  bishop  of  Ely,  to  peruse  the  bill  of  com- to  the  sub 
 plaint  of   the  younf]:  men  against  their    elders,    masters   of  ^"'"j^'ainu 
 
 1  J  o  o  '  ot  the  voung 
 
 Colleges,  &c.      We  have  deliberately  conferred  their   objcc-  c7,"brli£;e 
 tions,    answers,    and  replies,   which    wc   now   send   to   your  fSe^^of 
 lordship    herewith,    besides   that  we  heard  both  the  parties  ^°"'**^- 
 challenging  the  one  the  other  at  full.     In  fine,  we  perceive,  xheyper- 
 by  due  consideration,  that  the  meaninor  of  the  proctors  is,  to  proctors  de 
 find  many  matters  amiss  in  the  new  statutes,  for  the  which  "^^ny .'^'le* 
 
 V  amiss  in  the 
 
 they  seek  reformation.      We  think  that  the  statutes  as  they  SuriSof "' 
 be  drawn  may  yet  stand,  and  no  great  cause  why  to  makeXTuio*' 
 any  alteration.     We  think  also  that  these  younger  men  have  makeTnT '** 
 been  far  overseen  to  seek   their  pretended  reformation  by  xhc'yoCng 
 disordered  means,  and  namely  in  going  from  College  to  Col-  sought  refor- 
 lege  to  seek  subscription  of  hands,  without  the  licence  of  the  rf'sordered 
 
 o  1  '  ^  means. 
 
 Vice-chancellor,  &c.  The  consideration  whereof  for  some 
 satisfaction  or  reconciliation,  we  refer  to  your  order  and  wis- 
 
 upon  the  letter  of  the  bishop  of  Carlisle  here  alluded  to.  It  is  dated 
 from  "the  Rose  Castle  in  Cumberland,  the  14th  May,  1572."  The 
 person  recommended  was  Edward  Brakinbury,  "kinsman  and  serTant" 
 to  bishop  Barnes.  One  of  the  archbishop^s  appointments  of  a  notary, 
 dated  10th  February,  1573 — 4,  is  entered  in  the  Register  Book  of 
 the  parish  of  Buckland  Xewton  near  Cernc  in  Dorsetshire.  The 
 oath  to  be  taken  by  the  notan-  is  recited  in  the  appointment.] 
 
S94      ARCHB.  PARKER  AND  OTHERS  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY.    [1572. 
 
 dom.      And  thus  we  commend  your  lordship  to  the  grace  of 
 God.     From  Lambeth,  the  last  of  May,  1572. 
 
 Your  lordship's  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAll. 
 EDM.  EBOR. 
 ED.  LONDON. 
 RICHARD  ELYE. 
 NIC.  BANGOR'. 
 
 ccc. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP   PARKER  TO  LORD   BURGHLEY. 
 
 2nd  July,  [1572.  J     Lansd.  MS.  xv.  art.  35.   Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Begs  for  the 
 liberty  of 
 lord  Henry 
 Howard. 
 
 I  AM  called  upon  to  write  to  your  lordship  to  obtain 
 liberty  for  my  lord  Henry',  which  he  much  desireth;  where- 
 upon seeing  the  parliament  is  now  at  a  stay,  I  pray  you  be 
 a  mean  to  her  Majesty  that  he  may  have  his  desire.  And 
 thus  I  wish  your  lordship  well  to  fare  in  Christ.  This  second 
 of  July. 
 
 Your  honour'^s  loving  friend, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  rigJit  honourable  and  my  very  good 
 lord,  the  lord  of  Burghley. 
 
 [1  The  signers  of  this  report  were  archbishops  Parker  and  Grindal, 
 with  bishops  Sandys,  Cox,  and  Nicholas  Robinson.] 
 
 p  Lord  Henry  Howard,  second  son  of  the  celebrated  earl  of 
 Surrey,  and  brother  of  Thomas  Howard,  fourth  duke  of  Norfolk,  the 
 duke  who  was  executed  on  the  2nd  June  preceding  the  date  of  this 
 letter.  Lord  Henry  was  ultimately  created  earl  of  Northampton,  by 
 which  title  he  was  well  known  in  the  reign  of  James  L] 
 
tL-nU. 
 
 1572.]  AKC  HI).  PARKER   TO   LORD   HllUillMlV.  .'395 
 
 CCCI. 
 
 AliCIIBISllor   rAKKKIl  TO  LOUD  HUUGIILKY. 
 
 8th  July,  [IJTJ.)     Limsd.  -MS.  XV,  art.  yO.     Ori^'. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I  WOULD  coino  to  tho  court  to  sue  to  tlio  Queen's  Ma- 
 jesty, it'  1  know  what  clay  I  might  most  opportunely  do  it,  in 
 this  case  following.     Now,  at  tho  last,  with  much  diligence  ol' /^I^'thr  nr« 
 conference  and  long  dehating,  wo  have  tinishcd  the  book  of  |i|,\'^h^.[i,''* 
 statutes  as  may  concern  the  cathedral  churches  newly  erected. 
 There  is  set  out,  for  brevity's  sake,   first,   tho  titles  of  the  Jh 
 statutes.      Secondly,   the  words  inserted  in  our  commission. 
 Thirdly,  imperfections  and  reformations,  with  a  doubt   to  be 
 resolved.      Then    the   body    of   the   statute,   which    may    bo 
 diversely  considered  to  divers  churches  in  their  private  statute. 
 If  it  please  your  lordship,  or  any  other  whom  it  shall  please  b^'u^hir' 
 the  Queen  to  appoint,  to  peruse  that  which  is  set  down,  and  "{,^^1^^^*'' 
 with  some  reformations  as  you  shall  think  expedient,  and  so  [^l  S  be' 
 the  book  returned,   we  shall  now,  in  the  Queen's  absence,  niSient 
 cause    every   particular   book  to   be  written  with  some   fair  qJeeifs 
 hand  in  parchment,  and  so  to  sue  to  her  Highness  at  her"*' 
 return  from  progress  for  her  hand-subscription,  that  it  may 
 pass  the  great  seal  ;   of  which  doing  we  have  a  precedent  of 
 the  statutes  of  Durham  church,  sealed  with  the  great  seal,  and 
 signed  with  Philip  and  Mary's  hand.     And  also  we  have  pre- 
 pared a  book  ready  of  the  old  statutes  by  King  Henry's  time, 
 if  any  man  will  compare  the  same.      Thus,   desiring  to  have 
 your    advice    before    the    Queen's    Majesty's    departing 3,    I 
 thought  good  to  write  so  much.  And  thus  God  preserve  your 
 good  lordship.      From  my   house   at  Lambeth,    this  8th  of 
 Julv. 
 
 If  your  lordship  desireth  any  further  notice,  I  send  this 
 my  chaplain,  who  was  present  at  all  these  doings. 
 
 Your  lordship's  loving  friend  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  and  my  very  good 
 lord,  the  lord  of  Burghley. 
 
 [^  This  was  the  year  of  the  Queen's  visit  to  Kenilwortb.] 
 
396 
 
 ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 [1572. 
 
 CCCII. 
 
 Mr  Wood,  of 
 All  Souls' 
 College, 
 Oxford,  has 
 made  ajipli- 
 cation  to  be 
 placed  in 
 physic. 
 
 The  ordi- 
 nance of  the 
 founder  is, 
 that  they 
 should  all  be 
 priests. 
 
 Of  forty  fel- 
 lows there 
 are  now  only 
 two  priests. 
 
 Parker  refers 
 it  to  the 
 Queen  as  to 
 whether  such 
 an  ordinance 
 should  be 
 broken. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER   TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 17th  August,  1572.    Lansd.  MS.  xv.  art.  38.     Orig. 
 
 After  my  right  hearty  coramendations  to  your  honour. 
 I  received  your  lordship's  letters  wherein  ye  signify  to  me 
 that  one  Mr  Wood  had  brought  to  your  honour  letters  from 
 divers  of  the  best  credit  of  that  University,  for  the  conve- 
 niency  of  his  placing  in  physic  in  All  Souls'  College.  Fur- 
 thermore, that  the  young  man  hath  informed  you  that  he 
 was  with  me  since  my  letters  written  to  your  honour,  and 
 said  that,  upon  his  allegations,  1  should  not  misUke  his  cause 
 so  much  as  before,  upon  former  information.  The  truth  is, 
 this  man  was  not  with  me,  nor  made  such  allegation,  but  a 
 pupil  of  his  shewed  me  a  copy  of  certain  letters  written  by 
 the  warden,  when  he  was  neither  warden  nor  fellow,  that 
 touched  the  honesty  of  the  said  Wood,  whereupon  I  signified 
 to  the  messenger,  that  I  hked  not  the  childishness  of  him  to 
 "write  such  a  vain  letter,  as  one  of  them  was,  and  thereupon  I 
 required  either  the  same  Wood,  or  himself,  to  come  to  me 
 again,  and  I  would  hear  better  the  cause,  for  that  the  warden 
 was  then  in  town,  and  was  purposed  to  have  resolved  the 
 cause  (as  at  that  time  I  shewed  his  pupil  my  dishking).  But 
 I  never  heard  of  either  of  them  both  till  your  honour  had 
 sent  me  your  last  letters.  Indeed  the  said  Wood  is  stept  in 
 a  manifest  perjury,  to  sue  for  any  dispensations  against  the 
 founder's  ordinance,  willing  them  all  to  be  inclined  to  be 
 priests,  and  at  convenient  time  to  take  the  same  order.  They 
 be  so  much  offended  now  with  the  ministry  that  of  forty  such 
 fellows  in  the  house,  there  are  but  two  priests,  and  whether 
 this  be  a  good  example  to  the  University  for  men  to  run  in 
 open  perjuries,  and  whether  it  be  good  to  the  governance  that 
 so  few  priests  and  preachers  (specially  in  the  University) 
 should  be,  I  leave  that  to  her  Majesty's  consideration  and 
 your  wisdom.  If  her  Highness  will  take  it  upon  her  con- 
 science to  break  such  ordinance,  I  refer  it  to  her  ^Majesty. 
 Beside  this  cause  touched,  I  see  more  inconveniences  that  will 
 follow,  both  in  this  and  in  other  Colleges,  if  this  be  won  by 
 importunity  ;  but  as  for  myself,  I  cannot  bear  with  it  in  reason, 
 
1572.]  Anciin.  rMiKicii  to  i.oud  iiuiioiii.ey.  397 
 
 praying  your  lonlshlp  not  to  bo  ofTiMulecl  with  tlii.^  my 
 writing.  Ami  tluis  wisliing  her  Majesty  and  you  all  to 
 return  well  homo  airain,  I  commit  your  honour  to  (lod  as 
 myself.  From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this  17th  of  August, 
 1572. 
 
 Your  lordship's  loving  friend, 
 
 MATTIIUK  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  n<jht  hoiwurahle  mt/  qoad  lord, 
 
 the  lord  trtasurtr  of  Eiujlund,  yire  these. 
 
 CCCIII. 
 
 ARCIIBISIIOr  PARKER  TO    LORD  BURGIILEY. 
 
 2-.th  August,  [10T2J.     Lansd.  MS.  xv.  art.  39.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 For  all   the   devices  that  we  can  make  to  the  contrary,  "Admoni- 
 
 .  ,  .  lion  to  the 
 
 yet  some  ffood  fellows  still  labour  to  prmt  out  the  vam  "Ad-  rariiamenf 
 «/  o  ...  twice  re- 
 
 monition  to  the  parliament  ^''     Since  the  first  printing  it  hath  pointed. 
 
 been  twice  printed,   and  now  with  additions,  whereof  I  send 
 
 your  honour  one  of  them.      We  wrote  letters  to  the  mayor 
 
 and  some  aldermen  of  London  to  lay  in  wait  for  the  charects, 
 
 printer,  and  corrector,  but  I  fear  they  deceive  us.      They  are 
 
 not  willins:  to  disclose  this  matter. 
 
 Furthermore,  this  other  day  was  brought  me  a  popish  ^^^"J^/" 
 
 bull  in  Spanish,  printed,  which,  as  I  am  informed,  a  certain  j'hp'^fch'" 
 
 Spaniard  as  he  was  going  to  his  execution  drew  out  of  his  ^hShfi 
 bosom,  as  long  worn  there,  by  the  which  he  had  confidence  ITS? he 
 that  he  should  never  come  to  such  death,  and  cried  brute 
 of  them  that  brake  promise  with  him,  and  furthermore  re- 
 quired of  the  people  there,  that  if  any  were  present  that 
 could  instruct  his  conscience  to  die  better  to  God-ward,  that 
 his  soul  might  be  in  better  surety  of  salvation,  he  earnestly 
 requested  it.  This  bull  being  thus  taken  up,  was,  at  the 
 last,  brought  to  me,  although  I  do  not  well  remember  in 
 what  parts  beyond  the  seas  this  execution  was  done.     I  have 
 
 P  The  "  Admonition,"  generally  ascribed  to  Cartwright,  but  pro- 
 bably the  composition  of  various  authors.  For  an  account  of  several 
 editions  of  it,  see  Herbert's  Ames,  iii.  1631 — 2  ] 
 
398 
 
 ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 [1572. 
 
 Recommends 
 
 the  warden 
 
 of 
 
 to 
 
 Uurghley's 
 
 favour, 
 
 delivered  this  bull  to  be  secretly  translated  by  a  trusty  body, 
 which  when  it  is  once  performed,  I  will  send  it  over  to  your 
 lordship,  doubting  whether  you  have  seen  it. 
 
 I  pray  your  honour  be  good  to  this  honest  young  man, 
 Aii^souis*  the  warden  of  All  Souls'  College.  In  the  cause  of  that  College, 
 as  of  certain  other  of  that  University,  I  did  write  as  I  think 
 convenient.  And  thus  I  wish  your  honour  as  well  to  fare  in 
 Christ  as  I  wish  to  myself.  From  my  house  at  Lambeth, 
 this  25th  of  August. 
 
 Your  honour's  loving  friend  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  tlie  rigid  Jionourahle  and  my  very 
 good  lo7'd,  my  lord  treasurer  of  Eng- 
 land.    At  the  Court. 
 
 CCCIV. 
 
 Return  of 
 recusants  to 
 the  council. 
 
 Increase  of 
 papists. 
 
 Ifthatdes-   yg^ 
 perate  person 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 16th  September,  1572.    Lansd.  MS.  xv.  art.  42.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 According  to  our  careful  duty,  we  have  returned  answer 
 to  the  council  of  such  things  as  be  demanded ;  and  as  for  to 
 certify  the  names  and  qualities  throughout  the  realm,  of  all 
 such  papists  as  do  not  like  the  religion,  it  were  an  infinite 
 matter.  I  marvel  what  it  mean  that  they  grow  so  fast; 
 whether  it  be  of  private  maintenance,  or  for  that  they  be 
 exasperated  by  the  disordered  preachings  and  writings  of 
 some  puritans,  who  will  be  never  at  a  point,  I  know  not ;  but 
 cunningly  they  be  encouraged  of  some  persons  that  pretend 
 otherwise.  They  shoot  not  at  us  only,  but  at  you  all ;  and 
 if  our  spoil  would  serve  them,  I  would  not  be  long  to  resign 
 up  to  them.  I  have  heard  say,  that  when  cardinal  Lorrain 
 saw  our  Prayer-book  in  Latin,  or  in  French,  he  should 
 answer,  that  he  liked  well  of  that  order,  *'  if,"  saith  he,  "  they 
 would  go  no  further."  I  beseech  God  to  hold  his  hand  over 
 If  that  only  desperate  person^  were  away,  as  by  justice 
 
 [}  The  allusion  seems  to  be  to  Mary  Queen  of  Scots.] 
 
 i* 
 
ir)72.]  AUCIIB.  PAKKKR  TO   lOIlD   IirROHLEY.  399 
 
 Boon  it  might  bo,  the  Queen's  Majesty's  good  subjects  would  wrr«*w.y.- 
 bo  in  better  hope,   and   the   papists'   daily   expectation  van- •j''^)^yj^  j^ 
 quislicd.      1  pray  (lod  ye  bring   borne  her  Majesty  well,  and  •""""'* '**• 
 yourself   with  her.      They  bo  full  of  spite  and  secret  malice. 
 Their   imps  bo  marvellous  bold,   and  Hock  together  in  their 
 tulkinsi-placcs,    as   I   am    informed,    rejoicinji:   much    at    this  H.i..i.inK«.i 
 
 r«   I  '  '  ,/  n  ^  ttic  III  i^vvTc 
 
 unnatural  and  unprincely  cruelty  and  murder.  I  have  intelli-  i;I„';[."""''*' 
 gonco  of  some  that  will  not  spare  to  utter  their  rejoices,  and 
 of  long  have  they  looked  for  such  slaughter  at  liome;  and 
 some  of  tlicir  books  written  I  have  gotten,  wliercin  they  go 
 about  in  large  writing  to  set  out  their  desire,  and  make  their 
 conclusion,  tjuod  Iiereticl  mortc  sunt  plectendi.  I  may  not 
 prescribe  mine  opinion  in  things  of  policy,  but  I  fear  that  SfX'bf* 
 when  papists  be  so  bold,  and  full  of  armour,  they  may  mean  '*"*'"'*^ 
 much  hurt  and  mischief.  In  dead  Queen  Clary's  days,  and 
 these  be  not  like,  when  this  stiituto  was  made,  they  were  in 
 number  almost  all  papists.  The  Philistines  used  in  their 
 policy-*  that  none  of  the  Israelites  should  have  any  weapon, 
 but  only  Saul  and  Jonathas ;  caverant  enim  PJiilistini,  ne 
 forte  facerent  Hehrei  gladium  aut  laiiceam,  ^c.  To  mine  own 
 self,  such  papists  as  come  to  me  will  not  be  aknown  but  to 
 dislike  these  cruel  and  viperous  murders,  but  I  learn  by  other 
 inferiors  how  they  triumph.  God  send  us  of  his  grace  to 
 protect  his  Httle  flock.  There  be  many  worldlings,  many 
 counterfeits,  many  ambidexters,  many  neutrals,  strong  thcm- 
 self  in  all  their  doings,  and  yet  we  which  ought  to  he  Jilii 
 lucis,  want  our  policies  and  prudence.  ^^ Non  putaram!"  is  the 
 fool's  experience;  and  \( piscator  ictus  semel  sapit,  what  shall 
 come  of  us,  who  after  such  striking  as  is  now  used,  shall  not 
 be  left  alive  tit  sapiamus  ?  God's  will  be  done:  and  I  beseech 
 God  send  to  the  Queen's  Majesty  aures  ut  audiat,  cor  docile 
 €t  henignum  ut  intelUrjat,  and  to  be  advertised  by  the  trusti- 
 est of  her  council  to  provide  in  time,  and  not  to  drive  long 
 such  matters  of  reformation.  If  Almighty  God  oft  and  oft 
 calling  upon  us,  and  shewing  his  favourable  countenance  from 
 time  to  time,  and  yet  we  will  in  securitate  despicere  omne 
 consilium  ejus  ^-c,  then  I  fear  that  which  doth  follow,  by 
 the  prophecy  of  wise  Solomon,  ego  quoque  in  intet^tu  vestro 
 ridebo,  et  sithsannaho  cum  vohis  id  quod  timehatis  advcneritj 
 §c.  as  followeth.  Thus  I  wish  her  Majesty  prosperously  to 
 2  1  Reg.  13.  D.  [1  Sam.  xiii.  22.] 
 
400 
 
 ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 [1572. 
 
 return  soon,  to  yourself  God's  good  protection,  and  to  you  all 
 spir (turn  for titudinis,  ^c  From  my  house,  this  16th  of  Sep- 
 tember. 
 
 Your  lordship's  loving  friend  in  Christ, 
 
 M.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  rig7i[t  Jionourahle]  and  my  very 
 good  lord,  the  lord  treasurer  of  Eng- 
 land.   At  the  Court. 
 
 cccv. 
 
 Parker  be- 
 lieves iu 
 Cecils  at- 
 tachment to 
 the  Queen, 
 whatever 
 subtilty  there 
 be  in  others. 
 Last  words  of 
 Anne  Boleyn 
 concerning' 
 her  to  him 
 being  her 
 poor  country- 
 man. 
 
 Examination 
 of  a  person  at 
 Dover. 
 
 His  slanders 
 against  the 
 Queen, 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 [Gth  October,  1572.]    Lansd.  MS.  xv.  art.  43.    Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 I  wrote  to  your  honour  private  letters  in  amaritudine 
 animal,  et  in  insipientia  mea.  I  trust  ye  do  not  procure  me 
 any  displeasure  for  them,  and,  before  Almighty  God  I  speak 
 it,  no  creature  in  earth  knoweth  of  this,  or  for  that  my  par- 
 ticular writing  to  you.  I  have  that  persuasion  that  ye  love 
 her  Highness,  and  wish  her  preservation,  whatsoever  subtle 
 respects  be  in  some  others.  The  truth  is,  as  well  for  Al- 
 mighty God's  commandment,  for  that  she  is  now  my  prince, 
 as  for  the  last  words  that  ever  her  ^lajesty's  mother  spake  to 
 me  concerning  her,  being  her  poor  countryman,  I  have  as 
 much  cause  to  wish  well  to  her  Majesty  as  any  other  what- 
 soever, and  so  will  I  be,  whatsoever  cometh  of  it.  If  I  be  in 
 any  error,  I  can  be  glad  to  be  otherwise  advertised,  to  change 
 my  fearful  opinion  toward  her ;  and,  sir,  because  I  hear  one 
 other  thing,  I  will  open  it  to  your  lordship,  and  do  with  it 
 what  ye  think  best.  I  am,  I  think,  credibly  informed,  that 
 the  mayor  of  Dover  brought  up  a  strange  body  to  be  ex- 
 amined, of  whom  I  hear,  that  because  your  lordship  could 
 have  no  leisure  (as  I  am  sure  ye  be  carefully  and  thoroughly 
 occupied)  ye  committed  the  examination  to  Mr  Somner  and 
 to  this  mayor,  and  he  hath  it  in  writing,  that  this  villain  should 
 utter  most  shameful  words  against  her,  v(-.  that  the  earl  of 
 Leicester  and  Mr  Hatton  should  be  such  toward  her,  as  the 
 matter  is  so  horrible,  that  they  would  not  write  down  the 
 words,  but  would  have  uttered  them  in  speech  to  your  lord- 
 
 _i 
 
ir>7l?.]  AuniH.  rvuKEii  ro  i.okd  nnuiiiLKY.  401 
 
 ship  if  yc  couM  liavo  hoon  at  lolsuro  ;  furtbcrmoro  l»o  sliould 
 say,  that  a  brother  of  his  in  Calais  shouhl  afhrin  that  within 
 (liis  winter  ho  trusted  to  hear  of  so  many  tliroats  cut  hero  in  "'',',', ",7'"'''* 
 Mnjxland  as  he  reported  to  he  in  France  ;  and  lio  shouhl  say,  K;;|.'u;,a'" 
 *  What  make  yc  of  tho  persecution  of  (Juecn  Mary  ?"  for 
 within  this  twelvemonth,  ho  douhted  not  hut  that  Henry's 
 hones,  and  mistress  lUi/.aheth's  too,  should  he  openly  hurnod 
 in  Smithfield.  And  further  1  hear  tliat  this  party  is  yet 
 delivered,  and  sent  home  to  London  aii^ain,  to  the  rejoico  of 
 his  friends.  Sir,  if  this  he  true,  God  bo  merciful  to  us  ;  I 
 can  say  no  more.  As  Mardochcus,  I  hear  and  understand, 
 which  I  pray  God  turn  to  lier  honour,  but  I  cannot  do  any 
 less  in  conscience,  but  to  unburden  myself,  and  pour  it  into 
 your  bosom,  and  her  Majesty  willcth  me  to  write  still  to  you. 
 God  defend  her  Majesty,  and  all  her  trusty  friends. 
 
 To  the  n'fjht  honournhlc  mj/  lord  treasurer^ 
 he  it  <ti  live  nil. 
 
 {Indorsed,)  (jth  October,  1572. 
 
 CCCVI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER   AND   OTHER    ECCLESIASTICAL 
 COMMISSIONERS  TO  BISHOP  PARKIIURST  OF  NORWICH. 
 
 9th  October,  1572.    Parkhurst  Epp.  Camb.  Univ.  Libr.  MS.  Ee.  ii.  34.  art.  89. 
 fol.90.     Copy. 
 
 SALrTE^f  in  Christo.     Ye  shall  understand  that  we  are  Mr  cotton 
 credibly  informed  of  one  Mr  Cotton,  gentleman,  (who  married  reported  lo 
 
 •       ,  o  ^  ^  the  eoinmis- 
 
 of  late   Sir  Ro(]:er  Woodhouse''s  daughter)  abiding  within  six^'""^"«;* 
 
 o  O  /  o  very  evil 
 
 miles  of  Norwich  (whose  father  being  a  knight,  and  dwelleth  '^^p"^*^^^ 
 in  Kent),  that  the  said  younger  Cotton   should  be  a   man 
 very  evil  disposed.     Whereupon  this  is  to  require  you,  and  in  Thebishon 
 the  Queen's  Majesty's  name  charge  you,  to  search  his  house  >s  to  seanh 
 suddenly,  to  see  what  books  unlawful  or  armour  he  hath  in  s<'JJt^^«'iy 
 store;  and  thereof  to  make  an  inventory,  and  to  stay  them, 
 and  to  send  him  up,  or  to  take  a  bond  of  him  for  his  appear- 
 ing before  us  the  Queen's  ^Majesty's   commissioners\      And 
 
 [1   There  is  in  the  same  MS.  (art.  90.  fol.  90  b.)  bishop  Parkhursi's 
 answer  to  the  above  letter,  in  which  he  says,  that  having  discovered 
 
 [PArxK.  COR. J 
 
402  ARCHB.   PARKER  TO  BP  SANDYS  OF  LONDON.         [1572 
 
 hereof  fail  you  not.     And  thus  we  bid  your  lordship  well  to 
 fare  as  ourselves.     At  Lambeth,  this  9th  of  October,  1572  ^ 
 
 Your  loving  brothers, 
 
 MATTIIUE  CANTUAR. 
 ROBT.  WINTON. 
 RICHARDE  WENDESLEY. 
 
 CCCVII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  SANDYS  OF  LONDON. 
 
 29th  October,  1572.     Regist.  Parker.  II.  fol.  73  a. 
 
 MATTHiEUS,   providentia  divina   Cantuariensis   archiepis- 
 
 copus,  totius  Anglioe  primas  et  metropolitanus,  venerabili  con- 
 
 fratri  nostro  domino  Edwino,  eadem  permissione  divina  Lon- 
 
 dinensi  episcopo,  salutem,  et  fraternara  in  Domino  charitatem. 
 
 bfJhoVof      Cum  no3  librum  quendam  precum  publiearum,  intitulatum,  ''A 
 
 speciaTform  form  of  common  prayer  to  be  used,  and  so  commanded  by 
 
 thJ'Snie!  ^""^  authority  of   the   Queen's    Majesty,   and    necessary  for    the 
 
 present  time  and  state.     1572,  vicesimo  septimo  Octobris^,"  de 
 
 mandate  illustrissimse  dominge  nostrae  reginae  componi  ac  im- 
 
 primi  et  publicari  fecimus ;  nos  igitur,  librum  prsedictum  in 
 
 et    per   totam   provinciam    Cantuariensem   debitre   execution! 
 
 demandari  volentes,  librum  ipsum  prassentibus  annexum  vobis 
 
 where  Cotton  lodged,  he  took  his  journey  thither,  and  "  found  the  said 
 Mr  Cotton  veiy  sick  of  a  tertian  ague,  in  the  house  of  one  Francis 
 Downes,  gentleman,  of  East  Tuddenham,  who  is  of  like  evil  disposi- 
 tion touching  religion."  The  bishop  adds  :  "  he  confesseth  himself 
 to  be  a  papist,  and  saith  he  is  not  ashamed  thereof:  for  anything  I  can 
 perceive,  he  is  a  fit  instrument  to  take  any  enterprise  in  hand." 
 Parkhurst  inclosed  an  inventory  of  the  books  and  weapons  found  in 
 Cotton's  chamber.  The  former  he  judged  "  of  no  great  importance, 
 saving  the  book  of  the  prophecies."  As  however  Cotton  was  too  ill  to 
 bo  removed,  and  could  find  no  bail,  being  a  stranger  in  those  parts 
 himself,  and  his  friend  Downes  being  in  London,  the  bishop  bound 
 him  in  his  own  recognizances.  The  consequence  was,  that  he  ab- 
 sconded, and  baffled  all  attempts  for  his  apprehension.  See  Letters 
 CCCVm.  and  CCCXVII.  of  this  collection.] 
 
 [1  There  is  a  note  at  the  foot :  "Received  13  October,  at  night."] 
 [2  The  form  referred  to  is  published  in  the  Liturgical  Services  of] 
 the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  (Parker  Society),  1847.  8vo.  p.  540.] 
 
1572.]         AU(  1115.    TARKKK   To    MP  SANDYS  OF   LONDON.  403 
 
 transmittimus    piiblicandum,   volcntcs    ac    fratcrnitati    vcstrw  \"^r'^, 
 firmiter  injungemlo  iiiaiulantes,  (luatonus  vera  cxomplaria  lil)rl 
 pnrilicti  iinivcrsis  ct  s'mi^ulU  vcnerabilibus  confratrilms  nostris  .,,  I'.i.irtV"* 
 iWcUv  provinci:\)  nostr;t>  C'.uituariensis,  cum  ca  (jiia  fieri  poterit     '^' 
 matura  celeritato  transmittatis,  scu  transmitti  faciatis;  cisquo 
 o.\  ]iarto  nostra  injiin^;itis,  qiiihiis  nos  ctl;un  tcnoro  pnosentiuiii 
 sic  injiingiiuus,  quatcnus  coriiin   singuli   in   singulis  ditt'cesibus 
 oorundem  coram  decano  ct  capitulo  cujuslibct  ccclcsia)  cathe- 
 dralis,  ac  arcbidiaconis  ct  clcro  sua3  dio^ccsis,  prout  ad  cos  ct 
 corum  qucmlibet  pertinct,  Hbrum  priedictum  debitc  publiccnt, 
 ct  ab  omnibus  quos  conccrnit,  obscrvari,  ct  debitoe  exccutioni 
 dcmandari   procurcnt,  sivo  sic   publicari  ct  obscrvari  faciant 
 cum   ctTcctu.      Kt  pr:i?tcrea,  fratcrnitati  vcstra)  ut  supra  in-  ""^'tS?? 
 jungimus,  quatenus    librum    praedictum    in    ct   per  diccccsim  orHond^ 
 vcstram  Londincnscm,  prout  ad  vos  attinct,  debitc  ct  eflfectua- 
 liter  publicari  ct   exccutioni  dcmandari  faciatis,  prout  decct. 
 In  cujus  rei  testimonium  sigillum  nostrum  praescntibus  apponi 
 fecimus.    Datum  in  Mancrio  nostro  de  Lambeth,  viccsimo  nono 
 die  mensis  Octobris,  A.  D.  1572,  et  nostra}  consecrationis  anno 
 dccimo  tertio. 
 
 CCCVIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER   TO  BISHOP  PARKHURST 
 OF  NORWICH. 
 
 2nd  November,  1572.     Parkhurst  Epp.  Camb.  Univ.  Lib.  MS.  Ee.  ii.  34,  art.  95. 
 fol.  95.     Copy. 
 
 SAL^TE^r  in  Cliristo.     I  have  received  two  books,  and  sook^  re- 
 
 ccivc^l.  but 
 
 the  lewd  book  of  prophecies.     As  for  Cotton^  himself,  he  is  ^"^^I'^J^^ ^.^^^^ 
 not  yet  come  up,  whereof  we  do  marvel.      I  would  be  loth  "^'• 
 to  hear,   for  not  binding  him  with  sureties,   he  should  scape 
 away.      I  pray  your  lordship  devise  some  way  to  foresee  the 
 same.     You  shall  do  well  in  mine  opinion,  by  all  means  you 
 can,  inquire  of  such  unordered  persons  papistically  set,  not  The  bishop 
 coming  to  prayers  according  to  the  laws,  nor  bearing  good- q'Srcof 
 
 o  1        ./  ^     ^  c  ^  '  o     o  "persons  pa- 
 
 will  unto  the  religion  received ;   which  must  not  be  proved  by  r);j'''.''f,.',',v,  do 
 surmises,  but  bv  their  deeds,  words,  or  letters.      And  if  vou  ""[J 
 signify  them  to  us,  we  shall  have  consideration  of  them.     You 
 shall  also  do  well  to  signify  what  good  men  of  countenance 
 yo  have,  able  to  be  in  grand  commission  for  examining  and 
 
 P  See  Letter  CCCYI.  p.  401] 
 
 26—2 
 
 come  to 
 crs. 
 
404: 
 
 ARCIIB.  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  PARKHURST. 
 
 [1572. 
 
 jvhat  men  Ordering  of  such  contemners.  And  thus,  having  else  nothing, 
 fmorderkT  ^  commit  your  lordship  to  God,  as  myself.  From  my  house 
 recusanu.      ^t  Lambcth,  this  second  of  November,  1572. 
 
 Your  loving  brother, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 CCCIX. 
 
 Tlie  course 
 t  iken  by  tlie 
 archbisTiop 
 on  an  arbi- 
 tration be- 
 tween Levers 
 and  Wil- 
 loughby, 
 committed  to 
 him  by  the 
 Queen. 
 
 Levers  al- 
 legeth  that  he 
 is  the  arch- 
 bishop's kins- 
 man: no 
 more  so  than 
 the  man  in 
 the  moon. 
 
 The  matter 
 relates  to  a 
 benefice  on 
 the  coast, 
 which  has 
 been  much 
 neglected. 
 
 Willoughby 
 formerly  in 
 coiincilwith 
 Queen  Ai.ne 
 boleyn. 
 
 ARCIIEISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 5th  November,  1572.     Lansd.  !MS.  xv.  art.  44.     Orig. 
 
 Your  honour  may  understand  how  partially  I  have 
 dealt  betwixt  these  two  persons,  partly  by  their  bills,  and 
 mine  arbitrament,  which  I  send  to  your  honour  to  consider  of, 
 the  length  whereof  grieveth  me  to  send  to  you,  otherwise 
 occupied  more  profitably;  and  but  for  the  satisfaction  of  her 
 Majesty  I  would  not  have  troubled  you.  This  complaint 
 Cometh  not  from  that  old  simple  man,  but  from  that  covetous 
 merchantman  (Levers),  who  claimeth  the  farm ;  which  if  he 
 could  have  got,  he  did  not  much  regard  Mr  Willoughby's 
 possession,  as  his  own  notes  to  me  written  do  testify.  Se- 
 condly, because  he  allegeth  that  he  is  my  kinsman;  the  truth 
 is,  he  is  no  more  my  kinsman  than  the  man  in  the  moon. 
 My  consideration  was,  for  that  the  benefice  hath  been  shame- 
 fully ordered  before  time  in  his  incumbency;  the  town  being 
 of  a  great  people  bordering  upon  the  sea^  and  many  times 
 unserved,  and  at  my  metropolitical  visitation  there,  more  ex- 
 clamation was  made  than  of  any  in  Norfolk  or  Suffolk ;  the 
 chancel  quite  down,  the  vicar's  house  almost  decayed,  which 
 yet  Mr  Willoughby  made  a  promise  and  a  pretence  to  me, 
 that  he  would  build  them  up  again  though  it  should  cost  him 
 an  hundred  pounds  or  more,  in  which  respect  I  did  labour  for 
 his  restitution,  long  before  his  late  complaint,  till  I  heard  all 
 these  words  were  but  wind.  But  of  late,  in  respect  of  par- 
 tial favour  I  bare  him,  for  that  he  was  sometime  in  council 
 with  Queen  Anne,  I  delivered  him  from  all  manner  charges 
 
 [1  The  place  alluded  to  was  Aldborough,  in  Suffolk.  A  paper 
 under  the  archbishop's  signature,  illustrative  of  the  affairs  of  Dr 
 Willoughby,  is  attached  to  the  present  letter.  Dr  Willoughby  is 
 described  in  it  as  "so  childish"  as  to  "have  spent  £4  for  painting  of 
 a  pulpit."] 
 
I 
 
 ir)72.]  AK(  nil.   r.VKKKK    lO   I, Old*    !U  K(.I1M:V,  405 
 
 cf  illLip'klatioii,  ami  sutVerod  his  farmer  (Levers)  to  go  away 
 uith  the  whole  year's  rent,  ami  have  awarded  him  ten  ponnda 
 yearly  pension  tor  two  years,  wherein  tho  fruits  are  to  bo 
 paiil,  and  tho  house  to  bo  reeovered,  and,  after  that  two  years, 
 t'ourteen  pounds  by  year,  as  nmeh  as  ever  ho  received  ;  and 
 now  hearing  of  tho  desire  of  the  country  to  have  one  learned 
 amouir  them,  this  man  beinjr  well  learned,  a  bachelor  of  divin- 
 ity,  and  a  good  preacher,  and  purposeth  daily  to  dwell  among 
 tliem,  1  took  it  to  be  a  good  discharge  to  the  Queen's  Ma- 
 jesty's conscience  to  have  such  a  man  to  be  preferred  and 
 continued  in  that  populous  tisher-town.  If  this  my  doing  bo 
 not  thought  reasonable,  I  refer  it  to  her  Majesty's  consider- 
 ation, in  which  regard  I  reserved  a  clause  in  the  arbitrament. 
 
 Furthermore,   where  your   honour  did   write   to   me  for  ffijcant 
 
 '  •'  ^  ^  ^       Lovelact 
 
 Serjeant  Lovelace  to  be  my  steward  of  liberties,  the  truth  is,  j^l.^hCTrci.' 
 that  he  was  with  me  sithcn  Justice  ^[anwood  was  placed",  to  ^5^',^^','^,^^^  .,^ 
 "whom  I  did  grant  my  good  will  for  his  friend,  and  the  said  nberucs!*^'"* 
 Lovelace  being  long  with  me  never  made  mention  of  that 
 matter,  but  to  one  of  my  servants,  saying  yet  to  him,  that  he 
 should  not  long  enjoy  the  ofRcc  though  he  obtained  it,  for 
 that  he  thought  shortly  to  be  otherwise  placed.  Further- 
 more, if  it  were  free  in  my  hand,  yet  I  doubt  to  accept  him 
 for  mine  officer  of  that  (though  he  be  and  hath  of  long  time 
 been  of  my  council,  and  quarterly  paid  him  his  fee),  seeing  he 
 is  steward  of  the  liberties  of  the  church.  Thus  wishing^  to 
 her  Majesty  God's  good  protection,  and  to  your  honour  his 
 assistance,  I  commit  you  to  the  same  as  myself.  From  my 
 house  at  Lambeth,  this  5th  of  November,  1572. 
 
 Your  lordship's  assured  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTIL  CANT. 
 
 lace  re- 
 1 
 
 cccx. 
 
 ^VRCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGIILEY  AND  THE 
 EARL   OF  LEICESTER. 
 
 7th  November,  [1572.]     Lansd.  MS.  xvii.  art.  53.     Grig. 
 
 I   RECEIVED  your  lordships'  letters  in  the  behalf  of  Mr 
 John  Stowell,  whereby  it  appeareth  that  he  hath  misinformed 
 
 [^  Manwood,  afterwards  lord  chief  baron,  was  appointed  a  justice 
 of  the  Common  Pleas  on  the  14th  October,  1572  ] 
 
406  ARCIIB.  PARKER  TO   LORD  BURGHLEY,   &C.  [1572. 
 
 Particuiarsof  your  lordsli'ips  in  some  part  of  the  state  of  his  cause.      For 
 
 case  ot  John    «.  l  i 
 
 cSof  CO  the  matter  why  he  was  convented  before  me  and  others  her 
 apSn^'^^  Highness*  commissioners,  was  the  public  offence  that  was 
 forincrVfe  givon  by  liim  to  the  country  where  he  dwelleth,  for  cohabit- 
 ing with  a  gentlewoman  as  his  wife,  his  former  wife  being  on 
 live,  and  as  I  am  informed  by  my  officer  of  the  Arches,  he  is 
 called  to  that  court  by  his  former  wife,  to  shew  cause  why 
 she  ought  not  to  be  restored  unto  him ;  and  yet  before  him 
 he  utterly  denieth  to  make  present  answer  whether  he  be 
 married  or  no  to  the  gentlewoman  with  whom  he  dwelleth, 
 and  now  he  refuseth  to  answer  us  of  the  commission,  except 
 we  will  deliver  his  articles  against  him  in  writing,  having  a 
 week  to  dehberate  thereof  before  now.  And  for  his  such 
 refusal,  he  was  by  me  and  others  the  commissioners  appointed 
 by  order  to  prison  before  the  receipt  of  your  lordships'  letters. 
 And  thus,  for  my  part,  I  am  right  sorry,  for  that  he  seemeth 
 to  be  a  protestant,  that  we  should  be  compelled  in  him  to 
 restrain  this  foul  disordered  doing,  to  avoid  further  example. 
 From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this  7th  of  November  ^ 
 
 Your  lordships'  loving  friend  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  my  good  lords,  the 
 lord  treasurer  and  the  earl  of  Leicester. 
 
 CCCXI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 8th  November,  1572.     Lansd.  MS.  xv.  art.  46.     Orig. 
 
 ofTencsbe-  YouR  lordship  shall  understand  that  I  have  written  to 
 
 Lefcfcue'/and  my  lord  of  Leiccstcr,  praying  your  good  lordship  to  help  to 
 
 bishop.        pacify  him  if  he  be  offended.      Verily,   my  lord,   I  desire,  as 
 
 it  may  please  God,  to  be  in  favour  with  such  noble  personages 
 
 as  be  in  service  tow^ard  my  lady  and  mistress  and  specially 
 
 be  favoured  of  her  Majesty,  in  whom  she  is  contented  and 
 
 [1  See  Letter  CCCXL.  p.  447,  and  note  3.] 
 
1572.]  AKlin^  I'AKKKU   TO    LOUD   UUIIGIILKY.  107 
 
 ])lcas(nl,  aiul  howsoever  my  rikle  iiaturo  may  seem  ollicrwiao, 
 yet  I  wouKl  fain  use  the  same. 
 
 Wo  shuuKl  have  written  to  your  lordships  heforc  now  of  f,;';,*;;:',^*,. 
 tlio  answer  [to]  the  letters  which  your  lordships  of  the  council  !,','„! ".'Ti',* 
 sent  to  us  with  tlie  packet  of  letters  sent  from  beyond  tlie  l,'i..",  .,  i 
 sea.      My  lord  of  London  took  upon  him  to  pen  tho  letters,  Loiiuoii. 
 and  so  wo  have  rested  a  good  time,  but  yet  they  come  no[t] 
 forward.       We    have   examined  divers    i)arties,    and  find  no 
 irreat  matter.      The  book  of  Ireland's  history  ^  wo  obtained,  r.impion-* 
 
 ,,,.,.,,  Ili^tc.rv  of 
 
 which  here  I  send  to  your  lordship,  which  your  honour  may  laund. 
 communicato  to  my  lord  of  Leicester,  for  it  is  dedicated  to 
 him;  and  if  this  Campion  could  bo  reclaimed  or  recovered,  I  tmo writer 
 see  by  this  wit,  that  he  were  worthy  to  bo  made  of.     And  ciaimmg. 
 thus  I  wish  your  good  lordship  heartily  well  to  fare,  with  my 
 thanks  that  your  lordship  took  my  scribbling  in  so  [good]  part. 
 From  my  house,  this  8th  of  November. 
 
 Your  lordship's  loving  friend, 
 
 MATTIiUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  rUjlit  honourable,  and  my  very  good 
 lord,  the  lord  treasurer  of  England, 
 
 CCCXIL 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 13th  November,  1572.     Lansd.  MS.  xv.  art.  47.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 I  COMMEND  me  heartily  to  your  lordship,  thanking  the 
 same  for  your  friendly  admonition  brought  unto  mo  from  you 
 by  Mr  dean  of  Westminster^.     And  where  ye  send  me  word  Rcpiytotiie 
 
 •'  «/  r.otion  that 
 
 that  some  men  think  I  am  carried  with  Mr  Yale^,   in  good  hi'^'];'^^^^^^^^^^ 
 faith  the  truth  is  not  so ;  for  when  1  know  and  can  resolve  carcalS-fto" 
 the  matter  myself,  I  take  none  of  his  coat  to  be  my  counsel-  iTr^viS  ^"^ 
 lers,   but   I   will  follow  the  counsel  of  them  that  fear  God. 
 And  though  he  chanced  to  be  one  of  the  commission   this 
 other  day,  I  was  nothing  incensed  against  !Mr  Stowell,  but  y;|,'^."/i, 
 
 [2  The  History  of  Ireland,  written  by  Campion.  The  MS.  is  in 
 the  Cotton  Library,  Vitellius  F.  ix.  It  was  published  in'lG33  by  Sir 
 James  Ware.] 
 
 [^  Dr  Gabriel  Goodman.]  {}  The  archbishop's  chancellor.] 
 
 L 
 
 — —    ri*» 
 
408  ARCIIB.   PAIIKEII   TO   LOUD  BURGIILEY.  [1572. 
 
 took  advantage  of  his  counsellor's  words  which  was,  if  he 
 should  answer  directly  to  our  demands :  viz.  whether  he  was 
 married  to  the  second  or  not,  it  might  have  been  a  prejudice 
 to  him  in  the  Audience  Court,  which  maketh  me  now  to  defer 
 the  matter  a  while  before  your  message  came,  whose  counsel 
 I  propose  to  follow,  although  distemperance,  wherewith  I  am 
 now  grieved,  doth  compel  me  not  to  hear  such  causes.  I 
 desired  Mr  dean  to  be  here  to-morrow  at  afternoon,  when  we 
 would  wish  Stowell  to  come  afore  us,  to  defer  the  cause. 
 And  I  will  send  to  my  chancellor  that  he  shall  also  cease  in 
 his  court  for  a  time ;  which  I  do  the  rather  for  that  I  would 
 not  have  you,  which  be  supreme  justices,  suspected  as  though 
 we  durst  not  for  your  letters  request  to  deal  in  justice. 
 Lord  Leices-  And  whcrcas  I  at  your  good  counsel  did  write  my  letters 
 
 ter  s  anger  •/  o  J 
 
 Trchbishop.  ^^  ^^J  \qv^  of  Leicester  to  pacify  him  with  true  information, 
 I  understand  by  him  that  delivered  my  letters  that  he  is  so 
 much  offended  that  he  would  not  once  vouchsafe  (being  at 
 leisure)  to  read  my  letters,  but  put  them  up  in  his  pocket. 
 If  the  first  untrue  information,  heard  with  one  ear,  weigh  so 
 deeply  in  credit  that  the  other  ear  will  not  hear  the  answer, 
 then  I  can  say  no  more.      I  will  refer  myself  to  God,  but  will 
 
 '  do  as  justice,  prudence,  and  honesty  shall  bear  me  at  length. 
 
 I  I  understand  that  the  party  hath  letters  from  my  lord 
 
 of  Bath^  of  comfort,  who  informed  me  first  in  this  matter. 
 
 I  have   his  note  by  me,    and  therefore    marvel   the   more, 
 
 and  would  gladly  see  these  letters.      I  perceive  the  matter 
 
 oSofiiqo.  is  very  hotly  taken,  and  Stowell  careth  not  what  to  spend 
 
 l^Q2s^\i-'^   so    he    may  have  his  fair  lady;    for   as   one  informed  me 
 
 \  inabemoui-  yestcmight,  he  is  offered  a  hundred  pounds,  and  another  of 
 
 my  house  two  hundred  pounds,  to  mollify  me  in  this  case. 
 
 I  I  told  the  hundred  pounds  man  that  I  rather  wished  it  molten 
 
 I  in  his  belly,  than  justice  either  by  me  or  any  of  mine  should 
 
 be  so  bought  and  sold.  But  surely,  my  lord,  what  is  lawful 
 in  this  case  I  will  not  dispute ;  but  if  this  man,  or  any  other, 
 should  procure  in  this  common  wealth  quare  expedit,  and  so 
 to  be  countenanced  out,  the  realm  should  have  such  a  blow 
 thereby,  that  our  posterity  shall  judge  of  us  that  money  and 
 mastership  worketh  all  with  us  in  our  time.  And  though  we 
 be  nothing  and  outcasts  among  tlie  puritans  and  their  great 
 
 [^  Bishop  Gilbert  Berkeley,  15G0 — 1581.] 
 
1572.]  Aurmi.  r.vuKKK  lu  loiti*  in  K«.m.i.v.  lOU 
 
 frtuturs,  a  shrewd  sort  of  tlioin  ;  as  long  as  (JoJ  shall  siiflcr 
 mo  in  this  office^  I  will  still  anger  them  and  grieve  thcin  in 
 such  matters  as  they  work  unjustly.  Thus  I  commend  your 
 honour  to  the  grace  of  Almighty  Clod  :is  myself,  this  loih  of 
 November. 
 
 Your  lordship's  a! way  in  Christ, 
 
 .MATTII.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  rijlit  honourahley  and  mtj  rjood  loril, 
 the  lord  treasurer. 
 
 cccxiir. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  TARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLF.Y. 
 
 22nd  November,  [1072,]     Lansd.  MS.  xv.  art.  49.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 'Mr  dean  of  Westminster  coming  to  mo  yesternight  with  ncanof 
 your  messages,  moved  me  partly  to  write  unto  your  lordship  hJmmS" 
 or  to  the  council,  how  we  proceeded  in  matters  of  common-  bisiiop  to 
 
 i««»i  !•  1  ifi        write  to 
 
 wealth,  and  partly  signihed  your  desire  and  counsel  for  the  Hurghiey 
 answering  of  Saunders'  book,  &c.  I  had  thought  that  your  ^*'"'='**""'^- 
 honour  had  understanding  of  all  these  causes,  and  I  am  sure 
 I  have  spoken  and  written  to  you  particularly  of  most  of  these 
 things,  so  that  I  feared  to  weary  you  with  multiplicity  of 
 matters,  or  doubted  whether  we  might  be  judged  to  care 
 more  for  our  private  defences  and  estimations,  partly  against 
 the  puritans  and  partly  against  the  papists,  than  upon  good 
 zeal  of  the  quiet  governance  of  the  Queen's  people.  And 
 to  write  to  the  lords  of  the  council  in  such  particularities 
 (some  being  affected  as  the  report  goeth)  I  thought  it  no 
 prudence. 
 
 As  for  Saunders'  book-,  brought  in  by  one  Andrewes,  I 
 knew  your  pleasure  at  sundry  times,  at  the  parliament  cham- 
 ber.    As  for  the  puritans'  book,   I  signified  by  letters  how 
 they  multiplied  them  by  secret  printing.      As  for  the  answer  Few  men 
 of  Saunders' babblincr  book,    I  see  few  men  either  able    orswer&iun- 
 
 o  ders  s  b'><)k 
 
 willins:;  not  for   the  invincibleness  of  it,   but  for  the  huojc  ""f-^^^""' 
 
 o  '  '  o      of  Its  sue. 
 
 [2  "  Dc  visibili  Monarchia  Eccles'iDO,  Lib.  viii."  pruitcd  at  Antwerp 
 in  1571.] 
 
I* 
 
 410  ARCHB.   PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY.  [1572. 
 
 ^'c'^nJugi^S  volume  ;    and  I  think  the  bishop  of  Sarum's  book  for  English 
 Englishmen.  ^^^  havo  wHttcn  Sufficiently.     And  as  for  common  matters 
 in  Latin,   partly    Germans  and   partly   others  have  largely 
 answered.      So  that  their  leisure  may  suffer  them  to  write 
 what  they  -will,  and  yet  will  never  be  answered,  though  we 
 ^(Te^Snot   ^^^^  leisure  to  tend  upon  it.      I  with  other  the  commissioners 
 wit'hoJtpS-  took  order  with  every  such  bookseller  as  sell  books  in  Eng- 
 miisiou.       j^jjj^  ^Q  bring  their  inventories  first  before  they  sell  them, 
 which  being  bound  thereto  I  think  they  do.      Among  their 
 books  I  found  half  a  score  of  these  traitorous  books  of  Saun- 
 ders ;  I  distributed  almost  all  of  them,  except  one  or  two  to 
 such  men  whom  I  thouglit  meet  to  peruse  them.     I  sent  to 
 Ki?s°Ci!inion  ^hc  bishop  of  Ely  one,  who  hath  done  most  to  my  remem- 
 of  baunders.  |^j.^Q(,g^  f^j.  j^g  \igiih.  read  over  the  long  book,  qui  vel  Fahium 
 delassare  valeat.      He  writeth  his  judgment  that  the  book  is 
 not  so  strong  but  that  it  may  be  answered  ;  he  hath  divided 
 it  into  certain  parts,  and  wisheth  such  men  and  such  to  take 
 it  in  hand.      And  this  is  all,  except  that  to  assay  the  judg- 
 ment of  the  greatest  learned  man  (so  thought)  in  England, 
 di^oS^an-    ^^^'  ^^^  Deering,  I  delivered  him  four  or  five  quires  of  the 
 swer.  i^pg^  pg^pj.  Qf  ^i^g  book,  which  he  returned  to  me  again,  but  in 
 
 such  sort  confuted,  as  too  much  childishness  appeared. 
 General judg-         ^g  ^qt^  i\^q  puritans,  I  Understand  how  throucrhout  all  the 
 
 ment  respect-  I^  '  o 
 
 Sinqr'^  realm,  among  such  as  profess  themselves  protestants,  how  the 
 imriuJil^^  matter  is  taken  :  they  highly  justified,  and  we  judged  to  be 
 extreme  persecutors.  I  have  seen  this  seven  year  how  the 
 matter  hath  been  handled  on  all  parts.  If  the  sincerity  of  the 
 gospel  shall  end  in  such  judgments,  I  fear  you  will  have 
 more  ado  than  you  shall  be  able  to  overcome.  They  slander 
 us  with  infamous  books  and  libels,  lying  they  care  not  how 
 deep.  You  feel  the  papists,  what  good  names  they  give  you, 
 ofthe^t'un-^  and  whereabouts  they  go.  AYe  have  sought  as  diligently  as  we 
 £"fo*i!nd°*  can  for  the  press  of  these  puritans,  but  we  cannot  possibly  find 
 it.  The  more  they  write,  the  more  they  shame  our  religion ; 
 the  more  they  be  applauded  too  ;  the  more  be  they  comforted. 
 Our  bearing  and  sufiering,  our  winking  and  dissembling,  have 
 such  effects  as  now  we  may  see  everywhere  to  be  fallen  out. 
 Yet  here  I  cease,  for  troubling  of  your  honour's  great  affairs 
 too  much.  I  pray  God  all  doings  be  good  policies  of  such 
 as   be  thought  most  politic.      I  commit   myself  to   God,  as 
 
1572.]  AUCIIB.  rAIlKEll   TO   LOUD  lU'ltUllLBY.  Ill 
 
 your    lionour   to   hU  jjood   j>rotoction.      From   my   house   ut 
 l^mbctli,  this  22nd  of  Xovumbcr. 
 
 Your  lordship's  assured  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTII Ui:  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  n)i?it  honournJtlc,  and  my  ro'i/  (food 
 /on/,  tlw  lord  of  Jhu'fjiilcif,  lord  treasurer 
 of  Emjhuid. 
 
 CCCXIV. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 13th  December,  [1572.]     Lan»cL  MS.  xv.  art.  bO.     Ori^'. 
 
 'Where    your   lordship    sent    unto    me   by  Mr  dean  ofxhcmh 
 >\  cstmmster  your  desire  to  have  Saunders   book  answered,  t '»^en  moa 
 
 »  suns  to  ha\0 
 
 your  honour  shall  understand  that  I  have  taken  care  thereof  ^a^'n-i^^s 
 
 •  bx)K  an- 
 
 and  laboured  certain  men  which  be  at  good  leisure  to  do  some-  *''^'^'*- 
 
 what.      And  for  a  sliew  to  be  first  sent  out  to  the  reader, 
 
 both  English  and  strange,  I  have  appointed  the  confutation  of 
 
 so  much  as  concerneth  the  honour  and  state  of  the  realm, 
 
 the  dignity  and  legitimation   of  our  prince,  with  just  defence 
 
 of  king  Henry's  honour,  queen  Anne's,  and  partly  your  own, 
 
 as  by  name  you  be  touched,  viz.   a  pag.  686  unto  j)<^0'  739. 
 
 I  have  committed  it  to  Mr  Dr  Clerk,  who  is  of  late   doctor  The  portion 
 
 which  relatos 
 chonoiii 
 stale  of 
 eahii 
 nitiei 
 
 not  but  sufficiently  deal  in  the  matter,  and  he  ehall  not  want  ^^^''"'^• 
 my  advice  and  diligence.      As  for   some   particular  matters 
 which  be  not  known  to  me,  I  trust  to  have  your   counsel. 
 Furthermore,  to  the  better  accomplishment  of  this  work  and 
 other  that  shall  follow,  I  have  spoken  to  Day  the  printer,  to  ^^Jj^JJ^^t^ 
 cast  a  new  Italian  letter,  which  he  is  doing,  and  it  will  cost  S,anTcucr 
 him  forty  mark,  and  loth  he  and  other  printers  be  to  print  ^'"^" 
 any  Latin  book,  because  they  will  not  here  be  uttered,  and 
 for  that  books  printed  in  England  be  in  suspicion  abroad. 
 
 Now,  sir,  Day  hath  complained  to  me,  that  dwelling  in  a 
 corner,   and  his  brethren  envying  him,    he  cannot  utter  his 
 books  which  lie  in  his  hand,  two  or  three  thousand  pounds'  Days  request 
 worth,  his  friends  have  procured  of  Paul's  a  lease  of  a  little  t<^  set. "!>,» 
 
 '  i  shop  in  bt 
 
 shop  to  be  set  up  in  the  chui'ch-yard,  and  it  is  confirmed  ;  and  Schvard. 
 
 of  law  at   Cambridt^e,  and   for  his  more   estimation  I   have  to»i>e honour 
 
 o    '  and  St 
 
 honested  him  with  a  room  in  the  Arches,   who   shall  I  doubt  [J^^nmllled  to 
 
412  AJICHB.    PARKER   TO  LORD   BURGHLEY.  [1572. 
 
 what  by  the  instant  request  of  some  envious  booksellers,  the 
 mayor  and  aldermen  will  not  suffer  him  to  set  it  up  in  the 
 church-yard,  wherein  they  have  nothing  to  do,  but  by  power. 
 This  shop  is  but  little,  and  low,  and  leaded  flat,  and  is  made 
 at  his  great  cost,  to  the  sum  of  forty  or  fifty  pounds,  and  is 
 made  like  the  terrace,  fair  railed  and  posted,  fit  for  men  to 
 stand  upon  in  any  triumph  or  shew,  and  can  in  nowise  either 
 hurt  or  deface  the  same.  And  for  that  you  of  the  council 
 have  written  me,  and  other  of  the  commission,  to  help  Day, 
 &c.,  I  pray  your  lordship  to  move  the  Queen's  Majesty  to 
 subscribe  her  hand  to  these  or  such  letters,  that  all  this 
 intendment  may  the  better  go  forward,  wherein  your  honour 
 shall  deserve  well  both  of  Christ's  church,  and  of  the  prince 
 and  state,  &c.  I  pray  your  lordship  respite  the  said  Dr 
 Clerk  in  that  work  which  we  have  spoken  to  him  for,  that 
 this  may  be  the  sooner  done.  And  thus  God  preserve  your 
 honour  in  better  health  than  I  in  a  naughty  body  feel  in  this 
 hard  winter.     At  Lambeth,  this  13tli  of  December. 
 
 Your  honour's  loving  friend, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 cccxv. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 21st  December,  [1572.]    Lansd.  MS.  xv.  art.  52.     Orig. 
 
 sendsthefirst         CONCERNING    the   first   cntrv    ao^aiust   the    foul  talk    of 
 
 part  of  the  «^  o 
 
 saunderffor  Saundcrs,  I  scud  it  to  your  lordship  to  consider  of,  praying 
 Smidera-'  you,  if  yo  think  so  good,  to  return  your  allowance  or  dis- 
 ^^°°'  allowance,  how  ye  judge  of  this  beginning,  and  whether  the 
 
 writer  shall  go  forward,  or  in  what  sort.  Else  I  have  nothing 
 to  write  to  your  honour,  but  wish  the  same  all  grace  of  God 
 as  to  myself.  From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this  21st  of 
 December. 
 
 Your  honour's  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  my  good  lord  the 
 lord  treasurer,  he  it  delivered. 
 
1j72.]         ak(  iih.  TAKKEii  TO  i.<»Ki)  urnoiii.EV.  413 
 
 cccwr. 
 
 ARCIiniSIIOP  PAUKKU  TO  LORD  BURGIILEY. 
 
 2J>lh  Decon»h«r,  l'»72.     Lanml.  MS.  xv.  art.  .">{.     Ori^'. 
 
 WiiKRB  your  lordship  wislicth   some  particular   informa- 
 tions against  such  as  have  hail  commissions  against  the  clergy, 
 as  of  sir  U.  Hagnal,  &c.,  who  stand  upon  their  justification,  and,  fJ'J,I|,'l^"i. 
 as  ye  write,  be  importune  to  be  let  loose  again  ;  indeed  you  17flVi^.m 
 term  it  rightly  and  aptly  "  to  bo  let  loose,"  for  there  could  not  "ilfmTi'he 
 have  been  devised  a  more  extreme  way  to  scourge  the  poor  di«^.lcry  of 
 clerixv  as  to  set  such  loose  to  placuo  them.      If  it  be  true  lan.uor 
 that  I  hear,  thev  be  marvellous  vicious.      They  do  so  that  I  I'^'ker's 
 
 •  •'  npminn  of 
 
 fear  her  ^lajesty  shall  not  be  judged  to  do  that  which  is  |,"|;li^n;^' 
 re«jium  or  jnion.  Alas,  howsoever  the  faults  bo  justly 
 plagued,  howsoever  the  state  brought  in  her  time  to  despite 
 the  poor  ministers  of  the  gospel,  yea,  and  good  preachers 
 extremely  dealt  with,  will  this  turn  to  honour,  after  the  fruits, 
 tenths,  subsidies  of  late  most  liberally  granted,  after  the 
 arrearages  of  tenth,  of  subsidies  from  king  Henry's  days 
 required  and  extorted,  and  some  of  these  sums  and  arrearages 
 twice  and  thrice  discharged,  and  now,  after  all  this,  such  pas- 
 times to  be  procured  ?  1  do  not  so  much  lament  the  misery 
 and  beggaring  of  the  poor  priests,  as  I  do  most  heartily  bewail 
 to  see  this  manner  of  handling  under  her  ^lajcsty's  merciful 
 governance,  whom  I  desire  of  all  other  to  be  graciously 
 reported.  But,  as  I  have  done,  I  keep  in  my  contemplations. 
 God  send  us  all  of  his  favour,  lU  in  fine  sit  honorificum,  ^c. 
 At  leisure  I  may  fortune  write  what  I  hear,  if  at  the  least 
 way  be  meant  such  stay  and  redress. 
 
 Your  lordship  writeth   that  you  guess  the  writer's  pen  Burehiey 
 
 *  thinKs  Par- 
 
 was  holden  by  my  hand.      The  truth  is,  that  neither  he  nor  |^"^^''* 
 
 J         J  '  ^  Clerks  pen. 
 
 any  other  in  such  an  argument  shall  want  either  my  head  or 
 heart,  or  yet  any  of  my  collections;  but  surely  the  writer  is  a 
 pithy  man,  and  apt  to  deal  in  such  a  cause.  Though  he  be 
 young,  yet  I  doubt  little  of  him,  whom  I  send  to  your  lord- 
 ship to  hear  your  advice.  My  lord  of  Leicester  feareth  his  f;7do!ibu^ 
 judgment,  but  I  doubt  not  this  labour  shall  both  betray  him  mem.*"'"''^' 
 and  stay  him  for  hereafter.    lie  hath  written  one  quire  more,  one  quire 
 
 ,  .    ,  ,    .  ,  ,  ,  .      more  sent  for 
 
 which  at  leisure  vc  mav  read  and  peruse ;  pcradventure  in  Burghieys 
 
 "  *  '■  ^       ^  opinion. 
 
 reading  some  words  thereof,  as  in  the  17th   page,   ye  may 
 
4U 
 
 ARCIIB.  PARKER  TO   LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 [1572. 
 
 He  has 
 handled  the 
 divorce  well. 
 
 The  Queen 
 once  told 
 Parker  of  a 
 bull  in  which 
 the  niarriaj,'e 
 of  Henty  and 
 Anne  Boleyn 
 was  confirm- 
 ed. 
 
 Parker 
 searched  for 
 it  in  vain. 
 HasBurghley 
 found  it? 
 
 Defence  of 
 the  prince 
 against  the 
 piupe  in  old 
 time. 
 
 Parker  un- 
 lucky in  his 
 suits 'to  the 
 Queen. 
 
 think  ho  hath  mine  information,  but  before  God  that  trait  was 
 only  of  himself;  and  though  that  in  private  and  secret  letters 
 to  you  alone  I  do  write  of  such  manner  Machiavel  govern- 
 ance, as  hearing  sometime  wise  men  talk,  yet  I  like  not  this 
 particular  charge  or  application  in  this  so  open  writing,  nor  by 
 mine  advice  shall  not  be  inserted. 
 
 He  hath  handled  the  divorce  in  mine  opinion  well,  and, 
 as  stories  may  instruct  most  in  English,  except  you  know  any 
 more  particularities  to  be  added  for  the  more  confirmation. 
 Indeed  one  time  her  Majesty  secretly  told  me  of  a  pope's 
 bull,  wherein  king  Ilenry's  marriage  with  queen  Anne  was 
 confirmed.  She  willed  me  to  seek  it  out.  I  did  so  amongst 
 mine  old  registers,  and  others  whom  I  thought  might  have  it. 
 I  did  it  as  secretly  and  as  prudently  as  I  could,  and  to  mine 
 own  self,  but  I  could  not  hear  of  it;  for  if  I  had,  I  would  have 
 informed  her  Highness  again  thereof.  If  ye  have  found  it,  it 
 would  serve  well  to  amplify  the  falsehood  of  the  pope,  and  dis- 
 prove this  loving  writer,  Saunders.  And  I  made  your  honour 
 once  privy  of  a  little  discourse,  both  of  history  and  of  statute- 
 law,  to  let  the  world  understand  what  provision  have  been 
 beforetime  made  to  avouch  the  prince's  Hberties  against  the 
 pope's  usurpation :  and  I  think  it  not  amiss  to  be  here  en- 
 treated, and  but  that  the  eloquence  of  the  writer  can  hardly 
 be  brought  to  set  down  the  barbarous  and  strange  terms  of 
 some  laws,  yet  I  would  wish  the  matter  to  be  forced,  and  the 
 law-terms,  terms  of  art,  to  be  holpen  by  circumlocutions.  I 
 pray  your  honour  say  something  to  him  in  this  argument. 
 
 I  had  thought  to  have  uttered  a  small  suit  that  should 
 not  be  either  in  honour  hurtful,  nor  to  her  purse  chargeable, 
 but  that  I  am  so  unlucky  and  unfortunate  to  win  anything  for 
 myself  or  for  my  friends,  that  I  will  hereafter  crave  little,  as 
 I  hare  not  much  used  importunity  in  such  causes  this  dozen 
 years,  although  most  of  my  predecessors  have  had  things  of 
 more  importance  granted  them,  by  the  prince's  favour  in 
 their  time;  but  I  will  hold  me  within  my  bounds,  and  take 
 the  times  as  they  be,  and  will  yet  do  my  duty  in  conscience, 
 and  serve  to  my  uttermost  power,  till  the  day  of  my  dissolu- 
 tion. And  thus,  wishing  to  your  honour  your  heart's  ease  in 
 this  your  great  felicity  ye  be  in,  I  commit  the  same  to 
 Almighty  God  as  myself.  But  for  tediousness  I  would  have 
 written  more,  but  I  cease. 
 
 L 
 
1.J72.]  AKcnn.  I'ARKKu  TO  i.oi:i>  urnaiiLKY.  415 
 
 As  I  was  writing  this  letter,  this  Christmas  morn,  thi-i 
 inclosed  was  sent  to  mc.  I  will  make  not  any  ploss  of  it.  I 
 rofor  it  to  your  pruilenco.  At  my  house,  this  Cliristmas-day, 
 1572. 
 
 Your  honour's  always  in  Christ, 
 
 iMATTIIUE  CANTUAll. 
 
 To  the  right  honourahle,  and  w»//  good  lordy 
 the  lord  treasurer,  J>e  !t. 
 
 CCCXVII. 
 
 AKCIIDISIIOr  rAKKEIl   TO   BISHOP  rARKIIURST  OF 
 
 Nomvicii. 
 
 Jnd  Januar}-,  1572—5.     Parkhurst  Epp.  Camb.  Univ.  Libr.  MS.  Ee.  ii.  »4.  art.  103. 
 fol.  1(X1,  b.     Copy. 
 
 I  AM  sorrv  for  your  iourney  that  it  was  so  painful  unto  Ntr  cotton 
 you  for  the  stay  of  Mr  Cotton,  who,  as  I  am  informed,  is  now  ^■ 
 gone'.      I  would  have  been  glad  if  your  lordship  could  have 
 certified  me  where  he  abidcth ;  and  if  hereafter  it  cometh  to 
 your  knowledge,  I  pray  you  so  to  signify. 
 
 Concerning'  the  names  of  the  persons  which  be  in  com-  iiiecom 
 
 •      •  1     r  Mil  1*  ^  •    ^      '  i         mis'^ion  f 
 
 mission  you  mav  defer  them  till  the  parliament,  which  is  also  Norwich 
 
 *'     ,  "    ,  ,  ,  <^^c  mav 
 
 deferred  till  April.      I   have  else  little   more   to  write  unto  •'""•:. "'''^^' 
 
 1  parliament 
 
 you  ;  but  wishing  you  health,  and   many  good   years  yet  to  ^p'riu' 
 come.      From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  the  second  of  January, 
 1572. 
 
 If  your  lordship  or  your  chancellor  would  make  a  collec- 
 tion for  such  extremities  as  late  have  been  executed  upon  the 
 clergy,  by  certain  extraordinary  visitors,  it  would  do  very 
 well,  and  I  pray  you  so  to  do. 
 
 Your  lordship's  brother, 
 
 MATTIIUE  CAXTUR. 
 
 ['   See  Letter  CCCVI.  above.] 
 
 mission  for 
 dio- 
 be 
 i 
 pa  ■• 
 
 bles  in 
 
416  ARCHB.  PARKER  TO   THE   EARL  OF  SUSSEX.      [1572-3. 
 
 Sends  a  list 
 of  suggested 
 Lent  preach- 
 ers for  the 
 Queen's  ap- 
 proval. 
 
 CCCXVIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  THE  EARL  OF  SUSSEX. 
 
 9th  January,  [1572— 3  ]     Cotton  MS.  Vespasian  F.  xii.  fol.  189.     Grig. 
 
 It  may  please  your  good  lordship,  after  my  hearty  com- 
 mendations to  the  same,  to  understand,  that  I  send  here  unto 
 you  the  names  of  such  preachers  as  may  serve  the  Queen's 
 Majesty  this  Lent,  which  your  lordship  may  signify  unto  her 
 Highness,  to  know  her  pleasure,  whom  she  will  accept,  and 
 whom  she  will  reject.  And,  for  that  your  lordship  may  have 
 store  of  persons  named  to  supply  such  rooms  as  her  Highness 
 shall  mislike,  I  have  in  another  paper  to  yourself  written 
 other  names.  Your  lordship  may  think  that  I  do  this  some- 
 what too  soon,  but  I  pray  you  to  consider  that  some  of  these 
 may  alter  their  rooms  according  to  their  business  and  health. 
 And  when  her  Highness  is  resolved,  if  it  please  your  lord- 
 ship to  signify  her  pleasure  unto  me,  I  shall  do  further  ac- 
 cordingly. x\nd  thus  I  commend  your  good  lordship  to  the 
 tuition  of  Almighty  God  as  myself.  From  my  house  at 
 Lambeth,  this  9th  of  January. 
 
 Your  lordship's  assured  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTHUE  CAXTUAR. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  mtj  very  good  lord 
 the  earl  of  Sussex,  one  of  her  Majesty's 
 privy  council,  and  lord  chamberlain  in 
 her  Court^. 
 
 CCCXIX. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  PARKHURST  OF 
 NORWICH. 
 
 24th  February,  [1572— 3]^.    Parkhurst  Epp.  Camb.  Univ.  Libr.  MS.  Ee.  ii.  34. 
 art.  121.  fol.  109.     Copy. 
 
 bi^shoThas  Salutem  vi  Chvisto.     I  am  moved  by  one  of  my  good 
 
 t'o^ikthe'^   lords  of  the  council,  and  also  requested  by  this  gentleman, 
 
 \}  The  Earl  of  Sussex  was  appointed  Lord  Chamberlain  in  1572.] 
 
 [2  Parkhurst's  answer  to  the  above  letter,  and  that  of  3rd  March, 
 
 (No.  CCCXX.  p.  417),  is  dated  7th  of  March,  1572.     It  is  in  the  same 
 
1572-3.]  Aiu  iiu.  rAiJKr.u  TO  in*  i-akkiiiust  of  nokw  k  ii.     117 
 
 Mr  Christopher  [*/]  llevtlon's  sun   and   heir,    th;it  your  Kjnl- •''•'"•»'"', 
 bhip    and    vonr   ofliccrs   would   commend  the   lato   bishop  o( j"l'l\.["^l 
 Sarum's    \i\si   book    to    bo    had    in    tho    rest    of    the    J^arish- lurilnn  to 
 churches  within   vour  diocese,  wherein  they   be   not.      1    wai*  .rnV'thuuh 
 clad  to  hear  of  his  good  affection,  and  even  so  commend  the  .ii.Kf-^r 
 same  to  your  good  zeal,  doubting  notlnng  of  tlio   favour  you  »•  »"«• 
 boar  to  the  author,  and  much  less  to  the  matter.      And  thus,  nc.io«.o 
 yet  desirous  to  hear  of  tho  gentleman  Mr  Cotton^,  I   commit 
 you   to   God   as   myself.      From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this 
 21th  of  February. 
 
 Your  lordship's  brother, 
 
 MATTIIUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 cccxx. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  BISHOP  PARKHURST  OF 
 NORWICH. 
 
 3rd  March,  lo72— 3.      Tarkhurst  Epp.  Canib.  Univ.  Libr.  MS.  Ee.  ii.  34,  art.  122. 
 fol.  109.     Copy. 
 
 Salutem  in  Christo.     I  received  a  letter,  dated  the  23rd  ^'ruTurst 
 of  February,  which  spccificth  of  certain  letters  that  I  should  fionedThe 
 
 receipt  of 
 
 MS.  art.  123.  fol.  109,  b.  He  says  :  "  Touching  the  bishop  of  Sarum's 
 work,  as  I  have  singular  cause  to  allow  as  well  as  of  the  autlior 
 as  of  his  works,  so  do  I  conjecture  that  the  placing  of  such  controversies 
 in  open  churches  may  be  a  great  occasion  to  confirm  the  adversaries 
 in  their  opinions,  that  having  not  wherewith  to  buy  Harding's  books, 
 shall  find  the  same  already  provided  for  them ;  where  like  unto  the 
 spider  sucking  only  that  may  serve  their  purposes,  and  contemning  that 
 is  most  wholesome,  will  not  once  vouchsafe  to  look  upon  the  same. 
 This  is  but  my  fear  oi>ly,  and  therefore  till  I  shall  hear  further  from 
 your  grace  I  do  not  think  it  good  to  move  the  same  to  the  diocese, 
 otherwise  at  tho  two  next  Octaves  after  Easter  the  same  shall  be 
 commended,  as  your  grace  have  advised.'*] 
 
 [3  There  is  in  the  same  MS.  (art.  129.  fol.  112,  b.)  a  letter  from 
 Parkhurst  to  the  archbishop,  in  which  he  states  that  he  has  disco- 
 vered that  one  Sir  Peter  Kilburn,  living  in  the  precincts  of  the  cathe- 
 dral at  Norwich,  is  a  friend  of  Mr  Cotton's,  and  that  he  has  accordingly 
 had  him  e.xamined.  He  incloses  copies  of  his  answers  to  the  arch- 
 bishop, and  asks  his  advice  as  to  further  proceedings  both  in  this  case 
 and  in  that  of  an  old  woman  in  Stowmarket,  "  that  taketh  upon  her  by 
 words  of  conjuration,  and  such  other  unlawful  means,  to  cure  all 
 manner  of  diseases."] 
 
 r  -1  27 
 
from  I 
 which  he  has 
 nover  writ- 
 ten. 
 
 418    ARCIIB.  TARKER  TO  BP  PARKHURST  OF  NORWICH.    [1572-3. 
 
 '*"'*"' ^irker  ""'^itc  to  your  lordship,  touching  a  collection  to  be  made  of 
 the  clergy  of  your  diocese,  thereby  to  set  them  free  from  the 
 extremity  of  the  late  visitors,  &c.  And  further  ye  write,  that 
 some  certain  sum  were  set  down  [sic],  and  then  you  would 
 move  your  commissioners   in   their  circuits  to  propound  the 
 
 t"^se?th?^    same  to  the  clergy,  and  so  to  return  answer,  &c.     I  pray  you 
 
 letters.  ^^  ^^^^  ^^  ^^  those  Icttcrs,  and  remember  by  whom  they 
 were  delivered.  For  they  have  shamefully  abused  my  name 
 to  you  ;    for  I  never  meant  to  write  such  letters,  as  I  am 
 
 forgerV^'"^  suro  I  havc  not  done.  But  belike  some  forgery  is  devised  of 
 such  good  fellows  as  at  this  last  day  of  the  Star  Chamber  were 
 examined  and  sent  to  the  Fleet,  and  [made]  answerable  to  all 
 such  of  the  clergy  as  have  been  extorted  by  them.  I  pray 
 your  lordship  to  stir  in  this  matter,  and  send  me  word  so 
 soon  as  you  can.  And  thus  I  bid  you  well  to  fare  as  myself. 
 From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this  third  day  of  March,  1572. 
 
 Your  loving  brother, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 Postscriptum.     I   could   wish  your  letters   were  better 
 sealed. 
 
 CCCXXI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 12th  March,  [1572— 3.J    Lansd.  MS.  xvi.  art.  27.  Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I  BESEECH  your  honour,  with  my  most  humble  duty,  to 
 have  me  commended  to  her  Majesty,  certifying  that  I  do  not 
 purpose  any  such  new  attempts  in  [the]  state  of  my  poor 
 ^dllce'^ofthe  govomance,  but  that  I  will  take  first  her  Majesty's  advice,  of 
 lirdTrcasuJ'e^r  hcrsclf  or  from  your  lordship.  There  is  no  such  dispensation 
 h?gany"^iw  Dieant,  and  I  am  of  that  opinion  that  sermo  datur  cunctis 
 fhStlS  etc.  Words  may  not  now  be  used,  but  doings.  It  is  (by  too 
 ^mgovern-  ^^^^^  sufferancc)  past  my  reach  and  my  brethren.  The  com- 
 pensation     fort  that  these  puritans  have,  and  their  continuance,  is  mar- 
 
 meant. 
 
 con.fort       vellous  I  aud  therefore  if  her  Highness  with  her   council  ([ 
 
 given  to  the  '  o  \ 
 
 puritans..       mean  some  of  them)  step  not  to  it,  I  sec  the  likelihood  of  a 
 
1572-3.]  AK(  lin.  IVVItKHK    TO    LOUD    DUUGIILEY.  'Ill) 
 
 y)lliful  coininonwciiUh  to  follow  ;  J)cu,t  Diiscn'dtur  uostri. 
 ^Vhcro  Almiirlitv  God  is  so  much  Kn^lish  aa  ho  is,  should 
 not  wo  requite  his  mercy  with  some  earnesty  to  prefer  his 
 lionour  and  true  religion.  In  mine  opinion  it  is  j)rudently 
 }>urposed  not  to  call  out  of  their  countries  such  as  must  serve 
 the  state.      Wonderful  expectations  there  bo  of  this  next  par- wo^-iorfni 
 
 *  ^  *  (xptot.-iliuiu 
 
 liamcnt.  And  whereas  they  say,  that  we,  the  bishops,  sued  "^  V'*" "'"" 
 to  her  Highness  that  the  nether  house  shall  not  deal  in  such 
 matters  of  religion,  but  now  they  say  they  stand  in  better 
 hope.  If  your  honour  knew  how  we  be  bearded  and  used, 
 ye  would  think  strange  that  we  should  be  thus  dealt  with  in 
 so  favourable  a  governance  ;  and  but  that  wo  have  our  whole 
 trust  in  God,  in  her  ^lajesty,  and  in  two  or  three  of  her 
 council,  I  see  it  will  be  no  dwellino;  for  us  in  I'^ntijland. 
 
 I  beseech  your  honour  to  wait  your  opportunity  to  move 
 lier  Highness  in  my  suit.  Surely  it  is  the  best  in  all  respects, 
 if  tlie  truth  of  information  might  take  place ;  1  mean  for  the 
 alteration  of  my  houses.  I  do  not  mean  any  one  penny 
 advantage  to  myself,  but  to  the  commodity  of  the  see,  if  it 
 shall  stand  in  any  tolerable  estate. 
 
 I  would  remove  some  part  of  an  old,  decayed,  wasteful,  J|?j'^o^ake' 
 unwholesome,  and   desolate   house    at   Ford,    to   enlarge    the  uon"of iV^"^' 
 little  house  I   have  at  Bekesborne,  where,  as   well  for  the  s^e aT Kor.i' 
 foreic^n  friend  as  for  the  foreiojn   enemy,   I   would  think  it  o«^rh*ou^  '" 
 needful  and   requisite,    and  to  repair   my  palace  with  some  boumc, 
 better  lodging.      I   think   it  honest,   and  yet  I   would   leave 
 houses  enough  to  such   as  should  have  the   oversight  of  my 
 grounds  there.    If  it  please  her  ^lajesty  I  would  make  a  deed  Ser'^TtoRivc 
 of  gift  of  it  to  her  Highness,  and  then  her  Highness  might  fo/Jhe^ulTof 
 grant  it  again   to  me  and  to   my   successors.      The  corner  "'^^^* 
 thereof  and  soil  is  such  as  I   think  no  man  will  have  any 
 delight  to  dwell  there,  if  he  have  any  other  place  nigher  the 
 church.      And  thus  committing  the  same  to  her  Majesty  and 
 to  your  discretion,  I  cease,  and  so  continuing  in  patience  and 
 prayer,  ready  to  do  what  I  can  in  service,  solitary,  as  I  can, 
 wearing  out  my  time,  with  rejoices  otherwhiles  when  I  hear 
 of  good  success  to  herself  and  to  her   realm,   I   commit   you 
 to  Almighty  God  as  myself,  this  12th  of  March. 
 
 Your  assured  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 27—2 
 
420  ARCIIB.   PARKER  TO   LORD   BURGHLEY.         [1572-3. 
 
 I  have  now  found  matter  of  that  bull  of  the  KInir's  mar- 
 riage',  and  send  your  honour  some  more  quires,  and  within 
 two  or  three  shall  make  an  end. 
 
 To  the  right  honourahle  the  lord  Burghlef/, 
 high  treasurer  of  England. 
 
 CCCXXII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 9th  April,  [1573].    Lansd.  MS.  xx.  art.  oO.    Ori;j. 
 
 Sir, 
 Sharp  mes-  To  auswor  a  sharD  messao;e  that  Mr  Dr  Wilson  saith  you 
 
 s;ige  sent  .  . 
 
 fromBuruh-   \yilled  him  to  sav  to  me  concernmo'  certam  strano^ers.      For 
 
 ley  to  Parker  J  ^  ^  O  ^        o 
 
 smHoid^  ^'^  ^^^^^  peradventure  of  information  your  lordship  is  offended, 
 raiuwo''*'^  Thus  standeth  the  case.  I  am  not  greatly  slack  to  mj 
 strangers,      yttermost  abilitj  to  provide  for  strangers,  whose  state  I  have 
 
 always  pitied  ;  Deus  novit. 
 His  answer.  As  for  count  Mont^-omcrie^  and  those  ministers  of  France 
 
 What  he  had         ^  ,  ® 
 
 wuntMount-  ^-^i^^d,  I  did  not  only  procure  by  collection  a  good  portion, 
 fhe"Finch'^  but  also  gavo  them  of  my  own  purse  a  large  and  an  honest 
 ministers,      portion  amougst  them,  which  I  have  not  yet  much  blazed, 
 
 nor  intend  not ;  let  other  men  delight  in  their  Gloria  Patri, 
 
 I  will  do  but  what  I  can  quietly. 
 What  for  an  J  gaw   a  letter   that  vour  lordship  should   send   to  the 
 
 Irish  bishop.       ^  *'  . 
 
 bishop  of  London,  that  we  should  provide  for  an  Irish  bishop. 
 
 The  truth  is,  one  Irish  bishop  came  to  me,  whom  I  retained 
 
 at  my  table,  and  gave  him  certain  crowns. 
 Aie^Inder  ^^®  Italian,    Mr  Alexander^    upon  your   letters    I    re- 
 
 ciioiini.       tained   him  both  friendly  and  gently.      1   think  he   cannot 
 
 [I   See  p.  414.] 
 
 [2  A  French  protestaut  who  fled  into  England  after  the  massacre 
 of  St  Bartholomew.] 
 
 [3  Alexander  Citolini,  a  learned  and  accomplished  Italian,  who  fled 
 from  his  native  country  on  account  of  his  religion.  His  distinguished 
 friends  in  England  do  not  seem  to  have  kept  him  from  falling  into 
 great  pecuniary  distress.  See  Strype's  Parker,  Bk.  iv.  c.  xxii.  and 
 Lansd.  MS.  xvu.  art.  6.] 
 
1573.]  AIM  im.  r.vKKiii  in  nmu  miKJiii.KY.  iL'l 
 
 Bay  tho  contrary.  I  ij^iwc  him  also  certain  French  crown-^. 
 I  received  him  at  my  board,  and  otherwhilcs  in  my  hall, 
 when  lio  cometh.  I  otVered  him  also  his  entertainment 
 within  my  house,  anil  to  provide  him  things  necessary.  My 
 lord  of  Hedlord  and  himself  refnsod  it,  as  not  convenient.  I 
 signified  unto  him  that  the  Queen's  Majesty  might  give  him 
 tho  next  advowson  of  a  prebend  in  Canterbury  church,  but 
 your  lordship  liked  not  tliat.  As  to  liim,  I  did  promise  my 
 diligence  in  the  same.  I  also  have  written  for  him  to  certain 
 of  my  brethren  for  some  prebends,  but  I  hear  not  that  they 
 have  any  void  yet.  I  wrote  to  the  bishop  of  Ely  for  him 
 for  a  prebend  in  his  church.  He  writeth  unto  mc  that  he 
 hath  sent  up  one  to  you  for  him,  for  the  next  voidance.  Also 
 I  am  contented  that  he  may  have  one  of  tho  prebends  which 
 I  give  in  Canterbury  church  for  the  advowsons  of  the  same 
 till  they  fall. 
 
 Furthermore,  one  Malachias,  sometime  an  Irish  bishop*  whatforone 
 who  hath  been  long  in  prison,  wherein  I  know  that  he  gave  l^J^"^^ 
 papistical  council  to  some  of  my  folks,  coming  to  visit  them, 
 but  now  he  saith  he  is  returned  from  papistry,  and  saith  you 
 favour  hira,  and  that  you  are  about  to  give  him  an  Irish 
 archbishopric.  He  came  to  mo  to  require  a  plurality,  but  I 
 told  him  it  should  be  a  commendam  that  he  must  sue  first  for 
 at  the  Queen's  hands,  and  I  would  give  him  my  fees,  and 
 dismissed  him,  and  gave  him  an  honest  piece  of  gold.  If  you 
 knew  the  truth  of  my  ability,  you  should  see  1  do  as  much 
 as  I  can.  I  am  no  gatherer,  nor  will  be,  whatsoever  they 
 prate  abroad.  Coram  Deo  non  mentior,  I  am  compelled  to 
 borrow  every  half-year  before  my  money  cometh  in,  for  my 
 own  expences.  Excepting  a  little  money  that  I  have  to  bury 
 me,  I  have  no  superfluity  ;   sed  hcBC  domestica,  S^c. 
 
 As  I  was  thus  writinor  ^[c  Alexander  Citolinus  came  to  citounu^  had 
 
 come  m  to 
 
 dinner  ;  not  sitting  with  myself,  for  that  I  am  distempered  and  jjmner  whilst 
 keep  my  chamber,  he  dined  in  the  hall.     After  dinner  I  sent  '"g- 
 him  word  of  the  advowson  of  that  prebend  that  the  bishop  of 
 Ely  should  give  him,  and  I  caused  him  to  be  asked  whether 
 he  would  go  with  me  into  Kent;  he  made  no  grant  thereto, 
 but  would  first  commune  with  you  or  my  lord  of  Bedford. 
 
 [*  See    two    letters  respecting  this  person    printed    in    Strypc's 
 Parker,  App.  LXXXVII.  and  LXXXVIII  ] 
 
422  ARCHB.  PARKER   TO   LORD   BURGHLEY.  [1573. 
 
 Thus  I  commend  your  lordship  to  the  tuition   of  Almighty 
 God.      From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this  9th  of  April. 
 
 Your  lordship's  loving  friend  in  Christ, 
 
 MATT.  CANTUAR. 
 To  tJie  right  lionourahle,  my  lord 
 treasurer  of  England. 
 
 CCCXXIII. 
 
 The  young 
 lord  Stourton 
 
 him. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 25th  April  [1573J.     Lansd.  MS.  xvii.  art.  28.    Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 I  THOUGHT  it  good  to  signify  to  your  honour  concerning 
 that  young  gentleman  the  lord  Stourton^  with  whom  both 
 I  and  some  of  my  chaplains  have  diligently  conferred  and 
 
 IS  of  no  read- ^•j^jgj^  jl^  havo  entertained.  I  perceive  the  young  nobleman  is 
 of  no  reading,  but  yet  dependeth  of  some  of  his  old  corrupt 
 
 SencesS  instructious.  In  my  conference  I  did  much  (perad venture 
 satis  et  nimiinn  pro  imperio)  lay  before  him  his  unkindness 
 to  the  Queen's  ^L^jesty,  to  steal  away  from  her  governance 
 in  such  sort,  and  charged  him  with  unnatural  affection  toward 
 his  country  to  withdraw  his  such  aid  as  he  might  do  to  it, 
 &c. ;  saying  that  if  her  favour  were  not  the  more,  he  might 
 be  utterly  undone,  &c.2;  and  in  this  respect  he  perceiveth 
 his  own  folly  and  great  oversight,  promising  that  hereafter 
 he  will  be  better  advised  and  better  take  heed.  He  feareth 
 much  that  her  Highness  is  in  great  displeasure  with  him,  and 
 fain  would  he  have  pardon,  and  desireth  much  to  hear  some 
 comfortable  words  that  he  may  understand  of  her  Highness' 
 mercy  and  clemency,  howsoever  his  foolish  youth  (as  he  saith) 
 hath  overseen  himself.  I  promised  him  to  write  to  such 
 effect,    and  he  gathereth  some  comfort  because  he  was  no 
 
 [1  John,  Lord  Stourton,  eldest  son  of  Charles,  Lord  Stourton, 
 executed  in  1557  for  the  murder  of  the  Hartgills.  He  was  committed 
 to  the  custody  of  the  archbishop  for  an  attempt  to  quit  the  kingdom 
 without  the  Queen's  licence.] 
 
 \}  In  consequence  of  the  crime  committed  by  his  father,  this 
 young  gentleman,  termed  by  courtesy  a  lord,  could  not  regain  his 
 family  position  except  by  the  favour  of  the  Queen.  He  was  restored 
 in  blood  by  act  of  parliament  in  1575.     He  died  in  1588.] 
 
1573.]  AiMiin.  rAHKKii  TO  i.oiih  m  iKiiii.Kv.  123 
 
 lon«^cr  kept  in  prison  or  cotnniitted  nioro  sailly.      IIo  was   a 
 while  very  stitV,  ;uul  ooiiKl  not  hear  of  tho  disaMing  of  Ijis  i,V,"*^I7^ 
 religion,  and  of  tho  reasoiuihloiicss  of  onrs  (estahlishcd  as   1  *''""• 
 tell   him   by  inihlic  authority,   howsoever   some   friends    pre- 
 tending tho  love  of  it  go  out  of  the  way),  so  that  I  could  not 
 persuade  him  to  come  to  our  daily  prayer  in  my  chapel  with 
 my  housclioKl,  hut  now  ho  relentetli,  ami  sccmcth  to  be  ready 
 to   hear   and   read,  and  thinkoth    in  somo  things   othcrwiso 
 than  ho  hath  done;  and  this  day  I  have  a  promise  of  him  that  ^'" *';*''"■'* 
 lie  will  come  to  my  common  prayers  both  now  and  hereafter.  liaii^'p/aveM 
 I  have  good   trust  in   his  nature,  and  I  think  it  pity  //nt/m '"^'* *"'"'*'• 
 fitmitjanteni  iwtiinjuere.      I  see  honesty  in  him,  for  when   I 
 charire  him  much  that  his  schoolmaster,  now  in  tho  ^Marshal- 
 sea,    Mr  Williams,  had  been  his   instructor  upon  whom   he  wiul^.."his 
 dependeth,  he  seeketh  utterly  to  excuse  him  and  commendeth  '"*""''"'■■ 
 him,  and  sorry  he  were  he  should  be  hardly  intreated  for   his 
 sake,  as  not  guilty  more  than  when  he  spake  to  go  over  with 
 him  he  agreed  ;  as  Terence  saith,   Pecuniam  in  loco  negli- 
 gere,  maximimi  interdum  lucrum,  so  I  think,  Summum  jus, 
 noil  aliquando  exigei'e,  summum  interdum  lucrum,  as  me- 
 thinketh  her   Majesty  is  altogether  inclined   that   way,   and 
 yet   in  necessary  severity  I  doubt  not  her  Majesty   will  do 
 like  a  prince.      And  thus  you  knowing  this  case,  order  it  as 
 ye  shall  think   best,  praying   your  lordship  that  I  may  hear 
 of  some  information  to  instruct  or  to  comfort  my  guest,  and 
 to  hold  him  yet  in  some  suspense  for  all  doubts.      Thus  I 
 commend  your  honour  to  God's  good  tuition,  as  myself.  From 
 my  house,  this  St  Mark's  day. 
 
 Your  lordship's  at  all  requests  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTII.  CANT. 
 To  [the  rigJtfj  lionourahle,  my  [very]  good 
 lord,  the  lord  treasurer;  at  the  Court. 
 
 CCCXXIV. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 27th  April,  [1573].    Lansd.  MS.  xvii.  art.  29.     Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 I  KNOW  you   have  much    business.      My  lord   Stourton 
 desireth  much  to  hear  some  words  from  the  Queen's  High- 
 
424  ARCIIB.  PARKER  TO  LORD  BCRGHLEY.  [1573. 
 
 Lord  stour-    nes5.      XIls  su'it  is,  also,  to  be  placed  with  his  uncle,  my  lord 
 
 ton  wishes  lo  '  '  i  '         * 
 
 be pi.i.ed      of  Derby  ^  the  rather  for  that   he  understandeth  that  I  am 
 
 with  Ins  •/      ' 
 
 1)^;'""^  going  into  Kent,  if  God  will.  Furthermore,  I  would  be  glad 
 to  know  how  you  be  resolved  with  the  book  I  sent  to  your 
 
 Ford  House,  houour  conccming  the  translation  of  Ford  House.  For 
 some  distemperance  I  feci  in  me  I  write  the  less,  wishing  to 
 your  honour  God's  grace  and  good  health.  This  gentleman 
 is  he  that  is  appointed  to  attend  upon  the  lord  Stourton,  whom 
 the  rather  I  send,  if  peradventure  your  lordship  would  ques- 
 tion with  him.  From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this  27th  of 
 April. 
 
 Your  lordship'^s  friend  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTII.  CAXT. 
 
 Tlie  fame  o^oeth  that  some  Baornol  or  some  Druets  shall 
 by  commission  search  out  a  melius  inquirendum.  I  can  say 
 no  more,  but  Deus  misereatur  nostri.     Est  modus  in  rebus". 
 
 To  the  right  honourahJe  my  very  good 
 lord,  the  lord  treasurer. 
 
 cccxxv. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 0th  May,  1573.     Lansd.  MS.  xvii.  art.  31. 
 
 Sir, 
 Thcarch-  There  camc  to  mv  hand  a  treatise  written  bv  Gervasius 
 
 bi>h()p  sends  ►  «■ 
 
 Bu'rghley.  Tllburieusis,  who  was  sometime  treasurer  of  the  exchequer ; 
 SptVfa"'  and  while  I  doubted  whether  your  lordship  had  seen  the 
 S'a^^of     said  book  or  no,  I  thought  it  not  unmeet  for  your  office  to 
 
 "'■ '       cause  it  to  be  copied,  and  sent  to  your  honour. 
 second.  Lam-         I   have  ioiued    thereunto    (which    I    am  sure    vo    have 
 
 bards  Per-  «'  ^  * 
 
 of^Kent'not  ^°^   sccn)  a  dcscriptiou  of  the   county  of  Kent,  written  and 
 
 yet  publish-   laboured  by  an  honest  and  well-learned  observer  of  times  and 
 
 histories,   which   he   sent  to   me   to   peruse,    to   correct  and 
 
 amend,  and  so  to  be  under  the  reformation  of  some  whom 
 
 [^  Lord  Stourton's  mother  was  Anne,  daughter  of  Edward  Stan- 
 ley, third  earl  of  Derby.  The  uncle  referred  to  was  Henry,  who  suc- 
 ceeded as  fourth  earl  of  Derby  in  1572.] 
 
 [2  See  before,  Letter  CCCXYL,  p.  413.] 
 
l^T.*^.]  Auciiii.  r.uiKi-.u  TO  i.niM)  mu<;iN.i;v.  425 
 
 he  jiuli^cth  to  1)0  conversant  in  histories,  not  meaning;  to  put 
 it  abroad  till  it  had  suffered  tlio  lianibcr^  of  sonio  of  his 
 friends'  judgment^,  and  then  at  further  th'liheration  pcrad- 
 venturo  to  set  it  fortl»  :  which  hook,  althoujrh  1  have  no  com- 
 mission  to  comnmnieato  it,  I  refer  it,  either  to  show  you,  as  I 
 think  yc  be  not  unwilling  in  such  knowledges  to  bo  partaker, 
 and  thus  present  it  to  your  correction  and  amendment 
 when  your  leisure  can  servo  you.  In  the  meantime  I  pray 
 vour  lordship  to  keen   it  to  yourself.     As  I  have  made  this  «hir.i  ».i« 
 
 ►  I  I  J  own  Antmul- 
 
 author  a  judge  of  some  of  my  small  travails,  whereof  I  send  [£2"'"i'" 
 you  this  ono  bound  by  my  man,  I  am  not  minded  to  suffer  '""• 
 them  abroad  in  this  quarrelous  and  envious  world.  I  think 
 the  rather  wc  both  used  this  foresight,  to  suppress  our  labours 
 in  uonum  aiuinin,  as  Horace  counselleth,  rather  than  to  suffer 
 an  undigested  and  tumultuous  collection  to  be  gazed  on  of 
 many  folks.  Indeed,  because  neither  my  health  nor  my 
 quiet  would  suffer  me  to  be  a  common  preacher,  yet  I  thought 
 it  not  untit  for  me  to  be  otherwise  occupied  in  some  points 
 of  religion;  for  my  meaning  was,  by  this  my  poor  collection 
 thus  caused  to  be  printed  (and  yet  reserved  to  myself)  to  J^^^^^'^J^'Jf 
 note  at  what  time  Augustine  my  first  predecessor  came  into  fi's'^^i^- 
 this  land,  what  religion  he  brought  in  with  him,  and  how  it 
 continued,  how  it  was  fortified  and  increased,  which  by  most 
 of  my  predecessors  may  appear,  as  I  could  gather  of  such 
 rare  and  written  authors  that  came  to  my  hands,  until  the 
 days  of  King  Henry  the  VIII th,  when  the  religion  began 
 to  grow  better,  and  more  agreeable  to  the  Gospel.  You  may 
 note  many  vanities  in  my  doings,  but  I  thought  it  not 
 against  my  profession  to  express  my  times,  and  give  some 
 testimony  of  my  fellow-brothers,  of  such  of  my  coat  as  wero 
 in  place  in  her  Majesty's  reign,  and  when  I  was  thus  placed  ; 
 and  though  ye  may  rightly  blame  an  ambitious  fantasy  for 
 setting  out  our  church's  arms  in  colours,  yet  ye  may  relin- 
 quish the  leaf  and  cast  it  into  the  fire,  as  I  have  joined  it 
 but  loose  in  the  book  for  that  purpose,  if  you  so  think  it  meet, 
 and  as  ye  may,  if  it  so  please  you,  (without  great  grief  to 
 me)  cast  the  whole  book  the  same  way.  Which  book  I  have 
 not  given  to  four  men  in  the  whole  realm,  and  pcradvcnture 
 shall  never  come  to  sight  abroad,  though  some  men,  smelling 
 of  the  printing  it,  seem  to  be  very  desirous  cravers  of  tho 
 [3  hammer  (?)] 
 
426  ARCHB.  PARKER  TO   LORD  BURGHLEY.  [1573. 
 
 same.      I  am  content  to  refer  it  wholly  to  your  judgment,  to 
 
 K^e'."itT'''°  stand  or  to  fall.     To  keep  it  by  me  I  yet  purpose,  whiles  I 
 
 iJe'i'ivci'''^     live,    to   add   and  to  amend  as  occasion  shall  serve  me,   or 
 
 utterly  to  suppress  it   and   to  bren  it.      And  thus,   making 
 
 your  lordship  privy  to  my  follies,  and  for  that  I  have  within 
 
 rrtfsLs^and"*   ^^  houso  in  wagcs,  drawers  and  cutters,  painters,  limners, 
 
 ^aB^"in"hu   writers,   and   bookbinders,   I    was   the   bolder   to   take  mine 
 
 own  house.    Qccasion  thus  equitare  in  arundine   longa^  so  spending  my 
 
 wasteful  time  within  mine  own  walls,  till  Almighty  God  shall 
 
 call  me  out  of  this  tabernacle,  which  I  pray  God  may   be  to 
 
 his    glory,   and   my  soul-health ;    I  say,   ut  ohdormiam   in 
 
 Domino,  et  requiescam  in  pace,  in  spe  resurrectionis  cum 
 
 Christo  servatore  weo ;   which  I   beseech  Almighty  God  to 
 
 send  to  her  ^lajesty  after  this  transitory  travel,  post  longitu- 
 
 dinem  dierum ;  as  I  wish  the  same  to  your  honour  as  for 
 
 myself. 
 
 The  Queen  is         Her    Highncss   is   justly   offended    with    this    dissolute 
 
 thedissohite  Writing ^  and  intendeth  a  reformation,    which,  if  it  be   not 
 
 writingofthe  ^       ^    ^  ^  •  i  •    i      i  •      i 
 
 puritans,  and  earnestly  laboured  on  your  parties  which  be  supreme  ludo^es, 
 
 intends  a  re-  «'  i/  i  r  «;        o      ' 
 
 formation,  \ox\g  ago  Called  on,  I  fear  ye  shall  feel  Muncer^s  common- 
 wealth attempted  shortly.  It  must  needs  follow  whereof 
 Sleidan  writeth  in  his  history,  if  the  law  of  the  land  be 
 rejected,  if  the  Queen's  Majesty's  injunctions,  if  her  chapel, 
 if  her  authority  be  so  neglected,  if  our  book  of  service  be  so 
 abominable,  and  such  paradoxes  applauded  to.  God  send 
 us  of  his  grace.  I  fear  our  wits  be  infatuated,  ut  Deus  in 
 plenitudine  temporis  suppllcium  sumat.  I  have  forgotten 
 myself  to  write  thus  long  to  your  honour.  God  keep  you, 
 this  9th  2  of  May. 
 
 ^  Your  honour's  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 If  these  books  had  been   sooner  finished  your  honour 
 should  have  had  them  sooner. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable^  my  good  lord, 
 the  lord  treasurer  of  England. 
 
 [1  The  allusion  is  to  the  writings  of  the  puritans.  See  Strypo's 
 Parker,  Bk.  iv.  c.  xxiv.] 
 
 [2  In  the  margin  is  written  by  the  archbishop  "14th,"  to  which 
 day  it  is  probable,  from  the  postscript,  the  sending  of  this  letter  was 
 delayed.] 
 
1  '>73.]  AUCini.    I'AKKI.K    K)    I.(UII)    IJl  IK.III  I   V.  4l.'7 
 
 ('( CWVl. 
 
 AKCIIBlSllur  r.VKKKll   TO   LOlU)   IJlluniLKY. 
 
 5th  June,  [1573].    LausJ.  MS.  xvii.  art.  34.     Orig. 
 SiK, 
 
 SiNCK  I  came  from  tho  Star  Chamber  this  letter  inclosed^ 
 was  brought  unto  me.      1  trust  yo  will  proceed,  and  I  know 
 they  bo  but  cowards.    If  yc  give  over,  yc  shall  hinder  her  J,'^f'^,i'""io 
 Majesty's    governance   more    than   yc   be   aware,   and    much  ',",|,'*"""','f,^. 
 abase  the  estimation  of  your  authorities,      Ijcfore  Clod,  it  is  Cut  w'^l"^!!^ 
 not  the   fear  I  am  in  of  displeasing,  but  I  would  wish  her 
 ^lajesty  safety  and  estimation,   and  in  that  I  am  careful  as 
 one  well-willing,  and  therefore  am  more  busy  than  peradven- 
 ture  I  need  to  be  ;   but  yet  1  shall  pray    to   God  that  all 
 things  may   prosperously   proceed.      And    thus   I    cease.      I 
 would  not  long  trouble  your  other  affairs.      This  5th  of  June. 
 Your  loving  friend  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTIIUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  rkfht  honourable,  my  very  good 
 lord  J  the  lord  treasurer  of  England. 
 
 CCCXXVII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 15th  June,  [1573J.     Lansd.  iMS,  xvii.  art.  35.     Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 I  DO  now  write  to  her  Majesty  to  inform  her  Highness  serds  a  letter 
 what  1  have  done  for  the  deanery  of  the  Arches,  also  inform-  respectii.R 
 mcr  her  Maiesty   concernmoj  Mr  Aldrich   oi   Cambridge,   for  "'em of  ur 
 
 O  J        ./  O  o    '      ^       Clerk  as  dean 
 
 whom  I  laboured  so  much  to  have  him  preferred,  in  whose  dis-  of tiie Arches, 
 commendation  (upon  information)  your  honour  once  did  write 
 to  me.      Xow  he  hath  stout  heart  against  me,  and  his  friends  Andadispute 
 will  obtain  to  get  the  Queen's  dispensation,  that  he  may  con-  dnch,  master 
 tinue  master  in  Benet  College  without  his  degree,  as  an  head  coii^e. 
 precisian  in  despising  of  the  degrees  of  the  university,  and  a 
 great  maintainer  of  Mr   Cartwright.     I  moved   him  to  con- 
 sider of  his  duty  to   the  realm,  &c.;  but  I  fear  all  in  vain. 
 His  friends   be   come  up  to  obtain  his  dispensation,   and  to 
 
 [3  The  letter  inclosed  is  now  Lansd.  MS.  xvn.  no.  34.    It  is  from 
 Whitgift  to  the" archbishop.    See  it  in  Strypc's  Parker,  Book  iv.  ch.  24.] 
 
428 
 
 ARCHB.  PARKER   TO   LORD  BURGIILEY. 
 
 [1573. 
 
 The  endea- 
 vour of"  his 
 friends  to 
 outface 
 Parker. 
 
 procure  him  to  be  a  cliaplain  either  of  my  lord  of  Leicester, 
 or  of  Sir  Ralph  Sadler,  to  outweigh  me,  and  to  deface  me ; 
 for  he  will  be  no  more  my  chaplain.  His  friends  say  it  may 
 be  easily  done  to  get  such  chaplainship,  for  they  say  I  am 
 out  of  all  credit  and  favour,  &c.  If  your  lordship  know  my 
 meaning  (I  trust  honest  and  indifferent)  toward  that  college, 
 and  how  I  have  favoured  him  and  his  brother- fellow  there,  I 
 doubt  not  but  Almighty  God  will  allow  of  my  sincere  mean- 
 ing, howsoever  I  am  requited  unkindly,  never  meaning  one 
 penny  commodity  to  myself,  or  to  any  of  mine.  I  were  loth 
 to  trouble  your  honour  with  many  words,  because  the  rather 
 for  that  I  send  your  honour  the  copy  of  my  letters  I  write 
 to  her  Majesty.  I  trust  in  your  carefulness  to  the  common- 
 wealth ye  will  duly  consider  of  all  doings,  for  we  shall  once 
 make  answer,  in  our  considerations,  to  Almighty  God.  And 
 thus  God  preserve  you  in  grace,  honour,  and  virtue,  this  15th 
 of  June. 
 
 Your  orator  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTH.  CAXTUAR. 
 
 To  the  rigid  honourable,  my  good  lord^ 
 the  lord  treasurer  of  England,  he  it 
 delivered. 
 
 CCCXXVIII. 
 
 I)r  Clerk 
 refuses  to 
 resign  the 
 deanery  of 
 the  Arches  at 
 the  pleasure 
 of  the  Queen. 
 
 Trusts  he 
 may  have  the 
 right  of  the 
 law.    Others 
 appointed  as 
 young  as  he. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   QUEEN  ELIZABETH. 
 
 [loth  June,  1573].   Lansd.  MS.  xvii.  art.  35.    Copy  inclosed  in  the  preceding  letter 
 to  Lord  Burghley. 
 
 Pleaseth  it  your  most  excellent  Majesty.  Since  my 
 return  home  to  Lambeth,  I  willed  Dr  Clerk  to  remove  him 
 from  the  room  of  the  deanery  of  the  Arches.  He  immedi- 
 ately said,  that  he  had  as  lief  forego  his  life,  for  thereby  he 
 should  be  utterly  undone,  as  now  neither  able  to  procure, 
 beinir  so  discredited,  &c.  This  mornino^  he  came  acrain  to 
 me  with  the  same  intent.  Then  I  told  him  that  it  was  your 
 Majesty's  pleasure  he  should  depart.  He  answered  with  all 
 submission,  that  he  trusted  in  your  clemency  and  justice,  that 
 he  might  have  your  favour  with  the  right  of  the  law ;  and 
 said  moreover,  that  Dr  Yale  and  Dr  Weston  were  as  young 
 as  himself  was,  when  they    were  preferred,  and  that  he  is 
 
1j73.]  Aia  IIH.    TAKKKK     1  ( )   (Jl  KEN    KI.l/ A  III.  I  II.  429 
 
 of  thirtv-six   or  thlrtv-scveii  in    ve;irs,  jiml   luui  spent  all  his 
 life  in  study. 
 
 Moreover,  if  it  may  ])lea30  your  Majesty,  I  understand  J^''^^"!*. 
 that  i^reat  suit  is  to  bo  made  to  your  lli<'lines3  for  your  dis-  Y"«^"^'r« 
 ponsaliun,  in  aciisc  of  perjury,  for  one  Mr  Aldricli,  a  troublous  [ZkIwIIi. 
 precisian,    to   continue   master    of    Henet    College,   otherwise  mn'M)'**^^'' 
 called  Corpus  Christi  College,  notwithstanding  his  oath,  where-  n.T»'tr7of 
 unto    ho   is   bound    by    the   statute  to   proceed    bachelor   ofitKf. 
 divinity  within  throo  years  of  his  election,  which  ho  hath  not 
 done ;   whereupon,   and   for  other   grievous  complaints  made 
 against  him  in  his  evil  government,  I  advised  him  to  depart 
 quietly,  and  make  his  friends  to  favour  the  president  of  the 
 college,  the   oldest  therein  now,  to   have  him  chosen,  as  he 
 himself  and  all  his  fellows  of  the  house  have   resigned  up 
 their  wliole   interest  by    their   subscription   to   mo  for   mine 
 interpretation,    and   as   the   said   Aldricli   hath  divers  times 
 written  to  mo,  and  spoken  the  same,  that  he  will  do  anything 
 that  I  should  move  him  in  this  matter.      But  now   he  saitli 
 he  will  stand  utterly  against   me,  and  some  of  his  friends  be 
 come  up  to  sue  to  your  Majesty  for  letters  of  dispensation ; 
 and   they  say   in  jest  that  1    am   pope  of  Lambeth   and   of  jyj^|,J'^ 
 Ijcnet  Collccre,   and   that  I  am   out  of  all  credit  and   of  no  "'^  ^''"^'^"- 
 reputation,  and  that  they  will  sue  to  some  great  man  of  the 
 council  to  accept  him  as  chaplain,  to  outface  me,  and  to  beard 
 mine  authority.     Your  Majesty  seeth  this  cause  how  it  lieth. 
 I  trust  in  your  singular  prudence  and  wisdom,  that  this  in- 
 convenience may  be  prevented,  and  my  singular  hope,  next 
 to  God,  is  in  your  Majesty's  favour,  as  mine  endeavour  shall 
 be  alway  to  serve  your  Highness,  and  to  pray  for  you,  as  in 
 many  respects  I  am   bound.      If  your    Majesty    knew   this  "[JI'^^f.^^A-^.r 
 -whole  matter  as  it  is,  I  trust  ye  will  not  suffer  such  a  scholar  to',r,|',^iph*'" 
 or  his  friends  to  triumph  over  your  chaplain,  to  the  confound-  Chapum. 
 inoj  of  vour  {governance. 
 
 CCCXXIX. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   QUEEN  ELIZABETH. 
 19th  June,  [1573].     Lansd.  MS.  xvii.  art.  .Jj.    Orig. 
 
 It  may  please  your  excellent  Majesty  to  understand,  that  nasapnin 
 this   day    Mr  Dr  Clerk  beino:  with   mc  at   Lambeth,  I  dealt  ^'"^ ''»'""' 
 
 •^  o  '  leniicnng  up 
 
430  AIICHB.   PARKER  TO   QUEEN  ELIZABETH.  [1573. 
 
 his 
 answi 
 he  would 
 
 wfmi'that  ^'^^^  ^'^^  again  according  to  your  Highness'  pleasure,  for  the 
 
 nuich  rather  rendering  up  of  his  patent  and  interest  in  the  office  of  deanery 
 
 vieiduphis    ^|.  ^YiQ  Arches,  and,  as  at  the  first,  so  now,  finally,  with  all 
 
 humility,  he  prayed  me  to  receive  this  his  last  answer,  namely, 
 
 that  much  rather  would  he  render  up  his  life  than  his  office ; 
 
 for  besides  that  he  should  thereby  be  altogether  undone,  his 
 
 living  being  thus  taken  from  him,  he  should  also  so  greatly 
 
 and  utterly  be  defaced  and  discountenanced,  by  being  thus 
 
 pronounced  by  your  Majesty's  own  mouth  insufficient,  as  the 
 
 same  once  put  in  ure  against  him,  never  might  he  more  shew 
 
 his  face,  not  only  in  the  Arches,  where  his  only  profession  and 
 
 ■whole  means  of  living  consisteth,  but  also  must  likewise  banish 
 
 himself  even  from  all  other  places  and  company  of  credit.    He 
 
 SlySfoy^  humbly  prayed,  therefore,  that  at  the  least  he  might  enjoy 
 
 the  £f ^"^ '^^  the  benefit  of  the  law,  as  all  other  your  Majesty's  subjects 
 
 ever  have  done;  for  inasmuch  as  he  possessed  and  was  vested 
 
 in  the  said  office,  not  only  by  patent  from  me  during  pleasure, 
 
 but  also   (since  the  death  of  Mr  Dr  Weston)  by  my  grant 
 
 and  promise  of  a  new  patent  to  be  made  to  him  during  hfe, 
 
 he  affirmeth  that  neither  in  equity  in  respect  of  his  patent 
 
 during  pleasure,  nor  yet  in  justice  in  respect  of  my  grant  and 
 
 promise  made   during  life,  his  said  office  and  living  without 
 
 great  and  important  causes  may  be  taken  from  him ;  and  to 
 
 such  causes  as  either  are  or  can  be  objected  against  him,  he 
 
 craveth  therein  no  manner  of  favour  to  be  shewed  unto  him, 
 
 friSof  h^     but  that  some  public  trial  of  his  sufficiency  may  be  made,  as 
 
 competency,  ^^jj  ^^^  ^^^q  proof  of  his  learning  and  his  ability  in  years,  as 
 
 also  for  the  commendation  of  his  honest  and  modest  sort  of 
 
 life ;  and  if  he  shall  not  in  any  one  of  these  be  disproved, 
 
 then,   saith  he  further,  that  as   he   doth  assure  himself  how 
 
 your  Majesty  will  by  no  means  take  from  him  the  benefit  of 
 
 law,  which  hitherto   your  Highness  did  never  yet  deny   to 
 
 any,  so  seemeth  he  also  in  most  humble  sort  to  say,  that  in 
 
 all  the  actions  of  his  life  he  hath  ever  most  carefully   sought 
 
 the  honour  and  service  of  your  Majesty,  and  namely  in  this  last 
 
 .^aimt  saun-  labour  of  his  against  Saunders,  wherein  I  must  needs  witness 
 
 are'^eoTn-"^^'^    with  him,   that  surely   he  shewed  himself  a  most  dutiful  and 
 
 tiirareh-  ^    carcful  subjcct  towards  your  Highness;  and  though  he  acknow- 
 
 '^  "''         ledgeth  that  whatsoever  he  hath  done,  shall  do,  or  can  do,  is 
 
 but  the  least  part  of  his  bounden  duty  towards  your  ^Majesty, 
 
 yet  he  hopeth,  that,  of  your  grace,  you  will  please  to  accept 
 
157.'lJ  ARC'Illl.   I'AUKKU   TO   QlliKN    KI.IZAllllTII.  431 
 
 the  RAino  as  a  mean,  so  assuredly  to  conserve  him  in  your 
 Majesty's  favour,  as  that  ho  may  never  bo  pronounced  by 
 your  Majesty  unworthy  of  that  wlicreof  the  archhishop  of 
 Canterbury,  and  also  tho  hiws  of  tho  reahn,  both  have  and 
 do  allow  him  as  worthy  and  capable,  being  (to  conclude)  tho 
 first  reward  and  livinjij  that  ever  yet  ho  obtained  in  recom- 
 pense of  all  his  study  and  learning,  in  which  he  hath  now 
 spent  tho  course  and  travail  of  his  life  by  the  space  of  these 
 twenty  years  past;  having  also  refused  (as  he  tellcth  me)  in 
 Angiers  the  stipend  of  three  liundred  crowns  yearly  to  bo  a 
 ]>ublic  reader  tliere,  only  in  respect,  as  he  dutifully  affirmeth, 
 of  the  great  bond  and  desire  he  hath  ever  had  and  shall  have 
 to  servo  your  Majesty. 
 
 Thus  fiir  have  I  only  signified  to  your  Majesty  the  effect  Ji^,hoi7hack» 
 of  Mr  l)r  Clerk's  declaration  unto  me,  wherein,  as  near  as  I  Jujt^;'"*^* 
 can,  I  have  forced  myself  to  lay   before  your  Highness  the 
 effect  of  ^Ir  Clerk's  very  words  and  speeches  to  me,  the  con- 
 sideration of  which,  the  more  it  entereth  into  me,  the  more  it 
 moveth  me  to  make  humble  suit  to  your  Majesty  ;     first,   to  [J[;^^,J^r^-^* 
 have  respect  of  him  who  surely   having  deserved  your  Ma-  hls'uaeri^- 
 jesty's   favour   shall  by   this  mean  bo   brought   to   his  utter '*'^'"*^'' 
 undoing  and   defacing ;   secondly,   that  if  your   Majesty  will  f^"'JJ.''^i, 
 needs  proceed  so  severely  against  him,  that  yet  (forsomuch  shouid^rove 
 as  he  is  orderly  and  lawfully  vested  in  the  possession  of  the  Jni;"'"'"*"" 
 said  oflice,  and  hath  and  do  sit  in  place  of  judgment  there,)  his 
 accusers   may    by   public   trial   prove   his  insufficiency ;   and 
 tliough  it  liatli  been  rarely  or  never  seen  (as  I  think)  that  one 
 thus   placed    by   the   archbishop    of   Canterbury,    hath    been 
 brought  in  question  and  after  long  time  displaced,   yet  this 
 kind  of  justice  may  seem  to  satisfy  ;   thirdly,  if  neither  re-  Sbfsnop 
 spect  of  him  nor  his  cause  may  move  your  Highness,  that  yet  ^niVronsi- 
 your  ^Majesty  will  have  some  respect  and  consideration  of  me,  be"adonm 
 and  of  that  place  whereunto  your  Highness  hath  placed  me,  and  his  piacc. 
 and  pleased  to  call  me  to;  in  which  if  I,  whom  your  Majesty 
 will  have  to  possess  jurisdiction  over  so  many  other  bishops, 
 shall  yet  be  reproved  in  the  choice  of  one  of  mine  own  officers, 
 a  thing  that  in  the  meanest  bishop  that  is  was  never  yet  im- 
 pugned, surely  it  cannot  be  but  unto  the  sec  itself  a  great  dero- 
 gation, and  unto  me  no  small  discredit  and  rebuke,  and  yet  not 
 so  much  discredit  to  me,  as  in  the  end  it  shall  prejudice  to  your 
 Majesty's  service,  J  and  my  doing  being  thereby  brought  into 
 
432  ARCIIB.  PARKER  TO   QUEEN   ELIZABETH.  [1573. 
 
 contempt,  and  that  by  those  which  arc  or  should  be  to  me  as 
 
 the  foot  is  to   the  head ;   wherein  surely  your  ^Majesty  shall 
 
 give  too  great  an  encouragement  unto  them,  and  perad venture 
 
 in  greater  matters  hereafter  to  oppone  themselves  against  me, 
 
 and  so,  consequently,  I  shall  not  be  able  to  serve  your  Ma- 
 
 ^ibmus^that  j*^=»ty  as  I  would,  and  as  ray  duty  is.     Last  of  all,  if  I  can  by 
 
 to  be  re"'^"*  no  means  satisfy  your  Majesty,  then  must  I  end  with  this; 
 
 Queen  will     that  as  I  do  wilHngly  submit  both  myself  and  all  that  I  have 
 
 assign  the  __.     i/»  i*  n  tin 
 
 d.siiiacingof  to   vour  lliorhness,   as  from   whom   it  was  nrst  and  wholly 
 
 hiintosufh       ,       .         ,  -P   ,       ,.,  .  .    ,  .  .       *^ 
 
 "kale^'he?^^*  '  ^^      ^^  likowise  yield  up  this  cause  unto  your  High- 
 
 ness, to  deal  and  do  therein  as  your  good  pleasure  shall  be, 
 trusting  that  your  Majesty  will  never  lay  on  me  so  heavy  a 
 burden  as  to  make  me  the  instrument  of  his  displacing  whom 
 for  good  respects  I  have  already  placed ;  or  that  1  should 
 remove  him  as  unworthy  whom  in  my  conscience  I  do  think 
 very  worthy,  and  do  judge  very  few  or  none  of  them  which 
 would  so  fain  have  me  dejected  worthy  or  meet,  as  I  dare 
 stand  to  the  proof,  or  that  I  should  take  that  office  from  him, 
 which  by  my  word  I  have  faithfully  promised  and  given  to 
 him  ;  or,  last  of  all,  I  to  be  the  doer  of  his  utter  discredit  and 
 undoing,  who  in  my  knowledge  both  hath  dutifully  served 
 your  Majesty  and  the  realm ;  which  extremities  as  I  cannot 
 consent,  neither  for  mine  own  conscience'  sake  before  Almighty 
 God,  nor  yet  with  the  reasonable  credit  of  that  place  I  do 
 possess,  so  my  humble  suit  is,  that  your  Majesty  will  never 
 require  it  of  me,  but  rather,  if  needs,  your  Highness  will  in 
 this  sort  proceed,  to  assign  the  displacing  of  him  to  such 
 other  as  shall  please  your  Majesty.  And  so  most  humbly 
 I  take  my  leave  of  your  Highness :  wishing  in  my  prayer  to 
 Almighty  God  your  long  and  prosperous  reign  over  England, 
 and  that  the  great  grace  wherewith  Almighty  God  hath 
 blessed  you,  with  the  goodness  of  your  own  nature  and  con- 
 science, be  not  drawn  to  other  men's  several  affections.  From 
 Lambeth,  this  19th  of  June. 
 
 Your  Highness'  most  bounden  and 
 obedient  chaplain, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  my  sovereign  good  lady  the  Queens 
 most  exc client  Majesty. 
 
IjTo.]   AUlllIl.  PAUKEU,  &C.  TO     rilK    V  KK-CIIAN.  OF  f'AMH.     433 
 
 cccxxx. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  TAlIKKll  AND  OTIIKU  ECCLESIASTICAL 
 COMMlSSIONKliS  TO  Till:  VICE-CHANCELLOIl  OF 
 CA.NUUtlDia:. 
 
 5th  July,  15TIi.    Lansil.  MS.  xvii.  art.  'W  b.    Copy  inclosed  in  letter  of  arclibisliop 
 Tiirker  to  Lord  llurj,'hlcy  of  loth  July,  1j7."J. 
 
 Mk  Vue-chancellor,  after  our  hearty   comniondations. 
 Althouirli  our  coniuiission   in   causes  ecclesiastical   doth  sulli- 
 ciently  authorise  us  to  deal  with  any  of  her  [Majesty's]  sub- 
 jects, and  to  call  them  before  ue,  as  well  in  places  exempt  as 
 not  exempt,   as  we  have  aforetimes  used  to  do,   and  at  this 
 day  do,  as  well  by  tho  said  commission  as  also  by  appointment  ThecccieM- 
 of  the  Queen's  council,  as  of  late  we  did  for  some  fellows  and  nussioners 
 scliolars  in  the  University  of  Oxford,  and  as  we  have  done  ul^\u^c^il'^ 
 beforetime  as  well  there  as  in  the  University  of  Cambridge,  ^"''J"**- 
 Tvhereby   wo   doubt  not   we  have  rooted   out  some  corrupt 
 members  that  else  were  like  to  have  troubled  the  whole  estate; 
 yet,  because  we  being  for  the  more  part  sometime  of  this 
 University,  and  zealous  to  the  same,  we  for  precedent  sake 
 have  thought  it  good  to  write  first  unto  you,   requiring  and 
 commanding  you  in  the  Queen's  Majesty's  name  to  send  up 
 unto  us  one  Thomas  Aldrich,  master  of  art  in  Corpus  Christi  ^rcotuuo 
 College,    otherwise  called   Benet    College,  and    to   have   him  jZmL  ai.i- 
 bound  with  sufficient  sureties  to  make  his  personal  appearance  of  con-ifs' 
 here  before  us  and  other  our  colleagues  at  Lambeth,   immedi-  lege." 
 ately  upon  the  receipt  of  these  our  letters ;  whereof  we  pray 
 you  not  to  fail.      He  to  answer  to  such  objections  as  shall  be 
 propounded  unto  him,  and  not  to  depart  without  our  special 
 licence  thereunto.      And  thus  we   bid    you  heartily    well   to 
 fare.     And  furthermore,  we  give  you  thanks  for  the  trans- 
 mitting:   of   the   acts    done    before    tou   concerning^   William 
 Clarke,  the  6th  of  December,  and  the  first  of  July,  1573. 
 
 From  Lambeth,  this  5th  of  July,  1573. 
 
 M.  CANT. 
 11.  WINTOX. 
 W.  FLETWOOD. 
 R.  WENDESLEY. 
 
 28 
 [park,  cor.] 
 
434    ARCHB.  PARKER  AND  BP  SANDYS  TO  ONE  OF     [1573. 
 
 CCCXXXI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  AND  BISHOP  SANDYS  TO  ONE  OF 
 THEIR  BRETHREN  OF  THE  ECCLESIASTICAL  COM- 
 MISSION. 
 
 6th  July,  1573.    Petyt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  47.  fol.  518.    Contemporary  copy. 
 
 The  church  Salutem  iTi  Ghristo.     ThesB  times  are  troublesome.    The 
 
 assaulted  by  ,      .  i       i       i 
 
 false bre-      church  IS  sore  assaulted;   but  not  so  much  of  open  enemies, 
 
 thren,  who  i  ' 
 
 Sf?efor°na-'^  who  Can  Icss  hurt,   as  of  pretensed  favourers  and  false  bre- 
 ruin  oHearn^  thrcu,   who   uudor  the    colour    of  reformation  seek  the  ruin 
 irglon.^'^"     and  subversion  both   of  lear-ning  and  religion.     Neither  do 
 they  only  cut  down  the  ecclesiastical  state,   but  also  give  a 
 bofheJS-  g^^^3.t  push   at  the   civil  policy.      Their  colour  is  sincerity, 
 cfvii'pomy.    under  the  countenance  of  simplicity,  but  in  very  truth  they 
 fi!'m.rJdby   ^^'®  ambitious  spirits,  and  can  abide  no  superiority.      Their 
 cauing.^^"^^^'  fancies  are   favoured   of  some   of  great  calling  who  seek  to 
 gain  by  other  men's  losses.      And  most  plausible  are  these 
 new  devices  to  a  great  number  of  the  people,  who  labour  to 
 live  in  all  liberty.     But  the  one,  blinded  with  desire  of  getting, 
 see  not  their  own  fall,  which  no  doubt  will  follow ;  the  other, 
 hunting  for  alteration,  pull  upon  their  necks  intolerable  ser- 
 vitude.   For  these  fantastical  spirits,  which  labour  to  reign  in 
 men's  consciences,  will,  if  they  may  bring  their  purposes  to 
 pass,  lay  an  heavy  yoke  upon  their  necks. 
 
 In  the  platform  set  down  by  these  new  builders  we 
 evidently  see  the  spoliation  of  the  patrimony  of  Christ,  a 
 JopJilfita^e.  popular  state  to  be  sought.  The  end  will  be  ruin  to  religion, 
 and  confusion  to  our  country.  And  that  you  may  the  better 
 perceive  how  these  fancies  are  embraced,  and  like  to  take 
 effect,  except  in  time  they  be  met  withal,  here  inclosed  we 
 P^'!li!P    have  sent  unto  you  certain  articles  taken  out  of  Cartwriojht's 
 
 nave  sent  J  a 
 
 Jf  cart-""^  book,  and  by  the  council  propounded  unto  Mr  Deering,  with 
 boS'with  his  answers  to  the  same,  and  also  a  copy  of  the  council's 
 swIrTtoth"'  letters  written  to  Mr  Deering,  to  restore  him  to  his  former 
 thecounc.rs  reading:  and  preachino;,   his  answer  notwithstandino^    our  ad- 
 
 letter  restor-        .  °  •        i      i  mi  ^'  o'     ^ 
 
 ing  Deering    yiccs  ncver  rcQuired  thereunto.     These  proceedmgs  puff  them 
 
 to  Ins  read-  ^  ^      ^  r  O      r^ 
 
 preachtng  "P  '"'^^^  prido,  make  the  people  hate  us,  and  magnify  them 
 with  great  triumphing,  that  her  Majesty  and  the  privy 
 council  have  good  liking  of  this  new  building,  which  hitherto, 
 as  we  think,  in  no  Christian  nation  hath  found  any  foundation 
 
1573.]      TMKIR    IlllETIIKKN  OF   THK    ECCLK8.   COMMISSION.       435 
 
 upon  tho  cartli,  but  is  now  iVamcd  upon  Buppositions,   full  of 
 absurdities  and  impossibilities,  in  tho  air.     Wo  aro  persuaded  JJ^',*;,^,!*^*" 
 that  her  Majesty  IkUIi  no  liking  hereof,  howsoever  tho  matter  "»^'"«'ww^' 
 bo  favoured  by  others. 
 
 But  forsomuch  as  God  hath  placed  us  to  bo  governors 
 in  liis  cluircli,  hath  committed  unto  us  a  care  and  eiiargo 
 thereof,  and  will  one  day  require  a  reckoning  at  our  hands 
 for  the  same ;  it  shall  be  our  duties  to  labour,  by  all  means 
 we  can,  to  see  sound  doctrine  maintained,  gainsayers  of  tho 
 truth  repressed,  good  order  set  down  and  observed  ;  that  the 
 spouse  of  Christ,  so  dearly  redeemed,  may  by  our  ministry 
 be  beautiticd.      These  perilous  times  require  our  painful  tra- xho  church 
 
 •  1  1  •  1  /^      1 9  •11'  •  bcini;  Iron 
 
 vails;   and   sccinix  tliat  boas  cause  is  brou<j:ht  into  question,  bie<i. wo 
 
 °  .  inu^t  rcsiit 
 
 and   the   church   many  ways  troubled,   we  must  with  good  the  under 
 
 ni  *i  '  o  miners. 
 
 courage   stand  to   the  defence  thereof,  and  resist  tlie  under- 
 miners.      Wo   here   bear   a   heavy   burden   and  incur   many 
 dangers  and  displeasures,  but  nothing  shall  be  grievous  unto 
 us,   if  we  may  do  good  to   his  church.      A\'e  doubt  not  but  They  there- 
 that  you  are  like  affected,  and  bear  a  burden  in  mind  with  person  ad- 
 
 *  ,  .  drcssfd  in 
 
 US.      We  have  made  a  special  choice  of  you,  whom  for  good  ^VX^mSr 
 learning,  prudent  counsel,  and  godly  zeal,  we  love  and  rever-  q^Vh^'^to 
 ence,  and  have  thought  it  good  to  put  you   in  remembrance  \ll'^\ 
 of  these  matters,  and  withal  to   require   you  to   consider  ofime/^^ 
 these  things,  and  to  be  prepared  against  our  next  meeting, 
 which  we  think  will  be  shortly,  to  say  unto  the  same  as  may 
 most  tend  to  the  glory  of  God,   good  of  his  church,   main- 
 tenance of  his  gospel,  establishing  of  decent  and  good  order, 
 to  the  edifying   of  his  people,   and  to  the  repressing  of  all 
 gainsayers.      Thus  thinking  it  convenient   that   you    should 
 keep  these  matters  secret  to  yourself,   we  commend  you  to 
 the  good  direction  of  God's  Holy   Spirit.      From  Lambeth, 
 this  6th  of  July,  1573. 
 
 Your  loving  brethren, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 ED.  LONDON. 
 
 ared 
 
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 28—? 
 
436  ARCIIC.   PAUKER  TO   LOUD  BUUGIILEY.  [1573. 
 
 CCCXXXII. 
 
 ARCIIBISnOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGIILEY. 
 
 15th  July,  [la73j.    Lansd.  MS.  xvii.  art.  38  b.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 As  the  Queen         It    mav    pleasG    vou,   now   certainly  understandiner  the 
 
 is  going  into  .  «/        '  t/^  o 
 
 Kent,  Pa^rker  QuGGn's  Majestj's  progrcss  to  hold  into  Kent,  and  so  to  Can- 
 
 Tthither  terbury,  that  I  am  now  altogether  preparing  to  go  thither, 
 to  make  mj  houses  ready  against  her  ^Majesty's  coming.  And 
 for  that  ye  may  be  called  on  to  declare  the  tract  of  the 
 shire,  besides  other  such  books  as  I  sent  to  your  lordship  for 
 
 ^r'^t'L^v??  *^®  same  purpose,  I  now  join  one  other  treatise  concerning 
 Dover.  Whether  your  lordship  have  it  or  no,  I  know  not ; 
 but  in  such  points  I  had  rather  be  too  busy  than  too  slow  in 
 participating  my  trifles. 
 
 Aidrichand  J  understand  that  Aldrich's  matter  is  come  before  you. 
 
 the  fellows  of  v 
 
 Sbmuted'  ^^^^  ^®  ^^^  ^^^  the  fellows  by  their  subscriptions  referred 
 ^nt^emfnT'  ^^^^  wholo  matter  to  my  hearing,  for  all  such  causes  as  con- 
 Sear 'h-^^^^  cern  that  College.  I  think  it  had  been  better  for  him  and 
 AidHch  has"^  the  College  causes,  to  have  been  ended  by  me  in  commission ; 
 to  Buighiey  for  I  do  know  more  than  the  whole  University  doth ;   whose 
 
 as  Chancellor        ,    ,  .  "      . 
 
 ofcambridge.  privileges  yet  I  did  not  mean  to  hurt,  as  by  this  my  letter 
 written  to  the  Vice-chancellor^  you  may  perceive.      But  when 
 this  jurisdiction  is  so  daintily  looked  on,  I  fear  it  will  turn  to 
 the  hurt  both  of  the  whole  University,  and  specially  to  the 
 ^)knc?b  t"oo  utter  undoing  of  that  poor  College.     Surely,  sir,  his  insolency 
 ^^^^^'  is  too   great.      The  childish   maliciousness  for  his  vain  tales, 
 
 and  his  with  his  brother's  ingratitude  to  me,  besides  their 
 manifest  precisianship,  is  too  intolerable.  Your  lordships  of  the 
 council  committed  the  hearing  of  the  matter  concerning  some 
 of  St  John's  College  in  Oxenford  of  late  to  our  commission, 
 as  alway  the  Queen's  authority  hath  been  used  to  the  com- 
 modity of  both  Universities,  although  yet  in  Oxenford  they 
 have  an  ecclesiastical  commission  besides,  &c.  I  would  things 
 •were  so  reformed  as  may  tend  to  the  quiet  government  of 
 the  realm,  otherwise  I  do  not  much  care  for  any  jurisdiction. 
 And  thus  I  commit  your   good   lordship  to   the  tuition   of 
 
 [^  The  letter  before  printed,  dated  5th  July,  1573.] 
 
1573.]  Aunin.  paukku  to  i.oiu)  niK<;iii,rY.  417 
 
 Almighty   God   as    luvsclf.       From    my    huu.se,   this    I'uli   o( 
 July. 
 
 Yuur  lovuig  friend  in  Ciirist, 
 
 MATTIIUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  ritiht  honourahir,  ?»//  fiood  lonl, 
 tilt  lonl  (I'tii.sitrtr  of  Kuyland. 
 
 cccxxxiir. 
 
 ARCIIBISIIOr  rAlIKKIl  TO  LORD  BURGIILEY. 
 
 ISth  Julv,  [lo73].     LaiiMl.  MS.  xvn.  art.  GO.     Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 I  THANK  you  for  sending  of  your  letters,  "which  I  return  crmmpTiM 
 ajrain  unto  your  lordship.     As  for  the  letter  which  so  doth  which  con- 
 
 1  ^  1      •        •  •  •     •  1  11  taincda 
 
 charge  you,  the  truth  is,  in  mme  opinion,  the  man  hath  more  ci\arRe 
 zeal  than  wit  or  wisdom,  or  yet  learning,  and  therefore  I  take  J^^rghicy. 
 his  weighty  advertisements  to  he  hni  fuhjur  ex  j^elvi.    Surely  JJl^^jf,"/'^" 
 if  this  fond  faction  be  applauded  to,  or  borne  with,  it  will  fall  ^'ociaiic^ 
 out  to  a  popularity,  and   as  wise   men  think,   it  will  bo   the 
 overthrow  of  all  the  nobility.     They  be  not  unwise  or  un- 
 skilful men  that  see  the  likelihood.       We  have  to  do  with 
 such  as  neither  be  conformable  in  religion,  nor  in  life  will 
 practise   the   same.      Both    papists   and  precisians  have  one 
 mark  to  shoot  at,  plain  disobedience ;  some  of  simplicity,  some 
 of  wiliness  and  stubbornness.     I  marvel  what  prudence  it  can 
 be,  first  to  hew  thus  at  us,  and  certainly  yourself  will  shortly 
 follow. 
 
 Now  I  fear  that  my  lord  Cobham  is  come  out  of  Kent  ^''^^^"f **  f^ 
 
 »  ^  ported  111 
 
 to  signify  that  the  measles  and  the  pox  reign  at  Canterbury,  ^'^'^■"• 
 and  the  plague  at  Sandwich.     AVhat  it  may  mean   I  cannot 
 tell.      I  was  never  in  better  readiness  to  go  to  Canterbury 
 than  at  this  time,      ^fy  wine,  beer,  and  other  provision  be  .^^'^tmns^T 
 appointed  and  sent  thither  ;  but  if  I  knew  her  Majesty  should  IJi'^.n*;  ^*'*' 
 not  go,  I  would  yet  stay  the  cost  of  my  carriage ;  for  as  in 
 fifteen  years  it  should  rejoice   me  to  see  her  Majesty  at  my 
 house  at  Cantuary   (for  I  weigh  not  so  much  tho  cost),  so 
 would  I  be  loth  to  have  her  person  put  in  fear  or  danger. 
 I  have  read  over  also  the  Vice-clianccllor's  letters,  &c.. 
 
438  ARCHB.  PARKER   TO   LORD  BURGHLEY.  [1573. 
 
 Letters  about  and  percGive  they  have  their  whole  trust  in  your  honour,  as 
 
 the  apneil  to  ^  *■         .         .  .  .  . 
 
 cS'us  ^^  much  caring  for  their  liberties,  which  in  good  faith  I  would 
 feje!''"^°^'  "^6^6  preserved  as  gladly  as  any  of  them  all  would.  And 
 though  your  authority  be  now  worthily  to  be  regarded,  yet 
 I  fear  a  president  will  rise  after  you  that  shall  not  be  able  to 
 do  as  you  can,  and  I  think  her  Majesty's  commission  may 
 stand  and  help  their  privileges.  I  do  not  care  who  hath  the 
 hearing  of  the  controversy,  so  the  College  be  saved,  and  lewd 
 and  monstrous  governance  escape  not  away  unreformed.  It 
 is  but  sleight,  and  their  cloak  to  shrowd  them  in,  to  claim 
 other  men's  hearings.  The  matter  is  too  long  to  be  set  out  in 
 particularities.  I  read  their  childish  letter,  wherein  I  per- 
 ceive but  homely  invention,  yet  they  insinuate  that  our 
 authority  by  commission  might  {in  dicta  causa)  bear  over  a 
 truth ;  as  though  we  have  not  to  consider  in  this  world  our 
 upright  dealing,  and  forget  that  we  be  subject  to  the  talks  of 
 those  irritable  precisians  at  Cambridge.  Indeed  Thomas 
 Aldrich  himself,  with  all  the  fellows'  subscriptions,  in  February 
 last,  wrote  and  referred  that  matter  to  me  only,  and  acknow- 
 ledged me  to  be  most  fit  to  decide  this  controversy,  which 
 they  touch  for  the  sense  of  that  statute  (of  the  master's  con- 
 tinuance). Some  of  those  five  fellows  hath  and  do  now  live 
 of  my  purse  daily,  and  yet  craftiness  can  pervert  their 
 senses.  If  I  knew  her  Majesty  should  not  go  into  Kent,  I 
 parkerwouid  would   then   dcsire    your    honour   that    I    might   be    at   the 
 
 like  to  be  «/  c 
 
 SeSin^  oV^^  hearing  of  these  controversies,  and  yet  would  I  tarry  one 
 versy"^''^""  Week  lougcr  to  do  good  to  my  old  nurse  the  College.  There 
 be  many  more  controversies,  whereof  I  am  now  informed,  than 
 the  doubt  of  one  statute.  I  would  the  Vice-chancellor  and 
 one  of  the  heads  more  were  with  us  in  your  name  to  hear 
 the  matter  debated.  His  insolency  would  soon  appear.  Mr 
 Vice-chancellor  might  soon  be  entreated,  for  he  useth  to  come 
 up,  because  his  wife  is  here ;  one  other  of  the  heads  might 
 come  up  with  him.  Mr  dean  of  Westminster  and  I  might 
 hear  and  report  to  your  honour,  because  the  heads  claim  your 
 honour  or  the  Vice-chancellor  their  visitors.  I  have  set  out 
 all  the  words  of  the  statute  which  may  concern  this  authority. 
 Mr  Aldrich  and  one  other  of  his  faction  might  come  up  with 
 him.  The  president  of  the  house  and  one  more  of  the  fellows 
 against  him  might  also  come  up,  to  prosecute  their  complaints. 
 Sir,  meet  it  is  it  were  ended,  for  it  is  a  mere  factious  matter, 
 
1573.]  ARCllU.  I'AKKKIl   TO   LOUD    IJllKiHLKY.  439 
 
 luul  will  continue  tho  precisians  and  all  otlicrs  at  variance,  for 
 the  most  part  of  the  heads  bo  against  Aldrich.  He  hath  hut 
 one  liead  with  him,  and  thouijh  there  bo  suhscrihcd  fivo 
 follows  in  tht'ir  letter,  yet  there  bo  seven  against  hini.  It  is 
 j)ity  Mr  AVhitgift  should  be  ono  to  como  up,  because  ho  is 
 occnpiod  aimut  his  book.  Yourself,  sir  Anthony  Cook,  my- 
 self, the  bishop  of  Winchester,  bo  yet  their  visitors,  for  tho 
 commission  of  visiting  is  not  yet  revoked ;  tirst,  I  and  Dr 
 M;iy  did  conciliate  the  old  statutes  and  reformed  them  in 
 King  Edward's  day  and  visitation,  and  then  your  lordship, 
 Mr  Cook,  the  bishop  of  Winchester,  Dr  Iladdon,  and  I,  sub- 
 scribed to  a  reformation,  or  supply  again  of  those  statutes, 
 and  put  to  the  Queen's  seal. 
 
 Tiiis   Thomas  Aldrich  resigned  up  his  prebend  at  AVest- ;*'<^"c»'h4^•- 
 o  ^  *  jnj;  resigned 
 
 minster  into  the  (Queen's  hands,  about  February  last,  and  so  ^^J[!l';J*/,,"'JjJJ 
 it  remaineth.      I  liave  been  so   much   ashamed   of  his   ncgli-  Jo.n'^"^, 
 gence  in  that  Westminster  church,  being  laboured  for  by  me,  .slm^'S'i)., 
 that  now  I  would  Mr  John  Still,  bachelor  of  divinity,  were  in  '"  "'''**^^' 
 his   [place],   who  is  both  wise,  discreet,   and  learned,  and  of 
 good  credit  in  London.      Do  in  it  as  ye  think  good,  for   I 
 never  intend  to  return  the  resignation  (which  I  have  by  me) 
 of  that  prebend  to  his  use,  whosoever  may  have  it. 
 
 I  have  also  caused  the    book  of  Dover  to  be  examined  B""*^  "' 
 
 Dover. 
 
 again  and  reformed,  which  here  I  return  again  to  your  honour, 
 
 the  last  part  whereof,  De  warda  castri,  (^c,   I  had  in  an 
 
 old  ancient  book.     I  perceive  by  your  letter  that  my  lord  of  J^^^'J.jje'ces- 
 
 Leicester  is  yet  grieved,  but  I  refer  it  to  God.     It  may  be  ^'^^j!;'^;  p„. 
 
 that  1  am  too  sharp.      Indeed   I  mean  well  (as  the   surgeon  S'harp/^*' 
 
 doth  in  administering  his  corrosive),  and  am  not  trained  up  in 
 
 the  courtly  eloquence,  and  I  perceive  the  court  is  now  altered 
 
 from  that  that  I  once  knew  it  in.      Well,  God  be  merciful  to 
 
 us  all,  that  wc  may  spend  our  lives   to  please  him.      Cetera 
 
 valeaiit.      Xow    that   I   see  the  length  of    my  letter    I   am 
 
 ashamed,  but  you  can  soon  defray  a  babbling  letter.     From 
 
 my  house,  this  18th  of  July. 
 
 Your  evermore  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTH.  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable,  my  good  lord, 
 the  lord  treasurer  of  England. 
 
440  ARCHB.  PARKER   TO  LORD  BURGHLEY.  [1573. 
 
 CCCXXXIV. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  TARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 23rd  July,  1573.    Lansd.  MS.  xvii.  art.  4<}.     Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 the"nio<rcof  -'■  "'^^E  received  your  letters,  and  perceive  in  what  doubt- 
 
 thfTOntro""  fulness  you  be,  whether  such  matters  as  are  to  be  objected 
 c^n^isSs-  against  Aldrich,  both  spiritual  and  temporal,  and  for  causes  of 
 ti  College,  j-eiigion,  may  be  heard  by  the  Queen's  Majesty's  commis- 
 sioners by  prerogative  of  her  Majesty,  by  authority  metro- 
 political,  by  their  own  desires  referring  the  interpretation  of 
 the  college  statute  to  me,  which  now  he  goeth  from,  or  whe- 
 ther all  and  singular  these  matters  must  be  heard  by  the 
 Chancellor  or  Vice-chancellor,  and  only  within  the  university ; 
 and  being  in  doubt  whether  your  honour  will  have  me  to 
 come  unto  you,  in  what  sort.  I  would  be  glad  to  attend 
 upon  you,  if  no  prejudice  or  hurt  to  our  commission  might 
 grow,  in  yielding  to  them  of  the  University  more  than  is 
 needful :  whose  privileges  yet  I  would  be  as  glad  to  main- 
 tain as  any  of  them.  The  causes  of  his  disproving  be  many 
 moe  than  I  signified  unto  you,  as  shall  fully  appear,  either 
 by  my  declaration,  if  your  honour  will  have  me  come  unto 
 you,  as  your  prudence  at  this  time  shall  think  it,  expedient, 
 or  by  some  other  which  I  shall  send,  as  this  my  messenger, 
 plrke^fraes- Dr  Acworth\  can  somewhat  say  for  information.  And  thus 
 fiSiey.  holding  myself  in  suspense,  till  I  know  your  further  pleasure, 
 I  commit  you  to  God  as  myself.  From  my  house  at  Lam- 
 beth, this  23rd  of  July,  1573. 
 
 Your  loving  friend  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTII.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable,  my  good  lord,  the 
 lord  treasurer  of  England. 
 
 [1  Dr  Acworth,  who  had  at  one  time  been  public  orator  of  Cam- 
 bridge, was  the  author  of  one  of  the  answei*s  to  Saunders,  pubhshed  in 
 this  year,  1573.  He  is  also  reported  to  have  assisted  Parker  in  the 
 compilation  of  his  Antiquitates.] 
 
1573.]  AR(  nn.  paiikeh  t«>  i.niw  in  luiiii.iiv.  441 
 
 cccxwv. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PAUKKR   TO  LOUD   lUIIUJHLHV. 
 
 I'Tih  Julv,  [i:.7;J'.     I.ansd.  MS.  xvii.  art.  41.     Orl-. 
 SiK. 
 
 Heakinu    that  licr   Majesty   n;()cth  to  Mr  Thomas  Woot- 
 ton's,  where  your  lurdshlp  may  fortune  to  be,  and  callin<^  to 
 my   rcmembranco   that   1   think   you   have   not   tho   prefaco 
 before  the  Topoirraphical  Discourse  of  Kent,  wliich  tho  author  s<.ndiprefii«. 
 purposed  to  deilicate  to  tlio  said  Mr  \>  ootton,   1  tliought  it  Kent. 
 good  to  send  it  to  your  honour*,  to  put  you  in  remembrance 
 not  to  be  acknown  to  him  that  you  have  it  from  me,  and  tho 
 rather  for  that  his  desire  was  to  participate  it  unto  me,  to 
 have  mine  advice  ki  the  book,  and  not  to  pubhsh  it  abroad; 
 for  that  the  author  doth  repute  it  to  bo  imperfect,  and  worthy 
 of  further  reformation.     Keycs,  my  messenger  yesterday  to 
 vour  honour,  brought  me  no  resolution  for  my  guest  the  lord  No  answer 
 Stourton  how  he  shall  be  used.      And  thus  I  wish  your  lord-  stounon. 
 ship  health  in  this  cold  and  wet  progress.      From  my  house 
 at  Lambeth,  this  27th  of  July. 
 
 Your  lordship's  loving  friend  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTIIUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  right  hononvahJe,  and  mjf  very  good 
 lord,  the  lord  treasurer  of  England. 
 
 CCCXXXVI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER   TO  LORD  BURGIILEY. 
 
 17th  August,  1573.     Lansd.  MS.  xvii.  art.  44.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 Gladly  would  I  do  all  the  service  I  could  to  the  Queen's 
 Majesty  and  to  all  her  nobles,   with  the  rest  of  her   most 
 honourable  household.      I   have   no  other  counsel  to  follow,  Arrange 
 
 .  Ill  menu  for  the 
 
 but  to  search  out   what  service  my  predecessors  have   been  ncepiion  of 
 
 •^      ^  the  Queen  at 
 
 wont    to   do.      My   oft  distemperance  and  infirmity  of  body  canurbury. 
 maketh  me  not  to  do  so  much  as  I  would. 
 
 [2  It   still   remains  attached   to    this    letter,   but    the   signature 
 "  W.  Lambard"  has  been  defaced,] 
 
442 
 
 AUCHB.   PARKER  TO   LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 [1573. 
 
 The  Queen's 
 lodging. 
 
 Burghley' 
 lodging.' 
 
 Custom  on 
 receiving  the 
 Queen  into 
 Canterbury. 
 
 Parker  sug- 
 gests that  she 
 should  attend 
 the  cathedral 
 and  receive 
 the  com- 
 munion on 
 Sunday,  and 
 afterwards 
 dine  at  his 
 house. 
 
 If  her  Majesty  would  please  to  remain  in  mine  house,  her 
 Highness  should  have  convenient  room,  and  I  could  place  for 
 a  progress-time  your  lordship,  my  lord  Chamberlain,  my  lord 
 of  Leicester,  and  Mr  Hatton,  if  lie  come  home :  thinking  that 
 your  lordships  will  furnish  the  places  with  your  own  stuff. 
 They  say  mine  house  is  of  an  evil  air,  hanging  upon  the 
 church,  and  having  no  prospect  to  look  on  the  people,  but 
 yet  I  trust  the  convenience  of  the  building  would  serve. 
 
 If  her  Highness  be  minded  to  keep  in  her  own  palace  at 
 St  Austin's,  then  might  your  lordships  be  otherwise  placed  in 
 the  houses  of  the  dean,  and  certain  prebendaries.  Mr  Lawes, 
 prebendary,  would  fain  have  your  lordship  in  his  convenient 
 house,  trusting  the  rather  to  do  your  lordship  now  service,  as 
 he  did  once  in  teaching  a  grammar-school  in  Stamford  by 
 your  appointment.  Mr  Bungey  also  would  be  glad  to  have 
 your  lordship  in  his  lodging,  where  the  French  cardinal  lay: 
 and  his  house  is  fair  and  sufficient.  Mr  Pierson  would  as 
 gladly  have  your  lordship  in  his  fine  house,  most  fit  for  your 
 lordship,  if  you  think  so  good. 
 
 The  custom  hath  been,  when  princes  have  come  to  Can- 
 terbury, the  bishop,  the  dean  and  the  chapter,  to  wait  at  the 
 west  end  of  their  church,  and  so  to  attend  on  them,  and  there 
 to  hear  an  oration.  After  that,  her  Highness  may  go  under 
 a  canopy  till  she  cometh  to  the  midst  of  the  church,  where 
 certain  prayers  shall  be  said,  and  after  that,  to  wait  on  her 
 Highness  through  the  quire,  up  to  the  traverse  next  to  the 
 communion-table,  to  hear  the  even-song,  and  so  afterwards  to 
 depart  to  her  own  lodging.  Or  else,  upon  Sunday  following, 
 if  it  be  her  pleasure,  to  come  from  her  house  of  St  Austin's 
 by  the  new  bridge,  and  so  to  enter  the  west  end  of  the 
 church,  or  in  her  coach  by  the  street.  It  would  much  rejoice 
 and  stablish  the  people  here  in  this  religion,  to  see  her  High- 
 ness that  Sunday  (being  the  first  Sunday  of  the  month  when 
 others  also  customably  may  receive),  as  a  godly  devout  prince, 
 in  her  chief  and  metropolitical  church  openly  to  receive  the 
 communion,  which  by  her  favour  I  would  minister  unto  her. 
 Plurima  sunt  magnifica  et  utilia,  sed  hoc  unum  est  necessa- 
 Hum,  I  presume  not  to  prescribe  this  to  her  Highness,  but 
 as  her  trusty  chaplain  shew  my  judgment.  And  after  that 
 communion  it  might  please   her   ]Majesty  to  hear  the  dean 
 
1573.1  AUCIIM.    rVRKER  TO  LORD   IJrRUHI.KY.  443 
 
 pro;icli,  siinni^  eiiiior  in  lior  tnivorse,  or  else  to  sutlVr  liiin  to 
 go  to  the  common  chapter,  benig  tlic  phico  of  sermons,  where  a 
 greater  multitudo  should  hear.  And  yet  licr  Highness  might 
 go  to  a  very  fit  place,  with  some  of  her  lords  and  ladies,  to  bo 
 there  in  a  convenient  closet  above  the  lieads  of  the  people  to 
 hear  the  sermon.  And  after  that  I  would  desiro  to  see  her 
 llii:lines3  at  her  and  mine  house  for  the  dinner  following. 
 And,  if  her  Highness  will  give  me  leave,  I  would  keep  my 
 bigger  hall  that  day  for  the  nobles  and  the  rest  of  her  train. 
 And  if  it  please  her  ^fajesty,  she  may  come  in  through  my 
 gallery,  and  see  the  disposition  of  tlic  hall  in  dinner-time,  at 
 a  window  opening  thereinto.  I  pray  your  lordship  be  not 
 oflfcnded  thou2:h  I  write  unto  mv  lord  of  Sussex,  as  lord  Cham- 
 berlain,  in  some  of  these  matters  as  may  concern  his  office. 
 
 1   am  in  preparing  for  three  or  four  of  my   good  lords  Hciiprcpar- 
 some  o'cldiniTs,  and  if  I   knew   whether  would  like  you  best,  some  of  the 
 
 ^  ^  •'  .  lords,  whit 
 
 either  one  for  your  own  saddle,  or  a  fine  little  white  geldinj'  kin.i  of  horse 
 
 •^  '  o  o  will  Burgh 
 
 for  your  foot-cloth,  or  one  for  one  of  your  gentlemen  or  ]|^^y.^'|J^ '^ 
 yeomen,  I  would  so  appoint  you.  And  thus  trusting  to  have 
 your  counsel,  as  Mr  dean  cometh  purposely  for  the  same,  I 
 commit  your  honour  to  God's  tuition  as  myself.  From  my 
 house  at  Bekesborne  nigh  to  Canterbury,  this  17th  of  Au- 
 gust, 1573. 
 
 Your  lordship's  assured  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 Postscriptiim. — I  thank  your  honour  for  your  letters  yo 
 sent  to  me  by  Mr  Aldrich,  and  that  ye  regard  mine  estima- 
 tion in  this  cause,  wherein  it  is  wonderful  (as  I  hear  say)  how 
 this  fond  young  man  hath  dealt.  He  would  needs  resign  Aidridi  dc- 
 over  his  room,  rather  than  to  be  deprived,  and  so  he  remain-  raihcnhan  ' 
 eth  hereabout,  but  brent  child  dreadeth  the  fire,  and  there- 
 fore I  cannot  tell  how  to  take  him  or  believe  him. 
 
 To  ilie  right  honourable,  his  very  good  lord, 
 the  lord  Burghleij^  high  treasurer  of 
 England. 
 
444  LORD  BURGHLEY   TO  ARCIIB.   PARKER.  [1573. 
 
 CCCXXXYII. 
 
 LORD  BURGHLEY  TO  ARCHBISHOP  PARKER. 
 llth  September,  1573.     Petyt  MS.  luner  Temple.    No.  47.  fol.  347.    Grig. 
 
 It  may  please  your  grace. 
 
 You  shall  see  how  dangerously  I  serve  in  this  estate,  and 
 
 how  my  lord-keeper  also,  in  my  respect,  is  with  me  bitten 
 
 with  a  viperous  generation  of  traitors,  papists,  and  I  fear  of 
 
 some  domestic  hidden  scorpions.      If  God  and  our  consciences 
 
 were  not  our  defence  and  consolation  against  these  pestilential 
 
 Lord  Burgh-  darts,  we  might  well  be  weary  of  our  lives.      I  pray  your 
 
 book  con-      crrace  read  the  book,  or  so  much  as  you  list,  as  soon  as  vou 
 
 taming  some    O  '  «/  '  ./ 
 
 hlmseiffnd  ^^^J?  ^^^  ^^^^  rctum  it  surcly  to  me,  so  as  also  I  may  know 
 &j2r"?with  your  opinion  thereof.  When  your  grace  hath  done  with  this, 
 I  have  also  a  second  smaller,  appointed   to  follow   this;    as 
 
 request  to 
 know  the 
 
 op'inii'n"^^  though  we  wcre  not  killed  with  the  first,  and  therefore  a  new 
 
 thereon. 
 
 assault  is  given.  But  I  will  rest  myself  upon  the  Psalmist's 
 verse  ;  Expecta  Dominum,  viriliter  age,  et  confortetur  cor 
 tuum,  et  sustine  Dominum.  From  my  lodging  at  Mr  Pier- 
 son's,  llth  September,  1573. 
 
 Your  grace's  at  command, 
 
 TT.  BURGHLEY. 
 To  my  lord  of  Canterbury's  grace. 
 
 CCCXXXYIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 llth  September,  1573.     Petvt  MS.  Inner  Temple.  No.  47.  fol.  343.     Grig,  draft. 
 
 Sir, 
 Thearch-  I  RETURN  to  your  lordsliip  your  mad  book  again.      It 
 
 the  attack      is  SO  outra^eouslv  penned,  that  malice  made  him  blind.      I 
 
 upon  Bur£,'h-    .      .  .  °  "      ^ 
 
 ley  not  worth  judge  it  not  woi'th  au  answer.     Some  thmgs  were  better  put 
 
 an  answer. 
 
 up  in  silence,  than  much  stirred  in.  Your  conscience  shall 
 be  vour  testimonv  to  Almisjhtv  God.  It  is  no  new  matter 
 for  such  as  take  pain  for  the  good  governance  of  the  com- 
 monwealth to  be  railed  on.  In  my  opinion  they  be  very 
 comfortable  words  which  be  uttered  by  our  Saviour  Christ, 
 
157o.]  AUCIIU.    I'AUKEIl  TO   I.oKD    UllUiliLKY.  445 
 
 irUhlo 
 Wfird*  to 
 
 who  onco  shall  bo  our  Jiulgo;  Jleati  est  is  cum  prohra  jcccrint  ^^11^*1 
 in  vos  homines,  et  tliverint  omne  malum  aduersum  vos,  men-  lull^'i," 
 tientes  et  propter  me;  (jaudete  et  exultate :  sic  enim  jtcr-unu'^i. 
 secuti  sunt  prophetas  qui  fuennit  ante  vos.  In  tlicso  and 
 like  wonls  I  for  myself  rcposo  my  heart's  quietness.  Be- 
 seeching Almighty  God  witli  his  Holy  Spirit  to  comfort  your 
 mind  in  these  blasts  of  thcso  devilish  scorpions.  Conscia 
 mens  recti  menilacia  ridet,  ^c.  From  my  house  at  Canter- 
 bury, this  llth  of  September,  1573. 
 
 Your  assured  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTir.  CANT. 
 
 CCCXXXIX. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER   TO   LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 3rd  November,  lo73.     Lansd.  MS.  xvii.  art.  51.     Ori^. 
 
 Sir, 
 Upon  a  word  your  honour  gave  out  yesterday,  to  have 
 us  understand  about  your  subscriptions,  how  careful  yo  be 
 for  our  state  ecclesiastical,  I  must  tell  you  secretly  I  doubted 
 whether  I  mio;ht  smile  or  lament,  to  think  that  you  would  so 
 offer  it  to  our  contemplations.      The  truth  is,   though   we  be  Thearch- 
 
 r  '  O  bishoj)  s  fear- 
 
 quite  driven  out  of  regard,  ye  had  need  look  well  to  yourself.  f|),\fs"(Jf*"t^e" 
 
 The  devil  will  rage,  and  his  imps  will  rail  and  be  furious.  Jubli^"^ 
 lie  can  transform  himself  into  angeluin  lucis.  I  saw  before  ^'^"^ 
 I  came  first  to  Lambeth,  and  so  wrote  my  fancies  to  some 
 one  of  the  noble  personages  of  this  realm,  my  contemplation 
 that  I  then  did  see  and  read,  and  now  is  practised,  and  will 
 every  day,  I  fear,  increase.  When  Lucian  in  his  declama- 
 tion Pro  tyrannicida,  shall  speak  for  his  reward  in  destroy- 
 ing a  tyrant,  howsoever  Erasmus  and  More  play  in  their 
 answering  to  it,  and  then  consciences  of  men  shall  be  per- 
 suaded (and  that  under  the  colour  of  God's  word)  that 
 this  act  is  meritorious,  what  will  come  of  it,  think  you  ?  I 
 doubt  not  ye  call  to  remembrance  of  a  word  once  uttered 
 by  a  Scottish  gentlewoman  (as  I  am  informed),  that  though 
 Fenton^  be  dead,  yet  there  be  more  Fentons  remaining,  &c. 
 
 [}  The  allusion  probably  is  to  Felton,  who  published  the  pope's 
 bull  for  the  deposition  of  Elizabeth,  by  affixing  it  to  the  gate  of  the 
 
446         ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY.       [1573. 
 
 I  will  not  write  of  that  of  which  I  have  no  full  proof  of ;  it 
 is  neither  tutum  nor  sanum. 
 Repairs  of  If  your   lorclshio  would  comfort  me  with  her  Majesty's 
 
 Bekesborne.  -^  *■  i    t»    i        i  i      -i 
 
 grant,  I  would  yet  assay  to  amend  Bekesborne  buildmg.     At 
 
 my  last  being  at   Canterbury,  keeping  my  visitation  in  the 
 
 church,  &c.,  I  saw  high  time  by  injunctions  to  prevent  evil. 
 
 The  necessity  I   saw  high  time  for  her  Majesty  to  procure  the  safety  of 
 
 forthcrcRu-  guch  foundatious  by  sendino'  to  them  statutes  under  her  seal. 
 
 laiion  ot  ca-  J  n 
 
 thedrais.  J  \i^\Q  causod  them  to  be  done,  and  would  offer  them  if  they 
 should  not  hang  too  long  in  your  hands.  Furthermore,  I 
 saw  there  and  otherwhere,  by  experience  and  partly  by  report, 
 that  her  Majesty's  needful  ecclesiastical  commission  is  foully 
 abused,  and  would  be  redressed.  I  pray  your  lordship  think 
 not  amiss  of  my  meaning,  which  to  you  secretly  I  disclose. 
 
 Caution  as  to  ^]1   jg  ^ot  ffold  that  sjlittercth.      Look  well  whom  you  do 
 
 appointments  o  O  i/ 
 
 Lnd Norwich,  admit  into   Asaph ^   and    into    that  poor  decayed    room  of 
 i  Norwich^,  that  you  be  not  beguiled.     Many  things  be  spoken 
 
 of  us,  and  how  they  be  credited  God  knoweth  ;  and  many 
 things  be  deserved,  and  some  things  are  untrue.  The  world 
 is  subtle.  And  thus  drawing  to  an  end,  I  bid  your  lordship 
 heartily  well  to  fare  as  myself.  At  Lambeth,  the  third  of 
 !  November,  1573. 
 
 '[  Your  honour's  evermore  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable,  and  my  very  good 
 lord,  the  lord  treasurer  of  England. 
 
 i 
 
 ^  residence  of  the  bishop  of  London.     He  was  executed  in  1570.     The 
 
 I  Scottish  lady  referred  to  was  doubtless  the  Queen  of  Scots.] 
 
 [1  The  see  of  St  Asaph  became  vacant  in  September,  1573,  by  the 
 death  of  bishop  Thomas  Davies.  Bishop  William  Hughes  succeeded 
 on  the  11th  December,  1573.  His  conduct  in  the  see  fully  justified 
 the  warning  of  the  archbishop.] 
 
 [2  Norwich  was  still  occupied  by  bishop  Parkhurst,  who  survived 
 until  2nd  February,  1574 — 5.  The  vacancy  alluded  to  was  that  of 
 the  deanery.] 
 
)Hic  corn- 
 
 (atr.iiiikt 
 
 1573.]  AKCHU.   PAHKKK   To   I.OHI)  BIHOHLKT.  447 
 
 ccrxL. 
 
 ARCIIBISIIOr  rAKKICR   TO    LORD  BUROin.EY. 
 7th  NoTembcr,  [1573'?)    Lantd.  MS.  xvii.  nrt.  51*.    Orlg. 
 
 Sir, 
 Upon  view  of  your  letters,  I  sliortly  after  addressed  these 
 my  letters,  whicli  to-morrow  in  the  morning  I  had  appointed 
 one  of  mv  men  to  brintjj  to  voiir  lordships.  Concerninc'  the  n.-pno^to 
 discourtesy  of  us  in  committing  the  party  to  prison,  ye  may  {|'^-^'j 
 think  if  it  please  you,  that  wo  meant  neither  any  lack  of  duty,  |ij^n ; 
 nor  convenitMit  consideration,  if  yo  knew  the  whole  cause,  "n",'opni!^n 
 whatsoever  be  informed  your  honour.  And  if  we  should  be 
 discouraged  to  do  justice,  for  fear  of  any  informer's  talk,  wo 
 had  a  warm  office.  We  are  not  so  brute,  that  we  cannot 
 con«^ider  of  such  men's  requests  as  it  becometh  us.  Mr  dean 
 of  Westminster,  Mr  Yale,  Mr  Hamond  and  ^Ir  Wendesley 
 thought  it,  with  me,  no  less  cause  than  to  commit  him.  And 
 thus,  without  further  writing,  I  shall  wish  to  your  honour  all 
 manner  of  grace.  From  my  house  late,  at  Lambeth,  this 
 night,  this  7th  of  November. 
 
 Your  lordship's  at  reasonable  commandment, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 CCCXLI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 9th  November,  1573.     Lausd.  MS.  xvii.  art.  54. 
 
 Sir, 
 My  lord  of  Lincoln's*  man   was  with  me  this  dav,   and  Letter  from 
 
 «■  the  earl  of 
 
 according  to   his  request   I   could   no  less  do  but  send  unto  Lincoln. 
 your   honour,    as    your   lordship   may   see   here  by  his  own 
 copy.     I  refer  the  matter  to  your  wisdom.      I  would  prog- 
 
 [3  This  letter  is  indorsed  with  the  date  of  1573,  and  is  hound  up 
 in  the  Lansdown  Collection  amongst  the  letters  of  that  year.  These 
 circumstances  occasioned  its  being  so  placed  in  this  volume,  but  upon 
 further  consideration,  it  seems  probable,  that  it  referred  to  the  im- 
 prisonment of  Stowell  and  was  written  in  1572.  In  that  case  the  letter 
 alluded  to  as  being  inclosed  was  the  one  before  printed  No.  CCCX., 
 p.  405.] 
 
 [•*  Edward  Clinton,  twelfth  baron  Clinton,  created  earl  of  Lincoln 
 4th  May,  1572.] 
 
448  AIICIIB.  PARKEIl   TO  LORD  BURGHLEY.  [1573. 
 
 nosticato  nothing.  And  thus,  if  I  knew  her  Majesty's  con- 
 ncparations  tcntation,  I  would  prepare  toward  the  reparations  of  Bekes- 
 borne.  bomc,  meaning  to  do  while  I  live  as  though  I  should  live 
 ever,  and  yet  I  trust,  being  ready  in  all  the  storms  of  the 
 world,  to  depose  this  tabernacle  to-morrow.  Doubting  not  but 
 your  lordship  is  so  framed  for  both  honam  famam  et  infa- 
 iniam,per  convicia  et  laudes,  to  go  forward  in  your  vocation, 
 as  God  hath  placed  you.  Leaving  your  honour  to  the  tuition 
 of  Almighty  God,  as  myself.  From  my  house  at  Lambeth, 
 this  9th  of  November,  1573. 
 
 Your  lordship's  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 If  your  lordship  would  send  me  the  book  that  I  took 
 your  honour  at  Canterbury,  which  I  did  intend  to  my  lord 
 keeper,  I  would  thank  you. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable,  my  very  good  lord, 
 the  lord  treasurer  of  England. 
 
 CCCXLIL 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 11th  November,  1573.    Lansd.  MS.  xvii.  art.  60.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 Further  letter        Mr  Arundell  showeth  mo  that  vour  lordship  thought  it 
 
 on  behalf  of  xi      i.     T       i         i  J  '.  ^  v  ^         .       ° 
 
 lordstour-     necossary   that   1  should  write  unto   your  honour   m    some 
 He  comes  to  commeudation  of  the  lord  Stourton.    You  shall  understand  that 
 
 chapel,  and 
 
 Sif  mo^deluy  ^  ^^^  testify  of  his  coming  into  my  chapel  with  the  rest  of 
 afJabief"^^^  my  housohold,  and  that  he  giveth  ear  to  the  lessons  there 
 read,  and  heareth  such  sermons  as  are  made  there.  I  see 
 him  modestly  behaving  himself  and  orderly  at  my  table, 
 according  to  his  degree  so  used  by  me.  Thus  much  I  do 
 testify,  praying  you  to  be  good  lord  to  him  for  his  further 
 liberty,  if  you  shall  think  it  so  good.  And  thus  I  commend 
 your  honour  to  the  tuition  of  the  Almighty.  From  my 
 house  at  Lambeth,  this  11th  of  November. 
 
 Your  lordship's  loving  friend  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  right  honourahle,  my  good  lord, 
 the  lord  treasurer  of  England. 
 
Ins  wife. 
 
 1573.]  ARCHH.    I'AUKKIl    To    InHl)    IM  IKiHI.KY.  4  I 'J 
 
 CCCXLIII. 
 
 AUCHBISIIOP  PAHKER   TO  LORD   ni'RGIILKY. 
 I3lh  November,  [K'.7n].     Lnnvl.  MS.  xvit.  nrt.  r>C,.     (l^i^'. 
 
 Sir, 
 This  morning  camo   the   warden  of  the  printers,  Harri- 
 son, and  brought  mo  one  other  book  in  quires,  and  told  mo 
 that  one  Asnlvn,  a  printer  to  Cartwriii:ht"'i>   book,    was,   after  '>••«. A.|'i>n, 
 examination,  suffered  again  to  go  abroad,  and  taken  into  ser-  f^"Vk*au'ck« 
 vice  into  Mr  Day's   liouso,  and   purposed  to  kill  him   and  his  prnu!r*ar.d 
 wife,   &c.      And  being  asked  what   ho  meant,  he  answered, 
 "  The  spirit  moved   him  ;"  so  that   they   be  all   taken  and  in 
 prison,  as  he  told  me.      Since   I  sent  to  your  lordship  this 
 messenirer,    this    he   told   me.     I   cannot   vet   learn  that  the 
 book  is  new  printed  since  queen's  Clary's  days^  ;  but  I  have 
 sot  this  Harrison  and  other  awork  to  search  out  more.    Thus 
 (lod  preserve  your  honour,  this  13th  of  November. 
 
 Your  lordship'^s  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable,  my  lord  treasurer 
 of  Encfland. 
 
 CCCXLIV. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO   LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 15th  November,  1573.     Lansd.  MS.  xvii.  art.  58.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 If  grace,  I  trust,  and  zeal  in  the  queen's  quieter  govern- 
 ment, and  some  aflfeetion  to  my  native  country  moved  me 
 not,  I  would  not  at  this  time  commend  any  man  to  any  room. 
 I  see  her  Majesty  and  yourselves  to  be  in  deliberation  best 
 to  appoint  for   the  deanery  of  Norwich.      If  Mr  Still  were  Mrstm 
 
 *■  ,  '^  ,      strongly  re- 
 
 not  my  chaplain,  I  would  say  that  he  were  as  meet  a  man  in  ^""|"'/"''^' 
 all  respects  as  I  know  in  England.     I  know  that  people,  how  y^r"Ji°^ 
 
 [1  Strype  says  (Parker,  Bk.  iv.  c.  xxxiv.)  that  this  "seems  to  hare 
 been  Goodman's  book  "  that  is,  the  volume  entitled  "  How  suju-rior 
 powers  ought  to  be  obeyed  of  their  subjects,"  by  Christopher  Good- 
 man, printed  at  Geneva,  1558,  12mo.] 
 
 r  1  29 
 
 Lpark.  COR.J 
 
 . 
 
450 
 
 ARCHB.  PARKER   TO  LORD  BURGHLKY. 
 
 [1573. 
 
 Miserable 
 state  of  that 
 church. 
 
 Outcry  in 
 London 
 
 they  be  disposed  and  inclined ;  they  would  have  one  learned 
 and  gracious  to  them  to  stay  them.  If  I  wished  not  well  to 
 my  country,  I  would  be  loth  to  bestow  him,  or  to  spoil  him  in 
 that  place  there.  The  church  is  miserable,  and  hath  but  six 
 prebendaries,  and  but  one  of  them  at  home,  both  needy  and 
 poor;  of  which,  some  of  those  six  I  know  to  be  puritans; 
 Chapman,  of  late  displaced  by  the  bishop  of  Lincoln ;  John- 
 son cocking  abroad,  with  his  four  several  prebends  (as  they 
 say)  in  new-erected  churches,  both  against  statute  and  his 
 oath.  Indeed  this  Still  is  a  young  man,  but  I  take  him  to 
 be  better  mortified  than  some  other  of  forty  or  fifty  years 
 of  age.  I  have  been  of  late  shamefully  deceived  by  some 
 young  men,  and  so  have  I  been  by  some  older  men.  Expe- 
 rience doth  teach.  The  world  is  much  given  to  innovations; 
 never  content  to  stay  to  live  well.  In  London  our  fonts 
 andbrazeS^  must  go  dowu,  and  thc  brazcH  eagles,  which  were  ornaments 
 eagles.  ^^  ^-^q  chauccl  and  made  for  lectures,  must  be  molten  to  make 
 pots  and  basins  for  new  fonts.  I  do  but  marvel  what  some 
 men  mean,  to  gratify  these  puritans  railing  against  themselves, 
 with  such  alteration  where  order  hath  been  taken  publicly 
 this  seven  years  by  commissioners,  according  to  the  statute, 
 that  fonts  should  not  be  removed.  Answer  is  made  that  they 
 be  but  trifles,  sed  hce  nugce  seria  ducunt.  I  were  loth  to 
 blame  any  man,  but  I  have  sent  and  sent  again,  and  spoken 
 Ecclesiastical  too,   and  vet  cannot  be  received.     As  for  the  ecclesiastical 
 
 commission  .,*'  ..„,,  ,  i./».i  n  ^ 
 
 abused.  commission,  1  see  it  is  foully  abused,  and  if  it  be  not  reiormed 
 by  a  new,  it  will  work  inconvenience.  Papistry  is  the  chief 
 wherein  we  should  deal,  and  yet  the  clamorous  cry  of  some 
 needy  wives  and  husbands  do  compel  us  to  take  their  matters 
 out  of  their  common  bribing  courts,  to  ease  their  griefs  by 
 commission.  I  am  sorry  to  write  so  much,  but  I  think  that 
 an  hungry,  scraping,  and  covetous  man  should  not  do  well 
 in  that  so  decayed  a  church  ;  and  yet  how  your  lordships  be 
 resolved  I  cannot  tell.  Thus  I  humbly  commend  her  good 
 Majesty,  and  all  you,  to  God"'s  blessed  tuition.  From  my 
 house  at  Lambeth,  this  15th  of  November,  1573. 
 
 Your  evermore  in  God, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  rigid  honourable,  my  very  good  lord, 
 the  lord  treasurer  of  England. 
 
1573.1         AKCIIH.  TAUKKIl   TO   HP  SANDYS  OF   LONDON.  451 
 
 CCCXLV. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PAKKKIl  TO  BISHOP  SANDYS  OF  LONDON. 
 
 34th  Noreniber,  1:173.     Petyt  MS.  Inner  Toniple.  No.  47.  fol.  508. 
 Contemporarj  Copy. 
 
 After  my  right  hearty  commendations  to  your  lordship. 
 Forasmuch  as  the   Queen's   Majesty  being:   very  careful  and  The  Queen-* 
 
 1       .  ,  .,  1  .    *      1  11-  /.     V     •         eare  forum- 
 
 desirous,  that  one  unitorm  order  m  the  celebration  of  divine  fonnity. 
 service  and  ministration  of  the  sacraments  should  be  used  and 
 observed  in  all  places  of  this  her  Highness*  realm  and  domi- 
 nions, according  to  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer  set  forth  by 
 public  authority  and  her  Majesty's  Injunctions,  without  altera- 
 tion or  innovation,  hath  not  only  divers  and  sundry  times 
 heretofore,  and  likewise  now  of  late,  signified  her  Highness' 
 pleasure  unto  me  therein,  with  straight  commandment  to  see 
 the  same  duly  executed.  But  also,  for  the  better  execution  Recemiettei* 
 thereof,  hath  of  late  caused  the  lords  of  the  privy  council  to  council. 
 give  in  commandment  on  her  Majesty's  behalf  to  every  of  ray 
 brethren  the  bishops  of  this  her  realm,  to  give  speedy  order 
 for  the  due  execution  of  the  premises  in  every  of  their  several 
 dioceses  and  jurisdictions,  to  the  intent  that  her  Highness  may 
 be  truly  certified,  as  well  of  the  accomplishment  of  her  plea- 
 sure in  that  behalf,  as  also  what  obedience  is  used  by  her  sub- 
 jects, as  well  of  the  clergy  as  also  of  the  laity,  touching  the 
 said  uniformity.      I  have  thoui'ht   e:ood  to  will  and  require  ihearch- 
 
 111-  1  •   1  11  •  T  bishop  re- 
 
 vour  lordship,  not  only  with   all  convenient  speed  to  cause  n^'ires  the 
 
 *......  .  bishop  to 
 
 diligent  inquisition  to  be  made  throughout  your  own  diocese '^v^^jj;^ '"*i"'- 
 and  jurisdiction,  how   her   Majesty's  said  pleasure  and  com-  luS^e' 
 mandment  in  this  behalf  is  observed,  but  also  to  publish  the  ShiTcI'^s 
 contents  of  these  my  letters  to  all  the  rest  of  my  brethren  the  Swrved.'* 
 bishops  of  my  province,  willing  and  requiring  them  and  every 
 of  them,  forthwith  to  cause  the  like  inquisition  to  be  made 
 through  their  several  dioceses  and  jurisdictions,  and  that  you 
 and  they  do  make  certificate  to  me  thereof  on  this  side  the  and  to  make 
 least  ot  the  Jsativity  of  our  Lord  God  next  coming,  together  {.^^f^f^^fbe- 
 with  the  names  and  surnames  of  all  such,   as  well  of  the  [ji^t!^^" 
 clergy  as   of  the  laity,  as   shall   obstinately  refuse  to  shew 
 themselves  conformable  herein.     And  thus  I  bid  your  lord- 
 
 29—2 
 
 k 
 
452  AIK  HH.   PARKER  TO   BP  SANDYS  OF   LONDON.         [1573. 
 
 ship  heartily  well  to  faro.      From  ray  house  at  Lambeth,  this 
 24th  of  November,  1573. 
 
 Your  loving  brother, 
 
 M.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  reverend  father  the  bishop  of 
 London. 
 
 CCCXLVI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  MR  JOHN  BOYS^. 
 
 5th  December,  1573.   Original  in  the  possession  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Simpson,  M.A., 
 
 Douglas. 
 
 dlatho^Ed-  Whereas  the  keeping  of  the  palace-court  hath  been,  since 
 
 pahce  coim^  the  death  of  king  Edward  the  Sixth,  much  neglected,  through 
 hasblen'^"'^^  Contention  for  the  stewardship  of  the  liberties,  as  well  in  the 
 
 neglected,  on   .-  c  ^  ,^  ^•       ^ 
 
 account  of  a   time  01  mj  predccessor  the  cardmal,  as  ever  smce  my  commg 
 
 contention  i        i  •    i  •    i  i  i  /»    •  111 
 
 for  the         to  tho  Dishoprick,  the  cause  whereof  is  now  removed  by  the 
 
 steward-hip  ,  ^  ^ 
 
 of  the  liber-    attainder  of  the  duke.      Therefore,  as  well  for  the  savins:  of 
 
 ties,  winch  is  O 
 
 dSi?of  the^  "^y  royalties  and  privilege,  as  for  that  my  tenants  shall  not 
 ^"'^^^  be  thereby  brought  in  bondage  to  hold  of  the  Queen's  Ma- 
 
 Jr^el.emaion'^  j^sty  ;  thcse  aro  to  will  you,  that  once  yearly  you  hold  a 
 "ege^'of'the'  court  at  my  palace  of  Canterbury,  calling  before  you,  accord- 
 rick.  Mr  sCys  ing  to  the  accustomed  usage,  all  such  as  hold  of  my  palace  by 
 hold  such      knight-service,  taking  of  them  such  accustomed  fine  as  there 
 
 court  annu-  ^  '  ^    n  •         c  ii'» 
 
 ally,  call       ouo;ht  to  be  paid  tor  suit  oi  court.     And  it  any  shall  refuse  to 
 
 ing  before  .  * 
 
 him  all  such  pay,   thoso  are  to   will   you  that  you  distrain   such   for  the 
 
 as  hold  of  the  1     ^  '  «/  t/ 
 
 cameiburv    ^^^le  suit  duo  iu  my  time,  which  is  fifteen  shillings.    The  not 
 
 Sim'^'^      doing  service  may  be  prejudicial  to  me,  and  a  great  charge 
 
 and  burden   to  my  tenants,  which  otherwise  in  time  will  be 
 
 drawn  to  hold  of  the  Queen's  Majesty.     Fail  you  not  service. 
 
 The  fifth  of  December.      From  my  house  at  Lambeth. 
 
 Your  loving  friend, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  my  loving  friend  Mr  John  Boys, 
 steward  of  my  liberties. 
 
 \}  This  letter  bcai-s  an  impression  of  a  seal  containing  the  arms  of 
 the  archbishop  as  given  in  the  books  of  the  Parker  Society.  Round 
 the  arms  is  the  following  legend:  "Mundus  transit  et  concupiscentia 
 ejus;  aetatis  su?e  70."] 
 
1573.]  AHIHIJ.    r.VKKl.Il    lO    I.<>|(|»    IM   i,..HLP.\.  453 
 
 CCCXLVII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKKIl  TO  LOIU)  liURGHLEY. 
 30ih  Dec«rabcr,  1573.     Lunsd.  MS.  xvii,  nrt.  (JO.     Orijf. 
 
 Sir, 
 For  that  Almighty  God  (whose  pleasure  is  always   most  i^itrof con 
 to    bo   regarded   and   obeyed)    hath    mercifully    visited   your*"t«fnto 
 b(jdv  with  sickne>s,  I  doubt  not  but  that  vo  have   iinctioneni  ''^*'''''"J* 
 Sj)iritus  Sancti  i)itcrna)n,  to  accept  it  patiently  as  frail  nature 
 can  bear  it.      I  am  persuaded  quod  hcec  momentanea  carnis 
 aJUctio  atertium  et   immensum   (jloria'  pondiis  operabititr ; 
 and  though  that  in  respect  of  yourself  it  were  the  very  best 
 ye  continued  still   your   desire   to    be   dissolved   et  esse  cum 
 Christo,  yet  for  the  commonwealth's  sake,  I  doubt  not,  yc  be 
 indifferent  to  say  'with  that  ancient  nian,   Si  popnlo  tno,   O 
 Domine,  adhuc  sum  iiecessarius,  nonrecuso  laborem ;  so  that 
 ye  may  be  able   to   believe   with   St  Paul,    who  saith,   Quod 
 mihi  vita  Christus  est,  if  ye  live,  and  if  yc  be  dissolved,  to 
 affirm  that  his  further  saying,   Et  mori  lucrum.     Thus,   not 
 mindins:  to  trouble   vour  honour  with  loncj  writino:,  I  commit 
 your  good  recovery  to  Almighty  God  in  my  prayers,  whereof 
 I  do  partly  hear,  and  thank  his  mercy.      From  my  house  at 
 Lambeth,  this  30th  of  December,  1573. 
 
 Your  assured  orator  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAU. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable,  and  his  good 
 lord,  the  lord  treasurer  of  Eng- 
 land. 
 
 CCCXLVIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 Probably  A.D.  1573.     Lansd.  MS.  xvii.  art.  93.     Orig. 
 
 Why  I  am  not  readier  to  report  the  prudence  and  policies 
 of  Mr  Cartwright  in  his  book",  these  reasons  move  me: 
 
 [^  The    book  of  Cartwright   here  alluded  to,  and   the  pages  of 
 the  first  edition  of  which  are  referred  to  in  tlic  following  page,  was 
 
454  ARCHB.  PARKER  TO   LORD  BURGHLEY.  [1573. 
 
 1.  First  J  I  am  a  principal  party,  and  an  ofFendicle  to 
 him. 
 
 s?ltT"  2.     Secundo,  he  is  so  well  applauded  to,  that  howsoever 
 
 seTt.  3."        he    disllketh  the   act    of   throats'    cutting,    or    of    breaking 
 
 men's  necks,  he  delighteth  to  apply  both  terms  to  archbishops 
 
 and  bishops. 
 
 &.?■  ^'     Tertio,  he  saith  and  affirmeth,  that  besides  our  names 
 
 we  have  almost  nothing  common  to  those  which  have  been  in 
 
 s?lt.3^'  elder  times,  of  whom  he  saith  some  had  not  an  halfpenny  to 
 bless  them  with,  and  thinketh  that  if  our  fat  morsels  were 
 employed  to  the  maintenance  of  the  poor,  of  the  ministers,  and 
 
 sS".?'  ^"  universities,  the  heat  of  this  disputation  and  contention  for 
 archbishops  and  bishops  would  be  well  cooled.  And  he  is 
 much  offended  with  the  train  they  keep,  and  saith  that  three 
 
 &lt.  l'  parts  of  their  servants  are  unprofitable  to  the  filling  of  the 
 church  and  commonwealth.  And  he  is  very  angry  with  their 
 furniture  of  household. 
 
 S  f  ■  ^*      Quarto,  he  thinketh  no  archbishop  to  be  needful  in 
 
 these  times,  except  he  were  well  assured  that  he  would  pro- 
 
 s^t.?!'  nounce  the  truth  of  every  question  which  shall  arise,  and  of 
 this  if  he  be  assured,  then  it  will  make  his  mastership  to  be 
 more  favourable    to  the   archbishops  than   presently  he   is; 
 
 Sect.?'  ^^^  saith  that  the  ofifice  of  commissioner  is  not  permitted  by 
 God's  word  to  him. 
 
 Sir,  because  you  be  a  principal  councillor  I  refer  the 
 whole  matter  to  her  Majesty  and  to  your  order ;  for  myself  I 
 can  as  well  be  content  to  be  a  parish-clerk  as  a  parish-priest. 
 I  refer  the  standing  or  falling  altogether  to  your  own  con- 
 siderations, whether  her  Majesty  and  you  will  have  any 
 archbishops  or  bishops,  or  how  you  will  have  them  ordered. 
 
 And  because  you  may  see  in  some  private  respect  quam- 
 vis  in  insipientia  mea  I  must  boast,  although  testimonium 
 conscientice  were  enough,  to  shew  unto  you  privately  how  the 
 archbishop  of  Canterbury  spendeth  the  living  that  her  Ma- 
 jesty hath  committed  to  his  trust ;  if  other  men  could  do 
 better,  I  am  pkased  to  be  private. 
 
 entitled  "A  Replye  to  an  Answere  made  of  M.  Doctor  Whitegifto 
 againsto  the  Admonition  to  tho  Parlianiente."  4to.  pp.  224.] 
 
1578.] 
 
 AUCIIB.  PAUKKR   TO    I.oHh    IH'IUJllLKY. 
 
 •irj5 
 
 First,  to 
 the  juM.r 
 
 Kxpcnccs  vcarlv  hy  tlio  arcliblshop  of  Canterbury. 
 
 In  certain  yearly  rent  for  two  liospitals,  clx". 
 liesiiles   other  almoso,  relief  of  prisoners,  decayed 
 persons,  cS:c. 
 
 To  niinii- 
 ten,  Arc. 
 
 'I'o  si-ho- 
 \.\r*  and 
 si-hooU. 
 
 To  repair 
 fhurrhes 
 and  hi-li- 
 wavs. 
 
 T  Cart 
 wrl^ht,  paff. 
 
 In  certain  yearly  stipends,  ccxxxvij''.  xiij".  iiij''. 
 Beside  the  relief  of  strangers  learned,  as  others. 
 
 In  foundation  of  six  scholars,  xviij''  ;  of  two  fel- 
 lows, xij'';  yearly  for  ever,  &c.  Besides  exhi- 
 bitions to  scholars  of  Cambridge  and  Oxford,  and 
 founding  of  a  grammar-school  in  Lancashire. 
 
 Reparations  of  thirteen  chancels,  of  fivo  mansion-  ^^  jumer. 
 houses,  and  certain  farms ;  erecting  of  an  high-  in^^'iflhc"* 
 way    in    the    university    of    Cambridge    to    the 
 schools. 
 
 Subsidies,  free  rents,  new-year's  gifts,    and    other 
 \      such  resolutes    .  .  .      eccc^'. 
 
 Annuities  and  fees 
 (Liveries,  c''.      Wages,  ccl' 
 
 Household  fare  .  .  .  xlij*^- ".  or  xiiij 
 
 Wolf 
 
 cccc 
 
 cccl^ 
 
 xiij-> 
 
 marks 
 
 c.  li 
 
 Over  and  beyond 
 
 (Apparel,  armoury,  bedding,  hangings,  linen,  plate, 
 pewter,  books,  &c.  Physic,  journeying,  ferriage, 
 (carriage,  suits  in  law,  christenings,  marriages, 
 necessaries  for  offices,  stable  with  his  furniture, 
 arrearages,  loss  of  rents,  &c. 
 
 CCCXLIX. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER   TO  THE  VIDAME  OF  CHARTRES. 
 13th  January,  1-373 — 4.     Prefixetl  to  Marlorat's  Thesaurus,  fol.  Lend.  1574. 
 
 VoLUNTATEM   ac   consiliuui  istius  optimi  ac  industrii  viri 
 Domini   Feuguerii^   in   hoc  suo  Thesauro  conflando,   nos  ac 
 
 [1  Printed  about  1554.  The  author  was  the  dean  of  Wells  be- 
 fore mentioned.  See  before,  p.  241,  and  Wood's  Atlienrc  Oxon. 
 Bliss's  Ed*(T.  361).] 
 
 [2  The  work  to  which  this  letter  was  prefixed  was  entitled  "  Pro- 
 
456      ARCHB.  PARKER  TO   THE    VIDAME   OF   CHARTRES.    [1573-4. 
 
 nobiscum  ex  fratribus  nostris  nonnulU  diligenter  admodura  con- 
 sideravimus.  Atquc  lioc  qu'idem  statuimus,  illius  viri  industriam 
 summis  laudibus  dignam  esse,  et  ab  omnibus  amplectendam  : 
 ipsumque  opus  cunctis  pastoribus  et  ecclesisB  ministris  apprime 
 utile  ac  pernccessarium  videri.  Deus  0.  M.  Dominationem  tuam 
 quam  diutissime  servet  incolumem.  Lambethi,  idibus  Janu- 
 ariis. 
 
 Dominationis  tuse  bonus  amicus, 
 
 MATTH^US  CANTUAR. 
 
 CCCL. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  MR  MATCHETTi. 
 
 26th  March,  1574.    Parkhurst  Epp.  Camb.  Univ.  Libr.  MS.  Ee.  ii.  25.  art.  199. 
 fol.  154.     Copy. 
 
 He  is  to  go  to         You  shall  go  unto  my  lord  your  ordinary,  and  shew  him 
 
 his  ordinary,  o  ti  \j  t/  ' 
 
 Km^tifatthe  ^^^^^  ^^  Qucen's  Majesty  willed   me  to  suppress   those   vain 
 havrvain"     prophesjings.     And  thereupon  I  require  him  in  her  Majesty's 
 sippressecP  name    immediately  to   discharge  them  of  any  further  such 
 doing.     And  so,  &c. 
 
 Your  friend, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUR. 
 
 pheticse  et  Apostolicse,  id  est,  totius  divinse  ac  canonicse  Scripturse, 
 Thesaurus,  in  locos  communes  rerum,  dogmatum  suis  divinis  exem- 
 plis  illustratorum,  et  phraseon  scripturje  familiaruro,  ordino  alpha- 
 betlco  digestus.  Ex  Augustini  Marlorati  adversariis  a  Gulielmo 
 Feuguercio  in  codicem  relatus."  Lond.  1574.  fol.  It  stands  in  the 
 book  with  the  following  title :  "Reverendissimi  ac  Domini  Cantuariensis 
 de  hoc  opere  ad  clarissimum  heroa  Vidamium  Carnutensem  judi- 
 cium." John  de  Ferriers,  the  Vidamo  of  Chartrcs,  was  a  French 
 protestant  who  fled  from  his  native  country  after  the  massacre  of 
 St  Bartholomew.] 
 
 \}  This  is  only  an  extract,  and  not  the  entire  letter.  It  is  thus 
 prefaced  in  the  MS. :  "  These  lines  were  taken  out  of  a  letter  sent 
 from  my  lord  of  Canterbury  his  grace  to  Mr  Matchett,  parson  of 
 Thurgarton,  xxv*°  Martii,  1574."] 
 
1574.]     AIU  nil.    I'AKKKK    TO    MP   PAHKIlLllSr   Ol     NOIlUH  II.       157 
 
 CCCLI. 
 
 ARCIIRISIIOr  PAKKER    TO    BISHOP   PAKKIIURST  OF 
 NORWICH. 
 
 17th  M.u.  i:>74.     riirkluirst  Kpp.  Camb.  Univ.  Libr.  MS.  Ec.  ii.  M.  art.  211. 
 fol.  IGO  b.     Copy. 
 
 SjiA'TEM  in  Cliristo.  I  understand  that  you  have  re- 
 ceived certain  letters  to  continue  that  exercise  tliat  is  used  in  ^vhn  i«  ihe 
 
 w.irrani  of 
 
 vour  diocese,  contrary  to  that  commandment  that  the  Queen's  "'""<•,*'*"' 
 Majesty  willed  me  to  send  to  all  my  brethren  of  the  province.  [','^73? 
 I  pray  you  signity  unto   me    what   their   warrant  \s^.     And 
 where  I  wrote  unto  you  that   her  iVIajesty  would  have  those 
 vain  exercises  suppressed,  you  would  have  further  information 
 from  me   what   was  meant,  whether  all  exercises  should   belJn;iyt<» 
 
 '  I*.trkl)ur>t  s 
 
 suppressed,  or  else  such  as  your  discretion  should  count  vain,  '^"hSr  only 
 and  none  other^.      Good  my  lord,  be  not  offended  ;   it  is  one  phV*y"ngr' 
 
 ['  On  tho  6th  of  May,  the  bishop  of  London,  together  with  Sir 
 F.  Kiiollys,  Sir  T.  Smith,  and  Sir  W.  Miklniay,  monibers  of  the  privy 
 council,  wrote  to  bishop  Parkhurst  that  thoy  had  heard  that  there 
 Nvt.ro  in  Norfolk  "  certain  good  e.vcrcises  of  prophesying,  and  ex- 
 pounding of  Scriptures,"  of  which  "  some,  not  well  minded  towards 
 true  religion  and  the  knowledge  of  God,"  spoke  evil ;  and  they  accord- 
 ingly require  the  bishop,  "  that  so  long  as  the  truth  is  godly  and 
 reverently  uttered  in  this  prophesying,  and  that  no  seditious,  here- 
 tical, or  schisniatical  doctrine,  tending  to  the  disturbance  of  the  peace 
 of  the  church  can  be  proved  to  be  taught  or  maintained  in  tlic  same, 
 that  so  good  a  help  and  mean  to  further  true  religion  may  not  be 
 hindered  and  stayed,  but  may  proceed  and  go  forward  to  God's 
 glory,  and  the  edifying  of  the  people."  On  the  28th  May,  bishop 
 Parkhurst  wrote  back  to  tho  bishop  of  London  that  before  the  receipt 
 of  the  letter  of  Gth  May  written  by  him  and  the  three  other  privy 
 councillors,  the  archbishop's  command  to  stop  tho  prophesyings  had 
 reached  him  through  Mr  Matchett  (Letter  CCCL.,  p.  450) ;  and 
 that  since  that  time  the  archbishop  had  written  to  him  (the  letter 
 in  the  text  of  17th  May)  to  know  on  what  warrant  certain  persons 
 had  enjoined  him  to  permit  such  exercises  to  continue.  lie  asks 
 his  brother  bishop's  advice  how  he  is  to  satisfy  both  his  metro- 
 politan and  the  privy  councillors.  Both  letters  are  in  the  same  MS. 
 as  that  in  the  text ;   arts   206,  207.  fol.  158b,  and  loU.] 
 
 [^  On  2nd  April  bishop  Parkhurst  wrote  to  the  archbishop  that  he 
 had  seen  his  letter  to  Mr  Matchett,  an  extract  of  which  is  printed  No. 
 CCCL.,  and  was  anxious  to  know  whether  he  meant  "  the  abuse  of 
 some  vain  speeches  used  in  some  of  those  conferences,  or  else  gene- 
 
458      ARCniJ.  PARKER  TO   UP  PARKHURST  OF  NORWICH.    [1574. 
 
 s5?p!esSfd.    ^^  ^J  0^^  griefs,  that  I  have  sometimes  written  unto  you  in 
 such  letters  as  I  have  sent,  which  your  friends   have  seen, 
 which  have  given  you  counsel  to  stand  upon  the  word  "vain.'* 
 It  is  pity  we  should  shew  any  vanity  in  our  obedience. 
 brcTdrdf""  ^^^   would   needs  be  informed  by  me  whether  I  would 
 
 s'houV'fba'^  warrant  you  either  loaf-bread  or  wafer-bread,  and  yet  you 
 know  the  Queen's  pleasure.  You  have  her  injunctions,  and 
 you  have  also  the  service-book;  and  furthermore,  because 
 I  would  deal  brotherly  with  you,  I  wrote  in  my  last  letters, 
 how  I  used  in  my  diocese  for  peace  sake  and  quietness.  I 
 would  your  lordship  and  other  were  nearer,  to  hear  what  is 
 said  sometime.  And  thus  for  this  time  I  bid  you  fare  well  as 
 myself.      From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this  17th  of  May. 
 
 Your  lordship's  brother, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 CCCLII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  THE  EARL  OF  SUSSEX. 
 
 12th  June,  1574.     Harleian  MS.  6991.  art.  41.     Orig. 
 
 My  very  good  lord,  perceiving  by  Mr  Cooke,  your  lord- 
 ship's chaplain,  that  by  some  words  of  the  letter  lately  sent 
 fa^Tamnn  ^^^^  ™®   ^^  your  lordship   touching  Mr  Yate,  it  might  be 
 fhr'cariof     coustrucd  that  your  lordship  had  not  so  free  a  disposition  in 
 fo  be  brought  using  of  him  as  was  expected,  this  shall  be  to  certify  your 
 HyT/j^mmi  lordship  that  my  meaning  both  then  was  and  now  is,   that 
 thy  the  carl's'  your  lordship,  accordiug  to  the  speech  had  between  you  and 
 me  in  the  Star  Chamber,  should  have  him  sent  you,  and  that 
 by  your  approved  discretion  he  should  be  ordered  as  to  you 
 seemed  good,  until  such  time  as  he   were  either  reduced  to 
 some  conformity,  or  uttered  himself  to  be  the  man  not  worthy 
 that  favour  which  he  now  findeth  by  your  lordship's  means. 
 
 rally  the  whole  order  of  those  exercises ;"  giving  it  as  his  own  opi- 
 nion that  if  not  abused,  such  exercises  "  have  and  do  daily  bring 
 singular  benefit  to  the  church  of  God,  as  well  in  the  clergy  as  the 
 laity."  The  letter  is  in  the  same  MS.  as  that  in  the  text,  art.  201.  fol. 
 166.] 
 
1574.]  AK<  MM.    rvKKIlK    TO    IHi:    TAKl.   OF  SUSSKX.  459 
 
 Aiul  thus  I  commit  your   good   lonlship  to  (Jod.      From   my 
 house  at  Lambeth,  this  12th  of  Juno,  1574. 
 
 Your  good  lordship's  assured  friend, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAH. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable,  inn  *'* '  Z/   yood  lord, 
 the  earl  of'  Sussex. 
 
 CCCLIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PAUKi: U   TO  BISHOP  PARKHURST  OF 
 NORWICH. 
 
 14th  Juno,  1*)74.     Tarkhurst  Kpp.  Camb.  Univ.  Libr.  MS.  Eo.  ii.  34.  art.  214. 
 fol.  IGI  b.     Copy. 
 
 I    RECEIVED   your  letters  wherein  you   shew  your  con-  supprosion 
 formity  to  the  Queen's  commandment  uttered  by  me^     And  yf^Vie"aon., 
 though  that  3Ir  AVilliam  Hcydon  maketh  a  great  stir  in  your  R^'^-'^' *^"^- 
 diocese,  and  as  I  am  informed   reporteth  untruly   of  me,    I 
 
 [1  In  the  same  MS.  (art.  209.  fol.  159  b.)  is  a  copy  of  the  letter 
 referred  to,  in  which  the  bishop  says  that  the  letter  from  "  certain 
 of  good  place  and  great  credit"  about  which  the  archbishop  had  en- 
 quired (see  p.  457),  was  written  *'  not  by  the  way  of  warrant,  but 
 as  giving  advice,"  and  that,  notwithstanding  that  advice,  on  under- 
 standing the  Queen's  commandment  through  the  archbishop,  he  had 
 already  himself  stayed  the  prophesyings  in  some  places,  and  com- 
 manded his  officers  to  suppress  the  same  throughout  the  diocese.  The 
 bishop's  letter  bears  date  vi^°  Junii,  1574,  and  there  is  (art.  208,  fol. 
 150)  the  bishop's  letter  of  the  7th  of  June  to  his  chancellor,  request- 
 ing him  to  signify  to  every  of  the  bishop's  commissaries  ''  that  they  in 
 their  several  circuits  may  suppress"  the  prophesyings.  There  is  also 
 a  letter  (art.  212.  fol.  161)  from  the  bishop  of  Rochester  to  the 
 bishop  of  Norwich,  dated  13th  June,  1574,  in  answer  to  an  enquiry 
 made  by  Parkhurst,  "  whether  the  like  commandment  bo  generally 
 given  through  this  province."  The  answer  is  :  "I  must  tell  your 
 lordship  that  I  hear  of  no  such  commandment,  neither  in  London 
 diocese,  neither  yet  in  mine,  nor  elsewhere  :  but  my  lord  of  London, 
 I,  and  others,  have  taken  such  order,  that  no  man  within  any  of  our 
 diocese  in  any  matter  of  controversy  shall  have  anything  to  do.  And 
 so  by  this  means  the  exercise  is  continued,  to  the  comfort  of  God's 
 church,  [and]  increase  of  knowledge  in  the  ministry  without  offence. 
 And  so  I  doubt  nothing  but  it  shall  do  within  your  diocese,  if  your 
 lordship  observe  the  like  order."] 
 
460      AKCHB.  PAUKKK    TO    liP  PAKKHURST   OF  NORWICH.     [1574. 
 
 think  he  were  best  to  be  a  little  colder  in  his  zeal.  And,  my 
 lord,  be  not  you  led  with  fantastical  folk.  I  thank  you  for 
 your  informations.  Belike  your  records  are  not  of  any  long 
 time.  I  mean  not  to  desire  your  lordship  not  to  take 
 counsel,  but  not  to  take  such  young  men  to  counsel,  as  when 
 they  have  endangered  you,  they  cannot  bring  you  out  of 
 trouble.  Of  my  care  I  have  to  you  and  to  the  diocese  I 
 write  thus  much. 
 
 And  as  for  their  contention  for  wafer-bread  and  loaf- 
 bSrS  bread,  if  the  order  you  have  taken  will  not  suffice  them,  they 
 be^^m°^^°  may  fortune  hereafter  to  wish  they  had  been  more  conform- 
 winkafa"'  able :  although  I  trust  that  you  mean  not  universally  in  your 
 diocese  to  command  or  wink  at  the  loaf-bread,  but,  for  peace 
 and  quietness,  here  and  there  to  be  contented  therewith. 
 And  as  for  the  imprudent  dealing  of  my  chaplain  for  the 
 further  notifying  of  the  Queen's  pleasure,  you  shall  under- 
 stand that  that  was  but  a  second  addition  to  my  former 
 letters  for  the  same,  to  require  you  to  be  mindful.  x\nd 
 whereas  aforetimes  I  have  written  to  your  lordship  in  the 
 favour  of  Mr  Reade  (which  by  his  report  you  have  always 
 favourably  considered),  so  I  pray  you  now  extend  still  your 
 good  will,  if  in  case  he  be  your  officer  for  the  registership, 
 which  I  trust  he  will  honestly  discharge.  And  thus  I  bid 
 your  lordship  heartily  well  to  fare.  From  my  house  at  Lam- 
 beth, 14  Junii. 
 
 Your  lordship's  brother, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 CCCLIV, 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 19th  June,  1574.     Lansd.  MS.  xix.  art.  7.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Havedexucd         "We  have  devised,  before  your  letters  came,  to  lay  in  wait 
 
 to  lav  in  wait  ^tti  it  iiii  ^  •         •/••!  'ii 
 
 for  Under-     for  Undertrec,  and  I  trust  we  shall  have  him  if  it  be  possible; 
 
 tree.  ,  ^ 
 
 and  he  shall  be  appointed  to  be  at  my  house  secretly,  or  at 
 Mr  Steward's  on  the  water-side,  and  as  soon  as  we  have  the 
 possession  of  him,   we  shall  immediately  send  your  honour 
 
1574.]  ARfiiH.  rvuKKii   lo  i<»iti)  m  i{(,iM.i:v.  UH 
 
 word,  to  ilo  ami  follow  that  yo  shall  tliink  f^ood.  And  thus 
 the  Lord  give  us  all  grace.  From  Lambeth,  this  lIHh  of 
 Juno,  lo7-l. 
 
 Yours  in  the  Lord, 
 
 MATTIL   CANT. 
 To  my  [very  good]  lordy  the  [lonQ 
 treasurer. 
 
 CCCLV. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKKR  TO   LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 H»tli  June,  1574.     I.ansd.  MS.  xix.  art.  C.     Grig. 
 SiK, 
 
 If  this  matter  be  not  effectuously  with  severity  ordered,  lvrm Burgh- 
 farewell  vour  assurance  with  all  your   posterity,  and  farewell  severely  with 
 the  quiet  governance  of  her  Majesty  and  her  Safety.     I  have  i",^t^3^** 
 had   leisure   enough   a   great   while   to   perpend  some    men's  fon-P'^cy. 
 words  and  proceedings.      This  deep,  devilish,  traitorous  dissi- 
 mulation, this  horrible  conspiracy,   hath  so  astonied  me,  that 
 my  wit,  my  memory,  be  quite  gone.      I  would  I    were  dead 
 before  I  see  with  my  corporal  eyes  that  which  is  now  brought 
 to  a  full  ripeness,  whereof  I  gave  warning  a  great  while  ago, 
 if  I  had  been  heard.     If  the  detector   be  not  honourably  con- 
 sidered and  safely  protected  (whom  yet  I   never  saw),  all  will 
 be   naught.       I  fear  some  to   have  lain  in  her  bosom,  that 
 when   opportunity  shall  serve   will  sting  her.      Ware  of  too 
 much  trust.      Wliy  was  Kinjj  Henry  the  Vllth  accounted  so  Reason  of  the 
 
 •'  O  •'  ,  reputation 
 
 wise  a  man,  and  esteemed   to  have  knowledtje  in  astronomy,  f^r wisdom 
 
 '  O  ./  '  acquirtd  by 
 
 but  that  he  would  hear  and  be  close?  If  they  mean  to  "*^"''y^'^^- 
 destroy  her  nigh  friends  in  such  sort  (and  that  in  conscience), 
 what  mean  they  to  herself?  Det  Dominus  spiritum  sapien- 
 ticB  et  intellectus  contra  has  sp)iritus  2-)esti/eros,  et  Deus  mise- 
 reatur  nostri  ^-c.  If  at  the  last  these  and  sure  [such  ?]  fellows 
 do  escape,  posteriora  erunt  pejora  j^rioribus.  God  save  your 
 lordship,  and  send  you  of  his  grace.  God  knoweth  it  is  not 
 myself,  or  any  thing  I  have,  I  care  for.  Well  I  God  be 
 with  your  honour. 
 
 {Indorsed)     19th  June,  1574. 
 
 I  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  by  Mr  WinsJoo, 
 upon  the  discovery  of  a  conspiracy. 
 
462 
 
 ARCIIB.  PAKKER   TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 [1574. 
 
 CCCLVI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 Undertree 
 not  yet  taken. 
 Letter  from 
 him  inclosed. 
 Belike  these 
 men  be  Jiasty 
 judges. 
 
 23rd  June,  [1574J.    Lansd.  MS.  xix.  art.  8.    Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 To  answer  your  letter  I  could  not  till  I  came  home  from 
 the  Star  Chamber,  for  that  my  steward  is  as  earnest  as  he 
 can  be,  yet  with  prudence,  occupied.  I  thought,  because  I 
 saw  him  not  since  yesterday,  that  he  obtained  him,  but  I 
 understand  that  on  Friday  Un.^  goeth  toward  the  Isle,  and 
 then  I  surely  trust  he  shall  be  stayed,  unknown  to  him.  I  send 
 you  the  letter  which  Un.  wrote  to  him  this  morning.  Belike 
 these  men  be  hasty  judges,  to  condemn  men  before  they  exa- 
 mine their  defects;  but  qui  habitat  in  coelis  irridebit  eos. 
 And  thus  I  pray  you  pacify  her  Majesty's  desire ;  sat  cito 
 si  sat  bene.     This  23rd  of  June. 
 
 Your  honour's  assured  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 Sir,  the  craving  of  this  money  now  was  more  of  the 
 steward's  offer  to  further  him  in  his  journey  than  of  his  own 
 accord. 
 
 To  tJie  Jwnourahle,  my  very  good  lord,  the 
 lord  treasurer. 
 
 Parker  .soli- 
 cits that  the 
 council 
 bhould  give 
 some  recom- 
 mendation to 
 an  exposition 
 of  tlie  Sunday 
 Lessons  by 
 the  bishop  of 
 Lincoln. 
 
 CCCLVII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 26th  June  [1574].    Lansd.  MS.  xix.  art.  9. 
 
 Sir, 
 Where  there  is,  by  the  diligence  and  labour  of  the  bishop 
 of  Lincoln,  "  A  Brief  Exposition  of  such  Chapters  of  the  Old 
 Testament  as  usually  are  read  in  the  church  at  Common 
 Prayer  on  Sundays,  set  forth  for  the  better  help  and  instruc- 
 tion of  the  unlearned  2,"  I  think  this  his  book  to  be  profitable 
 
 [1   Undertree  ;  see  before  p.  460.] 
 
 [2  The  book,  of  which  the  archbishop  here  quotes  the  title,  was 
 published  in  1573.  London.  4to.  The  bishop  of  Lincoln  alluded  to 
 was  Dr  Thomas  Cooper,  mentioned  before  at  p.  316.] 
 
loT-l.]  AIU'IIH.  I'AHKKH   TO    l.<>iil>    lU  IK.III  KV.  463 
 
 for  instruction  and  necessary  for  tho  unlearned  minister,  but 
 most  to  tho  poor  sulgects,  who  arc  certainly  to  bo  informed  by 
 the  stability  of  this  doctrine.  And  tluM-cupon,  if  your  lord- 
 ship will  signify  the  same  unto  her  Majesty's  council,  that 
 they  would  give  some  commendation  thereunto,  I  suppose  it 
 would  do  well ;  tho  rather  for  that  tho  simpler  tho  doctrine 
 is  to  tho  people,  the  sooner  may  they  bo  edified,  and  in  an 
 obedience  reposed.  And  thus  I  bid  your  lordship  heartily 
 well  to  fare.     From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  tho  2Gth  of  June. 
 
 Your  lordship's  assured  loving  friend, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable,  my  very  good  lord, 
 the  lord  BuryhUy,  lord  treasurer  of 
 England. 
 
 CCCLYIII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 2Gth  June,  1574.     Lansd.  MS.  xix.  art.  10.     Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 I  AM  not,  nor  have  been  a  great  while,  pleased  that  Un.^ 
 make  such  delays,  notwithstanding  I  think  these  things  must 
 be  borne;  and  as  for  your  disliking  that  ye  were  made  privy, 
 and  thereupon  ye  state  to  be  sorry  thereof,  in  good  faith  I 
 think  the  matter  is  such  as  men  must  not  only  spend  their 
 credit,  rather  than  their  lives.     Ye  may  be  sure  all  that  may  un.icrtrce 
 
 ^  *>    not  yet  taken, 
 
 be  possibly  done  is  and  shall  be  done,  and  by  message  from  t^^'^WVi"^'!*^ 
 Un.\  this  night  he  shall  be  spoken  with,  either  by  hook  or  j]>:  J.'^'^y'l."' 
 crook;  and,  sir,  ye  know  we  meant  no  gain  thereby,  but  to 
 put  it  to  your  consideration,  which   your  lordship  may  take 
 therein,  and  do  what  ye  shall  think  best.      Thus  tho  Lord  be 
 with  your  honour.      26th  June,  1574. 
 
 Your  lordship's  assured  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 To  my  very  good  lord,  the  [lord]  treasurer. 
 
 [3  Undertrce.] 
 
464  ARCHH.  PARKER   TO   LORD   BURGHLEY.  [1574. 
 
 CCCLIX. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 30th  June,  1574.     Lansd.  MS.  xix.  art.  11. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I  AM  glad  and  thank  God  that  this  matter  falleth  out  at 
 
 length  thus,  especially  because  I  trust  the  realm  is  not  yet 
 
 corrupted  with  such  sprites  as  were  feared,   which  was  my 
 
 Resuitsof  tiie  greatest  grief,  and  made  me  most  astonied ;    2.    That  your 
 
 cxatnination 
 of  Untlert 
 and  other 
 
 ofumiertree  houour  aud  such  othors  (meaning  well)   need  not  to  stand  in 
 
 much  doubt,  and  that  God  will  protect  his ;  3.  That  innocent 
 men  be  purged  by  this  examination,  and  friends  be  still  the 
 same.  It  standeth  now  to  your  honourable  wisdoms  to  use 
 this  matter,  that  the  searchers  to  their  great  cost,  charge  and 
 travel,  be  not  discouraged.  I  noted  the  council's  letters  wisely 
 Bonhnmand  writtcu,  ycstcrday  sent  me,  for  enlarging  of  Bonham  and 
 disSiarged.  ^  Stondcu.  I  doubt  uot  but  ye  will  use  it  well;  and  yet  seeing 
 ye  have  that  principal  and  subtle  party,  let  him  be  well  ex- 
 amined, let  him  write,  as  his  pen  will  serve  him  too  readily. 
 I  fear  somewhat  that  he  taketh  all  upon  himself.  I  marvel 
 that  Brown's  letters,  so  many,  should  be  counterfeited  ever 
 with  one  hand.  I  would  wish  that  lewd  scrivener  which 
 counterfeited  Bonham's  hand  should  pay  of  his  charges  in 
 prison,  and  Stonden,  by  his  means  only  apprehended,  were 
 Parker  would  considered.  If  this  varlet  be  hanged  (as  it  is  pity  such  one 
 ifthevariet  should  remain  in  a  commonwealth  to  abuse  so  many  honour- 
 ^vere hanged,  able  and  houcst  should  escapc)  I  would  think  it  well;  if  the 
 party,  as  the  earl  of  Bedford,  be  so  minded  that  he  should 
 bear  displeasure.  He  hurteth  himself,  and  now  he  hath  a 
 warning.  Ye  be  not  like  hereafter  to  have  some  men  careful 
 as  they  have  hitherto  been.  I  send  your  honour  my  fond 
 but  plain  cogitation.  As  for  myself,  and  others  with  me,  I 
 am  able  to  say,  we  meant  honourably  to  God,  carefully  to 
 her  preservation,  and  dutifully  to  your  estates  and  the  state 
 public.  I  am  so  much  troubled  with  the  stone,  and  now  I 
 fear  the  strangury,  &c.,  that  I  am  sorry  to  be  onus  terrce  ;  but 
 with  prayer  and  as  occasion  will  serve,  I  will  still  do,  dum 
 interim  simus  in  hoc  tabernaculo,  dissolvi  cupientes,    God 
 
1574.]  Aiu  IIP.  r.viJKi.it  n)  I  oiti)  HI  iKnii.KY.  K;') 
 
 preserve  your  honour.      From  my  liousc,   this  hist  of  June, 
 1:374. 
 
 Your  assured  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTIF.  CANT. 
 
 To  tin  rij/tt  /umoiwahli,  and  mij  ffood  lord, 
 the  lord  inusunr. 
 
 CCCLX. 
 
 ARCIIBISIIOr  rARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 13th  August,  tlo74].     Lansd.  :MS.  xix.  art.  VJ.     Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 I  HAD  rather  you  understood  a  truth  by  my  report  in 
 such  matters  wherein  I  am  a  doer,  than  by  the  uncertain 
 speech  of  the  court.     I  have  travailed  mucli  by  myself  alone,  ^^^^(''/y^f' 
 for  want    of  other  commissioners,    to  try    out  a  possession,  p^rc"cnded 
 which  was   very  earnestly  believed,    and  set  forth  and   by  1^'^^^^^'"  °^ 
 print  recorded  and  spread,  without  licence.    The  two  printers  fSilm* 
 whereof  with  others  that  sold  those  pamphlets  were  committed 
 to  prison.     And  if  I  had  my  will,  I  would  commit  some  of 
 the  principal  witnesses  to  prison,  to  learn  them  hereafter  not 
 to  abuse  the  Queen's  ^lajcsty's  people  so  boldly  falsely  and 
 impudently.     After   I  had  by  divers  examinations  tried  out 
 the  falsehood,  I  required  Sir  Rowland  Hayward  and  Mr  Re- 
 corder of  the  city  to  be  assistant  with  me,   who  heard  the 
 wench  examined,  and  confessed  and  played  her  pranks  before 
 them.      Wo  had  the  father  and  the  mother,  by  which  mother  ThcRiriwas 
 
 '       *'  set  (111  by  her 
 
 this  wench  was  counselled  and  supported,  and  yet  would  she  [rh[!Sot' con- 
 not  confess  anything.      Whose  stubbornness  we  considering  folKue-"' 
 sent  her  to  close  prison  at  Westminster  gate,  where  she  re-  *''^"'*^" 
 maineth  until  her  dauj^hter  and  another  maid  of  Lothbury  have  ThcRirUnd 
 
 ^  •'a  companion 
 
 openly  done  their  penance  at  Paul's  Cross,  as  it  is  ordered  ^  ^"^.J?.!^'^"- 
 
 Paul's  fross. 
 
 [1  The  daughter  aUuded  to  was  named  Agnes  Bridges,  and  the 
 maid  of  Lothbury,  Rachel  Pindcr,  the  former  of  the  ago  of  twenty, 
 the  latter  of  eleven  or  twelve.  They  performed  penance  on  tho 
 15th  August,  before  all  tho  congregation  at  Paul's  Cross,  the  preacher 
 reading  their  confessions.   (Stow's  Chron.  cd.  Howes,  p.  G7S).] 
 
 [park.  cor. J 
 
the  subject. 
 
 466  ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY.  [1574. 
 
 I  am  so  grieved  with  such  dissemblers  that  I  cannot  be  quiet 
 with  myself.  I  do  intend,  because  these  books  are  so  spread 
 abroad  and  believed,  to  set  out  a  confutation  of  the  same 
 Sdupon  falsehood.  The  tragedy  is  so  large  that  I  might  spend 
 much  time  to  trouble  your  honour  withal.  But,  briefly,  I 
 have  sent  to  your  lordship  a  copy  of  the  vain  book  printed, 
 and  a  copy  of  their  confessions  at  length.  And  thus  knowing 
 that  your  lordship  is  at  the  court,  T  thought  good  to  send  to 
 you,  wishing  her  Majesty  and  all  you  waiting  upon  her  a 
 prosperous  return.  From  my  house  at  Lambeth,  this  Friday 
 the  13th  of  August. 
 
 Your  lordship's  loving  friend, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  my  very  good  lord, 
 the  lord  treasurer  of  England. 
 
 CCCLXI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  THE  EARL  OF  SUSSEX. 
 
 2nd  October,  lo74.     Lambeth  MS.  1168.  No.  12.     Orig. 
 
 After  my  right  hearty  manner,  I  commend  me  unto 
 your  good  lordship,  rejoicing  much  that  it  hath  pleased  Al- 
 uSomher  ^^g^^J  ^^^  ^^  ^^^^  ^^  prospcr  her  Highness's  journey  into 
 progress.  ^.j^^  ^gg^  couutry,  and  so  fortunately  returned  again  with  her 
 Plague  being  whole  houschold.  My  duty  were,  as  my  desire  is,  to  wait 
 Lndlam"     uDon  hcr  Maiesty,  which  I  would  gladly  do,  but  that  the 
 
 beth,  Parker       f  .  i        x'      '  xl        •       T         J  1  ^^        ' 
 
 sends  his       plague  IS  SO  much  stirrma:,  partly  m  London  and  partly  m 
 
 servant  to-'-''  o'l*/  it/ 
 
 know  if  he    Lambeth,  so  that  divers  of  my  servants  and  household  have 
 
 may  w,  it  '  ^ 
 
 SSt'-'^'^  had  their  children  and  servants  of  late  departed  of  the 
 plague,  whom  I  do  sequester  out  of  my  house  for  a  time.  I 
 would  not  be  bold  to  approach  so  near  her  Highness  in  this 
 state  that  my  household  is  of,  till  I  knew  her  Majesty's  con- 
 tentation,  beseeching  your  good  lordship  (with  my  most  hum- 
 ble duty  of  offering  my  prayer  and  service)  to  know  her 
 pleasure.  Thus,  sending  my  servant  for  that  purpose,  I  be- 
 seech your  honour  to  let  me  be  informed ;  and  so  commend 
 
1574.]  AIIC'IIM.  TAUKKIl    TO   Till:    !■  MH    oP  81'MkX.  467 
 
 your  lordship  to   God  as  myself.      From  my  liouso  at  Lam- 
 beth, this  second  ot*  October. 
 
 Your  lordship's  lovin*^  friend, 
 
 MATTIIUE  CANirAR. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  and  viij  vvnj  good 
 loriiy  the  earl  oj  -Susstj'y  lord  rhainbirlain 
 to  the  Queen's  Majtsti/^  at  the  Court. 
 
 {Coiitcniporari/  Indorsement.) 
 
 B.  of  Canterbury,  2d  October,  1574. 
 
 CCCLXII. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER   TO  THE   EARL  OF   SUSSEX. 
 7th  October,  [lo74].     Cotton  MS.  Titus  B.  ii.  fol.  302  a.    Orig. 
 
 I  RECEIVED  your  honourable  letters,  answering:  mv 
 request  to  know  her  ^Majesty's  pleasure.  I  have  great  cause 
 to  acknowledge  my  bounden  duty  of  thanks  and  readiness  of 
 service  to  her  Highness  for  her  Majesty's  special  favour  so  to  Jhl^giL'^'i 
 
 answer  to  the 
 
 consider  of  me  her  poor  chaplain.  And  furthermore  I  have  request  m  his 
 to  give  your  good  lordship  my  hearty  thanks,  for  y our  an.i  to  the 
 friendly  declaration  to  her  Majesty  of  my  letters,  in  such  good  fr-cnd^i'ip- 
 sort  as  I  perceive  your  honour  hath  done.  And  if  that  I  can 
 do  your  lordship  any  pleasure  or  service,  I  pray  you  be  bold 
 of  me,  as  of  your  assured  well-wilier.  And  thus  Almighty 
 God  preserve  your  honour  to  his  pleasure.  From  my  house 
 at  Lambeth,  this  seventh  of  October. 
 
 Your  lordship's  assured  friend, 
 
 MATTIIUE  CANTUAR. 
 {Contemporary  Indorsement) 
 
 7°  October,  1574. — The  B.  of  Canterbury. 
 
 CCCLXIIL 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER   TO   LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 23rd  November,  1574.     Lansd.  MS.  xix.  art.  14.     Orig. 
 
 After   my  right  hearty   commendations    to  your  crood  wiiidoh.s 
 
 •  best  to  con- 
 
 lordship.     I  will  do  the  best  I  can  to  other  of  my  Cambridge  tribute  to 
 
 r  »/  o     some  increase 
 
 30—2 
 
4G8 
 
 ARCIIB.  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 [1574. 
 
 of  living  for 
 the  Hebrew 
 reader  at 
 Cain  bridge. 
 
 The  arch- 
 bishop pub- 
 lishesAlfred': 
 life. 
 
 As  soon  as 
 his  booli  is 
 finished  he 
 purposes  to 
 journey  to 
 the  Queen  at 
 Hampton 
 Court. 
 
 brothers,  to  contribute  some  increase  of  living  to  that  Hebrew 
 reader,  and  as  soon  as  I  have  obtained  I  will  inform  your 
 honour,  or  else  signify  the  same  to  Mr  Vice-chancellor  of  that 
 University. 
 
 Concerning  that  rude  pamphlet  which  I  promised  your 
 honour,  because  I  send  but  this  morning  one  book  to  her 
 Highness,  I  would  her  Highness  should  have  the  first,  and 
 put  it  to  her  pleasure.  This  last  addition  of  Alfred's  life^ 
 I  have  added  to  such  stories  as  before  I  sent  to  my  lord 
 Arundel,  which  yet  being  so  homely,  I  would  not  have  done 
 if  his  lordship  had  not  seemed  to  desire  it.  I  send  your  lord- 
 ship one  which  is  but  meanly  bound,  as  to  certain  others  of 
 my  good  lords  I  purpose  to  send  the  like.  And  thus  I  wish 
 your  lordship  well  to  fare  in  all  things  as  myself.  Because 
 her  Majesty  is  come  secretly  to  my  lord  of  Leicester,  I  know 
 not  whether  I  might  offer  myself  to  her  Highness ;  but  this 
 week  as  soon  as  my  book  prepared  for  her  Highness  were 
 finished,  I  purposed  to  journey  to  her  at  Hampton  Court. 
 The  correcting  of  it,  and  the  binding  and  printing,  hath 
 stayed  me  thus  long  only.  And  thus  I  again  wish  you 
 God's  good  Spirit  as  to  myself.  This  23rd  of  November, 
 1574. 
 
 Your  loving  friend, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 T  pray  your  lordship  purpose  the  same  books  your  lord- 
 ship intended  to  be  sent  them  of  Cambridge ;  that  will  do 
 them  good,  and  be  an  honest  testimony  that  ye  love  learning. 
 
 I  think  all  other  men's  books  are  now  delivered  and 
 bestowed. 
 
 To  the  rigid  lionourdble,  my  very  good 
 lord,  the  lord  treasurer  of  Eng- 
 land. 
 
 [1  The  book  alluded  to  was  Asser's  life  of  Alfred,  printed  by  Day 
 (fol.  1574),  in  types  purposely  cast,  at  the  expencc  of  the  Archbishop, 
 to  represent  the  characters  used  in  Anglo-Saxon  MSS.  The  Arch- 
 bishop also  contributed  a  preface.] 
 
1574.]       .victim.  rAUKiiu  to  i>u  uoheiit  norgatk.  161) 
 
 CCCLXIV. 
 
 AUCIIBISIIOr  PARKKK   TO  DR   ROBERT   XORGATR^. 
 
 '2oth  NoTcinber,  lo74.     Miacel.  Lettcra,  &c.   No.  43.  Parker's  printed  Lib.  C.  C. 
 Coll.  Comb.     (>rij».  draft. 
 
 I  UNDERSTAND  that   iiicii   woultl   bc  glad   to   have    your  '''f*^'^ 
 hou^es,  and  that   vo  may   make  of  them  xxL,  which  is  not '^';;;;;i,y^';|;j"" 
 agreeable  to  your  charges.     Xotwithstaiuling  because  St  An- 1;;..*:';);!.*,'^,,. 
 drew's-day  is  so  niglr^  at  hand,  and  for  that  they  do  mean  to  ;!''iuVjlnay 
 enter  by  that  day,  I  think  you  may  suffer  them  to  come  in,  in.t'nllt'to^' 
 but  vou  do  well  to   irrant  them  as   vet  no  leases.     And  me-  as^>ct. 
 think  you  write  they  will  be  contributory  to  pay  according  to 
 the  rate. 
 
 I  marvel  tiiat  1  hear  not  from  Henry  Maynard,  by  whom  "''^'""|,^.|,''„ 
 I  returned  certain  books  to  your  college,  as  Homer  in  Greek,  Hen[y' May 
 &c.      When  ho  is  come  home   I  shall  more  certainly  write  "^"*" 
 unto  you.      Thus  I  bid  you  well  to  fare.     From  my  house  at 
 Lambeth,  this  25th  of  X'ovember,  1574. 
 
 CCCLXV. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 9th  January,  [1574 — 5].    Lansd.  MS.  xix.  art.  GO.     Grig. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 It  may  please  your  ffood  lordship  to  understand  that  Mr  Thcdcnnof 
 Dean  of  Westminster  brought  unto  me  a  vain  young  strip-  J'l^p"-)!],'/" 
 
 bishop 
 Thomas  C.irt- 
 
 [2  This  letter  is  in  answer  to  one  from  Dr  Norgatc,  master  of  wn-hts 
 
 .  1         ^         ^  c<:  -r      ■,  brOtllCF,  3  lu- 
 
 Corpus  Christi  College,  Cambridge,  m  ^vhIch  ho  says :  I  have  natic. 
 talked  further  with  those  men  who  are  suitors  to  take  our  new 
 buildings  by  lease ;'  and  after  stating  the  terms  to  which  they  con- 
 sented, adds :  '*  wherefore  I  pray  your  grace  to  let  me  have  under- 
 standing of  your  grace's  pleasure  herein  by  the  carrier  this  week  if  it 
 may  be,  because  some  of  them  would  remove  hither  before  St  Andrew 
 next,  at  which  time  their  quarter-day  do  expire  for  those  places  where 
 now  they  do  dwell."  Miscel.  Lett.  No.  43.  Parker's  printed  Lib.  C.  C. 
 Coll.  Camb.     Orig.] 
 
 P  See  preceding  note.] 
 
4*70  ARCHB.  PARKER  TO   LORD  BURGHLEY.  [1574-5. 
 
 ling,  being  Thomas  Cartwright's  brother,  so  simple  and  fond 
 
 that  I  think  not  meet  to  present  him  or  his  matter  to  you  of 
 
 the  council.      And  where  he  should  say  in  his  frenzy  that  he 
 
 is   rightful   heir    of    the   lands   in   this  realm,   and   that   the 
 
 Queen's  Majesty  keepeth  them  in  his  right,  with  such  other 
 
 words  spoken  to  Mr  Dean,  I  thought  it  good  for  such  vain 
 
 co|]j^miued    talk  to  commit  him  to  the  gatehouse  at   Westminster,   and 
 
 ?harge^of  hfs  purposo   to  take  order  with  young   Martin    and   other    his 
 
 fnends.        frieuds  by  their  bonds  to  have  him  kept  at  their  charges, 
 
 either  at  Bridewell,  or  Bedlam,  or  else  in  some  other  prison, 
 
 or  at  home  in  their  own  houses,  till  his  wits  come  again  to 
 
 himself,  and  also  for  his  forthcoming.      His  wit  is  so  foolish 
 
 and  so  simple  that  I  thought  this  to  be  a  good  way,  the  rather 
 
 because  his  brother,  and  such  precisians,  should  not  think  that 
 
 we  deal  hardly  with   this  young  man,  being  in  this  foolish 
 
 frenzy,  for  his  brother's  sake,  whose  opinions  have  so  troubled 
 
 the  state  of  the  realm,  that  ye  had  need  make  much  of  some 
 
 of  the  clergy   to  beat  out  of  the  commons'  heads  that  which 
 
 is  beaten  in. 
 
 Terrible  Aud,    sir,   in   mine   opinion   where  there  is  very   great 
 
 thenlx^tVa"-  ^^^^  ^^^  terrible  things  to  be  contrived  the  next  parliament 
 
 !|S'the    against  the  clergy,  as  specially  for  a  melius  inquirendum,  as 
 
 ''^''^''         they   call  it,  I  trust  the  Queen's  Highness  meaneth  not  so 
 
 to  be  induced  to  win  a  little  increase  of  revenue,  to  lose  in 
 
 the  end  ten  times  more.     Quod  satis  est  sufficit.    Take  away 
 
 a  few  of  the  clergy  which  specially  be  appointed  to  preach 
 
 before  her  Highness,  and  I  take  the  rest  to  be  but  a  simple 
 
 sort. 
 
 Benefice  pro-         Furthermore,  where  your  honour  sent  me  word  bv  my 
 
 miseci  to  the  '  «/  t/  »/ 
 
 Ew  fofrei'ief  stoward  that   I  should  have  the  next   advowson  granted  in 
 
 of  citoiinus.   Y\y  uuto  you,  at  my  calling  on  of  the  bishop  for  some  relief 
 
 of  Alexander  Citoiinus^  (although  I  purpose  not  to  bestow  the 
 
 whole  upon  him,  but  upon  some  ecclesiastical  person),  I  pray 
 
 your  lordship  send  it  me  by  this  messenger. 
 
 Examination         As  conceming  the  examination  of  the  papists  in  such  sort 
 
 of  papists.  ^         ^       ^  ^     *■ 
 
 as  your  last  letters  signified  unto  us,  we  shall  do  as  opportu- 
 nity will  serve.     And  thus  I  wish  your  preservations  in  God, 
 
 [1  See  before,  p.  420,  note  3.] 
 
1574-5.]  AIU  IIH.  I'AUKKIl   TO    I. OKI)    miUillLKY.  471 
 
 to  his  glory  and  your  own  sours  health.      Kruin  my  house  at 
 Lambeth,  this  0th  of  January. 
 
 Your  lordship's  loving  friend  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTHUE  CANTUAR. 
 
 To  the  right  honourable  the  lord  Jhtrrjh- 
 Ittf,  lord  treasurtr  of  Enghind,  my 
 very  good  lord. 
 
 (XX- 
 
 on 
 
 CCCLXVI. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  PETER  DATHENUS. 
 
 24th  January,  1'.74— o.     Parker  MSS.  C.  C.  Coll.  Camb.  cxxn.  art.  13,  p.  437. 
 Parker's  draft. 
 
 GuATL\s  sumraas  ago,  domine  Petre  Dathcno,  quod  meum  xinnksfor 
 
 ®.' Tx       -n.        ^       '    '  •    •     his  friendly 
 
 munusculum   tibi,  Hlustnssimi  principis  D.   trederici  comitis  r^'ij^ptjon^of 
 palatini  Rheni^  sacrique  imperii  electoris  legato,  in  singularis  ^^^"^{'y^;*' 
 mei  tarn  in  ilium  quam  in  teipsum  amoris  signum  ct  indicium  Suirthc 
 nuper  missum,  tanta  bencvolentia  susceperis.     Magnique  vicis-  itclorra'ia. 
 
 /.      .  .  -n      1    •  •  "ir  i  tiiicis  vividly 
 
 Sim  ego  facio  numisma  illud  m  quo  imago  lUius  tam  vere  per-  expressed. 
 Til*  •    •  1  ••  *^'"'  '^y  ^"'" 
 
 cussa  et  expressa  est.     id  quod  inter  maximi  apud  me  pretu  to  rarkcr, 
 
 monumenta    quae  mihi   gratissimam  eorura   quos    amo   atque 
 
 veneror    memoriam    referre    solent,    diliojenter    custodiendum  which  wiii  be 
 
 '-'  ,  ^  preserved  by 
 
 reponam,  et  illius  principis  honore  et  humanitate  etiam  urba-  !jj'"\r\'^(^uf ' 
 
 nitateque  tua.      Hli  a  Deo  felicia  cuncta,  animumque  (de  quo  ji[^^'^°^^^*^  "'^ 
 
 non  dubito)  in  religione   Christiana  constantem  deprccor,  tibi  '*""' 
 
 vero  ipsi  pietatem  et  ardorem.      Precor  etiam  ut  in  precibus 
 
 tuis    quotidianis    mei    memoriam    habeas,    sicut   et    ego    tui. 
 
 Dominus  et  conatus  hie  tuos  secundet,  et  felicem  illis  transac- 
 
 tis  in  patriam  reditum  concedat.      Saluta  meis  verbis  Hlus- hc  ^^c^ires  to 
 
 ^  ^  ^  be  reniem- 
 
 trissimum  principem  et  comitem  Fredericum^,  meosquc  apud  Jf/^'^'f^^^^^'^^j 
 eum  amicos,  precipue  autem  Emannuelem  Tremelium  ej usque  fnd^hi"''^' 
 
 friends  wiU» 
 
 [2  See  before,  p.  317.] 
 
 [3  Count  Frederick,  son  of  Lewis  VI.  and  grandson  of  Frederick 
 in.  He  was  afterwards  the  Elector  Palatine  Frederick  IV.,  and 
 father  of  Frederick  V.,  who  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  our  king 
 James  I.] 
 
472        ARCHB.  PARKER  TO  PETER  DATHENUS.    [1574-5. 
 
 ciaTi'ylm-     conjugciii  *.     Valc,  Gx  sedibus  meis  Lamethe,  nono  kal.  Febru- 
 
 manuel  Tre-  •  •      t  rn  4 
 
 mellii.sai;d     am,    io74, 
 his  wife. 
 
 Tuus  in  Christo  bonus  amicus, 
 
 MATTH.EUS  CANTUARIENSIS. 
 
 Charissimo  in  Christo,  fratri  D.  Petro 
 DathenOy  illustrissimi  principis  Frede- 
 rici  comitis  palatini  Rheni  prcecipuo 
 legato. 
 
 The  carl  [of 
 Leicester] 
 purposes  to 
 undo  the 
 archbishop. 
 
 CCCLXVIL 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGHLEY. 
 
 18th  February,  [1574 — 5].     Lansd.  IMS.  xix.  art.  65.     Orig. 
 
 Sir, 
 I  AM  credibly  informed  that  the  earl  is  unquiet,  and  con- 
 ferreth  by  the  help  of  some  of  the  examiners  to  use  the  coun- 
 sel of  certain  precisians  I  fear,  and  purposeth  to  undo  me, 
 &c.  But  I  care  not  for  him.  Yet  I  will  reverence  him 
 because  her  Majesty  hath  so  placed  him,  as  I  do  all  others 
 toward  her.  And  if  you  do  not  provide  in  time  to  dull  this 
 attempt,  there  will  be  few  in  authority  to  care  greatly  for 
 your  danger,  and  for  such  others.  They  will  provide  for  them- 
 self,  and  will  learn  by  me  in  my  case  how  to  do.  I  was  in- 
 formed by  a  wise  man,  that  a  conspiracy  of  us  was  purposed  if 
 the  parliament  had  gone  forward.  At  whom  they  shoot,  God 
 knoweth  all.  If  I,  led  with  the  vehement  words  of  the  first 
 statute  (before  I  was  in  place),  how  archbishops  and  bishops 
 be  charged  as  we  would  answer  before  God,  &c.  (which 
 words  I  have  put  to  his  consideration  advisedly),  if  I  set  forth 
 that  religion  which  I  know  in  conscience  is  good  and  con- 
 firmed by  pubHc  authority ;  if  I  do  the  Queen''s  command- 
 ment, for  which  the  precisians  hate  me ;  what  is  meant,  but  to 
 go  over  the  stile  where  it  is  lowest?  Beware  of  cunning;  all 
 Porhiirsoif   is  uot  gold  that  gUttereth.     As  for  myself  1  care  not  three 
 
 he  cares  not  .  °  •/iiiit-  •  V»  ^    > 
 
 three  points,  poiuts.  For,  if  I  should  lie  lu  prison  for  doing  a  point  of 
 justice  with  charitable  discretion,  I  will  rejoice  in  it.  Whatso- 
 ever wealth  or  commodity  may  stand  in  my  oflice,  I  desire  it  not 
 
 [1  Sec  before,  p.  333.] 
 
1574-5.]  ARCIIM.    TAUKKIl   TO   I.OllI)   HrRGIILRY.  473 
 
 for  mysolf.  1  wrote  my  letters  to  him,  and  did  for  charity 
 move  one  other  of  the  greatest  parties  of  them  to  conscience; 
 but  not  in  a  submission  (as  some  of  the  crew  take  it  and 
 report  it),  for  I  havo  neither  offended  him  nor  them  (except 
 I  was  careful  for  your  safeguard  and  ho  peaceably  again 
 writing  to  mo),  yet  I  understand  what  is  purposed  against 
 [me];  for  religion's  sake,  I  take  it.  And  do  you  think  that 
 they  know  not  what  religion  y[ou]  be  of,  and  what  ye  do 
 therein  ?  In  talk  (as  I  am  informed),  you  bo  accompted 
 the  dean  of  Westminster.  It  must  be  of  some  policy  that  I 
 neither  write  nor  oft  come  to  the  court.  I  like  not  these 
 dialogues,  these  treatises,  these  French  books,  &c. 
 
 I  feci  some  displeasure  in  some  that  be  towards  me,  asAnouiman 
 
 .  l>ir«"fule<l  on 
 
 where  tliev   keep  in  the  Ivm^'s  Bench  an  honest  old  man,  a«^-^v"'""f 
 
 *  i  O  ^  'his  love  of 
 
 very  good  and  modest  preacher,  and  sometime  my  almoner,  ^'^'''"• 
 whom  I  sent  home  to  his  benefice  to  do  good,  and  yet  in 
 extremity  of  law,  against  all  conscience,  in  the  Court  of 
 Requests  condemned  and  persecuted  for  the  love  of  me,  of 
 such  whom  I  specially  made,  and  who  at  this  day  have  the 
 most  part  of  their  living  by  me ;  a  matter  picked  partly  of 
 covetousness  and  mere  malice,  and  so  favoured.  But  this 
 matter  is  too  Ions:  to  write  of.  He  hath  hen  there  ever  since 
 Hallowmas,  in  a  nasty  prison,  chargeably,  and  rotting  among 
 the  worst ;  who  shall  be  there  still,  before  l  will  serve  their 
 turns.  I  may  not  work  against  precisians  and  puritans, 
 thoujrh  the  laws  be  against  them.      Know  one  and  know  all. 
 
 I  trust  her  Highness  with  your  advice  will  take  good 
 heed,  and  specially  for  providing  of  such  as  shall  govern  the 
 dioceses.     1  like  well  my  neijrhbour  at  Westminster,  the  dean  Rccommcnda 
 
 •^  o  the  dean  of 
 
 there,  to  be  at  Norwich,  whose  sad  and  sure  governance  m  jy,''^},'^'"''" 
 
 conformity  I  know.     I  set  not  one  halfpenny  by  the  profit  of  l^'^Jwich.'' °^ 
 
 the  diocese  for  any  procurations  or  jurisdictions;   for  at  my 
 
 last  metropolitical  visitation  there  I  had  never  a  penny   of 
 
 them,  but  the  visitors  spoiled  all ;  and  I  spent  £20  of  mine 
 
 own  purse,  to  have  that  diocese  well  visited,  and  yet  no  good 
 
 done,  and  the  country  exclaiming,  and  some  varlets  purchased  Hiscostin 
 
 *>  ...  niakinpa 
 
 (as  I  am  informed)  £20  yearly  by  their  bribing,  whom  some '^'j^j^JJ^Rj^^f 
 of  my  visitors  belike  used,  but  I  knew  not  of  it  till  all  was  *''^^**'°^^'''- 
 done.      I  am  a  fool  to  use  this  plainness  with  you  in  writing  ; 
 but  though  I  have  a  dull  head  yet  I  see,  partly  by  myself 
 and  partly  by  others,  how  the  game  goeth. 
 
474  ARCHD.   PAUKER   TO  LORD   BURGHLEY.  [1574-5. 
 
 Toy^soiithis  I  toy  out  my  time,  partly   with  copying  of  books,  partly 
 
 in  devising  ordinances  for  scholars  to  help  the  ministry,  partly 
 in  genealogies,  and  so  forth ;  for  I  have  little  help  (if  ye  knew 
 all)  where  I  thought  to  have  had  most.  And  thus,  till 
 Almighty  God  cometh,  I  repose  myself  in  patience.  At  my 
 house,  this  18th  of  February. 
 
 Your  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTH.  CANT. 
 
 To  the  right  honoui'ahle,  and  his  very 
 good  lord,  the  lord  treasurer  of 
 England. 
 
 CCCLXVIIL 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  ARCHBISHOP  GRINDAL  OF 
 
 YORK. 
 
 17th  March,  1574—5.     Petyt  MS.  Inner  Temple,  No.  47.  fol.  22.     Orig.  draft  in 
 
 Parker's  liand. 
 
 Case  of  a  Salutem  iu  Ckristo.      Whcro  your   ffrace  hath  written 
 
 person  who  ./  o 
 
 sp^rftuaitu-"*  ^^^^  ™®^  ^^^^  y°^  ^^""^  ^^^^  ^^  ^^^^  ^^'^  hardly  with  him  2  who 
 
 wliSordi-  ^^^th.  exercised  spiritual  jurisdiction  these  15  or  16  years,  and 
 
 s"haiTnot^^  thereupon  you  writ  to  stay,  if  any  suit  should  be  made  for 
 
 facuItV^       him  to  escape  by  faculty;  your  grace  shall  understand  that 
 
 seeing  you  have  sent  me  warning   of  it  in  time,  I   do  not 
 
 intend  to  gratify  his  friends  thereby,  nor  yet  to  favour  the 
 
 suit  that  might  be  made  unto  me  out  of  Carlisle,  &c. 
 
 i?creS'Sf°^         Where  you  are  informed  that  there  is  great  complaint  of 
 
 secunot       certain  sects,  as  one  chattered  at  the  cross  openly  that  such  a 
 
 deformity  was  in  Cambridgeshire,  which  thing  I  searched  out 
 
 and  found  these  news  to  be  enviously  uttered,  who  talked  his 
 
 biSrdp"?^    pleasure  of  that  bishoprick  of  Ely  which  he  looketh  to  enjoy, 
 
 ^'y*  and  hath  laid  wagers  of  his  deposition,  as  I  am  informed,  and 
 
 that  he  will  give  Somersham  house  to  him  that  sueth  for  it; 
 
 [1  This  letter  is  in  reply  to  one  dated  4tli  March,  1574 — 5,  which 
 is  in  the  same  yolume  of  Petyt  MSS.  as  the  answer,  fol.  21.  It  has 
 been  printed  in  the  "Remains  of  Archbishop  Grindal."  (Parker 
 Society)  1843.  8vo.  p.  353.] 
 
 [2  Grindal,  in  his  letter  alluded  to  in  the  last  note,  mentions  this 
 person  as  named  Lowther.] 
 
to 
 that 
 
 1574-5.]         AU(  IIH.    IVVIIKKK    TO    AKCIIM.  <nilNI).M..  175 
 
 which  this  man  will  not  ilo,  and  thcrcloro  it  hath  brought 
 him  much  displeasant  report.  As  for  his  min  •  ♦  ♦  that 
 is  said  of  liim,  for  keeping  of  household,  I  leave  it  to  God 
 and  his  own  conscience,  but  as  for  this  chatterer,  I  am  in- 
 formed credibly  by  letters  that  ho  should  report  very  ill 
 words  of  me  spoken  to  him  from  your  successor.  For  the 
 matter  itself  I  do  not  care  three  chips  for  aught  that  can  be 
 proved  in  ■^'  "*  allegiance,  doing  it  so  faithfully  and  prudently 
 as  I  did,  and  would  do  the  same  again  if  I  knew  no  more 
 than  I  did  at  that  time. 
 
 Concerning  the  information  of  her  Majesty  coming  into  J,'^'*rue^ha 
 your  country,  it  is  like  to  be  true.     As  for  my  doing,  that  l^^n,^"""io 
 shall  not  need  to  bo  an  example  to  your  grace,  being  yet  as  i^*^'*^"'^ 
 you  write  in  your  fruits,  and  having  no  more  there  yearly 
 revenue  growing  unto  you  ;  but  I  think  verily  your  good  will 
 will  be  taken,  as  her  Highness  did  very  lovingly  accept  my 
 service.      I   met  her  Highness  as  she  was  coming  to  Dover  J)en^"o'c,^n. 
 upon  Folkestone  Down,  the  which  I  rather  did,  with  all  my  Pa?ke7met 
 men,  to  shew  my  duty  to  her,  and  mine  affection  to  the  shire,  s^t«ne"nownr 
 who  likewise  there  met  her.      And  I  left  her  at  Dover,  and  hl-r  toTJov'i^r, 
 came  home  to  Bekesbourne  that  ni2;ht :  and  after  that  went  «ci.thomr. 
 
 ,  -.r-  I'lTTi     l^ff't'^wJ  her 
 
 to   Canterbury  to  receive  her  Majesty  there  :  which  I  did,  ^J.J'^^J^he 
 with  the  bishops  of  Lincoln  and  Rochester,  and  my  suffragan,  *"tdoor 
 at  the  west  door.     Where,  after  the  grammarian  had  made 
 his  oration  to  her  upon  her   horseback,    she  alighted.      We  0"^'"?^- 
 then  kneeled  down,  and  said  the  Psalm  Deus  miser eatur,  in  lirecaihedrai. 
 English,  with  certain  other  collects  briefly  ;  and  that  in  our 
 chimmers  and  rochets.      The  quire,  with  the  dean  and  pre- 
 bendaries, &c.  stood  on  either  side  of  the  church,  and  brouirht 
 her    Majesty    up    with  a   square    song,   she   going   under  a 
 canopy,   borne  by  four  of  her  temporal  knights,  to  her  tra- 
 verse  placed   by   the   communion    board :   where   she   heard 
 even-song,  and  after  departed  to  her  lodging  at  St  Augustine's,  ff^^g^f.*' ** 
 whither  I  waited  upon  her.      From  thence  I  brought  certain  He^took 
 of    the   council,    and   divers   of    the   court,   to    my  house  to  5° the^ruT 
 supper,  and  gave  them  fourteen  or  fifteen   dishes  furnished  ^muT  m"hu 
 with  two  mess  at  my  longer  table,  whereat  sat  about  twenty ; 
 and  in  the  same  chamber  a  third  mess  at  a  square   table, 
 whereat  sat  ten  or   twelve ;  my  less  hall  having  three  long 
 tables  well  furnished   with   my  officers,   and   with  the  guard, 
 and  other  of  the  court.     And  so  her  Majesty  came  every 
 
476 
 
 ARCHB.   PARKER  TO  AUCHB.   GRINDAL.  [1574-5. 
 
 Queen  dined 
 in  his  preat 
 hall  with  the 
 council,  cor 
 poration,  »kc. 
 
 Application 
 against  Cor- 
 ranus,  who 
 was  thought 
 to  be  preach- 
 ing erroneous 
 doctrine  in 
 the  Temple. 
 
 Her  Majesty 
 
 disliked 
 
 Deering. 
 
 Dispute  be- 
 tween the 
 archbishop 
 and  the  dean 
 and  chapter 
 of  Norwich. 
 
 Mr  Bletliin, 
 the  new 
 bishop  of 
 Llandat!'. 
 Whom  Par- 
 ker recom- 
 mended for 
 ^o^wich. 
 
 Sunday  to  church  to  hear  the  sermon ;  and  upon  one  Monday 
 it  pleased  her  Highness  to  dine  in  my  great  hall  throughly 
 furnished  with  the  council,  Frenchmen,  ladies,  gentlemen,  and 
 the  mavor  of  the  town  with  his  brethren,  &c. :  her  Hiffh- 
 ness  sitting  in  the  midst,  having  two  French  ambassadors  at 
 one  end  of  the  table,  and  four  ladies  of  honour  at  the  other 
 end.  And  so  three  mess  were  served  by  her  nobihty  ;  at 
 washing  her  gentlemen  and  guard  bringing  her  dishes,  &c. 
 Because  your  grace  desireth  to  know  some  part  of  mine 
 order,  I  write  the  more  largely  unto  you. 
 
 Furthermore  concerning  these  sectaries,  Mr  Alvey  came 
 unto  me  to  have  my  counsel  how  to  deal  with  Corranus, 
 reader  in  the  Temple  ^  whom  his  auditory  doth  mislike  for 
 affirming  free  will,  and  speaking  not  wisely  of  predestination, 
 and  suspiciously  uttering  his  judgment  of  Arianism,  for  the 
 which  I  hear  some  wise  of  his  said  auditory  to  forsake  him ; 
 and  more  than  this,  saving  for  the  common  precisianship  in 
 London,  I  hear  of  no  sects,  although  being  this  other  day  at 
 the  court  her  Majesty  disliked  Deering's  reading,  &c.  Where 
 I  was,  partly  to  answer  the  dean  of  Norwich  and  his  chapter 
 upon  a  rotten  composition,  wherein  yet  their  predecessors  did 
 confess  that  sedihus  vacantihus  I  have  all  the  jurisdiction 
 which  the  bishop  hath  sede  plenay  and  yet  they  deny  it  me. 
 By  this  old  composition  they  should  claim  no  more  but  to 
 have  one  of  three  de  suo  gremio,  only  in  time  of  visitation 
 and  examining  of  the  comptes  found  in  the  same ;  and  they 
 have  appealed  into  the  chancery  very  fondly,  and  go  about 
 to  deface  my  jurisdiction,  whereof  Dr  Steward  is  custos.  They 
 have  not  yet  their  commission,  which  I  purpose  to  answer  if 
 it  come  so  far.  Her  Highness  also  would  have  my  judgment 
 as  well  for  the  bishoprick  of  Llandaff  as  for  Norwich,  and  to 
 the  first  is  Mr  Blethin  preferred  2,  and  for  the  other  I  sig- 
 nified specially,  not  prejudicing  any  others,  my  testimony  of 
 the  dean  of  Westminster,  Dr  Piers,  and  Dr  Whitgift^.    How 
 
 [1  See  before,  p.  339.] 
 
 [2  William  Blethin,  prebendary  of  York,  was  elected  bishop  of 
 Llandaff,  13th  April,  1575.  He  died  bishop  of  that  see  15th  October, 
 1590.] 
 
 [3  Xone  of  the  persons  recommended  were  appointed  to  the  see 
 of  Norwich  on  this  vacancy,  although  two  of  them  were  shortly  after 
 raised  to  the  episcopal  bench.      Dr  Piers,  dean  of  Christchmxh,  was 
 
1574-5.]  AIK  lin.  IVVUKER  TO  AHniH.  (JinNDAl,.  477 
 
 it  shall  bo  (loil  knowcth.  And  thus,  iiulitnii;  in  my  hcd  at 
 leisure,  1  babble  the  niuro  with  you,  and  bid  you  heartily 
 well  to  fare  in  Christ  as  nivsolf.  Lambeth,  17lh  Martii, 
 1574. 
 
 Concerning  the  book  Dc  Disciplina\   1  sent  it  io   Mr  ,^,>,;;r.*J,'**' 
 Elmer,  thinkinc:  that  he  would  have  taken  the  pains  to  haven,k"iS_^ 
 answered  it,  but  he  sent  me  his  letters  tliat  ho  cannot  deal  "**''  "*' 
 thoroin,  and  yet  kcepeth  my  book  still,  wliich  I  had  much  ado 
 to  net.      It  is  done,  and  T  have   it  by  me,   which  is  handled 
 inditlcrently  well,  notwithstanding  I  will   use   more  judgment 
 before  I  put  it  out.      As  for  the  earthquake  I  heard  not  of 
 it,  nor  it  was  not  felt  of  here.      Doniinus  est;  facial  quod 
 bonum  est  in  oculis  suis. 
 
 CCCLXIX. 
 
 ARCHBISHOP  PARKER  TO  LORD  BURGIILEY. 
 
 nth  April,  [1.575].     Lansd.  :MS.  xx.  art.  CO. 
 
 DoMixE  vim  patior,  responde  p^ro  me.     I  trust  that  this 
 shall  be  one  of  the   last  letters  which    I   shall   write    unto 
 your  lordship,  the  rather  for  that  I  am  now  stricken  with  rarkrr's 
 mine  old  disease  more  sharply  than  ever  I  was.      It  may  be,  '  "'^^'' 
 that  whereas  I  have  a  great  while  provided  for   death,  yet 
 God  will  peradventure  have  me  continue  a  while  to  exercise 
 myself  in  these  contemplations  of  grief;  Domini  voluntas  fiat. 
 In  your  absence  now  from   the  court  I  have  travailed  with 
 her  Majesty  for  the  bestowing  of  the  bishoprick  of  Norwich.  iJ'o?S^*'°^ 
 1  have  named  unto  her,  at  her  commandment,  three,  that  is, 
 the    dean    of    Westminster,    Dr    Piers,     and    Dr    Whitgift. 
 Amongst  them  all  I  have  preferred  for  learning,  life,  and  JJ^Xnlnlrs 
 governance,    the   dean   of   Westminster,    not   because   he   is  \v«tmrn8tcr. 
 towards  your  lordship,  w^hom  I  credibly  hear  that  you  named,  ' 
 or  for  any  displeasure  that  I  bear  to  my  lord  of  Leicester's 
 
 successively  bishop  of  Rochester  and  Salisbury,  and  Wliitgift  wa3 
 appointed  to  Worcester  before  his  elevation  to  the  archbishopric. 
 The  present  vacancy  in  Norwich  was  filled  by  the  translation  of 
 bishop  Freke  from  Rochester.] 
 
 [}  A  puritanical  treatise  upon  church-government,  attributed  to 
 Walter  Travers.] 
 
478  .ARCHB.    I'ARKER  TO   LORD   nURGHLEY.  [1575. 
 
 chaplains,  or  to  her  Majesty's  almoner,  of  any  envy  to  his 
 person ;  but  surely,  sir,  I  speak  it  afore  God,  seeing  I  see 
 her  Majesty  is  affected  princely  to  govern,  and  for  that  I  see 
 her  in  constancy  almost  alone  to  be  offended  with  the  puri- 
 tans, whose  governance  in  conclusion  will  undo  her  and  all 
 others  that  depend  upon  her,  and  that  because  I  see  him  and 
 very  few  else,  which  mean  to  dull  that  lewd  governance  of 
 theirs,  I  am  therefore  affected  to  him ;  whereof  yet  I  make 
 him  not  privy.  For  surely,  my  lord,  I  see  and  feel  by  expe- 
 rience that  divers  of  my  brethren  partly  are  gone  from  rae, 
 partly  working  secretly  against  me,  for  the  satisfying  of 
 some  of  their  partial  friends ;  but  I  see  men  be  men. 
 The  Queen  Hqj*  Majestv  this  othor  day,  when  I  was  at  Richmond  at 
 
 charged  the  «^        «/  t/  ' 
 
 for  hblTsli-  ^^^^  commandment,  suddenly  charged  me  for  my  visitation.    I 
 
 wiSJhester  think  I  kuow  from  whence  it  came,  and  who  did  inform  one 
 
 Thebishop  nobleman  to  open  it  unto  her :  but  I  say,  and  say  again,  that 
 
 KacisiftSi  my  visitation  in  Winchester  diocese  (which  was  the  device  of 
 
 and  put  a"  tho  bishoo)  wrought  such  a  contentation  for  obedience,  that  I 
 
 thorn  in  his  ^^  =  i        i        ,.   ,  ,  ii      , 
 
 foot.  do  not  yet  repent  me  of  it,   though  the  bishop  be  told  that 
 
 his  clergy  was  sifted,  and  the  thorn  was  put  in  his  foot ;  but 
 he  will  so  pluck  it  out  that  it  should  be  so  in  other  men's 
 feet  that  they  should  stamp  again,  as  I  am  credibly  informed. 
 The  Isle  of  Wight  and  other  places  of  that  diocese  be  now 
 gone  again  from  their  obedience.  If  this  be  a  good  policy, 
 well,  then  let  it  be  so.  If  this  be  a  good  policy,  secretly  to 
 work  overthwartly  against  the  Queen's  religion  stablished  by 
 law  and  Injunction,  as  long  as  they  so  stand,  I  will  not  be  par- 
 taker of  it. 
 
 Her  Majesty  told  me  that  I  had  supreme  government 
 ecclesiastical ;  but  what  is  it  to  govern  cumbered  with  such 
 subtlety  ?  Before  God,  I  fear  that  her  Highness'  authority  is 
 not  regarded,  so  that  if  they  could,  for  fear  of  further  incon- 
 wouhi(ihan°gl  venience,  they  would  change  her  government ;  yea,  yours 
 govSmnem.  ^ud  miuo,  how  cuuningly  soever  we  deal  it.  And  surely,  my 
 lord,  whatsoever  cometh  of  it,  in  this  my  letter  I  admonish 
 you  to  look  unto  it  in  such  sincerity  as  God  may  be  pleased, 
 or  else  He  will  rise  one  day  and  revenge  his  enemies.  Does 
 your  lordship  think  that  I  care  either  for  cap,  tippet,  sur- 
 plice, or  wafer-bread,  or  any  such  ?  But  for  the  laws  so 
 established  I  esteem  them,  and  not  more  for  exercise  of  con- 
 tempt against  law  and  authority,  which  I  sec  will  be  the  end 
 
 I 
 
1575]  AH(  iin.  r.vuKKu  to  ioiip  miK.iii.KY.  479 
 
 of  it,  nor   for  any   otlior   respect.      If  I,   you,  or  any   otlicr  J",'fJ','*^*"** 
 named  **  great   papists,"  should   so    favour   the   pope   or    liis '^"^4!,,. 
 reliirion  that  we  should  pinch  Christ's  true  gospel,  woo  be  unto  '"'* 
 us  all.      llcr  Highness  pretendeth  in  tho  giving  of  lier  small 
 benefices,  that  for  her  conscience  sake  she  will  have  sonio  of 
 us,  the  bishop?,  to  commend  them  ;  and  shall  her  Majesty  be 
 induced  to  gratily  some  mortal   man's  request   ((jui  suas  res 
 agxt),  and  bo  negligent  in  tlie  principal  pastor  of  so  great  a 
 diocese,  wherein  peradvcnturo   her   authority   is  utterly  con- 
 temned ?   And  yet  we  must  reform  such  things  as  most  part  of 
 gentlemen  be  against.     As  for  my  part,  I  set  as  much  by  my 
 living,  bigger  or  less,  or  nothing.     But  if  this  be  not  looked 
 unto,  I  will  plainly  give  over  to  strive  against  the  stream. 
 
 This  great  number  of  anabaptists  taken  on  Easter-day  ^nXpJfsJ"^ 
 last  may  move  us  to  some  contemplation.     I  could  tell   you  K^rTay 
 many  particularities,  but  1  cease,  and  charge  your  lionour  to 
 use  still  such  things   as  may   make  to  the  solidity   of  good 
 judgment,    and    help    her    Majesty's    good    government    in 
 princely  constancy,  whatsoever  the  policy  of  the  world,   yea, 
 the  mere  world,  would  induce.      To  dance   in  a  net  in  this 
 world  is  but  mere  vanity.      To   make  the  governance  only 
 policy  is  mere  vanity.      Her   princely  prerogatives   in  tem- 
 poral matters   be  called  into  question  of  base  subjects,  and 
 it  is  known  that  her  Highness  hath  taken  order  to  cease  in 
 some  of  them.      Whatsoever  the  ecclesiastical  prerogative  is,  The  Queens 
 I  fear  it  is  not  so  great  as  your  pen  hath  given  it  her  in  the  prcrogatix''c 
 
 ,  O  .  ?  .         not  so  (Treat 
 
 Injunction,  and  yet  her   governance  is    of  more  prerogative  ^^,"^5"'"* 
 than  the  head  papists  would  grant  unto  her.      But  I  cease,  Se'fjjuljj" 
 and  refer  all  things  to  God,  in  whom  I  wish  you  continued  ^'°"' 
 to  his  pleasure,      I  am  compelled  thus  to  write,   lying  in  my 
 bed,   by  another  man's  pen,  but  I  doubt  not  so  chosen  that 
 you  shall  not  need  to  doubt.      From  my  house  at  Lambeth, 
 this  11th  of  April. 
 
 Sir,  I  am  not  much  led  by  worldly  prophecies,  and  yet  I  oid  verse 
 
 r,  "^  which  runs 
 
 cannot  tell  how  this  old  verse  recourseth   oft   to  my  head ; '" '^i* '^^a'*- 
 Fcemina  morte  cadet,  postquam  terrain  mala  tangent. 
 
 Your  lordship''s  assured  friend  in  Christ, 
 
 MATTII.   CANT. 
 
 To  the  right   Jionourcihle,  mg  verg  good 
 lord,  the  lord  treasurtv. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 Tlio  \MiTis  printtnl  in  Tulicn  are  by  a  JifForent  Q)rob!il>lv  a  \aUt)  hainl. 
 
 No.  I. 
 
 Anno  Dni.  ir)04.   ()  Augusti,  Ira.  G. ct  F.,  Mattii.ei.s Pahkek 
 
 natiis    Xorwici   in   parochia  Sancti    Salvatoris:    et   in 
 
 parochia  Omnium  Sanctorum  propc  Fibrig  gates  cnu- 
 
 tritus,  ct  cducatus  in  parochia  S.  dementis  juxta  fibrig, 
 
 Sub 
 
 OrLiELMO  patre,  qui  vixit  ad  a™  Dni.  1510,  et  ad  a'"  aHat. 
 sucT  48 ; 
 
 Aloysia  matre,  qua?  vixit  ad  a""  Di.  1553.  et  ad  a""  oetatis 
 su(e  83. 
 
 •ctus 
 
 A" 
 
 1.-.22. 
 
 In  legendo 
 111  scribendo 
 In  cantando 
 In  gram' 
 
 jTlionia  BeniH,  Theol.  bacc.  rector[e]  S.  Geraentis, 
 I     et  partim  Richardo  Pope,  presbytero. 
 Wilhno.  Priour,  clerico  ecclesiae  Sancti  Benedict!. 
 
 \N  °  Love,  presbytero  )  ^    ^^     ,      .  (duns  przecep- 
 T^   ,r      ,  ,    .      fS.  StepnanK  ,,        * 
 
 K.  Manthorp,  clenco  >  *^         {      tonbus. 
 
 3.<!  "  _r"^7  F'-^-j-"  |s   stephanii 
 
 4.  Willnio.  Neve,  commodo  et  benevolo  pedagogo. 
 
 l.")22. 
 1525. 
 1520. 
 
 1.527. 
 1527. 
 l.-,27. 
 1527. 
 
 1533. 
 
 8  Septembr.  circa  a"  a?tatis  meas  17.  missus  Cantabrigiam, 
 opera  Mri.  Bunge  parochi  Sancti  Georgii^  sed  sump- 
 t'llus  matris,  iu  Colleg.  Corporis  Christi,  sub  tutore 
 R°  CoNvper,  Artium  mro.  sed  parum  docto,  edoctus  in 
 dialectica  et  philosopliia,  partim  in  hospitio  Divae  MarifP, 
 partim  in  collegio  [Corporis]  Christi. 
 
 ^Fenso  Martii.    Electus  Bibliotista  Col.  Corporis  Christi. 
 
 Admissus  Bacclial.  in  Artibus. 
 
 22  Deccmb.  Factus  subdiaconus  sub  tituHs  Barnwelli,  et 
 Sacelli  in  campis  Norwici. 
 
 20  Aprill.  Factus  Diaconus. 
 
 15  Junii.  Factus  presbyter. 
 (3  Septemb.  Electus  in  socium  Collegii  Corporis  Chri. 
 
 3    •    Crcatus  magister  in  artibus 
 
 ^G  ranee  t\ 
 
 Dominica  prima  Advcntus  in- 
 cepi  officium  pranlicandi 
 
 [park,  cor.] 
 
 Beehe. 
 
 Ecel'ia.  BeneJci. 
 
 Madinglei/  et 
 \     Barton. 
 
 Dominica 
 Advent  us. 
 
 81 
 
482  APPENDIX. 
 
 1535.    30  Martii.  Vocatus  in  aulam  Annae  Reginft. 
 1535.    14  Julii.  Factus  bacchal.  theologiee. 
 
 1535.      4  Xovembr.  Promotus  ad  decanat.  de  Stoke  Clare,  per  An- 
 iiam  Reginam.  A°  Hen.  8'.  27« 
 
 1537.  1°  3Iartii.  Vocatus  ad  aulam  Regis,  et  factus  Capellanus 
 
 Ilcn.  8''. 
 
 1538.  1°  Julii.     Creatus  Professor  Theologia?. 
 
 1542.    27  May.  Prii?sentatus  ad  rectoriam  de  Ashen  in  Essex. 
 1541.    28  Octobr.  Installatus  in  2  prebendam  Ecc.  Elien.  per  colla- 
 
 cionem.  Hen.  8'. 
 1544.      4  Decembr.  Electus  in  magistrum  Collegii  Corporis  Chri. ; 
 
 per  Iras,  commend^ititias  Hen.  8'. 
 1544.    30  April.  Resignavi  rectoriam  de  Asshen. 
 1544.      1°  Maii.  Presentatus  ad  rectoriam  de  Birlingbam,  Norf. 
 
 1544.  25  Januar.  Primo  electus  ad  ofHcium  Vicecanc.  Cantab. 
 
 1545.  22  Septembr.  Presentatus  ad  rectoriam  de  Landbeche. 
 1547-      1  April.  Deposui  decanatum  de  Stoke  ex  vi  statut.  Parlia- 
 
 menti. 
 
 1548.      7  Febr.     Secundo  electus  ad  officium  Vicecancel.  Cantab. 
 
 1550.    primo  Octobr.     Resignavi  rectoriam  de  Birlingbam.  S.  An- 
 drew. 
 
 1552.    primo  Junii.  Presentatus  ad  pre-> 
 
 bendara  de  Coringham.         I  jyer  Ulust.  Princlpem  Ed- 
 
 1552.      8  Junii.   Nominatus  ad  Deca-j         icardum  sextiim. 
 natum  de  Lincoln. 
 
 1552.      9  Julii.  Installatus  in  prebendam  predictam. 
 
 1552.    30  Julii.  Electus  in  decanum  Lincoln. 
 
 1552.  7  Octobr.     Installatus  in  decanatum  in  propria  persona. 
 
 1553.  Decembris.  Resignavi  officium  Magisterii  Collegii  Corporis 
 
 Christi  Laurentio  Moptyd,  quern  ipse  necessitate  qua- 
 dam  delegeram  Successorem  meum. 
 
 1554.  2  Aprilis.  Privatus  pr^ebenda  mea  in  ecclia.  Eliensi;  et  pri- 
 
 vatus  rectoria  mea  de  Landbech ;  ad  quam  eccliam. 
 presentandum  procuravi  Willmum.  "V\"halley,  Canon. 
 Lincoln,  quem  elegi  successorem  meum;  et  institutus 
 fuit  30  Septemb. 
 1554.  21  Maii.  Spoliatus  fui  decanatu  meo  de  Lincolne;  sic,  eodem 
 die,  prebenda  mea  de  Coringham  in  eadem  ecclia.  Ad 
 quam  presentatus  fuit  !Mr.  Georgius  Perpoynt,  vi  advo- 
 cationis ejusdem,  mihi(?)  conccssa?  per  Epum.  Lincoln. 
 J.  Tailor.  Decanatus  conferebatur  Fran"  Malet,  D.  Theo. 
 per  M.  Reginam. 
 
APPKNDIX.  483 
 
 Postoa  privatus  vl.xi,  ita  coram  Deo  lietns  in  conscientia  mca,  adoo- 
 quo  HOC  pmlefactus,  ncc  dejectus,  ut  dnlcissiimim  ociurn  litera- 
 riuin,  ad  quod  Dei  bona  ]>rovidriiti:i  ino  rcvocavit,  inulto 
 inajoros  et  solidiores  voluptate.'*  inilii  ju'pt'rerit,  qiiam  nef^ociosuin 
 illud  et  periculosum  vivcndi  genus  unquam  placuit.  Quid 
 postea  obventurum  sit  ncscio;  sod  Deo,  cui  cura  est  do  omni- 
 bus, qui  olim  revelabit  occulta  conUum,  mcipsum  totum, 
 piamquo  et  pudicissimam  uxorem  meam,  cum  duobus  cbarissi- 
 mis  filiolis  meis,  commondo.  Euudemquc  Deum  optimum 
 maximum  precor,  ut  ita  in  posterum  infractis  animis  portemus 
 probrum  Cbristi,  quo  sempor  incinincriinus  bic  non  esse  nobis 
 civitatem  manentem,  sed  inquiramus  futuram,  gratia  et  miseri- 
 cordia  Domini  nostri  Jesu  Cliristi,  cui  cum  Patre  et  Spiritu 
 Sancto  sit  omnis  lionor  et  imperium.  Amen. 
 20  OctoW.A"  Ihii.  \:nA. 
 
 Et  adbuc,  boc  ()  Augusti  A°.  Dni.  1557-  [[looo]  pcrsto  eadem  con- 
 stantia,  suffultus  gratia  et  benignitate  Domini  mei,  et  Serva- 
 toris  Jesu  Cliristi,  quo  inspirante  absolvi  Psalterium  versum 
 raetricc  lingua  vulgari ;  et  scrips!  defensionem  conjugii  Saccr- 
 dotum  contra  Tbom.  Martin. 
 
 3°  Fchr.A''  Dn'u  1552  [5?]. 
 Ilactenus  coram  Dei  ita  L-etus,   sorte  mea  contentus  vixi,  ut  ncc 
 superioribus  inviderim,  nee  inferiores  despexcrim :  liuc  omnes 
 conatus  meos  dirigens,  ut  Deo  in  pura  conscientia   servircm, 
 utque  ncc  major  me  despiceret,  nee  timeret  minor. 
 
 14  Octohr.  A"  Bill.  1556. 
 Et  adbuc  la?tus,  sorte  mea  contentus,  testimonio  conscientiae  mew  in 
 Domino  confisus,  et  fretus  verbo  ejus,  vivo;  expectans  redemp- 
 tionem  corporis  mei  per  Cbristum  Servatorem  meum. 
 
 CONCIONES. 
 A" 
 1,134.    Coram  Epo.  Eliensi  in  sua  visitatione,  Balsamife. 
 
 1535.  Coram  Dna.  Elizabeta,  apud  Ilundcston. 
 
 1535.  Coram  Rcge  Ilenr.  A'lll.  in  aula,  Dominica  3'  in  40%  epla. 
 
 1539.  Coram  Edwardo  Principe. 
 
 1540.  Coram  Dna.  Elizabetba,  apud  Ilatefeld. 
 
 1548.    Coram  EdNvardo  Kege  in  aula  AVcst.  in  40%  D'^  3%  de  Evan- 
 
 gebo. 
 1551.    Coram  illustr.  Rege  Edwardo  in  quadragcsima,  scz.  alternis 
 
 diebus  ^lercurii,  viz.  i).  23.  25.  diebus  Martii,  collega  meo 
 
 M°  Harlow  Epo.  Herfordiit. 
 1559.    Coram  D"  Elizabcta  regina,  bis  in  40*, 
 
484 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 A"  (V  tat  is  mecc  43. 
 
 A°  cetatis  suce  28. 
 
 Anno 
 Domini. 
 
 [1548.] 
 
 An°  Domini  1547.    24  Junii.  Conjugatus  sum 
 
 cum    ]\Iargareta  filia   Roberti   Harlston  de 
 
 Matsall   in   Comitat.   Norfolc.    Gentleman. 
 
 Quce  nata  est  A°  Dni.  1519.  Ira.  domini- 
 
 cali  B.,  23  Junii.     Quo  anno  dies  Corporis 
 
 Christi  fuit  in  vigilia  S.  Joliannis  Baptistte. 
 
 1570.    Haec  Margareta  uxor  milii  charissima  et  castissima,  mecum 
 
 •vixit  annos  plus  minus  26.    Et  obiit  Christianissime  17 
 
 Augusti,  A°  1570.  circa  undecimam  ante  meridiem ;  et 
 
 sepulta  est  in  sacello  Due.  Xorfolcicv  apud  Lamhith. 
 
 Ex  qua  suscepi  filium  Johannem  anno  Domini  1548,  5 
 
 Maii,  litera  dominicali  G.,  mane  hora  sexta. 
 
 1560.    Qui  conjugatus  est  cum  Joanna  filia  Episcopi  Eliensis  28 
 
 Januarii. 
 [1550.]    A°  Domini  1550.    27  Augusti,  litera  dominicali  E(?)sera 
 hora  undecima  suscepi  alterum  filium,  Matthaeum,  qui 
 e  vita  decessit  8  Januarii  eodem  anno. 
 [1551.]    Anno  Dom.  1551.  primo  Septemb.  inter  lioram  secundam 
 et  tertiam  post  meridiem,  litera  dominicali  D.,  suscepi 
 tertium  filium,  Mattlieum. 
 1569.    Qui  conjugatus  est  cum  Francisca,  filia  Episcopi  Cicestren. 
 
 29  Decemb. 
 [1556.]   Anno  Dom.  1556.  12  Septemb.  inter  7  et  8  pomeridianam, 
 suscepi  quartum  filium  Joseph.:  et  decessit  eodem  anno. 
 
 [1559.]  17  Decemb.  A°  1559  consecratus  sum  in  Archiepiscopum 
 Cantuar. 
 
 Heu,  heu,  Domine  Deus,  in  qu^  tempora  servasti  me.  Jam  veni 
 in  profundum  aquarum  et  tempestas  demersit  me.  0  Domine, 
 vim  patior,  responde  pro  me  :  et  spiritu  tuo  principali  confirma 
 me:  homo  enim  sum,  et  exigui  temporis,  et  minor  etc.  Da 
 mihi  fidium  tuarum  etc. 
 
 Johannes  Parker  nat.  5  Maii^  ]548  diixit  Joannam  Cox  nat.   V 
 
 April,  a"  1551  ex  qiia3  genuit. 
 Margaretam,  nat.  Lamhethi  21  die  Martii  1568. 
 MathoBum^  primogenitum  Cant.  19  Maii  a  1570. 
 Janam^  nat.  Lamhethi  19"  Martii  a  1572. 
 Richardum,  nat.  Cantuarioj  [?]  20"  Maii  a"  1577- 
 Jacohum^  nat.  Belceshornice,  30"  Maii  a"  1585  [F]. 
 Johajines  natus  in  Insula  Elien.  4°  Maii  a"  1589. 
 Elizabeth  et  Johannes  ohierunt  parvuli. 
 
AITKNDIX.  485 
 
 No.  II. 
 
 1>K  MATTIIKW  rAUKEIl  TO  SIR   WILLIAM  CECIL. 
 
 Jl)th  .March  [15oU].   The  King's  Visitaturial  power  OMcrted,  l>>  Nathaniel  Johnston, 
 Ito,  Lond.  1CS8.  p.  215.     From  "  Taper  Office ;  Kccleiiastica,  1650  to  1559.'' 
 
 PLEAbFmi  it  your  honourable^  goodness.  Upon  the  occasion  of 
 sending  up  to  your  honour  for  the  matter  which  ^Ir  Vicc-cliancellor 
 writeth  of,  I  thou^^ht  it  <;ood  to  sifjnify  to  you  that  the  matter  Nvliich 
 ye  have  delefjated  to  us  is  in  liand,  witli  as  good  expedition  as  we 
 can  make,  by  reason  of  the  absence  of  some  who  were  meet  to  be 
 communed  with,  thout;li  some  doubt  is  made,  whetlier  your  authority 
 of  Clianccllor^hii)  exteudetli  to  College  Statutes  for  anything?]  be- 
 yond limitation  contained  in  them.  So  may  they  doubt  of  your 
 delegatum^  [[delegation?],  though  Bishop  Gardiner  would  not  be 
 so  restrained  in  his  doings ;  whether  upon  warrant  of  the  Queen's 
 letters  of  commission,  the  copy  whereof  I  sent  to  you',  or  by  author- 
 ity of  his  office,  I  leave  that  to  your  prudence  to  expound.  Our 
 statutes  aud  charters  prescribe  here  to  officers,  that  they  must  in 
 j)leas  proceed  siunmarie  et  de  piano,  sine  strcpitii  judicially  that 
 scholars  may  be  sooner  restored  to  their  books.  Yet  here  be  wits, 
 which,  being  thereto  admitted,  would  entangle  matters  extremis 
 juris  apicibus^  that  controversies  might  be  infinite  and  perpetual, 
 never  to  have  an  end.  But,  according  to  our  old  ancient  customs,  we 
 shall  proceed  to  hearing,  with  cutting  off  all  such  superfluous  and 
 perplex  solemnities  of  their  cavillations,  and  so  refer  the  matter  to 
 your  understanding  to  be  resolutely  determined,  as  the  last  clause  of 
 your  letter  pretendeth  to  will  us.  And  if  I  shall  perceive  any  like 
 incident  to  be  signified  to  your  honourable  wisdom,  I  shall  be  bold 
 in  secret'  to  write  it,  lest^  things  borne  by  partialities  might  prevail 
 under  your  authority  not  rightly  instructed,  and  to  avoid  some 
 stomach  that  else  might  be  taken.  Without  doubt,  sir,  the  uni- 
 versity is  wonderfully  decayed,  and  if  your  visitation  intended  be 
 too  stoutly  executed  in  some  like  sorts  as  hath  been  practised,  that 
 will  I  fear  so  much  ruffle  the  state  thereof  that  it  will  be  hardly 
 recovered  in  years,  aud  yet  authority  must  bridle  wilful  and  stubborn 
 natures,  and  liigli  time  it  is  here.  I  trust  the  prudence  of  the 
 visitors,  for  good  will  toward  you,  will  diligently  note  how  ye 
 received    QQ   the   universities  after  others,   for  comparison  of  the 
 
 \}  honorables,  Johnston.   The  original  of  this  letter  cannot  now  be  found  in  the 
 State  Paper  Office.] 
 
 L'  See  p.  54,  n.  :}.]  [»  secretvs,  Johnston.]  [*  less,  Johnston.] 
 
■^8G 
 
 Al'l'ExNDIX. 
 
 sequel,  well  hoped  for  at  your  hands.  Except  that  be  looked  to  iu 
 time,  the  Queen's  INIajesty  shall  not  have  half  sufficient  ministers  for 
 her  years,  which  I  pray  God  may  be  many,  to  uphold  Christ's  faith 
 in  her  realms.  Youth  here  is  of  some  inclination  if  they  had  but 
 three  or  four  good  Heads  resident  to  lean  unto,  to  comfort  them 
 against  some  [_  ?]  four'  talkers  in  their  stoutness ;  but  time  must  be 
 expected,  and  God's  furtherance  craved.  Sir^  I  ])ray  you  pardon  my 
 boldness,  and  not  to  be  offended,  though  I  write  thus  homely  and  in 
 English  letters.  AVhile  peradventure  I  might  busy  my  head  to 
 write  Latinius^  somewhat  to  avoid  offending  of  your  exact  and 
 exquisite  gift  in  your  Latin  tongue,  I  might  chance  to  w^ite  ohscii" 
 rius,  not  si^)ii/icantius,  and  so  the  longer  to  detain  your  perusing 
 these  small  causes,  to  hinder  your  others  much  more  weighty,  which 
 I  beseech  Almighty  God  to  prosper. 
 
 Your  unfeigned  and  bound  bedesman, 
 
 M.  P. 
 
 From  Corpus  Christi  College  {?i  Cambridge, 
 the  30th  day  of  March. 
 
 [^  fower,  Johnston.] 
 
INDEX. 
 
 vVhiikys,   npplioation    of  ihcir   revenues,    j 
 213.  I 
 
 Abcrjjttveiiny  (Hen.  lord),  v.  Neville.  I 
 
 Absolution    of    certain    excommunicated   I 
 foreigners,  247. 
 
 Achates,  provisions,  xii. 
 
 Acworth  ((fco.),  notice  of  him,  440 /i. 
 
 Admonition  controversy,  the  Admonition 
 to  the  Parliament  reprinted,  31».'» ;   Cart- 
 wright  answered  by  Derini,',  434  ;    Cart-    ' 
 V right's  Reply  to  an  Answer  made  by 
 Whitgift,  453«.  I 
 
 Advertisements,  notice  of  the  book  of,  (or 
 Articles,  or  Ordinances)  devised  by  cer- 
 tain bishops,  lo04,  233,  271. 
 
 Affliction,    letter    of   consolation    to  lord 
 Burghley  on  occasion  of  severe  illness,    i 
 4o3. 
 
 Agletts,  Fr.  aigulettcs,  tigur..tively,  finish- 
 ing touches,  12. 
 
 Aglionby  (Edw.),  lent  Parker  a  MS., 
 3«8  n.  ' 
 
 Ainsworth  (lialph),  master  of  Peter-house, 
 38/1. 
 
 Aldborough,  Suffolk,  contest  between  Le- 
 vers  and  ^^'illoughby  about  the  benefice, 
 404  ;  the  chancel  quite  down,  &c.,  ib. 
 
 Aldrich  (Tho.),  master  of  lienet  College, 
 Cambridge,  358;  a  great  maintainer 
 of  Cartwright,  427,  429  ;  sent  for  by 
 the  ecclesiastical  commissioners,  433 ; 
 he  and  the  fellows  appeal  to  lord  Burgh- 
 ley, as  chancellor  of  the  university,  43G, 
 438;  his  insolence  too  great,  43G  ;  most 
 of  the  heads  against  him,  439  ;  resigns  his 
 prebend  at  M'estminster,  439 ;  doubts  as 
 to  the  mode  of  determining  the  contro- 
 versy in  the  college,  440;  he  desires  to 
 resign  rather  than  be  deprived,  443. 
 
 Alexander  (3Ir),  i.e.  A.  Citolini,  f/.v. 
 
 Allen  (Tho.),  skinner,  211. 
 
 Alley  (Will.)?  bp  of  Exeter,  his  share  in 
 the  Bishops' Bible,  33on. 
 
 Alvey(  Jo.), master  of  the  Temple, applies 
 to  Parker  about  Conanus,  -i'C). 
 
 Ambrose  (St),  says  Helena  worshipped  the 
 
 king,  not  the  wood,  for  that  is  a  gentile 
 error  and  vanity  of  the  wicked,  8;  tells 
 Theodosius  that  it  neither  becomes  an 
 emperor  to  deny  liberty  of  ^pccch,  nor  a 
 priest  not  to  say  what  he  thinks,  &c.,  94. 
 
 Anabaptists,  a  great  number  taken  in  1675, 
 on  Easter  day,  479. 
 
 Andrews   ( ),    brought   in   Saunders's 
 
 book,  409. 
 
 Anglo-Saxon  tongue,  253,  266,  271  ;  type 
 cast  for  Day,  4(i8  n. 
 
 Anne  Boleyn, second  queenof  Henry  VIII., 
 sends  for  Parker,  1,  2,  482  ;  her  liberal- 
 ity towards  students,  2 ;  Latin  letter  to 
 Rich.  Nix,  bp  of  Norwich,  4  ;  her  charge 
 to  Parker  about  her  daughter  Elizabeth, 
 59,  391,400;  her  favour  to  Parker,  70, 
 178;  her  marriage  thought  to  be  con- 
 firmed by  a  pope's  bull,  414,  420. 
 
 Apparitions,  an  alleged  one  at  Blackbuni, 
 222. 
 
 Aquila  (the  bishop  of),  ambassador  from 
 Spain,  desires  a  conference  with  Parker, 
 201. 
 
 Archbishops,  many  desired  that  the  name 
 might  be  abolished,  373. 
 
 Archdeacons,  one  not  in  orders,  142  n. 
 
 Archers,  their  outfit,  15. 
 
 Arden  (Jo.),  deprived  by  bp  Sandys, 
 125. 
 
 Armour,  how  to  be  provided  by  the  clergy, 
 345—348. 
 
 Amobius,  mentions  the  heathen  objection 
 that  Christians  had  neither  temples, 
 images,  nor  altars,  86. 
 
 Articles,  i'.  Advertisements. 
 
 A  book  of  articles  was  presented  to  Eli- 
 zabeth by  the  returned  3Iarian  exiles, 
 290  ;  articles  were  sent  from  some 
 learned  men  in  Germany  soon  after- 
 wards, 118. 
 
 Articles  (XXXIX.  >,  a  bill  introduced  re- 
 specting subscription  to  them,  291 — 294; 
 ultimately  passed,  293/2. ;  on  the  citation 
 of  Augustine  on  the  29th  article, 381. 
 
 Arundel  (Hen.  earl  of),  i'.  Fitzalan. 
 
 Arundell  {Mr),  448. 
 
 Ashen,  Essex,  viii.  482. 
 
488 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Asplyn  (Will.),  a  printer  of  Cartwright's 
 book,  449. 
 
 Asser  (Jo.),  bp  of  Sherborne,  his  'yElfredi 
 Res  Gestae '  published  by  abp  Parker, 
 468. 
 
 Astrology,  r.  Nostradamus. 
 Practised  by  Bomelius,  364. 
 
 Athanasius  (St),  says  the  invention  of 
 images  came  not  of  good  but  of  evil,  83. 
 
 Atkins  (Anth.),  fellow  of  Merton  College, 
 committed  to  the  Tower,  75. 
 
 Atkinson  (Ric),  vice-provost  of  King's 
 College,  Cambridge,  18. 
 
 Aubrey  (Dr),  an  insatiable  cormorant,  267} 
 Dr  Abre,  perhaps  another  person,  285. 
 
 Audley  (Tho.,  lord),  lord-chancellor,  arti- 
 cles sent  to  him  against  Parker,  7 ;  learned 
 and  eloquent,  315.  j 
 
 Augustine  (St),  commends  the  opinion  of  ] 
 Varro  that  religion  might  be  more  purely 
 observed  without  images,  86  ;   says  they    | 
 serve  rather  to  crook  an  unhappy  soul   ; 
 than  to  correct  it,  87  ;   shews  why  scrip-    ; 
 ture  so  frequently  reminds  us  that  they 
 have  mouths  and  speak  not,  &c.,  87  ;   he 
 disallowed  appeals  to  Rome,  111  ;  on  the 
 chastity  of  John  and  that  of  Peter,  lo9  ;    ; 
 he  is  properly  cited  in  the  twenty-ninth    '. 
 article  of  the  church  of  England,  381. 
 
 Augustine  (St),  abp  of  Canterbury,  425;  ' 
 his  authority  denied  by  the  British  bi-  ! 
 shops,  111  ;  his  doctrine  not  received  by  i 
 them,  265,  266.  | 
 
 Aylmer  (Jo.),  bp  of  London,  recommend-   ! 
 ed  for  that  see,  350  ;    he  declines  to  an-    ; 
 swer  the  book  'De  Disciplina'  (ascribed 
 to  Travers),  477. 
 
 Aylond  (Mr),  38. 
 
 13. 
 
 Babington  (Dr),  of  Oxford,  138. 
 
 Backere  (Romanusde),  of  the  strangers' 
 church  at  Sandwich,  247* 
 
 Bacon  (Sir  Nich.),  a  commissioner  for  the 
 suppression  of  Colleges,  SiC,  33  n. ;  his 
 house  in  Noble  Street,  London,  49  n.  ; 
 lord  keeper,  155,  156,  179,  328  n.,  357, 
 381;  at  variance  with  Parker,  309—316; 
 libelled,  444  ;  letters  to  Parker,  49,  53, 
 68,  69,  71,  76,  120  ;  letters  to  him,  50,  o2, 
 57. 171. 
 
 Bacon,  Anne,  wife  of  Sir  Nich.,  (daughter 
 of  Sir  A.  Cook),  translates  Jewel's  Apo- 
 logy, 219  ;  letters  to  her,  219,  309. 
 
 Bagnal  (Sir  Rich.),  desires  a  commission 
 against  the  clergy,  413,424. 
 
 Baker  (Jo.),  married  Parker's  mother, 
 18  ?i. 
 
 Baker  (Jo.),  son  of  the  last,  and  Parker's 
 treasurer,  ib. 
 
 Bale  (Jo.),  bp  of  Ossory,  possessed  many 
 ancient  MSS.,  140,  198,  287  ;  his  prefer- 
 ment at  Canterbury,  197  «.,  199,  202. 
 
 Bangor,  the  diocese  out  of  order,  257. 
 
 Bannester  (Tho.),  skinner,  211. 
 
 Barber  (Rich.),  warden  of  All  Souls'  Col- 
 lege, letters  to  him,  296,  297,  300,  320, 
 324  ;  enjoined  to  deface  superstitious 
 plate,  &c.,  301  n. 
 
 Barker  ( Will.),  servant  to  the  duke  of  Nor- 
 folk, 391. 
 
 Barley  (Rob.),  of  Barley,  and  Elizabeth 
 (Hardwick)  his  wife,  301  n. 
 
 Barlings,  Line,  the  prior  heads  an  insur- 
 rection, 8. 
 
 Barlow  (Will.),  bp  of  Chichester  (pre- 
 viously of  St  Asaph,  of  St  David's,  and 
 of  Bath  and  Wells),  signs  letters  to  the 
 queen,  101,  294;  his  share  in  the  Bi- 
 shops' Bible,  335  «. ;  his  death,  331  ; 
 marriage  of  his  daughter  Frances  to 
 Matthew,  son  of  abp  Parker,  x.  484. 
 
 Barnes  (Rich.),  bp  of  Carlisle,  afterwards 
 of  Durham,  letter  to  him,  392. 
 
 Baron  (Jo.^,  a  Scottishminister,  and  Anne 
 Goodacre,  his  wife,  205,  209. 
 
 Baskerville  (Dr),  or  Baxterville,  171. 
 
 Bateman  (Tho.),  of  the  strangers'  church 
 at  Sandwich,  247. 
 
 Beard  ( ),  vicar  of  Greenwich,  197. 
 
 Beaumont  (Rich.),  master  of  Trinity  Col- 
 lege, Cambridge,  and  vice-chancellor, 
 226  7t.,  264;  to  preach  at  Paul's  Cross, 
 275. 
 
 Becon  (Tho.),  proposed  as  a  preacher  at 
 Paul's  Cross,  275. 
 
 Beddell  ( )  of  Pancras,  278. 
 
 Bedford  (Earls  of),  v.  Kuss'ell. 
 
 Bekesbourne,  Kent,  Parker  desires  to  take 
 down  a  part  of  his  house  at  Ford,  to  en- 
 large his  house  at  Bekesbourne,  419 ;  re- 
 pairs intended,  446,  448. 
 
 Benefices,  v.  Dispensations — Impropria- 
 tions— Ministers. 
 
 Informations    for    non-residence,    312; 
 Godfrey's  book,  348. 
 
 Benis  (Tho.), rector  of  St  Clement's,  Nor- 
 wich, vi.  481. 
 
INDKX. 
 
 189 
 
 Memuu  (  Di ),  Vjd.  i 
 
 Hcntham    (Tho. ),    bp   ot     Coventry    uiul    j 
 LichticKUsiKUs  «  letter  to  the  queen. -*!t4; 
 Ills  shurc  in  the  Hl^ho|>»■  llible,  'M\^n. 
 lUrkcley ^ (i lib. ),bi.o!lJuthjuul Wells,  4tm. 
 lutts  (Will.)  ofC.  C.  t'.  (".,  chnpkin  to 
 
 .\nne  IJoleyn,  his  dcnth,  1,  2. 
 Mible,  the  only  necessjiry  treasure,  U.'IH; 
 the  (ieneva  IJible,  Hoilley  has  a  speciitl 
 liience  to  print  if,  '2VA  ;  the  Hishops' 
 Bible,  Parker  desires  Cecil  to  revise  an 
 epistle, 'J!M>;  completed,  IJiU  ;  li.sisofthe 
 revisers,  XU — 33(J/j.;  instructions  sent 
 to  theni,  33(i  n. ;  Parker's  letter  sent  with 
 I  this  Bible  to  the  queen,  337  ;  the  Wehh 
 
 IJible,  itM. 
 Bickley  (Tho. ),  bp  ot'  Chichester,  chap- 
 lain to  Parker,  2t>l  ;    sent  to  preach  at 
 Cripple^ate,  27U ;    reconniiended    tor   a 
 prebend,    '2[)0 ;    proposed   as   bishop  of 
 Oxford,  3»R). 
 Bill  (.  Will.),  unable  to  have  his  fellowsliip 
 at  6t  John's  for  want  of  money,  3  ;  mas- 
 ter of  St  John's,  38  //. ;   an  ecclesiastical 
 conmiissioncr,  133. 
 Billmcn,  their  outfit,  15. 
 Bindon  (Tho.  vise.)  v.  Howard. 
 Binneman  (Hen.),   seeks  a  privilege  for 
 
 printing  some  school  books,  3.V2. 
 Bishops,  V.  Coadjutors— Suffragans. 
 
 Letter  to  the  deprived  bishops,  lO'J  ;  the 
 election  of  bishops  confirmed  by  the 
 primate,  3U«) ;  the  council  complains 
 of  their  negligence,  and  of  consequent 
 disorder  amongst  the  people,  355  ;  re- 
 garded as  persecutors  of  tlie  puritans, 
 410. 
 Blackburn,  Lane,  an  apparition  there, 222. 
 Blethin  (Will.),  bp  of  Llandafi;  47r>. 
 
 Blyth( ),  M.D.,  18,37. 
 
 Bobbing,  Kent,  the  lazar-house,  169. 
 Bodley  (Jo.),  specially   licensed  to  print 
 
 the  Geneva  Bible,  2»>1. 
 Boleyn  (Mr),  prebendary  of  Canterbury, 
 
 31'J. 
 Bomelius  (Eliseus),  his  astrology  and  im- 
 prisonment, 303,  304  ;  desires  to  go  to 
 Russia,  3»i4  ». 
 Bonham  (Will.),  to  be  discharged,  464. 
 Book  of  Common  Prayer,  revised  on  the 
 accession    of  Elizabeth,   ornaments  re- 
 tained,  65 ;    translated  into    Latin    for 
 certain   collegiate   churches,   133 ;     ap- 
 proved  by  the  cardinal  of  Lorraine,  398. 
 
 Book  of  DiHcipline,  382. 
 
 BiH>k!«,  supcrAtitiuuH  church  bookn  at  All 
 
 Souli'  College,  21»7. 
 Bookseller!*,  ordered  not  to  sell  books  with- 
 out permission,  4lU. 
 Boulogne,  taken  by  king  Henry,  15«.,  30 »j. 
 Bourne  ((iilb. ),  bp  of  B.iih  and  ^^'ell.s, 
 )>ri9oner  in  the  Tower,  122;    in  tlie  cus- 
 tody of  bp  BuUingham,  253. 
 
 Bowen( ),  266,  267- 
 
 Boxall  (Jo.),  dean  of  I'eterborough,  A:c,, 
 <|uarrels  with  the  service-book,  65  ;  to  be 
 deprived  if  he  refuse  the  oath,  104  ;  his 
 character,  i7>.». ;  prisoner  in  the  Tower, 
 122;  removed  thence  on  account  of  the 
 plague,  192 — 195;  lives  with  Parker, 
 194  «.,  203,215,217,  218. 
 Boyes  (Edw.),  recommended  as  a  justice, 
 
 204. 
 Boys  {Jo.)y  steward  of  Parker's  liberties, 
 
 letter  to  him,  452. 
 Brackinbury   (Edw.),  reconmiended  as  a 
 
 notary,  393  ;<. 
 Brady  (Hugh),  bp  of  I\leath,  117  n. 
 Brand  (AVill.\  of  the  strangers'  church  at 
 
 Sandwich,  247. 
 Brandon  (Kath.),  duchess  of  Suttblk,  the 
 ecclesiastical  commissioners  send  for  one 
 Brown,  her  cha])lain,  390. 
 Braye  (Kich.),  fellow  of  All  Souls',  300, 
 
 30171. 
 Bridges  (Agnes),  pretending  to  be  possess- 
 ed, she  is  examined  before  abp  Parker, 
 and  does  penance  at  Paul's  Cross,  465. 
 Bridges  (Edm.),  lord  Chandos,  writes  to 
 
 Parker,  213//. 
 Brill  (Steph.),  fellow  of  All  Souls',  30O. 
 Brimstone,  made  from  stufl' gathered  on  the 
 
 shore,  341. 
 Broadways,  Dorset  ?  tlie  rectory,  13(». 
 Bromley  (G.), ecclesiastical  commissioner, 
 
 383. 
 Bromley  (Sir  Tho.),  lord  chancellor:  pre- 
 viously ecclesiastical  commissioner,  370, 
 383. 
 Brook  (^\'ill.),  lord  Cobham,  lord  warden 
 of  the  Cinque   Ports,  202,  203,  379,  n. 
 437  ;  letter  to  him,  379  ;    Frances  (New- 
 ton), his  wife  3U  n. 
 Brookesby  (Humph.),  297. 
 
 Brooks  ( ),  applies  for  the  prebend  of 
 
 Rycall  in  the  church  of  York,  361. 
 Brown  (Ant.),  vise.  31ontague,  285. 
 I    Brown  (Rob.), 'one  Brown  '  (probably  the 
 
490 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 celebrated  Robert),  chaplain  to  the 
 duchess  of  Suffolk,  390. 
 
 Browne  ( Geo. ),  abp  of  Dublin,  pulls  down 
 an  image,  96  «. 
 
 Broyle,  Sussex,  a  park  near  Lewes,  17B. 
 
 Bruerne  (Rich.),  his  irregular  election  as 
 provost  of  Eton,  150  n.;  receiver  of 
 Christ  Church,  Oxon.,  240. 
 
 Bucer  (Martin),  letters  to  Parker,  41,  42  ; 
 his  death,  42  n. ;  his  excellent  qualities, 
 44  ;  made  Parker  and  H  addon  his  exe- 
 cutors, 46,47;  some  account  of  his  goods, 
 47  ;  M'ibrand  Bucerin,  his  widow,  Cheke 
 intercedes  with  the  king  for  her,  43,  44; 
 she  goes  to  Strasburgh,  47. 
 
 Buckland  Newton,  Dorset,  register,  393  n. 
 
 Bulls  :  a  bull  in  Spanish  brought  to  Par- 
 ker, 397  ;  one  confirming  the  marriage  of 
 Anne  Boleyn,  414,  420. 
 
 Bullingham  (Xich.),  successively  bp  of 
 Lincoln,  \Vorcester,  Gloucester,  and 
 Bristol ;  assists  in  the  compilation  of  the 
 book  of  advertisements,  233 ;  has  the 
 custody  of  bp  Boume,  253 ;  signs  a  let- 
 ter to  the  queen,  294  ;  to  preach  at  Paul's 
 Cross,  318 ;  his  share  in  the  Bishops' 
 Bible,  336  71. ;  his  preaching  not  suited 
 to  the  court,  378  ;  ecclesiastical  commis- 
 sioner, 383. 
 
 Bunge  (^Mr),  of  Norwich,  vii.  481. 
 
 Bungey  (Jo.),  of  Canterbury,  442. 
 
 Burghley  ("Will.,  lord),  v.  Cecil. 
 
 Burliugham,  St  Andrew's,  Norfolk,  viii. 
 482. 
 
 Busby  ( ),  a  doctor  of  law,  18. 
 
 Butterworth  (Edw.),  of  Rochdale,  232. 
 
 Byron  (Sir  Jo.),  lessee  of  the  living  of 
 Rochdale,  231 ;  letter  to  3Ir  Byron,  his 
 son,  232. 
 
 C. 
 
 Caius  (Jo.),  master  of  Gonville  Hall,  (now 
 Caius  College),  248;  rash  in  expelling 
 fellows,  249  ;  but  worthy  of  respect  as  a 
 founder,  ih. ;  accused  of  atheism,  251  ; 
 apparently  referred  to  as  ."Mr  Keyes,2y5; 
 letter  by  him,  298;  his  book  De  Antiq. 
 Cantab.  Academia?,  298  n. 
 
 —  (Tho.),  registrar  of  the  Univ.  of  Oxon., 
 his  Assertio  Antiq.  Oxon.  Academise, 
 298  n. 
 
 Calendar,  a  new  calendar  of  lessons  direct- 
 ed to  be  made,  133,  135. 
 
 Caley  (Rob.),  a  printer,  295. 
 
 Calfhill    (Jo.),    preaches    an  injudicious 
 
 sermon  before  the  queen,  218. 
 Calvin  (Jo.),  Parker  desires   his   attend- 
 ance at  a  conference  in  France,  147- 
 Cambridge,  old  parliaments    held    there, 
 
 300  7i. 
 
 University:  v.  Caius  (Jo.), — Univer- 
 sities ;  account  of  Parker's  election 
 as  vice-chancellor,  17,  18;  corrodies 
 for  decayed  cooks,  20  ;  many  things 
 out  of  order,  28;  prayers  and  proces- 
 sions, 1545.  for  the  king's  success  in 
 war,  30;  commission  from  Henry  VI IL 
 to  inquire  into  its  possessions,  34  n. ; 
 royal  visitation,  1549,  38;  letter  of 
 3Iary,  on  her  accession,  to  Gardiner 
 respecting  its  condition,  54 n.;  letter 
 to  the  university  from  Gardiner,  the 
 chancellor,  56  7<.;  letter  of  abp  Par- 
 ker and  others  to  the  university  desir- 
 ing the  immediate  election  of  a  preacher^ 
 71 ;  comedies  and  tragedies  performed 
 there,  226  n.;  licenses  to  preachers, 
 238 ;  proper  style  of  the  university, 
 239 ;  dissensions  respecting  vestments, 
 245  ;  the  study  of  Hebrew  there,  348 ; 
 Parker  promises  to  do  something  for 
 increase  of  the  living  of  the  Hebrew 
 reader,  467 ;  devilish  works  there, 
 353  ;  not  two  men  there,  able  or  willing 
 to  read  the  lady  Margaret's  lecture, 
 374;  complaints  of  some  young  men 
 against  the  masters  of  colleges,  393; 
 letter  from  the  ecclesiastical  commis- 
 sioners to  the  vice-chancellor  about 
 Tho.  Aldrich,  433 ; 
 
 Bend  or  Corpus  Christi  College  u\ 
 Aldrich,  T.) :  letter  from  Henry  VIIL 
 to  the  fellows,  recommending  Parker 
 as  master,  16;  Parker's  benefactions, 
 xiii. ;  the  mastership  worth  20  nobles 
 a  year,  51 ;  disorders  there,  343 ;  revi- 
 sion  of  the  statutes  in  king  Edward's 
 time,  439  ;  college  leases,  469. 
 
 Caiua  College  (formerly  Gonville  Hall), 
 quanels  there,  248,  252;  plate  given 
 by  Parker,  xiii. 
 
 ChrisCs  College,  a  tragedy  called  Pam- 
 machius  played  there,  and  proceedings 
 thereon,  21—29;  some  there  objected 
 to  the  surplice,  226  n. 
 
 St  Mary's  Hall,  hosp.  D.  Mariff,  vii. 
 481. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 11)1 
 
 Queens'  College,  dispute  about  election  j 
 there,  tU,  0.^  ;  Teacock  re»igtw  the  ' 
 hraiUhip  to  Dr  .May,  (\7. 
 
 SI  John's  College,  »on»e  there  objected 
 to  the  surplice,  'i'JtJ  »i. ;  a  proposal  to    I 
 annex  the  collejje  of  Manchester  to  it, 
 3fi:..  I 
 
 Trinity  J  fall,  plate  given  by  Parker,  i 
 xiii.  I 
 
 The  Schools,  the  highway  to  them,  46«'i.     | 
 Campion  (Edmund),  his  History  of  Ire-    ^ 
 
 land,  407.  ' 
 
 Candles,   retained    in   Queen    Klizabctli's 
 
 private  chapel,  117. 
 Canemer(Mr),  18. 
 Canons,  to  be  kept  not  precisely,  but  as 
 
 edification  shall  require,  'MVJ. 
 Canterbury,  a  royal  park  there,  178;scheme 
 
 for  making  the  river  navigable,  322  ;  ar- 
 rangements for  Queen  Elizabeth's  visit, 
 
 J41— 444;  the  visit  described,  47'),  470. 
 
 Cathedral,  church  plate,  &c.,  sold  by 
 deans  Wotton  and  Godwin,  303,  304; 
 Elizabeth  reserves  prebends  for  her 
 chaplains,  31'J;  custom  on  receiving 
 princes,  442;  how  queen  Elizabeth 
 was  received  there,  475. 
 
 Archbishoprick,  exchange  eft'ected  be- 
 tween the  crown  and  the  see,  102/1.; 
 the  contention  for  the  stewardship  of 
 the  liberties,  285,  n. ;  removed  by  the 
 attainder  of  the  duke  of  Norfolk,  452 ; 
 the  steward  to  hold  a  court  annually, 
 citing  all  who  hold  of  the  palace  of 
 Canterbury  by  knight  service,  ib. ; 
 the  archbishop  by  prescriptive  custom 
 visits  throughout  his  province,  115; 
 power  of  the  archbishop  to  visit  vacant 
 dioceses,  47*». 
 
 Archbishop's  palace,  burned  in  Cran- 
 mer's  time,  repaired  by  Parker,  xiii.  ; 
 
 St  Auffustine\^,  a  royal  palace,  442; 
 queen  Elizabetli  lodges  there,  475, 
 
 Hospitals,  S;c.,  return  of  hospitals  and 
 schools  within  the  diocese,  1(53,  1>J5— 
 170;  lazar  house  of  St  Lawrence  by 
 Canterbury,  10(5  ;  hospital  of  John 
 Baptist  without  the  walls,  HI7 ;  hos- 
 pital of  poor  priests,  U)7  ;  Maynerd's 
 spital,  ir>7;  Eastbridge  hospital,  1G8; 
 the  grammar  school,  \69. 
 Caps,  appointed  by  injunction,  240. 
 Carey  (Hen.),  lord  Hunsdon,  goes  against 
 
 the  rebels  in  the  north,  388  n. 
 
 (■aricr  (  Dr),  rcfu>t »  the  owth  of  i»u]>rcnucy, 
 105. 
 
 Cartwright  (Tho),  3115,  434,  453  n. 
 
 Cartwright  ( ),  brother  of  Thomas,  and 
 
 a  lunatic,  4r>'J,  470. 
 
 Cathedral)*,  no  woiricn  to  live  within  their 
 precinct.H,  14«J,  151,  1.58;  the  statutes  for 
 the  new  cathedrals  finished,  305. 
 
 Catherine  Parr,  sixth  (jueen  of  Henry  VIII., 
 letter  to  Parker,  HI;  letter  to  the  dean 
 and  fellows  of  Stoke,  desiring  a  lea^e  for 
 Edw.  Waldegravc,  l!» ;  letter  to  the  uni- 
 versity of  Cambridge,  3f>7<. 
 
 Cavallerius  or  Le  Chevalier.  (.Ant.  Rod.), 
 notice  of  him,  34!»//. 
 
 Cave  (Sir  Ambrose),  signature  as  privy 
 councillor.  103,  10«;,  155,  298. 
 
 Cavendish  or  Canndysh,  (Sir  \\'ill.),  letter 
 signed  by  him,  307;  Elizabeth  (Hard- 
 wick),  his  wife,  301  /<. 
 
 Cecil  (Sir  Will.),  afterwards  lord  Burgh- 
 ley,  chancellor  of  Cambridge,  54 ;  re- 
 strains the  queen  from  forbidding  the 
 marriage  of  the  clergy,  148  ;  created  ba- 
 ron Burghlcy,  381 ;  sends  Parker  a  book 
 containing  an  attack  on  himself  and  the 
 lord    keeper,    444 ;    signature  as   privy 
 
 councillor,  4(i,  73,  74, 
 
 •7,  103,  106, 
 
 122,  155,  170,  328  «.,  330,  357,  381;  his 
 letters  to  Parker,  33,  ♦i3,  07,  Oil,  77,  78, 
 104,  108,  138,  148,  101,  H;3,  172  bis,  183, 
 187,  223,  235,  301,  305,  354,444;  Par- 
 ker's letters  to  him,  see  the  Table  of 
 Contents. 
 
 Cecilia,  margravine  of  Baden,  sister  of  the 
 king  of  Sweden,  xii. 
 
 Celsus,  objected  tliat  the  Christians  had 
 neither  altars,  images,  nor  temples,  80. 
 
 Ceremonies,  disorders  in  rites  and  ceremo- 
 nies, 224,  227 ;  the  prince  has  power  by 
 law  to  ordain  ceremonies  in  certain  cases, 
 375. 
 
 Chafin  ( ),  married  two  sisters,  I70. 
 
 Chamber  (Edw.),  beneficed  near  Abing- 
 ton,  liO. 
 
 Chancels,  the  use  of  chancels  upheld  by 
 Parker,  132,  185,  180,  370,  450. 
 
 Chandos  (Edm.  lord),  v.  Bridges. 
 
 Chapman  (Edm.),  prebendary  of  Norwich, 
 450. 
 
 Charing,  Kent,  a  lease  of  it  obtained  by 
 Sir  Richard  Sackville,  372. 
 
 Charlemagne,  emperor,  his  book  against 
 the  second  council  of  Nice,  'J2,  141. 
 
492 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Chartres  (Jean,  vidanic  of),  v.  Terriers  (J. 
 de). 
 
 Cheke  (Sir  Jo.;,  letters  to  Parker,  2, 39,  43, 
 48;  translates  a  book  De  re  niilitari,  as- 
 cribed to  the  emperor  Leo  III.  ;  and 
 dedicates  it  to  Henry  VIII.,  90. 
 
 Chelius  (Ulric),  4(5 7j. 
 
 Cheshire,  divers  gentlemen  committed  to 
 ward  for  refusing  to  answer  the  bishop  on 
 oath,  329. 
 
 Chester,  a  benefice  annexed  to  the  bi- 
 shoprickj  100  ;  a  seditious  paper  cast 
 abroad  there,  163 /i. 
 
 Cheyne  (Sir  Tho.),  a  privy  councillor,  46. 
 
 Cheyney  (Rich.),  bp  of  Gloucester,  letter 
 to  Cecil,  138  w. ;  letter  to  him,  213;  Par- 
 ker complains  of  him,  332, 
 
 Chimere,  an  episcopal  vestment,  475. 
 
 Chipley,  Suffolk,  a  manor  belonging  to 
 Stoke  college,  19. 
 
 Christopher,  margrave  of  Baden,  xiii.n. 
 
 Christopherson  (Jo.),  afterwards  bp  of  Chi- 
 chester, 38. 
 
 Chrysostom  (St  Jo.),  shews  why  a  bishop 
 may  be  the  husband  of  one  wife,  159; 
 a  passage  from  the  Opus  Imperfectum 
 in  Matthaeum  wrongly  ascribed  to  him, 
 against  the  love  of  relics,  8,  511. 
 
 Church  of  England,  its  order  explained  to 
 a  French  ambassador,  216. 
 
 Church  lands,  an  act  passed  empowering 
 the  crown  to  exchange  them,  98  7i. 
 
 Churches,  much  neglected,  especially  the 
 chancels  (v.  chancels),  132. 
 
 Citolini  (Ales.),  an  Italian  protestant 
 exile,  420  71.,  421,470. 
 
 Clare,  Suffolk,  7,  8. 
 
 Clarke  ( ),  fellow  of  Gonville  hall,  248. 
 
 Clarke  (Will.),  of  Cambridge,  433. 
 
 Clement  Vll.  pope,  mention  of  a  bull  (of 
 this  pope,  or  Paul  III.  ?)  confirming  the 
 marriage  of  queen  Ann  Boleyn,  414. 
 
 Clement  (Tho.),  a  prebendary,  114. 
 
 Clergy,  v.  ministers. 
 Armour  to  be  provided  by  them,  345 — 
 348 ;  their  impoverishment,  and  its  ef- 
 fect, 374 ;  commissions  against  them 
 for  discovery  of  concealed  lands  or 
 goods,  413;  terrible  things  to  be  con- 
 trived against  them  in  parliament,  470. 
 
 Clerk  (Earth.),  engaged  to  refute  Saun- 
 ders, 411,  412  ;  some  account  of  his  an- 
 swer, 413,  414,  430  ;  refuses  to  resign 
 the  deanery  of  the  arches,  427 — 432. 
 
 Clerk  ( ),  niece  of  abp  Parker,  xiii. 
 
 Cliff'e,  Kent,  the  beneffce  annexed  to  the 
 see  of  Rochester,  100. 
 
 Clinton  (Edw.  lord),  afterwards  earl  of  Lin- 
 coin,  signature  as  privy  councillor,  74, 
 77,  106,  122,  155,  330,  357,  381 ;  goes 
 against  the  rebels  in  the  north,  388  n. ; 
 created  earl,  447  n. 
 
 Clyffbrd  (Geo.),  founded  a  lazar  house  at 
 Bobbing,  169. 
 
 Coadjutors,  their  duty,  306. 
 
 Cobham  (Will,  lord),  r.  Brooke. 
 
 Colbyn  (Tho.),  of  Beccles,  letter  signed 
 by  him,  307;  Mr  Colby,  Parker's  stew- 
 ard, apparently  the  same,  324. 
 
 Cole(Dr),  56;  suspected  of  nonconformity, 
 264. 
 
 Cole  (Mr),  at  court  in  his  hat  and  short 
 cloak,  237. 
 
 Cole  (Rob.),  of  St  3Iary  le  Bow,  a  puritan, 
 278. 
 
 Cole  (Tho.),  archdeacon  of  Essex,  303  n. 
 
 Coligni  (Odet  de),  cardinal  de  Chatillon, 
 his  lodging  at  Canterbury,  442. 
 
 Colleges,  no  women  to  live  within  their 
 precincts,  146,  151,  158. 
 
 Colt  (G.),  of  Clare,  sends  articles  to  lord 
 chancellor  Audley  against  Parker,  7- 
 
 Columna  (Guido  de),  295. 
 
 Commandments  (X.),  directed  to  be  set 
 up  at  the  east  end  of  the  chancel,  133, 
 135. 
 
 Commendams,  208. 
 
 Commerouse,  cumbrous,  249. 
 
 Commission  (Ecclesiastical),  suggestions 
 for  a  new  one,  369,  370 ;  letter  to  the 
 vice-chancellor  of  Cambridge  about  Tho. 
 Aldrich,  433;  letter  from  Parker  and 
 Sandys  to  a  commissioner  about  the  Pu- 
 ritans, 434  ;  the  commissioners  commit 
 some  to  prison,  447;  the  commission 
 much  abused,  450. 
 
 Connnissions  against  the  clergy  for  disco- 
 very of  concealed  lands  or  goods,  413. 
 
 Communion  Tables,  complaint  of  unseemly 
 ones,  with  foul  cloths,  133;  enjoined  to 
 be  placed  within  the  quire,  375,  376. 
 
 Conspiracy,  a  supposed  conspiracy  against 
 nigh  friends  of  queen  Elizabeth,  461. 
 
 Constance  (bishop  of),  received  by  Parker, 
 214. 
 
 Constantine  V.,  emperor  of  the  East,  called 
 a  council  at  Constantinople,  91 ;  his 
 bones  burned  by  his  daughter  Irene,  92. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 493 
 
 Conttantlne  VI.,  emperor  of  the  Emi,  his 
 mother  Irene  puts  out  his  eyes,  92. 
 
 Convocation,  slow  in  its  poocecdingn,  U. 
 
 Cook  (^Sir  Anth.\  nn  ecclesiastical  com- 
 nnssioner,  370  n.  ,  luul  visitor  of  colleges, 
 4311 ;  Anne  his  ilauj^htcr  married  Sir  N. 
 Hacon,  7.  r. 
 
 (  \)oke  ( ),  chaplain  to  the  c;irl  of  Sus- 
 sex, 4."iH. 
 
 I  c'oper  (Tho.\  bp  of  Lincoln,  at'tcrwards 
 oi  Winchester,  notice  of  him.  SUJ ;».,  Al  1  ; 
 could  not  have  the  see  of  Oxford,  iHiO; 
 his  Brief  Exposition  of  such  ch.iptcrs  of 
 the  Old  Testament  .is  usually  arc  read  in 
 the  Church... on  Sundays,  4H2  ;  he  meets 
 the  queen  at  Canterbury,  470. 
 
 Corranus  (Ant.^i,  otherwise  A.  Bellerivus 
 Corranus,  or  del  Corro,  reader  at  the  Tem- 
 ple, letter  by  him,  33*J  ;  his  books,  ib.  n.; 
 notice  of  him,  340  n. ;  thought  to  preach 
 erroneous  doctrine,  47*». 
 
 C'orringham,  Line,  a  prebend  in  the  ca- 
 thedral church,  viii.  482. 
 
 Corrodies  for  decayed  cooks,  20. 
 
 Cotton  (-'Mr),  son  of  a  knight,  married  Sir 
 Rog.  M'oodhouse's  daughter,  401 ;  very 
 evil  disposed,  i4. ;  absconded,  402  ?j., 
 103,  4 Id,  417. 
 
 Council  (Privy),  letters  from  the  lords  of 
 the  council,  temp.  Eliz.,  103,  lOo,  117, 
 121,  170,  1»0,  182.  192,  195,  217,  327  »., 
 328,  3i)o,  370,  384,  457".;  letter  to  the 
 council,  330. 
 
 Councils,  Parker  owns  councils  called  by 
 religious  princes,  110;  many  ancient 
 ones  possessed  by  Jo.  Tilius,  141 ;  Car- 
 th(i()c  (252 — 256) ;  Cyprian's  sentences 
 therein.  111  ;  Carthage  W.  (or  Africa, 
 419?),  where  Augustine  and2ir>  bishops 
 forbade  appeals  to  l?ome,  j7a  ;  Con.stan- 
 tlnople  (754),  condemned  image-worship, 
 91  ;  Elvira  (Eliberinum,  c.  305),  forbade 
 pictures  in  churches,  93;  Xice  11,  (787), 
 condemned  the  decrees  of  the  council  of 
 Constantinople,  9l/i.;  and  establislied 
 image-worsliip,  92;  Charlemagne's  book 
 against  it,  ib. 
 
 Court  of  Exchequer,  a  writ  therefrom, 
 103. 
 
 Court  of  Facuhics,  Parker  desired  its  abo- 
 lition, 3G3. 
 
 Court  (Palace)  of  the  abp  of  Canterbury, 
 to  be  holden  by  the  steward  of  his  liber- 
 ties, 45. 
 
 Court  of  Star  Chamber,  an  order  made  for 
 the  expulsion  of  mmdry  of  the  pervcrae 
 sort  in  religion  from  the  inns  of  court, 
 384;  referred  to,  418,427. 
 
 Courtenay  (Will.  1,  abp  of  Canterbury,  at- 
 tends a  parliament  at  Cambridge,  300  ;j, 
 
 Coverdale  (.Milesj,  bp  of  Exeter,  absent 
 from  the  Lambeth  conference  about  the 
 vestments,  270  /*. 
 
 Cowper  (Rob.),  Parker's  tutor  at  C.C.C.C. 
 vii.481. 
 
 Cox  (  Hich.),bp  of  Ely,  his  election  to  that 
 see,  101  ri.;  formerly  dean  of  Ch.  Ch.Oxon. 
 118;  assists  in  the  compilation  of  the 
 Advertisements,  233;  to  preach  at  Paul's 
 cross,  2fil ;  desires  the  enforcement  of 
 uniformity,  270;  his  part  in  the  Bisho]  s' 
 Bible,  282,  33(5  n.;  an  ecclesiastical  com- 
 missioner, 383  ;  his  opinion  of  Saunders, 
 410;  libelled,  474;  letters  to  Parker, 
 151,  281 ;  signs  letters  to  the  queen,  101, 
 129,  294  ;  and  a  letter  to  lord  Burghley, 
 394  ;  his  daughter  Joanna  married  to 
 John,  son  of  abp  Parker,  x.  484. 
 
 Craig  (Jo.),  minister  of  Edinburgh,  letter 
 from  him  and  others  to  abps  Parker  and 
 Voung,  205. 
 
 Crane  {Jo.),  fellow  of  Ch.  coll.  Cambridge, 
 25,  20. 
 
 Cranmer  (Tho.),  abp  of  Canterbury,  letters 
 to  Parker,  39,  40,  43;  record  of  his  dis- 
 putation at  Oxford,  160;  some  of  his 
 written  books  in  private  hands,  186,  187; 
 further  particulars  respecting  his  31 S8., 
 191. 
 ,'  Crinitus  (Pet.),  records  a  decree  of  Valens 
 and  Theodosius  against  representations 
 of  the  cross  (lignum)  of  Christ,  90. 
 ■  Crisp  (Sir  Hen.),  of  the  Isle  of  Thanet, 
 204. 
 
 Croft  (Sir  James),  signature  as  privy  coun- 
 cillor, 381. 
 
 OomwcU  (Tho.  lord),  afterwards  earl  of 
 Essex,  letter  to  Parker,  5  ;  master  of  the 
 rolls,  5  n. 
 
 Cross,  r.  CruciHx. 
 
 We  should  not  worship  the  wood,  and 
 ftirget  the  mystery  of  the  cross,  7  ;  re- 
 presentations of  the  cross  (signumi  of 
 Christ,  forbidden  by  Valens  and  Theo- 
 dosius, 90. 
 
 Crowley   (Rob.),    expelled    divers    clerks 
 
 from  St  (iiles's,  Cripplegate,  attending  a 
 
 '       funeral  in  surplices,  275,  276 ;  a  divine. 
 
404 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 a  poet,  and  a  printer,  ib.  n. ;  his  opinions 
 declared  to  be  anabaptistical,  270;  im- 
 prisoned in  his  own  house,  2/6,  278. 
 
 Crucifix,  retained  in  queen  Elizabeth's  pri- 
 vate chapel,  97,  105 ;  removed,  and 
 brought  back  again,  379. 
 
 Culpepper  ( ),  married  the  sister  of  Leo- 
 nard Dacres,  30fi ;  a  suspected  person, 
 367. 
 
 Curteys  (Rich.),  bp  of  Chichester,  made 
 dean  of  Chichester,  290;  recommended 
 for  the  see,  331  ;  meet  to  serve  the  court, 
 350  ;  an  ecclesiastical  commissioner,  383. 
 
 Curwen  (Hugh),  or  Coren,  abp  of  Dublin, 
 detects  a  pretended  miracle,  i)iyn.,  96  n. ; 
 afterwards  bishop  of  Oxford,  305;  should 
 have  a  coadjutor  there,  ib. 
 
 Cyprian  (St),  says  Peter,  on  whom  the 
 Lord  built  his  church,  did  not,  when 
 Paul  disputed  with  him,  challenge  any- 
 thing arrogantly,  110;  shews  that  bishops 
 are  not  subject  to  the  judgment  of  each 
 other,  but  only  to  Christ,  HI. 
 
 D. 
 
 Dacres  (Leon,),  the  rebel,  son  of  William 
 lord  Dacre  of  Gillesland,  367;  his  sister 
 married  to  one  Culpepper,  ib. 
 
 Damascenus  (Jo.):  records  portions  of  an 
 edict  of  Leo  Isauricus  against  images, 
 90  n. 
 
 Danet  (Gerard),  his  unlawful  marriage, 
 353. 
 
 Danvers  (Will.),  an  ecclesiastical  commis- 
 sioner, 301  n. 
 
 Dathenus  (Pet.),  letter  to  him,  471. 
 
 Davies  (Rich.),  bishop  of  St  Asaph,  and 
 afterwards  of  St  David's :  his  translation, 
 137  n. ;  his  part  in  the  Bishops'  Bible, 
 &c.,265,  207n.,  280,  335  n. ;  letters  to 
 Parker,  137,  265,  279  ;  signs  a  letter  to 
 the  queen,  294  ;  letter  to  him,  270. 
 
 Davies  (Tho),  bishop  of  St  Asaph,  137  n.; 
 seeks  a  licence  to  hold  a  living  in  com- 
 niendam,  207;  signs  a  letter  to  the  queen, 
 294  ;  his  death,  446  7i. 
 
 Day  (Geo.),  bishop  of  Chichester,  18. 
 
 Day  (Jo.),  the  printer,  his  new  Italian 
 letter,  411 ;  obtains  a  lease  of  a  shop  in 
 St  Paul's  churchyard,  ti. ;  Asplyn  at- 
 tempts  to  kill  him  and  his  wife,  449; 
 Anglo-Saxon  type  cast  for  him,  468. 
 
 Day  (Will.),  bishop  of  Winchester,  some- 
 
 time provost  of  Eton,  162;  meet  for  the 
 see  of  London,  360  ;  proposed  as  a  com- 
 missioner, 370. 
 
 Deal  castle,  Kent,  203. 
 
 Dean  (Mr),  258;  Mr  Dene,  probably  the 
 same,  285. 
 
 Declaration,  A  Declaration  in  the  name  and 
 defence  of  certain  Ministers  in  London, 
 285  n, ;  A  brief  Examination,  &:c.  in 
 reply  to  it,  ib. 
 
 Delamore  (Humf.),  parson  of  Kemisford, 
 213. 
 
 Denny  (Sir  Anth.)  letter  to  the  commis- 
 sioners for  the  dissolution  of  colleges, 
 33  n. 
 
 Denny  ( ),  vicar  of  North  Elm.ham, 
 
 247. 
 
 Derby  (Earls  of),  r.  Stanley. 
 
 Dering  (Edw.),  a  great  learned  mian,  410; 
 attempts  to  confute  Saunders,  410;  an- 
 swers Cartwright,  434;  the  queen  dislikes 
 his  reading,  476. 
 
 Dethick  ( ),   fellow  of  Gonville  hall, 
 
 248,  252,  298. 
 
 Dispensations,  Parker  refuses  a  dispensa- 
 tion to  allow  a  child  to  hold  a  benefice, 
 136;  a  Roman  dispensation  to  hold  a 
 prebend,  whether  still  in  force,  176; 
 on  the  dispensing  power  of  the  prince, 
 and  of  the  archbishop,  351;  a  dispensa- 
 tion sought  to  make  a  child  a  prebendary, 
 362. 
 
 Dodds  (Greg.),  dean  of  Exeter:  appointed 
 to  preach,  260,  275,  511. 
 
 Dorel  (3Ir),  prebendary  of  Canterbury,  319. 
 
 Dorman  (Tho.),  his  controversy  with  No- 
 wel,  260. 
 
 Dover,  Kent,  state  of  the  castle  and  town, 
 203,  204  ;  the  pier,  258,  and  haven,  259 ; 
 a  strange  person  examined  there,  400; 
 Parker  sends  a  book  about  Dover  to  lord 
 Burghley,  436,  439. 
 
 Downes  (Fra.),  of  East  Tuddenham, 
 402/2. 
 
 Downham  (Will.),  bishop  of  Chester,  com- 
 pounds for  his  visitation,  222;  signs  a 
 letter  to  the  queen,  294. 
 
 Doyly  (Tho.),  married  a  niece  of  Parker, 
 xiii. 
 
 Drury  (Will.),  letter  to  him,  213;  an  ec- 
 clesiastical commissioner,  277,  345;  Par- 
 ker's officer,  363. 
 
 Dublin,  a  pretended  miracle  at  Christ 
 church.  95  n. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Aory 
 
 Dudley  (Jo.),  earl  of  Warwick,  aftrrwaid* 
 duke  of  Northuntbcrliuul,  4U. 
 
 Dudley    (^ Ambrose),    carl    of    U'arwick, 
 lioUU  Newh.tvcn,  l/'J  n.  ;  surrender*  it, 
 Ijrj;   letter  by  him,  319,    goes  aguinut    [ 
 the  lebtls  in  the  north ,  SUM  it. 
 
 Dudley  (Hob.),  earl  of  Leicester,  P«rker   | 
 intends   to  a>k    him   for   venison,    177; 
 nicniioned,  23t»,  237  ;  he  claims  an  ad- 
 vowson,   '2it6;    seeks   a   dispensation   to    | 
 make  a  child  a  prebendary,  3t'2  ;   slan- 
 dered  by  a  prisoner,  4tH);  oHcndcd  with 
 Parker,  40t»,  401} ;  supports  the  puritans,    ; 
 428;  still  grieved,  43l»;  e.xpcctcd  to  ac- 
 company the  queen  to  (."anterbiiry,  442; 
 visited  by  the  queen,  4ft8;  purposes  to 
 undo  archbishop  Parker,  0/2  ;  letters  by 
 him,  llH),  301  ;  letters  to  him,  190,  40:»; 
 signature  as  privy  councillor,  328  n.,  330, 
 3 -.7,  381. 
 
 Dugdale(Sir  Will.),  xi. 
 
 Duns  {Jo.)  Scoius,  his  opinion  on  the  con- 
 secration of  the  cucharist,  251. 
 
 Dunstan  (Ant.),  alias  Kitchen,  .y.  v. 
 
 Durham  cathedral,  its  statutes  signed  by 
 Philip  and  3Iary,  and  sealed  with  the 
 great  seal,  3l>5. 
 
 Eagles  (^Brazen),  outcry  against  them  in 
 London,  4.i0. 
 
 Earthquake,  one  in  Vorkshireand  the  mid- 
 land  counties,  1574 — 5,  4/7- 
 
 Easter,  the  true  meaning  of  Easter  proces- 
 sions, 7. 
 
 Edward  Fortunatus,  son  of  Christopher, 
 margrave  of  Baden,  baptized  by  Parker, 
 xii. 
 
 Eleutherius,  bishop  of  Rome,  his  alleged 
 mission  to  Lucius,  295. 
 
 Elizabeth,  queen  of  England,  her  mother's 
 charge  to  Parker,  51»,  391,  400;  she  re- 
 sides at  Hunsdon  and  IlatHeld,  (1535, 
 40),  ix.  483;  on  Lever's  suggestion  she 
 declines  the  title  of  supreme  head,  GfJ; 
 Parker's  letter  to  her  begging  to  be  ex- 
 cused taking  the  archbishoprick,  09; 
 letter  to  her  from  Parker  and  others 
 against  images  in  churches,  79-95  ;  she 
 consents  to  the  casting  out  of  images, 
 96  n  ;  but  retains  a  crucifix  and  lighted 
 tapers  in  her  private  chapel,  97,  105  ; 
 letter  to  her  from  Parker  and  other  bi- 
 shops elect  against  the  inequitable  ex- 
 
 change of  the  lAnd<i  of  biahoprlckt,  97; 
 the  queen'«  letter  to  the  lord  treasurer, 
 ^c  ,  on  this  matter,  KM  ,  nhe  dinet  at 
 Lambeth,  120  ;  letter  to  hrr  from  Pnrker» 
 (Jrindal,  and  (ox,  129;  advised  to  mar- 
 ry, 131  ;  letter  to  the  ccclc»in.sticnl  com- 
 mis.nioners  respecting  a  new  calendar  of 
 lessons,  tables  of  the  conunandments. 
 Sec,  132;  letter  to  Parker  respecting  the 
 re-edifying  of  St  Paul's,  142;  order  pro- 
 hibiting the  residence  of  women  in  col- 
 leges and  catliedral  precincts,  14*5;  letter 
 of  bp  Cox,  complaining  of  this  order, 
 151  ;  letter  of  abp  Parker  severely  con- 
 demning it,  158 ;  she  disapproves  the 
 marriage  of  the  clergy,  but  is  restrained 
 by  Cecil  from  forbidding  it,  148;  letter 
 to  Parker  about  the  unauthorized  election 
 of  a  provost  at  Eton,  149  ;  Parker  hor- 
 rified by  her  words  concerning  holy  ma- 
 trimony, 156;  writ  addressed  to  Parker 
 commanding  him  to  make  a  return  of  the 
 hospitals  and  schools  in  his  diocese,  163; 
 grant  to  abp  Parker  to  retain  forty  per- 
 sons with  his  livery  badge,  175;  letter 
 respecting  prayer  and  fasting,  1563,  184  ; 
 sends  Parker  a  deer  killed  with  her  own 
 hand,  190;  letter  to  Parker  on  the  recep- 
 tion of  a  French  ambassador,  212;  dines 
 with  Sackville,  219  ;  intends  to  go  to- 
 wards Stamford,  ib. ;  letter  to  Parker  on 
 the  correction  of  many  disorders  in  opi- 
 nions, and  especially  in  rites  and  ceremo- 
 nies, 223 ;  letter  to  her  from  the  bishops 
 praying  that  a  bill  for  uniformity  may  be 
 allowed  to  proceed,  292 ;  she  chides 
 Parker,  311;  letter  to  Parker  requiring 
 him  to  make  inquiry  respecting  the  nu- 
 merous strangers  in  England,  321  (see 
 323; ;  Parker's  letter  to  her  with  the  Bi- 
 shops' Bible,  337 ;  letter  to  Parker  re- 
 specting a  vacant  prebend  at  Canterbury, 
 340 ;  Parker's  letter  to  her  respecting 
 certain  lands  in  Kent  claimed  by  the 
 crown  from  the  archbishop,  371  ;  the 
 cross,  which  had  been  removed  from  her 
 chapel,  is  brought  back  again,  379;  letter 
 to  Parker  on  the  enforcement  of  uniform- 
 ity in  divine  service,  386 ;  slandered  by 
 a  prisoner,  400;  two  letters  to  her  from 
 Parker,  about  Dr  Clerk,  dean  of  the 
 arches,  428,  429  ;  she  visits  Kent,  436, 
 437,  441 ;  received  by  the  archbishop  at 
 Folkestone  and  Canterbury,  475;  cere- 
 
496 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 monies  at  the  cathedral,  ib. ;  her  opposi- 
 tion to  prophesyings,  456,  457,  459 ;  re- 
 turns from  the  west,  406  j  comes  to  the 
 earl  of  Leicester,  408;  proposes  to  go  to 
 the  north,  475. 
 
 Elizabeth,  queen  of  Bohemia,  471  n. 
 
 Ellis  (Dr),  not  a  fit  person  for  the  see  of 
 Bangor,  257,  201  ;  sometime  sheriff  of 
 the  county,  258. 
 
 EUys  (Tho.),  founder  of  Ellys's  hospital, 
 Sandwich,  108. 
 
 pjlmliam  (North),  Norfolk,  the  vicarage, 
 247. 
 
 Elvan  (St),  sent  from  Rome  to  Lucius,  295. 
 
 Ely  cathedral,  but  one  prebendary  resident 
 there,  151. 
 
 England,  rudeness  of  the  people  in  the 
 north,  123;  rebellion  in  that  part,  388. 
 
 Epiphanius  (St),  destroys  a  picture  of  our 
 Lord  in  a  church  at  Anablatha,  88. 
 
 Erie  (Jo.)  prebendary  of  Winchester,  in 
 prison  for  nonconformity,  103. 
 
 Essex  (Tho.  earl  of),  v.  Cromwell. 
 
 Eton  college,  letter  by  queen  Elizabeth  on 
 the  unauthorized  election  of  a  provost, 
 (R.  Bruerne),  149;  letter  from  Parker 
 to  the  provost  and  fellows,  102. 
 
 Eusebius  Pamphilus,  ascribes  the  inven- 
 tion of  images  to  the  heathen,  83. 
 
 Eutropius,  says  when  the  eyes  of  Constan- 
 tine  VI.  were  put  out,  the  sun  was  dark- 
 ened for  17  days,  92. 
 
 Execution  of  laws,  the  first  and  last  part 
 of  good  government,  240. 
 
 Exeter,  letter  to  the  chapter  respecting  di- 
 vine service,  107. 
 
 Excommunication  of  certain  members  of 
 the  Strangers'  Church  at  Sandwich,  247. 
 
 Eye  (At),  at  a  glance,  130. 
 
 F. 
 
 Fabyan  (Edw.),  sherifl'  of  Oxon.  and 
 Berks.,  letters  to  him,  145. 
 
 Farrar  (Rob.),  bp  of  St  David's;  taken  in 
 hand  by  the  council,  281. 
 
 Farrar  (Sam.),  son  of  the  last,  207. 
 
 Fasting,  on  Fridays,  210  ;  the  ^Vednesday 
 fish-day  dispensed  with  at  Oxford,  Cam- 
 bridge, and  "Winchester,  235. 
 
 Feckenham  ( Jo.),  abbot  of  AVestminster; 
 prisoner  in  the  Tower,  122. 
 
 Felton  (Jo,),  or  Fenton,  who  published 
 the  l)ull  for  the  dethronement  of  Eliza- 
 beth, 445  «. 
 
 Felton  (Tho.),  letter  signed  by  him,  307. 
 
 Feria  (The  count  de),  ambassador  from 
 Spain,  00, 
 
 Ferriers  (Jean  de),  vidame  of  Chartres  ; 
 Parker's  epistle  to  him,  prefixed  to  Mar- 
 lorat's  Thesaurus,  455. 
 
 Feuguereius  (Gul,),  455. 
 
 Fitzalan  (Hen.),  earl  of  Arundel ;  a  privy 
 councillor,  73,  76 ;  mentioned,  206 ; 
 lent  Parker  a  MS.,  388 n. 
 
 Fitzwilliam  (Sir  Will.),  a  privy  councillor, 
 364. 
 
 Flacius  (Matthias)  Illyricus,  letter  to  Par- 
 ker, 139;  letter  to  him,  286. 
 
 Flanders,  embassy  from  churches  of,  332. 
 
 Fletcher  (Will.),  skinner,  211. 
 
 Fogg  (  W.),  375 
 
 Folkestone,  Kent,  Parker  meets  the  queen 
 there,  475. 
 
 Fonts,  outcry  against  them  in  London, 
 450. 
 
 Ford,  Kent,  Parker  desires  to  take  down  a 
 part  of  his  house  at  Ford,  to  enlarge  his 
 house  at  Bekesbourne,  419,  424. 
 
 Foreigners,  Parker  enjoined  to  make  in- 
 quiry respecting  the  numerous  strangers 
 in  England,  321,  323. 
 
 Foster  (R.),  of  All  Souls'  College,  297, 
 301  n.  ■  his  widow,  320,  324. 
 
 Fox  (Jo.),  letters  to  Parker,  160,  230; 
 finishes  Haddon's  second  reply  to  Oso- 
 rius,  217«. 
 
 France,  war  against  France,  1544,  15; 
 Parker  desires  the  re-edifying  of  the 
 church  there,  147;  the  conference  at 
 Poissy,  147. 
 
 Franklin  (Rob.),  fellow  of  All  Souls', 
 300. 
 
 Frederick  IIL,  elector  Palatine,  471  w.; 
 letter  to  him,  317. 
 
 Frederick  IV.,  elector  Palatine,  471  n. 
 
 Frederick  V.,  elector  Palatine,  and  after- 
 wards king  of  Bohemia,  married  Eliza- 
 beth, daughter  of  James  I,,  471. 
 
 Free-will,  errors  thereon,  140. 
 
 Freke  (Edm, ),  bp  of  Rochester,  afterwards 
 of  Norwich,  318,  319;  his  opinion  on 
 prophesyings,  459  71.;  meets  the  queen  at 
 Canterbury,  475  ;  his  translation,  477  w. 
 
 Gardiner  (Steph.),  bp  of  Winchester,  letter 
 to  Parker  and  Smith,  20  ;  to  Parker,  22, 
 
INDKX. 
 
 'iUl 
 
 27 ;  »»  chancellor  of  C'ttinbritlge  he  de- 
 tetniincit  the  i>roiuinciation  of  certain 
 Greek  letters,  JH  ;  signature  im  privy 
 councillor,  UO  ;  letter  to  him  from  queen 
 Mary,  bin. ;  letter  to  the  t'niver>ity  o( 
 Cambridge,  5(in. 
 
 ((Asco^ne  (, \  '  (Jasconus,'  (u'l. 
 
 (iavell  (Rob.),  keeper  of  Noii>ui-h  jnirk, 
 3«7. 
 
 (ieortrey  of  Monmouth,  a  copy  in  31 S., 
 2t;5. 
 
 (lermnnical  natures,  12."». 
 
 Gcrrard  (Sir  (iilb.\  or  Cicrald,  letters  to 
 hin),  aotl,  325;  an  eccleaiaatical  commis- 
 sioner, 370 '»• 
 
 (lerrard  (3Ir),  a  justice,  375. 
 
 Gervase  of  Tilbury,  Parker  sends  a  tran- 
 script of  a  treatise  by  him  to  Lord  Burgh - 
 ley,  424. 
 
 Geste  (Edm.),  bp  of  Rochester,  afterwards 
 of  Salisbury,  123  n. ;  to  preach  at  Paul's 
 cross,  240  ;  letter  by  him,  250;  his  share 
 in  theBishops'  Bible,  250. 
 
 Gibbes  (Mr),  defames  the  dean  of  Exeter, 
 261. 
 
 Gibbon  (Edw.),  xiv. 
 
 Giraldus  Cambrensis,  a  copy  in  31 S.,  265. 
 
 Glover  (Rob.),  Somerset  herald,  xiii. 
 
 iilyn  (Will.),  afterwards  bp  of  Bangor, 
 18,  38. 
 
 Gnostics,  Irenaeus  mentions  that  they  had 
 an  image  of  Christ,  86. 
 
 (Godfrey    ( ),    his  book    of   benefices, 
 
 348. 
 
 Godwin  (Tho.),  bp  of  Bath  and  Wells, 
 falsely  charged,  when  dean  of  Canter- 
 bury, with  the  misappropriation  of  church 
 plate  and  ornaments,  303;  an  ecclesias- 
 tical commissioner,  3/0 /j. 
 
 Goldastus  (M.  H.),  his  'Imperialia  De- 
 crcta  de  cultu  Imaginum,"  90  n. 
 
 Gonell  (Mr),  38. 
 
 Gonour  (Mons.  de\  French  ambassador, 
 212;  received  by  Parker,  214. 
 
 Goodman  (Chr.),  his  book, '  How  superior 
 powers  ought  to  be  obeyed,'  61  ;j.,  44'J; 
 a  puritan,  382. 
 
 Goodman  ( Crab. ),  dean  of  ^\^esminster,  his 
 share  in  the  Bishops'  Bible,  336  ;i.;  not 
 meet  for  the  see  of  London,  360;  an 
 ecclesiastical  commissioner,  370,  383, 
 390 ;  mentioned,  407,  409,  41 1,  438,  447, 
 469  ;  rcconmiended  for  the  bi>hoprick  of 
 >'orwich,  473,  476,  477. 
 
 (ioodrich  (Tho.),  bp  of  Ely,  3'J  n. ;  an 
 upright  chancellor,  315. 
 
 (ioodrik  (lien.),  a  prebendary,  2<>'2. 
 
 (ioogc  (Barnaby),  notice  of  him,  198. 
 
 Gordon  (Alex.;,  bp  of  Galloway,  acorn- 
 mi>»ioner  for  the  release  of  .Mary  queen 
 of  Scot.-*,  378. 
 
 (fosnold  (Jo.),  a  commissioner  for  the 
 suppression  of  colleges,  &c.,  33 /i. 
 
 (Jough  i^Jo.),  or  (loufl",  a  puritan,  382. 
 
 Government,  mischievous  books  on  go- 
 vermnent,  60,  61. 
 
 Gown,  Parker  is  desired  to  bring  a  long 
 one  to  court,  2. 
 
 Grafton  (Rich.),  letter  by  him,  295. 
 
 Gray  (Jo.),  scribe  of  the  general  assembly 
 of  the  church  of  Scotland,  206,  207- 
 
 Greek,  Gardiner's  determination  (as  chan- 
 cellor of  Cambridge)  respecting  the  pro- 
 nunciation of  certain  (ircek  letters  not 
 attended  to,  28  ;  disputes  respecting  pro- 
 nunciation at  Oxford,  138/i. 
 
 Green  wall  (Nich.),  fellow  of  Ch.  coll. 
 Camb.,25,26. 
 
 Gregory  I.,  pope,  allowed  images,  but  for- 
 bade them  to  be  worshipped,  89  ;  his  say- 
 ing as  to  one  universal  bishop,  112. 
 
 Cirigby  (Justinianj,  and  Jane  his  wife,  303. 
 
 Grindal  (Edm.),  bp  of  London,  afterwards 
 abp  of  York,  and  finally  of  Canterbury, 
 minor  proctor  at  Cambridge,  38 ;  signs 
 letters  to  the  queen,  100,  129,  294;  his 
 election  to  the  see  of  London,  100  n. ;  an  ec- 
 clesiastical commissioner,  107,298, 344/*., 
 345;  assists  in  the  compilation  of  the 
 book  of  Advertisements,  233 ;  to  be  urged 
 to  execute  the  laws  and  injunctions,  233, 
 
 235  ;    supposed  to  favour  the  puritans, 
 
 236  ;  deemed  by  Parker  too  tolerant, 284  ; 
 his  share  in  the  Bishops'  Bible,  335  n. ; 
 shews  favour  to  strangers,  340 ;  recom- 
 mended for  the  see  of  York,  350;  his 
 election  thereto,  359  n. :  confirmed  arch- 
 bishop, 361  n. ;  letters  by  him,  165, 196, 
 115,  120,  127,  134,  143,  152,  160,  227, 
 201,  261,  267.  348,  394  ;  letters  to  him, 
 242,  272,  308,  323,  345,  474. 
 
 Gwynne  (Lewis),  a  prebendary,  114,  and 
 parson  of  Llanddewi  Brefi,  266,  280. 
 
 Haddon  (Walter),  an  ecclesiastical  com. 
 missioner,  72,  133,  370  ;i.,  439;  answers 
 
 [PAKK.  COR.] 
 
 32 
 
498 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Osorius's  letter  to  Elizabeth,  21G  7i. ;  let- 
 ters by  him,  218,  282;  letter  to  him, 
 284. 
 
 Hales  (Sir  Chr.),  lessee  of  an  hospital  at 
 Canterbury,  107. 
 
 Hales  (Jo.),  5  «. 
 
 Halforcl,  Warwick,  the  benefice,  138  n. 
 
 Hallowmas,  the  feast  of  All  Saints,  473. 
 
 Hamber,  hammer?  425. 
 
 Hamond  (Mr),  desired  to  make  his  child 
 prebendary  of  York,  301,  362;  an  eccle- 
 siastical commissioner,  447. 
 
 Harbledown,  Kent,  the  hospital,  167. 
 
 Hardiman  (Jo.),  vicar  of  Lydd,  his  evil 
 behaviour,  342. 
 
 Hardwick  (Jo.),  of  Hard  wick,  and  his 
 daughter  Elizabeth,  301  n. 
 
 Hargreves  (Geo.),  recommended  to  be 
 vicar  of  Rochdale,  221. 
 
 Harleston  (Rob.),  Parker  married  to  his 
 daughter  Margaret,  x.,  46  ?i.,  484. 
 
 liarley  (Jo.),  bp  of  Hereford,  mentioned 
 as  M.  Harlow  ep.  Herfordiae,  x,  483. 
 
 Harrison  (Lucas),  warden  of  the  printers, 
 449. 
 
 Hartgill  (Jo.  and  Will.),  murdered  by 
 Cha.  lord  Stourton,  442  n. 
 
 Harvee  ( ),   prebendary  of  Sarum,  a 
 
 layman,  176. 
 
 Harvey  (Hen.),  a  doctor  of  law,  18,  196. 
 
 Hastings  (Hen.),  earl  of  Huntingdon,  be- 
 friends Sampson,  243,  245 ;  letter  to 
 him,  245. 
 
 Hatcher  ( ),  M.D.,  18,  38. 
 
 Hatfield,  Herts.,  Parker  preaches  there, 
 1540,  before  the  princess  Elizabeth,  ix, 
 483. 
 
 Hatton  (Sir  Chr.),  K.G.,  400,  442. 
 
 Havre  de  Grace,  or  Newhaven,  besieged, 
 179;  surrendered,  183. 
 
 Hay  ward  (Sir  Rowland),  465. 
 
 Heath  (Nich.),  successively  bp  of  Roches- 
 ter and  Worcester,  and  abp  of  York,  18; 
 letter  to  him  and  other  deprived  bishops, 
 109;  prisoner  in  the  tower,  122. 
 
 Hebrew  language,  its  study  at  Cambridge, 
 348,  467. 
 
 Helena,  empress,  worshipped  not  the  cross 
 but  the  king,  8. 
 
 Hell,  controversy  on  Christ's  descent 
 thither,  305. 
 
 Heneage(Sir  Tho.),  320. 
 
 Henry  111.,  king  of  England,  caused  the 
 chronicles  to  be  searched  concerning  the 
 
 superiority  of  the  English  crown  over 
 Scotland,  327. 
 
 Henry  VII.,  king  of  England,  reason  of 
 his  reputation  for  wisdom,  461. 
 
 Henry  VIII.,  king  of  England,  warrant 
 for  a  doe  for  Parker,  4  ;  his  diligence  in 
 reclaiming  the  people  from  superstition, 
 11;  letter  to  the  dean  and  prebendaries 
 of  Stoke,  requiring  them  to  send  four 
 able  men  to  his  army,  about  to  invade 
 France,  15;  takes  Boulogne,  15  n., 
 30  n.;  letter  to  the  fellows  of  Corpus 
 Christi  College,  Cambridge, recommend- 
 ing Parker  as  master,  16;  commission 
 to  Parker,  Redman,  and  May  to  inquire 
 into  the  possessions  of  the  university  of 
 Cambridge,  34  ri.;  his  marriage  with 
 Anne  Boleyn  confirmed  by  a  papal  bull, 
 414,  420. 
 
 Herbert  (Will.),  earl  of  Pembroke,  signa- 
 ture as  privy  councillor,  46.  103,  156; 
 recommends  Dr  Ellis  for  bishop  of  Ban- 
 gor, 258  ;  claims  an  advowson,  266. 
 
 Herd  (Mr),  preserves  some  writings  of 
 Cranmer,  187. 
 
 Hereford,  proposed  visitation  of  the  cathe- 
 dral, 165. 
 
 Heresy,  said  to  be  prevalent  in  England, 
 61,  474. 
 
 Herle  (Tho.),  chaplain  to  the  queen,  and 
 warden  of  3Ianchester,  suggested  for 
 bishop  of  Bangor,  259 ;  desires  to  sur- 
 render the  college,  365. 
 
 Heth  ( Jo. ),  married  a  niece  of  Parker,  xiii. 
 
 Hewet  ( Tho. ),  proposed  for  the  see  of  Ban- 
 gor, 257,  261. 
 
 Hewick(Dr),  177. 
 
 Heydon  (Chr.  ?),  his  son  and  heir,  417. 
 
 Heydon  (Will.),  made  a  great  stir  about 
 the  suppression  of  prophesyings,  459. 
 
 Hill  (Mr),  223. 
 
 Holt  (Sir  Jo.),  letter  to  him,  231. 
 
 Homilies,  publication  of  the  second  book, 
 177  n. 
 
 Hooper  (Jo.),  bp  of  Gloucester,  his  opinions 
 on  vestments  opposed  by  the  council,  234, 
 280. 
 
 Hopton  (Jo.),  bp  of  Norwich,  died  in 
 debt,  58. 
 
 Hopton  (Rob.),  307  n. 
 
 Hopton  (Will.),  letter  signed  by  him,  307. 
 
 Home  (Rob.),  bp  of  Winchester,  an  eccle- 
 siastical commissioner,  72,  383,  439  ;  as- 
 sists in  compilation  of  book  of  advertise- 
 
INDBX. 
 
 490 
 
 ments,  233;  rIk"^  »  If'tcr  to  iho  queen, 
 *J94  ;  nppolntcd  to  prfiuh,  31H  ;  his  share 
 in  the  ni;»hops'  Bible,  33.^fi. 
 
 Ilovctlcn  (Rob.),  wanlenof  All  Souls' Col- 
 lege, 3H«. 
 
 Ilowaril  (Sir  Geo.),  letter  to  him,  197. 
 
 llowunl  (Lonl  Hen.),  afterwards  carl  of 
 Northiiniiiton.  I'nrkcr  begs  for  his  li- 
 berty, :u»4. 
 
 Uowartl  (Tho.),  duke  of  Norfolk,  pnrt  of 
 a  letter  to  Parker,  255  n.;  letter  from 
 Parker  to  him,  255;  mentioned,  310; 
 sign.nture  as  privy  councillor,  32Hn.,  330; 
 his  treason,  3lU  ;  beheaded,  3lM;j.  ;  his 
 attainder  terminates  a  dispute  about  the 
 stewardship  of  the  archbishop's  liberties, 
 4.V2. 
 
 Howard  (Lord  Tho.),  probably  third  vise. 
 Howard  of  Hindon,  letter  to  him,  13f5. 
 
 How.ird  CNVill.  lord),  of  Effingham,  sig- 
 nature as  privy  councillor,  77,  103,  1(U;, 
 117,  155,  328 n.,  330,  357,  3H1. 
 
 Howel  (Cha.),  of  Kochdale,  232. 
 
 Hubert  (Conrad),  4r»n. 
 
 Hughes  (Will.),  bp  of  St  Asaph,  448??. 
 
 Hugo,  second  abbot  of  St  Augustine's, 
 Canterbury,  H)('>. 
 
 Humphrey  (Lau.),  a  conference  to  be  held 
 with  him,  233;  remains  immovable,  234; 
 appointed  to  preach  at  Paul's  cross,  239 ; 
 his  nonconformity,  240. 
 
 Hunsdon,  Herts.,  Parker  preaches  there, 
 1535,  before  the  princess  Elizabeth,  ix, 
 483. 
 
 Hunsdon  (Hen.  lord) :  r.  Carey. 
 
 Huntingdon  (Hen.  earl  of):  v.  Hastings. 
 
 Hutton  (Hen.),  farms  the  manor  of  Chip- 
 ley,  20. 
 
 Hutton  (^latt.),  afterwards  abp  of  York, 
 a  professor  at  Cambridge,  252  ;  not  meet 
 for  the  see  of  London,  3U0. 
 
 Huyck  (Tho.),  signs  a  letter,  107. 
 
 Hythe,  Kent,  hospital  of  St  Bartholomew, 
 KID  ;  hospital  of  St  John,  ib. 
 
 Hythe  (Haymo  de),  or  Hethe,  bp  of  Ro- 
 chester, founded  St  Bartholomew's  hos- 
 pital near  Hythe,  1G9. 
 
 I. 
 
 Images,  r.  Cross,  Crucifix,  Pictures. 
 
 Letter  from  Parker  and  others  to  queen 
 
 Elizabeth    containing    reasons    from 
 
 scripture,   the   fathers,  and   councils, 
 
 against  the  use  of  images  in  churches, 
 
 7ll_U5;  they  divided  ilic  church  and 
 the  enipire,li3;  called  laymen's  books, 
 U3. 
 
 Impropriation.*,  00. 
 
 Improve,  to  disprove,  130. 
 
 Incent  (Jo.),  Parker's  registrar,  101,214, 
 320/1. 
 
 Infymacion,  confirmation,  2»i8. 
 
 Innocent  III.,  pope,  his  opinion  on  the 
 consecration  of  the  eucharist,  251. 
 
 Interim  (The),  141. 
 
 Ireland,  Parker  fears  the  people  of  the 
 north  of  England  will  become  'too  much 
 Irish  and  savage,'  123;  the  prince  of 
 this  realm  (England)  reported  to  be  by 
 ancient  right  not  lord,  but  king,  of  Ire- 
 land, 328  ;  Campion's  History,  407. 
 
 IrencTus,  mentions  that  the  Gnostics  had  an 
 image  of  Christ,  IW. 
 
 Irene,  empress  of  the  East,  calls  the  second 
 council  of  Nice,  02;  burns  her  father's 
 bones,  and  puts  out  the  eyes  of  her  son, 
 ib. 
 
 Isle  of  Wight,  478. 
 
 J. 
 
 Jackson  (Hen.),  of  Blerton  college,  301, 302. 
 
 Jerome  (St),  translates  the  epistle  of  Epi- 
 phanius  to  John,  bp  of  Jerusalem,  88 ; 
 shews  that  a  bishop,  a  priest,  may  be  the 
 husband  of  one  wife,  159,  1(!0. 
 
 Jewel  (Jo.),  bp  of  Salisbury,  his  Apology, 
 148,  1()1  ;  translated  by  lady  Bacon,  219; 
 the  Defence  of  the  Apology  published, 
 319 ;  his  Answer  to  Harding  placed  in 
 churches,  417  ;  letter  to  Parker,  IJf*. 
 
 Joan,  pope,  'merry  as  pope  Joan,'  222. 
 
 John,  bp  of  Jerusalem,  epistle  of  Epi- 
 phanius  to  him,  88. 
 
 Johnson  ( ),  had  four  prebends,  450. 
 
 Johnston  (  Nalh.),  'The  King's  Visitato- 
 rial Power  asserted,'  485. 
 
 Jones  ( Hugh  ),  bp  of  Lland.".ft",  257. 
 
 Jones  (Nich.),  at  Cambridge,  33'J  n. 
 
 Joscelin  (Jo.),  or  Josseline,  wrote  the 
 volume  *  De  Antiquitate  Britannica;  Ec- 
 clesia?,'  xiii. ;  Mr  Josdeyn  mentioned, 
 298;  notice  of  his  book,  425,  42»;. 
 
 Joscelin  (Sir  Tho.),  or  Josseline,  brother 
 of  the  last,  xiii. 
 
 Josephus  (Fl.),  relates  how  Herod,  Pilate, 
 and  Petronius  sought  to  place  images  in 
 the  temple,  and  how  the  Jews  opposed 
 them,  82. 
 
 32—2 
 
500 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 1 
 
 Judd  (Sir  And.),  iounds  a  school  at  Ton- 
 bridge,  210. 
 
 Judex  (^latihias),  letter  to  him,  28G. 
 
 •^"fe'g  (Jo.),  one  of  the  queen's  printers, 
 281  ;  prints  the  Bishops'  Bible,  337. 
 
 Julian,  bp  of  Ostia,  granted  to  the  univer- 
 sity of  Cambridge  power  to  license  twelve 
 preachers,  230. 
 
 Kempe  (Sir  Tho.),  109. 
 
 Kent,  V.  Canterbury — Lambard  (W. )  ; 
 defenceless  condition  of  the  coa^t,  202 ; 
 state  of  the  castles,  203;  salt-works 
 there,  258. 
 
 Kett  (Will.),  the  story  of  his  rebellion 
 written  by  Alex.  Nevile,  xiii. 
 
 Keyes  ( ),  Parker's  messenger,  441. 
 
 Keyes  (31r),  perhaps  Dr  Jo.  Caius,  295. 
 
 Keyes  (Tho.),  sergeant  porter  to  queen 
 Elizabeth ;  letter  to  Parker  respecting 
 his  marriage  with  lady  Mary  Grey, 
 366  n. 
 
 Kilburn(Sir  Pet.),  417 'i. 
 
 Kitchen  (Anth.),  alias  Dunstan,  bp  of 
 Llandaff',  his  death,  208  n. 
 
 Knight-service,  the  archbishop's  tenants 
 by  knight-service,  388  72. ,  452. 
 
 Knollys  (Sir  Fra.),  privy  councillor,  73, 
 75,  76,  77,  103,  106,  298,  357,  457  w.; 
 letter  to  Parker,  96. 
 
 Knollys  (Hen.),  333. 
 
 Knox  (Jo.),  his  '  First  Blast  against  the 
 Regiment  of  Women,'  61 7i. ;  his  turbu- 
 lent reformation,  105;  letter  from  him 
 and  others  to  abps  Parker  and  Young, 
 205. 
 
 L. 
 
 Lacedemonians,  no  images  allowed  in  their 
 council-chamber,  85. 
 
 Lactantius,  says  there  is  no  religion  where 
 there  is  an  image,  86. 
 
 La  Ferte  (M.  le  baron  de),  hostage  for  the 
 French  king,  172. 
 
 La  Haye  (3Ions.  de),  170. 
 
 Lambard  (Will.),  Parker  sends  his  Per- 
 ambulation of  Kent,  not  yet  published, 
 to  Lord  Burghley,  424,  441. 
 
 Lambeth,  Surrey,  queen  Elizabeth  dines 
 at  Lambeth  palace,  120  ;  conference  in 
 the  chapel  respecting  the  vestments, 
 208—270;  the  burial  and  monument  of 
 
 abp  Parker,  xi. ;  the  Norfolk  chapel  in 
 Lambeth  church,  x.,  369, 484  ;  Lambeth 
 bridge,  i.  e.  landing  place,  311. 
 
 Lances,  abp  Parker's  '  poor  lances '  at 
 York,  388. 
 
 Landbeach,  Cambridgeshire,  vii.,viii.,  481, 
 482. 
 
 Jiangrige  (Peter),  in  prison  for  noncon- 
 formity, 103. 
 
 Latham  (R.),  fellow  of  Merton  college, 
 308,  326. 
 
 Latimer  (Hugh),  bp  of  Worcester,  letter 
 to  Parker,  v.  ;  record  of  his  disputation 
 at  Oxford,  160;  his  saying  respecting 
 watchmen,  353. 
 
 Lawes  (Tho.),  prebendary  of  Canterbury, 
 442. 
 
 Lawrence  (Mrj,  a  preacher  near  Ipswich, 
 removed  by  the  archbisliop's  visitors, 
 307. 
 
 Lawyers,  keep  their  old  trade,  352. 
 
 Lee  (Sir  Hen.),  K.  G.,  favoured  by  Par- 
 ker, 354,  359. 
 
 Leeds  (Edw.),  letters  to  him  and  others, 
 63,  64. 
 
 Leicester  (Rob.  earl  of),  v.  Dudley. 
 
 Leigh  (Rich.),  his  pious  fraud  at  Christ 
 church,  Dublin,  95  n. 
 
 Lent,  V.  Fasting. 
 Lent  licenses  sought ;  for  Sir  Rog. 
 North,  108  ;  for  the  baron  de  la  Ferte, 
 172  ;  for  the  lord  of  Lethington,  ib. ; 
 for  Jo.  Fox,  230  ;  for  Philip  Sydney, 
 316. 
 
 Leo  III.,  called  Isauricus,  emperor  of  the 
 East,  a  treatise, 'De  re  militari'  ascribed 
 to  him,  90 ;  he  abolished  and  burned 
 images,  ib. 
 
 Leonard  (Jo.),  and  Leonard  (Tho.),  198. 
 
 Lessons,  v.  Calendar. 
 Bp  Cooper's  '  Brief  Exposition '  of  the 
 first  lessons  for  Sundays,  462. 
 
 Lethington  (The  lord  of),  v.  3Iaitland. 
 
 Lever  (Tho.),  on  his  suggestion,  queen 
 Elizabeth  declines  the  title  of  supreme 
 head,  66;  married  of  late,  i6.;  complains 
 of  the  state  of  Sherborne  hospital,  348  ; 
 about  to  be  examined,  382. 
 
 Levers  ( ),  farms  Aldborough  bene- 
 fice, 404. 
 
 Lewis  (Dav.),  mentioned  as  '  Dr  Lewes,' 
 257;  an  ecclesiastical  commissioner, 277, 
 370  n. 
 
 Lewisham,  Kent,  the  advow^on,  239. 
 
INDKX. 
 
 501 
 
 IJnacre  (Tho. ),  hi*  lecture  nt  Morton  col- 
 
 leK'c.  Oxr'oril.S'.T,. 
 Lincoln,  voluc  of  the  drinery,  51  ;   mi*- 
 conduct  of  a  certain  Indy  of  Lincoln, 
 147. 
 Lincoln  (Kdw.  e.irl  of),  v.  Clinton. 
 Lincolnvhire,    rebellion    tlicrc   uiulcr    the 
 
 prior  of  Barlings,  11  n. 
 Linney  (  Ro^j.  \  vicar  of  niackljiim,  '222. 
 Livery,  Parker  receives  jjcrniission  to  re- 
 tain forty  persons  with  his  livery  badge 
 or  cognizance,  17«'>. 
 Llamhirt',  vacancy  of  the  see,  208. 
 Llanddewi-Breti,  Cardigan,  the  advowson, 
 
 •J«0,  271, -'«(). 
 lA>ckwood  (Hen.),  2:»,  iJl 
 lioftus  (Adain),  abp.  of  Armagh,  117". 
 London,  r.  Ministers — Plague. 
 St  Pitiirg,  letter  from  queen  Klizabcth 
 about  its  re-editication  after  the  fire  of 
 1.">«>1,  142;    letters  by  Parker  on  the 
 same,  143,  1.V2  ;  the  works  at  a  stand 
 for  want  of  money,  17^';  inconvenience 
 of  a  thanksgiving  communion  there, 
 201.  j 
 
 PauFi  Cross,  Parker  appointed  to  preach    ' 
 there,  ix. «.,  5,39,45;   arrangements 
 about  preachers  there,  23U,  2»)1,  275, 
 318;  penance  done  there  by  two  girls 
 who  pretended  to  be  possessed,  iHo  n. 
 St    Gilts's   Cripple</ate,    disorder    at   a 
 
 funeral  there,  275,  27'i. 
 fnns  of  Court,  disordered  about  religion, 
 
 384,  385;  (Temple,  v.  Corranus). 
 Spilal,  sermons  there,  203. 
 Whittinytoii  College,  7'-n. 
 Skinner's   Compani/,    letter    to   Parker 
 respecting  a  grammar  school  at  Tun- 
 bridge,  210. 
 Tower,  prisoners  there  for  ecclesiastical 
 
 causes,  121,  122. 
 Houses,     Bergavenny    house,    41),   52 ; 
 Shelley  house,  afterwards  Bacon  house, 
 4:»/<.;   Day's  little  shop  in  St  Paul's 
 church-yard,  411,  412. 
 Longbeach,  a  wood  in  Kent,  372. 
 Lorraine  (Cha.  card,  de),  his  opinion  of 
 
 the  Prayer  Book,  398. 
 Louis  y\.,  elector  palatine,  471  n. 
 Love  (NV.),  a  priest  at  St  Stephen's,  Nor- 
 wich, vi.,  481. 
 Lovelace  (Will.),   serjeant,  recommended 
 to  be  steward  of  abp  Parker's  liberties, 
 405. 
 
 Lowthcr  ( ),  cxcrci^cn  uplrituol  juris- 
 diction without  ordinniiun,  474. 
 
 Lucian,  bin  declamation,  '  pro  Tyrannic!- 
 dia,*  44.^ 
 
 Luciu*,  king  of  Britain,  the  alleged  em- 
 bassy to  him  from  Eieuthcriui,  2115. 
 
 Lydd,  Kent,  letter  from  Parker  to  the 
 bailifl"  and  jurats  on  the  evil  behaviour 
 of  l)r  Hardiman  the  vicar,  312. 
 
 Lylye  ( ),  an  artist  skilful  in  supplying 
 
 wanting  portions  of  JMSS.,  254. 
 
 M. 
 
 Madew  (Jo."),  master  of  Clare  hall,  38  «. 
 Maidstone,  Kent,  the  grammar  school,  170. 
 .Maitland  (Will.),  lord  of  Lethington,  sent 
 
 from  the  queen  of  Scots,  172. 
 .Alalachias,  an  Irish  bishop,  v.  O'31olana. 
 Mulct  (Fra.),  dean  of  Lincoln,  viii,  482. 
 Mallocke  (Jo.),  fellow  of  All  Souls',  300. 
 Manchester,  Ilerle  desires  to  surrender  the 
 college,  to  be  annexed  to  some  college  at 
 Cambridge,  3»I5. 
 Mann  (Jo.),  warden  of  ^lerton   college, 
 
 ambassador  to  Spain,  320. 
 IMaiired,  man-rent,  99. 
 ^lanthorp  (R.),  a  clerk  of  St  Stephen's, 
 
 Norwich,  vi,  481. 
 Manuscripts,  r.  Bale  (J.),  Cranmer  (T). 
 Rare  IMSS,  should  be  brought  together 
 into  well-known  places,  140 ;    Bale's 
 and  other  MSS.,  140;  those  of  Tilius, 
 141  ;  MSS.  at  Rome,  ib. ;  no  old  ones 
 at  St  David's,   265  ;   letter  from   the 
 council  respecting  writings  and  records 
 formerly  kept   in  divers   abbeys,  but 
 then  in  private  hands,  327 ;  a  curious 
 one  of  the   Old  Testament,  or   part 
 thereof,  in  Latin   and  Anglo-Saxon, 
 253. 
 ^lanwood  (Sir  Hog.),  lord  chief  baron,  will- 
 ing  to  endow  a  school  at  Sandwich,  187, 
 188,  192;  letter  to  him  when  serjeant, 
 338;   made  a  justice   of    the  Common 
 Pleas,  405  ». 
 .Marlcy    (.Mr\   called  Cecil's  old  master, 
 
 200. 
 Marloratus  (Aug.),  his  Thesaurus,  455. 
 Marriage,  that  of  the  clergy  proposed  to  be 
 winked  at,  not  established  by  law,  06; 
 disliked  by  Elizabeth,  148,  157;  defend- 
 ed by  bp  Cox,  151 ;  and  by  abp  Parker, 
 157 ;  pensionary  concubinage  continued 
 iu  Wales,  notwithstanding  leave  of  mar- 
 
502 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 riage,  257 ;  marriage  with  a  deceased 
 wife's  sister,  Jewel  would  have  had  it 
 declared  lawful,  170;  of  a  brother  and 
 sister  germ  an,  353. 
 
 Marshall  (Rog.),  keeper  at  Norwich,  387. 
 
 Martin  ( ),  young  Martin,  470. 
 
 Martin  (Tho.),  Parker  wrote  a  defence  of 
 the  marriage  of  priests  in  reply  to  him, 
 ix,  483. 
 
 Martyr  (Pet.),  Parker  desires  his  attend- 
 ance at  a  conference  in  France,  147. 
 
 Marven  (Mr),  of  Chichester  diocese,  371. 
 
 Mason  (Sir  Jo.),  signature  as  privy  coun- 
 cillor, 155. 
 
 Mary,  queen  of  England,  letter  to  bp  Gar- 
 diner, 55  w. 
 
 Mary,  queen  of  Scots,  her  arrival  in  Eng- 
 land, 325  ;  referred  to,  398,  446  7i. 
 
 Matchett  (IMr),  parson  of  Thurgarton, 
 Parker  writes  to  him  against  prophesy- 
 ings,  456,  457  w. 
 
 Mathewe  ( ),  vicar  of  Howe,  sent  to 
 
 the  Marshalsea,  76. 
 
 Matthew  Paris,  extracts  from  his  chronicle 
 sent  to  Parker,  140  ;  Parker  borrows  his 
 chronicle  of  Cecil,  353;  it  is  printed, 
 388  w. 
 
 Mattishall,  Norfolk,  x.,  484;  abp  Parker's 
 benefaction  to  the  poor,  xiii. 
 
 May  (Will.), has  an  interview  with  Henry 
 VIII.,  34;  letter  to  Parker,  38;  presi- 
 dent of  Queens'  college,  Cambridge,  38 
 n.,  67;  an  ecclesiastical  commissioner, 
 107,  439 ;  dean  of  St  Paul's,  nominated 
 abp  of  York,  but  died  unconsecrated, 
 123  n. 
 
 Maynard  (Hen.),  469. 
 
 Medwin  (St),  sent  from  Rome  to  Lucius, 
 295. 
 
 Mere  (Jo.),  letter  to  Parker,  17;  notice  of 
 him,  19  ?i.;  mentioned,  38. 
 
 Mershe  (Jo.),  an  ecclesiastical  commis- 
 sioner, 383. 
 
 Metcawfte,  (Jo.),  skinner,  211. 
 
 Mildmay  (Sir  Walter),  a  privy  councillor, 
 357,  457  n. 
 
 Mills  (3Ir),  of  All  Souls'  college,  297«. 
 
 Ministers,  v.Clergy,Declaration,Preachers. 
 Artificers  and  unlearned  men  admitted 
 to  the  ministry,  120;  some  beneficed 
 ones  neither  priests  nor  deacons,  128, 
 154,  308  (y.  Lowther) ;  laymen  pre- 
 sented to  benefices,  311 ;  and  made 
 prebendaries,  312 ;  an  archdeacon  not 
 
 in  orders,  142  n.;  certain  London  min- 
 isters  summoned   to   Lambeth.   233; 
 some  of  them  refuse  conformity,  268, 
 269,  270,  272;  churchwardens,  &c.  not 
 to  suffer  unlicenced  persons  to  minister, 
 383. 
 Miracle,  a  pretended  one  at  Dublin,  95 n. 
 Monson   (B.),  an  ecclesiastical   commis- 
 sioner, 390. 
 Montgomerie  (The  count),  a  French  pro- 
 
 testant  exile,  420. 
 Moptyd  (Lau.),  master  of  C.  C.  C.  C.,viii, 
 
 482. 
 More  (Sir  Tho.),  Parker  alludes  to  a  book 
 of  his  on  Fortune,  60;  his  eloquence  and 
 wit,  315. 
 Morris  (Mr),  slandered,  368. 
 
 Mownt  ( ),  servant  to  Cecil,  258. 
 
 Mullyns  (Mr),  377. 
 J\Iuncer  (Tho.),  the  anabaptist,  426. 
 Munster  (Seb.),  his  character  as  a  trans- 
 lator of  Scripture,  257. 
 Music,  not  expelled  from  the  church  of 
 England,  215. 
 
 N. 
 
 Neve  (  Will. ) ,  of  Norwich,  vi,  481 . 
 
 Nevenson  ( Steph. ),  or  Nevison,  letter  to  him 
 as  commissary  of  Canterbury,  165;  had 
 certain  MSS.  of  Cranmer,  191,  195  ;  pre- 
 bendary of  Canterbury,  319. 
 
 Nevile  (Alex.),  Parker  gave  him  £100  for 
 writing  the  story  of  Rett's  rebellion, 
 xiii. 
 
 Neville  (Hen.),  lord  Abergavenny,  letter 
 to  him,  285 ;  he  claims  the  stewardship 
 of  the  liberties  of  Canterbury,  285  n., 
 an  ecclesiastical  commissioner,  370  n. 
 
 Neville  (Hen.),  earl  of  Westmoreland,  a 
 commissioner,  105. 
 
 Newton  (Francis),  dean  of  Winchester, 
 made  prebendary  of  Canterbvu-y  in  the 
 room  of  his  brother,  341. 
 
 Newton  (Theodore),  prebendary  of  Canter- 
 bury, 340. 
 
 Nix  (Rich.),  bp  of  Norwich,  Latin  letter 
 to  him  from  queen  Anne  Boleyn,  4. 
 
 Nonsuch  park,  the  earl  of  Arundel's,  387. 
 
 Norfolk  (the  duke  of),  v.  Howard. 
 
 Norgate  (Rob.),  master  of  C.  C  C.  C,  ex- 
 tract from  a  letter  to  abp  Parker,  469; 
 letter  to  him,  ib. 
 
 North  (Sir  Rog.),  afterwards  second  lord 
 North,  requires  a  Lent  licence,  108. 
 
INDKX. 
 
 503 
 
 North.  ( W. ),  this  »ign»iure  n*  ft  privy  coun- 
 cillur  lucttiis  \\'ill.  inarq.  of  Northamp- 
 ton, t'.  I*«rr. 
 
 Norihttnf\»ton  (  Hon.  carl  of),  r.  Howard. 
 
 Northttiupion  (  Will,  inarq.  of),  v.  I'arr. 
 
 Northfolk  (,  Will.), deprived  by  bp Sandys, 
 125. 
 
 Northumberland  (Jo.  duke  of),  v.  Dudley. 
 
 Norwich,  P;irker*»  birthplace,  mention  of 
 some  localities  vi.,  4U1  ;  foreigners  there, 
 247  w. ;  a  church  assigned  to  them,  255  ; 
 the  Green  yard,  a  place  for  preaching, 
 313;  cathedral,  a  serving  man  made 
 prebendary,  312;  miserable  state  of  the 
 church  ;  oiily  six  prebendaries,  only  one 
 at  home,  some  of  them  puritans,  -150 ; 
 diocese,  visited  by  Parker,  473  ;  dispute 
 between  the  archbishop  and  the  chapter 
 about  visitation,  476. 
 
 Nostradamus  (^ ."Mich.),  threatens  the  world 
 with  peculiar  evils  in  1551)00,  5\)n. 
 
 Notaries,  application  of  one  to  be  a  notary, 
 392. 
 
 Nowell  (Alex.),  dean  of  St  Paul's,  145; 
 approves  rules  for  Tunbridge  school, 
 211  ;j.;  the  queen  is  oftended  with  a 
 sermon  by  him,  235;  letter  by  him,  251 ; 
 will  not  preach  before  the  (jueen  unless 
 she  will  favour  him,  254;  being  occupied 
 against  Dorman,  begs  to  be  discharged 
 from  Lent  preaching,  2G0. 
 
 O. 
 
 O'Molana    (Malachias),  bp    of  Ardagh, 
 
 421. 
 Onslow   (Rich.),    solicitor-geneial,    '.Mr 
 
 Onssley,'302,  303/j. 
 Origen,  reports  that  Celsus  objected  the 
 
 lack  of  images  against  Christians,  86. 
 Osborne  (Pet.),  an  ecclesiastical  commis- 
 sioner, 277,  302,  383;  his  office,  2!;0. 
 Osorius  (Hieron.),  bp  of  Silvas,  his  letter 
 
 to  queen  Elizabeth  answered  by  Haddon, 
 
 216/1. 
 Ostia  (Julian,  bp  of),  v.  Julian. 
 Oxford,  disputation  there,  1555,  160;   the 
 
 licar,  138  n. ;  the  common  jail,  145  ;  the 
 
 ^ee  long  vacant,  I45;i. 
 
 I'liiversili/  (v.  Caius  (T.),  Universities), 
 it  lives  quietly  with  fewer  privileges 
 than  Cambridge,  24. 
 
 Jll  Souls'  Collcf/e,  letter  from  Parker  to 
 the  warden,  Dr  Barber,  requiring  an 
 inventory  of  superstitious  plate  aiid 
 
 vc*ti«cnls  retained  by  the  collrgc,  2U6  ; 
 letter  from  Parker  and  otliern  requirin;* 
 the  wunlen  to  deliver  up  certain  »u- 
 perntitious  books,  21<7;  letter  from 
 Parker  and  other  cccleHiaxtical  com- 
 missionern  to  the  warden  citing  ncvcral 
 fellows  before  then),  300  ;  order  of  the 
 conmiisHioners  renpecting  the  plate, 
 &.C.,  301;<. ;  disposal  of  the  plate  and 
 church. books, 304;  letters  from  Parker 
 to  the  wairden  to  procure  the  renewal  of 
 a  lease  from  the  widow  of  an  old  tenant, 
 320,  324  ;  tlie  founder  ordered  that  the 
 fellows  should  all  be  jjriests,  3U6 ;' 
 but  in  1572  only  two  of  the  forty  were 
 priests,  ib. 
 
 Cftriai  Church,  commission  respecting 
 its  statutes,  118. 
 
 StJohn^s  College,  a  disjjute  there,  436. 
 
 Jiferton  Colleye,  an  order  made  that  only 
 three  priests  should  be  within  the  col- 
 lege, 325 ;  one  physician  there  for 
 reading  Linacre's  lecture,  326. 
 
 P. 
 
 Paget  (Sir  AVill.,)  afterwards  lord  Paget, 
 signature  as  privy  councillor,  30. 
 
 Pammachius,  a  tragedy,  played  at  Cam- 
 bridge, 21—29. 
 
 Papists,  should  be  disarmed,  399. 
 
 Paris,  massacre  of  St  Bartholomew,  399 — 
 401. 
 
 Parker  family,  the  archbishop's  parents, 
 vi.,  481 ;  his  descendants,  x.,  48-1. 
 
 Parker  (Sir  Jo.),  son  of  the  archbishop, 
 his  birth,  x.,  484;  3Iere's  legacy  to  him, 
 19  H. ;  his  statement  of  his  father's  re- 
 venue and  expenditure,  xii. ;  note  by 
 him,  115  n.  ;  marries  Joanna,  daughter 
 of  bp  Cox,  X.,  484  ;  his  children,  ib. 
 
 Parker,  (Sir  Jo. ),  the  archbishop's  grand- 
 son, note  by  him,  103  n. 
 
 Parker  (I\Iatt.),  abp  of  Canterbury,  his 
 autobiographical  memoranda,  in  Eng- 
 lish, vi. ;  the  original  Latin,  481 ;  his 
 birth,  education,  and  ordination,  vi.,  vii., 
 481 ;  sunmioncd  to  court  by  queen  Anne 
 Boleyn,  vii.,  1,  2,  4J52;  dean  of  Siokc  by 
 Clare,  vii.,  4,  482;  appointed  to  preach 
 at  Paul's  cross,  5,  39,  45 ;  chaplain  to 
 Henry  VIII.,  vii.,  6,  482  ;  articles 
 against  him  sent  to  lord  chancellor  Aud- 
 ^^y>  7;  preferments,  vii.,  viii,,  482;  be- 
 ing recommended  by   the   king,   he  is 
 
504 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 elected  master  of  Corpus  Christi  College, 
 Cambridj,'e;  viii.,  16,  17,  482;  chosen 
 vice-chancellor,  viii.,  17,  482  ;  his  letter 
 to  the  council  of  Queen  Catherine  Parr 
 against  the  dissolution  of  Stoke  college, 
 31;  minute  of  an  interview  with  Henry 
 VIII..  34  ;  his  marriage,  x.,46  7i.,  484, 
 again  chosen  vice-chancellor,  viii.,  37,  38, 
 482 ;  appointed  to  preach  before  king 
 Edward  VI.,  x.,  40,  41,43,  483;  made 
 dean  of  Lincoln,  but  shortly  deprived, 
 viii.,  482;  his  retired  life  in  queen  Mary's 
 time,  viii.,  199,  483;  summoned  to  Lon- 
 don on  the  accession  of  Elizabeth  on  the 
 queen's  service,  o3  ;  unwilling  to  accept 
 the  archbishoprick,  57,  &c. ;  resolution 
 that  he  should  be  archbishop,  G8;  again 
 summoned  to  court,  68,  69 ;  writes  to  the 
 queen  begging  to  be  discharged  from 
 the  office,  69  ;  but  refers  himself  to  the 
 queen's  pleasure,  71 ;  a  second  resolution 
 that  he  should  be  archbishop,  71 ;  the 
 queen  assents  to  his  election,  76 ;  he  is 
 consecrated,  x.,  484;  Tonstal  committed 
 to  his  custody,  77,  7B ;  exchange  effected 
 between  the  queen  and  the  archbishop, 
 102  11. ;  refuses  a  dispensation  to  allow  a 
 child  to  hold  a  benefice,  136  ;  the  queen 
 thought,  him  too easy,his  brethren  thought 
 him  too  sharp,  173 ;  the  queen  grants  him 
 permission  to  retain  forty  persons  with 
 his  livery  badge,  175;  he  appoints  days 
 for  prayer  on  account  of  war,  pestilence, 
 and  famine,  182;  his  armoury,  216;  per- 
 plexed through  want  of  support  in  his 
 endeavours  to  enforce  uniformity,  262; 
 his  measures  for  that  purpose,  270,  272 — 
 274,  2/8;  his  part  in  the  Bishops'  Bible, 
 335  7U,  336  n.;  refuses  a  dispensation  to 
 make  a  child  a  prebendary,  362;  his 
 lances  at  York,  388;  forged  letters  in  his 
 name,  418;  sends  the  Antiqiiitates  Brit- 
 tannicB  EcclesicB  to  lord  Burghley,  425 ; 
 meaning  and  object  of  that  book,  ii.; 
 intends  to  keep  it  private  during  his  life, 
 426 ;  has  various  artists  and  workmen  in 
 his  house,  ib.\  his  seal,  452  72.;  state- 
 ment of  his  yearly  expenses,  455 ;  his 
 son's  statement  of  his  revenue  and  ex- 
 penditure,  xii. ;  his  illness,  464,  477; 
 publishes  Asser's  jJLlfredi  Res  Center, 
 468;  disliked  by  the  precisians,  472; 
 spends  his  time  in  copying  books,  de- 
 vising ordinances  for  scholars,  in  genci- 
 
 logies,  SiC,  474;  receives  the  queen  at 
 Folkestone  and  Canterbury,  475  ;  visits 
 in  the  diocese  of  Winchester,  478;  cared 
 neither  for  cap,  tippet,  surplice,  nor  wa- 
 fer bread,  but  for  the  laws  established, 
 478  ;  his  death  and  burial,  xi. ;  dates  of 
 sermons  preached  by  him  on  remarkable 
 occasions,  vii.,  ix.,  481,  483, 
 
 —  I\Iargaret,  his  wife,  daughter  of  Rob. 
 Harleston,  46  n.,  483,  484  ;  Mere's  le- 
 gacy to  her,  19;  her  death  and  burial, 
 369  71.,  484. 
 
 —  his  children  and  descendants,  484. 
 Parker   (Tho.),   mayor   of  Norwich,    the 
 
 archbishop's  brother,  19  n. 
 
 Parker  (Will.),  and  Alice  his  wife,  the 
 archbishop's  parents,  vi.,  481. 
 
 Parkhurst  (Jo. ),  bishop  of  Norwich,  said 
 to  wink  at  schismatics  and  anabaptists, 
 149 ;  to  be  pressed  to  execute  the  laws, 
 234  ;  his  share  in  the  Bishops'  Bible, 
 248,  335  n. ;  his  death,  446  u. ;  letter  by 
 him,  247  ;  letters  to  him,  389,  401,  403, 
 415,416,417,457,459. 
 
 Parliament,  v.  Cambridge. 
 Abp   Parker  and  lord  Cobham  ordered 
 by  the  council  to  confer  with  the  she- 
 riff and  principal  persons  in  boroughs 
 that  fit  persons  might  be  chosen,  380. 
 
 Parr  (Will.),  marq.  of  Northampton,  sig- 
 nature as  privy  councillor  (sometimes 
 '  W.  North'),  73,  75,  76,  106,  122,  155, 
 328  n.,  330,  357,  381. 
 
 Parry  (Sir  Tho.),  privy  councillor,  74,  75, 
 76,  77,  103,  106,  117,  122;  letter  from 
 him  and  Cecil  to  Parker,  104. 
 
 Pate  (Rich.),  or  Pates,  bp  of  Worcester, 
 prisoner  in  the  Tower,  122;  '  patesing,' 
 a  supposed  allusion  to  his  name,  124. 
 
 Paulet  (Will.),  earl  of  Wiltshire,  after- 
 wards marq.  of  \\"inchester,  signature  as 
 privy  councillor,  46,  155;  letter  to  Par- 
 ker, 119. 
 
 Peacock  (Tho.),  president  of  Queens'  col- 
 lege, Cambridge,  resigns,  67. 
 
 Peculiars,  a  return  of  them  required,  181. 
 
 Pegson  (Tho.),  and  his  wife,  303. 
 
 Pembroke  (Will,  earl  of),  v.  Herbert. 
 
 Penance,  v.  London,  PauVs  cross. 
 Dr  Turner  causes  an  adulterer  to  do  pe- 
 nance in  a  priest's  square  cap,  241. 
 
 Peny  (x>Ir.),  suspected  of  nonconformity, 
 264. 
 
 Perne  (And.),  master  of  Peterhouse  and 
 
INDEX. 
 
 505 
 
 dean  of  Kly,  to  preach  at  Paul'*  crow, 
 2t>l ;  his  share  in  the  Hi<»hops'  Bible, 
 S3  A  /I. 
 
 Peicr  (St),  claimed  no  subjection,  110. 
 
 Petrc  (Sir  Will.),  sijjnature  as  privy  coun- 
 cillor,  75,  117,  155;  letter  to  Parker,  IIH. 
 
 Philotus  (,Ii.iur.),  «iO  n. 
 
 Picrpoint  ((Jco.).  or  Pcrpoynt,  viii.,  482. 
 
 Piers  (Jo.),  bp  of  Rochester,  then  of 
 Salisbury,  and  ultimately  abp  of  Vork, 
 recommended  for  the  see  of  Norwich, 
 47»5,  477. 
 
 Picrson  (And.),  prebendary  of  Canter- 
 bury,  VJ7  '••»  442,  441;  lus  supposed 
 share  in  the  Bishops'  Bible,  Ii3j  n.  (bis). 
 
 Pighius  (Alb.),  says  the  writings  of  the 
 apostles  should  not  be  above,  but  subject 
 to,  our  faiih,  110. 
 
 Pilj^rimage  of  (Jrace,  0  ;i. 
 
 Pilkington  (James),  bp  of  Durham,  at 
 Cambridge,  38;  made  bishop,  123  ;j.  ; 
 letter  by  him,  221 ;  supposed  to  favour 
 the  puritans,  237;  mentioned,  204; 
 signs  a  letter  to  the  queen,  21)4. 
 
 Pilkington  (Leon.),  made  master  of  St 
 John's  college,  Cambridge,  149  ;i. 
 
 Pinder  ( Rachel),  does  penance  at  Paul's 
 cross  for  pretending  to  be  possessed, 
 40.'>  n. 
 
 Plague,  pestilence  in  1503,  182—184  ; 
 Thirlby  and  Boxall  removed  from  the 
 tower,  l!«2 — 195;  feared  at  Canterbury, 
 1564,  208;  in  London  and  Lambeth, 
 1574,  400. 
 
 Plancher,  cornice,  231. 
 
 Playter  (Tho. ),  letter  signed  by  him,  307. 
 
 Points,  tags  or  pins,  472. 
 
 Poissy,  France,  the  conference  there,  147. 
 
 Pole  (Reg.  card.),  his  income  as  arch- 
 bishop  of  Canterbury,  xii. 
 
 Polycrates,  his  reply  to  the  bishop  of 
 Rome,  111. 
 
 Pope  (Rich.),  a  priest  at  Norwich,  vi.,481. 
 
 Porie  (Jo.),  master  of  C.  C.  C.  C,  and 
 vice-chancellor,  letters  to  him  and  others, 
 03,  04;  mentioned,  298;  desires  to  resign 
 his  prebend  at  "Westminster  to  3Ir  Ald- 
 rith,  358. 
 
 Possession,  the  case  of  Agnes  Bridges,  ex- 
 amined by  Parker,  405  ;  she  and  Rachel 
 Pinder  do  penance  at  Paul's  cross  for 
 tlieir  imposture,  ib.  n. ;  books  published 
 on  the  subject,  405,  400. 
 
 Postmasters'  endorsements,  289. 
 
 Poynt  ( ),  a  doctor  of  law   at  Cam. 
 
 \       bridge,  10. 
 
 Prayer  (Occasional  forms),  letters  respect- 
 ing a  form  of  prayer,   l.')03,   182—185; 
 remarks  on  n  form  of  ihnnkigiving  set 
 forth,  1503  4,  201;  a  form  ])reparcd  for 
 the  i»reservaiion  of  ('hri*tian   countries 
 invaded  by  the  Turks,  1500,  289;  notice 
 of  a  form  set  forth  in  1572,  402. 
 I    Preachers,    t».    Cambridge,    f'tiiversilt/  — 
 London,  Paul's  cross. 
 to  be  appointed  in  vacant  dioceses,  119  ; 
 iheir  licences,  242,  383,  389  ;    few  in 
 Suffolk,  307. 
 ,    Prebendaries,  serving-men  made  prebend- 
 aries, 170,  312;   a   dispensation   sought 
 for  a  child,  302. 
 Priour   (Will.i,  of  St  Benedict's  church, 
 
 Norwich,  vi.,  481. 
 Prophesyings,  the  queen  will    have  them 
 suppressed,  450,  457  ;  favoured  by  bp 
 !  Parkhurst,  457,  459  ;  also  by  bp  San- 
 
 j  dys,  and  some  others  of  the  Council, 
 
 i  457  ".;  stir  made  by   Will.  Ileydon, 
 
 on  measures  being  taken  to  suppress 
 them,  459. 
 I    Prosper  (St),  his  'Sentences  out   of  Au- 
 gustine,' 381. 
 Psalms,  turned  into  metre  by  Parker,  ix., 
 I       483;  a  curious  ^IS.  (apparently  a  psal- 
 ter), Latin  and  Anglo-Saxon,  253. 
 Puritans,  v.  Uniformity, 
 their  works  found  in  the  Low  Countries, 
 283;  termed  precisians,  377,  472,  &c.  ; 
 a  question  amongst  them  on  obedience 
 to  the  prince,  377;  conmionly  regarded 
 as  persecuted,  410;  their  private  press, 
 i7>. ;  danger  to  the  stale  apprehended 
 from  them,  418,  419,  420;  the  queen 
 ofl'ended  with  their  dissolute  writing, 
 420;    their  faction   democratic,    437; 
 under  colour  of  reformation,  they  seek 
 the  ruin  of  learning  and  religion,  and 
 seek  a   popular  state,   434;    disliked 
 fonts  and  brazen  eagles,  450. 
 
 Q. 
 
 Queenborough  castle,  Kent,  203. 
 Questions,  cast  abroad  at  Chester,  103 «. 
 
 R. 
 
 Radclyff  (Randall),  reconnnendtd  by  queen 
 Catherine  Parr  as  baililTof  Stoke  college, 
 10. 
 
50G 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 \ 
 
 Randolph  (Edw.),  marshal  of  Newhaven, 
 18071. 
 
 Rastell  (M'ill.),  114. 
 
 Ratcliffe  (The),  earl  of  Sussex,  in  Dublin, 
 95  n,  ;  seeks  the  preferment  of  i\lr  Rush, 
 283;  signature  as  privy  councillor,  381  ; 
 commands  an  army  against  the  rebels 
 in  the  north,  388  n.  ;  lord  chamberlain, 
 442,  443 ;  letters  to  him,  416,  458,  4GG, 
 467. 
 
 Ratclif  (Cha.),  of  Rochdale,  232. 
 
 Reade  (Mr),  recommended  to  bp  Park- 
 hurst,  460. 
 
 Redman  (Jo.),  master  of  Trinity  college, 
 Cambridge,  34,  38. 
 
 Relics,  citation  [from  the  Opus  Imperfec- 
 tum  in  Matthaeum,  wrongly  ascribed  to 
 Chrysostom,]  against  those  who  esteem 
 the  garments  of  Christ  more  than  his 
 body,  8,  511. 
 
 Relic  Sunday,  the  third  Sunday  after  Mid- 
 summer day,  7. 
 
 Rice  (Will.),  or  Rise,  sent  to  the  tower, 
 155. 
 
 Riccall,  Yorkshire,  a  prebend  in  the  cathe- 
 dral church,  361. 
 
 Ridley  (Nich.),  bp  of  Rochester,  afterwards 
 of  London,  candidate  for  the  vice-chan- 
 cellorship of  Cambridge,  17  ;  letter  to 
 Parker,  45 ;  record  of  his  disputation  at 
 Oxford,  160. 
 
 Robinson  (Nich.),  bp  of  Bangor,  261  ; 
 signs  a  letter  to  the  queen,  294  j  and  a 
 letter  to  lord  Burghley,  394. 
 
 Rochdale,  Lane,  the  living,  221,  231  n.  j 
 the  school,  231,  232. 
 
 Rochester,  a  benefice  annexed  to  the  bishop- 
 rick,  100. 
 
 Rochet,  an  episcopal  vestment,  475. 
 
 Rogers  (Ed.,  incorrectly  printed  G.),  a  privy 
 councillor,  75,  76,  77,  103,  106,  117. 
 
 Rogers  (Rich.),  bp  of  Dover,  an  ecclesi- 
 astical commissioner,  370;  attends  queen 
 Elizabeth  at  Canterbury,  475. 
 
 Rolfe  (Mr),  a  gentleman  of  Kent,  258. 
 
 Rome,  MSS.  there,  141. 
 
 Romney  (Old),  Kent,  the  living,  339  ii. 
 
 Rush  (Mr),  recommended  to  be  teacher  in 
 the  grammar  school  at  Canterbury,  144 ; 
 notice  of  him,  ib.n.;  recommended  for 
 preferment,  283. 
 
 Russell  (Jo.  lord),  afterwards  earl  of  Bed- 
 ford, signature  as  privy  councillor,  30, 
 46. 
 
 Russell  (Fra.),  second  earl  of  Bedford,  sig- 
 nature as  privy  councillor,  73,  357,  381 ; 
 mentioned,  464. 
 
 Sabbath,  part  of  the  precept  ceremonial, 
 81. 
 
 Sackville  (Sir  Rich.),  signature  as  privy 
 councillor,  (in  some  instances  printed 
 incorrectly  '  Ed.'  instead  of  •  Rye.')  103, 
 117,  122;  letter  from,  referred  to,  171 «.; 
 obtains  a  lease  of  Charing,  372. 
 
 Sackville  (Tho.),  afterwards  lord  Buck- 
 hurst,  and  at  last  earl  of  Dorset,  the 
 queen  dines  with  him,  219. 
 
 Sadler  (Sir  Ralph),  signature  as  privy  coun- 
 cillor, 357 ;  supposed  to  be  a  supporter 
 of  the  Puritans,  428. 
 
 Saint  David's,  no  old  MSS.  in  the  library 
 there,  265. 
 
 Saint-Leger  (Sir  Ant.),  K.G.,  and  Agnes 
 (Warham)  his  wife,  113  7i. 
 
 Saint-Leger  (Sir  Warham),  letter  to  him, 
 113;  notice  of  him,  z6.  n. 
 
 Saint-Leger  (Mr),  prebendary  of  Canter- 
 bury, 319. 
 
 Saint-Loe  (Sir  Will.),  and  Elizabeth  (Hard- 
 wick)  his  wife,  301  ji. 
 
 Salford,  Oxon  ?  an  estate  belonging  to  All 
 Souls'  college,  320  }i. 
 
 Salisbury,  a  serving  man  prebendary  there, 
 176. 
 
 Salisbury  (Jo.),  bp  of  Sodor  and  Man, 
 265  ;i. 
 
 Salisbury  (Will.),  antiquary,  265  n.,  271. 
 
 Salt,  made  in  Kent  and  Norfolk,  258. 
 
 Sampson  (Tho.),  a  conference  to  be  held 
 with  him,  233  ;  he  remains  immoveable, 
 234  ;  appointed  to  preach  at  Paul's  cross, 
 239  ;  his  nonconformity,  240  ;  letter  to 
 Parker,  and  his  answer,  243,  244;  the 
 earl  of  Huntingdon  applies  to  Cecil  that 
 he  may  be  set  at  liberty,  243,  245  ;  Par- 
 ker's clemency  to  him,  244  ;  about  to  be 
 examined,  382. 
 
 Saneroft  (Will.),  abp  of  Canterbury,  re- 
 buried  the  bones  of  abp  Parker,  and 
 restored  his  monument,  xi. 
 
 Sandwich,  Kent,  the  town  visited  by  Par- 
 ker, 188;  service  at  the  church,  189; 
 state  of  the  refugees  and  their  church, 
 ib. ;  some  members  thereof  excommuni- 
 cated, 247;  hospital  of  St  Bartholomew, 
 168 ;  Ellys's  hospital,  ib. ;    St  John's 
 
INDEX. 
 
 507 
 
 house,  my  ;  Manwooil's  free  school ,  I7H, 
 \m\. 
 
 5»aiulwich  (Sir  Jo.),  loumlcrofun  hospital, 
 ICH. 
 
 S«iuljf8  (Kilwiij),  bp  of  Worcester,  then  of 
 lx)niIon,  anil  al  last  r.bp  of  Vork,  at  Cam- 
 bridge,  'M\ ;  his  share  in  the  Hishops' 
 Hible, 'J.V»:  signs  a  letter  to  the  (picen, 
 2l>4  ;  translateil  from  Worcester  to  Lon- 
 don, 3»»D  n. ;  dangerously  ill,  ib. ;  thought 
 by  Parker  not  sufficiently  severe  against 
 the  Puritans,  3i{2;  an  ecclesiastical  com- 
 niissioner,  383, 3!I0,  -134  ;  favours  prophe- 
 sying?, -157  n.,  4.'»9  >i. ;  letters  to  Parker, 
 (•.'>,  124,  2j(i ;  letters  signed  by  him  and 
 others,  3y0,  3'J4, 434  ,  letters  to  him,  384, 
 4(>2,  451. 
 
 Sandys  (Will.),  F.S.A.,  \\.n. 
 
 Saunders  (Mr),  a  parson,  18. 
 
 Saunders  (Sir  £dw.),  lord  chief  baron, 
 164. 
 
 Saunders  (Nich.),  his  book  De  visibili  Mo- 
 narchia  Ecclesia\  401>,  410;  answered  by 
 Dering,  410  ;  by  Dt  B.  Clerk,  411—414, 
 430;  by  Ac  worth,  440  n. 
 
 Saxon,  r.  Anglo-Saxon. 
 
 Sayer  ( ),  adeputy  of  London,  2/6. 
 
 Scambler  (Edm.),  bp  of  Peterborough, 
 afterwards  of  Norwich,  to  preach  at  Paul's 
 cross,  2(J1  ;  his  share  in  the  Bishops' 
 Bible,  335  n, 
 
 Schisurc,  schism,  14. 
 
 Scory  (Jo.),  bp  of  Hereford  (previously  of 
 Rochester  and  Chichester),  signs  a  letter 
 to  the  queen,  101,  2l>4  ;  forbidden  to  visit 
 his  diocese,  117  h.  ;  often  conferred  with 
 Sandys,  126;  Parker  and  Orindal  seek 
 the  queen's  permission  for  him  to  visit 
 the  cathedral  of  Hereford,  165;  not  fit 
 for  the  see  of  London,  350. 
 
 Scot  (Cuthb.),  bp  of  Chester,  apparently 
 referred  to  as  Mr  Scot,  25,  26,  28,  29 ; 
 absconds  without  regard  to  his  sureties, 
 218. 
 
 Scotland,  supremacy  of  the  crown  of  Eng- 
 land, 328;  letter  sent  by  order  of  the 
 general  assembly  to  abps  Parker  and 
 Voung  in  the  case  of  Jo.  Baron's  wife, 
 205  ;  Parker's  view  of  the  request  con- 
 tained in  the  same  letter,  209. 
 
 Seckforde  (Tho.),  or  Sekford,  letter  to  Par- 
 ker, 142 ;  an  ecclesiastical  commissioner, 
 370 /i. 
 
 Sedgrave  (Chr.),  mayor  of  Dublin,  95  «. 
 
 Sedgwick  (I)r),  or  Scggiiwick,  refutca  ihe 
 
 oath  of  supremacy,  105. 
 Sercnuit,  bp  of  i^Iur^eillcll,des(roycd  imngea, 
 
 89  and  u. 
 Seymour  (Kdw.),  duke  of  Somerset,  lord 
 
 l)rotector,  40. 
 Seymour  (Edw.),  earl  of  Hertford,  Hon  of 
 the  protector,  his   stolen  marriage  with 
 the  lady  Kath.  (irey,  149. 
 Sherborne    hospital,  Durham,  Lever  com- 
 plains of  its  state,  348. 
 Shorton  (Hob.),  dean  of  Stoke  by  Clare, 
 
 his  death,  4. 
 Shrewsbury  (Geo.  earl  of),  v.  Talbot. 
 Simony  prevalent  in  Norfolk,  311. 
 Sin   (Original),   Flacius  lllyricus  sends  a 
 disputation  on  original   corruj)tion   and 
 free  will  to  Parker,  140. 
 Skinner  (Ralph),  dean  of  Durham,  124. 
 Skrimsham  (R.),   of   All  Souls'   college, 
 
 301 71. 
 Skypp   (Jo.),  bp  of  Hereford,  letters  to 
 Parker,  1,  2,  6,  9  ;  sometime  chaplain  to 
 Anne  Boleyn,  3  ;   dates  of  his  election 
 and  death,  6  n. 
 Smith  (Rich.),  or  Smyth,  regius  professor 
 of  divinity   at   Oxford,  and  raa.ster   of 
 AV'hittington  college,  72 — 74. 
 Smith  (Sir  Tho.),  fellow  of  Queens' college, 
 Cambridge,   when  19  years  old,   i't-in.; 
 gives  up  the  office  of  vice-chancellor  of 
 Cambridge,  17, 18  ;  chancellor  to  Good- 
 rich, bp  of  Ely,  30;   mentioned,  3(in.; 
 an  ecclesiastical  commissioner,  370  n  ;  a 
 privy  councillor,  45/  n.  ;    letter  to  him 
 and   Parker  from  Gardiner,  20;    letter 
 from  him  to  Porie,  Parker  and  Leeds, 
 64. 
 Smith  (Will.), M.A.  Camb.,  reconmicnded 
 
 as  a  fellow  of  Eton,  162. 
 Smyth    (Jo.),  provost    of    Oriel    college, 
 138  n. 
 
 Smythe  ( ),  a  layman,  but  prebendary 
 
 of  Norwich,  312,  313. 
 Somerset  (Edw.  duke  of),  v.  Seymour. 
 Somersham  house,  474. 
 Somner(Mr),400. 
 
 Sonds  ( ),  his  vain  projjhecies,  60. 
 
 Southampton    (Tho.   earl  of),   v.    \\'rio- 
 
 thesley. 
 Southcoots  (Mr),  a  justice,  375. 
 Southworth  (Sir  Jo.),  committed  to  prison, 
 
 329;  refuses  to  submit,  330. 
 Sowodc  (Will.),  master  of  C.  C.  C.  C,  16. 
 
508 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Spencer  (Dr),  prebendary  of  Riccall  in  the 
 church  of  York,  302. 
 
 Spensor  ( ),  fellow  of  Gonville  hall,  252. 
 
 Sporis,  spurs,  13. 
 
 Spottiswoode  (.Jo.),  superintendent  of  Lo- 
 thian :  letter  from  him  and  others  to 
 abps  Parker  and  Young,  205. 
 
 Staftbrd  (3Iary  lady),  wife  of  Edw.  lord 
 Stafford,  1502—1003,  daughter  of  Edw. 
 Stanley,  earl  of  Derby,  358. 
 
 Stafford  (Edw.  lord),  who  succeeded  1603, 
 at  C.  C.  C.  Cambridge,  358. 
 
 Stallard  ( ),  of  Benet  college,  344. 
 
 Standysh  (Dr),  candidate  for  the  vice- 
 chancellorship,  17. 
 
 Stanley  (Edw.),  third  earl  of  Derby,  Anne 
 his  daughter  marries  Cha.  lord  Stourton, 
 424  n. 
 
 Stanley  (Hen.),  fourth  earl  of  Derby,  424  n. 
 
 Stanley  (Tho.),bp  of  Sodorand  Man,  222. 
 
 Starky  (The),  skinner,  211. 
 
 Statutes,  21  Hen.  VIII.  c.  13,  benefices, 
 136;  1  Eliz.  c.  10,  exchange  of  church 
 lands,  98  n. ;  5  Eliz.  c.  1,  supremacy, 
 174;    13  Eliz.  c.  2,  subscription,  203  w. 
 
 Steward  (Mr),  perhaps  a  name  of  office, 
 460. 
 
 Steward  (Dr),  470. 
 
 Stifflers,  sticklers,  252. 
 
 Still  (Jo.),  afterwards  bp  of  Bath  and 
 Wells,  recommended  for  a  prebend  at 
 Westminster,  439  ;  and  for  the  deanery 
 of  Norwich,  449. 
 
 Stoke-by-Clare,  Suffolk,  the  college,  Par- 
 ker  made  dean,  vii.,  4,  482;  letter  from 
 Henry  VIII.  to  the  dean  and  preben- 
 daries requiring  them  to  send  four  able 
 men  to  his  army,  about  to  invade  France, 
 15  ;  R.  Radclyff  recommended  by  queen 
 Catherine  Parr  as  bailiff,  10  ;  letter  from 
 queen  Catherine  Parr  to  the  dean  and 
 fellows,  desiring  a  lease  of  the  manor  of 
 Chipley  for  Edw.  Waldegravc,  19;  Par- 
 ker opposes  the  dissolution  of  the  college, 
 but  without  success,  31 — 33,  482 ;  pen- 
 sions granted  to  the  dean,  &c.,  40;  the 
 schoolmaster's  stipend  restored  by  Eliza- 
 beth,  188. 
 
 Stokes  (Dr),  Austin  Friar,  letter  from  Par- 
 ker to  him,  10  ;  he  preaches  against  Par- 
 ker, and  is  imprisoned,  14  n. 
 
 Stonden  ( ),  to  be  discharged,  464. 
 
 Stourton  (Cha.  lord),  executed  for  murder, 
 422  ?i.  ;  Anne  (Stanley)  his  wife,  424  n. 
 
 Stourton  (Jo.  lord),  notice  of  him,  422  n.; 
 
 committed  to  the  custody  of  Parker,  422 
 
 —424,  441 ;  comes  to  chapel,  and  behaves 
 
 orderly,  448. 
 
 Stowell  (Jo.),  accused  of  bigamy,  405,  400, 
 
 407,  408 ;  imprisoned,  447  n. 
 Stowmarket,  Suffolk,  417  ''• 
 Subsidy,  arrears  of  one  granted  in  Clary's 
 
 time,  190. 
 Suffolk,  only  one  preacher  in  an  extensive 
 
 district  there,  307. 
 Suffolk  (Kath.  duchess  of),  v.  Brandon. 
 Suffragans,  Parker  had  one  [Rich.  Rogers, 
 
 bp.  of  Dover],  370,  475. 
 Sugill,  to  defame  or  slander,  11,  157. 
 Supper  of  the  Lord,  wafer  bread  enjoined 
 by  Elizabeth,  240,  277,  278;  i.e.  bread 
 like  singing  cakes,  but  somewhat  larger, 
 375;  the  rubric  whicli  speaks  of  'usual' 
 bread  regarded  by  Parker  as  permissive, 
 not  as  forbidding  wafer  bread,  376;  form 
 of  sacramental  bread  appointed  by  Par- 
 ker and  Grindal,  378  ;  directions  respect- 
 ing it,  458 ;   loaf  bread  not  to  be  per- 
 mitted, 460. 
 Supremacy,  v.  Statutes. 
 
 That  of  the  prince  once  affirmed  by  Gar- 
 diner, 23 ;  Elizabeth,  on  Lever's  sug- 
 gestion, declines  the  title  of  supreme 
 head,  60;  the  prince  has  power  by  law 
 to  ordain  ceremonies  in  certain  cases, 
 375. 
 Surplice,  v.  Vestments. 
 
 Not  worn  in  the  diocese  of  Norwich, 
 149  ;  opposed  by  some  at  Cambridge, 
 220  n.;  disorders  at  St  Giles,  Cripple- 
 gate,  275,  270  ;  Parker's  chaplains,  for 
 lack  of  a  surplice  and  wafer  bread,  at 
 certain  places  did  but  preach,  277. 
 Sussex  (Tho.  earl  of),  v.  Ratcliffe. 
 Sydney  (Sir  Hen.),  letter  by  him,  310;  he 
 
 lent  Parker  a  MS.,  388 7i. 
 Sydney  (Sir  Phil.),  his  father  seeks  a  Lent 
 licence  for  him,  310 ;  notice  of  him,  ib.  n. 
 
 T. 
 
 Talbot  (Geo.),  earl  of  Shrewsbury,  mar- 
 ries the  lady  St  Loe,  301  n. 
 
 Tamworth  (Mr),  202. 
 
 Tanner  (Mr),  18. 
 
 Taylor  (Jo.),  bp  of  Lincoln,  viii.,  482. 
 
 Taylor  (Rowland),  his  widow  married  a 
 minister  named  Wright,  221. 
 
INDKX. 
 
 509 
 
 Temple  ui  JrruAAlcm,  no  iiuugea  allowril 
 there,  UI,  tt2. 
 
 Tempsis,  the  Thamo!*,  'J.'>0. 
 
 Tciucrilcn,  Kent,  the  ^raniiniir  Jihool,  17'>. 
 
 Tcrtulli»»n,  expouiuln  St  John's  iiiution 
 ugninst  idols,  H3  ;  in  his  time  Christians 
 abhorred  iniaj^es,  HU ;  he  burned  incense 
 itj  private,  but  not  as  idolaters  did,  JHl ; 
 suys  whatever  was  tirst,  is  true;  what- 
 ever afterwards,  is  spurious,  l»3. 
 
 Thanksgiving,  v.  Prayer. 
 
 Theodosius,  enipcrpr,  r.  Valens. 
 
 Thirivsius,  patriarch  of  Constantinople,  1»2. 
 
 Thirlby  (Tho.),  bp  of  N\'estnnnster,  then 
 of  Norwich,  lastly  of  Ely,  18;  prisoner 
 in  the  tower,  \'2'2  ;  removed  thence  on 
 account  of  the  plague,  lUi— 195 ;  lives 
 with  Parker,  llU  ».,  2(i3,  215,  217;  his 
 death,3fJy /J.;  buried  at  Lambeth,  194  ».; 
 letters  to  Parker,  41,1113 ;  letter  to  him, 193. 
 
 Tilius  ( Jo.  \  bishop  of  Angoulesme,  pos- 
 sessed many  ancient  councils,  141. 
 
 Tilney  (Mr),  seeks  a  dispensation,  351. 
 
 Tippets,  some  preached  before  the  queen 
 without  the  tippet,  2r>4 ;  the  sarcenet 
 tippet  worn  by  act  of  parliament,  268. 
 
 Tonbridge,  Kent,  the  grammar  school 
 founded  by  Sir  ^Vnd.  Judd,  210. 
 
 Tonstal  (Cuthb.),  bp  of  London,  after- 
 wards of  Durham,  committed  to  Parker's 
 custody,  77j  78,  lot)  n.;  his  executors, 
 and  funeral,  Idti. 
 
 Trappes  (  Mr),  of  London,  Ui7. 
 
 Travers  (Walter),  supposed  author  of  a 
 treatise,  Dc  Di^cipHna^  477  '»• 
 
 Trenicllius  (Imm.  I,  letter  to  Parker,  332; 
 notice  of  him,  ib.  n. 
 
 Tufton  (3Ir),  198. 
 
 Turbervile  (James),  bp  of  Exeter,  pri- 
 soner in  the  tower,  122. 
 
 Turner  {A\'ill.),  dean  of  \Vells,  makes  one 
 do  penance  in  a  priest's  square  cap,  241  ; 
 his  '  Hunting  of  the  Wolf,'  455. 
 
 Undertree  ( i,  scheme  to  take  him,  4*10, 
 
 462,  463;  examined,  464;  should  be 
 hanged,  ib. 
 
 I'niformity,  letter  of  Elizabeth  requiring 
 uniformity  in  rites  and  ceremonies,  223  ; 
 letter  of  Parker  on  the  same,  227  ;  pro- 
 ceedings relative  thereto,  233,  234,  230, 
 237;  Parker  perj^lexed  through  want  of 
 support  in  his  endeavours  to  enforce  it, 
 
 2tJ2  ;  course  to  be  ado])ted,  2^7  ;  enforcctl 
 by  Parker,  270,  272-274.  278;  nnother 
 letter  of  tlic  «juctn,  'MU\ ;  her  care  for  it 
 and  ])r«)ceeding8  to  enforce  it,  4AI. 
 
 l'nivcr^itic»  :     r.    Caujbridgc  —  Oxford 
 
 Colleges  ; 
 
 racket  stirred  up  by  ^\'ithers  for  the  re- 
 formation of  the  university  window*, 
 23 1 ;  the  Wednesday  Jish-day  disptnscU 
 with  in  the  universities,  235. 
 
 Valens  and  Theodosius,    emperors,   their 
 decree    against    representations    of   the 
 cross  (signum)  of  Christ,  90. 
 Vanderstad    (Corn.),    of    the    strangers' 
 
 cluirch  at  Sandwidi,  247. 
 V'arro,  his  opinion  against  images,  86. 
 Venison,  Henry  VlII.'s  warrant  for  a  doe 
 for  Parker,  4  ;  begged  by  Parker,  177  ; 
 the  queen  sends  him  a  deer  killed  with 
 her  own  hand,  190;  order  of  Henry  earl 
 of  Arundel  for  the  supply  of  deer  to  him, 
 387. 
 Vestments,   i'.   Cap  —  Chimera-^ Gown  — 
 Itochet — Surplice — Tippet : 
 dissensions  at  Cambridge,  226  n.,  245; 
 the   nonconformity    of  Sampson   and 
 liumfrey,  240;    Parker's  proceedings 
 in  order  to  uniformity,  207. 
 Vigilius,    an  African    bishop,    his   woiks 
 
 published,  288  u. 
 Visitation,  v.  Canterbury — archbishop. 
 Parker  forbids  the  bishops  of  his  pro- 
 vince to  visit  their  dioceses,  115,  116; 
 is  oft'eudcd  with  the  visitation  of  M'or- 
 cester  by  bp  Sandys,  125,  126. 
 
 W. 
 
 Waldegrave   (Sir  Edw,),   notice  of  him. 
 
 19  n. 
 ^Vales,  pensionary  concubinage  continued 
 
 there  notwithstanding  liberty  of  marriage 
 
 granted,  257. 
 Waley  (Jo.),  265. 
 Walker  ( and  1.    two   doctors  of 
 
 medicine,  18. 
 AValker  (Mr),  a  preacher  at  Norwich,  312, 
 
 313  ;  a  puritan,  382. 
 Walloons,  at  Sandwich,  189. 
 Walmer  Castle,  Kent,  203. 
 M'alsinghani,  Norfolk,  salt-works  near  it, 
 
 258. 
 
510 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Walton  (West),  Norfolk,  18. 
 
 Ware  (Sir  James),  his  'Hunting  of  the 
 Romish  Fox,'  &c.,  95  w. ;  he  publishes 
 Campion's  History  of  Ireland,  407  n. 
 
 Ware  (Rob.),  95  n.,  109. 
 
 Warehorn,  Kent,  the  benefice,  214. 
 
 Warner  (l\Ir),  114. 
 
 Warner  (Sir  Edw.),  lieutenant  of  the 
 tower,  121 ;  letter  to  him  122. 
 
 Warwick  (Earls  of) :  v.  Dudley. 
 
 Watson  (Tho.),  bp  of  Lincoln,  prisoner  in 
 the  tower,  122. 
 
 Wattes  (Tho.),  an  ecclesiastical  commis- 
 sioner, 344  71.,  369. 
 
 Welles  (Mr),  333. 
 
 Wendesley  (Rich.),  an  ecclesiastical  com- 
 missioner, 383,  390,  447. 
 
 Wendon  (Nich.),  archdeacon  of  Suffolk, 
 142 ;  not  in  orders,  ib.n, 
 
 Wendy  (Tho,),  25,  26. 
 
 Westfaling  (Herb.),  bp  of  Hereford,  pre- 
 viously proposed  for  bp  of  Oxford,  360. 
 
 Westminster,  Canon  Row, — the  house  of 
 the  abp  of  York,  291  n. ;  the  Gatehouse, 
 a  prison,  465,  470, 
 
 Westmoreland  (Hen.  earl  of) :  v.  Neville. 
 
 Weston  (Rob.),  dean  of  the  arches,  129  n., 
 428,  430. 
 
 Westwell,  Kent,  the  manor,  373. 
 
 Weybridge,  Surrey,  the  forest,  4. 
 
 Whalley,  Lane,  222. 
 
 Whalley  ( Will.),  canon  of  Lincoln,  viii ,  482. 
 
 Whitgift  (Jo.),  bp  of  Worcester,  after- 
 wards abp  of  Canterbury,  occupied  about 
 his  book,  439 ;  recommended  for  the  see 
 of  Norwich,  476,  477- 
 
 Whitstable,  Kent,  brimstone  made  from 
 stuff  gathered  on  the  shore  there,  341. 
 
 Wibum  (Perceval),  about  to  be  examined, 
 382. 
 
 Wigan  (Edw.),  25,  26. 
 
 Wigand  (Jo.),  letters  to  him,  286. 
 
 Wilbraham  (Tho.),  proposed  as  a  commis- 
 sioner, 370. 
 
 AVilliams  (Mr),  in  the  Marshalsea,  423. 
 
 Willoughby  (Dr),  of  Aldborough,  404; 
 spent  £4  for  painting  a  pulpit,  ib.  n. 
 
 Wilson  (Tho.),  an  ecclesiastical  commis- 
 sioner, 383;  Dr  Wilson,  probably  the 
 same,  420. 
 
 >V''iltshere  (Will,  earl  of):  v.  Paulet. 
 
 Winchester,  the  Wednesday  fish-day  dis- 
 pensed with  at  the  college,  235;  the  dio- 
 cese visited  by  Parker,  478. 
 
 Winchester  (Will.  marq.  of),  v.  Paulet. 
 Wingfield  (Sir  Rob.),  letter  by  him  and 
 
 others,  306. 
 Winsloo  (Mr),  401. 
 Witchcraft,  case  of  an  old  woman  at  Stow- 
 
 market,  417  n. 
 M^ithers  (Geo.),  stirs  up  a  racket  for  the 
 
 reformation  of  the  university  windows, 
 
 234,  236 ;  his  license  to  preach  informal, 
 
 238. 
 Women,  books  on  government  by  them, 
 
 60 ;  not  to  reside  within  colleges,  &c.  146. 
 Wood  (Mr),  seeks  to  be  placed  in  physic 
 
 in  All  Souls'  college,  396. 
 Workington,  Cumberland,  Mary  queen  of 
 
 Scots  lands  there,  325  n. 
 Wotton,  (Nich.),  dean  of  Canterbury,  a 
 
 privy  councillor,  74,  75 ;  letter  to  him, 
 
 144 ;    he    had  his  dividend  of  church 
 
 plate,  304. 
 Wotton  (Tho.),  orWootton,  304;  an  eccle- 
 siastical commissioner,  370  n.  ;    visited 
 
 by  the  queen  in  Kent,  441. 
 Wright  ( — • ),  married  Rowland  Taylor's 
 
 widow,  221. 
 Wright  (Dr),  archdeacon  of  Oxford,  138  w. 
 Wriothesley  (Tho.  lord),  afterwards  earl  of 
 
 Southampton,  30. 
 Wye,    Kent,    the    almshouse,    169  ;    the 
 
 grammar  school,  170. 
 Wykes  (Hen.),  printer,  319  n. 
 
 Yale  (Tho.),  letter  to  him  as  Parker's 
 chancellor,  128;  an  ecclesiastical  com- 
 missioner, 300,  301  71.,  344  n.,  345,  370, 
 383,  447 ;  dean  of  the  arches,  428. 
 
 Y^ate  (Mr),  placed  in  the  custody  of  the 
 earl  of  Sussex  for  nonconformity,  458. 
 
 Y''ork,  letter  to  the  dean  and  chapter  on 
 their  provision  of  armour,  347, 
 
 Young  (Jo.),  afterwards  bp  of  Rochester, 
 chaplain  to  bp  Grindal,  275 ;  to  preach 
 at  court,  378. 
 
 Young  (Tho.),  abp  of  Y''ork,  translated 
 from  St  David's,  115  7^.,  123  7i.,  134  n. ; 
 signs  a  letter  to  the  queen,  294 ;  his 
 death,  115  7i.,  328  n. ;  his  letters  to  Par- 
 ker, 114,  291  n. ;  letter  to  him,  205. 
 
 Zephyrus  (Fra.),  says  Christians  in  Ter- 
 tullian's  time  abhorred  images,  86. 
 
ADDENDA    AND    CORRIGENDA. 
 
 0,  n.  2.  The  passage  alluded  to  is  a  quotation  from  the  Opus  Imperfectum 
 ascribed  to  St  Chrysostoni  (Opera  Lat.  ii.  920.  edit.  Par.  1570) 
 See  Calfhill's  Answer  to  3Iartiall  (Parker  Society),  pp.  'J.%  286. 
 
 l.'»,  last  linc,/or  "  1554,"  read  "1544." 
 
 ll'J,  n.  3,/or  "Sir  H."  read  "  Sir  M'." 
 
 144,  reference  to  orig.  of  Letter  CI  1 1. /or  283  read  583. 
 
 2C0,  n.  2.  The  Dean  alluded  to  is  said  by  Strype,  (Parker,  Book  iii.  c.  5,) 
 to  have  been  Dr  Carey,  but  that  seems  to  be  a  mistake.  Gregory 
 Dodds  was  at  that  time  Dean  of  E.xeter.  Dr  Carey  was  not 
 appointed  until  12  Jan.  15/0-1. 
 
 21»1,  sixth  line  of  n.  4, /or  "  27  th"  rear/ "20th." 
 
 3UJ,  n.  1,/or"  Gloucester"  read"  Winchester." 
 
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