His unna

tural carriage towards his brother.

their abolishing masses, they said, they were private masses; and the statutes of the college did seem to enjoin only masses, wherein was a communion of the body and blood of Christ. That that was not perjury, when by the common consent of the college, some minuter matters of the statutes were changed. That had he himself been there, he would have done as they did, considering the reports that came from the court, brought by witnesses. worthy of credit. And that as for their disputations they urged, that it was free for them to dispute matters controverted, for better inquiry into the truth: and that it was done with lenity, without any perverseness of speechi."

He had a younger brother named William, (who was above forty years after bishop of Wintonj.) This man was a scholar of the college while his brother was provost and 232 bishop: to whom he sent once a request, to supply him with a little money to buy him some books and other Hatcher's necessaries he stood in need of at that time. His brother MS. Catal. answered him, knowing him to be well affected to the Gospel, "That for his part he held it not fit to relieve those that were not of the true church, and therefore he

of Provosts, &c. of

King's coll.

died, A. D. 1572, "in the fifty-
sixth year of his age, and was
buried at Christ's Church, Lon-
don."-See Le Neve's Fasti, pp.
411, 426, 493. Fuller's Ch. Hist.
vol. ii. pp. 466, 7, n. f. vol. iv. p.
152. ed. Oxon. 1845. Burnet's
Hist. of Reformat. vol. iii. pt. ii.
p. 539. ed. Oxon. 1829. Strype's
Life of abp. Parker, vol. i. pp. II,
60, 210. vol. ii. p. 145. ed. Oxon.
1821. Strype's Eccl. Mem. vol.
ii. pt. i. p. 369. pt. ii. p. 268. vol.
iii. pt. i. pp. 23, 82. ed. Oxon.

1822. Strype's Annals of Reformat. vol. i. pt. i. pp. 8, 125, 165. ed. Oxon. 1824.]

i [The letter of G. Haddon to Day, bishop of Chichester, will be found in the Appendix to this volume.]

j [William Day, S. T. P., was elected bishop of Winchester Nov. 3, 1595, confirmed January 22, and consecrated at Lambeth the 25th of the same month 1598. He died Sept. 20. 1596.- Le Neve's Fasti, p. 287.]

would not in any wise relieve him." Thus had his religion destroyed in him the very principles of nature.

against

This bishop had been a vehement asserter of transub- Preaches stantiation: yet in April 1550 he preached against it at transubWestminster; which king Edward thought fit to take stantiation. notice of in his journal: and he complied, and went along with all the steps of the reformation till the declining of this year 1550; when the matter of taking down altars was set on foot. For then it seems either there was a prospect that the reformation, carrying on, would have a stop, or it was secretly agreed, among the popishly affected, now to fall off.

In queen Mary's days he was a mighty busy man, and His change charged on one of the commissioners for the examination and con- him. demning to death the professors of religion. When in conference with Bradford, that holy man had charged him for departing from the reformed church, as it was in king Edward's days; he told him, "That he was but a young man, (and yet in the first year of that king he was five or six and forty years of age); and that, coming from the university, he went with the world: but it was always against his conscience." He could, it seems, dispense

k["April 4. The bishop of Chichester, before a vehement affirmer of transubstantiation, did preach against [it] at Westminster in the preaching place."-Cotton MSS. Nero. C. x. fol. 15. b. British Museum. Original and holograph. Burnet's Hist. of Reformat. vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 14. ed. Oxon. 1829.]

1["Here, after much talk of excommunication, at length Bradford said:

"Brad. Assuredly, as I think

you did well to depart from the
Romish church, so I think you
have done wickedly to couple
yourselves to it again, for you
can never prove it, which you
call the mother church, to be
Christ's church.'

"Chichest. Ah! master Brad-
ford, you were but a child when
this matter began. I was a young
man, and then coming from the
university, I went with the world,
but I tell you it was always
against my conscience.""-Con-

with his conscience upon occasion: and yet what a man of conscience was he when altars were to be pulled down! He sat a commissioner upon Hoper, together with Winchesterm, London", Durham, and Landaff and however gently he had been used in his trouble, that was forgot; and he treated that reverend man most rudely, indecently falling upon him with foul words, and with a scornful countenance calling him "hypocriteq."

ference between Bradford and
the abp. of York, (Nicholas
Heathe), and Chichester, (George
Day.) Foxe's Acts and Monu-
ments, p. 1616. ed. Lond. 1583.]

m [Stephen Gardiner.]
n [Edmund Boner.]
• [Cuthbert Tonstal.]

:

P [Anthony Kitchen, alias Dunstan.]

["The bishop of Chichester, Dr. Day, called master Hooper 'hypocrite,' with vehement words, and scornful countenance." Foxe's Acts and Monuments, p. 1506. ed. Lond. 1583.]

CHAPTER XXI.

PAPISTS GROW BOLD.-LOOSE PROFESSORS RESTRAINED.

write libels.

THUS indeed, when the papists found they could not The papists prevail by outward force, which they had tried to the utmost the last year, they now used other arts. One among the rest was to libel the government, and disperse scurrilous rhymes and ballads upon the preachers. One of these was this year fastened upon the pulpit of some eminent church, probably of St. Paul's; which nevertheless soon had an answer to it. And not long after a more witty ballad was put abroad, glancing, as it seems, at the archbishop, upon occasion of the liberty of reading the Bible, and of the English service, and the publishing the Homily-book, and other good books: whipping the government under the person of one John Nobody, because that, notwithstanding all these religious pretences, there was so much sin, lechery, adultery, bribery, and want of charity. A taste of this their poetry I have put into the 233 Appendix: because some probably may be so curious as to peruse the fancy of that age.

No. XLIX.

The papists were at this juncture very bold, whether it Several papists now were that they had taken up a conceit that the old reli- taken up. gion would be again restored upon the disgrace of the duke of Somerset, or upon some other reasons. To stay these men, the council, as they had proceeded before against some popish bishops, so they thought fit to use some rigours towards others, noted to be the forwardest

men.

Book.

One of these was Dr. Chedsey, who was one of the Council disputants against Peter Martyr, the king's professor. He Chedsey. took now upon him to preach openly at Oxford against

r [See above, p. 159. n. k.]

Morgan.

Brown.

White.

the steps of the reformation that were made, and making. Wherefore, March 16, he was committed to the Marshalsea for seditious preaching: where he lay till November the 11th, 1551: and then he was ordered to be brought to the bishop of Ely's, where he enjoyed his table, and an easier restraints. March 19, serjeant Morgan' was committed to the Fleet for hearing mass in the lady Mary's chapel. March 22, sir Anthony Brown" was committed to the Fleet for the same offence. And three days after, viz. March 25, Mr. "White, warden of Winchester", ap