so use themselves against their sovereign lord and king. And this I assure you of, that if all the whole world should pray for you until doomsday, their prayers should no more avail you than they should avail the devils in hell, if they prayed for them, unless you be so penitent and sorry for your disobedience, that you will ever after, so long as you live, study to redubi and recompense the same with all true and faithful obedience, not only yourselves, but also 113 procuring all other, so much as lieth in you; and so much detesting such uproars and seditions, that if you see any man towards any such things, you will to your power resist him, and open him unto such governors and rulers as may straightwayk repress the same. As for your last article, thanks be to God, it needeth not to be answered, which is this: Your last article is this: For the particular griefs of our country, we will have them so ordered, as Humphry Arundel and Henry Bray, the king's mayor of Bodman, shall inform the king's majesty, if they may have safe conduct under the king's great seal to pass and repass with an herald of arms. Who ever heard such arrogancy in subjects, to require h["Would so use." MS. C.C. C.C.] i [Redub, i. e. to make amends for.] Bray was mayor of Bodmin, in Cornwall. "Attempts, it is said, were made to exculpate the mayor of Bodmin, on the k["As may straightways." ground of his having been forced MS. C.C.C.C.] 1 [Humphry Arundel, the leader of the ten thousand Devonshire rebels, was of good family, and governor of St. Michael's Mount. He was sent to London after being for some time confined at Exeter, and there executed. into the insurrection against his will. As if this defence had been successful, sir Anthony Kingston, provost-marshal of the army, appointed a day for dining with him. Having been 'right heartily welcomed,' he after dinner expressed a wish to see a pair of and will of their princes, that their own particular causes may be ordered, neither according to reason, nor the laws of this realm, but according to the information of two most heinous traitors? Was it ever heard before this time, that an information should be a judgment, although the informer were of never so great credit? and will you have suffice the information of two villainous papistical traitors? You will deprive the king of his lands" pertaining to his crown, and other men of their just possessions and inheritance, and judge your own causes as you list yourselves. And what can you be called then but most wicked judges, and most errant traitors? except only ignorance or force may excuse you; that either you were constrained by your captains" against your wills, or gallows, which he had desired his host to erect. On coming thither and beholding them, he said to the mayor, "Think you, master mayor, that they be strong enough?' 'Yea, sir,' quoth he, 'that they are.' 'Well then,' said sir Anthony, 'get you even up unto them, for they are provided for you.' The mayor, greatly abashed herewith, said, 'I trust you mean no such thing to me.' 'Sir,' said he, there is no remedy; ye have been a busy rebel, and therefore this is appointed for your reward.' And so without respite or stay there was the mayor hanged. But Boyer, and not Bray, is the name given by Holinshed to this victim of Kingston's cruel pleasantry. It may therefore be doubted whether he is correctly described as mayor of Bodmin. The story perhaps may CRANMER, VOL. II. apply to another person named Boyer, who is said by Strype to have suffered death among the rebel leaders." Jenkyns' Remains of abp. Cranmer, vol. ii. p. 244. See also Holinshed's Chronicles, vol. iii. pp. 1006, 1026, and Strype's Eccl. Mem. vol. ii. pt. i. p. 281. ed. Oxon. 1822.] m [" Of the lands." MS. C.C. C.C.] n ["Of whom the chief gentlemen captains were, Humfrey Arundell, esquire, governor of the mount, James Rosogan, John Rosogan, John Payne, Thomas Underhil, John Soleman, William Segar. Of priests, which were principal stirrers, and some of them governors of the camps, and after executed, were to the number of eight, whose names were Robert Bochim, John Tompson, Roger Barret, John Wolcocke, William 00 deceived by blind priests and other crafty persuaders, to ask you wist not what. How much then ought you to detest and abhor such men hereafter, and to beware of all such like, so long as you live; and to give most humble and hearty thanks unto God, who hath made an end of this article, and brought Arundel and Bray to that they have deserved; that is, perpetual shame, confusion, and death! Yet I beseech God so to extend his grace unto them, that they may die well which have lived ill. Amen. Ex MS. C. C. C. C. NUMBER XLI. THE ARCHBISHOP'S NOTES FOR AN HOMILY AGAINST THE REBELLION. Sentences of the Scripture against sedition. 1 Cor. iii. Cum sit inter vos zelus et contentio, nonne carnales estis, et sicut homines ambulatis? Et 1 Cor. vi. Quare non magis injuriam accipitis? Quare non magis fraudem patimini? Jac. iii. Si zelum amarum habetis, et contentiones sint in cordibus vestris, &c. non est ista sapientia desur114 sum, descendens a Patre luminum, sed terrena, animalis, Asa, James Mourton, John Soleman, Segar, Boyer, Lee, two mayors, Pain, Maunder, Ashridge, Thompson, Baret, Bocham, Wolcock, Alsa, Morton, Welsh, Barrow, Benet; which last-recited nine were priests." Strype's Eccl. Mem. vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 281. ed. Oxon. 1822.] [MS. C. C. C. C. No. cii. pp. 529-534; from which this document has been corrected for this edition.] diabolica. Ubi enim zelus et contentio, ibi inconstantia, et omne opus pravum, &c. [Quæ autem desursum est sapientia, primum quidem pudica est, deinde pacifica, modesta, suadibilis, &c. Fructus autem justitiæ in pace seminatur facientibus pacem.] Jac. iv. Unde bella et lites in vobis? Nonne ex concupiscentiis vestris, quæ militant in membris vestris. How God hath plagued sedition in time past. Num. xvii. Dathan and Abiram, for their sedition against Moses and Aaron, did miserably perish by God's just judgment, the earth opening and swallowing them down quick. 2 Reg. [i. e. Samuel] xv. and xviii. Absalom, moving sedition against David, did miserably perish likewise. 2 Reg. [i. e. Samuel] xx. Seba for his sedition against David lost his head. 3 Reg. [i. e. 1 Kings] i. and ii. Adonias also for his sedition against Solomon was slain. Acts viii. justly slain. Judas and Theudas for their sedition were Acts xxi. An Egyptian likewise, which moved the people of Israel to sedition, received that he deserved. Tumults in England. Jack Cade. Jack Straw. In Germany for their sedition was slain almost in one month about two hundred thousand. The sword by God's word pertaineth not to subjects, but only to magistrates. Though the magistrates be evil, and very tyrants against the commonwealth, and enemies to Christ's religion, yet the subjects must obey in all worldly things, as the Christians do under the Turk; and ought so to do as long as he commandeth them not to do against God. How ungodly then it is for our subjects to take the sword, where there reigneth a most Christian prince, most desirous to reform all griefs! Subjects ought to make humble suit to their prince for reformation of all injuries, and not to come with force. The sword of the subjects at this present cometh not of God, nor for the commonweal of the realm; but of the devil, and destroyeth the commonweal. First, For that it is against the word of God. Secondly, For that they rise so many lies; whereof the devil is ever the author. "Quia mendax est, et pater ejus." Thirdly, For that they spoil and rob men, and command every man to come to them, and to send to them what they please. Fourthly, For that they let the harvest, which is the chief sustentation of our life, and God of his goodness hath sent it abundantly; and they by their folly do cause it to be lost and abandoned. Fifthly, For that they be led by rage and fury, without reason; having no respect neither of the king's minority; nor of the papists in the west country; nor of our affairs in France, nor Scotland; which by their sedition is so much hindered, that there could not be imagined so great a damage to the realm. 115 Sixthly, That they give commandment in the king's name, and in pain of death, having none authority so to do. Ever against God the devil hath raised sedition. As appeareth by the sedition of Dathan and Abiram; and all the murmurations of the children of Israel against Moses and Aaron. Also, of the conspiracies against Zorobabel in the re-edifying of the temple. Also, against Christ and his apostles, in sundry parts of the world. Also, in |