III. "it,] having benefits of God by flourishing miracles; ca- CHAP. “tholic, that is, spread in all times, in all places, through "all persons universally; that is to say, for the most part Anno 1559. "being able to shew their pedigree, even to the apostles, "without any interruption; that church, I say, is only "the true church." This discourse in full is placed in the Appendix, with the rest of the same nature. 66 Number XI. speech in mons. And as these hot and earnest speeches before mentioned Dr. Story's happened in the upper house, so the house of commons the house had some popish members as hot, or hotter. Dr. Story was of comone of these, who had been one of queen Mary's trusty commissioners, for the taking up, imprisoning, and burning the gospellers. This man made a bold and bitter speech in the house, justifying himself in his doings under that queen, when so many by his sentence were burnt. "He wished, "he said, he had done more than he did, and that he and "others had been more vehement in executing the laws; and "impudently told the house, how he threw a fagot into the "face of one, (an earwig, as he styled him,) at the stake at Uxbridge, as he was singing a psalm, and set a bush of "thorns under his feet: and that it was his counsel to "pluck down men of eminency that were heretics, as well "as the more ordinary sort; and mentioned two such, "brought into trouble by his means; Sir Philip Hoby, "and another knight of Kent. And that he saw nothing to "be ashamed of, nor sorry for: and that it grieved him, 79 "that they laboured only about the young and little twigs, "whereas they should have struck at the root." By which words it was well enough known he meant the queen herself. This man afterwards left England, and became an officer under the king of Spain at Antwerp. Whence divers years after he was craftily seized on board an English vessel, and brought into England, and being found guilty of treason, died the death of a traitor. bewing up the root. This man, and his impudent speech this parliament con- He was for cerning the queen, was not soon forgotten. A book writ in the year 1569, entitled, A warning against the dan In Biblioth. I 2 was. Joan. D. CHAP. gerous practice of papists, &c. wherein he and such as he are glanced at: viz. "Other some are such, as one of them, Anno 1559." even openly in her majesty's high court of parliament, "made such moan that his counsel was not followed in 66 66 66 queen Mary's time, to hew up the root, as all men plainly saw and understood his grief, that the queen's majesty was not in her sister's time despatched. And it is said, that "some others made grave motions for her disinheritance." The popish But that it was not their consciences that led these zealdivines not guided by ous men (as we related before) thus to stickle against the conscience. queen's supremacy and the English liturgy, but rather some other politic ends, is evident, by what they and other such chief papists did in cool blood declare in king Edward's days: which convinced Bernard Gilpin, a diligent inquirer, and contemporary with them, of the unsoundness of the papal religion. Of which matter we have this notable relapin, by bi- tion, in his own letter to his brother George Gilpin, 1575: shop Carle- "That in his desires to search out truth, he repaired to ton, p. 111. 66 [Tonstal] the bishop of Durham, that he might be fur"ther instructed: who told him, that in the matter of Life of Bern. Gil "transubstantiation, Innocentius, pope the third of that name, had done unadvisedly, in making it an article of "faith. And further confessed, that the pope committed a 66 66 66 66 great fault in the business touching indulgences, and "other things. That in conferring with Dr. Redman, a "man of eminent virtues and great scholarship, he af"firmed to him, that the Book of Common Prayer, [then newly composed,] was an holy book, and agreeable to the gospel. That afterwards one of the fellows of Queen's college told him, that he heard Dr. Chedsey say among "his friends, that it must come to this point, that the pro"testants must grant unto them [papists] a real presence "of Christ in the sacrament, and they likewise give way "unto the protestants in the opinion of transubstantiation. "Dr. Weston [another chief papist in Oxford] made a long "oration touching the supper of the Lord, to be admi"nistered under both kinds. Mr. Morgan [another great 66 III. "disputant] told him, [Gilpin,] that Dr. Ware, a man most CHAP. "famous for life and learning, affirmed unto him, that the principal sacrifice of the church of God was the sacrifice Anno 1559. "of thanksgiving. This was his answer, when Gilpin de"manded of him, what could be said for the sacrifice of the 66 mass. And lastly, that the bishops in this kingdom, at "that time, confuted the primacy of the pope both in words " and writing." Among other acts passed this session, there were two 80 private ones; one concerning cardinal Pole, and the other An act concerning cathedral and collegiate churches; which must cerning have some mention here. That relating to the late cardinal was, that whereas a parliament in the first and second of king Philip and queen Mary had repealed and taken off his attaint, that lay upon him by act of parliament in the 31st of king Henry VIII. and had cleared him of every branch and article of that act, and also of all indictments and processes of outlawry procured against him, many questions had been moved upon some words in the said act of repeal: as, from what time that act should extend or take effect; it was declared by this present act, that it should take effect, as touching any estate, right, or title, from the time of making the said act. And that the act made under king Henry should be of force and effect, for all the mean acts and things, happening or done before the making of the said act of repeal : which was a prudent act for the stopping or ending many contentious lawsuits that might be, or probably had been commenced, for the recovery of any estates or lands belonging to the said cardinal, and disposed of by king Henry unto others. made con card. Pole. cerning ca The act concerning cathedral and collegiate churches, And conwas to empower the queen to make statutes for divers such thedral ecclesiastical foundations and schools erected either by churches. king Henry VIII. king Edward, queen Mary, or cardinal Pole, in case of some defect of good rules, orders, and constitutions thereunto appointed. And that she might, at her III. CHAP. pleasure, alter or change, augment or diminish those statutes and ordinances of the foresaid churches, schools, and Anno 1559. corporations. And that all such statutes, which the queen should appoint under her great seal of England, should be kept and observed, notwithstanding any former rule or constitution whatsoever: and that they should remain good and effectual to all intents and purposes. This was an act of great use and service for the intended reformation. Both these private acts I have thought not unworthy a room in my Repository. Numbers XII. XIII. No act would pass for marriage of priests. The Com Book esta But among the good acts made by this parliament, one was wanting, though, as it seems, laboured by the protestant divines to be brought about. It was, to revive king Edward's act for the marriage of priests, which queen Mary had repealed. But the queen would not be brought so far to countenance the conjugal state of her clergy. This troubled not a little the divines, especially such as were married, as was Dr. Sandys, and Dr. Parker, and Mr. Lever now very lately, and divers more. Of this matter Sandys speaks in a letter, dated April ult. to Parker, then in the country; telling him," that no law was made concerning the marriage of priests, but that it was left, as it were, in medio; "and that the queen would wink at it, but not establish it "by law which is nothing else, said he, but to bastard "our children." The inconvenience hereof was, that the clergy was fain to get their children legitimated. So I find did Parker his son Matthew. 66 : But to return to the English liturgy: notwithstanding mon Prayer this opposition of speeches and arguments made by popish blished. bishops and others against this bill for the Book of Common 81 Prayer, it passed, as was said before, into an act of uniformity and was to begin to take effect at St. John Baptist's day ensuing. This was but the reestablishment of king Edward's book, set forth in the fifth and sixth year of his reign, with these few changes, as they are mentioned in the said act; one alteration or addition of certain lessons to be used on every Sunday in the year; the form of the litany al III. tered and corrected; and two sentences added in the de- CHAP. livery of the sacrament to the communicants. But besides these mentioned in the act, there were some others, as shall Anno 1559. be shewn by and by. CHAP. IV. Divines review the Common Prayer Book. Secretary Cecil's influence therein. Guest, a very learned man, his labours about it. Posture of receiving. King Edward's ornaments. An objection of Dr. Boxal against the communion office: wherein the present book varied from king Edward's book. Dr. Haddon's account of the English service. Foreign churches rejoice at it: but some English dislike it. fluence in the refor BUT great pains had been used in reviewing of the old The divines Common Prayer Book, and weighing all things in it; to prepare the liturgy. render it fit to be presented to the parliament, to confirm it by an act. In this business the divines, Dr. Sandys, Dr. Bill, and the rest above mentioned, were diligently employed at sir Thomas Smith's house in Westminster. And in this affair, sir William Cecil, the queen's secretary, was a great dealer and director; and was very earnest about the book. Here let me insert what Dr. Sampson, the great puritan, Cecil's inin the year 1574, wrote to him, being then lord Burghley, there when the said doctor urged him to reform the established mation. government in the church, and to alter the episcopacy for Calvin's discipline, which he was too wise and too knowing to do. He called to mind what he did in the beginning of the queen's reign in repairing of religion. "What your "authority," said he, “credit, and doing then was, you "know, God knows, and there are witnesses of it." And when Edward Dering, another great labourer for the abolishing of episcopal government, had charged him with neglect of religion, and unhandsomely and untruly told him, "that he (the lord Burghley] had for many years looked upon religion eminus, and now scarcely loved it;" he, in 66 |