The French take occa rebellion. "Tantum voluit Deus vim charitatis et amoris magnitudinem, inter populum et magistratum intercedere, ut per Hieremiam admonuerit plebem Israeliticam, quod pro rege Nebuchadnezar orarent, qui eorum rempub. everterat, illosque adhuc captivitate Babylonica premebat. "Dominus tametsi voluit suos, instar columbarum, simplices degere, idem nihilominus admonuit, ut serpentum prudentiam imitarentur, qua suas actiones literarum sacrarum præceptis regerent et moderarentur, caverentque ne aliena consilia, ut papistarum vel seditiosorum se in transversum auferrent. "Si potuissetis, (quod est prudentium), in longinquum prospicere, omnino vidissetis cæteros hostes, (uti nunc res ipsa declarat), fretos vestris tumultibus in vestrum regnum arma sumpturos, et ausuros impune, qui nunquam, si in officio mansissetis, tentassent," &c. This last paragraph respected the French king', who, sion at this taking occasion from these broils at home, brake out into open hostility against the kingdom, recalling his ambassador, and on a sudden brought his ships against the isles of Jersey and Guernsey, with an intent to have conquered them. But by the valour of the inhabitants, and some of the king's ships, he was beaten off with great loss. This was in the month of Augusts. Bucer's discourse Martin Bucer also wrote a discourse against this sediagainst the tion, as well as Martyrt. Both of them were now, I suppose, under the archbishop's roof, entertained by him: sedition. and he thought it convenient that these learned foreigners should give some public testimony of their dislike of these doings. Bucer's discourse, subjoined to Martyr's, began in this tenor : "Quæ dici possunt ad sedandos animos plebis, et ab omni conatu seditioso absterrendos, (quod ad rem ipsam attinet), inscripta sunt omnia, in reverendissimi D.N.M. Ven. collegæ nostri Pet. Martyris Schedis, ut nostra adjectione nulla sit opus, tamen ut consensum spiritus testemur, hæc subjecta libuit annotare," &c. An office of fasting was composed for this rebellion, The archbishop's which, being allayed in the west, grew more formidable in prayer, Norfolk and Yorkshire. For I find a prayer composed by composed the archbishop, with these words preceding; "The exhor- occasion. tation to penance, or the supplication, may end with this or some other like prayer." And then the prayer followeth": "O Lord, whose goodness far exceedeth our naughtiness, and whose mercy passeth all measure, we confess thy judgment to be most just, and that we worthily have deserved this rod wherewith thou hast now beaten us. We have offended the Lord God: we have lived wickedly: we have gone out of the way we have not heard thy pro- 189 phets, which thou hast sent unto us, to teach us thy word, nor have done as thou hast commanded us: wherefore we be most worthy to suffer all these plagues. Thou hast done justly, and we be worthy to be confounded. But we provoke unto thy goodness; we appeal unto thy u ["There are two copies of this prayer in the C.C.C.C. MSS. One is placed at the end of the sermon; the other, which is a draft corrected by Cranmer, stands by itself, bearing the title described by Strype."--Jenkyns' mercy; we humble ourselves; we knowledge our faults. We turn to thee, O Lord, with our whole hearts, in praying, in fasting, in lamenting, and sorrowing for our offences. Have mercy upon us, cast us not away according to our deserts; but hear us, and deliver us with speed, and call us to thee again, according to thy mercy; that we with one consent, and one mind, may evermore glorify thee, world without end. Amen." After this follow some rude draughts, written by archbishop Cranmer's own hand, for the composing, as I suppose, of an homily, or homilies, to be used for the office No. XLI. aforesaid, which may be read in the Appendix. CHAPTER XI. BISHOP BONER DEPRIVEDY. Boner. On the eighth of September, a commission was issued The archbishop out from the king to our archbishop, together with Ridley deprives bishop of Rochester, Petre and Smith, the two secretaries, and Dr. May, dean of Paul's, to examine Boner, bishop of London, for several matters of contempt of the king's order. The witnesses against him were William Latimer and John Hooperd. y [For the "matter concerning Edmund Boner, bishop of London, with declaration of the acts and process entered against him in king Edward's time," from which Strype has condensed the particulars of this bishop's deprivation, see Foxe's Acts and Monuments, pp. 1309 et sqq. ed. Lond. 1583.] z [See above, p. 88.] a [i. e. Sir William Petre, secretary of state, one of Edward vith's privy council, and a great friend of archbishop Cranmer ; and sir Thomas Smith, secretary, who was employed in several commissions during this reign, and with Cranmer was one of the few, who did not forsake the lord protector, the duke of Somerset, in his troubles.-Burnet's Hist. of Reformat. vol. i. p. 663. vol. ii. pp. 229, 252, 277. pt. ii. pp. 37, 236. vol. iii. pp. 379, 398. ed. Oxon. 1829.] b ["William May, LL.D. was elected, upon the death of John After the patience of seven Incent, LL.D., dean of St. Paul's, Feb. 8, 1545, and was deprived in the first year of the reign of queen Mary. He was succeeded by John de Feckenham, alias Howman, who in November 1556 was removed and made abbot of Westminster, with fourteen monks under him. Henry Cole, LL.D. and S.T. P. held the deanery after Feckenham, from December 11, 1556, but was deprived in the first year of the reign of queen Elizabeth, when William May was ' restored to this dignity, and reelected, June 23, 1559. He died August 8, 1560."-See Le Neve's Fasti, pp. 185, 364.] [William Latimer, B. D. “a London divine, priest of St. Lawrence Poultney." See Foxe's Acts and Monuments, p. 712, first ed. 1563; p. 1311, ed. Lond. 1583. Todd's life of abp. Cranmer, vol. ii. p. 141.] d ["John Hooper, afterwards bishop of Worcester and Gloucester, and lastly a most constant Discourse between the arch bishop and him, con book. sessions at Lambeth, in all which he carried himself disdainfully, making excuses and protestations, first against sir Thomas Smith, and then against them all, and appealing to the king, the archbishop, in the name of the rest, declared him obstinate, and pronounced a sentence of deprivation against him: and committed him to the Marshalsea for his extraordinary rudeness to the king's commissioners and there he abode all this king's reign. I will only mention somewhat of his behaviour towards the good archbishop. : At his first appearance before the commissioners, which was on the tenth of September, when they told him the reason of their commission, viz. "To call him to account cerning his for a sermon lately by him made at Paul's Cross; for that he did not publish to the people the article he was commanded to preach upon, that is, of the king's authority during his minority:" he after a bold scoffing manner gave no direct answer to this, but turned his speech to the archbishop, swearing, "That he wished one thing were had in more reverence than it was, namely, the blessed mass," as he styled it and telling the archbishop withal, "That he had written very well of the sacrament: but he marvelled he did not more honour it." The archbishop, perceiving his gross ignorance concerning his book, by his commending that which was contrary to his opinion, said martyr for the gospel of Christ." ashes in the city of Gloucester." He "had leave granted him to hold this bishopric, (i. e. Worcester), in 'commendam' on the deprivation of Nicholas Heath, who was restored in 1553, and in the same year translated to York. Hooper was deprived March 20, (exeunte anno) 1553."--Le Neve's Fasti, pp. 101, 298, 9.] |