BOOK 66 "ings and monuments of fained miracles, wherewith they "were illuded, to be taken away in all places of our realm; Anno 1541." but also by our injunctions commanded, that no offering, or setting of lights or candles, should be suffered in any "church, but only to the blessed sacrament of the altar: "it is lately come to our knowledge, that, this our good in"tent and purpose notwithstanding, the shrines, coverings "of shrines, and monuments of those things, do yet remain "in sundry places of our realm, much to the slander of our doings, and to the great displeasure of Almighty God, the same being means to allure our subjects to their former hypocrisies and superstition; and also that our injunc"tions be not kept, as appertaineth. Fro [for] the due "and speedy reformation whereof, we have thought meet by these our letters expressly to will and command you, "that, incontinently upon the receipt hereof, you shall not only cause due search to be made in your cathedral "church for those things; and if any shrine, covering of 66 66 66 66 66 shrine, table, monument of miracles, or other pilgrimage, "do there continue, to cause it to be taken away, so as "there remain no memory of it: but also that you shall "take order with all the curates, and others, having charge "within your diocese, to do the semblable. And to see "that our injunctions be duly kept, as appertaineth, without failing, as we trust you, and as you woll answer to the "contrary. Yeven [under] our signet, at our town of Hull, "the iiii day of October, in the xxxiiii year of our reign.” This was dated from Hull, for the King was now in his progress towards Scotland, to meet the Scots King according to appointment; though he met him not. 93 Whereupon the Archbishop, by his letter dated from The Arch Lambeth, Oct. 15, to Richard Lyel, LL. D. Dean of the bishop's orders accord- deaneries of Shoreham, Croyden, Bocking, Risburgh, Teringly to his ring, and Pageham, enjoined him to take care to execute the Dean, his Archdea King's will: to cite before him, with all speed, all and singular the ministers of the collegiate churches; and rectors, vicars, and priests of the parish-churches within the deaneries aforesaid; and then to declare to them the contents of the King's letters, and to command them to observe exactly the con, and Commissary. XXIII. Anno 1541. King's injunctions. The like letters he also sent to Edmond CHAP. Cranmer, Archdeacon of Canterbury. An answer to which the said Edmond wrote to the Archbishop, dated Oct. 29, signifying his doing according to the Archbishop's commandment. The like were written to Hugh Glazier, the Archbishop's Commissary-general in the town of Calais, and the marches of the same. Who sent his answer to the Archbishop, Nov. 24, from the town of Calais. I am apt to think that these letters of the King were circulary, and sent with the same command to all the bishops to see executed in their several dioceses; though the effect of them was, according as the bishops themselves stood affected. to the see. This year an exchange was made by the Archbishop of The Archbishop lays the manor of Bishopsburn for Bekesburn, with Sir John Bekesburn Gage, Comptroller of the King's household. Bekesburn, anciently called Livingsburn, was healthfully and conveniently seated, lying an easy distance from Canterbury, whensoever the Archbishops were minded to be retired. This place Archbishop Parker took a great delight in, and intended greatly to enlarge by buildings; but died before he began his purpose. Archbishop Cranmer made considerable buildings here, and probably would have done more, had he continued in his prelacy. In the year 1552, he finished the gate-house now standing; as appears from the north and south sides thereof, wherein are two stones set in the brick-work, with the letters of his name, T. C. and coat of arms, and motto, Nosce Teipsum, et Deum; together with the date, 1552. This manor now returned to the Church again, from whence it had been for some time severed; only the owners changed. For whereas, before the dissolution of the monasteries, it belonged to the Priors of ChristChurch, Canterbury; now it came to the Archbishops. This manor was not given to Christ Church till after the year 1400. Thomas Goldstone, a prior of that church, and a great builder, built the manor-house for a mansion for the priors, and a chapel annexed, and a new hall adjoining to the dormitory, and divers other edifices there; as we learn from the History of the Priors of Canterbury lately pub- Angl. Salished. To which we may add a record in that church, to cra, vol. i. P. 148. BOOK direct us in the computation of the time: viz. Anno Dom. I. 1508. In vigiliis S. Marci Capella dedicatur in Manerio de Anno 1541. Lyvyngsborn, procurante Thoma Goldston. At the dissolution Records of this was alienated and given to Gage; and from him it came to Archbishop Cranmer and his successors. And the bargain was confirmed by act of parliament, anno Henr. 34. Chr. Ch. Cant. Learned The Archbishop, as he had opportunity, preferred learned preachers and pious men in his diocese in the benefices of his church; preferred by the Arch- and such who freely preached against the Pope and his subishop. perstitions, against images, and the worship of them. The chief of these were Nic. Ridley, (afterwards Bishop of Lon94 don,) whom he made Vicar of Herne, and Prebend of Canterbury; and John Scory, (afterwards Bishop of Chichester,) whom he made one of the six preachers; Michael Drum, and Lancelot Ridley, worthy men, were two more of the six. These he preferred, and divers others about through his diocese, that set the abuses of popery open before the people's eyes in their sermons. This so angered the men of the old religion, and particularly some of his own church in Canterbury, that they detected them to the Archbishop, by articling against them for their doctrine. This they did this year, when the Archbishop visited his church. And about two years after they did so again, as shall be taken notice of in due season. The Archbishop makes some re cant. A convoca tion. About this time it was that Serles and Shether, two of the six preachers of Canterbury, were by the Archbishop's censure put to recantation for some unsound passages they had preached. Which made them such enemies to the Archbishop, and such contrivers of his ruin, by devising and drawing up a great number of articles against him, if they could have accomplished their design, as shall be seen hereafter under the year 1543. It was observed of Shether at this time, that after the pronouncing his recantation, or declaration, he added these words; "Good Christians, I take "God to record, that I never preached any thing to you "in my life but the truth." And so in short gave himself the lie, and overthrew all the recantation he had made before. The latter end of the year there was a convocation : XXIII. Anno 1541. Their busi ness. use Fuller's But from the the records of Ch. Hist. Canter wherein one of the matters before them was concerning CHAP. the procuring a true translation of the New Testament; which was indeed intended, not so much to do such a good work, as to hinder it. For having decried the present translation, on purpose to make it unlawful for any to it, they pretended to set themselves about a new one. it was merely to delay and put off the people from common use of the Scripture: as appeared plainly enough, bury. in that the bishops themselves undertook it. And so having it in their own hands, they might make what delays they pleased. For in the third session, a proposition was made for the translation, and an assignation to each bishop of his task: as Matthew to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Mark to the Bishop of Lincoln, Luke to Winton, John to Ely: and so of the rest. But the Archbishop saw through all this and therefore, in a sessions that followed after, told the house from the King, to whom I suppose he had discovered this intrigue, that the translation should be left to the learned of both universities. This was a surprise to the bishops, who all, except Ely and St. David's, protested against it, and began to undervalue the sufficiency of the universities, as much decayed of late; and that they were but young men: and that the greatest learning lay in the convocation-men. But the Archbishop roundly said, that he would stick by his master's will and pleasure; and that the universities should examine the translation. Knight. May 29, being Sunday, William Knight was consecrated William Bishop of Bath and Wells by Nicolas Bishop of Rochester, by virtue of the Archbishop's letters to him, assisted by Richard Suffragan of Dover, and John Suffragan of Bedford, in the chapel of the said Bishop of Bath's house, situate in the Minories without Aldgate. Wakeman. September the 25th, John Wakeman, late Abbot of John John Chambre, B. D. was consecrated first Bishop of John Chambre. BOOK burgh, in the presbytery there, by John Bishop of Lincoln, I. Thomas Bishop of Ely, and William Bishop of Norwich, Anno 1541. by commission from the Archbishop. Arthur February the 19th, Arthur Bulkeley was consecrated in Bulkeley. the chapel of John Incent, LL. D. Dean of St. Paul's, by Robert John Bishop of Sarum, by virtue of letters commissional from the Archbishop, William Bishop of St. David's, and John Bishop of Glocester, assisting. Robert King, another abbot, and titular Bishop Reonen, suffragan to the Bishop of Lincoln, was this year consecrated Bishop of Oxford. The date, or his consecrators, I cannot assign, the act being omitted in the Archbishop's register. He was first a monk of Rewly, a priory without Oxford, of the Cistertian order; then Abbot of Bruerne in Oxfordshire; after, Abbot of Thame, of which he was also called Bishop; and lastly of Oseney: both which he surrendered to the King at the dissolution of monasteries. This man, when suffragan, preached at St. Mary's in Stamford, where he most fiercely inveighed against such as used the New Testament. In Queen Mary's reign he was a persecutor of the protestants, and died, 1557. CHAP. XXIV. The King's Book revised. Anno 1542. THE Archbishop was this year, among other things, em The King's book re Archbi shop. ployed in the King's book, as it now was called, that is, vised by the The Erudition of any Christian Man, spoken of before. For the King was minded now to have it well reviewed, and if there were any errors, and less proper expressions, to have them corrected and amended: and so to have it recommended unto the people as a complete book of christian principles, in the stead of the Scripture; which, upon pretence of their abuse of, the King would not allow longer to be read. Accordingly a correction was made throughout the book; and the correct copy sent to Cranmer to peruse: which he did, and added his own annotations upon various |