CCLXXXVII. TO CECIL. Crunmer, App. No. After my most hearty commendations and thanks, as Strype, well for your gentil letters, as for the copy of the Pacification, and for your good remembrance of the two matters, 67. from which I desired you not to forget, the one concerning the Hicks's B. of Colen's z letters, and the other, Mr. Mowse a: for MSS. whom eftsoons I give you my most hearty thanks. As for your admonition, I take it most thankfully, as I have ever been most glad to be admonished by my friends, accounting no man so foolish as he that will not hear friendly admonishments. But as for the saying of S. Paul Qui volunt ditescere, incidunt in tentationem, I fear it not half so much, as I do stark beggary. For I took not half so much care for my living, when I was a scholar of Cambridge, as I do at this present. For although I have now much more revenue, yet I have much more to do withal: and have more care to live now as an archbishop, than I had at that time to live like a scholar. I have not so much as I had within ten years passed by 1507. of certain rent, beside casualties. I pay double for every thing that I buy. y [The Pacification of Passau, which secured to the German protestants liberty of worship for the present, and which laid the foundation of the definitive peace of religion agreed on in 1555, was concluded on the 31st of July 1552. The paper here alluded to seems to have been a draft for it. See Letter CCLXXXIX. Sleidan, De Statu Relig. lib. xxiv.] z [See Letter CCLXXIII. note (k.) "What the contents of these let"ters of the Archbishop of Cologne were, it appeareth_not: but I am very apt to think the purport of them was, that Cranmer should "solicit some certain business in the English court relating to the "affairs of religion in Germany, and for the obtaining some favour from "the King in that cause." Strype, Cranm. p. 286.] For a [Master of Trinity Hall Cambridge. See a memoir of him in Strype, Cranm. p. 400. "He seemed," says that writer, "to be none of the "steadiest in his religion." And the charge is fully proved. << upon the first tidings that fled to Cambridge of Queen Mary's success "against the Lady Jane's party, he with several other temporising uni"versity men, changed his religion, and in four and twenty hours was "both protestant and papist."..." And when the next change happened "under Queen Elizabeth, Mowse came about again, and in the year "1560, obtained a prebend in the church of York. He lived till the year 1588." Strype, ibid.] Sir Wm. If a good auditor have this account, he shall find no great surplusage to wax rich upon b. And if I knew any bishop that were covetous, I would surely admonish him, but I know none, but all beggars, except it be one, and yet I dare well say he is not very rich. If you know any, I beseech you to advertise me, for peradventure I may advertise him better than you. To be short, I am not so doted to set my mind upon things here, which neither I can carry away with me, nor tarry long with them. If time would have served, I would have written of other things unto you, but your servant making haste, compelleth me here to cut off the thread; beseeching Almighty God to preserve the King's Majesty with all his Council and family, and send him well to return from his progress 4. From my manor of Croydon, the xxi. of July. Your own ever, To my loving friend Sir William T. Cant. Strype, Though in England there be many meet men for the App. No. Archbishoprics of Ireland, yet I know very few that will b [See an entertaining narrative of the mode adopted by Henry VIII. for refuting an accusation of covetousness brought against the Archbishop by Sir Thomas Seymour, in Strype, Cranm. p. 432. The complaint of poverty which Cranmer here makes, is strongly supported by the frequent mention of debts which occurs in his Letters, and by the account given by Strype of the manner in which the see of Canterbury was fleeced by Henry VIII. Cranmer, pp. 281. 434.] [Probably Robert Holgate, Archbishop of York. "In this month "of May [1552] did Holgate Archbishop of York, the only wealthy "bishop then in England, bestow some part of his wealth very commendably, for the benefit of his successors in that see. For he made "purchase from the King of the lordship and manor of Scroby." Strype, Memorials, vol. ii. p. 402.] d[" To divert the King after the loss of his uncle, whom he dearly "loved, Northumberland took him in progress in the summer of this "year." [1552.] Strype, Cranm. p. 279. On the 20th of July he was at Petworth. Edw. VI's Journal.] Sir Wm. gladly be persuaded to go thither. Nevertheless I have 65. from sent unto you the names of four, viz. Mr. Whiteheade of Hickes's Hadley, Mr. Tourner of Canterbury, Sir Thomas Rosse, MSS. and Sir Robert Wisdome. Which being ordinarily called, I think for conscience sake will not refuse to bestow the talent committed unto them, wheresoever it shall please the King's Majesty to appoint them. Among whom I take Mr. Whiteheade for his good knowledge, special honesty, fervent zeal, and politic wisdom, to be most meet. And next him Mr. Tourner, who, besides that he is merry and witty withal, nihil appetit, nihil ardet, nihil somniat, nisi Jesum Christum ; and in the lively preaching of him and his word declareth such diligence, faithfulness, and wisdom, as for the same deserveth much commendation. There is also one Mr. Whitacre f, a man both wise and well learned, chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester, very meet for that office, if he might be persuaded to take it upon him. I pray you commend me unto Mr. Cheke, and declare unto him, that mine ague, whether it were a quotidian, or a double tertian (whereof my physicians doubted) hath left me these two days, and so I trust I am quit thereof: notwithstanding my water keepeth still an high colour. Now the most danger is, that if it come again this night, it is like to turn to a quartan. However the matter chance, the most grief to me is, that I cannot proceed in such matters as I have in hand, according to my will and desire. This terrenum domicilium is such an obstacle to all good purposes. Forasmuch as I perceive that the King's Majesty's progress is altered, I pray you send me the gests of the latter end of his progress, from this time unto the end, that I may from time to time know where his Majesty shall be; whom I beseech Almighty God to preserve and [Memoirs of all these divines will be found in Strype, Cranm. p. 274, &c. Respecting Thomas Rosse, see also Letter xcvIII.] f["I suppose this might be a slip of the Archbishop's pen or memory, writing Whitacre for Goodacre, who afterwards was placed " in that Irish see, [Armagh,] and had been Poynet's chaplain." Strype, Cranmer, p. 274. Some further account of him will be found, ibid. p. 278. See also Phanix, vol. i. p. 131.] prosper in all his affairs, with his most honourable Council and all his Court. From my manor of Croydon, the xxvth. of August, 1552. Your own assured, T. Cant. To my very loving friend Sir William Cecyl, knight, one of the King's Majesty's principal Secretaries. Strype, CCLXXXIX. TO CECIL. After my very hearty commendations; I thank for you Anne, your news, but specially for that ye advertise me that the 106. from King's Majesty is in good health; wherein I beseech God long to continue his Highness, as he hath twice (as I trust) restored me to the same. Sir Wm. It seemeth by your letters, that a peace should be concluded betwixt the Emperor and Duke Morrise, which, whether it be according to the articles that afore ye sent unto me, or otherwise, I would gladly understand. The commodity that might arise by printing the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of Sacraments in the French tongue, (if any be,) I reckon it were meet that it should come to them which have already taken pains in translating the same; which was first done by Sir Hugh Paullet's h commandment, and overseen by my Lord Chancellor, and other at his appointment: and now altered according to that which must be put in execution at the feast of All Saints next k, at the appointment of my Lord Chancellor, by a learned Frenchman, a doctor in divinity. And therefore needless of any other to be travailed in. Aug. 26, 1552. i [See Letter CCLXXXVII.] Governor of Calais. Strype.] [Thomas Goodrich, Bishop of Ely.] k[This was the second Service Book of Edward VI, which was ordered, by Act of Parliament, to be every where used on the All Saints day following. A translation of the first Book, it seems, had been CCXC. TO CECIL. last, Strype, He Cranm. App. No. for 66. from After my very hearty recommendations; now at the against his will, Turner is come up unto the Court. preached twice in the camp that was by Canterbury m; the which the rebels would have hanged him : and he seemed Hickes's then more glad to go to hanging, than he doth now to go to Armachane, he alleged so many excuses, but the chief is this, that he shall preach to the walls and stalls, for the people understand no English. I bear him in hand, Yes, and yet I doubt whether they speak English in the diocese of Armachane. But if they do not, then I say, that if he will take the pain to learn the Irish tongue, (which with diligence he may do in a year or two) then both his person and doctrine shall be more acceptable not only unto his diocese, but also throughout all Ireland ". I commit him. to your cure, praying you to help him to have as ready a dispatch as may be, for he hath but a little money. I have sent the book of Articles for Religion unto Mr. Cheke, set in a better order than it was, and the titles upon every matter, adding thereto that which lacked. I pray you consider well the Articles with Mr. Cheke, and whether you think best to move the King's Majesty therein before my coming; I refer that unto your two wisdoms. I pray you let me have your advice unto whom I might best write concerning Rayner Wolfe P; for I wot not to whom I might write, but to my Lord of Northumberland. The everliving God ever preserve you in this life, and in already published for the use of Calais, Jersey, and Guernsey; but it was now of course necessary to print a new edition containing the last corrections. This was not completed till 1553. See Strype, Cranm. p. 290.] m n [See Letter CCLXXXVIII.] [During the insurrection in 1549. See Strype, Cranm. p. 275.] of Armagh was conferred on Hugh Goodacre. See Letter CCLXXXVIII. Sir Wm. MSS. |